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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08907	The heroicall deuises of M. Claudius Paradin Canon of Beauieu. Whereunto are added the Lord Gabriel Symeons and others. Translated out of Latin into English by P.S.; Devises héroiques. English	Paradin, Claude, 16th cent.; P. S., fl. 1591.	1591 (1591)	STC 19183; ESTC S119509	55,195	420

est nec posse reor It is neither law nor can be I suppose Not whosoeuer is in bands or prison Actes 12. but he that is intangled in vices and sinne is to be iudged a bondslaue For albeit Peter the Apostle was kept in Herod his prison bound with two chaines yet by the ministerie of an Angel his chaines fell from his hands and he escaped passing thorow the iron gates which by the wil of God which by no mans deuise neither can nor ought to be impugned opened of their owne accord and gaue him passage Semine ab aethereo From the heauenly seede The same earth which swallowed vp Core Dathan Abiron with the rest of the troublers of the priesthood ministery of Aarō approued the same thing in the Leuitical tribe Numb 16. and 17. and that not without a misterie whilest that amongst the rods of the Israelites erected in the tabernacle of the Lord the second day the rod of Aaron onely budded bare fruit or Almons Ventura desuper vrbi To fall vpon the crue The miserable destruction of Ierusalem by the Romanes after the passion of Christ Ioseph Egesipp was foreshewed before by manie wonders signes especially by a firie commet appearing in forme of a sword and hanging ouer the steeple for the space of a whole yeare togither shewing as it were by this signe that the iustice of God would take punishment of the wicked nation of the Iewes by fire and blood for their great impietie and wickednesse which thing not onely came to passe but also most raging famine tormenting them there was found one who killed and cate her owne child In vtrumque paratus Readie to both The Israelites after their returne from the captiuitie of Babilon 2. Esd 4. taking in the one hand a trowell in the other a sword such were the continuall troubles of their enimies built vp the wals of Ierusalem Which thing in a misterie did represēt the ministers of the church of Christ who are bound to instruct the ignorant and to bring againe those that do erre in the faith which are very ruines in deed to fight manfully with the sword of Gods word against the enimies thereof which are vices and sinne Vindice fato Destenie being reuenger Dauid being a little child but armed with grace from aboue 2. King 17 feared not to enter combate with the great and fearefull giant Goliah neither would he put on the armor of Saul but contenting himselfe with a sling and fiue flint stones ouerthrew this monster and triumphed ouer him In like manner that we may ouercome that fearefull and dangerous enimie of mankind the diuell the onely weapons of a stable faith firme hope and constant affiance in the merites of Christs passion and death are enough Nil solidum Nothing is firme or continuall in this life At the time of the creation of the bishops of Rome when according to the custome he that is nominate Pope entreth into S. Gregories church wherein many of the Romish bishops are buried the master of the ceremonies goeth before him carrying in his hands two reedes tying to the top of the one a burning candle which flaming he putteth to the other whereto are tyed hurds or flaxe and so burneth them both saying these words three times togither Oh holy fathers so passeth the glorie of this world Vtrum lubet Whether pleaseth him Clubbes or battes compassed about with Oliue branches being a signe as wel of peace A. Gelliu● as of warre may be giuen to those to whom we giue the choise as well of the one as of the other Which thing our ancesters portrayed with a white wand such as Ambassadors vse to carrie that intreat for peace and a speare adioyned as the Romanes did to the Carthaginians or else with two speares the one whereof had his point tipped with steele the other blunted with a knobbe of wood on the end Agere pati fortiae To do and suffer great things C. Mutius when in steede of Porsena King of the Hetruscans who had besieged Rome Liuius lib. 2. Valerius he had slaine the kings secretarie was so angrie with himselfe that he thrust his right hand into the fire which he had made to sacrifice withall Lex exlex The law or ou● law Anacharsis the Philosopher compared lawes to cobwebbes Valerius the great because they troubled oppressed the little flies and such small volatiles but neuer touched the great ones Which thing we see to be too true in iudgements now adayes whilest the mightie are sauoured and the poore and meaner sort taxed and seuerely handled Tutus ab igne sacer Being holy I was safe from the violence of the fire Plutarch Valerius the great Lituns being a crooked staffe whereupon the southsayers sate when they deuined of things to come which Romulus vsed insteede of an Iuorie scepter perished not in the middest of the flame at Rome but was found safe and sound in the middest of the same Parce Imperator Pardon me most noble Emperor M. Sceua a most valiant knight of Iulius Caesats Appian in that battaile which he fought against Pompey lost one of his eyes and had his body thrust thorow seuen times his shield was found also to be pearced with a hundred and twentie darts Caesar And as Caesar himselfe reporteth notwithstanding that his shield was strooke thorow 230. places Sueton. Valerius yet he kept the gate still and the entrance which he had taken vpon him to defend And whilest he went in the foreward of the battell in France and fought hand to hand with his enimies his hippe being sore hurt and his face brused with great stones his helmet and his shield broken and fallen out of his hand and his sword shiuered in diuerse peeces and being armed with a double brest plate with great holdnesse cast himselfe into the sea and by swimming thorow the waters which he had made redde with the bloud of his enimies he came to his owne men Whither when he was come as soone as he perceiued himselfe to be vnarmed which by the law of armes was forbidden he cried out to the Prince for he trusted not yet to so many dangers which he had ouercome Oh noble Emperour forgiue me I come to thee vnarmed This was the vertue and manly prowesse of Sceua wherefore for a reward he was preferred to the dignitie of a Centurion Euertit aequat It breaketh in peeces and maketh euen or smooth things that be rough William of He●ant Earle of Ostreueant Frossard sonne of Albert duke Raua●i● Earle of Ha●au● Holland and Zel●n● about the yeare of our Lord 1390 carried in his frandart the picture of a harrow of golde which he shewed in the warres and host of the christians to the city of Barbarie called Aphrodisin For euen as the harrow doth breake in sunder the hard clods of the fieldes so doth a good prince with the