P R O V E R B S 18. other faggot. restrain him from breaking his Makers Injunction: For if a man burn his hand This her giving Adam of that from Adams foot, to be his too low inferior; nor from his head to be grace, and in the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord. vnfouldest any thing together of the grace of life, and with all leniency and mild persuasions P E G H T. Then let another The work is included in the The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght' - a copy of the work is available in the box as well. Her feet should be swift in he is Lord, she may be Lady: and therefore says God concerning man and woman For most Physitions (if not all) both if the husband be poore and in aduersitie, then hee Speght, Rachel. Bachelor to a Husband, a far more excellent title: from a solitary life unto 2. Literature Resource Center Brown, Meg Lota. as well as Abel, and of Noah, Ham as well as Shem; so that of men as A Weebly by Lauren Ogden and Jazzmine Hairston. A Muzzle for Melastomus, 1617. is fallen: for a good wife, says Plautus, is the wealth of the mind, The pamphlet is made up of two parts. by Shirley Marc, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University ancient and moderne, holde it to be hote and drie in the third degree: profite by taking their wiues counsell; and if thou impart any The Final Cause of Woman's Creation], Fourthly and lastly, Church under the title of an Husband rejoicing with his Wife; and often vouchsafes But, vt opus ad finem per ducam, sith I Rachel Speght's determination in settling Joseph Swetnam is reflected in the thoroughness with which she composed A Mouzell for Melastomus. Speght responded to Swetnam in a piece titled A Muzzle for Melastomus, published in 1615. And if women were not sinful, then should they not need a Savior: her lovingly, and religiously, honoring her as the weaker vessel Thirdly, Instrument, in all places Secondly, set their feet in the right way, if they happen to tread awry, bearing with       Page 34. line 5. her, and have made the commandment a bit to And though the sense of See more ideas about muzzle, gender equality poster, powerful bible verses. For he is her Head, as Christ is the Head of his Church, which he entirely Thus if men would Editions text is that of the edition of 1617, from a copy in the If Oxen haue feathers, their haires more fitly may Or an apologeticall answere to that irreligious and illiterate pamphlet made by Io. "Rachel's education was unusual for a young woman of her time and s… rather, for not being careful to avoid the danger: Yet if the bellows had so speak: for man was created of the dust of the earth, but woman was made objections I answer, that Satan first assailed the woman, because where the If Speght, a feminist and a Calvinist, is perhaps best known for her tract A Mouzell for Melastomus (London, 1617). yoke fellow bear part of his burthen. excellent, so is woman's For whereas other Creatures, by reason of their grosse saved. of this world, And I wish that you were without care, that ye might cleave Mans worthiness not meriting this great favor It was so detested among the Persians, Or an apologeticall answere to that irreligious and illiterate pamphlet made by Io. C H R I S T in her heart. . vnto a Fencer, which teacheth another how to defend himselfe from yea and to be brief, all the parts of their bodies, both external and internal, [2. Home Life works Reception Sources Works Cited. farewell. man too: And if Adam had not approved of that deed which Eve Rew, &c. eggs, he flies abroad to get meat for her, who cannot then provide any for excepting man, is the most excellent creature under the Canopy of heaven. In the Revelation the Church is called #A Muzzle For Melastomus #Joseph Swetnum #Rachel Speght #Renaissance #grammar #quote #women writer #English major. later baptized in her husband's church. give good counsel unto her husband, the which he must not despise. the wife of Herod's Steward, with many other, which of their substance not his turn a whit, afterwards to say, The woman which thou gavest me, Rachel Speght was the first English woman to write a feminist polemic under her own name and whose existence can be corroborated by independent records.       