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A67489	The wonders of the little world, or, A general history of man in six books : wherein by many thousands of examples is shewed what man hath been from the first ages of the world to these times, in respect of his body, senses, passions, affections, his virtues and perfections, his vices and defects, his quality, vocation and profession, and many other particulars not reducible to any of the former heads : collected from the writings of the most approved historians, philosophers, physicians, philologists and others / by Nath. Wanley ...	Wanley, Nathaniel, 1634-1680.	1673 (1673)	Wing W709; ESTC R8227	1,275,688	591

Lord Buckhurst was bred in Oxford took the degree of Barister in the Temple afterwards travelled into foreign parts was detained a time prisoner at Rome when his liberty was procured for his return into England he possessed the v●st inheritance left him by his Father whereof in a short time by his magnificent prodigality he spent the greatest part till he seasonably began to spare growing near to the bottom of his estate The story goes that this young Gentleman coming to an Alderman of London who had gained great pennyworths by his former purchases of him was made being now in the wane of his wealth to wait the coming down of the Alderman so long that his generous humour being sensible of the incivility of such attendance resolved to be no more beholding to wealthy pride and presently turn'd a thrifty improver of the remainder of his estate Others make him the Convert of Queen Elizabeth who by her frequent admonitions diverted the torrent of his profusion indeed she would not know him till he began to know himself and then heaped places of honour and trust upon him creating him Baron of Buckhurst in Sussex anno Dom. 1566 sent him Embassador into France 1571 into the Low Countries 1576 made him Knight of the Order of the Garter 1589 Treasurer of England 1599 he was also Chancellour of the University of Oxford Thus having made amends to his House for his mispent time both in encrease of estate and honour being created Earl of Dorset by King Iames he died April 19 1608. 10. Henry the Fifth while Prince was extremely wild the companion of riotous persons and did many things to the grief of the King his Father as well as to the injury of himself in his reputation with the subject but no sooner was he come to the Crown but the first thing that he did was to banish all his old companions ten miles from his Court and presence and reform'd himself in that manner that he became a most worthy and victorious King as perhaps ever reigned in England 11. S. Augustine in his younger time was a Manichee and of incontinent life he reports of himself that he prayed for continency but was not willing to be heard too soon for saith he I had rather have my lust satisfied than extinguished But being afterwards converted by the Ministry of S. Ambrose he proved a most excellent person as well in Learning as in all sorts of Virtues 12. The Ancients in old time attributed unto King Cecrops a double nature and form and that upon this ground not for that as some said of a good clement and gracious Prince be became a rigorous fell and cruel Tyrant but on the contrary because having been at first and in his youth perverse passionate and terrible he proved afterwards a mild and gentle Lord. 13. Gelon and Hiero in Sicily and Pisistratus the Son of Hippocrates were all Usurpers and such as attained to their Tyrannical Dominion by violent and indirect means yet they used the same virtuously and howsoever they attained the Sovereign Command and for some time in their younger years managed it injuriously enough yet they grew in time to be good Governours loving and profitable to the Common-wealth and likewise beloved and dear unto their Subjects for some of them having brought in and established excellent Laws in their Country and causing their Subjects to be industrious and painful in tilling the ground made them to be civil sober and discreet whereas before they were noted for a tatling playful and idle sort of people 14. Lydiades was a Tyrant in the City of Megalapolis but in the midst of his usurped Dominion he repented of his Tyranny and making conscience thereof he detested that wrongful oppression wherein he had held his Subjects in such sort that he restored his Citizens to their ancient Laws and Liberties yea and a●terwards died gloriously fighting manfully in the Field against the enemy in defence of his Country 15. Ceno Valchius King of the Western Saxons in the beginning of his Reign was an impious and debauched Prince whereupon he was expelled from his Kingdom and Government but at last being become a reformed man he was readmitted to his former command and he then ruled his Kingdom