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A07270	Vnhappy prosperitie expressed in the histories of Ælius Seianus and Philippa the Catanian· Written in French by P: Mathieu and translated into English by Sr. Th: Hawkins; Aelius Sejanus, histoire romaine. English	Matthieu, Pierre, 1563-1621.; T. H. (Thomas Hawkins), Sir, d. 1640.; Matthieu, Pierre, 1563-1621. Histoire des prosperitez malheureuses d'une femme cathenoise, grande seneschalle de Naples. English. aut; Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. De casibus virorum illustrium.	1632 (1632)	STC 17666; ESTC S112489	161,436	318

Consull onely did it by vertue of the Iulian Law Agrippina was so incensed to see her kinswoman thus unworthily used that she thereupon sickned Tiberius visiteth her and after complements of good wishes for her health sorrow instantly drew sighs from the heart and teares from the eyes of the sicke when having deplored the miserie and ruine of her house she besought the Emperour to ease her afflictions give her leave to marrie her youth being unable to continue in this solitude nor any other cōtentment remaining among honest women of this her age but wedlocke Non aliud probis quam ex matrimonio solatium Tac. as also that he would be pleased seriously to embrace the protection of the widow and children of Germanicus This request which I O Father make to you is not because I am either troubled at my solitarinesse or that there is any thing in the world can re-inkindle my love the first being raked up in the ashes of Germanicus and which shall never be revived This is not a matter to give me content there is none left for mee But if the Gods have as yet decreed any favour for me they must afford me a new heart to entertaine it For they never hitherto have allowed any to mine but acerbities it not being able to hold or retaine pleasures I stand in need of one who may comfort not my courage but cherish my patience against mine enemies Reason of state is a contravention against common Reason in respect of one reason or one benefit much greater and more universall State rules which transcend all the reasons of ordinary lawes could not approve this her demand because being a woman as well praised for chastity as fruitfulnesse she would have filled a house with grand-children of Augustus who all one day might pretend to the succession of the Empire For which cause Tiberius considering the prejudice the state was like to receive thereby made her no answer and that he might give her no further notice either of his distast or feare he slightly retired not speaking one word An advised answer neither discovers the offence nor feare Ne offensio aut metus prodatur Tac. This silence and slacknesse the more inflamed Agrippina but since the first arrowes of revenge are injuries and what cannot be done through want of power is in heat of anger wished Prima semper irarum tela maledicta sunt quicquid non possumus imbecilli optamus irati Salu. she vomited all out which lay on her heart Sejanus who knew how to take his time ponders all this and by an officious disloyalty causeth to be said to this Lady that the designes which Tiberius hath concealed in his heart against her are now on the point to breake forth that he is resolved to poison her and therefore wished her to take nothing either from his hand Solum insidiarum remedium si non intelligantur Tac. or of his meat Agrippina who out of her wisdome was not to make shew of this counsell for the danger might ensue in taking notice to know the purposes of the Prince presently bare her heart on her forehead being at his table stiffely resolved on silence and abstinence When he saw she had not tasted of an apple which he presented her with his owne hand and that she gave it to those who waited at the table he turned to his mother and said in her eare It is not to be wondered at Non mirum si princeps quid seuerius statuit in eum a quo veneficii insimulatur Tac. if I heretofore haue decreed any harsh thing against this woman since she accounts me a poysoner Where distrust begins friendship ends From this instant their spirits became irreconciliable and the rumour ran thorow Rome Tiberius would put Agrippina to death either in private or publike Thereupon Tiberius makes a voyage to Naples the designe whereof had often beene resolved set on foot againe and broken of Certus procul urbe degere Tac. He said it was to dedicate a Temple to Iupiter at Capua and another to Augustus at Nola Augustus died at Nola. Cum saevitiam ac libidinem factis promoret locis occultabat Tac. where he dyed but his intention was to absent himselfe from the City It is certaine that Sejanus knowing his humour advised this retirement that he might have opportunity at his pleasure to rule him but because he remained there five yeares after his death I