A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written

2 The second kind of Intemperance is in Apparel, Pride, Pride? why there is no such sin, all is but fashion. Indeed Pride hath lost it self in the name of Fashion. This was wont to be called the woman's sin:^q The daughters of Zion were haughty, &c. there is Pride and her wardrobe. But now it is a question whether the women keep their Charter still: the men have endeavoured to be as proud as they; not that the other are excusable: innumerable are their boxes, and powders, and paintings; how they daub their mud-walls with Apothecaries mortar! It is a sign that they love a visor better than a face.^r God shall smite thee, thou painted wall: painting is for walls, not for faces. If Natures defects and furrows cannot be filled up with these colours, yet art shall supply all with rich attires. As that Painter should have drawn Venus very beautiful: but when his cunning failed in her face, he drew her in exceeding rich apparell: Pulchram non potuit, divitem pinxit; Because he could not make her fair, he made her rich. They die their hairs too; but this seems to be no new fashion. For Cyprian writes of it in his time: Foeminae crines suos inficiunt malo praesagio: capillos enim sibi flammineos auspicari non metuunt. They got a flame-coloured hair, an ill presage; it is not safe coming so near to that colour. They spend more time betwixt the comb and the glass, than betwixt their family and the Church. They metamorphose their heads, as if they were ashamed of the head of Gods making, proud of the Tire-woman's. Sometimes one tire is half the husbands rent-day. This is the monstrousness of our pride;^s and what shall we do in the end thereof? Jezebel was the daughter of a King, the wife of a King, the mother of a King, yet her painted face and proud heart threw her out at the window, and she was trampled under horses feet. But Jehu would bury her; no, the dogs had done it to his hand. O the greatness of our lands Intemperance this way! we have learned all things of our neighbours but this, to be proud good-cheap. Hospitality and noble attendance is changed into a vessel that runs on four wheels: It is a fashion to build great houses, as the Ostriches lay eggs; and then to leave them. When the poor come thither for relief, there's none but Dawes to chatter to them; the Lord ⟨p. 127⟩