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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

himself yet he rated the Bassa with sharp language What saies he dost thou think it handsome to complain thus grievously of my Son Knowest thou not that both thy self and this Wife of thine are my Slaves and accordingly at my dispose If therefore my Son has imbraced her and followed the inclinations of his mind he has but imbraced a Slave of mine and having my approbation he hath committed no fault at all think of this and go thy way and leave the rest to my self This he said in defence of his absolute Empire but being unsatisfied in his mind and vexed at the thing he first sends for his Son examines him touching the Fact and he having confessed it he dismissed him with outragious Language and threatnings three days after when paternal love to his Son and Justice had striven in his Breast love to Justice having gained the Superiority and Victory he commanded his Mutes to strangle his Son Mustapha with a Bowstring that by his death he might make amends to injured and violated Chastity Turkish Hist p. 411. LXXXIV King Henry the second of France commanded that an Italian Lacky should be put into Prison without telling why whereupon the Judges set him at liberty having first delivered their opinion to the King who again commanded that he should be put to death having as he said taken him faulty in a foul and heinous Crime which he would not have to be divulged yet the Judges for all this would not condemn him but set open the Prison doors to let him go forth it is true that the King caused him to be taken afterwards and thrown into the River Seine and drowned without any form of Law to avoid Tumult but the Judges would not condemn a Person where no proof was made that he was guilty Camerarius Medit. p. 472. LXXXV Otho the first Emperor of Germany being upon a Military expedition a Woman threw her self at his feet beseeching a just revenge according to the Laws upon a Person who had committed a Rape upon her the Emperor being in hast referred the hearing of the cause till his return But who then replied the Woman shall recall unto your Majesties mind the horrid injury that hath been done to me The Emperor looking up to a Church there by This Church saith he shall be a witness betwixt me and thee that I will do thee Justice and so dismissing her he with his retinue set forward at his return seeing the Church he called to mind the Complaint and caused the Woman to be summoned before him who at her appearance thus bespake him Dread Soveraign the man of whom I heretofore complained is now my Husband I have since had a Child by him and have forgiven him the injury not so said the Emperor by the head of Otho he shall suffer for it for a collusion among your selves doth not make void the Laws And so he caused his head to be struck off Lonic Theat p. 475. LXXXVI Chabot was Admiral to King Francis the first of France a man most nobly descended of great Valour and in high favour with his Prince but as in other men the Passion of love grows cold and wears out by time so the Kings affection being changed toward the Admiral had charged him with some Offences which he had formerly committed The Admiral presuming upon the great good Services he had done the King in Piemont and in the defence of Marseilles against the Emperor gave the King other language than became him and desired nothing so much as a publick Tryal hereupon the King gave commission to the Chancellor Poyet as President and other Judges upon an information of the Kings Advocate to question the Admirals life the Chancellor being an ambitious man and of a large conscience hoping to please the King wrought so cunningly upon some of the Judges threatned others so severely and drew in the rest with fair promises that though nothing could be proved against the Admiral worthy of the Kings displeasure yet the Chancellor subscribed and got others to subscribe to the forfeiture of his Estate Offices and Liberty though not able to prevail against his Life But the King hating Falshood and though to any that should bewail the Admirals Calamity it might have been answered that he was tryed according to his own desire by the Laws of his Country and the Judges of Parliament yet I say the King made his Justice surmount his other Passions and gave back the Admiral his Honour his Offices his Estate his Liberty and caused the wicked Poyet his Chancellor to be Indicted Arraigned Degraded and Condemned Rawleighs Hist World p. 471. LXXXVII Totilas King of the Goths was complained to by a Calabrian that one of his Lifeguard had ravished his Daughter upon which the accused was immediately sent to Prison the King resolving to punish him as the Fact deserved but the Soldiers came about him desiring that their Fellow-Soldier a man of known Valour might be delivered back to them Upon which Totilas sharply reproved them What would you have said he know you not that without Justice neither any Civil nor Military Government