building it would sodainlay fall Silenus Chilo of Lacedemon maintained that man by reason might comprehend the foreknowledge of things to come by the might power of his manhood Cyrus was of opinion that no man was fit for an Empire except he did excell those ouer whom he bare rule Xenophon Alcibiades was of opinion that those men liue safest who doe gouerne their common-wealth without altering one whit their present customes and lawes albeit they be not altogether so good Thucidides Of Perigrination In this most commendable action two things are to be prâ—posed the profit and pleasure of trauaile the laâ—er we are too greedy of by nature the first which belongeth to the mind is bounded with prudence and good cariage which if it be neglected the other two are vnprofitable IAcob hauing gotten vvisedome by trauaile is sayd iâ— Genesis to haue had the sight of God because to the actiue life he had also ioyned the contemplatiue Plato after the death of his Maister Socrates made a voyage into Egypt and then into Italy to heare and conferre with the best learned of those Countries and to learne that which he knew not before Orpheus to seeke the misteries of the Aegiptians trauailed as farre as Memphis visiting all the Citties of the riuer Nilus Argonaut Pythagoras visited the Aegiptians Arabians and Chaldeans and went also into Iury and dwelt a long time at Mount Carmell Strabo Saba came froÌ„ Aethiopia the farthest part of the world to heare Salomons wisdom Cornelia a noble woman of Rome trauailed to Palestina to heare S. Ierome â—each the Christians Thalestris Queene of the Amazons came from Scythia vnto Hircania with three hundred thousand women to lye â—ith Alexander 30. dayes to haue a child by him Gueuara Chronocler to Charles the first writeth that from forraine Countries men commonly bring newes to prattle of and strange customes to practise and that few come out of Italy that are not absolute and dissolute Lycurgus by his lawes commaunded the Lacedemonians not to goe out of their own Country nor to conuerse with strangers saying That although by theyr traffique with them they might bee enriched yet on the other side they would grow poore in regard of their owne vertues Democritus Abderita trauailed into many Lands and Countries being 80. yeares old only for the study of Philosophy he ventured into Chaldea and entered into Babilon at last hee came amongst the Magitians and Gymnosophists of India Olaus The Scythians trauaile onely in the Coasts of their owne Country but Anacharsis furnished with wisedom and knowledge aduentered further a greater way for he came into Graecia was highly esteemed of Solon Osyris King of Aegipt trauailed the greatest part of the world that hee might haue written vpon his toombe Heere lyeth Osyris King of Aegipt the eldest sonne of Saturne that left no part of the world vnsearched Diodorus Cheremon a Stoicke Phylosopher by the starre that appeared at Christes death iudging the same to be ominous to the Gods he worshipped trauailed into Iury with certaine Astrologers to seeke the true God Fabius the Consull in 70. yeares which he liued departed not once from his village of Regio to goe to Messana which was but two miles off by water Apollonius trauailed ouer the three parts of the world to see and conferre with all the skilfull men of his age and beeing returned with wonderfull knowledge he distributed his riches amongst his kindsfolkes and the poore and liued euer after in contemplation Philostratus The same hauing trauailed Asia Africa Europa sayd that of two things he meruailed most in all the world the first was that he alwayes saw the proude man commaund the humble the quarrailous the quiet the tyrant the iust the coward the hardy the ignorant the skilfull the greatest theeues hang the innocent P. Seruilius was the first Romaine that made any voyage to Taurus from whence when he returned he triumphed and merited the name to be called Isauricus Anaxagoras trauailed from Greece into Aegipt vnto Persia and Chaldea and to diuers other Countries for knowledge sake Vlisses in his pilgrimage was wise learning Phisicke of Aeolus of Circes Magicke and Astronomy of Calipso Phylosophers when they were yong studied wheÌ„ they came to be men they trauailed and when they were old they returned home and writ The Persians if any of their Countrey did imitate the behauiour of strangers and so trouble common orders he should therfore dye Lycurgus caried the whole body of Homers Poetry into Greece out of Ionia in his voyage and perigrination Appollonius in his trauailes found a table of fine golde called The table of the Sunne wherein all the world was portraied Not euer to haue seene Asia is praise woorthy but to haue liued temperatly in Asia is highly to be commended Cicero Anacharsis was put to death for that by his trauailes he had learned strange fashions and conditions which he sought to ground in his owne Country Herodotus The Hebrewes called theyr Aduersaries Allophilos that is of a strange Cuntry Amb. Fooles in old time trauailed to see Choraebus tombe The Lacedemonians vvere so great enemies to nouelties in theyr common-wealth that they neither permitted strangers to enter or theyr people to wander into straunge Countries doubting to be intangled vvith new fashions and customes Certaine studious persons of the Gaules and Spaniardes went from theyr natiue Countries with tedious iourneyes towards Rome personally to beholde the Oratour and Historiographer Titus Liuius Philostratus The Athenians put theyr Embassadours whom they sent into Arcadia to death because they went not that way which was coÌ„maunded but a contrary Apollonius Thyaneus who had trauailed the greatest part of the vvorld being asked of a Priest at Ephesus what thing hee wondered at in all this vvorlde aunswered I let thee know Priest of Diana that I haue beene through Fraunce England Spayne Germany through the Laces and Lydians Hebrewes and Greekes Parths and Medes Phrygians and Corinthians Persians and aboue all in the great Realme of India for that alone is more woorth then all the Realmes together Alexander at what time he had ouercome Darius in a place called Arbellis demaunâ—ed of his Noble-men the safest way into Aeâ—ipt but none could tell a certaine Merâ—hant who had beene a great trauailer promised in three dayes iourney to bring him safe into Aegipt which Alexander at the first not beleeuing in the end found true Lucianus Of Gods Goddesses The Auntients deuided their fayned Deities into three powers of heauen earth and water the first were the disposers and directors of mens actions some ruled the ayrie Regions others raigned in hell and punished offendours and some were Gods of the mountaines some of shepheards some of husbandry and some of woods the last sort were Gods of the Sea some of floods others of riuers and some of springs and fountaines SAturne was the sonne of King Caelius and Vesta brother to Titan who at the perswasion of his mother and Ops
where Minerua alwayes accompanieâ— Vâ—â—ses gyueth vs to vnderstand that Prâ—dence ought alwayes to guide a man to aâ—â—â—â—ine to the end of his enterprise Men praised the prudence of Fabius beâ—â—use he broke the point of fortune and hinâ—red the aduancement of Hanibal by cuncâ—â—ion temporising attending his aduanâ—â—ge which is a vertue named long suffeâ—â—nce Cicero Caesar the first Romaine Emperor by his â—â—udence prepared his vvay to so great a â—onarchy by reconciling together Pompey 〈◊〉 Cassius tvvo of the greatest Romaine 〈◊〉 by whose fauour he obtained afterâ—â—rds the dignity of consulship Plut. â—olon with the diuine knowledge of wiseâ—â—m gouerned the Athenians Lycurgus the â—â—cedemonians and Parmenides the Eleati â—ycis the Pythagorian inuented lawes for â—aminondas Plato for Dion Aristotle for â—â—exander Anaxagoras for Pericles Pythaâ—â—ras for the Princes of Italy and Agrippa 〈◊〉 the Emperour Octauius â—ntisthenes bad many guests to the banâ—â—et of wisedome and none would come 〈◊〉 Diogenes vvhere-vpon beeing angry â—t none would tast of his learned cheare 〈◊〉 excluded Diogenes vvho the more hee 〈◊〉 forbidden the more he came in the end â—â—tisthenes beate him thereby to driue him from his company which he constantly 〈◊〉 during Antisthenes entertained him for 〈◊〉 prudent perseuerance Laertius M. Cato when he saw that Pompey hâ— ioyned himselfe with Caesar told him that did put Caesars yoake vpon his necke whâ—â— then he perceaued not but shortly it wouâ—â— weigh heauy vpon him and then should 〈◊〉 finde himselfe taken Themistocles at what time he was 〈◊〉 Athence and inforced to goe into 〈◊〉 being intreated of the King to shew 〈◊〉 estate of his Country he wisely besought 〈◊〉 one yeare to learne the Persian languagâ— and then he would tell him Valerius Peâ—ilius enioyned vpon paine of death his Soueraigne to make an Asse to speaâ— knowing it a matter impossible demaunâ— seauen yeares space hoping in that time 〈◊〉 eyther the King he or the Asse would die Simonides being at a banquet with Pauâ—nias he tooke occasion to desire him to 〈◊〉 some precepts of wisedome at which 〈◊〉 laughed and said Remember thou art a 〈◊〉 vvhich then he not regarded but afterwaâ—â— in his misery with great sorrow remembreâ— Theophrastus Cato for the loue that he beare vnto wiâ—â—dome entertained Athenodorus Vlisses as â—omer saith embraced Carylus Pyrrhus eâ—â—eemed Artemius Traian desired Plutarch â—nd Scipio Panetius who was learned in all â—rts both good and euill Plut. Euclides of Megara desirous to heare the â—isedome of Socrates who read Philosophy 〈◊〉 Athence betweene vvhich two Citties â—â—ere was mortall emnity so that no Cittiâ—â—n of the one durst be seene in the other â—ithout great danger disguised himselfe like woman and so heard Socrates Agesilaus sustaining great losses by Epamiâ—â—ndas commaunded his Souldiours to â—ake head against him onely because that â—ne but wise and prudent men knew how 〈◊〉 conquer Thucidides â—he Athenians being deuided and banded â—o three contrary parts and factions Solon â—ould not ioyne himselfe with any one of â—â—em but kept him indifferent to all seeking 〈◊〉 all meanes to reconcile them together in 〈◊〉 end being chosen their pacifier he reforâ—ed their estate and placed them in greater 〈◊〉 then before â—hales although numbred among the seaâ—â—n wise-men of Greece refused to intermeâ—â— in common wealth matters Demades a man very pollitique and pracâ—tised in state being asked what Tutor he haâ— to instruct him in wisdom answered the trâ—â—bunall of the Athenians meaning the Couâ—â— and experience to excell all the precepts 〈◊〉 Philosophy Valerius Antonius the meeke was a vertuous 〈◊〉 Emperour and so well aduised in all his doâ—ings that hee neuer repented him of anâ— thing he did Eutropius Romulus the first King founder of thâ— Citty of Rome chose 100. of the eldest 〈◊〉 in the same Country by whose wisdom he willed it should be gouerned Patritius Iulius Caesar gloried in his good fortune but yet the bringing of his great enterpriâ—â— to passe was by his wisedom and experienâ—â— in warlike affaires Suetonius The Lacedemonians made more accoâ—â— of an exployt done by pollicy then by arâ— whose Captaines vvhen they had by theâ—â— pollitique stratagems ouercome any sacriâ—â—â—ced to theyr Gods an Oxe if by force Cocke Thucidides Alexander about to destroy the Citty 〈◊〉 Lampsacus Anaxemines his master cam toâ—wards him intending to desire him to 〈◊〉 it but the king imagining wherfore he cam◠〈◊〉 sweare that hee vvould not graunt that â—hich Anaximines should request who desiâ—â—d Alexander to destroy Lampsacus which â—â—quest by his oath he could not graunt and 〈◊〉 by this pollicy he saued his Citty Valerius The Italians vnable to excuse the great â—â—ults treacheries cowardize and dissimulaâ—â—on of their Nation go about to colour their â—â—llanies with the name of Italian prudence One bought a draught of fish of certaine fiâ—â—ers in Milesia whose hap was to take withâ—â— theyr net a golden Tripos which the fiâ—â—er-men refused to giue theyr chap-man â—â—ying that they bargained for fish the matâ—er was brought before the Magistrates who â—ere coÌ„manded by the Oracle to giue it to â—he wisest man first it was giuen to Thales he â—aue it to Bias Bias to Pittacus vntil it came â—o Socrates who gaue it to Apollo Valerius Tully cryed out in his latter age O vtinam â—unquam sapuisseÌ„ would I had neuer knowne â—hat wisedome meant Quintus Catulus did his Country as much good by his wisedome as Cneius Pompeius by valour for of small force is the warre aâ—road vnlesse there be good aduise at home Cicero Phillip of Macedon being in hostage three yeares together learned prudence of Epaminondas by which vertue he got into hiâ— hands the monarchy of all Greece and 〈◊〉 great part of Asia Curtius Caesar when he tooke vpon him the gouernment of the Gaules waged warre there 10. yeares guided by vnspeakable prudence that was accompanied with diligence so that by these he subdued 300. Nations tooke 800. Townes and in many battailes discomfited three millions of men Eutropius The Romaine Kings kept Eagles in theyr campe against thunder and lightning Macrobius The Emperour Tiberius wore in his Hatâ— Bay braunch to keepe him from thunder lightning Idem The Aegiptian mariners were wont in stoâ—â—my and tempesteous weather to hang vpâ—â— saile on the which was sewed the Phocaâ—â— skinne which is a kind of fish called the 〈◊〉 Cowe Plinius Alexander Seuerus was a very wise Prince which he attained vnto by the counsaile and instruction of that learned Lawyer Vlpianus The 7 Sages or wise-men of Greece were renowned throughout al the world of whom the first was Thales Milesius who inuented 〈◊〉 card to saile by Laertius The second was Solon who gaue the first â—â—wes to the Athenians and iudged no man â—â—ppy before his death The third was Chilo of Lacedemon vvho 〈◊〉 Embassadour into the Orient for the Aâ—â—enians The fourth was Pittacus who was not only Philosopher but also Captaine of the Myâ—â—enes The fift was Cleobulus that descended froÌ„
