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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

translating Titus Livius though he was a King I do not hold with age in divers men who for want of discretion and wit was childish again but of perfect men in whom age seemed rather a warrant of their doings For even as he that playeth much upon instruments is not to be commended so well as he that playeth cunningly and artificially so all men that live long are not to be praised so much as he that liveth well For as apples being green are yet sower untill by time they wax sweet so young men without warrant of time and experience of things are oftentimes to be misliked If faults be in old men saith Cicero as many there be it is not in age but in the life and manners of men Some think age miserable because either the body is deprived from pleasure or that it bringeth imbecility or weaknesse or that it is not far from death or calleth from due administration of Common-wealths these four causes saith Cicero make age seem miserable and loathsome What shall we say then of those that in their old age have defended their countries saved their Cities guided the people and valiantly triumphed over their enemies as L. Paulus Scipio and Fabius Maximus men of wonderfull credit in their old years What may be spoken of Fabritius Curius and Cornucanus aged men of great agility of famous memory in their latter days How can Appius Claudius be forgotten who being both old and blind resisted the Senatours to compound with King Pyrrhus for peace though they all and the Consuls of Rome hereunto were much inclined If I should passe from Rome a place where age was much estéemed unto Athens amongst the sage Philosophers if from Athens to Lacedemonia where age altogether bare sway and rule if from thence unto the Ethiopians and Indians where all their lives are ruled and governed by old men If from thence to any part of the world I might be long occupied in reciting the honour and estéemation of age Herodotus doth write that the Aethiopians and Indians do live most commonly a hundred and thirty years The people called Epeii in the Countrey of Aetolia do live two hundred years naturally and as it is by Damiates reported Lictorius a man of that Countrey lived thrée hundred years The Kings of Arcadia were wont to live thrée hundred years the people of Hyperborii lived a thousand years We read in the old Testament that Adam our first father lived nine hundred and thirty years and Eve his wife as many Seth nine hundred and twelve years Seth his son called Enos nine hundred and five Cainan the son of Enos nine hundred and ten Mahalalehel the son of Cainan eight hundred fourscore and fifteen so Enoch the son of Iared lived nine hundred thréescore and five years Enoch his son named Mechuselah lived nine hundred threescore and nine years with divers of the first Age I mean till Noah's time who began the second world after the floud who lived as we read nine hundred and five his son Sem six hundred years and so lineally from father to son as from Sem to Arphaxad from Arphaxad to Sala from Sala to Heber the least lived above thrée hundred years This I thought for better credit and greater proof of old ago to draw out of the Old Testament that other prophane authorities might be beleeved as Tithoni●s whom the Poets fain that he was so old that he desired to become a Grash●pper But because age hath no pleasure in the world frequenteth no banquets abhorreth lust loveth no wantonness which saith Plato is the only bait that deceives young men so much the happier age is that age doth loath that in time which young men neither with knowledg with wisdome nor yet with counsel can avoid What harm hath happened from time to time by young men over whom lust so ruled that there followed eversion of Cōmonwealths treason to Princes Friends betrayed countreys overthrown and Kingdoms vanquished throughout the world Therefore Cicero saith in his book entituled De Senectate at what time he was in the City of Tarentum being a young man with Fabius Maximus that he carried one lesson from Tarentum unto the youth of Rome where Architas the Tarentine said that Nature bestowed nothing upon man so hurtfull to himself nor so dangerous to his Countrey as lust or pleasure For when C. Fabricius was sent as an Embassadour from Rome to Pyrrhus King of Epyre being then the Governour of the City of Tarentum a certain man named Cineas a Thessalian by birth being in disputation with Fabritius about pleasure affirmed that hee heard a Philosopher of Athens affirm that all which we do is to be referred to pleasure which when M. Curius and Titus Coruncanus heard they desired Cineas to perswade King Pyrrhus to yéeld to pleasure and make the Samnites believe that pleasure ought to be esteemed Whereby they knew that if King Pyrrhus or the Samnites being then great enemies to the Romans were addicted to lust or pleasure that then soon they might be subdued and destroyed There is nothing that