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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08172	An apology for vvomen: or, Womens defence. Pend by C.N. late of Albane Hall in Oxon	C. N. (Christopher Newstead)	1620 (1620)	STC 18508; ESTC S101131	17,656	64

with his breath could puffe about Wind-Mils So that they haue minds able to blow away all base feares Hom. 〈◊〉 l. 3. And what more euident signe of their valor then their loue of it Homer induceth Helena complaining of Hymen that hee had espoused her to one who durst not defend her against the enemy The Laconians seeing their husbands feare lending them wings to flye from the field asked them if they intended to obscond themselues in their mothers bellies Tiphane perceiuing her beloued Bertrand Fren. hi. for the sweet of her cōpanie to let his desire of Martiall affaires quaile within him told him she should the entirelier loue him if he did stil prosecute the honour and reputation of Chiualry Drasm Rhetor. Damatria her sonne complaining of the shortnesse of his sword bid him stand neerer his enemy Venus did more affect bloudy Mars then timorous fairefac't Apollo And how many Katherines chose rather to bee courted with conquering Launces then Court-like Rapters I might heere a posteriore as the Logicians tearme it from the effects inferre their fortitudes women beeing the cause of that calor caelestis the heauenly fire of loue which burnes as it did in Lepidus all ignoble and seruile feares from mens hearts the whetstone as one saith of Anger that exacuates and sets an edge on mens obtuse and blunt affections the Lapis Alchimicus the Philosophers Stone that conuerts Leaden passions into any golden sweet content but that many pens haue testified the same and I am loth to bee a Broker of other mens wits Of their constancie and true loue THere is a greater Sympathy of affections in friendships 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 betwixt man womā then man and man For you shall not reade of aboue foure or fiue couples of men that were linkt together in the bands of faithfull friendship when Authors swarme with sexamples betwixt the other Similitudo morum 〈◊〉 250. the similitude of affections as Otho obtained Neros is the cause of virall friendship but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nature it selfe is the foundation of coniugall friendship It is Iucunda amicitia that is the cause of this vera amicitia It is pleasure that tyes the indissoluble knot of true friendship delight begins it honestie confirmes it for where pleasure is there is desire of societie and that 's the key that locks their thoughts together Shee then that is espoused to one whom shee doth not affect if shee loue another ca● not be said to be inconstant but incontinent For inconstancie is a negation of constancie they must then first loue ere they bee inconstant If then courteous Reader thou doest but ballance the scales of thy iudgement with impartialitie duely waying the nature of inconstancie thou wilt not hereafter so rashly accuse them of instablenes What if there be one Helena amongst all the Graecians one Liuia amongst all the Romans one Cleopatra amongst all the Egyptians wilt thou therefore shoot the arrow of thy fame-wounding iudgement against all the Graecians Romanes and Egyptians There is no motion but circular that is alwayes perfect All are not Starres fixed in the Orbe of constancie there must bee some straying Planets Just l. 18. Elisa Queene of Carthage her Husband being murdered and afterward beeing sollicited of many for her loue praecipitated her selfe from a Sky-kissing Turret Just l. 18. saying I come my Sychaeus I come Theogena wife to Agathocles refused to depart from him when all his subiects had relinquisht and forsaken him saying Se non prosperae tantum sed omnis fortunaeinisse societatem she was as wel married to him in aduersitie as in prosperitie And not to stand particularizing Diod. the Getoi women would not be sent from their husbands besieged but would participate of the same fortune they did D●od It beeing a custome amongst the Indians that the women should be buried quick with their husbāds if the thred of their liues were first cut they so willingly condiscended vnto it that many times one man hauing two wiues they would be at mortall strife who should be interred with him Martia the Daughter of Cato being demanded when she would surcease from mourning for her deceased husband Cum vitae inquit When I cease to liue The wife of Philo when shee was asked why shee did not adorne her selfe with Iewels at publike solemnizations answered It sufficeth me that I haue for my ornament the vertue of my husband The Wife of Po●●pey slew her selfe vpon his dead corps from whom I thinke the Tragedian took his sentence Sen. Trag. Mors misera non est commori cum quo velis Pale death to life