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A05335	Of the interchangeable course, or variety of things in the whole world and the concurrence of armes and learning, thorough the first and famousest nations: from the beginning of ciuility, and memory of man, to this present. Moreouer, whether it be true or no, that there can be nothing sayd, which hath not bin said heretofore: and that we ought by our owne inuentions to augment the doctrine of the auncients; not contenting our selues with translations, expositions, corrections, and abridgments of their writings. Written in French by Loys le Roy called Regius: and translated into English by R.A.; De la vicissitude ou variete des choses en l'univers. English	Leroy, Louis, d. 1577.; Ashley, Robert, 1565-1641.	1594 (1594)	STC 15488; ESTC S113483	275,844	270

himselfe with the shape of a man was borne of the Virgin and came forth of her wombe both visible Man and God inuisible promised by the Law and the Prophets the master of trueth and cleanser of Idolatrie correctour of malice and renewer of our depraued nature to th end to restore such as beleeued in him to their auncient puritie and innocencie corrupted by the forfaiture of the first man He gaue sight to the blind speach to the dumbe straight going to the lame healed incurable diseases cast out euill spirits fedd with fiue loaues and two fishes fiue thousand persons turned water into wine went safely on the waters as on the land commaunded the sea the winds and the tempests raised the dead to life and liued himselfe againe after he had bin wrongfully crucified and killed by the Iewes By which miracles he shewed himselfe to be the sonne of God establishing his Church and christian Religion in steed of the Mosaical and Pagan Which hath alreadie endured more then fifteene hundred yeares and shall neuer haue end hath passed alreadie to the Antipodes and hath bin manifested to the East and West Indians yea euen amongst the sauages lately discouered towards the South which before were vnknowen to all antiquitie and among the farthest people of the North by meanes of the Sueuians and Moscouites In somuch that at this day we may affirme that his word hath bin heard in all parts of the habitable earth as he had ordained vnto his Disciples enduing them with the grace of the holy Spirite and power to do miracles as he had done before and with the gift of tongues with perseuerance pacience and constancie against all torments and persecutions A thing indeed admirable and the like whereof neuer hapned to any King Law-maker or Philosopher Grecian or Barbarian who contented themselues to set downe and cause to be receiued in their countrie and language the institutions and Lawes which they esteemed good and profitable But Iesus Christ not as a mortall man seruing himselfe with poore fishermen for his Disciples whom he would haue from that time forward to bee fishers of men hath manifested his Gospell by them thorough out the whole world and before all people inioyning them to shew from him the true way of saluation and of beleeuing in GOD the Creatour of all thinges Such was the progresse and aduauncement which they made in their ministerie that in a little time they induced the Nations by their preaching to leaue their auncient idolatries and to receiue Christ as GOD they established schooles and auditories of the Christian doctrine and then were Temples buylt to the Apostles and Martyrs in the most famous Cities of the world at Rome Alexandria and Antioche thorough out Egipt and Lybia Europe and Asia Beginning then when the Romain power was come to his soueraign greatnes and glorie vnder Augustus the peaceable ruler of innumerable Nations when the kingdom of Egipt was extinguished which had endured almost time out of mind and the nation of the Iewes brought vnder bondage and subdued and the Lordships of the Syrians Cappadocians Macedonians Bythinians Grecians Illyrians Africans Spaniards and Gaules were vnder the Romaine Seigniorie which we must think did so fall out by the diuine prouidence of God to the end to make the same worke the more easie which otherwise must needes haue bin verie difficult if all these Nations had remained in diuision and discord But by meanes of the vnion of them vnder one great Monarchie they accomplished with lesse feare and danger their proposed enterprise God preparing them their way and brideling the harts of the superstitious by the terrour of that most mightie Empire Cornelius Tacitus writeth that such had bin the perswasion of men that it was contained in the auncient learning of the Priests that about this time the East should preuaile and that such as came out of Iewrie should raigne which was verified in the spirituall raigne of Iesus Christ whose Ghospell doctrine and religion hath bin preached thorough out the world God then seeing malice infinitely increased and the worshipping of false Gods dispersed thorough all the whole world in such sort that his name was alreadie almost out of the memorie of men and that the Iewes themselues to whom onely his diuine mysteries had bin reuealed and promises made of his holy alliance giuen ouer to vaine superstitions hauing left the true Religion whereunto they refused to returne being reprehended and admonished by the Prophets at this time ordained for the redemption he sent his sonne the Prince of the Angells vnto men to thend to diuert them from wicked and vaine worships