show For benefits receiued that may require Hauing got meanes so often wisht and doe If future vse or seruice not inuite I could name thousands that expecting right And merited reward at last haue gaind Nought but disgrace or death where loue was aim'd 34 How many youthfull Heyres are to be found Altho their Syres haue toyld hard many a day And yeare for them to adde ground vnto ground And Coine to Coine that sit not downe and pray Great Iupiter to take them soone away Or Wiues that teares for dying Husbands shed That wish not pleasures new from wanton bed 35 No man by thee the honester is made These qualities vnto the soule adhere Not things We see the mightie men inuade The weaker and them grind deuoure and teare The poore are curb'd by law restraind by feare Presumpteous greatnesse acteth farre more ill Then impotencie vrg'd by want not will 36 Thou mayst affoord an honourable name But these bare shadowes without substance be T is onely vertue that acquires cleare fame Which he that wants is like a fruitlesse tree VVhere nothing else but leaues and blossoms be Or like an Apple whose exterior part Perchance seemes faire but 's rotten at the heart 37 Least needst thou boast of Valour Health or Wit Excesse corrupts the body dims the mind A thousand Feauers Gouts and Dropsies sit VVayting vpon full platters and we find An actiue soule but seldome is confind To full fed body where the mists and showres Of daily surfets suffocates her poâ—…res 38 As touching peace thou no such thing do'st giue The sting for wealth extorted feare to loose Anxietie wherein they howerly liue Still doubtfull where to leaue 't to these or those Their soules like beasts in Toyles so fast enclose That both in life and death to earth fast glew'd They make it doubtfull that no peace ensu'd 39 Now for my selfe to answer in excuse Thy false obiections whereby thou wouldst show That euery mischiefe which the times produce Proceâ—…des from me that men dishonest grow Hence onely I denie that this is so Then Fortune were a Goddesse but we see VVealth makes not worth nor want dishonestie 40 I no man dull whom Nature did not frame Of courser mould as spurâ—…es I rather scrue To prick him on by vertue to aâ—…taine Those Glories VVisdome honestie deserue And valour and what Fortune doth reserue For her owne children and to him denie To make him gaine by worth and industrie 43 Indeed I build no Cities nor proud Towres Of costly things of Treasures vaunt not I I liue in humble Cottages and Bowres In peace except I be disturbde of thee But thou art cheynd in lou'd captiuitie Most strongly gyude and all that take thy part Not loosely by the legs but by the heart 44 No rest at all thou giu'st of peace no taste Which not in outward things but in content And right religion of the soule is plaste Thy peace beaâ—…es euery hower some detriment Each losse of Office fauour suit or rent Orethrowes it quite to be in brauerie Out-shind perchance a frowne makes diuers die 45 The vanitie of which did whilome moue Those worthy Pagans most of all to prize That kind of peace my humble state doth proue And counting thee the baite of miseries Despisde thee so that Aristippus wise Threw all thy guyts i' th' sea who sure did find That they disturbde his peace and vext his mind 46 Xenocrates and diuers other moe Diogenes did wholly thee refuse Because he held thee vnto peace a foe And vertue And euen God himselfe did chuse My ranke while he did mortall body vse So did his friends and seruants both by word And by example all my praise record 47 Scarce had Penia spoke these words of ours When Oppuleâ—…ce like some great Riuer swoâ—…ne By Wintâ—…rs tempests and excessiue showres Which beares down Corne and Meadows lately moâ—…ne And mightie Woods in many ages growne Flew on Penâ—…a and her passion swellinâ—… Ore Reasons bancks was scarcely held from killing 48 But halfe her cote there from her back she tore VVhich she did chalenge to her selfe as due By rights I knew not and away thence bore As 〈◊〉 of the praise to'er conquest due And with her traine in haste away thence flew So swift that scarce mine eyes could â—…rackt her pace Returning streight vnto her natiue place 49 Long after whom Penâ—…a did not stay But followed speedily to get redresse By some petition or some other way VVith weeping cheare and hearts great pensiuenesse I loâ—…ging much to vnderstand no lesse The end then entrance to this tragedie To old Eyrema Artfull VViâ—…ch I flâ—…e 50 And her besought out of her powrefull skill To Oppulentia's Palace me to beare VVhich granted vp we flew more high then hill Higher then th'avrie dwellers euer were From whence great Cities but small Townes appeare And Mountaines Mose hills Here she made me vieâ—… Faire Belgiâ—… s rich Townes and Seeples new 51 But here she said Penia was not knowne Yet were she there the liberalitie And kind compassion should to her be showne And various waies for fruitfull industrie VVould change her Nature But from thence flew we Ouer the vast sea and the continent Through strange lands to Stambolds City went 52 