he was slaine by the Frizelanders in the second yere of his raigne VVhen hee was dead there vvas an InterregnuÌ„ for 17. yeeres by reason of the Pope Some chose Alphonsus King of Spaine Emperour for his vvisedome and vertues which he refused the other part of the Electors elected Richard the King of Englands brother and brought him to Basill but he vvas not accepted of the Empire Rodolphus the Countie of Haspurge vvas elected and ruled 18. yeares hee killed Oâ—hocarus King of Bohemia and burned one â—hat sayd he was Frederick the second he did 〈◊〉 a manner set vp the decaied Empire ere â—e died Adolphus County of Nason succeeded â—im but the Princes annoyed with his bad â—â—fe ambition chose in his place Albertus â—he first of vvhom Adolphus in a battaill â—as slaine hauing raigned 8. yeeres Albertus the first son of Rodulphus went â—vith a great power against the King of France but in passing ouer the riuer Rhene â—e vvas killed of Iohn his brothers sonne afâ—er he had ruled ten yeeres Henry the seauenth CouÌ„ty of Lusenbruge â—aigned 32. yeeres and vvas poysoned by a Dominick Frier in the sacrament he made his sonne Iohn King of Bohemia by marryâ—ng the Kings Daughter vvhose sonne vvas Charles the 4. king of Bohemia Lodouicus Duke of Bauier vvas chosen Emperor by the Bishop of Mentz Trier the King of Bohemia and the Marquesse of Bradenbrough and against him was erected Fredericke Duke of Austria by the Bishop of Coleine the Count Palatine and Duke of Saxonie vvhereupon neyther of them vvould giue place in the Empire but rather for the space of eyght yeres they made warre one against the other in the end Lodouicus ouercame and killed Fredericke vvas sole Emperour raigning thirty and two yeeres hee dyed and vvas a Prince indued with all vertuous qualities Gunther Earle of Swartzenburge was named Emperour yet not vvith consent of all the Electors and shortly after hee vvas suddaily poysoned at Franckford Charles the fourth sonne to Prince Iohn the sonne of Henry the seauenth enioyed the Empire to the honour of this election were inuited Edvvarde the third King of England Frederick Earle prouinciall of Misen but they refused it Hee vvas a learned Prince and erected the Vniuersity of Prage and raigned 32. yeeres Venceslaus succeeded his Father Charles and gouerned 22. yeeres he through slothfulnesse let the Empire fall to ruine he vvas deposed by his brother Sigismund Rupertus or Robertus County Palatine of Rhene hauing possessed the empire after his warres against Galatius vvho was the first Duke of Millaine so created by Venceslaus as Sleidan reporteth gaue himselfe to peace and religion died raigning 9. yeeres Sigismundus the sonne of Charles the 4. vvas a most noble vertuous and learned Prince much condemning the Germaines â—or that they hated the Latine tongue hee â—ooke avvay the ambitious contention of â—hree Bishops of Rome draue them from â—heyr seates he died raigning 27. yeeres Albert the second Duke of Austria married the onely daughter of Sigismund vvho â—hereby vvas King of Bohemia Hungaria â—nd was the successor of Sigismund in hys time the most excellent and necessary Arte of Printing vvas inuented by the which the knowledge of God was renued he subdued â—he Normaines and the people of Svveuia he dyed of the bloody flixe raigning but 2. yeeres Frederick the third Duke of Austria gouerned the state for the space of 53. yeeres vvith so great vvisedome that it florished in â—ll prosperitie and quietnes hee died the 79. yeere of his age Maximilian the sonne of the Emperour Frederick Leonora daughter to the king of Lusitania raigned 32. yeeres he married Mary the daughter of Charles Duke of Burgundie by vvhom hee had the Dukedome and Matthew the King of Pannonia beeing dead he obtained the kingdome thys vvas a Prince noble valorous and a patron of all learning nor thought hee it dishonour hauing taken King Henry the 8. his pay to serue against Fraunce vnder his conquering colours Charles the 5. sonne of Philip vvho vvas Archduke of Austria and the sonne of Maximilian and Mary succeeded of this Philip came Carolus and Ferdinandus vvhose mother was Ioane Queene of Castile he had also foure daughters Leonora married to the King of Lusitania Isabell to the King of Fraunce Mary to the king of Denmark and Katherine to the king of Hungaria Charles the fift vvas crovvned at Aquisgrane with the siluer crovvne for it is an auncient custome that all Emperors should be crowned vvith 3. diuers crownes vvhich were of gold siluer and yron At Rome Bononie they were crowned with the crowne of golde for the Empyre oâ— Rome with the siluer at Aquisgrane for the Empire of Germany and at Menza with the yron crowne for Lombardie Charles Duke of Burbon with the Emperors host besieged Rome and sacked it constrayning Pope Leo to flie to his Castle Anâ—elo but the Duke was vnfortunatly slaine â—n the assault with an harguebuze Hee was elected Emperor at 19. yeeres of â—ge Fraunces the French king was his comâ—etitor he conquered Millaine ouercame â—he Frenchmen and Switzers in which wars Fraunces there king was taken prisoner hee â—ooke the kingdome of Tunis from Aenoâ—arbus Lieuetenant of the Turke conquered by assault the towne of Affrick VVhen he had raigned 37. yeeres he resigned to his sonne Philip all the estate and â—ignories his Empire to his brother Ferdinando King of the Romaines this doone hee vvent into a Monastery of the Monkes of the order of Saint Hierome and therein dyed Ferdinand the brother of Charles sonne of Philip Archduke of Austria and Ioane Qu. of Castile blessed by God in many prosperous victories and in a small power in comparison of the forces of Solyman was made a Conquerour ouer the Turke Anno 1529. hee was a Prince of great clemencie a louer of learning studying to preserue peace in Europe among Christian Princes hee dyed when hee had raigned sixe yeeres and foure months Maximilian the sonne of Ferdinand vvas chosen Emperor 1564. Hee made prosperous expeditions