may they be speakers for others. The same is repe[a]ted in the third and
in the sextenth bokes of the digestes[9]: Where certein persones are
forbidden, _Ne pro aliis postulent_, that is, that they be no speakers nor
aduocates for others. And among the rest are women forbidden, and this
cause is added, that they do not against shamefastnes intermedle them
selues with the causes of others[10], nether yet that women presume to vse
the offices due to men. The lawe in the same place doth further declare,
that a naturall shamfastnes oght to be in womankind[11], whiche most
certeinlie she loseth, when soeuer she taketh vpon her the office and
estate of man. As in Calphurnia[12] was euidentlie declared, who hauing
licence to speake before the senate, at length became so impudent and
importune, that by her babling she troubled the hole assemblie. And so
gaue occasion that this lawe was established.

[Sidenote 13: De statu homino Titul. 8. Frome women.]
[Sidenote 14: power is taken away by the Ciuile lawe ouer their own
children.]
[Sidenote 15: Dig. lib. 24. de donatione inter virum et foeminane.]
[Sidenote 16: women be couetous therefore vnmete gouernors.]
[Sidenote 17: Lib. 1. Digest. de le gib. et senatuscon Titul. 3,
Politic. 2.]
[Sidenote 18: England and Scotland beware.]

In the first boke of the digestes[13], it is pronounced that the condition
of the woman in many cases is worse then of the man. As in iurisdiction
(saith the lawe[14]) in receiuing of care and tuition, in adoption, in
publike accusation, in delation, in all populat action, and in motherlie
power, which she hath not vpon her owne sonnes. The lawe further will not
permit, that the woman geue any thing to her husband, because it is
against the nature of her kinde, being the inferiour membre to presume to