more hindreth magnanimity or resisteth vertuous enterprises then pleasure as in the Treatise of pleasure it shall more at large appear Why then how happy is old age to despise and contemn that which youth by no means can avoid yea to loath and abhor that which is most hurtfull to it self For Cecellius contemned Caesar with all his force saying to the Emperor that two things made him nothing to estéem the power of the Emperor Age and Wisdome By reason of Age and Wisdome Castritius feared not at al the threatnings of C. Carbo being then Consul at Rome who though he said he had many friends at commandement yet Castri●i●● answered and said That he had likewise many years that could not fear his friends Therefore a wise man sometime wept for that man dieth within few years and having but little experience in his old age he is then deprived thereof For the Crow liveth thrise so long as the man doth the Hart liveth four times so long as the Crow the Raven thrice so long as the Hart and the Phoenix nine times longer then the Raven And thus Birds do live longer time then man doth in whom there is no understanding of their years But man unto whom reason is joyned before he commeth to any ground of experience when he beginneth to have knowledge in things he dieth and thus endeth he his toyling Pilgrimage and travel in fewer years then divers beasts or birds do CHAP. XIX Of the manners of sundry People under sundry Princes and of their strange life THe sundry fashions and variety of manners the strange life of people every where thorow the world dispersed are so charactered and set forth amongst the writers that in shewing the same by naming the Countrey and the people thereof orderly their customes their manners their kind of living being worthy of observation I thought briefly to touch and to note

nine just with the number of the Muses thus was the first Harp made by Apollo though some say it was made by Orpheus some by Amphion some by Li●s yet it is most like that Apollo made it For in Delphos the picture or effigies of Apollo is there set up having in his right hand a bow and in his left hand the thrée Graces and either of them having in their hands several kind of instruments the first a Harp the second a Pipe the third a Flute In the chapter of the invention of things you shall at large find more concerning musick But now to declare the harmony of musick the mirth and melody that procéeds from musick the love and affection that antient Princes and gravewise men bare to musick Themistocles though he was wise and discréet in other things yet for that as Cicero saith in his first book of Tusculans he refused to hear one play on the Harp in a banquet where he was he then of the wisest men in Athens was thought and judged to be of lesse learning than they supposed him to be For the Greeks judged none to be learned unlesse he were experienced in musick Socrates the father of all philosophy and master of all Philosophers being by the Oracle of Apollo named and judged the wisest man in all the world in his latter years being an old man was taught to play upon the Harp and often found amongst little children he being taunted of Alcibiades for that he found him playing with a little infant called Lamproces answered it is good being to be in good company Even so that wise and discreet Prince Agesilaus king sometime of the Lacedemonians spying one of his men to laugh at him for that he rode upon a long reed with one of his children said hold thy peace and laugh not and when soever thou shalt be a father thou must do as a father We read the like of noble Architas the Tarentine who when he was married having a great number of servants in his house he would play with their children and delighted much in the company of young infants Certainly either of these thrée last mentioned Socrates Age●●laus or Architas were in those days most renowned for their wisedom and knowledge and yet refused they not the company of young infants That mighty and strong Hercules though he was the son of Jupiter and counted in all the world most famous rather a God taken then a man as Euripides doth testifie would be often found amongst children and young innocent infants playing saying this sentence with a child in his hand I play with children which for the change thereof is so grateful unto me as though I were in the games of Olimpia The self-same famous Hercules went to school to Livius to learn to play upon the Harp to solace him in his sadnesse and to make him merry when he was compelled to mourn In the middest of his triumph went that great Conquerour Alexander likewise to learn musick That divine and godly Prophet David played upon his Harp and served his God with hymns and godly ballads It is written that in the marriage of King Cadmus the son of Agenor who builded Thebes in Boetia the Muses played on instruments In Gréece musick was so esteemed that their sages and wise Philosophers addicted themselves wholly to musick The Arcadians the Lacedemonians