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A16169	Beautiful blossomes, gathered by Iohn Byshop, from the best trees of all kyndes, diuine, philosophicall, astronomicall, cosmographical, historical, & humane, that are growing in Greece, Latium, and Arabia, and some also in vulgar orchards, as wel fro[m] those that in auncient time were grafted, as also from them which haue with skilful head and hand beene of late yeares, yea, and in our dayes planted: to the vnspeakable, both pleasure and profite of all such wil vouchsafe to vse them. The first tome	Bishop, John, d. 1613.	1577 (1577)	STC 3091; ESTC S102279	212,650	348

enough to beare the name of one altogether wretched and oppressed with miseries if he be a man and wittily sayes Plautus in Bacchides that it is farre better to haue liued then to liue Howe solemne and vulgar an Epitheton vnto man is wretched in that flowing fountaine of all knowledge and eloquence Homer for nothing sayes he that liueth that draweth breath and créepeth along the laynes is so wretched as is man and féeles so often and grieuous paines And therfore is it truly sayde of Plinie that if we will iudge and decrée vprightly refusing all ambition of Fortune there is no man happie yea and fortune deales with that man very friendly and makes him a wanton which can not iustly be called vnhappie Our felicitie sayes Seneca is no sound thing and massie but only an ouercasting and that very thinne and which is lightly broken by so many violent chaunces as I haue already shewed and also by the shortnesse of mans life which life Homer calleth a shadowe Pyndarus the dreame of a shadow Sophocles a shadowe and blast Aechylus a shadowe of smoke Lucian and the common prouerb a bubble that ryseth on the water of whome some vanish awaye as soone as euer they rise some continue a little longer but all indure a very short time besides tenne thousand diseases which doe dayly and hourely yea to speake most truely continually bereaue men of life do fewer chances assault vs ruines poisons shipwracks warres earthquakes lightnings thunders falles and what not One is choaked with swallowing downe of the stone or graine in a grape as Anacreon the poet a litle haire in a messe of mylke strangled Fabius a Pretor of Rome Aeschylus the Poet had his crowne so crackt that he dyed thereof with a cockle let fall by an Eagle who did take his balde scalpe to be a rocke wherevpon she might breake her cockle to come by the fishe Q. Aemylius with dashing his foote against a stone and C. Aufidius against a threshold Iouinian the Emperour with the smoake of coles in his chamber or as other say with the smell of a chamber newly pargetted some with a clap on the chéeke giuen by a gyrle some auoyded their bowels out at the priuie as Arrius the archheretike and Anastasius the seconde Byshoppe of Rome Some are eaten with mice as Hatto Archbyshop of Mentz and Piast Prince of Poleland and some with toades as in Wales Seisillus Elkerher some kylled with lightning as Strabo Pompeyus father vnto great Pompey Carus and Anastasius emperors of Rome some are slaine in the middest of their pastimes in hunting as Aistulphe king of Lumbardie with a boare Basilius Emperour of Constantinople with a stagge Fulco king of Hierusalem by the foundering of his horse in pursuite of an hare William Rufus King of this lande with the glauncing of an arrowe Drusus the sonne of Claudius Caesar the Emperour playing with a peare which he woulde cast vp and catch in his mouth was choaked with it some dye in the middest of their venerie as Tytus Aetherius an horsman of Rome and Cornelius Gallus who had béene Pretour of the citie and two horsmen sayes Plinie in our dayes in one varlet and Cornelius Tacitus noteth a woman and Campofulgoso Giachetto Gereua a worshipfull man of Saluzzo with his minion And as though that sorrowes and griefes did not sufficiently annoy mankinde we reade of many that soudenly died for extreme ioy as Diagoras and two women in Aulus Gellius Chilo the philosopher and Sophocles the famous poet Dionysius the tyrant in Plinie and Inuentius Talua a Consul in Valerius who also writeth that Philemon the poet was choaked with laughing at his owne iest Howe innumerable are they whome dayly experience and histories doe teache vs to haue dyed soudenly of no euident cause and without all foreféeling of paines some at feastes and pastimes and some in their beds of whome Plinie reckoneth many examples Therefore séeing that suche is the infirmitie of man at his byrthe and many yeares after so many sicknesses and diseases so many molestations and vexations do continually chaunce vnto him all his life long that also is so short and vncertaine is there any man indued with common sense that will holde that any man can be happie in this worlde and life The twentie Chapter That not great riches and Empires doe make a man happie the which Socrates proued by an