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A81080	Unparalleld varieties: or, The matchless actions and passions of mankind. Displayed in near four hundred notable instances and examples. Discovering the transcendent effects; I. Of love, friendship, and gratitude. II. Of magnanimity, courage, and fidelity. III. Of chastity, temperance, and humility. And on the contrary the tremendous consequences, IV. Of hatred, revenge, and ingratitude. V. Of cowardice, barbarity, treachery. VI. Of unchastity, intemperance, and ambition. : Imbellished with proper figures. / By R.B. ...	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1683 (1683)	Wing C7352; ESTC R171627	176,132	257

Augustus had taken Adiatoriges a Prince of Cappadocia together with his Wife and Children in War and had led them to Rome in Triumph he gave order that the Father the elder of the Brothers should be slain The designed Ministers of this Execution were come to the place of restraint to this unfortunate Family and there inquiring which of the Brethren was the eldest there arose a vehement and earnest contention between the two young Princes each of them affirming himself to be the Elder that by his death he might preserve the life of the other when they had long continued in this pious Emulation the Mother at last not without difficulty persuaded her Son Dyetentus that he would permit his younger Brother to die in his stead as hoping that by him she might be more probably maintained Augustus was at length certified of this great example of Brotherly love and not only lamented that act of his severity but gave an honourable support to the Mother and her surviving Son Heywoods Hist Women XLIII Heliodorus the Brittain had afterward the Sirname of Pius upon this occasion the People provoked with the Cruelty and Avarice of Archigallus had deposed him and raised Heliodorus to the Throne of his Brother one time when the King went on hunting he accidentally met with his Brother Archigallus in a Wood whose altered visage and ragged cloths gave sufficient evidence of his afflicted condition as soon as the King knew him though he was not ignorant how he had sought his Restoration both by force and fraud yet he lovingly imbraced him and caused him privately to be conveyed into the City The King pretended he was sick and giving forth that he would dispose of the Affairs of the Realm by his last Will and Testament he called his Nobles together he then signified that he would confer in private with each of them singly and as every man entered into his Chamber he caused him to be laid hold on threatning him with death if he would not consent to the sparing of his Brother and that he should resign the Throne and Kingdom to him having by this means gained an universal assent he then opened the business in the presence of them altogether so that Archigallus was restored to the Kingdom and he dying in few years Heliodorus succeeded him with equal Justice and Glory Fulgosus Examples p. 634. XLIV There was a Soldier in the Camp of Pompeius who in the War with Sertorius perceiving a Soldier on the other side to press hard upon him he sought with him hand to hand and having slain him he went about to strip him of his Arms which when he had done he found it was his Brother who had fallen under him whereupon having a long time curst his unhappy Fate he carried his dead Brother into the Camp and having covered the Body with a precious Garment he laid the Corps upon the Funeral Pile and put fire to it which done he immediately drew the same Sword wherewith he had slain his Brother and thrust it into his own Breast and so falling prostrate upon the dead Body of his Brother they were both burned together Valerius Maximus p. 146. XLV There was a report though a false one that Eumenes King of Asia was slain by the fraud of Perseus upon the news whereof his Brother Attalus seized upon the Crown and married the Wife of his Brother but being informed of Eumenes his return he went forth to meet him not without apprehensions of fear in regard of what he had done in his absence Eumenes made no shew of his displeasure only whispered him in the Ear That before he married another Mans Wife he should besure her Husband was dead This was all and not long after dying though by his Wife he had a Son of his own yet he left the Kingdom to his Brother together with the Queen his Wife Attalus on the other side that he might not be surpassed in Brotherly love though he had many Children by his own Wife yet he educated that Son she had by Eumenes to the hope of the Kingdom and when he came of sufficient Age freely resigned up all to him and lived a private life many years after Burtons Melancholy p. 564. XLVI Darius King of Persia being extreamly provoked by Crimes of an extraordinary nature had pronounced Sentence of death upon Ithaphernes his Children and the whole Family of them at once the Wife of Ithaphernes went to the Kings Pallace and there all in tears was so loud in her mournful Lamentations that her cries coming to the Kings Ear moved him in such manner to compassion that the King sent her word That