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A06144	The tragicocomedie of serpents. By Lodowik Lloid Esquier.	Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610.	1607 (1607)	STC 16631; STC 16631.5; ESTC S108782	59,286	110

recedet gladius de domo tua to Salomon his Sonne neying on Pharoes daughter to the losse of ten Tribes of Israel to the Beniamites such a fall for the Leuites wife to the losse of 25000 Beniamites and to the Sichemites such a fall for Dina Iacobs daughter to the ouerthrow of themselues and of their Citie Sichem But for prophane Histories Paris had such a fall for Helene Menelaus wife to the losse of the greatest number of all the Kings of Asia and of Greece Marcus Antonius for Cleopatra of Egipt had such a a fall that hee lost both the Empire of Rome and the Kingdome of Egipt I know that matching in mariage to be not one of the least causes of good and euil religion in any Common-wealth As the mariage of Esau with forraine and strange Nations The mariage of Ioram King of Iudah with King Achabs daughter an Idolater was the cause of much wickednesse in Israel The Law of Moses was that the Hebrews should match with their owne Tribe And therefore Esdras commaunded the Children of Israell to forsake their strange women Nehemias rebuked and punished the Israelites for not putting away such strange idolatrous Nations The blasphemer which was stoned in the wildernesse was the Sonne of an Egiptian gotten by an Hebrew woman Abraham was so carefull of a wife for his Sonne Isaac that hee sware his seruant to bring him one of his owne Tribe With the like care did Isaac send to Mesopotamia to his brother Laban to choose him a wife So did old Tobias send his young Sonne Tobias to Medea So God appointed such godly womē to these godly men that willingly they forsooke their friends their kinred their brethren and sisters their Parents and country to come with their husbands to Iudah Ruth forsooke her idolatrous Nation the Moabites and would not though she was sought earnestly to returne vnto Moab A blessed woman in the Lord sayd B●o● for she became the Mother of many blessed kings in Israell and of one most blessed King euen the King of Kings So Loah and Rachell the wiues of Iacob became the Mothers of the 12 Tribes of Israell These were godly marriages for they forsooke parents and friends to come out of such idolatrous countreys to come into Iudah to serue God with a strange Nation I could wish that there were not in great Britane those that would forsake their natiue soyle to be married in Rome or in Spaine to serue Images Caleb a zealous and earnest Hebrew promised his daughter A●●san in marriage to him that ouercame that wicked and peruerse Towne Zepheri Dissembling Saul promised his daughter Micholl to him that could bring him 200 Philistims skinnes And two godly and zealous men performed and effected the same namely Dauid and Othoniel So did Clysthenes for his daughter Agarista who made search throughout all the Cities of Greece for a vertuous youth learned and wise fit for his daughter And Themistocles was wont to say Mallem virum sine pecunia quàm pecuniā viro i●digere that was his choise Yet some philosophers were of opinion like the Papists that men might haue as many women as they would for multiplication So Cato did by his wife Martia and Socrates by his wife Zantippa change them for others for that they were barrein It was not onely the opinion of Chrysippus whose writings were full of Oracles but also of Socrates and Plato and other which maintaine Poligamia but the papists will not allow their Priests Monogamia but as many Concubines and as many bastards as they list Phigius and Eccius two famous Papists left written in their bookes behinde them that Minus peccat Sacerdos s●ortando quam vxorem ducendo But when Pope Gregorie had found in one of his Fishing-ponds 6000 heads of Infants by his seruants he was forced with shame to say with Paul That it was better to marrie than to burne And when one of the Popes seruants sayd That it was not so rich a draught as the poore Milessian Fishers found at Miletum where they tooke Mensem aur●am which was not fit for any of the Sages of Greece but onely for Apollo Yea saith his fellow softly to him this draught is as fit for the Pope as the other draught was for Apollo How many such draughts were drawne in the time of Papissa a woman of Miguntia Gilberta and not Ioanna an English womā as Heidfield saith which bare at one birth more than the Countesse of Flanders who had 365 at one birth and more than Herotimus King of Arabia who had 600 bastards by cōcubines but Gilberta and her Successors so exceeded that all the world is much trobled with her bastards In Rome God Anubis fel in loue with Saturninus wife the onely faire woman of Rome her husband her parents her kinsmen and friends brought her to the temple of Anubis where the Feast Lectesternium was prepared where after the Feast they left Saturninus wife with God Anubis all night where De Mundus a young Romane Knight was Deputie by means of the priests for 2000 Drachmeis Marcus Antonius comming from Rome to Athens in all kinde of habites and ceremonies with Thyrsus in his hand like Dionisius hee was so reuerenced of the Athenians that they offered him their Goddesse Minerua in mariage with 1000 talents for her dowry which was well accepted of the Romane so that the God Anubis must haue a woman and the Goddesse Minerua must haue a man The brood of these great marriages were greatly multiplied in all Countreys by mariages of these two great houses Saturninus wife with God Anubis and Minerua with M. Antonius for before that in Rome meane Families were matched with the Patricians in marriage the Senators and Consuls had the whole gouernment ouer the Romanes but being strengthened by mariage with the patricians not only the election of the Tribunes themselues but of all the Magistrates of Rome and the whole gouernment of the Romanes was Per plebem Tribunum plebis It was euer seene in all common wealths that the vulgar people by being Magistrates or being in commission by great countenance by marriage by bearing and backing them in their Religion be that Immanis bellua the verie Monster among Nations A Thistle in Libanon sent to a Cedar tree in Libanon saying Giue thy daughter to my Sonne in marriage and there came a wild beast from Libanon and troad downe vnder foote the Thistle with a watch-word giuen by the Prophet to Amasias King of Iuda for the worshipping of the Gods of Edom Deos albatos filiorum Seir. Vnequall marriage specially in Religion is like an Oxe and an Asse to drawe vnder one Yoake This was the first cause of sedition at Rome in monte Ianiculo betweene the Patricians and the Commons Ob dignitatem natalium Hence grewe many seditions and so many that it was