excellēt similitude whervnto is annexed a golden sentence of Agesilaus ANd nowe then after that I haue declared that man can not in this life be happie I will descend vnto my second proposition that no man hath continued many yeares in so great felicitie that he neuer felte during that time any cause to complaine of Fortune with protestation first made that these great Empires conquestes and riches are not in any wise to be accounted things which do make a man happie no more then a scabberd of golde set with precious stones doth make a good sworde a riche gowne a persite bodie a golden collar a swift dogge because they be things without them and no part of their substance A very liuely induction whereof makes Socrates with whiche kinde of Argument did he singularly delight The magnificent Nicias of Athens had a very goodly horse whiche when he was ridden through the streates did turne the eyes of all the people to beholde him and with great acclamations to crie out yonder goes the noblest horse of the worlde When I sawe sayes Socrates this horse so generally with one consent praised of the whole citie I stept vnto his kéeper demaunded of him what masse of money this so singular a horse and so highly commended had why syr quod the horse kéeper what money should a horse haue he hath not one farthing why then says Socrates if that an horse may be an excellent horse and perfect in all pointes whiche belong vnto an horse haue neither money no nor goodes nor an horse were neuer the better horse if he had great riches what then shold let but that a man may be a good and happie man without all goods or what shal he be the perfecter more blessed if he haue innumerable store of these fruites or rather follies of fortune Wherfore that saying of Agesilaus king of Lacedemonia is worthie to be written in letters of golde or rather in déed in all mennes hartes which he vsed vnto one that called according vnto the manner of the worlde then the king of Persia the great king how sayes Agesilaus is he greater then I am vnlest he be more iust and more temperate iustly measuring the felicitie and greatnesse of man by the goodes of the minde and not of fickle fortune But now after this protestation made I say and wil proue that neither these men whiche were or would be called by the name of Gods nor no man surnamed the great or any of them which haue

his horse and letted not for all his hurt to giue order for suche things as he thought expedient But at the length when by hanging downe of his legge the bloud drewe vnto the wound it waxed colde whereby his wound began to paine him then coulde he say that he was called the Sonne of Iupiter but yet he felt in himself the passions of a diseased bodie But no peril that euer he suffered was comparable to that whiche he ranne into through his owne desperatenesse at the siege of the citie of the Oxidracans as hathe Curtius of the Mellumans sayes Plutarche or as it is in Iustine the Sicambrians For like a madde man he leaped downe from the walles post alone into the towne it being a thousand to one that he should haue either béene slaine or taken aliue er he coulde haue recouered his legges the walles were so highe but it happely chaunced that he fel vpon his féete and an olde tree adioyning to the wall wel defended him from being inclosed and the boughes serued him for a target to keep off the darts and arrowes of many thousands that fast flocked thither to ende the cruell warres of the whole worlde by one mschiefous mans deathe and to reuenge so many flourishing nations whiche he had spoiled and so many frée peoples as he had wrongfully brought into bondage And at the length one threw a dart of two cubites long which a litle aboue his right thighe passed through his corselete by reason of the whiche wounde he did shead so muche bloud that he was not able to holde his sworde but let it fall out of his hande as one at the point of death so that the Indian that had strucken him came to spoyle him whose hand when Alexander felt vpon him disdaine of infamie reuoked his spirites then passing out of his bodie and with his sworde thrust thorough his vnarmed enimie But yet so feeble was his strength that when he endeuoured to lift himselfe vppe with the helpe of a bought of the trée he straightway fel owne againe vpon his knees During whiche time Peucestes Timaeus Leonatus and Aristonius were come vnto him of whome Timaeus was slaine and the rest so sore wounded that they were able to doe nothing and they had vndoubtedly died there with their Prince if that the whole armie being made almoste madde with the rumour that the king was slaine had not at that verie instant violently broke into the citie and deliuered him out of assured peril of death Neither was the curing of his wounde lesse daungerous and gréeuous then the wounde it selfe because that the hookes or barbes of the darte fastened in the fleshe