[5194]  ------“animam ne crede puellis,
Namque est foeminea tutior unda fide.”

Thou thinkest, peradventure, because of her vows, tears, smiles, and protestations, she is solely thine, thou hast her heart, hand, and affection, when as indeed there is no such matter, as the [5195]Spanish bawd said, gaudet illa habere unum in lecto, alterum in porta, tertium qui domi suspiret, she will have one sweetheart in bed, another in the gate, a third sighing at home, a fourth, &c.  Every young man she sees and likes hath as much interest, and shall as soon enjoy her as thyself.  On the other side, which I have said, men are as false, let them swear, protest, and lie; [5196]_Quod vobis dicunt, dixerunt mille puellis_.  They love some of them those eleven thousand virgins at once, and make them believe, each particular, he is besotted on her, or love one till they see another, and then her alone; like Milo’s wife in Apuleius, lib. 2. Si quem conspexerit speciosae formae invenem, venustate ejus sumitur, et in eum animum intorquet.  ’Tis their common compliment in that case, they care not what they swear, say or do:  One while they slight them, care not for them, rail downright and scoff at them, and then again they will run mad, hang themselves, stab and kill, if they may not enjoy them.  Henceforth, therefore,—­nulla viro juranti foemina credat, let not maids believe them.  These tricks and counterfeit passions are more familiar with women, [5197]_finem hic dolori faciet aut vitae dies, miserere amantis_, quoth Phaedra to Hippolitus.  Joessa, in [5198]Lucian, told Pythias, a young man, to move him the more, that if he would not have her, she was resolved to make away herself.  “There is a Nemesis, and it cannot choose but grieve and trouble thee, to hear that I have either strangled or drowned myself for thy sake.”  Nothing so common to this sex as oaths, vows, and protestations, and as I have already said, tears, which they have at command; for they can so weep, that one would think their very hearts were dissolved within them, and would come out in tears; their eyes are like rocks, which still drop water, diariae lachrymae et sudoris in modum lurgeri promptae, saith [5199] Aristaenetus, they wipe away their tears like sweat, weep with one eye, laugh with the other; or as children [5200]weep and cry, they can both together.

[5201] “Neve puellarum lachrymis moveare memento,
        Ut flerent oculos erudiere suos.”

       “Care not for women’s tears, I counsel thee,
        They teach their eyes as much to weep as see.”

And as much pity is to be taken of a woman weeping, as of a goose going barefoot.  When Venus lost her son Cupid, she sent a crier about, to bid every one that met him take heed.

[5202] “Si fleatam aspicias, ne mox fallare, caveto;
        Sin arridebit, magis effuge; et oscula si fors
        Ferre volet, fugito; sunt oscula noxia, in ipsis
        Suntque venena labris” &c.