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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

latter days having great care to his countrey when that no man durst refuse Pisistratus came before his door in Arms and called the citizens to withstand Pisistratus For age said he moveth me to be so valiant and stout that I had rather lose my life then my country should lose their liberty What vertue then see we to be in age what wisedome in time what courage in old men The examples of these old men stir and provoke many to imitate their steps insomuch that divers wished to be old when they were yet young to have that honor as age then had Wherefore king Alexander the great espying a young man coloring his hairs gray said It behoves thée to put thy wits in color and to alter thy mind The Lacedemonians a people that past all nations in honouring age made laws in their Cities that the aged men should be so honoured and estéemed of the young men even as the parents were of the children so that when a stranger came unto Lacedemonia and saw the obedience of youth towards age he said In this country I wish onely to be old for happy is that man that waxeth old in Lacedemonia and in the great games of Olympia an old man wanting a place went up and down to sit some where but no man received him but amongst the Lacedemonians not onely the young men but also the aged gave place unto his gray hairs and also the Embassadours of Lacedemonia being there present did reverence him and took him unto their seat which when he came in he spake aloud O you Athenians you know what is good and what is bad for that which you people of Athens said he do professe in knowledge the same doth the Lacedemonians put in practice Alexander being in his wars with a great army in Persia and meeting an old man in the way in the cold weather in ragged and rent cloaths lighted from his horse and said unto him mount up into a princes saddle which in Persia is treason for a Persian to do but in Macedonia comendable giving to understand how age is honoured and old men estéemed in Macedonia and how of the contrary wealth and pride is fostred in Persia for where men of experience and aged men are set nought by there it cannot be that wisedome beareth rule How many in the Empire of Rome ruled the City and governed the people of those that were very aged men as Fabius Maximus who was thréescore years and two in his last Consulship Valerius Corvinus who was six times a Consul in Rome a very old man who lived an hundred and odd years Metellus of like age called to the like function and administration in the Common-wealth being an old man What should I speak of Appius Claudius of Marcus Perpenna of divers other noble Romans whose age and time was the onely occasion of their advancement unto honour and dignity What should I recite Arganthonius who was threescore years before he came unto his Kingdome and after ruled his Countrey fourscore years unto his great fame and great commendations of age To what end shall I repeat Pollio who lived in great credit with the people unto his last years a man of worthy praise of renowned fame who lived a hundred and thirty years in great authority and dignity What shall I speak of Epimenides whom Theompus affirmeth that he lived a hundred and almost thréescore years in great rule and estimation Small were it to the purpose to make mention again of Dandon amongst the Illyrians which Valerius writeth that he was five hundred years before he died and yet of great memory and noble fame Or of Nestor who lived thrée hundred years of whom Homer doth make much mention that from his mouth proceeded sentences swéeter then honey yea in his latter days almost his strength was correspondent to the same That renowned Prince Agamemnon General of all Gréece wished no more in Phrygia but five such as Nestor was with whose wisedome and courage he doubted not but in short time he should be able to subdue Troy Swéet are the sayings of old men perfect are their counsels sound and sure their governance How frail and weak is youth How many Cities are perished by young counsel How much hurt from time to time have young men devised practised and brought to pass And again of age how full of experience knowledg and provision painful and studious is it unto the grave As we read of Plato that noble Philosopher who was busie and carefull for his countrey writing and making books the very year that he died being fourscore and two What shall I say of Isocrates who likewise being fourscore and fourtéen compiled a book called Panathenaicus of Gorgias who being studious and carefull to profit his countrey being a hundred and seven years was altogether addicted to his books and to his study So of Zeno Pythagoras and Democritus it might be spoken men of no lesse wit travell and exercise than of time and age For as Cicero saith the government and rule of Comon-wealths consisteth not in strength of body but in the vertue of mind weighty and grave matters are not governed with the lightnesse of the body with swiftnesse of the foot with external qualities but with authority counsel and knowledge for in the one saith he there is rashnesse and wilfulnesse in the other gravity and prudence As Themistocles and Aristides who though not friends at Athens being both rulers yet age taught them when they were sent Embassadours for the state of Athens to become friends to profit their country which youth could never have done That sage Solon was wont often to brag how that he dayly by reading learning and experience waxed old Apelles that approved painter and renowned Greek in his age and last time would have no man to passe the day idle without drawing of one line Socrates being an old man became a scholler to learn musick and to play upon instruments Cicero being old himself became a perfect Greek with study Cato being aged in his last years went to school to Ennius to learn the Greek Terentius Varro was almost forty years old before he took a Greek book in hand and yet proved excellent in the Greek tongue Clitomachus went from Carthage to Athens after forty years of age to hear Carneades the Philosophers lecture Lucius as Philostratus doth write meeting Marcus the old Emperor with a book under his arm going to school demanded of the Emperour whither he went like a h●y with his book in his hand the aged Emperour answered I go to Sextus the Philosopher to learn those things I know not O God said Lucius thou being an old man goest to school now like a boy and Alexander the great died at thirty years of age Alphonsus King of Sicilia was not ashamed at fifty years old to learn and to travel for his knowledge and lest he should lose the use of the Latin tongue he occupied himself in

