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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51611	An essay to revive the antient education of gentlewomen in religion, manners, arts & tongues with an answer to the objections against this way of education.; Essay to revive the antient education of gentlewomen, in religion, manners, arts & tongues	Makin, Bathsua, fl. 1612-1673.	1673 (1673)	Wing M309; ESTC R8034	31,566	44

required in one that shall wear the Bayes If Women have been good Poets Men injure them exceedingly to account them giddy-headed Gossips fit only to discourse of their Hens Ducks and Geese and not by any means to be suffered to meddle with Arts and Tongues lest by intollerable pride they should run mad If I do make this appear that Women have been good Poets it will confirm all I have said before for besides natural Endowments there is required a general and universal improvement in all kinds of Learning A good Poet must know things Divine things Natural things Moral things Historical and things Artificial together with the several terms belonging to all Faculties to which they must allude Good Poets must be universal Scholars able to use a pleasing Phrase and to express themselves with moving Eloquence Women have been good Poets Because so much depends upon this I beg the Mens patience if I be a little tedious on this Point I question not the Women will be contented to hear their Sex vindicated I begin with Minerva the Goddess of Wisdom she was for no other reason reckoned amongst the Goddesses but for her excellency and cunning in Poetry and other good Arts of which she is said to be the first Inventress There were three Corinna's famous for Poetry One lived in the time of Augustus and was very dear to Ovid. A second was called Corinna Thespia she is celebrated in the Books of the Antient Poets especially Statius The third and most eminent was Corinna Thebana she was Daughter of Archelodorus and Procratia and Scholar to Myrtis In five set Contests she bore away the Palm from Pindar Prince of the Lyrick Poets She published five Books of Excellent Epigrams Erinna Sir-named Teia or as some will have it Telia from the Island Telos not far distant from Gnidon she flourished in the time of Dion of Syracusa and published an excellent Poem in the Dorick Tongue besides divers Epigrams Her Stile was said to come near the Majesty of Homer's She died when she was but nineteen years of Age. Sappho the Daughter of Scamandaurus lived in the time of Tarquinius Priscus she first devised the Sapphick Verse and found out the use of the Harp with a Quill There was also another Sappho called Mitelena who lived long after She published many rare and famous Poems amongst the Greeks and therefore had the honour to be called the tenth Muse Proba Valeria Falcona a Roman Matron lived in the time of Honorius and Theodosius junior She composed a Divine Poem of the Life Works and Miracles of Christ She also Paraphrased upon the Verses of Homer and called the Work Homeroucheutra Her Husband being dead she inscribed upon his Tomb an Epitaph Englished thus To God to Prince Wife Kindred Friends the Poor Religious Loyal True Kind Stedfast Dear In Zeal Faith Love Help Amity and Store He that so liv'd and so deceas'd lies here I had almost forgot the Sybils The Name signifies such as have thoughts of God As a Man that prophesieth is called a Prophet so a Woman predicting was called a Sybil. There were twelve of these all of them Poets Sybilla Lybica invented the Heroick Verse Sybilla Delphica was so famous a Poet that Homer did take many of her Verses to himself and made them his own All of them delivered their Oracles in Verse If their Verses were not so smooth as Homers and Hesiods an abatement must be made for the matter and manner of their speaking which was usually in an extasie They all prophesied of Christ I shall insert only one or two of their Predictions thus Englished A King a Priest a Prophet all these three Shall meet in one Sacred Divinity Shall be to Flesh espous'd O who can scan This Mystery uniting God with Man When this rare Birth into the World shall come He the great God of Oracles strikes dumb Sybilla Delphica speaks to this purpose An Angel shall descend and say Thou blessed Mary hail Thou shalt conceive bring forth yet be A Virgin without fail Three Gifts the Chald'ans to thy Son Shall tender with much pietie Myrrhe to a Man Gold to a King And Incense to a Deitie I shall mention only one more which is that of Sybilla Europa When the great King of all the World shall have No place on Earth by which he may be known When he that comes all mortal men to save Shall find his own Life by the World o'rethrown When the most Just injustice shall deprave And the great Judge be judged by his own Death when to Death a Death by Death hath given Then shall be op't the long-shut Gates of Heaven I do not produce these as Foundations of our Faith We have a more sure word of Prophesie which we ought to look unto as a Light that shineth in a dark place This is more sure than that which we see with our Eyes hear with our Ears or handle with our Hands Cleobulina was Daughter of Cleobulus Lindus one of the seven Wise Men of Greece She imitated and some think did equalize her Father She was eminent for Enigma's and Riddles Take this one rendred thus One Father hath twelve Children great and small And they beget twice fifteen Daughters all Half of them White half Black immortal made And yet we see how every hour they fade I cannot leave out Helpis the Wife of the Famous Philosopher and Poet Boethius Severinus because many Hymns to the Apostles are yet extant which Gyraldus and the best Writers constantly affirm to be hers She writ her Epitaph with her own hand translated thus Helpis my Name me Sicily first bred A Husband's love drew me from hence to Rome Where I long liv'd in joy but now lie dead My Soul submitting to th' Almighties doom And I believe this flesh again shall rise And I behold my Saviour with these eyes I may put Philenis and Astenissa together they were both good Poets and imitated one another Hildegardis Moguntina was eminent for Learning and Piety as well as Poetry Her Works were approved in the Council held at Tryers where Dr. Bernard was present Aristophanes speaks much of Clitagora Lacedemonia and Serabo in his Homerica speaks more of Hestia Alexandria Antipater Thessalus gives the first place amongst the nine Lyric Poets to Paxilla Syconia She lived in the thirty second Olympiad I should be too tedious if I should give you a particular account what Seneca speaks of Michaele what Aristophanes of Gharixena what Celius speaks of Musea or what Textor remembers of Meroe Cornificina Luccia Mima Cassandra Magalostrate were good Poets Polla Argentaria Wife to the famous Poet Lucan was reputed of that excellent Learning that she assisted her Husband in the three first Books entituled Pharsalia I can but name those Poets Anyle Nosiis Myro Byzantia Damophila because I hasten to those nearer our own times Only take notice these numerous Examples of Learned Women do plainly prove they were heretofore liberally educated