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A42646
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Elogium heroinum, or, The praise of worthy women written by C.G., Gent.
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C. G. (Charles Gerbier)
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1651
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Wing G583; ESTC R7654
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by unreasonable creatures but proceed to their goodness The love of Women towards their Husbands of Mothers towards their Children of dutiful Daughters towards their Parents and of Sisters that have been kinde to their Brothers THe women of Wynedi in Germany beare such an expressible love towards their husbands that they repair to their sepulchers and holding their lives tedious without them they offer up their bodies wilingly either to the sword or to the fire The like is observed by the Women amongst the Geats the Catheoreans the Herulians a people which inhabite beyond the River of Danube by those of Thrace and the Indies The wife of Pandorus begged of her Husband that before hee hazarded himself to the extremity of of danger he would first take away her feares by taking away her life with his sword which he denyed and so gave the signal of battel in which he was vanquished and slain his Wife surprised and committed into the hands of one of the chief Captains who pitying her teares and sorrow to which her beauty gave no common lustre made suit unto her to make her his wife she put him off with all possible delays but after perceiving that what he could not compass with her good will he would by force she therefore craved some few hours of deliberation which he granted and being retired she first writ in a Note these words Let none report that the Wife of Pandorus harboured so little love as to outlive him Which Note leaving upon the Table she took a sword hanging in the chamber with which she slew herself Alceste wife to Admetus King of Greece gave herself up to a most willing death for to redeem the health and life of her husband Cleopatra Queen of Egypt suffered her breasts to be poysoned with Asps that she might die for the love of her Antony Admirable was the love of her two Handmaids Neaera and Charmione who would by no perswasion survive their Queen but out of an unmatchable zeale to their Mistresse both fell down by her and breathed their last Phila having heard that her Husband K. Demetrius had been defeated in a battail drank poison and so dyed Camma was not onely famous throughout all Galacia for her beauty but for her vertue she did so love her husband and was so constant unto him that she never went forth nor would suffer any man to see her whilst she was married Evadne at the solemnization of her husbands Funerall burnt her self to mingle her ashes with his The Queen Artimesia out of the great love she bore to her husband and inflamed with unspeakable desire and affection towards him took his bones and ashes and drank the powder thereof thinking no Sepulchre so worthy as her own body and for a perpetuall remembrance of her husband Mausolus King of Caria she caused a sumptuous Tomb of marvellous workmanship to be made of four hundred and eleven foot in circuit and forty foot high invironed about with thirty six Pillars wonderfully well carved it was held to be one of the seven wonders of the world Cecilia Barbadica Veneta lived with so great a faithfulness towards her husband Philippus Vedraminus that shee had never any other object of all her passions then her husband his happiness made her joyfull his fear her grief and on her face and in her actions appeared the good or bad fortune of her husband after his death she could not by any counsell comfort or perswasion bee won to taste the least food whatsoever or give answer to any word that was spoken to her in which silence and consumption she after some few daies of unspeakable sorrow breathed out her last The Princess Panthea having been acquainted that her husband Abradratus had been kill'd in Cyrus Camp she resolved to go her self and finde him out and having found him dead amongst a number of dead men she washed her whole body and face with his blood and striking her heart with a dagger she died embracing her husband The City of Wynbergen a free place in Germany being besieg'd by Caesar who grew so implacable that he resolved to take bloody revenge on the men for having defended their lives and honours so valiantly and thereby almost overthrown the greatest part of his Army The Articles being drawn for the surrender of the Town it was onely lawfull for the Matrons and Virgins by the Emperors Edicts to carry out as much as each one could carry of what they best liked The Wives out of an unexpressible love carried on their backs their Husbands and the Virgins and Damsels their Fathers or Brothers This strook such an impression in the heart of Caesar that of a mortall enemy he became their friend Artia Mater seeing her husband Poetus condemned and willing that hee should expire by his own hand rather then by that of the common Hang-man perswaded him to a Roman resolution but finding him somewhat daunted with the present sight of death she snatcht up a sword with which she stab'd her her self and plucking it from her bosome presented it unto her husband onely with these few and last words Paete non dolet Poetus It hath done me no harm and so fell down and dyed Martial in the first book of his Epigrams saith thus in speaking of this couragious Woman Casta suo gladium cum traderet Aria Paeto Quem dedit visceribus traxerat illa suis Si qua fides vulnus quod feci non dolet inquit Sed quodtu facies hoc mihi Paete dolet When Aria did to Paetus give that steel Which shee before from her own breast had tane Trust me saith she no smart at all I feel My onely wound 's to think upon thy pain Portia a famous and excellent Roman Lady having heard that her most dear and beloved husband was dead her bowels burning with an unexpressable fire of love for her husband and finding no knife to kill her self withall nor cord to hang her self nor Well to drown her selfe she went to the fire and with her own hands she cast down her throat burning coals Triara wife to Lucius Vitellus seeing her husband in a dangerous battail she presented her self in the midst of the slaughter killing on all sides till she had hem'd her self in with dead bodies slain by her own hand so bold and magnanimous a spirit had the conjugall love to her husband imprest in her Admirable was the love of Julia towards her husband the great Pompea who seeing onely the gown of her husband which was brought home bespotted with blood and conceiving thereby that some mischance had happened to her husband she fell into a swound and afterwards the trouble of her soul made such a great emotion in her body that she dyed thereof Paula Romana after her husbands death was so far from being perswaded to a second match that she did never eat nor drink in company of any man Proba Valleria Falconia a Roman Matron and wife to Adelphus