coulde not be plucked out but by cutting of the wound wider whereof insued suche aboundance of bloud that he fell into a swoone and stretched out himselfe as one at the the panges of death in so muche that all his fréendes had verily thought that he had béen dead so long was it er his bloud could be staunched Thus ye sée howe many and oftentimes this madde man whiche would be accounted a GOD was made painefully to féele within fewe yeares the griefes of mannes fleshe the whiche was also lastly incrediblie increased by the deathe of his darling Ephestion whome he loued as intirely and mourned for as immoderately as euer man did for his fréende But when GOD sawe that no admonishmentes woulde serue to kéepe him in his duetie and that the Empire of the whole earthe woulde not satisfie his insatiable ambition whiche by falling was alwayes made more hungrie but that he woulde also néedes inuade heauen he did cutte his dayes shorter then the commune fate of man is not suffering him to passe the age of thirtie thrée yeares and one moneth and made a small cophin to shewe howe small a thing in déede hee was who hauing all the Orient chafed that hée was thruste vppe into a narrowe corner and squised together If he had followed the counsayle that the Lacedemonian king gaue vnto his Father Philippe after the fortunate battell of Choronea and had measured his shadowe after the ouerthrowe of Darius he should haue found it neither greater nor longer then it was before and sometimes he himselfe could finde it For whē Nicesias a flatterer the pernicious pestilence of Princes sawe Alexander maruelously troubled with a medicine which he had taken and saide what paines must we poore wretched men abide séeing that ye Gods suffer suche torments Alexander sternly looking on him said And what kind of Gods are we no I feare we be hated of the Gods. And at an other time when Anaxander a fortunate Philosopher as Atheneus termes him one of the crowes that haunted that carrion traueling with Alexander in a great and terrible thunder which appauled the hartes yea of the stoutest saide haue you done the like O mightie prince Alexander laught and said I wil not be so terrible and dreadful as thou doest teache me to be who wouldest haue me to be serued at the table with the heades of kings and princes cruelly cutte off It is also reported by Plutarch that he had béen oftentimes heard to say that wheras many men called him a God yet did he finde that hee was a man by two thinges that is to wit the act of Venerie and sléepe for that these two thinges did most bewray the imbecillitie of his nature but against all other thinges he was inuincible Nowe sléepe is an Image of death and the act of venerie as it were a kinde of conuulsion But this man who knewe him selfe so well and besides his often daungers of deathe and many painefull woundes did acknowledge that he had euer in him two things which manifestly declared vnto him that he was a man and yet woulde be adored for a GOD yea and when hée sawe him selfe quighte paste all hope of life instantly desired his wyfe Satyra priuily to conueye him away and to caste him into the riuer of Euphrates that he might séeme vnto the worlde to haue bene assumpted body and soule into heauen did not he iustly deserue to be depriued of those things which the most vilest varlets doe enioy did not his wofull mother Olympias when that she heard that his body lay vnburied many dayes the capteines of the Macedons being busied about the succession in his Empire crye out with aboundant teares déepe sighes and loud lamentatiōs O sonne thou that endeuouredst to be partaker of heauen hasting thether with might and maine nowe alas art not able to obteine and get so muche as those thinges whiche are common vnto all mortall men the earth and buriall A worthy mirrour to be set alwayes before the eyes of great Princes for them to sée in that if they do couet greater and more honour then is due vnto man they shall not haue that whiche hath bene often done vnto horses and dogges The two and twentie Chapter Of the infelicitie and dolefull ende of Demetrius yea his whole life and actes

almost in euery conflicte but yet neuerthelesse was sore vexed with lack of victuals and also pasture and forage for his horses as he that trauelled through countries that were not his fréendes and to make vp the mischiefe he lost a great part of his armie in the passing ouer of the riuer of Lycus they missing the forde and being drowned in the deapth So that what by this infortunate chaunce and also through famine and pestilence about eight thousand of his souldiers being lost he turned his course into Cilicia where he staied the furie of his souldiours from spoyling of Tharsus lest that he should haue incurred the displeasure of Seleucus vnder whome Cilicia was where he hardly obteined of Seleucus for to winter there Agathocles hauing taken the streights