Is taken at the first rebound And like an aiëry bubble blown By vainer breath till it be grown Too big to be conceal'd it flies About a while gaz'd at then dies Something he tells and hasts away He could not and fame would not stay To near the rest for she well knew By mixing of false tales with true To make it more To Rome she plyes Her greatest Mart of truths and lyes The gods says she will dwell on earth And give themselves a mortal birth But they of fame had got the ods For they themselves made their own gods And car'd not to encrease their store For they had gods enough before To Solyma she takes her flight And puts the Citie in a fright Unwelcome newes fills Herods ears And then his head with thoughts and fears The King of whom the Sages told And all the Prophecies of old Is born sayes fame a King who shall Deliver Judah out of thrall Kings shall his subjects be and lay Their scepters at his feet his sway Shall know no bounds nor end but he Beyond all time so fates decree By this the Sun had cross'd the seas And told the newes to th' Antipodes The aiëry spirits pack'd hence away Chas'd by the beams of this bright day The fiends were in an uproar hell Trembl'd with the dismal yell The Prince of darkness was in doubt The Lord of light would find him out And that the word of truth being come His oracles must all be dumb Pale death foresaw he was betray'd That King of terrors was afraid Glory be to God above For this miracle of love Ever blessed be the morn When the God of Love was born Love so charming that it can Contract a God into a Man And by the magick of his birth Make an Heaven of the Earth Ever ever sing we thus Till Angels come and joyn with us They rejoyce with all their powers Yet the Benefit is Ours They with joy the tydings bring Shall We be silint when They sing The 25. Cap. of Job Paraphras'd Then Bildad answers dominion and fear Which rule us mortals loe his In-mates are Can numbers shallow bounds confine his hoasts Or does his light baulk any unknown coasts Can man be Gods Corrival to be just Can he be clean that is defiled dust The Moon in th' ocean of his light is drown'd The stars impure in his bright eyes are found Then what is man alas poor worthless span Or what 's his son a worm less than a man 35. Cap. of Job Then 'gan Elihu speak vileness dost dare Thy righteousness with Gods thus to compare Thou sayst what gain will righteousness bring in Or shall I thrive by that more than by sin I 'll answer thee Behold the clouds that stand His surer guard against thy sinning hand Legions of doubled sins cannot assault Thy God or pierce his statry guarded vault Nor can thy stock of good encrease his store Thy hand may hurt or help like thee the poor c. On the Widows 2 Mites How comes it that the widows mites are more Than the abundance the rich gave the poor Whilst they their worldly goods lib'rally hurl'd She gave her heart more worth than all the world On Christs Cross As from a Tree at first came all our woe So on a tree our remedie did grow One bare the fruit of death the other life This was a well of Salem that of strife On Christs Death and Resurrection What can God die or man live being slain He dy'd as man as God he rose again Gen. 2.18 When man was made God sent an helper to him And so she prov'd for she help'd to undoe him On the miracle of the Loaves This was a miracle indeed when bread Was by substraction multiplied Why wonder we at this strange feast When Gods's both giver and a guest On Christ's Resurrection The Lord of life lay in a tomb as in the womb His Resurrection was a second birth from th'womb of th' earth On M. M. weeping at Christs death What weep to see thy Saviour die Whereby thou liv'st eternally But now I know 't was cause thy sins Were the sharp spears that wounded him Mark 12. Give to God c. And to Caesar c. Give God and Caesar both how shall I do Give Gods receiver and thou giv'st him too On the world That the worlds goods are so inconstant found No wonder is for that it self is Round Similis simili gaudet Wherefore doth Dives love his Money so That 's earth So 's Hee Like will to like we know On Calvus Calvus of late extream long locks doth wear The reason is Calvus hath lost his Hair On Malfido Malfido on his neighbour looks so grim Proximus is Postremus sure with him On Will who had run through all trades and was now a Cobler I prethee Will whither wilt thou so fast Thou canst not farther for th' art at thy Last Better fortune Whilst that the Huntsman stared he became Unto his dogs their banquet and their game But from Acteons fortune I am free Because whilst I saw her she could not me On Cornuto Cornuto cries Hee 's weary of his life He cannot bear the Lightness of his wife She wants so many Grains she 'l go with loss Yet a Light Woman is an Heavie Cross Mart. Ep. 24. lib. 2. If unjust fortune hale thee to the bar In rags paler than guilty prisoners are I 'll stick to thee banishd thy native soyl Through Seas and Rocks I will divide thy toyl On one who fell in love with Julia throwing Snow-balls at him I 'me all on fire strange miracle of Love These Watry Snow-bals Hand-Granadoes prove If from cold clouds thou dost thy lightnings dart Julia what Element will fence my heart J. Cesaris Epigram A Thracian lad on Ice-bound Heber playes The glassie Pavement with his waight decayes Whilsts with his lower parts the river fled The meeting Ice cut off his tender head