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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	france_n	great_a	king_n	26,882	5	4.1773	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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