whiche he should passe But Seleucus remained not long in his good minde but béeing persuaded by certaine of his counsellours that he did vnwisely to foster in the middes of his Realme the armie of so martial and vnquiet a Prince came downe with a strong armie into Cilicia Then Demetrius when he coulde obteine no friendeshippe of him by intreatie and prayers like vnto a wilde beast inclosed in a toile with men weapons and snares turned his lenitie into furie and with souden violence sacked certaine Cities of Cilicia and anon after taking harte of grace fought with Seleucus and ouerthrowing his chariots and putting to flight the rest of his armie he obteined a notable victorie and opened the streightes of Cilicia expelling the garisons of Seleucus in euery place And by this luckie successe was he come into great hope of better fortune when he fell into an vnfortunate sicknesse wherwith he beeing long time afflicted lost a great parte of his armie many reuolting vnto the enimie and starting some this way and some that as euery mannes soudein force carried him a great part of whome wandering they wyst not where and missing their way through ignorance of the countrie perished by diuerse chaunces But when he was recouered of his sickenesse he marched with those that had remained in their dutiful obedience within the sight of his enimie hauing spoyled no small part of Cilicia And then passing ouer Amanus he came wasting and spoiling vnto Cyrrestes where thinking to haue set vpon Seleucus who nowe was at his backe in the night time he missed of his purpose and also being foiled in fight was forced to flie backe againe amaine vnto the portes of Amanus and there to hide himselfe and those fewe that he had about him in the thicke wooddes and assayed to goe thorough the desart and blinde wayes vnto Caunus where he hoped to finde a fléete But when that the streightes of the countrie were kept and set with armed men and of his small traine many hourely dropped away he by the adhortation of his fréendes sent certaine vnto Seleucus to yéelde vppe vnto him his life and afflicted state Men reporte that Seleucus had commaunded a roial pauilion to be set vp for him and that he had minded to enterteine him in all respectes not as a prisoner but as a guest being in his most florishing state yea many noblemen thinking that he should in short time haue béen in greate fauour authoritie with Seleucus rode foorthe for duties sake to méete him But in the meane space before he coulde come Seleucus being chaunged thorough suspicions put into his head by his counsell hée sent Pausanias with 1000. horse against him who should take him and carrie him into the Chersonesus of Syria and there should diligently kéepe him it being a countrie of a small compasse Wherewithall Demetrius being dismaid although by Seleucus his cōmaundement he was in all points intreated like a king with singular honour and courtesie handeled of his kéeper yet he sent one vnto his sonne Antigonus to tell him that he should take his Father for a dead man and neuer after giue any credit to letter or seale of his Antigonus dolefully lamented at this heauie newes and incessantly commended vnto all Princes by letters the life and safetie of his Father yea and offered vnto Seleucus that he and all that euer cruel fortune had left him shoulde remaine pledges with him if that he woulde vouchesafe to set his Father at libertie But for all this earnest sute Seleucus perseuered still in kéeping of Demetrius who hauing alwayes vsed from his childehode to hunt and to ride muche and also to exercise his bodie with great trauel and labour nowe as one wearie of this present life drowned himself in gourmandise and drunkennesse and so died within thrée yeares after his captiuitie being of the age of lxiiij yeares and one that in all that long time after that he came to mans state neuer remained thrée yeares in one state before his captiuitie when doubtlesse for tranquillitie and rest if his proude hart coulde haue béene contented therewithall he did drawe néerest vnto the quiet and restful order of the Gods as Horace termes it The xxiij Chapter Of Iulius Caesars greatnesse and also his great mishappes and troubles and of a worthie saying of Charles the fift DEmetrius doth Iulius Caesar succéede a verie martial Gentleman and also fortunate in warres suche an one as wel deserued to be a GOD after the manner of the Romane Deification for he had slaine of his enimies eleuen hundreth and lxxxij thousande besides them that he had killed in the ciuil warres the whiche were doubtlesse a mightie number of whome he was ashamed to boaste as he might also haue béene of the other to be accounted so cruel an enimie to mankinde But although fortune was fréendly vnto him yet did she often make him féele her ficklenesse For in his youth he being accounted one of the Marian faction was depriued by Sylla of his office