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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
seated between the Rivers Graumna Sequana to admit their Women to Councel and in the League which they made with Anibal this Article was inserted If so be the Celtans have any matter of complaint against the Carthaginians the Carthaginian Commander in Spain shall judge of it But if the Carthaginians have any thing to object against the Celtans it shall be brought before the Celtan Women Did not Hilkiah Abikam Achbor Shapham and Asahiah those prime Statesmen consult concerning State-affairs with Huldah Deborah was so able for the publike management that she judged Israel and the people of Israel came up constantly unto her for judgment Mary Countesse of Flanders wife to the Emperor Maximilian and Louise Dutchesse of Savoy mother to the French King Francis the first by their wisdome and prudence treated and concluded the peace at Cambray a Town seated amidst the seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands Queen Elizabeth of happy memory was admired by her very enemies namely Pope Sixtus Quintus though he plotted against her life yet he was often heard to say that Elizabeth of England and Henry the IV. of France were able to govern the whole world I need not insist any longer on Womens abilities to govern since it clearly appears that they have therein excelled most men and therefore God never appeared to them in his wrath armed with thunders as a revenger of crimes but with crowns in his hand as a dealer of rewards for this Sexe hath never been infected with such Monsters as Vitellius Nero Heliogabalus Caligula Domitian Catiline Silla Achitophel Herod Marius Nimrod Sardanapalus were and a thousand such others who as they lived most detestable and horrid lives so they expired with most deserved deaths some by hunger and thirst others were eaten by horses rats and lice others devoured by wolves and dogs others consumed by flames and tortures some were driven naked through the streets saluted with Vrinals and Chamber-pots others were tyed into bags wherein a Cock a Viper and a Foxe were put and thus were they cast into a river some strangled others poysoned themselves and with such like horrid and detestable ends they met with their final destructions But to divert you from these sad objects of Gods wrath I will proceed to such as are acceptable and pleasing the reward whereof is everlasting happinesse viz. Piety and Religion Of Pious and Religious Women MAry Magdalen and Martha did preach the Gospel of Christ and converted the Country of Illyria which now is called Sclavonia unto the Christian belief The Sarahs were devout beleevers The Maries were humble and mortified persons The Elizabeths religiously observed all the commandents of God blamelesse The Priscilla's were heavenly and rich in discourse The Bathsheba's the Loises and Funices were careful in the the instructing of their children in the knowledge of God Catherina Alexandria under the tyranny of Maxentius was illuminated with divine knowledge from above she constantly maintained the faith of the Gospel notwithstanding all the Syllogistical and Sophistical Dilemma's of the cunning Sophisters of those dayes who were forced to yeeld and to submit unto the authority of a Virgins tongue Isota Navarula Veronensis devoted her life to the contemplation of divine mysteries to which she added the honour of a perpetual chastity Rosuida born in Germany composed many excellent works exhorting those of her sex to Chastity Vertue and the divine Worship she writ the lives of holy men and composed a divine work of the pious and chaste life of the blessed Virgin Fgilbert King of England by the means of his wife received the Christian Faith Hermegides King of the Goths was drawn from Arius heresies unto the Christian Faith by Nigegond his wife Cleotilda Queen of France and wife unto King Clovis made her husband renounce the Paganisme and become a Christian Dorothy Leigh not long since deceased was a pious and religious Gentlewoman she hath left behinde her as a legacy to her children a book of her own making entituled The mothers blessing It is godly counsel containing many good exhortations and admonitions The holy Writ it self in a most divine stile declares unto us mortals the wonders of that Sexe in which God hath been pleased to make them so far excell and to expresse how much hee was pleased with the good return of his mercifull gifts from them as that it moved the Saviour of all the world to publish the same viz. O woman great is thy faith and with this additional reproch to his disciples That they had not given him water for his feet and that they had not saluted him with a kisse when as that woman had anointed his feet and washt them with her tears had wiped them with her hairs and had not ceased to kisse them And was not our Saviour himself moved to compassion by them hee who was uncapable of any passion or weakness yet hee did weep when hee saw the tears rowl from Maries eyes for Lazarus sake hee knew the value of that so great a treasure which had been infused into that Sex even since the first moment of its creation in Paradise and although the spirit of delusion did even there work the fall of man by such an easie instrument yet his divine providence would preserve it to bruise that Serpents head withall and to confound that spirit of darknesse by making it appear that they should neither forsake nor deny him and this hee verified even at the Crosse where he was to overcome death it self when as hee uttered these words Woman behold thy Son So likewise said hee unto his beloved Disciple speaking of the blessed Virgin Behold thy mother The women were the first that returned to the Sepulcher whither they went before day Their faith did excel that of men when as they went with oyntments not taking care who should remove the stone from off the Sepulcher So likewise did they run unto Simon Peter and to the other Disciples to witnesse the Lords Resurrection neither did they as the Disciples return unto their own homes but remained at the Sepulcher weeping and inquiring after the Lord untill that he had appeared unto them and therefore hee made them to be companions of Angels who comforted them O divine conversation ô heavenly meeting of an Angelical Chore when as the Angels askt Woman why weepest thou O what a transcendent love shee exprest in saying Because they have taken away my Lord and I know not where they have laid him But with what a blisse was this conversation crowned when as Christ Jesus himself in person would approve himself to be the chief in that heavenly conference and enquiry by his saying Why weepest thou whom seekest thou and so might he wel say indeed since hee himself was there to bid them weep no more Most blessed Sexe though they were forbidden to weep yet may all men continue the same for the backwardness of such as follow not the example of these pious and religious women