with great prudence justice and moderation 16. Offa King of the Mercians in the first flower of his age was immeasurable in his desires of acquiring wealth extreme ambitious of enlarging his Territories and highly delighted with the art of War and Military Discipline he was also all this while a contemner of all moral virtue but when he came to be of maturer and riper years he became famous and renowned for the integrity and modesty of his manners and the singular innocency of his life 17. Iohannes Picus Mirandula visited the most famous Universities of France and Italy and was so great a Proficient that while as yet he had no Beard he was reputed a perfect Philosopher and Divine Being ambitious and desirous of Glory he went to Rome where he proposed nine hundred Questions in all Arts and Sciences to dispute upon which he challenged all the Scholars of all Nations with a new kind of liberality promising to defray the charges of any such as should come from remote parts to dispute with him at Rome He stayed at Rome upon this occasion a whole year In the mean time there wanted not some that privily detracted from him and gave out that thirteen of his Questions were heretical so that he was constrain'd to set forth an Apology and while he studied to excuse himself of errours that were falsly objected to him he fell into others that were greater and worse for he entangled himself in the love of fair rich and noble women and at last was so engaged in quarrels upon this account that he thought it high time to forsake those youthful vanities whereupon he threw into the fire his Books of Love which he had writ both in the Latine and Hetruscan Languages and relinquishing the Dreams of prophane Philosophy he wholly devoted himself to the study of the sacred and holy Scriptures CHAP. III. Of punctual observation in matters of Religion and the great regard some men have had to it THe Athenians consulted the Oracle of Apollo demanding what Rites they should make use of in matters of their Religion The answer was the Rites of their Ancestors Returning thither again they said the manner of their Forefathers had been often changed they therefore enquired what custom they should make choice of in so great a variety Apollo replyed the best This constancy and strictness of the Heathens had been ●ighly commendable had their Devotions been better directed In the mean time they shame us by being more zealous in their Superstition than we are in the true Religion 1. Paulus Aemilius being about to give Battel to Perses King of Macedon at the first Break of Day made a Sacrifice to

him but that which they chiefly wondred at was when they saw presents brought him to assure his welcome that he took only the coursest fare and as for their persumes con●ections and other delicacies he prayed them to give those dainty things to the Heliots his Slaves 12. Sous was besieged by the Clitorians and so distressed for Water that he offered to surrender all those lands he had conquered from them in case he and all his Army might drink at a Fountain near hand The Clitorians agreed to it he then assembled his men and declared to them that if there were any amongst them that would abstain from drinking he would surrender all his Soveraign power into his hands but there was not one that could contain or forbear but he alone who went last to the Spring where he only cooled and besprinkled his body without with it in the pres●nce of his enemies by which evasion he refused to deliver up the lands saying That all of them did not drink CHAP. XXIV Of the Affability and Humility of divers great Persons SUch advice as this is given to great persons by Seneca the Tragoedian Wh●n Fortune doth us most caress And higher still advance Then should we most our selves suppress As subject unto chance Certainly the greatest examples of Courtesie and Humility have been found amongst them that have been truly great and as the Sun is then slowest of motion when it is highest in the Zodiack so these virtues are wont to accompany them of the most worth and the greatest condes●ension and self-denyal is still found with most power and the best merit 1. Alexander the Great being in Asia was surprised with a sore Tempest and cold on the sudden insomuch that divers about him fainted by reason of the extremity of it He found a simple Soldier of Macedonia in this condition fainted and almost utterly starved whom he caused to be carried into his Tent and set by the fire in his Chair Royal. The warmth of the fire brought the Soldier to himself again and then perceiving in what manner he sate he started up astonished to excuse himself to the King But Alexander with a smiling Countenance said unto him Knowest thou not my Soldier that you Macedonians live after another sort under your King than the Persians