to the Muses nine a tenth her grace did Ioue betake And with the Graces three a fourth Apollo hir did make The fame Aurelia had in Rome by Caesar first did spryng The like Olimpias had in Grece by Alexander Kyng Who had knowen Cassandana had Cirus fame not wine Or who had heard of Creusas name had not Aeneas bin The force that Hector vsed in fielde extolde Andromachs name The porte that Traiane Emperour had aduaunced Plotinas fame But she that hath no sire no soonne a seconde Delbora is To sit in roiall roume to rule in ioye and state of blisse Who is by Ioue appointed from diuine Camaena schoole Like sadde Cassandra for to sitte in sage Samberta stoole Who with Euphemâ—s fostered was in heigh Latonias towre Whose cradle long Melissa rockt within dame Venus bowre In sadde Sibillas bowre brought vp of sacred Vaesta taught Corinna learned though she was her seruice Sapho sought Giue Saba place Zonobia yelde beholde in place suche one That learned Ladies linke themselues her grace to waite vpon Whom Prudence teache and Iustice rule whom temperaunce doeth professe All vertues rare and godlie giftes her noble minde possesse Whom Gods by birth with one consent agreed hir name should be Pandora for his galaunt giftes in glorie greate to glie Whom if Cornelia were aliue and hard of this hir fame She with Hortensia would from Rome to England viage frame The haughtie dames in warlike weedes those Spartan Ladies lo And Mars himself with ThraciaÌ„s Quenes to this would yeald I know In Phrigian fields in Troian campe was Penthisilea seen With strong Achilles force in fielde to fight like valiaunte Queen In Rutill lande on Turnus side against Aeneas loe Came Quene Camilla armed to fielde the Troians force to knowe The Scithian stoute Quene Tomiris that bloudie Cirus slue With CC. thousandes souldiors slaine whiche Persea long did rue That noble Quene Antiopes and Hippolite in bande Durst bothe Alcides rage endure and Theseus stoute withstande Thus that women were suche wightes to fight in fielde with hande In Saca Scithia Cimbria zoile and in Lacedena lande Though speares and shield thei shooke though harness thei did beare Yet farre inferiour to this Quene in Marshall feates thei weare Minerua she from turrettes high with regall Iuno state Vnto the sacred Nimphes aboue elected soueraigne mate With princely Perseus Pollax lo she slue Medusas broode She cursed Cacus lincke did cutte with strong Alcides moode With sage Vlixes swearde I saie she Poliphemus slue And she with mightiâ— mace of Ioue the ymps of hell subdue She dasseled Argos hundred eyes and doeth Zopirus seede And shall eche vertue plante in tyme and vice in tyme out weede She Dragon Lion Bore and Bull she Harte and Hidra kild She Gereon Cerberus Angeus haue the birdes and Centaries spild She paste Cocitus frostie face with fixed faithe to zoile And sailed Letheus Lothsome lake forgettyng foes to foile She waded firie Phlegeton flud with princelie pacience out And staied not at Stigias streame to ende hir Pilgrime out She from Lotophagus then retournd she past the Ciclops dean She sailed safe by Scillas rocke she fledde not Auernus fene No Gorgone grimme no Ciclop huge no fretyng furies fell No Cirses sight no Cirens voice nor Plutos force in hell Maie moue hir Mast nor shake hir Ship vpon a rocke so build On Acheronta where she sailes towarde Elizeus filde Enioiyng Sanges glisteryng Gemmes possessing Tagus sands Hidaspes and Hiberus wealth with Pactolus pearles in hands The buildinges braue and loftie wales the princelie Turrets hie Whiche Ninus wife in Persea plast whose fame shall neuer die The sumptuous Tombe the wonderous workes the gorgious glistryng graue Whiche Queene of Caria then did make Monsolus bones to saue The stately seates Piramydes which in Aegipt lande abode And Monstrous Phebus shape I saie whiche Chares made in Rhode Dianas Temple Pharaos Toure and Phidias frame in Greece In spect of this her buildynges braue their fame and glorie lese Cadmus Thebes Dardane Troie and Ogdous Memphus made These with Carthage Didos Tonne maie nothyng here perswade She buildeth neWe Ierusalem and Sion vp doth rear And to the Vineyard on hir back she daielie burthens bear The fletyng fame on yearth haue sought she glorie greate in skie They thrugh pompe and she through paine aduaunceth fame on hiâ— They liude to eate they eate to die they die in death to paine She eates to liue she liues to die she dieth to liue againe Ariadne Minoes doughter taught to Theseus stoute the waie From Labirinthus dreadfull deans where Minotaurus laie That wandryng Prince Aeneas then in Cuma taught was so By sage Amalthea Auernus gulfe from limbo lake to goe The soundrie shifts Medea assaide hir Iason sure to saue In Colcus lande with conquest greate the golden fleace to haue Were now these worthie Greekes aliue and iolie champions lo As vnto Delphos streigt thei would vnto his pallace goe She spoiled Labirinthus caues she Minotaurus slue She princely doth possesse in place the Golden fleace in vewe And though Perillus plaied his part the brasen Bull to make Yet was Perillus forced hym self therein his death to take The Leaden horse Aruntius made for others there to die To assaie the newe inuented woorke Aruntius first did frie. Thus saucie Sinon sleight shall die and Phalaris falshode ende And from Zopirus subtle seede her state shall God defende Triumphant Triton sounde thy trumpe though Neptunes rage did rore In spite of Boreas Boisterous blast she sailed saffe to shore Where she like blasyng Phebus beames with siluer shinyng face Bellona like in seate doeth sitte with fine Aglaias grace On whom the dreadfull Driades waite the Oriades high on hill The sacred Nimphes attende her grace her seruice to fulfill Hebe and Calisto light from starrie states discende A perles prince must pearce the cloudes whose fame the skies shall bende Whose fame shall flowe from Nilus bankes through Euphrates to lande From Tigris stragglyng streame her state to golden Ganges sande From Pirens pathe to Helicon from high Parnassus mounte Vnto Libethres well to washe with ladies nine were wonte From Easte to Weste from Southe to Northe her fliyng fame doeth flowe From Pole antartike fast with winges to articke Pole to goe Panomphes Gemme Caliope thy steppe Melpomen staie Yelde honour due Thalia now her seruice Clio assaie Polihimnia with her Musike must and Errato tende in place Euterpe sounde her troumpe of fame her foes for to deface Discende Terpsichore from the skies parte thence Vrania fro A Phenix fine must mounte the skies and you awaie must goe Surrender Cumea vp thy seaete now Samia Phiton flee No longer fame must Themis haue in Delphos now to be Yelde stately Iuno Samos vp flee Delos Dian fro Voide princely Pallas Athens now from Paphos Venus goe Beholde a branche from Brutus line whose vertuous praise to paint My slender skill my simple muse to thinke thereof doe faint For had I Virgills
