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Rous, Francis; Bogan, Zachary [Editor]
Archaeologiae Atticae Libri Septem — Oxford, 1658

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But was. U so indeed as CMedea complaind, and was the Wo-
man to be miserablc ftill without any hopes os redressV? no^
for at length it was provided by the Law, that is (he sound
the Conjugal! yoake too ftraite, and bad a mind to flip the
Collar, she was to make her complaint to the essrchon: who
%. deputed other judges toconfider is thecause were lawsul!,
and so to give her a Bill of Divorce with this condition, thae
she engage herselse by Band, never to returnetoher Hus-
bands r.ouse againe: and when this was done, (he might ei-°
ther have her portion back againe srom her Husband, or else
serve him with a Writ -s <a?<tim oimt or allow het mainte-
nance, and so much a Moneth for ufe, as long as he detaind
the money.
cap. xii;
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BUT now whether the Woman reckond it sussicieni
caufetocomplaine, to be put to servile employments,
I know not, fuch abufesas this were many times offered. I
do not (land fo much upon keeping os the Keyes, or making
(z)Apu& Ew °slne ^Iea^5 (whatever a Hecuba has complaind os that im«
tip. Tread. ployment) but the bafer fort of fervices, fuch as fetching
of Water npon their heads; which the poor old Maid in
(b ld.in Efefl. Ir,e b poet might jussly make one of the faddeft parts of hei
flavifh condition,
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It seems the Grecian Women their fafhion of carrying Wa-
ter, was the same that ours is now; nay and the Roman too:
c L. 3. Frf« for c Ovid sates of the Veftall Virgin her selfe (Sjlvi* 1 mean,
when (he went to fetch Water, and flept away her Maiden-
bead,
 
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