AN
ANSWERE
TO
THE
FIRST
CHAPTER
OF
THE
Arraignment
of
Women
.
CHAP.
I.
IF
the
Author
of
this
Arraignment
had
performed
his
discourse
either
answerable
to
the
Title
,
or
the
Arguments
of
the
Chapters
;
hee
had
beene
so
farre
off
from
being
answered
by
me
,
that
I
should
haue
commended
so
good
a
labour
,
which
is
imployed
to
giue
vice
iust
reproofe
,
and
vertue
honourable
report
.
But
at
the
very
first
entrance
of
his
discourse
,
in
the
very
first
page
,
he
discouereth
himselfe
neither
to
haue
truth
in
his
promise
,
nor
religious
performance
.
If
in
this
answere
I
doe
vse
more
vehement
speeches
then
may
seeme
to
correspond
the
naturall
disposition
of
a
Woman
;
yet
all
iudicious
Readers
shall
confesse
that
I
vse
more
mildnesse
then
the
cause
I
haue
in
hand
prouoketh
me
vnto
.
I
am
not
onely
prouoked
by
this
Authour
to
defend
women
,
but
I
am
more
violently
vrged
to
defend
diuine
Maiestie
,
in
the
worke
of
his
Creation
.
In
which
respect
I
say
with
Saint
Ierome
,
iniurias
Dei
dissimulare
impium
est
.
If
either
Iulian
the
Apostata
,
or
Lucian
the
Atheist
should
vndertake
the
like
worke
,
could
the
owne
deuise
to
write
more
blasphemously
,
or
the
other
to
scoffe
and
flout
at
the
diuine
Creation
of
Woman
,
more
prophanely
then
this
irreligious
Author
doth
?
Homer
doth
report
in
his
Illiads
,
that
there
was
at
the
siege
of
Troy
,
a
Graecian
,
called
Thersites
,
whose
wit
was
so
blockish
,
he
was
not
worthy
to
speake
:
yet
his
disposition
was
so
precipitate
,
hee
could
not
hold
his
tongue
Ioseph
Swetnam
in
all
record
of
Histories
cannot
be
so
likely
paraleld
as
with
this
Thersites
.
What
his
composition
of
body
is
I
know
not
,
but
for
his
disposition
otherwise
,
in
this
Pamphlet
I
know
,
he
is
as
monstrous
as
the
worke
is
mishapen
,
which
shall
plainely
appeare
in
the
examination
of
the
first
page
onely
.
The
Argument
of
the
first
Chapter
is
,
to
shew
to
what
vse
Women
were
made
;
it
also
sheweth
,
That
most
of
them
degenerate
from
the
vse
they
were
framed
vnto
,
&c.
Now
,
to
shew
to
what
vse
woman
was
made
,
hee
beginneth
thus
.
At
the
first
beginning
a
Woman
was
made
to
bee
an
helper
to
Man
:
And
so
they
are
indeed
,
for
they
helpe
to
consume
and
spend
,
&c.
This
is
all
the
vse
,
and
all
the
end
which
the
Authour
setteth
downe
in
all
his
discourse
for
the
creation
of
woman
.
Marke
a
ridiculous
ieast
in
this
:
Spending
and
consuming
of
that
which
Man
painfully
getteth
,
is
by
this
Authour
the
vse
for
which
Women
were
made
.
And
yet
(
saith
hee
in
the
Argument
)
most
of
them
degenerate
from
the
vse
they
were
framed
vnto
.
Woman
was
made
to
spend
and
consume
at
the
first
:
But
women
doe
degenerate
from
this
vse
,
Ergo
,
Midasse
doth
contradict
himselfe
.
Beside
this
egregious
folly
,
he
runneth
into
horrible
blasphemy
.
Was
the
end
of
Gods
creation
in
Woman
to
spend
and
consume
?
Is
helper
to
be
taken
in
that
sence
,
to
helpe
to
spend
?
&c.
Is
spending
and
consuming
,
helping
?
He
runneth
on
,
and
saith
,
They
were
made
of
a
Rib
,
and
that
their
froward
and
crooked
nature
doth
declare
,
for
a
Rib
is
a
crooked
thing
,
&c.
Woman
was
made
of
a
crooked
rib
,
so
she
is
crooked
of
conditions
.
Ioseph
Swetnam
was
made
as
from
Adam
of
clay
and
dust
,
so
he
is
of
a
durty
and
muddy
disposition
:
The
inferences
are
both
alike
in
either
;
woman
is
no
more
crooked
,
in
respect
of
the
one
;
but
he
is
blasphemous
in
respect
of
the
other
.
Did
Woman
receiue
her
soule
and
disposition
from
the
rib
;
Or
as
it
is
said
in
Genesis
,
God
did
breath
in
them
the
spirit
of
life
?
Admit
that
this
Authors
doctrine
bee
true
,
that
woman
receiueth
her
froward
and
crooked
disposition
from
the
rib
,
Woman
may
then
conclude
vpon
that
Axiome
in
Philosophy
,
The
Authour
hauing
desperately
begunne
,
doth
more
rashly
and
impudently
runne
on
in
blasphemy
,
which
he
doth
euidently
shew
in
the
inference
vpon
his
former
speeches
:
And
therefore
(
saith
he
)
Euer
since
they
haue
beene
a
woe
vnto
Man
,
and
follow
the
liue
of
the
first
leader
.
Now
let
the
Christian
Reader
please
to
consider
how
dishonestly
this
Authour
dealeth
,
who
vndertaking
a
particular
,
prosecuteth
and
persecuteth
a
generall
,
vnder
the
cloake
and
colour
of
lewd
,
idle
,
and
froward
women
,
to
rage
and
raile
against
all
women
in
generall
.
Now
,
hauing
examined
what
collections
Ioseph
Swetnam
hath
wrested
out
of
Scriptures
,
to
dishonor
and
abuse
all
women
:
I
am
resolued
,
before
I
answere
further
particulars
made
by
him
against
our
sexe
,
to
collect
and
note
out
of
Scriptures
;
First
,
what
incomparable
and
most
excellent
prerogatiues
God
hath
bestowed
vpon
women
,
in
honour
of
them
,
and
their
Creation
:
Secondly
,
what
choyse
God
hath
made
of
women
,
in
vsing
them
as
instruments
to
worke
his
most
gracious
and
glorious
designes
,
for
the
generall
benefit
of
man-kind
,
both
during
the
law
of
Nature
,
and
of
Moyses
:
Thirdly
,
what
excellent
and
diuine
graces
haue
beene
bestowed
vpon
our
Sexe
,
in
the
law
of
Grace
,
and
the
worke
of
Redemption
:
With
a
conclusion
,
that
to
manifest
the
worthinesse
of
women
,
they
haue
beene
chosen
to
performe
and
publish
the
most
happy
and
ioyfull
benefits
which
euer
came
to
man-kinde
.
CHAPTER
II.
What
incomparable
and
excellent
prerogatiues
God
hath
bestowed
vpon
Women
,
in
their
first
Creation
.
IN
this
ensuing
Chapter
I
determine
briefly
to
obserue
(
not
curiously
to
discourse
at
large
)
the
singuler
benefits
and
graces
bestowed
vpon
Women
:
In
regard
of
which
,
it
is
first
to
bee
considered
;
That
the
Almighty
God
in
the
worlds
frame
in
his
Diuine
wisedome
,
designed
to
himselfe
a
maine
end
to
which
he
ordayned
all
the
workes
of
his
Creation
,
in
which
hee
being
a
most
excellent
worke-master
,
did
so
Create
his
workes
,
that
euery
succeeding
worke
was
euer
more
excellent
then
what
was
formerly
Created
:
hee
wrought
by
degrees
,
prouiding
in
all
for
that
which
was
and
should
be
the
end
.
It
appeareth
by
that
Soueraignty
which
God
gaue
to
Adam
ouer
all
the
Creatures
of
Sea
and
Land
,
It
is
furthermore
to
be
considered
,
as
the
Maide
,
in
her
Mussell
for
Melastomus
hath
obserued
:
that
God
intended
to
honour
woman
in
a
more
excellent
degree
,
That
delight
,
When
woman
was
created
,
The
woman
was
married
to
Adam
,
as
with
a
most
sure
and
inseparable
band
,
so
with
a
most
affectionate
and
dutifull
loue
:
Adam
was
enioyned
to
receaue
his
wife
,
as
is
noted
in
the
Bible
printed
1595.
There
is
no
loue
(
alwayes
excepting
the
transcending
loue
)
which
is
so
highly
honoured
,
so
graciously
rewarded
,
so
straightly
commanded
,
or
which
being
broken
,
is
so
seuerely
punished
,
as
the
loue
and
duty
which
Children
owe
to
their
Parents
:
Yet
this
loue
albeit
neuer
so
respectiue
,
is
dispensed
withall
in
respect
of
that
loue
which
a
man
is
bound
to
beare
to
his
wife
:
For
this
cause
,
saith
Adam
,
(
as
from
the
mouth
of
God
)
shall
a
man
leaue
Father
and
Mother
,
and
cleaue
onely
to
his
Wife
.
