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A89721	Hæc & hic; or, The feminine gender more worthy than the masculine. Being a vindication of that ingenious and innocent sex from the biting sarcasms, bitter satyrs, and opprobrious calumnies, wherewith they are daily, tho undeservedly, aspers'd by the virulent tongues and pens of malevolent men. ...	Norris, James, fl.1682-1684; Harefinch, John, fl. 1682-1690, printer	1683 (1683)	Wing N1242A; ESTC R228457	50,405	172

whom she had bin solemnly contracted was slain in the Lemnian War being impatient to survive him laid violent hands on her self Martia the unspotted Daughter of Varro who is styled Romanorum Doctissimus the most Learned Man of the once most Learned Nation the Romans was of such admirable and undefiled Chastity that she being most Excellent in the Ingenious Art of Painting did so alienate her Pencil from any thing that might have the least appearance of Dalliance or VVantonness that she was never known to draw the Face of a Man and the same is storied of Lala Sizizena of equal Excellency both in that Art and Virtue Selymus the grand Seignior had several stately Ships sent him as Presents tho they never were in his Possession and in the richest of them all was a noble Cyprian Lady destinated to the Lust of the Mahumedan Empire who to prevent so barbarous a Rape fired certain Barrels of Gun-powder by the Violence whereof both the Vessel and the Booty in it was in part burned in part drowned A Famous and Heroick Act saith my Author inferiour to none of the Roman Dames so much commended in their Stories tho more to be commended in a Roman than a Christian Lady Matilda the Beautiful English Virgin was the Daughter of Robert Fitz-Walter the most valiant Knight of that Age being in the year of our Lord 1213. It is recorded there arose a great Discord between King John and his Barons upon the account of Matilda for her matchless Beauty surnamed the fair whom the King caress'd and courted tho lasciviously but was so deservedly unsuccessful that he could neither obtain her own nor her Father's consent to any Act so sordid and unlawful whereupon and for other like Causes issued War commonly known by the name of the Barons Wars throughout the whole Realm to revenge which Indignity as King John misjudged it he exil'd the said Fitzwalter with others demolish'd his Castle call'd Baynard and other his stately Structures this done he sent his Messageur d'Amour to renew his old yet not extinguish'd Amours to Matilda who treated her with all the Respect and Reverence imaginable but ineffectually She being too worthy to be his Whore tho too worthless to be his Wife and he most inhumanly and prophanely quia noluit consentire toxicavit eam because she would not expose her pure Body to his impure Embraces poisoned her with a poached Egg in the very Nunnery where she fled for Sanctuary and Preservation of her Chastity against the fiery Assaults of a burning and salacious Prince and was afterward interr'd in the little Church of Dunmow in Essex In the time of Heraclius the Roman Emperour there was a certain Maid named Phara who made a Vow of Chastity but at length partly in Obedience to her Father's commands partly being tired out with Assiduous and unintermitted Importunities was overpersuaded to a married Life but withall rack'd with internal Regret and overwhelm'd with insupportable Grief that in an inconsiderable space of Time such an Ocean of Tears fell from the Cataracts of her Eyes that she wept her self blind When the City of Amileia was taken by the barbarous Huns a Lady of Honourable Parentage and Noble Descent 't is pitty that ever the Spunge of Oblivion should have wip'd her Name out of the Records of Time being taken captive and finding it decreed by cruel Fate that Death or the loss of Chastity must be her bitter Potion made choice of the former tho the King of Terrours rather than the latter which She thus effected for by a pious fraud and so it was if ever any Deceit merited that Name she feigned to condescend to the Will and Lust of her intended Ravisher and at length with Prayers and Tears two prevalent Arguments even with the most profligate Barbarians obtain'd leave of her brutish Keeper to go and petition the Gods to pardon so foul a Crime desiring to be conducted to the top of the House where she no sooner arriv'd but said with a charming look and an undaunted Resolution Villain if thou wilt enjoy me follow me and immediately precipitated her self and was broken to pieces with the fall preferring the loss of her Life before that of her Chastity Baldraca a Maid both young and beautiful two charming