his subiects vvith exactions dyed when he had raigned 18. yeres Antonius Comodus defamed himselfe by his wicked life and died suddainly raigning twelue yeeres 8. months Pertinax was very olde when hee was chosen and hauing raigned but 80. daies he was slaine in an vproare which sell among the gard by the meanes of Iulian. Didicus Iulianus bought the Empire vvith mony hee was a noble man expert in the lawes he was ouercom by Seuerus slaine in his pallace raigning 7. months Seuerus the only Emperour created forth of Affrique he was very couetous by nature cruell hee subdued Brittaine deceased at Yorke raigning 18. yeres Antoninus killed his brother Geta in hys mothers presence hee founded the Baths at Rome was much giuen to lust he espoused his mother in law Iuba and was slaine of Macrinus when he had raigned 6. yeeres Opilius Macrinus Diadumenus hys son succeeded were both slaine in a sedition raigning but one yeere 2. months Heliogabalus vvas a most dissolute wicked Emperour the base sonne of Antoninus he vvith his mother Semiamira were drawn vvith all spight through the Citty of Rome their bodies were torne in peeces cast into Tiber he raigned sixe yeeres Alexander Seuerus beeing but 17. yeeres old was chosen Emperour hee was a very vertuous Prince and the first Emperor that fauoured the Christians hee vvas slaine in Fraunce in a tumult that arose among the souldiours by the meanes of Maximinus in the thirteene yeere of his raigne Maximinus vvas first a Sheephearde in Thracia and afterward became a souldiour hee vvas the first that aspired to the Empyre by meanes of souldiours only he was slaine by Pupienus at Aquileia when he had raigned three yeeres Three at once bare the name of Augustus Pupienus Balbinus and Gordianus the the first two so soone as they came to Rome were slaine in the pallace Gordianus raigned alone he was come of a noble progeny and when he had raigned sixe yeeres he vvas slaine by the treason of Phillip who succeeded him Philip was the first Emperour that proâ—essed the Christian saith hee was slaine by Decius when he had raigned 5. yeares Decius made an act that all that worshipped Christ should be slaine both he and his â—onne were slaine in Barbary after they had â—aigned 2. yeares some write he was swallowed vp in an earthquake Virius Gallus and Volusianus his sonne â—aigned together then Emilianus attempted new conspiracies in Moesia and when they both went to subdue him they were slaine at â—teramna not raigning full out two yeares â—hey persecuted the Christians Aemilianus as hee was descended of base stock so was the time of his Empire obscure and without fame when he had raigned 3 moneths he was slaine Valerianus raigned 6. yeres he was discomfited taken prisoner by Sapores King of Persia who wheÌ„ he would take his horse he made Valerianus lie on the ground that hee might tred on him while he got on horsback he was slaine at Millaine ruled 6. yeares Galienus was lerned but giuen to great excesse dronkennes he was slaine likewise at Millaine hauing raigned with his Father 6. yeares and 9. after him Flauius Claudius a vertuous Prince sober and a maintayner of iustice within two yerâ— after he began his raigne sickned and dyed he ouercame the Gothes the Germaines restored Aegipt to the Empire Quintilius semblable as vertuous as hiâ— brother by the assent of the Senat was made Augustus and was slaine within 17. dayes after he began his raigne Aurelianus was borne in Denmark a stout man in war but cruell he was slaine through the treason of his owne seruants when he had raigned 5. yeres 6. moneths he was the first that wore a crowne imperial robes of gold and pearle which before were strange to the Romaines Tacitus a man of exceeding good conditions dyed within 6. moneths after his enterance Florianus raigned 2. moneths 20. daies he dyed by incision of his owne vaines did nothing worthy of memory Probus a man well expert in warfare a stout and iust man was slaine in an vproare which grew among the Souldiours when he had raigned 6. yeares 3. moneths Carus made his sonnes Carasius Numirianus Emperour with him Numirianus was vertuous and Carasius as wicked as Nero they raigned 2. yeares Carus was slaine with lightning and Numerianus by treason and Carasius by his owne companie Dioclesian was of ripe wisedome and garnished with many vertues yet a great persecutour of the Christians Maximinianus was associated to him in the Empire the first raigned 20. yeres they both left the Empire and liued priuatly Dioclesian slew himselfe for feare of Licinius Constantinus Maximinianus was slaine of Constantius his brother in law Constantius and Galerius sirnamed Armenius for that he somtimes kept beasts raigned 4. yers with great praise CoÌ„stantius died in England and Galerius killed himselfe Constantinus as some write was the first Emperor that professed the name of Christ he bulded CoÌ„stantinople in that place which was called Bizantium he was a vertuous godly Prince he raigned 30. yeares Three Emperours and Caesars raigned at once Constantinus in Fraunce Spaine and Germany Constantius in the East Constans in Italy The first was slaine when hee had raigned 3. yeares the second was killed by Magnentius wheÌ„ he had raigned 13 yeres and Constans died when he had ruled 39. Iulianus the Apostata raigned 3. yeares he was a great persecutor of the Christians whâ— he was deadly wounded and lay vppon the ground he threw his blood to heauen-ward saying Vicisti Gallilaee Iouinianus was a very good Prince and fauorer of the Gospel he instituted that titheâ— should be paid he died sodainly when he had raigned 7 moneths Valentianus Valens raigned foureteene yeres they were both Christians Valens was slaine by the Gothes and Valentianus dyed by an extreame bleeding Gratianus raigned sixe yeares hee was a true maintainer of religion and learned hee made Theodosius partner with him and was slaine in Fraunce by his Gouernour Maximus Theodosius raigned after him eleauen yeares hee was a Spaniard and a godly and vertuous Prince restoring the peace to the Church whose death Saint Ambrose bewailed and writ thus of him That hee was more carefull for the estate of the Church thaâ— to preuent his owne dangers Arcadius raigned with his brother Honorius the one in the East 15 yeares the other in the VVest 29 yeres and dyed Theodosius the 2 sonne of Arcadius ruled â—t Constantinople 42. yeares he was a most vertuous Prince and chose Valentinian as â—hen a child to raigne with him he dyed of â—he pestilence Valentinianus was slaine by a Souldiour hired of one Maximus to that end for that he had forced his wife he raigned fiue and twenty yeares Martianus after he had gouerned the Empire 7 yeares was poysoned at Constantinople by the treasons of Ardibure and Aspar hys Father beeing a vertuous and iust Prince Leo the first ruled 17 yeares
rich crowne of â—old and offer it to Apollo but the common â—reasure being poore the vvomen defaced â—heir Owches and Iewels to make it with all â—or which they had graunted three things to â—eare on their heads garlands of flowers to goe in chariots and openly to the feasts of â—he Gods Theseus asked of the Gods three things good fortune want of inward sorrow such glory as was neither false counterfaite nor â—ained of three other boones which he prayed of Neptune the third was in his fury curâ—ing his sonne Hyppolitus and wishing his violent death which after it was granted he repented him Cicero Demonides hauing crooked feet lost both of his shooes where-vpon he desired God â—hat his shoone might serue his feet that had â—ound them VVhen Alcibiades was condemned by the Athenians they commaunded the religious people of either sexe to curse him which one of them refused to doe saying that they had entered religion not to make vniust but iust prayers Thucydides Sylla Tiberius Caligula and Nero neueâ— could but commaund and kill on the other side Augustus Titus and Traianus could not but pray and pardon in such manner that they ouercame praying as the other fighting The Lacedemonians custome was not to craue any thing of their Gods but what was of importance and consequence saying thaâ— all smal matters were to be obtained by manâ— industry Plinie in an oration he made in the prayse of Traiane commended the custome of the Auntients to make inuocation before the beginning of their work and sayd that there could be no assured nor wise beginning of any enterprise without the especiall ayde and counsaile of God In Athence was a temple dedicated to Mercy which the Athenians kept so well watched and locked that without leaue licence of the Senate none might enter therein in this temple were only the Images of pittiful men and none entered there to pray and doe sacrifice but those that vvere pittifull Macrobius Isocrates prayed God to saue and keepe him from his friends rather then his enemies saying of his enemies he could be wary â—ecause I trust them not so can I not of my â—â—iends because I haue assured confidence 〈◊〉 them Octauius prayed GOD that it might be â—yde that by him the common wealth of â—ome was preserued from all danger and at â—is death to carry with him that hope that 〈◊〉 might remaine many ages in that estate â—e left it Suetonius A poore man craued an almes of the Emâ—erour Maximilian and told him that they â—ame both of one Father to wit Adam and â—o consequently were brethren desiring broâ—herly to deale with him to whom the Emâ—erour gaue a small peece of siluer whereat â—hen he saw the poore man discontented he told him that he ought to take it in good worth saying that if euery one of his breâ—hren would giue him as much he should â—uickly be richer then himselfe Anthony distressed by the King of Parâ—â—ia held vp his hands to heauen saying if aâ—y disdaine of GOD remayned of his forâ—er fortunes hee desired it might fall vpon â—im so the Romaine army might be freed â—nd haue the victory Appian Virginia the daughter of Virginius for that her Father was a Plebeian was forbidden to doe sacrifice with other Romaine matrone in the temple of Chastity wherfore she madâ— a temple of her own house to the Goddesse for which the Senate made her a Patritiaâ— Liuius Claudius defiled the faire matrone Obeâ—â—na as he found her praying in the temple 〈◊〉 Minerua who condemned for sacriledge escaped punishment by bribes Brutus not satisfied in killing Caesar madâ— his prayers vnto Iupiter and the hoast 〈◊〉 heauen to plague Caesar and his posterity VVhen the Cretans were vngently intreated of the Romaines they did not pray 〈◊〉 their Gods to send them pestilence warre and famine or sedition but that they woulâ— suffer new customes manners and fashion to be brought amongst them The praier of old Cato was that the couâ—â— of pleas might bee set with linnes and 〈◊〉 to take the professors of the brawâ—â—â— study of law Plutarch Alexander caused his Horse Bucephalus be buried Augustus his Parrot and Heliogabalus his Sparrow at whose obsequieâ— hee prayed and caused the body to be embalmed Of Vertue The Hebrewes by reason of the tenne Comâ—aundements boasted that they had the cheefest â—od and the summe of all Vertue MArcus Marcellus building a Temple which he called the Temple of Honor 〈◊〉 so place situate the same as none could â—aue any entrance therein except hee came â—â—rough the Temple of Vertue Liuius The Romans did not onely assigne the â—hiefest places to men of vertue but likewise â—ubliquely they gaue them Speares Horse-â—appings and Garlands Tacitus VVhen the Romaine Victors rode in tryâ—mph a slaue sate behind them striking them 〈◊〉 vpon the necke that they shoulde reâ—ember themselues and not be proude and â—hat euery man shoulde hope by vertue to â—ome to the like dignity Plutarch Fabius for his vertues was sirnamed Maxiâ—â—us where before he was called Gurges Alexanders vertues purchased him the sirâ—ame of great Plut. It is recorded of Fabius that it was as hard â—o draw him from his honestie and vertues as the sunne from his course Eutropius Camillus for a disgrace happening to him in Rome was banished into Campania where his vertues and seruice in the vvars oâ— that country succeeded so happily with him that hee returned to Rome not as an offender but in great tryumph No Athenian excelled Alcibiades eytheâ— for vertue or vice Iustinus Socrates made him to weepe for that hee shewed him by liuely reasons that he vvas 〈◊〉 lesse estimation then a base hinde if hee haâ— not vertue and that it behooued him to bâ— sorrowfull The Rhodians and the Lydians had a lawe that those sonnes which followed not they fathers in theyr vertues but liued viciously should be disinherited and theyr lands giue to the most vertuous of that race not admitting any impious heyre vvhat-soeuer Varro For that Artaxerxes Mnemon was a vertuous Prince delighted in peace the succeeding kings of Persia were called by his name Basilius Emperour of Constantinople aâ— his death exhorted Leo his sonne to vertuous actions and not to become slaue to hyâ— owne affections by good lyfe and studie oâ— â—odlines to beautifie his soule shewing himâ—â—lfe the image and Lieuetenant of the Knig 〈◊〉 heauen Theophrastus Demetrius the scholler of Theophrastus 〈◊〉 he had ten yeeres gouerned the state of â—hence hauing in memory of his vertues â—â—ree hundred and threescore statues erected 〈◊〉 Greece yet were they all through enuie â—oken dovvne which when he heard of he 〈◊〉 Though they burne my pictures yet cannot â—â—ey burne the vertuous cause of them Theoprastus Alexander vvilled that the Grecians and Barbarians shoulde no more be disguised by â—â—eyr garments but that the Grecian should be knowne by vertue and the Barbarian by 〈◊〉 accounting all vertuous men Greciâ—ns and all vicious Barbarians Quint. Curâ—â—us Menander King
