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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

happened to Snow which accident by reason it was somewhat late did not a little trouble the Lovers least upon his return the prints of his Feet should be observed the next Morning which coming from the Ladies appartment might create a suspition to prevent which love which takes the Diadem of Majesty from Queens made this lovely Princess do an Act for a Lover very unbeseeming and unusual for the Daughter of so great a Potentate viz. She took the Secretary upon her Shoulders and carried him all the length of the Court to his Chamber he not setting Foot to the Ground and there delivering her burthen returned yet so it happen'd that during this piece of Portrage the Emperour being late in his Studie chanc'd to look out and behold it yet at that time kept silence when the next day in a great Assembly of his Lords his Daughter and Eginardus being present he demanded what Punishment he deserved who made use of a Kings Daughter as of a Mule and caused himself to be carried on her Shoulders in the middest of Winter through the Snow upon this every one gave his opinion that he was worthy of Death which started the Lovers and made them change their colour expecting some dreadful punishment but contrary to their expectation the Emperour looking upon his Secretary with a smooth Countenance Eginardus saith he hadest thou loved the Princess my Daughter thou oughtest to have come to her Father the disposer of her liberty thou art worthy of Death yet I give thee two lives Tale thy sair Portress in Marriage fear God and love one another The Joy these lovers conceived at so unexpected a happiness I leave to the Imagination of the Reader Caus. 〈◊〉 Court Tom. 2. The Moorish Princess Xexin Daughter of Muley Moluck King of Fes and Moro●o upon the Fame of Don Sebastian King of Portugal though an 〈◊〉 who came to Invade her Fathers Countrey conceived so great a love for him that when his Army was overthrown on the plains of Tamista near Alcazar and himself slain She came e're the day dawn'd accompanied with one slave named Laura to seek him amongst the heaps of the dead when entring that miserable Scene of Slaughter She Inquired of some wounded men that were yet breathing where the King Fought and with many abrupt stammerings being informed by those dying wretches She hasted thither resolving to Sacrifice her Life and fall upon him when comming to the heap of ●lain She espyed one extreamly resembling her Lover for She had seen the King of Portugal often and thereupon with great cries She embraced and moved him but being about to offer violence to her self She found the supposed dead Man to breath and after some rubbing and chafeing he came to himself So that binding up his wounds She and her Slave with the help of a Matriner conveighed him into a little ●●land in the River Mu●azen and ●ere provided all things for him verily supposing him the King of Portugal for indeed Nature had made this Subject for so he proved and not the King of Portugal so like his Prince that the Portugals themselves were deceived as will appear This Man thus snatch'd from death being continually attended by the Princes who infinitly doated on him and used him like a vallued Lover began to wonder from whence the cause of such mighty Kindness should spring when one day after a Sigh She said Heaven will not deprive Portugal of it's King but has made your Xerine Happy in saving her dear Don Saebastians Life by this Speech he found the Princes Error yet thought it not convenient to undeceive her but rather to promote it and so by insinuation he came to understand who She was as likewise her Love to the King of Portugal and so far he prvailed upon that Princes that She thought nothing too dear for him but used her Interest with Muley Boabdelin a Moorish Prince and her Conzen to Entertain him in his Pallace at Hoscore till such time as She could furnish him with a train suitable for a King as She supposed him to be to return to his own Countrey This old Moorish Prince verily believed him to be as his Conzen had reported and Imagining if he got into Portugal he would not regard the Vows he had made to Marry her caused them to be Married out of hand she in consideration thereof promising to become a Christian which She afterwards performed being a Lady exceeding beautifull as Born of a Greek Mother and consequently much whiter than the Affricans and soon after provided him an Equipage to go for