do under theirs for unto them it is death to sit in the Kings Chair but unto thee it hath been life 2. Alphonsus the most Potent King of Arragon Naples and Sicily as he passed through Campania lighted by accident of a Muletter whose Mule overladen with Corn stuck in the Mire nor was he able with all his strength to deliver her thence The Mulletter besought all that passed by to assist him but in vain At last the King himself dismounts from his Horse and was so good a help to the poor man that he freed his Beast When he knew it was the King falling on his knees he begg'd his pardon the King with words of courtesie dismissed him This may seem to be a thing of small moment yet hereby several people of Campania became reconciled to the King 3. It is reported by Gualter Mapes an old Historiographer of ours who lived four hundred years since that King Edward the first and Leoline Prince of Wales being at an interview near Aust upon Severn in Glocestershire and the Prince being sent for but refusing to come the King would needs go over to him Which Leoline perceiving went up to the Arms in water and laying hold on the Kings Boat would have carried the King out upon his Shoulders adding that his humi●ity and wisdom had triumphed over his pride and folly and thereupon was reconciled to him and did his homage 4. St. Nilamon dyed with terror as they bare him to the Throne of a Bishop for which so many other pine away with ambition and while he thought himself unworthy and fearing to loose his innocency in an over-strong apprehension of both he departed this life 5. Peter of Alexandria being the lawful Successor of St. Mark would yet never be perswaded to mount his Chair but contented himself to sit the residue of his days upon the footstool until after his death the people in veneration of his virtue having attired him in his pontifical habit did carry his body to the seat which he never had possessed 6. Rudolphus Austriacus Anno 1273. was Earl of Hapsburg one day he went out a hunting with some of his followers it rained that day and the way was dirty and uneven when he chanced to encounter a Priest who was bearing on foot the sacred host unto a sick man thereabouts as the last comfort he was capable of The Earl was moved with this sight and with some passion dismounting f●om his horse What said he shall I be carried on horseback while he that carries my Saviour walks on foot It is certainly an uncomely if not a prophane thing and there●ore take this horse and get up It was his command as well as entreaty whereupon the Priest obeyed The humble Earl in the mean time followed to the house of the sick on foot and uncovered and in the same manner accompanied him back from thence to his own house● The Priest astonished at the humility of so great a person and inspired from above gave him his blessing at parting and withal predicted the possession of the Empire to him and his posterity which fell out accordingly 7. Elizabetha was the Daughter of the King of Hungary and married to Lewis the Lantgrave of Thurengia yet in the midst of riches and abundance she affected poverty and humility sometimes when she remained at home with her maids she put on the meanest Apparel saying that she would never use any other ornament whensoever the good and merciful Lord should put her into a condition wherein she might more freely dispose of her self When she went to Church her manner was to place her self amongst the poorer ●ort of women After the death of her Husband she undertook a Pilgrimage wherein she gave to the poor and necessitous all that came to her hands to dispose of she built an Hospital and therein made her self an attendant upon the sick and the poor and when by her Father she was recalled into Hungary she refused to go preferring this manner of life before the enjoyment of a Kingdom 8. It was observed of St. Bernard of Claraval that certain bright Rays did seem to proceed from his eyes and this judgment was made of it that he therefore had such a glory in his eyes for that he never looked upon any whom he did not judge to be better than himself If he saw a man in vile habit he would say to himself this man bears his poverty with greater patience than you Bernard and beholding one in more costly attire he would say Perhaps under these ●ine cloaths there is a better man than Bernard is in his course rayment

