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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

so that one of vs two must nedes lose eyther goodes or lyfe I had leauer to lose the than to be loste my selfe And that by the example of Innocētius the thyrd whyche in a certayne pistle decretall writen vnto a cardynall ambassatour sent frome the See of Rome sayth If one of vs twain muste nedes be confounded I wold rather chose to haue the confounded ¶ Moreouer it was prouyded by the Cyuile lawes that women might lawfully loke to their own profit to other mens hinderance And in holy writ is not the iniquitie of a woman praysed more then a mans wel doing is not Rachel preised whiche by a proper sleight deceyued her father sekynge vnto ydols Was not Rebecca lauded whyche by crafte gotte her sonne Iacob the blessyng of his father And afterward by polycie caused him to escape the anger of his brother The harlotte Raab deceiued those whyche soughte for the serchers and spies of Iosue and it was imputed vnto her for ryghtuousnes Iahel went out to mete Sisar and sayde vnto hym My lorde come into me And askynge water she gaue hym to drynke of the bottell of mylke and couered hym as he laye sleapynge And whyle Sisara laye and slepte she entred in priuyly strake a nayle in his head and slewe hym which had put his truste in her promyse and fidelitie to be saued And for this notable treason the Scripture saith Blessed is Iahel amōg women and Iahel shalbe blessed in her tabernacle ¶ Rede the story of Iudith and marke her wordes vnto Holofernes She said Syr take and vnderstande the wordes of thy hand mayde For if thou wylte folowe do after these wordes the lorde shall make the perfite and shall brynge thy mattier to prosperous effecte I shall come and shewe althynges vnto the so that I shall leade the throughe the myddes of Hierusalem and thou shalt haue all the people of Israell lyke as shepe without a shepeherde and not soo moche as one dogge shall barke ageynst the. For those thinges ar shewed me by the wisdom and prouidence of god And thus by her flattering she stroke of Holofernes head as he lay and slept I pray you what wyckedder coūsell what crueller deceytes what craftier treson could be inuented And yet holy Scripture blesseth praiseth and extolleth her and the iniquite of the woman is reputed farre better than a mans wel doinge But nowe lette vs retourne to our pourpose ¶ Of the excellency of so happy a kynde of women this also may be to euery man an argumēt most euident that the most excellent of all creatures than whyche neuer was nor neuer shalbe a more worthy I meane the most blessed virgyn Mayre was conceyued with out originall synne and she was not inferiour to Christe touching his humanitie ¶ This is a stronge argumente of Aristotle Of what kynde the beste is nobler thanne the beste of an other kynde that kynde muste needes be nobler thanne the other In the Femynyne kynde the best is the vyrgyn Marye in the Masculyne there arose none greatter thanne Iohn Baptiste but howe farre doothe the holye vyrgyn excelle hym whiche as euerye Catholyke man knoweth was exalted aboue all the orders of aungelles Lykewyse a man maye reasounc Of what kynde the worst is warse than the worst of an nother kynde that kynde is lower than the other Nowe we knowe that the most vyciouse and worste of all creatures is a man whether it be Iudas that betrayd Christ of whom Christe sayth It had bene good for that man yf he had not bene borne or whether any Antechrist shal come herafter warse than he whyche shall be endowed with all the power of Sathan More ouer holy writ sheweth many men to be condemned to euerlastynge turment but we rede in no place of any womanne so condemned Farther as a witnesse to our purpose there is a certayne pretogatiue gyuen to the brutalle nature For the queene of all birdes and the most noble is the Egle whiche is alway found of the female kynde and not of the masculyne Also this is clere that the byrd of Egypte calid Foenix wherof there is neuer but one at oones is a female But contrary wyse the serpent Regulus called also Basiliscus the most pestilent of al venimous beastes is only masculine of whiche kynde it is not possible to find female Farther the excellencye of this kynd the vertue innocēcy is by these argumentes and resons abūdantly inough declared For the begynnynge of all yuelle commeth by men and not by women Certaynely the fyrst man Adam boldely breakynge the commaundement