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f^rjothers on the /W, others in mar^jt grounds j it 
is very much eaten among divers people ; if any 
one eateth But a few of them together, it will bind 
him ; but if a great quantity of them are taken 
together, then the property of them is quite alter- 
ed. The nature of Lettuce is the very lame ; the 
Learned Erafmus fetcheth a fimilitude from hence 
concerning our Study, that there is no mediocrity 
neither in profefling the truth. 
2. This creature goeth very flowly, and alwaies 
carrieth his houfe along with him wherefoever he 
goeth ; and therefore Apelles, or, as fome would 
have it, Fhldlasy painted enus Handing in a Iheet, 
to fignifie to us that a woman ought to be alwaies 
di'5(»pov, that is, that flie fhould not be far from her 
own houfe ; as it is a great commendation of a man 
( when we can fay of him, as Horace faith out of 
H ornery Aiulterum meres hominum q%i videt ur- 
hes -^ ) To have feen the cuftomes of Countreys, 
and to be acquainted with the manners of men / 
So is it on the contrary, the greateft honour and 
glory of, a woman to keep at home;the Uehrews do 
very fitly call a woman s^lma quafi occul- 
f/it<2,rignifying that a woman fhould not be much in 
th^ftreetSybut to mind her own ho»jhoU~ajfairs\dX'A 
as it is dangerous for the fmil to go from his hoiefey 
fo it is not good for women to go far from their own 
houfes : we may remember fad examples of it in 
D/W^;the Snail ufeth the herb called Origanumyot 
wild Marjoram, againft Serpents and topers ; when 
he goeth along, ^ he piuteth out his horns, to fee if 
the way be fate. 5. If hefeeth nobody near him, 
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