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.