a fourth to make it sleep a fifth against wild Beasts and so in the rest giving to each fetisso a several name They quickly learn them to eat and then leave them about the House like Dogs they soon learn to go to speak to swim when they are first born they are not black but reddish as the Brasilians Each Woman brings up her own they teach them no Civility and beat them sometimes cruelly with staves when they are eight or ten or twelve years old they learn them to spin Bark-thread and make Nets After that they go with their Fathers to fish at eighteen Years old they begin to set up for themselves two or three of them together hiring a House and Canoe and then they cover their Privities grow amorous and their Fathers look out Wives for them They have little Hair on their face at thirty they wear Nails as long as the Joynt of a Man's Finger as a token of Gentility which is also observed by Merchants they keep them very clean and as white as Ivory they are great in Flesh beyond Men of these Parts at threescore and ten or fourscore their blackness decays and they grow yellow they have small Bellies long Legs broad Feet long Toes sharp Sight quick Wit Estridge maws are spiteful curiously neat Drunkards Thieves leacherous and subject to the Pox whereof they are not ashamed as neither of shewing their Nakedness LXXI If a Man amongst the Turks liketh a young Woman he buyeth her of her Father and then enrolleth her in the Cadies Book the Marriage following with all Bacchanal Solemnities Many Women are invited by the Brides Mother the Night before when after the feasting they bathe her and the next Morning trick her in her richest Ornaments tying on her silken Buskins with Knots not easily unknit which the Bridegroom must untie though with his Teeth after that with much Solemnity his Companions on horseback riding two in a Rank and conducted by the Sacdish who is nearest of his Kindred have fetched her home the Bride being delivered with her Face close covered set a stride on Horse-back with a Canopy over her head and received of him at his door thence led if she be of Quality by an Eunuch to the Bride-Chamber The Guests honour him with Presents yet go not in The Father also giveth only some pieces of Houshold stuff carried openly by Particulars through the Streets Now he is to entertain the VVives with an equal Respect Alike is their Diet Apparel yea and Benevolence unless they consent to change and give turns or else they may complain to the Cady and procure a Divorce but the Husband may put away his VVives at pleasure who may marry unto another within five Months after except she prove with Child and then she must stay so long after her delivery but if he will have her again he must buy her and if after the third Divorce another is first to lye with her as a Punishment of his Levity They will sell some of them or give them to their Slaves the VVives give him the reverence of a Master They are at no time to deny him their Embracements whom he toucheth not again untill he hath been at the Bath They hold their Chastisement which they receive from him as an Argument of Affection They intermeddle not with Houshold Affairs only it is required of them to content their Husbands to nurse their own Children and to live peaceably together which also they do without Jealousie or Envy They are exceeding beautiful for the most part ruddy clear and smooth as the polished Ivory tender and soft as frequenting the Baths daily and never open to the Weather but wither quickly Great and black Eyes are the greatest Beauty to the Eyes of a Turk They sit not at Table with their Husband but wait and serve them and then they dine by themselves admitting no Mankind with them above twelve Years old and they never go abroad without leave except to the Bath and on Thursday to weep at the Graves of the dead they rise to their Husbands and stand while they are in Presence and besides them come in no Company of men nor do they speak with a Man or in any other part of their Body are seen of any Man because they think sight especially where Beauty and Comliness is cannot be without sin only the Brother may be permitted to see the Sister but not the Husband's Brother yea their Sons when they come to growth are separated from them For this cause that Sex is not suffered to buy and sell but is closely mewed save that their Law alloweth them to frequent the publick Baths The Wife and Concubine differ in the right to a Dowry which the latter wanteth but the Wife must cause the other to be her Husband's Bed-fellow when he commandeth without gain-saying except on their Sabbath or Friday nights which is the Wives peculiar Yet are the Turks given in both Sexes to unnatural Lusts even the Women in publick Baths sometimes are so inflamed in that Filthiness as is intollerable Busbequius tells of one Woman who falling in love with a young Maid and no way else prevailing cloathed her self in Man's Apparel and hiring a House near procured the Fathers good Will to have that his Daughter in Marriage which being solemnized between them and the truth discovered which black Mantle of Night could not cover them from Hymen's Torch Complaint was made and the Governour quenched the hot flames of this new Bridegroom causing her to be drowned for that offence If the Man abuse the Wife to unnatural Lust she may have her Remedy by Divorce if she accuse her Husband which Modesty forbiddeth to be done in Words and therefore she puts off her Shoe and by inverting the same accuseth her Husband's Perverseness There are some Turks who keep Boys gallantly arrayed to serve for the worse than beastly Lust of such as will hire them They have this loathsome Punishment for that loathsome Sin of Whoredom to take the Paunch of a Beast new killed and cutting a Hole thorough to thrust the Adulterers Head in this Dung-Wallet and so carry him in Pomp thorough the Streets It is Death either to the Body by Judicial Sentence or the Soul by turning Turk for a Christian to have carnal Dealing with any of their Women A Jew who had dealing with a Turk's Wife with her Husband's Consent could not escape hanging therefore this indeed was a favour for he should have been burned notwithstanding his rich Countrey-men offered two thousand Duckats to save him her Husband was hanged for his wittally Perswasion and she her self drowned It is certain that they buy Boys of an hundred or two hundred Duckets and mew them up for their filthy Lust till they prove bearded they will also steal Boys for that Villany LXXII In Negapatan upon the River Ganges in the East-Indies the manner of their Marriages is extraordinary for many times the Priest with
leaving the Wives and the Brethren their Sisters unto their Pleasures and therefore departing out of the House when they come in and hence it is that no Man's Son inheriteth his Fathers Goods but the Sister's Son succeedeth as being most certain of the Blood So in the Kingdom of Calicat when the King marrieth a Wife one of the principal Bramanes hath the first Nights lodgings with her for which he hath assigned him by the King four hundred or five hundred Ducats The King committeth the Custody of his Wife to the Bramanes when he travelleth any whither and taketh in too honest part their dishonest Familiarity but for this cause the King's Son succeedeth not in the Crown but his Sisters Son as being certainly of his Blood These Sisters of the King choose what Gentleman they please on whom to bestow their Virginity and if they prove not in a certain time to be with Child they betake them to these Bramane Stallions the Gentlemen and Merchants have a Custom to exchange VVives in token of great Friendship Some VVomen amongst them have six or seven Husbands fathering her Children on which of them she best pleaseth The Men when they marry get others to use them if they be Virgins fifteen or twenty days before they themselves will bed them LXXIX As for the Marriages in Peru the Men had many VVives but one was principal which was wedded with Solemnity and that in this sort The Bridegroom went to the Bride's House and put O Hoya which was an open Shoe on her foot this if she were a Maid was of VVool otherwise of Reeds and this done he led her