blindnes: their strength, weaknes: their counsel, foolishenes: and
iudgement, phrenesie, if it be rightlie considered.

[Sidenote 2: Priuate example do not breake the generall ordinance.]
[Sidenote 3: 2 Politicorum Aristotelis.]
[Sidenote 4: Reade Isaie the thirde chaptre.]
[Sidenote 5: Amazones were monstruouse women, that coulde not abide
the regiment of men, and therfore killed their husbandes, reade Iustine.]
[Sidenote 6: Arist. 2. Politic.]
[Sidenote 7: Lib. 50. de regulis iuris.]
[Sidenote 8: What women may not be.]
[Sidenote 9: 3. 16. lib. Digestorum.]
[Sidenote 10: Ad Senatus consul, Veleianum.]
[Sidenote 11: Lib. 3. de posulationse Tit. 1.]
[Sidenote 12: Calphurnia.]

I except such as God by singular priuiledge, and for certein causes knowen
onlie to him selfe, hath exempted from the common ranke of women[2], and
do speake of women as nature and experience do this day declare them.
Nature I say, doth paynt them furthe to be weake, fraile, impacient, feble
and foolishe: and experience hath declared them to be vnconstant,
variable, cruell and lacking the spirit of counsel and regiment. And these
notable faultes haue men in all ages espied in that kinde, for the whiche
not onlie they haue remoued women from rule and authoritie, but also some
haue thoght that men subiect to the counsel or empire of their wyues were
vn worthie of all publike office. For this writeth Aristotle in the
seconde of his Politikes[3]: what difference shal we put, saith he,
whether that women beare authoritie, or the husbanesd that obey the empire
of their wyues be appointed to be magistrates? For what insueth the one,
must nedes folowe the other, to witte, iniustice, confusion and disorder.