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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

Plinie arbor luxuriosa in Rome arbor religiosa and too few like the wild ash-tree to driue away serpents out of great Brittane Melancthon was requested to shew the cause why serpents bred in the raines and bowels of dead men answered that man being infected with the poyson of the first Serpent in Paradise since which he ceaseth not viuentibus insidiari nec mortuos laniare you shall find in dead mens sculs Toads engendred of the braine and serpents engendred in the raines inuenietis generatos in cerebro bufones in renibus serpentes saith Augustine These be serpents by nature serpents by education and serpents by succession which shead much blood and cause great slaughter in England Germany and Fraunce It was not the great army of Xerxes at Marathon nor the great force of Philip at Chaeronea that so frighted the Athenians as the bloody streetes in Athens where the children were forced to daunce in the bloud of their parents in the tyme of the 30. Tyrants and yet Thrasibulus banished these tyrants from Athens Neither was it the tyrany of Antiochus King of Cyria nor King Susacus of Egipt that so feared the Iews as the bloudy streets in Ierusalem where one neighbor might wash his hands in the bloud of another in the time of Manasses Yet Iosias deliuered Ierusalem But these serpents these Harpeis these Crocodiles determined to leaue neither parents children or neighbors aliue but themselues to daunce in our bloud Such a daunce delighted Nabuchodonozer in Babilon of Misael Sidraach and Abednago Such a daunce of Herodias delighted Herod for Iohn Baptists head And such a daunce would haue pleased the Antichrist of Rome if their Roman Tragedy begun had not ended like a Brittane comedy and if their Egiptian daunce begunne by Pharo had not ended like the tryumphant daunce by Iacob Not Sylla which made the riuer Tiber ouerflowe with the bloud of the Roman citizens not Caligula with his poisoned cups that sought to destroy the cōsuls the Senators and the Magistrates of Rome not Nero which reioyced sang when he saw Rome on fire nor al turkish tyranny all Pharoes cruelties were but iests and plaies in respect of these furious Traytors and raging Wolues which thought in one day yea in one houre to ouerthrowe three flourishing Kingdomes But such fire as fell vppon Elias sacrifice shall fall vppon these priests of Bael such gaping gulfs of the earth that swallowed vp aliue Chore Dathan and Abiran shal swallow vp these rebellious Seminaries Some thinke that it would be as great a tryumph to that Roman Achab the hauing of King Iames in Rome as was to Tamberlaine the hauing of Baiazet the great Turke in Scythia or the hauing of the Roman Valerianus prisoner to King Sapor in Persia. But these Serpents forgat that Pharo could not harme Moses neither Saul destroy Dauid they forgat though all Egipt was punished with terrible horrible plagues yet the land of Gosen where Israell dwelt was not troubled with their frogs locusts flies lice neither with darknes bloud or slaughter they forgat what God sayd to his people erit sanguis vobis signum salutis when the first borne of Egipt were killed throughout all Egipt they forgat the marke which God set vpon his people in Hierusalem super quem videritis Tau ne occidatis But these desperat Traytors these malicious Serpents contemne Laws despise Magistrates way neither for the sword nor the word of God cōmitted to the Prince but as long as any of Sauls seed liued in Israel the Gibonites could not be in quiet neither would they suffer Dauid to take any rest But how shall we helpe this and purifie great Brittane of these monstrous broode the brood of Enachims they will not come to heare of God in his church as the Ethiopian Eunuch went to Phillip they will not with Naman the Syrian be cleansed of their leprosy in the flud Iorden they haue water in Damasco Abanah and Pharpar they haue water in Rome aquam mercurij aquam benedictam They had rather drinke of the puddles of Bethauen with Ieroboam than of the well of Bethell with Iacob they had rather trust to the mountaines of Samaria than to be rich in Sion How shall this be redrest and cleare our country of them If as among the Romans who bound such in bags and threwe them in Tyber too many should bee drowned If as Xerxes among the Persians by decymacion too many should be slaine If as Vlisses among the Graecians with fire and brimstone too many should be burned Better rather as Theseus did to seeke out their labyrinths to finde these late brood of Minotaurus that seeke to feed vpon the bloud of their countrymen like Gorgons And to vse them as Ieptha did the false Ephramites if they could not pronounce Schiboleth like true Israelites they should not passe ouer Iorden to gather a head againe against Israel So they shall not seeke a Roman Cateline for their Captaine nor a Spanish Viriatus for their leader If we may not reueng our wrongs as Dauid did against the Ammonites and Aramites his enemies If we may not as Gedeon did vpon Phanuel and Succoth Yet they should haue no such liberty that dreamed vpon a munday at night that they should sup at London with a Roman regiment vpon Tuesday at night As sometime Hamilcar Generall for the Carthagenians laying siege to Siracusa an jmage appeared in his dreame and told Hamilcar he should sup the next night in Siracusa so he did as a prisoner and captiue by the Siracusans and not as a Captaine with his Carthaginians that selfe-same Image that Serpent appeared to this treacherous crue which openly pronounce with Seba the Traytor what haue we to do with the house of Iudah or what portion in the sonne of Isai These be Volitantes Serpentes flying Serpents dreaming like Cambises that hee was lifted vp aboue the clouds and sodenly thought that hee fell from the clowdes to the earth Like Iulius Caesar who the night before hee was slaine in the Senate dreamed that he sat hard by Iupiters seat but sodainly he fell flat on his face to the earth with the like dreames are these Serpents fed Not as Ezechiel which was caried in a Vision frō Babilon to Hierusalem Inter caelum terram And God shewed the Prophet the abominations of the Iewes their jdols their jdolatries their manifold wickednes Paul also was caried either in bodie or without the bodie he knew not vnto the third Heauens and sawe many thinges which was not lawfull for Paul to speake of But Ezechiel and Paul had better supporters to carie them than either Cyrus or Caesar they dreamed that they fell not when the one was caried from the earth to the third heauen and the other caried from Babilon to Iudah and lest on a Mountaine in Israel But these