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A81080	Unparalleld varieties: or, The matchless actions and passions of mankind. Displayed in near four hundred notable instances and examples. Discovering the transcendent effects; I. Of love, friendship, and gratitude. II. Of magnanimity, courage, and fidelity. III. Of chastity, temperance, and humility. And on the contrary the tremendous consequences, IV. Of hatred, revenge, and ingratitude. V. Of cowardice, barbarity, treachery. VI. Of unchastity, intemperance, and ambition. : Imbellished with proper figures. / By R.B. ...	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1683 (1683)	Wing C7352; ESTC R171627	176,132	257

it O thou most generous among men said Darius art thou he then who when I had no power gavest me that which though small in it self was yet as acceptable to me then as greater things would be to me now Know I will reward thee with such a huge quantity of Gold and Silver that it shall never repent thee thou wast liberal to Darius the Son of Hystaspes O King said Syloson give me neither Gold nor Silver but when thou hast freed my Country of Samos which is now held by a Servant of my dead Brother Polycrates give me that without slaughter or plunder Darius hearing this sent an Army under the Conduct of Otanes one of the seven Princes of Persia commanding him that he should do for Syloson what he desired Valer. Maxim lib. 5. CXXIV The only Daughter of Peter Martyr through the Riot and Prodigality of her debauched Husband being brought to extream poverty the Senate of Zurich out of a grateful remembrance of her Fathers worth supported her with a bountiful maintenance so long as she lived Fullers Holy State p. 86. CHAP. II. The Transcendent Effects of Magnanimity Courage and Fidelity discovered in several Remarkable Instances HAving thus displayed the Effects of Love Friendship and Gratitude let us now consider of three other excellent accomplishments namely Magnanimity Gourage and Fidelity of which we may find many rare Examples in Histories for some Persons have within them a Spirit so daring and couragious that the sear no nor the presence of the greatest danger or disaster whatsoever is not able to shake their Constancy wherein sometimes they have proved as successful as others who have managed their Counsels with the greatest care and conduct they are able I. Henry Earl of Holsatia Sirnamed Iron because of his strength being got into great favour with Edward the Third King of England by reason of his valour was envied by the Courtiers whereupon they one day in the absence of the King counselled the Queen that forasmuch as the Earl was preserred before all the English Nobility she would make Tryal whether he was so Nobly born as he gave out by causing a Lyon to be let loose upon him saying That the Lyon would not so much as tou●h Henry if he was Noble indeed They got leave of the Queen to make this Tryal upon the Earl He was used to rise before day and to walk in the outward Court of the Castle to take the fresh Air of the morning The Lyon was let loose in the night and the Earl having a Nightgown A Polonian Souldier encounters overcomes a Lyon Page ●8● Amurath Emp Turks Killed by Cobelitz a Christian Souldier Page 88 on cast over his shirt with his Girdle and Sword coming down Stairs into the Court met there with the Lyon bristling his hair and roaring he nothing astonished said with a slout voice stand stand you Dog at these words the Lyon couched at his feet to the great amazement of the Courtiers who looked out of their holes to behold the issue of this business the Earl laid hold of the Lyon and shut him within his Cage he likewise left his Nightcap upon the Lyons back and so came forth without so much as looking behind him Now said the Earl calling to them that looked out of the Windows let him amongst you all that standeth most upon his Pedigree go and fetch my Nightcap but they being ashamed withdrew themselves Camerar Med. p. 118. II. In the Court of Matthias King of Hungary there was a Polonian Soldier in the Kings pay who boasted much of his Valour and who in a Bravado would often challenge the Hungarians to wrestle or skirmish with Sword or Pike wherein he had alwaies the better One day as he stood by a great Iron Cage in which a Lyon was kept the greatest and fiercest that had been seen of a long time he began to say to those that were in his Company Which of you dares to take a piece of flesh out of this Lyons mouth when he is angry none daring to undertake it You shall see added the Polonian the proof of my speech All that day following the Lyon had not any meat given him the next day they threw him the four Quarters of a Sheep the Lyon begins to grunt to couch down at his Prey and to eat greedily herewith the Polonian enters his Gage and locking the Lyon betwixt his Legs gives him a blow with his Fist upon the Jaw crying Hah you Dog give me the flesh The Lyon amazed at such a bold voice let go his hold shewing no other countenance but casting his Eye after the Polonian who carried the flesh away Oamer p. 118. III. In the Reign of Tham King of China