ABSTRACT
Blaze not her beauty with thine own tongue. (Alexander Niccholes, A Discourse of Marriage and Wiving, 1615)
Virtue seeks concealment as much as vice delights to show itself.. . . A woman’s glory is to be little spoken of; very different from men, who act, unmasked, on the world’s wide theatre . . . whereas women are to perform their parts only, as it were, behind the scenes.
