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A01694	A vvomans vvoorth, defended against all the men in the world Proouing them to be more perfect, excellent, and absolute in all vertuous actions, then any man of what qualitie soeuer. Written by one that hath heard much, seene much, but knowes a great deale more.; Paradoxe apologique, où il est fidellement démonstré que la femme est beaucoup plus parfaite que l'homme en toute action de vertu. English	Pontaymeri, Alexandre de, d. 1618.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633, attributed name.; Gibson, Anthony.	1599 (1599)	STC 11831; ESTC S105731	43,550	162

liberties This foolish courage women doe despise And by their teares expresse themselues more wise Andromache the wife of Hector was endued with such goodnes as her seruantes were in her house as in a Temple yea shee tooke care and paines for managing her husbandes horses he himselfe neuer hauing so much courage as she had vertues I may referre thee for further proofe heereof to Homere where the Lackies of Paris tearmes her a Pithagorician for this cause It is strange to heare how some bawle against this text for they talke of Metempsichosis which we call transauimation the passage of soules from one body to another and then will not sticke withall to sweare that the Authour heereby meaneth some deceipt but heerein they resemble little chyldren who imagine belles to sound all that they sing Iulia Censorina hauing heard that sentence of death was pronounced against her husband disguised him so sodainely as the Iaylor imagined him to be her so she remained prisoner in his habite while he escaped with safety of life They threatned her with torments to reueale where he was but she replyed neuer make spare of mee for I haue done no more then a woman ought to doe There is no true historian that euer did set downe like example of a man I knowe very well that some will obiecte vnto mee howe Diuine Orpheus descended into hell there to demaund his fayre wife of Pluto but if hee did so it was more because hee coulde not liue without her then for any especiall goodnesse remaining in himselfe considering hee was a perpetuall enemy to women Likewise hee behaued himselfe so ill if Aeschilus say true As he encurd the high disgrace Of all the beauteous dames of Thrace And being thus dishonoured Lost first his harpe and then his head I would not aduise men to shed any teares for him because happily they haue too few for themselues The generall historie of nations tells vs that an infinite number of good women vowed themselues to their husbands graues as not desiring any longer life after them Wise Salomon hath figured forth a good woman to vs and though she come short of many especiall qualities due to such perfection yet hath hee described in her more excellent matters then can bee in a man whom he esteemeth not capable of any praise For saith he A good woman is an inestimable treasure In this Song of Songs he sings nothing els then of the vertuous woman Plato held that shee is no lesse to bee desired in a familye then a iust Magistrate in a common wealth this made them paynt Venus standing on a Tortuse to shew that a woman ought necessarilye to keepe at home Possidonius nameth a woman the eye of necessity meaning thereby that her fore-sight being as a Sun of grace a house is waste and desolate without her beames and men can neuer clearely see into their houshold affayres but onely by the warie eye of theyr wiues There is such superaboundaunce of goodnesse in women as wee may grieue to see them deceiued by the bolde mallice of men who make no reckoning at all of theyr treasons and treacheries for while they weep like Crocadiles they will sweare by Heauen and Earth that theyr affections are loyall their words faithfull their behaui●● 〈…〉 yet for all this in 〈…〉 they are 〈…〉 the Hiena 〈…〉 ●●en vipers more inconstant men the Polipe fish more 〈◊〉 men Tigers and lesse worthie loue then Hornets Aristophanes shall take my part although he was an Athenian to wit gadding minded and vncertaine lyke many other of his companions To seduce faire women kinde Pretending loyaltie of minde And yet not loue but for a while Or else for base desire of gaine A greefe that many may complaine When plaine apparance shewes the guyle It is a most vnwoorthy parte Farre different from the high desert That to women dooth belong Who being debounaire and milde Neuer thinke men to be so vilde As to requite them with such wrong If yee will haue some of this good stuffe out of mens storehouse looke then on detestable and vngratefull Theseus on Paris the lyer and periurde wretch on inconstant Hercules and disloyall Iason who all most falselye deceiued their friends after they had triumphed by their meanes and credit I will not say on their honors for these men none woorse that euer were could not any way wound the happie and laudable reputation of these their faire fosterers and dearest friends which made them indeed more enemyes to themselues then they could be to the renowne of these Ladyes whose vertues may perhaps bee toucht with some slaunder but their innocent natures stand free from iniurie and their good cariage from all base suspition Yet let vs consider heerewithall that a woman can haue no greater enemy then a man who is like vnto a rauenous Lyon continuallye seeking