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The famous and renowned history of the nine worthies of the world ... giving a true historical account of their glorious lives, victories, and deat[hs].
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Senate fled with the greater Part of the Inhabitants whereupon he 〈…〉 without Resistance and was received by his Friends with joyful Acclamations then he seiz'd on the vast Treasure sent by all Nations as Tribute in the Temple of Saturn enriching his Soldiers and having settled Affairs and hearing Pompey was gathering forces in Greece and other Easter Countries he hasted after him with Part of his Army leaving Mark Anthony with the rest in Calabria who lingering behind Caesar impatient of Delay in a stormy Night stole from his Army and in a little Fisher-boat passed the Seas to fetch them a Danger the meanest of his Soldiers would not have ventured And then having his full Army after some Skirmishes and taking of Towns and drawing a Bullwark about Pompey's Army of fifteen Miles in Circuit both Armies upon the Plains of Thessaly joyned in a dreadful Battle where Crastinus an old Soldier crying out O Caesar I shall so behave my self this Day praise me alive or dead threw the first Pile and was himself slain being run through the Mouth with a Sword In this Battle Caesar as in all others was victorious most of the Senators and noble Romans with 40000 others being slain and Pompey fled to Egypt for Succour from King Ptolomy and being invited on Shore with great Promises of Kindness was treacherously slain e're he landed by Achilles and Septinus and his Head cut off and that Embalmed for Caesar's fight but he coming into Egypt not only detested the base Murther but wept over the Head causing it with the Body honourably to be buried But soon Phatinus and others of the Court conspired to take his Head but by his Courage and Fortune were prevented by his firing the Ship-house and swimming to his own Fleet after which he conquered all Egypt and the King in his Flight being drown'd in the River Nilus he made Cleopatra his Sister Queen and begot on her a Son named Cesaria afterwards slain by the Command of Octavius Augustus Having settled Affairs in Egypt he overthrew Pharnaces who had rebelled in Asia and in the Field of Thapsus in Africa in a bloody Battle overthrew Cipio the Roman General and Juba King of Mauritania who joyned his Forces with him Then coming to Rome had all the Honours he could wish heaped on him But Pompey's Son raising a War in Spain drew him thither where in the fatal Battle of Munday he overthrew them Then returning to Rome was decreed by the Senate Perpetual Dictator ever Augustus and Father of his Country had Temples and Statues erected to his Honour and without Controul whatever he pleased But attempting to be made a King that he might overcome the Parthians Brutus and Cassius with other Senators conspired against him and though several unlucky Dreams and Omens fore-run his Death as his Dreaming he was taken up into the Clouds and shook Hands with Jupiter his Wife 's dreaming the Night before he was slain she found him stabbed and bloody in her Arms a little Wren flying with a Laurel-branch to Pompey's Theatre was pulled to pieces by other Birds and all the Sacrifices appearing unlucky yet undaunted he went to the Senate-house and pocketed by the way a Scrole presented him unread that revealed the whole Conspiracy but no sooner had he taken his Seat but Cimber rudely took him by the Shoulders and the rest stabbed him with twenty three Wounds he in vain resisting such a Multitude And thus this Worthy never overcome but always fortunate in Wars fell a Sacrifice to the inraged Gown-men but his Death was severely revenged on them IV. The famous Life and Renowned Acts Joshua Captain General of the Israelites who subdued thirty Kings with the whole Land of Canaan AFter Moses by the mighty Hand of God with many Signs and Wonders had brought the Children of Israel out of their Egyptian Bondage fed and instructed them forty Years in the Wilderness he having Notice to prepare for his Death by the Appointment of God chose Joshua the Son of Nun to succeed him as Captain General of the People and utterly to subdue the Canaanites on the other side Jordan as he had done on this side When going up into Mount Abarim Moses died and was buried by God in a Valley least the Israelites who had a great Veneration for him knowing the Place of his Burial should have builded an Alter there and committed Idolatry in Worshipping him Upon Notice that Moses