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Visiones rerum. = The visions of things. Or Foure poems 1. Principium & mutabilitas rerum. Or, the beginning and mutabilitie of all things. 2. Cursus & ordo rerum. Or, art and nature. 3. Opineo & ratione rerum. Or, wealth and pouertie. 4. Malum & finis rerum. Or, sinne and vertue, concluding with the last Iudgement and end of all things. Wherein the author expresseth his inuention by way of dreame. By Iohn Hagthorpe Gent.
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Hagthorpe, John.
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no Downe could please Here burning beds of Iron is your ease 112 You curious mouthes that nought but sweets could taste Whose great excesse did grutch the poore a share Which on your paunches millions carst did wast And had so many thousands still to care Onely to bring you dishes strange and rare Here Ostrich-like shall swallow in your rage Toads 〈◊〉 or Stones your hungers to asswage 113 Poena damni Then damned soules conceiue what you haue lost How faire a Citie what a Mansion Prouided for yee at anothers cost Enricht with bâ—…auty and perfâ—…ction Where 〈◊〉 cares disease or want is none But all with glorie and with wisdome shine Sustain'd and cherisht by that loue diuine 114 On earth while earst you liu'd you deemd the losse Of Paâ—…ents fauour was no little paine The losse of Kingdomes an exceeding crosse But most to loose the light and to remaine In dungeon darke This losse doth all containe I he losse of God whâ—…se bâ—…undlesse powre diuine Doth not your plagues in times or tearmes consine 115 Altho ye could like Esau melt to teares Restore like Iudas your accursed gaine Like Ahab mourne in sack cloth many yeares Altho you here could chatter like the Crane Send forth as shrill shrikes as the Pellican Tho ye could weepe whole Seas for euery sinne They 're all but lost no mercy can yee wâ—…nn 116 But here me thought I felt a sudden ioy Run through my flesh and wing my rauisht spright Feeling my selfe exempt from this anoy Full of coelestiall thoughts and rare delight Amongst the Quires of heauenly Singers sweete With which high ioyes I thinke my soule had scapt From forth her prison if I had not wakâ—… 1 Herod surnamed the Great tho valiant cruell put to death Mariamne his wife a woman both chaste and beautifull then his owne sons Alexander and Aristobulus the children of Bethlem his salse sonne Antipater the most of his friends and lastly lest he should want teares at his end gaue order for the killing of a great number shut vp in the Hippodrome Ioseph Antiq. 2 Abimelech the base sonne of Gedeon slew threescore and nine of his brethren to vsurpe Iosephus pag. 117. 3 Ptolomeus Philopater slew father mother and wife Ptolomeus Phiscon married his owne sister Cleopatra sometime the wife of their brother the King deceased whom after he cast off and married her Daughter his Neece and fearing the people should set vp his eldest sonne against him he kills him Whereupon they pull 〈◊〉 his images which he interpreting as donâ—… in fauour of his sister kills also his 〈◊〉 that he had by her sending his hands and feete in a chest as a present to her the day of his birth Iustine lib. 38. Ptolomeus Ceraunos the brother of Lisimachus King of Macedon hauing rescued Queene Arsinoe hiâ—… owne sister from Antigonus who slew her husband and besieged her in the Citie Cassandria affecting the Kingdome made suit to his sister for marriage hauing no other meanes to get the possession of her and her children but his intentions being suspected by her hee sweares by the Altars and the Gods that he meant to make her son King Ouercome she yeelds marries him inuites him to her Citie which he hauing seized presently causes her children to be slaine euen in the lap of their sorrowfull mother and exiles her selfe Iustin. lib. 24. 4 Numulesinthis caused the parents feede vpon their children Valerius Maximus lib. 9. cap. 2. 5 Mithridates slew seuentie thousand Roman Merchants in one day in time of peace Plutarch 6 Occhus called Darius hauing bound himselfâ—… by oath not to kill any of the conspiracie of the Magi by Sword Poyson Famine or any force deuised a morâ—… cruell way for them and as hee thought without infringing his oath he fills a great deepe roome with Ashes vp to the top and ouer the same vpon a rafter places these men giuing them good cheare wherewith being brought into a dead sleepe they fall into this pit-sall Val. Max. Ctesias saith Ochus vsed his brother Secundianus so but this Ochus was long after Darius the sonne of Histaspis that supprest the Magi. 7 Iugurth the sonne of Masthanaball the Base son of Masinissa was brought vp by his Vncle Micipsa the