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A48803	The marrow of history, or, The pilgrimmage of kings and princes truly representing the variety of dangers inhaerent to their crowns, and the lamentable deaths which many of them, and some of the best of them, have undergone : collected, not onely out of the best modern histories, but from all those which have been most famous in the Latine, Greek, or in the Hebrew tongue : shewing, not onely the tragedies of princes at their deaths, but their exploits and sayings in their lives, and by what virtues some of them have flourished in the height of honour, and overcome by what affections, others of them have sunk into the depth of all calamities : a work most delightfull for knowledge, and as profitable for example / collected by Lodowick Lloyd ... ; and corrected and revived by R.C. ...	Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610.; Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665.	1653 (1653)	Wing L2660; ESTC R39067	223,145	321

Panopion and suffered himself to be slain in stead of his master A man would think that greater love could be found in no man then for a man to die for his friend and truth it is But to find such love in beasts towards men is wonderfull indéed Insomuch that in Leucadia a Peacock loved a young Virgin so well that when she died the Peacock also died And Pliny saith that in the City of Seston an Eagle being brought up by a young maid loved the maid so well that it would fly abroad and kill fowls and bring them home to the young maid and when the Virgin died the Eagle flew into that same fire where the maid was appointed to have her dead body burned and also died with her The Persians were wont for favour and affection they baro unto their horses to bury them and the people named Molossi made brave Sepulchres for their dogs Alexander the great made a tomb for his horse Bucephalus so did Antiochus and Caesar likewise Such love and faithfull trust was found in dogs that the great King Masinissa of Numidia never went to bed but had a dosen great dogs in his chamber as his guard to kéep and watch him from his enemies for sure he was that money might not corrupt them friendship might not allure them and threatnings might not fear them There was a Dog in Athens named Caparus unto whom the tuition of the Temple of Aesculapius was committed with all the wealth and treasure therein which in the night being trained away the Temple was robbed the substance and the riches was stoln thence but in the morning the dog found out the falshood thereof and made all Athens privy of the theeves by raving and runing toward them We read in Plini of Ulisses dog which Ulisses left at home when he went with Agamemnon to Phrygia to the wars of Troy and being twenty years absent he found Penelope his wife and his dog faithfull and loving at his return That noble Gréek Lisimachus had a dog named Durides that loved him so well that even at Lisimachus death the dog died also Hiero had another dog that died even so and ran willingly unto that flame of fire where his master did burn to die with him I might well speak of Alcibiades dog which wheresoever he came no man might or durst speak any evill of Alcibiades in presence of his dog Titus Sabinus dog never forsook his master in prison and when any man gave him bread or meat he brought it to his master in prison and when he was thrown into the river Tiber the dog was séen as Fulgotius saith to do what he could to lift up his masters head out of the water thinking his master had béen alive At what time Pyrrhus subdued the City of Argos there was in those wars an Elephant which after he perceived that his master was slain went up and down among the dead souldiers to seek his master which being found dead the Elephant brought his body being dead to a safe place where the Elephant after much mourning died for sorrow The like examples we read in Plini of horses and specially of thrée the one Alexander the great King of Macedonia had the second Julius Caesar Emperour of Rome possessed the third Antiochus King of Syria had these thrée horses suffered no man to ride or touch them but their own master and were so gentle to them that they kneeled to let them mount on their backs Thus beasts did bear fancy to men obey and love them and were most true and trusty to men and did shew such love as neither Seleucus to his son An●●gonus or Pericles to his son Priasus nor Socrates to his son Lamproces did ever shew How gentle was a Woolf unto King Romulus to nourish him in spight of his Grandfather Amulius How loving was a Bear to Alexander to bring him up against his fathers will King Priamus How kind was a Bitch to King Cyrus to foster him unawares to his Grandfather King As●iages The Bees come to Plato his Cradle to féed him with honey being an infant The little Ants brought grains to féed King Mydas being likewise in his Cradle O what is man said the Prophet David that thou art so mindfull of him that thou hast brought all things in subjection to him beasts of the fields fouls of the ayr and fishes of the Seas all things made to fear and to love him and yet he neither to fear God nor to love himself We read in Quintus Curtius of an Elephant that King Potus of India had which Alexander the great took captive afterward when this Elephant saw the King first he knéeled down and shewed such honour and homage as was marvellous to the beholders It is read in Caelius of a King in Egypt named Merthes that had a Crow taught to carry his letters and how to bring answer in writing home again Plini doth write that a Nightingale loved Stesicorus so well that it would alwaies sing at the beck of Stesicorus to pleasure him Heraclides the Philosopher had a Dragon taught to follow him every where Ajax likewise had in Locresia a Serpent brought up and taught to honour him as his master Agrippina the Empress and wife unto Claudian had a Thrush that never departed