Margaret d' Valois Sister to his Predecessor Mary d' Guise Daughter to Claude the first Duke of Lorrain she was Married to Lewis Duke of Longueville and afterward to James the first King of Scotland Mary Queen of England Daughter to Henry the Eighth Marred to Philip of Spain she was a great Persecutor of the Protestants and caused many of them to perish in the Flames by Tortures Imprisonment c. She died Childless of a burning Fever or as it was then called the Sweating Sickness November 17th 1558. and was succeeded by Elizabeth Second Daughter to Henry the 8th who abolished Popery and restored Protestantism Mary Queen of Scots Daughter to James the fifth promised in Marriage to Edward the Sixth of England but the Scotch Nobility after the Death of Henry the Eighth breaking their word and sending her privately to France she was Married to the Dauphin who soon after dying and she returning to Scotland she Married Henry Stuart Lord Darnley and Duke of Rothsay by whom she had King James the Sixth but he being murthered viz. blown up by a Train of Powder laid under his House great troubles arose which forced her to fly for England where she was unhappily put to Death being beheaded at Fotheringay Castle upon suggested Fears and Jealousies Mathide Daughter to Bonijacius Marquess of Tuscany she succeeding her Father incited thereto by the Pope warred upon Henry the Fourth Emperor and so devoted she was to the Roman See that she bestowed all her Hereditary Lands upon it she was a Woman of great Courage and died at the Age of 76. Anno. 1115. Maud she was Daughter to Henry the First of England who Married her to Henry the Fourth Emperor of Germany but he dying and leaving no Issue by her she returned again to England and afterward Married Geoffery Plantagenet Earl of Anjou by whom she had a Son who after long Wars and contending for the Crown of England succeeded King Stephen by the Stile of Henry the Second Mavia Queen of the Saracens she Conquered or spoiled Palestius and Arabia in the time of the Emperor Valens but being converted to the Christian Religion she made a Peace with him and Assisted him with a powerful Army against the Goths that had broken into Italy and other parts of the Empire Maximilia she was Disciple to Montanus the Herenick and kept him Company in an obscene manner she at lenght joyn'd to her Priâ—cilla who made it their business to seduce and draw others into the Error using their Beauties as a Snare for the men and by their Riches and soft deluding Tongues they inticed the weaker Sex but at last she and Montanus falling out killed each other Meditriva a Pagan Goddess whom the Ancients concluded to take care of Physick and it's Operation in the Bodies of Men and Women and at her Festivals they mixed Old and new Wine which they drank moderately by way of Cordial or Physick Medusa one of the Gorgons with whom Neptune fell in Love till Minerva turned her hair into Snakes and her Head being cut off by Perseus Minerva placed it in her shield and whatever living Creature looked on it was turned into a Stone Magera one of the Furies Daughter of the Night and Acheron she instilled Madness into the minds of People Melania Wife to Pinienus Son to Severus a noble Man of Rome the Destruction of that City being revealed to her two years before Alaric laid it waste she remov'd with her Family to Carthage and was there Instructed by St. Augustin then lived a Monastick Life after she had perswaded many to turn Christians Melenia a Roman Lady Daughter to Mercelinus she burying her Husband when she was very young in sorrow forsook all worldly Pleasures and went a Pilgrimage to Jerusalem carrying one of her Children with her she confronted the Arrians and undeceived many of their Errors when building a Monastery at Jerusalem she dwelt Twenty five years in it and died in that City Melissa she was Daughter to Melissus King of Creet said to Nurse Jupiter and bring him up with Goats Milk Melpomene one of the Nine Muses Mellona a Goddess who had the care over Bees that they should not fly away in their swarming time Merrades Bacchinalians or Women that attended on Baschuses's Drunken-Feasts or Revels who did much mischief in their Wine Mene a Goddess worshipped by the Roman Women for the better ordering their Bodies in their monthly Purgations Meplictis the Goddess of Pools and muddy Lakes Merope one of the Seven Pleiades Daughter to Atlas and Pleione said to be married to Sysiphus Messalina Wife to the Emperor Claudius who not content to keep Gallants in the Court to satisfie her Lust if such a thing could be done but in her Husbands Absence she publickly married C. Silius a handsome Roman Knight for which the Emperor caused her to be beheaded Metra she was Daughter to Ercysichthon a Lord of Thessaly who to save her Fathers Life who was ready to Famish prostituted her self for Food to sustain his Life Minerva styled the Goddess of Arts and Wisdom said to be conceived of the Brain of Jove delivered thence by Vulcan who cleaving his Skull this Goddess sprung out in bright Armour she is often taken for Pallas who in some Cases is styled Minerva Miroselde a poor Weavers Daughter of whom King Charibert was so Enamoured that upon her refusing to comply to be his Concubine he married her and after her Death he married her Sister for which he was Excommunicated by St. Germain Mirrah Daughter to Cyniâ—as King of the Cipriots she fell so desperately in Love with her Father that making him drink Wine she lay with him but the matter being discovered by her being with Child she fled into Arabia and brought forth Adodonis but she dying of that Travel Venus turned her into a Mirrh-Tree and put Adonis to Nurse ro Nimph Herclea when being grown up and proving very Comely Venus fell in Love with him and often enjoyed him in the Idalian Groves but at last contrary to her perswasions undertaking to hunt a wild Boar he was slain by the furious Beast and greatly lamented of the Goddess who turned him into an Enemy Molza Tarquinia a Lady of Modena very Learned and Skilful in the Languages she much haunted the tops of Parnassus and bathed often in the River Helicon to them the invention of Songs and Sciences are attributed they are called viz. Clio Vrania Calliope Vterpt Erato Thalia Melpomene Terphiscare and Polylymnia they are held by some to be the Daughters of Coelum and the Earth Mirriam or Mary Sister to Moses she was smitten with Leprosie because she and Aaron murmured against him and shut him out of the Camp but being a Prophetess all the People stayed till her days of cleansing were fulfilled and she again received into the Congregation Aarons Punishment was remitted upon Moses praying for him Malhatun the fair Wife of Othoman the first Founder of the Turkish
amongst the Eastern People and the fairest Females that could be chosen were her Priestesses who by an Indecent custom prostituted their Chastity to such as came to offer at her Shrine which brought her crouds of Adorers Anchire Queen of Sparta upon a discovery that her Son designed to betray her Country to her Enemy Ordered him to be brought to Justice but upon notice of it he fled to the Temple of Minerva which the caused to be so strictly guarded in order to prevent his Escape that he there perished by famine Andromeda Daughter to Cepheus for her Mothers comparing her Beauty to that of the Nerciâ—es was doomed to be devoured by a Sea-Monster but Perseus the Son of Jupiter by Dane seeing her bound naked to a Rock became Enamoured of her killed the Sea-Monster that came to devour her and made her his wife Angerona was by the An-cient Romans worshipped as the Goddess of silence and Consulted in all Abstruse matters her Altar being placed under that of the Goddess of Pleasure Anna Goranena Daughter to Alexix Emperour of Constantinople she wrote the Reign of her Father and other Learned Books and is remembred by divers Authors Anne Mother to the Virgin Mary who was Mother to our Blessed Saviour according to the Flesh. Anne a Prophetess daughter to Phanuel who frequented the Temple in Jerusalem in a devout manner and Sung Praises to God by the Direction of the Holy Spirit when our Saviour was first brought and presented there she dyed in the 84 year of her Age and in the first of our Lords Incarnation Anne Pâ—gmalion the King of Tyres Siner she was also Sister to Queen Dido of Carthage and after her Sisters death who flew her self for the Love of Aeâ—eas she failed to Malea and thence to Italy where Lâ—vinia who had Marryed Aeneas being jealous of her she fled her Fury and in her flight was drowned in the River Numicus and afterwards was held amongst the Romans as a Goddess Her Feast with much Reveling was held in the Ides of March. Anne Daughter and Heires to Duke Francis the Seconâ— of Brittanny she should have been Marryed to Maxmilian of Austria but after the death of her Father Charles the Eight of France neâ—reâ—â— to whose Teâ—râ—tories her Dutchy lay Gained her and annexed that Dukedom to the Kingdom of France Anne the Third daughter of King Charles the Firâ—â— of England was born on the 13. of March 1637 at St. James's Her Piety and Ingenuity was above her Age for being but Four Years old and falling â—ick she fervently called uâ—on God by Prayer and being at last almoâ—t sâ—ent and feeling the Pangs of death upon her after a Sigh or two â—he said I cannot now say my long Prayer meaning the Lord's Prayer but I 'll say my short one viz. Lighten mine Eâ—es O Lord least I sleep the sleep of Death and then quietly gave up the the Ghost Anne Queen of Bohemia and Hungary Daughter to Landislaus was Wife to Ferdinand of Austria upon which after some contests such discontents arose that Sâ—â—â—man the Turkish Emperor being called in War a great part of Hungary and narrowly missed taking Vienna to which he laid a hard Seige which went very bloody on both sides Anteborta held to be a Goddess among the Romans and had Adoration given her for the Success of things and favours past as they did to another Goddess called Postvorta in Expectation of the Success of things to come Antiope a Queen of the Amazons she assisted