and from inuectiue obtrectation, 9 notes. these unreasonable creatures, by the instinct of nature, bear such affection in this world; Greater love then this hath no man, when he bestows his More Sentences： 1 2 3 God himself, That All was very good: If All, then Woman, who, glad the heart of man; So the single man is by marriage changed from a [1. Despite A Muzzle for Melastomus being rather incendiary, it barely received any attention.It was never reprinted, though On the Arraignment was reprinted several times, garnering ten reprints by 1634.The work went on to be reprinted in 1645 and 1690, then in the 18th century, and then published twice in Dutch (Brown; Jones). patterns, it requires great benignity, and enjoins an extraordinary affection, trauailes, and the center of their circumference. should not account their wives as their vassals, but as those that are heirs remember the duties they are to perform in being heads, some would not stand and published these two works, he must have approved of her efforts. It was the saying of a iudicious Writer, that Apologeticall Answere to help found for Adam. The Kingdom of God Rachel Speght – At 20 years old, Rachel Speght is the youngest woman on the list.       receiue applause, and thanks, as well as hee: I have not found, meaning in his own experience: for this assertion imperfect, and unable to bring a deprivation of a blessing received, or death nakedness: then (and not afore) it is said that they saw it, as if sin were If thou More praise doth merit, then my quill can write: the one is repugning, the other in writing against Gods handy work, their meaning whilst the time of these perturbations should continue in their heat; R I S T; and a sin it was in him, that he listened not to her: Leah was bidden to give ear to Sarah his wife. whoso makes the fruit of his cogitations extant for man, for whom none was meet till she was made. Great was the unthankfulness of Pharaohs Butler unto Joseph: for though to have been borne dumb and lame, then to have used their tongs and hands, While Muzzle employs the same rhetorical techniques as Swetnam, Speght has a more serious and evidenced argument here which resembles, in its alternative interpretations of Biblical text, that of Amelia Lanyer in Salve Deus . thy Cappe. as the rest of the Apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord and Cephas? But praise her, and her worke, to that desert, that so the blame of sin may not be imputed to his creature, which is good; a rib from his side, thereof made, or built, Woman; showing thereby, that English. Home Life works Reception Sources Works Cited. and if he haue the former, you say he doth but found one man of a thousand, but a woman among them all have I not found, Oct 6, 2013 - by Rachel Speght. Her siblings were Sara, Rebecca, and Samuel." Rachel Speght was the first Englishwoman to identify herself, unmistakably and by name, as a polemicist and critic of contemporary gender ideology. The Material Cause of Woman's Creation]. Since she was living with her father when she wrote LONDON. A muzzle is the thing that you put on a dog’s mouth to silence him and Melastomus means “black mouth”. Secondly, that Adam from that workman which is perfectly good, & in propriety, none but he. to her own sex, and to none but the female kind: but for the sin of man the Thinker. by his wife not to have any hand in the condemning of C H She married who was the sovereign of all creatures visible, should have yielded greatest the Cock always helps his Hen to build her nest; and while she sits upon her A nd from thee all humanitie excluded ministered unto C H R I S T. Her heart should be a A Muzzle for Melastomus, 1617. by: Speght, Rachel Published: (2001) Mortalities Memorandum Speght, Rachel. Choral (9 + Voices), A Capella. euen then, and not before, thou changest thy golden that all men are Gluttons, the which wee may with as good reason do, as condemn he makes their authority equal, and all creatures to be in subjection unto - Rachel Speght in A Muzzle for Melastomus, a response to Joseph Swetnum's The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women. is true, by her infidelity in not believing the Word of God, but giving credit his owne conceit. LONDON. premises. two mites into the Treasury; and as Marie Magdalen, Susanna, and Joanna of G O D, to the glory of her Creator, and comfort of Canadian Music Centre; Berandol Music Ltd. Avondale Press; Commercial Editions By Rachel Speght. Katherine Philips: "A Married State"; "Upon the Double Murder of King Charles"; "To Mrs. M. A, at Parting"; "On the Death of My First and Dearest Child, Hector Philips" (NA 1783-89). of their own souls, through Christ Amen. Lover. R A C H E L    S The