Neere which she said this Opulentia boad And had for vse and ostentation raysde Ten thousand stately buildings Then she show'd When on the sight we thorowly had gazde Structures indeed deseruing to be praysde For richnesse beautie pleasure and by Art Vnseene coâ—…ueyde me through each secret part 53 There did she shew a thousand workes diuine Wrought in white Paros and red Porpherie In Golden Thebaâ—… spotted Serpeutiue Tables and Collumes throwne most curiossâ—…e Whole rooms seel'd through with sable â—…bonie And hung with Clothes from Niles blest Memphis brought Or those more faire by Virgins fingers wrought 54 Then show'd she me the Beds in-laid with Gold And some with richer Stones embellished The Sheets peâ—…fum'd with Sweets from Baâ—…tham sold The Flores with costly Carpets ouer-spred Through which into the Wardrops me she led Where Silke and Cloth for differing seasons fit In monstrous shapes beâ—…ray'd her wandring wit 55 From thence into her Cabbinet she went And show'd of Ormuz Pearles the costly Chaines The sparkling Diamonds from Caâ—…baya sent 〈◊〉 pure Gold digg'd from rich 〈◊〉 veynes Which Stella wearing Iunâ—…'s forme reteynes Then show'd she all her masks her 〈◊〉 her tyres Ruffes garteâ—…s scarfes plumes lotions pendants wires 56 Which hauing seene without the least offence Or notice taken of our being there We next obseru'd her great magnificence Her state attendants and excessiue cheare Her traines of seruants euer ready neere With huâ—…ble reuerence with cap and knee And Kookes that still deuising dishes be 57 Her Cup-boards loaden all with Red and White And all her vessells wholly of the same Loaden with dainties all that may delight Both Venson Pheasant Quaile and all else tane In Earth
that hee might strike it off at one blow Seneca de Ira. 13 Nero causâ—…d his Mother Agrippina to be put to death hauing first attempted it diuers waies in vaine Tacitus 14 These were the Persecutors of the Church Nero Domitian Marcus Anthonius Verus Seâ—…erus Maximine Decius Valerian Auâ—…elian Dioclesian and Maximilian Eusebiuâ—… and the Centuries 15 In Legend Aur. it is said that holy Ignatius being perswaded to renounce Christ made answere That he could not his Name was written vpon his Heart Whereupon the Tyrant caused him to be opened and found the word IESVS written therein in Golden Letters 16 King Poppeyle hauing slaine his two Uncles most cruelly is persecuted of Mice and Rats by the hand of God and hee and his Queene forc't to flie into a Towre situated in the water but thither they followed him and at last deuoured him and her no meanes being able to hinder Gods decree These Rats seemd to come forth from the Tombes and very Graues of his dead Vnkles This mans vsuall Oath was still That if I doe such or such a thing may the Rats eate me and so at length they did The place is called Rats-Tower to this day Hist. Poloniae 17 Amurath sacrifized at onâ—… time sixe hundred Souldiers that yeelded vpon faith and honest conditions to the Ghost of his dead father Calcondillius in Hist. de Imperii Graeci lapsu in Lerius 18 Mahumet hauing won Constantinople gaue himselfe to Feasts and Banquets in which for greater pompe he put to cruell deaths the most of the Grecian Nobilitie he cut off the head of Trene his fairest and best beloued Parramour with his owne hand as the onely remedie for his intemperate loue There happened to him a strange warning for his crueltie for hauing caused fiue hundred Capâ—…iues to bee slaine and their bodies dismembred and throwne about there came an Oxe rooting and lowing and with his Hornes gathered together the piâ—…ces of a Venecians body there amongst the rest which being told to Mahumet he againe commands the same body to be disperst But the Oxe againe diligently seekes out the same pieces and layes them together wherewith Mahumet being much mooued caused the dead to bee buried and giues the Oxe an allowance during life Lerius out of Chalcondilus 19 Wladus Prince of Moldauia had a great Vale in his Country full of Gibbets Wheeles and other engins whereupon there hung thirtie or fortie thousand of his owne subiects put to death by him in three yeares With which fearefull spectacle Mahumet the great Tyrant being amazed became after more gentle spying the greatnes of his owne faults in another which he could not see before in himsslfe Knowles 20 Selym the youngest of Baiazets sonnes by the fauour of the Ianizarâ—…es aspired to the Empire disceptred his old Father Baiazet and caused him to be poysoned slew his Brothers and Neâ—… put the most of his dearest Friends and Seruants to death and lastly after his victories in the East and the conquest of Egypt intending great warres against the Christians is by the hand of God stricken with a Canker or Wild-fire in his reynes that eate him vp Paulus Iouius tome 1. l. 14 and tome 2. l. 19. 