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A10647	A booke called the Foundacion of rhetorike because all other partes of rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde: made by Richard Rainolde Maister of Arte, of the Uniuersitie of Cambridge. 1563.; Foundacion of rhetorike	Rainolde, Richard, d. 1606.	1563 (1563)	STC 20925A.5; ESTC S104585	88,800	132

consent of men but by the neynge of a horse Zopyrus therefore admonished them that they should trust more to their armour then to their walles he willed them to proclame opē warre forthwith they encountred with the Persians and for a time victorie fel on the Babilonians side suche was the pollice of Zopyrus The Assyrians reioised of the successe and felicitie of their warres the King of the Babilonians gaue to Zopyrus the chiefe power office to leede a mightie armie of the whiche beynge Lientenaunt he betraied the Babilonians and their Citie ¶ Manifeste NOt onlie Trogus Pompeius the famous Historiographer and Iustine which tooke the Story of him but also the Greke writers doe sette forthe as matter of truthe the valiaunte enterprises of Zopyrus so that the straunge and mightie facte of him can not seme vncredible hauyng testimonie of it in all ages Zopyrus hauing not respect to his owne life to his owne priuate wealthe or glorie did thereby put of the daunger that insued to the Persiane Kyngdome It maie seme a greate matter to a mynde not well affected towarde his countrie to destroie or deforme his owne bodie for the sauegarde of countrie or common welth But if we waie the State of oure bearth oure countrie chalengeth more at oure handes then frindes or parentes so muche price Plato the Philosopher and 〈…〉 vnto our countrie the volumes of all 〈…〉 doe prefare oure naturall countrie before the priuate state of owne manne wealthe glorie honor dignitie and riches of one or fewe the Statutes of all Princes sekyng the glorie of their countrie doe prefare a vniuersal welthe before a priuate and particulare commoditie Pericles the noble Athenian in his oration made to the Athenians sheweth that the glorie and welthe of one man or manie cannot plante suche glorie and renowne to their countrie as that in all partes thereby to be beautified and decorated but whē glorie a happie and florishyng state redoundeth to the kyngdome the subiectes the nobelles and hye peres the gouuernour standeth happie and fortunate Who so hopeth in sparing costes and charges monie or ornaments to the behouf and imploiment of his countrie and not by all meanes to his power and strength aydeth and defendeth his naturall countrie from the daunger and inuasion of his enemie what state inioyeth he or what wealth remaineth priuatlie when the trone and scepter of his kyng faileth the enemie wasteth spoileth and destroieth all partes of his state with the reste his life perisheth so that no daunger coste is to bee refused to serue the kingdom and prince by whose scepter iustice lawes and equitie we are gouuerned there is no subiect well affected but that he onlie liueth to proffite his countrie to liue dye therein ¶ Probabell IF only Zopyrus had enterprised this valiaunt act and that no memorie were remainyng in anie age of the noble acts of other men it may seme not truelie chronacled but from time to time in all ages cōmon wealthes famous men for their acts nobilitie haue ben whiche with like courrage and magnanimitie haue saued their countrie by the losse of their owne liues Horatius Cocles is bothe a witnesse and a light to the same by whose aduenture the mightie and stronge Citie Rome was saued 〈…〉 a● what time as the Hetruscians entred on the citie and were on the bridge Horatius cocles defendid the ende of the same baryng of the brunte and stroke of the enemie vntill the Romans for the sauegarde of the cytie had broken doun the bridge as sone as Horatius Cocles sawe the Cytie thus deliuered and the repulse of the enemie he lepte with his armours into the flud Tibar it semed he had not regard to his life that beyng burdened with the waighte and grauitie of his armour durst venter his life to so main and depe a water Marcus Attilius in the defence of his Prince his right hand being cut of the which he laide on the ship of the Massilians forthwith he apprehended with the lefte hand and ceased not vntill he hadde soouncke the same ship Cynegerus the Athenian lineth by fame and like nobilitie of actes vēteryng his life for his countrie The mightie cytie of Athenes brought vnder the dominions of the Lacedemonians Thrassbulus Hismenias and Lisias bi their aduenture and noble atchiue reduced Athenes to his falicitie so moche loue soo faithefull hartes