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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

he found he had received as many as were intended to be offered he bound them up in one bundle and protesting That he had not so much as looked into any one of them he burnt them all in the sight of the Fathers giving them moreover a serious exhortation to Peace and a cordial agreement among themselves Chetwinds Hist Coll. p. 42. LXXVI It is reported of Julius Caesar to his great commendation that after the defeat of Pompey the Great he had in his custody a Castle wherein he found divers Letters written by most of the Nobles of Rome under their own hands which gave sufficient evidence to condemn them but he burnt them all that no Monument might remain of a future Grudge and that no man might be driven to extremities or to break the Peace through any apprehensions that he lived suspected or should therefore be hated Rogers Pen. Citizen p. 70. LXXVII James King of Arragon was a great Enemy to Contentions and Contentious Lawyers insomuch as having heard many complaints against Semenus Rada a great Lawyer who by his Quirks and Wiles had been injurious as well as troublesome to many he banished him his Kingdom as a man that was not to be endured to live in a place to the Peace of which he was so great an Enemy Clarks Mirrour p. 343. At Fez in Africa they have neither Lawyers nor Advocates but if there be any Controversy amongst them both Parties Plaintiff and Defendant come before the chief Judge and all at once without any further appeals or pitiful delays the cause is heard and ended Burtons Melancholy Servius Sulpitius was an Heathen Lawyer but an excellent Person it is said of him that he respected Equity and Peace in all that he did and alwaies sought rather to compose differences than to multiply Suits in Law Clarks Examples p. 344. LXXVIII It is noted of Phocion a most excellent Captain of the Athenians that although for his military ability and success he was chosen forty and five times General of their Armies by universal approbation yet he himself did ever persuade them to Peace Flutarchs Lives I read of the Sister of Edward the Third King of England saith Mr. Trenchfield who was Married to David King of Scots that she was familiarly called Jane make peace both for her earnest and successful endeavours therein Trenchfield Hist Inproved p. 67. Sertorius the more he prospered and prevailed in his Wars in Spain the more importunate he was with Metellus and Pompey the Roman Generals that came against him that laying down arms they would give him leave to live in peace and to return into Italy again professing he preferred a private life there before the Government of many Cities Plutarch Vit. Sert. LXXIX The lovers of Justice and impartial Administrators thereof have been likewise famous in all Ages and the Persons hereafter mentioned were great lovers and observers of this excellent virtue which is of so much advantage to mankind Herkenbald a Man mighty noble and famous had no respect of Persons in Judgment but condemned and punished with as great severity the rich and his own Kindred as the poor and those whom he knew least in the world being once very sick and keeping his Bed he heard a great bustle in a Chamber next to that wherein he lay and withal a Woman crying and shrieking out he inquired of his Servants what the matter was but they all concealed the Truth from him at last one of his Pages being severely threatned by him and told that he would cause his Eyes to be pulled out of his head if he did not tell him plainly what all that stir was told him in few words My Lord said he your Nephew hath ravished a Maid and that was the noise you heard The Fact being examined and plainly proved Herkenbald condemned his dear Nephew to be hanged till he should be dead but the Officer who had the charge to execute the Sentence seeming as if he had been very willing and forward to do it went presently and gave the young man notice of all that had passed wishing him to keep out of the way awhile and some few hours after he comes again to his sick Lord and affirms contrary to truth that he had put his sentence in Execution and that the young man was dead about five days after the young Gentleman thinking his Unkle had forgotten all came and peeped in at his Chamber door the Unkle having espied him calls him by his name and with fair words inticeth him to his Beds head till he was within his reach and then suddenly catching him by the locks with the left hand and pulling him forcibly to him with his right hand he gave him such a ready blow into the Throat with a Knife that he died instantly so great was the love that this Nobleman bore to Justice Camerarius Meditat. p 468. LXXX Sir John Markham was Knighted by King Edward the Fourth and by him made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench at which time one Sir Thomas Cook late Lord Mayor of London and Knight of the Bath a man of a great Estate was agreed upon to be accused of High Treason and a Commission issued out to try him in Guildhall The King himself by private instructions to the Judge appeared so far in the cause that Cook though he was never so innocent must be found guilty and if the Law were too short the Judge must stretch it to the Kings purpose The fault they laid to his charge was for lending Monies to Queen Margaret Wife to King Henry the sixth the proof was the confession of one Hawkins who was rack'd in the Tower Sir Thomas Cook pleaded that Hawkins came indeed to request him to lend a Thousand Marks upon good security but that understanding who it was for he had sent him away with a refusal The Judge declared that this proof reached not to a charge of High-Treason and that Misprision of Treason was the highest it could amount to and intimated to the Jury to be tender in matter of life and discharging good consciences upon which they found it accordingly only Misprision for which the Judge was turned out of his Place and lived privately the rest of his days and gloried in this That though the King could make him no Judge yet he could not make him no upright Judge Fullers H. State p. 263. LXXXI Charles the bold Duke of Burgundy and Earl of Flanders had a Nobleman in special favour with him to whom he had committed the Government of a Town in Zealand where living in a great deal of ease he fell in love with a Woman of a beautiful body and a mind and manners no whit inferior he passed and repassed by her door and soon after grew bolder entred into discourse with her discovers his passion and beseeches a compassionate resentment of it he makes large promises and uses all the ways by which he hoped to gain her but all in

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

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