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A51611	An essay to revive the antient education of gentlewomen in religion, manners, arts & tongues with an answer to the objections against this way of education.; Essay to revive the antient education of gentlewomen, in religion, manners, arts & tongues	Makin, Bathsua, fl. 1612-1673.	1673 (1673)	Wing M309; ESTC R8034	31,566	44

countermine them who fight against us as Satan against Adam by seducing our Women who then easily seduce their Husbands Had God intended Women onely as a finer sort of Cattle he would not have made them reasonable Bruits a few degrees higher than Drils or Monkies which the Indians use to do many Offices might have better fitted some mens Lust Pride and Pleasure especially those that desire to keep them ignorant to be tyrannized over God intended Woman as a help-meet to Man in his constant conversation and in the concerns of his Family and Estate when he should most need in sickness weakness absence death c. Whilst we neglect to fit them for these things we renounce God's Blessing he hath appointed Women for are ungrateful to him cruel to them and injurious to our selves I remember a discourse in Erasmus between an Abbot and a learned Woman She gives many good Reasons why Women should be learned that they might know God their Saviour understand his Sacred Word and admire him in his wonderful Works that they might also better administer their Houshold Affairs amongst a multitude of Servants who would have more reverence towards them because they were above them in understanding Further she found a great content in reading good Authors at spare times He gives her one Answer to all this That Women would never be kept in subjection if they were learned as he found by experience amongst his Monks of all things in the World he hated nothing so much as a learned Monk who would alwayes be contradicting his Superior from the Decretals out of Peter and Paul He cared not if all his Monks were turned into Swine so long as they would be obedient and not disturb him in his Pleasures Doubtless if that generation of Sots who deny more Polite Learning to Women would speak out they would tell you If Women should be permitted Arts they would be wiser than themselves a thing not to be endured then they would never be such tame fools and very slaves as now they make them therefore it is a wicked mischievous thing to revive the Ancient Custom of Educating them Seeing Nature produces Women of such excellent Parts that they do often equalize some-times excel men in what ever they attempt what reason can be given why they should not be improved Nothing is more excellent than Man his excellency doth not consist in his smooth Skin or erect Countenance but in his Reasonable Soul and the excellency of Reason is when it is improved by Art Learning perfects and adorns the Soul which all Creatures aim at Nay more a principal part of God's Image in Man's first Creation consisted in Knowledge Sin hath clouded this why should we not by instruction endeavour to repair that which shall be perfected in Heaven None deny the understanding of the highest things belong to Women as The knowledge of God Meditation of his Word Contemplation of his Works and they have been all along eminently employed in the great Transactions of the Church In the Old-Testament Miriam Debora Jael Judith Esther In the New-Testament the Blessed Virgin Anna Phebe Priscilla Lois Eunice the Elect Lady c. were all useful and serviceable to the Church Who then will forbid them the studying of Arts Tongues History Philosophy c. subservient to these None can reverence the Majesty of God nor admire his wonderful Works unless they in some measure know him and them This Nation was delivered from the Danes by the Valour Secresie and Fidelity of the Women and from worse than Danish slavery by the means of a Woman If any desire distinctly to know what they should be instructed in I Answer I cannot tell where to begin to admit Women nor from what part of Learning to exclude them in regard of their Capacities The whole Encyclopedeia of Learning may be useful some way or other to them Respect indeed is to be had to the Nature and Dignity of each Art and Science as they are more or less subservient to Religion and may be useful to them in their station I would not deny them the knowledge of Grammar and Rhetorick because they dispose to speak handsomly Logick must be allowed because it is the Key to all Sciences Physick especially Visibles as Herbs Plants Shrubs Drugs c. must be studyed because this will exceedingly please themselves and fit them to be helpful to others The Tongues ought to be