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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

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Mistresse of Pisistratus 248 Of Nit●tis 249 Of Bersa●e 250 Of the wife of Candaules 251 Rowan and Estrilda 252 The faire Lady of Norwich 253 Of Calirrhoe daughter to Boetius 256 Of the wiues of Cabbas and Phaillus c. 257 The daughters of Danaus and the sonnes of Aegyptus 259 Of Manto 260 The wife of Agetas c. 261 A Vicars daughter 262 A faire wittie Wench ibid. Of women deformed 264 The Contents of the sixt Booke inscribed Erato Treating of Chast women and Wantons A Discourse concerning Chastitie and Wantonnesse 267 Of Mary the blessed Virgin 271 Of Petronilla the daughter of S. Peter and other chast Virgins 273 Of chast Wiues and first of Penelope 276 The Historie of a woman of Casa Noua 280 Of Edeltrudis Editha and others 282 Of Wantons 284 Of common Strumpets Concubines and priuate Mistresses 285 Of such as merited the name of Honest Whores 286 Of Lais. 289 Of Glicerium alias Glicera others 293 Of Agathoclea 295 Of Cleophis 296 Callipigae Alogunes Cosmartidenes Audia c. 297 Iulia the daughter of Augustus Caesar. 298 Harlotta the mother to William the Conqueror 300 Of diuers Wantons belonging to sundry famous men Poets and others 301 Of famous Wantons 304 Of Mista and others 308 Of Wantons conuerted 312 The Contents of the seuenth Booke inscribed Polihymnia or Memorie Entreating of the Pietie of Daughters Mothers Sisters and Wiues A Discourse concerning Lyes Ieasts and wittie Sayings 313 Of Pious Daughters 319 The loue of Mothers to their Children 321 Friendship betwixt women 323 The loue of Sisters towards their Brothers 324 Of Matrimonie and Coniugall loue 327 Times forbidden in Marriage 328 Ceremonies before Marriage 329 Of Contracts 330 Of Nuptiall Dowers ibid. Of Nuptiall Gifts or Presents ibid. Of Nuptiall Ornaments Pompe Feasts and Epithalamions c. 332 A description of the Bride comming from her Chamber 333 The Bridegroomes first appearing 334 The Nuptiall Offering ibid. The Nuptiall Song 335 The entrance into their Bedchamber ibid. Sacred Auguries and Nuptiall Expiations 337 The Coniugall Loue of Women to their Husbands 339 Of Bawds 343 Of Age. 345 Of women addicted to Gluttonie or Drunkennesse 346 Of women beloued of diuerse creatures 349 Of women excellent in Painting Weauing c. 350 Of women contentious and bloudie 353 Of women strangely preserued from death and such as haue vnwillingly bin the deaths of their Parents 358 Of Clamorous women commonly called Skoulds 360 Of Tullia and her sister 362 Examples of Patience in women 363 Varietie of discourse concerning women 364 The daughters of Apollo ibid. The Syrens ibid. Women that haue dissembled their shape to good purposes or to bad 365 Women that haue changed their Sex 366 The Contents of the eight Booke inscribed Vrania Entreating of Women euery way Learned Of Poetresses and Witches A Discourse of Astrologie 369 Of famous Astrologians 370 Of women Orators that haue pleaded their owne Causes or others 373 Of women studious in Diuinitie 375 Of women excellent in Philosophie and other Learning 377 A discourse of Poetrie 383 Of women excellent in Poetrie 384 Of Minerua and others 387 Of Sapho 388 Of Cleobule Lindia other Poetesses 394 Of Telesilla Poetria 396 Of Perhilla c. ibid. A discourse of Witches 399 How the Deuill rewards his seruants 400 The wretched ends of sundry Magicians ibid. Seuerall sorts of superstitious Iugling 401 Of Cyrce Medea and other Witches remembred by the Poets 403 Of Witches transported from one place to another by the Deuill 406 Of Witches that haue either changed their owne shapes or transformed others 409 Lycantropia 410 A Piper transformed into an Asse 411 Other miraculous transformations ibid. Of shee Deuils 412 A Witch of Amsterdam 414 A Witch of Geneua 415 Examples of strange kinds of Witchcraft 416 Witches called Extasists 417 Diuerse things to be obserued in Witches 419 The Contents of the ninth Booke inscribed Calliope Entreating of Women in generall with the Punishments of the Vitious and Rewards due to the Vertuous interlaced with sundry Histories A Discourse of Death 419 Of women rauished 421 Of Handmaids Nurses Midwiues and Stepdames 424 The punishment of Incest in the sister of Leucippus 429 The punishment of Adulterie 432 Sisters that haue murthered their Brothers 434 The punishment of Fratricides 435 Of Mothers that haue slaine their Children and Wiues their Husbands ibid. Punishment due to Regicides 436 Punishment of vniust Diuorce 437 Whoredome punished 438 Loquacitie punished 439 Lying punished ibid. Periurie punished 440 Prodigalitie