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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03206	Gynaikeion: or, Nine bookes of various history. Concerninge women inscribed by ye names of ye nine Muses. Written by Thom: Heywoode.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	1624 (1624)	STC 13326; ESTC S119701	532,133	478

mad'st thy souldiers taske Rape Rome still loues because thou taughtst it first Since then the forme at best so soone fades and that beautie hath beene the cause of so much blood-shed Why should women be so proud of that which rated at the highest is no better than an excellent euill or a wretched wonder that had beginning therefore subiect to end created from earth and therefore consequently transitorie but on the contrary since the vertues of the mind solely acquire after fame and glory conquer obliuion and suruiue enuie and Phenix-like recouer fresh youth from forgotten ashes To such I yeeld the first place and so begin with the Amazons Of the Amazons ANd first of their countrey Cappadocia is a land that breedeth goodly and braue horses it hath on the East side Armenia on the West Asia the lesse on the North Amazonia on the South Mount Taurus by which lyeth Sicilia and Isauria as farre as the Cilicke sea that stretcheth towards the Island of Cyprus The lesse Asia cald Asia minor ioyneth to Cappadocia and is closed in with the great sea for it hath on the North the mouth and sea that is cald Euxinus on the West Propontides on the South the Aegyptian sea This lesse Asia conteineth many prouinces and lands on the North side Bythinia butting vpon the sea against Thracia and is called Phrygia the greater The chiefe cittie of Bythinia is Nicomedia Galathia takes name of the Galls that assisted the king of Bythinia in his warres and therefore had that Prouince giuen them to inhabit It was first called Gallograecia as being a people mixt of the Galls and Graecians but now they be cald Galathians and these are they to whom Saint Paul writ his Epistles Ad Galates The third part of Asia minor is called Phrygia and tooke name of Phrygia daughter to Europa the daughter of Aegenor that Phrygia was likewise called Dardania of Dardanus the sonne of Iupiter It hath on the East side Lydia and on the West the sea Hellespontus so called of Helles the sister of Phrixus who was there drowned Lydia is on the East side of East Phrygia there sometimes raigned the rich king Craesus There were two brethren kings of that countrey the one cald Liddus the other Tyrhenus but the land being too little for both they cast lots which should abide there and which should seeke abroad to plant a Collony else-where which lot fell to the younger Tyrhenus Hee toucht vpon a land then cald Galia which after he caused to be named Tyrhia of him also the sea Tyrhenus tooke denomination as the land of Lydia of his brother Lyddus Of Lydia the chiefe cittie is Smyrna to which cittie S. Iohn the Euangelist writeth in his Apocal. The chiefe riuer of that countrey is Pactolus which as the Poets fable hath golden sands The fift part of Asia Minor is called Pamphilia and Isauria the chiefe cittie is Seleucia built by king Seleucus Antiochus neere to that is Scilicia and containeth Lycia which is called likewise Licaonia in which are the two noble citties Lystris and Derbe spoken of in Actib Apostol By these citties they sayle out of Syria into Italy but the chiefe of all these citties is Tharsis downewards towards the Amasonian sea and that land is part in Asia and part scituate in Europe Now touching the Originall of the Amasons and why they were first so called diuerse authours haue diuersly writ Palaephatus in his fabulous narrations saith The Amasons were not women but certaine barbarous men who vsed to weare long garments and loose reaching below their ankles after the manner of the Thracian women who shaued their chinnes and wore the haires of their head long but couered with miters These Amasons were a warrelike people and did many braue and remarkeable deedes of armes But there is no likelihood saith hee that such should bee women because of that nation there is at this day no memorie but this was but his opinion Trogus Pompeius from whom Iustine extracts his history thus speaks of their origenall Scythia towards the East is of one side imbraced by the sea on the other part hem'd in by the Ryphaean mountaines the longitude and latitude thereof lyes open to Asia and the riuer Tanais These Scythians haue no portions of land amongst them which any man can call his owne they manure no fields they build no houses ignorant both of Agriculture and Architecture their riches