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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

enimies Cassius lieftenaunt in Syria But not long after that he had fortunately escaped this doubtful perill fell hée into a greater when that the Parthian tooke Hierusalem with king Hyrcanus and placing there in his roome Antigonus forced Herodes his brother Phaselus to dashe out his owne braines against a wall that he might not come aliue into their bondage and Herodes himselfe very hardly escaped their hands and fearefully fledde vnto Rome where he was created king of Iudea The whiche he had not long enioyed but that he was sent for to come before Antonius at Seleucia to be arreigned for the vnworthie murther of his wiues brother Alexander the high priest at what time he knowing the great hatred towards him of Antonius his swéete heart Quéene Cleopatra who insatiably thirsted for his kingdome he was almost in vtter despaire of returne But not long after he fell into greater perill of his state through ayding of Antonius against Octauian wherefore after that Antonius was ouercome he sailed into Rhodes vnto Caesar and there in priuate apparell without diademe suppliantly desired pardon of Caesar the which being happely obteined and his kingdom also by his liberalitie augmented hée fell in his old age into many domesticall dolours the beginning whereof came thorough his wife Mariemne one descended of the auncient bloud royal whom he loued as immoderately as shee hated and abhorred him both hartily and openly vpbrayding him often with the cruell murthering of her graundfather and brother but in the ende hee did wrongfully put her to death for sinister opinion of adulterie betwixte her and his vncle Iosippus and then as immoderately bewailed and lamented her death as before he had rashly slaine her This vnworthie murther of their mother did her two sonnes whome Herodes had appointed to bee his successours in the kingdome stomache in so much that they fled to Rome and accused their father vnto Augustus who made an attonement betwéene the wretched father and his wicked sonnes but it was not long but that Herodes accused them for treason against his person before Archelaus king of Cappadocia whose daughter the one of them had married but Archelaus againe reconciled them but the ill patched friendshipp brake out againe not long after to the destruction of the two innocent sonnes After the dolefull death of his two déere sonnes Alexander Aristobulus the wofull father found out the treason of his sonne Antipater whome he had nominated his heire and how he not onely had caused him by suborning of false witnesses wrongfully to murther his two brothers Alexander and Aristobulus and exasperated him also against two other of his brothers Archelaus Philippe the poison was brought where with Antipater had gone about to poison him whereuppon he obteyned of the Emperour that he might worthily be put to death This domestical calamitie and continual treasons and murtherings of his sonnes did so afflict the aged father that hee ledde a lothsome life wrapped all in wailefulnesse taking no ioy at all in his large Empire great heapes of treasure and beautifull and pleasaunt buildinges And this heauinesse was heaped by long cōtinuance of many dolefull diseases He had no smal ague and an intollerable itche thoroughout all his body then was he also vexed with a painefull torment in his necke and his féete were swollen with the dropsie and his bellie as bigge as a barrell with winde the whiche griefes were augmented with a filthie putrefaction of his priuie parts the which bred aboundance of stinking wormes Moreouer he was very short winded sighing often and had al his lymmes contracted and cramped the tormentes were so intollerable that he thought his friendes did heynously iniurie him when that they did let him to ende his wofull life by friendly stroke of fatall meate knife And then to double his tormentes came this toy into his heade that all the Iewes and people woulde reioyce at his desired death wherefore he commaunded that out of euerie village and towne of the Iudea should the gentlemen be brought into the castell and be all slaine when he shoulde yelde vp his cruell and gastly ghoste that all the whole lande yea and euerie house might weepe and lamente at his death against their willes The xl Chapter Of Mahumet MAhumet the first founder of the secte of the Mahumetanes who possesse nowe farre the greatest parte of the worlde of a beggers bratt and slaue became conquerour and kinge of all Syria and Aegypt and by the consente of the moste of the beste approued authors of the whole Empire of Persia and yet had he also sowre often mingled with his swete for when he firste preached his seditious superstition at Mecha he was driuen by armes out of the towne with his bande of bondmen Neither founde he fortune more friendely at Medina Thalnabi whether he fledde for the Iewes taking armes against him discomfited him in manie skirmishes in one of whom they wounded him in the face strucke out his fore teeth and hurled him into a diche And afterward also in his first inuasion of the Persian was he foiled in