there was a Colao an Officer not unlike our Duke who having been Tutor to the King was very powerful with him and to preserve himself in his Grace and Favour studied more to speak what would please the King than to tell him the truth for the good of his Estate The Chineses forbore not to speak of it amongst themselves and to tax the flattery of this Coloa One time some Captains of the Guard were discoursing this point at the Palace when one of them being a little warmed with the discourse secretly withdrew himself went into the Hall where the King was and kneeling down upon his knees before him the King asked what he would have Leave said he to cut off the Head of a flattering Subject And who is that said the King Such a one that stands there replied the other The King in a rage What said he against my Master darest thou to propound this and in my presence too Take him away and strike off his Head When they began to lay hands on him he caught hold of a wooden Ballester and as there were many pulling of him and he holding with a great deal of strength it brake By this time the Kings heat was over he commands they should let him go and gave order that the Ballester should be mended and that they should not make a new one that it might remain as a witness of the Fact and a memorial of a Subject that was not afraid to advise his King what he ought to do Hist. China p. 109. IV. Alexander the Great being in Cilicia was seized with a violent disease so that when all other Physicians despaired of his Health Philip the Acarnanian brought him a Potion and told him if he hoped to live he must take that Alexander had newly received Letters from Parmenio one of his Generals wherein he advised him to repose no trust in Philip for he was bribed by Darius to destroy him with a mighty summ of Gold Alexander held the Letters in one hand and took the Potion in the other and having drank it off he shewed Philip the contents of them who though incensed at the slander cast upon him yet advised Alexander to confide in his Art and indeed he recovered him

glass against the ground which being bruised and crushed together but not broke he drew out his Hammer and beat it again into form as if it had been Brass this done he imagined that he had conquered the world but it fell out otherwise for Tiberius's envy increased thereby and inquiring of him whether any other besides himself understood the secret he replied No whereupon he commanded to strike off his head adding That if this Art of Malleable Glass should be practised it would make Gold and Silver hut cheap and inconsider able things Wan Hist Man LVIII Ferrex and Porrex jointly succeeded their Father Gorboduc in the Government of this Land of Brittain in the year of the world 4711. and continued in love and amity for some time but at last Envy the Mother of all disorder and mischief so far prevailed with them that they both studied to supplant each other thereby to gain the whole Supremacy and first Porrex raising an Army unknown to his Brother designed suddenly to surprize and kill him of which he having notice and yet not being able for the present to provide for opposition he was forced to fly into France where being supplied with some Forces he landed in England gave his Brother Porrex Battle defeated his Army and slew him in the Field Ferrex proud of his Victory retired himself to his Tent whither his Mother Midan came by night with some of her Women and being freely admitted to the place where he lay sleeping she with the rest most cruelly murdered him Morindus K. of Brittain devoured by a Sea Monster Page .179 Q Tomyris puts the head of K. Cyrus into a Bowl of Bloud Page .181 and after cut his body into small pieces cansing them to be scattered in the Field and in these two Brothers ended the issue of Brute Thus we see the dreadful effects of Envy as well in the vanquisht as the victor but the greatest in the last to be so cruelly murdered rather by a Monster than a Mother Beards Theat p. 27. LIX Morindus was the Bastard-Son of Flavius King of Brittain by his Concubine Fanguestella and reigned in the year of the World 1880. The Chronicle reports him to have been of a comely and beautiful Personage having an active Body and a most daring Spirit and strength withal above any Peer or Subject in the Land but as a grievous stain and blemish to all these good parts and endowments he was of a cruel and envious disposition for he grew jealous of all such as were either wealthy or remarkable in his Court for any vertue or excellency confiscating the Estates of the one and discountenancing the other and hindring them from all Preferment he was so furious that when he was vexed he would kill his Subjects with his own hand His Kingdom being invaded by a Forreign Prince he fought with him and chased him to Sea taking many Prisoners whom to satisfie his Cruelty and Tyranny he caused to be put to death before his Eyes with several sorts of Torments as beheading hanging burning drowning and other kinds of Execution but at length this Morindus called by our Historians Morwith walking by the Sea side and espying a dreadful