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A42646
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Elogium heroinum, or, The praise of worthy women written by C.G., Gent.
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C. G. (Charles Gerbier)
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1651
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Wing G583; ESTC R7654
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Romanus the Proconsul inscribed her self on her husbands Tomb this Epitaph To God to Prince wife kindred friend the poor Religious loyall true kinde stedfast dear In zeal faith love blood amity and store He that so liv'd and so deceas'd yes here Pompeia Paulina the wife of Seneca when she heard of the Tyrant Nero's sentence of death that Monster who ript up his own mother to see the place where he had lain on her husband she caused her own veins to be opened being resolved not to survive him whom she loved so dearly This Epitaph might have been inscribed on her Tomb To these whom death again did wed This Grave 's the second marriage bed For though the hand of Fate could force T'wixt soul and body a divorce It could not sever man and wife Because they both liv'd but one life Peace good Reader do not weep Peace the Lovers are asleep They sweet Turtles folded lye In the last knot that love could tye Let them sleep let them sleep on Till this stormy night bee gone And th' eternall morrow dawn Then the Curtains will bee drawn And they waken with that light Whose day shall never sleep in night Rathean Herpin carried her husband Christopher Thaeon strook by an Apoplexie in all his limbs and members with an invincible constancie at severall journies the space of one thousand three hundred English miles to a Bath for his recoverie This was about the time that Marquis Spinola entred the Palatinate Sir Henry Wotton being the when English Ambassador in those parts Dr. Hackets wife was a religious woman and a loyal and loving wife to her husband as this her Epitaph denotes Drop mournful eyes your pearly trickling tears Flow streams of sadness drown the spangled sphears Fall like the tumbling Cataracts of Nile Make deaf the world with cryes let not a smile Appear let not an eye be seen to sleep Nor slumber onely let them serve to weep Her dear lamented death who in her life Was a religious loyal loving wife Of children tender to an husband kinde Th' undoubted symptomes of a vertuous minde Which makes her glorious 'bove the highest pole Where Angels sing sweet requiems to her soule She liv'd a None-such did a None-such dye Ne'r none-such here her corps interred lye In the time of the second Punick War when the Romans were overthrown many that were reported to bee assuredly dead returning home unexpectedly to their mothers such infinite joy oppressed them at the very instant that betwixt the kisses and embraces they suddenly expired The wife of Aruntius the Roman slew her self hearing that her sonne was drowned The rumor of the great slaughter at the lake of Thrasimenes being published one woman beyond all hopes meeting her son at the City gate who was safely returned from that general defeat cast her self into his arms where in that extasie of joy she instantly expired Another hearing that her sonne was slain in the battel after much sorrow for his death sitting in her house and spying her sonne coming towards her safe in health she was overcome with a sudden joy that not being able to rise and give him a meeting she dyed as she sate in her chaire The Matrons of Carthage when their sonnes were selected to be sent as Hostages into Sicilia with weeping and lamentations followed them unto the Sea-side and kept them so fast hugged in their close imbraces as they suffered them not to goe aboard untill they were forcibly plucked from them and sent unto the ships yet then many of these lamenting mothers opprest with extremity of sorrow cast themselves headlong into the sea and there were drowned Agrippina the mother of that cruel Domitius Nero enquired of the Chaldeans and Astrologers whether by their calculations it were possible to find out whether or no her son should be created Caesar They returned her this answer that by their Art they found for certain that he should be Emperour but withall that he should be the death of his mother to whom she answered Interficiat modo imperet I care not though he kill me so he may attain to the Empire Harpalice the Daughter of Harpalicus rescued her Father in battel defeated the enemy and put him to flight Hypsipile the daughter of Thoas gave life unto her Father when he was utterly in despair of hope or comfort Erigone the daughter of Iearus hearing of the death of her father strangled her selfe Agane the Daughter of Cadmus slew the King Lycotharsis in Illyria and repossest her Father of his before usurped Diadem What a stock of piety lived in the breast of Tyro the daughter of Salmoneus may be easily conjectured since she condescended to the losse of her onely and dearly-beloved children for to save her Father Niconus or as some will have it Cimonus being a straight prisoner and there adjudged to be starved to death his daugbter Xantippe fed him through the iron-grates with the milk of her own breasts What will not love invent or true zeale penetrate What more unheard or unexpected thing could be apprehended then for a Father to be fed from the breasts of his Daughter Who would not imagine this to be against Nature but that we see by proof true Natural pietie transcends all bounds and limits Hyas a young man being devoured of a Lyon the Hyades his sisters deplored his death with such infinite sorrow that they wept themselves to death The Prince Intaphernes being condemned to die with all the male-issue of his race for having cut off the eares and nose of one of the Waiters who rudely put him back from entring into the Chamber of Darius the Emperor of Persia and the execution being hourly expected the Wife of Intaphernes prevailed so far with her teares accompanied with such passionate words as were able to mollifie flint or soften marble That Darius commanded one only whomsoever she would choose to be ransomed for the continuance of the memory of their name family after some meditation contrary to the expectation of all men she demanded the life of her Brother The King somewhat amazed at her choice sent for her and demanded the reason why she had preferred the life of a Brother before the safety of such a Noble Husband or such hopeful Childrens To whom she answered Beholdo King I am yet but young and in my best of years and I may live to have another Husband and consequently more Children but my Father and Mother are both aged and should I lose a Brother I should for ever be deprived of that sacred name At which words the King exceedingly moved to see with what a fraternal zeal they were spoken he not only released the Brother but likewise the eldest of her Sonnes This history is more amply related by Sabeâ—licus A nother History doth here represent it self to my remembrance which I have read in Marul lib. 3. cap. 2. where he relates that two Virgins the one whereof seeing her Bed-fellow lying upon her death-bed
