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A48803	The marrow of history, or, The pilgrimmage of kings and princes truly representing the variety of dangers inhaerent to their crowns, and the lamentable deaths which many of them, and some of the best of them, have undergone : collected, not onely out of the best modern histories, but from all those which have been most famous in the Latine, Greek, or in the Hebrew tongue : shewing, not onely the tragedies of princes at their deaths, but their exploits and sayings in their lives, and by what virtues some of them have flourished in the height of honour, and overcome by what affections, others of them have sunk into the depth of all calamities : a work most delightfull for knowledge, and as profitable for example / collected by Lodowick Lloyd ... ; and corrected and revived by R.C. ...	Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610.; Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665.	1653 (1653)	Wing L2660; ESTC R39067	223,145	321

Idolatry sprung up by Me●issus King of Greet Images and pictures were first made by Epimetheus Tribute was appointed first by Darius Fighting on horseback by the Centaures was first practised Immediately things were found apt and necessary unto wars after that Mars first invented the way thereunto Then the Lacedemonians people of great antiquity found first the Helmet a Sword and a Spear the Scythians found first the use of Bows and Arrows the Thracians were ancient in feats of chivalry for that Mars as they supposed was born with them who was honoured as the God of wars and found out divers things necessary for wars Happy was that man that might then invent something or other to profit his country and thus the wit of man sought so déeply and studied so painfully that from a rude and lumpish Chaos the world waxed beautifull and men waxed civil and all things became ripe and perfect by the industry of man Afterwards the world grew unto such ripenesse that liberal sciences were found and used in all places as things necessary unto man and there was nothing unsought that might induce profit both hearbs stones trées and all things within the compasse of the earth were searched to what end they were and used accordingly unto some purpose Vulcanus and Promotheus found out the profit of the fire Anacharsis the Scythian first found bellows to blow the same as Ceres taught to plough the ground Argeus did invent the dunging of it Urania found first Astrologie the people of Chaldea straight practised the same Errato invented the use of Geometry the people of Egypt straight exercised the same To be brief Clio first found Histories Melpomene Tragedies Thalia Comedies Polyhimnia Rhetorick Cal●ope Poetry or rather Palias her self whom all the Greeks supposed to be the first founder of sciences and arts Simonides invented the art of memory as the register and sure recorder of knowledge to keep the same the vertues of herbs were found by Mercury and Chiron and by others Hyppocrates and Avicen first professed Physick though the most part do attribute to Apollo the first exercise in Physick and unto his son Aesculapius the practise of Chirurgery Dedalus in Creet was the first Carpenter Amphion the first Musitian in Thebes Tages the first Soothsayer in Hetruria Nothing escaped mans in●ustry Aristeus King of Arcadia first found the use of Honey and the nature of Bees the Lydians to die Wool the Egyptians found out the first use of flax the Phrygians to sew first with néedles the Hetruscans Weaving Nature left nothing unsought for her own profit as Plautus saith she is always desirous to invent and to know new things Victories and triumphs were first invented by Dionisius Crassus made the silver garland first to be worn in Rome The Phrygians made the Chariot first Hunting was practised by Artaxerxes and laws thereunto appointed Epeus for that he invented the brasen horse in Troy for the Gréeks is famous Perillus for that he made the brazen Bull in Agrigentum for Phalaris the tyrant is renowned though the one was made to satisfie tyranny and the other to accomplish treason Yet such was the desire that men had to Fame that alwaies they studied and contrived what best might advance their Fame and might be the memorial of their attempt travel What a thing was it to sée in ancient time the invention and policy of men in all countries what orders what laws were in all places to conserve that by wit which afterwards they destroyed by wars What was not invented in Rome before Julius Caesar and Pompeius altered it before those wicked members Sylla and Marius spoyled it before that rebel Catiline disturbed it before Marcus Antonius and Augustus quite destroyed it So that pollicy of men in observing laws orders in their wisedom in framing them their magnanimity in defending them were topsey turvey thrown down afterwards by cruel Tyrants and wicked Princes as Caligula Nero Tiberius Heliogabalus with others so that time findeth all things and endeth all things time maketh and time destroyeth CHAP. VII Of the sumptuous and wonderfull Buildings of Kings and Princes I Thought it convenient to place the strange and wonderful buildings which were made by mens hands together with the marvellous works of nature and the rather because amongst them are so famous that for the renown thereof they are named in number the seven wonders of the world The first was called Pyramides which the Kings of Egypt made by the City of Memphis a miracle so made that twenty and two yeares six thousand were occupyed and travelled in the same either as Pliny saith to busie the vulgar people lest they should be idle or else to shew and brag their superfluous wealth in making so stupendious a work The second were the walls of Babylon which Quéene Semiramis unto her perpetuall memory had made a monument amongst the Persians In making of these walls she kept three hundred thousand men at work they were made of two hundred cubits height and fifty cubits broad having a hundred gates wrought of brasse round about to come and go unto the city and from the City And upon the walls were made three hundred towers she brought Euphrates one of the foure Rivers of Paradise to passe through the middest of Babylon The third in order was the sumptuous tombe of Mausolus King of Caria which Quéene Artemesia his wife made so gorg●eous that it was twenty and five Cubits high and in compasse foure hundred and eleven foot and wrought round about with sixe and thirty pillars and broad beames hence all the monuments and brave buildings of Emperours and Kings took their patterne for it was so curiously wrought that upon the East side that famous workman Scopas shewed his skill upon the West side that renowned Leocares wrought his cunning upon the North side Briax a man of great name applyed his part and upon the South side Timotheus did what he could to winne renowne These foure famous workmen had more fame by making the tombe of Mausolus then for all the workes that ever they made before These two noble Quéenes are not to be blotted out of memory all the while that the name of Babylon is reade of in bookes or the Tombe of Mausolus spoken off with tongues Now to passe further to speake of that monument and miracle which excelleth all the world for worke I meane the great Temple of Diana amongst the Ephesians in the building of which all Asia were occupyed two hundred and twenty yeares almost with all powers of the world This Temple was made nigh the seas for feare of earthquakes it was foure hundred twenty and five foote long two hundred and twenty foote of breadth it had a hundred twenty and seven pillars which for the wealth thereof every one after another was made by a king The cheife master of this worke was Ctesiphon whose fame thereby was spread over all the world The fifth was the high tower which King

