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death_n	accusation_n	accuse_v	accuser_n	43	3	10.4977	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16918	VVits theater of the little world	Albott, Robert, fl. 1600.; Bodenham, John, fl. 1600.	1599 (1599)	STC 381; ESTC S113430	200,389	568

priuy to the greatnes of his courage Ariston being in loue with Agetus wyfe found this fraud to get her frō her husband hee promised Agetus to giue him any one thing that he would choose of all that euer he had praying him to doe the like for him againe Ariston agreed and swore it Ariston discharged his promise out of hand forthwith demaunded Agetus wife who because of his oath deliuered her He that bare the office of the chiefe Iudge in Aegipt did weare an Image of truth hanging at his breast which picture was had in singuler estimation of the Druides One when truce was taken with the enemy for 30. daies ouercame his land in the night because the truce was taken for dayes and not nights Cicero Q. Fab. Labeo being by the Romaine Senate appoynted dayes-man betweene the Nolanes Neapolitanes about the bownds of theyr land did commune with eyther of them a part and being come to the place perswaded them rather to set backe then to encroach vpon an other which when eyther of thē had don there was a parcell of ground left in the midst then he caused their bownds to be staked out and the middle part he adiudged to the people of Rome Idem lib. offic Anniball amongst the Carthagenians and Q. Maximus of the Romaines had meruailous cunning in cloaking keeping dissembling making stales and in preuenting the deuises of the enemy Cicero Amongst the Greekes Themistocles the Athenian and Iason the Phaereian excelled in this kind Cicero A Syrian slaue in Sicily after a mad sort raging with a desire to make a rebellion pretended a religion of dooing honour to the Goddesse of Syria and called bond-men to liberty and armes and that he might seeme to doe that by the will of God he held a nut in his mouth stuffed with Surphure and fire the which when he he spake did cast foorth flames P. Diaconus Twēty thousand of the Celtaebrians broght braunches of Olyue like petitioners asking pardon which comming nigh the Romains gaue a violent onset on thē Gracchus went from the campe of purpose and made as though he fled and whilst they were about the spoile hee returned and killed many of them recouering Complega Appian Vlisses was not so wily but he was matched by Palmedes and his dissembled madnes discouered Caesar when he could not condemne one for any sufficient probable crime he made him away by some secret meanes and some were dispatched in his armies by treachery attempts wrought against them by those of theyr owne side this deceite was cruell Diodorus The Achaians a people of Greece did altogether condemne pollicies stratagems in warre accounting of them as of subtilties because they thought that no victory was either of any renowne or certainty except they had in open fight ouercome their enemies by an assigned battaile Polybius Marius a rich Cittizen of Rome who by Augustus got all his wealth alwayes sayde that he would make him his onely heyre which hee vowed to the Emperour the day before he dyed after whose death was found that in all his wil he had not made once mention of Augustus Of Slaunder A wise man keepeth close his eares when hee doubteth of the vertue and honesty of the person accused making Reason their diligent Porter and watch which examineth and letteth in the reports that be good and excludeth those that arise from slaunder and detraction whose Image was excellently described in figures by Apelles EVstace Bishop of Antioche a religious and deuout man seeking to suppresse the heresie of the Arrians was by their false accusation and slaunders depriued from his Sea Eusebius Aristophanes slaundered Socrates a man so much beloued of the Gods in a Comedy called Nebulae the clouds Leontius after hee had put Iustinian to flight caused two of his tale-bearers to be trailed by the feete burned Darius made the accusers of Daniell to be deuoured of Lyons Aristobulus through a false report put to death his owne brother and afterwards dyed for griefe Plato banished accusers slanderers tale-bearers out of his common-wealth Scipio Africanus being accused of many things by the Tribunes of the people aunswered nothing to the crymes layd agaynst him but only said thus In such a day as this is sirs I ouer-came both Carthage and Haniball which the Senators and people hearieg were so far from condemning him that they caused him in a maner to triumph againe Emilius Scaurus being accused by Varius made this aunswere O yee Romaines Varius affirmeth this