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A10054	A treatise of the nobilitie and excellencye of vvoman kynde, translated out of Latine into englysshe by Dauid Clapam; Declamatio de nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus. English	Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486?-1535.; Clapham, David, d. 1551.; Margaret, of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands, 1480-1530.	1542 (1542)	STC 203; ESTC S104365	25,704	101

agayne of the Cabalisticall mysteries Abraam was blessed of god by the woman Sarah and takynge the letter H from the womans name and puttynge it to the mans called hym Abraham Also the blessynge of Iacob was gotten hym by a woman his mother There be many suche examples in holye Scripture but not to be shewed in this place ¶ Thus blessyng was gyuen for the woman and law for the man The lawe I say of anger and of curlynge For why the fruyte of the tree was forbydden to the mā but not to the woman which was not than created For god wolde her to be fre from the begynning Therfore the manne sinned in eatynge not the woman The man gaue vs deathe not the woman And all we synned in Adam not in Eua. And we toke orygynalle synne of oure father the man not of our mother the woman And therfore the olde law commanded all the malekynde to be circumcised but the females to remayne vncircumcised that is to witte he ordeyned the originall synne to be punyshed onely in that kind whiche had trespassed Furthermore god rebuked not the woman for that she had eatē but bicause she gaue occasion of yuelle vnto the man and that dyd she vnwarely intyced therto by the dyuell The man knew well he dyd amisse but the woman being deceyued erred ignorātly For she was fyrst tempted of the dyuell whom he knewe to be moste excellent of all creatures And as Bernarde saith The dyuell seing her wonderful beautie and perceyuynge her to be suche one as he had knowen before in the godly lyght whiche aboue all aungels shoulde reioyce with the speche of god conceyued enuye onely ageynst the woman for her excellencye Wherfore Christe borne into this worlde most humble and lowe to thende he woulde with his great humilite make satisfaction for the synne of pryde cōmitted by our forfather he toke vpon hym manhode as the more humble and lower kynde and not womankynde the more hygher noble Furthermore bycause we were condemned for the synne of the man and not of the woman god wolde that in what kynd the synne was committed in the same shulde be the purgation of synne and by the same kinde whiche ignorantly was deceyued we shuld also be reuengid Therfore it was said vnto the serpent that the woman or more truly the sede of the woman shoulde breake his head and not the man nor the seede of the man And perchaunce hereof it came that the order of priestehode is of the churche rather committed to the man thā to the woman bycause euerye prieste dothe represent Christe and Christe the fyrst man that is to wite the synner Adam To this purpose we vnderstande the Canon that begynneth Haec imago whiche sayth that a woman was not made to y e ymage of god but to the simylitude of Christe Yet for all that I say that he beynge verye god I speake of Christe wold not be the sonne of man but of a woman the whiche he so hyghly honored that of a womanne onely he toke fleshe and bloudde For onely for the woman Christ was called the sonne of man and not for the mā ¶ This is that great myracle at the whiche the prophete so moche meruayled that a woman comprehended manne whan a virgin conceyued mankynde and bare Christe in her body ¶ Also Christe risynge vp ageyn from deth to lyfe appered first vnto women not to mē And it is not vnknowen that after the death of Christe men fell from the faythe but it was neuer knowē that women slypte and fell from Christen fayth and religion Farther there was no persecution of the faythe at any tyme no heresye no errour in the faythe that arose and came by women but by menne Christe was boughte and solde accused condemned scourged hanged on the Crosse and at the last putte to cruell deathe onely by men Yea he was denyed of his owne Peter forsakē of his other disciples and only accompanied wayted vpon and folowed of women vnto the crosse and graue Also the very wyfe of Pylate an hethen woman went aboute and laboured more to saue Iesus than any mā yea any of these men that beleued in hym Furthermore almost the hole schoole of diuines afferme say that the churche dyd than remaine only with the woman that