at a priuye signe to fall to feasting tipling and quaffing betweene themselues aboue measure Which thing he deuysed to the intent the Sardian embassadours beholding so greate plentye and aboundance of grayne and vewing the people in such wise to disport them selues with al kynde of pleasure and delight might make report therof to y e kinge his soueraigne which fell out accordynglye For the ambassadours taking diligent view of all thinges they saw and dispatching their ambassage to Thrasibulus made speedy recourse to Sardis And as I am geuen to vnderstand hereof onelye proceeded a conclusion of peace betwene them For Halyattes supposinge the Milesians to bee oppressed with greate want and penury of grayne at the returne of hys legates hard other newes then hee looked for After this a league was established betweene them of mutuall hospitality and fellowship and in steed of one temple Halyattes caused 2 other to be sumptiuously built at AssessuÌ„ beyng after restored to hysful and perfect strength Such was then the maner of the warre that Halyattes mayntayned agaynst the people of Miletus Periander the some of Sypselus who aduertised Thrasibulus of the oracle was king of Corinth in whose raigne there happened by report of hys people with whom also y e cityzens of Lesbos do iustly accord a miracle right straunge and wonderful Arion Methimnaeus sitting on the backe of a Dolphine by safe and easy conduite arryued at Taenaros hauing the name to bee the most excellent and skylfull musition on the harpe of those â—ymeâ—â— by whom also chieflye was inuented named and taught the kynde and forme of verse called Biâ—hyrambus The fame is how this Aryon hauing a loÌ„g tyme bene resident in the court of Periander was greatly desyrous to passe the Seas into Italye and Cicilie wher beyng growen in wealth and flowinge with infinite summes of money was lead by a desire of retyring backe into hys owne countreye and determyne to in ship himselfe at Tarentum for the speciall credite and good lyking he had to the men of his owne nation hyred a Corinthian barck to returne in which hauing a gall of pleasant wynde and beinge nowe without kenne of Lande the Maryners were all in mind to haue borded Aryon to enioy his money which thing y e pore harper perceyuing freely offred to depart from his wealth if therewith satisfyed they would shew mercy on him selfe and spare his life How beit finding theÌ„ cruelly bent not to bee moued with anye tears but y t either he must kil himselfe be buried on y e laÌ„d or fling hiÌ„selfe hedloÌ„g into y e mids of y e sea he besought theÌ„â—sibly y t since it semed them best to deale so roughly w t him they would graunt him liberty in his richest aray to sing a song wherto they gladly yeldiÌ„g as beyng not a little ioyful to lend their eares to the chiefest and most famous musitioÌ„ then liuing on the earth He weÌ„t from them apart into the middest of the shippe wher hauing decked his body w t most pretious and costlye furniture he framed his voyce to the sweete and melodious verse named Orthium which no soner had he brought to an end but al his pompe glorious arayment he threw himselfe headlonge into the Sea the shipmen held on their course to Corinth Arion receyued by a Dolphin was in perfect safety landed at Taenaros froÌ„ whence so arrayed as he was he framed his steps towarde Corinth to the seate and pallace of the king wher hauing entred a discourse of his strauÌ„ge case incredible fortune y e king supposing him to ouer reach coÌ„mitted him immediatly to close ward wher no maÌ„ might haue accesse vnto hiÌ„ After that diligent serch was made for the mariners who beyng apprehended and curiouslye questioned with about Arion made answere that his abode was aboute Italy and how at their comming from thence they leaft him in florishing estate at Tarentum at which words Arion preseÌ„tly appearing draue them into such a quandarye that hauing no colour of excuse they were compelled perforce to confesse the truth These thinges are verifyed by the men of Corinth and Lesbos Ther is yet to be seene at Taenaros a huge massy monumeÌ„t wrought of brasse Arion sitting on y e back of a Dolphin Howbeit Haliattes prince of Lydia hauing entred the warre with the Milesians gouerned the kingdome 57 yeares finished his dayes who second of that linage after the due recouerye of his