Effœminacy

"But as we allow not altogether that ſevere education of the old Spartanes in their children, hazarding many times the healths of young and tender bodies, by ſome tedious ague; yea, alſo their liues, by the miſchance of a leape or ſtumbling of their horſe: ſo as much doe I deteſt that effœminacy of the moſt, that burne out day and night in their beds, and by the fire ſide; in trifles, gaming, or courting their yellow Miſtreſſes all the Winter in a City; appearing but as Cuckoes in the Spring, one time in the yeere to the Countrey and their tenants, leaving the care of keeping good houſes at Chriſtmas, to the honeſt Yeomen of the Countrey."