sometimes leading him sometimes bearing him he brought him safe to Sicelie so did Aeneas for Anchises his father Idem Metellus the father and the sonne the one Captaine vnder Anthony the other vnder Caesar the Father being prisoner and beeing condemned his sonne sayde to Caesar Thys hath beene thy enemy ô Caesar and I thy friend him thou must punish and me rewarde I desire thee to saue my father for mee or let mee die for him at whose request he was saued Idem Crates Thebanus deliuered a stock of mony to his friends vpon this condition that if it shoulde happen his children to bee fooles they should therewith be maintained but if they became learned and phylosophers then to distribute it to the poore Dem. Mag. Periander one of the 7. Sages of Greece and a Tyrant sent for his sonne Licophorna that with his owne hands hee might kill him because he mourned for the death of his mother which when the Cittizens of Corcyra knew they put him to death themselues to deliuer him from his Fathers tiranny Vale. Maximus Priamus had by Hecuba fifty Sonnes and Daughters Orodes king of Parthians thirtie Artaxerxes a hundred and fifteene Erothinus King of the Arabians seauen hundred in confidence of whom he inuaded the confines of his enemies and with seuerall inroads he wasted the Lands of Egypt and Syria Petrarch Petrarch writeth of a married woman that had twelue seuerall children by twelue seuerall men one of them a yeere elder then the other who ready to die tolde her husband of them all he was Father but to the eldest and reckoning vp the Fathers of the other the youngest cryed to her good mother giue me a good Father to whom she sayde that a very rich man was his father wherevpon the childe was glad saying If hee be rich I haue a good father Astapus Amphorinus bare such loue to their parents that their Citty beeing burned they tooke them vpon their shoulders and carried them through the midst of the fire A woman of Athence her father called Cymon being in pryson where he was like to be famished craued so much leaue of the Keeper that shee might haue accesse to her Father whō with her milke shee preserued long time from death Harpalice her father being takē prisoner by the Getes redeemed him with more celerity then can be thought in a woman Seruius It is written that three bretheren striuing vvho should enioy their fathers land vvere content to be agreed by the King swearing that they vvould stand to that which hee determined the King commaunded the dead body of the Father to bee taken vp saying that hee vvhich shot neerest the hart should be the right successor the eldest shotte him in the throate the second in the breast neere the hart but the third abhorring this damned resolution sayd I had rather yeeld all to my brothers then bee so degenerate To whom for his vertue and reuerence to his father the King adiudged the land Israell many yeeres lamented the losse of one of his sonnes for whom when hee vvas 120. yeeres old he vvent downe with al his family into Egypt Dauid greatly lamented the death of his rebellious sonne Absalon Orodes King of Persia hearing that his son Pacorus was slaine in the wars against Ventidius vvith extreame greefe therof became mad Rauisius Auctolia the daughter of Sinon and wife of Laertes vnderstanding a false report of Vlisses death her sonne at Troy dyed for sorrow Idem Anius King of Thuscans had a Daughter called Salia whom when Oritheus had stoln away threvve himselfe violently into a Riuer called afterward by his own name Plutarch Lucius Gellius when in a maner he knew that his sonne had beastly abused himselfe with his stepmother and attempted to bereaue him of life became himselfe this wretches defender and before the Senate acquited him both of fault and punishment Val. Maximus Dioschorus put to death his vertuous and religious Daughter Barbara for imbracing the Christian fayth Ptolomeus Euergetes beeing expulsed his kingdome for his crueltie killed his sonne in Cyprus whom hee had by his sister Cleopatra sent her his head feete for a token Liuius Apteras Saturnus caused his owne Father to be gelded killed his owne sonnes held continuall vvarres against his bretheren Berosus Deiotarus hauing many sonnes murthethered all saue one that he which suruiued al the rest might be mightier and of greater power Gellius Hippomenes an Athenian Prince for that his daughter Lima was founde in adulterie caused her to be close shutte vp with a horse giuing her no releefe but the horse almost famished deuoured his daughter Laertius Oppianicus contrary to the common nature of Parents was content for money to forsake his children Cicero Domitius detested his sonne Nero for no other cause but that hee had begotten him vpon Agrippina Suetonius Medea beeing forsaken of Iason murdered her owne sonnes Ouid. Herod commaunded his onely child to be killed among the general massacre of the innocents in Iurie vvhich vvhen Augustus heard he sayd That he had rather bee Herods hog then his child Iosephus Prusius King of Bithinia was murthered of his owne sonne when he had committed the rule vnto him P. Malleolus for killing of his mother was the first amongst the Romans that vvas sowed in a sacke and cast into the sea Liuius Cham the youngest sonne of Noah his Father being drunke lying naked called his brethren to that vnnatural sight who going backwards couered theyr fathers secrets for the which they were blessed the posterity of Cham accursed Gene. 6. Absalon rising against his father Dauid expelled him his kingdome afterward assayled by Ioab fled and was hanged by his haire vpon an Oake Helie the Prophet winking at the faultes of his children though forewarned of Samuel died a violent death and his sonnes both in one howre were slaine in battaile by the Philistines as a iust reuenge for their former disobedience Regum 11. Adramelach and Sarazar murdered theyr Father Senacharib for which they were driuen out of theyr kingdome and ended theyr dayes in exile 4. Reg. Irene pulled out her sonne Constantines eyes because hee began to beare himselfe ouer proudly in the Empire Eristhenes was famished of his mother because he fought in battaile with no courage Rauisius Damatria when shee heard that her sonne had not behaued himselfe in battaile as the sonne of so woorthy a mother shoulde haue doone at his returne killed him Orchanus caused his daughter to be buried aliue because Apollo had rauished her Ouid. Tigranes killed one of his sons because he would not take him vp when hee had a fall at hunting for that hee set the crowne vpon his head Appian Machates the sonne of Mithridates for feare of his father killed himselfe Mithridates killed his sonne Siphares to be reuenged of the mother Gripus who was king after Seleucus made his mother drinke the poyson vvhich shee had prepared for him Medullina whose body was
and Ceres his sisters much mislyking that one so rude as Titan should ascende to the succession of Caelius crowne gaue the kingdome to Saturne his younger brother vnder this couenant notwithstanding that he should slay alâ— his male children to the end the issue of Titan might after Saturnes death repossesse the kingdome Saturnes wife and sister Ops brought foorth a sonne which hee caused to be slaine after this shee was deliuered of a daughter and a sonne Iupiter and Iuno who desirous to saue the life of his sonne gaue him to her mother Vesta and presented only the daughter to Saturne After this contrary to the knowledge of Saturne shee brought forth an other sonne called Neptune and at another birth Pluto and Glauca but she onely shewed the daughter Titan vnderstanding that Saturne had broken promise with him with the forces of the Titanois his children inuaded Saturne imprisoned him and his wife Ops which Iupiter hauing knowledge of being a valiant Prince and ayded with the Coribantes amongst whoÌ„ he was trayned ouercame Titan and deliuered his Parents Of this warre came the fable of the warres of the Giants Saturne forwarned by the Oracle to take â—eede of Iupiter his sonne for that hee had â—â—tention to kill him and expulse him his â—ingdome deuised to destroy him who vnâ—erstanding his coÌ„spiracies came with a great â—rmy and vanquished his Father Saturne fled into Italy and there taught the people to plant and sow and manure theyr earth in recompence whereof hauing liued before with roots and wild fruits they honored him as a God Iupiter maried his sister Iuno and conquered many Countries not so much by power as pollicy and for his wisedome ordayning of lawes inuention of arts profitable for mans life he was worshipped as a God to whom those Princes he ouercame erected temples thereto inioyned by him for the better establishment of his deuine honour The brethren of Iupiter Neptunus and Pluto summoned him to partition of his patrimony where-vnto he agreed and deuiding the kingdome by lot the vvest part fell to Pluto the Iles and banks of the Sea happened to the portion of Neptune and to Iupiteâ— all the confines of the East Of this partition sprung the fiction of the Poets calling Neptune the God of the Seas and Pluto God infernall or dis pater for that the vvest or falling of the sunne is more dark and cloudy and more base and low then the East Heere grew also the first fiction that Iupiter chased his Father into hell for that Italy where Saturne was retired standeth vvest in respect of Candia and is more darke The Poets faigned that the firmament or heauen fell to the part of Iupiter the rather for that hee remayned for the most part since that partition in the mount Olympus in Thesalia vvhich the Greekes called heauen Iuno the daughter of Saturne vvas the sister and wife of Iupiter borne at Argos some write at Samos the Goddesse of marriage and therefore called Pronuba likewise Lucina for child-birth the Queene of riches and honour to whom the Pecocke is consecrated Vulcanus was the God of fire and sonne of Iuno vvhom Iupiter for his deformity cast from heauen into Lemnos where he was honoured Mars was faigned to be the God of warre and Iunoes sonne without the company of man he was also vvorshipped in Lemnos Apollo the God of vvisedome Musicke Phisicke Poetry and Shooting was borne of Iupiter and Latona brother to Diana he â—s called in heauen Sol in earth Liber pater iâ—â—ell Apollo he was worshipped at Delphos and renowned for his Oracles Venus vvyfe of Vulcan is faigned to bee borne of the froth of the Sea the Goddesse of loue beauty and all sensuall delights she was adored in Cyprus Cupid the sonne of Venus was paynted naked winged blind in his hand a bowe and at his backe a Quiuer of arrowes his companions are Dronkennesse Sloth Luxury Strife Hate and VVarre he was worshipped for the God of Loue. Mercurie vvas the Sonne of Iupiter and Maia the God of eloquence and merchandize and the messenger of the Gods holding a Caduceus in his hand Dionysius otherwise called Bacchus for that hee shewed the Indeans the vse of Grapes was honoured for a God Ceres first taught men hovve to plough sovve reape and grinde theyr Corne and therefore they helde her a Goddesse Plinie Diana for her chast lyfe vvas honoured for a Goddesse she continually exercâ—â—sed her selfe in hunting wild beasts in heaâ—uen she is called Luna in earth Diana in heâ— Proserpina Aeolus was faigned by the Poets to be thâ— God of the winds because the cloudes anâ— mists rising about the 7. Aeolian Ilands 〈◊〉 whom hee was King did alwayes portenâ— great store of winds Pallas was the Goddesse of wisedome anâ— all good Arts and Sciences borne of Iupiteâ—â— braine without a mother Nemesis the daughter of Oceanus and Nox called also Adrastea was the Goddesse of reuenge Berecynthia Rhea Tellus Vesta or Cybile was the mother of the Gods Pierides the nine Muses daughters of Iupiter and Mnemosyne dwelled in Helicon and were called the Goddesse of Poetry Musicke Momus was the carping God who neuer did any thing himselfe but curiously beheld the doings of other to carpe thereat Priapus the sonne of Bacchus and Venus the God of Gardens Pomoma the Goddesse of fruite Flora of flowers and Feronia of the woods Charites were the Graces in number three â—glaia Thalia Euphrosyne supposed to bee â—he daughters of Iupiter Venus Penates Lares were houshold Gods but â—ares for the harth and fire called by the â—ames of good and euill Angells also the â—reseruers of Townes and Citties Genius or Daimon the Panyms thought to â—e a good or euill Angell appoynted to each man to guide and defend or to punish them Fortune is faigned to dispose and change the good and euill haps of men the daughter of Oceanus or as Orpheus of the blood as a power not to be resisted shee is painted blind and drawne in a Coach with blind Horses vainly honored for a Goddesse Pan was the God of sheepheards of whom Duriâ— Samius writeth that hee was the sonne of Penelope whose wooers being so long delayed they all abused her and got vpon her Pan. Pales was the Goddesse of sheepheards Faunus sonne to Picus and father of Latinus was the Father of all the rurall Gods his Son Sterculius inuented the manuring coÌ„passing of grounds and therfore was deified Syluanus the God of vvoods loued Cyparissus who was turned by Apollo into a tree of his owne name in remembrance of 〈◊〉 Syluanus would alwayes beare a braunchâ— Cypres Ianus a King of Italy was a wise and proâ—â—â—dent Prince and therfore they pictured hiâ— with two faces he was called the God of â—â—â—terance whose temple gates in time of wanâ— was alwayes open and in peace shut vp Terminus was God of the bounds or seueâ—rall marks Libitina was a Goddesse in whose templâ— were sold all things pertaining to
assemble themselues together The Hebrews vsed Trumpets of horn in remembrance of the deliuerance of Isaac what time an horned vveather was offered and sacrificed in his stead Tibia was an instrument of sorrowe and lamentation which men did vse in office and sepultures of dead men beeing like vnto a Shalme or Flute Lyra hath the name for diuersity of sounds and was first inuented by Mercury The Harpe is called Cythera first found by Apollo which Virgill writeth to haue seauen strings that is seauen soundes seauen differences of voyces The Psalterie hath the name of Psallendo for the consonant aunswereth to the note therof in singing The Hebrewes called the Psalterie Decachordon an instrument hauing ten strings according to the number of the ten Commaundements Cymballs are instruments of musick compassed like an hoope and on the vpper compasse vnder a certaine hollownesse hangeth halfe bells fiue or seauen in number Sistrum hath the name of a Lady that first founde the same who vvas Isis Queene of Egypt Among the Amazons the hoast of vvemen is called to battaile with this instrument It is like a horne vsed in battaile in sted of a Trumpet The Bell is also reckoned among the Instruments of musick who whilst hee profiteth others in sounding hee is himselfe consumed and wasted by often smiting Thys was inuented by the Parthians Of Wemen Although Pandora had wisedome from Pallas eloquence from Mercurie beautie from Venus personage from Iuno and from euery other God some gift where-vpon shee is so called yet in the nature of a woman shee brought the whole world to confusion ALthough Eue transgressed before the man yet is the originall of sinning ascribed to Adam because the succession is accounted in men and not in wemen Thucidides was of opinion that those vvemen vvere most honest of whose commendation and disprayse there is least speech vsed Harmonia daughter to Hiero the Syracusan woulde vvillingly haue dyed in the defence of her Country Epicharia a libertine of Rome being made priuie to a conspiracie intended against Nero vvas so constant in secrecie that beeing rent with most cruell torments yet neuer vvould shee bewray any of the parties Tacitus Laeena bitte her tongue in sunder spette it in the face of Hippias the Tyrant in whose honour the Athenian dedicated before the Castle gate a Lyonesse of brasse vvithout a tongue to betoken the steady vertue of silence in her Plinie Araetia taught her Sonne Aristippus phylosophy Mithridates vvife and sisters shewed a far lesse feare of death then Mithridates hymselfe Appian The wife of Asdruball of Carthage ouercome by Scipio shewed a greater resolution to die then Asdruball himselfe Aspasia and Diotima with sacrifice droue of a plague ten yeeres which shoulde haue hapned in Athence Aspasia loued and taught the eloquent Pericles of Athence Nichostrata mother to Euander shevved the Latines their Letters The Sabine women were no lesse helpe to increase Rome then the Troyans at the first beginning The conspiracie of Cataline for which Cicero is so praised was first disclosed by a woman Salust Philip the sonne of Demetrius laying siege to the citty of Scio proclaimed that what bond-man soeuer woulde forsake the Citty and come to him they should haue liberty theyr Maisters wiues the vvemen hearing this came to the walls weaponed fought so fiercely that they repulsed Philip. A deede the men could not doe The Erythians made war vpon the Sciots vvho not able to holde out compounded to depart theyr Citty without armour vvhich when the women heard of they vvould not suffer but counsailed them to carry theyr shield