studyed especially the Greek and Hebrew these will enable to the better understanding of the Scriptures The Mathematicks more especially Geography will be useful this puts life into History Musick Painting Poetry c. are a great ornament and pleasure Some things that are more practical are not so material because publick Employments in the Field and Courts are usually denyed to Women Yet some have not been inferior to many men even in these things also Witness Semiramis amongst the Babylonians The Queen of Sheba in Arabia Miriam and Debora among the Israclites Katherine de Medices in France Queen Elisabeth in England Valerius Maximus tells us of divers Women that have with good success and great applause pleaded their own Causes as Amesia Sentnia and Hortensia the Daughter of Q. Hortensius Amalesuentha Queen of the Gothick Empire in Italy contemporary with Justinian was exceedingly valued by him as appears by his Epistles recorded by Cassiadorus Zenobia made the Countrey famous by her Learning and Prudence In these late Times there are several instances of Women when their Husbands were serving their King and Countrey defended their Houses and did all things as Souldiers with Prudence and Valour like Men. They appeared before Committees and pleaded their own Causes with good success This kind of Education will be very useful to Women 1. The profit will be to themselves In the general they will be able to understand read write and speak their Mother-Tongue which they cannot well do without this They will have something to exercise their thoughts about which are busie and active Their quality ties them at home if Learning be their Companion Delight and Pleasure will be their Attendants for there is no pleasure greater nor more sutable to an ingenious mind than what is founded in Knowledge it is the first Fruits of Heaven and a glymps of that Glory we afterwards expect There is in all an innate desire of knowing and the satisfying this is the greatest pleasure Men are very cruel that give them leave to look at a distance only to know they do not know to make any thus to tantalize is a great torment This will be a Hedge against Heresies Men are furnished with Arts and Tongues for this purpose that they may stop the mouths of their Adversaries And Women ought to be Learned that they may stop their ears against Seducers It cannot be imagined so many Persons of Quality would be so easily carried aside with every wind of Doctrine had they been furnished with these defensive Arms I

by her own Genius rather than any timely Instruction over-tops many grave Gown-Men I am forbidden to mention the Countess Dowager of Huntington instructed sometimes by Mrs. Makin how well she understands Latin Greek Hebrew French and Spanish or what a proficient she is in Arts subservient to Divinity in which if I durst I would tell you she excels The Princess Elizabeth daughter to King Charles the first to whom Mrs. Makin was Tutress at nine Years old could write read and in some measure understand Latin Greek Hebrew French and Italian Had she lived what a Miracle would She have been of her Sex The Princess Elizabeth eldest Daughter to the Queen of Bohemia yet living is versed in all sorts of choice Literature Mrs. Thorold Daughter of the Lady Car in Lincolnshire was excellent in Philosophy and all sorts of Learning I cannot without Injury forget the Lady Mildmay and Dr. Loves Daughters Their Worth and Excellency in Learning is yet fresh in the Memory of many Men. Cornelia read publick Philosophy-Lectures at Rome she brought up her Sons the Gracchi so that they were the only Men famous in their Dayes She was admired by Cicero for diverse of her Works The Papal Chair could not defend it self but was invaded by a Woman for her Excellency in Learning above the men of her Times As Volateran Sigebertus Platina and others that have writ the Lives of the Roman Bishops do declare She is remembred likewise to this purpose by Boccasius in his Book de Claris Mulieribus Rosuida a Saxon by Nation She lived under Lotharius the first She was Eloquent in the Greek and Roman Tongues and practised in all good Arts. She composed many Works not without great commendation from the Readers One to exhort to Chastity Virtue and Divine Worship She published six Comedies besides a noble Poem in Hexameter verse of the Heroick Acts done by the Otho Cesars with divers others Elizabetha of Schonaugia zealously imitated the Study and Practice of this Rosuida She writ many things in the Latin Tongue namely a Book intituled A Path to direct us the way to God as also a Volumn of Learned Epistles with many other Books I cannot omit Constantia the Wife