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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

the daunger of mannes life doe best like Therfore pearles of all thinges haue the greatest price and praise Iulius Caesar bought a pearle for his swéete hart Seruilia which cost him Sexagies that is sixe and fourtie thousand eight hundreth thréescore and seuentéene poundes and tenne shillinges of our money Moreouer it is certaine saies Plinie that Nonius a senatour of Rome did weare in a ring a precious stone called an Opalus which was valued at vicies sestertium that is an hundreth thousande crownes the whiche ringe only of all his goodes he carried away with him when hee fledde being proscribed for it by Marcus Antonius whose sauagenesse and riot was great that would proscribe a senator for a stone and Nonius his contumacie no lesse that loued the cause of his proscriptiō séeing that also wilde beastes leaue behinde them those partes of their body being bitten off for whom they know they are in danger And in his 33. booke .3 chap. he telleth how the men at Rome did weare ringes or hoopes of golde about their armes and the women that were wiues vnto the horsemen of Rome about the smal of their legges but the comoners wiues of siluer and that the women did weare golde on their head their eares their necke their armes on all their fingers ye and on their féete and chaines hanging bandericke wise on bothe sides with tablets of golde set full of stones and pearles Aristophanes also the Athenian in his comedie called Thesmophoria reckoneth vp al the ornamentes and iewels that women did vse to weare in that prodigall citie which were so many in number that his breath failed him in the rehearsing of them which made him to maruell that they fainted not in the bearing of them And Clemens Alexandrinus chargeth his countrimen the Gréeks of Asia with the decking of themselues with golde pearles and precious stones and reckoning vp the Iewels that the women did weare besides earinges bracelettes tabletes ouches ringes chaines and a number of suche riotous ornaments the which being now out of vse I know not what thinges the names signifie he reciteth fetters of golde which were either chaines or else hoopes of golde suche as we shewed before out of Plinie were worne at Rome and that they were worne by the Gréekes in Europe hee proueth out of diuerse Poets Also the Gréekes and Asians were apparelled in purple a pounde of the whiche wooll being Tyrian double died as all good and vsuall in Plinies time by his owne testymonie were was woorthe at Rome and in Asia and Greece where it was vsually worne of women and the the noblemen 1000. denaries which is xxxj l. v. s̄ of our money So that their people may for cost which maketh al things to be estéemed of foolish mē cōpare with our cloth of gold siluer tissue which then were rare or not at all to be worne at Rome as Seneca cōplaines the silke began to be worne by womē in his dayes Yet I read in Plinie that he saw Agrippina wife vnto Claudius Caesar weare a robe of wouen gold without any other stuffe intermixed with it The which robe yet I thinke was not so rich as Clemens Alexandrinus doth report womē did weare gowns in his countrie being worth a thousand talents whiche is of our money 187500. at the least for if he meaneth Aegyptian talents it amounteth to a great deale more whereat I doe so muche the more maruell bycause neyther at Alexandria nor yet in those parts in his dayes there were any Quéenes which might be able to beare the outragious charges of so great riot But why stand I so long about the rehearsing of mans madde supplying of that profitable defect of nature in clothing his body séeing that he is no lesse troubled with correcting or rather corrupting of the naturall composition and ornaments therof Whereof come colouring of haires depilactories or making of haires to fall off yea and that which is most shameful wearing of bought haires painting of faces whitings of téeth and handes anoynting plastering and slabbering against wrinckles for the which cause Poppea wife vnto Nero vsed to haue driuen with her whether so euer she went or traueled fiue hundreth mylche Asses in whose mylke she bathed her vnchaste body and yet are they more to be discommended that will make them selues yl coloured with drinking of slabber sauce and in the olde time with cumin the which Horace toucheth in his epistles and in the age of our fathers Daniel the Metropolitane of Moscouie is reported to haue vsed to make his face looke pale with the smoke of brimstone that he might séeme to haue pyned him selfe away dryed vp his bloud with fasting studie watching praying and Egidius a Cardinal who by Iouius his iudgement deserued the highest honour of a Christian Orator in a holie pulpit was supposed for the causes before rehearsed to drinke cumin and