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A89721	Hæc & hic; or, The feminine gender more worthy than the masculine. Being a vindication of that ingenious and innocent sex from the biting sarcasms, bitter satyrs, and opprobrious calumnies, wherewith they are daily, tho undeservedly, aspers'd by the virulent tongues and pens of malevolent men. ...	Norris, James, fl.1682-1684; Harefinch, John, fl. 1682-1690, printer	1683 (1683)	Wing N1242A; ESTC R228457	50,405	172

the one half to him and gave him the reft who pledg'd her very joyfully not imagining in the least there was Death in the Cup she seeing her Design take effect cast her self down witn Reverence before the Image of Diana to whom she rendred Thanks and beg'd Pardon in this short Ejaculation Great Goddess thou knowest with what Constraint and purpose I consented to the Marriage of this Murderer If Grief could kill as often as it is extreme I had bin long since in the Elysian Fields the place of Bliss and Happiness for all departed Souls but I refused not to continue here for an opportune time to take a full revenge on this perfidious Wretch whom here thou seest and yet believes that I can love him tho he hath rob'd me of my dearest Sinaltus then turning to languishing Sinorix said Thou barbarous Villain consider with thy self and Confess what right I have to sacrifice thy Life to that which thou hast taken from my beloved Husband and have only deferr'd my own end to give Posterity a more remarkable Testimony of my Love and thy Cruetly Camma was so happy as to see Sinorix dye first tho he drank last and the Gods gave her this satisfaction for her Loyalty who ended her Life joyfully calling upon Sinaltus to show him the Revenge she had taken of his Death and to accompany her in the Passage to the other World Can there be a more Noble and Resolute Example of Constancy given to the World by Man than this Heroic Action And was not he a Cynic who maintain'd that among the whole Female Sex there could not be found one Woman Constant but this does too apparently confute that Groundless and Erroneous Assertion Portia the Wife of Brutus and Daughter of Cato hearing that her Husband was vanquished in the Battel at Philippi and slain she fear'd not by her Womanish Courage to imitate if not Exceed her Father's Resolution in his Death for when all Weapons and Instruments of Death were strictly kept from her she expir'd by swallowing hot burning Coals herein only they differ that he by a common she by an Unheard of Death was extinguished Lucretia Daughter of Tricipitinus Praefect of Rome and Wife to Tarquinius Collatinus Sextus Tarquinius was Enamour'd and Captivated by her admirable Beauty but he tho the Son of a King not prevailing by Courtship resolved to Force her and accordingly having found an opportunity violently rush'd into her Bed-chamber with his Sword drawn and a Look more terrible than the Sword nay Death it self Resolving not only to kill her if she did not yield to his Embraces but after he had Murdered her to lay the dead Body of a Slave in her Arms to the end those that should find her in that posture might think her slain as an Adulteress She terrified with these Menaces accompanied with Furious and wild Looks and trembling like a Tender Lamb that 's newly yean'd upon a Cake of Ice he Bruitishly Ravished her but in the Morning she sent for her Father Husband and the rest of her Friends and breaking forth into a Deluge of Tears acquainted them with the Inhuman Rape of the Barbarous Tyrant and immediately pulling out a Knife the fatal Instrument which she had procur'd for that purpose stab'd her self Her Relations hereupon make a publick Discovery of the Hellish Fact to the People who forthwith took up Arms drove that Family out of Rome and Banished or rather Extirpated both their King and Kingship T. Collatinus is said to have Engraven this Inscription upon his Wife's Monument yet extant at Rome in the Bishop of Viterbo's Palace Collatinus Tarquinius dulciffimae Conjugi Ineomparabili Pudicitiae Decori Mulierum Gloriae vixit Annis 32 Mensibus 2 diebus 6. proh dolor quae fuit charissima Sophronia a Roman Lady seeing that she could by no means possible avoid the Importunate and Lascivious Suit of Decius for the Preservation of her Chastity rather than subscribe to his Courtship by the Consent of her own Husband to whom she communicated his intended Lascivious Amours gave her Soul a Pass-port into the Elysian shades by the Point of a Sword Sulpitia being strictly kept up and circumspectly