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CHAPTER XX.
ON STITCHERY.
“ Here have I cause in men jnst blame to find,
That in their proper praise too partial bee,
And not indifferent to womankind,
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Scarse do they spare to one, or two, or three,
Rowme in their writtes ; yet the same writing small
Does all their deedes deface, and dims their glories all.”
Faerie Queene.
“ Christine, whiche understode these thynges of Dame Reason, re-
plyed upon that in this manere. Madame Ise wel yl ye myght
fynde ynowe & of grete nornbre of women praysed in seyences and
in crafte; but knowe ye ony that by ye vertue of their felynge &
of subtylte of wytte haue founde of themselfe ony newe craftes and
seyences necessary, good, & couenable that were neuer founde be-
fore nor knowne ? for it is not so grete maystry to folowe and to
lerne after ony other scyence founde and comune before, as it is
to fynde of theymselfe some newe thynge not accustomed before.
“ Answere.—Ne doubte ye not ye contrary my dere frende but many
craftes and seyences ryght notable hathe ben founde by the wytte
and subtylte of women, as moche by speculacyon of understand-
ynge, the whiche sheweth them by wrytynge, as in craftes, y‘
sheweth theym in werkynge of handes & of laboure.”
The Bake of the Cyte of Badges.
Again we must lament that the paucity of historical
record lays us under the necessity of concluding’, by
inference, what we would fain have displayed by
CHAPTER XX.
ON STITCHERY.
“ Here have I cause in men jnst blame to find,
That in their proper praise too partial bee,
And not indifferent to womankind,
*##«***
Scarse do they spare to one, or two, or three,
Rowme in their writtes ; yet the same writing small
Does all their deedes deface, and dims their glories all.”
Faerie Queene.
“ Christine, whiche understode these thynges of Dame Reason, re-
plyed upon that in this manere. Madame Ise wel yl ye myght
fynde ynowe & of grete nornbre of women praysed in seyences and
in crafte; but knowe ye ony that by ye vertue of their felynge &
of subtylte of wytte haue founde of themselfe ony newe craftes and
seyences necessary, good, & couenable that were neuer founde be-
fore nor knowne ? for it is not so grete maystry to folowe and to
lerne after ony other scyence founde and comune before, as it is
to fynde of theymselfe some newe thynge not accustomed before.
“ Answere.—Ne doubte ye not ye contrary my dere frende but many
craftes and seyences ryght notable hathe ben founde by the wytte
and subtylte of women, as moche by speculacyon of understand-
ynge, the whiche sheweth them by wrytynge, as in craftes, y‘
sheweth theym in werkynge of handes & of laboure.”
The Bake of the Cyte of Badges.
Again we must lament that the paucity of historical
record lays us under the necessity of concluding’, by
inference, what we would fain have displayed by