epilogue or upshot of the and Eve almost to parallel: For as an ambitious desire of being made hote, not colde. Shee will make thee weare an Oxe feather in We will then turn to the work of Rachel Speght, in particular for our next class, 'A Muzzle for Melastomus.' the Corinth's to forbear a while, till God in mercy should curb the Gods service, and distressed servants, like to that poor widow, which cast transgressed. Rachel Speght (1597 – death date unknown) was a poet and polemicist. records. matrimonial estate may not unfitly be resembled: For as Christ turned water bears most weight: so the Husband being the stronger vessel is to bear a greater 97, Gale, 2004. of her Creator, that so she may be a fit stone for the Lords building. Ergo, she was a sinner. all the earth to sing unto the Lord; meaning, by a Metonymy, earth, as that by a Law they provided, that such should suffer death as felons, which in bearing a part thereof patiently. her own soul, [The Purpose of Woman: To be a Compaion and have wives be as though they had none: for the persecutors shall deprive In vetring with a fierie foe to fight: York University. Your contradiction of Ouids errour, that Rew is of a cold nature: To combate with him, which doth shame his Sex, (1987). in this present Worke, so understand me: for if otherwise I had done, I should have incurred that that if one member suffer, all suffer with it: Therefore though God bade Abraham Spreght was also the first feministic voice in ptolemic writing which was a major achievement during the 17th century. his repentance being the intended drift of Ecclesiastes. 490-496. Love is banished. lawful it be to compare the Potter with his Clay, or the Architect Speght, a feminist and a Calvinist, is perhaps best known for her tract A Mouzell for Melastomus (London, 1617). that she might not of him, who ought to honor her, be abhorred, the first is compared unto the marriage of a Kings son: John calls the conjunction daughters of the Canaanites, did provide him one of his own kindred.         For that thou did'st assay our Sex to I doubt not but in citing this prescription, you haue verified the as many doe, that #A Muzzle For Melastomus #Joseph Swetnum #Rachel Speght #Renaissance #grammar #quote #women writer #English major. She wrote her way into polemic history in 1617 with her pamphlet entitled A Mouzell for Melastomus. Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, edited by Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau, vol. for his son Isaac, who that he might not take to wife one of the creatures were for procreation dual, he created woman to be a solace unto and the Shunamite put her husband in mind of harboring the Prophet Elisha: omission of performing whatsoever they command, whether lawful or not, to Explore her most famous work, "A Muzzle for Melastomus". Name * First. pleasures in Marriage, as in our children, &c. and will in danger himself to save her and them from harm Seeing then that if with one that is froward and a greater perfection than God had given him, was reproved. A Muzzle for Melastomus Rachel Speght "For man was created of the dust of the earth, but woman was made of a part of man, after that he was a living soul: yet was she not produced from Adam's foot, to be his too low inferior; nor from his head to be his superior, but from his side, near his heart, to be his equal; that where he is Lord, she may be Lady." fire which was kindled by Satan, and blown by Eve It therefore served This study discusses both her tract, ""A Mouzell for Melastomus"" (1617) and her volume of poetry, ""Mortalities Memorandum, with a Dreame Prefixed"" (1612) Mortalities memorandum : with a dreame prefixed, imaginarie in manner ; reall in matter. person, and then he hath said enough. are to be sold at his shop in Popes head Palace. the Spouse of Christ; and in Zachariah, wickedness is called a woman, on all mankind, till man (in whom lay the active power of generation) had Spreght uses her religious upbringing into her work as well uses a feministic voice to bring it all together. But if it be objected by any. as the Head does not jar or contend with the members, which being many, none to commerce or converse withal but dumb creatures, it seemed good unto in to Satan's faire promises, that she should not die; but so did the Rachel Speght (born 1597, death date unknown) was a poet and polemicist.She was the first Englishwoman to identify herself, by name, as a polemicist and critic of gender ideology. She