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A03097	The famous hystory of Herodotus Conteyning the discourse of dyuers countreys, the succession of theyr kyngs: the actes and exploytes atchieued by them: the lavves and customes of euery nation: with the true description and antiquitie of the same. Deuided into nine bookes, entituled vvith the names of the nine Muses.; History. Book 1-2. English	Herodotus.; B. R., fl. 1584.; Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617, attributed name.	1584 (1584)	STC 13224; ESTC S106097	186,488	248

Neuerthelesse for myne owne safetyes sake I hold it necessarye this childe shoulde dye yet not by anye of myne but by some of the kinges owne seruantes Hys talke ended forthwith he sent a messenger to y t heardman of Astyages whom he knew wost cōueniently to be resident in such pastors and hils as were haunted and frequented w t wyld beastes The heard mannes name was Mitradates whose mate in bedde and fellow in seruice was a poore laye woman named in the Greeke toung Cyno which signifyeth a Bytch in the Median lauguage Spaco Spaca in the commō vse of their speech being the right name for a vitch The pastours where hee grased his cattell were borderyng to the foote or bottom of a desert mountayne lying to the North syde of Eobatana and to the Euxine sea al that coast of the land of Media which tendeth towardes the people Saspires beinge very hygh full of hils and forrestes but the rest much more low and playne The heardman receyuing the messuage and repayring to the house of Harpagus after he was comen thither he began to salute hym in these wordes Gentle syria quoth he it is the kinges wil you take this litle infante and laye hym in the most wilde and desert place of the woods where he may soonest bee deuoured Which wordes his maiesty cōmaunded me to say vnto you with this greeting moreouer that if in case thou make not speedy dispatch of it but by some meanes saue it and kepe it aliue thyselfe in sted therof shalt dye the death Which thing also that it might be done without deceipt he gaue me in precyse charge with myne owne eyes to behold the child dead with which wordes the poore soule toke the babe and returned the same way hee came to his base and simple cottage Now it fortuned that all that day his wife laye in traueile of childbyrth and as the Gods would haue it in the meane space whyle her husband went to the city was deliuered of a sonne beyng very sollicitous and careful one for another Mitradates for y t safe deliuerye of his wifet Cyno for the good successe of hyr husband who besides custome was sent for by Harpagus Beyng returned home with great ioy receaued of his sorrowful wyfe she curyously demaunded of hym what the cause might be that in such post hast he was summoned by Harpagus to come to the city To whom he sayde my deare wyfe at my comming to the city I both heard and saw that which I woulde to God I had neuer seene nor it had bene done by our Lordes and maysters All y t house of Harpagus resounding with teares and yellyng with most pitifull outcryes and lamentation Wherinto after I was entered all agast astonied for fear I beheld a comly younge chyld lying in the middes of the house quaking and cryng wrapped in a rich mantel of gold and diuerse colours whom Harpagus hauing espyed me commaunded me to take by and by and cast it out in the mayne forrest for a pray and spoyle to the sauage and rauenous beastes addynge moreouer y t Astyages charged me so to do with great threats and men●cinges if I should do otherwyse The child I toke and haue brought with mee supposing it to belong to some one of the court for that I would neuer haue thoughte it to haue bene of the kinges owne bloud Notwithstanding I maruayled much to see that so rychly arayed with gold and sumptuous attyre as also what it might meane that Harpagus and all his family so bitterly wayled in extreame wae and heauines Now in the way I was acertay●ed of all the matter by a seruaūt that brought me out of the city and deliuered the child into my handes who told me it was the sonne of Mandane our kinges daughter begotten of Cambyses sonne of Cyrus and that Astyages commaunded it should bee slayne and this is he Wherwithall he vnfolden the mantle shewed the child to his wyfe The selye woman beholding the young babe to be fayre and beautiful and of body large and well proportioned fell downe on her knees and bathinge her husbandes feete w t her lukewarme teares she besought him in no wyfe to imbrue his handes in the bloud of an infant so goodly and well fauoured Who alleaging that it could not be otherwyse because that Harpagus would send his seruauntes to see it dead and that himselfe should bee miserably tormented to death The woman which by thys tyme had set abroach a new deuise begā a fresh to counsaile hym saying If there be no remedye but needes thou must lay it out yet heare me once agayne follow my counsayle how thou mayst craftely dispense with the kings commaūdement and saue the childe This day haue I brought forth a young infant which was stil borne and dead in y t wombe Take yt therfore and saying it out in the desert let vs kepe and foster this in the steed so shall it neither be knowne y t thou hast disobayed the king and our selues shall gayne the heauenly ioy of so goodly an infant By this meanes my good husband both our dead chyld cast out in this kynglye vesture shall enioy a royall and princely sepulcher and this poore seely innocent that is assygned to dye shall be preserued and kept aliue Which deuyse fytted the neatheardes humoure so wel that without any longer deliberation hee put it in practise Wherfore giuinge to his wyfe the childe which he was mynded to haue slayne his owne bratte that was still borne gallantly decked in the others aray he toke and layd out in a most wilde and wast mountayne Which done the 3. day after he had cast it forth leauyng another to ouersee the neat he posted him to the city to the house and mansiō place of Harpagus geuing him to vnderstande that the child was dead and that for more assurance he myght behold it wher he lay who sending with him certaine of his seruauntes in whom he reposinge geatest affyaunce willed them to take view thereof who fyndyng it to be so as they thought in steede of Mendanes sonne toke the heardmās child and buryed it Now the other yoūg brat y t was after called Cyrus was brought vp and cherished by y t grasiers wyfe who notwithstanding as yet did not call hym Cyrus but by some other name The child arryuing to the age of tenne yeares descryed his progeny and opened hymselfe by this deed and sportyng in a village where the hearde grased and beynge at sporte and playe with his equalles hee chaunsed by the other children his playfellowes to be chosē kynge The boy incontinentlye limittynge to euerye one hys propre charge toke vppon him lyke a younge Prince in dede ordaining strayght some of them to builde housen and others to garde hys Bodye and to attende vppon his person one for the steward of his court another for his legate and ambassadour to forreine countries lastly such a one

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