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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

offendeth more then the woman Hence the man taken in Adultery is punished with death but the woman Adulteresse she is but commanded into a Monastery Many priviledges Azo gathereth in his summary upon the titles of the Velleian Councell and Speculator upon the Renunciations yea those ancient Law-givers grave men by their wisdome as I may say Artificers of Commonwealths in knowledge most eminent Licurgus and Plato I say when as they knew out of the Secrets of Philosophy that women neither by excellency of mind nor by strength of body nor dignity of nature were inferior to men but equall to them in all things they appointed women to be exercised with men in Wrastlings and Tournaments also in all things that appertain to Warlike Discipline in the Bow in the Sling in the casting of Darts in shooting in scirmishing in Armour both by Horse and Foote in pitching of Camps and ordering of Armies in leading of Hosts and as I may speake briefly they gave all those things to women which now are the exercises of men Let us read Writers of antiquities worthy of beleife we shall finde in Getulia Bactris Galletia that the manner hath been for the men to be given to effeminatnesse and luxury but the women to Till Ground Build Trade Ride War as men with us doe now With the Cantabrians men did give portions to women Brothers were given in marriage by Sisters and the Daughters were appointed Heires With the Scythians Thracians and Gaules Offices were common both to women and to men And in Councels either for War or Peace women were adhered to in judgement as soon or before men which the league of the Celtans with Haniball doth demonstrate in these words If any one of the Celtans complaineth that he is injured by any of the Carthaginians let the Magistrate or the Rulers of the Carthaginians which are in Spaine be Judges of the matter If any one of the Carthaginians hath suffered any unjust thing from any of the Celtans let the women of the Celtans be judges concerning that matter But you will say that liberty and priviledge which was given to Women is restrained by the Lawes of men whose tyranny usurpes against God and Natures Lawes abolished by use and custome and extinguished by the manner of their education for a woman by and by as soon as she is borne and from the first beginning of her years is detained in sloth at home and as uncapable of another Province she is permitted to think of nothing besides her Needle or the like when afterwards she reacheth to ripenesse of age she is delivered up to the jealous rule of her husband or else shut up in the perpetual Bridewell of Nuns also publicke Offices are forbidden them by Lawes it is not permitted that any one plead in judgement be she never so wise Furthermore They are not to meddle in jurisdictions arbitrements adoptions intercessions procurations Guardianships in causes Testamentary or criminall Also it is not lawfull for them to preach the word of God which is against expresse Scripture in which the holy spirit promiseth to women by the Prophet Joel saying And your daughters shall prophesie even as in the time of the Apostles they did publickly teach as it is noted by Anna the wife of Simeon and the daughters of Philip and Priscilla the wife of Aquila So great is the wickednesse of all late Law-makers that they have made voide the commandments of God by their owne traditions because Women otherwise by the prerogative of Nature and excellency in dignity most noble they pronounce more vile by condition and inferiour to all men By their Lawes women are compelled to give place to men as the conquered to the conquerors in Warre not either by naturall or divine Command or Reason But by Custome Education Fortune and by a certaine tyrannicall humour of men inforcing There are moreover which assume Authority to themselves over Women by vertue of Religion and doe prove their Tyranny out of holy Writ who have that curse of Eve continually in their mouths under the power of man thou shalt be and hee shall rule over thee That if it be Answered them that Christ hath taken away the Curse they will object the same thing from the words of Peter of which thing Paul also speakes Let Women bee subject to their Husbands let Womem be silent in the Church But those who know the various Tropes and figures of Scripture will easily perceive those places differ not really and internally but onely in barke and out-side for there is that Order in the Church that Men are preferred before Women in the Ministry but onely as the Jewes before the Greekes in the Promises Neverthelesse God is no respecter of persons for in Christ neither Male nor Female but a new creature is accepted But also for the most part things are permitted to Men by reason of their hardnesse of heart against Women as in time past Bills of Divorcement were granted to the Jewes which notwithstanding abridge not the dignity of Women for Men being deficient and weake Women had the power of Judgement to the reproach of Men And the Queene of Sheba shall one day judge the men of Jerusalem Who therefore are justified by faith are made Sonnes of Abraham but Sonnes I say of the Promise are subjected to Women and are obnoxious to that Command of God speaking to Abraham All things that Sarah saith unto thee heare her voice And thus that I may now recollect my selfe very briefly I have shewed the excellency of the Female Sexe by many Arguments viz. by Name by Order by Place by Matter And what dignity the Woman hath acquired above ●…e Man from God Afterwards we have demonstrated by Religion Reason Nature Humane Lawes by various Authority Reasons and Examples Notwithstanding we have not said so many things but wee have left as many yet to be spoken because not moved by ambition or for Vaine-Glories sake I came to write but by Duty and Truth that I may not seeme as an envious and detracting man to snatch away from so Noble a Sexe their due and just praises by a certaine wicked silence if I were silent If any more curious shall finde some Argument passed by which hee may thinke ought to bee added to this Worke I shall think my selfe not reprooved of him but helped so far as he may render this our good worke better by his wit and learning But least the work should arise to an exceeding Volume here let there be an end FINIS Luk. 20. Matth. 22. Mark 12. Arg. 1. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Gen 2. Joh. 1. Gen. 2. Gen. 6. Gen. 12. Gen. 24. 2 Kings 2 1 Chron 1 Hest. 1. 2. Judith 8 Din 13. Job last Num. 31. Deut. 21. Gal. 2. de sperm 14. Val. l. 5. c. 4. Arist. l anima lib. Eccl. l. 26. Arist. l. de animal Eccles. 26 Averrois 2. Collig Orig. in primo cont. Faust Virg. 3. Georg. Pin. ●2 Pro. 18. Eccle. 26. Prov. 12. 1 Cor. 11. August Gen. 18. 28. Gen. 17. Gen. 2. Gen. 17. Gen. 3. Bernard Gen. 3. Job Mat. 15. Iohn 18 Mat. 20. Mat. 14. Luk. 22. Plat. de Joan. 8. Gen. 31 Gen 27. Josh. 2. Judith 11 Mat. 14. Gen. 4. Gen. 9. Ibid. Gen. 10. Gen. 3● Exod. 1. Gen. 18. Gen. 16. 19. Lycurgus Solon Josh. 7. 2 King 19. ● Chron. 4. Lactant. l. Instit. Eus de praep. Evangel. Aug de civit Dei Exod. 15. 2 Chro. 22. 2 Chro 34. Mat. 27. ct 28. Mat 15. 16. Luk. 23. 25. Act. 18. 2 Mac. 7. Judg. 4. 1 King 10. 2 Chron. 9 2 King 14. 1 King 25. 1 Chron. 1. Hieron in prolog. sup Judith Judg. 9. Hest. 7. 8 9 Gen. 3. 1 Pet. 3. Col. 3. Ephes. 5. Rom. 2. Acts 20. Gen. 21.

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

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