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A16169	Beautiful blossomes, gathered by Iohn Byshop, from the best trees of all kyndes, diuine, philosophicall, astronomicall, cosmographical, historical, & humane, that are growing in Greece, Latium, and Arabia, and some also in vulgar orchards, as wel fro[m] those that in auncient time were grafted, as also from them which haue with skilful head and hand beene of late yeares, yea, and in our dayes planted: to the vnspeakable, both pleasure and profite of all such wil vouchsafe to vse them. The first tome	Bishop, John, d. 1613.	1577 (1577)	STC 3091; ESTC S102279	212,650	348

foūdation do kingdoms stand on so tottering a stoole do princes sitt that sporting Fortune séemes oftentimes to put them into the hand of a madd man But nothing did more manifestly shewe vnto him his brittle blisse then the reuolting of all the noble men of the farther Hispaine except the duke of Alua vnto Philip duke of Burgogie who had maried his eldest daughter and heire at his arriual in Hispaine after the death of Quéene Isabell they eftsones saying that they would rather adore the sunne rising then going downe The griefe of this shamefull forsaking of him did so gripe the aged princes heart that not being able to endure the dishonour to be a subiecte where hee had long reigned he left Hispaine and sailed with his newe wife vnto Naples chosing rather to cōmit himselfe vnto the doubtfull faith of the gouernour and conquerour of that flourishing kingdome whom the report was minded to reuolt make himselfe king of Naples the which hée might easily haue done then vnto the open ill wills and rebellion of the vnfaithful Hispaniards And doubtlesse hee was in very great danger of being vtterly excluded out of his kingdomes of Castill Lions if that God had not shortly after taken out of the world his sonne in lawe who was so alienated from him that when the courteous king laden with wearisome yeares had taken a lōg paineful iourney to receiue him at the water the proud and vnciuil duke would not vouchsafe to shew him any countenaunce But after he had giuen him scornefully a word or two and them too in French which the king vnderstood not he flange away from him al the nobilitie with him The xlix Chapter Of William Conquerour BVt nowe after that wee haue romed long abroad in all forreigne lands let vs returne home vnto our owne countrie take a view of such Princes as haue by dint of sword atteined the imperial crowne thereof or enlarged the dominions least we may be thought to be like vnto the Lamiae in Poets whome they do faine to sée very exactly when they are abroad but to be starke blinde at home William bastard sonne vnto Robert duke of Normandie who left him his heire although by puissance he cōquered this land discomfited in battel the king of Denmarke forced the king of Scotland for feare to do him homage sweare him fealtie yet the often rebellions and secrete treasons of the Englishmen Normans the perfidiousnes of his owne déere brother Odo in whom he reposed his greatest trust the wicked reuolting of his eldest sonne Robert vnto the French king with his aide his daungerous inuasion of Normandie his arme thrust through in fight and his vnhorsing by that vnnaturall child and his bowelles sore brused by a leape off his horse in his last voyage against the French king of the intollerable torments whereof he died will not suffer him to be enrolled among the happie But nothing in my mind doth more manifestly bewray his infelicitie then that he had not so much ground at his death as could couer his carcase without doing an other man wrong and that which the begger hath without contradiction was denied and forbidden this mightie king Hée had built S. Stephens Church at Cane in Normandie where he would be buried vppon an other mans ground and had not payed the owner for it who being then a very poore man yet nothing fearing the funeral pompe and the great number of nobles attending on the corps did thrust through the thickest thronge of the solemne traine like vnto a madd man and got him to the Church doore wherein he stoode stoutly to withstand the bearing into the Church of the kings body crying out with a lowde voice Hée that in his life time oppressed kingdomes by his furious force hath hitherto with feare also oppressed mee but I that do suruiue him that hath done me the wronge will not graunt rest and peace vnto him now he is dead The place whereinto ye doe carrie this dead man is mine I claime that it is not lawfull for any man to lay a dead body in an other mans ground But if that the case do so stand that when as now at the length through the grace of good God the author of this so vnworthie a wrong is extinguished yet force still doth flourish I do appeale vnto Rhollo the founder father of this nation who alone is of greater power by the lawes which he ordeyned then is any mans iniurie And therewithal I know not whether by hap or mans fraud there soudeinly was séene a