this sentence.]
[Sidenote 58: In Mat. cap. 23. homil. 44.]
[Sidenote 59: woman can no haue vertue in equalitie with man. Ad
Ephe. cap. 4. sermone 13. NOTE]
[Sidenote 60: The body lackinge the head, can not be well gouerened
nether can common welth lackinge man.]
[Sidenote 61: In ca. 22. Ioh. homil. 87.]
[Sidenote 62: In Ioh. homil. 41.]
[Sidenote 63: Basilius Mag. in aliquot scripturae locos.]

Chrysostome amongest the Grecian writers of no small credit, speaking in
rebuke of men, who in his dayes, were becdmen inferior to some women in
witt and in godlines, saith[54]: for this cause was woman put vnder thy
power (he speaketh to man in generall) and thou wast pronounced Lorde ouer
her, that she shulde obey the, and that the head shuld not folowe the
feet. But often it is, that we see the contrary, that he who in his ordre
oght to be the head, doth not kepe the ordre of the feet (that is, doth
not rule the feet) and that she, that is in place of the foote, is
constitute to be the head. He speaketh these wordes as it were in
admiration[55], that man was becomen so brutish, that he did not consider
it to be a thing most monstruouse, that woman shulde be preferred to man
in any thing, whom God had subiected to man in all thinges. He procedeth
saying: Neuer the lesse it is the parte of the man, with diligent care to
repel the woman, that geueth him wicked counsel: and woman, whiche gaue
that pestilent counsel to man, oght at all times to haue the punishment,
whiche was geuen to Heua, sounding in her eares. And in an other place he
induceth God speaking to the woman in this sorte[56]: Because thou left
him, of whose nature thou wast participant, and for whome thou wast
formed, and hast had pleasure to haue familiaritie with that wicked beast,
and wold take his counsel: therfore I subiect the to man, and I apointe