of flamen Dialis his wiues dowrie and all his owne landes yea and moreouer forced to hide himselfe from the tyrante who sought his death yea and to chaunge his lodging euery night although he were very ill molested with a quartane and yet all this would not haue saued his life if that he had not often corrupted with money those that were sent to search for him vntil at the length through the earnest and incessaunt suite of the vestall virgines and certaine of his fréendes great fauourers of Sylla his pardon was hardly obteined the tyraunt being so exasperated against him that when he was ouercome by the importunate prayers of thē who would haue no nay he brake out into this loude spéeche take him to you who will one day be the destruction of the nobilitie whome ye so muche fauour For in this one boy be there many Marij But after he had escaped this daunger within fewe yeares after fell into an other almost as great being taken by pyrates as he sayled to Rhodes out of whose hands he redéemed himselfe when they knewe him not for 50. talents that is 9375. pounds After this when he was Pretor was he

they had supped together merrily abroade and threwe his bodie into Tyber for no other cause but for that his fathers minde was that Frauncis shoulde marrie and increase the name of the Borgiae the which he would make honourable with large dominions but Caesar he had as it were banished into the cloyster of religion disguising him with a redde hatt the whiche was farre inferiour vnto his royal harte and immesurable desire of earthly honours who bare in his ensigne this worde Aut Caesar aut nihil an Emperour or nothinge the which insatiable thirst of his the Colonnese fearinge that he would quenche with their bloude abandoned all their dominions and landes and fledde away folowing the Castor who some say bites off his owne stones when hee is hardly persued knowing that for them onely his death is sought but the Orsines allured with his liberal interteinemente to serue him in the warres were almoste all murdered Baptista the cardinall at Rome Frauncis the Duke of Grauina and Paulo in the territorie of Perugia Liberto Prince of Firma Vitelloccio Vitelli one of the Princes of Ciuita de Castello at Senogallia the which caused all the rest of the Vitelli to flie and by their liues with the losse of their liuinges And also the noble men of the house of Gaieta who possessed the towne of Sermoneta in Campagna di Roma Iames Nicholas and Bernardine beeing slaine some one way and some an other yealded their castels lands and goodes vnto Caesar And also the Dukes of Camerino Caesar Anibal and Pyrrhus were expelled their dominions and strangled Astor Manfredi Prince of Fauenza yealdinge the towne and himselfe vppon promisse of safetie was slaine and cast into Tyber Furthermore Pandulpho Malatesta Iohn Sforza and Guido Vbaldo had rather by flight leaue their dominions of Rimini Pesaro and Vrbine vnto the inuading tyranne then be murdered And also Iames Appiano let him haue the principalitie of Piombino But Catharine Sforza who reigned at Forly and Imola hauing lost by force her dominions being taken prisoner was brought in triumphe to Rome But while by this bloudy way he encroched on al the principalities about him he also commaunded the prince of Beselio base sonne vnto Alfonse kinge of Naples yea and his sisters husbande to be slaine in her chamber yea in her bed being before wounded in the Courte of the church of Saint Peter but so that it was thought he woulde escape And by the same meanes he dispatched the yonger Borgia the Cardinal because he had seemed to fauour the duke of Candia his brother he also sauagely slue as he came from supper Iohn Cerbellion a man of greate nobilitie both at home and also in the warres because he had seuerely kept the honestie of a gentlewoman of the house of Borgia He did also put to death Iames Santatrucio a noble man of Rome thē whome there was no man more friende and familiar with Caesar neither for anie other cause but for that he was able vpon a soudeine to gather together a stronge bande of lustie felowes of the Orsine faction make them couragiously to attēpt anie exploite But whē for this cursed and vnquenchable desire of Empire he and his father had appointed to poyson at a feast certeine noble and riche princes his man mistaking the flagon gaue thereof vnto the vngratious father and worse sonne whereof the father beeing olde died but his blessed byrde a lustie younge man was by manie medicines conserued to greater punishmente for after the deathe of Alexander the Colonese and the Orsines that were lefte returned vnto Rome Then Caesar that he might not be ouermatched by haueing warres with both the families restored vnto the Colonese all their possessions on whome in diuerse places he had sumptuously buylt Guido Defeltrie recouered Vrbine Iohn Sforza Pesaro excepte the castle Malatesta Riminie but