of the Bactrians vvas so â—ell beloued of his subiects for his vertues 〈◊〉 after his death the principall citties conâ—â—ded which of them shoulde haue the hoâ—or of his buriall for the appeasing of which â—ife it was concluded that each of them 〈◊〉 remembrance of his worthynes should â—ake a tombe Harmocrates the last Tyrant in Sicilia at the very instant of his death exhorted hys sonne to liue so vprightly that his vertues might make him to be enuied Alexander praised greatly this vertue in the Phylosopher Calisthenes that for others he asked many things for himselfe nothing Plutarch Into the graue Senate of Areopage noâ—e were receiued except they had made some notable proofe of their vertues Sabellicus A rare example of a Romans vertue was iâ— Mesâ—ala who hauing Claudius in his custodie who before had proscribed him restored him to his estate and preserued him frâ—â— danger Appianus Iuno through her riches Mercurie througâ— his eloquence Venus through her beautie Mâ—â—s through his threats and the rest of thâ— Gods hauing all conspired against Iupiter 〈◊〉 were not able to pull him out of heauen 〈◊〉 which the Poets signified that a vertuouâ— man can by no meanes be turned aside from iustice Plato wrote 54. Bookes or Dialogues which did all intrâ—ate of vertue in which that he might not be thought vngrateful toward his Maister Socrates who woulde neuer write any thing hee bringeth him in reâ—hearsing that which he heard him speake Anacharsis led with the onely loue of verâ—ue left the kingdom of Scythia to his younâ—er brother trauailed into Grecia where â—e learned phylosophy of Solon Pelopidas generall of the Thebans is more â—raised for his notable vertue hee shevved â—hen he was prysoner in the hands of Alexâ—nder the tyrannous K. of the Phereans theÌ„â—or all his vertues gotten before Thucid. The Emperour Rodolphus othervvise of â—afe parentage by his vertues mounted to 〈◊〉 Monarchie Maximilian the Emperour aunswered one â—hat desired his Letters patents to ennoble â—im I am able to make thee rich but vertue onâ—â— must make thee noble Alexander Seuerus neuer kept in his court 〈◊〉 ill disposed persons or suffered any â—â—ough neuer so neere to him in blood once â—ound faulty to escape vnpunished Lactan. Marius esteemed it a great poynt of vertue â—nd high courage to bee skilful in cosenage Plutarch Two of the most famous Citties in the â—orld were in two extremeties Rome the â—ead of vice and Alexandria the end of all â—ertues Aurelius Of Iustice. Betweene the two zodiacall signes Leo and Libra is a virgin called Astraea or Iustice the which in times past dwelled vpon the earth anâ— beeing abused and neglected of mortall men 〈◊〉 tooke ber flight to heauen THe Egyptians who vvere the auncienâ— Lawmakers in theyr Citties caused Iuâ—ges to be paynted without handes and the President or chiefe Iustice with hys eyeâ— blindfolded thereby signifying that Iusticâ— ought neither to be briber nor respecter oâ— persons Pausanius Beza faineth Iustice and Mercie to bee two Sisters standing by the throne of God VVhen the Hebrewes asked a King of Samuell they added this to iudge al nations The Areopagites iudged by night and iâ— the darke Quintil. Aristides for his impartiall dealing in 〈◊〉 matters was sirnamed the Iust. Mycerinus the son of Cleops surpassed 〈◊〉 the Kings of Egipt for true iustice Herodâ—t Iunius Brutus a consul of Rome condemned his two sonnes Titus Tiberius to beâ—â—eheaded for that they conspired the reentre â—f Tarquinius race into Rome Liuius Philip and Alexander his sonne when any â—ame to complaine stopped one of theyr â—ares which they reserued for the defenâ—ant Plutarch No man durst euer solicite Cato Censorius 〈◊〉 any dishonest cause Cicero The Emperour Iulian though otherwise a â—yrant condemned no man before his cause â—as heard Euseb. Cambises commaunded Sisamnes skinne â—or his iniustice to bee â—lead of and couering â—he iudgement seate there-with appointed â—is sonne to iudge in his place Herodotus Seleucus Gouernour of â—ocris his sonne â—eeing taken in adultery whose punishment â—as losse of both his eyes to satisfie iustice â—nd in some sort the people who intreated â—im to remit the punishment caused one of â—is sonnes and another of his owne to bee â—ulled out Valerius A boy was condemned at Athence for that â—e vsed to catch young Quailes and to pull â—ut theyr eyes and so to let them flie againe â—im the Areopagites thought not vvorthy â—o lyue fearing that if hee were remitted for â—hys offence hee would not stick in time to attempt greater cruelties Quintil. Phocion refused to helpe his sonne in lavv Charillus in iudgement beeing accused for bribery saying withal that he had made him his allie in al iust reasonable matters only Philip was importuned by an olde woman to heare her cause to whom when the King made aunswer that he had no leysure she replyed then be no King which he wel regarding sette all busines aside to heare her complaint Valerius Thys King beeing once ouertaken vvitâ— sleepe and not well hearing the iustificatioâ— defence of Machetas he condemned him in a certaine summe wherevpon Machetaâ— cryed out I appeale to Philip when hee is thâ—rowly awake vvhich when he heard againe he aquited him Philip the first King of Macedon vvaâ— slaine by Pausanias a meane gentleman because hee woulde not let him haue iustice â—gainst Antipater VVhen Aristides was to determine a controuersie betweene two one of them sayde My aduersary Aristides hath doone the wrong But he aunswered My friend declare onely vvherein he hath wronged thee for I am here to doe thee right and not my â—â—lfe Laertius Antonius Venereus Duke of Venice cauâ—â—d his sonne to die in prison because hee had â—â—uished a maide Papinian a Pagan although hee was comâ—aunded by the Emperor Caracalla whose â—eward and familiar hee was to defende an â—niust cause would not doe it Marsilius Cleon of Lacedemon minding to deale in â—ublique affayres called all his friends togeâ—her and told them that hee renounced and â—ischarged himselfe of all friendship because 〈◊〉 caused men sometimes to swarue from iuâ—tice Plut. Aurelianus the Emperour was so fearefull of placing an vnwoorthy man in the seate of iudgement that hee neuer preferred any to the dignity of Senator but with the consent of the whole Senate Pau. Diaconus Traianus allighted from his horse as he was going to warres onely to doe iustice to a poore woman Eutropius Mardus sate in iudgement vpon his Sonne Cartanes and would haue put him to death but Artaxerxes seeing his iustice pardoned his sonne Aelianus Agesilaus requested by his Father to gyue sentence against equity graciously denyed him with this aunswer You haue taught me◠ô Father from my youth to obey the lawes 〈◊〉 therefore I will now obey you therein by iudging nothing against the lawes At Athence if any man committed wilful murder iudgemeÌ„t was prosecuted in a place called Martius Pagus it against his vvill the sessions was kept in Palladum if the murderer
where Minerua alwayes accompanieâ— Vâ—â—ses gyueth vs to vnderstand that Prâ—dence ought alwayes to guide a man to aâ—â—â—â—ine to the end of his enterprise Men praised the prudence of Fabius beâ—â—use he broke the point of fortune and hinâ—red the aduancement of Hanibal by cuncâ—â—ion temporising attending his aduanâ—â—ge which is a vertue named long suffeâ—â—nce Cicero Caesar the first Romaine Emperor by his â—â—udence prepared his vvay to so great a â—onarchy by reconciling together Pompey 〈◊〉 Cassius tvvo of the greatest Romaine 〈◊〉 by whose fauour he obtained afterâ—â—rds the dignity of consulship Plut. â—olon with the diuine knowledge of wiseâ—â—m gouerned the Athenians Lycurgus the â—â—cedemonians and Parmenides the Eleati â—ycis the Pythagorian inuented lawes for â—aminondas Plato for Dion Aristotle for â—â—exander Anaxagoras for Pericles Pythaâ—â—ras for the Princes of Italy and Agrippa 〈◊〉 the Emperour Octauius â—ntisthenes bad many guests to the banâ—â—et of wisedome and none would come 〈◊〉 Diogenes vvhere-vpon beeing angry â—t none would tast of his learned cheare 〈◊〉 excluded Diogenes vvho the more hee 〈◊〉 forbidden the more he came in the end â—â—tisthenes beate him thereby to driue him from his company which he constantly 〈◊〉 during Antisthenes entertained him for 〈◊〉 prudent perseuerance Laertius M. Cato when he saw that Pompey hâ— ioyned himselfe with Caesar told him that did put Caesars yoake vpon his necke whâ—â— then he perceaued not but shortly it wouâ—â— weigh heauy vpon him and then should 〈◊〉 finde himselfe taken Themistocles at what time he was 〈◊〉 Athence and inforced to goe into 〈◊〉 being intreated of the King to shew 〈◊〉 estate of his Country he wisely besought 〈◊〉 one yeare to learne the Persian languagâ— and then he would tell him Valerius Peâ—ilius enioyned vpon paine of death his Soueraigne to make an Asse to speaâ— knowing it a matter impossible demaunâ— seauen yeares space hoping in that time 〈◊〉 eyther the King he or the Asse would die Simonides being at a banquet with Pauâ—nias he tooke occasion to desire him to 〈◊〉 some precepts of wisedome at which 〈◊〉 laughed and said Remember thou art a 〈◊〉 vvhich then he not regarded but afterwaâ—â— in his misery with great sorrow remembreâ— Theophrastus Cato for the loue that he beare vnto wiâ—â—dome entertained Athenodorus Vlisses as â—omer saith embraced Carylus Pyrrhus eâ—â—eemed Artemius Traian desired Plutarch â—nd Scipio Panetius who was learned in all â—rts both good and euill Plut. Euclides of Megara desirous to heare the â—isedome of Socrates who read Philosophy 〈◊〉 Athence betweene vvhich two Citties â—â—ere was mortall emnity so that no Cittiâ—â—n of the one durst be seene in the other â—ithout great danger disguised himselfe like woman and so heard Socrates Agesilaus sustaining great losses by Epamiâ—â—ndas commaunded his Souldiours to â—ake head against him onely because that â—ne but wise and prudent men knew how 〈◊〉 conquer Thucidides â—he Athenians being deuided and banded â—o three contrary parts and factions Solon â—ould not ioyne himselfe with any one of â—â—em but kept him indifferent to all seeking 〈◊〉 all meanes to reconcile them together in 〈◊〉 end being chosen their pacifier he reforâ—ed their estate and placed them in greater 〈◊〉 then before â—hales although numbred among the seaâ—â—n wise-men of Greece refused to intermeâ—â— in common wealth matters Demades a man very pollitique and pracâ—tised in state being asked what Tutor he haâ— to instruct him in wisdom answered the trâ—â—bunall of the Athenians meaning the Couâ—â— and experience to excell all the precepts 〈◊〉 Philosophy Valerius Antonius the meeke was a vertuous 〈◊〉 Emperour and so well aduised in all his doâ—ings that hee neuer repented him of anâ— thing he did Eutropius Romulus the first King founder of thâ— Citty of Rome chose 100. of the eldest 〈◊〉 in the same Country by whose wisdom he willed it should be gouerned Patritius Iulius Caesar gloried in his good fortune but yet the bringing of his great enterpriâ—â— to passe was by his wisedom and experienâ—â— in warlike affaires Suetonius The Lacedemonians made more accoâ—â— of an exployt done by pollicy then by arâ— whose Captaines vvhen they had by theâ—â— pollitique stratagems ouercome any sacriâ—â—â—ced to theyr Gods