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
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
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
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
flying foules Mulcasses king of Thunis after he was deâ—riued of his kingdome in his returne out of Almaigne being without hope that the Emperour Charles the fift vvould helpe him at â—ll hee spent one hundred crownes vpon a Peacock dressed for him P. Iouius Maximilian the Emperour deuoured in one day forty pounds of flesh and drunke an â—ogshead of vvine Geta the Emperour for three dayes together continued his feastiual and his delicates vvere brought in by the order of the Alphabet Astydamas beeing inuited by Ariobarzaâ—es to a banquet eate vp al that alone which vvas prouided for diuers guests Vopisc There vvas a contention betweene Hercules and Lepreas vvhich of them both should first deuoure an Oxe in which attempt Lepreas vvas ouer-come afterwards hee chalenged him for drinking but Hercules vvas his maister Aelianus Aglais vvhose practise was to sounde the trumpet deuoured at euery meale tvvelue poundes of flesh with as much bread as tvvo bushels of wheate vvould make and three gallons of vvine Philoxenes a notorious glutton vvished he had a necke like a Crane that the svveetâ— meate vvhich he eate might bee long in going downe Rauisius Lucullus at a solemne and costly feast he made to certaine Embassadors of Asia aâ—mong other things he did eate a Griph boiâ—led and a Goose in paste Macrob. Salust in his inuectiue against Cicero aâ—mongst many graue matters vvhereof he accused him he spake of his wanton excesse as hauing poudred meats from Sardinia anâ— wines from Spayne Lucullus tooke great paynes himselfe iâ— furnishing of a feast and when he was askeâ— vvhy he was so curious in setting out a banâ—quet hee aunswered That there was as greaâ— discretion to be vsed in marshalling of a feast 〈◊〉 in the ordering of a battaile that the one mighâ— be terrible to his enemies and the other acceptable to his friends Plut. In Rhodes they that loue fish are accounted right curteous and free-harted men buâ— he that delighteth more in flesh is ill though of and to his great shame is reputed a bond slaue to his belly Aelianus Sergius Galba was a deuouring and glutâ—tonous Emperour for he caused at one banquet 7. thousand byrds to be killed Suet. Xerxes hauing tasted of the figges of Aâ—hence sware by his Gods that hee vvoulde â—ate no other all his life after and went forthâ—vith to prepare an Army to conquer Greâ—ia for no other cause but to fill his belly full of the figges of that Country Plut. Plato returning out of Sicill into Greece told his schollers that he had seen a monster meaning Dionisius because hee vsed to eate â—wice a day Idem Aristotle mocking the Epicures sayd that â—pon a time they vvent all into a temple together beseeching the Gods that they wold gyue them necks as long as Cranes and Heâ—ons that the pleasures and tastes of meates might be more long complayning against Nature for making their necks too short The Sicilians dedicated a Temple to Glutâ—ony and erected images to Bacchus Ceâ—es the God and goddesse of vvine corne Pausanias M. Manlius in times past made a booke of diuers vvayes hovv to dresse meate and another of the tastes sauces and diuers meanes of seruices vvhich were no sooner published but by the decree of the Senate they were burned and if hee had not fled speedily â—nto Asia he had been burned with them There was a lawe in Rome called Fabia bâ— which it was prohibited that no man shoulâ— dispend in the greatest feast hee made abouâ— an hundred Sexterces Aul. Gellius The law Licinia forbad all kindes of sauce at feastes because they prouoke appetite are cause of great expence Idem The lawe Ancia charged the Romaines tâ— learne all kinde of sciences but cookerie The law Iulia vvas that none should bee 〈◊〉 hardie as to shutte theyr gates vvhen theâ— vvere at dinner that the Censors of the Citâ—tie might haue easie accesse into theyr houâ—ses at that time to see if their ordinary werâ— according to their ability Macrob. Nisaeus a tyrant of Syracuse vvhen he vnderstood by his Soothsayers that he had noâ— long to liue the little time hee had left heâ— spent in belly-cheere and drunkennesse anâ— so dyed Rauisius Mar. Anthonius set foorth a booke of hyâ— drunkennesse in which hee prooued thosâ— prancks he played when hee vvas ouercomâ— with vvine to be good and lawfull Plut. Darius had written vpon his graue thys inâ—scription I could drinke good store of wine beare it well Rauisius Ptolomey vvho in mockery vvas calleâ— Philopater