thence with him If she committed Adultery she was punished with Death VVhen the Husband died she carried a mourning VVeed of black a Year after and might not marry in that time which befell not the other VVives The Ingua or Emperour himself with his own hand gave this VVoman to his Governours and Captains and the Governours assembled all the young Men and Maids in one place of the City where they gave to every one his VVife with the aforesaid Ceremony in putting on the O Hoya the other VVives did serve and honour this None might marry with his Mother Daughter Grand Mother or Grand Child and Yupangui the Father of Guayanacapa was the first Ingua that married his Sister and confirmed his Fact by a Decree That the Ingua's might do it commanding his own Children to do it permitting the Noble-men also to marry their Sisters by the Father's side LXXX In the Canaries they used for Hospitality to let their Friends lye with their VVives and received theirs in like courtesie and therefore as in India the Sisters Son inherited Amongst the Georgians too the Husband bringing home a Guest commends him to his VVIfe and Sister with charge to yield him Content and Delight esteeming it a Credit that their VVives can please and be acceptable Their Virgins become Mothers very soon most of them at ten years old can bring witnesses in their Arms little bigger than a great Frog which yet after grow tall and square men to prove that there is never a Maid the less for them So in Chamul a Province in Tartary they not only permit but account it a great Honour to have their VVives and Sisters at the pleasure of such Strangers as they entertain themselves departing the while and suffering all things to be their Guests VVill for so are their Idols served who therefore for this Hospitality they think will prosper all that they have And when one of their Chams forbad them this beastly practise they abstained three Years but then sent a lamentable Embassage to him with request that they might continue their former Custom for since they left it they could not thrive who overcome by their fond Importunity granted their Requests which they with Joy accepted and do still observe LXXXI In Carazan another Province of Tartary they have a barbarous Custom which they used when any proper and personable Gentleman of valourous Spirit and goodly Presence lodged in any House amongst them in the Night they killed him not for the spoil but that his Soul furnished with such parts of Body and Mind might remain in that House much hope of future happiness to that House did they repose in such unhappy Attempts There too when a VVoman is delivered of a Child the Man lieth in and keepeth his Bed with Visitation of Gossips the space of forty days they worship the ancientest Person in the house ascribing to him all their good In some part of the Country Knights and Souldiers never marry but lye with such Women or Daughters as like them leaving his VVeapon mean while at the door which forbid any Man else although it be the good man himself to enter till he hath ended his Business and be gone At a place in the Kingdom of Fez there was a Temple built to which at certain times in the Year resorted Men and VVomen in the night where after Sacrifices the Candles were put out and each Man lay with the VVoman he first touched Those Women were forbidden to lye with any other for a Year after The Children begotten in this Adultery were brought up by the Priests of the Temple But having spoken of the strange Rites and Ceremonies used in Marriage by many Nations of the Universe it will not be unseasonable to give some Instances of such unnatural Wives and Husbands as we meet with recorded in History LXXXII 1. Joan Grand-child to Robert King of Naples by Charles his Son succeeded her Grand-father in the Kingdom of Naples and Sicily Anno 1343. a Woman of a beautiful Body and rare Endowments of Nature she was first marryed to her Cousin Andrew a Prince of Royal Extraction and of a sweet and loving Disposition but he being not able to satisfie her Wantonness she kept company with low Persons at last she grew weary of him complaining of his Insufficiency and caused him in the City of Arersa to be hung upon a Beam and strangled in the night time and then threw out his Corps into a Garden where it lay some days unburied It is said that this Andrew on a day coming into the Queen's Chamber and finding her twisting a thick string of Silk and Silver demanded of her for what purpose she made it she answered to hang you in which he then little believed the rather because those who intend such mischief use not to speak of it before hand but it seems she was as good as her word LXXXIII 2. Cicero put away his Wife Ferentia for divers Reasons as because she had made small account of him in the time of the Wars which were betwixt Caesar and Pompey so that when he went from Rome to Pompey she provided no fit Accommodations for his Journey and when he came back again into Italy she never shewed the least spark or sign of Love or good Will towards him for though he staid long at
not only preserved alive but also treated by Alexander with the highest honour he then prayed to God to render Alexander fortunate in all things though he was his Enemy XCVII 2. Titus Gracchus loved his Wife Cornelia with such fervency that when two Snakes were by chance found in his House and that the Augurs had pronounced that they should not suffer them both to escape but that one of them should be killed affirming also that if the male was let go Cornelia should dye first on the other side that Gracchus should first expire if the Female was dismissed Dismiss then the Female said he that so Cornelia may survive me who am at this time the Elder It so fell out that he dyed soon after leaving behind him many Sons so entirely loved by the Mother and the memory of her husband so dear to her that she refused the proffered Marriage with Ptolomais King of Aegypt The buried Ashes of her Husband it seem'd lay so cold at her Heart that splendor of a Diadem and all the Pomp of a Rich and profered Kingdom were not able so to warm it as to make it capable of receiving the impression of a new Love XCVIII 3. M. Plautius by the command of the Senate was to bring back a Navy of sixty Ships of the Confederates into Asia he put ashore at Tarentum thither had Oristilla his Wife followed him and there overcome with a disease she departed this Life Plautius having ordered all things for the celebration of the Funeral she was laid upon the Pile to be burnt as the Roman manner was the last offices to be performed were to anoint the dead Body and to give it a valedictory kiss but betwixt these the grieved Husband fell upon his own Sword and died His Friends took him up in his Gown and Shoos as he was and laying his Body by that of his Wives burnt them both together The Sepulchre of these two is yet to be seen at Tarentum and is called the Tomb of the two Lovers XCIX 4. One of the Neapolitans pity his Name as well as his Countrey is not remembred being buisily imployed in a Field near the Sea and his Wife at some distance from him the Woman was seized upon by some Moorish Pyrates who came on shoar to prey upon all they could find Upon his return not finding his Wife and perceiving a Ship that lay at Anchor not far off conjecturing the matter as it was he threw himself into the Sea and swam up to the Ship when calling to the Captain he told him that he was therefore come because he must needs follow his Wife He feared not the Barbarism of the Enemies of the Christian Faith nor the miseries those Slaves endure that are thrust into places where they must tug at the Oar his Love overcame all these The Moors were full of admiration at the carriage of the Man for they had seen some of his Countreymen rather chuse Death than indure so hard a loss as that of their Liberty and at their return they told the whole of this story to the King of Tunis who moved with the Relation of so great a Love gave him and his wife their freedom and the man was made by his command one of the Souldiers of his Life-guard C. 5. Ferdinand King of Spain married Elizabeth the Sister of Ferdinand Son of John King of Arragon Great were