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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

from high heaven descend on thee I am jealous now my fear is vanisht And the hot ardor of Affection banisht My fire is cool'd reason re-assumes his place And now methinks thou hast not thine own face Do'st thou demand why I am chang'd Behold The cause I 'll tell thee thou didst ask me gold Thou look'st that for my pleasure I should pay And that alone doth fright me still away Whilst thou wert simple and in all things kind I with thy sweet proportion lik'd thy mind Thou now art cunning grown what hath that gain'd Thy bodies beauty by thy mind is stain'd c And after proceeds thus Look on the beasts that in the medows stray Shall women bear more savage minds then they What gifts do Kine from the rude Bull enforce What price demands the Mare of the proud Horse O● of the Ram the Ewe they 'll couple twice Before they once debate upon a price Women alone have learnt to bargain well Their pleasures borne with them alone they sell Al●ne they prize the night and at a rate Ch●ss●r themselves to strangers O vile state Alone for mutu●ll pastime Coin they crave And ere they sport ask first what shall I have That which delighteth both to which both run And but by joint assistance is not done The pleasures which we both on even hand try Why should one party sell the other buy Why should the sweets which we alike sustain To me be double losse thee double gain That which comes freely much by that we set Thou giv●st 〈◊〉 me and I am still in debt The love that 's har'd is plainly sold and bought Thou hast thy price and then I owe thee nought Then O you Fair ones all such thoughts expell What Nature freely gives you spare to sell Let not your bodies to base use be lent Goods lea●dly got are ever loosely spent c. And which this gentle admonition I take leave as well of the Fair as the deformed Explicit lib. quintus Inscriptus Terpsichore THE SIXTH BOOK inscribed ERATO Treating of Chast Women and of Women Wantons ERATO signifies Love of which there are but two kinds that is the love of Vertue or of Vice then under what Muse could I more properly patronize the Chast and the wanton But methinks I hear some of our C●iticks murmure and say Whither doth this man purpose to wonder that hath lost his way and gone too far already He might do wel to break off here and leave it to some other heads either more ingeniously witty or more gravely serious To such I make the same answer that Bishop Bonner did once to Henry the eight The King of England and Francis the first of that name King of France being at ods Henry was much incensed and appointed Bishop Bonner his Embassadour to debate with him sharply about the designs then in hand who having accommodated all things fitting for the journy came to take his leave of the King his Master who uttered many bitter and disdainfull words against Francis all tending to his opprobry and dishonour and in these terms saith he deliver unto him thy Embassie To whom Bonner replied If it please your majesty if I should give him such harsh and despightfull language and in his own Court too he can do no lesse then take off my head Thy head answered the King If he do it is no matter but tell him further if he dares to cut off thy head ten thousand of his subjects heads shall be sent after it To whom Bonner after some small deliberation again replied But I am doubtfull my Liege whether any of these ten thousand heads will fit my shoulders in that short answer as well taxing the Kings rash fury as provident for his own safety With which the King somewhat satisfied and better considering with himselfe delivered unto him a more calm and milder Embassie So though those heads may savour both of more Judgement and Reading I am doubtfull whether they could more naturally sute with my own method and stile though never so mean or barbarous Therefore Deo adjuvante Erato assistente I proceed The Spar●ans had a custome in their solemn Feasts to have a long of three parts sung by three severall Chorus's The first was of weak old men The second of young able men The third of boies and pretty grown children The old men began with this verse Olim juventutem nos strenuam egimus We have been Strong that now Decrepit are To whom the young men in a second quire answered Fortes sumus nos fac si vis periculum We are both Young and Strong prove us who dare To them a third tone the children ecchoed Nos ●rimus his praestantiore plurimo With these in Youth and Strength we shall compare To this three fold age I compare the triplicity of the Muses The first three books are by this already spent in your judgements The second three of which this is the last are the pith and strength of my present work in hand to which the three succeeding though yet in their infancy I shall strive to parallel if not exeed the rest And first of Chastity It is reported of a woman of L●cena that a great man sending her rich gifts to corrupt her chastity she returned him this answer Whilst I was a Virgin I was taught to obey my father which I accordingly did and being a wise to submit my selfe to my husbands will if then you desire any 〈◊〉 at my hands get first his consent and you shall after understand my further pleasure Plutarch in Lacon 〈…〉 those Lucenaean Virgins were taken captives and 〈◊〉 open market one of them being cheapned was demanded what she knew she answered To be faithfull Another being asked if he should buy her whether she would prove chast answered Whether he bought her no she would be chast howsoever her master after seeking to corrupt her she slew her self uttering these her last words See what a treasure thou hast lost that knewest not my worth whilst thou wast possessed of me There have been many men that have left unto women strict rules of Chastity by their examples Saint Augustine being asked why he would not suffer his own sister to dwel in the h●use with him answered Because such as may converse with her are not my sisters intimating that all such as would avoid the sin ought to shun the temptation for he was wont to say It is not good to look upon a woman it is worse to converse with her but worst of all to touch her Therefore these sences of ours that are most subject to danger ought most to be supprest and bridled Marul lib. 4. Capit. 7. and Sabin lib 5. Hierome repoots of the Abbot Hylarian That when he found any unchast cogitations arise in his breast he would bear himselfe upon the bosome as if with blowes and buffets he would expell them thence and thus said I wil tame thee O Ass that thou shalt