vse perfumes of wet chaffe ¶ The seuenth Chapter O● the vnreasonable ryot of men in building and namely of the auncient Romanes of Nero Caligula Heliogabalus Lucullus Clodius of the rare ryot in housholde stuffe of the Romanes Greekes and Asians and specially in their counterfeits both painted and in mettall and yuorie with the incredible prices of diuers of them in curiously wrought plate hangings bedsteedes chaires stooles tables with the excessiue prices of diuers of thē and of the great riot in furniture of houshold of Antonius Bassus Sopus Heliogabalus the liberts of Clodius a Cardinal and againe the sparenesse therein of the auncient Romanes of Scipio Africanus and his brother Aelius Catus and what siluer was found at the sacke of Carthage and of the costly peece of Arras of Leo the Pope BVt as this wayward creature man is not pleased with the proportion and garnishing of nature in his body and the clothing therof so neyther doth the open ayre the high hilles the lowe valeys the pleasant open fieldes nor the couerts of trées and caues against al kindes of iniuries of the angrie heauens and ayre content him which doe satisfie all other liuing thinges but that he buildes him sumptuous houses not to defend him from colde heate and stormes the which is the vse of an house but to fulfill his riotous and intemperate proude heart with wasting his wealth Our houses sayes sage Seneca are so wide and large that they be as it were cities We haue twice séene writes Plinie the whole citie inclosed and compassed about with the house of two Princes Caius and Nero and the latter that nothing might be missing of golde It was so great that these verses were set vp against it in Rome Roma domus fiet Veios migrate Quirites Si non Veios occupet ista domus Rome shall be made an house Romanes To Veios packe a pace If not both Veios to possesse We will this huge monstrous place Alluding vnto the historie that the Romanes

lamentable losse by sicknesse of the flourishing army of his countrimē in Naples vnder the conduct of the Lantrech and the dishonourable yealding of Auersa as he stoode musing on this so great a calamitie and staring vp into heauen fel down starke deade of pitifull pietie towards parents out of Campofulgoso the Toletane who by importunate prayers and flowing teares hardly at the length obteined of the magistrate to be hanged in his fathers stéede of fatherly sorrowe out of Appian Blauus who hearing a false tale that his sonne was slaine by the souldiers of Triumri of his owne accord went vnto them and obteined of them to be killed as one proscribed and out of Iulius Capitolinus Gordian the Romane Emperour who vnderstanding that his sonne was slaine in battell for intollerable griefe hanged vp him selfe that night in his chamber of brotherly loue out of Plinie Pub. Rutilius who being certified of his brothers repulse in his suite for the Consulship incontinently dyed being before but grieued a little with an ague and of the two Cappadocian brothers that contended whether of them was the elder for that Augustus had decréed that the elder shoulde be put to death with his father Adiatorix and when they had long after this manner striuen in deadly pietie scarse at the last Dyetentus by the earnest intreatie and prayers of his mother who sawe that she might be more easily founde and mainteined by him gaue place suffered his yonger brother to dye for him the elder Of sure affied heart vnto wife Marcus Plautinus who slue him vpon his dead wife and Sempronius Gracchus who did suffer him selfe to be slaine wittingly in his fight by killing of a male serpent that he might deliuer his wife from death by letting the female to escape for so the Soothsayers affirmed of feruent frendship Pylades and Pithias who incessantly sued to dye to saue his faithfull friendes Orestes and Damon and Philotinus out of Plinie that threwe him selfe in to the roge or funerall fire of his patrone who had made him heire of all his whole goodes of faithful seruice two bondmen in Dion who did chaunge apparell with their proscribed maisters that they by wished errour might be slaine for them Thus muche of mourning the next is riot wherunto may aptly be annexed too great lust of all thinges The sixte Chapter Of the great riot of man in apparel and the excesse therein of a Cardinals harlot of Poppea of the souldiours of Antiochus Sedetes Caligula Heliogabalus Charles duke of Burgonie the Marques of Astorga Lollia Paulina Agrippina of the Romanes the Greekes and the Alexandrines of the greate prices of a pearle and a precious stone whiche made his maister to be proscribed Howe man doth alter the natural constitution and ornamentes of his body and of Poppea her bath and of a Patriarche and a Cardinal that made themselues to be pale ALl other liuing thinges are contented with the clothing of nature and the ornamentes