are their heards and their cattle they delight in vnfrequented solitudes and inhabitable desarts when they remooue from one place to another they carry their wiues along with them in charriots and waggons these are couered with leather and skinnes of beasts to shroud them from summers shewers and defend themselues from winters tempests they know no houses els and for no others care Iustice is maintained by the modestie of their manners not by the seueritie of their lawes There is no offence so grieuous to them as theft because their flockes lie open without folds or sheepe coates Gold and siluer they despise as much as other nations couet it esteeming it rather an vnusefull burden than a profitable merchandise Their food is for the most part milke and hony the benefite of wooll or cloath is to them altogether vnknowne though the climate oppresse them with continuall cold their habit is furres and the skinnes of beasts their continence teacheth them that iustice That they couet nothing but what is their owne for where there is desire of riches there must necessarily be vsurie and oppression Were the like moderation and abstinence vsed amongst all nations warre and surfet would not as they now doe destroy more than age or nature Admirable it is that custome in them should attaine to as much true morall humanitie as the wise men of Greece haue reached to by the learning of arts or study of Philosophy and that vntaught Barbarians should excell them that professe to tutor others in manners more eminent farre in their ignorance of Vice than the others in their knowledge of Vertue Three times these Scythians attempted the Empire of Asia in all their expeditions remaining vnfoild at least vnconquered Darius king of Persia they put to shamefull flight Cyrus with a supposed inuincible armie they slew in the field Zopyrus the great captaine of Alexander they victoriously defeated Of the Romans they onely heard their power but neuer felt their strength The Parthian and Bactrian Empire they establisht A nation in labours vnwearied in dangers vndismaied not seeking to get what they cared not to loose in all their victories preferring the glory before the spoile The first that made warre against this nation was Vexores king of Aegypt who by his Embassadours sent them word to prepare themselues for defence by whom they returned to the king this answer We wonder that the captaine of so rich a people will wage war against vs that are knowne so poore considering the successe of warre is doubtfull

owne death namely to see thee die When accommodating all things for the present execution shee no sooner saw her dead but she gentlely layd her out and with great modestie couered her Then she besought Megisto on her knees to haue a care of them in their deaths that nothing immodest or vncomely might bee done to their bodies which graunted she not only with courage but seeming ioy vnderwent her last fate till she expired nor was there any spectator there present to whom the memorie of the tyrant was neuer so hatefull from whose eyes and hearts this obiect did not extract teares and pittie In Megisto is exprest the Magnanimitie of spirit but in these following I will illustrate Fortitude in action The Turkes busied in the siege of some townes in Catharo Vluzales Carocossa two of no meane place and eminence among them wrought so farre with the great Admirall that he deliuered into their charge the managing of threescore gallies with munition and men in number competent to make incursions into the bordering Islands then vnder the state of Venice These two Turkish captaines land their forces before Curzala a citie that giues name to the countrie with purpose to inuest themselues before it which Antonius Contarinus then gouernour of the cittie vnderstanding like a timerous and fearefull coward taking the aduantage of the night fled with his souldiors thence not leauing the ●owne any way defensible which the cittisens vnderstanding all or the most followed after The towne thus left to the weake guard of some twenty men about fourescore women the Turks giue them a bold and fierce assault when these braue viragoes chusing rather to dye like souldiers than like their husbands runne like cowards some maintaine the Ports others defend the walls and with that noble resolution that what with fire stones scalding water and such like muniments then readiest at hand so opposed the assailants that many of the Turks in that conflict were slaine and all repulst retyring themselues with purpose some rest giuen to the souldiours to salute them with a fresh alarum But fortune was so fauourable to these Amazonian