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A43596	The generall history of vvomen containing the lives of the most holy and prophane, the most famous and infamous in all ages, exactly described not only from poeticall fictions, but from the most ancient, modern, and admired historians, to our times / by T.H., Gent.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	1657 (1657)	Wing H1784; ESTC R10166	531,736	702

chast life Infinite to this purpose are remembred by Fulgosius Marullus Albertus Cranzius c. as of Maria Desegnies Margarita Aegypta Cecilia Virgo K●n●gunda Augusta wife to Henry of that name the first Emperor 〈◊〉 espoused to Julianus Anti●chenus Stamberga the Niece of clo●ovius married to Arnulphus a noble Frenchman 〈◊〉 and others without number which is somewhat difficult 〈…〉 wedded bended boarded lien and lived together yet went as pure Virgins to their graves as they came first to their ●●adles Of these I may say as Ovid 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 Sh' abhorr'd the nuptiall bed and held it sin With modest blushes did the tender skin Of her fair cheek then to her father growes And her white arms about his neck she throwes And saith Deer Sir this one thing grant your child That I may live from lustfull man exil'd A voteresse 〈◊〉 Diana this desired And from her father had what she required I will produce one history or two at the most from our modern Histories and so cease further to speak of our married Virgins It is reported in the Legend That after Editha the daughter of Earl Godwin was married to King Edward otherwise called St Edward they mutually vowed betwixt themselves perpetual chastity and therein persevered to the end of their lives There continued in them saith the Legend a Conjugall love without any conjugall act and favourable embraces without any deflowring of Virginity for Edward was beloved but not corrupted and Editha had favour but was not touched she delighted him with love but did not tempt him with lust she pleased him with discourse and sweet society yet provoked him to no libidinous desire It is moreover in that Treatise recorded That they used to call marriage a shipwreck of Maidenhead comparing it to the fiery furnace of the Chaldaeans to the Mantle that Joseph left in the h●nd of a strumpet the wife of Potiphar to the lascivious outrage of the two wicked Elders who would have oppressed and vitiated Susanna the wife of Ioachim and lastly to the enticements of drunken Holo●ernes towards faire Judith one of the deliverers of her people And so much for the Legend But Richardus Davisiensis saith That being awed by Earle Godwin ●nd for the feare of hazarding his life and Kingdome Edward was compelled by threats and menaces to the 〈◊〉 of Editha Moreover Polidore 〈◊〉 That for the ha●e he bore her father who had not long before most tr●iterously slain his brother Alphred he caused himselfe to be divorced from her seizing her goods and dower to his own use and pleasure Ranulphus and one that 〈◊〉 himselfe Anonymos as willing to conceal his name say That she was disrobed of all her Queen-like honours and confined into the Abbey of Warnwel with only one maid to attend her and so committed to the strict custody of the Abb●sse William of Mal●sbury and Marianus Scotus have left remembred That he neither dismissed her his bed nor carnally knew her but whether it was done in hatred to her Kindred or purpose of chastity they are not able to determine Robert Fabian confesseth as much in his Chronicle Part. 6. cap. 210. Howsoever the effects of that abstemious life were not only prejudiciall but brought lamentable effects upon this distracted Kingdome namely Innovation and Conquest for Edward dying without issue England was invaded and opprest by the Normans and the people brought to that miserie that happy was that subject that could say I am no Englishman And in this agree Matthew Paris Capgrave Fabian and Polydore As I hold it not necessary for married folk to tie themselves to this strict kind of abstinence so I hold it not convenient for any such as have to themselves and in their souls taken upon them the strict life of Virginity to be compelled to an enforced marriage as may appea●●y this discourse following recorded by Gulielm ●●●sburien Simeon Danelmens Matthew Paris Roger Hoved●● Capgrave c. Henry the first of that name King of England and crowned in the year of Grace 1101 was by the instigation of Anselm once a Monk of Normandy but after by William Ru●us constituted Archbishop of Canterbury married unto Maud daughter to Malcolm the Scottish King she having taken a Vow and being a profest Nun in the Abbey of Winchester Much ado had the King her father the Queen her mother her Confessor Abbesse or the Bishop to alienate her from her setled resolution or perswade her to marriage but being as it were violently compelled thereunto she cursed the fruit that should succeed from her body which after as Polydore affirms turned to the great misfortune and misery of her children for afterwards two of her sons William and Richard were drowned by Sea Besides her daughter Maud who was afterwards Empresse proved an untortunate Mother and amongst many