fight and forced to retire home where entring in societie with the Sinites that had lately for reprochfull wordes reuolted from the Greekes and returninge with them into Persia fortunately atchiued his exploite But howe pitifully he was tormented with the terrible fallinge sicknesse I thinke it vnknowen vnto fewe Moreouer verie shorte was his reigne for sixe yeares after he beganne his conquestes he died and in the fourtéenth yeare of his age But what cause did depriue this furious fierbrand of mankinde of his enuied life authors do not agrée Some holde that he was poysoned by a Greeke other that he died madde But the cōmon opinion in the East saies Theuet that he was sicke thirty daies of a Pleuresie in seuen of whom he was distraught of his witts but comminge vnto him selfe a little before hee died he tolde his friendes that within three dayes after his death his bodie shoulde be assumpted into heauen The which wordes did witnesse that he was starke madde still as the euente did after proue for when his illuded sectaries had longe time in vaine expected his assumption at last they washing embaulminge his stincking bodie were forced to burie it The xliii Chapter Of Hismaell the Sophie HIsmaell who beganne in our age a newe secte of Mahumetanes amonge the Persians whereof he and all his successors are called Sophies as we shoulde say the wise men thorough the helpe of his folowers threwe downe from the Emperiall siege of Persia the auncient bloude royall and placed himselfe therein making also subiect therevnto manie other countries borderinge there on but Selim the Turke plucked this Pecockes taile discomfiting and woundinge him in a bloudie battell fought in the boweles of his realme the which he himselfe had caused to be all wofully wasted that his fierce enimies shoulde finde nothinge to susteine the necessities of them selues and their horses and also takinge his

Caligula was made out of the way to the incredible ioy of all mankinde whom he hated so deadly that he had béen often heard to bewayle his ill happe that in al his reigne there had chaunced no notable pestilence famine rauin of water earthquake nor any great bloudy battell wherby many men might perish wished that all the people of Rome had but one head that he might haue stroken it off at one blowe it had béene ill with mankinde if that this Phaeton of the world as his vncle Tiberius did vse to call him had béen immortall who in thrée yeares and sixe monethes for so long he reigned had néere hand vtterly destroyed it Moreouer I reade in Suetonius that Domitian the Emperour drawing a forme of letters whiche his agents should vse began thus Our Lord and God doeth commaunde it so to be done Whereby it was decréed afterward that he shoulde not be called otherwise by any man either in writing or spéeche It is is also left to memorie that about the yeare of our Lord 620. Cosdras the mightie King of the Persians after that he had won al Syria with Hierusalem al the South part of Asia with Egypt and all Africa would néedes be adored for a God and diuine honours with sacrifices done vnto him through out all his large dominions But perhappes some man will say what maruel was it for great monarches among the heathen to thinke themselues to be Gods if that you do consider their absurditie fonde vsage in constituting of Gods the originall and causes whereof I doe thinke good to touche The thirde Chapter Whereof the false Goddes had their first ground and the causes that moued diuerse countries to worshippe many men after death for Gods and also some while they liued as Demetrius Iulius Caesar Pycta Lysander Simon Magus Apollonius and of the extreeme maddnesse of the Egyptians in chusing of their Gods of the impudent flatterie of the ambassadours of Palermo vnto Martine the fourth and of the people to Herodes Agrippa and the present punishment of God for the accepting thereof Of the wonderfull reuerence that the Persians gaue vnto their Kinges and of the rare loue that the Galles Arabians Aethiopians bare vnto their Princes two woorthie sayinges of Antigonus and Canute AFter that the vngratious child Chara was abdicated and put away by his father without any instructions giuen him touching the worshippinge of the true God the outcast and his progenie marueilously increased as our common prouerbe is an ill wéede growes fast and they deduced many colonies into diuers partes of the worlde and the ignoraunce of the prouing of the true God whiche was in the first parent daily growing greater and greater in his posteritie You séeing as Cicero saies in his booke of the nature of the Gods it is naturally ingraffed in man to acknowledge a God and that no people or nation is so rude and barbarous that doth not professe a God they being vtterly ignoraunt of the true God thought those thinges which they sawe to excell other and by whom they receiued moste commodities to be Gods whereof arose the worshipping of the Sunne the Moone Starres and suche other things and also the making of the Gods when they were dead who in their liues had inuented or done any notable thinges to the vse and profite of mankinde And hereby it came to passe that some