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A11028	Romes monarchie, entituled the globe of renowmed glorie Briefly comprehending the first foundation and building of Rome by Romulus: the principall warres and conquests of the Romanes after the time of their first choosing consuls, till Iulius Cæsar attaining soly to the Empire, and from him more briefly to Nero. VVhere in small compasse is described, manie most notable, and vertuous acts, atchieued in their said warres, and conquests; strange tragedies, secret practises and policies, ambition, hate, and reuenge: and how insurrections, rebellion, strife, ciuill discord and discention preualing, was the onely plague, ruine, and vtter destruction of many great monarchies, kingdomes, cities, and countries. Translated out of the French and Italian histories by E.L.	E. L., fl. 1596.	1596 (1596)	STC 21296; ESTC S110727	39,057	82

last agreede During whose raigne there chaunst not worthy deede Which was for profit of the publique wealth But left vnto the Senate all the care Seeing himselfe in rich estate and health Bent whole his minde to quiet life and fare Occasion great th'empire did appaire For now both Parthia Denmarke Poland France With other moe against Rome did aduance Thus may we see when as the floud is full It falles againe so fares all worldly haps Fruites first be ripe before men doe them pull In seasons faire sudden comes thunderclaps In midst of ioyes griefe all our mirth vpwraps And now behold of Rome the morning shine Past midday marke begins for to decline Diuines doe hold that in the fifteenth yeere Tyberius raignd our Sauiour Iesu Christ Did suffer death to make vs sinners cleere To dwell with him that sits in throne most highest Who helpes vs aye when dangers we be nighest Whose Empire stands and euer shal endure When worlds pompe still fleeteth neuer sure CAP. 16. The raigne of Caligula Caligula TYberius sonne Caligula so calde Succeeded next a most pernicious childe Vnto all vice he was a bondslaue thralde Most fit to dwell with sauage men and wilde A life he led that wicked was and vilde Great heapes of gold Tyberius in his raigne Had got he spent in one yeare lewd and vaine Claudius CLaudius next him supposde his vncle he Came to England reduc'd againe that land That did reuolt from Romanes soueraigntie The Britaines did resist him with strong hand But he orecame them with his Romane band And ere from thence did part vnto his fame A citie built and calde it by his name Nero. NExt him ensued Nero when once againe The Britons bold began to warre anew The Romanes they did pill and put to paine In France the Frenchmen also them orethrew A mightie wind in many countries blew In Syria and also Armen●… Their forces most were beat and shronk away Last out of Spayne old Galba did retire Drawne on by Iulius Vindex who from France Perswaded him to Caesars seate aspire See how Ambition mortall minds doe launce He was content though old to follow chaunce Did march to Rome vpon whose comming fled Nero who was most wretchedly found dead Whose storie full at large may well be seene In Tacitus in English fine translate A worthie present for a King or Queene For noble Peeres or others of high state His praise deseru'd shall neuer come too late Who did so well in English it reduce For high degree to serue for publique vse Where is describ'd Nero his monstrous life A common-wealth and state in pieces torne Where may be seene what fruites doe come of strife How broods of vice each quiet state doth scorne And seeke to ruine but subiects truly borne Flye ciuill discord bringing woes and spoyles Most foule are fowles their owne nests that befiles FINIS Who commanded the whole world Virg. Aene. lib. 6. Oct August The spread eagle the armes of the Emperour Whatsoeuer is decreed by diuine power worldly policie cannot withstand * Dido the new maried wife of Sicheus whō the king of Tyrus slue from whose cruel tyrannie Dido fled into Afrique 50. yeares before Troyes destruction * Betweene 350. or 400. yeares after Troyes destruction or Eeneas comming into Italie 1. Kinges 2. Consuls Iustice Iustice duly and rightly executed causeth a common wealth to florish * A prouince in Italie neere vnto Rome an il neighbour to their state L. Quintius Cincinnatus Dictator which office had endured now alreadie about 70. yeares Ingratitude * Burguinions Malice not of any continuance but vanquished by virtue The vertuous oftentimes are diffamed by enuie foyled * before mentioned About this time the care and charge of the commō wealth came from the Tribunes to Consuls againe * out of the place he was charged to stand in * 44. yeares after in a battell against the french Senonois Alexander the great In this time liued Homoer and Socrates * T. Vetu●ius Caluin and Spurius Post-humus albin Cōsuls who