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A48803	The marrow of history, or, The pilgrimmage of kings and princes truly representing the variety of dangers inhaerent to their crowns, and the lamentable deaths which many of them, and some of the best of them, have undergone : collected, not onely out of the best modern histories, but from all those which have been most famous in the Latine, Greek, or in the Hebrew tongue : shewing, not onely the tragedies of princes at their deaths, but their exploits and sayings in their lives, and by what virtues some of them have flourished in the height of honour, and overcome by what affections, others of them have sunk into the depth of all calamities : a work most delightfull for knowledge, and as profitable for example / collected by Lodowick Lloyd ... ; and corrected and revived by R.C. ...	Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610.; Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665.	1653 (1653)	Wing L2660; ESTC R39067	223,145	321

who being in sléep dreamed of Buls fighting all night and in the morning he had two horns growing on his head The learned hold opini●n that imagination and vapours of dreams may alter things into some other substance as Caieta and Aenulia two married women became men and Medea by a dream waxed hot in love with Jason and so imagination by operation of natural vapours doth effect things wonderfully as some do by sight assure themselves most certain and some by conjectures affirm things to be true but because imagination is a thing that néedeth at large to be spoken off considering how diversly it worketh in divers men I will in another place speak of it CHAP. XXVII Of the beginning of Marrrriages and the divers manners of the same AFter that God had made the world in full perfection and so beautifull that the Gréeks did call it Cosmos which is fair framing all things for the use of man as well the world as also all that move or grow in the world he then made a woman who should be likewise a further solace to man and as he made the world and all living creatures in it in several proportions in it he framed man like himself to behold the heavens to measure the elements to rule the very Globes and to the end he might multiply the world he said unto Adam after he blessed all things on earth Goe and multiply The multiplication and the use thereof was so divers that divers countries had sundry orders as well in single life as in matrimony And as concerning antiquity of marriage we read in Tr●gus that noble Historian that Cec●ops the first King of Athens before the time of Deucalion first framed and appointed matrimony in Gréece But such were their orders in divers places such was their liberties in matrimony that the Egyptians the Indians and the Thracians might marry as many as they would according to the ability of the man some ten some twelve some more some lesse Again amongst the Scythians the Persians and all Barbary their wives and daughters were common one for another like bruit beasts The Messagetes had this law that it was not to be suffered that any of their country should marry but one wise but it was lawfull for any man to take another mans wife and to make an exchange for so were their wives common to all but married to one In Lybia the people called Augylas and the people called Nasamones had this order in their matrimonies that the Bride the first night after she was married should lie with every guest before she should go to bed to her own husband The Arabians law was that one woman should be married to all her kinsmen and at all times lawfull for any of her kin to challenge and claim her as his wife using this policy to leave a staff at the chamber door to give to understand that one was in bed with her and when the staff was not there then they knew that no body was within and if any were found of another kindred it was adultery and by law he should die Polydorus reciteth a History for the purpose to be noted That there was a Kings daughter of great beauty which had fifteen tall men to her brethren with whom severally oftentimes she did accompany and being almost wearied desirous to take some rest for she was so fair and they so many that always she had company she used this pollicy to make a staff much like to the chamber staff which was as it were a Porter appointed to give notice Afterwards upon a time one of her brethren had left her in the Chamber and was gone out she straight laid the staff at the door thinking thereby somthing to ease her self and to rest from venery but one of her brethren came from the market having left all his brethren there and when he saw the staff at the door went straight to his father and accused his sister of adultery saying that all his brethren were in the market and that there was a fornicator with his sister But the matter being known he was punished by his father for that he sl●ndered his sister The like liberty in matrimony was sometimes amongst the Medes and with the people called Magi Anthropophagi and with divers others Some of Aethiopia and some of Arabia married their own mothers and sisters Thus people in divers manners did lead their lives and do lead their lites so horribly and filthily that better it were not to know it then to know it But though it be a play and a sport to the ungodly and wicked yet it is a horror and ugly monster to the godly and wise for to know all things profiteth the good Herodotus in his fourth book doth mention certain inhabitants called Poeni approaching the confines of Egypt whose order and law of matrimony was that the King of that country should have the first taste of the Bride before her husband This order was once observed by the ancient Scots that the Lord of the soil should have the virginity of the married woman The Assyrians and Babylonians did sometimes marry those that hired their bodies to all men The people called Cantabri gave money as a dowry with their wives to other men The daughters of the Lydians and the Cyprians might not marry till they had gained by the hire of their bodies as much as should pay their dowry In the mean time did they go from City to City from town to town offering themselves to every man upon the high way and when they had gained sufficiently for their dowry then might they marry and not before And thus were there sundry orders and several laws to maintain the same Some again did lead a life without women as the Esseni which Pliny affirmeth that they live most sober and chast without women all their life time Also certain people of Thrace called Cristae did likewise avoid the company of women The Romans after Rome was built five hundred years and more kept matrimony inviolated till Sputinus a noble Roman because of the barrenness of his wife had a divorcement granted him when Pomponius and Papitius were Consuls in Rome Moses perceiving the Iews much to be given to several vices some to covetousnesse some to lechery for the reformation of domestick quietnesse and because the Iews were desirous of other women either for beauty or for wealth they had a divorcement granted by Moses to mitigate the fury and hardnesse of their hearts which was rather to avoid the tyranny of the Iews which they used towards their first wives and by sufferance then by commandement For as the world in most places was too wicked concerning the liberty of Matrimony so were they in divers Countreys very straight concerning Marriages in so much that the Ethnicks observed that sentence of Catullus the Poet that virginity ought to be ruled by the parents sith one part is the fathers the second is the mothers and