Monster upon the shoar which he out of his valiant and Royal Courage endeavouring to destroy after a long fight was devoured and swallowed by this Monster Beards Theatre p. 26. LX. When K. Richard the First of England K. Philip of France were Fellow-Souldiers together at the siege of Acon in the holy Land and Richard had approved himself to be the more valiant Man insomuch that all mens Eyes were fixed upon him it so galled the heart of King Philip that he was scarce able to bear the Glory of King Richard but cavilled at all his proceedings and sell at length to open defiance nor could he contain any longer but out of very Envy hastening home he invaded his Territories and professed open War Burtons Melancholy p. 86 LXI We read of a Rich man in Quintilian that was possessed of this Evil Disease to that strange height and degree that he is said to have poisoned the Flowers in his Garden to the end that his neighbours Bees might get no more Honey from them Quintilian LXII Alexander the Great both envied and hated Perdicc●…s because he was warlike Lysimuchus because he was skilful in the Arts of a General Seleus●…s because he was of great Courage He was offended with the Liberality of Antigonus with the Imperial Dignity and Authority of Attalus and with the prosperous Felicity and good Fortune of Ptolemaeus Elian. Var. Hist LXIII Hypatia of Alexandria the Daughter of Theon the Philosopher had made such progress in Learning that she exceeded all the Philosophers of her time and not only succeeded in the School of Plato but also explained the Precepts and Aphorisms of all sorts of Philosophers so that a mighty Confluence was made to her by all such as were desirous to improve themselves in Philosophy she came into the knowledg and Courts of princes where she behaved her self with singular modesty and doubted not to present her self in publick amongst the Assemblies of men where by reason of her Gravity and Temperance of mind she was received by all sorts till at last the long suppressed flames of Envy began to break forth and a number of malevolent and hot-brain'd men whereof Petrus of the Church of Cesarea was the Leader seized upon her in her return home pluckt her out of her Coach vearried her to that Church where having ostript her of her Cloths they tore her flesh with sharp shells till she died then they pulled her in pieces and carried her torn Limbs into a place called G●…aros where they were burned This deed was no small matter of Infamy to Cyrillus the Bishop and to the whole Church of Aerandria Socrates Ecclesiast History LXIV Revenge is near of kin to Hatred and Envy and it is observable that great and Generous Souls are ever found to be most easily appeased while the weak fearful are guilty of the greatest Barbarities as not knowing how to allot any measure or bounds to their Anger of which the following Relations are too real Evidences and Instances LXV Pope Stephen the Seventh having been hindred from the Popedom by Formosus his Predecessor after his death he caused his dead body to be taken out of the Sepulchre to be stript of his Pontificial Garments wherein he was buried to be clothed in others and to be buried without the Church He also caused his Fingers to be cut off and to be cast into the River for the Fish to devour When Sergius the Third came to be Pope he caused the Body of the same Formosus to be drawn out of its second burying place to be beheaded in the Market-place and then to be cast into the River Tyber to gratifie Lotharius the King of France who thus hated the dead Formosus because by his means the Empire was translated from

King of the Hene●…tians and she her self beseiged by the same Enemy yet nevertheless this wretched woman fell so far in Love with him that upon promise of Marriage she agreed to deliver into his hands the City of Friol who burnt it slew the men and carried the women and Children Captives into Austria Cacanus took Rhomilda into his bed for one night only and then delivered her to be abused with the lust of twelve Henesians and soon after caused her to be impaled alive upon a sharp stake Ca. Op. CHAP. VI. The Tremendous Consequences of Vnchastity Intemperance and Ambition IT is not to be imagined that I should give an 〈◊〉 of the Thousandth part of the mischiefs and mi●…ries that have been occasioned by Lust and Debauchery all Ages and Nations are full of lamentable Accidents proceeding therefrom for though this violent Passion may seem to promise a world of vain pleasure and though lascivious Persons use many times all manner of Patience services and profound submissions to gain the desired object yet when they have obtained their flagitious desires and think themselves absolutely happy in the midst of their libidinous and unchast Embraces even at that very instant there is sometimes brought in an unexpected Reckoning that drenches all their sweets in blood and closes up their unlawful pleasures in the black and dismal Sables of death as by the following Examples is demonstrated wherein Divine Vengeance has visibly appeared in the woful Tragedies which have been occasioned by Adultery