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A81080	Unparalleld varieties: or, The matchless actions and passions of mankind. Displayed in near four hundred notable instances and examples. Discovering the transcendent effects; I. Of love, friendship, and gratitude. II. Of magnanimity, courage, and fidelity. III. Of chastity, temperance, and humility. And on the contrary the tremendous consequences, IV. Of hatred, revenge, and ingratitude. V. Of cowardice, barbarity, treachery. VI. Of unchastity, intemperance, and ambition. : Imbellished with proper figures. / By R.B. ...	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1683 (1683)	Wing C7352; ESTC R171627	176,132	257

success in his Affairs was grown up to an abundance of wealth while he was at Florence a young man presented himself to him asking him an Alms for Gods sake Frescobald beheld the ragged stripling and in despight of his tatters reading in his countenance some significations of Virtue was moved with pity and demanded his Country and name I am said he of England my name is Thomas Cromwell my Father meaning his Father in Law is a poor man a Clothshearer I am strayed from my Country and am now come into Italy with the French Army who were overthrown at Gatylion where I was Page to a Foot Soldler odrrying after him his Pike and Burganet Frescobald partly in pity of his condition and partly in love to the English Nation amongst whom he had received some Civilities took him into his House made him his Guest and at his departure gave him a Horse new Apparel and sixteen Duckets of Gold in his Purse Cromwell giving him hearty thanks returned into his Country where in process of time he became in such favour with King Henry the Eighth that he raised him to the dignity of Lord High Chancellor of England In the mean time Fresbobald by several great losses was become poor but remembring that some English Merchants owed him fifteen thousand Duckets he came to London to seek after it not thinking of what had passed betwixt Cromwell and him but travelling earnestly about his business he accidentally met with the Lord Chancellor as he was riding to Court as soon as the Lord Cromwell saw him he thought he should be the Merchant of Florence of whose liberality he had tasted in times past immediately he alights imbraces him and with a broken voice scarce refraining from Tears he demanded if he were not Francis Frescobald the Florentine yes Sir said he and your humble Servant my Servant said Cromwell no as you have not been my Servant in times past so will I not now account you any other than my great and especial Friend assuring you that I have just reason to be sorry that you knowing what I am or at least what I should be yet would not let me understand your arrival in this Country had I known it I would have certainly paid part of that debt which I confess I owe you but thanks be to God that I have yet time Well Sir in conclusion you are heartily welcome but having now weighty affairs in my Princes Cause you must excuse me that I can stay no longer with you therefore at this time I take my leave desiring you with the faithful mind of a Friend that you forget not to dine with me this day at my House Frescoblad wonders who this Lord should be at last after some pause he remembers him to be the same whom he had relieved at Florence he therefore repairs to his House not a little rejoyced and walking in the outward Court attended his return the Lord Cromwell came soon after and was no sooner dismounted but he again imbraced him with so friendly a countenance as the Lord Admiral and other Nobles then in his company much wondred at he turning back and holding Frescobald by the hand Do you not wonder my Lords said he that I seem so glad to see this man this is he by whose means I have attained to my present Degree and therewith related all that had passed betwixt them then holding him still by the hand he led him to the room where he dined and seated him next to himself the Lords being departed he desired to know what occasion had brought him to London Frescobald in few words truly opened his case to him to which Cromwell returned Things that are already past Mr. Frescobald can by no power or policy of Man be recalled yet is not your sorrow so peculiar to your self but that by the bond of mutual love I am able to bear a part therein whereby in this your distress you may receive some Consolation it is fit I should repay some part of that debt wherein I stand bound to you as it is the part of a thankful man to do and I further promise you upon the word of a true Friend that during this life and state of mine I will not fail to do for you in any thing wherein my Authority may prevail Then taking him by the hand he led him into a Chamber and commanding all to depart he locked the door then opening a Chest he first took out sixteen Duckets and delivering them to Frescobald My Friend said he here is your Money you lent me at my departure from Florence here are ten more bestowed upon mine Apparel with ten more you disbursed for the Horse I rode upon but considering you are a Merchant it does not seem honest to me to return your Money without some consideration for the long detaining of it take you therefore these four Bags in every of which is four hundred Duckets to receive and enjoy from the hand of your assured Friend