of it onely man couereth his carcase with forreigne furniture whiche were to be allowed in him séeing nature hathe afforded him none if he coulde be pleased with such things as are able to defend him from colde and heate and not to séeke the bottomes bothe of the seas ye the Arabian and Indian and al landes to garnishe their bodies withall robbing the Seas fishes of purple pearles stones and amber greace and the hidden and secret tresures of the whole earth for golde siluer precious stones and the poore vermine of the farthest colde countries of the Northe cruelly of their able garmentes for Sables Lucernes Hermines and suche like costly furres paying for a face of Sables 1000. ducates and wilde beasts of the East for muske ciuet to make them smel swéet They set pearles saies Plinie on their féete that not only vpon the vpper parts of their shooes but also on the soles ye in the memorie also of our fathers a Cardinals harlot wore al the vpper parte of her shooes set cleane ouer with pearles and precious stones and long before her Poppea wife to Nero would shooe suche horses as she liked of with golde as her husband did all his mules with siluer so that it is not greatly to be marueiled that the souldiers of Antiochus Sedetes king of Syria did peg their shooes with nails of golde Clemens Alexandrinus séemeth to make it a common thing in Greece and Asia or rather at Alexandria where he liued to set their shooes euery where full of studs of golde to weare pantafles made with diuerse kinde of workmanshippe of golde precious stones so that I do ceasse to woonder that Caligula vsed riding clokes couered ouer ouer with precious stones Heliogabalus all his garments ye and his shooes glistering with gemmes No what say you that our Barbarians wil boorde for brauerie those riotous Romanes gorgeous Gréekes for Charles the hautie the last Duke of Burgonie whē he receiued Frederike the Emperour wore a cloke of cloth of golde set with diamonds carbuncles valued at an hundreth thousand crownes And in our dayes at the coronation of Charles the fifth at Bologna a Spaniard the Marques of Astorga as Iouius reports wore a riche gowne of cloth of golde wrought ouer and ouer with dolphines of pearles and precious stones Plinie telleth that the stones pearles that Lollia Paulina wife vnto Caligula wore not at any solemne feast but onely at a nuptiall night vpon her head her haires her eares her neck her hands and fingers were worth quadringenties sestertium which after Budeyes account is tenne hundreth thousand french crownes and aboue thrée hundreth thousand pounde of our monie neither were they the gifts of the prodigal Prince but her graund fathers goods gotten by the spoiles of the prouinces This was the ende of rapines robberies this was it for the whiche Marcus Lollius infamed for the gyfts giuen vnto him by al the kings of the orient and therfore falling into the displeasure of Caius nephewe and sonne adopted vnto Augustus dranke poison that his néece might be séene by candle light couered ouer with 10000 crownes Against this excesse in pearles doeth Plinie exclame in his 9. booke 35. chap. speaking thus ye marry it had béen a small thing for the seas to be buried in our bellies vnlesse they were worne as well of men as women on their handes their eares their féete ye and the whole body What hath the sea to do with the garments and clothing what haue the waters and waues with the backe but nature you will say doth not friendely deale with vs in casting vs forth into the worlde naked Go to let there be so great societie betwéene the bellie and the sea but what with the backe let it be a small matter vnlesse that we that are fedd with daungers be also clothed with perilles so through the whole body thinges gotten with

none but one out of Manlius his common places reported by him vppon doctour Martin Luthers credit to haue béen done in his time at Erphurst in Germanie There was saies hée a maide of an honest stocke and she her selfe also honest which was seruant vnto a riche widowe whose sonne a young man being inflamed with the loue and beautie of this maide hotly solicitated her to be naught with him The maide abhorring the foule facte did often repell the furious youthe but in the ende when he became euery day more troublesome instant on her then other the maide was forced for the safegarde of her honestie to declare all the whole matter vnto his mother desiring her to bridle and restraine her sonne that lay in continuall awaite for her The Mother after she had deliberated on the matter tooke this order with the maide that she shoulde consent vnto him and prescribe him a certain place and houre of the night when and where she woulde be her selfe that by that occasion shée might represse and chastise the lewdnesse of her sonne The maide liked very wel of the deuise made a sure promis vnto