Qualifications tho of very poor and mean Parentage and too too cruelly harass'd by Penury and Want yet could not Otho one of the twelve Roman Caesars subdue her inexpugnable Chastity with all the Batteries of Bribery or alliciating and fascinating Temptations of Power and Grandeur resolving to live Chastly in a homely Rural Hovel rather than dissolutely in a Princely Palace or Imperial Apartment Lucia a fair Virgin of Syracuse in Sicily adorn'd with inward and outward perfections both of Body and Mind her very Eyes cast such a sparkling and irresistable Lustre that she inflamed the Syracusan Tyrant Dionysius insomuch that he was captivated with their Beauty even to the highest dotage and used all possible means fairly if possible to obtain her and she on the contrary to frustrate his wanton Desires but at length he resolv'd to conquer by Force since he could not by Courship and acquainted her therewith who inveighing against her fad Fate and the occasion thereof her Eyes pluck'd them out and presented them to the Tyrant saying Take my Eyes which thou so much admirest and satisfie thy exorbitant Appetite and Desire by which more than manly Action she secur'd her Chastity Sextus Marius the Roman had a Beautiful Daughter who so moved Tiberius the Emperour that his Thoughts were solely taken up with her Matchless Features which Amorous Intrigue as soon as it reach'd her Father's Ear he sent her into the Countrey to remove that admir'd Object from him and to try if her absence might cure the Lascivious Distemper that he labour'd under but he left nothing unatrempted which Love instructs Men with in such cases to gratifie his Libidinous and Unlawful Passion so that all means proving ineffectual he at last had recourse to Base and sordid Practises beneath an Emperour or Man and caused an Accusation to be brought against her by foul and damnable Subornation of Incest with her own Father She perceiving there was no possibility of escaping the Tyrant's hands accosts her Father with this Resolute Language Sir said she let him not dispose of us both to his Will and leave an indeleble Stain upon our Names and Posterity but rather let us Dy honourably Her Father astonish'd and asham'd to be moved to so Heroic an Action by his Daughter kill'd himself first and she did the like after him A Religious Votaress whose chaste Bosom was a Sacred Recluse Dedicated to Goodness upon the Rencounter of a Lascivious Lover return'd this Modest Answer Sir I Honour you so much that I have chosen rather to suffer than by my Tyrannous Beauty to make you a Prisoner Whereupon she discovered her Face in Complexion much alter'd by some Impostur'd

hath a special hand And Sir Kenelm Digby in his Observations on Religio Medici whom Famous Dr. Charleton thus Characterizeth That Noble Person who hath built up his Reason to so Transcendent a height of Knowledge as may seem not much beneath the state of Man in Innocence Blames the Dr. for his wishing that Men cou'd Procreate like Trees without Conjunction calling it the Foolishest Act of a Wise Man tho afterward he seems to Excuse himself I believe saith that Learned Knight your Lordship meaning Edw. Earl of Dorset who desir'd him to peruse that Book will scarcely joyn with him in his Wish that We might Procreate and beget Children without the help of a Woman or without any Conjunction or Commerce with that sweet Sex Then again a little after Besides his Unkindness or rather Frowardness to that Tender-hearted Sex which must needs take it ill at his hands Methinks he sets Marriage at too low a Rate which is assuredly the Highest and Divinest Link of Human Society and where he speaks of Cupid and Beauty it is in such a Phrase as puts me in mind of the Learned Greek-Reader of Cambridge Courting his Mistris out of Stevens his The saurus Thus far that Noble Knight of that Noble Sex But we can produce both Modern and Antient Autority to confute Dr. Brown Burton that Melancholic Wit after some Discourse of Women saith I am not willing to prosecute the Cause against them therefore take heed you mistake me not Matronam nullam ego tango I Honour the Sex with all Good Men as I ought to do and rather than Displease them I will take this Oath Me nihil unquam mali Nobilissimo Sexui vel verbo vel facto machinaturum That I will never contrive any hurt against that Noble Sex either in World or Deed And another Author declares himself thus I am none of those Vulgar reasoning Despifers of that Sex which we cannot deny to be as habitable a Part of the Microcosm or little World as any for Abilities or Vertues tho not so Populous As for Autority of the Antients the Great Greek