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truth_n	father_n	son_n	spirit_n	9,815	5	5.8235	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07269	The povverfull fauorite, or, The life of Ælius Seianus. By P.M.; Aelius Sejanus, histoire romaine. English	Matthieu, Pierre, 1563-1621.	1628 (1628)	STC 17664; ESTC S112478	115,738	158

procured it and who desireth it more ardently then he that hath waited for it more impatiently How did Piso take this He sacrificed and slew burnt offeringes Plancina was so transported with this ioy Luctus laeto cultu mutatus Ta. that she laid a side her griefe which she began to apprehend for the death of her sister and adorned her selfe in the richest and best garments she had This accusation abounded with so many diuersities and the resolution to make an end of Germanicus was furnished with so many Mischiefes that they oppressed him Nil ordinatur quod praecipiatur properat Se. and carried him headlong into the folly of this discourse and he had much to doe to range it into any order I had forgotten to shew how Piso sent spies to discouer the weake estate of Germanicus and the accidents that hapned thereupon This grieued the sicke person and vexed his soule not for feare for he was neuer afraid of death but for anger and sorrow apprehending that assoone as breath was out of his body Piso would vsurp the command of his forces and his wife should be at his appointment Piso also was somewhat wearie that the poyson wrought so slowly and that it had no sooner wrought it's effect and entered into Syria to be more neere the legions and to serue himselfe with them vpon occasion This was the cause why Germanicus said of his distresse This is a very sensible griefe to die in the sight of ones enemy and to leaue his wife and his children to his power Well then if I must needs dye by the cunning of mine enimy and that he must see me render vp my spirit what shall be found out for my wife How shall she be dealt withall What shall become of my children who in this accident will not want teares to bewaile me and will haue no words at all to lament themselues Let that come to passe which the heauens haue determined Piso hath taken away my life but he hath left me the courage When the Romans would breake friendship with any one they would advertize him of it and forbad him their house Titus Livius and I doe not finde my selfe brought to that weakenesse that I euer will consent that the murtherer shall gaine his reward by my death Vpon this he sent a letter vnder his hand importing that he held him his enimy that he forbad him to come into his house and so to soiourne there in that Prouince For none doubted but that the witchcraft seconded the poyson when they saw the bones of dead men pluckt from their members and tyed to the walles and seeling of his Chamber Maleficijs animae numinibus infernisacrae Tacit. the characters of charmes and imprecations Germanicus his name ingrauen in plates of Lead of ashes halfe burnt and made into paste with the putrifactione of vlcers and other witchcrafts and impieties which they vse to do vote any one to death sacrificing him to the infernall gods Although this Prince was dying and euen at the last cast Moderatur cursui qui vult proprius regredi Tacit. yet Piso feared by his commandement loosed the Anchor and retired himselfe but he went not very farre that he might not haue farre to returne when hee should haue aduertisement of his death And if all this put together serues not to conuince them where would he the truth should seeke out proofes So that yee conscript Fathers you see before your eyes a man who hath brought from the wombe of his mother violence and the spirit of rebellion for he is sonne of a father who followed the partie of Brutus and Cassius He is not onely an extortioner but a theefe Cicero said the offence of Verres constrained the Iudges to condemne him not a quarreller but a raiser of sedition not an enimy but a rebell not a murtherer but an assassin neuer any delinquent hath giuen you more pressing cause to dispatch him then he for the accursednesse of his crime will constraine you to condemne him and if in despite of the gods and of men you pardon him it will be impossible to saue him out of the hands of the people who attend this businesse and hearken O yee Conscript Fathers how they cry in this pallace there i● not a woman so little that doth not promise to her selfe to teare of some haire of his head Represent to your selues that the ioy of the people is when they see the chiefe Authors of rebellion drawne behind the triumphant Chariot When he that triumpheth passeth by the Capitoll he sendeth his prisoners to the Magistrates and dares not leade them to his owne house ILictor colligae manus caput 〈◊〉 obnubito arbori infoelici suspendito Cicero and on the morrowe after executed in reparation of the inhumanities and cruelties they haue done in the Prouinces they will be more content when they shall see Piso go to be punished The people will loose their patience if you pronounce not speedily the solemne sentence Hangman take this Parricide this robber this rebell bind his hands blind his eyes tye him to a miserable gallowes And who knoweth if this multitude transported with griefe and sorrow will stay there if they wil content themselues with one alone and that they fall not vpon those who fauour this wicked man esteeming them more wicked then he Non maius scelus in R. P. commisit reus quàm ij qui eum à tam nefarijs sceleribus sententia sua liberam Cic. In case of iudgement of persons of quality we must consider the time and the reason of State Eloquentia nulli tota contingit Sen. No no yee conscript fathers they will not bee mocked the matter is too important the consequence too great and this man such a one that there is too much danger to commit a fault in his case Beleeue I pray you that neither the accused nor the time nor the place nor the reason of state nor the qualities of the parties can consent that they should be bereaued of the example that he should be deliuered in secret or that hee should not be executed in publique Marcus Lepidus who had asmuch eloquence as he possibly could haue for neuer any man had all speaking for Piso answered the accusers in this manner Great honors are burthens which tyre those that beare them Ludos facit fortuna Sen. It is a great vnhappinesse yea conscript fathers for poore Piso to haue beene happy Great honors serue sometimes to the felicitie of them that deserue them not at all and those who haue first merited them shall finde their ruine by a strange extrauagancie or a iugling of fortune who giuing to others contentments to this man giues nothing but trouble The great seruices performed by Piso to Augustus obliged the Emperour to make him Lieutenant to Germanicus Vnhappy is that dignity which hath no credence at all with the Prince but this honor