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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

he is no sooner dead but they all contend together which of them was of him in his life time best beloved and if it cannot be determined amongst themselves they bring the controversie before the Judges and plead as earnestly to accompany him in death as for some great fortune and honour she amongst the rest that prevails exults with joy as having attained a great victory when being led by her best friends and neerest of kindred partakes with her in the same triumph unto the place where her husbands body is to be consumed with a pleasant and merry countenance she casts her selfe into the fire and is there burned with him together the rest that survive and were deprived of this last honor consume the remainder of their lives in great discontent sorrow and anguish Of this custome Cicero remembers us Tus● Quaest lib. 5. Valer. Maxim lib. 2. cap. 1. Alex. a● Alex. Alianus Egnatius and others This funerall ceremony as Fulgos lib. 2. cap. 6. is continued amongst them unto this day alluding to this purpose is that of Propert lib. 3. Foelix cö●s lex funeris una maritis c. Which I thus paraphrase in English You Eastern Husbands in your funerall Lawes Most happy and their first inventors wise In which you are more famous then because On you the blushing morning first doth rise When Death hath with his last mortiferous wound The Husband struck his last Rites to prepare A pious troop of wives engirt him round Drying their moist cheeks with their scatt'red hair Who strive which shall associate him in fate And bed with him together in the flame To live beyond him is a thing they hate And he once dead life is to them a shame She that can die with him hath her desire And leaps with joy into the funerall fire The like is observed by a people of Thrace that inhabit a little above the Crestonaeans They likewise are delighted with plurality of wives who after the decease of their husbands enter into the like contention as the women of India and she that is Victoresse as if glorying in some great conquest adorned in her best and richest ornaments is with great ceremonious pomp amongst all her kindred and allies conducted unto the place where his body is to be interred where being slaine by her next of Kin as the best office he can do her she is buried in the same grave with her husband Herod lib. 5. The wives amongst the Geates repair to their husbands sepulchre and holding al life tedious and burthensome without them other their bodies willingly either the sword or to the fire The Custome of the Catheoreans was That when the Bride choose her husband she made a covenant with him at his death to be burnt in the same Pile Alex. ab Alex. lib. 1. cap. 25. The women amongst the Herulians a people that inhabit beyond the river of Danubius repair to the graves of their husbands and just over against them strangle themselves Which marriage-love appears the more strange because the men are of that barbarous and inhumane incontinence that they hold it no shame to leave the society of their women and have congression with brute beasts Bonifacius in his Epistle unto King Ethelbalaus as Ga●●elm Masmsbur lib. 1. cap. 64. de Anglia relates it saith That the Winedi are the worst and the most nasty people among the Germans yet their wives are of that incomparable ze●i and piety toward their husbands that she is held to be the most laudable and praise-worthy that with her own hand kils her selfe to burn with him to his last funerall fire From the generality of women I descend to particulars Admirable was the love of Phila towards her husband King Demetrius and haughty and magnanimous her spirit who receiving newes of his defeat in battel and that his whole army being dispersed and scattered he was retired into Cassandria drank poison and so died The wife of Straton Prince of Sydonia when the City was straitly besieged by the Persians her greatest care was lest the person of her husband should fall into the hands of the mercilesse enemy which she purposed to prevent by death When therefore she heard they had scaled the wals and were ready to be instantly possest of the Town and seize upon the person of her husband she snatcht from him his sword with which she first slew him and then laying out his body with as much comlinesse as the shortnesse of the time would permit after fell upon the same sword thus by voluntary death preventing the dishonour of captivity Fulgos lib. 4. cap. 6. Fannia the daughter of Arria the younger wife to Poetus Patavinus before remembred in her brave and heroick death with her husband was the spouse of Helvidius Priscus who followed him in all his exile even to his unfortunate and most unjust death she was the third time confin'd from the reign of Tiberius Nero. to the death of Domitian Pliny with infinite praises applauds the incomparable vertues of this Fannia with both the Arrias in Lib. 9. in his Epistle to Quadratus and in his seventh to Genitor and Priscus Triaria was the noble and chast wife of L. Vitellius brother to Aul. Vitellius the Emperor who as Hypsicrataea followed Mithridates in all his combustious wars so she never forsook her husband but was present with him in all those civil dissentions against Vespasian And the night when Vitellius her Lord with a great army of Souldiers invaded and entred the City Terecyna she presented her selfe in