with her own he gave her the life of any single Person whom she would make choice of among the condemned the Woman begged the life of her Brother Darius wondred that she should rather ask his life than that of her Husband or any of her Children and therefore asked her the reason who replied That since her Father was dead she could never hope for a Brother more if she should lose this but that her self being but young as yet might hope for another Husband and other Children Darius was moved with this answer and being inclined to Brotherly love as well as prudence he gave her also the life of her eldest Son Heywoods Hist Women XLVII Tiberius being at Ticinum and hearing that his Brother Drusus lay sick in Germany he immediately put himself on an hasty Journey to give him a visit he passed the Alps and the Rhine and changing his Horse night and day he travelled outright two hundred miles with only one Person in his Company as his Guide Drusus though at that time labouring for life being informed of his coming commanded his Legions with their Ensigns to march out and meet him and to salute him by the Title of Imperator or Emperor he ordered a Praetorial Tent to be erected for him on the right hand of his own and gave him the Confular and Imperial name at the same time yielding this honour to his Brother and his Body to death Valerius Maximus p. 146. XLVIII Great was the love of Timolaeon the Corinthian to his Brother for when in a Battel with the Argives he saw his Brother fall down dead with the wounds he had received he leaped over the dead body of his Brother and with his Shield he protected the body as it lay and though in this enterprize he was sore wounded himself yet would he not retreat into any place of safety till such time as he had seen the dead body of his Brother carried off from the Field Fulgosus lib. 5. XLIX Neither has the extraordinary Love of Servants toward their Masters wanted great Examples some of whom have discovered eminent Fidelity and Virtue so that Fortune may seem to have treated them injuriously not to allot them as great advantages as their Masters they lived under for we read that the Servant of Vrbinius Panopion knowing

who was of a fierce and violent disposition made War upon his Brother Alphonsus overcame and took him Prisoner and thrust him into a Monastery constrained Religion lasts not long and therefore he privately deserted his Cloyster and in company only of one Earl he fled for protection to Almenon King of Toledo who was a Moor and an Enemy to the others Religion but there had been Friendship and Peace betwixt him and Ferdinand the Father of this distressed Prince and upon this account he chose to commit himself unto his Faith and was cheerfully received by him he had not been long with him when in the presence of the King the hair of this Prince was observed to stand up an end in such manner that being several times stroked down by the hand they still continued in their upright posture The M●orish Sooth sayers interpreted this to be a Prodigy of ill signification and told the King that this was the man that should be advanced to the Throne of Toledo and thereupon persuaded to put him to death the King would not do it but preferred his Faith given to the fear he might apprehend and thought it sufficient to make him swear that during his life he should not invade his Kingdom a while after King Sanctius was slain by Conspirators at Zamora and his Sister Vratta being well affected to this her Brother sent him a Messenger with Letters to invite him to the Kingdom advising him by some craft with all speed to quit the Country of the Barbarians where he was Alphonsus bearing a grateful mind would not relinquish his Patron in this manner but coming to Almenon acquainted him with the matter And now said he noble Prince compleat your Royal Favours toward me by sending me to my Kingdom that as hitherto I have had my life so I may now also receive my Scepter by your generosity The King imbraced him and wished him all happiness But said he you had lost both Crown and life if with an ungrateful mind you had fled without my knowledge For I knew of the death of Sanctius and I silently waited what course you would take and had disposed upon the way such as I should have returned you back from your flight had it been attempted But no more of this all I shall require of you is that during your life you shall be a true Friend to me and my elder Son Hissemus And so sent him away with Money and an honourable retinue this Alphonsus did afterward take the City and Kingdom of Toledo but it was after the death of Almenon and his Son Lipsius Mon p. 321. LIX Antaff King of some part of Ireland warring against King Ethelstan disguised himself like an Harper and came into Ethelstans Tent whence being gone a Soldier that knew him discovered it to the King who being offended with the Soldier for not declaring it sooner the Soldier made this answer I once served Antaff under his pay as a Soldier and gave him the same Faith I now give you if then I should betray him what trust could your Grace repose in my Truth let him