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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75977	The glory of women: or, A treatise declaring the excellency and preheminence of women above men, which is proved both by scripture, law, reason, and authority, divine, and humane. Written first in Latine by Henricus Cornelius Agrippa Knight, and doctor both of law and physicke. And presented to Margaret Augusta, Queen of the Austrians and Burgundians. And now translated into English, for the vertuous and beautifull female sex of the Commonwealth of England By Edvv. Fleetvvood, Gent.; Declamatio de nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus. English	Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486?-1535.; Fleetwood, Edward.	1652 (1652)	Wing A788; Thomason E655_7; ESTC R205944	27,257	39

womb of the Wife with fruitfull seed although we read that Lycurgus and Solon established lawes of this sort in times past as if any old man and unfit for marriage or lesse active then is required for the service of Venus had married a Maid that it might bee lawfull to the wife to chuse one of the young-men approved for his strength and activity with whom she might sweetly sport and dally provided always that the issue might be her Husbands neither was it lawfull for any to account such issue adulterous or mis-begotten we read of them not kept not so much by the rigidnesse of men as by the continency of women refusing them There are innumerable most famous women who in modesty conjugal love have excelled all men such as Abigal the wife of Nabal Artemisia of Mausolus Argia the wife of Polinices the Theban Julia of Pompeius Portia of Cato Cornelia of Gracchus Messalina of Sulpitius Alceste of Admetus Hypsicratea of Mithridates the Pontic King Dido the builder of Carthage the Roman Lucretia and Sulpitia of Lentulus there are infinite others whose immoveable Virginity and chastity could not be changed by death examples of which offer themselves Atlanta Calidonia Camilla Volsca Iphigenia a Greek Cassandra and Crise to these may be added the Lacedaemonian Spartan Milesian and Theban Virgins and innumerable others which the histories of Hebrewes Greekes and Barbarians number to us who made Virginity of more account then Kingdomes yea then life it selfe if now examples of piety be required amongst others these offer themselves Claudia a Vestal Virgine towards her father and that mean Plebeian Maid concerning whose pious affection to her Mother we have spoken of before But some Zoilus wil object against these that there have bin destructive marriages which have made direful Tragedies as those of Sampson Jason Deiphobus Agamemnon which if any wil see into with Lynceus eyes he shall find that wives are falsely accused none of which at any time have proved bad to a good Husband for there were never ill Wives but to ill Husbands to whom although they should prove good oftentimes they are corrupted with the vices of their husbands Doe not you think if it might be lawfull for women to make Lawes write Histories but that they could write Tragedies concerning the unmeasurable malice of men amongst whom many are found Manslayers Theeves Ravishers Forgers Incendiaries traytors which in the time of Joshua and David the King did rob in so great multitudes that they did appoint Princes of their companies yea also in these dayes there is an infinite number of them Hence all Prisons are filled with men on every hand all places are burthened with the carkasses of men But on the other side women have been the inventors of all liberall Arts of every Grace and Vertue which the feminine names of Arts and Vertues clearly manifest To which I will adde that notable thing that the Orbe of the earth is named from the names of women to wit from Asia the Nymph from Europa the daughter of Agenor from Lybia the daughter of Epaphus which is also called Africa To conclude if a survey be made through the singular kinds of vertues women every where obtaine the principall place It was a woman the Virgin Mary her self which first vowed virginity to God women Prophetesses were alwaies inspired with diviner gifts then men which is noted concerning the Sybils as Lactantius Eusebius and Augustine testifie So Mary the sister of Moses was a Prophetesse and Jeremiah being in prison the wife of his Uncle by name Olda was raised up to be a Prophetesse to the perishing people of Israel greater then all the Prophets they then had Let us search the holy Scriptures and we shall see the constancy of women in faith and holy duties commended far above men as Judith Ruth Hester which are mentioned with so much glory that they give names to bookes in holy Scripture Abraham himselfe who for his eminency of faith the Scripture hath called