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...iends with Saul's son Jonathan. Saul, however, becomes displeased when the women of the cities of Israel celebrate David's valour in battle instead of Saul'

...rule, women were taken offstage to be executed, as in ''A Warning for Fair Women'' (p. 27).

...576), the daughter of the first Duke of Fernandina, and one of the leading women of her adopted city of Florence until her death at the hands of her own hus

...people of seuerall conditions.” His chamber was reportedly “fraught with women,” an entourage of laundresses permitted to accommodate him, including one ...ngham’s residence, preparing love charms used by the Duke to corrupt young women, and foretelling the Duke’s death by way of an image in his glass of a he

:''A Warning for Fair Women'', like ''Arden of Feversham'' (printed 1592), dramatizes a crime, the murd

:Angry women of Abington. :Warning for fair women.

...at countrie onelie with Britains, which abhorring to ioine themselues with women borne in Gallia, Conan was counselled to send into Britaine for maids to be

...money,' but there are always a good many people present, many respectable women as well, because useful argumenta, and many good doctrines, as we were told

...mould of ''The Changeling''’s Beatrice-Joanna or Bianca of ''Women Beware Women'', fully aware of the power she has over the besotted sultan, which she exp

<blockquote>they have massacred in all parts above three hundred men women and Children, and have, since nott only spoyled and slaine Divers of our Ca ...e council at Jamestown sent word of the murder of ‘above three hundred men women and Children’ and the news arrived in London in July. … It was not unti

...on reinforced by a royal commandment spread throughout the realm that “all women shall holde their husbandes in honour both among great and small” (Esther ...donosor (Babylon). Esther first found favor with Hegai, “the keeper of the women” (Esther 2:8), who groomed her through traditional purification rites to

...red loves') gets up onto the stage and delivers a long speech to the young women present, a speech which appears under a fresh heading and actually takes up ...nature of desire, love, and marriage, particularly from the perspective of women.

...religious rites. Heliogabalus wore silk robes of an effeminate style, used women's make-up, and "danced around the altars to music played on every kind of i ...ts/Cassius_Dio/80*.html p. 463, margin]): Sardanapalus "wanted to imitate [women's] actions” when he took male lovers to bed. Wearing a wig, he “frequen

...th, laied violent hands vpon him. Vnto whō Orcines saide: I haue hard that women in times past haue reigned, & borne great rule in Asia, but it is nowe a mo

...EEBO-TCP furnishes several examples which tend to suggest that “when young women and holidays are linked, the frame of reference is pastoral”. For insta

...to be confusing Plutarch with Boccaccio, who wrote on the lives of famous women. However, the story of the rape of Timoclea is included in Plutarch's life

...urces to best her rival, a girl named Gillian. In the climactic scene both women stand passably in a field awaiting the apprentice, Richard Castelier, only ...ence. In the last moments of the tale, turning away from the common lot of women (marriage and children) and going her own way alone, Deloney's Meg becomes

:If you could leave her now, and betake your selfe handsomely to other Women, I have thought on a course.

Most of the women mentioned in Whyte's first letter can be identified as Maids of Honour to E

...d the Company's resources to the limits: even the gatherers -- the men and women who collected admission money at the playhouse doors -- were brought on sta