from her during the Empresse life Plini hath in his book of natural histories infinit such exāples to prove the love that all moving creatures do ow shew to man as the wild Bull in Tarentum the raging bear in Daunia which Pythagoras so tamed that all places all countries and all persons were sure and safe from any danger or hurt by these wild beasts This commeth by no vertue that is in man but onely by that which God made for man that all living creatures fear man and love man so that if comparisons be made it shall be evident that there hath béen more love in beasts towards man then in man towards man yea then brother to brother then the husband toward the wife or the wife toward her huband considering the nature of man and the beast together CHAP. XXXI Of Memory and Oblivion SOme hold opinion that in the ancient time whiles yet the world flourished not in learning that memory then was most set by and estéemed for whatsoever was séen or heard was then committed to memory and not recorded in books But Socrates said after the use of letters were had the vertue of memory decayed for that care which then was by tradition and memory with care and diligence to observe is now by all put in books that now our memory is put in writing and then was it fixed in mind insomuch that the noble Athenian Themistocles passing by Simonides school who as some suppose taught first the Art of memory being demanded whether he would learn the art and faculty of memory answered that he had rather learn how to forget things then to kéep things in memory for I cannot said he

him he answered not one word but bad him Good night when he come to his own door which when the enemy saw and that he would not be moved to anger to take any advantage on him he went to the next tree and hanged himself Thus did Socrates who being blamed by his friends for his silence in that he was injuriously handled by his foe answered That his enemies could not endamage him sith he was not that man whom his words did import to be and being stricken spurned by the same man Socrates was counselled to call the same to the Law before the Iudges to the which he answered Which of you if an Asse strike him will call that Asse before any Iudges sith he is no better that useth me this for by this am I known to be Socrates and he to be an Ass The greatest revenge to a fool is to let every man know his folly and the greatest hurt to a wise man is to revenge folly for it was al the revenge of Socrates whē any man spake il of him to say thus The man never was taught to speak well So courteous was Fabius Maximus that when he had heard that one of his chief souldiers was about to betray him to his enemies he called the party before him not making him privie that he knew of it and demanding of him what he wanted he commanded him to ask any thing he would have and made him chief Captain of his Army By this means he became most true to Fabius being before most false This was far from such revenge as Alexander the Great used who after he had subdued divers Kingdoms and Countreys he went to the Temple of Ammon to know by the Oracle of Jupiter whether yet any were alive that flew his father King Philip whereby he might shew more tyranny and practise greater murther This was far from M. Brutus rage who was not content to conspire against Caesar and to kill him in the Senate-house but also when power failed when souldiers decayed and he was almost vanquished he made his prayers to Jupiter and to the host of Heaven to plague Caesar and his posterity This I say was far from Livius Salinator who being warned of Fabius Maximus not to revenge malice upon Hasd●ubal before he knew the state of the matter the power of the field and the end of the victory where it should happen yet being more rash to revenge then wise in forbearing he said that either out of hand he would kill or be killed And in this place I will recite three or four Histories fit for this purpose Phobius wife fell in love with Antheus a noble Gentleman of Halicarnassus being left in pledge with Phobius chief ruler then of Milesia and used al means possible to allure Antheus to requite her love But he partly for fear and partly for love of Phobius her husband in no wise would consent to any filthy desire Cleoboea Phobius wife took the same in so evil part that she began mortally to hate him inventing what way best she might revenge his discourtesie in refusing her love She feigned on a time that she had quite forgotten her old love towards him and thanked Antheus very much for the love and great zeal that he did bear to her husband Phobius in not consenting to her folly then when she was in love with him Thus talking with him Cleoboea brought her old Lover Antheus over a Well where for that purpose onely she threw a tame Partridge desiring him to aid her to have her Partridge out of the Well the young Gentleman misdoubting her in nothing as one willing to pleasure his friend and old lover went down into the Well to have the Partridge out but she revenged her old love and requited his service after this sort she threw a great stone after him and there killed him and straight for sorrow caling to mind the old amity and hidden love betwéen them she hanged her self This revenge that noble and famous Lacedemonian used who had his own wife in such admiration and was so impatient in love that he was as much hated of her as she of him was honoured and estéemed For she loves King Acrotatus son so dear that her husband Cleonimus understanding the same went to Epire to King Pyrrhus perswading him earnestly to go unto Peloponesus and to move wars against King Acrotatus whereby he might revenge the injury done by his wife in killing him whom she loved best thinking it a greater revenge to kill him whom she loved better then her self then to revenge it upon her own person Valerius Torquatus for that he might not have Tuscus daughter in marriage moved wars immediately