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A16169	Beautiful blossomes, gathered by Iohn Byshop, from the best trees of all kyndes, diuine, philosophicall, astronomicall, cosmographical, historical, & humane, that are growing in Greece, Latium, and Arabia, and some also in vulgar orchards, as wel fro[m] those that in auncient time were grafted, as also from them which haue with skilful head and hand beene of late yeares, yea, and in our dayes planted: to the vnspeakable, both pleasure and profite of all such wil vouchsafe to vse them. The first tome	Bishop, John, d. 1613.	1577 (1577)	STC 3091; ESTC S102279	212,650	348

the daunger of mannes life doe best like Therfore pearles of all thinges haue the greatest price and praise Iulius Caesar bought a pearle for his swéete hart Seruilia which cost him Sexagies that is sixe and fourtie thousand eight hundreth thréescore and seuentéene poundes and tenne shillinges of our money Moreouer it is certaine saies Plinie that Nonius a senatour of Rome did weare in a ring a precious stone called an Opalus which was valued at vicies sestertium that is an hundreth thousande crownes the whiche ringe only of all his goodes he carried away with him when hee fledde being proscribed for it by Marcus Antonius whose sauagenesse and riot was great that would proscribe a senator for a stone and Nonius his contumacie no lesse that loued the cause of his proscriptiō séeing that also wilde beastes leaue behinde them those partes of their body being bitten off for whom they know they are in danger And in his 33. booke .3 chap. he telleth how the men at Rome did weare ringes or hoopes of golde about their armes and the women that were wiues vnto the horsemen of Rome about the smal of their legges but the comoners wiues of siluer and that the women did weare golde on their head their eares their necke their armes on all their fingers ye and on their féete and chaines hanging bandericke wise on bothe sides with tablets of golde set full of stones and pearles Aristophanes also the Athenian in his comedie called Thesmophoria reckoneth vp al the ornamentes and iewels that women did vse to weare in that prodigall citie which were so many in number that his breath failed him in the rehearsing of them which made him to maruell that they fainted not in the bearing of them And Clemens Alexandrinus chargeth his countrimen the Gréeks of Asia with the decking of themselues with golde pearles and precious stones and reckoning vp the Iewels that the women did weare besides earinges bracelettes tabletes ouches ringes chaines and a number of suche riotous ornaments the which being now out of vse I know not what thinges the names signifie he reciteth fetters of golde which were either chaines or else hoopes of golde suche as we shewed before out of Plinie were worne at Rome and that they were worne by the Gréekes in Europe hee proueth out of diuerse Poets Also the Gréekes and Asians were apparelled in purple a pounde of the whiche wooll being Tyrian double died as all good and vsuall in Plinies time by his owne testymonie were was woorthe at Rome and in Asia and Greece where it was vsually worne of women and the the noblemen 1000. denaries which is xxxj l. v. s̄ of our money So that their people may for cost which maketh al things to be estéemed of foolish mē cōpare with our cloth of gold siluer tissue which then were rare or not at all to be worne at Rome as Seneca cōplaines the silke began to be worne by womē in his dayes Yet I read in Plinie that he saw Agrippina wife vnto Claudius Caesar weare a robe of wouen gold without any other stuffe intermixed with it The which robe yet I thinke was not so rich as Clemens Alexandrinus doth report womē did weare gowns in his countrie being worth a thousand talents whiche is of our money 187500. at the least for if he meaneth Aegyptian talents it amounteth to a great deale more whereat I doe so muche the more maruell bycause neyther at Alexandria nor yet in those parts in his dayes there were any Quéenes which might be able to beare the outragious charges of so great riot But why stand I so long about the rehearsing of mans madde supplying of that profitable defect of nature in clothing his body séeing that he is no lesse troubled with correcting or rather corrupting of the naturall composition and ornaments therof Whereof come colouring of haires depilactories or making of haires to fall off yea and that which is most shameful wearing of bought haires painting of faces whitings of téeth and handes anoynting plastering and slabbering against wrinckles for the which cause Poppea wife vnto