The
Excellencie
of
good
Women
.
WHen
the
Deuil
at
the
first
began
his
temptation
in
Paradise
he
attempted
the
woman
,
telling
Her
she
wanted
but
one
thing
to
make
her self
like
God
:
I
would
be
loath
therefore
,
either
vaine
ly
to
magnifie
or
vily
to
imbase
the
dignitie
of
women
.
That
I
might
then
speake
of
this
subiect
without
partiallity
,
and
but
according
to
a
truth
,
I
will
not
implore
the
assistance
neither
of
Apollo
neither
of
Pallas
,
nor
yet
of
the
Muses
,
but
will
humbly
beseech
the
help
of
the
euer
liuing
God
.
For
the
woman
of
honest
life
,
glory
and
admiration
attends
on
her
,
it
is
therefore
euery
mans
part
not
onely
to
reuerence
her
,
but
also
to
defend
her
honour
and
estimation
.
But
the
better
to
make
tryal
of
womens
perfection
in
generall
,
let
vs
examine
their
first
creation
,
wherein
is
to
be
noted
the
substance
whereof
they
were
formed
which
was
of
the
purified
mettall
of
man
.
The
place
where
they
were
created
,
which
was
in
Paradise
.
The
time
of
the
creation
which
was
The
last
and
therfore
the
perfectest
handy
worke
of
the
Creator
.
The
cause
why
they
were
created
,
which
was
To
be
a
comfortable
assistant
to
man
,
that
a
man
by
marryage
of
a
good
woman
might
passe
through
the
laborsome
toyles
&
turmoyles
of
this
life
with
the
more
ease
,
hauing
so
good
an
assistant
to
the
which
doubtles
God
had
respect
when
he
said
It
is
not
good
for
man
to
liue
alone
,
let
vs
make
him
a
helper
.
To
this
the
Prophet
Malachy
doth
likewise
witnesse
when
he
saith
.
Though
God
at
the
first
had
abundance
of
spirit
yet
hee
made
but
one
woman
of
one
ribbe
for
the
helpe
and
comfort
of
one
man
.
Why
then
a
man
that
wanteth
a
friend
for
pleasure
a
seruant
for
profit
,
a
counsellour
to
aduise
him
,
a
conforter
to
cherish
him
,
a
companion
to
solace
him
,
a
helper
to
assist
him
,
or
a
spirituall
instructer
to
informe
him
,
a
good
&
a
vertuous
wife
doth
supply
all
these
occasions
And
therefore
I
thinke
there
is
neither
religion
nor
goodnes
in
that
man
,
that
loueth
not
an
honest
and
a
loyall
wife
.
Here
we
see
there
first
institution
,
&
where
vnto
they
were
made
,
but
if
I
should
now
take
vpon
me
to
speake
of
the
excellencie
of
those
women
that
haue
from
time
to
time
aspired
in
the
deepe
capacity
of
Arts
and
sciences
and
haue
so
sarr
exceeded
in
all
manner
of
knowledge
(
that
men
haue
not
onely
had
cause
to
praise
,
but
also
to
woonder
at
them
)
I
might
heape
together
a
greater
volume
then
euery
mans
leasure
would
serue
to
peruse
.
But
leauing
the
multitude
and
to
speake
but
of
some
very
fewe
that
are
regestred
in
histories
to
their
perpetual
praise
we
do
reade
of
Nicostrata
called
also
Carmenta
,
for
the
eloquence
she
had
in
versifying
,
of
Lasterna
&
Axi●thea
two
worthy
dames
most
highly
renowned
amongst
the
schollers
of
Plato
.
Of
Arath●a
that
wrot
forty
seuerall
bookes
,
who
read
openly
in
the
schooles
and
(
as
it
is
written
in
hystories
)
had
150.
Phylosophers
that
were
her
schollers
.
●her
is
yet
mention
made
of
Aspasia
that
instructed
Pericles
of
Lelia
Sabina
,
so
renowned
in
Rome
for
her
letters
of
Amatasnuta
,
&
others
like
learned
in
the
Latine
,
but
wherein
haue
women
beene
inferior
euen
to
the
best
men
,
If
we
should
looke
into
a
vertuous
life
who
more
famed
then
Aemelia
,
Claudia
,
Tusia
,
Nicaulia
?
for
gouerne
ment
,
who
more
prouident
then
Zenobia
;
for
wisdome
Saba
,
that
opposed
Solomon
;
for
actiuitie
in
warr
Pentasilea
,
for
poesie
Sapho
,
for
policie
Zoe
:
for
poetry
,
Thalia
,
for
rethoricke
Hilerna
;
for
oratory
Cornelia
,
for
eloquence
Hortensia
.
Let
vs
now
see
amongst
the
elymentall
goddes
is
there
not
for
matter
of
warre
aswell
the
goddesse
Bellona
,
as
the
god
Mars
?
for
science
and
wisdome
,
is
there
not
a
Pallas
aswell
as
Apollo
?
for
poesie
or
versifying
are
not
the
nine
Muses
as
famous
as
Phebus
?
Further
more
these
vertues
of
Iustice
Temperance
Fortitude
,
Patience
,
pitty
,
Mercy
,
Charitie
,
Humilitie
,
and
many
other
like
,
are
all
of
the
feminine
gender
,
yea
the
Church
of
God
is
compared
to
a
woman
and
figured
forth
in
femall
shape
.
But
leauing
hystories
that
are
infinit
in
example
of
womens
worthines
,
if
we
did
but
looke
into
euery
ordinary
kalender
,
we
should
finde
out
as
many
vigils
of
holy
women
,
as
feastes
of
deuout
men
.
By
this
we
may
see
the
Excellencie
of
good
women
;
that
were
neuer
yet
so
scarce
to
be
found
as
in
the
time
of
Elias
,
that
thought
him selfe
to
be
left
alone
to
serue
the
liuing
God
.
But
let
vs
yet
draw
nearer
to
this
confirmation
:
when
our
sauiour
himselfe
had
his
abode
here
vpon
the
earth
who
conspired
against
him
,
who
sought
to
persecute
him
,
who
tempted
him
,
who
condemned
his
doctrine
,
who
would
haue
stoned
him
,
who
sayd
he
had
a
Deuill
with
in
him
,
who
would
haue
intrapped
him
,
who
practised
his
death
?
none
but
men
Herod
Annas
Chaiphas
,
Scribes
Pharisees
vnbeleeuing
Iewes
,
yea
Iudas
himselfe
that
was
one
of
his
owne
Apostles
.
Now
contrary
wise
,
who
loued
him
most
intirely
who
imbraced
his
doctrine
,
who
confessed
him
to
be
a
Prophet
,
who
enterteyned
him
into
their
houses
,
who
ministred
vnto
him
euen
of
there
owne
substance
?
onely
women
,
Mary
,
Martha
,
the
woman
of
Samaria
,
Ionna
Susanna
,
and
many
others
.
It
was
a
woman
that
poured
a
box
of
precious
oyntment
on
his
head
,
they
were
men
that
murmured
against
it
and
were
offended
that
so
great
cost
was
bestowed
vppon
him
.
It
was
Pilate
a
man
that
condemned
Christ
,
and
deliuered
him
to
the
Iewes
to
be
crucified
:
It
was
his
wife
a
woman
,
that
willed
her
husband
To
haue
nothing
to
doe
with
that
Iust
man
.
They
were
men
that
caried
him
to
be
crucified
compelling
him
to
beare
his
owne
Crosse
,
they
were
women
that
followed
to
the
place
where
he
was
crucified
bitterly
weeping
and
lamenting
his
death
.
What
would
you
more
they
were
women
that
still
visited
his
sepulcher
after
his
buryall
,
and
it
was
a
woman
to
whom
he
first
appeared
after
his
resurrection
.
It
were
needles
to
in
large
any
further
how
many
worthy
women
haue
constantly
suffered
death
vnder
tyrantes
for
the
name
of
Christ
.
I
doe
not
inserte
these
presidentes
with
any
pretence
to
impeach
men
,
or
to
doe
them
wronge
,
but
according
to
a
testified
truth
,
to
do
women
right
.
And
yet
to
speake
truly
women
are
commonly
more
abstinent
from
all
manner
of
vncleanesse
then
men
either
are
the
most
of
them
curbed
in
with
any
other
bridle
then
what
they
willingly
put
vppon
them selues
.
And
that
is
the
zeale
of
vertue
and
the
desire
of
good
name
which
to
euery
honest
woman
is
more
precious
then
gold
or
siluer
or
any
other
gemme
.
It
grieueth
me
now
to
thinke
that
there
should
be
a
woman
found
,
to
be
accounted
dishonest
,
or
that
any
of
them
should
so
farre
stray
from
that
Excellencie
where
vnto
she
was
created
,
to
be
reputed
ill
.
And
yet
in
the
holy
scriptures
there
is
mention
made
aswell
of
a
Dalila
as
of
a
Debora
,
of
a
Iesabel
as
of
a
Iudith
.
