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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66695	Historical rarities and curious observations domestick & foreign containing fifty three several remarks ... with thirty seven more several histories, very pleasant and delightful / collected out of approved authors, by William Winstanley ...	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.	1684 (1684)	Wing W3062; ESTC R11630	186,957	324

motion doth easily bewray it self for could either holy Wolfhield beautiful Ethelfled or the wanton Wench of Andover keep the Needle of his Compass certain at one Point Nothing less but it was still led by the Load-stone of his ever mutable and turning Affections But thou wilt say he is religious and by founding of Monasteries hath expiated those Sins Indeed many are built for which Time and Posterities must thank holy Dunstan from whose Devotion those good Deeds have sprung But is thy Person holier than sacred Wolfhield's Thy Birth and Beauty greater than Ethelfled's the white Daughter also to a Duke The former of an holy Votary he made the Sink of his Pollution and the later is branded to all Ages by the hateful Name of a Concubine and her Son among us esteemed for a Bastard These should be motives to all beauteous and vertuous Ladies not to sell their Honours at so low and too-late repented a price Neither think sweet Countess that thy Husband is jealous or suspects thy Constancy which I know is great and thy self wholly compleat with all honourable Vertues but yet consider I pray thee that thou art but young and may'st easily be caught especially of him that is so old a Master of the Game neither persuade thy self of such Strength as is able to hold out so great an Assault for Men are mighty but a King is much more I know thou art wise and enough hath been said only let me add this That Evil Beginnings have never good Ends. And so with a kind Kiss hoping he had won his Wife to his Will prepared with the first to welcome King Edgar Lady Elfrida thus left to her self began seriously to think upon this Curtain Sermon whose Text she distasted being taken out of an over-worn and thred-bare Cloath-Proverb as though her Fortunes had been wholly residing and altogether consisting in her Parentage and Apparel but nothing at all in any parts of her self whereas Women commonly are more proud of their seeming inward Perfections than of any outward Ornaments whatsoever so that Disdain taking Possession of her Heart she breathed forth her Discontent in these Words Hath my Beauty said she been courted of a King famoused by Report compared with Hellen's and now must it be hid Must I falsifie and belye Nature's Bounties mine own Value and all mens Reports only to save his Credit who hath impaired mine and belyed my Worth And must I needs defoul my self to be his only fair Foul that hath kept me from the State and Seat of a Queen I know the Name of a Countess is great and the Wife of an Earl is honourable yet no more than Birth and Endowments have assigned for me had my Beauty and Parts been far less than they are He warns me of the end when his own beginnings were with Treachery tells me the Examples of others but observes none himself He is not jealous forsooth and yet I must not look out I am his Fair but others Pitch Fire Wine Bush and what not Not so holy as Wolfhield not so white as Ethelfled and yet that I am must now be made far worse than it is I would men knew the heat of that Cheek wherein Beauty is blazed then would they with less Suspect suffer our Faces unmask'd to take Air of their Eyes and we no whit condemnable for shewing that which cannot be hid neither in me shall become of it what will for should my Husband miscarry thereby yet were I unblameable since it is no Deccit to deceive the Deceiver Having taken upon her this Resolution to be a right Woman and like a true Daughter of Eve desiring nothing more than the thing forbidden she made preparation to put it in Practice Her Body she endulced with the sweetest Balms displayed her Hair and bespangled it with Pearls bestrewed her Breasts with Rubies and Diamonds rich Jewels like Stars depended at her Neck and her other Ornaments every way alike costly and suitable so that she seemed the Paragon of Nature and appeared rather like an Angel than an earthly Creature Being thus accoutered with all the additions of Art to beautifie Nature she attended the Approach and Entrance of the King whom with such fair Obeisance and seemly Grace she received that Edgar's greedy Eye presently collecting the illustrious Rays of her shining Beauty became a burning-glass to his Heart and the Sparkles of her fair Eyes falling into the Train of his Love set all his Senses on Fire yet dissembling his Passions he passed on to his Game where having the false Ethelwood at Advantage he ran him thorough with a Javelin and having thereby made fair Elfrida a Widdow he soon after took her to be his Wife on whom he begat a Son who was afterwards King of England known by the name of Ethelred the Unready The Story of Mackbeth King of Scotland ABout the Year of our Lord 1040. one Duncan was King of Scotland who being of a soft gentle Nature unapt for Warlike Exercises and to govern so robustious and rough a People as the Scots he therefore in all matters of Importance employed two of the principal of his Nobles Mackbeth and Banquho These two travelling together toward Fores whereas the King then lay they went sporting by the way together without other Company saving only themselves as they thus journeyed thorough the Woods and Fields suddenly in the midst of a Launde there met them three Women in strange and antick Apparel resembling Creatures of an elder World whom when they attentively beheld wondering much at such an uncouth sight the first of them spake and said All hail Mackbeth Thane of Glammis Thane was a Title unto which that of Earl afterwards succeeded and he had newly entered into that Dignity of Glammis by the Death of his Father who was Thane thereof the second of them said Hail Mackbeth Thane of Cawder and the third coming up to him said All hail Mackbeth that hereafter shall be King of Scotland This is unequal dealing said Banquho to give my Friend all the Honours and none unto me yes saith the first of them we promise greater Benefits unto thee than unto him for he shall reign indeed but with an unlucky end neither shall he leave any Issue behind him to succeed in his place where contrarily thou indeed shalt not reign at all but of thee those shall be born which shall govern the Scottish Kingdom by long Order of continual Descent and having said these Words they immediately vanished out of their sight This strange Apparition was reputed at the first but some vain fantastical Illusion by Mackbeth and Banquho insomuch that Banquho would oftentimes in jest call Mackbeth King of Scotland and Mackbeth again would call him in sport likewise the Father of many Kings But afterwards upon more serious Consideration the common Opinion was that these Women were the Weird Sisters viz. the Goddesses of Destiny or else some Nymphs or Fairies endowed with

