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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

euer the citie before had felt both for the strange time of the yeare being in Winter the long continuance being diuers dayes the ouerthrowing of a great number of houses and edifices and losing the ioyntes of moe and the slaying of infinite people among whome was the Lorde stewarde of the Emperours house slaine in his bed by the fall of a faire carued stone finally the fall and feare were so greate that a good while after the people became verie religious holding many solemne supplications often frequenting the churches exercising many charitable déedes and that greate calamitie had supplyed vnto them store of maymed and impouerished men vppon whome to bestowe them yea many quite abandoning house goodes and all earthly honour and pleasures sought howe wholy to serue god This earthquake did also take destroy Berytus a beautiful citie of Phoenicia the whole Isle of Cos and sundry cities of Aeolis Ionia And another earthquake also was there that quite ouerthrewe all the walles and building of Antioche and slue aboue foure thousande and eight hundreth people Moreouer a third shoke all Boetia and Achaia and all along the Criseaen gulfe and infinite other places ouerthrowing the houses and ouerwhelming men in them and among all other layde along eight cities Then also chaunced there as straunge a pestilence the which as it did passe all that are committed to memorie for the long continuance thereof being fiftie yeares so may it well match with the woorst for large dominion and mortalitie as that which by Nycephorus his report raged throughout all parts of the Romane Empire and left few men of that age vntouched This plague against the which as writeth Procopius who liued in that time ther could neuer remedie be found began in Aegypt and crept stil forward into al countries leauing no not any obscure place vntouched nor neuer taking one person twice The manner of the disease was this As many as were taken therewithall did thinke that some man had giuen them a blow whervpon they fell sicke incontinently on a souden This straunge kynde of taking made many at the first to séeke but in vaine the cure of it by holy wordes and prayers for like vnto men possessed with yll spirits they knewe not their friendes neyther woulde they giue eare vnto them yet vpon some did it come in their sléepe They were incontinently taken with an ague but yet so that neyther the olde heate nor colour of their bodie was any thing altered no inflammation had they but only a coughe so that there séemed no daunger But vpon some the first daye on other the seconde but on most the thirde would● there a botche breake out but vppon diuers men in diuers places Some againe would doe nothing but sléepe soundly but moe were wilde madde and would often crye out that some haled and assaulted them wherewithall they would runne backward breaking their neckes downe the staires and other did runne into riuers to quenche their thirst Some dyed the first daye but most many dayes after Thrée monethes did this plague continue at Constantinople at the first killing but fewe but afterwarde fiue thousande on a day and also more often ten thousand in so much that a great number of rich men hauing lost all their seruants by this disease dyed also them selues rather through lacke of kéeping then by sicknesse and then also remained vnburied Yet was not this disease contagious that one man did take it of an other and also this good qualitie it had that it would take no man twice And now in the afflicted citie were séene no Arts exercised no shoppes open and most for feare leauing their former life did put on newe manners and wholy dedicated them selues vnto religion and godlinesse And also after a certaine course of yeares the same plague which had neuer cleane ceased beganne againe rufully to rage consuming almost al those that the first had spared and nowe very many woulde fall downe starke dead very soudenly at the first taking and farre moe men died then women And yet a greater mishap chaunced vnto this vnhappie Emperour whiche was that he had so proude so couetous so cruel so vngodly a woman to his wife who made him who ruled the whole worlde to be her vile slaue at becke to committe all outrages first to banish from their Sées two godly Bishoppes of Rome because they would not wickedly consent vnto the vniust restitution of the Heretique Anthemius one depriued for his impietie of the Sea of Constantinople by a generall counsell helde in that Citie in the presence of the Emperour himselfe the firste of them Syluerius was shorne and thrust into a Monasterie but the latter Vigilius was whipped almoste to death and afterward hauing escaped their cruel hands was drawen out of the church by a rope fastened about his necke along all the citie of Constantinople and cast into a paineful prison there to be pined away with water and breade giuen him in small quantitie and then afterward to satisfie her stately stomach against Belisamis his proude wife he against all right and honour berefte him of his sight who was the light of his Martial glorie But here stayed not his infortunitie for in his latter dayes he him selfe falling into that heresie that Christe did take vpon him an impassible bodie and being wilfully