and revenged the same with bloud For what cause did Progne King Pandions daughter of Athens kill her own son I●is and gave him to be eaten unto his father and her husband King Pereus of Thrace for nothing but to revenge her sister Phylomela whom her husband deflowred Why did Nero that cruell Emperour kill Seneca his master and teacher in all his youth for nothing but to revenge old stripes which he received at his master being a boy For what purpose did Cateline Silla Damasippus Marius and others make quarrels to plague Rome to punish all Italy to destroy the country for nothing but for that they could not abide the one to be above the other Darius after that he had taken the City of Babilon he revenged his old malice after this sort as Herodotus in his third book affirms he caused thrée thousand of the best within the City to be hanged Attilla King of Panonia slue eleven thousand virgins at the siege of Colonia So several were revenges amongst men so cruel yea so foolish that Xerxes and Cyrus two great Kings of Persia when the water of Hellespont troubled Xerxes and molested his souldiers he forthwith commanded that the sea of Hellespont should have thrée hundred stripes and willed thrée hundred pair of Fetters to be thrown into Helespont to bind the sea Even so did Cyrus because the river Gindes did drown one of his best geldings he made his souldiers to divide the river into a hundred and fourscore small parts to revenge the rage of the river toward him thinking that by breaking of the great rage of so great a stream he well and worthily requited the injuries of Ginges These are cruell revenges too many are of these insomuch that women revenge their malice after this sort So Tomyris Quéen of Scithia to revenge her son Margapites death slue King Cyrus and two hundred thousands of his souldiers too great a slaughter for one mans death and not yet satisfied till she bathed Cyrus head in a great vessel of bloud This B●ronice Pollia and divers cruell women have performed Princes ought to use advisement in revenging and wisedome in sufferance For as Frederick the Emperour was wont to say Princes that revenge hastily and especially wrongfully are like fair marks for

paper in one hand he with his dagger in the other hand slue himself upon the grave holding the paper fast in it being de●d where this sentence he wrote Thou that knewest the faithfull friendship betwixt Volumnius and Lucullus join our bodies together being dead as our minds were alwaies one being alive The like history is written of Nisus who when his faithfull friend Eurialus was slain in the wars betwixt Turnus Aeneas he having understood thereof wēt up down the field tumbling and tossing the dead carcasses til he found out Eurialus body which having long looked on and embraced he drew out his sword held it in his hand a little while saying As my body shal never depart from thy body so shall I never fear to follow thy ghost and laying the pummel of his sword upon the ground he fell upon it having the body of his friend Eu●ialus betwixt his arms This love was great betwixt Princes who did live honourably and died willingly A strange thing for men so to love their friends as to weigh their dea●hs more then their own lives Orestes faith and friendship towards Pylades was such that being come unto a strange Region named Taurica to asswage his grief and to mitigate his furious flames because he slew his mother Clitemnestra and being suspected that he came onely to take away the image of Pallas their Goddesse in that country the King understanding the matter made Orestes to be sent for and to be brought before him to have judgement of death For Pylades was not mentioned nor spoken off but onely Orestes he it was that should steal their Goddesse away and carry it into Gréece Orestes therefore being brought and his fellow Pylades with him the King demanded which of them was Orestes Pylades that knew his friend Orestes should die suddenly stept forth and said I am he Orestes denied it and said he was Orestes Pylades again denied it and said that it was even he that was accused unto the King thus the one denying and the other affirming either of them most willing to die for the other the King dismaied at their great ●mity and love pardoned their faults and greatly honoured their natural love and faith So many like histories to this there be that then Princes would die for their friends even that great Conquerour Alexander would have died presently with his friend Hephestion had not his counsel letted him he loved him alive so well that he was called of all men another Alexander he so much estéemed his friend that when Sisigambis King Darius mother had saluted Hephestion instead of Alexander and being ashamed at her errour he said forbear not to honour Hephestion for he is Alexander also What was it that Anaxagoras wanted that Prince Pericles could get for him whither went Aeneas at any time without Achates with him there was nothing that Pomponiu● had but Cicero had part of it the friendship of Scipio never wanted towards Cloe●ius Though Rome could alter state though fortune could change honour yet could neither Rome nor fortune alter faith or change friends After the Senatours had judged Tiberius Gracchus for divers seditions in the City to die his friend Blosius having knowledge thereof came and kneeled before the Senators besought Lae●us whose counsel the Senators in all things followed to be his friend saying unto the rest after this sort O sacred Senate and noble Counsellours if there remains in the City of Rome any sparkle of Iustice if there be regard unto equity let me crave that sentence by law which you injuriously award unto another and since I have committed the offence of Gracchus whose commandement I never resisted whose will I will during life obey let me die for Gracchus worthily who am most willing so to do and let him live who justly ought so to do Thus with vehement