amongst the Eastern People and the fairest Females that could be chosen were her Priestesses who by an Indecent custom prostituted their Chastity to such as came to offer at her Shrine which brought her crouds of Adorers Anchire Queen of Sparta upon a discovery that her Son designed to betray her Country to her Enemy Ordered him to be brought to Justice but upon notice of it he fled to the Temple of Minerva which the caused to be so strictly guarded in order to prevent his Escape that he there perished by famine Andromeda Daughter to Cepheus for her Mothers comparing her Beauty to that of the Nerciâ—es was doomed to be devoured by a Sea-Monster but Perseus the Son of Jupiter by Dane seeing her bound naked to a Rock became Enamoured of her killed the Sea-Monster that came to devour her and made her his wife Angerona was by the An-cient Romans worshipped as the Goddess of silence and Consulted in all Abstruse matters her Altar being placed under that of the Goddess of Pleasure Anna Goranena Daughter to Alexix Emperour of Constantinople she wrote the Reign of her Father and other Learned Books and is remembred by divers Authors Anne Mother to the Virgin Mary who was Mother to our Blessed Saviour according to the Flesh. Anne a Prophetess daughter to Phanuel who frequented the Temple in Jerusalem in a devout manner and Sung Praises to God by the Direction of the Holy Spirit when our Saviour was first brought and presented there she dyed in the 84 year of her Age and in the first of our Lords Incarnation Anne Pâ—gmalion the King of Tyres Siner she was also Sister to Queen Dido of Carthage and after her Sisters death who flew her self for the Love of Aeâ—eas she failed to Malea and thence to Italy where Lâ—vinia who had Marryed Aeneas being jealous of her she fled her Fury and in her flight was drowned in the River Numicus and afterwards was held amongst the Romans as a Goddess Her Feast with much Reveling was held in the Ides of March. Anne Daughter and Heires to Duke Francis the Seconâ— of Brittanny she should have been Marryed to Maxmilian of Austria but after the death of her Father Charles the Eight of France neâ—reâ—â— to whose Teâ—râ—tories her Dutchy lay Gained her and annexed that Dukedom to the Kingdom of France Anne the Third daughter of King Charles the Firâ—â— of England was born on the 13. of March 1637 at St. James's Her Piety and Ingenuity was above her Age for being but Four Years old and falling â—ick she fervently called uâ—on God by Prayer and being at last almoâ—t sâ—ent and feeling the Pangs of death upon her after a Sigh or two â—he said I cannot now say my long Prayer meaning the Lord's Prayer but I 'll say my short one viz. Lighten mine Eâ—es O Lord least I sleep the sleep of Death and then quietly gave up the the Ghost Anne Queen of Bohemia and Hungary Daughter to Landislaus was Wife to Ferdinand of Austria upon which after some contests such discontents arose that Sâ—â—â—man the Turkish Emperor being called in War a great part of Hungary and narrowly missed taking Vienna to which he laid a hard Seige which went very bloody on both sides Anteborta held to be a Goddess among the Romans and had Adoration given her for the Success of things and favours past as they did to another Goddess called Postvorta in Expectation of the Success of things to come Antiope a Queen of the Amazons she assisted the Ethiopians in their Invasion of the Athenians but Theseus commanding the Greeks vanquished both Armies There was another of the same name who was married to Lycus a Thebian King who is fabled to be raviâ—â—d by Jupiter and Conceiving of that Rape brought forth Amphion who drew the Stones with the Musick of his Harp after him that rebuilded the demolish'd Walls of the City Antonia The Emperor Cladâ—â—â—'s Daugâ—ter who being accused by Nero the Emperor for intending to raise Sedition in the State and finding no hopes to free her self from the Tyrants Cruelty without marrying him which he earnestly pressed her to do and she deâ—â—â—â—ing the Murder of his two Wives kill'd her self to be freed from his Insults over her rather than she would yield to his Embraces or be at his Mercy Apicata Sejanus's Wife writ upon her being divorced a Memorial to Tiberius Emperor of Rome informing him how Drusius came by his death and the hand that Livia his Wife had in the concurring to it Also the Villanies of Ligdus the Eunuch and Endemes the Physician for which those that the accused were severely punished though the main end of her discovery was to