and the Thracians though they were people much given to wars severe in dealing hardy in all travels and in learning most inexperienced yet would they acquaint themselves with musick till they were thirty years old The people of Créet brought up their youth in all kind of melody and harmony The most part of the world did learn musick save in Egypt where as Diodorus in his second book affirmeth musick was forbidden least the tender and soft minds of their youth should be inticed to too much pleasure And though some contemn musick with Diogenes and say that it were more profitable to mend manners then to learn musick and some with Alcibiades despise musick who was wont to say that the Thebans were méet men to learn musick for that they could not speak but that the Athenians should hate such wanton tunes for that they spake without instruments Likewise King Pyrrhus being demaanded which was the best musitian Python or Charisius he despising them and their musick preferred a great warriour according to his own mind named Polysperches though these I say with divers others despised musick yet we read again as wise as they as stout as they used much musick as Aca●les Alexander the great Nero Silla M. Cato Socrates Cimon Too many might I repeat the learned Jopas whose songs in Virgil are expressed the Salij whose pleasant pamphlets Rome a long while embraced and much estéemed For as musick is delightfully pleasant full of harmony and melody so is musick terrible also and full of life and courage For we read in the old age while yet the world was rain that Aliates King of Lidia in his wars against the Milesians had Musitians for his Trumpetters Pipers and Fidlers as Herodo●us in his first book affirmeth to move the people with musick to wars The people of Créet as Gellius writeth had Gitterns and Cithrons playing before them as they went to the field to fight The Parthians used as Plutarch●s in the life of Crastus reporteth the beating of drums at their going into field the Ethiopians used songs of divers tunes and dancings before they went to wars the Syrians before they met their enemies would sing ballads to honour the fame of the wars with all kind of dancing to solace themselves the Cimbrians did make melody with dry skins beating the skins with sticks like drum sticks at the very entrance to the enemies Cyrus the great King did with his souldiers sing to Castor and Pollux before he took his voyage to the enemies the Athenians would sing hymns to Iupiter before they would go to the field the first noise and sound that the Lacedemonians had as Th●cidides saith instead of Trumpets were Flutes til ' by an Oracle they were warned of Apollo that if they thought to have victory over Moslena they should appoint a man of Athens for their Captain the Athenians being right glad of the Oracle for that the Laced●monians and Athenians were alwaies enemies one to another they sent to Athens for a Captain who appointed to them a lame and a deformed man named Dircaeus in a reproach and mock of the Lacedemonians This Dircae●s being appointed and made Captain over all the people of Sparta he first then invented the trump and taught all the Lacedemonians to sound the trump which was such a terrour to the enemies the people of Messena that at the first sound of the trumpets they fled and so the Lacedemonians got the victory thus was the ancient musick in the beginning so necessary that every country indeavoured to have skil in musick then Mars claimed musick in the field now

Panopion and suffered himself to be slain in stead of his master A man would think that greater love could be found in no man then for a man to die for his friend and truth it is But to find such love in beasts towards men is wonderfull indéed Insomuch that in Leucadia a Peacock loved a young Virgin so well that when she died the Peacock also died And Pliny saith that in the City of Seston an Eagle being brought up by a young maid loved the maid so well that it would fly abroad and kill fowls and bring them home to the young maid and when the Virgin died the Eagle flew into that same fire where the maid was appointed to have her dead body burned and also died with her The Persians were wont for favour and affection they baro unto their horses to bury them and the people named Molossi made brave Sepulchres for their dogs Alexander the great made a tomb for his horse Bucephalus so did Antiochus and Caesar likewise Such love and faithfull trust was found in dogs that the great King Masinissa of Numidia never went to bed but had a dosen great dogs in his chamber as his guard to kéep and watch him from his enemies for sure he was that money might not corrupt them friendship might not allure them and threatnings might not fear them There was a Dog in Athens named Caparus unto whom the tuition of the Temple of Aesculapius was committed with all the wealth and treasure therein which in the night being trained away the Temple was robbed the substance and the riches was stoln thence