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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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 Almighty to save the World from desolation her virtues are for the most part admirable and no less her judgment and the other Intelectual faculties of her Soul That as I have prov'd being nothing Inferiour to that in which Man centers his largest Pride and Boast imagining it as it truly is a Ray of Essence a Effluence of his Maker Woman from her Infancy with pretty Smiles delights the World and Chears the hearts of her admiring Parents and as she grows Virtue takes its place well pleas'd to dwell in such a Fabrick and brings as her Attendants Modesty Sobriety and a wining Behaviour No sooner is Woman possess'd by Man in the happy State of Conubial Love but she furuishes him with a shower of Blessings wrap'd in soft Delights and deck'd in Chastest Charms mild and plyant is her Temper and her Cariage towards him decent and comely her Behaviour her Love is beyond Expression and her Tenderness such that she values him on whom her heart is plac'd equal with all but her imortal happiness as for her Life she counts it a Trifle and had rather loose it than her Honour she esteems nothing on Earth too good for her Beloved and inforces all her Charms to please and render him the happy Father of hopeful Children she is indeed his Internus Sensus his second self equally shareing his Joys and Afflictions and is not like a Swallow that sings to the morning wake of his prosperity and when the Winter of his Adversity comes takes her way upon the Winds to seek a warmer Sun her Smiles are not to be bought with Silver nor her Love to be purchac'd with Gold but are freely and intirely plac'd upon her Beloved great is her diligence to please him and as great her care not to offend him when he rejoyces she rejoyces when he is griev'd she is sad simpathising with him in all things and is the secret Cabinet in which he dare repose his Secrets and find them there as safe as in his Soul a Repository she is of his abstrusest thoughts and is ever tender of his honour nothing she thinks too good for him nor nothing she can do too much in Health she takes care for his necessaries and is wonderfully tractable in forwarding his Affairs in Sickness she is more studious for his Health then her Intrest and puts up her Prayers and Vows to Heaven for his recovery Expressing in all her actions a careful Love and Tenderness and in her Words a venerable Esteem so that without so great a virtue as Woman Man must be miserable and forlorn as to his temporal Condition nor ought he to esteem so great a Blessing unworthy his largest Thoughts nor render the Almighty less Tribute of Praise and Thanks-giving for bestowing that last best favour on him which could only compleat his earthly Felicity In making Woman Nature has been Lavish and shew'd her curious Art in Forming a Creature soft and tempting to allay the rough temper of Man by moderation and mildness as the Fluid Aire prevents the Firey Region from Calcinating the Earth and renders that outragious Element serviceable to Man-kind Great was the cunning Nature used or rather the God of Nature not to refer so great a Work to second causes in framing the lovely structure of the Softer Sex in every part proporting what by sight or touch might yield delight forgetting nothing that was admirable in it self or might be pleasing to those whose curions thoughts could scan the best Perfections wonder not then why the Sex is so admir'd by all the sages of the World yet not so much as real Worth commands in true desert as has been often intimated in the foregoing Pages why then should Man decline so great a Blessing why should not he who is so proud of being Rational use his Rationalty to a right end and by temporal Love founded on Virtue strive to raise his Soul to that which is Eternal endless and not dated by degrees of time a Love unalterable as Fate sounded on a commixture of Blessings in conversation with Angels Arch-Angels Cherubims and Seraphims Thrones Dominations Prince-doms Virtues and Powers all the Starry Quire of Brightness and Batitude and higher yet for Love is God and God is Love by it the order of the Visible World is maintain'd and things not visible to mortal Eyes supported in their sacred order and concordence 't is that which makes all truly happy and without it is no happiness in this World nor the World to come Then let us prize a Gift that is so fair So good so just that she our love