their sayd pupill Dion An honorable person being called into the Senate at Athence to depose touching some matters the Senators vvould not haue him to take the accustomed oath knowing him to be a vertuous honest man Cicero in an Oration pro Balbo The Emperour Fredericke sayde to certaine of his Minions that vvere importunate to get into their hands the auncient demeane of the Empire That hee rather would bee accounted of small liberality then periured Phil. Comi Melius Suffetius a dictator of Albany was drawne in peeces vvith foure horses for that hee had broken his fayth and the Cittie of Alba was rased cleane downe Liuius Caracalla the Emperour hauing pursued the king of Persia contrary to his promise vvas himselfe afterward slaine Ladislaus King of Hungary made a most honourable truce with Amurath during which he was perswaded by Carninall Iulian Embassador from Pope Eugenes to breake it vvhich was the cause that hee vvith the chiefe of his Armie and the Cardinall vvere slaine outright Guychardine Pope Adrian tooke a solemne oath to obserue the peace concluded with the Emperour Fredericke and afterwards breaking it as he dranke was choked with a flie P. Com. Michael Paleologue beeing chosen Emperour of the Greekes promised swore that hee vvoulde render vp the Empire into the hands of Iohn Lascaris whē he should come to age but notwithstanding he held it still hee died miserably and to his posteritie ensued an infinite number of mischiefes was occasion of the first beginning of the Turkish monarchy Christiern King of Denmark hauing broken his fayth giuen to his subiects was depriued his Realme and afterwards lyued myserably although he receiued many succours from the Emperour Charles the fift Charles Duke of Burgundie hauing violated his fayth promised to the Switzers and before that to the King of S. Poll vvas vanquished and all ill hap accompanied him euer after Guychar Andronicus Conuens cleane contrarie to his fayth giuen to the infants of Emanuell to them of Nice vsurped the Empire but he was soone after hanged vp by the feete hewed in peeces for his periury Alexander hauing vovved to kill the first that should come forth of the towne put an Asse to death in stead of him that ledde her Q. Cur. Haniball being but fifteene yeeres of age was sworne by his father that he should continually prooue an enemy to the Romaines Appian Cassandra for breaking her promise vvith Apollo had this punishment that prophecied she neuer so truly shee should not be beleeued Virgill The first temple Romulus built at Rome was dedicated to faithfulnes Pausa Paulus Iouius Bembus Sabellicus and Pandolphus accuse the Frenchmen for not keeping their fayth according to theyr promise with the Venetians The Petelines in Calabria and the Saguntines in Spain chose rather to die a miserable death then to break the fayth they had once plighted Liuius The prayse vvhich Sylla gaue Cinna made him commit periurie The Indians vse to cut off the lyps and the handes of periured persons to shewe the offence they had committed against God and theyr neighbours The Oracle of Delphos made aunswer that all things should prosper well if they forbad all oathes The Scythians vse to sweare by the vvinde and their sworde because the winde giueth breath to liue by the sword killeth It vvas in no case permitted to the Priests of Iupiter to swear for that an oath often endeth in cursing and periurie Among the oathes of Iudges one was that they should take no present Demost. Socrates vsed to sweare by a dog Pythagoras by the number of foure the Manichies by the light The Nazarites vow was neuer to cut their haire nor drinke wine nor pray for the dead King Dauids poesie vvas Voue et redde H. The fourth Emperor of Almain vowed to liue an Hirmit ten yeeres and called himselfe Godstall that is Gods calling Polycr Stampitius a holy Father of the Church vowed vnto God a thousand times that hee vvould become a better man but hee neuer performed that which he vowed then sayde he Heereafter I will make no such vowe for I haue now learned by experience that I am not able to performe it but commend my selfe vnto Gods mercy Mag. Sent. One promised to marry the daughter of Lisander but her father dead his state not found so good as he was supposed the young man reuolted then the Magistrates called Ephori vnderstanding thereof by a common cōsent punished the young man as offender Antigonus the King held Zeno in great reuerence and one day being drunke hee met Zeno and bid him commaund him any seruice and he vvould doe it and bound it with an oath to whom Zeno sayde Abi et euome goe and vomit Polymnestor in whom King Priamus reposed his confidence committed his Sonne Polidorus vnto him whom hee falsely slewe notwithstanding his solemne vowe to haue a most tender care ouer him Virgill The people of Sarmatha were most false in wordes deceitful in deedes and trecherous one to another The vvifes of the Scythians while theyr husbands were at warres brake their vowes and married theyr slaues vvhom at theyr returne they killed Valer. Forsworne Crocalus King of Sicilia killed King Minos vnder colour of friendship and pretence of talking with him Cleomenes brake promise with the Argiues with vvhom hee tooke truce for certaine daies and notwithstanding castily betrayed them in the night slewe thē sleeping and imprisoned them contrary to his former promise The Argiues loued so well theyr hayre that beeing conuicted by the Lacedemonians they shaued theyr heades bewailing their misfortune and vowed neuer to let theyr haires grow vntill they had recouered their losses Lisander admirable among the Lacedemonians neuer made any reckoning of iustice but vvhen it vvas profitable accounting onely profit to be honest saying That it vvas requisite chyldren shoulde bee deceaued with the play of Cockall and men beguiled with oathes The Emperor Iustinian for breaking hys fayth with the Barbarians and violating peace vvith the Bulgarians his own subiects rebelled and Leontius vsurped the kingdome first cutting of his nostrils and then sending him into banishment Of Silence Secrecie Nature hath placed the tongue betweene the bead and the hart hauing aboue it the instrument of all the Sences the eyes the eares and nose obedient vnto reason to the end it vtter nothing before counsell taken of the inward faculties of the soule which are Vnderstanding Reason seated in the braine PYthagoras the Phylosopher commaunded all the Schollers he receiued into his schoole to bee silent fiue yeeres to learne of others so long before themselues dyd vtter any thing Harpocrates was the Superintendent and the corrector of mans speech vvas drawn vvith a ring fastned vpon his lyps Augerona was fained to bee the Goddesse of Silence drawne with her finger vpon her mouth and a table vppon her breast whereon vvas vvritten Heare See say nothing showing in vvhat reuerence they ought to hold
ceremonies after their owne inuentions Idem The Romaines allowed the seruice of 〈◊〉 Gods and to that end builded a temple to them all called Pantheon yet vvould they neuer receaue the true God to wit Iehouah the Lord GOD of the Hebrewes Eusebius Ecebolius in Constantines time a Christian in Iulianus a Gentile lay along in the Church Porch crying tread me vnder foote for that I am vnsauory salt Idem Vitalis a Souldiour when Vrsicinus a Phisition endured martirdome for religion seeing his courage to faile boldly spake to him â—oe not Vrsicinus now cast away thy selfe that hast cured so many nor after so much blood of thine spilled loose the merrit which is prepared for thee Antonius The vnchristianlike behauiour of Christians haue caused the Turks euen to detest the true religion The cruelty blasphemy and couetousnes of the Spanyards haue altogether alienated the poore Indians from the religion which they gaue out to be true Beuzo The Princes of Italy support the Iewes rank enemies to religion Constantine was the first of the Romaine Emperours that forsaking errors and heresies confessed and adored the maiesty of the true God Lactantius Iouianus refused to gouern those that were not sound in faith I saith he that am a Christian cannot become your Emperour that are the Disciples of Iulian a runnagate from Christ. Eusebius The liberality of Princes and especially of Matilda a Dutches of Italy who at her death made the Pope her heire begot ambition in the Bishops of Rome and ambition destroyed religion Aeneas Syluius Gratianus at his first entering finding a places full of Arrians the lawes of Valenâ—â— his Vncle making for them fearing some generall tumult if he should presently distressâ— so manie gaue leaue that euerie religion might haue churches Oratories with freeâ—dome but being once ioyned with Theodotius hee commanded that all theyr heresieâ— should be depressed He sent the confession of his faith to Saint Ambrose Eutropius Lycurgus reformed the estate of the Lacedemonians Numa Pompilius of the Romaines Solon of the Athenians and Deucalion of all the Grecians generally by making them deuoute and affectionate toward the Gods in prayers oaths oracles and prophecies through the meanes of feare and hope of the diuine nature which they imprinted in them Alexander after hee had sacked Tyrus marched towards Ierusalem to destroy it because the Iewes refused to ayde him with victuals and munition but when hee saw the high Priest comming towards him attired in his holy garments he so reuerenced him that he not onely spared the Citty