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A48803	The marrow of history, or, The pilgrimmage of kings and princes truly representing the variety of dangers inhaerent to their crowns, and the lamentable deaths which many of them, and some of the best of them, have undergone : collected, not onely out of the best modern histories, but from all those which have been most famous in the Latine, Greek, or in the Hebrew tongue : shewing, not onely the tragedies of princes at their deaths, but their exploits and sayings in their lives, and by what virtues some of them have flourished in the height of honour, and overcome by what affections, others of them have sunk into the depth of all calamities : a work most delightfull for knowledge, and as profitable for example / collected by Lodowick Lloyd ... ; and corrected and revived by R.C. ...	Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610.; Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665.	1653 (1653)	Wing L2660; ESTC R39067	223,145	321

authority unto his laws and orders These are the works and shifts of wicked men who deceived always the rude people with vain religion and superstitious holinesse whom the Divel the father of lies did bewitch and allure them to beléeve fantasticall visions to be the souls of dead men the Divels appearing themselves like men letting them to understand that they were the souls of such men as they appeared like unto so Romulus the first King and founder of Rome appeared after his death walking up and down by Atticus house to Julius Proculus charging him to erect him a Temple in that place where he walked saying that he was now a God and that his name was Quirinus Remus likewise King Romulus his brother appearing to Faustulus and to his wife Laurentia sometime his nurse complained of his miserable death desiring them to indeavour that the same day wherein he was slain might be accounted among their Holidays for that he was canonized amongst the Gods We read in Lucan how that the souls of Sylla and Marius two famous and renowned Romans were alwaies walking and appearing to men before they were appeased by sacrifice for the Divels made the people believe after the bodies were so buried the souls should have rest by which means Idolatry increased amongst them as you heard a little before What complaint made Hector and Patroclus to Achilles What request made Palinurus and Deiphobus to Aeneas for the burial of their bodies which Homer and Virgil rehearsed Suetonius writing of the lives of the Emperours sheweth how Caligula sometime Emperour in Rome after he was dead being half burned and buried for that he wanted due solemnity of burial appeared in the Gardens of Rome called Lauriani to the kéepers troubling and molesting them very much till his sisters caused him to be taken up and commanded he should be throughly burned and buried There was in Athens by report an excellent fair house set to sale for that no man durst dwell within it for about midnight continually there was heard a great noise and clashing of armour and clattering of chains and there appeared an image or shape like an old man lean and lothsome to behold with a long beard staring hairs and fettered legs This house having a piece of paper upon the door concerning the sale thereof though no man would venter to dwell in it Athenodorus a Philosopher returning from Rome where he abode a long time with the Emperour Augustus Caesar and reading the writing upon the door hired the house and commanded his servant to make his bed in the highest chamber in the house where he setled himself to mark and behold what things would happen being thus in study first he heard the ratling and sound of chains and then he saw an old man beckning toward him to follow the Philosopher went after him with his candle in his hand into an inner court where the image left him alone and vanished Athenodo●●s the next morning caused the rulers of the City to dig up that place where they found divers bones of dead men these were commanded by the Philosopher to be burned solemnly which being burned the house afterward was quiet without either noise or apparition Thus the Divel soweth the séed of superstition and maketh his Angels oftentimes to work miracles what strange works did that conjurer Bileam bring to passe by the means of Divels what wonders wrought that wicked Appolomus by the help of Satan What marvels shews and sights did Simon Magus use by the industry of false spirits what did not Pharaoes sorcerers oftentimes attempt by the perswasion of Devils Mark their end and judge of their life the one breaking his neck and the other drowned in the red sea and so the rest ended their lives miserably too many have béen and I fear are yet that give credit unto such vain illusions and fantastical sights CHAP. XXVI Of Dreams and warnings AMongst the Gentiles dreams were so observed that the vain superstitious noting of the same was the whole trust and hope of their countries and of their own lives when the Kings of India take their rest they were brought to bed with all kind of melody and harmony every day knéeling upon his knées beséeching Morpheus the God of sléep to reveal those things unto their King that should be commodious and profitable to the subjects They thought themselves well instructed when either by Oracles they were perswaded or else by visions suggested King Pyrrhus knew well that his dying day was at hand when he besieged the City of Argos and saw in the market place a brasen Woolf and a Bull which the Argives for memory of things past and ancient monuments had put up for he by an Oracle did understand at what time he should sée a Bull and a Woolf fighting together he should then prepare himself to die Alexander the great after that the Oracle of Jupiter Ammon was pronounced that he should be unconquered he doubted not but to subdue the whole world and so trusting more to the Oracle of Iupiter then the mutability of fortune he took upon him the conquest of all the world attempting nothing at all without some Oracle or dream had warned him thereto For till the great Conqueror Alexander had séen Hercules in his sléep reaching out of the wal his hand promising him his aid and help in his wars he had not so boldly attempted so high an enterprise without fear and dread In the like manner unto Hannibal after long perturbation of mind with great industry study how he might annoy destroy the Roman Empire there appeared a young man of wonderfull beauty who told him that Jupiter sent him as a Captain before him into Italy whereby straight he was encouraged the rather to take the charge in hand hoping therby to enjoy triumphant victory over his enemies Caesar that mighty Prince Monarch the first Emperor that ever possessed Rome thought in his sleep that he committed fornication with his own mother which when it was opened by the Soothsayers and declared that it was the earth that was his mother and that he should suppresse all the Princes of the earth under him he vvas ensiamed thereby to vvars perswading himself that he should be a conqueror over all the world After that the noble renowned Greek Themistocles was exiled from Athens and banished the confines of Greece having done such service and honour to his countrey as Plutarch worthily mentioneth for the subduing of proud Xerxes King of Persia the great enemy of all Gréece being in great peril and danger of life in strange countreys he séemed to see in his sleep a Dragon creeping upward from his belly towards his face and as soon as the Dragon touched his face he was changed as he thought to an Eagle and carried by the Eagle a great way through the Ayr into a strange countrey where the Eagle gave him a golden staff in his hand and so left him