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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75977	The glory of women: or, A treatise declaring the excellency and preheminence of women above men, which is proved both by scripture, law, reason, and authority, divine, and humane. Written first in Latine by Henricus Cornelius Agrippa Knight, and doctor both of law and physicke. And presented to Margaret Augusta, Queen of the Austrians and Burgundians. And now translated into English, for the vertuous and beautifull female sex of the Commonwealth of England By Edvv. Fleetvvood, Gent.; Declamatio de nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus. English	Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486?-1535.; Fleetwood, Edward.	1652 (1652)	Wing A788; Thomason E655_7; ESTC R205944	27,257	39

and dasht out the brains of Abimelech being the rod of divine vengeance upon him because he had done evill before the Lord against his owne Father his seventy brethren being slaine by him upon one stone So Hester the wife of King Ahasuerus not onely freed her People from a certaine death but also inriched them with great Honour When the Roman City was besiedged by the Volscians Cneus Martius Coriolanus being Captaine and the men were not able to defend it by their Armes Veturia a woman of noble birth and the Mother of Coriolanus saved it by the chiding of her Sonne Arthemisia defeated the Rhodians of their Army rising up against her brought the Isle into subjection and erected a Statue in the City of Rhodes for a Monument of her noble acts Who can sufficiently praise that most noble Maide although of mean discent who in the year of Christians One thousand four hundred twenty eight the Kingdom of France being possessed by the English taking Armes like an Amazon led the Army so stoutly and fought so happily that she did restore the lost Kingdom to the King of France the English being overcome by many Battells to whose perpetuall memory a Statue is erected at the Towne Genabum which is now called Orleans on the Bridge which is over the river Ligur I could reckon up besides these others innumerable most excellent women of the Greeks Latines Barbarians as well from old as moderne Histories But I will study brevity least the worke should swel too big For Plutarch Valerius Bocatius and many others have writ concerning them Hence it is that I have not spoken so many things of the praises of women as I have kept silent Because I am not so ambitious that I should presume that I am able to comprehend the infinite Excellencies and Vertues of women in so small a speech Who can be sufficient to enumerate the infinite praises of women on whom all our being and the whole conservation of man-kinde which otherwise in short time would perish and every Family and Common-wealth dependeth Which thing Romes Builder understood very well who whilst he wanted women doubted not to ravish the daughters of the Sabins and in defence of the Rape made War with their Fathers for hee knew that an Empire of men alone would be but of a short age At length the Capitoll being taken by the Sabins when they had fought most bloodily together in the middest of the Market-place at the running in of women between the two Armies the War ceased and at length a Peace and League was made and they entered into a perpetuall Friendship wherefore Romulus put the names of them upon the family of the Curii and by consent of the Romans it was set down in publick Records that women should neither grind nor play the Cook That women should be forbid to receive any thing from the Husband by gift and the Husband to receive any thing by gift from the Wife that they might know that all good things were common Hence arose the custom that in their marriages the wife should be brought in saying ubi tu ego denoting wher thou art Master I am Mistris where thou art Lord I am Lady Afterwards when the Bands of the Volscians pitched their Camp within five miles of the City when their Kings being expelled Coriolanus Martius was Captain they were turned back by women In honour of which exploit a famous Temple was dedicated to Womens Fortune Yea notable ensignes of great honour and dignity were given to them by Decree of the Senate So it comes about that they take the upper-hand in the way and men rise up and give them place Furthermore Purple garments with gold Lace Ornaments of Gems Earings Golden-Chains are allowed them for it was provided by the Lawes of following Emperours as often times as there were Statutes made which prohibited certaine Garments and Ornaments that womens Garments should not be comprehended under them they were also rewarded with successions of inheritances and possessions and it was permitted by the Lawes to celebrate with publick praises the Funeralls of Women as the Funeralls of famous Men in regard that when the present was to be sent to Delphian Apollo by the desire of Camillus and so much gold could not be had the women brought the Ornaments of their bodies of their own accord towards it Furthermore In that War with Cyrus carried on against Astyages the Army of the Persians being turned to flight it was by the reprehension of women made ashamed and brought againe into a good posture of defence and gave to their enemies a notable overthrow for which deed it was determined by the Lawes of Cyrus that the Kings of Persia as they enter the City should give to each woman some summes of gold which Macedo twice entering the City twice payed Moreover hee commanded the gift should be doubled to women with childe So women were presented with every kind of honour by the ancient Kings of the Persians and Romans from the cradles as I may say of the Roman City and Empire yea and not lesse honoured by the Emperours themselves Hence Justinianus the Emperor did think fit that the advice and counsel of his Wife should be taken in making Laws And elsewhere the Law saith because the Wife shineth in the honour of the Husband that he might take notice of her splendor as in how much the Husband is exalted so much is the Wife So the Wife of an Emperour is called an Emperesse and the Wife of a King a Queen and the Wife of a Prince a Princesse and illustrious howsoever she was borne And Vlpianus saith a Prince or Emperour is freed from and above Lawes but Augusta which is the Wife of an Emperour although she be not free from the Lawes by her selfe notwithstanding the Prince or Emperour brings the same Priviledges to her as he hath himselfe Hence it is that famous women are permitted to judge and to arbitrate and that they might be capable to investe into Fee-Farme Land and of being invested and to determine what right vassalls have And it appertaineth to the same thing that women may have particular Servants as the man hath and the woman is able to judge amongst strangers she is also of power to put a name upon a family so that Sons might be denominated from their Mother not from their Father they have also great Priviledges concerning Dowries here and there exprest in divers parts of the body of the Lawes where also provision was made that women of honest life and fame ought not to be imprisoned for civill debtes yea that Judge was punished with death which should put her in prison But if she were suspected of a fault she was thrust into a Monastery or was delivered to the custody of women to be secured because by the testimony of the Law the woman is in better condition then the man as also in the same kind of offence the man