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Female excellency, or, The ladies glory illustrated in the worthy lives and memorable actions of nine famous women, who have been renowned either for virtue or valour in several ages of the world ... : the whole adorned with poems and the picture of each lady / by R.B.
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R. B., 1632?-1725?
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1688
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Wing C7326; ESTC R21134
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Father was so far prevaild on by these discourses that he sent an Executioner to his Son in prison with this Message That a Sword or a Crown were now presented to his choice that if he would renounce his Religion he should be received into favour and enjoy the Scepter after him But if not he should be instantly beheaded in that place Ermangild told him That he would rather dye by a thousands torments than forsake the true faith which he had imbraced and added I thank thee O Almighty God that as thou hast given me a mortal perishing uncertain life from my Father so by his means I shall now receive a glorious and happy life to all Eternity And then kneeling down and praying earnestly for his Father Step-mother and all his enemies and persecutors he cheerfully stretcht out his neck to the Executioner pronouncing the name of his dear Andegona to the last moment and at one blow had his head severed from his body The sad tydings of this lamentable accident arrived to Andegona who had made her escape into Africa where she likewise received the last Letter from her husband out of Prison Her attendants at the news began to make doleful Lamentations as if themselves had been condemned to dye But Andegora kissing the Letter of her dear Lord and then reading it cryed out Ah noble and faithful Soul thou hast acted as a good man ought to do thou hast fought the good fight of Faith and hast now attained the Crown of glory and I desire nothing but to imitate thy constancy Weep not then my Servants for me since it is this day I am a Queen indeed and esteem my self the most happy Princess on earth who have a husband a Martyr in Heaven And then taking her little Son Ermangild almost tired with hard Travel she said Go sweet babe partake of the blessings of your dear Father God hath bestowed great favours in you to be banished already for your Religion go then little Innocent and rejoice with others before the Altar of the Lamb your Mother will not stay long behind you The Child dyed soon after and the magnanimous Andegona having long combated with these Armies of afflictions at length resigned up her Soul with these words O my God the father and son are at rest there now remains nothing but to take the mother I have ended all my hopes in this World why stayest thou O my blessed Saviour to receive my Soul which is now upon my lips Her prayer was heard for a few days after wasted with love travel and desires she died an exemplary death and found a Tomb in Africa FINIS There are Newly Published one and Twenty other very useful pleasant and necessary Books all sold by Nath. Crouch at the Bell in the Poultrey near Cheapside I. A View of the English Acquisitions in Guinea and the East-Indies With an Account of the Religion Government Wars strange Customs Beasts Serpents Monsters and other Observables in those Countreys And among others the Life and Death of Mahomet the Grand Impostor with the Principal Doctrines of the Turkish Religion as they are display'd in the Alcoran Two Letters one written by the Great Mogol and the other by the King of Sumatra in the East-Indies to our King James the First of an unusual and extravagant stile The cruel Executions in those Parts With the manner of the Womens burning themselves with their dead husbands Together with a Description of the Isle of St. Helena And the Bay of Souldania where the English usually refresh in their Voyages to the Indies Intermixt with pleasant Relations and Enlivened with Picture Price one Shilling II. THE English Empire in America or a Prospect of his Majesties Dominions in the West-Indies namely New-found-land New-England New-York New-Jersey Pensylvania Mary-land Virginia Carolina Bermuda's Barbuda Anguilla Montserrat Dominica St. Vincent Antego Mevis or Nevis St. Christophers Barbadoes and Jamaica With an Account of their Discovery Scituation and Product The Religion and Manners of the Indians and other excellencies of these Countreys To which is prefixed a Relation of the first Discovery of this New-World and of the Remarkable Voyages and Adventures of Sebastian Cabot Sir Martin Frobisher Captain Davies Captain Weymouth Captain Hall Captain Hudson Sir Thomas Cavendish the