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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07888	The vvorming of a mad dogge: or, A soppe for Cerberus the iaylor of Hell No confutation but a sharpe redargution of the bayter of women. By Constantia Munda	Munda, Constantia.	1617 (1617)	STC 18257; ESTC S113031	21,031	46

peccato sinnes custome-house hath non sine priuilegio writ vpon his dores as though community in offence could make an immunitie No! vse of sinne is the soules extortion a biting faenorie that eates out the principle Yet wofull experience makes it too true consuetudo peccandi tollit sensum peccatt as may bee seene by the workes of diuers men that make their pens their pensils to limme out vice that it may seeme delicious and amiable so to detract from vertue and honesty as though their essence were onely in outward appearance of goodnesse as if mortality were onely circumscribed within the conditions of our sex caelum ipsum petimus stultitia foolish man will reprehend his Creator in the admirable worke of his generation and conseruation Woman the second edition of the Epitome of the whole world the second Tome of that goodly volume compiled by the great God of heauen and earth is most shamefully blurd and derogatiuely rased by scribling penns of sauage vncought monsters To what an irregular straine is the daring impudence of b●●d-fold bayards aspired vnto that they will presume to call in question euen the most absolute worke composed by the worlds great Architect A strange blasphemy to finde fault with that which the Priuy Councell of the high and mighty Parliament of the inscrutable Tri-vnitie in Heauen determined to be very good Gen. 1 To call that imperfect froward crooked and peruerse to make an arraignment and Beare-baiting of that which the Pantocrator would in his omniscient wisedome haue to be the consummation of his blessed weekes worke the end crowne and perfection of the neuer-sufficiently glorified creation What is it but an exorbitant phrensie and wofull taxation of the supreme deitie Yet woman the greatest part of the lesser world is generally become the subiect of euery pedanticall goose-quill 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Euery fantasticke Poetaster which thinkes he hath lickt the vomit of his Coriphaeus and can but patch a hobling verse together will striue to represent vnseemely figments imputed to our sex as a pleasing theme to the vulgar on the publique Theatre teaching the worser sort that are more prone to luxurie a compendious way to learne to be sinfull These foule mouth'd raylers qui non evident vt corrigant sed quaerunt quid reprehendant that reprooue not that they might reforme but pry into actions that they might carpe and cauill so that in this infamous profession they farre exceed the vildest kinde of Pharisaicall ostentation and so surmounting beyond all comparison railing Anaxarchus Aut vt Ana archus pila ●●nuaris in alta Ouid in I●in Benuenuto 〈◊〉 who for his detracting and biting tongue was pestled to death in a brazen morter Who as a learned Tuscan speaketh gli miseri vanno a tentone altreuolte a carpone per facer mercatantia dell ' altrui da lor inuentata è seminata vergogna impudicamente cereano l'altrui deshonor erger la meretricia fronte malzar la impudiche corna these wretched miscreants goe groaping and sometimes on all foure to traffique with other folkes credits by their owne divulged and dispersed ignominie That impudently seeke by others dishonour to set a shamelesse face on the matter and thus to put out their immodest hornes to butt at and gore the name and reputation of the innocent being so besotted with a base and miserable condition and blinde in themselues they blush not in their tongues to carry the gall of Rabilius and in their chaps the poyson of Colimachus in their mouthes the flame of mount Aetna in their eyes Iupiters lightning which he darted at the Centaures in their thoghts Bellonaes arrowes in their serpentine words the bitternesse of Sulmo against Orbecca blending and commixing all their discourse with epaticke aloes and vnsauourie simples Plus aloes quam mellis habent deriuing all their ingredients of their venomed Recipes from the Apothecaries shop of the Deuill Notwithstanding as the same learned man metaphorically speakes Cotesti vsei scangerati cittá senza muro naui senza gouerno vasi senza coperto caualli indomiti senza freno non considerano These wide open-dores these vnwalled townes these rudderlesse shippes these vncouerd vessels these vnbrideled horses doe not consider that the tongue being a very little member should neuer goe out of that same iuory gate in which not without a great mystery diuine wisedome and nature together hath enclosed it signifying that a man should giue him selfe eyther to vertuous speech or prudent silence and not let tongue and pen runne vp and downe like a weaponed madde-man to strike and wound any without partiality uery one without exception to make such an vniuersall massacre for so I may terme it Vn coup de langue est p us dan gere●x qu' vn coup de lance 〈◊〉 seeing words make worse wounds then swords yet lest villanie domineere and triumph in furie wee will manicle your dissolute fist that you deale not your blowes so vnaduisedly Though feminine modesty hath confin'd our rarest and ripest wits to silence wee acknowledge it our greatest ornament but when necessity compels vs Sop●o 〈◊〉 A● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 t is as great a fault and folly loquenda tacere vt contra grauis est culpa tacenda loqui being too much prouoked by arrainments baytings and rancarous impeachments of the reputation of our whole sex stulta est clementia periturae parcere cartae opportunity of speaking slipt by silence is as bad as importunity vpheld by babling 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Loqui quae de●●● est meli●s quam tacere Know therefore that wee will cancell your accusations trauers your bils and come vpon you for a false inditement and thinke not t is our waspishnesse that shall sting you no sir vntill we see your malepert sausinesse reformed which will not be till you doe make a long letter to vs Literam ●●ngam tra●●●● we will continue Iuno'es Non sic abibunt odia viuaces aget violentus iras animus Saeuusque dolor aeterna bella pace sublat â geret Notwithstanding for all your iniuries as Gelo Siracusanus answered Syagrius the Spartane You shall not induce mee though stird with anger 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to demean my selfe vnreuerently in the retribution of your iniuries You idoll muse and musing being idle as your learned Epistle beginneth shall bee no plea to make your viperous scandals seeme pleasing ipsa excusatio culpa est Where by the way I note your vntoward nature contrary to all men for wheras in all others of your sex by your confession idlenesse ingendreth loue in you hate you say in the dedication of your booke to your mistresses the common sort of women that you had little ease to passe the time withall but now seeing you haue basely wron'gd our wearied and wurried Patience with your insolent inuectiue madnesse you shall make a simple conuersion of your proposition and take your