of god dyd shut vp the gates of heauen and made vs all subiectes to synne and deathe For al we haue synned and must dye in Adam not in Eua. Whose fyrste begotten sonne opened hell gates Man was fyrst enuious fyrst a murderer fyrste the slear of his parentes the fyrste dispayrer of the mercy of god the first that hadde two wyues Lamech the fyrste drunkarde Nohe the fyrste that discouered the fylthynesse of his father Nohes sonne Cham the fyrst tyran and idolater Nembroth the fyrste aduouterer the fyrst defouler of his kynswomen Men also fyrste made confederacyes with fyndes and inuented cursed wytchcraftes Certayne menne the sonnes of Iacob fyrst solde theyr owne brother Ioseph Pharao the Egyptian fyrste slewe chyldren Men fyrste synned ageynste Nature as wytnessen Sodoma and Gomora the whyche sonke for the synnes of menne somme tyme beynge most famouse and noble cyties We rede in euery place that menne for theyr tasshe voluptuouse pleasure hadde two wyues manye wyues many lemmans they were aduouterers and fornicatours Of this sorte that hadde many wyues many concubynes were Lamech Abraham Iacob Esau Ioseph Moses Sanson Helcana Saul Dauid Salomon Assur Roboam Abia Caleph Assuerus and innumerable other the whiche had euery oone many wyues harlottes and concubines Nor beynge contente to marye many to fulfull theyr luste pleasure but also medled with their maydens And we rede not that any woman except only Batsabea was contente to haue any mo but alway one husband Nor ye shall not fynde that anye woman maried two husbādes if she had a childe by her fyrst husband For women in clennesse of liuing and chastitie are farre more continct than men the which as we rede bycause they were bareyne haue abstyned from lyenge with theyr husbandes haue brought in other to lye with their husbandes as Sara Rachel and many other vnapt to generation which brought in their hande maydens that their husbandes myghte get chyldren to succede thē But what man I pray you were he neuer so olde colde bareyn and vnapt for generation was euer of so greate pitie or myld stomake toward his wyfe that he wolde substitute another manne in his place to sowe fruitefull sede in his wyues plentifull gardeyne And althoughe we rede that kyng Lieurgus and Solon made lawes in olde tyme that is to wyte if any

man beinge ouer aged vnmeete for mariage or otherwise vnlusty to do the dedes of Venus had maried a maiden it shoulde be laufull for his wyfe to chose a goodly and a tall younge manne to dalye and play with her and the chylde gotten betwene theym shoulde be ascribed to her housbande and not to be called a bastarde and though those lawes were made and establyshed yet we rede not that they were kepte not so moche through the sturdynesse of the men as by the chastitie of the womenne refusynge those lawes ¶ There be innumerable excellent women whiche with notable clennesse of lyfe and perfet wiuely loue haue farre passed al men as Abigail the wyfe of Naball Arthemisia the wyfe of Nausoleus Argia the wyfe of Policinis a Chebane Iulia the wife of Pompeius Portia the wyfe of Cato Cornelia the wife of Gracchus Messalina the wife of Sulpice Alceste the wyfe of Admetus Hypsicratea the wife of Mithridates kynge of Pontus and also Dido the buylder of Carthage and the Romayn Lucrece and Sulpitia the wyfe of Lentulus There be innumerable other whose hartes were so fyxed on vyrgynitie and chastitie that the very dethe coulde not remoue theym of whom thexamples are manyfest and playne as Athlanta Calidonia Camilla Volsca Iphigenia of Grece Cassandra and Crise With these gone the Vyrgynes of Lacedemonye of Spartane of Milesia of Thebes with other innumerable of whome the storyes of the Hebrewes of the Grekes and of other Macyons doo make mencyon the whyche estemed vyrginite aboue kyngdomes yea and aboue theyr very lyues ¶ If the examples also of pitie and louing kyndnes be required amonge al other Claudia Vestalis towarde her father and that poore yonge woman of the whiche we spake afore towardes her mother are wonderfull ¶ But here some enuious felow wyl obiect ageinst those thynges the deadely mariages of Sampson of Iason of Deiphebus of Agamemnon and such other tragedies on whyche as saythe the prouerbe if a man loke throughly with clere eies he shall fynde that theyr wyues are falsely blamed of the whyche neuer chaunced vnto a good man one yll For yll wyues neuer chaunce but to ylle husbandes vnto whome all though the good somtyme chāce