the Ethiopians in their Invasion of the Athenians but Theseus commanding the Greeks vanquished both Armies There was another of the same name who was married to Lycus a Thebian King who is fabled to be raviâ—â—d by Jupiter and Conceiving of that Rape brought forth Amphion who drew the Stones with the Musick of his Harp after him that rebuilded the demolish'd Walls of the City Antonia The Emperor Cladâ—â—â—'s Daugâ—ter who being accused by Nero the Emperor for intending to raise Sedition in the State and finding no hopes to free her self from the Tyrants Cruelty without marrying him which he earnestly pressed her to do and she deâ—â—â—â—ing the Murder of his two Wives kill'd her self to be freed from his Insults over her rather than she would yield to his Embraces or be at his Mercy Apicata Sejanus's Wife writ upon her being divorced a Memorial to Tiberius Emperor of Rome informing him how Drusius came by his death and the hand that Livia his Wife had in the concurring to it Also the Villanies of Ligdus the Eunuch and Endemes the Physician for which those that the accused were severely punished though the main end of her discovery was to revenge her self upon Livia her fair Rival Araclue a Lydian Virgin Daughter of Idomon who was so expert in all manner of Needle-work and Textury that she boasted her self equal in those Arts to Minerva which caused her to spoil her curious Manufactury which so grieved her that she hang'd her self but the Goddess in compassion brought her again to life yet turn'd her into a Spider a Creature which is usually busy in Spinning out its own Bowels Archâ—damia Cleonigmus a King of Sparta's Daughter hearing that upon the approach of Phyrus to besiege the City the Senate had made a Decree that all the Women should depart it she went boldly with a drawn Sword in her hand to the Senate-house and told them That the Mothers Sisters and Wives of those Warriers that were to fight the Enemy scorn'd to be less Valiant than they and thereupon got the Decree revoked Autem Morâ—s are such who are married having always Children with them one in the Arm and another at the Back and sometimes leading a third in the Hand You are not to ask what Church she was married in or by what Parson so long as a Totterdemallion shall swear he will justifie himself her Husband before any Justice of Peace in England Armenias's strict Virtue and great Love to her Husband Ladies we have in London who are so far from having a light Assent as they scorn to admit a weak Assault which confirms the Judgment of that noble accomplish'd though unfortunate Gentleman In part to blame is she that has been tride He comes too near that comes to be denied Sir T.O. This that noble minded Lady Armenia expressed who being solemnly invited to King Cyrik's Wedding went thither with her Husband At night when those Royal Rites had been solemnized and they returned her Husband asked her how she liked the Bride-groom whether upon perusal of him she thought him to be a fair and beautiful Prince or no Truth says she I know not for all the while I was forth I cast mine Eyes upon none other but upon thy self Those receiving Portels of her Senses were shut against all foreign Intruders She had made a moral League with her Loyal Eyes to fix on no unlawful Beauty left her surprized Eye might ingage her to folly We may imagine that
formerly recoverable in the Spiritual Court but now only in Chancery Abortion an untimely Birth or Miscarriage which happens through divers Causes Inward and Outward Amnion the Membrane with which the Faetus in the Womb is most immediately clad which with the rest of the Scâ—ndine the Chorion and Alantoin is ejected after the Birth it is whiter and thinner than the Chorion It contains not only the Faetus but the nutritious Humour whence the Faetus by the Mouth and Throat sucks its nourishment It is outwardly clothed with the Urinary Membrane and the Chorion which sometimes stick so close to one another that they can scarce be separated Dr. Blanchard Amazons Amazones Warlike Women of Scythia that had but one Teat their name in Greek impowring as much they were very Man-like and cut off their Right Breasts that it might not hinder their shooting for they were excellent Archers they lived by themselves and if at any time they went to their Husbands or neighbouring Men and conceived if it were a Female Child they kept it if a Male they sent it to the Father The Country where they lived is denominated from them and called Amazonia Anchoresâ— a Religious Woman that Lives solitarily in a Cell Vide Anachorite Anne Heb. Hannah gracious or merciful Annulet Annulus a Ring or any thing like a Ring Aretaphila Gr. i.e. amatrix virtutus a lover of or friend to virtue a Woman's Name Abia Hercules Daughter Aegiale the Wife of Diomedes an Adultress Aegina Jupiter's Mistress in the shape of fire Aegle Daughter of Hesperus King of Italy Agatha g. good a Womans Name Aglata one of the Graces Aglais a very great sheeater Megale's Daugther Agnes g. chast a Womans Name Agnodice a Maid Physician Alepone Neptunes Daughter turned into a King-fisher Ambosexons Male and Female Amorets f. Love toys Amulet l. a ball about the neck to keep from Poison or Witchcraft Amymone one of Danaiis's fifty Daughters Mother of Nauplius by Neptune Anetis a Lydian Goddess Anatiferius l. Bringing the age of old Women Anaxarete a hard hearted Virgin turned into a stone Anchoress a Nun. Andrago g. a Manly Woman Andrastâ—s Andate Goddess of Victory among the Britans Andromache g. many fight Hectors wife Andromeda Cepheus's daughter Aretapila g. a she-friend of vertue Arethusa Daughter of Nereus a river of Sicily also an Armenian fountain in which nothing sinks Ariadne Daughter of Minos Asbiaroth Goddess of the Adonians Assedrix a she-assistant a Midwife Astroarch Queen of Plâ—nets the Moon Atalanta the swift Lady won by Hipomanes's three Golden Apples Arthis Daughter to Cranaus King of Athens Ave Marie l. Her Salutation by the Angel Avice Hildevig Sa. Lady â—â— defense Anses African Virgins used to combat in honour of Minerva Autonoe Actaeon's Mother Agetus the Lacedemonian Herodotus lib. 6. thus writes of this Lady the Daughter of Alcydes the Spartan first wife to Agetus and after to the King Ariston She of the most deformed became the excellentest amongst Women Aristorlea Of all the deaths that I have read of this of Aristoclaea methinks exceeds example with which howsoever her body was tormented her soul could not be grieved for never woman died such a loving death Her Lovers contending in the heat of their affection but not regarding her safety whom they did affect she as it were set upon the rack of Love plucked almost to pieces betwixt them both expired Ada Alexander the Great amongst his many other conquests having besieged the great City Halicarnassus by reason of opposition made against him levell'd it with the ground He entred Caria where Ada then reigned Queen who being before opprest by Orontobas imployed by Darius was almost quite beaten out of her Kingdom Having at that time no more of all her large Dominions left her saving Alynda the most defenced City into which she had retired herself for safety She hearing of Alexanders approach gave him a Royal meeting and submitted herself her Subjects and City into his Power withal Adopting him by the Name of Son Agathoclea Ptolme being free from all foreign Invasions he began Domestick troubles at home For being given over to his own Appetite and besotted to his Insatiate Pleasures he first began with Loadice both his Sister and Wife causing her to be slain that he might the more freely enjoy the society and fellowship of his most rare and beautiful Mistress Agathoclea So that the greatness of his Name and the Splendor of his Majesty both set apart he abandoned hinself solely to Whoredoms by Night and to Banquets and all profuseness of Riot by day Aristomache Dionysius the Tyrant banisht Dion out of Sicily taking into his own custody the Exiles Wife Aristomache and her Daughter But after at the great Intercession of one of his Servants Polycrates a man by him much affected he compelled the Lady who still Lamented the absence of her Lord unto a second Marriage with this Polycrates who was by Nation of Syracusa But Dion having gathered fresh Forces and expelling Dionysius from Syracusa unto the Locrenses Arete his Sister meeting him and Congratulating his Famous Victory made Intercession for Aristomache who with great shame had kept herself from the presence of her first Husband not daring to look him in the Face howsoever her second Nuptials were made by Force and Compulsion But the necessity of the cause the wondrous submission and modest Excuse of Aristomache together with the Mediation of Arete so much he prevailed with Dion all confirming her innocence that he received his wife and Daughter into his Family still continuing their former Love and Society Artimesia Queen of Caria so much honoured the remembrance of her Husband Mausolus being dead that after Meditation and deliberate counsel which way she might best decorate his Hearse and withal to express to Perpetuity her unmatchable Love She caused to be erected over him a Tomb so Magnificent that for the Cost and State it was not doubted to be worthily reckoned amongst the Nine Wonders But what do I speak of so rich a Structure when she her self became the living Sepulcher of her dead husband by their Testimonies who have Recorded that she preserved his bones and having beaten them to powder mingled their dust with her Wine in remembrance of him every morning and evening Cicer. Tusc. lib. 3 and Plin. lib. 36. cap. 5. Aretaphila Cyrenea is deservedly numbred amongst the Heroick Ladies she lived in the time of Mithridates and was the Daughter of Aeglatur and the Wife of Phedimus A Woman of excellent Vertue exquisite Beauty singular Wisedom and in the Managing of Common-Wealths business and Civil Affairs ingeniously Expert Aurora or the Morning Hesiodus in Theog terms her the Daughter of Hyperion and the Nymph Thya and Sister to the Sun and Moon Others derive her from Tytan and Terra they call her the way leader to the Sun as Lucifer the Day-Star is stil'd her Henshman or Usher For so saith Orpheus in an Hymn to Aurora
