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A81080	Unparalleld varieties: or, The matchless actions and passions of mankind. Displayed in near four hundred notable instances and examples. Discovering the transcendent effects; I. Of love, friendship, and gratitude. II. Of magnanimity, courage, and fidelity. III. Of chastity, temperance, and humility. And on the contrary the tremendous consequences, IV. Of hatred, revenge, and ingratitude. V. Of cowardice, barbarity, treachery. VI. Of unchastity, intemperance, and ambition. : Imbellished with proper figures. / By R.B. ...	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1683 (1683)	Wing C7352; ESTC R171627	176,132	257

The Lady riding naked through Coventry Together wit the natural and artified rarities in every County in England with several curious Sculptures Price One Shlling IV. VVOnderful Prodigies of Judgment and Mercy discovered in above 300 memorable Histories containing 1. Dreadful Judgments upon Atheists Blasphemers perjured Villains c. As of several forsworn Wretches carried away by the Devit and how an horrid Blasphemer was turned into a black Dog c. 2. The miserable ends of many Magicians Witches Conjurers c. with divers strange apparitions and illusions of the Devil 3. Remarkable predictions and presages of approaching Death and how the event has been answerable with an account of some Appeals to Heaven against unjust Judges and what vengeance hath fallen upon them 4. The wicked Lives and woful Deaths of several Popes Apostates and Persecutors with the manner how K. Hen. 2. was whipt by the Popes order by the Monks of Canterbury and how the Queen of Bohemia a desperate Persecutor of the Christians was swallowed up in the Earth alive with all her followers c. 5. Fearful Judgments upon bloody Tyrants Marderers c. also how Pop●el King of Poland a cruel Tyrant his Queen and Children were devoured by Rats and how a Town near Tripoly in Barbary with the Men Women Children Beasts Trees Walls Rooms Cats Dogs Mice and all that belonged to the place were turned into perfect Stone to be seen at this day for the horrid crimes of the Inhabitants c. 6. Admirable Deliverances from imminent Dangers and Deplorable Distresses at Sea and Land Lastly Divine Goodness to Penitents with the dying Thoughts of several famous Men concerning a future state after this Life Imbelli●hed with divers Pictures Price One Shilling V. 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Stafford in Westminster-Hall Illustrated with Pictures with the Arms of the 65 Companies of London and the time of their Incorporating Price One Shilling VI. The Fourth Edition of the Wars in England Scotland and Ireland being near a third part enlarged with very considerable Additions containing an impartial Account of all the Battles Seiges and other remarkable Transactions Revolutions and Accidents which have happened from the beginning of the Reign of King Charles the First 1625. to His Majesties happy Restauration 1660. And among other particulars the Debates and Proceedings of the Fourforst Parliaments of King Charles The Murder of the Duke of Buckingham by Felton The Tumults at Edenburgh in Scotland upon the reading the Common-Prayer The Insurrection of the Apprentices and Seamen and their assaulting of A. B Laud's House at Lambeth Remarks on the Trial of the E. of Strafford and his last Speech The horrid and bloody Rebellion of the Papists in Ireland and their murdering above 200000 Profestants in 1641. The Death of Arch-Bishop Land Duke Hamilton Lord Capel Mr. Love Dr. Hewet and others The illegal Trial of King Charles 1. at large with his last Speech at his Suffering And the most considerable matters which happened till 1660. with Pictures of several remarkable Accidents Price One Shilling VII THe Young mans Calling or the whole Duty of Youth in a serious and compassionate Address to all young Persons to remember their Creator in the days of their Youth Together with Rmarks upon the Lives of several excellent young Persons of both Sexes as well ancient as modern who have been famous for Virtue and Piety in their Generations namely on the Lives of Isaac and Joseph in their Youth On the Martyrdom of seven Sons and their Mother and of Romanus a young Nobleman with the invincible courage of a Child of seven years old who was martyred On the Martyrdom of divers holy Virgins and Martyrs On the Life of that blessed Prince King Edw. 6. with his earnest Zeal for the Protestant Religion and his ingenious Letters to his Godfather A. B. Cranmer when but 8 years old with his last words and Prayer against Popery On the Life and Death of Queen Jane as her learned Dispute with Fecknam a Priest about the Sacrament her Letters to her Father the Duke of Suffolk to her Sister and to Harding an Apostate Protestant On the Life of Queen Elizabeth in her Youth with her many Sufferings and Dangers from bloody Bonner and Gardiner and her joiful Reception to the Crown On the Religious Life and Death of the most Noble and Heroick Prince Henry eldest Son to King James And also of the Young Lord Harrington c. With Twelve curious Pictures Illustrating the several Histories Price Eighteen Pence All sold by Nath Crouch at his shop at the sign of the Bell in the Poultry near Cheapside 1683. FINIS

