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A48803	The marrow of history, or, The pilgrimmage of kings and princes truly representing the variety of dangers inhaerent to their crowns, and the lamentable deaths which many of them, and some of the best of them, have undergone : collected, not onely out of the best modern histories, but from all those which have been most famous in the Latine, Greek, or in the Hebrew tongue : shewing, not onely the tragedies of princes at their deaths, but their exploits and sayings in their lives, and by what virtues some of them have flourished in the height of honour, and overcome by what affections, others of them have sunk into the depth of all calamities : a work most delightfull for knowledge, and as profitable for example / collected by Lodowick Lloyd ... ; and corrected and revived by R.C. ...	Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610.; Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665.	1653 (1653)	Wing L2660; ESTC R39067	223,145	321

the people of Carthage delighted in falshood practised perjury and used all kind of crafts as the people of Sarmatha were most false in words most deceitfull in déeds and most cruell one towards the other The Scythians being much molested with wars and driven to leave their wives at home in the custody of the slaves and servants having occasion to be absent four years their wives married their servants and brake their former faith with their husbands until with force and power their servants were slain and so they recovered their countreys and wives again Apollonius the chief Govern●ur of Samos whom the Commons of the countrey from low estate had exalted to dignity to whom they committed the Government and state of Samos was so false of his faith towards his subjects that having their goods lands livings and lives in his own han● he betrayed them to Philip King of Macedonia their most mortal enemy That proud perjurer Cocalus King of Sicily slue King Minos of Créet though under colour of friendship and pretence of communication he had sent for him Cleomines brake promise with the Argives with whom he took truce for certain days and having craftily betrayed them in the night he slue them being sleeping and imprisoned them against his former faith and promise made before Even so did the false Thracians with the Boetians they brake promise violated their faith destroyed their countreys depopulated their cities and having professed friendship and vowed faith became wicked foes and false traytors and all of these received condign punishment But of all false perjurers and unnatural foes Zopyrus amongst the Persians and Lasthen● ● amongst the Olinthians to their perpetual Fame shall be ever mentioned the one in the famous City of Babylon deformed himself in such sort with such dissimulation of forged faith that having the rule and government thereof in his hand he brought King Darius to enjoy it through his deceit and was more faithfull to his King then to his Countrey Lasthenes being the onely trust of the Citizens delivered Olinthus their City into the hands of their long and great enemy Philip King of Macedonia What fraud hath béen found always in friendship what falshood in faith the murthering of Princes the betraying of Kingdoms the oppressing of innocents from time to time in all places can well witnesse the same When Romulus had appointed Spu. Tarpeius to be chief Captain of the Capitol the chamber of Rome where the substance and wealth of Rome did remain Tarpeia Spurius daughter in the night time as she went for water out of the city méeting Tatius King of the Sabines though he was then a mortal enemy to Rome and in continual wars with Romulus yet by her falshood and policy he was brought to be Lord of the Capitol Thus Tarpeia was as false to Rome as King Tatius was to Tarpeia for she looking to have promise kept by Tatius did find him as Rome found her she was buried alive by Tatius close to the Capitol which was then called Saturnus Mount and after her death and burial it was named Tarpeiaes Rock untill Tarquinius Superbus did name it the Capitol by finding a mans head in that place There was never in Rome such falshood shewed by any man as was by Sergius Galba who caused the Magistrates of three famous cities in Lusitania to appear before him promising them great commodities concerning the states and Government of their Cities yéelding his faith and truth for the accomplishment of the same whose professed faith allured to the number of Nine thousand young msn picked and elected for some enterprise for the profit of their countrey But when false Galba had spoiled these thrée cities of the Flower of all their Youth against all promise and faith he slue the most part of them sold and imprisoned the rest whereby he most easily might conquer their Cities Men are never certain nor trusty in doing when they are faulty in Faith For as the Sun lighteneth the Moon so Faith maketh Man in all things perfect For Prudence without Faith is Vain-glory and Pride Temperance without Faith and Truth is Shamefacednesse or sadnesse Iustice without Faith is turned into Injury Fortitude into Slothfulnesse The orders in divers countreys for the observation of Friendship and for maintainance of certain and sure love one towards another were Oaths