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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42646	Elogium heroinum, or, The praise of worthy women written by C.G., Gent.	C. G. (Charles Gerbier)	1651 (1651)	Wing G583; ESTC R7654	34,740	214

valour and encouragement in presenting herself upon the walls to the violence of their arrows and engines the City was preserved The women of Bellovaca being besieged by Charles the great Duke of Burgundy most resolutely defended the walls tumbling the Assailants down headlong from their scaling-ladders to the everlasting honour of their Sexe and reproach of the Enemy Elphleda sister to King Edward before the Conquest sirnamed the fourth was present in the Battaile which was fought against the Danes at Toten-Hall in Stafford-shire and at the mighty overthrow at Wooddensfield where two Kings were slain two Earls and many thousands of the Danes She not only tamed the Welch-men but chased the Danes This Epitaph hath been left as a memorial over her Tombe Oh Elphlede mighty both in strength and minde The dread of men and Victress of thy kind Nature hath done as much as nature can To make thee maid but goodnesse makes thee man Yet pity thou should'st change ought save thy name Thou art so good a woman and thy fame In that growes greater and more worthy when Thy feminine valour much outshineth men Great Caesar's acts thy noble deeds excell So sleep in peace Virago-maid farewell Queen Margaret Henry the sixth's wife whose courage resolution and magnanimity deserves an immortal praise she was personally in all those Battails which were fought against the House of York nor are the English Chronicles sparing in commending her more then womanish spirit to everlasting memory In times past the Romans honoured even for private and common services their ordinary Souldiers some with Cirick Crowns or Garlands others with Lances headed with Gold Golden Chaines Statues of Ivory others with Triumphs Praises Acclamations Gratulations c. If these things were allowed to men only with what Elogies Enconomiums Crowns Garlands Statues Sepulchers and Monuments shall we then celebrate the memory if it were possible beyond all posterity of these ever to be admired Constant and Couragious Women Of Faire Women BEauty is the Image of the Creator and the Rhetorick of Heaven it delights the eye contents the mind and the more it is seen the more it is admired That of Venus was so extraordinary as that Apelles who was the best of Painters could not with all his art though he had set before him a hundred choice and selected Beauties all naked and had taken from one a charming Eye another an amorous Lip from a third a pleasing smile and a modest blush from a fourth a graceful Nose a fifth a fair Hand and from each of them that special Lineament in which she most excelled represent such an Angelical Face such charming Eyes such amorous coral Lips such snaring Tresses such captivating Hands or such a pure Alabaster Skin as Venus had How should I then by my rude stile dare to expresse that which Apelles could not represent with severall Colours I know I am unable to express the least part of that which represents the wonderfull work of God and though I were able yet would I make a scruple to trace out miracles with ink Nor shall I enlarge on the great influences which the famous Beauties have had in former Ages over men Neither dare I presume to name those of these later times who are admired and adored by all men save such as are wilfully blind lest I should by the alleadging of their power run the same hazard as Antiochus did who was seized with a Feaver meerly by the rehearsal of Stratonica's extraordinary Beauty such divine gemmes did sparkle about her Or as Tyrasius King of Thebes who was struck blinde by his onely beholding of Diana as she was bathing herself For my part I am already not onely amazed but even transported if not lost with wonder by the bare rehearsall of the forementioned famous womens heroick acts And though I could aver how that their Beauty doth ravish beholders that their complexion is clearer then the Skie their Faces borders of Lillies interwoven with Roses how that the lustre of their Eyes surpasses the Diamond their Lips the Coral in redness that their Tresses are like the coloured Hyacinths of Arcadia their Necks as white as Snow their Breast as pure as Allabaster their Arms as ruddy as the Rose and that all their parts are most rare their whole bodies beautified with more then Terrene perfections how that they have more strength then the moistened Torpedoes which do not onely charm the hand but the heart also and that not onely the Lybian Lion loses his strength in beholding their beauty but the Basilisk his senses and though I should adde thereunto that they represent the lively Image of the Creator that they are the miracle of the world and the marvel of marvels after all this what say I more then each man knows and is by all men confest Were not the very feet of Thetis as bright as silver and the ankles of Hebe clearer then Chrystal Are they not admired and beloved even of unreasonable creatures was not a Virgin in Leucadia so beloved of a Peacock as that the enamoured Bird never left her whilst she lived and accompanied her in death for seeing the young Damsell dead she never would receive food from any hand but so pined away and dyed also Doth not Saxo Grammaticus in the tenth book of his Danish History report how that certain young maids of a Village in Switzerland playing and sporting together in the field upon a holy-day suddenly an huge Hee-bear rushed out of the Forrest and shatched up the fairest amongst them and hurried her away to his Den gently and without any harm where he long gazed on her face as if with a kind of admiration he grew so enamoured with her on the sudden that instead of a Murtherer he became a Lover imparting unto her all the prey he got abroad c. Did not an Fagle which was taken in a Neast and carefully brought up by a Virgn in the City of Sesto being come to full growth take her slight every day abroad and all the Fowle she could catch brought it home and laid it in the lap of her Mistres at length this Virgin dying and her body being born unto the Funeral fire the Eagle still attending it was no sooner exposed unto the flames but the Bird likewise by voluntary flight cast her self amidst the kindled pyle and gave her self as a most grateful sacrifice unto her Mistress Hearse Was not the Queen Suabilda so excelling rare in all the Lineaments of her body as that being doomed unto a wretched and miserable death and bound with thongs of Leather to be trod upon by the hoofs of wild horses her beauty struck such an impression even in those unreasonable creatures that they could not bee forced with their rude feet to leave the least character of violence upon limbs so fair and exquisitely shaped Therefore I shall not insist any longer on the specifying of womens Beauty since as it appears they are beloved and admired even

