for ninetie dayes women beare vs dead in their bellies the other ninetie dayes women beare vs quicke in their bodies with greater care and feare for our liues then for their owne so that from the very day of conception vnto the very houre of our birth they liue in great danger That made Alexander the great to answere Antipaters letter in the which hee much complained of his mother Olympias charging her with great crimes to the which complainte Alexander smiling sayd Vna materna lachryma multas hujusmodi dâ—â—ebiâ—lâ—â—era Doth not Antipater sayd Alexander know that one small teare of a Mother will blot out many such complaints And therefore the Matrons of Rome were so much reuerenced that it was decreed by the Law Senatus-consultum â—et down by the Senators and Consulls that if any man should meete with any Matron of Rome vpon any path-way they should as it were of a duty to be done discedered semitis stand off and giue the path-way Neither might any officer or Magistrate call a Matron of Rome into Law Among the very heathen young vertuous virgins and young maids well brought vp both by the Law of Licurgus in Sparta and the Law of Solon in Athens were prouided for and carefully looked vnto for their marriages out of their common Treasure So were Aristides daughteâ—s in Athens and Lysanders daughters in Sparta Among the Romans with no lesse care were the daughters of 〈◊〉 Fabriâ—ius Man Curius prouided for which was the only cause that many Noble women and Matrons in diuers countries bestowed Dowries for the marriage of poore virgins Sampsons mother was taught by the Angel how her son should bee brought vp after the Angell had appeared twice vnto her saying Behold thou art barren thou shalt conceaue and beare a Son and thou shalt bring him vp and be his nurse Here the mother was charged to bee the nurse to her son and to bring him vp and not the father The Hebrew women not only nourished their children but also named their children without consent of their father So did Iochabed nurse Moses her sonne Among the Lacedemonians the mothers were nurses to their Children least by education and sucking of strange nurses the infants should degenerate from the nature of their parents The old Germans thought it not fit nor lawfull to haue their children brought vp or nourished by any woman but by the mother The Romans were warned and had councell that their children should be lulled vpon their mothers laps suck vpon their mothers breasts So the blessed virgin Mary nourished her only son with her milk And so Sarah nourished Isaack her sonne The Angell of the Lord appeared vnto Agar the mother of Ismaell and spake vnto her in the wildernes oâ— Berseba and comforted her said Arise and take â—e lad by the hand for I will make of him a great people Hannah the wife of Elcanah made continuall â—ute vnto the Lord for a sonne and neuer went out of the temple but still prayed vntill the Angell of the lord â—old her that shee should haue a sonne which was Samuell The woman of Chanaan neuer left Christ vntill uhee had obtained her sute of the lord to heale her daughter beeing sicke And the lord would haue vs earnest for our sinnes as Sampsons mother was for her son and as the woman of Chanaâ—n was for her daughter continually praying vnto God for his goodnesse and blessing towards vs. Sara at 80. yeares was desirous to haue a son and had Isaac Anna solicited God vntill she had Samuel And so Elizabeth by praying got Iohn Baptist in her latter yeares These godly women sought children at Gods hands Though Rachell made much means to her husband for children saying vnlesse she might haue children shee should die yet farre better then such women are that goe to Bal-phaegor to the image of Priapus to seeke children by vnlawfull meanes as the Prophet saith Auolabit gloria eorum à conceptu à partu They shall not be mothers of Children they shall haue barren wombs Et arentia vbera and drie brests So God did threaten superstitious women Plangentes Adonidem Now that women are so set forth for their wisedome learning verâ—ue and for their magnanimitie courage and gouernment and after their marriages had as great care to bring vp their children as they had to please their husbands I thought good with some examples of diuers countries to confirme the same The Iacobites people in the East baptised and vsed Moses