Portugal to which Crown Henry who succeded Saebastian being dead many said claym but at length it was grasped by the King of Spain who proved the stronger wherefore he first arrived in Italy and was received by the Dutchess of Parma who as the former verily believed him to be the true Saebastian as likewise did some Ministers sent from the Estates of Portugal which made him in the end ●magine himself to be no less for be●ng denied possession of that Kingdom ●●e drew a great power after him but being defeated on the Frontiers of Portugal and taken Prisoner after which being brought to Lisbon and Imprisoned as an Imposter at what time Xerine was come out of Afric● to assist him in the recovery as She thought of his right She having by this time had a Son by him but thi● Misfortune did not at all alter th● Love of the Princess who earnestly laboured for his deliverance often visiting him in Prison where falling sick and at the point of Death he declared how he had deceived her an● that he was 〈◊〉 the King of Portugal● yet for all that her Love abated not but She in the best wise comforted him Afflict not your self said th● Generous Princess with too late and unuseful Repentance I lov'd the Perso● of Don Sebastian more then the splendor of his condition I thought I had me● that Person in you Those Charms which first touch'd me have lost none of thei● priviledg because they were not place● 〈◊〉 Monarch though I confess I shoul● never have observed them in an Ordinar● Mam Neither my Spirit nor my Birth 〈◊〉 would have permitted me to consider whom 〈◊〉 had not thought a Prince but my error became dear to me and is so still notwithstanding it proves fatal to my peace The name of Husband is so Sacred to a Woman truly Virtuous that it obli●erates any shame which accompanyes it Therefore try to overcome your Ilness my dear Prince pardon the name For●●ne said She lifting up her Eyes ●o Heaven might have given it 〈◊〉 She gave you me Rescue your self ●f it be possible from the arms of 〈◊〉 ●t may be we may find you a happyness more calm and happy than that which is ●enyed you in Portugal With this ex●oss of Female Generosity the counter●eit Sebastian was so mov'd that he ●ould no longer suffer the Transports ●f it but in the Armes of

whose Wise in whose Heroick Breast Greatness and Learning did together rest In Oratory women have been found skilful Proficients as appears in many Examples Amasia a virtuous Roman Lady being accused of a Crime and ready to undergo the Sentance of the Pretor she in the midest of a great confluence of People step'd up and pleaded her own cause so effectually and with such Eloquence that by the publique suffrage she was Aquitted of the Aspersion Layd to her charge and in that great Affair used such Decency and Modesty that she got to her self thereby the Sir-name Androgyne Val. Max. L. 8. Hortensia the Daughter of Queen Hortensius when the Roman Matrons had a large Fine imposed on them by the Tribuns and the Lawyers fearful to undertake her cause she as the Advocate of her Sex boldly pleaded it before the Triumuirate with such chearfulness and success that the greatest part of that Imposition was remitted So that 't is plain the greatest use o th' Tongue Which to the fair Inchanting Sex bebelong Is no to Schold as Black Detractors sung Not unaptly are the Muses placed in the Feminine Gender appropriateing to themselves the names of Women since the Sex has been in past Ages but more immediately in the present Inspir'd with raptures of Fancy to a degree of charming the Sences but before I proceed to particulars it will not be amiss to speak a word on the behalf of Poetry nor can they be better deliver'd than in the Language of the Muses How e're inspir'd the Soul with Rapture frought Has dark confusion into order brought Bough Nations strangers to Civility Have been reclaim'd by sacred Poetry● Morality has sprung when it has Til'd i th' breast before with Barbarisme fill'd A power it has to Charm the Testi● bold Clam restless Thoughts and ruged Nature Mold Though some may say in Fables 't is profuse Take off the Veile we Golden Truth produce As Diamonds e're they 'r Poplish'd loc not bright And unlight Tapors dart no Beams 〈◊〉 light Into the devious Darkness of the Night So Poetry to those who from it's sphe● Are distant far do's not it's self appear 'T is quest by those as Rusticks guest Star But to the purpose Poets are reported to be the first Revivers of Civility and Morality amongst Men rather than the Phylosophers who attribute