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

coniuring them not to leave them to the inhumanities wherewith they were threatned They speake of nothing but stones and spared not to carry many to the top of the wals to knocke downe the approachers Peter of Arragon entreth into Sicily under the title of occasion and opportunity For he had not any but that of Constantia his wife who had the title of Manfredus her father and Manfredus Priuate houses only think how to preserve their owne Princely how to invade others of invasion Private thefts are punished It is a Kingly worke to invade another and in great power strength usurpes the place of reason Messina is succoured Charles inforced to retire with much sorrow not to have tempered his anger accepted the offer which had assured him of the whole Iland without a blow strucken Then was the time his tongue did him ill service for had it not discovered his heart all Sicily would have stooped to his obedience The Sicilians found the Catalonians harsh proud and untractable Other Cities fearing the like punishment having done the same fault followed the resolution of the Messinians and opened the gates to the Arragonians who presently handled these people so harshly and haughtily that they wished for the French againe Gaultier of Calatagirona declares against the Arragonians who tooke him and hanged him Those of Calatagirona tooke armes against them and Alaimus Leontinus chiefe Iustice wrote to Charles that if he sent him but ten Gallies he would restore Sicily unto him but he would not trust them who were dishonoured with so notorious a treachery Charles seeing Fortune with one so violent a kick of her foot had throwne downe all his designes sought pretence of reason He who will not be angry for the losse of a Crown will not be troubled at any thing and finding no cause of anger or quarrell more iust than the invasion of a Kingdome besought the Pope to admit he might combat with Peter of Arragon in single Duell to determine by the death of one a difference which might be the death of many The Pope seeing Peter of Arragon would not submit to reason left him to the hazard of armes Simon Leontinus a Dominican Frier carried the letter of challenge Charles sent him the lye and defiance Peter refused not to measure his sword with Charles They agree to take Bourdeaux for the place of Combat and the King of England for Iudge an hundred Captaines of either part for spectators and Sicily for Trophey of victory The King of England at that time held Guyen Charles testified his courage by shewing himselfe twice in the field and Peter his prudence by accepting the combat to withdraw his enemy The Combat appointed in the moneth of May in the yeare 1283 Charles retireth out of the field upon notice that Peter was so farre off he could not come the next day yet arrived the same day and put his army and launce into the hands of the English Marshall who in Sicily drew neare unto him He came to Tours but it was after he knew Charles was departed leaving registred with the Marshall of England that he had expected his enemy from morning untill night He complaineth to the Pope that Peter of Arragon put a scorne upon him and that he will neither plead nor restore The Pope excommunicateth him as an Vsurper upon the rights of the Church gives his Kingdome to Charles proclaimes open warres against him and begins it with more reputation than prosperity Peter of Arragon surpriseth the I le of Malta and his Admirall the Gallies of Naples with Charles Prince of Salerno the Kings son whom he sends prisoner to Barcellon drawes neare to Naples terrifies and amuseth minds so much that if Cbarles had not speedily hastened thither the gates had been opened to him His presence gives confidence to honest men The defeat and taking of Charles on the fifth of August 1284. and terrour to the seditious he caused a hundred and fifty of them to be hanged and had he not considered that there is not any man so miserable who is not a member of the State It is written that he in his anger commanded to put fire amongst the Neapolitans Gerrard of Parma the Popes Legate appeased him and shewed that how much the more faults were great so much the more clemency is commendable punishment had taken away a much greater number which had he omitted he should have made a new world through the difficulty of distinction betweene good subjects rebels children from servants for as those are not chastised by blows so are the other so refractary they cannot be appeased with sweetnesse Fortune being now wholly turned against him his army was discomfited before Rheggio and he raising another to recover Sicily the sorrow of his forepassed losses staied him dissolved his designe and ended his life Fortune exacted so rough interests from the contentments she had given him that in these his last agonies seeing the precipice inevitable If I must needs fall said Charles I pray God it may be handsomely he sought nothing but to descend into it after his owne manner without either being urged or forced He as having wilfully concurred to his owne unhappinesse He who is the cause of his owne suffering may only thanke himselfe endevoured not to seeke out elsewhere than in himselfe the causes of his suffering It is impossible to live in the world without adversity but it much importeth to understand for what cause we suffer In the same army died Pope Martin the fourth Charles the first King of Naples Peter of Arragon Philip the Hardy what the expectation is and to what purpose we endure for if it be not innocently patience is difficult and comforts are superfluous He died at Foggia the seventh of