was dead Joshua encamped two Days before the River Jordan and on the third the Priests entered with the Ark of God when immediately the Waters retreated and stood like a Wall on either Hand so that the whole Army whilst the Priests stood in the middle passed over on dry Ground and then they took twelve Stones according to the Tribes and raised as a Monument to succeeding Ages And no sooner were the Priests come out of the River but the Waters returned to their full Forces before And the Princes of the Tribe of Gad and Rhuben and the Half Tribe of Manasses to whom the Land of the Amorites being the seventh Part of Canaan fell as a Lot of Inheritance having sent 50000 fighting Men to assist their Brethren in conquering the rest Joshua sent Spies to Jerico to view that strong fenced City who had been destroyed upon Notice of their coming had not Rahab the Harlot hid them under Bundles of Linnen till the Search was over and then let them down by the Wall in a Basket so they escaped to Joshua by which good Office she saved herself and her Houshold when the City was utterly destroyed for Joshua immediately went against it and by the command of God the Priests encompassed it six Days blowing Trumpets of Rams-horns and on the seventh Day seven times when by the mighty Power of God the Walls fell flat to the Ground and the whole Army marching into the City destroy'd all the People Rahab and her Houshold accepted and burnt it with Fire laying up the rich Spoil as the First-fruits of their Victory as a Dedication to God Almighty except a Wedge of Gold and a rich Babilonian's Garment which Achan with-held and hid in his Tent but going against Aii a strong fenced City and the Men of Israel being there discomfitted and thirty of them slain this Fraud was discovered to be the Cause of it and Achan stoned to Death after which they took Aii and put all to the Sword except the King who taken alive was hanged on a Tree as the like also they did by the City of Bethel and the rich Spoil was divided amongst the People The Gibeonites who dwelt in a Town near Jerusalem hearing how Joshua destroyed all before him dealt craftily sending Ambassadours pretendedly from a far Country wearing old Shooes and Cloaths with rent Bottles and mouldy Bread to make a League which they did but for this Deceit they were nevertheless punished by being made Slaves to hew Wood and draw Water for the Camp And
his Mother Wife and Daughters but he refused all unless he would surrender up the whole Empire of Persia Upon which Darius resolving to try another Field raised an Army of 400000 Foot and 100000 Horse but in his March heard his Wife was dead and that Alexander had buried her very honourably and wept at her Funeral using the rest very courteously which made him confess he was truly conquered since after so many Battles his Enemy had overcome him in Kindness and that it was some Comfort to him in his Misery to be subdued by so noble an Adversary However another bloody Battle was fought on the Plains of Arbella where the Persians and Scithians at first prevailed and with barbarous Shouts run on the Plunder but suddenly an Eagle hovering over the Head of Alexander it was taken by his Men as a Presage of Victory which reviving their fainting Spirits made them fall on so desperately that with the Battle they won him the Empire of the East for Darius flying was taken by Neorbarzanes and Bessus two of his own Princes bound in Chains and laid on a Waggon thinking with the Head of their King to purchase their own Conditions with Alexander but being hotly pursued they mortally Wounded him and left his Body on the Land where he expired and was magnificently buried by Alexander who took Possession of the Persian Empire Alexander having gotten the Empire of Darius warred on many Nations and coming to the great Indian Sea after he had overcome King Porus who made a stout Resistance he wept because as he supposed there were no more Countries to conquor and in his return Kings submitted every-where to him and Thelestus Queen of the Amazons came with 5000 Virgins arm'd to request him to lye with her that she might have a Son by so Great a Conquerour and had her Wish Peace being now pretty well settled Alexander laying aside the Macedonian Fashion followed the Persian Mode as well in Apparel as in Riot and Luxury making many drunken Banquets in one of which he killed Clytus an aged General who had done him great Service in his Wars but being sober he exceedingly mourned his Death refusing Food for four Days but afterward putting many of his Lieutenants to