because hee put to death his Father and mother through wine and women dyed like a beast Valer. Lacydes a Phylosopher by too much drinking fell into a palsie whereof he dyed Aruntius a Romaine beeing drunken deflowred his own daughter Medullina whom she forthwith killed Plutarch Tiberius Caesar vvas preferred to a Pretorshyp because of his excellencie in drinking Diotimus was sirnamed Funnell or Tunnell because he gulped downe wine through the channell of his throate vvhich was powred into a Funnell the end whereof was put into his mouth vvithout interspiration betweene gulpes Rauisius In the feast of Bacchus a crowne of golde vvas appoynted for him that coulde drinke more then the rest Agron the King of Illyrium fell into a sicknesse of the sides called the Plurisie by reason of his excessiue drinking and at last died thereof Cleio a vvoman was so practised in drinking that shee durst challenge all men and vvomen what soeuer to try maisteries who could drinke most and ouercome all Cleomenes king of Lacedemonia beeing disposed to carouse after the manner of the Scythians dranke so much that hee became and continued euer after sencelesse Cyrillus sonne in his drunkennes wickedly slevv that holy man his father his mother great with child he hurt his two sisters and deflowred one of them August Androcides a Gentleman of Greece hearing of Alexanders excesse in drunkennesse vvrote a letter to him wherein was a Tablet of gold with these words thereon ingrauen Remember Alexander when thou drinkest wine that thou doost drinke the blood of the earth Those of Gallia Transalpina vnderstanding that the Italians had planted Vines in Italy came to conquer theyr Countrey so that if they had neuer planted Vines the French-men had not destroyed the Countrey Liuius Foure old Lombards being at banquet together the one dranke an health rounde to the others yeeres in the end they challenged two to two and after each man had declared how many yeeres old he was the one dranke as many times as he had yeeres and likewise his companion pledged him the one vvas 58. the second 63. the third 87. the last 92. so that a man knoweth not vvhat they did eate or drinke but he that dranke least dranke 58. cups of vvine P. Diaconus Of thys euill custome came the lawe that the Gothes made that is VVee ordaine and commaund vppon paine of death that no olde men vpon payne of death shoulde drinke to one anothers health at the
in singing to auoyde tediousnes and to driue avvay the time August This Athanasius forbadde to auoyde vanities S. Augustine was indifferent and it repented him because hee had sometimes fallen by giuing more attentiue heed vnto the measures and chordes of musicke then the words which were vnder them spoken for that measure singing were brought in for words sake and not words for musick In the East parts the holy assemblies euen from the beginning vsed singing P. Mart. Architas inuented a certaine musicall instrument to stay the running wits of chyldren Pausa The Grecians learned to daunce of Castor and Pollux and vsed to dispatch theyr busines dauncing The Sirians before they met their enemies vsed to sing and daunce Plut. The Romaine Priests called Salij vsed to daunce in honour of Mars Diodorus a cunning Musition beeing sent for by the harlot Lamia refused to goe yet Demetrius hauing his Armor on the badge of a vvarriour and his Diademe the cognizaunce of a King was not ashamed to goe to her house Aelianus The Phylosophers called Peripateticks condemned musick in vvemen saying that betweene it and chastitie there could be smal agreement Niphus Euripides is commended for reprehending such as vse the Harpe at feasts for sayth hee Musicke ought rather to bee sent for vvhen men are angry or mourne then vvhen they are feasting and making merry thereby to make thē giue more liberty to pleasure then before A Musition by the onely vertue of the Dorian tune preserued the chastitie of Clytemnestra the vvife of Agamemnon from the assaults of Aegisthus who to bee reuenged slew the Musition Dionysius commaunded that all his seruants should daunce in purple roabes which Plato would not doe saying I will not put on a womans garments But Aristippus did and when he began to daunce sayde In dronken feates the sober offend not Laert. Diogenes reprooued Musitions because they tooke great care that their instruments shoulde agree and neglected theyr manners Neanthus handled the Harpe of Orpheus whereon expecting the trees to daunce hee did by his confused iangling thereon cause the dogs to barke at him Epaminondas to auoyde the shame of ignorance in musicke learned to play vppon diuers instruments