but also gaue gifts to the temple Iosephus Cains a Romaine Emperor sent Petronius 〈◊〉 Syria with commandement to bid batâ—â—â—e to the Iewes If they would not receiue 〈◊〉 Image into their temple which they 〈◊〉 to doe saâ—ing They had rather dye then 〈◊〉 from the lawes of God Idem The King of Calecut is chiefe of his religion and for this cause goeth before the other Kiâ—gs of India in dignity and is called Samory that is to say God on earth Canutus not full 32 yeres before the conâ—â—â—st apparently proueth that Princes kept their authority to coÌ„mand for matters of reâ—igion more then 1000. yeares after Christ. Charles the great to Christian religion at â—ononie Padua in Italy and Paris in France erected Academies Xerxes through counsaile of his Magi commaunded all the temples and churches â—hroughout Greece to bee burned saying â—haâ— it was wicked impious that Gods should 〈◊〉 but vp in Churches Cor. Agrippa In old time the Persians had no temples at 〈◊〉 Pausanias Theodectes a Poet mingled his Tragedies 〈◊〉 holy Scriptures therefore was strucâ—en with blindnes vntill he had recanted his â—â—piety Iosephus A Iew often baptized for money sake came to Paulus the Nouatian Bishop to that end but the vvater twice vanishing out of the Fount he said O man eyther thou dissemblest egregiously or else thou art baptized vnwillingly Eusebius Of Prayers Thanksgiuing The Maker and Redeemer of the world diâ— vse great measure in all things except in praying wherein hee was alwayes long which he shewed most cleerely in Gethsemany where hoâ— much the more the agonie did oppresse him 〈◊〉 much the more did he enlarge his prayers THE Hebrewes called the 100. and 1â— Psalme and the next sixe following the great Alleluya vvhich the Apostles sayd foâ— grace at Easter and Pentecost The first earthly man of the Hebrewes 〈◊〉 called Adam as homo tanquam ex humo thâ— other heauenly of the Chaldeans Enoch which signifieth true man or that man whicâ— hath vndertaken and hopeth to call vpoâ— God Ambrosius Iacobus minor the sonne of Ioseph brotheâ— of Christ was so like him that in the betrayâ—ng for feare they should mistake Iudas â—aue him a kisse his knees with continuall â—rayer became as hard as a Cammels hoofe Bartholomew the Apostle by his prayers â—estored the destracted daughter of Polemiâ—s King of India to her former sences Maâ—ullus Arcadius was called of Chrisostome the â—ost Christian and godly Prince who a litle â—efore his death wone estimation of holines â—ot without the admiration of a great multiâ—ude saued from destruction by his prayers Theodorus P. Diaconus God gaue Narsetes victory more through â—he zealous prayers that he vsed then his â—orce and valour he neuer went to Sea nor â—egan any battaile nor determined of warre â—or mounted on horseback but first he went â—o the temple and serued God Blondus The Emperour Heraclius after his warres â—ere ended entered Constantinople sitting â—n a Chariot without ornaments and openly â—aue thanks to the Sonne of God for his â—reat victories Orosius Tiberius that vertuous Emperour being â—riuen to a blessed necessity as he walked in â—he midst of his Pallace he saw at his feete a â—arble stone vvhich was in forme of the crosse and because he thought it religious to spurne it with his feete he caused it to be taken vp and vnder that found another and so a third of the same forme which when that was taken vp there was found two millions of Duckets for the which he thanked God Marcus Aurelius hauing felt the helpe of Christian prayers ceased his persecution Eusebius Prayers are of the Poets fayned to be the daughters of Iupiter because Kings great men haue a number of followers and sutors Orpheus Apollo being praied vnto to sing an Himâ—â— to the great GOD began vvith this verse VVhich made the first man and called him Adam Iustinus Martyr The lessons of Pythagoras Plato and theiâ— Disciples began and ended with prayers The Brachmans among the Indians thâ— Magi among the Persians neuer began any thing without praying vnto God Cleanthes in his Iambicke verses prayeâ— God to vouchsafe to guide him by his cause which guideth all things in order the which cause he calleth destiny and the cause of causes Simplicius Pray said Nestor to his children for vnlesse God helpe vs we shall all perish Homer The Romaines after many great victories â—etermined to make a very
〈◊〉 auntient line of Hercules The sixt was Periander of whom the Hiâ—â—oriographers doubted whether his Philoâ—â—phy or tirany were greater The seauenth Bias that was Prince of the â—yraneans a learned Philosopher and a vaâ—â—ant Souldiour who ouercame the Metiâ—enses this battaile was the first that any â—hilosopher of Greece fought The Grecians had their Philosophers the Persians their Magi the Indians Gymnosoâ—hists the Aegiptians Priests the Hebrewes Prophets the Assirians Chaldeans the Laâ—â—nes vvise-men the French-men Druides â—ll vvhich in euery of these Nations and â—hroughout all the world were renowned for their wisedome and profound learning Of Temperance The property of this vertue consisteth in thâ— things which belong to the keeping of mans liâ—â— in his body and vsing the pleasures thereof mâ—â—derately being a meane in our seeing bearing smelling tasting and feeling MOses abstained from his ordinary reâ—fection the space of 40. daies when vppon mount Sinai he was to receaue the tâ—bles of the law from God Exod. Minos as it is fayned when he was to reâ—ceaue lawes from Iupiter fasted nine dayes Homer Daniell and his companions neglecting thâ— Kings table liued with pulse and water oneâ—ly Bib. Plato forsooke Dionysius courtly feasting betook himselfe to his philosophicall diet Saint Iohn Baptist passed ouer the greatesâ— part of his age in the vvildernes eating nothing but Locusts and wild honey Bartholomew the Apostle when Polemion King of India sent him Cammels richly loaden with gold and siluer for that he had dispossessed his daughter of an vncleane spiâ—â—t refused them saying that hee came not to â—â—ceaue rewards for his hire but that he mighâ—â—ew the way of saluation to those that beleeue â—arullus Anacharsis the Scithian philosopher counâ—â—led Kings and Princes to write about their â—â—ctures Rule lust temper the tongue bridle the â—elly Aelianus Augustus vvas of a very spare dyet his â—anner was to sit downe to meate when his â—uests had halfe dined and would be the first â—hat rised Plut. Pericles neuer supped nor came at any â—anquet Thucidides Scipio for the space of fifty foure yeares â—either bought nor sold any thing he was so â—eâ—l contented with a little Scipio in the flower of his age at the taking of the Citty of Carthage had a young Daâ—osell to his prisoner of rare and excellent beauty and when he vnderstood her birth that she was betrothed to Lucius of Spain â—e sent for him and restored her vnto him without abusing her any way besides giuing her a dowry Plut. Alexander did the like with Darius vvife who excelled all the dames of Asia for beauty the like of Cyrus Curtius Herodotus Phryna the harlot lying with Xenocratâ— vpon a wager to proue his continency sayâ— she lay not with a man but with a blockeâ— Laertius C. Gracchus as long as he gouerned Saâ—dinia would neuer suffer a woman to come into his house except it vvere to demaunâ— iustice Pyttacus being constrained to take vpoâ— him the charge of an Army accepted it with great griefe saying O howe hard a matter is iâ— to be a good man Laertius Torquatus and Fabritius absented themselues from Rome the one because he woulâ— not haue the dictatorship the other the consulship Of all those which sought the ouerthroâ— of Rome neuer any sober man went abouâ— the same but Caesar. Cato Vespasian was of that temperance that be would not drink nor eate but once a day and that very sparingly Socrates by his great abstinence liued 〈◊〉 his life without sicknes M. Val. Coruinus liued free from sicknes an hundred yeares by his abstinence Massinissa King of Numidia neuer sate at his table neuer sawced his meate and was â—â—ntent with that bread he allowed vnto his â—â—uldiours â—yrus when one of his minions moued him 〈◊〉 see Panthea saying that her beauty was 〈◊〉 worthy to be seene that is the cause said â—â—rus why I will abstaine from the sight of 〈◊〉 Xenophon â—edaretus hauing escaped the election of 〈◊〉 of those three hundred Senators which â—â—uerned the estate of Sparta returned ioyâ—â—â— saying that it was an easie matter to find that Citty three hundred better and more â—onest men then himselfe â—imaeus Duke of Sauoy willingly gaue oâ—â—r his Dutchy into his Sonnes hands and â—â—came an Hermit and after that being choâ—â—â— Pope he gaue vp the seate willingly to aâ—other Guichardine Amurath the second of that name after he 〈◊〉 obtayned infinite victories became a â—onke of the straightest sect amongst them Charles the fift resigned his Empire into 〈◊〉 hands of the Princes Electors and withâ—â—ew himselfe into a monastrey Guichard Cato the younger trauailing ouer the deâ—â—rts of Lybia endured great thirst when Souldiour offered him water in his motion 〈◊〉 threw it vpon the ground in presence of them all that his Army might know that hâ— would be in no better estate then they Vâ—lerius Socrates when soeuer he felt himselfe thirsty would not drinke before he had cast away the first pitcher of water that he might acquaint his sensuall appetite to expect the conuenient time of reason Plato The Germaines in Iulius Caesars