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WOMEN IN ENGLAND. 41
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to daint luxury y cookery . She , drinking then described wine , ly the ing mode on soft of couches warfare , and Ibest g adapted iven up
to defeat the Romansas well as their own means of safety , in case to of temporary us in skirmishes defeat . , inasmuch " For , " she as said they , " cannot the Romans bear hunger are inferior and
thirstcold and heat , as we can . They stand in need of shade , things coverings , fail , k them neade they d corn , die , wine while , and to us oil every , so herb that or if root any is of bread these ,
all any juice laces are is oil familiar , all water are ; is friendl wine , y every to us for bush carry a ing shelter on . the To war us ;
to them p they are unknown , onlwith and difficult hostile . "We them can in swim boats rivers "
naked The , while Queen they then can took This y a , hare , which sacred y she , animal cross had concealed with the Druids in . her
bosomand let it loose . was a , The who , omen standing , was by favourable , marked the and course they promised the affrig victory hted creature , bidding took the .
soldiers her hands march to forward heaven b and , y the thanked way marked the Goddess out . , Boadicea Ceredwin lifted , for
woman up this presage victory , and safety implored and , liberty her , as . Then wom , turning , to grant to the to chiefs her , a ,
she reminded , them , that , this was not the first time they had been pride led to of battle a long by line a woman of ancestry ; that , now nor she even did to not recover come her to boast kingdom the ,
the nor the meanest plundered wealth them of to her support family the . cause She took of public the fiel lib d , ert like y , among
determined and concluded to conquer by declaring or die , that ; the " men she , , thoug if they h a pleased woman , , mi was ght full live y
iron and Fired be leg slaves ions by this of . " Rome address Thoug , the h Britons the first threw outburst themselves of a barbarian upon the
horde The Romans is generall were y but successful . as one , to disci twenty pline , of in their the end opponents , must , conquer yet vic- . the Britons
plete tory declared . True to in their her th determination favour fall , and into the , the Boadicea rout hands of did of the not Romans survive was com her she
defe poisoned After at ; the and herself defeat rather , together of Boadicea an with there her daug is no hters account . of any successful ,
power risings of against Druidism the was Romans extinguished . which , By united . the Consequentl destruction the Celts © y , of the Mona constrain famil , the
was acknowled ing influence destroyed ged of . the that Divided divinities religion among of Rome themselves or trusted , the to Britons as a one system either y of ,
A sortilege few accepted and divination that new , which reli arose gion , out which , of the had ashes already of Druidism received .
the early baptism period , of to reach fire at the the " Cap Isles itol of , and the West was . destined " , even at this ht in
tact Turning with a from British Britain lady to , to Ital whom y , we Martial are once addressed more broug some of con his -
Women In England. 41
WOMEN IN _ENGLAND . 41
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 2, 1863, page 41, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02031863/page/41/
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