other things in bringing forth Henry the second who caused Thomas Becket to the slain it thus hapned All forreign wars being past and civill combustions being pacified in the year of our Lord 1120 Henry the first with great joy and triumph left Normandy and came into England But within few daies following this great mirth and jollity turned into a most heavy and fearfull sorrow for William and Richard his two sons with Mary his daughter Otwell their 〈◊〉 and Guardian Richard Earl of Chester with the Countesse his wife the Kings Neece many Chaplains Chamberlains Butlers and Servitors for so they are tearmed in the story the Archdeacon of Hereford the Princes play-fellowes Sir Geffrey Rydell Sir Robert Maldvyle Sir William Bygot with other Lords Knights Gentlemen great Heirs Ladies and Gentlewomen to the number of an hundred and forty besides Yeomen and Mariners which were about fifty all these saving one man which some say was a Butcher were all drowned together and not one of their bodies ever after found Many attribute this great Judgement to the heavy curse of Queen Maud others censure of it diversly Howsoever in this King as Polydore saith ended the Descent and Line of the Normans Of this Anselm before spoken of there are divers Epistles yet extant to many women in those daies reputed of great Temperance and Chastity as To Sister Frodelina Sister Ermengarda Sister Athelytes Sister Eulalia Sister Mabily and Sister Basyle To Maud Abbesse of Cane in Normandy and Maud the Abbesse of Walton here in England He writ a Treatise about the same time called Planctus amissae Virginitatis i. e. A bewailing of lost Virginity So far John Bale And so much shall serve for Chast wives in this kind being loth to tire the patience of the Reader Of Women Wantons DIon the Historiographer in Tiberio saith that Livia the wife of Augustus Caesar beholding men naked said to the rest about her That to continent and chast matrons such objects differed nothing from statues or images for the modest heart with immodest sights ought not to be corrupted The unchast eie more drawes

undertakes without disclosing to any the secrets of his message and comming to the place where the damosell with her father then sojourned he was nobly enterteined as a fellow peer and an especiall favourit to the King No sooner came the Lady in presence but Ethelwold began to conceive that report had been too niggardly in her praise for he had not in his life time seen a Lady of so incomparable a feature to whom all the Court-beauties appeared scarce good Christall to that unmatchable Diamond What cannot love work in the heart of man when such a beauty is his object it makes the son forger his father and the father not remember that he hath a son but either hath made the others bed incestuous It hath subjected Cities and depopulated Countries made the subject forget his allegeance to his soveraign and the soveraign most unnaturall and inhumane to his subject as may appear by this history This Earl surprised with the love of this Lady hath either quite forgot the message he was sent about or else is not pleased to remember it Not speaking of the King at all but counterfeting some occasions into that Country and as if he had hapned upon that place by accident or come to give him visitation in noble courtesy at supper finds discourse concerning the Lady and at length prevailed so far with the old Earl that they were contracted that night and the next morning married After some few daies journie there the Kings impositions inforced him to take an unwilling farewel of his new married bride only at parting he earnestly intreated them for divers reasons which much imported him to keep the marriage as secret as possibly might be and so posted back to the Court He was no sooner arrived but the King inquisitive concerning the beauty of the Lady how tall how strait of what haire what complection whether her looks were cheerfull or sad her behaviour sober or suspitious To all which he answered in few she was indeed a Lady and that was her best an Earls daughter and therefore flattered for what in a private woman is commendable is in such excellent and what in the former praise worthy in the latter 〈◊〉 and admirable but for this Lady Elfritha she was a course home spun peece of flesh whose nobility and dower might make her capable of being wife to some honest Justice of peace or Sheriffe of the Shire but not becomming the bed of any of the nobility unlesse some one whose estate was decaid indeed a meer Rook and most unworthy the eie of the Princely Eagle With this answer the King was satisfi'd and for the present dispos'd his affection elsewhere imagining these praises might be divulg'd abroad as wel in scorn of her person as otherwise so for some few weeks it rested in which interim Ethelwold was oft mist in the Court and discontinued his wonted service no man could scant tell or inform the King how he disposed himselfe and still when he came to present his service he would excuse his absence with some infirmity or other which was the reason of his inforced retirement besides he was often observed to intreat leave to recreate himselfe in the Country and take