is oft of those preferd Who are with those whom they doe loue interr'd Should I stand to enumerate all the regular Matrons that mooue within the speare of fidelitie I might seeme by a Logicall Induction in reckoning vp all particulars to inferre a generall Women their mindes are crystall which writ on by the Diamond of loue the slubbering fingers of Time can neuer obliterate or blot forth Like the state of the world aboue the Moon where there is no change Their minds perhaps as Seneca saith a wise mans may wauer but neuer alter Of their contempt and freenesse from Gluttonie THere is none I thinke Rick Rhet. so scrupulously malicious vnlesse hee resemble the Philosopher who doubted whether he were a man or a woman and therefore would haue it decided by disputation that will suffer any thought to mooue within the Zodiake of there imaginations which doth not in this giue Woman the preeminence Peruse thou all Authors that haue in there writings disgorged and spet forth their venemous rancour against them and if thou canst finde two of them that were addicted to Gastrimorgisme I will grant thee to inferre that they are all dishmongers when the streame of Autors beares floting on their Pageants innumerable mens names who by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 haue brought both bodies and purses into consumptions Philoxenus wished his necke were as long as a Cranes that hee might the longer feele the sweetnes of his meat and he qualis vita finis ita hauing taken a mortall surfet by deuouring almost a Polypus of the quantitie of two Ells desired to comfort his empty stomack that death should separate his leane soule from his fat body that he might eat the remainder Aclian l. 12. Sminderides whose eyes were sixe times as long shut with Gluttonie as Endymions was with sleepe from beholding the Sunne and then forsooth by Loue being awaked from his sluggishnes he rode a wooing brauely attended with a thousand Cookes as many Fowlers and so many Fishers How many Nero's shall you finde banquetting and swilling from midday to midnight with Vitellius making as one saith their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and honestum et parum

not forst fond thraldome to allow As we to get are fram'd so they to spare We made for paine they made our paines to cherish We care abroad and they at home haue care I may say of them Euri. Trag. as Euripides saith of the iust man They seeme non sibi Pet. de reemr sortu sed alijs natae not to be borne to themselues but to others Dulces parentes dulces fillij dulces fratres dulces amici sed dulcissimae vxores It is a sweet thing to haue parents children brothers and friends but it is most amoene it is most sweete to haue the comfort of a louing woman when parents proue vnnaturall children rebllious brothers vnkind friends vnconstant wiues are onely like the Gemelli of Hypocrates inseparable the sweete that must relish all those sowre potions a wife is as a good conscience to a man wheresoeuer she is there is true peace and ioy a man is neuer perfect vntill he be married till then he is defectiue he wants a Ribbe not vxor fulgit as the Ciuilian saith radijs mariti sed maritus radijs vxoris She is as the Sunne and hee the Moone the beames of her presence is the cause of his shining It may be an Axiome as well as an Adage Verberat vxorem qui non habet vnmarried men only beat their wiues who discommend them out of ignorance for wee cannot iudge of sweet vntill we taste them but most maligne them as Appius did Virginia because they cannot obtai●e them and married men dislaude them because they haue them for Quicquid domi est vile est we alwaies esteeme the worst of that wee inioy praesentium taedio futuri desiderio laboramus wee are sick alwayes of the present and for future things tardius bona quàm mala sensimus 〈…〉 wee are more sensible of ill then good as Cicero saith of his Terentia that till he was exilde from her company hee neuer knew what content it brought vnto him wee neuer know what pleasures are till we bee bereaued of them widdowers can onely iudge of the comfort of a wife That Children are most obliged to their mothers EDucing education and affection are the threefold cords that should tye each childe to the loue of its mother first by educing or inducing to this world wherin euery mother is as a good Land-Lord to her childe giuing it both house-roome and nutriment when it like an vnruly Tenant doth grieue and vexe her and which is against the Lease of equity many times cuts and crops the flourishing trees of their beauty and growne too great for their places as many mens minds are for their estates they seeke for a more ample habitation neither can they haue the Lawyers bene decessit for many times Proh dolor they ruinate in their departure their continents and yet women shew themselues the truest louers they loue them