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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07676	A lytle and bryefe treatyse, called the defence of women and especially of Englyshe women, made agaynst the Schole howse of women.	More, Edward, 1537?-1620.	1560 (1560)	STC 18067; ESTC S110037	16,359	25

in a chaumbre hye And my husband lieth beneth in a chambre bye wherfore I can not well deuyse how in you may be brought No kynde of way but only thus which now I haue be thought 〈◊〉 wyll let doune a basket by a corde perdee By meanes whereof you sitting in shalbe drawen vp to mee● ●yrgyll trusting so his purpose to obtayne According as it was a greed at night he cam agayne Where he founde the basket by a lyne let downe in dede And quyckly leping in trusted well to spede When knowledge that she had aboue that Uyrgyll was therin She plucked hym halfe way vp that donne to make a pyn Of woode or some lyke thing she put her selfe in vre Wherunto she tyed the rope for flydyng made it sure So that Uyrgyll when no way escape knew how he myght Of force he was constrayned there to tarry all the nyght Untyll the next morninge that it was brode lyght daye Where when that he es●yed was al folkes at hym had playe Thus it is ryght euydent and manifestly she wede That women are ryght honest and men are very lewede As touching the apparayll now which women vse to weare Theyr verdyngalles and cassockes the perting of their heaee Wherwith that they waxe proude our Pote sayth sure At home lyke dyuelles they be abrode lyke aungelles pure These thinges lowfull to be and tolerable toe By reasons good and probable I shal it strayt wayes shoe A woman hauing nothing but at her husbandes hande That he thus maynteneth her it may now welbe skande Who is then in moost fau●t who ought to beare the blame Not she that weareth them but he that byeth the same Tollerable not withstanding that such apparayle is What harme lyed hydde therein I wolde fayne knowe but this First to a cassocke I am 〈◊〉 lesse cloth they do allowe Then to agonne or frocke wherfore consyder now More profyt is it farre lesse cost also perdye Honest therfore his it can none other be For Tully in his Offices she weth by wordes exprest That nothing can be profitable onles it be honest To the parting of theyr heare and showing of the same yf men do the lyke thyng why beare they then no blame In combing of theyr berdes in strokyng them full ofte In wassyng them with wassyng balies in lookyng all alofte In plaitting of them diuers wayes in byndyng thē in bandes Wherein their hole delyght alwayes consystes and standes No meruayle then though women lerning it of men Do combe and plat theyr heare dresse it nowe and then yet women be dispraysed where men are moost in faute Exāples such to gyue theyr wyues which they acōpt so naught yf a precher shulde vs teach drunkennes to shun And hedlong to that vyce he hym sel●e shuld run Who were in most fault who were most worthy blame He that herde the sermone or he that preced the same As touchīg now theyr verdingalles which do men much offēde I deferre them not tyll now as hard for to defende For as men in thother thinges haue bene in greatest cryme So can I not holde them excused at thys present tyme Who fyrst inuented vardingalles it must be called to mynde And by whom also they were made we must in lykewyse fynde Taylers as I gesse were the fyrst founders then What kynde of people be they women or els men The most of all our fashyous of garmentes whiche we vse Of what so euer sorte they be playne or els dyffuse Straungers them inuent of straungers them we lerne As by our Spanysh hose shoes a man may well dyscerne The french gownes the Duche which women vse to were And also theyre french hoodes theym broddyng of theyr heare From Fraunce Flaūders fet were by merchandes of our lande They tought their wiues to were y t sawe it may be vnderstāde For women trauaill not to see the countreyes farre For although they wolde theyr husbandes yet wold thē therof quite barre But if there be anoueltye chaūced in Almayne Fraunce Flaunders Italy Portyngale or Spayne Or any other regyons where men haue ledde theyre lyues At theyre cōmyng home they declare it to theyre wyues And some for lacke of newes some thinges they do deuyse Accompting it a shame there be some so precyse To know nothing al all and so long tyme to spende Wherfore to bringes home nouelties they alwayes do entend And tollerable itys the south to say in those That a yoyrney vnto Rome vnto themselfes haue chose For thei that come from th●nce as one doth specyfye May tell a lye or twayne by Romes authoritie what pride can the pore verdyngalles increase in women kynde The stuf that goeth to the same is easy for to fynde As ●ustian or buckram lystes and eke redde cloth A costly thing I promise you that men shuld be so wroth Suppose they be of veluet sylk or cloth of gold what wyttyman is he ther with fynd fault that wold Although for money often times there is debat strife And for the same many a man in time hath lost hys lyfe Yet money is not euyll nor ought to beare no blame The only fawt remainth in them that do mysuse the sa●nt So garmentes I affirme what so euerthat they be Are decent for all wemenkinde regarding theyre degre As sone may a man in a begger fynd As proude an ●art as in a lorde which