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A06144 The tragicocomedie of serpents. By Lodowik Lloid Esquier. Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610. 1607 (1607) STC 16631; STC 16631.5; ESTC S108782 59,286 110

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recedet gladius de domo tua to Salomon his Sonne neying on Pharoes daughter to the losse of ten Tribes of Israel to the Beniamites such a fall for the Leuites wife to the losse of 25000 Beniamites and to the Sichemites such a fall for Dina Iacobs daughter to the ouerthrow of themselues and of their Citie Sichem But for prophane Histories Paris had such a fall for Helene Menelaus wife to the losse of the greatest number of all the Kings of Asia and of Greece Marcus Antonius for Cleopatra of Egipt had such a a fall that hee lost both the Empire of Rome and the Kingdome of Egipt I know that matching in mariage to be not one of the least causes of good and euil religion in any Common-wealth As the mariage of Esau with forraine and strange Nations The mariage of Ioram King of Iudah with King Achabs daughter an Idolater was the cause of much wickednesse in Israel The Law of Moses was that the Hebrews should match with their owne Tribe And therefore Esdras commaunded the Children of Israell to forsake their strange women Nehemias rebuked and punished the Israelites for not putting away such strange idolatrous Nations The blasphemer which was stoned in the wildernesse was the Sonne of an Egiptian gotten by an Hebrew woman Abraham was so carefull of a wife for his Sonne Isaac that hee sware his seruant to bring him one of his owne Tribe With the like care did Isaac send to Mesopotamia to his brother Laban to choose him a wife So did old Tobias send his young Sonne Tobias to Medea So God appointed such godly womē to these godly men that willingly they forsooke their friends their kinred their brethren and sisters their Parents and country to come with their husbands to Iudah Ruth forsooke her idolatrous Nation the Moabites and would not though she was sought earnestly to returne vnto Moab A blessed woman in the Lord sayd B●o● for she became the Mother of many blessed kings in Israell and of one most blessed King euen the King of Kings So Loah and Rachell the wiues of Iacob became the Mothers of the 12 Tribes of Israell These were godly marriages for they forsooke parents and friends to come out of such idolatrous countreys to come into Iudah to serue God with a strange Nation I could wish that there were not in great Britane those that would forsake their natiue soyle to be married in Rome or in Spaine to serue Images Caleb a zealous and earnest Hebrew promised his daughter A●●san in marriage to him that ouercame that wicked and peruerse Towne Zepheri Dissembling Saul promised his daughter Micholl to him that could bring him 200 Philistims skinnes And two godly and zealous men performed and effected the same namely Dauid and Othoniel So did Clysthenes for his daughter Agarista who made search throughout all the Cities of Greece for a vertuous youth learned and wise fit for his daughter And Themistocles was wont to say Mallem virum sine pecunia quàm pecuniā viro i●digere that was his choise Yet some philosophers were of opinion like the Papists that men might haue as many women as they would for multiplication So Cato did by his wife Martia and Socrates by his wife Zantippa change them for others for that they were barrein It was not onely the opinion of Chrysippus whose writings were full of Oracles but also of Socrates and Plato and other which maintaine Poligamia but the papists will not allow their Priests Monogamia but as many Concubines and as many bastards as they list Phigius and Eccius two famous Papists left written in their bookes behinde them that Minus peccat Sacerdos s●ortando quam vxorem ducendo But when Pope Gregorie had found in one of his Fishing-ponds 6000 heads of Infants by his seruants he was forced with shame to say with Paul That it was better to marrie than to burne And when one of the Popes seruants sayd That it was not so rich a draught as the poore Milessian Fishers found at Miletum where they tooke Mensem aur●am which was not fit for any of the Sages of Greece but onely for Apollo Yea saith his fellow softly to him this draught is as fit for the Pope as the other draught was for Apollo How many such draughts were drawne in the time of Papissa a woman of Miguntia Gilberta and not Ioanna an English womā as Heidfield saith which bare at one birth more than the Countesse of Flanders who had 365 at one birth and more than Herotimus King of Arabia who had 600 bastards by cōcubines but Gilberta and her Successors so exceeded that all the world is much trobled with her bastards In Rome God Anubis fel in loue with Saturninus wife the onely faire woman of Rome her husband her parents her kinsmen and friends brought her to the temple of Anubis where the Feast Lectesternium was prepared where after the Feast they left Saturninus wife with God Anubis all night where De Mundus a young Romane Knight was Deputie by means of the priests for 2000 Drachmeis Marcus Antonius comming from Rome to Athens in all kinde of habites and ceremonies with Thyrsus in his hand like Dionisius hee was so reuerenced of the Athenians that they offered him their Goddesse Minerua in mariage with 1000 talents for her dowry which was well accepted of the Romane so that the God Anubis must haue a woman and the Goddesse Minerua must haue a man The brood of these great marriages were greatly multiplied in all Countreys by mariages of these two great houses Saturninus wife with God Anubis and Minerua with M. Antonius for before that in Rome meane Families were matched with the Patricians in marriage the Senators and Consuls had the whole gouernment ouer the Romanes but being strengthened by mariage with the patricians not only the election of the Tribunes themselues but of all the Magistrates of Rome and the whole gouernment of the Romanes was Per plebem Tribunum plebis It was euer seene in all common wealths that the vulgar people by being Magistrates or being in commission by great countenance by marriage by bearing and backing them in their Religion be that Immanis bellua the verie Monster among Nations A Thistle in Libanon sent to a Cedar tree in Libanon saying Giue thy daughter to my Sonne in marriage and there came a wild beast from Libanon and troad downe vnder foote the Thistle with a watch-word giuen by the Prophet to Amasias King of Iuda for the worshipping of the Gods of Edom Deos albatos filiorum Seir. Vnequall marriage specially in Religion is like an Oxe and an Asse to drawe vnder one Yoake This was the first cause of sedition at Rome in monte Ianiculo betweene the Patricians and the Commons Ob dignitatem natalium Hence grewe many seditions and so many that it was