strength offred at Delphos a piece of siluer plate of value incomparable and a smal dish of yron curyously wrought a thinge no lesse wonderful to behold then ought that hath bene dedicated in the temple of Apollo being the handy worke of Blaucus Chius who first found out the meane to worke in yron After the death of Haliattes the sceptor descended vnto Craesus his sonne beyng then at the age of thirtye and three yeares This Kyng mynding to haue a fling at the Grecians began first of all and encountred with the people of Ephesus who beyng inuyroned by hym with a siege gaue theyr Citty to the Goddesse tying a rope from the temple of Diana to the walles of the Towne Betweene the olde citye that was besieged and the Temple was the space of 7. furlonges These were the first that Craesus began to quarel with amonges the Grecians After this he began by piecemeale to be doyng with the seuerall cityes of Ionia Aeolia pretending agaynst each diuerse and sundrye causes some very weighty and of due regard other meeretrifles and very friuolous Now when he had subdued the Grecians in Asia and made them tributory to his seat hee determined to furnish a nauy agaynst the inhabitauntes of the Isles To the framing wherof when all things were in readynesse some say that Bias Prienaeus other that Pittacus Mitylaeneus comming to Sardis was demaunded of the Kinge what newes in Greece who shaped him such an answeare that it gaue him small courage to proceede in his enterprise The people of the Isles O King sayd hee haue made prouision of a thousande horses in full purpose to come agaynst thee and thy citye Sardis Craesus thinking he had spoken truth Would God quoth he it might once take them in the brayne to war on horsebacke against the sonnes of the Lydians who taking his talke by the end proceeded saying Most noble Prince it is thy desire to meete with these Sea fishes flooting on shore and what dost thou think they more greedy wish and long after then to take thee and thy Lidyans waueryng and tossing in the water to gleike the one the other syde for so many Grecians become subiect pentionarye to thy kingdome Wherwith Craesus verye much delighted for that he seemed to haue spoken wisely chaunged his mynd and made a friendly league with the people of Ionia that held the Isles in processe of tyme hee became conquerour of al those which are within the ryuer Halis For besydes the
as might controll and ouersee the rest bynding euery man with a seuerall dutye Among this company of litle wagges ther vsed to play a young boy the sonne of Artembares a man of great calling and principal respect among the Medes whō Cyrus for that he refused to obay his authority and do as hee bade hym caused the other boyes to take and lay hold on which they doing he beat him spightfully without measure The boy taking it heauily to be thus abused was no soner escaped from them but he rāne home crying to the city where his father dwelled and complayned of the wrong vyolence done to hym by Cyrus albeit not callīg him Cyrus for as yet he had not that name but the sonne of Astyages heardman Artembar es transported with choller in a rage toke his sonne by the hande and lead him to the kynge where declarynge the intollerable misusage of hys child opened his coate shewed hys shoulders sayng Is it meete O kyng that we be thus abused by the wretched brat of thy heardmā Astyages willing to gratifye Artembares and do him honour by reuenging his sonnes quarel caused the heardmas boy to be sent for who bryng come Astyages castyng towardes hym a sterue and frowning loke began in this wyse why syrra quoth hee you litle punion is it for so base a brat as thy selfe borne of a beggerly vassall to scourge and whip in such sort a childe sprong of a noble house whose father is one of the peeres and chiefe men of my realme The boy beholdyng the king with a bold and stedfast countenaunce aunsweared thus Why my Lord quoth he that which I haue done I haue done by iustice for our towne boyes in whose crew this was appoynting me their king as the meetest of them all to beare rule this fellow would not obay me and thought scorne to do as I bad him for which cause according to hys due desert I sharply punished him and if I for so doyng be worthy to be beaten here I am do with me what thou wilt Whyles the boy spake these wordes Astyages his hart began