The modesty of Frescobald would have refused them but Cromwell forced them upon him this done he caused him to give him the names of all his Debtors and the Sums they owed the List he delivered to one of his Servants and charged him to find out the men if they were within any part of the Kingdom and strictly to charge them to make payment within fifteen days or else to abide the hazard of his displeasure the Servant so well performed the command of his Master that in a very short time the whole Sum was paid in during all this time Frescobald lodged in the Lord Chancellors House who gave him the entertainment he deserved and oft-times persuaded him to continue in England offering to lend him sixty Thousand Duckets for four years if he would stay and make his Bank in London but he desired to return into his own Country which he did with the great favour of the Lord Cromwell and there richly arrived but he enjoyed his wealth but a short time for the first year after his return he died Clarks Lives p. 42. CXVII Not many years since in the Kingdom of Naples a young Merchant named Oliverio fell desperately in love with the Countess of Castelnovo and laid siege to her Chastity for a good while and the Count going to his Country House and taking his Countess and Family along with him the Marquess being still more inflamed goes into the Country one day hard by a Hawking and le ts fly his Hawk into Count Castlenovo's Garden where it chanced that he and his Countess were walking the Marquess made bold to follow his Hawk and the Count with very high Civilities did welcome him and caused a Banquet to be presently provided where he and his Lady entertained him when he was gone the Count began to commend him telling his Wife That he was one of the most hopeful Noblemen and of the most excellent accomplishments of any in the whole Kingdom of Naples These

despoiled of all and turned out a begging yea all Persons were forbid to harbour or relieve him Acts and Monum Vol. 1. XXXIV St. Jerom discovered his Christian Resolution by this Speech If said he my Father stood weeping on his knees before me and my Mother hanging on my neck behind and all my Brethren Sisters Children Kindred and Kinsfolks howling on every side to retain me in a sinful life I would fling my Mother to the ground despise all my Kindred run over my Father and tread him under my feet that I might run to Christ when he calleth me After his Condemnation by the cruel Papists he said I after my death will leave a remorse in your Consciences and a Nail in your hearts and I here cite you all to answer to me before the high and just Judge within an hundred years when he was brought forth to Execution they prepared a great and long paper painted about with red Devils which when he beheld throwing away his Hood he put on this Miter upon his head saying Our L. Jesus Christ when he suffered death for me the most wretched Sinner did wear a Crown of Thorns upon his head and I for his sake will willingly wear this Cap As he went to his suffering he sang some Hyms and coming to the place of Execution he was bound to the stake and so fire was set to him which he endured with admirable valour for standing at the stake bound and the Executioner kindling the fire behind him he bid him kindle it before his face For said he if I had been afraid of it I had not come to this place having had so many opportunities offered me to escape it The whole City of Constance admired his Christian Courage and Resolution At his giving up the Ghost he said Hanc animam in flammis offero Christe tibi This Soul of mine in flames of fire O Christ I offer thee XXXV Many Christians being assembled together in a Church Maximinus the Tyrant Emp commanded it to be surrounded with armed Men and set on fire but first proclaimed that whosoever desired life should come forth and worship the Idols whereupon one stepping up into a Window answered in the name of all the rest We are all Christians and will do service to none but the true God Upon which speech the fire was kindled and there were burnt many Thousands of Men Women and Children In Thebaide so many Christians were slain that the Swords of the Tormentors grew blunt and they were so tired that they were fain to sit down and rest them while others took their places and yet the Martyrs were no whit discouraged but to the last gasp sung Psalms of Praise unto God Acts and Mon. Vol. 1. XXXVI Theodosius the Great a Christian Emperor having in Aegypt abolished their Heathenish Sacrifice and Worship upon pain of Confiscation and death the People fearing that the omission of their accustomed Superstitions would make the River Nilus which they honoured as a God keep in his streams and not water the Land as formerly they thereupon began to mutiny whereupon the President writ to the Emperor beseeching him for once to gratify the People by conniving at their Superstition to whom he Heroically answered That it was better to continue faithful and constant to God than to prefer the over flowing of Nilus and the fertility of the Earth before Piety and Godliness and that he had rather Nilus should never overflow than that they should make it rise by Sacrifices and Inchantments Sozomen XXXVII Benevolus was offered preferment by Justina the Empress an Arrian if he would be an instrument of some vile service What saith he do you