Which having found the Son-less mother urnd Those to be drownd were born this to be burnd Hensii Epitaph Trina mihi juncta est variis aetatibus vxor Haec Juveni illa viro tertia nupta seni est Prima est propter Opus teneris sociata sub annis Altera propter Opes tertia propter Opem Englished Three wives I had in severall ages Past A Youth a Man an old man had the last The first was for the Work a tender maid The second was for VVealth the third for Ayd Out of Italian My Mistris hath my heart in hold But yet 't is under locks of gold In which the wind doth freely play But my poor heart doth prisoner stay What happier prison can there be Confinement is my libertie H. Grotius S. Petri Querela Quae me recondet recondet regio quâ moestum diem Fallam latebrâ quaero nigrantem specum Quâ me sepeliem vivus ubi nullum videns Nulli videndus lachrymas foveam meas Englished What place will hide my guilt
brave spirits For though our Curfeu-bell hath been rung out and the fire of our zeal rak'd up in the ashes of Acts and Orders yet it is not extinguished Witness those Sparks who have revenged the death of their Sovereign with the hazard of their own lives By this time I doubt not but they who most endeavoured his Majesties death have seen cause enough to wish him alive again and are ready to engrave that Motto upon his Statue which they threw down with contempt which was set upon the Statue of the Roman Brutus Vtinam viveres It is yet some comfort that we can mingle sighs and assist one another with mutual counsels and courtesies which shall never be wanting from Sir your assured Friend T. F. To Mr. T. L. Sir BEing lately at our New Court there I saw his Highnose so environed with his guard as if he had been their prisoner and wondred how he durst venture himself amongst so many dangerous weapons I was ready to have said unto him as Plato did to Dionysius the tyrant when he saw him compassed about with many souldiers of his guard What hast thou committed so many evils that thou standest in need of such a guard of armed fellows To see the difference betwixt fearlesse innocence and fearful guilt M. Aurelius that good Prince never had any guard for sayes my Author he stood not in fear of his subjects Innocence is the surest guard as Pliny told Trajan the Emperour Haec arx inaccessa hoc inexpugnabile munimentum munimento non egere Frustra se terrore succinxeret qui septus charitate non fuerit Armis enim arma irritantur White-hall is now become Black-hall with the smoak of coals and matches But it would make one sad and sigh to see what havock is made of his Majesties goods and houshold-stuff and to whose using his house furniture is faln It minded me of a story in Q. Curtius who says Alexander that great robber as the petty Pyrat call'd him sitting in Darius Seat which was not fit for him but higher than served for his stature his feet could not touch the ground one of his Pages put a board underneath for him to tread upon whereat one of the Eunuchs that belonged to Darius looked heavily and fetch'd a deep sigh whose sadnesse when Alexander perceived he enquired of him the cause He answered That when he beheld the board whereon Darius was wont to eat employed to so base an use he could not behold it without grief Who can see those brave horses which used to draw his Majesties Coach now drag in enemies cart without pity indignation But enough of this and for this time I am Sir your very Friend Servant T. F. To Mr. E. H. Sir HAving now retrived my rude draught of that excellent but lost virtue of friendship I send the picture to you the pattern that it may be corrected by the comparison It cannot be expected that it should be an exact piece or that I should draw it to the life which hath been dead to us poor mortals especially having had so little light and at so great a distance as we are removed from that golden age wherein friendship flourished I cannot but admire that so noble a subject hath found so few friends For except that Triumvirate of Eloquence the Roman Cicero our English Seneca and that great Dictator of Learning Sir Fra. Bacon I have found few or none who have written any just discourse of it From their trine Aspect hath my discourse received some light and augmentation Yet have I not altogether trod in their steps nor made any better use of them than admire those I could not imitate neither have I used any gay or painted language but plain and simple like the subject I handle I have laboured to make it like rather than handsome An Embassador comming to Treat with the Roman Senate having his head powdered and his face painted Cato told them they could not expect any truth from him whose very locks and looks did lye I have therefore studied to represent this Lady sine fuco sine fallaciis without the dressings of any artificial handsomness or auxiliary beauty If you like it love it if not draw the curtain of your charity over it and let it lie till some abler workman shall take the pensil in hand It is enough for me if it can but speak the Author Sir your true Friend T. F. To Mr. J. A. Sir DId not the same peremptory businesse that pressed me down still keep me here I should at least have prevented the Office of this Paper and not been beholding to a mute proxie for the delivery of a message I should rather if not better have done in person Since fate will have it thus let me crave your credence that what you shall here