dishonourably had taken truce with the enemie greatly to the Romaines disgrace * Dionisius the tyrant of Syracusa There are many wold trust the barbar to trim their beards if they had any Constancie to the commonweale in a Magis●●ate The heathē scorned thē Machiauels deuises now a daies too much raigning Among Christians now a daies treasons are rewarded and traitors succoured The first vse in Italy of Ele●hants in warre 〈…〉 wars 〈…〉 the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 yeares ere they made any conquestes abroad Libia a prouince in Afrique where Dido built Carthage Things at the highest decaying highest Hauing first gotten a partie in the countrie The chance of battaile vncertaine Ingratitude most vile They murdered him because at his returne the Lacedemonians should not glorie in the victory gotten by their Captaine If the heathen held their worde in matters of life and death how much more ought christians in smaller moments * And the exchange of prisoners on both sides * Hanno Carthage Captaine Daily practises of Machauellians * Mountaines parting France and Italie of a wonderfull height * By the countries about Rome Three times he gaue the Romaines the repulse and in the fourth had a most mightie victorie Publius Scipio the sonne of Cornelius Scipio before rehearst * Hannibal had al Italy at commādement The countrie being fertile they surfeted with the fruites so that many dyed * Neere to the floud Metaurus by M. Liuius and C. C. Nero. * Publius * Which place was assignde to him for the warre About this time his father and vncle were slaine in lberia in the Carthagiman wars One who had bin oft Consull Desire to reuenge his vncle fathers death * Of the Senate * The common passage into Afrique nerest from Italy where he was but slenderly furnished at first for such a war When he was sent for he had his armie before Rome walles Subtil practises vsed generally now a daies Hannibal a ●worne enemie to the Rom. by a vow at nine yeres of age in the time of Amilcar his father Discord the signe of destruction the plagues of common weales and priuate mesnages * Massinissa a King in the countrey betrothed to the daughter of Asdrubal giuē by the Carthagi first to him and after to Sysax another King in the countrey there to him maried and after Massinissa maried her againe whē for feare to be taken of the Romaines poysoned her selfe The nature of time * Nor to passe the limites of his countrey * Into Greece Ciuill discord the ouerthrow of the Macedonian Monarchie * Antiochus Enuie the enemie to all vertue * A house or manor of his in the countrey * Marcus Fuluius * Dispayre in distressed mindes solitarie are not alone Infernall plagues to earthly mindes distrest The remēbrance of pleasures past pincheth when penurie is victor Actes of distressed soules possest by despayre running through their sences Hannibal poysoned himselfe The ambition of antiochus King of Assiria who also would gouerne the King of Egipt being but yet a childe minding thereby to obtaine the Kingdome to himselfe Romes Ambassador feareth the great King of

Romes Monarchie ENTITVLED THE GLOBE OF RENOWMED GLORIE Briefly comprehending the first foundation and building of Rome by Romulus The principall warres and conquests of the Romanes after the time of their first choosing Consuls till Iulius Caesar attaining soly to the Empire and from him more briefly to Nero. VVhere in small compasse is described manie most noble and vertuous acts atchieued in their said warres and conquests strange Tragedies secret practises and policies Ambition hate and reuenge and how insurrections rebellion strife ciuill discord and discention preuailing was the onely plague ruine and vtter destruction of many great Monarchies Kingdomes Cities and Countries Translated out of the French and Italian histories by E. L. Il premio é meritato AT LONDON Printed by the Widdow Orwin for Matthew Lawe 1596. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE MOST WORTHIE for vertues Master Alderman Slany Lord Maior of the citie of London the right Worshipfull Master Thomas Low and Master Leonard Halliday Aldermen and Sheriffes of the same citie and to the right Worshipfull the rest of the Aldermen their brethren and other the Magistrates in authoritie there long life health and all good happes in this life and after eternall felicitie RIght Honorable and right Worshipfull Next vnto the sacred Scriptures of almightie God wherein is contained the only ground of our faith beleefe saluation in Christ Iesu the knowledge of other Histories are not of small importance to be weighed and in some measure digested of all men for diuers causes if they be duely considered and examined but most of all and especially with more regard and iudgement of such as your Honour and Worships are who for