Proverbs 31:17

She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.

Ver. 17. She girdeth her loins with strength.] She flies about her work, and sets on it with a courage. We have read of women in whom, besides their sex, there was nothing woman-like or weak; such were Semiramis, Zenobia, Blandina, that brave Hungarian woman, who, in an assault at the siege of Buda, thrusting in among the soldiers upon the top of the fort, with a great scythe in her hand, at one blow struck off two of the Turks' heads as they were climbing up the rampier. a The like is reported of Marulla, a maid of Lemnos, who, seeing her father slain in the gates of the city by the Turks, which hoped to have surprised it, took up the weapons that lay by him, and, like a fierce Amazon, notably revenged his death. b

a Turkish History, fol. 741.

b Ibid., 413.