read is not so much the dictate as the transcript of my heart Sir I left not my careful thoughts with your line of Communication they have been and will be my constant companions Haeret lateri lethalis arundo and I despair of any other cure than the dictamen of your friendly counsel I am confident your goodness will doe me not onely the courtesie but the justice to believe that my recesse was rather retreat than a flight from the negotiation we had in hand A businesse if my thoughts deceive me not too weighty to be carried to the end without a rest Pardon me if I am willing to look before I leap But after the verdict of my most considerate and serious thoughts I must professe I have a large and long experience of the skill and fidelity of you my leader Nor doe I fear a miscarriage where you are pleas'd to be my guide To say nothing of other circumstances I am not forgetful of though silent in allow me the liberty to tell you Spem de futuris foveo principium liquet and it shall not only be my wish but the most earnest of my endeavours 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I have hitherto but tythed my thoughts which should I allow my pen the liberty to write would be too tedious for you to read In a word therefore to doe you the courtesie of concluding I shall promise that one line from if he please to maintein his first favour with a second will easily and quickly draw me from the most earnest of my engagements to tell him Vis à vis that I am what I ever was and still hope to be accounted Sir your very very Friend T. F. To Mr. R. H. Sir IN my addreresses to my friends I do always intend too much reality to be beholding to a Complement in this to you if an excess of affection should unawares transport my pen to an extravagant flight your merits to me and my obliged respects to you may sufficiently secure me from the guilt of a suspitious hyperbole When I have said all I can I shall be so far from thinking it too much that I
any of the humane Writers or not He gave him this Answer You may read them provided you read them neither day nor night Apelles when his boy shew'd him a painted Table and told him that it was done in haste He answered He might have spared to tell him so for the work sufficiently shew'd it Luther said The Cardinals were like Foxes sweeping the house with their tails raising more dust than they cleansed Mr. Greenham answered one that spake somewhat in his own disparagement Oh said he why do you praise your self so much Espenceus saith of the Bishops in the Council of Trent They were learned in their assistants Du Mouline said of Boniface his Extravagants They will doe well with a sword in hand The Roman General said of a recruited Army of Enemies That those African Nations muster'd under several names were but the same men whom they had formerly beaten under the notion of Carthaginians When a Roman Senator asked the Carthaginian Embassador How long the Peace should last That saith he will depend on the Conditions you give us If Just and Honourable they will hold for ever but if otherwise no longer than till we have power to break them Batton Desidiale who moved the people of Dalmatia to rebel against the Romans seeing them opprest too much with tributes and exactions making such sharp war against them as Tyberius the Emperor asked him on a time why he had caused the people to take Arms To whom he answered bodly That the Romans were the cause thereof for they in sending them shepherds with good dogs to preserve them they had sent them wolves which devoured them The Emperor Maximilian the 2d could not endure that War should be made for Religion and was wont to say That it was a deadly sin to seek to force mens consciences the which belongs to God only At the Treaty for delivery of the Town of Antwerp the Hollanders insisting upon explaining the word scandal c. the Duke of Parma said Can you not do as the Countryman did at Rome who passing along the streets before an Ecce homo which is the figure of the representation which Pilate made of our Saviour Jesus Christ unto the people having made reverence and passing on he bethought himself that Pilate might attribute this honour unto himself wherefore turning and putting off his hat again He said It is to the Christ not to the Pilate Piereskius the famous Frenchman was wont to say That whosoever seeks after the uncertain good things of this world should think and resolve that he gathers as well for thieves as for himself Plato saith That the Lawes of Necessity are so inevitable that the gods themselves cannot alter them Caracalla having miserably impoverished the people his Mother reproved him To whom he shewing his naked sword replyed As long as I have this I will not want Aurelian demanding how he might govern well Was answered by a great Personage You must be provided with iron and gold iron to use against your enemies and gold to reward your friends The Caliph of Babylon demurring to give the Embassador of Almerick King of Jerusalem his hand bare but gave it him in his glove To whom the resolute Earl of Caesarea said Sir truth seeks no holes to hide it self Princes that will hold Covenants must deal openly and nakedly give us therefore your bare hand we will make no bargain with your glove Lewis King of France going the second time to the Holy Land passing by Avignon some of the City wronged his Souldiers wherefore his Nobles