promise me an higher place for a reward of Iniquity nay take this away that I have already with all my heart so that I may keep a good conscience And thereupon he threw his Girdle at her feet which was the Ensign of his Honour Acts and Mon. Vol. 1. XXXVIII It is said of Luther that he alone opposed all the world he used to say Let me be counted proud or passionate so I be not found guilty of sinful silence when the cause of God suffereth Madness in this case is better than mildness Moderation here is meer sottishness yea it is much worse He being cited by an Herald of Arms to appear before the Coun. at Wormes many of his Friends persuaded him not to adventure himself to such a present danger to whom he answered That he was resolved and certainly determined to enter into Wormes in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ although he knew that there were as many Devils to resist him as there were Tiles to cover the Houses in Wormes His Christian Courage was extraordinary and therefore when Melancthon knowing the rage of the Papists and the Emperors threats to subvert the Gospel was much troubled at it gave himself wholly up to grief sighs and tears Luther writ thus to him In private conflicts I am weak and you are strong but in publick conflicts you are found weak and I strong●r because I am assured that our cause is just and true if we fall Christ the Lord and Ruler of the world falleth with us and suppose he fall I had rather fall with Christ than stand with Caesar I extreamly dislike your excessive cares with which you say you are almost consumed that these reign so much in your heart it is not from the greatness of your dangers but from the greatness of your incredulity if the cause be bad let us recant it and flie back if it be good why do we make God a Lyar who hath made us these great promises cast thy care upon the Lord c. Be of good comfort I have overcome the world If Christ be the Conqueror of the world why should we fear it as if it would overcome us A man would fetch such sentences as these upon his knees from Rome to Jerusalem be not afraid be couragious and cheerful sollicitous for nothing the Lord is at hand to help us When King Henry the Eighth of England had writ bitterly against Luther Let the Henries says he the Bishops the Turk and the Devil himself do what they can we are Children of the Kingdom worshipping and waiting for that Saviour whom they and such as they spit upon and crucify Erasmus writes thus If saith he Luther commending the Kings good intention had proceeded by strong Arguments without violating Kingly Majesty in my judgment he had taken a better course for the defence of his cause for what made Luther use these words in his Book come hither my Lord Henry and I will teach you to this Luther replies If any man saith he be offended at my sharpness against the King let him know that in that Book I deal with senseless Monsters who contemned my best and most modest writings and by my Humility and Modesty were more hardned in their Errors Besides I abstained from bitterness and Lies with

is but a poor Baker in Edenburgh and works hard for his living whom this Knave would make a Lord to curry favour with me and make you believe I am a great man born when there is no such matter Peachmans Compleat Gentleman p. 5. LXVIX It is said of Augustus Caesar that after a long inquiry into all the parts of his Empire he found but one man who was accounted never to have told a Lie for which cause he was judged to be capable worthy to be the chief Sacrificer in the Temple Cornelius Nepos remembers of Titus Pomponius Atticus a Knight of Rome and familiar Friend to Tully that he was never known to speak an untruth neither but with great impatience to hear one related his uprightness was so remarkable that not only private men made suit to him that they might commit their whole Estate to his Trust but even the Senate themselves besought him that he would take the management of divers Offices into his Charge Heraclides in his History of the Abbot Idur speaks of him as a Person extreamly devoted to truth and gives him this threefold commendation That he was never known to tell a Lie that he was never heard to speak ill of any man and lastly that he used not to speak at all but when necessity required Xenocrates the Philosopher was known to be a man of that Fidelity and Truth in speaking that whereas no mans Testimony might be taken in any cause but upon Oath yet the Athenians among whom he lived gave to him alone this priviledge That his Evidence should be lawful and good without swearing Laert. Vit. Philos LXX One who was designed for an Agent and Ambassadour waited upon the knowing and experienced Lord Wentworth for some direction in his Conduct and Carriage to whom he thus delivered himself To secure your self and serve your Country you must at all times and upon alloccasions speak Truth for saith he you will never be believed and by this means your speaking Truth will both secure your self if you be questioned and put those you deal with to a great loss who will still act contrary to what you declare in all their inquiries and undertakings Albertus the Popish Archbishop of Mentz reading by chance in the Bible one of his Council coming in asked him what his Highness did with that Book The Archbishop answered I know not what this Book is but I