to rise for he seemd to himself to acknowledge the coūtenaunce of the boy callynge to mynde the forme and signes of his face besydes his stately and liberal gesture the terme also of his yeares hit so pat with the time of his casting out that he verily thought hym to be his yong nephewe Wherat some what astonied he remained silent for a space hardly at the length returning to himselfe being desirus to send away Artembares to the end he might talke alone with the heardman he spake thus My meanyng is O Artembares quoth he in such sort to deale in this matter that you shall thinke your selfe satisfyed and your sonne haue no cause to complayne With which wordes Artembares taking hys humble leaue of the king Cyrus was lead into an inner par lour Astyages beyng now alone with the heardman began to parle with hym where he had the boy or how he came by hym Who thinking it best to stand to hys tacklinge affirmed stoutly that he was his own sonne and that his mother was liuing with hym at home at his house To whom the king castyng an angry smyle Certes quoth hee good fellow thou art not thyne owne freynd to runne wilfullye into the briers and to be cause vnto thy selfe of a terrible death and presently making a signe to hys gard to lay hold on him they toke him in purpose to haue lead hym awaye But the miserable neatheard oppressed with extremity and driuē to so nere a strayght resolued with hymselfe abandoning all fayned allegations to seeke refuge by confessynge the truth wherfore openyng the whole matter from the first head and begynning he fell downe on his knees and humblye craued pardon of the kyng Astyages hearyng hym without glose or colour to speake as it was made light of his fault and let him goe sending certaine of his court for Harpagus against whom hys stomacke was inflamed with greate wrath and indignation to whom appearing in prefence hee spake as followeth Tell me Harpagus in truth quoth he by what death didst thou murder y e childe that I gaue vnto thee begotten borne of my daughter Mandâne who seeing Mitradates the heardman present thought it not best to dissēble and conceale the matter by fayning least he were taken vp for triping and conuicted of a lye but framing this aūswere he sayd My soueraigne lord and King after I had receiued the Infant at your graces hand I cast in my head the best way fittest meanes to obey and fulfill your wil and that in such sorte also that auoydinge your Maiestyes displeasure I might neyther be a minester of bloudshed to your princely selfe nor to your noble daughter For which consideratian I wrought thus Sendinge for this heardman grasier of your maiesties Neat I gaue into his handes the new borne brat with a weighty and precise cōmaundement from your gratious highnesse to put him to death and in so saying I spake no more then truth for so much as your pleasure was it should be so In this sort I committed vnto him the babe with an earnest and carefull charge to lay it out in the desert chases of the wilde and inhabitable rockes mountaines adding a hundred thousād threats of the most cruell and pestilent death in the worlde if in case he should let or in y e least point refuse to perfourm it with diligence Which done by him and the infant beyng dead of my most assured and trusty seruauntes I sent some to behold the child hauing nowe expyred and breathed forth hys last blast who fynding it cold and without sence layd it in the earth and buryed it This standes the case O king and by this death the child perished Now as touching this discourse of Harpagus his talke was directed and grounded on a flat and sincere truth But Astyages makinge no semblaunce of anger of that which had happened began and told him fyrst of the heard mans confession procedinge orderlye with the rest till at length he came to say thus For that the childe liueth and by the benefyte offortune and fauour of the Gods hath escaped death I greatly reioyce as beyng disquieted with no smal anguish and torment of conscience to consider the villany and wicked treeson wrought agaynstyt and beyng often challenged by my daughter for the priuy murder and concealed death of hyr child I was not a litle gauled and astlicted in thought But in that fortune hath turned all to the best send me hether thy sonne to bee a playfellow and companion to my litle nephew and see thou come thy selfe backe agayne and accompany me at supper For the truth is I am in purpose to do sacrifyce to the Gods immortall for the safe recouery of the child to whom the honour and chiefe prayse of this gracious and fortunate happe doth esspecially belong
