geue any thing to her head[15]. The lawe doth more ouer pronounce
womankinde to be the most auaricious[16] (which is a vice intolerable in
those that shulde rule or minister iustice). And Aristotle[17], as before
is touched, doth plainly affirme, that wher soeuer women beare dominion,
there must nedes the people be disorded, liuinge and abounding in all
intemperancie, geuen to pride, excesse, and vanitie. And finallie in the
end, that they must nedes come to confusion and ruine[18].

[Sidenote 19: Great imperfections of women.]
[Sidenote 20: Ronsilda the wife of Gisulphus betrayed to Cacanus the
dukedome of friaul in Italie.]
[Sidenote 21: Iane quene of Naples hanged her husband.]
[Sidenote 22: Athalia, 4. Reg. II. Hurene, Anton. Sabell.]
[Sidenote 23: If the lesse thinges be denied to women, the greater
cannot be granted.]
[Sidenote 24: woman in her greatest perfection was made to serue man.]
[Sidenote 25: I. Cor. II.]
[Sidenote 26: A good comparison.]
[Sidenote 27: A newe necessity of womans subiection. woman by the
sentence of God, subiect to man. Gene. 3.]
[Sidenote 28: The punishment of women unjustlie promoted and of their
promoters. ]
[Sidenote 29: Gene. 3.]
[Sidenote 30: Let all women take hede.]

Wold to god the examples were not so manifest, to the further declaration
of the imperfections of women[19], of their naturall weaknes, and
inordinat appetites. I might adduce histories, prouing some women to haue
died for sodein ioy, some for vnpaciencie to haue murthered them selues,
some to haue burned with such inordinat lust, that for the quenching of