to deuoure new spoyle Oh sexe abhominable thou art too much affected to thy selfe to knowe rightly indeede howe to vse women kinde especially in these dayes wherein as saith the Italian Poet. Th'abortiues of this cittie in a flame Do at their countries woes but make a game And an other A Coridon a Coridon gapes after gaine And nothing pleaseth him but womens paine Not many moneths since a Gascoigne Gentleman became amorous of a young and vertuous maiden and raisde vp such a scandale to mens reputation who spare not to fault in the lyke offence as enforceth mee to set downe the historie not so much to make them the more infamous as to make knowne the iust vengeance which this honest Virgin tooke on the ingratitude of her feygned and dissembling friend He after a million of pursuites fild full of seruices complaines teares and promises yet not able to compasse his vnlawfull desires forgot him selfe so farre as to publish abroade with no sillie protestations that hee was not meanely interested into the Maidens best fauours She hauing no other supporte for her innocencie then the true witnesse of her soule vnattainted and free from so vile an infamie raisde vp her spirits with such rightfull disdaine against the vniust rauisher of her reputation as she spared not to kill him in the middest of a verye honourable assembly where she waited long for the effecting of such a woorthy enterprise which vnder correction of better iudgement in my minde deserued rather pardon and recompence then any ill reproche scandale or punishment For Pacience importun'de dooth conuert to hate And who so quitteth not an offered blame Waites but a second blemish of his name Neuerthelesse in the Parlement at Burdeaux shee was condemned to loose her head men did so earnestlye pursue the cause But after their rigour became somewhat more moderate shee was confyned vnto perpetuall prison wherout I would very willinglie deliuer her if I could conuert my selfe into a shower of golde as sometime did the Sonne of Saturne If Loue deny to open me the gate By other meanes I will get in thereat Her

had some enstruction therein by Dyoris the wyfe of one Barquerot of Pyrea she shewed him the originall of the Isles engirting neere to the firme land where the borrowing waues seemed to enlarge their waye by some violent meanes He learned the causes of coniunction of the great Planets and their times of a woman Gardiner of Smirna by whome likewise hee came acquainted with the deepest secrets of the Meteores Archimedes was mocked by Tyanea the Syracusaine for hauing rudely said that all bodyes were superficiall which she shewed to bee false by the Atomies and coullers in the ayre Lachis of Athens daughter to Megesteus ordained lawes to the people of Attica which were so venerable and commodious as the Romaines receiued them naturally for their own limitting them vnto twelue tables wherein there was contayned more iustice and pietie then in all the volumes of Papinian I was too blaine in this serious purpose to forget Oratours such as were Demosthenes Aeschines Jsocrates and manye other amonge the Grecians Cicero Hortensius Marke Anthonie c. of the Romaines Most true is it that this my forgetfulnes had been infinitely aduantageable for men who likewise heerein are not exempt from theyr naturall imperfection beeing ouer much weake in eloquence to women Demosthenes of whome it is written that if the Goddes would speake Greeke in Orations they could no waye amend the sweete elocution of this Oratour yet was hee so confounded hearing Lais discourse of men and womens perticuler affections as hee cryed out that the Athenians did but stammer in theyr Schooles and women at Corinthe spake Oratours-like in theyr familiar conferences To confirme this Nature teacheth vs that women are or may be most eloquent considering the organes and instruments of theyr voyce is more mylde and gentle then those in men whose pronunciation is very rough sharpe and coorsely shapte by reason of the aboundance of choller which with their woords driues foorth so much vehemencie of spirit as they are well neere choakt therewith or breake their winde in vttering of their speeche yet wee must confesse that melancholly men are softer in words then the swarthie and sanguine such seuerall qualities remaine in men The nature of a woman being enclined to sadnesse discouers wisedom makes her prudent and apprehensiue whereas men are commonly rashe and vnrulye because diuers appetites transport them to many friuolous and fleeting considerations which mightie faulte you shall finde fewe women or none at all infected with In lyke manner your high and soueraigne Courtes are nothing else but filled with mens continuall tumults whence ensue iniurious offences to theyr betters and that in matters of so meane reckoning as womens modestie are ashamed thereof and theyr height of spirit holdes it in most deepe disdaine Oh most happye sexe if it were lawfull for me to speake as Plato did who thanked the Gods for making him a man and not a beast so could I haue wished that I had beene created a woman hauing attayned to such knowledge of feminine perfections which is in euery respect accomplished beyond all that can be tearmed perfect in humaine defects But returne wee to our Oratours leauing the Asse eares and all to them that perswade themselues to be more