[IV, iv, 70]. those fam’d matrones—cf. Massinger in The Virgin Martyr, C-G. 33 a:

“You will rise up with reverence, and no more,

As things unworthy of your thoughts, remember

What the canonized Spartan ladies were,

Which lying Greece so boasts of. Your own matrons,

Your Roman dames, whose figures you yet keep

As holy relics, in her history

Will find a second urn: Gracchus’ Cornelia,

Paulina, that in death desired to follow

Her husband Seneca, nor Brutus’ Portia,