A
Womans
woorth
,
defended
against
all
the
men
in
the
worlde
.
AS
(
according
to
Anaxagoras
)
the
body
of
Nature
is
heauen
,
and
the
influence
thereof
her
soule
:
euen
so
,
the
body
of
a
woman
is
the
heauen
of
humane
perfections
,
and
her
soule
the
treasurie
of
celestiall
and
diuine
vertues
.
That
it
must
needes
be
so
,
the
auncient
Philosophers
,
as
well
morall
as
naturall
,
the
speculatiue
Astronomers
,
Poets
,
the
interpreters
of
holye
things
,
and
maisters
of
the
best
approoued
manners
,
chimerique
Painters
,
and
namely
●he
professours
of
diuinitie
,
doo
consent
and
maint●ine
:
that
the
fairest
sciences
,
the
ra●est
●●●tues
,
the
inimitable
graces
,
ought
to
be
represented
in
the
forme
and
figure
of
women
,
as
it
may
be
seene
in
Hesiodus
,
who
speaketh
thus
.
Faire
Vertues
face
,
with
beautie
honored
,
Lookes
like
a
field
in
Aprill
diapred
.
Or
as
the
difference
of
enammeld
flowers
,
Which
natures
daughter
forth
in
plentie
powers
.
In
like
maner
,
the
formall
vnderstanding
of
things
that
are
,
or
may
be
,
is
signified
to
vs
by
the
feminine
vertue
,
wherof
Rasis
Arabe
thus
discourseth
.
As
Eleborus
,
of
one
and
the
selfe
same
substance
brings
foorth
diuers
effects
for
the
heads
diseases
:
Euen
so
a
woman
qualifies
diuers
manner
of
tempests
,
which
wandring
through
a
mans
braines
,
do
weaken
his
stronger
powers
,
vntill
this
lawfull
and
naturall
medicine
be
therto
applyed
.
Timaeus
the
Scicillian
reporteth
,
that
the
Lions
of
Lybia
loose
their
force
and
furie
,
if
they
haue
neuer
so
little
sight
of
a
maidens
eyes
.
And
Bandello
witnesseth
to
vs
in
his
histories
,
that
a
Lord
of
Scandia
,
being
by
nature
dull
and
blockish
;
at
the
very
first
sight
and
regarde
of
a
Lady
of
Vicensa
,
became
discreetlie
wise
and
well
gouerned
.
Reason
it selfe
(
according
to
Homer
)
is
figured
to
vs
by
the
person
of
Minerua
,
who
flew
out
armed
from
the
braines
of
Iupiter
:
and
Bacchus
,
that
is
the
angrie
facultie
,
beeing
painted
in
the
forme
of
a
man
,
had
no
other
birthe
then
from
his
thigh
.
Wherupon
,
Aristophanes
the
comicall
Poet
of
the
Athenians
,
thought
good
to
set
downe
this
description
.
Vertue
in
man
dooth
not
abide
,
She
's
washt
away
with
furies
tyde
.
But
in
faire
women
kinde
she
rests
,
For
mildenes
harbours
in
their
brests
.
And
did
not
women
make
men
wise
:
How
many
harmes
would
them
surprize
?
Aristotle
,
that
profound
Occean
of
Philosophie
,
and
second
author
of
Nature
,
acknowledged
so
much
of
womens
merits
:
that
he
sacrificed
(
as
it
had
bin
to
the
gods
)
a
million
of
times
to
his
beautifull
Hermia
,
according
to
the
report
of
Origen
,
and
this
which
the
Siracusane
Poet
sayeth
:
No
greater
loue
did
Aristotle
beare
To
Thebane
Hermia
his
soules
soueraignesse
:
But
farre
beyond
that
loue
(
if
more
there
were
)
Holde
I
to
Tyna
my
faire
Sheepheardesse
.
Diuine
Plato
,
of
whom
Saint
Augustine
that
Eagle
of
the
Doctors
,
deliuereth
a
most
singuler
testimonie
:
so
highlye
commended
the
vertues
of
Archanessa
,
as
he
not
onely
serued
her
like
a
slaue
,
but
composed
diuers
himnes
in
praise
of
her
,
comparing
her
qualities
to
be
celestiall
and
supernaturall
,
as
Diogenes
Laertius
truely
recordeth
.
What
shall
I
say
of
Socrates
,
the
ornament
of
men
,
the
ground
of
Oracles
,
glorie
of
the
Greekes
,
splendoure
of
the
Athenians
,
and
flood
of
diuine
pluralities
?
did
he
not
desire
to
make
all
posterities
know
,
that
man
is
somwhat
lesse
then
a
woman
?
yea
,
and
that
in
sound
earnest
,
when
to
the
great
scandale
of
beleeuing
them
of
his
own
kind
,
in
contempt
of
the
critique
Philosophers
,
ouerthrowe
of
the
presumptuous
,
debasing
the
Athenians
,
and
contrary
to
the
opinion
of
all
the
Greekes
:
he
preferred
one
onely
Aspasia
(
as
Clearchus
reciteth
)
before
a
million
of
men
,
for
her
knowledge
in
all
kinde
of
learning
,
and
deepe
skill
,
not
onely
in
those
things
that
best
might
serue
,
but
enriching
beside
all
humaine
societie
.
The
meruaile
of
Cos
,
Hippocrates
hath
taught
vs
,
that
the
most
perfect
bodyes
are
those
,
which
haue
lesse
heate
then
moisture
.
Whereupon
,
the
great
sonne
of
kings
,
Prince
of
Arabia
,
three
times
together
reprooued
Galen
,
who
held
,
that
heate
is
cheefest
in
the
building
of
all
things
,
as
maintaining
,
that
moysture
is
onely
fomented
and
seasoned
by
the
heate
.
Diuine
Homer
likewise
instructs
vs
,
that
the
estate
of
all
things
is
drawne
from
the
Occean
,
and
that
it
is
the
cheefest
of
the
elements
:
wherein
the
Cittizen
of
Millet
Thales
dooth
second
him
,
and
likewise
Pindarus
in
this
Ode
.
The
Sea
aboue
all
elements
,
Hath
the
cheefest
ornaments
.
Euen
as
golde
dooth
lustre
bright
,
Like
to
a
sacred
flame
in
sight
,
And
shines
more
faire
then
all
mettalls
,
Dispersed
in
the
mineralles
.
Now
as
women
are
much
more
moyste
then
men
,
so
in
like
manner
may
we
discerne
in
them
,
that
frenzies
and
furiousnes
is
not
so
familiar
with
them
as
men
:
in
regarde
they
will
neuer
runne
madde
for
loue
,
or
any
other
worldly
desire
.
Whereas
men
from
time
to
time
,
make
themselues
as
in
a
publique
Theater
,
the
subiect
of
very
tragicall
follies
,
such
as
the
like
can
scant
be
imagined
,
yet
customablie
vsed
in
assemblie
of
their
friends
,
agreeing
with
the
oppinion
of
the
Poet
Antimachus
.
The
Cadmeane
cittie
brought
foorth
crueltie
,
Those
Germaine
twins
pale
Death
and
Enuie
▪
Which
more
inhumaine
then
an
angrie
Beare
,
Depriuing
life
,
leaues
yet
a
world
of
feare
.
I
will
begin
by
state
affaires
to
approoue
,
alleadging
thereto
sufficient
witnesses
,
that
the
vertue
feminine
hath
bin
of
greater
efficacie
then
men
,
not
onely
in
this
subiect
but
any
other
whatsoeuer
,
especially
the
matter
heer
alleaged
:
for
it
consisteth
much
more
of
debating
cases
,
and
the
facultie
imaginatiue
,
which
indeed
are
the
happiest
functions
of
the
soule
,
then
any
other
desseignes
that
we
can
deale
withall
.
And
so
dooth
Xenophon
testifie
,
that
the
partie
which
is
apte
for
the
managing
of
publique
occasions
,
whereon
many
welfares
consist
,
euen
infinite
as
it
were
:
is
endued
with
some
perticuler
gift
of
nature
,
or
blessed
from
the
heauens
beyond
many
other
.
All
the
great
Monarchies
were
instituted
by
the
councell
of
women
.
Sbithea
Sister
to
Nimrod
,
enstructed
him
in
the
course
of
gouernement
,
according
as
Manethon
reporteth
.
Presigithes
a
Sheepheardesse
did
the
like
to
Cyrus
.
Dydo
first
founded
the
common
wealth
of
Carthage
.
Semiramis
reserued
the
Empire
to
her
Sonne
,
albeit
hee
was
thereof
vncapable
:
and
Fauna
brought
together
the
people
of
Italie
dispersed
heere
and
there
,
before
she
went
to
Cassino
in
Cassina
,
for
agreeing
of
the
one
with
the
other
;
as
it
is
recorded
in
certaine
fragments
of
the
Poet
Ennius
.
Fauna
the
Goddesse
Vestaes
woman
preest
,
First
taught
the
Latines
ciuill
gouernement
:
And
when
in
fields
they
wandred
where
they
list
,
She
brought
them
into
Citties
regiment
.
Tomyris
Queene
of
the
Scithians
;
appointing
to
them
the
lawes
of
Anacharsis
the
Philosopher
:
assured
them
to
be
more
holy
and
better
then
those
of
the
Athenians
.
She
restored
her
Empire
,
being
halfe
brused
by
the
Souldiours
of
Ariartsanes
the
Captaine
,
and
the
death
of
her
own
Sonne
,
who
suffered
himselfe
to
be
fondly
surprized
,
and
afterward
cruelly
slaine
:
notwithstanding
,
she
valiantly
triumphed
ouer
Cyrus
,
the
vniuersall
Monarche
of
the
East
.
Penthesilea
knowing
that
it
would
be
hard
to
squander
the
Greekes
in
Hellespont
,
by
reason
of
their
multitude
,
beeing
well
neere
numberlesse
:
attended
them
on
the
frontiers
of
Misia
,
and
there
ouerthrew
Hippoclus
,
conducter
of
the
back
bandes
of
all
the
Grecian
people
.
Hippolita
dissipated
the
troupes
of
great
Theseus
,
dismounting
himselfe
in
the
fight
,
yet
afterward
(
on
meere
grace
)
made
him
her
husband
.
The
Siracusan
women
were
cause
of
their
Citties
preseruation
,
beeing
before
abandoned
by
their
husbands
,
whence
arose
the
prouerbe
of
Venus
armed
,
as
Menander
describeth
in
one
of
his
Comedies
.
Let
none
himselfe
so
much
abuse
,
As
offer
to
take
Syracuse
▪
For
women
haue
it
in
respect
,
And
Venus
dooth
them
safe
protect
.
Good
were
it
then
the
God
of
warre
,
Should
lend
to
her
his
Cemiter
.
Cyrus
vanquished
by
the
common
flight
of
his
Souldiours
,
and
his
owne
proper
faulte
:
thus
deliuered
the
victorie
to
his
enemie
by
this
only
exhortation
,
that
they
but
came
to
fight
with
women
.
The
Romaines
surprized
by
the
Sabines
,
and
other
people
neere
neighbours
to
them
:
were
warrented
from
death
and
vtter
destruction
of
their
Cittie
,
by
the
meanes
of
women
,
who
knew
how
to
quenche
the
anger
iustly
enflamed
in
their
fathers
against
their
husbands
.
Parysatis
,
daughter
to
Cyrus
,
and
mother
to
Artaxerxes
,
was
so
well
enstructed
in
the
state
affayres
:
as
shee
made
Asia
tryumphe
of
the
Greekes
liberty
,
compassing
by
her
gouernement
the
losse
of
all
the
allyed
common
weale
,
and
stealing
by
her
gifts
,
the
most
liberall
courages
of
her
Empires
enemies
,
which
was
(
in
shew
)
ruled
by
her
son
,
but
in
verye
deede
maintained
by
her selfe
.
The
mother
of
Coriolanus
saued
the
citty
of
Rome
,
euen
from
the
cradle
to
her
glorious
height
,
vsing
so
manie
great
maximes
of
and
for
the
state
,
to
her
sonne
being
then
the
citties
enemie
:
as
all
the
Xenophons
,
Tacitusses
,
Machiauels
,
yea
,
whatsoeuer
Councellers
to
the
Princes
of
Europe
,
may
iustly
learne
example
by
those
noble
resolutions
,
and
admit
them
amongst
the
very
cheefest
desseignes
.
Cloelia
gaue
freedome
to
sixe
score
young
men
of
her
Cittie
,
by
admiration
of
her
fayre
enterprise
couragiously
effected
:
which
made
Ennius
the
Poet
thus
write
thereof
.
What
vertue
male
may
with
thy
woorth
contend
,
Can
men
h●pe
any
way
to
doe
as
much
By
their
best
meanes
?
Alas
,
t
is
to
no
end
,
In
like
affaires
their
haps
were
never
such
.
And
elsewhere
.
Young
Romaines
feeble
are
your
mindes
,
Your
glorie
of
the
least
esteeme
:
When
Cloelia
passage
for
you
findes
,
And
must
with
honor
you
redeeme
.
Rhea
knew
so
well
to
temper
the
prodigious
crueltie
and
tyrannie
of
Saturne
,
who
not
onely
would
disinherit
her
sonnes
,
but
deuoure
them
,
to
asswage
his
more
then
brutish
hunger
:
that
as
Orpheus
rehearseth
in
his
Songs
.
Iupiter
from
blame
had
not
been
free
,
If
Rheas
prudence
had
not
been
of
might
:
To
sheeld
him
from
the
spightfull
iealosie
.
Her
tyrant
husband
vsde
both
day
and
night
.
Vesta
deliuered
the
Hetrurians
from
the
besiegings
of
Alsichoris
.
Medea
made
victorious
Iason
conquer
the
golden
Isles
,
and
defended
the
Argonautes
from
straunge
ambuscadoes
,
which
were
preparde
for
them
in
the
Isle
of
Colchos
.
A●alanta
knew
how
to
enfranchise
the
Curetes
,
from
their
ordinarie
tributes
to
the
Princes
of
Achaia
,
euen
till
the
day
she
triumphed
ouer
them
in
the
race
.
Debora
,
Iudith
and
Hester
,
wrought
meruailes
for
conseruation
of
their
people
,
euen
to
the
enterprise
of
so
high
actions
,
as
the
issue
of
them
could
not
be
apprehended
,
their
beginnings
were
so
dreadfull
,
their
effects
beyond
comparison
,
and
their
vertue
bounded
within
no
equalitie
,
to
the
confusion
of
men
,
amazement
of
the
Gods
,
and
perpetuall
memorie
of
the
feminine
sexe
.
Thus
much
for
state
affaires
,
although
this
is
not
the
hundreth
part
of
that
I
could
produce
to
maintaine
this
subiect
,
which
might
be
handled
by
Angels
,
and
sufficient
for
my
sences
to
stand
and
woonder
at
.
Yet
haue
I
heere
made
no
mention
of
the
Amazones
in
generall
,
nor
of
the
Cipriotes
,
nor
of
the
Sydonians
,
and
many
other
sundry
countries
,
who
both
in
common
&
perticuler
,
haue
gotten
so
much
glory
by
armies
of
women
:
as
men
durst
hope
no
otherwise
,
but
in
the
meere
fables
they
haue
written
of
themselues
,
boasting
of
victories
gotten
ouer
their
equalles
,
and
one
while
against
Lions
,
then
Beares
,
and
some
Tygers
,
with
other
of
like
strength
and
violence
,
wherein
women
haue
done
as
much
,
or
rather
more
then
they
.
They
were
wont
to
tryumph
ouer
Ladyes
reputation
,
making
vauntes
of
some
thinges
wherein
their
merites
were
vnequall
,
finding
their
courage
to
be
eyther
to
feeble
,
or
not
answerable
:
whereupon
diuine
Sapho
complained
in
this
sort
.
Diuers
there
be
haue
heard
men
say
▪
That
ouer
women
they
beare
sway
,
Making
their
tryumph
of
our
hearts
,
As
vanquished
by
their
deserts
.
All
which
is
nothing
but
a
dreame
,
And
folly
out
of
course
extreame
.
I
haue
knowne
diuers
,
who
but
admitted
to
the
sight
of
a
Ladies
sleeue
,
presently
haue
made
theyr
vauntes
of
her
maidenheades
victory
,
when
(
God
knows
)
they
durst
not
intreate
so
much
fauour
as
a
kisse
.
Constancy
followeth
so
neere
to
the
vertuous
exercise
of
stare
affaires
,
and
occasions
of
war
,
as
being
the
organe
of
fayrest
desseignes
,
and
only
perfection
of
most
commendable
strength
:
that
as
I
might
heere
(
on
mens
behalf
)
present
to
your
sight
the
same
seuerally
in
Sceuola
,
Regulus
,
Marius
,
Cato
Vtican
,
Scipio
Affricanus
,
and
Paulus
Aemillius
among
the
Romaines
;
so
like
wise
for
the
Grecianes
,
Antigonas
,
surnamed
the
wise
Anaxagoras
,
Socrates
,
Xantippa
,
Anaxarcus
,
Aristides
,
&
Phocion
:
like
wise
out
of
holy
Scripture
,
Eliazer
,
Tobias
,
the
Machabees
,
all
which
are
but
as
vassailes
&
meane
seruants
,
in
respect
of
the
iust
and
lawfull
constancy
of
women
:
who
in
this
as
all
thinges
else
worthy
to
be
commended
,
haue
so
farre
out-gone
the
courage
of
men
,
as
the
Sunnes
glorious
bryghtnesse
excelleth
all
the
candles
of
the
night
:
I
call
them
iust
,
because
I
shall
neuer
be
perswaded
,
but
that
such
as
haue
beene
enforced
to
the
abandoning
of
ouermuch
sadnesse
,
and
thence
haue
made
choise
of
voluntarie
deaths
,
more
for
obedience
to
reason
then
dispaire
:
well
deserued
to
bee
called
constant
or
magnanimous
,
considering
that
no
defect
of
courage
,
or
feare
of
great
punishment
any
iote
dismayed
them
,
but
rather
(
to
speake
more
properlie
)
gladly
subiected
them
to
this
funerall
resolution
.