And
it
is
impossible
indeed
,
that
any
good
should
be
without
the
commixture
of
ill
,
because
there
is
no
contrarie
without
his
contrary
,
there
could
be
no
right
if
there
were
no
wronge
.
And
what
were
health
if
there
were
no
sicknesse
,
what
happines
,
if
no
misaduenture
,
what
were
loue
if
there
were
no
hate
,
and
so
of
good
if
there
were
no
ill
.
And
as
a
discorde
many
times
maketh
the
musicke
to
be
the
more
sweete
,
so
the
woman
of
lewde
life
maketh
her
that
is
good
to
shine
the
more
glorious
.
There
be
a
number
of
women
in
these
dayes
that
of
my
conscience
are
both
good
and
honest
,
and
I
am
sure
that
they
themselues
are
desirous
so
to
be
acounted
,
and
yet
if
we
should
iudge
of
them
by
their
outward
show
,
as
they
vse
to
pranck
vp
them selues
in
their
light
and
gaudy
attire
we
shuld
iudge
them
to
be
more
Curtizan
like
then
euer
was
Lays
of
Corynth
or
Flora
of
Rome
.
It
is
a
hard
matter
therefore
in
this
age
to
distinguish
betweene
the
good
woman
and
the
bad
but
now
as
there
belonges
no
shame
to
him
that
in
wreathing
a
glorious
garland
,
is
sometimes
inforced
to
borowe
a
handfull
of
flowers
from
a
neighbours
garden
:
euen
so
,
to
adorne
the
subiect
that
I
haue
taken
in
hand
and
the
rather
to
beautifie
so
worthy
a
matter
,
I
haue
borrowed
the
helpe
of
a
learned
diuine
,
who
in
a
sermon
by
him
preached
in
the
praise
of
good
women
,
first
borrowed
his
text
out
of
the
booke
of
Prouerbs
the
3.
Chap.
and
the
14.
verse
where
Solomon
speaking
of
a
vertuous
woman
,
saith
she
is
like
a
marchantes
ship
&c.
If
their
be
any
therefore
that
will
presume
to
find
fault
with
this
description
now
ensuinge
,
or
that
will
thinke
the
prayses
that
are
giuen
to
those
women
that
are
good
,
are
ouer
exceedinge
,
or
the
dispraises
of
the
ill
are
too
reprehending
,
let
them
vnderstand
that
although
it
were
set
downe
by
the
hand
of
Solomon
,
a
man
(
yet
such
a
man
as
God
himselfe
had
approued
to
be
the
wisest
amongst
men
)
yet
it
was
the
finger
of
God
that
first
directed
it
;
who
by
the
hand
of
Solomon
hath
set
downe
the
true
notes
and
markes
whereby
to
distinguish
the
good
women
from
the
bad
,
the
vertuous
from
the
vicious
,
the
godly
from
the
vngodly
.
The
first
in
the
10
verse
of
the
foresaid
Chap.
of
a
vertuous
woman
he
saith
Her
price
is
farrnemore
precious
then
pearles
:
And
proceeding
still
in
her
praise
and
commendations
in
the
14.
verse
he
saith
she
is
like
a
marchants
shippe
.
He
first
prizeth
her
what
shee
is
worth
esteeming
her
to
be
more
precious
then
pearle
,
then
he
likeneth
her
to
what
she
doth
resemble
and
that
is
To
a
marchants
ship
.
And
as
he
setteth
downe
her
value
what
she
is
worth
and
her
resemblance
where
vnto
she
is
like
,
so
he
giueth
certaine
notes
and
knowledge
of
all
her
qualities
how
she
behaueth
her selfe
aswell
within
doore
as
without
,
and
first
towardes
her
husband
She
will
doe
him
good
and
not
euill
all
the
dayes
of
her
life
.
Then
he
giueth
other
notes
,
what
be
her
exercises
&
how
she
spendes
her
time
She
seeketh
wooll
and
flax
and
laboureth
cheerefully
with
her
hands
:
he
forgetteth
not
to
giue
vs
speciall
markes
of
her
speaches
,
whereunto
they
tend
and
how
she
behaueth
her selfe
in
her
owne
house
amongst
her
family
.
She
openeth
her
mouth
with
wisdome
,
the
law
of
grace
is
in
her
tongue
.
She
ouerseeth
the
wayes
of
her
houshoulde
and
eateth
not
of
the
breade
of
Idlenes
.
This
description
of
a
good
woman
thus
set
downeby
Solomon
,
was
not
done
without
great
consideration
for
he
thought
it
not
onely
necessary
to
shewe
what
she
is
but
also
where
vnto
she
is
like
,
that
we
might
the
rather
finde
her
out
by
some
sensible
resemblance
our
sauiour
Christ
vsed
the
like
when
he
resembled
his
Disciples
to
salt
and
sometimes
likeneth
himselfe
to
a
Vyne
,
to
a
Cornerstone
and
figureth
his
blessed
body
to
Breade
.
He
likeneth
the
kingdome
of
heauen
to
a
Husbandeman
,
to
a
Graine
of
mustardseed
,
to
Leauen
,
to
a
Nett
,
to
a
Marchant
,
to
a
King
and
all
these
with
many
other
like
,
thus
resembled
for
certeine
properties
and
similitudes
,
wherein
the
one
is
like
vnto
the
other
.
Now
a
good
woman
saith
Solomon
,
is
like
vnto
a
ship
:
but
what
shipp
?
Like
vnto
a
merchantes
ship
that
bringeth
in
.
The
Harlot
is
like
to
a
ship
too
,
but
not
like
a
marchantes
ship
,
but
in
truth
like
a
Pyrat
a
Rouer
,
a
Frebuter
and
like
such
a
ship
as
lieth
still
in
waite
for
rapine
and
for
spoyle
.
An
honest
tradinge
marchants
ship
is
farre
different
:
and
it
was
well
noted
by
him
that
hath
formerly
set
downe
the
wife
to
be
the
ship
,
and
the
husband
to
bee
the
marchant
,
and
the
husbands
word
to
be
the
Routher
to
the
shipp
,
by
the
which
she
must
be
turned
,
guided
and
directed
,
she
must
be
a
stirringe
ship
quicke
of
stirrige
,
ready
at
a
word
of
her
husband
,
she
must
not
be
immoueable
like
some
womenne
that
a
man
were
as
good
to
remoue
a
house
,
as
to
remoue
them
from
their
willes
,
but
a
good
woman
is
like
a
shipp
but
not
like
a
house
.
She
must
be
directed
by
discretion
,
and
still
shape
her
couse
both
by
compasse
and
by
carde
.
I
doe
not
meane
at
a
paire
of
playinge
cardes
:
for
she
that
directes
her
course
that
way
is
but
an
vnprofitable
ship
for
an
honest
trading
marchante
.
The
compasse
and
the
carde
that
an
honest
woman
is
to
vse
,
is
her
countenance
and
her
consideration
,
which
must
be
modest
and
vertuous
.
She
must
be
balanced
with
Sobrietie
and
Grauity
that
she
be
not
ouer
set
with
euery
light
puffe
of
winde
,
she
must
not
set
sayle
to
euery
gale
that
bloweth
,
but
to
the
winde
of
wisdome
,
the
winde
of
her
husbandes
breath
,
for
that
is
it
that
must
direct
her
in
her
right
course
;
shee
must
not
be
too
high
cargde
,
nor
to
tant
Masted
for
the
surest
safety
is
to
beare
a
lowe
sayle
.
She
must
not
sayle
but
by
leade
and
by
line
still
sounding
the
deapth
and
foreseeinge
the
danger
,
she
must
looke
out
for
Rockes
,
Flattes
,
Shelfes
and
Sandes
:
and
discouering
any
perill
within
her
kenning
to
giue
her
husband
warning
,
and
(
asmuch
as
in
her
lieth
)
to
helpe
him
to
avoyde
it
.
A
further
note
is
here
left
vnto
me
,
that
as
a
woman
is
thus
like
a
ship
considered
in
her
proper
vertues
,
so
she
is
likewise
compared
with
her
Owner
and
there
she
is
like
a
ship
indeed
,
for
who
so
euer
marries
a
wife
may
well
be
called
a
Merchant
venturer
,
for
he
makes
a
great
aduenture
that
adventures
his
credit
,
his
reputation
,
his
estate
,
his
quiet
,
his
libertye
,
yea
many
men
by
marriage
do
not
onely
aduenture
there
bodyes
but
many
times
their
soules
.
As
the
ship
her selfe
therefore
must
be
very
deliberatiue
,
and
neuer
sayle
but
by
sounding
,
lest
by
her
vnheedines
she
runs
her selfe
a
ground
:
so
he
that
goes
about
a
wife
had
neede
to
looke
aswell
about
him
,
least
hee
make
such
a
choice
that
for
one
daies
pleasure
,
he
doth
purchase
repentance
all
the
dayes
of
his
life
after
.