against the Turkes died vvhen he had raigned 11. yeeres Rodolphus his sonne succeeded him who gouerneth the Empire at this day The maiestie of the Romaine Monarchie florished especially in the house of Haspurge and hath lineally brought foorth tenne Emperours The Romaine Empire hath surmounted all others that haue been or shal be it is novv much dismembred in Asia it hath nothing beeing as now possessed of the Turkes and Tartarians all Affricke almost is lost Portingall Spayne England France Poland Denmarke Hungaria Slauonia and all Greece are cut from the Empire vvith the Countries there abouts and the Iles of Sicilia Sardinia Corsica and Sauoy Italy vvhich hath alwaies beene the first most auncient patrimony of the Romain Empire scarce acknowledgeth the Emperour Spaine holds Calabria Puel Campania and the Kingdome of Naples c as by succession of their auncestors The old and auncient seate of the Empire the Popes possesse
〈◊〉 auntient line of Hercules The sixt was Periander of whom the Hiâ—â—oriographers doubted whether his Philoâ—â—phy or tirany were greater The seauenth Bias that was Prince of the â—yraneans a learned Philosopher and a vaâ—â—ant Souldiour who ouercame the Metiâ—enses this battaile was the first that any â—hilosopher of Greece fought The Grecians had their Philosophers the Persians their Magi the Indians Gymnosoâ—hists the Aegiptians Priests the Hebrewes Prophets the Assirians Chaldeans the Laâ—â—nes vvise-men the French-men Druides â—ll vvhich in euery of these Nations and â—hroughout all the world were renowned for their wisedome and profound learning Of Temperance The property of this vertue consisteth in thâ— things which belong to the keeping of mans liâ—â— in his body and vsing the pleasures thereof mâ—â—derately being a meane in our seeing bearing smelling tasting and feeling MOses abstained from his ordinary reâ—fection the space of 40. daies when vppon mount Sinai he was to receaue the tâ—bles of the law from God Exod. Minos as it is fayned when he was to reâ—ceaue lawes from Iupiter fasted nine dayes Homer Daniell and his companions neglecting thâ— Kings table liued with pulse and water oneâ—ly Bib. Plato forsooke Dionysius courtly feasting betook himselfe to his philosophicall diet Saint Iohn Baptist passed ouer the greatesâ— part of his age in the vvildernes eating nothing but Locusts and wild honey Bartholomew the Apostle when Polemion King of India sent him Cammels richly loaden with gold and siluer for that he had dispossessed his daughter of an vncleane spiâ—â—t refused them saying that hee came not to â—â—ceaue rewards for his hire but that he mighâ—â—ew the way of saluation to those that beleeue â—arullus Anacharsis the Scithian philosopher counâ—â—led Kings and Princes to write about their â—â—ctures Rule lust temper the tongue bridle the â—elly Aelianus Augustus vvas of a very spare dyet his â—anner was to sit downe to meate when his â—uests had halfe dined and would be the first â—hat rised Plut. Pericles neuer supped nor came at any â—anquet Thucidides Scipio for the space of fifty foure yeares â—either bought nor sold any thing he was so â—eâ—l contented with a little Scipio in the flower of his age at the taking of the Citty of Carthage had a young Daâ—osell to his prisoner of rare and excellent beauty and when he vnderstood her birth that she was betrothed to Lucius of Spain â—e sent for him and restored her vnto him without abusing her any way besides giuing her a dowry Plut. Alexander did the like with Darius vvife who excelled all the dames of Asia for beauty the like of Cyrus Curtius Herodotus Phryna the harlot lying with Xenocratâ— vpon a wager to proue his continency sayâ— she lay not with a man but with a blockeâ— Laertius C. Gracchus as long as he gouerned Saâ—dinia would neuer suffer a woman to come into his house except it vvere to demaunâ— iustice Pyttacus being constrained to take vpoâ— him the charge of an Army accepted it with great griefe saying O howe hard a matter is iâ— to be a good man Laertius Torquatus and Fabritius absented themselues from Rome the one because he woulâ— not haue the dictatorship the other the consulship Of all those which sought the ouerthroâ— of Rome neuer any sober man went abouâ— the same but Caesar. Cato Vespasian was of that temperance that be would not drink nor eate but once a day and that very sparingly Socrates by his great abstinence liued 〈◊〉 his life without sicknes M. Val. Coruinus liued free from sicknes an hundred yeares by his abstinence Massinissa King of Numidia neuer sate at his table neuer sawced his meate and was â—â—ntent with that bread he allowed vnto his â—â—uldiours â—yrus when one of his minions moued him 〈◊〉 see Panthea saying that her beauty was 〈◊〉 worthy to be seene that is the cause said â—â—rus why I will abstaine from the sight of 〈◊〉 Xenophon â—edaretus hauing escaped the election of 〈◊〉 of those three hundred Senators which â—â—uerned the estate of Sparta returned ioyâ—â—â— saying that it was an easie matter to find that Citty three hundred better and more â—onest men then himselfe â—imaeus Duke of Sauoy willingly gaue oâ—â—r his Dutchy into his Sonnes hands and â—â—came an Hermit and after that being choâ—â—â— Pope he gaue vp the seate willingly to aâ—other Guichardine Amurath the second of that name after he 〈◊〉 obtayned infinite victories became a â—onke of the straightest sect amongst them Charles the fift resigned his Empire into 〈◊〉 hands of the Princes Electors and withâ—â—ew himselfe into a monastrey Guichard Cato the younger trauailing ouer the deâ—â—rts of Lybia endured great thirst when Souldiour offered him water in his motion 〈◊〉 threw it vpon the ground in presence of them all that his Army might know that hâ— would be in no better estate then they Vâ—lerius Socrates when soeuer he felt himselfe thirsty would not drinke before he had cast away the first pitcher of water that he might acquaint his sensuall appetite to expect the conuenient time of