lawe of circumsicioÌ„ they burne their Infants vpon the forehead or the brest with the signe of the crosse The custome among the old Romans was this first the midwife would lay the childe new borne vpon the ground and after saâ—crifice done to Eâ—dâ—sa it should be presented to Nundina by whom the Romans were warned that their infants should be carefully brought vp by their mothers Among the Graecians it was brought by the midwife and the women him associate at the birth before Laâ—es their houshold Gods where the neighbors sacrificed for the health of their infants and after deliuered them to the mother The Ethiopians ab ipso natali die the first day of their infants birth haue such care of their children that they do murere frontes in fantium that they should â—uffer paine be knowne euer after by that marke as the Iacobites were so that the Ethiopians would proâ—e what spirit their children were of by ryding vpon Elephants and by flâ—ing on fowles backs wherby they might know see whether they were coragious and bold or timorous fearfull But wee haue children brought vp from their cradle taught to ride vpon Lyons Vnicornes and to fly ouer Seas vpon Eagles the cheifest Roman ensignes of the Papists It is sayd that the women of the two Isles named Baleares in Spaine neuer minister any meate to their yong infants nisia baculo funda but froÌ„ a sling or from a staffe to signify they should auoide idlenes and get their liuing by laboure and paine The women of Sparta according to Licurgus law vsed to wash their yonge infants with cold water mingled with salt to make them acquainted euen from their cradle with paine and travell Insomuch that it came to a prouerbe Solas Lacenas vtros parere that the Lacedemonian women only brought vp children to be men So it is written by the same author that the women of Creet and the old Germans would bring vp their children from their birth day to endure paine of cold and heat and to suffer hunger and thirst And so it is written that the ancient women in Iberia being brought vp euer to see such slaughter in their Countrey of their husbands and children that the Infants being new borne haue their first feeding from the point of a sword or of a Dart. In India
THE CHOYCE OF IEVVELS By Lodowik Lloid Esquier LONDON Printed by Thomas Purfoot 1607. T Teâ—psichore comes with Clio in hand to iudge with graces three O Of one such like Lucina sayd the Sunne did seldome see A As she that suckt Mellissaes milke fed on Sibillas brest N Nurst with sweet Ambrosias meat with heuenly Nectar drest N Now comes Vrania on message sent from states of greatest fame A Aurora like descends from skie to enrowle on earth her name Q Queene Pallas sayd her name in Court should be Panâ—â—ophia stal'd V Venus smiling wisht her name might be Panphila cal'd E Euer Iuno sadly sayd her name must Pandora be E Each Nymph each Muse each grace agreed Pandora should be she N Now sits shee on Mynerua seat where all Cytherides gree E Euterpe shold to Cynthia say crowne this Queen with Crownes three O On forth Eudora said and send Medeas golden fleece F Fates all agreed Palladium should to Britane come from Greece G Great thrice gracious grac't shee is where graces three do tend R Right happie thrice thrice Queen where kingdomâ— three do bend E Erato charged Iris streight on knee to Euriâ—ia bend T That soone Euribia from Samos should her crowne and scepter send B Bellona arm'd with sword and shield Eumenides stands in place R Rhamnusia shall reuenge on those that seeks this Queenes disgrace I In strength from Delos Diana comes with bowe and quiuer bend T The Troiane Ladies from Ida did the goulden apple send A Amarusia comes with Peplon on her chore Calliope â—als N Now Daphnes comes with lawrell crownes to crowne her Ladies all H Her bowers the Dryads build vp braue and these the Oreads decke E Each Nymph with flowers poesies sweet attend Pandoras check A Arabiâ—n Ladies with Saba came with myrth and Cassia sweet L Like Libanon all these Ladies smell which comes our Queen to greet T Triton sound the Trumpet out make worlds her famâ— to know H Heauens haue their starres of states some such on earth be so TO THE MOST NOble and vertuous Queene Anne by the grace of God Queene of Great Britaine Fraunce and Ireland c. LEa and Rachel most Noble Queene left and forsooke their Countrey Mesopotamia