is able to subsist do not you remember what slaughters and Calamities the Nation of the Goths underwent through the injustice of Theodahadas I am now your King and in the maintenance of Justice we have regained our ancient Fortune and Glory would you now lose all for the sake of one Villain Look to your selves ye Soldiers but for my part I proclaim it aloud being careless of what shall happen thereupon that I will not suffer it and if you are resolved to do so then first strike at me behold a Body and a Breast ready for your stroke The Soldiers were so moved at this Speech that they deserted their Client the King sent for the man from Prison condemned him to death and gave his Estate to the injured and violated Woman Lipsius Monit p. 250. LXXXVIII In the Reign of King James 1612. June 25. the Lord Sanquer a Nobleman of Scotland having upon private revenge suborned Robert Carlile to murther John Turner a Fencing Master thought by his greatness to have carried it off but the King respecting nothing so much as Justice would not suffer Nobility to be a shelter to Villany but according to the Law upon June 29. the said Lord Sanquer having been Arraigned and Condemned by the name of John Creighton Esquire was executed before Westminster-Hall Gate where he died very penitent Bakers Chronicle p. 464. LXXXIX The Chronicle of Alexandria relateth an admirable passage of Theodorick King of the Romans Juvenilis a Widow made her complaint that a Suit of hers in Court was drawn out for the space of 3 years which might have been dispatched in few days The King demanded who were her Judges she named them they were sent unto and commanded to give all the speedy expedition that was possible to this Womans Cause which they did and in two days determined it

were the most Noble and best accoutred amongst them Upon hearing which he in a rage cried out It was his mi●fortune that while he reigned such a base and sordid Nation as theirs could not be content with their own bounds and limits and then as one struck with a Dart he lost both his voice and strength and in a deadly sweat fell down to the Earth he was taken up and carried into his Chamber where he was seized with a violent hickup and gnashing of Teeth of which he soon after died in the 55th year of his Age. Zuinglius VIII In 1418. Wenceslaus King of Bohemia being highly incensed against his Cup-bearer for that knowing of a Tumult raised by the Hussites in Prague under Zisea their Leader he had concealed it drew his Dagger with intention to stab him but the Nobles who attended laying hands on the King took away his Dagger that he might not pollute his Royal hands with the blood of his Servant while he was thus in their hands the King through extream Anger fell into an Apoplexy whereof he died in few days Donatus Hist p. 188. IX Matthias Corvinus King of Hungary being spent with the pains of the Gout and taken with the Palsey in both his legs lay at Vienna and on Palm-Sunday inquiring for some fresh Figs of Italy for the second course finding that they were already eaten up by the Courtiers he fell into such a rage as brought him into a Feaver whereof he died the day following Zuinglius X. Charles the sixth King of France being highly displeased with the Duke of Brittain upon some suspicions of him was so bent upon Revenge that unmindful of all other things his Passion suffered him not to eat or sleep he would not hear the Dukes Ambassadours that came to declare his Innocency but in the midst of Summer he set forth out of the City with his Forces about high noon in a hot sultry day with a light Hat upon his Head contrary to the advice of his Commanders and Physicians he leaped upon his Horse and bid them follow him that loved him he had scarce gone a mile from the City when his mind was disturbed and distracted and he in a fury drew his Sword slew some and wounded others that attended him till such time as being weary and spent with thus laying about him he fell from his Horse he was taken up and carried back in the Arms of Men into the City for dead where after many days when at first he neither knew himself nor any about him he began by degrees to recover but his mind was not so well restored but that he had sometimes some symptoms of a Relapse and at several intervals discovered his distemper so that the Government of the Kingdom was committed to his Uncles Zuinglius XI Marcus Sabinus came to live at Rome at such time as Numa Pompilius was elected King thereof when Numa was dead he hoped to be chosen by the People to succeed him but finding that Hostilius was prefer'd before him he resented the matter with that passion and indignation that his life growing irksome unto him he laid violent hands upon himself and so went discontented out of the world of what strange fury was this man possessed what flames what ruines what slaughter and bloodshed of the Roman People can we imagine could satisfy the anger and revenge of this man who when he was able to do nothing against the People of Rome proceeded so