Asylum
Veneris
,
OR
A
SANCTVARIE
for
WOMEN
.
Proaemium
.
VIrtue
is
made
a
whited
wall
,
which
euery
ideot
doth
delight
to
soile
.
He
that
knoweth
no
part
of
hir
but
the
name
,
wil
notwithstanding
haue
hir
banished
for
hir
worth
.
If
she
flourish
neuer
so
little
,
some
tricke
or
other
must
be
put
in
practise
to
giue
hir
a
remoue
:
but
she
,
who
as
the
Poet
saith
.
Nec
sumit
,
aut
ponit
secures
Arbitrio
popularis
aurae
.
Can
at
hir
pleasure
free
hir selfe
from
checke
;
and
with
the
splendor
of
hir
maiestie
disperse
those
earthly
exhalations
which
being
belched
out
of
the
bosome
of
wretched
malice
,
would
obscure
his
glory
.
She
stands
continually
firme
and
vpon
hir
square
:
hir
constancie
is
like
the
sunnes
,
which
neither
for
our
praises
,
nor
our
curses
will
bee
moued
to
hasten
or
slacken
his
carere
.
She
imitates
the
Moone
,
and
howsoeuer
sauage
wolues
doe
houle
and
barke
at
hir
,
shee
is
not
moued
to
forgoe
hir
Spheare
.
Antoeus
like
,
the
oftner
she
is
cast
to
ground
,
the
greater
strength
she
still
recouereth
.
Hi●
foiles
doe
serue
hir
as
a
file
,
to
giue
him
courage
point
.
She
is
Collossus
etiam
in
puteo
;
put
hir
into
a
dungeon
she
retaines
hir
state
.
He
that
laboreth
by
the
interposition
of
some
scandalous
delation
to
ecclipse
hir
brightnesse
,
may
peraduenture
with
the
sillie
Flie
,
make
the
obiect
of
his
enuie
an
occasion
of
his
tragedie
.
What
sweete
perfections
are
in
women
,
which
ill
disposed
men
haue
not
endeuoured
to
depraue
,
through
false
and
forged
imputations
?
what
faire
abilities
and
graces
,
which
they
haue
not
sought
to
blacke
with
their
calumnious
aspersions
?
She
hath
beene
a
long
time
the
white
,
at
which
their
hate
hath
leuelled
;
but
as
they
that
shoote
against
the
starres
,
may
peraduenture
hurt
themselues
,
but
neuer
endanger
them
;
their
arrowes
many
times
haue
rebounded
backe
,
and
deliuered
a
fatall
answere
to
those
that
sent
them
:
The
dissection
of
their
weakenesse
hath
happened
to
bee
a
strict
anatomizing
of
their
owne
.
The
snuffers
in
the
Temple
were
of
pure
gold
,
to
signifie
vnto
vs
,
that
such
as
take
vpon
them
to
remoue
from
others
the
superfluitie
of
the
weeke
,
that
their
light
may
burne
out
the
clearer
;
ought
to
be
free
from
all
taxation
themselues
.
It
were
ridiculous
for
any
man
to
talke
of
a
mote
in
his
neighbours
eye
,
when
there
is
a
beame
in
his
owne
.
Hee
may
well
beare
with
a
wart
,
who
is
himselfe
disfigured
with
a
wenne
.
But
alas
!
it
is
the
nature
of
sicke
and
crazie
appetites
,
to
thinke
the
meate
which
is
set
before
them
,
is
vnsauourie
,
when
indeede
the
fault
proceedeth
not
,
but
from
a
meere
distemperature
in
their
owne
palates
.
The
diseased
person
complaineth
of
the
hardnesse
of
his
bed
,
when
the
cause
of
his
disquiet
is
a
weakenesse
in
his
bones
.
Looke
vpon
such
as
are
ouercome
with
wine
,
and
yee
shall
see
them
ready
to
accuse
euen
temperance
it selfe
of
their
owne
folly
:
the
earth
,
which
standeth
still
immoueable
,
cannot
escape
their
censure
.
They
will
by
no
meanes
be
perswaded
,
but
it
is
that
which
reeleth
,
when
alas
!
it
is
onely
their
own
braines
,
which
are
set
on
wheeling
.
But
I
will
not
here
professe
my selfe
a
champion
to
that
sex
,
least
by
so
doing
I
might
be
thought
to
question
their
sufficiencie
:
the
strength
of
their
owne
merit
,
without
the
helpe
of
any
forraigne
supply
,
is
that
which
must
free
them
from
the
siege
of
barbarous
opposition
,
and
set
their
honour
out
of
the
reach
of
daring
contradiction
,
which
out
of
doubt
will
easily
be
effected
,
as
by
the
sequell
briefely
shall
appeare
.
CHAP.
I.
Of
womens
worth
in
generall
.
THere
is
no
greater
argument
of
a
generous
minde
,
then
to
ioy
in
whatsoeuer
it
seeth
generous
in
others
.
The
Owle
and
the
Bat
,
though
they
haue
eyes
to
discerne
there
is
a
sunne
,
yet
haue
so
euill
eyes
,
that
they
cannot
delight
in
the
sunne
:
it
is
for
Eagles
onely
,
and
such
kingly
birds
,
as
haue
had
no
other
Aerie
for
their
breeding
,
than
the
lappe
of
loue
,
to
gase
with
pleasure
&
admiration
on
his
glory
.
The
meaner
sort
of
people
,
whose
spirits
are
oppressed
&
aggraued
with
such
grosser
humours
,
as
the
channels
of
their
bloud
are
vsually
dammed
vp
with
;
dare
not
but
with
cowardly
feare
approach
the
pallaces
of
Princes
:
it
is
honour
enough
for
them
,
they
thinke
,
if
they
may
be
suffered
to
obserue
the
frontispice
,
or
at
the
most
to
take
a
view
of
such
inferiour
offices
,
as
are
in
them
.
Their
ambition
is
of
a
shorter
wing
,
then
to
aspire
so
high
as
to
looke
into
a
roome
of
state
;
yet
euen
these
,
if
in
these
meaner
parts
their
duller
obseruation
find
any
thing
,
which
holdes
not
correspondency
with
their
conceit
,
will
not
sticke
at
their
departure
for
a
little
errour
to
discommend
the
workmanship
of
the
whole
frame
.
They
which
out
of
a
cynicall
disposition
doe
wound
the
reputation
of
Women
with
inuectiues
,
are
men
of
no
better
garbe
.
The
graces
haue
found
no
sweeter
habitation
vpon
earth
to
rest
in
,
then
their
bosomes
.
Our
Sauiour
did
not
scorne
when
hee
came
downe
from
heauen
to
make
the
wombe
of
a
Virgin
,
the
receptacle
of
his
glory
.
Whereupon
Saint
Bernard
transported
with
a
diuiner
ecstacie
,
crieth
out
,
O
venter
capacior
coelis
,
diffusior
terris
;
latior
elementis
;
qui
illum
continere
valuit
,
quem
totus
mundus
capere
non
potuit
.
O
blessed
wombe
,
wider
then
the
heauens
,
broader
then
the
earth
,
larger
then
then
the
elements
;
which
was
able
to
containe
him
,
whom
the
whole
world
was
too
little
to
receiue
.
And
to
say
truely
,
where
could
vertue
in
the
pourpris
of
this
vniuerse
,
haue
picked
out
a
fairer
mansion
?
It
seemes
to
me
that
Women
were
erected
of
purpose
for
her
to
soiourne
in
;
and
that
,
by
the
hand
of
God
himselfe
,
who
built
her
,
built
her
I
say
,
(
for
this
is
the
proper
word
,
by
which
the
mouth
of
wisedome
in
the
originall
expresseth
hir
creation
)
to
shew
the
absolutenesse
of
his
skill
,
in
the
closing
vp
of
his
worke
.
But
Calumnie
suggesteth
here
,
that
she
was
built
indeede
,
but
the
foundation
was
a
crooked
rib
.
Inde
genus
curuum
,
placidae
virtutis
inane
.
And
from
hence
a
crookednesse
both
in
manners
and
behauiour
hath
euer
since
descended
by
way
of
propagation
,
from
hir
to
hir
posteritie
;
which
I
will
no
otherwise
confute
,
than
by
condemning
such
of
ignorance
,
as
haue
beene
authors
of
this
improper
speech
:
Art
would
haue
termed
it
an
Arch
,
which
of
all
kindes
of
Architecture
is
both
the
firmest
,
and
the
fairest
.
But
this
is
not
the
period
of
their
traducements
:
they
will
seeme
to
tax
the
Artisan
himselfe
of
errour
and
mistaking
.
He
made
hir
for
a
helpe
,
say
they
,
to
Man
,
when
she
fell
out
to
be
nothing
lesse
;
as
if
that
patron
of
all
exemplary
goodnesse
had
beene
ill
aduised
in
his
ends
.
They
consider
not
the
fault
is
in
themselues
,
if
they
proue
contrary
to
his
intention
.
Their
owne
peruersenes
is
that
,
which
maketh
them
such
as
they
report
them
.
Let
Phaebus
haue
the
guiding
of
the
day
and
ye
shall
see
it
cleare
and
lightsome
,
but
if
Phaethon
haue
the
mannaging
of
those
steedes
,
his
presumptuous
ouer
weening
wil
go
neere
to
set
all
things
in
combustion
.
I
but
,
say
they
,
she
was
according
to
that
Spanish
adage
;
Armas
del
Diablo
:
cabeza
del
Peccado
:
destruycion
del
Parayso
;
The
sword
wherewith
the
diuell
cut
the
throate
of
mans
felicitie
;
she
was
the
head
of
sinne
,
the
ouerthrow
of
Paradise
.
But
let
them
consider
the
good
they
gained
by
this
hir
errour
,
and
transgression
;
and
vnlesse
their
foreheads
bee
of
Adamant
,
they
will
recant
those
blasphemies
and
cry
out
with
a
better
reformed
zeale
,
O
foelix
culpa
,
quae
talem
,
ac
tantum
meruit
Redemptorem
!
O
necessarium
Adae
peccatum
,
quod
Christi
morte
deletum
est
!
O
happie
fault
of
Eue
,
which
stood
in
neede
of
such
a
worthy
,
and
so
mightie
a
redeemer
!
O
needefull
offence
of
Adam
,
which
was
not
to
be
cancelled
,
but
by
the
death
of
Christ
.
Then
was
it
,
and
not
till
then
,
that
the
dores
of
those
euerlasting
taberacles
,
in
which
the
king
of
glory
hath
is
residence
,
were
opened
vnto
wretched
Man
.
He
was
driuen
out
of
an
earthly
Paradise
by
one
Angel
,
that
he
might
be
welcommed
by
Legions
of
them
into
a
heauenly
one
,
whereof
that
other
was
but
a
figure
and
a
type
.
And
this
it
may
be
,
was
the
cause
why
God
after
the
time
of
her
fall
,
and
not
before
,
entitled
hir
Heuah
,
the
mother
of
the
liuing
.
I
will
omit
many
things
,
and
not
insist
vpon
any
long
.
Hir
brest
is
as
a
precious
cabinet
in
which
the
choisest
of
all
Virtues
are
preserued
.
Our
Sauiour
himselfe
could
not
but
wonder
at
the
faith
which
hee
found
in
the
woman
of
Canaan
,
and
forgot
not
in
the
height
of
his
admiration
to
crown
it
with
applause
.
Malice
notwithstanding
would
perswade
the
world
,
that
their
outside
is
a
shop
for
vanitie
;
their
inside
a
ware-house
for
impietie
;
that
conscience
in
them
is
but
peeuishnesse
;
chastitie
,
waywardnesse
,
and
gratefulnesse
a
miracle
.
In
a
word
,
that
their
bosomes
are
fuller
of
mischiefes
and
disasters
,
than
euer
was
Pandoras
boxe
:
and
that
like
the
Apothecaries
painted
pots
,
they
may
be
faire
without
,
yet
full
of
poyson
within
.
And
surely
I
must
needes
confesse
,
that
there
are
some
,
on
whom
she
may
iustly
fasten
these
reproaches
.
For
howsoeuer
the
matter
be
the
same
,
there
is
a
difference
notwithstanding
in
the
forme
.
The
finest
cloth
hath
a
list
,
and
the
purest
gold
,
is
not
without
some
drosse
.
But
let
not
preiudice
,
like
one
of
Circes
charmes
worke
such
a
fearefull
metamorphosis
vpon
the
mindes
of
men
,
as
to
make
reason
brutish
;
iudgement
and
vnderstanding
,
things
of
little
sense
.
Let
them
not
shew
themselues
,
like
bores
,
as
ready
to
roote
vp
a
bed
of
roses
,
as
a
dunghill
:
but
consider
that
the
earth
hurteth
not
the
sunne
,
with
those
mistie
vapours
,
and
exhalations
,
which
shee
breatheth
forth
against
it
;
but
depriueth
her selfe
by
them
of
that
comfort
,
which
the
chearfulnesse
of
his
beames
would
otherwise
afford
hir
.
And
so
from
these
generall
notions
and
conceits
of
Womens
worthinesse
,
I
will
now
slide
to
some
particulars
,
amongst
which
their
Beautie
is
the
first
that
offereth
it selfe
to
be
considered
.
CHAP.
2.
Of
their
Beautie
.
THis
is
that
blazing
light
which
virtue
like
another
Hero
,
setteth
vp
in
the
face
of
Women
,
as
in
the
turret
of
hir
habitation
,
to
guide
thereby
the
course
of
those
generous
and
heroicall
Leanders
,
who
being
enamoured
of
hir
faire
desarts
,
cannot
brooke
that
the
threates
and
menaces
of
a
rebellious
fortune
should
hinder
them
from
repayring
to
hir
lodge
,
or
that
any
other
disastrous
accidents
whatsoeuer
,
should
preuent
their
affection
from
making
a
personall
presentment
of
their
seruice
,
to
so
sweete
and
heauenly
a
mistrisse
:
It
is
the
onely
harbinger
,
which
prouideth
a
resting
place
both
for
hir
and
hirs
,
whithersoeuer
they
doe
goe
:
it
is
the
loade-stone
of
all
hearts
;
and
in
a
word
,
a
loade-starre
to
all
eyes
.
Beasts
onely
cannot
discerne
it
,
and
let
them
bee
in
the
role
of
beasts
that
doe
not
honour
it
.
The
force
thereof
is
such
,
as
hath
enforced
the
greatest
conquerours
to
submit
their
glory
,
and
to
cast
the
trophies
of
their
victories
,
as
ensignes
of
their
subiection
at
hir
feete
.
Sampson
,
who
like
another
Atlas
could
carrie
cities
on
his
shoulders
,
and
by
the
vigour
of
his
arme
which
serued
him
as
an
armie
,
both
confront
and
confound
the
batalions
of
his
vncircumcised
enemies
;
did
notwithstanding
this
his
more
then
naturall
strength
,
become
an
homager
to
hir
.
Salomon
for
all
his
wisedome
was
made
hir
liegeman
;
and
Dauid
who
in
his
youth
had
ouercome
the
Lion
and
the
Beare
,
and
did
afterwards
vanquish
that
prodigious
Philistim
,
the
thunder
of
whose
Threats
proclaimed
nothing
but
terrour
and
amasement
to
the
Israelites
:
vpon
the
sight
of
Bershabe
,
&
that
at
a
sufficient
distance
,
was
captiuated
by
hir
comelinesse
.
Darius
may
be
so
great
in
power
,
that
all
regions
may
feare
to
touch
him
.
Yet
Apame
his
concubine
will
dare
to
take
the
crowne
from
his
head
,
and
set
it
vpon
hir
own
.
If
she
strike
him
,
he
must
be
patient
,
&
when
she
any
way
distasteth
him
,
seek
by
flatteries
and
smooth
insinuations
to
worke
his
reconcilement
.
1.
Esdr.
4.
v.
30.
What
should
I
tell
you
how
Achilles
doted
on
his
Brisis
?
or
how
Alcides
was
enthralled
to
his
Omphale
?
The
very
Gods
themselues
,
if
any
credit
may
bee
giuen
to
the
fictions
of
Antiquitie
,
haue
acknowledged
by
their
submission
,
a
greater
deity
in
womens
faces
,
then
their
owne
.
Beautie
euen
in
the
capitoll
of
heauen
hath
hung
vp
many
monuments
of
hir
conquests
.
And
hence
it
may
bee
,
grew
that
speech
of
Leonidas
,
who
,
when
he
beheld
an
image
of
Venus
armed
,
said
,
it
was
more
then
needed
,
considering
how
,
when
shee
was
naked
,
and
altogether
vnprouided
of
such
steely
complement
,
she
had
subdued
Mars
himselfe
.
It
is
not
then
for
any
mortall
eye
to
withstand
the
fiercenesse
of
hir
assault
.
Virtue
it selfe
can
bee
no
armour
of
proofe
against
hir
shot
.
Hir
darts
pierce
deeper
,
and
wound
swifter
far
,
Than
the
sharpe
arrowes
of
the
God
of
war
:
Who
would
be
sure
his
enemies
should
die
,
Must
touch
his
weapon
with
a
womans
eye
.
Ioue
,
though
he
held
the
thunder
in
his
hand
,
Was
faine
to
stoope
,
when
Leda
did
command
:
Bright
Phoebus
found
in
Daphnes
lookes
a
flame
,
Which
scorcht
him
more
,
than
he
this
earthly
frame
.
Arcesilaus
an
auncient
statuarie
,
to
represent
the
fulnes
of
hir
power
vnto
vs
,
made
a
Lionesse
of
marble
,
and
about
it
many
little
beauteous
Cupids
,
sporting
themselues
therewith
in
sundrie
manners
.
Some
made
it
drink
out
of
a
horne
,
some
put
shooes
vpon
the
feete
of
it
:
some
tied
it
with
ropes
vnto
a
stake
:
all
of
them
according
to
their
seuerall
humours
made
it
the
subiect
of
their
delightfull
pastime
.
The
beast
transported
as
it
were
with
the
fairenesse
of
those
obiects
,
seemed
to
forget
hir
sauage
nature
,
and
to
ioy
in
the
course
of
their
proceedins
.
And
surely
it
hath
often
hapned
that
beautie
hath
abated
the
edge
of
furie
;
&
set
a
milde
aspect
vpon
the
face
of
crueltie
.
She
hath
forced
tyranny
many
times
to
alter
his
rougher
dialect
,
and
to
vtter
silken
words
at
hir
entreatie
.
Nought
vnder
heauen
so
strongly
doth
allure
The
sense
of
man
,
and
all
his
minde
possesse
,
As
beauties
louely
baite
,
that
doth
procure
Great
warriors
oft
their
rigor
to
represse
,
And
mighty
hands
forget
their
manlinesse
,
Drawn
with
the
power
of
an
hart-robbing
eie
And
wrapt
in
fetters
of
a
golden
tresse
,
That
can
with
melting
pleasance
mollifie
Their
hardned
harts
,
enur'd
to
blood
&
cruelty
Yet
euen
this
in
women
(
and
in
them
alone
of
all
the
creatures
in
this
world
in
hath
hir
chiefest
perfection
)
standeth
liable
to
scandall
,
Enuie
maketh
it
a
prouerbe
,
that
If
she
be
faire
,
she
must
be
foolish
but
the
spirit
of
truth
confuteth
it
as
a
popular
vntruth
,
with
the
example
of
Sarah
,
who
notwithstanding
hir
excellencie
in
this
kinde
was
such
,
as
had
so
set
on
fire
the
heart
of
Abimeleck
,
that
if
God
himself
had
not
interposed
his
authoritie
,
shee
must
haue
beene
of
necessitie
the
spoile
and
prey
of
his
intemperancy
;
was
endued
besides
with
such
an
extraordinarie
measure
of
knowledge
and
discretion
,
that
the
Lord
commanded
that
worthy
Patriarch
hir
husband
to
shew
himselfe
in
all
things
obedient
to
hir
directions
.
Ester
by
meanes
of
both
preuailed
so
far
with
King
Assuerus
,
that
she
deliuered
hir
people
from
the
merciles
proiects
of
their
oppressors
,
and
made
them
fall
into
the
snares
,
which
they
had
laid
for
others
.
What
should
I
speake
of
Iudith
,
or
of
Deborah
?
the
one
so
famous
for
the
deliuerance
which
shee
procured
hir
countrie
:
the
other
for
the
prudent
gouernement
,
whereby
she
did
long
protect
it
?
both
of
them
notwithstanding
most
remarkeable
for
their
eminencie
in
both
.
I
could
leuie
infinite
examples
out
of
the
writings
of
prophaner
authors
to
conuince
this
errour
;
but
I
see
,
that
euen
common
sense
doth
giue
it
the
fatall
blow
.
For
indeede
,
where
should
we
looke
for
knowledge
,
but
in
hir
whose
first
ambition
was
the
height
of
knowledge
.
It
is
not
vsuall
for
any
to
couet
,
what
they
doe
not
conceit
.
The
silly
Paisant
regardeth
a
pearle
no
more
than
Esops
Cocke
,
because
hee
knoweth
not
the
vse
thereof
.
The
Queene
of
Shebas
repairing
to
king
Salomon
,
gaue
Israel
an
ample
testimony
of
hir
vnderstanding
.
But
if
according
to
that
Tuscanphrase
,
tutto
vain
scorza
,
all
be
in
the
barke
,
and
nothing
in
the
bodie
;
If
there
bee
onely
a
superficiall
tincture
,
an
outward
dye
,
not
woaded
with
any
graces
or
abilities
,
which
might
colour
it
in
graine
,
this
Sanctuarie
will
afford
them
no
protection
.
I
must
liken
them
my selfe
vnto
a
ragged
wall
,
whose
deformities
are
hidden
with
some
curious
peice
of
hanging
:
or
to
those
carriages
of
state
,
which
are
couered
ouer
with
embroidered
sumpterclothes
,
when
the
loading
consisteth
of
nothing
peraduenture
but
lome
and
rubbish
;
or
last
of
all
to
a
stately
building
,
which
putteth
the
weary
trauailer
a
farre
off
,
in
minde
of
some
great
inhabitant
,
but
when
he
draweth
neere
vnto
it
,
hee
findes
there
is
onely
some
poore
decrepit
beldame
,
and
hir
curre
,
residing
in
it
.
As
a
iewell
of
gold
in
a
swines
snout
,
saith
the
mouth
of
Wisdome
,
so
is
a
faire
Woman
,
which
is
without
discretion
.
Prou.
11.