fading Bethiah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may be rendred the Daughter of the Lord as it were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the House of the Lord as it were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Chron 4.18 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bath a Daughter see 22. and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 beth a House from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 banah he builded and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 jah a name of God from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hajah he was Blanch or Blanchia i. white or fair from blanc Fr. Bona i. She that is good favourable or affable Lat. Bridget from Bride Irish. Batilda Queen of France she is Renowned for her Piety and Learning Descended from an English Saxon Prince In her Youth as she walked by the Sea-shoar she was surpized by Pirates who carryed her to France and sold her to the Mayor the Kings Palace where the King no sooner saw her viz. Clovis the Second but he fell in Love with her Marryed her and had by her Three Sons and Governed the Kingdom very prudently till Clotaire her third Son came of Age She was for her holy manner of Living and the Charitable Deeds she had done Sainted or Cannonized by Pope Nicholas the First Baudise or Boadicia a Queen of the Antient Britains who for the Rape of her Daughters by the Roman Lieutenant fell upon their Army with a great power at unawares and cut of seventy Thousand of them but not being afterward assisted by the rest of the British Princes she was Vanquished by Suctonius and treacherously poisoned by those to whom she fled for Refuge Beatrix Queen of Naples and Sicily Daughter of Raymond Berrenger the fifth Earl of Provence she was a Woman of a Masculine Spirit and stired up great Wars in those Kingdoms which occasioned much Blood-shed Beatrix Daughter to Renaud Earl of Burgundy she was Marryed to Frederick the first Emperour of the Romans she going out of Curiosity to see the City of Milan the People by some Incendiaries were possessed that she had contributed to the Abridgment of their Liberties whereupon they took her from her stately Chariot and set her upon a scurbbed Ass her face to the Tail which they compelled her to hold in her hand instead of a Bridle and so led her through the Principal parts of the City Which Afront the Emperour Resented so highly that he razed the City except the Churches to the Ground sowed it with Salt and put all those who had a hand in this business to death unless such as could with their Teeth take a Figg out of the Fundament of the Ass on which they had set the Empress which many detested and chose rather to suffer death than attempt it Batsheba Wife to Uriah the Hittite her naked beauties so Inchanted King David who espyed her from a Turras as she was washing in a Fountain that he procured her Husband to be slain and took her to Wife of whom he begat Solomon the wife King of Israel Bacchanetes a sort of War-like Woman who attended Bacchus in his War and Conquest of the Indians and afterwards the Priestess of Bacchus were so called who Celebrated his Feasts and Drunken Revels and were clad in Leopards and Panthars skins The Men were attired like Satyrs and Crowned with Ivy or Vines and these Feasts were Celebrated with all manner of Discordant Musick as Horns and Cymbals c. And with very great disorder to shew the folly of Drunkenness Barchia Daughter of Bacchus at the Celebration of whose Feast the Bacchinalians tore Acteon the Son of Melissus in pieces because he refused to join with them in those disorders for which they were banished the City of Corinth Bagoe held to be the Nymph that taught the Tuscan Sages the Art of Divination by the flight of Ligthning and is held by some to be one of the Sibyls others say she was the first Woman that Interpreted the Oracles and flourished in the time of Alexander the Great Barrbancon Marie de Daughter of Michael Lord of Cany in her Castle of Benegon in the Province of Berry by the Lord Lietenant of Burgundy she with her Sword in her hand marched at the head of the Breach that was made and beat the Enemy out again but famine growing so fast upon her she was compelled to surrender yet in consideration of her great Courage and Conduct had her Castle restored to her again Barro a Woman very Learned in Philosophy Bassine Artebabaze a Persion Captains Daughter she was taken in Damascus and presented to Alexander the Great who for her Beauty Marryed her Beaufort Margaret Grand Child to Edward the Third she was Mother to Henry the Seventh she founded many Religious Houses and gave liberaly to Charitable uses among which Christs and St. Johns Colledges in Cambridge are not the least Memorable she was so zealous for the promotion of the Christian Religion on in the Eastern Countrys where it was so much decayed that she would often say if it pleased God to stir up the Christian Princes to War for the Recovery of the Holy Land she would attend upon them as their Laundress Bertos Claudia first a Nun then an Abbess She was a Virgin of Singular Learning and Piety Beledes they were so called as being the fifty Daughters of Danaus who being Marryed to Egyptus fifty Sons all of them at their Fathers command except Hypemnestray killed their Husbands on the Wedding Night and she for her refusal and contributing to his Escape was a long while imprisoned by her Father till her Husband came with an Armed power and Rescued her Bellides or Danaides the same with the former Bellona stiled the Goddess of War Companion and Sister to Mars she had Temples Dedicated to her and Priests who were called Belonary they used to offer part of their blood to her and then give it to those that participaed with them in the Mistery Some will have her to be the same with Pallas the Cappadocians held her in such Esteem that her Priests took place next the Kings she is variously painted in Warlike dresses Biblia or Billa Wife to Duellus a Roman being reproved by him for not telling him of the strong smell of his breath that had been objected to him in a Brawl she innocently told him that never having kissed any Man but himself she concluded all Mens breath had the same favour Biblis Daughter of the Nymph Cyana she fell passionately in Love with her Brother Caunus who refusing to comply with her desires in a Lustful way she attempted to hang herself but being prevented in that by her Nurse she mourned and wept so long till she dyed and is fabled to be turned into a Fountain Billichilde first Marryed to Theodebertus Second King of Austrasia who of a Slave for her beauty advanced her to the dignity of a Queen and by her he had two Sons and and a Daughter but within a while after growing jealous of her he caused her to be put to
Agony and well nigh spent with repeated pains thou didst stand by me and my babe yea thou didst admirably help us making way for it to pass into this world safely keeping us both alive yea and it may be when our friends veriâ—y thought with sadness that my Child could not have seen the light and I should shortly have shut mine eyes upon it being ready to despair of bringing as forth then didst thou find a way for us both to escape When Mrs. Joceline was made a Mother of a Daughter whom shortly after being baptiz'd and brought to her she blessed and then gave God thanks that herself had lived to see it a Christian Having dedicated it to the Lord in his Ordinance She accounted it an additional mercy to her bringing her forth and so would have it communicated to others support But you 'll say You shall have a rough passage And if as Sabina a Christian Martyr when she travail'd being in Prison you shall cry out as she was heard to do in her Child-bearing throws whereupon some asked her how she would endure the Torments her Persecutors had prepared for her if she shrunk at those To whom she said I now bear the Punishment of my sins but then I shall suffer for my Saviour It may be answered Notwithstanding be of good chear For the Scripture affords many Antidotes against discouragment and to chear up Suspicious and Fearful Women But remember that the special Conjugal Grace of Temperance and Modesty is to be exercised by the Child-bearing Woman in sobriety chastity and gracefulness both with reference to her Affections and Senses The breeding and big-bellied Women is highly concerned to take special care for her own and the child's safety Plato determined That big-bellied Women above all should so govern themselves during that space that they may be neither carried away to many and furious Pleasures nor oppress'd with grief but live a mild quiet and pacate Life Many have miscarried by an inordinate giving way to their Appetites and feeding immoderately upon various Dainties Such soft and delicate Women there are who like the pleasure and are impatient of the pain which ordinarily attend those in a Married state To say nothing of those bad Women who from a lustful cruelty or cruel lustfulness as Augustus speaks do wish that their Issue should perish rather than live and therefore do use ill Arts either to prevent Conception or procure Abortion which must needs be very displeasing to God who in his Law hath breeding-bearing Women much upon his heart to provide for their safety There be some who from pre-apprehensions of their own pains forbear to render their Husbands their due not welâ— weighing the ill Consequenâ—â— of such forbearance Others are ready to conceit 't is a discouragement to them to take pains when very well able about the Nursing and Education of their Children 'T is true they are not of such Nun 〈◊〉 dispositions as some others idolizing a single life for their ease reguarding not to be serviceable to God in their Generation according to their Capacities when called For our Apostle in this Epistle 〈◊〉 young Women to marry 〈◊〉 Children not as too many 〈◊〉 our Age to bear Children when not married guide the 〈◊〉 