titles that anye monarch can possesse And more then was due to Alexander Caesar Tāberlaine and others who contrarywise were the rods of Gods ire and quellers of many millions of innocentes Cronicles expose their vertues at large and who so euer shall ioyne regard with his reading in the gouernments of these eight Henries shall find many worthy obseruaunces which degression this place will not beare the summary of whose vertues containing a larger volume then is determined for this subiect so much as concerneth this purpose I am bound to report of the two latter noble Henries the one béeing the root the other the trée which brought foorth the fruites of Gods glorye of the greatest peace plentye and prosperity that euer Nation people or subiects enioyed euen the graue Henrye the seuenth Grandfather and the victorious Henry the eight father of our gracious soueraigne Lady the most good Quéene Elizabeth Upon whose vertues heauen and earth fixeth regard A princesse I say regarded of God with the eies of fauour regarded of the world with the eares of enuy and regarded of good and happy subiects with the harts of true obediēce A Quéene and more the visible image of God as well in respect of the happinesse and deuine giftes which her maiestie possesseth but principally for that mercy is chiefe of her vertues which enuy and her maiesties worst enemies are bound to witnesse in whose royall person the perfection of all good Princes are contained For what may be iustly sayde of all their righteousnesse wisedome and clemency are but wordes of her workes and written examples of her maiesties liuelye vertues the which the godly in their comfort the wicked through selfe destruction and enuie by continuall defeates haue ingraued in the Capitals of the whole world the triumph of whose peaceable victories to Gods glory and vniuersall wonder followeth CHAP. 2. An introduction to the peaceable victories of the Queenes most excellent maiesty against enuy and all her enemies THe nobility and commons of England impatient of the misgouernment of K. Richard the second deposed by maine force the saide Richard and possessed Henry Bolingbroke Duke of Herteford with Emperiall dignity a prince indued with many great vertues And albeit he entered vnlawfullye he gouerned his subiects like a gracious and prudent Prince But this good which followed an euill attempt acquited not the realme from the vengeaunce which God inflicteth vpon disloyall subiects The father which taketh the rod to chasten his sonne if the sonne taketh correction patiently in hope of amendment burneth the rod. But if the sonne stubbornly and violently catcheth at the rod the father dubleth his wrath trebeleth the sonnes punishment euen so God which appointeth tirauntes to be the scourges of his ire conceiued against wicked and vnthankfull people if in patient suffering they acknowledge his wrath to be iustlye imposed vpon their sinnes he dealeth with the tirant as the good father doth with the rod. But if they spurne at his vengeaunce and offer to reuenge the tiranny of their princes he causeth tirauntes to rise like Hydraes heads which shal torment them as in the bitternes of their affliction they shal be driuen to pray for their worst prince as the old Romane did for the prosperity of wicked Nero This Nero was a most cruell emperor he set Rome his emperiall city on fire for seuen dayes together and commaunded that the people should neither saue their goods nor quench the fire He slew his owne mother put to death the husbandes of Octauia and Sabina and tooke them for wiues but shortly after sent them the way of their former husbands And to shew that he passed all other in enuye hearing one to pronounce a Greeke verse which containeth this desire After my death I wishe Heauen and earth to perishe And I quoth he rather wish the same while I liue he so much enuied that so glorious a work should remaine after his death Upon a time Nero passing by a poore old man hartely prayed for the life and prosperitye of Nero Nero which knew by the accusation of his own euill that no man had cause to wish him good demaunded the reason why he contraried all mens desires in wishing his welfare that would nothing but mischiefe to the Romanes The old man boldly aunswered Tiberius thy predecessour was a cruell Emperor and him the people slew After him succéeded Caius Caligula a more cruell and barbarous Emperor and him likewise did the people sley and now thou most inhumaine and sauage Nero raignest for thy life and prosperity I pray least if thou be likewise slaine the diuel him selfe come and raigne ouer vs. Thus heaped God his vengeance vpon the stiff-necked Romanes which would not bow vnto his yoke the more they resisted his chastisement the more sharply he scourged their disobedience The senators of Rome thought the emperiall authority a seuéere bondage and therfore by their mutuall assents Iulius Caesar their first emperor was slaine in the Senate house But when they saw Brutus Cassius that firste sette hande to the swoorde to die likewise by the swoord when they afterwardes saw the bloudy euentes that sprong of the contention betwéen the Triumuirate of Octauius Antonius and Lepidus they most ioyfully receiued imperiall seruitude and afterwardes how wicked so euer their Emperours were the grauer Senators tollerated their gouerment or voluntarily banished them selues so that they for the most part were destroyed by Gods iustice in the common peoples outrage God by a seueere commaundement threatneth that he will visite the sinnes of the parents vpon the children vnto the thirde and fourth generation of those that in their spirituall worship adore any other God or the likenesse of any other creature in heauen or earth The same God annoynteth kinges as the visible images of him with the semblable maiestye concerning temporall worship he calleth them Gods and S. Paule saith he that resisteth the ordinaunce of the kinge resisteth the ordinaunce of God He then that striueth to depose his naturall king and to exalt a straunger committeth earthly idolatry in likewise as the worshippers of false Gods commit spirituall And therefore Princes in all gouernmentes heathen and christian the one by reuelation the other by imitation of holy scriptures haue publike lawes to lay the trespasses of traitours vppon their children the landes and goods of traitours are forfaited and the reputation of their posterity is corrupted The emperor Vespatian commending the vertues of Iosephus vnto his sonne Titus willeth him to trust him as one no wayes corrupted saying further vpon occasion that the son of a traitour ought not to liue To lay violent handes vpon the Lordes annoynted is a damnable thing Saule vniustly persecuted Dauid but Dauid hauing Saules life many times in his power refused to offer him any violēce saying the Lord kéep me from laying my handes of the Lordes annoynted Which prooueth though subiectes may flye from the