should share To a degree too great to be exprest Who of all Blessing Earth affords is best Who only Crowns all Earthly Flappiness And does Man-kind beyond his wishes bless A greater Blessing Heav'n never gave To Mortal Man but him that Man did save The Reasons why Mans Happiness is not compleat on Earth without the Charming Creature Woman AS for the necessity of the Beautious Sex it is evident not only for the sake of Generation but for that of Mutual Society Man without them being as a Solitary Traveller who Journeys through Wildernesses and Desarts where Rational Creatures seldome give his Eyes the plesure of beholding them though some may object that the Conversation of Man with Man is materialy sufficient I grant it is in general relating to indifferent affairs but where the Soul claims a closer Union than such Innocent diversions can alow that convers is of little moment Woman was taken from Man and therefore by a simpathy of Nature and a secret contraction of the better part she considers in being cruel to her temporal Original she is cruel to her self and in that cruellty offends her Maker unless a singular vow of Chastity interposes wherein her aime is to be a spotless Virgin that so she may follow the Lamb that has taken away Original Sin and given us leave and oppertunity to be Regenerate and Born again through Faith and Relyance on his meritorious Death and passion but to come nearer to the conclusion Eternal love ought to be our chief aim Life in our Saviours death we d●ly claim In his dear merits all our hopes must be Zone of our everlasting life is he A bright Meridian of Eternity But how came this great Mistery to pass Eternal Widom the Prime Author was The thing is deep and Mortal Minds are lost Heav'n nows alone what this dear Blessing cost Consider then and let us still adore Omnipotence which our weak nature bore Compassioning us he lay'd aside Known Glory dispising shame he dy'd ●●●'raign o're Death with Death he yet comply'd Having thus far discours'd I shall proceed to the Character of a Virtuous Woman in all her Capacities The GOLDEN CHARACTER Of a VIRTUOUS WOMAN In all her CAPACITIES IN this case three things are more immediately to be consider'd viz The Virgin State and those of Marriage and Widdow-hood and of these in their

her Hair that had till that 〈◊〉 cove●ed her Modesty when find●●● her labouring Soul upon the Wi●●● she Breath'd it forth in praise to 〈◊〉 Maker Acts and Mon. Go Pious Maid may your Exam●●● be Prais'd and admir'd to all posterity The Palm is hers nor can she mi●●● Crown Who for the sake of Christ her life 〈◊〉 down No Mixture Crown of Pearl of Gold and Cares Such as below an Earthly Monarch wares But a bright Diadem of Beaming Stars Agnes an Honourable young Virgin being accus'd of professing the Christian Religion and not denying it when Interogated by the Judge he threatned her with most Exquisit Torments unless she would Worship the Gods of the Heathens but Arm'd with a Christian Faith she told him she fear'd no Tortures as being willing to suffer all manner of Torments even Death it self for the sake of him that was able to raise her at the last day Well said the Judge though you value not the Pain yet I doubt not but you have a great esteem for your Virginity and Chastity and it is my intent to thrust you into the Stews if you refuse to Sacrifice to our Gods notwithstanding she persisted to inveigh against their pretended Deities using many Arguments to convince the Heathen of his Error which made several wicked Fellows urge him to put the Beautiful Virgin into their possession that they might use her at their discretion which occasioned her to tell them that Christ was not forgetful of those that are his neither would he leave her destitute of his help and assistance but would be always ready to protect and defend Modest and Chast Virgins and thereupon turning to the Judge she told him He might freely bath his Sword in her Blood but should no defile her Body She had no sooner utter'd these words but shameless as he was he commanded she should be bound stark Naked to a Post at a Corner of a street whereat the greatest part of the People being sorry and asham'd to behold an Innocent Virgin in the tender Bloom of her Age exposed to such Ignominy Some turn'd away their Heads and others hid their Faces as they pass'd by but one impudent Fellow Scoffing at the helpless Maid and Gazing on her Nakedness in derision was blasted with a flash of Lightning and thereby lost his sight upon which signal Judgment she Sung praise