revenge her self upon Livia her fair Rival Araclue a Lydian Virgin Daughter of Idomon who was so expert in all manner of Needle-work and Textury that she boasted her self equal in those Arts to Minerva which caused her to spoil her curious Manufactury which so grieved her that she hang'd her self but the Goddess in compassion brought her again to life yet turn'd her into a Spider a Creature which is usually busy in Spinning out its own Bowels Archâ—damia Cleonigmus a King of Sparta's Daughter hearing that upon the approach of Phyrus to besiege the City the Senate had made a Decree that all the Women should depart it she went boldly with a drawn Sword in her hand to the Senate-house and told them That the Mothers Sisters and Wives of those Warriers that were to fight the Enemy scorn'd to be less Valiant than they and thereupon got the Decree revoked Autem Morâ—s are such who are married having always Children with them one in the Arm and another at the Back and sometimes leading a third in the Hand You are not to ask what Church she was married in or by what Parson so long as a Totterdemallion shall swear he will justifie himself her Husband before any Justice of Peace in England Armenias's strict Virtue and great Love to her Husband Ladies we have in London who are so far from having a light Assent as they scorn to admit a weak Assault which confirms the Judgment of that noble accomplish'd though unfortunate Gentleman In part to blame is she that has been tride He comes too near that comes to be denied Sir T.O. This that noble minded Lady Armenia expressed who being solemnly invited to King Cyrik's Wedding went thither with her Husband At night when those Royal Rites had been solemnized and they returned her Husband asked her how she liked the Bride-groom whether upon perusal of him she thought him to be a fair and beautiful Prince or no Truth says she I know not for all the while I was forth I cast mine Eyes upon none other but upon thy self Those receiving Portels of her Senses were shut against all foreign Intruders She had made a moral League with her Loyal Eyes to fix on no unlawful Beauty left her surprized Eye might ingage her to folly We may imagine that
Fr. Apparel cloathing array attire also Armour or Harness Habit habitus the outward attire of the Body whereby one Person is distinguished from another as the Habit of a Gentleman is different from that of a Merchant and the Habit of a Handy-crafts-man from both Hans-en-helder is in Dutch as much as Jack in a Cellar and by Metaphor it is taken for the Child in a Womans Belly Hermione the Daughter of Menelaus Hermitress a Woman-Hermite or Eremite Heroine g. a Noble or Virtuous Woman Herophila the Erithâ—â— Sibyl who being by Tarâ—â—â— denied the price of her three Books of Prophesies burnt two and received the whole price for that which was left Herâ—â—lia the Wife of Romulus worshipped by the Name of Hera the Goddess of youth Herthus a Saxon Goddess like the Latin Tellus Hessone Daughter of Lumedon King of Troy whom Hercules delivered from a great Whale Hibride mongrel of a mixt Generation Helicon a hill of Phacis not far from Parnassus and much of the same bigness consecrated to Apollo and the Muses Hence Helitoniam pertaining to that Hill Hillutim h. praises a Jewish wedding-song Heppece f. I. Cheese made of Mares milk Hipparchus an Athenian Tyrant slain upon his deflowring a Maid Hippe Daughter of Cbiâ—â—â— a great Huntress got with child and turn'd into a mare Hippiades g. Images of women on horse-back Hippoctenides the Muses Hippodamia Daughter to 〈◊〉 King of Elis whom 〈◊〉 won at a race with her father by corrupting his chariot driver Hipoliyta a Queen of the Amazons whom Hercules gave a Theseus to wife Hippolytus their Son torn in pieces by his chariot-horses is he fled being accused of adultery by his wives mother â—â—edra whose solicitations he refused Hippomenes and Atalanta won by his golden apples drown in her way were turn'd to a Lion and Lioness for lying together in Cybele's Temple Hippona the Goddess of horses and horse-coursers Hipâ—â—crataea followed her Husband Mithridates in all his 〈◊〉 and dangers Hermaphrodite Hermaphroâ—â—â— one who is both man and woman Hermitress A woman Hermite or Eremite one who lives in a wilderness Hesperides the daughters of Hesperus brother to Atlas called Aegle Aretbusa and Hesâ—â—â—busa They had Gardens and Orchards that bore Golden fruit kept by a vigilant Draâ—â—â— which Hercules slew and â—â—bbed the Orchard From this story we find