time a strong warlike people liued only of milk cheese and flesh not knowing what wheate and vvine were nor vvhat it was to labor the ground or to sowe Varro Liuia commendeth the barrainnes and sterility of a Country more then the fruitfulnes saying that men borne in a fat soile are commonly doe-littles and cowards but the barraine Country bringeth forth temperate and sober persons the Athenians were situated in a very vnfruitfull place The feasts of Pythagoras Socrates Xenocrates and the Sages of Greece were the discourses of learned matters philosophy The Aegiptians vsed in the midst of theyr banquets to bring in the Anatomy of a dead body dried that the horror of it might hold them within the bonds of temperance Hero In the old time Vines were planted and â—ressed that wine might be drunk rather in â—ime of sicknes then of health in so much â—hat it was not sold in Tauerns only but also â—n Apothicaries shops The Emperor Rodolphus when drink was brought vnto him in the war against Octotarus King of Bohemia at what time he was â—n a place where his whole Army was troubled with thirst would not receaue it but sayd that his thirst was for all his Army and not alone for himselfe Pythagoras liued only of hearbs fruit and water he neuer drank vvine nor that great Orator Demosthenes The Kings of Aegipt were forbidden vvine which they neuer drank except on certaine daies and that in measure Sabellicus Alexander refused the Cookes and Paysterers which Ada Q. of Caria sent vnto him saying that he had better then they namely For his dinner early rising and walking a good while before day for his supper a litle dinner but the Persian delicacies soon changed this C. Fabritius vvas found by the Samnite Embassadors that came vnto him eating of Rape roots which was all the fare he had Hanibal fed vpon no
â—nd reason which is in men this soule is â—â—kened to a circle because of her perfection â—nd containing for of all the figures of the â—ame length the circle is most most conâ—ayneth and whosoeuer hath the soule Reasonable hath also the Sensible and Vegitable sed non é contra Aristotle The soule beeing once made shall endure euermore in body or out of body and that shall neuer be sayde that it vvas made by the Image of GOD if it were closed in the bonds of death Augustine Plato calleth the soule a beeing which only mooueth it selfe Zeno termeth it a number which mooueth it selfe Pythagoras an harmony Democritus a subtile and vncertaine spyrite Aselepiades saith it is a manner of cord that setteth the fiue Sences a vvorke Porphyrius Idea Hippocrates a subtile spirit spred through all the body and Epicâ—â—rus a kinde of fire and ayre Pythagoras maintained Palingenesia whicâ— is that soules departed returne into otheâ— bodies Hee sayde that hee remembred thaâ— hee was Euphorbius at the sacke of Troy Ouid. There vvas an auncient lavve vnder Saturne that vvhen good men departed out of thys lyfe they be sent into the fortunate Iles vvhich Iles the Poet Pyndarus describeth the vvicked are sent into the Iaile of vengeance which he calleth Tartarus Plutarch imitating Plato bringeth in Thespesias raysed from the dead to discourse of the lyfe to come De sera numinis vindicta The Thracians vvere sirnamed the neuer-dying Getes vvho vvere of opinion that after theyr departure out of thys vvorld they vvent to Zamolrix or Gebelezie that is in the Getish of Goatish tongue to him that gaue them health saluation and all kind of happinesse Cleombrotus a Phylosopher when he had reade a Treatise of the immortalitie of the soule presently slew himselfe so did Cato of Vtica Plutarch That which Virgill sayth in his second Egâ—â—gue concerning the drugge or spice of Asâ—ria called Amomum and the going thereof â—uery vvhere is of some interpreted to bee â—eant of the immortalitie of the soule the â—octrine wherof Pherecides brought thence â—â—to Greece that it should bee vnderstoode â—hroughout the vvorld The taking of Enoch into heauen of God â—vas doone that the vvorlde might thereby â—nderstand and beleeue that there is immorâ—ality after this lyfe The Indians burne themselues before they â—ome to extreame age terming it the letting of men loose and the freeing of the soule froÌ„ the body and the sooner they did it the vviser they vvere esteemed Porphyrius Zeno sayd that he had rather see an Indian burne himselfe cheerefully then to heare all the Phylosophers of the vvorlde discoursing the immortality of the soule The people that dwell by the riuer Niger otherwise called the people of Seneca in Affrica offer themselues vvith great willingnes to bee buried quicke with their maisters vvherevpon Zeno sayd that all the demonstrations of Logicke and Mathematick had not so much force to proue the immortality of the soule as this onely deed of theirs Alexander asked a Gymnosophist vvheâ—ther there were more men aliue then deade he sayd there were more aliue because noâ—â— are dead Plutarch All the learning of the Sages Scythians was grounded vppon the immortality of the soule The Schollers of Hegesias hearing there Maister discoursing of the immortalitie of soules departed out of thys lyfe vvere so rauished with his words that they vvillinglie killed themselues Plutarch The soules of Saints in heauen knowe nothing vvhat is doone vpon the earth for if they did said August my mother Monicha would bee with mee euery night to comfort me in my heauines de ciuit Dei Plinie the elder denying the immortalitie of the soule vvhilst hee was ouer curious in searching out the cause of the burning Aetna was burned therein A iust punishment for him to end his life by smoake who esteemed the soule no better then a vapour Origen attributeth vnto the soules departed a place vpon the earth where they learn those thinges which they knewe not vvhile they liued As the Papists frame a Purgatorie so he an Eruditory P. Mart. Philoronimus a priest of Galatia liued sixe â—â—eres in dead mens vaults and Sepulchers â—â—at bee might alwayes remember that hee â—as dead to the vvorld and aliue to Christ. â—â—aclides Pope â—eo commanded two Phylosophers 〈◊〉 discourse of the soule the one to proue â—e immortalitie the other that it was morâ—ll and when the Pope was to giue iudgeâ—ent hee sayde to him that had maintained â—he immortality Thou hast argued the truth â—ut the reasons of the other sauour of more pleaâ—â—re and liberty Luther The soules of Tyrants are composed of arogancie and cruelty Plutarch Of all the fiue Sences the sight is most piercing and subtile for the kinde thereof is â—erie Benedictus had such a power in his eye eueÌ„ to his superiors that with a looke he caused a furious and audatious King of the Goaths to quake and tremble Plautianus had such a terror in his countenance that the lookers on him were dauÌ„ted for this cause when he went abroade he had â—â—teambulones to Marshall the way and giue warning of his coÌ„ming that they might not behold him Herodianus Comodus was of so perfect ayme sighâ— that what soeuer he shot at he killed and 〈◊〉 Herodotus writeth he slew a hundred wild beasts at a hundred shot Amongst all lyuing creaturs GOD hatâ— onely giuen immoouable eares to men and Apes Aristotle Those that dwel by the riuer Nilus are very deafe by reason of the horrible noyse 〈◊〉 thereof Ambrose The Emperour Claudius seeing the meate that was prepared for the Salian Priests dyd forthâ—with leaue all his serious affayres and vvent to dinner vvith them Suetonius Griffons haue so quicke a smell that they smell carryon ouer or beyond the Seas Ambrose Touching is a vertue in the sinewes of all the body being the sence wherein all the other imprint theyr passions Auicen There is an hearbe called Spartonica oâ— Sâ—ytica vvhich beeing tasted or helde in the mouth the Scythians therby are able to endure hunger cold twelue dayes together Plinie Of Clemencie This vertue by the Grecians is called Philanâ—ropia which signifieth the law of mankind her â—ranches are thankefulnes pitty and liberaâ—itie TItus Sonne of the Emperour Vespasian for his wonderfull clemency was called Deliciae humani generis Iosephus Antonius for his pitty was sirnamed Pius â—he as neuer Emperor before him did raigned without the effusion of any blood Traian when he was blamed by some of his friends for his ouer much clemency answered I will be vnto my Subiects as I would my Subiects should be to mee for the gentlenes of a Prince neuer hurteth his estate Suetonius Phillip King of Macedonia would not punish Nicanor although he openly spake euill of him saying when he heard therof I suppose that hee is a good man it were better to search whether the fault be in vs or no. Dion hauing ouercom Dionisius restoâ—ed his Cuntries liberty forgaue Heraclides one of his