They
say
a
man
should
rather
chuse
a
wife
by
his
eares
then
by
his
eyes
,
but
for
those
that
will
needes
aduenture
of
such
women
as
haue
bene
notoriously
knowne
to
be
infamed
,
and
being
truly
informed
of
them
afore
hand
,
will
yet
needes
marry
them
,
they
are
like
the
foolish
Mariners
Act.
27.
who
because
they
tooke
not
counsayl
in
the
hauen
which
Paule
had
aduised
,
were
inforced
after
they
put
to
sea
to
resolue
vppon
a
wracke
.
A
marchantes
ship
to
be
acounted
well
conditioned
must
haue
many
qualities
:
but
I
say
he
is
but
a
desperate
marchant
that
will
aduenture
of
a
ship
that
is
not
stauch
Shee
is
not
a
good
marchants
ship
that
is
too
tender
sided
that
will
stoupe
to
euery
puffe
,
that
doth
but
beate
vppon
her
quarter
,
and
is
so
leward
,
if
she
doe
but
bite
a
little
at
a
Bouline
,
that
she
will
hould
no
course
but
with
the
winde
in
her
poope
.
All
these
be
ill
conditions
in
a
ship
but
especially
in
her
that
longes
to
a
marchant
.
It
is
the
property
of
a
good
ship
to
answere
her
Helme
readily
and
not
to
bee
heard
of
stirreage
but
to
feele
the
Routher
quickly
and
thereby
to
be
turned
,
ruled
and
directed
in
the
course
that
she
should
hould
,
for
that
ship
that
is
not
yeare
of
stirrage
is
apt
to
run
into
many
perils
euen
so
that
woman
that
is
not
ruled
by
her
husbandes
word
but
is
crosse
and
contrary
to
his
directions
is
a
dangerous
wife
and
runneth
her selfe
many
times
into
shame
and
infamy
.
But
a
good
woman
saith
Soloman
is
like
a
Marchants
ship
a
worthy
comēndation
:
And
although
the
wordes
haue
beene
many
times
repeated
yet
they
cannot
be
too
often
itterated
for
amongst
all
other
shippes
that
crosseth
the
seas
the
marchant
is
most
profitable
both
for
himselfe
and
his
country
,
for
she
is
a
ship
onely
for
trade
and
traffique
to
inrich
him
,
by
which
example
a
good
woman
is
taught
in
all
her
endeuours
to
respect
her
husbandes
profite
.
And
as
the
marchants
ship
is
thus
commodious
,
so
of
all
other
she
is
most
peaceable
vppon
the
sea
,
for
she
was
built
for
peace
and
not
for
warre
,
for
marchantes
are
in
nothing
more
sory
then
to
heare
of
warres
but
amongst
all
other
things
an
honest
true
trading
marchant
cannot
indure
to
heare
of
a
Pirate
,
that
liues
not
by
honest
traffique
but
by
common
spoile
,
and
as
the
ship
of
a
Pirate
,
(
which
is
the
true
resemblance
to
an
adultrous
woman
)
is
both
loathed
and
shunned
by
the
honest
trading
marchant
,
so
the
time
hath
beene
that
a
wicked
woman
wel
knowne
to
be
infamed
,
was
no
lesse
abhorred
by
those
that
were
honest
but
here
good
women
are
to
learne
,
that
a
marchant
will
in
no
wise
consort
nor
haue
to
doe
with
a
Pirate
,
but
as
he
doth
detest
and
abhorre
her
so
he
seeketh
by
all
possible
meanes
both
to
avoide
&
shunne
her
,
it
should
be
so
amongst
good
women
,
if
it
be
not
so
the
greater
is
her
blame
that
will
admit
of
a
C●rtizans
company
.
Againe
the
marchantes
ship
is
a
painefull
shippe
shee
must
not
be
still
ridinge
at
ancker
,
or
ready
to
runne
into
euery
porte
or
Hauer
,
but
as
she
must
be
obseruatiue
to
watch
both
wind
and
tide
so
to
winn
her
voiage
with
the
more
expedition
,
she
must
some
times
be
content
to
beat
it
out
at
the
sea
it self
although
but
with
a
bare
and
a
very
scant
gale
.
And
a
good
woman
is
laborious
,
like
the
marchantes
ship
that
seekes
to
bring
in
,
shee
bringeth
in
by
her
good
foresight
,
by
her
care
,
by
her
diligence
,
and
by
the
wisdome
of
her
gouernement
.
Shee
seeth
that
her
marchandize
are
good
,
her
candle
is
not
put
out
by
night
.
Shee
riseth
while
it
is
yet
night
and
giueth
the
portion
to
her
houshould
and
the
ordinary
to
her
maydes
.
She
putteth
her
fingers
to
the
wheele
and
her
handes
handle
the
spindle
.
pro.
3.
Now
a
good
sauer
is
not
onely
a
good
getter
but
like
wise
a
good
bringer
in
.
The
adultrous
woman
,
shee
bringeth
in
too
,
but
by
so
many
filthy
meanes
,
as
were
shamefull
to
be
set
downe
.
And
as
shee
bringeth
in
by
cosening
,
by
cheating
,
by
gaming
,
and
by
shiftinge
,
not
by
painefullnes
but
by
Idlenes
,
not
by
godlines
,
but
by
deuillishnes
,
so
shee
spendes
it
againe
as
shamfully
in
dyssolution
,
in
prodigalitie
,
in
pride
,
in
vanitie
iust
like
the
Pirate
,
that
when
she
hath
scoured
the
coast
,
and
committed
a
number
of
spoiles
with
as
many
passengers
as
she
meetes
she
consumes
it
againe
in
the
next
harbour
,
in
ryot
,
in
drunkennes
,
in
voluptuousnes
,
&
in
al
manner
of
extraordinary
beastlines
:
heere
is
yet
againe
to
bee
remembred
,
what
hath
beene
already
learnedly
taught
vs
out
of
this
text
of
scripture
,
for
heere
is
nowe
to
bee
considered
,
that
although
a
vertuous
woman
,
in
many
thinges
may
bee
resembled
to
a
ship
,
yet
there
be
some
particular
qualities
belonging
to
a
ship
,
that
a
good
woman
must
not
haue
and
that
is
,
one
shippe
may
belong
to
many
marchants
and
one
marchant
may
be
owner
in
many
ships
but
this
is
a
speciall
note
of
the
vnchast
woman
,
for
she
cries
still
the
more
the
merrier
:
a
marchant
,
neuer
sayleth
but
with
a
conuenient
company
no
more
then
will
suffice
to
handle
her
sayles
and
to
tackle
the
ship
as
necessitied
requireth
.
But
the
Pirat
,
is
still
double
and
treble
manned
,
yea
&
so
ouer
pestred
with
men
,
that
she
hath
more
then
she
is
well
able
to
stowe
:
And
all
this
she
vseth
as
well
for
offence
as
for
defence
and
against
none
so
much
as
against
the
most
honest
trading
marchant
.
So
the
adultrous
woman
doth
still
play
of
the
aduantage
,
and
she
shall
haue
tenne
for
one
to
take
her
part
against
any
woman
that
is
honest
.
Let
me
but
craue
pardon
to
set
downe
what
I
my selfe
haue
obserued
in
this
case
.
I
haue
seldome
seene
an
honest
woman
(
which
is
here
resembled
to
a
marchantes
ship
)
to
haue
many
friendes
to
〈◊〉
for
her
,
that
will
quarrell
for
her
,
that
will
fight
for
her
,
or
that
will
be
at
any
great
costes
&
charge
by
any
meanes
to
support
her
vnles
it
be
a
father
,
a
brother
,
a
kinsman
a
husbande
or
some
such
like
.
But
Thucidides
will
needes
approue
that
woman
to
be
most
honest
,
that
is
least
knowne
&
I
thinke
indeed
that
the
most
honest
woman
is
least
spoken
of
,
for
they
doe
please
the
least
in
number
,
and
vertue
was
neuer
graced
by
the
multitude
,
now
to
speake
mine
owne
knowledge
I
haue
not
heard
of
those
women
to
be
ouer
much
cloied
with
honesty
,
that
are
continually
frequented
with
comers
of
all
sortes
and
to
haue
adopted
fathers
adopted
brothers
,
adopted
sonnes
,
adopted
partners
,
adopted
seruantes
,
adopted
friendes
,
and
such
a
number
of
other
adopted
companions
as
those
women
of
approued
honesty
are
seldome
seen
to
be
acquainted
with
:
doe
you
aske
me
how
a
dishonest
woman
shuld
induce
this
large
acquaintance
.
The
lippes
of
a
harlot
(
saith
Salomon
)
drop
like
the
honny
combe
her
mouth
is
more
soft
then
oyle
but
her
ende
more
bitter
then
wormwoode
and
sharper
then
a
two
edged
sword
,
her
feete
goe
downe
to
deathe
and
her
steppes
do
lead
to
hell
pro.