the Iacobits and the Iamnites had their gods in their bosomes when they went to any battel so found in their bosomes when they were dead and slaine in the field and the Iewes imagined they were slaine therefore It is to bee doubted that the Papists haue their Crucifixe their Crosses their agnus Dei in any foule fact or in any treacherous actions they take in hand imitating Infidels and Pagans as Silla who had the picture of Apollo as Scipio had the picture of Iupiter to animate their souldiers to any hard enterprise These therefore are not well to be trusted lest they deceiue vs as the people called Iapyges in the borders of Italie who vnder colour of yeelding certaine Townes and Villages and some number of souldiers in pleadges of their submission to Publ Licinius the Romane Proconsul these souldiers were placed in the rereward of the armie hauing agreed that when these people came to submit themselues on both sides the armie and also they of the rereward fell suddenly vpon the Romanes that many were slaine and the Generall hardly escaped These Ismalites are backt with Rome on the one side with Spaine on the other side I trust they bee not backt in Britane for we wish them as the Grecians wished to the Persians to be out of Greece or as the Romanes wished to the Affricans to be out of Italie and so we wish them to bee in Rome or in Spaine if they cannot be quiet in Great Britane King Philip of Macedon the last doubting that his souldiers durst not abide the great hoasts of the Scithians appointed certaine horsemen to backe the timorous Macedonians and commanded them not to let one liue that would flee from their company But the Britanes being better backt than King Philips armie were and stronger wald than the Macedonians as Iosephus saith yea then either Carthage or Africa murus maior quo septi Britanni yet wee may not trust neither Friers nor Monkes which are now called Iesuits and Seminaries the onely cause of all sedition and quarrels And therefore was Heraclitus requested by some of his friends to make some speech in the pulpit to perswade loue friendship concord and amitie among the people being at variance by some seditious persons that loue discord Heraclitus knowing the cause of this discord and varience went vp to the pulpit and called for a cup of cold water and a handfull of flowre or meale and mingled it together and dranke it and came down without further speech Some of his friends said that his sermon was very short said it was a dum sermon yea said Heraclitus short speeches and dum shewes perswade most if men vnderstand it omes seditiones ex luxu nasci vnderstand that the water the mingled meale that I drank in the pulpit are as much as the words I spake that all seditions grow of too much wealth and of abundance There was an old man in Greece called Cleanthes which alwaies brauled and chid with himselfe his neighbor Theodectes asked Cleanthes with whō he so brauld chid awaies with an old friend of mine said Cleanthes which hath a white beard and a graye head These gray heads white beards which we haue in great Britane might find their owne falts as well as Cleanthes did if they were as carefull of their heads as Philetas was of his feet or Cinesias was of his back Rhodiginus writes that one Philetas of Coos was so light and so little of bodie that they put lead vnder the soles of his shooes lest any great wind should haue blowne him from the earth And of another that was so long and so slender named Cinesias that he was bound with strong barkes of Oakes about his backe to keep his bodie streight lest he should bend and breake his backe I wish that our Countreymen had either Philetas lead vnder their shooes to stay in England or Cinesias corke vnder their backs to hold vpright their backs in England for all men see that they goe not about to find out their faults or to chide with themselues with Cleanthes for their fault Neither wil they heare the speech of Augustus audite me senem iuuenes But they are euer laughing for their own wits wisdome with Democritus in finding out their own destruction and euer weeping with Heraclitus for their folly when they bring these to destruction Archimedes after long studie if he had found in any hard or difficult conclusion to satisfie his mind he would for very ioy cry out in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I found I found Many doe studie how to find meanes not as Archimedes to inuent Engines to feare the Romanes from Syracusa the citie where he dwelt but like Dinocrates who mused how hee might bring mount Atho to the forme and figure of a man to please their great Alexander Some such there be that studie how to bring great mountaines and hie hilles as low as mould hilles but they so worke vnder ground that the ground falles vpon them It is written that Tho Aquinas was at dinner at Paris with Philip the Frence king musing long with silence suddenly he so stroke the Table with his hand and said ego vici ego vici the king asked him what he ment Aquinas answered and said an argument to ouerthrow the Maniches I would they should be so occupied to ouerthrow heresies heretickes but their heads are fraughted with greater things to ouerthrow Kings and kingdomes This Aquinas being a young boy in schoole was called of his schoole fellowes bos mutus ye sayd his schoolemaster when this dumbe oxe begins to lowe totum 〈◊〉 suo boatu replebit Such diuelish scholemasters haue bin and I doubt are in great Britan that brought vp many such dumb oxen as Aquinas was to bring vp their children not for their countrey Such a schoolemasters was Apion in Alexandria that moued sedition among the Greekes and the Iewes And in Phaliscu another schoolemaster that brought all the noble mens children being his schollers to Camillus the Romane Consul that then besieged Phalisius And such schoolemasters had we I pray God wee haue not that bring vp their schollers for Rome for Spaine and not for great Britane in caues and coniholes as conicatchers not onely vnder ground but on the ground It was an exercise in Rome among the sword plaiers called exercitium laqueatorū and after much vsed in war in Finelan and in many places of the North these souldiers were called laquearij milites because they vsed stratagems with ropes halters in throwing them vp to the wals and forts of the enemies Such souldiers were the Spaniards with their halters and ropes marching towards England to hang vs in England our owne natiue countrey such were the Massacres of Paris that slue and kild the chiefe men of Fraunce and such souldiers doe daily come from Rome to Great Britane to