THE CHOICE OF JEWELS. By Lodowik Lloid Esquire.  
LONDON Printed by Thomas Purfoot. 1607.   


T Te●psichore comes with Clio in hand, to judge with graces three,  
O Of one such like Lucina said, the Sun did seldom see.   

A As she that sucked mellissa's milk, fed on Sibylla's breast,  
N Nursed with sweet Ambrosias' meat, with heavenly Nectar dressed.  
N Now comes Urania on message sent, from states of greatest fame,  
A Aurora like descends from sky to enrol on earth her name.   

Q Queen Pallas said, her name in Court should be Pan●●ophia staled,  
V Venus smiling wished her name, might be Panphila called.  
E Ever juno sadly said, her name must Pandora be,  
E Each Nymph, each Muse, each grace agreed, Pandora should be she.  
N Now sits she on Mynerua seat, where all Cytherides gree,  
E Euterpe should to Cynthia say, crown this Queen with Crowns three.   

O On forth Eudora said, and send Medea's golden fleece,  
F Fates all agreed Palladium should, to Britain come from Greece.   

G Great thrice gracious graced she is, where graces three do tend,  
R Right happy thrice & thrice Queen, where kingdoms three do bend.  
E Erato charged Iris straight▪ on knee to Euri●ia bend,  
T That soon Euribia from Samos should, her crown and sceptre send.   

B Bellona armed with sword and shield: Eumenides stands in place,  
R Rhamnusia shall revenge on those, that seeks this Queen's disgrace▪  
ay In strength from Delos Diana comes with bow and quiver bend.  
T The Trojan Ladies from Ida did, the golden apple send.  
A Amarusia comes with Peplon on, her chore Calliope ●als,  
N Now Daphne's comes with laurel crowns to crown her Ladies all.   

H Her bowers the Dryads build up brave, and these the Oreads deck,  
E Each Nymph with flowers & poesies sweet attend Pandora's check.  
A Arabian Ladies with Saba came, with mirth 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 fam● to know,  
H Heavens have their stars of states, some such on earth be so.    

TO THE MOST NOble and virtuous Queen Anne, by the grace of God, Queen of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, etc.  
LEa and Rachel, (most Noble Queen) left and forsook their Country Mesopotamia, to come to Israel, to be the mother of the twelve Tribes of Israel▪ Ruth the Moabite, came from Moab to judah, to be the mother of many great and godly Kings in judah. Your Majesty descending from many Kings and Princes, came from Denmark to Scotland, from Scotland to England, to be the mother of many Kings and Princes, in great Britain.  
Thus we are bound to the providence of God, by whom Kings do reign, and Kingdoms are supported, and that by God's good and gracious means in women, as by Thermu●●s Pharaoh's daughter to save Moses in Nilus; to bring the Children of Israel out of Egypt, by King Tharbus daughter of Ethiop; to yield the City Saba, and thereby the victory to the Hebrew Army; thus heathen women by God are appointed to serve Israel at need.  
How much more is Es●her famous for her great victory over the Persians. judith by cutting off Holofernus head was in Bethulia both for ever famous: noble stratagems of women. But your Majesty by putting your highness helping hand to pair their feet lesser, their ears shorter, their eyes out, and their monstrous heads off, that can come and go, that can see and hear from Rome, from Rheims, from Spain to Great Britain, such victories should have double triumphs, the one in earth, the other in heaven.  
When Rachel's Image was buried by Sychen, Israel began to flourish; then Deborah a woman within a while after became a judge in Israel for 40 years in mount Ephraim: when Maachas idol Priapus, was buried and ashes thrown to Caedron, than judah prospered, and Hulda a woman dwelling in Jerusalem, to whom josias sent to know how to serve the Lord, and to be instructed by a woman, to purify judah from Images and Idols.  
God raised wise, godly▪ and virtuous women in all countries to fear him, & to feed his servants; a woman in Sarepta to feed Elias, a Sanamite woman to lodge Elizeus, to a woman of Samaria Christ asked drink, & confessed himself to be the Messias.  
Since Christ was so conversant with women, that to women Christ spoke his last speech before his death, & after his death he first appeared to women, I wish some women should have Christ in their hearts in Great Britain, as Anna had in her arms in Jerusalem, 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 judah prosper, than did Israel flourish, and then shall Great Britain be happy.  
Your majesties most bounden and dutiful servant. LODOWIK LLOID.   

To the most noble and virtuous Prince Christianus King of Denmark, etc. Lodowik Lloids most humble Gratulation at his coming to great Britain.  
WHo can pass in silence (most noble Prince) the joys and triumphs of these halcyons days, wherein Christianus King of Denmark, leaving his Kingdom, his Queen, his Court, forsaking his imperial Sceptre and his Subjects, renouncing all princely dignities, as a Prince that had his soul divided between Great Britain and Denmark, esteeming more the one half in Britain, than the whole in Denmark.  
O love! excelling all love, and that in a King, which the heavens cannot subdue, the earth forget, nor fortune overthrow; of whose eternal fame, fame dare not lie.  
Let Maro cease to commend his Trojan Aeneas: let Homer blush to advance the greatness of Achilles, which disguised himself like a woman, lest he should go from Greece to Phrygia. Let Greece not name Ulysses to feign madness, lest he should depart from Ithaca, and his wife Penelope to Ilium.  
But Christianus King of Denmark, whom neither mother, Queen, Crowns, or Kingdom, could keep him from great Britan: where his Majesty may of right more rejoice of his princely Progeny, than King Philip of Hercules stock in Macedonia, or Augustus Caesar of gens julia in Rome, sith the line of Hercules expired in Alexander, and the stem of Aeneas in the Emperor Nero, so that Romans now may say, Fuimus Troes; and Macedonians say, Fuimus Herculani.  
But Great Britain was then never so great under Brutus the first King, as now under james the second King, whose continuance well nigh three thousand years, is now again like the Eagle renewed and revived, to be by God's goodness continued as long by the second Brutus, that babes in cradles may say, jubilate Britanni.  
Much beholden we are to God, if we forget not God, and great cause have we to love, and to honour his Highness in great Britain: if we look but unto the greatness of his love to England in Queen Elizabeth's time, and now with greater at this present to King james, if we should be deaf, and not hear of it, or be dumb, and not speak of it, heaven and earth would accuse us of too much ingratitude, wood and stones should condemn us of too much forgetfulness.  
Sith neither Syracuse, with their convoys and provision to the Romans at Thrasymenum, neither Tire nor Sydon, with their Cedars of Lybanon to jerusalem, were so forward as Denmark was of late to England; but as Masinissa said of the Romans, that there was one kind of people upon the earth, the people of Rome, and among that one people one Scipio, to whom he fully devoted himself, as one whose soul rested in Scipio's body: the like said Hyra King of tire, of Solomon King of Israel.  