lawfull sonne of the said Masinissa King of Numidia who at his death made him co-heyre with his owne sons Adherball and Hiempâ—…all hoping by that meanes to tie him by merit which was already bound by Blood and Kindred to be a stay and defendâ—…r of his children in their minoritie but Iugurth more cruell then the very Lions which acknowledge benefits after his Vncles death kills Hiempsal warres vpon Adherball and at length makes him also away but enioyes the Kingdome not long the people of Rome punishing his great impieties both with losse of Kingdome and life Salust 8 Cambises hauing sent Prexaspes one of his dearest and most trustie Friends from Memphis into Persia to make away his brother Smerdis At his returne againe after the execution demands what they say and what opinion they had of him in Persia. Prexaspes replies All well onely they thought hee loued Wine more then stood with his health With these words the Tyrant enraged causes Prexaspes sonne to stand as a marke for him to shoote at and at the first shot cloue his heart as before he said he would doe to teach Prexaspes who friendly admonisht him of his excesse that hee was not drunke Whereupon Croesus the Lidian admonishes him hee offers to shoote at him to He made warre so long in Ethiopia till his men through famine 〈◊〉 vp one another tything themselues by lots Another part of his Army sent to destroy the Temple of Ammon were all lost and ouerwhelmed with Sand none returning to bring newes what Mummey their fellowes 〈◊〉 Herodotus in his Thalia page 234 235 and 236. Seneca saith hee caused all the peoples noses of Syria to be cut off 〈◊〉 de Ira. 3. c. 20 9 Astiages being premonisht in a dreame of the translation of his Kingdome to the Persians by meanes of Cyrus his young Nephew gaue command to Herpagus one of his friends to make away the Child But Herpagus abhorring so great crueltie vsed meanes to preserue him a long time secretly til at last the King coÌ„ming to knowledge of his life safty â—…aused Herpagus for neglecting hiâ—… command to eate the flesh of his owne sonne at a supper Herodotus Clyo. pag. 84. 11 Caesar Pompey Alexander Pirrhus whose onely sinne of Ambition was the death of many millions nothing being able to satisfie an insatible mind one diggs for another world another seekes it in the Desarts of India all of them like wilde and sauage beasts enemies of humain society being broke loose run about killing and destroying others till they loose themselues 12 Caius was said to be grieued because in his time there fell no Earthquakes Famines nor Pestilences to destroy the world Hee wisht the people of Rome had but one head
that hee might strike it off at one blow Seneca de Ira. 13 Nero causâ—…d his Mother Agrippina to be put to death hauing first attempted it diuers waies in vaine Tacitus 14 These were the Persecutors of the Church Nero Domitian Marcus Anthonius Verus Seâ—…erus Maximine Decius Valerian Auâ—…elian Dioclesian and Maximilian Eusebiuâ—… and the Centuries 15 In Legend Aur. it is said that holy Ignatius being perswaded to renounce Christ made answere That he could not his Name was written vpon his Heart Whereupon the Tyrant caused him to be opened and found the word IESVS written therein in Golden Letters 16 King Poppeyle hauing slaine his two Uncles most cruelly is persecuted of Mice and Rats by the hand of God and hee and his Queene forc't to flie into a Towre situated in the water but thither they followed him and at last deuoured him and her no meanes being able to hinder Gods decree These Rats seemd to come forth from the Tombes and very Graues of his dead Vnkles This mans vsuall Oath was still That if I doe such or such a thing may the Rats eate me and so at length they did The place is called Rats-Tower to this day Hist. Poloniae 17 Amurath sacrifized at onâ—… time sixe hundred Souldiers that yeelded vpon faith and honest conditions to the Ghost of his dead father Calcondillius in Hist. de Imperii Graeci lapsu in Lerius 18 Mahumet hauing won Constantinople gaue himselfe to Feasts and Banquets in which for greater pompe he put to cruell deaths the most of the Grecian Nobilitie he cut off the head of Trene his fairest and best beloued Parramour with his owne hand as the onely remedie for his intemperate loue There happened to him a strange warning for his crueltie for hauing caused fiue hundred Capâ—…iues to bee slaine and their bodies dismembred and throwne about there came an Oxe rooting and lowing and with his Hornes gathered together the piâ—…ces of a Venecians body there amongst the rest which being told to Mahumet he againe commands the same body to be disperst But the Oxe againe diligently seekes out the same pieces and layes them