the middest of the slaughter not only daring but doing equally with the most valiant killing on all sides till she had hemmed her selfe in with dead bodies slaine by her own hand so bold and magnanimous a spirit had the conjugall love to her husband imprest in her Her memory is made famous by the same Author Antonia Flaxilla by some called Archona when her husband Priscus was found guilty of the Pysonian Faction and for that cause exiled by Nero and when she might have enjoied all the plenty and abundance in Rome left all the pleasures and delights of the City to accompany her desolate Lord in his penurous and uncomfortable banishment Her example Egnatia Maximilla imitated who likewise associated her husband Gallus guilty of the same conspiracy with Priscus Fulgos lib. 6. c. 7. From Jacobus the son of Vsson Cassannus amongst many other Captains that revolted there was one eminent in that rebellion called Pandoerus who had a most beautiful young wife her age exceeded not sixteen years to whom he was ardently and in conjoined love affected He being by her often earnestly entreated to forbeare all conflicts with the enemy but by no means either moved by her tears or perswaded by her intercessions and praiers persisting resolute for a present encounter she then begged of him That before he hazarded himselfe to the extremity of danger he would first take away her fears

and abundance she being but of humble fortunes and descended from me in parentage It hapned this Aspasia was by a Persian souldier taken from her father as all their Cities in those daies were subject to the like oppressions and presented unto Cyrus the son of Darius and Parasatides but much against her own will or the liking of her father thus presented to him in the company of other to the most choice virgins she was commended above them all both for the modesty of her countenance the civility of her carriage and an irreprovable beauty without all stame or blemish and that which heightned the love of all men towards her she was of singular wisedome for which Cyrus afterward often admitted her into his counsels and so oft as he was swar'd by her advise his designs never failed their wished successe The first time she stood before the King was at supper time which ended and Cyrus after the Persian manner willing to take his cups somewhat lavishly in middest of their healthing there were presented before him ●ou● Grecian damosels with Asp●sia the Phocensian making up the number the other three being richly adorned whose friends had set their 〈◊〉 out in 〈◊〉 beautified their heads with jewels and polisht their face and bodies with sweet odouis and unguents besides they had instructions how to behave themselves towards the King how to insinuate into his favour not to m●ve back when he c●me forward not make squemish of any curtesie he should 〈◊〉 but freely to recompence kisse for kisse being rolly instructed in the amo●orious precept belonging to such a businesse But on the contrary A●pasia would not present here felte in any curious or gay vesture nor suffer any robe of ●●uour or state to be put upon her neither would she wash or bath her selfe but in sadnesse and sorrow she invoked all the Graecian and E●●●therian gods to her assistance shall calling upon her fathers name accounting those unusuall arguments and super●●uous 〈◊〉 rather the marks 〈◊〉 servitude then honour 〈…〉 could she be forced to appear 〈◊〉 any 〈…〉 cast and unblemisht virgin 〈…〉 comming before Cyrus smiled using 〈…〉 gestures she only with her eies 〈…〉 in her cheeks by her tears expressed an extraordinary bashfulnesse The King commanding them to sit down in his presence the rest boldly contended who should place her selfe next him but this Phocean damosell at first seemed not to hear nor without the robustious usage of that souldier who first surprised her could be won to sit downe The King beginning to dallie with them and playing with their cheeks necks and brests the rest willingly suffered him she only struck his head aside and if he offered but to touch her in the least part she presently 〈…〉 and told him he should not do it unpunished The King much delighted with this unexpected 〈…〉 every offer of his she fled his embraces which was against the custome of the Persians he more ardently fixe his affection upon her and turning to the Souldiers who first presented them thus said This Phocean onely thou hast brought me chast and uncorrupted the rest both in beauty and behaviour are impostures and from thenceforth she was sollicited and beloved of the King above all others with whom he had before or after converst with and from that time a mutuall affection grew betwixt them so great that it increased as far as the modest and absolute confirmation of marriage conformable to the custome of the Graecians Insomuch that the love of the King to Aspasia was not rumoured in Ionia solely but through all the spacious Provinces of Greece even Peloponnesus was filled with the bruit thereof to the glory of the great King who after his familiar acquaintance with her was never known to have used the company of any other woman And now began the vision of Aspasia concerning the Dove to be much spoken of and of the goddesse that appeared to her to whom she dedicated after a goodly statue called the image of Venus beautified with many rich jewels withall the picture of a Dove to which she made daily supplications sacrifices and oblations still