13
,
Olympias
derided
a
lustie
Gallant
of
hir
Court
,
who
had
matched
himselfe
,
as
she
well
vnderstood
,
with
one
of
the
loulier
hew
,
but
looser
crew
,
and
said
,
that
if
he
had
beene
a
creature
endued
with
reason
he
would
neuer
haue
made
his
eyes
the
instruments
of
his
contraction
.
Venus
was
seldome
pictured
without
the
graces
by
hir
.
Antiquitie
held
them
for
hir
true
and
faithfull
assistants
,
without
whom
she
would
not
willingly
doe
any
thing
.
Hereupon
it
is
reported
,
that
when
Paris
was
to
reward
hir
with
the
due
price
of
hir
perfections
,
shee
did
not
onely
summon
them
,
but
Hymenaeus
,
Cupid
,
and
all
hir
little
louekins
,
to
come
and
deliuer
their
opinion
&
their
counsaile
in
that
businesse
.
And
out
of
question
where
these
are
wanting
Beautie
is
but
imposture
.
It
is
the
diuels
maskingsuite
,
wherewith
impietie
and
impuritie
doe
many
times
disguise
themselues
.
Yea
whensoeuer
the
spirit
of
darknesse
would
seeme
an
angell
of
light
,
he
findeth
not
in
all
his
ward
robe
a
fitter
habit
.
There
are
many
though
,
which
make
this
the
onely
ground
of
their
affections
;
and
which
,
like
little
babies
,
so
the
couer
of
booke
be
gay
,
respect
not
the
contents
.
But
alas
!
they
suffer
themselues
to
bee
guided
by
an
Ignis
fatuus
,
which
without
much
warinesse
will
leade
them
to
their
owne
distruction
.
The
loue
of
beautie
argueth
a
lacke
of
reason
,
and
commeth
as
Saint
Hierom
saith
within
an
inch
of
madnesse
.
Wisdome
will
neuer
be
deluded
with
these
appearances
;
so
the
lining
be
good
,
let
the
outside
be
what
it
will
.
She
knoweth
that
the
foule
to
ade
may
haue
a
faire
stone
in
his
head
,
that
the
fine
gold
is
found
many
times
in
the
filthie
earth
;
and
that
the
sweete
kernell
lieth
often
in
a
hard
shel
.
Yet
I
must
needs
say
with
the
Poet.
Gratior
est
pulchro
veniens
è
corpore
virtus
.
That
virtue
liketh
hir
much
better
,
when
she
findes
it
in
a
comely
lodging
,
then
when
she
is
bound
to
seeke
it
in
an
ill
fauoured
creature
,
like
a
pearle
in
a
dunghill
.
Such
as
would
bee
protected
here
therefore
,
must
produce
their
warrant
.
If
they
be
black
without
,
they
must
make
it
appeare
by
their
manners
and
behauiour
that
they
be
beautifull
within
;
and
so
on
the
contrary
,
if
they
bee
spotlesse
in
body
,
that
they
be
spitelesse
in
minde
;
if
they
be
faire
as
the
moone
,
that
they
be
likewise
pure
as
the
sunne
,
or
it
will
aduantage
them
but
little
,
to
make
this
the
refuge
of
their
safetie
.
She
that
hath
a
faire
body
,
but
a
foule
minde
,
is
like
vnto
him
that
hath
a
good
Ship
,
but
an
ill
Pilot.
The
period
of
that
Panegyricke
,
which
was
penned
by
the
Psalmist
in
praise
of
the
kings
daughter
,
was
this
,
That
she
was
all
glorious
within
.
And
surely
in
such
as
are
not
so
,
neither
beauty
,
nor
embroiderie
can
iustly
challenge
the
name
of
ornaments
.
It
is
not
purple
,
needle-worke
,
or
precious
stones
that
must
adorne
and
beautifie
a
woman
.
These
be
arguments
of
hir
wealth
,
not
of
hir
worth
,
and
get
hir
nothing
but
a
popular
applause
.
Pulchrum
ornatum
turpes
mores
peius
coeno
collinunt
,
Lepidi
mores
turpem
ornatum
facile
factis
cōprobāt
.
Ill
gestures
defile
good
garments
,
but
virtuous
conditions
are
a
rich
lyning
to
a
meane
outside
.
If
she
would
therefore
be
the
subiect
of
discreeter
admiration
,
shee
must
esteeme
these
accessory
adiuncts
,
no
better
,
then
did
Lysander
those
iewels
and
costlier
tyres
,
with
which
the
tyrant
of
Sicilie
did
court
the
loue
and
affection
of
his
daughters
.
She
must
eye
them
with
no
greater
respect
,
then
shee
would
the
trappings
of
a
horse
,
which
adde
not
to
the
goodnesse
of
the
beast
,
that
beareth
them
;
and
weare
them
not
so
much
for
fame
as
for
fashion
.
Virtue
must
be
hir
chiefest
garnish
.
Beautie
may
procure
delight
,
but
it
will
hardly
purchase
loue
,
vnlesse
temperancie
and
modestie
,
like
two
iudiciall
Schoole-mistresses
,
haue
the
fashioning
of
hir
carriage
and
conuersation
.
Donec
er
as
simplex
animum
cum
corpore
amaui
;
At
mentis
vitio
laesa
figura
tua
est
.
And
so
from
hence
will
I
now
turne
the
course
of
my
discourse
,
and
come
to
speake
a
little
of
their
Chastitie
,
a
thing
excellent
in
many
,
yet
traduced
by
the
most
.
For
behold
,
Hylax
in
limine
latrat
,
I
heare
it
closely
pursued
with
hue
and
crie
,
euen
in
the
very
entrance
.
I
seeke
if
any
wench
deny
,
Sophronius
,
vp
and
downe
:
But
not
a
wench
which
doth
deny
,
finde
I
through
out
the
towne
;
As
though
it
were
a
wicked
thing
,
and
whence
disgrace
might
rise
;
Yea
no
way
lawfull
to
deny
;
no
wench
at
all
denies
.
Be
none
then
chaste
?
yes
out
of
doubt
,
we
thousands
chaste
may
call
:
What
then
doe
they
?
they
do
not
grant
,
yet
nere
denie
at
all
.
Which
harsher
censures
,
whether
they
proceeded
from
the
discontented
humours
of
these
particular
persons
onely
whose
feete
well
felt
where
the
shoe
did
wring
them
;
or
from
a
generall
deprauation
rather
of
thosetimes
,
I
know
not
.
But
there
are
many
hold
it
as
their
creede
,
That
all
of
them
are
false
,
if
they
be
tried
:
If
some
seeme
chast
,
it
doth
of
this
prrceede
They
haue
the
wit
to
doe
,
but
not
be
spide
;
And
know
by
deep
dissembling
&
good
heed
,
With
sober
lookes
their
wanton
lust
to
hide
.
With
these
the
Satyrist
giueth
vp
his
verdict
,
&
finding
chastity
for
the
rarenes
of
it
in
those
ruder
times
,
as
prodigious
as
either
a
milke-white
Rauen
,
or
a
cole-blacke
swanne
,
examineth
such
as
goe
about
to
wiue
,
what
hellish
furies
they
be
which
driue
them
to
it
;
and
wondereth
that
any
,
considering
the
world
affordeth
such
infinite
store
of
neck-ties
,
so
many
loftie
turrets
,
and
deeper
wels
,
should
endure
to
yoke
themselues
to
the
vicious
imperfections
of
a
creature
so
lasciuious
and
imperious
.
—
Tarpeium
limen
adora
Pronus
,
&
auratam
Iunoni
caede
iuvencam
,
Si
tibi
contigerit
capitis
matrona
pudici
:
Paucae
adeo
vittas
Cereris
contingere
dignae
.
But
out
of
doubt
,
these
are
not
the
legitimate
children
of
a
staied
conceit
.
Ielousie
that
adulterate
&
spurious
brat
of
loue
and
feare
,
was
their
onely
sire
:
and
indeede
this
is
a
monster
,
which
neuer
looketh
vpon
virtue
,
but
with
a
froward
and
suspicious
eye
.
It
resembleth
in
effect
the
Iuie
,
which
doth
alwaies
hurt
that
most
,
which
it
most
embraceth
.
Such
as
haue
it
in
their
braine
,
wil
not
be
perswaded
,
but
that
which
affordeth
pleasure
to
themselues
,
doth
giue
the
like
contentment
to
others
.
Bassa
Ionuses
,
who
with
hissword
,
as
with
a
pen
of
steele
drew
the
conueighances
,
which
did
enstate
his
Soueraigne
Selymus
the
first
in
the
territories
and
dominions
of
the
Mamalukes
,
became
so
desperately
enamoured
of
the
beauteous
Lady
Manto
,
by
birth
a
Graecian
,
but
by
the
chance
of
warre
his
prisoner
,
that
he
did
not
onely
admit
hir
to
his
board
,
but
of
his
captiue
made
hir
in
a
while
the
lawfull
partner
of
his
bed
.
And
for
a
time
they
so
delighted
in
each
others
loue
,
that
as
the
Poet
said
of
Cephalus
and
Procris
.
Non
Iouis
illa
viri
thalamos
praeferret
amori
:
Non
hunc
quae
caperet
,
non
si
Venus
ipsa
veniret
,
Vlla
erat
;
aequales
vrebant
pectora
flammae
.
But
desart
we
know
is
the
fewell
of
desire
;
and
good
,
whether
it
bee
sensible
,
or
such
as
reason
leadeth
vs
to
seeke
;
is
loues
sollicitor
.
It
is
the
generall
obiect
of
each
mans
appetite
,
of
each
mans
will
,
and
therefore
they
which
possesse
it
;
are
no
lesse
totmented
with
feare
,
then
they
which
yet
pursue
it
.
It
is
a
treasure
,
which
the
more
they
ioy
in
,
the
lesse
secure
they
grow
of
their
enioying
.
They
are
prone
to
beleeue
,
that
what
their
owne
palate
doth
like
,
cannot
but
like
anothers
Witnesse
this
worthy
Souldier
,
who
by
doting
on
his
Mantos
face
,
began
to
doubt
of
hir
faith
.
—
facies
,
aetasque
iubebant
Credere
adulterium
;
prohibebant
credere
mores
.
Yet
in
the
end
he
suffered
himself
to
be
so
farre
transported
with
this
frensie
,
that
like
a
glutton
,
who
fearing
that
any
shold
wrong
his
mawe
by
intercepting
the
dish
it
most
delighted
in
,
catcheth
at
it
so
rashly
,
and
so
roughly
,
that
through
his
inciuility
he
beguileth
himselfe
,
and
pleasureth
onely
the
earth
with
the
purchase
of
his
greedinesse
;
hee
altered
quite
the
scene
of
his
proceedings
.
His
words
were
now
not
accented
with
love
,
as
before-time
they
had
beene
.
He
vnaceustomed
himselfe
to
Cupids
dialect
,
and
neuer
vttered
his
minde
vnto
hir
but
in
a
tragicall
and
churlish
key
.
To
bee
briefe
,
his
rage
could
finde
no
rest
,
till
such
time
as
hauing
chosen
his
weapon
for
the
Physitian
of
his
Furie
,
hir
purer
bloud
was
made
a
purging
Potion
for
his
Iealousie
.
Many
to
the
great
impeachment
of
Womens
worth
haue
bin
sicke
of
the
like
distemperature
.
Their
Vnderstanding
hath
had
no
Tutor
,
but
their
owne
idle
Fancie
,
which
hath
setled
in
them
such
erroneous
opinions
,
that
what
through
preiudice
and
passionate
Affections
,
they
will
by
no
meanes
bee
perswaded
that
Honestie
and
Beautie
can
euer
harbour
vnder
one
roofe
;
but
that
there
is
so
great
an
Antipathie
betwixt
them
,
that
like
Castor
and
Pollux
,
they
shew
not
their
motions
together
in
one
Spheare
.
And
here
they
instance
their
assertions
vpon
that
firebrand
of
Greece
,
which
being
brought
to
Troy
,
did
set
it
on
a
flame
;
and
for
better
confirmation
of
their
heresie
produce
that
saying
of
the
Poet
,
Formosis
leuitas
semper
amica
fuit
.
But
those
alas
must
be
very
narrow
eyde
,
who
if
a
Gnat
but
spread
his
wing
betwixt
them
and
the
Sunne
,
doe
thinke
it
is
eclipsed
.
One
drop
of
poyson
cannot
infect
the
Ocean
,
though
a
little
leauen
may
peraduenture
sower
a
great
lumpe
.
It
were
ridiculous
for
any
man
to
contemne
the
Rose
because
there
is
a
prickle
in
the
bush
or
neglect
the
Corne
,
because
there
is
some
cockle
in
the
Barne
.
We
should
not
let
th'
ensample
of
the
bad
Offend
the
good
;
for
good
by
paragones
Of
euill
,
may
more
notably
be
rade
:
As
white
seems
fairer
,
matcht
with
black
attone
;
Ne
,
all
are
shamed
by
the
fault
of
one
.
As
there
is
often
a
Mars
his
heart
in
a
Cupids
body
;
so
may
we
many
times
discouer
a
Diana
apparelled
in
the
garments
of
Venus
.
Witnesse
Sarah
,
Rebekah
,
Rachell
&
Susanna
,
with
diuers
others
which
stand
vpon
record
in
the
Court-roles
of
Heauen
for
their
vnmatchable
perfection
in
either
kinde
.
I
could
bring
both
Lucrece
and
Penelope
vpon
this
Stage
,
and
make
their
well
knowne
worthinesse
the
pampering
foode
of
my
discourse
,
but
I
will
omit
to
speake
of
them
:
as
likewise
of
hir
,
whose
husband
,
it
may
be
,
comming
somewhat
neere
the
lips
of
his
mistrisse
,
and
finding
himselfe
denide
the
complement
of
his
desire
,
because
his
breath
was
noisome
and
vnsauourie
,
came
home
and
blamed
his
wife
,
for
hauing
neuer
informed
him
of
that
defect
:
when
shee
,
good
soule
,
out
of
hir
chast
simplicity
replide
,
She
knew
not
but
that
al
mens
mouths
had
smelt
like
his
.
The
daughter
of
Ericus
,
Gouernour
of
Calcis
,
the
chiefe
towne
in
the
Island
of
Eubaea
,
being
taken
by
the
Turkes
,
was
for
hir
extraordinary
beauty
,
as
the
choisest
part
of
all
the
spoile
,
presented
vnto
Mahomet
the
second
,
whom
when
hee
could
neither
by
threats
,
nor
flatteries
conforme
to
his
desires
,
he
most
inhumanely
commanded
to
be
slaine
.
But
non
est
admirationi
vna
arbor
,
saith
the
Philosopher
,
vbi
in
eandem
altitudinem
tota
sylua
succrescit
.
What
should
wee
make
particulars
the
subiect
of
our
admiration
,
when
Histories
giue
vs
notice
of
whole
countries
peopled
with
Women
of
no
lesse
desart
.
The
Lacedaemonians
were
generally
so
Chast
,
that
when
Geradas
was
asked
why
Lycurgus
had
made
no
lawes
for
the
punishing
of
Adultery
:
his
answer
was
that
amongst
them
there
was
not
one
addicted
to
such
incontinencie
;
But
if
there
were
,
said
the
stranger
:
why
then
said
he
,
he
should
pay
for
the
forfeiture
of
his
misdeede
,
a
Bull
of
that
growth
and
bignes
,
that
standing
vpon
the
top
of
the
Mountaine
Taygetus
,
he
might
drinke
out
of
the
riuer
Eurotas
.
It
is
impossible
,
said
his
Guest
a
creature
of
that
greatnes
should
be
found
.
Geradas
assured
him
with
a
smiling
countenance
,
it
was
no
lesse
impossible
,
that
Sparta
should
afford
within
hir
confines
any
such
offender
.
One
of
the
meanest
amongst
them
both
for
birth
and
breeding
,
when
a
Chapman
as
she
stood
in
the
Market
to
be
sold
,
demanded
of
hir
,
whether
shee
would
proue
honest
if
he
should
buy
hir
;
replide
vpon
the
instant
.
I
wil
proue
honest
though
you
should
not
buy
me
.
The
Cianians
were
so
free
from
any
taxation
this
way
,
that
for
the
space
of
seauen
hundreth
yeares
it
was
neuer
known
that
any
Matrone
amongst
them
had
vnloosed
to
a
stranger
the
girdle
of
hir
honestie
;
or
any
Virgin
bestowed
vpon
a
lustfull
friend
the
floure
of
hir
Virginity
.
The
Easterne
Indians
did
neuer
prostitute
their
Bodies
,
but
to
him
,
who
did
present
them
with
an
Elephant
;
and
that
the
law
permitted
them
to
doe
,
with
no
little
approbation
of
their
worth
,
that
could
be
valued
at
so
high
a
rate
.
Those
religious
and
holy
Vestals
,
who
had
the
charge
of
that
immortall
and
sacred
fire
,
which
was
by
Numa
consecrated
to
the
gods
,
were
so
respected
for
their
spotlesse
puritie
,
that
if
by
chance
they
met
at
anytime
some
wretched
malefactor
,
who
by
the
appointment
of
iustice
was
conducted
to
his
Death
,
they
had
a
priuiledge
to
reprieue
him
:
so
that
the
Votresse
vpon
hir
deposition
would
affirme
that
the
encounter
was
onely
casuall
.
Poets
enforme
vs
that
Venus
had
hir
chariot
drawne
by
swannes
,
to
signifie
vnto
vs
,
that
Women
as
they
labour
to
bee
neate
and
cleanely
in
their
Clothes
,
should
striue
to
be
sweete
and
comely
in
their
Conuersation
.
Many
may
peraduenture
make
it
their
delight
,
to
stand
&
gase
vpon
the
Estrich
for
the
rarenesse
of
hir
Plumes
;
but
not
any
will
make
it
the
dish
which
their
Appetite
shall
feede
vpon
,
because
of
the
ranknesse
of
hir
flesh
.
They
must
harbour
therefore
alwaies
a
speciall
care
within
themselues
,
that
as
they
haue
Vultum
Veneris
,
the
badge
of
Beautie
in
their
Face
;
they
haue
likewise
cestum
Veneris
,
the
markes
of
Virtue
in
their
Forehead
;
least
want
of
grace
in
their
outward
gesture
,
might
make
their
inward
goodnesse
liable
to
misconstruction
.
Chastitie
must
haue
setled
Grauitie
for
hir
Vsher
;
and
for
hir
waiting-woman
,
bashfull
Modestie
;
or
she
shall
neuer
procure
respectiue
reuerence
and
obseruance
from
those
that
doe
behold
hir
.
If
Ladies
of
noble
rancke
&
quality
,
should
now
and
then
,
though
but
to
sport
their
Fancie
,
lay
aside
the
ornaments
of
their
state
,
and
without
their
vsual
attendance
shew
themselues
abroade
,
disguised
in
some
wanton
manner
,
I
doubt
not
,
but
they
would
quickly
finde
,
that
many
not
acquainted
with
their
intent
,
would
not
sticke
to
ranke
them
in
the
role
of
Courtisans
,
nor
yet
to
rayle
vpon
them
in
a
phrase
,
which
onely
fitteth
creatures
of
that
condition
.
Immodesty
is
like
a
Vintners
bush
,
which
giueth
euery
man
direction
,
where
he
may
call
for
wine
.
Women
alone
are
said
by
scandalous
and
traducing
Spirits
to
giue
it
countenance
,
a
little
therefore
now
of
this
;
as
likewise
of
the
contrary
.
CHAP.
4.
Of
their
outward
modestie
.
IT
is
an
iniurie
to
Virtue
,
to
be
committed
alwaies
close-prisoner
to
the
Heart
.
she
desireth
to
looke
out
at
the
eyes
,
and
to
goe
forth
now
and
then
in
the
words
.
If
shee
see
hir selfe
restrained
of
this
libertie
,
she
will
goe
neere
with
griefe
to
fall
into
a
hectike
Feuer
,
and
so
to
die
of
a
languishing
Consumption
.
Euill
words
are
,
as
the
Apostle
saith
,
the
very
gangrenes
of
good
manners
;
if
they
eate
them
not
out
,
they
will
at
least
deface
them
.
If
Women
haue
immodest
lookes
,
it
will
auaile
them
little
for
auoiding
the
worlds
censure
,
to
haue
honest
hearts
.
A
booke
is
censured
many
times
,
by
what
the
title
promiseth
;
and
Siluer
,
into
what
fashion
soeuer
wee
melt
it
,
though
it
cease
not
to
be
siluer
,
yet
the
outward
stampe
is
that
which
maketh
it
currant
.
Crassus
had
a
liking
to
a
goodly
Mannor
belonging
to
a
certaine
Vestal
,
which
that
he
might
the
better
purchase
,
hee
tooke
occasion
to
meete
with
hir
in
sundrie
places
,
&
at
sundrie
times
,
omitting
nothing
in
his
carriage
&
conuersation
,
which
might
any
way
endere
him
to
hir
;
but
by
this
courteous
entercourse
hir
Innocency
grew
to
be
suspected
,
and
in
the
end
,
(
as
Malice
is
euer
ready
to
picke
a
hole
in
Virtues
coat
)
shee
was
publikely
accused
,
to
haue
incestuously
conuersed
with
him
.
Postumia
was
a
little
too
much
in
clinde
to
laughter
,
and
now
and
than
delighted
freely
to
discourse
with
Men
,
but
this
hir
freedome
brought
hir
to
bee
arraignd
as
an
Adulteresse
,
wherof
when
shee
had
throughly
acquited
hir selfe
.
Spur.
Minutius
,
the
high
Priest
absolued
hir
,
but
withall
aduised
hir
,
ne
verbis
vitae
castimoniam
non
aquantibus
vteretur
,
so
to
order
hir
life
thence
forward
,
that
the
outward
fashion
might
not
preiudice
the
inward
forme
.
Forbearance
of
the
Action
is
no
suffient
demonstration
of
a
chast
Deuotion
.
T'
is
from
the
setled
disposition
of
the
Will
,
that
this
purer
Virtue
doth
receiue
hir
forme
.
A
certaine
Spanish
Lasse
hauing
passed
through
the
hands
of
Souldiers
;
God
be
thanked
,
said
shee
,
that
once
in
my
daies
I
haue
had
my
fill
without
sinning
.
But
herein
silly
wretch
,
she
deceiued
hir selfe
:
for
howsoeuer
Violence
were
Prologue
to
the
fact
,
the
delight
shee
tooke
in
the
performance
conuinced
hir
of
a
fault
.
Some
could
be
content
to
haue
it
,
but
they
would
not
bee
thought
to
desire
it
.
