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A60009	The illustrious history of women, or, A compendium of the many virtues that adorn the fair sex represented not only in lively and pathetical discourses grounded upon reason, but in sundry rare examples of virtuous love, piety, prudence, modesty, chastity, patience, hnmility [sic], temperance, conduct, constancy, and firmness of mind ... : with the prophesies and predictions of the Sybils ... : the whole work enrich'd and intermix'd with curious poetry and delicate fancie sutable to so charming a subject.	J. S. (John Shirley), fl. 1680-1702.	1686 (1686)	Wing S3508; ESTC R26238	56,658	194

the Passio●ate Xerine expir'd whose Soul with ●uch difficulty staved behind loving ●im even as her Life who had injur'd ●er with so great a deceit Sir J. B. 〈◊〉 Rocoles of Impostors Ho●● Wife of Be●xamut a Vali●nt Captain of the Alarbes had so ●reat affection for her Husband that whilst he liv'd She never disobey'd or disoblig'd him and when he dyed She almost drown'd in Tears caused his Funeral Obsequies to be performed on the solemnest manner with infinite cost nor would be Induced to forsake his Tomb where after Nine days Fasting she dyed breathing out her last Breath by his Side He first Deceas'd She for a few days try'd To live without him lik'd it not and dy'ds Camer Oper. Subcisiv The Emperour Conrade the Third besieging Guelphus Duke of Bavaria in the City of Wensberg in Germany the Women made a request to that Emperour that they might pass out with so much as they could carry upon their backs which was granted he supposed they would lade themselves with their Furniture but on the contrary these loving Dames preferring the safety of their Husbands before all Earthly Riches took each of them their Husbands carried them as Packs which Act of Love so moved the Emperour that he wept not only received the Duke into his favour but gave all the men their lives extolling the Womens Transcednent Love with deserved Praise Lonicer Theatr. Prince Edward afterward Edward the First King of England whilst he Warred in the Holy Land having reduced the City of Accone being stab'd with an Impoison'd Knife by one Auzazim a Sarazin who had the opportunity of aproaching him under the Pretence of a Message from one of the Pagan Governours when all hopes of ●ure failed his Virtuous Wife Elenor at the hazzard of her Life daly suck'd the Wounds till the Venom of the poison was extracted for which amazing Love when he came to be King he caused her Arms as Memorials of Conjugal affection to be fixed on divers publick places Bakers Cron. Sulpitia the Wife of Lentulus after the proscribing of her Husband by the Influence of the Triumvire and his ●ight to Pompy's Son in Sicily notwithstanding the strict 〈…〉 set upon her found means to escape in disguise not weighing the danger o● being proscribed her self equal to the Fidelity to her Husband Eumonus burying the dead fallen in the Battle of Sabin where the Indians Warr'd with Amigonus amongst the slain was found the body of Cereas an Indian who commanded those Troops● which man according to the Custom of that Countrey had at sundrey times Married two Wives both which Lov'd him entirely for whereas there was a 〈…〉 and is yet in some places observed that the live Wife shall be bunrt with the dead Husband these Women were so far from declineing it that they strove which of them should make her Bed with him in the Flames as if they had contended for some Glorious Prize the last Marry'd of these pleaded before the Judges that were to decide the Controversie that the former was with Child and therefore ought to be exempted to which the other aledg'd it was fit she should bell before her in Honour as the elder Marry'd 〈◊〉 it 〈◊〉 customary 〈◊〉 things and after a long 〈◊〉 between them the Judges being inform'd by the Midwives that the Elder Marry'd was with Child adjudged the Younger should have her desire which done the other departed rending her Diadem Hair and Garments with many loud Laments as if some grievous calimity had befaln her The other overjoy'd at her Victory in the most Magnificient attire as if she had been going to her Wedding was led by her friends to the Pile whereon her Husband lay Singing all the way being there arriv'd taking off all her Ornaments she deliver'd them to her Friends and Servants in 〈◊〉 of remembrance they consisting of a multitude of Rings with variety of Precious Stones Chains and Stars of Gold c. This done she was by her Brother Placed upon the Pile by her Husband which Pile after the Army had thrice compass'd it was Fir'd and she without so much as a groan finish'd her life in the flame an Instance