often mention of the Gardens and Apples of Hesperides Honorificabilitudinity honourableness Horae l. Hours Goddesses daughters of Jupiter and Themis Hillulim Heb. Praises a Song sung at the Jews marriages by the Bridegrooms intimate Friends Hippona the Goddess of horses Hyades Atlantides Suculae the seven Stars daughters of Atlas lamenting of Hyas their brother devoured by a Lyon Hyena a Beast like a Wolf with a Mane and long hairs accounted the subtlest of all beasts changing sex often and counterfeiting Mans voice Hylas going to fetch Hercules some water fell into the river or poetically was pulled in by the Nymphs in love with him Hyllus Hercules's son who built a Temple at Athens to Misericordia the Goddess of pity Hymen aeus son of Bacchus and Venus the God or first instituter of marriage also a Nuptial or wedding song Hypermnestra one of Danaus's 59 daughters commanded to kill their Husbands the 50 sons of Aegyptus she onely saved her Husband Lynceus who afterwards killed Danaus Hypâ—â—phile Queen of Lemnos banished thence for saving her Father Thous when all the men of the Island were killed by women Hony-moon applied to those married persons that love well at first and decline in affections afterwards it is Hony now but it will change as the Moon Min. Horse-ballet a Dance or Ball performed by Horses such was that at the Emperors wedding 1666. Hypermeter Lat. a verse having a redundant syllable or one syllable above measure called by some a Feminine Verse Hysterical hysterious troubled with fits of the Mother I. JEan i. Gracious or Merciful see Joan. Iennet der from Jean Ioac or Joanna Gracious Luk. 8.3 the same with John in Mens Names Ioice i. Merry or Pleasant Iael 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jagnel Judg. 4.21 perhaps 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jagnalah a Roe or Goat Isabella or Jezebel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 King 9.30 i. Wo to the dwelling or the Province of dwelling Iulian i. Soft-Hair'd Iudith or Judah i. praising or confessing Ioan Countess of Montford Daughter to Lewis of Flanders and Count of Nevers she wâ—â— married to John the 4th 〈◊〉 of Britain and Count d'â—â—â—ford she Warred after her Husbands Death upon the 〈◊〉 d' Blois and took divers Town from him in Brittain and being besieged in Hennebor◠〈◊〉 sallied at the head of 60 men and burnt the Enemies standard and following this success with greater Numbers not onely raised the siege but recovered all the Dutchy of Britain Ioan d' Arc the Valiant Maid of France who of a Shepherdess became a Leader of Armies and by her Courage Conduct and success raised the drooping spirits of the French men that were at a very low Ebb by reason the English had gained the greatest part of France so that under her Conduct they beat them out of several strong holds but after she had done wonders always fighting on horse back in mans Apparel she was taken as she sallied upon the English and venturing too far in Confidence of her Fortune she was taken carried to Roan and there burnt for a witch though no such thing appeared against her Ioan d' Valois she was daughter to Charles King of France by his first wife Margaret of Sicily she was Married to William Earl of Holland Hainault and Zealand who died before her leaving William the Second his Son and four Daughters after which she 〈◊〉 a Religious Habit in the â—â—bby of Fontenele and by her Prudent Intercession stayed the battle at the point to be given between the Kings of England and France dying each Lamented of the People 〈◊〉 1400. Iocasta Daughter of Creon the Thebean King she Married King Laius and was Mother to 〈◊〉 who by reason of the words of the Oracle that he should Dethrone his Father was in his Infancy cast out to a desperate Fortune and she 〈◊〉 knowing him when grown 〈◊〉 Married him by whom she had Polynices and Eteocles who falling out about the Succession Killed each other in a Comâ—â—ce for whose Deaths and the Discovery of the Error 〈◊〉 committed in Marriage piâ—â—â— away with grief and died Ioan the female Pope of 〈◊〉 Called by them John 〈◊〉 finding her self with Child and ready to be delivered desperately killed her self with her Dagger Ioan Queen of France and 〈◊〉 the sole Daughter of Henry the first King of Navar and left Heiress of her Fathers Kingdom she was Wife to â—biâ—â—â— the fair King of France transcendent for her Piety as well as Beauty very Liberal in Charitable Deeds for she founded divers Charitable Houses and left at her Death great Treasure to be bestowed among the Poor Ioan de Albert Queen of Navar a