many considerate causes and other vertues are called to the administring of iustice in the publike weale I except vaine fabulous inuentions meane those philosophicall workes which either are morall or historicall tending to vertue or suppressing vice Among all which worthie volumes as the numbers be many and subiects sundrie the histories of the ancient Romanes gouernment is not of least esteeme to be preferred with the chiefest considering how from their meane originall base beginning they acquised and got the soueraigntie of the whole world This briefe translation right Honorable and right Worshipfull written in French describeth the principall warres and Conquests of the Romanes whose acts and gests concerning the gouernmēt of their Common-wealth with other matters in the large volumes conteined are not I know vnknowne to your Honour and Worships and a great number moe by knowledge of which is reaped no small profit but the multitude or vulgar sort of our nation not hauing those large volumes neither can attaine vnto for value of price or want of knowledge of the languages wherein some of them are written may in this briefe behold how those great Monarches in their sayd warres stirred vp by Ambition of rule and Emperie subdued the Nations of the world onely first by flinging into the principalities of peaceable Princes the fire of ciuil discord strife and discension by meanes whereof when they had gotten that footing then shortly after followed the ruine decay and vtter ouerthrowe of those Countries and Kingdomes their cities and people and how when their Empire was at highest through those furies kindled with hate and reuenge among themselues their great gouernment fel to ruine and decay a thing most wonderfull in the iudgement of God so that at this day of their great Conquests there is no more mention left thereof saue only the bare name of Caesar whose declining estate God sparing me life I meane to bring into as small a roome and compasse as this which sheweth their increasing fame of worldly glorie My humble desire is that this my poore vnpolished labour may finde that fauour of your Honour and Worships to be accepted and taken in good part vnder your worthie protections the rather in that they who are here mentioned were Citizens and gouernours of a most renowmed Citie like this wherein you are Magistrates gouernment thereof for your virtues cōmitted vnto you whose minds whilest they liued the world could not cōtaine do before your Honor Worships in a few paper leaues muster themselues and their greatnes to the ende that their great Conquests vnder your patronages may first passe through this noble Citie and after through the cities townes and villages of her Maiesties dominions to all her other faithful true harted subiects by reading of which they may consider in these thundring dayes the great threatnings of our mightie mortal foe the insatiable Monarch whom the worlds Empire wil not suffice Caesar like with his adherents seeking daily by many craftie conueiances treasons treacheries other inhumane and vnchristianlike meanes to kindle the fire of strife ciuill discention among vs the easier to preuaile to the vtter ruine and ouerthrowe both of Prince people and countrie which God of his good grace hath most mightilie and miraculously defended a long time let all true English hearts pray that it will please him so to continue his gracious fauour euermore towards vs. What vnitie loue concord and peace is Gods name bee blessed wee may all say wee haue felt doe feele and know and whilest the bands of them true and firmely lasteth we shall be inuincible but if once they begin to dissolue by perusing of this brief historie may be seene how many miseries follow God preserue your Honour and Worships and that it will please him to direct your hearts in all your actions to increase in you vertue which liueth when all worldly vanitie els dieth and send you long liues to be most worthie members for the aduancement of this most noble flourishing Common-wealth and Monarchie which God of his gracious goodnes grant long to continue vnder the gouernment of the thrice happie and prosperous raigne of the admirable Empresse of the world our most gracious Soueraigne Ladie Queene Elizabeth ouer whom be the power of his mightie hand euermore extended Amen Your Honor and Worships most humble to commaund E. L. To the louing curteous and friendlie Readers AS in a little nooke or corner of a Cabinet a rich Iewell or pretious stone vnpolished may be couched so in the compasse of these few paper leaues is briefly comprehended the fame and memorie of the most renowmed conquerours of the world the remembrance of whose great actes ne can or will euer bee forgotten Like an Apprentice or vnskilfull Artist haue I aduentured the disrobing of their noble conquestes out from the French copie in English prose and deuiding the same into chapters in some places augmented from the italian enterfraught with some few meane poeticall fictions not altogether vnfitting to the subiect where they are placed Faultes are sooner found then amended and therefore Qui non fa non falla qui falla s'amenda if any haue escaped as who liueth not committing any and that exceptions be taken as there may bee by some prying Pasciphil●s howsoeuer the finenes

