In Aemilia Lanyer's piece entitled Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, Layner describes feminism by using the Bible as her base point. She describes how women should be more demanding towards a man and not except that everything is to blame because of their sex even though Eve is the one gave Adam the apple in Genesis.
             The text first gives a small biography of Layner. She was a daughter to a family of court musicians and at one point she was the mistress to Lord Hunsdon, Queen Elizabeth's Lord Chamberlain. She became pregnant from him and was forced to marry into a different family of musicians. Her fortunes declined after her pregnancy so she came to reside into some well established families were was taught poetry and piety.
             Layner's poem was published in 1611 and it had extreme feminist views for its time. The first part of the poem, To the Doubtful Reader, was actually placed at the end of the volume but in this text it was placed at the beginning. Its use it to tell the reader that the title of the full volume came to her in a dream one night and that it is a supposed "divine inspiration."
             The next part, To the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, is somewhat a plea to Queen Elizabeth not to look down upon her for writing this poem. The words that she used and how she explains herself makes her seem that she is apologizing for further content and blames it on her "weak distempered brain." She later talks about how many others could have written the further text better then her and that she doesn't even compare with any man, in what I assume, in writing. It's like she takes all the feminism ideals that she presents further and totally bashes it with this text.
             In To the Virtuous Reader, Layner expresses all of her ideals on men and woman. She starts off saying that all women should know that they should not be blamed for everything e
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