place, did seeme as a Chariot wherein shee rid, triumphing ouer the
barbarous vsage of their inhumane cruelty. The morrow following brought
thither againe, after many rough incounters, remained so vnshaken, that
wrath it selfe grew madde, to see the strokes of an obstinate and
relenting fury fall so in vaine vpon the softer temper of a Woman: and
at the last tooke a scarfe from about her necke, and by it knits vp
within her bosome the knowledge shee had of that fact, together with
that little remainder of spirit, whereof by force and violence they
laboured to depriue her.

[Footnote a: _In Perkei ababboth. Bodinus in confutatione
opinionis Wieri. Plinius in hist. natural. Quintilianus
Institutionum oratoriarium lib. 5. cap. 10._]

[Footnote b: _Tacit. Annal. lib. 15._]

[c]Former ages haue likewise produced _Leena_, an exemplary president of
this sort, to all posterity, who when _Armodius_ and _Aristogiton_
hauing failed of the execution of their enterprise against _Hipparchus_
a tyrant, had beene put to death, she was brought to the torture to be
enforced to declare what other complices there were of the conspiracie.
But rather then shee should bee compelled thereunto, bit her tongue
asunder, and spit it in the face of the tyrant, that though she would,
yet could not now disclose them. In remembrance whereof the Athenians
caused a Lyon of Brasse to bee erected, shewing her inuincible courage
by the generosity of that beast, and her perseuerance in secrecie, in
that they made it without a tongue. Therefore the learned haue searched
out other causes thereof, and among the rest, obserued these as the most
probable.