Unchastity Lust I. The first I shall mention is partly Comical as well as Tragical A Knight of Eminent Fame and of great nore with Henry the Fifth King of England as being personally with him in all his Wars in France after the King had conquered and setled that Kingdom this noble Englishman retired himself into his own Country he had a Lady of such beauty as attracted the Eyes of all men who residing with her Husband in the City of Norwich he after so many troubles and adventures resolved to lead a more sequestred life and next to the pleasure of his fair Consort he desired to lead a contemplative life and being very rich according to the Devotion of that Age by the direction of the Priests he resolved to build a handsome Church near his own House which they said would be for the benefit of his Soul and likewise a Convent allowing maintenance to an Abbot and twelve Fryers having finished them there were two of the Friers one called Fryer John the other Fryer Richard who were at continual variance and enmity to each other and could not by any mediation be reconciled it was the dayly Custom of this Knight and Lady to rise every morning early to Mattins or Prayers and she being of an affable and courteous disposition to all Persons this good humour of hers bred a strange uncivil boldness in Fryer John so that she never came through the Cloyster but he was still attending her with many bows cringes and complements and she suspecting nothing returned him Thanks again which so far incouraged the Fryer that he made himself suspected by his Fellows who as much as they durst whispered it about the Convent he still growing more confident presumed at last to write to her wherein he at large discovered his violent Passion for her this Letter with great difficulty he conveyed to the Ladies hands who being much surprized that such lasciviousness should proceed from one that vowed and professed Chastity and not being certain but that it might be a design of her Husband to try her Virtue she thereupon resolves that to prevent her Honour from being called in question she would discover the whole intrigue to her Lord which she had no sooner done but he began to repent him of his former Charity in regard of this so great Ingratitude yet meditating Revenge he writes an answer to this Letter to which he commands his Wife to set her hand to this effect that she was very compassionate of his Love and that such a night her Husband being to ride toward London he should be admit●… lodged and entertained according to his own desire the Fryer received this Letter with extream Joy and providing himself with clean linnen a perfumed Nightcap and other necessaries he exactly observes the time and place and is accordingly admitted by the Lady her self alone and conveyed to a private Chamber where he was no sooner entred but in came the Knight and his Man and in great fury without giving him the least time either to call for help to the House or to Heaven they strangled the lustful Fryer and left him dead upon the place this deed was no sooner done and his rage somewhat appeased but he began to consider the horrour and danger of the Fact both as to his life and Estate and after several projects betwixt him and his Servant they concluded some way or other to have his body conveyed back into the Monastery it being divided from his own House only by a Brick-wall finding a Ladder hard by the man mounts it with the dead Fryer on his back and sits with him astride on the wall then drawing up the Ladder and letting it down on the other side he descends down into the Convent where espying the House of Office he sets the Body thereon as upright as possible and so leaves it and conveys himself over the wall again but for hast forgot the Ladder and tells his Master how and where he had bestowed the Fryer at which being better satisfied they both retired to Bed all being concealed both from the Lady and the rest of the Family who were fast asleep it happened at the fame instant that Fryer Richard being much troubled with a looseness in his Body had occasion to rise and being somewhat hastily and unhandsomely taken he hasts to the House of Office where by the light of the Moon he espied some Body before him and therefore contained himself as long as he was able but finding there was no Remedy he first called and then intreated to come away but hearing no body answer he imagined into be done on purpose and the rather because coming nearer he plainly perceived it was Fryer John his 〈◊〉 Adversary who the louder he called seemed the less to hear loth he was to play the sloven in the yard because the whole Convent had taken notice of a cold he had got and how it then wrought with him therefore judging this pretended deafness was out of spight and malice on purpose to shame him he snatcht up a Brickbat to be revenged and striking his Adversary full upon the Breast down tumbles Fryer John without life or motion which he seeing thought at first to r●ise him up but after many Trials finding him to be stone dead he verily believes that he had killed him what shall he do now The Gates are fast locked and fly for his life he could not but as sudden extremities