gâ—ve none occasion to the Adveâ—â—saries to speak reproachfulâ—â— Yet they are so greatly addiâ—â—â—ed to sensual pleasures in 〈◊〉 Married state that they 〈◊〉 not to take pains in going through their appointed 〈◊〉 with their Child-breeding 〈◊〉 Child-bearing but do so over-eagerly pursue their appetiteâ— frolicks and fancies that they too often forget the condition into which God hath brought them and so deprive themselves and their Husbands 〈◊〉 those blessings which if they did behave themselves soberly and Christian-like they might well hope for at Gods hand supposing them to contiâ—â—â— duly careful as they should be to forbear excess in Diet anâ— violent Recreations and 〈◊〉 suppress vehement 〈◊〉 using that moderation in all things which their condition notably calls for It may be granted Men yea Husbands are generally more prone to Incontinency And were I discoursing them I might remember them as well as their Wives of that famous saying of the Roman Orator That in the Predominancy or Kingdom of sensual pleasure Men can have Commerce no with vertue and therefore are concern'd to be watchful and moderate especially considering what the great Philosopher hath said That of all the desires of the body Men are apt to be faulty this way Yet since the Command of God reaches those of each Sex both are under a Religious band in the Marriage State and as one saith the pleasure therein must be mingled with some severity it must be a wise and concionable delight It much concerns the Christian Wife to give check to any suggestion much more to any parley which is in a tendency to violate her Matrimonial Contract or to bring her into any carriage unbecoming that honourable state she is brought into or the undue use of the undesiled bed So that however some of the Paâ—ists in magnifying a single Life would appropriate Chastity unto Virgins whom they themselves do debauch in their Nâ—nneries Yet we find from Scripture and the Ancient Fathers that there is Chastity and continency in a Marraige-state as opposed to that in a single Life In the Exercise of this with the precedent Graces the good Wife having well learned the lesson of self-denial can bear her burden in humble confidence of aids from above in the hour of her Child-bed sorrow and a safe deliverance in the best way Next to Christ the good Wife is above all other dearly and constantly to love her own Husband and that with a pure heart fervently Yea and she should never entertain low thoughts of him in that Relation whom she could once think worthy of embracing for her Husband and whom by the Covenant of God in all Offices of Love she is oblig'd to please Without this bond of Perfectness all will be loose uneasie and unpleasing yea the Laws and Commands of God who by his wise Providence ordered the Match will become tedious and irksom But where this Conjugal Love is consequent upon the foregoing Christian Love there all will become easie This is the very life of Friendship and where it resides in power no diligence will be wanting to facilitate all other conjugal Duties For never-failing Charity especially in this Relation will enable the good Wife to bear all things to believe all things to hope all things to endure all things This holy flame therefore as the Vestal fire should be ever cherish'd that it go not out Indeed Love being as the Soul of Society and of it self Immortal it would argue it were not sincere at first if it should cease Dr. Goad recomending the Mothers Legacy to her Child unborn written by pâ—ous Mrs. Joceline when big with Child preparing for her approaching Child-bed faith What eyes cannot behold her true and unspotted love
Infamy Therefore I would advise all to do do with their loose and poysonous Pamphlets as those Converts of Ephesus did with their Books of Curious Arts bring them forth and burn them I know one that took upon himself this Revenge a Friend of his coming into his Chamber took down from off a Shelf a Play-Book who reading a little he perceiv'd his Friend was soon infected useth this Remedy You complain'd saith he when you came in of cold I will make you a better fire So burnt the Book before him G. GErtrud i. e. truly amiable Gilian see Julian Gillet dim from Giles i. e. a little Kid. Glauce i. e. Gray-eyed Glycera i. e. Duici sweet Grace commonly used Grishild i. e. Grey Lady Grimtrid i. e. of a Fair Countenance Gorgons appearing so terrible in Fables for their sweaty Hair and stone transforming Looks are held to be the Daughters of Cela and Pâ—â—â—â—sâ— called by the Names of Medusa Euriâ—le and Thenio having their aboad near the Hesperian Gardens turning those that came to approach the Golden Fruit into Stone with their looks till by Minervas Assistance Perseus vanquished them 〈◊〉 which seems to be a Fable alluding to Fortitude which overcomes Difficulties and Danger Graces are those the Grâ—â—iâ—â—stile stile Charities and are held to be the Daughters of Jupiter and Euronyme but some will have them to be got by Jupiter on Venus as being the Guardians and Attendants on Beauty c. being three in number viz. Eupbrosyne signifying Gladness Aglais Beauty and Thalia Youth and Mirth referring to the delighting of Mankind and the faithfulness of Things and many other Matters as relating to Joyful Times and Seasons Pleasure and Mirth are alluded to by them in sundry Manners Grey the Lady June a Lady though very Young of admirable Learning and Virtue she was Daughter of Henry Duke of Suffolk and Grand-Daughter to Mary Daughter to King Henry the seventh and being by King Edward the sixth declared his Successor she took upon her the Crown after Edwards Decease but enjoyed it not long for Queen Mary prevailing she was Deposed and together with the Lord Guilford Dudley her Husband Beheaded in the Tower of London of whose wonderful Virtues and Pieties we speak more largely hereafter Galatea a Sea-nimph who growing Jealous that Glaucus of whom she was inamoured had gained the Beautiful Nimph Sylla to his Embraces when she usually did bathe i his Streams she by Inchantations turned her into a deformed foul Monster compelling her perpetually to bark in the Caves of the Sicilian Rocks beaten with the Sea which is no more than the sounding of the Waters against it Geruena A Noble Italian Lady seeing divers Assassins enter her Husbands Chamber to Assassinate him threw her self between him and his Enemies Receiving the Points of their Swords with the loss of her Life till her Lord recovering his Sword that hung near him not only detended his own Life but revenged her Death by killing divers of them and putting the rest of flight Gabriela a fair and ingenious French Lady flourished in the French Court in such rare Perfections of Beauty that so she far Captivated the Heart of the Warlike King Henry the fourth of France that he had a design to have Married her thô at that time he was Married to Margaret Sister to his Predecessor to prevent which she was Poisoned by an Italian scented Pair of Gloves presented to her by an unknown Hand Genura Queen to the Famous King Arthur King of the Brittains for her Beauty and Courage stands a famous Monument in Histories to 〈◊〉 the Lustre of the fair Sex Gratiana a Lady at 〈◊〉 in Spain being surprized at the Sack of the Town by the Barbarians gave all her Gold and Jewels freely to the Captain who had taken her Prisoner to save her Honour but the Infidel breaking his Promise as over-infiamed with the Charms of her incomparable Beauty going to break his Word and force her she in the first place stabbed him to the Heart with a Dagger she had concealed in her Garment and then to prevent the like attempt of her Chastity from others she killed her self Gonzaga Julia a very Beautiful Italian Lady had her Name so famed that it was heard to Constantinople and found so Charming in the Ears of Soâ—man the Turkish Emperor that it 's thought the Fleet he sent under Barbaressa King of Argiers his Admiral was more to surprize her than spoil the Countrey but upon their Landing fied to save her Chastity half naked to the Mountains Government Female asserted the best I stick not to affirm that Domination and Government is not only lawful and tolerable in Women but Justly Naturally and properly theirs First then though force Crazy Phylosophers drunk and besotted with Aristotelism have endeavoured to devance them from the same species with Men and others madder than they deny them Souls yet when we shall oppose Holy Scripture which makes Man the Consummation of the Creation and them the Consummation of Man if we would cite those high Attributes the 〈◊〉 give unto them or instance those particular Indulgences of Nature which Agrippa reckons unto them or those peculiar advantages of Composition and understanding which 〈◊〉 Lusitanus ascribes to the 〈◊〉 to mention that of Trismegistus who calls them Fountains and Perfections of Goodness And indeed this is a quarrel wherein Nature hath declared her self a most interested party that we need go no farther then the Judgment of our eyes the quickest and surest that Man can make to decide the Controversie For whom can we imagine to be so insensible as not to be presently touched with the delicate Composure and Symmetry of their Bodies The sweetnesses and killing Languors of their Eyes the Meslange and Harmony of their Colours the Happiness and Spirituality of their Countenances the Charms and Allurements of their Maine the Air and Command of their Maine the Air and Command of their Smiles so that it is no wonder if Plato said that Souls were unwilling to depart out of such fair Bodies That this is a Truth needs so little Demonstration that looking but into any Story you shall find even the greatest Conquerors Lusty and Proud in their Triumphs humbled and brought on their Knees by some fair Enchantress This we account admirable in Alexander and Scipio that they could avoid in Caesar and Mark Anthony we pardon it in respect of the greatness of their other Actions 〈◊〉 a Martial-man you will 〈◊〉 is a Savage Bruitish thing thing that knows how to run 〈◊〉 dangers and to despise them 〈◊〉 whose thoâ—ghts are always 〈◊〉 random and abroad seldom with-drawn and upon their Guard and therefore it is no wonder if such Men be easily surprized with such dazling trifles But when a Man tells you that even the Wisest Men have been strange Doters on this Sex and absolutely given up to them it will change the Case I suppose there is no Man thinks Solomon a Fool and it