crime layd against me to be true and Scaurus denieth whom will yee rather beleeue Medius Captaine of all the flatterers that followed Alexander taught them that they should not spare to nip boldly and to byte with store of slaunders for quoth hee although hee that is bitten should be cured of the wound yet the scarre at the least will still remaine By false accusations and slaunders Calisthenes Parmenio and Philotas were vniustly put to death by Alexander Phillip was told that the Grecians spake ill of him behind his backe notwithstanding he did them much good therfore was counsailed to chastice them VVhat would they doe then sayd hee if we should doe them any harme but they make mee a better man for I striue daily both in my words and deeds to proue them lyers He was likewise counsailed to banish one who had slaundered him or put to death but he would doe none of both saying It was not sufficient cause to condemne him and it was better not to let him stirre out of Macedonia where all men knew that he lyed but going among strangers not knowing him they would admit his slaunder for truth Nicholas Scot was beheaded for rayling vppon Maximilian Sforza Duke of Millane Augustus pardoned Cinna that wold haue murdered him and made him Consull but Timagenes for that he railed vpon him hee drane him out of his house deeming that of an enemy he might make a friend but of a rayler a back-biter and slaunderer a man can make nothing else The Frenchmē called back-biters Mouches flies The Romaines called thē Delatores tale-bearers the Greekes Acoustes harkners or spyes Dionysius held tale-bearers in great estimation but at the alteration of the state the Syracusans put them all to the sword Anthony put those tale-bearers to death vvhich could not prooue theyr accusation Critias reproued Archilochus because hee spake not well of him selfe Eschines finding fault with certaine of Demosthenes words and phrases he aunswered Non in eo sitae sunt opes graeciae The summe and substance of the matter dooth not consist in that The Romaines had a law called Lex papia which gaue halfe the goods of the accused to the accuser but Nero brought it to a fourth part and they were euer after called Quarterers because they had a quarter of the goods that were so escheared Aesopus the Phrygian that writ the fables when he came to Delphos was wrongfully accused of enuious persons for stealing a

peece of plate which they had craftily hid in some things about him for the which he was cast downe from a rocke Plut. Lucius Crassus wone himselfe great praise by a noble glorious accusation Cicero An accusation brought Publius Su●pitius eloquence to light when into iudgement he called the seditious and vnprofitable Cittizen C. Norbanus The Lidians had a law that as they sent the condemned murderers to row in the Gallies so they confined those that were detracters and ill tongued men into a secret place farre of from all company the space of halfe a yeare Plut. Tiberius the Emperor condemned a great talker and rayler of his tongue commanded that he should not speake a word the space of a yeare Aristophanes was accused by the Athenians 95. times euer acquitted Narsetes that valiant Generall by false and slaunderous accusations was by Iustine the Emperour depriued of his charge P. Diaconus Theodoricus King of the Goaths in his rage through a forged accusation executed Boetius Symmachus shortly after he was serued at the table with the head of a fish which seemed to him to be the same of Symmachus looking a squint vppon him with which conceit he fell sicke and dyed Olaus Thrasibulus King of the Iewes tooke such a conceite in that he had slaine his brother without hearing his excuse that he died the like befell to Aristobulus for murthering his brother Antiochus who vomited vp his blood in the place where his brothers was spilt and in remorse of conscience dyed Iosephus They which accused Socrates not being able any longer to abide the publique hate strangled themselues Mary of Aragon accused an Earle before the Emperour Otho her husband saying that he would haue defiled her and he was beheaded but the truth being afterwards discouered she was publiquely burned Nicephorus vvriteth the lyke of Constantine the great Leo the Emperour vpon a false accusation condemned Michaell to death which execution being a while deferred the Emperor dyed and Michaell was chosen in his sted Mathias the Sonne of Huniades was charged of ill behauing himselfe towards Ladislaus King of Boheme and Hungary and as he was ready to be condemned his eldest brother hauing been before executed vpon enuy and false information the sayd Ladislaus minding to marry Margaret daughter to Charles the 7 dyed