weake blocks his secresie was such as he was first desyphered by forraigne intelligence he had Englishe confederates but such as wéere too déepe in to discouer him When he could no longer withstand the accusation of his owne hand-writing and other probabilities but especiallie his giltie conscience he voluntarilie accused hymselfe with manie odious Treasons but hys malitious spirit woulde not bowe to accuse hys confederates whiche could not but be some great personadges his toong going to execution accused him of a hidden secret when he sayd that he was sorie for the miserie that would light vpon the people before one yeare but God be praised the yeare is past another draweth fast one and manie the like I hope will followe that her Maiestie is in safetie and her Realme in peace Mary within the same yeare the Traytor Parry was hanged in Throgmortons equipage and Henry Earle of Northumberland iudged by the giltinesse and accusation of his owne conscience desperately ended his life with a dagge in the Tower with gréefe I set it downe that a man of so great vallor and staiednesse should so much forget the feare of God and duty to her Maiestie to whome he was déepely bounde as to practise such dangerous treason as his owne conscience perswaded him would not abide the triall and therefore to preserue the honour and inheritance of his house he made choise of a desperate death before the tryall of his péeres the most honourable and indifferentest tryall in the world his sonnes haue great cause to consider of this fatherly care that thus wilfully endangered his owne soule to preserue the temporall honour of his house yea the redéeming of it by his voluntarie death when the trespasse of his life had forfeited all hath or ought to haue impressed such a setled zeale in his sonnes euermore to vphold the same as they and their posteritie will no doubt continuallie be remembred thereof as Philip King of Macedon was That he was a mortall man God graunt that her Maiesties good subiects may be alwayes worthy of this diuine prouidence peace abundance of all good things and that those that are not yet sound may so profit in amendment by these examples as they may detest treason as the assured spoile of honour losse of life and in many the damnation of the soule otherwise in séeking to pull downe a Prince whome God hath chosen to raigne ouer his people in their confusion they shall declare their owne folly and Gods excéeding goodnesse in preseruing of those whome he loueth These notable polititians or more properly Atheists if they were simply to deale with men they might many times happily sée the wished effects of their deuises but they striue against God that striue against their soueraigne Princes especially against such a one as God hath annointed to set foorth his glorie yea they shall preuaile no more then he that thinketh to beate down strōg rocks with a knock of his head that striueth against those whome God protecteth God defended his seruant Elias fléeing from the wrathfull displeasure of Iezabell yea he sent an Angell to comfort and to refresh him with foode When Daniell was cast into a den of Lions God sent an Angell to stop the Lions mouth so that they could not hurt him An Angell with a drawne sword told Iosue that he was the chiefe of the Lords band Iudeth had an Angell for her companion when she went to slay Holofernes An Angell was séene to walke and preserue Sidrah Misach and Abednago in the burning ouen I could inlarge the Chapter with many examples to like purpose but to conclude although Angels are not so visibly séene as in the time of the Prophets yet they minister Gods prouidence and all his blessings euen now as they haue done from the beginning of the world by whome our noble Quéene Elizabeth is defended her enimies are confounded and from whome her good subiectes receiue peace and large fruition both of spirituall and temporall riches All which God for his Sonnes sake alwaies continue that when her Maiestie hath liued a long life so long as the longest course of nature may giue leaue that then she may die in peace euen in the place where she liueth and raigned many yeares in peace Amen CHAP. 14. An exhortation to the English fugitiues vagrant in forraine Regions I Place you héere English fugitiues at her Maiesties féete as abiects whome Gods iustice for your sinnes will haue foyled vnder her féete but her excellencie who is slow in doing of vengeance is more readie to succour her enimies with her hand then to spurne them with her foote and among many that least deserue this fauour charitie and commiseration of your dayly ruines moueth me to wish vnto you after vnfained reconciliation both the fruition of this mercie and all your Countrey blessings The errors of your Religion are manifested by many godly Diuines but the blindnesse of your harts will not suffer you to sée them and small is the maruell though you contemne the counsels of men when you vse the visible warnings of God to strengthen your errors The report of the souldiers vnto the high Priests of the glorie of Christes resurrection sufficed to haue conuerted the Iewes but to their condemnation the Diuell and money sealed this slaunder in their harts that his Disciples stole him away in the night Gods iustice stroke Mahomet with the falling sicknesse to make him know and forsake his blasphemie but to strengthen the peoples misbeléefe the Diuell taught him to say that his falling proceeded of the conference with an Angell whose diuine presence his humane shape could not endure Uppon the principall day of the sauadge murther in Parris according to the figure in the Reuelation that the stinging Locusts shoulde not hurt the gréene trée when to shewe that Gods worde should flourish mauger your crueltie a withered trée bare gréene leaues in the Church yard which receiued many a martired carkasse you presently applyed that preaching or prophesying example to the second florishing of your Romish Church time proueth your exposition but an idle suggestion For although God suffered this cruell persecution of his Church yet he presently shewed himselfe as a louing father who burneth the rod when he hath corrected his sonne God shortly sent an vnkindly death to the chiefe scourge in this persecution and with the gallowes confounded the most of the rascally Atheists his executioners if any liue they beare the markes of hys heauie displeasure what honor and to go further what profit haue you gained by this policie of your Church to what purpose hath the Pope painted this persecution about his great hall at Lateran forsooth that it may be a monument of his crueltie and Gods mercie of his crueltie who dayly murthereth and of Gods mercy which dayly increaseth the number of true professors If the hardnesse of your harts had not blinded your vnderstanding you could not but perceiue the
the liuely countenance of man but wheresoeuer he beholdeth his painted image he is not in quiet vntill he hath defaced his face euen so the enuious are not satisfied in giuing vntimely deathes vnto good men but to burie the remembrance of their vertues if it possible were committe inhumane outrages vpon their ingraued bones and condemne their learned and necessarie bookes vnto the fire so that it is apparaunt that there is no possibilitie howe any other euill should matche enuie in euill for that their extreamest reuenge stretcheth but vnto death when the malice of enuie searcheth the graue which considered the enuious are more hurtfull then the Crocadile who although she hungerly prayeth vpon a liuing man yet if shee finde his dead carkase she lamenteth ouer it and with her warme teares washeth his face yea so extreame diuelish are the qualities of the enuious as Socrates likeneth enuie vnto a Viper who so soone as they haue engendered the female murdereth the male because she wil not liue as his inferiour againe the young ones eate themselues forth of their dammes intrayles because they will not be bound vnto the obedience of nature And questionlesse Socrates in the qualitie of this venimous beast rightly figureth the condition of the enuious who to compasse the desire of his defiled heart treadeth vnder foote care of his countries welfare duetifull obedience vnto his parentes and naturall affection toward his kinffolke and friendes yea which is most against kinde the enuious often times committeth wilfull outrage vpon himselfe to beholde a greater vpon his enemie according to the saying of morrall Esope The enuious desired of Iupiter to be spoyled of