together wherewith Mahumet being much mooued caused the dead to bee buried and giues the Oxe an allowance during life Lerius out of Chalcondilus 19 Wladus Prince of Moldauia had a great Vale in his Country full of Gibbets Wheeles and other engins whereupon there hung thirtie or fortie thousand of his owne subiects put to death by him in three yeares With which fearefull spectacle Mahumet the great Tyrant being amazed became after more gentle spying the greatnes of his owne faults in another which he could not see before in himsslfe Knowles 20 Selym the youngest of Baiazets sonnes by the fauour of the Ianizarâ—…es aspired to the Empire disceptred his old Father Baiazet and caused him to be poysoned slew his Brothers and Neâ—… put the most of his dearest Friends and Seruants to death and lastly after his victories in the East and the conquest of Egypt intending great warres against the Christians is by the hand of God stricken with a Canker or Wild-fire in his reynes that eate him vp Paulus Iouius tome 1. l. 14 and tome 2. l. 19. 21 This Adolph wearie of expecting his Fathers death tooke the Dukâ—…dome from him led him fiue Dutch mile barefoot in a cold night and imprisoned him in a darke and deepe Dungeoâ—… eight moneths in most lamentable manner but being at length compeld to bring him forth and to giue an account thereof to the Duke of Burgoyne he onely obiects that his Father had been Duke 44 yeeres therefore now high time for him to come to his Birth-right The Duke of Burgoyne at last orders the young man being his Kinsman to stand as Duke and onely one small Citie to remaine to his Father with some sixe hundred Florences the yeere during life But Adolph flatly refused to grant him this small exhibition but would hauâ—… him exiled the Countrey protesting that rather then he would condiscend to those termes he would throw his Father into a well and himselfe after Soone after the Duke of Burgoyne takes him Prisoner where hee was despightfully handled all his life and his Fâ—…ther dying disinherited him making the Duke of Burgoyne his Heire After whose death young Adolph is taken out of prison by the Ganthoyse and is slaine at the siege of Tourney Phil. Comminees l. 4. c. 1. 22 Amidas being left Gouernour of Tunis by his father Muleasses whilest he sought aide amongst the Christian Princes against Barbarussa seizes the Kingdome for himselfe and at his fathers returne puts out his eyes to disable him for gouernment and forceth him to end his dayes in miserie as a banisht man he lost his owne eyes to with diseases and enioyed his Kingdome not long Knowles 23 Iohn Basilides late Emperour of Russia did infiniâ—…ely exceed all the Tyrants and monsters of Nature that euer were His rapines his lusts his murtherâ—… cannot bee numbred It was vsuall with him for one mans offence to extirpe whole Families and Cities and many times without any occasion When the warres ceast and that he wanted captiues to exercise himselfe vpon then did he kill and massacre his Friends his Lords his Councellors his Citizens burning hanging drâ—…wning thousands of guiltlesse and innocent people Hee would looke on and see his Guard defâ—…owre thousands of his women Captiues and then cut them in pieces Embassadours were not safe with him no more were his Friends and Companions if any man won of him in play he would fall into passion and sometimes cut off their Noses and Eares If for feare they suffered him to winne then he would streight cause them to bee beaten as dull and sluggish Dolts Now if any sought by refusing to play to auoyd these two extremes those hee would greâ—…uously handle and perchance put to death as contemners of his Maiestie Vpon some reprochfull speeches giuen by an honest Matron vnto one of his whores he tooke a purpose to murther al the women of Muscho and had done it before the instant request of his owne women Of diuers Citties that he pnnished he put all the inhabitants downe through certaine holes made through the Ice into the riuers and so drowned them The warnings he had from heauen were notable Vpon a Christmas day which was faire and cleare came a sudden lightning from heauen that burnt his stately Pallace of Sloboda with much treasure and rich stuffe in the same Soone after neere the towne of Nale there fell a strange thing three men and three women going forth to gather sticks in the adioyning wood late towards euening there came this voyce into their eares without any knowne Authour Fly Muschouians with which amazed they would haue fled towards the Towne when in the instant a mightie marble stone fell downe from the heauens sent with a great clap of thunder into the Snow and seemed to be settled there in such manner as if not throwne