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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00699	The worth of women	Ferrers, Richard.	1622 (1622)	STC 10832; ESTC S118347	19,469	57

till her time in ignorance did wander Yet afterwards acknowledge none their betters In History Philosophy or Phraise Of eloquence deseruing worthy praise 156 Aretha was in learning so profound That she in Athens publike schoole did read Philosophie with iudgment graue and sound VVherein she did the learnedst man exceed VVhose Auditors as Pollio doth declare Philosophers aboue a hundred were 157 VVhen Lucius Scilla was condemn'd to die Who falsely had three thousand Romains slaine That did vpon his word their liues relie His daughter Loelia did his life obtaine With one oration which she made in Rome Whereat the Senate did reuoke their doom 158 Senobia was in learning so repleate Both Greeke and Latin to her sons she taught And did a rare epitome repeate Of all the warres wherwith the East was fraught Athenian Pericles who soar'd so high Did from Aspasia learne Philosophie 159 Cornelia a famous Roman dame Such eloquent Epistles vs'd to write That Cicero a man of rarest fame Cōmends her workes with wonderful delight With Pallaes help to end rare Lucan broght The battaile Caesar and great Pompey fought 160 Alexandra the wife of Alexander In Iury liu'd a Bishop many yeares Whose learned wisdom like a wise commander Was reuerenc'd both of common-wealth and Peeres Dona the daughter of Pithagoras In sciences a famous scholler was 161 Two Gretian women deepely learn'd indeed The loue of Plato did so highly win That seated in his chaire about to read Before they came he seldome would begin In them saith he sage wisdom doth remaine And memory graue maxims to maintaine 162 In France a sect of women did remaine Cal'd Druides to whom Aurelian came From Rome to France their counsells to obtaine So much their wisdom was renownd by fame Mirrha Queene of Lydia men did call Agiant for her wit in stature small 163 In Rhodes a Roman and a Greeke fell out Who both desir'd their cuntries worth to raise The Greeke cōtest the Romans were more stout But vnto Greece for learning gaue the praise Wherin said he our women more doe know Then you in armes whereof you boast of so 164 Vpon which words a mortall warre insu'd 'Twixt Rome Carthage til the Rodians came VVho earnestly intreate they would conclude To make them empires in this worke of fame To whose request whē they had both agreed The noble Rhodians in this wise proceed 165 Ten Greacian women they in Rhodes ordaine VVith ten of Rome shall disputation hold which they with such rare learning did maintain In leaues of brasse deserues to be inrol'd For with the Rhodiās to their great renown with Lawrell wreathes these famous women crown'd 166 For sollid sentences and learning graue Vnto the Grecians they the praise decreed True eloquence they to the Romans gaue Wherin they thought they did the Greeks exceed But from each side such vertue rare did flow As mē could hardly who were victors know 167 The worthy Rodians in perpetuall praise That after ages might their vertues see To each of them a monument did raise VVhereby their loue shall intermixed be Twenty huge Pillers of victorious fame Whereon was writ each seuerall womans name 168 Two famous Theban virgins being told The Oracle had said they should enioy A conquest from the Orchymenians bold If two chast virgins should thēselues destroy Their country with victorious praise to kill Coragiously their dearest bloud they spill 169 Braue Celia that King Porsenna tooke VVith whom in hostage diuers virgins were With courage stout by night his camp forsook Gat horse and swame a riuer void of feare VVhereat the King amaz'd without delay Did raise his siege and went with shame away 170 Hermonia a Siracusan maid To saue her country did her life defie The wife of Asdruball was lesse afraid VVhen Scipio conquered then himselfe to die Great Mithridates wife and sisters three Shew'd farre lesse feare of death then he 171 Resolued Portia hearing this sad newes Her husband and her father both were slaine That tyrannizing sorrow should abuse Her noble spirit did so much disdaine The burning coales to eate she doth deuise Thus made herselfe a liuing sacrifice 172 The pride of Aegipt that most glorious Queen Did so much scorn great Caesars campe to grace With captine bands wher she shold ly between Dispaire and hope in a contemned case With poisoned Asps whose touch to death doth hie Brauely resolu'd she rather chose to die 173 Philip proclam'd at Scyo euery slaue That would come forth with his army hold With liberty their masters wiues should haue Which when the women heard like lions bold They sally out and to their great renowne Beate Phillip and his army from the towne 174 The Scyots by th' Egiptian sore opprest Vnarm'd to leaue the towne with them agree which when the womē heard they could not rest Vntill they made them change this base decree With sheild and speare vncloth'd they march away Telling their foes that this was their aray 175 Among the Amasons two Queens they chose The forraigne and domestique state to guide Abroad Marpesia did subdue their foes At home Lampeda all things did decide VVith equall iustice void of loue or hate VVhich made them florish in a happy state 176 Constantinople being round beset With furious Gothes that ment it to destroy The Empresse bold to the wall did get VVhere valiantly she did them so annoy That many by her noble hands did die The rest were forst to raise their siege fly 177 Simeramis deserues to be inrold In brasen leaues of euerlasting praise Who by her vallour like a Tygresse bold Her hardy foes inforst their campe to raise From Babilon they surely thought to take Which she with shame compeled them to forsake 178 Senobia forst Aurelian to confesse With whom a famous war she long maintain'd To conquer Xerxes was a taske far lesse Whose greatnesse with the name of feare was stain'd Thē stout Senobia who with speare sheild Came like the God of bataile to the field 179 Penthiselia that couragious queene Encountered braue Achilles hand to hand Then which a brauer combat nere was seene Hippolita stout Theseus did withstand In single fight their honors to maintaine VVhereby they did immortallglory gaine 180 The Queene of Carryall like the God of war Did chase the Rhodians like a hare with hounds Against whose valor nothing was a barre She burnt the wals sackt their cheifest townes Whereby she forst thē to her endlesse fame To build her image and inscribe her name 181 Immortall Tass● thou canst neuer die So worthily Clornidaes fame to write Who boldly durst that champion braue defie Renowned Tancred euen at single fight And so perform'd that men could hardly know The conqueror suruiu'd his conquered foe 182 Vndanted Hector hadst thou liued now Howmuch thy hardest soule wold blush to see That earths great monarch should be made to bow And