desired him to besiege the City the rather because it was suspected that therein his Father was poysoned To whom Lewis most Christianly I come not out of France to revenge my own quarrels or those of my Father or Mother but injuries offer'd to Jesus Christ Lewis severely punished blasphemies searing their lips with an hot iron And because by his command it was executed upon a great rich Citizen of Paris some said He was a Tyrant He hearing it said before many I would to God that with searing my own lips I could banish out of my Realm all abuse of Oaths It was the Speech of Gustavus Adolphus but three dayes before his death Our affairs saith he answer our desires but I doubt God will punish me for the folly of the people who attribute too much unto me and esteem me as it were their God and therefore he will make them shortly know and see I am but a man He be my witness it is a thing distasteful unto me And whatever befall me I receive it as from his divine will onely in this I rest fully satisfied that he will not leave this great enterprize of mine imperfect Hormisda being asked what he thought of Rome Said He took contentment in this onely that he had now learned how even there also men are mortal Socrates appointed to suffer death would learn to sing And being asked what good it would do him seeing he was to die the next day He answered thus Even that I may depart out of this life learning more than I knew before Themistocles after a Battel fought with the Persians espying a pair of bracelets and a collar of gold lying on the ground Take up those things quoth he speaking to one of his company that stood near unto him thou art not Themistocles A Jew being turned Turk soon after buying of grapes of another Turk fell at variance with him about weighing the grapes from words they fell to blows and the Jew-Turk beat the other which he endured very patiently to encourage him as it seem'd in his new Religion Soon after another Jew came to the Turk who had been beaten and demanded of him why he suffered himself to be so abused Who answered You shall beat me as much if you will turn Musulman So zealous are they to win Proselytes Philip the 2d King of Spain was devoted to his Religion in so intense a degree that he would often say If the Prince his Son were an Heretick or Schismatick he would himself find fuel to burn him The Chyrurgeons being lancing his knee one day the Prince his Son ask'd him Whether it did not pain him much He answered My sins pain me much more Reading a letter that brought him the newes of the loss of his Fleet in 88. He said without the least motion or change of countenance Welcome be the will of God I sent my Cousin the Duke of Medina to fight with men not with the Elements He used to have a saying often in his mouth Time and I will challenge any two in the world Bias being demanded by a wicked man what was piety He was silent The other asking the reason of his silence I answer not saith he because you enquire after that which nothing concerns you It was the sentence of Cleoboâ—us Do good to your friend that he may be more your friend to your enemy that he may become your friend To
in Winter retired to their first nothing as resolving to enjoy no life in the absence of the Sun their Father Since I cannot encircle you in person let me embrace your picture and let your pen supply the silence of your tongue If you will sometimes vouchsafe me this happiness I shall quit scores with my wishes and resolve to be no happier in this unhappy Age. Thus because you have expected it long I have at length returned you a long Letter to assure you that I am and most sincerely Sir your Friend and Servant T. F. To Mr. C. A. Sir THis Letter must begin where yours ended ' because what you commend to me as an object of my pitie hath been the subject of my thoughts for it is impossible my friends should suffer any loss and my self not be sensible of and sorrowful for it If the stream of your grief may be substracted by division I refuse not and that willingly to take my part that yours may be the less The cause that challengeth our grief for now 't is mine as well as yours speaks it self in the loss of a Friend of a Mother To begin with that ends all Death me thinks I can find as little cause to lament as to wonder at it it being so general a necessitie that none ever did or ever shall avoid it We were born to live and live to die It is the onely thing we can here expect without a fortasse the onely certainty of which we cannot be deprived Epictetus wondred no more to see a mortal man dead than to see an earthen pitcher broken And as wise a Philosopher as the former entertained the newes of his Sons deaths with no more but a Scivi eos mortales esse natos As being a greater wonder that they should have so long than that they died so soon Why should we wonder or grieve to see one goe before us the same way that we our selves must follow Vale vale nos te sequemur was the solemn leave the Ancients took of their deceased friends and if we believe the Grammarians from thence we call a Funeral Exequiae the same being noted not without a silent lesson in our common custome of the Coarse's going before and the attendants following after It is Seneca's observation Nature hath ordained that to be common which we account so heavy that the cruelty of the fate may be lessened by the equality But 't is the death of a Mother and here