witness that he looked o're the hedge In Goal when he is laid we make no doubt But as he stole in so he would steal out These Dames for nothing else but being Wives Are made the closest prisoners for lives Never but in the Husbands death to see Or their own death a Goal-delivery Barbarian Xâ—â—ifs-concubines escape 'T is said if they but see a man a rape Before their count begins they must cry out For what to bring their honesty in doubt Rather than shield it He who them espyes By chance is not beholding to his eyes Whose case Actaeon-like presents strange kind Of misery which is not to be blind Proud Masters think their rule entrenched on If the good Wives their reasons dare to own When they make question whether musty Must Of canker'd spirits should be born as Just Or with due reverence beseech and pray They may not be expos'd as fâ—ols in play This boldness makes the sottish soul invent A plot and wish an Act of Parliament That each man in his house may rule and be Invested with a full authority To domineer command controul make Laws Void of all reason but a proud because Scripture without a Word of God they bring To justifie their tyranny The King Aâ—aâ—â—erus cited is the Queen Vasthi arraign'd as grosly overseen That would not shew her self make Majesty She did partake of with the King to be As picture shew'd to subjects and moreover In this command they think the King was sober That a decree so necessary was Fit to be made a Monument in brass I leave them with Memucan to prevent Imperiousness the woman never meant And to sue out the formallest decree Against what never was will never be The thing call'd Matrimony thus beguiles And makes a John a Nokes a John a Stiles To swell with mighty titles for his Cur-ship To his proud hasty humours pleads for worship With prayers tears she our John may not assault When dub'd Sr. Walter Walter Knight of Malt. Sarah call'd Abraham Lord his Wife must do So to his honour he 'l be Baron too If she thinks all her livelihood too much is To be exposed to his greedy clutches Since he reels all away that she can spin Spends faster than hard labour can bring in Her chests and coffers boxes straight he breaks Open to shew his Licence to play Rex If Cajâ—tanes vote carry he may hope To be elected as Donestick Pope That sith the womans head is man doth call His power by title that is Mystical Hard to be understood what doth infer As Mystick something that he 's Mystick Sir The toyling Wife may give her self the case And judge it fit that Peter keep the keyes In his power o're her children servants see Mark of the Beast a Tripleâ— Soveraignty And be forbidden ever for to own That she believes the story of Pope Joan. If he do tyrannize and reason fail For what he doth he puts on Coat of Male Pleads he 's an husband so right or behoof Or promise shall not pierce him this is Proof If Layship cannot well absolve the man Nor give indulgence Mystick Headship can This speckled creature without charge of pelf May do wrong give a pardon to himself We need no antient Histories to tell us That meaner sort of Dames may grow good fellows Follow the trade of Gossippings they can Toss jovially their pots like any man If the poor Gaffer have weak jacks their wills May not be serv'd without their lustier Gills Whose spirits make them keep most woful rackets It may be fall hard on their husbands jackets If so Viraginous that must allow What such Wives say or do cannot tell how To help it scarce may think that expence sad Which beggars families and makes them mad For me Xantippe ne're shall be too old To bear the stigma of an odious scold As punishment just let her alwayes be Under the tongue-strappado Railery Yet this may sober Civil women vex That faults not general upon the sex Are cast What made Philosopher to load us With silly pâ—ssinus habendi Modus Was there no matter for the wise to write Upon but womens eager appetite To men by slender matter first begot To serve they say themselves they know not what The most for which this poor conceipt can bid Is little something called Nescio quid What means unkind Dilemma that sayes women If beautiful must therefore needs be common Such base Dilemma's alwayes in dispute Deserve to bear the Odium of Cornute Leave off your tyranny you pievish elves Whilst you do harm your Wives you wrong your selves Making their grieving hearts through eyes express What tongues would not the great unhappiness Not to be suffer'd that they are brought to Endeavouring most vainly to please you What can you swagger storm at and confine Them wrongfully and call it Masculine Thus to insult It is but foolish mind Seeks to advance the Sex debase the kind Is 't mercy to thy family to make Subsistence of Wife Children lye at stake And run a sad adventure when they All Must be exposed by a doubtful fall And but uncertain cast at Dice wherein She suffers much although thou chance to win But if some unexpected hap do cross Thy greedy aims she must sit down