But neither Hyra with his Sydonians, was more grateful to Solomon King of Israel, nor Masinissa with his Numidians more loving to Scipio the Roman Consul, than Christianus King of Denmark, was to james King of great Britain, whom neither heavens, earth, nor seas, neither Kingdoms nor Court, could keep that loving King from his love, to come from Denmark as a crowned star of the North, to shine in England, and to come to celebrate and to renew the name of great Britain, to see the Queen his Sister, his Nephew, and the rest of the King's children, the sound and sacred anchor of three Kingdoms.  
O love immortal! not to be weighed in balance, not with measure to be measured, not knitted with Gordius knot to be cut by Alexander's sword, neither with Hercules' knot to be unknitted by Phoebus, sith all profane Histories cannot allow but eight only of the like love, but not eight Kings, most seldom two. For to see a King out of his kingdom, is as strange, as to see the Sun out of the sky.  
Let England be of equal love with Denmark, sith love is recompensed with love, justly weighed in equal balance, not with Philip's silver swords in Greece, not with Artaxerxes golden Archers in Persia, but with Pythagoras' weapons, one mind, one heart, and one soul, perpetual weapons, the triumphs thereof have their everlasting trophies.  
Among such, what needs such leagues, and covenants to dip our weapons in blood, as the Scythians did? or die our clothes in blood, as the Armenians did? or to drink blood out of our arms, as the Medians and Lydians did?  
Sith the league between great Britain and Denmark is consecrated with inward blood of mutual hearts, and confirmed with the entrails and bowels of natural Parents, that two Suns may be sooner found to agree in the sky, 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 public jubilees, and crowned feasts, our daily trophies, and perpetual triumphs; that as the Romans loved and agreed with the Sabins, yielding thanks to their God in the Feast Consualia: so the Britanes with the Danes, yielding thanks to their God jehovah in their Feasts Scaenopegia.   

The Choice of jewels.  
THE Empire of Women, and Courts of Queens, even from Semiramis time, have governed countries and kingdoms, subdued Realms ruled States, and brought under their obeisance both Kings and kingdoms; 
Asia builded by a woman of that name.  as also before Semiramis time it may ●ee●e probable, for that Asia the greatest part of the world was named Asia by a Queen of that name which then dwelled in Asi●, whose fame continued until Semiramis the second Empress, 
Semira●is the second Empress of Asia.  whose martial exploits and government▪ hath been such (if authorities may serve) as neither Alexander the great could exceed in magnanimity, nor Cyrus in victories, nor Xerxes in multitude of soldiers.  
We leave the Court of Sardanapalus King of Assiria, who during his life, exceeded in all effeminate wantonness, having his Court full of such jewels, as he was wont to ●it amongst them in woman's apparel, among such light and shameless women where women were in men's apparel, and men in women's apparel, of which I will omit to speak; But I will begin with those women that were special jewels appointed not only to save his people, but to save kingdoms and countries, not only among christians, but among Heathens and Pagans.  
DEBORAH, 
DEBORAH a judge in Isarell.  a woman which dwelled in Mount Ephraim, and judged Israel forty years, vanquished the Chananites, and slew Sisera.  
HULDAH, 
HULDAH a Prophetess in jerusalem,  a Prophetess which dwelled in jerusalem, to whom king I●sia● after the law book was found, sent for Council to know how and what way God might be pleased with Israel.  
Who knoweth not, but Rebecca by God appointed, counseled her son jacob to flee from his brother Esau to M●sopotamia, where God appointed such two jewels for him, as made him the father of the 12 Tribes of Israel, in whom he and his posterity was blessed by the seed of LEA, a woman?  
JOSEPH, 
JOSEPH 〈◊〉 to Egypt by his brethren.  a man sent by God to Egypt, (though sold by his brethren) where the like jewel was appointed him, to weete Assanetha an Egyptian, the mother of Manasses and Ephraim, two adopted Tribes in Israel, by whom (during Joseph's life) the Hebrews were Lords of the land of Goshen, and free from their bondage in Egypt.  
Was not THERMUTIS the Kings daughter of Egypt, 
THERMUTIS the daughter of Pharo K. of Egypt.  a jewel appointed to save Moses from drowning in Nilus, to name him Moses, to bring him up as her son adoptive to possess the Crown in spite of their Priests of Memphis?  
ESTHER an Hebrew maid, 
ESTER rare and zeal for the jews.  married to A●ashuerosh the great King of Persia, a jewel of God not only appointed to save M●rdocheus her uncle, but all the jews her countrymen within an hundred seven and twenty Provinces, with the danger of her own life, and the destruction of seventy and five thousand Persians, and the hanging of H●man, and his ten sons.  
In Bethulia a woman widow ventured more than any man, 
The bold and rare attempt of judith a woman.  either Cyrus, Alexander, Or Caesar in their own persons, as she did▪ who brought Holofer●●● head in a bag through the Assyrian camp to 〈◊〉, whereby the whole Assyrian army was overthrown. A famous victory for a woman to be recorded for the fame of women.  
Observe therefore, how God chiefly by women, in all countries saved and defended his people: In Mesopotamia, by Laban's daughters, Lea & Rachel. In Egypt, by THERMUTIS King Pharaoh's daughter. In Ethiopia, by Tharbis the King of Ethiopes daughter, whom Moses married and made her a christian, whom Pharaoh and the Priests of Egypt gave him to th' end to slay him; as Saul sent David to the Philistians for the like purpose. In Persia by ESTHER King Ahashuerosh wife. In Bethulia by judith a widow, these were peculiar women by God appointed.  
What should we seek proofs far off, when we have examples at home. Had we not in England, 
England, Scotland, & France, combined by women.  such a jewel as combined France unto England? And another jewel that brought Scotland unto England, being two women?  
Had we not such a jewel of a woman in England, after ten terrible battles wherein there were a Hundred Knights and Barons slain, ten Princes and Dukes destroyed, and one Hundred thousand Englishmen slain in the field between the houses of Lancaster and York, a woman being the only cause of a perpetual League between both houses? And even at this present we enjoy such a jewel, that will bless Britain, both with Tribes and Kings, as Lea and Ruth did Israel.  
This only shall suffice, 
Kingdoms & Realms, combined in a League by women.  that kingdoms and Realms are combined and joined together in perpetual League of amity by women generally. And sithence in the seed of a woman all the people of God are blessed, I need not to name the virgin Mary, whose womb was blessed that bore him, and her paps that gave him suck; Nor make mention of such women long before Mary, of whom lineally Christ descended. as Lea, and Racheli the wives of jacob, the mother of the Tribes of Israel, of whom the Lion of Iudah, and the star of jacob descended, 
Ruth the Moabite.  Ruth the Moabite the wife of Booz, the mother of Obed, the father of ●sai, the father of David, of whom came the king of Kings.  
