The glory of women: or, A treatise declaring the excellency and preheminence of women above men, which is proved both by scripture, law, reason, and authority, divine, and humane. Written first in Latine by Henricus Cornelius Agrippa Knight, and doctor both of law and physicke. And presented to Margaret Augusta, Queen of the Austrians and Burgundians. And now translated into English, for the vertuous and beautifull female sex of the Commonwealth of England By Edvv. Fleetvvood, Gent.
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The glory of women: or, A treatise declaring the excellency and preheminence of women above men, which is proved both by scripture, law, reason, and authority, divine, and humane. Written first in Latine by Henricus Cornelius Agrippa Knight, and doctor both of law and physicke. And presented to Margaret Augusta, Queen of the Austrians and Burgundians. And now translated into English, for the vertuous and beautifull female sex of the Commonwealth of England By Edvv. Fleetvvood, Gent.
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Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486?-1535.
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London :: printed for Robert Ibbitson,
1652.
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Women -- Early works to 1800.
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"The glory of women: or, A treatise declaring the excellency and preheminence of women above men, which is proved both by scripture, law, reason, and authority, divine, and humane. Written first in Latine by Henricus Cornelius Agrippa Knight, and doctor both of law and physicke. And presented to Margaret Augusta, Queen of the Austrians and Burgundians. And now translated into English, for the vertuous and beautifull female sex of the Commonwealth of England By Edvv. Fleetvvood, Gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/a75977.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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De foeminei sexus praecellentiâ L. Bliaquettus
DEsine, vaniloquax, Sexum laudare virilemplus aequo, laudum ne sit acervus iners.Desine (si sapias) sexum damnare malignisfoemineum verbis, quae ratione carent.Si bene lance tuâ sexum perpendis utrum{que}foemineo cedet quis{que} virilis erit.Credere si dubitas & restibi dura videturhaud alias visus nunc mihi testis adest.Quem nuper vigilans extruxit Agrippa libellumante viros laudans foemineum{que} genus.
Englished thus.
Cease idle Prater for to raise a mountOf praise to Men, which I but words account.Cease (if thou art wise) to load with envious wordsThe Female Sex, no reason such affords.If well thou weighest both Sexes in thy mind,The Male must yeeld unto the Female kind,Which if thou doubtest, nor yet to thee is clear,We have a witnesse here shall mak't appear,I mean this booke, which learn'd Agrippa writIn praise of Female 'bove all Mankind wit.
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