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Gen_31:35 And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women [is] upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.
Ver. 35. For the custom of women is upon me.] A subtle, but sinful excuse, to shift a shame. Women’s wits, we say, are best at a pinch: but they must take heed they be not as C. Curio the Roman, ingeniose nequam , wittily wicked, {a} Wit will not bear out sin.
{a} Velleius, lib. ii. c. xlviii.