and speare and leaue theyr clothes aunswer their enemies that this was theyr array which they followed auoyding the sâ—ame of the other The Spartane wemen delighted to see their children die valiantly in defence of their country The vvemen of Sagunt in the destruction of theyr Country tooke wepons in hand against Haniballs souldiers VVhen the Armie of the Germaines vvas vanquished by Marius theyr vvemen not obtayning to liue free in Rome in seruice with the Vestals killed themselues and their chidren Portia the wife of Brutus and daughter of Cato when she heard that they both vvere deade beeing carefully watched of her seruants tooke the fire from the harth swallowed the coales Appian The wemen of India are so couragious and bold that they dare leape into the fire with the dead bodies of theyr husbands Alexandra wife to Alexander was Bishop in Iurie nine yeers Antiochus King of Siria had a seruant called Arteon so like him of face and person that when King Antiochus dyed the Queen Laodicea his wife dissembled the matter vntill shee of her owne decree had made another King in Syria Zenobia Queene of the Palmerins beeing very well learned in the Greeke Latine and Egiptian tongues taught them to her tvvo sonnes and wrote an Epitome of the Easterne Histories Chrisostome made a sermon against all wemen because Eudoxia the Emperour Arcadius wife had bolstered Epiphanius against him he mocked at her picture for vvhich cause she endeuoured to banish him againe vvhereof he vnderstanding made a notable Sermon with this beginning Herodias rageth a fresh stomaketh a new daunceth againe seeketh as yet the head of Iohn Baptist. Euseb. In the war that Conradus a Germane Emperour had with the Caâ—ulies hee tooke the Castle and Towne of VVeimsburge then the Emperour commaunded to take all the Gentlemen but the Gentlevvomen should be let goe with as much goods as they could carry but they forsaking their goods carried away their children which the Emperour hearing of commended their vertue and gaue theÌ„ likewise leaue to take their goods The Romans had a law that what soeuer a vvoman with childe longed for shee should haue it the cause was for that Fuluius Torquatus wife longed to see a vvilde man that passed by her doore whom the Knights of Mauritania had taken in hunting in the deserts of Egypt and not seeing him she dyed Aurelius VVhen the Romans vpon a certaine vvager dyd send from the vvarres to Rome to vnderstand what euery mans vvife dyd at home amongst them all the most praysed was the chast Lucrecia for that shee onelie was founde vveauing and all the rest idle Liuius Assiria coÌ„plaineth of the scandall of Semyramis Armenia for Pincia Greece for Helena Rome for Agrippina In the societie of the Druides of Fraunce vvere very many learned wemen of vvhom the Romaine Emperour Aurelian did aske counsaile Vopiscus The greatest part of Asia was conquered gouerned more by the wemen Amazons then with any barbarous people P. Diaco Porus king of India for want of men and too many wemen was ouercome of Alexander Curtius Haniball was alwayes Lorde of Italie vntill hee suffered vvemen to goe to the vvarres vvith him and vvhen hee fell in loue vvith Tamyra at Capua hee immediatly turned his backe to Rome Sylla in the warres against Mithridates and Marius in the warres of the Cimbres had ouer his
his subiects vvith exactions dyed when he had raigned 18. yeres Antonius Comodus defamed himselfe by his wicked life and died suddainly raigning twelue yeeres 8. months Pertinax was very olde when hee was chosen and hauing raigned but 80. daies he was slaine in an vproare which sell among the gard by the meanes of Iulian. Didicus Iulianus bought the Empire vvith mony hee was a noble man expert in the lawes he was ouercom by Seuerus slaine in his pallace raigning 7. months Seuerus the only Emperour created forth of Affrique he was very couetous by nature cruell hee subdued Brittaine deceased at Yorke raigning 18. yeres Antoninus killed his brother Geta in hys mothers presence hee founded the Baths at Rome was much giuen to lust he espoused his mother in law Iuba and was slaine of Macrinus when he had raigned 6. yeeres Opilius Macrinus Diadumenus hys son succeeded were both slaine in a sedition raigning but one yeere 2. months Heliogabalus vvas a most dissolute wicked Emperour the base sonne of Antoninus he vvith his mother Semiamira were drawn vvith all spight through the Citty of Rome their bodies were torne in peeces cast into Tiber he raigned sixe yeeres Alexander Seuerus beeing but 17. yeeres old was chosen Emperour hee was a very vertuous Prince and the first Emperor that fauoured the Christians hee vvas slaine in Fraunce in a tumult that arose among the souldiours by the meanes of Maximinus in the thirteene yeere of his raigne Maximinus vvas first a Sheephearde in Thracia and afterward became a souldiour hee vvas the first that aspired to the Empyre by meanes of souldiours only he was slaine by Pupienus at Aquileia when he had raigned three yeeres Three at once bare the name of Augustus Pupienus Balbinus and Gordianus the the first two so soone as they came to Rome were slaine in the pallace Gordianus raigned alone he was come of a noble progeny and when he had raigned sixe yeeres he vvas slaine by the treason of Phillip who succeeded him Philip was the first Emperour that proâ—essed the Christian saith hee was slaine by Decius when he had raigned 5. yeares Decius made an act that all that worshipped Christ should be slaine both he and his â—onne were slaine in Barbary after they had â—aigned 2. yeares some write he was swallowed vp in an earthquake Virius Gallus and Volusianus his sonne â—aigned together then Emilianus attempted new conspiracies in Moesia and when they both went to subdue him they were slaine at â—teramna not raigning full out two yeares â—hey persecuted the Christians Aemilianus as hee was descended of base stock so was the time of his Empire obscure and without fame when he had raigned 3 moneths he was slaine Valerianus raigned 6. yeres he was discomfited taken prisoner by Sapores King of Persia who wheÌ„ he would take his horse he made Valerianus lie on the ground that hee might tred on him while he got on horsback he was slaine at Millaine ruled 6. yeares Galienus was lerned but giuen to great excesse dronkennes he was slaine likewise at Millaine hauing raigned with his Father 6. yeares and 9. after him Flauius Claudius a vertuous Prince sober and a maintayner of iustice within two yerâ— after he began his raigne sickned and dyed he ouercame the Gothes the Germaines restored Aegipt to the Empire Quintilius semblable as vertuous as hiâ— brother by the assent of the Senat was made Augustus and was slaine within 17. dayes after he began his raigne Aurelianus was borne in Denmark a stout man in war but cruell he was slaine through the treason of his owne seruants when he had raigned 5. yeres 6. moneths he was the first that wore a crowne imperial robes of gold and pearle which before were strange to the Romaines Tacitus a man of exceeding good conditions dyed within 6. moneths after his enterance Florianus raigned 2. moneths 20. daies he dyed by incision of his owne vaines did nothing worthy of memory Probus a man well expert in warfare a stout and iust man was slaine in an vproare which grew among the Souldiours when he had raigned 6. yeares 3. moneths Carus made his sonnes Carasius Numirianus Emperour with him Numirianus was vertuous and Carasius as wicked as Nero they raigned 2. yeares Carus was slaine with lightning and Numerianus by treason and Carasius by his owne companie Dioclesian was of ripe wisedome and garnished with many vertues yet a great persecutour of the Christians Maximinianus was associated to him in the Empire the first raigned 20. yeres they both left the Empire and liued priuatly Dioclesian slew himselfe for feare of Licinius Constantinus Maximinianus was slaine of Constantius his brother in law Constantius and Galerius sirnamed Armenius for that he somtimes kept beasts raigned 4. yers with great praise CoÌ„stantius died in England and Galerius killed himselfe Constantinus as some write was the first Emperor that professed the name of Christ he bulded CoÌ„stantinople in that place which was called Bizantium he was a vertuous godly Prince he raigned 30. yeares Three Emperours and Caesars raigned at once Constantinus in Fraunce Spaine and Germany Constantius in the East Constans in Italy The first was slaine when hee had raigned 3. yeares the second was killed by Magnentius wheÌ„ he had raigned 13 yeres and Constans died when he had ruled 39. Iulianus the Apostata raigned 3. yeares he was a great persecutor of the Christians whâ— he was deadly wounded and lay vppon the ground he threw his blood to heauen-ward saying Vicisti Gallilaee Iouinianus was a very good Prince and fauorer of the Gospel he instituted that titheâ— should be paid he died sodainly when he had raigned 7 moneths Valentianus Valens raigned foureteene yeres they were both Christians Valens was slaine by the Gothes and Valentianus dyed by an extreame bleeding Gratianus raigned sixe yeares hee was a true maintainer of religion and learned hee made Theodosius partner with him and was slaine in Fraunce by his Gouernour Maximus Theodosius raigned after him eleauen yeares hee was a Spaniard and a godly and vertuous Prince restoring the peace to the Church whose death Saint Ambrose bewailed and writ thus of him That hee was more carefull for the estate of the Church thaâ— to preuent his owne dangers Arcadius raigned with his brother Honorius the one in the East 15 yeares the other in the VVest 29 yeres and dyed Theodosius the 2 sonne of Arcadius ruled â—t Constantinople 42. yeares he was a most vertuous Prince and chose Valentinian as â—hen a child to raigne with him he dyed of â—he pestilence Valentinianus was slaine by a Souldiour hired of one Maximus to that end for that he had forced his wife he raigned fiue and twenty yeares Martianus after he had gouerned the Empire 7 yeares was poysoned at Constantinople by the treasons of Ardibure and Aspar hys Father beeing a vertuous and iust Prince Leo the first ruled 17 yeares
he ouercame Aspar whilst he gouerned in the East there raigned with lawfull and vnlawfull tytles in Italy sixe or seauen Emperours he dyed at Constantinople Leo the Nephew of this Leo deceased was obeyed as Emperour but hee yeelded it to his Father Zeno crowning him vvith hys own hands and shortly after dyed who ruled like a tyrant and died when he had gouerned the Empire 18 yeares Anastasius raigned 27. yeares and vvas slaine with a thunderbolt that fell from heauen Iustinus the first ruled 11. yeares and dying adopted for Caesar his Nephew Iustinian Iustinian was a wise and iust Prince most happy in two Captaines Belizarius Narses when he was old hee elected in the Empire his Nephew Iustine and dyed in the 39. yeare of his Empire Iustinus the 2 raigned 11. yeares and dyed of the gowte but a little before he created Caesar a Captaine called Tiberius Tiberius the 2 was a vertuous iust mercifull Prince he raigned 7. yeares and nominated Mauritius his sonne in law successour Mauritius was slaine by Phocas with his wife sonnes and daughters this punishment histories doe note was for not redeeming the Christians which being taken captiues were in thraldome with an infidell Prince Phocas gouerned 7. yeares and was slayne by Priscus one of his Captaines his leggs armes head and priuities were cut off hee made the Bishop of Rome supreame head aboue all other Bishops which Gregory the first discommended in Phocas he tooke the Crosse of Christ from Ierusalem Heraclius brought againe the Crosse to Ierusalem he gouerned 30. yeares in his time began the kingdome of Mahomet Anno Domini 644. Constantinus his sonne was poysoned by his step-mother Martina the first yeare of his raigne to make her sonne Heraclionas Emperour who raigned 2. yeares the Senate hauing knowledge of theyr trecherous dealings cutte off the nose of Heraclionas Martinaes tonge and the Patriarchs sending them all 3. into banishment Constans the sonne of Constantius was strangled in a bath at Syracusa when he had raigned 27. yeares Constantinus Barbatus made peace in the Empire of the East and in the Church died when he had gouerned 17. yeares Iustinianus the 2 ruled 10. yeares before he was banished and being restored 6. yeares more many troubles befell him for two flatterers by whom hee was ruled the one Theodosius a Monke whom his Subiects called General the other Stephen his Chaplaine who determined all matters concerning religion Leontius the Patriarch helping him was made Emperour and cut off Iustinianus nose Apsimarus expulsed him and gouerned 7. yeares Iustinian before mentioned returned from Exile ayded by the Bulgarians and cut off the heads of Leontius and Apsimarus pulled out the eyes of Callinicus the Patriarch in the end his Souldiours killed him and his sonne Tiberius when they had taken them from a Sanctuary Philippus Bardanes ruled 2 yeres he pulled downe Images in Churches but Artemius his Secretary caused his eyes to be pulled out Artemius otherwise called Anastatius held his Empire 1 yeare and 3 moneths he was deposed by Theodosius who put himselfe into a monastry when he had raigned 1 yere fearing to be inuaded of Leo but Artemius gathering an hoast out of Bulgaria went about to recouer the Empire but he was betrayed to Leo who killed him Leo sirnamed Iconomachus that is an assaulter of Images raigned 26 yeres he made an edict that all Images in Churches should be pulled downe Constantinus Copronymus so called because at his baptisme hee defiled the Fount was a great destroyer of Images he dyed in in the 35 of his Empire Leo the 4 his sonne gouerned 5. yeares and vvas crowned of the Patriarch in hys life time Irene with her young Sonne Constantine â—uled the Empire 10 yeares after he being 20 yeares of age tooke the gouernment aâ—one which she enuying when he had raigned 7. yeares caused his eyes to be pulled out of which greefe he died she raigned after him 3 yeares and then the gouernment of Italy was committed to Carolus Magnus by a generall consent Nicephorus possessed the Empire of the East and made peace with Charles the great hee was slaine of the Bulgarians the ninth yeare of his raigne he made his sonne Stauratius Emperour who the third moneth after he gouerned was deposed by Michaell Curopalates and put into a monastry Michaell Curopalates married Procopia the sister of Stauratius made a league with Charles and after he had raigned 2 yeares became a Monke Since Iulius Caesar was murdered in the Senate vnto Charles the great there are found aboue thirty Emperors that were slaine and foure that killed themselues Sleidan Of the Empire of Germany THE Empire of Germany began in the yeare of our Lord eight hundred one whose first Emperour of the VVest was Carolus Magnus so sirnamed for his noble acts whose Grandfather was Carolus Martellus his Father Pipinus of Fraunce his Mother Birrha daughter to Heraclius Emperour of Constantinople he was excellently learned in the Greeke and Latine tongue hee dyed at Aquisgrane when hee had raigned 14. yeares Lodouicus Pius his sonne was so called of a religious superstition not hauing the perfect knowledge of God but as religion went in those dayes for he encreased the worshipping of Idols and Images he was farre inferiour to his Father both in wisedome and vertue hee caused his brothers sonne Barnardus King of Italy his eyes to be pulled out he made his sonne Lotharius Emperor with him who with his brother Pipinus deposed him but afterwards restored he dyed at Magunze and raigned 27. yeares Lotharius the first vexed by the ciuill wars of his brethren was forced to make a Tetrarchia deuiding his Empire into 4. parts that â—e himself shold eÌ„ioy Italy with the Empire â—nd a part of Germany which lieth between â—hene and Moselletta Lodouicus should â—ule Germany Charles Fraunce and Pipiâ—us Aquitania he made his sonne Lodouiâ—us pertaker with him in the Empire and â—hortly after deposing himselfe went into a monastry called Brumia and there died haâ—ing raigned 15. yeares Lodouicus the 2 excelled in learning godâ—ines humanity liberality profound wit he dyed at Millaine in Italy when hee had raigned 19. yeares Carolus Caluus the sonne of Lodouicus Pius succeeded him for that he had no heire male when hee fled from Charlemaine and Carolus Crassus the sonne of Lodouicus Germanicus to Mantua he was there as som write poysoned by his Phisition Sidechias a Iew he was couetous proud ambitious and vaine-glorious he raigned in the Empire 2. yeares Lodouicus the third sirnamed the Stammerer contrary to the will of the Nobles of Rome was made Emperour by Pope Iohn the eight he gouerned two yeares and dyed in the warres against Bernardus in the marches of Italy Carolus Crassus expelled the Sarazins oâ— of Italy afterwards through his misfortunâ— in warre and euill leagues with his enemies he came into hatred with his Subiects sicknes also bringing him low he was not of right mind and therefore