other meat then the meanest of his Souldiers did The Priests of Aegipt the Sages of 〈◊〉 and Persia and Iupiters Priests seruing 〈◊〉 Gods did neuer eate any flesh nor drink aâ—ny vvine Pausanias Anacharsis a Seithian Phylosopher being demaunded of his estate how he fed how he did lie and how he was cloathed aunswered I feede on hunger I lie on the ground and I am cloathed like a Scithian Laertius Dyonisius made sute to Aristides for his daughter in marriage but he knowing him to be an intemperate Prince soberly answered that he had rather kill his daughter with his owne hand then giue her in marriage vnto Dionysius Valerius Publicola after he had been consull foure times died so poore that he had not sufficient to defray the charge of his Funerals but was buried of the common tresury Valerius The â—â—ke of Menenius Agrippa vvhen by the counsaile of Epimenides of Create the Athenians vvere deliuered from a plague which their neighbours were infected with they in regard of his loue aduice sent him rich rewards which he refused Plato Apollonius Tyanaeus had diuers rich gifts sent him by Vespasian which he would not â—ccept saying that they were for couetous minded men and for those that had neede of them Stobeus The Romaines laughed Sylla to scorne that being a man most intemperate did not withstanding vse to exhort and compell others to sobriety temperance and frugality Suetonius Lisander contrary to him allowed those viâ—es in the Cittizens from the which himselfe refrained Thucidides Pericles when his companion Sophocles and Pretor in Rome commended the beauâ—y of a young woman whom they met said It becommeth a Pretor to haue not onely hands free from corruption but also continent eyes voyde of vnchast lookes Idem Hortensius was much reproued for that at a supper prepared for the Augurs he set before them a boiled Peacock Suetonius Cassius was deemed intemperate because publiquely he drank water and could not for a short time endure the thirst thereof Duronius was remoued from the Senate for that he being Tribune repeated the law concerning the restraint of feasting Patriâ—ius VVhen the Presâ—nts which King Pyrrhus after his ouerthrow were brought to Rome and shewed about the streetes hoping therâ—by to winne good will of the people theâ—â— was not one man seene to put out his hand towards them so as the King found himselfe no lesse vanquished with continency theâ— force of armes Diogenes laughed those to scorne that by sacrifice sought for helpe of the Gods and notvvithstanding led an intemperate lyfe Gellius Cato by prescribing too spare temperate dyet killed his wife and child In the presence of Gorgo the daughter of Cleomenes but 9. yeares old Aristagoras intreated Cleomenes that the Lacedemonians would send an Army into Asia promising to giue him 10. talents which he refusing offered him 50 the wench tooke her Father a side and sayd Father if you get you not hence this guest will corrupt you vvhereat he departed without hearkning to Aristagoras any more Herodotus The Lacedemonians were very temperate in their dyet and had certaine publique places called Phidities where they fed of which came that when men would speake of a small pittance they vvould lyke it to a meale of â—he Phiditie The Esseans a certaine Iewish sect vvho were holier and of better conuersation then â—he Pharisies abstained from wine and vvomen Iosephus The temperance and staiednes of Titus Quintus got more countries to the Romans then al the forces vnder him had done It was felonie for the Magistrates of Locris to drinke wine without the lycence of a Phiâ—ition and the Romans neuer drunke wine before they were twenty yeres old Diodo In the tyme of Saturne the world did neyther eate flesh nor drinke wine wherin they agree with our Diuines who put vs out of doubt that the vse of flesh and wine was vnknowne before the vniuersall flood Of Fortitude The vertue of the mind aduentureth nothing â—â—â—shly neyther in a good cause feareth death be 〈◊〉 in apparaunce neuer so terrible whose extreames are feare and foolish boldnes FOure kinds of people the Romans found hard to ouercome the Mermidons the Gaditanes the Saguntines the Numantines the first were strong the second valâ—â—ant the third fortunate but the Numantine were strong valiant and fortunate Trebeâ—â—lius Pollio Amongst all the Citties of the world onelâ— Numantia did neuer acknowledge her better or kisse the hande of any other for heâ— Lord. The Lacedemonians neuer vsed to aske thâ— number of their enemies but vvhere theâ— vvere Iudas Macchabeus beeing begirt with 2â— thousand men was counsailed to flie 〈◊〉 forbid quoth he that the sunne should seeâ— flie I had rather die then staine my glory by 〈◊〉 ignominious flight The Numantines vvhen they were besiâ—â—ged slew nine Consuls vvherevpon the Romans did capitulate with them that theâ— should be perpetuall friends Liuius Fiue thousand resolute Romans ouercaâ—â— thirty thousande of Methridates souldioâ—â— vvhom hee had chosen throughout all 〈◊〉 kingdom Appian Iulius Caesar entering the Temple of Heâ—â—cules in Gades seeing the heroycall gests 〈◊〉 Alexander set forth vpon the vvalls fell 〈◊〉 the lyke passion for Alexander as he did 〈◊〉 â—â—hilles Plutarch Q. Mutius aduentured alone into the tents 〈◊〉 King Porsenna eyther to kill the King or 〈◊〉 be killed by him for which he purchased 〈◊〉 sirname of Sceuola Liuius Horatius Cocles resisted the whole Armie the same king vntil the cittizens of Rome 〈◊〉 to take vp the drawe bridge and then all armed leapt into the riuer Tyber and escaped his enemies Liuius Perdiccas entered into the dangerous den a Lyonesse and tooke avvay her whelps â—â—rtius Starchaterus to increase his strength fedde â—â— on Beares fleshe and often vsed to drinke â—â—eir blood Olaus Alexander thought himselfe happy if hee â—ight be named Achilles Caesar if he might â—e called Alexander Achilles sought no â—eater name then Theseus Theseus desired 〈◊〉 of Hercules Although Scythia was barren yet was shee oute though rude and barbarous yet was 〈◊〉 very valiant and hard to bee subdued â—iannus Leonides at Thermopyla hauing vnder 〈◊〉 charge but foure thousand souldiours â—â—liantly encountred with the huge Armie of Xerxes and ouercame it to his immortaâ— fame and Xerxes eternall infamie Iustinâ—â— Pyrrhus seeing the fortitude and valourâ— the Romaines sayd If valour were lost thâ— mould thereof might bee founde in a Romans hart adding that hee would quicklie conquer all the worlde if hee were King 〈◊〉 Rome or the Romaine souldiours subiect vnto him Solon made a law that the children whosâ— parents had beene valiantly slaine in battaile should for the prowesse of theyr parents 〈◊〉 euer after maintained of the Common treasurie Thucidides Lucius Dentatus was in sixescore battailes and eyghteene times came away conquereâ— Hee receiued in token of his valour eyghteene Launces twenty Bards for horses foure-score Bracelets and 36. crownes anâ— by his meanes nine Emperours triumpheâ— in Rome It vvas all the manner of the Lacedemonians to
the tongue ought to vtter nothinâ— that is iniurious to the Creator thereof P. Diacorius Socrates had alvvayes one and the same countenance all his life time hee was neuer sadder nor pleasanter for any thing that happened vnto him Plato P. Rutilius being vniustly banished neuer changed his behauiour neyther would put on any other Gowne then that he vsed to weare although it was the custome of such as were banished to alter the same Q. Metellus sirnamed Numidicus for conquering Numidia being banished went into Asia where he frequented playes and receauing letters froÌ„ the Senate to call him home againe the newes hee bare with as great modesty as his exile with constancy not departing from the Theater before the sports were ended One casting Diogenes in the teeth with his banishment from Pontus by the Synopians answered I haue bounded them with the Country of Pontus Aristides wheÌ„ Dionisius desired his daughter in marriage hee aunswered that hee had rather see her deade then the wife of a Tyrant And hauing slaine her he was againe asked if he continued in that mind I am quoth he sorry for the fact but glad that I haue so spoken Cato notwithstanding the affliction of hys Country in him was neuer seene any alteration but had alvvayes one cheere and one countenaunce as well beeing repulsed as when he was Pretor Plutarch It is recorded of Saint Anthony and Saint Hillary that they suffered wonderful temptations in the desert yet did not forbeare euen there to doe great seruice to theyr Creator Aulus Vitellius a most victorious Emperour of all others vvas so inconstant that he would say and vnsay with one breath and vvas as vvauering in all his actions as a vvethercocke Sextus Pompeius for his vvonderful mutabilitie vvas much defamed The Common-wealth of the Sicyonians endured longer then that of the Greekes Egyptians Lacedemonians or the Romains and the reason thereof vvas because that in seauen hundred and forty yeeres they neuer made any new lawes or brake their old Lact. The Egyptians rather choose to dye theâ— to reueale any secrets though they be neuer so much racked and tormented Macrob. Aesope the bondman of Demosthenes waâ— often vrged by torture to confesse his Maisters dealing with Iulian but could neuer be brought to acknovvledge any thing vntill at the length Demosthenes himselfe disclosed it Fulgosius Anasillus Captaine of the Athenians vvas taken of the Lacedemonians and put to the torture because hee shoulde tell vvhat hee knew and vvhat the King Agesilaus his master did intend to vvhom hee aunswered You Lacedemonians haue liberty to dismember mee but I haue none to reueale my Lordes secrets Plutarch Octauius Consull of Rome vvhen Marius was banished at his repeale was vvarned by the Augurs to take heede of him and Cinna but he constantly determining not to leaue the citty while he was Consull went to them in his roabes with the Roddes and the Axes carried before him and his friendes bringing him a horse to flee he refused so to doe but abode the stroake of Censorinus who carried his head to Cinna Appian Labienus who in Syllas tyme had kylled many that were proscribed thinking that himselfe might well be reproued if he should not suffer death resolutely went home to his house sate downe in his chayre and tarried the comming of those whom Anthonie sent to take away his lyfe Appian Of Friendship The Romaines perceiuing the necessitie of Friendship shadowed the same in the shape of a young man whose heade vvas bared and vpon his breast was written Sommer and VVinter who hauing his breast open putting his finger to his hart had therein sette Farre and neere on the skirts of his coate were drawn Life and death ARtorius a Romane at the siege of Ierusalem beeing in a place that was sette on fire looking from the top of the house sawe one of his friends by Titus to whom he said Friend Lucius get on thy armour and come neere that I may leap downe vpon thee and thou maist receiue me Lucius stood for his friende who light vpon him with such force that they both died which friendship Titus caused to be noted to after ages Vrbanus Alcibiades beeing desirous to know vvhether he had so many friendes as hee thought hee called them all one after another into a darke place shewed vnto them the image of a dead body saying that it was a man whoÌ„ he had killed and requesting them to helpe him to carry the same away amongst them all hee found none but Callias that vvoulde harken vnto him Cyrus alvvayes placed his friendes on hys left side as neere his hart Xenophon The friendship of Ionathan and Dauid could not bee hindered by the vvrath of the Father of the one nor any ioâ—e changed although he knew that his friend should afterward raigne ouer him notwithstanding hee were by inheritance to succeede next his father in the kingdome There was but one Orestes and yet Pylades called himselfe Orestes and was condemned to die vnder that name onelie to saue the life of his companyon Dion of Syracusa vvas slaine of Callicrates vvhom he alvvayes highly fauoured supposed to be the most assuredst friend hee had lyuing in the world Volumnius hearing of the death of his friende Lucullus came to Anthony desiring him to send his souldiours to kill him vpon the graue of his friend and bury him vvhich hee denying Volumnius vvent to his graue and there killed himselfe leauing a briefe by him vvherein was vvritten Thou that knewest the faithfull loue betweene Volumnus and Lucullus ioyne our bodyes beeing dead as our mindes were one being aliue Asmundus so deerely loued his friende Asotus that after hee vvas dead hee vvould needes be buried vvith him aliue Saxo. The Oracle of Apollo pronounced the amitie betweene Chariton and Menalippus to be heauenly diuine and celestiall Blossius humbly desired pardon of Lelius because hee tooke part with Gracchus hauing no greater reason to excuse himselfe but his great loue toward him which he confessed to be such that hee thought himselfe bound in friendshyp to doe whatsoeuer hee would haue him yea if it were to burne the Capitoll Cicero Lucilius when he sawe that his friend Brutus was compassed about with enemies hee with a few souldiers ran among theÌ„ and sayd that hee was Brutus that his friende might scape away Plut. Polytius gaue Scipio counsell that hee should neuer depart froÌ„ the publique place of authority before hee had got some nevve friende and wel-willer Phocion when a friend of his vvould haue cast himselfe away woulde not suffer hym saying I was made thy friend to this purpose Cicero writ to Atticus that a friende vvas bounde to wish but three thinges vnto his friend that he be healthy that hee be well accounted of and that he be not needy Archidamus vvhen he vvas chosen Arbitrator to decide a certaine contention betweene two friends brought them both into Dianas Temple and made them sweare vppon the Altar
that they would obserue what soeuer he determined whervpon they yeelded I iudge then quoth he that none of you depart this Temple before you bee reconciled Thus were they coÌ„strained to agree between themselues Archidamus freed from loosing their friendships whoÌ„ he deerly loued The Egyptians shewed signes of stronger friendship to their friends beeing dead then when they were lyuing Scipio Affricanus going against the Numantines deuided his Army into 500. companies and made one band which hee called Philonida the band of friends Mithridates sought to driue Nicomedes forth of Bithinia vvho vvas friende to the Romaines and gaue the Romans so much to vnderstand to vvhom the Senate made aunswer that if he warred vpon Nicomedes he should likewise feare the force of the Romaines Appian Cicero and Clodius Tiberius and Affricanus froÌ„ mortall foes became faithful friends Scipio greatly complained that men were very skilfull in numbring their Goates and Sheepe but few could reckon their friends Alexander helde Aristotle deere Darius Herodotus Augustus Piso Pampeius Plaâ—tus Titus Plinie Traiane Plutarch Anthonius Apollonius Theodotius Claudius Seuerus Fabatus Pericles beeing desired by a friende to ayde him with false witnes aunswered That hee would friend him as high as the heauens meaning that men should ayde theyr friends so far as iustice gods lawes did permit Thu. Plato seeing he could not bring the Common-wealth to happines by vertue reduced all lawes to friendship deuising all things to be common affirming that two only words namely Mine Thine where the things that disturbed the society of man Homer giueth Achilles a Patroclus Virgill an Achates vnto Aeneas Alexander had his Hephestion Darius his Zopirus and Scipio his Laelius Dion and Iulius Caesar had rather die then distrust theyr friends Plu. Augustus wanting his olde friends Maecenas and Agrippa said that if they had lyued hee had not fallen into the troubles hee vvas then in Seneca Scaurus and Cataline the conspirators against Rome and Brutus and Cassius the murtherers of Caesar held great leagues and confederacie together but in no sort they could be called friends for there can bee no true amitie vvhere is no vertue Among heauenlie bodyes Mercury Iupiter Sol and Luna are friendes to Saturne but Mars and Venus