of Alexander Sforza She was so Learned that upon the suddain and without any premeditation She was able sufficiently to discourse upon any Argument either Theological or Philosophical Besides She was very frequent in the works of St. Hierome Ambrose Gregory Cicero and Lactantius She was much admired for her Extempory vaine in Verse Her Daughter Baptista was equal to Her in Fame and Merit and was reckoned among the best Learned and most Illustrious Women Christina late Queen of Sweden understood several Languages and was well versed in Politicks and acquainted with most Arts and Sciences I thought of Queen Elizabeth first but purposely mention Her last as the Crown of all How learned She was the World can testifie It was usual for her to discourse with Forraign Agents in their own Languages Mr. Ascam her Tutor used to say She read more Greek in a day then many of the Doctors of her time did Latin in a week You see some Women have been good Proficients in most kinds of Learning I shall now shew you how they have been excellent in some particular parts of it as the Tongues Oratory Philosophy Divinity and lastly Poetry Women have been good Linguists It is objected against Women as a reproach that they have too much Tongue but it 's no crime they have many Tongues if it be many Men would be glad to be guilty of that fault The Tongue is the only Weapon Women have to defend themselves with and they had need to use it dextrously Many say one tongue is enough for a Woman it is but a quibble upon the word Several Languages understood by a Woman will do our Gentlemen little hurt who have little more than their Mother-Wit and understand only their Mother-Tongue these most usually make this Objection to hide their own Ignorance Tongues are learnt in order to Things As things were and yet are in the World its requisite we learn Tongues to understand Arts It 's therefore a Commendation to these Women after mentioned that they were Mistresses of Tongues There is an ancient Copy of the Septuagent sent from the Patriarch of Alexandria to King James written by a Woman called Tecla so accurate and excellent that the Authors of the Polyglot-Bible chose it before all other Copies written or printed to make use of in that Impression Anna Maria Schurman of Vtrecht called by Spanhemius ultimum Naturae in hôc sexu conatum et decimam Musam Natures Master-piece amongst Women excelling the very Muses hath printed divers Works in Latin Greek French and the Persian Tongue she understood the Arabick also Besides she was an excellent Poet. Amalasuntha Queen of the Ostrogothes the Daughter of Theodericus was a great Mistress of the Latin and Greek Tongues she spake distinctly all the barbarous Languages that were used in the Eastern Empires For Excellency in Tongues most of those Persons before mentioned are eminent Instances Maurata the Lady Jane Grey and the three Elizabeths c. Women have not been meer Talkers as some frivolous Men would make them but they have known how to use Languages when they have had them Many Women have been excellent Oratours Women have been good Oratours Valerius Maximus tell us of Amesia a modest Roman Lady when she was accused of a great Crime and ready to incur the Sentence of the Pretor she in a great Confluence stept up amongst the People and without any Advocate pleaded her own Cause so effectually that by the publique Suffrage she was acquitted from all Aspersion whatsoever and from that Time she was called Androgine Hortensia was equal to her the Daughter of Quintus Hortensius When a greivous Fine was imposed upon the Roman Matrons by the Tribunes when all Lawyers and Oratours were afraid to take upon them the Patronage of their Cause this discreet Lady pleaded before the Triumvirate in the behalf of the Women so happily and boldly that the greatest Part of the Mulct imposed upon them was remitted Some have commended Caia Affricana's Eloquence I cannot approve of the Use she put it to but pass her over Tullia by the Instruction of her Mother Terentia was counted equal to her Father Cicero in Eloquence Divers of those Persons before mentioned were very eloquent particularly Maurata Cornelia and Queen Elizabeth We may suppose Schurman and the rest that wrote so elegantly could also speak eloquently upon a just occasion It is objected against poor Women they may learn Tongues and speak freely being naturally disposed to be talkative But for any solid Judgment or depth of Reason it is seldom found in their giddy Crowns I proceed therefore to shew they have been good Logicians Philosophers Mathematicians Divines and Poets Women have understood Logick Logick is the Key those that have this in