Ianuary 1284. Charles the first King of Naples caused the head of Conradinus grandchild of the Emperour Frederick to be cut off on the 26. of October 1269. Charles the second losing the King his father must of necessity part both with life and Kingdome The Queene Constantia was counselled to let him dye under the hands of an executioner to revenge the death of her Nephew so that upon this advice she on a Friday sent him word he must prepare himselfe to the same punishment which his father had inflicted on Conradinus He answered I am most ready to dye for the love of him who upon the same day suffered for me This generous and Christian answer touched the Queenes heart who replied For the same respect he would dye I will have him live But to qualifie this inveterate choler and violent thirst to revenge the death of Conradinus Cruelty is an inveterate anger she commanded the heads of two hundred gentlemen prisoners to be cut off At foure yeares end he was freed from captivity left there three of his children Lewis Robert and Iohn for hostages and regaining

provexit quam ut esset cujus ministerio ac fraudibus liberos Germanici circumveniret Suet. for he was desirous to make use of the wiles and policies of Sejanus to ruine the house of Germanicus and advance his owne and Sejanus purposed to climbe to the Imperiall throne by the fall of both His power was not so swift as his will which met with many maine obstacles For the stocke of Caesars was yet whole and entire the sonne young the nephewes men growne It was not in his power to ruine so many at once Dolus intervalla scelerum poscebat Tac. For mischiefe required there should be distance betweene such terrible counterbuffes and that he practise the death of Drusus the sonne of Tiberius at the same time that Tiberius meant to murther Germanicus For as the heart more apprehendeth perils farther off than the present Tiberius saw nothing which made him jealous but the brother nor any thing put feare vpon Sejanus ambition but the sonne The worst counsell he gave him It is ever perilous to change the ordinance of a predecessor was to alter what Augustus had decreed and hate what he loued For the extreme malice he bare against the house of Germanicus cooled the first affection he found when he came to the Empire in the hearts of the Citizens hastening as fast as he could wish R●mae ruunt in serv●●●um Consules Patres Equites Tac. to the overthrow of their libertie and tumbling it by maine force as a rocke into the gulfe of servitude that it might neuer rise vp againe Germanicus was both favoured and beloved of the people because he was the sonne of Drusus who formerly had vndertaken to reduce the ancient government of the Common-wealth and had imparted the project to Tiberius his brother but he betrayed him and discovered it to Augustus It was supposed the sonne would have pursued the fathers plot Credebatur si rerum potitus soret libertatem redditurus Tac. to set liberty againe on foot and that if he should attaine the soveraigne authority he would not exercise rigour like Tiberius but raigne sweetly as Augustus Augustus civile rebatur misceri voluptatibus populi Tac. who was Prince and seemed Citizen disdaining not to be present in their popular recreations For which cause Germanicus swaied in hearts and Tiberius only in provinces and being advertised he had pacified Germany and that his wife Agrippina had there done all which might be expected from the Generall of an army to shew her courage to the enemies her bounty to the souldiers her prudence in seditions he became jealous and jealousie degenerating into mortall hatred made him say vnto her Nihil relictum Imperatoribus ubi foemina manipulos intervisat signa adcat largitionem tentet What shall the Emperours haue hereafter to doe since a woman vndertaketh to command over men visit the Court of guards oblige the souldiers with good words and large donatiues Sejanus who loued not Agrippina and well knew the humour of Tiberius which brooked not any should trench vpon his soueraigne Authority a thing so delicate that how tenderly soeuer it be touched is alwayes wounded wanted not arguments and surmises to entertaine his jealousie O dia in longum jaciens quae reconderet auctaque promeret Suet. adding distrust to suspition to suspition feare and as it were a far off preparing the hatred of this Prince to worke her ruine in the end Germanicus returneth from Germany The whole City rejoyceth Tiberius commandeth that only two companies of the pretorian bands should march before him all the people ran thither Populus omnis usque aol vicesimum lapidem se effudit Sue● the sooner to giue themselues the contentment of beholding him whom they so long had desired and expected Tiberius grew so discontented hereupon that he resolved to cut off this brave Prince who was but now entring into the foure and thirtieth yeare of his age and had already gained as much reputation as another perhaps could acquire in an age Sceleratis ingeniis plusquam civilia cupientibus non dominari instar servitutis est Calp. This hindered Sejanus who transported with the desire of rule supposed this mighty power he possessed in the affaires of state was nought else but seruitude whilst he acknowledged a superior Tiberius by his advice sendeth Germanicus into Sclavonia under colour of honouring him with principall charges of the Empire giveth him for lieutenant Gneius Piso an euill man proud and violent with commission to observe his actions and discover all his designes It is said Sejanus gave him direction by writing to make away this poore Prince He puts this in execution Germanicus passeth into Aegypt and being