They
wish
another
would
foile
them
,
when
of
themselues
they
haue
a
will
to
fall
.
Such
as
are
truely
modest
,
and
such
assuredly
are
the
most
,
will
not
sticke
to
make
their
liues
the
ransome
of
their
Fame
:
for
feare
,
though
they
consented
not
to
the
doing
,
they
might
be
thought
to
bee
well
enough
contented
with
the
deede
.
Theoxena
to
free
hir
Sisters
children
and
hir
owne
from
the
lasciuious
embraces
of
King
Phillip
,
put
weapons
into
their
weaker
hands
,
and
perswaded
them
Vt
imminens
ludibrium
morte
effugerent
;
to
rescue
themselues
by
Death
from
imminent
disgrace
,
where
in
she
had
no
sooner
preuailed
,
but
with
a
heroine
resolution
she
shewed
them
by
hir
owne
example
,
that
what
shee
had
taught
them
,
was
easie
to
be
done
.
Hippo
a
Grecian
,
when
the
Shippe
in
which
shee
trauailed
was
taken
by
the
Enemy
,
cast
hirselfe
immediately
into
the
soft
embraces
of
the
sea
,
to
free
hir
Honour
from
the
luxurious
courtship
of
hir
Foe
.
A
Gentlewoman
of
Capua
did
the
like
.
But
these
examples
are
a
little
too
vehement
,
that
which
followeth
is
somewhat
more
considerate
.
Cn.
Manlius
hauing
giuen
the
Galathians
a
mighty
ouerthrow
at
the
mount
of
Olympus
,
there
was
amongst
the
captiues
that
were
taken
.
Chiomara
,
the
wife
of
Orgiagontes
,
a
Ruler
in
that
Prouince
of
some
note
,
who
being
compelled
by
the
Centurion
that
had
hir
in
custody
,
to
satisfie
the
beastly
appetite
of
his
debauched
affections
,
imparted
afterwards
the
wrong
she
had
receiued
,
to
some
of
hir
friends
,
who
were
come
thither
to
redeeme
hir
,
and
willed
them
to
kill
him
as
hee
should
kisse
hir
at
the
farewell
.
This
done
,
she
caused
his
head
to
be
cut
off
,
and
bringing
it
home
in
hir
own
lap
,
cast
it
for
a
present
at
hir
husbands
feete
who
vented
the
passions
,
which
the
sight
thereof
had
stirred
vp
in
his
bosome
,
with
words
which
sauoured
somewhat
of
reproofe
:
O
Woman
,
faith
is
an
excellent
thing
:
But
she
confronted
his
pitie
with
hir
own
puritie
,
and
told
him
,
It
was
more
excellent
by
farre
,
there
was
but
one
man
liuing
,
that
euer
knew
hir
.
A
Vestall
Virgin
to
preuent
the
violence
of
an
vnlawfull
pursuite
in
a
Prince
,
who
much
affected
hir
for
the
beauty
of
hir
eyes
,
plucked
them
out
hir selfe
,
and
hauing
cast
them
on
the
ground
before
him
,
bad
him
glut
himselfe
with
those
traiterous
obiects
,
which
had
conspired
with
his
lustfull
Thoughts
,
to
make
hir
a
prey
to
Infamie
.
A
Gentlewoman
of
Portugall
,
to
cut
off
the
importunacie
of
diuers
,
who
in
the
time
of
hir
widowhood
,
did
continually
sollicite
hir
for
some
nightly
kindnesse
,
fearing
least
the
flesh
might
in
the
end
betray
hir
,
seared
vp
those
naturall
parts
with
a
burning
firebrand
,
saying
:
God
forbid
that
for
thee
I
should
euer
fall
into
so
foule
a
sinne
.
Fatua
,
the
wife
of
Faunus
from
the
day
of
hir
marriage
was
neuer
knowne
to
be
the
obiect
of
any
masculine
eye
,
but
hir
Husbands
.
She
did
not
fashion
hirselfe
according
to
the
Moone
,
who
then
looketh
merriest
,
when
the
Sunne
is
furthest
off
:
but
to
the
Marrigolde
,
which
neuer
openeth
it selfe
but
whilst
he
doth
eye
it
.
Zenobia
so
much
renowmed
in
the
East
,
for
many
singular
virtues
and
abilities
that
were
in
hir
,
neuer
imparted
hirselfe
,
no
not
to
the
partner
of
hir
Bed
,
any
longer
,
then
she
knew
hirselfe
not
to
be
with
Childe
.
Pulcheria
,
sister
to
the
Emperour
Theodosius
the
second
,
and
rightly
so
named
for
hir
more
then
ordinary
beauty
,
both
in
body
and
minde
,
matched
hirselfe
to
Marcianus
with
no
other
intent
,
then
to
adde
thereby
some
strength
to
his
authoritie
,
as
well
appeareth
by
the
conditions
,
to
which
shee
first
of
all
had
tyed
him
.
viz.
That
either
of
them
should
for
euer
preserue
their
Chastitie
vntouched
;
a
thing
which
was
willingly
accepted
of
by
him
,
and
thoroughly
performed
by
both
.
The
Milesian
Virgins
,
whether
through
the
distemperature
of
the
aire
,
or
vpon
any
occasion
of
discontent
,
I
know
not
,
were
on
the
sudden
possessed
with
such
a
furie
,
that
neither
the
prayers
of
their
friends
,
nor
the
teares
of
their
Parents
,
could
diuert
them
from
an
obstinate
and
selfe-wild
resolution
,
which
they
had
to
hang
themselues
,
and
many
notwithstanding
the
warinesse
of
their
Keepers
,
to
the
terrour
and
amasement
of
the
whole
Citie
,
did
continually
by
subtile
slights
and
deuises
,
giue
these
their
tragicall
purposes
their
determinate
effect
;
till
at
the
length
one
of
the
wisest
Senators
caused
a
Law
to
bee
proclaimed
,
That
whosoeuer
in
that
manner
did
abridge
hir
daies
,
should
after
hir
death
be
carried
naked
through
the
market-place
:
the
consideration
of
which
dishonor
,
such
was
their
setled
Modesty
,
did
not
onely
restraine
them
,
but
free
them
from
this
frenzie
.
Shamefac'tnesse
,
is
nothing
else
,
saith
the
Philosopher
,
but
a
feare
of
Ignominie
and
iust
Reproach
.
These
Virgins
were
so
sensible
thereof
,
that
to
remoue
it
euen
from
their
Ashes
,
they
were
content
to
forbeare
that
which
they
most
desired
.
I
could
muster
vp
an
armie
royall
of
those
heroicall
examples
,
to
destroy
those
Monsters
,
which
make
the
Virgin
fame
of
Women
their
tributarie
foode
.
But
who
seeth
not
,
that
euen
the
most
of
those
few
,
which
are
Actors
of
vnciuill
parts
,
can
produce
Men
for
their
Authors
.
Such
a
one
who
preferred
hir
Honor
before
hir
Life
,
hath
notwithstanding
for
hir
safetie
of
hir
Husband
suffered
it
like
litter
to
be
trampled
on
by
the
Lust
of
a
deadly
Enemie
,
and
done
that
for
him
,
which
she
would
by
no
meanes
haue
committed
for
hir selfe
.
There
are
of
those
,
who
for
their
Husbands
profit
and
aduantage
doe
lend
their
bodies
out
,
and
that
by
their
expresse
appointment
and
entremise
.
Phaulius
the
Argien
offered
his
wife
vnto
King
Philippe
through
ambition
;
as
Galba
did
out
of
curtesie
and
ciuilitie
;
when
hauing
feasted
Mecaenas
at
a
Supper
,
and
finding
that
his
wife
and
he
beganne
with
signes
and
glances
to
plot
a
further
matter
,
that
he
might
the
better
shoulder
vp
their
loue
,
hee
feigned
a
heauie
sleepe
,
which
he
auouched
with
no
little
grace
.
For
vpon
the
instant
a
fellow
being
emboldned
thereby
to
cast
a
theeuish
hand
vpon
his
Cup-borde
of
Plate
,
he
cried
out
vnto
him
freely
.
Stay
,
stay
,
thou
knaue
,
seest
thou
not
,
that
I
sleepe
for
none
,
but
for
Maecoenas
?
Phaedo
a
Philosopher
,
after
the
desolation
of
his
Countrie
,
made
the
prostitution
of
his
wife
,
the
substance
of
his
Reuenue
.
And
how
many
be
there
amongst
vs
,
who
cull
out
the
choisest
Beauties
of
of
the
Land
,
and
hauing
married
them
,
stall
them
afterwards
,
as
they
doe
their
Wares
,
with
no
better
intent
then
to
procure
themselues
that
good
which
Pharaoh
did
to
Abraham
for
Sarahs
sake
?
In
a
word
,
if
wee
examine
euery
thing
but
with
indifferencie
,
we
shall
find
,
let
Women
be
what
they
will
,
they
cannot
possibly
be
so
bad
as
Men.
For
when
a
man
is
bent
to
speake
his
worst
,
That
in
despight
of
Women
he
can
say
,
He
cals
them
but
incontinent
and
curst
,
No
greater
fault
he
to
their
charge
can
lay
:
To
rob
,
to
spoile
,
houses
to
breake
,
and
burst
;
Whole
Cities
,
Towns
,
&
Countries
to
betray
;
Vsurie
,
Murder
,
all
such
sinnes
appeare
Proper
to
Men
,
Women
of
them
are
cleare
.
Againe
,
that
euen
in
those
things
,
wherein
we
report
them
faulty
,
they
can
vnburthen
themselues
on
Men
,
as
on
the
sole
Sollicitors
,
and
Counsellers
of
their
irregular
proceedings
.
Ahashuerosh
will
not
suffer
a
Virgin
to
come
neere
him
,
till
after
sixe
monthes
purification
with
oyle
of
Mirrh
,
and
other
sixe
monthes
with
pleasant
odours
,
and
sweete
perfumes
.
Some
Husbands
haue
such
curious
eyes
,
that
if
their
wiues
want
colour
of
their
owne
:
they
must
seeke
for
a
supply
.
They
had
rather
behold
them
artificially
painted
,
then
naturally
pale
.
This
is
that
which
tieth
their
Affections
to
the
perch
,
which
otherwise
peraduenture
being
prōe
to
bate
at
any
thing
,
would
get
on
wing
&
follow
game
.
But
alas
!
they
consider
not
that
as
Pythias
,
Aristotles
Daughter
was
wont
to
say
,
The
fairest
colour
in
the
face
of
a
Woman
is
that
,
which
ariseth
from
hir
bashfull
Modesty
;
and
that
onely
Blushes
are
the
Scarlet
Robes
in
which
the
Graces
delight
to
shew
themselues
abroade
.
She
that
is
cloathed
with
these
virmilion
Habits
,
and
hath
this
glorious
tincture
in
hir
Countenance
,
neede
not
feare
the
rude
assaults
of
an
Elephant
,
nor
start
at
the
fierce
incursions
of
a
Bull.
It
is
a
Shield
of
surer
temper
,
then
that
of
Pallas
to
defend
hir
Honour
from
inuasion
.
Pudor
arx
pulchritudinis
,
saith
Demades
:
It
is
Beauties
fortresse
:
and
according
to
Saint
Bernard
,
Venustatem
ingerit
gratiam
auget
;
it
addes
comelinesse
,
and
giues
an
encrease
of
grace
.
The
brightnes
of
it
daseleth
the
eyes
of
Sinne
,
putteth
Lust
out
of
his
part
;
and
maketh
Temptation
to
forget
his
Qu.
Those
other
borrowed
decencies
,
are
nothing
but
meere
sophistication
and
imposture
.
An
able
iudgement
will
neuer
suffer
it selfe
to
be
deluded
by
them
.
The
King
of
Ethiopia
viewed
the
sumptuous
Garments
that
were
sent
him
for
a
present
by
Cambyses
Emperor
of
Persia
,
with
no
little
admiration
,
but
when
hee
vnderstood
by
those
that
brought
them
,
that
the
purple
die
they
were
of
,
was
an
inuention
of
Men
:
Surely
said
he
,
both
the
garments
and
the
men
are
full
of
deceipt
.
The
application
would
be
fit
,
if
charitie
did
not
suppresse
it
.
CHAP.
5.
Of
their
supposed
Pride
.
PRide
had
hir
originall
in
Heauen
,
but
hauing
forgotten
,
as
it
were
,
the
way
,
by
which
she
fell
from
thence
,
could
neuer
since
returne
.
Like
an
exile
did
she
pace
the
Earth
,
and
found
no
habitation
,
till
some
say
Women
tooke
hir
in
,
and
made
their
hearts
the
setled
place
of
hir
abode
.
Conformable
to
this
is
that
vnhallowed
fiction
of
another
,
who
reporteth
to
the
world
,
how
Sathan
,
that
sworne
enemie
to
Man
,
hauing
matched
himselfe
in
mariage
with
Iniquitie
,
had
by
hir
nine
children
,
which
he
placed
with
seuerall
persons
,
fitting
in
disposition
to
their
seuerall
humours
and
inclinations
in
manner
following
.
viz.
Simonie
with
Priests
,
Hypocrisie
with
professors
,
Oppression
with
Nobles
,
Vsurie
with
Citizens
,
Deceit
with
Merchants
,
Falsehood
with
Seruants
,
Sacriledge
with
Souldiers
,
Pride
with
Women
,
Luxurie
with
all
.
Plutarke
condemneth
those
of
his
time
as
ouermuch
addicted
to
the
seruice
of
this
hell-borne
Fiend
.
The
Egyptian
wiues
,
saith
he
,
by
the
decrees
,
and
ordinances
of
their
Ancestors
,
were
forbidden
the
vse
of
Shooes
,
to
put
them
in
minde
,
that
it
was
their
dutie
to
keepe
still
at
home
,
a
point
which
many
now
obserue
,
but
alas
!
out
of
another
respect
.
They
will
not
stirre
abroade
,
saith
he
,
because
they
haue
not
their
embrodered
Pantophles
,
their
chaines
of
Pearle
,
their
costly
Carquanets
,
their
Eare-rings
,
and
their
Vnions
.
And
behold
,
me
thinkes
,
I
heare
some
whisper
,
that
by
the
beating
of
the
Pulse
,
those
of
our
Age
should
labour
of
the
like
distemperature
.
For
let
them
be
well
rigged
,
and
set
out
,
they
will
be
gadding
presently
with
Dinah
,
though
the
losse
both
of
life
,
and
honour
were
the
propounded
guerdon
of
their
folly
.
They
consider
not
,
say
they
,
that
the
snaile
is
safe
while
it
harboureth
in
the
Shell
;
but
so
soone
as
shee
commeth
forth
to
make
shew
of
hir
Hornes
,
shee
meeteth
with
many
lets
,
which
occasion
their
drawing
in
againe
to
hir
griefe
and
shame
.
A
Woman
,
saith
Simonides
,
should
be
like
the
Bee
,
chast
and
frugall
,
busied
still
about
hir
huswiuerie
;
no
wanderer
at
any
time
abroad
,
but
alwaies
carefull
of
hir
progenie
at
home
.
The
vertues
that
in
Women
merit
praise
,
Are
sober
shows
without
chast
thoughts
with
in
True
faith
,
and
due
obedience
to
their
make
,
And
of
their
children
honest
care
to
take
.
How
to
gouerne
well
hir
Familie
should
be
hir
chiefest
studie
.
She
should
not
hunt
ambitiously
after
popular
applause
,
but
rest
contented
with
the
Conscience
of
hir
owne
deseruings
,
and
think
it
praise
enough
to
bee
thought
praise-worthy
by
such
as
liue
within
the
bounds
of
hir
owne
threshold
.
She
should
remember
with
Thucydides
,
That
those
of
Women
still
are
counted
best
,
Of
whom
in
praise
or
dispraise
men
speak
least
.
The
Lacedemonians
could
not
endure
to
heare
their
wiues
commended
by
a
Stranger
.
They
thought
it
not
fit
their
Virtues
should
be
knowne
to
any
but
to
their
Husband
;
and
hence
it
was
,
their
Virgins
went
alwaies
open-faced
,
till
such
time
as
Hymen
had
linked
them
to
some
louing
Mate
,
and
then
their
beauty
was
canopied
from
the
generall
view
of
all
,
and
made
the
solitarie
obiect
of
their
particular
choise
alone
.
The
Turkish
Women
are
forbidden
by
the
Alcoran
to
shew
themselues
vnuailed
to
any
but
their
Fathers
and
their
Husbands
.
And
the
Venetians
obserue
in
a
manner
the
like
custome
,
euen
at
this
day
say
our
aduersaries
,
but
by
their
fauour
it
is
notout
of
any
good
respect
:
for
in
them
it
is
onely
a
depraued
and
corrupt
opinion
,
which
the
knowledge
of
their
owne
wickednes
maketh
them
carrie
off
anothers
worthinesse
.
Nor
doe
I
speake
this
vnaduisedly
;
for
it
is
a
Maxime
of
infallible
truth
,
That
open
suspecting
others
commeth
of
secret
condemning
our selues
.
These
Women-quellers
would
seeme
to
countenance
their
proceedings
,
thinking
to
breake
the
backe
of
Innocencie
,
by
ouercharging
it
with
scandalous
imputations
,
which
they
can
no
way
proue
by
any
surer
demonstration
then
their
owne
adulterate
opinions
.
To
what
end
,
say
they
,
is
that
prodigious
varietie
of
apparell
which
they
vse
,
but
to
ensnare
the
hearts
of
ignorant
and
vndiscreeter
persons
?
Vni
,
si
qua
placet
,
culta
puella
sat
est
.
Brauerie
in
ancient
English
was
called
Baudrie
;
and
curious
Cals
in
those
humbler
times
,
were
accounted
but
the
stales
of
a
carelesse
Callot
.
They
be
the
Weres
and
Nets
of
Lust
.
Virtue
delights
not
in
them
at
all
:
they
be
things
which
cannot
any
way
aduantage
hir
.
For
as
all
men
know
,
Hir
gloriousstate
no
borrowed
grace
doth
need
Hir
Beautie
findes
of
skilfull
Art
no
lack
,
She
seems
as
louely
in
a
Shepheads
weed
,
As
they
that
weare
the
Indies
on
their
back
.
In
a
word
,
they
be
the
noted
ensignes
of
disorderly
Pride
,
in
which
the
very
folds
and
motions
of
the
Heart
are
charactred
vnto
the
life
.
Let
vs
but
cast
a
serious
eye
say
they
,
vpon
the
vanitie
of
Women
in
this
kinde
,
&
we
shal
quickly
finde
them
to
be
the
least
part
of
what
they
seeme
;
Inter
tot
●
honestamenta
vix
inuenies
mulierem
.
They
be
fensed
in
on
euery
with
such
innumerable
borrels
,
and
fantasticall
attoures
,
as
Chaucer
calleth
them
,
that
without
some
difficultie
you
cannot
discouer
what
creature
it
is
that
beareth
them
.
And
from
this
consideration
peraduenture
grew
that
saying
of
the
Comicke
;
Negotij
sibi
qui
volet
vim
comparare
,
nauim
,
&
mulierem
,
haec
duo
comparato
.
Nam
nullae
res
magis
duaeplus
negotij
habent
;
Hethat
would
busie
himselfe
indeede
,
must
get
him
a
Woman
and
a
Ship
.
For
there
are
not
any
two
things
in
the
world
that
require
more
trimming
.
Dum
comuntur
dum
pectuntur
,
annus
est
;
saith
another
.
They
be
a
yeere
in
keaming
and
in
curling
of
themselues
.
I
might
well
feare
to
be
swallowed
vp
of
these
waues
,
did
not
my
Genius
prompt
me
,
that
the
Starre
,
by
which
I
steare
my
course
,
bids
me
not
feare
the
rage
of
Scylla
,
nor
the
threatnings
of
Carybdis
,
but
on
with
courage
,
till
I
haue
worthily
atchieued
,
what
I
willingly
attempted
:
and
I
know
,
let
Womens
aduersaries
make
what
head
they
can
to
ouerthrow
the
strength
and
glory
of
their
reputation
,
there
are
exemplarie
Virtues
enough
in
hir
alone
,
to
protect
it
from
the
furie
of
malignant
Tongues
;
and
therefore
I
will
boldly
dare
to
defend
them
euen
from
this
.
Ignorance
it selfe
must
needes
confesse
that
Pride
consisteth
more
in
the
Heart
,
then
in
the
outward
Habit
,
and
that
it
peereth
as
often
through
a
ragged
coate
,
as
through
a
veluet
cloake
.
For
if
apparell
,
iewels
,
odours
,
and
such
like
accesserie
complements
did
giue
it
forme
,
it
were
no
way
possible
,
that
Women
should
be
freed
from
this
crime
.
But
alas
!
these
are
no
other
then
outward
ornaments
,
which
howsoeuer
peraduenture
they
may
giue
it
lustre
,
can
adde
no
life
.
Beautie
,
Birth
,
and
Breeding
,
if
any
thing
(
for
these
be
their
chiefest
peices
)
would
cause
both
tumour
and
inflammation
in
them
,
were
their
mindes
so
light
and
wauering
,
as
some
would
haue
them
;
but
we
see
notwithstanding
all
these
,
how
humble
and
how
debonnaire
Rebekah
was
,
who
did
not
onely
out
of
meckenesse
satisfie
the
request
of
Abrahams
seruant
,
then
a
stranger
to
hir
,
in
giuing
him
water
to
drinke
,
as
he
desired
,
but
went
hir selfe
with
all
alacritie
to
the
Well
,
and
drew
some
likewise
for
those
of
his
retinue
,
and
their
Camels
.
Nor
did
the
massie
Rings
,
and
Bracelets
,
where
with
he
afterwards
rewarded
this
hir
kindenesse
,
alter
any
way
the
composition
of
this
setled
forme
.
It
is
true
that
Vashti
was
degraded
from
hir
dignitie
,
for
the
rebellious
pride
and
disobedience
which
she
shewed
toward
hir
Lord
and
Soueraigne
;
but
Esther
was
elected
in
hir
place
,
who
with
hir
Buxome
and
lowly
carriage
found
fauour
in
the
eyes
of
hir
Assuerus
,
and
forgot
not
in
this
transcendent
of
hir
honour
the
miseries
and
afflictions
of
hir
distressed
Countrimen
,
nor
was
she
euer
wanting
in
the
performance
of
that
due
respect
,
which
she
did
owe
vnto
hir
poore
friend
Mardoche
.
