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A07270	Vnhappy prosperitie expressed in the histories of Ælius Seianus and Philippa the Catanian· Written in French by P: Mathieu and translated into English by Sr. Th: Hawkins; Aelius Sejanus, histoire romaine. English	Matthieu, Pierre, 1563-1621.; T. H. (Thomas Hawkins), Sir, d. 1640.; Matthieu, Pierre, 1563-1621. Histoire des prosperitez malheureuses d'une femme cathenoise, grande seneschalle de Naples. English. aut; Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. De casibus virorum illustrium.	1632 (1632)	STC 17666; ESTC S112489	161,436	318

compared with eternall felicitie He died at the age of foure and twenty on his birth day being the nineteenth of August in the yeare 1293 and was canonized by Pope Iohn the 22th in the yeare 1316. This peace which had cost much bloud Treaties drawen on by necessitie last not long money and time lasted but a little while For seeing that which is done by force continueth no longer but during the space wee cannot resist necessitie Fredericke thirsting after Sicily which he had left began the warre afresh upon the first occasion Repentance waiteth on headlong counsels but shame and losse undoubted fruits of rash counsels recompenced the breach of the treatie with punishment The King of Arragon summoned to constraine his brother to observe the treatie The King of Arragon is summoned to joyne his forces with Charles to constraine his brother to observe it Fredericke lost twentie five gallies six thousand men and had there left his libertie if the Catalonians had not afforded him passage for his safetie Auxiliaries soone revolt thinking they were more obliged to the bloud of one of their Princes than to the succour of the King of Naples It is no act of providence to employ those against an enemy who are of the same Nation for in times of necessitie they set upon him whom they should defend Fredericke haughtie and young whose courage could never despaire of victorie nor ever feare death unwilling to retire upon his discomfiture prepareth a fresh Army and returnes into Sicily Charles the second sent Robert his sonne Duke of Calabria to encounter with him on the Frontiers He transported with an over-weening opinion of victorie which easily deceiveth young Souldiers imagined that going about to fight with those whom his father had vanquished It is a great advantage to fight with an enemy whom hee hath once before vanquished That is it which Scipio said to the Romans on the day of battell against Annibal Philip Prince of Tarentum prisoner at Panormo in the yeare 1299. hee had not to doe with enemies but with the relicts of their defeature Hee enters into Sicily encourageth his troopes to march fight and vanquish but is overthrowen Philip Prince of Tarentum his brother taken prisoner and Calabria lost Robert gathering the rest of his forces together beleaguers Drepany and in this siege it was where God offended with this house began to give way to the ruine of it by means which testifie the most feeble Instruments are in his hands powerfull Engines to demolish the greatest States Violante Duchesse of Calabria was in the field to beare her husband company So Agrippina accompanied Germanicus into Almaigne and in occasions encouraged Souldiers by her valour and to give example to the Souldiers by her constancie and courage suffering even in the time of her being with childe the solicitudes and toyles of a siege Shee was there delivered of her second sonne named Lewis and the immutable decree of humane accidents which depend on a superior Law would needs have it for the much greater unhappinesse of this flourishing Kingdome that there could not be found any woman fit to breed this Prince but a creature so despicable as that she got her living by being a Laundresse Fishing is an abject condition the Grecians call it a miserable error in the sea and her husband daily stood upon the promontorie of a rocke to catch fish with an angling rod. Shee was young her countenance sweet which made all the rest amiable her proportion strong and vigorous The lesse delicate nourishment is the more vigorous is the nourishment and stature little inferiour to a tall stripling Besides povertie added some favour to her election for it is thought her manner of living free from excesse and curiositie rendred her complexion much stronger and her conscience the more simple Having derived no name from the place of her birth shee tooke that of Catania her countrey For being neere the proud Typhaeus Carthaneen hath the sulphur and drinks the smoke of it Stat. and was called Philippa the Catanian and as this Citie is unhappily scituated neare Mount Aetna which vomiteth fire and sulphur upon its neighbours so her greatest infelicitie was to have approached this fire of favour which in the end turned her into ashes But so soone as she bad drunke in the enchanted cup of the Court her primitive innocencie degenerated into an ardent thirst of greatnesse in such sort that in stead of suffering the incommodities of want in the abject condition of her state A poore man suddenly enriched hath much adoe to governe himselfe in riches she knew not how to beare the affluence of happinesse in this her first fortune For it is not so hard a matter for the rich to endure povertie as for the penurious to accord with riches The siege of Drepany having continued some time The King of Arragon tooke Sicily from King Charles the first had his son prisoner and his grand childe the Prince of Tarentum the besieged were succoured by Fredericke and Robert constrained to returne to Naples with a smaller company and much lesse contentment than hee marched forth withall whereat King Charles his father became greatly displeased and sad and seeing injuries are weighed according to the qualitie of the persons who either doe or receive them it was a verie distastfull thing with Charles to see that a King of Arragon had put such harsh affronts upon the Kings of Naples boasting to have furnished out the triumphs both of their Crownes and Princes And although the warre was betweene King and King The Arragonians chose Peter Tarres for their King and tooke the Crowne from him to give it to Ramirez he notwithstanding thought a King of Arragon could not enter into comparison with him either as King of Naples or as issued from an house which had not begun to reigne like his for the Crowne had stood fully nine hundred yeares on the heads of his Ancestors Ramirez bastard of Sanchez King of Castile began to reigne in the yeare 1017. and the Arragonians had not knowen above three hundred yeares what a royall Scepter meant The Monarchie of France was founded upon the ruines of an Empire which swayed the whole world and amongst the Gaules the most warlike province of Europe a people so daring as to advance their Standards on the highest top of the Capitoll The Arragonians made a Kingdom of a County choosing a Monke for Founder whom they took out of a Cloyster that they might have a King extracted from the Gothish race After he had reigned some time he retired into his Monasterie and recommended his daughter to Alphonsus the seventh King of Castile He was so simple and doltish that mounting on horse-backe to wage warre against the Moores and they putting a lance into one hand and a target into the other hee tooke the bridle betweene his teeth Hee quickly shooke off his

