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A18257	The unfortunate politique, first written in French by C.N. Englished by G.P.; Cour sainte. Vol. 1, Book 4. English	Caussin, Nicolas, 1583-1651.; G. P., fl. 1638.	1638 (1638)	STC 4876; ESTC S107630	59,395	229

wonder Sir that you and your Counsell should omit this demeanour as if he came hither not to be judg'd but to cut the Iudges throats You will now pardon him in favour but he will one day assacinate you in justice And indeed of this whole Senate there scap'd not one that Herod did not put to death when he had got the full power of the kingdome except him onely that had delivered his opinion of him with this bold simplicity It is recorded of this Sameas how that some yeares after a question being made of receiving Herod to bee their King when others did stiffely oppose it he spake freely that hee gave his suffrage to Herod as they were wondring at the speech marvell not at the matter quoth he God would give you a King in his anger and hee could not finde one naughtier then Herod He is the scourge which you doe want to chastise your infidelity Hyrcanus then seeing the Iudges somewhat animated by the speech of Sameas and to be more inclined to the side of lustice then Mercy made him secretly to slink away for hee loved him intirely and so hatcht the egge of a Cockatrice within his own bosome Herod who came not any way behind his Father in pollicie following his examples and practices adhered firmly unto the Romans winning them by all manner of observances and entertaining Hyrcanus with all pleasance and flattery The kingdome of Iudea seemd as yet to bee farre enough from his reach Phaselus as the elder held the better part of it Aristobulus whom you have seen led away in chaines to Rome had yet two sonnes whereof the elder call'd Alexander was father to chast Mariamne whose patience we doe here blazon the other was Antigonus who spunne Herod a spindle full of matter to untwist But hee was soone rid of both for unfortunate Alexander successour of his father Aristobulus his disasters being come to the field with certaine forces which he had pickt up as well as his weak fortunes enabled him was opprest by the Romans who came to the assistance of Herod Antigonus being got loose from captivity wherein he was detained at Rome together with his father Aristobulus cut out much employment too for Herod For casting himself into the armes of the Parthians hee made them so many promises and swel'd them with such hopes that they undertook to invest him with the kingdome and forthwith they made preparations by Sea Land and prevailed so far both by force and cunning that they chased out Hyrcanus Phaselus Herod very narrowly escapt his life and though he had a courage of steele yet was hee so amaz'd with this surprise that hee went very neer to make himself away Hyrcanus was very coursly handled by the command of his Nephew Antigonus he had his eares cropt off and so was made forever uncapable of the Pontificate Phaselus Herods brother being so enraged with this unexpected chance of fortune dasht his brains against a stone Herod who had alwaies stuck as close to the Romans as the lvy to the wall seeing his affaires in such a plunge extream hazard implores their aid and complains in most pathetick expressions of the violence of Antigonus the incursions and hostility of the Parthians puts them in minde of the good services of his father Antipater and promises on his part the Ocean and all the scaly Legions Which letters found so good successe that he beyond all hopes and expectation was proclaimed King of Iudea and Antigonus an enemy to the Roman estate because a fugitive and allyed to the Parthians Herod pursues him with hue cry being assisted with the forces of the Roman Empire Antigonus still unfortunate in all adventures after a fierce encounter and long resistance was taken prisoner and was the first of any king that by the command of M. Anthony was executed in a manner so unbefitting his quality and to the Romans unusuall leaving his head upon a scaffold in the City of Antioch for no other reason then seeking to recover his fathers inheritance But Strabo saith that M. Anthony knew no other way to make Herod to bee agniz'd for King both for that there were yet living some of the blood Royall that were capable of the Scepter and for that the people loved their naturall King but hated the stranger This Tragoedy ended Herod mounted on the top of fortunes wheele Lo● all the thornes in his way as he thinks now grub'd up There now remained of the Illustrious race of the H●smoneans but an aged weather-beaten Prince one infant Boy and two Girles to bee defeated Hyrcanus was that aged Prince who intruth drew an unwilling breath whose head many turmoiles and vicissitudes of fortune hastned his hoary haire he was then held captive in the Parthians hands but the King though a Barbarian had cōpassion on a milde debonaire nature in so deplor'd a case so that hee permitted him to live within the walls of Babylon with all the liberty as might be desired This poor Prince who lived all his life time without any ambition did beare this change of fortune with an equall temper and tenor of minde The Iews who lived in that Kings dominions seeing him so maim'd and in a manner excoriated with stripes poore forlorn yet gave him the respect of a King and expressed such honour and reverence towards him that hee found a kingdome in a manner even in his captivity Herod who saw that this man might stand him yet in some steed against those that could disquiet and annoy his anxious and unsetled estate dispatcheth an Embassadour strait to the King of the Parthians with many faire presents and Letters fraught with sugred words and soothing complements wherein hee doth beseech him not to bereave him of that onely and best contentment that he had in the world but to ad this curtesie unto his former favours wherewith hee had obliged him Hyrcanus saith hee was his good Benefactor his Protector Father and since God had now given some repose unto his affairs it would be a singular comfort unto him to communicate the Scepter the cares and pleasures of a King with one so trusty so worthy to be beloved The Parthian King willing to gratifie Herod whom he saw to be supported by the Roman Empire which he did more feare for its puissance then honour for its valour granted full leave to Hyrcanus to goe whither he would He good man consulted with the principall men of his nation who did altogether disswade him from it but the easines of his good nature which did alwaies swallow the bait without heeding the hooke yeelded to those supposed curtesies of Herod and so returned straight to Ierusalem where hee was received with all demonstrations of joy amity Behold no wall the Royall family in the hands of this barbarous usurper Hyrcanus had but one daughter who took not after her father kinde for shee was extream haughty and in this servitude

