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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44659	The history of the seven wise mistrisses of Rome ... wherein, the treachery of evil counsel is discovered, the innocency of harmless virgins cleared, and the wisdom of seven wise women displayed, to the wonder of their own nation, and the administration of all the world.; Seven wise mistresses of Rome	Howard, Thomas, 17th/18th cent.	1663 (1663)	Wing H3008; ESTC R4376	68,088	179

all that a Déer in two or thrée nights was constantly lost and still the Lady wondered how this might be and the Wolf-dog watching too so she put a man to watch all night in a trée to espy out what beast came to vestry her Déer and by the light of the Moon he discovered the Wolf-dog upon a lusty Buck having tore his throat when the morning came the Lady sent for him to know what he had seen and be said I have séen what it is that kills the Déer now declare said the Lady what it is and he said it is even your own Wolf-dog whom you put to watch them then the Lady looked sad in the face and began to complain greatly saying Alas have I destroy'd the Shepheard and put a Wolf in his stead have I then through the wicked advice of yonder foolish women hang'd my good and trusty Hound which looked to my Herd and preserv'd them from the ravenous wolves the bravest Courser and flower of all Dogs in Thesaly and have here put a ravenous murtherer of my Deer to keep the Park and with these words she struck the Dog three or four blows with her Cane and the masterless Cur grumbled as if it had béen a Lyon and then said the Lady how now Déer-killer and smote him again but before she struck the fifth blow he rear'd upon her breast and slew her before the eyes of her servants Then all people cursed the Counsellours which advised the Lady to kéep that evil Dog and to kill the good Hound Then said Radamentus understand you what I have said yes right well said the Empress then said he I will shew you the Declaration thereof The Declaration of the Example THe Lady delightful in hunting signifieth your self in all vertuous recreation so that all Kings of the Earth do hear of your same as the King of Egypt did of her Game the large and spacious Park is your Empire and the Déer therein are your subjects the good Hound watching them is your wise and good discretion defending them from ravenous wolves in kéeping us in peace and safety from the bloody hands of cruel Tyrants the fair and masterlesse Wolf-dog is your stubborn and gracelesse Daughter who by her ill examples and bad precedents will delude your good Subjects and in the end destroy them as the Dog did the Deer the foolish women that counselled the Lady to kill the good Hound and let the Wolf-dog live is your seven wise Mistrisses which daily labour to advise you to suppress your vigilancy and wise care of your Subjects and let your filthy lascivious Daughter live whereby she may reign in bloody tyranny and glut her self with the flesh of your people the man in the Tree that discovered the Dog in killing the Déer was my self in my Chamber window espying your Daughter that shameless wretch in the Garden under a trée something obscure with a man committing the foul sin of fornication and all other beastly behaviour for which detestable and abominable act she ought to dye according to the Law for if she live she will by her ill wayes give base examples and destroy many others if then you correct her for it she will like unto the Wolf-dog leap upon your breast and cut your throat Then said the Empress that Dog the Lady loved so dearly cut her throat at last but my Daughter shall not do so Then she commanded her Officers to lead her away to the stake and as she was led through the streets with trumpets sounding her doleful funeral all the people ran out making a sad noise crying alas alas the Empress onely Daughter is led again to the Stake Then the fourth Mistris leapt upon her horse and hasted away to the Empress and did obeysance to the Empress who said O thou cursed old wretch little thanks shalt thou have for thy ill instructing my Daughter and bringing her to what she is now gone to I delivered her to you finely taught modest and well mannered and you delivered her again to me ill taught full of vice and dumb and a shameless whore for which this day she is to dye to the disparagement of the Empire and disgrace of all her lineage I would the day of her birth had been the day of her burial O gracious Lady then said the Mistris I little thought of this entertainment surely I have not deserved the least of this your displeasure and for why your Daughter speaketh not I commit the cause to God and in short time you shall know the reason but the time is not come yet she is accus'd she hath committed the soul sin of fornication that is false and is not to be proved therefore you ought not to put your onely Daughter to death for the words of one single person though it were Iustice and if you pu● her to death for one mans saying it shall be worse to you then to the Queen who for putting too much confidence●● Counsellours had her onely Daughter cut in pieces before the Altar and her self after stoned to death Then said the Empress declare that Example for my learning that I shall not do said the Mistris unless you send for your Daughter back again otherwise she may be de●d before I make an end then should I talk to you in vain Then the Empress commanded her Daughter to be brought back again and pu● in prison while the mistris spake as followeth The Example of the fourth Mistris SOme time there lived in the Kingdom of Thracia a famous Queen named Hicuba who built a strong City of defence double wall'd and moated round she was a peaceable Queen and at variance with none save onely the King of Lycia being a quarrelsome Prince and be came against her with an invincible Army and besseged her round wherefore she call'd before her in Councel her two Counsellors named Anthinor and Eneus and they assembled all the noble Citizens to advise how to preserve their City and give their enemies battel and when they had fortified their walls and planted their Guards Anthinor issued out with ten thousand men and made a great slaughter among his enemies and so returned back into the City then their enemies recruited again and fell on to scale the walls but were driven back by the Citizens then Eneus went out and sought with great valour but lost many men and so return'd into the Town At last Anthinor addressed himself to the Queen and told her it were good to conclude peace with the enemies for they had lost many noble persons of honour among whom were the Queens two Sons for which they made great moan and therefore he advised the Queen to conclude a peace that the Enemies may depart without destroying the City for they could not maintain it against such an invincible power though the City was well fortified and strength enough to have beaten twice as many yet the Queen believed these two evil Counsellors which proved arrand