imploring the favour of the goddesse To her father Hermotimus she sent many rich and unvalued presents making him of a subject almost unparalleld for wealth using in the processe of her life as witnesse as well the Persian as Graecian Ladies a wonderous modesty and continence Hormus sometimes of Thessaly was sent from Scopa the junior who was of Sicily with an admirable rich jewell to Cyrus for a present Who having shewed it to many all wondering at the cost and workmanship and proud of so rich a gem presently after dinner repaired to the chamber of Aspasia and finding her asleep cast himselfe upon the bed by her without disturbing her rest who waking and espying the King so neer began to imbrace him according to her accustomed manner who presently taking the jewel from the casker shewed it to her using these words This I bestow on thee as a gift worthy the daughter or mother of an Emperor which I charge thee to wear for my sake in a carkanet about thy neck To whom she wisely and considerately answered And how dare I be the possessor of so great a treasure which rather becomes the majesty and estate of your mother Parasatides therefore I intreat you send it to her for I without this ornament can present you with a neck sufficiently beautiful The King much pleased with her answer daily and hourly more and more increased his love towards her and what she said and did sent in a letter to his mother with the jewell inclosed For which she was not only much graced and favoured by the Princesse but after by Cyrus rewarded with mony rich gifts of value inestimable all which she modestly sent back with this message These things O King may be usefull to thee that hast the charge of such infinites of men when my greatest riches is to be solely beloved of thee with these and the like she tied the King in inseparable bonds of affections towards her For without all competitorship in the beauty of face feature of body integrity of life and noblenesse of mind she was above all those of her time admirable But after Cyrus being slain in battell by his brother and his whole army overthrown she likewise fell into the hands of the enemy whom the King Artaxerxes with singular care and diligence caused to be sought and brought before him as one whose name and vertues he held in great respect and estimation and being presented before him bound he grew wondrous angry commanding all such to prison as were the authors of her least durance withall commanding a costly and magnificent robe to be cast about her which she with many tears and much sorrow refused till she was compell'd to it by the King still taking to heart and lamenting the death of Cyrus But thus adorned according to the Persian state she

their former losses at 〈◊〉 were utterly desperate Having thus conspired together with all possible expedition the ships in this exploit one Roma is reported to be chiefe which being done they can to meet their husbands making to their Navy to quench it fearing their anger for their rash enterprize some of them embracing their husbands others their friends and acquaintance they tempered their amorous kisses with such perswasive rhetoricke that soon allai'd the angry tempest of their husbands fury From these as some have writ the custome of kissing at salutations by the Roman women to their kinsmen first took Originall The Trojans now tied by necessity and likewise finding the inhabitants so loving and courteous they much applauded this deed of the women and dwelt there with the Latins The Phocides AFter an implacable war betwixt the Thessalians and the Phocenses which had long lasted with much slaughter on both sides those of Thessaly bringing their Army through the Locrenses invaded the men of Phocis on all sides making a decree to kill all that were of age and the women and children to beare away captive Diaphantes the son of Bathillius with his two colleagues then governing the City he perswaded the besieged boldly and valiantly to issue out and give the enemy battell but with this caution That all their wives daughters and children even to one soule should be brought into a place circled and compast in with all manner of dry wood and matter combustible and the dores by which they entered to be shut after them and so guarded and if the day were lost and they perisht in battell the pile to be kindled and all their bodies to be burned at once This being not only proposed but confirmed by the men the resolution of the women was demanded who all with one consent applauded the decree not one amongst them having will to survive her husband son or father to fall into the captivity of a fierce and bloody enemy This concluded the Phocenses issue and encounter the enemy and fought against them a noble and victorious battell in which they returned conquerors The Edict made they called Aponaea as signifying A bold action arising from a desperate foundation On the day that battell was fought and so remarkable a victory atchieved they yearly celebrate a feast to Minerva which they call Elaphebolia The women of Chios IN Chios a Gentleman of a noble family riding through the City with his contracted Lady in a chariot as the custome was then amongst them King Hippasus being a familiar friend of the bridegrooms meeting him in the streets with no pretence of injury but rather as a testimony of their former familiarity leapt up into the Chariot betwixt them which act being mistaken by the Citizens