what sayd Alexander hath he no friends to pleasure seeing all King Darius wealth will not suffice mee to diâ—tribute among my friends Perillus besought him to giue some money towards the mariage of his daughter whereâ—pon he gaue her 50. talents but he said that it was too much by halfe but he replied If â—alfe be enough for thee to take yet it is not enough for me to giue He gaue to a poore Aegiptian asking his â—almes a rich and populous Citty and when the other amazed supposed that he had mocked him take quoth he that which I giue thee for if thou art Bias that demaundest I am Alexander that giueth Titus loued so liberality that remembring one euening with himselfe that he had giuen nothing the same day sayd O my friends wee haue lost this day Dyonisius the elder entering into his sonns lodging and beholding theyr great store of rich Iewels and gold sayde vnto him My Sonne I did not giue thee these riches to vse in this sort but to impart them to thy friends Pertinax who succeeded Commodus surpassed all the Emperours that euer were for exceeding liberality he forbad that his namâ— should be set vpon any Castle within his dominion saying that his lands were not propeâ— to him onely but common to all the people oâ— Rome Suetonius Haniball after he was vanquished by Scipio fled into Asia to King Antiochus who tooke him into his protection and right honorably entertained him Appianus The Germaines are very curteous towards Aliens and Strangers and it is an horrible act accounted amongst them to molest those whom they ought to defend froÌ„ any which intended to hurt them Caesar. The entertainment of the greater Scipio towards Massinissa brought such profit to the Romains as he of some writers is called the third preseruer of the Citty of Rome froÌ„ destruction and therfore is ioyned companion with the elder and younger Scipio Lot for his hospitality escaped the fire o Sodom and Gomorrha Rahab for her hospitality was saued with all hers from death Elias restored from death the Sonne of her which had lodged him Archelaus being requested by one of his Minions to giue him a Cup of gold wherein â—e dranke deliuered it to his page and bidde â—im giue it to Euripides saying Thou art â—orthy to aske and to bee denyed but Euripides worthy of gifts although hee aske not Marcus Antonius Emperour of Rome afâ—er his great battailes in one day gaue avvay hundred Lyons together he made sale of â—ll his plate and iewels to augment his soulâ—iours pay Eutropius The priuiledges belonging to hospitality â—re so great as the Romaines obserued the â—ites thereof to theyr enemies and vvoulde â—euer fight till such time as the prisoners to â—hom they were indebted for meat were set â—t liberty Iupiter was called of Homer and Virgil Hospitalis the Harbourer The Almaines made so great account of those with whom they had eaten and drunk that they imparted their houses vnto them The Lucans had a lawe which condemned that man to be fined which suffered a stranger to passe vnlodged after the sunne vvas downe Scipio being blamed for his great bounty â—unswered That Treasurers receiuers were to make account of mony and Captaines of feats of Armes Valerius Publicola for relieuing the poorâ— with his goods was called Publicola Nerua Cocceius in the one yeere that hee was Emperour gaue vnto the poore fifteene hundred thousand crownes for the dooing whereof he sold his iewels and his plate Tullus Hostilius King of the Romans was so pittifully minded that hee gaue a great part of his goods to the poore Philemon and Baucis for theyr entertayning of Iupiter and Mercurie into their cottage vvhen the inhabitants of Phrygia denied them hospitalitie had theyr wishes granted that they might dye both together Ouid lib. 8. There was a law made by King Cyrus that what King soeuer of Persia did come vnto Babylon he should giue a peece of gold vnto euery poore vvoman in the citty for the which cause King Othus vvoulde neuer come thither Pompey being sicke in Pusoll his Physitions told him that his remedy was to eate of certaine Zorzales that the Consull Lucullus did breede but he aunswered I will rather die then send to craue them for the Gods haue not created Pompey to aske but to giue Plutarch Pompey flying into Egypt for succour to â—tolomy then very young was betrayed â—y Phocinus and Achillas Plut. Othosilanus to winne the loue of his men â—f VVarre made a feast vnto them gaue 〈◊〉 euery warrier a peece of money besides â—â—ndry other rewards Lycaon caused those stranger-guests that â—ame to him to be slaine for which cause Iupiter turned him into a VVolfe Ouid. Busiris did the like and therefore hee vvas â—illed of Hercules Moneses a noble Parthian fled to Anthoâ—ie from his cruell King who comparing his â—isery to Themistocles and his felicitie to Xerxes gaue him three Citties as Xerxes â—id to Themistocles for his bread drinke â—eate and as some write two more for hys â—odging and apparrell Appian Pomponius Atticus vvhen he saw Brutus â—nd Cassius were driuen and expelled out of Rome he sent them 100000. Sextercies as â— friend that ayded them at theyr need when â—thers had forsooke them Gillias a Sicilian of Agrigentum clothed â—he poore fed them bestowed their daughâ—ers in marriage lodged strangers and gaue â—ntertainement to fiue hundred men whom the sea had cast vpon that coast Valerius Buza a noble Lady of Pouile releeued ten thousand Romains which had escaped from the battaile of Cannas Idem Hiero King of Sicile gaue vnto the Romans in tyme of theyr neede thirty thousand quarters of VVheate two hundred of Barly and 250. pound weight of gold Q. Flaminius hauing conquered the Lacedemonians discharged them of all tallages and impositions contrary to the manner of other conquerers vvho are wont to lay burdens vpon the backs of them whom they had conquered Alexander was reputed the most bountiful and liberall of all Princes who gaue to none but to Phylosophers men of vvarre and Counsellers One day a Iugler by his subtile sleight threwe a dry pease a great way through the eie of a needle hoping to haue some reward but the King making no reckoning of him commaunded one to giue him a bushell of those pease to practise his feates withall Alexander gaue his Treasurer charge to gyue to Anaxarchus the Phylosopher whatsoeuer he asked and when hee had asked aâ— hundred talents the Treasurer astonished â—hereat told Alexander who answered That Anaxarchus knewe well enough that hee had a friend that both could would bestow so much vpon him Caesar gaue a great summe of money to eâ—erâ— souldiour of the old bands Bellisarius vvas beloued of his followers for his liberality because hee gaue them horse armor vvhensoeuer they had lost them so it were not through theyr owne negligence P. Diaconus Vitellius contrary to Caligula neuer denyed any man his request Scipio dyed poore
in singing to auoyde tediousnes and to driue avvay the time August This Athanasius forbadde to auoyde vanities S. Augustine was indifferent and it repented him because hee had sometimes fallen by giuing more attentiue heed vnto the measures and chordes of musicke then the words which were vnder them spoken for that measure singing were brought in for words sake and not words for musick In the East parts the holy assemblies euen from the beginning vsed singing P. Mart. Architas inuented a certaine musicall instrument to stay the running wits of chyldren Pausa The Grecians learned to daunce of Castor and Pollux and vsed to dispatch theyr busines dauncing The Sirians before they met their enemies vsed to sing and daunce Plut. The Romaine Priests called Salij vsed to daunce in honour of Mars Diodorus a cunning Musition beeing sent for by the harlot Lamia refused to goe yet Demetrius hauing his Armor on the badge of a vvarriour and his Diademe the cognizaunce of a King was not ashamed to goe to her house Aelianus The Phylosophers called Peripateticks condemned musick in vvemen saying that betweene it and chastitie there could be smal agreement Niphus Euripides is commended for reprehending such as vse the Harpe at feasts for sayth hee Musicke ought rather to bee sent for vvhen men are angry or mourne then vvhen they are feasting and making merry thereby to make thē giue more liberty to pleasure then before A Musition by the onely vertue of the Dorian tune preserued the chastitie of Clytemnestra the vvife of Agamemnon from the assaults of Aegisthus who to bee reuenged slew the Musition Dionysius commaunded that all his seruants should daunce in purple roabes which Plato would not doe saying I will not put on a womans garments But Aristippus did and when he began to daunce sayde In dronken feates the sober offend not Laert. Diogenes reprooued Musitions because they tooke great care that their instruments shoulde agree and neglected theyr manners Neanthus handled the Harpe of Orpheus whereon expecting the trees to daunce hee did by his confused iangling thereon cause the dogs to barke at him Epaminondas to auoyde the shame of ignorance in musicke learned to play vppon diuers instruments Cicero Nero the same night which vvas the last of his lyfe among the complaints which instant death feare and sorrowe did minister thys onely thing he most bewailed that so famous a Musition as himselfe should perrish from the world Tacitus A boy in Athence taking into his hand the instrument of an excellent Musition vvho was hired to teach him and putting it to his mouth and straining his breath vvhereby his cheekes began to swell perceiuing thereby the deformitie of his countenaunce presentlie brake the pype and disdainefully flung it away Petrarch Socrates vvhen he vvas old gaue his mind to musicke and dauncing Appian Scipio ordinarily vsed to mooue his tryumphant and martiall body after the tyme and measure of musicall instruments not vvantonly mincing with his feete but after a manly sort vvhich hee sayde shoulde no vvaies disparage him if his enemies did behold him Bacchus instructed the people of East India to honour the heauens and the seauen Planets by diuers kindes of daunces Diodorus Ganimede Hebe the nine Muses greatlie pleased Iupiter with theyr dauncing Orpheus King Dauid to shewe his cheerefull hart for the returne