sharply and so bitterly against himself as to resolve not to live at all because according to his mind he might not live a King Fulgosus XII Amurath the second Emperor of the Turks having long besieged the City of Croia in Hungary and assaulted it in vain and being no way able either by force or flattery to bring the valiant Scanderbeg to Terms of submission and agreement and being angry that his Presents and Propositions were refused he resolved to make a terrible assault upon Croia from all Quarters but this by the Courage of the Christian Soldiers proving a greater loss to him than any before not being able to behold the endless slaughter of his men he gave over the assault and returned into his Camp as if he had been a man half frantick or distracted of his Wits and there sate down in his Tent all that day full of melancholy passions sometimes violently plucking his hoary beard and white locks complaining of his hard and disastrous Fortune that he had lived so long to see those days of disgrace wherein all his former glory and triumphant Victories were obscured by this one base Town his Bassa's and grave Counsellors by long discourses sought to comfort him but dark and heavy conceits had so overwhelmed the melancholy old Tyrant that nothing could content his inraged mind or revive his dying Spirits so that the little remainder of natural heat which was left in his aged Body was now opprest and almost extinguished and he became sick for pure anger and grief and feeling his sickness dayly to increase so that he could no longer live lying upon a Pallet in his Pavilion he sadly complained to his Bassa's That the Destinies had blemished all the former course of his life with such an obscure death that he who had so often resisted the fury of the Hungarians and almost brought to nought the Pride of the Graecians together with their Name should now be inforced to give up the Ghost under the walls of an obscure Castle and that in the sight of his contemptible Enemy shortly after he became speechless and striving with the pangs of death half a day he then expired in 1450. Turkish Hist p. 330. XIII To proceed in the method of the former part let us next consider that unnatural hatred which has been found among the nearest Relations and first of the Hatred of Husbands to their Wives for there are some brutish and evil natured men who by pretences of Generosity Love and Virtue inveagle the hearts of poor innocent Virgins till they are become the Masters of their Fortunes and Honour which done death itself is more desirable than that bitterness and indignity they are wont to treat them with XIV Periander the Corinthian in a high fit of passion trod his Wife under foot and although she was at that time with Child with a Boy yet he never desisted from his injurious treatment of her till such time as he had killed her upon the place afterward when he was come to himself and was sensible that what he had done was through the false Accusations of his Concubines he caused them all to be burnt alive and banished his Son out of his Kingdom upon no other occasion but that he lamented the death of his Mother with Tears and Outcries Wanly Hist Man p. 372. XV. Amalasuntha had Married Theodabitus and thereby made him her Husband and the King of the Goths at the same time but upon this Condition That he should take

as one that esteemed him as a Father but as soon as the Maid that attended upon the sick man was gone out of the room he caught up a Hammer gave him some blows and then thrust him through with a Knife as soon as the Maid returned he with the same fury did the like to her and then seizing the Keys he searched for his intended Prey he found eight pieces of Plate which afterward for want of money he pawned to a Priest of St. Blasius who suspecting the man sent the Plate to the Senate at Basil by which means the Author of the detestable murther was known he was searched after taken and brought Prisoner to Basil where after Condemnation he had his Legs and Arms broken upon the Wheel and his head while he was yet alive being tied to a part of the Wheel he was burnt with flaming Torches till in horrible Tortures he gave up the Ghost Lonic Theat XCI I shall conclude this Chapter with the Charity of Henry Keeble Lord Mayor of London in 1511. who besides other great Gifts in his life-time re-builded Aldermary Church which was run to ruines and bequeathed at his death a thousand pounds for the finishing of it yet within sixty years after his bones were unkindly yea inhumanely cast out of the Valut wherein they were buried His Monument was pluckt down for some wealthy Person of those present times to be buried therein Upon which occasion saith Dr. Fuller I could not but rub up my old Poetry which is this Fuller to the Church Vngrateful Church o're run with rust Lately buried in the Dust Vtterly thou hadst been lost If not preserv'd by Keebles cost A Thousand pounds might it not buy Six foot in length for him to lie But outed of his quiet Tomb For later Corpse he must