The second tome of homilies of such matters as were promised, and entitled in…The second tome of homilees of such matters as were promised, and intituled in…

What other thing doest thou by those means, but provokest other to tempt thee, to deceive thy soul, by the bait of thy pomp and pride? What else doest thou, but settest out thy pride, and makest of thy undecent apparel of thy ⟨p. 224⟩body, the devils net, to catch the souls of them which behold thee? O thou woman, not a Christian, but worse then a Painim, thou minister of the devil: Why pamperest thou that carrion flesh so high, which sometime doth stink and rot on the earth as thou goest? Howsoever thou perfumest thy self, yet cannot thy beastliness be hidden or overcome with thy smells & savours, which do rather deform & mishap thee, then beautify thee. What meant Solomon to say, of such trimming of vain women, when he said, A fair woman without good manners and conditions, is like a Sow which hath a ring of gold upon her snout: but that the more thou garnish thy self with these outward blasinges, the less thou carest for the in ward garnishing of thy mind, and so doest but defoul thy self by such array, and not beautify thy self? Hear, hear, what Christs holy Apostles do write, Let not the outward apparel of women (saith saint Peter) be decked with the braiding of here, with wrapping on of gold, or goodly clothing: but let the mind, and the conscience, which is not seen with the eyes, be pure and clean, that is, saith he, an acceptable and an excellent thing before God. For so the old ancient holy women attired themselves, and were obedient to their husbands. And saint Paul saith, that women should apparel them selves with shamefastness & soberness, and not with braids of their here, or gold, or pearl, or precious clothes, but as women should do which will express godliness by their good outward works. ⟨p. 225⟩If ye will not keep the Apostles precepts, at the least let us hear what pagans, which were ignorant of Christ, have said in this matter. Democrats saith, The ornament of a woman, standeth in scarcity of speech & apparel. Sophocles saith of such apparel thus, It is not an ornament, O thou fool, but a shame and a manifest show of thy folly. Socrates saith, that that is a garnishing to a woman, which declareth out her honesty. The Grecians use it in a proverb: It is not gold or pearl which is a beauty to a woman, but good conditions.

What other thing doest thou by those meanes, but prouokest other to tempt thee, to deceaue thy soule, by the bayte of thy pompe and pryde? What els doest thou, but settest out thy pryde, and makest of thy vndecente apparell of thy