an Oxe if by force Cocke Thucidides Alexander about to destroy the Citty 〈◊〉 Lampsacus Anaxemines his master cam toâ—wards him intending to desire him to 〈◊〉 it but the king imagining wherfore he cam◠〈◊〉 sweare that hee vvould not graunt that â—hich Anaximines should request who desiâ—â—d Alexander to destroy Lampsacus which â—â—quest by his oath he could not graunt and 〈◊〉 by this pollicy he saued his Citty Valerius The Italians vnable to excuse the great â—â—ults treacheries cowardize and dissimulaâ—â—on of their Nation go about to colour their â—â—llanies with the name of Italian prudence One bought a draught of fish of certaine fiâ—â—ers in Milesia whose hap was to take withâ—â— theyr net a golden Tripos which the fiâ—â—er-men refused to giue theyr chap-man â—â—ying that they bargained for fish the matâ—er was brought before the Magistrates who â—ere coÌ„manded by the Oracle to giue it to â—he wisest man first it was giuen to Thales he â—aue it to Bias Bias to Pittacus vntil it came â—o Socrates who gaue it to Apollo Valerius Tully cryed out in his latter age O vtinam â—unquam sapuisseÌ„ would I had neuer knowne â—hat wisedome meant Quintus Catulus did his Country as much good by his wisedome as Cneius Pompeius by valour for of small force is the warre aâ—road vnlesse there be good aduise at home Cicero Phillip of Macedon being in hostage three yeares together learned prudence of Epaminondas by which vertue he got into hiâ— hands the monarchy of all Greece and 〈◊〉 great part of Asia Curtius Caesar when he tooke vpon him the gouernment of the Gaules waged warre there 10. yeares guided by vnspeakable prudence that was accompanied with diligence so that by these he subdued 300. Nations tooke 800. Townes and in many battailes discomfited three millions of men Eutropius The Romaine Kings kept Eagles in theyr campe against thunder and lightning Macrobius The Emperour Tiberius wore in his Hatâ— Bay braunch to keepe him from thunder lightning Idem The Aegiptian mariners were wont in stoâ—â—my and tempesteous weather to hang vpâ—â— saile on the which was sewed the Phocaâ—â— skinne which is a kind of fish called the 〈◊〉 Cowe Plinius Alexander Seuerus was a very wise Prince which he attained vnto by the counsaile and instruction of that learned Lawyer Vlpianus The 7 Sages or wise-men of Greece were renowned throughout al the world of whom the first was Thales Milesius who inuented 〈◊〉 card to saile by Laertius The second was Solon who gaue the first â—â—wes to the Athenians and iudged no man â—â—ppy before his death The third was Chilo of Lacedemon vvho 〈◊〉 Embassadour into the Orient for the Aâ—â—enians The fourth was Pittacus who was not only Philosopher but also Captaine of the Myâ—â—enes The fift was Cleobulus that descended froÌ„
put away Olimpias the mother of Alexander vppon suspition Iustinus Betweene Cicero and Hortensius was a learned iealousie about eloquence between Cicero Salust was the like Betweene Demosthenes and Aeschines also as appeared by theyr orations made against each other The like iealous contention was betweene Xenocles and Euripides the first by his Oedipus Lycaon Bacche Athamas Satyricall the last by his Alexander his Palamede his Troians his Sisiphus Satyricall Demetrius Pheraeus the tirant who rather trusted an yron branded slauish Thracian then his wife Thebe was by her slaine for a iealousie of spousebreach Cicero Of all people the Parthians are most iealous of their wiues where-vpon they going out of dores doe neuer shew theyr faces or breasts and those that be of great calling goe in close vailes that they may not be seene There is not in the world any Nation lesse iealous then the Germaines albeit their women be very faire P. Pius In his description of certaine naturall baths of Germany wherat himselfe was present he did much meruaile at the familiarity of the Dutch-women who would in presence of theyr husbands steppe naked into the baths among them Idem The Italians are as iealous as any of theyr women Aeneas Syluius Fuluius pursued by the Romaine Souldiours fled to a vvoman seruant whom first he kept and after made free and gaue a dowry to marry her notwithstanding for iealousie of another woman whom he had married she betrayed him Appian Mithridates hauing his Sonne in suspition for coueting the kingdome sent for him and held him with chaynes of gold commaunding him to be killed Idem A Romaine Senatour named Attilus fled from his Country because he was contemned and being in great fauour with Mithridates was taken as one that vvould betray him and for that he was a Senator the King would not torture him but killed him Idem VVhen Demetrius vvas returned to his kingdome Cleopatra his wife killed him for iealousie of his other wife Rhadogine Plinie Alexander did emulate in Lysimachus skilfulnes in vvarre in Seleucus an inuincible courage ambition in Antigonus in Attalus a diuine maiesty and in Ptolomey an happy successe of all his enterprises Marcellus was an imitatour and did emulate the manners of Caesar. Cicero Aristotle emulated Plato Cicero Demosthenes Virgil Homer Of all beasts the wild Asse by the Greekes called Onager is the most iealous for in an whole Herd of females there is but one male and he is so iealous that he will not suffer any other to come among them when the female chaunceth to haue a male Colt the fire with his teeth will bite off his genitories as fearing he should couer his damme Plinius Solinus Of Beauty Beauty is onely humaine consisting in goodly lineaments and colours well disposed more perâ—est in women then men and yet without fauour â—â—perfect in both therefore the graces are called the hand-mayds of beauty CLeopatra writ a booke of the preseruation of womens beauty Seneca reporteth that the looking-glasse was first inueÌ„ted to this end that man might vse it as a meane to know himselfe better by Appuleius earnestly perswaded his Auditors to looke often into a glasse to behold them selues therein to this intent that hee which thought himselfe beautifull and faire might be faire in conditions and who so was foule and deformed to amend that defect by faire and vertuous behauiour Zeuxis made choise of the fiue daughters of Croton of all these to make one figure most excellent in beauty Alcibiades the Scholler of Socrates was the fayrest and welfauoredst Boy in all Athence whose soule he loued which was Alcibiades better selfe Stesichorus a Poet lost his sight for writing against beautious Helena and recanting had it restored to him againe Socrates and Aristotle not vvithstanding their deepe philosophy and knowledge the one becam a slaue to faire Hermia the other was bewitched with Aspasiaes beauty Hercules layd down his club at Iolaes feet and became a prisoner to her conquering beauty Ouid. Demosthenes that famous Orator hearing the prodigall report of Lais beauty came from Athence to Corinth to coÌ„pound with her for a nights lodging Laertius Poppeia Neroes wife had continually the milke of 5. hundred Asses to bathe her in thereby to preserue her beauty VVhen Helena was to be stoned to death the executioners beholding her beauty had no power to hurt her Stecichorus Rhodope an harlot was the fayrest among all the Aegiptians vvhose slipper an Eagle snatched vp and caried the same as farre as Memphis and there let it fall in the lappe of Psamneticus as he sate in iudgement vpon which he was presently enamoured of her person and sent for her whom he also maried Herodotus Alcibiadon was an hearb so called of Alcibiades which he vsed to preserue his beauty Virgill describing the state constitution of the body of Eurialus saith that he was excellent in beauty in the greenenes of his youth The Princes of Troy made great question whether they should deliuer Helen or no to her husband in which dispute such was the incertainty of their affections that they condemned her being absent but wheÌ„ she came in presence the coÌ„manding power of beauty controled their power in doing iustice The good Consull Marcus Marcellus seeing the noble Citty of Sarragoce burning commanded to quench the fire esteeming it great losse to burn things so faire goodly Titus hauing subdued the Country of Iudea and taken the great Citty Ierusalem when he beheld with iudgment the rich and â—aire temple of Salomon the presence and maiesty of the thing carried him into that compassion that commaunded no spoyle should be offered to it till he were gone out of Asia and returned to Rome Iosephus Venus gaue Phaon a boxe of such a precious oyntment that being anoynted therewith he became most beautifull Ouid. Among the Grecians Alcibiades was reported to haue borne the price for the most amiablest of countenance and comlines of personage Among the Romaines Scipio and Demetrius Poliorcetes were counted peerelesse Homer in describing such as were faire of fauour and comly in proportion compareth them to tall trees Achanthus was so faire that for enuy he was metaphorphozed into a flower of his owne name Hylas for his beauty was drawne into the water by the Nymphs Ouid. Diadumenus Augustus taster was so beautifull that in a generall contention at Elis who was the fayrest hee bare the bell from them all Niphus Of all the Grecians that came to the siege of Troy Nereus was the most beautifull The Madianites perceauing the children of Israell to be impregnable and inuincible so long as they sinned not tooke of the beautifullest young women they had and sent to their campe to entice them to sinne which was the cause of their ouerthrow Spurina a young Romaine of wonderfull beauty because hee perceaued many to be enamoured of him he did in most pittifull sort mangle and cut his nosethrils so that hee seemed not onely deformed