for the great celebrity of their names were as it were generally receiued of all nations as Hercules Bacchus Castor and Pollux and other were worshipped but in particular countries of whom onely they had well deserued as Isis in Egypt Iuba in Mauritania Cabyrus in Macedonia Vracius among the Carthaginians Fanus in Latium Romulus or after his deification Quirinus at Rome and with a great number such other shal he méete that diligently readeth the auncient monuments of the Paganes and those christian authors which haue refused their superstitions We read also in the booke of wisedome that the vnhappie man being bereft by vnripe death of his sonne whome hee loued tenderly to mitigate and assuage his sorrowe first inuented to haue his sonnes image adored and it to be taken for a present GOD in earth and the sonne him selfe for a GOD in heauen The like affection wee reade in Lactantius Cicero hadde towardes his Daughter and Virgils Aeneas vnto his Father with this consolation recouering their Spirites daunted and broken with griefe Wonderfull also was the honour and obseruancie that some nations bare vnto their kings so that he whiche readeth what Atheneus doeth write of the Arabians that the familiars of the Kinges did vse to maime them selues voluntarily of that member which it shoulde happen the king to léese and that when the King died either naturall or violent death they thought it but a sport to die all with him the like whereof is affirmed by Strabo and Diodorus Siculus of the Aethiopians and also of the Soliduni in a countrie of Gallia who were sixe hundreth men whom the King did chuse to be about him as his guard and liued and died with the king neither was it euer knowen that any one man of them did euer refuse or séeme vnwilling to die the Prince being deceased He I say that reads this wil not be hard of beléefe to credite Lactantius that the Maures did vse to consecrate all their kinges for Gods after they were dead The Aethiopians sayeth Strabo libr. 17. thinke that there is an immortall God and a mortall god The immortall is he that is the cause of all thinges the mortal is with them vncertaine and lacketh a name but mostly they do take them by whom they haue receiued benefites and their Kinges for Gods. Moreouer they doe thinke their kinges to be conseruers and kéepers of all men but priuate men when they be dead for they do account all dead men for Gods onely of them to whome they haue done good In like manner also the Romanes vsed to deifie their Emperours after their deathe as they also did their first king Romulus The Persian kings we reade in Curtius and other were adored like vnto Gods which honour saies Arrianus was giuen done vnto Cyrus first of all mortall men and the first of the Romane Emperours that was adored or knéeled vnto was Dioclesian after his glorious voiage and victorie against the Persians Yea in our time Xoas the king of the Persians is worshipped of his subiectes for god The water wherewithall he hathe washed his féete do they powre out of the basen and kéepe religiously as holy being an hoalsome medicine for al diseases he is called the Lord that holdes vppe heauen and earth The Gentiles also to incourage the young Gentlemen to folowe vertue and valiauncie vsed muche to Canonize and consecrate for Gods after death the renouned Capteines and greate conquerours by these meanes Hercules Bacchus and other did clime into heauen Of this

vnchaste members were so conuulsed vpward that his vncleane yarde standing continually stiffe did whensoeuer he made water defile his face and blasphemous mouthe vnlest that a broade boorde were tyed aboue his nauel to kéepe downe the filthie spouting Vrine The xxxvij Chapter Of Michael Paleologus Emperour of Constantinople MIchael Paleologus recouered from the Latines or the christians of the west churche the French men and Venetians the Empire of Constantinople and was a Prince by the reporte of the Gréeke chronicles inferiour to none of his predecessours in goodly personage strength of bodie Princely Maiestie skilfulnes in armes prudence eloquence valiaunce and spéedinesse in dooing of al exploits and yet found he fortune a false flatterer rather then a faithfull fréende For that I may omitte his great daungers of deathe for suspicion of treason in the reigne of Iohn Ducas and also afterward in the time of Theodorus Lascaris when for feare of death procured vnto him by spitefull enuie he fledde vnto the Turke that reigned at Cogin in shorte time after that he had wrongfully gotten the Empire deposing the rightful yong prince whose gouernour he was and fortunatly recouered the citie of Constantinople from the Latines and all suche countries of the Empire as they then helde was Alexius Caesar his delight his trustie fréende through whose valiance he had taken Constantinople and the rest of the Empire and therefore had heaped vppon him so many and greate honours as neuer were giuen vnto any priuate man this his fortunate capteine was taken prisoner by the Despote of Epirus Aetolia hauing lost in battel his mightie armie Then also began he to fal into feare of loosing the Empire the which he had wickedly wonne and therfore