Nero vsed to haue driuen with her whether so euer she went or traueled fiue hundreth mylche Asses in whose mylke she bathed her vnchaste body and yet are they more to be discommended that will make them selues yl coloured with drinking of slabber sauce and in the olde time with cumin the which Horace toucheth in his epistles and in the age of our fathers Daniel the Metropolitane of Moscouie is reported to haue vsed to make his face looke pale with the smoke of brimstone that he might séeme to haue pyned him selfe away dryed vp his bloud with fasting studie watching praying and Egidius a Cardinal who by Iouius his iudgement deserued the highest honour of a Christian Orator in a holie pulpit was supposed for the causes before rehearsed to drinke cumin and vse perfumes of wet chaffe ¶ The seuenth Chapter O● the vnreasonable ryot of men in building and namely of the auncient Romanes of Nero Caligula Heliogabalus Lucullus Clodius of the rare ryot in housholde stuffe of the Romanes Greekes and Asians and specially in their counterfeits both painted and in mettall and yuorie with the incredible prices of diuers of them in curiously wrought plate hangings bedsteedes chaires stooles tables with the excessiue prices of diuers of thē and of the great riot in furniture of houshold of Antonius Bassus Sopus Heliogabalus the liberts of Clodius a Cardinal and againe the sparenesse therein of the auncient Romanes of Scipio Africanus and his brother Aelius Catus and what siluer was found at the sacke of Carthage and of the costly peece of Arras of Leo the Pope BVt as this wayward creature man is not pleased with the proportion and garnishing of nature in his body and the clothing therof so neyther doth the open ayre the high hilles the lowe valeys the pleasant open fieldes nor the couerts of trées and caues against al kindes of iniuries of the angrie heauens and ayre content him which doe satisfie all other liuing thinges but that he buildes him sumptuous houses not to defend him from colde heate and stormes the which is the vse of an house but to fulfill his riotous and intemperate proude heart with wasting his wealth Our houses sayes sage Seneca are so wide and large that they be as it were cities We haue twice séene writes Plinie the whole citie inclosed and compassed about with the house of two Princes Caius and Nero and the latter that nothing might be missing of golde It was so great that these verses were set vp against it in Rome Roma domus fiet Veios migrate Quirites Si non Veios occupet ista domus Rome shall be made an house Romanes To Veios packe a pace If not both Veios to possesse We will this huge monstrous place Alluding vnto the historie that the Romanes

enough to beare the name of one altogether wretched and oppressed with miseries if he be a man and wittily sayes Plautus in Bacchides that it is farre better to haue liued then to liue Howe solemne and vulgar an Epitheton vnto man is wretched in that flowing fountaine of all knowledge and eloquence Homer for nothing sayes he that liueth that draweth breath and créepeth along the laynes is so wretched as is man and féeles so often and grieuous paines And therfore is it truly sayde of Plinie that if we will iudge and decrée vprightly refusing all ambition of Fortune there is no man happie yea and fortune deales with that man very friendly and makes him a wanton which can not iustly be called vnhappie Our felicitie sayes Seneca is no sound thing and massie but only an ouercasting and that very thinne and which is lightly broken by so many violent chaunces as I haue already shewed and also by the shortnesse of mans life which life Homer calleth a shadowe Pyndarus the dreame of a shadow Sophocles a shadowe and blast Aechylus a shadowe of smoke Lucian and the common prouerb a bubble that ryseth on the water of whome some vanish awaye as soone as euer they rise some continue a little longer but all indure a very short time besides tenne thousand diseases which doe dayly and hourely yea to speake most truely continually bereaue men of life do fewer chances assault vs ruines poisons shipwracks warres earthquakes lightnings thunders falles and what not One is choaked with swallowing downe of the stone or graine in a grape as Anacreon the poet a litle haire in a messe of mylke strangled Fabius a Pretor of Rome Aeschylus the Poet had his crowne so crackt that he dyed thereof with a cockle let fall by an Eagle who did take his balde scalpe to be a rocke wherevpon she might breake her cockle to come by the fishe Q. Aemylius with dashing his foote against a stone and C. Aufidius against a threshold Iouinian