table Idem Of Lechery This bewitching euill beeing an vnbrideled appetite in whomsoeuer it raigneth killeth all good motions of the minde altereth dryeth weakeneth the body shortning lyfe diminishing memory and vnderstanding CYrena a notorious strumpet vvas sirnamed Dode camechana for that shee inuented and found out tvvelue seuerall waies of beastly pleasure Cor. Arip Proculeius the Emperour of an hundred Sarmatian virgins he tooke captiue he deflowred tenne the first night and all the rest vvithin fifteene dayes after Hercules in one night deflowred fiftie Theophrastus writeth of an Indian hearbe vvhich who so eateth is able to performe 70. seuerall actions Iohannes á Casa Archbishop of Beneuento and Legate in Venice vvrit a booke in praise of the abhominable vice of Sodomitrie Sigismond Malatesta striued to haue carnall knowledge of his sonne Robert vvho thrusting his dagger into his fathers bosom reuenged his wickednes Cleopatra had the vse of her brother Ptolomeus company as of her husbands Antiochus stayed a whole vvinter in Chalcidea for one mayde which he there fancied Lust vvas the cause of the vvarres between the Romaines and the Sabines Liuius Thalesthis Queene of the Amazons came 25. dayes iourney to lie vvith Alexander Iustinus Adultery in Germany is neuer pardoned Tacitus Messalina and Popilia vvere so incontinent that they coÌ„tended vvith most shamefull harlots prostrating themselues without respect of time place or company to any though neuer so base Plut. Claudius deflowred his owne sisters and Semiramis burned in beastly lust tovvards her sonne Ninus Nero caused Atticus a Romaine Consull to be slayne that hee might the more conueniently enioy the company of his wife Corn. Tacitus Commodus not contented with his three hundred Concubines coÌ„mitted incest vvith his owne sisters Herodian Caligula dyd the like but the one vvas slaine by his vvife the other by his Concubine Adultery was the cause of the first alteration of the Citty of Rome Eutrop. Sempronia a vvoman well learned in the Greeke and Sappho no lesse famous defended luxurie and lust by their writings Cleopatra inuited Anthony to a banquet in the prouince of Bithinia in the vvood Sesthem where at one instance of threescore young virgines fiftie and fiue were made mothers Cleophis a Queene of India saued her kingdome and subiects from destruction by a nights lodging with Alexander by whom she had a sonne called Alexander vvho was afterward King of India shee was euer after called Scortum Reginum Iustine Heliogabalus not onely deflowred but also married a virgine Vestall saying it vvas reason that Priests shoulde marry Nunnes because that in times past hee had beene Priest of the Sunne Iane Queene of Naples was hanged vp for her aduoutry in the very same place vvhere shee had hanged her husband Andreas afore because he was not as shee sayd able to satisfie her beastly desire Feron King of Egypt had beene blind 10. yeeres and in the eleuenth the Oracle told hym that he should recouer his sight if hee washed his eyes in the vvater of a vvoman vvhich neuer had to doe with any but her husband vvhereupon hee first made tryall of his owne vvife but that dyd him no good after of infinite others which did him all as little saue onely one by whom hee recouered his sight and then hee put all the rest to death Herodot Iulia the daughter of Augustus vvas so immodest shamelesse and vnchast that the Emperour was neuer able to reclaime her and vvhen shee was admonished to forsake her bad kinde of lyfe and to follow chastitie as her Father dyd shee aunswered That her Father forgotte that hee was Caesar but as for herselfe shee knew well enough that shee was Caesars daughter Cornelius Gallus and Q. Elerius tvvo Romaine Knights dyed in the very action of theyr filthy lust Plinie Arichbertus eldest sonne vnto Lotharius King of Fraunce dyed euen as hee was embracing his whores Alcibiades was burned in his bed with hys Curtezan Timandra Plut. The Egyptians punishments against adultery was to cut of the nose of the vvoman and the priuie parts of the man Alexander when a woman was brought to him one euening demaunded of her vvhy shee came so late she aunswered that shee stayed vntill her husband was gone to bed VVhich he no sooner heard but he sent her away being angry with theÌ„ that had almost made him commit adultery He was angry with Cassander because hee would by force kisse a minstrels maid Rodolphus King of Lombardie beeing taken in adultery was slaine by the vvomans husband whom he abused Roderigo King of Spayne was depriued of his kingdome life by the Sarazins who vvere called in by an Earle called Iulian that he might be auenged of the king for forcing his daughter Caelius Rhodoginus in his 11. booke of antiquities telleth of a certain man that the more he vvas beaten the more he feruently desired vvomen The vvidowe of the Emperour Sigismund intending to marry againe one perswaded her to spende the remainder of her life after the manner of the Turtle-Doue who hath but one make If you counsell mee quoth shee to followe the example of byrds why doe you not tell me of Pidgions Sparrowes which after the death of their makes doe ordinarilie couple themselues with the next they meet Hiero King of Syracusa banished the Poet Epicharmus for speaking vvantonly before his vvife and that very iustly for hys vvife vvas a true mirrour of chastitie Sulpitius Gallus put away his wife by deuorce because shee went abroad vnmasked Pompey caused one of his souldiers eyes to be put out in Spaine for thrusting his hand vnder a womans garment that was a Spanyard and for the like offence did Sertorius commaund a footeman of his band to be cut in peeces Sabellicus If Caracalla had not seene his mothers thigh he had not married her Suetonius Speusippus the Phylosopher one of Platoes followers vvas slaine for his adulterie Tertullianus Tigellinus dyed amongst his Concubines Tacitus Rodoaldus King of Lombardy was slaine with a certaine matrone euen in the action of their concupiscence Paulus Diaconus By the law of Moses adulterers were stoned with rigour which our law doth not obâ—erue for were it to bee so in these dayes wee should not finde stones enough to fulfill it A Nunne finding in her Booke at the bottome of the leafe these vvordes Bonum est omnia scire determined to try what the carnall copulation of man and woman might â—ee but turning ouer the leafe shee sawe in the beginning thereof Sed non vti vvhereâ—pon to her greefe shee altered her purpose and her ioy lasted but a while Rutilius Consull of Rome caused the temple of Lucina to bee burned because his daughter great with child made her vow and kept her 9. vigils and vpon more deuotion was desirous to bee deliuered in the temple The Persians would not shew their wiues vnto strangers Iosephus The Tarentines and the Capuans were very mortall ennemies by chaunce one one day in the campe of the
most dangerous enemies Plut. Antigonus hearing certaine Souldiours railing vpon him hard by his tent who though that he was not so neere shewed himselfe saying can you not goe further to speake ill of me Caesar when he heard that Cato had slaine himselfe at Vtica O Cato said he I enuy thee this thy death seeing thou hast enuied me the sauing of thy life Plutarch Adrian bearing great enuy to a worthy Romaine before he was Emperor the same day he vvas elected meeting his enemy in the streete sayd to him aloud Euasisti meaning that he being now a Prince might in no wise reuenge an iniury P. Diaconus Pythagoras was so pittifull that he abstained from cruelty euen towards vnreasonable creatures that he vvould buy birds of the Fowlers and let them fly againe draught of fishes to cast them againe into the Sea Loncerus Augustus made one his Seruant that would haue killed him Domitian when he was first chosen Emperour did so abhorre cruelty that he would not suffer any beasts to be killed for sacrifice The Snakes of Syria the Serpents of Tyrinthia and the Scorpions in Arcadia are gentle and sparing of theyr naturall soyle though cruell in others Plinius Scipio hauing taken Hasdruball captiue restored him againe without ransome Darius vnderstanding that his Subiects were sore taxed with Subsidies blamed his Counsaile rebuked their Law and in an oration vnto his Subiects signified that he was oath his estate should hinder theyrs which gentlenes so wone them that they offered their lands and lyfes at his feet Herodotus The Emperor Aurelian the gates of Tiaeâ—a being shut against him he sent word that vnlesse they yeelded he would not leaue one flogge aliue in the Citty vvhich they notwithstanding refused to doe but he ouercomming them was so pittifull that he spaâ—ed them commaunding to kill all the flogs Porus King of India conquered of Alexâ—nder and being commaunded to aske what â—e would fearing that pitty was farre from Alexander desired clemency which he granâ—ed Brusonius Alexander vvas so famous for clemency that Darius wished that he might ouercome Alexander to shew him curtesie or that Aâ—exander and none else might conquer him Plutarch The Romaines were renowned for the honorable funerals of Siphax king of Numidia whom they tooke prisoner Valerius Prusias King of Bythinia being banished by Nicomedes his owne Sonne came to the Romains who entreated him euery way according to his worthines estate Diodorus So did they with Ptolomey banished by his owne brother and restored him againe to his kingdome Marcellus after his Souldiours had conquered Syracusa not without great slaughter of many mounted vp an high tower of the Castell and with teares lamented the â—â—full fall of Syracuse Valerius Metellus besieging the great Citty Centobrica in the Country of Celtiberia when he saw their miserable condition and their women comming out with theyr children to craue mercy he with-drew his intended forces remoued his campe and spared the Citty to his eternall commendation In Athence there was a temple dedicated to Mercy into which none might enter except he were beneficiall pittifull and then also with licence from the Senate Macrobius Arcagatus a notable Chirurgion was highly esteemed among the Romaines as long as he had pitty vpon his Patients whose cure â—e had promised but when hee began to be â—nmerciful he was not only dispised of graue men but in derision called Vulnerarius Gelâ—ius Rome was called the hauen of succour the â—nker of trust the key of curtesie wher-vnto â—ll helplesse Princes fled Pompey hauing coÌ„quered Tigranes King of Armenia and he kneeling at his feet yeelding his crowne and scepter he tooke him in his armes put his crowne vppon his head and restored him againe to his kingdome Plutarch Iulius Caesar was as willing to reuenge the death of Pompey as L. Paulus was curteous fauourable to his foe Perseus Idem Haniball although a deadly enemy to the Romaines yet in princely clemency he wone more commendacions by the buriall of Aemilius Gracchus Marcellus then he got fame by ouercomming three thousand Romaines Valerius Polycrates the tyrant of Samos was very gentle towards those women that were the wiues of the dead Souldiours restoring them to their liberty and giuing them wherewithall to maintaine their after estate Vespasian after that Vitellius had killed his brother Sabius and long persecuted his sonne being at last subdued he spared his daughter and bestowed a great sum of money with her in mariage Agesilaus after he had ouercome the Corinthians did not so ioy in his conquest as he lamented the death of so many men Plut. Augustus when he had conquered Alexandria the Citty which Alexander built mooued with pitty in sight of the Cittizens expecting nothing but death said for the beauty of your Citty and memory of Alexander and the loue I beare vnto Pyrrhus your philosopher and pitty of all I spare your Citty and graunt you life Aelianus Certain drunkards abused in wanton spech Pisistratus vvife and being sober the next morning came to aske him forgiuenes he gently said learne to be sober another time Camillus rebelled against Alexander Seuerus the Emperour of Rome and for that being condemned to dye by the Senate was pardoned by him Eutropius Fabius forgaue Marius the treasons hee practised against him Cicero said of Iulius Caesar that he extolling dead Pompey and erecting his statues did set vp his owne Alphonsus by his clemency and gentlenes â—one Careta so did Marcellus ouercome Siracusa Diogenes Heraclitus Apermanthus Tiâ—ion of Athence were vngentle and vnciuile persons and for their strange manners termed haters of men Phocion the Athenian would in nothing fulfill the request of the people and therfore he was hated worse then a Toade The Spartans for their obedience and humility vvere more honoured then eyther Thebes renowned for her Gods or Athence for her wisedome Plut. Marius being appoynted by the people of Rome twice to tryumph deuided the glory betweene himselfe and his fellow Catullus Appian Dion after he was made King of the Syracusans would neuer change his accustomed fare and apparell which he vsed as Studient in the Vniuersity Plut. As Alexander was on his voyage to conquer the Indians Taxiles one of the Kings desired him that they might not vvarre one against another If thou said he art lesse then I receaue benefits if greater I will take them of thee Alexander admiring his curteous spech answered At the least we must fight and contend for this whether of vs twaine shal be most beneficiall to his companion Curtius Traianus was so meeke and curteous that he was fellow-like to all men during all his raigne there was but one only Senator condemned who was adiudged to death against his will Eutropius The kingdom wherin the Emperor Augustus most delighted and ioyed was of the Mauritanes and the reason was this because all other kingdoms he got by the sword and this kingdom by intreatance Suetonius Alexander did write to Publian
that they would obserue what soeuer he determined whervpon they yeelded I iudge then quoth he that none of you depart this Temple before you bee reconciled Thus were they coÌ„strained to agree between themselues Archidamus freed from loosing their friendships whoÌ„ he deerly loued The Egyptians shewed signes of stronger friendship to their friends beeing dead then when they were lyuing Scipio Affricanus going against the Numantines deuided his Army into 500. companies and made one band which hee called Philonida the band of friends Mithridates sought to driue Nicomedes forth of Bithinia vvho vvas friende to the Romaines and gaue the Romans so much to vnderstand to vvhom the Senate made aunswer that if he warred vpon Nicomedes he should likewise feare the force of the Romaines Appian Cicero and Clodius Tiberius and Affricanus froÌ„ mortall foes became faithful friends Scipio greatly complained that men were very skilfull in numbring their Goates and Sheepe but few could reckon their friends Alexander helde Aristotle deere Darius Herodotus Augustus Piso Pampeius Plaâ—tus Titus Plinie Traiane Plutarch Anthonius Apollonius Theodotius Claudius Seuerus Fabatus Pericles beeing desired by a friende to ayde him with false witnes aunswered That hee would friend him as high as the heauens meaning that men should ayde theyr friends so far as iustice gods lawes did permit Thu. Plato seeing he could not bring the Common-wealth to happines by vertue reduced all lawes to friendship deuising all things to be common affirming that two only words namely Mine Thine where the things that disturbed the society of man Homer giueth Achilles a Patroclus Virgill an Achates vnto Aeneas Alexander had his Hephestion Darius his Zopirus and Scipio his Laelius Dion and Iulius Caesar had rather die then distrust theyr friends Plu. Augustus wanting his olde friends Maecenas and Agrippa said that if they had lyued hee had not fallen into the troubles hee vvas then in Seneca Scaurus and Cataline the conspirators against Rome and Brutus and Cassius the murtherers of Caesar held great leagues and confederacie together but in no sort they could be called friends for there can bee no true amitie vvhere is no vertue Among heauenlie bodyes Mercury Iupiter Sol and Luna are friendes to Saturne but Mars and Venus are his enemies All the Planets sauing Mars are friendes to Iupiter and all the rest of the Planets sauing Venus hate Mars Iupiter and Venus loue Sol. Mars Mercury and Luna are his enemies and all the rest of the Planets loue Venus except Saturne Iupiter Venus and Saturne are friendes to Mercury Sol Luna and Mars are hys enemies There are inclinations of friendship in vigâ—able mineralls as the Loadstone hath to yron the Emerald hath to riches and fauours the stone Iaspis to child-birth the stone Achates to eloquence and Naptha â—ot onely draweth fire vnto it but fire leapeth vnto it where soeuer it is the like dooth the roote Aproxes Such friendship is betweene the male and female Date tree that when a bough of the one shall touch a bough of the other they fold themselues into a naturall embracing neuer doth the female bring forth fruit without the male Vines loue the Elme tree the Oliue the Mirtle likewise loueth the Oliue the Fig-tree and if the Almond tree grovve alone it will proue vnfruitfull There is friendship betweene the Blacke-bird and the Thrush betweene the Choffe and the Heron betweene the Peacocks and the Doues Isodorus Cato the Censor