walk; which when the silly novice perceived, statim ut legit credidit, instantly apprehended it was so, came raving to me, &c. [5133]"and so when I was in despair of his love, four months after I recovered him again.”  Eugenia drew Timocles for her valentine, and wore his name a long time after in her bosom:  Camaena singled out Pamphilus to dance, at Myson’s wedding (some say), for there she saw him first; Felicianus overtook Caelia by the highway side, offered his service, thence came further acquaintance, and thence came love.  But who can repeat half their devices?  What Aretine experienced, what conceited Lucian, or wanton Aristenaetus?  They will deny and take, stiffly refuse, and yet earnestly seek the same, repel to make them come with more eagerness, fly from if you follow, but if averse, as a shadow they will follow you again, fugientem sequitur, sequentem fugit; with a regaining retreat, a gentle reluctancy, a smiling threat, a pretty pleasant peevishness they will put you off, and have a thousand such several enticements.  For as he saith,

[5134] “Non est forma satis, nec quae vult bella videri,
          Debet vulgari more placere suis. 
        Dicta, sales, lusus, sermones, gratia, risus,
          Vincunt naturae candidioris opus.”

       “’Tis not enough though she be fair of hue,
        For her to use this vulgar compliment: 
        But pretty toys and jests, and saws and smiles,
        As far beyond what beauty can attempt.”

[5135]For this cause belike Philostratus, in his images, makes diverse loves, “some young, some of one age, some of another, some winged, some of one sex, some of another, some with torches, some with golden apples, some with darts, gins, snares, and other engines in their hands,” as Propertius hath prettily painted them out, lib. 2. et 29. and which some interpret, diverse enticements, or diverse affections of lovers, which if not alone, yet jointly may batter and overcome the strongest constitutions.

It is reported of Decius, and Valerianus, those two notorious persecutors of the church, that when they could enforce a young Christian by no means (as [5136]Hierome records) to sacrifice to their idols, by no torments or promises, they took another course to tempt him:  they put him into a fair garden, and set a young courtesan to dally with him, [5137]"took him about the neck and kissed him, and that which is not to be named,” manibusque attrectare, &c., and all those enticements which might be used, that whom torments could not, love might batter and beleaguer.  But such was his constancy, she could not overcome, and when this last engine would take no place, they left him to his own ways.  At [5138]Berkley in Gloucestershire, there was in times past a nunnery (saith Gualterus Mapes, an old historiographer, that lived 400 years since), “of which there was a noble and a fair lady abbess:  Godwin, that subtile Earl of Kent,