am sure that all which is written therein is quite against us Luther Coll. p. 11. LXXI When Aristobulus the Historian presented to Alexander the Great a Book that he had writ of his Glorious Archievements wherein he had flatteringly made him greater than he was Alexander after he had read the Book threw it into the River Hydaspis and told the Author That it were a good deed to throw him in after it the same Prince did also chase a certain Philosopher out of his presence because he had long lived with him and yet never reproved him for any of his Vices and Faults Maximilian the first Emperor of Germany though he might be desirous to be famous to Posterity for his Noble Actions and Atchievements yet he was very averse and afraid to be praised to his face when therefore on a time divers eloquent and learned men did highly extol him with mighty praises in their Panegyricks he commanded Cuspinianus to return them an answer extempore and withal take heed said he that you praise me not for a mans own Praises from his own mouth carry but an evil savour with them It is written of our Henry 5. that he had something of Caesar in him which Alexander the Great had not that he would not be drunk and something of Alexander the Great that Caesar had not that he would not be flattered Cambdens Remains p. 228. LXXII Pambo came to a learned man and desired him to teach him some Psalm who began to read unto him the 39th Psalm and the first verse I said I will look to my ways that I not offend with my Tongue Pambo shut the Book and took his leave saying he would go learn that point and having absented himself for some months he was demanded by his Teacher when he would go forward he answered That he had not yet learned his old Lesson to speak in such a manner as not to offend with his Tongue Sueton. Hist LXXIII Some men have been also famous for being great Lovers and Promoters of Peace for though the frantick world hath generally made Darlings of such as have been clad in Steel the destroyers of Cities the suckers of Humane blood and such as have imprinted the deepest scars upon the Face of the Universe though these are the men it hath Crowned with Lawrels advanced to Thrones and flattered with the misbecoming Titles of Hero's and Gods while the Sons of Peace are remitted to the cold entertainment of their own Virtues yet there have ever been some who have found so many Heavenly Beauties in the face of Peace that they have been contented to love that sweet Virgin for her self and to court her without the consideration of any Additional Dowry For we read that Otho the Emperor when he saw that he must either lay down the Empire or else maintain himself in the possession thereof by the blood and slaughter of a number of Citizens he determined with himself to die a voluntary death and when his Friends and Soldiers desired him that he would not so soon begin to despair of the event of the War he replied That his life to him was not of that value as to occasion a Civil War for the defence of it who can chuse but admire that such a Spirit as this should be found in an Heathen Prince and he too not above thirty years of Age. Erasmus Apotheg LXXIV The Inhabitants of the Islands of Borneo not far from the Molucca's in the East-Indies live in such detestation of War and are so great lovers of Peace that they hold their King in no other Veneration than that of a God so long as he studies to preserve them in Peace but if he discover inclinations to War they never leave till he is fallen in Battel under the Arms of his Enemies so soon as he is slain they set upon the Enemy with all imaginable fierceness as men that fight for their Liberty and for such a King as will be a great lover of Peace nor was there ever any King known amongst them that was the persuader or Author of a War but he was deserted by them and suffered to fall under the Sword of the Enemy Dinoth Memor p. 76. LXXV Constantius the Emperor observing such differences among the Fathers of the Church called the Council of Nice at which also himself was present at this time divers little Books were brought to him containing their mutual complaints and accusations of each other all which he received as one that intended to read and take cognizance of them all but when

his Chair his Cloths were turned up or tucked up higher than was decent or seemly when one of the Prisoners who was upon sale cryed out unto him Good my Lord I beseech you parden me and suffer me not to be sold amongst the rest for I am a Friend of yours and so I was to your Father before you I pray thee good Fellow said Prilip whence grew this great Friendship betwixt us and how comes it about Sir said the Prisoner I would gladly give you an account of that privately in your Ear Then Philip commanded he should be brought unto him who thus whispered in his Ear Sir I pray you let down your Maritle a little lower before for sitting thus in the posture as you do you discover that which is not meet to be seen hereupon Philip spake aloud to his Officers Let this man said he he set at liberty for in truth he is one of our good Friends and wisheth us well though I either knew it not before or at least had forgotten it A poor old Woman came to him one time and desired him to take notice of her Cause when she had often interrupted him with her clamours in this manner the King at last