Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n
Text snippets containing the quad
|
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
|
Mistresse of Pisistratus 248 Of Nitâ—tis 249 Of Bersaâ—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
of the Sea Tiberius still fretting and chasing inwardly with himselfe that he had beene so long fooled with vaine and idle promises by the Mathematician his maister he rated him with bitter and harsh tearmes reuiling his Art and was readie to haue cast him headlong in this extremitie of rage from the promontorie when Thrasillus intreating his patience but a few houres espyed a ship with full â—ayles making towards the harbour when suddenly reioycing Be of good comfort Tiberius saith he for in yon ship is brought thee what thou most deâ—irest which prooued accordingly for they attending their landing letters were deliuered to Tiberius from Augustus and Lyuia of his repeale from exile and his calling backe to Rome at which time was layd the foundation of his Empire Fulgos. lib. 8. cap. 11. Dion in August reports it thus Tiberius walking with Thrasillus and priuately intending to cast him from the rocke without any appearance of anger on the sudden he grew wonderous melancholly and sad vpon which Tiberius demanding the cause Thrasillus answered because I find there is now a present mischiefe intended against me vpon which words the purpose of Tiberius was altered and the others prescience by him much commended Euen Tiberius himselfe studious and expert in Astrologie Astronomie and other mysticall and hidden Arts insomuch that he caused many noble gentlemen of Rome to be innocently put to death for no other reason than that by calculating vpon their natiuitie hee presupposed them dangerous to the state he obserued the carriage and conditions of all men and whosoeuer excelled others in vertue or entred into least popular loue him hee cut off It is sayd that meeting with Galba vpon his marriage day he cast a stedfast looke vpon him and withall vttered these words Et tu â—liquando Principâ—tum degustobis i. And thou also shalt in time attaine vnto the Principalitie The Emperour Hadrianus was not onely industrious in the attaining to the height of perfection in the knowledge of all other generall learning but also in the Mathematicks in so much that Marius Maxim affirmes of him That hee assuredly knew all things that were spoken of or by him he writ downe euerie morning with his owne hand the chances and successes that should follow the same day and thus hee continued to the houre of his death He was often heard to say of Verus whom he had adopted Ostendent terris hunc tantum fata nec vltra Esse sinent c. The fates will to the Earth but shew him then Ere fully seene snatch him away agen Volaterran Auturo lib. 23. saith That he continued the writing downe daily of those predictions euen to the last moneth of the yeere in which he dyed and then gaue ouer speaking openly that within the compasse of that moneth he should be gathered to his fathers Fulgos. lib. 8. c. 11. Seuerus Pertinax hauing buried his wife Martia made choise of a second called Iulia borne of obscure parents for no other reason but that by the inspiration into those Starres that were predominant at her birth he found that she was borne to participate of Imperiall honours Volaterran lib 23. An Astrologian in the court of Frederick the second Emperour with great ceremonie and diligence obserued Rodulphus Earle of Hausburch a plaine gentleman of meane fortunes and lesser hopes and one whom all the other courtiers despised and still he was mocked when he had neglected others of great place and office to be only obsequious to him this being to the Emperor he commanded the Artist before him demanding the reason of his so doing to whom he answered Because ô Frederick in this Rodulphus I see a succeeding Emperour who when thy issue shall faile must repaire the dignitie of the Caesars and his noble memorable acts fill all Christendome with condigne praises neither was this presage friuolous or vainely spoken for in the yeere of our redemption 1273 in the Kalends of October this Rodulphus was by the Princes of Germanie confirmed in the Imperiall dignitie and crowned at Frankefort Caspinianus in Caesaribus Marullus speakes of one Byliâ—tus an Astronomer who died with eating of Mushroms or such as we call Toadstooles his words be these Dum canet Astrologus prituris sidera amicis Dum sibi Boletos non canet ipse perit Whil'st to foresee his friends mishaps His skill the Artist tryde His owne sad fate he could not find But eating Mushroms dyde Rare effects of this Art were showed in Guido Boiatus foro liuiensis who liued vnder Martin the fourth who sent to Guido Earle of Mountferrat that if such a day and at such an houre he would issue out of the citie and by stratagem inuade his enemyes posteritie should remember him in that honourable victorie in which he should giue them a strange defeate and assuredly ouercome and himselfe receiue a dangerous wound in the thygh The Earle at the day appointed issued from the citie and assaulted them prouiding himselfe of all things necessarie about him for a wound Hee winnes the day followed the victorie was hurt in the same place and after healed Fâ—lgos Lib. 8. cap. 11. Egnat Lib. 8. cap. 11. Paulus tertius Pope Farnesius was miraculously skilfull in Astrologie He sent to his sonne Peter Aloysius who at that time with great crueltie vsurped in the Dukedome of Parma and Placentia and warned him to beware and take heed of his owne safetie the tenth day of September in the yeere of Grace 1547. for that day was malignant to his life and opposite to his good aboue all others The father as my Author saith had power to fore-warne his sonne but the soone had not grace to preuent the danger for the same day predicted hee was slaine in his owne Castle by Augustinus Landus and Iacobus Scotus two Earles of Placentia who pretended priuate conference with him Being dead hee was deliuered vp to the long afflicted people who first hanged him vp by the priuie parts and after without all humane pitie tore him limbe from limbe to satisfie their malicious vengeance Sleidanus Lib. 19. Comment I feare I haue stayed too long amongst the Starres and conferred so much amongst those Men that some may feare I haue forgot the Women but it is otherwise for I now proceed with them And first Of Women Orators that haue pleaded their owne Causes or others STrange and admirable is the efficacie and force of Eloquence It is writ of the Poet Tyâ—aeaus That when the Lacedemonians had beene in three sundrie battailes defeated and were in despaire for euer reobtaining their pristine honours and dignities in this lowest of their deiectednesse hee with his excellently eloquent Verses so kindled and awaked their dull and drowsie courages that they the fourth time opposed the Massenians their enemies and wearing about them the names of their noble ancestors whose braue exploits hee in his Poemes had celebrated they reassumed their former forces and courages with such an addition and encrease of