Earl of Cumberland Sir Walter Rawleigh and other English Worthies to divers places therein Illustrated with Maps and Pictures of the strange Fruits Birds Beasts Fishes Insects Serpents and Monsters found in these Parts of the World. Pr. 1. s. III. THE Second Edition of Englands Monarchs very much enlarged Or A Compendious Relation of the most Remarkable Transactions and Observable Passages Ecclesiastical Civil and Military which have happened during the Reigns of the Kings and Queens of England from the Invasion of the Romans under Julius Caesar to this present Adorned with Poems and the Pictures of every Monarch from King William the Conqueror to our most gracious Soveraign King James the Second with his present Majesties Life Heroick Actions late Gracious Declaration and other Occurrences to this time The names of his now Majesties most Honourable Privy Council The Great Officers of the Crown A List of the Dukes Marquesses Earls Viscounts Bishops Barons and Deans The Knights of the most Noble Order of the Garter at Windsor and the Principal Officers Civil and Military in England The number of the Lords and Commons who have Votes in both Houses of Parliament and many other very useful particulars Price One Shilling IV. THE History of the Kingdoms of Scotland and Ireland containing 1. An Account of the most Remarkable Transactions and Revolutions in Scotland for above Twelve hundred years past during the Reigns of Sixty eight Kings from the year of our Lord 4â—4 to the Happy Union of both Kingdoms under King James the Sixth of Scotland and first of England of Blessed Memory in 1602 and among other particulars the lamentable Murther of King Duffe with the strange Discovery and Punishment thereof The wonderful History of Mackbeth and the Witches with the many Notable Occurrences in his Reign 2. The History of Ireland from the Conquest thereof unto King Henry the Second to this time With a Relation of the Miraculous Persons and Places in that Countrey A full Account of St. Patrick's Purgatory and divers other memorable Matters Intermix with Variety of Excellent Speeches Strange Accidents Prodigious Appearances and other very considerable things both pleasant and profitable With a List of the Nobility and Great Officers of State in both Kingdoms Illustrated with near Thirty Pictures of several Kings and other extraordinary Observables Price 1 Shilling V. DElights for the Ingenious In above Fifty Select and choice Emblems Divine and Moral Ancient and Modern Curiously Ingraven upon Copper Plates with Fifty delightful Poems and Lots for the more Lively Illustration of each Emblem Whereby Instruction and Good Counsel may be promoted and furthered by an honest and pleasant Recreation To which is prefixed An
his reign in the twelfth month called Adar or February And edicts were sent throughout all his kingdoms to proclaim a Feast in honour of this wedding he himself likewise feasting the Medes Persians and Princes of other Nations for a whole month upon that account When Esher entered the Royal Palace the king set a Diadem of gold upon her head and lived with her with all manner of content and satisfaction never questioning her birth nor of what Nation she was Her uncle Mordecai came with her from Babylon where she was found by the Kings officers to Shusan the cheif City of Persia and walked dayly before the Palace inquiring of her welfare whom he loved as tenderly as if she had been his own Now the king had published a Law that no man should approach his presence unless 〈◊〉 sent for In pursuance whereof while he sate on his Royal Throne certain Officers stood with their Axes ready to punish any that should attempt to infringe this Decree The king himself sate aloft holding a golden Scepter in his hand and when any presumed to come near without being called if the King would save his life he touched him therewith who thereby avoided death It happened about this time that Bigthan and Teresh two of the kings chamberlains had conspired against their Master which Mordecai who was not of a drowsy Spirit soon perceived and narrowly observing their carriage he discovered the whole design which he imparted to Queen Esther and she to the King in the name of Mordecai who being taken and examined confessed their abominable Treason and received their due reward the king at present only returned Mordecai hearty thanks for saving his life but commanded him to continue in his Pallace and ordered his name to be registred in the Chronicles of Persia with the whole process against the Malefactors After this Ahasuerus exalted Haman an Amalekite above all his Princes and Nobles and he became the chief Favourite so that the king saw but with his eyes and heard with his ears All the Court adored this new Idol