is written in the liues of the fathers that a young man seruing an Hermet being sent of his maister vnto a village harde by where a certen great Usurer and a vicious man being dead was caryed honorably and buried with solempnitie with the Bishop of that Diocesse which when the boy saw hée wept out that so euyll a man so wicked an Usurer should haue such solemne buriall and returning whom hée founde his maister deuoured of a Lion which so mooued him almost to bée beside him selfe saying The wicked Usurer dieth with greate honour and is buried with great pompe that liued all the dayes of his life in sinne and wickednesse My maister being fifty yeres in the wildernesse an Hermet is eaten vp and deuoured of a Lion whiche studied and traueyled to fight with sinne and with the deuyll An angel appeared vnto the boy saying The deuyll can no more hurt thy maister for hée hath done his worst and now thy maister hath conquered the deuyll The deuyll spared the Usurer in his life time that hée might possesse him after his death SOcrates therefore dying héeing constrayned for that hée refused their gods and sayd that hée would rather worship a Dogge than the gods of Athens and to drinke his last draught perceyuing that his wife wept demaunded the cause of her wéeping his wife aunswered and sayd the innocencie of Socrates death is the cause of my wéeping Nay rather sayde Socrates laugh and reioyce at that and wéepe at him that deserued death The like examples haue wée of King Antigonus and Anaxagoras the Philosopher hearing both that their sonnes dyed in the warres the one sayd I knowe I hadde my sonne borne to die the other without vexation or chaunge of countenaunce made him be buried out of hand saying It is no straunge thing to heare of death aswell vnto Princes as vnto poore men happened A Great King being admonished by his Phisitions of death began to lament much his state saying Alasse Myser that I am howe many princelye Pallaces regall Courtes howe manye Kingdomes and countries must I depart from and go vnto those quarters I know not where Howe manye Princes coulde I commaunde to come with mée anye where Howe many Noble men might I cause to go before to prouide my places and seates and nowe not one poore man in all the worlde will beare mée company to my graue saying thou worlde enimie of my soule ¶ THE DEATHES OF CERTEN Noble Princes in english verse ¶ Alexander the great his death WHat sounde assurance is of man what certaine lotte of life When Atrop cuts which Lachese spinnes with cruell cursed knife Hée yesterday renowmed Prince and King of Kinges so braue To daye in mouldred mossie mire layde in his fatall graue Yesterdaye the sonne of Ioue might all commaunde at will To day starcke naked in the earth with wormes his belly full ¶ Iulius Caesars death I Long that ruled Rome at will in middest of Rome am spilde And in the Senate house amongst the Senators I am kilde Who Countries Kingdomes Castles strong who Europe all did quell To Brutus hande and Cassius snares vnwares I Caesar fell With Bodkins Daggers Swordes and Staues I Caesar there was slaine Of fostered foes which friendeshippe fainde as Abel was of Cain ¶ Cirus King of Persea his death WHat Kesar King or Prince thou art that passes here this way Suffer Cirus seauen foote to rest his Corpes in clay Whose gréedie minde and raging race whose fortune frowning wild That Cirus shoulde be in Scithia slaine by Tomyris Quéene in fielde Whose heade was off and bathed in bloode to whome the Quéene spake first Drinke cruell Cirus bloode ynough that long for bloode did thirst ¶ Agamemnon his death WHome tenne yeares warres in Phrigian fieldes nor Troyans force subdue Who me winde nor Seas nor tempest hurt this Clitemnestra slue This famous Prince and Capitaine graunde of all the Géekes in fielde Whome fame in Phrigia so aduaunced his onely spouse him kilde Thus fortune friendly flowed fast and fauored fame to sounde Till frowning fortune foylde the state which fawning fortune founde ¶ King Pirrhus his death HEre Pirrhus Prince of Epire lyes whose force Tarentum knew At Argos was by a woman slaine with a Tilestoone that shée threw ▪ Whom thousande Princes coulde not hurt nor Romanes all annoy Whom shot of Gunnes ne dreadfull dart might Pirrhus Prince destroy This seconde souldier counted was to Alexander King A sielie Argiue woman lo to graue did Pirrhus bring ¶ Hanibal his death THe fostered fame the glory great that was in Carthage coast The honour long that Lybia had againe in time was lost He that was the scurge of Rome and Romanes oft offend He that saued his natiue zoile and Carthage did defende The same at last to Siria fled to craue Antiochus ayde Unto Bithinia thence he went to Prusias King dismayde And there to voyde Flaminius force he poyson dranke did die Thus hauty Hanibal ended life and there his bones do lye ¶ Pompeius death POmpeius fléeing Pharsalia fieldes from Caesar life to saue Whome then Photinus fayned friende to Egypt soyle did laue And there by slaightes of faythlesse frindes for golde and siluer loe Pompeius heade was sent to Rome to Caesar for to shoe His bodie left vnburied lieth in Egypt slimy sandes Who sometime King of Pontus prest and all Armenia landes ¶ Cicero his death WHome Cicero saued off from death the same did Cicero kill Pompilius prowde to please the rage of Mar. Antonius will Whos 's heade was sette in sight to sée Antonius minde to please Whose tongue did Fuluia pricke with pinnes Hir stony heart to ease Who when hée was for Clodius sake exiled Rome to raunge Twentie thousande Romanes mournde in mourning wéedes the chaunge Hée thrée times Consul was in Rome now in Caieta slaine Whose noble name and lasting fame shall styll on earth remaine ¶ Demosthenes death THe sugred