watched by her Mother Julia for fear she should follow her Husband Lentulus Crustellio then banished by the Triumvirat and confin'd to Sicily She notwithstanding the Watchful Eye of her Parent put on the Apparel of a Servant attended only with two Hand-maids and as many Men-servants privately pass'd through their Guards and Watches and by secret Flight came incognita to the Place whither he was Proscribed leaving all the Pleasures and Delicacies of Rome to participate with the Miseries of her Exil'd Husband Hipsicratea presents her self next a rare Example of Matrimonial Association in Adverse as well as Prosperous Fortune Trooping with her Husband Mithridates King of Pontus in Man's Apparel Ruffling her Incomparable Beauty with hardships of Weather Exposing her Tenderness nay Life to such Perils as might daunt even Masculine Courage a Comfort saith my Author to her Husband when expell'd his Kingdom Cum Domo enim Penatibus vagari se credidit Vxore simul exulante thinking himself at home and in his own Territories as long as she sweetned his Exile by her sweet Society and as another observes she assisted him in all Labours and Hazards of the Warin a Masculine Habit departing with the chief Ornament of her Beauty Tonsis enim capillis Equo se Armis assuefecit quo facilius Laboribus Periculis ejus interesset She shaved her Hair and accustomed her self to Arms and Riding that she might share with him the better in his Labours and Dangers and afterward in his Flight from Pompey surnamed the Great accompanied him in all his Misfortunes with a Mind and Body equally unwearied She is solemnly Registred by this Grave Author as a Noble Precedent of Matrimonial Loyalty and Conjugal Virtue such as might raise a mean Person to the Quality of a Queen but a Queen to the State and Honour of a Deess Penelope the Wife of Vlysses of whom one says Penelope for spending chast her days As worthy as Ulysses was of Praise Brathw p. 328 329. A daily Siege she suffered and in her Conquest equal was she to those Victorious Peers of Greece who made Troy their Triumph Estimation was her highest Prize Suitors she got and those many yet among them her dear Vlysses was never forgot and Absence had not Estranged her Affection Youthful Comforts could not move in her Thoughts the least Distraction neither could Opportunity induce her to give way to any Light Action Well might Greece then Esteem her Penelope of more Lasting Fame than any Pyramid that ever she erected her Unblemish'd Reputation was of far purer Materials than any Ivory Statue nor was Rome less beholding to her Lucretia who sought Honor at so high a rate that she held Death too light to redeem it Tho force frights Foes

and Feminine Vertue Nay the Ladies of Aquileia depriv'd themselves of their only Ornament their Hair and gave it to be us'd in an Exigency for Bow-strings against the Emperour Maximinus and the Roman and Marcellian Dames did the same Cyrus King of Persia whom the Greek Historian makes the Pattern of all Monarchs relied upon the Prudent Advice of his Wife Aspasia yet after he had conquer'd the Kingdom of the Medes and all Asia having Reign'd happily the space of nine years waged War against Thomyris Queen of Scythia lost 100000 Men in two Battels and at last was overthrown and taken Prisoner by the Queen her self and put to death in Revenge of her Son Spargapices whom he had slain in Battel whereupon the French Poet sings thus Les Femmes ont passe les Hommes de leur Age En Puissance en Conseil en Prudence en Courage Monstrans a leur Sujects de parole fait La Vertu de leur Sexe Invincible Parfait Amalaunta the Learned and Heroic Queen of the Ostrongoths and Daughter to Theodoric reduced the State of the Goths to a good Condition Reformed the Disorders and Corruption that her Father introduced and left among them expell'd the Germans and Burgundians out of Italy and Reigned very Fortunately several Years Penthisilea Queen of the Amazons succeeded Orythia she was present in the Trojan War and took their part against the Grecks and as Justin gives her Testimony Inter fortissimos Viros magna ejus Virtutis Documenta extitere She is no where mention'd but with the Preface of Honour and Vertue and is always advanced in the Head of the worthiest Women Diodorus Siculus Hist 1.2 makes her the Daughter of Mars she was Renowned in her Death likewise to have it by the hand of Achilles of which the Poet Propertius 1.3 Eleg. 10. sings this Triumph Aurea cui postquam nudavit cassida frontem Vicit Victorem candida Forma Virum Boadicia