5.
I
say
with
Salomon
,
beware
of
the
slightes
of
a
Harlot
,
she
hath
a
tongue
to
traine
,
eyes
to
allure
,
lookes
to
atract
,
teares
to
excuse
Smiles
to
flatter
,
Inticements
to
prouoke
,
Frownes
to
delay
,
Beckes
,
to
recall
,
Lippes
,
to
inchant
,
kisses
to
inflame
,
a
body
to
performe
,
and
all
these
to
poison
.
And
as
shee
inticeth
them
thus
by
her
slightes
so
shee
disperseth
them
againe
at
her
pleasure
,
for
some
shee
sends
to
the
phisition
to
seeke
for
helpe
,
some
to
the
spittle
that
are
past
cure
,
some
to
weeping
Crosse
to
bewaile
there
expences
,
some
to
the
prison
there
to
lie
and
languish
,
some
to
the
gallowes
to
ende
a
wretched
life
,
and
all
to
the
deuill
if
they
haue
not
grace
to
repent
in
time
.
These
wanton
countenances
,
these
immodest
behauiours
these
impudent
domeanures
be
they
not
allurements
to
make
themselues
knowne
,
if
in
steede
of
these
amarous
glances
,
these
yeelding
gestures
and
these
inticing
trickes
,
they
would
but
show
a
sober
demeanure
a
modest
regard
,
and
a
vertuous
disposition
these
lecherous
pigions
,
that
doe
so
much
followe
the
haunte
would
forsake
the
douehouse
.
O
how
many
worthy
women
are
their
now
in
this
age
,
that
might
giue
example
,
that
can
so
temper
themselues
in
all
their
enterteinementes
that
they
cut
of
all
hope
from
the
vicious
minded
.
The
vertuous
woman
girdeth
her
loynes
with
strength
(
saith
Salomon
)
that
is
,
she
setleth
her
mind
with
staiednes
and
continency
,
strength
and
honour
are
her
clothinge
and
in
the
latter
day
she
shall
reioice
but
for
the
harlot
she
wayteth
not
the
way
of
life
pro.
5.
We
may
see
here
the
difference
between
the
good
woman
and
the
bad
,
the
one
Salomon
cloatheth
with
honor
and
estimation
the
other
he
confineth
in
the
highe
way
of
death
.
There
is
now
one
other
qualitie
that
a
good
woman
must
in
no
wise
borrow
from
a
ship
and
that
is
too
much
rigginge
,
and
it
is
a
great
deale
of
charge
and
to
very
little
purpose
that
is
bestowed
on
some
ships
in
superfluities
in
the
paintinge
of
Caage
workes
like
the
painting
of
womens
faces
that
being
worne
of
with
wind
and
weather
leaues
loathsomnes
behind
to
those
that
do
behold
it
and
then
what
Flags
what
Ensignes
what
streamers
,
and
what
pendants
that
serueth
for
no
vse
but
for
pride
and
brauery
.
But
if
I
shuld
speak
of
the
vanities
that
are
vsed
amongst
a
great
many
of
women
now
a
dayes
perhaps
I
might
offend
some
and
I
would
be
glad
to
please
all
:
but
how
many
gentlemen
haue
consumed
them selues
by
vphoulding
their
wiues
pride
?
how
many
Lordships
are
sould
to
vphould
ladyships
?
and
what
is
it
that
doth
make
so
many
Cittizens
and
trades
men
,
so
commonly
to
play
Banckrout
,
but
the
excessive
pride
that
is
vsed
by
their
wiues
.
By
this
pride
of
women
Hospitalitie
is
eaten
vp
and
good
houskeeping
is
banished
out
of
the
country
and
how
many
Items
are
still
brought
in
for
the
bodyes
excesse
without
any
consideration
of
the
poore
soules
nakednes
.
But
me
thinkes
it
could
not
be
ill
taken
for
me
to
set
downe
how
the
Prophet
Esay
dallies
with
the
wanton
gestures
of
the
vaine
women
that
were
in
his
daies
at
their
stretched
out
neckes
their
wandering
eyes
,
their
walkinge
and
their
mincinge
as
they
goe
in
the
streetes
.
Then
he
setteth
downe
a
whole
Royall
Exchange
ful
of
vanities
,
so
many
to
be
rehearsed
as
I
will
forbeare
at
this
time
to
deliuer
,
they
that
are
desirous
to
knowe
them
,
let
them
looke
into
the
3.
of
Esay
from
the
16.
to
the
24
verse
where
they
shall
finde
that
the
wanton
disposed
women
that
were
in
that
age
hath
left
presidents
to
those
that
are
inclined
to
lightnes
now
.
It
hath
been
a
question
,
whether
chastity
ioyned
with
vanity
,
doth
deserue
any
commendations
,
but
I
will
not
dispute
,
because
I
will
not
offend
:
yet
I
doe
thinke
that
this
ouermuch
affected
folly
doth
liue
with
no
lesse
susspected
honesty
.
Shee
is
an
ill
huswife
therefore
of
her
credite
and
reputation
,
that
will
doe
any
thing
,
to
bring
it
into
construction
,
that
will
giue
any
signes
or
shewes
of
lightnes
,
whereby
shee
may
be
suspected
,
because
a
woman
that
is
once
tainted
in
her
honour
,
must
be
driuen
to
a
harde
course
of
recouery
she
must
rubbe
of
the
skinne
to
wipe
out
the
spot
.
Now
besides
this
garishnes
in
apparell
what
are
these
paintinge
of
shameles
faces
,
this
audacious
bouldnes
in
company
,
these
impudent
gestures
without
modesty
these
wanton
lookes
,
these
inticing
showes
,
what
are
these
and
many
other
thinges
that
might
be
yet
spoken
of
but
the
vauntcurrers
of
adultry
.
There
is
mention
made
of
a
cannon
in
the
ciuill
lawe
where
it
was
ordeyned
that
if
a
man
did
offer
violence
to
any
woman
were
she
neuer
so
vertuous
or
honest
,
yet
atired
like
a
strumpet
,
she
had
no
remedie
against
him
by
lawe
.
But
this
excesse
that
is
now
vsed
in
apparell
doth
certainly
bring
three
thinges
with
it
the
first
,
Offence
to
God
the
second
,
It
giueth
hope
to
the
vycious
,
and
thirdly
It
bringeth
destruction
to
the
husbande
.
But
the
vertuous
woman
houldeth
it
a
matter
of
conscience
,
to
attyre
her selfe
no
more
costly
then
may
well
stand
with
her
husbandes
estate
and
abilitie
,
she
is
loath
to
bring
him
into
debt
or
to
set
him
on
the
score
for
her
pride
and
brauery
.
She
doth
her
husband
good
,
and
not
euill
,
all
the
dayes
of
her
life
,
sayth
Salomon
.
But
she
doth
her
husband
little
good
that
maketh
him
to
hange
on
the
score
,
aswell
to
his
owne
hinderance
as
to
the
vndoinge
of
other
men
,
and
but
to
maintaine
and
vphould
her
pride
.
But
as
the
sinne
of
Adam
beganne
at
Eue
,
so
the
ruine
the
confusion
the
extortion
the
oppression
yea
and
the
sacriledge
of
many
a
man
begins
at
the
pride
of
his
wife
.
Euery
Lady
of
the
Lake
,
if
her
husband
haue
no
tennantes
of
his
owne
to
gripe
and
wringe
yet
if
he
can
but
creepe
into
an
office
,
or
haue
any
thing
to
do
in
the
common
wealth
he
must
prigge
,
he
must
proule
,
he
must
catch
,
scrape
and
scratch
(
by
all
shifting
meanes
)
to
maintaine
his
wiues
pride
and
licentious
manner
of
life
.
Cornelius
Tacitus
in
his
Annals
maketh
mention
how
the
Romans
,
when
they
vsed
to
send
any
officers
,
or
other
ministers
with
authority
into
any
of
their
Prouinces
,
they
would
not
suffer
them
to
carry
their
wiues
with
them
;
A
reason
is
rendred
,
because
in
the
time
of
peace
,
women
doe
allure
and
corrupt
the
manners
of
men
,
by
their
pride
and
vanity
,
&
many
times
by
their
inticing
prouocations
the
course
of
iustice
is
checked
and
peruerted
,
and
most
iniurious
wrongs
committed
:
and
in
the
time
of
warre
,
they
do
hinder
the
seruice
by
their
temerity
and
feare
.
And
it
hath
many
times
fallen
out
,
that
whe●
after
accountes
haue
beene
taken
of
those
that
haue
bin
thus
authorised
,
there
hath
more
shamefull
matter
appeared
against
those
that
haue
extorted
,
bribed
,
and
exacted
,
by
the
instigation
of
women
to
maintaine
their
pompe
&
pride
,
then
could
be
approued
to
proceed
by
any
other
occasion
.