had a Ring vvhereon was engrauen Esto amicus vnius et inimicus nullius Bee friende to one and enemie to none Plinie Of Loue. All the Arts and Sciences of the worlde may in time be learned except the Art of Loue the which neither Salomon had skill to write nor Asclepias to paynt nor Ouid to teach Helen to report or Cleopatra learne beeing a continuall Schoolemaister in the hart whose diuine furies are Propheticall misticall poeticall amatorial consecrated to Apollo Bacchus the Muses and Venus THe Poets meane nothing els by those tovvnes of Adamant vvhich they vvrite of but the loue of Cittizens vvho by no force or policie can be ouercome so long as in hart they hold together The Grecians so long as they continued at peace among themselues they vvere coÌ„querers of all men but after that ciuill discention had once entered in amongst them they fell daily more and more to such ruine that in fewe yeeres they became laughing-stocks to all the world Plutarch Balsaria when Calphurinus Crassus vvas taken captiue of the Messalines and shoulde haue beene offered for a sacrifice vnto Saturne shee deliuered Crassus from death made him conquerer Caluce after Troy vvas destroyed vvhen King Lycus her Father sayling into Lybia had appointed to kill Diomedes for sacrifice to appease the Gods for vvind vveaâ—â—er she deliuered him from her Father and sâ—ued his lyfe Scipio Affricanus esteemed so much the Poet Ennius aliue that being dead hee caused his picture to bee set before his eyes as a memoriall of his great loue Plutarch Pomponius Atticus thought himself happie when either Cicero was in his sight or his bookes in his bosome Plato in his booke intituled Conuiuium interlaceth Comicall speeches of loue hovvbeit al the rest of the supper there is nothing but discourses of Philosophy Alexander loued highly Apelles insomuch that after he had made him draw out a Iâ—eman of his naked whom hee likewise loued deerely vnderstanding that he was enamored on her he bestowed her on him Alexander vvould haue his picture drawne by none but Apelles nor cut by any in brasse but onely Lysippus so greatly did he affect them Curtius Stagerita the towne where Aristotle vvâ—â— borne beeing destroyed by Philip of Macâ—â—don Alexander his sonne for the loue heâ— bare to his Maister Aristotle reedified thâ— same againe Valerius seruaunt to Panopion hearing that certaine souldiours came vnto the Cittie of Rheatina of purpose to kill his master hee changed apparrell with his maister and conueyed him away suffering himselfe to be slaine in his Masters bed for the great loue he bare him The Persians for the affection they bare to theyr horses when they died buried them Alexander made a tombe for Bucephalus Seuerus the Emperour for the loue hee bare to Pertinax whom Iulianus slew willed that men shoulde euer after call him Pertinax Eutrop. A Persian vvoman beeing asked why shee had rather saue the life of her brother then of her owne sonne Because sayd she I well may haue more children but neuer no more brothers seeing my father and mother are dead Eros the seruant of Antonius hauing promised to kill his Maister when hee requested him drevv his sword and holding it as if hee would haue killed him turned his Maisters head aside and thrust the sword into his own body Plutarch Agesilaus was fined by the Ephories because he had stolne away the harts wonne the loue of all his cittizens to himselfe The Emperour Claudius did neither loue nor hate but
as hee was prouoked and induced therevnto by others Tacitus Herius of Corinth builded in the midst of the Citty a Temple to the Goddesse Venus within which were inclosed more then 500. of the fairest maides of Asia whom theyr parents did there consecrate to the Goddesse Venus to the end they might bee Louers and stales to drawe louers to them holding her for most religious and holy which vvas most amorous and dissolute Samocratius Nigidius and Ouid vvrit many volumes of the remedy of loue but it little profited themselues for they al three died in persecution not for the abuses they committed at Rome but for the loues they practised at Capua The cause of ciuil dissention between Themistocles Aristides was the loue of Stesilia an harlot whose beauty being vanished their hatred was such that they neuer could be reconciled but continued enemies euen to the death The like hatred vvas betvveene Cato and Caesar about the loue of the harlot Seruilia The Kings of Assiria neuer aunswered anie Embassadour themselues but by messengers they spending theyr time in courting theyr Concubines and for theyr vnkinglie loue to vvomen they were euer condemned of all men Pausanius Alexander for the loue hee bare to the famous harlot Thais caused that most renowned and rich citty Persepolis to be burned Publius Pilatus was in loue with the Images of Helena and Atalanta Pigmalion doated on an Iuory image that he had made with his owne hands Ouid. Two young men of Athence were in loue with the picture of Fortune Cataline for the loue of Orestilla kylled his owne sonne because she would not ioyne in marriage with him while his sonne liued Salust Estrasco a Romaine borne dumbe loued Verona a Latine borne also dumbe who lyking each other came visited each other by the space of thirty yeeres vvithout the witting of any person then died the husband of the Lady Verona the wife of Estrasco they married of them descended the noble linage of the Scipios Aurelius The Poets faine that in Leucadia there is a very high steepe Rocke which is a notable remedy to asswage loue from this first leaped Cephalus for the loue of Degonetes vvhom he loued without measure Timon Misanthropos loued none but onely Alcibiades and him hee loued and once kissed because he sawe in his face the destruction of Athence Plutarch Xerxes all the wonderfull workes of Iupiter both on sea and land sette aside in Lydia fell so farre in loue with a Plane tree vvhich happened to his sight that he tarried a whole day by it and caused the boughes to be adorned with chaines of golde bracelets spangles yeelding there to great reuerence Alcibiades vvas the Paramour of Socrates Dion of Plato who both reaped profit by their loues Alexander crowned the tombe of Achilles and Hephestion that of Patroclus signifying thereby that he loued Alexander as wel as euer Patroclus loued Achilles Pausanias loued his wife so tenderly that it cannot bee described the like affection did Apelles beare to Pancasta Alexanders lemoÌ„ Adrian the Emperour doated on the loue of Antinous a faire young man insomuch that he dedicated a Temple to him at Mantinea and a Citty at Nilus Pausan. The Achaians honoured Fortune Loue both together in Aegina because none can attaine to Loue without Fortune Niphus Propertius when he was in loue sayde hee was not himselfe but a shadow Hephestion was called the louer of Alexander Craterus of the King Plut. VVhen Cyrus vvent to ouer-come Babylon the riuer Euphrates let him a Knight whom the King wel loued ventured into the water and was drowned then the king made a vow that this great riuer should not come to any vvomans knees which shoulde vvade ouer and therfore he parted it in the broade fields into foure hundred threescore chanels and so tooke the citty Perdiccas for the loue he bare to Alexander refused a great reuenewe in Macedonia and followed him in his vvarres in Asia Plutarch Turinga had so many louers that shee coulde not reckon them vppon her fingers ends but called for a bushell of pease to tell them by Aurelius Demetrius hauing strongly begirt the Citty of Rhodes for the loue he bare to Protogenes painted table raised his siege Of Iealousie Suspition This griefe of the minde as it is called iealousie belongeth onely to matters of loue and therefore hath to name Zelotypia the loue of beauty whose braunches are obtractation emulation â—nuie and detraction POlycrates Samius dearely affected Anacreon the Poet who likewise loued the Paramour of Polycrates named Smerdias but Polycrates kindled with the sparkes of iealousie supposing that the Poet loued Smerdias exceedingly shaued off his golden locks thereby to make him mishapen whose losse Anacreon lamented in a Poem Aelianus Phanius was so iealous of his wife that hee locked her vp thinking by that meanes to preuent all commers but he was deceaued and what shee could not compasse beeing at liberty she effected being pent vp Leucononia the wife of Cyampus was deuoured of a dogge in sted of a wild beast hiding her selfe in the woods to follow mark her husbands walks Argus hundred eyes could not keepe Io from Iupiter Ouid. Procris followed her husband Cephalus into thee woods fearing that he had some other Loue who being hid in the bushes and desirous to come neerer to him hee supposing some wild beast to be there killed her Ouidius Plutarch reporteth the lyke of Aemilius who killed himselfe when hee saw it vvas his wife The fish Canchar is iealous ouer her male and striueth oft for him Plinie Aemilia the wife of noble Scipio who although shee knew thinges euident by him made much of his Paramour as she made of her husband and all for Scipios sake Abraham was iealous of his wife Sara The Persians were so suspitious that theyr wiues had no liberty to goe abroade when they went it was in VVaggons The Thracians with such care and study kept their vvyues that they would trust no man in their companies but their Parents Herodotus An hundred threescore and ten Romainâ— women poysoned theyr husbands because they were iealous of them Valerius Galatius Maria Duke of Millane beeing at masse was slaine by a Cittizen for a iealousie hee had conceaued that this Prince had entertained his wife Guicchard The wild Boare pursued of dogs the Lyonesse bitten with hunger the Tyger robbed of her young ones or the Viper whose tayle is trod vpon are not more cruell and fierce then a woman offended but nothing sooner casteth her into a fury theÌ„ iealousie Ausonius Ariadne buried aliue Zeno Isauricus the Emperour that shee might be reuenged of him for his iealousie Bomilchar a Prince of Libia being suspected of his owne Country-men the Carthagians that he had conspired with Agathocles vnto anoyance of the Subiects was hanged in the Citty of Carthage in the midst of the Market Phillip King of Macedonia married the sister of Attalus and had diuorced and
their sayd pupill Dion An honorable person being called into the Senate at Athence to depose touching some matters the Senators vvould not haue him to take the accustomed oath knowing him to be a vertuous honest man Cicero in an Oration pro Balbo The Emperour Fredericke sayde to certaine of his Minions that vvere importunate to get into their hands the auncient demeane of the Empire That hee rather would bee accounted of small liberality then periured Phil. Comi Melius Suffetius a dictator of Albany was drawne in peeces vvith foure horses for that hee had broken his fayth and the Cittie of Alba was rased cleane downe Liuius Caracalla the Emperour hauing pursued the king of Persia contrary to his promise vvas himselfe afterward slaine Ladislaus King of Hungary made a most honourable truce with Amurath during which he was perswaded by Carninall Iulian Embassador from Pope Eugenes to breake it vvhich was the cause that hee vvith the chiefe of his Armie and the Cardinall vvere slaine outright Guychardine Pope Adrian tooke a solemne oath to obserue the peace concluded with the Emperour Fredericke and afterwards breaking it as he dranke was choked with a flie P. Com. Michael Paleologue beeing chosen Emperour of the Greekes promised swore that hee vvoulde render vp the Empire into the hands of Iohn Lascaris whē he should come to age but notwithstanding he held it still hee died miserably and to his posteritie ensued an infinite number of mischiefes was occasion of the first beginning of the Turkish monarchy Christiern King of Denmark hauing broken his fayth giuen to his subiects was depriued his Realme and afterwards lyued myserably although he receiued many succours from the Emperour Charles the fift Charles Duke of Burgundie hauing violated his fayth promised to the Switzers and before that to the King of S. Poll vvas vanquished and all ill hap accompanied him euer after Guychar Andronicus Conuens cleane contrarie to his fayth giuen to the infants of Emanuell to them of Nice vsurped the Empire but he was soone after hanged vp by the feete hewed in peeces for his periury Alexander hauing vovved to kill the first that should come forth of the towne put an Asse to death in stead of him that ledde her Q. Cur. Haniball being but fifteene yeeres of age was sworne by his father that he should continually prooue an enemy to the Romaines Appian Cassandra for breaking her promise vvith Apollo had this punishment that prophecied she neuer so truly shee should not be beleeued Virgill The first temple Romulus built at Rome was dedicated to faithfulnes Pausa Paulus Iouius Bembus Sabellicus and Pandolphus accuse the Frenchmen for not keeping their fayth according to theyr promise with the Venetians The Petelines in Calabria and the Saguntines in Spain chose rather to die a miserable death then to break the fayth they had once plighted Liuius The prayse vvhich Sylla gaue Cinna made him commit periurie The Indians vse to cut off the lyps and the handes of periured persons to shewe the offence they had committed against God and theyr neighbours The Oracle of Delphos made aunswer that all things should prosper well if they forbad all oathes The Scythians vse to sweare by the vvinde and their sworde because the winde giueth breath to liue by the sword killeth It vvas in no case permitted to the Priests of Iupiter to swear for that an oath often endeth in cursing and periurie Among the oathes of Iudges one was that they should take no present Demost. Socrates vsed to sweare by a dog Pythagoras by the number of foure the Manichies by the light The Nazarites vow was neuer to cut their haire nor drinke wine nor pray for the dead King Dauids poesie vvas Voue et redde H. The fourth Emperor of Almain vowed to liue an Hirmit ten yeeres and called himselfe Godstall that is Gods calling Polycr Stampitius a holy Father of the Church vowed vnto God a thousand times that hee vvould become a better man but hee neuer performed that which he vowed then sayde he Heereafter I will make no such vowe for I haue now learned by experience that I am not able to performe it but commend my selfe vnto Gods mercy Mag. Sent. One promised to marry the daughter of Lisander but her father dead his state not found so good as he was supposed the young man reuolted then the Magistrates called Ephori vnderstanding thereof by a common cōsent punished the young man as offender Antigonus the King held Zeno in great reuerence and one day being drunke hee met Zeno and bid him commaund him any seruice and he vvould doe it and bound it with an oath to whom Zeno sayde Abi et euome goe and vomit Polymnestor in whom King Priamus reposed his confidence committed his Sonne Polidorus vnto him whom hee falsely slewe notwithstanding his solemne vowe to haue a most tender care ouer him Virgill The people of Sarmatha were most false in wordes deceitful in deedes and trecherous one to another The vvifes of the Scythians while theyr husbands were at warres brake their vowes and married theyr slaues vvhom at theyr returne they killed Valer. Forsworne Crocalus King of Sicilia killed King Minos vnder colour of friendship and pretence of talking with him Cleomenes brake promise with the Argiues with vvhom hee tooke truce for certaine daies and notwithstanding castily betrayed them in the night slewe thē sleeping and imprisoned them contrary to his former promise The Argiues loued so well theyr hayre that beeing conuicted by the Lacedemonians they shaued theyr heades bewailing their misfortune and vowed neuer to let theyr haires grow vntill they had recouered their losses Lisander admirable among the Lacedemonians neuer made any reckoning of iustice but vvhen it vvas profitable accounting onely profit to be honest saying That it vvas requisite chyldren shoulde bee deceaued with the play of Cockall and men beguiled with oathes The Emperor Iustinian for breaking hys fayth with the Barbarians and violating peace vvith the Bulgarians his own subiects rebelled and Leontius vsurped the kingdome first cutting of his nostrils and then sending him into banishment Of Silence Secrecie Nature hath placed the tongue betweene the bead and the hart hauing aboue it the instrument of all the Sences the eyes the eares and nose obedient vnto reason to the end it vtter nothing before counsell taken of the inward faculties of the soule which are Vnderstanding Reason seated in the braine PYthagoras the Phylosopher commaunded all the Schollers he receiued into his schoole to bee silent fiue yeeres to learne of others so long before themselues dyd vtter any thing Harpocrates was the Superintendent and the corrector of mans speech vvas drawn vvith a ring fastned vpon his lyps Augerona was fained to bee the Goddesse of Silence drawne with her finger vpon her mouth and a table vppon her breast whereon vvas vvritten Heare See say nothing showing in vvhat reuerence they ought to hold