sappe the solace long the guyde of Athens then That stoute withstoode king Philips force in spite of Philips men Of whome king Philip in his warres was forcde to say at length Hée feared more Demosthenes tongue then all the Athinians strength Such is the ende of mortall wightes such is the miserie of men That howe to die the time the place he knoweth not where nor when ¶ Achilles his death THe hope of Gréece and countries care Achilles strong of force Like stoute Alcides fought on foote like Mars himselfe on horse But last that ruled Goddes sometimes did then Achilles mooue To walke to Troye to féede desire for Priamus daughters loue Who by a Dart that Paris driude Achilles had his ende Whose worthy actes and marshall feates in Homer well is pende ¶ Hectors death HEctor stoute whose strokes full sterne the Gréekes did girde so grim And foyled foes in Phrigian fieldes death happened thus to him In spoyling of Patroclus king Achilles faythfull friende Came strong Achilles to the place to sée Patroclus ende Then
as by experience we see all things to haue a care of his owne life The Lion when he feeleth hym self sicke he neuer ceaseth vntil he féedeth vpon an Ape whereby he maie recouer former health The Gotes of Creet féedyng on high vpon the mountaines when any of them is shot through with an Arrowe as the people of that countrey are most excellent archers they seeke Dictamum and hearbe assone as they eate any thyng of the same the arrowe faleth downe and the wound waxeth whole incontinent There are certen kyndes of Frogges in Aegypt about the floud of Nilus that haue this perseueraunce that when by chaunce they happen to come where a fishe called Varus is whiche is a greate mourtherer and a spoyler of Frogges they vse to beare in their mouthes ouerthwart a long réede which groweth about the bankes at Nilus whiche when this fishe doth gape thinkyng to feede vpon the Frog the réede is so long that by no meanes can he swallowe vp the Frogge and so saue their liues If the Gotes of Creet If the frogges of Aegypt haue this vnderstanding to auoide their enemies how muche more ought men to be circumspect of his life which hath I saie millions of enemies nether séen nor knowen We reade in the first boke of Aelian that the rude swine if at any tyme by chaunce they eate of that hearbe called Hioscyamus which draweth by by the vaines together that skant thei can stirre yet they striue for remedie sake to goe vnto the water where they feede vppon yong Crabbes to recouer health In the same booke ye maie reede of a Sea Snaill whiche from the water doth come vnto lande to breede and after she hath egged she diggeth the yearth and hideth her egges and retourneth vnto the sea again and there continueth .xl. daies and after .xl. daies she commeth vnto the same self place where she hidde her egges and perceiueth that thei are ready to come out of the shell she openeth the shell and taketh her yong ones with her vnto the sea And thus haue they care charge not onely of their owne states and liues but also of others and by some shewe of sence thei amende that which is most daungerous and hurtfull for the sely and simple mise haue this kynde of fore knowledge that when any howse waxeth olde and ruinous they forsake their olde dwellyng and creepyng holes they flee and seeke refuge in an other place The little Antes haue foresightes that when penury and want of relife draweth nier they waxe so painefull and laborious toilyng and trauailyng in gatheryng together victualles as maie serue them duryng the tyme of famine If these smale crepyng wormes seely and simple beastes prouide for them selues what shall wee saie of man the kyng and ruler ouer all beastes who hath not onely a bodie to prouide for but also a soule to saue More happie are these wormes and beastes in their kinde then a nomber of Princes are For that they by nature onely are taught their foes to auoide neither we by nature neither by God the cause of all goodnes can loue our frendes Therefore verie well it is saide of the wise man that either not to be borne or els beyng borne streight to die is the happiest state that can chaunce vnto man For liuyng in this vale of miserie wee sée the Pilgrimages and trauell of life to be such that better farre it were be a poore quiet man then a busie proude Prince And sith death is the last line of life aswell appointed for princes as for poore men who in reading the liues of Emperours Kinges and Princes the nobles of the worlde seeth not their vnhappie states whiche commyng vnto the worlde naked and departyng from the same naked yet like proude pilgrimes busie one to destroye another not coÌ„tented with countries and kingdomes go from one place vnto another from one couÌ„trie vnto another like Pilgrimes to bee acquainted with miserie and to seeke death Alexander the great conquerour takyng his voiage from his kyngdome of Macedonia vnto India to destroie all the worlde hee was in the citie of Babilon preueÌ„ted by Antipater and Iola his taster and kinsman with poison and there he died Philopomen a greate Emperour sometyme in Greece beyng in prison in Messena taken in the warres and beyng so cruelly handled that he besought Dinocrates whiche then was Prince of that countrie and conquerour ouer hym one draught of poison he coulde not be coÌ„tent to be Emperour and ruler of Greece but moued to seeke death in a straunge countrie amongest his foes Ladislaus kyng of Apulia endeuouryng to subdue the Florentines and séekyng to bee kyng ouer the Florentines he loste the kingdome of Apulia For by them was hee at length poisoned and so berefte from his owne kingdome and life with this vnhappie kinde of death wer many princes preuented no lesse thretened are these princes of their owne houshold frendes then of foren foes no lesse do their childreÌ„ their wiues brethren and kinsmen studie to destroie them sometyme for the kingdomes sake some tyme for hatered hidden and most ofteÌ„ prouoked of these to spoile them as it is written that Claudius Caesar an Emperour of Rome was poisoned of his owne wife Agrippina Antiochus king of Siria was poisoned of his Queene Laodice for that hee was in loue with Berenices Kynge Ptholomeus sister Constantine the Emperour the soonne of Heraclius beeyng but one yere a ruler of his empire was poisoned by his mother in lawe named Martina