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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

lesse reuenge would satisfie his rage than to cut off his eares and nose of which the king hauing present notice his indignation exceeded the others rage for he gaue commandement That for this insolence and outrage done in the Pallace and so neere his presence that not onely Intaphernes the Delinquent but all the male issue of his stocke and race whatsoeuer should be layd hold vpon and after to the dread and terror of the like offendors by mercilesse death tast the terror of the kings incensement The Sentence of their apprehension was performed and their execution hourely expected when the wife of Intaphernes cast her selfe groueling before the Court gate with such pittifull eiulations and clamours that they came euen to the eares of Darius and much penetrated him being vttered with such passionate and moouing accents able to mollifie the Flint or soften Marble Imprest therefore with her pittious lamentations the king sent vnto her That her teares and clamours had so farre preuayled with him that from the condemned societie they had ransomed one and one onely to continue the memorie of their Name and Familie chuse amongst them all whose life she most fauoured and whose safetie with the greatest affection desired but further than this to graunt her his Sentence was vnalterable None that heard this small yet vnexpected fauour from the king but presently imagined she would either redeeme her husband or at least one of her sonnes two of them beeing all that shee had then groning vnder the burthen of that heauie Sentence But after some small meditation contrarie to the expectation of all men shee demaunded the life of her brother The king somewhat amased at her choyse sent for her and demaunded the reason Why shee had preferred the life of a brother before the safetie of such a noble husband or such hopefull children To whom shee answered Behold O king I am yet but young and in my best of yeeres and I may liue to haue another husband and so consequently by him more children But my father and mother are both aged and stricken in yeeres and should I lose a Brother I should for euermore be depriued of that sacred Name At which words the king exceedingly moued to see with what a fraternall zeale they were spoken he not onely released her brother but added to his vnexpected bountie the life of her eldest sonne Of Matrimonie and Coniugall Loue. IT was inserted in Platoes Lawes That what man soeuer liued a Batchelor aboue fiue and thirtie yeeres of age was neyther capable of Honor nor Office Alexand. ab Alex. lib. 4. cap. 8. Licurgus the Law-giuer amongst the Lacedemonians as the same Author testifies to shew the necessitie of Marriage made a Decree That all such as affected singlenesse and sollitude of life should be held ignominious They were not admitted to the publique Playes but in the Winter were compelled to passe through the Market-place naked and without garments The Law of the Spartans set a fine vpon his head first that married not at all next on him that married not till hee was old and lastly on him they set the greatest mulct that married an euill wife or from a strange Tribe Stobae Sermon 65. Fulgosius calls these Iudgements Cacogamia and Opsigawi● lib. 2. cap. 1. So laudable and reuerent was Marriage amongst the Lacedemonians procreation of children and fertilitie of issue That whosoeuer was the father of three children should be free from Watch and Ward by day or by night and whosoeuer had foure or vpward were rewarded with all Immunities and Libertie This Law was first confirmed by Q. Metellus Numidicus Censor after approoued by Iulius Caesar and lastly established by Augustus Memorable are the words of Metellus in a publike Oration to the people If wee could possibly be without wiues O Romans saith he wee might all of vs be free from that molestation and trouble but since Nature incites vs and necessitie compells vs to this exigent That wee can neither liue with them without inconuenience nor without them at all more expedient it is therefore that we ayme at the generall and lasting profit than at our owne priuate and momentanie pleasure Bruson lib. 7. cap. 22. The Athenians the Cretans the Thurians all in their Statutes and Ordinances encouraged Marriage and punished the obstinacie of such as tooke vpon them the peeuishnesse of singlenesse and sollitude either with amercement or disgrace To that purpose was the Law Iulia instituted that incited young men in their prime and flourishing age to the marriage of wiues propagation of issue and education of children and that such should be encouraged by rewards and the opposers thereof to be de●erred with punishments Tiberius Caesar depriued one of his Quaestorship because he diuorced himselfe from his wife hauing beene but three dayes married alledging That hee in whom there was such lightnesse could not be profitable for any thing Claudius Caesar caused the Law Papia to be abrogated giuing men of threescore yeeres and vpwards the free libertie to marrie as at those yeares of abilitie to haue issue Theodoretus lib. 1. cap. 7. and Sozomenus lib. 1. cap. 10. both write That in the Nicene Councell when certaine of the Bishops would introduce into the Church a new Decree before that time not knowne namely That all Bishops Prelates Priests Deacons and Spirituall or Religious men should be made vncapable of Marriage as also all such as in the time of their Laitie before they booke the Ministerie or any seruice of the Church vpon them should be separated from their wiues of whom they were then possest One Paphnu●ius Confessor who was likewise Bishop of a citie in the vpper Thebais stood vp and with great feruencie opposed the motion yet a man of approoued chastitie and great austeritie of life who though he were mightily opposed yet at length so farre preuailed with the Synod of the Fathers that it was definitiuely concluded That though the marriage of Priests were interdicted● and singlenesse of life inioyned them yet all such as had wiues were dispensed withall till death made a separation betwixt them Pius the second Pope of that name being a man of vnquestioned prudence and grauitie weightie in his words and discreet in all his actions was often heard to say That he held it more conuenient and consonant both to reason and Religion that their wiues should be restored to Priests than taken from them For the wise Bishop well vnderstood that the restraining them from lawfull marriage was the occasions of their falling into many great and grieuous sinnes which by the former legall and regular course might be preuented and if the libertie of Marriage were againe admitted peraduenture many of those sinnes might in time decrease and be forgotten into which by that restraint they were subiect hourely to fall Fulgos. lib. 7. cap. 2. This short discourse shall serue for the necessitie of Marriage which is euer the most pleasing and contented when it is made