to establish it he contrarie vnto thrée othes for so often was hee sworn to be true shamfully depriued the true Emperour young Iohn Lascaris of his sight whome he had before bereft of his Empire for the whiche detestable facte to abate his swelling pride was he excommunicated by Arsenius the Patriarche and a greate number of dayes stoode before the Churche porche in suppliaunt manner and habite pitifully praying the hardened Patriarch to restore him vnto the communion of Christes church but al in vaine vntill that by craft he had caused a counsell to depose the Patriarch And also for the reuenge of this cruel wrong done vnto the yong Emperour Constantine the Prince of the Bulgares who had married his sister made a lamentable rode into the Empire in the which he so spoiled all Thrace so that in that whole mightie Prouince there could for a time scarse be one husbandeman or Oxe séene he also slewe and tooke prisoners all the whole armie of the Emperour returning out of Thessalie not one man horse or cattel fléeing from his fingers except the Emperour him selfe who escaped almoste miraculously by priuie stealing away ouer the mounteines vnto the Sea side Where as it were by Gods prouidence he happened vppon two Latine galleis who were sailing vnto Constantinople but then were happely come a landed in that place for freshe water a boorde one of whome he wente chusing rather to truste their doubtful faithe then to fall into the handes of the bloudie Bulgares And after this followed a shamefull losse of a flourishing armie vnder the conducte of his brother the whiche was discomfited by the Dispote of Thessalie with fiue hundreth men the Emperials being afraide of their owne shadowe But afterward a farre more harmefull feare tooke him of inuasion and losse of his Empire by Charles the king of Naples to preuent the which mischiefe after that he had by large gyftes stirred vppe the king of Sicyl and other of his neighbours against him at the length he was gladde to sue for help vnto the Bishop of Rome and contrarie vnto the lawes of his countrie to submitte himselfe and his Empire vnto his iurisdiction graunting thrée articles the firste that at their diuine seruice mention shoulde be made of the Bishoppe of Rome among the foure Patriarches the seconde that it should be lawfull for all men to appeale in matters Ecclesiastical vnto olde Rome for they vsed also to cal Constantinople Rome but with this addition new the which should be accepted for the highest and more absolute Court the third that in all spiritual thinges the principalitie should be giuen vnto it By this cowardly submission as he escaped the thretened daunger of the Neapolitan so fell he into a farre greater perill of the displeased people who did so abhorre him for this degenerate subiectiō that he looked euery day to be deposed or slaine by them in the whiche hofull state he continued all his lifes time the peoples indignation hatred towardes him being nothing by long processe of time appeased And on the other side the Turke scourged him in Asia miserably wasting burning his Doninions in those partes subdued all the Countries from Mare Ponticum and Galatia euen vnto Mare Lycium and the Riuer of Eurìmedon Furthermore I can not omitt his great anguishe of hart and the déepe sighes that he fette when that he fell sicke in his voiage againste the vnquiet despote of Thessalia at a village called Pachonius the whiche place putting him in mournefull memorie of his vngodly and vniust bereauing the godly man Pachonius of his sight made him incontinently truely to despaire of his recouery Neither was frowning fortunes spite satisfied with his dolefull death but also she caused his onely sonne vnto whom he had with rare benignitie imparted the Empire while he liued himselfe ingratefully to denie him not only Emperial funerals but also christian burial in sacred place this only did childes duetie extort of him that he commanded him to be carried foorth priuily in the night time out of the campe and great store of earth to be hurled vppon him that the wilde beastes and byrdes should not teare into péeces his Fathers the Emperours bodie The cause of this vncourteous dealing with the blisselesse bodie of this noble Emperour procéeded not of any wicked stomache of the sonne against his father who was inferiour vnto no childe in pietie toward his parent but because the countrie lawes and the states of the Empire wold not suffer him to be buried in any of their churches who had they said wickedly reuolted from the true church vnto the false and malignant of Rome The xxxviij Chapter Of Charles the great CHarles the great did for princely personage rare strength of bodie valiant courage and martiall prowesse and glorie farre passe any Christian Prince that euer was and also was inferiour vnto none in learning wisedome pietie and all vertues vnto him came there Embassadours out of all partes of the worlde to desire either peace or fréendship yea out of Afrike Persia Greece he had restored again into the west the Empire which had béene transferred wholy into Thrace and Constantinople and largely reigned ouer Gallia Germanie Italie Hungarie Slauonie