Effœminacie

But as allow not altogether that ſeuere education of the old Spartan[(e)s] in their Children, hazzarding 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 your horſe: ſo as much doe I deteſt that effœminacie 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 Citie; appearing but as Cuckoes in the Spring, one time in the yeare to the Countrey and their tenants, leauing the care of keeping good houſes at Chriſtmas, to the honeſt Yeomen of the Countrey.

And thou, ô Crato, needs aſide muſt caſt Thoſe Riches and Effœminacies thou haſt; Nor muſt thou bring thoſe Epitaphs along, Nor pride of Anceſtrie; for thoſe may wrong Our leaking Veſſell. […] By Iove, he hath gold too in ample meaſure; Wrath, impudence, effœminacie, pleaſure, Soft delicacies, in his life time deare, Which, though he would conceale, now plaine appeare. […] Now where he with effœminacie brands My looſer life; none here but vnderſtands How he in Capua liv’d; where this chaſt man, So temperat and abſtemious, nothing than But whor’d and ſurfetted, wantonning and playing, The very ſoule of Diſcipline betraying.

They no ſooner faſten With greedineſſe vpon me, but they haſten To ope their gates wide, then with me by ſtealth Enter (for alwaies they attend on wealth) Hawtineſſe, Boaſting, with the mindes destraction, Effœminacie, and to make vp the faction, Oppreſſion and Deceit, with th’ intereſt Of thouſand more; with which the heart poſſeſt, Is ſuddenly ſubjected and brought under, To admire toyes which are not worth the wonder, And covet that which they ought moſt to fly.

If a man Dreams his hair is long, like a Womans, that ſignifies cowardize and effœminacie, and that he that Dreams will be deceiv’d by a Woman.