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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18257	The unfortunate politique, first written in French by C.N. Englished by G.P.; Cour sainte. Vol. 1, Book 4. English	Caussin, Nicolas, 1583-1651.; G. P., fl. 1638.	1638 (1638)	STC 4876; ESTC S107630	59,395	229

neere then to doe her a mischiefe his eyes sparkling with anger his voice rough and his hands lift up to commit violence As he walkt up down in his chamber in a chafe skirmishing thus with his choler Mariamne standing by without any farther reply treacherous Salome thought it now a convenient time to give vent to her malitious project shee sends a servant that had pawn'd his faith and credit and whom she a long time had been instructing for to make him depose a slander as wicked as ridiculous which was that Mariamne having an intention to giue her husband a philtre or love potion she addrest her selfe to him who being then the Kings Taster and sought to work him to doe this feat with many rewards and promises which he would never give care unto Moreover hee was so taught his lesson that if peradventure Herod demanded the ingredients of the Philtre hee should answer without farther hesitation that the Queen had the contriving of it and that she required of him only but to administer it This miscreant enters the chamber in cold bloud and makes deposition most seriously whereat Herod who was all fire already being more inflam'd then ever thought with himselfe that he needed not wonder any more whence this impatience of love should proceed Hee commands presently an Eunuch of the Queen one of the most trustie of them to be attacht thinking that nothing past without his knowledge hee puts him to the rack insomuch that his body being already weak enough not able to beare out the violence of the tortures and on the other side having nothing to speak against his good Mistris in whose conversation he never knew any thing but what was honourable and honest hee was kept a great while in this miserable plight at length hee lets fly a word saying that hee had seen Soheme talking a long time in private with the Queen as though hee made some discovery and that since that time hee well perceived that she was much dejected Herod had no sooner heard this speech but 't is enough saith he take him off and call Soheme Soheme knew nothing of this that passed he liv'd in great content having lately attain'd to some good place of command by the Queens recommendation He was quite astonisht when he saw them lay hands on him and compell him to confesse the discourse hee had with Mariamne when she was in prison he utterly denying the matter is forthwith slain This day Herod retires into his Cabinet drinking by full draughts the gaul and venome of his fatall anger meditating in his heart on the fury which hee should make to burst out shortly in publique for without allowing any truce to his labouring brain he assembles his Privie Councell and sends for his Queen who exprected nothing lesse then such arraignment This monster that studied alwaies to set a colour of justice on his most unreasonable actions beginnes a long Oration which he had indited at his leasure and as every man stood like a Ghost struck with feare and filence expecting the issue of this Tragoedy onely bold Mariamne stood arm'd with an undanted constancy for all events he speaks to them in these termes It seems God would counterballance my prosperous affaires abroad with the unhappinesse of domestick evills I have found safety among the winds and tempests in irksome voyages I have undertaken and in many perillous atchievements that I have brought about to finde in my return a tempest in mine own Court You are not ignorant how that I have fostered all the house of Hyrcanus in my bosome in those deplored times when it was at a low ebb neer confusion in recompence whereof as if I did sit upon the egs of a Serpent so I have found but hissing and stinging God knowes how oft I have dissembled injuries and how oft I have cur'd thē with patience but yet I cannot bring my heart to so obdurat and brawnie a temper but it is ever anon stirr'd up and scarified with some new sores Behold there my wife who following his Mothers steps is ever bent to trouble my repose As soon as I was return'd from my late dangerous voyage as you know I brought her tiding of the happy successe to my affaires shee shewing how litle esteem she made of my estate and person did heare mee with such a coy and disdainfull carriage that notwithstanding all the Courtship I made to her I could not draw from her pride one good word nay shee was not content with this shee proceeds to open mischiefes and bloudy machinations which I had rather in honour of your eares passe over in silence come to effects Behold there one of my faithfull servants that doth testifie how that she had suborn'd him to give me a Philtre that is poyson for to giddie my braines and take away my life which God doth still preserve to make a recognizance of all the good offices which all in generall and you in particular have done me So you see that I am arrived home with my temples girt with Laurells honoured and favour'd by the most renowned men of the world to bee the shittle-cock of a womans mallice and the But of her treachery I could not win her by ardency of love or any good turnes no more then if shee had been a Lionesse Consult among you what you ought to doe I deliver her to the power of your iustice being not in this case to follow mine own judgement that posterity may know that mine own interests come alwaies below the truth to which I have taught them ever to stoop and bend the knee Herod in speaking these words would seem to be very calme conjuring down his passion and curbing his nature which was pliable enough but yet his choler so wrought and fum'd up that the Councell soon discover'd his malady that he had a full purpose to exterminate the Queen They summon her to answer upon the suddain without any Advocate This glorious Amazon a young Impe of the Macchabees and heire of their heroick patience being presented before this crue conventicle of malignant spirits 28 yeares before the comming of our Saviour in the flesh did then what may instruct posterity most illustriously by her example No man ever observ'd an impatient word to sally out of her mouth she used not any word of recrimination or charged back any with their own crimes and being able to lay before the Councell the many outrages she had suffered in her own person and in her kindred she swallowed all wrongs with more then humane patience only touching the main Article of her accusation she said that for the draught or potion that was objected to her 't was a thing in the judgement of all that would confider it well farthest off any thing from her thoughts seeing that she had alwaies dreaded the love of Herod more then his hate moreover that she made not any account of her life wherein she had