The verie cause of the Emperour Conradus death whiche was Frederikes soonne was the Empire and rule of Rome whiche Manfredus his successour made the phisicions for money to poison him that then hee beyng the successour of the empire might beare rule O vnhappie state of Princes whose liues are desired of frende and foe How sore was L. Vectius set on of Caesar to betraie Pompeius the greate whiche for the loue and zeale that Pompeius had in Rome Caesar began to malice Lucullus Curio Cato and Cicero for their priuate loue towarde Pompeius no lesse daunger it is to be in fauour with princes sometime then perilous to bee princes wee reade of a Quéene named Rosimunda the doughter of kyng Cunimunda of Gepida after that she poisoned Albonius king of Longobardes hir first housebande she maried a prince of Rauenâ—a named Helinges which likewise she thought to poison but beyng warned in y e middest of his draught he caused his wife to drinke the reste whiche drinke was the cause of both their death howe manie noble Princes in the middest of their Pilgrimages died that death as Diocletian the Emperour of Rome Lotarius kyng of France Carolus the eight of that name with diuers others as Hanibal prince of Carthage Aristobolus king of Iuda and Lucullus Emperour of Rome Princes and noble men doe sometyme poyson theimselues lest they should
poore and therefore I feare no manne who séeth not the daunger of the one and the surenesse of the other for Arison was wont to saie that pouertie was as it were a Lantarne to beholde the wickednes of the worlde for pouertie is the true Nourse of all good vertues Licurgus beyng demaunded of certaine Citizins of Sparta howe might men auoide their enemies hee answered by pouertie wherefore Licurgus made lawes and decrees amongest the Lacedemonians that no Soldiers should spoile the enemies though they were dead in the filde for he feared lest wealthe should bee the distruction of Sparta For wealthy men are enuied at and hated and euery where sought by snares to be destroied whiche pouertie escapeth That wise Greke Solon was wont to saie that wealthe was the mother of excesse excesse the mother of luste luste the mother of violence and violence the mother of tyrannie Therefore saieth Pithagoras that wealth muste bee ruled with wisedome as the wild horse is tamed by the bridle Simonides when he was demaunded which was better wealth or wisedome he saide after this sorte I doubte muche said he for I sée so manie wise men frequentyng the riche mannes companie that I knowe not whiche ¶ Of Death DEATH is the laste line of all thyng the discharge of all couenauntes the ende of all liuyng Creatures the onelie wishe of the good and the verie terrour of the wicked And for that the life of man is diuers so is Death variable of sonderie sortes and fashions as by experience seen and knowen in all Countries Nothyng is surer then death nothyng more variable then Death For Pindarus that wise and sage kyng of the Liricans beeyng demaunded of certaine Beotians what might beste happen vnto manne in this worlde euen that saied he whiche chaunced vnto Trophoniuâ— and Agamedes meanyng Death For these men after thei had builded a newe temple vnto Apollo demaunded of God Apollo the beste reward that he could giue vnto them thei thinkyng to speede of some dignitie or some worldly substaunce were rewarded within seueÌ„ daies after with death The like we reade in the firste booke of Herodote where the mother of Biton and Cleobes twâ—o yong menne of Argos kneelyng before the Image of Iuno besoughte the Goddesse to bestowe some excellent good thyng vpon her twoo soonnes for their paine and trauaill that thei shewed toward their naturall mother in drawyng the Chariot tenne miles in steade of horses but the Goddesse willyng to shewe the beste thyng that could bee giuen vnto manne the nexte night followyng quietly in bedde as thei slepte died Wherefore very well did Aristippus aunswere a certaine manne whiche asked how Socrates died Euen in that order that I wishe my self to die â–ª Giuing to vnderstande that any death is better then life That noble Philosopher Plato a little before he died as Sabellicus doeth write did thanke nature for thre causes the firste that he was borne a manne and not a beast the seconde that he was borne in Greece and not in Barbarie The thirde that he was borne in Socrates tyme who taught hym to die well Hermes that great Philosopher of Egipte euen diyng so embraced death that he called vpon that diuine spirite whiche ruled all the heauens to take mercie vpoÌ„ hym beyng right glad that he passed this toilyng life Suche is the snare of death that some in halfe their daies in middest of their fame and glorie die As Alexander the greate in Babilon Pompeius in Egipte and Marcellus whiche beyng a yonge man of greate towardnesse and soonne by adoptioÌ„ to the Empire of Rome died Euen Albius a Romaine knight in flourishyng yeres ended his race And M. Caelius one of Ciceros scholers a very eloqueÌ„t Oratour and of greate fame beyng in a maner a boie died It is straunge to see the shiftes of death in how diuers and sondrie fassions it happened vnto Princes alwaies that some merie in their bankettes and drinkyng wer slaine As Clitus of Alexander the greate beyng his sisters brother and his chief frende Ammon of Absalon being bidden vnto a banquette was slaine of his owne brother yea all the Embassadours of Persia were coÌ„maunded to bee slaine euen drinkyng at the Table by kyng Amintas soonne of Macedonia Some ende their liues wantonnyng with women and plaiyng in chambers as that renoumed Greke Alcibiades beeyng taken in Uenerie with Timandra was slaine of Lisander EueÌ„ so Phaon Speusippus the Philosopher died likewise Some bathyng theim self were choked by their owne wiues As Agamemnon that famous Greke by his wife Clitemnestra And Argirus Emperoure of Rome by his wife Zoe Diuers in prison as Captiues died as Aristobulus Emnenes Aristonicus Marius Cleomenes Iugurth Siphax famous and renowmed Princes Diuers in Iacques slain as that beast Heliogabolus whom Rome so hated that he fledde vnto a Iaques and there was killed and after drawen thorowe the streates and throwen vnto the Riuer Tiber Gneus Carbo a manne of great dignitie and power of Rome was commaunded that he should bee slaine as he was sitting on his stoole of ease