reason Plato The Germaines in Iulius Caesars time a strong warlike people liued only of milk cheese and flesh not knowing what wheate and vvine were nor vvhat it was to labor the ground or to sowe Varro Liuia commendeth the barrainnes and sterility of a Country more then the fruitfulnes saying that men borne in a fat soile are commonly doe-littles and cowards but the barraine Country bringeth forth temperate and sober persons the Athenians were situated in a very vnfruitfull place The feasts of Pythagoras Socrates Xenocrates and the Sages of Greece were the discourses of learned matters philosophy The Aegiptians vsed in the midst of theyr banquets to bring in the Anatomy of a dead body dried that the horror of it might hold them within the bonds of temperance Hero In the old time Vines were planted and â—ressed that wine might be drunk rather in â—ime of sicknes then of health in so much â—hat it was not sold in Tauerns only but also â—n Apothicaries shops The Emperor Rodolphus when drink was brought vnto him in the war against Octotarus King of Bohemia at what time he was â—n a place where his whole Army was troubled with thirst would not receaue it but sayd that his thirst was for all his Army and not alone for himselfe Pythagoras liued only of hearbs fruit and water he neuer drank vvine nor that great Orator Demosthenes The Kings of Aegipt were forbidden vvine which they neuer drank except on certaine daies and that in measure Sabellicus Alexander refused the Cookes and Paysterers which Ada Q. of Caria sent vnto him saying that he had better then they namely For his dinner early rising and walking a good while before day for his supper a litle dinner but the Persian delicacies soon changed this C. Fabritius vvas found by the Samnite Embassadors that came vnto him eating of Rape roots which was all the fare he had Hanibal fed vpon no
as hee was prouoked and induced therevnto by others Tacitus Herius of Corinth builded in the midst of the Citty a Temple to the Goddesse Venus within which were inclosed more then 500. of the fairest maides of Asia whom theyr parents did there consecrate to the Goddesse Venus to the end they might bee Louers and stales to drawe louers to them holding her for most religious and holy which vvas most amorous and dissolute Samocratius Nigidius and Ouid vvrit many volumes of the remedy of loue but it little profited themselues for they al three died in persecution not for the abuses they committed at Rome but for the loues they practised at Capua The cause of ciuil dissention between Themistocles Aristides was the loue of Stesilia an harlot whose beauty being vanished their hatred was such that they neuer could be reconciled but continued enemies euen to the death The like hatred vvas betvveene Cato and Caesar about the loue of the harlot Seruilia The Kings of Assiria neuer aunswered anie Embassadour themselues but by messengers they spending theyr time in courting theyr Concubines and for theyr vnkinglie loue to vvomen they were euer condemned of all men Pausanius Alexander for the loue hee bare to the famous harlot Thais caused that most renowned and rich citty Persepolis to be burned Publius Pilatus was in loue with the Images of Helena and Atalanta Pigmalion doated on an Iuory image that he had made with his owne hands Ouid. Two young men of Athence were in loue with the picture of Fortune Cataline for the loue of Orestilla kylled his owne sonne because she would not ioyne in marriage with him while his sonne liued Salust Estrasco a Romaine borne dumbe loued Verona a Latine borne also dumbe who lyking each other came visited each other by the space of thirty yeeres vvithout the witting of any person then died the husband of the Lady Verona the wife of Estrasco they married of them descended the noble linage of the Scipios Aurelius The Poets faine that in Leucadia there is a very high steepe Rocke which is a notable remedy to asswage loue from this first leaped Cephalus for the loue of Degonetes vvhom he loued without measure Timon Misanthropos loued none but onely Alcibiades and him hee loued and once kissed because he sawe in his face the destruction of Athence Plutarch Xerxes all the wonderfull workes of Iupiter both on sea and land sette aside in Lydia fell so farre in loue with a Plane tree vvhich happened to his sight that he tarried a whole day by it and caused the boughes to be adorned with chaines of golde bracelets spangles yeelding there to great reuerence Alcibiades vvas the Paramour of Socrates Dion of Plato who both reaped profit by their loues Alexander crowned the tombe of Achilles and Hephestion that of Patroclus signifying thereby that he loued Alexander as wel as euer Patroclus loued Achilles Pausanias loued his wife so tenderly that it cannot bee described the like affection did Apelles beare to Pancasta Alexanders lemoÌ„ Adrian the Emperour doated on the loue of Antinous a faire young man insomuch that he dedicated a Temple to him at Mantinea and a Citty at Nilus Pausan. The Achaians honoured Fortune Loue both together in Aegina because none can attaine to Loue without Fortune Niphus Propertius when he was in loue sayde hee was not himselfe but a shadow Hephestion was called the louer of Alexander Craterus of the King Plut. VVhen Cyrus vvent to ouer-come Babylon the riuer Euphrates let him a Knight whom the King wel loued ventured into the water and was drowned then the king made a vow that this great riuer should not come to any vvomans knees which shoulde vvade ouer and therfore he parted it in the broade fields into foure hundred threescore chanels and so tooke the citty Perdiccas for the loue he bare to Alexander refused a great reuenewe in Macedonia and followed him in his vvarres in Asia Plutarch Turinga had so many louers that shee coulde not reckon them vppon her fingers ends but called for a bushell of pease to tell them by Aurelius Demetrius hauing strongly begirt the Citty of Rhodes for the loue he bare to Protogenes