invectives against himself he made the Senatours astonied with his rare desire of death saying the Capitol had béen burned by Blosius if Gracchus had so commanded but I know that Gracchus thought nothing in heart but that which he spake to Blosius and that which he spake to Blosius Blosius never doubted but to do and therefore I rather deserve death then he The faith and love betwixt Damon and Pythias was so wondred at by King Dionisius that though he was a cruel Tyrant in appointing Damon to die yet was he so amazed to sée the desire of Pythias his constant faith and his love and friendship prosessed in Damons behalf striving one with another to die that he was inforced in spight of tyranny to pardon Damon for Pythias sake Thelcus and Perithous became such faithfull friends that they made several oaths one unto another never during life to be parted neither in affliction plague punishment pain toil or travel to be dissevered insomuch that the Poets fain that they went unto the Kingdome and region of Pluto together I will not speak of the great love of that noble Greek Achilles toward King Patroclus Neither will I recite the history of that worthy Roman Titus toward Gisippus nor report the love of Palemon and Arceir nor of Alexander and Lodwick whose end and conclusion in love were such as is worthy of everlasting memory CHAP. XLII Of Envy and Malice and the tyranny of Princes AS Malice drinketh for the most part her own poison so Envy saith Aristotle hurteth more the envious it self then the thing that it envieth Like as the sloathfull in war or Darnel amongst Wheat so is the envious in a City not so sad for his own miseries and calamities as he lamenteth the hap and and felicity of others Wherefore the Philosopher Socrates calleth the enemy serrom anima the sow of the soul for that it cutteth the heart of the envious to sée the prosperity of others For as it is a grief to good and vertuous men to sée evill men rule so contraily to the evill most harm it is to sée good men live Therefore the first disturber of Commonwealths and last destroyer of good states the beginning of all sorrows the end of all joys the cause of all evil and the onely let of all goodnesse is envy How prospered Greece Had flourished Rome How quiet was the whole world before envy began to practise with malice two daughters of tyranny never séen but hidden in the hearts of flatterers Then I say Gréece was glorious Rome was famous their names were honoured their prowesse feared their policy commended their knowledge extolled their fame spread over the whole world but when envy began to sojourn in Gréece and malice to build her Bower in Rome these sisters like two monsters or two grim Gorgons oppressed Castles destroied countries subdued Kingdoms depopulated Cities in fine triumphed over all Gréece and Italy Hannibal chief General of the Carthaginians Jugurth King of Numidia Pyrrhus of Epirus most valiant puissant mighty Princes with long wars and mighty slaughter could not with all their force and

and praise who avoided the cankered state of avarice Thus from the golden world it came unto the silver world and then to that hard mettal the iron world for the covetous people can never be satisfied The young Partridge by nature is ready to flee as soon as she commeth out of the shell the wild duck to swim the Lion to go and man onely born ready to seeke and travel for money Where might a man find out such a man as Ari●●ides was in all Greece now who was so liberal that having all the state of Athens under his government gave all to the poor Citizens a little excepted which brought him unto the ground Where should one méet with such a one as Pelopidas in all Sparta being blamed of his friends and counsellours for his large gifts and liberallity exhorting him to make much of money considering how necessary money is to Princes yea said Pelopidas to such Princes as Nicomedes a lame man both dumb deaf Where should a man séek in Thebes for such a man as Epaminondas who when he heard that he who carried his Target after him had taken money for the dismission of certain prisoners taken in the wars Give me said he my Target and go you to kéep an Inne for if you love money you are not fit to carry Epaminondas Target with so much honour is liberallity attended that those Princes who have béen famous for the most fortitude haue béen famous also for the most liberallity yet neither liberallity nor fame nor fortitude can reprieve a Prince from the ingratitude of death CHAP. III. What Princes were advanced one way and were oppressed by an other HOw some men are exalted and others oppressed Histories do record All the Kings that ever reigned in Rome almost from base birth and slender progeny were advanced by fortune to sit in the royal throne and injoy Princely Scepters Romulus the first King and builder of Rome born of Rhea a Vestal Virgin and daughter unto Amulius was left as a prey unto beasts forsaken of all in Rome so hated of his own grandfather that he found more friendship in a she Wolf then he had at his grandfather Amulius more kindnesse of the Wolf for his nourishment then love of his mother though he was born of her Notwithstanding contrary to the expectation of Amulius being not thought of in Rome he was by a Woolf preserved and by a poor Shepheard brought up to be a King of Rome The like hapned unto Cyrus at thrée days old when he was commanded by his grandfather King Astiages to be drowned and delivered unto Harpagus chief officer about Astiages by King Astiages own hand to be killed and destroyed yet by fortune a Bitch he being left as Romulus was fed him and gave him milk and life when his Parents appointed death for him and being thus brought up by a Bitch he was the first and most renowned King that ever reigned in Persia Even so may I alledge of Paris King Priamus son called likewise Alexander who being commanded to be killed as soon as he was born he was brought up by a