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The practice of policy written by Lodowike Lloyd ...
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Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610.
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saying that hee had killed Pirrhus The like policy practised Iugurth saying to his Numidian soldiers that hee had slayne Caius Marius with his owne hand It is the onely marke that euery trecherous soldier in the field and euery seditious subiect in the country shoot at I meane the head for if the head be off the body must needs fall These be the very home-Vipers and secret Serpents that deuoure their natiue soyle These practising Vipers are often troubled with the like monstrous Image which Hanibal saw was astonished in his dreame asking what he was the Image Cic. de diuinat 1. said Vastitas Italiae These Vipers see nothing waking nor sleeping but the image of Hanibal vastitatem patria the spoyle of their countrey Sectio 8. THeophrastus the Philosopher and the successour of Aristotle his master in Athens faith that the playing vpon a Harp Lute or any other instrument doth heale the biting of some Vipers Alex. lib. 2. cap. 17. which Asclepiades the Phisician doth confirme that frantike people that are not well settled in their wittes can by no meanes better recouer their health quà m symphonia vocum consensu then by the consent of harmony and the voyce of a man for Ismenias the Theban healed many Boetians his country mē that were troubled with phrensie and madnesse with symphony and harmony of musike It is to bee beleeued that Ismenias with his Flute could ease the Boetians and Asclepiades with his phisike heale the frantike Such practises were necessary to be in many places to preuent lunatike policies Dauid with his Harpe did often mitigate the fury of king Saul asswaged oftentimes the phrenetical spirit 4. Reg. ca. 3. of Saul Againe Elizeus whē both Iehosaphat K. of Iuda and Ieboram king of Israel would know the euent of the warres betweene them and Mesa king of Moab Elizeus called for a Minstrel whē the Minstrel plaid the hand of the Lord came vpon Elizeus and then he told the kings of the victory they should haue ouer Moab Harmony saith Cicero doth incitare languentes et languefacere Cic. de leg 2. excitates nothing quickneth mans mind more the such musike I doubt such frantik men be likewise in many places abroad ready like Saul with their speares in their hands that neyther Dauid with his Harpe nor Elizeus with his Minstreles can heale these men of their frenzy These be the Vipers that sting their friendes worse in England then Hanibals Vipers stinged the Romans their enemies in Italy These Vipers are so ful of poysō that if they might kill with their sight like the Cockatrice or if they might infect with their breath as the Viper of Affricke doth and as they say of some kind of wolues which if they come within their breath they would kill some men both with sight and breath And therefore we haue a Caueat to take heed of such infected wolues that haue daungerous and stinking breath and be in sheepes clothing which liue as wolues dye as swine they liue in all common-wealths they dwel together in cities in towns and in houses we must be as subtill as Serpents against Serpents Yet the Egiptians think themselues most happy and fortunate and in great fauour with their gods when The superstition of Egypt they are bitten with Serpents Vipers and Crocadiles because they worship those kind of Serpents as their gods and truly fit gods for such a superstitious nation for that they worshipped no other gods but Serpents and beasts wherein they were reprehended of the superstitious Grecians for you shall not read that Crocadiles Cic. lib. 1. de Natur. Cats and Dogs and for that Wolues are like Dogs and such other like were slayn or kild in Egypt for they haue such beasts in reuerence and worship them as gods So superstitious were they in Egypt that it was coūted an abomination among them to eate with the Hebrewes Can. 43. for the nature of superstition is to condemne all other men in respect of themselues So Ioseph vsed the Hebrewes his brethren by themselues So did the Samaritans hate the Iewes that they might not eate or conuerse with the lewes for so did the woman of Samaria take vp Christ at Iacobs Well Ioh. 4. hee being a Iewe to aske water at a Samaritans hand but wee haue Iewes and Samaritans Hebrues and Egyptians so mingled that wee know not one another What will not blinde superstition cause to doo It