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A44659	The history of the seven wise mistrisses of Rome ... wherein, the treachery of evil counsel is discovered, the innocency of harmless virgins cleared, and the wisdom of seven wise women displayed, to the wonder of their own nation, and the administration of all the world.; Seven wise mistresses of Rome	Howard, Thomas, 17th/18th cent.	1663 (1663)	Wing H3008; ESTC R4376	68,088	179

before us so the Empress commanded Radamentus to appear with all his men who immediately came then said the Princess Most dear Mother behold the young Gentleman that standeth there in black who is favourite to Radamentus above all others command him to be stript before us all said the Empress that will be a shame to us nay said the Princess be the shame to these that deserve it and when be was unclothed he was known to be a woman to the admiration of all The Complaint of the Princess against Radamentus THen said the Princess to her Mother behold this Fornicator and this Whore who bath commonly lain with him in his bed committing the foul sin of fornication which thing he would also have committed with me in the Garden and because I would not consent to his filthy lust he ran out crying he had seen me lying with a man under the Fig tree and thereby complained unjustly against me seeking all possible means how to take my life away Therefore most gracious Mother give me leave to reprove him of all his grievous slanders and false accusations word by word and I beséech you to hear me patiently When you sent for 〈◊〉 at his request I beheld the Stars b● which I knew that if I should have spoken to you 〈◊〉 any other within seven dayes ●●●as he●●e●h 〈◊〉 sh●●ld are a shameful death for which cause I did forbear to speak until this present When the Empress heard her Daughter so just and learnedly vindicate the t●uth she said to Radamentus O wicked wretch was not thy Concubine enough to 〈◊〉 ●hy faul and lecherous apposite but wouldst have had to do with my onely Daughter Then Radamentus fell to the gro●nd and begg'd pardon but the Empress said O ungratsful Traytor thou dost 〈◊〉 mercy but thou shalt finde none for the law shall be upon thee even unto a shameful death as thou hast deserved Then said the Princess Most gracious Mother it was told you by this wretched Caitiff that I should by the help of my Mistrisses endeavour your destruction and assume the Government to my self Alas I should more rather use all the art and skill I have to help and support you in all your Government about your Empire and repute you my Sovereign since I have from you all my living and maintenance not to deprive you of your Dignity for in your honour do I glory Then said the Empress blessed be Almighty God that I have such a good and learned Daughter that I finde so expert in all Arts and Sciences therefore declare to me one example whereby I may understand thy wisdome perfectly then shall I have ioy of thee and my heart will be satisfied Then said the Princess Gracious Mother Command silence among the people that all may hear me and when I have ended o●●e sentence according to law upon me and Radamentus When the Hall was silenced the Princess began as followeth The Example of Sabrina the Empress Daughter THere was a Queen which had but one Daughter whom she loved as she did her life therefore the Queen delivered her 〈◊〉 a Wise Mistris to be brought up and be instr●●●●d in all vertuous Learning and Wisdom and when she had béen with her Mistris a certain while her Mother had a desire to see ●er and sent Letters to the Mistris to bring home her Daughter when she came she appeared to her Mother so expert in learning comely in behaviour and amiable unto all that the Queen rejoyced excéedingly and it happened on a time as she delivered a bowl of Wine to her Mother the Queen looked upon the wall and saw the shadow of a hand which wrote three lines in an unknown tongue and the Quéen began to fear greatly and said happy were that person which could interpret what that writing meant then her Daughter said if it may not offend the Quéen I could give the true interpretation thereof and the Quéen said speak on my good Daughter and the Childe said Most honoured Mother this writing doth signifie that I shall become a mighty Princess and shall be honoured of all people especially my own Mother who shall bring me a Bowl of Wine and bow thrée times and knéel in the delivery of it and the Queen said Thou shalt never be honoured so of me nor have such service therefore she commanded her servants to take her into a Forest far from the Court and there slay her and bring her Heart to shew her that she may know the truth of her death so the servants took her away to the Forest and having compassion on so sweet a Childe said among themselves let us deceive the Queen in this bloody 〈◊〉 and save the Childe and we will put her in this hollow Tree and kill a Lamb of the Mountain and bring the Heart to the Queen which accordingly they did and the Queen believed it was the Heart of her Daughter saying Prophecies sometime prove not true And it chanced that on the morrow after a strange Knight hapned to hunt in the Forest where the Childe was to be slain and his Dogs beyed about the tree where the Queens Daughter was at last the Knight looked in the hollow of the tree and there he espied a young Girle of such incomparable beauty that his eyes never beheld a fairer which made him suspect that she was of some noble race and so he commanded his servants to be careful of her and to bring her into his own countrey where he did bring her up in all learned Arts and with royal attendants till at last her fame began to ring throughout the whole Kingdome for Vertue Beauty and Learning and the Emperour of that Land being very youthful came to that Knights house for so view her And no sooner did he behold her but he was smitten with the inflamation of Love and after dinner he danced with her and in the evening he married her and brought her in great triumph and solemnity home to his own Court. And after that the thrée Eastern Kings hearing of her fame came to see her beauty and to bring her presents thus for thrée years she lived with her husband the Emperour in all joy and happiness and then he dyed leaving the whole Empire unto she who was then called the great Empress of Blodermario When she was thus in the height of all her glory she viewed the Firmament and perceived by her skill in Astrology how her Mother that day was deposed by the Prince of Moravia of Crown and Kingdom and banished out of her countrey and laying to heart the distressed condition her mother was in had compassion on her for pure Nature will never fall away and therefore she raised a brave and mighty Army and marched towards her mothers Countrey which newes did slye before her that it was told the Queen her mother the great Empress of Blodermario was coming to her assistance which made the Queen to rejoyce and wonder greatly knowing

