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A16169	Beautiful blossomes, gathered by Iohn Byshop, from the best trees of all kyndes, diuine, philosophicall, astronomicall, cosmographical, historical, & humane, that are growing in Greece, Latium, and Arabia, and some also in vulgar orchards, as wel fro[m] those that in auncient time were grafted, as also from them which haue with skilful head and hand beene of late yeares, yea, and in our dayes planted: to the vnspeakable, both pleasure and profite of all such wil vouchsafe to vse them. The first tome	Bishop, John, d. 1613.	1577 (1577)	STC 3091; ESTC S102279	212,650	348

foūdation do kingdoms stand on so tottering a stoole do princes sitt that sporting Fortune séemes oftentimes to put them into the hand of a madd man But nothing did more manifestly shewe vnto him his brittle blisse then the reuolting of all the noble men of the farther Hispaine except the duke of Alua vnto Philip duke of Burgogie who had maried his eldest daughter and heire at his arriual in Hispaine after the death of Quéene Isabell they eftsones saying that they would rather adore the sunne rising then going downe The griefe of this shamefull forsaking of him did so gripe the aged princes heart that not being able to endure the dishonour to be a subiecte where hee had long reigned he left Hispaine and sailed with his newe wife vnto Naples chosing rather to cōmit himselfe vnto the doubtfull faith of the gouernour and conquerour of that flourishing kingdome whom the report was minded to reuolt make himselfe king of Naples the which hée might easily haue done then vnto the open ill wills and rebellion of the vnfaithful Hispaniards And doubtlesse hee was in very great danger of being vtterly excluded out of his kingdomes of Castill Lions if that God had not shortly after taken out of the world his sonne in lawe who was so alienated from him that when the courteous king laden with wearisome yeares had taken a lōg paineful iourney to receiue him at the water the proud and vnciuil duke would not vouchsafe to shew him any countenaunce But after he had giuen him scornefully a word or two and them too in French which the king vnderstood not he flange away from him al the nobilitie with him The xlix Chapter Of William Conquerour BVt nowe after that wee haue romed long abroad in all forreigne lands let vs returne home vnto our owne countrie take a view of such Princes as haue by dint of sword atteined the imperial crowne thereof or enlarged the dominions least we may be thought to be like vnto the Lamiae in Poets whome they do faine to sée very exactly when they are abroad but to be starke blinde at home William bastard sonne vnto Robert duke of Normandie who left him his heire although by puissance he cōquered this land discomfited in battel the king of Denmarke forced the king of Scotland for feare to do him homage sweare him fealtie yet the often rebellions and secrete treasons of the Englishmen Normans the perfidiousnes of his owne déere brother Odo in whom he reposed his greatest trust the wicked reuolting of his eldest sonne Robert vnto the French king with his aide his daungerous inuasion of Normandie his arme thrust through in fight and his vnhorsing by that vnnaturall child and his bowelles sore brused by a leape off his horse in his last voyage against the French king of the intollerable torments whereof he died will not suffer him to be enrolled among the happie But nothing in my mind doth more manifestly bewray his infelicitie then that he had not so much ground at his death as could couer his carcase without doing an other man wrong and that which the begger hath without contradiction was denied and forbidden this mightie king Hée had built S. Stephens Church at Cane in Normandie where he would be buried vppon an other mans ground and had not payed the owner for it who being then a very poore man yet nothing fearing the funeral pompe and the great number of nobles attending on the corps did thrust through the thickest thronge of the solemne traine like vnto a madd man and got him to the Church doore wherein he stoode stoutly to withstand the bearing into the Church of the kings body crying out with a lowde voice Hée that in his life time oppressed kingdomes by his furious force hath hitherto with feare also oppressed mee but I that do suruiue him that hath done me the wronge will not graunt rest and peace vnto him now he is dead The place whereinto ye doe carrie this dead man is mine I claime that it is not lawfull for any man to lay a dead body in an other mans ground But if that the case do so stand that when as now at the length through the grace of good God the author of this so vnworthie a wrong is extinguished yet force still doth flourish I do appeale vnto Rhollo the founder father of this nation who alone is of greater power by the lawes which he ordeyned then is any mans iniurie And therewithal I know not whether by hap or mans fraud there soudeinly was séene a great fire which raged on the Church the houses neere adioyning then euery body spéedily running to quench the fire left the kinges corps desolate all alone onely Henrie the kings youngest sonne could not be gotten frō his fathers body who being feared with as it were