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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40648	Andronicus, or, The vnfortunate politician shewing sin stoutly punished, right surely rescued / by Tho. Fuller ...	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1646 (1646)	Wing F2403; ESTC R16036	44,228	174

Crime being rather pack't than prov'd seeing shee was never brought to answer for her selfe Here-at his Father mad with rage rated and reviled him Bastard thou wert never true Eagles Bird whose eyes are dazled at the Sunne of Womans Beautie What doth thy Cowardice take Sanctuary at Conscience He never climbes a Throne that stands on such poore pretences What if she never appeared to answer where the fact it selfe doth Cry it is needlesse for the offendor to speake Narrow-hearted foole A Cottage is fitter for thee than an Empire Have I pawned mine owne soule to found thy greatnesse and am I thus requited and so abruptly brake off into weeping 16. Manuel Modestly returned I am sorry Sir you should pawne your soule for my sake but however I am resolved not to loose mine owne Whosoever climbes a Throne without Conscience never sits sure upon it I had rather succeed to your private paternall possession then to an ill-gotten Empire Nor am I daz'led at the Lustre of her beauty but at the clearenesse of her Innocence all men being generally Compurgators for her Integrity herein Employ me and trie my valour in any other service Command and I will fetch the Lions onely heire out of his Den both insight and spight of Sire and Dam onely herein I desire to be excused and I hope deserve not to be accounted a Coward for fearing to commit a sinne How much Andronicus was bemadded here-at may easier be conceived than exprest to receive a finall repulse from his owne Sonne insomuch as at the last he was faine to make use of Hagio Christophorites Stephanus Captaine of the Guard who alone of all the Lords of the Combination stuck to him and was respected of him and hee verie fairely tooke order to dispatch her stifling her as some say betwixt two Pillowes 17. The next Newes which tooke possession of the Tongues and Eares of People was the cruell and barbarous death of young Alexius whilst the vulgar did wonder that he dyed so soone and the wise did more admire that he lived so long and the difference was not great betwixt him that was now but a Ghost and whilst living but a shadow * Basilius went too far to fetch a fit Paralell out of the Roman Historie to compare An-dronicus and Alexius with old Fabius and sprightfull Marcellus who might have met in the same Story farre nearer because later by 100 yeares a more lively resemblance in the Consulship of Julius Caesar and Bibulus whereof the one did all the other drankeall 18. The manner of Alexius his death was that hee had his neck broken with a Bow-string the punishment in that place as still amongst the Turkes much used and in this Tyrants Reigne the string did cruelly strangle more at home than the Bow did valiantly kill abroad This Bow-string to make a short digression was an Instrument whereon Andronicus used to play and sportingly to make much Mirth and Musick thereon to himselfe calling it his medicine for all Malladies For whereas said he Purges were base Vomits worse Cupping painfull Glisters immodest bloud-letting Cruell this Bow-string had all the opposite good qualities unto them And the same did quench the heat of Feavers draine the moisture of Dropsies cure Plurisies without piercing a veine stay the Vertigo heale the Strangurie by opening the Urine and onely stopping the breath This being one base humour of Andronicus unworthy Civility and Christianity to breake iests on men in miserie just as they were to dye As for the Corps of Alexius on whom he had practised with his foresaid Medicine they were most unworthily handled and dead Bodies though they cannot bee hurt may bee wrong'd especially of such eminent persons 19. Now to refresh the Reader a-mid'st so many murders and Massacres it will not be amisse to insert an unexpected Marriage Alexius left Anna an Empresse Dowager And some days after her husbands death he addressed himself a Sutor unto her being to encounter with invincible disadvantages First he came reaking with the bloud of slaine Alexius And what hope could hee have that shee would embrace that Viper that had stung her other-selfe to death Secondly the disproportion of his Age being past 70. and what motly colour'd Marriage would it make to joyne his gray to greene his cold November being enough to kill her flourie May Notwithstanding all this he had formerly been so flesh't with fortune he conceived he could never bee leane afterwards and knew that in matters of this nature confidence in attempting is more than halfe the way to successe 20. First He possess'd himselfe of her judgement and made her beleeve that all his former undertakeings were in service to her grieving that Alexius did not valewe the Pearle he wore He protested there was nothing about him but his haires which were dyed white not by his Age but by his Carefulnesse for her preservation Then He assaulted her affection principally pressing that Argument which was never propounded to a meere woman returned with a deniall namely assuring her of power greatnes promising she should be the Conduit through which al his favours should passe and all his people under his command should be blest or blasted by her Influence neither were gifts wanting those of the largest size bestowed on her servāts who promoted his cause and the dullest Bodies worke on the most subtile Soules by the mediation of such Spirits 21. Now whether it was out of Childishnesse not being full fourteene or out of feare being farre from her friends and her Person in his power or out of pride loath to abate of her former State she assented to his desire But to speake plainely he sheweth him selfe to have store of leisure and want of worke who is imployed to finde a Root in Reason for all the fruit that growes from Francie Sufficeth it she loved him affirming it it was no wonder that he should take a poore Ladies Affections captive whose valour in the Field had subdued the most manly of his Enemies 22. To make this story passe for probable we may fellow it with the like in our English Chronicles RICHARD the Third though not so old more ugly then ANDRONICUS obtained the love and was matried to the Countesse of Warwicke the Relictt of Prince Edward sonne to King Henry the sixt whom the same Richard had slaine at Teuxbury she knowing so much and he not denying it They were Namesakes both Ann's and when they had cast up their Audit both I beleeve might equally boast of their Bargains 23. But Andronicus who was never unseasonably Amorous but had his Lust subordinate to his Ambition and cruelty when they gave him leave and leasure to prosecute his pleasure was not softned by the Dalliance of Marriage to remit any thing of his former Tyranny He protested that he counted the day lost wherein he had not kill'd or tortur'd some eminent Person Or else so planett-struck