or Voadicia by some call'd Bunduica and Bunduca who since she was born at home we will first honor her with a Homebred Testimony from the Grave and Diligent Spencer in his Ruines of Time Bunduca Britones Bunduca the Victorious Conqueress That lifting up her brave Heroic Thought 'Bove Womens Weakness with the Romans fought Fought and in Field against them thrice prevail'd c. This Amazonian Queen was the Widdow of Prasutagus King of the Iceni the antient Inhabitants of Cambridge Suffolk Norfolk and Huntingtonshire a Great and Rich Prince who at his Death left Nero his Heir and his two Daughters hoping thereby to free his House from injuries but it fell out contrary for no sooner was he dead but his Kingdom was spoiled by the Roman Centurions his House Ransac't by Slaves his Wife cruelly beaten and his Daughter fordidly ravished besides the chief Men of the Iceni as if the whole Region had bin given up as a prey were deprived of their Goods by Violence and his Kinsmen esteemed as Slaves and Captives With which contumely and fear of greater mischief they conspire with the Trinobantes the Inhabitants of Middlesex and Essex and others not yet inur'd to Servitude to resume their Liberty and firstset upon the Garrison of the Veteran Soldiers whom they most hated defeated the 9 th Legions whereof they slew all the Foot put Cerealis the Legat and Leander to flight and put to the Sword 70000 Romans with their Associats inhabiting the municipal Town Camelodunum now Walden as also London and Verulam before Suetonius the Governour of the Province could assemble the rest of the dispersed Forces to make head against their Army conducted by Boadicia who with her two Daughters brought into the Field to move Compassion and Revenge incites to the noble and manly work of Liberty which to recover she protests to hold herself there but as one of the Vulgar without weighing her great Honour and Birth resolved to conquer or dye many of their Wives did likewise appear in the Camp to encourage their Husband's Valour but in the end Suetonius got the Victory with the slaughter of 80000 Britains Voadicia seeing this fatal overthrow of her was notwithstanding unvanquished in her own undaunted and invincible Spirit and scorning to be a Spectacle in their Triumphs or a Vassal to their Will after the example of Cleopatra she put a period to her Misery and Life by Poison You may see her Harangues to her Soldiers made by Tacitus the Historian wherein is expressed the magnitude of her Spirit thirsting honorably after the Redemption and Liberty of her Country and Joh. Xiphilinus in Epist in Neron doth honest her besides with a particular and honorable Mention Bunduica Britannica Foemina orta Stirpe Regia c. Bunduica a British Lady of Royal Extract one who not only presided over them but also administred all military Affairs whose Spirit was rather Viril then Feminine and afterward Foemina forma honestissima Vultu severo a Woman of a comly Presence but severe Aspect all which doth contribute the more to her true Praise because it proceeded from the Mouth of the Romans her Enemies Pasquier in his Recherches de la France saith lib. 6. ca. 33. I will not pry into Antiquity do but observe what hath passed in Europe during thirty five years five or six great Kingdoms governed by Women France by Katharin De Medici Queen Mother England by Queen Elizabeth Scotland by Mary Portugal fallen into the hands of the Infanta Daughter of Queen Leonora Navarre and Bearn by the Queen Joanna and finally Flanders and other low Countries by the Dutchess of Parma Bastard Sister to Philip King of Spain To enumerat the particulars on this Subject would swell this into too great a Volume Therefore I shall not trouble you with Queen Elizabeth at home whose story is too Prolix and too generally known only take this character of her and the Lady Jane Gray by the learned Lady Anna Maria Schurman of whom more hereafter J'oserois opposer une seule Elizabet ensa vie Reine d'Angleterre une Jane Gray a toutes les illustres Femmes de la Grece de la Rome encienne I durst bring one sole Elizabeth in her life Queen of England and one Jane Gray in opposition to all the Illustrious Dames of antient Grece and Rome I have bin more copious in this Subject than any to prove that most robust and rugged Virtue of Fortitude is as eminent in Women as Men but I will conclude with that of the Philosopher tho one of the greatest of Enemies to Women who having given testimony that he prefer'd Truth before Hatred confesseth that Women did mannage among the Lacedaemonians the Affairs of greatest importance It is a Custom false and unjust not antient to reject Women from Public and particular Government as if they were fit for nothing but to stitch or spin their Wit is adapted for more elevated Actions and if one will make Remarks upon what they have