How much more than were godly and virtuous women blessed by Angels, by Prophets magnified, and by Kings and Princes reverenced? Iae●● the wife of Aber the Kenite shallbe blessed said the Angel, 
Ia●l that slew Sisera.  for she slew Sisera King jabin's General; And the victory of Israel was obtained by a woman, as DEBORAH said to the fame of women: Did not Osias the Governor of Bethulia and of the army of Israel, 
The praise of judith.  bless judith? And so Achior blessed her, saying blessed art thou of thy God in all the Tabernacles of jacob.  Tugloria lerusalem, Tulaetitia Israel. 
as much and more might be spoken of Queen Est●er.  
But to speak in particular of women, it were infinite. I should but weary the Reader to run throughout the old and new Testament, with the due praise and commendations of such jewels as are fit to attend in Courts of Princes: As of the woman of Bahurim by hiding David's servants, 
The woman of Bahurim commended.  she saved their lives from Absalon, who made search to destroy the King his father; she only thereby saved herself, the City, and all the Citizens.  
So RAHAB in jericho hid the Messengers of joshua, 
RAHAB the like woman in jericho.  whereby she saved not only them, but also herself, her family, and all the friends that s●● called to her house, at the destruction of jericho.  
The Sunamites wife for her pity & compassi●● of the Prophet Elizeus, to make him a cham●● in the house, to feed him being the man of Go●  
The Widow of Sarepta entertained 〈◊〉 with all the wealth she had, 
The widow of Sarepta.  which was a handful of flower, a little cruse full of Oil. See a woman was appointed to feed Elias; & a woman to make a chamber to welcome Elizeus in.  
Such jewels are to be entertained in Courts of Kings who are always ready for good and godly suits; and not with Moloch his reaching hand, 
Moloch.  and his Caemorims' Priests; nor with judas with open hands to take what they will.  
Again to speak of wise and discreet women, 
The praise of wise women.  who could be wiser than ABIGAIL Nabals' wife, who by her wisdom so entreated David, that she saved her husband's life, and after became Queen in Israel, even king David's wife?  
The woman of Abella, who with her wisdom counseled with the chief Magistrates of Abella, 
seba's head the Traitor.  and brought seba's head the Traitor, and threw it over the wall to joab; when neither joab offered peace, nor the Magistrates of Abella sought peace, yet she saved the Town, and the Army of Israel from much slaughter.  
I will therefore conclude with an Epilogue of the new Testament, of women that far excelled men in faith, in constancy, and in service of the lord 
Women more zealous than men.  I will omit to speak of Marie Magdalen, joanna the wife of Chusa, Herod's Steward, of Susanna, with many other such women, which ministered to the Lord, as he travailed to preach. I need not make mention of Anna, who prophesied of Christ to the people, receiving Christ in her arms at jerusalem, confessed (as Simeon did) the redemption of Israel; but even of pilate's wife, when all men cried, 
pilate's wife  Crucifige, to crucify Christ, yet this only woman endeavoured to persuade her husband Pilate, to wash his hands from such a wicked fact, affirming he was a just and a godly man.  
I seldom read of such faith in a man, as of the woman, who desired but to touch the hem of Christ's garment, and to be healed thereby, as she confessed, to whom Christ said, her faith had made her whole.  
Now having heard, that as women ministered unto Christ in his preaching, so women followed him to his death, and also attended him to his grave; 
More women followed Christ, than men.  and more women were at Christ's death, than men; and as it seemed wept more bitterly, than those few men that were there.  
No doubt john the Evangelist wept, joseph 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 spoke, saying, why weep ye for me, ye daughters of Zion? with much compassion he pitied the women, who much lamented his death; 
Christ first appeared to women after his resurrect on.  and after his death, Christ first appeared to women, when the Apostles fled, forsook, and denied him.  
I know most men doubted of Christ his resurrection, yea the Apostles, whom the Lord reprehended for their incredulity, because they would not believe Mary Magdalen to whom the Lord first appeared; 
The Apostles ●●redulous of the resurrection of Christ.  neither would the Apostles believe the other women, whom the Angel sent to tell them that the Lord was risen, and went before them into Gal●lie.  
Mark how the Lord spoke to women his last words at his death, 
Christ appeared twice to women after his death, before he appeared to his Apostles.  and likewise appeared twice to women after his death, before he appeared to his Apostles.  
If you read profane histories, you shall find Asia first christened by a woman so named. And Europe by the name of a woman called Europe Agenor's daughter King of Phoenicia. Scythia of a woman that sprang out of the earth, and named her son Scytha. 
The Romans brag of Rhea.  The Romans might better brag of Rhea a woman, a vestal virgin well known, (the Mother of Romulus) than of Rom●●●● whose Father was not known; or of a farr●● more ancient woman named Roma.  
The Greeks might better brag of Helena 〈◊〉 woman, 
The Greeks named of Helena a woman, ra-rather than of helas a man.  and not as they would have it of helas 〈◊〉 man; Helena made Greeks then unknown, to be known; she was the woman that was the whetstone of Greece, by this woman the greeks became first famous. But we leave Asia, Europe, Phrygia, Greece, Scythia, and Rome; if we omit the fame of women in these, what should I recite Provinces and Isles, Cities and Towns named after the name of women? as Rhodes, Corcyra, Salamina, Aegina, 
Many Isles named after the name women.  & of many more which Diodorus writes of, to whom I refer you.  
And as the most part of the earth is Christened and named by women, so also the most part of the stars are constellated with women, not only with the names of women, but with the form, shape, and figure of women, of which I wish you confer with that Astronomer Astratus, who filled the stars of women: 
The most part of the stars are figured by the names of women.  considering there be but a thousand and twenty stars names known, I think the most part are figured and named after the names of women.  
I would have a good Scholar to answer me, that never loved a woman, That is not true, sith the form and image of justice is form like a woman with a sword in her hand; Prudence with a glass in her hand; Temperance with a dial in her hand; Fortitude with a great huge Colossus on her shoulder, that Hercules could not stir her. And all these are wrought in gold, in silver, in Arras, and in all kind of Tapestry.  
The Queens of the Amazons courts were only of women, without men, where men by Law and decrees made, might not govern or bear rule, but were exercised in servile works, 
The queens of Amazons, and their exploits.  having their legs and arms made so weak by their Nurses, that they could not bear armour, as Diodorus writes, Quoinutiles fierent bello. This was a policy of the Amazons, to be careful to keep the ancient Law of Scythia, that men should not govern them; who used to cut off the right pap of every female kind, because it should not hinder them in their shot and military service.  
An example of two or three; Myrina one of their Queens with thirty thousand foot women, 
myrina's marshal acts & victories.  and two thousand horse, being armed with skins of great Serpents, after that she had subdued many Regions and confines, even unto Libya, marched unto Egypt, at what time Orus, Isis' son reigned King there (so ancient a History it is) with whom she consented to a ●eague of peace.  