he was violently assaulted and cruelly murdered in their fury Nor long after their affairs on all sides succeeding but ill they perceived they had incurr'd the anger of the gods and therefore sent to consult with the Oracle who returned them this answer That nothing could expiate the butchery of Hippasus till all the Regicides were to one man exil'd the City But when all of them confest themselves guilty of the fact the god imposed on them all an equall doom of banishment so that as well the murderers themselves as the abettors and accessaries howsoever many and mighty were forced to transport themselves with their wives and families into Leuconia where they had not long so journed but growing distastfull to the Leuconians as fearing their power who began to encrease both in wealth and number they were commanded by such a day to depart the City and bound by oath to bear nothing forth the gates saving a coat close gift to them and a loose mantle or cloake over them The Chii distrusting their own strength as no way able to affront them in power and number were forced to submit themselves to the present necessity binding themselves by oath to observe the covenants before rehearsed The day comming on and the women seeing their sons and husbands thus meanly accoutred demanded of them Why unarmed they would passe by the face of a publick enemy They excused themselves by the strictnesse of the oath injoined them to whom the women with a joint acclamation thus replied Shew your selves worthy the Nation from whence you are derived and gird your arms about you if they exact from you the strict conditions of an oath answer them thus That to a souldier and a man magnanimous his spear is instead of his cloak and his Target in the place of the garment which he should buckle about him To whose counsell they assented and at their departure appearing so strongly arm'd and their countenances menacing and daring It strook such a terror into the hearts of the Leuconians that as men amazed they suffered them peaceably to dopart with honour who but by the noble and brave counsell of their women had left the place with shame and infamy As noble an act worthy memory was not long after done by the women of Chios what time Philip the son of Demetrius opposed the City who published a proud and barbarous Edict to insinuate the slaves of the City to his aid promising them not only free manumission but to marry them to their mistresses and possesse them of their masters fortunes which kindled such an unquenchable wrath in the Ladies and Matrons of the City that fired with rage and disdain they together with their servants assisting them with incredible faith and honesty maintained the breaches defended the wals guarded the ports casting stones darts fighting exhorting and incouraging one another even to the beating on the enemies back raising their shamefull siege and pursuing them flying with their weapons till Philips army was quite discomfited In all this troublesome war notwithstanding the proclamation not one servant amongst so many had the lest suspition much lesse aspersion cast upon his fidelity Persides CYrus having alienated the Persians from King Astiages was overcome in battell his souldiers flying towards the City for refuge insomuch that the enemy was ready to enter with them the women this seeing issued from the gates and holding up their cloaths a● high as their breasts met them running and said Whither flye you O you cowards and basest of men have you any hope to hide your selves in these places from whence you came Which object cast such a shamefull blush upon them that renewing the battell the conquerors were defeated and they obtained a glorious victory In memory of which Cyrus made a law That what Persian King should ever after approach that City so often as he entered it should bestow on every woman a peece of gold It is said of Occhus his successor a covetous King that he often past by it and compast it but would never enter the gates only to spare his purse and to defraud the women of their reward But ever-renowned Alexander visited the City twice according to the custome

make themselves the authors of many things and so they are indeed of mischiefs often of good things never The Croesians and the Pirrhians make it most apparant with what deceiving cunning he hath shadowed the ambiguities of his O●acles No question but the devill by the infallible prophesies of Esay and Daniel both which had lively and expresly deliueated the young man Alexander knew that this Alexander by subduing Darius should enjoy all Asia and transfer the Monarchy from the Babylonians to the Graecians The Prince thereof comming to the Delphian Oracle and of the Prophetesse demanding the success that should follow his intended expeditions she of long time made him no answer but he not so satisfied by intreaties menacies and all manner of importunities at length wrested from her these few words Invictus eris Alexander Oh Alexander thou shalt be invincible which words had they failed in the successe of his wars yet had a shadow of truth in that his urgence overcame the silence of the Oracle After trajecting his army against the Persians divers Prodigies appeared at his entrance into Asia the statue of Orpheus was seen to sweet in his conflict with Darius an Eagle was still visibly seen soaring and hovering over his head and as it were menacing the enemy these were no question the