great fire which raged on the Church the houses neere adioyning then euery body spéedily running to quench the fire left the kinges corps desolate all alone onely Henrie the kings youngest sonne could not be gotten frō his fathers body who being feared with as it were the manifest wrath of God presently paid the poore mā for his ground discharged his fathers iniurious spirite But these blisselesse bones of his which so hardly obteined entumbing did afterward as vnluckily againe lose it in Anno Domini 1562. when Chastillion conducting reliquias Danaum atque immitis Achillis those that had escaped at the battell at Dreax toke the citie of Cane For certaine sauage souldiours accompanied with foure Capteynes did beate downe and vtterly deface the noble tumbe and monument of that renowmed conquerour and victorious king and pulled out all his bones which they spitefully threwe away when that they could not finde the treasure that they falsly surmised had béen layed vp there as I haue béene certainly enformed by Englishmen of very good credite faithfull fauourers of the reformed who sawe this sorrowfull sight scarse without distilling teares And also Theuet maketh mention of this matter in his vniuersall Cosmographie writing of Cane The l. Chapter Of Henrie the second HENRIE the second had by his father the Earledomes of Aniow Toures and Maine by his mother the kingdome of England and the duchie of Normandie and by his wife the mightie duchie of Aquitane and the earledome of Poitow conquered the kingdome of Ireland and toke prisoner in battell the king of Scottes but this his glistering glorie was fouly darkened by the shamefull submission of his crowne vnto the Romane Sée as Platina their recorder doth report or certes by binding himselfe vnto vnreasonable conditions to abate the enuie of the murther of Thomas the archbishop of Canterburie as our Chronicles do record and by the daungerous and wicked warres a long time kept in Normandie Fraunce and England with al his vngodly sonnes Henrie Richard Gefferie and Iohn yea and his owne wife and their mightie confederats the kings of Fraunce and Scotland with a great number of the English nobilitie and after the death of his vngracious sonne Henrie by the second reuolting of his sonne Richard vnto the French king who wan from him in those warres a great part of the duchie of Normandie and besieged him in the

proportion of diet for householde of the kings of Persia and of Alexander the great The great prices of precious ointmentes and the riotous vse of them in auncient time and howe that Plotius and Muleasses were disclosed vnto their enimies by their sweet odors The manifolde sorts of wines the alterings of water found out by riot and the rare deuises to make men haue an appetite to eate and drink superfluously The great incommodities of excesse in diet the great death in the Duchie of Wittenberg by immoderate drinkinge of wine and at the game of drinking set foorth by Alexander the great The wonderful grosenesse of Nicomachus Ptolomey Alexander Dionysius and Sanctius of the rate vertue of an hearbe to make a man leane the rauenous nature of the beast Rosomacha and of certaine straunge shepe and swine The ninth chapter Of th● riotous magnificence of the Pyramides Labyrinthes Obelisces of the Babylonian garden of the vaine costly shippes of Ptolomey Hiero Sesostres Caligula the woonderfull purposelesse bridges of Caligula and Traian of the sumptuous Theatre of Scaurus of the incredible charges bestowed by the auncient Romanes in playes games and triumphes The tenth Chapter What intollerable troubles riot doth bring vnto man how it caused Catiline Marcus Antonius Curio Caesar to reise vppe ciuill warrs and of a dumbe shewe of Heraclitus that nothing doth more cause rebellion The shamelesse shiftes of Iulius Caesar Caligula Nero and Domitian to maintein their riotous expences and of Cheopes to finishe his Py●●mis howe Apitius murdered himselfe because he was not able to beare the charges of his wonted riot The eleuenth Chapter The vnutterable tormentes of loue the inordinate lust of man bothe before after against nature Of an harlotte that said she neuer remembred her selfe maide howe Solomon and Achaz begat their heires at the age of eleuen yeares of a Camell that killed his keeper for deceiuing him in horsing his damme of a man in Germanie in our dayes that begat vpon his mother a childe the whiche he afterward married of an horse that killed himself after he perceiued that he had serued his dam of diuerse men that burned in the lecherous loue of them whom they neuer sawe Of diuerse that raged in lust vpon senselesse statuies The twelfth Chapter Of the tormentes of ambition whiche are also confirmed by the examples of Themistocles Alexander Iulius Caesar Mancinus and an Indian Of the wonderfull summes of money giuen by the Romanes to obteine the honour to beare office and of the manner of the choosing of their Magistrates The thirteenth Chapter Of the painful