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A00060	An harborovve for faithfull and trevve subiectes agaynst the late blowne blaste, concerninge the gouernme[n]t of vvemen. wherin be confuted all such reasons as a straunger of late made in that behalfe, with a breife exhortation to obedience. Anno. M.D.lix.	Aylmer, John, 1521-1594.	1559 (1559)	STC 1005; ESTC S100367	81,623	134

why let you me not alone with them If they be yours shewe your euidence howe you came by them Math. 20. shall not I do with myne what I liste Is therfore your eye ill because I am good Murmur ye at myne anoynted because she is a woman who made man and woman you or I yf I made hir to lyue may I not make hir to reigne If I apoynt hir to the office can I not adourne hir and make hir hable to discharge it VVhy then you of litle faithe eyther feare you my good wil or mistrust you my power you are muche worse then Saule in this poynte whome I reiectyd for disobedience For when I sent my seruaunt Dauid 1. Samu. yonge of age and no Gyante instature with his shepe hoke and his slynge Saule woulde haue armed hym wyth hys owne armoure But when Dauid threwe it of and wente his waye naked against his enemy a great hyghe monstre in comparison of hym Saule mystrusted not as you do murmured not as you doo sayinge ah this poore boye is not hable to be our champion and to defende our libertie but he prayed for him and wyshed him well in the name of Iehouah the lorde of hostes It is I tell you all one to me to saue with many or few with armour or without by a woman or by a man The maicstie of god represēted by a vvomā no les then by a man VVhat letteth that she may not as well represent my maiestie as any of you all If I be best represented by the shining ornamentes of the mynde and not the outwarde sturdines of the body why may not she haue at my hande that any of you haue wisdom to gouerne iustice to punish clemēcie to pardon Dansel 13. Num. 22. discrescion to iudge I that coulde make Daniel a sucking babe to iudge better then the wisest of the lawyers A brute beaste to reprehende the follie of a Prophet and poore fisshers to confound the great clarkes of the worlde can not I make a woman to be a good ruler ouer you and a mete minister for me VVhat vnly kelihod se you in hir are your eyes so dulle or your myndes so malycious that you cānot or wyll not see those Iewelles wherwith I haue decked hir is that rare learning that singulare modestie that heauenly clemencie that christiane constancie that loue of religion that excellent wysdom with many more of my graces nothīg in your sight I shewed you the lyke towarde in a man of late but for your owne vnworthines I toke him from you And wil you nowe I haue geuē you this make your selues vnworthy to enioye hir Leaue of leaue of your owne pollycie which is but folly and embrace my ordinaunce as it is your dutie For I pulle down whome I will and set vp whome I wil. Though God speaketh not thus to vs audibely yet suer he nedes must thus speake in our cōscience inwardly VVherfore let vs leaue of to dispute and beginne to praye Vve must praye for the Quenes estate and not dispute of hir right that it maye please hym to stably she hir seate amonge vs and to sende hir longe lyfe and quiet reigne to defende hir and vs from inuasions abrode and conspiracies at home to geue hir grace to seeke his honour and maynteine the truthe to guide hir harte in the choise of hir husbande and to make hir frutefull and the mother of manye chyldren that thys Realme maye haue the graftes of so goodly a tree That oure chyldren and posterite maye see hirs occupying hir throne with honour ioye quietnes The remembraunce of hir vertues carieth me awaye from my matter wherfore I return And becaus Ari. is thought to be of such authorite in this matter Ansvver to Aristo let vs a litle examine his woordes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is the male is moore mete to rule then the female well what inferre you ergo the woman vnmete I denie that argument you should rather saye the woman is not so mete that we could graunt you and not a whyt hurt our cause for otherwyse no man will reason as to say this man is better learned then the other ergo thother is vnlearned Chalke is whyter then cheese ergo cheese is black No man that knoweth what comparison is wyll bryng two contraries in one comparison as to saye pitche is blacker then snowe or fyer is whotter then water But if they compare two thynges together they must be suche as they haue in one qualite or propertie maius et minus As I saye right A man is more mete to rule then a childe That is not by affirmacion and negaciō as because th one is apt therfore thother is not and euen so of a mā and a womā he is more mete therfore it foloweth not that she is vtterly vnmete And therfore Plato Arist master not a whit wurse learned then his scholer Plat. in Timeo saith Magistratus vtriusque Sexus preficimus nuptijs our maner is to make officers of both sexes to ordre mariage And saint Paule as we haue declared gyueth them a kynd of gouernment 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to gouerne the house And lykewyse Aristo Arist in Eth. lib. 8. Cap. 10. him selfe in the Ethikes So that neither Philosopher nor Apostle dealeth with them so hardly as you do But Arist 3. polit saieth that cities be euil gouerned by women Vvhat by al or by some if he saye by all we can reproue him by many instances if he saye by some we can saye the same of men So that you se that these be no oracles which you bring in out of Aristotle wherby if you haue no better authoritie then this you can not put them out of possession In this poynte I can not but think you much blame wurthy not that maliciously as many do you peruert the sayinges of the authors But for that negligently you passe them ouer without waying and vnderstandinge their sayinges without conferring and matching place with place and saying with saying For if in the citinge of Aristotle you had ioigned the Ethikes with the Pollitikes I surely beleue that you wold haue made him none of your iury in this matter Lib. 8. ca. 10. Vt supra For in the Ethikes handlinge the kindes of rule what is a Monarchie what an Aristocratie and what a Democratie saithe of the rule of the man and the wife thus Viro cum vxore ius id intercedit quod est in optimorum potestate Nam pro dignitate ijs in rebus imperat quae dignae sunt viro Quae autem feminam decent eas ei tribuit Qu od si in omnibus presit vir ac dominetur in paucorum potestatem fit mutatio quoniam contra dignitatem facit non qui est praestantior Interdum etiam mulieres praesunt cum amplū patrimonium consecutae sunt The rule and kind of gouernment betwixt the man and the wife

