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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60009	The illustrious history of women, or, A compendium of the many virtues that adorn the fair sex represented not only in lively and pathetical discourses grounded upon reason, but in sundry rare examples of virtuous love, piety, prudence, modesty, chastity, patience, hnmility [sic], temperance, conduct, constancy, and firmness of mind ... : with the prophesies and predictions of the Sybils ... : the whole work enrich'd and intermix'd with curious poetry and delicate fancie sutable to so charming a subject.	J. S. (John Shirley), fl. 1680-1702.	1686 (1686)	Wing S3508; ESTC R26238	56,658	194

wonders but happy for Aeneas as she was Charging furiously on his Routed Squadron a Trojan watching his oportunity shot her into the Breast with an Arrow of which Wound she dyed and with her the Fortune of King Turnus And thus Virgil in his seventh Aeniad speaks as I find it Translated by Heywood To their supply Camilla came The Gallant Volscian Lass Who bravely did Command the Horse With Troops that shin'd in Brass Atlantea was Daughter of Jasus and Clymene in her tender Age her Father cast her out to a desperate fortune for no other reason than that she was of the Female Sex when a Shee-Bare more Compassionate than her cruel Parent nourished her in the Woods with her Milk till some Huntsmen fortuned to come by and casting their Eyes upon her lovely Beauty took her home and carefully brought her up In her Youth she adicted her self to the use of Arms and Hunting wild Beasts till by her Swiftness and wonderful Courage she grew Famous She was wonderful Expert likewise in managing swift Horses turning Charriots in the midest of their Careir Wrestling throwing Darts c. Hunting the Callidonian Boar with many of the Noble Youths of Greece she was the first Wounded that furious Beast on which occasion Plautanus Cites her as an Example as thus As did the Meleagrian Girl who in the Aetolian plain Lay'd flat the Foaming Boar and was the foremost of the train That gave him bold Encounter and as Ignorant of fear Notch't her sharp Arrow and the string pluck't close up to her Eare The first that day in Field that Blood from the stern Monster drew Bearing the honour spoile and palm from all the Princely crew To these it will be convenient to add some English Viragoes who in Conduct and Courage have not been Inferior to the rest Elphlelda Sister to King Edward the fourth before the Conquest was Wife to Etheldredus Duke of Mercia she affisted her Husband in restoring the City of Chester after it had been demolish'd by the Danes After the death of her Husband she Govern'd his Principality Wisely and Valiantly Built many Cities and Towns Repaired others as Thatarn Brimsbury she Built a Bridge upon the Severn and did many other famous things This Lady having once endured the pains of Child-birth refrain'd her Husbands Bed though not without his consent saying It was unseemly for a woman of her degree to Innure her self to such wanton Embraces whereof should ensue so great a pain and sorrow The Welshmen heing unruly in those days she tam'd them and over-threw the Danes in several Battles in Memory of whom Henry the fifth left this Epitaph upon her Tomb. Oh Elphlelda thou great in strength and mind The Dread of men and Viottess of thy kind Nature has done as much as Nature can To make the Maid but goodness makes then M●● Yet pity thou should'st change ought but thy mama Thou art so good a woman and thy fame In that grows greater and more worthy when Thy Feminine Valour much outssineth men Great Caesars acts thy noble d●eds excell So sleep in peace Virago Maid farewell Heywoods Hist Women Maud Daughter to He●●y the first was Married to Henry the fourth Emperour her Husband dying she had the Title of Empress and her Father Henry caused the Nobility of England to Swear Fealtie to her as his Lawful Heir but he dying many left her and took part with Stephen Duke of Bulloin when contending for her right she Fought many Battles with him in which her Courage Prudence and Conduct shin'd to admiration and at last took King Stephen Prisoner whom she brought to London the people every where Ken● excepted owning her Soveraignty Upon notice that the King was prisoner his Wife came to Ransome him and offer'd a Renountiation of his Claim to the Kingdom but she not hearkning to it the People Mutined against her which Oblig'd her to fly to Oxford there to attend the Uniting of her scatter'd Forces but being there hardly press'd by the Queen and others that had Asociated with her she caus'd her self to Escape being made a prisoner to be Coffined up as dead and carryed to Glocester her Brother Robert being at that time taken prisoner and King Stephen soon after getting his Liberty Besieg'd her in the City of Oxford from Michalmas day to Midd-Winter at what time being strain'd through want she Attired her self in White and by that means passing the Fenns cover'd with Snow she came to Wallingford Castle and soon after had the Kingdom put into the possession of her Son Henry Crown'd by the Name and Title of Henry the second Of Loyal Women In Loyalty to their Prince Women in all Ages have been unparaled Examples and in that case England is wonderfully Indebted to the Memory of that Extraordinary pattern of Loyalty and unshaken Fidelity Mrs. Jane Lane whom no promise of reward or the fear of loosing her own life could induce to betray her Soveraign but rather with an undaunted Courage and never to be forgotten Conduct she Courted hazard and danger for the preservation of his late Majesty Charles the Second of ever Blessed Memory To blot such virtue fond man strives in vain For it like Christ●● purges off its stain And by it does a brighter L●stur gain The Introduction to the Reasons and Arguments c. THus far with an adventerous hand I have portray'd the Virtues of the Fair Sex in their many singular qualities and yet intend not here to stop but produce more sollid Arguments to confirm their worth Though there is nothing more nice and delicate than to Treat on the Subject of Women especially if we speak to their advantage for then it is imagin'd a piece of Gallantry or Love the Extravigancy of good Humour or the Ardent Feavour of an Extraordinary Passion though certain it is that the most happy thoughts that can possess the labouring Minds of those that would acquire a sollid Science after they have been vulgarly instructted may have reason to doubt whether they have been taught aright or not and labour still to find a way at least to a higher Improvement of what they but indifferently understand And in this case the Contemplation of good Women works wonders in the lofty Soul of Man by making the things contemplated more lovely and curious to the Eyes and Thoughts or rendering us more pliable to Entertain a large esteem of what the Wise have term'd a Sollid happiness so those that have but viewed the superficies of Female Excellence can no more be sensible of the highth of that perfection than a Rude American of the inward Lustre of an Unpolish'd Diamond found in it's Rockey coverture amongst the common product of the Earth At a distance we behold the glorious Lamp of day and though at once we well perceive it fills the world with heat and brightness yet by reason of innumerable spaces ' twin it and the Earth the Vulgar think in small and that a narrow room