his bit-maker Iulius Caesar to Rufus his gardener Augustus to Pamphilo his smith Tiberius to Escaulus his miller Tullie to Myrlo his taylour and Seneca to Gipho his rent-gatherer P. Aemilius to his plough-man C. Dentatus to his carpenter such was theyr affability Of Phaleris the tyrant is written that neuer man did him seruice that he did not gratifie either write him a letter that he did not aunswere Herod by humbling himselfe before Augustus saued encreased his kingdome Pyrrhus could very well skill to humble â—imselfe towards great men and this helped â—ery much to the conquest of his kingdom Plutarch Pyrrhus after many victories vvhen his men of warre called him Eagle I am quoth 〈◊〉 an Eagle by your meanes being borne vp by â—our knighthoode and chiualry as the Eagle is â—ast vp by his feathers giuing the honour and â—itle to his Souldierâ— Valerius Xerxes dismissed certayne spyes vvhich â—ame from Athence and pardoning them shewed them notwithstanding his Army and forces Augustus when he entered Rome in a tryumph one in a certaine Comedy said O good Lord and euery man turned that word to Augustus flattering clapping their hands for ioy but he gaue a token that he liked it not and made prohibitions that men should not vse the name of Lord vnto him Caligula denied all mens requests Suetonius After that Pericles had the managing of the publique affaires he was neuer seene abroad in the streets nor at any feasts The Macedonians forsook Demetrius because he was vneasie to be dealt with very hard to be spoken vnto Dion was blamed of Plato for his ineffability and of all the Sicilians Lucullus Souldiers would not follow him because he was so vngentle to them Nicias for his ouer great sternnes was enuied although he was otherwise vertuous so likewise was Coriolanus Liuius Of Liberality Hospitality Liberality giueth with iudgement and is the meane betweene prodigality and auarice hospitality is foure fold glorious onely to be well thought of couetous entertainment for ones money curteous that receiueth our friends and religious which cherisheth those that serue God ALexander sent to Phocion Captaine of the Athenians an hundred talents of siluer for a gift and the names of foure famous Citties to choose and take which he would Curtius The people of Leueani had a law that if any stranger entered into their soile before sun setting and was not receaued into one mans house or other being desirous to be lodged they payd an appointed penalty for their inhumanity this law vvas profitable to the â—ayfairing man and allowable to Iupiter the â—uer of hospitality The Persian Kings gaue to their Embassaâ—ors to euery one a Babilonian talent which â—lxx pounds of Athenian coyne besides Bracelets Iewels a chaine and a Persian word which they called Acinax Curtius All these were valued at a thousand Persian â—eeces of siluer besides all this they gaue a Median royall robe which was called Doroâ—horica Ptolomaeus the sonne of Lagus had a singuler delight and pleasure in making his friends rich saying Better it is to enrich other â—hen a man to enrich himselfe The Apolloniatae expell according to the Lacedemonian law strangers out of theyr Country contrary to the people of Epidamnus who prohibite none Alexander preferred Abdolominus a man of no parentage base condition to a kingdome because that his benefit should rather seeme to haue been bestowed freely then deserued by nobility and that his own greatnes â—ight the more therin be seene Iustinus Plutus the God of riches which at Sparta was kept blind vvith Herod the Sophist was sayd to haue receaued his sight because being very rich he was very bountifull and knew how to vse his wealth to the vse of the pore which caused many to loue and follow him Caerius Lucius Lucullus house was common of receate for all the poore Greekes that trauailed from Athence Sparta and Thebes yea from all Greece to Rome Pomponius Atticus sent to Cicero being banished two hundred thousand Sesterties and vnto Volumnius Brutus as much Phryne a Curtezan of Greece after Alexander had subdued the Citty of Thebes and made the wals therof leuell with the ground she offered to reedifie them vpon this condition that vpon euery gate of the Citty this sentence should be set This Citty Alexander the great threw downe and Phryne the Curtezan builded vpon againe Attaâ—us King of Asia ready to dye bequeâ—thed his kingdome by testament to the Romaines to bestow where they would for that they were so liberall somtime to him when fortune fauoured him not Artaxerxes made those Souldiours that came from Lacedemonia to ayde him which came a foote to goe home a horseback they that came vpon horses he sent back in chaâ—iots he that had a Village when he came to him he gaue a Citty at his departure Alexander maried vpon his owne charges â—he most part of the Nobles of Macedonia â—nto the Ladies of Persia. Aristides hauing all the state of Athence vnder his gouernment gaue his wealth to the poore Cittizens reseruing a small sum to bury him with all Democritus Abderita being very rich as may be gathered by the feast which his Father made to Xerxes army which consisted of more then two thousand millions of men gaue all his patrimony to his Country reseruing a little portion for himselfe that hee might study Philosophy then went to Athence Herodotus Caesar at one time gaue to Paulus Consull 9. hundred thousand crownes for feare least he should oppose himselfe against his enterprises and to Curio the Tribune fifteene hundred thousand that hee should take his part Cymon of Athence gaue a yearely pension to the poore fed the hungry and cloathed the naked Lactantius The Romaines had a lawe that no man should presume to make a publique feast except before he had prouided for all thâ— poore of his quarters Patritius Epaminondas hauing notice of a rich man that had no care of the poore sent a needy fellow vnto him and commaunded him vnder great penalty to giue him presently 600 crownes the Cittizen hearing this came to him and asked him the cause thereof this man said hee is honest and poore and thou which bast greatly robbed the common wealth aâ—t rich compelling him to bee liberall in spight of his teeth Alexander by his liberality made away for his noble plat-formes wherby he became monarch of three parts of the world destributing liberally all his demaines amongst his followers He caused proclamation to be made during his warres that all they that were indebted vpon any occasion whatsoeuer should bring their conditions vnto him and he would discharge them which he performed He gaue at one time to his Maister Aristotle 800. talents as a reward for his paines and expences he had been at in describing the nature and property of lyuing creatures Plutarch He sent to Anaxarchus 50. talents but he â—efused them saying that he knew not what to doe with so great a sum
notwithstanding hee had subdued two mighty Citties Numance and Carthage so bountifull vvas hee all hys life time Lisander esteemed liberalitie to others more then his owne priuate welfare Fabius Maximus at his owne charge redeemed many Romaine prisoners that were taken captiue by Haniball Of Patience This vertue causeth a vvise man to prepare himselfe to entertaine all kind of fortunes therfore God hath so disposed things that hee will not suffer man to haue a prescience of thinges to come OF all men one man named Anarchus Augustus was most patient in torments and one woman named Laena most patient for silence Plinie Plutarch gaue the Emperor Traiane counsell to be patient towards furious folkes considering that time moderateth as many matters as reason doth change Socrates beeing counselled to reuenge a wrong receiued aunswered VVhat if a mastie had bitten me or an Asse had strooke mee would you haue me goe to law with them Ptolomey King of Egypt demaunded merily of a Gramarian who was the Father of Peleus who aunswered that he desired first to know who was the Father of Lagus noting thereby his base parentage whom when he vvas counselled to punish sayd patiently If it be vnseemely for a King to be mocked it is also as vndecent for him to mocke another Valentinian was of a subtile wit graue countenaunce stoute in his affayres in aduersities patient and a great enemie of the vicious temperate in eating and drinking and a friend to religious persons P. Diac. After Sylla the Romaine had resigned hys Dictatorshyp and became a priuate man a certaine young-man greatly reuiled him gaue him euill language euen before his own dwelling place hee nowe patiently bearing his speeches without any reuengement who before had caused many of his country-men to die for smaller offences tovvardes him Appian VVhen Nicodromos the Musitian had smytten Crates the Thebane on the face he ware a peece of paper on his forheade ouer the wound where in he wrote This did Nicodromos He vvould of purpose scold with harlots thereby to inure himselfe to beare al reproches the more patiently Dem. Phal VVhen the persecuted Christians complained against theyr aduersaries to Iulian the Emperour desiring iustice he ansvvered them It is your Maisters commaundement that you should beare all kinde of iniuries with patience Mauritius the Emperour beholding the death of his children vvith great patience vvhen he savve his vvife put to death cryed out O Lord thou art iust and thy iudgements are right Darius what ill hap soeuer chaunced vnto him hee tooke it patiently and vvas neuer troubled in minde for the same Herodotus Anaxagoras vvas much commended for so patiently bearing the death of his sonne for when newes was brought him that his sonne was dead he sayd I knew that I had begotten a mortall man Laertius Eretricus one of Zenos schollers beeing asked of his father what hee had learned aunswered hee would tell him by and by but hee thereat angry strooke his sonne vvho presently sayd vnto him This much haue I learned to beare patiently the wordes and blowes which my father giueth me Lycurgus hauing lost one of his eyes by the misbehauiour of Alcander towards him the Cittizens brought Alcander vnto him to be punished but he contrary to their request patiently dismissed him and pardoned the offence Thucidides Eusebius vvhen a vvicked vvoman of the sect of Arrius had vvillingly throwne a stone at him and therewithall had vvounded him to death he was so patiently minded and so farre from taking reuenge that hee svvore all his friends that were about him at the very howre of his death not to punish her for the same Xenophon Dion and Antigonus are faâ—ous for theyr singuler patience The Gymnosophists of India were so patient that from sunne rising till sunne setting they continued vpon the hote sand vvithout either meate or drinke The Lacedemonians were most patient in trauaile winde weather and warres Diogenes walking one day abroade in Athence wherein there was many images of such auncient men as had best deserued of the Common-wealth asked his almes of them all one after another and being asked why he did so I learne heereby quoth he to take deniall patiently The Hebrew Doctors figure the Asse as a perfect symbole of patience fortitude and clemencie Cor. Agrippa Because the Asse patiently yeeldeth his body to so many burdens in reward thereof he is neuer troubled with the lousie sicknesse Idem The Asse vvas so respected in the olde Testament that when God commaunded euery first borne to be slaine for sacrifice hee onely spared with men Asses Christ vvould haue the patient Asse a witnesse of his natiuitie Idem A certaine Philosopher vsurped the name not to the true vse of vertue but for ostentation sake to whom one sayd that hee would not repute him a vvise Phylosopher vnlesse he dyd vvith patience endure contumelies and iniuries vvhich hee a vvhile did suffer but boasting sayd Now doost thou see that I am a right Phylosopher but the other presently replyed I had vnderstood so much if thou hadst held thy peace Boetius Tyberius Caesar was commended of Suetonius for suffering in free citties free tongs Philip of Macedon asked the Embassadors of Athence vvhat pleasure hee might doe to them to vvhom they answered that it were the greatest pleasure to Athence if he would hang himselfe which the King patienly endured saying Your reprochfull wordes doe make King Philip better able to reuenge your malice by warres then moue him to aunswere your vnseeming speeches with words Alexander Seuerus beeing by some of hys friendes informed that he was greatly maligned of his people blamed of the Senators for the slender regard he had of the Citty he sayde It belongeth to Princes to requite the good and not remember the euill Herodian Harpalus was of exceeding patience being bidden by Astiages to supper vvhere he had tvvo sonnes of his ready drest and layde in a siluer charger before him on the table to bee eaten Iustinus Of Education There be two ages as Aristotle saith wherinto the institution of youth is to bee deuided namely from the age of seauen yeeres vntill foureteene and from foureteene to one twentie for they that deuide the ages by seuen most commonly say amisse but it is rather meete to follow the deuision of nature because euery Art and institution will supply the want of nature IN Persia Lacedemonia and sundry other Prouinces the Princes and the Nobilitie had alvvayes a special regard to commit the education of theyr chyldren to such men of learning as might instruct them in matters of vvisedome whereby they might proue profitable to their câ—untry Lycurgus to prooue that education could alter nature brought vp two whelps which had both one Damme the one to hunt the other to keepe house and afterward to try the conclusion he sette downe before them an Hare and a pot of pottage the one fell tâ— the pottage the other ranne after the Hare Aelianus Socrates and