Soclaris
,
daughter
to
Cibaris
Gouernour
of
Athens
,
first
Prince
of
Morea
,
sometimes
called
Peloponnesus
,
after
the
conquest
of
Combly
,
was
deliuered
into
the
hands
of
Selim
,
to
vse
at
his
pleasure
,
according
to
the
barbarous
custome
of
his
predecessours
,
who
were
more
vniust
in
their
victories
,
then
the
vanquished
miserable
in
their
ouerthrow
:
and
hauing
her
at
his
disposing
,
hee
commaunded
the
Bathe
to
bee
prepared
,
which
is
the
critique
signall
of
the
Easterne
luxuries
.
The
young
Princesse
,
who
to
the
Catastrophe
of
this
Greekish
tragedie
,
would
giue
beginning
to
a
new
Historie
,
drawne
rather
from
the
despoyle
of
her
owne
life
,
then
delight
to
loose
her
inuiolable
chastitie
;
spake
in
this
manner
to
the
Prince
of
the
East
.
MY
Lord
,
vntill
this
very
instant
I
was
perswaded
,
that
the
wrath
of
God
,
iustly
dispersed
among
our
familie
,
would
serue
it selfe
with
matters
familiar
,
and
ordinarie
to
afflict
vs
withall
,
as
beeing
doubtlesse
guiltie
of
some
farre
greater
punishment
,
then
euer
wee
felt
vnder
your
victorious
hand
:
and
beeing
caried
away
with
these
sweete
oppinions
,
I
drew
my
comfort
from
mine
owne
proper
ill
,
as
onely
hoping
of
remedie
in
your
grac●
and
fauour
.
But
at
this
present
,
your
Maiestie
being
rapte
with
what
furie
I
knowe
not
,
wherein
royall
vertue
is
not
to
bee
discerned
:
I
cannot
beleeue
,
that
heauen
hath
limitted
your
thoughts
to
such
an
abhominable
course
,
or
rather
a
most
prodigious
violence
,
the
beginning
whereof
I
beholde
,
by
the
ende
of
my
life
,
trayned
through
mine
owne
default
,
alongst
the
torrent
of
solasciuious
an
enterprise
.
Then
shewing
him
a
little
needle
:
See
heere
(
quoth
shee
)
what
armes
are
prepared
as
guardians
of
my
virginity
,
behold
the
innocent
organe
of
such
vengeance
,
as
I
meane
to
take
on
my
offending
eyes
,
that
wounded
you
so
against
the
will
of
my
soule
,
which
from
my
mouth
pronounceth
sentence
of
death
against
them
,
and
you
shall
see
execution
immediatly
performed
.
The
great
Monarch
,
toucht
to
the
quicke
with
extraordinary
compassion
,
made
a
sodaine
change
of
his
loue
to
a
perpetuall
admiration
,
and
his
ouer
fond
commaund
tooke
ending
with
a
moste
maiesticall
respect
,
returning
these
or
the
like
words
to
the
Princesse
.
MAdame
,
if
Kings
could
as
wel
tryumph
ouer
loues
passions
,
as
they
can
cherish
mercy
▪
and
giue
pardon
to
the
faulty
,
euen
against
the
first
obiect
of
theyr
owne
vnruly
motions
,
which
figure
in
theyr
courage
a
tempestious
sea
of
vengeance
,
yet
notwithstanding
,
becomes
calme
by
a
naturall
inclynation
of
imbracing
mildenesse
:
rather
then
pursuing
the
ouer-swift
current
of
choller
:
)
I
should
haue
somewhat
to
complaine
of
to
you
,
for
grafting
the
trophees
of
my
desires
,
on
the
firme
rock
of
your
chaste
desseignes
,
which
teach
me
the
science
of
good
life
in
so
holy
a
Schoole
.
It
followes
therefore
,
that
I
muste
confesse
the
destinies
to
be
vniust
,
for
shewing
that
freedome
to
the
body
,
wherewith
the
soule
no
way
can
bee
forced
.
Accuse
loue
then
,
who
armed
himselfe
for
you
here
in
my
house
,
where
your
beauties
prisoners
are
become
Princesses
of
my
heart
,
entyrely
enthralled
:
And
neuer
conceiue
,
that
I
am
onely
he
,
that
desires
the
fruite
of
his
victory
,
on
a
subiect
of
such
merite
,
the
enioying
whereof
is
more
to
be
coueted
,
then
aduerse
Fortune
is
to
be
credited
.
Considering
,
that
in
prosecution
of
my
good
haps
,
vntill
this
present
,
I
haue
beene
alwayes
armed
with
reason
,
not
enterprising
any
thing
to
disaduantage
of
the
vanquished
,
otherwise
then
the
securitye
of
mine
owne
estate
did
teach
me
.
The
proofes
whereof
remaine
euident
to
be
seene
,
in
that
I
haue
not
made
your
countries
mishaps
greater
,
then
the
inconstancy
of
Fortune
yeelded
vnto
:
where
I
haue
set
downe
my
rest
,
giuing
lymits
to
my
iust
ambition
,
which
else
had
extended
it selfe
ouer
the
common
libertye
of
Greece
,
if
seruitude
were
not
called
an
exchange
of
state
▪
rather
happening
by
the
prouidence
of
heauen
,
who
would
haue
but
one
sole
Monarch
in
the
vniuersall
world
,
for
generall
administration
of
his
iustice
,
rather
then
any
vnsatiable
desire
in
my selfe
of
Soueraignety
,
which
containes
mine
actions
where
they
are
only
appropriate
.
But
if
I
haue
trespassed
,
in
requesting
that
of
you
,
which
my
Kingdoms
lawes
cannot
deny
me
,
neyther
may
bee
tearmed
as
an
offence
,
but
only
that
your
will
doth
so
holde
and
esteeme
it
:
then
custome
is
more
to
be
blamed
then
I
am
,
for
she
inuites
me
to
take
possession
,
of
that
which
freely
is
reckoned
mine
owne
.
Therefore
Lady
,
that
you
may
see
I
wil
not
deserue
a
Tyrants
name
,
especially
in
the
simple
practise
of
victory
,
wherein
vsuallye
more
rygour
is
expected
,
then
in
the
gouernment
of
a
peaceable
estate
:
I
will
compell
mine
vnlawfull
passions
,
to
yeelde
vnto
your
iuster
desires
,
entreating
you
to
rest
thus
contented
,
that
in
repentaunce
for
offending
you
,
I
doo
wronge
to
the
nature
of
mine
owne
power
,
disarming
my
heart
of
that
prerogatiue
,
which
the
very
meanest
men
moste
couet
in
theyr
speciall
Fortunes
,
namely
,
to
tryumph
in
commaunding
of
their
owne
.
Demaund
of
mee
those
selfe
same
thynges
,
which
you
could
not
hope
for
in
your
former
condition
:
and
I
will
satisfie
them
with
as
much
willingnesse
,
as
there
is
worth
and
desert
in
your
Princelye
constancye
.
Such
ende
had
the
great
Turkes
loue
,
if
the
name
of
great
bee
worthye
enough
to
dignifie
his
vertues
,
which
in
greatnesse
did
exceede
hys
Empyre
.
The
history
of
Tenora
,
taken
prisoner
in
the
Citty
of
Modon
,
and
enfranchised
for
her
constancy
,
best
knowen
to
Bascha
Ariaden
,
who
gladly
would
haue
marryed
her
:
might
heere
bee
auouched
to
the
great
scandale
of
men
,
and
perpetuall
honour
of
the
female
sexe
:
but
in
regard
of
the
l●ngth
,
let
me
referre
yee
to
I●●●obaldus
of
Corfue
,
a
most
sound
and
faythfull
expresser
thereof
.
The
height
of
courage
in
three
Spaniardes
,
who
offered
theyr
chaste
brestes
to
their
miserable
father
▪
constrayned
to
graunt
them
so
vnpleasing
an
execution
,
for
shielding
them
from
the
shamefull
seruitude
prepared
for
them
:
is
of
such
efficacy
,
as
men
(
for
preseruation
of
theyr
renowne
)
had
neuer
the
heart
to
endure
so
extreame
a
remedy
.
For
reading
of
which
excellent
discourse
,
I
must
leaue
yee
to
Nicholas
de
Nicholai
,
hys
voyage
of
Constantinople
,
in
the
historye
of
the
seidge
of
Trypoly
.
I
haue
very
much
wherewith
to
enlarge
my
labour
,
as
the
maruaylous
constancy
of
Ioan
the
Pucel
,
whose
life
the
Englishmen
had
gladly
saued
,
if
she
would
simply
haue
said
,
that
shee
was
holpen
by
charmes
,
extraordinarie
meanes
,
and
supernaturall
power
in
execution
of
her
perillous
enterprises
:
but
she
preferred
her
honor
before
life
,
yeelding
her
conscience
to
tormenters
,
and
her
tormenters
to
leasings
,
as
louing
rather
to
suffer
a
bodilie
hell
,
then
making
hellish
the
freedome
of
her
owne
courage
,
in
a
purpose
not
beseeming
the
greatnesse
of
her
deeds
,
nor
the
true
oppinion
iustlie
conceiued
of
her
behauiour
,
the
principall
organs
of
her
valour
,
which
made
Fraunce
more
famous
then
euer
it
had
beene
before
,
yea
,
more
then
at
this
daye
it
hath
attainde
vnto
:
For
though
shee
bee
now
troubled
with
some
foure
or
fiue
Spaniards
in
her
liuer
vaine
;
yet
she
then
drew
a
million
of
Englishmen
out
of
her
entrailes
.
I
will
not
goe
seeke
out
an
Arbecha
on
Danubie
,
nor
Gertrude
on
the
Rheine
,
nor
Flotensa
on
Tanais
,
seeing
the
histories
of
the
North
haue
no
other
honor
,
then
onely
of
the
subiect
drawen
from
their
constancies
.
Lesse
cause
shal
I
haue
to
produce
Polixena
,
whose
death
made
the
life
of
the
Grecians
infamous
,
and
theyr
victory
insolent
,
euen
the
vtter
ouerthrow
of
all
their
renowne
.
The
constancy
of
Antigone
,
described
by
Antimachus
and
Euripides
,
is
of
such
merite
,
as
all
men
together
cannot
boast
of
any
thing
to
come
neere
it
:
her
piety
is
of
such
commendation
,
as
the
most
religious
of
our
Aheistical
age
haue
iust
cause
to
complaine
,
that
christianity
as
yet
neuer
conceiued
the
like
.
The
constant
patience
of
Grisilda
,
written
by
Frederick
of
Ast
the
Pied-montese
,
is
vneuitable
,
and
almost
exceeding
beleefe
,
in
our
weake
soules
so
little
inured
to
sufferancy
.
That
of
Virginia
,
Portia
and
Sophonisba
,
the
ornament
of
Affricke
&
terror
of
Roome
,
is
so
great
,
as
shee
could
endure
more
,
then
arte
is
able
to
describe
.
Oh
cowardly
men
,
what
shal
become
of
ye
?
or
rather
,
what
are
you
among
so
many
gallant
women
,
that
haue
abid
the
violent
assaults
of
death
,
euen
of
death
vndeserued
,
and
much
lesse
expected
?
you
are
no
way
firme
,
but
in
lookes
:
constant
,
but
in
words
:
dreadlesse
,
but
in
security
:
without
corruption
,
but
in
feare
to
be
made
knowen
to
others
.
Better
is
it
for
you
goe
learne
to
spin
,
them
to
prefer
your selues
before
women
:
as
your
graund
Hercules
came
capable
of
that
occupation
,
by
the
enstruction
of
his
Mistresse
Dianeira
.
Sampson
was
glad
to
reele
by
his
Dalila
:
Achilles
sowed
by
his
Brisis
:
king
Demetrius
did
the
like
by
his
Latmia
.
Hesiodus
acknowledged
this
imperfection
in
men
of
his
time
,
saying
.
You
that
are
Natures
infamy
,
And
to
your
sexe
doe
iniury
.
Shewing
your selues
imperfect
men
,
By
actions
not
beseeming
men
.
One
sits
,
and
by
his
Mistresse
sowes
,
Another
,
like
a
Goddesse
goes
.
Other
,
missled
by
iealousie
,
Must
weare
his
garments
to
his
knee
,
Yet
all
makes
vaunts
of
Fortunes
blisse
,
When
she
most
wretched
to
them
is
.
My
paper
is
vnworthy
to
beare
my
p●n
,
in
●escribing
my
immaginations
,
〈◊〉
the
high
merit
of
holy
Virgins
,
what
contempt
and
disdaine
they
made
of
the
most
barbarous
cruelties
,
that
could
be
inuented
by
the
enemies
of
the
Christian
faith
,
for
defence
wherof
,
they
haue
bin
deliuered
ouer
to
the
feareful
rage
of
persecuters
,
who
haue
beene
more
weary
of
tormenting
them
,
then
they
(
any
iot
dismaided
)
at
the
seuerall
sorts
of
violence
inflicted
on
their
bodies
;
by
nature
soft
and
tender
,
and
more
worthy
to
be
admired
,
then
so
bloodyly
murdred
.
Like
matter
could
neuer
men
set
downe
of
themselues
,
albeit
themselues
were
Authours
of
the
legends
:
for
theyr
martirologe
containes
so
few
of
them
(
making
comparison
with
that
of
women
)
as
the
very
wisest
tearme
theyrs
but
a
meere
vanity
,
dispearsed
among
the
veritie
of
the
Saintes
sufferings
.
The
Church
it selfe
is
resembled
to
a
woman
without
spot
or
blemish
,
such
as
Salomon
describes
the
Princesse
of
Aegypt
,
a
figure
of
the
Church
.
In
the
new
Testament
yee
may
note
the
three
Maries
,
and
the
Chananean
,
who
were
so
constant
in
their
holy
resolutions
,
as
the
blessed
spirit
(
being
speaker
of
the
sacred
history
)
hath
left
them
a
spectacle
to
all
posterities
.
The
mother
of
the
seauen
Martires
,
wherof
description
is
made
in
the
Machabees
,
deliuered
such
witnesse
of
her
truely
tearmd
celestiall
confidence
,
as
that
onely
acte
might
beautifie
the
history
of
vertuous
women
,
more
then
men
can
gleane
glory
,
from
the
constant
resolution
of
Abraham
,
Moyses
or
Iob
:
all
which
deserue
not
the
tytle
of
constant
,
because
a
little
detection
did
in
some
sort
touch
them
.
As
first
to
begin
with
Abraham
for
a
leasing
,
who
said
that
his
wife
was
his
Sister
,
only
for
a
little
feare
of
death
,
much
more
suspected
,
then
any
way
prepared
.
Next
for
distrust
,
as
when
Moyses
said
to
the
Lord
:
Howe
may
it
be
,
that
I
should
present
my selfe
before
Pharoah
,
seeing
J
can
hardly
abstaine
from
stammering
?
Js
it
possible
that
I
should
deliuer
this
message
?
Then
for
murmuring
,
as
Job
,
who
stood
expostulating
with
the
eternall
.
Which
minde
neuer
came
neere
the
Virgin
of
Virgins
,
for
she
said
:
I
am
the
seruant
of
the
Lord
,
be
it
vnto
mee
according
to
his
word
.
Abraham
,
Moises
and
Iob
,
were
but
weake
in
resolution
,
if
one
should
compare
them
with
that
vertuous
woman
,
mother
to
these
7.
Martires
who
suffered
as
many
paines
,
as
she
saw
diuersity
of
torments
applied
,
to
ruinate
and
ouerthrow
the
constancy
of
her
Sons
:
yea
,
she
did
sollace
her selfe
in
such
sort
among
the
rigours
of
theyr
martirdome
,
with
such
behauiour
and
speeches
in
contempt
of
death
,
and
assurance
of
better
condition
in
the
life
succeeding
;
as
they
all
were
euen
sorry
they
could
dye
but
once
.
In
sooth
I
must
needs
say
,
that
the
very
greatest
matter
among
men
,
neither
is
or
can
be
,
but
the
remainder
&
ouerplus
of
this
one
womans
glory
,
who
practised
the
same
in
her self
,
which
she
had
taught
to
her
Sons
:
for
she
dyed
so
constantly
,
that
Antiochus
(
the
very
abhomination
of
Kings
)
became
enraged
(
as
it
were
)
to
see
a
simple
woman
mocke
him
and
all
his
angry
threatnings
,
no
way
able
to
enforce
her
from
the
seruice
of
God
,
after
which
she
sighed
&
longed
,
euen
to
the
latest
office
of
her
vitall
powers
.