This
word
cleaue
is
vttered
in
the
Hebrew
with
a
more
significant
emphasie
,
then
any
other
Language
may
expresse
;
such
a
cleauing
and
ioyning
together
,
which
admitteth
no
seperation
.
It
may
be
necessarily
obserued
,
that
that
gift
of
the
woman
was
most
singularly
excellent
,
which
was
to
bee
accepted
and
entertained
with
so
inestimable
a
loue
,
Now
,
the
woman
taking
view
of
the
Garden
,
shee
was
assaulted
with
a
Serpent
of
the
masculine
gender
;
who
maliciously
enuying
the
happinesse
in
which
man
was
at
this
time
,
like
a
mischieuous
Politician
,
There
are
many
pregnant
places
in
the
Scripture
which
might
be
alleaged
to
extenuate
the
sin
of
the
Woman
,
in
respect
of
the
sinne
of
Adam
:
it
is
said
Ecclesiast.
25.
Sinne
had
his
beginning
in
woman
,
Ergo
,
his
fulnesse
in
man
.
Saint
Paul
saith
,
By
one
mans
sinne
death
came
into
the
world
,
without
mention
of
the
woman●
The
same
Saint
Paul
writeth
to
the
Corinthians
,
that
all
die
in
Adam
,
in
which
the
fulnesse
and
effects
of
sinne
are
charged
vpon
Adam
alone
,
not
but
that
woman
had
her
part
in
the
Tragedy
,
but
not
in
so
high
a
degree
as
the
man
.
When
Adam
had
eaten
,
That
woman
which
thou
gauest
mee
,
gaue
me
,
and
I
did
eate
:
As
who
should
say
,
if
thou
hadst
not
giuen
the
cause
,
I
had
not
beene
guilty
of
the
effect
;
making
(
heerein
)
God
the
Authour
of
his
fall
.
Now
what
is
become
of
that
loue
,
God
hauing
examined
the
offendors
,
and
haueing
heard
the
vttermost
they
could
alledge
for
themselues
,
he
pronounceth
sentence
of
death
vpon
them
,
Woman
supplanted
by
tasting
of
fruit
,
she
is
punished
in
bringing
forth
her
owne
fruit
.
Yet
what
by
fruit
she
lost
,
by
fruit
she
shall
recouer
.
What
more
gratious
a
gift
could
the
Almightie
promise
to
woman
,
Amongst
the
curses
and
punishments
heaped
vpon
the
Serpent
,
what
greater
ioy
could
she
heare
,
or
what
greater
honour
could
be
done
vnto
her
,
then
to
heare
from
the
voyce
of
God
these
words
;
I
will
put
cumitie
betwixt
the
woman
and
thee
,
betwixt
thy
seede
and
her
seede
,
and
that
her
seed
should
breake
the
Serpents
head
?
This
must
perforce
be
an
exceeding
ioy
for
the
woman
,
to
heare
and
to
be
assured
that
her
fruit
should
reuenge
her
wrong
.
After
the
fall
,
and
after
they
were
all
arraigned
and
censured
,
and
that
now
Adam
saw
his
wiues
dowrie
,
and
what
blessings
God
hath
bestowed
vpon
her
,
Ioseph
Swetnam
,
page
31.
begining
line
15.
as
followeth
.
If
God
had
not
made
them
onely
to
be
a
plague
to
a
man
,
hee
would
neuer
haue
called
them
necessary
euils
.
Out
of
what
Scripture
,
out
of
what
record
,
can
hee
proue
these
impious
and
impudent
speeches
?
They
are
onely
faigned
and
framed
out
of
his
owne
idle
,
giddie
,
furious
,
and
franticke
imaginations
.
If
he
had
cited
Euripides
for
his
Author
,
hee
had
had
some
colour
,
for
〈◊〉
prophane
Poet
in
Medea
,
vseth
these
speeches
,
Quod
si
Deorum
aliquis
mulierem
formauit
,
opificem
se
malorum
sciat
,
maximum
&
hominibus
inimicum
.
If
any
of
the
Gods
framed
woman
,
let
him
know
he
was
the
worker
of
that
which
is
naught
,
and
what
is
most
hurtfull
to
men
.
Thus
a
Pagan
writeth
prophanely
,
but
for
a
Christian
to
say
,
that
God
calleth
women
necessary
euils
,
is
most
intolerable
and
shamefull
to
be
written
and
published
.
CHAP.
III.
What
choise
God
hath
made
of
women
to
be
instruments
to
deriue
his
benefits
to
Mankinde
.
ABraham
being
in
danger
,
Rebecca
by
Gods
prouidence
was
the
means
to
bring
the
blessing
of
Isaac
to
fall
vpon
Iacob
.
The
Aegyptian
Mid-wiues
were
a
meanes
to
preserue
the
male
children
of
the
Israelites
from
the
murther
entended
by
Pharao
.
Moses
was
preserued
by
the
daughter
of
Pharao
.
The
Messengers
sent
by
Duke
Iosuab
to
view
the
Land
of
Promise
,
When
the
Children
of
Israell
had
beene
twentie
yeres
oppressed
by
Iabin
King
of
Canaan
,
and
Iahell
,
two
women
;
the
one
w●●●e
the
battell
,
the
other
slew
the
Generall
.
When
Abimilech
had
murthered
seauenty
of
his
Brethren
,
Micholl
aduentured
the
hazard
of
her
Fathers
displeasure
to
preserue
her
Husband
Dauid
.
Abigail
by
incomparable
wisedome
with
held
Dauid
from
shedding
of
innocent
bloud
.
The
Citie
of
Abdela
being
in
danger
,
In
the
great
famine
of
Samaria
,
The
like
prouision
did
the
woman
,
When
the
bloud-Royall
of
Iudah
had
beene
all
murthered
,
What
was
that
noble
aduenture
so
blessedly
performed
by
Iudith
,
With
what
wisedome
did
Queene
Hester
preserue
her
people
,
What
a
chast
mirrour
was
Susanna
,
Neuer
was
greater
magnanimity
shewed
by
a
woman
,
CHAP.
IIII.
What
excellent
blessings
and
graces
haue
beene
bestowed
vpon
women
in
the
Lawe
of
Grace
.
THe
first
which
commeth
in
this
place
to
be
mentioned
,
is
that
blessed
mother
and
mirrour
of
al
woman-hood
,
the
Virgin
Marie
,
who
was
magnified
in
the
birth
of
Iesus
,
glorified
by
Angels
,
chosen
by
the
Almighty
to
beare
in
her
wombe
the
Sauiour
of
mankinde
.
With
what
a
faithfull
salutation
did
Elizabeth
,
Iohn
Baptist
Mother
,
entertaine
the
Virgin
vpon
her
repaire
vnto
her
?
Anna
the
old
Prophetesse
did
miraculously
demonstrate
our
Sauiour
.
The
woman
which
had
the
issue
of
bloud
:
Canaan
,
Ioh.
4.
The
Samaritan
woman
.
Martha
,
the
11.
of
Iohn
:
all
these
and
sundry
others
are
saued
,
healed
,
and
haue
their
sinnes
forgiuen
,
in
respect
of
their
true
and
liuely
faith
.
What
faith
?
what
zeale
?
what
deuotion
did
Marie
Magdelen
shew
toward
Iesus
,
With
what
bountie
and
deuotion
did
the
Maryes
,
How
charitable
was
that
poore
widdow
,
In
all
dangers
,
I
should
be
ouer-tedious
to
repeate
euery
example
of
most
zealous
,
faithfull
,
and
deuout
women
,
which
I
might
in
the
new
Testament
,
whose
faith
and
denotion
was
censured
by
our
Sauiour
to
be
without
compare
.
I
will
conclude
for
women
that
they
haue
beene
chosen
both
to
set
out
Gods
glory
,
and
for
the
benefit
of
all
mankinde
,
in
more
glorious
and
gratious
imployments
then
men
haue
beene
.
The
first
promise
of
a
Messias
to
come
was
made
to
a
woman
:
the
birth
and
bearing
of
that
promised
Messias
was
performed
by
a
woman
.
The
triumphant
resurrection
with
the
conquest
ouer
death
and
hell
,
was
first
published
and
proclaymed
by
a
woman
.
I
might
herevnto
adde
those
wiues
,
widdowes
,
and
virgins
,
which
flourished
in
the
primatiue
Church
,
and
all
succeeding
ages
sithence
,
who
in
all
vertues
haue
excelled
,
and
honoured
both
their
sexeen
generall
,
and
themselues
in
particular
,
who
in
thier
martyrdomes
,
in
their
confession
of
Iesus
,
and
in
all
Christian
,
and
deuine
vertues
,
haue
in
no
respect
beene
inferiour
vnto
men
.
THus
out
of
the
second
and
third
Chapters
of
Genesis
,
and
out
of
the
Old
and
New
Testaments
,
I
haue
further
shewed
the
most
gratious
,
blessed
,
and
rarest
benefits
,
in
all
respects
,
bestowed
vpon
women
;
all
plainely
and
directly
out
of
Scriptures
.