It
is
true
likewise
,
it
may
be
,
that
the
daughter
of
Nicephorus
the
Emperour
,
was
so
neate
and
so
nice
,
that
shee
neuer
washed
hir
but
in
dew
,
nor
spent
hir
time
in
any
thing
,
but
in
painting
,
poudring
,
and
perfuming
of
hir selfe
,
which
brought
vpon
hir
in
the
end
so
odious
and
so
loathsome
a
disease
,
that
for
the
stench
of
hir
Body
,
there
was
not
any
could
endure
to
come
nigh
hir
:
all
are
not
yet
to
be
condemned
of
the
like
.
This
age
as
corrupted
as
Men
would
make
it
,
affordeth
many
of
extraordinary
birth
and
qualitie
,
who
hauing
shooke
hands
with
Vanitie
,
and
tooke
an
euerlasting
Farewell
of
all
worldly
Pleasures
,
doe
altogether
spend
their
houres
in
the
solitarie
contemplation
of
celestiall
things
,
making
with
all
humilitie
and
singlenesse
of
Heart
,
the
goodnesse
of
their
God
,
the
continuall
subiect
of
their
Meditation
.
I
could
here
set
diuers
Precedents
on
foote
,
to
backe
and
second
my
discourse
,
but
as
our
owne
English
Poet
,
saith
:
This
al
men
know
ful
wel
,
though
I
would
lie
,
In
Women
is
all
troth
,
and
stedfastnesse
,
For
in
good
faith
,
Ineuer
of
them
see
,
But
much
worship
,
bounty
,
and
gentlenesse
,
Right
comming
,
faire
,
and
full
of
meekenesse
,
Good
,
and
glad
,
and
lowly
,
I
you
ensure
,
Is
this
goodly
angelike
Creature
.
Hauing
freed
them
therefore
from
this
,
I
will
now
turne
my
plee
to
the
defence
of
their
Tongue
,
which
standeth
at
the
barre
of
weaker
Iudgment
,
accused
of
prodigious
Intemperancie
,
and
hath
many
forged
Writs
and
Processes
serued
vpon
it
for
the
same
.
CHAP.
4.
Of
their
Talkeatiuenesse
.
PHidias
,
say
their
aduersaries
,
that
worthy
Workman
,
so
renowmed
through
the
confines
of
Peloponnesus
for
the
rarenesse
of
his
skill
,
made
an
image
of
Venus
,
treading
vpon
a
Torteise
,
to
shew
thereby
vnto
vs
,
that
Women
should
be
wedded
to
their
Houses
,
as
are
the
Statues
of
Saints
and
Martyrs
to
the
Temples
,
neuer
desiring
to
gossippe
it
abroad
;
but
making
Silence
alwaies
the
God
of
their
Deuotion
.
They
should
neuer
speake
,
but
either
to
their
Husbands
,
or
by
their
Husbands
;
nor
take
it
ill
,
if
like
a
Trumpeter
,
or
one
that
playeth
vpon
the
Cornet
or
the
Flute
,
by
suffering
them
to
be
the
Organes
of
their
speech
,
they
send
forth
sounds
more
graue
,
and
more
delightful
then
their
owne
.
But
alas
say
they
,
these
principles
are
but
lightly
practised
:
for
looke
wheresoeuer
they
come
,
—
verborum
tanta
cadit
vis
,
Tot
pariter
pelues
,
tot
tintinnabula
dic
as
Pulsari
.
Iam
nemo
tubas
,
atque
aera
fatiget
:
Vna
labor
anti
poterit
succurrere
Lunae
.
And
some
what
sutable
to
this
,
is
that
Epitaph
of
theirs
,
by
which
the
excessiue
talkatiuenesse
of
a
Spanish
Lady
is
commended
to
the
knowledge
of
Posteritie
.
The
substance
thereof
is
this
.
Aquiyaze
sepultada
Lamas
que
noble
Sennora
,
Quên
su
vida
,
punto
ni
hora
Tuvò
la
boca
cerrada
Yes
tanto
lo
,
que
hablò
,
Qne
aunque
mas
no
hade
hablar
,
Nunca
llegarà
el
callar
.
A
donde
el
hablar
llegò
.
And
for
a
more
pregnant
proofe
of
these
malignant
Pasquils
,
Xantippe
must
be
placed
vpon
the
Market-crosse
,
whose
Passions
like
a
deafe
body
,
because
they
could
not
heare
the
voice
of
reason
themselues
,
that
reason
might
not
be
altogether
vncapable
of
theirs
,
would
be
sure
to
expresse
their
meaning
in
the
loudest
straine
.
So
that
Socrates
when
he
was
demanded
,
how
he
could
endure
hir
clamours
,
had
no
other
answer
wherewith
to
shadow
this
hir
imperfection
,
then
,
That
for
the
children
which
she
bare
him
he
could
as
well
abide
hir
prating
,
as
he
did
the
cackling
of
his
Hennes
for
the
Egges
they
laid
him
.
A
certaine
Portugall
,
how
truely
,
though
I
know
not
,
is
made
an
Abbettor
to
them
in
the
like
.
His
fellow
Senators
hauing
conuinced
a
Criminell
,
of
some
more
then
ordinarie
fault
,
and
consulting
among
themselues
,
what
death
was
best
to
equall
his
offence
;
some
would
haue
him
hanged
in
chaines
aliue
;
some
torne
in
peeces
with
wilde-horses
;
others
pined
to
death
;
and
some
againe
cast
quicke
into
his
graue
;
Tush
said
he
at
length
,
these
iudgements
are
but
iestings
,
if
you
minde
to
torture
him
indeede
,
vse
no
delayes
,
but
marrie
him
.
And
surely
,
say
our
opposites
,
this
man
according
to
that
Castilian
Adage
,
Hablò
de
la
feria
,
segun
lefue
en
ella
:
spake
of
the
Mart
according
as
he
found
it
.
They
alleadge
another
,
who
at
a
monthly
Sessions
in
the
Towne
,
whereof
himselfe
was
a
Burgesse
,
vpon
good
deliberation
and
aduise
preferred
a
petition
to
the
Iudges
of
the
Bench
,
desiring
them
they
would
be
pleased
to
grant
him
libertie
to
die
.
For
he
was
not
able
any
longer
to
endure
the
disdainefull
braues
,
and
haughtie
menaces
,
which
his
Wife
like
a
triple-mouthed
Cerberus
did
continually
thunder
out
against
him
;
which
fauour
if
they
would
vouchsafe
him
,
he
made
no
doubt
,
but
to
finde
a
speedie
passage
vnto
Heauen
,
hauing
suffered
so
long
a
Purgatorie
here
on
earth
.
Another
inscription
of
a
Tombe
is
produced
by
them
,
composed
in
manner
of
a
Dialogue
,
the
Argument
wherof
doth
shew
,
say
they
,
that
howsoeuer
Death
be
nothing
but
a
suffocation
,
and
extinction
of
all
heate
in
euery
naturall
Bodie
,
he
cannot
yet
with
that
icie
coldnes
qualifie
the
cholerike
and
fiery
temper
of
their
Tongues
.
Heus
viator
!
Miraculum
.
Vir
&
vxor
non
litigant
.
Qui
simus
,
non
dico
.
At
ipsa
dicam
.
Hic
Bebrius
ebrius
me
Bebriam
ebriam
nominat
.
Heus
vxor
!
etiam
mortua
litigas
?
Hus.
List
Passenger
,
thou
shalt
a
wonder
see
Here
louingly
the
Man
and
Wife
agree
.
Our
names
,
and
what
we
are
,
I
will
conceale
.
Wif.
But
goodman
goose
,
I
wil
our
Names
reueale
:
This
Beber
,
bibber
,
free
of
Drunkards
Hall
,
Me
Bebresse
,
bibbresse
doth
at
al
times
call
.
Hus.
Now
out
alds
!
good
Wife
,
I
prethee
hold
;
For
shame
for
beare
,
now
thou
art
dead
,
to
scold
.
Iudge
here
,
say
they
,
whether
this
wretched
Man
,
that
caused
this
to
bee
writ
vpon
his
graue
,
liued
not
continually
vpon
the
racke
,
or
no.
In
a
word
they
set
it
downe
for
a
sure
Position
,
that
—
Dos
est
vxoria
,
lites
.
The
onely
Dowrie
that
a
Woman
brings
,
Are
strifes
,
contentions
,
end
lesse
quarrel
And
are
not
ashamed
to
affirme
with
the
Satyrist
,
that
Semper
habet
lites
,
alternaque
iurgia
lectus
,
In
quo
nuptaiacet
:
minimum
dormitur
?
in
illo
But
I
see
it
is
high
time
to
cast
a
bit
into
the
mouthes
of
these
vnbridled
Steeds
,
least
with
their
hedstrong
course
they
tread
this
nobler
Sex
vnder
their
hoofes
,
and
make
their
innocencie
dung
and
litter
for
themselues
to
wallow
on
.
And
since
they
do
oppugne
vs
with
the
Achieuements
of
the
dead
,
that
I
may
foile
them
at
their
owne
weapon
,
I
will
produce
the
Monument
of
Rubius
Celer
,
which
doth
witnesse
,
that
he
liued
with
Caia
Ennia
,
his
wife
,
fortie
three
yeares
,
eight
months
,
hauing
neuer
receiued
from
hir
all
this
while
,
any
iust
occasion
of
offence
.
That
of
Albutieus
Tertius
like
wise
doth
auouch
,
that
he
liued
52.
yeares
with
his
wife
sine
querelâ
,
without
any
manner
of
vexation
,
quarrell
or
disturbance
.
The
like
equalitie
of
affections
was
without
any
let
,
or
mixture
of
molestation
in
Acme
and
Septimius
,
as
appeareth
by
that
which
is
vttered
by
Catullus
to
the
perpetuall
honor
of
them
both
.
Vnam
Septimius
misellus
Acmen
.
Mauult
,
qùem
Syrias
,
Britanniasque
;
Vno
in
septimio
fidelis
Acme
Facit
delitias
,
libidinesque
:
Mutuis
animis
amant
,
amantur
.
Quis
vllos
homines
beatiores
Vidit
?
quis
venerem
auspicatiorem
?
But
this
is
not
all
,
say
they
,
Plenae
sunt
rimarum
,
huc
atque
illuc
effluunt
.
Looke
what
secrets
be
committed
to
their
custodie
,
shall
be
kept
as
safe
,
as
water
in
a
Siue
.
And
hereupon
one
of
the
three
things
,
that
Cato
still
repented
him
of
,
was
,
if
he
had
imparted
any
thing
to
a
Woman
,
which
he
would
not
all
the
world
should
know
.
They
alleadge
the
weakenesse
of
Sempronia
,
Fuluia
,
and
diuers
others
in
this
kinde
to
instance
these
erronious
propositions
.
But
the
sight
of
that
worthy
Romane
Epicharis
shall
make
them
vanish
like
Meteores
before
the
Sunne
,
who
being
priuie
to
a
great
conspiracie
intended
against
Nero
,
was
so
constant
in
concealing
it
,
that
notwithstanding
she
were
torturned
day
by
day
in
the
most
grieuous
manner
that
could
possibly
bee
imagined
,
could
no
way
be
forced
or
enduced
to
be
wray
hir
complices
,
and
that
to
the
perpetuall
shame
of
sundrie
noble
Senators
,
who
in
the
same
triall
fainting
like
Crauens
vnder
the
scourge
of
Tyrannie
,
obiected
in
hope
of
some
release
their
very
Brothers
vnto
death
,
and
cast
their
dearest
friends
into
the
iawes
of
danger
.
The
Athenians
caused
a
Lionesse
of
Marble
to
bee
made
without
a
Tongue
,
and
erected
it
in
the
market
place
to
the
neuer
dying
honour
of
Leona
,
who
vpon
the
like
occasion
,
and
in
the
like
extremitie
shewed
no
lesse
taciturnitie
than
the
other
.
I
will
not
,
because
I
thinke
this
point
already
cleare
enough
,
alleadge
any
more
examples
.
It
is
an
imperfection
no
way
proper
to
the
Vniuersall
,
but
such
a
one
as
by
meere
accident
fasteneth
it selfe
vpon
some
indiuiduall
,
whose
carriage
by
reason
of
the
meanenesse
of
hir
breeding
and
education
,
was
neuer
fortified
with
the
retentiue
rules
and
principles
of
Moralitie
,
without
which
the
minde
is
alwaies
very
dangerously
sicke
of
a
continuall
Dysenterie
.
And
thus
I
thinke
that
want
of
Secrecie
is
as
incident
to
Men
and
found
as
often
in
their
bosomes
,
as
in
any
of
this
Sex
.
Wherefore
I
come
now
to
the
next
thing
,
which
is
questioned
,
and
that
is
the
sincerenesse
and
constancie
of
their
affections
.
CHAP.
7.
Of
their
affections
.
THey
be
like
looking-glasses
,
say
their
aduersaries
,
which
represent
no
obiect
longer
then
it
stands
before
them
,
and
not
then
,
but
with
some
flatterie
or
deceit
.
Their
words
are
like
the
Syrens
,
neuer
vttered
but
to
worke
some
wracke
,
their
teares
like
the
Crocodiles
,
neuer
shed
,
but
to
purchase
some
occasion
to
be
cruell
They
haue
as
the
French-man
saith
,
Visage
d'Ange
,
the
shape
and
semblance
of
an
Angell
;
but
alas
teste
de
Diable
,
&
oeil
de
Basilie
.
The
braines
of
a
Diuell
,
and
the
eye
of
a
Basiliske
.
The
Tuscan
giueth
vs
in
a
little
Volume
their
liuely
Caracter
,
Di
di
si
,
èfà
di
nò
.
Their
thoughts
are
neuer
seconded
by
their
Words
,
nor
followed
by
their
Deedes
.
They
come
many
times
foorth
hand
in
hand
,
as
if
they
did
intend
to
tread
one
measure
,
but
as
in
Galliard
,
they
fall
off
on
a
suddaine
and
forsake
each
other
.
They
neuer
eie
one
another
but
a
squint
,
and
are
then
most
distant
from
each
others
view
,
when
they
seeme
to
face
each
other
most
.
In
all
their
actions
like
the
Crab
,
they
looke
one
way
,
but
goe
another
.
And
therefore
say
they
,
Ci
dice
donna
,
dice
danno
.
He
that
nameth
a
Lasse
,
in
effect
nameth
a
Losse
;
and
in
our
natiue
language
Woman
carrieth
no
other
sound
with
it
,
then
Mans
Woe
.
The
Latines
to
shew
the
softnesse
,
but
withall
the
swiftnesse
of
their
affections
,
say
she
was
called
mulier
quasi
mollis
aer
;
and
for
confirmation
of
this
fantasticall
Etymologie
,
that
of
Petrarch
is
alleaged
.
Femina
è
cosa
mobil
per
natura
,
Ond'io
soben
,
amoroso
stato
In
cuor
di
donna
picciol
tempo
dura
.
But
let
them
shew
me
an
affection
more
syncere
then
that
of
Iulia
,
the
daughter
of
C.
Caesar
towards
hir
husband
Pompey
the
great
,
who
when
his
garment
was
brought
hir
from
the
field
all
stained
with
blood
,
out
of
the
feare
she
had
of
his
well
doing
,
fell
straight
into
abortion
,
and
by
and
by
expired
,
the
fruit
of
hir
wombe
seruing
but
as
a
Prologue
to
hir
owne
ensuing
Tragedy
.
Let
them
shew
me
I
say
,
one
more
graue
and
setled
,
then
that
of
Portia
towards
Brutus
,
who
scorning
to
suruiue
his
honour
,
and
seeing
Iron
was
denied
hir
,
made
burning
coales
the
conuoye
of
hir
Spirit
to
hir
deceased
loue
.
In
a
word
,
let
them
shew
me
one
,
more
firme
and
constant
,
then
that
of
Hipsicratea
towards
Mithridates
,
who
desiring
no
better
fortune
,
then
should
follow
him
,
was
content
to
vaile
hir
beautie
vnder
a
manly
habit
,
and
withall
to
exercise
hir
daintier
limbes
on
horsebacke
,
and
in
deedes
of
armes
,
that
she
might
the
better
participate
with
him
in
the
dangers
and
crosse
occurrences
of
his
warres
.
The
consideration
of
which
hir
loyaltie
,
was
such
a
comfortable
cordiall
to
him
in
that
wretched
and
miserable
estate
,
wherein
he
was
,
when
he
fled
from
the
victorious
sword
of
Cn.
Pompeius
,
that
cum
domo
,
&
penatibus
vagari
se
eredidit
,
vxore
simul
exulante
.
He
thought
himselfe
,
notwithstanding
he
were
no
better
then
a
fugitiue
,
sole
Lord
of
heauen
and
earth
by
the
fruition
of
hir
company
.
Agathocles
,
King
of
Sictlie
finding
himselfe
well
nigh
disseazed
both
of
life
and
State
by
his
rebellious
Nephue
,
prouided
all
things
that
were
necessary
,
for
the
transportation
of
his
Wife
Theoxena
into
Egypt
,
from
whence
he
had
hir
.
But
she
most
affectionately
besought
him
not
to
furnish
Slander
,
with
so
faire
a
parallell
for
his
kinsmans
parricide
,
as
hir
departure
.
Nubendo
se
non
prosperae
tantum
,
sed
omnis
fortunae
inisse
societatem
.
That
by
Marriage
shee
had
not
made
hir selfe
a
companion
for
him
onely
in
prosperity
,
but
in
all
aduerse
chances
whatsoeuer
.
Neither
was
she
vnwilling
to
buye
the
embracing
of
his
latest
breath
,
with
the
hazard
of
hir
owne
.
This
puisne
age
of
ours
affordeth
the
like
example
in
Isabella
,
sister
to
Charles
the
Emperour
,
and
wife
to
Christierne
King
of
Denmarke
,
whose
discontented
subiects
,
when
they
had
degraded
him
from
that
royall
dignitie
;
would
willingly
haue
conferred
the
types
thereof
vpon
hir
:
but
she
most
valiantly
refused
them
;
thinking
it
a
greater
honour
,
and
more
beseeming
the
dutie
of
a
Wife
,
to
leade
a
languishing
life
in
exile
with
hir
husband
,
then
to
liue
a
Princesse
in
the
highest
transcendent
of
all
Soueraignetie
without
him
.
What
should
I
speake
of
Artemisia
,
or
Alceste
,
when
Prouinces
peopled
with
Women
of
no
lesse
integritie
towards
their
Husbands
,
expose
themselues
vnto
our
view
?
Those
of
Mynia
in
Thessalie
,
when
their
husbands
according
to
the
laws
of
Sparta
,
were
by
night
to
suffer
death
for
their
ambitions
,
and
vngratefull
vsurpation
ouer
that
Citie
,
vnder
pretence
of
speaking
with
those
condemned
wretches
before
their
execution
,
entred
the
prison
,
and
hauing
changed
garments
with
them
,
vailing
their
faces
vnder
a
shew
of
griefe
,
made
meanes
for
their
escape
,
themselues
remaining
in
their
place
to
abide
with
constancie
,
whatsoeuer
the
deluded
Magistrate
should
inflict
vpon
them
,
for
this
their
bold
attempt
.
Conrade
.
III.
After
he
had
compelled
Guelphus
,
D.
of
Bauaria
to
open
to
him
,
and
to
his
forces
the
gates
of
Winsbergh
,
and
to
yeelde
vp
the
towne
to
his
mercie
,
granted
vpon
some
easie
entreatie
,
that
the
Duchesse
,
and
such
other
Matrons
as
were
there
,
should
depart
vntoucht
,
and
carrie
with
them
whatsoeuer
they
could
conueniently
vpon
their
shoulders
:
whereupon
forgetting
their
precious
ornaments
,
and
such
things
as
Women
vsually
most
delight
in
,
and
charging
themselues
immediately
with
no
other
burthen
,
then
with
their
Husbands
,
they
forsooke
the
place
;
which
pious
act
of
theirs
so
mollified
the
heart
of
the
Emperour
,
that
hee
caused
them
to
bee
brought
backe
,
&
cancelling
the
wrongs
&
iniuries
which
had
incited
him
to
that
sieg
,
receiued
the
Duke
into
his
fauor
,
restored
him
to
his
dignity
,
and
seated
him
againe
without
any
charge
or
innouation
at
all
in
his
auncient
gouernment
.
But
I
will
now
retire
a
little
from
these
softer
Virtues
,
which
can
no
more
be
separated
from
this
Sex
,
then
whitenesse
from
the
Swanne
;
and
curtaine
vp
a
while
the
Table
,
in
which
I
haue
hitherto
laboured
,
as
with
the
pencile
of
Apelles
to
giue
each
foule-mouthd
Mantuanist
the
liuely
representation
of
Womens
perfections
in
a
louely
Venus
,
whilst
I
endeuor
hereafter
withall
the
art
I
can
,
to
limme
them
foorth
in
an
armed
Pallas
,
sprung
out
of
the
very
head
of
Ioue
,
and
endued
with
such
learning
,
wisdome
,
courage
,
and
other
the
like
abilities
,
which
Men
,
ouerwhelmed
with
self-conceit
presumptuously
entitle
Masculine
,
as
being
essentiall
to
themselues
alone
,
that
they
may
iustly
challenge
the
garland
euen
from
the
greatest
worthies
,
as
in
briefe
shall
plainly
appeare
.
CHAP.
8.
Of
their
Learning
.
LEarning
in
the
brest
of
a
Woman
,
is
likened
by
their
Stoicall
aduersaries
to
a
sword
in
the
hands
of
a
Mad-man
,
which
hee
knoweth
not
how
to
rule
as
reason
shall
informe
him
,
but
as
the
motions
and
violent
fits
of
his
distemperature
shall
enforce
him
.
It
doth
not
ballast
their
Iudgements
,
but
onely
addeth
more
saile
to
their
ambition
;
and
like
the
weapon
of
Goliah
,
serueth
but
as
an
instrument
to
giue
the
fatall
period
to
their
Honours
ouerthrow
.
And
surely
this
fond
imagination
hath
purchased
a
free
inheritance
to
it selfe
in
the
Bosomes
of
some
vndiscreeter
Parents
,
who
hereupon
will
by
no
meanes
endure
that
their
daughters
should
be
acquainted
with
any
kinde
of
literature
at
all
.
The
Pen
must
be
forbidden
them
as
the
Tree
of
good
and
euill
,
and
vpon
their
blessing
they
must
not
handle
it
.