consumed all his time therein whose poesie was Ede bibe lude post mortem nulla voluptas The Kings Princes of Asia were much giuen to pleasure The life of Dionysius when he was in his best health was lost by sodaine ioy Fulgosius M. Aurelius banished fiue vvise-men his Court for clapping their heeles and hands and laughing outragiously Heliogabalus writ certaine wanton books and called them by the name of his wife Semyramida Tharua the Romaine Consul died through sodaine ioy while he was reading the letters of the Senate wherein they had ordayned a common supplication thanksgiuing to be solemnly made Plut. Sophocles dyed vvith immoderate reioycing for that his Tragedies went so generally applauded Plinius Diagoras the Rhodian and Chilon hearing that their children had wone the prize at the games of Olimpus felt such a motion in them of the spleene that they were stifeled with ioy Epâ—curus who placed his felicity in corporall pleasures dyed miserably in a vessell of hote water Xerxes propounded rewards to those that inuented new kind of pleasures Iustin. Socrates meruailed that Aesope made not a fable wherein hee might haue fayned that God since hee could neuer couple pleasure and sorrow together might haue knit them with an extreamity so that the beginning of one should haue beene the end of the other Plato in Phaedro The Romaines and the Athenians to get the good will and loue of the people builded Theaters shewing diuers deuises of pastimes as Comedies Tragedies and dauncing of Antiques The Greekes had 4. great games appoynted the first vpon mount Olympus in Arcadia which Hercules inuented to honour Iupiter which was so famous that as the Romaines vsed to account the time by theyr Consuls so did the Greekes by these games which was appoynted euery fift yeare The second games were called Pythij and inuented of Apollo in memory that he killed the Serpent Python heere they exercised running leaping wrastling ryding and swimming The third were called Isthmia inuented of Theseus in the honour of Neptune of Isthmos a place in Arcadia where hee was worshipped The fourth Nemea which they make in remembrance of Hercules for that he killed a great fierce Lyon in the Forrest of Nemea In the first play the garland of victory was of Oliue in the second of Oake in the third of Pine in the fourth the garland was of Poplar tree Pyndarus The Troians in King Latinus Court vsed for theyr recreation the playing at the ball Virgil. The Corinthians thought it the greatest felicity in the world to spende dayes nights in playes and esteemed more happines to winne a game then a Romaine Captaine to get a triumph Xerxes inuented the Chesse-play to warne a tyrant to auoide his tirany and by his play to let him vnderstand how dangerous the estate of a Prince is that dooth not vse his Subiects well Another play was vsed in Greece eyther vpon the dice or else closely in hand called Euen and odde The Romaines had foure games the first Lupercalia brought out of Arcadia by Euander sacrificed vnto Pan vpon mount Palantine the young men of Rome ranne naked one vnto another and he that was most swift of foote escaped stripes but he that was ouer-taken by the way was sure to speed The second Circenses ludi in a place appointed by Rome enuironed about with huge strong walls heere was running of horses fighting on horseback wrastlers leapers The third Saturnalia which Ianus did inuent in memory of Saturnus his fellow this play was celebrated with much mirth pleasure and pastime It was alwaies in the moneth of September when euery man saluted his friends with rewards at that time al things were common Macrobius The fourth Gladiatoria where the youth of Rome came to behaue themselues among theyr enemies at the long speare the long sword the staffe in that play naked without armour they came to fight against theyr enemies Claudius Caesar Emperor writ a booke of the Art of dicing gaming which he his successour Augustus greatly studied Agripâ—a Caesar being warned to beware of Anthony and Dolobella being fat merry and liberall speakers sayd that such were not be feared but those rather which were sad of an heauy complexion as Brutus Cassius Plutarch Alexander when many Phylosophers had disputed in his presence wherein consisteth the good hap of this life he made aunswere Beleeue me friends that in all this world there is not equall delight or lyke pleasure as to haue where-with to be liberall and not wherefore to chastice Plut. VVhen Darius had ouercom the Lydians he ordayned that they should vse perfumes and doe nothing but daunce leape and hant Tauernes to the intent that by that meanes becomming altogether effeminate they might not haue the courage torebell afterward Pyrrhus seeing the Tarentines to be too ful of delicacie forbad all assemblies to feasts to mummeries and such like brought theÌ„ backe to the exercise of armes shewing himselfe seuere to those that were enrowled in his muster-booke and bound to goe to the warres Cineas told Fabritius how a Philosopher counsailed men to referre all their doings to pleasure who prayed God to giue such wisedome to Romulus and the Samnites Demetrius hauing giuen himselfe to al plesures the Macedonians draue him out saying That they were weary of bearing armes and fighting for his pleasures Lewes the 11. permitted all Comaedians and Stage-players to speake freely and to reprehend such vices as were manifest Ph. Com. Of Apparell Nature cannot be surpassed by Art who many times disdaining that she is prouoked by how much more the greater force shee is pressed and couered by so much the more she riseth vp and sheweth her selfe the naturall deformity of the body can neither he altered with sumptuous attire colours nor odours but make it eyther more euident to be seene or more doubtfull to be suspected ALexander hauing ouercome the Persians despised his owne Country fashions and vsed altogether the apparell of the Persians by the which hee alienated his Subiects harts for thus the Persians tryumphed ouer him not he ouer them Fulgentius The Romains vsed three maner of gownes Pretextatae Palmatae Candidatae The first Gentlemens children of 14. yeares old did vveare the second conquerours for theyr noble deeds the third Lords maisters and Rulers of the law Aristotle delighted to goe braue in gorgeous apparell with chaines and rings and tooke therein great felicity Demosthenes and Hortensius two famous Orators went so neate in their cloathing and with such wanton iestures that Lucius Torquatus would often call Hortensius Dionisiaes Sonne for that she had great pleasure in dauncing and mouing her body Augustus Caesar would weare no other garments then such as his vvife daughters made and those very modest Agesilaus King of Lacedemonia neuer had but one kinde of garment for VVinter and Sommer Diogenes beholding a stranger come from Lacedemonia more curiously decked on a feastiuall day then he was wont
the femenine sexe to haue had masculine courages Theana being demaunded what married wife deserued commendation aunswered She that medleth onely with her rocke and spindle that loueth onely her husbands bed and keepeth her tongue in quiet Atheneus The Essenians haue neyther wife nor seruants nor the Dulopolitans called otherwise the Rascalls and Slaues of Citties professed open enemies to all women-kind Iosephus Homer bringeth in Iupiter reprouing and threatning his wife when she is rebellious but neuer further Vpon the Ascention day in Venice the Duke accompanied with all his Nobles in a faire vessel of plesure made Gally-wise goeth in it a mile or two into the Sea casteth there in a ring of gold thinking by this ceremony they so marry the Sea vnto them that all the yeare after they may haue safe passage for their commodities Of Parents Children God hath formed the mind to the perfect mold of truth and vertue carrying it farre from vice wherefore it behoueth Parents to giue their children good education which once taught then is their voyage and Nauigation in this world happy making them thankefull to the occasions of their great good where otherwise neglected they abhorre the remembrance of their Parents when through their damnable liberty and euill examples they haue beene led away SOlon made a law that those Parents in their old age should not be releeued of theyr children which cared not how they practised good manners or profited in letters Timarchides being of wicked life was not ashamed to haue his Sonne of tender yeares to be a viewer and witnes of his wicked lyuing Cic. Verres cared not how his Sonne spent his time whether among harlots or honest persons Cic. Scipio Affricanus being eighteene yeares of age his Father then Consull saued his life at Ticinum and ouercame him that wounded his Father Stat. Vespasian being besieged of the Barbarians in Britania was deliuered by his Sonne Titus Xiphil Lausus the Sonne of Mezentius defended his Father from Aeneas and was slayne of him Virg. Antigonus when hee had obtained a great victory of his enemies hee tendered all the honour at his Fathers feete Rauisius Antigone led her blind Father Oedipus Sophocles Cleobis and Byton drew theyr mother in her Coach to the temple of Apollo Cicero Leo the younger when he had raigned one yeare rendered the crowne againe to his Father Zeno. Aegeus when he saw the ship that his Sonne rode into Crete returne with blacke sailes contrary to promise supposing that hee was slaine threw himselfe from an high rocke into the Sea Ouid. Aelius Tubero had sixteene children of his owne body all of them maried and dwelling in one house with their children and lyuing with him in all peace concord The arrogancy of a childe was the cause that one of the Ephories published the law of testaments wherby it was permitted to euery one from that time forward to appoynt whom he would his heire Among the Romains the child was not admitted to pleade his Fathers vvill after his death by way of action but onely by way of request vsing very humble and reuerent speech of his dead Father and leauing the whole matter to the discretion of the Iudges Patritius Antigonus the Sonne of Demetrius who was taken prisoner by Seleucus when his Father sent him word to giue no credite to any letters he should send for the deliuering vp of certaine townes thereto constrained by Seleucus Antigonus contrariwise writ to Seleucus that he would yeeld him vp all become pledge for him if he would restore his Father Apollonida mother to King Eumenes and to three other of his bretheren accounted her selfe happy because she saw her 3. younger sonnes as it were a garde to theyr elder brother Cato with his owne hande wrote a historie and gaue it to his sonne to the end he might there see the acts of his auncestors learne the skill howe to gouerne the Common-wealth Bercilidus a Gouernour in Sparta sitting at meate did forbid that the younger sorte should doe him reuerence reproouing himselfe of barrennes because he had not begotten any children to doe them the like honor when they were old Cornelia accounted her children to be the chiefest treasure riches that she had Val. In Fraunce there was a Father his sonne condemned to death for treason and iudged to be executed according to the custom of the Country by standing in a Caudron in vvhich they should be boyled to death now it was winter and beeing both naked in the water the sonne began to quake for cold and when the vvater was heated to cry out vvith great impatience his Father persisting immoueable in both sayd Thou sonne of a vile whore canst thou neither abide heat nor cold Augustus commanded the Ladies his children to learne all the offices and qualities wherewith a vvoman might liue be maintained and vvhereof she ought to boast herselfe in such vvise that all the apparrel which they vveare they did spin and weaue saying that a rock became a Ladies girdle asvvell as a Launce becam a Knight or a book a Priest Sueto Annalis being condemned by the Triumuiri fled to a tenant of his who had a homely house was safe hid vntill his son broughâ— the pursuers to the house who killed him Then the Triumuiri rewarded him with his Fathers goods and made him Chamberlain of the Citty but one day beeing drunke and troubling the souldiours they which killed his father murdered him Appian Choranius the vnhappy Father of an vnthrifty sonne prayed the pursuers to spare his life a while till he might sende to his son to speake to Anthony who laughed at him sayd his sonne had spoken but to the contrary Appian Quintus Ciceros brother and his sonne being taken prayed the murtherers to kil him before his sonne but his sonne requested the contrary vvhereupon the souldiers promised to graunt both theyr desires and taking them a sunder by a token killed them both at one instant Appian Ignatius the Father and the sonne fighting together dyed of one vvound when their heads vvere striken of theyr bodies dyd yet imbrace Idem Aruntius could hardly perswade his sonne that would not flie without him to saue himselfe because he was but young his mother sent him afore to the gates and then returned to burie her husband beeing killed and vvhen she shortly after heard that her sonne vvas dead vpon the sea shee famished herselfe Plut. Geta the sonne of Scoponius made a fire in the open place of his house to burie his Father that seemed to be dead whom he had hid in an house in the country where the old man disguising himselfe layde a parchment before his eyes and after the agreement was made hee tooke away the parchment and founde his eyes out for want of vse Appian Oppius sonne minding to take part vvith his olde feeble father bare him on his backe till hee was past the gates and the rest of the vvay
abused by her drunken Father knowing by his Ring shee tooke of from his finger that it was hee shee killed him at the Altar Plut. Of Sorrow This vexation of mind and sicknes of the bodie is a perturbation altogether contrarie to pleasure from whence doth spring repentance sadnesse freating lamentation carefulnes affliction mourning and desperation this is the last of the perturbations of the minde beeing in number foure A Certaine Nun vvas mother to P. Lombardus maister of the sentences Gratianus who when shee sawe them such notable men sayd she could not repent to whom her Confessor said Only sorrow because thou canst not sorrow P. Mar. The Iewes thought Ecclesiastes to bee Salomons repentance Idem Origen repenting himselfe being sorrie for that hee did in his adolescencie sayde I expounded the Prophet Abdias allegoricallie whose history I vnderstoode not Aeschines the Orator being as he was alwayes sicke did neuer complaine of the Spleene that did grieue him on the other part he did much lament for any sorow that otherwise happened vnto him Plutarch Telemachus helde this his greatest griefe that Iupiter had ended the race of his Father in him not giuing him a brother Homer King Xerxes when he saw that Ochus lay in waite for his brethren to put theÌ„ to death died for griefe thereof Plantius the Numidian looking vpon hys dead wife tooke such griefe to his hart that casting himselfe vpon the dead body he rose no more but was stifled vvith sorrow Diodorus the Logitian dyed for sorrovve because he was not able to aunswer the questions of Stilpo Laertius M. Coriolanus being banished Rome became enemy to her but his mother Veturia comming vnto him vpbraiding him with his fault he found his error layd dovvne his armes went out of the field and dyed vvith greefe of minde Liuius Homer dyed with suddaine sorrovve because he could not aunswer a question which a Fisherman propounded vnto him Plu. The Romaine Matrons bewailed the death of Brutus one whole yeere as a cheefe defender of theyr chastities Eutrop. Torquatus the younger being banished froÌ„ his Fathers house for greefe thereof slevve himselfe There was great contention betweene Sophocles and Aeschilus about versifying in which by the iudgement of those that were present Sophocles was preâ—erred vvhich Aeschilus tooke so greeuously that he fledde forthwith into Sicilia where hee lyued obscuâ—ely and in the end died miserably The lyke is written of Calchas a Soothsayer at his returne from Troy being ouercom of Mopsus one of his owne profession Homer Niceratus for that Antimachus verses vvritten in the prayse of Lisander vvere by him more esteemed then his although by iudgement of the learned Niceratus were better hee was so greeued that hee forsooke his studies but Plato by counsell turned his minde and of a dissolute made him a diligent studient in Poetry Themistocles mother for very griefe conceiued that her sonne in his youth vvas gyuen to all kinde of vvickednesse hanged her selfe P. Rutilius vvhen hee heard that his Brother desiring to be made a Consul in Rome had taken the repulse for very angush of minde dyed By the lawes of the twelue tables of Rome all sorrovve and vveeping at funeralls vvas forbidden Lepidus by a long griefe conceiued of the misbehauiour of his vvife shortned his own dayes Dioxippus before Alexander onely vvith a club challenged Corrhagus beeing all armed to enter combat with him vvhen â—ee had smitten Corrhagus speare out of his hand hee closed vvith him and laying fast hold vpon his armour hee threw him down then sette his foote vpon his