Thence she marched into 〈◊〉, whom she much was●ed and spoiled; from thence to Syria, whom she conquered with much slaughter. Thence she marched to Mount 〈◊〉 and over came the nations there about, so that Queen Myr●●a was as famous in S●ythia, as was Semiranus in Asia; and both were as famous as Alexander or Cyrus.  
In like sort may it be spoken of Queen Medusa, 
Queen Medusa's warlike acts  and of her Court, as we did of Queen Myrina, that she likewise governed a Nation of warlike women named Gorgon's, who feared not to encounter with great King Perseus, the most famous and warlike King of his time amongst the Grecians, and kept him long and hard in two great battles.  
The fame of these Queens grew so great, 
Hercules was amazed at the fame of those Queens.  that Hercules hearing the fame of them, and of their courts, & of their women, was much abashed, that so many Nations should be subdued by women.  
Hercules, after Perseus, in great fury began his war against these Queens, (after Myrina and Medusa's time, with whom Perseus fought) and slew so many (I mean of the Gorgans' and Amazons) that Queen Myrina buried so many of her Ladies, that to this day their grave is called Tumuli Amazonum: which is in Greece, and not in Scythia.  
Among other Nations and Kingdoms the Court of the Queens of Saca, ought justly for their misitary discipline, their victories and government to be remembered. 
The queen of Saca.  Among many Queens that ruled there, I will only speak of one Queen, named Tarina, who after she had subdued the Nations about her, 
Queen tarina's victory.  and brought in subjection many countries under the Saceans, after peace and quietness, had made such Laws to her Subjects that the Queens which succeeded her, altered nothing thereof, but one Queen after another confirmed Tarinas Laws in Saca.  
Such was the love & commendations of this Queen, of her Subjects in her Court, for her policy, wisdom, counsel, and benefits done to her country, that such a Sepulchre was made for her after her death, that the Pyramids of Egypt, and the Labyrinth of Crete might well give place unto it. Neither might Mauseolum itself, which Queen Artimesia made for King Mausolus her husband's Tomb, be preferred, though that Tomb was numbered one of the seven wonders of the world.  
The Queens of Scythia 
The Queens of Scythia.  their Court, a known History; whose antiquity is such that Diodorus, Cetesi●s and others 〈◊〉 of. But the Queens of Scythia, howsoever they were first named, enlarged their kingdoms so greatly, that some were called 〈…〉, and some Arimaspi; all warlike Queens, which subdued much of Asia, and of Europe, so that many of the Queens of the Amazons 
The Queens of Amazons 〈◊〉 with the most famous conquerors of the world.  are most renowned for the waters which they had with the greatest Conquerors of the world.  
As Queen 〈◊〉 with Hercules, Queen Tarina with Pers●●●, Queen 〈◊〉 with Achilles, Queen 〈◊〉 with Cyrus, whom she slew in battle, with 200000. Persians with him. And after Cyrus was slain in Scythia, King Darius thought to revenge that shame, that the great King of Persia with his army should be slain by a woman, but Darius was glad to leave Scythia unto women, and to return unto Persia.  
And also of Camilla, who came armed against Aeneas and his Trojan army; 
Camilla.  with so many Kings as well of Asia, as of Europe, who felt the courage of the Queens of Scythia, that Kings paid Tribute to Queens in Asia.  
The women Laxamathae were Marshal women on horse back, the men of that country on ●oote; 
The women Laxamathae marshallwomen.  In the field the woman fought on horseback with halters and short strong ropes, and the men with spears and targets.  
The women of Sparta, are preferred before men. 
The women of Sparta preferred for council and courage before men.  All care and business of Sparta are laid upon the women. For they sit in Council, they judge in causes, and make such Laws and decrees as to them seemed good; which being objected against by a certain Gentleman, that only the women of Sparta ruled over men; And well worthy, answered Leonidas wife, we women only of Sparta bear men only. True it is, as women bring their infants up in their youth, so are they found in their age.  
The women in Persia, were so much honoured, 
The women of Persia.  that they might not be seen, but covered secret in Coaches▪ So Themis●ocles being sought for by the 〈◊〉 and Lu●d●monians, escaped by favour, and was carried among the Persian Ladies secretly. For none but the Persian Ladies might have access to their Coaches, or presume to speak to them. So much in Persia were women esteemed, that in all secret councils of States they were sent for.  
Moreover the Persians would have their wives present in place to see them fight in battles, 
The women would be pres●●t in every battle where their husbands fought as whetstones.  that they might at the sight of their wives▪ be made more courageous to fight.  
What can be said of men, but as much may bet said of women, or rather more? Might Hercul●s any way have subdued Cerberus or led him in triumph, but by the help and council of Proserp●na a woman? Neither jason could possibly win the golden fleece, and carry it away from 〈◊〉 unto Greece, without the help of Medea a woman.  
Who taught Theseus the way to the Laby●●●● at Crete to kill the monster Mino-taurus, but 〈◊〉 a woman? Who taught the way to wer● over so many dangerous gulfs, fiery 〈◊〉 frosty rivers, unto hell itself? but 〈…〉 woman.  
Therefore the Law was, that they that 〈◊〉 to Carras into the Temple of Luna, 
The Law in Courts of women.  and offered sacrifice to the Moon, such women should have the rule & government of their husbands with good reason, and their husbands should be ruled by them. And they which made supplication & offered sacrifice to god Lunus, such men had the dominion and gouernm●t over their wives.  
The people called Sauromatae in Sarmatia, a 
Women ruled all Sarmatia.  very large country in Scythia, reaching from the river Vistul● unto the end of Germany, even unto the confines of Hyrcania in Scythia, and yet as large as Sarmatia was, women ruled their country; for when all women rule their husbands, they must needs rule the countries.  
These be the scoffs of Cato against the Roman women, 
Scoffs of Cato in Rome against women.  that the valiant Romans, that conquered all Nations abroad, were conquered at home by women.  
It is most strange, that women should so love men for children sake, and yet the Malekinde should neither bear rule nor govern amongst them.  
THALESTRES Queen of Scythia, 
Thalestres Queen of Scythia went to see Alexander the Great.  hearing of the fame and report of Alexander to be such for his martial prowess and great conquest, she came with three hundred Scythian Ladies, not only for the sight of Alexander, but also to get children by him and his Macedonian Lords, that should be like their Parents.  
And though Alexander had not so many queens as Solomon, yet had he (after the Persian manner) as many Queens as there be days in the year; Notwithstanding his sons should bear no rule in Scythia, though they were gotten of the queen Thalestres, and of Alexander the great.  
So it is historied of Ne●aule queen of Ethiopia, 
Queen Saba went to hear Solomon.  that she came to jerusalem to hear Salomon's wisdom, and to propose unto him hard questions, and dark problems, being as willing to have as many wise Salomon's in Ethiopia, as Thalestres was to have valiant Alexander's in Scythia.  
