Nothing so common to this sexe, as oaths, vows, and protestations, and as I have already said, tears, which they have at command; for they can so weep, that one would think their very hearts were dissolved within them, and would come out in tears, their eys are like rocks, which still drop water, diariæ lachrymæ & sudoris in modum turgeri promptæ, saith Aristænetus, they wipe away their tears like sweat, weep with one eye, laugh with the other; or as children weep and cry, they can both together.

Neve puellarum lachrymis moveare memento, Ut flerent oculos erudiêre suos.

Care not for womens tears, I counsel thee, They teach their eys as much to weep as see.

And as much pitty is to be taken of a woman weeping, as of a Goose going bare-foot. When Venus lost her son Cupid, she sent a Cryer about, to bid every one that met him take heed.

Si flentem aspicias, ne mox fallare, caveto; Sin arridebit, magis effuge; & oscula si fors Ferre volet, fugito; sunt oscula noxia, in ipsis Suntque venena labris, &c.

Take heed of Cupids tears, if cautelous, And of his smiles and kisses I thee tell, If that he offer’t, for they be noxious, And very poyson in his lips doth dwell.

A thousand years, as Castilio conceives, will scarce serve to reckon up those allurements and guiles, that men and women use to deceive one another with.