A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…

There is in clothes a base effeminateness amongst men (which some way emasculateth or unmanneth them) who delight in those things which women dote upon, as dressing of hair, powdrings, washings (when exceeded in) rings, jewels, &c. which are spoken of, and reproved in the daughters of Zion, Isa. 3. and so must be much more unsuitable to men. Also interchanging of apparel is condemned; men putting on women's, and women mens clothes, which is unsuitable to that distinction of Sexes which the Lord hath made, and is condemned in the World as a confusion, an absurd, unnatural thing, and an inlet to much wickedness. Whereof the Dutch Annotators, as several Fathers did long before them, on 1 Cor. 11. v. 14. make mens nourishing and wearing of long hair, to be some degree, it being given to women, not only for an ornament and covering, but also in part for distinction of the Female Sex from the Male: And here having touched a little on this vain dressing of the hair (now almost in all these many various modes, as there are fashions of apparel) especially incident to women, it will not be impertinent to subjoin a strange story which learned, pious, and grave Mr. Bolton in his four last things, pag. 40. repeats from his Author the famous Hercules Saxo •ia, professor of Physic in Padua; The Plica (saith he) is a most loathsome and horrible disease in the hair, unheard of in former times, as Morbus Gallicus, and Sudor Anglicus, bred by modern luxury and excess, it seizeth specially upon women, and by reason of a viscous, venomous humour glueth together, as it were, the hairs of the head with a prodigious ugly implication and entanglement, sometimes taking the form of a great snake, sometimes of many little serpents, full of nastiness, vermin, and no some smell: And that which ⟨p. 365⟩is most to be admired, and never eye saw before, these being pricked with a needle, they yield bloody drops. And at the first spreading of this dreadful disease in Poland, all that did cut off this ho dribble and snaky hair, lost their eyes, or the humour f •lling down upon other parts of the body, tortured them extremely. It began first, not many years ago in Poland, it is now entered into many parts of Germany. And methinks (says Mr.