by Pompeius in the thirde tyme of his Consulshippe in Rome Thus shamfull diuers died and thus famously others died The snares of death the hookes of tyme the ende of manne was alwaies vnknowen Patroclus knewe not that he should bee slaine of Hector Hector neuer thoughte he should bee killed of Achilles Achilles neuer doubted his death by Paris Paris neuer iudged that he should be vanquished by Pirrhus Neither Pirrhus was certaine that he should bee ouercomed by Orestes so that no manne knoweth his ende where howe and when he dieth and yet all menne are certaine and sure that thei haue an ende that thei muste needes die The feare of death hath muche ouercome the stoutest and worthiest souldiour â–ª Wee reade that Asdrubal of Carthage a noble and a famous Capitaine a longe tyme and yet at length beyng conuicted by Scipio he for feare of death kneled before Scipio embracyng his feete and so fearefull that his owne wife was ashamed of his doynges Yet had this noble Capitaine rather bee a laughyng stocke vnto the Romains a bonde manne vnto Scipio runnyng a foote like a lackie before his triumph then to die manfully in the behalfe of his Countrie whiche valiauntly for a tyme he defended Perpenna likewise a famous Romaine beyng taken in Spaine after Sertorius was deade by the Souldiours of Pompeius in a wooddie place full of Groues fearyng leste at that instante he should be slaine by Pompeius souldiors made them beleue that he had diuers thinges to speake vnto Pompeius that the enemies had in hande to bryng to passe against Pompeius rather had Perpenna betraied his frendes and his fellowes yea and all his Countrie vnto his enemie PoÌ„peius then that he should bée in the feare of death A greater feare of death we read in that booke of
and Brutus as much then Rome was beneficiall When the Senatours restored Faucula and Oppia two poore women of Campania not onelye vnto their auncient libertie but dubled their wealth and richesse for their true meaning and seruice to the Romanes the one praying and sacrificing for their good successe the other toyling and trauailing about the souldiours businesse at the siege of Capua where Fulinus was Capitaine then Rome was mercifull Liberalitie in noble persons is most commended for in liberall giuing and beneficiall doings are princes compared vnto Goddes Fabius Maximus hauing certaine of hys souldiours taken by Hannibal in the wars of Carthage dyd sende vnto the Senatours of Rome for money to déeme from Hannibal according vnto Marshall lawes the Romane souldiers which being denied of his suite commaunded his sonne straight to go to Rome to sell all the landes and liuings that he then possest about the Citie of Rome and to bring him monie The money being brought payd Hannibal redéemed his souldiers brought them franke and frée vnto Rome vppon his owne charges and being blamed of the Senatours that he soulde his land aunswered that hée had rather want patrimonie in his countrie than loue towardes hys countrimen hée had rather be without liuing in Rome than to want good will vnto the poore souldiours Alphonsus the great king of Arrogon was wont to reioice more of one litle sentence that Titus Vespasianê° would often saye than of all the reading hée did all the daies of his lyfe This Emperours goulden sentence was that daye to be vnhappie in the which he neyther gaue or graunted any thing to no man saying that no manne ought to depart from a Prince sadde He iudged time lost when no body fared the better by him and thought no time shoulde escape without some benefites doone or giftes giuen to some or others Liberalitie doth purchase to the Prince fayth and loue to the noble man seruice and homage vnto all men benefittes and good tournes Wherfore Alexander y e great not so desirous to take as willing to giue was woont to say to any that demaunded where his treasures wealthes and substaunce that he got in the warres were kept hée poynting with his finger his friendes it is hidden sayde hée in the hartes of my subiectes What can be more commended in a subiect towardes his Prince than fayth and truth what may be more praysed in a Prince towarde his subiectes than liberalitie and lenitie The liberalitie of the poore is good will A poore scholler somtime of Gréece bring in Rome thought good to salute Caesar the Emperour comming from the Capitoll towarde his pallace in a fewe Gréeke Uerses thinking thereby his penurie shoulde be somewhat lookt vnto of Caesar but Caesar surnamed Augustus aunswered the scholler in writing againe the like in Gréeke Uerses which when it was deliuered to the poore Gréeke hée delighted much in the reading commended highlye the verses and approched vnto Caesar where he was in his Chariot opened his purse gaue vnto the Emperor .iiij. single halfepence saying Hold not according to thy dignitie and calling but according vnto my abilitie and pouertie I giue this rewarde Certaine the poore scholler was more commended for his small gift to the Emperour then the Emperour himselfe was praysed for his liberalitie of all people in Rome The poore Poet Antilochus was as liberall in his power for his Uerses made vnto King Lisander as Lisander was in his calling to giue him his hatte full of siluer Simple Sinaetes was as liberall in offering a handefull of water of the riuer Cirus vnto the great King Artaxerxes of Persea for want of better abilitie as Artaxerxes was princely in giftes benefitiall vnto Sinaetes in rewarding liberally the liberalitie of Sinaetes with Phiala aurea cum mille Daricis Chirilus had no better present for a proofe of his liberalitie towarde Alexander the great than to shew his good will vnto him in writing whereby hée shewed him selfe more willing than able which being accepted and liberally rewarded for euery seuerall verse a péece of goulde What greater gift can any man giue than that which procéedeth from the heart Of all treasure sayth Aristotle the minde of a man ought most to bée estéemed the Mite of the poore woman offered vnto Christ was no lesse made of and estéemed than the goulde Mirre and Frankencense of the great Sages of the worlde for the gift maketh not the giuer liberall but the giuer maketh the gift liberall Wherefore a poore Student of Paris going home to his countrey Sicilia and being vrged through penurye wanting monye to go to a great learned mans house