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A14083
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Asylum veneris, or A sanctuary for ladies Iustly protecting them, their virtues, and sufficiencies from the foule aspersions and forged imputations of traducing spirits.
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D. T. (Daniel Tuvill), d. 1660.
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La docte Elizabeth la prudente Pallas Qui fait que le BretoÌ„ desdaigneux ne desire Changer anmasleiougd'une femme l'Empire Qui tandis qu Erynnis lasse d'estre en enfer Rauage ses voysins par flamme par fer Et que le noir effroy d'vn murmuraÌ„t orage Menace horriblement l'vniuers de naufrage Tient heurense paix sa Prouince ou la Loy Venerable fleurit auec la blanche Foy Qui nâ pas seulement l'opulence faconde Dn maternâ—laÌ„guage ains d'une bouche roÌ„de Peut sibien sur le champ harenguer en Latine Grec FraÌ„cois Espagnol Tudesque FloreÌ„tin Que Rome l'Emperiere laGrece la FraÌ„ce Le Rhin et l'Arne encor plaident pour sa naissance And so I leaue this glorious Sun lodged in hir West till she rise againe at the approach of the Sunne of glorie to behold Queene Anne our gracious Soueraigne whose virtue like that Starre in the East drawes Princes from a farre to doe homage and seruice to hir worthinesse Let vs but consider with what wisdome and discretion she hath hitherto gouerned hir owne domesticall affaires and from thence we shall presently conclude in hir behalfe as Artaxerxes surnamed Mnemon did in the behalfe of that poore man who presented him with an apple of extraordinary bignesse which when he had receiued with a chearefull countenance and withall informed himselfe that it was of his own planting Persolem inquit videtur hic mihi commissam sibi vrbem de parua magnam redacturus Now by the Sunne said he were a Citie committed to this mans custodie of a littel one he would surely make it great of a meane one mighty I could here to stoppe the mouthes of our aduersaries produce the names of diuers honourable personages which like blazing lights doe continually waite vpon this glorious Cynthia and are eminent in the eyes of the world for sundrie notable graces and perfections but I will now againe looke backe a little vpon those elder Times and come to Helena the wife of Iohn king of Cyprus who perceiuing that hir husbands weakenesse was a blot whereon the greatest part of his nobility continually plaied and that the Kingdome was the stake at which they aimed which vnles hir better skil preuented they by their false play were like to winne shee tooke the gouernement into hir owne hands to the release of the Land and the reliefe of all hir subiects And surely where the sword doth rust for want of vse or is so full of gaps and flawes that it cannot well be vsed I see no reason but the Distaffe should be suffered to supply the place God when the children of Israel after the death of Ehud the Beniamite did euill in his sight sold them into the hands of Iabin King of Canaan who for twentie yeares most grieuously oppressed them and when there wanted a Iudge for their deliuerance he sent them vpon the crie of their lamentation Deborah a Prophetesse the wife of Lapidoth Iud. 4. 4. by whose counsailes and directions Barak the sonne of Abinoam freed them from the cruell hand of Iabin and the bloody sword of Sisera And all the people saith the Text came vp as occasion compelled them to hir dwelling vnder the Palme-tree betweene Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim and receiued iudgement from hir I cannot therefore but condemne the Salique law and taxe it of iniustice by which the worthinesse of Women is excluded as a thing altogether eccentricall from the crown of France But leauing this do we not see that the greatest Captaines and the grauest commanders haue thought it no disparagement to their worth to take a peece of the Fox from them wherewith to peece out the Lion in themselues for the safer effecting of their high dessignes Coriolanus whom neither the maiestie of the Common-weale in the persons of Embassadors nor the reuerence of Religion in the countenance of the Priests could moue was by their teares like a hard Diamond with the blood of Goates so mollified that on the instant he did abate the edge of his furie and turned the point of his weapon from the bosome of his vngratefull Countrey The Captaine of that Garrison which Hannibal had planted in Tarentum was desperately en amoured of a certaine gentlewoman who had a Brother that serued at the same time in the Romane armie vnder Fabius the Consul which when he vnderstood he commanded him as a fugitiue to hasten