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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11366	The tvvo most vvorthy and notable histories which remaine vnmained to posterity (viz:) the conspiracie of Cateline, vndertaken against the gouernment of the Senate of Rome, and the vvarre which Iugurth for many yeares maintained against the same state. Both written by C.C. Salustius.; Bellum Catilinae. English	Sallust, 86-34 B.C.; Sallust, 86-34 B.C. Bellum Jugurthinum. English. aut; Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	1609 (1609)	STC 21625; ESTC S116620	153,941	206

THE Two most worthy and Notable HISTORIES which remaine vnmained to Posterity viz The Conspiracie of CATELINE vndertaken against the gouernment of the Senate of ROME AND The VVarre which Iugurth for many yeares maintained against the same State Both written by C.C. Salustius Historia est testis Temporum Lux veritatis Magistra vitae Nuncia vetustatis Printed at London for Iohn Iaggard dwelling in Fleetstreet betweene the two Temple gates at the Signe of the Hand and Starre 1608. TO THE RIGHT WORTHY and valorous Sir Thomas Summerset Maister of the Horsse to the Queenes most excellent Maiesty SIR hauing no fitter occasion to manifest my duty to your Worthinesse though I haue often wisht matter more expressiue both of my loue zeale I haue aduentured rather to tempt your acceptance in this small presentment worthy no man will denie in its proper Ornament of an Honourable Patronage Then by perpetuall neglect to incur the imputation of Ingratitude a vice amongest the Heathen punishable amongest Christians contemptible Herein therefore right Generous let me in lieu of all my friends make confession of your many and extraordinary fauours from time to time vouchsafed vs. In acknowledgment wherof sithence we want power to deserue yet giue vs leaue with thankfull overtures to remember Protesting that if you daigne to accept of this vnpolisht Translation partly divulged vnder the shadow of your protection for the pleasure of your vacant howers but especially for the generall good of all English Gentlemen when eyther Time or better iudgment shall furnish me with a more desertfull proiect to prostitute it soly to the approbation of your most iudicious censure Thus far presuming that if it passe your allowance I will aduenture neither to feare the discourtesy of the Cinicke nor the sole-conceit of the Curious In assurance whereof being constantly warranted by the generous carryage of your Heroycall disposition I esteeme it as rich in value as I account it happy in acceptance hauing in it nothing so worthy as your fauour wherevnto I wholie refer it Yours faithfully deuoted Tho. Heywood Of the choise of History by way of Preface dedicated to the Courteous Reader vpon occasion of the frequent Translations of these latter times THe chiefest occasion that moued the Scythians so peremptorily to distast Learning and Antiquities was for that they saw the wals painted and the Libraries of the Greekes and Romans stuffed Bodin with the records of their owne Atchieuements but the memorable astions of other Nations either ouer-slipped or satyrically disgraced For all other Nations the Haebrewes excepted committed nothing to writing concerning their Fortunes And surely I know not vpon what grounds It is a generall fault amongst al Martiall men to pen nothing of their owne exploites And those who haue somewhat inv●ed their minds to learning for their excessiue delight therein can hardly be drawn at any time to alter their studies By which peruersenesse of eithers error those Nations which haue bin famous for their Military valour haue vtterly lost their ancient reputation after their imbracement of Letters and learning The best reasons that I can giue are either to be grounded vpon desire of case or else vpon their proficiency in the precepts of Nature and Diuinity which not only abhorre the effusion of blood but withal depose their former infusion of Barbarisme and cruelty as in experience wee haue seene it come to passe first by the Greekes and Latines and afterwards by succeeding Nations The people of Asia were euer accounted good Orators and pen-men but the Lacedemonians rude and rough fellowes vtterly vnlearned and yet by war and Conquest at home and abroad acquired worthy purchases and had their fortunes eternized to the world not by themselues but by strangers Whereas the memorable Actions wars and Conquests of the Celts the Germans the Arabians and Turks are either buried in obliuion or at least Ballated in one sheet of paper and that for the most part by their enemies Better fortune had the Graecians in setting forth the battell of Salamme or Marathon For by the ample discourses thereof a man would imagine that a more honourable piece of seruice was neuer atchiued in any age But as Alexander sitting in Darius his chaire of Estate pleasantly told the Ambassadors of Greece aggrauating the danger of the present rebellion of all the Greeke Citties that those wars seemed vnto him but as conflicts of Mice and Rats In like sort those easie warres that Alexander managed against the effeminate Asians a●d Persians to which C●to spared not to giue the epithites of Woomanish and Caesar Contemptible hold no comparis●● with the bloudie in counters of the Celts the Germans the Turkes and Tartars as may easilie be gathered by those who are disposed to call to mind their ouerthrowe giuen and taken and finally written by each others enemies Wherefore to make a iudicious coniecture of the goodnesse of Histories wee ought to remember the wise counsell of Aristotle not onely in our choose but also in our reading That an Author ought not to be accepted with an ouer-weening credulity nor reiected with peremptorie incredulity For if we credit al in all writers we cannot choose but oftentimes swallow things false for true and so commit grosse errors in dispatches of importance So againe if we should presentli● condemne an Historie as of no credit we should reape no profit in counteruaile of time therein consumed Yet let euery Author beare his owne blame whereof if they that haue stuffed their m●numents of memory with fabulous impostures be guiltie in one s●rt in no lesse fault are the Turkes who can say nothing of their discent or Originall neither will suffer any writing thereof to be commended to posterity beleeuing that no Historiographer can write truely vpon report much lesse will they who were either in action or in place ouer the action euery man being bewitched to tell a smooth tale ●o his owne credit Or suppose he be of an vnpartial spirit yet either the feare of great p●rsonages or passion or mony will preuaricate his integrity But what should discourage succeeding Ages that they should feare to write freely of their Equals Surely in these times it is not probable that amongst such variety of Authors no one should be found whose workes were not void of affection of corruption of enuy of passion Let the iudicious Reader therefore between these extreames of lightnesse and Critique rashnesse take the middle course so shal he cul out of euerie good Author singuler purity Neither let him censure the worke before he fully vnderstand the depth and sufficiencie of the Author But indeede this should be the care of the state to looke into the argument and method of Books before they come to the Presse least by the vulgar censuring of some deficient labours others of more sufficiency be dishartned from publishing their writings For in this choise of Authors which euery student ought to propose vnto himselfe I would not haue