sodainly and Mathias was chosen King of Hungary Loncerus Of Flattery This poyson of mans sences and vnderstanding hath no other scope in the world but deceit selfe-loue and ouerweening of ones selfe yeelneth this large field cleane taking away right iudgement and is blind in regard of what it loueth the feeders of this humour are more dangerous then Rauens for they doe but deuoure the bodies of the dead slatterers of the liuing PHillip sirnamed Gods gift and Constantine banished flatterers frō their courts And at Athence they were put to death as the very ruine and plague of Princes Dion attributeth the hatred vvhich vvas conceiued against Iulius Caesar his death to flatterers Dyonisius of Syracuse sent Philoxenus the Poet to the galowes with those that were condemned to die because heee vvould not flatter him The Thessalians cleane rased a Citty of the Melians because it was named flattery Atheneus The Athenians put Tymagoras to death because to insinuate with Darius he saluted after the Persian manner Agrippa Alexander the great and Alphonsus King of Arragon hauing each of them somewhat awry necke the one of them by nature the other by custome the flatterers and courtiers that attended them helde their necks on the one side to 〈…〉 theyr imperperfections Clisiphus was called the coūterfait of King Phillip because when the king was merry he was merry and whatsoeuer the King tooke in hand this flatterer would maintaine Aristippus coulde better please Dionisius with flattery then Dion the Syracusian could pleasure him with truth Curio the Parasite might perswade Caesar to doe any thing One subtile flattering Sinō did that which tenne yeeres siege could not effect namely the destruction of Troy Virgil. Dionisius sent vnto Philoxenes the Poet a Tragedy of his owne making that hee might reade and correct it which hee returned all blotted and rased from the beginning to the end because hee found it in no respect vvorthy to be published so farre vvas hee from flattering him Augustus so hated flattery that hee could not abide the kneeling of his housholde seruaunts Tiberius woulde not suffer his seruaunts to call him Lord. Alexander when his Parasites perswaded him to thinke himselfe a God sayd That by two things especially he knew himselfe to be a man and no God namely by sleepe and carnall motions Plutarch In the hindermost part of Spaine vvhen those of Siuill had war vvith the Gaditanes it chanced that euen in the midst of the time those of Siuill vvanted mony and two Parasites offered themselues for two yeeres to sustaine the vvarres vvith their own proper charges Aurelius The Emperour Aurelius neuer dranke other then red vvine vvhich Torquatus perceiuing refrained from drinking of VVhitevvine and planted all his Vines vvith redde Grapes for vvhich he made him Consul of Rome Gueuara The Emperour Sigismond strooke one that praysed him too much saying that hee bitte him The flattering followers of Sylla sette vp his image of gold on horse-back in the common pallace at Rome vvith this title Cornelius Sylla the happy Captaine which name beginning of flattery remained firme and stable Appian Antigonus sayde vnto a Poet vvho called him a God therby noting his flattery that the Groome of his stoole knewe there was no such matter Aristotles auditors coūterfeited his stamering Alexanders followers his double chinne shrilnes of speech the schollers of Ennius his drunkennesse Flatterers as the Italians say trauaile betweene Lodi and Placentia but neuer come at Verona Aristippus suing to Dionisius for a friende of his and beeing once denied fell downe before his feete for the which hee was repro●ued but he thus excused it saying I am not in the faulte but Dionisius who hath eares on his feete VVhen the flatterers of Dionisius perceiued that hee held Plato in great estimation they then counterfaited the countenaunce and habite of Philosophers but after that by theyr meanes Plato was expelled they returned to theyr former wicked course of lyuing Plut. Platoes schollers for asmuch as theyr Maister had a broade breast and high shoulders and vvas therefore named Plato which signifieth broade they stuffed theyr garments and vvore vppon theyr shoulders great bolsters to the end they might seeme to bee of the like forme that he vvas Carneades the Phylosopher sayde that the sonnes of noble men learned nothing vvell but to ride for whilst they learned letters theyr Maisters flattered them praysing euery word they spake and in vvrastling theyr Teachers companions submitting themselues fell downe at theyr feete but the horse not knovving who rideth him if he sitte not surely will cast him quickly Laertius Alexander sayd that he loued better the