Penelopes vveb VVhere, in a christall mirror of feminine perfection represents to the view of euery one those vertues and graces, which more curiously beautifies the mind of women, then eyther sumptuous apparell, or iewels of inestimable value: the one buying fame with honour, the other breeding a kinde of delight, but with repentance. In three seuerall discourses also are three speciall vertues, necessary to be incident in euery vertuous woman, pithely discussed: namely obedience, chastity, and sylence: interlaced with three seuerall and comicall histories. By Robert Greene Master of Artes in Cambridge.
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- Penelopes vveb VVhere, in a christall mirror of feminine perfection represents to the view of euery one those vertues and graces, which more curiously beautifies the mind of women, then eyther sumptuous apparell, or iewels of inestimable value: the one buying fame with honour, the other breeding a kinde of delight, but with repentance. In three seuerall discourses also are three speciall vertues, necessary to be incident in euery vertuous woman, pithely discussed: namely obedience, chastity, and sylence: interlaced with three seuerall and comicall histories. By Robert Greene Master of Artes in Cambridge.
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- Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.
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- London :: Printed [by E. Allde] for Iohn Hodgets, and are to be solde at his shop at the Flowerdeluce in Fleetestreete, neere to Fetter Lane end,
- 1601.
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- To the Right Hono∣rable & vertuous his very good La∣die and Mistresse, the Lady Margaret Countesse of Cumberland: and to the no lesse Honorable and ver∣tuous the Lady Anne Countesse of Warwicke: Robert Greene wisheth increase of Honor and Vertue.
- TO THE GENTLE∣MEN READERS HEALTH.
- To the Courteous and Courtly La∣dyes of England.
- Penelopes VVeb.