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soul_n	affection_n	heart_n	mind_n	3,804	5	5.4014	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32910	The female advocate; or, A plea for the just liberty of the tender sex, and particularly of married women. Being reflections on a late rude and disingenuous discourse, delivered by Mr. John Sprint, in a sermon at a wedding, May 11th, at Sherburn in Dorsetshire, 1699. / By a Lady of Quality.	Chudleigh, Mary Lee, Lady, 1656-1710.	1700 (1700)	Wing C3984; ESTC R4679	27,821	63

THE FEMALE ADVOCATE OR A Plea for the just Liberty of the Tender Sex and particularly of Married Women BEING REFLECTIONS On a late Rude and Disingenuous DISCOURSE Delivered by Mr. JOHN SPRINT in a Sermon at a Wedding May 11th at Sherburn in Dorsetshire 1699. By a Lady of Quality Hanc etiam Moecenas aspice partem LONDON Printed for Andrew Bell at the Cross-keys and Bible in Cornhil near Stocksmarket 1700. To the Honourable The Lady W ley Madam ALL the World will agree with me when I tell You that 't is not because You have any occasion of a Discourse of this kind that I lay these Reflections at Your Ladyship's feet but because You are a perfect Example how little need there is of an unsociable Majesty on the one hand or a vile Submission on the other where Virtue and Goodness Noble and Generous Souls Tender and Sublime Affections are mutually contemplated and enjoy'd and do for ever banish every Thought that might begin the least uneasiness For if the Beauties of Your Mind and the perfect Agreeableness of Your Humor and the mighty Charms of Your Conversation are enough to melt the Heart of the most barbarous Man and soften him into a Generous Tenderness how great is the Happiness of You both when the noble Partner of Your Joys seems made for You and has those Great and Endearing Qualities which do sufficiently justify the exalted Passion You have for Him and the Opinion every one hath of Your Choice Madam May You thus go on Live Love and be Happy till by just degrees You pass through all the Joys of this Life to those Above Your Ladiship 's most obliged and most humble Servant Eugenia PREFACE To the Female Sex Ladies IF you inquire who I am I shall only tell you in general that I am one that never yet came within the Clutches of a Husband and therefore what I write may be the more favourably interpreted as not coming from a Party concern'd Nor really do I hope to make my Condition the easier if ever I resign my self into the Arms of one of the other Sex No I am very well satisfy'd that there are a great many Brave Men whose Generous Principles make 'em scorn the Methods that very Reason condemns Not that I can boast of any great Beauty or a vast Fortune two things especially the latter which are able to make us Conquerors thro the World But I have endeavour'd to furnish my self with something more valuable I shall not brag that I understand a little Greek and Latin Languages being only the effects of Confusion having made some attempt to look into the more solid parts of Learning and having adventur'd a little abroad into the World and endeavour'd to understand Men and Manners And having seen something of the Italian and Spanish Humors I solemnly profess I never observ'd in Italy nor Spain it self a Slavery so abject as this Author would fain persuade us to As for those of you that are already in the House of Bondage and have found all the Charms of Innocence and good Humour and the most exact Prudence ineffectual long to recommend you to the Smiles of your new Lords and Masters I think indeed 't will be very well if you can as he advises you bring down the very Desires of your Hearts to their Will and Pleasure and fancy your selves happy in the midst of all And as for those of you that are happily married your Life and Actions are a sufficient Contradiction to this Gentleman while you let the World see that you can please your Husbands without that extraordinaay way which he recommends in his Sermon that was thought so unmanly and scandalous that as I am inform'd Mr. L the Minister who is resident at Sherborn look'd on himself as oblig'd to tell the World in the public News that he was not the Author of that Discourse lest it being preach'd where he lives they who knew not his Name might impute it to him In a word Ladies I would recommend to your Thoughts something that is great and noble viz. to furnish your Minds with true Knowledg that as an Ingenious Lady tells us you may know something more than a well-chosen Petticoat or a fashionable Commode Learning becomes us as well as the Men. Several of the French Ladies and with us the late incomparable Mrs. Baynard and the Lady that is Mr. Norris's Correspondent and many more are Witnesses of this Hereby we shall be far enough from being charm'd with a great Estate or mov'd with the flowing Nonsense and Romantic Bombast of every Foppish Beau and shall learn if we choose Companions for our Lives to select the Great the Generous the Brave and Deserving Souls Men who will as much hate to see us uneasy as this Gentleman is afraid of coming under the Discipline of the Apron Yours Eugenia REFLECTIONS ON A late Rude and Disingenuous DISCOURSE c. BEing presented with the Book I am now going to consider by a Gentleman who I am sure was very far in it from the design of the Author I took the liberty to pass a few Remarks on so singular and extraordinary a Piece tho some think it beyond the bounds of Female Patience to peruse it But like a jealous Husband I was willing to know all against our selves especially that so celebrated an Author can produce And indeed when I had follow'd him to the end of the Chapter I could not but wonder to find a Sex attack'd from the Pulpit with more confident Impudence than ever they were on the Stage tho with far less Wit and Ingenuity When I had in as little Time as Patience turn'd over all those bitter Leaves tho I easily found his Design yet for my heart I could never once find the strength of the Arguments by which he endeavours to drive it so that after all I think a resolute and headstrong Yea or Nay would have done as well altogether Hereupon I laid aside the Book as a most self-confuting Piece till I found that Miracles were not ceas'd and that some People were so charm'd with it that they thought it worth their while to teeze every poor Woman they met with it Upon this I began to have some design of taking Arms and alarming the whole Power of Females against him But upon second thoughts I resolv'd to save 'em the trouble and enter into a single Combat with this great Goliah this man of mighty Fame As humble thoughts as I have of my self I began to be afraid that he would think himself honour'd by an Antagonist and conclude for certain that there must needs be some mighty Force in his Arguments if any Resistance was made But at last considering his haughty Temper and knowing 't was impossible he should have greater thoughts of his last Piece than he has already I began to lay aside that fear and only expected that he would fancy himself the Emperor of the Moon and whoever writes against