they hadde towardes theire countreie Leonides the King of the Lacedemonians defendyng the narow straights of the cytie Thermopolie with sower thousand men against the mightie and huge armie of Xerxes for Xerxes contemned theire smalle number and armie Leonides the kyng hearde that the place and hill of the battell was preuētid of .xx. thousande enemies he exorted his souldiours parte of them to departe vntill a better time might be locked for and onlie with the Lacedemonians he proued the conflicte and the combate although the campe of Xerxes was mightier more in number yet Leonides the kyng thought it good for the sauegarde of his contrie for saieth he I must rather saue it then to haue respecte to my life although the oracle of Delphos had foreshewed that euen Leonides muste die in the fielde or battell of the enemie and therefore Leonides entred battall comfortid his men for their countrie sake as to die therein therefore he preuented the narrowe straightes of the countrie and the dangerous places where the force of 〈◊〉 ●nem●e ●●ught bruste in he lingered not leste the enemie mighte compasse him in but in the quiet season of the nighte he set vppon his enemie vnloked for and they beynge but sixe hundred men with the kyng Leonides brust into the cāpe of their enemies beyng sixe hundred thousand menne their valiauntnes was suche and the ouerthowe of their enemies so great and Xerxes the Kyng hauyng two woundes retired with shame and loste the honor Agesilaus and Conon valiaunte in actes and excellynge in all nobilitie what great and mightie dangers haue thei atchiued and venterid for their countrie sake howe moche haue thei neglectid their owne wealth riches life and glorie for the aduauncement and honor of their coūtrie Lisander also the Lacedemonian was indued with like nobilitie with faithfull and syncéer harte towarde his country Archidamus also lieth not in obliuiō whose fame death buried not the famous aduenture of Codrus kyng of the Athenians is maruelous and almoste incredible but that the Histores truelie set forth and declare a manifest truthe therof who is more famous then Epaminundas bothe for virtue nobilitie and marciall feates among the Thebans the mightie armie of the Grecians at the longe sege of Troie what valiaunte Capitains hadde thei whiche in the defence of their countrie hasarde their life the Troians also wanted not for proues valiauntnes and al nobilitie their péeres and nobles amonge the Romans what a greate number was

Nero at what tyme as his mother was conceiued of him she dreamed that she was conceiued of a Viper for the young Viper alwaies killeth his dame He was not onely a Viper to his mother whom he killed but also to his kyngdome and common wealthe a destroier whiche afterward shalbe shewed what a tyraunte and bloodie gouernour he was This Nero made in the Citee of Rome the rounde seates and scaffoldes to beholde spectacles and sightes and also the bathes He subdued Pontus a greate countrée whiche ioineth to the sea Pontuswhiche countrée containeth these realmes Colchis Cappadocia Armenia and many other countrées and made it as a Prouince by the suffraunce of Polemon Regulus by whose name it was called Pontus Polemoniacus He ouer came the Alpes of the king Cott●us ●ttius the king being dedde The life followyng of Nero was so abhominable that the shame of his life will make any man a fraied to leaue any memorie of hym This Domitius Nero caused his Scholemaister Seneca to be put to death Seneca chosing his owne death his veines beyng cutte in a hotte bathe died bicause he corrected wicked Nero to traine hym to vertue He was outragious wicked that he had cōsideracion neither to his own honestie nor to other but in continuaunce he tired hymself as virgines doe when thei marie callyng a Senate the dourie assigned and as the maner of that solemnitee is many resortyng and frequentyng in maidens tire and apparell He went beyng a man to be maried as a woman beside this at other tymes he cladde hymself with the skin of a wilde beast and beastlie did handle that whiche Nature remoueth from the sight He defiled hymself with his owne mother whom he killed immediatlie He maried twoo wiues Octauia and Sabina otherwise called Poppea firste murtheryng their housbandes In that tyme Galba vsurped the Empire and Caius Iulius as sone as Nero heard that Galba came nere towardes Rome euen then the Senate of Rome had determined that Nero should bee whipped to death with roddes accordyng to the old vsage of their auncestours his necke yoked with a forke This wicked Nero seyng himself forsaken of all his friendes at midnight he departed out of the Citée Ephaon and