to come to Israell to bee the mother of the twelue Tribes of Israell Ruth the Moabite came from Moab to Iudah to be the mother of many great and godly Kings in Iudah Your Maiestie descending from many Kings and Princes came from Denmarke to Scotland from Scotland to England to be the mother of many Kings and Princes in great Britane Thus wee are bound to the prouidence of God by whom Kings do raigne and Kingdomes are supported and that by Gods good and gracious means in women as by Thermuâ—â—s Pharoes daughter to saue Moses in Nylus to bring the Children of Israell out of Egipt by King Tharbus daughter of Ethiop to yeild the Citie Saba and thereby the victorie to the Hebrew Armie thus heathen women by God are appointed to serue Israell at neede How much more is Esâ—her famous for her great victory ouer the Persians Iudith by cutting off Holofernus head was in Bethulia both for euer famous noble stratagems of women But your Maiestie by putting your Highnes helping hand to pare their feet lesser their eares shorter their eyes out and their monstrous heads off that can come and goe that can see and heare from Rome from Rhemes from Spaine to Great Britaine such victories shold haue double tryumphes the one in earth the other in heauen WheÌ„ Rachels Image was buried by SycheÌ„ Israel began to flourish then Debora a woman within a while after became a Iudge in Israel for 40 yeres in mount Ephraim when Maachas idoll Priapus was buried and ashes throwne to Caedron then Iudah prospered and Hulda a woman dwelling in Hierusalem to whome Iosias sent to know how to serue the Lord and to be instructed by a woman to purifie Iudah from Images and Idols God raised wise godly and vertuous women in all countreys to feare him to feed his seruants a woman in Sarepta to feed Elias a Sanamite woman to lodge Elizeus to a woman of Samaria Christ asked drinke confessed himselfe to be the Messias Since Christ was so conuersant with womeÌ„ that to women Christ spake his last speach before his death after his death he first appeared to women I wish some women should haue Christ in their hearts in Great Britane as Anna had in her armes in Hierusalem to pray to him and not to Saints to worship Christ in the Church and not Idols and Images in Closets and Galleries then did Iudah prosper then did Israell florish and then shall Great Britane bee happie Your Maiesties most bounden and dutifull seruant LODOVVIK LLOID To the most noble and vertuous Prince Christianus King of Denmarke c. Lodowik Lloids most humble Gratulation at his comming to great Britane WHo can passe in silence most noble Prince the ioyes and triumphes of these Halcyons dayes wherein Christianus King of Denmarke leauing his Kingdome his Queen his Court forsaking his imperiall Sceptor and his Subiects renouncing all princely dignities as a Prince that had his soule diuided betweene Great Britane and Denmarke esteeming more the one halfe in Britane than the whole in Denmarke O loue excelling all loue and that in a King which the heauens cannot subdue the earth forget nor fortune ouerthrowe of whose eternall fame fame dare not lye Let Maro cease to commend his Troiane Aeneas let Homer blush to aduance the greatnesse of Achilles which disguised himselfe like a woman lest hee should goe from Greece to Phrygia Let Greece not name Vlisses to faine madnesse lest he should depart from Ithaca and his wife Penelope to Ilion But Christianus King of Denmarke whom neither mother Queen Crownes or Kingdome could keepe him from great Britan where his Maiestie may of right more reioyce of his princely Progenie than King Philip of Hercules stocke in Macedonia or Augustus Caesar of gens Iulia in Rome sith the line of Hercules expired in Alexander and the stemme of Aeneas in the Emperour Nero so that Romanes now may say Fuimus Troes and Macedonians say Fuimus Herculani But Great Britane was then neuer so great vnder Brutus the first King as nowe vnder Iames the second King whose continuance well nye three thousand yeres is now againe like the Eagle renewed and reuiued to be by Gods goodnesse continued as long by the second Brutus that babes in cradles may say Iubilate Britanni Much beholden we are to God if we forget not God and great cause haue we to loue and to honour his Highnesse in great Britane if we looke but vnto the greatnesse of his loue to England in Queen Elizabeths time and now with greater at this present to King Iames if we shuld be deafe and not heare of it or be dumbe and not speak of it heauen and earth would accuse vs of too much ingratitude wood
