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enemy_n	army_n	camp_n	night_n	1,297	5	6.4250	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03705	The felicitie of man, or, his summum bonum. Written by Sr, R: Barckley, Kt; Discourse of the felicitie of man	Barckley, Richard, Sir, 1578?-1661.; Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	1631 (1631)	STC 1383; ESTC S100783	425,707	675

registred in histories of the miserable estate and vnfortunate end of those that haue put their felicitie and passed their time in voluptuousnesse and pleasure which change was so much the more grieuous and painefull to them as it was diametrally contrary to their former delicious life But of an infinite number let vs draw out a few wherewith he that will not be satisfied to him more will be insufficient Sardanapalus King of the Assyrians was so much addicted vnto voluptuousnesse and pleasure that besides his excesse in delicate meats and pleasant drinks wherewith by all manner of meanes hee sought continu●…lly to satisfie his vnsatiable appetite forgetting all humanity he would neuer be seene abroad among men but leading his life like a woman alwayes kept himselfe close in the company of harlots attired in womans apparell counterfeiting also in his speech a womans voyce In filthy pleasures and incontinencie he exceeded the most infamous strumpets his luxuriousnesse reported by credible Authors wherein hee went beyond all his predecessors was such that it cannot bee vttered without offence to modest eares The Monarchie of the Assyrians that was gotten with great labour and industrie and increased and continued with like vertue and valour was by the licentious life of this lasciuious man cleane ouerthrowne For Arbaces his Lieutenant generall of the Medes a man of great courage determined to reuote from him and being desirous to see how he spent his time by the fauour of an Eunuch whom he had corrupted he was let in to Sardanapalus vnder pretence to conferre with him of weighty affaires where hee found him spinning among a company of women apparelled like them in a more vndecent sort than the common fame went of him Which gaue Arb●… occasion to disdaine him and encouraged him the more to shake off the yoke of subiection to such an effeminate man And conspiring with diuers others whom he had drawne to his societie he came with a great Armie towards Sardanapalus who hearing of the multitude of people that had reuolted against him had prepared sufficient force to encounter with them And after certaine battels fought wherein Sardanapalus was victor presuming vpon the co●…nnance of his good fortune 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 secure and carelesse of his enemies and againe to his accustomed luxurious 〈◊〉 which he thought himselfe to haue been long weaned he falleth to his old manners Luxuriant animi vebus plerunque facyndis Mens minds are often surfeited with prosperity and maketh a Feast to all his Army so the day being spent in banquetting and carowsing when night came their heads laden with wine nothing mistrusting their enemies whom they had before vanquished they gaue themselues to rest which being knowne to Arbaces by his spials he assailed the Kings Campe in the dead of the night and finding them vnarmed and vnready to fight put so many of them to the sword that the Riuer of Euphrates was made red with their bloud The King with a few fled into the Citie of Nyna where hee thought himselfe safe by reason of the answer of an old Oracle made to some of his Progenitours that Nyna could neuer be wonne vntill the riuer became an enemy to the city which hee thought could neuer come to passe The Towne was so fortisied with wals that with little resistance the King held out the siege the space of two yeares the third yeare the riuer was so increased with continuall raine that it ouerthrew the walls of the Citie and made a breach of very great breadth then Sardanapalus perceiuing the time of the Oracle was come 〈◊〉 to despaire and finding no place where to hide himselfe left hee should fall into his enemies hands hee caused a great Tabermacle of wood to be set vp and compassed it round about with store of dry wood into the which after he had put all his gold and 〈◊〉 and sumptuous apparell he placed his 〈◊〉 and Eu●…ches in the midst and lastly shut himselfe in among them and causing his seruants to put fire to the frame they were all burnt together Arbaces hearing of the Kings death entred the City at the breach and by a generall conse●… was made King Thus miserably ended Sardanapalus his pleasures through whose voluptuous life the Empire of the Assyrians which was the first Monarchie of the world was no doubt by the iust iudgment of God translated from the Assyrians to the Medes But such Monsters of nature sometime the world hath brought forth as Heliogabalus the Romane Emperour abandoning all vertue and honesty gaue himselfe to follow his beastly appetite that he seemed to surmount all before him and as possibility would suffer all that should succeed him in vice and volup●…ousnesse This Heliogabalus of whom graue Authors write such matter as seemeth incredible