therefore die but not by my Trechery and let your care remove your Royal self from danger remove your Tent from the place where it stands lest at unawares he set upon you Which the King did and the Bishop pitching in the same place was that night with all his Retinue slain by Antaff hoping to have surprized the King and believing he had slain him because he himself knew his Tent stood in that place Speeds Chrocle p. 381. LX. Henry King of Arragon and Sicily was deceased and left John his Son a Child of twenty two months of Age behind him intrusted to the care and fidelity of Ferdinand the Brother of the deceased King and Uncle to the Infant he was a man of great virtue and merit and therefore the Eyes of the Nobles and People were upon him and not only in private discourses but in the publick Assembly he had the general voice and mutual consent to be chosen King of Arragon but he was still deaf to these proffers alledging the right of his Infant Nephew and the custom of the Country which they were bound the rather to maintain by how much the weaker the young Prince was to do it yet he could not prevail though the Assembly was adjourned for that time they met again in hopes that having time to consider of it he would now accept it who being not ignorant of their purpose had caused the little Child to be clothed in Royal Robes and having hid him under his Garment went and sate in the Assembly then Paralus Master of the Horse by common consent did again ask him Whom O Ferdinand is it your pleasure to have declared our King He with a severe look voice replied Whom but John the Son of my Brother and withal took forth the Child from under his Robe and lifting him up upon his Shoulders cryed out God save King John and commanding the Banners to be displayed cast himself first to the ground before him and then all the rest moved by his example did the like Camer Horae Subs p. 154. LXI John the first K. of France was overthrown in Battel and made Prisoner by Edw. the Black Prince and afterwards brought over into England Here he remained four years and was then suffered to return into France upon certain conditions which if he could make his Subjects submit to he should be free if otherwise he gave his faith to return he could not prevail to make them accept of the hard Terms that were offered whereupon he returned into England surrendred himself up and there died Fulgosus ex p. 44. LXII Flectius a Nobleman was made Governor of the City and Castle of Conimbria in Portugal by King Sanctius 1243. This Sanctius was too much swayed by his Wife Mencia and over-addicted to some Court Minions and Favourites by reason of which there was a Conspiracy of the Nobles against him and the matter was so far gone that they had got leave of Pope Innocent to translate the Government of the Kingdom to Alphonsus the Brother of Sanctius hereupon followed a War the minds of most men were alienated from their natural Prince but Flectius was still constant induring the Siege and Arms of Alphonsus and the whole Nation nor could he any way be persuaded till he heard that Sanctius was dead in banishment at Toletum for whom now should he fight or preserve his Faith they advised him therefore to follow Fortune and to yield himself and not change a just Praise for the Title of a Desperado and a Madman Flectius heard but believed them not he therefore beg'd leave of Alphonsus that he himself might go to Toletum and satisfy himself It was granted and he there found that the King was indeed dead buried and therefore that he might as well be free in his own conscience as in the opinion of men he opened

Nature and the bloodiness of their disposition XXVI Artaxerxes King of Persia had fifty Sons by his several Concubines one called Darius he made King in his own life-time contrary to the Custom of that Nation who having sollicited his Father to give him Aspatia his beautiful Concubine and being denied by him he stirred up all the rest of his Brothers to join with him in a Conspiracy against the old King it was not carried so privately but that the design came to Artaxerxes ear who so incensed thereat that casting off all Humanity as well as Fatherly affection not contented with Prisons or Exile he caused them all at once to be put to death and thus by his own hand he brought a woful desolation into his House which was so lately replenished by so numerous an Off-spring Sabel Exem p. 132. XXVII Ptolomy Phiscon having fetched his eldest Son out of Cyrene he put him to death lest the Alexandrians should set him up King against him whereupon the People pluckt down his Statue and his Images And Ptolomy supposing that this was done by the instigation of his Sister and Wife Cleopatra and not well knowing how to be revenged any other way he commanded his Son Memphitis who was an ingenious and hopeful Child and whom he had by her to be slain before his Eyes and cutting off his head hands and feet put them into a Chest close covered with a Soldiers Coat and gave it to one of his Servants to carry it to Alexandria and to present it to Cleopatra at the Festival of her Nativity when she was in the height of her Jollity this was a sad and grievous Spectacle not to the Queen only but to the whole City and it struck such a damp upon their merry meeting that the Court on a sudden was overcast with a general sadness and the Nobles turning their Festival into a Funeral shewed the mangled Limbs to the People to let them see what themselves were to expect from their King who had thus murthered his own Child A. B. Vshers Annal. p. 494. 