woman of a Martial Spirit she was Mother to Henry the fourth called Henry the Great King of France who was Grandfather to the present French King she being a Protestant highly Espoused their Cause for which she is said to be poisoned at Paris with a Pair of perfumed Gloves presented her at her Sons Wedding with Margaret Sister to Charles the Ninth of France and soon after her death the horrid Massacre of the Protestants ensued in which perished about 300000. Ioan of France Daughter to King Lewis the Eleventh was Married to Lewis Duke of Orleance afterwards King of France she was a Princess of Great Virtue she Instituted the Order of the Annuntiation forming it upon the ten Virtues of the Blessed Virgin Viz. Prudence Humility Chastity Verity Devotion Obedience Poverty Patience Compassion and Charity Ioan the first Queen of Jerusalem Naples and Sicily was Daughter to Charles of Sicily Duke of Calabria who after having successively Married four Husbands Andreas James Lewis and Otho was deprived of her Kingdoms and Life by Charles d' Durass her Cousin whom she had adopted her Heir as having no Children of her own Joan the second Queen of Naples a Woman of great Courage and Conduct but had a very troublesome Reign upon William of Austria her Husband retiring into a Monastery upon Discontent occasioned by her being too Prodigal of her Favours to others and dying without Children she bequeathed her Kingdom to Rene Duke of Anjou Ioan Infanta and Regent of the Kingdom of Portugal she was Daughter to Alphonsus the fifth who for her Prudence and Courage left her Regent when he went to War against the Moors yet at last she retired into a Monastery Ioia a Woman of Spain who preached to the People in the Cathedral of Barcelona and is said in the time of the Papacy of Pope Paul the third to Convert divers Jews at Rome and to explain in the presence of the Cardinals the Books of John Don Scotus commonly called the Subtle Doctor Iole Daughter of Eurytus the Oechalian King with her Hercules fell desperately in Love but her Father would not Consent he should have her unless he could gain her by Combate with him which when he had done he still denied to give her to him which so inraged Hercules that he slew him and took her away by force and afterwards gave her to his Son Hillus but Dejaneiza Jealous of Hercules she being his first Wife sent him a Shirt dipt in Poison and Tinctured in Nessus Blood which in Pains and Torment put an end to his Glorious Atchievements with his Life Iphianassa Daughter 〈◊〉 Praetus King of the Argines who with her Sister being in the Temple of Juno and despising the homeliness of it as also the Beauty of the Goddess she throughly nettled at the Contempt so Changed and Disordered their Minds that they fancied themselves to be Heifers and could by no means be perswaded out of that Opinion till Melampus the Physician restored them again to their Right Senses and for his Reward had Iphianassa in Marriage and a part of the Kingdom for her Dowry Iphis she was the Daughter of Lygdus and Theletusa whose Sex her Mother kept secret and from her Infancy brought her up in Masculine Apparel for that her Father had doomed the Infant if a Girl to be made away when under this disguise she came of Years Lygdus concluded a Marriage between her and Janibe a Beautiful Maid which made her Mother almost at her Wits end because that by this means a Discovery would be made but however upon her invoking Venus and offering in her Temple she on the Wedding-day was changed into a Man and did the Office of a Bridegroom to the Satisfaction of her Fair Bride Iphigenia she was Daughter to King Agamemnon by Clyâ—â—â—nestra and is said by Homer to be offered up to Diana for the successful Passage of the Grecian Fleet to Troy but as she lay on the Altar ready to be sacrificed the Goddess wrapt her in a Cloud and bearing her thence made her her Priesteis Irene Empress of Constantinople Mother to Constantine the seventh whose Eyes she put out that she might Reign alone upon which as if Heaven demonstrated a Detestation of the Cruelty the Sun for eighteen days shined so dimly as if it had drawn in its Light as it Thyestes Feast but Nicephorus having wrested the Empire out of her Hands banished her to Metylene where she soon after died of Grief Irene the Fair Grecian Lady that was presented to Mabomet the Great at the Sack of Constantinople on whom he doated so much that he spent whole Days and Nights in