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A26561	Female pre-eminence, or, The dignity and excellency of that sex above the male an ingenious discourse / written orignally in Latine by Henry Cornelius Agrippa ... ; done into English with additional advantages by H. C.; Declamation de nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus. English	Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486?-1535.; Care, Henry, 1646-1688.	1670 (1670)	Wing A784; ESTC R14394	35,504	110

we shall use our utmost endeavours in the second Edition to deserve that favour by some further Additions and Embellishments H. C. To His Ingenious Friend Mr. H. Care On his Pains in Translating and Refining this quaint Discourse of Female Pre-eminence ' TI● bravely done dear Friend thus to Engage For the Fair Sex in this detracting Age When vip'rous Tongues so virulently throwe Venome at those to whom their Lives they owe And each base Fopp poor Womens Judge doth sit Who thinks Railing at them proves him a Wit And therefore Dams 'um They 'r all Whores hee 'l cry Though 's Mother and his Sister both stand by Nor want there Squires o' th' Quill to wound their Name And with foul Ink Bespatter their bright Fame But as when Royal Phaebus shews his Face Those Sporads vanish which usurpt his place So all these black-mouth'd screeching Birds of Night Are by your Book put to eternal Flight Your Book For what you modestly do call Translation if with the Original It be compar'd 't will easily be known That the far better part on 't is your own You adde correct and so the Whole Refine That 't is no more Agrippa's now but thine He laid the Plot but you the Language bring And giv 't a Dress as glorious as the Spring Choice Words compos'd in Periods that surprize The Ear with most harmonious Cadencies Such charming stile which France it self admir'd Was thought t' have vanisht when Love-Day expir'd Our English Prose seem'd sunk ever since then But now there 's hopes you 'l Buoy it up agen For such fair Blossomes in your Youth presage No common Fruit from your maturer Age. But what dost aim at for I must profess In this Attempt 't will puzzle one to guess Weary of Retail-Love by this Design Dost thou intend to Court all Womankind T' Ingross their Favour and ambitiously Affect Loves universal Monarchy Or do thy Flames which to some one ●spire Transport thee the whole Sex thus to admire What e're it be unto thy pains and wit All Ladies must confess themselves in Debt And to thee whence such Ornament they find They 'r most ungratefull if they prove not kind Their Snow-white Hands thy welcome Book shall hold And sometimes wrap●t up in some silken Fold In their sweet Bosomes suffer it to Rest Ah! who 'l not envy it when 't is so Blest At other times it fairly shall be spread I' th Sun shine of their Eyes and whilst 't is read Their Amber-Breath and Rosie-Lips will lend Perfumes unto its Le●ves shall never spend Henceforth no Lawyer they 'l retain but thee Who plead'st their Cause so well without a Fee Philogynes To His Worthy Friend Mr. Henry Care On his Ingenious Treatise Entituled Female Pre-eminence c. OH for some Female-Wit only a She Can write to the full Height your Eulogy What though Sappho and brave Phillips be gone Th' Muses themselves are bound to see it done Methinks I see our English Ladies throng To view your Name that vindicate from wrong Their Male-transcending Virtues which of late Have suffer'd by a sharp censorious Fate Of foul aspersions whilst some Parricide To his own Mothers Name in a full tide Of misplac't Epethites has rudely sought To wound cause One an injury on him brought Th' whole Sexes Honour whose innocence may think The Milk from 's Mother suckt too like his Ink Had too much in it of the bitter Gall Or for One Womans Cri●●e he 'd ne're curse all But let that Person with impartial eye Peruse your Book he 'l Alphabetic'ly Write's Recantation and a Convert die When I peruse your Book I know not justly who Deserves Pre-eminence the Female Sex or You For whilst I weigh their worth I 'm forc't t' admire Your weighty Wit As by a well tun'd Lyre My Ear being ravish't dubiously I stand Whether to praise the Lute or Artist's Hand So whilst you their Pre-eminence defend Your Wit i' th' proof makes me my faith suspend Whether to give it to the Feminine When you that writ it are o th' Masculine Not knowing which deserves the greatest praise Or You that Give or They that Wear the Bayes Both seem to me to claim priority Their Virtues and Your Ingenuity Then this I 'le do I will resolve henceforth T' Admire Their Virtues and Extoll Your Worth T. Martinne To the LADIES On this Ingenious Discourse of Female Pre-eminence LAdies at length your vindicated Fames Appear like bright but long concealed Flames Which under some rubbish were plac't to show That Fire by Fuel hid does stronger grow 'T was fit your brightness should some stains endure For Virtue 's greatest when 't is most obscure Princes though cloth'd with rags are Princes still Nor yet decreases good beset with ill The stately Palm does by depression thrive Your Virtues dy'd more nobly to revive What said I they dy'd No they ne're could dye But only fell prest down by Calumny From whence they do with double force arise Just like recoyling Rams in Batteri●● Something to this Brave Authors Care is due But he the greater Laurel yields to you Conqu'ring Souldiers as worthy Men we own Yet the Prince that commanded wears the Crown Thanks come from all as debts to th' Author's Wil What 's their desert then that thus inspired it Ladies Defending you success he never fears That Ship no sinking dreads that C●sar bears T. P. To the Ladies and Gentlewomen of England On that Ingenious Treatise Translated and Augmented in Defence of their Sex By Mr. Henry Care Entituled Female Pre-eminence c. LAy by your Needles Ladies take the Bayes Express your Gratitude i' th Authors praise Come shew the World your Wit hath found a Flaw In Great Apolloes Male-made Salique Law If you peruse the Book you 'l quickly find The Authors Care as well as willing mind Hath been imploy'd to serve your Sex and now With your own Hands you ought to Crown his Brow I 'le call him Author or a Name he 'l want To be known by Translator is too scant Though He Translator-like new Souls does give To th' Virtues of your Sex whereby they live Yet he 's no Cobler does not Cap but Crown Those Virtues which by dirt were trodden Th' Invention of 't I know his Modesty Does give to Learn'd Cornelius ●ut when I down Peruse Agrippa he I find does move Excited by his Wit not by his Love Whilst the Translator from his gen'rous Soul Making your Virtues his Antartick Pole Revives Agrippa's dormant Work and thence By 's Love and Care proves your Pre-eminence Wherein by 's Wit and fluent Style His Worth Extols its self in setting yours forth That then the Thanks you owe him may be seen Come crown his Head not with a Willow green But with such lasting Bayes the world may see You ne're are backward in Gratuity Or if your Modesty will not permit To praise them that prize you Lend me your Wit I

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