Elements are most troublesom out of their proper places as Profaneness in Ministers Injustice in Judges and Discomfort in a Wife Now this way of talking seems to imply that Profaneness and Injustice in some persons look very well and are in their proper places by which what he intends is beyond my weak Ability to learn If his meaning be good I am sure his utterance and expression are not very proper here but however 't was done with an upright Intention and a Design to bring down the Desires of all Womens hearts into subjection to the high and mighty Sex As to the Proverb of Solomon he quotes there is no doubt of the truth of it nor his Comment upon it but really I can see no great Piety nor Ingenuity in that Sentence he has from his Pious and Ingenious Author That 't is a hundred pities the Tongues of such Shrows had not as many Blisters as their Jaws have Teeth and 't is never better with their Husbands than when they are hoarse If this be not Billingsgate of the coarsest Alloy I know not what is only coming from the Pulpit 't is sanctified and becomes a very Pious and Ingenious Saying What he says in the conclusion of this part of his Discourse that a clamorous and turbulent Wife that spits Passion and Poison is a Torment to her self and her Husband is a most undoubted Truth and they are justly Self-Tormentors only this I must add that I think there needs no farther Torment for a Woman than only being oblig'd on pain of Damnation to bring under her very Desires to the unaccountable Humours of a wild and giddy Fop who becomes more insolent by Submission and grows more intolerable by being born with Thus I have followed this courteous Gentleman thro all the pleasant Paths he hath here laid down for us The next thing he tells us is how and which way married Women should endeavour to please their Husbands And here he pitches on three very Canonical Heads Love honour and obey And tells us a very learned Story that he hath heard some Women say They never would nor did repeat the sacred Words and that if he had been to officiate he would have kept them to the Text or made them lie alone all their Days to their unspeakable Terror and Afrightment This is a fine Period to be delivered from the Pulpit but being set off with a vehement Accent and a very earnest Delivery it passed no doubt very well and mightily affected the Auditory I am not about to quarrel with the Compilers of the Liturgy only I shall take notice that they were Men who had a hand in it and by consequence would not omit the binding our Sex as fast as possible But 't is also to be observed that those words with my Body I thee worship if they have any meaning in them can never be applied to such a sort of Creature as is a Slave tho our Author should cast in his mind this way and that way and every way to pervert the sense of them He tells us that every married Woman in order to please her Husband ought to love him A notable Discovery and who ever doubted or denied it But however a Man must be a person of extraordinary Merit all Love and Kindness and a thousand good Properties to bring a Woman to that extravagant height of Passion as to be contented and pleas'd tho all the World besides were annihilated P. 28. And he seems to suggest some odd unlucky thing or other in this Matrimony which gives a very strong Temptation to the poor Ladies to be discontented as soon as ever they come under the Yoke and accordingly he says by all means a Woman newly married especially is to avoid all occasion of Difference with her Husband and to this purpose makes a very grave and learned Citation out of Plutarch for the edification of the Auditory concerning his acquaintance with the antient Fathers for so it may be he supposes that at least we poor ignorant Souls do think and know no better Now by his pressing so obvious and uncontested a Matter with such vehemence it looks as if he had a mind to represent us as a Generation of Vipers that as soon as ever any charitable Man is so kind as to lodg us poor willing Creatures in his Bosom immediatly sting him to death Then he breaks out into the most scurrilous and ungenteel Language imaginable P. 30 31. and tells the World that young Women before Marriage do all they can to engage the Affections of a Husband so that in their Looks Dress and Behavior you may read Come love me Very coming and easy Creatures Certainly if they were so very willing abundance of little arts which the Men use might very well be spared 'T is very easy for any Knight-Errant to fancy himself happy and that some great Lady loves him most desperately if she is but civil in her behavior cleanly in her dress and has an air of Candor especially if she happens to smile tho it be at his Follies And according to this rule the Author should have made a more civil return to the Sex for I doubt not but he has read Come love me many a time if this does express it But is it not the Vanity of the Men that makes the Women if any of them are so vain to use those petty Arts he here sets down I hope this Gentleman does not speak by experience when he says that as soon as ever they are married their pleasant Looks are turned into Frowns and the Neatness of their Dress into Sluttery c. Notwithstanding all this there are some Ladies not so very easy of access but hold out desperatly against all the arts of the undermining Sex and the puling Lovers cannot spell Come love me till they have given some very remarkable proofs of their Integrity which if they prove afterwards to be but Shams are no very contemptible Temptations to the new-married Woman to blot out the Impressions of undeserved Love which Hypocrisy only had made in her Heart But in my Observation for let me bring that as an Argument as well as he does his I have found very few if any Women who have had obliging and respectful Husbands for that 's his own Phrase P. 20. that have begun first to withdraw their Affections as some have done no question who by the undiscoverable Arts of designing Men have been betray'd and afterwards slighted to the utmost degree But it becomes those who are guilty themselves to talk at this huffing rate and silence all Complaints by the impudent Accusations they bring against those they injure Thus he talks and raves like one that has forgotten common Civility and the generous Education of the Men of his Coat and concludes this Head with a very wooden Simile for the Instruction and Edification of all well-meaning Carpenters and Joyners viz. That when two Boards are first glued together