her Company and neglected his weighty Affairs but being reproved by his Bassas he in a rage cut off her Head with his Scymeter but repenting it betook him to the Wars to put the cruel Act out of his Mind Iris Messenger to Juno said to be the Daughter of Thaumus and Electra she is painted with a Rain-bow circling her her Name importing the Painted Bow so often seen after Showers in the Clouds Isaura Clementia a Lady of Tholouse in France famous for her Learning and Ingenious Parts she appointed the Floral Games yearly kept there and in the Town-house her Marble Statue stands Crowned with Flowers Ius a Goddess worshipped by the Egyptians her Sacrifice and worship was Infamous and Obscene insomuch that the Priests were forbidden to speak any thing of them and the Romans forbid it in their City Isota of Verona a Lady of great Learning she wrote five hundred sixty four Books which are to be seen in Thaurus Library and held divers Disputes with the most Learned Men yet dyed at the Age of thirty six Years a Virgin Iudith a Holy Widow who by destroying the Tyrant Holyphernes delivered the Jews Iudith Daughter to Velpo Count of Ruensburge she was made Recluse by the People Iudith Daughter to Charles the Bald and Wife to Ethelwolfe and Ethelred Kings of England Iulia Wife to Severus the Roman Emperour and Mother to Geta she after the Death of her Husband Married Bassianus Caracalla her Son in Law who fell in Love with her upon seeing her naked Thigh Iulia Wife to Pompey and Daughter to Julius Caesar she died in Child-bed before she could compose the differences between those great Captains which afterward caused such Distractions in the Roman State by a Piteous war Iulia the Daughter of Augustus Caesar and Scribonia â—he greatly perplexed that Emperour in the heighth of his Fortune by her loofe Carriage and Wanton way of living she was Married to divers Husbands by whom she had several Children but Wedlock not being capable of satisfying her Lustful Desires and shâ— continuing her leud Courses her Father Banished her after that she was Married to Tyberius but disdaining him he coming to be Emperour revenged her Pride and Scorn by confining her so straight that she pined away for Hunger Iulia Daughter to Agrippa and the beforementioned Julia she followed her
Margaret d' Valois Sister to his Predecessor Mary d' Guise Daughter to Claude the first Duke of Lorrain she was Married to Lewis Duke of Longueville and afterward to James the first King of Scotland Mary Queen of England Daughter to Henry the Eighth Marred to Philip of Spain she was a great Persecutor of the Protestants and caused many of them to perish in the Flames by Tortures Imprisonment c. She died Childless of a burning Fever or as it was then called the Sweating Sickness November 17th 1558. and was succeeded by Elizabeth Second Daughter to Henry the 8th who abolished Popery and restored Protestantism Mary Queen of Scots Daughter to James the fifth promised in Marriage to Edward the Sixth of England but the Scotch Nobility after the Death of Henry the Eighth breaking their word and sending her privately to France she was Married to the Dauphin who soon after dying and she returning to Scotland she Married Henry Stuart Lord Darnley and Duke of Rothsay by whom she had King James the Sixth but he being murthered viz. blown up by a Train of Powder laid under his House great troubles arose which forced her to fly for England where she was unhappily put to Death being beheaded at Fotheringay Castle upon suggested Fears and Jealousies Mathide Daughter to Bonijacius Marquess of Tuscany she succeeding her Father incited thereto by the Pope warred upon Henry the Fourth Emperor and so devoted she was to the Roman See that she bestowed all her Hereditary Lands upon it she was a Woman of great Courage and died at the Age of 76. Anno. 1115. Maud she was Daughter to Henry the First of England who Married her to Henry the Fourth Emperor of Germany but he dying and leaving no Issue by her she returned again to England and afterward Married Geoffery Plantagenet Earl of Anjou by whom she had a Son who after long Wars and contending for the Crown of England succeeded King Stephen by the Stile of Henry the Second Mavia Queen of the Saracens she Conquered or spoiled Palestius and Arabia in the time of the Emperor Valens but being converted to the Christian Religion she made a Peace with him and Assisted him with a powerful Army against the Goths that had broken into Italy and other parts of the Empire Maximilia