made Nabuchadnezar and all Babel to say and confesse Great art thou God Bel. Dar. 14. It made the Ephesians say Great art thou Diana among the Ephesians Acts. 19. It made Charles the se uenth the French king with the consent of all his Counsell to beleeue the superstitious speech of Ioanna Lotharinga a woman that shee was sent from God to driue the Englishmen Ioseph lib. 18. cap. 4 out of Fraunce in the great Warres betweene England and Fraunce It is thus historied Arma gerebat viris preibat But shee was taken by Englishmen and burned at Rhotomagium It made Pallina the onely fayrest and chaste Gentlewoman of Rome to refuse two hundred thousand Drachmes of Decius Mundus a yong Romane knight for one nights lodging and yet shee came most ioyfully with the consent of all her friendes and of her husband Saturninus to lye with God Anubis in the Temple of Isis for nothing by the meanes of Isis Priests But this practize being found out by Pallina she cōplayned to her husband Saturninus and her husband to the Emperour Tiberius who first caused the priests of Isis to be slaine with the sword the Idoll of Isis to be drownd in Tyber the great God Anubis to be burned with fire and Decius Mundus the yong knight for euer to bee banished from Rome Nabuchadnezar destroyed the priests of Baal in Babylon as Tiberius destroyed the priests of Isis in Rome And so God stirred vp Iehu to destroy the house of Achab in Israel All dangerous and rebellious seditions grow of Idolatrous superstition therefore the Lord reprehended Ochosia because he maried the daughter of Achab. So Iehosaphat was reprehended of the Prophet Elizeus in danger of his life for that he ioyned in friendship 4. Reg. 1. with the same Idolatrous Achab. Salomon by growing in friendship with Pharaoes daughter lost his kingdome and Sampson by marying 3. Reg. 11 with Dalila a Philistine lost his life Sara complayned vnto Abraham that Ismael should not be in one house with Isaac her sonne which words though they were grieuous vnto Abraham yet God commaunded him to doe what Sara sayd for in Isaac Gen. 21. shall thy seed be blessed We must not only auoyd euill mens company but also depart from the place where they bee and where they dwell For God commaunded Abraham to depart from Vt his owne countrey being an Idolatrous Gen. 12. place So God commaunded Iacob to shun Mesopotamia
with Samsons heyfar to their owne ouerthrow and some with Minoes Cowe to breed many monstrous Minotaures to deuoure their country And too many plow against the law of Moses with an Oxe and an Asse and all this to practise policy Sectio 6. IN Greece were two generall factions the Doreans and Ionians the Lacedemonians tooke part with the Doreans and the Athenians with the Ionians From these two Factions Two generall factiōs in Greece grew in Greece such seditions that the Boetians the Argiues Elians Mantineans and others some affecting the Doreans with the Lacedemonians some affecting the Ionians with the Athenians that it brake out into ciuil warres which continued 27. yeres to the destructiō of the Empire of Greece which somtyme gaue so many ouerthrowes to the Persians so many victories at Marathō at Artimesium at Salamina other-where that now by meanes of their factions seditions Philip of Macedon saw such oportunity to subdue the Graecians which hee long thirsted for that he ouercame Greece with Greekes for so it is written Graeci Graecorum manibus mactabantur by meanes chiefly of their ciuil seditions and factions he wan more townes in Greece by Greeks then by the Macedonians The like of the ciuill warres among the Romanes the Danes thought it the fittest time to winne Rome Front lib. 1. cap. 10 Scorylo in such a seditious time as Philip did Greece yet Scorylo their Generall at that time appoynted doubting much of this enterprise caused two great mastiue dogs to fight eagerly before the people that both were wel wearied then Scorylo brought in a Wolfe in the sight of these mastiue dogs straight wayes both the dogs left off fighting both of them ran fiercely fought egerly with the Wolfe The fierce ciuill warres and fighting of the Romanes at home sayd Scorylo will euen so do when they see a Wolfe I meane a forrayne enemy to commence warre against them There was also in Athens two factions Pericles being the authour of one and Cymon the sonne of Milciades Two factions in Athens the other Pericles affected the cōmon people and Cimon preferred the Nobility and fauoured their proceedings in such sort that Athens was neuer quiet but when it was disquieted with