of Invincible Love and Female Courage and might justly were it not some what Eclips'd by the name of a Self-violence stand the glory of the Sex Didor Sicul. Such Phaenixes the World does rarely yield No Nation boasts them but the Indian Field Pondoerus a Persian Captain being in Arms against Jacobus King of Persia and Son to Vsan Cassants his Wife a Beautiful Lady not exceeding fifteen years besought him by all the Ties of love to lay down his Arms and submit but notwithstanding he lov'd her entirely yet would not yield to her request Then she desir'd him and adjur'd him by all that was Sacred that he would kill her before he gave Battle that it might not be said she out-liv'd him but he regarding more his head-strong Ambition than her Tears whom Grief made lovely sounded the Charge and was slain in Fight his Lady was likewise taken Prisoner and by the King bestowed upon one of his Captains who intreating her to receive him as her Husband with many proffers of kindness and great presents She wonderfully opposed but perceiving he would have that by force which by fair means he could not obtain she required time to consider the point and thereupon retiring sent him a Note wherein was written That none should say the Wife of Pondoerus did long survive him and with that she fell upon a Sword and died Fulgos l. 4. Since he was gone to whom her love inclin'd She lik'd not life and wou'd not stay behind Cedrenus in his History tells us that Constantine the ninth caused the Roman Argyrapalis to be brought before him together with his Wife a Beautious young Lady threatning him with all the Torments imaginable if he did not put her away and in her stead take his Daughter which if he did he promis'd to make him his He●r and raise him by other promotions in the Empire The man at this stood confounded with in himself not knowing what to Answer when the Lady perceiving what danger he was likely to fall into if he refused to comply with the Emperours demand Ah S● said she to her Husband I see you ar● much hindred in a brave way if it on●● rest in your wife that you be not grea● and happy I freely deprive my self of all yea of your Company which is more precious to me than all the Empires of t●● World rather then prejudice your Fo●tane for know I love you better tha● my life And so saying out of a tender compassion to the preservatio● of him she lov'd so dear she c●● off her Hair and enter'd into a Monastery spending the rest of her day in Piety and Divotion Caus H. C● in treat of passions Turning the Torrent of her Earth● love To a mere lasting Sence of Joys abov● Arria the Wife of Cecinna

wonders but happy for Aeneas as she was Charging furiously on his Routed Squadron a Trojan watching his oportunity shot her into the Breast with an Arrow of which Wound she dyed and with her the Fortune of King Turnus And thus Virgil in his seventh Aeniad speaks as I find it Translated by Heywood To their supply Camilla came The Gallant Volscian Lass Who bravely did Command the Horse With Troops that shin'd in Brass Atlantea was Daughter of Jasus and Clymene in her tender Age her Father cast her out to a desperate fortune for no other reason than that she was of the Female Sex when a Shee-Bare more Compassionate than her cruel Parent nourished her in the Woods with her Milk till some Huntsmen fortuned to come by and casting their Eyes upon her lovely Beauty took her home and carefully brought her up In her Youth she adicted her self to the use of Arms and Hunting wild Beasts till by her Swiftness and wonderful Courage she grew Famous She was wonderful Expert likewise in managing swift Horses turning Charriots in the midest of their Careir Wrestling throwing Darts c. Hunting the Callidonian Boar with many of the Noble Youths of Greece she was the first Wounded that furious Beast on which occasion Plautanus Cites her as an Example as thus As did the Meleagrian Girl who in the Aetolian plain Lay'd flat the Foaming Boar and was the foremost of the train That gave him bold Encounter and as Ignorant of fear Notch't her sharp Arrow and the string pluck't close up to her Eare The first that day in Field that Blood from the stern Monster drew Bearing the honour spoile and palm from all the Princely crew To these it will be convenient to add some English Viragoes who in Conduct and Courage have not been Inferior to the rest Elphlelda Sister to King Edward the fourth before the Conquest was Wife to Etheldredus Duke of Mercia she affisted her Husband in restoring the City of Chester after it had been demolish'd by the Danes After the death of her Husband she Govern'd his Principality Wisely and Valiantly Built many Cities and Towns