the manifest wrath of God presently paid the poore mā for his ground discharged his fathers iniurious spirite But these blisselesse bones of his which so hardly obteined entumbing did afterward as vnluckily againe lose it in Anno Domini 1562. when Chastillion conducting reliquias Danaum atque immitis Achillis those that had escaped at the battell at Dreax toke the citie of Cane For certaine sauage souldiours accompanied with foure Capteynes did beate downe and vtterly deface the noble tumbe and monument of that renowmed conquerour and victorious king and pulled out all his bones which they spitefully threwe away when that they could not finde the treasure that they falsly surmised had béen layed vp there as I haue béene certainly enformed by Englishmen of very good credite faithfull fauourers of the reformed who sawe this sorrowfull sight scarse without distilling teares And also Theuet maketh mention of this matter in his vniuersall Cosmographie writing of Cane The l. Chapter Of Henrie the second HENRIE the second had by his father the Earledomes of Aniow Toures and Maine by his mother the kingdome of England and the duchie of Normandie and by his wife the mightie duchie of Aquitane and the earledome of Poitow conquered the kingdome of Ireland and toke prisoner in battell the king of Scottes but this his glistering glorie was fouly darkened by the shamefull submission of his crowne vnto the Romane Sée as Platina their recorder doth report or certes by binding himselfe vnto vnreasonable conditions to abate the enuie of the murther of Thomas the archbishop of Canterburie as our Chronicles do record and by the daungerous and wicked warres a long time kept in Normandie Fraunce and England with al his vngodly sonnes Henrie Richard Gefferie and Iohn yea and his owne wife and their mightie confederats the kings of Fraunce and Scotland with a great number of the English nobilitie and after the death of his vngracious sonne Henrie by the second reuolting of his sonne Richard vnto the French king who wan from him in those warres a great part of the duchie of Normandie and besieged him in the

THe next of these proud Gods in aunciencie of yeares is Demetrius sonne vnto Antigonus a capteine of Alexander the great one whom I am not able to charge to be so ambitious for Godlike honor as was Alexander yet doe I blame him for accepting of those diuine honours whiche the flattering Atheniens prodigally heaped on him whereby he beganne to fall into all incontinencie ryot and pryde in so muche that he ware garments wouen of purple and golde a rare thing in those dayes and golden shoes Very hard accesse was there vnto him and very rough were his answeres The Legates of the Atheniens who might doe most with him followed him and daunced attendance two yeares and then at the last he dismissed them home not once hearing their message There was neuer man with whom fortune sported more and shewed her mutabilitie that worthily that sentence of Aeschylus was often heard in his mouth Thou fortune exaltedst me thou also doest cast me downe full lowe When he was but 22. yeares of age he fought a field with greater courage then cunning with the auncient politike capteine long practised in Alexanders warres Ptolomey where he lost 13000. mē of whom 3000. were slaine and the rest taken with the campe also But hauing the royal tent with all the furniture thereof and also the prisoners princely restored vnto him without raunsome by Ptolomey who sayd that princes ought not to contend for al things at once but only for empire and glory he repayred his power and inuaded Mesopotamia then being subiect vnto Scleucus the which he conquered with one halfe also of mightie Babylon the riuer of Euphrates runneth in the midst of the citie parteth it in two but douting that he was not able to abide the force of Seleucus who hasted homeward out of India to the rescuse of Mesopotamia he brake vp his siege tooke the sea sayled vnto Halicarnassus where he remoued by force the siege o● Ptolomey fortune still fauouring he entered Greece to set them at libertie who were then in subiection vnto Cassander his fathers and his enimie At his first arriual at Athens all the citizens reuolted vnto him only there remained a garrison of Cassanders in a part of the citie called Munichia From thence he marched to Megara where the intemperate young man leauing his armie went vnto a famous harlot called Cratesipolis giuen by Alexander vnto Polypercon the whiche woman it was tolde him was in loue with him But being come to the place appointed he had neare ben taken by his enimies who had intelligence therof with his minion being together in a tent the whiche he had caused to be set vp a little out of the sight of his armie that he might couer the more cleanly the accesse of his harlot Yet as it hapned he escaped by shewing a faire paire of héeles and returned in safetie vnto his armie wan the town of Megara and returning vnto Athens tooke Munichia razed the castle restoring vnto the Atheniens their auncient liberties and lawes Whervpon ensued that impudent flatterie that I spake of before But before he could finishe his exploite purpose of setting of all Greece at libertie he was sent for from thence by his father to aide Cyprius