with loss When all is cast away may she not gain The liberty of losers to complain Canst thou think to run through all in thy sport And not endure thou shouldst be blamed for 't Or make it run through thee by drunken fit And yet not suffer her to grieve for it Women-Worthies EXamples croud upon us lest the flaws Of some irregulars should wrong their cause The innocence of others blemish and the blame Of envy should be charg'd I 'le further name Out of those many thought to equal best Of men some few that did outshine the rest Since the great Amazonian Ladies seats Are mention'd by good Authors and their feats Of War successes progress and the Dates Of these related with Confederates Their government declensions and last Queen But to suppose they have not been is spleen In them in questioning that make us know They are ashamed much that it should be so The greatness of the things they did atchieve Puts the world so much to it to believe Others do talk at a prodigious rate And that which noble was call desperate As though their valour in first gallant fight Were to be thought a better sort of flight Were we dispos'd this reason to allow As likely possibly who could tell how To vindicate great Warriors for men When desperate fight their way back agen In dangers vilest Recreants are made stout Only to make way to creep poorly out But they consult not safety to make peace Which soon might have been done since cause did cease For their exile and sufferings but go on Leaving their names to fame Thermodoon Revenge was not the main cause for that lamp When flash is over soon is quench'd by damp
almost into ayr Turned by Sun-beams of her face he 'l swear He plainly sees the tippling Graces sip Nectar distilling from her ruby-lip Though dazzled Angels yet that he espyes Sporting within those Crystal Spheres her eyes There 's no such Musick in the heavenly Spheres As in her voyce which alwayes charms his ears She 's in each sound he hears no ring of bells But what of her some pretty story tells The little chirping sâ—ngsters in his thought Speak her so plain as if they had been taught To sing their Sappâ—â—iâ—ks and her praise in Rhyme His head well stuft with fumes doth learn to chyme All this is nought he is below his Theme Unless he be right Artist to blaspheme What is his heaven here on earth her love And there 's no heaven that he seeks above Were not his admiration without True object you would think him Saint devout He cringes and with superstitious fear Standeth as her Divinity draws near Good cause if you believe his precious stories Of the strange brightness and celestial glories He sees incircling her these witness'd by Those that are sick of his love lunacy The man thus Planet-stricken gives full rein Unto his fancy th' utmost he can feign Of Complements bestows runs on the score Until his Worship can take up no more If she contract her countenance and frown Upon him that is death he 's tumbled down From all his hopes and happiness which now He did enjoy in smoothness of her brow How wretched is the man since faln from grace And excommunicated from her face He hates the light his life you cannot give Greater affront than wishing him to live What can you love him and be so unkind To wish him bear such torments in his mind As while he lives he must Then snatches sword Kisses it as dear friend that will afford Deliverance but stay before good night Pray give him leave to take up Pen and write Some doleful Verses of his faithful love In his brave death for Phillis which may move Her to relent and to vouchsafe a tear Or shew her more unkind than Marbles are He orders Ceremonies to attend And lively to set out a Lovers end In his last Will and Testament forgets His soul to God to bequeath And what lets She was his only Deity alone To her he payed his Devotion What hence will follow reason must not tell His madness doth suppose a milder hell Than her displeasure this this makes him snatch His sword again resolved to dispatch Himself but that he wisely thinks withal He shall not have a Christian burial As felo de se and he scorns to be Guilty of any act of Felony Is he content to live fye on 't he 'l go Unto some forreign broyls and force his fo To do what friends would not though beg'd and ten To one time wars do make him wise again But if quite desperate he seeks relief And with his Rapier makes a vent for grief What hazard runs he leaving friends this sad Ground for their charity that he was mad Phrenetick passions of such men may serve Those that do not know what it 's to deserve Sober affections would not well resent Any thing that were truly excellent Let the inamoured â—ress painted Jayes Address them to the Idol of their praise Here the design is honest to give due Honour to Ladies that be such as you Are and would be not living just by sense Of some folk good esteem but Conscience Not pleasing humour of that sort who have Great fear lest that they should be thought too grave Discretion