the yong man according vnto her mistres her minde At the prefixed houre the glad man went vnto the place appointed where he found in stéede of his mayd the mother who had come thither to correct the leacherous rage of her sonne but out alas she being ouercome with vnnatural lust prostituted her wicked body to her owne sonne Of this heynous incest was there a woman child born which being for a time secretly brought vp abroade at the lengthe the mother tooke home vnto her The same vnhappie sonne being altogether ignorant of all these things began to fall in loue with his sister and daughter being growne vp and made her also his wife Where art thou nowe that worthy horse of the king of Scythia who when thou couldest by no meanes be won wittingly to couer thy noble damme but at length being deceiued by her being hidden with a cloth and afterwarde thy errour perceiued by the falling of it off from her heade diddest neuer leaue gallopping and flinging vntil the thou hadst willingly broken thy necke leauing vnto vs men a profitable example of hartie abhorring of filthy incest But what so abhominable lust of man can I rehearse that woorse remaineth not still vntolde I would haue bene ashamed to haue declared if that the Apostle had not written it before me that mē against nature doe filthily abuse men and women women Herevnto will I adioyne bycause it happeneth vnto no other liuing things although otherwise compared vnto mans vnbridled and vnruly lust it be not worthy to be rehearsed that many men feruently burne in the loue of them whome they neuer sawe as Crispine in Iuuenal Verres in Cicero Alcybiades and Zaariades in Atheneus and thrée gentlewomen in the Courtier with the sight of a letter in commendation of a Gentleman Shall I for shame tel that man the Image of God and temple of the holy Ghoste doth oftentimes defile his noble body with congression with brute beastes But yet here stayes not mans madnesse for Plinie telleth that one fleshly loued the image of Venus at Guidus an other the statuie of naked Cupide at Paris in Propontis Iulius Pisciculus a horsman of Rome with a statuie standing in the temple of Felicitie at Rome and Atheneus writeth of Clisophus that raged on an Image of white Parian marble at Samos and of one of the ministers of the temple of Delphos with an Image of a naked boy standing there And that godly father and learned pastour Clemens byshop of Alexandria reporteth out of Philostephanus the like furie of Pigmalion towardes an Image of yuorie of naked Venus and cōfirmeth the tale of the Guidian by the authoritie of Posidippus and remēbreth also the pollution of the Romane horsman But of all other doth the historie written by Aelianus farre excéede for raging follie There stoode sayes he at the Prytaneum or Bursse of Athens a beautifull Image of good fortune with whome a young man a citizen of good reputation fell feruently in loue oft streigthly imbracing and swéetely kissing it And at the length pining away for loue he ran halfe frantike to the Senate desiring of them with most supplyant suite and earnest prayers that they would vouchsafe to let him to buy the Image for the which he offered them a mightie masse of money But when that the Senate thinking it to be a great dishonour vnto the whole citie to sell any suche goodly publike ornament thereof woulde in no wise graunt his request he being strucken with deadly grief repayred vnto the image wherevnto his hotesome hart was strongly tyed with chaines of Adamant and binding fine fillets and a gorgeous garland about the head of the Image as they vsed in sacrifices and cloathing it with a riche robe offered vp sacrifice and being impatient of the intollerable torments of frustrated loue among innumerable teares which like mightie waters ranne trickling downe his chéekes with his owne wicked hand ended his loathed life And this indéede beside the miserable habite leannesse and palenesse of louers which be accounted proper vnto loue by the maister of that art and their often and déepe sighes their continuall vnquiet myndes their restlesse nightes spente in watching at colde doores and windie windowes and a thousand other incommodities which louers do swallow downe this I say doth most plainely proue their griping griefes to be of all other most painefull séeing that so many of them do willingly runne into the euerlasting paines of hell fire by cruelly murthering them selues that they may thereby escape and rid them from the broyling brandes of Cupide which will not long indure being muche like vnto Aesopes fishe that foolishly leaped out of the frying pan into the fire And thus much of riot and her mate lewde loue The twelfth Chapter Of the torments of ambition confirmed also by the examples of Themistocles Alexander Iulius Caesar Mancinus Sabinus and an Indian and of the wonderfull summes of money giuen