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ALL youthfull Virgins to this Song give eare, And learne the Lessons which are taught you here. An Alphabet of Vertues here are set, And being learnd doe make a Maid compleat, BEare not a scornefull mind, although you are Beauteous as Hellen, or like Venus faire; It ill becomes a forehead smooth and white, To threaten anger in a Lovers sight. CHuse then a modest carriage, and still be Courteous, and not too coy in company: Theyre Natures Changlings and too much unkind, Who have a lovely face, and scornefull mind. DIsdainefull never seeme, nor yet too much Doat on thy faces beauty, sleighting such As sue for love, lest creeping age come on, And then too late your folly you bemone. EXchange no love, but alwayes constant be, Esteeme true Love a perfect treasury; For where true Love and beauty both unite, It yields both parties both their hearts delight.
FEigne no affection but where vowes are past, Fixe there your heart, let there your love be platct, For if by feigned wiles Loves Knot be tyd, It breeds dissention twixt the Groome & Bride. GRow not to proud, though smiling fortune doe, Great store of wealth, and her best gifts bestow: For Pride the Proverbe sayes, must have a fall, And so must Maidens, Widdowes, Wives and all. HAste not too much for marriage, nor the thing Which doth not pleasure only, but griefe bring, For hasty Lovers often doe destroy The sweets of Love, ere they their hopes enjoy. IF yet you chuse a Mate whom you affect, Injure him not with any disrespect; But wary be, and ere Loves Knot you tie, Prove first your owne, and then his constancie. KNowledge is gaind by xperience, and by this Thou maist arrive unto the height of blisse; First try, then trust; and when you both have provd You may both love, and be as well belovd. LOoke ere you leape, the Proverbe still doth say, Let no smooth tongues your love to lust betray; In fairest grasse a Snake is often found, And smoothest tongues with falshood most abound.
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MOurne not too much, nor be thou alwayes sad, Mirth sometimes may become a vertuous Maid: Yet use not too much laughter, lest you be Sleighted and scornd for your immodesty. NOr use uncivill talke, no gesture light, Nor in unseemely wantonnesse delight, But keepe a chaste behaviour, that you may, Have good report in every kind of way. OFfend not with a foule and slandrous tongue Others, that doe not wish thee any wrong, But speake thou well of all, and alwayes doe With others, as youd have them deale with you. PAint not your beauty when it is decayd, Prize not that for a Jewell, which must fade, And when you have done your best will fal away, And through red cheeks a wrinckled brow display. QUench in thy selfe all lusts inflaming fires, Which may provoke thee to unchast desires, For though a while such pleasures please thy mind, Yet sorrow, want, and beggery come behind. REmember next how like a fading flower, Rich earths best treasures vanish in an hower, And how the best of things that you enjoy, The Sith of Time will cut and Death destroy. SEeke therefore richer gifts than thee can give, So shalt thou in a state securer live; For though fraile beauty decke thy outward part, Yet inward vertue best adornes the heart.
TRy that rich Gemme, which when thou hast at-taind Thou hast a beauteous Maids chiefe beauty gaind. And if faire V[e]rtue doe thy courses steere, Like Joves chaste Daughter thou shalt bright appeare. VAine Beautys but a trifle, that a while Dame Nature lends thee with a flattering smile, Which Lovers gaze at, and with greedy hands, Each one to crop a blossome of it stands. WHile in its fullest ripenesse it is growne, When its decayd, their loves are with it gone Let this then be thy care, and chiefest strife, To live a vertuous Maid, an honest Wife. XAntippe-like, the Wife of Socrates, Affect not thou thy husband to displease, Nor with a rayling tongue pursue him still, But in humility obey his will. YEeld not to others when you once are wed, The pleasures of your lawfull husbands bed, For if thou guilty be of such an act, Thou shalt not scape unpunisht for thy fact. ZEalous then be in all these Vertues, prove Both constant, chast, and loyall in your love. And if these Lessons well thou learnst, for thee Tis truely still, The Virgins ABC.
FINIS. Printed at London by M.P. for F. Coules, dwelling in the Old-baily.