it selfe by meanes of factions which do nourish seditions hauing their busie-brayned Oratours to force the Athenians to fight with their tongues consilio calamis linguâ for it was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Aristoph the disposition of that City neuer to consult as Demosthenes sayd but too late euery towne in Greece was so factious that the glory of Greece by meanes of factions and seditions continued but 50. yeeres and some odde in any greatnesse And in Sparta for all Lycurgus care and his lawes he could not free Sparta from factions and yet he deuided Two factions in Spartae Obas and Philas them all into 2. factions whom Lycurgus himselfe named Obas Philas which lawes decrees of Lycurgus were so kept for 500. yeres without violating them for none in Greece durst breake Lycurgus lawes but Agesilaus and that but once vpon great necessity to punish seditions In Carthage also they had two factions the one faction followed Hamilcar Hanibals father and after him his son Hanibals the other followed Hanno his friēds so that in kingdoms and coūtries factious men moued such sedition wherby no greater harmes happened to kingdomes and countries then by practising seditions and factions Hamilcar Hannibals father so hated the Romans that hauing 4. young youthes to his sonnes sayd that hee would haue 4. Lion whelps nourished brought vp with his 4. sonnes as mortall enemies to the Romanes and sware Hannibal his eldest son being of 9. yeres old Polib 2. to continue an enemy to the Romanes during his life and further to shew his malice enuy towards the Romanes he raised vp the dust frō the earth with his foot and said that then should be the end of the warres between Rome Carthage when one of both those Cities should be brought to nothing but such dust In Rome before Fab. Max. time they had but foure Foure factions in Rome factions which were deuided by Tullus Hostilius the third king of Rome and by him named Palatina Colina Exquilina and Suburrana after the name of the foure gates of Rome at that time being the Infancy of Rome But after it grew from foure factions to be fiue and thirty Tribes that euery Tribe was full of diuers factions and the Romane Empire waxed so mighty that Fabius Maximus when he was Censor in Rome for that he brought all forraine factions within Rome to be one of these foure which Seruius Tullus named Fab. named Max. Vrbanas factiones was so gratefull to the Citizens of Rome that they named him Fabius Maximus which was the first time that he was called Maximus for abridging the multitude of factions that then would haue growen in Rome vnto infinite numbers if Fabius had not brought them vnder one of these foure But in the time of Sylla and Marius factions began so to multiply in Rome as it did in Greece that likewise The ciuill wartes of the Romās it brake out into ciuill warres which continued from Sillaes time vnto the last ouerthrow of Mar. Antonius welnigh fourty yeeres to the destruction of the whole Empire some following the fury of Marius as Sertorius Cynna Carbo and others followers of Sylla as Metellus Pompey and others that none might dwell in Rome but those that eyther should bee on Marius side or on Syllaes Thus was the Empire deuided by factions from Sylla to Caesar from Caesar to Augustus sometime running from Caesar to Pompey and from Pompey to Caesar vntill they and their factions were slayn by the sword and their countrey welnigh destroyed Of all miseries ciuill warres is most miserable and a very Ocean sea of all miseries in which Nobilitas cum plebe perit wherof Homer exclaimed said Let him be cursed as an vnnatural monster no man that seeketh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Iliad 1. Cic. Phil. 12. his countries harme And Cicero in like sort cryed out vpon him Quem caedes ciuium quem bellum ciuile delectat and wished such to be cast out of the society of men and to weed them out of the bounds of nature Factions among great men are more dangerous hard to be quenched for that these potentates draw the people and moue them which are compared to the sea vnmoueable vntill a tempest rise and therfore Plato thought good to ioyne Aristides surnamed the iust for his iustice trueth and constancy with Themistocles being haughty and somewhat ambitious And Lycurgus much commended the policy of Agamemnon Lycurgus to put Vlisses forward to clayme Achilles armour as wel as Aiax who iudged himselfe most worthy in respect of his valor to be next Achilles throughout al Greece This discord was tempred by Agamemnon by