It
is
a
Pandar
to
a
Virgine
Chastitie
,
and
betrayeth
it
,
by
venting
foorth
those
amarous
Passions
,
that
are
incident
to
hotter
bloods
,
which
otherwise
,
like
fire
raked
vp
in
embers
,
would
peraduenture
in
a
little
space
be
vtterly
consumed
.
But
if
this
be
their
feare
,
let
them
likewise
barre
them
the
vse
of
their
needle
:
with
this
did
Philomela
fairely
character
those
foule
indignities
,
which
had
bin
offered
hir
by
Tereus
the
incestuous
husband
of
hir
sister
Progne
;
and
why
then
may
not
others
expresse
their
loues
,
and
their
affections
in
the
like
forme
?
Cupid
hath
wings
,
and
like
another
Daedalus
,
if
his
passage
be
stopped
by
land
and
water
,
he
will
cut
through
the
aire
,
but
he
will
be
Maister
of
his
desires
.
You
cannot
hinder
his
Pinnions
from
Soaring
hie
,
by
depriuing
him
of
a
quill
or
twaine
.
Affection
is
ingenious
,
and
can
impe
them
,
as
it
pleaseth
hir
.
Leander
will
not
for
a
Hellespont
be
kept
from
Heros
kisses
,
nor
Daenae
by
a
brasen
Tower
from
Iupiters
embraces
.
Be
Iuno
neuer
so
iealous
,
Loue
hath
a
Mercurie
,
that
can
at
all
times
delude
hir
Spies
.
Et
quid
non
fiet
,
quod
voluere
duo
?
To
conuerse
with
the
dead
,
and
this
is
to
conuerse
with
Bookes
,
hath
bin
still
accounted
the
readiest
way
to
moralise
our
harsher
natures
,
and
to
weane
them
from
all
inbred
Barbarisme
to
more
humane
and
ciuill
conuersation
.
And
hence
it
was
,
that
Iulius
Agricola
,
when
he
had
obtained
the
gouernment
of
this
our
Isle
that
he
might
abasethe
fierce
and
fiery
temper
of
the
inhabitants
,
whose
knowledge
could
demonstrate
nothing
but
by
armes
,
tooke
from
the
nobler
Britons
their
sonnes
,
and
trayned
them
vp
in
all
the
liberall
Sciences
,
whereby
hee
made
them
willingly
submit
themselues
to
the
Romane
Empire
,
and
not
prone
to
rise
so
often
vp
in
armes
as
formerly
by
reason
of
their
rough-hewen
dispositions
they
had
accustomed
to
doe
.
Now
I
see
no
hinderance
why
they
should
not
produce
the
same
effect
in
them
,
which
they
doe
in
vs
,
their
bodies
consisting
of
the
same
matter
,
and
their
mindes
comming
out
of
the
same
molde
.
But
if
those
prohibitions
proceed
from
a
prouidence
in
them
to
preuent
a
curious
desire
of
searching
further
into
the
Cabinets
of
Minerua
,
then
is
fitting
,
an
errour
incident
to
capriocious
,
and
working
Wits
,
such
as
they
would
haue
Womens
for
the
most
part
to
be
,
let
them
shew
me
what
Men
are
free
from
the
like
weakenesse
.
Knowledge
is
infinite
,
and
admitteth
no
bounds
.
It
is
Iacobs
ladder
,
and
reacheth
from
the
lowest
part
of
the
Earth
,
to
the
highest
place
in
Heauen
.
Mans
Thoughts
are
like
those
Angels
,
which
were
seene
by
the
Patriarch
in
his
Vision
,
neuer
at
a
stand
,
but
still
going
either
vp
or
downe
.
And
therefore
Salomon
anouncheth
,
that
Qui
addit
scientiam
,
addit
&
dolorem
;
an
acquist
of
learning
bringeth
with
it
an
encrease
of
labour
.
For
the
more
a
man
attaineth
vnto
,
the
more
hee
seeth
to
bee
attained
,
and
so
not
content
with
any
former
purchase
,
wearieth
out
himselfe
in
pursuite
of
that
,
which
is
behinde
.
Nil
actum
credens
,
cum
quid
sibi
cernit
agendum
.
Those
that
are
altogether
vnfurnished
of
this
diuiner
complement
,
are
as
the
Italian
termeth
them
humanate
beftie
,
things
that
resemble
reasonable
creatures
only
in
the
bark
and
rinde
,
and
could
not
possibly
be
distinguished
from
Statues
made
of
clay
and
marble
,
but
by
their
outward
sense
and
motion
.
These
are
they
,
which
like
Aesop's
Cock
,
spurne
at
the
Iewell
,
which
they
cannot
prize
,
and
such
were
Nero
,
Domitian
,
Clisthesnes
,
who
as
Tacitus
reporteth
,
Virtutem
ipsam
excindere
concupientes
;
studying
as
much
as
in
them
lay
,
how
to
bring
Vertue
herselfe
vnto
the
Blocke
,
made
Philosophie
a
capitall
offence
,
and
put
to
death
,
those
Professours
of
Wisdome
and
good
Arts
,
which
betimes
did
not
retire
themselues
from
the
reach
of
their
infernall
rage
.
And
such
as
these
,
no
doubt
are
those
,
or
at
lest
not
many
degrees
short
of
them
,
who
out
of
an
idle
supposition
of
their
owne
addle
braines
thinke
learning
a
thing
superfluous
in
any
.
For
as
it
is
a
plaine
testimony
of
Ignorance
it selfe
to
know
nothing
:
so
is
it
an
ample
signe
of
Dulnesse
to
rest
satisfied
with
the
knowledge
of
any
something
.
Adams
fingers
,
notwithstanding
Gods
menaces
,
will
bee
still
itching
at
the
forbidden
Tree
:
The
Children
of
Israel
for
all
the
threatning
Proclamations
which
Moses
doth
divulge
amongst
them
from
the
Lord
,
will
hardly
be
restrained
from
aduancing
forward
at
the
mount
of
Sinai
.
The
Bethshemites
will
be
peering
into
the
Ark
,
though
the
liues
of
more
than
50000.
of
them
bee
made
the
forfeiture
of
their
presumption
.
Diuine
S.
Augustine
will
bee
diuing
into
the
mystery
of
the
Trinity
,
till
he
see
a
childe
become
the
censurer
of
his
folly
:
&
holy
,
Daniel
will
trouble
himselfe
in
searching
after
the
condition
of
future
times
,
till
an
Angell
from
Heauen
will
him
to
stand
vpright
in
his
place
.
In
a
word
,
it
so
bewitcheth
vs
,
that
wee
grow
desperate
in
the
chase
.
Plinie
will
haue
no
other
Vrne
,
then
the
mountaine
Vesuuius
for
his
ashes
,
when
hee
cannot
finde
out
the
reason
of
his
flames
:
nor
Aristotle
any
other
Sepulcher
than
Euripus
,
when
angling
for
the
hidden
causes
of
his
ebbes
&
flowes
,
he
seeth
nothing
will
hang
vpon
his
hooke
.
And
vpon
this
intemperancy
of
Men
,
was
grounded
peraduenture
that
Morall
precept
of
Antiquities
,
Noli
altum
sapere
,
Aime
not
at
things
beyond
your
reach
,
as
likewise
that
admonition
of
S.
Pauls
.
Be
wise
vnto
sobrietic
.
From
al
which
premises
I
gather
this
conclusion
,
That
meats
might
as
well
bee
forbidden
women
for
feare
of
surfetting
,
as
the
vse
of
learning
for
feare
of
ouerweening
,
unlesse
we
our selues
will
bee
content
to
bee
registred
with
them
,
as
liable
to
the
like
miscarrying
,
in
the
same
role
.
But
I
heare
our
Aduersaries
crie
out
,
what
a
prodigious
thing
it
was
counted
among
the
Romanes
for
a
woman
to
speake
in
publike
,
and
when
it
happened
,
what
speepy
recourse
they
had
vnto
their
Augures
to
know
what
disastrous
fortune
so
strange
an
accident
might
portend
to
their
Common-weale
.
Against
which
particular
Custom
of
a
people
,
which
for
Wit
and
Valour
might
boast
themselues
the
legitimate
children
as
well
of
Mercurie
,
as
of
Mars
,
I
will
say
nothing
,
though
I
could
easily
shew
with
what
good
successe
the
Daughter
of
Hortensius
pleaded
the
Matrons
cause
,
to
the
freeing
of
them
from
the
greatest
part
of
that
greeuous
taxation
,
which
the
Trium-viri
had
most
iniuriously
imposed
vpon
them
.
As
likewise
how
Amaesia
Sentia
,
being
arraigned
before
L.
Titius
then
Praetor
,
pleaded
so
stoutly
and
exactly
to
euery
point
of
her
Inditements
,
that
she
acquitted
herselfe
,
maugre
the
power
of
her
enemies
,
with
the
generall
applause
of
all
.
To
that
,
wherewith
they
vrge
vs
out
of
holy
Writ
,
touching
the
restraint
of
their
teaching
,
and
speaking
publikely
in
the
Temples
,
I
answer
that
the
blessed
Apostle
in
that
to
the
Corinthians
.
1.
Ep.
14.
vers.
34.
alludeth
onely
to
some
ignorant
and
prating
Gossips
,
who
when
attention
should
bee
given
to
the
dispensers
of
Gods
mysteries
,
are
continually
asking
to
their
own
hurt
,
and
others
hinderance
,
such
friuolous
questions
,
as
on
the
instant
are
begotten
in
their
idle
Braines
.
And
in
that
to
Timothie
,
1.
Ep.
2.
vers.
12.
where
hee
permitteth
them
not
to
teach
,
because
,
as
they
would
haue
it
,
Semel
docuit
,
&
omnia
subuertit
;
Shee
taught
but
once
,
and
that
once
brought
all
things
out
of
order
,
he
doth
but
vtter
his
owne
opinion
,
and
howsoeuer
hee
allow
not
of
it
,
yet
he
doth
not
condemne
it
:
So
that
his
meaning
,
as
I
take
it
,
there
,
is
onely
this
;
They
should
not
when
men
of
sufficiencie
are
in
place
,
and
such
as
can
discharge
the
duties
that
appertaine
to
so
high
a
calling
,
vsurpe
ouer
their
authority
.
For
otherwise
the
Scripture
informeth
vs
,
that
Deborah
was
a
Prophetesse
,
and
that
Anna
the
Daughter
of
Phanuel
.
Luke
2.
vers.
37.
neuer
stirred
out
of
the
Temple
,
but
spent
therein
both
day
and
night
,
in
prayer
&
fasting
,
and
speaking
feruently
of
Iesus
Christ
the
Sauiour
of
the
world
,
to
all
that
waited
for
their
deliuerance
in
Ierusalem
.
And
indeede
the
light
of
the
Moone
is
needelesle
;
when
the
Sunne
is
in
his
Transcendent
,
but
if
hee
bee
gone
,
her
Beames
,
though
not
so
pregnant
,
will
affoord
much
comfort
.
Apollos
may
be
eloquent
and
mighty
in
the
Scriptures
,
Priscilla
yet
may
take
him
vnto
her
,
and
expound
vnto
him
the
waies
of
God
more
plainly
.
But
Scientia
inslat
;
Knowledge
puffeth
vp
,
and
there
is
nothing
,
say
our
opposites
,
more
swelling
and
imperious
,
than
a
Woman
,
that
seeth
shee
hath
the
superiority
and
start
of
her
Husband
in
any
thing
:
—
Faciunt
grauior
a
coactae
Iuu
.
Sat.
6.
Imperio
Sexus
;
minimumque
libidine
peccant
.
As
if
they
should
conforme
themselues
to
mens
weakenesses
,
and
patterne
out
their
owne
Abilities
by
their
Defects
.
He
that
is
depriued
of
his
bodily
sight
,
is
content
to
bee
led
,
though
by
a
childe
:
and
shall
hee
,
that
is
blinde
in
his
vnderstanding
disdaine
to
be
directed
by
her
,
who
by
the
ordinance
of
God
,
and
the
rules
of
sacred
Wedlocke
,
is
alotted
him
a
fellow-helper
in
all
his
businesses
?
The
Husband
and
the
Wife
are
the
eyes
of
a
Familie
;
if
the
right
one
bee
so
bleared
,
that
it
cannot
well
discerne
;
the
guiding
of
the
Houshold
must
of
necessity
be
left
vnto
the
left
,
or
on
the
sudden
all
will
go
to
wracke
.
And
surely
I
see
no
reason
but
the
Henne
may
bee
permitted
to
crowe
,
where
the
Cocke
can
doe
nothing
but
cackle
.
So
that
learning
,
we
see
,
is
an
ornament
,
and
a
decencie
,
most
expedient
for
Women
,
were
it
for
no
other
respect
,
then
to
supply
,
as
occasion
may
require
,
the
defects
that
are
in
Men.
And
truely
some
of
them
,
by
seconding
a
naturall
propension
in
themselues
to
letters
,
with
an
industrious
pursuit
,
haue
attained
to
so
high
a
perfection
in
them
,
that
men
considering
how
imperiously
they
challenge
a
preheminence
ouer
them
herein
,
haue
had
iust
cause
to
blush
at
their
own
ignorance
.
There
are
some
,
which
Antiquity
obiecteth
to
our
view
,
whose
many
rare
and
profitable
inuentions
made
them
deserue
the
names
of
Goddesses
heere
on
earth
,
as
Pallas
,
Ceres
,
and
the
Sybills
,
whose
mouth
it
pleased
God
many
times
to
vse
as
a
sacred
Oracle
,
whereby
to
publish
vnto
the
world
,
what
hee
purposed
in
his
will
.
Others
again
,
which
haue
had
the
tutoring
of
diuerse
very
famous
and
worthy
persons
,
as
Aspasia
,
Macrina
and
Diotime
,
who
by
her
prayers
and
deuouter
sacrifices
,
prorogued
a
certaine
pestilence
,
which
was
then
to
light
vpon
the
Athenians
,
till
ten
yeeres
after
.
I
could
heere
alleadge
Nicostrata
,
the
mother
of
Euander
,
who
was
the
first
that
taught
the
Latines
what
letters
were
,
as
likewise
Corinna
,
Sappho
,
Sulpitia
,
and
the
Schoole-mistresse
of
Pindare
the
Lyrike
,
all
of
them
worthy
admiration
for
their
excellencie
in
Poesie
;
but
I
desire
not
to
trauell
farre
,
for
what
I
may
procure
neere
home
.
A
country-woman
of
our
owne
,
hauing
disguised
herselfe
into
the
habit
of
a
Student
tooke
her
iourney
to
Rome
,
where
in
a
while
she
grew
so
famous
for
wit
and
knowledge
,
that
from
one
degree
of
Dignity
to
another
,
shee
stepped
at
length
into
Saint
Peters
Chaire
and
had
the
custodie
of
the
Keyes
.
And
this
if
their
aduersaries
like
deafe
Adders
stoppe
not
their
eares
when
Reason
charmeth
,
may
very
well
suffice
to
maintaine
them
learned
.
Their
Wisedome
is
the
next
,
which
men
with
their
traducements
would
enuiously
impeach
,
but
you
shall
quickly
see
it
vncanopied
of
those
mistie
clouds
,
which
would
obscure
it
,
and
shining
out
as
cleere
as
brightest
day
.
CHAP.
9.
Of
their
Wisdome
.
WOmen
are
wise
enough
say
their
aduersaries
,
if
they
can
but
keepe
themselues
out
of
the
raine
.
Indeede
it
would
much
aduantage
men
,
if
their
vnderstandings
were
limited
with
such
narrow
bounds
.
Their
imperfections
would
not
furnish
them
with
matter
of
laughter
so
readily
as
now
they
doe
,
nor
their
ablest
virtues
be
so
often
ouermatched
by
them
,
as
now
they
are
.
It
hath
bin
our
pollicie
from
the
beginning
to
busie
them
in
domestical
affaires
,
thereby
to
diuert
them
from
more
serious
imployments
,
in
which
if
they
had
not
surmounted
vs
,
they
would
at
least
haue
showne
themselues
our
equals
,
and
our
parallels
.
Spinning
,
knitting
,
sowing
,
preseruing
,
&
the
like
,
as
we
would
make
them
beleeue
,
are
their
chiefest
peices
:
But
all
ages
haue
affoorded
some
,
whose
Spirits
being
of
a
stronger
temper
,
and
harder
edge
,
then
to
turne
at
such
perswasions
,
haue
trauailed
beyond
those
Herculean
Pillers
,
and
made
manifest
to
the
world
,
that
the
Braines
of
a
Serpent
haue
beene
lodged
in
the
Head
of
a
Doue
.
For
proofe
hereof
let
vs
search
no
farther
into
the
bosome
of
Antiquitie
,
then
those
times
,
in
which
the
pride
and
glory
of
Italie
,
sat
chained
,
as
a
Trophie
,
on
the
victorious
armes
of
the
barbarous
Gothes
,
and
we
shall
finde
,
that
there
liued
then
amongst
them
Queene
Amalasunta
,
who
with
such
wonderfull
discretion
and
moderation
so
managed
their
harsher
mindes
,
that
she
found
not
in
them
,
all
the
while
she
raigned
,
the
least
rub
or
stoppe
,
which
might
interrupt
the
smoother
course
of
hir
proceedings
.
After
hir
,
we
shall
heare
of
Theodelinda
,
Queene
of
Lumbardie
,
a
Woman
famous
and
much
renowmed
for
hir
singular
virtue
in
the
gouernment
of
State
affaires
;
and
after
hir
of
Theodora
,
the
Grecian
Emperesse
,
one
not
inferiour
in
Wisdome
,
or
sufficiencie
to
the
former
.
But
that
we
may
draw
somewhat
neerer
home
;
what
King
or
Prince
almost
of
the
latter
daies
,
and
make
inquirie
through
the
largest
part
of
Christendome
,
did
euer
deserue
to
be
compared
to
Isabella
,
Queene
of
Spaine
.
At
hir
first
comming
to
the
crowne
,
she
found
the
greatest
part
of
hir
Estate
in
the
hands
of
the
greatest
,
which
notwithstanding
shee
recouered
in
so
iust
and
peaceable
manner
,
that
they
,
whom
she
dispossessed
,
continued
most
affectionate
vnto
hir
,
and
were
willing
to
forgoe
,
what
formerly
they
had
willingly
vsurped
.
After
this
she
did
not
onely
defend
hir
owne
Kingdomes
from
the
powerfull
inuasions
of
forraine
enemies
,
but
withall
enlarged
them
to
hir
perpetuall
honour
,
by
the
glorious
acquist
of
the
kingdome
of
Granado
:
besides
all
which
there
was
in
hir
,
as
is
credibly
recorded
by
such
as
knew
hir
,
such
a
diuiner
kinde
of
Maiesty
,
as
drew
from
hir
Subiects
all
dutifull
respect
,
and
put
the
most
rebellious
,
without
any
stirre
,
or
tumult
,
in
minde
of
their
obedience
:
withall
such
a
discerning
iudgement
in
the
choise
and
election
of
Ministers
fit
for
those
places
,
in
which
she
meant
to
employ
them
,
which
as
the
Poet
saith
,
is
the
chiefest
Art
that
belongeth
vnto
Soueraignetie
.
Principis
est
virtus
maxima
nosse
suos
.
And
afterwards
so
liberall
a
minde
to
reward
the
worthinesse
of
their
desarts
,
that
since
,
there
haue
bin
few
in
Spaine
of
any
note
or
credit
,
which
were
not
of
hir
creation
.
Gonsaluo
,
the
great
Captaine
,
did
more
highly
value
himselfe
for
the
happinesse
he
had
to
be
preferred
by
hir
,
then
for
all
the
famous
victories
,
and
worthie
Acts
,
which
made
him
honoured
of
all
Men
both
in
Peace
and
Warre
.
So
that
in
a
word
,
the
glory
and
the
reputation
,
which
Ferdinand
hir
husband
got
by
hir
,
was
no
lesse
a
Dower
,
then
the
Kingdome
of
Castile
.
What
should
I
speake
of
Queene
Anne
of
France
,
a
Lady
of
no
lesse
worth
,
then
wealth
,
wife
to
two
Kings
,
Charles
and
Lewis
,
but
to
neither
of
them
any
way
inferiour
,
either
in
iustice
,
clemency
,
liberality
,
or
holinesse
of
life
?
What
of
Lady
Margaret
,
Daughter
to
Miximilian
the
Emperour
,
who
with
no
lesse
wisedome
,
moderation
and
equity
gouerned
hir
State
a
long
time
?
Hungarie
,
Naples
,
Arragon
,
and
Sicilie
afford
vs
diuers
examples
of
the
like
kinde
;
but
since
the
winde
is
faire
,
I
will
disanchor
from
these
forraine
Coastes
,
and
hauing
hoisest
vp
my
Sailes
,
make
hast
vnto
our
owne
.
And
behold
I
am
met
vpon
the
shore
by
that
wonder
of
hir
Sex
,
Queene
Elizabeth
of
happy
memory
,
of
whom
Tasso
maks
this
honourable
mention
;
That
howsoeuer
their
owne
ill
fortune
had
decreed
,
she
should
be
separated
from
the
Church
,
neuerthelesse
saith
hee
,
l'Heroiche
virtu
dell
animo
suo
,
&
l'altezza
dell
ingegno
mirabile
le
rendeua
affectionatissimo
ogni
animo
gentile
,
&
valoroso
.
The
Heroicall
virtues
of
hir
Minde
and
the
wonderfull
profoundnesse
of
hir
Wit
,
endeared
euery
noble
and
valorous
disposition
most
affectionately
vnto
hir
.
And
indeede
the
world
cannot
produce
a
fairer
example
out
of
all
Antiquities
Court-roles
,
in
which
goodnes
was
euermore
equally
matched
with
greatnesse
;
honestie
with
Policie
;
mildenesse
with
seueritie
:
liberality
with
frugalitie
,
or
affability
with
maiesty
:
and
in
which
we
may
see
such
prudence
in
gouerning
;
such
moderation
in
commanding
;
such
readinesse
in
rewarding
,
such
discretion
in
promising
,
such
religion
in
performing
.
So
that
all
hir
abilities
rightly
considered
we
may
say
of
hir
,
as
was
said
of
Greece
,
Sola
factorum
gloriam
ad
verborum
copiam
tetendit
.
She
alone
hath
equalled
with
hir
deeds
all
that
euer
could
be
said
of
hir
in
words
,
and
deserued
that
which
Alexander
wished
,
that
Homers
quil
to
be
the
Trumpet
of
hir
Praises
.