was easily slain In the mean time Fleance so prospered in Wales that he gained the affection of the Princes Daughter of the Country and by her had a Son called Walter who ●lying Wales returned into Scotland where his descent known he was restored to the Honors and Lands of his House and preferred to be Steward of the House of Edgar the Son of Malcolme the Third sirnamed Conmer King of Scotland the name of Steward growing hence hereditary unto his Posterity From this Walter descended that Robert Steward who succeeded David Bruce in the Kingdom of Scotland the Progenitor of nine Kings of the name of Stewart which have reigned successively in that Kingdom 3. Oliver a Benedictine Monk of Malmesbury was much addicted to the Mathematicks and to Judicial Astrology a great Comet happened to appear in his ●●e which he entertained with these expressions Venisti Venist● multis matribus lugendum malum Dudum te vidi sed multò jam terribilius Anglicae minans prorsus excidium Art thou come Art thou come thou evil to be lamented by many mothers I saw thee long since but now thou art much more terrible threatning the English with utter destruction Nor did he much miss his mark herein for soon after the coming in of the Norman Conqueror deprived many English of their lives more of their Laws and Liberties This Oliver dyed 1060. five years before the Norman Invasion and so prevented by death saw not his own prediction performed 4. Agrippa the Son of Aristobulus was accused to Tiberius Caesar and by his command cast into bonds standing thus bound amongst others before the Palace gates by reason of grief he leaned against a Tree upon which there sate an Owl A certain German that was also in bonds beholding the Bird inquired of a Souldier what Noble man that was who told him that it was Agrippa a Prince of the Jews The German desired he might be permitted to come nearer to him it was granted when he thus said Young man this sudden and unexpected mutation of Fortune doth torment and perplex thee but in a short time thou shalt be freed of these bonds and raised to a dignity and power that shall be the envy of all these who now look upon thee as a miserable person know also that whensoever thou shalt see an Owl pearch over thy head after the manner of this now present it shall betoken to thee that thy fatal end draweth nigh All this was fulfilled for soon after Tiberius dyed Caius succeeded who loosed the bonds of Agrippa and placed the Crown of Iudaea on his head there he reigned in great splendour when one day having ended a Royal Oration he had made to the people with great acclamation and applause turning back his head he spyed the fatal Owl sitting over his head whereupon he was seised with torments of the belly carried away and in few days dyed 5. When Flavius Vespasianus made War in Iudaea amongst the noble Captives there was one called Ioseph who being cast into bonds by his order did nevertheless constantly affirm that those shackles of his should in a short time be taken off by the same person who had commanded them to be put on but by that time he should of a private man become Emperour which soon after f●ll out for Nero Galba Otho and Vitellius the Emperors being slain in a short space Vespasian succeeded and commanded Iosephs setters not to be unlocked but for the greater honour to be broken off 6. Manahem a Jew an Essaean beholding on a time Herod the Ascalonite at School amongst the rest of the youth saluted him King of the Jews Herod supposing he either mocked or knew him not told him he was one of the mean●r sort Manahem smiling and giving him a gentle blow or two Thou shalt reign said he and prosperously too for so is the pleasure of God and remember then these blows of Manahem which may admonish thee of mutable Fortune but I foresee thou wilt be unmindful both of the Laws of God and man though otherwise most fortunate and illustrious Herod lived to fulfil all this 7. Iudas of the Sect of the Essaeans amongst the Jews being not used to fail in his predictions when he beheld Antigonus the Brother of Aristobulus the Brother of Aristobulus to pass by the Temple of Ierusalem of whom he had predicted that he should that day be slain in the Tower of Strato he turned to his friends wishing that himself might dye since he was alive The Tower of Strato said he is six hundred furlongs off so that my prediction is not possible to be fulfilled on this day as I pronounced but scarce had he finished his discourse when news comes that Antigonus was slain in a Cave that was called the Tower of Strato and thus the prediction was fulfilled though not well understood by him who was the Author of it 8. While Iulius Caesar was sacrificing Spurina a Soothsayer advised him to beware of the Ides of March when therefore they were come and that there was no visible appearance of danger Caesar sent for Spurina Well said he the Ides of March are come and I see nothing in them so formidable as thy caution to me would seem to import They are come indeed said Spurina but they are not past that unhappy accident which was threatned may yet fall out nor was he mistaken for upon the same day Iulius was slain in the Senate house by Brutus and Cassius and the rest of their Complices 9. When Vitellius the