bent to haue all men follow his wicked follie most cruelly persecuted the Catholiques banishing among other Entichius Bishop of Constantinople and was busied about the drawing of a precepte for the bannishment of Anastasius Bishop of Antioche or as then they called it after the reedification by Iustinian Theopolis a man of al the Bishoppes of the East farre moste famous for profound learning in diuinity and also for integritie of life because that he woulde not subscribe vnto his vngodly geare but he could not finish his wicked worke being strucken by the hand of almightie God whereof he died without issue of his bodie But to wipe out that indelible blotte of impietie it is reported by his fauourers that he commanded by his last wil that Entichius should be restored the which thing as it may make vs charitably to iudge that it saued his soule from the intollerable tormentes of hel so no doubte must we confesse that the same bitter remorse of conscience and acknowledging of his vngodly dooinges did presently on earthe muche aggrauate his griefes The xxxvi Chapter Of Heraclius the Emperour AS Heraclius for his singular pietie greate humiltie before God suppliaunt and often prayers and assured confidence in Christe obteined the rare honour to recouer from the Persian Asia Africa and Aegypt so after that he fel into the impietie of the wicked Monothlets and married his brothers daughter to colour his fault made the like lawful vnto all men Mahumet bereft him of Egypt Syria Mesopotamia with Ierusalem Antioche and Damascus and also displeased God abridged his daies by a strange moste painful disease For his

do contemne their deadly daunger and seeme to haue an insensibilitie of their sinnes and perill finally are ashamed of nothing so muche as to shewe ye any light signe of sorrowe for their horrible déepe sinke of sinne yet can not these lustie bloudes escape the inwarde percinge pricke of a guiltie conscience which tormenteth them a thousande folde more terriblye then if it were the deadly stinge of a viper and worketh them more woe and vnrest then doth the madde flie the coursed cattell in the rageing dogge dayes These iolly gentlemen tremble ● shake at euerie flash of lighteninge and be halfe deade at a clappe of thunder as though they came not of anie naturall cause but were sente downe from heauen by angred God purposely to reuenge their outrages Not in the day time not in the night will their vexed mindes graunte vnto their bodies anie reste Whē they go vnto their meales no one morsell of meate will go downe their throates fearing as men that had their iawes dried vp with a longe wastinge sicknesse yea they cast vp their drinke like vnto younge children makinge a sowre face at sweete Hippocras as though it were sharpe vineagre so vnsauourie doth remorse of their sinnes make al things vnto them But when the time of the night doth adhorte them to goe vnto their restlesse bedde they dare not lye alone for feare that a thousande diuelles woulde carrie them away bodie and soule vnto hell Nowe after they be tyred with tossinge and turning if they chaunce to happen on a slumber for sounde sleape will not the tormenting torche that burneth without intermission in their troubled brestes in anie case graunt them with what dreadfull dreames méete they howe starte they howe hydeously crie they out If thē religiō ingendereth suche griefes what tormentes may we think superstitiō bringeth for I can not tel how saith Seneca vaine thinges do trouble and vexe vs farre more thē true for the true haue their certeine measure and quantitie but whatsoeuer commeth of an incert●ntie is deliuered and giuen ouer vnto the coniecture and licence of a fearefull minde and what that will make of them may the straunge imaginations of the melancholyke manifestly declare some steadfastly beleauinge that they haue eaten venimous serpentes sōe that they haue lost their heads sōe that they haue droūke poysō sōe that they beare vp al the whole world faynte faile vnder so heauie a burden other that they sée Atlas whōe the Poetes fayne to staye vp heauen with his shoulders to shrinke and giue ouer and presently readie to lett fall the weightie engine of the heauens on their heades some that they be earthen vessells and merueilously feare breaking other crie out if they do but see one come into the chamber for feare he will treade on his nose some that they haue deadly botches where as in verie déede there are no such thinges with 1000 such like vaine feares al of whome it were as madd a parte for me to rehearse as it was is for thē to imagine The eighteenth Chapter The hoofullnesse of Lewes the eleuenth Charles the seuenth French kings of Dionysius Commodus and Aristippus for the prolonging of their liues ANd no lesse madnesse considering the manifolde miseries the often calamities the greate mischiefes and annoyances whiche happen vnto man in his life is mans immesurable desiring of liuing which Plinie assigneth for a proper incōmoditie of mankinde Lewes the French kinge the eleuenth of that name when he had liued thrée score yeares perceiuinge that he was fallen into a sicknesse which was likely to shorten his time and also being feared with the sixtieth yeare of his age because that none of the Capetts had passed that bound which yet could not cōtent him what wayes wrought he to prolong his