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 â—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 reuereÌ„ced Iaeâ—â— 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 Estâ—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 sâ—â— called to her house at the destruction of Iericho The Sunamites wife for her pitie compassiâ—â— of the Prophet Elizeus to make him a chamâ—â— in the house to feed him being the man of Goâ— 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 wheÌ„ all men cried Crucifige to crucifie Christ yet this only womaÌ„ endeuored to perswade her husband Pilate to wash his hands froÌ„ 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 Galâ—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 Româ—â—â—â— whose Father was not knowen or of a farrâ—â— 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
â—he Senators So was Mâ—tia Agrippina Cornelia and others that it came to passe in Rome that the women amonge the Romans were as much authorized as the women of Sparta So Candaces Queene of Etâ—iopia was so singuâ—erâ—â— wiâ—e that she ruled and gouerned her subâ—ects in such sort that she was so much honoured and beloued amonge the Ethiopians as Asarces among the Parthians that all the Queenes that succeeded her in Ethiopia were called Candacâ—s after her name Amonge the Liâ—ian people that dwelt in Asia the lesse the women children were named after their Mothers names and not after their Fathers and they by the lawe and custome of that countrey are heires to their Mothers and not to their Fathers As amonge the Hebrew women who gaue such names to their children as pleased the mothers without the consent of their Fathers Sitones people not far from the Sucuâ—â—ns had a Law that none might gouerne ouer them but a woman The name of a King was to them odious as it was of long time odious both to the Romans and the Graecians Among the old Danes if any soldier should not follow his Captaine and fight valiantly for his Country the law was their wiues should masterâ— and gouerne them as their seruants and their husbands should lye with their heads downward toward their wiues feete as a marke fo infamy to be knowen cowards The woman in Sparta did meete their husbands sonnes using scoffing flouting words saying whether creepe yee yee cowards into your Mothers and wiues bellies againe That made the 〈◊〉 that theiy would haue their wiues and concubines to see them howâ— manfully they â—ought to auoyd the name of cowards For in Persia to be called a coward anâ— Acion might be had against him in Law If you read Phyloâ—ophy you shall find Aristippâ— daughter 〈◊〉 in the schoole of Athens a readeâ— and a Teacher of Phylosophy in her fathers place Corynna was set forth and garnished with 〈◊〉 seuerall garlands of Laurell which shee wanne oâ— Pyndarus the only Poet of his time for that sheâ— excelled him in verses and poems Eustochium and Blessilla for Hebrew Greeke and Latine were equall to a great number of the best learned in those times in zeale of true Religion and in following of Saint Hyerom for thâ— further iâ—structions of their faith Of these 〈◊〉 Hyerom made mention in his Prologues of Ioshua of Esay and of Daniell Aspasia a Greeke woman red Rhetorick in Miletum is to be praysed Sappho red Poetry in Lesbos both taught schollers with much commendations Leontinum a Graecian woman wrote a whole volume against Theophrastus the great Philosopher and as Cicero saith Aiticosermone Hortensia in Rome nothing inferior to her father was as eloquent as her father For as many came to see Hortensias comely gesture and sweet pronunciacion as came to heare her eloquence Amesia pleaded her owne causes before Q. Tituâ— the Roman Pretor with such manly courage that shee was called Androgune And Sara Raguels daughter Toâ—ies wife for her zeale and earnest prayers was deliuered from the spirit Asmodâ—us And Mary Magdalen for her inward loue and faith to the Lord was deliuered from seauen Asmodâ—uâ— seauen diuells And many such women which to speake of in perticuler it were infinite as before is said The Romans made lawes demaritandis ordinibus First by Q. Metellus after