Bear to be a famous Phrigian Prince Thus Cyrus by fortune found more friendship in a bitch then in his own mother Romulus more love in a Woolf then in all Rome Alexander more kindnesse in a Bear then in his father Priamus What shall I say of Pelephus the son of Hercules who was fostred by a Hart or of Camilla and Semiramis the one brought up by a Mare the other by birds of the air to be such famous Quéens as the one ruled the Volscians the other the Babylonians How fortune appointed little Ants to féed King Midas and Bees to féed Plato the wealth of the one and eloquence of the other did certifie the same but I will declare first the extolling and advancement of simple and base men unto Princely seats Tarquinius Priscus a stranger born in Corinth the son of Demaiat●s a banished Merchant from his country became a famous King in Rome yea so famous I say that he inlarged the confines of Italy amplified the wealth and state of Rome augmented the number of the Senatours encreased the order of Knighthood and left Rome so happy at his death that the Citizens thereof would have travelled twice as far as Corinth so that they might enjoy again so noble a Prince Tullius Servius a poor stranger was likewise advanced unto the same place by fortune and Tullus Hostillius a shepheard was from féeding of beasts extolled to be the King of Rome Thus fortune to shew her might exalteth the poor and oppresseth the proud Thus from banished strangers from simple shepheards most famous Princes and noble Kings have proceeded Fortune as Seneca saith from low birth and base conditions hath made Princes many have béen advanced from the Plough to sit in seat of Kings as Gordius who from the plough became a King in Phrygia Fortune took Agathocles from his fathers shop being a Potter and made him King in Sycilia she brought Darius from the Stable of Cyrus to be a King in Persia she brought Giges from a Shepheard to be the wealthiest King that ever reigned in Lydia Justinus a swine-heard from féeding his Swine became the mighty Emperour of Constantinople And Carpenters likewise may brag of Telephanes whom fortune advāced to the Kingdome of Lydia Shall not Husbandmen extol fortune which made Valentianus Emperour in Rome How much did fortune favour learning how brought she the greatest Princes in the world to honour simple men and caused the cruellest tyrant to esteem and reverence the same King Dyonisius that wicked tyrant of Sicilia when he heard that divine and noble Phylosopher Plato was coming unto Sycilia he made certain of his Nobles to go méet him on the sea and in a ship bravely appointed and gorgeously apdressed with Sails of purple silk to bring him to land where Dionisius himself did attend his coming in his golden Chariot with four white horses trapped over with gold and having taken him into his own Princely Chariot he talked unto him reverently used him honourably and so entertained him that if Jupiter had descended from the skie greater honour could he not get in Creet then Plato a poor Philosopher Aristons son of Athens obtained in Sicil. Aristotle born in Stagira a poor Phisitians son named Nichomachus merited such fame that not onely Philip King of Macedonia thanked God that his son Alexander was born in his time under whose tuition Alexander five years learned Philosophy but also Alexander the great Conquerour of the world honoured and saluted him as his Master unto whom he said that he was no lesse bound for his learning and vertuous education then he was unto King Philip his father for his birth he declared the same being in India a country far from Greece in the midst of his great wars he did write unto him of the state of India of the successe of his journies and the

more but four principal games correspondent to the Greeks and coequal to their number The first called Lupercalia brought out of Arcadia by Evander and sacrificed to Pan upon mount Palentine And as Silvanus doth write the sacrifices were made in the moneth of February after this sort The young men of Rome did convene together every one bearing in his hand a scourge or a whip made of Goats skins running one to another and he that was most swift of foot escaped stripes for every one was to run to another in order every one his length before the other and thus they made themselves swifter in running by reason of the stripes for he that was overtaken by the way was sure to feel the blow Every man ran naked to this end that they might be the swifter The women likewise thinking thereby to become more fruitfull and fertil offered themselvs willingly to receive the stripes of the ratling thongs These scourges and whips that they had in their hands made such a noise by reason they were made of dry skins that if made him that ran before to strain himself hearing the noise and fearing the stripes The second game that the Romans used was called Circenses some say it sprung up first among the Romans themselves in a place appointed by Rome environed about with huge and strong walls Here all kinds of pastime and sports were used running with horses and fighting on horseback in the one end In the middest the Champions were placed in arms to fight on foot In the other end wrastlers leapers runners and such like games were appointed so that the place was framed accordingly long and large that they might have room enough in both ends and in the middest This was the chief and the most ancient play among the Romans saving Saturnalia This sport did Janus invent who did reign together with Saturn as Macrobius saith in the memory and monument of Saturn his fellow This play was celebrated in the moneth of December with such mirth pleasure and pastime that it far surmounted all other In this moneth of December every man saluted his friend with rewards tokens presents or with any treasure that they had to pleasure one another And because all things were common in the time of Saturn which was called the Golden World