it to themselves And further that Apollo found out the Muses and brought Mercury acquainted with them for which good turn Mercury invented the Harp and gave it to Apollo which in the Moral sence is that Poetry and Rhetorick goe hand in hand and that a Poet cannot be Excellent unless he be a good Rhetorician nor a Rhetorician accomplish'd without he be a Poet though of late the younger Brother has gotten the advantage of the Elder as to temporal preferment Great Orators delight on Earth to shine Whilst Poets only aime at things Divine And in the latter as well as the former Women were famous as will appear by the following Example Minerua seigned to be the Daughter of Jupiter for her excellent Fancy in Poetry was esteem'd by the Antients a Goddess but most likely beause she was inspir'd as we call it with Excellent Fancy and was held in high esteem amongst the Athenians Fam'd next to her are the Corinna's of which there are recon'd three viz. Corinna-Thebana Daughter to Archelodorus and Procratia Scholar to Myrtis She in five several Contentions bore away the Palm from Pindaru● Esteem'd the Price of Lyrick Poets and publish'd five Books of Epigrams and is mention'd by Propertius Corinna Thespia greatly admir'd for her Works but more especially taken notice of by Statius The third liv'd in the Regn of Augustus and is much taken notice of by Ovid. Sappho for her Poetry was Famous and was as Elianus affirmeth the Daughter of Scamandronius as Plato of Aristan Suidas and other Greek Writers say there were two of that name the one call'd P. Erixa a much Celebrated Poetess who flourish ' in the time of Tarquinius Priscus and by many is Imagin'd to be the Inventer of Lyrick Verses The other was call'd Sappho Mitelaena who publish'd many Poems amongst the Greeks though somewhat Extravagant yet for her Ingenuity had the honour to be stil'd the Tenth Muse and of her Antipater Sidonus thus writes When Sappo's Verse she did admiring Rerad Demanded whence the Tenth Muse did proceed Telesilla had a wonderful Fancy in this kind whereby she obtain'd the Sir-name Poetria and was no less admirable for Wisdom Beauty and Valour being Born of Noble Parents she in her Youth was adicted to much Indisposition of Body and therefore Inquir'd of the Oracle concerning Health Answer was return'd her that she should apply her self to Study Nor long was it e're she complying with the advice of the Oracle but had her Health restor'd and attain'd to a wonderful perfection in Learning but especially improv'd to admiration in the Divine Fancy of Poesie and thereby gain'd such an Esteem that when Cleomines King of Sparta sel● upon the Argives in a Hostil manner she inspir'd the Argive Women with such Courage that after their Husbands fled and were many of them slain they renew'd the Battle her self Leading the Van Routed the Spartans and return'd Victorious into the City To these I may add that Phoenix of Virtue the Lady Jane Gray Daughter to the Duke of Suffolk of whom I have made mention before though in a different nature This Lady no● exceeding Eighteen years at her death had never the less improv'd her studies to a degree that she was skilful in the Languages in Phylosophy and Divinity but above all Excellent i● Divine Poetry and may be said to be the Epitomie of Perfection To these I many more might add whose worth Their works than I twice livelyer can set forth Our age abounds with Female wits who find The sacred Muses to their Fancies kind With rich conceits their larger hearts are fill'd Which rising thence and in the Brain distill'd To all the World Harmonious numbers yield In all the taking strains of Poetry Cadence or Rapture of the first degree A lively Lantskip drawn of Humble Swains Feeding their Flocks upon the Flowry Plains Through which Meandring Rivers smoothly run By shades Imbowring shelter'd from the Sun In whose warm Beams the frisking Lambs do play And then to full stretch'd Vdders take their way Whilst Rural Musique Charms the flying day To these they add the Mirtle Crowned Hills Where Golden Ceres all the Valey fills Or ' midst the Pride of Gaudy Flora sing A joyful Welcome to the Blooming Spring When strugling long she breaks from Winters arms And smilling courts the Sun with Virgin Charms How when he falls in Thetis watry Bed She on a Bank of Violets lays her head And sighing o're the world her Tears do's shead In silver drops untill Aurora fair Opens her Gates and do's restore her Dear Tell how she 's lost in Summer who does Twine The Blushing Roses