the benefit of the fresh aire as commodious for his health in all which liberty he past his limits This bred some jealousie in the King and the rather because the fame of this Ladies unmatched beauty more and more increased Therefore to be more punctually informed of the truth he sent another private messenger who brought him intelligence how all things stood with the certeinty of every accident how it befell The King not knowing how to disgest such an injury from a subject smothered his grievance for a space and at length caused the gests to be drawn for he purposed a progresse into the West Ethelwold yet nothing suspecting was the formost man to attend the King upon his journie but when they came almost to Excester he began to mistrust the Kings purpose the rather because he sent to the Earl Orgarus that at such a time he meant to feast with him Now must Ethelwold bestir himself or instantly hazard the Kings high displeasure he therefore posts in the night to his wife and to his father in law reports the truth of every circumstance from the beginning how he was sent by the King and to what purpose how her beauty had so enflamed him that he was compelled by violence of affection to deceive the Kings trust and lastly to secure his own life which for the love of her he had hazarded he was forced to disparage her feature dissemble her worth and disgrace her beauty and therefore besought her as she tendred his safety being her husband either not to appear before the King at all or if she were called for and so compelled to be seen in that fashion as he had described her to his soveraign namely with a smodged face counterfeit haire uncomely habit and in her behaviour to put on such a garb of folly as might rather breed loathing then liking in his majesty The first of his speech she heard with patience but when he came to deliver to her how he had disparaged her beauty and to the King too nay more would have her derogate from her own worth and be accessary to the blasting of that beauty which nature had made so admirable this her womanish spleen could hardly disgest yet she soothed him up with fair and promising language and told him she would better consider of it and so dismissed him in part satisfied In the morning he presented himselfe early to attend the King who was that day to be enterteined by the Earle his father in law All things were nobly provided and Edgar roially received and set to dinner some write that Ethelwold had caused a kitchin maid to put on his wives habit and sit at the Kings table but I find no such matter remembred in my author the truth is the King about the middest of dinner called for the Earle Orgarus and demanded of him whether he had a wife or no if he had why he might not have her company knowing it was a general observation in England that without the wives entertainment there could be no true and hearty welcome The Earl replied that at that time he was an unhappy widdower he then demanded whether he had any children to continue his posteritie to which he answered Heaven had only blest him with one daughter a plain damosell yet the sole hope of his future memory The King was then importunate to see her and commanded her to be instantly brought unto his presence which put Ethelwold into a strange agony yet still hoping she had done as he had lately enjoined her when she contrary to his expectation came in apparalled like a bride in rich and costly vestures her golden haire fairely kembed and part hanging down in artificiall curls her 〈◊〉 stuck with jewels and about her neck

in the presence of the Damosel that 〈◊〉 freely kisse and embrace her at his will and 〈…〉 so whom she instantly replied upon his words 〈…〉 the Emperors pardon That she had made a Vow 〈◊〉 she would never kisse any man save him whom she 〈◊〉 knew should futurely be her husband Which answer the 〈…〉 in such good part as that he purposed her vertue should not passe without reward who asking If she were yet cont●●cted to any and she answering No Then saith the Emperor give me leave to provide thee of a husband when calling to him one Guido Germanus a noble young Gentleman and one in his especiall favour to him he presently contracted her a man as he was approved in Arms and Vertue so he was eminent in his Stock and Family being nobly descended and gave her for her Dower all that large Valley which lies beneath the Hill Ca●entinus in the fields that are called Aretini Ag●● and made it an Earldo ne which Title he bestowed on him And from them two proceeded the famous family of the Earls Guidons whose eminence endured many heredi●ary successions Fulgos lib. 6. cap. 1. I could amplifie the Reward due to Temperance and illustrate it with as many modest and chast women before remembred as I have Magnanimity in the Heroick Queens and Warlike Ladies But to avoid pro●●●xity which I labor to shun let this one suffice for many The reward due to Fertility or many Children with such as have restored their deca●ed Families THere was a law amongst the Spartans that whosoever had three sons that family should be quit from watching and warding and such common service but he that stored the Common-weal with five he claimed