but in the morning the dog found out the falshood thereof and made all Athens privy of the theeves by raving and runing toward them We read in Plini of Ulisses dog which Ulisses left at home when he went with Agamemnon to Phrygia to the wars of Troy and being twenty years absent he found Penelope his wife and his dog faithfull and loving at his return That noble Gréek Lisimachus had a dog named Durides that loved him so well that even at Lisimachus death the dog died also Hiero had another dog that died even so and ran willingly unto that flame of fire where his master did burn to die with him I might well speak of Alcibiades dog which wheresoever he came no man might or durst speak any evill of Alcibiades in presence of his dog Titus Sabinus dog never forsook his master in prison and when any man gave him bread or meat he brought it to his master in prison and when he was thrown into the river Tiber the dog was séen as Fulgotius saith to do what he could to lift up his masters head out of the water thinking his master had béen alive At what time Pyrrhus subdued the City of Argos there was in those wars an Elephant which after he perceived that his master was slain went up and down among the dead souldiers to seek his master which being found dead the Elephant brought his body being dead to a safe place where the Elephant after much mourning died for sorrow The like examples we read in Plini of horses and specially of thrée the one Alexander the great King of Macedonia had the second Julius Caesar Emperour of Rome possessed the third Antiochus King of Syria had these thrée horses suffered no man to ride or touch them but their own master and were so gentle to them that they kneeled to let them mount on their backs Thus beasts did bear fancy to men obey and love them and were most true and trusty to men and did shew such love as neither Seleucus to his son An●●gonus or Pericles to his son Priasus nor Socrates to his son Lamproces did ever shew How gentle was a Woolf unto King Romulus to nourish him in spight of his Grandfather Amulius How loving was a Bear to Alexander to bring him up against his fathers will King Priamus How kind was a Bitch to King Cyrus to foster him unawares to his Grandfather King As●iages The Bees come to Plato his Cradle to féed him with honey being an infant The little Ants brought grains to féed King Mydas being likewise in his Cradle O what is man said the Prophet David that thou art so mindfull of him that thou hast brought all things in subjection to him beasts of the fields fouls of the ayr and fishes of the Seas all things made to fear and to love him and yet he neither to fear God nor to love himself We read in Quintus Curtius of an Elephant that King Potus of India had which Alexander the great took captive afterward when this Elephant saw the King first he knéeled down and shewed such honour and homage as was marvellous to the beholders It is read in Caelius of a King in Egypt named Merthes that had a Crow taught to carry his letters and how to bring answer in writing home again Plini doth write that a Nightingale loved Stesicorus so well that it would alwaies sing at the beck of Stesicorus to pleasure him Heraclides the Philosopher had a Dragon taught to follow him every where Ajax likewise had in Locresia a Serpent brought up and taught to honour him as his master Agrippina the Empress and wife unto Claudian had a Thrush that never departed from her during the Empresse life Plini hath in his book of natural histories infinit such exāples to prove the love that all moving creatures do ow shew to man as the wild Bull in Tarentum the raging bear in Daunia which Pythagoras so tamed that all places all countries and all persons were sure and safe from any danger or hurt by these wild beasts This commeth by no vertue that is in man but onely by that which God made for man that all living creatures fear man and love man so that if comparisons be made it shall be evident that there hath béen more love in beasts towards man then in man towards man yea then brother to brother then the husband toward the wife or the wife toward her huband considering the nature of man and the beast together CHAP. XXXI Of Memory and Oblivion SOme hold opinion that in the ancient time whiles yet the world flourished not in learning that memory then was most set by and estéemed for whatsoever was séen or heard was then committed to memory and not recorded in books But Socrates said after the use of letters were had the vertue of memory decayed for that care which then was by tradition and memory with care and diligence to observe is now by all put in books that now our memory is put in writing and then was it fixed in mind insomuch that the noble Athenian Themistocles passing by Simonides school who as some suppose taught first the Art of memory being demanded whether he would learn the art and faculty of memory answered that he had rather learn how to forget things then to kéep things in memory for I cannot said he