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Female excellency, or, The ladies glory illustrated in the worthy lives and memorable actions of nine famous women, who have been renowned either for virtue or valour in several ages of the world ... : the whole adorned with poems and the picture of each lady / by R.B.
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R. B., 1632?-1725?
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1688
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Wing C7326; ESTC R21134
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Father was so far prevaild on by these discourses that he sent an Executioner to his Son in prison with this Message That a Sword or a Crown were now presented to his choice that if he would renounce his Religion he should be received into favour and enjoy the Scepter after him But if not he should be instantly beheaded in that place Ermangild told him That he would rather dye by a thousands torments than forsake the true faith which he had imbraced and added I thank thee O Almighty God that as thou hast given me a mortal perishing uncertain life from my Father so by his means I shall now receive a glorious and happy life to all Eternity And then kneeling down and praying earnestly for his Father Step-mother and all his enemies and persecutors he cheerfully stretcht out his neck to the Executioner pronouncing the name of his dear Andegona to the last moment and at one blow had his head severed from his body The sad tydings of this lamentable accident arrived to Andegona who had made her escape into Africa where she likewise received the last Letter from her husband out of Prison Her attendants at the news began to make doleful Lamentations as if themselves had been condemned to dye But Andegora kissing the Letter of her dear Lord and then reading it cryed out Ah noble and faithful Soul thou hast acted as a good man ought to do thou hast fought the good fight of Faith and hast now attained the Crown of glory and I desire nothing but to imitate thy constancy Weep not then my Servants for me since it is this day I am a Queen indeed and esteem my self the most happy Princess on earth who have a husband a Martyr in Heaven And then taking her little Son Ermangild almost tired with hard Travel she said Go sweet babe partake of the blessings of your dear Father God hath bestowed great favours in you to be banished already for your Religion go then little Innocent and rejoice with others before the Altar of the Lamb your Mother will not stay long behind you The Child dyed soon after and the magnanimous Andegona having long combated with these Armies of afflictions at length resigned up her Soul with these words O my God the father and son are at rest there now remains nothing but to take the mother I have ended all my hopes in this World why stayest thou O my blessed Saviour to receive my Soul which is now upon my lips Her prayer was heard for a few days after wasted with love travel and desires she died an exemplary death and found a Tomb in Africa FINIS There are Newly Published one and Twenty other very useful pleasant and necessary Books all sold by Nath. 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The History of Ireland from the Conquest thereof unto King Henry the Second to this time With a Relation of the Miraculous Persons and Places in that Countrey A full Account of St. Patrick's Purgatory and divers other memorable Matters Intermix with Variety of Excellent Speeches Strange Accidents Prodigious Appearances and other very considerable things both pleasant and profitable With a List of the Nobility and Great Officers of State in both Kingdoms Illustrated with near Thirty Pictures of several Kings and other extraordinary Observables Price 1 Shilling V. DElights for the Ingenious In above Fifty Select and choice Emblems Divine and Moral Ancient and Modern Curiously Ingraven upon Copper Plates with Fifty delightful Poems and Lots for the more Lively Illustration of each Emblem Whereby Instruction and Good Counsel may be promoted and furthered by an honest and pleasant Recreation To which is prefixed An
cruel battel was fought near a Wood called Calater wherein the Brittains at length discomfited the Norwegians with so great a slaughter that few were left alive Brennus was forced to fly into France where having made his addresses for Succour to several Princes in vain he was at length entertained by Seguin Duke of Savoy or as others say of Armorica called afterward Little Brittain Belin having subdued his Enemies called his Council at York to consult what to do with the King of Denmark where at length it was agreed that he should have his liberty on condition to do homage for his kingdom to the King of England and to pay yearly a thousand pound Tribute Belin now sole Governor of Brittain confirmed his Fathers Laws and finished the four highways begun by him for the convenience of Travel The first was called the Foss beginning at Totnes in Devonshire and passing thence through Sommerset-shire by Tutbury and Cotswald to Coventry Leicester Newark and ending at Lincoln The second named Watling-street which began at Dover passing through the middle of Kent over Thames neer Westminster and thence to Saint Albans Dunstable Stratford Worcester Cardigan and the Irish Sea The third was Erminstreet beginning at St. Davids in Wales and stretching to Southampton The fourth Hicknelstreet going from Worcester to Winchcomb Brumigam Litchfield Darby Chesterfield York and