whereof a great part shall be passed ouer of me with silence not 〈◊〉 to be written He erected a Councell of women who should determine what manner of attire the matrones of Rome should weare and laying aside all mod●…y he caused to bee brought into his palace great companies of common women for his friends in whose company hee was so much delighted that hauing gathered together all the harlo●… and bawd●… could bee found hee commeth in person into the place where they were assembled apparelled in a womans 〈◊〉 and made vnto them a very eloquent and well studied ●…tion calling them 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 by which the noble Cap●…ines and 〈◊〉 of the Romanes when they would giue their souldiers an honourable title were vsee to call them which signifieth Companions in warre The matters which the strumpets were there to treate of with him was new inuentions and deuices of ribaldrie Hee would somtimes sit in his chariot starke naked which should be drawne through the Citie of Rome with foure of the fairest yong women naked likewise that could be found He was in his expences about his person his diet and his house and other superfluous toyes vnmeasurably sumptuous which to declare will hazzard the credit of the reporter All his care and imaginations were how to exceede in wastesull expences to passe his time in all manner of deliciousnesse such as was neuer heard of before Hee neuer sate downe but amongst most sweet and pleasant flowers with which were mixt diuers kindes of odoriferous things wonderfull costly and of most delectable sauour Hee would neuer eate but of that which was of excessiue price and deuised all manner of meanes that whatsoeuer he did eate should be most costly He would say that no sawce made his meate taste so well as the greatnesse of the price His ordinarie dinners or suppers neuer were of lesse charge than one thousand Markes sometime aboue ten thousand pounds His apparell was alwaies of purple and cloth of gold beset with pearle and precious stones of inestimable price euen to his shooes Hee would not weare a garment twice or drinke twice of one cup whether it were gold or

enemies were all slaine saving the captaine and some thirty more which saved themselves for the time upon a little hil which they defended against the whole army But seeing that they were not able to prevaile the captaine chusing rather to die by his own hands than to suffer his enemies to have the honour of such a revenge tooke his two sons that were between fifteen eighteen yeare old slue first them in the sight of the army then himselfe The rest of the souldiours seeing the noble courage of their captaine charged their great peeces after they had 〈◊〉 the spoile rather than they would fall into their enemies hands suffer an ignominious death they stāding at the mouthes of the great peeces put fire to them and 〈◊〉 themselves the King all the army beholding the matter and highly commending the valour and noble minds of the Turkes By these examples it may appeare what estimation men ought to make of worldly honor and glory that is gotten by rule and principality when a poore Priest in a short time was able to dispossesse many kings of their kingdomes and to make himselfe a mighty Monarch of them all And when he was in the judgement of men in the highest degree of felicity a handfull of men of his owne guard could in his owne pavilion in the middest of his army and forces secure and free from all imagination of perill put him and his nobility with his principal Captaines to the sword and had escaped without any harme or let inriched with a great prey if they had passed on their journey all at their ●…ase and had notbin so carelesse to attend their enemies comming which they might easily have prevented Divers other Hermites of Mahomets sect about the same time both in Affrica and Asia excited with the like desire of glory attempted the like enterprises and attayned to great matters to their owne harme to others though not altogether with like successe This principality and rule made the Iewes the chosen people of God despise his helpe and favour that had done so many wonderfull things for them For a Iew having gathered together two hundred thousand men of that nation they trusted so much to their owne forces that every man did cut off one of his fingers and when they were to joyne in battell with their enemies their Generall pronounced these words Lord of the world helpe us not seeing thou hast rejected us And more than this there were divers of the same nation in the age wherein Christ was borne knowing by the 〈◊〉 Prophecies that the time was come in which the 〈◊〉 must shew himselfe to the world that 〈◊〉 themselves to be Christ but their lives and doctrine 〈◊〉 almost the memory of them vanished away like smoke notwithstanding they had many followers and were maintained by the authority of their principal doctors But these Infidels and Iewes are not so much to be ●…velled at that sought glory with so great hypocrisie if we behold the wicked mind of a Christian in our age that through an excessive desire of glory went about to perswade men that he was the