suppose he chose this place to cover the exorbitances of his life Weake old age makes a Prince to be despised Dion speakes it of Tiberius and Nerva Dia togeras cataphronoumenon There are some hold opinion it was also to conceale his old age which made him contemptible and that he might not expose his body to publike view which was ready to fall in pieces and his spirit to issue our as it were from a building the wals whereof are ruinate and planchers rotten This ill habit of body made him ashamed he was tall of stature meager and thin his shoulders crooked and hollow his head bald and void of haire his face over-run with pushes and mattery botches Adrian was the first Emperour who let his beard grow to cover his scarres and alwayes spotted and disfigured with plaisters The haire of his beard covered not his deformities for the Emperours ware none His nature was pleased with solitarinesse and used it much at Rhodes where he fled from company to hide the shame of his owne excesses and those of his wife Soveraigne authority is incapable of company One of the most apparant reasons was his impatience not being any longer able to endure neare his mother who would doe all nor could he take the authority out of her hands he having received the Empire from her Matrem dominationis sociam aspernabatur Tac. Vpon all occasions she upbraided him that he teigned not but by her meanes that he was no lesse obliged to her for his fortune than his birth Nor is it to be doubted for Livia perceiving Augustus would declare Germanicus his successor upon the conceit this election would be acceptable to the people who loved and applauded him obtained so much by her prayers and conjurations that Tiberius was assured of Empire after Augustus and Germanicus after Tiberius Livia put him in mind hereof The memory was a reproach Qui exprobrat reposcit Tac. the reproach a summons of acknowledgement and the failing herein Ingraritude He then undertooke this journey to absent himselfe from his Mother and was attended by very few Martino participe Sejanus Curtium Atticum oppressit Tac. One Senator Cocceius Nerva skilfull in the lawes Sejanus one Knight and Curtius Atticus whom Sejanus ruined The other were men of learning and for the most part Grecians For he entertained himselfe with their discourses was delighted with the riches and elegance of this language and spake it distinctly properly and

to their designes and so direct them to the utmost limits Piso by petty crimes is mounted to the greatest from avarice to rapine from thence to practices so to ambition and from ambition to the violation of the authority of lawes by that way to hasten to the contempt of the Gods To Spaine hee hath given testimony of his avarice to Syria of his ambition and to the house of Germanicus of his impiety So soone as you honoured him with the charge of Lievtenant to Germanicus Haud invito imperatore ea fieri occultus rumor incedebat Tac. he dissembled not his ambition to become Generall practising at Rome to make him odious to his father and in the Armie to be despised of the souldiers He laboured to draw them to his devotion expelled the Tribunes who would not depend on him filled their places with persons trustie Defidiae in castris licentia in urbibus Tac. Eousque corruptionis provectus ut in sermone vulgi parens legionum haberetur Tac. and to make himselfe beloved by men of warre permitted sloth in the Campe riots in the Citie insolence in the field and was then called father of the legions On the other side Plancina went equall with Agrippina and undertooke matters above the decorum of women was often present in the exercises of the Cavallerie and race of swift horses And though this was harsh to a temper whose actions were civill Secreta studia pai● non potest animus ad civilia erectus agendique cupidu● Sen. yet he thought it more fit to dissemble them than disquiet the Emperour his father with troublesome complaints He commandeth Piso to leade one part of the Legions into Armenia or send his sonne thither he made no account of the one or the other and lost the opportunitie of a service most important for the Empire Si quando adsideret a●rox ac dissentire manifestus Tac. When he sate in Councell with Germanicus or on a seat of justice under him he sharply and impudently opposed all his designes I will recite an incredible insolence but so certaine that he will not dare denie it thereby to manifest that follie and malice were inseparable companions and sisters in all his actions Being present at a feast of the King of Nabathaea seeing the golden Crownes given him were not of like lustre or weight with those of Germanicus and Agrippina hee cast them to the ground and full as foolish as malicious undertooke to reprove the magnificence of the feast discoursed against superfluitie and said such an