wretched times which make life a shame to be born a misfortune My fall shall ease your thoughts make my revenge happy and I who will not live an example of dishonour to women will dye an example of fortitude to men This said shee plunged a knife into her heart and fell down dead thereon Theoxena being environed at Sea by the Navie of Philip King of Macedon seeing her husband thrown over-board leapt after him not onely to express her love to her husband but to preserve her selfe from the tyrannie of the Conqueror Alexander the Great wrote a letter to his mother in this manner Alexander the sonne of Jupiter Hamon to his mother Olympia wisheth health To whom with great modesty she thus replyed Dear son as you love mee instead of doing mee honour proclaim not my dishonour neither accuse mee before Juno besides it is a great aspersion you cast upon mee to make mee a Strumpet though to Jupiter himself And thus this famous Queen would not for any swelling title or vain ostentation lose the honour to be called a loyal and chaste wife Cornelia the illustrious mother of the Gracchi to preserve the honour of a chaste widow denied to marry the King Ptolomeus although he offered to impart to her a Diadem and a Scepter Dyrrachina being taken prisoner covenanted with her cruel Victor that if hee would but reprieve her honour for the present she would reveal unto him a secret by the which hee should preserve his body from being wounded The Souldier having accepted of the condition shee told him that it was the vertue of a certain herbe with whose juice if he did anoint any part of his body it should preserve it free from being wounded and to shew him the effects thereof shee from a neighbours garden plucked up the weed that next came to hand with the sap or moisture thereof she anointed her own neck and bidding him to draw out his sword and make triall of her whether shee kept not a faithfull Covenant with him the Souldier giving credit to her words in regard of her constancie and courage with one strong blow struck off her head A most resolute and noble Lady to prefer death before the losse of her honour Annia Romana having buried her first husband in her youth and being continually perswaded by her friends to a second marriage she answered it was a motion which she would by no means assent unto for said she Should I happen upon a good man such a one as my first husband was I would not then live in that perpetual fear to lose him but if otherwise why should I hazard to put my self upon a bad one that am so late punisht by the losse of so good a one Democion the Athenian Virgin hearing that Leosthenes to whom shee was contracted was slain in the wars she killed her self but before her death shee thus reasoned with her self Although my body is untoucht yet should I fall into the imbraces of another I should but deceive the second since I am still married to the former in my heart Alice Countess of Salisbury being importuned continually by King Edward the third to yeeld unto his inordinate desires and having sent for her thinking to compel her and to use his royal Authority she cast her self down at the Kings feet and with an ocean of tears accompained with words able to mollifie Steel or to soften Flints she declared That since her unhappy destiny had brought her thither before his presence as the innocent lamb committed to the sacrifice she most humbly craved that his Majesty would be pleased to grant unto her one request whereat the King replied with a solemn oath that he would not refuse any thing unto her shee then took a knife which shee had conveyed under her Gown saying that the request which shee had craved and the which his Majesty had been pleased with his royal Faith to grant her was That she did most humbly beseech him that he would rather then take away her honour with his sword end her most unhappy life or else that hee would be pleased to give her leave to kill her self with that knife which she had purposely brought that so her innocent bloud might bear witness before God of her undefiled chastity The King being astonisht and assured of the chastity and constancie of this vertuous Lady took her to be his lawful wife Baldraca though she was of mean parentage and of an inferior fortune could neither by threats nor promises of worldly honours or promotion be tempted to prostitute her self to the Emperor Otho Isabella a Damsel of Ravenna threw her self headlong into the river Medoacus wherein shee was drowned to shun the violent lusts of some Venetian Souldiers Britonia a beautiful maid of Crete to shun the importunities of King Minos cast her self likewise into a River where shee was drowned Pithomena a Virgin of Alexandria being a Citizens slave was so fair and so vertuous that her Master became in love with her but when he saw hee coald neither with promises nor threats gain her he began to hate her more then ever he had loved her and though he had accused her to be a Christian as indeed she was yet nevertheless she remained constant in her deliberation and resolved rather to suffer a cruell death as shee did being put into boyling pitch then to lose her chastity With her therefore I close this relation of chaste Women and Virgins and lest I should omit any thing that might tend to the grace and honor of that Sex I shall alledge somewhat of their abilities to govern Of Womens abilities to Govern CEres Queen of Sicil was the first that taught People to live according unto the Lawes and therefore she was by the Ancients called a Goddesse Mirrhe Queen of the Lydians was by them reckoned amongst seven of their Kings by which they boast to have been governed Semyramis manfully governed her Kingdome for the space of 24 years performing many admirable things surpassing her Sexe Teuca a Warlike woman Queen of the Illyrians wife unto Argon took upon her selfe the soveraignty and governed wisely she opposed the violence of the Romans and obtained on them many noble victories Zenobia Queen of the Palmirians after the death of her husband Odenatus took upon her the Imperial Regencie and made the Kingdom of Syria tributary unto her Valasca Queen of the Bohemians governed her Kingdom and managed all her affairs herself without the help or Councel of any man Athalia Queen of the Hebrews Saba of the Ethiopians Amalasuntha of the Goths Hester of the Persians Harpalice of the Amazons do all of them deserve an immortal praise for their well-governing Queen Mercea wife to Guinthelinus king of Britain governed wisely and established many profitable Lawes which were much esteemed by the Britains and carefully observed being called after her name The Mercean lawes many Ages ensuing It was a custome among the Celtans a people of France