Emperour had set forth an Edict that the Mathematicians should at a certain day depart the City and Italy it self there was a Paper affixed to a publick place wherein was writ that the Cha daeans did predict good Fortune for before the day appointed for their departure Vitellius should no where be found nor did it miscarry in the event Vitellius being slain before the day came 10. Proclus Larginus having in Germany predicted that Domitian the Emperour should dye upon such a day was laid hold upon and for that cause sent to Rome where when before Domitian himself he had affirmed the very same he was sentenced to death with order to keep him till the day of his prediction was past and then that on the next he should dye in case what he had foretold of the Emperour proved false but Domitian was slain by Stephanus upon the very day as he had said whereupon the Soothsayer escaped and was enlarged with great honour 11. Ascletarion was one singularly skilled in Astrology and he also had predicted the day and hour of Domitians death and being asked by the Emperour what kind of death he himself should dye I shall shortly said he be torn in pieces by Dogs the Emperour therefore commands that he should be slain forthwith publickly burnt and to mock the vanity and temerity of his Art he ordered that the ashes of his body should be

and tenth day of his Papacy he was saying Mass in the Church of the Holy Cross in Ierusalem he was suddenly seised with a Feaver and then knew he should dye by the busle of the Devils who expected what they had contracted with him for he was made Pope An. 1000. or as others 997. 21. Croesu● sent to Delphos to know of the Oracle if his Empire and Government should be durable or not the Answer he received was Regis apud Medos mulo jam sede potito Lyde ●ugam mollis scruposum corripe ad Hermum Ne've mane ignavus posito sis Lyde pudore When the Verses came to Croesus he took great pleasure therein hoping it would never come to pass that amongst the Medes a Mule instead of a man should reign and that therefore he and his posterity should preserve their Empire unabolished But when after he was overcome he had got leave of Cyrus to send to Delphos to upbraid the Oracle with the deceit Apollo sent him word that by the Mule he meant Cyrus because he was born of Parents of two different Nations of a more noble Mother than Father for she was a Mede the Daughter of Astyages King of the Medes the Father a Persian and Subject to the Medes and though a very mean person had yet married Mandane the Daughter of his King 22. Pompey the Great was called Agamemnon because he ruled over 1000 Ships he dyed within those eight days wherein he had triumphed over Mithridates and the Pirates This is wonderful that when he held all the Family of the Cassii amongst the Romans suspected none ever conspired against him though he was warned to take heed of Cassius it was not meant of a man but he dyed near the Mount Cassius and was buried in it 23. In the Reign of King Henry the Eighth a Fryer Observant called Fryer Forrest who had taken the Oath of Supremacy himself yet privily perswaded others that the King was not supreme Head of the Church was examined convicted and condemned and on a pair of Gallows prepared for him in Smithfield he was hanged by the middle and arm holes alive and under the Gallows was made afire wherewith he was consumed A little before his Execution a huge great Image was brought to the Gallows fetched out of Wales which the Welch men had in great reverence called Dawel Gatheren of which there went a Prophecy that this Image should set a whole Forest on fire which was thought to take effect in setting this Fryer Forrest on fire and consuming him to nothing 24. There was a Prophecy of Merline that Leoline Prince of Wales should be crowned with the Diadem of Brute this so over-weighed him that he had no care for Peace with King Edward the First though offered and therefore shortly after had no head For when the Earl of Pembroke had taken Bere Castle the Seat of Leoline he was himself slain in Battel and his head cut off by a common Souldier was sent to King Edward who caused the same to be crowned with Ivy and to be s●t upon the Tower of London 25. Philip King of Macedon was admonished to preserve his life from the violence of Quadriga which is a Coach with four Horses the King upon this caused the Chariots and Carts throughout his whole Realm to be unharnassed and drawn only with two Horses He also very carefully shunned that place in Boetia which is called Quadriga and yet for all this he could not avoid that kind of Fate which was predicted to him for Pausanias who slew him had a Coach and four Horses engraven upon the Hilt of that Sword which he lift up against him 26. Daphida was one of those whom they call Sophists