All
which
doth
demonstrate
the
blasphemous
impudencie
of
the
authour
of
the
Arraignement
,
who
would
or
durst
write
so
basely
and
shamefully
,
in
so
generall
a
manner
,
against
our
so
worthy
and
honored
a
sexe
.
To
the
courteous
and
friendly
READER
.
GEntle
READER
,
in
my
first
Part
I
haue
(
what
I
might
)
strictly
obserued
a
religious
regard
,
not
to
entermingle
any
thing
vnfitting
the
grauitie
of
so
respectiue
an
Argument
.
Now
that
I
am
come
to
this
second
Part
,
I
am
determined
to
solace
my selfe
with
a
little
libertie
:
What
aduantages
I
did
forbeare
to
take
in
the
former
,
I
meane
to
make
vse
of
in
this
second
.
Ioseph
Swetnam
hath
beene
long
vnanswered
,
which
had
beene
performed
sooner
,
if
I
had
heard
of
his
Booke
before
this
last
Terme
:
Or
if
the
report
of
the
Maidens
answere
had
not
stayed
me
.
I
haue
not
so
amply
and
absolutely
discharged
my selfe
in
this
Apologie
as
I
would
haue
done
,
if
either
my
leasure
had
beene
such
,
as
I
could
haue
wished
,
or
the
time
more
fauourable
,
that
I
might
haue
stayed
.
What
my
repaire
into
the
Countrey
enforceth
me
so
leaue
rather
begunne
then
finished
;
I
meane
(
by
Gods
grace
)
to
make
perfect
the
next
Terme
:
In
the
meane
time
(
gentle
READER
)
I
bid
thee
kindly
farewell
.
Ester
Sowrenam
.
CHAP.
IIII.
At
what
estimate
Women
were
valued
in
ancient
and
former
times
.
PLato
in
his
Bookes
de
Legibus
,
estimateth
of
Women
,
which
doe
equall
Men
in
all
respects
,
onely
in
bodie
they
are
weaker
,
but
in
wit
and
disposition
of
minde
nothing
inferiour
,
if
not
superiour
.
Wherevpon
he
doth
in
his
so
absolute
a
Common-wealth
,
admit
them
to
gouernment
of
Kingdomes
and
Common-weales
,
if
they
be
either
borne
therevnto
by
Nature
,
or
seated
in
gouernment
by
Election
.
It
is
apparent
,
that
in
the
prime
of
antiquity
,
women
were
valued
at
highest
estimate
,
in
that
all
those
most
inestimable
and
incomparable
benefites
which
might
either
honour
or
preserue
Mankinde
,
are
all
generally
attributed
to
the
inuention
of
women
,
as
may
appeare
in
these
few
examples
following
.
When
meum
&
tuum
,
Mine
and
Thine
,
When
at
the
first
the
finest
Manchet
and
best
bread
in
vse
was
of
Acorns
,
by
the
singular
and
practicall
wit
of
a
Lady
called
Ceres
,
the
sowing
of
Corne
,
and
Tillage
was
inuented
.
The
inuention
of
the
seauen
liberall
Sciences
,
of
all
Arts
,
of
all
Learning
,
hath
beene
generally
with
one
consent
ascribed
to
the
inuention
of
Iupiters
daughters
,
the
nine
Muses
,
whose
Mother
was
a
royall
Ladie
Mneneosum
.
Carmentis
a
Ladie
,
first
inuented
Letters
,
and
the
vse
of
them
by
reading
and
writing
.
The
royall
and
most
delightfull
exercise
of
Hunting
was
first
found
out
and
practised
by
Diana
,
who
thervpon
is
celebrated
for
the
Goddesse
of
Hunting
.
The
three
Graces
,
which
adde
a
decorum
,
and
yeeld
fauour
to
Persons
,
Actions
,
and
Speaches
,
are
three
Ladies
,
Aglaia
,
Thalia
,
and
Enphrosune
.
The
heroicall
exercises
of
Olimpus
,
were
first
found
and
put
in
practise
by
Palestra
a
woman
.
The
whole
world
being
diuided
into
three
parts
in
more
ancient
times
,
euery
diuision
to
this
day
keepeth
the
name
in
honour
of
a
woman
.
The
foeminine
Sexe
is
exceedingly
honoured
by
Poets
in
their
writings
:
They
haue
Gods
as
well
for
good
things
,
as
for
bad
;
but
they
haue
no
women-Goddesses
,
but
in
things
which
are
especially
good
.
They
haue
Bacchus
for
a
drunken
God
,
but
no
drunken
Goddesse
.
They
haue
Priapus
the
lustfull
God
of
Gardens
,
but
no
garden-Goddesses
,
except
of
late
in
the
garden-Allies
.
They
will
obiect
here
vnto
mee
Venus
,
she
indeed
is
the
Goddesse
of
Loue
,
but
it
is
her
blinde
Sonne
which
is
the
God
of
Lust
;
poore
Ladie
,
she
hath
but
her
ioynture
in
the
Mannor
of
Loue
,
Cupid
is
Lord
of
all
the
rest
,
hee
hath
the
royalty
;
she
may
not
strike
a
Deare
,
but
she
must
imploy
her
Sonne
that
sawcie
Boy
.
For
Pride
,
they
held
it
so
farre
from
women
,
that
they
found
out
Nemesis
or
Rhamnusia
,
to
punish
and
reuenge
pride
,
but
none
to
infect
with
pride
.
They
haue
Pluto
the
God
of
Hell
,
but
no
proper
Goddes
of
hell
;
but
Proserpina
,
whom
Pluto
forcibly
tooke
from
Mount
Aetna
,
and
carried
her
away
,
and
made
her
Queene
of
Hell
;
yet
she
doth
not
remaine
in
Hell
but
one
halfe
of
the
yeare
,
by
a
decree
from
Iupiter
.
If
I
should
recite
and
set
downe
all
the
honourable
records
and
Monuments
for
and
of
women
,
I
might
write
more
Bookes
then
I
haue
yet
written
lines
.
I
will
leaue
and
passe
ouer
the
famous
testimonies
of
forreine
Kingdomes
and
Common-wealths
,
in
honour
of
our
Sexe
:
and
I
will
onely
mention
some
few
examples
of
our
owne
Countrey
and
Kingdome
,
which
haue
been
incomparably
benefited
and
honoured
by
women
.
Amongst
the
olde
Britaines
,
our
first
Ancestors
,
the
valiant
Boadicea
,
that
defended
the
liberty
of
her
Countrey
,
against
the
strength
of
the
Romans
,
when
they
were
at
the
greatest
,
and
made
them
feele
that
a
woman
could
conquer
them
who
had
conquered
almost
all
the
men
of
the
then
known
world
.
The
deuout
Helen
,
who
besides
that
,
she
was
the
Mother
of
that
religious
and
great
Constantine
,
who
first
seated
Christian
Religion
in
the
Emperiall
throne
,
&
in
that
respect
may
be
stiled
the
mother
of
Religion
,
is
still
more
honoured
for
her
singular
pietie
and
charitie
towards
him
and
his
members
,
who
dyed
for
vs
vpon
the
Crosse
,
then
for
her
care
and
industry
in
finding
out
the
wood
of
that
Crosse
on
which
he
dyed
.
In
the
time
of
the
Danes
,
chaste
Aemma
,
whose
innocency
carried
her
naked
feete
ouer
the
fire-hot
Plow
shares
vnfelt
;
with
the
Saxons
Queene
Elfgiue
the
holy
widdow
,
and
the
Kings
daughter
Edith
a
Virgin
Saint
,
both
greater
Conquerers
then
Alexander
the
great
,
that
men
so
much
boast
of
,
who
could
not
conquere
himselfe
.
Since
the
Normans
,
the
heroicall
vertues
of
Elenor
wife
to
Edward
the
first
,
who
when
her
Husband
in
the
Holy
Land
was
wounded
with
a
poysoned
Arrow
,
of
which
ther
was
no
hope
of
recouery
from
the
Chyrurgions
,
she
suckt
the
poyson
into
her
own
bodie
to
free
him
:
together
,
curing
that
mortall
wound
,
and
making
her
owne
fame
immortall
:
so
that
I
thinke
this
one
act
of
hers
may
equall
all
the
acts
that
her
great
Husband
did
in
those
warres
besides
.
Philip
,
wife
to
Edward
the
third
,
no
lesse
to
be
honoured
for
being
the
Mother
of
so
many
braue
children
,
then
of
so
many
good
deeds
,
which
worthily
got
her
the
title
of
good
.
Margaret
the
wise
,
wife
to
Henrie
the
sixt
,
who
if
her
Husbands
fortune
,
valour
,
and
foresight
,
had
beene
answerable
to
hers
,
had
left
the
Crowne
of
England
to
their
owne
Sonne
,
and
not
to
a
stranger
.
The
other
Margaret
of
Richmond
,
mother
to
Henrie
the
seuenth
,
from
whose
brests
he
may
seeme
to
haue
deriued
as
well
his
vertues
as
his
life
,
in
respect
of
her
heroicall
prudence
and
pietie
;
whereof
,
besides
other
Monuments
,
both
the
Vniuersities
are
still
witnesses
.