by Iulius Caesar and after him by Augustus with giftes and rewards to intice young men and maides to mariage and to make choyse of such as should alwaies continue So much was mariage esteemed for multiplication that Licurgus made lawes in Sparta and Solon in Athens that men might chaunge their wiues that were barren for others to make triall in whome the cause of sterility was whether in the maner womâ—n And this was so common a couâ—â—e among the Romans and the graecians that Caâ—o himselfe 〈…〉 Marcia in Rome 〈…〉 his 〈…〉 It was the opinion◠〈◊〉 Philosophers yeaâ— the 〈◊〉 that men might marry for childrens 〈◊〉 as many wiues as they would Other for religion â—â—rried where they lift for â—o was the law of 〈◊〉 whose writing was full of Oracles Among the Hebrewes the wiues would bring their 〈◊〉 vnto their husbands Among the Graecians the custome was the mothers of the married persons should haue 〈◊〉 torches ready to light and their friends 〈◊〉 Hymnes and longs called 〈…〉 foure presidents of marriages 〈…〉 Diana and Suadâ—la that these Goddesses and Queenes would vouchsafe to blesse these 〈…〉 that 〈◊〉 would make them parents of children that Venus would encrease their loue Diana their courage and chastity and that Suadela would make them delectable and louing to her husbands And the next day after their marriage the father of the bride should bring her 〈◊〉 munus a faire cloured boy in a white coloured gowne carying a burning torch in his hand after him a fellow that brings the new Bride her attires and then they which bringe a summe of gold and siluer and after them they which bring houshold vessels houshold stuffe against whose comming the gates dores of the house wherein these new married couples are come to dwell are opened In Sparta they were appointed by Licurgus law that the young mayds which should be maried should shaue off their haire be clothed in mans apparell and bee brought at night into a darke chamber without light and the Bridegrome then should loose the Brides girdle which betokened that both were but one Yet in the Isle of Coos the men must bee clothed in womens garments contrarie to theÌ„ of Sparta yet signified but one The Lacedemonian maydes that should be married do trusse their haires vp with a kind of speare called Celibaris to signifie that they should bring forth such martiall children as would vse both speares and swords The Athenians also vsed to dresse the head of the Bridegrome with palmes and Oliues to signifie victorie and conquest These Ceremonies were onely to allâ—re and to entice young people to mariage for multiplication and therefore the old Germans had his custome that the young men should send to their Loues that should be their wiues 〈…〉 a sword a shield and armour in pledges of loue with a garland 〈…〉 Veruine called Verbâ—na In Booetia they vsed to put a garland of Sparage vpon the head of the new married mayd In other parts of Greece made of Balsamet called Sysimbrium The Locrians made crownes of diuers flowers gathered by the Matrons and brought the day of marriage to the married mayd The Macedonians vsed to cut a loafe of bread with a sword and both parties to eat of the same was a full consent and decree of marriage The Latines in their mariage ware white garments and their ceremonie was that the newe married couple should stand together vnder a yoake of Oxen
in token they should liue and loue one with another without offending the lawe of marriage So the other Goddesse of mariage is called Iuno iugalis signifying concord and agreement and be yoaked together during life The Lusitanians which are Portugales the women must be drawne and forced out of dores before they came to be married to shew how vnwilling they were to forsake their Parents their friends and their Countreys and now must follow a stranger hauing before her a Musitian and one that â—inges a songe of Hymaeneus carrying with her a Distaffe a spindle and flaxe The people about mount Taurus had this custome that the women should gird them before they were maried with a woollen girdle full of Hercules knots vppon it which should bee loosed by the Bridegroome the first night in token hee should be the Father of so many children as Hercules had who left behind him when he died 70. sonnes and yet not so many as Herotinus king of Arabia who had 600 sonnes Solon made a law that