painted table raised his siege Of Iealousie Suspition This griefe of the minde as it is called iealousie belongeth onely to matters of loue and therefore hath to name Zelotypia the loue of beauty whose braunches are obtractation emulation â—nuie and detraction POlycrates Samius dearely affected Anacreon the Poet who likewise loued the Paramour of Polycrates named Smerdias but Polycrates kindled with the sparkes of iealousie supposing that the Poet loued Smerdias exceedingly shaued off his golden locks thereby to make him mishapen whose losse Anacreon lamented in a Poem Aelianus Phanius was so iealous of his wife that hee locked her vp thinking by that meanes to preuent all commers but he was deceaued and what shee could not compasse beeing at liberty she effected being pent vp Leucononia the wife of Cyampus was deuoured of a dogge in sted of a wild beast hiding her selfe in the woods to follow mark her husbands walks Argus hundred eyes could not keepe Io from Iupiter Ouid. Procris followed her husband Cephalus into thee woods fearing that he had some other Loue who being hid in the bushes and desirous to come neerer to him hee supposing some wild beast to be there killed her Ouidius Plutarch reporteth the lyke of Aemilius who killed himselfe when hee saw it vvas his wife The fish Canchar is iealous ouer her male and striueth oft for him Plinie Aemilia the wife of noble Scipio who although shee knew thinges euident by him made much of his Paramour as she made of her husband and all for Scipios sake Abraham was iealous of his wife Sara The Persians were so suspitious that theyr wiues had no liberty to goe abroade when they went it was in VVaggons The Thracians with such care and study kept their vvyues that they would trust no man in their companies but their Parents Herodotus An hundred threescore and ten Romainâ— women poysoned theyr husbands because they were iealous of them Valerius Galatius Maria Duke of Millane beeing at masse was slaine by a Cittizen for a iealousie hee had conceaued that this Prince had entertained his wife Guicchard The wild Boare pursued of dogs the Lyonesse bitten with hunger the Tyger robbed of her young ones or the Viper whose tayle is trod vpon are not more cruell and fierce then a woman offended but nothing sooner casteth her into a fury theÌ„ iealousie Ausonius Ariadne buried aliue Zeno Isauricus the Emperour that shee might be reuenged of him for his iealousie Bomilchar a Prince of Libia being suspected of his owne Country-men the Carthagians that he had conspired with Agathocles vnto anoyance of the Subiects was hanged in the Citty of Carthage in the midst of the Market Phillip King of Macedonia married the sister of Attalus and had diuorced and
deserued to haue been cast in himselfe In Almaine a lye hath beene alwayes extreamly hated shunned as it were a plague and bastards could neuer obtaine the price of any occupation whatsoeuer nor take degree in any Art or Science Zonarus The Emperours Nero Commodus Maximilius Iulius Valencius haue by lyes been brought to ruine Pope Alexander the sixt neuer did what he sayd and his Sonne Borgia neuer sayde vvhat hee meant to doe pleasing themselues in counterfaiting and dissembling to deceaue and falsifie theyr fayth Guychardine VVhen the Duke of Valentinois had caused certaine Princes to be murthered contrary to his oath his Father the Pope told him that hee had played a right Spaniards part but they dyed most miserably the one poysoned the other slaine The Lacedemonians banished Câ—hesiphon because he boasted that he could discourse a whole day long of any theame that was put vnto him Artaxerxes caused one of his Souldiours tongs to be nailed to a post for making a lie The Gabionites for lying lost theyr libertie The Cretans for lying became odious to all the world Achilles did more abhor lying then death Homer Paulus Iouius beeing demaunded in his Chronicle why hee fained many things as false and dissembled the true which thereby might breed his History to be suspected aunswered that hee did it to please those from whom he receaued pensions Vlisses speach alwayes proceeded from his hart Homer Pope Innocent the third made faire weather with Otho the fourth and Fredericke the second contending for the Empyre and neuerthelesse made a very solemne and eloquent oration of the agreement and vnity which ought to be amongst Christian Princes but a Cittizen of Rome aunswered him Holy Father your wordes seeme to bee of God but your deedes thereto contrary surely proceede from the deuill Guychardine Pyrrhus was enemie to the Romaines yet neuerthelesse did he giue this praise vnto Fabritius that a man might as soone turne him from the truth and honesty as the sunne out of his course Plut. In Lacedemon there vvas one that vvas knowne to bee a notorious lyer who notwithstanding he gaue profitable aduise and necessary for the time yet it was cleane reiected of the people Plut. Antiochus in hunting lost his way was constrained to retire to a poore mans house of the Country who not knowing him told him al the faults he his fauorites had committed to whoÌ„ at his returne he sayd that he neuer vnderstoode the truth till that night and euer after carried him selfe most vertuously Marcus Aurelius was called Verissimus for in him was neuer found lyes nor truth euer fayled Pharamond King of Fraunce was called VVarmond which signifieth truth The Lacedemonians condemned one that did open penance wearing hairecloath vpon his skin for that thereby they discouered his hipocrisie in as much as it was wouen with purpure Dionysius the Tyrant being retired to Athence after hee was depriued of his kingdome bewailed the estate of Princes but especially in that men neuer spoke freely vnto them and the truth was euer hidden and concealed from them Plato Demosthenes called Phocion the hatchet of his words because he spake truth to the matter The dissimulation of Metellus and Scipio was so great that Metellus fained that Rome was happy