The gentlewomans companion, or, A guide to the female sex : containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age ... With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, A guide for cook-maids, diary-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general / By Hannah Woolley.

  • Woolley, Hannah, active 1670.
Date:
1682
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Credit: The gentlewomans companion, or, A guide to the female sex : containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age ... With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, A guide for cook-maids, diary-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general / By Hannah Woolley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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employment. My greateft blefiing is the continuance of yourlove,which obl; geth yi me to encreafe my thank fulne/s a& well Rial as my obedience. I perceive fome cen{o- rious tongue hath been too butie with my face, and hath endeavoured to throw. dirt on it, becaufe it hath: been lately} fpottedin the fafhion; a fafbién thathath as much innocence to plead for its ex cufé , as cuftom for its authority. Venus the Godde/i of beanty.was born with a Motticella, or natural beauty-{pot, as‘ if Nature had fet forth’a pattern for Art to imitate. You. may fee every day fome little clouds over the face of the Sun, yet he is not afhamed of his a= traction ; nay,fome of late with an pps tick-glafs have difcovered fome macy ae or {pots in the very face of the Sun, yet ‘they ate not attributed as his deforjui- ‘aes, ‘The Adoon when he is at Fulland fhining in her greatelt luffer, hath in her face fome remarkable {pots , and herein is placed her chieteft glory; as being in every thing enconftant but in this. When I put.on my Mask, which i8-noimore nor beter than one great patch, “chat ROSES AAD asian tecibiabe -icled oo ec -