the Emperour with the smoake of coles in his chamber or as other say with the smell of a chamber newly pargetted some with a clap on the chéeke giuen by a gyrle some auoyded their bowels out at the priuie as Arrius the archheretike and Anastasius the seconde Byshoppe of Rome Some are eaten with mice as Hatto Archbyshop of Mentz and Piast Prince of Poleland and some with toades as in Wales Seisillus Elkerher some kylled with lightning as Strabo Pompeyus father vnto great Pompey Carus and Anastasius emperors of Rome some are slaine in the middest of their pastimes in hunting as Aistulphe king of Lumbardie with a boare Basilius Emperour of Constantinople with a stagge Fulco king of Hierusalem by the foundering of his horse in pursuite of an hare William Rufus King of this lande with the glauncing of an arrowe Drusus the sonne of Claudius Caesar the Emperour playing with a peare which he woulde cast vp and catch in his mouth was choaked with it some dye in the middest of their venerie as Tytus Aetherius an horsman of Rome and Cornelius Gallus who had béene Pretour of the citie and two horsmen sayes Plinie in our dayes in one varlet and Cornelius Tacitus noteth a woman and Campofulgoso Giachetto Gereua a worshipfull man of Saluzzo with his minion And as though that sorrowes and griefes did not sufficiently annoy mankinde we reade of many that soudenly died for extreme ioy as Diagoras and two women in Aulus Gellius Chilo the philosopher and Sophocles the famous poet Dionysius the tyrant in Plinie and Inuentius Talua a Consul in Valerius who also writeth that Philemon the poet was choaked with laughing at his owne iest Howe innumerable are they whome dayly experience and histories doe teache vs to haue dyed soudenly of no euident cause and without all foreféeling of paines some at feastes and pastimes and some in their beds of whome Plinie reckoneth many examples Therefore séeing that suche is the infirmitie of man at his byrthe and many yeares after so many sicknesses and diseases so many molestations and vexations do continually chaunce vnto him all his life long that also is so short and vncertaine is there any man indued with common sense that will holde that any man can be happie in this worlde and life The twentie Chapter That not great riches and Empires doe make a man happie the which Socrates proued by an excellēt similitude whervnto is annexed a golden sentence of Agesilaus ANd nowe then after that I haue declared that man can not in this life be happie I will descend vnto my second proposition that no man hath continued many yeares in so great felicitie that he neuer felte during that time any cause to complaine of Fortune with protestation first made that these great Empires conquestes and riches are not in any wise to be accounted things which do make a man happie no more then a scabberd of golde set with precious stones doth make a good sworde a riche gowne a persite bodie a golden collar a swift dogge because they be things without them and no part of their substance A very liuely induction whereof makes Socrates with whiche kinde of Argument did he singularly delight The magnificent Nicias of Athens had a very goodly horse whiche when he was ridden through the streates did turne the eyes of all the people to beholde him and with great acclamations to crie out yonder goes the noblest horse of the worlde When I sawe sayes Socrates this horse so generally with one consent praised of the whole citie I stept vnto his kéeper demaunded of him what masse of money this so singular a horse and so highly commended had why syr quod the horse kéeper what money should a horse haue he hath not one farthing why then says Socrates if that an horse may be an excellent horse and perfect in all pointes whiche belong vnto an horse haue neither money no nor goodes nor an horse were neuer the better horse if he had great riches what then shold let but that a man may be a good and happie man without all goods or what shal he be the perfecter more blessed if he haue innumerable store of these fruites or rather follies of fortune Wherfore that saying of Agesilaus king of Lacedemonia is worthie to be written in letters of golde or rather in déed in all mennes hartes which he vsed vnto one that called according vnto the manner of the worlde then the king of Persia the great king how sayes Agesilaus is he greater then I am vnlest he be more iust and more temperate iustly measuring the felicitie and greatnesse of man by the goodes of the minde and not of fickle fortune But now after this protestation made I say and wil proue that neither these men whiche were or would be called by the name of Gods nor no man surnamed the great or any of them which haue