that they would obserue what soeuer he determined whervpon they yeelded I iudge then quoth he that none of you depart this Temple before you bee reconciled Thus were they coÌ„strained to agree between themselues Archidamus freed from loosing their friendships whoÌ„ he deerly loued The Egyptians shewed signes of stronger friendship to their friends beeing dead then when they were lyuing Scipio Affricanus going against the Numantines deuided his Army into 500. companies and made one band which hee called Philonida the band of friends Mithridates sought to driue Nicomedes forth of Bithinia vvho vvas friende to the Romaines and gaue the Romans so much to vnderstand to vvhom the Senate made aunswer that if he warred vpon Nicomedes he should likewise feare the force of the Romaines Appian Cicero and Clodius Tiberius and Affricanus froÌ„ mortall foes became faithful friends Scipio greatly complained that men were very skilfull in numbring their Goates and Sheepe but few could reckon their friends Alexander helde Aristotle deere Darius Herodotus Augustus Piso Pampeius Plaâ—tus Titus Plinie Traiane Plutarch Anthonius Apollonius Theodotius Claudius Seuerus Fabatus Pericles beeing desired by a friende to ayde him with false witnes aunswered That hee would friend him as high as the heauens meaning that men should ayde theyr friends so far as iustice gods lawes did permit Thu. Plato seeing he could not bring the Common-wealth to happines by vertue reduced all lawes to friendship deuising all things to be common affirming that two only words namely Mine Thine where the things that disturbed the society of man Homer giueth Achilles a Patroclus Virgill an Achates vnto Aeneas Alexander had his Hephestion Darius his Zopirus and Scipio his Laelius Dion and Iulius Caesar had rather die then distrust theyr friends Plu. Augustus wanting his olde friends Maecenas and Agrippa said that if they had lyued hee had not fallen into the troubles hee vvas then in Seneca Scaurus and Cataline the conspirators against Rome and Brutus and Cassius the murtherers of Caesar held great leagues and confederacie together but in no sort they could be called friends for there can bee no true amitie vvhere is no vertue Among heauenlie bodyes Mercury Iupiter Sol and Luna are friendes to Saturne but Mars and Venus are his enemies All the Planets sauing Mars are friendes to Iupiter and all the rest of the Planets sauing Venus hate Mars Iupiter and Venus loue Sol. Mars Mercury and Luna are his enemies and all the rest of the Planets loue Venus except Saturne Iupiter Venus and Saturne are friendes to Mercury Sol Luna and Mars are hys enemies There are inclinations of friendship in vigâ—able mineralls as the Loadstone hath to yron the Emerald hath to riches and fauours the stone Iaspis to child-birth the stone Achates to eloquence and Naptha â—ot onely draweth fire vnto it but fire leapeth vnto it where soeuer it is the like dooth the roote Aproxes Such friendship is betweene the male and female Date tree that when a bough of the one shall touch a bough of the other they fold themselues into a naturall embracing neuer doth the female bring forth fruit without the male Vines loue the Elme tree the Oliue the Mirtle likewise loueth the Oliue the Fig-tree and if the Almond tree grovve alone it will proue vnfruitfull There is friendship betweene the Blacke-bird and the Thrush betweene the Choffe and the Heron betweene the Peacocks and the Doues Isodorus Cato the Censor had a Ring vvhereon was engrauen Esto amicus vnius et inimicus nullius Bee friende to one and enemie to none Plinie Of Loue. All the Arts and Sciences of the worlde may in time be learned except the Art of Loue the which neither Salomon had skill to write nor Asclepias to paynt nor Ouid to teach Helen to report or Cleopatra learne beeing a continuall Schoolemaister in the hart whose diuine furies are Propheticall misticall poeticall amatorial consecrated to Apollo Bacchus the Muses and Venus THe Poets meane nothing els by those tovvnes of Adamant vvhich they vvrite of but the loue of Cittizens vvho by no force or policie can be ouercome so long as in hart they hold together The Grecians so long as they continued at peace among themselues they vvere coÌ„querers of all men but after that ciuill discention had once entered in amongst them they fell daily more and more to such ruine that in fewe yeeres they became laughing-stocks to all the world Plutarch Balsaria when Calphurinus Crassus vvas taken captiue of the Messalines and shoulde haue beene offered for a sacrifice vnto Saturne shee deliuered Crassus from death made him conquerer Caluce after Troy vvas destroyed vvhen King Lycus her Father sayling into Lybia had appointed to kill Diomedes for sacrifice to appease the Gods for vvind vveaâ—â—er she deliuered him from her Father and sâ—ued his lyfe Scipio Affricanus esteemed so much the Poet Ennius aliue that being dead hee caused his picture to bee set before his eyes as a memoriall of his great loue Plutarch Pomponius Atticus thought himself happie when either Cicero was in his sight or his bookes in his bosome Plato in his booke intituled Conuiuium interlaceth Comicall speeches of loue hovvbeit al the rest of the supper there is nothing but discourses of Philosophy Alexander loued highly Apelles insomuch that after he had made him draw out a Iâ—eman of his naked whom hee likewise loued deerely vnderstanding that he was enamored on her he bestowed her on him Alexander vvould haue his picture drawne by none but Apelles nor cut by any in brasse but onely Lysippus so greatly did he affect them Curtius Stagerita the towne where Aristotle vvâ—â— borne beeing destroyed by Philip of Macâ—â—don Alexander his sonne for the loue heâ— bare to his Maister Aristotle reedified thâ— same againe Valerius seruaunt to Panopion hearing that certaine souldiours came vnto the Cittie of Rheatina of purpose to kill his master hee changed apparrell with his maister and conueyed him away suffering himselfe to be slaine in his Masters bed for the great loue he bare him The Persians for the affection they bare to theyr horses when they died buried them Alexander made a tombe for Bucephalus Seuerus the Emperour for the loue hee bare to Pertinax whom Iulianus slew willed that men shoulde euer after call him Pertinax Eutrop. A Persian vvoman beeing asked why shee had rather saue the life of her brother then of her owne sonne Because sayd she I well may haue more children but neuer no more brothers seeing my father and mother are dead Eros the seruant of Antonius hauing promised to kill his Maister when hee requested him drevv his sword and holding it as if hee would haue killed him turned his Maisters head aside and thrust the sword into his own body Plutarch Agesilaus was fined by the Ephories because he had stolne away the harts wonne the loue of all his cittizens to himselfe The Emperour Claudius did neither loue nor hate but
as hee was prouoked and induced therevnto by others Tacitus Herius of Corinth builded in the midst of the Citty a Temple to the Goddesse Venus within which were inclosed more then 500. of the fairest maides of Asia whom theyr parents did there consecrate to the Goddesse Venus to the end they might bee Louers and stales to drawe louers to them holding her for most religious and holy which vvas most amorous and dissolute Samocratius Nigidius and Ouid vvrit many volumes of the remedy of loue but it little profited themselues for they al three died in persecution not for the abuses they committed at Rome but for the loues they practised at Capua The cause of ciuil dissention between Themistocles Aristides was the loue of Stesilia an harlot whose beauty being vanished their hatred was such that they neuer could be reconciled but continued enemies euen to the death The like hatred vvas betvveene Cato and Caesar about the loue of the harlot Seruilia The Kings of Assiria neuer aunswered anie Embassadour themselues but by messengers they spending theyr time in courting theyr Concubines and for theyr vnkinglie loue to vvomen they were euer condemned of all men Pausanius Alexander for the loue hee bare to the famous harlot Thais caused that most renowned and rich citty Persepolis to be burned Publius Pilatus was in loue with the Images of Helena and Atalanta Pigmalion doated on an Iuory image that he had made with his owne hands Ouid. Two young men of Athence were in loue with the picture of Fortune Cataline for the loue of Orestilla kylled his owne sonne because she would not ioyne in marriage with him while his sonne liued Salust Estrasco a Romaine borne dumbe loued Verona a Latine borne also dumbe who lyking each other came visited each other by the space of thirty yeeres vvithout the witting of any person then died the husband of the Lady Verona the wife of Estrasco they married of them descended the noble linage of the Scipios Aurelius The Poets faine that in Leucadia there is a very high steepe Rocke which is a notable remedy to asswage loue from this first leaped Cephalus for the loue of Degonetes vvhom he loued without measure Timon Misanthropos loued none but onely Alcibiades and him hee loued and once kissed because he sawe in his face the destruction of Athence Plutarch Xerxes all the wonderfull workes of Iupiter both on sea and land sette aside in Lydia fell so farre in loue with a Plane tree vvhich happened to his sight that he tarried a whole day by it and caused the boughes to be adorned with chaines of golde bracelets spangles yeelding there to great reuerence Alcibiades vvas the Paramour of Socrates Dion of Plato who both reaped profit by their loues Alexander crowned the tombe of Achilles and Hephestion that of Patroclus signifying thereby that he loued Alexander as wel as euer Patroclus loued Achilles Pausanias loued his wife so tenderly that it cannot bee described the like affection did Apelles beare to Pancasta Alexanders lemoÌ„ Adrian the Emperour doated on the loue of Antinous a faire young man insomuch that he dedicated a Temple to him at Mantinea and a Citty at Nilus Pausan. The Achaians honoured Fortune Loue both together in Aegina because none can attaine to Loue without Fortune Niphus Propertius when he was in loue sayde hee was not himselfe but a shadow Hephestion was called the louer of Alexander Craterus of the King Plut. VVhen Cyrus vvent to ouer-come Babylon the riuer Euphrates let him a Knight