nature and affection will put in a plea and plead prescription for our grief yet may we entertain our fortune with dry eys We know she was mortal and so liable to the common fate a mother and so by the order of nature to goe before her children She was before them that they might be after her It was thought ominous among the Jewes and not without the re-mark of a punishment for the Father to burie the Son as if it were an inversion of the course of nature and not to be seen without a Prodigie But I remember what the Schools teach That an Angel of an inferiour cannot enlighten a superiour Hierarchy Yet I presume you will excuse the rashness of the attempt since it proceeds from the affection of one devoted to be in all relations Sir your ready servant T. F. To Mr. C. A. Sir THat a discourse of death from a sick person and firm arguments from an infirm and shaking brain should have the good hap to rout or at least to prevent the triumph of your sorrows was certainly to be ascribed to the benevolent Planet that co-operated in their production or rather to your own more favourable Aspect I shall not pursue a flying enemy nor torture that argument to a martyrdome that is already a willing Confessor Your quoted Author hath expressed himself Fuller than the smalness of my reserve pretends to That the death of one breaks anothers heart is not safe to contradict since it hath obteined the general vote of a Proverb But I shall humbly adventure to lay the Scene at a greater distance and date it from that Golden Age when hearts were so entwined they could not part without breaking when that Gordian knot of amitie was not to be untied till it were cut by the Sythe of him that out-conquers Alexanders sword Were it not to upbraid the present Age by the comparison I could willingly venture at a Character or Encomium of that venerable Friendship the Imitation of former and Despiar of later Ages But I shall do the subject more right to commend it to your more commanding Pen and study always to make good the precise value you are pleased to put upon Sir the meanest of your servants T. F. To Mr. D. P. Sir WHether this should be an Apologie for my former perhaps too frequent visits or my later as uncivil forbearance I know not since both have been equally liable to the piquant censures of detracting tongues and in so loud an accent that I question not but they have long since arrived your eares It is not my intention to make this paper guilty by relating those stories which would be tedious for me to write and troublesome for you to read Had they been vented with as much innocence as falshood I could have looked upon them as some pretty Romances and at once both laugh'd at the Relation and pitied the Relator But finding them so loaded with the over-weight of scandal as well as slander I should belye my own thoughts if I should not say they have touched the most sensible part of my soul That I have hitherto been silent and contented my self to be an auditor onely was that so if it had been possible they might have found a grave in their birth And it is a common saying among the Jewes That lyes have their feet cut off they cannot stand long to what they say But since I see by what designe I know not that they have already out-lived the common age of a wonder though I know you are too wise to take up any ware upon trust from such walking-pedlers for so I am informed the original speaks a Tale-bearer I am not altogether diffident of your pardon if I shall enter my protests which is all the re-action I shall endeavour that whatever some have fancied or others reported I never propounded any other end to my self either in a direct or collateral line in my approches than to make my self happy by the enjoyment of your societie This was the cause that inducted me into your acquaintance and I am not conscient to my self of any Apostacy from my first resolutions or that those real intentions have suffered any dilapidations I must confess 't was my ambition to rival your goodness and to make my respects if it had been possible as infinite as your merit and I have read that excesses in friendship are not onely tolerable but laudable But that what I thought obedience should be interpreted impudence is a false
yielded unto was the first that repented it not knowing how or whither she should goe and besides was all rent and bruised being forced against nature to follow a member that had neither seeing nor hearing to conduct it Our factions fractions and lawless liberty render us like the poor Bactrans of whom it is said that they are Sine Fide sine Rege sine Lege But whither is my pen running Since I began with the Excise in England I will waft you over into Holland where it first began and was invented there you shall see how ill the Dutchmen at first relished this Tax upon their drink It occasioned this Libel in Dutch which you shall read in English I wish long life may him befall And not one good day therewithal And Hell-fire after this life here Who first did raise this Tax on Beer With this Postscript The Word of God and the Tax on Beer last for ever and ever But it is no wonder the Dutchman should be so angry with this charge upon his drink since you know it is said Germanorum vivere est bibere And they account the turning of water into wine the greatest Miracle that ever Christ did which miracle onely made one of them wish that Christ had