When her husband commits suicide, this famous Egyptian pharaoh throws herself into a snake-pit
'Was never unto hir love a trewer quene.' / And with that word, naked, with ful good herte, / Among the serpents in the pit she sterte, / And ther she chees to han hir buryinge.
The original Juliet, she listens through the crack in the wall for her lover's whispers
Ye lovers two, if that I shal nat lye, / Ye founden first this litel narwe clifte; / And, with a soun as softe as any shrifte, / They lete hir wordes through the clifte pace
Ditched after a one-night stand with Aeneas, this Queen of Carthage falls on a sword and dies
'O sely womman, ful of innocence, / Ful of pitee, of trouthe, and conscience, / What maked yow to men to trusten so?'
The only legend about 2 women, but really, it's all about Jason
Thou rote of false lovers, duk Iasoun! / Thou sly devourer and confusioun / Of gentil-wommen, tender creatures
After being raped by the king's son, her suicide triggered the Roman revolution
But for that cause telle I nat this storie, / But for to preise and drawen to memorie, / The verray wyf, the verray trewe Lucresse
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She helped Theseus defeat the Minotaur by spinning a thread through the labyrinth
And Theseus is lad unto his deeth, / And forth un-to this Minotaur he geeth, / And by the teching of this Adriane / He overcom this beste, and was his bane
Symbolized by a nightingale, her sister's husband raped her and cut out her tongue, so she weaved a tapestry to tell the tale
But with a penne coude she nat wryte; / But lettres can she weven to and fro
When her husband leaves her, she hangs herself by a tree
By preve as wel as by auctoritee, / That wikked fruit cometh of a wikked tree, / That may ye finde, if that it lyketh yow.
She was the only one out of 50 daughters to disobey her father and not kill her husband
That Ypermistra dar nat handle a knyf, / In malice, thogh she sholde lese her lyf.
Nope, she's a Canterbury Tales gal!
He's the original Romeo, sorry!
No, that's her sister's name!
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