Soldiers supposing that it was Menenius himself slew him there whereupon looking no farther his Master cloathed in a Servants habit had the means and opportunity to escape into Italy Fulgosus Ex. lib. 8. LV. These are the instances of such Servants as no consideration whatsoever could move to disloyalty or infidelity toward their Masters such examples as these are few and rare whereas the world is full of those of the contrary of which I shall conclude with one instance of a Servant who was not altogether of so virtuous an humour as the aforenamed Lewis the Twelfth of France going to Bayon lay in a Village called Espernon near Bordeaux now upon the great Road between these two places the Bayliff had built a very noble House the King thought it very strange that in a Country so bare and barren as that was and amongst Downs and Sands that would bear nothing the Bayliff should build so fine a House and at Supper was speaking of it to the Chamberlain of his Houshold who made answer that the Bayliff was a rich man which the King not knowing how to believe considering the wretched Country his House was seated in he immediately sent for him and said unto him these words Come on Bayliff and tell me why you did not build your fine House in some place where the Country was good and fruitful Sir answered the Bayliff I was born in this Country and find it very good for me are you so rich said the King as they tell me you are I am not poor replied the other I have blessed be God wherewithal to live the King then asked him how it was possible he should grow so rich in so pitiful a barren Country why very easily replied the Bayliff tell me which way then said the King marry Sir replied the other because I have ever had more care to do my own business than that of my Masters or my Neighbours the Devil refuse me said the King for that was alwaies his Oath thy reason is very good for doing so and rising betimes thou couldst not chuse but thrive Montluc Comment LVI Great hath been the love and strictness of some Persons in their Religion as well Christians as Heathens and their Reverence and regard toward it and it had been highly commendable in the last had their Devotions been better directed in the mean time they shame us by being more zealous in their Superstition than we are in the true Religion In the Reign of Honorius the Emperor by the perfidiousness of Stilicon Alaricus King of the Goths was brought into Italy with a mighty Army who set upon the City of Rome itself and took it and though he was a Man of blood both by nature and custom yet such a Reverence had he to Religion that before he would permit his Soldiers the plunder of the City by sound of Trumpet he caused his Edict to be proclaimed That as well the Goods as Lives of all those should be safe that had retreated into any of the Churches which were consecrated to the Apostles Monsieur Heraults Discourses p. 120. LVII Pansanias the King of Sparta and at that time the General of all Greece in that famous Battel of Platea where all the Graecian safety was disputed when the Enemy drew on and provoked him he restrained and kept in his Soldiers till such time as the Gods being consulted by Sacrifice had given incouragement to begin the Fight this was somewhat long in the performance so that in the mean time the Enemy interpreting this delay as an effect of fear began to press hard upon him so that many of the Greeks fell yet would he not suffer in this extremity a single Javelin to be thrown against them but multiplying the Sacrifices he at last lift up his hands to Heaven and prayed That if the Fates had determined that the Graecians should not overcome yet at least it might please Heaven that they might not die unrevenged nor without performing some famous and memorable exploit upon their Enemies He was heard and straight the bowels of the Sacrifice promised him success he marched out and obtained the Victory but what a Soul was that how fixed and earnest in the Holy Rites of his Country that chose rather to be butchered and slain than to draw a Sword while the Gods seemed unwilling Herodotus Hist LVIII The Aegyptians worshipped Dogs the Indian Rat the Cat Hawk Wolf and Crocodile as their Gods and observed them with that kind of Religion and Veneration that if any man whatsoever knowingly or otherwise killed any of these it was death to him without mercy as a Roman Citizen found to his cost in the time of Diodorus Siculus who writes it and avouches himself to be a Spectator and witness of what follows at such a time saith he as Ptolomeus whom the Romans afterward restored to the Kingdom was first of all stiled the Associate and Friend of the Senate and People of Rome there was a publick Rejoycing and a mighty concourse of People it happened that in a great croud amongst others there were some Romans and with them a Soldier who by chance and not willingly had killed a Cat upon which there was presently a great cry and a sudden fury and tumult arose to pacify which neither the ignorance of the miserable wretch nor any Reverence of the Roman Name no not the command of the King himself who had sent the chiefest of his Nobles to appease it none of all these availed the poor man but that he was immediately pull'd in pieces by a thousand hands so that