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A friendly apology, in the behalf of the womans excellency together with some examples of women-worthies : as also the character of a virtuous and accomplished woman : wherein ladies of pleasure are taxed and admonished / written in verse by J. Golborne ...
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Golborne, John.
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1674
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Wing G1009; ESTC R6976
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witness that he looked o're the hedge In Goal when he is laid we make no doubt But as he stole in so he would steal out These Dames for nothing else but being Wives Are made the closest prisoners for lives Never but in the Husbands death to see Or their own death a Goal-delivery Barbarian Xâ—â—ifs-concubines escape 'T is said if they but see a man a rape Before their count begins they must cry out For what to bring their honesty in doubt Rather than shield it He who them espyes By chance is not beholding to his eyes Whose case Actaeon-like presents strange kind Of misery which is not to be blind Proud Masters think their rule entrenched on If the good Wives their reasons dare to own When they make question whether musty Must Of canker'd spirits should be born as Just Or with due reverence beseech and pray They may not be expos'd as fâ—ols in play This boldness makes the sottish soul invent A plot and wish an Act of Parliament That each man in his house may rule and be Invested with a full authority To domineer command controul make Laws Void of all reason but a proud because Scripture without a Word of God they bring To justifie their tyranny The King Aâ—aâ—â—erus cited is the Queen Vasthi arraign'd as grosly overseen That would not shew her self make Majesty She did partake of with the King to be As picture shew'd to subjects and moreover In this command they think the King was sober That a decree so necessary was Fit to be made a Monument in brass I leave them with Memucan to prevent Imperiousness the woman never meant And to sue out the formallest decree Against what never was will never be The thing call'd Matrimony thus beguiles And makes a John a Nokes a John a Stiles To swell with mighty titles for his Cur-ship To his proud hasty humours pleads for worship With prayers tears she our John may not assault When dub'd Sr. Walter Walter Knight of Malt. Sarah call'd Abraham Lord his Wife must do So to his honour he 'l be Baron too If she thinks all her livelihood too much is To be exposed to his greedy clutches Since he reels all away that she can spin Spends faster than hard labour can bring in Her chests and coffers boxes straight he breaks Open to shew his Licence to play Rex If Cajâ—tanes vote carry he may hope To be elected as Donestick Pope That sith the womans head is man doth call His power by title that is Mystical Hard to be understood what doth infer As Mystick something that he 's Mystick Sir The toyling Wife may give her self the case And judge it fit that Peter keep the keyes In his power o're her children servants see Mark of the Beast a Tripleâ— Soveraignty And be forbidden ever for to own That she believes the story of Pope Joan. If he do tyrannize and reason fail For what he doth he puts on Coat of Male Pleads he 's an husband so right or behoof Or promise shall not pierce him this is Proof If Layship cannot well absolve the man Nor give indulgence Mystick Headship can This speckled creature without charge of pelf May do wrong give a pardon to himself We need no antient Histories to tell us That meaner sort of Dames may grow good fellows Follow the trade of Gossippings they can Toss jovially their pots like any man If the poor Gaffer have weak jacks their wills May not be serv'd without their lustier Gills Whose spirits make them keep most woful rackets It may be fall hard on their husbands jackets If so Viraginous that must allow What such Wives say or do cannot tell how To help it scarce may think that expence sad Which beggars families and makes them mad For me Xantippe ne're shall be too old To bear the stigma of an odious scold As punishment just let her alwayes be Under the tongue-strappado Railery Yet this may sober Civil women vex That faults not general upon the sex Are cast What made Philosopher to load us With silly pâ—ssinus habendi Modus Was there no matter for the wise to write Upon but womens eager appetite To men by slender matter first begot To serve they say themselves they know not what The most for which this poor conceipt can bid Is little something called Nescio quid What means unkind Dilemma that sayes women If beautiful must therefore needs be common Such base Dilemma's alwayes in dispute Deserve to bear the Odium of Cornute Leave off your tyranny you pievish elves Whilst you do harm your Wives you wrong your selves Making their grieving hearts through eyes express What tongues would not the great unhappiness Not to be suffer'd that they are brought to Endeavouring most vainly to please you What can you swagger storm at and confine Them wrongfully and call it Masculine Thus to insult It is but foolish mind Seeks to advance the Sex debase the kind Is 't mercy to thy family to make Subsistence of Wife Children lye at stake And run a sad adventure when they All Must be exposed by a doubtful fall And but uncertain cast at Dice wherein She suffers much although thou chance to win But if some unexpected hap do cross Thy greedy aims she must sit down with loss When all is cast away may she not gain The liberty of losers to complain Canst thou think to run through all in thy sport And not endure thou shouldst be blamed for 't Or make it run through thee by drunken fit And yet not suffer her to grieve for it Women-Worthies EXamples croud upon us lest the flaws Of some irregulars should wrong their cause The innocence of others blemish and the blame Of envy should be charg'd I 'le further name Out of those many thought to equal best Of men some few that did outshine the rest Since the great Amazonian Ladies seats Are mention'd by good Authors and their feats Of War successes progress and the Dates Of these related with Confederates Their government declensions and last Queen But to suppose they have not been is spleen In them in questioning that make us know They are ashamed much that it should be so The greatness of the things they did atchieve Puts the world so much to it to believe Others do talk at a prodigious rate And that which noble was call desperate As though their valour in first gallant fight Were to be thought a better sort of flight Were we dispos'd this reason to allow As likely possibly who could tell how To vindicate great Warriors for men When desperate fight their way back agen In dangers vilest Recreants are made stout Only to make way to creep poorly out But they consult not safety to make peace Which soon might have been done since cause did cease For their exile and sufferings but go on Leaving their names to fame Thermodoon Revenge was not the main cause for that lamp When flash is over soon is quench'd by damp