Besides
this
,
it
was
by
the
blessed
meanes
of
Elizabeth
,
wife
to
Henrie
the
seuenth
,
that
the
bloudy
wars
betwixt
the
houses
of
Yorke
and
Lancaster
were
ended
,
and
the
red
Rose
and
the
white
vnited
,
&c.
It
was
by
the
meanes
of
the
most
renowmed
Queene
(
the
happy
Mother
of
our
dread
Soueraigne
)
that
the
two
Kingdomes
once
mortall
foes
,
are
now
so
blessedly
conioyned
.
And
that
I
may
name
no
more
(
since
in
one
onely
were
comprized
all
the
qualities
and
endowments
that
could
make
a
person
eminent
)
Elizabeth
our
late
Soueraigne
,
not
onely
the
glory
of
our
Sexe
,
but
a
patterne
for
the
best
men
to
imitate
,
of
whom
I
will
say
no
more
,
but
that
while
she
liued
,
she
was
the
mirrour
of
the
world
,
so
then
knowne
to
be
,
and
so
still
remembred
,
and
euer
will
be
.
Daily
experience
,
and
the
common
course
of
Nature
,
doth
tell
vs
that
women
were
by
men
in
those
times
highly
valued
,
and
in
worth
by
men
themselues
preferred
,
and
held
better
then
themselues
,
I
will
not
say
that
women
are
better
then
men
,
but
I
will
say
,
men
are
not
so
wise
as
I
would
wish
them
to
be
,
to
wooe
vs
in
such
fashion
as
they
do
,
except
they
should
hold
and
account
of
vs
as
their
betters
.
What
trauaile
?
what
charge
?
what
studie
?
aut
verum
,
aut
apparens
,
that
goodnesse
or
the
thing
which
is
good
,
is
either
truely
good
,
or
but
apparantly
good
;
so
they
may
say
,
women
are
but
apparantly
good
.
But
the
heathen
Orator
and
the
deuine
philosopher
to
,
affirme
,
if
we
follow
the
true
direction
of
nature
we
shall
neuer
be
deceiued
.
Nature
in
her
vehement
motions
is
not
deceiued
with
apparant
shewes
.
It
is
naturall
,
they
will
say
,
for
the
Male
to
follow
the
Female
;
so
it
is
as
naturall
,
for
the
Female
to
be
better
then
the
Male
,
as
appeareth
to
be
true
in
obseruation
of
Hawkes
:
the
Spar-hawke
is
of
more
esteeme
then
the
Musket
;
the
Goshawke
more
excellent
then
the
Tersell
;
so
in
Falcons
,
the
females
doe
excell
:
The
like
men
are
bound
to
acknowledge
women
;
the
rather
in
respect
of
their
owne
credit
and
honour
.
To
what
obsequious
duty
and
seruice
doe
men
binde
themselues
,
to
obtaine
a
fauour
from
their
deuoted
Mistresse
,
which
if
he
may
obtaine
he
thinketh
himselfe
to
be
much
honoured
,
&
puts
in
place
of
most
noted
view
,
that
the
world
may
take
note
:
He
weareth
in
his
hat
,
or
on
his
brest
,
or
vpon
his
arme
,
the
Gloue
,
Amongst
diuers
causes
which
proceede
from
nature
and
custome
,
why
men
are
so
earnest
Sutors
to
women
,
I
haue
obserued
one
,
which
by
practise
is
daily
confessed
.
Plato
sayth
,
that
Honestie
is
of
that
worthinesse
,
that
men
are
greatly
enflamed
with
the
loue
of
it
;
and
as
they
doe
admire
it
,
so
they
studie
how
to
obtaine
it
:
it
is
apparant
,
yong
men
which
are
vnmarried
,
and
called
batchelers
,
they
may
haue
a
disposition
,
or
may
serue
an
apprentiship
to
honesty
,
In
no
one
thing
,
men
doe
acknowledge
a
more
excellent
perfection
in
women
then
in
the
estimate
of
the
offences
which
a
woman
doth
commit
:
the
worthinesse
of
the
person
doth
make
the
sinne
more
markeable
.
Ioseph
Swetnam
in
his
Pamphlet
aggrauateth
the
offences
of
women
in
the
highest
degree
,
not
onely
exceeding
,
but
drawing
men
into
all
mischeife
.
If
I
do
grant
,
that
woman
degenerating
from
the
true
end
of
womanhood
,
prooue
the
greatest
offenders
,
yet
in
graunting
that
,
I
doe
thereby
proue
that
women
in
their
creation
are
the
most
excellent
creatures
:
for
corruption
,
boni
pessima
,
the
best
thing
corrupted
proueth
the
worst
,
as
for
example
,
the
most
glorious
creature
in
heauen
is
by
his
fall
the
most
damned
deuill
in
hell
:
all
the
Elements
in
their
puritie
are
most
pretious
,
in
their
infection
and
abuse
most
dangerous
:
so
the
like
in
women
,
in
their
most
exellent
puritie
of
nature
,
what
creature
more
gratious
!
but
in
their
fall
from
God
,
and
all
goodnesse
,
what
creature
more
mischieuous
?
which
the
deuill
knowing
he
doth
more
assault
woman
then
man
,
because
his
gaine
is
greater
,
by
the
fall
of
one
woman
,
then
of
twentie
men
.
Let
there
be
a
faire
maide
,
wife
,
or
woman
,
in
Countrie
,
towne
or
Citie
,
THE
ARRAIGNMENT
OF
Joseph
Swetnam
,
who
was
the
Author
of
the
Arraignment
of
Women
;
And
vnder
his
person
,
the
arraignment
of
all
idle
,
franticke
,
froward
,
and
lewd
men
.
CHAPTER
V.
IOseph
Swetnam
hauing
written
his
rash
,
idle
,
furious
and
shamefull
discourse
against
Women
,
it
was
at
last
deliuered
into
my
hands
,
presently
I
did
acquaint
some
of
our
Sexe
with
the
accident
,
with
whom
I
did
aduise
what
course
wee
should
take
with
him
.
It
was
concluded
(
that
his
vnworthinesse
being
much
like
to
that
of
Thersites
,
whom
I
haue
formerly
mentioned
)
wee
would
not
answere
him
either
with
Achilles
fist
,
or
Stafford-law
;
neither
plucke
him
in
pieces
as
the
Thracian
woman
did
Orpheus
,
for
his
intemperate
rayling
against
women
:
But
as
he
had
arraigned
women
at
the
barre
of
fame
and
report
;
wee
resolued
at
the
same
barre
where
he
did
vs
the
wrong
,
to
arraigne
him
,
that
thereby
we
might
defend
our
assured
right
:
And
withall
(
respecting
our selues
)
we
resolued
to
fauour
him
so
far
in
his
triall
that
the
world
might
take
notice
there
was
no
partiall
or
indirect
dealing
,
but
that
he
had
as
much
fauour
as
he
could
defire
,
and
farre
more
then
he
did
or
could
deserue
.
So
that
wee
brought
him
before
two
Iudgesses
,
For
his
Iurie
,
The
partie
which
did
giue
euidence
against
him
,
So
all
things
being
accordingly
prouided
,
the
prisoner
was
brought
to
the
barre
,
where
he
was
called
and
bid
hold
vp
his
hand
,
which
hee
did
,
but
a
false
hand
God
he
knowes
,
his
enditement
was
red
,
which
was
this
which
followeth
.
CHAP.
VI.
Joseph
Swetnam
his
Enditement
.
I
Oseph
Swetnam
,
thou
art
endited
by
the
name
of
Ioseph
Swetnam
of
Bedlemmore
,
in
the
Countie
of
Onopolie
[
*
](A12653-e14470-b)
*
Pamphlet-maker
.
:
For
that
thou
the
twentieth
day
of
December
,
in
the
yeare
&c.
Diddest
most
wickedly
,
Arraignment
of
Women
;
In
which
,
albeit
thou
diddest
honestly
pretend
to
arraigne
lewd
,
idle
,
froward
and
vnconstant
women
,
yet
contrary
to
thy
pretended
promise
thou
diddest
rashly
,
and
malitiously
raile
and
rage
against
all
women
,
generally
writing
and
publishing
most
blasphemously
that
women
by
their
Creator
were
made
for
Helpers
,
for
Helpers
(
thou
fayest
)
to
spend
and
consume
that
which
Man
painefully
getteth
;
furthermore
,
thou
dost
write
,
That
being
made
of
a
rib
,
which
was
crooked
,
they
are
therefore
crooked
and
froward
in
conditions
,
and
that
Woman
was
no
sooner
made
,
but
her
heart
was
set
vpon
mischiefe
;
which
thou
doest
deriue
to
all
the
Sexe
generally
,
in
these
words
,
And
therefore
euer
since
they
haue
beene
a
woe
vnto
man
,
and
follow
the
line
of
their
first
leader
.
Further
then
all
this
,
thou
doest
affirme
an
impudent
lye
vpon
Almighty
God
,
in
saying
,
that
God
calleth
them
necessary
euils
,
and
that
therefore
they
were
created
to
bee
a
plague
vnto
man
.