are his enemies All the Planets sauing Mars are friendes to Iupiter and all the rest of the Planets sauing Venus hate Mars Iupiter and Venus loue Sol. Mars Mercury and Luna are his enemies and all the rest of the Planets loue Venus except Saturne Iupiter Venus and Saturne are friendes to Mercury Sol Luna and Mars are hys enemies There are inclinations of friendship in vigâ—able mineralls as the Loadstone hath to yron the Emerald hath to riches and fauours the stone Iaspis to child-birth the stone Achates to eloquence and Naptha â—ot onely draweth fire vnto it but fire leapeth vnto it where soeuer it is the like dooth the roote Aproxes Such friendship is betweene the male and female Date tree that when a bough of the one shall touch a bough of the other they fold themselues into a naturall embracing neuer doth the female bring forth fruit without the male Vines loue the Elme tree the Oliue the Mirtle likewise loueth the Oliue the Fig-tree and if the Almond tree grovve alone it will proue vnfruitfull There is friendship betweene the Blacke-bird and the Thrush betweene the Choffe and the Heron betweene the Peacocks and the Doues Isodorus Cato the Censor had a Ring vvhereon was engrauen Esto amicus vnius et inimicus nullius Bee friende to one and enemie to none Plinie Of Loue. All the Arts and Sciences of the worlde may in time be learned except the Art of Loue the which neither Salomon had skill to write nor Asclepias to paynt nor Ouid to teach Helen to report or Cleopatra learne beeing a continuall Schoolemaister in the hart whose diuine furies are Propheticall misticall poeticall amatorial consecrated to Apollo Bacchus the Muses and Venus THe Poets meane nothing els by those tovvnes of Adamant vvhich they vvrite of but the loue of Cittizens vvho by no force or policie can be ouercome so long as in hart they hold together The Grecians so long as they continued at peace among themselues they vvere coÌ„querers of all men but after that ciuill discention had once entered in amongst them they fell daily more and more to such ruine that in fewe yeeres they became laughing-stocks to all the world Plutarch Balsaria when Calphurinus Crassus vvas taken captiue of the Messalines and shoulde haue beene offered for a sacrifice vnto Saturne shee deliuered Crassus from death made him conquerer Caluce after Troy vvas destroyed vvhen King Lycus her Father sayling into Lybia had appointed to kill Diomedes for sacrifice to appease the Gods for vvind vveaâ—â—er she deliuered him from her Father and sâ—ued his lyfe Scipio Affricanus esteemed so much the Poet Ennius aliue that being dead hee caused his picture to bee set before his eyes as a memoriall of his great loue Plutarch Pomponius Atticus thought himself happie when either Cicero was in his sight or his bookes in his bosome Plato in his booke intituled Conuiuium interlaceth Comicall speeches of loue hovvbeit al the rest of the supper there is nothing but discourses of Philosophy Alexander loued highly Apelles insomuch that after he had made him draw out a Iâ—eman of his naked whom hee likewise loued deerely vnderstanding that he was enamored on her he bestowed her on him Alexander vvould haue his picture drawne by none but Apelles nor cut by any in brasse but onely Lysippus so greatly did he affect them Curtius Stagerita the towne where Aristotle vvâ—â— borne beeing destroyed by Philip of Macâ—â—don Alexander his sonne for the loue heâ— bare to his Maister Aristotle reedified thâ— same againe Valerius seruaunt to Panopion hearing that certaine souldiours came vnto the Cittie of Rheatina of purpose to kill his master hee changed apparrell with his maister and conueyed him away suffering himselfe to be slaine in his Masters bed for the great loue he bare him The Persians for the affection they bare to theyr horses when they died buried them Alexander made a tombe for Bucephalus Seuerus the Emperour for the loue hee bare to Pertinax whom Iulianus slew willed that men shoulde euer after call him Pertinax Eutrop. A Persian vvoman beeing asked why shee had rather saue the life of her brother then of her owne sonne Because sayd she I well may haue more children but neuer no more brothers seeing my father and mother are dead Eros the seruant of Antonius hauing promised to kill his Maister when hee requested him drevv his sword and holding it as if hee would haue killed him turned his Maisters head aside and thrust the sword into his own body Plutarch Agesilaus was fined by the Ephories because he had stolne away the harts wonne the loue of all his cittizens to himselfe The Emperour Claudius did neither loue nor hate but
their sayd pupill Dion An honorable person being called into the Senate at Athence to depose touching some matters the Senators vvould not haue him to take the accustomed oath knowing him to be a vertuous honest man Cicero in an Oration pro Balbo The Emperour Fredericke sayde to certaine of his Minions that vvere importunate to get into their hands the auncient demeane of the Empire That hee rather would bee accounted of small liberality then periured Phil. Comi Melius Suffetius a dictator of Albany was drawne in peeces vvith foure horses for that hee had broken his fayth and the Cittie of Alba was rased cleane downe Liuius Caracalla the Emperour hauing pursued the king of Persia contrary to his promise vvas himselfe afterward slaine Ladislaus King of Hungary made a most honourable truce with Amurath during which he was perswaded by Carninall Iulian Embassador from Pope Eugenes to breake it vvhich was the cause that hee vvith the chiefe of his Armie and the Cardinall vvere slaine outright Guychardine Pope Adrian tooke a solemne oath to obserue the peace concluded with the Emperour Fredericke and afterwards breaking it as he dranke was choked with a flie P. Com. Michael Paleologue beeing chosen Emperour of the Greekes promised swore that hee vvoulde render vp the Empire into the hands of Iohn Lascaris whē he should come to age but notwithstanding he held it still hee died miserably and to his posteritie ensued an infinite number of mischiefes was occasion of the first beginning of the Turkish monarchy Christiern King of Denmark hauing broken his fayth giuen to his subiects was depriued his Realme and afterwards lyued myserably although he receiued many succours from the Emperour Charles the fift Charles Duke of Burgundie hauing violated his fayth promised to the Switzers and before that to the King of S. Poll vvas vanquished and all ill hap accompanied him euer after Guychar Andronicus Conuens cleane contrarie to his fayth giuen to the infants of Emanuell to them of Nice vsurped the Empire but he was soone after hanged vp by the feete hewed in peeces for his periury Alexander hauing vovved to kill the first that should come forth of the towne put an Asse to death in stead of him that ledde her Q. Cur. Haniball being but fifteene yeeres of age was sworne by his father that he should continually prooue an enemy to the Romaines Appian Cassandra for breaking her promise vvith Apollo had this punishment that prophecied she neuer so truly shee should not be beleeued Virgill The first temple Romulus built at Rome was dedicated to faithfulnes Pausa Paulus Iouius Bembus Sabellicus and Pandolphus accuse the Frenchmen for not keeping their fayth according to theyr promise with the Venetians The Petelines in Calabria and the Saguntines in Spain chose rather to die a miserable death then to break the fayth they had once plighted Liuius The prayse vvhich Sylla gaue Cinna made him commit periurie The Indians vse to cut off the lyps and the handes of periured persons to shewe the offence they had committed against God and theyr neighbours The Oracle of Delphos made aunswer that all things should prosper well if they forbad all oathes The Scythians vse to sweare by the vvinde and their sworde because the winde giueth breath to liue by the sword killeth It vvas in no case permitted to the Priests of Iupiter to swear for that an oath often endeth in cursing and periurie Among the oathes of Iudges one was that they should take no present Demost. Socrates vsed to sweare by a dog Pythagoras by the number of foure the Manichies by the light The Nazarites vow was neuer to cut their haire nor drinke wine nor pray for the dead King Dauids poesie vvas Voue et redde H. The fourth Emperor of Almain vowed to liue an Hirmit ten yeeres and called himselfe Godstall that is Gods calling Polycr Stampitius a holy Father of the Church vowed vnto God a thousand times that hee vvould become a better man but hee neuer performed that which he vowed then sayde he Heereafter I will make no such vowe for I haue now learned by experience that I am not able to performe it but commend my selfe vnto Gods mercy Mag. Sent. One promised to marry the daughter of Lisander but her father dead his state not found so good as he was supposed the young man reuolted then the Magistrates called Ephori vnderstanding thereof by a common cōsent punished the young man as offender Antigonus the King held Zeno in great reuerence and one day being drunke hee met Zeno and bid him commaund him any seruice and he vvould doe it and bound it with an oath to whom Zeno sayde Abi et euome goe and vomit Polymnestor in whom King Priamus reposed his confidence committed his Sonne Polidorus vnto him whom hee falsely slewe notwithstanding his solemne vowe to haue a most tender care ouer him Virgill The people of Sarmatha were most false in wordes deceitful in deedes and trecherous one to another The vvifes of the Scythians while theyr husbands were at warres brake their vowes and married theyr slaues vvhom at theyr returne they killed Valer. Forsworne Crocalus King of Sicilia killed King Minos vnder colour of friendship and pretence of talking with him Cleomenes brake promise with the Argiues with vvhom hee tooke truce for certaine daies and notwithstanding castily betrayed them in the night slewe thē sleeping and imprisoned them contrary to his former promise The Argiues loued so well theyr hayre that beeing conuicted by the Lacedemonians they shaued theyr heades bewailing their misfortune and vowed neuer to let theyr haires grow vntill they had recouered their losses Lisander admirable among the Lacedemonians neuer made any reckoning of iustice but vvhen it vvas profitable accounting onely profit to be honest saying That it vvas requisite chyldren shoulde bee deceaued with the play of Cockall and men beguiled with oathes The Emperor Iustinian for breaking hys fayth with the Barbarians and violating peace vvith the Bulgarians his own subiects rebelled and Leontius vsurped the kingdome first cutting of his nostrils and then sending him into banishment Of Silence Secrecie Nature hath placed the tongue betweene the bead and the hart hauing aboue it the instrument of all the Sences the eyes the eares and nose obedient vnto reason to the end it vtter nothing before counsell taken of the inward faculties of the soule which are Vnderstanding Reason seated in the braine PYthagoras the Phylosopher commaunded all the Schollers he receiued into his schoole to bee silent fiue yeeres to learne of others so long before themselues dyd vtter any thing Harpocrates was the Superintendent and the corrector of mans speech vvas drawn vvith a ring fastned vpon his lyps Augerona was fained to bee the Goddesse of Silence drawne with her finger vpon her mouth and a table vppon her breast whereon vvas vvritten Heare See say nothing showing in vvhat reuerence they ought to hold
assemble themselues together The Hebrews vsed Trumpets of horn in remembrance of the deliuerance of Isaac what time an horned vveather was offered and sacrificed in his stead Tibia was an instrument of sorrowe and lamentation which men did vse in office and sepultures of dead men beeing like vnto a Shalme or Flute Lyra hath the name for diuersity of sounds and was first inuented by Mercury The Harpe is called Cythera first found by Apollo which Virgill writeth to haue seauen strings that is seauen soundes seauen differences of voyces The Psalterie hath the name of Psallendo for the consonant aunswereth to the note therof in singing The Hebrewes called the Psalterie Decachordon an instrument hauing ten strings according to the number of the ten Commaundements Cymballs are instruments of musick compassed like an hoope and on the vpper compasse vnder a certaine hollownesse hangeth halfe bells fiue or seauen in number Sistrum hath the name of a Lady that first founde the same who vvas Isis Queene of Egypt Among the Amazons the hoast of vvemen is called to battaile with this instrument It is like a horne vsed in battaile in sted of a Trumpet The Bell is also reckoned among the Instruments of musick who whilst hee profiteth others in sounding hee is himselfe consumed and wasted by often smiting Thys was inuented by the Parthians Of Wemen Although Pandora had wisedome from Pallas eloquence from Mercurie beautie from Venus personage from Iuno and from euery other God some gift where-vpon shee is so called yet in the nature of a woman shee brought the whole world to confusion ALthough Eue transgressed before the man yet is the originall of sinning ascribed to Adam because the succession is accounted in men and not in wemen Thucidides was of opinion that those vvemen vvere most honest of whose commendation and disprayse there is least speech vsed Harmonia daughter to Hiero the Syracusan woulde vvillingly haue dyed in the defence of her Country Epicharia a libertine of Rome being made priuie to a conspiracie intended against Nero vvas so constant in secrecie that beeing rent with most cruell torments yet neuer vvould shee bewray any of the parties Tacitus Laeena bitte her tongue in sunder spette it in the face of Hippias the Tyrant in whose honour the Athenian dedicated before the Castle gate a Lyonesse of brasse vvithout a tongue to betoken the steady vertue of silence in her Plinie Araetia taught her Sonne Aristippus phylosophy Mithridates vvife and sisters shewed a far lesse feare of death then Mithridates hymselfe Appian The wife of Asdruball of Carthage ouercome by Scipio shewed a greater resolution to die then Asdruball himselfe Aspasia and Diotima with sacrifice droue of a plague ten yeeres which shoulde haue hapned in Athence Aspasia loued and taught the eloquent Pericles of Athence Nichostrata mother to Euander shevved the Latines their Letters The Sabine women were no lesse helpe to increase Rome then the Troyans at the first beginning The conspiracie of Cataline for which Cicero is so praised was first disclosed by a woman Salust Philip the sonne of Demetrius laying siege to the citty of