and to induce them to know and to reuerence the true God bringing back their soules from folie vnto wisdom from iniquitie to iustice and from impietie to a right beleefe Such and so notable at this time was the mutation both in gouernment and in Religion BVT as the Romains were climed to the top of humane power and wisdome by labour industrie so were they straightwaies corrupted by riches and ouermuch libertie degenerating from the former integritie prowesse learning and eloquence Whereof I can not render any better reason then by their owne authours men of good credit and aucthoritie To thend saith Seneca that ye may vnderstand how much the witts of men do euery day decay and by I know not what iniquitie of nature and procliuitie vnto vice eloquence is gon backe All whatsoeuer the Romain eloquence hath to oppose vnto proud Greece it florished in the time of Cicero All the good wits which brought any light vnto our studies were borne then Sithence that time it hath alwaies impaired either by the loosenes of the time which is most pernitious vnto good wits or that the reward which was proposed for so goodly a thing being lost all the trauaile and paines hath bin bestowed on dishonest exercises or els by some destinie whose enuious law is perpetuall ouer all things so that being come to the highest they returne to the lowest faster then they went vp The good wits of slouthfull youth doe languish and do not applie themselues to any honest exercise Slouth and negligence and dexteritie in things that are pernitious which is worse then either sleepe or negligence haue possessed their mindes The delight of singing and dauncing holdeth the effeminate and of dressing their haire and fitting their speach vnto womanish daliances and exceeding of women in corporal delicacies and tricking themselues with vncleane cleanlynes which is the brauerie of our youth Who is there among the yong folkes ingenious or studious enough or rather man enough Being softned and effeminated they remaine of necessitie as when they were first borne corrupting the chastitie of others and negligent of their owne The Gods will not suffer so much euill as that eloquence should come to such people which I would neuer so much admire if she did not make choise of the minds on which she bestowed her selfe Cornelius

who excelled in Magick to learne it of him and had employed long time great labour infinite treasure theron not omitting also to do such abhominable superstition as was presciibed him yet in the end he found all false which had bin told him and so gaue it ouer This notwithstāding it hath bin dispersed throughout the world which is so diuers in other things vnder the colour of faire but yet vaine and friuolous promises associating it self with religion Phisick and Mathematicks which three haue a meruailous power ouer the vnderstandings of men And thus being fortified with a threefolde vertue it could neuer yet be altogither exterminated rooted out but there remaine here and there stil some relicks and remainders thereof but in secret notwithstanding for feare of the punishment which is appointed for it and the shame which commeth vnto those that abuse themselues therein A COMPARISON OF THE INDIANS Ethtopians Egyptians scythians and Athenians in their Antiquities THE Indians Ethiopians Egyptians Scythians and Athenians did all boast that they were the first created of al the men in the world alleaging diuers and different reasons of their antiquities As the INDIANS the fertility of their countrey bearing twice a yere both fruits and graine where there was neuer any want of victuals The ETHIOPIANS alleage their neerenesse of situation to the south thinking it must needes bee that in places which are neerest the sunne and therefore hottest that all liuing creatures were first created which take their beginning of heate The EGYPTIANS the temperature of their aire which is neither excessiue hot or cold dry or moist and the goodnes of their territory which bringeth forth aboundantly whatsoeuer is necessary for the life of man The SCYTHIANS the heigth of their countrey which was the first freed from fire or discouered from water therefore soonest made apt before any other to produce both man and beast The ATHENIANS saying they are Aut●cthones that is to say issued out of the earth without hauing any other beginning The Indians Ethiopians Egyptians and Athenians that they haue inuented all arts and meanes of liuing wel easily The Scythians dwelling vnder a sharper climate say that they haue alwaies exercised armes as hauing their bodies and mindes more hardned amongst whom were neuer found but two persons renowmed for learning Zamolsis and Anacharsis A COMPARISON OF THE GREAT monarchies the Egyptian Assyrian Median Persian and Parthian in their situations beginnings largenes reuenews riches and power and of those famous monarchs that founded them and others vnder whom they ended THE Monarchies of the Egyptians Assyrians Medians Persians Parthians agree in this that they haue bin established chiefely in the fertile and temperate countries of Asia where the men are gentle and tractable or naturally seruile as Hyppocrates and Aristotle affirme For the inhabitants which are remoued from al temperature wil not easily be brought vnder subiection and cannot well be gouerned not enduring any long or durable gouernment except it be altogither tyrannical as is that of the MOSCOVITE in the