that Scipio was borne therin and yet was his mortall enemy all the dayes of his lyfe Fredericke a Romaine emperour at what time the Senators were entring the Senate would say to them before you enter Cast away two things simulations and dissimulations Alexander would consent to nothing but truth and Phillip his Father to all kinde of falshood By craft Haniball vanquished the Tarentines by craft the Romaines recouered it againe Clodius to bring his purpose to passe with Pompeia Caesars wife dissembled himselfe to be a woman Cicero Salmoneus by lightening of a Torch did counterfet the thundering sownds lightning stormes of heauen Virgil. Phryne the harlot to knowe which was Praxiteles the Paynters best picture bad his man bring him word that his shop was on fire I am vndone sayd he if my pictures of the Satyre and Cupid be burned Pausanias Darius became King of Persia by neighing of a Mare hauing the day before brought to that place a Stallion for it was agreed among the Persians that whose Mare first neighed he should be King Herodotus Pelagia of Antioche dissembled her selfe to be a man because she would liue chast Semyramis knowing her Sonne to be too young to rule disguised her selfe lyke to a man and gouerned the monarchy vntill her Sonne came to riper age Iustin. Vlisses fained himselfe mad to auoyde the great expedition Homer Marina and Euphrosina Grecian Virgins were woorthily preferred before Cleomilus and Clisthenes for that they vvent in the apparraile of men to lyue in the vvildernes to auoide lust the others went in the habites of women to beguile women Achilles was by his mother Thetis sent to King Licomedes like a woman because hee might not goe to Troy where thus disguised he gâ—t vpon one of them Pyrrhus Neoptolemus Sinon by dissembling gotte Troy for the Grecians Conon the Athenian deceaued the Persians in Cyprus and Antigonus the Cittizens of Corinth Pyrrhus deceaued Cannius in his bargaine of fish Cic. of fic lib. An old Lacedemonian who had coloured his haires discouered his head in a great assembly made a declaration of such matters about which he came Archidamus the King rose vp sayd VVhat truth can this fellow speake whose heart is stayned with spots of hypocrisie and double dealing Aelianus Eurydamas a wrastler when his teeth were dashed out by his aduersary hee dissembled his paine and swollowed downe his teeth blood all to the end that hee which gaue the blow might not perceaue the mischiefe Cleomenes had a companion whom hee made pertaker of a purpose he had to accoÌ„plish to whom he swore that he would attempt nothing but Archonides should be at one end thereat when hee had gotten what hee desired he murthered his companion cut his head from his shoulders layd it in a bason of honey so when he put any deuice in aduenture he looked vpon his head in the bason saying I breake not my promise but I stand to my oath for I take counsaile with Archonides head according to my couenant Aelianus Meton the Astronomer counterfaited himselfe mad and set his owne house on fire because he would not goe with the Grecians their voyage into Sicilia Cato was so renowned for his truth that when any man rehearsed a strange thing and hard to be beleeued this prouerbe went of him because he was knowne throughout the whole course of his life to be a louer of truth This is not credible although Cato himselfe shold speake it Aristomenes when he was dead and vnbowelled his hart was hairy which was a sure signe of his craft subtilty Brutus dissembled himselfe a foole to the end that men shold haue no mistrust of him nor bee
left his kingdome to Arnolphus the Sonne of Charlemaine he was brought to great misery and not hauing sufficient whereby to liue dyed at Sweuia in the 7 yeare of his raigne Arnolphus a couetous Prince raigned 12 yeares and dyed of Lyce after him the maiesty of the Empire came to the Germains which continued with the French-men for the space of 100 yeares Lodouicus the sonne of Arnolphus gouerned sixe yeares to vvhom also Conradus Duke of Austria ioyned and raigned seauen yeares Henry the sonne of Otho Duke of Saxony succeed him and ruled eighteene yeares by theyr ambition many tumults arose for the space of 60 yeares from Arnolphus death to Otho the first The Italians created Berengarius Emperour who at Verona ouercame Arnolphus and put out hys eyes hee gouerned foure yeares Berengarius the second succeeded him who was driuen out of the Countrey by Roâ—olphus King of Burgundy this Rodolph â—aigned three yeares and was expulsed his â—ingdome by Hugo a Duke he gouerned â—enne yeares leauing behind him Lothariâ—s his Sonne vvho ruled two yeares after â—hom Berengarius the third with his Sonne Adelbertus gouerned eleuen yeares vvho â—sing themselues vvith all tyrannie vvere by Otho dryuen out of Italy Otho the first the Sonne of Henry the first deposed Pope Iohn the thirteenth he vvas a Prince endued vvith singuler vertue hee dyed vvhen hee had ruled thirty yeares Otho the second restored Nicephorus Emperour of Constantinople beeing put â—ut of his kingdome into it agayne and married Theoponia his sister Henry Duke of Bauiers rebelled agaynst him but hee vvas by force of armes brought to obedience hee fought vvith the Greekes and Sarazens and being ouer-throwne he fled and vvas taken by Mariners who not knowing him for that hee spake the Greeke language redeemed him-selfe for a small price and returned to Rome soone after he dyed when hee had ruled 11. yeares somâ— write he was poysoned by the Italians Otho the third put Crescentius to death and put out the eyes of Pope Iohn the 10 who deposed Gregory the fifth whom he had made Pope and for that there was greaâ— dissention for the succession of the Empire with the assent of Gregory ordayned that 7. Princes of Germany should choose the Emperour 3. ecclesiasticall and 4. secular The Archbishop of Mentz Colein Trier to these were ioyned the Prince of Boheme for as then Bohemia had no King the CouÌ„ty Palatine of the