one of his eyes that the couetous man might lose both To which purpose many examples in my following discourses shall be shewen whereas if any other passion entiseth a man vnto euill it flattereth him with the hope of a profitable ende Moreouer though a man malice deadly yet there may be satisfaction or meanes of attonement But where there is enuie there is no hope of reconciliation whereupon is set downe for infallible experiments that there was neuer loue but enuie betweene Cain and Abell Isacke and Ismael Loth and Abraham Iacob and Esau Ioseph and his brethren the Kinges of Iuda and Israel and the Apostles the Turkes and the Persians the Romaines and the auncient Spartians the French men and English men and so consequently betwéene neighbour countreyes betweene whome there can be no perfect amitie not for that the one is vnable to repaire the wrongs done vnto the other but for that the one without enuy cannot endure to beholde the glory of the other For which cause Timon of Athens was called dogged because he grinned at the felicitie of man yea if we well considered their effectes the actions of the enuious may well bee tearmed deuilishe in that they repine at the glory of God and bend all their forces to suppres vertue and her followers which in these following discourses shall be more largely shewen CHAP. 2. The originall of Paricide and other inhumane murders by Enuie MURDER the monster of inhumanitie was hatched by this accursed Enuie through whose motions the reprobate Caine slew his iust brother Abell only because that Abels oblations were better regarded of God then his owne Enuie caused Romulus to committe the like outrage vpon nature in slaying his brother Remus because hee participated with him in rule and soueraignetie which inhumane fact Machiuel doth thus excuse It was needefull saith he that it shoulde be so for that other wise the Romaine Empire might haue ended in the beginning being at one instant gouerned by two kinges of seuerall disposition and direction But allowe the reason to be good the good which fell vnto the Common wealth cannot wash away the stayne of Romulus bloudie offence otherwise then the freedom that the Romains gayned ouer their tyrannous Kinges cleared proude Tarquinius of the rape committed on chaste Lucretia for if any good as ofteÌ„times doth come of a naughtie cause God is to be praised for his prouidence and the Authour is to be chastened for his euil intent And questionlesse Romulus entente was so foule as exceeded the crueltie of the rauening Wolfe which nourished him and therefore worthie to liue in this reproche Vnkind thy Damme thee suckerlesse did leaue gainst kind a VVolfe thee fostered with her teate VVhose kinde was thee with bloudie iawes to teare thou most vnkinde to sit in Soueraigne seate Vnkindly slewst Remus thy brother deare So outragious was the enuy betwéene Polineces and Eteocles as old Oedipus their father scratched forth both his eies because he could not endure to behold the murthers and other deadly mischiefes inflicted vpon the poore Thebanes in sustaining their vnnaturall quarrels and as some histories make mention when they had sheathed their swordes in each others intralles the enuy of their life appeared after death whose heresies being ioined together the flame of the funeral fire violently sundered theÌ„ with the selfesame venemous malice which is naturally impressed betweene these vnpolitike creatures the Eagle the Dragon the Cocke the Lyon the wild Bore and the Eliphant diuers other bruite creatures who so disagrée in nature as being dead by no meanes their â—…louds wil mingle together an exaÌ„ple of waight to teach men to beware of their enuious enemies in whose heartes disdaine malice are so mortally enbleamed as neyther giftes praier nor good vsage are of power to worke a true attonemeÌ„t This monster enuy imboldned wicked Nero to violate the bendes of nature by the murdering of his mother to see the place of his cursed conception as in his best excuse is alleadged But the true cause was this he hastened her death for that her life by the charge of nature bounde him to a duetifull reuerence for his thoughts raigned ouer all men though his life deserued to be loued of no man With this viperous childe may be coupled the vngratious Commodus sonne of the good Emperour Marcus Aurelius who encountring fouretéene or fiftéene gentlemen Romaines vpon a bridge ouer Tiber demanded of the gentlemen wherevpon they so sadly deuised the gentlemen simply answered that they talked of the good Emperor Marcus Aurelius whose life was beautified with such diuine vertues as his death hath charged Rome with an endles sorrow Whereupon as a murtherer of his fathers renowne hee commaunded his garde to throwe them all into the riuer of Tiber alleadging that they coulde not prayse his father without the blaming of him Wherein though Commodus did euill he spake truth for the commendation of vertue is euermore a reproch to vice and without doubt as the good Emperour Aurelius inlarged the monumentes of his predecessours in example to those that shoulde succeede him so the vngratious Commodus exceeded all his ancestours in euill and left no possibilitie for his heires to be worse of whome is
reported that his notorious crimes exceeded the dayes of his age which I ouerpasse as examples necessary for other purposes and vnto this impious parte I will ioyne this following crueltie Upon a day one tolde this naughtie Emperour that his cosen Mamertius Antomenes resembled him in comelynesse of bodie and magnanimitie of minde vpon which report Commodus pronounced death both vpon the reporter and his innocent cousen holding it for reason that it appertained to no man to vaunt lesse to resemble him and in my opinion if Antomenes resembled him in deuilish qualities death was too easie a scourge for so lewde a life Mulla Abdula father of Moley Mahumet commonly called the blacke king in whose cause the mortall battaile betwéene the king of Portugall and Amoley Muluco king of Fees was fought the 5. of August 1578. as in the alteration of the latter common weales by enuy shal be more largely shewen vpon an enuious suggestion that his brethren by the priuity in nature and bloud loked to liue in greater liberty then subiectes by the assistaunce of a noble man of the countrey called Alcatho Alley caused the throates of a eleuen of his brethren to be cut in one morning Now to conclude these particular tyrannies of enuye vnto which millions of notorious examples may be enserted the monstrous murders of king Richard the third a tyrant of our nation is worthy note in whose wretched end yet worthy his wickednes the happines of Englande began againe to florish and enioyed her auncient renowne This tyraunt at such time as he was Duke of Glocester with an enuious eye behelde the soueranity of king Edwarde the 4. his brother and yet inforced by necessity obeyed him For annoynted kinges with weake policies are not depriued but vnable to hold his hand from their throates who for their dignities toke the vpper hand of him against the lawes of honor with his impious handes he stabbed Prince Edward to the hart beeing taken prisoner at the battaile of Tewksbury Next like an Alehouse ruffen with his dagger he slew the infortunate good king Henry the sixt in the tower of London Then heaping murder vppon murder he caused George Duke of Clarence his naturall Brother to be drowned in a Butte of Malmesey And last though not the least to rowle vp a number of noble subiectes endes with the death of king Edward the fift and Richard Duke of Yorke the kinges brother his nephewes whom he caused to be murthered in the Tower and buried without honor to infame the name of king Edward the fourth and his