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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06133	The choyce of ievvels. By Lodowik Lloid Esquier	Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610.	1607 (1607)	STC 16618; ESTC S108763	23,505	48

and stones should condemne vs of too much forgetfulnesse Sith neither Syracusa with their conuoyes and prouision to the Romanes at Thrasymenum neither Tyre nor Sydon with their Caedars of Lybanon to Ierusalem were so forward as Denmark was of late to England but as Masinissa sayd of the Romanes that there was one kind of people vpon the earth the people of Rome and among that one people one Scipio to whom he fully deuoted himselfe as one whose soule rested in Scipioes bodie the like sayd Hyra King of Tyre of Salomon King of Israel But neither Hyra with his Sydonians was more grateful to Salomon King of Israel nor Masinissa with his Numidians more louing to Scipio the Romane Consul than Christianus King of Denmarke was to Iames King of great Britane whom neither heauens earth nor seas neither Kingdomes nor Court could keepe that louing King from his loue to come from Denmark as a crowned starre of the North to shine in England and to come to celebrate and to renew the name of great Britane to see the Queene his Sister his Nephew and the rest of the Kings children the sound and sacred anchor of three Kingdomes O loue immortall not to be wayed in ballance not with measure to be measured not knitted with Gordius knot to be cut by Alexanders sword neither with Hercules knot to be vnknitted by Phoebus sith all prophane Histories cannot allow but eight onely of the like loue but not eight Kings most seldome two For to see a King out of his kingdome is as strange as to see the Sunne out of the skie Let England bee of equall loue with Denmarke sith loue is recompensed with loue iustly weyed in equall ballance not with Philips siluer swords in Greece not with Artaxerxes golden Archers in Persia but with Pythagoras weapons one minde one heart and one soule perpetuall weapons the triumphes thereof haue their euerlasting tropheis Among such what needs such leagues and couenants to dippe our weapons in blood as the Scythians did or die our clothes in blood as the Armenians did or to drinke blood out of our armes as the Medians and Lydians did Sith the league between great Britane and Denmarke is consecrated with inward blood of mutuall hearts and confirmed with the entrals and bowels of naturall Parents that two Sunnes may be sooner found to agree in the skie than these two Kings to disagree on earth This God hath appointed nature confirmed fates allowed and fortune thereto agreed Hence grow the cause of our publicke Iubilies and crowned feasts our dayly tropheis and perpetuall triumphes that as the Romans loued and agreed with the Sabins yeelding thanks to their God in the Feast Consualia so the Britanes with the Danes yeelding thanks to their God Iehouah in their Feasts Scaenopegia The Choyse of Iewels THE Empire of Women and Courts of Queenes euen frō Semiramis time haue gouerned countries and kingdomes subdued Realmes ruled States and brought vnder their obeysance both Kings and kingdomes as also before Semiramis time it may ●ee●e probable for that Asia the greatest part of the world was named Asia by a Queene of that name which then dwelt in Asi● whose fame continued vntill Semiramis the second Empresse whose martiall exploytes and gouernment hath been such if authorities may serue as neither Alexander the great could exceede in magnanimitie nor Cyrus in victories nor Xerxes in multitude of souldiers Wee leaue the Court of Sardanapalus King of Assiria who during his life exceeded in all effeminate wantōnesse hauing his Court full of such Iewels as he was wont to ●it amongst them in womans apparell among such light and shamelesse women where women were in mens apparell and men in womens apparell of which I will omit to speake But I will begin with those women that were speciall Iewels appointed not only to saue his people but to saue kingdomes and countryes not only among christi●ns but among Heathens and Pagans DEBORA a woman which dwelt in Mount Ephraim and iudged Israel fourty yeares vanquished the Chananites and slue Sisera HVLDAH a Prophetesse which dwelt in Ierusalem to whome king I●sia● after the law booke was found sent for Councell to know how and what way God might be pleased with Israell Who knoweth not but Rebecca by God appoynted councelled her sonne Iacob to flee