and out of a foolish insolency he went to Delphos to consult the Oracle of Apollo for no other purpose but to deride it He inquired therefore if he should find his Horse whereas indeed he had none of his own Apollo answered that he should undoubtedly find his Horse but should be so troubled with him that it would be his death The Sophist returned back jesting as supposing that he had deluded the Deity but in his way he fell into the hands of King Attalus one whom he had often bitterly provoked by his abusive speeches in his absence The King therefore gave order they should take him to the top of that Rock which is called Equus or the Horse and cast him down headlong from thence 27. Alexander Bala King of Syria being in C●licia consulted the Oracle of Apollo touching his Destiny and death whence he is said to have received this Answer That he should beware of that place which had brought forth a rare sight to be seen a thing having two shapes this was thought to refer to Abas a City in Arabia whither he fled when he was defeated by Ptolomeus Philometor in a Fight near the River Oenopara there was he slain by the Commanders of his own Party his head cut off by Zabdiel a powerful Arabian to whom he had fled for protection and by him presented to Ptolomy who was exceedingly delighted with the sight but being at that time sore wounded dyed upon the third day after Now herein lay the equivocation of the Oracle for that in this City Abas there was a certain Woman called Herais having Diophantus a Macedonian for her Father and an Arabian Woman her Mother and married to one Samjades who changed her sex and of a Woman became a man taking upon her her Fathers name Diophantus 28. The Emperour Iulianus while at Antioch is said to have seen in his sleep a young man with yellow hair who told him that he should dye in Phrygia when therefore he was wounded in Persia he demanded of them that ●tood by what the place was called who told him Phrygia upon which he cryed out O Sol Iulianum perdidisti O Apollo thou hast undone Iulianus 29. Iohannes Martinus born in Belgia was a very good Painter and being in Italy he was told by an Astrologer that when he came to Geneva he should then dye he gave not much credit to this prediction but it so fell out that he was sent for to Bern by Thomas Schopsius a Physician on purpose to illustrate the Jurisdiction o● Bern by Chorographical Tables He had now almost finished the designed Tables and was entred upon that which contains Geneva when while he was about the place of the City and writing down the name of that City he was suddenly seised upon with the Plague which at that time furiously raged thereabouts and dyed An. 1577. in the month of August 30. C. Caligula consulted Sylla the Mathematician about his Nativity who told him that a certain death was now near unto him He was also admonished by the Sortes Antiatinae that he should beware of Cassius upon which he gave order for the killing of Cassius Longinus the then Proconsul of Asia being

adorning of those Baths which he had Founded And saith Herodian deceasing in the eighteenth year of his Reign he left to his Children and Successours such a summ of money as none before him had done and so great an Army as no force could be able to resist 15. The Tribute called Cunigosteura and Fanolehe was by the institution of Charles the Great Every measure of Bread-corn paid yearly five pence every man who by reason of sickness or age desired an exemption from the War was fined at the same summ nor were the Churches or Church-men themselves freed of Contribution in this kind This Prince had with him an account of all Farms Stipends Fields Meadows Vineyards Villages the annual Rents and value of all these with the Tributes imposed upon them as also a stated account of great and small Cattel and number of servants not only so but he had the very houshold-stuff of all Prefects Presidents Prelates Monks and Nuns written down and Registred 16. King Athelstan imposed as a Tribute on the Prince of North Wales to pay three hundred Wolves yearly which continued three years and in the fourth there was not one Wolf to be found whereby the Province was cleared of infinite trouble and danger the great abundance of them had formerly occasioned 17. Ludovicus Sfortia sent F. Marchesius to the Genoans to demand of them a mighty Tribute The Genoans received the Embassadour with all manner of civility they led him into a Garden and there shewed him the herb Basil it is the Emblem of an afflicted Common-wealth they desired him to take some of that weak Herb and smell to it he did so and told them that it smelt very sweet they then wished him that he would press and rub it betwixt his fingers and so smell to it he did so And now saith he it stinks In like manner said the Genoans if the Prince