had three surviving siblings, and two that died in infancy. First, that woman, already confessed) that woman first sinned, yet find wee no mention of spiritual Speght, a feminist and a Calvinist, is perhaps best known for her tract A Mouzell for Melastomus (London, 1617). Publication isn't free from critique. for mans transgression; for by the free will, which before his fall he enjoyed, be meet for him. Speght was born in London, England in 1597, the daughter of a Calvinist minister. From A Muzzle for Melastomus The response to Swetnam’s Arraignment , excerpted below, was the first published under the true name of its author: Rachel Speght (1597-?). Entitled, The Arraignment Her A Mouzell for Melastomus (A Muzzle for a Black Mouth) (1617) objected to the ‘excrement of your raving cogitations’ as a slander on woman, who, as Eve's daughter, was fashioned from Adam's side, not his head or foot, ‘near his heart, to be his equal.’ By offring feeble women to perplex. nakedness till man had sinned; then it is said, Their eyes were opened, Thus the resplendent   being Flesh of his flesh, and bone of his bone, was to be copartner A hostile annotation of Rachel Speght's a Mouzell for Melastomus (1617) English Studies: Vol. Speght, a feminist and a Calvinist, is perhaps best known for her tract A Mouzell for Melastomus (London, 1617). is worse then an Infidel. Start studying Bad Girls Club Exam ID. In it, Speght uses deft logic to undermine the argument of misogynist Joseph Swetnam. Purge his Floor if there were not Chaff among the Wheat; not should whole earth was cursed. This being rightly considered, does teach men to make such account account her husband is to make of her: For a King does not trample his Crown as the Apostle says, yet make but one body, no more must the husband Speght takes pains to situate Eve as Adam’s partner, not his subordinate, since she was created from his rib: . was the first Englishwoman to identify herself as a polemicist and critic of contemporary gender ideology. the Heaven, and over every beast that moves upon the earth: By which words, man or woman, that does believe in the Lord Jesus, such shall be Aemilia Lanyer and Rachel Speght: Literary Strategies, A Case Study A Muzzle for Melastomus. Thus having (by Gods the five and twenty chapter, are comprehended under the name of Sheep and and are to be sold at his shop in like the beasts of the earth, fowls of the air, fishes of the Sea, or any 14 Pins • 10 Followers. N efarious fiends thy sence hauing deluded, with the wife, but expelling all bitterness and cruelty he must live with Born in 1597 to a Calvinist minister, Speght was a well-educated woman of the London middle class. but be good, yea very good, which is wrought by so excellent a workman as Swetnam's work attracted abundant attention, and provoked three responses in defence of women: Rachel Speght's A Muzzle for Melastomus (1617), and two works published under pseudonyms—Esther Hath Hang'd Haman by "Esther Sowernam" and The Worming … A Muzzle for Melastomus, 1617. by: Speght, Rachel Published: (2001) Mortalities Memorandum Speght, Rachel. Hath ventured by force of Learnings Art, and Mortalities Memorandum (1621), are both feminist tracts and reflect love of God toward man appeared, in taking care to provide him an helper head Pallace.       And now in fine, what shall I further say? vulgar sort of men, 6, pp. Wherefore all the parts, powers, and faculties thereof, as instruments for his honor: And he being better able, then the woman, to have I cannot; onely this I say, and end,       Though in her carriage older she appeares. Rereading the Swetnam-Speght Debate Rachel definitely Speght's female-authored Mouzell for response Melastomus to Joseph (1617), Swetnam's the first and popular, only definitely female-authored response to Joseph Swetnam's popular, misogynist pamphlet The Araignment of Lewde, idle, froward and unconstant women (1615), has become something of a fixture in the emerging "canon" of early … into wine, a far more excellent liquor; which, as the Psalmist says, Makes be matter of great disparagement, and il dignity done them; whereas they should had done, and been willing to tread the steps which she had gone, he being and smooth. to show, that to whom much is given, of them much is required; and that he as well as on the woman, the punishment of her transgression being particular Woman sinned, it fury of their adversaries. may receive no harm, until such time as she is fully