Cicero Nero the same night which vvas the last of his lyfe among the complaints which instant death feare and sorrowe did minister thys onely thing he most bewailed that so famous a Musition as himselfe should perrish from the world Tacitus A boy in Athence taking into his hand the instrument of an excellent Musition vvho was hired to teach him and putting it to his mouth and straining his breath vvhereby his cheekes began to swell perceiuing thereby the deformitie of his countenaunce presentlie brake the pype and disdainefully flung it away Petrarch Socrates vvhen he vvas old gaue his mind to musicke and dauncing Appian Scipio ordinarily vsed to mooue his tryumphant and martiall body after the tyme and measure of musicall instruments not vvantonly mincing with his feete but after a manly sort vvhich hee sayde shoulde no vvaies disparage him if his enemies did behold him Bacchus instructed the people of East India to honour the heauens and the seauen Planets by diuers kindes of daunces Diodorus Ganimede Hebe the nine Muses greatlie pleased Iupiter with theyr dauncing Orpheus King Dauid to shewe his cheerefull hart for the returne of the Arke of God daunced before it The dauncing of Herods daughter vvas the cause of Iohn Baptists death Progne in a daunce did finde opportunitie to murder her sonne Itis Ouid. The Ethiopians vsed songs of diuers tunes and dauncing before they went to battaile Pausanias Timotheus the noble Musition demaunded alway a greater reward of them vvhom other taught then of them that neuer learned any thing before Quintil. Gelo a Tyrant of Sicilie when by horrible oppression of his people he had brought him selfe into a generall hatred prohibited that no man or woman shoulde speake to each other for feare of conspiracies but in stedde of vvords they should vse in theyr necessarie affaires countenaunces tokens and moouings with their feete hands and eyes which for necessitie first vsed at the last grewe to a perfect and delectable dauncing but he was slaine of them for his cruelty Homer among the great benefits that god giueth to man reciteth dauncing One daunced before Demetrius the Tyrant and in his gestures and motions showed the aduoutry of Mars and Venus and their discouery by Phoebus vvith Vulcans intrapping them vvhere-with contrary to his sullen disposition he forced him to laugh and cry out saying O man I doe not onely see but also heare what thou doost and it seemeth to mee that thou speakest with thy hands The same daunced before Nero in the presence of a strange King which vnderstoode no other language but his own country who by his daūcing made the king to vnderstand vvhat was sayde and at his departure Nero bid him aske what he would and hee should haue it Sir said he lend mee this young man that by his motions I may vnderstand the language of my confines and neighbors The maiestie of Princes in olde time vvas shewed in the daunce named Eumelia belonged to Tragedies dissolute countenaunces in that which was called Cordax and pertained to Comedies wherin men of base behauiour onely daunced The forme of fighting in Armor was expressed in a daunce called Enophe Hormus was a kinde of Daunce vvherein daunced both men and maydes the man expressing in his motion and countenaunce strength and courage apt for the warres the mayde modestie and shamefastnesse which represented a pleasant coniunction of fortitude and temperance Lampridius Augustus in the presence of many men plaied on an instrument A poore man standing by with other and beholding the Emperour sayde with a loude voyce to his fellow Scest thou not howe this voluptuous Leachor tempereth all the world with his little finger VVhich words hee wisely noted and during his life hee euer after refrained hys hands from any such lightnes in open assemblies Alexander when hee had vanquished Ilion where Troy stoode being demaunded if he woulde see the Harpe of Paris who rauished Helen gently smiling hee aunswered I had rather see the harpe of Achilles wherevnto hee did sing not the illecebrous sports of loue but the valiant acts of noble Princes Lisander softned the walls of Athence and burned their ships by sound of Flutes S. Augustine rather liked the maid or wife that soweth vpon the Saboth day then hee that daunced August The Archbishop of Magdeburgh brake his necke in dauncing Mar. Hist. The Tyrrhenes first founde the Trumpet which they afterward vsed in battell to feare theyr enemies and encourage their friends likewise at solemne feastes that they might thereby assemble the people together and to proclaime the comming of the Iubilie in the beginning of the newe Moone crying ioy and rest to all men Isodore Buccina was a kinde of Trumpet made of horne of woode or brasse which the vvild Panims vsed 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