Scio proclaimed that what bond-man soeuer woulde forsake the Citty and come to him they should haue liberty theyr Maisters wiues the vvemen hearing this came to the walls weaponed fought so fiercely that they repulsed Philip. A deede the men could not doe The Erythians made war vpon the Sciots vvho not able to holde out compounded to depart theyr Citty without armour vvhich when the women heard of they vvould not suffer but counsailed them to carry theyr shield and speare and leaue theyr clothes aunswer their enemies that this was theyr array which they followed auoyding the sâ—ame of the other The Spartane wemen delighted to see their children die valiantly in defence of their country The vvemen of Sagunt in the destruction of theyr Country tooke wepons in hand against Haniballs souldiers VVhen the Armie of the Germaines vvas vanquished by Marius theyr vvemen not obtayning to liue free in Rome in seruice with the Vestals killed themselues and their chidren Portia the wife of Brutus and daughter of Cato when she heard that they both vvere deade beeing carefully watched of her seruants tooke the fire from the harth swallowed the coales Appian The wemen of India are so couragious and bold that they dare leape into the fire with the dead bodies of theyr husbands Alexandra wife to Alexander was Bishop in Iurie nine yeers Antiochus King of Siria had a seruant called Arteon so like him of face and person that when King Antiochus dyed the Queen Laodicea his wife dissembled the matter vntill shee of her owne decree had made another King in Syria Zenobia Queene of the Palmerins beeing very well learned in the Greeke Latine and Egiptian tongues taught them to her tvvo sonnes and wrote an Epitome of the Easterne Histories Chrisostome made a sermon against all wemen because Eudoxia the Emperour Arcadius wife had bolstered Epiphanius against him he mocked at her picture for vvhich cause she endeuoured to banish him againe vvhereof he vnderstanding made a notable Sermon with this beginning Herodias rageth a fresh stomaketh a new daunceth againe seeketh as yet the head of Iohn Baptist. Euseb. In the war that Conradus a Germane Emperour had with the Caâ—ulies hee tooke the Castle and Towne of VVeimsburge then the Emperour commaunded to take all the Gentlemen but the Gentlevvomen should be let goe with as much goods as they could carry but they forsaking their goods carried away their children which the Emperour hearing of commended their vertue and gaue theÌ„ likewise leaue to take their goods The Romans had a law that what soeuer a vvoman with childe longed for shee should haue it the cause was for that Fuluius Torquatus wife longed to see a vvilde man that passed by her doore whom the Knights of Mauritania had taken in hunting in the deserts of Egypt and not seeing him she dyed Aurelius VVhen the Romans vpon a certaine vvager dyd send from the vvarres to Rome to vnderstand what euery mans vvife dyd at home amongst them all the most praysed was the chast Lucrecia for that shee onelie was founde vveauing and all the rest idle Liuius Assiria coÌ„plaineth of the scandall of Semyramis Armenia for Pincia Greece for Helena Rome for Agrippina In the societie of the Druides of Fraunce vvere very many learned wemen of vvhom the Romaine Emperour Aurelian did aske counsaile Vopiscus The greatest part of Asia was conquered gouerned more by the wemen Amazons then with any barbarous people P. Diaco Porus king of India for want of men and too many wemen was ouercome of Alexander Curtius Haniball was alwayes Lorde of Italie vntill hee suffered vvemen to goe to the vvarres vvith him and vvhen hee fell in loue vvith Tamyra at Capua hee immediatly turned his backe to Rome Sylla in the warres against Mithridates and Marius in the warres of the Cimbres had ouer his
abused by her drunken Father knowing by his Ring shee tooke of from his finger that it was hee shee killed him at the Altar Plut. Of Sorrow This vexation of mind and sicknes of the bodie is a perturbation altogether contrarie to pleasure from whence doth spring repentance sadnesse freating lamentation carefulnes affliction mourning and desperation this is the last of the perturbations of the minde beeing in number foure A Certaine Nun vvas mother to P. Lombardus maister of the sentences Gratianus who when shee sawe them such notable men sayd she could not repent to whom her Confessor said Only sorrow because thou canst not sorrow P. Mar. The Iewes thought Ecclesiastes to bee Salomons repentance Idem Origen repenting himselfe being sorrie for that hee did in his adolescencie sayde I expounded the Prophet Abdias allegoricallie whose history I vnderstoode not Aeschines the Orator being as he was alwayes sicke did neuer complaine of the Spleene that did grieue him on the other part he did much lament for any sorow that otherwise happened vnto him Plutarch Telemachus helde this his greatest griefe that Iupiter had ended the race of his Father in him not giuing him a brother Homer King Xerxes when he saw that Ochus lay in waite for his brethren to put theÌ„ to death died for griefe thereof Plantius the Numidian looking vpon hys dead wife tooke such griefe to his hart that casting himselfe vpon the dead body he rose no more but was stifled vvith sorrow Diodorus the Logitian dyed for sorrovve because he was not able to aunswer the questions of Stilpo Laertius M. Coriolanus being banished Rome became enemy to her but his mother Veturia comming vnto him vpbraiding him with his fault he found his error layd dovvne his armes went out of the field and dyed vvith greefe of minde Liuius Homer dyed with suddaine sorrovve because he could not aunswer a question which a Fisherman propounded vnto him Plu. The Romaine Matrons bewailed the death of Brutus one whole yeere as a cheefe defender of theyr chastities Eutrop. Torquatus the younger being banished froÌ„ his Fathers house for greefe thereof slevve himselfe There was great contention betweene Sophocles and Aeschilus about versifying in which by the iudgement of those that were present Sophocles was preâ—erred vvhich Aeschilus tooke so greeuously that he fledde forthwith into Sicilia where hee lyued obscuâ—ely and in the end died miserably The lyke is written of Calchas a Soothsayer at his returne from Troy being ouercom of Mopsus one of his owne profession Homer Niceratus for that Antimachus verses vvritten in the prayse of Lisander vvere by him more esteemed then his although by iudgement of the learned Niceratus were better hee was so greeued that hee forsooke his studies but Plato by counsell turned his minde and of a dissolute made him a diligent studient in Poetry Themistocles mother for very griefe conceiued that her sonne in his youth vvas gyuen to all kinde of vvickednesse hanged her selfe P. Rutilius vvhen hee heard that his Brother desiring to be made a Consul in Rome had taken the repulse for very angush of minde dyed By the lawes of the twelue tables of Rome all sorrovve and vveeping at funeralls vvas forbidden Lepidus by a long griefe conceiued of the misbehauiour of his vvife shortned his own dayes Dioxippus before Alexander onely vvith a club challenged Corrhagus beeing all armed to enter combat with him vvhen â—ee had smitten Corrhagus speare out of his hand hee closed vvith him and laying fast hold vpon his armour hee threw him down then sette his foote vpon his necke and gored him through the body with his svvord for vvhich acte Alexander hated him whervpon Dioxippus tooke inward thought gaue such scope vnto inward force of fantasie that hee pyned and consumed away with griefe of minde Timanthes when hee had finished the picture of Iphigenia in colours set foorth Calchas to bee sorrowfull for the same but Vlisses more sad and to make her Father Agamemnon seeme most sorrowfull he painted him with his face couered The Poets faine Prometheus to bee tyed vpon the top of the Mountaine Caucasus an Eagle to be gnawing of his hart whereby they signifie no other thing but the great sadnes of Prometheus gotten by contemplating the starres and Planets The poesie of the Pythagorians vvas The hart should not be eaten Caesar neuer feared Anthony Dolobella or any other that was of a merry countenaunce but rather doubted sadde mellancholie persons such as Brutus and Cassius vvas Crassus was called Gelastos for that he was once seene to laugh in his life Anaxagoras Clazomenius vvas noted that hee neuer was seene to laugh or smyle from the day of his byrth Aristoxenus did vvonderfully bridle himselfe from laughter Heraclitus was at such defiance with mirth that hee wept continually and Democritus alwaies laughed Laertius Bibuâ—us hearing of the death of both hys children in one day lamented their losse that one day and no more Anaxagoras hearing tell that his sonne was dead aunswered It is no meruaile for I begot a mortall body P. Varro remained so sorrowful in his hart to see himselfe ouercome of his enemies his vvife suddainely dead that all the time he after liued he neither combed his head slept in bed nor dined at the table Liuius The Romaines were so sorrowfull for the death of Augustus Caesar that they vvished hee had neuer beene borne or being borne neuer dyed Eutropius Of Lying This contrary to truth nature maketh that seeme very good which is euill and causeth the tongue to become a member of iniustice when it vttereth more or lesse then is indeed vnder this vice are contained Deceipt Dissimulation Crâ—â—t Hipocrisie Idolatry and cousenage THrough a lye Ioseph was cast into pryson and Saint Chrisostome sent into banishment The Egyptians ordained death to lyers so dyd the Scythians and Garamantes The Persians and Indians depriued him of all honour and farther speech which lyed The Gymnosophists and Chaldeans barred lyers all companies and dignities and condemned them to remaine in perpetuall darknes without speaking The very wormes did eate the tongue of the cousoner Nestorius in his lyfe time Nicephorus Popiel King of Poland had euer this wishe in his mouth If it be not true I would the Rats might eate mee vvhich came to passe for he was so assayled by theÌ„ at a banquet that neyther his guards nor fire nor water could defend him from them Munster Some write that an Archbishop of Magunce died the lyke death The Emperor Traiane sirnamed the good Prince tooke away from the sonne of Cebaâ—us the kingdom of Dacia which we terme at this day Transiluania and Valachia onely because he caught him in a lye and â—old him that Rome could not permit a lyer to possesse a kingdome After that one had reade vnto Alexander the great History out of Aristobulus wherin he had intermingled certaine counterfaite prayses he â—â—ong the booke into the Ryuer saying The writer
deserued to haue been cast in himselfe In Almaine a lye hath beene alwayes extreamly hated shunned as it were a plague and bastards could neuer obtaine the price of any occupation whatsoeuer nor take degree in any Art or Science Zonarus The Emperours Nero Commodus Maximilius Iulius Valencius haue by lyes been brought to ruine Pope Alexander the sixt neuer did what he sayd and his Sonne Borgia neuer sayde vvhat hee meant to doe pleasing themselues in counterfaiting and dissembling to deceaue and falsifie theyr fayth Guychardine VVhen the Duke of Valentinois had caused certaine Princes to be murthered contrary to his oath his Father the Pope told him that hee had played a right Spaniards part but they dyed most miserably the one poysoned the other slaine The Lacedemonians banished Câ—hesiphon because he boasted that he could discourse a whole day long of any theame that was put vnto him Artaxerxes caused one of his Souldiours tongs to be nailed to a post for making a lie The Gabionites for lying lost theyr libertie The Cretans for lying became odious to all the world Achilles did more abhor lying then death Homer Paulus Iouius beeing demaunded in his Chronicle why hee fained many things as false and dissembled the true which thereby might breed his History to be suspected aunswered that hee did it to please those from whom he receaued pensions Vlisses speach alwayes proceeded from his hart Homer Pope Innocent the third made faire weather with Otho the fourth and Fredericke the second contending for the Empyre and neuerthelesse made a very solemne and eloquent oration of the agreement and vnity which ought to be amongst Christian Princes but a Cittizen of Rome aunswered him Holy Father your wordes seeme to bee of God but your deedes thereto contrary surely proceede from the deuill Guychardine Pyrrhus was enemie to the Romaines yet neuerthelesse did he giue this praise vnto Fabritius that a man might as soone turne him from the truth and honesty as the sunne out of his course Plut. In Lacedemon there vvas one that vvas knowne to bee a notorious lyer who notwithstanding he gaue profitable aduise and necessary for the time yet it was cleane reiected of the people Plut. Antiochus in hunting lost his way was constrained to retire to a poore mans house of the Country who not knowing him told him al the faults he his fauorites had committed to whoÌ„ at his returne he sayd that he neuer vnderstoode the truth till that night and euer after carried him selfe most vertuously Marcus Aurelius was called Verissimus for in him was neuer found lyes nor truth euer fayled Pharamond King of Fraunce was called VVarmond which signifieth truth The Lacedemonians condemned one that did open penance wearing hairecloath vpon his skin for that thereby they discouered his hipocrisie in as much as it was wouen with purpure Dionysius the Tyrant being retired to Athence after hee was depriued of his kingdome bewailed the estate of Princes but especially in that men neuer spoke freely vnto them and the truth was euer hidden and concealed from them Plato Demosthenes called Phocion the hatchet of his words because he spake truth to the matter The dissimulation of Metellus and Scipio was so great that Metellus fained that Rome was happy that Scipio was borne therin and yet was his mortall enemy all the dayes of his lyfe Fredericke a Romaine emperour at what time the Senators were entring the Senate would say to them before you enter Cast away two things simulations and dissimulations Alexander would consent to nothing but truth and Phillip his Father to all kinde of falshood By craft Haniball vanquished the Tarentines by craft the Romaines recouered it againe Clodius to bring his purpose to passe with Pompeia Caesars wife dissembled himselfe to be a woman Cicero Salmoneus by lightening of a Torch did counterfet the thundering sownds lightning stormes of heauen Virgil. Phryne the harlot to knowe which was Praxiteles the Paynters