necke and gored him through the body with his svvord for vvhich acte Alexander hated him whervpon Dioxippus tooke inward thought gaue such scope vnto inward force of fantasie that hee pyned and consumed away with griefe of minde Timanthes when hee had finished the picture of Iphigenia in colours set foorth Calchas to bee sorrowfull for the same but Vlisses more sad and to make her Father Agamemnon seeme most sorrowfull he painted him with his face couered The Poets faine Prometheus to bee tyed vpon the top of the Mountaine Caucasus an Eagle to be gnawing of his hart whereby they signifie no other thing but the great sadnes of Prometheus gotten by contemplating the starres and Planets The poesie of the Pythagorians vvas The hart should not be eaten Caesar neuer feared Anthony Dolobella or any other that was of a merry countenaunce but rather doubted sadde mellancholie persons such as Brutus and Cassius vvas Crassus was called Gelastos for that he was once seene to laugh in his life Anaxagoras Clazomenius vvas noted that hee neuer was seene to laugh or smyle from the day of his byrth Aristoxenus did vvonderfully bridle himselfe from laughter Heraclitus was at such defiance with mirth that hee wept continually and Democritus alwaies laughed Laertius Bibuâ—us hearing of the death of both hys children in one day lamented their losse that one day and no more Anaxagoras hearing tell that his sonne was dead aunswered It is no meruaile for I begot a mortall body P. Varro remained so sorrowful in his hart to see himselfe ouercome of his enemies his vvife suddainely dead that all the time he after liued he neither combed his head slept in bed nor dined at the table Liuius The Romaines were so sorrowfull for the death of Augustus Caesar that they vvished hee had neuer beene borne or being borne neuer dyed Eutropius Of Lying This contrary to truth nature maketh that seeme very good which is euill and causeth the tongue to become a member of iniustice when it vttereth more or lesse then is indeed vnder this vice are contained Deceipt Dissimulation Crâ—â—t Hipocrisie Idolatry and cousenage THrough a lye Ioseph was cast into pryson and Saint Chrisostome sent into banishment The Egyptians ordained death to lyers so dyd the Scythians and Garamantes The Persians and Indians depriued him of all honour and farther speech which lyed The Gymnosophists and Chaldeans barred lyers all companies and dignities and condemned them to remaine in perpetuall darknes without speaking The very wormes did eate the tongue of the cousoner Nestorius in his lyfe time Nicephorus Popiel King of Poland had euer this wishe in his mouth If it be not true I would the Rats might eate mee vvhich came to passe for he was so assayled by theÌ„ at a banquet that neyther his guards nor fire nor water could defend him from them Munster Some write that an Archbishop of Magunce died the lyke death The Emperor Traiane sirnamed the good Prince tooke away from the sonne of Cebaâ—us the kingdom of Dacia which we terme at this day Transiluania and Valachia onely because he caught him in a lye and â—old him that Rome could not permit a lyer to possesse a kingdome After that one had reade vnto Alexander the great History out of Aristobulus wherin he had intermingled certaine counterfaite prayses he â—â—ong the booke into the Ryuer saying The writer
him said an Anker was a token of safety and not of delay vvhereupon Seleucus euer after vsed an Anker in his signet Alexander returned from India to Babilon sayling in the â—ends a suddaine vvind did blow of his diadem into a place of reeds in which stoode the sepulchre of an ancient King which was held to be a token of his death Of Maiestie The fountaine of all excellent manners 〈◊〉 Maiestie being the whole proportion and figuâ—â— of noble estate and properly a beauty or comlinesse in the countenaunce language gestureâ— which doth cast vpon the beholders bearers a fearefull reuerence THere was in the Emperour Augustus â— natiue maiestie for from his eyes issued raies or beames which pierced the eyes oâ— the beholders Sueto The Frenchman that came to kill Marius when he saw his countenance ran from him crying that he had no power to kil him App VVhen Vlisses ship and men had suffereâ—â— shipwrack and he hardly escaped being caâ—â— all naked vppon the coast of the Pheacaes the Kings daughter sent him a mantle vvho comming to the King presented such a wonâ—derful maiestie in his lookes and speech thaâ— Alcinous vvished Vlisses woulde take his daughter Nausicaa to wife Homer The people wondering at his maiesty honoured him with sundry presents at theyâ— owne charges conueied him to Ithaca Scipio beeing in his manour place called Linternum diuers notorious theeues Pyâ—ats came onely to see his person of vvhose â—ame they had heard so large reports but he not knowing this theyr intent armed hymselfe to make defence vvhich the Captaine perceiuing dispatched his followers layâ—ng downe his vveapons said That they came not as enemies but wondering at his vertue and valour vvhervpon Scipio entertained theÌ„ Calphurnius Crassus conspiring vvith others the death of Nerua he knowing thereof placed them next to him at a publique show and not fearing danger being strengthened with a great mind gaue them swords ready drawne and asked them whether they vvere sharpe enough who taking the swords in their hands had no power to hurt him At the beginning wheÌ„ the multitude of people were oppressed by them that abounded in possessions riches they espying some one which excelled in vertue and fortitude repaired to him who ministing equity when hee had defended the poore froÌ„ iniurie retained together the greater persons with the inferiour in an equall and indifferent order wherfore they called that man a king which is to say a Ruler Belus the sonne of Nemrod vvas the firâ—â— King in the vvorld The auncient Egiptians called theyr kingâ— Epiphanes and had this custome that they should enter the Temple barefooted and because one of them came to the Church otherwise he vvas deposed and that name oâ— dignitie ceased They likewise called theyr Kinges Pharaones the Bithinians Ptolomaei the Latines Murani the Parthians Arsacides the Albanes Syluij the Sicilians Tyrants the Argiues Kings Nabuchad-nezzar intiteled himselfe King of Kings Alexander king of the world Demetrius conquerer of Citties Mithridates restorer of the vvorld Attyla the vvhyp of Nations Tamberlaine the scourge of God Dyonisius the hoast of men Cyrus the last of the Gods Henry the eyght king of England defender of the fayth Charles King of Fraunce the most christian king Alphonso King of Spayne the Catholicke king Thys Alphonso dyd first begin to make Bishops houses ioyning to the Cathedral Churches to the end that neyther colde in VVinter nor heate in Sommer might hinder their residencie In the Country of the Sydonians there vvas Dynastia which vvas called a linage of Kings that endured two hundred twentie fiue yeeres because all those Kings were of a good and vertuous conuersation The authority of Kings hath euer been accounted a thing diuine for Homer and Isocrates write that hee who gouerneth alone representeth a diuine maiestie In Egypt of Phylosophers they did chuse theyr Priests and of Priests their Kings with whom it was a law inuiolable that the King which had beene vvicked in his life shoulde not be buried after his death In the Ile Tabrobana kinges are chosen by election and not by blood Solinus Syllas dictatorship vvas called a negatiue ordained kingdom Appian The olde Romaine Kinges did vveare no crownes but held scepters in their hands of the vvhich Tarquinius was the last for that his sonne rauished Lucrecia the vvife of Collatinus Iustinus Plato following the fiction of Homer dyd write that kings children vvere composed of a precious masse to be seperated from the common sort Homer named kings Diogenes that is the generation of Iupiter and Diotrophes nourished by Iupiter and Aristes which Plato interpreteth to be the familiars of Iupiter and his disciples in politicke sciences The Kings of Persia in their priuie Chambers dispatched their greater matters themselues and left those of lesse consequence to their Princes It vvas a custome amongst the auncienâ— kings to put questions one to another to try the abilitie of theyr wits and certaine praiseâ— rewards were appointed to them that excelled Plutarch Salomon sent riddles problemes to king Hiram vvhom it cost very much because he could not assoile them vntill at length hee founde a young man of Tyrus called Abaâ—mon vvho deciphered vnto him the mosâ— part of them Dion The Kings of Persia shewed themselues more subiect to lawes then thir lords Zonaâ— The Kings of Lacedemonia did monthly sweare to guide themselues according to the Lavves and the Ephori tooke an oath in the behalfe of the people to see it executed Antiochus told his sonne Demetrius that their kingdome vvas a noble slauery There vvas foure Kings Princes which â—ad but one eye a peece Philip Alexanders â—ather Antigonus king of Macedonia Haâ—iball of Carthage and Sertorius a Romain The first lost his eye at Methon the second â—t Perinthia the third vpon the Alpes the â—ourth in Pontus Plutarch Alphonsus vvas the first king of Lusitania the sonne of Henry Loraine and Tiretia the â—ase daughter of Alphonsus king of Castile â—n one battaile he ouercame 5. princes of the Sarazines and therefore in his shielde bare 5. seuerall coates of honour Cor. Agrippa Pharamond sirnamed VVarmond vvas the first King of Fraunce vvho came out of Germanie hee bare in his shielde three blacke Toades Of Monarchies A Monarchie most significatly representeth the diuine regiment wherin absolute soueraigntie consisteth in one onely Prince who commaundeth all and is not to be commaunded of any THE latter Romaines had a Duarchie vvhich is comprehended vnder the gouernment Oligarchie their Empire was deuided into two partes the one Emperour of the East the other of the VVest Eutrop. Aristocratie is the rule or power of the best and most vertuous men approued for good lyfe and vvisedome directing their thoughts to no other end then a generall profit Oligarchie is wheÌ„ a fevv noble or rich men gouerne the Common-wealth reiecting the poore and baser sort Timocratie is the power of meane or indifferent vvealth gouerning by some
lawes taken from Oligarchie and Democratie vvhich are two extreames Democratie is where free men beeing the greater number are Lords of the estate There was also a mixt or compounded estate of all these Vnder the Monarchiall gouernment liued the Scithians Ethiopians Iulians Assirians Medes Egiptians Bactrians Armenians Macedonians Iewes Romaines at thys day Englishmen Frenchmen Spanyards Polonians Danes Muschouits Turks Tartars Abissines Moores Agiamesques Zagathians Cathaians Vnder Aristocratie were the Lacedemonians which estate was an excellent patterne of gouernment this established Lycurgus fiue hundred yeeres Vnder Oligarchie were the ancient gouernments in Sicilia amongst which that of the Leontines was translated into the tiranny of Pannecus that of Geta into the tiranny of Leander that of RheginuÌ„ into the tiranny of Anaxilas so of others Aristotle Vnder Aristocratie is the gouernment of Venice Vnder Democratie Athence Plato Ptolomey King of Egipt as he feasted one day seauen Embassadors of the best most flourishing Common-wealths in his time he desired them that they woulde instruct him in the best poynts necessary for the preseruation of an estate VVho thus began The Romaine Embassador VVe haue the Temples in great respect and reuerence we are very obedient to our Gouernours and we punish wicked men and euill liuers seuerely The Carthagenian In the Common-wealth of Carthage the nobles neuer cease fighting nor the coÌ„mon people artificers labouring nor the Philosophers teaching The Sicilian In our Common-wealth iustice is exactly kept merchandize exercised with truth and all men account themselues equall The Rhodian At Rhodes olde men are honest young men shamefast and women solitary and of fewe wordes The Athenian Our rich men are not suffered to be deuided into factions nor poore men to be idle nor the Gouernours to be ignorant The Lacedemonian In Sparta enuie raigneth not for all are equall nor couetousnes for all goods are common nor sloth for all labour The Sicyonian Voyages are not permitted that they shoulde bring home new fashions at their returne Phisitions are not suffered least they shoulde kill the sound nor Orators to take vppon them the defence of causes and sutes Buda The Lacedemonians are highly praised for hauing continued seauen hundred yeeres without any alteration of their gouernment Grimaldus The Venetians haue coÌ„stantly liued in one forme of gouernmeÌ„t by the space of a thousand yeeres and more Idem The first Monarch was Ninus King of the Assyrians who vvas depriued of his kingdome by his vvife Semiramis when she had obtained of him the gouernmeÌ„t for 7. daies who impatient at her dealing dashed out his his owne braines after hee had gotten the Monarchie his poesie was Rapitur Semyramis the mother of young Ninus seeing him vnfit to rule gouerned the Empire 42. yeres but burning in vnnatural lust toward her sonne she was therfore slaine by him Sardanapalus the last Assyrian Monarch was deposed by Arbactus who translated the monarchy to the Medes The second Monarch was Cyrus vvhom Thomiris Qu. of Scythia ouercame hys motto vvas Stabilitur Alexander the great ouercame Darius Monarch of Persia and brought the gouernment to the Grecians his vvord vvas Tandem It is supposed that hee vvas poysoned at Babilon Augustus Caesar vvas the fourth Monarch in vvhose time our Sauiour Christ vvas borne his vvord was Finitur The Assyrian Monarchie continued one thousand three hundred sixe yeeres the Medes and the Persians fiue hundred 40. the Grecians 154. and the Romaines aboue eyght hundred The Romaine Monarchie beganne fortâ— and seauen yeeres before Christ was borne The Romains first brought this name Emperour into the vvorld which they inuented not for theyr Princes but for their Captaines and Generalls in vvarre after that Caesar had ouercome Pompey the Romains requested him that he would take vnto him the title Emperour and hee was the first in all the world All I. Caesars successors in memory of him are called Augusti Caesares Imperatores Iulius Caesar the first Romane Emperour was murdered in the Capitoll Octauius Augustus his nephew succeeded him who for his worthy demeanor was canonized for a God he raigned 56. yeres In his time Christ was borne Claudius Tiberius sonne to Liuia Augustus his vvife by her first husbande vvas a coward cruell couetous and lecherous hee deceased in Campania the 23. yeere of his raigne to the great ioy of the Romains Caligula sonne to Germanicus for his cruelty and beastly life was slaine in his Pallace wheÌ„ he had raigned 3. yeres 10. months Claudius Son to Drusus was a good Emperour yet poisoned by Nero and after his â—eath canonized he raigned 13. yeeres and â—ine monthes Nero sonne in law to Claudius who adopâ—ed him to bee his successour was a most wicked Emperour and a great persecuter of Christians he killed himselfe when hee had raigned fourteene yeeres Galba was somewhat seuere and couetous he raigned but seauen months vvas slaine through treason by Otho his throate vvas cut in the market place at Rome Otho inuaded the Empire and at the same time he slewe Galba Vitellius vvas chosen Emp. by the Germaines who ouercam him in battell he killed himselfe raigning 95. daies Vitellius was an excessiue glutton cruel he striued in his doings and course of lyfe to be like Nero he was slaine by the Captaines of Vespasian and throwne into Tiber when he had raigned eyght months one day Vespasian was a Prince endued vvith most excellent vertues and very gentle hee dyed of a â—lixe when he had raigned 9. yeeres Titus his sonne succeeded him who for his clemency was called the loue of mankind he was a stout warriour eloquent learned liberall hee builded the Theater in Rome for plaies he died wheÌ„ he had raigned 2. yeres 8. months 20. daies was canonized Domitian vvas the second Emperour that persecuted the Christians a proude cruell Prince he was slaine by his owne seruaunts the fifteene yeere of his raigne Nerua vvas a man in his priuate life sober yet stout and valourous he demeaned hymselfe vprightly and deceased vvhen hee had raigned one yeere 4. months 8. dayes Traianus a Spanyard was the third Emperour that persecuted the Christians he vvas an affable sober Prince pittiful he died of the flixe in the 19. yeere and 6. month of his raigne Adrianus gaue himselfe vvholy to peace which much aduantaged the Common-vvealth hee was expert in the knowledge of Astronomy he persecuted the Christians a vvhile and raigned 20. yeers 10. months Antonius Fuluius was a good Prince liberall curteous iust he was for his gentlenesse sirnamed Pius and died of a Feauer when he had raigned 23. yeeres Marcus Aurelius vvas very learned he gouerned the Empire ioyntly with his brother Antoninus at what time Rome began to be ruled by two Emperours at once M. Aurelius died of the Apoplexie raigning eleuen yeeres then Antoninus gouerned alone being a sober and graue Prince learned he sold all his substance rather then hee vvould charge