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
some doe not reckon him among the Popes especially Vincentius He begot Pope Iohn the 11. in detestable adultery Petrus Premonstratensis Iohn the eleueth vvas made Pope by the meanes of Theodola a Curtezane for the loue she bare to him he ouercame the Sarazens that wasted Calabria Apulia and Italy Hee was smothered by Guido Marquesse of Thusca his souldiers which Guido married the daughter of Theodora that shee might aduaunce her base son by Sergius the thyrd vvho vpon thys Popes death vvas elected but for that the agreement of the people and the Clergie was not certaine he was deposed the same day Leo the sixt established peace in Italy and after he had raigned 7. months he was poisoned by Marozia Stephen the seauenth liued in peace tvvo yeeres and as Crantius writeth he was poysoned Iohn the 12. raigned 5. yeeres while his mother Marozia ruled as wel the estate temporall as spirituall in Rome Leo the 7. lyued quietly and did nothing vvorthy of remembrance hee dyed Anno 941. Stephen the 8. a Germaine borne was greatly vexed with ciuill seditions amongst the Romaines he died anno 944. Martin the third repaired the Churches was very beneficiall to the poore and diligent in reforming of outward manners hee dyed ann 947. Agapetus the second caused Otho the first to vvage warre against Berengarius a Marquesse of Italy promising him therefore the kingdome of the Romaines as Sabellicus writeth he died an 954. Iohn the 13. was of so loose and intemperately life that the Emperour by the consent of the Prelates deposed him and sette vp Leo the 8. but when the Emperour was gone those harlots that were Iohns cōpanions promised the Nobles of Rome the treasures of the Church to depose Leo place Iohn againe which they did He decreed that the Emperor should euer be crowned at Rome by the Pope but as hee was solacing himselfe without Rome a certaine night with the wife of one that scorned to be called a well contented man id est a Cuckold he was killed forthwith in the 10. yeare of his Popedome Of him came the prouerbe as merry as Pope Iohn Leo the 8. who fled to the Emperour when he was deposed after the death of Iohn was restored againe he gaue to Otho authority absolute to elect the pope as once Charls the great did after a yere 3. moneths he died Iohn the 14. was quietly chosen he allured the kingdom of Poland to accept him as supreame head of all Churches in this time they began to giue proper names to bels and he called the great bell of Leteran after his owne name dyed anno 973. Benedictus the 6. was imprisoned in Castel Angelo by Cynthius a man of great power and there hee was strangled or as some say poysoned in his time beganne the name of Cardinals to be vsed as Carion reporteth Donus the second gouerned indifferently deseruing neyther great praise nor dispraise for a yeare and sixe moneths he dyed anno 975. Benedictus the fifth was deposed by Otho that he might restore Leo he dyed in exile anno 964. Boniface the seauenth doubting his safety at Rome fled to Constantinople and in his absence the Romaines made one Iohn the 15. Pope but at his returne he tooke Iohn thrust out his eyes put him in prison and pined him to death but shortly after he dyed of the falling sicknes and after his death his body was dispightfully vsed Iohn the 15. was Pope eight moneths in the absence of Boniface Iohn the 16 as soone as he was Pope began to beare deadly hatred against the Clergy and they likewise abhorred him because he neglected the dignity of the Romaine sea and bestowed the riches vpon his kindred and harlots which fault Platina and Stella say hath continued among the Clergy vnto our time hee dyed the eight yeare of hys raigne Iohn the 17. was very well learned published diuers books he was likewise expert in warlike affaires in his time Crescentius the Consull went about to make himselfe King of Rome wherfore he departed into Hetruria but Crescentius fearing that he went for the Emperor sent for him to returne which he did and was receaued with all humility by Crescentius who falling downe before him kissed his feete and craued pardon This Iohn dyed anno 995. Gregory the fifth beeing the Emperours Cosen was by his authority made Pope whō Crescentius the Consull with the people deposed and established Iohn the 18. Bishop of of Placentia Gregory complained to the Emperour who ouercame Crescentius and killed him and caused Iohns eyes to be put out whereof he dyed