21 This Adolph wearie of expecting his Fathers death tooke the Dukâ—…dome from him led him fiue Dutch mile barefoot in a cold night and imprisoned him in a darke and deepe Dungeoâ—… eight moneths in most lamentable manner but being at length compeld to bring him forth and to giue an account thereof to the Duke of Burgoyne he onely obiects that his Father had been Duke 44 yeeres therefore now high time for him to come to his Birth-right The Duke of Burgoyne at last orders the young man being his Kinsman to stand as Duke and onely one small Citie to remaine to his Father with some sixe hundred Florences the yeere during life But Adolph flatly refused to grant him this small exhibition but would hauâ—… him exiled the Countrey protesting that rather then he would condiscend to those termes he would throw his Father into a well and himselfe after Soone after the Duke of Burgoyne takes him Prisoner where hee was despightfully handled all his life and his Fâ—…ther dying disinherited him making the Duke of Burgoyne his Heire After whose death young Adolph is taken out of prison by the Ganthoyse and is slaine at the siege of Tourney Phil. Comminees l. 4. c. 1. 22 Amidas being left Gouernour of Tunis by his father Muleasses whilest he sought aide amongst the Christian Princes against Barbarussa seizes the Kingdome for himselfe and at his fathers returne puts out his eyes to disable him for gouernment and forceth him to end his dayes in miserie as a banisht man he lost his owne eyes to with diseases and enioyed his Kingdome not long Knowles 23 Iohn Basilides late Emperour of Russia did infiniâ—…ely exceed all the Tyrants and monsters of Nature that euer were His rapines his lusts his murtherâ—… cannot bee numbred It was vsuall with him for one mans offence to extirpe whole Families and Cities and many times without any occasion When the warres ceast and that he wanted captiues to exercise himselfe vpon then did he kill and massacre his Friends his Lords his Councellors his Citizens burning hanging drâ—…wning thousands of guiltlesse and innocent people Hee would looke on and see his Guard defâ—…owre thousands of his women Captiues and then cut them in pieces Embassadours were not safe with him no more were his Friends and Companions if any man won of him in play he would fall into passion and sometimes cut off their Noses and Eares If for feare they suffered him to winne then he would streight cause them to bee beaten as dull and sluggish Dolts Now if any sought by refusing to play to auoyd these two extremes those hee would greâ—…uously handle and perchance put to death as contemners of his Maiestie Vpon some reprochfull speeches giuen by an honest Matron vnto one of his whores he tooke a purpose to murther al the women of Muscho and had done it before the instant request of his owne women Of diuers Citties that he pnnished he put all the inhabitants downe through certaine holes made through the Ice into the riuers and so drowned them The warnings he had from heauen were notable Vpon a Christmas day which was faire and cleare came a sudden lightning from heauen that burnt his stately Pallace of Sloboda with much treasure and rich stuffe in the same Soone after neere the towne of Nale there fell a strange thing three men and three women going forth to gather sticks in the adioyning wood late towards euening there came this voyce into their eares without any knowne Authour Fly Muschouians with which amazed they would haue fled towards the Towne when in the instant a mightie marble stone fell downe from the heauens sent with a great clap of thunder into the Snow and seemed to be settled there in such manner as if not throwne
by violence but placed there by an artificiall handiworke In this Stone were written diuers lines in a strange and vnknowne character The three men were slaine at the fall of the stone the women with great amazement ran home and shewed what had happened The newes comes to Basilides hee repaires to the place demands of the Metropolitan what the words did import he in great perplexitie replies he knowes not Calling then certaine captiues which had a great opinion of learning he requires of them the exposition of this inscription they fearing to be silent told him that these signes did pertaine to himselfe and did concerne his People and Empire Hereupon hee causes his Guard to breake the Stone all in pieces and in stead of penitence goes home and prepares for the Polonian warre He died very lamentably of an Vlcer in his priuie parts so lothsome and stinking that the smell of it poysoned diuers Hee had vpon his death-bed some trances wherein it seemes hee had some taste of the infernall â—…orments His life and death are written at large by Paulus Oderbornius a Germaine Diuine in three Bookes dedicate to Henrie Iulius Duke of Brunswick His body was not from the day of his death to be found in any place but was supposed to be conueyed away by the Deuill not content with his soule onely Ibidem He liued in Queene Elizabeths time 24 The Egyptians did worship some things generally as of beasts their Apis or Oxe the Dog the Cat of Fowle the Hawke and the Ibis of Fish the Lepidotus and the Oxirinchus beside these they had particular worships They of Arsinoe to the Crocodile They of the Citie of Hercules did worship the Ichnewmon The Cinopolitani a Dog The Licopolitani a Wolfe The Leontopolitani a Lion The Mendesii worshipt a Goate The Athribitae a blind Mouse They of Abidon worshipt Osiris whom Herodotus page the 150 calls Bacchus They of Hermonthis Iupiter and an Oxe and Orus which Herodotus calls Apollo pag. 199 and others other things Strabo Geography lib. 17. The Bubasti honourd Diana The Citizens of Busiris Isis which the Greekes call Demeter that is Ceres The City of Say worshipt Minerua The Helipolitanes the Sunne They of Buris Latona The Papremians Mars Herodotus Euterpe pag. 158. 