from his brother Esau to M●sopotamia where God appoynted such two Iewels for him as made him the father of the 12 Tribes of Israell in whome he and his posteritie was blessed by the seede of LEA a woman IOSEPH a man sent by God to Egipt though sold by his brethren where the like Iewell was appoynted him to weete Assanetha an Egiptian the mother of Manasses and Ephraim two adopted Tribes in Israell by whome during Iosephs life the Hebrews were Lords of the land of Goshen and free from their bondage in Egipt Was not THERMVTIS the Kings daughter of Egipt a Iewell appointed to saue Moses from drowning in Nilus to name him Moses to bring him vpp as her sonne adoptiue to possesse the Crowne in spight of their Priests of Memphis ESTHER an Hebrew maide maried to A●ashuerosh the great King of Persia a Iewell of God not only appointed to saue M●rdocheus her vnckle but all the Iewes her country-men within an hundred seauen and twenty Prouinces with the daunger of her owne life and the destruction of Seauenty and fiue thousand Persi●ns and the hanging of H●man and his ten sonnes In Bethulia a woman widdow ventured more then any man either Cyrus Alexander Or Caesar in their owne persons as shee did who brought Holofer●●● head in a bagge through the Assirian campe to 〈◊〉 whereby the whole Assirian army was ouerthrowne A famous victorie for a woman to be recorded for the fame of women Obserue therefore how God chiefly by women in all countries saued and defended his people In Mesopotamia by Labans daughters Lea Rachell In Egipt by THERMVTIS King Pharoes daughter In Ethiopia by Tharbis the King of Ethiops daughter whom Moses maried and made her a christian whome Pharaoh and the Priests of Egipt gaue him to th' end to slay him as Saul sent Dauid to the Philistians for the like purpose In Persia by ESTHER King Ahashuerosh wife In Bethulia by Iudith a widdow these were peculier women by God appoynted What should wee seeke proofes far off when we haue examples at home Had we not in England such a Iewell as combined Fraunce vnto England And another Iewell that brought Scotland vnto England being two women Had we not such a Iewell of a woman in England after tenne terrible battels wherein there were a Hundred Knights and Barons slayne tenne Princes and Dukes destroyed and one Hundred thousand Englishmen slayne in the field between the houses of Lancaster and Yorke a woman being the onely cause of a perpetuall League betweene both houses And euen at this present wee enioye such a Iewell that will blesse

Brittane both with Tribes and Kings as Lea and Ruth did Israell This onely shall suffice that kingdomes and Realmes are combined and ioyned together in perpetuall League of amity by women generally And sithence in the seed of a woman all the people of God are blessed I neede not to name the virgin Mary whose wombe was blessed that bare him and her paps that gaue him sucke Nor make mencion of such women long before Mary of whome lineally Christ descended as Lea and Racheli the wiues of Iacob the mother of the Tribes of Israell of whome the Lyon of ludah and the starre of Iacob descended Ruth the Moabite the wife of Booz the mother of Obed the father of ●sai the father of Dauid of whome came the Kng of Kings How much more then were godly and vertuous women blessed by Angells by Prophets magnified and by Kings and Princes reuerēced Iae●● the wife of Aber the Kenite shal be blessed sayd the Angell for shee slue Sisera King Iabins Generall And the victory of Israell was obtained by a woman as DEBORA sayd to the fame of women Did not Osias the Gouernor of Bethulia and of the army of Israell blesse Iudith And so Achior blessed her saying blessed art thou of thy God in all the Tabernacles of Iacob Tugloria lerusalem Tulaetitia Israell Asmuch and more might be spoken of Queene Est●er But to speake in particular of women it were infinite I shoud but weary the Reader to runne throughout the old and new Testament with the due prayse and commendacions of such Iewels as are fit to attend in Courts of Princes As of the woman of Bahurim by hiding Dauids seruants shee saued their liues from Absalon who made search to destroy the King his father shee onely thereby saued her selfe the Citie and all the Citizens So RAHAB in Iericho hid the Messengers of Ioshua whereby she saued not onely them but also her selfe her family and all the friends that s●● called to her house at the destruction of Iericho The Sunamites wife for her pitie compassi●● of the Prophet Elizeus