builded she was called Augusta and Imperatrix and relieved the Poor wiâ—h all the Treasure that came to her hand and was a munificent Patroness to the before afflicted Christians Helle was Daughter to Athmus King of Thebes who flying from her Mother-in-law with her Brother Phryxus was drowned in the Narrow Sea that parts Asia from Europe and by that Misfortune gave to it the Name of Hellespont Heliades Sisters accounted the Daughters of the Son and Celymene whose Brother Phaeton was who unwarily aspiring to guide the Chariot of the Sun was destroyed by Jupiters Thunder for firing the Earth and Skies by his misguiding it for whom these Sisters wept till the Gods turned them into Poplar-trees and their tears into Amber Here 's Martia or the Martial Heir it was accounted amongst the Ancient Romans as a Goddess of Heirs and held to be one of Mâ—â—s's Companions she took her Surname of Martial by reason in those times Quarrels frequently arose about Inheritances and Successions and when they were decided either by Arms of contesting in Law they supposed a right decision Hermophrodite An ancient Idol bearing the Resemblance of Venus and Mercury called otherwise Aphrodite as Joyning trading and Eloquence with delights c. Hersilia Wife to Romulus first Founder of Rome a Virtuous Sabian Lady Herta was accounted a Goddess among the Germans worshipped in a thick Grove and her residence when she pleased to appear was a Cart with a Carpet over it her Victims were menial Servants or Slaves who were thrown into a Lake and there perished in hopes of enjoying Pleasure and Plenty in another World her Cart upon general Processions was sometimes drawn with Oxen and sometimes by Lyons Hesione the fair was Daughter to Leomedon King of Troy and by reason of the raging of a Plague the Oracle being consulted it told them that to appease the God of the Sun and the Sea with whom the King had broken his word a Virgin must every day be tyed to a Rock where a Sea Monster should be sent by Neptune to devour her this being done by Lot it fell upon Hesione but Hercules returning from his Hysperian Voyage in a dreadful Combate killed the Monster and freed the Royal Maid Hildigardcan Abbess of the Order of the Benedictines famous for her Learning and Piety but more for her Prophecies of the Errors that should creep into the Romish Church Hannah the Mother of the famous Prophet Samuel who obtained him of God by her servent Prayers after she had been a long while Barren Hiparthia Marry'd Crates only for his Wisdom and Learning being otherways deformed and unfightly and poor 〈◊〉 could all her Friends or 〈◊〉 offers of Rich matches 〈◊〉 her from him She was â—â—r self very Learned and Inâ—â—â—â—ous so that their Souls rather than their Bodies coveted to be near together Hippodamia Daughter to Briseus and fell among other Captives at the taking of Tenedos to the share of Achilies but Agameamon falling in Love with her took her from him which made him refuse to assist the Greeks till the Trojans had near vanquished them and came to set fire to his Ships Hippodame Oenomaus the King of Ellis's Daughter being very Beautiful abundance of Suitors crouded to gain her in Marriage which made him consult the Oracle about the success which gave Answer That whoever married his Daughter should came his Death whereupon he made Decree that whoever could outrun him in a Chariot-Race should have the fair Hiâ—podame in Marriage but being vanquished he should dye Many declined it but some being vanquished were put to death Till Pâ—lâ—ps having bribed the King's Chariotier to leave a Pin out of the Wheel that it might fall off in the Career by which fall the King was wounded to death Hortensia a Roman Lady Daughter to the Orator Horlensius At the time a great Tax was laid upon the Matrons of Rome she notably pleaded their Cause before the Triumvire that a great part of it was remitted Hostilina was by the Pagans accounted a Goddess taking care of their Corn that it should grow to an equal length and be full Eareâ— without Blasting Houres by some Reputed God esses begot by Jupiter 〈◊〉 Themis and were call'd Eunormia Irene and Diâ—ce or Good Laws Peace and Justice Howard Ciâ—â—erine she was Marryed to King Henry the VIII and was Daughter to the Lord Edmond Howard Son to Thomas Duke of Norfolk she was one of the two Queens that he caused to be beheaded upon suspicion of Incontinency though neither against her nor Anna Bullen who felt the same Fate before her any thing deserving Death appeared only the Kings Pleasure must be obeved to make way for more Wives Hyacinthides six Daughters of Erichtheus who succeeded Pandion King of Athens taking their Names from the Village Hyachithius where they all seâ—â— a Sacrifice for their Court v. for the Oracle having declared that the Thracians who were Warring against the Athenians could not be overcome unless one of their Ladies was offered up as a Sacrifice to Dima they all contented so earnestly to have the Honour to dye for their Country and the Love they bore to each other that they would not have one to dye unless â—â—w all participated in the same Death and their Wishes being granted the Athenians gained most notable Victory their Proper Names were Pandora Procris Clithonia and Orithia and are fabled to be placed among the Stars Hyades are a Company of Stars to the number of seven placed in the Neck of Taurus they are tabled to be Nurses to Baâ—chus and by him in return of their Kindness fixed as Constellations and are called the Weeping Stars as having great Influence over Rains and moâ—st Clouds Hypermenstra one of Daraus K. of Argo's fifty Daughters who married the fifty Sons of Egytus whom Daraus ordered them to kâ—ll on their Wedding Night which they all did but this Lady who saved her Husband Lynceus for which her Father Impâ—â—â—tioned her but soon after 〈◊〉 her and restored 〈◊〉 to her Husband Hysiphile ho Queen of the Island of 〈◊〉 was banished by the Cruel Women who had killed all their Husbands Fathers and Brothers for sparing her Father Thaos and being taken upon the Sea by Pirates she was sold to Lycurgus King of Neâ—eâ— who understanding who she was gave his Son Archemrus to be Nursed by her she having a little before brought forth Twins whom Jason had begot on her in his Voyage to Colobis when he fetched thence the Golden Fleece House-keepers to Persons of Honour or Quality Those Persons who would qualifie themselves for this Employment must in their Behaviour carry themselves grave solid and ferious which will inculcate into the beliefs of the Persons whom they are to serve that they will be able to govern a Family well They must endeavour to gain a Competent knowledge in Preserving Conserving and Candying making of Cates and all manner of Spoon-meats Jellies and the like Also in Distilling all
Arguments she found she could not otherwise satisfie their Clamours she caused her Horse that was tied at her Palace gate to be let loose vowing that into whose House soever he first entered the Man of the House should be her Husband at last he went into the House of Primislaus a very Poor Man yet she however kept her Vow and Married him by which means he was saluted the first King of Bohemia Libitina a Roman Goddess of the Ancients in whose Temples things necessary for Funerals were kept which were bought or borrowed of the Priests as the People had occasion to use them Limona Daughter to Hypomanes Archon or Prince of the Athenian Common-wealth she being with Child by a Young Gentleman of Athens her Father so highly resented the dishonour done to his Family that he caused her Gallant to be drawn in pieces by Horses and put her up in a Stable with a Horse allowing neither of them any Food so that the Horse growing inraged by hunger killed her and eat her Liriope the Daughter of Thetis and Oceanus she was Married to Cephesus by whom she had Narcissus the fair Youth who flying the Courtship of the Languishing Virgins at last seeing his Face in a Fountain as he stooped to Drink he fell in Love with his shadow Litae a sort of friendly Goddesses who were wont to do good Offices for Men in procuring them their wishes and desires of things necessary for them Livia Daughter to Drusius second Son of Livia the Empress Livia Drusilla she was Daughter to Livius Drusus Calidianus who killed himself after the loss of the Philippi field she was Wife to Tiberias Claudius Nero by whom she had Tiberius afterwards Emperor of Rome and Augustus having divorced Scribona took her from her Husband when she was great with Child and Married her but having no Children by her he adopted Tiberius to succeed him Lutgarda or Luidgarda a German Lady Wife to Charles the Great she was of a Masculine Spirit and took especial delight in Hunting Wild Beasts in which she was as forward and daring as the stoutest and bravest Hero Locusta a Woman that bent her Mind to Study the Power and Effects of Poisons she serv'd the Tyrant Nero in carrying on his wicked designs in poisoning all that he ordered her and amongst other the Prince Germanicus and least she should be destroyed by the People for her hellish Practices he set a Guard over her to attend her Person whereever she went Losa de Cardona a Spanish Lady who by Acquirement in Learning was skilled in the Latin Greek and Hebrew and so profound in Divinity that the Doctors admitted her a place in the University when she died she conjured her Husband to bestow whatever he could spare to Charitable uses giving all her own Rings and Jewels to that behoof before she died Libentina or Lubentia a Goddess held to be the overfeet of Pleasures Sports and Merriments and a Protectress of Libertinisus Lucilla a Spanish Lady who assisted the Schismaticks against Cecilianus Bishop of Carthage with great Treasure to carry on their Cause for that the Bishop had angred her by a Reproof for Kissing the bones of a Martyr as she was going to the Communion Lucina a Goddess thought to be very helpful at Womens Labours and then was called the Goddess of Child-birth also the Name of a Noble Roman Lady who turning Christian Dedicated her stately Palace to be a Church or Meeting Place for the Assembly of Christians Lucretia a Roman Lady who being ravisht by Tarquin killed her self which occasion'd the Expulsion of King out of Rome Labda the lame Daughter of Amphion despised by the rest of the Bâ—tchidae Lachesis one of the three Destinies Lactary l. a Darie-house Lactucina a Roman Goddess over Corn when the Eaâ—s began to fill Ladies-bedstram an herb in dry pastures with small leaves and yellow flowers Ladies-bomer a plant with abundance of small branches and leaves fit to make Arbours for Ladies Ladies-mantle with a neat indented leaf almost like a Star Ladies-smocks a kind of water-cresses Lady-traces a kind of Sâ—tyrium or Orchis Lair-wire Lerherwire Leger-geldum an ancient Custom of punishing Adultery and Fornication by the Lords of some Mannors Laius Jocasta's Husband after whose death she married his Son Oedipus Lamia a Harlot to whom the Iâ—ebins built a Temple Lamiae l. Fairies or Female Spirits Love What is it Answ. 