, ■ Arch"&ologi& AtticLib.^.Caf. 13. ip.7
work, ressa as the Latines calld it, downe right with one thred
a crosfe and no more; for there wai mixihrim too, and a
great deale of variety in some workes, as well as fcverail
sorts of works in the trade; which was the cause why b t> r.14.1 8.
in Euripides when sreafa told him os a Bearing-doth of her
own Weaving, as-kt her os what fort os making it was.
Unlesfe you will consine this *t*G>.«l to the Virgins sas you
may seeme to have carase srom the words but now producd)
and the Wives and Mothers sor their servancs sor them) to
the planer work. As it is said,ihey were wont to be among the
Romans,sor ntlat parentes bom ominis causa, Itberis confict ctira-
bant,ii\zi Feftw, the Parents among them would make their
Children none but slam deaths^ to (hew they muft ufe
themfelves to plaine dealing. And seeing Weaving was a
worke so well befeeming the better sort ( as appears in
Creusalhe daughter of noworfe man then Eritlhem a King of
Athens, and that noble Lady Tenehpe) 1 cannot but wonder
ztElettra, is (he have, put it among her complaints in that
.verfe, *' -
'Aunt p ly.uoyJ5-\s3u-u<>M3i tAt^x;.
That fhe was kept to Weaving. For (it may be) her com-
plaint was, rather that fhe could not be her own Woman*
and Weave for her felfe, but mull be ftiil winning and ne-
ver wearing, and ftarve in the Cooks (hop. I muft tell her
thus much from a esfriftotle, if i"he li*d in a ftate of levelling
democracy .though fhe were a married Woman (as flie was a Folit.U.c
hat 'srohv^'wi®- that or any worke eife would have mj.
been thought too much to little purpose. For faies he in luch
a cafe , <n:{ "ini&i; Jiay-i) yjr.&cu yJisuQ y^TXim- ajzyzKi-
Ainu st* rk) eJthiit!, fhj muft be sorcd to doe things her
felfe for want of Servants , and. so there could be no such
thing at all as gyntcoKcmy, which might give the Wise any
priviledge at all.
CAP.
work, ressa as the Latines calld it, downe right with one thred
a crosfe and no more; for there wai mixihrim too, and a
great deale of variety in some workes, as well as fcverail
sorts of works in the trade; which was the cause why b t> r.14.1 8.
in Euripides when sreafa told him os a Bearing-doth of her
own Weaving, as-kt her os what fort os making it was.
Unlesfe you will consine this *t*G>.«l to the Virgins sas you
may seeme to have carase srom the words but now producd)
and the Wives and Mothers sor their servancs sor them) to
the planer work. As it is said,ihey were wont to be among the
Romans,sor ntlat parentes bom ominis causa, Itberis confict ctira-
bant,ii\zi Feftw, the Parents among them would make their
Children none but slam deaths^ to (hew they muft ufe
themfelves to plaine dealing. And seeing Weaving was a
worke so well befeeming the better sort ( as appears in
Creusalhe daughter of noworfe man then Eritlhem a King of
Athens, and that noble Lady Tenehpe) 1 cannot but wonder
ztElettra, is (he have, put it among her complaints in that
.verfe, *' -
'Aunt p ly.uoyJ5-\s3u-u<>M3i tAt^x;.
That fhe was kept to Weaving. For (it may be) her com-
plaint was, rather that fhe could not be her own Woman*
and Weave for her felfe, but mull be ftiil winning and ne-
ver wearing, and ftarve in the Cooks (hop. I muft tell her
thus much from a esfriftotle, if i"he li*d in a ftate of levelling
democracy .though fhe were a married Woman (as flie was a Folit.U.c
hat 'srohv^'wi®- that or any worke eife would have mj.
been thought too much to little purpose. For faies he in luch
a cafe , <n:{ "ini&i; Jiay-i) yjr.&cu yJisuQ y^TXim- ajzyzKi-
Ainu st* rk) eJthiit!, fhj muft be sorcd to doe things her
felfe for want of Servants , and. so there could be no such
thing at all as gyntcoKcmy, which might give the Wise any
priviledge at all.
CAP.