1GO THE LIFE OF 



CHAP, which he invented,) made his daughter Crana Queen and 

 XIL Governess of Italy. In the monarchy of the Babylonians, 

 (for which he quoted Herodotus,) were Semiramis and 

 Nicocris. The former builded Babylon, conquered Ethiopia, 

 invaded India, whither never King nor Emperor came, but 

 Alexander the Great. The latter, wiser than the former, 

 defended her empire against the Medes, who then sought 

 the monarchy of the world ; wrought such a wonder in that 

 great flood Euphrates, as all men then were amazed at it, and 

 yet think it almost incredible ; for she made it to leave its 

 old course, and to follow her device to and fro, to serve the 

 city most commodiously : so that, as our scholar wittily ex 

 pressed it, she did not only pass all men in wit, but over 

 came the elements with power. Among the Massagets, 

 reigned Queen Thomyris. He mentioned also Mandane 

 and Artemisia, women ; one Cyrus s mother, and the other 

 the wise counsellor of King Xerxes. Isis, after the death of 

 her husband Osyris, reigned over Egypt ; and that with so 

 much provision for the wealth of the realm, that she was 

 after her death counted a goddess. Lavinia, after the death 

 of JEneas, reigned in Latium, Dido in Carthage, Olympias 

 in Epirus, Aramea in Scythia, Cleopatra in Egypt, and a 

 Queen in Illyria, who ventured to withstand the Romans 

 when they were greatest ; and Olympias, after the death 

 of Alexander, in Macedonia: and he added somewhat of 

 the stories of all these. This for heathen history. 



Then he ran over some records among Christians. Theo 

 dora, otherwise called Helena, reigned, after the death of 

 Leo the Emperor, over all Asia, as Lady and Empress. 

 That in France, till of late years, women inherited the 

 Crown as in England and Scotland ; until that they meant 

 by the law Salique rather to defeat us of our title, than to 

 condemn the succession as unlawful. Henry, Duke of Sue- 

 via, son of Frederick the First, caUed Barbarosa, mar 

 ried the heir of Sicily, and so became King thereof, and 

 Emperor of Rome. Conrade Palatinus left behind him 

 one only daughter Agnes, who was Palatiness, and after 

 being married to Henry Duke of Saxony, made him 