the Vertues of this admirable Princess whereby she gained so much upon the heart of her Husband a valiant and fortunate Prince that he admitted her to an equal share in the Government of the Kingdom with himself wherein they lived with such mutual agreement as the like hath not been known amongst any of the Kings and Queens of that Country There was nothing done in the Affairs of State but what was debated ordained and subscribed by both the Kingdom of Spain was a name common to them both Ambassadours were sent abroad in both their names Armies and Soudliers were levied and formed in both their names and so was the whole Wars and all civil affairs that King Ferdinand did not challenge to himself an Authority in any thing or in any respect greater than that whereunto he had admitted this his beloved Wife CI. 6. Meleager challenged to himself the chief Glory and Honour of slaying the Calidontan Boar but this being denied him he sat in his Chamber so angry and discontented that when the Curetes were assaulting the City where he lived he would not stir out to lend the Citizens the least of his assistance The Elders Magistrates the Chief of the City and the Priests came to him with their humble supplications but he would not move they propounded a great reward he despised at once both it and them His Father Oenaeus came to him and imbraceing his Knees sought to make him relent but all in vain His Mother came and tryed allways but was refused his Sisters and his most familiar friends were sent to him and beg'd he would not forsake them in their last extremity but neither this way was his fierce mind to be wrought upon In the mean time the Enemy had broken into the City and then came his Wife Cleopatra trembling O my dearest Love said she help us or we are lost the Enemy is already entred The Hero was moved with this voice alone and rous'd himself at the apprehension of the danger of his beloved Wife he Arm'd himself went forth and left not till he had repulsed the Enemy and put the City in its wonted safety vnd security But no less extraordinary has the Love of some Wives been to their Husbands as of the Husbands to their Wives CII 1. The Prince of the Province of Fingo in the Empire of Japan hearing that a Gentleman of the Country had a very beautiful Women to his Wife got him dispatch'd and having sent for the Widdow some days after her Husband's Death acquainted her with his Desires She told him she had much reason to think her self happy in being honour'd with the friendship of so great a Prince yet she was resolved to bite off her Tongue and murther her self if he proffer'd her any violence but if he would grant her the favour to spend one Month in bewailing her Husband and then give her the liberty to make an Entertainment for the Relations of the deceased to take her leave of them he should find how much she was his Servant and how far she would comply with his Affections It was easily granted a very great Dinner was provided whither came all the Kindred of the deceased the Gentlewoman perceiving the Prince began to be warm with his Wine in hopes of enjoying her promise she desired liberty to withdraw into an adjoyning Gallery to take the Air but as soon as she was come into it she cast her self head-long down in the Presence of the Prince and all her dead Husbands Relations CIII 2. Constantine the Ninth exercising Tyranny as well in
of his afflicted Condition As soon as the King knew him though he was not ignorant how he had sought his Restauration both by Force and Fraud yet he lovingly embraced him and caused him privately to be conveyed into the City The King pretended he was sick and giving forth that he would dispose of the Affairs of his Realm by his last Will and Testament he called his Nobles together He then signified that he would confer in private with each of them singly and as every Man entred his Chamber he caused him to be laid hold on threatning him with Death if he would not consent to the sparing of his Brother and that he should resign the Throne and Kingdom to him Having by this means gained an universal Assent he then opened the business in the presence of them all together So Archigallus was restored to the Kingdom and he dying in few Years Heliodorus succeeded him with equal Justice and Glory CXXV Rare and memorable was the Love that was betwixt the Vitellii they were named Johannes Camillus Paulus and Vitellorius these four were the Sons of Nicolaus Vitellius a principal Person in the City of Tifernas to whom while he lived they performed all due Obedience He dead all the rest were all ways and in all things obedient to the Commands of their elder Brother and although for the greatness of their Military Virtue they were all in high Reputation amongst them that bare Arms and were Leaders of Armies in Italy and were hired with great Stipends to assist on this or the other side yea tho they were all married and had attained the Name of their Father yet were they not affected with the least Ambition amongst themselves nor was there ever any Breach of Love betwixt them When the eldest of them died the other yielded the Power of Command to him that was next in Age in all things else they were alike in such manner that it is a difficult thing to find such another example of brotherly Love and Concord CXXVI Darius King of the Persians extreamly provoked by Crimes of an extraordinary Nature had pronounced a Sentence of Death upon Ithaphernes his Children and the whole Family of them at once the Wife of Ithaphernes went to the King's Palace and there all in Tears was so loud in her mournful Lamentations that her Cries coming to the King's Ears moved him in such manner to Compassion that the King sent her word that with her own he gave her the Life of any single Person whom she would make choice of among the condemned The Woman begged the Life of her Brother Darius wondred that she should rather ask his Life than the Life of her Husband or any of her Children and therefore asked the Reason who replied That since her Father was dead she could never hope for a Brother more if she should lose this but that her self being but young as yet might hope for another Husband and other Children Darius was moved with this answer and being himself repleat with brotherly Love as well as prudence he gave her likewise the life of her elder Son CXXVII In the division of the Norman Empire Robert promised to his Brother Roger the half of Calabria and all Scicily but when it came to sharing and dividing Robert would give his Brother nothing in Calabria but Meto and Squillaci and bade him the purchase of the Realm which he already began to possess meaning Scicily and in the end resolved as Artaxander wrote to Darius that as the World could not endure two Suns so one Realm could not endure two Sovereign Lords Roger being much displeased herewith made War upon him and after many adventures having taken him Prisoner in a Castle where Robert was unwisely entred in the habit of a Peasant with a purpose to bring it to his own Devotion Roger of a Brotherly love and pity not only saved his life but also restored him to his Estate which by right of War and bring a Prisoner he had lost CXXVIII there was a Souldier in the Camp of On. Pompeius who was in the War with Scitorius perceiving a Souldier on the other side to press hard upon him he fought with him hand to hand and having slain him he went about to strip him of his Arms here it was that he found it was his Brother who had fallen under him which when he discerned having long and much reproached the Gods for their gifts of so impious a Victory to him he carried his dead Brother into the Camp and having covered the Body with a precious Garment he laid the Corps upon the Funeral Pile and put fire to it which done he immediately drew the same Sword wherewith he had slain his Brother he thrust it into his Breast and so falling prostrate upon the dead Body of his Brother they were both burned together CXXIX And now an Example or two of the singular love of some Servants to their Masters and for that purpose tell how Grimoaldus Duke of Benevento was invited by Gondibert King of the Lombards to assist him against Partharis his Brother