Romanes force the citie should o'rethro But like as time of euery thing makes end So now of Carthage fast came on the fine Besiegde with out with in themselues they bend To iarre alas of vtter ruine a signe Strength fayld and with dispayre they gan to pine Yet long and oft they did the Romanes grieue Whom Scipio by his valor did relieue Succour by land and sea from them he tooke Brake downe the walles entred the citie in When terror loe the Carthaginians shooke Like people mad to runne the doe begin In desperate case to loose all or all win Killing and kild at length the Romanes gaine The maistrie and the citie to obtaine Which to beholde what heart but would lament To see how Carthage stoode in wofull case Her stately fort cal'd Birsa torne and rent And houses sackt before the owners face Huge flames of fire rising in many a place A woefull thing for to beholde with eye Smoake dim the ayre and flames to reach the skie Great was the slaughter made by Romaines all In euery streete ran murder blood and fire The sillie babes from mothers breastes doe fall Husbands and wiues a sunder doe retyre Brothers and friendes and sisters pay the hyre Of death alas a griefe it was to see The cities ruine and their great miserie Some with the sword some midst the flame to burne A spectacle most horrible to rue Both magistrates and people dying mourne Of former welfare their ilfare last to view Scipio himselfe shed teares with griefe that grew To see the ruine of that citie olde Late rich and fayre welnie laid flat on molde Continued had seuen hundreth yeares and more Flourisht most braue with plentie of each thing And had commaund ore kingdomes cities store Rul'de eke by sea as chiefe imperiall King With store of ships that riches home did bring All in short space consumde and ruinde quight Subiect vnto blinde fortunes cruell spight Which well may shew the state of kingdomes all Though nere so rich so populous and stout But fortune can and hath made them to fall And welnie razde both names and places out Recount we will some chiefe among the rout What is become of Troyes pompe and pride Of Priam King and all his power beside Assiria that Monarchie so great The Persian Mede and Macedonian King In battaile that Darius stout did beate And all the world did subiect to him bring Carthage may here draw with them in one string Thus worketh time change and chance of each thing Base high to raise more faster downe to bring Thus Carthag loe came to her finall ende Razde to the ground to Rome rich spoyles were brought That were of choyse and Scipio eke did send Scicilians too braue statutes finely wrought And ornaments the Carthaginians cought Long since from them which antique were and olde Which they by force from them also did holde In Rome was ioy for this great victorie With high and low Scipio did triumph gayne His prayses were extended to the skie With peoples voyce and sound of trumpes amayne For surname also was giuen him Africane Because an end he made of so great warre Whereby Romes gloriy stretcht exceeding farre CAP. 7. The conquest of Achaia the razing of the city Corinth warres in Portugall Spayne and with the slaues in Scicilia the razing of Numanitia in Spaine WHen all these warres of Carthage ended were Th'acayan people gathered head amaine In Greece and there an armie they did reare Against Romes state whose brauing to restraine Lucius Mummius Consull leaue did gaine To fight with them of Romes force was he chiefe Who them o'rethrew vnto their paine and griefe Their countrey subiect vnto Rome they yeelded Corinth chiefe citie principall of Greece Hundreth of yeares full many had been builded With sack and spoyle his souldiers did it fleece Burning the same left standing not one peece And after razde the same quight with the ground No dwelling left in it for to be found About which time in Portugall there was A person stout Viriatus cal'd by name But meane of birth yet so it came to passe That from a shepheard grew to so great fame And with his force the Romanes oft did tame But he by treason slaine and not by fight Which caus'd that countrey fall to Romanes right Not far from thence in Spayne a towne did stand Numanitia cal'd which long time warres did hold With Romanes force fighting with equall hand Both one and other gaynde as fortune would The