best picture bad his man bring him word that his shop was on fire I am vndone sayd he if my pictures of the Satyre and Cupid be burned Pausanias Darius became King of Persia by neighing of a Mare hauing the day before brought to that place a Stallion for it was agreed among the Persians that whose Mare first neighed he should be King Herodotus Pelagia of Antioche dissembled her selfe to be a man because she would liue chast Semyramis knowing her Sonne to be too young to rule disguised her selfe lyke to a man and gouerned the monarchy vntill her Sonne came to riper age Iustin. Vlisses fained himselfe mad to auoyde the great expedition Homer Marina and Euphrosina Grecian Virgins were woorthily preferred before Cleomilus and Clisthenes for that they vvent in the apparraile of men to lyue in the vvildernes to auoide lust the others went in the habites of women to beguile women Achilles was by his mother Thetis sent to King Licomedes like a woman because hee might not goe to Troy where thus disguised he gâ—t vpon one of them Pyrrhus Neoptolemus Sinon by dissembling gotte Troy for the Grecians Conon the Athenian deceaued the Persians in Cyprus and Antigonus the Cittizens of Corinth Pyrrhus deceaued Cannius in his bargaine of fish Cic. of fic lib. An old Lacedemonian who had coloured his haires discouered his head in a great assembly made a declaration of such matters about which he came Archidamus the King rose vp sayd VVhat truth can this fellow speake whose heart is stayned with spots of hypocrisie and double dealing Aelianus Eurydamas a wrastler when his teeth were dashed out by his aduersary hee dissembled his paine and swollowed downe his teeth blood all to the end that hee which gaue the blow might not perceaue the mischiefe Cleomenes had a companion whom hee made pertaker of a purpose he had to accoÌ„plish to whom he swore that he would attempt nothing but Archonides should be at one end thereat when hee had gotten what hee desired he murthered his companion cut his head from his shoulders layd it in a bason of honey so when he put any deuice in aduenture he looked vpon his head in the bason saying I breake not my promise but I stand to my oath for I take counsaile with Archonides head according to my couenant Aelianus Meton the Astronomer counterfaited himselfe mad and set his owne house on fire because he would not goe with the Grecians their voyage into Sicilia Cato was so renowned for his truth that when any man rehearsed a strange thing and hard to be beleeued this prouerbe went of him because he was knowne throughout the whole course of his life to be a louer of truth This is not credible although Cato himselfe shold speake it Aristomenes when he was dead and vnbowelled his hart was hairy which was a sure signe of his craft subtilty Brutus dissembled himselfe a foole to the end that men shold haue no mistrust of him nor bee
left his kingdome to Arnolphus the Sonne of Charlemaine he was brought to great misery and not hauing sufficient whereby to liue dyed at Sweuia in the 7 yeare of his raigne Arnolphus a couetous Prince raigned 12 yeares and dyed of Lyce after him the maiesty of the Empire came to the Germains which continued with the French-men for the space of 100 yeares Lodouicus the sonne of Arnolphus gouerned sixe yeares to vvhom also Conradus Duke of Austria ioyned and raigned seauen yeares Henry the sonne of Otho Duke of Saxony succeed him and ruled eighteene yeares by theyr ambition many tumults arose for the space of 60 yeares from Arnolphus death to Otho the first The Italians created Berengarius Emperour who at Verona ouercame Arnolphus and put out hys eyes hee gouerned foure yeares Berengarius the second succeeded him who was driuen out of the Countrey by Roâ—olphus King of Burgundy this Rodolph â—aigned three yeares and was expulsed his â—ingdome by Hugo a Duke he gouerned â—enne yeares leauing behind him Lothariâ—s his Sonne vvho ruled two yeares after â—hom Berengarius the third with his Sonne Adelbertus gouerned eleuen yeares vvho â—sing themselues vvith all tyrannie vvere by Otho dryuen out of Italy Otho the first the Sonne of Henry the first deposed Pope Iohn the thirteenth he vvas a Prince endued vvith singuler vertue hee dyed vvhen hee had ruled thirty yeares Otho the second restored Nicephorus Emperour of Constantinople beeing put â—ut of his kingdome into it agayne and married Theoponia his sister Henry Duke of Bauiers rebelled agaynst him but hee vvas by force of armes brought to obedience hee fought vvith the Greekes and Sarazens and being ouer-throwne he fled and vvas taken by Mariners who not knowing him for that hee spake the Greeke language redeemed him-selfe for a small price and returned to Rome soone after he dyed when hee had ruled 11. yeares somâ— write he was poysoned by the Italians Otho the third put Crescentius to death and put out the eyes of Pope Iohn the 10 who deposed Gregory the fifth whom he had made Pope and for that there was greaâ— dissention for the succession of the Empire with the assent of Gregory ordayned that 7. Princes of Germany should choose the Emperour 3. ecclesiasticall and 4. secular The Archbishop of Mentz Colein Trier to these were ioyned the Prince of Boheme for as then Bohemia had no King the CouÌ„ty Palatine of the Rhene the Duke of Saxony and the Marquesse of Bradenborough but amongst these the Elector Boheme is appoynted an Vmpeere to breake off all dissension in election if any rise This institution of Otho is farre more profitable then was the ordayning of the Areopagites amongst the Athenians or the Statutes of the Ephories to the Lacedemonians these Electors were appoynted the yerâ— of Christ 1002. Otho was poysoned by the wife of Crescentius whom he put to death when he had raigned 19. yeares his wifes namâ— was Mary daughter to the King of Aragon a woman giuen to all beastlines and intemperancâ—â—f life Henry the 2. sirnamed the haulting D. of â—auier succeeded him he was the first Emâ—eror chosen by the Electors raigned 22. â—eares he was wholy giuen to religion and godly life he brought the Hungarians to the Christian faith gaue his sister to Stephen theyr King in mariage and dyed at Bamâ—rige Conradus the French-man after an Interâ—egnum for 3. yeares was chosen Emperor â—orne of the daughter of Otho the first he â—ad fortunate wars against the Pannonians â—e subdued Burgundy and dyed in the 15. yeare of his raigne Henry the 3. called the Black the sonne of Conradus was elected in his time 3. vsurâ—ing Popes Gregory 6 Syluestes 3 and Benedict 9 were by him deposed and a 4. â—nstalled who was the Bishop of Bambrige called Clement the 2. he dyed when he had â—aigned 17. yeares Henry the fourth his sonne was cursed by Pope Hildebrand and by his treasons ouerthrowne he being very young his mother gouerned the Pope made Rodolphus Emperour and sent him a crowne whereon was written Petra dedit Petro Petrus diadema Râ—â—dolpho but this vsurper was ouercom by HeÌ„â—ry his hand cut off in the battel the whicâ— when he saw ready to die he sayd Loe 〈◊〉 Lords yee Bishops this is the hand where-witâ— I promised my Lorde Henry fayth and loyaltie iudge ye then how well you haue aduised me The Pope set the sonne also against the Father vvho besieged him at Mentz but by meanes of the Princes he departed thence the Father died when he had ruled 50 yeres his body lay vnburied 5 yeares by reason of the Popes curse Henry the fifth his Sonne withstoode the tiranny of Pope Paschalis and tooke his crowne from him he gouerned the Empire 20 yeares and dyed Lotharius the 2. Duke of Saxony raigned 13 yeares against whom Conradus made warre in his time the ciuill law gathered together by Iustinian and neglected through the tumults of warre was called againe to light he dyed of a Feauer Conradus the third Duke of Bauaria and Nephew to Henry the fourth had great wars with the Sarazins in Asia assisted by Richard sirnamed Cordelion and Lewes the French King he died without all glory renowne â—n the fifteene yeere of his Empire Fredericke the first called Oenobarbus or â—ith the red beard vvas a Prince indued â—ith very good qualities of minde and boâ—ie he ouerthrew Millaine to the ground â—hased Pope Alexander out of Rome and â—laced Octauius in his seate but vvhen hee â—ooke his iourney into Syria in the passage â—uer a riuer he vvas drowned vvhen he had â—aigned thirty and seauen yeeres hee made â—he Prince of Bohemia king for his faithfulâ—esse to him at Millaine Henry the 6. the sonne of F. Barbarossa â—ubdued the realme of Apulia he tooke Naâ—les and spoyled it He made his sonne Frederick being a childe Emperour with him â—y consent of the Electors whose wardshyp â—e dying committed to his brother Philip he ruled 8. yeeres Philip the sonne of F. Barbarossa was chosen Emperour for young Frederick raigned tenne yeeres against whom Innocentius the third erected Otho a Saxon but Philip ouercame him and vvas murthered of Otho Prince of Brunsinia in his Chamber this vvas called Otho the fourth who vvas excomunicated by the Pope was murdered in the 4. yeere of his raigne Fredericke the second sonne of Henry the sixt succeeded him and raigned 27. yeeres and yet before hee dyed vvas depriued fiue yeeres of the Empire by Innocentius hee vvas a vertuous and learned Prince in his time the faction arose betweene the Guelphes and the Gibelines the one vvith the Emperour the other with the Pope Conradus the fourth the son of Frederick vvas ouercome by the Lantgraue who wheÌ„ he perceiued himselfe destituted of the Germaine Princes ayde went to his hereditarie kingdome of Naples and there dyed vvhen he had raigned 4. yeeres VVilliam Countie of Holland vvas chosen Emperor after him a Prince of noble and vertuous actions
and a great deale more beeing now so farre from acknowledging an Emperour that they haue made the Emperour and Gouernours beholding to them The Venetians holde not onely freedoms but Prouinces and are the freest people of the vvorld as it were seperated froÌ„ the Romaine Empire All that appertaineth now to the Empire is inclosed vvithin the confines of Germanie out of vvhose limits there is nothing Thys Romaine Monarchie is and shall bee the last vvhich although it hath greatly decayed yet shall part thereof continue to the vvorlds end wherein shal remaine the name and maiestie of an Emperour These foure Monarchies were prophecied of long since by the Prophet Daniell vnder the figure of a great Image vvhose head was made of golde breast of siluer belly of copper legges of yron and feete of earth and yron mistically described The heade of Gold signifieth the Monarchy of the Assyrians the breast of Siluer the Persians the belly of Brasse the kingdome of the Greekes the legges of Yron the Romaines the feete of yron and earth the moderne estate of the Monarchie beeing much vveaker then it was vvont to be Daniell dreamed that hee sawe 4. beastes come out of the Ocean the first a Lyon the second a Beare the thyrd a Leopard and as touching the fourth he sayd it vvas terrible to behold The first of these figured the kingdome of Assyria the second the kingdome of Persia the third the Empire of the Greekes and the fourth the Romaine Monarchie the tenne hornes are his members or parts as Siria Egypt Asia Grecia Affrick England Spaine Fraunce Italy Germanie for the Romaine Monarchie possessed all these Nations Betweene these tenne hornes sprang vp a little horne which pluckt away three of the other tenne by which is meant the Mahometicall or Turkish Empire the vvhich engendered of small beginning in the Easterne Romaine Monarchie hath now pulled out three hornes therof Egypt Asia Greece This little horne hath eyes which are presumptious against Christ and Christendom sparckling foorth dreadfull blasphemies against the name of GOD. Of the Turkish Empire IN the yeere of our Lord 630. in the 15. yeere of Heraclius Emperour of Rome arose the dreadfull change of al mankinde by reason of the doctrine of Mahomet vvhich then beganne this did the Arabians first embrace who neuer obeyed kingdoms or lawes lawfully appoynted Mahomet himselfe vvas borne of base parentage in Arabia in the yeere of our Lord 591. in the raigne of Mauritius Emperor of the Romaines his father was an Arabian and his mother a Iew vvho beeing brought vp with a rich Merchant after his maisters death married his mistresse and for that he vvas greatly desirous to rise in honour and estimation by the counsell of Sergius an ancient Monck an Arrian he coyned a new religion deriued out of sundry Sects mingled with some part of the Iewes some part of the Christians some of the Arrians The Prophet Ezechiell and S. Iohn call the Turks Gog and Magog Gog signifyeth a Tent and Magog the people vvithout the Tents for the Tartarians vsually dvvell in Tents and the Turkes are Tartaries vvho came out of Tartarie into Asia when the Sarazens warred against the Persians by theyr King Hormisda desired in ayde Mahomet is interpreted rage or indignation Turke signifieth a souldiour or a vvrastler in the Tartarian tongue one that is accursed or a vagabond Methodius calleth thys people red Iewes eyther because they vvere cruell thirsting after blood or els for that Mahomet vvas borne of Edom in Arabia and Edom signifieth redde Besides the same Author vvriteth that Gog and Magog vvere closed in beyond the hyll Caucasus and that a subtile Foxe should make them a passage vvhich Foxe is Mahomet VVhen the Sarazens serued vnder Heraclius against the persians being denied their pay they fledde from him and in theyr returne homewards they spoyled many villages and townes about Damascus in Syria then vnderstanding Mahomet to be of great power by reason of his vvealth and the opinion vvhich vvas helde of his religion they made choyse of him for theyr Gouernour and by the consent of the Sarazens Arabians and a great part of the Egyptians they so proclaimed him The beginning of his kingdome vvas in â—523 yeeres after Christ vvho making hys â—eate in Syria vvrote the Alcoran a booke of all the lawes ceremonies and traditions of his religion vvith a number of idle tales and faigned miracles hee vvas poysoned by Albunor one of his owne disciples to the inâ—ent hee might see if his maister Mahomet vvoulde rise againe the thirde day after hys death according to his prophecy but hys body was torne in peeces of dogges he raigned tenne yeeres Ebebuzer or Amiras that is a Prince or successor his sonne in law succeeded him hee tooke Damascus making that his princely seate and after 2. yeeres siedge spoiled Gaza Ierusalem raigning 3. yeeres Ahumar succeeded hee subdued all Syria and Egypt conquering Persia and hauing added Cilicia Cappadocia Mesopotamia and the Ile of Cyprus vnto his conquests he made Babylon the seate of his Empire whoÌ„ the Sarazens called the Calipha of Babilon which signifieth the chiefe Prince of empire and religion he raigned 12. yeeres Muhauiar tooke Caesaria and Palestine ouercame Horimasda the sonne of Cosroes he made them keepe Mahomets lawes vvhich the Persians obserue at this day after thys the Sarazens possessed Affrica vvent forward into Asia vvhere they flourished 200 yeeres The Turkes as long as the Empire of the Sarazens flourished in Asia they did most firmly sticke vnto them but after that they began to decrease by their ciuill dissention they encroched vppon them and their territories and by little and little wrought themselues at length wholy into the gouernment of the Empire In the yeere of our Lord one thousand fifty one they elected Zadoc to bee theyr King he laid the first foundation of the Turkish empire in Asia After 5. discents of them in the yeere one thousand foure hundred and eyght vvhen Godfrey of Bullaine vvith other Christan Princes made theyr holy expedition into Palestine the Christians in Armenia perceiuing that the Turkes were deuided and that they had murdered theyr last Emperor Belchâ—aior suddainly assailed them and draue them out of Persia enforcing them to keepe in the lesser Asia In the yeere of our Lorde one thousand three hundred Ottoman restored their Empire by his rare wit and fortune in martiall affaires he gaue names to the Emperors first appointed theyr king hee conquered Bithinia and Cappadocia and tooke many places lying vpon Mare ponticum and ruled 28. yeeres Orchanes his sonne sacked Prusia made â—t the head of his kingdome he was slayne by â—he Tartarians Amurath his sonne was the first that came out of Asia into Europe hee tooke Callipoâ—is Cherronesus Abydus Philippolis Adrianapolis Seruia and Bulgaria but entering into the vpper part of Misia hee was slayne in the 23. yeere of his Empire Baiazeth his brother