Epaphroditus waityng on hym Neophitus and Sporus his Eunuche whiche Sporus before tyme had Nero assaied to frame and fashion out of kinde In the ende Nero thruste himself through with the poinct of his sworde his wicked man Sporus thrustyng foreward his trembling hande this wicked Nero before that hauyng none to murther hym he made a exclamacion in these woordes Is there neither friende nor enemie to kill me shamefullie haue I liued and with more shame shall 〈◊〉 in the .xxxij. yere of his age he died The Persians so atire ly loued hym that after his death thei sente Ambassidours desiryng licence to erecte to hym a monumente all countrées and Prouinces and the whole Citée of Rome did so moche reioyce of his death that thei all wearyng the Toppintant hattes whiche bonde men doe vse to ware when thei bee sette at libertie and so thei triumphed of his death deliuered from so cruell a tyraunte ¶ A comparison AS for wicked gouernement Nero doeth make Caligula like to Comodus Domitianus Antoninus Caracalla thei were all so wicked that the Senate of Rome thought it méete to obliterate their name from all memorie and Chronicle because of their wickednesse ¶ The conclusion MOche more the life and gouernement of wicked Nero might be intreated of but this shall be sufficient to shewe how tyrannically and beastly he gouerned vnmete of that throne ¶ A comparison A Comparison is a certain Oracion shewyng by a collacion the worthines or excellēcie of any thing or the naughtines of the same compared with any other thyng or thynges either equalle or more inferiour In a comparison good thynges are compared with good as one vertue with an other as wisedome strength whiche of them moste auaileth in peace and warre Euill thynges maie bee compared with good as Iustice with iniustice wisedome with foolishnes Euill thynges maie be compared with euill thynges as wicked Nero compared to Domitianus or Caligula to Cōmodus theft to homicide drunkenes with adulterie Small thynges maie be compared with greate the king with his subiect the Elephant or Camell to the Flie a Crocodile to the Scarabe In a comparison where monumente is supputated on bothe the sides worthetie to praise or dispraise Where a comparison is made betwene a thyng excellente and a thyng more inferiour the comparison shall procede with like facilitee All thynges that maie bee celebrated with praise or that meriteth dispraise al soche thynges maie be in a comparison The persone as Cato being a wise man maie be compared with Nestor the sage péere of Grece Pompei with Cesar as Lucane compareth them and so of all other men Thynges maie bee compared as golde with siluer one mettall with an other Tymes maie bee compared as the Spryng with Sommer Harueste with Winter Places maie be compared as London with Yorke Oxforde with Cambridge Beastes without reason as the Bée with the Ante the Oxe with the Shepe Plantes as the Vine and the Oliue First make a proemium or beginnyng to your cōparison Then compare them of their countrée Of their parentes Of their auncestours Of their education Of their actes Of their death Then adde the conclusion ¶ A comparison betwene Demosthenes and Tullie TO speake moche in the praise of famous men no argument can wante nor plentie of matter to make of them a copious and excellent Oracion Their actes in life through nobilitée will craue worthelie more then the witte and penne of the learned ca● by Eloquence expresse Who can worthelie expresse and sette foorthe the noble Philosopher Plato or Aristotle as matter worthelie forceth to commend when as of them all learnyng and singularitée of artes hath flowen All ages hath by their monuments of learning participated of their wisedome Grece hath fostered many noble wittes from whom all light of knowlege hath been deriued by whose excellencie Rome in tyme florishyng did seeke by nobilitée of learnyng to mate the noble Grecians So moche Italie was adorned and beautified with the cunnyng of the Grecians Emong the Romaines many famous Oratours and other noble men hath spronge vp who for their worthinesse might haue contended with any nacion either for their glorie of learnyng or noble regiment Emong whom Tullie by learning aboue the rest rose to high fame that he was a renoume to his countree to learnyng a light of all singuler Eloquence a fountaine Whom Demosthenes the famous Oratour of Athenes as a worthie mate is compared with whom not onely the nobilitée and renoume of their Countrée shall decorate but thē selues their owne worthines nobilitée of fame No age hath had twoo more famous for learnyng no common wealthe hath tasted twoo more profitable to their countrée and common