But
not
to
keepe
hir
Princely
Ashes
too
long
out
of
their
Sacred
Urne
;
I
will
onely
vtter
to
the
astonishment
of
Fame
,
that
which
the
Muse
of
diuine
du
Bartas
sung
of
hir
with
admiration
,
stiling
hir
,
&
that
without
flatterie
.
La
docte
Elizabeth
,
la
prudente
Pallas
,
Qui
fait
que
le
Breton
,
desdaigneux
ne
desire
,
Changer
anmasleiougd'une
femme
l'Empire
Qui
tandis
qu
Erynnis
lasse
d'estre
en
enfer
,
Rauage
ses
voysins
,
&
par
flamme
&
par
fer
,
Et
que
le
noir
effroy
d'vn
murmurant
orage
,
Menace
horriblement
l'vniuers
de
naufrage
:
Tient
heurense
paix
sa
Prouince
,
ou
la
Loy
Venerable
fleurit
auec
la
blanche
Foy
,
Qui
nâ
pas
seulement
l'opulence
faconde
Dn
matern●lāguage
;
ains
d'une
bouche
ronde
Peut
sibien
sur
le
champ
harenguer
en
Latine
Grec
,
Francois
,
Espagnol
,
Tudesque
&
Florentin
Que
Rome
l'Emperiere
,
&
laGrece
,
&
la
France
Le
Rhin
et
l'Arne
encor
plaident
pour
sa
naissance
.
And
so
I
leaue
this
glorious
Sun
lodged
in
hir
West
,
till
she
rise
againe
at
the
approach
of
the
Sunne
of
glorie
,
to
behold
Queene
Anne
our
gracious
Soueraigne
,
whose
virtue
like
that
Starre
in
the
East
,
drawes
Princes
,
from
a
farre
to
doe
homage
and
seruice
to
hir
worthinesse
.
Let
vs
but
consider
with
what
wisdome
and
discretion
she
hath
hitherto
gouerned
hir
owne
domesticall
affaires
,
and
from
thence
we
shall
presently
conclude
in
hir
behalfe
,
as
Artaxerxes
,
surnamed
Mnemon
,
did
in
the
behalfe
of
that
poore
man
,
who
presented
him
with
an
apple
of
extraordinary
bignesse
,
which
when
he
had
receiued
with
a
chearefull
countenance
:
and
withall
informed
himselfe
,
that
it
was
of
his
own
planting
.
Persolem
inquit
,
videtur
hic
mihi
commissam
sibi
vrbem
de
parua
magnam
redacturus
.
Now
by
the
Sunne
,
said
he
,
were
a
Citie
committed
to
this
mans
custodie
,
of
a
littel
one
he
would
surely
make
it
great
,
of
a
meane
one
,
mighty
.
I
could
here
to
stoppe
the
mouthes
of
our
aduersaries
produce
the
names
of
diuers
honourable
personages
,
which
like
blazing
lights
doe
continually
waite
vpon
this
glorious
Cynthia
,
and
are
eminent
in
the
eyes
of
the
world
for
sundrie
notable
graces
and
perfections
;
but
I
will
now
againe
looke
backe
a
little
vpon
those
elder
Times
,
and
come
to
Helena
the
wife
of
Iohn
,
king
of
Cyprus
,
who
perceiuing
that
hir
husbands
weakenesse
was
a
blot
whereon
the
greatest
part
of
his
nobility
continually
plaied
,
and
that
the
Kingdome
was
the
stake
at
which
they
aimed
,
&
which
vnles
hir
better
skil
preuented
,
they
by
their
false
play
were
like
to
winne
;
shee
tooke
the
gouernement
into
hir
owne
hands
,
to
the
release
of
the
Land
,
and
the
reliefe
of
all
hir
subiects
.
And
surely
where
the
sword
doth
rust
for
want
of
vse
,
or
is
so
full
of
gaps
and
flawes
,
that
it
cannot
well
be
vsed
,
I
see
no
reason
but
the
Distaffe
should
be
suffered
to
supply
the
place
.
God
,
when
the
children
of
Israel
,
after
the
death
of
Ehud
the
Beniamite
did
euill
in
his
sight
,
sold
them
into
the
hands
of
Iabin
King
of
Canaan
,
who
for
twentie
yeares
most
grieuously
oppressed
them
,
and
when
there
wanted
a
Iudge
for
their
deliuerance
,
he
sent
them
vpon
the
crie
of
their
lamentation
,
Deborah
a
Prophetesse
,
the
wife
of
Lapidoth
.
Iud.
4.
4.
by
whose
counsailes
and
directions
Barak
,
the
sonne
of
Abinoam
freed
them
from
the
cruell
hand
of
Iabin
,
and
the
bloody
sword
of
Sisera
.
And
all
the
people
,
saith
the
Text
,
came
vp
as
occasion
compelled
them
to
hir
dwelling
vnder
the
Palme-tree
,
betweene
Ramah
and
Bethel
in
mount
Ephraim
,
and
receiued
iudgement
from
hir
.
I
cannot
therefore
but
condemne
the
Salique
law
,
and
taxe
it
of
iniustice
,
by
which
the
worthinesse
of
Women
is
excluded
,
as
a
thing
altogether
eccentricall
from
the
crown
of
France
.
But
leauing
this
,
do
we
not
see
that
the
greatest
Captaines
,
and
the
grauest
commanders
haue
thought
it
no
disparagement
to
their
worth
,
to
take
a
peece
of
the
Fox
from
them
,
wherewith
to
peece
out
the
Lion
in
themselues
,
for
the
safer
effecting
of
their
high
dessignes
?
Coriolanus
whom
neither
the
maiestie
of
the
Common-weale
in
the
persons
of
Embassadors
,
nor
the
reuerence
of
Religion
in
the
countenance
of
the
Priests
could
moue
,
was
by
their
teares
,
like
a
hard
Diamond
with
the
blood
of
Goates
,
so
mollified
,
that
on
the
instant
he
did
abate
the
edge
of
his
furie
,
and
turned
the
point
of
his
weapon
from
the
bosome
of
his
vngratefull
Countrey
.
The
Captaine
of
that
Garrison
,
which
Hannibal
had
planted
in
Tarentum
,
was
desperately
en
amoured
of
a
certaine
gentlewoman
,
who
had
a
Brother
that
serued
at
the
same
time
in
the
Romane
armie
,
vnder
Fabius
the
Consul
,
which
when
he
vnderstood
,
he
commanded
him
as
a
fugitiue
to
hasten
thither
;
where
making
vse
of
his
sisters
cunning
flatteries
he
droue
the
Gouernour
in
a
short
time
to
betray
the
towne
,
which
was
committed
to
his
custodie
.
To
bee
briefe
,
what
had
become
of
the
two
sonnes
of
Alexander
,
King
of
the
Iewes
,
when
immediately
vpon
their
Fathers
death
,
the
incensed
multitude
,
in
reuenge
of
that
hard
and
cruell
slauery
,
wherein
he
had
alwaies
held
them
during
his
life
,
hastened
to
the
Pallace
with
their
weapons
in
a
readinesse
to
destroy
them
;
and
had
giuen
those
their
tragicall
dessignes
a
bloody
Catastrophe
,
but
that
a
Womans
wisedome
on
the
sudden
altered
the
Scene
of
their
proceedings
,
and
hatching
a
Doue
out
of
a
Serpents
egge
,
according
to
Sampsons
riddle
;
out
of
the
fierce
brought
sweetnesse
,
and
out
of
the
deuourer
meate
,
by
casting
the
corps
of
hir
deceased
Lord
into
the
middest
of
the
market
place
,
and
telling
them
,
that
as
in
his
life
time
she
would
willingly
haue
diuerted
him
from
those
tyrannicall
and
cruell
courses
,
which
had
most
iustly
stirred
them
vp
to
anger
against
him
:
so
now
,
being
dead
,
she
was
ready
there
with
them
to
torture
his
wretched
carkasle
,
and
to
fling
it
to
the
dogs
;
onely
she
intreated
them
to
commiserate
those
little
infants
,
which
were
so
farre
from
being
guiltie
of
any
fault
,
that
they
could
not
possibly
haue
beene
priuie
to
any
fact
.
Which
words
of
hirs
wrought
such
an
impression
in
their
mindes
,
that
they
did
not
onely
choose
those
children
with
one
consent
for
their
Soueraigne
Lords
,
but
afforded
likewise
honourable
burial
to
the
exposed
corps
.
Nay
what
had
become
of
the
whole
nation
of
the
Iewes
,
if
the
wisedome
of
Iudith
had
not
cunningly
practised
the
harsh
affections
of
Holofernes
,
and
with
her
speeches
,
actions
and
behauiour
so
enchanted
his
warlike
Spirits
,
that
hee
minded
no
armes
at
all
,
but
hers
,
which
if
at
any
time
they
happened
to
compasse
him
,
hee
thought
himselfe
no
lesse
than
a
glorious
Planet
in
a
golden
Spheare
?
Queene
Cleofis
,
after
she
had
yeelded
her selfe
to
Alexander
,
redeemed
by
lying
with
him
her
lost
kingdome
;
Illecebris
saith
Q.
Curtius
,
consecuta
quod
virtute
non
poterat
,
hauing
obtained
that
of
him
by
flatterie
,
which
she
could
not
keepe
from
him
by
force
;
And
vndoubtedly
there
is
nothing
,
if
once
they
be
pleased
to
employ
their
wits
,
in
which
they
cannot
very
easily
ouer-reach
and
gull
the
wisest
and
the
ablest
men
.
Dauid
cannot
so
stifly
resolue
to
reuenge
him selfe
on
Nabal
and
his
houshold
,
but
Abigail
will
make
him
through
her
wise
behauiour
quickely
relent
.
Out
of
which
consideration
it
may
peraduenture
be
,
and
no
worse
,
S.
Aug.
calleth
them
Muscipulas
animae
;
latrones
vitae
:
Mouse
traps
for
our
soules
;
Picke-purses
of
our
affections
.
But
I
will
here
hang
vp
Fabius
his
Sheilde
,
to
handle
a
while
Marcellus
his
sword
;
and
hauing
spoken
of
their
Wisedome
,
come
now
to
treate
of
their
Valour
.
CHAP.
10.
Of
their
Courage
and
Valour
.
REuenge
and
cruelty
are
the
Symptomes
of
a
sickly
resolution
,
and
cannot
fasten
vpon
the
Temperature
of
a
minde
,
that
is
truly
valorous
.
But
these
in
Women
,
say
their
Aduersaries
,
haue
,
like
vlcerous
Cankers
eaten
into
their
very
marrow
,
and
wrought
such
a
generall
corruption
in
all
the
powers
and
faculties
of
their
Soules
,
that
there
can
not
any
Crisis
possibly
bee
made
of
their
recouerie
.
The
world
doth
not
harbour
in
it
a
Creature
more
vindicatiue
,
saith
the
Poet.
Scylla
,
&
Charybdis
Sicula
contorquens
freta
,
Minus
est
timenda
:
nulla
non
melior
fera
est
:
Adeo
cruentus
stimulat
faeminam
dolor
.
For
instance
whereof
they
alledge
Parisatis
,
who
hauing
apprehended
the
Carien
,
that
had
cut
the
hamstring
of
Cyrus
her
younger
Sonne
,
caused
him
for
the
space
of
tenne
daies
to
bee
continually
tortured
;
after
that
,
his
eyes
to
be
bored
out
:
and
finally
molten
mettle
to
bee
poured
into
his
eares
,
till
he
breathed
his
last
in
this
miserable
torment
.
Shee
condemned
Mithridates
,
who
had
wounded
him
in
the
temples
,
to
that
hellish
torture
of
the
Troughes
,
in
which
after
hee
had
pittifully
languished
17.
daies
together
,
with
much
a
doe
hee
died
.
As
for
Mefabates
,
who
depriued
him
of
head
&
hands
,
hauing
wonne
him
at
dice
of
her
sonne
Artexerxes
,
she
deliuered
him
to
the
Executioners
,
&
commanded
them
to
flay
him
aliue
,
and
afterwards
to
teare
his
body
in
peeces
,
and
to
hang
both
his
skinne
and
it
on
seuerall
gibbets
.
The
mother
of
Mahomet
II.
was
so
incensed
against
Moses
Bassa
,
who
by
the
command
of
his
Soueraigne
had
massacred
her
younger
sonne
,
a
childe
but
18.
yeares
old
,
that
nothing
could
appease
her
furie
,
till
she
had
him
,
with
hands
and
feete
fast
bound
,
deliuered
vp
vnto
her
;
which
being
obtained
,
shee
strooke
him
first
into
the
brest
with
a
knife
,
then
made
a
hole
in
his
right
side
,
and
by
peece-meale
cut
out
his
Liuer
,
and
cast
it
before
his
eyes
to
the
Dogges
to
eate
.
These
things
considered
,
the
Satyrist
had
reason
,
say
our
Opposites
,
to
crie
out
:
—
minor
admiratio
summis
Debetur
monstris
,
quoties
facit
ira
nocentem
Hunc
sexum
,
&
rabieiecur
incendente
feruntur
Praecipites
,
vt
saxa
iugis
abrupta
.
—
Nor
is
it
a
thing
to
be
much
wondered
at
,
say
they
,
to
see
those
so
voide
of
mercie
,
that
are
so
full
of
feare
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
;
is
a
position
out
of
check
.
The
heart
,
that
fainteth
at
the
alarmes
of
an
enemy
,
cannot
possibly
be
recouered
,
vnlesse
it
drinke
the
Spirit
of
his
blood
.
To
minister
any
other
aurum
potabile
,
than
this
vnto
it
,
is
meere
vanitie
,
and
will
produce
but
a
weak
effect
.
This
alone
is
that
extracted
Quintessence
,
which
beyond
all
Chymicall
inuentions
,
must
free
it
from
those
Paralyticall
resolutions
,
and
Epileptike
convulsions
,
whereinto
,
vpon
the
very
noise
of
his
approach
,
it
is
alwaies
apt
to
fall
.
The
Emperour
Maurice
in
a
dreame
saw
a
Souldier
,
called
Phocas
,
killing
his
Wife
,
his
children
,
and
afterwards
himselfe
,
with
which
Vision
being
sorely
daunted
,
he
enquired
of
his
sonne
in
law
Philippicus
if
there
were
not
such
a
fellow
in
the
Armie
,
who
tould
him
,
yes
;
and
withal
that
he
was
a
roaring
youth
,
but
yet
a
very
Crauen
;
Whereupon
the
Emperour
concluded
with
a
troubled
countenance
,
that
if
he
were
a
Coward
,
he
would
sure
bee
cruell
.
And
indeede
this
argument
may
hold
in
men
,
in
whom
want
of
courage
is
occasioned
either
by
some
diminution
,
ablation
,
or
deprauation
of
the
animall
,
and
vitall
spirits
;
by
reason
whereof
they
neuer
think
themselues
secure
,
till
their
enemies
death
signe
the
Quietus
est
,
which
must
set
them
free
from
the
dangerous
pursuit
of
hazard
and
molestation
:
but
in
Women
it
must
faile
,
from
the
quicknesse
of
whose
apprehension
,
ariseth
many
times
a
suddaine
fright
,
which
vpon
a
more
serious
consideration
of
the
obiect
doth
as
suddainly
vanish
.
And
thus
let
mee
see
if
the
Soule
of
the
wisest
&
the
worthiest
man
be
able
to
resist
the
first
conceits
and
fantasies
that
assaile
him
,
and
starteth
not
as
out
of
a
natural
subiection
,
with
much
palenesse
and
contraction
at
the
noise
of
thunder
,
the
vnexpected
discharge
of
a
Cannon
,
or
the
suddaine
cracke
of
some
great
ruine
.
Sure
it
sufficeth
here
,
as
in
other
Passions
,
that
his
opinion
remaine
safe
&
sound
,
that
the
setlednes
of
his
discourse
vndergo
no
alteration
or
attaint
,
and
that
he
giue
not
his
consent
to
his
affright
and
sufferance
.
I
must
confesse
yet
,
there
be
many
Vultures
,
Harpies
,
and
hellish
Furies
amongst
them
,
in
whom
as
in
Media
,
and
the
like
,
Passions
are
so
predominant
,
that
they
make
not
a
superficiall
impression
,
but
penetrate
so
farre
into
the
seate
of
Reason
as
to
infect
it
,
and
corrupt
it
.
But
if
things
may
be
censured
with
indifferencie
,
our
Aduersaries
will
finde
,
that
Crueltie
euen
in
these
,
is
not
an
imperfection
of
Nature
,
but
a
defect
of
breeding
.
Cyrus
his
Nurse
,
while
he
was
young
would
now
&
then
suckle
him
with
the
blood
of
Beasts
and
foules
,
that
were
newly
kild
,
which
bred
such
a
habit
in
him
,
that
being
manlier
growne
,
hee
neuer
returned
from
the
slaughter
of
his
enemies
,
but
hee
licked
his
sword
:
Which
barbarous
and
beastly
thirst
of
his
,
was
an
occasion
that
Tamiris
hauing
cut
off
his
head
,
caused
it
to
be
cast
into
a
tub
of
mans
blood
,
with
this
exprobration
of
his
crueltie
.
Satia
te
sanguine
quem
sitisti
,
cuiusque
infatiabilis
semper
fuisti
:
Now
glut
thy selfe
,
inhumane
Tyrant
,
with
that
,
whereof
heretofore
,
thou
couldest
neuer
haue
thy
fill
.
The
Plants
of
Eden
,
in
the
state
of
innocencie
,
were
apt
,
it
seem'd
,
to
riot
in
their
growth
;
the
walkes
and
allies
thereof
were
likewise
subiect
to
be
quickly
defaced
,
and
ouershadowed
with
weedes
,
and
therefore
the
Lord
himselfe
tooke
care
that
Man
should
be
put
therein
to
keepe
it
,
and
to
dresse
it
.
And
indeed
it
is
the
propertie
of
some
vigorous
and
actiue
Spirits
,
when
they
finde
a
vacation
of
good
imployments
,
to
make
themselues
a
Term-time
of
bad
.
The
brightest
sword
will
quickly
rust
,
if
it
be
not
vsed
;
The
fatter
the
soile
,
the
sooner
will
the
fielde
be
ouergrowne
with
nettles
and
briers
,
if
it
lye
long
fallow
.
Neglect
is
vrenda
filix
innascitur
agris
.
Nature
,
if
she
be
not
continually
lopt
and
prun'd
,
will
suddainly
grow
debauched
.
It
is
said
of
Scylla
,
that
he
was
cupidus
voluptatum
,
Much
addicted
to
voluptuousnesse
;
sed
gloriae
cupidior
;
yet
neuer
,
but
when
businesse
of
more
importance
failed
him
.
The
like
is
likewise
recorded
of
Demetrius
,
the
sonne
of
Antigonus
and
diuers
others
.
But
I
am
led
a
little
from
my
leuell
.
It
appeareth
out
of
all
these
premises
,
that
to
say
Women
because
they
be
fearefull
must
of
necessitie
be
cruell
,
is
a
deceitfull
conclusion
;
and
that
Crueltie
,
because
it
is
found
in
the
vntutoured
bosomes
of
some
fewe
amongst
them
,
must
needs
,
like
a
beloued
Guest
,
be
inwardly
harboured
of
them
all
,
is
a
consequence
,
as
voide
of
Charity
as
the
other
was
full
of
Sophistrie
.
For
as
for
the
first
.
Mens
immota
manet
,
lachrymae
volvuntur
inanes
.
And
for
the
other
,
there
can
be
no
certaine
demonstration
grounded
vpon
particular
obseruation
.
But
not
to
follow
Womens
valour
any
longer
afarre
of
,
as
Hippolytus
did
the
Goddesse
Venus
,
I
will
begin
to
court
it
at
a
neerer
distance
,
and
make
knowne
in
breife
vnto
the
world
,
that
amongst
them
are
very
many
,
which
deserue
a
wreath
of
Bayes
,
as
well
as
a
garland
of
Roses
;
and
to
haue
their
Temples
shrouded
vnder
the
Oliue
,
as
well
as
shadowed
with
the
Lillie
.
Plinie
the
younger
had
a
neighbour
,
neere
vnto
a
certaine
house
of
his
in
Italy
,
wonderfully
tormented
with
certaine
Vlcers
,
which
had
befallen
him
in
those
parts
that
were
the
occasion
of
our
first
Parents
shame
.
His
Wife
in
the
end
,
considering
how
long
hee
languished
,
besought
him
earnestly
that
shee
might
view
his
greife
,
and
that
she
would
more
freely
than
any
bodie
else
tell
him
in
briefe
,
what
he
had
to
trust
vnto
;
which
when
she
had
obteyned
,
she
found
it
was
impossible
,
he
should
euer
be
recouered
,
and
therefore
counsailed
him
,
as
the
safest
and
surest
remedie
,
to
kill
himselfe
.
And
finding
him
too
soft
for
so
rough
an
enterprise
:
Nay
doe
not
thinke
,
said
she
,
sweete
friend
,
that
the
paines
I
see
you
suffer
,
concerne
not
me
,
as
well
as
you
,
and
that
to
free
my selfe
from
them
,
I
will
not
take
the
same
medicine
,
I
prescribe
to
thee
.
I
will
accompanie
you
in
the
Cure
,
as
I
haue
done
hitherto
in
the
Care
.
Cast
of
this
feare
,
and
beleeue
assuredly
,
that
we
shall
meete
but
with
pleasure
in
this
passage
,
which
must
rescue
vs
from
such
torments
.
Come
,
my
Loue
,
we
will
goe
ioyfully
together
.
This
said
,
finding
that
shee
had
already
warmed
hir
Husbands
courage
,
shee
rosolueth
from
a
window
in
their
lodging
to
fling
themselues
headlong
out
into
the
Sea
;
and
to
maintaine
euen
to
the
end
,
this
loyal
and
vehement
affection
,
where
with
shee
had
euer
formerly
imbraced
him
,
she
would
haue
him
dye
within
hir
armes
;
and
that
hir
strict
enlacements
,
might
not
slacken
either
through
the
fall
,
or
feare
,
shee
caused
him
to
be
fast
bound
vnto
hir
middle
,
and
in
this
manner
for
the
easing
of
his
life
,
abandoned
hir
owne
.
But
this
was
a
Woman
of
meane
ranke
,
and
amongst
such
,
it
is
not
so
strange
a
thing
to
see
now
and
than
some
traces
of
extraordinarie
goodnesse
.
extrema
per
illos
Iustitia
excedens
terris
vestigia
fecit
.
