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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16169	Beautiful blossomes, gathered by Iohn Byshop, from the best trees of all kyndes, diuine, philosophicall, astronomicall, cosmographical, historical, & humane, that are growing in Greece, Latium, and Arabia, and some also in vulgar orchards, as wel fro[m] those that in auncient time were grafted, as also from them which haue with skilful head and hand beene of late yeares, yea, and in our dayes planted: to the vnspeakable, both pleasure and profite of all such wil vouchsafe to vse them. The first tome	Bishop, John, d. 1613.	1577 (1577)	STC 3091; ESTC S102279	212,650	348

troupes from all partes of the towne assaulted the house wherin the imbassaders lay requested to haue him deliuered vnto them that he might be executed vtterly neglecting the greatnesse of the Romane name and the memorie of the friendshippe lately made and doubtlesse they would haue put him to death if that the king and the officers had not rather conueyed then deliuered him out of the present perill Diodorus also doth affirme that these baggage Goddes are kept and nourished about the Temples by men of good reputation who féede them with fine manchet Alica a kinde of furmament deintie dishes made with milke Moreouer they do set euery day before them géese bothe boyled and also rosted and for those that eate rawe flesh they cause byrdes to be caught finally they kéepe them with great care and charges Furthermore they doe washe them with warme water and very good and odoriferous ointments They also make for them sumptuous beddes costly garnished they mourne for their death as muche as they were their children and burie them more sumptuously then their abilitie can cleare After the death of Alexander the great when that Ptolomeus Lagi held Egypt an Oxe being dead at Memphis for age he that tooke vpon him the charge to kéepe him bestowed vpon his buriall a great masse of money the whiche had béene giuen for the charges of the funeralles and also fiftie talentes that is 9375. lent by Ptolomey Also in our age which was in the time of Ptolomeus Dionysius the laste king certaine that had the keeping of suche beastly Goddes bestowed vpon their funeralles no lesse then 100. talentes that is 18750. pound In what house soeuer saies Herodotus cattes do dye by nature al they that do dwell in them do shaue their ey-browes onely but if that a dogge die all their whole bodies and heades are shauen Dead cattes are caried by the people howling and beating their brestes vnto the temples to be salted and from thence into the citie Buleastis to be buried but they lay dogs in sacred cophines in those temples where they happen to die but dead shrewe mise and hawkes they do carrie vnto the citie of Butis all these baggages doe they by the reporte of Diodorus wrapp in fine shéetes and embaulme with the precious liquor of Cedrus and odoriferous ointments but dead beares and wolues do they burie where they finde them Moreouer Iuuenal in his xv Satyre doth charge them with farther follie in that they make léekes and onyons their Goddes wherefore he frumping them sayes O holie nations that haue Goddes growing in their gardens I haue béene the longer in declaring the madnesse of the Egyptians to make men vnderstande from whence the Israelites had their wonderfull pronenesse vnto idolatrie and worshipping of false Goddes But as I sayd before it is not so greatly to be maruelled at if that heathen men who accounted those to be Gods whō they knewe to be most renouned for vertue and valiancie did when that when fortune fauned on them forget them selues and inuaded wrongfully the godhead yet who wold beléeue that so absurd a thought coulde come into their myndes to whome God had reuealed his trueth and the knowledge of him selfe if we did not reade the like of Herodes Agrippa in the moste true recordes of the Actes of the Apostles Whiche historie is in these wordes related more at large by Iosephus in the .xix. booke of his antiquities When Herodes Agrippa did set foorth at the citie of Caesaria magnificent spectacles vnto the people in the honour of Caesar vpon a day vowed for the life and safetie of the Emperour to the which came also the worshipfull and honourable of the whole Prouince the second day of the shewes the king putting on a glittering robe wrought with wonderfull workmanship of cleane siluer about Sunne rising came foorth vnto the theatre Nowe when that the Sunne at the first rising did shine vpon the siluer garment the glistering of the mettall did cast foorth with the reuerberated beames suche a double and diuine brightnesse that the tenour of the sight did dazell the eyes of them that behelde it striking in them a veneration with honour Incontinently was there hearde the flatterie of the common people pratling out wordes which sounded to honour but brought destruction He was saluted from all partes of the Theatre by the name of a God and supplyantly prayed vnto to be mercifull and good vnto them the people saying vntill this time we haue euer feared thée as a man but from hencefoorth we doe nowe confesse thée to surmount and be aboue mans nature But the king did not suppresse nor blame their lewde exclamations neither abhorred the vngodlinesse of vnlawfull flatterie vntill suche time as a little while after he looking vp sawe an Owle sitting vppon a rope that went crosse the Theatre ouer his head and immediately withall he felt him to be the minister of his destruction whome he had knowne before to be his purueyour of good thinges and so was he soudenly tormented with incredible peines about his heart belly and small guts and looking backe vpon his friendes sayde behold ye I that God of yours am presently tumbled downe from life the power of God presently prouing those wordes to be false whiche you euen very nowe bestowed and hurled on me And I whome but very nowe you called immortall am out of hande at this instant carried headlong to death but I must abide and receiue the sentence whiche God hath pronoūced on me for I haue liued not in miserie but in so great felicitie that al men cal me a blessed mā When he had spoken those words he being more grieuously vexed with the violence of the peine was incontinently borne into the palace But shortly after when it was bruted abroad that he was vpon the point of death a great multitude of al ages sects came vnto the palace who lying on the ground grouely clothed in hairecloth after their countrie guise made incessant supplications vnto God for the kings recouerie all the kinges palace ringing with their dolful cries and lamentations whē as in the mean time the king lying in a chamber aboue and looking downe and beholding them lying flatte on their faces with lamentable wéeping could not abstein from teares him selfe but being fiue dayes thus tormented incessantly with griping peines of his bellie at the lengthe brake in sunder the tedious thread of lothsome life Thus by this long narration of those whose prosperitie made them to forget their maker yea and them selues too that saying of Augustines is verified that as all fruites all graines all woodes haue their worme and euery one a diuers worme the one from the other so the worme of riches power and prosperitie is pryde which doth corrupt and quite consume them as all other wormes do the substaunces wherein they are bred neuer dying vntill that they haue chaunged the names turning woods to rottennesse yron to lust and