lothsome life to what solemne shrine offered he not greate rich oblations to what famous house of religion throughout all Fraunce gaue not hee fayre lands for a great parte of it wrongefully wroūg from pore men which donations because they were so great were reuoked after his death to what holy man of name in al Christendome sent not he the golden gifts instantly desiring them in their daylie praiers to God to haue a speciall memento for the large increase of his yeares But amonge all other he fet out of Calabria one Robert an Heremite a man of all them of his time moste renowned for holynesse of life at whose feete at the firste méetinge he fell downe desiring him with manie a bitter teare to prolonge his life foolishly hopinge as the Heremite truely tolde him to obteine that of a man whiche God only was able to giue But yet fearinge that he was not surely enoughe defenced againste terrible death by spirituall helpe studiously also soughte for naturall by phisicke and founde one Cocterius who with large promises of longe life fedde his folishe humoure as the kinge againe glutted the physicians vnsatiable desire of golde with giuinge him ten thousande crownes a moneth yea in fiue monethes foure and fiftie thousande besides manie greate promotions promised if he did recouer his health Yet could not this rare liberalitie of the kinge make the physician courteous vnto him but hee woulde continually handle him verie roughly churlishely and with despitefull wordes vpbrayed vnto him his wrongfull and cruell demeanour towardes diuers of the nobilitie and the counsell and vsed often to tell him that he woulde also handle him so one day Although this vncourteous and proude dealinge greatly greeued the kinge and made him often to complaine of it vnto his familiars yet durste he in no wise put him away because that he had constantly affirmed that the kinge shoulde not liue sixe dayes after that he were gone Which direfull denunciation the kinge abhorred as gate of hell as the man that in al his whole life coulde not abide to haue it once tolde him that he must one day die and would often in his health will his friendes that when they should sée him daungerously sicke they shoulde in no case put him in minde of death where as in verie déede he shoulde haue meditated nothinge so much all his life longe which should haue bene a continual preparing of him self vnto death where vnto he should most assuredly come at the laste and howe soone vncerteine neither yet during his longe sicknesse stoode hee in greater dreade of death by inwarde diseases then he feared shortening of life by forreigne foes Wherefore he imprisoned manie noble men of great power diuerse faithful counsellours vpon vaine imagination conceiued in his fearefull minde of their infidelitie He woulde suffer verie fewe of the nobilitie to come neare vnto the place where he lodged much lesse come within the castell gate which was guarded daye and night with foure hundreth souldiours of whom the one halfe were Scottes whome he trusted better then his owne subiectes commaunding them to shoote at all men whiche did

proportion of diet for householde of the kings of Persia and of Alexander the great The great prices of precious ointmentes and the riotous vse of them in auncient time and howe that Plotius and Muleasses were disclosed vnto their enimies by their sweet odors The manifolde sorts of wines the alterings of water found out by riot and the rare deuises to make men haue an appetite to eate and drink superfluously The great incommodities of excesse in diet the great death in the Duchie of Wittenberg by immoderate drinkinge of wine and at the game of drinking set foorth by Alexander the great The wonderful grosenesse of Nicomachus Ptolomey Alexander Dionysius and Sanctius of the rate vertue of an hearbe to make a man leane the rauenous nature of the beast Rosomacha and of certaine straunge shepe and swine The ninth chapter Of th● riotous magnificence of the Pyramides Labyrinthes Obelisces of the Babylonian garden of the vaine costly shippes of Ptolomey Hiero Sesostres Caligula the woonderfull purposelesse bridges of Caligula and Traian of the sumptuous Theatre of Scaurus of the incredible charges bestowed by the auncient Romanes in playes games and triumphes The tenth Chapter What intollerable troubles riot doth bring vnto man how it caused Catiline Marcus Antonius Curio Caesar to reise vppe ciuill warrs and of a dumbe shewe of Heraclitus that nothing doth more cause rebellion The shamelesse shiftes of Iulius Caesar Caligula Nero and Domitian to maintein their riotous expences and of Cheopes to finishe his Py●●mis howe Apitius murdered himselfe because he was not able to beare the charges of his wonted riot The eleuenth Chapter The vnutterable tormentes of loue the inordinate lust of man bothe before after against nature Of an harlotte that said she neuer remembred her selfe maide howe Solomon and Achaz begat their heires at the age of eleuen yeares of a Camell that killed his keeper for deceiuing him in horsing his damme of a man in Germanie in our dayes that begat vpon his mother a childe the whiche he afterward married of an horse that killed himself after he perceiued that he had serued his dam of diuerse men that burned in the lecherous loue of them whom they neuer sawe Of diuerse that raged in lust