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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03752	Dendrologia Dodona's grove, or, the vocall forrest. By I.H. Esqr.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.; Merian, Matthaeus, 1593-1650, engraver.	1640 (1640)	STC 13872; ESTC S119170	97,161	190

Princely Orenge that it did accelerat his fall which hapned not long after And he being gon the Thorne wisely retired to Bombycina the Soyle whence hee first sprung fearing that fortune who being a Female loves Youth best would frowne and turne her backe towards him now in his declining times There was a strong emulation twixt these two great Martialists And the ORENGE derogating one day from the THORNE because hee was sprung out of a Marchants stocke and consequently was not capable of competition with him who came of a PRINCELIE Extraction He sent him word that it was a more glorious thing for a Marchant to have command over Princes then for a Prince to be commanded by Marchants A brave quarter-giving Enemy the Thorne was but the service of the Olive unlesse you throw into the Scales the high honour and fame hee purchased thereby provd over precious to him for hee spent not onely the vigour of his dayes therein but exhausted much of that great estate he brought with him so farre that his owne plants some of them are forced to subsist meerely by Pensions from Elaiana But that which was worse being before a Towne in Bombycina neare his owne home which he had so blockd up and stormd as that he had her as a Bird in a Cage he was suddenly commanded by inexpected order from Elaiana to raze his workes and raise the siege notwithstanding that the Warre continued longer This they say he resented so deepely that retyring to his owne naturall Soyle he presently after fell But it is no new tricke in policy for diverting the least dishonour that should fall upon the State to destroy some Instruments and make them Sacrifices for the publique This great Captaine had so highly deservd of the Olive and Cedar also by taking in of Baccharia that his services seemd to transcend all reward And by him one may learne this lesson That supererogatory services and too great benefits from Subjects to Kings are of dangerous consequence when they make the mind more capable of merit then duty Those fearefull Fires which were kindled through all parts of poore Rhenufium had now rag'd extreamly to quench which the Royall Oke sent sundry of his Noble Elmes in many costly legations from time to time but good King While he laboured for peace they made themselves ready for battaile And herein the Cedar proved very ingratefull to him considering the fairenesse of his proceedings And touching the Elder what could be expected from him but knotty and crooked hollowhearted dealings Yet by his high credit with the Olive he often asswagd the fury of those conflagrations by suspension of Armes and cessation of all acts of hostility and preservd Baccharia a long time from invading And hee proceeded so far by treaty that he was profferd to have the Imperiall Ban taken off of Altapinus upon his conformity to a submission that so hee might bee rendred capable to treat and travell through Rhenusium to have also an entire surrender made of his possessions to his Eldest Graff which should be affianced to one of the Cedars branches and in the interim to be brought up in Druina's Court. Moreover hee should be restored to his Dignity after that old decayed Elder should fall upon whom the sayd Dignity had beene in a shuffling imperfect manner conferrd yet with this proviso that the next Heire should not be prejudiced These propositions being sent to ALTAPINVS hee replied that whereas the adverse party requird a Personall submission and that this should precede all other things by naturall order usd in like cases the restitution of his Country which was a thing materiall should goe before and then the other which is but a poynt of Ceremony should follow And whereas hee had already complied with the Cedar to signe an Instrument for the conditionall resignation of the Crowne of Homebia and done other acts of Conformity and no performance at all on the Cedars side If these intentions of his were reall the sayd submission might bee done as well by a Deputy PRINCE ROCALINO'S Iourney to ELAIANA WHile matters were thus in hot agitation and no particular assurances yet had and because that commonly Dolus versatus in universalibus the Royall Oke sent a choice confident to Elaiana's Court for there was the mill vvhere these matters were a grinding to know the truth and reality of things who having boldly acquitted himselfe of his charge and brought advise that matters were still involv'd in generalls Behold a most rare adventure Prince Rocalino vvith Villerio and two discreet confidents vvell versd in the Olives Court post away in private disguise to Elaiana traversing the whole diameter of Ampelona where Rocalino came in so favourable a conjuncture of time that he saw the splendor of the Ampelonian Court in a sett stately shevve where among other rarities he beheld one of Natures choicest peeces the Princesse Aretine sparckling like a constellation amongst the rest in moving measures Little thought he then that she was predestined for him by the high hand of heaven where all mariages are made But humane eyes cannot see beyond their horizon they cannot discerne future contingencies and in the conduct of worldly actions what wee desire or dread seldome directly falls out but something intervenes and concludes wee least thought of and if what we expect doe happen they come not many times till after the search which sheweth that there is a supernaturall all-disposing power above Wherefore it is not safe for our mindes to stay at second causes for this may induce a forgetfulnesse of the first but we must passe higher and by a speculative act of the understanding observe the disposition dependency and subordination of causes to the high will of providence and then we will confesse with the Poet that the chiefe linke of natures chaine is tied to the foot of Iupiters chaire From Ampelona's Court Rocalino flew upon the wings of love towards Elaiana and it was in the beginning of that season that the Lady Flora useth to cloath our Grandame Earth with a nevv livery diapred vvith various flovvers and chequerd with all delightfull objects a season that was usd to bee no lesse proper than propitious to lovers The pretty songsters of the spring with their various notes did seeme to welcome him as he passd the woods put forth their blossomes the earth her Primeroses and daiseyes to behold him the aire blew with gentle Zephires But in the Heavens it was observed there was an inauspicious conjunction betweene Iupiter and Saturne that dull and malevolent planet Rocalino being come with no lesse difficulty then danger to the O●ives royall Court the first thing hee did was to dispatch a post presently to Druina to carry newes of his safe arrivall there That night and next day after there were darke whispers up and down but towards the evening Villerio went privately to the royall palace where he had audience and whence Chenandra the sole ingrosser of the

