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A13240	The araignment of leuud, idle, froward, and vnconstant women or the vanitie of them, choose you whether : with a commendation of wise, vertuous and honest women : pleasant for married men, profitable for young men, and hurtfull to none.; Arraignment of lewd, idle, froward, and unconstant women. 1615	Swetnam, Joseph, fl. 1617.	1615 (1615)	STC 23534; ESTC S529	43,338	78

Venice then I am sure that you would either haue wooed me to haue them or wished to see them But I will here conclude this first Epistle praying you with patience to heare the rest for if I offend you at the first I will make you amends at the last and so I leaue you to him whose seate is in Heauen and whose footestoole is the Earth Yours in the way of Honesty Ioseph Swetnam To the Reader Reade it if you please and like as you list neyther to the wisest Clarke nor yet to the starkest Foole but vnto the ordinary sort of giddy-headed young men I send this greeting IF you meane to see the Beare-bayting of womeÌ„ then trudge to this Beare-garden apace and get in betimes and view euery roome where thou mayest best sit for thy owne pleasure profite and hearts ease beare with my rudenes if I chance to offend thee But before I doe open this trunke full of torments against women I thinke it were not amisse to resemble those which in old time did sacrifices to Hercules for they vsed continually first to whip all their dogges out of their City and I thinke it were not amisse to driue all the women out of my hearing for doubt lest this little sparke kindle into such a flame and rayse so many stinging Hornets humming about my eares that all the wit I haue will not quench the one nor quiet the other for I feare me that I haue set down more then they will like of and yet a great deale lesse then they deserue and for better proofe I refer my selfe to the iudgement of men which haue more experience then my selfe for I esteem little of the malice of women for men will be perswaded with reason but women must be answered with silence for I know women will barke more at me then Cerberus the two-headed dog did at Hercules when he came into Hell to fetch out the fayre Proserpina and yet I charge them now but with a bulrush in respect of a second booke which is almost ready I doe now but fret them with false fire but my next charge shal be with weapons and my larum with powder and shot for then wee will goe vpon these venemous Adders Serpents and Snakes and tread and trample them vnder our feet for I haue known many stung with some of these Scorpions and therefore I warne all men to beware the Scorpton I knowe women will bite the lip at mee and censure hardly of mee but I feare not the curst Cowe for she commonly hath short horns let them censure of me what they wil for I meane not to make them my Iudges and if they shoot their spite at me they may hit themselues and so I will smile at them as at the foolish Fly which burneth her selfe in the candle And so friend Reader if thou hast any discretion at all thou mayest take a happy example by these most lasciuious and crafty whorish theeuish knauish women which were the cause of this my idle time spending and yet I haue no warrant to make thee beleeue this which I write to be true but yet the simple Bee gathereth honey where the venemous Spider doth her poyson And so I will hinder thee no longer from that which insueth But here I wil conclude lest thou hast cause to say that my Epistles are longer then my booke a Booke I hope I may call it without any offence for the Collyer cals his Horse a Horse the Kings great Steed is but a Horse If thou read but the beginning of a booke thou canst giue no iudgement of that which insueth therefore I say is the Frier who in the midst of his Sermon said ofte that the best was behind And so if thou reade it all ouer thou shalt not be deluded for the best is behind I thinke I haue shot so neere the white that some wil account me for a good Archer And so praying thee to looke to thy footing that thou run not ouer thy shooes and so be past recouery before my second booke come Thy friend JOSEPH SVVETNAM CHAP. I. This first Chapter sheweth to what vse Women were made it also sheweth that most of them degenerate from the vse they were framed vnto by leading a proud lazy and idle life to the great hinderance of their poore Husbands MOses describeth a Woman thus At the first beginning saith hee a woman was made to be a helper vnto man so they are indeed for she helpeth to spend and consume that which man painefully getteth Hee also saith that they were made of the ribbe of a man and that their froward nature sheweth for a ribbe is a crooked thing good for nothing else and women are crooked by nature for small occasion will cause them to be angry Againe in a manner shee was no sooner made but straightway her mind was set vpon mischiefe for by her aspiring minde and wanton will shee quickly procured mans fall and therfore euer since they are and haue beene a woe vnto man and follow the line of their first leader For I pray you let vs consider the times past with the time present first that of Dauid and Salomon if they had occasion so many hundred yeares agoe to exclaime so bitterly against women for the one of them said that it was better to be a doore-keeper and better dwel in a den amongst Lyons then to be in the house with a froward and wicked woman and the other