is to say with the virgin Marye And therfore woman kind is worthyly called relygyous deuoute and holy But yet if any man wolsay with Aristotle that among al beastes and lyuyng creatures the male kynd is more valiāt strong wise and noble Vnto him a more excellent man the great doctour the holy apostel saint Paule woll answere and say Those thynges that be folyishe before the worlde god hathe chosen that he myghte confounde wise menne and those thynges that be feble and weake in this worlde he hathe chosen to confounde the mighty the vile and dispised before the world god hath chosen yea those thynges which be nothing of no reputation that he myght destroy those thinges which be in price moch set by For who amonge men in all gyftes of nature and of grace was higher than Adam yet a woman brought him low Who was stronger than Sampson A woman ouercame his strength Who was more chast than Loth A woman inticed hym to inceste Who was more religious than Dauid A woman disturbed his holynes Who was more wyser than Salomon a woman deceyued hym Who was more paciēt than Iob. whom the dyuell stryped out of al his goodes kylled all his family and chyldren and filled al his body full of boyles and soores and yet for all that he coulde not prouoke hym from the olde symplicitie of his mynde but the woman intyced hym and in that she was more hygher and constaunt than the dyuell and so vexed hym that he cursed god And if it myght be leful to make any cōparison with Christe who is most myghtyfull and moste wyse for he is the eternall and euerlastynge wysedome and power of god dydde he not suffer hym selfe to be ouercome of that poore woman of Chanaan sayinge hym selfe It is not good to take the chyldernes breade and cast it to dogges She answered and sayde Trouthe lorde neuer the lesse the dogges eate of the crommes whiche fall frome their masters table Now whan Christ perceyued that he could not ouer come her with that reasonne he blessed her sayenge Be it vnto the as thou desyrest ¶ Who was more hotte and feruent in the faythe of Christe than Peter A woman made hym so greatte a Mynyster of Chrystis Churche to denye Christe Lette the Canonistes crake what they wylle that theyr Churche can not erre a woman pope moked her by a goodlye imposture and deceyre ¶ But nowe some men wyll say that those thynges redounde rather to the dysprayse than prayse of women Vnto whome women shall make this aunswere If it were

are softe and tender her backe playn and streyght her armes long and ful her handes white and softe with fingers longe and small stretched forth a length from the ioyntes and proprely set and knytte to gither her hyppes thyes and legges well brawned fleshy and full her fingers endes and toos are propre rounde lyke a lyttel circle and al the partes of her body well furnished with humour More ouer her pace and going is right comely her mouynge honest her port and chere very cōmendable and in the order of al the body in shap figure proportion and disposition aboue al other she is farre the fairest creature In al the hole heape of creatures there is noo thynge so wonderfull to see ne noo miracle so maruaylouse to beholde In so moche that there is no man excepte he be starke blynde but he maye see that god hym selfe coniested and heaped togyther in woman what so euer was beautiful in all the holle world which causeth euery creature to be astonyed and amased at her yea and many wayes they louen and worshyppe her in so moch that we se it chance ofte tymes that the bodiles spirites and diuels are ardently taken and rauyshed with the beautie of women out of al measure which opinion is not false but the truth by many experyences is notablye knowen And to passe ouer those thynges that the poetes haue left to vs in wrytynge of the loue of the goddes and of theyr louers coneubines as of Apollo Daphnes Neptunus Salmonea Hercules Hebe Iole Omphale and of the other goddis louers ye and many of Iupiters him self This gyfte of beaute so diuine so beloued of god and man holye wrytte in many places doth hyghly commende and prayse aboue al other gyftes and qualities For it is red in Genesis That the chyldren of god seinge the daughters of men that they were faire did chose and toke vnto theym wyues suche as they liked We rede also of Sara the wyfe of Abraham that she was fayre yea the fairest of al women on the erthe Soo whan the seruant of Abraham had sene Rebecca a maide of excellēt beautye he said secretly to hym selfe This is she whiche god hath prepared for