expence was fit for a Roman Emperour not the sonne of a King of Parthia He who offendeth a Prince hath no safe●y but in absence Silly man didst thou thinke ever after this to finde confidence in the soule or securitie in the friends of Germanicus whom thou so shamelesly hadst offended although he were condemned for being too good Erat Germanicus clemens Sen. and for suffering too much Could'st thou suppose there might bee any safe retreat in the world to protect thee from the anger of a Prince extracted from the bloud of Augustus Hast thou ever heard the hearts of this line have beene exasperated without ensuing punishment And behold why Plancina Nunquam erit foelix quem torquebit Sen. who could not esteeme her selfe happie whilst Agrippina was so told her husband hee must either perish or revenge himselfe and either pull this thorne out of his owne heart or suffer another to doe it Admire Conscript Fathers the goodnesse and generositie of this Prince Patres conscripti Plut. It is a generous way of revenge to let the enemy see one can bee revenged who having so often and so sensibly beene offended by Piso hath ever contented himselfe with letting him know he could have revenged but did save when hee might destroy Nescius quibus insectationibus peteretur mansue●udine tamen agebat Tac. Hee came to Rhodes unto him and was well advertised of all the practices he used against him but bare himselfe with such equalitie and temper that upon notice a storme had cast him on the sands hee sent vessels to dis-ingage him Potest quando●ue inte●i●● m●●ci ad casu●●●ofe ri Tac. although if he there had left him only Chance could have beene accused of his losse and Fortune supposed to conspire in his revenge Germanicus visiting Aegypt was curious to see the sources of Nilus Nilus cujus inenarrabilu natura est cum mundo traxit principia Sen. that memorable river which began with the world and in his returne found Piso had changed the Decrees made at his departure altered what he established Amici accendendis offensionibus callidi Tac. and contemned his commands Hee was much troubled herewith his servants animated him to resent it and hee could not so dissemble it but that choler appeared by his words and revenge in his menaces Piso retireth Germanicus fals sicke Piso who knew the force of the malady removes not far off and death is hastened by the violence of the poyson Ah cruell man Heare the words of this dying Prince yea dying words which eternally shal live in the memory of the Romans I dye miserably in the flower of mine age by the treason of Piso and Plancina The last words of a dying Prince fortified the complaint against the authors of his death I conjure you my friends to let the people of Rome know these wretches cut the throats of the neece of Augustus and her six little children Where are hearts to be found which these words doe not rent asunder Yet thou Piso livest still and the Sunne affords thee her light Thy conscience not knowing where to hide thee hath brought thee hither to suffer punishment denying thee the safetie thou elsewhere hast sought Tutum aliquaeres in mala conscientia praestat nulla securum Sen. As it hath failed thee in deliberation on this crime so hath it betrayed thee in leading thee to punishment What hast thou done after this parricide Thou didst visit the cities of Asia and spend thy time in the faire houses of Achaia This was done Subdola mora scelerum probationet subvertit Tac. to the end proofes might vanish and witnesses dye It is needfull Fathers Conscript to set Piso in the condition of a man convict to reduce him into the state of one accused Hee hath not done as the good man Valerius Publicola who being accused Mihifasces jus Praetoris mihi legiones date forsooke his house at Velia and lodged in the village to the end he might ease them of the trouble to finde him out The innocent man flyeth not from judgement but hee that is culpable avoydeth the Iudges If he had beene accused for taking armes hee purposed to shelter himselfe with the power he had in Syria under Germanicus his Generall if to have layd hands on publique treasures he supposed the share which hee distributed among his friends would save the