25 Strabo saith he saw a Crocodile in a Lake in the Shire of Arsinoe neere to the Temple vpon which the Priests tended with great religion and fed him one holding open his chaps and an other powring in certaine Rost-meates and sweet Wine and that hauing fild his belly he retired streight into the Lake till he were called againe by some new Guest comming with new Oblations Ex Strabone lib. 17. 26 Porrum cepe nefas violare ac frangere morsu et Paulo post Carnibus humanis vesci licet Iuuen. Satyra 15. linea 9. 27 This Deitie of Iupiter Hammon was worshipt in the likenesse of a Ram. Herodotus Euterpe pag. 151. Here it was that Alexander was premonisht of his death with the circumstances both of time place and the manner as after they befell Quintus Curtius lib. 4. and in Alexanders owne Epistle to Arestotle and Iust. l. 11. It seemes their Iupiter was something mutable and humerous for his shape as men are now adayes for their fashions for Herodotus describeth him like a Ram and Quintus Curtius lib. 4. saith Id quod pro Deo colitur non eandem effigiem habebat quam vulgo diis accommodauerunt artifices Sed vmbilico maxime similis est habitus smaragdo etiemmis coagmentatus a Dianae templum Chersiphron fabricatus est Sed cum Herostratus quidam id incendâ—…o consumpsisset aliud prestantius construxerunt mulierum ornamentis Strabo Geogr. lib. 14. 28 Baalzebub was worshipt in the likenesse of a Flie. Purch 29 The Sydonians worshipt Iuno in the likenesse of a Sheepe 30 Quintus Curtius in oppugnatione Alexandri 31 The Phoenicians had a stately Temple dedicated to the Sunne of which Anthonine Emperour of Rome was in his priuate fortunes the High Priest and therefore surnamed Heliogabalus or Priest of the Sunne Herodian lib. 5. 32 This Temple had in it a stone which had thereon the figure of the Sunne Ibid. 33 The men of Carras that ouercame their wiues vsed to sacrifice to god Lunus in the Temple of the Moone but if their wiues had the better they offered vnto Luna to appease her displeasure Herodian lib. 3. 34 This place was some fiue mile from Antioch a Groue of mightie Cypresses ten miles in compasse where stood the Temple and Oracle of Apollo Daphneus Here Iulian the Apostate desiring answere the Deuill would not speakâ—… because the bones of Babillus the Martyr lay so neare him Socrates lib. 3. cap. 16. In this place of delight and Paradise of prophane pleasure the Antiochian youths and amorous Gallants vsed to pay their vowes to the Nimph Daphne the burbling streames calme winds and flowre-be spotted earth conspiring with the opacitie and retirednes of the place to make the Votaries of Diana worship Daphne Strabo Geogr. pag. 510. lib. 15. 35 The Persians did principally honour the Fire counting it a God they worshipt the Sunne and Moone Venus the Winds and the water into which it was not lawfull to spit to pisse or to cast any dead thing Strabo lib. 15. Herodotus lib. 1. pag. 90. lib. 3. pag. 226. 36 The Tartarians beyond Volga that belong to the Great Cham and the Crym Tartars which inhabit on this side Volga which Herodotus calls Scythia and them Scythes though these professe Mahumet yet haue they in their houses Idols and Puppets of Felâ—… which they offer to Doctor Fletcher and W. de Rubruquis in Hacluyt 37 The Chynoys haue Idols in their houses and Images if the deuil with Serpentine locks and as ill-fauoured lookes as he hath heare a tripple Crowne vpon his head great teeth standing out from his mouth and an vgly face vpon his belly him for feare they worship saying that God is good and will doe no man harme They paint the Deuill in their ships and in any storme him they inuocate sometime working by lots sometime by writing which way he neuer failes to answer them as appeares in the Discourse of Chinay Chap. 15. where the Spanish Friers to their no small terrâ—…r heard him talking to the Chynois in the same Ship § The Iapons haue a strange kind of shrift the Deuill once a yeare playing the Confessor hee puts his Penitent into a paire of Weigh-Scales hung vp vpon a high Spire or Piremed from whence if he confesse not truly he breakes his neck Acosta lib. 5. cap. 25. 38 The Deuill is highly worshipt in Pegue to whom they erect a stately Altar adorned with varietie of Flowres and Meates to fee and feede him that hee should not hurt them Hist. India pag. 321. 39 Cidambaran is the Mother-Citie of these Pagan Rites Here in the Temple of Perimall they worship an Ape called Haynemant the tooth of this Ape