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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03206	Gynaikeion: or, Nine bookes of various history. Concerninge women inscribed by ye names of ye nine Muses. Written by Thom: Heywoode.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	1624 (1624)	STC 13326; ESTC S119701	532,133	478

The king of England and Francis the first of that name king of France being at oddes Henry was much incensed and appointed Bishop Bonner his Embassadour to debate with him sharpely about the designes then in hand who hauing accommodated all things fitting for the journey came to take his leaue of the king his maister who vttered many bitter and disdainefull words against Francis all tending to his opprobrie and dishonour And in these tearmes sayth hee deliuer vnto him thy Embassie To whom Bonner replyed If it please your Maiestie if I should giue him such harsh and despightfull language and in his owne Court too he can doe no lesse than take off my head Thy head answered the king If hee doe it is no matter but tell him further If hee dares to cut off thy head ten thousand of his subiects heads shall be sent after it To whom Bonner after some small deliberation againe replyed But I am doubtfull my Liege whether any of these ten thousand heads will fit my shoulders in that short answere as well taxing the kings rash furie as prouident for his owne safetie With which the king somewhat satisfied and better considering with himselfe deliuered vnto him a more calme and milder Embassie So though those heads may fauour both of more Iudgement and Reading I am doubtfull whether they could more naturally sute with my owne method and stile though neuer so meane or barbarous Therefore Deo adiuvante Erato assistente I proceede The Spartans had a custome in their solemne feasts to haue a song of three parts sung by three seuerall Chorusses The first was of weake old men The second of yong able men The third of Boyes and pretie growne children The old men began with this verse Olim iuuentutem nos strenuam egimus We haue beene Strong that now Decrepit are To whom the yong men in a second quire answered Sortes sumus nos fac si vis periculum Wee are both Yong and Strong prooue vs who dare To them in a third tone the children ecchoed Nos erimus his prestantiores plurimo With these in Youth and Strength wee shall compare To this three-fold age I compare the triplicitie of the Muses The first three books are by this alredie spent in your iudgements The second three of which this is the last are the pyth and strength of my present worke in hand to which the three succeeding though yet in their infancie I shall striue to paralell if not exceed the rest And first of Chastitie It is reported of a woman of Lacena that a great man sending her rich gifts to corrupt her chastitie she returned him this answere Whilest I was a Virgin I was taught to obey my father which I accordingly did and being a wife to submit my selfe to my husbands will if then you desire any courtesie at my hands get first his consent and you shall after vnderstand my further pleasure Plutarch in Lacon Institut relates that diuerse of these Lacenaean Virgins were taken captiues and sold in open market one of them beeing cheapened was demaunded what she knew she answered To be faithfull Another being asked if he should buy her whether she would proue chast answered Whether he bought her or no she would be chast howsoeuer her maister after seeking to corrupt her she slew herselfe vttering these her last words See what a treasure thou hast lost that knewest not my worth whilest thou wast possessed of me There haue beene many men that haue left vnto women strict rules of Chastitie by their examples Saint Augustine being asked why hee would not suffer his owne sister to dwell in the house with him answered Because such as may conuerse with her are not my sisters intimating that all such as would auoid the sinne ought to shun temptation for he was wont to say It is not good to looke vpon a woman it is worse to conuerse with her but worst of all to touch her Therfore these sences of ours that are most subiect to danger ought most to be supprest and bridled Marul lib. 4. Capit. 7. and Sabin lib. 5. Hierome reports of the Abbot Hylarian That when hee found any vnchast cogitations arise in his brest hee would beate himselfe vpon the bosome as if with blowes and buffets hee would expell them thence and thus sayd I will tame thee ô Asse that thou shalt no more kick and spurne against me with thy heeles I will not henceforth feed thee with Barley but chaffe I will abate thy wantonnesse with hunger and thirst I will loade thy backe with grieuous burdens I will inure thee to the Sommers heate and the Winters cold After which time he vsed the spare dyet of rootes and the iuice of hearbes and these onely when necessitie compelled him to eate Hee inioyned himselfe the time of prayer excepted to strict and continuall labour to increase his appetite but not augment his dyet Therfore Hierom against Lust prescribes these three souereigne remedies fast prayer and hard labour The examples are innumerable as well amongst Ethnick men as Christians Alexander supping with Antipadres there was brought to the table and set iust against the king a wonderous beautifull woman as excellent in voice as in face both tempting so farre that Alexander began suddenly to be surprised with her loue and demaunded of Antipadres If she were a woman whom he any way affected To whom he answered That she was indeered to him aboue all other creatures liuing Then thou foole replyde the king cause her inst●ntly to rise and be conueyed hence from the banquet How farre then was this temperate Prince from adulterating another mans wife that was affraid to doe his host the least iniurie in his strumpet Therefore Iulianus the Emperour hauing tooke the cittie Nalaca wherein were many women of rare and extraordinarie feature was so farre from corrupting their vertues that he commanded not any of them should be suffered to come in his presence Calius lib. 7. cap. 27. tells vs that so great was the chastitie of the Paduan women in times past that not any of them walked out of their doores but with their faces couered Therefore Caius Salpitius Gallus sued a diuorse against his wife because she was met bare-browed in the streetes against whom he thus pleaded Thou art onely to be gouerned and guided by the lawes of mine eyes thy beautie is to be approoued by them and to please them alone thou oughtest to adorne thy selfe but to desire to seeme faire in the eyes of strangers incurres the imputation both of suspition and trespasse What should wee thinke then of that fantastique attyre and gawdie ornaments so much in vse now adayes which as well in youth as age rather seeme openly to professe lust than inwardly to protect chastitie Of these curiosities in vaine and vnnecessarie attire Plautus in Pen●lo thus speakes Negotij sibi qui vole● vim parare nauem mulierem Hec duo sibi comparato