some doe not reckon him among the Popes especially Vincentius He begot Pope Iohn the 11. in detestable adultery Petrus Premonstratensis Iohn the eleueth vvas made Pope by the meanes of Theodola a Curtezane for the loue she bare to him he ouercame the Sarazens that wasted Calabria Apulia and Italy Hee was smothered by Guido Marquesse of Thusca his souldiers which Guido married the daughter of Theodora that shee might aduaunce her base son by Sergius the thyrd vvho vpon thys Popes death vvas elected but for that the agreement of the people and the Clergie was not certaine he was deposed the same day Leo the sixt established peace in Italy and after he had raigned 7. months he was poisoned by Marozia Stephen the seauenth liued in peace tvvo yeeres and as Crantius writeth he was poysoned Iohn the 12. raigned 5. yeeres while his mother Marozia ruled as wel the estate temporall as spirituall in Rome Leo the 7. lyued quietly and did nothing vvorthy of remembrance hee dyed Anno 941. Stephen the 8. a Germaine borne was greatly vexed with ciuill seditions amongst the Romaines he died anno 944. Martin the third repaired the Churches was very beneficiall to the poore and diligent in reforming of outward manners hee dyed ann 947. Agapetus the second caused Otho the first to vvage warre against Berengarius a Marquesse of Italy promising him therefore the kingdome of the Romaines as Sabellicus writeth he died an 954. Iohn the 13. was of so loose and intemperately life that the Emperour by the consent of the Prelates deposed him and sette vp Leo the 8. but when the Emperour was gone those harlots that were Iohns cōpanions promised the Nobles of Rome the treasures of the Church to depose Leo place Iohn againe which they did He decreed that the Emperor should euer be crowned at Rome by the Pope but as hee was solacing himselfe without Rome a certaine night with the wife of one that scorned to be called a well contented man id est a Cuckold he was killed forthwith in the 10. yeare of his Popedome Of him came the prouerbe as merry as Pope Iohn Leo the 8. who fled to the Emperour when he was deposed after the death of Iohn was restored againe he gaue to Otho authority absolute to elect the pope as once Charls the great did after a yere 3. moneths he died Iohn the 14. was quietly chosen he allured the kingdom of Poland to accept him as supreame head of all Churches in this time they began to giue proper names to bels and he called the great bell of Leteran after his owne name dyed anno 973. Benedictus the 6. was imprisoned in Castel Angelo by Cynthius a man of great power and there hee was strangled or as some say poysoned in his time beganne the name of Cardinals to be vsed as Carion reporteth Donus the second gouerned indifferently deseruing neyther great praise nor dispraise for a yeare and sixe moneths he dyed anno 975. Benedictus the fifth was deposed by Otho that he might restore Leo he dyed in exile anno 964. Boniface the seauenth doubting his safety at Rome fled to Constantinople and in his absence the Romaines made one Iohn the 15. Pope but at his returne he tooke Iohn thrust out his eyes put him in prison and pined him to death but shortly after he dyed of the falling sicknes and after his death his body was dispightfully vsed Iohn the 15. was Pope eight moneths in the absence of Boniface Iohn the 16 as soone as he was Pope began to beare deadly hatred against the Clergy and they likewise abhorred him because he neglected the dignity of the Romaine sea and bestowed the riches vpon his kindred and harlots which fault Platina and Stella say hath continued among the Clergy vnto our time hee dyed the eight yeare of hys raigne Iohn the 17. was very well learned published diuers books he was likewise expert in warlike affaires in his time Crescentius the Consull went about to make himselfe King of Rome wherfore he departed into Hetruria but Crescentius fearing that he went for the Emperor sent for him to returne which he did and was receaued with all humility by Crescentius who falling downe before him kissed his feete and craued pardon This Iohn dyed anno 995. Gregory the fifth beeing the Emperours Cosen was by his authority made Pope whō Crescentius the Consull with the people deposed and established Iohn the 18. Bishop of of Placentia Gregory complained to the Emperour who ouercame Crescentius and killed him and caused Iohns eyes to be put out whereof he dyed Gregory dyed the 3. yeare of his Popedome Iohn the 18. was very learned and rich but proud and couetous which was his ouerthrow he dyed as before Syluester the second a Frenchman addicted wholy to deuilish arts be tooke himselfe to the Author thereof both body and soule who told him that he should not dye vntill he sayd Masse in Ierusalem wherfore he perswaded himselfe of long life as minding not to come there but saying Masse in the Pallace of the holy Crosse which was called Ierusalem in a terrible shiuering and quaking he dyed miserably anno 1003. Iohn the 19. by those means that Syluester vsed came to be Pope who after hee had raigned fiue moneths was poysoned by his owne friends Iohn the 20. likewise by Magick got to be Pope and was altogether giuen to idlenes as Platina saith he dyed in the 4. yeare o◠his raigne Sergius the fourth was a pleasant merry familiar companion in his time was great pestilence and famine in Italy and in Loraine a fountaine turned into blood he dyed anno 1012. Benedictus the eight by the Magicall charmes of his Nephew Theophilactus who was Syluesters Scholler obtayned the Popedome and was therein defended by Henry Bauarius because he had bestowed on him the crowne emperiall but after his death the Cardinalls deposed him and set vp another but hee vvith money compounded and was restored agayne hee dyed anno 1025. Iohn the 21. brother of the former Benedict being a lay man was made Pope by the coniuring of Theophilactus he so continued 11. yeares Benedict the ninth who before was Theophilact as he aduanced his vncles by his Magicke Arts so now hee brought to passe by them to succeede in theyr dignities he after the death of Conradus sought to disinherite his sonne Henry the 3. of the Empire and to plant in his sted Peter King of Hungary to whom hee sent the crowne of the Empire with this verse Petra dedit Romam Petro tibi Papa coronam Henry ouercame Peter and tooke him prisoner and sette forward to Rome which the Pope hearing of sold his Popeship to Iohn Gratian after called Gregory the 6. in the meane time the Romains deposed Benedict placed in his sted Iohn Bishop of Saba Syluester the third King of Saba enioyed the roome but 49. daies and was by the Emperor driuen out and constrained to returne to
therwithall drawing forth his sword he ran Aper thorough who being his Father in law had trecherously slaine him Eutrop. M. Antonius an Orator fled froÌ„ the wrath of Marius into a Farme-house the Keeper vvhereof receiued him gently hyd hym sending his seruant to a Tauerne for wine oftner then he vvas wont the Vintner asked him why he came so often for wine he told him secretly that it was for Antonius vvho sent word to Marius was by a Captaine of his slaine who brought his head to Marius Decimus Brutus one of the conspirators against Caesar put to flight by Anthony in his escape was taken of theeues and asking vvho was Lord of that place they told him Camillus vvhose name he much esteeming desired to be brought to him vvho when he saw him made him faire presence but priuily sent to Anthony who coulde not abide to see him but willed Camillus to kil him Attilus the eldest sonne of Anthony vvaâ— betrayed by his Schoolemaister Theodorus vvho tooke a goodly iewell from his neckâ— vvhen he was killed the which being required and denied of him he was hanged Of Names The qualities of the minde whether they bee good or euill especially in great personages commend a perpetuall memory to theyr prosperitie eyther of theyr honourable fame or vile infamie therefore the auncients gaue certaine names to the true deseruers of both IT vvas a sure signe that Adam should be Lord of all creatures when at the first he could call them all by theyr names Amb. The Stoicks were great searchers for the originall of vvords and names The Troians for theyr nobilitie gentry were called Dardans for theyr fearefulnesse Phryges and for theyr valour Troians The first of the Fabij was sirnamed Pictor for his excellencie in the Art of paynting vvhen he had paynted the vvalls of the temple of Health he writ thereon his name leauing behind him a memory that he had been â— paynter Titus Manlius the vvorthiest of all the Senators killed one of the French-men which prouoked him to fight hand to hande and â—heÌ„ he had slaine him he pluckt off a chaine of golde which his enemie wore about hys necke and put it about his owne whereof both hee and his posteritie were called Torquatij Prophets are called Seers because they see the misteries of the Gospell Vrbanus Mar. Valerius going to fight with a French man a Crow lighted vpon his right arme sate there still afterwarde when they came to handy gripes the same Crowe smote the Frenchman vpon the eyes that hee coulde not see by meanes whereof he was slayne Valerius was afterward sirnamed Coruinus In the old Testament foure mens names were gyuen them before theyr byrth Ismaell Isaack Sampson Iosias in the new only Iohn and Christ. Romulus was called Quirinus of a Speare for that vveapon he vsed and the Knights of Rome were called Quirites that is speare men Aristippus was called Metrodidactos because he was taught of his mother Calliope was named Calliopea for her exâ—cellencie and Penelope Penelopea for thâ— sweetnes of her voyce Adam was buried in the same place vvheâ— Christ his Crosse vvas set vp and therefoâ—â— it was called Caluarie because the originaâ—â— and head of mankind was buried there Augustine Paris lay the first night with Helena in the Ile of Cranae and aftervvards called it by her name Helena Colossians are denominated froÌ„ the great Colossus in Rhodes a statue of brasse being once one of the worlds seauen wonders The Heathens called the Christians SarmeÌ„titios and Semiassios because they were tyed to halfe-penny stakes and burned to death with shrubbes Aborigines are home-bred people the Athenians were so called in token whereof they dyd weare Grashoppers in theyr hats Diodorus The riuer Tygris is so called for his svvift current Iustine Valentinianus the Emperour vvas called Funarius for that before he vvas chosen holding a roape or corde in his hand fiue strong â—ouldiers were not able to pull it from hym â—â—â—â—linus VVithin twenty yeeres Italy had 9. Emâ—erours which raigned by succession the â—ne was slaine of the other by occasion the â—ast was called Augustulus that is little noble or little full of maiestie the diminution of the name vvas an euident signe that the gouernaunce of the Augustus shoulde fayle â—n Italy Agathias The Romaines had certaine Senators called Pedarij Senatores who beeing slovve of counsell pronouncing theyr sentence did followe the footesteps of other Counsellers saying after theÌ„ therefore were so called Fenestella There were two Emperours in Rome vnlike in name much more in manners the one of them was named Nero the cruell the other Anthonie the meeke the which ouernames the Romaines gaue them the one of meeke because he could not but pardon the other of cruell because hee neuer ceased to kill The name of Knight or Gentleman the Romaines did neuer admit eyther consent to intitle those that coulde gather much riches but such as had beene famous for being at the victorie of many battailes Cicero Prince Charles for his great happy victory ouer the Southerne people vvas afteâ— sirnamed Martell the Maule because heâ— broke and battered the force of them lyke â— maule or hammer of yron Cato was not first a sirname but a name oâ— merrite for the auncient Romaines called him Cato that was wise by much experience Of this name vvere two famous Cato Censorius and Cato of Vtica Ionathan for his valour was named Iebonathan Sergius Orata Licinius Muraena tooke theyr sirnames of fishes for that one of them greatly loued the Gylthed the other the Lamprey Petrarch Nemrod the first tyrant was called Oppressor hominum an oppressor of men Cicero was called Pater patirae the louer of his Countrey The sea of Icarus was so called for that Icarus was there drowned The sea Aegeum of Aegeus king of Athence who drowned himselfe therein Mare TyrrhenuÌ„ of Tyrrhenus King of Lidia Hellespont by a vvoman named Helle. Tyberinus altered the riuer which was beâ—ore named Albura to the name of Tyber 〈◊〉 his death Hesperides the daughter of Atlas gaue the Hesperian sea his name Mare Myrtoun by Myrtilus whom Oenomaus cast therein That which we call Euxinus the Sea that beginneth at Bospherus was first called Axenos that is Inhospitalis because the inhabitants did kill and eate the passengers but after being made ciuill was called Euxinus The Romaines if theyr Emperour vvere couragious they woulde call him another Caesar if vertuous Octauian if fortunate Tiberius if rash Caligula if cruell Nero if mercifull Traiane or Anthonius Pius if beautifull Titus if idle Domitian if patient Vespasian if temperate Adrian if religious Aurelianus if sage and vertuous Aurelius Of Contemplation Contemplation hath three degrees the first is an election choosing of good before euill the second is as it were an habite or inioying thereof indeed the last consisteth altogether in the mind of man froÌ„ which the true example of all vertues doe flow In it