house the people hewed him in pieces and that of a man on whom Gods and men had accumulated all that which might make him great and glorious Ex eo nihil superfuit quod carnifex traheret Sen. there was nothing left for the hang-man to tye to his hooke and cast into Tiber. To reconcile them I suppose You must looke on P. victor of the 14. stations of Rome and what they containe after he was executed they set him on those staires that the people might see him and that in this fury they dragged him from thence in an instant and having distended him on the banke of Tiber they cut him in pieces or perhaps in fourteene quarters as many as the City had wards and that these pieces were drawne three dayes together about the City All sorts of outrages were done to this miserable body some through inhumanity others for revenge many for example and all to the end it might not be thought they had either loved or knowne him Iuvenal relateth the discourse which then was frequent at Rome for every one gave liberty to his tongue according to his opinion Behold the prose of his verse I perceive it is best to dye Perituros audio multos nil dubium magna est f●rnacula ut male defensua c. Qum atim●● c. curramus precipites dum jacet in ripa calcemus Caesaris hostem c. pavidum in jus cervice astricta dominam trabat c. visne salutari sicut Sejanus habere Tantundem atque illi sellas don●●● curules Illum exercitibus prapa●ere ●●tor haberi There is no doubt to be made of it The furnace wherein they are to be cast is very large I met my poore friend Brutidius last day neare Mars his Temple hee was very pale and much astonished I feare lest being called Ajax hee kill himselfe with his owne hand But that we may not be taken for friends to Sejanus and perish without defence let us run to this body whilst it lieth on Tibers banke and cry out aloud We trample under foot the enemy of Caesar He who is a servant let him renounce and forsake his Maister let him take him by the throat writh his necke and drag him all trembling before the Commissaries This is the way to save himselfe and be rewarded The people then made this discourse of Seianus in secret Wouldest thou be followed and courted like Seianus have as much wealth as he dispose of dignities give the Ivory chaires command over armies be accounted the Governour of the Prince dispatch his businesses whilst he is in the straightened Grot of Capreae Principis angusta Caprearum in rupe sedentis cum grege Chaldaeo with his troup of Chaldeans and Astrologers Wouldest tbou have command over the company which carrieth the dart or three pointed Iavelin Wouldest thou command over the Cavalry over those bands which abide in the palace to guard the Prince Quinolunt occidere quenquam posse volunt ut rebus letu par sit mensura malorum Why doest thou not desire it They that will kill no man wish to have the power Every one affecteth honors and riches which are notwithstanding such that the measure of their evils who pursue them equalleth the contentment they bring Love you better to weare the robe of Seianus whom you see dragged in the streets than to be a Magistrate in the forsaken villages of Fidenae Gabij An Fidenarum Gabiorumque esse potestis Et de mensura vis dicere or be the Edile of Vlubris which is almost desolate and give judgement on measures and weights and cause those to bee broken which are not lawfull Numerosa parabat Excelsa ●urri tabulata unde altior esset you must then confesse that Seianus hath never knowne what is to be desired For in pursuing great honours and riches he did nothing but prepare a scaffold for himselfe on a high Turret to fall downe and cast himselfe headlong from the top thereof What overthrew the Crassi the Pompeyes and him that conquered the Quirites and scourged them like slaves Truly Summus nempè locus Magnaque numinibus vota exaudita malignis Iuven. elevated fortunes to which men mount by wiles and ambitious desires such as maligne starres raise to ruine those that built them Few Tyrants have descended to the sonne in law of Ceres and a naturall death Their end was not drie nor hath bloud beene spared to moysten it Seneca saw this execution and yet wrote nothing thereof though hee were then of an age to observe it for he was in Rome fifteen yeares before the death of Augustus He much wondreth that of the body of a man of such eminencie and magnificence nothing remained for buriall If excessive joy killed a mother Si ad mortem agit matres magnum gaudium quid magnus dolor Sen. what may extreme sorrow Apicata was assailed with an incredible griefe when shee saw her children on the Gemonian steps Cratesiclea Cratesiclea begged she might be put to death before her children but the Hangman slue them before her face Plut. mother of Cleomenes King of Sparta whose head Ptolomie cut off and hanged his body on a paire of gallowes seeing her children slaine before her eyes said Out alas my children whither are you gone Apicata spake to these innocents which shee beheld on this infamous place Poore Infants where are you now In this anguish she retired to her house where she wrote a discourse of Drusus his death sent it to Tiberius which done she slue her selfe Ordo sceleris per Apicatam Sejano proditus tormentis Eudemi ac Lygdi patefactus est Tac. She had not stayed so long before she discovered it had not the love of her children withheld her for well shee knew that in crimes of treason they should suffer the like punishment