strong presumptions and evident circumstances that there was now nothing left to suspend his beliefe Herod asks where was this poyson The young man replied it was with the window of his brother Pheroras she being questioned concerning it got up to an upper roome pretending to goe and fetch it but being got up to the top of the house in a desperate manner shee casts her selfe down headlong but it pleased God that this fall proved not mortall according to her desire They did incourage her and made all promises of impunity if she would but freely confesse the truth She confesseth that indeed her husband had a poyson sent from Antipater and that hee was once minded for to doe the deed but it repented him a litle before his death he detested such wickednesse upon these words shee takes out the poyson which they sound to be most deadly by making experiment upon condemn'd persons At that very time Eathillus a freeman of Antipaters was surprised comming from Rome to Iudea to advise Pheroras to hasten his designe bringing another poyson in case the former did not prove effectuall In the mean time Antipater writes to his Father that hee labour'd diligently at Rome to dispell some cloudes of slander and to cleare his affaires which hee hoped to bring about and to return very shortly for Iudea Herod who would have long since caught him in his clawes sends to him these lines Sonne my declining age the crazinesse of my body doe every day instruct me that I am mortall one thing comforts me that I have made choice of your person to succeed me in my Throne I shall see my old age spring againe flourish in your and my death to be smother'd as it were in your life seeing that I shall liue in my other halfe which is your deare selfe I would you had continued still neere my person not only for the assistance your piety still afforded me but for the prejudice that might acrew to your fortune by your absence Faile not therefore with the good leave of Caesar to render your self here present with the best speed you can delay will not any way favour your affaires here This bayt had charm enough to allure and art enough to conceale the hook Vpon these news hee was ready to ride upon the wings of the winde to present himselfe in Ierusalem He dispatcheth his businesse takes leave of Augnstus makes all expedition possible to shew the behests of his father It was very strange that hee could never have any advertisements by the way of what had passed so odious was he to God and man But being at Cilicia hee learnt that his mother was discarded and expell'd the Court which did much affright him and hee thought to beat his way back againe But one of his Councell perchance suborn'd by Herod begins to tell him that if there were nothing intended against him he needed not to feare and if any slander was broacht of him hee ought to make the more hast to quash it other wise his absence would but cause further suspicion He swallowes the advise and not withstanding some secret reluctancie remorse of conscience he followes the road for I●dea when hee was arrived at the haven of Sebaste he began to 〈◊〉 into deeper apprehensions of danger then ever for having seen at this very Port not long before at his departure such a throng of people tearing the ayre with their acclamatiōs not for any love they owed to him but to shew their obeisance to Herod who would have it so but he now perceived that fortune had turn'd tail he was receiv'd with a lowring countenance some did look upon him askue with a quarter face murmur'd between their teeth as cursing him for that hee had spilt his brethrens bloud He was engag'd too far on to make retrair Gods vengeance had already markt out his lodgings He goes on from Sebaste strait for Ierusalem and marches to the Pallace sumptuously apparelled and with a numerous traine the Gard made way for him to enter but were commanded by the King to keep back all those that attended him hee was quite astonisht to see himselfe caught so like a bird in a net neverthelesse he goes on his vvay enters the hall vvhere his father staid expecting his approach accompanied with Quintilius Varus lately sent from Rome to bee Governour of Syria When hee had made a most reverend submissive congy he drawes neere to kisse his father according to the manner of the Countrey but he straightvvaies heares the roaring of a Lion for Herod dravving a step backe cryes out Stand aloofe Murtherer it is not for you any more or any such to receive the welcome kisses of a father Behold there Q. Varus your Iudge bethink your selfe by to morrow how to answer to such crimes as you are charged with He was thunderstrooke with this speech and withdrew himself out of the roome with palenesse in his face and the horrour of his crime in his conscience In the next chamber he findes his mother and his wife all drencht in teares who with lamenting eyes had already solemniz'd his funerall such an astonishment seiz'd upon him that hee had neither a tongue to comfort them nor so much as teares to bewaile his own misfortunes He past over all the night with much disquiet of minde finding now by experiment that it was easier for to commit a crime then excuse it The morrow being come hee was call'd before the judgement seat where hee found his father with Q. Varus a good number of the Counsellers of state Vpon the very point newes was brought of some letters of his mother that were intercepted which did give him notice that all was discover'd and that he should beware to return and put himselfe into the hands of his father if hee would not fall into the jaws of a Lion This was shewed him at his entrie into the Councell Chamber hee expected but the houre when he should be strangled hee was already under the Strapadoes of his conscience therefore casting himselfe down on his knees hee begs of his father that hee might not be condemn'd before he vvere heard Herod replies Varlet what hast thou to say Hath God reserved thee to be the last scourge of my old age Thou knowest I have taken thee from the bottome and lees of fortune for to place thee aboue thy brethren both beyond and against all hopes I have put all my treasures my revenues my authority my affection my secrets my heart and my Crowne into thy hands by a testament scaled with mine own hand and couldst not thou expect till thy Fathers eyes were closed up by a naturall death that thou mightest freely enjoy them This was it that thy designes did then ayme ●● when thou didst so hotly pursue the death of thy brethren I have done nothing in their araignment but by thy denunciation and advice Accurst wretch I am afraid that