the castle was stil retayned by Caesar and the Baleones Perugia through the helpe of the Orsines who also toke Tuderto with the castell and put to shamefull deathe the capteine and with like successe at Viterby Ameria and all the cities there aboutes either they restored the Princes of their owne faction or else strengthened them and had also beesieged Caesar in Nepe if hée had not fearefully fledde into Rome the whiche hee obteyned of the newe Pope Pius as a safe refuge but Pope Pius dying within twentie seuen dayes the Orsines also entered the citie with a greate power whome the greatest parte of the citizens fauoured and the Orsines requested that Caesar might according to iustice be put to death for his manifolde murthers or els kept in sure warde in the castell vntill that his cause were hearde But while the matter was prolonged with outragious altercations Caesar being afrayde stale away out of his house in the Suburbes into the Popes palace then his souldiours who vntil that time had valiantly guarded him perceiuing that their Capteines courage quayled and that he sought for hyding holes fled also awaye some to one place and some vnto another leauing him guardlesse among the cruell companies of his enimies and forceing him because hee could otherwise stande in no suretie of his life to desire as a greate benefite to be cast into the castell of Sainct Angelo vntil that a new Pope were created the which béeing Iulius the seconde would not set him at libertie before that he had deliuered vp all the Castels and townes that he had in the territorie of Rome Romandiola and the duchie of Spolieto But not long after preparing at Naples an expedition into Romandiola he was at the Popes earnest suite imprisoned in the newe castell and shortly after carried into Hispanie where he brake prison and fledde vnto the kinge of Nauarre whose néere cousine he had married and there was slaine in a skirmishe with this euent that not béeing knowen he was spoyled of all his armour and clothes and left starke naked and so brought by one of his seruauntes vnto the citie of Pompelona where he had sometimes béene Bishoppe a notable document of mannes miserie But as I saide before I passing ouer in silence all those greate worldlinges whome Fortune at the last ouerthrewe will examine the liues and infortunities onely of those whome the worlde doth account most fortunate and search whether that God did not oftē make them to féele his force and to confesse their owne frailtie The xxxi Chapter The vnluckie chaunces of Augustus AND first I will beginne with him that thought so well of his owne fortune that when he sent his nephue Caius into Armenia against the Par●thians he wished that the loue good will of Pompey the hardinesse prowesse of Alexander the Fortune of him self might accompanie him Neither had hee alone this opinion of his good Fortune but it was also generally receiued of all men in so muche that it was decréede and also kept vntil the time of Iustinian that the people shoulde crie at the creation of a

citie of Mauus out of the whiche hée fearefully fledde and left that citie which of all other he best loued to be won with Toures by his fierce enimies for which he was cast into such a chafe that he opēly said that he would for euer after wholly withdraw his heart frō God séeing that he had suffered his delight to be taken and deformed with fire but anon after he came vnto him selfe and acknowledged his errour and wickednesse and suppliantly sued vnto the Frenche king for peace the which he could by no meanes obteine Wherfore despairing of the safetie of his estate hee died rather oppressed by this cruell concourse of calamities then worne with sickenesse The li. Chapter Of Edwarde the thirde AS Fortune was vnto Edwarde the thirde a louing and cocklinge mother in his youth in giuing him the famous victories at Sluse Cressey Poyters and Durham with the taking prisoners of the Frenche and Scottishe kinges and the restoring of Peter king of Castill and augmenting his dominions with the towne of Calaice and the Earledome of Guisnes and sending of him so many valiant sonnes and to so long life to haue proofe of their prowesse so was shée no lesse cruell stepdame vnto him in his age for the reuolting of the Earles of Armeniacke and Petiagors whiche brought the losse of Ponthiew Poitou Caoars Limosin Xantoigne Perrigort and finally almost all Gascoigne except Baron and Burdeaux and all Britaine vnlesse it were Brest and the discomfiture and taking of Iohn Earle of Penbruche and his greate Fléete comming to the rescuse of Rochell the vncourteous disobedient deniall of subsidie by Parliament in that his greate necessitie and the licentious complaint against him in open Parliament for kéeping of Alice Piers and the proude appointing of him Tutors as though he had béene a pupil who in his nonage was thought méete to hurle his father from the