Vota Virum Juvenum Spes And the Venusian Poet sings sweetly Felices ter amplius Quos irrupta tenet copula Divulsus querimoniis Suprema citius solvit amerdre In English thus Thrice happy they and more than that Whom Bands of Love so firmly ties That without Brawls till Death them part 'T is undissolv'd and never dies There is no Joy no Sweetness no Pleasure like to that of a Good Wife Quam cum chara domi Conjux Fidusque Maritus Vnanimes degunt saith our Latin Homer Her Love can no more change than a Star his Course or Fate it 's Everlasting Laws Matrimonium humano generi Immortalitatem tribuit Marriage makes us immortal It is as one says very prettily Nodosa Aeternitas a kind of knotty Eternity Immortality being as it were piec'd and lengthned out by the Succession of Children 'T is Firmissimum Imperii Munimentum The Seal and chief Prop of an Empire and the Poet tells you Indignè vivit per quem non vivit alter Et Minuuntur atrae Conjuge Curae She is the sole Comfort of Man's Life born ad Vsum Lusum Hominum for the Use and Diversion of Man she is Firmamentum Familiae the Basis and solid Foundation of a Family Optima viri possessio est Vxor Benevola A loving VVife is the best Possession a Man can purchase Mitigans omnia avertens animum ejus à Tristitia mild upon all occasions and the only Helebore to purge away her Consort 's melancholy The best Possession is a Loving Wife She tempers Anger and diverts all Strife Euripides Si commodas nanciscantur amores c. If fitly match'd be Man and Wife No Pleasure's wanting to their Life No such Comfort as Placens Vxor a sweet Wife She is the highest ground of Humane Felicity Nothing can be more amiable than an honest Woman nothing conferring more Joy upon man saith sententious Xistus In fine She is in Quality a Helper in Society a Comforter in the perplexity of her Consort a Counsellor and in all these a Sharer Is her Husband young She will bear with his Youth till better Experience bring him to the Knowledge of Man Is he old His Age shall beget the more Reverence in her Is he rich much good may it do him this shall not make her proud but her Desire shall be to improve it to his best Advantage Is he poor His Poverty shall make her rich There is no want where there wants no Content Were he poor as Irus Fancy will make him dearer than rich Croesus Her Husband may seem a Thersites to others but he is a Paris in her Eye A Mother is the best Grammarian let the Grammaticasters boast never so vauntingly of their speaking well when every Nurse does shamefully exceed them in their Faculty of teaching Had not Speeches their Original from the Mother Yes indisputably and for that very Reason every ones Native Language is call'd the Mother Tongue 'T was wittily replyed of a Gentleman who heard a drolling Batcheler say Next to no Wife a good Wife was best no Sir said he next to a good Wife no Wife is best And as pleasantly said of another who maintain'd that Wives are young Mens Mistresses Companions of middle Age and old Mens Nurses Let a man be never so Volatile a good Wife will fix him She is Res bona not bounded within the Limits of Predicable Predicament or Topic. It was the saying of the wisest of Kings He that findeth a VVife findeth a good thing and receiveth favour of the Lord and that he might more Emphatically express the incomparable estimat of a good VVife and how far in the scale of Judgment She is to be prefer'd before Substance Riches or any worldly Inheritance to give a more proper and genuine Distinction he makes use not only of a distinct Gradation but also a different Derivation and Riches are the Inheritance of the Father but a prudent VVife cometh of the Lord and many other Encomia of VVomen are scattered throwout Solomon's whole VVorks as a gratious VVoman retaineth Honour and Her price is far above Rubies chap. 21. ver 10. Nay he styles her Coronam Viri the Crown of her Husband and St. Paul call's her Gloriam Viri the Glory of Man Nay the French say proverbially Femme bonne vant une Couronne A good VVife is not to be valued under the Price of a Diadem And as one saith very well Houses without VVomen are Desarts and Places ill cultivated Nay where is there true Politie to be found but in Houswifery The