that hurt them that it is better not to beginne a good action at all then to desist hauing begunne they perseuere in their benefits giuing them that alter a natura that other nature education nourishing our bodies as the Pellicane though not with the bloud yet with the substance of their brests and when they are able instruments to exercise the faculties of the soule they and id maximum beneficium quod animum reddit meliorem that is the greatest benefit which perfects the soule suckle our mindes with the milke of good manners training vs vp 〈…〉 as Tanaquill did her sonne in religion and learning The two Gracchi reaped all the flowers of their Oratory from the Garden of their mothers vertues Sucto Caesar obtained his eloquence by conuersing with his mother And Socrates that Athenian Eagle exhausted all his wisedome from the well-spring of Diol●nna's instructions 〈…〉 Lastly by their affection Rutilia followed her sonne Cotta in his exile and yet when death bereaued her of him her eyes neuer shewed her heart loued him in expulso virtutem ostendit in amisso prudentiam in his exile she shewed her loue in his death her wisdome Two Roman Matrons beholding their sons Petrar de Mater whom they deemed to haue bin slaine in the great battel at Thraceninus their soules as incapable of so inexpected ioy took leaue of their bodies But I need not induce Instances since they are oftner with Niobe Satyrus for ouer-louing thē for not louing them reprehended Two reasons may be giuen why they doe most affect their children First because they are certain they are theirs VVherfore T●l●machus being asked if it were true that Vlisses was his father answered Mater quidē●ta hoc dicit My mother saith he was Secondly for that they haue most sorrow by them for emnis amat beneficia sua wee loue that most dearely that costs vs dearest There is one honour saith Arist●tle due to the father another to the mother we owe most honour to our father in a Geometricall proportion in respect of dignitie but most to our mother in an Arithmeticall proportion in respect of desert For we haue of them principally 〈…〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our essence Secondly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our nourishment thirdly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our education and amor amoris magnes est durus est qui amorem non rependit Loue is the Loadstone of Loue and hee is the most obdure that doth not repay it There is no ingratitude comparable to that which is committed against the mother Euery man may say with Seneca 〈…〉 Quicquid praestiti infra aestimationem materni muneris est When I haue performed all that I can I can neuer recompence her For hee is neuer conquered in benefits whose benefit it is that he is conquered I will winde vp the clue of this Tract with that patheticall saying of Petrarch Petrar de Mater Cum nihil sit natis materno magis amore Iam mater studijs est veneranda pijs Since Mothers most their childrens states doe tender By obsequious dutie we them thankes should render The Castrophe IT is no maruell if the Catharri would rechange three or foure men Diod● A●● for one woman captiuated or taken prisoner if the Egyptians Lycians would haue them rule both in publike and priuate If the Lacedemonians called their wiues 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ladies Tacide M●r. O●r If the Germans paid so deare for their Spouses If Plat● held a woman as necessary in a Family as a King in a Countrey since they doe excell in all the principall passions of the minde hauing as Museus saith of Hero a hundred graces In continencie Cato's in fortitude Scipio's in constancie Achates in pulchritude as the Poet saith of Amarintha all beauty in wit the Marmulade and sucket of Muses Cordial Nepenthes of comfort to their husbands True Pellicans to their children If Nature saith Plutarch would see her selfe woman must be her perspectiue or Looking-glasse Women What are they Natures pride Vertues ornament Angels on earth Saints in Heauen memorable to be registred worthy to bee serued In a word if the world bee a Ring woman is the Diamond set in this Ring And now my Pen will needs take his leaue of its faire Loue the Paper with blubbering as you see these ruder teares of Inke I may say as Festus saith of himselfe Festus hist Rom. init Res gestas signaut non scripsi I haue touched not handled their vertues VVherein I haue obserued halfe of Aesops counsel to Solon Lubin in Ju●e 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that his speech should bee either short or sweet VVhat I want in suauitie I haue endeuoured to supply by breuitie of which if any one accuse me let Seneca giue a pricke to their Toade-swolne galls with his Nu●quam parum est quod satis est I know that more may be said of each qualitie but I desired not to say all but enough FINIS