“Cunctas vero ignis instar sequebatur splendor,
        Tantum ab aureis fimbriis resplendebat jubar,
        Accenditque in oculis dulce desiderium.”

       “A lustre followed them like flaming fire,
        And from their golden borders came such beams,
        Which in his eyes provok’d a sweet desire.”

Such a relation we have in [5020]Plutarch, when the queens came and offered themselves to Antony, [5021]"with diverse presents, and enticing ornaments, Asiatic allurements, with such wonderful joy and festivity, they did so inveigle the Romans, that no man could contain himself, all was turned to delight and pleasure.  The women transformed themselves to Bacchus shapes, the men-children to Satyrs and Pans; but Antony himself was quite besotted with Cleopatra’s sweet speeches, philters, beauty, pleasing tires:  for when she sailed along the river Cydnus, with such incredible pomp in a gilded ship, herself dressed like Venus, her maids like the Graces, her pages like so many Cupids, Antony was amazed, and rapt beyond himself.”  Heliodorus, lib. 1. brings in Dameneta, stepmother to Cnemon, “whom she [5022]saw in his scarves, rings, robes, and coronet, quite mad for the love of him.”  It was Judith’s pantofles that ravished the eyes of Holofernes.  And [5023]Cardan is not ashamed to confess, that seeing his wife the first time all in white, he did admire and instantly love her.  If these outward ornaments were not of such force, why doth [5024]Naomi give Ruth counsel how to please Boaz? and [5025]Judith, seeking to captivate Holofernes, washed and anointed herself with sweet ointments, dressed her hair, and put on costly attires.  The riot in this kind hath been excessive in times past; no man almost came abroad, but curled and anointed,

[5026] “Et matutino suadans Crispinus amomo. 
        Quantum vix redolent duo funera.”

“one spent as much as two funerals at once, and with perfumed hairs,” [5027]_et rosa canos odorati capillos Assyriaque nardo_.  What strange thing doth [5028]Sueton. relate in this matter of Caligula’s riot?  And Pliny, lib. 12. & 13. Read more in Dioscorides, Ulmus, Arnoldus, Randoletius de fuco et decoratione; for it is now an art, as it was of old, (so [5029]Seneca records) officinae, sunt adores coquentium.  Women are bad and men worse, no difference at all between their and our times; [5030]"good manners” (as Seneca complains) “are extinct with wantonness, in tricking up themselves men go beyond women, they wear harlots’ colours, and do not walk, but jet and dance,” hic mulier, haec vir, more like players, butterflies, baboons, apes, antics, than men.  So ridiculous, moreover, we are in our attires, and for cost so excessive, that as Hierome said of old, Uno filio villarum insunt pretia, uno lino decies sestertium inseritur; ’tis an ordinary thing to put a thousand oaks and a hundred oxen into a suit of apparel, to wear a whole manor