thither where making vse of his sisters cunning flatteries he droue the Gouernour in a short time to betray the towne which was committed to his custodie To bee briefe what had become of the two sonnes of Alexander King of the Iewes when immediately vpon their Fathers death the incensed multitude in reuenge of that hard and cruell slauery wherein he had alwaies held them during his life hastened to the Pallace with their weapons in a readinesse to destroy them and had giuen those their tragicall dessignes a bloody Catastrophe but that a Womans wisedome on the sudden altered the Scene of their proceedings and hatching a Doue out of a Serpents egge according to Sampsons riddle out of the fierce brought sweetnesse and out of the deuourer meate by casting the corps of hir deceased Lord into the middest of the market place and telling them that as in his life time she would willingly haue diuerted him from those tyrannicall and cruell courses which had most iustly stirred them vp to anger against him so now being dead she was ready there with them to torture his wretched carkasle and to fling it to the dogs onely she intreated them to commiserate those little infants which were so farre from being guiltie of any fault that they could not possibly haue beene priuie to any fact Which words of hirs wrought such an impression in their mindes that they did not onely choose those children with one consent for their Soueraigne Lords but afforded likewise honourable burial to the exposed corps Nay what had become of the whole nation of the Iewes if the wisedome of Iudith had not cunningly practised the harsh affections of Holofernes and with her speeches actions and behauiour so enchanted his warlike Spirits that hee minded no armes at all but hers which if at any time they happened to compasse him hee thought himselfe no lesse than a glorious Planet in a golden Spheare Queene Cleofis after she had yeelded her selfe to Alexander redeemed by lying with him her lost kingdome Illecebris saith Q. Curtius consecuta quod virtute non poterat hauing obtained that of him by flatterie which she could not keepe from him by force And vndoubtedly there is nothing if once they be pleased to employ their wits in which they cannot very easily ouer-reach and gull the wisest and the ablest men Dauid cannot so stifly resolue to reuenge him selfe on Nabal and his houshold but Abigail will make him through her wise behauiour quickely relent Out of which consideration it may
it pleased God many times to vse as a sacred Oracle whereby to publish vnto the world what hee purposed in his will Others again which haue had the tutoring of diuerse very famous and worthy persons as Aspasia Macrina and Diotime who by her prayers and deuouter sacrifices prorogued a certaine pestilence which was then to light vpon the Athenians till ten yeeres after I could heere alleadge Nicostrata the mother of Euander who was the first that taught the Latines what letters were as likewise Corinna Sappho Sulpitia and the Schoole-mistresse of Pindare the Lyrike all of them worthy admiration for their excellencie in Poesie but I desire not to trauell farre for what I may procure neere home A country-woman of our owne hauing disguised herselfe into the habit of a Student tooke her iourney to Rome where in a while she grew so famous for wit and knowledge that from one degree of Dignity to another shee stepped at length into Saint Peters Chaire and had the custodie of the Keyes And this if their aduersaries like deafe Adders stoppe not their eares when Reason charmeth may very well suffice to maintaine them learned Their Wisedome is the next which men with their traducements would enuiously impeach but you shall quickly see it vncanopied of those mistie clouds which would obscure it and shining out as cleere as brightest day CHAP. 9. Of their Wisdome WOmen are wise enough say their aduersaries if they can but keepe themselues out of the raine Indeede it would much aduantage men if their vnderstandings were limited with such narrow bounds Their imperfections would not furnish them with matter of laughter so readily as now they doe nor their ablest virtues be so often ouermatched by them as now they are It hath bin our pollicie from the beginning to busie them in domestical affaires thereby to diuert them from more serious imployments in which if they had not surmounted vs they would at least haue showne themselues our equals and our parallels Spinning knitting sowing preseruing the like as we would make them beleeue are their chiefest peices But all ages haue affoorded some whose Spirits being of a stronger temper and harder edge then to turne at such perswasions