they had supped together merrily abroade and threwe his bodie into Tyber for no other cause but for that his fathers minde was that Frauncis shoulde marrie and increase the name of the Borgiae the which he would make honourable with large dominions but Caesar he had as it were banished into the cloyster of religion disguising him with a redde hatt the whiche was farre inferiour vnto his royal harte and immesurable desire of earthly honours who bare in his ensigne this worde Aut Caesar aut nihil an Emperour or nothinge the which insatiable thirst of his the Colonnese fearinge that he would quenche with their bloude abandoned all their dominions and landes and fledde away folowing the Castor who some say bites off his owne stones when hee is hardly persued knowing that for them onely his death is sought but the Orsines allured with his liberal interteinemente to serue him in the warres were almoste all murdered Baptista the cardinall at Rome Frauncis the Duke of Grauina and Paulo in the territorie of Perugia Liberto Prince of Firma Vitelloccio Vitelli one of the Princes of Ciuita de Castello at Senogallia the which caused all the rest of the Vitelli to flie and by their liues with the losse of their liuinges And also the noble men of the house of Gaieta who possessed the towne of Sermoneta in Campagna di Roma Iames Nicholas and Bernardine beeing slaine some one way and some an other yealded their castels lands and goodes vnto Caesar And also the Dukes of Camerino Caesar Anibal and Pyrrhus were expelled their dominions and strangled Astor Manfredi Prince of Fauenza yealdinge the towne and himselfe vppon promisse of safetie was slaine and cast into Tyber Furthermore Pandulpho Malatesta Iohn Sforza and Guido Vbaldo had rather by flight leaue their dominions of Rimini Pesaro and Vrbine vnto the inuading tyranne then be murdered And also Iames Appiano let him haue the principalitie of Piombino But Catharine Sforza who reigned at Forly and Imola hauing lost by force her dominions being taken prisoner was brought in triumphe to Rome But while by this bloudy way he encroched on al the principalities about him he also commaunded the prince of Beselio base sonne vnto Alfonse kinge of Naples yea and his sisters husbande to be slaine in her chamber yea in her bed being before wounded in the Courte of the church of Saint Peter but so that it was thought he woulde escape And by the same meanes he dispatched the yonger Borgia the Cardinal because he had seemed to fauour the duke of Candia his brother he also sauagely slue as he came from supper Iohn Cerbellion a man of greate nobilitie both at home and also in the warres because he had seuerely kept the honestie of a gentlewoman of the house of Borgia He did also put to death Iames Santatrucio a noble man of Rome thē whome there was no man more friende and familiar with Caesar neither for anie other cause but for that he was able vpon a soudeine to gather together a stronge bande of lustie felowes of the Orsine faction make them couragiously to attēpt anie exploite But whē for this cursed and vnquenchable desire of Empire he and his father had appointed to poyson at a feast certeine noble and riche princes his man mistaking the flagon gaue thereof vnto the vngratious father and worse sonne whereof the father beeing olde died but his blessed byrde a lustie younge man was by manie medicines conserued to greater punishmente for after the deathe of Alexander the Colonese and the Orsines that were lefte returned vnto Rome Then Caesar that he might not be ouermatched by haueing warres with both the families restored vnto the Colonese all their possessions on whome in diuerse places he had sumptuously buylt Guido Defeltrie recouered Vrbine Iohn Sforza Pesaro excepte the castle Malatesta Riminie but the castle was stil retayned by Caesar and the Baleones Perugia through the helpe of the Orsines who also toke Tuderto with the castell and put to shamefull deathe the capteine and with like successe at Viterby Ameria and all the cities there aboutes either they restored the Princes of their owne faction or else strengthened them and had also beesieged Caesar in Nepe if hée had not fearefully fledde into Rome the whiche hee obteyned of the newe Pope Pius as a safe refuge but Pope Pius dying within twentie seuen dayes the Orsines also entered the citie with a greate power whome the greatest parte of the citizens fauoured and the Orsines requested that Caesar might according to iustice be put to death for his manifolde