of Fidelity The noble Romans at what time they sware had this order He or she to take a slint stone in their right hand saying these words If I be guilty or offend any man if I betray my countrey or deceive my friend willingly I wish to be cast away out of Rome by great Jupiter as I cast this stone out of my hand And therewith threw the stone away The ancient Scythians to obserbe amity and love had this Law They poured a great quantity of wine into a great Boul and with their knives opened some vein in their bodies letting their bloud to run out one after another into the boul and then mingling the wine and bloud together they dipped the end of their spears and their arrows in the wine and taking the boul into their hands they drank one to another professing by that draught faith and love The Arabians when they would become faithfull to any to maintain love thereby had this custome One did stand with a sharp stone betwéen two and with it made bloud to issue from the palms of both their hands and taking from either of them a piece of their garment to receive their bloud he dipped seven stones in the bloud and calling Urania and Dionisius their Gods to witnesse their covenant they kept the stones in memory of their friendship and departed one from another The like law was among the Barcians who repairing to a Ditch and standing thereby would say as Herodotus affirmeth As long as that hollow place or ditch were not of it self filled up so long they desired amity and love In reading of Histories we find more certainty to have béen in the Heathen by prophane Oaths then truth often in us by Evangelist and Gospel Oaths lesse perjury in those Gentiles swearing by Jupiter or Apollo then in Christians swearing by the true and iiving God more amity and friendship amongst them with drinking either of others bloud then in us by professing and acknowledging Christs bloud When Marcus Antonius had the government of Rome after Caesar was murthered by Brutus and Cassius and having put to death Lucullus for his consent therein Volummus hearing of his friend Lucullus death came wéeping and sobbing before Antonius requiring one his knées one grant at Antonius hand which was to send his souldiers to kill him upon the grave of his friend Lucullus and being dead to open Lucullus grave and lay him by his friend Which being denied he went and wrote upon a little piece of paper and carried it in his hand untill he came to the place where Lucullus was buried and there holding fast the

come from his son Demetrius being desirous of the newes and to heare of the Wars and successe of his son sent divers to méet him on the way to know the truth and effect of his comming He saluted all men as one very sad and so sad that all men judged that either Demetrius was slain or else had lost the field The King being certified that Aristodemus was very sad and that there was no likelihood of good news came hastily to meet him which when Aristodemus saw he cryed out with a loud voice a far off saying Most happy art thou King Antigonus beloved of the Gods saluted by Demetrius and this day feared of all the world Thy son is Conquerour over Conquerours and King over Kings a triumphant victor in the wars at Salamina thus artificially did Aristodemus use his flattery before King Antigonus that the King had as great a delight to hear Aristodemus flattering phrase as he had joy and gladnesse in the prosperity of his son Demetrius Thus he did win the heart and dived into the soul of King Antigonus that his reward was as much by his flattery as his thanks was for his news Marcus Antonius was delighted so much in the flattering spéech of the Athenians at what time he was inforced to forsake Rome by means of Augustus Caesar that the Citizens of Athens went to méet him out of the City having an Oration in commendation of his wisedom saying that he was well worthy to have Minerva in marriage He joied so much in this their adulation that they won this Roman by flattery to do more honour unto Athens then nature could crave at his hands to love Rome Such force hath flattery that when Alexander the great would have died for sorrow yea would have killed himself for that he slew Clitus in his anger An●x●●chus with sugred words and fair sentences asswaged his sorrow Aristippus when he might not obtain his purpose at Dionisius hand with flattery and fair words he would knéel down and imbrace and kisse his féet and being accused of his friends that he being a Philosopher he was a flatterer he answered them in this sort Aristippus is not in fault to speak unto any man where his ear is Dionisius rather is to be blamed to hear at his féet or to have his ears at his héels Diogenes therefore being demanded what beast was most hurtfull to man of wild beasts a tyrant of tame beasts a flatterer What subject is he that delighteth not in flattery what Prince is he that is not pleased with adulation What God is he saith the Poet that loveth not his commendation and praise Hercules was glad to hear the adulation of Cecropes Bacchus was joyfull to hear the flattery of Silenus even Jupiter himself the King of Gods was delighted in Vulcan The remedy therefore to avoid this Gorgon to expell this monster to exile this murtherer is as Cato the wise man saith to use truth for he that useth to hear good