eloquent then women from whome the sweete Nightingale first learned her notes as Pyes Crowes and Rauens tooke theyrs from men into which shapes they haue likewise been transformed as the onely best forme the Greeke and Latine Poets could giue them You shall many times read that the Gods haue made complaint to Jupiter eyther of men or their bad conditions and could neuer gaine accomplishment of theyr desires so grosse and absurde were they in theyr Orations in regarde of the Goddesses who were neuer sent backe but fully satisfied euen in those things which humaine iustice made a conscience of graunting so much well-speaking women haue preuayled aboue the vnsauorie barking of rude men Which wise Pithagoras well perceiuing forbad his Schollers to speake to keepe vnseene the great defect in nature which is much more in men then women Cornelia the mother of Gracchus was so eloquent as the Romaines erected her an Altar and sacrificed to her in the Temple of Pitho which Pitho was the Goddesse of eloquence and surpassed both Gods and men in that vertue Mercurie thus complained as saith one of the Greekes Alas what helps it me to be Ambassadour to Ioue My father and each day to see the roundnesse from aboue Of earth and heauen all conuayd within my wings faire flight When as my Godhead it missayed and robbed of his right Sweete speaking Pytho calleth me abortiue basely borne Because my speech is harsh to hers and held as common scorne A Goddesse I confesse shee is yet may she not like me Sit at that boord of highest blisse where but twelue Gods may be All which the heauens doo controule and one of them am I Yet thus she singeth from her soule my endlesse obloquie I shall neuer haue doone with this endlesse piece of worke which by infinite pluralities doo offer themselues for iustifying of the feminine eloquence the vse whereof would God I might borrowe a while as nothing more appropriate to this theame for what else can make it so perfect as it deserues but onely the diuine eloquence of those celestiall creatures and therefore had neede to be addorned with the excellencie of their nature which of it selfe is so singuler as nothing can be more Oh might I be inspired but with the least of those perfections which as the bodies shaddowe wayteth duely vppon women an accident inseperable from the first substance of theyr heauen borne essence that standeth exempt from bad thinking much lesse blunt speaking then should this discourse appeare in more excellent manner witnesse that which the Greeke makes Calipso speak to Vlisses Twas not of me thou learndst such bitter breath Against stout Aiax who did seeke to scape Thy iniurie by prompt and present death Or to reuenge him on thy Cowards shape Nor to the Ithacanes vnapt to lead Learndst thou of thy too faint harted flight When as on heapes Sarpedon dung downe dead The Argines which their vessels had in sight My words with infamie did nere take truce Or my faire soule endure base feares abuse Nor hadst thou there that day beheld my land Which on all sides the Sea dooth counterband If Painting were not reckoned among mechanicall Artes I would approoue women to merit the very best trophee thereof But as Nature euermore delighteth to create those things which to her selfe are most pleasing and conformable and makes herselfe exercise in those matters that doo describe her cheefest perfections so may I say of women who should too much wrong themselues by taking pleasure in painting considering it is a matter impossible for them to make such a rare representation as their iust beauties doe require becomming much lesse by Painting then the diuine graces wherewith they are most richlye accompanyed builded onely vppon inimitable

Mirrhe and other sweete perfume And there is seene a shining fire In this rare place which soules desire She likewise rehearsed this sentence of Euripides That which by name we doe entitle life Is in effect but a continuall strife Indeed I well remember that men haue beene famous for some rare qualities as inuenting the sundrie idle playes at Dice and Cardes with other such like exercises beside Wherevpon Saint Bernard shaping his course to the young men of his time sayde You follow idlenesse to shun idlenesse you apply your selues to play euen vntill yee fall into Deaths daunger Iob in like manner cryed out against men that they consumed their dayes in vaine delights and so in the end were dispossessed of theyr liues Good old Sara hauing care of a holye conscience discoursed in this sorte with the Eternall I haue not frequented to these players neither had accesse to vaine persons Well then we may say that men are artezanes and continuall labourers in things altogether apperteining to follie as in superfluous tempering of meates or in delicacies the onely companion of inconstancie the goade to luxurie and birthe of death and from whence he receiueth his onlie conception Oh vile gourmandise the onelye pestilence to humane kinde by good reason oughtest thou to liue amongst men who naturally are enemyes to theyr owne selues Thou art he which troublest the braine impeachest reason prophanest chaste eares misorderest the behauiour of them thou possessest thou beggerest them that inherit thee thou layest ambuscadoes for chaste thoughts thou loadest the spirits with lasciuiousnes thou art hee that didst murder