murthers or els kept in sure warde in the castell vntill that his cause were hearde But while the matter was prolonged with outragious altercations Caesar being afrayde stale away out of his house in the Suburbes into the Popes palace then his souldiours who vntil that time had valiantly guarded him perceiuing that their Capteines courage quayled and that he sought for hyding holes fled also awaye some to one place and some vnto another leauing him guardlesse among the cruell companies of his enimies and forceing him because hee could otherwise stande in no suretie of his life to desire as a greate benefite to be cast into the castell of Sainct Angelo vntil that a new Pope were created the which béeing Iulius the seconde would not set him at libertie before that he had deliuered vp all the Castels and townes that he had in the territorie of Rome Romandiola and the duchie of Spolieto But not long after preparing at Naples an expedition into Romandiola he was at the Popes earnest suite imprisoned in the newe castell and shortly after carried into Hispanie where he brake prison and fledde vnto the kinge of Nauarre whose néere cousine he had married and there was slaine in a skirmishe with this euent that not béeing knowen he was spoyled of all his armour and clothes and left starke naked and so brought by one of his seruauntes vnto the citie of Pompelona where he had sometimes béene Bishoppe a notable document of mannes miserie But as I saide before I passing ouer in silence all those greate worldlinges whome Fortune at the last ouerthrewe will examine the liues and infortunities onely of those whome the worlde doth account most fortunate and search whether that God did not oftē make them to féele his force and to confesse their owne frailtie The xxxi Chapter The vnluckie chaunces of Augustus AND first I will beginne with him that thought so well of his owne fortune that when he sent his nephue Caius into Armenia against the Par●thians he wished that the loue good will of Pompey the hardinesse prowesse of Alexander the Fortune of him self might accompanie him Neither had hee alone this opinion of his good Fortune but it was also generally receiued of all men in so muche that it was decréede and also kept vntil the time of Iustinian that the people shoulde crie at the creation of a

vnchaste members were so conuulsed vpward that his vncleane yarde standing continually stiffe did whensoeuer he made water defile his face and blasphemous mouthe vnlest that a broade boorde were tyed aboue his nauel to kéepe downe the filthie spouting Vrine The xxxvij Chapter Of Michael Paleologus Emperour of Constantinople MIchael Paleologus recouered from the Latines or the christians of the west churche the French men and Venetians the Empire of Constantinople and was a Prince by the reporte of the Gréeke chronicles inferiour to none of his predecessours in goodly personage strength of bodie Princely Maiestie skilfulnes in armes prudence eloquence valiaunce and spéedinesse in dooing of al exploits and yet found he fortune a false flatterer rather then a faithfull fréende For that I may omitte his great daungers of deathe for suspicion of treason in the reigne of Iohn Ducas and also afterward in the time of Theodorus Lascaris when for feare of death procured vnto him by spitefull enuie he fledde vnto the Turke that reigned at Cogin in shorte time after that he had wrongfully gotten the Empire deposing the rightful yong prince whose gouernour he was and fortunatly recouered the citie of Constantinople from the Latines and all suche countries of the Empire as they then helde was Alexius Caesar his delight his trustie fréende through whose valiance he had taken Constantinople and the rest of the Empire and therefore had heaped vppon him so many and greate honours as neuer were giuen vnto any priuate man this his fortunate capteine was taken prisoner by the Despote of Epirus Aetolia hauing lost in battel his mightie armie Then also began he to fal into feare of loosing the Empire the which he had wickedly wonne and therfore to establish it he contrarie vnto thrée othes for so often was hee sworn to be true shamfully depriued the true Emperour young Iohn Lascaris of his sight whome he had before bereft of his Empire for the whiche detestable facte to abate his swelling pride was he excommunicated by Arsenius the Patriarche and a greate number of dayes stoode before the Churche porche in suppliaunt manner and habite pitifully praying the hardened Patriarch to restore him vnto the communion of Christes church but al in vaine vntill that by craft he had caused a counsell