Thou
writest
also
,
That
women
are
prowde
,
lasciuous
,
froward
,
curst
,
vnconstant
,
idle
,
impudent
,
shamelesse
,
and
that
they
decke
and
dresse
themselues
to
tempt
and
allure
men
to
lewdnesse
,
with
much
and
many
more
foule
,
intemperate
,
and
scandalous
speaches
,
&c.
When
Ioseph
Swetnam
was
asked
what
he
said
to
his
enditement
,
Guilty
,
or
not
guiltie
,
hee
pleaded
the
generall
issue
,
not
guiltie
,
being
asked
how
hee
would
be
tryed
,
he
stood
mute
,
for
Conscience
did
so
confront
him
,
that
he
knew
vpon
tryall
there
was
no
way
but
one
;
wherevpon
hee
thought
it
much
better
to
put
himselfe
vpon
our
mercy
,
then
to
hazard
the
tryall
of
his
owne
Iurie
.
Wherevpon
we
did
consider
if
we
should
haue
vrged
him
to
be
pressed
,
the
disaduantage
had
beene
ours
:
for
then
his
fauourites
would
haue
said
as
some
did
say
,
Ioseph
Swetnam
did
not
stand
mute
,
as
misdoubting
the
proofe
of
what
he
had
written
:
But
seeing
the
Iudgesses
,
the
Iurie
,
the
Accuser
,
and
all
others
,
most
of
them
of
the
foeminine
gender
,
he
suspelled
the
question
by
vs
,
being
made
Generall
,
that
they
would
rather
condemne
him
to
please
a
general
,
although
in
particular
respect
of
himselfe
he
knew
they
would
fauour
him
.
And
besides
that
hee
held
it
a
strange
course
,
that
the
selfe
and
the
same
persons
should
be
Iudges
and
Accusers
,
whereupon
we
resolued
to
graunt
him
longer
time
to
aduice
with
himselfe
whether
he
would
put
himselfe
to
triall
,
or
vpon
better
deliberation
to
recall
his
errours
.
But
that
the
world
might
be
satisfied
in
respect
of
the
wrongs
done
vnto
vs
,
and
to
maintaine
our
honourable
reputation
,
it
was
concluded
,
that
my selfe
should
deliuer
before
the
Iudges
,
to
all
the
assembly
,
speaches
to
these
effects
following
.
CHAP.
VII
.
The
answere
to
all
obiections
which
are
materiall
,
made
against
Women
.
RIght
Honourable
and
Worshipfull
,
and
you
of
all
degrees
;
it
hath
euer
beene
a
common
custome
amongst
Idle
,
and
humerous
Poets
,
Pamphleters
,
and
Rimers
,
out
of
passionate
discontents
,
or
hauing
little
otherwise
to
imploy
themselues
about
,
to
write
some
bitter
Satire-Pamphlet
,
or
Rime
,
against
women
:
in
which
argument
he
who
could
denise
any
thing
more
bitterly
,
or
spitefully
,
against
our
sexe
,
hath
neuer
wanted
the
liking
,
allowance
,
and
applause
of
giddy
headed
people
.
Amongst
the
rable
of
scurill
writers
,
this
prisoner
now
present
hath
acted
his
part
,
whom
albeit
women
could
more
willingly
let
passe
,
then
bring
him
to
triall
,
and
as
euer
heretofore
,
rather
contemn
such
authors
than
deigne
them
any
answere
,
yet
seeing
his
booke
so
commonly
bought
vp
,
which
argueth
a
generall
applause
;
we
are
therfore
enforced
to
make
answere
in
defence
of
our selues
,
who
are
by
such
an
author
so
extreamely
wronged
in
publike
view
.
You
all
see
hee
will
not
put
himselfe
vpon
triall
:
if
we
should
let
it
so
passe
,
our
silence
might
implead
vs
for
guiltie
,
so
would
his
Pamphlet
be
receiued
with
a
greater
currant
and
credite
then
formerly
it
hath
beene
:
So
that
as
well
in
respect
of
our
sexe
,
as
for
a
generall
satisfaction
to
the
world
,
I
will
take
this
course
with
our
prisoner
,
I
will
at
this
present
examine
all
the
obiections
which
are
most
materiall
,
which
our
aduersarie
hath
vomited
out
against
woman
,
and
not
onely
what
he
hath
obiected
,
but
what
other
authors
of
more
import
then
Ioseph
Swetnam
haue
charged
vpon
women
:
alas
,
seely
man
he
obiecteth
nothing
but
what
he
hath
stolne
out
of
English
writers
,
as
Euphues
,
the
Palace
of
Pleasure
,
with
the
like
,
which
are
as
easily
answered
as
vaynly
obiected
.
He
neuer
read
the
vehement
and
profest
enemies
against
our
sexe
,
as
for
Gracians
,
Euripides
,
Menander
,
Simonides
,
Sophocles
,
with
the
like
,
amongst
Latine
writers
Invenall
,
Plautus
,
&c.
But
of
all
that
euer
I
read
,
I
did
neuer
obserue
such
generall
sinceritie
in
any
,
as
in
this
aduersarie
,
which
you
shall
finde
I
will
make
as
manifest
as
the
Sunne
to
shine
at
mid-day
.
It
is
the
maine
end
that
our
aduersarie
aimeth
at
in
all
his
discourse
,
to
proue
and
say
that
women
are
bad
;
if
he
should
offer
this
vpon
particulers
,
no
one
would
denie
it
:
but
to
lauish
generally
against
all
women
,
who
can
endure
it
?
You
might
Mr.
Swetnam
,
with
some
shew
of
honestie
haue
sayd
,
some
women
are
bad
,
both
by
custome
and
company
,
but
you
cannot
avoide
the
brand
,
both
of
blasphemie
and
dishonestie
,
to
say
of
women
generally
they
are
all
naught
,
both
in
their
creation
and
by
nature
,
and
to
ground
your
inferences
vpon
Scriptures
.
I
let
passe
your
obiections
in
your
first
page
;
because
they
are
formerly
answered
,
onely
whereas
you
say
,
woman
was
no
sooner
made
,
but
her
heart
was
set
vpon
mischiefe
:
if
you
had
then
said
,
she
had
no
sooner
eaten
of
the
fruit
,
but
her
heart
was
set
vpon
mischiefe
,
you
had
had
some
colour
for
your
speaches
;
not
in
respect
of
the
womans
disposition
,
but
in
consideration
both
of
her
first
Tutor
and
her
second
instructor
:
For
whereas
scripture
doth
say
,
Woman
was
supplanted
by
a
Serpent
,
Ioseph
Swetnam
doth
say
,
she
was
supplanted
by
the
deuill
,
which
appeared
to
her
in
the
shape
of
a
beautifull
yong
man
.
Men
are
much
beholding
to
this
author
,
who
will
seeme
to
insinuate
,
that
the
deuill
would
in
so
friendly
and
familier
a
manner
,
put
on
the
shape
of
man
,
when
he
first
began
to
practise
mischiefe
:
The
deuill
might
make
bold
of
them
,
whom
he
knew
in
time
would
proue
his
familier
friends
.
Herevpon
it
may
be
imagined
it
commeth
to
passe
that
Painters
,
and
Picture-makers
,
when
they
would
represent
the
deuill
,
they
set
him
out
in
the
deformed
shape
of
a
man
;
because
vnder
that
shape
he
began
first
to
act
the
part
of
a
diuell
:
and
I
doubt
he
neuer
changed
his
suite
sithence
.
Here
it
is
to
be
obserued
,
that
which
is
worst
is
expressed
by
the
shape
of
a
man
;
but
what
is
the
most
glorious
creature
is
represented
in
the
beautie
of
a
woman
,
Paul
,
by
one
mans
sinne
,
death
,
&c.
so
by
the
contagion
of
originall
sinne
in
Adam
,
all
men
are
infected
with
his
diseases
;
and
looke
what
examples
he
gaue
his
wife
at
the
first
,
the
like
examples
and
practises
doe
all
men
shew
to
women
euer
sithence
.
Let
mee
speake
freely
,
for
I
will
speake
nothing
but
truly
,
neither
shall
my
words
exceede
my
proofe
.
In
your
first
and
second
Page
,
you
alledge
Dauid
and
Salomon
,
for
exclaiming
bitterly
against
women
:
And
that
Salomon
saith
,
Women
(
like
as
Wine
)
doe
make
men
drunke
with
their
deuices
.
What
of
all
this
?
Ioseph
Swetnam
,
a
man
which
hath
reason
,
will
neuer
obiect
that
vnto
his
aduersary
,
which
when
it
commeth
to
examination
will
disaduantage
himselfe
.
Your
meaning
is
,
in
the
disgrace
of
women
to
exalt
men
:
but
is
this
any
commendation
to
men
,
that
they
haue
been
and
are
ouer-reacht
by
women
?
Can
you
glory
of
their
holinesse
,
whom
by
women
proue
sinfull
?
or
in
their
wisedome
,
They
are
dangerous
for
men
to
deale
withall
,
for
their
faces
are
Lures
,
their
beauties
baytes
,
their
lookes
are
nets
,
and
their
words
are
charmes
,
and
all
to
bring
men
to
ruine
:
Incidit
in
Scyllam
qui
vult
vitare
Charibdim
,
whil'st
he
seeketh
to
auoide
one
mischiefe
,
he
falleth
into
another
.