north and of the ABYSSINE in Ethiopia where the great KNES commaundeth th one and PRESBITER IOHN the other most rigoronsly to th end to keepe their subiects in obedience who are all generally of opinion that whatsoeuer their Princes do they do it by the vnchangeable wil of God The circuite and compas of their Monarchies were very great SESOSTRIS the Egyptian conquered all Arabia and a great part of Lybia Ethiopia with all the Isles of that countrey al the sea coasts euen to the Indies passed the riuer Ganges running hither and thither euen to the great Ocean and ouer came all the nations of the Scythians euen to the riuer Tanais comming into Europe went through the countrey of Thrace where he made an end of his enterprise retorned into Egypt NINVS brought vnder his obedience all the nations which inhabite on the sea-coast toward the East and their neighbors as the Egyptians Phenicians those of the inner Syria Cilicia Pamphilia Lycia Caria Phrygia Mysia Troada and the other Phrygia which is on Hellespont the countrey of Propontida Bythinia Cappadocia and other barbarous nations which inhabite on the greater sea euen to the riuer Tanais He added more ouer to his estate the Cadusians Tapyres Hircanians Dranges Deruices Caramanians Coronians Rombes Vuocarnians the Parthians Persians Susians Caspians and Bactrians SEMIRAMIS his wife the greatest part of Lybia and Ethiopia The limits of the Empire of CYRVS were on the East-side the red sea on the North the sea Euxinus towards the west Cyprus Egypt on the south Ethiopia CAMBYSES his sonne added Egypt Ethiopia And DARIVS the first of that name subdued no fewer countries then the two former had conquered consequently the others which came after augmented and enriched it from hand to hand making that kingdome one of the greatest most mighty most renowmed that was euer in the worlde The PARTHIANS possessed xviij kingdomes wherof the xj which were called the superiour began at the Confines of Armenia and bankes of the Caspian sea and reached vnto the Sythians the other seuen inferiour kingdomes stretched out euen to the red sea diuiding their Prouinces as respecting the two seas the red sea toward the south the Caspiā on the north As the spaciousnes of these Monarchies was very large so the reuenew was also great the riches infinite and power incredible SESOSTRIS erected two square pillers of hard stone ech of them thirty sadom high in which he commaunded to be pourtrayed the greatnes of his Empire and the value of his demeine and reuenew engrauen adding thereto the number of the nations which he had ouer come He gathered an army of sixe hundred thousand foote foure and twenty thousand horse-men eight and twenty thousand chariots fit for war and foure hundred ships on the red sea The riches and power of the Assyrian Monarchy is knowen by the great and magnificent townes that were built by NINVS and SEMIRAMIS and by the wonderfull armies which they had namely NINVS going against the Bactrians with seuenteen hundred thousand foote two hundred thousand horsemen ten thousand and sixe hundred armed chariots SEMIRAMIS against the Indians with three Millions of foote fiue hundred thousand horsemen one hundred thousand chariots and two thousand ships vnto which STAVROBATES then King of India opposed like forces or greater Moreouer the vnreasonable riches of Assyria appeared in the end of Sardanapalus who would haue consumed with himselfe by fire a thousand Myriades of gold that is to say a thousand milions and a myriade of myriades of siluer which are a hundred milions endeuouring to spoile the earth of so great quantity of golde and siluer comming to forty Milions of Crownes in our money besides the beds and tables of golde precious stones garmentes of purple and other royall mouables and stuffe that was there and besides three thousand talents of Gold which he had sent before with his

superfluity amongest them but on the contrary great simplicitie and modestie When AMVRATH the second whome they account a Saint and who was very valiant and fortunate in armes went to the Temple to praier he went out of his palace without any pompe accompanied onely with two seruants and woulde not bee saluted nor flattered with acclamations and being in the Temple had no heauen spred ouer him nor any other magnificence and before he died gaue ouer the Empire to his sonne and withdrew himselfe to a religious solitarines Hee was affable in speach wise in iudgement and liberall in almes His sonne MAHOMET had very fauorable fortune resembling Alexander the great in courage in witt and desire of glorie Hee tooke Constantinople by assault at the age of twentie and two yeares And complayned notwithstanding that Alexander at the same age with so little power had conquered the Empire of the worlde and hee which had no lesse hart then he and was so mightie in men in horses armes and reuenewes could not haue his will of one part thereof although that by his great deeds he got the title of great vnto his fafamily SELIM preferred Alexander the great and Iulius Cesar before al the great Capitaines of the auncients reading incessantly their deeds translated into the Turkish tongue and conforming himselfe after their ymitation hath gotten the greatest victories of our time SOLIMAN after hee had gouerned wisely and happely that great Empire by the space of fortie and seauen yeares being reuerenced and obeyed of his owne feared of his neighbours