haue trauailed beyond those Herculean Pillers and made manifest to the world that the Braines of a Serpent haue beene lodged in the Head of a Doue For proofe hereof let vs search no farther into the bosome of Antiquitie then those times in which the pride and glory of Italie sat chained as a Trophie on the victorious armes of the barbarous Gothes and we shall finde that there liued then amongst them Queene Amalasunta who with such wonderfull discretion and moderation so managed their harsher mindes that she found not in them all the while she raigned the least rub or stoppe which might interrupt the smoother course of hir proceedings After hir we shall heare of Theodelinda Queene of Lumbardie a Woman famous and much renowmed for hir singular virtue in the gouernment of State affaires and after hir of Theodora the Grecian Emperesse one not inferiour in Wisdome or sufficiencie to the former But that we may draw somewhat neerer home what King or Prince almost of the latter daies and make inquirie through the largest part of Christendome did euer deserue to be compared to Isabella Queene of Spaine At hir first comming to the crowne she found the greatest part of hir Estate in the hands of the greatest which notwithstanding shee recouered in so iust and peaceable manner that they whom she dispossessed continued most affectionate vnto hir and were willing to forgoe what formerly they had willingly vsurped After this she did not onely defend hir owne Kingdomes from the powerfull inuasions of forraine enemies but withall enlarged them to hir perpetuall honour by the glorious acquist of the kingdome of Granado besides all which there was in hir as is credibly recorded by such as knew hir such a diuiner kinde of Maiesty as drew from hir Subiects all dutifull respect and put the most rebellious without any stirre or tumult in minde of their obedience withall such a discerning iudgement in the choise and election of Ministers fit for those places in which she meant to employ them which as the Poet saith is the chiefest Art that belongeth vnto Soueraignetie Principis est virtus maxima nosse suos And afterwards so liberall a minde to reward the worthinesse of their desarts that since there haue bin few in Spaine of any note or credit which were not of hir creation Gonsaluo the great Captaine did more highly value himselfe for the happinesse he had to be preferred by hir then for all the famous victories and worthie Acts which made him honoured of all Men both in Peace and Warre So that in a word the glory and the reputation which Ferdinand hir husband got by hir was no lesse a Dower then the Kingdome of Castile What should I speake of Queene Anne of France a Lady of no lesse worth then wealth wife to two Kings Charles and Lewis but to neither of them any way inferiour either in iustice clemency liberality or holinesse of life What of Lady Margaret Daughter to Miximilian the Emperour who with no lesse wisedome moderation and equity gouerned hir State a long time Hungarie Naples Arragon and Sicilie afford vs diuers examples of the like kinde but since the winde is faire I will disanchor from these forraine Coastes and hauing hoisest vp my Sailes make hast vnto our owne And behold I am met vpon the shore by that wonder of hir Sex Queene Elizabeth of happy memory of whom Tasso maks this honourable mention That howsoeuer their owne ill fortune had decreed she should be separated from the Church neuerthelesse saith hee l'Heroiche virtu dell animo suo l'altezza dell ingegno mirabile le rendeua affectionatissimo ogni animo gentile valoroso The Heroicall virtues of hir Minde and the wonderfull profoundnesse of hir Wit endeared euery noble and valorous disposition most affectionately vnto hir And indeede the world cānot produce a fairer example out of all Antiquities Court-roles in which goodnes was euermore equally matched with greatnesse honestie with Policie mildenesse with seueritie liberality with frugalitie or affability with maiesty and in which we may see such prudence in gouerning such moderation in commanding such readinesse in rewarding such discretion in promising such religion in performing So that all hir abilities rightly considered we may say of hir as was said of Greece Sola factorum gloriā ad verborū copiā tetendit She alone hath equalled with hir deeds all that euer could be said of hir in words and deserued that which Alexander wished that Homers quil to be the Trumpet of hir Praises But not to keepe hir Princely Ashes too long out of their Sacred Urne I will onely vtter to the astonishment of Fame that which the Muse of diuine du Bartas sung of hir with admiration stiling hir that without flatterie