as though he might go to some of the Bishops of Englande tarying there a long while without either meate or drinke perceyuing the house to be gorgeous fayre and braue without and full of hunger thirst coulde within wrote with a coale on the waule a sentence of Cicero Non domo Dominus fed domus Domino honestanda est As though he might say fayre buildings want more liberall dwellers then liberall Lordâ—e fayre houses for the house is praysed by the man and not the man by the house Fayre houses and welth doe scant make men liberall It is sayde that fayre thinges are coupled with pride and welth ioyned with couetousnesse In the beginning all men were liberall vntill priuate wealth began to practise with money coueteousnesse was not knowne for as money did encrease so couetousnesse grewe In Rome sayth Plini money was not séene foure hundred yeares and more after the building of Rome Then was Rome true and benefitiall by reason of liberalitâ— which after waxed welthye and false by meanes of couetousnesse That Cittie was most famous chiefelye for hir liberalitie wherein Rome excelled all the world If the death of Princes of noble men yea of all men can sufficiently beare witnesse of their lyues considering vertue and fame shall prooue that by death which lyfe scant may vtter for no man is well knowne during lyfe The death of Epaminondas that most renowmed Prince of Thebes and Conquerer of all Gréece was a sure and a certaine show of his liberall lyfe The laste days of P. Aemilius which triumphed in life time ouer the proude Macedonians and â—igurians was a true token of his franke and frée dealing in life In like maner of Maenenius Agrippa Scipio Affricanus the one victor ouer the Saminites the other triumpher ouer Carthage and Numantia whose renowmed liues made their deaths famous whose worthy deathes doe reuiue their noble liues Their beneficiall dealing and liberalitie in life was well knowne by their deathes so liberally they liued that their friendes founde no money hidden no goulde kept no treasure preserued no Iuell in store no hurded muck in Coffers In fine no wealth at all though diuers times by victorie and triumphes by conquest and fortune they possessed
the Senatours vnto the market or common Hall of Rome Then the seconde day hée should bée caried by certen young noble men vnto Martius fielde where a Tabernacle was made much like a Towre all of drie Wood and there after much solemnity and ceremonies done hée that succéeded him as an Emperour shoulde first put fire in that worke and then all men busie to sée the body burned And when they had burned him vnto ashes they woulde let an Eagle flée from the top of some high Towre which as they supposed shoulde cary his soule into heauen The Assyrians did vse to annoynt the dead bodyes with honye and waxe and with studie and care to reserue it from any putrifaction Such straunge order of buriall was in India that the women of that countrey thought no greater fame nor worthier renowme then to bée burned and buried togither with their husbandes The Thracians are much to bee commended herein which at the birth of any of their fréendes children they wéepe and waile the misery of and calamity that hée is borne vnto and at the death of any of their fréendes they so reioyce with such mirth and gladnes that they past these werldly miseries that at the buriall therof euen when the corps doth go out of the house they altogither say with one voyce Farre well fréende go before and we folow after And so the corps goeth before and all his fréendes folow after him with trumpets musicke and great mirth for ioy that hée is gone out of this vale of misery Plato that deuine Gréeke and noble Philosopher made the like lawes in Athens that when any of the chéefe officers shoulde die hée appointed that no mournyng wéedes shoulde bée there but all in white apparell and that fiftéene young maides and fiftéene young boyes shoulde stande rounde about the corps in white garmentes while the Priestes commended his life vnto the people in an open Oration then he shoulde bée brought very orderly to the graue all the young children singing their countrey Hymnes they with the auncient men folowyng and the graue shoulde be couered with faire broade stones where the name of the dead with his vertuous commendations and great praise were set vpon the stone The like graue the Italians vse at this day and diuers other countreys And as these others had the like ceremonies to the praise and commendations of the dead So others litle estéemed and regarded such things in so muche that the Perseans were neuer buried vntyll Fowles of the ayre and Dogges should eate some part therof The Massagetes thought it most infamous that any of their fréends should die by sicknesse but if the parentes waxed olde the children and the next kinsmen they had should kyll them and being kylled to eate them vp supposing that their fleshe was more méete for them to eate than of wormes or any other beastes to bée deuoured The people called Tibareni those that they loued best in youth those woulde they hang in age Euen so the Albans certaine inhabitants about mount Caucasus thought it vnlawfull for any to care for the deade but straight buried them as the Nabathaeans doe burie their kinges and and rulers in dunghilles The buriall of the Parthians was nothing else but to commend them vnto beastes of the fielde and foules of the ayre The Nasomones when they burie their friendes they sette them in the graue sitting But of all cruell dealings the Caspians and the Hircanians wich kil their parents their wiues their brethren their kinsemen friends and put them in the hie waye halfe quicke halfe deade for to be deuoured of birdes and beastes The fashion custome with the Issidones rude people of some part of Scithia as Plini in his fourth booke affirmeth is to call their neyghbours and friendes togither where the dead lie and there merili◠singing and banqueting they eate the fleshe of the deade and make the skull of the deade a drinking cuppe all couered with golde to drink with all Againe the people called Hyperborei thinke no better graue for their friendes when they be olde then to bring them to some hie banke of water or great rocke and thence after much feasting eating and drinking in the middest of their mirth their owne friends throw them downe