and desired of all dyed fighting at the age of threescore and eighteene yeres and when he was dead by the terrour of his name and reputation of his magnanimitie tooke Signet in Hongarie leauing peaceable so vnmeasurable a power vnto Selim his successour They were neuer to any purpose beaten but by TAMBERLAN who in knowledge and experience of armes power authoritie felicitie quicknesse of spirit diligence hardinesse and perseuerance hath excelled not onely the Otthomans but also all the great Capitaines Assyrians Egyptians Medes Persians Parthyans Greekes Romanes Christians and Sarasens A COMPARISON OF TAMBERLAN with Ninus sesostris Cyrus Darius Alexander Arsaces Hannibal Constantine Attila and Charlemaigne ALthough TAMBERLAN were no Kings sonne as was Ninus yet notwithstanding by especiall fauour of the heauens he attained to the whole Empire of Asia as thother had done and led an armie not much lesser then his And as he discomfited in battaile Zoroaster King of the Bactrians so this man ouercame Baiazet the king of the Turkes He vanquished all the Scythians and Tartarians on this side and on thother of the hill Ismaus as far as the riuer Volga who before had killed Cyrus and whome Darius with so many millions of men could not bring vnder his obedience neither Alexander the terrour of the East and which were neuer assailed of the Romaines As Sesostris made his triumphant Chariot to be drawen by foure Kings coupled insteed of horses when he went to the Temple or walked thorough the Citie So TAMBERLAN when he went to horse vsed the backe of Baiazet the captiue king of the Turkes for his footstoole euen as Sapores king of the Persians had vsed Valerian the Emperour of the Romaines Hee hath this common with Cyrus that they were both brought vp amongst shepheards and chosen kings by their companions wherehence begon their greatnesse Hee was in fortune like to Alexander who neuer fought battaile but he wan it neither besieged fortresse but hee tooke it hauing both of them receiued continuall fauour of fortune without any aduersitie As Alexander when he had ouercome the East prepared great armies by sea and by land to conquerial●● the West intending to haue go● into Africk as far as Mauritania and to passe at the streight of Gibraltar into Spain and then there hence to re●ourne●y Gaule and Italy into Greece and as Iulius Cesar went to fight against the Parthians purposing after hee had ouercome them to go into Hircania and en●ir●●ing the Caspian sea and the mountaine Caucasus to conquer the kingdome of Pontus as hee came backe that he might afterward enter into Scythia and hauing ouerrun all the countries nations and prouinces of great Germanie and Germany it selfe to retourne in the ende by Gaule into Italy and so to spred the Romaine empire roundla 〈…〉 in such some that it should bee on all sides inuirone● with the Ocean So Sesostris aft●● he had conquered the better part of Africk Ethiopia and Arabia aspiring to the Empire of the world prepared a great armie on the Arabian sea wherewith he coasted and subdued all the countries bordering on the sea euen as farr as India which he wholly ouerran beyond the riuer of Ganges and from thence marched with his land armie thoroughout Asia and Scythia which he ouercame as farre as Tanais wherehence he went into Europe with intention to subdue it entierly But that good fortune which had long accompanied these great Capitaines failing them they could not accomplish such great enterprises For the first was poisoned the second murthered and thother two constrained to retourne into their countries th one by pestilence and thother for want of victuals and the sharpnes and difficulty of the countrie of Thrace Astyages the king of the Medians being ouercome by Cyrus was boūd in chaines of gold Darius king of Persia vanquished by Alexander was shut vp by Bessus in a golden cage Desiderius king of the Lombardes being taken by Charles the great at Pauie was depriued of his kingdome and kept prisoner the rest of his life So Baiazet being ouercome by TAMBERLAN remained prisoner vntill his death and was kept in chaines Attila was borne and died the same day that Iulius Cesar He called himselfe the scourge of God TAMBERLAN said he was the wrath of God and the destruction of the depraued age Neuerthelesse Attila moued with reuerence of Religion at the request and instance of Pope Leo did not onely change his determination of going to Rome but also leauing Italy returned into his own coūtrey TAMBERLAN where he went permitted none to violate the Temples medled not of Arabia because their Prophet was born there Sesostris being returned into Egypt gaue himselfe wholy to religion to building of Temples Charlemaigne founded Monasteries and began the Vniuersity of Paris Constantine made the Pagan worship to cease and assured Christendome assigned reuenewes to the Christian Churches and builded Constantinople TAMBERLAN restored Smarcand both of them hauing beautified enriched their cities with the spoiles of the whole world Alexander Hannibal Iulius Cesar Augustus Constantine Attila Charlemaigne and TAMBERLAN had no issue of their bodies resembling one an other in this that they all led great armies fought great battailes and got great seigniories which eftsones were lost or alienated by the diuision or cowardize of their successors Attila was fatal to Europe and the West Alexander and TAMBERLAN to Asia and the East Iulius Cesar to