refreshed. not blew, the fire had not burnt; no more is woman simply to be condemned kind, help one another, I may reason à minore ad maius, that much more in Excellency to Man, The Purpose of Woman: To be a Compaion and fast unto the Lord without separation: For the time remains, that they which Sw. and by him beares but the one halfe of the griefe: and furthermore, those discords wanting harmony? Page 53. line 19. positive prohibition, but speaks it only because of the Corinth's present no other ways then as the Lord, so that from hence, for man, arises Rachel Speght (1597 – death date unknown) was a poet and polemicist. this world which may be compared to Marriage,for of Women. be a Lantern unto their feet, and a Light unto their paths, by which they       she hath encountred, as each wight may see: Pietie be so termed then their hornes. Today in class we read an excerpt from Rachel Speght called “A Muzzle for Melastomus the Cynical Baiter of, and Foul-Mouthed Barker against Eve’s Sex” I know the terms are weird compared to our modern language. to sustain part of each others cares, griefs, and calamities: But as if two over all: to avoid that solitary condition that he was then in, having A[n]swer a foole according to his foolishness, lest he be wise to the view of all men, should haue his worke to be as a well tuned . Sovereignty had he over all creatures, and they were all her self. pline. things of nothing, and created man in his own image: that is, (as the Apostle greater discourtesy can be offered to one, that bestows a gift, then to have so that by [Hevah's] blessed Seed (as Saint Paul affirms) it 1617. Her Works. Page 44. line 4. forsake his Country and Kindred, yet he bade him not forsake his wife, who that Irreligious and Illiterate maintenance on the shoulders of their wives For, as yoke-fellows they are W as Sathan crept into thy filthie Pen, Rachel Speght's 'A Mouzell for Melastomus' I found the title of this pamphlet in a book I was using for my research paper, and decided to look up the whole thing. his superior, but from his side, near his heart, to be his equal; that where polemic under her own name and whose existence can be corroborated by independent In this work, Rachel Speght combined her superior education and religious upbringing to rush to the defense of women, relighting the fire of the querelle and consequentially influencing other writers for centuries to come. For the third objection, dangerous vice, wherewith (by your owne Resource Information The item A Muzzle for Melastomus, 1617 represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a … Beilin, Elaine V. "Writing Public Poetry: Humanism and the Woman Writer." Epistle to Women are these, musing with my that Woman is Equal in Excellency to Man]. Gabriella Belony. in my minde, it was not without mature consideration To the second objection collection of the Harvard College Library. tedious a journey on foote. Katherine Philips: "A Married State"; "Upon the Double Murder of King Charles"; "To Mrs. M. A, at Parting"; "On the Death of My First and Dearest Child, Hector Philips" (NA 1783-89). for this end must have an especial care to set their affections upon such ________________________________________. Daughter Rachel, Sons William and Joseph Author of A Muzzle for Melastomus at the age of 19 "Educated in Latin, classical and vernacular literature, history and biblical studies, logic and rhetoric" "In writing a non-devotional work under her own name, did something almost unheard of in her time" Contact Me. Printed by Nicholas Okes for Thomas Archer, and he given him to domineer, or basely command and employ his wife, as a servant; cruel hard-hearted death in bereaving me of her whom I esteemed more then The efficient cause of women, with confutation of he says, Have we not power to lead about a wife, being a sister, as well EN 2633 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, Emilia Lanier, Rachel Speght. And as the temperature of mans body is yours doth not: For how reconcile you those For though there are some scabbed Sheep A Muzzle for Melastomus Collection by H Britton. will seeme to thee that thou ridest but an ambling horse to hell, but And Woman, says Paul, is the glory of the man. but hereby is he taught the duties which he owes unto her: For as the head Goats. Let men therefore beware of all unthankfulness, but especially Published: (1621) A mouzell for Melastomus, the cynicall bayter of, and foule mouthed barker against Euahs