'T is very much like Light a thing that every Body Knows and yet none can tell what to make of it 'T is not Money Fortune Joynture Raving Stabbing Hanging Romancing Flouncing Swearing Ramping Desiring Fighting Dying though all those have been are and â—ill will be mistaken and miscalled for it What shall we say of it 't is a pretty little soft thing that plays about the Heart and those who have it will know it well enough by this Description 'T is extreamly like a 〈◊〉 and could we find a Painter could draw one you 'd easily mistake it for the other 'T is all â—ver Eyes so far is it from being blind as some old Dotards have describ'd it who certainly were Blind themselves It has a Mouth too and a pair of pretty Hands but yet the Hands speak and you may feel at a distance every Word that comes from the Mouth gently stealing through your very Soul But we dare not make any further Enquiries least we should raise a Spirit too powerful for all our Art to lay again Athens Lactea Febris the Milk Fever that which comes upon Child-bed Women on the First Days Lobers Logick is the Art of discerning true Love from that which is counterfeir and of arguing exactly upon all things that may befal them Love-spots there is one thing only that I cannot think of without indignation nor speak of but with Passion that is of Love-spots and Painting Oh the earnest and holy zeal of the Ancients against this I would rather speak in their words than mine own Tertullian bitterly he calls painted Women Ancillas Diaboli The Devils waiting-women I remember I once made use of and alluded to a Similitude of Cyprians in the presence of some great Women of quality suppose one should come into the Kings Gallery and daub some other colors over a Picture that the King had hung there being the work of an excellent Artist would not the King be much displeased at it You are Gods own workmanship do ye despise his hand that ye presume to alter it and pretend to mend it Painting and Spotting make a discovery of an unchast Mind Yea the Fathers do generally speak in the manner when the case was put to Augustine by his friend Possidonius he determines it to be an Adulterous fallacy And Ambrose goeth so far that he saith it is worse than Adultery and he gives Reasons for it Modest Woman I allow her a lawful difference of apparel according to the difference of her Quality and Estate Letters Directions to Young Ladies in writing them First
Food with her into the Prison however her Mother subsisting beyond what could be suspected the Jaylor watched the Daughter and at last found she had supported her with the Milk from her Breasts which known the Consul pardoned the Mother and highly praised the Daughter and in Memory of this An Altar was raised to Piety in the place where the Prison stood Sir Thomas Moor being Lord Chancellor of England at the same time that his Father was a Judge of the Keng's Bench he would always at his going to Westminster go first to the King's Bench and ask his Fathers Blessing before he went to sit in the Chancery There happened in Sicily as it hath often an Eruption of Aetna now called Mount Gibel it murmurs burns belches up Flames and throws out its fiery Entrails making all the World to fly from it It happened then that in this Violent and horrible breach of Flames every one flying and carrying away what they had most precious with them two Sons the one called Anagias the other Amphinomius careless of the Wealth and Goods of their Houses reflected on their Father and Mother both very old who could not save themselves from the fire by flight And where shall we said they find a more precious Treasure then those who begat us The one took up his Father on his Shoulders the other his Mother and so made passage through the Flames It is an admirable thing that God in consideration of this Piety though Pagans did a Miracle for the Monuments of all Antiquity witness that the devouring Flames staid at this Spectacle and the Fire wasting and broiling all about them the way only thro' which these two good Sons passed was tapistried with fresh Vendure and called afterwards by Posterity the Field of the Pious in Memory of this Accident Love in former times when Sacrifices attended the Hymenial Rites as part of the Ceremony that it might not be imbittered the Gall of the Beast was not us'd but cast on the ground to signifie that between the young Couple there should be nothing of that Nature to disturb their Felicity but that instead of discontent Sweetness and Love should fill up the whole space of their Lives and indeed it is the best Harmony in the World where a Man and Woman have the pleasant Muâ—â—â—â— of Contentment and Peace to refresh them in their dwellings whilst they make their study to encrease their Happiness This is as comely a sight as Apples of Gold set in Pictures of Silver or Brethren living together in Unity Love was so powerful with Plautius Nuâ—â—â— that hearing his Wife was dead he killed himself Darius after he had grievously lamented the loss of his Wife Statira as thinking she had perished in the General 〈◊〉 Alexander had given his Army was so over-joyed when he heard she was safe and honourably used by the Conqueror that he prayed that Alexander might be fortunate in all things although he was his Enemy Two large Snakes Male and Female being found in the House of Titus Gracchus the Augurs or Soothsayers told him That if the Male was let go his Wife should die first but if the Female himself should die first Then pray said he let the Female Snake go that Cornelia may live by my Death and so the Historians say it happened for he died in a few years after and leaving her a Widow she refused the King of Egypt in Marriage the better to preserve the Memory of her deceased Husband Ferdinand King of Spain married Elizabeth the Sister of Ferdinand Son of John King of Arragon Great were the Virtues of this admirable Princess whereby she gained so much upon the heart of her Husband a valiant and fortunate Prince that he admitted her to an equal share in the Government of the Kingdom with himself wherein they lived with such mutual agreement as the like hath not been known amongst any of the Kings and Queens of that Countrey There was nothing done in the Affairs of State but what was debated ordained and subscribed by both the Kingdom of Spain was a Name common to them both Ambassadors were sent abroad in both their Names Armies and Soldiers were levied and formed in both their Names and so was the whole Wars and also Civil Affairs that King Ferdinand did not Challange to himself an Authority in any thing or in any respect greater than that whereunto he had admitted this his beloved Wise. Love so bound the Soul of a Neopolitan to his fair and vertuous Wife that she being surprized by some Moorish Pirates who privately landed in a Creek and then put off again with their Prize that whilst they yet Cruiz'd near the Shoar he threw himself into the Sea and swam to their Ship and calling to the Captain told him He was come a voluntary Prisoner because he must needs follow his Wife not scaring the Barbarism of the Enemies of the Christian Faith nor Bondage for the Love of her who was so near and dear to him The Moors were full of admiration at so great a proof of Affection yet carry'd him to Tunis where the Story of his conjugal Affections being rumour'd abroad it came to the Ear of the King of that Countrey who wondring at so strange a thing and moved with Compassion to such a Lover ordered them their Liberty and placed the Man as a Soldier in his Life-guard Love in this a Passiâ—n is so strange It hides all fauits and ne'r is gi'n to change it uneclips'd in it's full Blaze shines bright Pure in it self it wants no borrowed Light Nor sets till Death draws the dark Scene of Night Liberty is so sweet and pleasant that all Creatures naturally cover it and though irrational are uneasie under restraint or Confinenmet The Romans of old had so high an Esteem of it that they priz'd it before all things in the World and thought it worthy of Veneration making it one of their Goddesses erected and dedicated Temples in Honour of it and esteemed Life in Golden Chains of Bondage not worth regarding and their greatest Offenders were punished with Interdiction Religation Deportation and such like accounting it worse than any other Severity as knowing without it the mind becomes a tormentor not only to it self but to the Body by wasting and consuming it with Grief and Anguish and that a Man will refuse no kind of Hardship nor Danger to secure his Liberty but Sacrifice their chiefest Ornaments and even Life it self as precious as it is to the uttermost hazard to preserve it Many Cities rather than fall into the hands of their Enemies and become Captives have been turned by their Citizens into an Acheldama of Blood and spread Ghastly Scenes of Death to amaze and slartle their most cruel Enemies When Hannibal had besieged the City of Saguntum nine Months and Famine warring within their Walls so that they found themselves in a great straight and without hopes of Succour but that they must fall into