just because he beleeved God notwithstanding he must submit to his wife Sarah and by the voyce of God is commanded All things whatsoever Sarah saith heare her voyce So Rebecca firmly beleeving proceedeth to aske of God and for an answer she heareth a miracle Two Nations are in thy wombe and two people shall be divided from thy belly And the widdow of Sarepta beleeved Eliah although he did tel her a difficult thing So Zacharias reproved of the Angell for incredulity was dumb and Elizabeth his wife prophesied in voyce and wombe and is commended because she beleeved faithfully who afterwards commendeth the blessed Virgin saying Blessed art thou which beleevest what things are said to thee of the Lord So Anna the Prophetesse did confesse God after the revelation of Simeon and did speake concerning him to all willing to heare who did expect the redemption of Israel and Philip had foure Daughters Virgin Prophetesses What shall I say concerning that woman of Samaria with whom Christ did speak at the Well and filled with faith of her beleeving he refused the food offered him by the Apostles See the faith of the woman of Canaan and of the woman which had the issue of blood is not the faith and confession of Martha like the confession of Peter Yea how much constancy of faith was in Mary Magdalen is noted to us out of the Gospels for she while the High Priests and Jewes crucifie weepeth at the crosse carrieth oyntments seeketh in the Tomb asketh the Gardiner re-acknowledgeth God goeth to the Apostles and tells that he is risen they doubt she beleeveth What againe shall I say of Priscilla a most holy woman who instructed Apollos an Apostolicall man most learned in the Law the Bishop of the Corinthians neither was it an unseemly thing for an Apostle to learne of a woman which could teach in the Church Adde moreover those which have testified the constancy of their faith by patience in Martyrdome by contempt of death whose number is no lesse then mens Neither is to be past by with silence that wonderfull mother and worthy of the memory of all good men who seeing her seven sons perishing by cruel martyrdom was not only of good courage but also strongly did exhort to put them to death she her self trusting in the Lord in al conditions after her sons was also put to death for the Laws and Liberties of her Country Did not Theodelina the daughter of the K. of the Bavarians convert the Lombards to the faith of Christ Greisilla the sister of Henry the first Emperor the Hungarians Clotildis the daughter of the K. of the Burgundians the Franks a certain Apostlesse a woman of a low rank the Iberians and each of them innumerable other people besides wone over to Christian Religion Finally This most Religious Sex alone or at least cheifly is it in which the Catholique faith and the continued works of godlinesse

deservedly therefore every creature loveth reverenceth and observeth her deservedly every creature is subject and obeyeth her as their Queen being as the end so the glory and perfection of all the works of God Wherefore the wise man speaks concerning her He glorifieth the Nobility of the Woman having fellowship with God and above all the Lord loveth her How much also in respect of the place in which the woman was created she excelleth man the holy Scriptures plainly testifie in that the woman was formed in Paradise being a most Noble and most pleasant place with the Angells when as the man was made in the ordinary field out of Paradise with bruit creatures and afterwards for the sake of the woman to be created was brought into Paradise therefore the woman by especiall and extraordinary priviledge of nature as it were accustomed to the highest place of her Creation although looking down from high is not giddy neither doe her eyes dazle as it is wont to happen to men Furthermore if it happen that a woman together with the man be in danger by waters all outward helps being laid aside the woman longer swimmeth above the water when the lumpish man presently sinkes to the bottom That the dignity of Place maketh to the Nobility of a man both civill Laws and holy Canons do abundantly confirm and it is the general observation of all Nations not only of men but of every animate creature yea and inanimate also That by how much more worthy soyl they draw their originals from by so much the more generous they are counted Wherfore Isaac commanded his Son Jacob that he should not take a wife in the land of Canaan but from Mesopotamia of Syria being in better condition Not unlike to this is that in St. John which Philip said We have found Jesus the son of Joseph of Nazareth Nathaniel said unto him can any good thing come out of Nazareth But to proceed to other Arguments The woman excelleth the man in respect of the matter