seated between the Rivers Graumna Sequana to admit their Women to Councel and in the League which they made with Anibal this Article was inserted If so be the Celtans have any matter of complaint against the Carthaginians the Carthaginian Commander in Spain shall judge of it But if the Carthaginians have any thing to object against the Celtans it shall be brought before the Celtan Women Did not Hilkiah Abikam Achbor Shapham and Asahiah those prime Statesmen consult concerning State-affairs with Huldah Deborah was so able for the publike management that she judged Israel and the people of Israel came up constantly unto her for judgment Mary Countesse of Flanders wife to the Emperor Maximilian and Louise Dutchesse of Savoy mother to the French King Francis the first by their wisdome and prudence treated and concluded the peace at Cambray a Town seated amidst the seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands Queen Elizabeth of happy memory was admired by her very enemies namely Pope Sixtus Quintus though he plotted against her life yet he was often heard to say that Elizabeth of England and Henry the IV. of France were able to govern the whole world I need not insist any longer on Womens abilities to govern since it clearly appears that they have therein excelled most men and therefore God never appeared to them in his wrath armed with thunders as a revenger of crimes but with crowns in his hand as a dealer of rewards for this Sexe hath never been infected with such Monsters as Vitellius Nero Heliogabalus Caligula Domitian Catiline Silla Achitophel Herod Marius Nimrod Sardanapalus were and a thousand such others who as they lived most detestable and horrid lives so they expired with most deserved deaths some by hunger and thirst others were eaten by horses rats and lice others devoured by wolves and dogs others consumed by flames and tortures some were driven naked through the streets saluted with Vrinals and Chamber-pots others were tyed into bags wherein a Cock a Viper and a Foxe were put and thus were they cast into a river some strangled others poysoned themselves and with such like horrid and detestable ends they met with their final destructions But to divert you from these sad objects of Gods wrath I will proceed to such as are acceptable and pleasing the reward whereof is everlasting happinesse viz. Piety and Religion Of Pious and Religious Women MAry Magdalen and Martha did preach the Gospel of Christ and converted the Country of Illyria which now is called Sclavonia unto the Christian belief The Sarahs were devout beleevers The Maries were humble and mortified persons The Elizabeths religiously observed all the commandents of God blamelesse The Priscilla's were heavenly and rich in discourse The Bathsheba's the Loises and Funices were careful in the the instructing of their children in the knowledge of God Catherina Alexandria under the tyranny of Maxentius was illuminated with divine knowledge from above she constantly maintained the faith of the Gospel notwithstanding all the Syllogistical and Sophistical Dilemma's of the cunning Sophisters of those dayes who were forced to yeeld and to submit unto the authority of a Virgins tongue Isota Navarula Veronensis devoted her life to the contemplation of divine mysteries to which she added the honour of a perpetual chastity Rosuida born in Germany composed many excellent works exhorting those of her sex to Chastity Vertue and the divine Worship she writ the lives of holy men and composed a divine work of the pious and chaste life of the blessed Virgin Fgilbert King of England by the means of his wife received the Christian Faith Hermegides King of the Goths was drawn from Arius heresies unto the Christian Faith by Nigegond his wife Cleotilda Queen of France and wife unto King Clovis made her husband renounce the Paganisme and become a Christian Dorothy Leigh not long since deceased was a pious and religious Gentlewoman she hath left behinde her as a legacy to her children a book of her own making entituled The mothers blessing It is godly counsel containing many good exhortations and admonitions The holy Writ it self in a most divine stile declares unto us mortals the wonders of that Sexe in which God hath been pleased to make them so far excell and to expresse how much hee was pleased with the good return of his mercifull gifts from them as that it moved the Saviour of all the world to publish the same viz. O woman great is thy faith and with this additional reproch to his disciples That they had not given him water for his feet and that they had not saluted him with a kisse when as that woman had anointed his feet and washt them with her tears had wiped them with her hairs and had not ceased to kisse them And was not our Saviour himself moved to compassion by them hee who was uncapable of any passion or weakness yet hee did weep when hee saw the tears rowl from Maries eyes for Lazarus sake hee knew the value of that so great a treasure which had been infused into that Sex even since the first moment of its creation in Paradise and although the spirit of delusion did even there work the fall of man by such an easie instrument yet his divine providence would preserve it to bruise that Serpents head withall and to confound that spirit of darknesse by making it appear that they should neither forsake nor deny him and this hee verified even at the Crosse where he was to overcome death it self when as hee uttered these words Woman behold thy Son So likewise said hee unto his beloved Disciple speaking of the blessed Virgin Behold thy mother The women were the first that returned to the Sepulcher whither they went before day Their faith did excel that of men when as they went with oyntments not taking care who should remove the stone from off the Sepulcher So likewise did they run unto Simon Peter and to the other Disciples to witnesse the Lords Resurrection neither did they as the Disciples return unto their own homes but remained at the Sepulcher weeping and inquiring after the Lord untill that he had appeared unto them and therefore hee made them to be companions of Angels who comforted them O divine conversation ô heavenly meeting of an Angelical Chore when as the Angels askt Woman why weepest thou O what a transcendent love shee exprest in saying Because they have taken away my Lord and I know not where they have laid him But with what a blisse was this conversation crowned when as Christ Jesus himself in person would approve himself to be the chief in that heavenly conference and enquiry by his saying Why weepest thou whom seekest thou and so might he wel say indeed since hee himself was there to bid them weep no more Most blessed Sexe though they were forbidden to weep yet may all men continue the same for the backwardness of such as follow not the example of these pious and religious women