troubles procured vnto man by his vnsatiable couetousnesse The fourteenth Chapter Of the great care and hofufulnes ingrafted by nature in man for his burial the rites aswel auncient as moderne of almost al nations and sectes vsed at burials with mention of diuerse costly tumbes The xv Chapter Of the confuse and causelesse feare of man and particularly of the Romans thri●e of Augustus of the Greekes thrise of the confederates called the common wealth before Paris of the Emperials in our dayes at Villa Francha of Pysander of one that died by seeing of Hercules of Artemons madde fearefulnesse of Saint Vallier Duke of Valentinois howe Cassander was affrighted at the sight of Alexanders Image and other suche vaine feares The xvi Chapter Of the furious wrath of man and specially of Walter Earle of Breme and Matthias king of Hungarie The xvij Chapter Of the care and hofulnesse that religion and superstition bredeth in man Of the vntollerable sorrowe for sinne of Dauid Marie Magdalene Fabiola Edgar the griping griefes of a guiltie conscience and the vaine imaginations of the Melancholike The xviij Chapter Of the great hofulnesse to prolong their liues of Lewes the eleuenth Charles the seuenth Dionysius Commodus and Aristippus The xix Chapter Of the shortnesse and vncerteintie of mans life and by howe many casualties it is cut off and of sundry straunge kindes of souden deathes The xx Chapter That not great riches and large Empire do make a man happie the which Socrates proued by an excellent induction whereunto is annexed a golden s●ntence of Agesilaus The xxi Chapter A discourse of the brittle blisse of Alexander the great The xxij Chapter The infelicitie and dolefull end of Demetrius yea his variable life and actes The xxiij Chapter The greatnesse and also great mishaps and troubles of Iulius Caesar and a worthy saying of Charles the fift The xxiiij Chapter Of the variable euents of Marcus Antonius The xxv Chapter Of Caligula his monstrous doings vntollerable enuies rare infelicities and shamefull end but the singular vertues of his father and great loue that all men bare vnto him The xxvi Chapter Of Domitians doings The xxvij Chapter Of the casualties of Commodus The xxviij Chapter Of the rare conquestes and losses of Cosdras king of Persia The xxix Chapter Of the insolent exulting of Vgoline Earle of Pisa Fredericke the second and Henrie the second for then good fortune but their farall falles and againe the moderation of mynde in their victories of Epaminondas Philip of Macedome Camyllus Paulus Aemylius Charles the fifte and why at Rome a bondman did ride in the chariot whereat did hang a bell and a whip with him that triumphed The xxx Chapter Of the infortunate fall of many great conquerours and founders of Empires The xxxi Chapter Of the greatnesse and also vnluckie chaunces of Augustus The xxxij Chapter Of Traiane The xxxiij Chapter Of Seuerus The xxxiiij Chapter Of Constantine the great The xxxv Chapter Of Iustinian The xxxvi Chapter Of Heraclius The xxxvij chapter Of Michael Paleologus The xxxviij chapter Of Charles the great The xxxix chapter Of Charles the fift The xl chapter Of Solomon The xli chapter Of Herodes king of Iudea The xlij chapter Of Mahomet The xliij chapter Of Hismael the Sophie The xliiij chapter Of the Cherife of Maroccho The xlv chapter Of Barbarossa king of Algier The xlvi chapter Of Tamberleine the Tartar. The xlvij chapter Of Selime the first great Lord of the Turkes The xlviij chapter Of Ferdinand the sixt king of the Hispaines The xlix chapter Of William Conquerour The l. chapter Of Henrie the second king of England The li. chapter Of Edward the third king of England The lij chapter Of Henrie the fift king of England The conclusion The Errata Fol. pag. line Fault Correction 1 1 20 singlenesse of God singlenesse God 4 1 21 of bountifull nature with the giftes of bounti c. 5 1 17 Camelion pardis Cameliopardis 10 1 3 you now 10 1 12 the them 11 2 22 poemes Paeanes 12 2 16 people Peple 12 2 32 Triumpher Triumuir 15 1 3 furmament frumentie 15 2 32 tenour terrour 17 2 19 gratious grieuous 22 1 10 100000. 1000000. 27 2 17 Myrrha Murrha 40 2 22 made make 57 1 32 burne burie 59 1 14 siluer Siler 100 1 28 these the East 100 2 6 demeanour misdemeanour 100 2 20 Cicero Curio 103 2 12 salting sallying 104 2 7 25000. 250000. 85 1 14 mire meere 88 2 21 abiect obiect 101 2 18 boldnesse baldnesse 102 1 19 moued monyed 104 2 14 of the Bataui of rhe king of the Bataui 115 1 3 especiall espiall 115 2 16 orgents his agents 112 1 25 the these 113 1 12 cartes certes 113 1 15 answered nothing answered nothing c. 114 1 12 scuffled stiffled 155 2 11 Sentines S. Quintins 116 2 22 seas feese 119 1 14 liueing his liuing 120 1 28 named hauing named 120 2 22 now nor 126 1 34 hall hat 128 2 14 finally smally 140 2 12 where wheras 142 2 19 brought brought foorth 137 2 11 Angier Argier Other escapes of lesse weight and small importance I referre gentle Reader to thine owne correction in thy priuate reading