left his kingdome to Arnolphus the Sonne of Charlemaine he was brought to great misery and not hauing sufficient whereby to liue dyed at Sweuia in the 7 yeare of his raigne Arnolphus a couetous Prince raigned 12 yeares and dyed of Lyce after him the maiesty of the Empire came to the Germains which continued with the French-men for the space of 100 yeares Lodouicus the sonne of Arnolphus gouerned sixe yeares to vvhom also Conradus Duke of Austria ioyned and raigned seauen yeares Henry the sonne of Otho Duke of Saxony succeed him and ruled eighteene yeares by theyr ambition many tumults arose for the space of 60 yeares from Arnolphus death to Otho the first The Italians created Berengarius Emperour who at Verona ouercame Arnolphus and put out hys eyes hee gouerned foure yeares Berengarius the second succeeded him who was driuen out of the Countrey by Roâ—olphus King of Burgundy this Rodolph â—aigned three yeares and was expulsed his â—ingdome by Hugo a Duke he gouerned â—enne yeares leauing behind him Lothariâ—s his Sonne vvho ruled two yeares after â—hom Berengarius the third with his Sonne Adelbertus gouerned eleuen yeares vvho â—sing themselues vvith all tyrannie vvere by Otho dryuen out of Italy Otho the first the Sonne of Henry the first deposed Pope Iohn the thirteenth he vvas a Prince endued vvith singuler vertue hee dyed vvhen hee had ruled thirty yeares Otho the second restored Nicephorus Emperour of Constantinople beeing put â—ut of his kingdome into it agayne and married Theoponia his sister Henry Duke of Bauiers rebelled agaynst him but hee vvas by force of armes brought to obedience hee fought vvith the Greekes and Sarazens and being ouer-throwne he fled and vvas taken by Mariners who not knowing him for that hee spake the Greeke language redeemed him-selfe for a small price and returned to Rome soone after he dyed when hee had ruled 11. yeares somâ— write he was poysoned by the Italians Otho the third put Crescentius to death and put out the eyes of Pope Iohn the 10 who deposed Gregory the fifth whom he had made Pope and for that there was greaâ— dissention for the succession of the Empire with the assent of Gregory ordayned that 7. Princes of Germany should choose the Emperour 3. ecclesiasticall and 4. secular The Archbishop of Mentz Colein Trier to these were ioyned the Prince of Boheme for as then Bohemia had no King the CouÌ„ty Palatine of the Rhene the Duke of Saxony and the Marquesse of Bradenborough but amongst these the Elector Boheme is appoynted an Vmpeere to breake off all dissension in election if any rise This institution of Otho is farre more profitable then was the ordayning of the Areopagites amongst the Athenians or the Statutes of the Ephories to the Lacedemonians these Electors were appoynted the yerâ— of Christ 1002. Otho was poysoned by the wife of Crescentius whom he put to death when he had raigned 19. yeares his wifes namâ— was Mary daughter to the King of Aragon a woman giuen to all beastlines and intemperancâ—â—f life Henry the 2. sirnamed the haulting D. of â—auier succeeded him he was the first Emâ—eror chosen by the Electors raigned 22. â—eares he was wholy giuen to religion and godly life he brought the Hungarians to the Christian faith gaue his sister to Stephen theyr King in mariage and dyed at Bamâ—rige Conradus the French-man after an Interâ—egnum for 3. yeares was chosen Emperor â—orne of the daughter of Otho the first he â—ad fortunate wars against the Pannonians â—e subdued Burgundy and dyed in the 15. yeare of his raigne Henry the 3. called the Black the sonne of Conradus was elected in his time 3. vsurâ—ing Popes Gregory 6 Syluestes 3 and Benedict 9 were by him deposed and a 4. â—nstalled who was the Bishop of Bambrige called Clement the 2. he dyed when he had â—aigned 17. yeares Henry the fourth his sonne was cursed by Pope Hildebrand and by his treasons ouerthrowne he being very young his mother gouerned the Pope made Rodolphus Emperour and sent him a crowne whereon was written Petra dedit Petro Petrus diadema Râ—â—dolpho but this vsurper was ouercom by HeÌ„â—ry his hand cut off in the battel the whicâ— when he saw ready to die he sayd Loe 〈◊〉 Lords yee Bishops this is the hand where-witâ— I promised my Lorde Henry fayth and loyaltie iudge ye then how well you haue aduised me The Pope set the sonne also against the Father vvho besieged him at Mentz but by meanes of the Princes he departed thence the Father died when he had ruled 50 yeres his body lay vnburied 5 yeares by reason of the Popes curse Henry the fifth his Sonne withstoode the tiranny of Pope Paschalis and tooke his crowne from him he gouerned the Empire 20 yeares and dyed Lotharius the 2. Duke of Saxony raigned 13 yeares against whom Conradus made warre in his time the ciuill law gathered together by Iustinian and neglected through the tumults of warre was called againe to light he dyed of a Feauer Conradus the third Duke of Bauaria and Nephew to Henry the fourth had great wars with the Sarazins in Asia assisted by Richard sirnamed Cordelion and Lewes the French King he died without all glory renowne â—n the fifteene yeere of his Empire Fredericke the first called Oenobarbus or â—ith the red beard vvas a Prince indued â—ith very good qualities of minde and boâ—ie he ouerthrew Millaine to the ground â—hased Pope Alexander out of Rome and â—laced Octauius in his seate but vvhen hee â—ooke his iourney into Syria in the passage â—uer a riuer he vvas drowned vvhen he had â—aigned thirty and seauen yeeres hee made â—he Prince of Bohemia king for his faithfulâ—esse to him at Millaine Henry the 6. the sonne of F. Barbarossa â—ubdued the realme of Apulia he tooke Naâ—les and spoyled it He made his sonne Frederick being a childe Emperour with him â—y consent of the Electors whose wardshyp â—e dying committed to his brother Philip he ruled 8. yeeres Philip the sonne of F. Barbarossa was chosen Emperour for young Frederick raigned tenne yeeres against whom Innocentius the third erected Otho a Saxon but Philip ouercame him and vvas murthered of Otho Prince of Brunsinia in his Chamber this vvas called Otho the fourth who vvas excomunicated by the Pope was murdered in the 4. yeere of his raigne Fredericke the second sonne of Henry the sixt succeeded him and raigned 27. yeeres and yet before hee dyed vvas depriued fiue yeeres of the Empire by Innocentius hee vvas a vertuous and learned Prince in his time the faction arose betweene the Guelphes and the Gibelines the one vvith the Emperour the other with the Pope Conradus the fourth the son of Frederick vvas ouercome by the Lantgraue who wheÌ„ he perceiued himselfe destituted of the Germaine Princes ayde went to his hereditarie kingdome of Naples and there dyed vvhen he had raigned 4. yeeres VVilliam Countie of Holland vvas chosen Emperor after him a Prince of noble and vertuous actions
he was slaine by the Frizelanders in the second yere of his raigne VVhen hee was dead there vvas an InterregnuÌ„ for 17. yeeres by reason of the Pope Some chose Alphonsus King of Spaine Emperour for his vvisedome and vertues which he refused the other part of the Electors elected Richard the King of Englands brother and brought him to Basill but he vvas not accepted of the Empire Rodolphus the Countie of Haspurge vvas elected and ruled 18. yeares hee killed Oâ—hocarus King of Bohemia and burned one â—hat sayd he was Frederick the second he did 〈◊〉 a manner set vp the decaied Empire ere â—e died Adolphus County of Nason succeeded â—im but the Princes annoyed with his bad â—â—fe ambition chose in his place Albertus â—he first of vvhom Adolphus in a battaill â—as slaine hauing raigned 8. yeeres Albertus the first son of Rodulphus went â—vith a great power against the King of France but in passing ouer the riuer Rhene â—e vvas killed of Iohn his brothers sonne afâ—er he had ruled ten yeeres Henry the seauenth CouÌ„ty of Lusenbruge â—aigned 32. yeeres and vvas poysoned by a Dominick Frier in the sacrament he made his sonne Iohn King of Bohemia by marryâ—ng the Kings Daughter vvhose sonne vvas Charles the 4. king of Bohemia Lodouicus Duke of Bauier vvas chosen Emperor by the Bishop of Mentz Trier the King of Bohemia and the Marquesse of Bradenbrough and against him was erected Fredericke Duke of Austria by the Bishop of Coleine the Count Palatine and Duke of Saxonie vvhereupon neyther of them vvould giue place in the Empire but rather for the space of eyght yeres they made warre one against the other in the end Lodouicus ouercame and killed Fredericke vvas sole Emperour raigning thirty and two yeeres hee dyed and vvas a Prince indued with all vertuous qualities Gunther Earle of Swartzenburge was named Emperour yet not vvith consent of all the Electors and shortly after hee vvas suddaily poysoned at Franckford Charles the fourth sonne to Prince Iohn the sonne of Henry the seauenth enioyed the Empire to the honour of this election were inuited Edvvarde the third King of England Frederick Earle prouinciall of Misen but they refused it Hee vvas a learned Prince and erected the Vniuersity of Prage and raigned 32. yeeres Venceslaus succeeded his Father Charles and gouerned 22. yeeres he through slothfulnesse let the Empire fall to ruine he vvas deposed by his brother Sigismund Rupertus or Robertus County Palatine of Rhene hauing possessed the empire after his warres against Galatius vvho was the first Duke of Millaine so created by Venceslaus as Sleidan reporteth gaue himselfe to peace and religion died raigning 9. yeeres Sigismundus the sonne of Charles the 4. vvas a most noble vertuous and learned Prince much condemning the Germaines â—or that they hated the Latine tongue hee â—ooke avvay the ambitious contention of â—hree Bishops of Rome draue them from â—heyr seates he died raigning 27. yeeres Albert the second Duke of Austria married the onely daughter of Sigismund vvho â—hereby vvas King of Bohemia Hungaria â—nd was the successor of Sigismund in hys time the most excellent and necessary Arte of Printing vvas inuented by the which the knowledge of God was renued he subdued â—he Normaines and the people of Svveuia he dyed of the bloody flixe raigning but 2. yeeres Frederick the third Duke of Austria gouerned the state for the space of 53. yeeres vvith so great vvisedome that it florished in â—ll prosperitie and quietnes hee died the 79. yeere of his age Maximilian the sonne of the Emperour Frederick Leonora daughter to the king of Lusitania raigned 32. yeeres he married Mary the daughter of Charles Duke of Burgundie by vvhom hee had the Dukedome and Matthew the King of Pannonia beeing dead he obtained the kingdome thys vvas a Prince noble valorous and a patron of all learning nor thought hee it dishonour hauing taken King Henry the 8. his pay to serue against Fraunce vnder his conquering colours Charles the 5. sonne of Philip vvho vvas Archduke of Austria and the sonne of Maximilian and Mary succeeded of this Philip came Carolus and Ferdinandus vvhose mother was Ioane Queene of Castile he had also foure daughters Leonora married to the King of Lusitania Isabell to the King of Fraunce Mary to the king of Denmark and Katherine to the king of Hungaria Charles the fift vvas crovvned at Aquisgrane with the siluer crovvne for it is an auncient custome that all Emperors should be crowned vvith 3. diuers crownes vvhich were of gold siluer and yron At Rome Bononie they were crowned with the crowne of golde for the Empyre oâ— Rome with the siluer at Aquisgrane for the Empire of Germany and at Menza with the yron crowne for Lombardie Charles Duke of Burbon with the Emperors host besieged Rome and sacked it constrayning Pope Leo to flie to his Castle Anâ—elo but the Duke was vnfortunatly slaine â—n the assault with an harguebuze Hee was elected Emperor at 19. yeeres of â—ge Fraunces the French king was his comâ—etitor he conquered Millaine ouercame â—he Frenchmen and Switzers in which wars Fraunces there king was taken prisoner hee â—ooke the kingdome of Tunis from Aenoâ—arbus Lieuetenant of the Turke conquered by assault the towne of Affrick VVhen he had raigned 37. yeeres he resigned to his sonne Philip all the estate and â—ignories his Empire to his brother Ferdinando King of the Romaines this doone hee vvent into a Monastery of the Monkes of the order of Saint Hierome and therein dyed Ferdinand the brother of Charles sonne of Philip Archduke of Austria and Ioane Qu. of Castile blessed by God in many prosperous victories and in a small power in comparison of the forces of Solyman was made a Conquerour ouer the Turke Anno 1529. hee was a Prince of great clemencie a louer of learning studying to preserue peace in Europe among Christian Princes hee dyed when hee had raigned sixe yeeres and foure months Maximilian the sonne of Ferdinand vvas chosen Emperor 1564. Hee made prosperous expeditions against the Turkes died vvhen he had raigned 11. yeeres Rodolphus his sonne succeeded him who gouerneth the Empire at this day The maiestie of the Romaine Monarchie florished especially in the house of Haspurge and hath lineally brought foorth tenne Emperours The Romaine Empire hath surmounted all others that haue been or shal be it is novv much dismembred in Asia it hath nothing beeing as now possessed of the Turkes and Tartarians all Affricke almost is lost Portingall Spayne England France Poland Denmarke Hungaria Slauonia and all Greece are cut from the Empire vvith the Countries there abouts and the Iles of Sicilia Sardinia Corsica and Sauoy Italy vvhich hath alwaies beene the first most auncient patrimony of the Romain Empire scarce acknowledgeth the Emperour Spaine holds Calabria Puel Campania and the Kingdome of Naples c as by succession of their auncestors The old and auncient seate of the Empire the Popes possesse
the name of pouerty was honoured at Rome vvhich was by the space of 400. yeares after the foundation thereof Pleasure could neuer set foote as there but â—fter that Pouerty began to be contemned â—ertue immediatly tooke her flight from â—hence which was their vtter ouerthrow Valerius Publicola hauing foure times â—eene Consull of Rome the onely man for gouernment in war and peace his pouerty is â—ecorded not to his shame but to his praise Liuius Poore Aristides had not the least honour â—n the seruice at Salamis and at Plateus was â—he chiefe leader of all the Athenian forces â—hoÌ„ Vertue did put forward Pouerty could not hold back nor dismay Herodotus Fabritius being in pouerty was sent in Emâ—assage amongst other Romaines to Pyrrhus of whom Pyrrhus tooke such lyking â—hat to winne him to be his he proffered him â—he fourth part of his kingdome Eutropius Ephialtes beeing cast in the teeth with his pouerty sayde VVhy doost not thou make â—ehearsall of the other thing namely that I loue â—aw and regard right Aelian One of Catoes sonnes of 15. yeares age was banished for breaking of an earthen pot in a maydes hand that went for water so waâ— Cinnaes sonne because hee entered a Garden and gathered fruite without leaue The Ostracisme amongst the Athenians was a banishment for a time whereby the brought dovvne them that seemed to exceede in greatnes This was inuented by Clisthenes A rude rusticke fellow happened to meet Aristides bearing a scroale of paper in hyâ— hand and desired him to wryte the name oâ— Aristides therein who meruailing thereat asked whether any man had been by him iniured No quoth he but I cannot in any wisâ— endure the sirname of Iustus Plutarch At such time as the Ephesi banished theyâ— Prince Hermodonus they pronounced thiâ— sentence Let none of vs excell another but iâ— any so doe let him no longer heere dwell but inhabite else where Cicero Celliodorus the Phylosopher was banished in the prosperity and fury of the Marians not for the euils they found in him buâ— for the vices he reproued in them Vulturnus a man in Astrology profoundly learned was banished by M. Antonius because Cleopatra hated him Bestius and Colla Gentlemen of Rome when they had boldly declared theyr seruice for the common-wealth and reprehended the Senatours before they would be cast out by decree voluntarily exiled themselues Appian Sittius was the first and onely man that as a stranger was an outlaw in his owne Country Idem Of Death Death is faigned of the Poets to be the sister of Sleepe both borne of their mother Night a Goddesse impartiall and inexorable as sparing none and the Aegiptians by an Owle sitting vpon a tree signifie death This all-killing power triumphans cedit and by death is ouercome EPaminondas ready to giue vp the ghost willed the poysoned shaft to bee pulled from his deadly wound wheÌ„ it was giuen him to vnderstand that his shield was found safe and his enemies put to flight he cheerefully departed out of this world Cicero Gorgias Leontinus being very sick a frend of his demanded of him how he felt himselfe in body he answered Now Sleepe beginneth to deliuer me to the power of his brother Death Asdrubals wife the last Lady of Carthage had the lyke end in death as the first Lady Dido had for she threw her selfe and her two sonnes into the fire Herod because hee would make the Iewes sorry for his death whether