Romanes tooke disdaine a poore towne should Braue them so long and not to haue it tane Thither was sent stout Scipio African At whose aproach disorder great was found The army in that at the siege did lie Which he reformde and then by trumpets sound With sharpe assault Numantiaes force did trie Did take the same the people mercie crie His souldiers spoyl'd and sacked euery place And afterward did clearely it deface About this time within Scicilia isle Bondmen and slaues did make a great vprore Them to appease was vsed many a while Their number did increase still more and more But yet an armie was rais'd vp before For to subdue their power and their strength Whom Consul Fuluius pacified at length CAP. 9. The second warres in Asia the death of Scipio African warres with Iugurth King of Numidia and warres in Germanie France and other places SOone after this in Asia warre was mou'd On the behalfe of Attalus the King Who by his will had giuen to be prou'de His kingdome crowne and euery royall thing The Romanes too but one a plea did bring Against the case namde Aristonicus But Rome replyed and brought an action thus With armed men to trie the matter out Aristonious orecome and brought to yeld Perpenna Consul with his Romane rout Captiued him in battaile on the field Which yeare following to death too soone did yeeld Scipio as he within his house tooke rest Strangled t'was thought by some whom he lou'd best Not much aboue fiftie sixe yeares of age Loe valiant wightes foule fortunes cruell spight Rome was perplext with dolor griefe and rage And as some write in skies appear'd a sight It's said the sonne kept not his course aright How ere it was the losse was great to Rome So time brings too all earthly things their doome In France ensuing after this also The Consull Fabius gain'd a battell great And Gracchus Tribune of the people tho A man most rare on matters graue to treate By Enuies rage some did him cruell threate For slaine he was about diuiding lands The wise we see cannot shun malice hands And now began the warres of Iugurth stout Which Salust doth at large most plainly show Where may be seene great matters brought about And of the rest before past on a row In other workes who will them reade may know Why this small worke was writ one cause was chief Romes rising

high to be declar'd in brief But Iugurths warre which next did fall in chase Calphurnius first did take the same in hand Who Consull was and after him had place Cecilius Metellus strongly mand But lastly Marius with his warlike band Orethrew his host with many a deadly wound Ending the warre had Iugurth prisoner bound During which warre with this Numidian king The Germanes high and low gan to molest Italia soyle and mightie troopes did bring In France also that countrie to infest The Romanes had by them vnquiet rest Great slaughter oft amongst them they did make Chief Captaines many were forst their liues forsake But Marius Consull foure times now chose Gaue them repulse and last their power orethrew The Almanes hie were slaine and soone did lose At Aix in Prouence where their strength they drew In Lombardie at Lysieres did rue The other sort which done afresh did grow New warres that ouer all Italie did flow Those people that vpon the soyle did dwell In sundrie partes which often heretofore Be nam'de began againe for to rebell With much adoe appeasde was their vprore And being reduc'de to quiet as before Swift time that doth begin and end all thing A dangerous warre against Romes state did bring CAP. 10. The warres with Mithridate King of Pontus vpon which grew the ciuill warres in Rome betweene Sylla and Marius of warres in Portugall and the vtter ouerthrow of Mythridate the great King of Pontus IN Kingdomes rule most strange is fortunes chance Fleeting vnsure not to be thought with hart Euents each day both to and fro do glance Sores thought well salu'd elswhere vnknowen do smart Trust treason proues and plaies a tragique part With secret sleights Ambition worketh wiles Faith proueth fraudes and friendships are but guiles Mythridate King of Pontus valiant stout With armie strong did giue two Kings the foile Gaue them the chase their seate and kingdome out One of Bythinia the other of the soyle Of * Cappadoce their countries both did spoile Which warre so sore the state of Rome did trouble First strife next hate and after murders double These wretched Kings distressed thus with woe In league and friendship were with Romanes knit Vnto their aide perforce did driue them to But here marke fortune when she list to flit Who frowning seemde on Romanes side to sit For warres abroade to hurt them did begin And ●arres more ill at home themselues within Strife did arise two captaines stout Which after grew to warre and deadly wound Note here the fruites sedition bringeth out