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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13461	A iuniper lecture With the description of all sorts of women, good, and bad: from the modest to the maddest, from the most civil, to the scold rampant, their praise and dispraise compendiously related. Also the authors advice how to tame a shrew, or vexe her.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1639 (1639)	STC 23766; ESTC S111401	39,881	238

an Allusion or Embleme that women can hardly keepe Counsell and that they have a desire to doe that which they are forbidden Xantippe was a most famous delicate dainty devillish Shrew or Scold she was the wife to the wisest of the Philosophers Socrates shee hated nothing more than peace quietnesse On a time she hunted her Husband to and fro scolding from one roome to another that hee to bee rid of her went and sate in the street at his doore which shee perceiving went up into a Chamber above him and threw the pisse-pot on his head whereat when Socrates perceived people to laugh hee patiently said that he expected som raine would fall after so many claps of Thunder Saphira was an hypocriticall woman and the Wife to the dissembling Ananias Rhodope was a beautifull Strumpet of the Country of Thrace She was once fellow servant with Aesop the Phrygian Fabulist she was so notable in her Art as Cornelius Agrippa saith in his vanity of Sciences that shee got so much wealth that therewith shee paid for the building of a Piramis or Piramides which was a worke esteemed one of the Wonders of the World Deianiera was Wife to Hercules whose causelesse jealousie was the death of Hercules before which time hee so much doated on the beauty of Iole the daughter of Errytus King of the Aetolians that for her sake hee laid by his Armes and Monster-killing Clubbe and like a servile Handmaid in womans apparrell practis'd to spinne with a Distaffe to please his faire Mistris Love overcomes all things Briseis was a faire Lady given to Achylles at the siege of Troy shee was taken againe by Agamemnon for the which there was great strife betweene those two great Princes but at the last shee was restored againe to Achylles Arlotta or Harlot was a Skinners daughter of Cane in Normandy whom Robert the sixth Duke of that Province was so bold as to beget on her Willians the Conquerour King of England since which time most of such used women as are called She-friends are in memory of Arlot or Harlot called Harlots Faire Rosamond Clifford was the unfortunate Paramour to Henry the second King of England she was poysoned by the jealous Queene at the Mannour of Woodstocke in Oxfordshiere Jane Shore was the wife of Matthew Shore a Gold-smith of London shee was taken from the City to the Court by K. Edward the fourth with whom shee lived merily and dyed miserably in the reigne of K. Richard the 3. And thus a world of Histories are fraught With all degrees of women worse than naught But for the good ones to gaine their good will To them I humbly now direct my quill Lucretia was the wife of Tarquinnius Collatinus a Noble man of Rome which Noble and chaste Dame the proud and lustfull King Sextus Tarquinius Ravish'd violently for the which indignity she slew her selfe Portia was the Daughter of Cate and wife to Junius Brutus her father slew himselfe to save his honour her husband kild himselfe to escape the hands of Octavius Caesar and shee being taken prisoner being debar'd of weapons Knives Garters and all other things whereby shee might misdoe her selfe neverthelesse though shee were carefully and diligently watch'd shee suddenly went toward the fire and catch'd up hot burning Coales and swallowing them dyed to preserve her honour Dido some called her Elisa was the famous foundresse of the mighty City of Carthage in Affrica she was the Daughter to Bellus shee was married to Sichaeus who was Priest to Hercules A man of such mighty wealth that Pigmalian Dido's brother slew him so by that meanes Dido being a Widdow one Hiarbus King of Getulia or the Getes which some hold to bee Norway or Gothland made Suite to her for marriage which she refusing hee made Warre against her and she finding her selfe too weake to withstand his forces and withall not being minded ever to Marry the love of her first Husband had taken such deepe root in her heart shee kild her selfe Virgil doth frame in his Aeneades that she slew her selfe for the love of Aeneas which cannot possibly be so for Aeneas came from Troy 350. yeares at the least before Dido was borne or Rome or Carthage built Artemisia was a Queen replenished by beauty and chastity she was the Wife to Mausolaus or Mausolus King of Caria she loved her Husband so entirely that when hee was dead she caused him to be embalm'd and his heart to be taken out and dryed to powder which every day shee dranke a part of till all of it was dranke shee said that whilst he lived they both had but one heart and that she held no Sepulehre so worthy for the interring of his heart as was the living Sepulchre of her body Also shee caused a Monumentall Tombe to be built wherein shee laid the Corpes of her beloved Lord and Husband The Tombe was of that magnificent and stately structure that it was accounted one of the Wonders of the World the stone of the said Tombe was of an excellent and rare kinde of Marble it was in compasse 411. foot in height 37. foote and it was circled about with 36 Marble Pillars most curiously carved with Corinthian worke Pheadra was too loying to cast her selfe away for the love of Hippolitus Phillis did as much for Demophoon and Thisbe for the love of Piramus kild her selfe with a sword These three or foure last nam'd were overaboundant too to loving Creatures St. Vrsula was the daughter of a Brittish Prince named Dionetta shee with 〈◊〉 Virgins more who were under her command were assailed by the Barbarous G●●●es and Vandals and because they would not yeeld their bodies to prostitution and their soules to Heathenish Idolatry they were all put to deathby their inhumane enemies There is a Monument in the City of Colleine of St. Vrsula and the said eleven thousand Virgin Martyrs Leodice the Wife to Ariathres King of Capadocia did unnaturally murther five of her sixe sonnes for the which the people violently fell upon her and kild her which being done they crowned the surviving sonne that was left Dominico Silvio Duke of Venice being deposed from his Dukedome because his Army was discomfited by Robert Duke of Puglya and Calabria his wife in her greatnesse was so daintily proud that the Dew was often gather'd from Roses and flowers to make Baths to bathe her in with costly perfumes and other devices yet before shee dyed her flesh did rot stinke in such a noysome manner that none could abide to come neare her in that miserable fashion she dyed When the Emperour of Germany Conradus the third had overcome the Faction of the Guelphes and taken their chiefe City called Monake in the Canton of Berne in Switzerland the Emperour commanded his souldiers to cut all the men in the City in pieces but hee granted the women so much mercy and favour as not only their lives and freedome but also to carry away as much as they