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A parliament of ladies with their lawes newly enacted.
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Neville, Henry, 1620-1694.
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1647
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for himselfe he hath neither good amble trot nor gallop After them Grace the Goldsmiths wife Sarah the Silkemans Kate the Comfit-makers Beatrice the Brasiers Parnell the Apoâ—â—â—caries Maudlin the Masons Winifred the Wyre-drawers Dorothy the Drapers c. every one laid downe their severall grievanâ—â—â— which as thay were attentively heard so they were much to be commiserated I am loath to insist on too many therefore for brevities sake let these suffice for the rest then consulation was had how to rectifie what was amisse for the generall good of their Sects how to rest the power in men from wronging their wives that thenceforward they might live in the more ease pride pomp and liberty for which they thought fit that good and wholsome Laws should be enacted The fift was Mrs. Tattle-well that spak who said that it was not only fitting but necessary that every woman should have two husbands for said she was not every woman born with two legs two hands two eyes two eares and every deep Well ought to have two Buckets while one is coming up the other going down have not most great houses two doors likewise have not most Tavernes a fore-door and a back-doore with two signs and two bushes every ship a fore-Mast and a main-Mast most Cities two or three gates and every gate three or foure Watch-men and every Beadle three or foure men every night in his Lanthorn or else their mony hath not every stool or chair three or four legs and every Bed stead two posts and three or four Curtains the better to support the other parts of them and therfore in conscience every Woman may have two husbands for have not we women six Sences men but five the major part we know includes the minor therefore the case is cleer on our sides for we have nothing to offend and defend our selves but our tongues which we bring in for another sence for the tongue tels what the eare heares what the eye sees what the hand handles what the palat fasteth what the nose smeleth therfore the tongue ought to be the six Sence which we must maintain for our own safety though woman was taken out of the side of man yet let men know that they cannot nor shal not alwayes keep us under I put the case to you suppose a handsome Lasse marries a Seafaring man perehance his occasions call him to goe a long voyage to Sea as to the East or West Indies or to the straights of Magellan the reed or red-Sea or to the Persian gulfe he is bound to stay a yeere two or three before he can returne doe you nay prethee good sister let me not be interrupted in my speech pray silence or I will say no more for I now speak to the purpose as I have said doe you thinke it convenient such a pretty soule should lye alone having been wedded so short a time and onely tasted of you know what and having been a fellowfeeler and helper in most cases for the Commonwealths good that she can be content to lye alone tumbling and tossing in a good featherbed sometimes to the wall sometimes to the doore sometimes of one side and sometimes of the other sighing and groaning as if her very twatling-strings would breake making her moan to the curtains fumbling and biting or tearing the sheets and by that meanes ease her oppressed body and minde nay I should not say oppressed body for there I was mistaken there my tongu went too fast I should have said her troubled and perplexed spirit heart on what you terme it ought not I say such a woman to have two Husbands Yes yes said they being alwayes provided and for the good of the Common-wealth So likewise the Souldier and Captain when they are gone to the Wars the Merchant the Factor and the Mariner when they are gone to Sea a foolish Plaintiffe and his Defendant that will come up Post two or three hundred miles to spend his money and stay a whole Tearm before he return to his beloved ought not these and many more which I could name which for brevities sake I omit to leave one Husband at home while the other being at Sea looks to the maine boling and that the fore-mast and main-yard and all other tackling be fit and compleat for his occasions The Factor while he looks to cast up his Accompts abroad she may look and cast up here at home The Plaintiffe and Defendant while they be spending money at Law she may get some at home by Love All these cases are to be considered for every Musket must have a Scouring-stick and every Gun must have a Rammer and every pen must be dipped in Ink before it will write Has not every Constable his Beadle every Serjeant his Yeoman hath not every Officer in a Ship his Mate as the Chirurgion he hath his Mate the Master his Mate and the Gunner his Mate It is good to have two strings to ones Bow if one break the other may hold that if one be dogged and surly the other may be pleasant and joviall that while one be off the hooks the other may be on the hinges Upon which motion it is fully agreed upon by us Women who are here present which find iâ— better for us women to have 2 husbands that if one be sick the other may be well one abroad another at home and this was Mis Tabitha Tireman and al giving out it may be a great means to abolish the old custom of making cuckolds ere she could proceed they all cried it up for eurraÌ„t But let me tel you one thing wch might put a rub in our way what if our husbaÌ„ds object say that we promised to love obey them at the time of our marriage that we must be tied to that promise By our Lady that 's true said they what must be our plea for that I 'le tel you said Mis Tatle-well let us answer thus much in that behalf that we had a mental reservation wheÌ„ the wisest of us said so for though our husbands expect it at our hands all our life-time we must say that we ment it only for that day the first night no longer therfore by this means we may wave the businesse repeal that Law wherupon they al agreed to it by general consent a great coÌ„mendation bestowed on Mis Tatle-well for finding out this mystery evasion wch was set down at first by these men by way of error and mistake Then Mis Prudence Prate-al said let it be likewise enacted that since Maids for the most part marry in haste and repent at leizure that we may be hasty also in our own houses that if our husbands be peevish we may pout when they are harsh we may be humorous they curst we crabbed when they think to make us melancholly we in requital strive to make theÌ„ horn-mad by making our peticoats our purlewes at wch if they grudge or