nothing of him was left either to bury or to burn so far had their Superstition and Reverence even for such a ridiculous Worship transported these barbarous Souls Lipsius Monitor p. 10. LIX When Antiochus had besieged Jerusalem at such time as the Feast of Tabernacles was to be celebrated and the People of that City had besought him for a Truce of seven days that they might securely attend upon that Solemnity he not only granted but faithfully performed it and likewise caused a Bull with guilded Horns together with Incense and Perfumes and divers Vessels of Gold to be conveyed to the Gates and delivered into the hands of the Priests and desired they might be offered unto God the Jews were so exceedingly moved with this unexpected Benignity that they yielded themselves and all that they had to Antiochus Lipsius Monit p. 9. LX. When Jerusalem was besieged by Pompey the Great upon the day of their Sabbath though the Jews saw the Romans busied in their preparations against them and were ready to assault them though they had advanced their Ensigns upon their Walls though they had entred the City and slew indifferently all they met yet did this People make no resistance but performed their usual Sacrifice as in time of Peace and upon no account could be drawn to violate the rest of their Sabbath though for the preservation of their Lives and

who was of a fierce and violent disposition made War upon his Brother Alphonsus overcame and took him Prisoner and thrust him into a Monastery constrained Religion lasts not long and therefore he privately deserted his Cloyster and in company only of one Earl he fled for protection to Almenon King of Toledo who was a Moor and an Enemy to the others Religion but there had been Friendship and Peace betwixt him and Ferdinand the Father of this distressed Prince and upon this account he chose to commit himself unto his Faith and was cheerfully received by him he had not been long with him when in the presence of the King the hair of this Prince was observed to stand up an end in such manner that being several times stroked down by the hand they still continued in their upright posture The M●orish Sooth sayers interpreted this to be a Prodigy of ill signification and told the King that this was the man that should be advanced to the Throne of Toledo and thereupon persuaded to put him to death the King would not do it but preferred his Faith given to the fear he might apprehend and thought it sufficient to make him swear that during his life he should not invade his Kingdom a while after King Sanctius was slain by Conspirators at Zamora and his Sister Vratta being well affected to this her Brother sent him a Messenger with Letters to invite him to the Kingdom advising him by some craft with all speed to quit the Country of the Barbarians where he was Alphonsus bearing a grateful mind would not relinquish his Patron in this manner but coming to Almenon acquainted him with the matter And now said he noble Prince compleat your Royal Favours toward me by sending me to my Kingdom that as hitherto I have had my life so I may now also receive my Scepter by your generosity The King imbraced him and wished him all happiness But said he you had lost both Crown and life if with an ungrateful mind you had fled without my knowledge For I knew of the death of Sanctius and I silently waited what course you would take and had disposed upon the way such as I should have returned you back from your flight had it been attempted But no more of this all I shall require of you is that during your life you shall be a true Friend to me and my elder Son Hissemus And so sent him away with Money and an honourable retinue this Alphonsus did afterward take the City and Kingdom of Toledo but it was after the death of Almenon and his Son Lipsius Mon p. 321. LIX Antaff King of some part of Ireland warring against King Ethelstan disguised himself like an Harper and came into Ethelstans Tent whence being gone a Soldier that knew him discovered it to the King who being offended with the Soldier for not declaring it sooner the Soldier made this answer I once served Antaff under his pay as a Soldier and gave him the same Faith I now give you if then I should betray him what trust could your Grace repose in my Truth let him therefore die but not by my Trechery and let your care remove your Royal self from danger remove your Tent from the place where it stands lest at unawares he set upon you Which the King did and the Bishop pitching in the same place was that night with all his Retinue slain by Antaff hoping to have surprized the King and believing he had slain him because he himself knew his Tent stood in that place Speeds Chrocle p. 381. LX. Henry King of Arragon and Sicily was deceased and left John his Son a Child of twenty two months of Age behind him intrusted to the care and fidelity of Ferdinand the Brother of the deceased King and Uncle to the Infant he was a man of great virtue and merit and therefore the Eyes of the Nobles and People were upon him and not only in private discourses but in the publick Assembly he had the general voice and mutual consent to be chosen King of Arragon but he was still deaf to these proffers alledging the right of his Infant Nephew and the custom of the Country