by the Romanes to obteine offices of their magistrates and of their order and manner in chosing officers THE nexte incommoditie of man in Plinie is ambition a crosse sayes blessed Barnard that tormenteth all men it pleaseth and delighteth euery mā and yet nothing doth crucifie more cruelly doth disquiet more grieuously then whose troubles there is nothing more frequented among poore wretched men The ambitious man is alwayes afrayd least he should do or say any thing that might offend any man he fayneth humilitie he counterfeiteth precise honestie he sheweth affabilitie he vseth liberalitie he taketh little rest for he is vp betimes in the morning and watcheth late at nighte he trudgeth to the court he visiteth the Lordes he honoureth all men he cappeth he knéeleth he croucheth vnto al men he riseth vp to his inferiours he imbraceth he fauneth on euery varlot

their hartes when they haue gréeuously offended him do surmount all dolour conceiued for any other heauie happe Hereof Dauid whom neither the perilous persecution of his maister Prince Saule could dismay nor the huge mōstrous might of Golias or many other infinit nūber of armed enimies appaul neither the sorrowful banishment from wife kinsfolks countrie wring teares from being admonished of his fault rored out for sorow of his hart watered his couch with wéeping did eate ashes like bread and mingled his cup with teares The stout king Edgar whose power and puisance made all his neighbours to quake being warned of his vnchaste life fel down flat at the féete of a beggerly Monk with mightie streames of teares waltering downe his chéekes from the bottome of a heauie hart asking pardon of God broken off with many a scalding sighe and discontinued by infinite sobbes and loude shrikes yea to make manifest his compunction he that proudly had caused eight kinges subdued by him to rowe him in a boate sitting in his royall robes now became so lowly that during the space of seuen yeares he abandoned the vse of the kingly crowne thinking himselfe not worthy to weare the ensigne of supreame honour and Empire ouer the honourable and worshippeful of this florishing Realme séeing that he had debased himselfe by wicked fornication to be one bodie with a vile strumpet From what other perpetuall spring came those mightie streames of teares with whom Marie Magdalene washed our Sauiours féete Who can with words expresse her immeasurable sorrowe which so at one instant wroung out of her al the moisture of her bodie and turned it into repentant teares whom shée dried with the golden lockes of her head which with their beautie swéete smell of precious ointmentes and curious gorgeous trimming had allured many great men vnto her lewde loue and made them her bestlike bondmen slaues Neither if Cicero his soule were translated into my breast coulde I with wordes worthily vtter the griping griefes of that noble Romane Ladie Fabiola who nothing regarding the glittering glorie of her honorable auncestours the Fabij nor her owne honour nor yet the shame reproch whiche it might seeme to be vnto the vnwise worlde casting off her gownes of silke her costly cawles her rich attyre of head her precious Iewels of golde pearle and stone stood of her owne voluntarie will at the solēne feast of Easter bare footed bare headded with her torne golden locks hanging downe detormously ouer her shoulders her bodie pined away and made lothsome with the long paines of penitence clothed in prickinge haire-cloth before a Church porche in that citie where a great number of her noble progenitours had rode in their triumphall chariots richely adorned in their Picta Toga and gyrtle of estate and with her horrible habite cruel beating and buffeting of that faire face of hers whiche had liked one man to well her dolefull sighes sorrowful sobbinges flowing teares she turned the bishoppe the priestes and all the whole people vnto compassion and prayers neither did this doleful day end her penitence but that which finished her life For she builded a publike hospitall the first that euer was erected at Rome into the which were all the poore and lamentable lazars brought out of all the stréetes of mightie Rome in careful prouiding for whom as she passed the liberalitie of all bounteous mistresses so did she in painefull attendance seruice awaiting on them more then match the diligence of al good seruants thinking it not to be sufficient to bee pitifull in purse vnlest that shée also were merciful with hand yea she spent al her goods which were inestimable to haue thē that might with painful toile continually punishe her rebelling bodie Howe did she daily tyre her sender and soft shoulders with the bearing of impotent beggers The swannish necke of that beautifull yong Ladie which was wont to be adorned with chaines of golde and precious stones was nowe almost continually beclipsed with