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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03192	A curtaine lecture as it is read by a countrey farmers wife to her good man. By a countrey gentlewoman or lady to her esquire or knight. By a souldiers wife to her captain or lievtenant. By a citizens or tradesmans wife to her husband. By a court lady to her lord. Concluding with an imitable lecture read by a queene to her soveraigne lord and king.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	1637 (1637)	STC 13312; ESTC S104055	48,969	275

others all eminent Poets and not one of them whose pen was not imployed in the laborious encomiasticke of some excellent Lady or other The like I may say of the Germanes as Iohannes Gulielmus Rosbachius Matthias Baderus Lambertu● Ludolphus Frenzekius Franciscus Modius Bebel●lius c. Amongst th● French Marrot and others And of our English I will only at this time memorize two famous Mr. Edmund Spencer magnified in his Gloriana and the most renowned Sr. Philip Sidney never to bee forgotten in his Pamela and Philoclea Nay none of these Satyrists against women but with easie examination I could bring their owne works to witnesse against themselves but more needfull occurrents take mee off from them I will therefore leave them to their contradictions with that of Terentius in the Prologue to his first Comedy called Andraea ut quiescant porro moneo desinant Maledicere malefacta ne noscant sua I warne them their ill speeches to forbeare Lest of their owne ill deeds they further heare For it is the fashion of many to prie and seeke to have a deepe inspection to the actions and behaviours of others whilst they are meerely carelesse and negligent in managing of their owne manners and deportment which Horace ingeniously observes and with which I conclude this Chapter Egomet mi ignosco Maevius inquit Stultus improbus hic amor est dignusque notari Maevius doth say My selfe on my selfe dote But foolish is this love and worthy note When purblind thou thine own cheeks canst not see Why dost thou looke so fixt on him or mee For now thine eyes so nimble sighted are The Eagle or the Serpent to out-stare CHAP. II. Of virgintie and the excellencie thereof The punishment of the incestuous Vestalls How chastitie was honoured amongst the ancient Spartans How farre virgins may extend their words writings or gestures BEfore I come to dissect or take upon mee to anatomize the conditions o●●wives it lieth in my road● way to speake something of virgins for all women were first maids before they came to bee married One saith of women in generall that they are wonders in nature if they would not wrong nature And another that they bee admirable Angels if they would not be drawen with Angels to become Devils And of virgins thus If they bee faire they are to bee won with praises and if coy with prayers if they bee proud with gifts if covetous with promises And as it is naturall in them to despise what is offered so it is death to them to be denied what they demand Some compare their hearts to the Cotton tree whose fruit in the bud is as hard as a bullet of iron but being ripe it bringeth forth nothing but soft wooll But give me leave a little to deviate and leave them for a page or two to speake something of the excellencie of virginitie it selfe Pope Gregorie hath these words Quanquàm laudationem virginitatis non suscepi expressionem tamen c. Though I have not undertooke to give virginitie the due praise yet I will afford it some expression and first shew you in what countrey she was bred and by what parent begot If that be our countrey where our dwelling is then is Heaven the mansion of chastitie It hath here a pilgrimage there a permanence For what is virginall chastitie but an integritie voyd of all contagion And whom can we call the father thereof but the immaculate Sonne of God whose flesh saw no corruption and whose Divinitie was not sensible of putrefaction How great then is the honour of virginitie when our blessed Saviour a virgin came of a virgin A virgin the Mother a virgin the Sonne begot of his Father before all worlds borne of his Mother in the world the first proceeding from his eternall goodnes that the second might bee conducible to our everlasting glorie So likewise the holy Mother Church his Spouse is immaculate in her conception and yet fruitfull in her issue a Virgin in her chastitie a Mother in her children being a virgin shee generateth us not by the aid of the flesh but by the assistance of the Spirit not with the throwes and paines of the womb but by the joyes of Angels she gives us suck not with the milke of the breast but the doctrine of the Apostles A virgin is the daughter of Sion a virgin is the new Jerusalem into which no flesh can enter that is common or uncleane Note but how farre the name and vertue of virginitie ex●endeth for though amongst those that be married the title and honour se●meth to bee lost yet ought we to know that everie chaste soule which abstaineth from things unlawfull and forbidden keepeth it still For the Church which consisteth of young and old male and female married and unmarried everie member thereof is honoured with that sacred title Virgin For many causes saith Iohannes Episcopus did the Saviour of the world chuse to be borne of a wife espoused to an husband first to take away all aspersions that might bee alledged against her by the Jewes who urging the strength of the Law would have stoned her being the punishment imposed upon an a●dulteresse next to prevent all occasions from immodest virgins lest they should listen unto any false suspitious rumours by which our blessed Saviour might bee injured or defamed that in going and returning from Aegypt shee might have the company and comfort of her husband Ioseph not a protectour onely but a witnesse of her continued virginitie as also to beguile the Devill the open adversarie of all mankinde who by reason of her marriage might be in some hesitation and doubt whether she were a virgin and therefore grow diffident whether our blessed Saviour were the Sonne of God or no. Pope Leo Parturiente Maria natus est nobis Dei filius c. Mary being delivered or bringing forth to us and for us was borne the Sonne of God borne of an untoucht woman that his humane birth might assure us that he was perfect man and her immaculate virginitie confirme to us that he was perfect God of whom Maxinus Episcopus to this purpose testates Though when hee was borne earthly swathings contained him yet that hee was not of earth heavenly signes witnessed of him Whilst he lay in the cradle he shined in the clouds hee cryed as an infant amidst the Jewes he raigned as an Emperour amongst the Gentiles whilst hee suckt amongst the Bethlemites hee was a worshipped● and adored by the Chaldeans when hee was visited by Shepherds he was honoured by Kings when he was obscure in the stable hee was visible amidst the starres Hee was poore in habit amongst the Jewes he appeared in glory amidst the Gentiles Therefore saith a learned Father let all virgins rejoyce for Mary the blessed virgin hath brought forth let all widowes bee glad for Anna the widow acknowledged Christ in his infancie let all wives exult for when Mary came to visit Elizabeth the wife of