It
is
written
of
Epaminundas
,
the
great
commander
in
the
Athenyan
warres
,
who
hauing
committed
to
prison
a
base
fellow
,
euicted
for
his
loose
and
lasciuious
manner
of
life
,
was
solicited
by
Polip●●ia●
a
captaine
that
●●dd
longe
time
beene
a
seruitour
vnder
Epaminundas
for
his
inlargement
,
but
Epaminundas
that
was
highly
displeased
with
this
Base
conditioned
fellow
,
would
in
no
wise
be
wone
to
set
him
at
liberty
,
till
in
the
ende
a
wom●n
that
was
openly
knowne
to
be
a
common
Curtizan
,
vnder
tooke
the
suite
who
comming
to
Epaminundas
she
obtained
his
liberty
,
and
had
the
prisoner
presently
deliuered
vnto
her
,
which
being
vnderstood
by
Polipodias
,
in
an
angry
fit
hee
chalenged
Epaminundas
of
great
vnkindnes
that
would
deny
him
so
slender
a
suite
,
and
would
surrender
to
a
woman
so
generally
infamed
;
to
whom
Epaminundas
said
.
Content
thy selfe
Polipodias
,
for
if
thou
couldest
aduisedly
consider
of
the
matter
,
thou
wouldest
not
let
to
confesse
that
the
suite
was
fitter
to
be
granted
to
a
Curtizan
then
to
a
Captaine
.
By
this
I
do
note
the
impudency
of
these
common
creatures
,
that
dare
insinuate
themselues
into
any
presence
,
be
they
neuer
so
great
nor
neuer
so
good
and
dare
aduenture
to
vndertake
any
suite
be
it
neuer
so
base
or
neuer
so
shamefull
,
and
by
this
againe
I
doe
further
gather
,
that
this
kind
of
cattle
shall
preuaile
,
when
those
that
be
honest
shall
haue
a
deniall
,
I
am
afraid
there
be
too
many
of
these
women
suiters
in
these
dayes
if
all
were
knowne
.
But
to
speake
yet
a
little
of
the
pride
of
these
times
I
might
bouldly
avouch
,
there
is
more
treasure
spent
and
consumed
in
that
onely
sinne
then
would
serue
to
support
an
army
in
the
field
.
The
summes
were
infinite
to
be
set
downe
that
are
spent
in
vanities
,
but
if
I
shoulde
speake
of
the
vanities
in
a
particular
manner
,
it
were
out
of
mine
eliment
,
my
wits
would
not
serue
me
.
But
alas
for
pitty
,
how
woe begone
is
that
poore
woman
,
that
is
out
of
the
Taylers
trim
,
that
is
out
of
the
Imbroiderers
trim
,
that
is
out
of
the
Haberdashers
trim
:
but
shee
that
is
out
of
the
Atiremakers
trim
,
shee
is
ashamed
to
shew
her
face
,
shee
thinkes
her selfe
vnfitt
to
conuerse
with
honest
company
.
And
there
is
no
remedy
,
but
my
Lady
must
be
coacht
she
can
not
go
to
church
to
serue
God
without
a
coach
:
shee
that
her selfe
and
her
mother
before
her
,
haue
trauailed
many
a
myle
a
foote
,
can
not
nowe
crosse
the
breadth
of
a
streete
,
but
shee
must
haue
a
coach
:
I
would
not
debarre
those
Ladies
or
Gentlewomen
,
of
any
thing
that
might
eyther
ease
or
please
them
:
those
(
I
meane
)
that
from
there
infancy
haue
beene
trained
vp
by
there
able
and
worthy
parentes
,
in
a
more
dainty
and
delicate
manner
,
then
those
other
againe
that
neuer
knewe
what
gentilitie
ment
,
for
I
make
great
difference
betweene
her
that
hath
beene
nurtured
vp
in
vertue
,
in
sobrietie
,
in
modesty
,
and
in
the
feare
of
God
,
from
her
that
had
no
better
tuteringe
then
in
seruitude
,
and
in
those
base
functions
,
that
they
do
but
be
durty
a
dignitie
that
is
bestowed
vppon
them
who
knowinge
themselues
to
be
but
Home
Spunne
Cloath
would
yet
be
reputed
to
be
of
Scarlet
die
.
It
is
truth
,
nature
is
sometimes
holpen
by
Arte
but
those
creatures
are
made
vnperfect
aswell
by
nature
as
by
traininge
vp
:
and
how
education
is
able
to
alter
,
wee
haue
beene
taught
long
sithens
by
Licurgus
whelpes
.
Those
women
that
be
of
highe
parentage
,
and
honorable
education
,
being
from
there
infancy
trained
vp
in
a
discipline
more
noble
and
excellent
,
they
cannot
in
common
iudgement
,
but
proue
more
admirable
aswell
in
the
beauty
of
the
body
,
as
in
the
giftes
of
the
minde
.
Where
the
other
againe
of
base
education
that
haue
not
●ad
there
mindes
manured
with
discipline
nor
themselues
trained
vp
in
the
studye
of
knowledge
they
must
be
therefore
the
more
imperfect
,
but
especially
in
those
thinges
that
should
beautifie
the
mind
.
A
further
note
is
yet
left
vnto
me
,
that
as
hee
is
not
to
be
accounted
the
best
marchant
to
the
common
wealth
which
bringeth
in
toyes
and
trifles
,
and
such
other
fantasies
as
are
both
vaine
and
needles
,
but
that
bringeth
in
such
commodities
as
may
best
serue
necessitie
,
neither
is
she
alwayes
the
best
wife
that
is
must
adorned
with
new fangled
vanities
,
but
she
that
indeuoureth
most
to
doe
that
which
is
most
needfull
.
And
as
those
shippes
that
are
sometimes
the
fairest
to
showe
,
are
not
alwayes
the
fittest
for
vse
,
neither
are
those
women
the
more
to
be
esteemed
,
but
much
the
rather
to
be
suspected
that
do
prank
vp
themselues
with
too
many
murlimues
.
Yet
in
great
and
worthy
persons
,
such
as
are
of
abilitie
and
estate
,
the
vse
of
ornamentes
are
not
condemned
for
silke
and
siluer
and
gold
it selfe
were
created
by
the
liuinge
God
and
not
onely
for
his
owne
glory
but
likewise
for
necessities
sake
,
and
may
well
be
vsed
by
good
and
godly
persons
.
It
is
written
of
the
daughter
of
Augustus
when
on
a
day
being
attired
aboue
her
accustomed
modesty
,
whereat
her
father
taking
no
great
pleasure
,
yet
for
the
present
gouerninge
his
iudgement
with
silence
till
the
next
day
when
finding
her
in
habit
more
conuenient
to
his
liking
O
(
said
he
)
how
farre
more
seemely
is
this
attyre
for
the
daughter
of
Augustus
,
then
that
which
shee
ware
but
yesterday
,
somuch
to
the
disguising
of
nature
:
to
whom
shee
aunswered
(
and
that
with
reuerence
)
then
sir
,
I
vsed
my
time
to
please
my
husband
,
and
now
I
stand
to
satisfie
my
duty
towardes
my
father
.
The
like
example
was
vsed
by
that
vertuous
woman
Hester
,
when
shee
protested
to
God
that
the
sumptuous
attyre
which
sometimes
she
vsed
,
carryed
no
other
purpose
then
to
feede
the
likinge
of
that
great
kinge
Assuerus
,
that
had
chosen
her
for
his
owne
.
And
Iudeth
,
when
shee
stripped
her selfe
out
of
her
sackcloath
,
into
more
glorious
garmentes
,
and
decked
herselfe
with
so
many
rich
ornamentes
,
was
it
for
any
other
cause
then
to
performe
a
seruice
to
the
glory
of
God
.
It
is
not
the
Frocke
,
therefore
that
maketh
the
Frier
the
more
deuout
,
nor
the
garmentes
of
euery
woman
a
true
confirmation
of
incontinency
of
life
.
This
therefore
may
well
be
avowed
by
the
rules
of
Christian
sobrietie
,
that
a
woman
,
neither
exceeding
the
decency
of
fashion
,
nor
going
beyond
the
limites
of
her
owne
estate
,
nor
surpassing
the
boundes
of
her
husbands
calling
,
I
do
not
thinke
but
such
a
woman
may
weare
any
thinge
.
Prouided
alwayes
,
that
shee
braues
it
not
out
with
other
mens
goodes
,
that
shee
hanges
not
in
the
Mercers
bookes
,
in
the
Goldsmithes
bookes
,
in
the
Taylers
booke
,
maintaininge
her
pride
with
other
mens
purses
like
Aesops
Iay
,
that
deckt
her selfe
with
other
birdes
feathers
This
beauty
which
is
so
much
esteemed
amongst
women
should
be
a
Looking
glasse
,
whereby
we
might
a
farre
off
,
display
the
Maiesty
of
the
creator
,
and
from
thence
should
passe
with
the
winges
of
our
cogitations
to
the
contemplation
of
the
highest
fayre
,
which
is
the
inuisible
beautie
of
the
almightie
God
,
from
whence
as
from
a
fountaine
all
smaller
riuers
deriue
their
beauties
.