And where likewise ambition taketh ground The bodies sicke whereas the heades vnsound Rome had good cause to looke both pale and wan Neuer so plagude since first their state began Stout Mythridate with kings chase not content But farther runnes into the Romanes land Long t'was before the Senate could consent Who for this warre as leader chiefe should stand On partes they were on this side and that hand Sylla some chose because of noble race Some Marius rather to supply the place Betweene these two began Romes wofull state Here may be seene what ciuill discords breede Sylla had prest his armie at Romes gate Marius constrain'd to flye away with speede Perforce was such and so hard grew his meede In a small boate as fast as he could hye To Afrique coast away from Rome did flye So Sylla had of Pontus warre the charge And thither marcht with Mithridate to fight Absent from Rome Cynna whose power was large That time Consull began the state to spight Stirring vp strife but was soone put to flight By Octauian who in office with him was Out of the citie to Cynna gaue the chase Marius on this returned from exile His power with Octauian did vnite In Rome committing many parts most vile Wrong bare the sway and did orepresse the right Murder and theft was done in open sight They Consuls chose and did what ere they lust Their will was law that euery thing discust Sylla this while in warre gainst Mithridate The Romanes losse in part did get againe Hearing of Romes foule broyles and troubled state Fast homeward hied to ease that grieuous paine And when he had for most orecome and slaine His enemies that gainst him did resist Bare sway alone and then did what he list Thus one gap stopt a worser breach is made One tempest past a fouler storme doth rise One drowning scapte a gulfe more ill to wade One ill foreseene a vilder blinds the eyes One foe found out a crueller lurking lyes One canker heal'd out breakes more pestlent sore Marius was ill Sylla could be no more For when the winde tempestuously doth blow Oreturning towers houses trees and all Those harmes past ore incontinent doth flow A mightie floud by raine continuing fall Drencheth vp beasts on fields and in the stall Drowning both corne and fertile medow ground One common losse doth make a grieuous wound Marius windlike at first did blow and rage Which tempest little calm'd scarse ouerpast Sylla not bent that so it should asswage But after blasts brings flouds of raine as fast The woolfe full pancht the beare take his repast Who hunger bides but weaker beasts among The rauening sort opprest by open wrong Sylla his en'mies sharply did pursue Some banisht were and on their goods set price Their children eke that after should ensue He quite despoyl'd for euer to arise Office or rule to beare in any wise No man what ere might safe enioy his state Or life if once against him he bare hate So farre forth was his heart enflam'd with ire Marius being dead part of his carkasse tho Such furie did his raging mind inspire He causde into a riuer to be throw Behold reuenge to mortall men a foe Neere satisfied vntill she haue her will Of will restrainde with griefe her selfe doth kill Thus Sylla got the victorie at length Dictator made and had the chiefest place For to command and now againe in strength Rome gan to grow and mutinies to race But yet farre of an Exile in disgrace With Sylla nam'de Sertorius stout and fierce With warre did seeke the Romanes state to pierce In Portugall an armie he did wage Got many townes in warres hauing great skill For to appease this vnlookt for outrage Pompee had charge to worke therein his will Betweene these two each part much bloud did spill After great fights Sertorius was slaine In treason foule with craft caught in a traine A few yeares after Pompee this had wrought All Spayne he got and in that time also Bythinia king to earth by death was brought Heire to his crowne he made the Romanes tho But Mithridate king of Pontus sayd no Who occupied Bythinia all the while That Marius and Sylla made the broyle Against whose pride Lucullus Consull went And foyld him oft speeding so at the last His armie all in piecemeale cut and rent And from