the most part of hir nobles to a banquet such as shee knew to haue bene y â— authors and workers of hir brothers death who being all assembled and set together in an inner Parlour expectinge their cheere the water was let in at a priuy grate and ouerwhelmed them all These thinges they spake of Nitocris adding besids that hauing wrought this feate shee cast hir selfe into an house full of Ashes to escape vnpunished By the rest of the kinges of Aegypt the priestes coulde recyte no glorious acte that shoulde bee accomplished sauing by the noble king Moeris the last and latest of all this crewe To whom they attribute y â— building of y â— great porches belonging to Vulcans temple standing on the North parte of y â— Pallace By the same also was a certaine fenne delued and cast vp wherein were builded certaine mighty Towers called Pyramides of whose bygnesse as also of y â— large coÌ„passe and amplitude of the Poole wee will ioyntely intreate in another place These thinges were done by Moeris the last king The rest consuminge the time of their raygne in silence and obscurity whom for the same cause I will passe ouer and addresse my speache to him who came after them in time and went before them in Dignity namely the worthy Prynce Sesostris Him the Pryestes recounte firste of all the kings of Aegypt to haue passed the narrow Seas of Arabia in longe Ships or Gallyes and brought in subiection to the Crowne all those People that marche a longe the redde Sea From whence retyringe backe againe the same way hee came and gathered a greate power of men and tooke his passage otter the waters into the mayne lande conquering and subduing all Countreyes whether so euer hee went Such as hee founde valiaunte and hardye not refusinge to icoparde their safety in the defence and maynetenaunâ—e of their liberty after the victory obtayned hee fired in theyr countrey certayne smale pyllers or Crosses of stone wherein were ingrauen the names of the kinge and the countrey and how by his owne proper force and puissaunce he had made them yelde Contrarywyse such as without controuersie gaue themselues into his handes or with litle stryfe and lesse bloudshed were brought to relent with them also and in their region he planted Pillers and builte vp litle crosses as before wherein were carued and importrayed the secret partes of women to signifie to the posterity the base and effeminate courage of the people there abyding In this sorte hee trauayled with his at my vp and downe the mayne passing out of Asia into Europe where he made conquest of the Scythians and Thracians which seemeth to haue bene the farthest poynt of his voyage for so much as in their land also his titles marks are apparantly seene and not beyonde Herefro hee began to measure his steps back agayne incamping his powre at the ryuer Phasis where I am not able to discusse whether king Sesostris him selfe planted any parte of his army in that place euer after to possesse y â— countrey or whether some of his souldiers wearyed with continuall perigrination and trauayle toke vp their maÌ„sion place rested there For the people named Colchi seeme to be Aegyptians which I speake rather of myne owne gathering then of any other mans information Howveit for tryall sake coÌ„moninge w t the inhabitants of either nation the Colchans seemed rather to acknowledge remember y â— Aegyptians then y â— Aegyptians theÌ„ affyrming that the Colchans were a remnante of Sesostris army My selfe haue drawne a coÌ„iecture hereof y â— both people are in couÌ„tenance a like black in hayre a like fryzled albeit it may seeme a very feeble gesse the same being also in other nations A better surmise may be gathered of this that y â— people of Aethyopia Aegypt and Colchis only of all men circumcyse cut of the foreskin from their hidden partes reteyning the custome time out of minde For the Phoenicians and Syrians y â— dwell in Palaestina confesse themselues to haue borrowed the maner of circumsicion from the Aegypt 〈…〉 And as for those Syrians y â— dwell neere vnto the ryuers Thermodon and Parthemus and the people called Macrones