Gregory dyed the 3. yeare of his Popedome Iohn the 18. was very learned and rich but proud and couetous which was his ouerthrow he dyed as before Syluester the second a Frenchman addicted wholy to deuilish arts be tooke himselfe to the Author thereof both body and soule who told him that he should not dye vntill he sayd Masse in Ierusalem wherfore he perswaded himselfe of long life as minding not to come there but saying Masse in the Pallace of the holy Crosse which was called Ierusalem in a terrible shiuering and quaking he dyed miserably anno 1003. Iohn the 19. by those means that Syluester vsed came to be Pope who after hee had raigned fiue moneths was poysoned by his owne friends Iohn the 20. likewise by Magick got to be Pope and was altogether giuen to idlenes as Platina saith he dyed in the 4. yeare o◠his raigne Sergius the fourth was a pleasant merry familiar companion in his time was great pestilence and famine in Italy and in Loraine a fountaine turned into blood he dyed anno 1012. Benedictus the eight by the Magicall charmes of his Nephew Theophilactus who was Syluesters Scholler obtayned the Popedome and was therein defended by Henry Bauarius because he had bestowed on him the crowne emperiall but after his death the Cardinalls deposed him and set vp another but hee vvith money compounded and was restored agayne hee dyed anno 1025. Iohn the 21. brother of the former Benedict being a lay man was made Pope by the coniuring of Theophilactus he so continued 11. yeares Benedict the ninth who before was Theophilact as he aduanced his vncles by his Magicke Arts so now hee brought to passe by them to succeede in theyr dignities he after the death of Conradus sought to disinherite his sonne Henry the 3. of the Empire and to plant in his sted Peter King of Hungary to whom hee sent the crowne of the Empire with this verse Petra dedit Romam Petro tibi Papa coronam Henry ouercame Peter and tooke him prisoner and sette forward to Rome which the Pope hearing of sold his Popeship to Iohn Gratian after called Gregory the 6. in the meane time the Romains deposed Benedict placed in his sted Iohn Bishop of Saba Syluester the third King of Saba enioyed the roome but 49. daies and was by the Emperor driuen out and constrained to returne to
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
building it would sodainlay fall Silenus Chilo of Lacedemon maintained that man by reason might comprehend the foreknowledge of things to come by the might power of his manhood Cyrus was of opinion that no man was fit for an Empire except he did excell those ouer whom he bare rule Xenophon Alcibiades was of opinion that those men liue safest who doe gouerne their common-wealth without altering one whit their present customes and lawes albeit they be not altogether so good Thucidides Of Perigrination In this most commendable action two things are to be prâ—posed the profit and pleasure of trauaile the laâ—er we are too greedy of by nature the first which belongeth to the mind is bounded with prudence and good cariage which if it be neglected the other two are vnprofitable IAcob hauing gotten vvisedome by trauaile is sayd iâ— Genesis to haue had the sight of God because to the actiue life he had also ioyned the contemplatiue Plato after the death of his Maister Socrates made a voyage into Egypt and then into Italy to heare and conferre with the best learned of those Countries and to learne that which he knew not before Orpheus to seeke the misteries of the Aegiptians trauailed as farre as Memphis visiting all the Citties of the riuer Nilus Argonaut Pythagoras visited the Aegiptians Arabians and Chaldeans and went also into Iury and dwelt a long time at Mount Carmell Strabo Saba came froÌ„ Aethiopia the farthest part of the world to heare Salomons wisdom Cornelia a noble woman of Rome trauailed to Palestina to heare S. Ierome â—each the Christians Thalestris Queene of the Amazons came from Scythia vnto Hircania with three hundred thousand women to lye â—ith Alexander 30. dayes to haue a child by him Gueuara Chronocler to Charles the first writeth that from forraine Countries men commonly bring newes to prattle of and strange customes to practise and that few come out of Italy that are not absolute and dissolute Lycurgus by his lawes commaunded the Lacedemonians not to goe out of their own Country nor to conuerse with strangers saying That although by theyr traffique with them they might bee enriched yet on the other side they would grow poore in regard of their owne vertues Democritus Abderita trauailed into many Lands and Countries being 80. yeares old only for the study of Philosophy he ventured