to make him a cham●● in the house to feed him being the man of Go● The Widdow of Sarepta entertained 〈◊〉 with all the wealth she had which was a handfull of flowre a little cruise full of Oyle See a woman was appointed to feed Elias a woman to make a chamber to welcome Elizeus in Such Iewels are to be entertained in Courts of Kings who are alwaies readie for good and godly suits and not with Moloch his reaching hand and his Caemorims Priests nor with Iudas with open hands to take what they will Againe to speake of wise and discreet women who could be wiser than ABIGAIL Nabals wife who by her wisedome so intreated Dauid that she saued her husbands life and after became Queene in Israell euen king Dauids wife The woman of Abella who with her wisedome councelled with the chiefe Magistrates of Abella and brought Sebaes head the Traitor and threw it ouer the wall to Ioab when neither Ioab offered peace nor the Magistrates of Abella sought peace yet she saued the Towne and the Armie of Israel from much slaughter I will therefore conclude with an Epilogue of the new Testament of women that farre excelled men in faith in constancie and in seruice of the Lord. I will omit to speake of Marie Magdalen Ioanna the wife of Chusa Herods Steward of Susanna with many other such women which ministred to the Lord as he trauailed to preach I need not make mention of Anna who prophesied of Christ to the people receiuing Christ in her armes at Ierusalem confessed as Simeon did the redemption of Israel but euen of Pilates wife whē all men cried Crucifige to crucifie Christ yet this only womā endeuored to perswade her husband Pilate to wash his hands frō such a wicked fact affirming he was a just and a godly man I sieldome read of such faith in a man as of the woman who desired but to touch the hem of Christs garment and to be healed thereby as she confessed to whom Christ said her faith had made her whole Now hauing heard that as women ministred vnto Christ in his preaching so women followed him to his death and also attended him to his graue and more women were at Christs death than men and as it seemed wept more bitterly than those fewe men that were there No doubt Iohn the Euangelist wept Ioseph of Arymathia and Nichodemus wept and a few others wept of whose weeping Christ took no notice but to the women who were many wept much the Lord spake saying why weepe ye for me yee daughters of Syon with much compassion he pittied the women who much lamented his death and after his death Christ first appeared to women when the Apostles fled forsooke and denyed him I know most men doubted of Christ his resurrection yea the Apostles whome the Lord reprehended for their incredulity because they would not beleeue Mary Magdalen to whome the Lord first appeared neither would the Apostles beleeue the other women whome the Angell sent to tell them that the Lord was risen and went before them into Gal●lie Marke how the Lord spake to women his last words at his death and likewise appeared twice to women after his death before he appeared to his Apostles If you reade prophane histories you shall find Asia first christened by a woman so named And Europe by the name of a woman called Europe Agenors daughter King of Phaenicia Scithia of a woman that sprang out of the earth and named her sonne Scytha The Romans might better brag of Rhea a woman a vestall virgin well knowen the Mother of Romulus than of Rom●●●● whose Father was not knowen or of a farr●● more ancient woman named Roma The Greeks might better bragge of Helena 〈◊〉 woman and not as they would haue it of Hellas 〈◊〉 man Helena made Greeks then vnknowen to be knowne she was the woman that was the whetstone of Greece by this woman the Greekes became first famous But we leaue Asia Europe Phrygia Greece Scythia and Rome if we omit the fame of women in these what should I recite Prouinces and Isles Cities and Townes named after the name of women as Rhodes Corcyra Salamina Aegina of many more which Diodorus writes of to whome I referre you And as the most part of the earth is Christened and named by women so also the most part of the starres are constellated with women not onely with the names of women but with the forme shape and figure of women of which I wish you conferre with that Astronomer Astratus who filled the starres of women considering there be but a thousand and twenty starres names knowne I thinke the most part are figured and named after the names of women I would haue a good Scholler to answere me that