she was Disciple to Montanus the Herenick and kept him Company in an obscene manner she at lenght joyn'd to her Priâ—cilla who made it their business to seduce and draw others into the Error using their Beauties as a Snare for the men and by their Riches and soft deluding Tongues they inticed the weaker Sex but at last she and Montanus falling out killed each other Meditriva a Pagan Goddess whom the Ancients concluded to take care of Physick and it's Operation in the Bodies of Men and Women and at her Festivals they mixed Old and new Wine which they drank moderately by way of Cordial or Physick Medusa one of the Gorgons with whom Neptune fell in Love till Minerva turned her hair into Snakes and her Head being cut off by Perseus Minerva placed it in her shield and whatever living Creature looked on it was turned into a Stone Magera one of the Furies Daughter of the Night and Acheron she instilled Madness into the minds of People Melania Wife to Pinienus Son to Severus a noble Man of Rome the Destruction of that City being revealed to her two years before Alaric laid it waste she remov'd with her Family to Carthage and was there Instructed by St. Augustin then lived a Monastick Life after she had perswaded many to turn Christians Melenia a Roman Lady Daughter to Mercelinus she burying her Husband when she was very young in sorrow forsook all worldly Pleasures and went a Pilgrimage to Jerusalem carrying one of her Children with her she confronted the Arrians and undeceived many of their Errors when building a Monastery at Jerusalem she dwelt Twenty five years in it and died in that City Melissa she was Daughter to Melissus King of Creet said to Nurse Jupiter and bring him up with Goats Milk Melpomene one of the Nine Muses Mellona a Goddess who had the care over Bees that they should not fly away in their swarming time Merrades Bacchinalians or Women that attended on Baschuses's Drunken-Feasts or Revels who did much mischief in their Wine Mene a Goddess worshipped by the Roman Women for the better ordering their Bodies in their monthly Purgations Meplictis the Goddess of Pools and muddy Lakes Merope one of the Seven Pleiades Daughter to Atlas and Pleione said to be married to Sysiphus Messalina Wife to the Emperor Claudius who not content to keep Gallants in the Court to satisfie her Lust if such a thing could be done but in her Husbands Absence she publickly married C. Silius a handsome Roman Knight for which the Emperor caused her to be beheaded Metra she was Daughter to Ercysichthon a Lord of Thessaly who to save her Fathers Life who was ready to Famish prostituted her self for Food to sustain his Life Minerva styled the Goddess of Arts and Wisdom said to be conceived of the Brain of Jove delivered thence by Vulcan who cleaving his Skull this Goddess sprung out in bright Armour she is often taken for Pallas who in some Cases is styled Minerva Miroselde a poor Weavers Daughter of whom King Charibert was so Enamoured that upon her refusing to comply to be his Concubine he married her and after her Death he married her Sister for which he was Excommunicated by St. Germain Mirrah Daughter to Cyniâ—as King of the Cipriots she fell so desperately in Love with her Father that making him drink Wine she lay with him but the matter being discovered by her being with Child she fled into Arabia and brought forth Adodonis but she dying of that Travel Venus turned her into a Mirrh-Tree and put Adonis to Nurse ro Nimph Herclea when being grown up and proving very Comely Venus fell in Love with him and often enjoyed him in the Idalian Groves but at last contrary to her perswasions undertaking to hunt a wild Boar he was slain by the furious Beast and greatly lamented of the Goddess who turned him into an Enemy Molza Tarquinia a Lady of Modena very Learned and Skilful in the Languages she much haunted the tops of Parnassus and bathed often in the River Helicon to them the invention of Songs and Sciences are attributed they are called viz. Clio Vrania Calliope Vterpt Erato Thalia Melpomene Terphiscare and Polylymnia they are held by some to be the Daughters of Coelum and the Earth Mirriam or Mary Sister to Moses she was smitten with Leprosie because she and Aaron murmured against him and shut him out of the Camp but being a Prophetess all the People stayed till her days of cleansing were fulfilled and she again received into the Congregation Aarons Punishment was remitted upon Moses praying for him Malhatun the fair Wife of Othoman the first Founder of the Turkish