The generall history of vvomen containing the lives of the most holy and prophane, the most famous and infamous in all ages, exactly described not only from poeticall fictions, but from the most ancient, modern, and admired historians, to our times / by T.H., Gent.
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- The generall history of vvomen containing the lives of the most holy and prophane, the most famous and infamous in all ages, exactly described not only from poeticall fictions, but from the most ancient, modern, and admired historians, to our times / by T.H., Gent.
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- Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.
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- London :: Printed by W.H. for W.H. ...,
- 1657.
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Contents
- frontispiece
- title page
- To the Reader.
- An Index or Table, of Nine Books of Various History, only concer∣ning Women, inscribed by the Names of the nine Muses.
- Nine Books of various Histo∣ry, only concerning Wo∣men: Inscribed by the names of the nine Muses.
- THE SECOND BOOK inscribed EUTERPE.
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THE THIRD BOOK
of Women, inscribed THALIA.
-
Treating of Illustrious Queens, Famous Wives,
Mothers, Daughters, &c. Containing the Hi∣stories
of sundry Noble Ladies.
- Of Queens Illustrious.
- A Funeral Ode upon the death of Anna Panareta.
- Of divers Ladies famous for their Modesty.
- The wife of Fulvius.
- Arctaphila.
- The wife of Nausimenes.
- Cyane and Medullina:
- Erixo.
- A Woman of the City Pergamus.
- Stratonica.
- Valeria and Cloelia.
- Olympias.
- Troades.
- The Phocides.
- The women of Chios.
- Persides.
- Celtae.
- Melitae.
- Tyrrhenae.
- Examples of Modesty and Magnanimity.
- Of Dido, Cesara, Gumilda, and Ethelburga.
- Polycrita.
- Of Queens and other Ladies for divers vertues memorable.
- Of Women remarkable for their love to their Husbands.
- Of Women remarkable for their love to their Husbands.
-
Treating of Illustrious Queens, Famous Wives,
Mothers, Daughters, &c. Containing the Hi∣stories
of sundry Noble Ladies.
-
THE FOVRTH BOOK
inscribed MELPOMENE.
- Of Women incestuous, of Adulteresses, and such as have come by strange deaths.
- Of women incestuous, and first of Q. Semiramis.
- Pasiphae.
- Canace, Canusia, Valeria Tusculana.
- Julia, the Empresse.
- The sisters of Cambyses.
- Of Livia Horestilla, Lollia Paulina, Cesonia, &c.
- Jocasta.
- Crithaeis.
- Cyborea, the mother of Judas Iscariot.
- Of Adulteresses.
- Of many great Ladies branded with Adultery amongst the Ro∣mans: and first of Posthumia.
- An Egyptian Lady.
- Laodice.
- Phaedima.
- Begum, Queen of Persia.
- Olimpias.
-
. - A Modern History of an Adulteresse.
- Elfritha.
- Gunnora.
- Of women that have come by strange deaths.
- Of the Mistresse of Brennus. Of Tarpeia, and Acco a Ro∣man Matron.
- Of such as have died in child-birth.
- Of women that suffered martyrdome.
- Aristoclaea.
-
THE FIFTH BOOK
inscribed TERPSICHORE
- Intreating of Amazons: and other Women famous either for Valour, or for Beauty.
- Of the Amazons.
- Of warlike Women, and those of Masculine vertue.
- Camilla and others.
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Of other warl
ke Ladies. - Xantippe and Mirho.
- Of English Viragoes. And of Joan de Pucil.
- Of faire Women.
- Of Faire Women.
- The faire Mistresse of Pisistratus.
- Nitetis.
- Bersane.
- The wise of Candaules.
- Rowan and Estrilda.
- The faire Lady of Norwich.
- Of Callirhoe, daughter to Boetius.
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The wives of Cabbas and of Phai
lus. - Manto.
- The wife of Agetus the Lacedemonian.
- Of Women Deformed.
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THE SIXTH BOOK
inscribed ERATO.