humbly crave from this most worthy Sex one onely boon That it may not be offended at this my young Eagles flight towards such a source of perfect Rayes during the tenderness of my wings which affords me that pen whereby I endeavour to trace the description of their most perfect lineaments and dimensions Of the Wisdome and Learning of some Women WIsdome is the guide of all other vertues it gives goodnesse to good people pard'neth the wicked makes the poor rich and the rich honorable it 's that wherin our soveraign good and the end of our life consisteth Learning is the knowledge and understanding of Arts and Sciences without it Nature is blind Wisdome and Learning have made these following women famous to all posterity Nicaula Queen of Saba did expose her self to a long and tedious journey from the farthest part of Ethiopia unto Hierusalem there to dispute with Solomon the wisest of all men as it appeares by the Scriptures which therefore give her an immortal praise Mirrhe Queen of the Lydians was so little of body as that she seemed to be a Dwarf but so far excelling in wisdome as that she was called a Gyant she was a wise and prudent woman when she was married and honest being a widow Pythagoras the light of his time and the first that was called a Philosopher was a Scholar unto his own Sister Themistoclea and he learn'd his Philosophy from her the greatnesse of her wisdome appears by a Letter which he sent unto her from Rhodes where he publikely read Philosophy she being then in Samothracia The said Letter translated out of Greek was as followeth Pythagoras your Brother and Disciple to you Themistoclea my dear Sister wisheth health and increase of wisdome I have read from the beginning to the very end the Book which you have sent unto me of Fortune and Misfortune By it I do really see that you are not lesse grave in writing then gracious in teaching the which doth not often befall us who are Men for the Philosopher Aristippus was harsh in speaking and profound in writing Amenides was succinct in writing and eloquent in speaking But you my deare sister have so much applied your self to study to write as that in Sentences you seem to have read all the Philosophers and by the antiquities which you expresse it seems that you have seen all the time past by which you doe make it appear that being a woman you are more then a woman because the nature of women is only to employ themselves to the present and to forget that which is past I have been told that you do imploy your self in writing the wars of our Country I do earnestly pray you and by the immortal gods do conjure you to flatter no body For as you cannot deny dear Sister but that I am the eldest of your three Brothers so I cannot disavow that among all your Disciples I am the least And as being your Disciple I ought to obey you so likewise being your eldest Brother you ought to believe me Therefore I do advise you deare Sister to continue to do your utmost as you have hither to done to be understood and wise in your words discreet and grave in your life and honest in your person and above all true in that which you write For if the body of man be worth little without the soule the mouth without truth is worth much lesse And this was the Letter which Pythagoras sent to his sister Themistoclea by which his profound humility and her great eloquence appeares Policrata daughter to the said Philosopher Pythagoras was not only wise fair and rich but esteemed and honoured for the integrity of her life and more admired for her Eloquence then Pythagoras himself Diotima did so excell in wisdome that Socrates who of all men was called the wise the just the Prince of Philosophers and the Father of Philosophie blushed not to imitate and call her his Tutresse and Instructresse Arreta had attained to that perfection of knowledge in the Greek and Latine tongues as that the common report was that the soul of Socrates was infused into her and when she was heard to speak it seemed that she had writ the doctrine of Socrates rather then learned it she her self instructed her sonne in all the Liberal Arts by whose industry he became a famous Professor he was called Aristippus she also taught and instructed many and wrote several Volumes some whereof were these following The Praises of Socrates The manner how to educate Children The Battails of Athens The unhappines of Women The Husbandry of the Ancients The Wonders of Mount Olympia The Vanities of Youth and the Calamities of Age. She read publikely the Natural Moral Philosophie in the Academies Schools of Athens five and twenty years she composed forty Books she had an hundred and ten Philosophers who were her disciples She died being seventy seven years old and the Athenians for an immortal praise to all posterity caused these following words to be engraven on her sepulchre Here lies Arreta the famous Grecian who was the light of all Greece She had Helen's Beauty Thirma's Honesty Aristippus Pen Socrates Soule and Homer's Tongue Leontium a Grecian Damosel did so excell in wisdome and in Philosophical contemplations as that Cicero relates in his book De natura Deorum that she durst write a worthy Book against that famous Philosopher Theophrastus Alexander the Great refused the beautiful Daughter of Darius with Kingdomes and infinite Treasures to boot and made choice of Barsina only for her great wisdom although she was poor and had no possessions Dominica the wife of the Emperor Valenticus whenas the Goths had threatned the utter subversion of Constantinople she by her wisdome and discretion so mediated with the Enemy as that she procured the safety both of the People and City Athenias the Daughter of a mean man was for her wisdom learning thought worthy by a Christian Emperor to be his wife Priscilla instructed Apollo himselfe that eloquent man Nicostrata wife to King Evander was so learned that the Grecians reported that if her Writings of the Trojan wars had not by envy been flung into the fire the name of Homer the Prince of Poets would have been unknown This famous Woman is by some called Carmentis because of the eloquence which was found in her Verses she helpd to make up the number of the Greek Alphabet and added to the Roman Letters her Prophesies were preserved by the Romans at the end of the Capitol with as much respect and care as they do the Sacrament Hermodica wife to Midas King of Pbrygia was not only celebrated for her rare features and beauty but for her great wisdome The Divine Plato had amongst his Disciples these two famous women to wit Laschenea and Axiothia the one had so profound a Memory and the other so extraordinary an Understanding as that Plato being in his Chaire he often did say when either of these two