2^4» Phyfical and MifceUaneous 



colledl into one Lock, upon the hinder Part of the Head ; bind- 

 ing and plaiting (i Tet. 3. 3.) it afterwards about with Ribbons. 

 Where Nature hath been lefs liberal , there the Defeol is to 

 be fupplyed by Art , and foreign Hair interwoven with the 

 natural. Some Commentators have imagined that yibfalonis 

 Hair, which was fold {1 Sam. ΐφ. x6.) for two hundred Shekels, 

 was to be applyed to this Ufe. After their Hair is plaited up 

 in this Manner, they proceed to drefs their Heads by tying 

 clofe together, above the Lock I have defcribed, the feveral 

 Corners of a triangular Piece of Linnen,wrought into a Variety 

 of Figures by the Needle. Perfons of better Faihion wear a- 

 bove this a Sarmah, as they call it, which difFereth not much in 

 Shape from the former Head Drefs, but is made of thin flexi- 

 ble Plates of Gold or Silver,varioufly cut through and engraved 

 in Imitation of Lace. A Handkerchief of Crape, Gauze, Silk 

 or painted Linnen, bound clofe about the Sarmah, and falling 

 afterwards, without any Order, upon the Lock, compleats 

 the Head Drefs of the Moorifj Ladies. 

 The tinging But none of thefe Ladies take themfelves to be compleatly 

 *^tl SZ drefled, 'till they have tinged the Hair and Edges of their Eye- 

 Lids with \^yulKa-hol ' J.A=='i] the Towder of Lead Ore. Now 

 as this Operation is performed by dipping firft into the Powder a 

 fmall wooden Bodkin of the Thicknefs of a Quill , and then 

 drawing it afterwards, through the Eye Lids, over the Ball of 

 the Eye, we ihall have a lively Image of what the Prophet 

 {Jer. 4. 50.) may be fuppofed to mean ^ renting the Eyes with 

 (•^iS3 Lead Ore) fainting. The Sooty Colour, which is in this 

 manner communicated to the Eyes, is thought to add a won- 

 derful Gracefulnefs to Perfons of all Complexions. The Praolice 

 of it, no Doubt, is of great Antiquity : for befide the Inftance 

 already taken Notice of, we find that when Jezehel is faid 



I This Word is rendred by Gol'ms and others, Stibium, Antimonij Species ; and fpme- 

 timcs Collyrhm. The Heb. SdD Cahhol hath the fame Interpretation ; and the Verb ΤΫ}Τ\Ώ 

 joyned with ^JT Ez.ek^ 23. 40. is rendred thou paintedfi thy Eyes, 'ψή (from whence proba- 

 bly the Lat. Fucus) is taken in the like Signification, being rendred /intimon'tmi. Stibium^ 

 quo ad tingenda nigrore cilia, feu ad venuftandos oculos, peculiariter utebantur, color fub- 

 niger ex pulveribus Stibij confeftus. Schinil. Lex. St. Jerom likewife upon thefe Words 

 "^33Κ '^1D3, If. y4. n. which we render (/ will lay) thy Stones with fair Colours, takes No- 

 tice, quod omnes prsterLXX.fimiliter tranftulerunt : viz.{flernam ) in Stibio Upidts tuos, in il- 

 militudinem comptse inulieris, c^axcculos pingit Stibio, ut pulchritudinem lignificetcivitatis. 

 ^13 therefore and 7Π3, J.Aer=' denoting the fame mineral Subftance or CollyTium, it may 

 be prefumed that what is called to this Day by the latter of thefe Names (which is a rich 

 Lead Ore, pounded into an impalpable Powder,} was the Mineral which they always made 

 ufe of. 



{i Kings 



Ore. 