of the Arke of God daunced before it The dauncing of Herods daughter vvas the cause of Iohn Baptists death Progne in a daunce did finde opportunitie to murder her sonne Itis Ouid. The Ethiopians vsed songs of diuers tunes and dauncing before they went to battaile Pausanias Timotheus the noble Musition demaunded alway a greater reward of them vvhom other taught then of them that neuer learned any thing before Quintil. Gelo a Tyrant of Sicilie when by horrible oppression of his people he had brought him selfe into a generall hatred prohibited that no man or woman shoulde speake to each other for feare of conspiracies but in stedde of vvords they should vse in theyr necessarie affaires countenaunces tokens and moouings with their feete hands and eyes which for necessitie first vsed at the last grewe to a perfect and delectable dauncing but he was slaine of them for his cruelty Homer among the great benefits that god giueth to man reciteth dauncing One daunced before Demetrius the Tyrant and in his gestures and motions showed the aduoutry of Mars and Venus and their discouery by Phoebus vvith Vulcans intrapping them vvhere-with contrary to his sullen disposition he forced him to laugh and cry out saying O man I doe not onely see but also heare what thou doost and it seemeth to mee that thou speakest with thy hands The same daunced before Nero in the presence of a strange King which vnderstoode no other language but his own country who by his daūcing made the king to vnderstand vvhat was sayde and at his departure Nero bid him aske what he would and hee should haue it Sir said he lend mee this young man that by his motions I may vnderstand the language of my confines and neighbors The maiestie of Princes in olde time vvas shewed in the daunce named Eumelia belonged to Tragedies dissolute countenaunces in that which was called Cordax and pertained to Comedies wherin men of base behauiour onely daunced The forme of fighting in Armor was expressed in a daunce called Enophe Hormus was a kinde of Daunce vvherein daunced both men and maydes the man expressing in his motion and countenaunce strength and courage apt for the warres the mayde modestie and shamefastnesse which represented a pleasant coniunction of fortitude and temperance Lampridius Augustus in the presence of many men plaied on an instrument A poore man standing by with other and beholding the Emperour sayde with a loude voyce to his fellow Scest thou not howe this voluptuous Leachor tempereth all the world with his little finger VVhich words hee wisely noted and during his life hee euer after refrained hys hands from any such lightnes in open assemblies Alexander when hee had vanquished Ilion where Troy stoode being demaunded if he woulde see the Harpe of Paris who rauished Helen gently smiling hee aunswered I had rather see the harpe of Achilles wherevnto hee did sing not the illecebrous sports of loue but the valiant acts of noble Princes Lisander softned the walls of Athence and burned their ships by sound of Flutes S. Augustine rather liked the maid or wife that soweth vpon the Saboth day then hee that daunced August The Archbishop of Magdeburgh brake his necke in dauncing Mar. Hist. The Tyrrhenes first founde the Trumpet which they afterward vsed in battell to feare theyr enemies and encourage their friends likewise at solemne feastes that they might thereby assemble the people together and to proclaime the comming of the Iubilie in the beginning of the newe Moone crying ioy and rest to all men Isodore Buccina was a kinde of Trumpet made of horne of woode or brasse which the vvild Panims vsed to
enemies so many victories because in his Campe he suffered no vvemen Liuia Fuluia tolde her husband that vnlesse shee might lye out of his house one night he should neuer haue any quietnesse with her Aurelius Rotorra compounded with a Pirate on the sea that no woman for 2. yeres should serue his hundred souldiers but she alone Idem Semyramis vvhen shee had through her importancie obtayned of her husband Ninus the gouernment of the kingdome for fiue dayes that his nobles should for that time obey her shee caused her husband to bee presently apprehended and cast in pryson vvho impatient of this disgrace dashed out his owne braines Amongst the Amazons were two principal Queenes chosen from them all that both at home and abroad their affaires might be wel marshalled Lampedo gouerned at home Marpesia fought their battailes Clytemnestra the wife of Agamemnon to reuenge an iniury receaued froÌ„ her husband coÌ„mitted adultry with Aegisthus and afterward consented to his death Eurip. Fuluia the widdow of M. Marcellus seeing her husband buried in the field of Mars for griefe scratched her face tore her haire and fell downe into a sownd whom the Senators tooke vp but Cn. Flauius sayd Let her goe for she will doe all the penance of widdowes but presently whilst the bones of her husband were a burning she agreed to be married to another and more to one of the Senatours which had lifted her vp Septimius wife corrupted in loue by one of Anthonies friends was desirous of his harlot to become his wife causing him to speake to Anthony for her and foorth-with was Septâ—mius condemned whom she betrayed to the Souldiours in one day he was killed and she married Appian Salassus fearing the displeasure of Anthony got him to the top of his house from whence when hee saw his wife bringing the Souldiours to murder him threw himselfe headlong into the streets Appian The auntient Brittains did not only make women their Rulers in peace but their Leaders in warre Tacitus The Germaines preferred them before men themselues and were of opinion that some sacred and prouident thing remayned in them for which cause they did neyther reiect their counsailes nor set light by theyr aunswers and many of them were reputed amongst them for Prophetesses and as theyr superstition encreased they helde them as Goddesses Idem Zenobia writ a Chronicle of all the warres fought in Alexandria and made a collection of all the notable warres fought in the East parts So long as Mesa the Grandmother of Seuerus liued with him his estate was sure but folowing too much the fancies of his mother Mammea he ouerthrew him selfe Semyramis ruled worthily fought more valiantly then euer Xerxes durst with all his huge hoasts The mother of Seuerus did beare such sway with him that he banished his Empresse froÌ„ the Court and his bed vnto the vttermost Coasts of Africa The vviddow Empresse of Valens vvhen the Gothes had strongly besieged Constantinople where she was fought with so great courage against them that she enforced theÌ„ to raise their siege Cassiodorus Penelope was renowned for her chastity Alcesta the wife of Admetus chose to die to prolong her husbands life Euripides The Essenians were open enemies to women Minerua was borne without a mother as some write so faigned for that women haue no wisedome In the Spartane common-weale they had certaine officers named Gynecomones vvho had in charge to punish the insolency of women and to suppresse their arrogancy and pride The Romaine Censors had the lyke authority Of Marriage This contract of mariage called the contract of God as by him first instituted in paradize is called the bond of mutuall loue and reciprocall affection betweene man and wife ouer whom he ought to rule not as the Lord ouer his Seruant but as our Lord Sauior doth ouer the Church whose indissoluble knot who so seeke to dissunder combate with the Maiestie of God damning themselues through a secret alliance which they make with sathan CHrist honoured a mariage with his presence and a miracle Pompey comming among the Massagetes who vsed once a weeke to accompany their wiues demaunded the cause thereof vvho aunswered Because wee would not heare chydings in the day time nor their complaints in the night Venda Queene of Russia drowned her selfe therby to preuent them that made war for her to haue her in marriage seeing they could not win her by gentlenes Olaus M. Aurelius gaue this counsaile that a wise husband one that mindeth to liue peaceably with his wife ought aboue all things to obserue this rule to admonish her often to reprehend her sildome but neuer to lay hands vppon her The Romaines passed all other Nations in pompe ceremonies and comlines of marriage Cato a sworne enemy to vvomen neuer strooke his wife Xantippe Socrates wife reuiling and chyding him in the end being caried headlong into wrath ouer-threw table and all whervpon Euthydemus whom he had inuited to supper rose vp to depart but Socrates not shewing him selfe angry with his wife stayde him saying VVhat doe you not remeÌ„ber when we were at dinner with you a Hen leapt vpon the table and we sayd nothing nor were angry Cato depriued a Senator of Rome from his place because he kissed his wife in presence of his daughter Plut. Ruth desiring to bee couered with Booz cloak requested that he would acknowledge her for his lawfull wife P. Martyr Amongst the Greeks the childreÌ„ that maried without their Parents coÌ„sent were publiquely whipt and the Lacedemonians did not whip but disinherite them Laertius The Thebanes not onely ordayned they shold be disinherited but also cursed of their Parents openly Let no man esteeme it light to be cursed of their Parents for in olde time the Hebrewes children made more account of theyr Fathers blessing then of their Grandfathers inheritance The wife of Thucidides the Historiographer when she was asked how shee could indure her husbands stinking breath aunswered As no other but my husband hath come neere me so I thought all other mens breath had been of the same sauour Plut. Dionysius married two wiues in one day with whom hee slept and tooke his pleasure by turnes the one followed him in his warlike affayres the other entertained him in peace Plut. Paulina a woman in Rome had been maried to 22. husbands who afterwards marying one that had 20. wiues dyed in his life time wher-vpon the Romains crowned him with Lawrell in token of victory and caused him to carry a braunch of Palme in his hand at his wiues funerall Hierome The Hebrewes had such a reuerence to maried folks that he which had married a wyfe the same yeare should not be forced to goe on warfare Orosius The Romains did lay a penalty vpon their back that liued a single life nor would they suffer them to beare any office in the common-weale Plut. Augustus being a sore punisher of euill behauiour examined a Souldiour because he did not mary his wife