whom the King wel loued ventured into the water and was drowned then the king made a vow that this great riuer should not come to any vvomans knees which shoulde vvade ouer and therfore he parted it in the broade fields into foure hundred threescore chanels and so tooke the citty Perdiccas for the loue he bare to Alexander refused a great reuenewe in Macedonia and followed him in his vvarres in Asia Plutarch Turinga had so many louers that shee coulde not reckon them vppon her fingers ends but called for a bushell of pease to tell them by Aurelius Demetrius hauing strongly begirt the Citty of Rhodes for the loue he bare to Protogenes painted table raised his siege Of Iealousie Suspition This griefe of the minde as it is called iealousie belongeth onely to matters of loue and therefore hath to name Zelotypia the loue of beauty whose braunches are obtractation emulation â—nuie and detraction POlycrates Samius dearely affected Anacreon the Poet who likewise loued the Paramour of Polycrates named Smerdias but Polycrates kindled with the sparkes of iealousie supposing that the Poet loued Smerdias exceedingly shaued off his golden locks thereby to make him mishapen whose losse Anacreon lamented in a Poem Aelianus Phanius was so iealous of his wife that hee locked her vp thinking by that meanes to preuent all commers but he was deceaued and what shee could not compasse beeing at liberty she effected being pent vp Leucononia the wife of Cyampus was deuoured of a dogge in sted of a wild beast hiding her selfe in the woods to follow mark her husbands walks Argus hundred eyes could not keepe Io from Iupiter Ouid. Procris followed her husband Cephalus into thee woods fearing that he had some other Loue who being hid in the bushes and desirous to come neerer to him hee supposing some wild beast to be there killed her Ouidius Plutarch reporteth the lyke of Aemilius who killed himselfe when hee saw it vvas his wife The fish Canchar is iealous ouer her male and striueth oft for him Plinie Aemilia the wife of noble Scipio who although shee knew thinges euident by him made much of his Paramour as she made of her husband and all for Scipios sake Abraham was iealous of his wife Sara The Persians were so suspitious that theyr wiues had no liberty to goe abroade when they went it was in VVaggons The Thracians with such care and study kept their vvyues that they would trust no man in their companies but their Parents Herodotus An hundred threescore and ten Romainâ— women poysoned theyr husbands because they were iealous of them Valerius Galatius Maria Duke of Millane beeing at masse was slaine by a Cittizen for a iealousie hee had conceaued that this Prince had entertained his wife Guicchard The wild Boare pursued of dogs the Lyonesse bitten with hunger the Tyger robbed of her young ones or the Viper whose tayle is trod vpon are not more cruell and fierce then a woman offended but nothing sooner casteth her into a fury theÌ„ iealousie Ausonius Ariadne buried aliue Zeno Isauricus the Emperour that shee might be reuenged of him for his iealousie Bomilchar a Prince of Libia being suspected of his owne Country-men the Carthagians that he had conspired with Agathocles vnto anoyance of the Subiects was hanged in the Citty of Carthage in the midst of the Market Phillip King of Macedonia married the sister of Attalus and had diuorced and
whose safetie ought to bee preferred before all affection riches and life sith in her preseruation all our riches lands liberties and lifes are secured ARistotle beeing at Athence was verie carefull for his country the which when Alexander had ouer-runne and rased by letters bee mooued him to builde it vp againe Val. Max. Dion of Syracuse vvas so louing to hys Country that hee neuer rested vntill he had thorowly freed it from the tyrannie of Dyosius Plutarch Damarathus a Lacedemonian though banished his Country and lyuing at Athence yet thought it his duty to forevvarne hys Countrymen of the expedition which theyr enemies the Athenians speedily intended against them Val. Max. The Senate of Rome saluted Augustus by the name of Pater Patriae Seuer Caelia being amongst many other virgins one of the hostages of King Porsena stole away by night from her Keeper mounted vpon a horse swamme the riuer whose vertue raised King Porsenas siege and deliuered her Country from further feare Val. Paulus Aemilius warring against Pyrrhus King of the Epyrots when the Oracle pronounced that the Romaines should bee victors if any one amongst them would throw himselfe into a gulfe Val. Torquatus voluntarily offered himselfe Plut. Q. Curtius did the like in Rome beeing armed and mounted on horseback Scipio Affricanus caused to be written vpon his graue Vnkind Country receiue thou not my bones Plut. Leaena hearing that her son in battaile died valiantly neuer mourned but lyfted vp her hands to heauen and thanked God that shee brought such a sonne into the vvorld which in respect of vertue for the defence of hys Country gaue his lyfe So deere was the loue of his country to Vlisses that he preferred his natiue soile Ithaca before immortality Homer Coriolanus beare vnkinde armes against his Country Plut. Nascia was most worthily renowned for the defence of his Country Appian Q. M. Scaeuola feared not to goe to King Porsenas Campe intending to slay him that troubled his Country but killing the Secretary in stead of the King hee was brought to the fire and so valiantly indured the burning of his hand that the King amazed thereat fearing some other stratageme dismissed him who for the losse of his right hand vvas sirnamed Scaeuola Liuius The Romans erected Images of all such as renowned theyr Country Codrus vnderstanding by the Oracle that except hee were slaine his Countrimen the Athenians shoulde neuer haue the victorie ouer theyr enemies vvent disguised into the battaile in the coate of a common souldier thrusting himselfe into the formost front was slaine Iustin. Aglauros cast himselfe headlong from the walls of Athence vnderstanding that if any one vvould voluntarily kill him selfe for his Country they should be conquerours Theopa Eubula Praxithea for the preseruation of Athence were offered vnto Minerua to these was a temple erected called Leocorium which is the temple of the peoples daughters Pausan. Leonides the Lacedemonian and thirty men more of high resolution yeelded theyr bodies to the bitter passion of dreadful death at Pylas which was pronounced vpon them by prophecy for the preseruation of al Graecia Rauisius All the riches in the world could not withdraw Epaminondas from any the least duty of his Country Aelianus Socrates went to Amphipolis Potidaea two great Citties in Delos to fight for his Country Plato from a famous Phylosopher of Athence became a renowned Souldier at the siege of Corynth Laertius Caluin in the yeare 1556. when Perin had conspired against the estate of Geneua ran into the midst of their naked swords to appease the tumult Beza Antonius the Romaine Orator vncouered the armes and shoulders of Aquilius when he was adiudged to death shewing the skars of the wounds which he had receaued in defence of his Country at which sight the Iudges were so affected that they reuersed theyr verdit and pardoned him Valerius Cato of Vtica answered one of his friends who was come to giue him thanks for defending him in iudgement against a false accusation that he was to thank the common wealth for whose loue only he did speake counsailed all things M. Otho left behind him a wonderfull example of the loue he bare to his Countrey for the benefit wherof he died willingly Camillus beeing a banished man rescued Rome and put the French-men to flight for the which he was called the second Romulus Plutarch Themistocles being banished his Country and in seruice with King Artaxerxes poysoned himselfe with the blood of a Bull in presence of all the Persians least hee should be compelled to fight agaynst his Countrey Thucidides VVhen Pisistratus had brought the Citty of Athence vnder his obedience Solon seeing that all his labour for defence of the common liberty was in vaine came and layde down his sword and target before the Senate dores saying O my Countrey I haue by word and deede defended thee whilst I could Vetruria disswaded her Sonne Martius besieging Rome onely by reducing to his memory the loue hee ought to haue to his Country Liuius Sertorius desired Pompeius and Metellus to procure his reuocation saying He desired rather to be called an obscure Cittizen of Rome then else where an Emperour Pompeius loued the common-weale but Cicero preserued it so that vnlesse Cicero had preserued the estate Pompeius should haue vvanted place vvhere to tryumph Plutarch Iulius Caesar and Cicero being mortall enemies Caesar in the Senate sayd vnto him I cannot deny this ô Cicero but that in those things that touch thy selfe thou art carelesse remisse but in matters that concerne the comon-wealth very importune Suetonius Timagenes seeing the Citty of Thebes besieged for his sake chose rather to yeeld himselfe to the Greekes who were desirous of him then to abide the burning spoyling and sacking of his Country Aratus the Sicyonian when his Citty was 50. yeares with-holden by tyrants being departed from Argos to Sicyon with a priuy stoln entry got possession of the Citty ouercame the tyrant Nicocles restored home againe 600. banisht men and set the common weale at liberty Cicero Aulus Fuluius a Senatour of Rome because his Son other wise of great hope was confederate with Cataline in the conspiracy killed him saying I begotte thee not for Cataline to go against thy Country but for thy Country against Cataline Valerius Max. Gracchus Son of that Gracchus that had been twice Consull whose mother was Cornelia daughter to Scipio that conquered Affrica meaning well to his Countrey but managing it vndiscreetly was slaine in the Capitoll by Cornelius Scipio Nasica and his followers Appian Of Pleasure How so euer by the Latines Pleasure is interpreted in the worser sence by the name of Voluptas the Greekes are indifferent terming it Hedone whose deriuation is from sweetnes or pleasantnes it is accompanied with delectation recreation oblectation insultation ill will c. THE Scythians were so giuen to all kinde of pleasure that in beastlines they exceeded brute beasts Pausanias Sardanapalus was so subiect to plesure that he