lived in their Country No more now but that I am still as always Sir your Servant T. F. To Mr. T. C. Sir WE have now thanks to our Preserver lived to see those men confuted to their faces who would needs determine the end of the world before the end of the year and upon no better ground that I could hear from any of them than this because say they the old world was drowned in the year from the Creation 1657. And I find the Learned Alstedius fathering of this fancie because he found the same number of yeares in the Chronogram of Conflagratio Mundi How miserably and yet how often have the too credulous vulgar been deluded by the vain Predictions of such idle Astrologasters I remember Hollingshed tells a storie of the Prior of St. Bartholomews London who built him an house on Harrow-hill to secure himself from a supposed flood foretold by an Astrologer But at last he with the rest of his seduced company came down again as wise as they went up Such is the fate and folly of those false prophets that they often live to see themselves confuted It is a witty jeer the Cambro-Britannian Epigrammatist puts upon the Scotch Napier who more wisely had determined the end of the world at a farther distance Cor mundi finem propiorem non facis ut ne ante obitum mendax arguerere Sapis Thus as is well observed by a late and Learned Author Astrologers have told of a sad and discontented day which would weep it's eyes out in showers which when 't was born proved a Democritus and did nothing but laugh at their ignorance and folly Infinite are the Stories upon Record of the madness of those men and the vanitie and credulity of the easie multitude Strange that they should be so grossely and yet so often cheated with the same bait But I conclude with a more serious observation of Ludolphus of the two destructions of the world As the first sayes he was by water for the heat of their lust so the second shall be by fire for the coldnesse of their love In hopes that ours is not yet grown cold I subscribe my self Sir your loving Friend T. F. To Mr. E. M. Sir BOdin the Frenchman in his Method of History accounts Englishmen barbarous for their Civil Wars But his Countrymen at this time have no great reason to cast dirt in our faces till they have wash'd their own They who have hitherto set us on fire and warm'd their hands by it are now in the like flames themselves It hath been one of their Cardinal Policies to divide us lest our union should prove their ruine It was the saying of the D. of Rohan a great States-man That England was a mighty Animal and could never die unless it kill'd it self Certainly we have no worse enemies than our selves as if we had conspired our own ruine For Plutarch calls the ardent desire of the Graecians to make Civil Wars in Greece a Conspiracie against themselves But well may the winds and waves be Pilots to that ship whose inferiour Mariners have thrown their Pylot over-board Dum ille regnabat tranquillè vivebamus neminem metuebamus said the people of the Emperour Pertinax We remember the time when we lived in peace and plenty till we surfeited of our happiness and as our peace begat plenty so our plenty begat pride and pride brought forth animosities and factions and they if not prevented will be delivered of our ruine and destruction In times past sayes Cornelius Tacitus of our Countrymen they lived under a Monarchy now that they are subject to divers Masters one can see nothing but faction and divisions amongst them This was spoken of our forefathers and our Posteritie will think it meant onely of us The God of union re-unite us and out of this Chaos of confusion create an happy concord amongst us before our rents prove our ruine and our distractions our destruction This is the constant and hearty prayer of Sir your assured Servant T. F. To Mr. T. C. Sir I Must tell you you are not justly troubled at the injustice of our new Judges since they have thereby rendred those brave men Martyrs which otherwise had died as Criminals Socrates his wife exasperated her grief by this circumstance Good Lord said she how unjustly doe these bad Judges put him to death What wouldst thou rather they should execute me justly replyed he to her The injustice of the Judges sentence declare the justness of the condemned's cause It is not the being a Judge that makes his sentence just or the prisoner guilty There have been those and we have seen them who have committed murther with the Sword of Justice and executed Justice as a malefactor Nor have the friends of those happy Martyrs any cause to be ashamed of or grieved for their death or manner of it Damnari dissecari suspendi decolari piis cum impiis sunt communia sayes Erasmus Varia sunt hominum judicia Ille foelix qui judice Deo absolvitur The old Martyrs have accounted martyrdom the way to heaven on hors-back The first man that died to heaven but the first man that went to heaven died a Martyr suffered a violent death by the hands of a cruel and unmerciful brother We have lived to see that politick principle of Periander put in practice who being consulted with how to preserve a tyranny bid the messenger stand still whilest he walking in a garden topt all the highest flowers thereby signifying the cutting off and bringing low of the Nobility Yet will not this do with us it is but like Cadmus his sowing of serpents teeth which will raise up armed men to revenge the quarrel of those