forbidden  meats  :  but  you  fee  they  hanefometrickcs  to  coufin God,  as  before  to  cou-
fin  the  Diuell :  but  the  moft  coufinage  (faue  that  in  the  former  they  coufin  themfelues)
is  to  Chriftians  which  buy  thofeliinder  parts  of  them,in  polluting  thofe  meats,  before
they  fell  them,  with  filth,  and  with  vrine  of  their  children,  adding  curfes  and  impreca-
tions to  the  enters.  Thus  you  fee  the  lew-butcher  had  need  be  no  botcher,  but  halfe  a
Phyfitian  in  Anatomizing,and  halfe  aRabbine  in  cafes  ofconfcience.And  whoknow-
eth  whether  fo  many  I  ewifli  Phy fitians  come  not  from(and  perhaps  alfo  carrie  to)  the
Shambles?

But  weary  of  this  bloudic  fpeftacle,  let  vs  take  a  more  pleafant  view,  of  their  Vir-
gins and  Efpoufals.  Thefe  were  made,  faith  '  Mo fts  de  K6tfi,e\x.\\tx  With  moneybox  c  Lib.Pnecep,
•with  an  inftrument,or  withcopu!ation.It  fcemcth  this  laft  is  vnderftood  of  fuch  as  had   '  ^^'  ^'^-  ^''"/^
lien  with  a  maide,  and  therefore  muft  by  the  ^  Law  marriehcr  (if  the  father  denied  ^"^Vwrf^ii*
himnot  his  daughter)  whereas  othcrwife  they  might  not  haue  carnall  companic  be-  «^DfW  »r.  »9.
fore  the  marriage  were  folemnizcd,  this  being  forbidden  no  e  jeffe  then  to  lie  with  a  e  Lil/.:^iHfar,'
woman  in  her  difeafe.  Their  Prayer-bookc  f  faith  thus.  He  which  fhall  clpoufe  a  wo-  "/'  *
nian,bringethwitnefles,  and  before  them  doth  betroth  her  with  money , or  fomc  what  '  ^'''•3^4«
mortey-worth,whichhegiuethherfaying,Bethouefpoufedto  mc  according  to  the
Law  oCMofes  alid  Jfrae/.  If  there  be  no  witneflcs  it  is  nothing,  notwithftanding  they
both  confefle  it.  If  one  fhall  affiance  a  woman  to  another,he  faith,Be  thou  efpoufed  to
7v(.  with  this  Ring,  according  to  the  Law  oiMefes  and  Ifrael.  g  Buxdorfitu  (to  whom  g  sjn  Jud.c.it.