healeth himself The striken Hart féeding on high mountains hath that consideration that at what time he is shot through with any dart or arrow by féeding of an hearb called Dictamum his bloud stencheth and his wounds are healed And the Bear is so crafty that by the same nature he is taught being sick to lick and eat up little ants for his appointed physick Even so flying fowls do know their appointed salve for their sores being taught by nature The Raven the Duck the Swallow yea the silly Mice do before hand presage their ruinous state by nature and know well the decay of any house barn or place where they be and will change hospitality before the time if necessity happen upon them The little Ants are full of toil and travell to gather in the Summer to serve them in the Winter Of this with divers others Pliny maketh mention in his 8. book chapter 27. and Aristotle in his book De natura animalium We read in Aelianus divers worthy histories of the like but especially of the Cranes of Sicilia which when they be about to take their flight from Sicilia over mount Caucasus they are so crafty and subtil by nature that they bear in their mouths certain stones to stop that cry and noise which Cranes most commonly use in flight lest by hearing of their voice and the noise they make the Eagles of Caucasus should destroy them The Goats of Creet when they be shot through with darts and arrows are of themselves moved to feed on a certain hearb which streight stencheth the bloud healeth the wound and expelleth the venome out of the wound There is such craft and subtilty in a little Frog of Nilus that when the Trout commeth toward him to destroy him the Frog by and by out of hand beareth a long reed overthwart this mouth and so marcheth forward toward this great champion that by no means he can destroy him for that the reed is longer then his mouth can swallow the same and so the little Frog escapeth the terrour of his enemy What a sleight hath a fish called Polipos which being desirous to feed on any fish he goeth and hideth himself under some shrub or rock or any other place whereby he seemeth to be as though he were a tile or a stone till the fish come to that place then he leaps on them and kils them So that there is no beast no fowl no fish but hath as it were a certain priviledge by nature to defend himself and to foil his foe and by nature taught to practise it craftily There is again a kind of knowledge in beasts to know their friends and to love them and to fear their enemies and to avoid them The Serpents in Terinthia the Scorpions in Arcadia and the Snakes in Syria as Plini affirms will not hurt their country men and known friends though they find them asléep as divers and sundry times histories make mention thereof Strange therefore is the work of nature which mightily displaieth her self in all living creatures and for the proof thereof I will note one history written by Quintilian in his 14. book of histories that in Achaia there was a city named Patra in the which a certain young man bought a little dragon which with great care and diligence he nourished till it waxed big lying in his chāber in the night time and playing all the day time At length the Magistrates of the City fearing lest some hurt should be done by him considering the fierce and cruel nature of them did let him to go to the wildernesse where divers other Dragons were And there being a long time this young man that brought up this dragon with divers of his fellows passing by where this dragon was certain théeves assailed them and he by his voice was known by this dragon which as soon as he heard he came out of the den and séeing him with divers of his fellows like to be murthered he flew to the very faces of the théeves and so strongly fought with them that some of them the dragon slue some were sore hurt and some constrained to flie thus he saved this young man and his fellows in recompence of his former courtesie Surely I think better of this dragon then of some ingrateful persons that live now in the world CHAP. XXXV Of Revenge THe best way to revenge any injury offered is to suffer quietly the same and to shew vertue toward vice goodnesse toward evill honesty toward scurillity which is the onely poison unto the enemy as for an example Laertius doth manifest the same by comparisons of things who is he that séeth his enemies fields gréen his pastures well grassed his house well furnished and all things in comely order but is grieved therewith How much more saith he when the envious séeth his foe adorned with all vertues compassed with all patience and prospering in all goodnesse is he therewith molested And in that place of his sixth book he reciteth a worthy and a noble example of due revenge by Diogenes the Cinick Philosopher who by chance came where certain young men were at banquet making merry his head being bald by reason of his age he was so flouted and scoft by most part of the company that with stripes and strokes they threw him out of the house the poor old Philosopher revenged his wrong in this wise he took a piece of white chalk and writ the names of all those that so used him upon his cloak and so opened his cloak that all men might read their names and know how wickedly they had used him and what flouts and scoffs he had suffered of those persons whose names were to be read upon his cloak and so brought them in such blame with all men that they wished in heart that they never had séen Diogenes who made all the world to sée their folly and were ever after noted for ridiculous persons not worthy of honest company and so were they excluded from good and civill men Agesilaus King of the Lacedemonians when hee had heard of certain foes of his that alwaies spake il of his person and of his state he after this sort revenged himself he chose and elected them to be chief Captains over his men of arms and committed all the charge of his host to his enemies whereby he made his foes to become his friends yea to be his servants and slaves to do what he would command them So Demosthenes did when he was provoked and injuriously handled by one who in a banquet was disposed to fall out and fight with him No said Demosthenes I will never take that in-hand wherein he that getteth the victory must bear the shame O worthy sentence and most aptly applied to a wise man We read in Brusonius of Dion of Alexandria who with silence revenged more his foes then with words for being provoked to anger by a villain and abject which followed him through the stréets chiding and threatning