Polluted with Counterfeit Colours Cosmetic Theater

In the scene with which this chapter opened, Lucretia is in the midst of having her face made up when she interrupts with a sudden cry [Pg.83]

My cheekes both burne and sting give me my glasse. [Pg.83]

Hence with the glasse coole coole my face, rancke poyson Is ministred to bring me to my death, [Pg.83]

Similarly, Sir Hugh Platt s Delights for Ladies went through sixteen editions between 1602 and 1656.1 Other popular books of this genre included A Closet for Ladies and Gentlewomen, which was printed at least twelve times between 1608 and 16 5 6, and The Ladies Cabinet Opened, printed five times between 1639 and 1667. [Pg.86]

Your Alabaster Armes and Hands Ladies, are the fleshiea/tors whereon your superstitious Inamorato s offer to you, as female Deities the first fruits of their devotion in zealous kisses. Your care should be to keep them in such a soul-inchanting symmetric, that might confirm your Idolizing lovers in the opinion they have conceived, that you are more then mortal. [Pg.90]

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