said that the climing vp of a sandy hill to an aged man was nothing so wearisome as to be troubled with a froward woman and further he saith that the malice of a beast is not like the malice of a wicked woman nor that there is nothing more dangerous then a woman in her fury The Lion being bitten with hunger the Beare being robbed of her young ones the Viper being trod on all these are nothing so terrible as the fury of a woman A Bucke may be inclosed in a Parke a bridle rules a horse a Woolfe may be tied a Tyger may be tamed but a froward woman will neuer be tamed no spur will make her goe nor no bridle will hold her backe for if a woman hold an opinion no man can draw her from it tell her of her fault she will not beleeue that she is in any fault giue her good counsell but she will not take it if you doe but looke after another woman then she will be iealous the more thou louest her the more she will disdaine thee and if thou threaten her then she wil be angry flatter her and then she will be proud and if thou forbeare her it maketh her bold and if thou chasten her then she will turne to a Serpent at a word a woman will neuer forget an iniury nor giue thanks for a good turne what wise man then will exchange gould for drosse pleasure for paine a quiet life for wrangling brawles from the which the

THE ARAIGNMENT OF LEVVD IDLE FROward and vnconstant women Or the vanitie of them choose you whether With a Commendation of wise vertuous and honest Women Pleasant for married Men profitable for young Men and hurtfull to none LONDON Printed by George Purslowe for Thomas Archer and are to be solde at his shop in Popes-head Pallace neere the Royall Exchange 1615. NEITHER TO THE BEST NOR yet to the worst but to the common sort of WOMEN MVsing with my selfe being idle and hauing little ease to passe the time withal and I being in a great choller against some women I mean more then one And so in the ruffe of my fury taking my pen in hand to beguile the time withall indeed I might haue imployed my selfe to better vse then in such an idle busines and better it were to pocket vp a pelting iniury then to intangle my selfe with such vermine for this I know that because women are women therefore many of them will doe that in an howre which they many times will repent all their whole life time after yet for any iniury which I haue reccyued of theÌ„ the more I consider of it the lesse I esteem of the same Yet perhaps some may say vnto me that I haue sought for honey caught the Bee by the tayle or that I haue bin bit or stung with some of these waspes otherwise I could neuer haue beene expert in bewraying their qualities for the mother would neuer haue sought her daughter in the Ouen but that shee was there her selfe Indeed I must confesse I haue been a traueller this thirty odde yeeres and many trauellers liue in disdaine of women the reason is for that their affections are so poysoned with the haynous euils of vnconstant women which they happen to bee acquainted with in their trauels for it doth so cloy their stomacks that they censure bardly of women euer afterwards wronged men will not be tongue-tyed therefore if you doe ill you must not thinke to heare well for although the world bee bad yet it is not come to that passe that men should beare with all the bad conditions that are in some women I know I shall be bitten by many because I touch many but before I goe any further let mee whisper one word in your eares and that is this whatsoeuer you thinke privately I wish you to conceale it with silence lest in starting up to find fault you proue your selues guilty of these monstrous accusations which are here following against some women those which spurne if they feele themselues touched proue themselues stark fooles in bewraying their galled backs to the world for this booke toucheth no sort of women but such as when they heare it will goe about to reproue it for although in some part of this booke I trip at your heeles yet I will stay you by the hand so that you shall not fall further then you are willing although I deale with you after the manner of a shrow which cannot otherwise ease her curst heart but by her vnhappy tongue If I be too earnest beare with me a little for my meaning is not to speake much of those that are good I shall speake too little of those that are naught but yet I will not altogether condemn the bad but hoping to better the good by the naughty examples of the bad for there is no woman so good but hath one idle part or other in her which may be amended for the clearest Riuer that is hath some durt in the bottome Iewels are all precious but yet they are not all of one price nor all of one vertue gold is not all of one picture no more are women all of one disposition women are all necessary euills and yet not all giuen to wickednesse and yet many so bad that in my conceit if I should speake the worst that I know by some women I should make their eares glow that heare mee and my tongue would blister to report it but it is a great discredite for a man to be accounted for a scold for scolding is the maner of shromes therfore I had rather answere them with silence which find fault then striue to win the Cucking-stoole froÌ„ them Now me thinks I heare some curious Dames giue their rash iudgements say that I hauing no wit descant vpon womeÌ„ which haue more wit then men To answere you again If I belie you iudge me vnkind but if I speake the