he came accordingly and having ejected the one he slew the other Brother he came to defend and so made himself King of the Lombards and when he knew that Partharis was retreated to Cacanus Duke of Bavaria he wrought so that he was expelled from thence Partharis not knowing wither to betake himself in safety comes as a Suppliant and commits himself to the Faith of Grimoaldus But he observing that Numbers of the Scicinensians flocked daily to him and fearing lest by the favour of the People he should some time or other recover the Kingdom not regarding his Oath he resolved to make him away and that he might perform it with less noise and tumult he intended first to make him Drunk and then send his Guards to cut his Throat while he lay baried in Wine and sleep This counsel of his was not so privately carried but that it came to the Ear of Partharis he therefore commands his Gup-bearer to give him Water in stead of Wine knowing then he could not indulge his Genius lest his troubled head should prove unmindful of the danger he was in nor could he abstain altogether from drinking lest Grimoaldus's Spies should discover that he had intimation of his intentions The better therefore to colour the matter after large drinking he caused himself to be carried by his Servants into his Chamber as to sleep out his Debauch There he consults with Hunnulphus his most faithful Servant who thought it not safe to go forth since the Servants of Grimoaldus stood at the Gate But in regard necessity compelled and that there was no other way of escape he orders it thus he covers his Head and Shoulders with the Skin of a Bear which was there by chance after the manner of a Rustick and layeth upon his back a Mattriss as if he was a Porter to carry it away and then with good Blows of a
at ten a Clock at night in his Kitchin he sent for one Martin a poor old Man out of his Bed to him so that there were in the Kitchin Sprackling and his Wife one Ewell and this Martin Sprackling commanded Martin to bind Ewell's Legs which the one did and the other suffered thinking it had only been a ranting humour of their Master then he began to rage against his Wife who sat quietly by and though she gave him none but sweet and loving words yet he drew his Dagger and struck her over the face with it which she bore patiently though she was hurt in the Jaw He still continuing to rage at her she weary and in great fear rose up and went to the door Her Husband followed her with a chopping-knife in his hand with which he struck at her wrist and cut the bone in sunder so that her hand hung down only by the Sinews and Skin No help was near Ewell was bound and Martin being old and weak durst not interpose fearing his own Life only prayed his Mistris to stay and be quiet hoping all should be well and so getting a Napkin bound up her hand with it After this towards Morning still rayling and raging at his Wife he dashed her on the Forehead with the Iron Cleaver Whereupon she fell down bleeeding but recovering her self on her Knees she cryed and prayed unto God for the pardon of her own and her Husband's Sins praying God to forgive him as she did but as she was thus praying her bloody Husband chopt her head in the midst of the very Brains so that she fell down and died immediately Then did he kill six Dogs four of which he threw by his Wife and after she was dead chopping her twice into the Legs compelled Martin to wash Ewell's Face with her Blood himself also dipping Linnen in her Blood washed Martin's face and bloodied his own face with it For all which being apprehended and carried to Sandwich Goal at the Sessions following which were April the 22. 1653. he was araigned condemned and hanged on the 27. day dying very desperately and not suffering any either Minister or Gentleman to speake with him after his Condemnation XCI 2. Periander the Corinthian in a high fit of Passion trod his Wife under Foot and although she was at that time with Child of a Boy yet he never desisted from his injurious treatment of her till such time as he had killed her upon the place Afterwards when he was come to himself and was sensible that what he had done was thorough the calumniating instigation of his Concubines he caused them all to be burnt alive and banished his Son Lycophron as far as Corcyra upon no other occasion than that he lamented the death of his Mother with tears and out-cries XCII 3. Nero the Emperour being once incensed against his Wife Poppora Sabina gave her such a kick with his Foot upon the Belly that she thereupon departed this Life But though he was a man that seemed to be born to Cruelty and Blood yet he afterwards so repented himself of this act that he would not suffer her Body to be burn'd after the Roman manner but built the Funeral Pile for her of odours and persumes and so ordered her to be brought into the Julian Monument XCIII 4. Herod the Sophist being offended at his Wife Rhegilla for some slight fault of his commanded his Freed-man Alcimedon to beat her she was at that time eight Months gone with Child or near upon so that by the imprudence of him who was imployed to chastize her she received some blows upon her Belly which occasioned first her Miscarriage and soon after her Death Her Brother Brudeas a Person of great Nobility cited her Husband Herod to answer the Death of his Sister before the Senate of Rome where if he had not it is pitty but he should have received a Condign punishment XCIV 5. When M. Antonius was overcome at Actium Herod King of Judea believing that he was in danger to lose his Kingdom because he had been a fast friend to Antonius determined to meeet Caesar Augustus at Rhodes and there indeavoured to assure his favour to him having resolved upon his Journey he committed the care and custody of his Wife to Sohemus his Friend giving him withall thus much in command that in case he should hear of his death by the way or at the place whither he was intended that then he should not fail forthwith to kill Mariamne his Wife yielding this only reason of his injunction that it might not be in the power of any man to enjoy so great a Beauty after his death Mariamne had extorted this Secret from Sohemus and at Herod's return twitted him with it Herod caused Sohemus unheard to be immediately put to death and not long after he also beheaded Mariamne his beloved Queen and Wife But Herod had impotent desires of her even after she was dead he often called upon her name and frequently betook himself to uncomely lamentations he invented all the delight he could he feasted and drank liberally and yet to small purpose he therefore left off the care of his Kingdom and was so overcome with his grief that he often commanded his Servants to call Mariamne as if she had been still alive his grief increasing he exiled himself in Solitudes under pretence of hunting where continuing to afflict himself he fell into a grievous Disease and when recovered of it he became so fell and cruel that for slight causes he was apt to inflict death XCV 6. Amalasunta had raised Theodahitus at once to be her Husband and King of the Goths but upon this Proviso that he should make Oath that he would rest contented with the Title of a King and leave all matters of Government to her sole dispose But no sooner was he accepted as King but he forgot his Wife and Benefactress recalled her Enemies from banishment put her Friends and Relations many of them to death banished her self into an Island in the Vulsiner Lake and there set a strong guard upon her At last he thought himself not sufficiently safe so long as Amalasunta was alive and thereupon he dispatched certain of his Instruments to the place of her Exile with order to put her to death who finding her in a Bath gave her no further time but strangled her there But on the other side it will be fitting to give a few Instances of the Love of some Husbands XCVI 1. Darius the last King of the Persians supposing that his Wife Statira was slain by Alexander filled all the Camp with lamentations and outcryes O Alexander said he whom of thy Relations have I put to Death that thou should'st thus retaliate my severities thou hast hated me without any provocation on my part but suppose thou hast Justice on thy side should'st thou manage the War against Women Thus he bewailed the supposed death of his Wife but as soon as he heard she was