to god for remembring her in her distress of which the Judge having notice ordered the Executioner to dispatch her who coming towards her with his drawn Sword she was nothing daunted but on the contrary greatly rejoyc'd saying O this is he that I love and fain would meet and not longer to protract my desire I will willingly receive his Sword in my Bosome O Eternal God vouchsafe to open the Gates of Heaven to a Soul that seeketh thee and then Kneeling down as well as her confinement would permit she had her Head stricken off her Soul through that wide Wound ●inding a passage to Eternal Rest Celebrate her praises O ye Virtuous amongst the Nations and let not such Christian Examples enter into the Gloomy Region of Obliveon Nor less deserves the Memory of the Virtuous Eugena Daughter to Philippus President of Alexandria who died under the Heathen Persecution for the Sacred Profession by most Exquisit Torments but with a Courage out-facing the Terror of Death Acts and Mon c. A hundred more than these I could name but having promis'd Brevity I shall goe on to other Embellishments of the Sex And since Fame's Ensigne's thus far born unfurl'd Those Virtues tell that must oblige the World Your worthy Names shall next in order stand Who from Oblivion with a Giving hand Brought Charity the Glory of the Land Of Liberality In this case I shall Instance but two Examples of Female Liberality which stand as Monuments of that Sexes Generosity The most virtuous Lady the Lady Mary Ramsey once Wise to Sr. Thomas Ramsey joyning with him after his Death Asured in Land 243 pound p. Annum to Christs-Hospital that object of Charity and seminary of good Education to the uses following viz. To the Schoolmaster of Hempstead Annually twenty pounds to the Master and Usher of Christs-Church Annually twenty pounds to ten poor Widdows besides Apparel and Houses Annually twenty pounds to two Poor viz. a Man a Woman during life to each fifty-three Shillings and four Pence to two Fellows in Peter House in Cambridg and four Scholers yearly forty pounds to St. Bartholomews Hospital ten pounds to St. Peters the Poor in London St. Andrews Vndershaft St. Mary Wolnoth ten pounds to Newga●e Ludghte the Compters ten pounds to Christs Hospital after the Expiration of certain Leases there will come p. Annum one hundred and twenty pounds to six Scholars in Oxford twenty pounds to six Scholars in Cambridge twenty pounds to ten Maimed Soldiers twenty pounds for two Sermons two pounds to the Poor of Christ-Church Parish fifty Shillings to the Poor of the Company of Drapers yearly ten pounds ten Poor Womens Gouns ten Poor Soldiers Coats Shoos and Caps All these to continue Annually Willets Synops Papis p. 1229. Mrs. Alice Owen founded an Hospital and Free-School at Islington gave to the Vniversity Library at Oxford two hundred pounds Founded one Fellow-Ship and Scholar-Ship in Emanuel Coledg to Christs Hospital sixty pounds to give twelve Pence Weekly to the Poor of Islington sixty pounds thirteen Shillings and four Pence she gave to Beautifie the Cloisters in Christs Hospital to a School-house at Edmonton twenty pounds to the Parish of Condover in Shrop-shire fifty pounds to buy a great Bell the Building of Alms-houses for ten poor Women and the purchasing the Lands lay'd to it cost her one thousand four hundred and fifteen pounds and the Building the Schools there three hundred sixty one pounds she gave likewise certain Annual Sums of Moneys to Preachers not Benificed and to the Prisons in her life time by her last Will twenty pounds yearly to Islington School to Preachers thirty five pounds to the Parish of Basishaw twenty pounds to the Prisons eight pound to the Company of Brewers in Linnen Plate and Money one hundred pounds the Sum Total of the Money not reconing the Annuity of twenty two pounds Amounts to about two thousand three hundred and twenty pounds a Charity Extraordinary in a private Gentlewoman yet this she did out of Christian Zeal to promote Learning and relieve the Poor though at her Death she had twenty two Children and Childrens Children for all which she plentifully provided Willet's Synops Papisme P. 1240. These great Examples who 'd but imitate Treasures lay'd up in Heaven 's a vast Estate A Mine that no profuseness can Exhaust And will repay ten thousand times the cost Of Humility Nor does Humility shine less bright even to a wonder in the Softer Sex Humility the Basts on which rest Those Blooming actions that must make us blest Great pattern of true worth which do's subdue The sternest