vnto the water headlong To séeke and to search histories to manye such burials might be founde amongst such rude and beastly nations Notwithstanding in diuers regions so estéemed that the greatest infamie the seuerest punishment was for any offender was not to be buried this the Athenians vsed towarde those that were traytours to theyr countrey And the Egiptians if any lyued a misse he shoulde be caried dead to the wildernesse to be deuoured of wild beastes The Perseās likewise brought y e bodies of men condemned to be eaten of dogges The Lybians thinke them most worthy of solemne buriall that died eyther in warrs or were kyld by wyld beastes The Macedonians had great care in burning the dead souldiers that died in fielde Amongst the Gentiles there were certaine daies appointed for mourning after the death of their frends Licurgus lawe amongst the Lacedemonians was that they shoulde mourne but eleuen daies Numa Pompilius decréed that the children after their parentes death the wiues their husbands c. shoulde mourne tenne monethes though by the Senatours it was enacted at the warres in Canna that the Romans shoulde mourne but thirtie dayes Amongst the Egiptians they had a custome to mourne after theyr kinges thréescore and twelue dayes but generallye the most custome was to bewayle the dead nine daies In some places mourning was forbidden at their buriall as at Athens by the lawe of Solon in Locretia in Thracia in Cous in Libia and in diuers other places The diuersitie of mourning was such that amongst the Gréekes they shaued their heades and beardes and threwe it to the graue with the deade Amongst the Lacedemonians when the kinges of Sparta died certaine horsemen were appoynted to trauayle ouer all the whole kingdome certefiyng the death of the king and the women in euery cittie doe beate their brasen pottes and make great heauye noyse for the same The Egyptians doe mourne after this sort they rent their clothes they shut their temples they eate no meate they sméere theyr faces with dirt and thus abstaining from washing their faces thrée score and twelue dayes they lament and bewayle the death of their kinges and friendes The Carthagineans cut their heares of mangle their faces beate their breastes The Macedonians likewise shaue their heares to mourne the death of their fréendes as wée reade of Archelaus king of Macedonia who shaued his heares at the buriall of his friende Euripides The Argiues the Siracusans accompany the dead to the graue in white clothes be spotted with watter and claie The Matrones of Rome threw of their fine apparell their ringes and cheynes and did weare
he supposed slaine through deceipt euen so was Alebas chief gouernour of Larissa a citie in Thessalie murthered of his owne souldiors The desire that men beare vnto honour and dignitie is suche that accompaneth with death as Spu Cassius and Spu Melus for the gredines vnto the Empire of Rome wer bothe worthely beheaded God hath shewed iuste vengeance vpon princes for their iniquitie with plagues Pestilences whiche spoiled the Emperor Constantine the Empresse his wife Zoae and by this was Marcus Antonius Alphonsius and Domitius iustly and worthely punished God hath wonderfully punished the pride of princes euen with shamefull and horrible death that Lice and Uermine consumed their bodies a liue As Maximilian the Emperoure Arnulphus Honorificus kyng of the Vandoles and Herode kyng of Iewrie wer eaten vp a liue with vermines and wormes Plini and Plutarche saieth that proude Silla whiche sore plagued Rome and Italie was conuerted all his fleshe vnto lice and so died Herodotus dooeth like wise reporte of one Pheretrina a Quéene of Barcaeans that of this filthie and horrible death died GOD gaue theim ouer in the middeste of their pleasure euen eatyng and drinkyng as Septimus and Valentianus twoo famous Emperours died of surfette for wante of disgestion Archesilaus died presently with one draught of wine What is the life of Princes but an vncertaine Pilgrimages whiche scante seeth his daies fully by nature graunted as we see how and after what sort thei die daiely euery where There was greate difference betwene the Pilgrimage of Vlixes and his felowes whiche Cirses the Witche did chaunge theim vnto diuers kindes of beastes for that thei knewe not what Pilgrimage meante and Vlixes hym self kepte his naturatl shape and frame And for that in his pilgrimage he was wise and painfull in his life he did learne of Aeolus Phisick of Cirses Magicke of Calipso Astronomie and that vnder couler of fables That pilgrimage is onely appointed vnto manne to knowe hym self and to serue his God diuers learned Philosophers as Pithagoras Democritus Anaxogaras trauailed from Grece vnto Aegypte vnto Persia vnto Caldea and to diuers other countries for knowledge sake Anachassis from colde Scythia made his voiage to Athens for learnyng Appolonius from Rome went ouer Caucasus vnto India vnto Assiria to knowe more Philosophie Yea womeÌ„ are famous for their pilgrimage therein as Saba came from Aethiope the farthest part of the worlde to heare Salamons witte and to learne wisedome Cornelia froÌ„ Rome beyng a noble woman wente vnto Palaestina to heare saincte Hierome teache Christians The Pilgrimage that Solon made for AtheÌ„s that Lycurgus made for the Lacedemonians that Architas made for Tarentum are commended The trauaile that Pittacus tooke for the people of Myâ—tilaena that that Cleobulus tooke for the Rhodians that Bias and Thales tooke for the people of Ionia are praised Wee are borne not for our selues but for our countrey and frendes for them wee ought to trauaile For this cause became Plato from a famous oratour in Athens to bée a renoumed souldior at the besiegyng of Corinth and Tenagra For this wente Socrates Platoes maister to Amphipolis and Potidaea a twoo greate cities in Delos to fight for their Countrey Philosophers were not alwaies occupied with bookes but when tyme serued thei were seen in armes as Architas was sixe tymes generall emongest the Tarentines Tyrtaeus elected gyaunde Capitaine emongest the Lacedemonians Xenophon whiche Thucidides highly aduaunce one of the chief Souldiours of kyng Cirus What caused the Philosopher Zeno to resist the princely power of king Antigonus What moued Bias to withstande the force of kyng Aliates In fine what made Phocion Aristides