posterity he pronounced his mother like a filthy harpye to be a strumpet and that the sayd king Edward was a Bastard and him selfe onely legitimate as I think sonne of the diuel for it séemeth wonderful that so inhumane a creature should take life of humane séed CHAP. 3. Enuy originall of warre and capitall cause of the destruction of the first Monarchies MAny yéeres after the beginning euery king qui etly enioyed the countries in his own possession vntil Ninus king of the Asserians enuying the soueranity of his neighbour kings put him self in armes vnlawfully to inlarge his owne dominions by deposing other froÌ„ their kingdoms Thus byenuy froÌ„ the bottom of hell came war by war confusion of deuine humaine blessings the aduauncement of thousandes of diuelish iniquities For whereas lawes giue place to armes the honor of God is wounded his word is misprised Iesus Christ is blasphemed and persecuted his Gospell is reiected and his Sacraments are prophaned fire is put to the house of the lord Wolues are thruste into his stéepefolde and wilde Bores among his vines truth and equity is peruerted charity is cold innocents and the iust are oppressed youth bee ill instructed publicke orders are broken discipline and rules of good life are abolished ignoraunce is raysed knowledge is abased proud ambitious and men of leaste estimation doe gouerne the learned wise and vertuous are disofficed as ideots and men of no merite countries bee vnpeopled fayre Cities are burned peaceable citizens are murthered their wiues and daughters are rauished their groundes lye vntilled goods compassed by the trauels of a mans whole life in one hower doe become the spoyle of a riotous souldiour And to conclude though short of a number of other curses which follow warre vice mounted in her chariot of triumph arrogaÌ„tly treadeth pore vertue vnder foot therby they that shold cry out of this outrage against God and man are dumb and the reformers of these enormities deafe these vengeances by war the enuious eye and ambitious hart of Ninus bred in the worlde which died not with the destruction of Th'asserian monarchy Notwithstanding enuy the erecter was the destroyer therof For Arbactus leiftenant of the Meades enuiyng the soueranity of Sardanapalus a man more effeminate then a woman by the assistaunce of other lords gaue battaile vnto the king Sardanapalus discomforted â—…led into his pallas there enuiyng the fortune of Arbactus more to reaue him of the glory of his triumph then moued by sorrow of his own defeat Sardanapalus set fire of his Pallas his wealth him selfe so by the prodigall spoyle of his life recouered the reputation of a man for manhood is most truely tried by constancy in the trembling passage of death The like enuious part was committed by Ariathes king of Capidocia who being ouercome in battail by Perdicas one of Alexanders successors fled into the Citye enuiyng Perdicas good fortune more then he lamented his owne mischance caused the city to be set on fire incouraged his souldiers citizens to slay their wiues children holding it lesse euill to die by the violence of friends then to liue a seruile life vnder the controlment of their enemies And by this means in truth he reaued Perdicas of the spoyle of his victory but did both vnto him selfe and countrey an iniury against nature and reason against nature in committing wilful murder vpon him selfe posterity against reason in that time was able to repaire his ruines of fortune But to kéep an order in discoursing the actions of enuy by the victory which Arbactus had ouer Sardanapalus the empyre of Th'asserians was traÌ„slated into the Meades which corse most conquerors adopted Princes euer since haue taken to crown their natiue countrey with imperiall title to leaue the places conquered or by other meanes gayned to the tyrannye of leifetenants Well this monster enuy which mortifieth the naturall affection of a father robbeth dutifull obedience from the son made the one of these the cause the other the ouerthrow of this second empire For Astiages the last king of the Meades receauing answer of the Oracle that his daughters sonne should gouerne his empire as it were to despight the Gods that had fore destined this honor vnto his daughters sonne vpon an enuious thought first
married her to a meane man of Persia for that following the course of nature the father beeing base the sonne should not haue a generous minde But not so satisfied he be thought him of a common speache that the father may bequeath the sonne his liuinges but not his vertues neither is he sure to ingraft in him his vices And therefore as Astiages imagined to make sure worke he commaunded his familiar seruant Harpagus so soone as his daughter was deliuered to murder the childe But note by this example how vainelye the greatest Princes striue that striue to frustrate the determination of God Harpagus departed with a resolution to do the kinges commaundement and ready to strike the stroke the childe regarded him with such an affable countenance as his hart was not able to strengthen his hand to commit so impious a murder and therefore he left the vengeance of the kinges will to be executed by sauage beastes as an office vnséeming a ciuill creature Thus God by his wonderfull prouidēce to rebate Harpagus sword armed this infants face with the vertues of the two noblē Romanes Marius Crassus who by the assurednes of their countenaunces made the executioners weapons to fall from their handes so that they forsaking their determination the other ouer liued that hard destiny And in aduauntage contrary to kinde he made a shée Wolfe to nourish the child with an affection as great as that where with the Lions intertained Daniell And last Cyrus hauing knowledge of his Grandfathers cruell intent he subiected him to his mery and possessed him selfe in his empyre who being a Persian borne changed the Empire of the Meades into the empire of the Persians During the continuaunce of which gouernement many enuious partes were exercised among thē selues which being the lesse I conclude in the great ouerthrow of their monarchy which happened in the time of Alexander the great who so enuied the glory of the Persians as when their king Darius offered him an honorable accorde with his daughter in mariage Alexander would graunt vnto no peace vnlesse Darius would giue him soueranity and take him selfe the second place Uppon which refusall the armies ioyned Darius was defeated and the Empire translated into Macidonia By which fortunate battaile Alexanders power was great and his enuie greater For he held no countrey sufficiently conquered that the people were not ransomed with the mercy of his swoorde But yet this enuy which gaue him in his life time heate hastened his death And he that tamed the pride of mighty kinges was poisoned to death by the enuie of Antipater his familiar subiect Who as some aucthors affirme enuying his absolute power or rather his seuere iustice for that in heat he put Alexander of Lyncest and other of Antipaters kinse-men and friendes to death And which wrought the greatest impression of hatred for that his owne noble enterprises achieued in Greace were ouer blowne with light regard For some of these causes although all sufficed not to excuse so great an impietie Antipater bribed the Phisicion Theslatus to poyson Alexander who in the traiterous execution of his vnlawfull promise hath left a warning to all Princes of two notable mischiefes the first to beware how in not rewarding or regarding good seruices they kill the louing affection of their subiects for although all the trauelles of a subiect in the seruice of his king be but duty and the least reward of a king is liberalitie Yet is a Prince were he vniust bounde