The
daughter
of
Jeptah
shal
giue
end
to
this
discourse
,
because
she
concluded
the
rash
vow
of
her
Father
with
such
resolution
,
as
the
sacrafice
of
her
own
life
:
for
which
,
I
had
rather
commit
ye
to
read
the
history
in
the
Iudges
,
for
better
sight
of
her
death
,
then
drowne
my
paper
in
iust
teares
,
which
fresh
reuiued
pitty
of
so
ancient
a
maruel
,
would
forcibly
compel
to
fal
from
mine
eies
,
so
to
conceale
by
weeping
,
what
I
could
not
set
downe
in
writing
,
Thus
much
remembred
for
womens
constancy
,
which
makes
me
stand
in
doubt
,
whether
I
should
erect
the
same
on
any
other
collom
or
no
,
then
their
own
greatnes
&
deserts
,
as
more
needing
imitation
,
then
any
witnes
,
&
therfore
more
requiring
to
be
followed
,
then
can
be
by
words
witnessed
effectually
:
For
men
(
malitiously
iealous
of
womens
honor
)
haue
buried
(
as
much
as
in
them
lay
)
the
most
commendable
deeds
of
such
,
to
whom
themselues
were
no
otherwise
then
Apes
,
nay
worse
imitators
,
if
worse
may
bee
.
He
that
(
of
Poets
)
hath
best
written
amongst
the
Grecians
,
is
Homere
,
yet
not
so
much
for
his
learning
,
as
for
the
subiect
,
where
he
makes
men
&
the
Gods
combate
together
,
those
are
his
Jlliades
,
a
worke
in
sooth
praise
worthy
for
his
time
,
&
not
for
any
other
consideration
.
Yet
the
Athenians
made
than
be
publikly
burned
,
by
reason
of
the
impiety
wherwith
they
are
furnished
,
euen
as
it
were
a
shop
of
Atheisme
,
irreligion
,
&
imodesty
,
making
the
Gods
to
be
vanquished
by
men
,
&
establishing
a
contempt
of
royalty
,
duty
and
obeysance
,
in
the
person
of
Achillis
(
a
meere
brothell
hunter
)
who
preferred
a
brutish
kinde
of
affection
,
before
the
loue
of
his
Countrey
,
and
his
owne
peculiar
hate
before
the
general
welfare
of
his
followers
.
Hee
makes
a
dog
of
Agamemnon
;
a
kitching
fellow
of
Patrocles
;
a
mad
man
of
Hector
;
a
bawde
of
Jris
;
a
drunkerd
of
Vulcane
;
a
Cony-catcher
of
Mercury
;
a
Lacky
of
Appollo
;
a
rauisher
of
Neptune
;
a
paltry
companion
of
Mars
;
a
witch
of
Minerua
;
a
Woolfe
of
Venus
;
a
Megera
of
Iuno
,
a
dreame
of
a
man
,
and
himself
a
contemner
of
the
Gods
,
as
Licras
speaketh
in
this
manner
.
Curious
Antiquity
,
Made
Homere
a
deitie
,
For
his
booke
,
a
meere
fable
,
Against
the
Gods
abhominable
,
Where
all
men
that
were
vicious
,
Haue
praise
before
the
vertuous
.
Among
Latine
Poets
,
we
may
speak
of
Virgill
:
in
the
Hierarchie
of
Philosophers
,
who
but
Aristotle
?
among
Phisitions
,
Hippocrates
:
amongst
the
auncient
diuines
,
Mercurius
Trismegistus
:
in
our
latter
times
,
S.
Augustine
:
of
Astronomers
,
Anaxagoras
:
of
Mathematicians
,
Archimedes
:
of
Ciuillians
,
Papinian
:
all
which
had
(
euen
then
liuing
)
two
,
nay
three
or
foure
women
in
their
owne
Artes
,
to
whome
I
will
send
them
seuerally
to
schoole
,
for
apprehension
of
the
chiefest
principles
in
their
sciences
.
Homere
was
taught
by
Clorinda
the
Samian
,
in
the
Citty
of
Argos
,
and
to
her
hath
bin
attributed
that
so
famous
worke
of
the
Illiads
:
&
would
ye
but
compare
his
Odisseaes
therwith
,
you
should
finde
such
a
large
difference
in
one
stile
,
so
much
rebated
in
the
discourse
of
Vlisses
:
as
you
wold
be
constrained
to
confesse
,
that
eyther
the
first
is
none
of
his
,
or
els
hee
made
neither
the
one
nor
other
.
Faire
Sapho
holpe
him
at
a
need
,
for
changing
the
armes
of
Glaucus
and
Diomede
,
where
it
euidently
appeares
that
hee
dealt
scarce
honestly
:
as
also
in
his
comparison
of
Aiax
to
an
Asse
,
where
he
plaid
the
grinder
too
apparantly
.
She
likwise
corrected
the
works
of
Pindarus
,
as
ye
shal
find
it
set
downe
in
Plutarch
.
Carmenta
was
so
learned
in
poesie
,
as
she
surpassed
al
the
men
of
her
time
,
&
had
indeed
such
a
general
name
,
as
not
any
to
this
day
did
euer
attaine
the
like
,
no
ordinary
matter
among
our
men
Poets
whosoeuer
:
And
she
enstructed
Pithagoras
himselfe
(
true
Prince
of
the
very
best
Philosophy
among
the
Pagans
.
)
Aristotle
searching
the
causes
,
whence
the
ebbing
&
flowing
of
the
sea
shuld
proceed
:
had
his
resolution
from
Sostrata
the
Lesbian
,
by
a
similitude
taken
from
womens
infirmity
,
as
also
from
sweate
:
Nor
did
he
drowne
himselfe
,
(
as
some
bawling
curres
wold
make
vs
beleeue
)
in
the
Ocean
sea
,
wherinto
he
should
head-long
cast
himselfe
.
Hippocrates
learned
the
curing
of
the
Hemeroides
,
of
Dorothea
Abderita
,
as
it
was
found
written
in
Ephesus
,
in
the
Temple
of
Diana
,
as
also
the
other
at
Eleusina
.
Mercurius
Trismegistus
is
not
only
the
first
or
chiefest
,
of
the
celebrate
&
most
commendable
Diuines
of
antiquity
:
but
(
I
dare
say
)
of
al
men
,
bee
it
that
wee
speake
of
Salomon
,
or
were
it
possible
to
find
a
wiser
;
his
life
did
truely
answere
his
doctrine
,
and
his
doctrine
is
both
the
schoole
of
vertue
,
and
study
of
true
piety
.
Yet
notwithstanding
,
hee
is
not
to
be
extolled
beyond
the
Sibilles
,
all
which
prophesied
of
the
true
Messias
the
Son
of
God
so
euidently
,
as
there
is
not
a
text
in
the
olde
Testament
,
more
expresse
then
their
propheticall
writings
were
.
Wherein
,
it
pleased
the
holy
Ghost
to
serue
himselfe
by
them
,
for
confusion
of
the
Pagane
incredulity
,
and
to
giue
these
deuoute
women
,
as
theyr
Iudges
,
being
faithfull
Trumpets
of
the
comming
of
Christ
Iesus
,
as
also
of
his
death
and
resurrection
.
I
may
equal
Marcella
the
virgin
with
S.
Augustine
,
as
well
for
her
excellent
writings
,
full
of
all
erudition
,
as
for
her
sanctity
:
she
only
being
the
cause
of
the
Hungars
conuerssion
.
Which
good
hap
did
neuer
befal
S.
Augustine
,
who
long
time
held
very
heretical
opinions
&
far
from
the
vniuersal
beliefe
:
where
contrariwise
this
woman
,
neuer
had
her
thoughts
toucht
with
any
other
consideration
,
then
the
community
of
Christians
in
the
primatiue
Church
,
which
being
snarled
at
in
her
time
,
&
not
as
then
knowen
in
the
Northerne
parts
:
she
reduced
from
old
ruines
,
&
made
it
fauored
in
the
most
barbarous
spirits
:
yea
,
they
that
were
least
capable
of
vnderstanding
in
Europe
.
The
roots
of
her
piety
stretched
themselues
so
far
as
Albania
,
euen
to
the
Citty
of
Ragusa
,
held
then
in
subiection
by
Cyarsin
the
Sclanonian
:
whom
shee
not
onely
made
a
christian
,
but
companion
likwise
of
her
deuout
enterprises
,
&
that
in
such
sort
,
as
he
came
with
a
maine
army
so
far
as
Danuby
,
&
there
aduanced
the
glorious
standard
of
the
euangelical
truth
.
I
could
say
,
that
Frenchmen
had
not
been
Christians
,
but
by
the
especiall
vertue
of
Clotilda
,
whom
God
ordained
to
inspire
the
heart
of
Clouis
,
onely
made
a
Christian
by
her
charitable
admonitions
and
faithfull
enstructions
:
who
▪
by
the
losse
of
many
battailes
,
could
not
else
be
so
resolued
.
When
shall
it
be
sayd
,
that
men
haue
been
so
soudious
in
like
number
of
soueraigne
exercises
and
sanctitie
?
that
our
God
(
the
iust
electer
of
purest
soules
,
for
communicating
of
his
very
dearest
perfections
)
hath
made
more
redound
to
his
glorye
vnder
the
persons
of
women
,
then
euer
it
pleased
him
to
doo
the
like
by
men
.
Anaxagoras
was
as
ignorant
in
the
reason
of
the
Seas
ebbing
and
flowing
,
as
Aristotle
,
vntill
he
had
some
enstruction
therein
,
by
Dyoris
the
wyfe
of
one
Barquerot
of
Pyrea
:
she
shewed
him
the
originall
of
the
Isles
engirting
neere
to
the
firme
land
,
where
the
borrowing
waues
seemed
to
enlarge
their
waye
by
some
violent
meanes
.
He
learned
the
causes
of
coniunction
of
the
great
Planets
,
and
their
times
,
of
a
woman
Gardiner
of
Smirna
:
by
whome
likewise
hee
came
acquainted
with
the
deepest
secrets
of
the
Meteores
.
Archimedes
was
mocked
by
Tyanea
the
Syracusaine
,
for
hauing
rudely
said
,
that
all
bodyes
were
superficiall
:
which
she
shewed
to
bee
false
,
by
the
Atomies
and
coullers
in
the
ayre
.
Lachis
of
Athens
,
daughter
to
Megesteus
,
ordained
lawes
to
the
people
of
Attica
,
which
were
so
venerable
and
commodious
:
as
the
Romaines
receiued
them
naturally
for
their
own
limitting
them
vnto
twelue
tables
,
wherein
there
was
contayned
more
iustice
and
pietie
,
then
in
all
the
volumes
of
Papinian
.
I
was
too
blaine
(
in
this
serious
purpose
)
to
forget
Oratours
,
such
as
were
Demosthenes
,
Aeschines
,
Jsocrates
,
and
manye
other
amonge
the
Grecians
;
Cicero
,
Hortensius
,
Marke
Anthonie
,
&c.
of
the
Romaines
.
Most
true
is
it
,
that
this
my
forgetfulnes
had
been
infinitely
aduantageable
for
men
,
who
likewise
heerein
are
not
exempt
from
theyr
naturall
imperfection
,
beeing
ouer
much
weake
in
eloquence
to
women
.
Demosthenes
,
of
whome
it
is
written
,
that
if
the
Goddes
would
speake
Greeke
in
Orations
,
they
could
no
waye
amend
the
sweete
elocution
of
this
Oratour
:
yet
was
hee
so
confounded
,
hearing
Lais
discourse
of
men
and
womens
perticuler
affections
,
as
hee
cryed
out
;
that
the
Athenians
did
but
stammer
in
theyr
Schooles
,
and
women
at
Corinthe
spake
Oratours-like
in
theyr
familiar
conferences
.
To
confirme
this
,
Nature
teacheth
vs
,
that
women
are
or
may
be
most
eloquent
,
considering
the
organes
and
instruments
of
theyr
voyce
is
more
mylde
and
gentle
,
then
those
in
men
,
whose
pronunciation
is
very
rough
,
sharpe
and
coorsely
shapte
,
by
reason
of
the
aboundance
of
choller
,
which
(
with
their
woords
)
driues
foorth
so
much
vehemencie
of
spirit
,
as
they
are
well
neere
choakt
therewith
,
or
breake
their
winde
in
vttering
of
their
speeche
:
yet
wee
must
confesse
,
that
melancholly
men
are
softer
in
words
,
then
the
swarthie
and
sanguine
,
such
seuerall
qualities
remaine
in
men
.
The
nature
of
a
woman
being
enclined
to
sadnesse
,
discouers
wisedom
,
makes
her
prudent
and
apprehensiue
:
whereas
men
are
commonly
rashe
and
vnrulye
,
because
diuers
appetites
transport
them
,
to
many
friuolous
and
fleeting
considerations
,
which
mightie
faulte
you
shall
finde
fewe
women
,
or
none
at
all
infected
with
.
In
lyke
manner
,
your
high
and
soueraigne
Courtes
,
are
nothing
else
but
filled
with
mens
continuall
tumults
,
whence
ensue
iniurious
offences
to
theyr
betters
:
and
that
in
matters
of
so
meane
reckoning
,
as
womens
modestie
are
ashamed
thereof
,
and
theyr
height
of
spirit
holdes
it
in
most
deepe
disdaine
.
Oh
most
happye
sexe
,
if
it
were
lawfull
for
me
to
speake
,
as
Plato
did
,
who
thanked
the
Gods
for
making
him
a
man
,
and
not
a
beast
:
so
could
I
haue
wished
,
that
I
had
beene
created
a
woman
,
hauing
attayned
to
such
knowledge
of
feminine
perfections
,
which
is
in
euery
respect
accomplished
,
beyond
all
that
can
be
tearmed
perfect
in
humaine
defects
.
But
returne
wee
to
our
Oratours
,
leauing
the
Asse
,
eares
and
all
,
to
them
that
perswade
themselues
to
be
more
eloquent
then
women
:
from
whome
the
sweete
Nightingale
first
learned
her
notes
,
as
Pyes
,
Crowes
and
Rauens
tooke
theyrs
from
men
,
into
which
shapes
they
haue
likewise
been
transformed
,
as
the
onely
best
forme
the
Greeke
and
Latine
Poets
could
giue
them
.
You
shall
many
times
read
,
that
the
Gods
haue
made
complaint
to
Jupiter
,
eyther
of
men
,
or
their
bad
conditions
,
and
could
neuer
gaine
accomplishment
of
theyr
desires
;
so
grosse
and
absurde
were
they
in
theyr
Orations
,
in
regarde
of
the
Goddesses
,
who
were
neuer
sent
backe
but
fully
satisfied
,
euen
in
those
things
which
humaine
iustice
made
a
conscience
of
graunting
;
so
much
well-speaking
women
haue
preuayled
,
aboue
the
vnsauorie
barking
of
rude
men
.
Which
wise
Pithagoras
well
perceiuing
,
forbad
his
Schollers
to
speake
,
to
keepe
vnseene
the
great
defect
in
nature
,
which
is
much
more
in
men
then
women
▪
Cornelia
the
mother
of
Gracchus
,
was
so
eloquent
,
as
the
Romaines
erected
her
an
Altar
,
and
sacrificed
to
her
in
the
Temple
of
Pitho
,
which
Pitho
was
the
Goddesse
of
eloquence
,
and
surpassed
both
Gods
and
men
in
that
vertue
.
Mercurie
thus
complained
,
as
saith
one
of
the
Greekes
.
Alas
,
what
helps
it
me
to
be
,
Ambassadour
to
Ioue
My
father
,
and
each
day
to
see
,
the
roundnesse
from
aboue
:
Of
earth
,
and
heauen
all
conuayd
within
my
wings
faire
flight
:
When
as
my
Godhead
it
missayed
,
and
robbed
of
his
right
?
Sweete
speaking
Pytho
calleth
me
abortiue
,
basely
borne
:
Because
my
speech
is
harsh
to
hers
,
and
held
as
common
scorne
.
A
Goddesse
I
confesse
shee
is
,
yet
may
she
not
like
me
,
Sit
at
that
boord
of
highest
blisse
,
where
but
twelue
Gods
may
be
.
All
which
the
heauens
doo
controule
,
and
one
of
them
am
I
:
Yet
thus
she
singeth
from
her
soule
,
my
endlesse
obloquie
.
I
shall
neuer
haue
doone
with
this
endlesse
piece
of
worke
,
which
by
infinite
pluralities
doo
offer
themselues
,
for
iustifying
of
the
feminine
eloquence
,
the
vse
whereof
would
God
I
might
borrowe
a
while
,
as
nothing
more
appropriate
to
this
theame
,
for
what
else
can
make
it
so
perfect
as
it
deserues
?
but
onely
the
diuine
eloquence
of
those
celestiall
creatures
,
and
therefore
had
neede
to
be
addorned
with
the
excellencie
of
their
nature
,
which
of
it selfe
is
so
singuler
,
as
nothing
can
be
more
.
Oh
might
I
be
inspired
but
with
the
least
of
those
perfections
,
which
as
the
bodies
shaddowe
wayteth
duely
vppon
women
,
an
accident
inseperable
from
the
first
substance
of
theyr
heauen
borne
essence
,
that
standeth
exempt
from
bad
thinking
,
much
lesse
blunt
speaking
:
then
should
this
discourse
appeare
in
more
excellent
manner
,
witnesse
that
which
the
Greeke
makes
Calipso
speak
to
Vlisses
.