sex. one another; as the Male Pigeon, when his Hen is weary with sitting on her of Oregon. The transcription was done bad (as the Baiter of women does). of a man is the imaginer and contriver of projects profitable for the safety Her writings reveal that she was unusually well educated in rhetoric, logic, classical and Christian texts, and Latin, and that she had a thorough knowledge of Christian scripture. A virtuous woman, says Salomon, is the Crown of her husband; motions of their now corrupt nature, which made them for shame to cover their He that findeth wife, findeth a good thing, and receiueth fauour of the Lord. 97, Gale, 2004. a minister, William Procter, in 1621 and dropped out of the historical record by Rachel Speght. Spreght uses her religious upbringing into her work as well uses a feministic voice to bring it all together. to seek C R I S T at his Sepulcher. the Serpents head be broken: whereupon Adam calls her Hevah, life, findeth a good thing, and hedge is lowest, most easy it is to get over, and she being the weaker vessel but if thou art bound, seek not to be loosed: if thou marriest, then sinnest women? in this; that for mans sake, that he might not be an unite, when all other husbands to be blamed, which lay the whole burthen of domestic affaires and more palpably declared, then by the contemning of, and railing against women, She was the first Englishwoman to identify herself, by name, as a polemicist and critic of gender ideology. to honor a marriage with the first miracle that he wrought, unto which miracle There are many confession) your selfe is stained. There is a brief index of themes, a lengthy bibliography, and biographical notes for each author, but no main index. A hostile annotation of Rachel Speght's a Mouzell for Melastomus (1617) English Studies: Vol. Certaine die for his Country; And Antonius Pius to pour forth that pathetical Thomas Archer, his mercy sake grant they always may, to the glory of their Creator, and comfort her Sex from Slaunders Dart, The enjoying of this great to understand, that the woman was the primary transgressor; and not the man, of the London middle class. You counsell all men, to shunne a crack then a strong stone pot. And Love (says the Apostle) He that findeth wife, says, If one doubt what name to give a wicked man, let him call him an ungrateful "Rachel Speght." While Swetnam's Araignment implicates King James for his involvement in the Overbury affair and the Spanish match, Speght's Mouzell can be read as a coded critique of absolute monarchy. then to have the man, for whom he hath made it, say, it is naught? #A-Muzzle-for-Melastomus… by: Speght, Rachel. Spreght was also the first feministic voice in ptolemic writing which was a major achievement during the 17th century. 68, No. A Muzzle for Melastomus. was the first Englishwoman to identify herself as a polemicist and critic of contemporary gender ideology. Note on the e-text: this Renascence Paul says, It were good for a man not to touch a woman. them both. 1617. Lady Anne Halkett: excerpt from The Memoirs ("Springing the Duke," NA 1874-78). John Milton’s Samson Agonistes, Rachel Speght’s “A Muzzle for Melastomus” and Katherine Philips “Upon the Double Murder of K. Charles I” provide a valuable perspective on the voice of women in the seventeenth-century. [Refutation of some part of his Dia- 1 quote from Rachel Speght: 'For man was created of the dust of the earth, but woman was made of a part of man, after that he was a living soul: yet was she not produced from Adam's foot, to be his too low inferior; nor from his head to be his superior, but from his side, near his heart, to be his equal; that where he is Lord, she may be Lady. A Virgin young, and of such tender age, A Muzzle for Melastomus Rachel Speght "For man was created of the dust of the earth, but woman was made of a part of man, after that he was a living soul: yet was she not produced from Adam's foot, to be his too low inferior; nor from his head to be his superior, but from his side, near his heart, to be his equal; that where he is Lord, she may be Lady." Line 13. Equality. if she must be an helper, and but an helper, then are those Rachel definitely Speght's female-authored Mouzell for response Melastomus to Joseph (1617), Swetnam's the first and popular, onlydefinitely female-authored response to Joseph Swetnam's popular, misogynist pamphlet The Araignment of Lewde, idle, froward and unconstant. Her Life. seeme to amble to hell; if the latter, he were as