Traytors than the harmless Queen asked them who they should have to go treat for them Then Eneus stood up and said if it seemeth good to the Queen and to all you Citizens for the honour of the Queen the safeguard of our City and the preservation of our lives Anthinor and I being expert in all Laws and Customs upon so weighty a matter as this will go forth The Queen liked well of what he said reposing more confidence in them then any other and all the Citizens accorded to it and Anthinor and Eneus went forth and sounded a parley and the Enemies Heralds came and fetcht them in and Anthinor said we have wrought so about with our Queen that we have obtained Irave to come and couclude a league or truce with you but if you will grant us two our demands as we shall ask of you we will betray the City into your hands to do with it as it seemeth good to you then they all promised to grant their demands Then said Anthinor you shall give us a thousand marks in Gold and withall our Rights and Priviledges and save all the lives of our Friends and Kindred with the preservation of all our Houses Lands and Possessions then said their Enemies all these things are granted and we are ready to swear the confirmation of it which they immediately did Then said Anthinor we must be very private in this thing for we must make a counterfeit truce with ye and you must send this word in answer to our message thus That you require a hundred thousand marks of gold to pay your Army and ten thousand measures of wheat to make them bread and to set up a brazen horse within the City in the Temple of Interva and this ●●●se said Anthinor must be cast hollow wherein a thousand men may stand all armed and when it is in the Temple and you have receiv'd your gold and wheat which I will order then you must draw your Army off the Town as they may suppose you are going away then when the Citizens think all is secure and are in bed asleep then shall the armed men in the brazen Horse come forth and Eneus and I will give you the sign by a light off the wall and when you see that advance with all your Army on the back side of the Town and we will open the Gates again you come then do with the City as you see good onely remember Eneus and I of our contract and said Anthinor with those words we will depart acquaint the Queen of it and we shall come forth to morrow again to acquaint you of her answer so took leaps of them and departed ho●● into the City and fold the Queen what the Enemies requested which was one hundred thousand marks of Gold and ten thousand measures of Wheat and they would depart home into their own Countrey onely they would leave behinde them a brazen Horse which they had pruvided as a memorandum or mark of Conquest Then the Queen sighed deeply and said What have I lost so many of my dearest friends and so much of the stately walls of my City domollished and now must I be constrain'd to pay so much Gold and Wheat unto my very Enemies and hire them to go home into their Country● O was is me that ever I was born 〈◊〉 but since it must be so go tell them Anthinor I do grant their demands then Anthinor and Eneus went forth again and said to the Enemies your request is granted all what we have contrived and you are to appoint the day to receive it that we may make it ready and after you have that then we 'l be for the City so the day was appointed and all was got ready they receiving it all then they draw the brazen Horse into the City and plat't it in the Temple though little thought the harmless Quéen what hollish plot lay in the belly of the Horse On the morrow all the Enemies drew off from the City towards night and the poor Citizens supposing they were all departed towards their own Countrey rejoyced all and through watchfulness being up very many nights before went to bed and at midnight in the dead time of sléep Anthinor went to the brazen Horse and call'd forth that thousand armed men and Eneus went upon the back tower and held up in his hand a blazing torch which gave intelligences to the bloody Enemy so they came and entred the Town that all the stréets were full and then Anthinor and Eneus the bloody Traytors shewed them their ●ouses and Possessions but for the harmless Quéen in her Palace was no respect at all and this Quéen had a fair and beautiful Daughter named Palestina the like was not in all the world she wicked Anthinor would have radisht some time before the siege and she refusing caused him to work this their utter destruction and as the Quéen and her Daughter were at prayers they heard a woful cry in the City then they were struck with jealousie of wicked Anthinors treachery so the Quéen ran into the Temple and Palestina the young Lady poor soul ran and hid her self in an old Tower by which time the Enemy had not left alive neither man woman nor childs throughout the whole City Then Anthinor the Traytor came to the Temple and seeing the Quéen there asked where her Daughter was who replied O ungrateful Traytor is not thy wicked bowels glutted yet with tyranny Then he went to the old Tower and there found her and drag'd her out and gave her to the Enemy who led her to the Altar and before her mothers own eyes they cut her in four quarters and threw them about the Temple the Quéen at the horrid sight fell down in a swound and when she recovered life again said Now Villains glu● your selves with tyranny so fore the hair off her dead and the clothes of her bo●● and went s●ark mad out o● her senses wherefore the wicked Tyrants carried her into a strange Island and there miserably ●●on'● her to death and after burnt her City to the ground and retu●n'd home into their own Countrey And then the Mistris said to the Empress understand you what I have said how a Queen by putting too much confidence and took too much advise of two evil Counsellors came at last to have her Daugh●er cut in pieces before her own eyes herself stoned to death her Subjects massacred and her whole City destroy'd thererefor●●e advis'd and put not your own D●ug●ter thus to death for the words of one Counsellor lest it happen to you as it did to th● harmlese Queen The Empress said you have shown me a good Example 〈◊〉 t● g●●eves my heart to think of it for they were the wickedest Counsellors that ever were surely I will take no such advice for my Daughter shall not dye The Mistris said if you perform that you will do wisely and I thank you for sparing your Daughter this day for