deal graciously and mercifully with us he will oblige us to all chearfulness and readiness in his service but if he shall proceed to grind and oppress us he will then find the bitter and troublesome effects of it 18. The Plane Tree was first brought over the Ionian Sea into the Island Diomedia to beautifie the Tomb of Diomedes from thence translated into Sicily and so at length brought into Italy and planted as a singular rare and special Tree but now it is carryed as far as Terwin and Tourney in France where it is counted an appurtenance to the very soil that payeth Tribute insomuch as people that will but walk and refresh themselves under the shadow of it must pay a Tribute and Custom thereupon to the people of Rome 19. Dionysius the elder exacted a vast summ of money of the Syracusans and when he saw that they lamented pretended poverty and desired to be freed of it he then appointed a new Impost or Tax to be laid upon them and this he caused to be collected twice or thrice At last when he had commanded the same should be paid again and that he observed thereupon that the people laugh'd and as they walked together cast out sharp words and jests upon him he gave order that the Tribute should be demanded no more for saith he since they begin to contemn us it is a sign that they have no money at all left 20. Licinius the Prefect of Gallia proceeded so far in his avaricious design that whereas the Gauls were to pay thei● Tribute every Month he ordained that there should be fourteen Months accounted to the year December he said was indeed the Tenth Month but after that he would have two other to succeed which he called the Augusti for the eleventh and twel●th Months for these interposed Months he required the same Tribute to be paid as in any other two of the year 21. Drusus had imposed a Tribute upon the Frisons a small one and agreeable to their poverty it was that for Military uses they should pay a certain number of Ox Hides not determining either the measure or strength of them Olennius was afterwards made Governour of that people and he chose out certain Bulls Hides according to the measure and strength of which their Tribute should be accepted if otherwise not This was hard to other Nations but especially to the Germans who had Forests indeed of mighty Beasts that were wild but had few Herds of them at home and therefore they first delivered up thier Oxen themselves afterwards their Lands and at last not able to pay their Tribute they gave up their own bodies those of their Wives and Servants to be Slaves in lieu of it Hereupon began first complaints and then indignation and because they were not able to remedy these things by a just War they seized upon those Souldiers that were appointed to collect the Tribute and hung them upon Gibbets 22. Antigonus laid heavy Impositions upon the Nations of Asia and when one told him that Alexander did not use to do so he said it was true indeed for Alexander did only Mow Asia and that he was to gather the Stubble 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was the name of a Tribute that was imposed upon the Astrologers and such as were figure-setters and by that appellation they used to reproach such as consulted the Mathematicians and Calculators of Nativities 23. Every three years the Aethiopians were wont to pay by way of Tribute unto the Kings of Persia as Herodotus saith two hundred Billets of the Timber of the Ebony Tree together with Gold and Ivory the yearly Tribute of which last was twenty great and Massy Elephants Teeth 24. Mausolus King of Caria had sundry subtil and injurious waies whereby he used to extort money from his Subjects he feigned that another King demanded Tribute of him which he was not able to pay and that therefore he must be supplyed by the purses of his people he got a great summ from the Myllacenses pretending that their Mother City was to be invaded by the enemy and whereas it wanted a Wall he had not wherewith to build one By Condalus his Lieutenant he divers waies drained and exhausted the people for such Cattel as were given him he left in the hand of the Donours for some years and then demanded them together with all the increase of them within such a time as they were first given he sold the Fruits of such Trees at a price as hung over any part of the Kings High-waies he demanded a Tributary Drachm for the burial of any Souldier that deceased And whereas the Lycians rejoyced and delighted in their hair he feigned an Edict from the King That they should have it cut off unless every man should redeem his at a certain rate by him at pleasure imposed CHAP. XXXIII Of Cheats and the extraordinary boldness of some in their Thefts THe Emperour Aurelius Alexander saith Lampridius was so perfect a hater of all Thieves that if he chanced but to see