it Men say and say again to the Women how much they are smitten at the sight of their Necks and Shapes The Women know the pernicious Effects which the beauty of their Shapes and Necks produce in the minds of men when by their naked Breasts they do not only expose themselves to the loss of their Reputation but they do greatly run the hazard of losing their Innocence too Their Chastity is even struck and wounded by every glance of a loose and wanton Eye and their modesty is shockt by the vain Approbations which are given them the Idea of their Breasts does not less enter into their imagination than into that of the men who consider it attentively and commend it and as they most commonly do joyn the Idea of all the Body to that of their Breasts being persuaded that they shew the beauty of the one to make that of the other be better judged of There is no Age nor Quality which exempâ—s a Man from being tempted by the sight of a naked neck or breast and the Inclination that Nature inspires into us for our Neighbours proves oftentimes a disposition to the dishonest Love which the Devil suggests to us After this what can there be alledged for the Justification of those Maids and Women who affect going with naked Necks Will they say that they ought to be suffered to uncover their Necks c. since 't is lawful that they should go with their Faces bare It may be answered them it is only through condescension that the Church allows them to go without a Veil over their heads and that this relaxing of the modesty of the First Christians cannot serve for a reason to give them greater liberty and to conform themselves wholly to the Vanities of the Age. In my Opinion nothing discovers lightness so much as to make strange Eyes familiar with the knowledge of your Breast No serious Judgment can conceipt less than lightly of such exposed beauty which that Epigrammatist glanced at happily when seeing one of these amorous Girles who had no meaning to lead Apes in hell but would rather impawn her honour than enter any Vestall Order attyred in a light wanton Habit and breast displayed and this in Lent time when graver attire and a more confined bosome might have better becom'd her he wrote these Lines Nunc emere hand fas est est Quadragesima carnes Quin mulier mammas contegu ergo tuas With breasts laid out why should I Shambles tempt It's held unlawful to buy flesh in Lent Dainty Nipples said that excellent Moralist to a wanton Gallants why doe ye so labour to tempt and take deluded eyes must not poor wormelins one day tugg you Must those enazured Orbes for ever retaine their beauty Must Nature in such ample measure shew her bounty and you recompence her love with lying snaires to purchase fancy These instances I the rather insist on because there is nothing that impeacheth civil same more than these outward phantastick fooleries Where the eye gives way to opinion and a conceipt is conveyed to the Heart by the outward sense For as by the Countenance piety is impaired so by the Eyes is chastity impeached Where this is and hath been ever held for an undoubted Maxim Immodest eyes are Messengers of an unguarded heart The principal means then to preserve reputation is to avoyd all occasion of suspicion And forasmuch as we may suffer in our same through trifles as well as motives of higher importance we are to be cautious in the least lest we be censured in these though we send not in the greatest Nuns their Institutions Nuns The end of Constituting them was a design of continued Chastity under certain Vows that once being entered into were not to be Violated but to continue Virgins that so the Cares and Troubles of the World which too frequently happen in a Married Life might not hinder them from Dressing and Adorning their Souls with Robes of Righteousness to be fit Spouses for the Glorious Bridegroom at his coming into the Marriage-Chamber of Eternal Rest but tho it was intended to a good end in like manner other Pious Institutions was corrupted in time Pope Pius the first among the Christians allowed Nunneries Decreeing that none till they were of Understanding should be admitted and that then it should be done Voluntarily not by wheedling or compulsion and they to be twelve years old at least and their Consecration to be on Epiphany Easter-Eve or the Feast of the Apostles except when any that had made that Vow of Chastity fell sick without hope of Recovery and that none should meddle with a Cup or put Incence into the Cenior was the Decree of Secherus in the year 175. St. Paul Intimates it to be a good Institution when he says Let no Widdow be chosen before she be threescore years of Age and Jepthas Daughter is not allowed by the best Writers to be Sacrificed for that would have been an Abomination to the Lord as strictly forbid by the Mosaick Law but that she was made a recluce and kept a single Life which occasioned the Daughters of Israel to go up to visit and comfort her in her solitary state Nunnery a Colledg of Nuns that were Christians were usually Consecrated by the Bishop or Priest who covered them with a Veil the Abot or Abtress upon pain of Excommunication not being to meddle in it the Virgin to be Consecrated was presented to the Bishop in her Nuns Attire standing at the Altar with Tapors burning and Musick when at the puting on the Veil these words were expressed viz. Bohold Daughter and forget thy Fathers House that the King may take pleasure in thy Beauty to which all the People present saying Amen the Veil was cast over her and the Religious Women that were to Enjoy her Society Kissed and Embraced her after which the Bishop blessed her and Praying for her she departed to her place there to be Instructed by her Seniors in good Works and for this purpose many Nunnerys were erecteâ— in all parts of Christendom and at first there was something extraordinary of Devotion in it but at length it has degenerated and corrupted as many things whose Original Institutions were very commendable have done for no Cloyster or Stone-wall can keep out 〈◊〉 thoughts where the mind is impure for Love and Lust will find a way to be satisfied even in these retirements of which many give large instances but we not so much as dreaming that the Ladies of our Nation will be over hasty to part with their sweet Liberty for such unprofitable Confinements it matters not whether we enlarge upon this Subject or briefly touch upon it for the sake of variety Nose Remâ—dies for such Vices as are Incident to it Noses are the ornaments of Faces beauty is a nice and cleanly Dame who loves to have the Nose tho but the sink of the brain to convey from it what is noxious kept neat and handsome as well as
Darius Ocohus she was of a cruel nature causing Satira her son Attaxerxus Wife to be poysoned because she out-vied her in Reavâ—y She put divers others to death in her Son's Reign who conselled him to suppress her Tyranny Pasiphe Daughter to Apollo or the Sun She was Wife to Minos the King 〈◊〉 Creet yet falling passionately in love with a Young Buli 〈◊〉 framed a Cow of Wood covered with the Skin of an Heifer She found means to enjoy her bestial desire She was brought to bed of the Minotaur half Man and half Beast which did great mischief in the Country till Theseus came and destroyed it in the Labyrinth Patalena an Hâ—athenish Goddess taken notice of by St. Augustine in his book de Civitate Dei and her Care was assigned her over Corn just coming out of the Earth in its Sprout or Blade the word being derived from Patera to open or disclose the Earth at its first coming up Pavence was stiled a Goddess in ancient Times much adored by Mothers and Nurses to whose Care and Protection they recommended their Infant Children others say they made a Bugbear of her Name to fright them into quietness when they were froward Paula a Pious Matron remark for her good works and Alms-deeds She made it her business to do good and died in the high Esteem of all good Christians at the age of Fifty six Years and Eight Months Paulina Wife to Seneca the famous Philosopher Nero's Tutor when she heard that the doom'd him to Death and that he had chosen to bleed to Death by cutting his Veins resolved to accompany him in Death in the same manner and ordered her Veins to be opened at the same time her husband 's were that she might at company him to the other world but Nero through a Tyrant delighting in blood out of pity commanded it to be prevented Penelope Wife of Vlysses and Daughter to Icarius was Mother to Telamachus She was wife and beautiful and though in her Husband's absence Twenty Years at the wars of Troy and his dangerous Voyage home many Rich and Powerful Sweethearts courted her she put them by till her husband came home who with the help of his Swinherd and Son slew them Penthesilia Queen of the Amazons who came for the love she bore to Hector Son of Priam with a gallant Army of women to fight for the Trojans agaiust the Greeks and did wonders till she was stain in pressing too far into the fight by the hand of Aechilles Peta a Goddess adored by the Ancients for that they believed she took care of Suits Petitions and Requests made in Law Coures and to Kings or other greatmen Phaetusa accounted one of Heliades aod Sister to Phaeton and as seigned to be turned into a Poplar Tree during the Extraordinary Lamentation she made for the Death of her brother thrown headlong from the Battlements of the Skies by Jupiter's Thunder for burning a great part of the word by misguiding the Chariot of the Sun Phedima Dotanes a Lord of Persia's Daughter she marry'd smerdis the Son of Cyrus King of Persia and after his Death she was Wife to the Magician who usurped the Persian Monarchy by declaring himself to be the same Smerdis that was supposed to be put to Death by Cambyses his brother upon the account of a Dream he had wherein he