Isaac the sonne of Abraham And Abigail the wyfe of the wicked churle Naball was prudente wyse and fayre wherby she saued the life and goodes of her husbād from the furye of kynge Dauid and the yuell man was saued by the fayre woman for Dauid sayd to her these wordes Go peasably into thy house loo I haue harde thy voyce and honoured thy face For seynge that all beautie is eyther spirituall vocal or corporal Abigail was all fayre in prudency of spirite in eloquēce of spech and beautie of body whiche caused Dauid after the dethe of Naball her husbande to take her to his wyfe And Bathsaba was a womanne of so excellent beautie that Dauid beinge rauished and taken with her loue after the deth of her husband exalted her aboue all other to be his wyfe queene Also Abisag a Sunamite by reason she was a mayden most faire was chosen out to lye with kyng Dauid waxinge very olde to restore his naturall hete Wherfore the aged kynges wyll was highly to aduance her in honour And also after the dethe of this mighty kynge she was enterteyned as a queene We rede of the excellent beautie of queene Vasti and also of Nester which was preferrid before the other bycause she was more goodlye and fayre of face We rede of Iudith whose fayrenesse god so moche encreased that all that behelde her were wonderfully amased And shortly to speke we rede that Susanna was very delycate goodly and beautiful We rede also that after Iobs dyuers temptations vexations and greuous troubles finyshed besydes all other thynges whiche his gret pacience deserued god gaue vnto hym three daughters fayrer than the three Charites yea there were found no where so fayre women More ouer we maye rede histories of holy vyrgins doubtles to our gret wonder howe far howe beautyfull they were aboue al other the childrē of men whose laude and prayse the catholyke churche dothe solempnely synge but specially the prayse of the immaculate and vndefiled princesse the mother of god the virgin Marie whose fayre beautie the sonne and moone wōder at from whose moste fayre visage so great clerenes of beautie with chastitie and holynes dyd shyne that although she moued the myndes and lykewyse the eies of all men yet for al that no mortall man at any tyme was allured or inticed by her beutie ones to thynke amysse ¶ Those thynges all thoughe some what at lengthe I haue rehersed vnto you and that almost the very selfe same wordes out of holy scripture where mention of beautie is so ofte made to the intent we shulde playnely perceyue that the beautie of women is not onely among men but also of god hyghly estemed and honoured ¶ In an other place of holy scripture we lyke wyse rede that god commanded all the men and men children to be slayne but the faire women to be saued In the booke of Deuteronomy it was permytted to the chyldren of Israell eche to chose hym a fayre womanne to wyfe of those that were taken prysoners ¶ And besydes this wounderfull beautie woman is endowed with a certaine dignitie and worthines of honestie whiche is not gyuen to man for the heare of her head hangeth downe soo lowe that yt wyll couer and hyde all the pryuy partes of her body Farther it is not nedefull for a woman to handle these partes of her body in the workes of Nature whiche man customably vseth to doo Finally Nature hathe soo wounderfullye wrought for the comelynes of woman that her priuie partes nr not so apparant as mans but set in a place more secretely And nature hath gyuen more shamfasines to woman than to man Wherfore it hath ofte chanced that a woman greuousely dyseased in her prime partes hath chosen rather to dye than to abyde the syght and hand lynge of the surgian to be cured and healed And this shamefaste honestie they obserue and kepe both in dyenge and after they be dead as it appereth by them that be drowned For as Plinie and experience witnessen a woman lyeth grouelyng whan she is deade by the fauour that nature bereth to her shamefaste honestie but a man swymmeth vpryghte on his backe Farther the most worthye parte of man wherby we chiefly differre from other brute beastes and doo represente the dyuine nature is the heade and in it chiefly the countinaūce Truely a mans heade is deformed with baldnes and contrary a womanne by the great pryuilege of nature is not bald Moreouer the countinaūce and face of man is by the bearde to hym hateful so oft defiled and hyd with filthy heares that scarse from brute beastes he may be discerned in woman contrary wise the face doth alway remayn pure and comely Wherfore it