truth I shall be the better belieued another time and if I had wrote neuer so well it is vnpossible to please all and if neuer so ill yet I shall please some Let it bee well or ill I looke for no prayse for my labor I am weined from my mothers teat and therfore neuer more to bee fed with her pap wherefore say what you will for I will follow my own vein in vnfolding euery pleat and shewing euery wrinckle of a womans disposition and yet I will not made so farre ouer the shooes but that I may returne drie nor so far in but that I may easily escape out and yet for all that I must confesse my selfe to be in a fault and that I haue offended you beyond satisfaction for it is hard to giue a sufficient recompence for a slaunder and yet here after if by no meanes I cannot obtaine your fauour to be one of your Pulpit-men yet you cannot deny me to be one of your Parish and therefore if you please but to place me in the body of the Church hereafter you shall find my deuotion so great towards you as he that kneeleth at the Chancell dore for I wrote this booke with my hand but not with my heart Indeed when I first began to write this booke my wits were gone a wool-gathering in so much that in a maner forgetting my selfe and so in the rough of my fury I vowed for euer to be an open enemy vnto women but when my fury was a little past I began to consider the blasphemy of this infamous booke against your sects I then tooke my pen and cut him in twenty peeces and had it not been for hurting my selfe I would haue cut my own fingers which held my pen and furthermore for penance I do craue that my selfe may be a Iudge against my selfe but yet assure your selues of all euils I will choose the least wherefore I choose rather to beare a fagot then burn by the fagot you may perceyue the wind is changed into another dore and that I begin to be sea-sicke and yet not past halfe a mile on the salt water and that my mouth hath vttered that in my fury which my heart neuer thought and therefore I confesse that my tongue hath gone beyond my wits for I do surmise that the sauce which I haue made is too sharpe for your dyet and the flowers which I haue gathered are too strong for your noses but if I had brought little dogs from Iceland or fine glasses from

thiefe many other vnhappy names so hee tooke her and cut the tongue out of her head but she euer afterwards would make the signe of the gallowes with her fingers to him It is seldome or neuer seene that a man marrieth with a widdow for her beauty nor for her personage but onely for her wealth and riches and if she be rich beautifull withall then thou matchest thy selfe to a she-Deuill for she will go like a Peacocke and thou like a Woodcocke for she will hide her money to maintaine her pride if thou at any time art desirous to bee merry in her company she will say thou art merry because thou hast gotten a wife that is able to maintaine thee where before thou wast a begger and hadst nothing and if thou shew thy selfe sad she will say thou art sad because thou canst not bury her thereby to inioy that which shee hath if thou make prouision to fare well in thy house she will bid thee spend that which thou broughtest thy selfe If thou shew thy selfe sparing she will say thou shalt not pinch her of that which is her owne and if thou doe any thing contrary to her mind she will say her other husband was more kind if thou chance to dine from home she will bid thee go sup with thy Harlots abroad if thou go abroad and spend any thing before thou commest home she will say a begger I found thee and a begger thou meanest to leaue me if thou stay alwayes at home she will say thou art happy that hast gotten a wife that is able to maintaine thee idle if thou carue her the best morsell on the table though shee take it yet shee will take it scornefully and say she had a husbaÌ„nd that would let her cut where she liked her selfe And if thou come in well disposed thinking to be merry and intreating her with fayre words she will call thee dissembling hypocrite saying thou speakest me faire with thy tongue but thy heart is on thy minions abroad Loe these are the franticke trickes of froward widdowes they are neyther well full nor fasting they will neyther goe to Church nor stay at home I meane in regard of their impatient mindes for a man shall neuer bee quiet in her sight nor out of her sight for if thou be in her sight she will vexe thee as before said out of her sight thy owne conscience will torment and trouble thy mind to thinke on the purgatory which perforce thou must indure when thou commest home She will make Clubs trumpe when thou hast neuer a blacke card in thy hand for with her cruell tongue shee will ring thee such a peale that one would thinke the Deuill were come from Hell besides this thou shalt haue a brended slut like a Hell-hagge with a paire of pappes like a paire of dung-pots shall bring in thy dinner for thy widdow will not trust thee with a wench that is hansome in thy house now if that vpon iust occasion thou throwest the platters at the maids head seeing thy meat brought in by such a slutte and so sluttishly drest then will thy widdow take pepper in the nose and stampe and stare and looke so sowre as if shee had come but euen then from eating of Crabs saying If thou hadst not married with me thou wouldest haue beene glad of the worst morsell that is here then thou againe replying sayest If I had not beene so mad the Deuill