Death upon little Pretences and growing Outragious in his Actions Antipater Lieutenant of Macedon fearing his own Life caused his Son Cassander who waited on the King to Poison him at one of his Banquets and so dying without an Heir his mighty Empire was divided amongst his great Captains and his Body carried to Egypt and there buried III. The Life and glorious Actions of Julius Caesar the first Emperour of Rome JVlius Caesar the great Roman Captain and Emperour of the World descended of the Julian Family so called from Julius Ascunius the Son of Aeneas of Troy and Caesar from his being cut from his Mother's Womb began very early to climb to the highest Honours being made Priest of Jupiter at sixteen Years of Age and though he was grievously persecuted by Syla who foreseeing his rising to Greatness labour'd to destroy him often saying There were many Mariuses in that Boy he escaped his Hands and studied at Rhodes under A. Molon the famous Orator where he grew so perfect that on all Occasions he had moving Words at Command which mightily favoured his Purpose and once appeas'd a Mutiny in his Army when the Soldiers in their Rage and Fury sought his Life And having passed the Offices of Questor in Spain and Tribune of the People he gained by his fair Speeches and Liberality so much Love amongst the Vulgar that they every-where extolled him to the Skies especially when he had successfully fought against and overthrown the Lieutenants of Mithridates King of Pontus and turned many to their Alliance who were wavering and ready to Revolt And to strengthen his Alliance he married Cornelia Daughter to Cinna who had been four times Consul by whom he had a Daughter named Julia after married to Pompey the Great when coming to the Temple of Hercules and seeing the Statute of Alexander the Great he wept because he had lived to his Age and had done nothing to compare with him And ever after it put such an Aspiring into his Mind that he grew restless till he subdued to himself the Roman Empire far larger in Extent than that that Alexander had possessed After he had done many obliging things to bind the Affection of the People of Rome to his interest he was made Consul with Bibulus and soon so prevailed over his Partner that he laid him aside and acted alone in all Publick-Affairs managing the Farms and Revenues of the Roman People to great Advantage causing Cato to be violently pulled out of the Senate house and committed for interrupting him for which he incurred his mortal Hatred ever after And his Wife dying he married Calphurnia Daughter of Piso which so strengthen'd his Alliance that he awed the Senate Soon after he went with the Consullary Army over the Alps subdued France then Gallia and a great part of Germany and sailing over into Britain after many dangerous Battles fought with the Britains he subdued a great Part of this Island in his three Expeditions and laid a Tribute of 3000 Pound Weight of Silver on the Natives to be paid Yearly to the Romans And when he had warred ten Years successfully abroad hearing that Pompey had made a great Party against him in the Senate and that they were about to divest him of all his Honours and calling him home as a private Man appointing Domitius his Successor in Gallia he was much disturbed and setling his Affairs as well as he could resolved to march with his Army to Rome though upon a Table of Brass placed on the other side the River Rubicon whereon was engraven an Act of the Senate that no Roman should pass that River homeward Armed when encamping on the Bank of that River he paused a while saying to those about him Thus far we are safe and may return if we please If we pass this Bridge we shall have nothing to trust to but our Arms. When he had spoke these Words there appeared a Person of remarkable Stature and Beauty playing melodiously on a Reed which made many flock about him when snatching a Trumpet out of one of their Hands he stalked through the River sounding a Charge whereat Caesar seemed to be much amazed though it was thought to be a Device of his to draw on his Men more willingly and crying out Come then it is decreed 〈◊〉 go where the Progenies of the Gods and the Iniquities of our Enemies 〈◊〉 and immediately causing his Eagles to advance he passed the forbiddes River at the Terror of whose Approach Petreus Affâ—â—nas young Syla and most of Pompey's Lieutenants in Italy deserted the Towns and fled and the Massilians and some others that made Resistance were reduced into which Towns Caesar putting Garrisons marched to Rome for Fear of whom Pompey and the