T
was
not
of
me
thou
learndst
such
bitter
breath
Against
stout
Aiax
,
who
did
seeke
to
scape
Thy
iniurie
,
by
prompt
and
present
death
,
Or
to
reuenge
him
on
thy
Cowards
shape
.
Nor
,
to
the
Ithacanes
(
vnapt
,
to
lead
,
)
Learndst
thou
of
thy
too
faint
harted
flight
,
When
as
on
heapes
Sarpedon
dung
downe
dead
The
Argines
which
their
vessels
had
in
sight
,
My
words
with
infamie
did
nere
take
truce
,
Or
my
faire
soule
endure
base
feares
abuse
,
Nor
hadst
thou
there
that
day
beheld
my
land
,
Which
on
all
sides
the
Sea
dooth
counterband
.
If
Painting
were
not
reckoned
among
mechanicall
Artes
,
I
would
approoue
women
to
merit
the
very
best
trophee
thereof
:
But
as
Nature
euermore
delighteth
to
create
those
things
which
to
her selfe
are
most
pleasing
and
conformable
,
and
makes
herselfe
exercise
in
those
matters
,
that
doo
describe
her
cheefest
perfections
;
so
may
I
say
of
women
,
who
should
too
much
wrong
themselues
by
taking
pleasure
in
painting
,
considering
it
is
a
matter
impossible
for
them
,
to
make
such
a
rare
representation
,
as
their
iust
beauties
doe
require
,
becomming
much
lesse
by
Painting
,
then
the
diuine
graces
wherewith
they
are
most
richlye
accompanyed
,
builded
onely
vppon
inimitable
liniaments
of
theyr
behauiour
,
the
very
onely
models
of
the
angels
beauties
,
which
were
neuer
fourmed
but
by
the
absolute
〈…〉
.
Great
Apostles
,
in
his
ordinarie
painting
of
the
Gods
,
very
well
knew
how
to
figure
Iupiter
,
Mars
,
Mercurie
or
Saturne
:
but
when
he
went
about
to
set
downe
the
fourme
of
Venus
;
hee
found
his
skill
to
be
of
such
woonderous
weakenesse
,
as
hee
was
compeld
to
leaue
his
labour
imperfect
,
testifying
to
all
posterities
,
that
his
arte
altered
it selfe
into
ignoraunce
,
when
hee
went
about
to
set
downe
the
singularitie
of
women
;
among
whom
,
Loue
it selfe
sought
to
be
looked
on
,
as
in
a
publique
Theater
,
where
her
maiestie
receiued
much
more
luster
,
then
in
any
other
subiect
possible
to
be
heard
of
or
chosen
.
And
this
was
the
reason
that
kinde
Leander
thus
spake
to
Hero
.
Hero
my
most
deare
Princesse
,
Loue
her selfe
liues
in
thine
eyes
:
The
Graces
,
and
their
youthfulnesse
,
Abide
in
thee
as
in
the
skies
.
Who
is
it
can
thy
shape
depainte
,
Or
who
can
iustly
〈…〉
Exce●●
〈…〉
Vulcane
,
as
〈◊〉
●eaded
as
hee
was
,
yet
could
hee
vse
these
woords
to
Venus
.
The
thunder
well
I
wot
to
make
,
And
stout
Aegides
menacer
:
The
tempest
that
all
earth
dooth
shake
,
And
through
the
ayre
is
wanderer
.
Battailes
faire
figures
I
can
frame
,
All
formall
combates
I
can
plot
:
The
height
of
walles
,
and
whence
they
came
,
Nor
haue
!
Soldiours
heate
forg●t
.
But
should
I
offer
to
set
downe
,
Thy
beauties
woorth
and
soueraigntie
:
Then
heauen
it selfe
on
me
would
frowne
,
For
passing
my
capacitie
.
As
for
Musique
,
among
women
it
is
so
familiare
,
as
their
very
voyce
is
naturally
a
hermonie
.
Aelianus
recounteth
,
that
there
was
a
woman
Musitian
in
Roome
so
excellent
,
as
euery
one
imagined
shee
holpe
her selfe
by
Magique
:
so
rarely
could
she
rauish
by
the
eare
the
mindes
of
them
that
heard
her
;
yea
,
it
grewe
to
such
effect
,
as
many
frantique
people
were
thereby
recouered
from
theyr
furye
.
Most
certaine
is
it
,
that
Philliada
the
Tiriane
inuented
the
Lute
,
whence
rose
the
prouerbe
:
The
Harpe
of
Idumea
,
and
the
Lute
of
Phoenicia
,
and
the
testimonie
heereof
is
drawne
from
others
,
by
the
Lord
of
Bartas
.
The
cunning
Tirianes
,
who
on
barke
of
trees
,
Did
first
set
downe
the
voices
hermonies
.
And
a
Grecian
,
thus
.
Inuentresse
was
Philliada
,
Of
Lutes
in
faire
Phoenicia
.
She
first
gaue
spirit
and
quick
life
To
dead
dull
wood
,
and
made
so
rife
The
seuerall
sweetes
of
Hermonie
,
By
her
rare
wit
and
industrie
.
When
Alexander
the
great
had
conquered
the
kingdome
of
Darius
,
he
found
so
skilfull
a
woman
Musitian
in
the
cittie
of
Susa
,
as
could
accomodate
the
varieties
of
her
voice
,
to
the
seuerall
noates
of
all
kinde
of
birdes
,
and
that
with
such
exceeding
dexteritie
,
as
they
which
sawe
her
not
,
could
make
no
difference
from
the
verye
thing
it selfe
.
Great
Caesar
likewise
was
woont
to
saye
,
that
mens
tunes
were
learnde
from
the
Birdes
chattering
on
trees
:
but
the
voice
of
women
came
from
the
Gods
themselues
.
The
Syrens
,
so
much
described
by
the
Grecians
,
had
songs
so
wonderfull
sweete
and
mellodious
:
as
they
could
out-eare
the
windes
,
and
rob
all
mouthes
of
their
naturall
offices
.
The
Greekes
returning
from
the
warres
of
Troye
,
rested
themselues
a
long
while
in
the
Isles
where
they
inhabited
,
little
caring
for
returne
home
into
their
owne
country
,
by
being
rapt
,
or
rather
charmed
with
such
an
hermonious
delight
.
Perhaps
some
one
will
say
vnto
me
,
that
the
Tritons
are
verye
excellent
Musitians
,
but
he
must
withall
confesse
,
that
they
neuer
had
like
powet
and
vertue
as
the
Syrens
haue
,
of
whom
they
learned
their
very
deepest
knowledge
,
albeit
their
Musique
stretche
no
further
then
the
sound
of
a
Trumpet
.
Which
Misenus
the
Trompetter
to
Aeneas
well
perceiuing
,
prouoked
them
to
sound
,
to
trie
whether
he
could
goe
beyond
them
or
no
:
marie
he
lost
his
life
therefore
,
if
this
narration
be
of
any
certaintie
.
But
whilst
his
Trompet
he
did
sound
,
with
glorie
indiscreetes
Vpon
the
marble
of
the
waues
,
the
Tritons
notes
to
meete
.
They
iealous
to
be
so
defyed
,
in
their
owne
pleasing
arte
:
In
anger
threw
him
in
the
waues
,
and
so
his
life
did
parte
.
Istrina
,
the
mother
to
Ariphita
king
of
Scithia
,
was
of
such
estimation
in
Musique
:
as
the
Poets
haue
feygned
,
that
the
Seas
would
neuer
be
calme
,
but
when
this
Lady
stood
exchanging
her
sweete
Zephires
with
the
Northerne
guskes
,
which
blew
very
bitterly
vpon
them
continually
.
The
Astronomers
do
holde
,
that
Venus
is
the
patronesse
of
Musique
,
and
that
the
influence
of
her
Planet
,
brings
most
speciall
felicitie
to
such
as
deale
in
that
facultie
.
Let
vs
admit
,
that
Thespion
the
priest
of
the
Gymnosophists
,
Zoroastes
of
the
Persians
,
Hermes
of
the
Aegiptians
,
Buda
of
the
Chaldeans
,
Abbares
of
the
Scithians
,
and
Zalmosis
of
the
Thracians
,
excelled
no
lesse
in
Musique
,
then
in
pietie
and
knowledge
of
sacred
matters
:
yet
notwithstanding
,
they
were
but
simple
admirers
of
fayre
Clora
,
daughter
to
God
Anubis
,
who
could
charme
the
Crocadils
of
Nylus
,
as
also
them
of
hot
Cyrena
,
by
the
benefit
of
her
voice
reputed
incomparable
,
which
Lycosthenes
reports
such
wonders
of
,
as
they
seeme
to
mooue
more
astonishment
then
beleefe
.
Enough
hath
been
saide
concerning
sciences
,
and
the
glory
which
women
haue
gotten
thereby
,
ouer-far
beyond
men
:
it
remaines
for
me
now
to
speake
of
the
morall
vertues
,
which
serue
perticulerly
to
the
guiding
of
life
and
sanctitie
.
In
which
course
(
me
thinkes
)
Temperance
deserues
to
haue
the
first
place
,
as
beeing
that
,
which
according
to
Hyppocrates
and
Galen
,
is
the
dearest
freend
and
fauourite
of
Nature
.
Euripides
was
not
ignorant
thereof
,
when
he
sayd
.
Temperaunce
makes
men
to
liue
,
And
beside
dooth
freedome
giue
,
From
death
,
who
soonest
dooth
them
smite
,
With
a
deceiuing
appetite
,
The
Greeke
and
Latine
histories
are
growne
grosse
with
millions
of
examples
,
which
witnesse
the
rare
sobrietie
of
women
,
and
excesse
of
men
in
all
things
whatsoeuer
,
according
as
it
is
sayd
in
Exodus
:
Men
rose
vp
to
playe
,
after
they
had
long
time
wallowed
in
drunkennesse
.
Homer
hath
described
this
insolence
vnto
vs
,
in
the
persons
of
Penelopes
Courtiers
,
who
continued
blamelesse
,
notwithstanding
all
theyr
great
immodestie
.
Hence
is
it
,
why
Dioclea
could
not
endure
the
lasciuious
behauiour
and
dishonestie
of
the
Tyrant
Phalaris
,
and
therefore
threw
her selfe
downe
from
a
windowe
,
of
which
fall
shee
dyed
verye
soone
after
,
speaking
these
verses
of
Menander
.
She
that
is
in
the
grace
of
heauens
happinesse
,
Liueth
not
long
in
this
worldes
wretchednesse
.
And
when
an
Epicure
sayd
to
her
,
that
there
was
no
other
lyfe
after
this
should
bee
finished
,
shee
aunswered
him
out
of
Pindarus
in
this
sorte
.
When
as
the
night
lockes
vp
the
day
,
Yet
heauen
bideth
at
one
stay
.
Our
soules
are
then
in
those
faire
fields
,
That
daintie
coullerd
Roses
yeelds
,
Couerd
with
Trees
perfumde
and
pure
,
And
balmes
that
haue
the
richest
cure
.
Vpon
whose
braunches
fruites
of
golde
,
Doo
hang
most
glorious
to
beholde
.
There
,
diuers
walke
deliciouslie
,
Some
ride
on
horsses
cheerefully
.
Others
to
musiques
hermonie
,
Of
instruments
make
mellodie
.
There
is
a
thousand
thousand
flowers
,
Of
different
smell
to
sent
the
powers
.
There
a
many
Altars
fume
,
With
Mirrhe
and
other
sweete
perfume
.
And
there
is
seene
a
shining
fire
,
In
this
rare
place
which
soules
desire
.
She
likewise
rehearsed
this
sentence
of
Euripides
.
That
which
by
name
we
doe
entitle
life
,
Is
in
effect
but
a
continuall
strife
.
Indeed
I
well
remember
,
that
men
haue
beene
famous
for
some
rare
qualities
;
as
inuenting
the
sundrie
idle
playes
at
Dice
and
Cardes
,
with
other
such
like
exercises
beside
:
Wherevpon
,
Saint
Bernard
shaping
his
course
to
the
young
men
of
his
time
,
sayde
.
You
follow
idlenesse
,
to
shun
idlenesse
:
you
apply
your selues
to
play
,
euen
vntill
yee
fall
into
Deaths
daunger
.
Iob
in
like
manner
cryed
out
against
men
,
that
they
consumed
their
dayes
in
vaine
delights
,
and
so
in
the
end
were
dispossessed
of
theyr
liues
.
Good
old
Sara
,
hauing
care
of
a
holye
conscience
,
discoursed
in
this
sorte
with
the
Eternall
:
I
haue
not
frequented
to
these
players
,
neither
had
accesse
to
vaine
persons
.
Well
then
,
we
may
say
,
that
men
are
artezanes
and
continuall
labourers
,
in
things
altogether
apperteining
to
follie
,
as
in
superfluous
tempering
of
meates
,
or
in
delicacies
,
the
onely
companion
of
inconstancie
,
the
goade
to
luxurie
and
birthe
of
death
,
and
from
whence
he
receiueth
his
onlie
conception
.
Oh
vile
gourmandise
,
the
onelye
pestilence
to
humane
kinde
,
by
good
reason
oughtest
thou
to
liue
amongst
men
,
who
naturally
are
enemyes
to
theyr
owne
selues
.
Thou
art
he
which
troublest
the
braine
,
impeachest
reason
,
prophanest
chaste
eares
,
misorderest
the
behauiour
of
them
thou
possessest
,
thou
beggerest
them
that
inherit
thee
,
thou
layest
ambuscadoes
for
chaste
thoughts
,
thou
loadest
the
spirits
with
lasciuiousnes
;
thou
art
hee
that
didst
murder
our
first
father
,
and
so
brought
an
vniuersall
death
vppon
all
mankinde
,
thou
souldest
Esaues
birthright
;
thou
massacredst
the
people
in
the
deferr
:
in
breefe
,
thou
art
the
only
instrument
,
wherwith
are
erected
all
circumuentions
that
worke
violence
to
our
soules
,
and
especially
in
the
persons
of
men
,
the
ordinarie
ministers
of
thy
pernicious
practises
.
We
read
enough
concerning
intemperance
,
of
Heliogabalus
,
of
Caracalla
,
Caligula
,
Lucullus
,
Phaon
,
Xerxes
,
Aristippus
,
Myle
of
Crotona
,
and
of
Philoxenus
,
who
intreated
Jupiter
to
grant
him
the
neck
of
a
Crane
,
to
taste
with
more
leysure
the
sweetnesse
of
his
delicate
viands
:
likewise
of
Candaules
of
Lidia
,
of
Hermagoras
,
of
Alexander
,
Darius
,
Marke
Anthonie
,
with
many
other
among
the
Pagans
.
Wee
read
beside
in
holy
Scripture
,
of
Holophernes
the
enemie
to
God
,
a
most
dissolute
man
,
of
Dauid
in
some
sort
,
of
Ammon
his
sonne
,
the
Beniamites
,
the
olde
accusers
of
Susanna
,
the
Gomorrhists
and
Sodomits
:
but
of
intemperate
women
,
you
shall
verye
hardly
finde
any
that
can
be
spoken
of
.
Vesta
was
so
sober
in
her
life
,
that
the
Painters
figured
Fasting
by
her
,
as
Exercise
by
Diana
,
Maiestie
by
Iuno
,
and
Prudence
by
Minerua
.
I
will
referre
to
your
owne
iudgement
,
that
(
seeing
these
vertues
could
be
no
way
better
signified
,
for
in
men
they
would
haue
appeared
most
monstrous
)
if
womens
natures
must
not
needs
be
celestial
,
yea
euen
in
their
ordinary
and
customarie
functions
.
Search
thorow
all
Germanie
,
which
is
the
empire
of
all
drunkennesse
and
seruitude
of
the
sober
:
yee
shall
not
finde
one
woman
,
but
she
is
not
onely
free
from
being
taxed
with
that
beastlinesse
,
but
likewise
if
shee
haue
once
ouer
drunke
;
it
is
sufficient
for
her
euer
after
.
Where
contrariwise
the
men
,
they
hardly
respect
any
other
exercise
,
then
tossing
&
emptying
of
the
pottes
,
which
is
more
shamefull
to
the
vnsatiable
,
then
the
Wine
they
disgorge
can
be
to
them
healthfull
.
But
perhaps
you
will
say
vnto
me
,
it
is
not
seemely
for
a
woman
to
drinke
much
,
and
therefore
that
folly
may
be
tollerated
in
men
.
Let
me
returne
yee
this
answere
,
euill
dooing
is
no
more
permitted
to
men
then
women
,
the
rather
in
this
respect
;
because
men
make
vaunts
of
beeing
their
superiours
,
and
that
womens
primacie
consisteth
not
in
commanding
▪
but
in
obeying
.
Alas
,
this
excellence
is
not
in
the
degree
,
but
in
such
behauiour
as
makes
them
woorthy
therof
:
yet
they
will
approue
that
good
in
themselues
,
which
they
thinke
bad
and
condemne
in
women
,
as
if
vice
and
vertue
were
limitted
by
their
desseignes
,
and
as
though
by
their
maner
of
life
and
demeanor
,
they
were
no
way
subiect
eyther
to
one
or
other
.
Wherin
they
declare
,
how
much
they
dissent
from
nature
,
who
neuer
ordayned
to
the
subiect
where
she
appointed
moouing
,
but
what
was
apt
&
conuenient
for
it
,
or
else
such
rest
as
shuld
not
be
vnprofitable
,
like
a
faithfull
Oeconomie
of
graces
,
and
mother
of
all
Hierarchie
.