ending at Tynmouth Castle Belin thus imployed in the affairs of his Realm his brother Brennus who fled into France only with eleven persons being a compleat handsom Gentleman and a Man of honour and courage became a very great Favourite to Duke Seguin who for his worthy qualities gave him his daughter in marriage and declared that if he dyed without issue Male he should succeed but if otherwise then his heir should assist Brennus in recovering his rightful inheritance from his brother Belin These conditions being mutually assented to by the Duke his Nobility Brennus about a year after Seguin died and his Dutchess not being with Child by him the Lords of the Countrey received Brennus for their Supream Governor Being setled in his Government he raises an Army wherewith he lands in Brittain to make war on his brother who soon assembles his forces to entertain him but being just ready to join in battel by the intercession of their mother who interposed between the Armies and used all manner of tender perswasions to them not to go on thus to destroy and ruin themselves and their Subjects she prevailed so far that a perfect agreement and friendship was confirmed between them After which both coming to London they called their Peers and Councellors together to advise about setling their Dominions where it was at length accorded between them that both Armies should go into Gallia to subdue that Countrey where they had such notable success that in a short time saith Jeffery of Monmouth they conquered most part of Gallia Italy and Germany and at length took the City of Rome it self if at least these be those Commanders who led the Gauls into Italy and made such devastations in that part of Europe Having passed the Alpes and arriving in Tuscany they besiege the City of Clusium which being distressed sent to Rome for succor the Romans thô they had no League with the Clusians yet considering it might soon be their own condition sent Ambassadors to the Captains of the Gauls in the name of the Senate not to molest their Neighbours and friends to which Brennus returned answer That they were willing to make peace with the Clusians if they would consent to let them have part of their Countrey who had more than they could imploy but otherwise no peace would be granted The Ambassadors offended at this demand asked What they had to do in Tuscany Which raising fierce disputes they at length resolved to end the matter by arms and the Ambassadors contrary to the Law of Nations went presently and joined themselves to the Clusians incouraging them to hold out the City which so inraged the Gauls that with one voice they required their Princes to raise the Siege from Clusium that they might go and take Rome itself Brennus first sent Messengers to the Senate requiring that those who had thus broken the Laws might be punished as they deserved but the Ambassadors were so far from being blamed that they were chosen Tribunes for their good Service Whereat the Gaules were so much provok'd that they instantly marched toward Rome destroying all before them The Romans at length met them with an Army of Forty thousand and ingaging near the River Albia about eleven miles from Rome the Romans were quickly discomfited and overthrown The Gauls could hardly believe they had got the victory with so small resistance but perceiving all had left the Field they got together the plunder and marched directly to Rome at whose approach the Citizens were so affrighted that the young Senators and all the youthful Gentry retired into the Capitol which they provided with all necessarys for a long Seige The Ancient Fathers and Common people remained still in the City resolving to expect the fate thereof The Gauls soon after entred by the Gate Collina and went directly to the Market place but were much surpriz'd to observe that the Houses of the meaner sort were shut against them but the Greater and richer stood wide open and at first were cautious of entring for fear of Treachery but at length some going in found the Reverend Senators sitting in their Chairs clothed in rich Robes at if they had been in the Senate house with so much gravity and state that the Gauls reverenced them as Gods It happened that Marcus Papyrius struck one of the Gauls on the head with a staff for presuming to stroke his beard wherewith being provoked he instantly slew Papyrius as he sate wherewith the Slaughter being begun all the rest of those Honourable Persons were kill'd in their Chairs the whole City without regard to age or sex suffering the like Calamity with them And thus was Rome taken by the two brethren Belin and Brennus 265 years from the building thereof After this the Gauls attempted to take the Capitol in the night and had certainly succeeded but that some Geese with their noise and crying discovered the design by awaking the Sleeping Romans who seasonably repulsed their enemies Being in great distress they resolved to recall Camillus whom they had unjustly banished and make him Dictator and Sole Commander over all their Lives and Estates who forgetting the injuries done him applied himself instantly for delivering his Countrey and raised as puissant an Army as the time would permit Mean while those in the Capitol being even famished for want of Victuals treated with the Gauls and made an agreement to give them a thousand pound weight in gold for their liberty which being paid they were to march out of the City and all the Roman Territories As the money was weighing some of the covetous Gauls threw their