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Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity,…Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie,…
Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity, in the University of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswell of the matter, as of the words: with an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queens majesties injunctions.Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie, in the Vniuersitye of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswel of the matter, as of the wordes: wyth an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, accordyng to thorder appointed in the Quenes maiesties iniunctions.
London: printed by John Day, 1564London: printed by Iohn Day, 1564
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Lastly their ornaments and lusts can not be satisfied but with extreme charges Plutarch saith in the Apothegmata of Lycurgus, 1when he was demanded, why he had commanded by a law that virgins should marry without dowry, he answered, to the intent some should not be left unmarried for poverty sake, or other some should be to much laboured for, and esteemed because of their riches, but that every man diligently considering the manners of the maidens, might chose him a wife by her virtue. He showeth also in the 30. problem,2 that a bride brought to the bridegroom's house only a distaff and a spindle. The Decemviri of Rome decreed also by the laws of Solon, that a woman should be without a dowry, and should bring from her fathers house only three garments & also certain vessels of small price, because they would declare that the fellowship of marriage is not confirmed by money, but by the love of children. These certainly agree very trim with that which is written of Paul and Vulpiā in the Pandects of gift between the husband and the wife. It is written also of the Egyptians,3 that if they received dowry of their wives, they should be then counted, as their wives bondmen. Which custom did manifestly teach, that it seemeth both full of ignominy, and also unprofitable, to seek a dowry for wives, when as nothing is more noble than liberty, and nature hath ordained that the husband should rule the wife.4 And it is written that the Spaniards had a custom that the wives should bring to their husbands a distaff with flax on it, in stead of a dowry. I could make mention of a great many besides, to show, that all the men in the old time allowed not, that husbands should have dowries given them when they married their wives. But certainly the laws of God make mention very oftentimes of a dowry. And I am assured that it was used somewhere before the law. In Exodus, he which had defiled a virgin, was bound to marry her, so that her father were content: which if he were not, then was he compelled to give her a dowry, as the law saith the dowry of virgins is. Furthermore in the first book of kings .ix. chap. Pharaoh gave for a dowry unto Solomon which had married his daughter Gazar, a city which he had taken from the Canaanites.