peece of plate which they had craftily hid in some things about him for the which he was cast downe from a rocke Plut. Lucius Crassus wone himselfe great praise by a noble glorious accusation Cicero An accusation brought Publius Suâ—pitius eloquence to light when into iudgement he called the seditious and vnprofitable Cittizen C. Norbanus The Lidians had a law that as they sent the condemned murderers to row in the Gallies so they confined those that were detracters and ill tongued men into a secret place farre of from all company the space of halfe a yeare Plut. Tiberius the Emperor condemned a great talker and rayler of his tongue commanded that he should not speake a word the space of a yeare Aristophanes was accused by the Athenians 95. times euer acquitted Narsetes that valiant Generall by false and slaunderous accusations was by Iustine the Emperour depriued of his charge P. Diaconus Theodoricus King of the Goaths in his rage through a forged accusation executed Boetius Symmachus shortly after he was serued at the table with the head of a fish which seemed to him to be the same of Symmachus looking a squint vppon him with which conceit he fell sicke and dyed Olaus Thrasibulus King of the Iewes tooke such a conceite in that he had slaine his brother without hearing his excuse that he died the like befell to Aristobulus for murthering his brother Antiochus who vomited vp his blood in the place where his brothers was spilt and in remorse of conscience dyed Iosephus They which accused Socrates not being able any longer to abide the publique hate strangled themselues Mary of Aragon accused an Earle before the Emperour Otho her husband saying that he would haue defiled her and he was beheaded but the truth being afterwards discouered she was publiquely burned Nicephorus vvriteth the lyke of Constantine the great Leo the Emperour vpon a false accusation condemned Michaell to death which execution being a while deferred the Emperor dyed and Michaell was chosen in his sted Mathias the Sonne of Huniades was charged of ill behauing himselfe towards Ladislaus King of Boheme and Hungary and as he was ready to be condemned his eldest brother hauing been before executed vpon enuy and false information the sayd Ladislaus minding to marry Margaret daughter to Charles the 7 dyed sodainly and Mathias was chosen King of Hungary Loncerus Of Flattery This poyson of mans sences and vnderstanding hath no other scope in the world but deceit selfe-loue and ouerweening of ones selfe yeelneth this large field cleane taking away right iudgement and is blind in regard of what it loueth the feeders of this humour are more dangerous then Rauens for they doe but deuoure the bodies of the dead slatterers of the liuing PHillip sirnamed Gods gift and Constantine banished flatterers froÌ„ their courts And at Athence they were put to death as the very ruine and plague of Princes Dion attributeth the hatred vvhich vvas conceiued against Iulius Caesar his death to flatterers Dyonisius of Syracuse sent Philoxenus the Poet to the galowes with those that were condemned to die because heee vvould not flatter him The Thessalians cleane rased a Citty of the Melians because it was named flattery Atheneus The Athenians put Tymagoras to death because to insinuate with Darius he saluted after the Persian manner Agrippa Alexander the great and Alphonsus King of Arragon hauing each of them somewhat awry necke the one of them by nature the other by custome the flatterers and courtiers that attended them helde their necks on the one side to 〈…〉 theyr imperperfections Clisiphus was called the couÌ„terfait of King Phillip because when the king was merry he was merry and whatsoeuer the King tooke in hand this flatterer would maintaine Aristippus coulde better please Dionisius with flattery then Dion the Syracusian could pleasure him with truth Curio the Parasite might perswade Caesar to doe any thing One subtile flattering SinoÌ„ did that which tenne yeeres siege could not effect namely the destruction of Troy Virgil. Dionisius sent vnto Philoxenes the Poet a Tragedy of his owne making that hee might reade and correct it which hee returned all blotted and rased from the beginning to the end because hee found it in no respect vvorthy to be published so farre vvas hee from flattering him Augustus so hated flattery that hee could not abide the kneeling of his housholde seruaunts Tiberius woulde not suffer his seruaunts to call him Lord. Alexander when his Parasites perswaded him to thinke himselfe a God sayd That by two things especially he knew himselfe to be a man and no God namely by sleepe and carnall motions Plutarch In the hindermost part of Spaine vvhen those of Siuill had war vvith the Gaditanes it chanced that euen in the midst of the time those of Siuill vvanted mony and two Parasites offered themselues for two yeeres to sustaine the vvarres vvith their own proper charges Aurelius The Emperour Aurelius neuer dranke other then red vvine vvhich Torquatus perceiuing refrained from drinking of VVhitevvine and planted all his Vines vvith redde Grapes for vvhich he made him Consul of Rome Gueuara The Emperour Sigismond strooke one that praysed him too much saying that hee bitte him The flattering followers of Sylla sette vp his image of gold on horse-back in the common pallace at Rome vvith this title Cornelius Sylla the happy Captaine which name beginning of flattery remained firme and stable Appian Antigonus sayde vnto a Poet vvho called him a God therby noting his flattery that the Groome of his stoole knewe there was no such matter Aristotles auditors couÌ„terfeited his stamering Alexanders followers his double chinne shrilnes of speech the schollers of Ennius his drunkennesse Flatterers as the Italians say trauaile betweene Lodi and Placentia but neuer come at Verona Aristippus suing to Dionisius for a friende of his and beeing once denied fell downe before his feete for the which hee was reproâ—ued but he thus excused it saying I am not in the faulte but Dionisius who hath eares on his feete VVhen the flatterers of Dionisius perceiued that hee held Plato in great estimation they then counterfaited the countenaunce and habite of Philosophers but after that by theyr meanes Plato was expelled they returned to theyr former wicked course of lyuing Plut. Platoes schollers for asmuch as theyr Maister had a broade breast and high shoulders and vvas therefore named Plato which signifieth broade they stuffed theyr garments and vvore vppon theyr shoulders great bolsters to the end they might seeme to bee of the like forme that he vvas Carneades the Phylosopher sayde that the sonnes of noble men learned nothing vvell but to ride for whilst they learned letters theyr Maisters flattered them praysing euery word they spake and in vvrastling theyr Teachers companions submitting themselues fell downe at theyr feete but the horse not knovving who rideth him if he sitte not surely will cast him quickly Laertius Alexander sayd that he loued better the
idolatry of Hephestion then the sincerity of Clitus Phocion sayde to King Antipater that hee could not haue him both for his friende and flatterer One of Alexanders Leiuetenants writ to him that he had in his gouernment a boy of incomparable beauty and that if it so lyked him he would send him to him vvhom hee thus aunswered O cursed caitife what hast thou euer knowne in me that thou shouldest thus dare to flatter me by such pleasures A vvise Abbot wrote to Charles the third that aboue all things hee should take heede that flattering Courtiers shoulde not rauish from himselfe the fauour of his benefites as they are whom they terme sellers of smoake Of Learning This is the true substance of felicitie and the efficient cause of wisedom without which mans life is death The which when the Egyptians would signifie they set downe the picture of dew dropping from the clowdes COsroes king of the Persians although a barbarian was so learned that he held argument with the chiefest Philosophers of Greece Agath Claudius the Emperour writ 40. bookes of history by the perswasion of Titus Liuius he had Homer at his fingers end Volat. Picus Mirandula set vp nine hundred questions at Rome S. Tho. M. Caesar disdained not to frequent the threshold of Ariston neither did Pompey think scorne to go oftentimes to the house of Cratippus Plut. Saint Augustine complained that beeing a young man he learned profitable words but yet in vaine things I heard quoth he Iupiter thundering and therewithall committing adultery 2. Confess Antisthenes after hee had heard Socrates tooke such great pleasure therein that albeit he was very learned and had a great number of schollers yet hee vvilled them to seeke an other Maister because he purposed to learne himselfe Traiane the Emperour founde fiue hundred chyldren at schoole thereby to banish ignorance Pope Caelestine the fift deposed himselfe by reason of his ignorance Iulianus to the end hee might molest the Christians forbid theÌ„ the reading of all good bookes Antimachus vvhen he read to all his schollers called together and sawe that all sauing Plato forsooke him before he had ended his reading said I will goe forward and read on for Plato is to me as much as all the rest Aristotle was angry with his Maister Aristotle for that he made those bookes which he writ to him so common Curtius Phillip when his sonne Alexander vvas borne gaue thanks to God not so much because he had a sonne as that hee vvas borne in the time of Aristotle vvhom he made his Schoolemaister Alexander carried alwayes Homers Iliades about him laid them vnder his pyllovve naming it the preseruer of warlike vertue Anaxagoras suffered his Lands to lie wast and followed his study Crates forsooke his patrimony of eyght talents that with the more liberty hee might follow Phylosophy Athence and Sparta could neuer agree for that the one vvas adicted to serue Minerua the other Mars Titus Vespasian often vsed to pleade causes himselfe in Latine and made diuers poems and tragedies in Greeke Eutrop. Lucius meeting with the Emperour Marcus Aurelius in the street accompanied but with one man after him asked him vvhether hee went hee aunswered It becommeth euen an olde man to learne therefore am I going to Sextus the Philosopher to the end I might learne those things which I know not The studie of Ptolomy theyr King in the Mathematiques made the Egyptians so notable in those Arts. Ptolomey knew more in Astronomy then any man saue Adam Ptolomey write a booke called Almagest an excellent worke contayning the greatnes of the earth heauen moone and starres Plato beeing requested by his schollers to speake some-what of good intendment and memory sayd That he had no more learned saue as much as he that felt himselfe like vnto a vessel that day and night is all voyd empty Arcesilas the Phylosopher woulde neyther learne himselfe nor suffer others to learne The Hymne of Orpheus to Musaeus is called his Testament and last doctrine whervnto he would haue men to sticke Amongst the Greekes and the Latines neuer any vvas more learned theÌ„ Marcus Varro Lactan. The auncient Academies of Greece were the nurseries of all Common-wealths and out of them as froÌ„ the Troyan horse came forth most excellent Kings singuler Captaines and Gouernours Grynaldus VVhen Paulus Aemilius was to encounter with Perses and that his Armie was sore dismaied at the ecclips of the Moone vvhich then happened Sulpitius Gallus incouraged them by his learning in that hee assured theÌ„ of victory by his knowledge in the Mathematicall Sciences By the lyke knowledge Archimedes defended the Cittie of Syracusa from the furie of Marcellus Alexander the great had in a manner as great a company of learned men in his Army as vvarriours Plutarch VVhen Varro was condemned to die Anthony pardoned him saying Vinat Varro viâ—â—doctissimus Lysander in rewarde of a fewe verses gaue vnto the Poet Antiochus his hat full of siluer Alphonso gaue 500. Duccats to Pogio of Florence for translating out of Greeke into Latine Xenophon his Cyropedia albeit that it was translated before Iulius Caesar made many and sumptuous Libraries and gaue M. Varro a commission throughout the dominions of Rome to prouide workes of the best