our first father and so brought an vniuersall death vppon all mankinde thou souldest Esaues birthright thou massacredst the people in the deferr in breefe thou art the only instrument wherwith are erected all circumuentions that worke violence to our soules and especially in the persons of men the ordinarie ministers of thy pernicious practises We read enough concerning intemperance of Heliogabalus of Caracalla Caligula Lucullus Phaon Xerxes Aristippus Myle of Crotona and of Philoxenus who intreated Jupiter to grant him the neck of a Crane to taste with more leysure the sweetnesse of his delicate viands likewise of Candaules of Lidia of Hermagoras of Alexander Darius Marke Anthonie with many other among the Pagans Wee read beside in holy Scripture of Holophernes the enemie to God a most dissolute man of Dauid in some sort of Ammon his sonne the Beniamites the olde accusers of Susanna the Gomorrhists and Sodomits but of intemperate women you shall verye hardly finde any that can be spoken of Vesta was so sober in her life that the Painters figured Fasting by her as Exercise by Diana Maiestie by Iuno and Prudence by Minerua I will referre to your owne iudgement that seeing these vertues could be no way better signified for in mē they would haue appeared most monstrous if womens natures must not needs be celestial yea euen in their ordinary and customarie functions Search thorow all Germanie which is the empire of all drunkennesse and seruitude of the sober yee shall not finde one woman but she is not onely free from being taxed with that beastlinesse but likewise if shee haue once ouer drunke it is sufficient for her euer after Where contrariwise the men they hardly respect any other exercise then tossing emptying of the pottes which is more shamefull to the vnsatiable then the Wine they disgorge can be to them healthfull But perhaps you will say vnto me it is not seemely for a woman to drinke much and therefore that folly may be tollerated in men Let me returne yee this answere euill dooing is no more permitted to men then women the rather in this respect because men make vaunts of beeing their superiours and that womens primacie consisteth not in commanding but in obeying Alas this excellence is not in the degree but in such behauiour as makes them woorthy therof yet they will approue that good in themselues which they thinke bad and condemne in women as if vice and vertue were limitted by their desseignes and as though by their maner of life and demeanor they were no way subiect eyther to one or other Wherin they declare how much they dissent from nature who neuer ordayned to the subiect where she appointed moouing but what was apt conuenient for it or else such rest as shuld not be vnprofitable like a faithfull Oeconomie of graces and mother of all Hierarchie Nay more these prophane men would binde the feminine sexe to such laws as themselues are not able to obserue lawes drawne from their own iealosie their suspition their weaknes their auarice their depraued consciēce their pride thinking it good to prohibite others such things as thēselues could neuer effect wherin they haue regarde to their owne perticuler imperfection not the law of nature who measures the constrainte of her will her will by the inclination her inclination by that which is most proper and the most propper by that which is most common and most necessarie for the conseruation of her kinde Let vs now speake of Liberalitie which is as worthy noting in her own subiect as anye other vertue in the worlde beside so royall and seemely is shee in all faire mindes whatsoeuer More familiar is shee with women then men for they are naturally full of pittie mercie and diuinest charitie They vse continually to visite Hospitalles Prisons and other places of wants to giue assistance to the miseries of men who fill the ayre with their wretched lamentations yea those places that commonly haue beene infected with theyr bad sauour women haue not spared to make theyr vsuall accesse vnto Mausolus monument builded by a Woman in remembrance of her husband is a matter of such especiall estimation as the very richest Sepultures of Kinges doe thence deriue their names as from the fountaine of all honour and excellence Sarteshkia wife to Arphaxed gaue instruction for building the proude and incomparable walles of Elchatana as you may at large read in Memnon of Ephesus Parisatis Queene of Persia caused all the Monarches of Asia to be buried in pure golde and instituted a sacrafice to Cyrus the expence whereof amounted yeerely to a thousand Affricke tallentes according to the report of Dionisius Milesianus Olympias mother to Alexander employed seauen hundred thousand crownes in erecting an Alter to Iupiter Hammon vpon the coast of Accium Cleopatra redeemed fiue thousand Romaines for two millions of golde and thirty crownes which shee in a perpetuall Aprill of theyr tyme. Diana gaue chastity diligence and honest care of housholde affayres So that but for the liberality of these before named the Gods had had no Altars and men had bin depriued of all vnderstanding Iuno placed Hercules among the Gods number Pallas Vlisses Venus Aeneas Thetis Achilles Diana Hippolitus Vesta Romulus Isis Pompilius Calipso was so liberall notwithstanding the ingratitude of Vlisses as she would haue made him immortall which he refused