The Roman women, hearing such report and fame of the women of Sparta, 
The Roman courage to fight with wild beasts on theatres.  of the Saceans, Sarmatians, Scythians, and of sundry other Countries, (having no men to fight with for tha● the Romans had conquered all Nations) came armed upon the Theaters to fight with divers and sundry wild beasts, as Lions, Elephants, Bears and such like: and when they were not permitted to fight upon the Theaters with beasts; yet would they overcome (as Cato said) the Conquerour● and Champions at home, which overcame Tigers and Lions upon the Theaters.  
The Ladies of ROOM perceiving tha● all the gold and silver which was in the treasury of Rome, 
Due commendations of the Roman Ladies.  to be consumed and spent in the wars against the Gauls, in the time of that noble captain Camillus▪ the women brought all their gold, silver, chains, earrings, and all their jewels unto the Senators, whereby the Gauls were satisfied, and Rome again delivered▪ At which time the Matrons of Rome were so advanced and honoured by carrying in Coaches to their temples, and to their Theaters. So that now it was also decreed in the Senate house, that women being dead, their commendations and praises should be recited in the pulpits at their Funerals, in as large manner as men.  
So was Popilia by her son Crassus. So julius Caesar did commend his wife Pomp●ia, and Ner● his friend Poppea.  
Again in the second African wars, when Rome was so afflicted by Hannibal, that both men and money were S●ant, but chiefly all the money in the treasury was spent, the chief Roman Matrons (as before) brought all their rich treasures, (which of long time they had kept) unto the Senate house, being ready to be armed, whereby the Romans were so animated against Hannibal again, that he was enforced after his great Victories in Italy, to forsake Italy, and fly to Africa.  
True it is, that Rome by women was twice recovered, and delivered from the enemies, that the Gauls fled from Rome, and Hannibal from Italy.  
What praise had Veturia and Volumnia, 
Veturia & Volumnia two women much commended.  two Roman Ladies worthy their commendations in the pulpit; the one entreating her husband, the other her son, at that time that Rome was in Corolianus hand, either to spill, or to spare?  
How should I pass in 〈◊〉 Cloaelia, that scaped King 〈…〉, and swimmed over the River Tiber, and opened the secrets of Porsenna to the Roman Senators?  
What great benefits had the Hebrews by the midwives of Egypt, being by Pharaoh the King commanded to 〈◊〉 the Male-childrens, 
The Midwives of Egypt 〈◊〉 many thousands of the Hebrews children from Nilus.  and to drown them in 〈◊〉 yet did they rather hazard their lives in breaking the King's commandment, than to offend God in so foul a fact; whereby they are had in perpetual remembrance in the book of God, to save so many thousand men's lives, with the hazard of their own, as it is recorded in Exodus.  
These examples should move our Englishwomen to do good to their country, & not seek the overthrow thereof.  
The Sabine virgins, 
The Sabine virgins saved both the Roman and Sabine army.  after they were ravished by the Romans at the feast Cons●alia, and married unto the Romans, so that wars grew thereby, they came in their smocks between the two armies, the one part their husbands, the other their fathers; So by the means of the Sabin virgins, peace grew between the Romans & the Sabees.  
When the Carthaginian in their wars against the Romans wanted for their matches, 
The women of Rome & of Rhod.  the Matrons of Cartha●e cause themselves & all the women to shave the hairs of their heads.  
So did the women of Rhodes.  
Many grave and wise women, have stood much in stead aswell in public council, as also in private policies, to their countries, who●e devices and sentences being set down, were imitated and found ●it to be followed and therefore in diverse great kingdoms and countries, women bear such rule, that they had the whole government of the common weal.  
It never repented August●us, 
Livia.  to follow the council of Livia.  
It much profited Ferdinandus, to hear what Isabella 
Isabella.  said, and to effect only what she said.  
Xerxes' the great King, among all his wise councillors in Persia, would not sit in council without Artimesias advice. 
Artimesia● queen of Caria.  Ninus King of the Assyrians, would effect nothing without Semiramis council; And after his death you may read how she governed the Assyrians for forty two years together, as stout as Alexander ruled the Macedonians.  
Therefore the Lacedæmonians admitted their wisewomen, 
The women of Lacedemonia admitted to ●it in council.  not only to come to hear council, but also to be heard and to set down their opinions, touching aswell Civil as Marshal causes.  
Among the old Germans, upon any great affairs, touching the state of their country, the women which were wise and discreet, did sit in council and give their sentence and advice, & among the Germans were chiefly accepted, and at this time more trust and confidence is given to women in Germany, than to men. For women be there sober when men are drunken  
The self same authority and credit had the women aswell in that part of Spain called Celtiberia, 
Women in Celtiberia.  as also in France; in which countries women were not only accepted in counsel, but in any strife or controversy it was determined and adjudged by verdict and Arbitrement of women.  
In the time of Hannibal, in certain debates between 〈…〉  
 
 
〈…〉, and other Countries, where Queens governed and ruled as kings, were admitted as judges, and fat as Councillors, to determine of right and wrong, as you have heard between the Gauls, and the Carthag●mans.  
Yea among the invincible Romans, by degrees were wise women admitted to have access to the Senate, and their counsel heard by ●he Senators. 
Wise women in Rome had access to the Senate.   
So was M●tia, Agrippina, Cornelia, and others, that it came to pass in Rome, that the women among the Romans were as much authorized as the women of Sparta.  
So Candaces Queen of Et●iopia, was so singu●er●● wi●e, 
The praise of Queen Candaces.  that she ruled and governed her subjects in such sort, that she was so much honoured and beloved among the Ethiopians (as Asarces among the Parthians) that all the Queens that succeeded her in Ethiopia, were called Candac●s after her name.  
Among the Li●ian people that dwelled in Asia the less, the women children were named after their Mother's names, and not after their Fathers, and they by the law and custom of that country, are heirs to their Mothers, and not to their Fathers.  
As among the Hebrew women, who gave such names to their children as pleased the mothers, 
The Hebrew women gave names to their children without the consent of husbands.  without the consent of their Fathers.  
Sitones, people not far from the Sucu●●ns, had a Law that none might govern over 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 Grecians.  
Among the old Danes, if any soldier should not follow his Captain, and fight valiantly for his Country, 
The Law among the old 〈◊〉.  the law was their wives should master● and govern them as their servants, and their husbands should lie with their heads downward toward their wives feet, as a mark foe infamy, to be known cowards.  
The woman in Sparta, did meet their husbands & sons, 
〈…〉  using scoffing & flouting words saying; whether creep ye, ye cowards into your Mothers and wives bellies again?  
That made the 〈◊〉▪ 
〈…〉  that theiy would have their wives and concubines to see them how● manfully they ●ought, to avoid the name of cowards. For in Persia to be called a coward, an● Ation might be had against him in Law.  