groweth out of kind The prouerbe semeth contrary to iudge pryde in the lord For èuyl doth a lordes hart and a beggers purse accord where excessyue talke is layd to womens charge And that men cast it in theyr teeth theyr tōgues to run at large Graunt it so to be as it is not verely But that they be thus staundred alas what remedy yet were it but a small fault in authors syd we ●ynde True to be and credyble wordes to be but winde Theyr tonges I think offended haue on earth no lyuing man And if thei had forthat that men neyther will nor can With them once beare how farre they run a●●raye ye shal perceyue if that ye note sain●t Peter who doth saye ye men bere with your wyfes whiche weker vesselles be But yet the weke the burden bere as ye may herby see Many husbandes all the day sytting at the wyne At night comyng relyng home as dronken as are swyne Theyr wyses therof ashamed be and thē strayt way exhort At home to tarry and be merry to flee all such resort wherwith the men waxe angry theire wyfes be so bold And if they speake a lytle loud men say strait away they skold wherfore I meruaile much and so do moe then I That women beare so great a blame no cause to be why And fynally to conclude I haue the greater ruth That innocētes shuld slaūdred be but time shall trye the truth ¶ Finis ¶ The Author to his Booke GOE for thou lytle booke looke with a smilyng cheare To women shalt thou well come be therof thou nedest not feare yf it be thy chaunce our English Courte to see Then vnto our ladyes there I great them well by the Or if it be thy pleasure in London to remayne Be haue thy selfe so honestly that none do the disdayne Or whither best it lyketh the in the wyld cuntree To dwell or euery where a sui 〈…〉 to be To maidens wydowes wyues of euery degree Obedient be and be vnto them commaunded haue thou me Of any man do happen in contrey or in toune For prasing women kind on the to cast a froune Thus mayst thou aunswere well that all that thou hast sayd Are so true and manifest thei can not be denayed Some agayne perchaunce wyll fynd fault with thy style As rough rude and barbarous nedyng the smitthes fyle Tell them that neyther age nor wyt that is in me Can make a booke more eloquent then this which no wtheys● Good wyll was it enforced me to wryte this lytle booke Let the readers then therof on the meanyng looke With myndes indifferent let them the same well vewe Then shall they well pereyue see that I haue written trewe whych yf they shall deny● theyr errour wyll appeare For Leuy Uyrgyll Ouyd will witnes with me beare Of thother thinges which are in thys treatyse showen Some of them haue I harde the other haue I knowe● The resydue by reason debated haue I well As I do gesse at least wyse that learned be can tell yf any thing vndicent or rude be 〈◊〉 my rym● Let them impute the same to bryefnes of the tyme yf flattery alleged be layde vnto my charge That to please womenkynde I haue written so large In the disprayse of men which I ought not haue dun For that I am a man and into daunger run Perhaps I am yet let men note well this one thinge That they that I haue named haue bene of vicious lyuinge As Adam and Aeneas wyth the three Englysh men That in Scotland prysouers were let vs merke well then The actes of all these fyue for which I haue them blamed In Oxforde in Cambridge I thinke not one that named Myght be whych coulde by reason good defende Or they●● lewde pagentes played so much as ones cōmende For soner may a man by sophystry wellproue The mouse and the O●●phant very well to loue Betwene foxes and gese perpetuall amyte To wo●es and the lambes vnfaynede frendes to be Then theyre deceytes to womenkinde before by me exprest May by any learned man be proued to be honest I do not therfore repent my selfe that I haue on me take Thys lyght and easy enterprise for all good womens sake Although I know assuredly that diuers wyl euyl talke I am nothing 〈…〉 ayde ther with syth god on earth dyd walke And coulde not please nor satisfye all men no kynde of waye Shall I then looke to do that thing that god cold not do naye Wherfore though goodmen do it prayse euyll do discōmende It forceth not the truth to saye and thus I make an ende ¶ FINIS ¶ Imprinted at London in Paules Churche yearde at the Sygne of the Swane by Iohn h Kynge

Wherin our poet doth recyte they haue neuer theyre fyll How farre from all the truth how lyke it soundes a lye By reasons moe them one or two thus may all men it trye The hoter that the contrey is the proner to offende And to venery more lyke to condiscente The people are and as I haue ofte rede Where wyues are ryfest there a man may best be spede And on the other partye the colder that is The lesse desyre and appetyte they haue to do amysse And besydes all thys the fayrer that they be To more resorte of men there is them to beholde and see The more resort of men in daunger son●r runne What dayly drystes do men deuyse vntyll they haue thē wunne wyth Rome make I comparison if I may be so bolde And England do affirme to be then it farre passing colde Wherby I meane in dede that Romaynes are more bent Then Englysh women be to such thynges to consent Lesse wander they abrode wherby the byting ayre Can theyr bewty in no point dyminish and appayre Which of sundry wayes the next way is of all As I haue shewed a lytle before customers to