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The ivbile of Britane. By Lodowik Lloid Esquier
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Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610.
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1607
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THE IVBILE OF BRITANE By Lodowik Lloid Esquier LONDON Printed by Thomas Purfoot 1607. To the most Noble Prince Henrie by the grace of God Prince of Great Britaine ROscius the Romane Tragedian most noble Prince contending with Cicero the Orator which of them both should perswade most people either Roscius with his motions and gestures of his body or Cicero with varietie and copy of his tongue This hath been in exercise in Greece much vsed and now in Rome more but of such motions and gestures of men that can speake with their hands with their eies with their shoulders and with their feet Salomon bids vs to take heed that will speake like Aristippus to Dionisius heeles Such were they that held their heads on the left side like King Philip of Macedon while Philip liued such were they after Philip that like Alexander his Sonne with their bushes and standing haires would be called Opisthocomae because Alexander was so now too many such like the Courtiers of Meroe in Ethiope where if their King halt they will also halt in such sort that Cirses and Calipso could not make such a Metamorphosis of Vlisses men as men make of themselues There was then in Rome but one bird that was taught to say Aue Caesar Imperator one bird in Carthage to say Deus est hanno and one bird in all Greece that was taught to say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but not onely these flattering fowles fledde from Rome from Carthage and from Greece to Great Britane of whom we may now say as Cicero said then of the like Quibus credamus nescimus But also of late such Rauens and Vultures that salute vs with their tongues and say Aue and with their hearts Caue which if their bodies were opened as the Athenians did Aristomenes or as the Lacedemonians did Hermogenes their hearts should bee found as their hearts were pilosa hispida full of haires and thornes In the time of Torquine the proud there was in Rome but one Serpent that could bark like a dogge and one dogge that could speake like a man but now so many barking Serpents in Rome so many speaking dogs out of Rome that Quos fugiamus ignoramus But such are the fruits of some religion that as then in Egypt they had their Sphinxes in their temples to expound their darke and obscure Diuinitie full of Oracles so now they haue in Rome not onely Egyptian Sphinxes in their temples but also Corinthian Sphinxes in their studies such as Cicero charged Hortensius to haue in his house to plead his causes But as then many Philosophers went from Greece to India and to Ethiope to see Sacerdotes solis and the most famous table of the Son in Sabulo and to heare Hiarchas lectures of the nature and motions of the starres and of Tantalus well So also many now goe from Great Britane to Rome not as Appollonius the Philosopher went from Greece to India to heare the Gymnosophists but as Saul went from Hierusalem to Damasco for commission and authoritie to kill and murther Christians and to persecute Kingdomes and Countreys One of your Maiesties most humble Britanes LODOVVIK LLOID The Iubile of Brittane Coelum coeli domino c. The Heauens is the Lord and the Earth he gaue to the children of men to the land of Chanaan was giuen to Abraham and to his seed from the Iebusites Heathites Amalekites and others the land of the Gyaunts to the children of Lot to Moab and to Ammon and the Lord gaue Mount Seir to the children of Esau with a strict commaundement to Moses and Ioshua not to trouble or vexe them Gyauntes dwelt in Mount Seir before the Edomites time whome the Edomites called Horims whom the children of Esau destroyed and dwelt after them in Mount Seir and so the land of Moab was inhabited first by Gyaunts named Emims engendred of the monstrous brood of Enachims as it seemed by Og King of Basan whose bed was nyne Cubites long And againe Gyaunts whome the Ammonites called Zomines dewlt in the land of Ammon before the Ammonites and all the land of Basan was called terra Gygantum vntill Lots time to whome and to his children the land of Gyaunts was giuen Domini est terra the earth is the Lord and he gaue it as in the tenth of Genesis by Moses is set downe to the children of Noah for from Adam to Nimrod 1800. yeares was but one Nation and one language which was at the building of the Tower of Babilon confounded and deuided at that time vnto 72. languages so many were the builders of the Tower hence comes the antiquities of all Nations and people Notwithstanding the Scithians bragge that they are as auncient as the Scithian oakes and therefore the old Scithians doe were Akornes in their caps for a iust remembrance of the same The Athenians saye that they bee Terriginae borne ex attica terra and therefore weare Grashoppers in the haires of their heads in token of the same The Argiues as old as the Moone and weare the likenes of the Moone vpon their shooes in memorie of that and so the Egiptians with the old Phrigians contend about their antiquity But this little treatise is not to entreate of antiquitie which is full of errours but of the Iubile Brittane which ought to bee full of ioyes with thanksgiuing A yeare of Iubile with the Iewes was a yeare of liberty free from all bondage and seruice a yeare full of ioyes and myrth and to make feasts in remembrance of God his goodnes and loue towards his people which was euery fifty yeare Our great Iubile in England was iust vpon the fifty yeare which was between Edward the sixt and Iames the sixt now our King at his first arriuall vnto England No greater Iubile could be in Iudah than in the time of young Iosias who purified Hierusalem and all his Kingdomes from jmages and jdols from groues and supersticious alters in Mount Olyuet burned brake them and threw their ashes into the riuer Cedron Neither can there be a greater Iubile now in great Brittane thē to haue such a godly religious King after so good and so religious a Queene whose fame shall neuer die in Europe let the wicked speake what they list whose lust is alwaies to speake euill of good and godly Princes They haue also their Iubile like the Egiptians whose Iubile was in drowning the children of Israel in Nilus like the Romanes whose Iubileis were to persecute the Christians with fire for as God reuenged the Hebrewes vpon the Egiptians with ten such plagues that were neuer heard nor read the like so the Romans reuenged the Egiptians vpon the Christians with tenne such terrible persecutions of tenne Tyrants as could be most horribly inuented Great controuersie was euer betweene the Egiptians and the Romanes about fire and water in Egipt they are most merrie when the whole Land of