Rhene the Duke of Saxony and the Marquesse of Bradenborough but amongst these the Elector Boheme is appoynted an Vmpeere to breake off all dissension in election if any rise This institution of Otho is farre more profitable then was the ordayning of the Areopagites amongst the Athenians or the Statutes of the Ephories to the Lacedemonians these Electors were appoynted the yerâ— of Christ 1002. Otho was poysoned by the wife of Crescentius whom he put to death when he had raigned 19. yeares his wifes namâ— was Mary daughter to the King of Aragon a woman giuen to all beastlines and intemperancâ—â—f life Henry the 2. sirnamed the haulting D. of â—auier succeeded him he was the first Emâ—eror chosen by the Electors raigned 22. â—eares he was wholy giuen to religion and godly life he brought the Hungarians to the Christian faith gaue his sister to Stephen theyr King in mariage and dyed at Bamâ—rige Conradus the French-man after an Interâ—egnum for 3. yeares was chosen Emperor â—orne of the daughter of Otho the first he â—ad fortunate wars against the Pannonians â—e subdued Burgundy and dyed in the 15. yeare of his raigne Henry the 3. called the Black the sonne of Conradus was elected in his time 3. vsurâ—ing Popes Gregory 6 Syluestes 3 and Benedict 9 were by him deposed and a 4. â—nstalled who was the Bishop of Bambrige called Clement the 2. he dyed when he had â—aigned 17. yeares Henry the fourth his sonne was cursed by Pope Hildebrand and by his treasons ouerthrowne he being very young his mother gouerned the Pope made Rodolphus Emperour and sent him a crowne whereon was written Petra dedit Petro Petrus diadema Râ—â—dolpho but this vsurper was ouercom by HeÌ„â—ry his hand cut off in the battel the whicâ— when he saw ready to die he sayd Loe 〈◊〉 Lords yee Bishops this is the hand where-witâ— I promised my Lorde Henry fayth and loyaltie iudge ye then how well you haue aduised me The Pope set the sonne also against the Father vvho besieged him at Mentz but by meanes of the Princes he departed thence the Father died when he had ruled 50 yeres his body lay vnburied 5 yeares by reason of the Popes curse Henry the fifth his Sonne withstoode the tiranny of Pope Paschalis and tooke his crowne from him he gouerned the Empire 20 yeares and dyed Lotharius the 2. Duke of Saxony raigned 13 yeares against whom Conradus made warre in his time the ciuill law gathered together by Iustinian and neglected through the tumults of warre was called againe to light he dyed of a Feauer Conradus the third Duke of Bauaria and Nephew to Henry the fourth had great wars with the Sarazins in Asia assisted by Richard sirnamed Cordelion and Lewes the French King he died without all glory renowne â—n the fifteene yeere of his Empire Fredericke the first called Oenobarbus or â—ith the red beard vvas a Prince indued â—ith very good qualities of minde and boâ—ie he ouerthrew Millaine to the ground â—hased Pope Alexander out of Rome and â—laced Octauius in his seate but vvhen hee â—ooke his iourney into Syria in the passage â—uer a riuer he vvas drowned vvhen he had â—aigned thirty and seauen yeeres hee made â—he Prince of Bohemia king for his faithfulâ—esse to him at Millaine Henry the 6. the sonne of F. Barbarossa â—ubdued the realme of Apulia he tooke Naâ—les and spoyled it He made his sonne Frederick being a childe Emperour with him â—y consent of the Electors whose wardshyp â—e dying committed to his brother Philip he ruled 8. yeeres Philip the sonne of F. Barbarossa was chosen Emperour for young Frederick raigned tenne yeeres against whom Innocentius the third erected Otho a Saxon but Philip ouercame him and vvas murthered of Otho Prince of Brunsinia in his Chamber this vvas called Otho the fourth who vvas excomunicated by the Pope was murdered in the 4. yeere of his raigne Fredericke the second sonne of Henry the sixt succeeded him and raigned 27. yeeres and yet before hee dyed vvas depriued fiue yeeres of the Empire by Innocentius hee vvas a vertuous and learned Prince in his time the faction arose betweene the Guelphes and the Gibelines the one vvith the Emperour the other with the Pope Conradus the fourth the son of Frederick vvas ouercome by the Lantgraue who wheÌ„ he perceiued himselfe destituted of the Germaine Princes ayde went to his hereditarie kingdome of Naples and there dyed vvhen he had raigned 4. yeeres VVilliam Countie of Holland vvas chosen Emperor after him a Prince of noble and vertuous actions
had by her if he should haue any which was borne vvith hayre and clawes like a beast he commaunded all Beares vvhich were painted in his Pallace by a pope that vvas of Vrsinus house to be blotted out to auoyde in his concubine the sight therof vvhich he thought wroughâ— great effect in conception Honorius the 4. decreed that the Carmelites putting of their rich robes should weare white weeds that they should bee called our Ladies bretheren he dyed 1288. Nicholas the 4. loued all men alike and thought that he ought no more dutie to his kindred then to other who seeing Rome in his time sore turmoiled with ciuill dissentions died vvith greefe 1291. Caelestine the 5. after the seate had been aboue 2. yeres voyd got the place at the first time he sate in the Consistory he went about exactly to reforme the church of Rome that the Clergie might be example to other hee thereby purchased great hatred VVherfore hee resigned his Popeshyp and determined to liue an Ermite as Massaeus vvriteth but he vvas imprisoned by Boniface and dyed 1292. Of thys Pope sprang a sect of Monks called Caelestines Boniface the 8. raysed great vvarres in Italy and excommunicated the French King giuing the title of the kingdome to the Emperour that by this meanes as Carion writeth the Germaines and Frenchmen might â—all to dissention he was taken by them who fled for feare of him and cast in prison where he dyed 1304. Hee entred as a Foxe hee â—aigned as a Lyon dyed like a dog Hee vvas the first that deuised the Iubilie â—ccording to the