The Loathsomeness of Long Hair, Title page – Errata
Comarum foreign The Loathsomnesse OF LONG HAIRE: OR, A TREATISE Wherein you have the Question stated, many Arguments against it produc'd, and the most materiall Arguguments for it refell'd and answer'd, with the concurrent judgement of Divines both old and new against it. With an Appendix against Painting, Spots, Naked Breasts, &c. By THOMAS HALL B. D. and Pastor of Kingsnorton.
ROM. 12. 2. Fashion not your selves like unto the World.
1 THES. 5. 22. Abstaine from all appearance of evill.
Nihil leve aestimetur, quo Deus laeditur. Salvian.
Capillus à Deo in natura non est ordinatus, ut tegat frontem, genas, collum & humeros, sed solummodo locum illum cui innascitur; ergo capillus ulterius procurrere non debet. Poiemenand.
Christians should not weare Beauty Spots (seeing Beauty-Spots are the Spots of Beauty) for their Beauty is to be without Spots. Venning.
Mart. 2. 1653 Imprimatur Tho: Gataker.
LONDON, Printed by J. G. for Nathanael Webb and William Grantham at the signe of the Bear in S. Pauls Church-yard near the little North door. 1654.
Viro ornatissimo Domino THOMAe HALLO.
HUmano capiti caudam qui jungit equinam.
Jure hunc ridiculum dixeris esse caput.
Si non cauda, juba est saltem, quā plurima gestat
Nunc pars Angligenum, credit & esse jubar.
At jubar hoc pulchrum nubes est turpis: ut aures
Sic humeros, oculos, oráque saepè regit.
Quid? quòd & ingenio tenebras offundit opacas,
Et nimis est Matri dura noverca Piae?
Credo dari Vacuum quoties hos specto cometas,
Hos ità crinitos femineos que viros.
Quis risū teneat monstra haec informia cernens?
At quis sustineat cernere mente valens?
Halle potes (vel nemo potest) sibi reddere motos
Mente, potes nimias, spero, fugare comas.
Saepe Cerebrosos te sternere novimus Ore:
Nunc peto Crinitos aggrediare stylo.
D. U.
Viris has tempestate plus nimio capillatis, calamistratis, effeminatis.
QUis furor, O cives, quae vos dementia caepit?
Quêis melior natura Vitis dedit esse, virilis
Sic vosjam Capitis taedet? Vestrumne capillos
Sic promittere, sic crispare, & pulvere odoro
Spargere, & omnino muliebri incedere ritu?
Mollior iste placet vestro mage sexus? an unquā
Optat equus timidam fieri se fortis afellam?
Se Phoebus Phoeben? & se conclave culinam?
Has resecate comas, haec vellera ponite longa,
Has sylvas tondete, aut Barbas tollite vestras,
Et tractate colos, & lintea nostra lavate,
Et mundate domos, & quicquid femina praestat
Credite vos alacres debere capessere munus.
Sin minùs hoc libet, ac junctim mētúm que virile
Femineumque caput, vobis servare statutum est,
Nè grave sit vobis vocitarier Hermaphroditos.
G. A.
O Crines homin…! ô quantum est in rebus inanel
Non feminarū modò, quarum admodùm
Dedecet infirmas pauxilla superbia mentes:
Sed & virorum, quibus est rationis vigor.
Hos ità promissis calamistratisque capillis
Vestire sese, ô quàm viris est absonum!
Nònne leves animos & inania pectora prodit,
Minusque inepta virilibus provinciis?
Fallor? An in crines migrat pars magna cerebri?
Minúsque cordis est sub tanto tegmins?
O si quêis volupe est nemus hoc nutrire pilorum
Luberet Ungues sic alere simul suos,
Sic foret ut miseros se degenerâsse puderet
In feminas primùm, ac deinde in bestias.
R. D.
GOod Ramus pardon me, for I
Have alwayes lov'd Trichotomy.
But now Idoe affect it more
By far, than ever I did before.
How many doe I daily see
Given up to Muliebritie!
A female head to a male face
Is marryed now in every place.
And some doe make, so vain they are,
A Galaxias in their haire.
Now sure Trichotomy it is
Can banish these sad vanities.
A. M.
To the Long-hair'd Gallants of these Times.
GO Gallants to the Barbers, go,
Bid them your hairy Bushes mow.
God in a Bush did once appeare,
But there is nothing of him here.
Here's that he deeply hates: beside,
That execrable sin of Pride;
Here also is that Felony:
Nay, Is not here Idolatry?
Such Bushes daily intervert
The time that's due to th'better part:
And more observance have by farre
Than He in whom you live and are.
Great cause you have much to admire,
That He that's a consuming fire
So coole, and patient is; but know
You will not finde him alwayes so.
Expect a change in him, unlesse
There be in you his holinesse;
Stir up his Justice will, and make
Your Idoll-heads to th'purpose ake:
At length, if this your triple sin
Be alwayes thus continued in.
Tell me I pray, did you nere hear
Of Herods Executioner?
Or the strange halter, which did free
The burdned Mule, and charg'd a Tree?
Or the third Plague of Pharaoh's Land?
Have you not been inform' o'th' hand
Of God on Poland lately laid;
Enough to make all Lands afraid,
And your long dangles, stand an end?
Feare him that did that Plica *A most loathsome and horrible disease in the haire, unheard of in former times; bred by moderne luxury & excess. It seizeth speci ally upon women; and by reason of a viscous venomous humour, glues together (as it were) the haire of the head with a prodigious ugly implication and intanglement; sometimes taking the forme of a great snake, sometimes of many little serpents: full of nastiness, vermin, and noysome smell: And that which is most to be admired, and never eye saw before, pricked with a needle, they yeild bloody drops. And at the first spreading of this dreadfull disease in Poland, all that cut off this horrible and snaky haire, lost their eyes, or the humour falling downe upon other parts of the body; turned them extremely Mr. Bolton in his four last things, p. 40. out of Hercules Sanonia, a famous Professor of Physique in Padua.send,
And those sad Crawlers: and hath more
Unheard of Judgements still in store,
Than the vast Heaven hath glorious stars,
Or those your delicate Heads have haires.
Those your sweet powders rather strow
Upon the ground on which you goe,
Than let them be so vainely spent
Upon an haughty Excrement.
Forget not that your selves are dust,
And the Times tell your Heads they must
Their powders into Ashes turne,
And teach their Wantonnesse to Mourne.
Shall you my counsell practise then
Ile say you have the Heads of men.
Then being from that Cumb'rance freed
You may attend the parts that need
Your utmost care, the Heart and Brain;
Then also will that numerous Train
Of your Inferiours suddenly
Be cured of their deformity.
For whatsoever you Gallants doe,
They gallant think, and follow you.
Then lastly, such your heads will be,
As may admit consistencie
With circumcised hearts, which you
Must get, or you your selves undoe.
Who have such hearts, they onelyonly may
Hold up their heads at the Great day.
R. B.
Courteous READER,
I living at a distance from the Presse, there have passed some Errata's which doe marre the sense; these I pray thee to correct before thou readest, the rest are literall and veniall.
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