they would or no dying commanded to sley all the Noble mens children of Iury. Iosephus Vespasian ready to dye stoode vp sayd It becommeth an Emperour to passe out of this world standing Calanus an Indian Gymnosophist when he had taken his long leaue of Alexander piled vp a bonfire in the suburbs of Babilon of dry wood of Cedar Rosemary Cypres Mirtle Laurell then he mounted the pile the Sunne shining in his face whose glorious beames he worshipped then he gaue a token to the Lacedemonians to kindle the fire stoutly and valiantly dyed Cercidas an Arcadian ready to dye said to his companions I am not loath to depart this life for I hope to see and talke with Pythagoras among the Phylosophers with Liuius among the Historiographers with Orpheus among the Musitians and with Homer among the Poets which words as soone as he had vttered hee gaue vp the ghost Plato dying thanked nature for three cauâ—es the first that he was borne a man not beast the second that hee was borne in Greece and not in Barbary the third that â—ee was borne in Socrates time who taught â—im to die well Antemon was so desirous to liue and so â—earefull to dye that scarse he would trauaile â—broade and compelled to goe two of his â—eruants bore ouer his head a great brazen Target to defend him from any thing which might happen to hurt him Massinissa King of Numidia rather committed his estate and life vnto dogs then vnto men as his gard to keepe and defend him from death Hector sayd to Andromache Be not sorry for my death for all men must die Homer Polydamas entering into a Caue to defend himselfe from the rayne through the violence of the water the Caue fell downe vpon him Cicero Anacreons breath was stopped with a grape kernell that stucke in his throate Plinie Euripides returning home from King Archelaus his supper was torne in peeces of dogs Gellius Aeschilus sitting in a sunny place in Sicily an Eagle flying ouer taking his white bald head for a stone strooke the shell of a Tortoyse which was in his bill against his head and dashed out his braine Valerius Pyndarus laying his head downe to sleep in the bosome of a boy whom he loued neueâ— awaked Suidas Ennius would not haue his death lamented because he was famous in his works yet Solon would haue his death bewailed writ to put his friends in minde Let my departure wayed be let my friends draw sighs for me Trophonius and Agamedes hauing built a sumptuous temple to Apollo of Delphos begged the most profitable thing that might bee giuen to man after the third day they were found dead Cicero Velcurio the learned Phylosopher lying vpon his death-bed when his friends came to comfort him sayde The Father is my Creatour the Sonne my Redeemer the holy Ghost my Comforter how can I then be sorrowfull or dismayde The day before that Caesar went to the Senate hee had beene at a banquet with Lepidus talking meerely vvhat death was best for a man some saying one and some another he of al praised the sodaine death which happened to him Appian The Scots in theyr owne Chronicles haue recorded that of one hundred fiue Kings â—here dyed not aboue 50. of naturall deaths Gasper Peucerus Of Vsurie Vsury of some called Interest but without reason why sith money let to interest returneth but with his proper summe the daughter of Couetousnes and Ambition may well be called a continuall sire which euer encreaseth through
and a great deale more beeing now so farre from acknowledging an Emperour that they haue made the Emperour and Gouernours beholding to them The Venetians holde not onely freedoms but Prouinces and are the freest people of the vvorld as it were seperated froÌ„ the Romaine Empire All that appertaineth now to the Empire is inclosed vvithin the confines of Germanie out of vvhose limits there is nothing Thys Romaine Monarchie is and shall bee the last vvhich although it hath greatly decayed yet shall part thereof continue to the vvorlds end wherein shal remaine the name and maiestie of an Emperour These foure Monarchies were prophecied of long since by the Prophet Daniell vnder the figure of a great Image vvhose head was made of golde breast of siluer belly of copper legges of yron and feete of earth and yron mistically described The heade of Gold signifieth the Monarchy of the Assyrians the breast of Siluer the Persians the belly of Brasse the kingdome of the Greekes the legges of Yron the Romaines the feete of yron and earth the moderne estate of the Monarchie beeing much vveaker then it was vvont to be Daniell dreamed that hee sawe 4. beastes come out of the Ocean the first a Lyon the second a Beare the thyrd a Leopard and as touching the fourth he sayd it vvas terrible to behold The first of these figured the kingdome of Assyria the second the kingdome of Persia the third the Empire of the Greekes and the fourth the Romaine Monarchie the tenne hornes are his members or parts as Siria Egypt Asia Grecia Affrick England Spaine Fraunce Italy Germanie for the Romaine Monarchie possessed all these Nations Betweene these tenne hornes sprang vp a little horne which pluckt away three of the other tenne by which is meant the Mahometicall or Turkish Empire the vvhich engendered of small beginning in the Easterne Romaine Monarchie hath now pulled out three hornes therof Egypt Asia Greece This little horne hath eyes which are presumptious against Christ and Christendom sparckling foorth dreadfull blasphemies against the name of GOD. Of the Turkish Empire IN the yeere of our Lord 630. in the 15. yeere of Heraclius Emperour of Rome arose the dreadfull change of al mankinde by reason of the doctrine of Mahomet vvhich then beganne this did the Arabians first embrace who neuer obeyed kingdoms or lawes lawfully appoynted Mahomet himselfe vvas borne of base parentage in Arabia in the yeere of our Lord 591. in the raigne of Mauritius Emperor of the Romaines his father was an Arabian and his mother a Iew vvho beeing brought vp with a rich Merchant after his maisters death married his mistresse and for that he vvas greatly desirous to rise in honour and estimation by the counsell of Sergius an ancient Monck an Arrian he coyned a new religion deriued out of sundry Sects mingled with some part of the Iewes some part of the Christians some of the Arrians The Prophet Ezechiell and S. Iohn call the Turks Gog and Magog Gog signifyeth a Tent and Magog the people vvithout the Tents for the Tartarians vsually dvvell in Tents and the Turkes are Tartaries vvho came out of Tartarie into Asia when the Sarazens warred against the Persians by theyr King Hormisda desired in ayde Mahomet is interpreted rage or indignation Turke signifieth a souldiour or a vvrastler in the Tartarian tongue one that is accursed or a vagabond Methodius calleth thys people red Iewes eyther because they vvere cruell thirsting after blood or els for that Mahomet vvas borne of Edom in Arabia and Edom signifieth redde Besides the same Author vvriteth that Gog and Magog vvere closed in beyond the hyll Caucasus and that a subtile Foxe should make them a passage vvhich Foxe is Mahomet VVhen the Sarazens serued vnder Heraclius against the persians being denied their pay they fledde from him and in theyr returne homewards they spoyled many villages and townes about Damascus in Syria then vnderstanding Mahomet to be of great power by reason of his vvealth and the opinion vvhich vvas helde of his religion they made choyse of him for theyr Gouernour and by the consent of the Sarazens Arabians and a great part of the Egyptians they so proclaimed him The beginning of his kingdome vvas in â—523 yeeres after Christ vvho making hys â—eate in Syria vvrote the Alcoran a booke of all the lawes ceremonies and traditions of his religion vvith a number of idle tales and faigned miracles hee vvas poysoned by Albunor one of his owne disciples to the inâ—ent hee might see if his maister Mahomet vvoulde rise againe the thirde day after hys death according to his prophecy but hys body was torne in peeces of dogges he raigned tenne yeeres Ebebuzer or Amiras that is a Prince or successor his sonne in law succeeded him hee tooke Damascus making that his princely seate and after 2. yeeres siedge spoiled Gaza Ierusalem raigning 3. yeeres Ahumar succeeded hee subdued all Syria and Egypt conquering Persia and hauing added Cilicia Cappadocia Mesopotamia and the Ile of Cyprus vnto his conquests he made Babylon the seate of his Empire whoÌ„ the Sarazens called the Calipha of Babilon which signifieth the chiefe Prince of empire and religion he raigned 12. yeeres Muhauiar tooke Caesaria and Palestine ouercame Horimasda the sonne of Cosroes he made them keepe Mahomets lawes vvhich the Persians obserue at this day after thys the Sarazens possessed Affrica vvent forward into Asia vvhere they flourished 200 yeeres The Turkes as long as the Empire of the Sarazens flourished in Asia they did most firmly sticke vnto them but after that they began to decrease by their ciuill dissention they encroched vppon them and their territories and by little and little wrought themselues at length wholy into the gouernment of the Empire In the yeere of our Lord one thousand fifty one they elected Zadoc to bee theyr King he laid the first foundation of the Turkish empire in Asia After 5. discents of them in the yeere one thousand foure hundred and eyght vvhen Godfrey of Bullaine vvith other Christan Princes made theyr holy expedition into Palestine the Christians in Armenia perceiuing that the Turkes were deuided and that they had murdered theyr last Emperor Belchâ—aior suddainly assailed them and draue them out of Persia enforcing them to keepe in the lesser Asia In the yeere of our Lorde one thousand three hundred Ottoman restored their Empire by his rare wit and fortune in martiall affaires he gaue names to the Emperors first appointed theyr king hee conquered Bithinia and Cappadocia and tooke many places lying vpon Mare ponticum and ruled 28. yeeres Orchanes his sonne sacked Prusia made â—t the head of his kingdome he was slayne by â—he Tartarians Amurath his sonne was the first that came out of Asia into Europe hee tooke Callipoâ—is Cherronesus Abydus Philippolis Adrianapolis Seruia and Bulgaria but entering into the vpper part of Misia hee was slayne in the 23. yeere of his Empire Baiazeth his brother
subdued all Greece but beeing ouercome by Tamberlaine hee dyed without renowne Callepin his sonne succeeded hee ouercame the Emperour Sigismund and beginning to spoyle the borders of Constantinople dyed in the flower of his age raigning but sixe yeeres Mahomet after him subdued the greatest part of Slauonia and Macedonia and came as farre as the Ionian sea hee remooued hys seate out of Bythinia to Adrianopolis where he dyed Amurath the second succeeded him vvho wonne Epirus Aetolia Achaia Beolia Attica and Thessalonica Mahomet the second destroyed Athence wonne Constantinople Anno 1452. he brought vnder his subiection the Empire TrapezuntiuÌ„ Corinth the Ilands of Lemnos Euboiae Mitilene and Capha a Cittie of the Genowaies he raigned 32. yeeres Baiazeth the second tooke from the Venetians Naupactus Methonia and Dirohaim he spoyled all Dalmatia and in the end vvas poysoned Zelimus his sonne wonne Archair slew the Sultan of Egypt he brought Alexandria Damascus and all Egypt vnder his Empyre Solyman his onely sonne conquered Belgrad tooke Buda the Kings Citty in Hungaria spoyled Strigonium and all Hungaria To him the Ile of Rhods was yeelded he ouerthrew the fiue Churches when the Cittie Iula was taken he besieged Zigethum was slaine in the assault This Citty his sonne Zelimus spoyled in the yeere 1566. vnder 12. Emperors they subdued vnto themselues by Turkish tyrannie in two hundred threescore yeeres a great the Persians obserue at this day after this the Sarazens possessed Affrica went forward into Asia where they flourished 200. yeares Of the Bishops Archbishops Patriarchs and Popes of Rome THE yeare of Peters comming to Rome the time of his residency in the Sea and his death there hath beene so vncertainly reported by Platina Orosius Fasciculus temporum Eusebius Vspergensis Sabellicus and Nauclerus for the first by S. Hierome Beda Fasciculus temporum Vspergensis and Platina for the second by Nicephorus Dionysius Hierome Isodorus Eusebius and Abdiâ—s for the third that diuers godly learned men haue beene induced to think and some constantly to write as Vlricus Velenus and Thomas Balaeus with one other that Peter was neuer at Rome howbeit many wise reâ—erend truly lerned fathers of our church are of opinion that he was at Rome but no Bishop thereof martired vnder Claudius Nero. Linus a Thuscane born reported to be the successour of Peter was a man of pure and godly lyfe who for preaching the Gospell suffered martyrdome vnder Saturninus the Consull in the raigne of Vespasian Emperor of Rome Anacletus the first borne at Athence waâ— of an excellent and feruent spirit and of greaâ— learning he planted the Church of God wiâ—â— daily labour in whose defence and beleefe hâ— was put to death by Domitian which he constantly indured Clement the first a Romaine for his preaching and good deeds was a long time banished by the Emperor to hew Marble stones and in the end was cast into the Sea with an Anchour about his necke Euaristus the first a Grecian borne in the time of persecution ceased not to increase the Church by his diligent preaching till he was martired vnder Traian An. Dom. 100. Alexander the first a Romaine painefully trauailed both to preach and baptize he suffered great torments till he died vnder Aurelianus president to the Emperour Anno Domini 121. Sixtus the first a Romaine diligently preached the Gospell with many good works and godly deeds beautified the Church he was vigilant and carefull for his flocke and died for it Anno 129. Telesphorus the first a Grecian vvas a worthy man for learning and godly life he bare witnes of Christ most faithfully conâ—tantly both by his words and death vnder the Emperour Antoninus An. 140. Higinus the first an Athenian of a Christian Philosopher was made a Bishop who discharging the duty of a good Pastor was put to death anno 144. Hee wrote in a Caue where he did hide himselfe in time of persecution an Epistle touching God and the incarnation of the sonne of God Pius borne in Aquilia did many godly deeds in the Church vnder Antonius Veâ—us and in the end watered the Church of Christ with his blood in martirdome 159. Anicetus a Syrian a faithfull and diligent Pastor of the Church of Rome was martyred anno 169. Sother borne in Campania like a valiant Souldiour of Iesus Christ serued vnder his spirituall banner in the time of the Emperour Commodus he confirmed the doctrine which hee had preached vvith his blood in martirdome 177. Eleutherius a Grecian notwithstanding the stormes of persecution were somewhat calmed in his time because many of the Romaine nobility beleeued on Christ yet hee was beheaded 191. in his time also manâ— godly vvriters writ learned bookes agaynâ—â— diuers heresies and heretiques which infected the Church Victor borne in Affrica was the first thaâ— when the storme of persecution was calmed vsurped authority vpon strangers In the former Bishops sayth Vincentius the spyriâ—â— abounded but in these that follow the temptation of flesh and blood preuailed He exempted his brethren of Asia from the Communion because in keeping Easter day they followed not the vse of the church of Rome for which Policrates Iraeneus Bishops of Ephesus Lyons reproued him as then the church was rent in twaine by his obstinacy he died 203 Zepherinus a Romaine borne was a man more addicted to the seruice of God then to the care of any worldly affairs where before the vvine in celebrating the Communion was ministred in a cup of wood he first did alter that and in sted thereof brought in Cups or Chalices of glasse in his time were the Artemonites a sect of vaine Philosophicall Diuines who as our late Schoolmen did corrupt the Scripturs with Plato Aristotle and Theophrastus turning all into curious and subtile questions Origen taught the holy Scripture at Alexâ—ndria in Zepherinus time but his bookes â—ere refused because he brought in vnprofiâ—able disputations and allegories Calixtus the first borne at Rauenna when â—ersecution began to waxe hote againe was â—pprehended by the commaundement of Aâ—â—xander Seuerus and after that he was beaâ—en with cudgels and imprisoned his body â—as cast out of a window and drowned in a â—eepe pit 226. Vrbanus the first a Romaine in the time of Heliogabalus with his sincerity of life exâ—ellency in learning drew many on all sides â—o the Gospell he was often times banished â—he Citty for the Christian fayth but being â—ecretly brought in againe by the faithful he â—as martired by Seuerus 233. Pontianus a Romaine in the afore-sayde Emperours raigne when the people ranne â—n multitudes to heare him preach the word â—y the Princes commaundement being set â—n by the idolatrous Priests he was caried â—rom Rome to the Ile Sardinia where hee â—as put to death 239. Antherosa Grecian preached constantly stoutly vnder the tirany of Maximius the Emperour he first ordained that all the acts of Martyrs should be recorded least the remembrance of them should be lost with