she was married to Bernard Valdaura at that time above forty four years of age The first night after her marriage she found that her Husbhnd's Thighs were rolled and wrapped with Clouts and that he was a man very Sore and sickly For all which she loved him not a whit the less Not long after Valdaura fell so Sick that all the Physitians despaired of his Life then did she so attend upon him that in six Weeks space she put not off her Cloaths only for shift nor rested above an hour or two at the most in the Night and that in her Cloaths This disease was a venomous Relique of the Pox and the Physicians counselled Clara not to touch the Sick man or come near him and so also did her Kindred and Neighbours All which moved her not but having taken order for that which concerned the benefit of his Soul she provided him all things which might tend to the health of his Body She made him Broths and Julips she changed his Sheets and clouts although by reason of a continual looseness and many Sores about him his Body never left running with Matter and Filth so that he ne're had any clean part about him All the day she rested not the strength of her Love supporting the delicacy of her Body by this good means Valdaura escaped that danger After this by reason of a sharp hot Rheum falling from his Brain the Gristle within his Nose began to be eaten away wherefore the Physicians appointed a certain Powder to be blown up softly into his Nose at certain times with a Quill No Body could be found to take such a loathsome service in hand because of the stench that came from him but Clara did it cheerfully and when his cheeks and chin were all covered over with Scabs Wheals and Scales so as no Barber could or would shave him she with her her little Scissers play'd the Barber and made him a deft Beard From this sickness he fell into another which lasted seven years during which time with incredible diligence she made ready his meat put in his tents laid on his plaisters dressed and bound up his thighs all rotten with Scabs and Ulcers his breath was such that none durst come near by ten paces and abide by it which yet she protested was sweet to her This long sickness and the nourishing and medicining of a Body oppressed by so many Diseases was a great matter in a house that had no Rents or profits coming in and where Trade had ceased of a long time and consequently the gain she therefore to furnish the expences sold her precious Jewels her gold Chains her rich Carcanets her Garments of great value a Cupboard of Plate not caring for any thing so her Husband was relieved and contenting her self with little so he wanted nothing Thus Valdaura lingred on a Life by the help of his Wife within a rotten Body or rather within a Grave for twenty years together in which time she had eight Children by him yet neither she nor they had so much as a Scab Wheal or Pimple in any part of their Bodies Valdaura died an old man for whose death his Wife Clara made such mourning as they who knew her well say never Woman did for any Husband When some instead of comforting her told her God had done much in taking him away and that they therefore came to congratulate with her she detested their Speeches wishing for her Husband again in exchange of five Children and though she was yet both young and lusty and sought to by many she resolved not to marry saying she could never meet with any whom she could like so well as her dear Bernard Valdaura I think in this place it will not be unseasonable to speak of the Reverence and Piety of some Children to their Parents CXV Sir Thomas Moor being Lord Chancellor of England at the same time that his Father was a Judge of the King's Bench he would always at his going to Westminster go first to the King's Bench and ask his Father Blessing before he went to sit in the Chancery CXVI There happened in Sicily as it hath often an Eruption of Aetna now called Mount Gibel it murmurs burns belches up Flames and throws out it 's fiery Entrails making all the World to fly from it It happened then that in this violent and horrible breach of Flames every one flying and carrying away what they had most precious with them two Sons the one called Anagias the other Amphinomus careful of the Wealth and Goods of their Houses reflected on their Father and Mother both very old who could not save themselves from the fire by flight And where shall we said they find a more precious Treasure than those who begat us The one took up his Father on his Shoulders the other his Mother and so made passage through the Flames It is an admirable thing that God in consideration of this Piety though Pagans did a Miracle for the Monuments of all Antiquity witness that the devouring Flames staid at this Spectacle and the Fire wasting and broiling all about them the way only through which these two good Sons passed was tapistried with fresh Verdure and called afterwards by Posterity the Field of the Pious in memory of this Accident CXVII There were three Brothers who upon the Death of the King their Father fell out amongst themselves about Succession in the Kingdom at last they agreed to stand to the Judgment and Determination of a neighbour King to whom they fully referred the matter He therefore commanded the dead Body of the Father to be fetched out of his Monument and ordered that each of them should shoot an Arrow at his Heart and he that hit it or came the nearest to it should succeed The Elder shot first and his Arrow passed through the Throat of his Father The second Brother shot his Father into the Breast but yet missed his Heart The Youngest detesting this Wickedness I had rather said he yield to all my Brothers and utterly resign up all my Pretences to the Kingdom than to treat the Body of my Father with this Contumely This Saying of his considered the King passed Sentence that he alone was worthy of the Kingdom as having given evidence how much he excelled his Brothers in Virtue by the Piety he had shewed to the dead Body of his Father CXVIII The Pretor had sentenced to death a Woman of good Birth for a Capital Crime and had consign'd her over to the Triumvir to be kill'd in Prison the Jaylor that received her mov'd with compassion did not presently strangle her but besides permitted her Daughter for to come often to her though first diligently searched lest she should convey in any Sustenance to her the Jaylor expecting that she should dye of Famine When therefore divers dayes had passed wondring within himself what it might be that occasioned her to live so long he one day set himself to observe her Daughter
with greater curiosity and then discovered how with the Milk in her Breasts she allayed the Famine of her Mother The news of this strange Spectacle of the Daughter suckling her Mother was by him carried to the Triumviri by the Triumviri to the Pretor from the Pretor it was brought to the Judgment of the Consul who pardoned the Woman as to the Sentence of Death passed upon her and to preserve the Memory of that Fact where her Prison stood they caused an Altar to be erected to Piety CXIX But now I will take the liberty to give some Instances of the Indulgence Fondness and great Love of some Parents to their Children and begin with Solon who was a Person famous throughout all Greece as having given Laws to the Athenians Being in his Travels came to Miletum to converse with Thales who was one of the seven wise Men of Greece these two walking together upon the Market-place one comes to Solon and told him that his Son was dead afflicted with this unexpected as well as unwelcome News he fell to tearing of his Beard Hair and Cloaths and fouling of his Face in the Dust immediately a mighty Conflux of People was about him whom he entertained with Howlings and Tears When he had lain long upon the Ground and delivered himself up to all manner of Expressions of Grief unworthy the Person he sustained so renown'd for Gravity and Wisdom Thales bad him be of good Courage for the whole was but a Contrivance of his who by this Artifice had desired to make experiment whether