you make not to withstand Civility but give it more command Obligingly that it may entertain The civile person and â—ongue-tye the vain Such was deportment of the English Dame Of old which gave a lustre to her name Over the world but with disdainful brow Is look'd upon as out of fashion now Amongst vain Gallants strait lac'd modesty Is ill bâ—ed rustick too precise too shye Amongst parts of Philosophy we range Ethicks and with the rest they bear a change As some young Empiriâ—ks their skill must try Body to puâ—ge of Physiologie Which they say Physick wants and principles Her bodies head are head of her disease Though purged soundly her they think not sound Enough until with her the world turn round It may be visit Mistris Dialectick Feel her pulse find her in a fearful Hectick Her Terms are naught her Syllogisms all Obstruct her they must out both great and small Sorites fears he shall be laid in chains And Violentâ—m looks for horrid pains Exemplum to be made example scorns Cause poor Dilemma to pull in her horns Celarent wishes she were safely hid Festino runs in danger to be chid And Barbara the best of all abus'd Fears to Bocardo she shall be reduc'd But Fâ—rio will not be baffled so If he must out he 'l leave a parting blow Thus Physicking of her they 'r find no season To end until they leave her void of reason So have some wantons quite rejected old Moral Philosophy as dry and cold Question'd all principles and practice too Of antientâ— virtue and set up a new Model of modesty which you presents With much more strange than safe experiments They say a place that 's fortified doth sâ—eak The outward strength but City to be weak That City's strong that hath not its defence From walls but valour of the Citizens Strength of their virtues only way to try Is to expose it to the enemy If you 'l believe their honour by the tryal Is brighter for they â—empt to mâ—ke denyal Their husbands living they contract and call It innocence may pass the Ordeal Run through hat coulters blindfold safe and sound And yet not fear the danger of a wound These can mistake their husbands beds and be Not to be charged with disloyalty Such resolution that can make defence At disadvantage is the quintessence Of virtue if you can you may believe Like Tutia's on tryal in a â—ieve That they can water carry lead and bring A ship bâ—sanded by their apâ—on-string As Claudia have heaven standing by And witnessing unto their chastity They must give leave to foâ—k to be more wise To judge by charity of sober size And then their virtue in Heroick sense Elixar is of highest impudence Your virtue Madam taketh it all one To forfeit and to give occasion To folly and for med'cine doth not lye At the Bethesda of worlds charity A most heroick and approv'd repute Neither makes way for baseness or dispute The Libertine before that knew no Law To curb him must confess your power to awe Into Civility feign'd what he hates Charm'd by your presence yet he personates Asham'd you are not piety to own Amongst so many when a scorn it 's grown And for Religion publickly appear To practise which in private some do fear May I presume here to present to view Beauties such as Apelles never drew May I adventure to defend
stalks As antick straight stands silent now then talks Unto himself in a low voice see how He doth his honour in a Civil bow Since he hath mist it in some point he 'l try Do it with much more curiosity To please himself and â—â—ncy then accosts The shrub where he can find no painted post And to it speaks words in an humble mutter More sweet than honey and more soft than butter What is it thus transports dejects him too It s fancy Madam which is type of you He cons how Civilly he may address Into your presence and with life express The passions of a lover what will be Your answer How to make a safe reply And those odd postures which you so admire Are but the strange fruit of that frantick fire You kind'ed in him for you speak no word But what he treasures up and doth afford Matter of thousand thoughts with what a Grace You did oblige What Majesty took plac In your commands how with your looks you read Lectures at once to make him hope and dread How sweet was such a smile corrected by Too harsh a Mistris your severity How killing were your frowns and thus in pain He 's toss'd with thoughts of favour and disdain He clasps the air contain'd you not to look On your track serveth him unless he snook On saucy servant when you do bestow Flap on the lips for talk to make her know Her distance wonders that she takes it ill To be so dealt with if she had his skill She would deserve more he doth understand It no unpleasant kissing of your hand Would you not Madam bring him to despair Then you must be more kind or else less fair Let pity move wherelove will not t' impart A smile or sorrow soon will break his heart And can you think your triumph glorious If you destroy a Vassal-lover thus How cruel and hard-hearted need must you Appear to