Although for the greater part this beauty be most eminent in the face, yet many times those other members yeeld a most pleasing grace, and are alone sufficient to enamor. An high brow like unto the bright heavens, cæli pulcherrima plaga, Frons ubi vivit honor, frons ubi ludit amor, white and smooth like the polished alabaster, a pair of cheeks of Vermilian colour, in which love lodgeth; Amor qui mollibus genis puellæ pernoctas: A corall lip, suaviorum delubrum, in which

Basia mille patent, basia mille latent,

gratiarum sedes gratissima; a sweet smelling flowre, from which Bees may gather hony, Mellilegæ volucres quid adhuc cava thyma, rosasque, &c.

Omnes ad dominæ labra venite meæ, Illa rosas spirat, &c.

A white and round neck, that via lactea, dimple in the chin, black eye-brows, Cupidinis arcus, sweet breath, white and even teeth, which some call the sale-piece, a fine soft round pap, gives an excellent grace,

Quale decus tumidis Pario de marmore mammis!

and make a pleasant valley lacteum sinum, between two chaulkie hills, Sororiantes papillulas, & ad pruritum frigidos amatores solo aspectu excitantes. Unde is,

Forma papillarum quam fuit apta premi!

Again Urebant oculos duræ stantesque mamillæ.

A flexen hair; golden hair was even in great account, for which Virgil commends Dido, Nondum sustulerat flavum Proserpina crinem, Et crines nodantur in aurum. Apollonius (Argonaut. lib. 4. Iasonis flava coma incendit cor Medeæ) will have Iasons golden haire, to be the main cause of Medea’s dotage on him.

Castor and Pollux were both yellow hair’d. Paris, Menelaus, and most amorous young men have been such in all ages, molles ac suaves, as Baptista Porta infers Physiog. lib. 2. lovely to behold. Homer so commends Helena, makes Patroclus and Achilles both yellow hair’d: Pulchricoma Venus, and Cupid himself was yellow hair’d, in aurum coruscante & crispante capillo, like the neat picture of Narcissus in Callistratus; for so Psyche spied him asleep,

Briseis, Polixena, &c. flavicomæ omnes,

——and Hero the fair, Whom young Apollo courted for her hair.

Leland commends Guithera King Arthurs wife for a fair flaxen hair: Paulus Æmilius sets out Clodoveus that lovely King of France. Synesius holds every effeminate fellow or adulterer is fair hair’d: and Apuleius adds that Venus her self, Goddess of Love, cannot delight, Though she come accompanied with the Graces, and all Cupids train to attend upon her, girt with her own girdle, and smell of Cynamon and Bawm, yet if she be bald or bad hair’d, she cannot please her Vulcan.

Which belike makes our Venetian Ladies at this day, to counterfeit yellow hair so much, great women to calimistrate and curle it up, vibrantes ad gratiam crines, & tot orbibus in captivitatem flexos, to adorn their heads with spangles, pearls, and made flowers; and all Courtiers to affect a pleasing grace in this kind. In a word, The hairs are Cupids nets, to catch all comers, a brushie wood, in which Cupid builds his nest, and under whose shadow all Lovers a thousand several ways sport themselves.

A little soft hand, pretty little mouth, small, fine, long fingers,

Gratia quæ digitis—— tis that which Apollo did admire in Daphne, ——laudat digitosque manusque;

a straight and slender body, a small foot, and well proportioned leg, hath an excellent lustre, Cui totum incumbit corpus uti fundamento ædes. Clearchus vowed to his friend Amyander in Aristænetus, that the most attractive part in his Mistris, to make him in love and like her first, was her pretty leg and foot: a soft and white skin, &c. have their peculiar graces, Nebula haud est mollior ac hujus cutis est, ædipol papillam bellulam.

Though in men these parts are not so much respected; a grim Sarazan sometimes,

——nudus membra Pyracmon,

a Martiall hirsute face pleaseth best; a black man is a pearle in a fair womans eye, and is as acceptable as lame Vulcan was to Venus; for he being a sweaty fuliginous black-smith, was dearly beloved of her, when fair Apollo, nimble Mercury were rejected, and the rest of the sweet-fac’d gods forsaken.

Many women (as Petronius observes) sordibus calent (as many men are more moved with kitchin wenches, and a poor market maid, then all these illustrious Court and City dames) will sooner dote upon a slave, a servant, a Dirt-dawber, a Brontes, a Cooke, a Player, if they see his naked legs or arms, thorosaque brachia, &c. like that Huntsman Meleager in Philostratus, though he be all in raggs, obscene and dirty, besmeared like a ruddleman, a gypsie, or a chimny-sweeper, then upon a Noble Gallant, Nireus, Ephestion, Alcibiades, or those embroidered Courtiers full of silk and gold.

Justines wife, a Citizen of Rome, fell in love with Pylades a Player, and was ready to run mad for him, had not Galen himself helped her by chance. Faustina the Empress doted on a Fencer.

Not one of a thousand falls in love, but there is some peculiar part or other which pleaseth most, and inflames him above the rest. A company of young Philosophers on a time, fell at variance, which part of a woman was most desireable and pleased best? some said the forehead, some the teeth, some the eyes, cheeks, lips, neck, chin, &c. the controversie was referred to Lais of Corinth to decide, but she smiling said, they were a company of fools; for suppose they had her where they wished, what would they first seek?

Yet this notwithstanding I do easily grant, neque quis vestrum negaverit opinor, All parts are attractive, but especially the eys

——(videt igne micantes, Syderibus similes oculos)——