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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09569	The key of historie. Or, A most methodicall abridgement of the foure chiefe monarchies, Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome Being a generall and compendious chronicle from the Flood. Digested into three bookes. Whereunto is added a marginall chronologie of euery Roman emperors raigne, and of all the most memorable persons and accidents. Together with briefe illustrations vpon the more obscure names, places, and offices. With a directory table for the more profitable reading of history. Written by that excellent and most learned man Iohn Sleidan.; De quatuor summis imperiis. English. Abridgments	Sleidanus, Johannes, 1506-1556.; Darcie, Abraham, fl. 1625.	1627 (1627)	STC 19850; ESTC S114662	111,008	406

THE Key of Historie OR A most methodicall Abridgement of the foure chiefe Monarchies Babylon Persia Greece and Rome Being a generall and compendious Chronicle from the Flood Digested into three bookes Whereunto is added a marginall Chronologie of euery Roman Emperors Raigne and of all the most memorable persons and accidents Together with briefe illustrations vpon the more obscute names places and Offices With a directory t●ble for the more profitable reading of History Written by that excellent and most learned man IOHN SLEIDAN LONDON Printed by M. Flesher for William Sheeres and are to be sould at his shop neere Grayes Inne at the Signe of the Bucke 1627. The Translator to the indifferent Reader THE praise of History in generall or this Generall Historie being but tralatitious especially both speaking their owne worth may be my Apologie for both either to excuse me from the vsuall encomions in the preface to most Histories or dismisse mee with Salusts speech concerning Carthage 'T is better to speake nothing then not to speake home For the first therefore Ciceroes fiue most significant and seuerally volume-worthy Epithetes shall suffice History is Times euidence Antiquities Herald Truths light memories life lifes Mistresse And for the other this Chronicall History following besides the Authors own admired and approued knowledge in history the large Commentaries explication of the originall Authors set forth by the accurate investigation of two reuerend Diuines and a famous Poet warrant it His maine drift as thou maist easily perceiue was to bee succinct close but withall perspicuous by which he hath made himselfe the Prince of Epitomists and by this transcendent delineation of the foure chiefe Monarchies chiefe Monarch of all Historians in this kind For he hath attain'd to such a height of perfection that as Polybius would haue it a man may at the first view behold the whole body of Historie and euery mēber so pourtraied to life that scarce any man of eminencie or act of excellency either in Church or Common-wealth is omitted being withall so exactly and methodically coucht together that thy eye may run in a line from the beginning to the end Hee hath made it a common key to euerie doore and a little Perspicill to cary thy sight all the world ouer the worke it selfe being the very marrow and quintessence pardon the metaphors of all historie The consideration hereof inuited me one most vnfit to aduenture the transplantation of this pretious exoticke root into our owne soile Wherein my care to the Authors meaning was religious which as I suppos'd would bee the chiefest thing aim'd at especially in an old mans last worke for hee ended this booke his life both in one yeere where wee must not looke for a Panegyricall stile or lofty words which I might haue perform'd and perhaps with more ease but as it is a plaine facile and methodicall narration best suiting with the tender capacity of younger Incipients for whom the Author intended it well knowing that oftentimes yong wits dote more vpon frothie words then solid matter Plainnesse is my ambition else needed not these little marginall illustrations only to satisfie a meere English Reader In some places if thou considerest not my reasons I maseeme to swerue from the Authors meaning As in the word Caesar with the Author vses for Emperor almost throughout the booke But after Nero I call them all Emperors onely for more plainnesse because the line of the Caesars was extinct in him France I call Gallia till about Honorius his time when after the French Germans had seated themselues there it fell into their name I haue taken the same course too touching other Countries Cities till they chang'd their names except such as still with very little alteration of the ancient idiem reteind their names as Vesontio now Besanson Suessions now Soissons c. Some may thinke that Iulius Caesar would haue sounded better then Caius Caesar by which name the the Authour calls him in euery place because that compellatiō is more commonly knowne but questionlesse the Authors meaning therein was to auoid all doubts for wee read of more of the Caesars beside him that had the nomen Iulius as Lucius Iulius Caesar Sextꝰ Iulius Caesar but neuer any other call'd Caius that euer I heard of For my well-meaning presumption in adding the times of each more memorable accident and of the seuerall raignes of all the Emperors I hope I shall find pardon sith it may serue for a little Chronologie Though I cannot be so ambitious to desire a freedome from euery open-mouth'd Ardelio when the best deseruing men could neuer yet obtaine it yet I both wish and entreat that euery indifferent eye would make a charitable construction of if I may so call them my good endeauors ballancing all veniall errours with my young experience and inconuenience of study and to accept of the Diamond though not set in its deserued foile the one may encourage the other cannot daunt mee for I haue set vp my resolution in old Mimnermus his Distich Oblectes animum plebs est morosa legendo Ille benè de te dicet ille malè Farewell TO THE MOST Illustrious Prince Eberard Duke of Wittenberg and Leck Count in Mumpelgart Iohn Sleidan wisheth all health c. LIterature being the greatest ornament of your dignitie Princely Eberard though it be but indifferent yet that especially which comprehends in it the Acts of all ages suits best to your Condition And amongst vs that professe the name of Christ the holy Scriptures challenge the highest place in this kinde which both set forth the originall of mankinde shew vs Gods will affoord vs many examples both of his mercy and wrath Next to them wee ought to know what is deliuered to memorie concerning other Nations For scarce can that accident happen whereof there is not some patterne extant and in sormer times practised In which behalfe those that gouerne a Common-wealth haue an exceeding great helpe and furtherance if they neglect not this kinde of learning Now that way is most commodious which diuides the whole course of this world into foure Monarchies As concerning the first of them we want Books necessary hauing besides the Scripture almost nothing credit-worthie or whereupon we may relie That age questionlesse was altogether heroicall most illustrious for surpassing and memorable exploits But what part thereof came to our hands Semiramis Babylon and Sardanapalus are memorized and almost nothing else But for that dreadfull and neuer yet paralleld terrible and dire spectacle seene in any one man which Nabuchodonozer relates of himselfe as Daniel hath it who euer toucht vpon it that a King of such puissance should bee brutified cast out of his Kingdome banished from his ancient habitation thrust out of doores excluded from all humane society haue his nature metamorphosed and feed with other bruit beasts and be quite degenerated into a beast This is there related plainely but with what