to the one for his safetye as well as the subiect is thraull to the other of dutie For where the subiect onely obeyeth through feare the Prince cannot raigne but in feare and when men are in bondage they will spare no aduantage of libertie which is the cause that few tyrauntes make peaceable endes Uppon which ordinary fortune when the tyraunt Hippias told a Philosopher of Athens that if he liued one yeare to an ende he would make the intrailes of dogs the sepultures of an number of his fellowes Wherevpon the Philosopher boldly prophesied that it would not bee so for hell could not spare Hyppias so long The second regarde that a Prince who alwayes hath mighty enemies intertaine for his Phisition a man that feareth God For if onely for reward he minister medicine it may be feared that for a greater gayne he will giue poyson To which purpose a Gentleman of Vennis one a time supping with a Phisition in Padua marueiled that the Phisitions who in shorte space finde a remedie for the most violent newe disease that raigneth can not cure as well as giue ease to the Gowt an auncient maladie Which doubt the Doctor thus pleasauntly resolued O Sir quoth hée the Gowte is the proper disease of the riche and wée liue not by the poore it maye suffice that they finde ease But to prescribe a cure to begger anye facultye were great follye Well though the Doctor spake merrilye it often times falleth out that the riche mans wealth is moste enemye vnto his health And the better to aucthorise this question Ferdinando the good kinge of Aragon among manye of his weightye preceptes sayde it is greatly requisite that a Prince make choyce of an honest Phisition For quoth hee the strength of a Princes garde can not defende a Phisitions treason And certainlye the negligent couetous or traiterous Phisition is the moste daungerous murtherer of the worlde some one of which faultes are so conuersaunt with moste Phisitions as experience teacheth that exercise cureth the moste parte of poore mens surfettes when Phisicke killeth by small distemperatures as often times the riche And therefore it is necessary for all men to follow the counsell of this olde and approoued Prouerb Honor and vse the Phisition for necessities sake Which importeth extreame daunger and not euery trifling distemperature which nature exercise and orderly dyet will cure But agayne to Alexander who after he had receiued this mortall portion the venime therof tormented him so much aboue his patience that to be eased he often times assayed to murther him selfe Notwithstandinge in his death bedde lying in this extreametie his friendes requiring to know who should be his heyre he stoutly aunsweared the worthiest So great was the courage of his hart as he priuiledged not his sonne Hercules his Brother Arideus nor the infant in his Wife Roxanes wombe before a stranger of better desert But although this bequeste proceeded from the magnanimitie of Alexanders minde yet the incertayne succession in the Empyre coulde not but as it did worke the ruine thereof For wheras this liberty was giuen the one enuyed that another shoulde pryse his vertues at a higher rate then his Hercules claymed as heyer Arideus as Brother and one that coulde beste manadge the affayres of the Empyre Perdicas challenged it by military testament for that the king when he was spéechlesse gaue him a
wicked practises haue compassed the death of a great many with all which procéedinges the Cronicles will largely acquaint the Reader And certainely if outward actions of barbarous crueltie may condemne the blasphemie of the Pope his ministers in Fraunce Flaunders and Scotland haue already sent the same vnto hell haue elected him to be the Archtyrant of the earth For where was there a more sauage crueltie euer coÌ„mitted then the massacre of Paris where by the traine of amitie the celebration of a marriage betweene the King of Nauarre and the Kinges sister which in outward appearaunce promised much peace and honour to the long afflicted realme the peeres of bloud and nobilitie of the religion to honour that wished accorde repaired vnto the Court where the good Admirall was slaine and by that stratageme or rather deuice of the Deuill many a thousand innocent and fearelesse Protestants in Paris and other cities of Fraunce were cruelly murthered which monstrous massacre although many other trecherous murthers in Fraunce reproch the Papistes with the extreamest name of crueltie is remembred with the blame and exclamation of the cruellest Pagans in the worlde This traiterous and butcherly warfare waspractised with the murther of the King and many noble men of Scotland The pretence of the tyrannical gouernment of the Spaniards in the low Countries and contrary to the auncient lawesof priuiledges â—…he said Countries at their first entraunce their killing and destroying of the principall nobilitie and persons most worthie of gouernement was coloured with the maintenance of the Romish religion but what excuse by religion haue they for the destroying and dishonourable murthering of many Romaine Catholiques among whome the right noble County of Egmond was that wayes especially affected euen forsooth some such reason as the theefe had who said he robbed none but Papistes when he spared not any that had a crosse in his pursse which crosse he tooke to be the marke of a Papist so the Spaniardes tooke these noble men for Protestants because they were of honourable dsspositions maintainers of their countries liberties and louers of vertue which are not the ordinarie markes of Papists the riches of these countries by common estimation aunsweared the vallew of the king of Spaines Indias and from this root procéedeth all their ruines The proud Spaniardes enuied the greatnesse of these Lordes and the prosperity of the people and to féed their owne wastefull humours they hungred after absolute dominion and possession of their riches In all matters of obedience that appertayned vnto the king they serued his maiestie with all faithfulnesse so that the Spaniard could pickt no quarrell of disloyaltie They were driuen to square about the Pope though these people obeyed the king they charged them with Catholicke disobedience vpon this cause as they alleadge more then these twenty yéeres the insolent Spaniardes with swoorde famine and many other cruell maners of death haue afflicted and destroyed the naturall people of those countries and haue ransacked spoiled the most of their fayre and rich cities And yet these proud Spaniardes vpon a true account haue neither gayned honor nor profit by the ruines of these most rich countries While the godly Prince of Orange liued the Spaniardes had many foyles and few honorable victories the compassing of whose death with the worthy destruction of their own mur thering instruments testifie the tiranous spirites both of the Pope and the king of Spaine that neither obey the lawes of God honor nor humainitie by working by anye meanes the deathes of their enemies After the good Prince of Orange was traiterouslye slaine the order whereof is vniuersallye knowne and condemned the afflicted people of these countrys by their increasing calamities soone missed the benefite of his graue counsels But God be praised for the life and happines of her sacred maiesty euen good Quéene Elizabeth who with a mercifull eye and a Princely hand hath both beheld and giuen large sucker to their afflictions to the afflictions of these appressed people of the low countries to them I say with royall defence publicke succour and to the persecuted ChristiaÌ„s of all nations as their calamities required her sacred maiesty euen her onely zeale and vertue hath preserued Scotlande from forraine outrage and ciuill destruction the yonge kinge of