Their effœminate ſoftnes and nicenes in regard to their bodies, Seneca hath well both obſerued and cenſured:[…]Now if their men were herein thus effœminate, wee may well conceiue their women exceeded more:[…]

Bring well known hands, keep forraine beaſts from you, / If Pompeys far-fam’d name deſerve to be / The crime of Cæſar, feares not Ptolomey / The ruine of that name: or when the sky / Thunders, dar’ſt thou, effœminate Ptolomey, / Inſert thy prophane hands? to terrify / Thee, King, a Romans name enough ſhould be, / Without that worth that did the world controll:[…]When Cnejus heard theſe words, his inward woe / In paſſionate teares, and ſighs he could not ſhow; / But thus inflam’d with pious rage gan ſpeake, / Lanch forth the fleet, ſailers, with ſpeed, and breake / Through the croſſe winds a paſſage with the oare, / Brave Captaines follow me, never before / Knew civill war more worthy ends then theſe, / T’interre unbury’d Manes, and appeaſe / Pompey with ſlaughter of th’effœminate boy.

In your language be plaine, honeſt, naturall, comely, cleane, ſhort, and ſentencious: eſchew both the extremities, aſwell in not uſing any ruſtical corrupt leide, as booke-language, and penne and inke-horne tearmes: and leaſt of al mignarde and effœminate tearmes.

So doe they likewiſe of Pepper, Ginger, Cinnamon, and other Spices which effœminate the mindes of menn, needeles, and vnneceſſary allurements:[…]

Then ſhall an Active, Brave, Heroick Breed, / To this effœminated Race ſucceed;

The Fruits they have there never come to perfection, but are cramp’d in their growth, and as it were effœminated, by the vaſt quantity of Water.[…]as if their mind was mollify’d or their paſſions effœminated, for want of skill or exerciſe in war, or from overmuch lazineſs.

Effœminate

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