all the world if it be true That you wou'd not be at small cost and pains Of one good word to keep him out of chains And Bedlam for some hink could he obtain No doubt he would be his own man again You may command his reason for he 's bent Not to be cur'd unless you do consent Your harmony will set him right they say Thus of the man stung by Tarantula That would to death dance were he not cur'd by The vertue of harmonious melody If you resolve to be wise and to laugh At all his follies are not catch'd with chaff Of vain pretences if you think it true When cur'd he will revenge himself on you For all his folly past and will not pause Upon his bondage base but hate the cause Yet let me beg one kindness to advise The Gentleman to let you be more wise If he will not himself then think it fit To entertain that love which spoils his wit And to condemn the incivility That wishes you may be as mad as he The horrid Courtships that did pass between Nero and Sporus his he-concubine The Tâ—umpetter and Gracchus as they break Natures chaste tye so they forbid to speak Their shame for nothing can be worse than thus Unless the wedding of an Incubus He truly doth deserve the term of wise Whom no perfections outward do surprize To make him forfeit since they may adorn A shameless Messaline and be a scorn To time like flower fading which doth last Small time and at its prime is almost past Its glory yet when wither'd quite and gone Gives hope of budding resurrection But Beauty is a superficial thing That when by age decayed knows no spring What folly many men so far bewitches To make them fondly Court an heap of riches And vainly wish that they were bless'd with such A faculty as Midas in his touch And then be sure they soon would change the mold Of their dear Dames and turn them into Gold That those whom they look'd not upon to prize But with disgust might be lust of their eyes How do they Court you Ladies Is your faith So easie to what this or that man saith Can you believe what their pretences vain Make shew of when they truly do but feign Love to your persons fair and virtues Money O that that is their Dear and that 's the honey That may be help meet for them if they speed That 's double help which is an help at need And their estates in deep consumption call For present help and the best cordial Aurum Potabile is all agree For weak estates not past recovery Your Lands their Chymistry can soon dissolve Into some ready Cash or else involve In deep incumbrances with your consent Nor will their servile kindness quite be spent Till all is gone and then however large Your portions were you will be thought a charge He that with vile submission did approach As humble Orator erewhile did crouch And bend like any Willow will revoke His kindness and be stiff as any Oak To your requests when he hath in his hands Your thousand pounds of portion or your Lands Now you are costly now the man begins To grudge you money but to buy you pins And if more kind yet what he doth must be Reputed as an act of Charity So by your soft belief you 'l soon be grown At his command and beggars of your own With silly easiness thus you contrive To give the loaf and after beg the shive Yet him if covetous you shall not stir Although you come with I beseech you Sir It may be what less tolerable is He can the charge bear of a costly Miss Nor is it rare to find these two agree One paltry hard and prodigally free There are accomplishments of higher kind Such as do give a lustre to the mind Are not less pretious though they latent are Contribute much to make the person rare A quiet frame of temper and a meek Demeanour which occasions still doth seek To please and keep all calm and modesty Not too adventurous nor weakly shye More than meer bashfulness that blossoms cast If once saluted by unwholsome blast An holy temperance which taketh place Of Nature in its strength and is a Grace A prudent soul to comfort counsel prove Reproof may be an argument of love Where through a waspish and weak rage are bred No words so hard to break her husbands head But soft as oyle and if the oyle be warm It may do much good but if scalding harm And her discretion understands the art To dress the wound and yet prevent the smart Romes triple-headed Cerberus so fell Against a marry'd liâ—e doth loudly yell With resolution never to dispense With state so well befitting innocence In any of his Clergy yet these Masters Or Fathers rather are but Demicasters Of Chastity but read you some Popes lives You 'l find it safer to keep Whores than Wives This chaste Divinity long since foretold The Devils Doctrine is not grown so old But it can yield a Nephew
