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A04970	A prophesie that hath lyen hid, aboue these 2000. yeares Wherein is declared all the most principall matters that hath fallen out, in, and about the ciuill and ecclesiasticall monarchie of Rome, from the rising of Iulius Cæsar, to this present: and which are to be done from hence to the distruction of it, and what shall ensue after that. As the liues and deaths of the emperors. The rising of the ecclesiasticall monarchie. The storie of the greatest enemies of them both with manie other notable accurrences [sic] concerning Germany, France, and Spaine. With the inuasion of the kings of the East.; Babylon is fallen	T. L., fl. 1595.; Legate, Thomas, d. ca. 1607, attributed name.	1610 (1610)	STC 15111.3; ESTC S108178	20,639	60

a while for in the third yeare of his Dictatorship he was slaine in the Senat by the conspiration of 24. of whom the most both in his own so dangerous is the name of trust and other mens opinions were thought his chiefest frendes And thus was this fether blowen awaye after it had inioyed his pleasure 56. yeares and raigned 3. A man for letters armes and counsell famous far aboue all his succeeders and in discreete bounty and Princely clemencie rare vertues in such a fortune without controuersie surpassing all Princes made of earth Verse 14 So the next stoode vp and reigned and it continued a long time but after it had reigned his end also came and as the first it appeered no more Next after him arose Octauius the adopted sonne of Iulius otherwise also neere him in blood as being the sonne of his neece Accia who hauing taken reuenge vpon the murtherers of his father and obtained in all his warres forreine and at home triumphed Lord ouer all adding to his fathers pompe which he had bought so deer the honors of Parens Patriae and Augustus And this fether continued as the Prophet saw a long time for it reigned Triumuir with Anthonie and Lepidus two yeares and as Duumuir with Anthonie alone ten yeare and then deuouring his fellow in a Sea-fight at Actium reigned all alone 44. yeares But after it had reigned his end also came and as the Prophet concludeth he discended like the first and appeered no more For by the treason of Liuia his wife impatient to tarie th'inthronizing of her sonne as is the nature of ambition the nerer the goale the faster it runnes his lingring soule was taken from him at Nola in the 70. and sixth yeare of his transgression when he had reigned 20. lesse Verse 15 Then there came a voice vnto it and said Verse 16 Hear thou that hast kept the earth so long this I say vnto thee before thou beginst t' appeere no more Verse 17 Ther shal none after thee attaine vnto thy time nor yet to the halfe thereof That we may know ther is no God like vnto the Highest who only holdeth the measures and times of all thinges in his hand the Prophet foresheweth that none of the twelue should continue like to Octauius nor yet attaine vnto halfe his time which according to the word of the Lord was accomplisbed for his sonne Tiberius of all the rest reigned longest and longer by eight yeares then any of the rest and yet could not attaine to halfe the time of his father which descended before him That God only might be honoured in all his workes and iustified when he speaketh Verse 18 Then arose the third and reigned as th' other afore and it appeered no more also Then stept vp Tiberius and reigned in great abhomination as did his fathers before him but after a while he discended also and appeered no more He all his skill in sortilege and wisdome mathematicall wherunto he had sold himselfe from his youth could either foretell or fore-warne him of Caius his nephew by whome he was poysoned in the 70. and 8. yeare of his mortalitie and three and twentith of his raigne Verse 19 And so came it to all th 'others one after an other so that euery one reigned and then appeered no more In like sort saith the Prophet did all the rest which of the 12. remained successiuely rise reigne and perish Of whome the first Caligula in blasphemy excelling was murthered by the Captaine of his guard after he had sat in the chaire of the scornefull 29. yeares and in the throne of his fathers almost 4. The second only wise in euill Claudius was poysoned by his incestuous wife his neece Agrippina in the 64. yeare of his filthines and 14. of his reigne The third Nero. a monster deformed in life in mariage and end his life scornefull to the height of his fathers his mariage thrice more detestable his end more vnnaturall then any of theirs for after he had reigned in sinne fourteene yeares and sinne in him eighteene more fel by his own sword into the graue of his fathers and in him descended the house of the Iulij The fourth was of an other extraction Galba but not of a better descended of the antient familie of the Sulpitij rose vp late but perished early for he was 60. and 3. yeares olde before he tasted the Empire which he got and lost in 7. moneths The fifth likewise of a new house Otho but of the old building got possession by the bloud of his Predecessor and by spilling his owne in three moneths and od daies lost it againe after he had walkte in the abhomination of his fathers eight and thirtie yeares The sixt also Vitellius was new and olde in nothing saue gluttony excelling his fellowes in life and death like filthie descended in the eight moneth of his tyrannie after he had wearied himselfe in the pleasures of Caprineum where first his youth was branded 7. and 50. yeares After him arose the seuenth Vespatian who bought the crowne with the bloud of his M. and ware it in base couetousnes ten yeares but then was likewise blowen down hauing fullfild the pleasures of 59. more The eight was he which executed the vengeance due to the great murtherers Titus the earthly Hierusalem who in the 40. yeare of his pleasure after he had reigned 2. yeares and so many moneths was also blowen down not without the suspected treason of his brother and successour The ninth and last Domitian and if it were possible the worst of all who after he had reigned in the lust of his Fathers 15. yeares and liued therein 30. more was murthered by the Gentlemen of his chamber and beaten downe after the rest which descended before him So that euerie one of them as this verse Prophested reigned and then appeered no more Verse 20 Then I looked and behold in processe of time the fethers that followed stood vp on the right side that they might rule also some of them ruled but within a while they appeered no more And the Prophet obserued and saw after the twelue were descended the Emperors that followed to rise that they might rule also and as many of them as rose on the right side that is in the strength and power of the twelue did in their place according to the proclamation published in the eight verse spred their winges and reigne also as Nerua Traian Adrian Antoninus Marcus Commodus Pertinax Iulian. Seuerus Caracalla Macrinus Heliogabalus Alexander Maximinus And the rest to the third Valentinian In whose daies the power of the Eagle was so wounded by th'incursion and saccage of the two first contrary fethers that she could neuer after recure her selfe again but lay sicke and kept the chamber some ten generations which also lasted but twice so many yeares to the rising of Momillus in whome descended all that was left of the