Iewes tradition Benedict the 11. the son of a shepheard of an excellent vvit and very eloquent applied himselfe to asswage all the ciuill broyles in Italy VVhen hee was first made Pope hys mother came to see him being aparrelled by the Senate in seemely order but he did dysdaine to call her mother vntill shee had put on her homely apparrell again Then quoth he I knowe this Matron for shee is my mother Thys reporteth Leander Albertus After he had appeased those braules which his predecessors had procured he dyed and as some say poysoned by a figge which vvas giuen him ann 1305. Of him was written these verses Aut rem peruerte maledic malefac maledicte A re nomen habe Benedic benefacte Benedicte Clement the fift translated the Court of Rome to Auinia in Fraunce an 1505. and there it continued 70. yeres to the great damage of the Romaines At his coronation vvas Phillip King of Fraunce his brother Charles and Iohn Duke of Brittaine where Duke Iohn and twelue more by a wall thaâ— vvas ouerthrowne by the prease of people were slaine the king was somewhat hurt and the Pope being thrust besides his horse losâ— a Carbuncle stone out of his Miter valued at 6000. florences After diuers decrees of superstition hee died of the bloody flixe at Rocca Maura a Tent vpon Rhodanus ann 1314. the seat vvas voyd 3. yeeres He caused Frances Dandalus a noble man of Venice vvho came to sue for fauour for the Venetians to be bound with a chaine about the necke and like a dog to lyue vnder his table feeding vpon what fell froÌ„ hys trencher ere he could asswage his fury Sabel Iohn the 23. a French-man was chosen to him Charles the faire as Sleidan vvriteth first of all permitted to leuie tenths vpon the Ecclesiasticall reuenues that they should deuide the booty betweene them Hee maintained and was therewith charged in the Counsell of Constance that the soule of man dyeth together with the body which he neuer purged himselfe of he dyed in the 90. yeere of his age 1335. Benedict the 12. renued the curses of pope Iohn against the Emperour Lodouicke yet in the end he absolued him notwithstanding that the Kings of Fraunce and Naples willed him to the contrary and therefore they called Benedict the defender of an Hereticke Clement the sixt excommunicated all the Princes Lordes and Bishops that consented to the dooings of Lewes as Naucler vvryteth to deface the Empire hee created Vicounts and made them Viccars thereof and the Emperor on the othreside appoynted other Viccars for the Church Thys Emperour vvas by the Popes procurement poysoned and his sonne Charles vvho succeeded him morgaged to the Electors the common reuenewes of the Empire which they enioy to this day for they coÌ„pelled Charles to take an oath that these pledges should neuer be reclaymed vvhereby at length the Empire thus decayed the Turke inuaded the Church of Christ and made great spoyle thereof Thys Pope vvhile his seruaunts vvent to dynner leauing onely his chamberlaine with him fell downe suddenly and dyed of an impostume ann 1352. Innocent the 6. Doctor of both lawes and of an Aduocate made Bishop of Claramont and of the Cardinall of Hostia and Penitentiarie to the Pope was made Pope himselfe vvho vvhile he vvas preparing an Armie against the Turkes he dyed for griefe that the Romaines vvere at ciuill dissention ann 1362. Thys pope according to most vvriters vvas a very niggard but for maintenaunce of vvarres very prodigall Vrban the 5. vvas made Pope at Auerino to him Briget a vvoman of Swelande came vvhen he vvas at Rome and by reason of a vow which she had made shee desired that there might bee religious persons both men and vvomen of the order of S. Briget Hee vvas poysoned ann 1371. In his time the order of Iesuites Scopetines first beganne as Iohannes Palionedorus vvriteth Gregory the 11. vvas made Cardinall at 18. yeeres of age by his vncle Clement vvas very learned he excommunicated the Florentines and demanded tenths throughout the Empire he dyed of extreame paine in the bladder 1378. he remoued the court from Fraunce to Rome againe Vrbanus the 6. vvas a poore man and very obscure Iane Queene of Sicill yeelded her kingdome at his commaundement Otho Duke of Brunsmier Prince of Tarentum offered him the like which he vnkindly requited for by his meanes Otho was murdered and Iane imprisoned where shee vvas strangled to death by one Duke Charles vvho violently got the kingdome of Sicill This Pope as Stella saith was a crafty man and one that would seeke to reuenge any iniury do one vnto him he dyed in Rome an 1390. poysoned as some thinke after hee had misgouerned the popedome 10. yeeres none beeing sorry for his death Hee dead his nephew Fraunces was thrust from all his lyuing and despised of all men according to the saying cuÌ„ moritur praesus cognatio tota fit exul It is thought that in his time one Bertholdus Swart an Alchumist a Monke in the North part of Germanie first deuised contriued Gunnes to the hurte of many a braue souldiour Clement the 7. a Frenchman was chosen by diuers Cardinalls who fled from Vrban in the third month of his election fearing his crueltie He was ambitious needy and yet very prodigall as Theodoricus writeth by reason of these two Popes at once seated all