the femenine sexe to haue had masculine courages Theana being demaunded what married wife deserued commendation aunswered She that medleth onely with her rocke and spindle that loueth onely her husbands bed and keepeth her tongue in quiet Atheneus The Essenians haue neyther wife nor seruants nor the Dulopolitans called otherwise the Rascalls and Slaues of Citties professed open enemies to all women-kind Iosephus Homer bringeth in Iupiter reprouing and threatning his wife when she is rebellious but neuer further Vpon the Ascention day in Venice the Duke accompanied with all his Nobles in a faire vessel of plesure made Gally-wise goeth in it a mile or two into the Sea casteth there in a ring of gold thinking by this ceremony they so marry the Sea vnto them that all the yeare after they may haue safe passage for their commodities Of Parents Children God hath formed the mind to the perfect mold of truth and vertue carrying it farre from vice wherefore it behoueth Parents to giue their children good education which once taught then is their voyage and Nauigation in this world happy making them thankefull to the occasions of their great good where otherwise neglected they abhorre the remembrance of their Parents when through their damnable liberty and euill examples they haue beene led away SOlon made a law that those Parents in their old age should not be releeued of theyr children which cared not how they practised good manners or profited in letters Timarchides being of wicked life was not ashamed to haue his Sonne of tender yeares to be a viewer and witnes of his wicked lyuing Cic. Verres cared not how his Sonne spent his time whether among harlots or honest persons Cic. Scipio Affricanus being eighteene yeares of age his Father then Consull saued his life at Ticinum and ouercame him that wounded his Father Stat. Vespasian being besieged of the Barbarians in Britania was deliuered by his Sonne Titus Xiphil Lausus the Sonne of Mezentius defended his Father from Aeneas and was slayne of him Virg. Antigonus when hee had obtained a great victory of his enemies hee tendered all the honour at his Fathers feete Rauisius Antigone led her blind Father Oedipus Sophocles Cleobis and Byton drew theyr mother in her Coach to the temple of Apollo Cicero Leo the younger when he had raigned one yeare rendered the crowne againe to his Father Zeno. Aegeus when he saw the ship that his Sonne rode into Crete returne with blacke sailes contrary to promise supposing that hee was slaine threw himselfe from an high rocke into the Sea Ouid. Aelius Tubero had sixteene children of his owne body all of them maried and dwelling in one house with their children and lyuing with him in all peace concord The arrogancy of a childe was the cause that one of the Ephories published the law of testaments wherby it was permitted to euery one from that time forward to appoynt whom he would his heire Among the Romains the child was not admitted to pleade his Fathers vvill after his death by way of action but onely by way of request vsing very humble and reuerent speech of his dead Father and leauing the whole matter to the discretion of the Iudges Patritius Antigonus the Sonne of Demetrius who was taken prisoner by Seleucus when his Father sent him word to giue no credite to any letters he should send for the deliuering vp of certaine townes thereto constrained by Seleucus Antigonus contrariwise writ to Seleucus that he would yeeld him vp all become pledge for him if he would restore his Father Apollonida mother to King Eumenes and to three other of his bretheren accounted her selfe happy because she saw her 3. younger sonnes as it were a garde to theyr elder brother Cato with his owne hande wrote a historie and gaue it to his sonne to the end he might there see the acts of his auncestors learne the skill howe to gouerne the Common-wealth Bercilidus a Gouernour in Sparta sitting at meate did forbid that the younger sorte should doe him reuerence reproouing himselfe of barrennes because he had not begotten any children to doe them the like honor when they were old Cornelia accounted her children to be the chiefest treasure riches that she had Val. In Fraunce there was a Father his sonne condemned to death for treason and iudged to be executed according to the custom of the Country by standing in a Caudron in vvhich they should be boyled to death now it was winter and beeing both naked in the water the sonne began to quake for cold and when the vvater was heated to cry out vvith great impatience his Father persisting immoueable in both sayd Thou sonne of a vile whore canst thou neither abide heat nor cold Augustus commanded the Ladies his children to learne all the offices and qualities wherewith a vvoman might liue be maintained and vvhereof she ought to boast herselfe in such vvise that all the apparrel which they vveare they did spin and weaue saying that a rock became a Ladies girdle asvvell as a Launce becam a Knight or a book a Priest Sueto Annalis being condemned by the Triumuiri fled to a tenant of his who had a homely house was safe hid vntill his son broughâ— the pursuers to the house who killed him Then the Triumuiri rewarded him with his Fathers goods and made him Chamberlain of the Citty but one day beeing drunke and troubling the souldiours they which killed his father murdered him Appian Choranius the vnhappy Father of an vnthrifty sonne prayed the pursuers to spare his life a while till he might sende to his son to speake to Anthony who laughed at him sayd his sonne had spoken but to the contrary Appian Quintus Ciceros brother and his sonne being taken prayed the murtherers to kil him before his sonne but his sonne requested the contrary vvhereupon the souldiers promised to graunt both theyr desires and taking them a sunder by a token killed them both at one instant Appian Ignatius the Father and the sonne fighting together dyed of one vvound when their heads vvere striken of theyr bodies dyd yet imbrace Idem Aruntius could hardly perswade his sonne that would not flie without him to saue himselfe because he was but young his mother sent him afore to the gates and then returned to burie her husband beeing killed and vvhen she shortly after heard that her sonne vvas dead vpon the sea shee famished herselfe Plut. Geta the sonne of Scoponius made a fire in the open place of his house to burie his Father that seemed to be dead whom he had hid in an house in the country where the old man disguising himselfe layde a parchment before his eyes and after the agreement was made hee tooke away the parchment and founde his eyes out for want of vse Appian Oppius sonne minding to take part vvith his olde feeble father bare him on his backe till hee was past the gates and the rest of the vvay
out of it the Pope aunswered All ages can testifie howe profitable that fable of Christ hath beene to vs and our company In the yeere 1518. as soone as hee heard it reported that the Frenchmen vvere by his meanes slaine and driuen out of Italie hee laughed at the newes so vehemently that there-with hee presently fell dovvne dead at the table Hadrian the 6. Schoolemaister before to Charles the Emperour still kept the name that hee receiued in Baptisme called Hadrian he dyed hauing raigned 4. yeres 1523. Clement the 7. got the place by violence and possessed it vvith much trouble and an 1534. he vvas poysoned by a strange practise for both he and certaine Cardinals were poysoned vvith the smell and smoake of a certaine Taper which with a strange confusion was poysoned for the same purpose Vnder this Clement Nicholaus Machiauell Secretary of Florence did flourish vvho in his first booke of the history of Florence sayth That for the most part the mischiefes that happened among the Christans proceeded of the Popes theyr ambition that before the â—ime of Theodocricus King of Lombardy the yere of our Lorde 500. they were euer subiect to Kings in ciuill matters Paule the 3. was an Astrologian a Magitian giuen to all incontinencie he had a booke of 45. thousand harlots who for the â—iberty of theyr stewes did pay vnto hym a monthly tribute He did openly excommunicate curse the most renowned prince King H. the 8. Et donauit regnum primuÌ„ occupaturo and gaue his kingdome to him thaâ— would first inuade it he raigned 15. yeres Iulius the 3. before called Iohn Mery oâ— the Mount was a man of beastly condition and a maintainer of Sodomitie hee caused