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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12750	A mouzell for Melastomus, the cynicall bayter of, and foule mouthed barker against Euahs sex. Or an apologeticall answere to that irreligious and illiterate pamphlet made by Io. Sw. and by him intituled, The arraignement of women. By Rachel Speght	Speght, Rachel.	1616 (1616)	STC 23058; ESTC S117735	21,062	52

not to tel you that a very Accidence Schollar would haue quite put you downe in both You appeare heerein not vnlike that Painter who seriously indeuouring to pourtray Cupids Bowe forgot the String for you beeing greedie to botch vp your mingle mangle inuectiue against Women haue not therein obserued in many places so much as as Grammer sense But the empriest Barrell makes the lowdest sound and so we wil account of you Many propositions haue you framed which as you thinke make much against Women but if one would make a Logicall assumption the conclusion would be flat against your owne Sex Your dealing wants so much discretion that I doubt whether to bestow so good a name as the Dunce vpon you but Minority bids me keepe within my bounds and therefore I onlie say vnto you that your corrupt Heart and railing Tongue hath made you a fit scribe for the Diuell In that you haue termed your virulent foame the Beare-bayting of Women you haue plainely displayed your owne disposition to be Cynicall in that there appeares no other Dogge or Bull to bayte them but your selfe Good had it beene for you to haue put on that Muzzell which Saint Iames would haue all Christians to weare Speake not euill one of another and then had you not seemed so like the Serpent Porphirus as now you doe which though full of deadly poyson yet being toothlesse hurteth none so much as himselfe For you hauing gone beyond the limits not of Humanitie alone but of Christianitie haue done greater harme vnto your owne soule then vnto women as may plainely appeare First in dishonoring of God by palpable blasphemy wresting and peruerting euerie place of Scripture that you haue alleadged which by the testimony of Saint Peter is to the destruction of them that so doe Secondly it appeares by your disparaging of and opprobrious speeches against that excellent worke of Gods hands which in his great loue he perfected for the comfort of man Thirdly and lastly by this your hodge-podge of heathenish Sentences Similies and Examples you haue set forth your selfe in your right colours vnto the view of the world and I doubt not but the Iudicious will account of you according to your demerit As for the Vulgar sort which haue no more learning then you haue shewed in your Booke it is likely they will applaud you for your paines As for your Bugge-beare or aduice vnto Women that whatsoeuer they doe thinke of your Worke they should conceale it lest in finding fault they bewray their galled backes to the world in which you allude to that Prouerbe Rubbe a galled borse and he will kicke Vnto it I answere by way of Apologie that though euerie galled horse being touched doth kicke yet euery one that kickes is not galled so that you might as well haue said that because burnt folks dread the fire therfore none feare fire but those that are burnt as made that illiterate conclusion which you haue absurdly inferred In your Title Leafe you arraigne none but lewd idle froward and vnconstant women but in the Sequele through defect of memorie as it seemeth forgetting that you had made a distinction of good from badde condemning all in generall you aduise men to beware of and not to match with any of these sixe sorts of women viz. Good and Badde Faire and Foule Rich and Poore But this doctrine of Diuells Saint Paul foreseeing would be broached in the latter times giues warning of There also you promise a Commendation of wise vertuous and honest women when as in the subsequent the worst words and filthiest Epithites that you can deuise you bestow on them in generall excepting no sort of Women Heerein may you be likened vnto a man which vpon the doore of a scuruie house sets this Superscription Heere is a very faire house to be let whereas the doore being opened it is no better then a dogge-hole and darke dungeon Further if your owne words betrue that you wrote with your hand but not with your heart then are you an hypocrite in Print but it is rather to be thought that your Pen was the bewrayer of the abundance of your minde and that this was but a little morter to dawbe vp agayne the wall which you intended to breake downe The reuenge of your rayling Worke wee leaue to Him who hath appropriated vengeance vnto himselfe whose Pen-man hath included Raylers in the Catalogue of them that shall not inherite Gods Kingdome and your selfe vnto the mercie of that iust Iudge who is able to saue and to destroy Your vndeserued friend RACHEL SPEGHT In praise of the Author and her Worke. IF little Dauid that for Israels sake esteemed neyther life nor limbe too deare In that he did aduenture without dread to cast at him whom all the hoste did feare A stone which brought Goliah to the ground Obtain'd applause with Songs and Timbrels sound Then let another young encombatant receiue applause and thankes as well as hee For with an enemie to Women kinde she hath encountred as each wight may see And with the fruit of her industrious toyle To this Goliah she hath giuen the foyle Admire her much I may both for her age and this her Mouzell for a blacke-mouth'd wight But praise her and her worke to that desert which vnto them belongs of equall right I cannot onely this I say and end Shee is vnto her Sex a faithfull friend PHILALETHES IF he that for his Countrie doth expose himselfe vnto the furie of his foe Doth merite praise and due respect of those for whom he did that perill vndergoe Then let the Author of this Monzell true Receiue the like of right it is her due For she to shield her Sex from Slaunders Dart and from inuective obtrectation Hath ventured by force of Learnings Art in which she hath had education To combate with him which doth shame his Sex By offring feeble women to perplex PHILOMATHES PRaise is a debt which doth of due belong To those that take the path of Vertues trace Meating their wayes and workes by Reasons rule Hauing their hearts so lightned with Gods grace That willllingly they would not him offend But holily their liues beginne and end Of such a Pupill vnto Pietie As is describ'd I doe intend to speake A Virgin young and of such tender age As for encounter may be deemd too weake Shee hauing not as yet seene twenty yeares Though in her carriage older she appeares Her wit and learning in this present Worke More praise doth merit then my quill can write Her magnanimitie deserues applaua ' In ventring with a fierie foe to fight And now in fine what shall I further say But that she beares the triumph quite away FAVOVR B. A Mouzell for Melastomus the Cynicall Bayter of and foule-mouthed Barker against EVAHS Sex PROVERBS 18. 22. He that findeth a wife findeth a good thing and receiueth fauour of the Lord. IF lawfull it bee to compare the Potter with his