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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06144	The tragicocomedie of serpents. By Lodowik Lloid Esquier.	Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610.	1607 (1607)	STC 16631; STC 16631.5; ESTC S108782	59,286	110

his house and knew not what to do requested their helpes and councell All his flatterers forsooke him sauing one Callias a true and faithfull friend of Alcibiades of whom Alcibiades would say Callias instar omnium Notwithstanding this Alcibiades could flatter his vncle Pericles yet being a young youth asked his vncle Pericles why he sighed so often and seemed so sad because said Pericles I must yeeld an accompt to the Athenians for much money which I receiued to build vp a porch to Mineruaes Temple Rather said Alcibiades muse how you may not giue an accompt and be merry and make much of your selfe Too few like Pericles that thinke how much they are indebted to God to build his Church and to maintaine his Seruice and too many like Alcibiades carelesse of the Church though they liue by the Church and haue honour and dignitie from the Church But let the Church be tossed on surging waues of seas that cannot be remoued yet shee standeth sure and certaine vpon a rocke though many Palinures were drowned and lay dead vpon the sands that had no great care neither to gouerne nor to be gouerned by the Church and yet they will sit in Moyses chaire Saul could dissemble with Dauid and Absalon with the people of Israel and the latter Iewes were such dissemblers and hypocrites that Christ called the Scribes and the Pharises hidden hypocrites and false dissemblers the Church were euer full of such hypocrites A Romane Gentleman told Alexader Seuerus that hee was agreeued to see his Court so pestered with dissemblers and hypocrites and said I will find out a place to dwell where no hypocrites be the Emperour said where wilt thou goe where no dissemblers be thou must goe beyond the Sauromates and the frosen seas and yet when thou commest thither thou shalt find hypocrites and dissemblers And though Achilles in Homer exclaimeth out against such dissemblers and say that he hateth them worse thē hel it selfe that haue two tongues the one in their mouth the other in their harts Qui aliud sentiunt aliud loquuntur This was sometime a naturall propertie to the Thracians to bee liars and dissemblers and so to bee taught with their hypocrisie and dissimulations that it grew to a prouerbe Thrasica fides so it was sayd of the Africans punica fides and of the Grecians most of all spoken Nunqnam ista natio saith Cicero coluit fidem People of no trust of no faith that it grew to a very scoffe to the Grecians Greca mercarifide to taunt their lightnes and dissimulations Of late we robde Thracians Affricans and Grecians of their properties that now Cicero may speak of vs as he spake of thē Quos fugiamus ignoramus quibus credamus nescimus and therefore it is good to follow Epicharmus counsaile Sis prudens memento diffidere sith we dare not trust our friends our kinsmen nor our countrimen This dangerous time seemeth to be that of which the Prophet saith that the father shal be against the sonne and the sonne against the father the brother against the brother but though this prophecie was performed in other kingdomes of long time past yet we ought to doubt feare some iustice at gods hand for our sinne and onely for our hypocrisie dissimulations and flatterie the three greatest Monsters vpon the earth Lewis the tenth was wont to bragge of his owne kingdome of France that it was a kingdome that far exceded al other kingdoms wanting but one thing And being requested to know what that was hee answered Truth And therefore Osymantes had his picture painted with his eyes shut with a tablet of gold about hanging about his necke with this word written thereupon veritas And hee willed that the Kings of Egypt his successors to weare that Tablet in memorie of him So did Antigonus doubting much to heare trueth among flattering Courtiers went with his Nobles to hunting from whom the King secretly departed changed his garments and wandred like a stranger among countrymen and lodged in a meane house and asked as an vnknowen man what was spoken of the King Of whom he heard Omnia quae fecerat mala The next morning the King being sought for and found they brought such princely garments as were fit for a King Giue said Antigonus these garments to him of whom Nisi hac nocte verum de me nunquam audiui Torquin the proud after he was put out of his kingdome would say that he neuer knew his friends while he was King in Rome Ma. Antonius surnamed the Philosopher was most carefull of his good name and fame willing the truth to be knowen by straungers report and not by such Courtiers which Constantine the Emperour cals Sorices Palatij the rats of the Court or as the Philosopher termes them vermes opum Many good Kings vsed the like meanes to auoid the one and to seeke out the other For Courts of Kings Princes cannot be without limping and halting In Meroe a Kingdome of India if the Kings were lame or halt or in any part of their bodies his Courtiers by the law in Meroe should be also lame and halt as the Kings did It is histored that in Macedonia in the time of Philip and in Neapolis in the time of Ferdinandus for that these two Kings held their necks a litle on the left side though it was a naturall defect in others yet in Princes followed and imitated and yet no longer then these Princes liued In the next King it is cleane altered for in the time of Alexander the great for that he had a bush of haire standing vp on his forehead the Courtiers in Macedonia left to holde their heads awry after Philip the father and followed the sonne Alexander euery Courtier imitating the time with great care and trauaile to make their haires stand vp vpon their foreheads like Alexander and to be called Opisthocomae as Alexander Hector and Pompei the great were noted to haue beene The Emperour Constantine practized a pollicie to find out sound Christians and faithfull seruants in his Court he fained a decree and commanded all the Christians to depart frō his Court cingula Militaria deponere The sound true Christians left the Emperour and his Court and forsooke their credit and militarie dignitie and esteemed not his Court in respect of Christianitie The other Christians which the Emperor found tantum nomine staied behind he banished and reuoked his decree and called backe the other and restored them to their former estate with greater credit saying Qui suo numini fidi non sunt nec mihi And so banished those counterfeit Christians This sentence squares well with our rebellious brutes and not Britanes who were neuer sound to God faithfull to their Prince nor true to their countrey but as Caligula wished to Rome so they wish to England and as Haman wished to the Iewes so they wished to the Britanes They wish with