Thaunciēt men Senators gaue him coūsel aduise to kepe the people in order by loue gentlenes and clemēcy thother aduised hym not to spare but to lay about him to chop of their heades to towre thē hāge thē burne thē awai with them dead mē do no harme and to make his litle finger heauier vpon his people thē was his fathers body These ware lusty laddes these were suche as would wyne all our lose all But they founde at the last as other that haue folowed them very Hieroboamites as wrissles VVyn chesters and some other their scholers yet aliue that as Horatius saieth vis consilij expers Horat. in od s. mole ruit sua fearsnes without wisdome and counsel cummeth to a so lishe ende I doubt not but hir maiestie if she could woulde chuse hir counsell of the nobilyte she being her selfe the head of that order and patronesse but if she shal espie out meaner men of greater experience farther reache and more scyence then they be it is not to be feared but thē nobles both for their owne safetie and the Quenes would gladly lotte to them selfes though she woulde not require it suche as myght put them in mynde of thynges they remember not either because they haue not exercised and beaten their heads about it or by lookyng to their lordships haue not had leisure to studdy for pollicies But wise men by study and noble men by birth wyll make suche an harmony in the commō wealth as neyther Frenche nor Scotte shal be hable to interrupte the concorde and it to be hoped that neyther the one parte in respect of their nobilitie wyll contempne the other for their basenes nor enuie thē for their wisdom nor thother part through thadmiracion of their own giftes set light by the honour aūciētnes of the peres 1. Cor. 12. Learne a similitude saith Paul of the body of mā how eche mēber is not the head yet hath his necessary vse in the bodye wherefore if some be wiser and some nobler som richer and som porer I doubt not but like good marmers they will all consider that they must all trauaile to bringe the ship of the common welth the Church of Christe and the Quenes realm to a quiet port which wil not be if they striue who shall tend the sail and who the helm who shall sounde and who clense the Pumpe who shal do this and who shal do that Iosephe with King Pharao kept by his counsel al the kings people from staruinge a meane man and a straunger pulled out of Prison wher he lay for a great crime Gen. 41. And Daniell gouerned Chaldea better then all the Princes ther and his seruice was more acceptable to the king then all the rest Mardocheus by the help of Hester Hester 8. kept Assuerus from the foulest murdre that euer was deuised And yet he was but a meane man to be of a kinges counsell being not onlye a straunger but also suche an abiecte as satte at the kinges gate without office dignitie countenaunce or anye estimacion yea and of suche a stomacke as he woulde not stoupe to the proudest of all the reaste M. Haman who was domine fac totum Vvhiche had like to haue cost him the best ioynte he caried aboute VVherefore if meane men be called to that honoure lette no manne repine at it For sometime vnder a homelye coate lieth hidden muche treasure and pure golde is founde among muche drosse Pro. 21. A wise man saithe Salomon climeth vp into the cities of the stronge and mightye and destroieth all the strengthe that he trusteth to if I had but. 10. Nestors said Agamenon Troy could not stand longe Consideringe then that aswell in the choise of counselloures as in all other thynges oure mooste deare soueraigne taketh that waye as all godlye wise men muste needes accompte the best and geueth vs by these buddes and floures so greate hoope of singulare frute we maye if we bee nor stoones in sence and monsters in malice cheare and feede our selues with the good successe we hope to haue by her One thinge there is that maketh my harte to blede in my belly for her That when al her progenitoures commonly haue founde their realm in quiet She good Lady receiueth it at the hande of her sister intangled I will not saye oppressed wyth forren warres the french on th one side and the scots on thother which sucking oute of their auncettors poisoned breasts immortal and dedly hatred against this realme lie in waite like theues to inuade and to spoil it In token wherof the french freke as it is said after truce was taken VVhē he hard of Q. M. death kept stil his Germains about him vpon hope that if there had ben any stir in England he might haue set in a fote And for that purpose had willed the cardinal of lotharing to confer with our churchmen to se what mighte be done whether he did so or no God knoweth but it is certain that the cardnall had suche commission but God hath dispatched their deuises And besides that she is thus lefte who seeth not the realme not Philipped but flesed for Philips sake by mainteining all the last sommer such a nauy on the seas and an army on the land besides som tokens of loue that passed I am sure from the Quene to her spouse to shew that she was a louing wife Alas what remeadye it is a miserable case Psal 10. but this will be the help first to flee to God and say on euery side In do mino confido quomodo dicitis animae mae transmigra in montem sicut passer Our trust is in God thoughe the French and scots and the deuil him selfe had conspired against our souerein whiche is anima nostra oure life and cōfort Shal not we with God and pollicy be hable to do asmuch for the preseruation of our coūtry as Philip of Macedonie did with pollicy alone Gemistus Princes of il beginninges oft mak good endinges who comming to his kingdom in as il case ād worse then this vertuous Lady doth to hers hauing the Illyrians the Paenyans the Thessalonyans the Boetians and the Atheniens in his neck so vsed the matter by making peax with some by leaguinge with other and by war with the rest one after another that within .iii. yeres space he gatte again that his ancettors had lost and made al his enemies to stoupe and not long after became themperor of al Grece 2. Samu. 3. In like maner Dauid entred into his kingdō when the Philistins had made a meruelus slaughter in Israel and killed king Saul ād his sōnes in the field ād yet with in a while he recouered the losses ād had the better of al his enemies round about him So I doubt not but God shal send this Iudith grace and power to cut of Holophernes hed and this Deborah to saue her people ād knock out Siceras brains com he either out