If you read Philosophy, you shall find Aristipp● daughter 〈◊〉, in the school of Athens, a reade● and a Teacher of Philosophy in her father's place.  
Corynna was set forth and garnished with 〈◊〉 several garlands of Laurel, which she wan o● Pyndarus (the only Poet of his time) for that she● excelled him in verses and poems.  
Eustochium and Blessilla, for Hebrew, Greek and Latin, 
A catalogue of rare women.  were equal to a great number of the best learned in those times, in zeal of true Religion, and in following of Saint Hyerom, for th● further instructions of their faith. Of these 〈◊〉 Hyerom made mention in his Prologues of joshua, of Esay, and of Daniel.  
Aspasia, a Greek woman, red Rhetoric in Miletum, 
Aspasia.  is to be praised.  
Sapph red Poetry in Lesbos; both taught scholars with much commendations. 
Sapph.   
Leontinum a Grecian woman, wrote a whole volume against Theophrastus, the great Philosopher, and as Cicero saith, 
Leontinun  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 pronunciation, as came to hear her eloquence. 
Hortensia.   
Amesia pleaded her own causes before Q. 
Amesia.  Titu● the Roman Praetor, with such manly courage, that she was called Androgune. 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉   
And Sara, raguel's daughter, To●ies wife, for her zeal and earnest prayers was delivered from the spirit Asmod●us. 
Sara.   
And Mary Magdalen for her inward love and faith to the Lord was delivered from seven Asmod●u● seven devils. 
Mary Magdalen.  And many such women, which to speak of in particular it were infinite, as before is said.  
The Romans made laws demaritandis ordinibus First by Q. Metellus, after by julius Caesar, and after him by Augustus, with gifts and rewards to entice young men and maids to marriage, and to make choice of such as should always continue.  
So much was marriage esteemed for multiplication, 
Lycurgus laws in Sparta. Solon laws in Athens▪  that Lycurgus made laws in Sparta, and Solon in Athens, that men might change their wives that were barren for others, to make trial in whom the cause of sterility was, whether in the manner wom●n. And this was so common a cou●●e among the Romans and the grecians▪ that Ca●o himself 〈…〉 Marcia in Rome 〈…〉 his 〈…〉.  
It was the opinions 〈◊〉 Philosophers, yea● the 〈◊〉 that men might marry for children's 〈◊〉▪ as many wives as they would. Other for religion ●●rried where they lift, for ●o was the law of 〈◊〉, 
Chrysippus' laws.  whose writing was full of Oracles.  
Among the Hebrews the wives would bring their 〈◊〉 unto their husbands.  
Among the Grecians, 
The custom in Greece at marriages.  the custom was the mothers of the married persons should have 〈◊〉 torches ready to light, and their friend's 〈◊〉 Hymns and longs called 〈…〉 four precedents of marriages, 〈…〉 Diana, and Suad●la, that these Goddesses and Queens would vouchsafe to bless these 〈…〉, that 〈◊〉 would make them parents of children; that Venus would increase their love; Diana their courage and chastity; and that Suadela would make them delectable and loving to her husbands.  
And the next day after their marriage, 
The ceremonies in Greece upon the next day after the marriage.  the father of the bride should bring her 〈◊〉 munus, a fair coloured boy in a white coloured gown, carrying a burning torch in his hand, after him a fellow that brings the new Bride her attires and then they which bring a sum of gold and silver, and after them they which bring household vessels & household stuff, against whose coming the gates & doors of the house wherein these new married couples are come to dwell, are opened.  
In Sparta, they were appointed by Lycurgus law, 
Lycurgus Law of the orders and manner's in any marriage in Sparta.  that the young maids which should be married, should shave off their hair, & be clothed in man's apparel, and be brought at night into a dark chamber without light, and the Bridegroom than should lose the Bride's girdle, which betokened that both were but one. Yet in the Isle of Coos, the men must be clothed in women's garments contrary to them of Sparta, & yet signified but one.  
The Lacedaemonian maids that should be married, 
The manner of the Lacedæmonians in their marriages.  do truss their hairs up with a kind of spear called Celibaris, to signify that they should bring forth such martial children, as would use both spears and swords.  
The Athenians also used to dress the head of the Bridegroom with palms and Olives, 
Of the order of the Athenians in marriage.  to signify victory and conquest.  
These Ceremonies were only to allure and to entice young people to marriage, for multiplication▪ and therefore the old Germans had his custom that the young men should send to their Loves that should be their wives, 〈…〉, a sword, 
〈…〉  a shield and armour, in & pledges of love, with a garland 〈…〉 vervain called Verb●na.  
In Booetia, 
Of Boaetia.  they used to put a garland of Sparage upon the head of the new married maid. In other parts of Greece made of Balsamet, called Sysimbrium.  
The Locrians made crowns of divers flowers gathered by the Matrons, 
Of the Locrians.  and brought the day of marriage to the married maid.  
The Macedonians used to cut a loaf of bread with a sword, and both parties to eat of the same, 
Of the Macedonians.  was a full consent and decree of marriage.  
The Latins in their marriage ware white garments, 
Of the order of the latins.  and their ceremony was, that the new married couple should stand together under a yoke of Oxen, in token they should live and love one with another, without offending the law of marriage.  
So the other Goddess of marriage is called juno iugalis, signifying concord and agreement, and be yoked together during life.  
The Lusitanians, 
Of the marriage in Lusitania.  which are Portugals; the women must be drawn and forced out of doors before they came to be married, to show how unwilling they were to forsake their Parents, their friends, and their Countries, and now must follow a stranger, having before her a physician, and one that ●inges a song of Hymaeneus, carrying with her a Distaff, a spindle, and flax.  
The people about mount Taurus had this custom, 
The people about mount Taurus.  that the women should gird them before they were married, with a woollen girdle full of Hercules knots upon it, which should be loosed by the Bridegroom the first night, in token he should be the Father of so many children as Hercules had, 
Herotinu● had 600. sons.  who left behind him when he died 70. sons; and yet not so many as Herotinus king of Arabia, who had 600 sons.  
Solon made a law, that the man might not come unto his new married wives company before he had eaten Ex malo Cydonio, which was a notable Town in Candie.  
And so the custom among the Babylonians was, 
The Babylonians rule and order in marriage.  that the young married folks might not lie together, before both had tasted of a secret gum called Storiae. Such customs of these countries were carefully observed and kept.  
In Greece they had these Ceremonies (as Pausanius affirmeth) that the Bride should be carried from her Parents and Friends in a Coach, and the axle-tree of this Coach should be burned at the door of the house, before the Bride would enter into the house, 
Certain ceremonies in Greece.  signifying that there she should stay and tarry, and thence never to depart.  