spirits that a mighty tempest from the North so tost and distrest the Turks gallyes that they were forced to abandon the Island with dishonour leauing to the besieged a memory worthy to outliue all posteritie Of Dido Cesara Gumilda and Ethelburga OF Dido queene of Carthage all Authours agree to haue falne by the sword and to haue died by her owne bold and resolute hand but about the cause that mooued her thereto diuerse differ Ausonius is of opinion That her husband Sychaeus being dead shee did it to preserue her viduall chastitie and so free hir selfe from the importunities of Hyarbus king of Getulia of his mind is Marullus and of these Remnius or as some will haue it Priscianus in the Geography of Dionisius writing De scitu orbis i. the Scituation of the world Contrary to these is the Prince of Poets he whom Scalliger cals Poeta noster Pub. Virgilius who ascribes her death to an impatience of griefe conceiued at the vnkind departure of Aeneas which though it carry no great probabilitie of truth yet all the Latin Poets for the most part in honour of the authour haue iustified his opinion as Ouid in his third booke De fastis his Epistles Metamorph. and others workes so likewise Angelus Polytianus in his Manto with diuers others Iustine in his eighteenth booke of Hystor speaking of the first erecting of Carthage saith That where they began to digge with purpose to lay the first foundation they found the head of an Oxe by which it was predicted that the cittie should be futurelie fertill and commodious but withall full of labour and subiect to perpetuall seruitude therefore they made choice of another peece of earth where in turning vp the mould they chanced vpon the head of a horse by which it was presaged their collony should in time grow to be a warlike nation fortunate and victorious In what manner she dyed I referre you to Virgill and will speake a word or two of her sister Anna the daughter of Belus She after the death of her sister forsaking of the cittie of Carthage then inuested with siege by Hyarbus fled to Battus king the Island Melita but making no long soiourne there she put againe to sea and fell vpon the coast of Laurentum where being well knowne by Aeneas she was nobly receiued but not without suspition of too much familiaritie betwixt them in so much that iealousie possessing Lauinia the wife of Aeneas she conceiued an irreconcilable hatred against Anna in so much that fearing her threatned displeasure she cast her selfe headlong into the riuer Numicus and was there drowned for so Ouid reports in his booke de Fastis But touching the illustrious Queene Dido vnder her statue were these verses or the like engrauen in a Greeke character interpreted into Latine by Ausonius and by me in the sacred memorie of so eminent a queene thus englisht I am that Dido looke vpon me well And what my life was let my visage tell 'T is faire and smooth what wrinckle can you find In this plaine Table to expresse a mind So sordid and corrupt Why then so vneuen And blacke a soule should to a face be giuen That promiseth all vertue Virgill where Begott'st thou those ill thoughts that brand me here With lust and incest Neuer I protest Was that Aenaeas whom thou calst the best Of men in Lybia Neuer saw I land One Troian on the Carthaginian strand Because Sychaeus my first husband dead To keepe my sacred vowes to him I fled Th' imbraces of Hyarbus am I made A prostitute to nothing to a shade He came in armes to force me and compell Me a chast widdow to another hell A second marriage 'T is the gods aduise No woman can be chast that marryeth twice To auoide that sinne I slew my selfe ô why Couldst thou ô Maro then comment a lye With lust to brand my memory When heauen knowes To saue mine honour I my life did lose Giue faith to History you that Readers are Before this fabling Poesie since that far Transcends the bounds of truth for Poets can Make the high gods much more corrupt than man So much touching queene Dido and as farre as probabilitie can to acquit her of all incontinence One Paulus an historiographer in his fifth booke remembers vs of Cesara a queene of Persia who hauing some light of the Gospell trauelled as farre as Constantinople in Greece to be further instructed onely attended by a few priuat followers who being satisfied in all the fundamentall points of her faith she with her small traine was christened The Persian Sophy hauing notice thereof sent embassadours to the Emperour to know the reason why he deteined his queene wishing him to returne her safe vpon such easie sommons Cesara being in presence when this embassie was deliuered desired the Emperour that she