Nay
more
,
these
prophane
men
would
binde
the
feminine
sexe
to
such
laws
as
themselues
are
not
able
to
obserue
,
lawes
drawne
from
their
own
iealosie
,
their
suspition
,
their
weaknes
,
their
auarice
,
their
depraued
conscience
,
their
pride
,
thinking
it
good
to
prohibite
others
,
such
things
as
themselues
could
neuer
effect
:
wherin
they
haue
regarde
to
their
owne
perticuler
imperfection
▪
&
not
the
law
of
nature
:
who
measures
the
constrainte
of
her
will
;
her
will
by
the
inclination
;
her
inclination
by
that
which
is
most
proper
;
and
the
most
propper
by
that
which
is
most
common
,
and
most
necessarie
for
the
conseruation
of
her
kinde
.
Let
vs
now
speake
of
Liberalitie
,
which
is
as
worthy
noting
in
her
own
subiect
,
as
anye
other
vertue
in
the
worlde
beside
,
so
royall
and
seemely
is
shee
in
all
faire
mindes
whatsoeuer
.
More
familiar
is
shee
with
women
,
then
men
,
for
they
are
naturally
full
of
pittie
,
mercie
and
diuinest
charitie
.
They
vse
continually
to
visite
Hospitalles
,
Prisons
,
and
other
places
of
wants
,
to
giue
assistance
to
the
miseries
of
men
,
who
fill
the
ayre
with
their
wretched
lamentations
:
yea
,
those
places
that
commonly
haue
beene
infected
with
theyr
bad
sauour
,
women
haue
not
spared
to
make
theyr
vsuall
accesse
vnto
.
Mausolus
monument
,
builded
by
a
Woman
in
remembrance
of
her
husband
,
is
a
matter
of
such
especiall
estimation
,
as
the
very
richest
Sepultures
of
Kinges
doe
thence
deriue
their
names
,
as
from
the
fountaine
of
all
honour
and
excellence
.
Sarteshkia
wife
to
Arphaxed
,
gaue
instruction
for
building
the
proude
and
incomparable
walles
of
Elchatana
,
as
you
may
at
large
read
in
Memnon
of
Ephesus
.
Parisatis
Queene
of
Persia
,
caused
all
the
Monarches
of
Asia
to
be
buried
in
pure
golde
,
and
instituted
a
sacrafice
to
Cyrus
,
the
expence
whereof
amounted
yeerely
to
a
thousand
Affricke
tallentes
,
according
to
the
report
of
Dionisius
Milesianus
.
Olympias
,
mother
to
Alexander
,
employed
seauen
hundred
thousand
crownes
,
in
erecting
an
Alter
to
Iupiter
Hammon
,
vpon
the
coast
of
Accium
.
Cleopatra
redeemed
fiue
thousand
Romaines
,
for
two
millions
of
golde
and
thirty
crownes
,
which
shee
in
a
perpetuall
Aprill
of
theyr
tyme
.
Diana
gaue
chastity
,
diligence
,
and
honest
care
of
housholde
affayres
.
So
that
but
for
the
liberality
of
these
before
named
:
the
Gods
had
had
no
Altars
,
and
men
had
bin
depriued
of
all
vnderstanding
.
Iuno
placed
Hercules
among
the
Gods
number
:
Pallas
Vlisses
,
Venus
Aeneas
,
Thetis
Achilles
,
Diana
Hippolitus
,
Vesta
Romulus
,
Isis
Pompilius
,
Calipso
was
so
liberall
,
notwithstanding
the
ingratitude
of
Vlisses
:
as
she
would
haue
made
him
immortall
,
which
he
refused
,
through
a
base
desire
,
of
seeing
once
againe
the
chymneys
smoke
of
Ithaca
or
Cassina
,
which
caused
Sapho
to
cry
out
in
this
sort
.
Men
through
foolish
malice
led
,
Esteeme
base
vice
in
vertues
steed
,
And
doe
conceipt
iniquity
,
In
their
rash
braines
a
Diety
.
To
women
they
obliged
be
,
For
shielding
them
from
infamy
,
Because
they
make
them
gracious
,
And
change
their
Fortunes
ominous
,
By
perfection
of
their
kinde
,
To
best
good
haps
that
they
can
finde
.
Plato
in
like
manner
affirmeth
,
that
womens
society
hath
made
ciuill
the
moste
outragious
condition
of
mens
liues
:
yea
,
such
as
naturally
haue
been
barbarous
,
and
enemies
to
their
owne
kinde
:
as
Caine
was
to
his
brother
Abell
:
one
of
Noahs
sonnes
to
his
owne
Father
:
Absolom
to
Dauid
,
and
many
others
beside
in
the
Holy
Scripture
.
Amongst
the
prophane
they
haue
so
exceeded
,
as
there
is
not
nowe
so
many
women
liuing
,
as
we
can
number
men
reclaymed
,
onely
by
the
discreete
counsell
of
theyr
company
,
and
brought
into
the
perfect
path
of
wisedome
:
so
especially
it
pleased
Heauen
to
bestow
these
graces
,
vpon
this
sexe
so
diuine
and
bountifull
in
all
vertues
:
as
my
vttermost
praises
comes
farre
too
short
of
theyr
exceeding
merits
.
Empedocles
,
that
great
searcher
and
friend
to
nature
,
was
wont
to
say
:
that
woman
was
her
meere
renewed
Image
,
and
her
very
least
consideration
in
the
subiect
of
thinges
naturall
,
extended
it selfe
much
more
neere
to
truth
,
then
the
deepest
search
or
curiositie
of
man
could
reach
vnto
.
The
Aegiptian
Hieroglificques
figured
the
Heauens
by
a
woman
,
hauing
her
eyes
couered
,
and
laden
with
many
mountaines
on
her
backe
:
meaning
heereby
,
that
those
diuine
creatures
saw
all
thinges
,
euen
they
which
were
to
come
,
as
them
present
,
and
withall
,
supported
the
misdeedes
of
men
with
a
forgetfull
remission
;
signifyed
by
the
burdens
so
farre
from
theyr
regard
,
as
al
mens
defects
whatsoeuer
,
were
cast
behinde
theyr
backes
.
It
nowe
remaines
for
mee
to
shewe
,
howe
Historyes
doe
abound
with
examples
of
men
prodigiously
rich
,
as
Dauid
himselfe
witnesseth
in
this
verse
:
Men
are
so
vnsatiable
,
as
they
thinke
themselues
poore
,
euen
when
they
possesse
riches
in
greatest
aboundance
.
Holy
writ
lets
vs
see
in
this
apparell
,
the
wealthy
Naball
:
whose
extreame
auarice
was
approoued
by
the
second
King
of
Israell
,
euen
with
the
perrill
of
his
life
almost
.
It
shewes
vs
Achab
likewise
,
taking
away
the
goodes
of
Naboth
:
And
in
the
newe
Testament
,
we
may
look
vpon
Simon
Magus
.
In
prophane
stories
,
wee
behold
Midas
,
Croesus
,
Septimilius
,
Dionisius
,
Chrisophilus
,
Tantalus
,
Lycaon
.
Jugurth
cryed
out
(
as
Salust
recordeth
)
that
the
Empire
of
Rome
beeing
to
bee
solde
:
Fortune
too
much
iniured
him
;
in
letting
him
knowe
it
,
and
not
admytting
him
the
meanes
to
compasse
the
wonderfull
riches
which
belonged
to
the
Primates
of
the
Romain
common
wealth
.
Virgill
,
and
(
before
him
)
Appolonius
and
Ctesias
,
depainted
to
vs
Polimnestor
of
Thrace
,
a
man
so
carried
away
with
auarice
,
as
he
violated
al
the
rights
of
hospitality
,
and
wickedly
murdered
Polidore
,
son
to
King
Priam
his
neighbour
.
I
might
haue
a
world
of
worke
,
if
I
should
heere
set
downe
the
Geraudes
of
Thylos
,
who
solde
theyr
Sister
to
the
Lappyans
:
Josephs
bretheren
,
who
offended
in
like
sort
:
the
King
of
Persia
,
that
caused
the
tombe
of
Cyrus
to
be
opened
,
within
which
this
inscription
was
to
be
read
.
Thou
man
insatiate
,
couetous
,
Cruell
,
vnkinde
and
barbarous
,
This
Tombe
by
thee
had
not
been
ope
,
But
that
thy
couetous
extreame
,
Heere
to
haue
found
a
Diademe
,
Gaue
thy
thoughts
that
greedy
scope
.
Thy
comming
I
right
well
did
know
,
For
heauen
did
the
same
fore-shew
,
And
thy
fruitlesse
hope
beside
:
Heere
get'st
thou
nothing
for
thy
paine
,
But
this
poore
carkasse
fraile
and
vaine
,
To
speedy
death
thy
present
guide
.
I
haue
made
mention
sufficient
of
womens
liberality
,
as
also
the
auaritious
nature
of
men
:
it
is
now
high
time
,
that
by
humility
(
wherewith
they
are
much
more
endued
then
men
theyr
aduersaries
:
)
I
should
cleuate
them
them
so
high
,
as
the
heauens
may
bee
discerned
vnder
them
,
and
that
they
serue
to
addorne
heauen
as
vertues
,
or
rather
,
that
all
vertues
are
(
as
it
were
)
their
seruants
,
Trismegistus
the
Prince
of
auncient
Theologie
,
names
humility
to
be
the
guide
of
the
soule
,
and
onely
regent
of
all
our
actions
.
It
is
she
that
moderates
violence
,
and
yet
is
violent
vpon
immodesty
,
compelling
it
to
an
abatement
of
such
heate
,
as
many
times
makes
itselfe
too
much
acquainted
with
men
,
which
very
quickly
carries
them
from
a
perswasiue
kinde
of
pride
,
to
incredible
forgetfulnes
of
themselues
.
The
holy
Bible
offers
the
examples
of
Sara
,
Hester
;
and
beyond
all
other
,
the
new
Testament
(
which
is
the
perfection
of
witnesse
to
the
Prophets
)
deliuers
vs
the
humility
of
the
Saint
aboue
all
Saintes
,
the
blessed
Virgin
Marie
,
so
humble
both
in
apparaunce
and
effect
,
as
it
pleased
God
to
make
choyse
of
her
,
for
the
birth
of
his
onely
Sonne
our
Lord
Christ
Iesus
.
Contrariwise
,
yee
cannot
but
read
of
the
ambition
of
Caine
,
of
Nimrod
,
Cirus
,
Absolon
,
Haman
,
Rehoboam
,
and
many
others
besides
.
In
histories
likewise
ye
shall
finde
the
presumption
of
Alexander
,
naming
himselfe
the
Sonne
of
Iupiter
:
of
Pirrhus
the
Epirote
:
of
Menecrates
,
who
called
himselfe
a
God
:
of
Caliphanes
,
Xerxes
,
Romulus
,
Caligula
,
Caesar
,
Senecion
,
Patricius
,
and
Marke
Anthonie
.
Amongst
our
moderne
men
,
of
Borgi●
,
Leo
,
Boniface
,
Caraffa
,
Baldwin
the
imposture
,
and
so
many
more
beside
:
as
I
my selfe
should
seeme
ambitious
of
a
very
vaine
matter
,
if
I
would
make
recitall
of
them
;
producing
withall
,
what
is
said
of
Hanniball
,
of
Nicanor
,
of
Salmoneus
,
of
the
Aloides
,
Prometheus
:
Icarus
,
Tiphon
,
Phaeton
,
the
Giants
in
generall
,
and
in
breefe
,
a
whole
bedrole
of
the
like
:
but
especially
such
as
S●esichorus
speakes
of
in
his
Odes
.
Mad
men
who
in
their
proper
praise
,
Will
crowne
themselues
with
laurell
bayes
,
While
other
seeke
effectually
,
Into
the
bottom
of
the
graue
.
For
that
whereby
they
honor
haue
,
And
thereby
liue
in
memory
.
And
Musaeus
in
his
songs
.
Those
that
were
of
Lesbos
Isle
,
Gaue
themselues
an
honourd
stile
.
Which
was
indeed
but
villiany
,
Like
to
an
aged
Rauens
noate
,
Into
some
withred
Elme
being
got
,
To
tell
the
world
her
hermony
,
The
Sea
they
doe
resemble
well
,
Which
sinckes
as
if
it
were
to
hell
.
Though
to
the
cloudes
it
oft
arise
,
Or
like
the
Sea-man
,
that
would
breake
,
A
huge
rocke
with
his
Oares
too
weake
,
When
fond
conceite
thus
dimmes
his
eyes
.
Where
can
be
read
a
matter
more
insupportable
,
then
the
insolence
of
Caine
,
who
answered
his
Lord
and
creator
:
Hast
thou
giuen
Abell
my
brother
to
my
custody
;
or
am
I
to
yeelde
account
of
him
?
Contrariwise
,
where
can
be
heard
of
a
more
humble
creature
,
then
the
Cananite
,
who
hauing
not
offended
at
all
,
held
her selfe
not
onely
faulty
in
the
fact
of
her
religion
:
but
comparing
her selfe
to
the
bruite
beastes
,
combated
against
the
rigour
of
Iesus
Disciples
,
and
that
with
such
mighty
modesty
,
as
had
not
the
holy
Scripture
expressely
reported
it
,
it
would
haue
exceeded
beleefe
:
yea
,
all
histories
els
in
the
world
beside
.
Mary
Magdaleins
humility
cannot
be
equalled
in
comparison
,
by
the
very
humblest
submission
of
men
ingenerall
or
perticuler
,
wyping
our
Sauiours
feete
with
the
hayre
of
her
head
,
being
as
then
but
scantly
knowen
vnto
her
.
But
if
yee
will
commend
the
insolence
of
a
man
,
it
is
to
be
noted
at
that
very
instant
,
when
one
cryed
out
:
What
losse
commits
this
Woman
at
this
present
?
Such
odours
might
haue
been
sold
at
a
very
good
rate
,
and
afterward
bestowed
vpon
the
poore
.
But
let
vs
leaue
diuine
authorityes
,
and
looke
into
histories
,
Hippolita
the
Amazone
was
so
humble
and
lowly
to
Theseus
,
that
he
hauing
receiued
a
hurt
with
the
Bulles
horne
of
Praxila
on
his
right
shoulder
:
she
vsed
often
times
to
lick
the
wound
with
her
tongue
;
whereas
euen
Chiron
the
Centaure
grewe
offended
.
This
is
not
thy
chiefest
glory
,
Nor
thy
Fortunes
fairest
story
,
Oh
Theseus
,
to
haue
conquered
,
The
mighty
Bull
of
Praxila
,
Whose
wounding
thee
that
very
day
,
Might
full
well
haue
done
thee
dead
,
But
to
haue
faire
Hippolita
,
So
worthy
noting
euery
way
,
In
thy
house
to
waite
on
thee
,
And
destinies
to
grace
her
so
,
When
else
thy
life
thou
must
forgoe
,
Then
she
to
giue
thee
remedy
.
As
goodnesse
,
honesty
and
vertue
,
are
onely
principall
among
the
perfections
of
the
minde
,
so
in
that
only
subiecte
woulde
I
conclude
heere
my
discourse
:
but
that
I
cannot
well
doe
it
,
vnlesse
thereby
I
giue
men
to
vnderstand
,
that
whatsoeuer
goodnesse
abideth
in
them
,
is
only
but
borrowed
,
and
the
very
maine
goodnesse
of
the
whole
world
consisteth
in
women
,
who
(
to
speake
no
more
then
truth
)
are
as
a
soule
to
the
whole
vniuersse
,
and
the
especiall
procurers
of
all
celestiall
blessings
.
The
Romaines
amongst
all
their
conquestes
,
made
an
intermingling
of
strange
Goddes
,
and
caused
Altars
to
be
erected
vnto
them
,
yet
notwithstanding
,
in
the
despoyle
of
so
many
nations
,
they
could
neuer
get
any
one
God
that
bare
the
tytle
of
good
,
so
rare
was
this
qualitye
amongst
them
which
were
figured
in
the
shapes
of
men
.
And
yet
in
the
very
cradle
of
their
Empire
,
they
had
a
Goddesse
of
goodnes
,
named
Vesta
,
so
highly
eternized
for
her
deserts
,
as
at
one
time
she
was
honored
with
seauen
hundred
crowns
of
pure
golde
,
and
neuer
could
men
haue
the
credite
to
enter
her
Temple
▪
Ennius
the
Poet
renowneth
her
in
this
manner
.
Vesta
(
good
Goddesse
)
is
sole
guardiane
,
Of
our
great
Capitole
,
and
people
Romaine
,
All
other
Gods
are
feeble
in
their
might
,
But
she
and
Pallas
,
who
giues
wisedomes
sight
.
The
goodnesse
of
Juno
is
noted
of
euery
one
,
and
farre
to
exceede
the
mallice
of
Iupiter
,
for
though
shee
had
good
cause
to
procure
his
ouerthrowe
,
for
being
so
long
time
tyed
by
the
heeles
to
one
Mil-stone
,
agaynst
all
lawes
of
equity
and
reason
:
yet
did
she
not
forbeare
to
discouer
to
him
,
the
secret
traines
laide
for
him
by
the
other
Gods
,
who
were
growen
weary
of
his
tyranie
and
oppression
;
which
made
the
Greeke
thus
to
speake
of
her
.