and Excesse punished 441 Witchcraft punished 444 Honor and Reward due to Fortitude 449 Honor and Reward due to Temperance 450 Reward due to Fertilitie or many Children illustrated in diuerse Histories 451 Of Beautie and the Reward thereof 453 A Conuertite rewarded 458 Of Cura or Care 462 Rewards due to women Philosophers Orators or Poetesses 463 FINIS TABVLAE NINE BOOKES OF VARIOVS HISTORIE ONELIE concerning Women Inscribed by the names of the nine Muses The first booke which is CLIO treating of the Goddesses Coelestiall Terrestriall Marine and Infernall BEFORE wee enter into a particular tractate of these Goddesses it shall not bee amisse to speake something of the opinions setled in sundry Nations concerning them Who were their first Adorers and Worshippers the multiplicitie of their gods and what seuerall rights and customes obseruations and Ceremonies they vsed in their Oblations and Sacrifices The Aethiopians are said to bee the most ancient and the first beginners of Diuine adoration as Diodorus is of opinion Imagining in themselues and verely beleeuing some of their gods to bee euerlasting and others to participate of a mortall and corruptible nature The Phoenicians they deliuered admirable and strange things concerning their gods and the first beginning and Creation of things aboue all others hauing in Diuine worship Dagona and Chamas The Atlantides a people of Affrica they are confident that the generation of the gods proceeded from them and the first that raigned amongst them they called Coelum which is heauen The Augitae another nation in the Affricke Continent acknowledged no other deityes than the Ghosts of such noble persons as were deceased to whose sepulchers they vsuallie repayred to demand answers of all such things wherein they doubted The Theologie of the Phrygians was not much different from theirs The Persians neither erected Statues nor Altars they worshipped the Heauen which they called Iupiter the Sunne by the name of Mithra the Moone Venus the Fire the Earth the Winds and the Water Isiodorus saith the Graecians first honoured Cecrops whom they stiled Iupiter and were the first deuisers of Images erecters of Altars and offerers of sacrifice The Iewes as Cornelius Tacitus relates apprehended but one diuine power and that onely they acknowledged The Germans of old as the same author affirmes were of opinion That the gods could not bee comprehended within walles nor haue any humane shape appropriated vnto them measuring their incomprehensible power by the magnitude of the heauens Now
mad'st thy souldiers taske Rape Rome still loues because thou taughtst it first Since then the forme at best so soone fades and that beautie hath beene the cause of so much blood-shed Why should women be so proud of that which rated at the highest is no better than an excellent euill or a wretched wonder that had beginning therefore subiect to end created from earth and therefore consequently transitorie but on the contrary since the vertues of the mind solely acquire after fame and glory conquer obliuion and suruiue enuie and Phenix-like recouer fresh youth from forgotten ashes To such I yeeld the first place and so begin with the Amazons Of the Amazons ANd first of their countrey Cappadocia is a land that breedeth goodly and braue horses it hath on the East side Armenia on the West Asia the lesse on the North Amazonia on the South Mount Taurus by which lyeth Sicilia and Isauria as farre as the Cilicke sea that stretcheth towards the Island of Cyprus The lesse Asia cald Asia minor ioyneth to Cappadocia and is closed in with the great sea for it hath on the North the mouth and sea that is cald Euxinus on the West Propontides on the South the Aegyptian sea This lesse Asia conteineth many prouinces and lands on the North side Bythinia butting vpon the sea against Thracia and is called Phrygia the greater The chiefe cittie of Bythinia is Nicomedia Galathia takes name of the Galls that assisted the king of Bythinia in his warres and therefore had that Prouince giuen them to inhabit It was first called Gallograecia as being a people mixt of the Galls and Graecians but now they be cald Galathians and these are they to whom Saint Paul writ his Epistles Ad Galates The third part of Asia minor is called Phrygia and tooke name of Phrygia daughter to Europa the daughter of Aegenor that Phrygia was likewise called Dardania of Dardanus the sonne of Iupiter It hath on the East side Lydia and on the West the sea Hellespontus so called of Helles the sister of Phrixus who was there drowned Lydia is on the East side of East Phrygia there sometimes raigned the rich king Craesus There were two brethren kings of that