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that 'tis not worth answering. No Body denies, but there 

 are scolding/ Contentious Women ; and what Consequence 

 can be drawn from thence to the Prejudice of those Wise 

 and Virtuous Women of whom the same Solomon speaks. 

 Those worthy wives, who, according to him, are the Happi- 

 ness, the Joy and the Crown of their Husbands^; a Gift of 

 God, and a Favour of Heaven. Those excellent Women 

 whom St. Paul calls the Glory of a Man,^ the first of whom 

 was the Master-piece and Crowning- Work of the Creation. 



We may with boldness afiirm, that the positive Will, 

 and the certain and manifest Destiny of the Master of 

 the World, is, that all the Descendants of Adam, sliou'd 

 each have his Help-Mote, as he our Common Father had. 

 Those Continent Persons St. Faul^ speaks of, who, either 

 by their Stripes, their Fastings or Mortifications, have van- 

 quish'd or overwhelm'd Nature, as being born with a Consti- 

 tution that rendered them Monstrous ; that is, Animals, 

 whose Disposition was against the Order of Nature, these 

 Persons I say, are of a particular Species, so rare, that the 

 Laws were not made for them. Encreasc^ and Multiply ; it 

 is not good that Man shoidd he alonc'^: a Man shall leave his 

 Father and Mother, and cleave unto his Wife? These are 

 Oracles pronounc'd when the World was made, the Primi- 



1 Scolding, in orig. : "rioteuses." Contentious, in orig. : '"goutieres." 



2 Proverbs, xviii, 22. 



3 1 Corinthians, xi, 7 : " For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, 

 forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God ; but the woman is the 

 glory of the man." 



* Max. Misson, writing from Rome, April 11, 1688, says, with regard 

 to the liberty allowed to women in England, and the confinement of 

 the Italian ladies : " That this Custom was introduc'd into Italy as a 

 necessary Caution where three parts of the Men living under the 

 constraint of Celibacy, would without this Precaution create most 

 dreadful Disorders ; but Answer being made, That St. Paul's Advice 

 mi"ht be a much better and more convenient Remedy against this 

 Danger, we chang'd the Discourse." 



6 Genesis, i, 28. ^ Genesis, ii, 18. -■ Genesis, ii, 24. 