their next neighbours they tooke the selfe same vse and custome of y â— Colchans Howbeit the Aegyptians and Aethyopians which of them learned it of others it is hard to discerne forasmuch as the custome in both Countryes is of great antiquity Neuerthelesse very good occasion of coniecture is offred vnto vs that it came fyrst from y â— Aegyptians at such time as the Aethyopians had exchaunge of marchaundise with them For the Phoenicians that in like maner haue mutuall trafique which the Grecians leaue of to circumcysse them selues and refuse in that poynte to be conformable to the lawes and statutes of their countrey One thinge more may be alleaged wherein the people of Colchis doe very narrowly resemble y â— customes of Aegypt in so much as these two nations alone work their lynnen dresse theyr flax after y e same sorte in all poyntes respecting each other both in order of lyfe maner of laÌ„guage The flaxe which is brought from Colchis y e Grecians call Sardonick the other coÌ„ming out of Aegypt they terme after the name of the countrey Aegyptian flaxe But to returne to the tytles and emblems that king Sesostris lefte behind him in all regions through y t which he passed many thereof are fallen to decay NotwithstaÌ„ding certaine of them in Syria and Paloestina I beheld with myne own eyes intayled with such posyes as we spake of before and the pictures of womens secretes ingrauen in them Likewise in Iönia are to bee seene two sundry Images of Sesostris himselfe carued in pillers one as we passe from Ephesus to Phocoea another in the way from Sardis to Smyrna Eyther of these haue the forme and figure of a man fiue hands breadth in bignesse bearing in his righte hand a Darte in his left a vowe his harnesse and furniture after the manner of the Aegyptians and Aethyopians Crosse his backe from the one shoulder to the other went a sentence ingrauen in the holy letter of Aegypt hauing this meaning By my owne force did I vanquishe this region Notwithstandinge it is not there specified what he should be albeit els where it is to be seene Some haue deemed this monument to haue bene the image of Memnon not a litle deceyued in opinion This noble and victorious prince Sesostris making his returne to Aegypt came by report of y e priests to a place named Daphnoe pelusiae with an infinite trayne of forraine people out of al Nations by him subdued where being very curteously met welcomed by his brother whom in his absence he had lefte for Viceroy and protectour of the countrey he was also by y e same inuited to a princely banquet him selfe his wife and his children The house where into they were entered
as they call them in token that hee yeeldeth hys whole alleageaunce to the god of that place it is not lawfull for any man to touch him which order was kept inuiolate vnto our agea The seruauntes of Alexander hearing of the lawes of this temple forsooke their Lorde and fled vnto it and in humble manner submitting themselues before the god they accused their mayster whose death they all desired shewing in what manner he came by Helena the great iniury he had wrought to her husband Menelaus The same playnt also they framed before the priests of Hercules and the chiefe gouernour of the port named Thonis Thonis hauing hard the accusatiō of these poore suppliants sent in all haste to the King in these wordes Knowe you noble Prince that a fewe dayes since a certayne straunger of the Troiane lignage hauing committed a most villanous acte in Greece by entising away the wife of him that had geuen him entertaynement is by force of tempest dryuen vpon our coastes we desire therefore to knowe your hignesse pleasure whether we shall geue him free passage into his countrey or bereaue him of that he hath and sende him awaye To which newes the King returned an aunswere saying The person you speake of of what nation soeuer hee bee whiche hathe wrought this despitefull treacherie to his hoste see you apprehend and bring to my court to the ende I may heare what he can say for himselfe Whereat Thonis without any farther deliberation tooke this yong gallaunt of Troy strayned hys ships and brought him with the Lady Helena and the rest of his retinue to the city Memphis where the King at that tyme made his place of abiding Beeing arriued at the Court the King asked Alexander in these wordes Yong gentleman