It
were
more
credit
for
men
to
yeeld
our
sexe
to
be
more
holy
,
wise
,
and
strong
,
then
to
excuse
themselues
by
the
reasons
alleaged
:
for
by
this
men
are
proued
to
haue
as
litle
wit
as
they
are
charged
to
exceed
in
wickednesse
.
Are
external
&
dumbe
shews
such
potent
baites
,
nets
,
lures
,
charmes
,
to
bring
men
to
ruine
?
Why
?
wilde
Asses
,
dotterels
,
and
woodcockes
,
are
not
so
easily
entangled
and
taken
?
are
men
so
idle
,
vaine
,
and
weake
,
as
you
seeme
to
make
them
?
Let
mee
now
see
how
you
can
free
these
men
from
dishonest
mindes
,
who
are
ouertaken
thus
with
beautie
,
&c.
How
can
beautiehurt
?
Causa
sine
qua
non
:
a
remote
cause
,
which
cause
is
seldome
alleaged
for
cause
,
but
where
want
of
wit
would
say
somewhat
,
and
a
guilty
conscience
would
excuse
it selfe
by
something
.
Philosophers
say
,
Nemo
leditur
nisi
a
seipso
,
no
man
is
hurt
but
the
cause
is
in
himselfe
.
The
prodigall
person
amongst
the
Gracians
is
called
Asotes
,
as
a
destroyer
,
an
vndoer
of
himselfe
:
When
an
heart
fraughted
with
sinne
doth
prodigally
lauish
out
a
lasciuious
looke
out
of
a
wanton
eye
;
when
it
doth
surfeit
vpon
the
fight
,
who
is
Asotos
?
who
is
guiltie
of
his
lasciuious
disease
but
himselfe
?
Volenti
non
fit
iniuria
,
hee
who
is
wounded
with
his
owne
consent
,
hath
small
cause
to
complaine
of
anothers
wrong
:
Might
not
a
man
as
easily
,
and
more
honestly
,
when
hee
seeth
a
faire
woman
,
which
doth
make
the
best
vse
that
she
can
to
set
out
her
beautie
,
rather
glorifie
God
in
so
beautifull
a
worke
,
then
infect
his
soule
with
so
lasciuious
a
thought
?
And
for
the
woman
,
who
hauing
a
Iewell
giuen
her
from
so
deare
a
friend
,
is
she
not
to
be
commended
rather
that
in
the
estimate
which
she
sheweth
,
shee
will
as
carefully
and
as
curiously
as
she
may
set
out
what
she
hath
receiued
from
Almighty
God
,
then
to
be
censured
that
she
doth
it
to
allure
wanton
and
lasciuious
lookes
?
The
difference
is
in
the
minds
,
things
which
are
called
Adiaphora
,
things
indifferent
,
whose
qualities
haue
their
name
from
the
vses
,
are
commonly
so
censured
,
and
so
vsed
,
as
the
minde
is
inclined
which
doth
passe
his
verdict
.
A
man
and
a
woman
talke
in
the
fields
together
,
an
honest
minde
will
imagine
of
their
talke
answerable
to
his
owne
disposition
,
whereas
an
euill
disposed
minde
will
censure
according
to
his
lewd
inclination
.
That
womens
dressings
and
attire
are
prouocations
to
wantonnesse
,
and
baites
to
allure
men
,
It
is
a
direct
meanes
to
know
of
what
disposition
they
are
,
it
is
a
shame
for
men
in
censuring
of
women
to
condemne
themselues
;
but
a
common
Inne
cannot
be
without
a
common
signe
;
it
is
a
common
signe
to
know
a
leacher
,
by
complaining
vpon
the
cause
and
occasion
of
his
surfeit
;
who
had
knowne
his
disease
but
by
his
owne
complaint
?
It
is
extreme
folly
to
complaine
of
another
,
when
the
roote
of
all
resteth
within
himselfe
;
purge
an
infected
heart
,
and
turne
away
a
lacinious
eye
,
and
then
neither
their
dreffings
,
nor
their
beautie
can
any
waies
hurt
you
.
Doe
not
men
exceede
in
apparell
,
and
therein
set
themselues
out
to
the
view
?
Shall
women
betray
themselues
and
make
it
knowne
that
they
are
either
so
bad
in
their
disposition
,
or
so
wanton
in
their
thoughts
,
or
so
weak
in
their
gouernment
as
to
complaine
that
they
are
tempted
and
allured
by
men
?
Should
women
make
themselues
more
vaine
then
yongest
children
,
to
fall
in
loue
with
babyes
.
Women
are
so
farre
off
from
being
in
any
sort
prouoked
to
loue
vpon
the
view
of
mens
apparell
,
(
Ioseph
Swetnam
)
you
set
downe
no
remedies
for
that
torment
of
Loue
,
as
you
call
it
:
You
bid
men
shunne
and
auoyde
it
,
but
those
be
common
and
ordinary
rules
and
instructions
:
yet
not
so
ordinary
,
as
able
to
restraine
the
extraordinary
humors
of
your
giddy
company
.
I
will
do
you
and
your
friends
a
kindnesse
if
you
be
so
scorched
with
the
flames
of
loue
.
Diogines
did
long
since
discouer
the
soueraigne
salue
for
such
a
wound
:
The
receipt
is
no
great
charge
,
your selfe
may
be
the
Apothecarie
,
After
you
haue
railed
against
women
,
you
bring
in
a
fable
of
a
contempt
betwixt
the
Winde
and
the
Same
;
and
you
apply
the
morrall
to
women
,
when
as
it
hath
a
farre
other
relation
:
for
it
euer
hath
been
applyed
to
men
,
to
instruct
them
in
the
gouernment
of
woman
,
for
I
pray
you
who
is
to
gouerne
,
or
who
are
to
be
gouerned
?
You
should
seeme
to
come
from
the
Sauromatians
,
whose
wiues
were
their
Masters
:
but
I
will
set
you
downe
both
the
Fable
and
the
Morrall
,
as
it
was
written
in
English
verse
long
sithence
.
THe
Sunne
and
Winde
at
variance
did
fall
,
Whose
force
was
greatest
in
the
open
field
:
A
trauailer
they
chuse
to
deale
withall
;
Who
makes
him
first
vnto
their
force
to
yeeld
To
cast
off
Cloake
,
they
that
agreement
make
,
The
honour
of
the
victory
must
take
.
The
Winde
began
and
did
encrease
,
each
blast
With
raging
beate
vpon
the
silly
man
;
The
more
it
blew
,
the
more
he
grasped
fast
And
kept
his
Cloake
,
let
Winde
doe
what
it
can
?
When
all
in
vaine
the
Winde
his
worst
had
done
,
It
ceast
,
and
left
a
tryall
to
the
Sunne
.
The
Sunne
beginnes
his
beames
for
to
display
,
And
by
degrees
in
heate
for
to
encrease
;
The
Trauailer
then
warme
,
doth
make
a
stay
,
And
by
degrees
his
Cloake
he
doth
release
:
At
length
is
forc'd
both
Coate
and
Cloake
to
yeeld
,
So
giues
the
Sunne
the
honour
of
the
field
.
Who
by
extreames
doth
seeke
to
worke
his
will
,
By
raging
humors
thinking
so
to
gaine
;
May
like
the
Winde
augment
his
tempest
still
,
But
at
the
length
he
findes
his
furie
vaine
:
For
all
he
gets
by
playing
franticke
parts
,
He
hardeneth
more
the
milde
and
gentle
hearts
.
Like
as
all
Plants
,
when
at
the
first
they
spring
,
Are
tender
,
and
soft
bark'd
on
euery
fide
;
But
as
they
grow
continuall
stormes
doe
bring
Those
are
more
hard
which
Northerne
blasts
abide
:
What
's
toward
the
Southerne
tenderer
we
finde
,
And
that
more
hard
which
feeles
the
Northern
winde
.
Nautre
his
course
most
carefully
doth
bend
,
From
violence
to
seeke
it selfe
to
arme
;
Where
raging
blasts
the
trees
would
breake
and
rend
,
There
Nature
striues
to
keepe
her
Plants
from
harme
:
Where
violence
is
vnto
Nature
strange
,
Continuall
custome
there
doth
Nature
change
.
So
't
is
with
women
,
who
by
Nature
milde
,
If
they
on
froward
crabbed
Husbands
light
;
Continuall
rage
by
custome
makes
them
wilde
,
For
crooked
natures
alter
gentle
quite
;
Men
euermore
shall
this
in
triall
finde
,
Like
to
her
vsage
so
is
womans
minde
.
As
of
themselues
,
let
men
of
others
iudge
,
What
man
will
yeeld
to
be
compel'd
by
rage
?
At
crabbednesse
and
crustnesse
hearts
doe
grudge
,
And
to
resist
,
themselues
they
more
engage
:
Forbeare
the
Winde
,
shine
with
the
Sunne
a
while
,
Though
she
be
angry
,
she
will
forthwith
smile
.