the priviledge of the subject and prerogative of the Soveraigne by which delayes the reality and reputation of that great Donative was much lessened and the forren actions the Royall Oke was engagd in abroad receivd much prejudice Yet he did formally confirme unto them all their ancient priviledges and gave two most gracious answers to their petitions tending to this end And having complied with them thus to their hearts desire as also in two former Assemblies wherein were delivered them as sacrifices some of the Crowne Officers and done them sundry other Acts of Princely grace yet some extravagant spirits given over to fancy and faction disturbd the calme of these proceedings They fall like thunder upon Villerio alleadging that he was the cause of the incongruity in government at home and of disasters abroad That he was the first that deflourd the Virgin honour making her a kinde of prostitut and meere marchandise salable for white and redde earth which is too base a price for her that should be the prime guerdon of vertue through whose temple only there should be a passage to hers They complaine of his exorbitant power having in his hands the privatst and most reposefull offices of trust by sea and land such as were incompatible and never known in the person of one subject They cry out that none received advancement but his progeny which they termd the tribe of fortune with other high clamours Thus hee who in their former meetings was a great subject of their commendation when for dissolving the two Treaties with Elaiana they said he had done so well that he deservd to have his statue publikely erected in the midst of Thamisond became now the chiefe subject of their complaints and grievances But the rayes of Royall Majesty reverberated so strongly upon Villerio that they dispell'd all those clouds which did hang over and thus obumbrat him and the rather because Evidence which is the lanterne of of the Law was wanting these accusations having no other proofe but publike fame In these times a warlike fleet was prepar'd against Ampelona in regard the Vine had not performd certaine capitulations that were promised the Royall Oke in favour of the Eusebians there besides one moitie of the Lady Aretines dower was not sent according to Article with other provocations and secret motives The enterprise fayling though the first Invasion and would heaven had pleasd the retreat had beene answerable was made with as brave a resolution as any martiall attempt could possibly be and in managing the Souldier Villerio with the rest shewed undeniable assurances of valour yet the Royall Oke was not a whit daunted hereby but presently commanded a greater number of vessels of warre to bee riggd and made ready in pursute of the same designe upon which Villerio was to goe Generalissimo againe But being upon point of embarking this great Commander having at his becke such a multitude of martiall spirits was suddenly cut off to the consternation and amazement of all the world by a fatall stroake which was given him with a small contemptible instrument and with such an admirable advantage that it was impossible either by slight or art or strength of engine to dispatch one sooner out of this world And which made the act more tragicall his noble Consort then pregnant beheld him thus felld and weltring upon the ground presently after Thus fell that procere goodly faire timberd Elme in the fulnesse of his strength who had so long flourish'd under the gracious branches of two Royall Okes having led halfe his life in that height of fortune and affluence of all earthly pleasure who being thus fallen many inferior Trees grew great out of his boughs In so much that the saying of the Philosopher who being askd what was a doing in heaven answerd Magnae ollae franguntur ex frustis earum minores fiunt mought have beene not improperly applied to what then passd in Druina Out of this sad Catastrophe may bee drawne this lesson That great ones may secure themselves from guilt but not from envie which like the Sunne-beames beates upon rising grounds and towring high Trees when the shrub is safe Cernis ut ventis agitatur ingens Pinus He had a concurrence of all those gracefull parts that might attract Princely love and conduce to the accomplishment of a Courtier and had hee containd himselfe still in that condition hee might happily have lasted untill time had covered him with hoary mosse The Royall Majesty which first tooke him into favour agenid and traind him up for his own turne by certaine degrees in the most pertinent affaires and Mysteries of State observing therein the progresse of nature which suffereth no motion to passe from one extreme to another but by intermediat spaces as she useth to passe from Winter to Summer by the interposition of the spring and so returne to Winter by Autumne so that Platonike Prince servd himselfe of certaine pawses to advance and employ him And hee was no improper peece to worke upon having so pliable and gentle a genius that he grew very pregnant and dextrous in the art of government Among other maximes of policy he proposd to himselfe in the conduct of his affaires one was to neglect apologies whereof he said he saw no other fruit then to multiply discourse and humour the vulgar nor did he ever value any pasquils that were dropd up and downe so farre as to thinke them worthy of his revenge which questionlesse was a well settled Rule for Libels neglected quickly finde their owne graves and dissipat to ayre Hee was none of those Idolaters that worship the beast with many heads that use to burne incense to the vulgar And as herein so in many other things great abilities appeard in him for extraordinary must be the wisdome of him who floateth upon the streame of Soveraigne favour wherein there is seldome any sistence twixt sinking and swimming A sure friend he was and a resenting foe a brave Master to servants and a remembrer of the least good office For his stocke he transplanted most of them to plentifull soyles And doubtlesse hee had a brave soule to actuat that comely composure And an innated valour appeard in him when hee put himselfe upon the Souldiers defense as he receivd the mortall stabbe I will conclude with part of a Character that a judicious Cavalier gave lately of him Hee was a great example of Sobriety and temperance but not of continency The Assassin that feld him found oftentimes strong and strange reluctancies in himselfe nor could hee give any other reason that pushd him forward to this black attempt but that he was blasted by the great Assembly and so thought it an act agreeable to heaven to take away the partition wall betweene the King and his people and make him a sacrifice to the publike though with an unavoydablenesse of his owne destruction confronting thereby death in the face Whereby was verified that saying that he who