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A19304	The historie of tvvo the moste noble capitaines of the worlde, Anniball and Scipio of theyr dyuers battailes and victories, excedyng profitable to reade, gathered and translated into Englishe, out of Titus Liuius, and other authoures, by Antonye Cope esquier.	Cope, Anthony, Sir, d. 1551.; Livy.	1544 (1544)	STC 5718; ESTC S108669	233,285	302

THE HISTORIE OF TVVO THE MOSTE NOBLE CAPITAINES OF the worlde Anniball and Scipio of theyr dyuers battailes and victories excedyng profitable to reade gathered and translated into Englishe out of Titus Liuius and other authoures by Antonye Cope esquier ❧ ANNO. M. D. XLIIII THO. Bertheleton this historie VVHO so euer desireth for to rede Marciall prowesse feactes of chiualrie That maie hym profite at tyme of nede Lette hym in hande take this historie That sheweth the sleyghtes and policie The wyly traynes of wyttie Anniball The crasty disceites full ofte wherby He gaue his puissaunt ennemies a falle ¶ Of woorthie stomacke and courage valyaunt Of noble herte and mannely enterprise Of ientlenesse of mynde sure and constaunt Of gouernaunce prudent ware and wyse Shall fynde accordynge vnto his diuise This prince Scipio this myghty Romayne Whiche all fon pleasure euer dydde dispyse Jn Continence a lorde and souueraigne ¶ Lo thus maie menne playnly here beholde That wyly wytte power guyle nor policie Coulde Anniball euer styll vpholde But that by Scipios woorthy chiualrie His manhode vertue and dedes knyghtly He was subdued there is no more to sayne And yet to speake as trouthe wyll verifye There was neuer sounde a better capitayne ❧ TO THE MOST MIGHTY AND VICTORIOVS PRINCE AND HIS moste redoubted soueraigne lorde Henry the .viii. by the grace of god kyng of Englande Fraunce and Irelande defender of the faith and of the churche o● England and also of Irelande in earthe the supreme head his right humble subiecte and seruaunt Antony Lope praieth and wyssheth all honour and perfecte felicites THat all humain actes ought to be measured by tyme mooste excellent prince and my moste redoubted soueraigne lorde we are sufficiently taught by nature by reason by learnyng and by experience The first is declared by the ordinate course of the heauens and the sterres aswell fixed as also the planettes mouable in the same heuens placed with their sundry disposicions by whose dyuers operacions the earthe bringeth foorth hir fruites of all kyndes in due season whiche fyrst growe to a ripenesse and than foloweth the decaie of the same So that all thynges varie accordynge to the tyme. Nowe pleasaunt sommer thanne wythered wynter Nowe plenty full aboundance of thynges an other tyme baraine scarcitie c. Reason also affirmeth the same in so muche that wyse philosophiers put that the generation of one thyng is the corrupcion of an other and that nothynge maie longe endure in one state but either encreaseth or is empeired Of learnyng we haue authoritees manifold Emonge others Salomon saieth that all thynges haue tyme. There is saieth he tyme of peace and tyme of warre tyme to be mery and time to be sadde By experience also it is manifest that who so doth not take tyme in tyme and accordyng therto tempre dispose and conueigh all his procedynges shall noo more brynge theim to effecte with prosperous successe thanne the songe shalbe allowed wherof the syngers kepe not theyr true tyme but some dooe runne awaie therewith makyng ouermuche haste while some other dragge comyng slowly after The mutabilitie of tyme is so variable it passeth awaie so swiftely and at length 〈◊〉 suche violence that olde poetes willing to descriue ti●e liuely according to the veraie propretie therof dooe sette it foorth in the figure of a man hauing wynges wherwith to fligh and hauing also a great sithe in his handes to mowe or cut downe all thinges in their appoynted seasons And as it deuoureth and consumeth all thynges by long processe euen so it manifesteth all thynges be they neuer so hydden and secrete Wherefore VERITIE is called the doughter of tyme He hath also a sister called OCCASION whom the saied sage poetes vnder whose woordes as vnder a vaile are hidden many depe misteries wyllynge to descriue dooe feigne to haue wynges on hir fete to declare therby her swift passyng awaie And also they feigne hir to haue all hir heare growing and hanging long downe on the forpart of hir hedde the hynder part being smothe bare and ●alde signifiyng therby that as she cometh towarde a man he may take sure holde of hir by hir longe heares But in case he mysse to take than his holde suffryng hir to passe by hym than is there no holde to be taken of hir behynde but that she runneth awaie without recouerie There is also iuigned vnto hir a compaignion called REPENTANCE whiche is nothyng so lyght of foote as is the other whom Occasion after hir escape from a man leaueth behynde hir to kepe hym compaignie Whereby is ment that if occasion be not taken whan she offereth hir selfe to any manne the partie that refuseth hir offre shall after not ceasse duryng his lyfe to forthynke his folie in suffryng hir departure Wherfore sens it is apparent that the obeiyng to tyme is so necessary whā I behold the manifold iniuries doen to your maiestee and to your subiectes of this your realme by your vnnaturall and vnkind enemies on sundry parties diuerse many waies whiche ye haue longe suffred and neuerthelesse dayly they are renewed it is manifest and euident that youre hyghnesse is dryuen to geat by the swoorde that whyche by force is deteyned from you and with power to reuenge wronges wroughte of malice and vntruthe onelesse ye shoulde be thought not to regarde the honour due to the imperiall maiestie of so high a prince where Salomon in his booke entitled Ecclesiastes vpon consideracion as I suppose of suche lyke matier as this saieth There is tyme to loue and tyme to hate tyme of peace and tyme of warre whiche sentence the saied wyse man endued by god with sapience ▪ would neuer haue lefte vnto vs if warre had not in some case ben both laufull and expedient Wherefore well ponderyng the tyme of warre to be nowe in hande as a thynge so muche nedefull for many consideracions I for my poore part thought that I should dooe not onely to your hyghnesse acceptable seruice but also to all noble men and ientilemen of the realme greate pleasure and cōmoditie if gatheryng to gyther out of Titus Liuius and other autours the lyues the policies and the marciall actes of two the moste woorthie capitaynes of the two moste renoumed empires of the worlde that is to saie of Anniball of Carthage and Scipio of Rome I woulde brynge the same into our englyshe toung whereby besyde the pleasaunt bestowyng of tyme in the readyng therof men also may learne bothe to dooe displeasure to theyr ennemies and to auoyde the crafty and daungerous baites which shall be layde for theim The one of these capitayns after many countreis of Spayne brought vnder subiection to seeke honour and to exercyse hym selfe with his men in feates of warre passed the terrible mountaines to entre into Italy through many peryllous streightes and vnknowen passages there vexyng and spoylyng the countrey with contynuall warre by the space of xvi yeres Duryng whiche tyme he had many noble victories sleyng many