talk alwaies will never himself speak evill at any time The nature of flattery was so known and was so hated by Augustus the Emperour that he lothed the knéeling of his houshold servants Tiberius the Emperour likewise would in no wise suffer any of his own men to call him Lord. Flattery was sometimes so abhorred in Athens that when Timagoras was sent as an Embassadour to Darius K. of Persia for that he flattered the King in talk at his return he was beheaded Even so Evagoras because he called Alexander the son of Jupiter was put to death The Lacedemonians feared flattery so much that they banished Archilogus onely for his eloquence in a book which he composed Flattery was so odious in Rome that Cato the Censor gave commandement to expell certain fine Oratours of Athens out of Rome lest by their fair spéech and flattery they might annoy the state of Rome What is it but flattery can compasse what may not sugred Oratours move what could not Demosthenes do in Athens what might not Cicero perswade in Rome King Pyrrhus was wont to say that he won more Cities Towns and Countries through the flattering perswasions of Cineas then he ever subdued with the strength and force of all the Kingdome of Epire. But to avoid too much striking on one string which as Plutarch saith is tedious to the Reader for nature is desirous saith Plautus of novelties I wil speak a little of those that fled flattery it was the onely cause that Pythagoras that noble Phil●sopher forsook his country Samos the onely occasion that the worthy and learned Solon fled from Athens the chief cause that made Licurgus to renounce Lacedemon and the onely cause that made Scipio Nasica forsake Rome for where flattery is estéemed there truth is banished where flattery is advanced and honoured there truth is oppressed and vanquished in fine flattery findeth friendship when truth doth purchase hatred as is proved in the histories of Seneca and Calisthenes two famous Philosophers the one master unto Nero Emperour of Rome the other appointed by Aristotle to attend upon Alexande● the great these Philosophers because they would not féed the corrupt natures and insolent minds of these proud Princes with adulation and flattery they were put to death Seneca by Nero for his pain and travel taken with the Emperour in reading him Philosophy Calisthenes by Alexander because he reproved the customes of the Medes and Persians who used such flattery that Alexander commanded all men to call him the son of Jupiter Even so Cicero and Demosthenes the one the soveraign Oratour and the Phenix of Rome the other the sugred anchor and the patron of Athens and protector of all Gréece who having sundry times saved the two famous Cities Rome and Athens the one from the pernicious and privy conspiracy of that wicked Catelin and his adherents the other from the proud attempts and the long wars of Philip King of Macedon yet were they both banished and exiled their own countries Cicero for Clodius sake which the Romans took so heavily that twenty thousand did wear mourning apparel with no lesse heavinesse in Rome then tears were shed for Demosthenes in Athens Flattery was of some then so hated that noble Phocion a learned Athenian was went to say to his friend Antipater that he would take no man to be his friend whom he knew to be a flatterer And most certain it is that he that at this day cannot flatter can get no friendship according to that saying of Terence obsequium amicos c. For even as Aristides of Athens for his manifold benefits to the Athenians was by flattery prevented and for truth banished so likewise Thucidides being sent as an Embassadour from Athens to Amphipolis a City betwixt Thracia and Macedonia which King Philip kept by force was by flattery circumvented True service is often rewarded with anger and the rage of Princes as Thrasibulus a noble Captain and famous for his truth was banished out of

son to Theseus being falsly accused by his mother in law Quéen Phedra and flying to avoid the fury and rage of his father at the request of the Queen was torn in pieces by wild horses But let us passe further and we shall read that as some were devoured by horses so others were by Serpents stung to death as Laocoon that worthy Troyan was by two Serpents destroyed yea that famous and warlike woman Cleopatra Quéen of Egypt after her lover and friend Marcus Antonius was overcome by Augustus Caesar the Emperour did chuse rather to be overcome with Serpents then subdued by Caesar With this death was Opheltes the son of Licurgus King of Menea vanquished Again some have perished by wild Bores and raging Lions as Anceus King of Samos and Paphages King of Ambracia the one by a Bore the other by a Lion Some have béen devoured by dogs as Linus the son of Apollo Pliny in his seventh book metions a Quéen in Bithinia named Cosinges K. N●comedes wife whom her own dogs flew tare in pieces Euripides that learned Gréek coming in the night time from Archelaus King of Macedonia with whom he had been at supper was incountered by his enemy Promerus who set his dogs on him and did tear him to pieces Even so were Herachtus and Diogenes both Philosophers by dogs likewise killed I may not forget so great a prince as Basilius the Emperour of Macedon who in hunting amongst his Lords and Nobles yea amongst thousands of