I
will
bring
you
others
from
the
Pallaces
of
Princes
,
where
(
some
say
)
Virtue
seldome
quartereth
.
Arria
,
wife
to
Cecinna
Poetus
,
when
she
saw
,
that
hir
Husband
after
the
ouerthrow
of
Scribonianus
whose
faction
hee
had
followed
against
the
Emperour
Claudius
,
was
led
away
by
the
souldiers
as
a
prisoner
,
and
that
shee
might
not
be
suffered
to
accompany
him
in
the
same
ship
;
hired
vpon
the
instant
a
fisher-boate
,
and
followed
him
in
that
manner
from
Sclauonia
to
Rome
,
where
one
day
,
Iunia
the
wife
of
Scribonianus
accosting
her
in
presence
of
the
Emperour
somewhat
familiarly
by
reason
of
the
Society
of
their
fortunes
,
shee
thrust
her
backe
veryeagerly
with
these
words
.
Heauens
forbid
that
I
should
either
speak
or
listen
vnto
thee
,
in
whose
lap
Scribonianus
was
slaine
,
and
thou
yet
aliue
.
These
and
other
the
like
words
gaue
her
friends
occasion
to
suspect
,
that
shee
was
not
minded
to
continue
long
,
the
slauish
captiue
of
an
insulting
fortune
.
And
heereupon
did
Thrasea
her
sonne
in
Law
beseech
her
,
not
to
lay
violent
hands
vpon
herselfe
,
asking
her
whether
shee
would
be
content
that
his
wife
her
Daughter
,
if
hee
at
any
time
should
chance
to
runne
the
like
hazard
,
which
Cecinna
did
,
should
doe
the
like
?
whereunto
shee
answered
,
Would
I
?
yes
,
yes
,
assure
thy selfe
I
would
had
shee
liued
so
long
,
and
so
peaceably
with
thee
,
as
I
haue
done
with
him
.
These
desperate
replies
made
them
more
narrowly
obserue
her
gesture
and
demeanour
:
which
when
once
shee
had
discouered
.
You
doe
wisely
,
said
she
,
well
may
you
make
mee
die
more
vneasily
;
but
keepe
mee
from
dying
at
all
,
you
cannot
;
and
therewith
rising
furiously
out
of
her
chaire
,
she
ranne
her
head
against
a
post
,
and
a
while
after
being
somewhat
recouered
of
the
blow
;
Did
I
not
tell
you
,
said
she
,
that
if
you
denied
me
an
easie
death
,
I
would
make
choice
of
some
other
,
how
painefull
soeuer
it
did
prooue
.
The
end
of
such
an
admirable
vertue
was
this
.
Her
husband
Paetus
was
somewhat
too
faint-hearted
,
to
preuent
what
the
Tyrant
had
cruelly
design'd
against
him
,
by
doing
it
himselfe
.
One
day
therefore
amongst
other
,
hauing
employed
all
the
inducements
,
perswasions
end
exhortations
that
were
fit
for
such
a
businesse
,
shee
tooke
the
poynard
which
he
wore
,
and
holding
it
naked
in
her
hand
,
for
the
conclusion
of
her
discourse
.
Paetus
,
said
shee
,
doe
thus
;
and
hauing
vpon
the
very
instant
giuen
herselfe
a
mortall
stroake
about
the
stomacke
,
and
then
snarching
it
out
of
the
wound
,
presented
it
vnto
him
,
as
the
Legacie
of
her
affectionate
loue
,
with
this
noble
,
generous
,
and
immortall
encouragement
,
Paete
non
dolet
.
Hold
,
take
it
Paetus
,
it
hath
not
hurt
me
at
all
.
The
Summe
of
which
worthy
story
is
punctually
comprized
in
this
ensuing
Epigram
.
Mart.
lib.
2.
Ep.
14.
Casta
suo
gladium
cum
traderet
Arria
Paeto
,
Quam
de
visceribus
traxerat
ipsa
suis
;
Si
qua
fides
,
vulnus
,
q
ᵈ
feci
,
non
dolet
inquit
;
Sed
quod
tu
facies
,
hoc
mihi
,
Paete
,
dolet
.
When
to
her
Paetus
Arria
did
present
The
sword
,
wherwith
her
bowels
she
had
rent
;
This
wound
,
q
ᵈ
she
,
torments
me
not
,
belieue
me
But
what
thou
mak'st
,
sweete
Paetus
,
that
will
greeue
me
.
And
vpon
the
instant
he
strucke
himselfe
with
the
same
weapon
;
ashamed
,
in
my
opinion
,
that
euer
hee
had
needed
so
deere
and
precious
an
instruction
.
But
shall
I
shew
you
a
Rosie
Bud
,
that
will
bloome
no
longer
,
than
it
may
lie
in
the
bed
of
winter
:
a
Fire
that
burneth
not
but
when
cold
water
is
cast
vpon
it
:
a
Marigold
,
that
openeth
not
,
but
at
a
setting
Sunne
?
looke
then
vpon
that
young
and
honourable
Romane
Lady
,
Pompeia
Paulina
,
who
hauing
in
the
spring
of
her
youth
,
matched
herselfe
with
Seneca
in
the
full
fall
of
his
age
,
would
not
,
after
Nero
had
decreed
his
death
,
vpon
any
rearmes
bee
disswaded
by
him
from
dying
with
him
.
It
was
,
she
said
,
a
necessarie
Iourney
,
and
could
neuer
bee
better
vndertaken
,
then
in
his
company
.
Seneca
was
much
delighted
with
this
glorious
determination
of
hers
,
and
told
her
,
that
he
would
not
enuie
her
that
honour
:
and
withall
,
that
howsoeuer
there
might
be
an
equality
of
constancie
and
resolution
in
both
of
them
towards
their
common
end
:
the
beauty
yet
,
and
glorie
of
the
action
would
bee
greater
on
her
side
then
on
his
by
farre
.
And
so
hand
in
hand
after
many
sweete
farewels
taken
,
and
soft
embraces
,
they
set
themselues
in
a
readinesse
to
welcome
death
,
and
had
their
veines
wide
opened
presently
to
let
out
life
,
to
let
in
him
.
Harmonia
the
Daughter
of
Hieron
the
Syracusan
,
would
needes
bee
buried
in
those
flames
in
which
her
Country
burned
.
Mithridates
knew
not
how
to
die
,
till
his
sisters
had
markt
him
out
the
way
.
Asdrubal
,
though
very
valiant
,
was
fain
to
take
a
precedent
from
his
wife
to
free
himselfe
from
his
foe
.
But
I
heare
these
magnanimous
and
high
designes
of
theirs
,
traduced
by
our
aduersaries
,
as
if
a
dull
and
stupid
ignorance
of
the
danger
which
they
vndergo
,
or
some
obstinate
and
selfe-willd
humor
to
effect
,
what
they
vndertake
,
were
the
principall
causes
of
their
being
.
When
indeede
their
true
originall
is
an
absolute
and
determinate
will
,
to
preserre
honour
and
duety
before
all
the
dangers
of
the
world
,
as
the
sequell
in
a
more
warrelike
and
martiall
manner
shall
discouer
vnto
them
.
Marulla
a
Maide
of
Coccinum
in
Lemnos
,
when
Solyman
Bassa
thought
vnexpectedly
to
haue
surprized
the
Towne
,
took
vp
the
weapons
of
her
Father
,
whom
she
saw
slaine
before
her
in
the
gate
,
and
did
not
onely
reuenge
his
death
vpon
those
that
approached
her
,
but
kept
out
the
Turke
and
all
his
forces
,
till
the
Citizens
mooued
with
the
alarme
,
made
haste
to
succour
her
.
At
the
siege
of
Alba
Regalis
,
amongst
other
women
was
a
tall
Hungarian
,
who
thrusting
in
amongst
the
souldiers
,
with
a
sithe
in
her
hand
,
at
one
blow
strucke
off
the
heads
of
two
Turkes
,
as
they
were
climbing
vppe
the
Rampier
.
At
the
battell
of
Coy
,
which
was
fought
betweene
Selymus
the
first
,
and
Ismael
,
and
for
the
terriblenesse
therof
entitled
by
the
Saracens
themselues
,
The
onely
Day
of
Doome
,
were
found
in
the
fields
of
Calderan
,
amongst
the
heaps
of
men
that
were
at
that
time
slaine
,
the
bodies
of
diuers
Persian
Women
,
who
had
armed
themselues
out
of
no
other
intent
,
than
to
share
with
their
Husbands
in
those
bloody
purchases
.
At
the
siege
of
Agria
,
the
women
shewed
themselues
no
lesse
valiant
,
then
the
men
,
in
beating
Mahomet
from
the
wals
,
and
massacring
his
Souldiers
on
euery
side
.
One
amongst
the
rest
,
taking
from
her
dead
Husband
his
Sword
and
Target
,
did
sacrifice
therwith
immediately
the
liues
of
three
of
her
enemies
to
his
Ghost
,
and
her
owne
reuenge
.
But
I
will
now
muster
vp
whole
armies
from
sundry
Nations
,
of
generous
and
warlike
Lasses
,
such
as
shall
confound
our
Aduersaries
with
their
presence
,
and
serue
as
a
Test
to
discouer
much
weakenesse
in
the
stourest
Men.
The
Persians
flying
from
the
Medes
,
are
met
without
their
City
gates
by
their
Mothers
and
their
Wiues
,
who
taking
vp
their
garments
,
demanded
those
fearfull
hares
,
Num
in
vteros
matrum
vel
vxorum
vellent
refugere
,
whether
they
thoght
to
shroud
themselues
from
the
pursuite
of
their
enemies
,
within
the
compasse
of
those
formes
againe
,
or
no
?
with
which
spectacle
and
speech
of
theirs
,
they
grew
so
much
ashamed
of
their
owne
saintheartednesse
,
that
presently
they
turned
head
,
and
recouered
the
victorie
which
before
they
had
most
basely
lost
,
out
of
the
hands
of
their
enemies
.
Philip
the
sonne
of
Demetrius
,
hauing
besieged
the
Towne
of
Chio
,
caused
Proclamation
to
be
made
,
That
as
many
slaues
,
as
would
flie
from
thence
to
him
,
should
enioy
liberty
,
and
with
all
their
Masters
wiues
,
which
ignominious
affront
so
incensed
the
women
,
that
without
delay
they
ran
armed
to
the
wals
,
and
assaulted
him
so
fiercely
,
that
in
short
space
they
enforced
him
,
which
the
men
could
neuer
doe
,
to
raise
his
Armie
,
and
remooue
his
Forces
,
with
no
little
losse
of
Honour
,
Labour
and
Expence
.
The
very
same
persons
,
when
their
Husbands
were
assaulted
by
the
Erithraeans
and
their
confederates
,
&
finding
themselues
vnable
to
contend
with
them
,
were
content
vpon
composition
to
depart
out
of
Leuconia
only
with
one
shirt
and
one
vpper
garment
:
reproued
them
very
sharpely
,
that
they
could
endure
,
hauing
forgone
their
weapons
,
to
march
naked
through
the
squadrons
of
their
enemies
,
and
wished
them
for
the
keeping
of
their
Oath
,
in
stead
of
their
clothes
to
take
their
sword
&
their
shield
,
and
to
tell
them
that
those
were
the
proper
garments
which
belonged
to
men
of
valour
.
They
obeyed
them
herein
,
and
with
this
their
boldnesse
so
terrified
the
Erithraeans
,
that
they
were
glad
of
their
departure
.
The
Inhabitants
of
Curzola
perceiuing
the
Turkish
forces
to
approach
,
out
of
cowardly
feare
for
sooke
their
towne
,
leauing
behind
them
,
not
aboue
twentie
men
,
and
fourscore
Women
,
who
with
great
courage
defended
the
place
,
and
in
the
end
,
seconded
,
as
it
were
,
by
heauen
with
a
tempest
from
the
North
,
rescued
it
wholly
from
the
violent
assaults
of
those
barbarous
Mahometanes
.
Nicholas
Serpietre
,
cheife
Leader
of
the
Ratians
against
Frier
George
Bb.
of
Varadine
,
in
aide
of
Isabella
,
Qu
:
of
Hungarie
,
hauing
most
dishonourably
lost
,
by
reason
of
his
feare
and
carelesse
neglect
,
the
greatest
part
of
his
Regiment
,
was
for
his
basenesse
so
much
distasted
by
his
heroicke
Wife
,
that
shee
did
not
onely
reproue
him
,
and
that
sharpely
,
for
the
same
,
but
withall
absented
herselfe
from
him
a
long
time
,
as
loathing
the
society
of
one
so
degenerating
from
the
straines
of
true
Nobilitie
,
as
to
preferre
the
safety
of
his
life
,
before
the
safegard
of
his
Honour
.
What
shall
I
neede
to
shew
,
how
the
Saguntines
in
defence
of
their
Countrie
,
armed
their
dantier
limbes
against
the
troupes
of
Hanibal
?
or
how
when
the
Dutchmen
were
ouerthrowne
by
Marius
,
their
Women
being
denied
the
fauour
of
liuing
free
in
the
seruice
of
the
Vestall
Virgins
,
slewe
both
themselues
and
their
children
;
to
shew
how
much
they
hated
and
detested
a
seruile
subiection
?
The
Celtes
a
people
in
France
betweene
the
riuers
Garunna
,
and
Sequana
,
before
such
time
as
hauing
passed
the
Alpes
they
obtained
that
part
of
Italie
,
which
afterwardes
they
inhabited
,
fell
at
ods
amongst
themselues
,
with
such
implacable
hatred
,
that
it
seemed
nothing
but
the
vtter
ruine
and
extirpation
of
each
other
could
alaie
the
tumult
.
But
the
women
thrusting
themselues
into
the
middest
of
those
factious
leuies
,
tooke
notice
of
their
differences
,
and
reconciled
them
with
such
equitie
and
dexteritie
,
that
they
departed
together
from
the
fielde
without
the
least
signe
of
any
former
partialities
amongst
them
;
in
honour
of
which
their
prowesse
and
wisedom
,
they
admitted
them
euer
after
to
al
their
consultations
both
of
peace
and
warre
.
And
in
the
league
which
they
made
with
Hannibal
,
it
was
articulated
and
agreed
vpon
,
That
if
the
Celtes
should
haue
occasion
at
any
time
to
accuse
the
Carthaginians
of
wrong
offered
,
the
Carthaginian
Captaines
and
Commanders
in
Spaine
should
haue
the
hearing
of
the
busines
;
But
if
the
Carthaginians
should
complain
of
the
Celtes
,
the
knowledge
of
the
cause
should
bee
by
reference
committed
to
their
Women
.
What
should
I
speake
of
Tamyris
amongst
the
Scythians
:
of
Theoxena
amongst
the
Greekes
;
of
Octauia
,
Portia
,
Caia
,
Cecilia
,
Cornelia
or
of
Cloelia
amongst
the
Romanes
:
all
of
an
extraordinary
temper
,
and
sprightly
carriage
,
but
the
last
,
euen
by
Posena
,
the
professed
enemie
of
her
Countrey
,
for
her
stoute
and
valiant
attempts
against
himselfe
,
so
much
admired
,
that
hee
presented
her
with
a
Horse
,
the
onely
honouable
reward
of
a
true
martiall
Virtue
?
The
French
talke
of
Iane
la
pucelle
?
who
when
the
Kingdome
of
France
in
the
time
of
Charles
the
VII
.
lay
panting
for
want
of
breath
vnder
the
burthen
of
our
English
armes
,
couragiously
releiued
it
,
and
hauing
chased
the
forces
of
the
Duke
of
Bedford
from
Orleans
caused
the
King
her
Soueraigne
to
be
crowned
at
Rhemis
,
and
set
him
afterwards
in
peaceable
possession
of
all
his
Territories
.
Haue
wee
not
in
our
owne
Confines
,
that
princely
Voadicia
,
for
in
this
point
I
will
not
mention
any
later
times
,
who
with
her
warlike
Amazonians
maintaind
the
reputation
of
her
State
,
and
kept
it
long
on
foot
against
the
feirce
inuasion
of
the
Romanes
?
And
therefore
as
our
English
Poet
saith
.
Spencer
F.
Q.
lib.
3.
Can.
2.
Here
haue
I
cause
,
in
men
iust
blame
to
finde
,
That
in
their
proper
praise
too
partiall
be
,
And
not
indifferent
to
Woman-kinde
,
To
whom
no
share
in
Armes
,
or
Chinalrie
They
doe
impart
,
ne
maken
memorie
Of
their
braue
gests
,
and
prowesse
martiall
,
Scarce
doe
they
spare
to
one
,
or
two
,
or
three
Roome
in
their
writs
,
yet
the
same
writing
small
,
Doth
all
their
deeds
deface
,
&
dims
their
glorious
all
.
But
I
haue
drawne
this
wire
out
too
farre
,
I
wil
now
therfore
breake
it
off
,
and
in
a
little
modell
expresse
the
large
remainder
of
this
worke
.
The
Epilogue
.
THucydides
was
of
opinion
that
an
honest
and
vertuous
Woman
should
as
charily
cloister
vp
hir
Fame
from
the
Eares
of
Men
,
as
she
would
hir
Face
from
their
Eyes
.
But
Gorgias
was
of
another
minde
.
For
though
he
would
not
haue
their
Beauties
seene
;
hee
was
content
their
virtues
might
be
knowne
.
And
Plutarke
much
approueth
those
Romane
Lawes
,
which
permitted
Women
as
well
,
as
Men
,
according
to
their
desart
,
and
dignitie
,
to
be
publikely
praised
,
at
the
solemnizing
of
their
Funerals
.
For
howsoeuer
Aristotle
affirme
,
that
nature
intendeth
alwaies
to
produce
that
,
which
is
most
perfect
,
and
therefore
willingly
would
still
bring
foorth
the
Male
,
counting
Females
,
it
should
seeme
,
like
those
,
that
are
borne
blinde
and
lame
,
or
any
other
way
defectiue
,
the
prodigious
errours
and
mistakings
of
hir
operations
:
Howsoeuer
likewise
their
aduersaries
would
depriue
them
of
that
glorious
caracter
of
Gods
diuinitie
imprinted
in
the
heart
of
Man
at
his
creation
;
because
it
is
said
in
the
1.
Cor.
11.
v.
7.
That
man
is
the
Image
,
and
glory
of
God
;
but
Woman
is
the
glory
of
the
Man
;
And
hereupon
would
conclude
,
that
their
whole
Sex
is
but
an
ample
demonstration
of
natures
Crazinesse
,
and
their
owne
vnworthinesse
:
Plato
yet
maintaines
,
that
if
there
be
any
distinction
betwixt
their
sufficiencie
:
and
ours
,
it
is
not
essentiall
,
but
accidentall
,
&
such
a
one
as
is
grounded
meerely
vpon
vse
.
And
therefore
,
saith
hee
,
as
both
the
Hands
are
by
nature
alike
fit
for
all
manner
of
actions
,
till
application
and
imployment
bring
in
a
difference
of
Right
and
Left
.
So
Women
and
Men
haue
in
them
the
same
aptitude
and
abilitie
for
the
well
managing
of
ciuill
and
militarie
places
,
and
it
is
exercise
alone
,
which
begets
dexteritie
in
the
one
and
the
other
.
Which
example
he
drew
peraduenture
from
the
doctrine
of
the
Pythagorians
,
who
diuided
all
things
into
good
and
euill
;
and
in
the
ranke
of
those
that
were
good
,
placed
the
Right-hand
,
the
Male
,
and
that
which
was
limited
and
finite
:
in
the
ranke
of
those
that
were
euill
;
the
Left-hand
,
the
Female
,
and
that
which
was
infinite
.
But
omitting
this
,
his
conclusion
is
,
That
as
those
bodies
are
most
perfect
,
and
fitting
for
euery
action
,
which
can
,
if
occasion
require
,
as
well
apply
their
left-hand
to
the
businesse
,
as
their
right
:
so
is
that
Common-wealth
the
most
absolute
which
for
good
gouernment
can
make
vse
of
Women
,
as
well
as
of
Men.
It
is
an
Axiome
in
Schooles
,
whereof
no
quaere
can
be
made
,
That
Substantiae
non
recipiunt
aut
maius
,
aut
minus
.
Substances
admit
not
either
more
or
lesse
:
wherefore
as
one
stone
cannot
be
said
to
be
more
a
stone
,
then
another
,
so
farre
as
concerneth
that
essentiall
forme
,
which
giueth
a
being
to
them
both
:
no
more
can
one
man
be
said
to
be
more
perfectly
Man
then
another
.
And
so
by
consequence
the
Male
shall
not
be
thought
more
worthy
then
the
Female
,
in
regard
of
his
essence
,
because
they
be
comprehended
both
vnder
one
kinde
:
but
if
in
any
thing
he
haue
the
start
,
and
aduantage
,
it
is
merely
by
accident
,
and
no
way
else
.
As
concerning
that
forealleaged
position
of
Aristotles
,
I
confesse
it
is
true
,
that
nature
in
the
production
of
things
doth
continually
minde
the
perfectest
;
&
therefore
intendeth
the
bringing
foorth
of
Man
in
his
kinde
,
but
not
Male
more
then
Female
.
For
if
she
should
alwaies
produce
the
Male
,
shee
should
commit
an
extraordinary
incongruitie
;
because
as
from
the
bodie
,
and
the
soule
,
ariseth
a
compound
more
noble
,
then
his
parts
,
which
is
Man
:
so
from
the
company
of
Male
&
Female
doth
redound
likewise
a
compound
,
which
is
the
onely
preseruer
of
humane
generation
,
without
which
the
parts
would
soone
decay
.
Male
and
Female
therefore
,
are
by
nature
alwaies
together
,
neither
can
the
one
exist
without
the
other
.
One
Sex
alone
is
an
argument
of
imperfection
;
and
therefore
the
Heathens
did
attribute
both
of
them
to
God
.
Orpheus
said
of
Iupiter
,
that
he
was
Male
and
Female
.
So
that
the
graces
and
abilities
which
are
in
them
,
howsoeuer
they
may
varie
in
some
outward
traces
and
lineaments
,
are
in
forme
and
substance
the
same
with
ours
.
Let
vs
consider
if
the
magnificencie
of
of
Semiramis
and
that
of
Sesostris
;
the
subtiltie
of
Tanaquil
,
and
that
of
Seruius
;
the
courage
of
Porcia
,
and
that
of
Brutus
;
of
Timoclea
,
and
that
of
Pelopidas
;
doe
not
resemble
one
the
other
very
neerely
.