the scuruie scabbie armes of leperous Lazars leauing behinde on her white skin the marks of their filthie running sores and their lothsome créepers Her eyes whom before time fine fantasies did wholy féede nowe behelde nothing but scalde heads scuruie handes faces and breastes eaten with cruel cankers running legges and rotten bodies swarming full of mightie magots Her nose in stéede of her accustomed precious ointments Arabian odours and sweete flowers had with him but stinkinge vlcers and rotten carkasses and all the filthy excrementes of the bodie The eares who were wont to heare the swete melodie of voyce and instruments are nowe continually filled with the horrible grones and grieuous gaspes of men labouring for life and fetching the laste painefull panges the lamentable moane of folkes tormented with incessante paines of the ioyntes and the loude cries of poore wretches burned with hoat scalding carbuncles and gnawen with eating vlcers The tounge which had béene vsed to talke of pleasant matters was nowe wholy occupied in speaking of lothesōe lice filthy vlcers stinking corses The palate which before coulde taste nothinge but the pleasantest wines and the delicatest meates nowe was glad of an olde harde dried browne breade cruste the vilest herbes rootes and water that shée by pinching of her owne belly might haue wherwithall to buye holsome meates and thinges to make good suppinges for the sicke and impotente and to satisfie the hungrie mawes of the almoste starued beggers Those fiue fingers whiche whiledome must doe no worke for marring of their whitenesse no scarce weaue their riottous purple queenes worke nor sowe fine knacks now were made as harde as horne with scowring of beggers pisse pottes and pannes and were all filthy and foule with quisshing out of rotten matter out of mangie legges and busied still in washing of their stinkinge scabbie and poysoned cloutes Finally all her riche robbes pretious iewelles gay geare were soulde away to buy the naked beggers garmentes to defende them against the colde and shée stripped into her patched peticote her clouted hose her pegged shoes and a course kerchiefe to trusse in her neglected lockes But whie stande I so longe aboute Fabiola as though her sorrowe for sinne were rare and all the aunciente ecclesiasticall and sacred histories were not full of the like as our wicked age is verie fruiteful in bringing forth of men who tormented with the cruell remorse of a conscience cumbered with the knowledge of innumerable heynous facts committed by them and doubling them with degenerate despaire wickedly conceiued of Goddes mercie whiche surmounteth all his workes do wilfully murder them selues folishly thinking to ease the pinching paines of the soule by seperating it from the bodie whē as in verie déede they thereby immesurably augmente her miserie tormentes But besides these piteous penitentes are there an other kinde of sinnefull men who beeing plunged ouer heade and eares in the myre of mischiefes and sinnes

boasted of their felicitie and finally no other notable conquerour or fondling of fortune hathe deserued iustly to be accounted happie but that they often felt the roughnesse of frowning fortunes bitte and had often admonitions of their miserable mortalitie And firste speaking of my Gods I wil beginne with Alexander the great both for the honour of his antiquitie and also for the largenesse of his Empire the surpassing greatnesse of his conquestes and the rare felicitie in them The xxi Chapter A discourse of the brittle blisse of Alexander the great AS it was singular in Alexander neuer to besiege citie which he wonne not neuer to fight battel wherein he vanquished not neuer to inuade countrie whiche he conquered not so I think was it singular vnto him of all kinges to be often wounded and endaungered of life by his enimies neuer liuing long without perill of death His owne father had nailed him to the wall with a iauelin if that he had not happely auoided the deadly stroke with swift leaping aside Euen almost at his first entrie into Asia had he béen doubtlesse slaine in the first battel with Darius his power at Granike if that Clitus running vnto his reskue had not fortunately warded the blowe And anon after into how great danger of death fell he by bathing himselfe in the riuer of Sydnus when his enimie Darius was euen at hande with a mightie host the liuely heate was so mortified in all partes of his bodie that his seruants tooke him vppe and carried him being senselesse at the extreeme point of death Neither were his paines afterward any lesse nor his danger séemed to be abated when he woulde néedes desperately take a medicine whiche should presently vpon a souden ridde him of his sickenesse being at the first more like to haue bereft him of his life was he not twise woūded at Gaza and at the first time so sore