Egipt is couered ouer with the water of Nilus that is the great Iubile in Egipt The great Iubile in Rome is of such fire as they haue in Scythia where wood is scant they take the skin from the flesh of their beasts take the flesh from the bones and with the bones of their beasts they boyle their meat such fire was long vsed in Rome that with bones and flesh they burned as godly and learned men as were in Europe But this quarrell betweene Fire and Water was fully ended by a Persian Priest and an Egiptian Priest about their countrey Gods The Priest of Persia sayd that his God would deuoure and consume all other Gods The Egiptian Priest denied that so Ad certamen veniunt The one came with fire the God of Persia the other came with a vessell of water and hanged it on the fire and boared diuers holes through the Vessell and stopt the holes with waxe the Persian Priest expected when the Fire would burne the Vessell and the Egiptian Priest expected when the waxe would melt and the water would runne out and quench the fire thus both expecting the triall of their Gods the waxe melted and the water flusht out through diuers and sundry holes and so presently quenched the fire so that the iudgement was giuen Vicit Deus Egiptius but if it had been a Romane Fire neither the Riuer Nilus nor the Ocean Sea could quench it Certaine people saith Pomp. Mela quibus ignis ignotus fuit who when they came where fire was they thought it was sweet and pleasant and would often embrace it in their armes vntill the flame scortcht them for that this people knewe not what fire was and therefore one of these or one like them asked Aristotle if Fire in his owne nature were hot I doe not thinke sayth Aristotle that Carneades which doubteth of euerie thing doubteth not of that if you doubt of it saith hee put your finger into the fire and try it Surely some had the feeling of Romane fire in England in Germanie and in other places a long time and of late their fire was so close kept that it was couered ouer with the ashes of Iuniper which as some write keepes fire vnquenched a whole veere They sell these ashes verie deere and to none but to their fellowes in Religion but as Alexander Seueru spake of Thurinus Fumo pereat qui fumum vendit The Monkes say that Saint Dominicks mother the first Frier of that Fraternity dreamed being with childe that shee brought forth a great mastiue Dogge with a great fire brand in his mouth with the which she thought that this Dog burned euerie Citie Towne or place where hee came this dreame prooued too true in England and in Germanie A merrie pleasant fellow was in place where three great learned men were and asked them a merry question where was the best and deerest water sold. The Philosopher first told him his opinion and sayd in Omopolio in the wine tauerne where water is equally mingled with wine and equally sould with wine The Phisition thought that water dearest and best the vrine of the sicke as Lotium vespatiani whose filthy gaine was such that vespasianus was called Mastix Iudeorum The diuine sayd that the water of repentance Lachrimae piorum was the best water Magdelens teares in washing Christs feete vnder the table and Peters teares of repentance if a Iesuite had been present he had sayd holy water the coniured water of Rome aqua benedicta quae tollit omnia delicta ' The like question of the like merry fellow who were the three greatest Conquerours in the world after they were dead Some sayd that it was the great Emperor Ziscaes skinne who being asked at his death how he should be buried after I am dead said Zisca pull my skinne off and make of it a drum that my enemies that feared my sight aliue might feare the sound of my skinne being dead Aen. Syluius lib. 3. de gestis Alphon. Some sayd it was the ensigne of Alexander the Great which was put ouer his Pauillion after Alexanders death to feare the enemie the Images of two Lions sitting in a chaire Some said that it was the statue of the Serpent Sphinx vpon Augustus signet and some sayd that it was Seleucus Anchor for all Anchors belong to all Admirals on the Seas and therefore much feared Thus some said it was one thing some another like Aristotle musing how the Riuer Euripus flowed seuen times and eb'd seuen times in one day and so much in the night and yet neuer flowed nor ebbed in three dayes euerie moneth and because Aristotle could not find out the cause therof threw himselfe headlong into Euripus saying Quia te non capio tu me capies The like is written of Homer for that he could not satisfie himselfe of a ridiculous probleme obiected to him by poore Fisher-men wearied his head and so died and I beleeue this probleme would haue wearied 20. Aristotles and so many Homers before they would finde out these three terrible dead Conquerours to be the skinne of a sheepe the Quill of a Goose and the waxe of a little Bee Haec tria verum potiuntur the penne the parchment and a little waxe Many study such vaine riddles and think themselues well learned when they are furnished with these trifling problemes and seeke with the Iewish Cabalists Ex apice literarum to make an Art as the Iesuites and Romane Seminaries hunt after secret signification of letters as the Bookes of the Romane Sibills were full of mysticall Letters and of secret significations as three F. to signifie that Rome should bee destroyed ferro flamma fame with fire sword and famine Also they had three C. to note the cruell peruersnesse of Cor. Silla Cor. Cinna and Coâ— Lentulus with the which Rome should he plagued We let passe the Bookes of the Sibils and their letters and we will speake some thing of such misterie as they put in seuerall Letters which are more dark and obscure than the riddle of Sphinx to Oedipus First they say that three Letters make all bondmen free and the same three Letters againe make all free men bond men which is Aue and by conuersion of the word Aue is Eua and so by these two women came blessing and cursing Amonge the Greekes two C. were the worst Letters Caca. Amonge the Romanes two P. were the best Papa in the praise of which two P. many Books haue been written and as many against him Y Is a misticall letter Sect a bicorni this is Phytagoras letter to note the strict difficult way vnto vertue and the broad and easie way vnto viâ—e this letter Hercules and all the noble godly and valiant Captaines much imbraced T. Is Tertullians letter comparing it to the Crosse of which Ezechiell speaketh of cap 9. shal be infrontibus nostris apud veraâ— Hierusalem