the name of pouerty was honoured at Rome vvhich was by the space of 400. yeares after the foundation thereof Pleasure could neuer set foote as there but â—fter that Pouerty began to be contemned â—ertue immediatly tooke her flight from â—hence which was their vtter ouerthrow Valerius Publicola hauing foure times â—eene Consull of Rome the onely man for gouernment in war and peace his pouerty is â—ecorded not to his shame but to his praise Liuius Poore Aristides had not the least honour â—n the seruice at Salamis and at Plateus was â—he chiefe leader of all the Athenian forces â—hoÌ„ Vertue did put forward Pouerty could not hold back nor dismay Herodotus Fabritius being in pouerty was sent in Emâ—assage amongst other Romaines to Pyrrhus of whom Pyrrhus tooke such lyking â—hat to winne him to be his he proffered him â—he fourth part of his kingdome Eutropius Ephialtes beeing cast in the teeth with his pouerty sayde VVhy doost not thou make â—ehearsall of the other thing namely that I loue â—aw and regard right Aelian One of Catoes sonnes of 15. yeares age was banished for breaking of an earthen pot in a maydes hand that went for water so waâ— Cinnaes sonne because hee entered a Garden and gathered fruite without leaue The Ostracisme amongst the Athenians was a banishment for a time whereby the brought dovvne them that seemed to exceede in greatnes This was inuented by Clisthenes A rude rusticke fellow happened to meet Aristides bearing a scroale of paper in hyâ— hand and desired him to wryte the name oâ— Aristides therein who meruailing thereat asked whether any man had been by him iniured No quoth he but I cannot in any wisâ— endure the sirname of Iustus Plutarch At such time as the Ephesi banished theyâ— Prince Hermodonus they pronounced thiâ— sentence Let none of vs excell another but iâ— any so doe let him no longer heere dwell but inhabite else where Cicero Celliodorus the Phylosopher was banished in the prosperity and fury of the Marians not for the euils they found in him buâ— for the vices he reproued in them Vulturnus a man in Astrology profoundly learned was banished by M. Antonius because Cleopatra hated him Bestius and Colla Gentlemen of Rome when they had boldly declared theyr seruice for the common-wealth and reprehended the Senatours before they would be cast out by decree voluntarily exiled themselues Appian Sittius was the first and onely man that as a stranger was an outlaw in his owne Country Idem Of Death Death is faigned of the Poets to be the sister of Sleepe both borne of their mother Night a Goddesse impartiall and inexorable as sparing none and the Aegiptians by an Owle sitting vpon a tree signifie death This all-killing power triumphans cedit and by death is ouercome EPaminondas ready to giue vp the ghost willed the poysoned shaft to bee pulled from his deadly wound wheÌ„ it was giuen him to vnderstand that his shield was found safe and his enemies put to flight he cheerefully departed out of this world Cicero Gorgias Leontinus being very sick a frend of his demanded of him how he felt himselfe in body he answered Now Sleepe beginneth to deliuer me to the power of his brother Death Asdrubals wife the last Lady of Carthage had the lyke end in death as the first Lady Dido had for she threw her selfe and her two sonnes into the fire Herod because hee would make the Iewes sorry for his death whether they would or no dying commanded to sley all the Noble mens children of Iury. Iosephus Vespasian ready to dye stoode vp sayd It becommeth an Emperour to passe out of this world standing Calanus an Indian Gymnosophist when he had taken his long leaue of Alexander piled vp a bonfire in the suburbs of Babilon of dry wood of Cedar Rosemary Cypres Mirtle Laurell then he mounted the pile the Sunne shining in his face whose glorious beames he worshipped then he gaue a token to the Lacedemonians to kindle the fire stoutly and valiantly dyed Cercidas an Arcadian ready to dye said to his companions I am not loath to depart this life for I hope to see and talke with Pythagoras among the Phylosophers with Liuius among the Historiographers with Orpheus among the Musitians and with Homer among the Poets which words as soone as he had vttered hee gaue vp the ghost Plato dying thanked nature for three cauâ—es the first that he was borne a man not beast the second that hee was borne in Greece and not in Barbary the third that â—ee was borne in Socrates time who taught â—im to die well Antemon was so desirous to liue and so â—earefull to dye that scarse he would trauaile â—broade and compelled to goe two of his â—eruants bore ouer his head a great brazen Target to defend him from any thing which might happen to hurt him Massinissa King of Numidia rather committed his estate and life vnto dogs then vnto men as his gard to keepe and defend him from death Hector sayd to Andromache Be not sorry for my death for all men must die Homer Polydamas entering into a Caue to defend himselfe from the rayne through the violence of the water the Caue fell downe vpon him Cicero Anacreons breath was stopped with a grape kernell that stucke in his throate Plinie Euripides returning home from King Archelaus his supper was torne in peeces of dogs Gellius Aeschilus sitting in a sunny place in Sicily an Eagle flying ouer taking his white bald head for a stone strooke the shell of a Tortoyse which was in his bill against his head and dashed out his braine Valerius Pyndarus laying his head downe to sleep in the bosome of a boy whom he loued neueâ— awaked Suidas Ennius would not haue his death lamented because he was famous in his works yet Solon would haue his death bewailed writ to put his friends in minde Let my departure wayed be let my friends draw sighs for me Trophonius and Agamedes hauing built a sumptuous temple to Apollo of Delphos begged the most profitable thing that might bee giuen to man after the third day they were found dead Cicero Velcurio the learned Phylosopher lying vpon his death-bed when his friends came to comfort him sayde The Father is my Creatour the Sonne my Redeemer the holy Ghost my Comforter how can I then be sorrowfull or dismayde The day before that Caesar went to the Senate hee had beene at a banquet with Lepidus talking meerely vvhat death was best for a man some saying one and some another he of al praised the sodaine death which happened to him Appian The Scots in theyr owne Chronicles haue recorded that of one hundred fiue Kings â—here dyed not aboue 50. of naturall deaths Gasper Peucerus Of Vsurie Vsury of some called Interest but without reason why sith money let to interest returneth but with his proper summe the daughter of Couetousnes and Ambition may well be called a continuall sire which euer encreaseth through
bundels of sticks bound together vppon Pollaxes was to shew that the wrath of a Magistrate ought not to bee too ready for that while leasurely those bundels so bound were losed it brought some delay and space to anger Plutarch Cotys King of Thracia when one brought a present of goodly vessels of glasse after he had well recompenced the gift hee brakâ— theÌ„ all for feare least through choller whervnto he was subiect he should be mooued to wrath against any of his seruants Theodosius beeing wrathfully mooued against those of Thessolonica for a coÌ„motion which they made for slaying his Lieuetenant sent thither an Army where-vpon 1 thousand were slayne neyther women 〈◊〉 childreÌ„ being spared afterward repenting 〈◊〉 commanded the execution of his letters paâ—tents should be held in suspence thirty dayâ— after signification of them namely when aâ—ny were to be punished more seuerely theâ— of custome Aiax impatient for the losse of Achilles aâ—â—mour killed himselfe Ouid. Darius being in an exceeding rage againâ—â— the Athenians for sacking the Citty Sardis prayed God that he might reuenge that iniury and ordayned that thrice a day wheâ— his meate was vpon the table one should say vnto him remember the Athenians Herodotus Clinias by playing vpon the Harpe and Theodosius by reading the Alphabet learned to forget their anger P. Diaconus Alcimenides a King among the Grecians fauoured one Pannonius highly who one day playing with him at the ball they contended about a chase and the one sayd it was thus the other contrary and thus contending the King inraged commanded his gard presently to strike of his head Plut. Ptolomey finding Eusenides whom hee â—reatly loued talking vvith a Curtezan whoÌ„ 〈◊〉 likewise loued made her drinke a cup of â—oyson and caused him foorth-with to be â—rangled Constantius the Emperour had a minion â—alled Hortensius whom he dearely loued â—ne day a Page giuing him drinke in a glasse â—y mishap the glasse fell out of his hand and â—rake in peeces whereat the Emperour was â—ery angry in this vnhappy houre Hortenâ—us came to the Emperour to present him â—ertaine bills to be signed which he was conâ—ented to doe and for that the Inke was too â—hick or the pen so naught that he could not â—rite he commaunded in a rage Hortensius â—o be beheaded Pyrrhus in his wrath slew his trusty Secreâ—ary Fabatus The Emperour Bitillion his â—reatest friend Cincinnatus Adrian his onâ—y fauoured Amproma Dioclesian his â—â—iend Patritius Alexander Clytus P. Diâ—conus Periander in his rage murdered his owne â—ife and then with iudgement considering â—he fact hee caused those strumpets which â—â—censed him thereto to be burned Cataline sayd that hee could not quench â—he fire begun in his house with water and therefore would pull it downe Salustius The foolish reuenge of Xerxes is memoâ—â—â—ble who when Hellespont molested him hys passage commaunded that it shoâ—â—â— haue three hundred strypes and willed thâ—â—â— hundred paire of fetters to be throwne the in to bind it Iustine Darius after hee had taken Babylon â—â—â—uenged their old malice with the murder 3000. Cittizens Herodotus Alexander after hee had subdued maâ— kingdomes went into the temple of Iupiâ—â—â— Hammon to know by oracle whether yet â—â—ny were aliue that had slaine his father Phâ—â—lip that he might seeke further reuenge 〈◊〉 The Athenians did honour to Aristiget and Harmodius for killing the tyrant Hipachus Thucidides There were eleuen persecutions of the pâ—â—â—matiue Church The first was in the raigne of the Emperâ—â— Nero who caused the bodies of Christiaâ— to be torne in peeces with dogs and to 〈◊〉 the dogges more fierce they were braced skins of Beares other sauage beasts vndâ—â— him suffered Peter and Paule Eusebius continued 3. yeares Tacitus The second was by Domitian who vndeâ—â—â—â—anding that one should spring out of the â—ne of Dauid which should expell him his â—mpire he caused al those to be put to death â—hich descended from the race of Dauid aâ—ongst the Iewes hee exiled and confined Iohn the Euangelist into the Ile of Pathâ—os it continued 2. yeares Orosius The third was by Traiaine who determiâ—ed by torments to punish the Christians â—nd therefore by publique edict ordayned â—â—at the Christians should worship the Idols 〈◊〉 the Gentiles vpon paine of death which â—hey refusing to doe he made a great slaughâ—er of them afterward he stayed persecution â—nd gaue them liberty Eusebius The 4 was in the time of Mar. Aurel. sirnaâ—ed the Phylosopher who persecuted the Church millitant in Asia and Europe where â—ucius Varus was Gouernour Idem The 5 vnder Septimus Seuerus which perâ—ecution caused God to disturbe his peace â—or one of his Captaines called Albinius reâ—elled against him who made all Britaine reâ—olt from him calling himselfe Emperor duâ—ing his life Orosius The 6 vnder Maximus who most deuilishly persecuted the Christians being offended that A. Seuerus had supported them The 7. was in the raigne of Decius 〈◊〉 persecuted them in despight of his predicesour Phillip who was christened Idem The 8. in Valerians raigne who in the bâ—â—ginning greatly fauoured them but afteâ—â—wards hee was seduced by a Magitian of Aeâ—gipt because they impugned his deceipts sorceries and persecuted them vvith greâ—â— slaughter Orosius The 9. in the time of the Emperour Aurâ—â—lius who the first 6. yeres vsed them most lâ—â—uingly but in the end by the prouocation the deuill hee persecuted them throughoâ—â— all the confines of his Empire Euseb. The 10. vnder Dioclesian which continuâ—ed 10. yeares together of the which Eusebâ—â—us and Orosius vvere eye-witnesses somâ— were broiled and scorched aliue others the flesh carded as though it had been wooll The 11. and last was by Iulianus Apostatâ— who seeing that the blood of the Martirs waâ— the seede of the Church tempted diuers 〈◊〉 preferments and offices to commit idolatry This was the greatest wound that euer thâ— Church receaued Ruffinus Cassiodorus Pressilla a woman of Campania was thâ— nurse of Caligula shee had against all naturâ— of women her breast hairy as she was gyuinâ— â—uck to Caligula a young child angered her â—hom she tore in peeces and with the blood â—hereof annoynted her breasts so that he sucâ—ed together blood and milke which made â—im so cruell Dion The women of Campania had this custom â—hat when they would giue theyr teates to a â—hild first they did annoynt the nipple with â—he blood of an Hedghogge to the end that children might bee more fierce and cruell â—dem Pyrrhus was borne in Greece nourished in Arcadia and brought vp with Tygres milke 〈◊〉 to say more plainly Pyrrhus for beeing borne in Greece was sage for that hee was brought vp in Archadia hee was strong and couragious and for to haue sucked Tygres milke hee was very proude and cruell Homer Pantaleon tyrant of Elis caused those Embassadors that came to him to be guelded made theÌ„ to eate their own stones Heraclid Bagoas an Eunuche not content to haue murthered Artaxerxes sirnamed Ochus king Aegipt caused his bones to be sawed in