[7]: Lib. 50. de regulis iuris.
[8]: What women may not be.
[9]:] 3. 16. lib. Digestorum.
[10]: Ad Senatus consul, Veleianum.
[11]:] Lib. 3. de posulationse Tit. 1.
[12]: Calphurnia.
In the first boke of the digestes[[13]], it is pronounced that the condition of the woman in many cases is worse then of the man. As in iurisdiction (saith the lawe[[14]]) in receiuing of care and tuition, in adoption, in publike accusation, in delation, in all populat action, and in motherlie power, which she hath not vpon her owne sonnes. The lawe further will not permit, that the woman geue any thing to her husband, because it is against the nature of her kinde, being the inferiour membre to presume to 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].]
[13]: De statu homino Titul. 8. Frome women.
[14]: power is taken away by the Ciuile lawe ouer their own children.
[15]: Dig. lib. 24. de donatione inter virum et foeminane.