This
is
the
true
application
of
the
Morrall
.
As
for
that
crookednesse
and
frowardnesse
with
which
you
charge
women
,
looke
from
whence
they
haue
it
;
for
of
themselues
and
their
owne
disposition
it
doth
not
proceede
,
which
is
prooued
directly
by
your
owne
testimonie
:
A
young
woman
of
tender
yeares
is
flexible
,
obedient
,
and
subiect
to
doe
any
thing
,
according
to
the
will
and
pleasure
of
her
Husband
.
How
commeth
it
then
that
this
gentle
and
milde
disposition
is
afterwards
altered
?
your selfe
doth
giue
the
true
reason
,
for
you
giue
a
great
charge
not
to
marrie
a
widdow
.
But
why
?
because
say
you
in
the
same
Page
,
A
widdow
is
framed
to
the
conditions
of
another
man
.
Why
then
,
if
a
woman
haue
froward
conditions
,
they
be
none
of
her
owne
,
she
was
framed
to
them
.
Is
not
our
aduersarie
ashamed
of
himselfe
,
to
raile
against
women
for
those
faults
which
doe
all
come
from
men
?
Doth
not
hee
most
grieuously
charge
men
to
learne
their
wiues
bad
and
corrupt
behauiour
?
Thou
must
vnlearne
a
widdow
,
and
make
her
forget
and
forgoe
her
former
corrupt
&
disordered
behaniour
.
Thou
must
vnlearne
her
,
Ergo
,
what
fault
shee
hath
,
shee
learned
,
her
corruptnes
commeth
not
from
her
own
disposition
,
but
from
her
Husbands
destruction
.
Is
it
not
a
wonder
,
that
your
Pamphlets
are
so
dispersed
?
Are
they
not
wise
men
to
cast
away
time
and
money
vpon
a
Booke
which
cutteth
their
owne
throates
?
'T
is
pittie
but
that
men
should
reward
you
for
your
writing
;
if
it
bee
but
as
the
Romane
Sertorius
did
the
idle
Poet
,
hee
gaue
him
a
reward
,
but
not
for
his
writing
,
but
because
he
should
neuer
write
more
;
as
for
women
,
they
laugh
that
men
haue
no
more
able
a
champion
.
This
author
commeth
to
baite
women
,
or
as
hee
foolishly
sayth
,
the
Beare
bayting
,
of
Women
,
and
he
bringeth
but
a
mungrell
Curre
,
who
doth
his
kinde
,
to
braule
and
barke
,
but
cannot
bite
.
The
milde
and
flexible
disposition
of
a
woman
is
in
philosophy
proued
in
the
composition
of
her
body
,
for
it
is
a
Maxime
,
Mores
animi
sequntur
temperaturam
corporis
,
The
disposition
of
the
minde
is
answerable
to
the
temper
of
the
body
.
A
woman
in
the
temperature
of
her
body
is
tender
,
soft
,
and
beautifull
,
so
doth
her
disposition
in
minde
corresponde
accordingly
;
she
is
milde
yeelding
,
and
vertuous
;
what
disposition
accidentally
happeneth
vnto
her
,
is
by
the
contagion
of
a
froward
husband
,
as
Ioseph
Swetnam
affirmeth
.
And
experience
proueth
.
It
is
a
shame
for
a
man
to
complaine
of
a
froward
woman
,
in
many
respects
all
concerning
himselfe
.
It
is
a
shame
he
hath
no
more
gouernment
ouer
the
weaker
vessell
.
It
is
a
shame
he
hath
hardned
her
tender
sides
,
and
gentle
heart
with
his
boistrous
&
Northren
blasts
.
And
this
shall
appeare
in
the
imputation
which
our
aduersarie
chargeth
vpon
our
sexe
,
Women
tempt
,
alure
,
and
prouoke
men
.
How
rare
a
thing
is
it
for
women
to
prostitute
and
offer
themselues
?
how
common
a
practise
is
it
for
men
to
seeke
and
solicite
women
to
lewdnesse
?
what
charge
doe
they
spare
?
what
trauell
doe
they
bestow
?
what
vowes
,
oathes
and
protestations
doe
they
spend
,
to
make
them
dishonest
?
They
hyer
Pandors
,
they
write
letters
,
they
seale
them
with
damnations
,
and
execrations
,
to
assure
them
of
loue
,
when
the
end
proues
but
lust
:
They
know
the
flexible
disposition
of
Women
and
the
sooner
to
ouerreach
them
,
some
will
pretend
they
are
so
plunged
in
loue
that
except
they
obtaine
their
desire
they
will
seeme
to
drown'd
,
hang
,
stab
,
poyson
,
or
banish
themselues
from
friends
and
countrie
:
What
motiues
are
these
to
tender
dispositions
?
Some
will
pretend
marriage
,
another
offer
continuall
maintenance
,
but
when
they
haue
obtained
their
purpose
,
what
shall
a
woman
finde
,
iust
that
which
is
her
euerlasting
shame
and
griefe
,
shee
hath
made
her selfe
the
vnhappie
subject
to
a
lustfull
bodie
;
and
the
shamefull
stall
of
a
lasciuious
tongue
.
Men
may
with
foule
shame
charge
women
with
this
sinne
which
they
had
neuer
committed
if
shee
had
not
trusted
,
nor
had
euer
trusted
if
shee
had
not
beene
deceiued
with
vowes
,
oathes
,
and
protestations
.
To
bring
a
woman
to
offend
in
one
sinne
,
how
many
damnable
sinnes
doe
they
commit
?
I
appeale
to
their
owne
consciences
.
The
lewd
disposition
of
sundry
men
doth
appeare
in
this
:
If
a
woman
or
maide
will
yeeld
vnto
lewdnesse
,
what
shall
they
want
?
But
if
they
would
liue
in
honestie
,
what
helpe
shall
they
haue
?
How
much
will
they
make
of
the
lewd
?
how
base
account
of
the
honest
?
how
many
pounds
will
they
spend
in
bawdie
houses
?
but
when
will
they
bestowe
a
penny
vpon
an
honest
maide
or
woman
,
except
it
be
to
corrupt
them
?
Our
aduersary
bringeth
many
examples
of
men
which
haue
beene
ouerthrowne
by
women
.
Helen
was
the
cause
of
Troyes
burning
;
first
,
Paris
did
sollicite
her
;
next
,
how
many
knaues
and
fooles
of
the
male
kinde
had
Troy
,
which
to
maintaine
whoredome
would
bring
their
Citie
to
confusion
.
When
you
bring
in
examples
of
lewd
women
,
and
of
men
which
haue
beene
stained
by
women
,
you
shew
your selfe
both
franticke
,
and
a
prophane
irreligious
foole
to
mention
Indith
for
cutting
off
Holoferues
head
,
in
that
rancke
.
You
challenge
women
for
vntamed
and
vnbrideled
tongues
;
there
was
neuer
woman
was
euer
noted
for
so
shamelesse
,
so
brutish
,
so
beastly
a
scold
as
you
proue
your selfe
in
this
base
and
odious
Pamphlet
:
You
blaspheme
God
,
you
raile
at
his
Creation
,
you
abuse
and
slander
his
Creatures
;
and
what
immodest
or
impudent
scurilitie
is
it
,
which
you
doe
not
expresse
in
this
lewd
and
lying
Pamphlet
?
Hitherto
I
haue
so
answered
all
your
obiections
against
Women
,
that
as
I
haue
not
defended
the
wickednesse
of
any
;
so
I
haue
set
downe
the
true
state
of
the
question
.
As
Eue
did
not
offend
without
the
temptation
of
a
Serpent
;
so
women
doe
seldome
offend
,
but
it
is
by
prouocation
of
men
.
Let
not
your
impudencie
,
nor
your
conforts
dishonestie
,
charge
our
sexe
hereafter
,
with
those
sinnes
of
which
you
your selues
were
the
first
procurers
.
I
haue
in
my
discourse
,
touched
you
,
and
all
yours
,
to
the
quick
.
I
haue
taxed
you
with
bitter
speaches
;
you
will
(
perhaps
)
say
I
am
a
rayling
scold
.
In
this
obiection
,
Ioseph
Swetnam
,
Now
,
for
this
time
,
to
draw
to
an
end
;
let
me
aske
according
to
the
question
of
Cassian
,
Cui
bono
?
what
haue
you
gotten
by
publishing
your
Pamphlet
;
good
I
know
you
can
get
none
.
You
haue
(
perhaps
)
pleased
the
humors
of
some
giddy
,
idle
conceited
persons
:
But
you
haue
died
your selfe
in
the
colours
of
shame
,
lying
,
slandering
,
blasphemie
,
ignorance
,
and
the
like
.
The
shortnesse
of
time
and
the
weight
of
businesse
call
me
away
,
and
vrge
me
to
leaue
off
thus
abruptly
,
but
assure
your selfe
where
I
leaue
now
,
I
will
by
Gods
grace
supply
the
next
Terme
,
to
your
small
content
.