which they were bound the rather to maintain by how much the weaker the young Prince was to do it yet he could not prevail though the Assembly was adjourned for that time they met again in hopes that having time to consider of it he would now accept it who being not ignorant of their purpose had caused the little Child to be clothed in Royal Robes and having hid him under his Garment went and sate in the Assembly then Paralus Master of the Horse by common consent did again ask him Whom O Ferdinand is it your pleasure to have declared our King He with a severe look voice replied Whom but John the Son of my Brother and withal took forth the Child from under his Robe and lifting him up upon his Shoulders cryed out God save King John and commanding the Banners to be displayed cast himself first to the ground before him and then all the rest moved by his example did the like Camer Horae Subs p. 154. LXI John the first K. of France was overthrown in Battel and made Prisoner by Edw. the Black Prince and afterwards brought over into England Here he remained four years and was then suffered to return into France upon certain conditions which if he could make his Subjects submit to he should be free if otherwise he gave his faith to return he could not prevail to make them accept of the hard Terms that were offered whereupon he returned into England surrendred himself up and there died Fulgosus ex p. 44. LXII Flectius a Nobleman was made Governor of the City and Castle of Conimbria in Portugal by King Sanctius 1243. This Sanctius was too much swayed by his Wife Mencia and over-addicted to some Court Minions and Favourites by reason of which there was a Conspiracy of the Nobles against him and the matter was so far gone that they had got leave of Pope Innocent to translate the Government of the Kingdom to Alphonsus the Brother of Sanctius hereupon followed a War the minds of most men were alienated from their natural Prince but Flectius was still constant induring the Siege and Arms of Alphonsus and the whole Nation nor could he any way be persuaded till he heard that Sanctius was dead in banishment at Toletum for whom now should he fight or preserve his Faith they advised him therefore to follow Fortune and to yield himself and not change a just Praise for the Title of a Desperado and a Madman Flectius heard but believed them not he therefore beg'd leave of Alphonsus that he himself might go to Toletum and satisfy himself It was granted and he there found that the King was indeed dead buried and therefore that he might as well be free in his own conscience as in the opinion of men he opened

an Oath that he would rest contented with the Title of a King and leave all matters of Government to her sole dispose But no sooner was he accepted as King but he forgot his Wife and Benefactress he recalled her Enemies from Banishment and put many of her Friends and Relations to death he banished her into an Island and set a strong Guard upon her at last he thought himself not sufficiently safe so long as Amalasuntha was alive and thereupon he dispatched several of his wicked Instruments to the place of her Exile with order to put her to death who finding her in a Bath gave her no further time but strangled her there Zuinglius Theat XVI Mrs. Joyce Lewis being questioned for her professing the Protestant Religion in Queen Maries Reign was cited to appear before the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield who after Examination gave her a months time to consider of it taking a Bond of her Husband at the months end to bring her thither again when the time was near expired many Friends advised him rather to forfeit his Bonds than to cast her into the fire but he churlishly answered That he would lose nothing for her sake and so delivering her up she was condemned and burned Clarks Martyr p. 191. XVII Arsinoe the Widdow of Lysimachus was afterward Married to her own Brother Ptolomy according to the Custom of that Country she received him into her City Cassandrea but he presently seizing upon the Castle there he slew her two Sons which he had by Lysimachus one being sixteen years old and the other but three and in their Mothers Arms at which she rending her Cloths and tearing her hair was by his Command halled out of the Gates of the City with two Servants only to attend her and sent into banishment to the Isle of Samothracia but shortly after this barbarous Wretch was overthrown in a Battel against the Gauls and himself being taken was by them torn in pieces A. B. Vshers Annals XVIII Some Wives have likewise been unnatural in their hatred to their Husbands and have deported themselves so ill toward them that they have not only tormented the Lives but hastened the death of their too indulgent Husbands We read that Alborinus King of the Lumbards having slain the King of the Gepidae made a drinking Cup of his Skull Rosamond the Daughter of that King he had taken to Wife and being one day very merry at Verona he forced her to drink out of that detested Cup which she so stomached that she promised Helmichild a Courtier that if he would aid her in killing the King she would give him both her self and the Kingdom of Lumbardy This he consented to and performed after which they were both so hated that they were