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A13401	The second booke of the Garden of wysedome wherin are conteyned wytty, pleasaunt, and nette sayenges of renowmed personages collected by Rycharde Tauerner anno. M.D.XXXIX. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.; Garden of wysdom. Book 2	Taverner, Richard, 1505?-1575.; Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536. Apophthegmata.	1542 (1542)	STC 23713; ESTC S111350	25,134	97

is no doubt but that kynge Cambyses was at the begynnynge in his youth brought vp in moost honest maners And albeit this drōkarde was not ignoraūt of the feate of shotyng yet in the meane season he could not vse the ryght coūsaylles of reason but lacked those vertues whych be wonte to allure men vnto gentle sobriete to the studye of honest renowne Such maner exemples must be propowned vnto yonge men whych for y e most part be geuē to the foule vice of dronkēnes for what ende folowed of these maners a lytell herafter shalbe dedared He murdered also hys owne brother smerdis whō he priuely caused to be put to deth lest he might at any tyme be king Furthermore he toke to wife hys owne suster germayne wheras nature abhorreth from such kynde of copulation Nowe it befell so that when kynge Cambyses sat at a feast wyth hys syster the quene for theyr sporte and pleasure he set a yonge lyon and a very eger dogge togither by the eares so whē the lyon in strength and fyercenes had preuayled an other dogge no les fyerce brastyng his bandes wherwyth he was boūd dyd helpe the dogge hys brother vaynquyshed the lyon The kinge was excedyngly delyted with thys syght for the faythfulnes of y e dogges betwene themselues But by the same facte the quene beynge moued began very largelye to wepe and poure oute teares and to water her tender chekes The kynge toke this her wepynge very heuely and demaunded of her the cause of her sorowe she aunswered in this wyse Certes my dere husbande and brother euen so great a feythfulnes might haue chaunced vnto vs of our brother as we se here betwene these two dogges that be of all one lytter The kyng greuously taking this aunswere cōmaūded she shuld forthwith be taken out of hys syght and put to deathe But such maners coulde not long haue successe For God speaketh in the scripture Blowdy men and wylye shall not fynyshe halfe theyr dayes vpon the erthe Wherfore not long after wyth a greuouse vengeaunce God plaged him For as he was comming out of Egypte in to Persia when he shulde mownt on horsbacke his swerd felle out of the skaberd and sore wounded hym in suche wyse that he dyed of it This exēple testifyeth that god woll not longe suffre tyrantes to reygne For not lōge after y e deathe of Cyrus aboue y e space of one yere lyued Cambyses neither lefte he any heyre of his kyngdome ¶ Of Darius kynge of the Persians After the death of Cambyses the chief lordes assembled togither and began to consulte whome they might beste make theyr hed kynge Seuen were appointed to deliberat vpon thys moste weyghtye matter Fyrst stode vp Otanes coūsayled that no mo kynges shulde be chosen but that by leage and sure cōfederacie made betwene them all the lordes myght rule alyke so shuld libertie be maynteyned and kept one euery syde and euery mā at fredom For before it was wel proued by examples that where one man is Lorde of so many and so great thynges he maye easyly be to proude and hawtye and sone growe out of kynde and degendre vnto tyrannye euen as nowe of late it was seen of Cambyses After hym stode vp Megabysus whyche disalowynge thys counsayle of Otanes affyrmed that suche lybertie was moche more hurtfull and pestiferous to the comon weale then tyrannye shuld be For noble men and cities yf they lacke a lorde and hedde they can not but abuse thys libertye vnto priuate offection and lust But to thentent no suche thynge shulde ensue his counsayle and aduise was not to chose some one Kynge but to appointe certayne noble men wyth whom mighte alwayes remayne the tytle prerogatyue and ryght of the Imperiall power The sentences of these bothe the thyrd lord named Darius disalowed coūsayled to chouse one kynge For albeit in thys kynde of gouernaunce lyke as in al other humane thynges many and greate incōmodities maye chaunce yet no rule no gouernaunce is so stable so sure as is a monarchie that is to saye where one ruleth in whose handes is put the charge of the hole kyngdom Uerily albeit these thre counsayles be all bothe honeste and good yet yf they be compared togyther sure it is that nothynge can be founde eyther fayrer or more profytable then the gouernaunce of one person called a Monarchie for as moche as it moste resembleth the diuine and heuenly kyngdome of God Furthermore it can not be that concorde can longe be kepte amonges free prynces cities or there where to the administration of a moste ample and myghty empyre be a sorte of lordes chosen in lieu of one Kynge and that bycause of the diuersitie of moste graue and wyghtye affayres which euer amonge in so large a dominion shulde chaunce vpon whych y e princes shulde not euer agree within them selfes Besydes all thys there shulde not want also amonges these selfe princes an inordinat studie and desyre of dignitie dominion aboue the reste ouer whom some one wold labour to haue power as ouer hys subiectes or iferiours And these were in effecte the causes whyche Darius brought forthe for the proue of hys purpose vnto whych the other foure prynces subscribed and so at laste it was determyned after the olde vsage to chouse a kynge But least any dissentiō might aryse betwen y e seuē princes they thought it best to committe the lotte of the election vnto God It was a greed vpon that vpon a mornynge very erly the prynces on horsbacke shulde mete togyther at a certaine place that he whose horse first neyghed shuld be forthwith proclaymed king The princes retourned euery one to hys home Darius shewed the counsayle and determination of the princes vnto the Stuard of hys howse who forthwith toke the mater vpon hym to brynge hys lordes purpose to good passe Wherfore the euenynge before the daye appoynted he bryngeth hys lordes horse and a mare vnto the place appoynted and there commytted the horse and mare togyther to thentent that the nexte mornynge the place knowē the horse myghte for desyre of the mare which then shulde be absent neyghe accordynge to hys propertie The mornynge ensuynge accordyng to thappoyntmēt at the howre prescribed y t sayd princes do marche forward on horsbacke vnto the sayd place They were not soner there but loo forthwith Darius horse begynneth to neyghe and that they shulde not doubt but it was the diuine prouidence of God to haue Darius to theyr kynge incontinent in an open and clere wether without any maner tempest it both lyghtened and thondered whyle the horse neyghed By and by the other princes leapynge of from theyr horses exhibited vnto Darius kyngly honours and saluted hym kynge Thus by thys accasyon was Darius auaunced to the kyngdome and empyre of the Perssans whyche he afterwarde wyth hyghe prayse administred Kyng Darius was wont in prayse of hym selfe to saye that by warres aduersities he was made