A mirrour or looking-glasse both for saints and sinners held forth in about two thousand examples wherein is presented as Gods wonderful mercies to the one, so his severe judgments against the other collected out of the most classique authors both ancient and modern with some late examples observed by my self : whereunto are added the wonders of nature and the rare ... / by Sa. Clark ...

Valour of Women.

Semiranus was of so manlike a disposition, that she [ 52] waged warre with great felicity: she had in her Army three millions of foot, and fifty thousand horse, and a∣bout a thousand Chariots. As she was dressing her self, hearing of the defection of Babylon: in the same po∣sture, with one part of her haire bound up, and the o∣ther loose, she presently went against it, and never dressed up her head till she had brought it into subjecti∣on. Pez. Mel. Hist.

Tomyris Queen of the Masigetes was a woman of [ 53] an heroical disposition: When Cyrus King of Persia came with an huge Army against her, the (pretending fear) retired into certaine mountaines, into the stacts whereof, when Cyrus followed her, she set upon him, and after a bloody ••ight, slew two hundred thousand of his men, and himselfe also, after which she caused his head to be cut off, and threw it into a bowle of blood,

saying, Satia te sanguine, qu••m sitivisti, cujusque semper insatiabilis fuisti: Glut they selfe with blood, which thou hast alwayes thirsted after, and with which thou could'st never be satisfied. Justin.