day, but dried up, withered, and stinks another.”  Beautiful Nireus, by that Homer so much admired, once dead, is more deformed than Thersites, and Solomon deceased as ugly as Marcolphus:  thy lovely mistress that was erst [5717]_Charis charior ocellis_, “dearer to thee than thine eyes,” once sick or departed, is Vili vilior aestimata coeno, “worse than any dirt or dunghill.”  Her embraces were not so acceptable, as now her looks be terrible:  thou hadst better behold a Gorgon’s head, than Helen’s carcass.

Some are of opinion, that to see a woman naked is able of itself to alter his affection; and it is worthy of consideration, saith [5718]Montaigne the Frenchman in his Essays, that the skilfulest masters of amorous dalliance, appoint for a remedy of venerous passions, a full survey of the body; which the poet insinuates,

[5719] “Ille quod obscaenas in aperto corpore partes
        Viderat, in cursu qui fuit, haesit amor.”

       “The love stood still, that run in full career,
        When once it saw those parts should not appear.”

It is reported of Seleucus, king of Syria, that seeing his wife Stratonice’s bald pate, as she was undressing her by chance, he could never affect her after.  Remundus Lullius, the physician, spying an ulcer or cancer in his mistress’ breast, whom he so dearly loved, from that day following abhorred the looks of her.  Philip the French king, as Neubrigensis, lib. 4. cap. 24. relates it, married the king of Denmark’s daughter, [5720]"and after he had used her as a wife one night, because her breath stunk, they say, or for some other secret fault, sent her back again to her father.”  Peter Mattheus, in the life of Lewis the Eleventh, finds fault with our English [5721]chronicles, for writing how Margaret the king of Scots’ daughter, and wife to Louis the Eleventh, French king, was ob graveolentiam oris, rejected by her husband.  Many such matches are made for by-respects, or some seemly comeliness, which after honeymoon’s past, turn to bitterness:  for burning lust is but a flash, a gunpowder passion; and hatred oft follows in the highest degree, dislike and contempt.

[5722]  ------“Cum se cutis arida laxat,
Fiunt obscuri dentes”------

when they wax old, and ill-favoured, they may commonly no longer abide them,—­Jam gravis es nobis, Be gone, they grow stale, fulsome, loathsome, odious, thou art a beastly filthy quean,—­[5723]_faciem Phoebe cacantis habes_, thou art Saturni podex, withered and dry, insipida et vetula,—­[5724]_Te quia rugae turpant, et capitis nives_, (I say) be gone, [5725]_portae patent, proficiscere_.