there was such mirth used as would make some men of this time jealous to see it I beleeve nōe of this Age would be content to see his servant in bed with his wife which in Saturn's time was tolerable Some say this play sprung first among the Pelagians some again affirm that it began among the Athenians but how and where it began in other countreys it is no matter but in Rome it was first framed and invented by Janus The fourth play amongst the Romans was called Gladiatoria where the youth of Rome came to learn how to behave themselves among the enemies In this play they did fight one with another at the long Spear the long Sword the Staff and such weapons as then they used in fight for to embolden themselves In this play being naked and without arms they came to fight against their armed enemies By this play were the Romans taught boldly to fight with their enemies and being hardened at home did little esteem wounds and blows abroad Thus games and plays were chiefly estéemed of the Romans who as Cicero in his Offices affirmeth had divers others in Martius field hard by Rome to exercise the young men to practise feats of Chivalry to become ready and prompt in martial affairs which they onely most esteemed CHAP. XXX A Comparison between the love of Men and Beasts IF men be divers in affection one towards another as we daily sée and try by experience how much ought the silly and simple beast which wants use of spéech to be commended that so careth and provideth for its self and his own And though Cicero saith it be common to all living creatures to multiply and to be carefull over those that nature procreated yet men do excel all kind of beasts seeing all things are in subjection to man as well the heavens above and all that shineth therein as the earth beneath and all that live thereon And here I marvel much though the secret working of nature in fierce and raging beasts be tolerable yet in a reasonable man whom saith the Philosopher Nature onely moveth to the best such enmity variance and discord should procéed It is thought that the Eagle and the Swan be not friends that the Dolphin and the Whale cannot agrée and that the Wolf and the Fox are always at variance the same of the Dog and Cat of the Crow and the Kite may be spoken but it is well known that man is most odious to man and though it be spoken Homo homini Deus yet it is proved Homo homini Daemon If Nature made the Lion the most valiant beast in the world to fear the little crowing Cock if Nature do cause the huge and monstrous Elephant to tremble at the sight of a silly simple Shéep and if Nature move the Panther a strong and a strange beast to quake at the presnce of a Hind If Nature work so subtily that the strongest mightiest and valiantest beasts should fear those that are most ancient and most simple how much more might reason rule in us to fear our God and his mighty works which we altogether contemn either forgetting his glory or despising his power though in beasts the heavens have dominion yet said David man by his reason and knowledge of God ruleth the heavens But I will omit to speak further of that and will return to that which I mean a little to discusse I will not speak of the love and affection of man in general but of the love mutual betwixt man and wife betwixt brother and bro-brother And as it is a vertue not to be forgotten so is it a vertue most rare to find for every thing in its own kind is most to be accepted and first to entreat of the excéeding love of the wonderfull affection that men bare towards their wives We read of that noble Roman Antonius Pius who loved so well his wife Faustine that when she died he caused her picture to be made and to be set up before his face in his bed chamber to ease some part of his grief with the sight thereof M. Plancius sayling with his wife to Asia with thréescore sail of ships came very gorgeously to the City of Tarentum where in the middest of his pomp and great glory for that his wife Orestella by sicknesse died he siue himself with a dagger saying two bodies shall possess one grave The like we read of two young men in Plutarch the one named Aemilius the other Cianippus who for méer affection and passing love towards their wives after long torments pangs and pains conceived by inward griefs that their wives were dead did offer their pined bodies a

he began to be moved with pity and mercy possest the chief place in his heart so that when the women of the City brought their children in their arms to crave mercy at Merellus hand he avoided the calamity and misery that was ready to fall on Centobrica and spared the City and removed his Camp being conquered himself with pity and mercy of the ruthfull women and innocent children Thus gentle Metellus where he might have béen a Conqueror over men did suffer himself to be conquered by little Infants O Rome happy were those golden days wherein through clemency and gentleness thou wast as much loved and honoured as thou hast béen by valiant Captains trembled at and feared Pompieius the great when Tig●anes King of Armenia being by him conquered had knéeled before Pompeius face yéelding his Crown and Scepter at Pompeius his foot and himself unto his gentleness as a captive took him in his arms embraced him put his Crown on his head and restored him to to the Kingdome of Armenia again The like courtesie he used toward Mithridates King of Pontus being dead in giving him a royal burial though he knew well the great hatred that Mithridates had fourty years against the Romans yet in stead of just revengement Pompey used Princely clemency The gentleness that was then used in Rome yet betwixt foes was such that Julius Caesar that valiant Emperor and Conqueror was as willing to revenge the death of his great enemy Pompey upon Photina and Bassus who slew Pompey and did send his head to Caesar as L. Par●lus was courteous and favourable to his most mortal foe Perseus Hannibal though he was