it was convenient for a Wise Man to marry and have Children as he had pressed them to do but that now he was sufficiently satisfied it was no way conducible seeing he perceived that the loss of a Child might occasion a Person famous for Wisdom to discover all the signs of a Mad-Man CXX Mahomet the Second first Emperour of the Turks was no sooner possessed of his Father's Throne but as a young Tyrant forgetting the Laws of Nature was presently in Person himself about to have murdered with his own hands his youngest Brother but rather to commit the Execution thereof to some other which thing Mahomet commanded him the Author of that Counsel forthwith to do so Moses taking the Child from the Nurse strangled it with pouring Water down the Throat thereof The young Lady understanding of the Death of her Child as a Woman whom fury had made past fear came and in her Rage reviled the Tyrant to his Face shamefully upbraiding him for his inhumane Cruelty when Mahomet to appease her Fury requested her to be content for that it stood with the Policy of his State and willed her for her better Contentment to ask whatsoever she pleased and she should forthwith have it But she desiring nothing more than in some sort to be revenged demanded to have Moses the Executioner of her Son delivered unto her bound which when she had obtained she presently struck him into the Breast with a Knife crying in vain upon his unthankful Master for help and proceeding in her cruel Execution cut an hole in his right-side and by piece-meal cast out his Liver and cast it to the Dogs to eat to that Extremity did she resent the Death of her beloved Son CXXI Egeus stood upon a high Rock whence he might see a great way upon the Sea in expectation of the Return of his Son Theseus from Creet having made him Promise at his Departure that if all things went well with him at his Return his Ship should be fet forth with Sails and Streamers of white Colours to express the Joyfulness of his Return The old man after his long watching at last did discern the Ship making homewards but it seems they had forgot to advance the white Colours as they had promised when therefore Egeus saw nothing but black concluding that his Son had miscarried in his Journey and was dead not able to endure the grief he had conceived hereof he threw himself head-long into the Sea from the top of the Rock whereon he stood and so died CXXII And now I will go on in giving some Examples of brotherly Love In the Year 1584. the Portugal Ship called S. Iago was cast away upon the Shallows near to S. Lawrence and towards the Coast of Mosambique here it was that divers Persons had leap'd into the great Boat to save their Lives and finding that it was burthened they chose a Captain whom they swore to obey who caused them to cast Lots and such as the Lot light upon to be cast over-board There was one of those that in Portugal are called New Christians he being allotted to be cast over-board into the Sea had a younger Brother in the same Boat who suddenly rose up and desired the Captain that he would pardon and make free his Brother and let him supply his place saying My Brother is elder and of better Knowledge in the. World than I therefore more fit to live in the World and to help my Sisters and Friends in their need so that I had rather dye for him than live without him At which Request they remitted the elder Brother and threw the younger at his own Request into the Sea who swam at least six hours after the Boat and although they held up their Hands with their naked Swords willing him that he should not once come to touch the Boat yet laying hold thereon and having his Hand half cut in two he would not let go so that in the end they were constrained to take him in again CXXIII When the Emperour Augustus had 〈◊〉 Adiatoriges a Prince of Cappadocia together 〈◊〉 Wife and Children in War and had led them to Roâ—â— in Triumph he gave order that the Father and the elder of the Brothers should be slain The designed Ministers of this Execution were come to the place of Restraint to this unfortunate Family and there enquiring which of the Brethren was the eldest there arose a vehement and earnest Contention between the two young Princes each affirming himself to be the elder that by his Death he might preserve the Life of the other when they had long continued in this pious Emulation the Mother at last not without difficulty prevailed with her Son Dyetentus that he would permit his younger Brother to dye in his stead as hoping that by him she might most probably be sustain'd Augustus was at length certified of this great Example of Brotherly Love and not only lamented that Act of his Severity but gave an honourable Support to the Mother and her surviving Son by some called Clitatus CXXIV Heliodorus the Britain had afterwards the sir-name of Pius upon this occasion The People provoked with the Cruelty and Avarice of Archigallus had deposed him and raised Heliodorus to the Throne of his Brother One time when the King went a hunting he accidentally met with his Brother Archigallus in the Wood whose altered Visage and ragged Cloaths gave sufficient Evidence
at every Gate charging them to kill all that should go forth Thus were many killed which would have fled forth to Titus and the City of Ierusalem was closed up and no man could get out or in In the mean season fell a great Dearth and Famine in Ierusalem insomuch that the Seditious searched every mans house and Cellar for Food And because a certain Housholder withstood them they killed him thus they dealt with all them that dwelled in Jerusalem till the Victuals in the Town was all spent that Men began to seek Dung and even Man's Excrements to eat by which means much of the People died for Hunger Whosoever at that time could get any Herbs or Roots Mice Serpents or other creeping Worms whatsoever they were to eat he was counted happy because he had found Meat to sustain and save his Life withal in that hard Famine and terrible Hunger Moreover Whosoever had any Corn in store that no man knew of he was afraid to send it to the Mill or bake it because of the Wickedness of the Seditious lest they should take away from them their Sustenance wherefore many did eat the dry Corn unground in their Cellars privily At that time also were many exceeding rich Men in Jerusalem who stole Meat from each other so that the Father snatched Meat from the Son and the Son from the Father the Mother snatch'd from the Children the Children likewise from their Mother and such as fled out of the Gates or otherwise let themselves down over the Walls in the night Season who being suspected to be the Seditious Persons the Romans killed them without This Evil therefore and Distress encreased so long that the People had devoured all that ever crept on the Earth from the Mouse to the Spider from the Nevvt to the Weesel whereby a most grievous Pestilence followed that innumerable of the People of the Land died and there was no Man to bury them When they chanced to find any dead Horse or other Beast in the Town a Man should see many Israelites strive and fight for it in all Points like to famished Ravens lighting upon a dead Carcass so that in such Contentions very many were slain Therefore when divers Men with their Wives and Children got out of the City to gather Herbs to eat and chanced among the Romans the Romans laid hold on the little Children and killed them saying we will dispatch these lest when they grow once to mans Estate they make War upon us as their Fathers do at this day So many as came out of the Gates of the City now and then the Romans killed and hanged them upon Gallowes over against the Gates of Jerusalem to the number of five hundred After the same manner Schimeon Iehochanan and Eleazer dealt with those Romans whom they could by any Train catch and hanged them upon the Walls Whosoever also they could perceive would flee unto the Romans they hanged them likewise over the Walls to the number of five hundred But Titus gave command to all his Souldiers that no man upon pain of Death should kill any of them that fled out of Ierusalem for he took pitty of the Israelites and ceased to speak friendly and lovingly to the Ierusalemites