very Messias This man was of Frizeland named George David he called himselfe a new prophet and the nephew of God he feined to have talke with wild beasts and birds in all manner of languages and that they brought him meat for his sustenāce And among other his vanities and toyes he said that heaven was altogether empty and that he was sent to adopt men to be sonnes and inheritours of the kingdome of heaven That the Divell is the authour of these horrible and hainous offences committed by men to the dishonour of God and destruction of themselves by his instigation and stirring up their minds to the desire of vaineglorie may something appeare by this strange historie reported by Licosthenes in his Prodig●… By which men may be warned to beware of the subtill devices practices of that old Serpent that 〈◊〉 cōtinually in weight whom he may devoure who if he can find no 〈◊〉 ●…ment among men to serve his purpose can by 〈◊〉 sufferance as it should seeme 〈◊〉 himselfe or possesse infants and doe wonderfull things by his false shews of counterfeit miracles and crafty illusions to 〈◊〉 the world In the kingdom of Babylon the vij day of March in the 〈◊〉 1532. a child was borne of a mea●… woman whose favour and forme was good and wel proportioned but his eyes and teeth shined contrary to nature At the houre of his birth not onely the elements but all the powers of the heavens were moved and shewod forth terrible and fearefull signes For at midnight the Sun was seene to shine bright as if it had bin day and after it was turned into darkenesse againe so as it was not seene in Babylon which is not noted for a miracle the space of a whole day the Sunne was seene againe with starres of strange figures and of divers kinds wandring up downe in the element Over the house where the child was born besides other signs fire was seene fall from the ayre that killed men The next day the Sunne was eclipsed the weather being very tempestuous it rained pearles The third day a firie Dragon was seene to flye about Babylon There appeared also a new hill exceeding in height other hills which was by and by divided into two parts in the middest whereof was found apillar wherein was written in Greeke The houre of the nativity is come the end of the world is at hand The xiij houre after his birth a voice was heard crying in the aire Prepare your hearts to receive and blessed are they that keepe his word After this child had lived two moneths hee brake out in speech like an old man and professed himselfe to be the son of God And being asked what these signes did pre●… The pearles that fell from the element he said did 〈◊〉 the people that would beleeve his word the flying 〈◊〉 signified his adversaries He healed all 〈◊〉 he restored sight to the blind hee revived the 〈◊〉 with his word and professing himself to be a true interpreter of the holy Scripture secret mysteries he was through all Babylon contrary to the laws of their cou●… adored and worshipped for a God Thus will Sathan never leave to use the helpe of men as instruments to oppose himselfe against God and to draw them from true obedience to the destruction both of their body soule For to beleeve that there be no Spirits as I heare there be such in these daies or that they shew not themselves to men in divers figures worke not things here in the earth among men and in the ayre above us contrary to the opinion of so many learned men of divers ages and to common experience of all times is meere ignorance and wilfull obstinacy and the next way to atheisme 〈◊〉 an excellent learned man was also

eye-lyddes and put him into an engine that was sticked round about full of verie sharpe nailes and suffered him there with continuall watch and paine to dye a most grievous death Decius another noble Romane and one of the Consols being in the field with the Romanes forces against the Latins and perceiving his men to shrinke and give place to their enemies hee by the advice of their Priests made his prayers to their false gods for their helpe and offering himselfe to a voluntary death for his countrey put the spurres to his horse and thrust himselfe into the middest of his enemies by whom after hee had slaine many of them he was himselfe at last overthrowne and slaine But the courage of Decius so daunted them and emboldened his owne men that they carried away the victorie with the destruction of the greater part of their enemies The like love to his countrey to which men owe the greatest dutie next unto God wrought the like effect in Codsus king of Athens For as the Docrians came with their forces to besiege Athens Codsus having intelligence that his enemies had sent to Delphos to aske counsel of Apollo what would be the event of their warres and that answer was made them by the Oracle that the Docrians should have the victory except they killed the king of the Athenians Codsus apparelled himselfe like a common souldier left if he should bee like a noble man hee might be taken prisoner and live●… and went out of the City with a burden of wood upon his shoulders into his enemies campe and quarselling of purpose with a common souldier wounded him and was slain himselfe The Docrians