the which Ptolomey had inuaded In his voyage thetherward he discomfited Menelaus brother vnto Ptolomey afterward in Cyprus before Salamina Ptolomey him selfe who had a mightie fleet of 150. ships also a great army by land He tooke 60 ships drowned al the rest only 8. escaping with Ptolomey Demetrius hauing thus won the victory wherby he got all the kings retinue with a mightie masse of monie warlike furniture had also shortly after Menelaus with the citie of Salamina the fléet and 1200. horsmen 12000 footemen yealding vnto him all which prisoners he sent home without raunsome also honourably buried the dead This notable victorie did set Antigonus in such a pride that he with his son would be called kings from the which name the capteines of Alexander had absteined vntil that time But to pul downe their puffed pride whē that Demetrius after the victory at Salamina sailed about to strike terrour into the harts of his enimies by souden tempest he lost the greatest part of his shippes and Antigonus who led a flourishing army along the sea cost fel into such difficulties that he returned home like vnto a vanquished man hauing lost almost his whole army Yet after this Demetrius besieged Rhodes where he lay vntill he was wearie and could do no good and to saue his honour there was ioyfull newes brought him that he should hast to the succour of Athens then streightly besieged by Cassander whome he repelled persuing him euen vnto Thermopile and going yet farther he wanne Heraclea and being from thence returned into Gréece he made almost all Peloponesus frée expelling the garrisons of Cassander Wherefore in the memorie of this benefite he was in a parliament of the Gréeks elected and proclamed the capteine or Duke of Gréece as Philip king of Macedone had in time before ben Immediately vpon this was he sent for to repaire into Asia to aide his father against Seleucus his confederates who led a mightie armie of 40000. footemen 10000. horsmen 400. Elephants and 1200. hooked chariots with whome they incountring with no lesse power were ouerthrowne and Antigonus slaine and Demetrius forced to flée vnto Ephesus with onely 5000 footemen and 4000. horsmen with whome being there imbarked he directed his course vnto Athens his only refuge But when he was come vnto the Islandes Cyclades the ambassadours of the Athenians met him requesting him in the name of the whole citie that he would not sayle vnto Athens for the citie had made a decrée that he who had bene lately expelled out of a kingdome should in no case be receiued into a frée citie Although this vnlooked for message did inwardly sore chafe him yet séeing that presently to be reuenged neyther time nor power wold serue him he gaue them fayre wordes and desired that he might haue the ships that he had left in their hauen the which being gently deliuered with his wife and all his royall furniture of houshold he sayled into Peloponesus But when he sawe that his faction in those quarters waxed woorse and woorse the cities dayly reuolting vnto his enimies he leauing there Pyrrhus sonne to Aeacus to kéepe the cities in their obedience sayled into the Thracian Chersonese to inuade Lysimachus kingdom where his affaires prosperously succéeding he maruellously increased his nauie and armie And not long after he marryed his daughter vnto Seleucus and he him selfe hauing buryed his first wife married Ptolomeyes daughter Wherby he being againe recouered besieged Athens and forced them for famine to yealde the citie vnto him The famin was so great that the father and the sonne fought with bloudie swordes for a mouse that fell downe from an house and men diuided beanes into

life too being scuffled in a sicknesse when he was likely to recouer by his base sonne Manfredo Wherefore most truely saide the diuine Poet Virgil. Nescia mens hominum fati sortisque futurae Nec seruare modum rebus plerunque secundis Mans minde vncertaine is of Fate And what will after fall And meane to keepe when fortune fawnes It knoweth not at all And woorthie to be enrolled in the brasen booke of fame is Epaminondas the renowmed Capteine of the Thebanes with whome their Martial glorie bothe beganne and ended For he the next day after he had giuen that famous ouerthrowe at Leuctris whereby hée brake all the strengthe of the inuincible Lacedemonians walked abroade all vntrimmed and sadde holding downe his heade whereas he vsed at other times to goe bolte vpright with his bodie annointed with swéete ointmentes with a merrie countenaunce But when his fréends marueiling at this vnlooked for alteration asked him if that any ill chaunce or trouble had happened vnto him he answered none but because that I felt that I liked my selfe yesterday better then I ought I do chastise to day the intemperance of that ioy wast thou borne vnder the thicke aire of Boetia and therfore are thy countrimen infamed for doltes marry I do not thinke that the fine subtile aire of Athens did euer bréed man comparable vnto thée in true wisdome nor all the babbling Philosophers did euer shewe any suche perfect president of modestie I would vnto God that Henrie the second late king of Fraunce had imprinted this Péerelesse patterne in his hautie hart and not haue thought his felicitie to be firme