Iuno
,
the
goodnes
ouer
rare
,
Made
thee
too
kinde
and
debounaire
,
To
thy
vngratefull
husband
still
,
When
fastned
to
his
clog
too
long
,
He
vext
the
Gods
,
and
did
thee
wrong
,
Yet
didst
thou
alwaies
shield
his
ill
.
The
goodnesse
of
Sirua
of
Corinthe
,
was
excessiue
,
if
excesse
be
to
be
found
in
such
a
vertue
,
for
being
forsaken
by
her
husband
,
a
man
beyond
all
measure
dissolute
,
&
wisely
learning
how
he
spent
his
time
:
to
wit
,
in
the
stewes
which
was
the
moste
infamous
in
all
Greece
,
where
hee
had
vtterly
wasted
and
consumed
himselfe
:
She
yet
appointed
him
an
annuall
pension
,
that
hauing
wherewithall
to
diffray
his
charges
,
he
might
in
time
learne
to
leaue
that
wicked
kinde
of
life
.
Plutarch
makes
mention
of
a
Courtezane
so
kinde
and
affable
,
that
shee
gaue
a
golden
Crowne
of
maruailous
valew
,
the
very
sum
of
all
her
riches
consisting
therein
:
to
a
young
man
,
who
had
refused
her
for
another
,
to
whome
he
gaue
the
very
same
crown
,
with
the
will
and
consent
of
her
,
who
had
bin
his
before
first
Mistresse
&
louer
.
Oh
worthy
courtezane
,
the
history
doth
thee
wronge
in
giuing
thee
that
name
,
for
by
this
one
deed
thou
hast
raysed
so
many
vertuous
opinions
of
thee
,
and
set
downe
such
a
memory
of
thy
woorth
:
as
they
that
shall
defame
thee
,
will
be
but
infamous
,
those
that
accuse
thee
,
but
snarling
detractours
,
and
he
that
refused
thee
,
well
worthy
the
name
of
a
wretch
and
vnthankfull
.
Who
can
but
maruaile
at
the
goodnesse
of
Proserpine
,
she
hauing
beene
stolne
from
the
Theater
of
men
:
yea
,
from
her
mothers
lap
,
the
terrestriall
Paradise
of
her
contentment
,
and
hurried
into
a
place
of
darkenesse
,
horrour
and
dispayre
,
by
a
Tyrant
,
more
couetous
of
her
beauty
,
then
matrymoniall
coniunction
:
did
neuerthelesse
make
Jupiters
intent
knowen
to
Pluto
,
to
the
heauens
great
scandale
,
and
perpetuall
prayse
of
the
nether
regions
,
where
she
was
confined
,
to
preuent
a
second
subuerssion
of
the
world
,
which
would
haue
ensued
vpon
her
rape
againe
,
as
witnesseth
that
which
Pluto
himselfe
said
.
Ere
the
loud
thunder
make
me
let
her
goe
,
I
le
burne
the
heauens
,
so
doth
her
beauty
moue
,
Deare
care
to
keep
a
Iewell
gotten
so
,
Despight
my
brothers
force
,
she
is
my
loue
,
And
sooner
shall
the
Sunnes
bright
golden
torch
,
Be
saffrond
in
these
dim
and
nether
nookes
,
Ire
she
be
carried
foorth
of
Plutoes
portch
,
That
giues
me
life
and
essence
by
her
lookes
.
Empedocles
,
Aristotle
and
Plinie
haue
affirmed
,
that
the
best
kinde
of
beastes
are
those
which
moste
vse
to
weepe
:
if
it
be
so
,
there
is
nothing
more
facile
in
a
woman
then
teares
,
nay
,
it
is
a
thing
so
naturally
giuen
vnto
them
,
as
I
haue
noted
many
Ladyes
,
not
to
loose
one
iotte
of
their
perfection
thereby
,
but
rather
to
increase
it
much
more
by
theyr
teares
,
as
especially
proceeding
from
a
spring
or
sourse
of
grace
;
howe
strange
then
is
the
sauage
nature
of
men
,
who
neuer
weepe
but
onely
through
chollor
?
But
Al●meon
yeeldes
the
reason
therof
,
in
this
manner
.
A
woman
being
of
her selfe
more
apprehensiue
then
man
,
cannot
easily
alter
from
her
first
conception
,
which
makes
her
sooner
to
weepe
then
a
man
,
who
takes
longer
time
in
seeking
remedy
for
his
grief
.
But
this
is
most
certaine
,
teares
only
proceed
from
an
exceeding
good
nature
,
and
all
those
beastes
(
most
capable
of
enstruction
)
are
subiect
thereto
.
Lyons
,
Beares
and
Tygers
neuer
weepe
,
saith
Auerroes
,
because
rage
is
so
familier
with
them
,
as
they
cannot
bee
taught
to
shunne
theyr
owne
harmes
.
But
horses
and
Elephantes
vse
to
weepe
,
as
some
men
doe
,
not
so
much
for
their
natural
humiditie
,
as
a
certayne
feeling
of
inward
sadnes
,
for
the
Hart
(
altogether
hot
)
weepes
oftentimes
,
being
pursued
and
taynted
:
and
after
this
manner
is
the
weeping
of
men
:
but
beyond
all
,
the
woman
is
subiect
to
teares
,
especially
she
,
in
whome
moste
sweetnesse
and
tendernes
is
found
.
It
seemes
the
Comick
Menander
knew
somewhat
in
this
case
,
when
he
said
.
For
women
do
weep
,
for
harmes
may
them
befal
,
Mean
while
their
barbarous
husbands
sit
&
ioy
Neuer
fore
thinking
on
their
illes
at
all
,
When
desperate
hazard
of
most
sharp
annoy
,
With
hurly burly
through
the
Citty
flies
,
Despoilde
and
widdowed
of
her
liberties
,
This
foolish
courage
women
doe
despise
,
And
by
their
teares
expresse
themselues
more
wise
.
Andromache
the
wife
of
Hector
,
was
endued
with
such
goodnes
,
as
her
seruantes
were
in
her
house
as
in
a
Temple
:
yea
,
shee
tooke
care
and
paines
for
managing
her
husbandes
horses
,
he
himselfe
neuer
hauing
so
much
courage
,
as
she
had
vertues
.
I
may
referre
thee
for
further
proofe
heereof
,
to
Homere
where
the
Lackies
of
Paris
tearmes
her
a
Pithagorician
for
this
cause
.
It
is
strange
to
heare
how
some
bawle
against
this
text
,
for
they
talke
of
Metempsichosis
,
which
we
call
transauimation
,
the
passage
of
soules
from
one
body
to
another
:
and
then
will
not
sticke
withall
to
sweare
,
that
the
Authour
heereby
meaneth
some
deceipt
:
but
heerein
they
resemble
little
chyldren
,
who
imagine
belles
to
sound
all
that
they
sing
.
Iulia
Censorina
hauing
heard
,
that
sentence
of
death
was
pronounced
against
her
husband
,
disguised
him
so
sodainely
,
as
the
Iaylor
imagined
him
to
be
her
,
so
she
remained
prisoner
in
his
habite
,
while
he
escaped
with
safety
of
life
.
They
threatned
her
with
torments
to
reueale
where
he
was
:
but
she
replyed
,
neuer
make
spare
of
mee
,
for
I
haue
done
no
more
then
a
woman
ought
to
doe
.
There
is
no
true
historian
,
that
euer
did
set
downe
like
example
of
a
man
.
I
knowe
very
well
that
some
will
obiecte
vnto
mee
,
howe
Diuine
Orpheus
descended
into
hell
,
there
to
demaund
his
fayre
wife
of
Pluto
:
but
if
hee
did
so
,
it
was
more
because
hee
coulde
not
liue
without
her
,
then
for
any
especiall
goodnesse
remaining
in
himselfe
,
considering
hee
was
a
perpetuall
enemy
to
women
.
Likewise
hee
behaued
himselfe
so
ill
,
if
Aeschilus
say
true
.
As
he
encurd
the
high
disgrace
,
Of
all
the
beauteous
dames
of
Thrace
▪
And
being
thus
dishonoured
,
Lost
first
his
harpe
and
then
his
head
▪
I
would
not
aduise
men
to
shed
any
teares
for
him
,
because
happily
they
haue
too
few
for
themselues
.
The
generall
historie
of
nations
tells
vs
,
that
an
infinite
number
of
good
women
vowed
themselues
to
their
husbands
graues
,
as
not
desiring
any
longer
life
after
them
.
Wise
Salomon
,
hath
figured
forth
a
good
woman
to
vs
,
and
though
she
come
short
of
many
especiall
qualities
due
to
such
perfection
:
yet
hath
hee
described
in
her
more
excellent
matters
,
then
can
bee
in
a
man
,
whom
he
esteemeth
not
capable
of
any
praise
.
For
saith
he
:
A
good
woman
is
an
inestimable
treasure
.
In
this
Song
of
Songs
,
he
sings
nothing
els
then
of
the
vertuous
woman
.
Plato
held
,
that
shee
is
no
lesse
to
bee
desired
in
a
familye
,
then
a
iust
Magistrate
in
a
common
wealth
:
this
made
them
paynt
Venus
standing
on
a
Tortuse
,
to
shew
,
that
a
woman
ought
necessarilye
to
keepe
at
home
.
Possidonius
nameth
a
woman
,
the
eye
of
necessity
,
meaning
thereby
,
that
her
fore-sight
being
as
a
Sun
of
grace
,
a
house
is
waste
and
desolate
without
her
beames
,
and
men
can
neuer
clearely
see
into
their
houshold
affayres
,
but
onely
by
the
warie
eye
of
theyr
wiues
.
There
is
such
superaboundaunce
of
goodnesse
in
women
,
as
wee
may
grieue
to
see
them
deceiued
by
the
bolde
mallice
of
men
,
who
make
no
reckoning
at
all
of
theyr
treasons
and
treacheries
:
for
,
while
they
weep
like
Crocadiles
,
they
will
sweare
by
Heauen
and
Earth
,
that
theyr
affections
are
loyall
,
their
words
faithfull
,
their
behaui●●
〈…〉
yet
for
all
this
,
in
〈…〉
,
they
are
〈…〉
the
Hiena
,
〈…〉
●●en
vipers
▪
more
inconstant
men
the
Polipe
fish
,
more
〈◊〉
men
Tigers
,
and
lesse
worthie
loue
then
Hornets
.
Aristophanes
shall
take
my
part
,
although
he
was
an
Athenian
,
to
wit
,
gadding
minded
and
vncertaine
,
lyke
many
other
of
his
companions
.
To
seduce
faire
women
kinde
,
Pretending
loyaltie
of
minde
,
And
yet
not
loue
but
for
a
while
:
Or
else
for
base
desire
of
gaine
,
A
greefe
that
many
may
complaine
,
When
plaine
apparance
shewes
the
guyle
▪
It
is
a
most
vnwoorthy
parte
,
Farre
different
from
the
high
desert
▪
That
to
women
dooth
belong
,
Who
being
debounaire
and
milde
,
Neuer
thinke
men
to
be
so
vilde
As
to
requite
them
with
such
wrong
.
If
yee
will
haue
some
of
this
good
stuffe
out
of
mens
storehouse
,
looke
then
on
detestable
and
vngratefull
Theseus
,
on
Paris
the
lyer
and
periurde
wretch
,
on
inconstant
Hercules
,
and
disloyall
Iason
,
who
all
most
falselye
deceiued
their
friends
,
after
they
had
triumphed
by
their
meanes
and
credit
,
I
will
not
say
on
their
honors
:
for
these
men
(
none
woorse
that
euer
were
)
could
not
any
way
wound
the
happie
and
laudable
reputation
,
of
these
their
faire
fosterers
and
dearest
friends
,
which
made
them
(
indeed
)
more
enemyes
to
themselues
,
then
they
could
be
to
the
renowne
of
these
Ladyes
,
whose
vertues
may
perhaps
bee
toucht
with
some
slaunder
,
but
their
innocent
natures
stand
free
from
iniurie
,
and
their
good
cariage
from
all
base
suspition
.
Yet
let
vs
consider
heerewithall
,
that
a
woman
can
haue
no
greater
enemy
then
a
man
,
who
is
like
vnto
a
rauenous
Lyon
,
continuallye
seeking
to
deuoure
new
spoyle
.
Oh
sexe
abhominable
,
thou
art
too
much
affected
to
thy selfe
,
to
knowe
rightly
indeede
howe
to
vse
women
kinde
,
especially
in
these
dayes
,
wherein
,
as
saith
the
Italian
Poet.
Th'
abortiues
of
this
cittie
in
a
flame
,
Do
at
their
countries
woes
but
make
a
game
.
And
an
other
:
A
Coridon
,
a
Coridon
gapes
after
gaine
,
And
nothing
pleaseth
him
but
womens
paine
.
Not
many
moneths
since
,
a
Gascoigne
Gentleman
became
amorous
of
a
young
and
vertuous
maiden
,
and
raisde
vp
such
a
scandale
to
mens
reputation
,
who
spare
not
to
fault
in
the
lyke
offence
:
as
enforceth
mee
to
set
downe
the
historie
,
not
so
much
to
make
them
the
more
infamous
,
as
to
make
knowne
the
iust
vengeance
,
which
this
honest
Virgin
tooke
on
the
ingratitude
of
her
feygned
and
dissembling
friend
.
He
,
after
a
million
of
pursuites
,
fild
full
of
seruices
,
complaines
,
teares
and
promises
,
yet
not
able
to
compasse
his
vnlawfull
desires
:
forgot
him selfe
so
farre
,
as
to
publish
abroade
with
no
sillie
protestations
,
that
hee
was
not
meanely
interested
into
the
Maidens
best
fauours
.
She
hauing
no
other
supporte
for
her
innocencie
,
then
the
true
witnesse
of
her
soule
,
vnattainted
and
free
from
so
vile
an
infamie
;
raisde
vp
her
spirits
with
such
rightfull
disdaine
,
against
the
vniust
rauisher
of
her
reputation
,
as
she
spared
not
to
kill
him
in
the
middest
of
a
verye
honourable
assembly
,
where
she
waited
long
for
the
effecting
of
such
a
woorthy
enterprise
,
which
(
vnder
correction
of
better
iudgement
)
in
my
minde
deserued
rather
pardon
and
recompence
,
then
any
ill
reproche
,
scandale
or
punishment
.
For
Pacience
importun'de
dooth
conuert
to
hate
,
And
who
so
quitteth
not
an
offered
blame
:
Waites
but
a
second
blemish
of
his
name
.
Neuerthelesse
,
in
the
Parlement
at
Burdeaux
,
shee
was
condemned
to
loose
her
head
,
men
did
so
earnestlye
pursue
the
cause
.
But
after
their
rigour
became
somewhat
more
moderate
,
shee
was
confyned
vnto
perpetuall
prison
,
wherout
I
would
very
willinglie
deliuer
her
,
if
I
could
conuert
my selfe
into
a
shower
of
golde
,
as
sometime
did
the
Sonne
of
Saturne
.
If
Loue
deny
to
open
me
the
gate
,
By
other
meanes
I
will
get
in
thereat
:
Her
guardians
crueltie
I
meane
to
bend
,
Euen
by
those
beautious
lookes
which
her
defend
That
way
to
make
them
mylde
and
debonaire
.
No
more
to
fright
me
from
so
sweete
a
faire
.
Then
on
the
house
I
le
raine
a
shower
of
golde
,
To
glut
their
eyes
,
while
Loue
makes
mee
more
bolde
.
When
Juno
would
haue
borrowed
a
fauour
of
Aeolus
,
shee
esteemed
no
recompence
woorthy
of
such
grace
,
but
the
offer
of
one
of
her
Nimphes
:
where
to
the
God
so
well
lent
his
eare
,
as
he
effected
that
,
which
before
hee
would
by
no
means
yeeld
to
promise
.
will
not
admit
thee
to
mollifie
theyr
furies
,
witnesse
that
which
Linus
saith
.
Men
of
their
furie
would
be
much
ashamde
,
And
their
behauiour
mightily
be
blamde
,
Did
they
but
see
the
wood
Nimphes
golden
life
,
So
sweete
,
so
pleasing
,
and
so
voide
of
strife
.
Pharaohs
daughter
had
more
goodnesse
in
her
,
then
all
the
Egiptians
beside
could
be
stoard
with
malice
,
shee
was
more
kinde
and
affable
,
then
her
father
was
rigorous
,
let
mee
not
saye
cruell
:
for
that
great
Captaine
and
lawe
deliuerer
Moyses
,
did
shee
saue
from
shipwrack
,
yea
the
gulfe
of
death
,
auouching
him
for
her
owne
sonne
in
a
time
most
dangerous
,
so
that
it
may
(
vnder
reuerence
)
be
said
,
it
pleased
God
to
make
her
doo
him
seruice
,
as
well
as
Moyses
in
such
a
neede
,
and
all
for
the
deliuerance
of
his
people
.
Heredotus
the
father
of
histories
,
(
be
it
spoake
in
no
dispraise
to
Plutarch
,
)
makes
rehearsall
of
a
Spartane
woman
,
who
let
scape
a
prisoner
from
her
house
,
that
had
in
earnest
smitten
her
:
and
because
her
husband
should
not
kill
him
for
it
,
she
saued
his
life
,
by
sending
him
to
Thebes
.
