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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	aaron_n	call_v	priesthood_n	21	3	9.6725	5	false

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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

shine bright continually to this day but least any should doubt that women are not able to doe all those things appertaining to men let us run over the matter by examples and wee shall finde there is no famous action in any kind of Vertues performed by men which may not as excellently be done by women Melissae Cybeles in times past were famous for the Priesthood from whose name other goddesses Priests afterward were called Melissae Hypecaustria was the Priest of Minerva Mera of Venus Iphigenia of Diana and women were the Priests of Bacchus famous by many names as Thyades Maenades Bacchae Eliades Mimalonides Aedonides Euhyades Bassarides Triaterides with the Jewes Mary the sister of Moses together with Aaron did enter the Sanctuary and was accounted as a Priest In our Religion although the office of Priest-hood be forbidden women we know notwithstanding that Histories declare that women sometimes concealing their Sex have ascended to the top of the High Priests office So many there have beene most holy Abbesses and Nuns whom antiquity was not ashamed to call Priests Famous in prophecy with Nations of all Religions Cassandra Sybillae Mary the sister to Moses Debora Holda Anna Elizabeth the foure daughters of Philip and many other holy women of later days as Brigida Hildegardis have been Furthermore in Magicke whether by the familiarity and acquaintance of good or evill spirits I dispute not Circes before the rest and Medea did far more wonderful things then even Zoroastes himselfe although the Inventor of this Art as hee is beleeved by many Againe In Philosophy there is famous Theano the wife of Pythagoras and his daughter Dama famous for expounding the darke sentences of her father also Aspasia and Diotima the Schollars of Socrates and Mantinea and Philesia Axiochia both the Shollars of Plato To conclude Plotinus extolleth Gemina and hee praiseth Amphiclea and Lactantius Themistis The Roman Church rejoyceth in her Katharine which maide alone did farre excell all the learning of wise men in that age Neither may we forget in this place Zenobia the Queen and Schollar of Longinus the Philosopher who for her abundant and excellent skill of letters obtained the name of Ephinissa whose holy workes Nicomachus hath turned into the Greek tongue Let us proceed to Oratory and Poetry behold Armesia by sirname Androgenea Hortensia Lucrea Valeria Capiola Sappho Corinna Cornificia Romana and Erimna Telia or Telbia which were named Epigrammatists in Salust Sempronia and Calphurnia among the Lawyers yea except it had been forbidden women to learn letters in these days even now as yet might be had women of most famous learning more excellent in wit then men But wherefore do I speake concerning this because women by nature it selfe alone without doubt seem to excell Artificers in all Disciplines do not Grammarians boast themselves to be Masters of Well-speaking and do we not learn that better from Nurses and Mothers then from Grammarians hath not Mother Cornelia framed the most eloquent tongue of the Gracchi and the mother of Istrinus taught Sylem the son of Aripithus the King of Scythia the Greek tongue did not alwayes children born in Colonies brought in with strange Nations hold the speech of their mothers Not for any other cause Plato and Quintilian carefully gave Order concerning chusing a fit Nurse for children that their speech might be rightly and discreetly formed by the tongue of the child And are not also Poets in their Trifles and Fables and Logicians in their Notionall contentions overcome by women There is not an Orator so good or so happy but the perswasion of a light Huswife will overcome him What Arithmetician by casting up falsely can deceive a woman of her due benevolence What Musician can equall a woman by singing and pleasantnesse of voice Philosophers Mathematicians Astrologers are they not in their Divinations and Prognostications oftentimes inferiour to plaine Country women and often an old woman excells a Physitian Socrates himselfe the wisest of all men if credit may be given to the testimony of Pythius and mature in judgement yet disdained not to learn something of the Lady Aspasia So neither was Apollos the divine ashamed to be instructed by Priscilla Now if Prudence be required Opis related amongst the goddesses Plotina the wife of Trajanus Amalasuntha the Queen of the Ostrogoths Aemilia the wife of Scipio are examples to whom may be added Debora a most Prudent woman the wife of Labidoth who alone as may bee read in the Booke of Judges some time judged over the people of Israel and the children of Israel went up to her for every Judgement who also was chosen Captaine of the Host of Israel when Barach did refuse to fight and wone the Field her Enemies being slaine and put to flight Furthermore It is read in the History of the Kings that Attalia the Queen Reigned and Judged seven yeares in Jerusalem and Semiramis after the death of Ninus the King judged the People Forty yeares and all the Candaces Queens of Aethiopia Reigned being most wise and potent concerning whom mention is made in the Acts of the Apostles Josephus that faithfull Writer of Antiquities telleth wonderfull things of them Adde hereunto Nicaula the Queene of Sheba who coming from the uttermost ends of the Earth to heare the Wisdome of Salomon by the testimony of the Lord condemned all the men of Jerusalem And also there was one Technites a most wise woman which staggered K. David with an Interrogation taught him by a riddle appeased him by an Example of God Neither here again is to be passed by in silence Abigal and Bathsheba the one of which freed her Husband from the anger of David The other the Mother of Salomon prudently obtained the Kingdom for her Son Furthermore in the invention of matters Isis Minerva Nycostrata are examples And in modelling Governments and Cities Semiramis holding the Monarchy of the whole World Dido and the Amazones In Wars Thomiris Queene of the Massagetans which conquered Cyrus the Monarch of the Persians Also Camilla of the Nation of the Volscians Valisca of Bohemia both mighty Queens and Pande of the Indians the Amazones Candaces Lemnenses and the Phocians Chians and Persian woman Wee read of many other most famous women which restored safety to their Nation in the highest despaire thereof amongst whom is Judith whom Jeremy extolleth in these words saying Receive ye Judith the widow an example of chastity with triumph perpetuate her never-dying memory with praises he giveth her out not only to be imitated by women but by men because being an example rewarder of chastity such were her vertues that she overcame the invincible and excelled the most excellent We read also that a certain wise woman called to Joab and gave into his hands the head of Siba the enemy of David that he might save the City Abela which was the Mother of Cities in Israel And that a certain woman cast a peece of Mil-stone