sottishnesse For employments make men So that putting on the Majestie of a King hee caused the heads of eleven of his greatest to be cut off who mocked at him and for a satisfactorie reason only said this Foxes know not with whom they dally King Charles to exact an account for these last bravadoes in the 1311. yeare raised a great army and intreated his Cousin Charles Count of Valois Discipline is hard in armies of divers Nations whom King Philip le Bel sent into Tuscany for aid of the Florentines to lend him his troups to chase Frederick out of Sicily Wise Princes appease enmities among houses from whence they sprang and those whereinto they are married The forces being joined and nothing wanting among them but discipline they entred into Calabria and there exercised violences so exorbitant that Violante Dutches of Calabria sister of Frederick abhorred it and having shewed her courage in waging warre made her wisdome appeare in treaty of peace perswading Frederick to require it Peace betweene the King of Naples and Frederick of Arragon in the yeare 1302. and not to expect till he were in a condition not to obtain it Frederick gave eare to her and the doubt of the future evill being worse than the paine of the present disposed him to peace and conjured his sister to mediate She had the honour both to propose and conclude it Sicily rested in Frederick for his life only without any other title than King of Trinacria leaving all he held elsewhere and to confirme amity married Leonora the daughter of Charles the second But as there is no charme more powerfull to gaine the good opinion of the people than to afford them peace and oppose any thing which may disturbe their repose Violante was honoured by all as the foundresse and raiser of this Temple of peace It was proclaimed every where Martial said the name of the Emperour Domitian sprang amongst Roses and violets Long live Violante no other title contented their thoughts than Violante and it was much more truly said of her name than of the Emperours that it grew amongst roses and violets This publique well wishing spread it selfe over all whatsoever had relation to Violante but the best part was for the Catanian who alone possessed her soule nor could any other deserve her favours which she cherished not only by the care of the education of the young Prince but with great vigilance ardent assiduity Favours of great ones are merited by assiduity affection and fidelity lively affection and a judicious complacence practised in the Mothers service in such sort that she alone was the oracle of her will But death which searcheth into all the corners of the earth and from which no one Countrey is more distant than another In all parts of the world man is in equall distance from death tooke away the Duchesse Violante even in the sweetnesse of this good worke of peace This death undermining the fortune of the Catanian astonished her but it was but for a little while For Robert remarrying with Sancha daughter of the King of Maiorica wel remembred Violante had recommended her to him Affection borne to the dead appeared in the remembrance of what they recommended and offered her as a present she loved her no lesse than her Cozen Violante had done and this woman observing her Mistresse did wholly addict her selfe to devotion and took not delight in any thing but to speake with God by prayer To pray that is to speake to God and to understand his word is to heare him speak or to heare God speaking to her in the reading of pious bookes played the hypocrite and scrupulous holy one onely to please her Much adoe had she to straine for it For devotion is so cleare impolluted you cannot confound it sooner will water commix with oyle than Piety with Hypocrisie Examples do not rectifie depraved spirits I wonder how she grew so wicked among so many examples of piety and vertue but she came to the Court not to settle her conscience but to raise a fortune Sancha Duchesse of Calabria who loved her Affection produceth affection because she had the breeding of the young Prince being most affectionate and vigilant for her good let no faire occasion slip in her advancement Her Husband dyed Sodaine favour makes spirits revive and flourish again which seemed deiected and faint and she was instantly Courted For who ever should marry her was sure to sleepe betweene the armes of Fortune so supereminent was her power in Court This serpent which during the winter of her wretchednesse lay stark and benummed with cold no sooner felt the heat of the Sunne of favour but shee stirred and high-reared her creast The Sarazens for a long time held Sicily Frederick the 2. gave them the City of Laceria Charles had set out an edict against the Saracens that resided in Sicily and who 70 yeares together possessed Luceria giving leave to the Christians to kill them if they abjured not the Alchoran Some forsooke the Countrey others were baptized and there were seene many to be new Christians in apparance and inveterate Saracens in their consciences Forced conversions make Atheists for it was impossible to root this pestilent seed out of their hearts Boccace saith he bought it not and those who returned to their old vomit were called Marrans Never was good Moore a good Christian In the generall expulsion of this scummy people Raimond of Cabanes Master of the Kings houshold took to him a young Sarrazen and noting in him much affection toward his service A heart which is disposed to do wel is quickly seene in its courage and withall a dextrous and ready wit gave him his owne name in baptisme the knowledge of his friends in Court and lastly his proper charge But as there is not any meane in the Courts of Princes since the slendrest fortunes require a whole man he so well managed his There is no fortune so meane which requireth not all the industry of a man that of little he made much and became so acceptable to Charles the second and to Duke Robert his sonne that he created him master of his Wardrobe Time cooperateth with his industry fortune sutes to his vigilance Labours which are punishments to the sluggish and delights to the diligent trouble not him at all He acquired great wealth which he exposed He who doth any thing willingly his travel costeth him nothing neither to Ostentation nor envy Gratuities fell into his purse without noise and by wayes unperceiveable and although there is not any condition in Court free from taxations nor wisdome so absolute and judicious as to make it selfe a Master over accidents The wise man exposeth not his fortune to envy yet met he with none who might reproach him to have used therein either indiscretion or imprudence He brought not his wax wings of