But if they were not carried in a coach, but went on foot, her husband should ever be called Chamoepus, being a word of great reproach, 
The first miracle of Christ in a marriage.  for that he made marriage honourable of no account, considering that the first miracle that Christ did, was at a marriage in Chanaan, and so honoured marriage with his own presence.  
It was lawful in Persia for the young married man to lie with his new married wife before he had eaten 〈…〉, 
The laws of the Persians for marriage.  the marrow of a Camel: neither any thing else, but an Apple, and the marrow of a Camel.  
The ●ewes at their marriages, the glass that they drink in that day they are married, the Bride and Bridegroom both jointly at night, break that glass, to signify the frailty of life.  
A young woman not married, might neither among the Lacedaemonians, 
The l●w of the Lacedæmonians, & of the Romans.  or among the Romans come among married women, or to the sacrifice and feasts of C●rus & Venus, but the ●●rier should openly charge and command all unclean women▪ ●uch as had the Leprosy, or any breaking out of their bodies, or ●ens●rium, should avoid the sacred and secret service, and after all this he commanded, & said to the woman unmarried▪ 〈…〉, that the maids unmarried should go out of the ●emple, as an enemy to mankind.  
And therefore the ●awe of Moses, was, that if a man should strike a woman with child, the child being quick and thereby borne abortive, the man should die for it. The law was that he should yield, 
The law of Moses.  Animam pro anima. And if the child had life, the man should be punished, Pecunia mulctetur, as much as the woman's husband would.  
This condemneth the absurd opinion of the pythagorians, of their transanimation which they call Metempsuchosis, that the soul should pass from one body to another, and withal so gross, 
The absurd opinions of the Pythagorians. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  that it should be transported from a man to a beast.  
Hence grew the forbidding of eating of flesh among many, of whom Tertullian spoke merri●●▪ Ne quisp●am bubulam de aliquo proavo obsonet; lest some should eat of their old parents flesh.  
Mose● law was, that the young men should be married to maids, and such as was of honest parentage, 
Moses law of marriage.  virtuous and godly education. Moses thought it not fit that young women of ripe years, should be unmarried.  
That was the cause why Lycurgus made such sharp laws in Sparta, that the young men which were not, 
Lycurgus law.  not would not be married in Sparta, they should go naked in the winter time roundabout the market place, upon the market day▪ neither might these unmarried bachelors come to see the games and plays among the 〈…〉.  
The like law made Plato, 
Plafoes●●●  that if any young man in Greece should be unmarried at 35, years, 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 coming from them, without any countenance or credit given him.  
This was the cause that the Lacedæmonians had such Laws and customs, that the parents which had three children, should be freed from watch and ward; But those parents which had four, ab omni onere immunis foret, he should be discharged from all tasks 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 give a piece of Gold to every woman with child in any town the King came through, and this was the only cause why those Hebrew women which were barren, brought their maids unto their own husband's chambers for children's ●ake. As you heard of Abraham's wife, and of Jacob's wives.  
Such was the affection and love in Martial countries, to have young men married to young women.  
The warlike Romans would hardly suffer any Patrician that was not father of many children, 
Patricians that were not parents of children, not esteemed in Rome.  to be any Magistrate in Rome, either Questor, Praetor, or Consul. And if any should feign to be parents of children, & not so found, he should be deprived from his office and place per Senatus consultum.  
And therefore Furius Camillus, and after him Posthumius, 
Furius, Camillus' law of bachelors unmarried.  at what time they were made Censors in Rome, made such decrees, that old bachelors which were found unmarried in Rome, should pay such fine to the Treasury as were imposed upon them by their Censors.  

Sectio. 2.  
SEe how much all heathen laws do esteem honour, 
The love of the mother more than the love of the father.  and make much of marriage: And how much we owe to our mothers that nourish us in their wombs, and our wives that bring us children. And therefore the mothers are (as the Philosopher saith) Philosturge, of the great love and affection she beareth more than the father, and we are or aught to be more affected to our mothers. Plus paulo à matre, quam à patre suscipit faetus. For nothing can be more repugnant to nature, 
The love of the mother proved by Galen and Hypocrates.  than a mother to hate and forget her own children, which is brought for an example by the Evangelist of Rachel, whose complaint, wailing and weeping was such for her children, that she would not, nor could not be comforted, which is easily to be believed, sithence women feed us and nourish us with the substance of their own bodies, as both Hypocrates and Galen said, Ex Sanguine Materno faetum all. First for ninety days women bear us dead in their bellies, the other ninety days women bear us quick in their bodies with greater care and fear for our lives, then for their own; so that from the very day of conception unto the very hour of our birth, they live in great danger▪  
That made Alexander the great to answer Antipater's letter, 
Examples of Alexander the great.  in the which he much complained of his mother Olympias, charging her with great crimes; to the which complaint, Alexander smiling, said, una materna lachryma, multas hujusmodi d●●ebi●l●●era. Doth not Antipater (said Alexander) know that one small tear of a Mother▪ will blot out many such complaints?  
And therefore the Matrons of Rome, 
The Matrons of Rome much reverenced.  were so much reverenced, that it was decreed by the Law Senatus-consultum, ●et down by the Senators and Consuls, that if any man should meet with any Matron of Rome upon any pathway, they should as it were of a duty to be done, discedered semitis, stand off and give the pathway. Neither might any officer or Magistrate call a Matron of Rome into Law.  
Among the very heathen, young virtuous virgins and young maids well brought up, 
Poor young ●●gins sin Athens and in Sparta, provided for their marriage.  both by the Law of Lycurgus in Sparta, and the Law of Solon in Athens, were provided for, and carefully looked unto for their marriages, out of their common Treasure. So were Aristides daughters in Athens, and Lysander's daughters in Sparta. Among the Romans with no less care were the daughters of 〈◊〉 Fabri●ius, & Man: Curius provided for; which was the only cause that many Noble women and Matrons in divers countries bestowed Dowries, for the marriage of poor virgins.  
Sampsons' mother was taught by the Angel how her son should be brought up, 
Samsons mother wa● taught how ●o bring her son up.  after the Angel had appeared twice unto her, saying: Behold thou art barren, thou shalt conceive and bear a Son, and thou shalt bring him up and be his nurse. Here the mother was charged to be the nurse to her son, and to bring him up, and not the father.  
The Hebrew women not only nourished their children, 
The Hebrew women.  but also named their children without consent of their father. So did Iochabed nurse Moses her son.  
Among the Lacedæmonians, the mothers were nurses to their Children, 
The Lacedæmonians.  lest 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 lawful to have their children brought up or nourished by any woman, 
The old Germans.  but by the mother.  
The Romans were warned and had council, that their children should be lulled upon their mother's laps, & suck upon their mother's breasts.  
So the blessed virgin Mary nourished her only son with her milk: 
The virgin Mary nursed her own son.  And so Sarah nourished Isaac her son.  