counted the most and greatest enemy that ever Rome felt yet moved with Princely clemencie he won more commendations for the burial of P. Aemilius Gracchus and Marcellus three noble Romans then he wan fame by overcomming two thousand Romans in field The chief fame that Hannibal was worthy of was for his humanity and gentlenesse as is proved by these two noble Romans before mentioned whose dead carcasses Hannibal caused diligently to be sought for in the field and solemnly to be buried with honour and renown though they were his enemies And as Hannibal was much commended in Rome and well beloved of the Romans for his humanity so was he fe●red much in Rome for his prowesse and valiant déeds of arms Polycrates that Tyrant of Samos was chiefly commended for his gentlenesse and courtesie shewed towards women which were the wives and mothers of the dead souldiers in restoring them unto liberty in giving them wealth to live and a great charge that no man should do them any wrong Augustus the Emperor when he beheld in the City of Alexandria the sword wherewith Marcus Antonius slew himself could not refrain from tears to shew his humanity and opening his clemency of nature to his enemy he commanded that he should be honourably buried with his dear friend Cleopatra in one grave Cicero in his first book of Tusculans commendeth much the clemency of Cleobes and B●ton in shewing such love and obedience to their mother who being in her Chariot ready to go to the solemn feast of the Goddesse Juno the horses suddenly died and there being no other remedy least their mother should go on foot they yoked themselves to draw the Chariot ten miles to their immortal praise and commendations I remember a history in Patritius of one Simonides who for that he was moved with pity to bury a dead corps left in the way where no man put it into the earth as he was passing with his fellows over the seas that night before they should sail in the morning appeared unto Simonides the self-same man whom he had buried upon the way warning him that day not to go to sea so when he should take shipping he remembring his dream told if unto his fellows desiring them to stay that day but his company laughing him to scorn leaving Simonides on the shore sailed to the seas where in sight of Simonides the ship and all his fellows were lost The like pity was found in Simon the son of that most valiant Gréek Militiades who being elected Generall over the Athenians against the great might and force of puissant Zerxes in the wars of Marathon was nothing inferiour unto his renowned father in prowesse but far passed him in clemency and curtesie this young man for his lenity and pity being joined with valiantnesse was appointed by the City of Athens to incounter with Xerxes whom his father Militiades often plagued at the first time of trying his magnanimity inforced Xerxes after spoil of his souldiers and victory of field to fly unto Persia he was so pittifull that he paied a great sum of monies to have his father Militiades buried who after many conquests and fawning of fortune in victories died in prison whose death and burial shewed no lesse love and faithfulnesse in Simon towards his father then it shewed evidently the pity and mercy he had in redéeming his fathers corps to be buried Wherefore that pitifull Emperour Alexander Severus being demanded what is that which is chief felicity in this world said to foster friends with benefits and gentlenesse and to reconcile foes with pity and rewards Alphonsus at what time a certain dog barked at him took a toast out of his cup and cast it to the dog then saying gentlenesse and clemency shall make foes friends I know not what greater humanity could be then was in Vespasian the Emperour after that Vitellius had killed his brother Sabinus and had long persecuted Vespasians son being at last subdued he spared not to shew gentlenesse to Vitellius his daughter and gave her a great sum of money towards her marriage Agesilaus King of the Lacedemonians after he had the victory of Corinth did not so joy in his conquest as he lamented the deaths of so many Athenians and Corinthians and as Plutarch doth witnesse he said wéeping O Greece thou spillest more men with civil wars by discord then would defend thy state against all the world with courage To use victory genty is more famous then to conquer cruelly As the Emperour Adrian was wont to say that Princes ought rather with pity to say this I can do then with tyranny to say this I will do Augustus that most pittifull Prince after he had conquered that famous City Alexandria which the great Conquerour Alexander had builded and named it according unto his own name being moved with pity stirred with mercy in sight of the Citizens who hoped to have nothing but death said for the beauty of your city and memory of Alexander as also for the love I have unto Prius your Philosopher and for the pity I bear unto you all I spare unto you your City and grant you your life O swéet sounding words from a pittifull Prince not much unlike his predecessour Julius Caesar his own mothers brother who after vanquishing of Pompey at Pharsalia sent letters unto