to be stamped vppon his coyne Gens et regnâ— peribit quod mihi non inseruit that Nation kingdome shall perrish vvhich dooth not serue me he dyed when he had raigned sixe yeeres ann 1555. Marcellus the second vvoulde not change his Christian name hee dyed the 20. day after his election Paule the fourth founded a newe sect of Religious men in Venice called by an holie name Iesuits of the name of Iesus before he was Pope for the which he vvas made Cardinall he was altogether gyuen to vvarres He dedicated a booke of the reformation of the Church to Paule the third yet made none in his owne time Pius the fourth before called Iohannes Angelus borne at Millaine of the house of Medices enioyed the place fiue yeeres eleuen months and fifteene dayes in the raignes of Ferdinando and Max. Emperours and dyed anno Domini 1565. Pius the 5. borne at Alexandria succeeded him sate in the Sea 6. yeares Gregory the 13. before called Hugo of Bononia swayed Popedome 13. yeares in the time of Maximilian and Rodolphus Sixtus the 5. borne at Millaine liued in the place 5. yeres 4. moneths by his means one Clement a Iacobine Fryer killed the most Christian King of France Henry the third Vrbanus the 7 possessed the place 13. days Gregory the 14. ten moneths ten dayes Innocentius the 9. two moneths after these anno Dom. 1592. Clement the 8. was elected Pope who at this day enioyeth the place Of Warre There is but one iust title of warre ingenerall that is necessity according to the old saying nulium bellum iustum nisi necessarium which is iust and necessary two wayes the one is in defence of the innocent the other is in reuenge of iniuries THE continuall warrs which the Sicilians had made them like sauage beasts Plut. The Aeolians intending to ayd the Argiueâ— in their warre Archidamus writ to them in a letter onely these words quietnes is good Silla for his victories against Mithridates let out fiue ounces of the blood of his vain Cardiaca and offered it to Iupiter Capitolinus Plutarch The Romaines were 500. yeares in conquering Italy The Oracle of Apollo aunswered those oâ— Cyrrha that if they would liue in peace at home they should make warre with theyr neighbour strangers the Romains when they had none to wage warre with fell to ciuill dissentions which was their ouerthrow Caesar noted two great faults in Pompey the one when hee had the better of him and did not follow his fortune the other when in the last battaile at Pharsalia he charged his Souldiours beeing ranged to stand still in theyr places whereby he was ouerthrowne Appian Hanibal neuer fought any battaile without laying some ambush Traian was neuer vanquished because he neuer vndertooke warre without iust cause the same Liuius wryteth of the Romaines in his first Decad. The Romaines out of their Country were inuincible they were euer assaylants and sildome times defendants Eutropius There is a people in Germany called Catti whose strength consisteth in theyr footmen others goe to skirmish and the Catti to war Tacitus The Lacedemonians of all people in peace and warre were most valiant being in the beginning more then men but in the end lesse â—hen women Frenchmen loosing the first encounter â—oose also the victory Liuius C. Marius neuer gaue his enemies occasion to force him to fight Darius against Alexander Pompey against Caesar Haniball against Scipio Antonius against Augustus Mithridates against Sylâ—a had greater forces without comparison â—hen their enemies and yet were ouercome Fredericus Oenobarbus when he had ouerâ—hrowne Millaine sowed salt there and harâ—owed it thereby to shew that the same Citty was brought to vtter destruction If there be any fault committed generally 〈◊〉 all the Souldiours in the campe the Prinâ—es of the hoast take the tenth of the mulâ—â—tude that by the punishment of a few the rest may be assoiled Plutarch F. Max. sent to Rome to the Senate 〈◊〉 money to redeeme his Souldiers which Hâ—â—nibal had taken prisoners and beeing denâ—â— thereof commaunded his Son to sell all 〈◊〉 lands bring money for their ransome Three hundred Noblemen of the house the Fabij tooke vppon them alone to waâ— battaile against the Vientines Liuius C. Marius refused those Souldiers who 〈◊〉 not sixe feete or at the least fiue a halfe 〈◊〉 height Vigetius Pyrrhus charged his Muster-maysters 〈◊〉 choose them that were of large stature 〈◊〉 said he will make them valiant Idem P. Aemilius to auoide the sunne that shine in the face of his hoast was so long in raÌ„ginâ— his Army that by the time the battailes sholâ— ioyne the sunne was vpon his back Mariuâ— vsed the like pollicy against the Cymbrianâ— and Augustus against the Flemings Polemon to make his Souldiers fiercer 〈◊〉 assailing the Lacedemonians cast his colouâ— into the midst of his enemies where-vpoâ— they pressed with great violence esteeming 〈◊〉 great shame to abandon of their Ancient Eumolphus for that he feared a famine 〈◊〉 his prouision for the which his Souldiouâ— â—â—oned him to death Xenephon was very curious in his prouiâ—â—on of Martiall furniture hee had an Argoliâ—n target an Athenian breast-plate a Beoâ—an head-peece he was a Philosopher and a â—aptaine Titus the
flying foules Mulcasses king of Thunis after he was deâ—riued of his kingdome in his returne out of Almaigne being without hope that the Emperour Charles the fift vvould helpe him at â—ll hee spent one hundred crownes vpon a Peacock dressed for him P. Iouius Maximilian the Emperour deuoured in one day forty pounds of flesh and drunke an â—ogshead of vvine Geta the Emperour for three dayes together continued his feastiual and his delicates vvere brought in by the order of the Alphabet Astydamas beeing inuited by Ariobarzaâ—es to a banquet eate vp al that alone which vvas prouided for diuers guests Vopisc There vvas a contention betweene Hercules and Lepreas vvhich of them both should first deuoure an Oxe in which attempt Lepreas vvas ouer-come afterwards hee chalenged him for drinking but Hercules vvas his maister Aelianus Aglais vvhose practise was to sounde the trumpet deuoured at euery meale tvvelue poundes of flesh with as much bread as tvvo bushels of wheate vvould make and three gallons of vvine Philoxenes a notorious glutton vvished he had a necke like a Crane that the svveetâ— meate vvhich he eate might bee long in going downe Rauisius Lucullus at a solemne and costly feast he made to certaine Embassadors of Asia aâ—mong other things he did eate a Griph boiâ—led and a Goose in paste Macrob. Salust in his inuectiue against Cicero aâ—mongst many graue matters vvhereof he accused him he spake of his wanton excesse as hauing poudred meats from Sardinia anâ— wines from Spayne Lucullus tooke great paynes himselfe iâ— furnishing of a feast and when he was askeâ— vvhy he was so curious in setting out a banâ—quet hee aunswered That there was as greaâ— discretion to be vsed in marshalling of a feast 〈◊〉 in the ordering of a battaile that the one mighâ— be terrible to his enemies and the other acceptable to his friends Plut. In Rhodes they that loue fish are accounted right curteous and free-harted men buâ— he that delighteth more in flesh is ill though of and to his great shame is reputed a bond slaue to his belly Aelianus Sergius Galba was a deuouring and glutâ—tonous Emperour for he caused at one banquet 7. thousand byrds to be killed Suet. Xerxes hauing tasted of the figges of Aâ—hence sware by his Gods that hee vvoulde â—ate no other all his life after and went forthâ—vith to prepare an Army to conquer Greâ—ia for no other cause but to fill his belly full of the figges of that Country Plut. Plato returning out of Sicill into Greece told his schollers that he had seen a monster meaning Dionisius because hee vsed to eate â—wice a day Idem Aristotle mocking the Epicures sayd that â—pon a time they vvent all into a temple together beseeching the Gods that they wold gyue them necks as long as Cranes and Heâ—ons that the pleasures and tastes of meates might be more long complayning against Nature for making their necks too short The Sicilians dedicated a Temple to Glutâ—ony and erected images to Bacchus Ceâ—es the God and goddesse of vvine corne Pausanias M. Manlius in times past made a booke of diuers vvayes hovv to dresse meate and another of the tastes sauces and diuers meanes of seruices vvhich were no sooner published but by the decree of the Senate they were burned and if hee had not fled speedily â—nto Asia he had been burned with them There was a lawe in Rome called Fabia bâ— which it was prohibited that no man shoulâ— dispend in the greatest feast hee made abouâ— an hundred Sexterces Aul. Gellius The law Licinia forbad all kindes of sauce at feastes because they prouoke appetite are cause of great expence Idem The lawe Ancia charged the Romaines tâ— learne all kinde of sciences but cookerie The law Iulia vvas that none should bee 〈◊〉 hardie as to shutte theyr gates vvhen theâ— vvere at dinner that the Censors of the Citâ—tie might haue easie accesse into theyr houâ—ses at that time to see if their ordinary werâ— according to their ability Macrob. Nisaeus a tyrant of Syracuse vvhen he vnderstood by his Soothsayers that he had noâ— long to liue the little time hee had left heâ— spent in belly-cheere and drunkennesse anâ— so dyed Rauisius Mar. Anthonius set foorth a booke of hyâ— drunkennesse in which hee prooued thosâ— prancks he played when hee vvas ouercomâ— with vvine to be good and lawfull Plut. Darius had written vpon his