fancy'd he sat on the Persian Throne and his Head reached the Sky But this Lady being charged by he Father to make a discovery of the Impostor did so by taking an opportunity when he was asleep to feel for his Ears but finding none she then concluded it was the Magician Spandabalus whose Ears Cyrus had cut off for his Crimes of which having given Information the Lords of Persia assembled and forcing his Guards kill'd him together with his brother and chose Darius King Pherenice she was Daughter to Diagoras King of the Rhodians she took great delight in the Olimpick Games and coming thither disguised in man 's apparel often bore away the price in running with the nimblest Youths of Greece and brought up her Son to be so expert in it that he was always Victor Philippa Catenisa of a Laundress came to be Governess of the King of Naples Children She it was who incited Queen Jane of Naples to consent to the death of her Husband Andrew of Hungary by somenâ—â—ing the differences between them and had an hand first strangling him and then hanging him out at a Window in the City of Aversa for which she afterward suffered a cruel death by torments Phyllis she was Daughter to Lycurgus King of the Thracians she fell in love with Demophoon the Son of Theseus in his return from the Trojan Wars and granted him her choicest Favours upon promise when he had setled affairs in his own Country to return and marry her but being detained too long by contrary Winds in his way she thinking he had flighted and forsaken her after much lamenting her folly and misfortune committed greater in hanging her self It is fabled that the Gods in compassion turned her into an Almond Tree but without leaves yet Demophoon no sooner embrac'd it but it shot out leaves and flourished exceedingly Periades held to be the Daughters or Pierus Prince of the Macedonians she being given much to Poetry thought her self more expert in Numbers and singing than the the Muses thereupon sent them a bold Challenge for a Trial of the Skill which they accepting and remaning Victors they are said to turn this Lady into a Magpy and sent her to chatter in the Woods and Hedges c. Plety worthily held by the Pagans for a great Virtue and Good and for that cause they â—iâ—led her a Goddess and pay'd her Adoration and to her care they committed their good Thoughts and Actions also the Education of their Children c. Pyrene a Lady whom Hercules got with child upon promise to return and marry her but he delaying and her Womb increasing she fled from the Father's anger to the Mountains between Spain and France where she was thought to be devoured of Wild Beasts yet lest a lasting Monument behind her those Hills upon the occasion being called by her Name Placidia Galla Daughter to Theodosius the Great Emperour she was also Sister to Honorius and Arcadius who were likewise Emperours and afterwards Mother to Valentinian the Third she was taken Caprive by Alathulsus King of the Huns c. who marry'd her for her Beauty Wit and pleasing Humour So that by her Ascendant over him she diverted him from his Purpose utterly to raze and destroy the City of Rome Placidia Daughter to Valentinian the Third Emperour and Eudoâ—ia his Empress She was carried away by the Vandels but restored soaa after and honourably marry'd the Senator Plectruda Queen to Pippin called the Fat. After her Husband's Death she took upon her the Govenment of the Kingdom in the behalf of her Grand-son a Child and put Charles Martel whom Pippin had by
Councils and Valorous Exploits have made their Wars prosperous and obliged their proudest Enemies to humble themselves and accept the Conditions of peace Learning though men have laboured to â—eep them in Ignorance hâ—s never been a stranger to their Sex Great has been their Sagacities and Numberless their Worhty Labours Hâ—re Virtue has appear'd in iâ—â— Richest Array and raised Wonder and Admiration in those that have contemplatâ—d it insomuch that it has sham'd the Eâ—vious and made them blush â—or the Scandals and Reproaches they have utter'd and their pious Examples have so regulated the world that a Lycurgus or a Solon could have done no more then let us not so far forget our selves as to dishonour those by our calumnies or detraction who are the honour of mankind but rather value and esteem them as near as we can â—ccording to 〈◊〉 worth and â—â—riâ— and â—e â—â—â—teful in prizing such a Treaâ—â—â—â— as a Modern Poeâ— has 〈◊〉 â—he pains to do viz. Woman the loveliest creature Nature made Shou'd weâ—t not sin have adoration paid Have Shrines and Altars rais'd and Temples too But Praises are the least that are her due So soft so loving charming and so kind That all the creatures to mans use assign'd Compriz'd in one all that in them is rare Cannot by inâ—inite degree with her compare Search for the Vnicorn of Indian breed For the Camelion that on Air does feed For the gay Phoenix in Araâ—ia's field Or fâ—r the Gold and Gems oâ—tâ— India's yield Nay look where all the Snow white Lillys 〈◊〉 In native pureâ—â—ss or where Rivers slow View all the gaudy plumes which on the wind Expand and through the yeilding Air free passage find And all those animals Earth do's contain The numerous Fry that brood the swelling main And still add more let Flora's Glory come Nay 〈◊〉 golden Crop with sweâ—â—â—â—â— ht home Let tâ—â—â—â— what of this kind thâ—â—◠〈◊〉 â—rame In one 〈◊〉 in one their worth Proâ—â— Compar'd with Woman scarce they 'l find a Name Reason it is we should conclude thâ—t God the Infinite and all wise Creator best knowing what would render mans happiness most perfect in an Innocent stâ—te would not have given him any thing that should have been unnecessary or distastful to him for we are not because some urge it was only for the sake of Generation to shorten his hand but must allow he might have Created men and made them like all other Creatures by this powerful word spring up from the dust we confess indeed Generation is a main end of the difference of Sexes as they now are distinguished but there is more in it a sweet harmony in the society a soft and gentle contâ—xtuâ—e of Minds uniting in Love and all the cordial Endearments that can make Life the morâ— dâ—sirable a closet oâ— Truth 〈◊〉 â—â—pose the most secret though and an Amulet for Cares aâ—d fears that may arise Adam â—â—d he been alone probaâ—ly might have yeilded to 〈◊〉 Devils Temptation and 〈◊〉 into what a solitary Misery had he fallen to be alone in Deserts or Wildernesses without hope of Comfort from any and indeed we find now tho the world is populous that man is in some degree termed but half himself without an happy câ—junction with one of the Fair Sex he is a kind of Vagrant and Wanderer a thing without a Center to six him he is as it were a Traveller in the Earâ—h having no certain home that can be pleasant to him his m'nd is roving and he aims at something it covets but he knows not well what innocent Conversâ—tion with Male Friends is pleasant to him but that does not satisfy he wants a Cabinet to deposit secrets in that he cares not to reveal to Father or Mother or the nearest Relation and surely let his sâ—â—rch never so curious he can never find any so trusty as Virtuous Wise there is iâ— such a Marriage so close an Union that what he intrust â—â— her he intrusts himself 〈◊〉 for she knows his misfortunes are her own and she will run any danger and hazard rather than beâ—ray her trust no 〈◊〉 by Inadvertancy her caution being always great in such affairs so that without this material part of himself we conclude a man is wanting in that which should make him happy in the world Lady Russel one of the four Daughters of Sir Anthony Cook Rumia a Goddess that rul'd over sucking Children and Womans Paps Rape raptus is a Felony committed by a man in the violent deflowering a Woman be she old or young Brit. c. 1. This offence is with us Felony in the principal and his aiders Anno 11. H. 4. c. 23. Anno 1. Edw. 4. cap. 1. West 2. cap. 23. Rhetorick g. the Art of speaking eloquently or well and wisely Ravishment Fr. ravishment i. direptio raptus c. signifies in our Law an unlawful taking awaâ— either a woman or an 〈◊〉 Ward sometime it is used also in one signification wiâ—h rape viz. the violent deflowring a Woman Rebecca Hebr fat and full a womans Nâ—me Regamancy mation l. a loving them that love us Relut l. a Widow or any thing that is left Rum Mort a curious Wench Runcina the Goddess of Runcation l. weeding Rosimunda Sa Rose of peace she was forced by Herminges to drink the Poyson which she offered him by whom she had procured the Death of her Husband Alboinus King of the Lombards because he drank a Health to her in a cup made of her Fathers skull Rose The Flower of Venus consecrated by Cupid to Harpocrates the God of Silence Under the Rose among private lovers not to be divulged Repudiate repudio to forsake as one doth his wife to refuse or put away The antient Romans had three kinds of Separation in Marriage The first they called Repudiation which was donâ— by the man against the will of the woman and the first man that thus repudiated his Wife was Spurius Carvilius because she was barren 〈◊〉 The second manner was called Divorce and this was done with the consent of both and to 〈◊〉 of them it was permitted to require it the party suing for it used these words Res tuas tibe babeto vel Res 〈◊〉 tibi agito The third was termed Direption and this was done according to the Princes will 1 part Tr. of times Rationibali parte honorum a writ for the Widow or children claiming the thirds Reasonable aid was a duty claimed by the Lord to marry his Daughter or Knight his eldest Son Remembrance a Preception whereby the Ideas of things before perceived and impressed upon the Mind by Sensation or other Preception are again offered and represented to the Soul by the Mediation of Animal Spirits in the common Sensory either by their former Footsteps and Images Impressed upon the Brain or by some Words or other Signs which awakened and stirred them up Or Reminiscence is an Arbitrary drawing out of things which were before impreâ—de upon the Brain for its own use