Assiria with a word * His breach of promise punished after in his sonne called Perseus solicited by his nobles after his fathers death to take in hand this warre * Who at this instant gaue vnto thē a great ouerthrow which weakened them sore to withstand this last warre * Ambition is neuer sufficed till death The wise foreseeth destinie but fooles fall in their folly A great nūber of their Children according to the last trues The people desired him for hope onely of the former Scipio who conquered Astique before The true patterne of a most noble Captaine Where Magistrates are not obeyed with a confusion commeth finall destruction The end of disobedience to the Magistrates in a common welth is many miseries The nature of fury once conqueror The miserie of disordered people euen their owne enemies do often lament to beholde On earth nothing permanent * The image of Apollo of fine gold pillars of golde of the waight of 1000. talents with innumerable other spoyles besides those taken by the souldiers Lucius Mummius had for surname Achaique Portugall subiect to Rome * 14. Yeares after Carthage destroyed and in the 622. of Romes foundation When the foote will rise against the head cut it off on the ground any more to tread In the yeare of Rome 625. Both the other Scipio and this dyed in the flower of their age Iugurth K. of Numidia a countrey in Afrique appertaining sometime to the Carthaginians Calphurnius Slaughter and ouerthrowes of the Romaines by the Germanes * The Latines Samnites To scanes Veientes Eques Falisques and others now such countries as areabout Rome Florence Genua Mantua Ferrara Sienna and others * Two countries in Asia * The Romanes Ciuill discord the onely mischiefe of all common-wealths which bringeth therein destructions sooner then any other plague Contentiō cause of hate and reuenge One poison driuen out by another and yet the griefe not cured The fruites of ciuill discord A quiet state the meane while True is an olde saying seldome comes the better Reuenge ioyned with ire * Prescribed by Sylla * Giuing many ouerthrowes to the Romans during the ciuill warres * Liued often most sumptuouslie c. Not medling any more in matters of the commonwealth * Pompee * Nere vnto Constantinople or beyond which com passeth the one side of all Europe Vnconstācie of mind in miseries engendreth dispayre Romes ambition still continueth By this King was inuented the triacle now vsed called by his name Friends and his souldiers forsooke him by meanes of his son who vsurped the crowne The longer life the greater strife The weakest alwaies goes to the wall Ciuill strife a destroyer * Gathereth a crew discontented through idlenes and voluptuousnesse The reward of rebeliious persons disturbing the quiet estate of the common wealth * A people in Germanie * A Countrey in France very fruitefull Iulius Caesar his first charge in warrein Germanie Caesar fortunate in al his warres Caesar in England Letters written to Rome from England * Commanded by the Senate or councell * The noble mind of Pompee to distressed Princes Where reuenge taketh roote nothing but death can supplant it Hate will build on a small ground to be reuenged * Caesa●… * Or Marcellis a towne in in France lying betweene Spayne and Italy on the sea coast Partly through feare of further trouble * And Pharsalie where they fought Pompe but young yet a great conqueror There was counted to be in siluer 2200. talents after our account in money an infinite some Besides prisoners there were 314. pledges children of Kinges and great Princes of countries by him ouer come shewed in the triumph with the images pictures of those slaine in battaile to represent his victories The greatnes of mans minde atchieueth many enterprises thought vnpossible which proueth true that a man is but his minde Cato slew himselfe at Vtica a city in Afrique for that hee would not fall into Caesars hands * Iuba a King in Afrique his league with Rome In his owne person ere he attayned the soueraigntie of Emperor hee had made war in three parts of the world viz Asia Africa Europe and from them all returned victor No sooner full sea but ebbe beginneth Ambition cause of many miseries Honers seat full of dangers Whē dread is least then is danger greatest * A relation to the fourth staffe in the first Chapter of this booke * The Turkes Summer the ripener of al fruites Autum the gatherer ●…orier Winter the destroyer spender Spring the quickner againe of all But this spring the comfort of all Christians the haruest hath been long God graunt many good laborers there in that whē Autum commeth winter following be not sharpe Planting with care and yet not knowing who shall enioy that they haue toyled for * Iu. Caesar Inconstancie the change of many strange chances Discention cause of distruction Liking and lust cause of dishonor Sweet meat will haue sower sauce Delightes with carelesnes bringes wracke and wretchednes Christes birth the spring of our ioyes The praise of Augustus Constancie in virtue maketh old age long happie Christs death our comfortable haruest God grant vs grace to gather therby fruites that in winter we dye not but liue The Brytaines reuolt from Romes gouernement Gloucester so Claudius Cae●ar Virtue buildeth vice plucketh downe * Who was gouernor of a prouince in France for the Romanes wrote letters into Spayne The onely decaye of the Empire was ciuill discord Virtues praise neuer dyeth Whose increase is mightie now a dayes