immunity in all publike offices Aelian lib. 6. de Var. Histor Amongst the Persians those that had the most numerous off-spring were capable of the most honors to whom the King yearly sent rich presents Herodot lib. 1. What merited honors then deserved Regina the daughter of Mascinus Scaliger and Thaedaea Carroriensis who being married to Prince Barnobonus Viscount of Mediolanum had by him four sons and twelve daughters The first and eldest was married to Peter King of Cyprus the second to Lewis Dolphin and first born son to the French King the third to the Duke of Bavaria the fourth to the Duke of Austria the fifth to Vicount Gallentius the sixth to Leopoldus of Austria grandfather to Frederick the third Emperor the seventh to another Duke of Bavaria the eighth to Frederick King of Sicilia the ninth to Frederick Gonzage the tenth to Duke Ernestus Monachus the eleventh to Frederick his younger brother the twelfth and last to the Earl of Kent eldest son to the King of great Brittain from whose generous off-spring most of the roialest houses of Christendome such as still flourish in their pristine honors claim their descent so that this fruitfull Queen may be called Cybele or mother of the gods Bernardus Scardeonus lib. 3. H●stor Pat. Pliny confers great felicity upon a Lacedemonian Lady called Lampedo because she was the daughter of a King the wife of a King and mother to a King when a certain rich Lady of Ionia came to Lacena and with great bo●sting and pride shewed her her pretious jewels and rich garments she pointed to her four fair children whom she had liberally and vertuously educated and s●id These are treasures only in which modest and discreet women ought to glory Plutarch in Apophtheg Laconic Eumele the wife to B●silius Helenopontanus of Pontabus as Nazianzenus testifies had by him some five sons of which three at one time were learned Bishops stout champions for the Gospel namely Gregorius Nissenus Basilius Magnus Caesariensis and Petrus Sebasta then I blame not Epaminondas who in all his nobl● exploits and prosperous successes in war was often heard to say That nothing was so pleasing and delightful to him as that both his parents were yet alive to participate with him in his honors he in the great battel called L●uctricum had a glorious victory over the Lacedemonians Plutarch in Graec. Apophtheg So Basilius Magnus Bishop of Cesarea gloried of nothing so much with daily thanks to God as that he was born of Christian parents namely Helenopontanus his father and school-master and En●●ele Capadoce his mother and that he was nursed by Macrine who had been a zealous and frequent auditor of Gregory Naeocae Soriensis his grandfather in that bloody persecution under the Emperor Maximinus with his kinsmen and family retired himselfe into a Cave in a moat where with bread only he miraculously fed himselfe and the rest for the space of seven years and after for the Faith of the Gospel suffered a blessed and glorious Martyrdome Licosck in Theat Human. Vitae Saint Hierom commends Paula the religious Roman matron for her nobility of birth as being begot by Rogatas a Grecian who derived himselfe from Agamemnon King of Mecene and roiall Generall of those famous expeditions against Troy and born of Blesilla Romana of the ancient family of the Scipios and the Gracchi and was married unto Toxilius illustrious in his blood as claiming his descent from Aeneas and the Julian pedigree but nobility of birth not being our own but our ancestors it is not my purpose to insist of it any further It followes that I should speak something of such as have been the restorers of ancient and decaied Families even when they were at the last gasp and ready to perish and be as it were swept from the face of the Earth Vitalis Michael Duke of Venice returning with his weather beaten Navy out of Greece where almost for the space of 2 years together without cessation he had opposed Prince Emanuel Constantinopolitanus being so exhausted that scarce Commanders Marriners or navall protection sufficiently accommodated was left to bring back his fleet whether by a pestilentiall mortality or that Prince Manuel had poisoned the Springs and Fountains where the Venerian souldiers had furnished themselves with fresh water is 〈◊〉 certain but most sure it is besides many other disasters and discommodities that which he held to be the greatest was that there was not any of male issue of the Justinian Family left alive but all of them in that infortunate expedition perished to one man not any of that noble stock surviving by whom the memory thereof might be restored to posterity This the Duke Michael often pondering with himself in great sadness and sorrow at length he bethought him of one Nicholaus a young man who had devoted himselfe to a sequestred and religious life and was of the order of the Benedictian Friers he had besides one only daughter whose name was Anna her he had a great desire to confer upon Nicholaus so he could any way admit a dispensation from Alexander then Pope therefore to that purpose he earnestly petitioned him and made great friends to sollicit him in that behalfe who willing to repair the ruins of so noble a family now