vpon senselesse statuies The twelfth Chapter Of the tormentes of ambition whiche are also confirmed by the examples of Themistocles Alexander Iulius Caesar Mancinus and an Indian Of the wonderfull summes of money giuen by the Romanes to obteine the honour to beare office and of the manner of the choosing of their Magistrates The thirteenth Chapter Of the painful troubles procured vnto man by his vnsatiable couetousnesse The fourteenth Chapter Of the great care and hofufulnes ingrafted by nature in man for his burial the rites aswel auncient as moderne of almost al nations and sectes vsed at burials with mention of diuerse costly tumbes The xv Chapter Of the confuse and causelesse feare of man and particularly of the Romans thri●e of Augustus of the Greekes thrise of the confederates called the common wealth before Paris of the Emperials in our dayes at Villa Francha of Pysander of one that died by seeing of Hercules of Artemons madde fearefulnesse of Saint Vallier Duke of Valentinois howe Cassander was affrighted at the sight of Alexanders Image and other suche vaine feares The xvi Chapter Of the furious wrath of man and specially of Walter Earle of Breme and Matthias king of Hungarie The xvij Chapter Of the care and hofulnesse that religion and superstition bredeth in man Of the vntollerable sorrowe for sinne of Dauid Marie Magdalene Fabiola Edgar the griping griefes of a guiltie conscience and the vaine imaginations of the Melancholike The xviij Chapter Of the great hofulnesse to prolong their liues of Lewes the eleuenth Charles the seuenth Dionysius Commodus and Aristippus The xix Chapter Of the shortnesse and vncerteintie of mans life and by howe many casualties it is cut off and of sundry straunge kindes of souden deathes The xx Chapter That not great riches and large Empire do make a man happie the which Socrates proued by an excellent induction whereunto is annexed a golden s●ntence of Agesilaus The xxi Chapter A discourse of the brittle blisse of Alexander the great The xxij Chapter The infelicitie and dolefull end of Demetrius yea his variable life and actes The xxiij Chapter The greatnesse and also great mishaps and troubles of Iulius Caesar and a worthy saying of Charles the fift The xxiiij Chapter Of the variable euents of Marcus Antonius The xxv Chapter Of Caligula his monstrous doings vntollerable enuies rare infelicities and shamefull end but the singular vertues of his father and great loue that all men bare vnto him The xxvi Chapter Of Domitians doings The xxvij Chapter Of the casualties of Commodus The xxviij Chapter Of the rare conquestes and losses of Cosdras king of Persia The xxix Chapter Of the insolent exulting of Vgoline Earle of Pisa Fredericke the second and Henrie the second for then good fortune but their farall falles and againe the moderation of mynde in their victories of Epaminondas Philip of Macedome Camyllus Paulus Aemylius Charles the fifte and why at Rome a bondman did ride in the chariot whereat did hang a bell and a whip with him that triumphed The xxx Chapter Of the infortunate fall of many great conquerours and founders of Empires The xxxi Chapter Of the greatnesse and also vnluckie chaunces of Augustus The xxxij Chapter Of Traiane The xxxiij Chapter Of Seuerus The xxxiiij Chapter Of Constantine the great The xxxv Chapter Of Iustinian The xxxvi Chapter Of Heraclius The xxxvij chapter Of Michael Paleologus The xxxviij chapter Of Charles the great The xxxix chapter Of Charles the fift The xl chapter Of Solomon The xli chapter Of Herodes king of Iudea The xlij chapter Of Mahomet The xliij chapter Of Hismael the Sophie The xliiij chapter Of the Cherife of Maroccho The xlv chapter Of Barbarossa king of Algier The xlvi chapter Of Tamberleine the Tartar. The xlvij chapter Of Selime the first great Lord of the Turkes The xlviij chapter Of Ferdinand the sixt king of the Hispaines The xlix chapter Of William Conquerour The l. chapter Of Henrie the second king of England The li. chapter Of Edward the third king of England The lij chapter Of Henrie the fift king of England The conclusion The Errata Fol. pag. line Fault Correction 1 1 20 singlenesse of God singlenesse God 4 1 21 of bountifull nature with the giftes of bounti c. 5 1 17 Camelion pardis Cameliopardis 10 1 3 you now 10 1 12 the them 11 2 22 poemes Paeanes 12 2 16 people Peple 12 2 32 Triumpher Triumuir 15 1 3 furmament frumentie 15 2 32 tenour terrour 17 2 19 gratious grieuous 22 1 10 100000. 1000000. 27 2 17 Myrrha Murrha 40 2 22 made make 57 1 32 burne burie 59 1 14 siluer Siler 100 1 28 these the East 100 2 6 demeanour misdemeanour 100 2 20 Cicero Curio 103 2 12 salting sallying 104 2 7 25000. 250000. 85 1 14 mire meere 88 2 21 abiect obiect 101 2 18 boldnesse baldnesse 102 1 19 moued monyed 104 2 14 of the Bataui of rhe king of the Bataui 115 1 3 especiall espiall 115 2 16 orgents his agents 112 1 25 the these 113 1 12 cartes certes 113 1 15 answered nothing answered nothing c. 114 1 12 scuffled stiffled 155 2 11 Sentines S. Quintins 116 2 22 seas feese 119 1 14 liueing his liuing 120 1 28 named hauing named 120 2 22 now nor 126 1 34 hall hat 128 2 14 finally smally 140 2 12 where wheras 142 2 19 brought brought foorth 137 2 11 Angier Argier Other escapes of lesse weight and small importance I referre gentle Reader to thine owne correction in thy priuate reading