28. In the reign of Queen Mary there was one Julius Palmer a Religious man and afterward a Martyr for the Protestant Profession who being driven from the Town of Redding in Barkshire where he taught School went to Evesham where his Mother dwelt hoping to obtain a Legacy which his Father had left him in her hands his Mother hearing before hand what was the occasion of his coming when upon his knees he asked her Blessing she said Thou shalt have Christs curse and mine where-ever thou goest He being amazed at this heavy greeting paused a while and then said Oh Mother your curse you may give me which God knows I never deserved but Gods curse you cannot give me for he hath already blessed me Nay said she thou wentest out of Gods blessing when thou wast banished out of Oxford for an Heretick and now for the like knavery art driven out of reading Alas Mother said he you are misinformed I resigned my places of mine own accord and Heretick I am none for I stand not stubbornly against any truth but defend it to my power well said she I am sure thou dost not believe as thy Father did and as I do nor as our fore-Fathers did but as thou art taught by the new Law in King Edwards days which is damnable Heresy indeed said he I do so believe but it is not Heresy but the truth and not new but as ancient as Christ and his Apostles well said she get thee out of my house and sight and ne're take me for thy Mother more as for money I have none for thee thy Father bequeathed no Legacies to Hereticks Faggots I have to burn thee and more thou gettest not at my hands Mr. Palmer for her cursings returned blessings and Prayers for her and so weeping abundantly he departed from her this so mollified her hard heart that she threw an Angel after him saying Take that to keep thee a true man Book Martyrs vol 3. 29. Doctor Otho Melander reports this horrible Parricide to be Committed in the year 1568. at a place called Albidos in Saxony there lived saith he a Father who had two Sons the one he brought up to Husbandry the other in Merchandise both very obedient dutiful and thriving the Merchant traded to Lubeck where in few years he got a very fair Estate and falling sick even in the chief of his trade he made his will wherein he bequeathed to his Brother about five hundred pound and to his Father ten and some few hours after he had setled his Estate he died but before his death he sent to his Brother to come in Person and receive those Legacies the Father not knowing how things were disposed of dispatched away his other Son with all possible speed to Lubeck being more coverous after what his Son had left him then sorrowful for his death though he were a youngman of great expectation the surviving Son who was the younger arrived at the City and having first deplored the death of his Brother he takes a Copy of the will and receives all the money to a penny and with this new stock he joyfully returns into his own Country where at his first arrival he was gladly welcomed by his Father and Mother who were overjoyed to behold the bags he had brought but when by the reading of the will they saw how the money was disposed and that so little came to their share they first began bitterly to curse the dead Son and then barbarously to rail on the living outfacing him that he had changed the will by altering the old and forging a new one which the innocent youth denying and excusing himself by telling them that the Original was upon record and by that they might be fully satisfied yet all would give them no satisfaction till very weariness made them give over their heavy Cursings then the Son offered them the whole to dispose freely of it at their pleasure which they very churlishly refused and bid him take all and the Devil give him good with it which drew tears from the Sons Passionate Eyes who after asking their blessing which they denied he parted very sadly from them he was no sooner departed from them but they wickedly contrived to get this money by murdering him that very night and when he was innocently asleep in his bed they both set furiously and violently upon him stabbing him with daggers into the breast so that with the Agony of the wounds he opened his Eyes and espying both his Parents with their hands imbrued in his blood he with a loud exclamation uttered these words or to the same purpose O Gold to what dost thou not compel mankind What villany dost thou not persuade them to act for thou causest Parents to sheath their weapons into their own bowels even those of their own Children these dying Speeches were uttered with such a doleful and shrill voice that they were heard

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