witty Epigrammatist styles good VVives Domiportae Damae portae c. they are the choicest Associats of human Solace so that if the VVorld were to be held a VVilderness without Society it might justly despair of that Comfort without their Company whence it is that the Wiseman concludes without a Woman would the House mourn Surely howsoever some no less properly then pregnantly have Emblematriz'd a married VVoman by a Snail because she is Domiporta and carries her House about her as is the property of a good Houswife yet in my Judgment a modest and well behav'd Woman may by her frequent Resort to publick Places confer no less Benefit to such as observe her Behaviour than occasion of profit to her private Family where She is overseer I have seen some saith the same Author in those Places of publick Repair express such a well seeming State without a just Formality as that every Action deserv'd the Imitation of such as were in their Company Their Conceits were sweetly temper'd without lightness their Jests savory yet without saltness their Discourses free without niceness their Answers mild without tartness their Smiles pleasing mixt with Bashfulness their Pace Graceful without too much Activeness Their whole Posture Delightful with a seeming Carelesness These are such Mirrors of Modesty Patterns of Piety as they would not for a World transgress the Bounds of Civility These are Matrons in their Houses and Models in publick Places It was a wild Speech of the Philosopher to say that if our Conversation cou'd be without Women Angels wou'd come down and dwell among us but then they must be evil ones for the Good Angels durst not disallow of Marriage which God himself ordain'd and hath stamp'd his Blessing upon But to pass by such Moth-eaten Philosophers and come to a Modern Physician of our own It was a most Unmannerly thing of him whilst he displays his own Religion to wish that there were a way to Propagate the World otherwise than by Conjunction with Woman and Paracelsus that German Quack undertakes to teach him that way whereby he seems to Repine tho I understand he himself Wiv'd a little after at the Honourable Degree of Marriage which I hold to be the Prime Link of Humane Society the chiefest Happiness of Mortals and wherein Heaven

in Battel his Souldiers flying toward the City for Refuge insomuch that the Enemy was ready to enter with them but the Women perceiving it issued out of the Gates holding up their Cloaths as high as their Breasts met them running and reproved them saying O ye Cowards and Basest of Men whither flye you Have you any hopes to hide your selves in these places from whence you came This Object cast such a shameful blush upon them that returning and renewing the Battel smartly Defeated the Conquerours and they obtain'd a glorious Victory in memory of which Action Cyrus made a Law that what Persian King soever should approach that City at his Entry thereof should bestow on every woman there a piece of Gold The renowned Matron commonly called Arria Mater because she had a Daughter of the same Name understanding that Poetus her Husband was condemned to dye and willing that he should expire with his own hand rather than by the stroke of a common hang-Man persuaded him to a Roman Resolution but finding him somewhat terrified at the Approach of his Death she snatch'd up a Sword wherewith she transpierced her self and then with an undaunted Courage pluck'd it off her Bosom and presented it to her Husband with these few and last Words Poete non dolet behold Poetus it hath done me no harm and so fell down dead at his Feet In whose Commendation the witty * Epigramatist hath made an Epigram whereby he Celebrates her matchless Resolution to all succeeding Times 'T is reported of Valasca Queen of the Bohemians who for her Courage obtain'd the Surname of Bold that having by Reason of the roughness and insolence of Men which they lived under in the time of Primislaus made a Conjuration with those of her own Sex to take away all the usurped Jurisdiction and Prerogative of Men and instructed them in military Discipline levied a War met with their Husbands engaged them and totally routed them by which means they obtained the Soverain Power as the Amazons had done before them and for many years managed all Affairs of State offensive and defensive without the Advice or Council of any Men whatsoever Zenobia Queen of the Palinyrians after the Death of her Husband Odenatus took upon her the Imperial Regency and among other Warlike Actions made the Kingdom of