there was desirous to see the Idoll Apis Apis manum Germanici Caesaris aversatus est haud multo post extincti Plin. to know what his fortune should be He presented it with meat to eat Apis would take nothing from his hand which was interpreted for a certaine signe of his death He was surprized with a long lingring and painfull sicknesse and his opinion of being poisoned augmented the violence thereof Fama ex long inquo aucta Tac. so that he held it incurable The rumour came to Rome much greater than the maladie for distance redoubled it The people ascribe to events all actions which went before Nothing was then heard but teares and lamentations And wherefore was it saith one that he was sent to the utmost limits of the world that Piso was made his Lieutenant These are the practices of the Emperesse with Plancina the wife of Piso Poore Rome we cannot affect those which love thee nor dare wee murmur against such as ruine thee adding thereunto vehement and mortall imprecations against Seianus It was reported by Merchants of Egypt Latiora statim credita statim vulgata Tac. that he began to recover This newes was as soone beleeved as published The streets were thronged with the presse of people that ran to the Temples to render thanks to the Gods Night favoured this rumour Pronior in tenebris affirmatio Tac. Beleefe seemes much more easie and is most confident in the darke Tiberius himselfe is wakened in the night with the acclamations of joy Nothing was every where heard but these words Salua Roma salua patria salvus est Germanicus Suet. Rome is delivered our Countrey is freed Germanicus is safe After this poison slowly-violent had wasted all the heat and moisture of this poore afflicted body Germanicus could not endure the crowing or sight of a cocke Plut. his Allies and friends wished it might not be irksome to him to have or see a cocke to sacrifice it to Esculapius and that the Gods would restore him life thereby to give libertie to the Roman Empire In this his extreme weaknesse he breathed forth these last words to impresse them in the hearts of his wife and friends whom sorrow dissolved into teares

Messalina wife of Claudius the sinke of all abominations Clytemnestra murdered Agame●non her husband to throw it on mine honour He makes me more wanton than Cleopatra more insatiable than Messalina more cruell than Clytemnestra Had he found me in those infamous houses where every one knowes why that place is frequented he could not use me more unworthily He sayes I have failed in loyalty to my Husband Fye upon treachery We cannot judge the inward man by the outward he sayes I did it because he thinkes I should have done it and that the harsh and barbarous conditions of his brother might dispence with a Queene They who deceive their husbands recompence with good words evill deeds who being in the flower of her age had no cause to complain that nature denied her its perfections or heauen fauours Is it not a silly tricke to derive the proofes of the heart from the forehead When he sayes I had nothing in store for Andrew but scorne and contempt and that I reserved my affections for others What he produceth to condemne mee justifies me who knoweth not that such as deceive their husbands flatter them whilst others whose consciences upbraid them not are more imperious satisfying themselves with the interiour approbation of their vertue He sayes I am guiltie of his death It is false If my sex permitted I would challenge him and make these words returne into his heart with the lye or his life issue forth with his shame I would quickly bee resolved upon it my courage should make difficulties abashed and shame valiant If I would have committed this wicked act Oftentimes great mischiefes are imputed to accident to excuse the plot I had meanes to performe it in a more secret manner and to impute that to accident which came by violence I could not doe it alone and if any one therein assisted me let him speake let him accuse me I promise him pardon The King of Hungarie assures him reward but Heaven threatneth both the one and the other with Hell What say I It is a jest Polyphemus mocked at Vlysses who spake to him of the feare of the Gods In many places second wedlocks have beene accused of incontinencie to speake to a Cyclope of the feare of Gods Hee affirmes I am married to the Prince of Tarentum but have I done it without the Churches dispensation without advice of my Councell without the necessitie of my Kingdome And where are the Lawes which forbid Princesses of eighteene a second wedlocke Must none but virgins marrie He addeth I loved him not one should have beene verie tender and compassionate of heart to affect his person King Robert made it appeare when he gave him to me that hee respected not so much my contentment as his owne The honour I did him to marrie him obliged him to retribution of honor but he on the contrarie sought to have all authoritie and I was enforced to take it from him that I might not submit the Lawes of my Kingdome to the discretion of strangers So soone as sovereigne authoritie is shaken it is lost and confounded I was jealous of mine authoritie as of the apple of mine eye of the heart of my State My Ancestors taught me that if this rock once totter it cannot be stayed the end of its motion is ruine Who is glad of his owne losse never loved the possession They say I bewailed him not Verily were I bound to deplore deliverance from an insupportable torment I confesse to have done amisse for my teares were quickly dryed up That I neglected the revenge of his death this concernes me not those whom I entrusted with the care of my Lawes and Iustice must answer