Table-talk, being discourses of John Seldon, Esq or his sense of various matters of weight and high consequence, relating especially to religion and state.

Women.

1. LET the Women have power of their heads, because of the Angels. The reason of the words because of the Angels, is this; The Greek Church held an Opi∣nion that the Angels fell in Love with Women. This Fancy St. Paul discreetly catches, and uses it as an Argument to perswade them to modesty.

2. The Grant of a Place is not good by the Canon-Law, before a Man be dead; upon this ground some Mischief might be plotted against him in present possession, by poisoning or some other way. Upon the same reason a Contract made with a Woman, during her Husband's Life, was not valid.

3. Men are not troubled to hear a Man dispraised, because they know, tho' he be naught, there's worth in others. But Women are mightily troubled to hear a∣ny of them spoken against, as if the Sex it self were guilty of some Unworthiness.

4. Women and Princes must both trust some body; and they are Happy, or Un∣happy according to the desert of those under whose Hands they fall. If a Man knows how to manage the Favour of a Lady, her Honour is safe, and so is a Princes.

5. An Opinion grounded upon that, Genesis 6. The Sons of God saw the Daugh∣ters of Men that they were fair.