himselfe would not haue had thee and then without cause thou blamest her of olde age and of iealousie and for hiding her money for coÌ„uaying away of her goods which thou hast bought with the displeasure of thy friends and discredite to thy selfe in regard of her yeares then againe shee on the other side runneth out to her neighbours and there she thundereth out a thousand iniuries that thou doest her saying my Corn he sendeth to the Market and my Cattell to the Fayre and looke what he openly findeth he taketh by force and what I hide secretly he priuily stealeth it away and playeth away all my money at dice. Loe thus he consumeth my substance and yet hateth my person no longer then I feede him with money can I enioy his company now he hath that he sought for he giueth me nothing else but froward answeres and foule vsage and yet God knowes of pure loue I married him with nothing but now his ill husbandry is like to bring to ruine both me and my children but now all this while she doth not forget to tell of her owne good huswifery saying I sit working all day at my needle or at my distaffe he like an vnthrift and a whoremonger runneth at randome thus they are alwayes stretching their debate vpon the racke of vengeance Loe here is a life but it is as wearisome as hell for if you kisse in the morning being friends yet ere noone ready to throw the house out at the window The Papists affirme that Heauen is wonne by Purgatory but in my mind a man shall neuer come into a worse Purgatory then to bee matched with a froward widdow Hee that matcheth himselfe to a widow and three children matcheth himselfe to foure theeues One hauing maried with a widow it was his lucke to bury her but not before he was sore vexed with her for afterwards hee lying on his death-bed his friends exhorted him to pray vnto God that his soule might rest in HeaueÌ„ he asked them this question whether said he do you thinke my wife is gone and they said vnto him no doubt but that your wife is gone to Heauen before you hee replyed I care not whether I goe so I go not where my wife is for feare I meete with her and bee vexed with her as I haue beene heretofore Another hauing married with a widow being one day at a sermon heard the Preacher say whosoeuer will be saued let him take vp his crosse and follow me this mad fellow after Sermon was ended tooke his wife vpon his backe and came to the Preacher and said here is my crosse I am ready to follow thee whether thou wilt Another hauing married with a widdow which shewed her selfe like a Saint abroad but a Deuill at home a friend of her husbands told him that he had gotten him a good still and a quiet wife yea marry quoth the married man you see my shooe is fayre and new but yet you know not where it pincheth me Another merry companion hauing married with a widdow carrying her ouer the Sea into France there sodainely arose a great storme in so much that they were all in danger of drowning the Master of the ship called vnto the marriners and bade theÌ„ take throw ouer bord all the heauiest goods in the shippe this married man hearing him say so he tooke his widdow and threw her ouer-boord and being asked the reason why he did so he said that he neuer felt any thing in all his life that was so heauy to him as she had been Another hauing married with a widdow and within a while after they were married she went out into the garden and there finding her husbands shirt hang close on the hedge by her maides smocke she went presently and hanged her selfe for a iealous conceit that she tooke and a merry fellow asked the cause why she hanged her selfe and being told that it was for iealousie I would said he that all trees did beare such fruit Thou maist thinke that I haue spoken inough concerning Widdowes but the further I runne after them the further I am from them for they are the summe of the seauen deadly sinnes the Fiends of Sathan the gates of Hell Now me thinketh I heare some say vnto me that I should haue tolde them this lesson sooner foe too late commeth medicine when the patient is dead euen so too late commeth counsell when it is past remedy but it is better late then neuer for it may be a warning to make others wise But why doe I make so long a haruest of so little corne seeing the corne is bad my haruest shall cease for so long as women doe ill they must not thinke to bee wel spoken of If you would be well reported of or kept like the Rose when it hath lost the colour then you should smell sweet in the bud as the Rose doth or if you would be tasted for old wine you should bee sweet at the first like a pleasant Grape then should you be cherished for your courtesie and comforted for your honesty so should you be preserued like the sweet Rose esteemed of as pleasant wine but to what purpose do I goe about to instruct you know ing that such as counsell the deuill can neuer amend him of his euill And so praying those which haue-already made their choyse and seene the troubles and felt the torments that are with women to take it merrily and to esteeme of this booke onely as the toyes of an idle head Nor I would not haue women murmur against me for that I haue not written more bitterly against men for it is a very hard winter when one Wolfe eateth another and it is also an ill bird that defileth her owne nest and a most vnkind part it were for one man to speake ill of another FINIS

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