Christendome was deuied some taking part with Vrban and some with Clement he died 1392. Boniface the 9. being scarce 20. yeeres old was made Pope by coÌ„sent of those Cardinals that remained at Rome hee could neyther write nor sing as Theodoricus witnesseth and nothing during his time could bee demaunded were it neuer so vniust absurd but he would grant it for money There was neuer any Pope did beare such rough sway ouer the Romaines as hee dyd as Cranzius writeth hee canonized Briget borne in Sweazeland and ann 1404. he died of the Collick and stone Benedict the 13. before called Peter of the moone before he was Pope disputed against such authority the Clergy he died 1424. Innocent the 7. was much troubled about a murder that his Nephewe Lewes dyd in Rome which he maintained and therfore he his Cardinalls were hotely pursued to Viterbium but commaunding the halfe of ecclesiasticall liuings both in Fraunce England hee tooke the foyle as Gaguinus sayth and died shortly after at Rome an 1407. Gregory the 12. Patriarch of Constantinople promised that he would renounce the bishopricke if Benedictus likewise dyd not refuse to renounce also But when Benedictus fled into Spaine Gregory reuoked hys promise whereupon by a Counsell they were both deposed and in theyr sted Alexander the 5. was chosen and Gregory for griefe dyed suddenly 1415. Alexander the 5. vvas a Franciscan Frier and vvoorthily called Alexander as Platina sayth because hee being but a beggerly and begging Fryer might now be matched with the proudest Prince in Europe for prodigalitie and courage vvherevpon hee vvould oftentimes say I am a rich Bishop a poore Cardinall and a beggerly Pope He was poysoned by his phisition Marcillius Parmensis as Baptista Panaelius reporteth Iohn the 24. caused this Alexander to bee poysoned VVhen hee vvas in Bononia hee threatned the people and Clergy to bee reuenged if they did not chuse a pope according to his minde and of many named hee allowed none vvhereupon hee was desired to appoynt one Giue me said he the robe of Saint Peter and I wil bestow it vpon him that shall be pope which hee then put vpon himselfe and sayd In the name of God amen I Balthazar Cossa am Pope which they durst not reproue although mislike In the Counsell at Rome at two sundry times an Owle sitting vpon a beame of the Temple and fastening her eyes vppon the pope did with her noyse salute him wherevppon it brake vp and nothing was doone nor so much as the Owle chased avvay as Nicholas Clemanges writeth This pope dyed being deposed ann 1419. Martin the fift vvas made pope by the decree of the counsell of Constance vvhich to establish him did depriue Benedict Gregory and Iohn He dyed at Rome of the falling sicknes an 1431. was buried in a tombe of Brasse in Lateran Eugenius the 4. refused to come to the Counsell of Basill because it was sayde that a Counsell was aboue the pope and therefore he was deposed and condemned for an Heretick and Amadeus Duke of Subandia an Heremite was placed in his stead hee dyed ann 1446. Faelix the 5. before a Duke being an aged man before he came to be pope lyued to see the day that the sonnes of his sons matched in marriage with Kings daughters and in the end vvent into the vvildernesse vvith sixe Knights to leade an Hermites life This pope beeing demaunded vvhether he kept any hounds and to shewe them hee brought theÌ„ that asked him to a place where a great company of poore people sate down together at dinner saying Behold these are my hounds which I feede daily with the which I hâ—pe to hunt for the kingdom of heauen he deposed himselfe for vnitie sake died 1447. Nicholas the 5. in one yeere gotte to bee Bishop of Bononia Cardinall and Pope in his time the Turke vvone Constantinople He reuiued with great diligence learning knowledge which was theÌ„ almost drowned vvith barbarous sophistrie and appoynted stipends for the maintenaunce of learned men he dyed ann 1455. Calixtus the 3. vvas an old impotent man he decreed that no man should appeale from the Pope to a generall Counsell and dyed ann 1458. Pius the 2. among the learned Popes hee was most learned and a most diligent vvriter he vvas made Poet Laureat in his youth by Frederick the third Volateranus writeth that ambition did ouerthrow many vertues in him among many of his prouerbiall sentences he left this in vvriting There is a great cause why the Clergy should be depriued of mariage but greater cause why they should be suffered to marry he dyed ann 1464. Paule the second being made Pope gaue his minde vvholy as Volateranus wryteth to ambition riotousnes and pleasure he died suddenly of an Apoplexie 1470. Sixtus the fourth in the space of 2. yeeres for he raigned no longer spent of himselfe alone in riot 200000. crownes and becam in debt aboue threescore thousand hee dyed at 28. yeeres of age beeing vvasted through his incontinent lyfe 1474. Innocentinus the 8. was altogether vnlearned yet to get money he found out the title written vppon Christes Crosse in three languages which was found hidden in a vvall also the yron head of the speare where-with his side was wounded and before any one might see or kisse these reliques hee shoulde pay well for it he dyed 1492. Alexander the sixt first called Rodericus Borgia was a riotous tyrant and in league with the deuill for the papacie He made his sonne Duke of Valentia by magick who was called Caesar Borgia Of his warres and hys sonnes reade Guichardine and Volateranus He made his eldest sonne Duke of Candie who a litle while after not vvithout his brothers procurement vvas murdered in the night cast into Tyber His daughter Lucretia was married to three Princes one after another the Duke of Pisauria Alosius of Aragon and Alphonsus of Ferrara He prepared a feast for diuers Cardinalls Senators purposing to poyson them but by the prouidence of God hee was poysoned himselfe 1499. Pius the 3. called first Franciscus Picolhomeneus succeeded him hee raised an Armie to driue the Frenchmen out of Italy died seeing no euent thereof of an Vlcer in hys legge ann 1503. Iulius the second rose A remo ad tribunall from a vvhirry-slaue to bee Pope for so hee vvas in his youth he made Rauenna Seruia Imola Fauentia Foroliuinium and Bononia subiect to his Empire Vicelius saith that he was rather giuen to warres then to Christ. He cast Peters keyes into Tyber saying Because Peters keyes are able to doe no more let the sword of Paule helpe to doe it Thys Bibliander vvryteth of him He dyed 1513. Leo the tenth of the house of Medices was of his owne nature a gentle and quiet person but greatly ouer-ruled by the counsaile of cruell and contentious men He had no care of preaching the Gospell but rather contemned it for Cardinall Benbus moouing a question