the third and last is in the child The solemnity in Matrimony in divers places imported unto us wise morals and did as it were presage a duty and an obedience to things as both Plutarch and Pliny write of the Venetians that when a Marriage was solemnized in Venice the Bride after that day bringeth her distaff and her spindle and fl●x ready as one after that day never to be idle but occupied always in she affairs of her house The Greeks and Romans also had this custome they girded the loyns of their daughters alwayes till the day of their marriages and then that night her husband should loose the knot and unbind that which of long time the Virgins of Greece kept fast bound Amongst divers Countreys where sundry solemnities in matrimony are used I read not in any History so solemn a state and so worthy ceremonies as we do see in England which if you mark in all points you must néeds confesse that outward ceremonies do import a great Majesty and Dignity in Matrimony Again they had laws in divers places that none might marry without some reverence shewed to their Gods before as the Athenians suffered no marriage without sacrifice first done to Diana In Rome a law there was that she that should be married should sit in the seat of Faunus before she might see the Bridegroom her husband The like was observed in Boetia and Locresia that before their youth should marry they should drink one to another at the altar consecrated to Euelia In Hetruria they used to kill a hog to sacrifice to their Gods and to call upon Juno for good successe to come In Lusitania the Bride goes to Church with a distaff and a spindle in her hand and one of her kinsmen going before her with a firebrand of Pine tree In Sparta by the law of Lycurgus the maids that should marry should shave the hairs of their heads and wear mans apparel and by the same law they were forbidden to give any substance with their daughters but love and good will was to be the whole cause of marriage Moreover they used these ceremonies To divide a peece of bread in Macedonia and in the most part of Greece for the Bride and the Bridegroom to eat before they should be married The like in Rome in Romulus time was used In Galatia they did both drink first of one cup appointed for that purpose onely And so forth in divers Countreys they used divers ceremonies as in Carmenia no man might marry without he brought the head of some enemy or other to the King as a proof of his love toward his Countrey In Maeous no maid might marry without she had subverted one enemy or other of her Countrey But in some countreys they married not as the Esseni a people much given to abstain as well from Wine as from Women Wherefore Socrates being demanded what was best Whether to marry or no answered If you marry you shall suffer brawling and chiding if you are single you shall be solitary and comfortlesse Therefore Pompey the great comming among the Massagetes who used once a week to company with their wives demanded the cause thereof They answered Because we would not hear their chidings in the day time nor their complaints in the night time But to end let every man have his own wife if he cannot live chast for better it is to marry then to burn CHAP. XXVIII Of Likenesse and Similitudes of Kings and Princes ALthough comparisons are odious amongst divers men yet for that Pliny and Plutarch do use them chiefly for necessaries I shall shew how like divers Princes were one to another not in countenance and outward proportion onely but in life and conversation Also by comparing the ancient Gréeks and the la●ter Romans one with another as most certain the Romans imitated the Gréeks in all points we shall sée and perceive by their acts doings and life who were most like one to another And first to begin with Ro●●●ius the first King of Rome he in all his doings did imitate that valiant Gréek Theseus as Plutarch in his first book declareth And as by comparing their lives one with another a m●n may easily judge how like in state and fortune they lived the one having occasion to war with the Sabines the other with the Centaurs the one in augmenting the state of Italy and building of Rome the other in delivering all Gréece from tyranny and ●ondage of equal travel both and of like state for then Italy was in Romulus time as Gréece was in Theseus days The next was in Rome Numa Pompilius who for pity to the poor and love toward his Countrey and his gravity and severity in Law making his zeel and religion to the service of their temples in fine for all vertuous doings in all respects was like unto Lycurgus that famous Law maker amongst the Lacedemonians The care that these two Princes had for their friends and countreys were clean contrary to Theseus and Romulus before mentioned as is set forth by Plutarch in his fourth book Lycurgus was not so studious to call the Lacedemonians from vice and sin but Numa was as carefull to instruct the Romans in all goodnesse and vertue so that Rome did bear witnesse of Numa and Sparta of Lycurgus who for their several and sundry Laws their vertuous lives and doings compared by Plutarch they may well for their contempt and neglecting the honors and dignities due to them and for care they had either of them for their people be like one unto the other And even so Publicola did not onely imitate Solon in all points but also translated Solons laws to Rome so that one was counted most sage and wise in Greece the other thought to be most happy in Rome So did Numa also follow Lycurgus in all his doings imitating his laws and orders in Rome What comparison is made between noble Scipio and Hannibal the one defending the state of Rome the other Carthage and either of them in open wars with the other that to read their lives and fortunes about the affairs of their countreys what is it else but to see two noble Captains one like another in magnanimity and courage whose fortunes after many strong and stout services toward their countrey was such that they both were banished Rome and Carthage And as they in life were most like so did they embrace their deaths likewise Even so was that stout Greek Alcibiades which Thucidides most worthily prayseth and M. Cotiolanus that famous Roman compared for the like magnanimity and state of fortune Pericles that renowned Greek and Fabius Maximus the Roman who ruled long in Rome and Athens were likewise noted one to be like another Plutarch in his book entituled The lives o● Emperours compareth Sylla the Roman to Lysander King of Sparta compareth Ser●o●●us to Eumenes and likewise Pompey the gre●t to Agesi●us King of Lacedemonia If respect de duly had to the martial feats and noble acts