Historian tells you plainly that he thinks among all God's Ordinances scarce any one can be found that is more Commendable or Profitable than Wedlock nay there are other Antient Sages who declare that they think it so necessary to a good and convenient way of Living that the Life of Man without it seems to be maim'd The Divine Philosopher will have it that he that marrieth not before he is thirty five years of Age shall be forced or punished and the Money Consecrated to Juno's Temple who was Goddess of Marriage or applied to Public Use Mercurius Trismegistus which is as much as to say in plain English the thrice Greatest a very Antient Philosopher understanding the Vertues and Perfections of Women left this Recorded in his Writings to Posterity That those Men were to be shunned and extremely avoided that had no Wives because that from a Woman as from an abounding Fountain all Perfection and Goodness flows in a most plentiful manner Epictetus an Eminent Philosopher adviseth all Men of what Condition soever to enter into the Happy Lists of a Married Life nay whole Nations as well as single Persons have and do Honour their Wives at this day The Affectionate Sabines call'd their Wives Penates or Houshold-Gods for the incomparable Comfort they conceived in them and great Benefits deriv'd from them and that not without Cause for we read that Tres Filii ab Excubiis quinque ab omnibus Officiis liberabant Three Children among the Romans free'd the Father from painful Offices and Five from all Contributions both Graecians and Romans priviledged Wedded VVomen and tho the Romans had their Vestals yet after thirty years continuance the Cruelty of infore'd Chastity was no longer in force By the Julian Law Precedence is given to him that hath most Children and in Florence at this day he that hath five Children immediatly upon the Birth of the fifth is exempted from all Imposts and Subsidies and here in England likewise a married Man out of a tender Respect to his Posterity is not so soon prest into the Wars as a Batcheler Nay Spain at this present is more noble then the rest of the World by giving the Surname of the maternal Line very frequently to some of the Male Children The Civil Common and Divine Laws are all very favorable to VVomen The Imperial or Civil Law permits not a VVoman tho a criminal to go into the common Gaol The common Law by the courtesie of England if VVoman arrive at any degree of Estate they never lose it by marrying after more meanly but still take place according to the State of their first Husband Nay farther the Law tenders the speedy advancement of Women quia maturiora sunt vota Mulierum quam Virorum VVomen are sooner capable of Conception then Men of Generation which is the Reason the Law permits Women to marry at the Age of twelve and Men not till fourteen The harsh and Eremitical conceit of Arminius the Ruler of Carthage touching Marriage who being ask'd when shall a young Man marry replyed not yet VVhen an old Man Not at all proceeded rather from Disability then Truth or Reason and therefore not to be regarded for had it bin Arminius his fortune to have matched with Arminia he would doubtless have fallen into Admiration of so Sacred a Rite rather than into distast Such Persons therefore who have their Humor in their Ink-horn and rail against Marriage if ever they enter into the State of VVedlock deserve for their Pains a pair of large and spacious Horns that may extend from one end of our Metropolis to the other our mother City so called in honour of VVomen and so we leave them to the Admiration of all Mankind to be laughed at like Actaeon for their egregious Folly But is it not a strange Custom and worthy of Reproof to see Men take all kind of Liberty without allowing the least One might think by their Tyranny that Marriage was instituted only to make them Gaolers for Women There is much Ingratitude as well as Injustice to exact a Fidelity which one will not return when the obligations to it are equal Women have Wit and Conscience enuf to believe that revenge would cost them too dear if they lost their own Virtue to take satisfaction of their Husbands Vitiousness Octavia did not desist from loving Marc Antony singularly whilst he made his Amours to Cleopatra and left a greater Beauty at Rome to possess a less in Egypt They that have this Constancy deserve Admiration but those that have it not have some colour for their Weakness Example pleads for them for they imagin that it is not likely that a Chrystal should resist Blows that might break Diamonds or Marble Virginal Chastity DEmocion the Athenianess being a Virgin and understanding that Leosthenes to