the whiche was in déede very fickle and britle For he waxing prowde of his vnwonted great victories hauing recouered from the English men the towne of Buloigne and Scotland the heire whereof he had obteined for his sonne gotten from the Empire the Duchie of Loreine with the yong Prince and the thrée famous Emperial cities Metz Tul and Verdum and raunged at pleasure in Germanie vnder the name of recouerer of the libertie of Germanie giuing the deuise of a cappe betwéene two daggers the whiche the conspiratours against Iulius Caesar had long time before vsed and from thence had broken foorth into the Duchie of Luxenburg taking there the strong townes of Iuois and Danuilliers and the castels of Momedie and Bullion and an other towne vppon the Mase and spoiled and burnt Hennault taking Trelo Aglay Cimaw and had returned home to Paris without any losse and the same yeare also expelled the Emperours garison out of Srena in Italie restoring their common wealthe vnto their auncient libertie and moreouer whiche deserued no lesse glorie had valiantly and fortunately defended the citie of Metz against the Emperour and his mightie armie and prouision forcing him after that he had lost fourtie thousand men with colde and sicknesse to breake vp the siege before he euer gaue assault casting into the riuer great store of Martial furniture and munition that he might the more easily and commodiously reduce small remnantes of his huge armie sore weakened with many incommodities and the next yeare being 1553. the Constable had by policie and ambushe ouerthrowen in a skirmishe the whiche was almost equal vnto a set battel the Prince of Piemont General to the Emperour taking many noblemen and among them the Duke of Arscot and afterward he himselfe had spoiled and pillaged Artois eftsones prouoking the Emperials to battel who knowing their weakenesse kept themselues in their defensed campe néere to Valencennes his nauie also being ioyned with the Turkish fléete had wonne from the Genouaies the greatest parte of the Isle of Corsica And Anno 1554. Rochsur Ion had burnt and destroyed Artois and the Constable Hennalt where he wanne againe Trelo Aglay Cinnaw and after the Kinges comming vnto the campe Bouine Demcut Mariburg and Bincey and before Rentey the whiche he besieged with rare felicitie and valiaunce had with his launces disordered and scattered al the fielde ouer the troupes of the Rutters with their pistolets the whiche neuer was done either before nor since vnlest it were by the selfe same man Frauncis Duke of Guise at the battel of Dreux by the report of Theuet Neither was his fortune any thing inferiour beyonde the Alpes for the Brisac had wonne the strong station of Hiberna and Briel and the great citie of Cassacle and Monte Caluo with so much his greater ioy because that the Duke of Alua had departed from saint Iago the which being but a pelting holde he had besieged in vaine thrée wéekes with incredible losse of Martial furniture and muche greater of his honour leauing Vulpiano the which he had deliuered from siege and relieued the garison to be wonne by Dumal The Frenche king I say being proude of so prosperous a concourse of victories when that his fruitefull Queene had brought him foorth Anno 1556. two daughters at one burthen he named the one of them Victoria who within very short time after died and with her all her Fathers Martiall victories For An. 1557. besides the vnfortunate iourney of Guise into Italie he loste a great battel before Saint Sintines where were either slaine or taken the floure of all the Nobilitie and valiant capteines of Fraunce after the whiche insued the losse of the Towne wherein were taken prisoners the Admirall and diuerse other of the nobilitie and afterward also the townes of Hawne and Chastell●t And the next yeare 1558. he lost another fielde besides Graueling not inferiour for the number of them that were slaine vnto the other but nothing so many noble men were loste and yet were there taken Marshall Thermes the General Denabault Villebon Sinarpoit with other and almoste all the capteines and Gentlemen of name that were there With the whiche two aduerse battels he that had thought in his hart to haue appointed Lawes vnto all christendome being broken was glad to gette peace by restoring all that he had of the kinges of Hispaine the Quéenes of England or else to pay well for it of the Dukes of Sauoy Florence and Mantua the Bishoppe of Leige and the Genowaies and to withdrawe his garisons out of the territorie of Siena and at the triumphe kept for the espousals of his daughter whom he had giuen in marriage vnto the king of Hispaine as it were for a pledge of the peace he was slain at the Tilt by the Count Montgomerie in the last course that he purposed to haue runne The Quéene who had with greate feare dreamed the night before that he was slaine by fatall stroke of deadly launce and the grauer sort of his nobilitie in vaine dehorting him to leaue off in time that dangerous pastime specially séeing that his armes were waxen stiffe with the vnwonted and toilesome trauaile of thrée dayes running Thus ye sée howe God doth pull downe the mightie from their thrones and doth disperse those that are proude in the imagination of their owne hartes