And
as
beauty
is
a
blessing
to
a
woman
,
so
shee
should
learne
of
her
mother
nature
to
hide
it
,
who
couereth
euery
faire
&
precious
thing
vnder
shelles
barkes
rockes
yea
and
in
bottomles
deapthes
,
and
not
to
lay
it
open
as
a
thing
common
.
Precious
thinges
are
not
euery
day
set
to
open
sale
,
and
beautie
layeth
open
her
riches
,
not
onely
in
the
Eliments
,
but
likewise
in
the
compounds
,
not
only
on
the
superficiall
partes
of
the
Earth
,
but
euen
within
the
bowels
thereof
where
shee
hordeth
them
vp
as
in
a
safe
treasury
:
the
beautie
of
the
minde
is
much
more
worth
then
the
beauty
of
the
body
,
the
inuisible
of
better
esteeme
then
the
visible
.
A
beautifull
woman
knowinge
her
owne
perfection
▪
should
so
much
the
rather
guide
her selfe
by
the
zeale
of
honour
and
the
bridle
of
shamefastnes
,
and
not
to
violate
so
vnspeakable
a
treasure
with
any
signes
or
showes
of
immodestie
.
A
beautifull
woman
being
robbed
and
spoyled
of
those
excellent
ornamentes
of
Modestie
,
and
Bashfullnes
,
shee
remaines
naked
both
in
price
and
honour
and
is
so
much
the
more
to
be
hated
and
detested
.
The
beautie
of
the
body
,
is
but
a
sliding
shadow
that
quickly
vanisheth
away
,
wee
should
therefore
turne
our
eyes
to
the
beautie
of
the
minde
which
is
indeed
,
the
soueraigne
light
that
is
free
from
all
chaunge
.
If
beautie
it selfe
be
thus
vaine
and
brittle
,
what
is
then
this
borrowed
beautie
.
and
first
how
many
vices
are
hidden
vnder
these
pai●ted
faces
,
what
deformitie
couered
with
vailes
&
masks
,
what
crooked
minds
vnder
streightned
bodyes
,
what
violating
of
honour
vnder
counterfeit
sh●wes
of
comlines
neither
can
it
bee
called
,
a
naturall
or
bodyly
beautie
in
them
,
who
hauing
torne
the
sanctified
vailes
of
shamefastnes
haue
offered
the
vse
of
their
intemperate
bodies
to
common
prostitution
(
though
not
verbally
in
wordes
)
yet
vnder
the
showes
of
their
gaudy
and
garish
attyres
.
For
this
painting
of
faces
,
I
thinke
it
exceedes
so
much
the
more
in
many
women
to
please
the
eyes
of
men
which
they
thinke
are
the
sooner
drawne
to
a
liking
by
some
appearing
beauty
wherein
they
somtimes
exceede
so
farre
,
that
in
steade
of
making
themselues
louely
,
they
many
times
become
loathsome
and
odious
,
not
onely
in
the
conceiptes
of
all
honest
men
,
but
euen
to
those
to
whom
they
be
most
desirous
to
please
and
content
.
But
shee
that
is
not
ashamed
to
falsisie
those
exterior
partes
of
the
body
is
much
to
be
suspected
that
shee
will
make
little
conscience
to
adulterate
the
inward
beauty
of
the
mind
▪
how
many
women
are
there
in
these
dayes
that
do
imploy
all
there
studdies
and
bend
their
whole
indeuours
,
but
onely
to
the
adorninge
of
there
bodyly
beautie
,
as
if
they
had
beene
created
by
God
,
but
onely
to
make
themselues
appeare
to
be
gaye
and
beautifull
.
And
how
many
worthy
women
be
there
againe
in
these
dayes
in
whom
the
outward
beauties
of
ther
bodies
do
but
expresse
the
inward
beautie
of
the
mindes
.
Nature
hath
ordained
in
all
good
and
vertuous
women
this
affection
of
shame
fastnes
,
which
serueth
as
a
restraint
to
withhould
them
from
those
artificiall
abillimentes
that
doe
either
smell
of
vanitie
,
or
breed
suspect
of
honesty
:
for
Bashfulnes
is
it
that
moderates
there
thoughtes
,
makes
them
modest
in
their
speaches
,
temperate
in
their
actions
,
and
warie
in
all
their
deliberations
.
The
blush
of
a
womans
face
is
an
approbation
of
achast
and
honorable
minde
,
and
a
manifest
signe
,
that
shee
doth
not
approoue
any
intemperate
actions
,
or
any
other
lasciuious
speeches
,
and
demeanours
that
are
either
offered
to
herselfe
,
or
to
any
in
her
presence
.
The
woman
that
hath
forgotten
to
blush
,
it
is
an
argument
,
shee
is
past
grace
,
for
Shamefastnes
is
not
onely
a
bridle
to
sinne
,
but
it
is
likewise
the
common
treasury
of
feminine
vertue
.
We
haue
hitherto
heard
,
that
a
woman
is
likened
to
a
ship
,
the
vertuous
to
a
ship
of
marchants
:
the
vicious
to
a
pirate
or
a
robber
:
&
there
are
many
things
that
are
like
the
one
the
other
,
but
euery
similitude
is
not
the
thing
it self
that
it
resembleth
the
Deuill
is
like
an
Angell
of
light
,
and
copper
is
like
gold
,
yet
all
is
not
gold
that
glistereth
,
and
if
euill
women
were
not
sometimes
like
to
good
,
which
indeed
they
be
not
,
they
could
not
deceiue
so
many
men
as
they
doe
.
Let
vs
now
see
likewise
what
the
vertuous
woman
doth
,
for
being
,
is
knowne
by
doing
as
the
tree
is
knowne
by
his
fruite
.
Shee
seeketh
woolle
and
flaxe
,
and
laboureth
,
shee
putteth
her
handes
to
the
wheell
&c
,
Solomon
pointed
her
a
house-worke
it
should
seeme
,
shee
must
not
be
a
gadder
about
the
streetes
but
a
Home
huswife
:
&
although
her
degree
be
such
,
that
shee
putteth
not
her selfe
to
bodily
labour
,
yet
Shee
ouer
seeth
the
wayes
of
her
houshould
,
she
must
see
to
her
children
her
seruantes
and
her
family
.
And
a
vertuous
woman
though
shee
bringe
in
nothinge
that
is
of
her
owne
earning
,
gotten
with
her
owne
handes
,
yet
(
as
it
hath
beene
worthily
noted
)
great
thinges
comes
in
by
her
:
shee
bringeth
in
by
her
diligence
,
by
her
wisdome
by
her
gouernement
and
by
her
good
foresight
shee
bringeth
in
with
her
eye
.
The
Harlot
is
of
an
other
condition
,
for
shee
rather
seeketh
to
spend
in
vanity
,
then
to
bring
in
honestly
,
and
what
is
lewdly
gotten
is
commonly
as
lewdly
spent
.
As
the
certaine
markes
of
a
vertuous
woman
,
is
to
be
a
good
huswife
,
and
to
keepe
her
owne
house
,
so
one
other
especiall
note
of
the
adulterous
woman
is
:
Her
feete
cannot
abide
in
her
house
,
but
now
shee
is
without
now
in
the
streete
,
and
lies
in
waite
at
euery
corner
:
Pro.
7.
A
dishonest
woman
is
hardly
kept
within
her
owne
house
,
but
shee
must
be
a
ramping
,
and
a
roysting
about
to
make
herselfe
knowne
:
but
it
shoulde
seeme
by
the
processe
of
the
text
,
Gen.
31.
that
Iacobs
wiues
,
Rahell
and
Leah
,
were
none
of
these
fisking
dames
,
that
did
vse
to
runne
about
to
seeke
out
acquaintance
:
for
although
Iacob
himselfe
kept
the
fieldes
amongst
the
cattle
,
yet
his
wiues
were
still
abiding
in
their
fathers
house
,
for
when
Iacob
was
warned
by
God
,
to
make
his
returne
amongst
his
owne
kinred
:
He
sent
and
called
Rahell
and
Leah
to
the
fieldes
vnto
his
flocke
:
he
sent
,
and
the
messenger
founde
them
,
for
they
were
not
to
seeke
,
but
the
pathes
of
a
Harlot
are
moueable
,
they
are
hard
to
be
found
(
sayth
Solomon
)
It
was
not
so
with
them
,
for
they
were
not
so
sodainely
sent
for
,
but
they
were
as
readily
found
,
and
came
away
with
as
great
speede
:
and
such
expedition
was
made
by
their
willing
readines
,
that
Laban
followed
seuen
dayes
iourny
,
before
he
could
ouertake
them
.