bloud saying these words now Cyrus drink enough of that which thou hast alwaies so long thirsted for Bloud doth require bloud and tyranny will have cruelty Antiochus famed in tyranny brought in subjection Egypt and India with other countries Hannibal excelled all men in tyranny as both Rome and Italy can well testifie To speak of King Philip and his son Alexander the great their tyranny their conquest and bloudy wars it were superfluous as Thessalia Thebes Larissa the Olinthians Phoceans Lacedemonians Athenians Persians Indians and all Asia are witnesse thereto Pyrrhus Antigonus Pompey the great with infinite more bloudy Generals did more rejoyce with tyranny to offend others then with justice to defend their own For the triumphs of cruel Captains are to joy in tyranny the wish and desire of the ungodly tyrant is to destroy all he is thirsty alwaies of bloud hungry continually of murther and slaughter What wished Caligula the Emperour to his own City of Rome onely one neck that with one stroke he might strike it off The difference betwéen a gentle and a goodly Prince and a cruell tyrant is and hath béen alwaies séen King Codrus of Athens how far excelled he cruell Caligula when by an Oracle it was told to the Athenians that they should never have victory during the life of Codrus their King the King understanding of it he cloathed himself like a common souldier nay rather as the history saith like a poor beggar and went into the midst of his enemies to be slain to save Athens How much did noble Curtius and famous Decius surmounted that cruell L. Sylla and that wicked imp C. Marius they instructed by the like Oracle were ready in their arms to mount on horseback to offer themselves alive to an open gulf to save Rome the other with sword and fire were no lesse willing to destroy Rome and to spoil their native soil and country of Italy Again Thrasibulus was not so beneficial to Athens but Catelin was as hurtfull unto Rome Divers Princes and Noble men have béen no lesse studious how to kéep and defend their countries then they were loath and unwilling to trespasse against their countries Happy are those places and most happy are they that injoy such Princes How famous was Thebes while Epaminondas lived how renowned was Sparta while yet Agesilaus ruled how happy was Rome when Fabius Maximus bare sway how flourished Athens when Pericles with his magnanimity when Themisiocles with his worthinesse when Demosthenes with his wisedome defended their state The vertuous lives of goodly Emperours time hath advanced to fame and fame hath spread over the whole world as of Traian Constantine Augustus Alexander Severus with others which are to be honoured and had in perpetual memory But the cruell tyranny of other wicked Magistrates neither time can take away nor any good nature forget as that monster of shame sinck of sin that beast Heli●gabalus that tyrant Nero that monster Caligula with Domitian Dionisius and others which are to be detested and utterly lothed Laertius in his third book doth write that the people of Agineta had a law written that if any of Athens should come unto their great City Aginia he should lose his head Whē Plato the phil●sopher had hapned to come to that City it was told Carmendius who then was chief Iudge for that year that a man of Athens was in Aginia which ought by law to die the calling Plato before him in a great assembly demāded what he was he said a Philosopher a certain man envious unto learning hearing the name of a Philososopher said this is no man but a beast then said Plato I ought to be frée by your law being a beast and not a man and so pleaded the matter that by the name of a beast he was dismissed applying thus the sense thereof that with tyrants and envious people beasts are better esteemed then men Such is the furious rage of tyranny that without mercy and respect of person he féedeth his fury King Atreus brother to Thiestes and son to King Pelops slew without pity the thrée sons of his brother Thiestes whose bloud he caused his brother and their father to drink unawares and after he had hidden their bodies in a cave he cut off their members and made their father to eat thereof The like history we read in Justine that King Assiages made Harpagus to eat his own son dressed ready and served up at the Kings table in two silver dishes before Harpagus the father of which as one ignorant of such tyranny the father fed Mithridates the bloudy King of Pontus slew his thrée sons and three daughters he killed his wife Laodice and married another named Hipsicratea Tyranny lurketh in the hidden veins and secret bowels of envy for even as Mithridates flew his wife Laodice so Constantine the great Emperour slew his wife Fausta and Nero murthered his wife Poppea I should weary the Reader to speak of Cleander Aristratus Strates Sabillus with innumerable others The state of Rome was so often changed by tyranny that sometimes they reigned under Monarchy and then streight under Aristrocacy And thus the Commons séeking by change an amendment of Princes kept alwaies the chief rule and government of the City of Rome under Democracy which is the popular government abhorring the corruption of Princes to their immortal fame and glory CHAP. XLIII Of Flattery FLattery is the sweet bait of Envy the cloak of malice the onely pestilence of the world a monster ugly to behold if it could be seen and dangerous to trust if it might be known it hath as many heads as Hidra to invent wickednesse as many hands as Briareus to commit evill as many eys as Argos to behold and delight in vengeance as swift of foot as Thalus entring into every mans house with words as sweet as honey but a heart as bitter as gall of which the old poem is spoken Melin ore verba lactis felin corde fraus in factis Antisthenes the learned Athenian was wont to say that he had rather have Ravens in his house with him then flatterers for Ravens said he devour but the carcasse being dead but the flatterer eateth up the body and soul alive For even as tyranny is hidden in the secret bowels of envy so is envy cloaked under the filed phrase of flattery and very well compared to the Crocodiles of Nilus or to the Syrens of the seas the one weeping and mourning the other singing and laughing the one with lamentation the other with mirth doth study how to annoy the poor Mariner The flattering Parasite as Ovid saith denieth with the negative and affirmeth with the affirmative wéepeth with him that is sad and laugheth with him that is merry As sometime Clisophus who when his master Philip King of Macedonia and further to Alexander the great did halt because he had the gout he would halt likewise when the King would be merry at his drink Clisophus would not be sad