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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27955	The batchelor's directory being a treatise of the excellence of marriage, of its necessity, and the means to live happy in it : together with an apology for the women against the calumnies of the men.		1694 (1694)	Wing B260; ESTC R16542	89,843	268

the nature of Man and conformable to all sort of right and equity If a man may promise to himself the protection of Heaven in any attempt surely he may in this To reply in order to those objections which are made against those propositions I have establish'd one must immediately distinguish them into these three heads to which in my esteem they easily be reduced First they object against the Conduct and ill Temper of Wives whereof they make a most severe censure Secondly they say of Marriage that it is of it self unworthy of Man and that nothing less agrees with the perfection of his Being And in the third place they speak of its Consequences and Obligations as of an insupportable burden I hope to make appear that in all these respects the cause of my Adversaries is most deplorable and that there is not only injustice but even madness in the desence of it It is then by the consideration of Women that men begin to be disgusted at Marriage What disobliging things do they not assert of them with what Calumnies and Aspersions do they tear their reputation and their vertue If one should believe them there would not be a Vice in Morality but ought to be imputed to them Nor a Misfortune in the world whereof they are not the occasion Inconstancy say they is one of the principal characters of a woman Virg. Aeneid 4. Varium et mutabile semper Foemina Nothing is more volatile She never stays long in the same Scituation It very often happens that what she loved yesterday she hates to day The least thing which intervenes in her mind makes ●er forget her promise and violate her Faith When you think your self to be ●ost in her favour you are most in dis●race Afrer having sigh'd many years ●or the conquest of her heart one single ●oment apprehends its loss How ma●y sad examples have we seen of this ●costant humour of the Sex How can ●ne confide in them after all this Se●eca asks wherein wisdom consists Quid ●st sapientia He answers Sem●er idem velle Ep. 20. atque idem nol● It is says he to continue ●rm in his resolutions Are women of ●is constitution Our Slanderers add that the woman is ●orn with a spirit of Contradiction ●hey make a cruel Commentary upon ●is text of a Poet. ●olunt ubi velis ubi nolis cupiunt ultró Terent. When you are willing they are ●y when you fall off then they pursue 〈◊〉 with strong desire The wife say they is only fit to make the husband miserable She is eternally repugnant to his opinions If a man proposes Peace it must be under the condition of surrendring his arms She always insists upon her own terms Which made an Authour say that of all things uneasy to subdue Woman is the chief Inter omnes alias res maxime inexpugnabilis est mulier Euripid ap Stob. And altho' she is not born to rule Mulieri non imperare concedi● Natura Pub. Max. yet man must submit to her He must dispossess himself of his Authority or else there i● no repose no Union no Concord bu● a perpetual trouble and an immorta● war What more miserable Fate can 〈◊〉 man have than to pass his life in so severe a Slavery These morose and whimsical men who can say nothing of women but what 's injurious still place i● the rank of their evil Qualities Malice Dissimulation a desire of Revenge and a difficulty of restraining their Tongues which makes them often tell what the● know and what they know not In a word say they there are no sorts of miseries and vexations but woman is capable of occasioning to man as likewise there are no crimes but she is able to commit Dux malorum foemina scelarum artifex Woman the Leader of Evils and the Inventor of wickedness Judge after all this if the wise man had not reason to prefer the Society of Lions and Dragons to that of an evil woman and if there is any thing more judicious than those words of Terence Verbum unum cave de nuptijs In Andr. But one word with you have a care of a conjugal Noose I ask pardon of the Ladies for having heap'd together so many outrages against them and all those invectives wherewith they are defamed It was not without extream violence to my self As much as I love to speak well of them so much pain is it to me to suffer them to be calumniated but let them not be concerned at my Liberty I hope i● will be advantagious to them The design I have to protect their persecuted innocence engaged me to it in an indispensable manner 'T was necessary to know whereof they were accused in order to justify them Behold then the principal heads of this great process which the disaffected of all Ages have entred against them Let us see whether they are well grounded therein or rather let us observe for who sees it not that they maintain therein the worst cause in the world and that there is not a single person of them but in the tribunal of an impartial justice ought to be condemn'd to make reparation of honour to a Sex whose vertue every one ought to venerate and not to assault its reputation A man may immediately justify the Women by way of recrimination If they deserve to have defects imputed to them are the Men exempt from them if they have evil Qualities are the men possessed of none but good ones it will but ill become me 't is true to abandon the party of my own Sex I know that in the order of nature it has considerable prerogatives over the other and that it is of a much more excellent kind Masculinum neutraliter dignius est foemi●ino says the Father of Philosophy But if a man is never so little just he must grant that all these priviledges singly refer themselves to the intellect and knowledge of the mind The Siences 't is true are above their reach They admit themselves in this respect be much inferiour to men And confess that they are born for other things Not but that this rare Genius who deserved to be called by a famous Author the Tenth Muse Opusc Annae Mariae Schurman P. 26. and who in our age has proved the glory of her sex has justified in a very convincing manner by a discourse expresly made that Fathers and Mothers are guilty of an extream injustice for allotting them the Spindle and the Needle when they are by nature as well fitted for Arts and Disciplines as Men if they were push'd on Be it as it will the essential perfection of a reasonable creature doth nor consist in humane Sciences Oftentimes they are more injurious than profitable Inflat Scientia says St. Paul Scientia mundi docet vanitatem Bern Cant. Sciantia carnis voluptatem says St. Bernard And it is perhaps for this reason that Tertullian alledges by way of Paradox Scire