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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26718	The good womans champion, or, A defence for the weaker vessell being fit for widdowes, wives, maidens, or others to read or heare : wherein is vindicated the bitter reproaches, scandalous writings of some fantastick men against poor, harmlesse women and maides, with a carefull wives good counsell to a carelesse, bad husband / by I.A.	I. A.	1650 (1650)	Wing A9A; ESTC R11216	7,287	20

THE Good VVomans Champion Or A defence for the weaker Vessell being fit for Widdowes Wives Maidens or others to read or heare Wherein is vindicated the bitter reproaches a●… scandalous writings of some fantastick men against poor●… harmlesse Women and Maides With a carefull Wives good Counsell to a carelesse bad Husband By I. A. Printed at London for Francis Grove and are to be sold at his Shop neare the Sarazens Head on Snow Hill To all the good women in England of what degree soever MAdam or Mistris Dame or courteous Maid Your vertues here in brief I have display'd If you be pleas'd these lines to over-looke For whose sweet sakes I pend this little Book In spight of envie who so harsh did write Seeking for to eclipse your glory quite But you like silver Cinthia doe appeare Vnto your Phoebus usher of the yeare Or like those golden Stars so bright that shines Which spacious Heaven in its Orbe combines To you faire Soules this Work I dedicate Because that malice vertue still doth hate I am no Pimp nor Champion for a Whore To usher Puncks or in a Taverne reare The wrongs of all good women I would right I am your Champion and for you I le fight My Sword and Pen your honours shall maintains Saluting you I rest yet still remaine The admirer of your vertues I. A. The good Womans Champion Or A defence for the weaker Vessell GEntle Reader or Hearer I know it is a hard taske to please all fancies and I am as certaine there are many snarling criticks in this age that willout of their malicious wisdomes give a harsh censure on this ensuing Subject which if they do I care the lesse because the matter which I write of is honest and in defence of harmlesse and vertuous Women Therefore when I considered the manifold aspersions bitter taunts envious revilings slanderous raylings and malignant writings of some inveterate ill-bred Spirits which would be accounted men against poore harmlesse silly and weake women who are not able with that little péce of flesh called their Tongue which is their chiefe defence or weapon to expresse or otherwise to vindicate themselves in writing the injuries and scandals daily divulged abroad in fantastick Pamphlets Verses as the Bear-baiting of women the Parliament of Women the Woman-hater the Gossips meeting the Crab-tree Lecture Vinegar and Mustard and I know not what for all these and more are spightfully fomented against that noble Sex of matchlesse immaculate creatures whose deserved worth to illustrate and set forth I cannot either with speech or in writing Those men I say whose tongues are like a double-edged sword their pens made of Goose-quils their inke of Galls and their braines adled who hath neither charity wisdom or modesty they surely forget that ever they came of a woman or had a mother who under God first gave them life nourished them in her body brought them into the world with paine and like the Pelican fed them with her own blood and bred them with care industry such men may very fitly be compared to the Viper that destroyeth the wombe that bare them and we all doe know that ingratitude is a Monster and she which brought forth such an abortive birth into the world was surely delivered before her time A woman was the most beautifull and rare péce of Architecture that ever was erected upon the face of the earth and framed by the best workman in the world for when she was first created or borne she was not a childe or infant but a perfect and compleat woman neither was she made of base earth or clay as man was but of the purest of her Husbands flesh and blood being a rib taken out of his side and next of all to his heart and therefore in my opinion it is against nature nay against the Law of God to abuse or hurt the same being their own flesh and blood as too many do which is much to be lamented but herein the old proverb is truly verified that the weakest still goes to the walls and a low hedge is soon stept over Therefore you satyricall Antagonists and others that so bitterly enveigh against poore women if you would be pleased but to view the sacred Scriptures where you may find sufficient proofe that they ought to have more due respect allotted them then some of you will acknowledge or professe they should enjoy and although man be the head and is or ought to be endued with more wisdome and strength then a weak woman yet he ought not to triumph over or injure so harmlesse a Soul without whom man by no means can subsist for did not God say of Adam in the creation It is not good for man to be alone And further God saith I will make him an Helper meet for him therefore shall a man leave his father and mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh Thus you may perceive how necessary is the swét society and company of a vertuous woman to her Husband for she is his helper at all assaies being carefull of her family képing him neat and decent both in woollen linnon and other necessaries cleanly in dressing his dyet and a loving Nurse to him both in sicknesse and health wherefore a man ought to love his wife above all the world they being as the Lord saith one flesh If you will heare what St. Paul saith of a woman it is thus A woman is the glory of man And Solomon the wisest of men saith A vertuous woman is a crowne to her Husband now if a woman be a glory to her husband how is that man blest which enjoyeth such a wife who doth crown his heart with variety of content she like the fruitfull Vine bringeth forth swét children which are the blessings of God being the fruit of their owne loynes who preserveth if the Lord please their Fathers name to the end of the world by their posterity And the wise man further saith Who so findeth such a wise obtaineth favour of the Lord. O ten thousand times happy is that man that with a wife can obtain such heavenly favour but Solomon further addeth that the price of a vertuous woman is far above Rubies and let her be as the loving Hind and pleasant Roe and be thou ravisht alwaies with her love It is the common custome now adaies among most men to hearken after wives with a great portion rich friends never regarding how she is qualified or whether she be addicted to vertue or vice but wealth is the chiefe mark at which they ayme sometimes they hit the white they shoot at yet come hom by wéping crosse but a poore woman be she never so vertuous is not regarded with them but you have heard her price and how high a rate the wise man doth velue her at yet for all this though a good woman be as loving as the Hind and pleasant as the Roe to her