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A10054	A treatise of the nobilitie and excellencye of vvoman kynde, translated out of Latine into englysshe by Dauid Clapam; Declamatio de nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus. English	Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486?-1535.; Clapham, David, d. 1551.; Margaret, of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands, 1480-1530.	1542 (1542)	STC 203; ESTC S104365	25,704	101

chylderne cruelly put to deathe for the mayntenaunce of the lawes of her countrey ¶ Dyd not also Theodelina the doughter of the kynge of Bauarians conuerte the Lumbardes to the fayth And Greisilla the sysrer of Henry the fyrste Emperour conuerte the Hungarians Clotildis the daughter of the kyng of Burgundia conuert the Frenche men And a certayn woman called Apostola of a lowe degree conuerted the Hiberians Eche of them turned innumerable people vnto Christis faythe And fynally this is the onely and speciall relygious kynd in whom vnto this day the catholike faith and the continual workes of vertue and goodnesse doo flourysshe and shyne ¶ But to the ende that noo man shuld doubt women to be as able to doo all those thynges that men can let vs handle the matter with examples and we shal fynd that there was neuer noble nor worthy acte in any kynde of vertue doone by men but that as noble hath ben done by women In doinge sacrifyce as the paynyms in olde tyme vsed Melyssa Cibeles was the Mynyster after whose name the other Goddesses that vsed the priestes offyce were callyd Melyssae Also Hypeccaustria was Mineruas mynyster Mera of Venus Iphiginia of Diana And the mynysters of Bacchus were very notable as Thyades Menades Bacche Eliades Mimallonides Eonides Eubiades Bassarides Triaterides Also amonge the Iewes Mary Moses syster entred with Aaron into the Sanctuarie and was taken as a mynyster or priest And although women be forbydden in our religion to vse the order of presthod yet it appereth by hystories that a woman on a tyme by counterfaitynge her kynde was bishoppe of Rome There haue bene in Christis churche many abbasses and nunnes whiche in olde tyme men disdayned not to calle holy mynisters There haue bene among all nations that excelled in prophecienge as Cassandra the Sybilles Mary Moyses sister Delbora Holda Anna Elyzabeth the foure doughters of Philip many other holy womē of later time as Brigida and Heldegardis Furthermore in the inuyncible arte magyke whether it came of good spirytes or bad Circes and Medea wroughte farre greatter wonders than Zoroastes hym self whiche as many suppose was the fyrste fynder of the sayde scyence More ouer in phylosophye many haue ben very excellent as Theano the wyfe of Pythagoras and Dama his daughter was ryghte famous in openynge and declaringe her fathers obscure darke sentences Also Aspasia and Diotima Socrates scholers Mantinea and Philesia Axiochia both scholers to Plato Finally Plotinus highly prayseth Gemina and Amphiclea Lactantius Themisten Christis churche reioyceth in saynt Caterine which being but a lyttell mayde dyd farre passe in lernynge the wyse menne of that tyme. ¶ Let vs not forget in this place the queene Zenobia scholer to the phylosopher Longinus whiche for her great vertue and cunning was called Ephenissa whose holy workis Nichomachus translated into Greke ¶ Let vs speake of the oratours arte and of poetrie Behold here commeth Armesia surna med Androgenea Hortentia Lacera Valeria Copiola Sapho Corinna Cornificia the Romayne Erymna Telia or Thesbia whyche was named an Epigrammatist in Saluste Sempronia in the law ciuyl Calphurnia And were it not that women in our tyme ar forbydden to gyue theym to good lernynges we shulde euen nowe haue women more excellēt in wyt and lernynge than menne What shulde we hereof say that women onely by nature are sene to excelle the very artificers in all sciences Doo not the Grammarians take vppon theym to be the maysters of eloquence And that do we far better lerne of oure nources and mothers than of the Grammarians Dyd not Cornelia fourme and fasshyon the tongues of her moste eloquent sonnes Gracchi Dyd not Istrineus mother teach Syles the sonne of Aripithus kynge of Scythia the Greeke tongue Dydde not the chyldren borne of theym that were sente to inhabyte in straunge countreyes alway obserue and kepe theyr mothers tongue amonge strangers Surely for none other cause Plato and Quintilian so diligentlye ordeyned a mete and conueniente nource for chylderne to be chosen but that the chyldernes tongue speche myght be ryghtlye and discretely fourmed ¶ But nowe be not the poetes in theyr trifles fables the logitians in their cōtentious talking ouercome of women Ther was neuer oratour so good or so happy that in perswasyon coulde get the vpper hande of an harlot What arithmetrician by false recknyng coulde deceyue a woman in payement of her det or what musitian can compare with a woman in singynge and swetenesse of breaste Be not these Phylosophers these astrologians in theyr diuynatiōs forknowleges many tymes inferiours to the coūtrey wiues yea very ofttymes a sely olde woman excelleth the phisitian Socrates hym selfe aboue all other reckned the most wyse man being very aged dyd not disdain to be taught of the womā Aspasia Lyke as Apollo a man so wel lerned in Christis doctrine was not ashamed to be taught of the womā Priscilla ¶ Nowe for prudency you maye take for examples those women Opis for her wysedome counted a goddesse Plotina wyfe of Troianus themperour Amalasuntha the queene of Ostrogottes Emilia the wyfe of Scipio with whō recken Delbora the wyfe of Labidoth a meruaylouse wyse woman whiche as we rede in Iudicum was a certayn tyme Iudge ouer the people of Israel and the chylderne of Israell came vp to her for iudgement in all causes And whan Barach refused to go ageynste their ennemies excepte she wolde go with hym Delbora was chosen capitayne of the host of Israell and sleynge and dyscomfytynge theyr foes she returned home with vyctorie ¶ More ouer it is redde in the fourth boke of kingis that quene Attalia reigned was souerayne Iudge in Ierusalem seuen yeres space And Semiramis after the deathe of kynge Ninus iudged the people .xl. yeres And all the quenes of Ethiope called Candaces were moste wyse and reigned moste myghtely of whomit is written in the actes of the apostels And meruaylouse thynges of them speaketh the faithful writer of antyquytie Iosephus Also Nicania the quene of Saba cam from the ende of the world to here the wysedome of Salomon and as Christ witnesseth she shall condemne all the people of Hierusalem And there was a certain wise woman of Thecoa whyche concluded kynge Dauids demaunde with a question with a ryddle she taught hym and by the exāple of god swaged his wrath Nor here we shulde not forget Abigail and Bathsaba of whiche two Abigail delyuered her husbande from the wrathe of Dauid and after the deathe of her husbande she was queene and wyfe of Dauid The other the mother of Salomon by her prudēcy opteyned that her sonne was kynge ¶ More ouer in the Inuention of thynges Isis Minerua Nicostrata be examples In rulyng of realmes and buyldynge of cities women excelle Semiramis was the souerayne gouernour of the vniuersall worlde Dido was the buylder and queene of Carthage the Amazones were moste worthy in warre and