Rome of such love professed of such friendship promised that though Pompey was the onely joy of Rome the long delight of Romans and the defender and maintainer of their name and fame yet being convicted they received Caesar as another Pompey for that he used humanity and shewed gentlenesse even to his enemies For noble hearts ought to contemn cruelty Princes minds ought to abhor tyranny A simple Sparrow which to avoid the griping paws of a hungry Sparhawk that would have preyed upon him fled unto Artaxerxes bosome being in the Camp wh●● after long panting as well for fear as for wearinesse in Artaxerxes bosome Artaxerxes said It is as little mastery unto a Prince or commendation to a valiant Captain to destroy that which of it self doth yéeld as it is a fame unto Artaxerxes to kill this poor sparrow that fled for succour Saying again beholding the sparrow As I will not betray thee thou little sparrow for that thou hast fled for help unto Artaxerxes so will I never deceive any man that will have confidence in me If this pity of Artaxerxes was shewed unto a Sparrow how much more ought Princes to shew the same unto men Antigonus though he was a great enemy to Pyrrhus as Princes be during the time of war Pyrrhus being slain by a silly woman in Argos and his head brought by Alcioneus unto his father King Antigonus thinking to please his father much with bringing K. Pyrrhus head who long had molested Antigonus alive yet the King perceiving the cruel tyranny of his son delighting in dead mens heads took the staff whereon his son Alcioneus carried the head and instead of thanks which he looked for at his fathers hands he was well and worthily rewarded with stripes he took Pyrrhus head and very honourably covered it and after long looking thereon he commanded his son Helenus to carry it to the Kingdome of Epire where Pyrrhus in his life time was King and there to bury it according unto the custome of the Epirots by King Alexander his own brother The like history is written in Herodotus of King Darius who yéelded thanks unto those that brought Histeus head as Antigonus did to his son Alcioneus saying I do as little joy to see Histeus head being dead as I do lament much such tyranny and cruelnesse to be in you who never did see King Darius so cruel to any man alive as you are cruel to Histeus being dead As Darius was gentle of himself so he greatly estéemed those that were gentle insomuch that being at the point of death even at that time when he was so weak that he knew not Polistratus that gave a litle water to refresh his heart he said Whosever thou be I know thée not and for that I am not able to thank thée Alexander shall and will requite thy gentlenesse and the Gods shall thank Alexander for his clemency and humanity towards my mother my wife and children And with that he stretched forth his hand and said Have me recommended to Alexander and give him this my right hand and tell him that Bessus killed Darius whom thou didst sée dying Which when it was told by Polistratus to Alexander he much lamented his death and caused his body to be brought to his mother named Sisigambis Thus worketh clemency and humanity that these two famous Princes Alexander and Darius two mortal enemies yet not forgetting each others courtesie at deaths dore were in love each with the other for their humanity one to another Darius at his death repeating Alexanders gentlenesse towards him and Alexander requited Darius gentleness being dead The greatest fame or commendation that may happen to any man is to be counted gentle and courteous therein are divers vertues knit and joyned in friendship as pity mercy wisedome and affability with others so that the property of those men is always though they can hurt yet never to offend As it is the property of an evil man to revenge so it is the nature of the good and gentle to forgive Pilistratus shewed both wisdome and rourtesie to certain drunkards who having in their drink used wanton speech to his wife and being sober the next morning came to Pisistratus to ask him forgivenesse for their lewd talk to his wife he gently said Learn to be more sober another time I know my wife was not out of her house yesterday Excusing his wife wisely and pardoning them gently How gently did Alexander Severus use Camillus though he rebelled against him and by sleight thought to be Emperor of Rome and for that being condemned to die by the Senate yet he was pardoned by Alexander How curteous was Fabius Maximus to forgive Marsius one of his chief Captains the treasons and snares that he used against his Master Fabius with the enemies Such gentlenesse did Xerxes the great shew unto the Gréeks who were as Spies to view the power and host of King Xerxes sent from Athens and being taken and brought before the King he not onely gently dismissed them but shewed them curteously all his host and force of souldiers The greatest victory is alwaies gotten by gentlenesse as Alphonsus King of Aragon by gentlenesse won Careta Marcellus won Syracusa Metellus Celtiberia as you have heard before mentioned Plutarch reciteth a passing history of great curtesie and humanity of King Belenus towards his son Antigonus who being married to a fair woman fell in love with his fathers wife for his mother was dead and his father married the daughter of Demetrius king of Macedonia named Estrabonica a young woman of excellent beauty for this therefore the Kings son languished in love that he was like to die unknown to his father which when his father knew he caused his own wife to be married to his son Antigonus a rare clemency and great gentlenesse for a man to give his wife to please his friend Pity accompanieth this excellent vertue clemency as we read in holy Scriptures that divers good men ceased not to bewail and wéep over the state of their enemies I néed not here to recite Peticles the Athenian who willed that the dead souldiers of his enemies should be buried in the wars of Peloponesus nor of Hannibals curtesie in the wars of Carthage for the burial of Roman enemies But Moses that man of God brought with him from Egypt the bones of Joseph Tobias and Machabeus mercifull men commanded likewise a solemn buriall for the dead souldiers And Jehu king of Israel caused his enemie Jezabel to be honourably buried But as white is better discerned by the black then by any colour else so shall humanity and gentlenesse appear most excellent in reading the title of tyranny where by conferring both together the excellency of the one is manifest the terrour of the other is odious The gentlenesse and pity that our Saviour Iesus Christ shewed unto Mary Magdalen the lewd woman unto the prodigal child unto Peter that denied him unto the Thief that was hanged with him