The Angel of the Lord appeared unto Agar the mother of Ishmael, and spoke unto her in the wilderness o● Berseba, and comforted her & said, Arise and take ●e lad by the hand, for I will make of him a great people.  
Hannah 
Hannah the wife of Elcanah▪  the wife of Elcanah, made continual ●ute unto the Lord for a son, and never went out of the temple, but still prayed until the Angel of the lord ●old▪ her that she should have a son which was Samuel.  
The woman of Chanaan never left Christ until she had obtained her suit of the lord, 
The woman of Chana●n.  to heal her daughter being sick.  
And the lord would have us earnest for our sins, 
Sampsons' mother.  as Sampsons' mother was for her son, and as the woman of Chana●n was for her daughter, continually praying unto God for his goodness, and blessing towards us.  
Sara, 
Sara.  at 80. years was desirous to have a son, and had Isaac.  
Anna▪ 
Elizabeth.  solicited God until she had Samuel. And so Elizabeth by praying got john Baptist in her latter years. These godly women sought children at God's hands.  
Though Rachel made much means to her husband for children, 
Rachel.  saying▪ unless she might have children, she should die; yet far better than such women are, 
Balphaegor P●iapus.  that go to Balphaegor to the image of Priapus to seek children by unlawful means (as the Prophet saith,) Auolabit gloria eorum à conceptu, & à partu. They shall not be mothers of Children, they shall have barren wombs, Et arentia ubera, and dry breasts.  
So God did threaten superstitious women, Plangentes Adonidem.  
Now that women are so set forth for their wisdom, learning, ver●ue, and for their magnanimity, courage and government, and after their marriages had as great care to bring up their children, as they had to please their husbands, I thought good with some examples of divers countries to confirm the same.  
The jacobites people in the East baptized, 
The jacobites.  and used Moses law of circumsition, they burn their Infants upon the forehead, or the breast, with the sign of the cross.  
The custom among the old Romans was this, 
The custom of the Romans at the birth of Infants.  first the midwife would lay the child new borne upon the ground, and after sa●crifice done to E●d●sa, it should be presented to Nundina, by whom the Romans were warned, that their infants should be carefully brought up by their mothers.  
Among the Grecians it was brought by the midwife, 
Of the Grecians.  and the women him associate at the birth before La●es their household Gods, where the neighbours sacrificed for the health of their infants, and after delivered them to the mother.  
The Ethiopians ab ipso natali die, 
Of the Ethiopians.  the first day of their infant's birth, have such care of their children, that they do murere frontes in fantium, that they should ●uffer pain, & be known ever after by that mark as the jacobites were: so that the Ethiopians would pro●e what spirit their children were of, by riding upon Elephants and by flying on fowls backs, whereby they might know & see whether they were courageous and bold, or timorous & fearful.  
But we have children brought up from their cradle, taught to ride upon Lions & Unicorns, and to fly over Seas upon Eagles, the chiefest Roman ensigns of the Papists.  
It is said, 
The Isl●s Baleares.  that the women of the two Isles named Baleares in Spain, never minister any meat to their young infants, nisia baculo & funda, but from a sling or from a staff, to signify they should avoid idleness and get their living by labour and pain.  
The women of Sparta according to Lycurgus law, 
The women of Sparta.  used to wash their young infants with cold water mingled with salt, to make them acquainted even from their cradle with pain and travel. Insomuch that it came to a proverb, Solas Lacenas utros parere, that the Lacedaemonian women only brought up children to be men  
So it is written by the same author, 
The women of Crect and of Germany.  that the women of Crect, and the old Germans would bring up their children from their birth day, to endure pain of cold and heat, and to suffer hunger and thirst.  
And so it is written, that the ancient women in Iberia, 
In Iberia.  being brought up ever to see such slaughter in their Country of their husbands and children, that the Infants being new borne, have their first feeding from the point of a sword, or of a Dart.  
In India their Philosophers called Gymnosophystoe within 2. or 3. years after they were borne, would examine what kind of trade they should profess.  
And the same Gymnosophists thought Diem mortis esse diem natalem; 
Gymnosophistae.  for the same Nation in Thracia weep and lament the birth of their children, and at their death, rejoice and triumph.  
The Persians had such care of their Infants, 
The Persians.  that they provided such Nurses as should bring them under in such severe discipline, that they might not spit nor cleanse their noses in public presence, neither might they sit in sight of their Elders, they might drink no wine, they might see no naked persons; for such faults by the law of Persia, were capital crimes: which was as strict a law as the Nazarites had.  
Saba 
Saba.  in josephus, called Nicaule, for her wise propositions to Solomon, called Arabica Sibylla, and of whom Christ maketh mention in the gospel.  
Hydra 
Hydra.  also, whom Plato much commends for her probleame and dark questions, that it grew to a proverb, capita Hydrae conficere.  
And Dama 
Dama.  Pythagoras daughter in expounding her father's dark and obscure questions, might worthily claim to be Pythagoras' daughter.  
Caelius 
Caelius.  writes of some women named Mantinaea, Lasthenia, and Axiothea, which came in apparel like men, to hear Plato read Philosophy in schools.  
Were not the Father's happy to bring up such daughters, and were not their husbands more happy to marry such wives?  
To be short and to verify a french proverb, non est faelix natus, qui non est faelix maritatus, so Aristotle saith, that he which is not well married, hath lost the one half of his joys in this life: and so Pharoneus 
Phoroneus  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 married such a wife.  
Yet such sharp dames are sometimes necessary to Philosophers, 
Sharp dames necessary.  to Physicians, and to Preachers, to reprehend them of their faults and to cure them of their maladies at home, as they reprehend and find faults in others abroad.  
Socrates so confessed, that Xanthippe his wife did him as much good at home by chiding, 
Socrates saying.  to learn him patience; as he did in School to learn his scholars Philosophy.  
I wanted more time, than matter to write of such jewels as our mothers, our wives, our sisters, our kinswomen; and finally, of such jewels as the world would be no world, without women the Mothers of the world.  
But to be brief, let Semiramis be commend●● in Babylon; let Atlanta with her marshal women in feats of Arms be praised in Ar●●dia; let Camilla be spoken of among the Volskans; Tomyris among the Scythians; Queen 〈◊〉 in Aethyopia; and all other renowned Ladies, & of worthy women, that with feminine feats merited manly fame, be eternised; and let them worthily sit in the triumphant chairs of fame crowned with Garlands of Laurel, with branches of Palms in their hands, as Victors over conquerors, and Conquerors of Kings and Kingdoms. To these valiant exploits of women, Hercules must yield; or else Omphale Queen of Lydia will make Hercules to yield. To these ex-exployts of women, wise Solomon must yield; or else Pharaohs Daughter will make Solomon to yield: So must Achilles to Polyxena: So must Caesar to Cleopatra: and so in fine, all men must yield to women.  
FINIS.