Yee
shall
hardlie
finde
the
like
qualitie
in
men
,
by
nature
addicted
to
crueltie
,
and
more
enclined
to
offend
their
friends
,
then
pardon
any
that
haue
doone
them
iniurie
.
Homer
maketh
mention
of
Pallas
,
who
quallified
the
rage
of
the
fierie
God
of
warre
,
that
but
for
her
would
haue
made
a
generall
destruction
,
when
he
vnderstood
the
death
of
his
sonne
.
The
fugitiue
Aeneas
,
might
long
enough
haue
wanted
humaine
succour
,
yea
,
lyfe
and
all
had
vtterlye
miscaryed
:
if
(
as
a
helpe
vnexpected
)
hee
had
not
happened
to
the
good
Queene
Dydo
,
where
he
found
a
blessed
hauen
after
so
many
mishaps
,
and
much
better
was
entertained
then
his
base
trecherie
deserued
.
Thrasilla
saued
Phorybus
,
who
scaled
her
house
to
rob
her
treasurie
,
and
as
the
neighbours
would
haue
slaine
him
,
she
said
:
Let
him
alone
,
he
is
but
a
foole
,
and
hath
doone
no
harme
but
to
my
windowe
nayles
.
Hersilia
seeing
Melanthus
in
the
Temple
at
Delphos
,
and
that
hee
would
haue
stolne
a
Crowne
thence
,
which
Perseus
had
caused
there
to
bee
sacred
:
excused
him
to
the
Preestes
,
who
had
likewise
perceiued
him
,
telling
them
,
that
he
was
a
Goldsmith
of
Athens
,
and
her
husbands
hoste
,
who
came
not
thither
with
any
ill
intent
,
but
onlye
had
a
curious
desire
after
workemanshipe
,
which
she
allwayes
had
knowne
him
addicted
vnto
.
All
the
frenche
had
miscaried
at
the
Scicilian
Vespres
,
except
such
as
saued
themselues
in
Sperlinga
:
but
that
they
were
aduertised
by
a
Nursse
,
who
serued
the
Podesta
of
the
Ile
,
whereon
was
written
:
Sperlinga
only
shall
not
burne
,
Else
all
the
Isle
to
hauocke
turne
.
And
else
where
.
A
pittying
Nurse
did
many
French
preserue
,
That
in
Sperlinga
sundry
monthes
did
serue
.
When
the
Thebanes
recouered
their
libertie
from
them
of
Sparta
,
and
that
the
tirannie
of
Charondas
was
vtterly
extinguished
:
the
women
of
Thebes
preuayled
so
well
with
the
two
Captaines
Pelopidas
and
Epaminondas
,
iustly
displeased
against
them
of
Lacedemon
;
as
there
were
but
very
few
put
to
the
swoord
,
albeit
they
had
beene
so
iniuriouslye
handled
,
as
the
remembraunce
thereof
could
not
but
bee
irkesome
to
them
,
and
bloudy
reuenge
no
more
then
lawfull
.
When
Prometheus
stole
the
fire
from
heauen
,
and
Jupiter
bound
him
to
the
mount
Caucasus
,
where
a
vulture
glutted
her selfe
continually
on
his
entrayles
:
the
Goddesse
Iris
rayned
downe
a
shower
of
Nectar
on
this
ouer-hardy
mans
brest
,
till
Hercules
at
length
became
his
deliuerer
by
Iunos
appointment
,
who
grew
into
pittie
of
his
hard
extremitie
,
notwithstanding
at
one
instant
he
had
committed
two
mightie
offences
:
the
one
by
his
great
ingratitude
to
Jupiter
,
the
other
by
his
execrable
theft
,
according
to
that
which
Aeschilus
saith
.
None
more
ingracefull
then
Prometheus
was
,
Who
from
the
high
and
vaulty
house
of
heauen
:
Stole
holy
fire
,
and
thence
away
would
passe
,
Hauing
had
gentle
entertainement
giuen
,
By
all
the
greatest
Gods
in
seemely
sorte
,
Yea
,
Iupiter
receiu'd
him
in
his
Courte
.
Theoderita
,
the
wife
to
John
Paleologus
,
seeing
that
her
husband
would
needes
haue
fiue
slaues
hanged
for
a
small
offence
,
and
that
shee
durst
not
beg
theyr
liues
,
because
he
was
so
furious
:
gaue
a
summe
of
money
to
a
Countie
their
keeper
,
who
fled
awaye
with
them
,
and
were
afterward
neuer
heard
of
.
On
the
daye
of
Saint
Bartholmew
(
when
the
French
shew
themselues
the
most
barbarous
that
can
be
imagined
)
there
was
a
good
and
hardie
woman
,
neere
to
whom
a
man
had
withdrawne
himselfe
,
as
if
it
had
been
to
a
sanctuarie
of
assurance
,
from
the
rage
of
those
bruite
beasts
who
forciblie
followed
him
:
she
caught
a
dizeuier
by
the
coller
,
and
would
not
let
him
goe
,
albeit
shee
were
halde
and
puld
by
the
garments
,
vntill
she
iudged
the
man
pursued
to
bee
in
sound
safetie
,
as
indeed
by
her
means
it
came
so
to
passe
.
If
such
a
notable
deede
might
not
too
much
displease
the
conditions
of
men
,
especiallye
the
French
executioners
of
their
owne
fellow
Cittizens
:
I
would
bring
such
a
rancke
(
among
them
that
I
could
name
)
as
strange
histories
should
haue
cause
to
complaine
,
that
their
subiects
giue
them
not
leaue
once
to
rehearse
matter
so
memorable
.
Sophronia
returning
from
Church
,
and
seeing
two
young
men
come
led
as
prisoners
,
laden
with
garments
which
they
had
stolne
from
her
house
,
when
shee
was
tolde
by
the
officers
,
they
had
robde
her
of
all
,
and
left
iust
nothing
,
shee
answered
:
That
what
they
had
doone
,
was
by
her
own
consent
,
and
they
tooke
these
things
but
as
a
pledge
of
a
certaine
summe
of
money
,
which
in
her
necessitie
she
had
borrowed
of
them
,
and
so
they
had
no
other
punishment
then
feare
onely
.
Hee
that
would
take
vppon
him
to
number
the
starres
,
should
not
finde
himselfe
so
confounded
by
their
infinitie
in
his
sight
:
as
I
am
dazeled
with
multiplicitie
of
matter
,
deliuered
only
vppon
this
subiect
,
which
going
beyond
admiration
,
astonisheth
my
sences
,
rauisheth
my
spirits
,
wearies
my
hand
,
and
by
wearinesse
dispossesseth
mee
of
all
hope
,
to
get
out
of
this
boundlesse
Oceane
:
but
that
the
verie
goodnesse
it selfe
of
this
matter
I
handle
,
supplyes
my
defects
,
as
contented
with
a
little
in
so
vnable
a
person
.
I
haue
saide
sufficient
,
concerning
the
happy
qualities
of
women
,
which
(
to
speake
truely
)
triumpheth
ouer
men
in
all
cheefe
glory
of
perfections
,
that
can
be
affoorded
by
heauen
and
nature
,
who
ordinarily
makes
her selfe
more
admired
in
the
feminine
sexe
,
then
any
subiect
else
whatsoeuer
:
neuerthelesse
,
me
thinkes
I
am
iustly
to
condemne
my selfe
in
all
I
haue
done
,
because
it
hath
not
caried
the
weightie
stile
it
deserueth
;
much
more
then
am
I
to
be
affraide
,
if
I
should
dare
to
make
entrance
among
theyr
diuine
graces
,
the
celestiall
forme
of
theyr
Angelicall
beauties
,
with
what
spirit
I
should
proceed
in
so
high
an
employment
.
Apelles
that
skilfull
and
absolute
Painter
,
when
hee
should
figure
the
graces
of
Venus
,
found
him selfe
to
bee
in
such
a
straunge
confusion
,
as
hee
was
compelled
to
crye
out
:
That
hee
was
the
onely
enemie
to
his
fame
and
credit
,
that
did
set
him
about
such
a
difficult
matter
.
I
referre
it
to
your
iudgements
,
seeing
Thimantes
could
not
portraite
Agamemnons
teares
,
for
the
sacrifising
of
his
onely
daughter
:
whether
it
be
possible
or
no
,
to
describe
the
most
sweet
attractions
of
a
young
Lady
,
who
in
one
instant
can
cause
both
life
and
death
,
not
onely
in
men
of
homely
mettall
,
but
euen
the
very
resolutest
person
in
the
worlde
,
you
may
beholde
(
without
any
arte
to
helpe
)
a
hayrie
tufte
,
daintily
floating
vppon
a
front
largely
extended
,
where
two
eyes
(
or
rather
two
Sunnes
)
make
resplendaunce
with
such
a
temperate
fire
:
as
our
sences
forget
their
condition
,
our
spirits
their
iudgment
,
our
hearts
their
freedome
,
and
our
soules
all
conceit
,
as
caryed
away
with
intire
consideration
of
so
many
meruailes
.
Neapolitane
Sanazar
aptlie
discourseth
thereon
.
Beautie
to
the
Lillie
like
,
Pleaseth
with
her
daintie
white
:
Plaited
into
radiant
curlles
,
Which
about
sweete
liking
hurlles
▪
By
so
rare
and
pleasing
couller
,
Raising
vp
a
second
honor
,
Beautie
like
the
waters
fall
,
Running
with
a
gentle
braule
.
In
a
chanell
siluer
hewde
,
All
the
hearbes
enammeled
,
As
it
dooth
her
tresses
spred
,
By
the
standers
by
are
viewd
.
It
is
louely
,
like
the
Rose
,
That
in
mornings
dooth
vnclose
,
When
faire
heauen
hath
distilde
,
On
Auroraes
cradle
bed
,
Which
the
Gangian
worshipped
,
Her
pearled
drops
through
the
f●eld
.
I
can
hardly
thinke
,
that
men
should
bee
so
misgouerned
,
as
to
presume
to
haue
any
grace
aboue
that
of
women
▪
seeing
at
all
times
by
this
fayre
ornament
of
nature
(
which
I
dare
call
the
cheefest
gift
of
heauen
)
there
hath
beene
such
woonders
wrought
thereby
:
as
Tyrants
haue
beene
made
to
forget
theyr
rigour
;
Iudges
haue
altered
their
settled
determinations
;
sterne
people
haue
been
pacified
,
and
the
very
wisest
circumuented
,
as
by
a
verye
necessarie
transportance
of
the
minde
.
By
this
gracious
endowment
,
fayre
Hester
gaue
conclusion
to
the
Kings
of
Persiaes
custome
,
constrayning
Ahasuerus
to
offer
her
his
royall
rod
,
as
well
when
hee
seemed
to
be
most
mooued
with
choller
,
as
in
the
time
of
more
pleasing
acceptance
.
By
this
means
Juno
,
as
Homer
recordeth
,
knew
how
to
lull
a
sleepe
her
husband
,
for
the
Grecians
aduantage
,
and
ruine
of
the
Troyans
.
Prince
Menelaus
iustly
offended
with
Helen
his
wife
,
perceiued
her
accompanyed
with
so
many
graces
,
when
shee
came
into
his
presence
with
Diophoebus
:
as
he
durst
do
nothing
against
so
rare
a
beautie
,
but
became
euen
then
to
be
more
amourous
,
then
he
was
before
on
the
day
of
his
nuptials
.
The
graces
of
Cleopatra
,
comming
for
tryall
before
Marke
Anthonie
:
the
Iudge
himselfe
became
sollicitour
.
Augustus
intending
to
destroy
Alexandria
;
was
put
from
his
purpose
by
the
very
sight
of
Therinda
,
beeing
but
the
daughter
to
a
poore
Shipmaister
.
Aelianus
rehearseth
,
that
on
the
Sea
coastes
of
Liguria
,
certaine
marine
monsters
haue
beene
seene
,
bearing
some
shewe
of
humaine
shape
:
that
would
stand
gazing
on
the
countrye
damosels
,
as
they
went
for
water
to
the
neighbouring
Fountaines
.
Lycosthenes
,
and
after
him
Boisteau
de
Launay
,
declareth
,
that
a
Triton
was
so
rauished
with
the
graces
of
a
countrye
mayde
,
as
hee
forsooke
the
Sea
,
and
followed
so
farre
after
her
,
that
hee
was
taken
by
the
Village-dwellers
,
wherevpon
hee
dyed
afterwarde
with
sorrowe
.
That
part
of
the
bodye
,
where
this
gracious
iewell
receiueth
most
splendoure
,
is
in
the
eye
,
the
cheefe
and
principall
piece
of
Natures
woorkemanship
.
In
lyke
manner
dooth
Aristotle
call
it
,
the
onely
ornament
of
the
bodye
:
it
is
the
messenger
of
the
Soule
;
and
also
it
is
the
Paynter
of
our
affections
,
and
the
faithfull
speaker
of
all
our
desires
.
Hence
is
it
,
that
the
eye
of
a
woman
is
naturally
so
sweete
:
that
if
all
the
salte
in
Pequay
or
Bronage
might
touch
but
one
of
the
lids
,
it
would
immediatly
conuert
into
the
purest
Suger
.
Homer
and
Pindarus
had
such
sound
knowledge
of
the
eyes
excellence
,
as
for
one
word
they
stroue
to
giue
diuers
epithites
,
and
by
one
body
,
to
make
consideration
of
all
womens
perfections
,
so
to
be
discerned
as
in
a
mirrour
of
Christall
.
Alexander
the
Great
,
so
well
apprehended
the
eyes
of
the
Emperour
of
Perisiaes
daughters
his
enemie
,
as
afterward
hee
would
not
so
much
as
looke
on
them
,
fearing
to
loose
his
liberty
in
the
most
happy
prison
of
the
world
:
whervpon
he
marryed
one
of
them
,
to
the
end
that
this
legittimate
alliance
,
might
keepe
him
within
the
boundes
of
perpetuall
modestie
and
charitie
.
Mahomet
the
second
,
drewe
such
admiration
from
the
eye
of
an
Armenian
woman
slaue
,
as
(
in
fauour
of
her
)
he
caused
him
to
bee
hanged
vp
that
had
taken
her
:
which
made
her
to
complaine
of
his
crueltie
,
albeit
he
requested
not
any
thing
preiudiciall
to
her
honour
.
Selim
,
who
was
the
very
rudest
enemie
to
Christendome
,
hauing
seene
a
young
Damosell
in
the
kingdome
of
Bosleua
named
Isina
,
became
in
such
sort
attached
:
as
he
swore
neuer
to
take
any
rest
,
till
he
had
conquered
the
whole
prouince
,
where
a
creature
so
rare
and
precious
first
receiued
life
.
Neuer
did
he
kisse
but
her
eyes
onely
,
and
afterward
married
her
to
Horruccio
Barbarossa
,
the
father
to
the
kings
of
Argire
.
But
how
now
?
may
not
I
seeme
foolish
and
indiscreet
(
or
rather
vnwoorthye
of
any
fauour
)
in
presuming
to
discourse
of
things
so
little
agreeing
with
my
conceits
,
as
that
I
dare
bee
seene
in
the
glorious
Theatre
of
so
faire
resplendance
?
Oh
pardon
me
,
fayre
eyes
,
for
I
imagined
,
that
the
refexion
of
so
many
graces
as
flowe
from
you
,
as
from
the
source
of
glory
and
Maiestie
;
would
giue
such
ornament
to
my
woords
,
as
else
could
not
choose
but
want
,
and
such
lyfe
to
my
lines
,
as
might
make
them
immortall
.
It
seemes
that
Martiall
was
of
my
minde
.
Your
eyes
,
the
Well-springs
of
faire
light
,
That
chaseth
hence
the
sable
night
:
Begetteth
brightnesse
perfectlie
,
Where
none
(
till
then
)
had
memorie
.
Vigo
hath
written
in
his
practise
of
medicine
,
that
the
eyes
of
a
dead
mayden
are
of
such
vertue
,
against
charmes
and
enchauntments
,
as
if
one
but
laye
the
apple
of
the
eye
vnder
a
Candlestick
of
Brasse
;
immediatlie
all
visions
and
apparitions
shall
vanish
away
and
not
be
seene
.
Many
diseases
haue
beene
cured
,
by
the
very
behoulding
of
Women
that
came
to
visite
the
parties
.
When
the
ayre
and
Sunne
is
obscured
from
the
Tartares
,
as
it
is
a
case
that
often
befalles
them
:
they
teare
foorth
the
eyes
of
some
woman
slaue
,
thereby
to
ouercome
the
first
charme
of
darkenesse
,
&
so
to
haue
the
Sunne
seene
againe
in
theyr
Horizon
.
It
is
very
true
,
that
they
neuer
vse
this
but
on
great
necessities
,
as
when
they
seeke
after
gaine
,
or
when
they
haue
lost
some
battaile
:
and
thence
forwarde
is
that
slaue
made
free
,
and
maintained
at
the
charges
of
the
common
pursse
.
The
Persians
so
mightily
feared
the
graces
hid
in
theyr
womens
eyes
,
as
when
any
Lady
or
other
should
come
before
their
Iudges
;
they
would
turne
their
backes
,
and
not
looke
vpon
them
.
When
Philocus
was
reproched
by
Demetrius
,
for
his
ouermuch
follie
in
loouing
Latmia
;
he
answered
him
▪
If
thou
thy selfe
hadst
but
once
behelde
her
eyes
,
thou
wouldst
chide
me
,
and
say
,
I
loue
her
not
sufficiently
.
