Many such allurements there are, nods, jests, winks, smiles, wrestlings, tokens, favours, symbols, letters, valentines, &c.  For which cause belike, Godfridus lib. 2. de amor. would not have women learn to write.  Many such provocations are used when they come in presence, [5123]10 they will and will not,

       “Malo me Galatea petit lasciva puella,
        Et fugit ad salices, et se cupit ante videri.”

       “My mistress with an apple woos me,
          And hastily to covert goes
        To hide herself, but would be seen
          With all her heart before, God knows.”

Hero so tripped away from Leander as one displeased,

[5124] “Yet as she went full often look’d behind,
        And many poor excuses did she find
        To linger by the way,”------

but if he chance to overtake her, she is most averse, nice and coy,

       “Denegat et pugnat, sed vult super omnia vinci.”

       “She seems not won, but won she is at length,
        In such wars women use but half their strength.”

Sometimes they lie open and are most tractable and coming, apt, yielding, and willing to embrace, to take a green gown, with that shepherdess in Theocritus, Edyl. 27. to let their coats, &c., to play and dally, at such seasons, and to some, as they spy their advantage; and then coy, close again, so nice, so surly, so demure, you had much better tame a colt, catch or ride a wild horse, than get her favour, or win her love, not a look, not a smile, not a kiss for a kingdom. [5125]Aretine’s Lucretia was an excellent artisan in this kind, as she tells her own tale, “Though I was by nature and art most beautiful and fair, yet by these tricks I seemed to be far more amiable than I was, for that which men earnestly seek and cannot attain, draws on their affection with a most furious desire.  I had a suitor loved me dearly” (said she), “and the [5126]more he gave me, the more eagerly he wooed me, the more I seemed to neglect, to scorn him, and which I commonly gave others, I would not let him see me, converse with me, no, not have a kiss.”  To gull him the more, and fetch him over (for him only I aimed at) I personated mine own servant to bring in a present from a Spanish count, whilst he was in my company, as if he had been the count’s servant, which he did excellently well perform:  [5127]_Comes de monte Turco_, “my lord and master hath sent your ladyship a small present, and part of his hunting, a piece of venison, a pheasant, a few partridges, &c. (all which she bought with her own money), commends his love and service to you, desiring you to accept of it in good part, and he means very shortly to come and see you.”  Withal she showed him rings, gloves, scarves, coronets which others had sent her, when there was no such matter, but only to circumvent him. [5128]By these means (as she concludes) “I made the poor gentleman so mad, that he was ready