constrained to fly to Ravenna unto the protection of Longinus who persuaded her to dispatch Helmichild out of the way and to take him for her Husband to which she willingly agreed Helmichild coming out of the Bath called for drink and she gave him a strong poyson when he had drunk half of it and found by the strong operation how the matter went he compelled her to drink the rest and so both died together Heylin Cosmog p. 64. XIX Among those who were persecuted and miserably imprisoned for the Profession of the Protestant Religion in the Reign of Queen Mary there was one John Fetty a Religious Man living in Clerkenwell in London who was complained of to the Parson of the Parish by his own Wife because he came not to Church nor would partake of their Idolatrous Services whereupon the Parson caused the Constables to apprehend him but it pleased God that his unnatural Wife immediately fell mad upon it and the Constables were so far moved with pity that they let him go home to look to his Wife and Children who otherwise were like to perish this good man forgetting this unkind and wicked Act of his Wife was very careful of her and so cherished and provided for her that through Gods mercy she was well amended and in about three weeks recovered her wits again yet such was the power of the Devil in this wicked and malicious womans heart that so soon as she was recovered not regarding her Husbands kindness she again accused him whereby he was apprehended and cast into Lollards Tower where he was put into the tormenting stocks with a dish of water and a stone in it set by him to shew what favour he should receive at their hands There he lay for many days sometimes hanging by one leg and one arm and somtimes by another and at other times by both At last one of his Children of about eight or nine years old came to the Bishops House to see if he could get leave to speak with his Father and one of the Bishops Chaplains meeting with the Boy asked him what he looked for The Child answered That he came to see his Father who was in Lollards Tower why said the Priest thy Father is an Heretick the Boy being of a bold and quick Spirit and well educated by his Father answered My Father is no Heretick but you are an Heretick for you have Balaams Mark on you With that the Priest took him by the hand and led him into the Bishops House where amongst them they stripped the Child naked and cruelly whipt him till he was all over gore blood then Cluny the Bishops Sumner putting on his shirt and carrying his Coat on his arm led him to the Prison with the blood dropping at his heels to his Father At his coming in the Boy fell on his knees and craved his Fathers blessing the Father being full of grief to see his Child thus cruelly dealt with said Alas William who hath done this The Boy answered As I was coming to see you a Priest with Balaams Mark took me into the Bishops House where I have been thus used Hereupon Cluny violently plucked him from his Father and carried him back to the Bishops House where they kept him three days and then bloody Bonner intending to appease the poor man for the usage of his Child sent for him out of Lollards Tower to his Chamber whilst this John Fetty was standing there with the Bishop he spied a great pair of black Beads hanging by his Bed and thereupon said to him My Lord I think the Hangman is not far off for the Halter pointing to the Beads is here already this much inraged the Bishop yet Fetty spying also a Crucifix standing in the Window said My Lord what is that the Bishop answered It was Christ was he handled said Fetty so cruelly as he is here pictured Yes said Bonner that he was and even so cruelly said Fetty do you handle such as come before you for you are to Gods People even as Caiaphas was to Christ the Bishop was so inraged at this that he swore he would burn him or else spend all that he had to his Gown yet afterward bethinking himself of the

by the neighbours who starting out of their beds and breaking open the doors found them in the very act before the body was cold for which they were apprehended and laid in Prison Fettered with heavy Chains After their condemnation for this horrid fact the morning before the time appointed for Execution the Father strangled himself and the Mother was carried by the Devil out of the Dungeon in the Prison and her body was found dead in a stinking ditch with her neck broken asunder Beards Theater p. 72. XXX In 1620 There was a young Gentleman whose name was Duncomb that fell in love with a Gentlewoman to whom he vowed his heart and promised Marriage but her fortune not answering his Fathers humour he threatned to disinherit him if he married her and the better to alienate him from her he sent him as a Souldier in the Earl of Oxfords Regiment into Germany hoping that time and absence might wear out those Impressions that his present fancy had fixed upon him charging him at his departure never to think of her more lest with the thoughts of her he lost him for ever The young man being now long absent from her and having his heart full with the remembrance of her could not contain himself but let her know that no threats or anger of Parents should ever blot her memory out of his thoughts which he illustrated with many expressions of love and affection