But as the greater Serpent devours the lesser so hapneth it hereupon that the Romans under the conduct of Pompey the Great now displaying their dreadfull Eagles on the plaines of Syria leading an army of fire before which all other Roytlets or minor Princes were but as chaffe make this Arabian glad to retire within his own territories they march on victoriously without controle and interpose themselves to prescribe laws to pronounce peace or war how and to whom soever they pleased The two brothers made all Courtship to the Roman to purchase his favour and amity each one striving eagerly to win him of his side well perceiving that the obtaining of this would speedily put a period to the controversie Aristobulus as the more generous hold and King-like at the first accessefound the more favour in regard that among other largesses he presented him with a vine al of massie gold one of the rarest and most exact workmanship in the world which afterward for a long time served for an ornament in the Capitoll At length behold both brothers prostrate at Pompey's feet contesting both pleading not for a Hamlet or Vineyard but a Kingdome nothing suspecting that while they staked their fortunes in the hands of a stranger who knew no other law but his ambition insteed of Umpire he would play the Vulture clasp them in his tallons Antipater seeing at first the ballance to perpend to Aristobulus his side as one that the Romans had reason to hope would be more serviceable advantagious to their designes never ceased to decry him to cast black aspertions on his reputation and to work the Romans to a mistrust of his inclination towards them still fawning and couching like a Spaniell before Pompey insomuch that Aristobulus foreseeing that this pernicious spirit abusing the name weaknesse of his brother would sel both to the Roman sets himselfe on his gard where he had but too much resolution and too little strength to cope with the Army of so potent an Empire This poore Prince being overmatched and sinking under the weight of such an encounter was taken captive bound in chaines with his two soones and so many daughters and led away to Rome to furnish a triumph for Pompey Ierusalem is made tributary the Pontificate confer'd upon Hyrcanus but all the authority committed to the hands of Antipater This was a spectacle that drew teares evē from those who before times could not affect Aristobulus to see this unfortunate King in bolts laden with iron together with his Princely sonnes and the poor Ladies his daughters all the heires of their fathers misfortunes who were leaving their native country where they reigned in such Honour for to seek through so uncouth and tedious voyages by sea ●and their thraldome or death which is the more ordinary wish of unhappy wights Antipater reapes the bayes of this victory and begins though as yet staind with blood to establish his litle Monarchy which he had been so long a cōtriving Hyrcanus seem'd like an old sepulcher which retain'd nothing but the name or inscription All things were effected by him in appearance though not any thing indeed The other entertain'd the Romans out of his Exchequer bestowed presents sent and received Embassadours practised confederacies corrupted the forces of his adversaries and rid his way of all the rubs and impediments that might oppose his advancement greatnesse and made it beleeved that this mild Pontiffie was prime mover and author of all Then seeing himselfe each day to grow stronger in repute and authority the better to assure the Realme for his sonnes after his decease hee made the elder namely Phaselus governour of Ierusalem and on Herod his younger son he confer'd the Prefectureship of Galile In short time after whē he had suckt up all the winde with his flatulent ambition had engendred and being now at his non ultra not knowing which way to bend his machinations he suckt up a glasse of poyson that was ministed unto him at a feast by the device of Malicus his enemie Behold here the issue of humane practices Those who are drunk with ambition and are mad for Honours which they seeke to arrive at by mischievous plots and all the travell of body and minde are like those litle bubbles which arise on the surface of the water in a tempest they swell and burst in a moment Antipater being dead his two sonnes Phaselus and Herod share equally in the succession each of them maintaines his own station firmly studies to temper the matter so as to get Hyrcanus still to act the same part to represent a King Herod was no sooner entred upō his charge even while his father was yet living being not full fifteen yeares of age shewed early what in time hee would prove by some excursions of his inbred disposition which sometimes hee made to sallie out like those litle streaks and sparks of heat in the ayre that burst out of a cloud and then after flash in lightning He was of a fraudulent and malignant spirit ambitious even to a degree of madnes whose fingers did alwaies itch to bee imbrued in blood and slaughter and indeed he stained his tender years and the prologue of his reigne with effusion of humane blood putting to the sword Ezekias who indeed lived in the esteem of a Rover common robber but he cut in peeces many other Iews with him without discerning the guiltlesse fed the guilty which caused that many innocent soules were involv'd in this common ruine The mothers of these people who were massacred by Herod stirr'd not out of the Temple lamenting and with their heire disheveld demanding justice from Hyrcanus who was but an Idoll or Statue of Majestie Notwithstanding being importun'd with the cryes of these distressed women set on by some of his Nobility he caused Herod to be summond for to appeare in judgement In this action it was well that this young Prince shewed some resolution and gave some assurance of courage Others that were accused came to this Parliament of Iudea all sad dejected but he arrived thither as to a feast or Theatre attended with a flourishing convoy clad in Skarlet all perfum'd and his haire frizel'd moreover with Letters of recommendation from the Romans which were writ in the stile of authority and military language commanding the Iudges to acquit him without any further processe Hee was scarce fifteen yeares of age and yet with his very presence dasht the Iudges and Advocates so out of countenance that of all those that had provided long haranges against him there was not one that durst open his mouth while he was there One of the Iudges whose name was Sameas a right honest man and of more courage then all the rest spake aloud to King Hyrcanns who was there present Idoe not wonder that this young Lord appeares before this Tribunal in such equipage every man would secure him selfe as well as he may but I doe