with the father Shee accuseth Sejanus Livilla Lygdus and Eudemus these put upon the wheele which was the torture confessed all Tiberius caused divers to be racked to discover the complices It was told him there was one arrived who came from Rhodes and forgetting he was a creature of his owne whom hee had sent hee presently caused him to be put to the torture and having found his owne errour Errore detecto occidi jussit ne divulgaret injuriam commanded hee should be killed that he might not divulge the wrong hee had sustained This was to preserve the reputation of a just Prince by a notable injustice The death of Sejanus gave confidence and safetie to Tiberius and when he was moved to chuse twentie Senators to bee alwayes neere about him with swords by their sides he answered Mibi vita tanti n●n est ut armis tegenda sit Tac. Life was not so deare to him that hee would submit himselfe to preserve it by armes But vitious and exorbitant habits passe not away And hee not causing his vices to dye before his

bee acquired with honestie and justice The disorders which are observed in apparrell diet buildings curiosities and superfluitie of private houses Conviviorū luxuria vestium aegrae civitatis indicia sunt Sen. are symptomes not onely of a sicke but a dying State Troubles and seditions are commonly supported by the despaire of forlorne people and such as have nothing to lose of which condition were those Hoc in Republica seminarium Catilinarium Cic. who entred into conspiracie with Catiline Great and excessive were the confusions during the reigne of Tiberius but such as were derived from former times for he was wont to say The Romans learned to dispend their owne meanes in civil wars and the wealth of others among strangers It is an admirable thing that having provided against so many other exorbitancies he would not correct the ryot and dissolution which overflowed through the contempt of Somptuarie Lawes Non sum offenfionum avidus pro Rep. suspicio inanes irritas jure deprecor Tac. Was not this because hee would not begin the example of reformation in his owne house surfetted with superfluities or by reason disorder was grown into custome and discipline or that he would not unprofitably and without effect draw publique dis-affection upon himselfe His greatest reason was not to expose his commands to contempt nor open the veine before he had the fillet ready to stanch the bloud These remarkable words which he spake to the Senate on this occasion should be represented to Kings as often as they institute laws the effects whereof were difficult and doubtfull Omittenda potius praevalida adulta vttia quam hoc adsequi ut palam fiat quibus flagitin impares simus Tac. A Prince ought rather to dissemble an inveterate disorder and which is of much consequence than to put his authority in hazard and suffer his weaknesse publikely to appeare especially when they are matters which he cannot remedy After the execution of Sejanus the Senate commanded the statue of liberty to be erected in the open market place and that every yeare on the same day Sejanus was put to death a Combat on horse-backe should bee exhibited and many beasts there slaine A thing never done before They likewise prohibited excessive honours to bee conferred on any man or to sweare by other name than that of the Emperour All the friends of Sejanus ran his fortune and received what they expected Quam male est extra legem viventibus quicquid meruerunt semper expectant Petr. The prisons were filled some condemned to death others banished all deprived of their offices The City seemed a field where nothing was to be seene but mangled bodies or Ravens which rent them Iacuit immensa strages omnis sexus omnis etas ●ust●es ignobites Tac. Tiberius was so accustomed to executions that he caused all those to be put to death who in prison were accused to have any intelligence with Sejanus Faeminae quia occupandae re●pub argui non poterant ob lachrimas iuensabantur Tac. there were laid on the pavement an infinite number of dead men of all ages and conditions eminent noble plebeian It not being permitted any man to stand still to behold them nor retire to bewaile them for both the one and the other were reputed a crime Vitia was punished with death for having lamented her sonne Geminus and because women were not to be accused for attempting on the state their teares were accounted criminall Interciderat fortis humanae commercium ut metus quantumque saevitiae glisceret miseratione arcebatur Tac. Sorrow was judged by the countenance and griefe by the vehemency of passion in such sort that the bodies which Tyber cast up to the shore remained there without buriall so much had feare dissolved commerce betwene nature and compassion Ausus est amplecti amicitiam quam caeteri falso exuerant Tac. There was not a man