Ladies in this particular, preserv'd in
Homer
, which I hope will have a very good Effect with my Country-women. A Widow in Ancient Times could not, without Indecency, receive a second Husband, till she had Woven a Shrowd for her deceased Lord, or the next of Kin to him. Accordingly, the Chaste
Penelope
having, as she thought, lost
Ulysses
at Sea, she employed her time in preparing a Winding-sheet for
Laertes
, the Father of her Husband. The Story of her Web being very Famous, and yet not sufficiently known in its several Circumstances, I shall give it to my Reader, as
Homer