the man might not come vnto his newe married wiues companie before hee had eaten Ex malo Cydonio which was a notable Towne in Candie And so the custome among the Babilonians was that the young married folkes might not lye together before both had tasted of a secret gum called Storiae Such customes of these Countreys were carefully obserued and kept In Greece they had these Ceremonies as Pausanius affirmeth that the Bride should bee carried from her Parents and Friends in a Coach and the Axeltree of this Coach should bee burned at the dore of the house before the Bride would enter into the house signifying that there shee should stay and tarrie and thence neuer to depart But if they were not carried in a coach but went on foot her husband should euer be called Chamoepus being a word of great reproach for that he made mariage honorable of no account considering that the first miracle that Christ did was at a mariage in Chanaan and so honored mariage with his owne presence It was lawfull in Persia for the young married man to lye with his newe married wife before he had eaten 〈…〉 the marrow of a Camell neither any thing else but an Apple and the marrow of a Camell The â—ewes at their marriages the glasse that they drink in that day they are maried the Bride and Bridegrome both ioyntly at night breake that glasse to signâ—fie the frailtie of life A young woman not married might neither amonge the Lacedemonions or amonge the Romanes come amonge married women or to the sacrifice and feasts of Câ—rus Venus but the â—â—rier should openly charge and command all vncleane women â—uch as had the Leprosie or any breaking out of their bodies or â—ensâ—rium should avoide the â—acred and secret sâ—ruice and after all this hee commaunded sayd to the woman vnmarried 〈…〉 that the maides vnmarried should goe out of the â—emple as an enemie to mankinde And therefore the â—awe of Moses was that if a man should strike a woman with child the child being quicke and thereby borne abortiue the man should die for it The law was that he should yeeld Animam pro anima And if the childe had life the man should bee punished Pecunia mulctetur as much as the womans husband would This condemneth the absurd opinion of the Pithagorians of their transanimation which they call Metempsuchosis that the soule should passe from one body to another and withall so grosse that it should bee transported from a man to a beast Hence grew the forbidding of eating of flesh among many of whome Tertullian spake merriâ—â— Ne quispâ—am bubulam de aliquo proauo obsonet lâ—ast some should eate of their old parents flesh Moseâ— law was that the young men should be married to maides and such as was of honest parentage vertuous and godly education Moses thought it not fit that young women of ripe yeares should be vnmarried That was the cause why Lycurgus made such sharpe laws in Sparta that the yong men which were not not would not be married in Sparta they should goe naked in the winter time round-about the market place vpon the market day neither might these vnmarried baâ—cheâ—lors come to see the games and playes among the 〈…〉 The like lawe made Plato that if any young man in Greece should be vnmarried at 35 yeares he should be so little esteemed that he should not be preferred before any man but be last man either going into any company or coÌ„ming from them without any countenance or credit giuen him This was the cause that the Lacedemonians had such Laws and customes that the parents which had three children should be freed from watch and warde But those parents which had foure ab omni onere immunis foret he should be discharged from all taskes and Subsidies And this was the cause why the Persians preferred the parents of children before others and that the King of Persia by the Persian law was bound to giue a peece of Gold to euery woman with childe in any town the King came through and this was the only cause why those Hebrew womeÌ„ which were barren brought their maids vnto their own husbands chambers for childreÌ„s â—ake As you heard of Abrahams wife and of Iacobs wiues Such was the affection and loue in Martiall countries to haue young men married to young women The warlike Romans would hardly suffer any Patrician that was not father of many children to be any Magistrate in Rome either Questor Praetor or Consull And if any