Repaired others as Thatarn Brimsbury she Built a Bridge upon the Severn and did many other famous things This Lady having once endured the pains of Child-birth refrain'd her Husbands Bed though not without his consent saying It was unseemly for a woman of her degree to Innure her self to such wanton Embraces whereof should ensue so great a pain and sorrow The Welshmen heing unruly in those days she tam'd them and over-threw the Danes in several Battles in Memory of whom Henry the fifth left this Epitaph upon her Tomb. Oh Elphlelda thou great in strength and mind The Dread of men and Viottess of thy kind Nature has done as much as Nature can To make the Maid but goodness makes then M●● Yet pity thou should'st change ought but thy mama Thou art so good a woman and thy fame In that grows greater and more worthy when Thy Feminine Valour much outssineth men Great Caesars acts thy noble d●eds excell So sleep in peace Virago Maid farewell Heywoods Hist Women Maud Daughter to He●●y the first was Married to Henry the fourth Emperour her Husband dying she had the Title of Empress and her Father Henry caused the Nobility of England to Swear Fealtie to her as his Lawful Heir but he dying many left her and took part with Stephen Duke of Bulloin when contending for her right she Fought many Battles with him in which her Courage Prudence and Conduct shin'd to admiration and at last took King Stephen Prisoner whom she brought to London the people every where Ken● excepted owning her Soveraignty Upon notice that the King was prisoner his Wife came to Ransome him and offer'd a Renountiation of his Claim to the Kingdom but she not hearkning to it the People Mutined against her which Oblig'd her to fly to Oxford there to attend the Uniting of her scatter'd Forces but being there hardly press'd by the Queen and others that had Asociated with her she caus'd her self to Escape being made a prisoner to be Coffined up as dead and carryed to Glocester her Brother Robert being at that time taken prisoner and King Stephen soon after getting his Liberty Besieg'd her in the City of Oxford from Michalmas day to Midd-Winter at what time being strain'd through want she Attired her self in White and by that means passing the Fenns cover'd with Snow she came to Wallingford Castle and soon after had the Kingdom put into the possession of her Son Henry Crown'd by the Name and Title of Henry the second Of Loyal Women In Loyalty to their Prince Women in all Ages have been unparaled Examples and in that case England is wonderfully Indebted to the Memory of that Extraordinary pattern of Loyalty and unshaken Fidelity Mrs. Jane Lane whom no promise of reward or the fear of loosing her own life could induce to betray her Soveraign but rather with an undaunted Courage and never to be forgotten Conduct she Courted hazard and danger for the preservation of his late Majesty Charles the Second of ever Blessed Memory To blot such virtue fond man strives in vain For it like Christ●● purges off its stain And by it does a brighter L●stur gain The Introduction to the Reasons and Arguments c. THus far with an adventerous hand I have portray'd the Virtues of the Fair Sex in their many singular qualities and yet intend not here to stop but produce more sollid Arguments to confirm their worth Though there is nothing more nice and delicate than to Treat on the Subject of Women especially if we speak to their advantage for then it is imagin'd a piece of Gallantry or Love the Extravigancy of good Humour or the Ardent Feavour of an Extraordinary Passion though certain it is that the most happy thoughts that can possess the labouring Minds of those that would acquire a sollid Science after they have been vulgarly instructted may have reason to doubt whether they have been taught aright or not and labour still to find a way at least to a higher Improvement of what they but indifferently understand And in this case the Contemplation of good Women works wonders in the lofty Soul of Man by making the things contemplated more lovely and curious to the Eyes and Thoughts or rendering us more pliable to Entertain a large esteem of what the Wise have term'd a Sollid happiness so those that have but viewed the superficies of Female Excellence can no more be sensible of the highth of that perfection than a Rude American of the inward Lustre of an Unpolish'd Diamond found in it's Rockey coverture amongst the common product of the Earth At a distance we behold the glorious Lamp of day and though at once we well perceive it fills the world with heat and brightness yet by reason of innumerable spaces ' twin it and the Earth the Vulgar think in small and that a narrow room