but the careless young man writing at the same time to his Father superscribed his Fathers Letter to his Mistriss wherein he renounced her and his Mistrisses Letter to his Father wherein he admired her the Father swoln with rage and anger against his Son sent him a bitter Letter back again full of threats and whether that or the shame for his mistake that she should see he renounced her whom he professed to Love did overcome his reason is not known but he hereupon killed himself to the great grief of all the English there and by this example Parents may see what it is to be too rigid to their Children for it was not the young mans hand but the old mans hard heart that killed him Hist Great Brit. p. 140. XXXI There was a Peasant a Macedonian by Nation named Rachoses who being the Father of seven Sons perceived the youngest of them played the little Libertine and unbridled Colt he endeavoured to reclaim him by fair words and reasons but finding him to reject all manner of good Counsel he bound his hands behind him carried him before a Magistrate accused him and required that he might be proceeded against as an Enemy to Nature The Judges who would not discontent this incensed Father nor hazard the life of this young man sent them both to the King which at that time was Artaxerxes The Father went thither with a resolution to seek his Sons death where pleading before the King with much earnestness and many forcible reasons Artaxerxes stood amazed at his Courage But how can you my Friend said he endure to see your Son die before your face he being a Gardiner by Trade As willingly said he as I would pluck away Leaves from a rank Lettice and not hurt the root The King threatned the Son with death if his Carriage were not better and perceiving the old mans zeal to Justice of a Gardiner made him a Judge Causins H. Court p. 112. XXXII Epaminondas the Theban being General against the Lacedemonians it fell out that he was called to Thebes upon the Election of Magistrates at his departure he commits the care and government of the Army to his Son Stesimbrotus with a severe charge that he should not fight till his return The Lacedemonians that they might allure the young man to fight reproach him with dishonour and Cowardice he impatient of these Contumelies contrary to the commands of his Father ingages in a Battel wherein he obtained a signal Victory The Father returning to the Camp adorns the Head of his Son with a Crown of Triumph and afterward commanded the Executioner to take it off from his Shoulders as a violator of Military Discipline Plutarch XXXIII Philip the Second King of Spain out of an unnatural and bloody zeal suffered his eldest Son Don Carlos to be murthered by the Fathers of the Hellish Inquisition because he favoured the Protestant Religion which when the Pope heard of he abusively applied that Text of Scripture to him He spared not his own Son but delivered him up for us all Acts and Monum XXXIV One of the Sons of Pyrrhus King of Epyrus being but a Boy asked his Father one day to which of his Sons he would leave his Kingdom to whom Pyrrhus answered To him that hath the sharpest Sword an answer not much unlike that Tragical Curse of Oedipus toward his Children Let them for me divide Both Goods and Rents and Lands With glittering Swords and bloody blows By force of mighty hands XXXV In the year 1551. at a Town called Weidenhasten in Germany Nov. 20. A cruel Mother inspired by the Devil shut up all her doors and began to murder her four Children in this manner she snatcht up a sharp Ax and first set upon her eldest Son being but eight years old searching him out with a Candle behind an Hogshead where he had hid himself and immediately notwithstanding his lamentable Prayers and Complaints clove his Head in two pieces and chopped off both his Arms next she killed her Daughter of five years old in the same manner another little Boy of three years seeing his Mothers madness hid itself poor innocent behind the Gate whom as soon as this Tyger espied she drew out by the hair of the head into the floor and there cut off his Head the youngest lay crying in the Cradle but half a year old him she without all compassion pluckt out and murdered in the same manner these Murders being committed this Devil incarnate for surely no Humanity was left in her to take punishment of her self for the same cut her own Throat and tho she lived nine days after and confessing her horrid Crimes died with abundance of Tears and great repentance yet we see how it pleased God to arm her own hands against her self as the fittest Executioner of Vengeance Beards Theat p. 225. XXXVI Fausta the Wife of Constantine the Great fell in love with Constantine her Son in Law whom when she could not persuade unto her Lust she accused unto the Emperor as if he had solicited her Chastity for which this innocent young man was condemned and put to death but the truth being afterward discovered Constantine ordered her to be put into an hot Bath and suffered her not to come forth till the heat had choked her revenging upon her own head her Sons death and her own Unchastity Idem p. 225. XXXVII Robert de Beliasme delighted much in Cruelty an Example whereof he shewed on his own Son who being but a Child and playing with him the Father for