and all knees were bowed before him but Mordecai shewed him no reverence nor respect both because he knew the wickedness of his nature and that the Laws of the Jews forbad him to give honour to any of the wicked race of Amalek Haman elevated even to giddiness by the greatness he so suddenly arrived to had at first little regard to it but being dayly advertised thereof by his Flatterers who informed him that they had often in vain reproved Mordecai for his contempt he was thereat inflamed with rage against him and understanding he was a Jew was much disturbed that all the Persian Nobility who were free should prostrate themselves before him and a Jewish slave should refuse to reverence him he therefore scorns to revenge himself on Mordecai alone as thinking it much below his grandeur to punish one man only but resolves utterly to exterminate the whole race of the Jews to whom he was a mortal enemy by nature the Amalekites his predecessors having been destroyed by the Israelites in former ages and revenge may be imagined thus to inflame him Remember Haman there 's no sweeter pleasure Than swift revenge for to revenge by leasure Is but like feeding when the Stomach 's past Not pleasing th' eager appetite nor tast 'T is not for th' honour of thy personage Nor stands it with thy greatness to ingage Thy noble thoughts to make revenge so poor To be reveng'd on One alone thy sore Needs many Plaisters make thy honour good Not with a drop but with a world of bloud Borrow the sythe of Time and let thy passion Mow down and ruin the whole Jewish Nation In pursuance of this hellish resolution Haman addresseth himself to the King and tells him That there were a certain cursed people called Jews dispersed through all the Provinces of his kingdom who were divided by Religion and laws from the rest of the World and by affection from his Person and government That they were pernicious to his Empire and upon all occasions ready and disposed to insurrections and rebellions and that for preventing the mischiefs which might happen by them nothing would be more secure than to cut them off all at once and utterly to extinguish their race so that neither Captive nor Slave should be left alive among them And lest their destruction should prove prejudicial to his Majesties Revenue he freely offered to pay out of his own Estate forty thousand Talents of Silver into the Exchequer being willing rather to part with so much money for the publick safety than that such a cursed generation of men should indanger the kingdom Thus is the horrid Scene laid for the ruin of so many millions of people by the pernicious counsel of one malicious and ambitious favourite The king is soon led away by this evil advice and trusts this proud Haman with the execution thereof as if he had committed the sheep to the protection of the Wolf He triumphs with joy for having obtained his desire and the kings Ring He calls the Secretaries and commands them in the name of Ahasuerus to write bloudy Letters to all the Provinces That the thirteenth day of the last month which was February the Jews should be massacred in all the Cities and Towns within the utmost limits of the Empire and that from the least to the greatest not sparing man woman nor child all should be put to the sword without remorse their goods to be confiscate exposed to pillage These Letters confirmed with the Kings seal flew like lightning through the hundred and twenty seven provinces of the Persian Monarchy The evil was universal and the terror began at the Capital City of Shushan where the Edict hanged upon Pillars was seen and read to all the world containing this dreadful Sentence Ahasuerus Rex Let every Province in the Persian Land Upon the day prefixt prepare his hand To make the Channels flow with Rebels bloud And from the earth to root the Jewish brood Let not the softness of a partial heart Through melting pity Love or false desert Spare either young or old or man or woman But like their crimes so let their plagues be common Decreed and signed by our Princely Grace And given at Shushan from our royal place This sanguinary Proclamation being published in all places many bloudy Miscreants rejoiced at the news and prepared themselves to execute the contents thereof resolving at the day appointed utterly to destroy the Jews and to leave no remembrance of them upon earth The Metropolitan City of Shushan abounded with these Instruments of cruelty though in the mean time the K. and Haman feasted drowned themselves in debauchery Poor Mordecai foreseeing the Tempest ready to fall upon his people cloathed himself with Sackcloth and put ashes upon his head in which equipage he walked through the City protesting that his Nation had done nothing to deserve this severity designed