that he fainted and fell downe and was taken vp by his souldiers and carried into his tent Howe long time I pray you passed but that he was like to be murthered by Dimnus vnder colour of whiche conspiracie he put to death the moste approued captein that euer serued Prince Parmenio with his valiant sonne Philotas About the riuer of Oxus was he stricken in the legge with an arrow which being pulled out the head was left behinde the anguish whereof was such that he was forced to forsake the fielde and to be carried on his souldiours backes vnto his tent He had also suche a blowe in the necke with a stone at the siege of the citie of the Memacenes that his sight failing him he fel downe and was taken vp senselesse for dead all the whole host making loude lamentation for him as thoughe he had surely béen slaine I can not with words expresse the agonie he was in when the Scythians went about to destroy his newe citie of Alexandria built by him vppon the Riuer of Tanais as Curtius saieth or more truely on Oxus or Ochus as Plutarche and Strabo haue and Ptolomey maketh mention of Alexandria vppon Oxus but not of any by that name vppon Tanais and to destroy his fortifications on the Riuers side to remoue from thence the Macedons When he sawe that he was to enter into a wars for the which he was not prouided his enimies to ride vp and downe in his sight he himselfe so grieued with the paine of the wound of his necke and also through long abstinence that his spéeche failed him called his fréendes to counsel to whō he declared that he was not troubled with any feare of his enimies but with the iniquitie of the time the Bactrians rebelling and the Scythians prouoking him when he was neither able to stand on the ground nor strong inough to ride on horsebacke nor in case to giue aduise or exhortation vnto his souldiours Therefore in consideration of the doubtfull danger he saw himselfe wrapped in he blamed the Gods complaining that he was inforced to lye along like a blocke whose swiftnesse before time none was able to escape The matter grewe so greate that his owne fréendes beléeued that he had counterfeited his sicknesse for feare And therefore hée who thinking himselfe a God had euer since the ouerthrow of Darius left consultation with the Diuinours and Propheciers feare made religious and them commaunded his southsayers to trie out by sacrifices what his successe should be But who can worthily vtter the anguish sorrow and grief that griped him for the drunken murthering on his ale benche of Clitus his foster brother an olde souldier of his Father a valiant Capteine of his and the sauiour of his life and a selly olde man yea for praysing of his father for the which duetie woulde he shoulde haue commended and rewarded him He pluckt out the bloudy speare out of the guiltlesse corps and iustly would haue thrust it into his own guiltie hart if the standers by had not letted him and wroung it out of his hande That done they tooke him vppe and carried him vnto his lodging where he fell flatte downe vpon the floure filling all the Court ful of the pitifull noise of his howling and lamentation hée tare his face with his nayles and desired such as stoode about him that they woulde not suffer him to liue in suche shame and dishonour In these complaintes and requestes was all that night spent Then another toye toye came into his head to aggrauate his gréefe hée thought that his fréendes being astonied at his cruelty would not resort vnto him and talke familiarly with him as they were wont to doe and that then he should liue like vnto a wilde beast in a wildernesse bothe making other afraide and being also afraide himselfe He commaunded diligent searche to be made whither it were the yre of the Gods that had caused him to commit so heynous an outrage and nothing so muche asswaged his sorrowe sayes Plutache and brake off his wilful refusall of al kinde of nutriment wherein he had continued thrée dayes shut vp in his chamber continually lamenting wéeping as that Aristander the chiefe soothsaier affirmed that this mischéef happened because that the yerely sacrifices feastes vnto Bacchus were not done kept at their due time manifestly bewraying Alexanders weake Godhead that was not able to resiste that drunken God. And howe néere was this counterfeite GOD vnto deathe anone after his vngodly practise at a banquet with his flatterers Hagis and Cleon to be adored of the Macedons for a God for if he had not very deuoutly serued his brother Bacchus with drinking euē vntil two houres after the dawning was broken he had lost both life and Godhead by a great conspiracie made by Hermolaus his felowes At the first citie of the Indians that he assaulted was he hurt with an arrowe Afterward at the siege of Mazace was he stricken in the thigh with a dart which he pulled out without wrapping of the wound called for