Virtue
may
alter
now
and
then
hir
habit
,
but
she
will
neuer
change
hir
hew
;
the
nature
and
condition
,
the
temperature
and
constitution
,
the
diet
and
course
of
life
of
those
in
whom
she
abideth
,
doe
but
furnish
hir
a
wardrobe
of
so
many
seuerall
suites
and
shapes
wherewith
at
hir
pleasure
she
disguiseth
hirselfe
in
outward
appearance
.
Achilles
was
valiant
in
one
kinde
,
Aiax
in
another
:
Nestors
wisedome
,
and
that
of
Vlysses
were
not
alike
.
Agesilaus
and
Cato
were
both
iust
,
but
not
in
the
same
manner
.
Eirene
loued
hir
Husband
otherwise
then
Alcestis
.
Cornelias
magnanimitie
was
of
a
differing
straine
from
that
of
Olympias
:
yet
notwithstanding
al
this
there
is
but
one
Fortitude
,
one
Prudence
,
one
Iustice
.
The
diuersitie
of
the
operation
ariseth
onely
from
the
varietie
of
the
Organe
.
But
self-conceitednesse
hath
like
a
canker
eaten
into
the
hearts
of
Men
,
and
possessed
them
with
such
an
admiration
of
their
owne
sufficiencie
,
that
they
looke
but
with
a
scornefull
eye
vpon
the
sufficiencie
of
others
.
In
choise
of
Wiues
they
respect
not
any
virtuous
qualities
.
They
account
them
but
impertinences
,
and
things
of
little
vse
.
Hath
she
wealth
,
she
cannot
possibly
be
without
worth
.
Optima
,
sed
qnare
,
Cesennia
,
teste
marito
;
Bis
quingenta
dedit
;
tanti
vocat
ille
pudicam
:
Nec
Veneris
pharetris
macer
est
,
nec
lampade
feruet
;
Inde
faces
ardent
;
veniunt
à
dote
Sagittae
.
They
take
vpon
them
to
bee
their
Heads
,
and
therefore
if
they
proue
not
as
they
ought
,
the
blame
must
light
vpon
themselues
.
If
Vashti
bee
disobedient
,
let
Assuerus
be
blamed
,
for
commanding
hir
that
,
which
being
contrary
to
the
Lawes
of
Persia
,
did
not
beseeme
hir
modestie
to
doe
.
The
eye
is
in
fault
if
the
foote
doe
stumble
.
The
Chariot
of
the
Sunne
,
as
I
said
before
was
glorious
,
and
did
afford
much
comfort
,
but
when
Phaeton
had
the
guiding
of
it
,
his
vnaduised
rashnesse
set
all
things
in
combustion
.
It
is
here
as
it
is
at
Irish
,
if
we
haue
a
bad
cast
,
we
must
seeke
to
better
it
by
good
play
.
If
a
woman
be
sharpe
and
sower
in
hir
conuersation
,
it
becommeth
Man
with
the
mildenesse
of
his
behauiour
,
mingling
as
it
were
Oyle
with
Vineger
,
to
qualifie
the
tartnesse
,
and
like
a
skilfull
Chirurgion
,
neuer
to
apply
a
Cataplasme
where
hee
sees
an
oyntment
will
serue
the
turne
.
If
she
be
obstinate
and
selfe-wild
,
he
must
remember
the
Apologue
,
that
the
blustring
Winde
the
stiffer
hee
sought
to
blow
the
Trauailers
Cloake
from
him
,
the
straighter
he
made
him
binde
it
to
him
:
whereas
the
Sunne
by
shining
gently
vpon
him
so
preuailed
,
vt
praeaestu
simul
cum
pallio
tunicam
exueret
,
that
through
ouermuch
heate
,
with
his
Cloake
he
did
likewise
put
of
his
Coate
.
—
Bacchae
bacchanti
sivelis
aduersarier
.
Exinsana
infaniorem
facies
;
feriet
saepius
.
Si
obsequare
vnâ
resolues
plaga
,
Saith
the
Comicke
.
Passions
in
women
are
like
wilde
beasts
sooner
tamed
by
following
,
then
ouerthrowne
by
withstanding
.
Tumours
and
inflamations
are
but
exasperated
by
Corrosiues
,
the
readiest
way
to
recouer
them
is
by
lenitiues
.
Lenefluit
Nilus
,
sed
cunct
is
amnibus
extat
Vtilior
,
nullas
confessus
murmure
vires
.
He
must
not
thinke
to
vse
them
,
as
Esops
Labourer
did
his
God
,
from
whom
he
then
wrung
most
,
when
he
did
most
wrong
him
.
It
is
otherwise
here
.
—
peragit
trauquilla
potestas
,
Quod
violenta
nequit
;
mandataque
fortius
vrget
Imperiosa
quies
—
This
is
that
field
of
Bio's
,
which
if
you
praise
it
,
will
yeelde
more
fruite
,
then
when
you
plough
it
.
If
she
be
light
and
wanton
,
and
that
the
freenesse
of
hir
carriage
make
him
suspect
the
fairenesse
of
hir
conscience
,
let
him
conceale
it
closely
,
and
remember
how
Ioseph
,
whan
hee
doubted
the
B.
Virgins
faith
,
would
not
make
hir
a
publike
example
,
but
determined
with
himselfe
to
put
hir
away
priuily
:
and
this
was
noted
in
him
as
an
effect
of
iustice
,
and
vprightnesse
by
the
H.
G.
it selfe
.
Priuate
admotions
,
like
precious
balmes
,
are
seldome
applied
but
with
good
successe
:
churlish
restraints
are
of
another
nature
.
Sinunquam
Danaen
habuisset
ahenea
turris
,
Non
esset
Danae
de
Ioue
fact
a
parens
.
Like
whetstones
they
set
an
edge
vpon
the
dullest
appetite
,
and
are
oftentimes
the
occasioners
of
misdeedes
in
such
as
neuer
thought
to
step
awry
.
Nullus
in
vrbe
fuit
tota
,
qui
tangere
vellet
Vxorem
gratis
Caeciliane
tuam
,
Dum
licuit
,
sed
nunc
positis
custodibus
ingens
Turba
fututorum
est
.
—
Whilst
to
his
wife
,
Caecilian
,
gaue
accesse
,
None
did
themselues
vnto
his
house
addresse
:
He
had
no
sooner
though
appointed
Spies
,
But
straight
a
swarme
of
Lechers
thither
hies
.
Prohibitions
in
this
kinde
are
but
prouokings
.
Besides
they
are
to
little
purpose
.
For
as
our
English
Poet
saith
.
It
is
not
iron
bands
,
nor
hundreth
eyes
,
Nor
brazen
wals
,
nor
many
wakefull
Spies
,
That
can
withhold
her
wilfull
wandring
feet
:
But
fast
good
will
with
gentle
courtesies
,
And
timely
seruice
to
her
pleasures
meet
,
May
her
perhaps
containe
,
that
else
would
algates
fleet
.
Let
him
consider
likewise
if
his
owne
Lordlynesse
bee
not
a
maine
efficient
of
her
lewdnesse
.
For
indeede
,
Non
benè
conueniunt
,
nec
in
vna
sede
morantur
,
Maiestas
&
Amor.
—
Mildnesse
and
Affabilitie
are
the
true
Parents
of
legitimate
Affections
;
all
other
Complements
and
seruiceable
Demonstrations
are
but
impostures
;
and
to
speake
truely
,
the
bastard
issue
of
Sinister
and
Side
Respects
.
Witnesse
our
witty
Epigrammatist
.
Mart.
lib.
2.
Epig.
55.
Vis
te
,
Sexte
,
coli
;
volebam
amare
;
Parendum
est
tibi
:
quod
iubes
,
colêris
Sed
site
colo
,
Sexte
:
non
amabo
.
All
Cynicall
rigour
therefore
and
austerity
must
bee
quite
diuorced
from
the
nuptiall
yoke
.
A
Stoicall
brow
,
a
churlish
accent
,
or
a
countenance
any
way
Tyrannicall
,
and
which
shall
seeme
to
exact
obseruance
,
is
the
bane
and
poison
of
amorous
embracements
.
The
ancient
Pagans
did
alwaies
place
the
Statues
of
Perswasion
,
and
the
Graces
neere
to
that
of
Venus
,
to
shew
,
That
married
people
should
by
faire
demeanour
and
soft
entreaty
,
without
brawling
or
contention
obtaine
their
desires
at
each
others
hand
.
Isaac
that
blessed
Patriarch
,
was
seene
by
Abimelech
as
hee
looked
out
at
a
window
,
to
sport
himselfe
with
his
Rebaccah
;
An
example
confounding
the
arrogant
behauiour
of
such
,
as
will
not
remember
,
that
the
woman
was
taken
out
of
the
side
of
man
,
to
bee
rankt
in
equall
estimation
with
him
;
and
not
out
of
his
foot
,
to
become
litier
for
his
proud
and
insolent
ambition
to
wallow
on
.
They
are
not
al
of
them
Saints
,
I
must
confesse
,
but
such
as
haue
their
imperfections
&
defects
,
as
well
as
we
;
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
saith
Plato
,
There
is
no
sweete
,
but
hath
some
sower
:
The
wine
is
not
without
his
Lees
;
and
the
Bee
,
as
it
hath
Hony
,
so
it
hath
a
Sting
.
—
Medio
de
fonte
leporum
Surgit
amari
aliquid
,
quod
in
ipsis
faucibus
angat
.
But
whosoeuer
shall
neglect
them
for
these
,
resembleth
those
,
who
for
one
illrellishing
grape
forbeare
the
whole
cluster
;
or
because
they
haue
been
scratched
with
the
Bush
will
forgoe
the
Berry
.
But
were
they
neuer
so
crooked
in
their
carriage
,
neuer
so
deformed
in
their
conuersation
,
that
well-tempred
Wisdome
,
by
reason
wherof
men
challenge
such
a
preheminence
ouer
them
,
should
easily
,
me
thinkes
,
worke
some
amendment
.
For
though
not
euery
Beast
in
the
Forrest
,
nor
euery
Tree
in
the
wood
,
can
be
thoroughly
stripped
of
their
wilder
nature
;
the
Hunts-man
notwithstanding
out
of
those
,
and
the
Gardiner
out
of
these
,
will
finde
a
meanes
to
reape
some
profit
.
The
water
of
the
sea
is
vicious
,
and
vnfit
for
drinke
;
Fishes
yet
make
it
their
nourishment
,
and
Mariners
,
as
well
,
as
Merchants
vse
it
as
chariot
to
carry
them
into
farre
countries
.
In
a
word
,
no
sublunary
thing
is
more
needefull
vnto
man
,
than
fire
:
It
affoordeth
him
both
Light
and
Heat
,
yet
if
the
Satyre
bee
too
busie
with
it
,
he
may
peraduenture
burn
his
beard
.
The
Physician
can
extract
a
cordiall
out
of
the
deadliest
poyson
;
and
out
of
the
basest
minerall
a
noble
Quintessence
.
But
men
are
so
farre
from
this
,
that
women
to
countenance
their
basest
actions
can
bring
Precedents
from
home
.
Ahabs
weaknesse
was
a
cause
of
Iezabels
vnworthinesse
.
Such
a
one
is
proud
and
haughty
,
but
if
you
marke
her
well
,
you
shall
finde
,
her
husband
is
the
Glasse
by
which
she
trimmeth
herselfe
.
—
in
vulgus
manant
exempla
regentum
;
Vtque
ducum
lituos
,
sic
mores
castra
sequuntur
.
The
deedes
of
men
in
authority
,
are
alwaies
Patrons
for
those
of
lower
ranke
.
A
subiect
vsually
eies
nothing
but
the
example
of
his
Superiour
.
Doth
Aristotle
stammer
?
those
that
are
vnder
him
will
affect
it
as
a
soueraigne
grace
:
Is
Plato
any
thing
crooke
shouldred
?
hee
shall
haue
many
that
will
imitate
him
.
Hath
Alexander
the
great
a
peculiar
writhing
of
his
necke
?
no
doubt
but
Hephestion
out
of
his
loue
would
willingly
seeme
to
haue
the
like
.
It
is
the
nature
of
true
affection
not
onely
to
palliate
and
disguise
the
blemishes
of
a
friend
,
but
with
all
to
ioy
in
them
somerimes
.
—
Balbini
polypus
Agnam
Delectat
—
and
to
make
them
often
the
subiects
of
setled
imitation
.
Is
there
any
tumour
therefore
or
inflammation
in
the
Leg
,
or
other
inferiour
parts
of
the
bodie
?
let
vs
see
if
the
defluction
which
causeth
it
,
proceede
not
from
the
Head
,
Where
there
is
a
neere
coniunction
,
no
maruaile
if
there
happen
a
sudden
infection
.
—
grex
totus
in
agris
Vnius
scabie
cadit
,
&
porrigine
porci
,
Vuaque
conspect
â
liuorem
ducit
ab
vuâ
.
One
scabbed
sheepe
may
marr
a
faire
flocke
,
one
measled
hogge
endanger
a
whole
heard
.
The
clearest
eye
many
times
by
viewing
onely
that
which
is
bleared
,
becomes
abnoxious
to
the
like
perill
.
Let
vs
not
complaine
then
like
that
foolish
fellow
,
of
a
paine
in
the
Hand
,
when
there
is
an
impostume
in
the
Head
.
If
we
would
haue
women
without
spots
,
let
vs
keep
our selues
without
staines
.
But
here
our
aduersaries
crie
out
,
Quid
iuuat
ad
surdas
si
cālet
Phemius
aures
?
Quid
miseram
Thamyram
picta
tabella
iuuat
?
Little
auaileth
the
wisedome
of
the
Inchanter
,
if
the
Adder
be
not
disposed
to
listen
.
What
effect
can
either
Precept
,
or
Precedent
produce
in
those
,
who
haue
armed
themselues
with
a
willful
Resolution
,
to
put
by
all
good
counsell
and
perswasion
?
Oleum
perdit
&
impensas
,
qui
bouem
mittit
ad
ceroma
;
saith
the
Prouerb
,
An
Oxe
will
neuer
prooue
a
Wrestler
,
vse
what
care
and
cost
you
can
.
Let
your
plees
bee
neuer
so
well
tempered
with
wisedome
and
discretion
,
your
speeches
sa
-
Let
him
spie
one
wrinckle
on
her
brow
,
And
he
shall
streight
his
Mistris
disauow
:
Let
her
skin
writhell
;
let
her
eye-sight
faile
,
Her
teeth
wex
yellow
;
or
her
cheeks
look
pale
;
Packe
huswife
,
hence
,
this
honest
man
shal
say
;
Out
of
my
doores
;
dispatch
,
vse
no
delay
;
Your
dropping
nose
occasions
my
disdaine
,
I
must
haue
one
,
that
hath
a
dryer
braine
.
For
there
are
,
which
make
Virtue
the
marke
whereat
they
leuell
;
Let
vs
but
listen
a
while
,
and
wee
shall
heare
many
tragically
sighing
out
,
what
Demenetus
vttered
in
the
Comedie
,
Argentum
accepi
,
dote
imperium
vendidi
;
I
haue
gotten
monie
but
I
haue
purchased
miserie
,
and
for
a
large
Portion
forgone
my
libertie
.
M.
Aurelius
will
not
dare
though
,
to
cast
himselfe
into
the
loose
embraces
of
a
Strumpet
,
so
she
bring
an
Empire
to
him
for
her
dowrie
.
Many
of
lower
ranke
,
out
of
a
couerous
desire
to
soder
vp
a
crackt
estate
,
let
not
to
doe
the
like
;
but
in
the
ende
they
may
crie
out
with
Esau
,
The
pottage
hath
refresht
me
,
but
my
birthright's
gone
.
Plaut.
in
Aulul
.
—
sunt
multae
in
magnis
dotibus
Incommoditates
,
sumptu
sque
intolerabiles
;
Nam
quae
indotata
est
,
ea
in
potestate
est
viri
;
Dotatae
mactant
&
malo
,
&
damno
viros
.
Let
all
things
be
rightly
considered
,
and
we
shall
finde
that
rich
wiues
are
but
bils
of
charge
.
She
that
hath
no
such
addition
to
make
her
weigh
will
be
continually
readie
to
conforme
herselfe
in
all
things
to
her
Husbands
will
;
but
shee
that
hath
the
start
in
that
,
will
haue
it
in
all
things
else
,
or
the
whole
house
shall
perish
in
her
Furie
.
Intoler
abilius
nihil
est
quàm
foemina
diues
.
There
can
be
no
greater
torture
to
a
man
,
then
to
bee
matched
to
a
woman
whose
fortunes
are
of
a
higher
built
roofe
than
his
owne
.
Iuv
:
lib.
2.
Sat.
6.
Nil
non
permitt
it
mulier
sibi
,
turpe
putat
nil
,
Cum
virides
gemmas
collo
circundedit
,
&
cum
Auribus
extensis
magnos
commisit
Elenchos
.
Beautie
therefore
is
vaine
,
and
riches
are
deceitfull
,
saith
(
Pro.
31.
)
the
H.
G.
but
a
woman
that
feareth
the
Lord
,
shee
shall
be
praised
.
She
openeth
her
mouth
with
wisedome
,
and
in
her
tongue
is
the
Law
of
kindnesse
.
Hir
Husband
shall
be
knowne
in
the
Gates
,
when
he
sitteth
among
the
elders
of
the
Land
.
The
frailty
of
the
first
is
fully
characterd
in
this
ensuing
Poem
,
occasioned
,
it
should
seem
,
by
some
great
and
suddaine
alteration
discouered
in
the
Subiect
,
which
for
the
corespondencie
it
holds
with
this
discourse
I
will
heere
wholly
insert
.
A
glorious
place
I
did
of
late
behold
,
Whose
outside
richly
deckt
with
burnisht
gold
;
Did
seeme
to
mee
a
Mansion
fit
for
Ioue
,
For
virtuous
Pallas
,
or
the
Queene
of
Loue
.
I
thought
so
sweete
a
seat
could
not
but
be
The
sacred
harbour
of
some
Deitie
.
The
roofe
thereof
was
arched
like
the
skies
And
grac'd
with
stars
,
which
though
but
mortal
eies
,
Yet
such
they
were
as
like
Promethean
fire
,
In
frozen
earth
could
kindle
hot
desire
;
Such
as
could
warme
the
Liuer
;
quick
the
braine
,
And
moue
affection
in
the
dullest
Swaine
;
It
ioy'd
me
much
to
see
my
weaker
sight
Curiously
search
this
Labyrinth
of
Delight
.
One
Beauty
seene
,
I
straightway
more
discouer
,
And
rauisht
,
crie
;
Who
would
not
be
a
Louer
?
Through
christall
Casements
I
might
easily
see
The
louely
Graces
in
their
sport
full
glee
;
And
by
and
by
the
Archer
and
his
Mother
With
wanton
dalliance
courting
one
another
.
An
entrance
was
into
this
princely
place
,
Whose
currall
Gates
tooke
vp
a
seemely
space
;
From
foorth
betwixt
the
Leaues
issued
a
breath
,
Could
set
a
glosse
vpon
the
face
of
death
,
And
now
and
then
came
foorth
a
gentle
sound
,
Whose
sweet
concent
did
Orpheus
quite
confound
.
It
much
affected
many
mortall
eares
,
And
might
haue
drawn
bright
Angells
from
their
Spheares
But
beauty
fades
,
and
louely
parts
decay
,
Greene
Herbes
do
quickly
turne
to
withered
hay
;
The
blushing
Rose
,
the
glory
of
the
morne
,
Doth
often-times
become
the
mid-daies
scorne
.
This
seeming
Eden
I
did
lately
view
,
But
all
things
varied
from
their
former
hewe
;
Nothing
I
saw
,
which
I
might
terme
the
same
,
So
short
a
Date
hath
euery
earthly
frame
.
Yet
in
this
change
Time
could
not
vant
his
force
;
So
I
had
not
finisht
halfe
his
annuall
course
,
Since
first
that
glorious
parcell
of
the
skies
,
Was
made
the
happie
Obiect
of
mine
eyes
;
Whereat
th'
affections
,
formed
in
my
brest
,
As
vnderpropped
with
to
weake
arest
.
In
their
owne
ruins
did
themselues
entombe
,
And
like
Abortiues
perish't
in
the
Wombe
.
My
thoughts
shall
therefore
neuer
more
embrace
The
washie
tincture
of
a
female
face
;
Beauties
imperious
lookes
may
force
mine
eye
,
But
virtues
Liege-man
my
poore
heart
shall
die
.
Yet
some
may
taxe
me
for
a
wauering
minde
;
Whose
loue
goes
out
at
euery
blast
of
winde
:
But
let
these
know
;
buildings
though
nere
so
tal
,
If
once
their
Base
,
&
ground-worke
faile
,
must
fall
.
As
for
the
vanitie
of
the
last
,
I
will
take
Martiall
for
my
Patron
,
who
being
condemned
by
a
friend
,
for
hauing
refused
to
marrie
with
a
wealthie
Widow
,
returned
him
his
reasons
in
this
pithie
Epigramme
.
Vxorem
quare
locupletem
ducere
nolim
,
Quaeritis
?
vxori
nubere
nolo
meae
.
Inferior
Matrona
suo
sit
,
Prisce
,
Marito
,
Non
aliter
fuerint
Faemina
,
Virque
pares
.
Mart.
lib.
8.
Epigram.
12.
But
the
Couvre-feu
Bell
hath
alreadie
rung
,
and
it
is
now
time
the
Draw-bridge
of
this
our
Sanctuarie
were
puld
vp
,
and
the
gates
thereof
shut
in
.
Such
as
had
Oyle
in
their
Lamps
are
already
entred
;
If
any
seeke
admission
hereafter
,
whatsoere
their
allegations
be
,
they
must
attend
a
Iubile
for
a
second
opening
;
till
when
to
stoppe
the
mouthes
of
their
aduersaries
,
most
whereof
,
like
Euripides
,
though
they
raile
vpon
them
at
the
bord
,
are
well
contented
with
them
in
the
Bed
,
I
publish
here
in
a
little
volume
,
this
poeticall
Character
of
their
worthinesse
.
—
They
are
the
comfort
of
our
liues
,
That
draw
an
equall
yoake
without
debate
;
A
Play-fellow
,
that
for
of
all
griefe
driues
;
A
Steward
,
early
that
prouides
and
late
;
Both
faithfull
,
chast
,
and
sober
,
milde
,
and
trustie
,
Nurse
to
weake
Age
,
and
pleasure
to
the
Lustie
.
FINIS
.