make room Tell me where his dust is east Though 't be late yet now at last All his bones with scorn ejected I will see them recollected Who fain my self would Kinsman prove To all that did Gods Temple love The Churches Answer Alas my Innocence excuse My Wardens they did me abuse Whose Avarice his Ashes sold That Goodness might give place to Gold As for his Reliques all the Town They are scatter'd up and down Seest a Church repaired well There a sprinkling of them fell Seest a New Church lately built Thicker there his Ashes spilt Oh that all the Land throughout Keebles Dust were thrown about Places scatter'd with that seed Would a Crop of Churches breed Fuller's Worthies p. 33. CHAP. V. The Tremendous Consequences of Cowardice Barbarity and Treachery THese three evil Qualities or vicious Inclinations of the Mind are much of the same kind for Cruelty and Treachery do commonly proceed from base Cowardly Dispositions As touching Cowards that is such as preserving their Lives or Estates before their Country's welfare and that either will not or dare not stand co●ragiously in defence of it in time of Danger they were alwaies reckoned to deserve the greatest punishments and therefore the Romans did sharply chastise them and endeavoured to render them odious for they were commanded and sworn never to eat their meat but standing Nay they were accounted so hateful amongst them that when Hannibal offered the Roman Senate eight thousand Captives to be redeemed they refused his offer saying That they were not worthy to be redeemed who had rather be basely taken than die honestly and valiantly I. The Senate of Rome indeed dealt more favourably with the Captives which King Pyrrhus took for they redeemed them but with this mark of contumel and disgrace that they were degraded from all their Offices and Honours until by getting a double Victory they had won their Reputation again Beards Theatre II. Titias a Captain of Horsemen in Sicilia being overcharged with too great a number of Enemies delivered up his Arms to them which was counted so heinous a Crime that Calpburnius Piso his General pronounced this Sentence against him That he should go barefooted before the Army wearing a Garment without seams and that he should have society with none but such as were guilty of the same fault and from a General over Horsemen he was degraded and made a common Souldier Idem III. How did the Roman Senate correct the Cowardise of Caius Vatienus who that he might prevent his being ingaged in the Wars of Italy cut off all the Fingers of his left hand Why they seized upon his Goods and cast him into perpetual Imprisonment that he might thereby consume that life in Bondage and Fetters which he refused to hazard in the defence of his Country Idem IV. Fulgosus saith That among the Germans it was judged so dishonourable to lose a Shield in War that whosoever happened to do it was suspended from any Civil Office in the State and likewise forbid to enter into any of their Temples insomuch that many he saith killed themselves to avoid the infamy and shame thereof Idem V. The People called Daci punished Cowards on this manner They suffered them not to sleep but with their heads to the feet of the Beds and besides they by a Law ordained that they should be Slaves and Subjects to their own Wives What more vile disgrace could there be than this And yet the Lacedemonians used them more reproachfully for with them it was a dishonour to marry into the stock of a Coward any man might lawfully strike them without punishment and they went with their Cloths rent and their Beards half shaven Idem VI. Artaxerxes after the Battel was ended which he sought with his Brother Cyrus punished one of his Commanders called Arbaces for his cowardliness by compelling him to carry a Whore on his back stark naked all the day long about the Market-place And another that had basely yielded himself to his Enemies and yet boasted that he had slain two men he caused his Tongue to be bored thorow in three several places with an Awl Plutarch VII It is likewise a token of a weak mind and an infirm Soul to anticipate troubles by their own fearful apprehensions before they arrive which is oftentimes occasioned by a too great fearfulness of death and being over-desirous of life which kind of Cowardize hath occasioned great mischiefs and miseries as by the following Examples appears VIII Lewis the Eleventh King of France when he sound himself sick sent for one Fryer Robert out of Calabria to come to him to Toures this man was an Hermite and famous for his Sanctity and while in his last sickness this Holy man lay at Plessis the King sent continually to him saying That if the Hermite pleased he could prolong his life The King had reposed his whole confidence in Mounsieur James Cothier his Physician to whom he gave monthly Ten thousand Crowns in hope he would lengthen his life Never man saith Philip Comines feared death more than he nor sought so many waies to avoid it as he did moreover saith he in all his life-time he