told her he was not at leisure to hear her No said she be not then at leisure to be King Philip for some time considered of the Speech and presently he heard both her and others that came with complaints to him Plutarchs Morals XL. Pyrrhus King of Epirus was advised to put an idle Fellow out of the City who spake nothing but evil against him he replied It 's better to keep him here still speaking evil of us but to a few but if we drive him away he will speak evil of us every where At another time several young men were brought to him who in their drink spoke very vilely and basely of him Pyrrhus asked them whether the Complaint were true or not It is true said one of them if it please your Grace and had not our Wine failed us we had spoken a great deal more Pyrrhus laughing at this answer dismissed them without punishment Plutarchs Lives XLI Antigonus the Successor of Alexander the Great lay long sick of a lingering disease and afterwards when he was recovered well again We have gotten no harm said he by this sickness for it hath taught me not to be so proud by putting me in mind that I am but a mortal man Antigonus once in Winter time was driven to incamp in a place destitute of all provisions necessary for the life of man by occasion whereof certain Soldiers not knowing that he was so nigh unto them spake very presumptuously of him and reviled him to purpose but he opening the Cloth or Curtain of his Pavillion with his walking Staff If said he you go not farther off to rail at me I will make you to repent it and so withdrew himself Plutarchs Morals XLII King Robert was one of the greatest Kings of France on a time he surprized a Rogue who had cut away half of his Cloak furred with Ermines to whom yet so taken and in an Act so insufferably presumptuous he did no further evil but only said mildly to him Save thy self and leave the rest of my Cloak for another who may have need of it Causins H. Cour. XLIII Casimer King of Poland intending to divert himself called a Knight one of his Domestick Servants to him inviting him to play with him at Dice they did so and Fortune was favourable one while to one and then to the other so that having spent much time in gaining little upon each other and it being grown far in the night it was agreed to set the whole sum in controversy upon one single cast of the Dice Casimer proved the more fortunate and drew all the mony to him the Knight displeased and incensed at his bad fortune in the heat of his impatience falls upon the King and with his fist strikes him over the mouth It is a capital Crime for the Servant to strike his Lord and the same also his Prince but though all present were inraged at this unsufferable action yet he escaped by the benefit of the night though not so but that he was seized in the morning brought back and set in the presence of Casimer to receive his Sentence he having well weighed the matter brake into this wise Speech My Friends this man is less guilty than my self nay whatever is ill done is on my part Heat and sudden Passion which sometimes oversways even wise men did transport him and moved both his mind and hand to do as he did But why did I give the cause Why unmindful of my place and dignity did I play with him as my equal And therefore says he to the Knight take not only my Pardon but my Thanks too for by a profitable correction thou hast taught me that hereafter I should do nothing which is unworthy of a Prince but retain my self in the just limits of decency and gravity Having said this he freely dismissed him Lipsius Monit XLIV Frederick was made Bishop of Vtricht and at the Feast the Emperor Lodovicus Pius sitting at his right hand admonished him that being mindful of the profession he had newly taken upon him he would deal justly and as in the sight of God in the way of his vocation without respect of Persons Your Majesty gives me good advice said the Bishop but will you please to tell me whether I had best begin with this Fish upon my Trencher at the Head or the Tail At the head said the Emperor for that is the more Noble part Then Sir said the Bishop in the first place do you renounce that Incestuous Marriage you have contracted with Judith the Emperor took this reprehension so well that he dismissed her accordingly Polybius p. 223. XLV Alexander the Great having taken a famous Pyrate and being about to condemn him to death asked him Why dost thou trouble the Seas And why said he dost thou trouble the whole world I with one ship seek my Adventures and therefore am called a Pyrate thou with a great Army warrest against Nations and therefore art called an Emperor so that there is no difference betwixt us but in the name Alexander was so well pleased with this his freedom of Speech that in consideration of what he had said he dismissed him without inflicting any punishment upon him Chetwind Hist Collect. XLVI There came a young man to Rome who in the opinion of all men exceedingly resembled Augustus Caesar the Emperor whereof he being informed sent for him being in presence he asked him if his Mother had never been at Rome the Stranger answered No but his Father had the Emperor took patiently this sharp reply and sent him away without harm Polythron p. 147. XLVII Marcus Antonius Pius the Emperor used to take well the free and merry Jests of his Friends even such as seemed to be uttered with