For
this
cause
,
the
Italians
will
neuer
suffer
theyr
wiues
to
go
with
their
faces
vncouered
:
so
much
they
stand
in
feare
,
least
others
should
loue
them
better
then
they
themselues
doe
.
Wherfore
,
euen
as
the
braine
is
the
seate
of
the
soule
,
and
the
throne
of
loue
is
placed
in
a
womans
eye
:
so
may
we
call
it
the
bright
burning
beacon
,
or
rather
the
perfect
load-starre
,
to
direct
the
way
,
in
the
Sea
of
our
inconstant
hearts
and
cogitations
.
By
this
windowe
did
Mars
become
amorous
of
Venus
,
according
to
the
testimonie
of
Ouid.
Mars
saw
her
,
and
by
sight
increast
such
fire
,
As
afterward
gaue
light
to
gaine
desire
.
Why
then
heereby
I
may
conclude
,
that
euen
as
the
Sunne
hath
more
light
in
his
vnitie
,
then
all
the
starres
in
number
haue
together
:
so
the
very
eye
of
a
woman
containes
more
graces
in
it
,
then
is
to
bee
found
or
imagined
.
(
I
speake
vpon
sound
knowledge
)
in
all
mens
perfections
which
(
to
write
vprightly
)
could
neither
bee
gracious
,
curteous
or
ciuill
,
but
onely
by
the
society
of
women
.
In
this
case
I
may
likewise
say
,
that
as
the
Opall
represents
the
colour
of
all
precious
stones
:
so
a
womans
face
,
is
the
true
liuely
figure
of
all
graces
celestiall
and
humaine
,
and
that
God
endued
it
only
with
perfections
aboue
all
other
creatures
.
The
goodly
heauens
might
not
compare
with
the
ornament
and
graces
of
a
woman
,
if
nature
had
not
made
them
of
longer
continuance
:
but
by
her
death
she
doth
so
much
the
more
enrich
their
beauty
▪
encreasing
their
fairnesse
,
in
no
meane
measure
,
and
yet
to
our
vnspeakeable
losse
.
It
is
now
high
time
I
should
speake
of
beauty
,
the
faithfull
companion
of
all
those
graces
which
I
place
formost
in
the
hyerarchy
of
things
that
seeme
to
be
,
or
are
corporall
,
albeit
the
minde
haue
the
greater
part
thereof
.
Bodily
beauty
is
a
continued
proportion
of
the
partes
with
their
whole
in
perfect
substance
:
This
is
the
common
definition
of
beauty
,
which
only
respectes
the
nature
of
the
thing
,
and
not
the
accidents
.
Plato
holdes
,
that
beauty
is
an
Idea
of
perfection
,
which
we
attrybute
to
the
subiect
that
best
liketh
vs
.
And
hereupon
,
being
demaunded
what
was
the
verie
fairest
thing
in
the
world
:
he
answered
,
Loue
.
Now
it
is
most
certaine
,
that
this
Loue
is
a
Woman
;
for
as
nothing
can
burne
but
the
fire
,
or
that
which
is
of
fiery
nature
:
so
can
wee
loue
nothing
but
a
woman
,
I
meane
in
this
Theater
of
humaine
affaires
,
except
we
will
build
vp
againe
the
walles
of
Sodom
.
Oh
would
to
God
it
pleased
him
,
that
some
two
or
three
,
who
make
a
practise
of
such
a
horrible
sin
,
yea
,
euen
to
the
great
scandale
of
Fraunce
,
had
bin
but
imployed
in
this
busines
,
(
which
especially
I
vndertooke
on
so
grieuous
an
occasion
:
)
the
kingdome
could
not
then
but
bee
much
more
flourishing
,
and
the
wrath
of
God
in
lesse
measure
follow
vs
.
Well
be
it
so
then
,
that
beauty
onely
appertaineth
to
a
woman
,
according
as
Anacreon
testifieth
.
Nature
on
Bulles
did
hornes
bestow
,
And
tallents
to
the
Birdes
she
gaue
,
Hoofes
to
the
horse
,
and
well
we
know
Swiftnes
to
Hares
their
liues
to
saue
.
Fishes
she
made
glide
through
the
streame
▪
Teeth
to
the
Lyon
was
her
gift
:
But
as
for
man
,
his
hap
extreame
,
Was
to
be
witlesse
,
voide
of
thrift
.
When
woman
came
,
then
did
she
ioy
,
And
gaue
such
beauty
to
her
face
:
As
worlds
of
hearts
it
should
destroy
,
And
no
power
else
haue
greater
grace
▪
Yet
am
not
I
of
the
vulgares
opinion
,
who
subiect
beauty
to
some
certaine
rules
,
which
cannot
support
the
faire
in
any
subiect
,
without
dooing
iniurye
to
a
Myllion
of
beautyes
,
rare
and
extraordinary
,
who
neuerthelesse
,
haue
many
times
none
of
those
curious
notes
of
antiquity
:
for
a
little
woman
may
be
faire
:
a
low
forehead
may
be
so
too
:
a
black
hayrde
woman
,
a
mouth
somewhat
large
,
and
other
such
like
parts
,
lesse
to
be
wondered
at
then
Apelles
Venus
,
in
whome
it
was
sayd
nothing
to
bee
wanting
.
For
Beauty
best
we
learne
to
know
,
By
lookes
not
ouer
swift
nor
slow
:
And
when
behauiour
doth
agree
,
The
body
straight
,
well
shapt
to
see
.
But
tell
me
,
will
not
you
iudge
the
woman
to
bee
moste
fayre
,
that
writte
to
her
Louer
in
thys
manner
?
My
Loue
,
I
am
a
little
blacke
,
But
say
that
I
were
much
more
blacke
.
Mine
eyes
browne
,
my
face
like
browne
,
Admit
my
necke
and
brests
more
browne
,
My
haire
and
skin
all
black
to
be
,
Sauing
my
teeth
of
Iuory
:
Inuironed
with
a
curroll
fence
,
Which
breaths
more
sweet
then
frankinsence
That
might
delight
both
Gods
and
men
,
Much
more
thy selfe
,
what
saist
thou
then
?
Must
I
for
this
my
louely
browne
,
Haue
my
Loue
on
me
to
frowne
?
Are
not
mine
eyes
as
piercing
still
,
And
able
Marble
hearts
to
kill
?
Or
can
my
Loue
be
ere
the
lesse
,
My
minde
being
made
of
gentlenesse
?
Why
night
is
duskie
,
sable
blacke
,
Yet
no
beauti●us
starres
doe
locke
:
When
the
Moone
with
siluer
light
,
Gallops
through
the
thicke
fac'd
night
.
Venus
doth
loue
nights
brownest
howers
,
The
darkest
nookes
are
her
safe
bowers
,
Thickets
and
Forrestes
most
obscure
.
Yea
,
where
no
haunt
hath
been
in
vre
,
Thither
doth
she
most
repayre
,
Sooner
then
to
a
garden
faire
.
There
may
be
seene
the
liuely
sparke
,
That
s
best
discerned
in
the
darke
:
The
ball
that
in
a
bright
blacke
eye
,
Shines
like
a
Meteor
in
the
skie
.
There
browne
and
faire
are
both
as
one
,
When
two
sweet
soules
are
so
alone
:
Tell
me
then
(
Loue
)
in
such
a
night
,
Wouldst
thou
not
thinke
the
brownest
white
?
In
truth
,
it
is
not
lawfull
for
any
vpright
iudgement
to
perswade
it selfe
,
that
beauty
hath
any
perticuler
colour
,
a
proportion
definite
,
or
a
grace
imaginary
:
for
nature
(
the
soueraigne
worke-mistresse
of
all
beauties
,
hath
made
an
Ethiopian
or
Moore
perfectly
blacke
,
to
be
as
faire
as
the
whitest
in
our
Europe
.
And
the
reason
is
,
as
Auicen
affirmeth
,
because
she
would
haue
no
monster
in
nature
,
but
the
very
thing
that
her self
should
abhor
:
for
to
see
a
dogge
with
sixe
feete
,
a
calfe
with
two
heades
,
a
man
of
two
natures
,
or
a
woman
with
two
splenes
:
this
is
no
monstrousnes
,
but
rather
an
excellence
of
the
first
heate
,
whych
would
build
vp
many
thinges
in
that
moode
,
but
often
times
sets
downe
her
rest
vpon
one
,
and
yet
at
some
other
time
falles
to
plurality
.
Monsters
then
are
framed
of
thinges
dissemblable
to
theyr
kinde
,
and
sometimes
in
the
imagination
,
or
a
depraued
appetite
,
which
euer
more
is
contrary
to
nature
.
Empedocles
saith
thus
thereof
.
The
monster
takes
originall
,
From
seede
of
quite
contrary
kinde
▪
To
that
it
should
agree
withall
,
When
it
planting
first
did
finde
.
I
may
well-say
,
with
a
million
of
our
elders
,
that
there
is
sixe
and
thirty
seuerall
beauties
in
one
woman
,
and
hardly
any
one
in
a
man
:
for
he
is
the
true
anotomy
of
natures
imperfection
,
yea
,
the
very
Image
of
her
weaknesse
,
as
a
woman
may
iustly
tearme
her selfe
,
the
perfecte
mirrour
of
her
vertues
:
whereof
Plutarch
was
not
ignorant
when
he
said
.
If
nature
wish
her selfe
to
see
,
A
woman
then
her
glasse
may
be
.
Propertius
was
of
the
same
opinion
.
Is
women
not
a
miracle
?
Her
voice
a
perfect
oracle
?
Nay
,
is
she
not
a
deity
,
By
beauty
of
such
maiesty
?
Men
being
naturally
composed
of
all
corruption
take
no
delight
but
in
dessimulation
.
The
reason
is
,
because
Loue
and
Venus
withdrawing
once
from
mens
assembly
,
knowing
the
mallice
which
dayly
frequented
them
:
left
them
euen
so
to
their
fraudulent
complexions
,
and
gaue
them
the
gift
to
be
singuler
in
deceiuing
.
The
report
of
Anacreon
testifies
as
much
.
Beholde
the
Dolphins
how
they
play
,
And
on
their
siluer
finnes
conuey
:
Loue
and
Venus
naked
both
,
To
shield
them
from
the
great
vntroth
Of
men
most
flattering
and
vntrue
,
Let
still
deceite
false
hearts
pursue
.
Although
a
woman
were
indued
with
any
other
perfection
,
then
being
beautifull
,
or
admit
she
had
but
this
ornament
only
:
yet
that
alone
may
exalt
her
aboue
all
men
,
who
neither
are
faire
,
well
fauoured
or
good
,
nor
indeed
(
to
speake
the
truth
)
can
they
any
way
be
capable
of
apprehending
these
qualities
,
they
are
in
such
plenty
bestowed
vpon
women
.
The
holy
scripture
holds
womanhood
in
such
account
;
as
it
teacheth
vs
,
that
nothing
can
sooner
put
sadnesse
from
afflicted
mindes
,
then
the
sight
of
a
good
woman
:
euen
as
one
should
say
,
for
a
celestiall
remedy
,
because
a
husband
can
indeede
haue
greater
comfort
in
his
cares
,
The
Prophet
Dauid
,
euen
in
the
coldest
winter
of
his
age
,
hoped
for
such
consolation
by
beautie
,
as
he
made
choise
thereof
,
and
age
indeed
can
haue
no
better
corasiue
.
Timeus
,
Sticillianus
rehearseth
a
maruailous
historie
,
of
a
Shepheardesse
of
Affrica
,
who
in
the
daies
chiefest
heate
,
casting
off
her
garmentes
,
that
shee
might
bath
in
the
riuer
well
shadowed
from
the
Sunne
:
a
Lyon
comming
that
way
,
for
the
space
of
three
houres
stood
gazing
vpon
her
,
and
seemed
as
surprized
with
exceeding
contentment
.
The
poore
Virgin
was
in
wonderfull
feare
,
and
durst
not
come
to
her
cloathes
,
least
the
Lyon
should
deuour
her
:
but
growing
to
better
courage
in
the
end
,
hearing
the
noyse
of
certaine
Cammell
driuers
not
farre
off
:
betooke
her selfe
to
flight
,
naked
as
she
was
,
not
taking
so
much
as
her
smocke
with
her
;
which
the
Lyon
getting
vp
in
his
teeth
,
folowed
withal
,
and
laid
it
mildely
at
her
feet
,
fetching
afterward
all
her
other
garments
,
and
then
as
making
a
signe
of
obeysance
,
left
her
and
returned
among
the
woodes
,
to
her
no
little
ioy
,
finding
such
seruice
in
so
vnaccustomed
a
louer
.
Admetus
wife
was
of
such
admirable
beauty
,
as
the
Swannes
of
Meander
would
leaue
the
riuer
to
follow
her
,
and
pearch
many
times
vpon
her
shoulders
.
A
matter
very
strange
,
the
like
neuer
hapning
to
any
man
whatsoeuer
:
as
also
the
inconuenience
of
her
death
,
onely
for
deliueraunce
of
her
husband
,
hath
more
note
of
honour
;
piety
and
meritte
,
then
all
the
men
in
the
world
can
brag
of
any
vertue
,
in
those
thinges
which
moste
may
make
for
their
aduantage
.
For
shee
sacrificed
her selfe
willingly
,
to
redeeme
her
hasbandes
life
,
which
lessened
euery
day
by
mortall
langour
of
an
vlcer
,
that
poured
foorth
more
loathsome
and
filthy
stench
,
then
Augeus
stable
(
clensed
by
Hercules
)
could
compare
withall
.
All
which
notwithstanding
,
he
no
sooner
slept
,
but
shee
suckt
foorth
the
venome
,
paying
the
ransome
for
him
,
who
could
not
else
liue
,
but
by
losse
of
her
life
.
Cambles
the
Prince
of
Sardys
,
being
one
day
drunke
,
would
needes
kill
his
housholde
seruants
,
and
proceeding
so
farre
in
this
rude
determination
,
as
hee
had
compassed
the
issue
of
his
mercilesse
rage
,
eyther
by
fire
,
swoord
,
or
some
other
meanes
.
But
beautifull
Soclea
,
being
so
faire
as
any
woman
possible
could
bee
,
presented
her selfe
before
him
,
and
sweetly
taking
him
by
the
hand
,
made
him
on
a
sodaine
become
so
tractable
,
and
not
onely
he
desisted
from
further
assayling
them
,
but
forgot
likewise
that
hee
had
beene
in
any
such
fury
,
submitting
himself
mildely
and
gently
to
her
,
both
being
thus
recouered
of
his
drunkennes
and
fury
.
Womens
beauty
then
is
aboue
all
else
most
maruellous
:
It
is
the
excellencie
of
the
Diuine
workemanship
,
or
rather
the
chiefest
thing
of
his
heauenly
labour
:
It
is
the
modell
,
not
onely
of
thinges
that
beautifie
the
world
,
but
the
very
especiall
of
all
formes
:
It
is
the
table
of
the
celestiall
powers
:
the
gadge
of
natures
alliance
with
the
world
,
and
the
onelie
mirrour
of
perfect
Ideaes
:
briefly
,
it
is
that
which
I
cannot
worthily
enough
admire
,
and
therefore
am
the
more
vnable
to
describe
.
The
man
that
will
enter
but
into
consideration
thereof
,
shall
in
that
one
book
read
all
perfections
whatsoeuer
,
and
censuring
of
them
by
this
little
,
or
rather
no
part
thereof
at
all
:
will
vnfainedly
confesse
,
that
the
body
of
a
woman
is
a
true
Temple
,
and
her
soule
the
very
image
of
God
,
or
figure
of
his
blessing
.
He
will
say
,
himselfe
is
made
but
of
slime
and
dung
,
whereas
woman
was
formed
of
a
matter
otherwise
prepared
,
finished
in
a
happy
and
wel
ordered
substance
,
with
all
qualities
beseeming
a
most
perfect
creation
.
Hee
will
like
wise
confesse
,
that
woman
was
giuen
him
for
his
eternall
good
,
and
the
house
is
not
blessed
where
she
wanteth
.
By
her
is
this
huge
masse
subsisted
,
common
weales
made
immortal
,
citties
peopled
,
Realmes
strengthened
,
Kings
assured
,
and
subiects
maintained
.
By
her
it
is
,
that
we
liue
againe
in
our
children
,
posterity
haue
knowledge
of
vs
,
and
our
memory
is
continued
.
It
is
by
her
,
that
we
remember
our
houses
,
and
respect
our
families
.
By
her
wee
learne
to
growe
heedfull
,
she
makes
vs
quick
and
ready
,
she
ripens
our
lawfull
actions
,
and
drawes
vs
from
the
world
to
liue
in
her
company
:
as
in
a
schoole
of
pietie
,
modestie
,
and
iust
apprehension
of
following
accidents
,
wherein
(
else
)
we
should
but
little
differ
from
bruite
beasts
.
It
was
shee
that
had
her
birthe
in
the
terrestriall
Paradise
,
and
not
man
.
Last
of
all
,
she
is
our
meanes
of
comfort
to
God
the
Father
,
the
cause
of
his
blessings
to
vs
in
this
life
,
and
by
her
we
are
made
sure
of
all
happinesse
in
the
life
to
come
.
FINIS
.