graue thys inâ—scription I could drinke good store of wine beare it well Rauisius Ptolomey vvho in mockery vvas calleâ— Philopater because hee put to death his Father and mother through wine and women dyed like a beast Valer. Lacydes a Phylosopher by too much drinking fell into a palsie whereof he dyed Aruntius a Romaine beeing drunken deflowred his own daughter Medullina whom she forthwith killed Plutarch Tiberius Caesar vvas preferred to a Pretorshyp because of his excellencie in drinking Diotimus was sirnamed Funnell or Tunnell because he gulped downe wine through the channell of his throate vvhich was powred into a Funnell the end whereof was put into his mouth vvithout interspiration betweene gulpes Rauisius In the feast of Bacchus a crowne of golde vvas appoynted for him that coulde drinke more then the rest Agron the King of Illyrium fell into a sicknesse of the sides called the Plurisie by reason of his excessiue drinking and at last died thereof Cleio a vvoman was so practised in drinking that shee durst challenge all men and vvomen what soeuer to try maisteries who could drinke most and ouercome all Cleomenes king of Lacedemonia beeing disposed to carouse after the manner of the Scythians dranke so much that hee became and continued euer after sencelesse Cyrillus sonne in his drunkennes wickedly slevv that holy man his father his mother great with child he hurt his two sisters and deflowred one of them August Androcides a Gentleman of Greece hearing of Alexanders excesse in drunkennesse vvrote a letter to him wherein was a Tablet of gold with these words thereon ingrauen Remember Alexander when thou drinkest wine that thou doost drinke the blood of the earth Those of Gallia Transalpina vnderstanding that the Italians had planted Vines in Italy came to conquer theyr Countrey so that if they had neuer planted Vines the French-men had not destroyed the Countrey Liuius Foure old Lombards being at banquet together the one dranke an health rounde to the others yeeres in the end they challenged two to two and after each man had declared how many yeeres old he was the one dranke as many times as he had yeeres and likewise his companion pledged him the one vvas 58. the second 63. the third 87. the last 92. so that a man knoweth not vvhat they did eate or drinke but he that dranke least dranke 58. cups of vvine P. Diaconus Of thys euill custome came the lawe that the Gothes made that is VVee ordaine and commaund vppon paine of death that no olde men vpon payne of death shoulde drinke to one anothers health at the
table Idem Of Lechery This bewitching euill beeing an vnbrideled appetite in whomsoeuer it raigneth killeth all good motions of the minde altereth dryeth weakeneth the body shortning lyfe diminishing memory and vnderstanding CYrena a notorious strumpet vvas sirnamed Dode camechana for that shee inuented and found out tvvelue seuerall waies of beastly pleasure Cor. Arip Proculeius the Emperour of an hundred Sarmatian virgins he tooke captiue he deflowred tenne the first night and all the rest vvithin fifteene dayes after Hercules in one night deflowred fiftie Theophrastus writeth of an Indian hearbe vvhich who so eateth is able to performe 70. seuerall actions Iohannes á Casa Archbishop of Beneuento and Legate in Venice vvrit a booke in praise of the abhominable vice of Sodomitrie Sigismond Malatesta striued to haue carnall knowledge of his sonne Robert vvho thrusting his dagger into his fathers bosom reuenged his wickednes Cleopatra had the vse of her brother Ptolomeus company as of her husbands Antiochus stayed a whole vvinter in Chalcidea for one mayde which he there fancied Lust vvas the cause of the vvarres between the Romaines and the Sabines Liuius Thalesthis Queene of the Amazons came 25. dayes iourney to lie vvith Alexander Iustinus Adultery in Germany is neuer pardoned Tacitus Messalina and Popilia vvere so incontinent that they coÌ„tended vvith most shamefull harlots prostrating themselues without respect of time place or company to any though neuer so base Plut. Claudius deflowred his owne sisters and Semiramis burned in beastly lust tovvards her sonne Ninus Nero caused Atticus a Romaine Consull to be slayne that hee might the more conueniently enioy the company of his wife Corn. Tacitus Commodus not contented with his three hundred Concubines coÌ„mitted incest vvith his owne sisters Herodian Caligula dyd the like but the one vvas slaine by his vvife the other by his Concubine Adultery was the cause of the first alteration of the Citty of Rome Eutrop. Sempronia a vvoman well learned in the Greeke and Sappho no lesse famous defended luxurie and lust by their writings Cleopatra inuited Anthony to a banquet in the prouince of Bithinia in the vvood Sesthem where at one instance of threescore young virgines fiftie and fiue were made mothers Cleophis a Queene of India saued her kingdome and subiects from destruction by a nights lodging with Alexander by whom she had a sonne called Alexander vvho was afterward King of India shee was euer after called Scortum Reginum Iustine Heliogabalus not onely deflowred but also married a virgine Vestall saying it vvas reason that Priests shoulde marry Nunnes because that in times past hee had beene Priest of the Sunne Iane Queene of Naples was hanged vp for her aduoutry in the very same place vvhere shee had hanged her husband Andreas afore because he was not as shee sayd able to satisfie her beastly desire Feron King of Egypt had beene blind 10. yeeres and in the eleuenth the Oracle told hym that he should recouer his sight if hee washed his eyes in the vvater of a vvoman vvhich neuer had to doe with any but her husband vvhereupon hee first made tryall of his owne vvife but that dyd him no good after of infinite others which did him all as little saue onely one by whom hee recouered his sight and then hee put all the rest to death Herodot Iulia the daughter of Augustus vvas so immodest shamelesse and vnchast that the Emperour was neuer able to reclaime her and vvhen shee was admonished to forsake her bad kinde of lyfe and to follow chastitie as her Father dyd shee aunswered That her Father forgotte that hee was Caesar but as for herselfe shee knew well enough that shee was Caesars daughter Cornelius Gallus and Q. Elerius tvvo Romaine Knights dyed in the very action of theyr filthy lust Plinie Arichbertus eldest sonne vnto Lotharius King of Fraunce dyed euen as hee was embracing his whores Alcibiades was burned in his bed with hys Curtezan Timandra Plut. The Egyptians punishments against adultery was to cut of the nose of the vvoman and the priuie parts of the man Alexander when a woman was brought to him one euening demaunded of her vvhy shee came so late she aunswered that shee stayed vntill her husband was gone to bed VVhich he no sooner heard but he sent her away being angry with theÌ„ that had almost made him commit adultery He was angry with Cassander because hee would by force kisse a minstrels maid Rodolphus King of Lombardie beeing taken in adultery was slaine by the vvomans husband whom he abused Roderigo King of Spayne was depriued of his kingdome life by the Sarazins who vvere called in by an Earle called Iulian that he might be auenged of the king for forcing his daughter Caelius Rhodoginus in his 11. booke of antiquities telleth of a certain man that the more he vvas beaten the more he feruently desired vvomen The vvidowe of the Emperour Sigismund intending to marry againe one perswaded her to spende the remainder of her life after the manner of the Turtle-Doue who hath but one make If you counsell mee quoth shee to followe the example of byrds why doe you not tell me of Pidgions Sparrowes which after the death of their makes doe ordinarilie couple themselues with the next they meet Hiero King of Syracusa banished the Poet Epicharmus for speaking vvantonly before his vvife and that very iustly for hys vvife vvas a true mirrour of chastitie Sulpitius Gallus put away his wife by deuorce because shee went abroad vnmasked Pompey caused one of his souldiers eyes to be put out in Spaine for thrusting his hand vnder a womans garment that was a Spanyard and for the like offence did Sertorius commaund a footeman of his band to be cut in peeces Sabellicus If Caracalla had not seene his mothers thigh he had not married her Suetonius Speusippus the Phylosopher one of Platoes followers vvas slaine for his adulterie Tertullianus Tigellinus dyed amongst his Concubines Tacitus Rodoaldus King of Lombardy was slaine with a certaine matrone euen in the action of their concupiscence Paulus Diaconus By the law of Moses adulterers were stoned with rigour which our law doth not obâ—erue for were it to bee so in these dayes wee should not finde stones enough to fulfill it A Nunne finding in her Booke at the bottome of the leafe these vvordes Bonum est omnia scire determined to try what the carnall copulation of man and woman might â—ee but turning ouer the leafe shee sawe in the beginning thereof Sed non vti vvhereâ—pon to her greefe shee altered her purpose and her ioy lasted but a while Rutilius Consull of Rome caused the temple of Lucina to bee burned because his daughter great with child made her vow and kept her 9. vigils and vpon more deuotion was desirous to bee deliuered in the temple The Persians would not shew their wiues vnto strangers Iosephus The Tarentines and the Capuans were very mortall ennemies by chaunce one one day in the campe of the