Wretch might have conceived his present compared with his former condition an Heaven upon Earth but he did not so though he had to his good Entertainment made for him a Chain of bright Brass an Armour Breast Back and Head-piece with a Buckler of Brass his beloved Metal and which his Countrey-men esteemed far above Gold yet all this contented him not for never any seemed to be more weary of ill usage than he was of Courtesies none ever more desirous to return home to his Countrey than he For when he had learn'd a little of our Language he would daily lye upon the Ground and cry very often thus in broken English Cooree home go Souldania go home go And not long after when he had his desire and was returned home he had no sooner set footing on his own shore but presently he threw away his Clothes his Linnen with all other Covering and got his Sheep-skins upon his back Guts about his neck and his Cow-turd Cap upon his head Thus you see what manner of Life they affect the name of Cleanliness not being known amongst them And for their Religion Cooree being asked by the Minister of the Ship who was their God he lifting up his hands in his bad English said thus England God great God Souldania no God And so much for Souldania Of two famous Virago's the one a French-woman called Joan of Arc or La Pucelle de Dieu the other a Biscainer called Catarina d' Arcuso JOAN of Arc was Daughter to one James of Arc dwelling in Domremy near Vaucaleurs in France in her younger years she tended Sheep under her Father at which time France groaned under the Victorious Arms of the English John Duke of Bedford being then Regent thereof in the minority of our King Henry the sixth who was crowned King of France in Paris the principal City Charles the seventh having little left to him of that spacious Kingdom but only the Title He being at this Exigent this young Maid then about eighteen years of age presented her self unto him at Chinon bidding him not to faint but constantly affirmed that God had sent her to deliver the Realm of France from the English yoak and restore him to the fulness of his Fortunes At first it seems she was not much credited though judged to be set on by the Nobles but when the Wise of both sorts as well Clerks as Souldiers had sifted her with manifold Questions she continuing in her first Speech so stedfastly uttering nothing saith Serres but that which was modest chaste and holy that honour and faith were given to her Sayings An old Woman directed her She soon armed her self like a man and required to have that Sword which hung in St. Katharines Church of Fierebois in Tourain This demand increased their admiration of her for such a Sword was found among the old Donaries or Votive Tokens of that Church Thus warlikely arrayed she rides to Blois where Forces and fresh Victuals lay for the Relief of Orleans then closely besieged and ready to yield unto the English She joyning with the Admiral and Marshal of France they entred the City in despight of the Besiegers This greatly encouraged the fainting French Joan the Maid of God so Superstition had now intitled her having thus fortunately begun writes this Letter to the English General before the City King of England Do reason to the King of Heaven for his Blood-Royal yield up to the Virgin the Keys of all the good Cities which you have forced She is come from Heaven to reclaim the Blood-Royal and is ready to make a Peace if you be ready to do reason Yield therefore and pay what you have taken King of England I am the chief of this War wherefore I encounter your men in France I will chase them will they or no. If they will obey I will take them to mercy The Virgin comes from Heaven to drive you out of France If you will not obey she will cause so great a stir as the like hath not been this thousand years in France And believe certainly that the King of Heaven will send to her and her good men of Arms more force than you can have Go in Gods name into your Countrey be not obstinate for you shall not hold France of the King of Heaven the Son of St. Mary but Charles shall enjoy it the King and lawful Heir to whom God hath given it He shall enter Paris with a goodly Train You William de la Pole Earl of Suffolk John Lord Talbot Thomas Lord Scales Lieutenants to the Duke of Bedford and you Duke of Bedford terming your self Regent of the Realm of France spare innocent Blood and leave Orleans in liberty If you do not reason to them whom you have wronged the French will do the goodliest Exploit that ever was done in Christendom Understand these News of God and the Virgin This Letter was entertained by the English with laughter and Joan reputed no better than a Bedlam or Enchantress Yet however thus disesteemed by her Encouragements and Conduct the English had Orleans pluck'd out of their hopes and with much loss were driven to raise the Siege Joan her self was wounded at one Sally in which she led being shot through the Arm with an Arrow Judge what she esteemed of that hurt when she used these admirable and terrible words This is a Favour let us go on they cannot escape the hand of God nay in all Adventures she was one and fore-most In memory of this admirable Deliverance they of that City erected a Monument where Charles the seventh King of France and Joan the Martial Maid were represented kneeling in Armour elevating their eyes and hands to Heaven in sign of thanks and acknowledgment of so great a benefit Still the Martial Maid goes on victoriously she and the Duke of Alanzon recover Jergeaux from the Earl of Suffolk forcing it by Assault slaying one of the Earl's Brothers and taking the Earl himself Prisoner and having their numbers augmented encounter the Lord Talbot that terrour of France at a Village called Patay whom they discomfit and slew of the English above a thousand The Lords Talbot the glory of the English Scales Hungerford and Sir Thomas Rampestone were taken Prisoners These Losses shook the whole Fabrick of the English greatness in France and caused the Revolt of many Towns to King Charles who encouraged by these Successes marcheth into Champaigne where by composition he taketh the Cities of Troys and Auxerre Chalons and Rheims yield themselves in which last according to the Maids direction he was solemnly crowned King But now our Martial Maids good Fortune having ascended the Meridian began to decline for though by her subtile practises King Charles was possess'd of the Town of St Dennis a neighbour to Paris then in possession of the English she with the Duke of Alanzon going with their Forces to attempt it the English gave them so rough an Encounter that Joan her self was