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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47665	The gallery of heroick women written in French by Peter Le Moyne of the Society of Jesus ; translated into English by the Marquesse of Winchester.; Gallerie des femmes fortes. English	Le Moyne, Pierre, 1602-1671.; Winchester, John Paulet, Earl of, 1598-1675.	1652 (1652)	Wing L1045; ESTC R12737	274,351	362

London an uncertain Cap●icious Monster which had too little Courage and too many Heads And he was induced to hope that he should find better Terms from Fortune then from so Inconstant and Wilde a Beast He Marched forth accompanied by his Wife the Duke of Somerset and all the Body of his Party And doubtless if he had not made the more haste to get out the least that could happen was to be shut up in the Tower of London and to behold from thence the Coronation of his Rival and the same Applauses which were before given him by all the People Edward himself though newly Crowned did not trust to the new Affection of this People and did not believe himself sure of any thing if he had not Fortune and Victory on his side He followed Henry by long Marches And Henry facing about the Armies gave each other so rude and forcible a Shock as Thirty thousand men fell on the Place Henry being totally Defeated saved himself in Scotland with the Queen And the Queen whose Heart was still Armed and Couragious passed over into France from whence a while after she returned into Scotland with two thousand Men commanded by Brezel Seneschal of Normandy Henry strengthened by this Succour and that wherewith Scotland his new Ally furnished him returned again into England with more Right and Courage then good Success He was again Defeated by the Marquis of Montagne who Commanded King Edwards Forces And his Overthrow was so great that the Queen was enforced to save her self in a Wood with her Son the Prince of Wales The Event shewed that Fortune expected her there to offer her an Affront Not being able to overcome her Honourably and deprive her of Courage by a fair War she undertook to dispossess her of it by the hands of a Murtherer And peradventure she had been there Assassinated if Fortune had not meant to sport yet longer with her and reserve her for other Outrages It was no novelty with her to Dispoil a poor Queen It is her usual Pastime in all Countries and at all times And nothing is seen every where but Ransack't Kings nothing but denuded Princes nothing but Rich Men impoverished who complain of her Robberies But it hath not yet hapned that a King much less a Queen should be so unworthily Treated Certain Villains who found her in a by-corner drawn by the Dignity of her Countenance and the sparkling of her Jewels and Garments Robbed her with so little Compassion and used such Brutish Violence towards her that if any thing delivered her out of their Hands it was the Quarrel which arose amongst them about the division of the Spoil Whilst they were fighting the Queen whom all these frightful Faces and so many naked Swords could neither Terrifie nor Amaze took up the Prince her Son in her arms and cast her self with him into the thickest part of the Forrest Another was found there whom evidently Fortune had placed in Ambush to do her more Injury then all that she had already suffered But the Grace and Majesty nay the Afflicted Graces and half naked Majesty were for this once more Powerful then Fortune The Queen seeing him approach advanced with a stedfast pace and a Countenance of Authority And presenting to him her Son whom she carried said to him in Soveraign Words and with a Commanding ●one Friend receive from my hand the Son of thy King and the Heir of the Kingdom I give thee the whole State to be carryed with him save them both from Rebellion and Fortune which pursue them She said no more the Graces and Majesty spake the rest And what is wonderfull the Graces without Ornament and Majesty without a Crown and Precious stones humbled this Barbarous Fellow and perswaded him that it was a Queen who spake to him He took the little Prince into his Armes and going before the Queen guided her so happily through by-ways as he presently brought her to the Sea side Truly this was a strange Game of Fortune or to speak more Christianly it was a pleasing Spectacle to Providence to behold a Great Queen Grand childe to so many Kings a Fugitive half naked and straying in a Forrest like a Vagabond following on foot a Thief who alone served for her Querries and Guards who was all her Train and Court and in this deplorable Condition which begot pitty even in Barbarity it self to conserve her Hopes and Resignation and still bless Providence in whose ●ight she had been Despoiled As soon as she came to the Sea shore she put her self with her Son into a Fishermans Boat which carried her to Sl●ce from thence she passed into France and Lo●●●●e And through all places where she passed she was shewn to the People as a Celebrious May-game of Fortune as a Rich piece of Shipwrack as a great Head fallen off from a great Collossus But though this great Head were fallen yet it remained Entire The Wind which threw it down had only displaced it And likewise after her Fall she kept the Dignity of her former Features and the Majesty of her Countenance Edward also feared her more thus Fugitive and Devested as she was then he did all the House of Lancaster Supported by all Scotland and by an entire Mo●e●e of England She raised all the money she could in France and repass'd the Sea under the Conduct of the Earl of Warwick who Irritated by the Attempt Edward had made upon the Chastity of his Daughter released Henry out of that Prison into which he had cast himself out of the Impatience he had to return into his Kingdom before his time and in a disguised Habit. This second Voyage of the poor Queen was not more Fortunate then the first she Arrived not in England but to be present at the Defeat of her Son and at the punishment of her Husband Her Son was overthrown in his first Advance and perished in the Battel of Te●xbury Her Husband was strangled in the Tower of London and had the Duke of Glacester for his Executioner As for the Queen Edward Confined her to a Prison where her Courage and Constancy Acted their last Part which was no less painfull then the former though done with less Noise and in Repose And it lasted till her Father King 〈◊〉 sent fifty thousand Crowns for her Ransom which set her at Liberty For my own part I could not close this Gallery with the Picture of a more Gallant and Couragious more Active and Patient more Resplendent or Exemplar Vertue You may finde Instruction there both for Low and High Conditions for Prosperous and Afflicted Fortunes for Men as well as Women Such as are upon the Earth and in the Low Story of the World will learn from hence to Content themselves with the Repose and Security of a mean Fortune which is not subject to Agitations and Falls and not to Affect Tumult and Storms which pass over their Heads Such as remain in the high Region will learn