to wait on him cloathed in mans apparel to satisfie his own lascivious lust and filthy appetite and charged me an innocent Virgin with all those abominable vices and wicked sins that he himself daily committed in his secret chamber he caused me seven dayes one after another to be led to the Iudgement Hall where there he sate himself and gave sentence upon me and caused me to be led to the Gallows shamefully to be burnt at a stake for crimes laid against me that I was innocent of Therefore most gracious Mother as you are the Empress of all the Eastern part of the world forasmuch as I will not own the general name till after your Decease and all you my Lords and Barons of the Prity Counsel and you also my grave and rederend Iudges whose power and authority requireth you to do justice according to the due administration of the Statutes of this Realm I do therefore demand justice upon the shameless Accuser at the Bar Radamentus and his Concubine through whose means I was in peril of my life and led seven times to the Gallows to he executed The Councels and Iudges hearing the words of the Empress were all astonisht to hear such wisdom from a woman then all the Iudges and Counsellours stood up and call'd Radamentus Radamentus your evil life and conversation is very apparent to the Court and your hellish conspiracies and notorious actions which here this day you are accus'd of are publick Evidences against you at the Bar and therefore according to Law we do all here with a general Vote pronounce Sentence against you and your Concubine that you shall be taken away from this place to the place from whence you came and from thence to be drawn at two horses tails throughout the City to the place of Execution which shall be under the common Gallows and there to be burnt to ashes The Empress having now out-lived her mortal Enemy old Radamentus she began a most happy and glorious Reign her own Mother estéem'd her as her onely joy the Nobles of the Land did honour her greatly for her excellent Learning and Wisdom the Subjects did almost adore her for the rarefy of her Iustice and the moderation of her Language her Crown then began to flourish upon her head and her Name began to spread over all the face of the earth and the longer she did reign the more her glory did shine her Mother the old Empress lived till she saw that what for her Beauty and what for her Learning the bordering Nations round about did almost give divine reverence unto her and in the heighth of this flourishing Peace the old Empress dyed and bequeathed her own Crown and Royal Scopter for to be put upon Sabrina's head in this world and a Crown of Glory in the world to come Sabrina after this did Celebrate her Funeral in the greatest Triumph which can be imaginable she also erected a most sumptuous Monument wherein she interred the body of her Mother with this Inscription written on it Within this Monument interr'd here lies The onely Mother of Sabrina the wise Who counsell'd was by Radamentus sway To take Sabrina's precious life away But time and fortune favour'd her at last Whose Life was sav'd and Radamentus lost Sabrina the young Empress having buried the old Empress in such state was commended above all her predecessors for never was such a Monument erected before Now Sabrina being Empress of all the Eauerne part of the World began to grow very potent and great for all people gave her reverence and did homage unto her Kings and Princes sent her rich presents and came from sarre Counteys to visit and complement her but more especially to hear her grave wisdom and to sée the excellency of her Arts and Sciences which bad so much spread over the whole world she was accounted the greatest Philosopher that was in those dayes in the world she continually keeping all sorts of Professours and Artificers that so she might thereby know the nature of all V●gitables as Plants Hearb● Roots Leaves and Trées she kept four thousand Stables of Horses which were on purpose for her own Attendance there was no Nation at war and variance with her but onely one and they were the Tarters so that now to prevent their Incroachment upon her most rich and plentiful Dominions she chose a fifth man out of all her Empire to build a brazen Wall betwéen her and her Enemies about fiftéen hundred miles long and at every ten miles end she caused to be built a strong and famous Castle wherein she plac't ten thousand men for to keep guard against the said Tartars which were People inhabiting in a poor and barren Countrey for they fought not to revenge any quarrel or injury done to them but méerly for some of the Gold and Riches this glorious Sabrina had and to sée if they could get into any of her plentifull Countreys to inhabit for all her Countreys were golden Valleys both for profit and pleasure and though this brazen Wall was built and strongly made yet the fury of the Tartars was so iuraged that they broke over according to the old Proverb Hunger will break through stone walls and for thrée hours time there was a mortal Battle but the young Empress Sabrina had a Champion in her Army called Gorgon a Gyant you must conceive he was for he was seven Cabits high the Club that he bore was like the mast of a Ship his Helmet was made of Brass weighing an hundred shekels of Iron this Gyant fought most courageously and made lanes through the Army of the Lartars that all dreaded and feared the place where he came And on on a time it happening that this Gyant was in the heat of the Battle and being extream hot he went to the main Ocean to drink and to refresh himself and in the vehemency of his draught he swallowed a Souldiers Knapsack full of Linnen which made it swim and he spate at it as if it had béen but a mote in his glass but finding himself not very well he sent for the Empress Physician who hearing the great Champion was not well made what expedition he could to disit him and seeing him in such a sad distemper he caused a Ladder for to be put down his Threat into his Belly which was a usual thing or custome in that Countrey especially to such men of such vaste and great stature and commanded his Man to go down the Ladder into his belly and there for to sée if he could finds and know by his skill and good discretion what was the cause of his grief and heaviness but his man would not venture to go down except he had a Link in his hand and thereupon he lighted a good blazing Torch and down he goes But he had not descended downe above two steps but the breath of the Gyant arising from his smoaking Gorge did very much dimnifle the light of his Link and to