should faine to be parents of children not so found he should be depriued from his office and place per Senatus consultum And therefore Furius Camillus and after him Posthumius at what time they were made Censors in Rome made such decrees that old bachelers which were found vnmarried in Rome should pay such fine to the Treasury as were imposed vpon them by their Censors Sectio 2. SEe how much all heathen lawes doe esteeme honour and make much of marriage And how much we owe to our mothers that nourish vs in their wombes and our wiues that bring vs children And therfore the mothers are as the Philosopher saith Philosturge of the great loue and affection shee beareth more then the father and wee are or ought to be more affected to our mothers Plus paulo à matre quam à patre suscipit faetus For nothing can be more repugnant to nature then a mother to hate and forget her owne children which is brought for an example by the Euangelist of Rachell whose complaint wailing and weeping was such for her children that shee would not nor could not be comforted which is easily to bee beleeued sithence women feede vs and nourish vs with the substance of their own bodies as both Hippocrates and Gallen sayd Ex Sanguine Materno faetum ali First
their Philosophers called Gymnosophystoe within 2. or 3. yeeres after they were borne would examine what kind of trade they should professe And the same Gymnosophists thought Diem mortis esse diem natalem for the same Nation in Thracia weepe and lament the birth of their children and at their death reioyce and triumph The Persians had such care of their Infants that they prouided such Nurses as should bring them vnder in such seuere discipline that they might not spit nor clense their noses in publicke presence neither might they sit in sight of their Elders they might drinke no wine they might see no naked persons for such faults by the law of Persia were capitall crimes which was as strict a lawe as the Nazarites had Saba in Iosephus called Nicaule for her wise propositions to Salomon called Arabica Sybilla and of whome Christ maketh mention in the gospell Hydra also whome Plato much commends for her probleame and darke questions that it grew to a prouerbe capita Hydrae conficere And Dama Pythagoras daughter in expounding her fathers darke and obscure questions might worthily claime to be Pythagoras daughter Caelius writes of some women named Mantinea Lasthenia and Axiothea which came in apparell like men to heare Plato reade Philosophy in schooles Were not the Fathers happy to bring vp such daughters and were not their husbands more happy to marry such wiues To be short and to verify a french prouerbe non est faelix natus qui non est faelix maritatus so Aristotle saith that he which is not well married hath lost the one halfe of his ioyes in this life and so Pharoneus a wise man and a law maker in his country told his brother at his death that he had wanted no felicity in this world if he had not maried such a wife Yet such sharpe dames are sometimes necessarie to Philosophers to Phisitions and to Preachers to reprehend them of their faultes and to cure them of their maladyes at home as they reprehend and find faultes in others abrode Socrates so confest that Zantippe his wife did him as much good at home by chiding to learne him patience as he did in Schoole to learne his schollers Phylosophy I wanted more time than matter to write of such Iewels as our mothers our wiues our sisters our kinswomen and finally of such Iewels as the world would be no world without women the Mothers of the world But to be briefe let Semiramis be commendâ—â— in Babylon let Atlanta with her marshall women in feats of Armes bee praysed in Arâ—â—dia let Camilla be spoken of among the Volskans Tomyris amonge the Scythians Queen 〈◊〉 in Aethyopia and all other renowned Ladies of worthy women that with foeminine feats merited manly fame be eternized and let them worthily sit in the triumphant chaires of fame crowned with Garlands of Lawrell with braunches of Palmes in their hands as Victors ouer conquerours and Conquerours of Kings and Kingdomes To these valiant exploits of women Hercules must yeeld or else Omphale Queene of Lydia will make Hercules to yeeld To these ex-exployts of women wise Salomon must yeeld or else Pharaohs Daughter will make Salomon to yeeld So must Achilles