Syria Tributary to her nor wanted she Courage to take up Arms against Aurelianus the Roman Emperour but had the misfortune to be overcome and led captive in Triumph to Rome but when it was objected to Caesar by some of his Friends who certainly was a Friend likewise to that Sex as a Dishonour and Reproach to Triumph over a Woman he answer'd it was no Disgrace at all being over such a Woman as excell'd most Men in Masculine Virtue of whom Pontanus makes honorable mention Qualis Aethiopum quondam sitientibus arvis In Fulvum Regina Gregem c. Artemisia Queen of Caria after the Death of her Husband was admired all over Greece who not only in a Naval Expedition overcame the invading Rhodians but pursued them even to their own Coast and took possession of the Island amidst whose Ruins she caused her own Glorious Statue to be erected of Herodotus whom the Greek Historian saith farther I cannot sufficiently admire at this Martial Queen who unintreated or uncompell'd followed the Expedition of Xerxes against Greece out of her own Courage and Excellency of Spirit in which War she furnished five Ships at her own Charge in the great Sea-Fight near Salamine to behold which Battel Xerxes had retired and stood but as a Spectator and Justin saith lib. 2. there was to be seen in Xerxes Womanish Fear and in Artemisia Male Audacity for she demeaned her self to the Consternation of all Men of whose Vessels the King taking special notice not knowing to whom they belonged nor in whose management they then were one spake to the King and said Great Lord behold you not how bravely the Queen Artemisia bears her self this day the King could not at first believe that such Resolution could be in that Sex but at length notwithstanding her brave Service he perceiv'd his Navy put to flight said sighing My Men this day have shewed themselves Women and there is but one Woman among them and She hath shewed her self a Man When the Sabines demanded Roman Women in Marriage with their Swords in their hands to revenge a Refusal the wise Senate was puzled for an Answer in such a case where a denial would beget a certain War or a Grant Hazard their State because their Alliance was but a Color to make themselves Masters of Rome Tutola being very young presented her self with her Advice which at first surprized them but afterward succeeded to the Glory of the Romans and shame of the Strangers and after she perceiv'd a great Irresolution in the Discourse of so many old Senators whom Experience should have furnished with good Council proposed this that they would agree to their demands and dress up their Maids like Brides and so carry them to the Sabines who preferred their Pleasure before their Designs of making War these Slaves seeing their pretended Husbands in a sound sleep subtilly stole away their Armor and advertised the Roman Soldiers thereof by a lighted Torch who came upon them and carried away a Victory wherein Fortune had no part One cannot praise enuf the Courage Conduct and Affection of Tutola who found an expedient for the Common-Wealth when the whole Senate and Nation could find nothing but Fear and Apprehension The same Author saith farther p. 324 325. As for Fortitude which the Male Bragadochios think intail'd on the Breeches the Women of Argos will soon confute that vain Conceit who upon the instigation of a Valiant She-Wit and Poetess Telesilla by name took up Arms maintain'd the Walls and repell'd the Enemy with great loss Was not here both Mercury and Mars Wit Valour Poetry and Fortitude and all in long Coats And it is observable what Solemnity they kept in Memory of this valiant Enterprise namely the Hybristica sacra in plain English their upbraiding Festivals wherein the Women wore the Breeches and the Men their Wives Apparel What Resolution did the French Ladies show at the Siege of Beauvais which was part of the Glory of the Victory Anno 1472. When they presented themselves valiantly and more than Man-like upon the Walls casting Wild-fire Stones scalding Oyl and Water upon the Enemies and so Repulsed Charles Duke of Burgundy with his Forces nay there was to be seen in the Jacobins Church at Beauvais an Ensign which a Woman Joan Foucquet by name wrested out of an Ensign-bearers hands who had gain'd the top of the Walls This demonstrates that Virtue makes no distinction of Sexes and that there are Women to be found who may teach Men both to Live and Dye In Plato's Commonwealth Women are call'd to Politick and Military Charges and Antisthenes made no difference between Masculine