[Sidenote 70: Psal. 115.]
[Sidenote 71: The empire of a woman is an idol.]
[Sidenote 72: I. COY. II]
[Sidenote 73: NOTE.]
[Sidenote 74: I. COY. II.]
[Sidenote 75: Marke the similitude of Chrysostome.]
[Sidenote 76: NOTE.]
[Sidenote 77: Howe women be couered in England and Scotland.]
[Sidenote 78: Brute beastes to be preferred.]
[Sidenote 79: Insoluent ioy bringeth sodein sorowe.]

And in an other place he saith[65], that ordre is a disposition, geuing
their owne propre places to thinges that be vnequall, which he termeth in
Latin _Parium_ et _disparium_, that is, of thinges equall or like, and
thinges vnequall or vnlike. Of whiche two places and of the hole
disputation, which is conteined in his second boke de _ordine,_ it is
euident[66], that what soeuer is done ether whithout the assurance of
Goddes will, or elles against his will manifestlie reueled in his word, is
done against ordre. But suche is the empire and regiment of all woman (as
euidentlie before is declared) and therfore, I say; it is a thing plainlie
repugnant to good ordre, yea it is the subuersion of the same. If any list
to reiect the definition of Augustin, as ether not propre to this purpose,
or elles as insufficient to proue mine intent: let the same man
vnderstand, that in so doinge, he hath infirmed mine argument nothinge.
For as I depend not vpon the determinations of men, so think I my cause no
weaker, albeit their authoritie be denied vnto me. Prouided that god by
his will reueled, and manifest worde, stand plain and euident on my side.
That God hath subiected womankinde to man by the ordre of his creation,
and by the curse that he hath pronounced against her is before declared.
Besides these, he hath set before our eyes, two other mirrors[67] and