You
haue
exceeded
in
your
furie
against
Widdowes
,
whose
defence
you
shal
heare
of
at
the
time
aforesaide
,
in
the
meane
space
recollect
your
wits
,
write
out
of
deliberation
,
not
out
of
furie
;
write
out
of
aduice
,
not
out
of
idlenesse
;
forbeare
to
charge
women
with
faults
which
come
from
the
contagion
of
Masculine
serpents
.
A
DEFENCE
OF
Women
,
against
the
Author
of
the
Arraignment
of
Women
.
CHAP.
VIII
.
AN
idle
companion
was
raging
of
late
,
Who
in
furie
'gainst
Women
expresseth
his
hate
:
Hee
writeth
a
Booke
,
an
Arraignment
he
calleth
,
In
which
against
women
he
currishly
bawleth
.
He
deserueth
no
answere
but
in
Ballat
or
Ryme
,
Vpon
idle
fantastickes
who
would
cast
away
time
:
Any
answere
may
serue
an
impudent
lyar
,
Any
mangie
scab'd
horse
doth
fit
a
scal'd
Squire
:
In
the
ruffe
of
his
furie
,
for
so
himselfe
faith
,
The
blasphemous
companion
he
shamefully
playeth
.
The
woman
for
an
Helpler
,
God
did
make
he
doth
say
,
But
to
Helpe
to
consume
and
spend
all
away
.
Thus
,
at
Gods
creation
to
flout
and
to
iest
,
Who
but
an
Atheist
would
so
play
the
beast
?
The
Scriptures
doe
proue
that
when
Adam
did
fall
,
And
to
death
and
damnation
was
thereby
a
thrall
.
Then
woman
was
an
Helper
,
for
by
her
blessed
seed
,
From
Hell
and
damnation
all
mankinde
was
freed
.
He
saith
,
women
are
froward
,
which
the
rib
doth
declare
,
For
like
as
the
Rib
,
so
they
crooked
are
:
The
Rib
was
her
Subiect
for
body
we
finde
,
But
from
God
came
her
Soule
,
and
dispose
of
her
minde
.
Let
no
man
thinke
much
if
women
compare
,
That
in
their
creation
they
much
better
are
:
More
blessings
therein
to
women
doe
fall
,
Then
vnto
mankinde
haue
beene
giuen
at
all
.
Women
were
the
last
worke
,
and
therefore
the
best
,
For
what
was
the
end
,
excelleth
the
rest
.
For
womans
more
honour
,
it
was
so
assign'd
,
She
was
made
of
the
rib
of
mettall
refin'd
:
The
Countrey
doth
also
the
woman
more
grace
,
For
Paradice
is
farre
the
more
excellent
place
.
Yet
women
are
mischienous
,
this
Author
doth
say
,
But
Scriptures
to
that
directly
say
nay
:
God
said
,
'twixt
the
Woman
and
Serpent
for
euer
,
Strong
hatred
he
would
put
,
to
be
qualified
neuer
.
The
woman
being
hatefull
to
the
Serpents
condition
,
How
excellent
is
she
in
her
disposition
?
The
Serpent
with
men
in
their
workes
may
agree
,
But
the
Serpent
with
women
that
neuer
may
be
.
If
you
aske
how
it
happens
some
women
proue
naught
,
By
men
turn'd
to
Serpents
they
are
ouer-wrought
.
What
the
Serpent
began
,
men
follow
that
still
,
They
tempt
what
they
may
to
make
women
doe
ill
.
They
will
tempt
,
and
prouoke
,
and
follow
vs
long
:
They
deceiue
vs
with
aithes
,
and
a
flattering
tongue
.
To
make
a
poore
Maiden
or
woman
a
whore
,
They
care
not
how
much
they
spend
of
their
store
.
But
where
is
there
a
man
that
will
any
thing
giue
That
woman
or
maide
may
with
honestie
liue
?
If
they
yeeld
to
lewd
counsell
they
nothing
shall
want
,
But
for
to
be
honest
,
then
all
things
are
scant
.
It
proues
a
bad
nature
in
men
doth
remaine
.
To
make
women
lewd
their
purses
they
straine
.
For
a
woman
that
's
honest
they
care
not
a
whit
,
They
le
say
she
is
honest
because
she
lackes
wit
.
They
le
call
women
whores
,
but
their
stakes
they
might
saue
,
There
can
be
no
Whore
,
but
there
must
be
a
Knaue
.
They
say
that
our
dressings
,
and
that
our
attire
Are
causes
to
moue
them
to
lustfull
fire
.
Of
all
things
which
are
we
euermore
finde
,
Such
thoughts
doe
arise
as
are
like
to
the
minde
.
Mens
thoughts
being
wicked
they
wracke
on
vs
thus
,
That
scandall
is
taken
,
not
giuen
by
vs
.
If
their
sight
be
so
weake
,
and
their
frailtie
be
such
,
Why
doe
they
then
gaze
at
our
beauty
so
much
?
Plucke
away
those
ill
roots
whence
sinne
doth
arise
,
Amend
wicked
thoughts
,
or
plucke
out
the
eyes
.
The
humors
of
men
,
see
how
froward
they
bee
;
We
know
not
to
please
them
in
any
degree
:
For
if
we
goe
plaine
we
are
sluts
they
doe
say
,
They
doubt
of
our
honesty
if
we
goe
gay
;
If
we
be
honest
and
merrie
,
for
giglots
they
take
vs
,
If
modest
and
sober
,
then
proud
they
doe
make
vs
:
Be
we
housewifly
quicke
,
then
a
shrew
he
doth
keepe
,
If
patient
and
milde
,
then
he
scorneth
a
sheepe
.
What
can
we
deuise
to
doe
or
to
say
,
But
men
doe
wrest
all
things
the
contrary
way
.
'T
is
not
so
vncertaine
to
follow
the
winde
,
As
to
seeke
to
please
men
of
so
humerous
minde
.
Their
humors
are
giddy
,
and
neuer
long
lasting
,
We
know
not
to
please
them
,
neither
full
nor
yet
fasting
.
Either
we
doe
too
little
,
or
they
doe
too
much
:
They
straine
our
poore
wits
,
their
humors
are
such
.
They
say
,
women
are
proud
wherein
made
they
triall
?
They
moou'd
some
lewd
suit
,
and
had
the
deniall
:
To
be
crost
in
such
suites
,
men
cannot
abide
,
And
therevpon
we
are
entitled
with
pride
.
They
say
we
are
curst
and
froward
by
kinde
,
Our
mildnesse
is
changed
,
where
raging
we
finde
,
A
good
Iacke
saye
;
the
prouerbe
,
doth
make
a
good
Gill
,
A
curst
froward
Husband
doth
change
womans
will
.
They
vse
vs
(
they
say
)
as
necessary
euils
,
We
haue
it
from
them
,
for
they
are
our
deuils
.
When
they
are
in
their
rages
and
humerous
fits
,
They
put
vs
poore
women
halfe
out
of
our
wits
.
Of
all
naughty
women
name
one
if
you
can
,
If
she
proued
bad
,
it
came
by
a
man
.
Faire
Helen
forsooke
her
Husband
of
Greece
,
A
man
called
Paris
,
betrayed
that
peece
.
Medea
did
rage
,
and
did
shamefully
murther
,
A
lason
was
cause
,
which
her
mischiefe
did
further
.
A
Cresside
was
false
,
and
changed
her
loue
,
Diomedes
her
heart
by
constraint
did
remoue
.
In
all
like
examples
the
world
may
see
,
Where
women
proue
bad
,
there
men
are
not
free
.
But
in
those
offences
they
haue
the
most
share
,
Women
would
be
good
,
if
Serpents
would
spare
.
Let
Women
and
Maides
whatsoeuer
they
be
,
Come
follow
my
counsell
,
be
warned
by
me
.
Trust
not
mens
suites
,
their
loue
proueth
lust
,
Both
hearts
,
tongues
,
and
pens
,
doe
all
proue
vniust
.
How
faire
they
will
speake
and
write
in
their
loue
,
But
put
them
to
tryall
how
false
doe
they
proue
?
They
loue
hot
at
first
,
when
the
loue
is
a
stranger
,
But
they
will
not
be
tied
to
racke
and
to
manger
.
What
loue
call
you
that
when
men
are
a
wooing
,
And
seeke
nothing
else
but
shame
and
vndoing
.
As
women
in
their
faults
I
doe
not
commend
,
So
wish
I
all
men
their
lewd
suites
they
would
end
.
Let
women
alone
,
and
seeke
not
their
shame
,
You
shall
haue
no
cause
then
women
to
blame
.
'T
is
like
that
this
Author
against
such
doth
bawle
.
Who
by
his
temptations
haue
gotten
a
fall
.
For
he
who
of
women
so
wickedly
deemeth
,
Hath
made
them
dishonest
,
it
probably
seemeth
.
He
hath
beene
a
Traueller
,
it
may
be
well
so
,
By
his
tales
and
reports
as
much
we
doe
know
.
He
promiseth
more
poyson
against
women
to
thrust
,
He
doth
it
for
phisicke
,
or
else
he
would
brust
.
Thus
I
bid
him
farewell
till
next
we
doe
meete
,
And
then
as
cause
moueth
,
so
shall
we
greete
.
IOANE
SHARP
.
FINIS
.