for that But revenge not sorrow have brought me hither to tell you I am displeased with his death as your Queene who considereth the sequele of impunitie All Princes are brothers and resent the offence of Prin●es the scandall of other Princes the reproach of this Nation and who should account her selfe unworthy the Crowne God hath placed on her head if shee employed not it and her proper selfe in the punishment of this Parricide protesting there is not any person of what qualitie soever whom I abandon not without hope of grace or pardon I conjure you to serve me in this designe and to take away the maske of passion that the integritie of justice may appeare and the Sun dissolve the Ice which hath hitherto covered this wicked act The assembly thanked her for this declaration To despise the punishment of great crimes is to give way to much greater praised her justice and the magnanimous care she had of her reputation which could not any way bee more sensibly wounded than by deferring the enquirie and punishment of a crime so enormous and horrid the dissembling whereof were injustice and clemencie crueltie Hugo de Baux Prince of Orange Count of Avellina was appointed with absolute and sovereigne power voyd of limitation to punish the guiltie He laid not hold on wretched and miserable creatures which like little animals doe nothing To punish inferiours is but to crush little animals saith Seneca but foule the fingers of those who crush them he caused to be taken many Lords many Ladies of the Chamber and Cabinet then the Catanian the High Steward of Naples her sonne the Count Mursan her sonne in Law and Sancha her daughter Erecto immaniequuleo in conspectu Neopolitanae urbis medio maris in sinu ritu regionis spec●ante populo in Philippam torsit Mis●llam Sanctiam Robertum And that the Common-wealth might publikely receive the satisfaction he promised upon this proceeding the Processe being drawen he without the Towne erected a torture wherein he exposed to the eyes of all the Citie and Kingdome the Catanian and her children who suffered great torments as an Antipast of some farre more exquisite The most miserable thought themselves happie in comparison of such prosperitie Not to bee moved with these examples is as Pirrho's Pig to eat barley greedily in the greatest violence of torment Boccace tels us not what they confessed but by the subsequent punishment we may ghesse of the confession Certaine dayes after they are dragged naked thorow the Towne upon a hurdle then tyed to three ship-masts burning pinsers twitched them rasors flaied them and flames choaked them The Catanian old and weake died in the midst of the torments her heart and entrailes were torne out her head set upon one of the gates of Naples and the rest of her body turned into ashes Enraged hatred envieth the executioners commission Her daughter Sancha was burnt alive Robert her sonne halfe rosted in the fire was drawne thence alive and as if the punishment had beene too gentle for publike satisfaction the people haled him thorowout the City in the dirt and kennels Egineta counselled Pansanias after the victory of Platea to hang Mardonius his enemy on a gallowes then pulled his heart and bowels forth rent him in pieces and there were some who barbarously inhumane tare him with their nailes and fixed their teeth upon him not so much for revenge as through fury and brutishnesse This history is come to its period You counsell me not well said he it only is proper to Barbarians to be cruell to the dead it goes no further he that would know how Queene Ioane went out of this tragedy must travell farther therein than we have done It sufficeth to tell you the Catanian drew upon the Kings and Kingdome of Sicily a deluge of calamities fastning misery as with nails of Adamant to the Crowne of Naples never prosperous either for Ioane her foure husbands her sister or those of her race Lewis King of Hungary entred twice into Naples as into an enemies Countrey to revenge his brothers death he enforced the Queene to retire into Nice The King of Hungary had a blacke standard whereon is pourtrayed the strangling of his brother put the Duke of Durazzo to death at Aversa in the same place where his brother had beene strangled Mary his wife escaped into Provence with her two daughters in the habit of a Franciscan The Pope declareth the Queene innocent treateth peace with Lewis she adopts Lewis Duke of Anjou Queene Ioane strangled at Naples the 22. of May. 1382. son of K. Iohn Charles D. of Durazzo revolts against Ioane besiegeth her in the Castle Ovo makes her yeeld causeth her with her sister to be strangled and usurps the Crowne Lewis King of Hungary dies a Leaper Charles is slaine by Elizabeth She by the faction of Charles Ladis●aus her sonne died of poison in the imbracements of a Lady Ioane the second succeedeth marrieth Iaques de Bourbon Earle of March for her second husband Ioane had two favourites her husband cut off the head of one and she stabbed the other who unable to correct or tolerate her imperfections forsakes her and shuts himselfe up in a cloyster She adopteth Alfonsus and having nothing constant in her but her inconstancy revokes the adoption fought to kill him declareth Rene Duke of Anjou Earle of Provence her heire He did not long enjoy her Crowne In all this we must conclude that ill successe w●iteth on unjust prosperity that there is not any wickednesse which beareth not its paine and repentance that he who perpetrateth one expects the opportunity of another that whilst the worlds Theater lasteth Fortune thereon will play her Tragedies and will make it appeare she flatters those she meanes to stifle FINIS