got no priviledge to write Books stuft with slander base contempt and spite Which purged of their choler might be meet As skeletons bare for a winding-sheet Although their words are spightful keen men can Yet get them reckon'd as Patritian Sobriety so well have some men sped To have their malice meekness Christened Brag'd of tame tempers such tame creatures be Safely presented through a grate to see On sweetness of their temper true Comment Is Pius Clement Urbane Innocent The privacy of womens narrow sphere Domestick makes their virtue less appear Waâ—ing occasion their parts buryed lye In the dark vault of base obscurity That have not only unconquered charms Of winning beauty but affrighting arms It therefore is unhappiness of state So much embases word effeminate And keeps their spirits under Had they wayes And opportunities to get them praise Were they inur'd to hardships they 'd outvye Those that do hold estates in Chivalry Or have done brave Knights-service and afford More gallantry than those that were ador'd Though mention of their due praise envy call A Tattle more than Hyper-prodigal And the surmise of feats that might be done In arms by them an idle Fiction For what they have atchieved nobly fame Will ever stand indebted to their Name And if they do not sue the jangling Lass It is because amongst them she doth pass Not worthy of regards too base to be Sought unto by their true Nobility Yet famous men have Courted much her honour Of fawning titles cast whole leads upon her Were humble suitors they might be among Those who had interest in her idle tongue Promising they would be her Champions bold To do great feats but only to be told When slattering fame commended did not cry Out with this womanish Loquacity Let her be packt out of the way and go Seek place in Psittacorum Râ—gio Amongst the Vegetables nobler trees Fruitless have been we read without their shee s So on the Erythrean barks for waâ—t Of other dwellers noble Palms do plant And grow in couples shewing that th' entail Of Honour runs not to the issue male In special he would have a barren root But that the gen'rous female bears the fruit It 's reasonable women have as well The praâ—se as they have power to excell They that deny them honour must profess And likewise seem to prove their worth is less Would they attempt it they 'd desire no more To make them see their Heresie before And shew them that a Volume should be spent And not a single Sheet when they repent Are faults and blemishes in them so thin Scatter'd that works of God must be clapt in To make crimes more that his works are so large To them is full enough to ground a charge Against them whereas had he but less spent On them they had been judged innocent Since their great beauties to some become snares Fault Tarbox straight must be concluded theirs If this be Logick let us borrow tools From Crafts-men of the Chair to make us fools Condemn the light because some over-wise By staring at it chance to hurt their eyes We 'l strain our fancies and conceipts to think Aqua Coelestis which the Stars do drink Too lib'rally makes them to blink and keep Their heavy eyes scarce ope for want of sleep Darkâ—n the lustre of those radiant lights That we may favour weakness of our sights If in the womens feature crime be known The fault of right should not be call'd their own This noble fabricks beauty must reflect Upon the goodness of the Architect That made the work so rare as to entice To folly curious spectators eyes Good form by wise men hath been made to go For that which is Dignum Imperio Teaching in outward features how to find A correspondent beauty in the mind Let them smart under censâ—res that delight To walk in habits like Hermaphrodite That by their manlike looks garbs fashions rare Make it a question of what Sex they are Debasing thus Virago's nobler sence And making it to hide their impudence May they be hateful to all modest sights That turn into almost half Adamites Whose visage must not Natures power express But their pride and affected wickedness Despising nature of their sex they call A meal-mouth'd-modesty base rustical Talk what the ears of wantonest might load To make their wanton tongues too Alamode May those slye cheats that modesty do own For nought but base immodest ends be known Who baiting with a pretty sober look Make the young fool to swallow down the hook In men and women when the fault is same How cometh it to pass they share not blame By equal moieties In men a Beam Is call'd a Mote a Mote a Beam in them Upon what ground taketh the saying place This fault is bad in man in woman base Shall we thus aggravate they 've wisdom more But very few will charge them on that score Precedence by none will be granted in Knowledge although it were to lessen sin Is it their inclination less to vice At first unto the scandal that gave rise They that to wickedness are less inclin'd Must be acknowledg'd to have purer mind Which makes spots more conspicuous oftentimes Better the persons are the fouller crimes Appear in them Deformities are not Observ'd in darker bodies when each spot Shews it self in the brighter thus we soon Espye the spots that do obscure the Moon So Authors Venus mole do Memorize So least pearl blemisheth the brightest eyes If this will not be granted all