Scots whom God blesse with deuine and heroicall vertues confesseth her maiesty to be his mother by whom next vnder God he liueth and raigneth she hath giuen him a kingdome in redéeming of it foorth of the tyranny of straungers and disobedience of awelesse subiects Her mediation hath much pacified the furies of Fraunce and her clemencye hath refreshed the woundes of Portugall her mercy is the Phisition of forraine afflictions and her holinesse the sure grounde of Englandes peace and prosperity England at this day and from the first hower of her maiesties blessed raigne the wonder of nations England I say of absolute gouernments onely in peace onely in prosperity onely free from féeling the vengeance of enuy many enemies be thou thankful for this deuine protectioÌ„ Englande or rather Englishe men be you counceled by the ouerthrowes of the fore recited monarchies kingdomes and common weales I haue presented you with these conquestes of enuy that you may be fore warned of your worst enemy euen this monster enuy which euer more contendeth against peace and prosperity you are plentifully blessed with both the blessinges and vniuersally besieged with enuy It is miraculous that you haue escaped the mischiefe of all her stratageames and dangerous war The Athenians were ignoraunt of no pollicy to withstaÌ„d their enemy yet could find no defence against enuye but to tame and kéepe vnder their prosperitye they yéerly banished their noble men not such as had offended the law but those which the common people woulde haue banished their wisedomes made the common weale to florishe but neither their wisedomes nor force could banishe enuy out of the hartes of the people they feared this passion more then Alexanders power and good cause why for her venime poysoned Alexander her pollicy murthered Caesar and quelled most of the worthies We néede not search forraine examples to teach vs the power of enuy she destroyed the house of Brut at whose gouernment we begin our Englishe cronicles for Ferrex his brother Porrex striuing for sole soueranitie sought each others confusion Porrex slew Ferrex and their mother murthered Porrex in his bedde in whose deathes the linage of Brute was ended Enuy was the cause of the chaunges of gouernment by the Saxons Danes Britans and lastely the enuy betwéene Harold and his brother after the death of king Edward the confessor was the meane that crowned William the conqueror with the Diadem of England The mischief which enuy sowed in king Richard the secondes dayes brought forth continuall murders ciuill warres and deadly quarrelles during the raignes of sixe kinges that succéeded him To be short this passion since
kingdome by suffering the bloodie Bishops to misuse her Emperiall sword she in their procéedings outragiouslie tyrannised the true professors of the Gospell which God her noble father and good brother his instruments bée therefore praysed had taken a sound holde in the hart of England whose crueltie and contrarietie in Religion may no wayes slaunder her godlie father and his off-spring We sée the Rose trée that bringeth foorth the swéete Rose lykewise bringeth foorth sharpe prickels but to come more néerer the matter the kyrnell of the best apple will growe to be a crabbe vnlesse some good fruite bee grafted on the stocke and looke what the Sience is suche will be the trée looke what is â—…owen in youth is euer séene in age the following example teacheth a good pollicie to haue an eie vnto Schoolemaisters and the education of Papistes children The séede of Idolatrie superstition and send Ceremonies were sowne in the heart of Ladie Mary béeing a childe which grewe to the disworship of God and the destruction of the godlie Ladie Mary béeing a Quéene But God no doubt suffered thys prickle to growe of thys gréene Rosier and thys irreligion to be grafted of thys religious stocke to chasten the sinnes of England who hauing a righteous Prince peace and plentie both of spirituall and temporall blessings neyther saluted the giuer of thys goodnesse with hartie thankes nor sought the continuance thereof with a dutifull regarde of the Kings Maiestie but in some of her members hauing an eye fixed vppon the Kings tender yéeres and not an hart setled vppon hys firme vertues she began to worke matters hatefull to GOD offensiue to the Prince and most hurtfull to her selfe and therefore God 〈◊〉 Englande of the most milde vertueus godlie and well disposed Prince King EDWARD the sixth and in wrath sente vs euen suche a Prince as the Prophete speaketh of that shoulde oppresse vs with most greeuous bondage that should by taxes great impositions take froÌ„ vs the fruites of the feeld vineyards oliue trees and should giue them to his lords and seruants Euen Quéene Mary that imposed many great summes of money vppon vs to enrich strange Lords that by committing the waightie affaires of the publike weale to Bishops almost wilfully lost Callis an auncient ornament belonging to England which Citie the notorious Atheist Gardener vaunted that he would kéepe with a white wand an vnlikely matter that his courage serued him to defend Callis against the power of a puissant King with a white wand that armed troupes to gard the vnresisting Martyrs to burning but which stained her gouernement with euerlasting crueltie she by her ministers in fyue yéeres tyrannouslie burned fiue times more innocent and quiet Protestants then good Quéene Elizabeth in 27. yéeres raigne by her lawes hath executed notorious Papists that committed treason when my soule durst sweare that there be double the number of the poore Protestants that then constantly professed the holie Gospell that now in their harts wish her Maiesties depriuement both of life and crowne and yet liue This persecution made many to flée the Realme for their consciences sake but they sought not libertie by rebellion they confessed this bondage and persecution to procéed from the Lords heauie displeasure and humblie awaighted his fauour for their deliuerance No one hath more cause to exclaime of this hard gouernement then our gratious Quéene Elizabeth She was not entertained like the daughter of a mightie King and heire apparant of a rich kingdome Good Lady she was emprisoned her attendance small her libertie nothing When her innocencie disprooued publike accusations the Cleargie sought her life by secret tyrannie sought it do I say yea they had wrought it had not God beyond mans expectation wonderfully deliuered her Maiestie her assured friends despaired of her worldly welfare her Maiestie that behelde the bloody knife a sharpning misdoubted not her deliuerance Her friends trembled because there was no measure in the Papists crueltie her Maiestie looked chéerefully because she knew the Diuell had no might but such as God suffered In the holie Bible the louing embracements whereof was her Maiesties persecution her excellencie had learned these pretious comforts and in them reposed The Lord sayeth Who so honoreth me him will I make honorable In another place Dauid sayeth Who so dwelleth vnder the shadow of the almighty him God couereth with his wings and keepeth safe vnder his feathers I know saith he the Lord helpeth his annointed and euen from heauen heareth them Some trust in chariots some in horsses but we in calling vpon the Lord. God can and oft times doth pine man and beast euen in the middest of plentie God where he setteth too his hand worketh wonders and sturdie strength standeth in no stead God thus speaketh to Dauid and yet by a spiritual interpretation maketh like promise to all kings and princes that hartely séeke his glorie Because thou hast set thy loue vpon me I will see thee rid from all thy troubles I will defend thee why so it followeth Thou hast knowen