countrey the one cald Liddus the other Tyrhenus but the land being too little for both they cast lots which should abide there and which should seeke abroad to plant a Collony else-where which lot fell to the younger Tyrhenus Hee toucht vpon a land then cald Galia which after he caused to be named Tyrhia of him also the sea Tyrhenus tooke denomination as the land of Lydia of his brother Lyddus Of Lydia the chiefe cittie is Smyrna to which cittie S. Iohn the Euangelist writeth in his Apocal. The chiefe riuer of that countrey is Pactolus which as the Poets fable hath golden sands The fift part of Asia Minor is called Pamphilia and Isauria the chiefe cittie is Seleucia built by king Seleucus Antiochus neere to that is Scilicia and containeth Lycia which is called likewise Licaonia in which are the two noble citties Lystris and Derbe spoken of in Actib Apostol By these citties they sayle out of Syria into Italy but the chiefe of all these citties is Tharsis downewards towards the Amasonian sea and that land is part in Asia and part scituate in Europe Now touching the Originall of the Amasons and why they were first so called diuerse authours haue diuersly writ Palaephatus in his fabulous narrations saith The Amasons were not women but certaine barbarous men who vsed to weare long garments and loose reaching below their ankles after the manner of the Thracian women who shaued their chinnes and wore the haires of their head long but couered with miters These Amasons were a warrelike people and did many braue and remarkeable deedes of armes But there is no likelihood saith hee that such should bee women because of that nation there is at this day no memorie but this was but his opinion Trogus Pompeius from whom Iustine extracts his history thus speaks of their origenall Scythia towards the East is of one side imbraced by the sea on the other part hem'd in by the Ryphaean mountaines the longitude and latitude thereof lyes open to Asia and the riuer Tanais These Scythians haue no portions of land amongst them which any man can call his owne they manure no fields they build no houses ignorant both of Agriculture and Architecture their riches are their heards and their cattle they delight in vnfrequented solitudes and inhabitable desarts when they remooue from one place to another they carry their wiues along with them in charriots and waggons these are couered with leather and skinnes of beasts to shroud them from summers shewers and defend themselues from winters tempests they know no houses els and for no others care Iustice is maintained by the modestie of their manners not by the seueritie of their lawes There is no offence so grieuous to them as theft because their flockes lie open without folds or sheepe coates Gold and siluer they despise as much as other nations couet it esteeming it rather an vnusefull burden than a profitable merchandise Their food is for the most part milke and hony the benefite of wooll or cloath is to them altogether vnknowne though the climate oppresse them with continuall cold their habit is furres and the skinnes of beasts their continence teacheth them that iustice That they couet nothing but what is their owne for where there is desire of riches there must necessarily be vsurie and oppression Were the like moderation and abstinence vsed amongst all nations warre and surfet would not as they now doe destroy more than age or nature Admirable it is that custome in them should attaine to as much true morall humanitie as the wise men of Greece haue reached to by the learning of arts or study of Philosophy and that vntaught Barbarians should excell them that professe to tutor others in manners more eminent farre in their ignorance of Vice than the others in their knowledge of Vertue Three times these Scythians attempted the Empire of Asia in all their expeditions remaining vnfoild at least vnconquered Darius king of Persia they put to shamefull flight Cyrus with a supposed inuincible armie they slew in the field Zopyrus the great captaine of Alexander they victoriously defeated Of the Romans they onely heard their power but neuer felt their strength The Parthian and Bactrian Empire they establisht A nation in labours vnwearied in dangers vndismaied not seeking to get what they cared not to loose in all their victories preferring the glory before the spoile The first that made warre against this nation was Vexores king of Aegypt who by his Embassadours sent them word to prepare themselues for defence by whom they returned to the king this answer We wonder that the captaine of so rich a people will wage war against vs that are knowne so poore considering the successe of warre is doubtfull