learned to furnish them Appian Ptolomy hauing set vp a most sumptuous Library in Alexandria furnished the same vvith more then seauen hundred thousand bookes Vitruuius He likewise caused 72. Interpreters of the most learned and religious men of Iudea to come translate the holy Bible out of Hebrew into Greeke Asronius the Phylosopher being demaunded what it was that he knew sayd To speake well and being demaunded againe vvhat he â—ad learned hee aunswered To speake well â—nd beeing asked the third time vvhat hee â—aught he said To speake well Sabel Aspasia was much read in Phylosophie she â—aught Rhetorique was Pericles teacher â—nd afterward his wife Plutarch A Greeke Embassadour and a Romaine were at vvordes in the Senate of the Rhodiâ—us the Grecian sayd Romaine it is true that you are aduenturous in Armes but for all that â—nable in Sciences for the women of Greece know more in Letters then the men of Rome in weapons Vpon these vvords grew the mortall vvarres betweene Rome Carthage about the possession of Sicilie The Romaines and the Grecians ready to defie one another the Rhodians came in the midst and perswaded both that this iniurie should not bee determined with vveapons but argued with vvomens disputation Afterwards assembled at Rhodes tenne Grecians and tenne Romaine vvomen all veriâ— vvell learned vvhich in theyr chaires successiuely read certaine Lessons and aftertervvardes held disputation one against the other Eutropius The Greekes spake very high thinges not so profound but with an excellent stile they vvere very wel pleased to heare the Romaiâ— vvomen and the Romaines astonished tâ— heare the Greekes Vpon this occasion thâ— Rhodians crowned euery one of them vvitâ— a crowne of Laurell as vanquishers iudâ—ged
subdued all Greece but beeing ouercome by Tamberlaine hee dyed without renowne Callepin his sonne succeeded hee ouercame the Emperour Sigismund and beginning to spoyle the borders of Constantinople dyed in the flower of his age raigning but sixe yeeres Mahomet after him subdued the greatest part of Slauonia and Macedonia and came as farre as the Ionian sea hee remooued hys seate out of Bythinia to Adrianopolis where he dyed Amurath the second succeeded him vvho wonne Epirus Aetolia Achaia Beolia Attica and Thessalonica Mahomet the second destroyed Athence wonne Constantinople Anno 1452. he brought vnder his subiection the Empire TrapezuntiuÌ„ Corinth the Ilands of Lemnos Euboiae Mitilene and Capha a Cittie of the Genowaies he raigned 32. yeeres Baiazeth the second tooke from the Venetians Naupactus Methonia and Dirohaim he spoyled all Dalmatia and in the end vvas poysoned Zelimus his sonne wonne Archair slew the Sultan of Egypt he brought Alexandria Damascus and all Egypt vnder his Empyre Solyman his onely sonne conquered Belgrad tooke Buda the Kings Citty in Hungaria spoyled Strigonium and all Hungaria To him the Ile of Rhods was yeelded he ouerthrew the fiue Churches when the Cittie Iula was taken he besieged Zigethum was slaine in the assault This Citty his sonne Zelimus spoyled in the yeere 1566. vnder 12. Emperors they subdued vnto themselues by Turkish tyrannie in two hundred threescore yeeres a great the Persians obserue at this day after this the Sarazens possessed Affrica went forward into Asia where they flourished 200. yeares Of the Bishops Archbishops Patriarchs and Popes of Rome THE yeare of Peters comming to Rome the time of his residency in the Sea and his death there hath beene so vncertainly reported by Platina Orosius Fasciculus temporum Eusebius Vspergensis Sabellicus and Nauclerus for the first by S. Hierome Beda Fasciculus temporum Vspergensis and Platina for the second by Nicephorus Dionysius Hierome Isodorus Eusebius and Abdiâ—s for the third that diuers godly learned men haue beene induced to think and some constantly to write as Vlricus Velenus and Thomas Balaeus with one other that Peter was neuer at Rome howbeit many wise reâ—erend truly lerned fathers of our church are of opinion that he was at Rome but no Bishop thereof martired vnder Claudius Nero. Linus a Thuscane born reported to be the successour of Peter was a man of pure and godly lyfe who for preaching the Gospell suffered martyrdome vnder Saturninus the Consull in the raigne of Vespasian Emperor of Rome Anacletus the first borne at Athence waâ— of an excellent and feruent spirit and of greaâ— learning he planted the Church of God wiâ—â— daily labour in whose defence and beleefe hâ— was put to death by Domitian which he constantly indured Clement the first a Romaine for his preaching and good deeds was a long time banished by the Emperor to hew Marble stones and in the end was cast into the Sea with an Anchour about his necke Euaristus the first a Grecian borne in the time of persecution ceased not to increase the Church by his diligent preaching till he was martired vnder Traian An. Dom. 100. Alexander the first a Romaine painefully trauailed both to preach and baptize he suffered great torments till he died vnder Aurelianus president to the Emperour Anno Domini 121. Sixtus the first a Romaine diligently preached the Gospell with many good works and godly deeds beautified the Church he was vigilant and carefull for his flocke and died for it Anno 129. Telesphorus the first a Grecian vvas a worthy man for learning and godly life he bare witnes of Christ most faithfully conâ—tantly both by his words and death vnder the Emperour Antoninus An. 140. Higinus the first an Athenian of a Christian Philosopher was made a Bishop who discharging the duty of a good Pastor was put to death anno 144. Hee wrote in a Caue where he did hide himselfe in time of persecution an Epistle touching God and the incarnation of the sonne of God Pius borne in Aquilia did many godly deeds in the Church vnder Antonius Veâ—us and in the end watered the Church of Christ with his blood in martirdome 159. Anicetus a Syrian a faithfull and diligent Pastor of the Church of Rome was martyred anno 169. Sother borne in Campania like a valiant Souldiour of Iesus Christ serued vnder his spirituall banner in the time of the Emperour Commodus he confirmed the doctrine which hee had preached vvith his blood in martirdome 177. Eleutherius a Grecian notwithstanding the stormes of persecution were somewhat calmed in his time because many of the Romaine nobility beleeued on Christ yet hee was beheaded 191. in his time also manâ— godly vvriters writ learned bookes agaynâ—â— diuers heresies and heretiques which infected the Church Victor borne in Affrica was the first thaâ— when the storme of persecution was calmed vsurped authority vpon strangers In the former Bishops sayth Vincentius the spyriâ—â— abounded but in these that follow the temptation of flesh and blood preuailed He exempted his brethren of Asia from the Communion because in keeping Easter day they followed not the vse of the church of Rome for which Policrates Iraeneus Bishops of Ephesus Lyons reproued him as then the church was rent in twaine by his obstinacy he died 203 Zepherinus a Romaine borne was a man more addicted to the seruice of God then to the care of any worldly affairs where before the vvine in celebrating the Communion was ministred in a cup of wood he first did alter that and in sted thereof brought in Cups or Chalices of glasse in his time were the Artemonites a sect of vaine Philosophicall Diuines who as our late Schoolmen did corrupt the Scripturs with Plato Aristotle and Theophrastus turning all into curious and subtile questions Origen taught the holy Scripture at Alexâ—ndria in Zepherinus time but his bookes â—ere refused because he brought in vnprofiâ—able disputations and allegories Calixtus the first borne at Rauenna when â—ersecution began to waxe hote againe was â—pprehended by the commaundement of Aâ—â—xander Seuerus and after that he was beaâ—en with cudgels and imprisoned his body â—as cast out of a window and drowned in a â—eepe pit 226. Vrbanus the first a Romaine in the time of Heliogabalus with his sincerity of life exâ—ellency in learning drew many on all sides â—o the Gospell he was often times banished â—he Citty for the Christian fayth but being â—ecretly brought in againe by the faithful he â—as martired by Seuerus 233. Pontianus a Romaine in the afore-sayde Emperours raigne when the people ranne â—n multitudes to heare him preach the word â—y the Princes commaundement being set â—n by the idolatrous Priests he was caried â—rom Rome to the Ile Sardinia where hee â—as put to death 239. Antherosa Grecian preached constantly stoutly vnder the tirany of Maximius the Emperour he first ordained that all the acts of Martyrs should be recorded least the remembrance of them should be lost with
a confessour 440. Leo the first a Thuscane decreed that men should worship the Images of the dead and allowed the sacrifice of the Masse he dyed a confessour 462. Hilarius borne in Sardinia made a law that euery Minister should be put from his calling which maried either a widdow or diuorced vvoman and not a mayde he dyed a confessour 469. Simplicius a Tiburtinian shewed that the Church of Rome was the chiefe Church of all and commanded that none of the Clergy should acknowledge that he held any ecclesiasticall benefice of a lay man hee dyed a confessour 484. Felix the third a Romain decreed that the Clergy being accused of any matter should haue dayes granted to returne their answer and dyed a confessour 494. Gelasius an Affrican burned the bookes of the Manichees he made Himnes Prefaces Collects and Prayers he seuered the Apocrypha from canonicall Scripture he dyed a confessour 497. Anastasius the second a Romaine communicated with the Eutichians Nestorians he excommunicated the Emperor in the yere of our lord 499. on the stool of his easement his bowels issued out of his belly he died a confessour as Volaterranus writeth Symmachus a Sardinian was chosen Bishop not without great dissention among the Clergy Vspergensis sayth that at his election one Laurence was set vp against him wher-vpon many slaughters both of the people and Clergy were made in Rome during the space of three yeares but Symmachus preuailed and dyed a martir 514. Hormisda borne in Campania excommunicated Anastatius the Emperor because he said that it was an office due vnto the Emperor to coÌ„maund not to be at a Bishops coÌ„mandement he died a confessour 523. Iustinus the Emperor as Isodorus writeth made Hormisda of an Archbishop Patriarch of Rome from the time of Syluesteâ— the Romaine Prelates were Archbishops foâ— the space of 200. yeres that is from the yere 320. vntill the yeare 520. at what time they were first made Patriarchs by the Emperoâ— Iustinus Iohn the first a Tuscane being the worthiest man of all this latter companie gaue a testimony of his pure life by suffering paciently vndeserued death at the commaundement of Theodoricus King of Italy 627. Faelix the fourth borne in Samia excommunicated the Patriarch of Constantinople misdeemed of heresie he commaunded that they which lay a dying should be anoynted with oyle and dyed a Confessour 530. Boniface the second a Romaine seuered the Clergy from the Laity by making the Quier in the Church he dyed a Confessour 532. Iohn the second a Romaine called Mercury for his eloquence or the Embassadour of Iupiter died a Confessour 534. Agapetus