what are you and from what countrey are you landed heere in Aegypt Alexander who was not to seeke of an aunswere with a comely grace made aunswere to the King descrying both his countrey and lynage the place also from whence hee was arriued and to what coastes he directed his course And where then quoth the King had you this goodly geutlewoman for she seemeth to be a woman of no common bloud whereat my youth somewhat mammering before he coulde cast the plot of his excuse was betrayed by his seruaunts who in humble inanner on their knees disciphered to the King the whole discourse of his treason The vassals hauing ended their speeche Protheus turned hymselfe to Alexander and tucked hym vp with thys rounde tale my friende sayde hee were it not for the reuerence I owe to straungers with whome my custome is not to deale by rigour I woulde surely pipe yee such a daunce for the wicked villanie wherewith thou hast abused thyne hoast in Greece that all vnthankefull wretches shoulde take example by thee how to vse those that shewe them courtesie in a forraigne lande Ah vnkynde wretche as thou arte is thys the best requitall thou makest the Grecian for hys noble vsage towarde thee to bereaue hym of his mate the most comfortable companyon of all hys daies and not contente therewyth lyke an arraunt theefe thou hast despoyled hys goodes the best and principall treasures of hys house Thou mayest blesse the tyme tenne thousande tymes that the Aegyptians yeelde suche honoure to straungers and packe thee hence from my presence wyth the rest of thy mates swearyng by my crowne that if hencefoorth thou bee seene within the borders of Aegypt I wyll account thee as myne enemye As for thy minion and the goodes thou hast broughte I shall reserue tyll suche tyme as the Grecian shall come to reclayme them By these meanes sayd the priestes came Helena into Aegypt whereof also Homer hymselfe seemed not to bee ignoraunt but of purpose rather for that it fell not out so fittingly for hys verse hee chose the other declaring notwythstandyng that some such fame as thys was bruted abroade whyche appeareth manifestly in hys Illiads where making mention of the voyage of Alexander he affyrmeth that by meanes of a contrarye wynde hee was tossed by sea and recouered the lande at the city Sydon in Phaenicia reade the verses that are framed by hym in the prayse of Diomedes in whych place these lynes are founde There were the cloakes of gorgeous hue so braue and princely dight Made by the dames of Sydony sold to the seemely wight Kyng Pryams sonne that stale hymselfe a wyfe of royall race Queene Helene hyghte retyryng home vnto his natyue place Touching the same in his Odyssea in these verses This poyson quycke and valerous whych Polydamna gaue The wyfe of Thonis Helen brought and carefully dyd saue Great store whereof in droughty soyle of scorched Aegypt groe Some soueraigne good and othersome the cause of present woe In like maner to Telemachus Menelaus speaketh in this vvise And when I sought to leaue the land of Aegypt and retyre God hyndred whome I left vnserued by vowes and sacred fyre In these verses Homer confesseth that he knewe of the wandering of Alexander into Aegypt forsomuch as the countrey of Syria is bounding vpon Aegypt and the people Phaenices vnto whome the city Sydon is belonging are resyaunt in Syria As well these therefore as also the place it selfe are no small proofe nay rather a most valerous argumente that the verses wherein it is sayde that Alexander conueying Helen from Greece in three dayes space wyth a prosperous gale and quyet sea arryued at Troy were rather intruded by some other poet then inuented by Homer who contrarywyse in hys Illiads maketh mention of his errour by sea To leaue Homer and come to the affayres of the Troianes being desirous to vnderstand of what truth these things were which are bruted to haue beene done by the Greekes at Troy I sollicited the matter with the priestes of Aegypt who tolde me in such manner as themselues beforetime had beene aduertised by Menelaus After the flight of the Lady Helen there assembled in the cause of y e kings brother Menelaus a puissant armie of the Graecians who embarking themselues into Teucria and incamping in theyr coastes sent in ambassage to the city Troy certayne of theyr chiefe peeres and nobles amongst whome was Menelaus brother