too great a freedom and liberty coming once to the House of Omulus his Friend and beholding there at his entrance divers Pillars of Porphry he inquired whence they were brought Omulus told him That it became him that set his foot into another mans House to be both deaf and dumb He meant he should not be curious and inquisitive The Emperor was delighted with this freedom so far was he from resenting it in such a manner as some others would have done Wanly Hist Man p. 204. XLVIII Such has been the invincible patience of some men that the incredible strength of their minds hath not only prevailed over the weakness of their flesh but reduced it to a temper capable of induring as much as if it had been of Brass or something that if possible is yet more insensible Of such a temper Janus Auceps a wicked Person seem'd to be who dwelt in a lone house by the highway side without the East-gate of the City of Copenhagen in Denmark this man in the night had murdered divers Persons and knocked them on the head with an Ax at last he was discovered taken and condemned to a terrible death he was drawn upon a sledge through the City he had pieces of flesh plucked off from his Body with burning Pincers his Legs and Arms were broken his Tongue was pulled out of his Mouth thongs of his skin were cut out of his back his breast was opened by the speedy hand of the Executioner his heart was pulled out and thrown at his face all this the stout-hearted man bore with an invincible courage and when his heart lay panting by his side in the midst of such torments as he yet underwent he moved his head and looked upon the By-standers with a frowning aspect and seemed with curiosity to contemplate his own heart till such time as his Head was cut off Bartholin Anat. XLIX William Collingborn Esq being condemned for making this Rhime on King Richard the Third The Cat the Rat and Lovel the Dog Rule all England under a Hog Alluding to Catesby Ratcliff and Lovel the three great Favourites of Richard in whose arms there was pictured a Hog the poor Gentleman was put to a most cruel death for being hanged and cut down alive his bowels ript out and cast into the fire when the Executioner put his hand into the bulk of his body to pull out his heart he said Lord Jesus yet more trouble and so died to the great sorrow of much people Fabians Chro. p. 519. L. When we were come within sight of Buda in Hungary saith Busbequius there came by the command of the Turkish Bassa some of his Family to meet us with divers great Officers but in the first place a Troop of young men on Horseback made us turn our Eyes to them because of the Novelty of their Equipage which was thus upon their bare heads most of which were shaven they had cut a long line in the skin in which wound they had stuck Feathers of all kinds and they were dewed with drops of blood yet dissembling the pain they rid with as much mirth and cheerfulness as if they had been void of all sense just before me there walked some on foot one of these went with his naked arms on his side in each of which he carried a Knife which he had thrust through his Arms just above the Elbow another walked naked from his Navel upward with the skin of both his Loins so cut above and below that he carried a Club which stuck therein as if it had hung at his Girdle another had fastened a Horse-shoe with divers nails upon the crown of his Head but that was done a long while the nails being so grown in the flesh that the Shoe was made fast in this pomp we entred Buda and were brought into the Bassa's Pallace in the Court of which stood these generous contemners of Pain as I chanced to cast my Eye that way What think you of these men said the Bassa Well enough said I but that they use their flesh in such a manner as I would not use my Cloths being desirous to keep them whole The Bassa smiled at this answer and dismissed us Busbequius Epist p. 226. LI. There is a notable example of tolerance which happened in our times in a certain Burgundian who was the Murderer of the Prince of Orange this man though he was scourged with rods of Iron though his flesh was torn off with red hot and burning Pincers yet he gave not so much as a single sigh or groan nay further when part of a broken Scaffold fell upon the head of one that stood by as a Spectator this burned Villain in the midst of all his Torments laughed at the Accident although not long before the same man had wept when he saw the curls of his hair cut off Wanly Hist Man p. 206. LII It was also an Example of great patience in this kind which Strabo mentions in his Geography that Zarmonochaga the Ambassadour from the Indian King having finished his negotiation with Augustus Caesar according to his own mind and having sent an account thereof to his Master because he would have no further trouble for the remaining part of his life after the manner of the Indians he burnt himself alive preserving all the while the countenance of a man that smiled Fulgosus Ex. p. 348. LIII Most eminent was the example of Hieronimus Olgiatus a Citizen of Millain who