mockeries of the devill to avert the opinions of such as gave not much credit to the superstitions of these vaine Auguries and to the firmer establishment of his own kingdome He knew before out of the Prophesies of Esay That Tyrus should be destroied by the Macedonians for so saith the Prophet The burden of Tyrus howle ye ships of Tarshish for it is destroi'd so that there is no house none shall come from the land of Chitrim it is revealed unto them This land Cethim many hold to be Macedonia for after that dialect the Macedonians are called by Homer Others by Cethim interpret the land of the Cyprians Now when after the defeat and utter subversion of Darius Alexander had invested his army before Tyrus the devill by Oracle forewarned one of the prime Citizens That Apollo would instantly forsake the City that the event answering the prediction might the more firmly establish the confidence setled upon these false Idols To this purpose makes that of the Pythian damsel in the Acts of the Apostles thus saith the Text And it came to passe as we went to prayer a certaine maid having a spirit of divination met us which gat her master much vantage with divining she followed Paul and us and cryed saying these men are the servants of the most high God which shew unto you the way of salvation and thus did she many daies Here we see the devill confesseth the truth but not with the intent to move the people to give beliefe to his doctrines For that appears by the sequell For when Paul grieved turned about and said to the spirit I command thee in the name of Jesus that thou come out of h●r and be came out the same hour For instantly followes the innate malice of the devill for when her masters saw the hope of their gaine was gone they caught Paul and Silas and drew them into the market place unto the Magistrates c. The devill prosecuting his hate against them even to false accusations beating with rods and imprisonment This argument I will end with one historicall discourse Johannes Wyerius in his first book De praest Daemon tels us that upon a time mention being made of Hector and Achilles before the Emperour Maximilian in his imperiall pallace one of his chiefe nobility and a prime Counseller of State among the rest began to speak most affectionately in their p●●●se extolling their actions strength and valour in that high measure that the Emperor was most desirous if it were possible to behold them in their true effigies and portraiture A Magician at the same time lived about the Court who boasted so much of his skill that he profest himselfe able to accomplish the desires of the Emperor and that without danger or prejudice to any this comming to the eares of the Emperor he was sent for and commanded to shew some testimony of his art The Magician in hope of reward and promise of silence free from all interruption undertakes it and moreover to secure the spectators from danger when placing the Emperour in his regall throne he cast about the same a wide and spatious circle that done he mumbles certaine unknown words to himselfe which he seemed to read out of a small book of characters which he drew out of his pocket This was no sooner done but Hector beats at the door with such violence that at the terrour of the stroaks the whole pallace seemed to tremble the door being opened Hector enters armed Cap a pe in a helmet plumed his target upon his arme and in his right hand a long mighty speare headed with brasse who thus accoutred with terrible and flaming eies looks round about the room his stature much larger then any that hath lived in our latter daies At another door first knocks then enters Achilles with the like majestick gate compleatly armed with an austere and menacing brow beholding Hector shaking and charging his spear against him as if he instantly purposed to invade him These two after honour done unto Caesar having gone on and returned back three times upon the instant vanisht This act being past next enters on the stage King David his head crowned with a rich diadem and ado●ned with all Kingly magnificence playing upon his harp but his aspect more plausible and his countenance more amiable then the former he likewise three severall times past by the Emperor still sitting in his throne but without any reverence done to his person at all and so likewise vanisht The Magician being asked by the Emperour Why of the rest David had only denied to do him honour he presently answered That all Kingdomes to the Kingdome of David must submit themselves because Christ himselfe came of his stock and linage Thus we see how the devill is never without Scripture in his mouth though blasphemy and execration in his heart Besides these kind of Diviners there are such as are called Sortiligae and these predict by lots and that after sundry maners of which I will instance one only They make a round circle and divide it into four and twenty equall distances according to the number of the Greek alphabet every space having the character of one of these letters upon which they put a graine of wheat or barley then is put forth a Cock kept for the purpose and by those grains that he picks up from the letters they make their conjectures Valens the Emperour much perplexed in his mind about the succession in the Empire retired himselfe to this kind of Augury when the letters and the grains being placed as is aforesaid the vaticinating Cock called Alectiomantious was turned out who