must say That men in somethings and in others they Plead excellence Let guilt as equal then Be charg'd upon the women as the men Yet women knowing freedom doth not lye In what is but licentious liberty Are well content with honour of their state That doth their crimes so highly aggravate Hath Brittain suffer'd any prejudice By being called Womens Paradise Giving them thirds the highest seats and wall So Civilly with so great share of all Their husbands lands This they return agen Their free-born children make the bravest men They cannot have their souls scarce half so brave Where Father is a Tyrant Mother Slave In vain Italian women are kept fast By Husbands Jaylorship to make them chaste How many vex'd and tempted by the thought Of Jealous-pated-men have been made naught Thinking disloyalty would nothing cost More than what had been quite already lost In his esteem setting more vainly by A good repute than real honesty Security for virtue if undone By wrongful and but bare suspicion Is small if what the Husband doth invent Is cause enough for Wives imprisonment On as good ground the poor might be bereft Of all their liberty for fear of theft Here by Lucretian chastity might fall Under the black rod of foul Criminal That cannot testimony give confin'd Before the fact to honesty of mind The felons prison shackles bolts impart What is according to the mens desert It 's not enough against him to alledge By
Of fear Their courage in the proof was clear If not from wild-fire-rashness yet from fear Not a few ages puts this out of doubt Wherein their valour through defeats held out Many Commanders courage did commence Famous at the Acts of Experience That need not be ashamed to confess They owed almost all unto success Or yield they have deriv'd their famous spirit From Ancestors success which they inherit Successes caus'd not valour but from hence Their native courage sprang experience Their Mothers victories got in late fight They could not look upon as their own right Or sith their husbands prospered in Deed Of arms think therefore they must need succeed Had success only rais'd their spirits then Some few defeats had beaten down agen They that are bred under the tyranny Of long and hard oppression will be shye To own their Native-freedom have no thought Higher than to do what they have been taught In time are brought to this degenerate sense To think their reason piece of Impudence They have Heroick Spirits truly great Whose mettle loseth little by defeat If over-powr'd by force yet can maintain Their minds so high that Victors scarce shall gain Thus may we find the valiant Amazon Conquer'd and conquering to seem all one Not that subjection since first sin began Adjudg'd a curse of woman unto man Not weakness of her sex made weaker by Her liberty to rule but Infantry Not banishment from friends and native sâ—oil Not murder of her husband not her spoil Not inexperience in war that can Daunt courage of the Amazonian These in their first engagement bravely know The way to fight and how to overthrow Turning the Distaff into Lance the Wheel They cast away get Gorgets made of steel Having their minds most stout as bows were bent To make a strange unheard Experiment Whether their nature or condition brought Them to subjection and so dreadful thought Of wars when they assault the enemy Think it securest way for life to fly Not in a Complement but forc'd give place As if the Asian bounds were but a Chase Where they do follow pleasant warlike sport And each one carries in her heart a fort All other forts they leave and Champion By them is fittest to be trod upon By providence they seem to have a Charter To rule o're men The strongest spirit of Tartar Was weak to theirs Now we read of a Quarum To put in Maps Insulam foeminarum Is no great courtesie It seems they meant To prove the world but narrow Continent To their desires Maragnon banks do pay Honour to their Names in America And the supposed head of Nile will dare To challenge that they once were seated there Euxine looks black at that supposing thanks For them was chiefly due unto his banks Where ere they came they made Crowns use another Phrase and great Kingdom to obey their Mother Of Menalippe GReat Hercules for ever famous is For all his labours and not less for this With Menalippe that engag'd to fight Who could not be match'd but by such a Knight The Victory with hardship she let go At last and glad was he he go it so Not by pure valour then my Author lyes That gives the greatest part unto surprize If most renowned of the Greeks comes here As chapmen she will sell them conquest dear The Conquerors by Chariot that lead Their Vassal-Kings might be thus vanquished With honour too 't is credit more by some To get a foyle than elsewhere overcome Of Penthesile PEnthesile brought with a kind intent Of helping Priam her Maid-Regiment As some affirm and had she sooner come Despairing Greeks with shame had ridden home On Wooden Horse They now that dare