my name thou seekest my glorie and therefore whensoeuer thou callest vpon my name I will heare thee yea I am with thee in all thy calamities and will deliuer thee from them I will set thee higher in honor send thee long life and shew thee thy saluation Her Maiestie builded vpon these comforts her soule desired and hoped to be an instrument of his wonderfull glorie examples of Scripture told her that those whome God had appointed to any speciall seruice euen those he guided through mortall dangers he preserued Ioseph from the murthering enuy of his brethren to saue old Iacob his father his malitious brethren and al Israel from the sharp death of famine Against the tyranous decrée of Pharao which was that the Midwiues should kill all the male children of the Hebrewes his prouidence saued Moses from drowning and made him his instrument to leade the children of Israell out of the bondage of Pharao vnto the land of promise God in the deapth of the sea fetched Ionas the Prophet foorth of the Whales belly to saue Niniuey from destruction God deliuered Peter forth of the prison tirannie of Herod the Iewes that he might open the gates of faith and preach the way of saluation euen vnto his enimies God sundry waies miraculouslie deliuered Paule from the vengeance of death to preach the Gospell of saluation vnto the Gentiles at Philippos in Macedonia he caused him Sylas to be deliuered forth of prison In Lycaonia the Iewes the people stoned him and drew him forth of the City as a dead man God raised and reuiued him againe God againe redéemed him out of the hands of the Iewes when as forty of them swore they would neither eate nor drinke vntill they had slaine Paule yea God in his extremitie stood by him comforted him saying Be of good cheere Paule for as thou hast testified of me at
Ierusalem so must thou beare witnesse also at Rome God had appointed him the rest waighty charges the execution whereof the malice of men might not withstand examples of great comfort to the godly terror to the wicked The godly may learne by them that his mercy succoureth them in the sharpest aduersitie and the wicked may be assured that his iustice will confound their policies in the chiefest hope of successe Her Maiesty to whom I euery way may apply the former examples beset with death as dangerous as Daniel in the Lions den as after in her own thanks-giuing may be séene comforted her self in the strength of God which always defended her which good God hauing compassion both of her patient suffering the general affliction of his Church mercifully burned the rod of correction by calling away Quéene Mary setting of gratious Elizabeth in the emperiall chaire of England France and Ireland for which excéeding mercie his holy name be praised Amen CHAP. 7. Of the peaceable entrance of Queene Elizabeth our gratious soueraine vnto the crowne diademe of England and other obseruances of Gods especiall fauor mercy IT is commonly séene that vpon the death of princes enuy ambition dissentiō shew their humors that secret discontentment breaketh forth w e publike disturbāce And although in England hereditary succession be a great bridle vnto these passions yet vpō such changes they many times haue foūd the meanes to shew themselues as after the deathes both of king Edward the 4. king Edward the 6. vpō the death of Quéene Mary the difference in religion was a likely cause to sow discord among the people But almighty God that had as it were by especial miracle preserued our gratious Quéene Elizabeth the visible image of himselfe frō the spoile malice of dangerous enimies aforthand prouided that her sacred Maiestie should receiue hir crowne in peace should gouerne hir people in peace my hope doth assure me where she now peaceablie raigneth her maiesty shall long liue and die in peace who the 17. day of Nouember 1558. the very day of Quéene Mary her sisters death with the sound of a trumpet both at Westminster and in the City of London was proclaymed by the name of Elizabeth Quéene of England France Ireland defender of the saith c The newes wherof raised a suddaine ioy amōg the people so harty as their louing affectiō was presently séene by publike feasting banqueting benefiers in the open stréets The 23. of Ianuary following her Maiesty from the Tower passed through the City of London toward her Coronation but before her Chariot set forward her Maiesty lifted her eies vp vnto heauen and acknowledged Gods mercie in this thankes-geuing O Lord almighty euerlasting God I giue thee most harty thanks that thou hast been so mercifull vnto me as to spare me to behold this ioifull day and I knowledge that thou hast dealt as wonderfully with me as thou didst with thy true faithful seruant Daniel the prophet whom thou deliueredst out the den frō the cruelty of the gredy raging lions euē so was I ouerwhelmed only by thee deliuered To thee therefore be only thanks honor and praise for euer Amen Her maiesty by this thanksgiuing published her sure confidēce in God the effects the tyranny of hir enimies and the conclusion a speciall comfort to the godly The Citizens of London to shew thei rzeale in welcome of her Maiesty attyred the Citie with many stately shewes the most whereof they deriued from her proper vertues who was the liuely substance of all their painted bewties The first pageant shewed the long desired vnitie which God her maiesty be thanked is knit betwene vs and the holy Gospell of our Sauiour Christ. The second set foorth the seate of gouernāce which her maiesties liuely vertues bewtified more then their gorgious deuises The third which they applied vnto her maiesty depainted the 8. beatitudes mentioned in the 5. of S. Mathew truly if any earthly creature deserued them they are worthely heaped vpon her maiesty God hath blessed her humble spirit both with a spirituall and temporall kingdome God hath dried vp the teares of her persecution with spiritual tēporal cōfort God hath blessed her méekenes with large possessions on earth God hath blessed her scarcetie for righteousnes sake with abundance God hath blessed her mercy with the fulnes of his mercy God hath blessed her chaste vndefiled hart with the sight of himselfe in the true knowledge of his holy word God hath blessed her trauell for peace as his proper child with the visible image of himselfe God hath blessed her periceution for righteousnes sake in assuring her soule of the inheritance of his heauenly kingdome God hath blessed her to reuenge the reuiling and persecution of the Papists with the disgrace ouerthrow of the Pope The fourth declared the ruinous state of this realme which as they prophesied is by her maiesty restored to the dignity of a florishing common weale Yea in her miraculous procéedings an old by prophesie is effected which was A mayden Queene should do wonders in England The fift compared the expectation which her heroycall vertues promised with the politike gouernement of the worthie Debora Her maiestie was in Cheape side presented with the holy Bible in English which she reuerently kissed and thankefully receiued as hir spirituall comfort her temporall crosse and godly counseller The Maior of London presented her maiesty a thousand marks in a pursse with humble petition that she would cōtinue their good lady she gaue answer that if néed required she would willingly spend her blood in their defence which magnanimious saying all her after actions haue declared Although this most royall entertainement shewed the dutifull loue of her faithfull subiects which zeale God hath requited with many blessings yet Gods wisedome that comprehendeth all knowledge foresawe that her Maiesties clemency compared with Iulius Caesar that would not heare the accusation of his enimies with Augustus who gaue life to Cinna that sought his life with King Frances the first of France who pardoned the commotion of the Rochellers adioyning therevnto that he chiefely reioyced that his seueritie caused no man to weare a moorning gowne clemencie well bestowed that both inlarged the renowne and safetie of these princes for Pompeys friendes were thereby wonne to Cesar Cinna became most faithfull to Augustus and the Rochellers afterwards loyally obeyed King Frances but God I say who knew the greatnesse of her Maiesties compassion would rather bréede presumption then dutie in her dangerous enimies therefore to rid her roiall person realme and good subiects whome he determined to blesse from continuall conspiracies his mercy ioyned with iustice alittle before and after the death of Quéene Mary caused death likewise to attach the bloodie Atheist Steuen Gardener Bishop of Winchester the seditious Cardinall Poole and others whose heads were alwaies occupied with