so that he went once again to the Walls and spake unto the Iews in this sort Hear I beseech you the Counsel of Ioseph and come unto me that you may live and not perish utterly Spare your People why will you oppress them vexed with hunger thirst pestilence and besieging But the Seditious hearing Titus speak were wonderfully incensed and intended to add mischief upon mischief handling yet more cruelly the People of God Moreover they rail'd at Titus to provoke him to anger that he might leave off speaking to the People which had now almost lost their obedience and fear of the Seditious Wherefore the Seditious spake unto the Romans It is better for us to die with Hunger and to be killed in this affliction so to come to the Bliss and Light we hope for than to live and see the most holy Temple of God defiled and destroyed When Titus saw this he commanded an Iron Ram to be set to the Wall to batter it that he might deliver those poor wretches out of Schimeon Eleazer and Iehochanan's hands who held them in as Captives At the same time as they erected that Engine to the Wall it happened there was in the Camp a certain young man whose name was Meriganin Son of Antiochus of Macedonia one of the Kings of the Grecians who came at Vespasian's command to aid Titus This same young man was very swift a good Runner and a hardy Souldiers but he lacked Discretion He came to Titus and said I cannot but marvel at thy Souldiers that vanquish all Nations and dare not set upon the Iews to kill them Titus hearing the young King say so smiled and said How chances it that being of this Judgment thou arm'st not thy self and makest thee ready to do like as thou sayest why drawest thou not out thy Sword to declare thy man-hood upon them Wherefore the young King incouraged himself and called together all his Macedonian Souldiers then approached to the Iews and began Skirmish with them shooting with their Bows and Arrows apace But at length the Iews handled them that not one of the Macedonians escaped save only the young King which by his good footmanship and swift running got away and returned to Titus This Memaganin was of the kindred of Alexander the great King of Macedonia who had the Dominion of the whole World and when all Nations and People stood in awe of Iosephus the Priest demanded of him whose Son he was he answered I came of the seed of Alexander I am the tenth from him Ioseph said it may well be as thou hast said that thou art of the succession of Alexander for the valiantness of thy heart which thou hast show'd declareth no less Howbeit thou shalt understand that the Romans have done wisely to abstain from the assault at this time because they knew they should have to do with a most valiant Nation which thou having so well tryed mayest report and testifie when thou art asked the Question After this Titus divided his whole Army and laid them privily in ambushes round about the Walls He prepared moreover Rams of Iron to batter the Walls Of these four one he planted upon the side of the place called Antochia the Engine was thirty Cubits long The same night Captain Iehochanan with his Company issued forth and undermined the ground under the Wheels of the Waggons that bare the Rams putting pitched Boards oyled and done over with Brimstone in the Trenches under the wheels and under the Boards they spread Leather which likewise was smeared and done over with Pitch Oyl and Brimstone Then they set fire upon the Boards which burn'd till they came to the feet of the Rams and they being set on Fire and burn'd the Engine fell
Personage evil-favoured and of a low stature perceiving he came forth again and challenged any man of the Romans to fight him saying he was only one of the meanest and out-casts of the Jews though the Romans despised him yet they durst not fight with him for that they considered they should get no honour though they should kill him and yet they ran a hazard of being killed themselves But at length being provoked by the insulting Language of the Jew one Pornus one of the most valiant Souldiers of the Romans came no sooner to the Jew than that he was by him killed streightway to the shame and reproach of the Romans Now the Jews seeing the Walls of the Temple and three Walls that compassed the Town to be razed and pulled down they consulted what was best to be done There was a great house joyned upon the side of the Temple that King Solomon had builded of a great height whose Walls also the Kings of the second Temple had raised on high and decked it with Timber of Firr and Cedar Trees the Jews went and anointed every where the Cedar Timber of the house with Brimstone abundantly so when the Romans came to assault the Temple again the Jews retired into that Palace and went out another way But the Romans not dreaming of this Stratagem some climbed up to the Battlements of the house others set up Ladders to scale it and with shouts thought that the Palace was now taken and that the Jews had no place left to flee unto for refuge Thus when the Palace was full of the Romans a certain Jew a young man vowing himself desperately to die went and shut up the Palace and set fire on the Gates anointed before with Brimstone and Pitch and straightway the side Wall of the House and the whole building began to be on a light fire and of the Romans most were burnt some killed themselves and the rest we killed by the Jews as they would have made their escapes There was a great Roman Commander in this fire whose name was Artorius who looking forth from the top of the house saw one of his dear Friends called Lucius standing by Titus to whom Artorius called saying My dear friend Lucius get on thy Armour and come hither that I may leap down upon thee and thou may receive me If I die I make thee my Heir if thou die thy Children shall inherit my Goods Wherefore Lucius ran and held up his lap open at the house side and Artorius leapt down and light upon him with such weight that they both died therewith Titus commanded the Covenant they made before their death to be written on a Sword with blood and their Friendship to be noted in the Chronicles of the Romans that it might be an example to all men to learn true Friendship by There was a certain rich Woman in Ierusalem of a Noble House also whose name was Miriam Her dwelling was beyond Jordan but when she perceived the Wars to grow more and more in the time of Vespasian she came up with her Neighbours to Ierusalem bringing with her not only her Man-servants and Women-servants and all her Family but also her Goods and Riches which were very great When the hunger was grievous at Ierusalem and the Seditious went from House to House to seek meat they came also to this Womans House and took away from her by force all that ever she had and left her nothing remaining By this means she was opprest with very great hunger so that she wished her self out of the world but her time was not yet come to dye wherefore that she might slack her hunger and sustain her self she began to scrape in the Chaff and dust for Beasts dung but could find none She had one Son and when she saw the Famine was greater and greater upon her she laid aside all Womanhood and mercy and took upon her an horrible Cruelty for when she heard her Boy weep and ask for meat which she had not to give him she said unto him what shall I do my Son for the wrath of God hath environed the whole City in every corner thereof the Famine reigneth without the City the sword killeth up all within we stand in fear of the Seditious our enemies prevail without in the Town are fires burning and ruines of Houses Famines Pestilence spoiling and destroying so that I cannot feed thee my Son Now therefore my Son if I should dye for hunger to whom should I leave thee being yet a Child I hoped once that when thou shouldest come to mans estate thou shouldest have sustained my age with meat drink and cloth and after when I should dye to bury me honourably like as I was minded to bury thee if thou shouldest have dyed before me But now my son thou art as good as dead already for I have no meat to bring thee up withall because of this great Famine and Cruelty of the Enemies both within and without If thou shouldest dye now among