hearing that the King of the Athenians was slaine raised their siege and returned home againe As Tubero was sitting in judgement in Rome a Pye alighted upon his head and i●…te so still that hee tooke her with his hand And when the Soothsayers answered that if the Pye were let go it b●…tokened destruction to the Empue if she were killed then the same would fallupon himselfe hee pretening the good of his countrey before his own life killed the Pye and not long after fulfilled the propheci with his death There want not some such like examples 〈◊〉 Christians of later yeares When Call●… had been besieged eleven months by King I dw●…d he third and the inhabitants driven to that extrmine that they must yeeld to the Kings mercie or pe●… hee refusir 〈◊〉 offers would accept no other conditions out that 〈◊〉 the best of the towne should suffer death the 〈◊〉 depart When the matter was had in consolation in the Councell house among the pune pall men at the towne who considering that ●…yther sixe of 〈◊〉 must dye or else the whole must beedest reved hee that sate in the first seat ●…ole up and said that he would offer himselfe to the wrath of the enemy and give his life to his country which example wrought such emulation of piety to their countrey in the rest that the second riseth likewise and then the third and so the rest one after another untill they had made up the number of six required by the King who all willingly suffered death for their Countrey There happened at Rome in the middest of the market place by meanes of an earthquake and other causes the earth to open and a very deepe hole to bee made which would not bee filled with all the earth that could bee throwne into it the Romanes caused their Priests to use their accustomed ceremonies to their Gods to understand their pleasure about this matter when they had finished their sacrifices answer was made them that if they would have their Common-wealth perpetuall they must sacrifice into this hole something wherein the Romanes power did most consist And as this matter was published and consultations daily had what manner of thing this should bee Marcus Curtius a Noble young Gentleman and a valiant souldier meditating upon the interpretation of this answer told them that the thing wherein the power of the Romanes most rested was the vertue and valour and armes of the Gentlemen and offered himselfe willingly for the benefit and prosperitie of his Countrey to cast himselfe alive into that hole And when he had armed himselfe and attired his horse very richly hee putteth his spurres to him and kapeth into the midst of the hole which immediately closed together Xerxes King of Sparta having intelligence that Xerxes King of Persia who brought into Greece an army of a 1000000. men after some writers besides his navie had found out a way to assaile him and the rest of the Grecians armie at their backs that were desending his passage through a straight hee perswaded the Grecians to retire and preserve themselves for a better time and when they were departed to their owne Cities he with five hundred men who were all resolute to dye with him for the honour of their Countrey in the night assayled Xerxes campe such an enterprise as never before nor since hath beene heard of The enemies being dismayed with their bold and furious charge an accident unlooked for and terrified by the darkenesse of the night suspecting that all the force of Greece had beene assembled together fl●…d to save themselves and gave Lconidas and his company leave to kill them at their pleasure without any great resistance And as Lconidas having promised before to kill the king with his owne hand if fortune favoured him pressed into the Kings pavillion killing all that guarded the place and made search for him in every corner hee understood that Xerxes had convayed himselfe away in the beginning of the tumult who otherwise was like to have drunke of the same cup as the other did And when they had wearied themselves with killing their enemies and the day beganne to shew the Persians that were fled up to the toppe of an hill looking backe and perceiving the small number that pursued them turned againe and put them all to the sword Thus Leonidas and his company for the love of their Countrey sacrificed themselves to a voluntary death without any hope or meaning to escape whose courage and valiant enterprise made such an impression of feare in the hearts of the Persians that Xerxes left his Lieutenant to prosecute the warres and returned backe againe into his countrey an enterprise worthy of perp su●…ll memory five hundred men to put to slighean 〈◊〉 that dranke the rivers drie as they passed CHAP. II. Of Law-maker the Law-maker And of Charondas A remarkeable Iustice in Solyman Strange Iustice amongst the Sw ZZers I he Iustice of the Emperors Frajan Antoninus Plus and Alexander Severus Of Antonius Valentinian Theodosius Augustus Marcus Aurelius c. Of S●…s Lewis the French king Of Favourites to Princes Constantine the Great Of Alexander Severus his commendable Iustice upon Vetorius Turinus Belon c. Of their great vices observed by Historians Impietie Injustice and Luxurie c.