his Commons he onely meeting a Hart in the chase was hurt by him in the leg whereof he died As for Seleucus King of Syria son to Antiochus surnamed the Great and B●la King of Panonia they were both thrown by their horses and died If these mischance happen unto princes in the midst of their state what is their glory but misery since nothing expelleth fate nor can avoid death Some have been so weary of life some so fearfull of death that they have thrown themselves into the water to be drowned others for all their diligent fear and watching for death have most shamefully notwithstanding been by death prevented Frederick the Emperour marching towards Ierusalem after that he had taken several Cities and Townes in Armenia in passing through a little river was drowned Decius that noble King being enforced to take his flight from the Goths with whom he then was in wars was drowned in the Marish ground Marcus Marcellus after that he had béen a Consul in Rome thrée times before the third wars betwixt the Romans and the Carthaginians was likewise by shipwrack cast away How many noble Princes have béen drowned as Pharaoh King of Egypt in the red sea of whom we read in the sacred scriptures How many have the seas despoyled of life and with their own names christened the names of seas and waters in which they were drowned As by the death of Aegeus King of Athens the sea Aegeum was so called by the death of Tyrrhenus King of Lydia the sea was called The Tyrrhen Sea And so King Tyberinus altered the river called Aelbula by his death to be the river of Tyber Again the sea Hellespont was so called by a woman named Helle drowned in it So by I●arus and Myrtilus the sea of Icarus and the sea Myrton were so called Divers Princes have also perished by famine and have been compelled to eat their own flesh as Erisicthon and Neocles a Tyrant of Scicioma It is written in Curtius that Sysigambis King Darius mother died of hunger Ulysles the Gréek lest any off-spring of Hector should rise in Phrygia to revenge the fall of Troy and his countrey did cast Astianax the son of Hector over the walls alive Lycurgus King of Thrace was by his own subjects thrown headlong into the sea for that he first mingled water with wine How many famous and noble Princes have been stoned to death as valiant Pyrrhus King of the Epyrotes being in wars with Antigonus was slain by an old woman with a a tile-stone at Argos Pyrander at what time the Athenians warred against Eumolpus for that he feared famine hiding the wheat from his souldiers was therefore by them stoned to death Even so was Cinna the Roman in the wars betwixt the Gauls and the Romans for the like offence stoned to death Stout Cebrior King Pria●'s son was slain by a stone hurled at him by Patroclus at the siege of Troy so died Cygnus the son of Achilles at the same time O unstedfast fortune that stones should end the many lives of famous princes O imprudent princes that know not how nigh ye are always to death How many hath God punished with sudden death for their offences as Mithridates King of Pontus and Nicanor the son of Parmenio of Macedonia died suddenly Sertorius was slain suddenly at a banquet by Upenna The Emperour Heli●gabalus was killed upon his stool at his easement and thrown into Tyber That renowned and famous Conquerour Julius Caesar was in the middest of the City of Rome where he was Emperor yea in the Senate-house murthered and mangled by Brutus and Cassius Divers Consuls in Rome died this death as Fabius Max●mus Gurges the Senator And Manlius Torquatus even at his supper died presently Some with Thunder-bolts did God likewise punish thus Capaneus was slain at the wars of Thebes Tullus Hostilius King of Rome was with a Thunderbolt for his insolency and pride slain Zoroastres King of the Bactrians the first inventer of Magick was likewise by that kind of death encountred Pride in princes was the onely cause of their falls insomuch that the poets feign that the great and monstrous Giant E●c●ladus for his proud enterprise against Jupiter was thrown by a Thunderbolt into the bottome of Aetna a fiery and flaming mountain The uncertain state of princes is séen and tried by their death Who liveth so short a time as a prince who dieth so strange a death as a prince Who liveth in care who dieth living but a prince Was not Sergius Galba and Commodus the son of Marcus sirnamed Anbilius two Emperors of Rome the one by Otho strangled in the Market place of Rome the other imprisoned by Martia his own concubine Minos King of Creet travelling after Dedalus into Sicily was by his great friend King Cocalus slain by deceit So was Alebas chief governour of Larissa murthered by his own souldiers The desire that men bear unto honour and dignity is commonly accompanied with death as Spurius Cassius and Spurius Melius for their greedinesse of the Empire of Rome were both worthily beheaded God hath shewed just vengeance upon Princes for their iniquity with plagues and pestilences which spoiled the Emperor Constantine and the Empresse Zoae his wife And by this were Marcus Antonius Alphonsus and Domitius justly and worthily punished God hath wonderfully punished the pride of Princes even with shamefull and horrible deaths insomuch that Lice and vermine have consumed their bodies alive As Maximilian the Emperour Arnulphus