to tax Troyes folly yet do dread the Battle-ax Which she invented heart was fully try'd Of great Achilles Son before she dy'd Such brave Virago's not by smoother words Of Complements were overcome but Swords The gallant Grecian yonkers that did Court Before they wan their love fought stoutly for 't Of Artemisia HAlicarnassus Queen her self did shew Fit to command the Archipelago While Persians stand at gaze the Grecians are Forc'd to make way for more than Men of War Which she conducted as though she would glory And make the Sea part of her Territory The Persian-Carpet-Knights with courage cold Run to secure themselves into the Hold Giving Achaians leave to understand Ships overcharg'd with such were poorly man'd The ink may blush and Scribes that are to write At her stout heart of Oak their wings for flight Xerxes spectator is asham'd to see The Queens top and top-gallant-gallantry More are the Greeks enrag'd that overcome And scarce can carry half the honour home Her most renown'd Mausoleum could not be For braveness half such wonder as was she What was for honour of her husband meant Of her great praise is made the Monument Of Zenobia WE 'l boast Zenobia in triumph led Yet by Aurelian not conquered Not having life nor begging pitteously To live not blushing nor asham'd to dye For when her army 's broken and command She more undaunted than the Victor stands Though outward splendour must be left behind She will reserve the greatness of her mind Of the Queen of Sheba ARabia the Happy boasts of her That by her wisdom made it happier And from Saboean-land did come upon Errand of proving wisest Solomon With questions hard she questionless gave much Assurance that she was another such The greatest Warriers were prov'd we see By women in the feats of Chivalry The wisest meer man in the Holy Writ Is said to be try'd by a womans wit With men in noblest exploits they 'l compare That in the wonders of the world had share Are they so equal We may therefore render Acts that are glorious in the Doubtful Gender Of Deborah WHen oppress'd Israel did sadly moan Under their losses which they might not own When government was needful to â—ppease Those who in restlesness take greatest ease When by what Laws command and Rulers say People take pattern how to disobey When Malefactors need make no defence For their outrages but more violence Then Deborah is rais'd for none so free From fear so wise so stout so good as she Here Widows Orphans strangers freely might Have their cause pleaded and receive their right Assoon as richest for she knew right well How to give Judgement but had none to sell No tedious demuâ—rers here no witty Cobweb-exceptions Courts of foolish pitty For Chancery no argument she draws From Topick of the person but the cause They that stood by her could not but invoke God when they heard the Oracles she spoke Nay bifront Jaâ—us could not put a face Upon 't if there to deny her the place Barak gives her right hand is glad to be Beholding for his branch to her Palm-tree She gave first blow in the attempt and lead The host and Jacl knock'd nail to the head Of Esther THe proud Amalekite fate daily at His Pur Pur
thou strivest to excell Transcendently becoming humble so What most advanceth thee still makes thee low Thy native vileness truly to confess And real greatness makes thee so much less In the esteem of self yet on this score Thy worth and modesty deserve the more Thy speeches pithy solid give a light Composed to instruct and to delight Serious and pleasant witty pertinent Grave pat and proper fit for each intent With pleasure hearer that may entertain And recompence with profitable gain Much unlike theirs who troubled with the lask Or loosness of the tongue relate and ask Not with desire to be inform'd or break Somewhat material to be known but speak What savours ill Let men pretend their fears How to such lavish tongues they lend their ears Pleasant their fancies too in laying ten To one they never have them back agen Or not without the wrong of foul abuse Thou payest precious ear-rings for the use Of some few short-liv'd Minutes what is heard From thee shall be their pleasure and reward Thy words as they imploy so do they whet Both exercise attention and beget They satisfie not cloy By what is said Hearer indebted it as well as paid Thy Counsels are resolving Medicines Swasions attractives reproofs Anodynes Where the discreet and tender management Make not the smallest part of Argument Whilst vain talk Melancholy doth increase Instead of helping adds to the disease Lifts up the spirits in transports withall By their depression gives the sadder fall Good Cordials skilfully compounded hit The cause and so alleviate the fit So thy well temper'd speeches are more sure Way to give ease and to effect the cure Thy prudent humble meekness best can tame Anger when fury would the more inflame When over-hasty Romans do oppose The stronger cunning Carthaginian grows And more successful but soon