which disavowed not the friendship of Sejanus One only Roman Knight Marcus Terentius accused to have beene his friend freely protested it when the rest made semblance to renounce it Minus expedit agnoscere crimen quam abnuere And thus he spake before the Senate It were perhaps more expedient for my fortune to deny the crime whereof I am accused than confesse it But hap what will I professe to have beene Sejanus his friend I desire to bee so and much rejoyce to have gained his favour There were 4 in the City 3. in the garrisons Cunctos qui novissimi consilu experti fuimus non uniu● discrimine defendam Tac. I saw him a Colleague with his father in the charge of the Pretorian Cohorts and that he in one and the same time managed the affaires both of peace and warre That those who were his most intimates were powerfull in the Emperours grace and the rest perpetually in terrour and the miserable condition of men accused I will not here produce any man for an example but with the sole hazard of my life defend all those who have had no part in his last designes For we did not our service to Sejanus of Vulsinium but wee followed the fortune of the house of Claudius whereof he by alliance was become the head We Caesar honoured your sonne in Law Non est nostrum astimare quem supra caeteros quibus de causis extollas Tibi summum rerum judicium dii dedere nobis obsequii gloria relicta est Tac. your associate in the Consulship and him who exercised your commands in the common wealth It is not for us to judge what hee ought to bee nor for what cause you raised him above others The Gods have given you the soveraigne dispose of affaires Nothing remaineth for us herein but the only glory of obedience We consider what we see on whom you confer riches and honours and who can hurt or advantage us and no man can deny Abditos principis sensus si quid occultius parat exquirere illicitum Tac. but Sejanus was all this It is not lawfull to penetrate the deepe intentions of the Prince nor what in secret he aimeth at That is doubtfull we therefore attempt it not Thinke not on this last day of Sejanus but the sixteene yeares of his prosperity In that time we honoured Satrius and Pomponius his freed men and it was thought a glorious thing to be knowne by his servants yea his Porter What then shall we make no difference betweene those who have served Sejanus as the Emperours creature and such as followed him in his designes as an enemy of the Empire Insidia in remp concilia caedis adversum imperatorem puniautur de amicitia officiis Idem te Caesar nos absoluerit Tac. It is necessary this distinction be reduced into its just limits to the end the treasons and conspiracies against the state and plots concerning the Emperors life may be punished but for the friendship you have borne him

imprisonment of many of them seisure of their goods and his will was executed with such order and diligence that on one and the same day being the foure and twentieth of Ianuarie by one same signall given they were all cast into prison and few dayes after executed Their goods were given to the Knights of the order of Saint Iohn of Ierusalem who at that time possessed themselves of Rhodes by a prettie stratagem Taking of Rhodes by the Knights of Saint Iohn of Ierusalem in the yeare 1309. causing certaine Souldiers to creepe into the Citie in sheepe-skins amongst a flocke of sheepe and the Captaines disguised like Shepherds Charles died a while after in the yeare 1309 three-score yeares of age God blessed this Prince with a plentifull posteritie to afford him alliance with the best and chiefest houses of Christendome The first Charles Martell King of Hungarie Secondly Lewis a religious man of the Order of Saint Francis and Bishop of Tholouse Thirdly Robert Duke of Calabria who succeeded his father Philip Prince of Tarentum married Catharine Empresse of Constantinople daughter to Philip son of Baldwin Emperour of Constantinople and Beatrice of Sicily daughter of Charles the first king of Naples Fourthly Philip Prince of Tarentum Emperour of Greece Fifthly Iohn Prince of Achaia or Morea Sixthly Raymond Berenguer Count of Andria Seventhly Tristram borne during the imprisonment of his father Eighthly Lewis of Duras Ninthly Peter surnamed Tempest Count of Gravina The eldest daughter Margarite married to Charles Count of Valois and mother of Philip of Valois Blanch married to Iames of Arragon Eleonor to Fredericke King of Sicily Marie to Iames King of Majorica Beatrice to the Marquesse of Este afterward to Bertrand of Baux Prince of Orenge Humbert Daulphin of Vienne Wits are purified in adversitie and Princes who have exercised theirs in the calamities of fortune and necessitie have had better successe than others T●●otheus a more fortunate than able man was painted sleeping and Cities which of themselves were