Themistocles and others to become souldiours to stand in armes against their enemies the loue of Athens The pilgrimage of this our life is nothing els but a continuall trauaill vntill we come to our last iourney whiche is death then is the ende of all pilgrimage and iuste accoumpt to bee made for the same ¶ Of Dissimulation and Crafte of Subtiltie and Deceipte DIogenes that Cinike Philosopher makyng hym self ignoraunt somtyme in that which he knewe beste was wont in banquettes and feastes to say if any manne had demaunded what kind of meate wer ther I can not name but I caÌ„ eate it and so would passe to aunswer any thing truely with dissimulatioÌ„s in so muche that Sigismonde the Emperour would saie that he that could not dissemble could not rule At what tyme Galba a Citizein of Rome had bidden a gentleman named Mecaenas vnto Supper perceiuyng the gentleman to bee in loue with his wife fained hym a sleepe for that Mecaenas might shewe some part of his will and loue in the meane season while his wife and Mecaena were in talke and he hym self in dissemblyng slept came one of his seruauntes to take some thinges awaie from the table supposyng his maister had been a sleepe vnto whom his maister saied well you varlet though I see not Mercaenas yet I see to you I sleepe vnto hym and not vnto you The like dissimulation was betwene Demosthenes and Archias at what tyme he fledde Athens for feare of Antipaters displeasure and went vnto the Isle Calauria where in the Temple of Neptune he hid hym self vntill Archias came and promised hym what honour and dignitie he should haue if he could come vnto Antipater and with faire wordes he dissembled with Demosthenes that he came for the purpose from the kyng vnto him Demosthenes perceiuyng his dissimulations and craftie meanes answered plainly to moue hym vnto anger where truthe is oftentimes opened and saied Thou of all men couldest neuer play vpoÌ„ the stages plaiyng thy parte then and now at this tyme thou canst not bee an Oratour to perswade me whereat Archias waxed angrie and threatned to hale him out of the Temple vnto whom Demosthenes answered Nowe perforce thy dissimulation is chaunsed vnto truthe I might hereon staie to note the greate dissimulations betwene Metellus and Scipio whiche was so greate that Metellus faigned that Rome was happie that Scipio was borne therin and yet his mortall enemie all the daies of his life and therefore Fredericke an Emperour sometyme of Rome at what tyme the Senatours would goe sitte aboute the state of the citie would saie before you go vnto the Senate house caste awaie from you twoo thynges that you cary with you and beeyng demaunded of the Senatours what twoo thynges were thei he saied Simulations and Dissimulations In this Philippe of Macedon did differ muche from his soonne Alexander in so muche that Alexander would consente to nothyng but to magnimitie and truthe and his father to all kinde of falshood as seen by subduyng of the Sarunsians and the Cities of Thracia who vnder coulour of peace commaunded his Souldiours to bryng vnder their clokes euery one a coarde that at what tyme kyng Philippe
vaine in verse and learned Homere skill To write Demosthenes sugred stile with noble Tullies quill Ouercharged I should be her noble life to cite Her galaunt giftes her talentes rare her vertuous all to write If outward beautie moude the Goddes what inward vertue can Whose feutered forme if eyes might see should maze the sight of man If Daphnes might Apollo winne and Tyro Neptune moue If Herce Cecrops doughter dere might lure Mercurius loue If Quene Aeginas beautie bright could mightie Ioue enflame In forme of fire with Phoebus face to honour beauties fame What loue what ioye what wisedom then what wealth should men possesse If sence of sight might vertue see as Plato prince confesse The tramplyng toile of Tantalus his hongrie panche to please The rowlyng stone of Sisiphus hir vertuous sight would cease If Titius could if Atlas might might this Yxion see Titius toile Atlas loade Yxion easde should bee The golden heares Pompeia had forede Neros harte on fire Through witte and wisedome did our Queene her subiectes hartes desire Cleopatra wanne by a draught of drinke Antonius for her frende By counsaill graue and sad aduise doeth she her zoile defende The curious shue made Rhodope Quene in Egipte lande to rule And vertue aduaunceth this her fame in Englande long to endure But sithe that beautie is a gifte whiche nature hath bestowed I meane to penne dame beauties praise as nature forthe hath shewed Had skilfull eyes of Xeuxes vued had fine Philuseus seen Had learned â—o Lisippus sight of this our noble Queen Dame Venus picture made in Cous and Helens grace in Grece Latonas moulde the impes of Ioue their painted porte should leese If Phidias might had framde the like or had Timanâ—es fainde Bellona in her bowre had blusht and I phigenia stainde Durst this Pigmalion graue in stone or Theopompus painte Thei should haue felt bothe sight and sence bothe harte and hande to fainâ— If prince Apelles cunnyng could in colours drawe by arte The sight thereof would cause the Grekes from suche a shâ—we to starte Bragge then no more you glorious Grekes of beauties bowre ne boste Sithe Englande wanne victoriously whiche Grece by fate hath loste Retire you Romains from your race your fame is loste I wene Suche Lucrece raigne in Englande now as neuer earst was sene Giue place you noble dames throwe of your garlandes gaie Laie prostrate doune your crounes of fame to her that beares the swaie Who in spite of dragging darte of death in spite of Gorgons grief In spite of furies frettyng flames in spite of Parcas knife Shall Triton sounde hir troumpe of fame and Stentor straine to blowe Through surging seas and clousteryng cloudes her name to starres to goe And in Mauseolum braue her bones and sumptuous Toumbe shall lye Whose sacred soules berefte from corps to heauen straight shall flie FINIS Democritus laugh at the solly of the vvorlde Heraclitus vvept at the misery of the same Biton better estemed then Cirus Pirrhus Siphax Alexander Romulus â–ª Cyrus Paris Telephus Camilla Semiramis Torquinus Priscus Tullius Seruius Gordius Agathocles Darius Giges Iustinus Telephanes Valentianus Plato Aristotle Hippocrates Rhodope â—â—anus libr. 14. 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