- Treating of Chast Women, and of Women Wan∣tons.
- Of Mary the blessed Virgin.
- Petronilla.
- Of Chast Wives.
- Of Penelope.
- Of Women Wantons.
- A Sonnet.
- Lais.
- Phrine.
- Glicerin or Glicera, and others.
- Agathoclaea.
- Cleophis.
- Callipyge.
- Alogunes, Cosmartidenes, Andia.
- Julia.
- Harlotta, or Arlotta.
- Of divers Wantons belonging to sundry famous men, and others.
- Of Famous Wantons.
- Of Mista, and others,
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THE
SEVENTH BOOK
inscribed POLYHIMNIA,
or MEMORY.
- Intreating of the Piety of Daughters towards their Parents, Women to their children, Sisters to their Brothers, Wives to their Husbands, &c.
- Of Pious Daughters.
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Of S
sters that have been kind to their Brothers. - Of Matrimony, or Conjugall Love.
- Of Contracts before marriage, and of Dowries, a∣mongst whom they were allowed, and by whom forbidden.
- Of Nuptiall Ornaments, Pomp, Feasts, Epithalamions, &c.
- Descriptio egredientis Sponsae.
- Egrediens Sponsus.
- Oblatio munerum, or the Offering.
- The Epithalamium, or Nuptiall song.
- Ingressus in cubiculum, i. Their entrance into their bed-chamber.
- Sacred Auguries and Nuptiall Expiations, &c.
- The Conjugall Love of Women towards their Husbands.
- De Laenis, Or of Bawds.
- De Gulosis & Vinolentis. i. Of wonton addicted to Gluttony and Drunkennesse.
- Of Women beloved of divers creatures.
- Of Women excellent in the Art of Painting, Weaving, &c.
- Of Women Contentious and Bloody.
- Of Women strangely preserved from death, and such as haue un∣willingly been the death of their fathers.
- Of Clamorous Women commonly called Scolds.
- Variety of discourse concerning Women.
-
THE
EIGHTH BOOK
inscribed VRANIA.
-
Intreating of Women every way learned▪ of Poetres∣ses,
and Wi
ches, &c. - Of Women Orators that have pleaded their own Causes, or others.
- Of Women studious in Divinity.
- Of Women excellent in Philosophy, and other Learning.
- Of Poetry.
- Poetriae, Or Women Poets.
- Of Minerva, &c.
- Sapho.
-
Of
Cleobule Lindia, and other Poetesses. - Telesilla Poetria.
- Of Witches.
- Of Cyrce, and others remembred by the Poets.
- Of Witches transported from one place to another, by the Devill.
- Of Witches that have either changed their own shapes, or trans∣formed others.
- Of Witches that have confest themselves to have raised tem∣pests in a most serene Skie, with other things of no lesse admiration.
-
Intreating of Women every way learned▪ of Poetres∣ses,
and Wi
-
THE
NINTH BOOK,
inscribed CALLIOPE;
- Intreating of Women in generall, with the punish∣ments appertaining to the Vitious, and rewards due to the Vertuous.
- Of Women Ravished, &c.
- Of Handmaids, Nurses, Midwives, and Stepdames.
- Of Women for their Piety and Devotion remem∣bred in the sacred Scriptures.
- The sister of Leucippus.
- Of Adultery.
- Sisters that have murdred their Brothers.
- Of Mothers that have slain their Children, or Wives their Husbands, &c.
- O Loquacity and Excesse, and how they have been punished.
- Of severall degrees of Inchastities, and of their Punishments.
- Of Witches and the Punishment due to to them.
-
Of Tirgatao Moeotis, Comiola Tu
ing , and others. -
The reward due to Fertility, or many Children, with such as
have restored their deca
ed Families. - Of Beauty, and the reward thereof.
- Of Bounty, Charity, Piety, and other Vertues in Women, with their Rewards.
- Loosnesse of Life first converted, and the conversion rewarded, in a home bred History.
- Cura.
- Reward due to Philosophers, Orators and Poets.