melts away By greater force of Fabian-delay Quitting is stratagem to win the field The way at once to overcome and yield Never the base regarding petty harms Shall cast disgrace upon thy Coat of Arms. Thy Victories are not dishonoured As where the Conquerour is vanquished They of true triumph want the greater half That conquer other Monarchs but not self You that will have your nature judged by Laughter at good some Ladies property Come see the ugly face of your offence In Mirror of unmoved Patience By wrong would you provoke her That doth move Her to provoke you so much more to love Or will you calumnâ—es cast Her defence Is not the like reproach but Innocence In vain contend you with her whose contest Is not to get the better to be best She knows they who by passion most have won Will so much sooner prove to be undone They run in debt that sltrive to give offence To others owe the greater recompence An undeserved taunt or wicked curse Can make her virtue not a jot the worse What malice casts upon whilst not within Is the reproach of others not her sin Were talk true Judge the good then only might Be good by favour and be bad by spight Whilst some do in their needless visits rome Till they be greatest strangers to their home Gadding as though they to the world were sent To be imploy'd in what 's Impertinent As if their birth did priviledge by right Them to cast off the care and oversight Of house-concerns thou keep'st thy wonted â—rack Through each task of thy painful Zodiack Like the bright Champion of the day that rowls His flaming eye toward the distant Poles Arctick Antarctick vieweth both the Tropicks The Seas Tartarian and Aethiopicks Thou art accomplished with quickest sense In wise forecast and careful Providence With memory fitly to recollect And care in all things makes thee circumspect Not suff'ring Medler in thy house to grow That 's open-headed nor unuseful slow For slothful servants should there be no blame When idle lazy thou wouldst force for shame By thy example them that wait on thee To be affected to good huswifry They in their orbs must take their light from thine So they are made to serve as well as shine By friends perswasions or thy fancy catch'd To some prodigious temper art thou match'd Or marry'd rather to draw out in care Thy vexed life with a familiar One that proves most unsuitable whose gall O'reflowing fills the house with hateful braul Thy Physick is not usual by keen Reproofs ill-savouring to mend his spleen Repress his choler sweetly to endure Thy Ethicks tell thee is the way to cure Where bombards cannot any breaches make A milder fiege is found the way to take Assoon the shackles of the Persian King Or idle Ceremony of a Ring Presented by Pope to his Zani may Bind Hellespout oblige rough Adria To calmness as sharp quips loud blust'ring can Correct the madness of the churâ—â—h man This piece of rigour Nabalisme rage If curable thou'â—t break by Saxifrage Of patience and discretion When dint Of reason cannot meekness breaks the flinâ— But if some passion break forth 't is thy strong Desire endeavour that it dye when young Thou wilt not be at fruitless pains to nurse That which as it grows elder groweth wâ—rse Is he with fury charcoal'd of desire That softest breath makes him spit sparks of fire Thy silence from his rage shall take supply Anger as fire if 't have no air will dye If glitt'ring pretences do'nt abuse The can dour of thy judgement but thou choose With love that is not blind associate That may yield double comfort to thy state Not Cynical nor worthless passions slâ—ve But with a sweet complaysance that is grave Whose gentle nature more designs to draw With most obliging carriage than to aâ—e With stern looks insolent commands then you Cannot but hit the Golden Rule of two In Matrimonial fellowship where one Heart joy concern care tongue make Uâ—ison No emulation who shall be above To govern rule command controul but love Strive who shall please most and contention Is strong on both sides that there may be none Thy snares are harmlesly to gain Each gin Discreetly by thee laid is but to win In joy success his sorrows losses too Thou challengest for Joynture half as due With his content thy cheerfulness will mingle Thy person is not nor are crosses single By Catechizing good instruction To help fault of the first Transgression And sad fruit thence arising to redress To most things steril but to barrenness Thou dost endeavour that those of the earth May be made happy by a second birth To holiness and thus thy pray'rs and toyl May be rewarded by a fruitful soyl With the sincere milk of the Word dost nurse To make them blessings and take off the curse Whereby they growing up afford the gain Of joy much greater than thy former pain So toyling husband-man beholding fate And curse upon the earth degenerate Grubs up the shrubs thorns bryars and then ploughs Harrows and sowes his seed with sweating brows And thus by manifold encrease obtains Against the