to depose the Patriarch And also for the reuenge of this cruel wrong done vnto the yong Emperour Constantine the Prince of the Bulgares who had married his sister made a lamentable rode into the Empire in the which he so spoiled all Thrace so that in that whole mightie Prouince there could for a time scarse be one husbandeman or Oxe séene he also slewe and tooke prisoners all the whole armie of the Emperour returning out of Thessalie not one man horse or cattel fléeing from his fingers except the Emperour him selfe who escaped almoste miraculously by priuie stealing away ouer the mounteines vnto the Sea side Where as it were by Gods prouidence he happened vppon two Latine galleis who were sailing vnto Constantinople but then were happely come a landed in that place for freshe water a boorde one of whome he wente chusing rather to truste their doubtful faithe then to fall into the handes of the bloudie Bulgares And after this followed a shamefull losse of a flourishing armie vnder the conducte of his brother the whiche was discomfited by the Dispote of Thessalie with fiue hundreth men the Emperials being afraide of their owne shadowe But afterward a farre more harmefull feare tooke him of inuasion and losse of his Empire by Charles the king of Naples to preuent the which mischiefe after that he had by large gyftes stirred vppe the king of Sicyl and other of his neighbours against him at the length he was gladde to sue for help vnto the Bishop of Rome and contrarie vnto the lawes of his countrie to submitte himselfe and his Empire vnto his iurisdiction graunting thrée articles the firste that at their diuine seruice mention shoulde be made of the Bishoppe of Rome among the foure Patriarches the seconde that it should be lawfull for all men to appeale in matters Ecclesiastical vnto olde Rome for they vsed also to cal Constantinople Rome but with this addition new the which should be accepted for the highest and more absolute Court the third that in all spiritual thinges the principalitie should be giuen vnto it By this cowardly submission as he escaped the thretened daunger of the Neapolitan so fell he into a farre greater perill of the displeased people who did so abhorre him for this degenerate subiectiō that he looked euery day to be deposed or slaine by them in the whiche hofull state he continued all his lifes time the peoples indignation hatred towardes him being nothing by long processe of time appeased And on the other side the Turke scourged him in Asia miserably wasting burning his Doninions in those partes subdued all the Countries from Mare Ponticum and Galatia euen vnto Mare Lycium and the Riuer of Eurìmedon Furthermore I can not omitt his great anguishe of hart and the déepe sighes that he fette when that he fell sicke in his voiage againste the vnquiet despote of Thessalia at a village called Pachonius the whiche place putting him in mournefull memorie of his vngodly and vniust bereauing the godly man Pachonius of his sight made him incontinently truely to despaire of his recouery Neither was frowning fortunes spite satisfied with his dolefull death but also she caused his onely sonne vnto whom he had with rare benignitie imparted the Empire while he liued himselfe ingratefully to denie him not only Emperial funerals but also christian burial in sacred place this only did childes duetie extort of him that he commanded him to be carried foorth priuily in the night time out of the campe and great store of earth to be hurled vppon him that the wilde beastes and byrdes should not teare into péeces his Fathers the Emperours bodie The cause of this vncourteous dealing with the blisselesse bodie of this noble Emperour procéeded not of any wicked stomache of the sonne against his father who was inferiour vnto no childe in pietie toward his parent but because the countrie lawes and the states of the Empire wold not suffer him to be buried in any of their churches who had they said wickedly reuolted from the true church vnto the false and malignant of Rome The xxxviij Chapter Of Charles the great CHarles the great did for princely personage rare strength of bodie valiant courage and martiall prowesse and glorie farre passe any Christian Prince that euer was and also was inferiour vnto none in learning wisedome pietie and all vertues vnto him came there Embassadours out of all partes of the worlde to desire either peace or fréendship yea out of Afrike Persia Greece he had restored again into the west the Empire which had béene transferred wholy into Thrace and Constantinople and largely reigned ouer Gallia Germanie Italie Hungarie Slauonie