"Not much unlike to whome I may peradventure seeme, who at this time especially, when the unappeasable enimies of health, sicknesse, and mortality have so mightily prevailed against us, am here found drawing of _lines and lineaments, portraitures, and proportions_, when (in regard of my place and profession) it might much better have beseemed mee to have bin found in the colledge of physicians, learning and counselling such remedies as might make for the common health; or if I must needes be doing about _lines_, to have commented upon this proposition, _mors ultima linea rerum_. "Howbeit, as I find not him much taxed in the storie for this his diligent carelessness, because he was busied about matters which were not onlie an ornament of peace, but also of good use in warre, so my hope is (ingenious reader), that my sedulous trifling shall meete with thy friendliest interpretation; insomuch as the arte I now deale in shall be proved not onlie a grace to health, but also a contentment and recreation unto sickeness, and a kind of preservative against death and mortality; by a perpetual preserving of _their_ shades, whose substances physicke could not prolong, no, not for a season," _etc. etc._ In his treatise of colours, he makes the following addresse to his faire countrie wommen:-- "Having intreated of so many and divers thinges, I could not but say something of such matters as _woemen_ use ordinarilly in beautifying and imbelishing their faces; a thing well worth the knowledge, insomuch as many women are so possessed with a desire of helping their complexions by some artificial meanes, that they will by no meanes be diswaded from the same." He then enumerates ceruse, plume alume, juice of lemons, oil of tartarie, camphire, and sundry other cosmetics of the day, all which he takes many pages to prove are _enemies to health, and hurtful to the complexion_, and thus adviseth: "Wherefore if there bee no remedie, but women will be meddling with this arte of _pollishing_, let them, instead of those mineral stuffes, use the remedies following. "_Of such helpes of Beauty as may safely be used without danger._ "There is nothing in the world which doth more beautifie and adorne a woman than chearfulness, contentment, and good temper. For it is not the red and white which giveth the gracious perfection of beauty, but certaine sparkling notes and touches of amiable chearfulness accompanying the same. The truth whereof may appear in a discontented woman, otherwise exceeding faire, who atte that instant will seem yll favoured and unloovely; as contrariwise, an hard-favoured and browne woman, being merry, pleasaunte, and jocund, will seem sufficient beautiful." [16] Of this figure he thus writes in his chapter on _Compositions with the Serpentine Line_:--