others thou shouldest have no good nor honourable Tomb as I would wish thee wherefore I have thought good to chuse thee a Sepulchre even my own body lest thou shouldst dye and Dogs eat thee in the Streets I will therefore be thy Grave and thou shalt be my food and for that if thou hadst lived and grown to mans estate thou oughtest by right to have nourished me and fed me with thy flesh and with it sustain my age before that Famine devour thee and thy Body be consumed render unto thy Mother that which she gave unto thee for thou comest of her and thou shalt return into her For I will bring thee unto the self same shop in the which the breath of life was breathed into thy Nostrils forasmuch as thou art my well-beloved Son whom I have loved always with all my strength Be therefore meat for thy mother and ignominy and reproach to the Seditious that by violence have taken away our food Wherefore my Son hear my voice and sustain my Soul and my Life and go to the end that is determined for thee by my hands thy lot be in the Garden of Eden and Paradice Be thou meat for me and rebuke and shame for the Seditious that they may be compelled to say Lo a Woman hath killed her Son and eaten him So when she had thus spoken to her Son she took the Child and turning her face away lest she should see him dye she killed him with a Sword and after cut his Body into certain pieces whereof some she roasted some she sod and when she had eaten of them she laid up the rest to keep The savour of the Flesh roasted when it came into the Streets to the People they said one to another See here is the smell of roast-meat Which thing came to the knowledge of the Seditious at length who went into the House of the Woman and spake roughly unto her why should'st thou have meat to live with
and we dye of hunger The Woman made them answer and said unto them Be not displeased I beseech you with your Hand-maid for this for you shall see I have reserved part for you sit ye down therefore and I will bring it to you that ye may taste thereof for it is very good meat And by and by she covered the Table and set before them part of the Child's Flesh saying Eat I pray you here is a Childs hand see here is his Foot and other parts and never report it was another Womans Child but my one only Son that ye knew with me him I bare and have also eaten part part have I kept for you When she had spoken she burst out and wept saying Oh my Son my Son how sweet wast thou to me whilst thou yet lived and now at thy death also thou art sweeter to me than Hony for thou hast not only fed me in this most grievous Famine but hast defended me against the wrath of the Seditious wherewith they were incensed towards me when the smell of the meat brought them into my house now therefore are they become my friends for they sit at my Table and I have made them a Feast with my Flesh After she turned to the Seditious and bade them eat and satisfie themselves for why saith she should you abhor my meat which I have set before you I have satisfied my self therewith why therefore do not you eat of the flesh of my Son taste and see how sweet my Sons Flesh is I dare say you will say it is good meat what needeth pitty ought ye to be more moved therewith than a Woman than a Mother if you will in no wise eat of the Sacrifice of my Son when as I have eaten thereof my self shall not this be a shame for you that I should have a better heart and a greater courage than you behold I have prepared a fair Table for you most valiant men why eat you not is it not good fare that I have drest for you and it is your will that I should make you this Feast it had been my part rather to have been moved with pity of my Son than you and how chances it therefore that you are more merciful than I did you not spoil my house and leâ—â— me no kind of Food for me and my Son did you not constrain me to make you this Feast notwithstanding the greater hunger that I have why then eat you not thereof when as you were the authors and causers that I did this deed the Jews hearing of this matter were wonderfuly smitten in sadness yea even the Governours of the Seditious began to stoop when they heard of this so that they all in a manner desired death they were so amazed at this horrible Act. Many therefore of the common people stole out in the night forth of Jerusalem with all their substance to the Romans Camp and shewed Titus of this who wept thereat and was sorry for the matter exceedingly After which Titus commanded to bring an Iron Ram and to bend it against the new Wall which the Seditious had raised that they might batter it down but many of the Nobles among the Seditious came forth unto Titus and made Peace with him whom he placed among his chief men Shortly after the Romans set on fire one of the Gates of the Temple that was shut whose door was covered over with Silver and while the Timber of it burnt the Silver melted and ran upon the ground so when the Gate was open the way appeared which leadeth to the Sanctum Sanctorum As soon as Titus saw it he honoured it with great Reverence and forbade his people that none should come nigh it Wherefore he commanded a Proclamation to be published throughout all his Camp to this Tenour whosoever cometh near the Sanctuary shall suffer death for it He appointed also a strong band of men to keep the Temple that it might not be prophaned and unhallowed by any of his but his Princes and Captains answered unless this house be set on fire thou shalt never subdue this People in regard that to preserve it they â—ow to die Notwithstanding Titus would not hearken to their â—â—unsel but appointed some of his own Souldiers and â—â—ch Jews as had come in to him to keep ward giving them charge to preserve the Temple and Sanctum Sanctorum lest it should be polluted The Seditious Jews that remained in Ierusalem seeing the Romans depart from the Temple and leaving Guards behind they came upon them with their Swords drawn and slew every soul of them which Titus hearing he brought his whole Army thither against the Seditious and killed many of them the rest fled by Mount Sinai The next day the Romans set fire on the Sanctum Sanctorum laying wood to the doors that were covered over with Gold and then firing it so after the Gold waxed hot and the Timber burnt the Sanctum Sanctorum was open that men might see it in the ninth day of the 5th Month the Romans thereupon rushing into the Sanctum Sanctorum gave a great shout while it burnt which when Titus heard he hasted to quench the fire and save the Sanctum Sanctorum but he could not do it because it was set on fire in so many places Thereupon Titus cried unto them that they should forbear but they would not hear him for as a vehement flood of waters breaketh thorough all things and drives them before with such a furious violence the Gentiles rushed upon the Lord's Temple the fire flaming every where out of measure When Titus saw he could not restrain them from the Sanctum Sanctorum with Words he drew out his Sword blaming the Captains of his own People and others that were not Romans he killed and he cried out so long and so loud upon them that he was grown hoarse The Priests that were within the Sanctum Sanctorum withstood the Romans stoutly till they were no longer able to lift up their hands wherefore when they saw there was no other safeguard left they leap'd into the Fire and divers other Jews with them and so burn'd all together saying What should we live any longer now there is no Temple Yet Titus ceased not to strike the People and chase them from the Temple and being grown so weak that all his Strength failed him he fell upon the ground and forbore crying to them any more After that the Sanctum Sanctorum was burn'd Titus arose and entring thereinto he saw the Glory and Magnificence thereof and believed it was the House of the Lord for as yet the Fire had not consumed all The Seditious that yet remained at Jerusalem seeing the Sanctum Sanctorum to be burn'd they set the rest of the Temple on Fire themselves with all the Houses that were filled with Treasure and all sorts of precious Jewels and where they knew there remained yet some Victuals they set it also on fire lest the Romans should receive