Pray be not angry: or, The womens new law
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- Title
- Pray be not angry: or, The womens new law
- Author
- Thorowgood, G.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for George Horton,
- 1656.
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- Subject terms
- Misogyny
- Women
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"Pray be not angry: or, The womens new law." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A94300.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.
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To the READER.
MUsing with my self, in a time of sadness, and having lit∣tle pleasure to pass the time withall, being lately ex∣asperated and interwoven in the Thrids of Choller a∣gainst some Wasps of the Female Sex, (or certaine Lavia, Flora, and Lais Curtizans, three notorious Strumpets,) retained a Resolution, (so soon as I had brake and violated their Sting and Engine) to take Pen in hand, and charactarize the Qualities of such deceitful and inflaming Angels or Devils, as Plato saith, for so he termeth all such Women, who imitate and tread the steps of Semiramis of Babylon, that both and after her husbands death, she waxed so unsatiable in carnal lust, that two men at one time could not satisfie her desire; and so by her unsatiableness, at length all Persia grew full of Whores. But before I proceed further, give me leave to whi∣spher one word in your ear, viz. Whatever you think privatly, I wish you to conceal it with silence, left in starting up to find fault, you prove your selves guilty of these mon∣strous accusations, which are here following against such lascivious Theodora's; and those which spurn, if they feel themselves touched, prove themselves stark fools, in be∣wraying their galled backs to the world; for we intend not to reflect on any, but such as when they hear it, will go about to reprove it: And as I intend not to speak much of those that are good, so shall I speak too little of those that are naught; but yet I will not altogether condemn the bad, (unless they be perfect Jezabels) desiring ra∣ther to better the one, by paralleling the other: for there is no woman so good, but may amend, knowing that the cleerest River that is hath some dirt in the bottome; and as Gold is not all of one Picture, no more are women all of one disposition: But if this sawce prove too sharp for some, and the flowers too strong for others, I desire you with patience to hear the rest; for indeed the best is behind: And far more rarer things, (than either Iceland Dogs, or Venice Glasses) you may expect from him, who as∣sures himself
Yours in the way of Honesty, G. Thorowgood.