to the Kyng Beeyng entered the city they made clayme of the Lady Helena with the goodes and treasures shee tooke wyth her requyring also a sufficient satisfaction to be made for the iniurie Wherevnto the Troianes aunswered that they spente their speech in vaine to rechallenge eyther women or goodes of them which they neuer sawe alledging that the thyngs they challenged were surprised by the Aegyptians neyther was it reason why they shoulde beare the faulte of others and make restitution of that which they neuer had Howbeit the Greekes imagining they had spoken it in derision to shift off the siege for the tyme bent theyr whole force agaynst the towne continuing the siege and batterie so long tyll they had brought it to vtter ruyne and subuersion
the death of cats and dogs Houndes greatly regarded The nature of the Crocodyle A cubite is a foote and an halfe The Crocodyle hath no tongue The bird Trochilus A â—ame Crocodyle Crocodyles in Aegypt called Champsi The maner of taking Crocodyles A beaste called the Ryuer horse The byrde Phoenix The shape of a Phoenix The nature of the Phoenix Serpents hauÌ„ting in AEgypt The bird Ibis The shape of Ibis Hydra a vvater Serpent The chiefe parâ—e â—f AEgypt nd their maners Sicknesse proceedeth of the vnseasonable times of the yeare An excellent custome practysed by Nobles of Aegypt New fashions abhorred Ciuility Pythagoreans vvere such as follovved the doctrine of Pythagoras the Philosopher The Aegyptians first inâ—enred the arte to read a mans destiny The seates of prophecy in AEgypt In AEgypt euery disease hath his physition Of mourning and burying the dead The maner of embalming the dead Fayre gentlevvomeÌ„ dying are kept three dayes before they be preserued The City Chemmis Their floud in AEgypt The nature of their fish The gatheriÌ„g of fruite for oyles The maner of their Shyps The Pyramides vvere certayne long revâ—eâ—s of â—oeâ— The reuenues of a city assigned to the Queene of AEgypt to find hir shoes Menes the king of AEgypt The actes of Menes Three huÌ„dred and 30 princes after Menes Nitocris a Queene of Aegypt Moeris the last of the 330 prynces Sesostris king in AEgypt and his exployts A monument an the reproch of Covvardise The people Colchi sproÌ„g of the AEgyptians Memnon the sonne of Aurora slayneâ— in the vvarre at Troy The death of Sesostris inteÌ„ded by his ovvne brother The countrey of Aegypt cut out into trenches for the better conueyance of vvater A diuision of land The beginning of Geometry The images of King Sesostris The death of Sesostris vvhome Pheco succeeded An exquisite medicine for the eyes An army of honest vvomeÌ„ burnt at a clap Protheus King of Aegypt Helena Of the ariuall of Paris in Aegypt A Sanctuary for seruauntes Of the Troiane vvarre Courtesie revvarded vvith crueltie That Queene Helena vvas neuer at Troy Kampsinitus A tale of a cunning theefe The affection of a mother Kampsinitus iourney to hel The opinion of the Aegyptians touching the immortality of the soule Cheops The building of the Aegyptian Pyramides Chephrenes King of Aegypt Mycerinus King of Aegypt Mycerinus famous for his iust gouerning It is as good to be a slaue in England as a Sainct in Aegypt Mycerinus made tvvelue yeares of sixe The story of Rhodope Archidice Asychis King of Aegypt A statute against borovvers Anysis the next King Sabbacus vanquished Aegypt ruling fifty yeares The description of the temple of Diana The departure of Sabbacus Sethon The revvard of godlinesse Myracles chanced in the Sunne The Greekes tooke theyr saints from the Aegyptians The tvvelue Kings of Aegypt The Labyrinth The description of the caues that are in the Laberinth Psammitichus became prince alone An Iland that svvimmeth Isis the mother of Apollo Psammitichus raigned 54. yeares Necus King of Aegypt The actes of King Necus Necus raigned 17. yeares Psammis King of the Aegyptians Psammis raigned sixe yeares Apryes King after the deceasse of Psammis Amasis rose against Apryes The trades of lyuing in Aegypt Craftsmen of all others least set by and souldiers most The honoure of souldiers in Aegypt The Kynges Garde The death of Apryes Amisis Kinge of the Aegyptians A deuise vvrought by Amasis to purchase the goodvvill of his subiects His custome in administring the kingdome His nature A house of one stone A statute for arrâ—rages Ladyce vvife to Amasis