then anie acte of humane perswasion to conuert a growne Atheist to the feare of God and true obedience towards hys prince yet such as through wicked perswasiens and want of good instructions are but newly fallen from the feare of God into the exercise of the damnable and disloyall practises of Atheists may no doubt be counselled by the examples of the confusion of these vipers to loath and hate they vngratious wayes and of the contrarie parte waighing the sure aduancement with which vertue honoreth her disciples they may which God graunt be encouraged earnestly to follow those courses whereby God may be honored theyr Countrey profited and their owne credite dignified There are two old verses among other precepts printed at the ende of Magna Carta of the old impression which containe a great perswasion to the studie of vertue the right ladder of honor and estimation with which for the vertue they containe I conclude this present Chapter Vt ver dat flores flos fructus fructus odores Sic studium mores mos census census honores In English Euen as the Spring doth flagrant flowers bring Faire flowers fruites and fruites a pleasant tast From studie so doth perfect manners spring From studie lore in lore is honor plast CHAP. 9. A conclusion of morall documents concerning the duties of euery estate THese rites men owe to thee O God which in the heauens art Reuerence honor glory prayse and prayer from the heart The gratious Prince a father is where subiectes liue in awe The good regarding with rewards the lewde with scourge of lawe The subiect true vnto his Prince this homage heere doth owe A faithfull heart a feare through loue an inward Zeale in showe The reuerent Iudge froÌ„ doming right whom no regard may straine Must Aristotles blames forsake loue hate and priuate gaine Th' inferior sort must reu'rence giue vnto the higher power Obay and listen to their lore let fortune laugh or lowre These speciall vertues from a freend still should or do proceede Aduise assistance faithfull loue and constancy in neede The Landlord should so lot his land as his poore Tennant may Both pay his rent sustayne his house and for his Landlord pray All Tennants slaues and bondmen were of youre records do shew Though now not so yet to their Lords they Zeale and fealtie owe. The neighborhood of the neighbor good this neighborhod doth claime Good still for good in casuall harme a charitable blame The Wise man sayeth the child is spilt where parents spare the rod But cherishment with chastment ioyne and see they honor God You children that long life do seeke vnto Gods lawe giue eare Honor Parents sustaine their age that for your youth did care You that a faithfull seruant seeke regard this charge as lawe His wages pay his seruice aske and keepe him still in awe Sometime the Romaines by their law their seruant lewde might slay And by all lawes the maisters will the seruant must obay Fresh youth whose iudgement is but greene aboue each other vice Forsake these three vndoing euils women wine and dice. These properties regard them well to you faire maydes belong A bashfull grace a modest eye ioynd with a silent toong You that haue wealth think others want thus impart your store Lend giue releeue as neede requires for to sustayne the poore You that are poore abase your thoughts for naught agreeth worse Then this foule fault a prowde conceipt ioynd with a beggers purse In euery trade an honest gaine well gotten good men hight And God will surely blesse the hand that wayes and measures right You souldyers both by land and sea Gods woonders still escrie Liue you to dye for fearefull death is alwayes in your eye Assure your selues you Atheists vile that make at him a face That God in vengeance is at hand where he is farre with grace As I began so I conclude let all men feare the Lord And Preachers see that godly workes with holy words accord To the Reader FRiendly Reader I giue thee knowledge that vpon speciall occasion I haue before printed certaine appendants to this booke viz. one Treatise called A mirror for Maiestrates which containeth at large in the graue orations and gouerment of the Emperour Alexander Seuerus what is for the honor of Gentlemen Citizens and diuers other estates and what is the disgrace and vndoing of themselues and their posteritie as also a morall Treatise of the reputation vertues and by abuse dishonors of a souldier whiche I wish thee for thy further pleasure and profite to adioyne to thy generall Mirror to which in right they belong Thus commending vnto thee the fruites of my labour and thee to the tuition of the highest giuing most humble thankes to hys diuine Maiestie by whose goodnes thys worke is brought to an end I end FINIS Errata The defences of pride The defences of ambition The defence of flatterie Infirmities of the body Enuie vvithout cure Originall of Enuie Gen. 3. Enuie the first cause of sinne Enuie vvorse theÌ„ murther c. The â—…tes of Enuie Defâ—…ces of 〈◊〉 Defences of volptuousnes The defences of covvardlines None vvill confesse himselfe to be enuious Necessitie cause of many trespasses Mat. 20. There may be cause of impatiencie but no colour for enuy Blessings which grieue the enuious August contra Donat. lib. 4. cap. 8. Causes which reioyce the enâ—…ous Baâ—… Sermone de â—…dia Enuie likeâ—… to a Panther The nature of a Panther Enuie continueth after death Enuie compared to a â—…per The vnnaturall nature oâ—… a viper The enâ—… 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 A â—…ble of Eâ—…pe 〈◊〉 is neuer reconciled Neighbour countreyes enuy others glory Timon of Athens Murther the byrde of enuie Gen. 4. Abell slayne by Câ—… Enuie cause of paâ—…de and in hummane marthers Remas slaine by Romulus Machiuel dis Lib. 1. Romulus and Remâ—…s were fostered by aâ—… woâ—…fe Polinecâ—… Etâ—…ocles brothâ—… The mortall venime of envy A necessary example Enuie caused Neâ—…o to â—…ay â—…s mother Commodus enuyed the remeÌ„brance of his fathers vertues Vice is reproched by the commendation of vertue An other inhumane murder caused by enuy in Commodus A horrible murder by enuy Hâ—…ule Grafton and other English Hâ—…oriographers King Henry the 7. ouercame this tirant and calmed the afflictions of England Prince Edward slaine by Richardes handes K. Henry the 6. slaine by Richardes handes Duke of Clarence drovvned King Edvvard the 5. and his brother slaine â—…st lib. 1. Enuy the originall of warre The miseries of vvar The end of the Assiriâ—…n monarchy by enuy Iust. lib. 1. The tuchstone of manhood The city of Capidocâ—…a burned through enuy Time is able to repayre the ruines of fortune The Asserian empire translated into the Meades Miserable are the countreis gouerned by lieâ—…tenants An impious cruelty Man purposeth and God dispoâ—…h Mâ—…rius and Crâ—…us Ciâ—…us suckled by