call Where our Englysh women do spare themselfes no whyt But vp and doune the fyeldes to and fro do flyt The Ladyes to the Court do dayly take theyr traydes Besydes a trayne of seruyng men accumpannied wyth maydes That be the wether foule or be the wether fayre To wether being open theire bewty must appayre wherby a man may iudge that of the people twayne In Englysh women to be more chast farre then the Romaine This ●l●o I do note and thinke to be moost true That most of al by yelosy daunger doth ensue To men in min● opynion no people vse it more In lookyng st 〈…〉 vnto theyre wyues as I haue told before Wherby it fareth thus with them to be a prouerbe ryfe To iudge the romayne harl●t better then the wyfe which vse not so frequent in England wherby we Englyshmen do well auoyde that perlous yoperdye Now o● Romaynes haue I redde ▪ innumerable good As tyrff of all of Lucres that cam of noble blood when Tarq●yn the proude desyred her company Lyuy wyll the same affyrme and testifye Thys Tar●uyn whome I named dyd prese to do that dede which caused her and also hym not very well to spede Fyrst wyth fayre wordes began he Lucr●s to entrete And when they could not take affecte then he began th threte with his naked sword to take away her lyfe Alas good Brtitus where wert thou to succor then thy wyfe And fynally agaynst her wyll Tarquyn lay her by The cryme is deedly for a kyng to do such vylany which when by hym was dun away and he was gonne She sendeth for her husband and kindred eche one And bearyng in her hand with her a naked knyfe In presence of them all she ended there her lyfe But before she dyed as Lyuye doth reporte with a heuy hart god wot spake after such a sorte O my husband deare why do I lyue thys daye Syth that but not wyllyngly I haue the now betraye And most against my harte the godes do know right well That feare of death and nothing els was cause now that I fell Tarquin the proud hath rauyshed me thys nyght wherwith she wept full pyteously her teares distilling bright From her eyes and sodeinly dyd thrust into her harte The knyfe so ended she her lyfe in dedly woe and smarte Alas what hart so hard as is the merble stone yf he had sene thys dolefull syght wolde not haue made gre●te mone For her who lyeng ded as white as any lylly whose cruell death dyd playnly she wand for her testyfy That she was boyde from vice not giltie of that gylt And yet in satysfaction her hart blud there she spylt Lucres of Cu●hay●e also is come vnto my mynde which to Curylans shewed her selfe so kynde That beyng but a straynger borne and her deperted froe Dyed for very sorow the story telleth soe why loued she an other alas syth she was wedde Marryed she was against her wyll she had as leue ben dedde As hym to husband take but that she might not chuse For ather frendes cōmaundement she durst hym not refuse So that not only she but tother of her sorte Are to be lamented much as boyde of all cumforte For of these twayne they must do one w t god eyther nedes glose Orels if god they please theyr parentes strayt way lose 〈◊〉 appy be they I say then whose choyse to chuse is free For though they haue but lytle no dought they shal agree What saye ye nowe to Ouyds wyfe which banyshed to bee Desyred much leaue al thinges in Rome where she was free With her husbande to haue gonne to take such parte as he What fayth there is in womankynde a blynde man may wel see Sulanna also and Iudith with dyuers others moe Out of scriptures colde I bring but nede requyreth not soe For of forrayne examples these are ynough to dewe yet shall I one recite whiche also is moost trewe A kyng there was y t in y e warres had taken a greuous wounde Hys surgens had assured hym it wold neuer be sounde Onles that all the nenom that therin dyd lye hydde were sucked out by mans mouth the king sayd God forbydde The Quene y t hearing hold her pease vntyll that it was nyght When the kyng was sounder a slepe y t heare him blow she might Arose a● softly as she coulde and so by suchyng ofte Had gotte the ●enom clene forth that done with clothes softe She dressed hym ●●ll handsomly and wrapt it vp agayne And helede hym with medycens so that he felth no payne what dylygence wolde man requyre what seruyce of hys wyfe What pledge of loue wolde he els haue then to saue hys lyfe wyth hassarde of her owne whiche she ought moost defende Let men therfore remembre this theyr euyl tonges amende The doughter two of Ioth that lay theyre father by Dyd in a good intend the world to multyply And many thynges we reade permitted were by gode In the olde Testament and in the newe forbode For if the brother spared had the syster in those dayes The world could not haue ben in crest I think no kind of wayes To cōme now to our cūtrey womē why shuld men in thē dought And saye they be replete wyth vyce synce stranngers be without Although that I haue authors none but all that I endight Long synce in author olde I haue them redde full ryght Whych beyng but payngans horne I herein so much trust That I beleue assuredly they wryt nothyng but iust And I my selfe but lyttle more then xx yeares of age An Englysh man borne also by nature nothyng sage Onles I shuld declyne from all my progeny Whose myrth theyre mery worke wyll show and testyfye Syth my mother tongue I dyd well vnderstande I had no maner of delight in storyes of