taken in an heape on whom Crownes have fallen without labour and Cities even sleeping As Charles the first got not the Crowne of Naples without paine nor preserved it without perill his reputation being raised upon glorious actions of his vertue and constancie So Charles the second maintained not his but by wrastling with Fortune which to ruine him cast him foure yeeres into the power of his enemies Italy afforded him the glorie of its repose and to have preserved it from sinking under the desperate and furious factions of Gwelphes and Gibel●es He lived so well that hee died willingly That you may die contentedly you must not deplore the actions of life There was not any Nation which admired him not nor shall any age faile to record him Robert his third sonne succeeded him by exclusion of the children of his eldest Charles Martell King of Hungarie The disputation of the Vncles precedencie before the Nephues was treated by Baldus The question whether the Vncle should be preferred before the Nephew was disputed before the Pope at Avignon who more considered the age experience and merit of Robert than the right of those in minoritie At his entrance into rule Lewis the second sonne of Robert dieth at nine yeares of age death tooke Lewis his second son from him whom the Catanois had bred whereat hee conceived such sorrow as wee may of a fruit pulled off before maturitie The death of an Infant is a fruit not fallen off but pulled from the tree before the time so that seeing all the hope of his succession rested on the Duke of Calabria his onely sonne he desired in good time to see him a father and for that purpose sought out a wife for him Henrie of Luxenbourg the Emperour offers his daughter to the son of the King of Sicily in the yeare 1312. Henrie the seventh offered him his daughter but he married one of those which the Emperour Albert left and that no man may enter into this Historie who confirmes not the example of the unhappinesse of prosperitie hee may observe his fortune to be remarkable Having gotten the Empire Battell of Worms where Adolphus of Nassau was slaine the eight and twentieth of Iune 1308. not onely by right of election but by armes for hee discomfited and slue in battell Adolphus of Nassau his Rivall ten yeares after in the yeare 1308 he was slaine by his Cousin German neare the Citie of Bruch and as it were in the sight of the Castle of Habspurg the Cradle which bred the first Princes of the house of Austria This young Prince fell into despaire because the Emperour who had many children to provide for denyed to restore him the Seigniorie of Kiburg which was his mothers Necessitie is wittie in ill counsels A Prince young and needy is apt to enter into ill counsels against him who withholds that which would suffice to preserve him from necessitie Three little Cantons revolted against their Governours in the yeare 1308. The first league of three Cantons of the Switzers was made at Brilan the seventh of Decemb. 1325. He died in the time of his purpose to chastise rigorously the three Townes of the Switzers which revolted against those who governed them as subjects of the Empire Three Pesants who had no other use of iron but to pricke forward their Oxen and cleave wood employed it to raise a warlike Common-wealth which hath an hand in all the warres of Christendome drawes money from the most powerfull Christian Princes and hath fought nine battels to secure their libertie He left two and twentie children by Elizabeth of Carinthia Albert had two and twentie children by his wife Elizabeth of Carinthia and although hee had great possessions in Austria Bohemia Alsatia Swevia and Suitzerland there was not enough to afford a Principalitie to each one yet they were all well provided for and the daughters required in mariage by the best Families of Christendome Robert preferred this alliance before that of the Emperour Henrie the seventh and gave to his sonne Charles Duke of Calabria Catharine Princesse of Austria This Prelation offended the Emperour and began their enmitie which was exasperated by the aid Robert gave to the Gwelphes Robert succoureth the Florentines against the Emperour Henrie of Luxenbourg the Emperour condemneth Robert King of Naples to lose his head 1318. and Florentines The Emperour vexed hereat published a Ban declared him a Rebell against the holy Empire condemnes him to lose his head and the Crowne of Naples The condemned onely appeales to his Sword made his judgement be revoked pursued the Emperour who retired into Piemont and pressed him so hard that hee repented to have incensed a brave and masculine courage Never injure him who can take revenge which accounted not the suffering of injuries laudable nor the forgetfulnesse of them profitable The Florentines afterwards to free themselves from such an enemy who never