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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48411	The Life of Boetius recommended to the author of the life of Julian		1683 (1683)	Wing L2024; ESTC R20135	33,660	110

seem they well knew an Injus●ice not to run down every body of the Popes Communio● So that at length no Loyal nor Envy'd Goths should escape their hands since besides the Power and Effect of down-right Lies any ordinary Alliance any casual Conversation or any Neighbourly courtesie done to a Romanist would be ground enough of Clamour a Monster not to be resisted when once the Multitude are throughly heated and enraged Thus then according to ●ll-probable Conjecture by the Premisses stood the People generally affected every body speaking and none hearing when Boetius's Affair was brought into the Senate Nor cou'd Magic now or any unlawful Science be needful to find the success of it for as Causinus to this effect asserts Part of the Members of that great Assembly fearing to be deem'd Accomplices Others being mortal Enemies to the Prisoner and the Rest following the Violence of the Stream and Torrent all of them unanimously voted him Guilty notwithstanding the Experience they had of his unparalled Integrity and the insurmontable Objections against the Witnesses For first as to Opilio tho I cannot positively say that having Perjuriously accused others He got out of Prison and so to a foreign Convent or Religious House yet Boetius assures us That he fled after many Misdeeds to the very Horns of the Altar for Sanctuary and so Stole from Ravenna to avoid a Brand or Rogues Mark in his Fore-head which otherwise he was to undergo In the next place as for Basilius the same unquestionable Author declares That he was hunted for his Villanies from Court being also over-loaden'd with many Debts Nay who can tell if all Particulars had been examin'd and known but he might have then been Starving in their Marshalsea or Common Prison even when the said Boetius and his Party were pretended to be most Buisy and consequently besides the Fear of him to have stood in the greatest need of his Help and Service Boetius being as I mention'd found Guilty was presently sent to a close Prison at Pavia his Virtuous Lady according to Causin getting only the Liberty of bidding him Adieu But never did he in the whole Course of his Life after he had once dry'd up the Tears caused by so unexpected an Accident enjoy himself more than in that Confinement for here he made his near Approches to his Creator Here he Storm'd Heaven and took it by Violence and here also in imitation of Cicero who wrote of the Immortality of the Soul upon the loss of his beloved Tullia did he compose as Martianus observes in his Life that famous Treatise De Consolatione Philosophiae a Book which shew'd the Heathen with what Transcendency and Charms● Morality could appear when it once had the Advantage of the Christian Dress and which also discovers his own great Innocence and Candor a grand cause of his Writing it as the said Martianus declare●● His Ca●se we see was Hard from the beginning to the ●nd but of all the Particulars none seem'd harder to him than these that follow for speaking of the pretended Letters and consequently of the other Accusations He uses these Words Quarum Fraus aperta p●tnisset si nobis ipsorum Confessione Delatorum quod in omnibus Negotiis maximas vires habet uti licuisset The meaning of which is That could he have gotten Copies of his Accusers first Narratives Informations Depositions and such like Confessions and Liberty to use them he would by that mos● Killing and convincing Evidences have made their Fraud and Perjury Manifest Then in the close of this Section or Paragraph He cries out Videre autem videor nefarias Sceleratorum Officinas Gaudio Laetitiaque fluitantes Perditissimum quemque novis Delationum Fraudibus imminentem jacere Bonos nostri Discriminis terrore prostratos Flagitiosum quemque ad audendum Facinus Impunitate ad efficiendum vero Praemiis incitari That is to say considering the Premisses He could as it were see from his very Prison so many hundred of Miles from Rome how the Nefarious and Profligate Triumpht how every Miscreant stood racking his Fancy for some new Project or other to accuse i. e. how to be a Principle or at least some Collateral and By-Witness Again He saw how Good Men were confounded and dismay'd at the terrour of his hard chance and lastly how the ●lagitious were incited by Impunity to dare at Villanies and then by Rewards to effect them These are some of his Complaints His Enemies having now as they thought gain'd the point glory'd not a little in it but presently they felt themselves at a stand and uneasie for time setling the passions of the giddy Mobile the Artifices of Grandees with the quality and contradictions of the Witnesses began to be generally consider'd and talk'd of Cyprianus a Fellow as villanous in his Pen as Tongue but whether of ●he Clergy or Laity History is silent was now own'd as Causin says to be the Forger of the Letters Nor do Authors menti●n how they came to be interce●ted therefore in all probability being directed to Boetius by the Conspirators they privately gave notice that such things were upon ●he Ro●d and so they were taken by A●thority in the hands of the common Post or Messeng●r These free and public discourses of the people creating in ●ypriaanus and his Partizans much trouble they by their Patrons attaqu'd the King telling him no doubt That his Evidence or Witnesses must by this Clemency be either vilified and disbelieved or that he himself would be deemed Vnjust or at least negligent of his own and his Subjects Safety For if Boetius were Innocent why should he be a Prisoner If Guilty why not Executed as a Traytor Theodoric upon this presently dispatch'd an Officer to examine Boetius further and to assure him as Causin expresly says That he should find favour would he declare the particulars of the Fact alledg'd against him If not he was to prepare himself forthwith to die But what thing in the world can we conceive able to elevate and transport the over-joy'd Prisoner like this Message For no sooner was it brought him but standing as it were on Tip-toes and exulting in his unexpected good fortune he look'd upon himself now in a much happier state than in his former Prosperity When after three Consulships and the singular Tryumph of his two Sons he was seated between them as all Authors have it in the open Theatre to receive the applause and salutation of the people He therefore desired the King's Officer to tell his Majesty * T●at his Conscience and Age were above Threats and Allurements That there never having been a Plot he could not tell him the Particulars That he did infinitely rejoyce that they now began to know his Accusers so well as to need his Confirmation of their Testimony Then making a Recapitulation of their Lives and Practices he declar'd he was