helme of the common wealth and rule the rudder him selfe and finally the vntimely deathes of his two valiant sonnes Leonell and the onely staye and staffe whereon his worne age did leane and holde vpp it selfe Prince Edwarde the sorrowe wherof quite brake the heart of the wofull father which was before sore wasted with age and the griefe conceiued for his vnwonted froward Fortune And to make vp the mischiefe hee left the realme to be ruled by an vnthriftie pupill who could neuer learne lesse all the dayes of his life then howe hee shoulde rule him selfe This worthie Prince doeth proue that to be true that Paulus Aemilius noteth in Charles the great that Fortune doth thinke it a goodly thing to shewe vnto men both her powers in kings of long life and that those Capteines which are saide neuer to haue found Fortune but fauourable in great attemptes lightely dyed young men for so saith hee I do thinke it hath séemed good vnto God lest that humane thinges may séeme to bee able to giue true and sound felicitie The lii Chapter Of Henrie the fift IN that perfect patterne of prowesse Henrie the fift I blame his vnthriftie youth and his being committed to the kinges benche by the Lorde chiefe Iustice for his misdemeanour such a president as I think is hardly to be founde in all the recordes of antiquities his wounding at the battell of Shrewesburie the daungerous conspiracie to murther him made by the Earle of Cambridge and other in his first voyage into Fraunce his greate hofulnesse for Agincourt fielde and almost vtter despaire of escape the disfomfiture in fight and also the death of his brother the duke of Clarence and last of all his owne vntimely death the which did not onely corrupt all his former victories and lost the duchie of Guian whereof his auncestours had béene possessed euer since Henrie the seconde but also did so wrappe the realme in such ciuil discorde that it is almost a miracle that it was not quite destroyed for euer So that if wee do duely consider the euent it had béene much better for this land that he had neuer béene borne then to haue prouoked the Frenche men and not to haue quite subdued and tamed them and to haue begotten to succéede him one so vnfit to gouerne although he were otherwise a Prince of singular pietie and godlinesse But as for Henrie the fourth Edwarde the fourth and Henrie the seuenth who gott the crowne by the swoorde they kept it with so much and so greate trouble that I thinke no wise man would take vpp the crowne if it laye vpon a dounghill to weare it in such continuall perils and molestations as Antigonus did vse to saye The Conclusion THEN séeinge that the miseries of mankinde are so manye and so greate and with so manifolde and grieuous calamities haue all they béene oppressed whome fickle Fortune hath seemed moste to fauoure what maye they promise vnto them selues that doe thinke that they are now carried with the most blisfull blast of worldly felicitie Let them like wise men persuade themselues that they are made of the same lamentable lump that other men are and also as much subiect vnto sondeine sorrowes as they that haue béene before them Wherfore let them thinke moderately of them selues let them make accompt of the guylefull giftes of false Fortune as though they should be incontinently taken from them let them not proudly despise the wretched whome lowring lott hath laide lowe séeing that the vnstablenesse of their owne tottering state maye shortly cast them into the same sincke of shame as they do thinke it finally let them attribute all honour and glorie vnto God the onely author and also conseruer of their brittle blisse whome let them serue moste lowly if that they desire to continue aloft in the ruling of other FINIS Symonides his wise answere Plato his opinion of God. The Persians brake downe all Images of God. What wordes doe best declare Gods essence God is no essence de Diui. No. In one sense God is moste properly an essence Hier. ad Marcel Aug. super Ioan. tract 99. Why bodily limmes and affectes are attributed vnto God. God onely vnchaungeable The singlenesse of Gods essence August de tri lib. 6. No qualitie in God. We do speake vnproperly of God by adiectiues Scal. de subti ex●r 365. God is comprehended in none of the predicamentes August de Trinit lib. 5. The omnipotencie of God wherein it doth consist August lib 15. de Trinitate August lib. 1. de symbolo Cap. 10. Com in Psal. 7 Lib. 2. de Stil laud. Of Psapho A worthy order taken by Philip. Of horsmen Of Commodas Of Alexander A wittie decree of the Lacedemonians A woorthie saying of Antigonus Of Caligula The free speeche of a Botcher The impudent flattery of Vitellius Vitellius his wittie answer The constant pietie of the Iewes Caligula his great hatred vnto mankind Of Domitian Lact. de fals relig The Original of worshipping of false Gods. The first cause why the Gentiles did make men Gods. Lact. de fals