the first a Romaine was sent by Theodorus King of the Gothes as his Embassadour to pacifie Iustinianus the Empeâ—our for the cruell murder of Amalasimitha â— noble Queene and an excellent learned woman whose worthy vertues the same Emperour reuerenced highly which he obtayned and ordayned procession dying a Conâ—essour 535. Syluerius borne in Campania by the prouocation of Vigilius a Deacon who did accuse him that he would betray Rome to the Gothes for the which he was banished into Pontus by Theodora the Empresse Antonina the wife of Bellizarius he dyed in his exile being a Confessour 527. Vigilius a Romaine the crafty accuser of Syluerius was by these women aduanced to the Sea but not keeping promise with the Empresse in some matters she caused him to be brought to Constantinople beaten and banished he appoynted that seruice should be sayd the Priest standing with his face into the East hee dyed a Confessour in Cilicia 554. Pelagius a Romaine to please Totylus king of the Gothes made a publique decree that it was needfull to haue the authority of the Prince and consent of the people in creation of Bishopps hee dyed a Confessour 566. About this time Totyla King of the Gotheâ— besieged Rome which being miserably opâ—pressed with extreame famine was compelâ—led to yeld it himself to the sauage peple vnâ—der which it continued 10. yeres Vspergenâ— Iohn the third a Romaine contrary to 〈◊〉 predecessour decreed that none ought to bâ— called chiefe Priest or vniuersall Bishop 〈◊〉 dyed at Rome 577. In his time the Armenians became Christians Benedictus the first a Romaine was Bishop when the Lombards spoiled Italy he dyed for griefe to see so many miseries in the Citty of Rome 582. Pelagius the second while the Citty was besieged contrary to custome was made Bishop without the Emperours commaundement and to pacifie him sent one Gregory a Monke to Constantinople he died 590. Gregory the great a Romaine of a Monk and a Deacon was made Bishop he was the best of all the chiefe Romaine Patriarks for good life and doctrine he turned his parents houses into monastries dedicated the first of them to Saint Andrew the Apostle he appoynted chaunters for the day and night he solemnized the feast of the purification of our blessed Lady with waxe candles wherof 〈◊〉 is called Candlemas day hee builded sixe Monasteries of his owne cost in Sicilia and â—edicated Agathais Church hee was the first â—hat gaue pardons vppon certaine dayes to â—uch as came to Church He gaue stipends to three thousand maids â—ee allowed by decree the first 5. Counsells â—nd that the last will and tastament of euery man should be ratified hee sent Augustine a Moncke to reclaime the English Saxons to â—he church of Rome hee remoued the right of the Archbishopricke from London and â—ranslated it to Canterburie In his tyme Iohn Patriarch of Constantinople by the consent of Mauritius vvould needes bee called the vniuersall Bishop but Gregory would not agree to it Hee though otherwise learned and godâ—y burdened the Church the religion of God with more ceremonies then had the Iewes he writ Homilies expounded the most part of the Bible professed himselfe in his writings Seruus seruorum Dei seruaunt to Gods seruaunts shewing thereby hovve farre he was from ambition thys title hys successors continue He first commaunded Priests to single life but vvhen hee sawe the inconueniences that came thereby vvith sorrow and repentance he reuoked that Caron Sabirianus a Thuscane for the hate he baâ—â— to his predecessor after that hee had published certaine slaunders against him coÌ„manded that his bookes should bee burned thyâ— was the last of the Romaine Patriarchs be dyed an 606. Boniface the third obtained the supremacie of Phocas an 607. vvho murdered his Lord and Maister Mauritius his wife and chyldren since which time they neuer ceased to augment theyr dignitie and power In his decrees he writ VVe will and commaund he died not enioying his rule one yeere Boniface the fourth obtained of Phocas the Emperour that the Church of Rome called Pantheon which the heathen had dedicated to their gods should bee translated to the seruice of Christ called Alhallowes Church Theodatus deuised a new-found alliance betweene the God-father and the God-daughter and between the God-mother the god-sonne calling it spiritual consanguinitie and
of riches Caligula tooke of euery Curtezan as much of her gayne as shee could get of any man at once Pertinax being aduanced to the degree of Emperour did not forget his niggardlines but parted Lettice and Artichawkes in two that the one halfe might be for his dinner the other for his supper Eutropius The parsimony of Fabritius is not to bee condemned for the age wherein hee lyued ought to excuse him in the which all magnificence was vnknowne to the Romaines Iustinian the Emperour for himselfe procured riches and for the deuill he cheapned soules he was couetous and maintayned the heresie of the Pelagians Epimenides curse of riches was that all the treasures hoorded vp by the couetous shold be wasted by the prodigall The Romaines and the Carthagenians were friends a long time but after they knew â—here was in Spayne great mines of gold and siluer immediatly arose betweene them ciuill warres P. Diaconus Darius being very rich and couetous sent to Alexander in scorne to know where hee had treasure to maintaine such an army who aunswered Tell thy maister that he keepeth in his Cofers his treasures of mettalls and I haue no other treasure then the hearts of my friends Plutarch Angelot a Cardinall was so couetous that by a false dore hee descended into the stable and euery night stole away the Oates which his horse-keepers had giuen his horses and continued it so long till one of the horse-keepers hyding himselfe in the stable did so be labour him with a Pikeforke that hee had much adoe to crawle away I. Pontanus Of Sloth In this vice wit vnderstanding wisedom and all honest endeuours are buried as it were in a graue from which ariseth the loathsome stench of corrupt manners and disordered life making of men women of women beasts of beasts monsters ALexander an Emperour of the East giuen to great idlenes demaunded of hiâ— wise men if he had long to liue they aunsweâ—red him yea If he could take away the teeth oâ— a brazen Boare that stoode in the market place meaning therby that he would shorten his daies except he gaue ouer his idlenes Zonarus A Senator of Rome who was saluted by anâ—other riding in his chariot aunswered I wilâ— not say God saue you since in going thus at youâ— ease you show you haue no desire to liue long Epaminondas discharged all his Souldiers which grew fat saying That as a woman too fat doth not easily conceaue so doth fat hinder a man from doing his charge as armes doe which are to heauy Scipio being ariued at his campe banished all Souldiours slaues and Pages and all vnprofitable people and made each one to carry his owne armour The Sabies hauing aboundance of all kind of riches spent their times slothfully The Nabathies hauing nothing but what they get by their vertue and labor are good husbands abandon all idlenes Metellus when hee was ariued in Affrica hee tooke away whatsoeuer might seeme to â—ourish slothfulnes and caused proclamatiâ—n to be made that none should presume to â—â—ll eyther bread or any other foode dressed â—hat the carriers of vvater should not follow â—he Campe that the Souldiers shoulde haue â—o pages nor beastes of carriage that each one should keepe his ranke cast his trench â—nd carry his victuals together with his furâ—iture Salust In the Ilands named Baleares in Spayne the chyldren might not eate vntill vvith theyr slings they had strooken downe theyr meate which theyr parents vsed to sette for them vpon an hie beame or poale Plinie Epaminondas killed one of his souldiours beeing a sleepe that was set to vvatch saying that hee left him in the same estate hee found him The kings of Persia and Macedonia were euery morning awaked to put them in mind to take care of that which God had coÌ„mitted to theyr charge Herodot At certaine games of Olympus there came a Phylosopher of Thebes which had made all the apparrel he wore himselfe the assembly meruailing that one man coulde doe all this he answered The sloth of man is the cause that one Art is deuided into diuers for he that knoweth all Artes together must needes knoâ— one alone Hee vvas reputed a vaine-glorâ—â—ous Phylosopher More hurtfull vvas the Citty of Carthagâ— to Rome after her destruction then durinâ— the vvhole course season of warres whicâ— the Romaines had with her for that vvhilâ— they had enemies in Affrick they knew noâ— vvhat vices meant in Rome Gueuara The great Numantia in Spayne coulde neâ—uer bee vvone notwithstanding 14. yeere siedge of the Romaines till Scipio purgeâ— his Campe of loyterers perfumers and harâ—lots Darius plunged the Babylonians in all maâ—ner of idlenes that they might not haue thâ— hart afterward to rebell The same policie vsed Cimon to diminisâ— the force and povver of his allies by graunâ—ting them vvhatsoeuer they required The carelesnesse and negligence of Dionisius the younger getting the vpper hande oâ— him carried him to vvomen and lechery at length did breake in sunder his Adamanâ— chaines that is the great number of his warlike souldiours and his store of Gallyes oâ— vvhom his Father boasted that hee left hys kingdome fast chained to his sonne Sardanapalus through his slothfulnesse was â—uercome by Arbactus and lost the Moâ—archie of Assyria The Pheacons counted it the greatest feliâ—â—tie that might be to doe nothing Homer The Romaines vsed to punish idlenesse so â—â—arply that the husbandman whose ground â—as found barren and his pastures vnoccuâ—ied was presently put from the place and â—is ground giuen to another man Macarius Diogenes for that they would â—ot be accouÌ„ted idle persons the one would â—emooue heapes of sand from place to place â—nd the other vvoulde tumble his tubbe vp 〈◊〉 downe Augustus did win the souldiours vnto him â—ith rewards the common sort with plentie of victuals and all generally vvith the pleaâ—ure of ease Tacitus VVheÌ„ Augustus reproched a certain plaier â—ecause thorow his occasion there was a tuâ—ult among the people hee aunswered It is â—ood for thee ô Caesar that the people bee vvithâ—eld by our idle exercises from busying theyr â—raines about other matters Dion Of Gluttony This deadly enemy to health replenisheth thâ— body with humours wind inflamations distilâ—lations and opirations and change of meaâ— draweth pleasure out of the bounds of sufficienâ—cie Pleasure in all thinges which pleaseth whereas in simple and vniforme thinges delighâ— neuer exceedeth the appetite and naturall necesâ—sitie THE Arigentines builded as though theâ— shoulde alvvayes liue and did feede aâ—â—though they should alwayes die Plato The Emperour Septimus Seuerus Ioâ—uinianus dyed with eating and drinking to much Valintinianus a famous Emperour dye suddenly of a surfet Lucullus beeing asked one day by his serâ—uaunt whom he had inuited to his feast seeâ—ing so much meat prepared aunswered Lucullus shall dine with Lucullus Plut. Vitellius Spinter vvas so much gyuen tâ— gluttony and excesse that at one supper hâ— vvas serued with two thousand seuerall kinâ— of fishes and with 7000.