into Chaldea and entered into Babilon at last hee came amongst the Magitians and Gymnosophists of India Olaus The Scythians trauaile onely in the Coasts of their owne Country but Anacharsis furnished with wisedom and knowledge aduentered further a greater way for he came into Graecia was highly esteemed of Solon Osyris King of Aegipt trauailed the greatest part of the world that hee might haue written vpon his toombe Heere lyeth Osyris King of Aegipt the eldest sonne of Saturne that left no part of the world vnsearched Diodorus Cheremon a Stoicke Phylosopher by the starre that appeared at Christes death iudging the same to be ominous to the Gods he worshipped trauailed into Iury with certaine Astrologers to seeke the true God Fabius the Consull in 70. yeares which he liued departed not once from his village of Regio to goe to Messana which was but two miles off by water Apollonius trauailed ouer the three parts of the world to see and conferre with all the skilfull men of his age and beeing returned with wonderfull knowledge he distributed his riches amongst his kindsfolkes and the poore and liued euer after in contemplation Philostratus The same hauing trauailed Asia Africa Europa sayd that of two things he meruailed most in all the world the first was that he alwayes saw the proude man commaund the humble the quarrailous the quiet the tyrant the iust the coward the hardy the ignorant the skilfull the greatest theeues hang the innocent P. Seruilius was the first Romaine that made any voyage to Taurus from whence when he returned he triumphed and merited the name to be called Isauricus Anaxagoras trauailed from Greece into Aegipt vnto Persia and Chaldea and to diuers other Countries for knowledge sake Vlisses in his pilgrimage was wise learning Phisicke of Aeolus of Circes Magicke and Astronomy of Calipso Phylosophers when they were yong studied wheÌ„ they came to be men they trauailed and when they were old they returned home and writ The Persians if any of their Countrey did imitate the behauiour of strangers and so trouble common orders he should therfore dye Lycurgus caried the whole body of Homers Poetry into Greece out of Ionia in his voyage and perigrination Appollonius in his trauailes found a table of fine golde called The table of the Sunne wherein all the world was portraied Not euer to haue seene Asia is praise woorthy but to haue liued temperatly in Asia is highly to be commended Cicero Anacharsis was put to death for that by his trauailes he had learned strange fashions and conditions which he sought to ground in his owne Country Herodotus The Hebrewes called theyr Aduersaries Allophilos that is of a strange Cuntry Amb. Fooles in old time trauailed to see Choraebus tombe The Lacedemonians vvere so great enemies to nouelties in theyr common-wealth that they neither permitted strangers to enter or theyr people to wander into straunge Countries doubting to be intangled vvith new fashions and customes Certaine studious persons of the Gaules and Spaniardes went from theyr natiue Countries with tedious iourneyes towards Rome personally to beholde the Oratour and Historiographer Titus Liuius Philostratus The Athenians put theyr Embassadours whom they sent into Arcadia to death because they went not that way which was coÌ„maunded but a contrary Apollonius Thyaneus who had trauailed the greatest part of the vvorld being asked of a Priest at Ephesus what thing hee wondered at in all this vvorlde aunswered I let thee know Priest of Diana that I haue beene through Fraunce England Spayne Germany through the Laces and Lydians Hebrewes and Greekes Parths and Medes Phrygians and Corinthians Persians and aboue all in the great Realme of India for that alone is more woorth then all the Realmes together Alexander at what time he had ouercome Darius in a place called Arbellis demaunâ—ed of his Noble-men the safest way into Aeâ—ipt but none could tell a certaine Merâ—hant who had beene a great trauailer promised in three dayes iourney to bring him safe into Aegipt which Alexander at the first not beleeuing in the end found true Lucianus Of Gods Goddesses The Auntients deuided their fayned Deities into three powers of heauen earth and water the first were the disposers and directors of mens actions some ruled the ayrie Regions others raigned in hell and punished offendours and some were Gods of the mountaines some of shepheards some of husbandry and some of woods the last sort were Gods of the Sea some of floods others of riuers and some of springs and fountaines SAturne was the sonne of King Caelius and Vesta brother to Titan who at the perswasion of his mother and Ops