By
this
it
might
appeare
,
that
Iacobs
two
wiues
Rahell
and
Leah
,
were
no
gadders
amongst
their
gossips
:
onely
Iacobs
daughter
Dinah
,
in
a
gadding
iourny
to
take
the
gaze
,
made
an
ill
voyage
and
came
home
with
shame
enough
.
And
Iacob
himselfe
,
though
he
were
a
good
man
,
yet
hee
had
his
infirmities
,
for
as
hee
loued
one
wife
better
then
an
other
:
so
he
loued
one
sonne
more
dearely
then
an
other
,
which
amongst
the
rest
of
his
children
caused
that
malice
and
despite
,
as
might
haue
cost
the
life
of
Ioseph
.
And
as
Iacob
was
not
free
from
these
infirmities
,
so
he
was
subiect
to
other
seuerall
crosses
:
first
Laban
beguileth
him
:
then
his
most
dearly
beloued
wife
,
was
a
long
time
barren
:
his
sonne
Ruben
defileth
his
bed
,
&
committeth
incest
with
Bilhah
,
his
daughter
Dinah
was
rauished
in
the
idle
iourny
shee
made
to
visite
the
daughters
of
a
strange
people
.
But
if
I
should
speake
of
the
disorders
of
his
children
in
generall
,
I
might
amplifie
much
more
then
properly
belongeth
to
the
subiect
that
I
haue
taken
in
hand
:
but
these
are
examples
for
our
learning
,
to
teach
vs
to
walke
warily
,
and
to
be
very
circumspect
how
we
gouerne
our selues
in
the
affayres
of
this
vncertaine
world
,
where
our
affections
are
apt
and
ready
to
leade
vs
astray
.
The
matter
that
I
would
make
euident
is
,
that
the
holiest
men
may
sometimes
be
wronged
by
a
disloyal
wife
:
and
heere
is
yet
a
further
note
to
be
obserued
:
for
Rahel
and
Leah
that
had
beene
trayned
vp
in
a
generous
manner
by
Laban
their
father
,
(
and
were
both
of
them
aswel
perfected
by
nature
as
by
nurture
)
continued
the
honor
and
dignity
of
their
sexe
to
their
dying
day
;
but
Bilhah
that
was
a
woman
of
a
more
seruile
estate
and
condition
,
shee
wronged
Iacob
,
defiling
his
bedde
with
one
of
his
owne
sonnes
:
the
hystory
is
very
well
knowne
,
and
by
the
circumstances
wee
may
boldly
conclude
,
that
whatsoeuer
hee
bee
,
that
will
take
such
a
wife
as
hath
beene
trayned
vp
in
a
base
education
,
let
him
be
sure
shee
will
shew
her selfe
no
lesse
base
in
condition
.
But
to
returne
to
our
former
purpose
,
we
haue
heard
that
the
woman
of
honest
life
,
keepeth
her
owne
house
:
Shee
ouer
seeth
the
wayes
of
her
houshold
,
but
the
other
,
her
feete
can
not
abide
in
her
house
:
but
shee
sitteth
in
her
doores
,
inticing
the
passers
by
,
to
enter
,
but
her
guests
that
goe
in
are
in
the
depth
of
hell
.
Pro.
9.
Depart
from
her
therefore
,
thou
that
are
wise
,
keepe
thy selfe
aloofe
from
her
,
and
come
not
neare
the
doores
of
her
house
Amongst
these
instructions
thus
left
vnto
vs
,
there
is
yet
one
other
note
set
downe
by
Solomon
,
what
the
vertuous
woman
doth
:
She
eateth
not
the
bread
of
idlenes
.
To
speake
truly
,
shee
that
is
so
negligent
to
looke
into
her
houshold
affaires
,
that
her
diligence
doth
not
counteruaile
her
meate
,
shee
is
vnworthy
to
eate
at
all
,
but
our
women
now
are
growne
to
bee
so
dainty
mouthed
,
that
the
ordinary
foode
that
their
mothers
were
brought
vpp
withall
,
is
nowe
become
too
base
for
the
daughters
.
All
must
bee
dainty
,
though
sometimes
creditors
do
wring
for
it
,
yea
,
and
their
owne
husbands
sometimes
for
company
:
like
Eue
the
wife
of
Adam
,
who
amongst
all
the
trees
in
paradise
,
none
woulde
serue
,
but
that
which
was
her
husbands
bane
.
I
do
not
speake
against
Hospitality
,
or
good
housekeeping
:
for
bounty
is
neuer
repugnant
to
honesty
,
but
doth
alwayes
rather
accompany
it
.
The
matter
that
I
reprehend
,
is
this
prodigall
nicity
,
that
is
good
for
nothing
,
vnlesse
to
verifie
the
prouerbe
,
Farre
fetcht
and
dear●
bought
is
good
for
Ladies
.
These
womens
mindes
that
are
not
ruled
by
the
bridle
of
Shamefastnes
,
they
doe
set
their
whole
desires
of
those
things
which
doe
best
befit
their
owne
pleasures
and
delightes
,
and
doe
hunt
after
nothing
else
,
but
after
such
things
as
doe
giue
way
to
their
owne
contents
,
and
that
is
,
to
loue
variety
aswell
in
meates
,
as
in
all
other
things
,
to
desire
nouelties
,
to
follow
delicacies
,
and
are
common
guestes
at
banquets
,
and
are
apt
and
ready
to
frequent
tables
,
that
be
furnished
and
pestred
with
too
many
superfluities
:
the
which
doe
naturally
incline
to
concupiscence
,
for
this
diuersity
of
nourishing
meates
(
being
so
much
the
more
increased
by
sweet
and
pleasing
odours
and
perfumes
)
it
carries
them
headlong
to
the
highest
degree
of
Intemperance
:
for
where
Sense
beareth
sway
,
and
without
the
Curbe
or
Bridle
of
Vertue
,
is
made
predominant
:
there
Reason
is
made
a
Slaue
,
and
is
ledd
into
a
delight
some
kinde
of
Lethargie
,
to
the
end
it
should
not
be
able
to
discerne
that
error
.
Such
is
the
way
of
an
adulterous
woman
(
sayth
Solomon
)
shee
eateth
and
wipeth
her
mouth
,
and
sayth
,
I
haue
committed
no
iniquity
.
Me
thinkes
Solomon
in
these
words
,
hath
painted
out
the
perfect
picture
of
a
harlot
,
as
shee
sitteth
at
her
table
.
Shee
eateth
and
wipeth
her
mouth
,
and
sayth
,
I
haue
committed
no
iniquitie
.
Shee
eateth
,
but
not
of
the
labour
of
her
handes
,
or
of
her
owne
honest
indeuours
:
but
shee
eateth
the
bread
of
idlenes
,
and
not
of
idlenes
alone
,
but
of
that
which
is
brought
in
by
sinne
,
by
wickednes
,
by
deceipt
,
and
many
times
,
by
filthy
abhomination
.
Yet
shee
sitteth
and
simpereth
amongst
the
infortunate
fooles
that
frequent
her
,
and
(
alas
sayth
shee
)
I
am
innocent
,
free
from
ill
thought
,
I
am
not
vengable
,
I
am
not
malicious
:
I
am
loath
to
offend
any
,
I
neuer
did
wronge
,
alas
I
am
harmeles
,
And
thus
shee
wipeth
her
mouth
&
sayeth
,
I
haue
committed
no
iniquitie
:
when
in
truth
there
is
nothing
in
her
but
malice
,
there
is
nothing
in
her
but
mischeife
,
there
is
nothing
in
her
but
dissention
,
but
lying
,
but
slandering
,
but
stirring
of
strife
,
but
drawing
of
quarrels
,
but
setting
of
men
together
by
the
eares
,
but
cosening
and
cheating
to
maintaine
pompe
and
prodigalitie
:
and
pompe
and
prodigallity
vphoulden
againe
thereby
to
draw
in
Fools
to
be
cosened
and
cheated
.
O
beware
therefore
,
of
the
subtleties
of
a
Harlot
,
beware
of
her
hypocrisie
,
beware
of
her
dissimulation
,
beware
of
her
when
she
once
beginneth
to
counterfeit
holines
.
Salomon
scoffeth
at
those
holy
Harlotes
,
and
shee
that
offered
her selfe
to
euery
mans
lust
,
he
setteth
out
for
ademy-saint
with
peace
offeringes
to
God
.
Pro.
7
,
Take
heede
(
saith
he
)
of
the
woman
that
is
smooth
of
tongue
for
looking
out
of
my
window
in
an
euening
,
I
saw
a
yong
man
passing
through
the
streetes
,
and
behould
a
woman
met
with
him
,
that
was
of
a
Harlotes
behauiour
,
smooth
of
her
tongue
and
subtill
in
her
heart
:
so
shee
caught
him
and
shee
kissed
him
with
an
impudent
face
,
and
said
vnto
him
:
I
haue
peace
offeringes
:
this
day
I
haue
paide
my
vowes
,
and
I
am
come
out
to
seeke
thee
,
and
now
I
haue
founde
thee
,
come
let
vs
take
our
fill
of
pleasure
,
I
haue
decked
my
chamber
with
rich
ornamentes
:
I
haue
perfumed
my
bed
,
all
things
are
prepared
:
let
vs
therefore
spende
the
time
in
loue
and
daliance
.