yet their husbandes vyces make them naught ¶ If it had bene laufull for women to make lawes too wryte histories how gret tragedies trowye wolde they haue writen of the inestimable malice of men amōg whom many ben murtherers theues rauishers of vyrgins periurers robbers burners of houses traytours of whome also in the tyme of Iosue Dauid the king so greatte a multitude were murtherers robbers that they were able to make princes capytaynes ouer theyr companies Yea and at this day there is an infinite number of them For all prisons be filled with men and al the galowes in euerye place be loded with the carcases of men But contrarye wyse womenne were the fyrste inuentours of all honest craftes of all vertue and benefittes Whiche thyng the very names of sciences and vertues beinge of the femynine gender do playnly specifye Whereof this is a notable profe that the circuite of the hole world is callyd by the names of women that is to say of the Nymph Asia of Europa the doughter of Agenor of Libia the doughter of Epaphus the whiche is also callid Aphrica And finally to recite all kyndes of vertue a woman shall euery where obteyne the hygheste place For the vyrgin Mary was a woman the whyche fyrst dydde vowe her vyrginitie to god and thereby deserued to be the mother of god The womenne prophetes were euermoore inspyred with a more diuine spyrite than the men Whiche thynge is welle knowen by that Lactātius Eusebius and Augustine wytnessen of the Sibylles ¶ So Mary the syster of Moses prophecied And whan Ieremye was taken prysoner his vncles daughter Olda rose vp and prophecied beyonde mans reache to the people of Israell atte the poynte redy to peryshe Lette vs serche holy scripture and we shall fynde that women in constancye in feythe and in other vertues ar commended farre aboue men as in Iudith Ruth Hester the whiche with so great glory and praise were celebrate and honored that holy bokes beare their names And all though Abraham for the stedfastnes of his fayth is called in scripture a iuste man by cause he surely beleued in god yet for al that he muste submyt hym selfe to his wyfe Sara For by y e voyce of the lorde he was cōmanded thus What so euer Sara saythe to the here her voyce So Rebecca beleuyng stedfastly went to aske god certayne questions and she being reputed worthy harde this oracle or aunswere of god Two maner of folke are in thy bealy and two maner of people shall be deuyded from thy bealy And the wydowe Sareptana gaue credence to Helias all thoughe it were harde to beleue that he tolde her So zachary rebuked of the aungell for his incredulitie was dumme and his wife Elizabeth with her wōbe and voyce prophecied is praysed bicause she beleued faithfully and she afterwarde praysed the most blessed virgin Mary saying Blessed art thou whyche dyddest beleue those thynges that were spoken to the of the lord So Anna the prophetesse after the reuelation of Simeon cōfessed god spake of him to al that wold here whyche loked for the redemption of Israel And Phylip had foure vyrgins to his doughters which dyd prophecy What shall I saye of her the samaritan with whom Christe spake at the well and beinge fedde with the faythe of this beleuing womā refused the meate that the apostelles broughte To these may be ioyned the faithefull woman of Chananee and the woman dyseased with the blouddye flyxe Was not also the faith and confessyon of Martha lyke the confessyon of Peter The Gospell wytnesseth howe greate constācy of faith was in Mary Magdaleyn For whyle the pristes and Iewes crucyfyed Christe she wepeth she bringeth oyntmentes vnto the Crosse she seeketh in the Tombe she asketh the gardyner for hym she aknowledgeth god she gothe to the apostles and sheweth them that he is rysen They were in doubte therof but she beleued it verily Ageyn what shall I saye of that holy woman Priscilla the whiche instructed Apollo apostolycke man perfitely lerned in the lawe and byshoppe of the Corinthians Nor it was no shame for a postell to lerne of a woman what he shulde teache in the churche ¶ Moreouer they that haue shewed the stedfastnes of theyr faith by sufferyng of Martyrdom and by the dispisynge of deathe be no fewer in number than men Nor that wonderfull mother shuld be lefte vnspoken of so worthy to be remembred the whiche not onely behelde her .vii. sonnes putte to deathe by most cruell martyrdom but also she boldly exhorted them stedfastlye to dye And she aboue all thynges trustyng in god was after her