of which she was made which was not dead and vile clay as mans was but a purified substance enlivened and endued with a soule yea a rationall soule participating of the divine mind Hereunto I shall adde that man was made of the earth which of its own nature heavenly influences co-operating produces living creatures of all kinds But the Woman above the influences of heaven promptitude and potentiality of nature and concurrence of secondary causes was made by God alone in all things like unto him intire and perfect man loosing but one single rib of which the woman was formed to wit Eve of Adam sleeping and that so deeply that he did not feele when it was taken away which God taking from the Man gave to the Woman Man therefore is the worke of Nature but Woman the Artifice of God And therefore for the most part Woman is more capable of divine splendor then Man and often is found full of the same which may easily appear from the serenity and pulchritude with which she is even to wonder blest For since beauty is nothing else but the divine light and splendor shining through faire bodies he certainly hath chose to dwell in and fill with it Women rather then Men Hence the Body of WOMAN is most delicate to the eye and touch her flesh most soft and tender her colour bright and lustring Skinne cleare Head comely Locks faire haire soft shining and long her Countenance majesticke Aspect pleasant her Face surpassing in beauty necke milke white fore-head high eyes sparkling with a lovely chearfulnesse mixt with tenne thousand graces above them eye-browes smooth and thin divided with decent distance from the middle of which descendeth her nose streight and of due proportion under which is her mouth neat round and lovely with small fresh and red lips within which her teeth appeare when she gently smiles being very small and evenly placed overcoming Ivory with their whitenesse and to whom they are fewer in number then to man because she is not given so much to eating and consuming About them her jaw-bons rise handsomely and cheeks of a tender softnesse a rosie brightnesse and full of modesty Next take view of her round and dimpled Chinne in a pleasant manner under which the neck is placed which is small but something long fairly erected upon her round shoulders a delicate throat white and of an indifferent thicknesse her voice sweet and pleasant her brest somewhat large and prominent adorned with two Nectar-fill'd Paps the roundnesse of which doth suite and agree well with the roundnesse of her belly her sides soft back smooth and erect armes stretched out hands small and slender fingers ●●●…tly joynted her flanks and hips more full the calves of her legs more fleshy the tips of her hands and feet ending in a round orbicular compleatnesse and every member ful of juyce and moisture Adde to these her composed gate modest deportment graceful motion gallant carriage besides the order symmetrie figure and habitude in all parts most specious that I may say there is no creature so admirable no wonder so to be admired and that no man except he be blind cannot but see God himselfe what pulchritude soever the universal world is capable of to have heaped upon women to the end that every creature might stand amazed at her love and reverence her as we see by experience that incorporeall spirits doate upon women with most ardent affections which is such an approved truth that none I think dare offer to deny it And that I may omit that which Poets manifest to us concerning the Loves of the gods and their Paramours as of Apollo and his Daphne Neptune and his Salmonea Hercules and his Hebe Jole and Omphale and of the Mistrisses of other gods and more then many of Jupiter himselfe The holy Scriptures in many places highly commend beauty in women above all other gifts and graces hence it is read in Genesis that the Sons of God seeing the daughters of men that they were fair took them wives of all they would We read also of Sarah Abrahams wife that she was a fair woman to look upon above all other women in the Land When the Servant of Abraham saw Rebecca a maid of an excellent beauty he said silently within himselfe This is she which the Lord hath prepared for Isaac the sonne of Abraham And Abigal the wife of wicked Nabal as she was prudent and discreet in like manner she was fair and beautiful and therfore she saved the life and the goods of her Husband from the fury of David and the evill man was saved by the faire and vertuous woman for with these words David spake unto her Goe in peace unto thy house behold I have heard thy voice and honoured thy face For since every beauty is either spirituall vocall or corporeall Abigal was wholly beautifull both by prudence of spirit comelinesse of body eloquence of speech upon which