to Polyxena So must Caesar to Cleopatra and so in fine all men must yeeld to women FINIS Asia builded by a woman of that name Semiraâ—is the second Empresse of Asia DEBORA a Iudge in Isarell HVLDAH a Prophetesse in Ierusalem IOSEPH 〈◊〉 to Egipt by his brethren THERMVTIS the daughter of Pharo K. of Egipt ESTER rare and zeale for the Iewes The bold and rare attempt of Iudith a woman England Scotland Fraunce combined by women Kingdomes Realmes combined in a League by women Ruth the Moabite Iaâ—l that slue Sisera The prayse of Iudith The woman of Bahurim coÌ„mended RAHAB the like woman in Iericho The widdow of Sarepta Moloch The praise of wise women Sebaes head the Traytor Women more zealous than men Pilates wife More women followed Christ than men Christ first appeared to women after his resurrect on The Apostles â—â—redulous of the resurrection of Christ. Christ appeared twise to women after his death before he appeared to his Apostles The Romans brag of Rhea The Greeks named of Helena a woman ra-rather than of Hellas a man Many Isles named after the name women The most part of the starres are figured by the names of women The queens of Amazons and their exployts Myrinaes marshall acts vicâ—â—ries Queene Medusaes warlike acts Hercules was amazed at the fame of those Queenes The queene of Saca Queene Tarinaes victory The Queens of Scythia The Queens of Amazones 〈◊〉 with the most famous conquerors of the world Camilla The women Laxamathae marshallwomen The women of Sparta prâ—ferred for councell and courage before men The women of Persia. The women would be presâ—â—t in eueâ—y battell where their husbands fought as wheâ—stones The Lawe in Courts of women Women ruled all Sarmatia Scoffes of Cato in Rome against women Thalestres Queene of Scythia went to see Alexander the Great Queene Saba went to heare Salomon The Roman courage to fight with wilde beasts on Theaters Due commendacions of the Roman Ladies Veturia Volumnia two women much commended The Midwiues of Egipt 〈◊〉 many thousands of the Hebrewes children from Nilus The Sabâ—ne virgins saued both the Roman and Sabine army The women of Rome of Rhod. Liuia Isabella Artimesiaâ— queene of Caria The women of Lacedemonia admitted to â—it in councell Women in Celtiberia Wise women in Rome had accesse to the Senate The praise of Queene Candaces The Hebrew women gaue names to their children without the consent of husbands The Law among the old 〈◊〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 A catalogue of rare women Aspasia Sappho LeontinuÌ„ Hortensia Amesia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sara Mary Magdalen Licurgus lawes in Sparta Solon laws in Athens Chrysippus lawes The custom in Greece at mariages The ceremonies in Greece vppon the next day after the mariage Licurgus Law of the orders and maâ—ners in any mariage in Sparta The manner of the Lacedemonians in their mariages Of the order of the Athenians in marriage 〈…〉 Of Boaetia Of the Locrians Of the Macedonians Of the order of the latins Of the marriage in Lusitania The people about mount Taurus Herotinuâ— had 600. sonnes The Babilonians rule and order in marriage Certaine ceremonies in Greece The first miracle of Christ in a marriage The lawes of the Persians for mariage The lâ—w of the Lacedemonians of the Romanes The lawe of Moses The absurd opinions of the Pythagorians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Moses law of marriage Licurgus lawe Plafoesâ—â—â— Patricians that were not parents of children not esteemed in Rome Furius Camillus lawe of bachelors vnmaried The loue of the mother more then the loue of the father The loue of the mother prooued by Gallen and Hippocrates Examples of Alexander the great The Matrons of Rome much reuerenced Poore yong â—â—gins sin Athens and in Sparta prouided for their marriage Samsons mother waâ— taught how â—o bring her sonne vp The Hebrew women The Lacedemonians The old Germans The virgin Mary nursed her own sonne Hannah the wife of Elcanah The woman of Chanaâ—n Sampsons mother Sara Elizabeth Rachell Balphaegor Pâ—iapus The Iacobites The custome of the Romans at the birth of Infants Of the Graecians Of the Ethiopians The Islâ—s Baleares The women of Sparta The women of Creet and of Germany In Iberia Gymnosophistae The Persians Saba Hydra Dama Caelius Phoroneus Sharpe dames necessary Socrates saying