was one of those four that did assassinate Galeacius Sforza Duke of Millain being taken he was thrust into Prison and put to bitter Tortures now although he was not above two and twenty years of Age and of such a delicacy and softness in his habit of body that was more like to that of a Virgin than a man though he was never accustomed to the bearing of Arms by which it is usual for men to acquire vigour and strength yet being fastened to that Rope upon which he was tormented he seemed as if he sate upon some Tribunal and free from any expression of grief with a clear voice and an undaunted mind he commended the Exploit of himself and his Companions nor did he ever shew the least sign of Repentance in the times of the intermissions of his Torments both in Prose and Verse he celebrated the Praises of his Confederates being at last brought to the place of Execution beholding Carolus and Francion two of his Associates to stand as if they were almost dead for fear he exhorted them to be couragious and requested the Executioners that they would begin with him that his Fellow-sufferers might learn patience by his Example being therefore laid naked and at full length upon the Hurdle and his Feet and Arms fast bound down to it when others that stood by were terrified with the shew and horrour of that death that was prepared for him he with specious words and assured voice extolled the gallantry of their Action and appeared

the mistake of a Servant he his Father were both poysoned by deadly Wine prepared for the Guests and so he was rewarded for his Ambition and intent of Murther both at once Clarks Mirrour IX Staveren in Holland was the chief Town of all Friezland rich and abounding in all wealth the only staple for all Merchandize whither Ships came from all parts The Inhabitants thereof through ease knew not what to do nor desire but shewed themselves in all things excessive and licentious not only in their Apparel but also in the furniture of their Houses gilding the Seats before their Lodgings c. So that they were commonly called The debauched Children of Staveren but observe the just punishment of this their Pride There was in this Town a Widow who knew no end of her wealth which made her proud and insolent she freighted out a Ship for Dantzick giving the Master charge to return her in exchange of her Merchandize the farest stuft he could find The Master of the Ship finding no better Commodity than good wheat freighted his Ship therewith and so returned to Staveren this did so discontent this foolish glorious Widow that she said to the Master That if he had laden the Corn on the Starboard side of the Ship he should cast it into the Sea on the Larboard which was presently done and all the wheat poured into the Sea but the whole Town yea all the Province smanted for this one Womans errour for presently in the same place where the Marriners had thrown the Corn there grew a great Bar or Bank of Sand wherewith the Haven was so stopt that no great Ship could enter and at this day the smallest Vessels that will anchor there must be very careful least they strike against this flat or Sand bank which ever since hath been called Vrawelandt that is the Womans Sand hereby the Town losing its Traffick in a little time declined the Inhabitants also by reason of their Wealth and Pride grew intellerable to the Nobility who in sumptuousness could not endure to be brayed by them so that this Town is now become one of the poorest of that Province though it hath the greatest Privitedges of all the Hanse Towns Hist Netherlands X Deminicus Sylvius Duke of Venice Married a Gentlewoman of Constantinople she was plunged into sensuality with so much prosusion that she could not endure to lodge but in Chambers full of delicious persurnes of the Fast she would not wash her self but in the dews of Heaven whell must be preserved for her with much skill her Garments were so pompous that nothing remained but to seek for new S●…s in Heaven for she had exhausted the Treasures of the Earth her Viands so dainty that all the mouths of Kings tasted none so exquisite nor would she touch her meat but with Golden Forks and precious Stones God to punish this cursed pride and superfluity cast her on a Bed and assailed her with a malady so hideous so stinking and frightful that all her nearest Kindred were forced to forsake her none staid about her but a poor old Woman throughly accustomed to stench and death this delicate Lady was poysoned with her own perfumes in such a manner that from all her body there began to drop a most stinking humor and a kind of matter so filthy to behold so noysom to the ●…ell that every many ainly perceived that her dissolute excessive Pride and daintiness had caused this Infection in her which brought her to such a miserable and tragical end Causins Hely Court FINIS There are lately published Seven very useful pleasant and necessary Books which are all sold by Nath Crouch at his Shop at the Sign of the Bell in the Poultry near Cheapside I SVrprising Miracles of Nature and Art in two parts Containing 1. 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