This
description
is
made
by
Salomon
in
his
booke
of
Pro
,
Cap.
7.
from
the
10.
to
the
24
verse
.
One
other
note
of
the
vertuous
woman
:
Shee
openeth
her
mouth
with
wisedome
,
and
the
law
of
grace
is
in
her
tongue
The
woman
of
modesty
openeth
not
her
mouth
but
with
discretion
,
neither
is
there
any
bitternes
in
her
tongue
:
shee
seemeth
in
speaking
,
to
hould
her
peace
,
and
in
her
silence
shee
seemeth
to
speake
.
Her
very
countenance
doth
preach
modesty
,
sobrietie
bashfullnes
,
continency
,
temperance
,
stayednes
humilitie
grace
and
goodnes
:
A
Harlot
is
full
of
words
Shee
is
babling
and
lowde
(
saith
Salomon
)
Pro.
7.
She
is
bould
,
she
is
impudent
,
shee
is
shameles
shee
is
immodest
,
shee
will
blush
at
nothing
,
shee
is
presumptuous
,
shee
is
a
disgrace
to
womanhood
and
fit
for
no
company
but
for
the
lasciuious
,
yet
againe
the
vertuous
woman
will
doe
her
husband
good
and
not
ill
all
the
dayes
of
her
life
.
But
the
wicked
woman
is
a
reproch
to
her
husband
,
and
shee
doth
him
more
iniury
,
then
all
her
good
is
able
to
counteruaile
,
he
shall
find
it
in
his
purse
by
her
prodigalitie
,
by
her
pride
,
by
her
vanitie
:
for
shee
maketh
him
still
fitter
to
craue
new
credite
,
then
to
pay
old
debtes
He
shall
find
it
in
his
credite
and
reputation
,
for
he
is
mocked
scorned
and
derided
,
by
as
many
as
knowe
him
and
is
pointed
at
as
he
passeth
through
the
streetes
.
To
conclude
a
vertuous
woman
is
a
crowne
to
her
husband
:
but
shee
that
maketh
him
ashamed
is
as
corruption
in
his
bones
.
Pro.
12.
We
do
see
that
a
vertuous
woman
is
compared
in
the
scriptures
to
be
like
vnto
many
thinges
:
for
sometimes
shee
is
likened
to
a
marchantes
ship
,
sometimes
to
a
lilie
sometimes
to
a
garden
of
pleasant
flowers
,
sometimes
to
a
spring
of
sweete
water
:
Dauid
likeueth
her
to
a
fruitfull
vine
and
here
shee
is
compared
to
a
crowne
.
We
may
see
,
a
vertuous
woman
is
like
vnto
many
thinges
:
but
as
Salomon
hath
said
pearles
and
precious
stones
are
not
like
vnto
her
:
shee
is
inestimable
.
These
notes
of
women
thus
formerly
spoken
of
,
are
giuen
vs
by
Salomon
,
whereby
to
distinguish
the
good
from
the
bad
,
for
as
I
haue
already
said
there
hath
beene
both
good
and
bad
and
that
from
the
beginning
.
And
as
saint
Paule
,
writing
to
the
Corinthians
,
saith
there
must
be
Herisies
that
they
that
are
proued
may
be
known
So
say
I
:
amongst
women
there
must
be
bad
amongst
the
good
that
those
that
are
good
may
be
the
more
glorious
.
As
vertues
then
had
their
beinge
in
the
world
:
so
vices
did
necessaryly
accompany
them
and
haue
the
like
increasing
or
decreasing
the
one
as
the
other
.
It
cannot
therefore
be
said
:
that
vices
do
more
abound
at
this
present
then
in
former
ages
,
but
we
must
confesse
the
like
of
vertues
,
that
are
more
exceeding
now
then
in
times
past
they
haue
beene
for
what
is
there
remaininge
vnder
the
heauens
that
is
not
perfected
.
I
dare
bouldly
avouch
,
there
is
no
arte
no
science
no
occupation
,
nor
handicraft
,
nor
any
other
profession
what
so
euer
,
but
there
is
innouation
,
and
from
age
to
age
,
all
thinges
are
perfected
bettered
and
drawne
to
a
forme
of
greater
excellency
then
euer
our
preadecessours
vnderstood
of
.
And
as
by
this
continuance
of
time
,
goodnes
is
made
better
,
so
ill
is
made
worse
:
&
as
good
women
are
more
vertuous
,
so
ill
women
are
more
vicious
.
From
hence
I
would
conclude
,
that
as
the
world
was
yet
neuer
destitute
of
good
women
,
but
that
from
age
to
age
it
was
still
replenished
,
and
that
in
most
aboundant
manner
:
so
I
am
perswaded
,
that
at
this
present
howre
,
good
women
are
not
onely
as
plentifull
as
they
haue
beene
in
times
past
,
but
that
they
are
nowe
more
superexcellent
,
then
euer
they
were
before
,
not
for
that
the
good
women
of
former
ages
,
did
omitte
any
goodnes
that
then
was
known
,
but
because
our
predecessors
were
ignorant
(
indeede
)
of
many
things
appertaining
both
to
good
and
ill
,
that
is
now
frequent
and
conuersant
almost
to
euery
vnderstanding
.
Wee
haue
now
learned
from
Salomon
,
the
true
notes
and
markes
of
a
good
woman
,
both
what
shee
is
,
and
whereby
we
may
both
know
and
finde
her
.
And
wee
see
it
is
not
shee
,
that
can
show
the
most
impudent
face
,
it
is
not
shee
that
can
dance
the
most
loftiest
sinquapace
,
it
is
not
shee
that
is
too
lauish
of
her
lips
,
or
to
loose
of
her
tongue
,
it
is
not
shee
that
hath
forgotten
to
blush
,
nor
to
be
ashamed
at
any
thing
,
it
is
not
she
that
is
either
too
coy
,
or
yet
too
curteous
:
why
then
?
modestie
is
it
,
that
is
the
true
marke
of
euery
good
woman
,
&
shee
that
hath
once
lost
that
vertue
,
she
hath
lost
her
euidence
,
she
hath
nothing
to
show
that
she
is
a
woman
,
but
rather
a
monster
in
the
habit
or
shape
of
a
woman
,
odible
in
the
sight
of
God
and
hatefull
and
detestable
before
all
good
men
:
if
there
be
any
that
will
impugne
these
testimonies
thus
set
downe
by
Salomon
,
they
can
be
none
but
such
as
wil
impugne
the
verity
of
the
holy
scriptures
:
for
if
the
scriptures
be
true
Salomon
was
the
wisest
that
euer
was
amongst
men
:
and
out
of
the
depth
of
this
wisdome
hee
hath
giuen
vs
these
notes
which
he
hath
left
vnto
vs
in
his
bookes
of
Prouerbes
,
a
booke
first
inspired
by
the
spirit
of
God
,
a
booke
Cannonized
allowed
and
receiued
by
the
Church
.
The
infallible
markes
of
a
vertuous
woman
then
,
as
they
are
set
downe
by
Salomon
are
these
,
shee
must
haue
modesty
,
hashfullnes
,
silence
,
abstinence
,
sobrietie
:
shee
must
be
tractable
to
her
husband
,
Shee
doth
her
husband
good
&c.
Shee
must
not
bee
a
vaine
talker
She
openeth
her
mouth
with
wisdome
.
Shee
must
be
carefull
of
her
family
Shee
ouerseeth
the
wayes
of
her
houshould
,
Shee
must
be
full
of
exercises
:
Shee
eateth
not
the
bread
of
idlenes
.
Now
the
woman
that
is
impudent
,
immodest
,
shameles
,
insolent
,
audacious
,
a
night
walker
,
a
company
keeper
,
a
gadder
about
the
streets
,
if
such
a
woman
may
be
numbred
amongst
those
women
that
be
good
,
then
Salomon
was
a
Foole
,
that
hath
avowed
the
contrary
,
and
then
the
scriptures
are
vntrue
that
hath
testified
of
his
wisdome
,
&
God
him selfe
is
a
promise
breaker
,
and
was
not
true
of
his
word
when
he
sayd
vnto
Salomon
.
I
haue
giuen
thee
a
wise
and
an
vnderstanding
heart
so
that
ther
hath
been
none
like
thee
before
thee
,
neither
after
thee
shall
arise
the
like
vnto
thee
.
1.
Kin.
Cap.
3.
if
there
be
any
therfore
that
will
yet
make
cauels
,
to
the
contrary
,
they
doe
but
bewray
themselues
and
such
vaine
contenders
,
are
not
worthy
to
bee
aunswered
,
I
will
therefore
here
make
an
ende
and
rest
my selfe
with
silence
.
FINIS
.