¶
A
briefe
Chronicle
,
where
in
are
described
shortlye
the
Originall
,
and
the
successiue
estate
of
the
Romaine
weale
publique
,
the
alteratyon
and
chaunge
of
sondrye
Offices
in
the
same
:
the
order
and
successyon
of
the
Kinges
,
Consuls
and
Emperoures
therof
,
together
wyth
sondry
gestes
&
actes
of
many
famous
Princes
and
valiaunt
Captaines
,
from
the
first
foundatyon
of
the
City
of
Rome
,
vnto
the.
M.
C.
and
.xix.
yeare
there
of
consequently
:
ryght
plesant
and
profitable
to
be
red
,
marked
and
folowed
of
all
men
.
Collected
and
gathered
first
by
Eutropius
,
and
Englished
by
Nicolas
Haward
,
studiente
of
Thauies
In.
Anno.
1564.
Fais
ton
deuoyr
,
Selon
ton
pouuoyr
.
TO
THE
RIGHTE
worshipful
and
excellent
yong
Gentle
man
,
mayster
Henry
Compton
Esquier
,
his
faythful
and
dailye
Orator
Nicholas
Hawarde
,
wisheth
longe
helth
,
with
encrese
and
affluence
of
all
worshyp
.
ALthough
of
long
tyme
sithe
,
(
ryghte
worshipfull
,
)
I
had
in
my
hart
professed
a
greate
zeale
and
reuerens
towardes
you
,
whiche
from
time
to
time
,
day
by
day
.
I
sought
menes
to
signifye
to
your
good
mastership
,
yet
there
neuer
wanted
som
occasion
which
might
withhold
me
from
that
mi
said
intent
&
purpose
.
For
why
,
waying
mine
own
case
and
condition
of
fortune
,
and
considering
your
worthye
estate
and
degree
of
worship
,
I
did
alwaies
with
my self
yet
hitherto
,
disalow
my
former
attempted
enterpryse
.
But
on
the
other
side
,
setting
before
mine
eyes
,
and
beholding
the
exceding
great
gentlenes
,
whych
from
your
very
youthe
ye
haue
aboundauntly
towards
all
men
in
all
places
declared
,
(
whiche
you
as
inheritaunce
claime
from
your
auncetors
,
)
and
also
the
no
small
fauoure
and
zeale
which
you
continually
haue
professed
towardes
learning
,
where
in
I
my selfe
am
able
not
a
litle
to
testify
how
you
haue
profyted
.
For
omitting
here
,
your
diligent
studye
employed
at
Oxford
,
whyche
is
to
diuers
not
vnknowen
,
I
my selfe
doo
well
remember
that
longe
tyme
before
that
,
ye
had
attayned
the
Laten
tounge
,
(
and
that
well
nyghe
in
your
verye
childhoode
:
)
whyche
thinges
being
so
,
I
was
emboldned
,
)
presuming
vpon
your
passing
great
fauour
)
now
at
laste
wyth
certaine
confidence
to
declare
to
your
goodnesse
my
pore
harte
to
you
long
time
since
wholy
addicted
:
vpon
which
snre
affiaunce
so
reposed
in
your
worshyp
,
I
haue
here
presented
vnto
you
this
smal
treatise
.
Vppon
the
fynishinge
wherof
,
I
haue
employed
for
the
most
part
suche
vacant
time
as
I
had
,
(
not
defraudinge
my
other
studies
,
)
bering
in
memorye
therample
and
saying
of
Plinie
,
who
thoughte
all
that
his
time
to
be
lost
,
whyche
hee
bestowed
not
at
booke
.
Nothinge
doubtynge
but
your
lenity
,
being
suche
as
it
is
,
ye
wil
gratefullye
with
fauoure
accept
the
same
,
and
so
enboulden
my
bashfulnesse
in
this
behalf
,
as
did
Octauius
Augustus
to
one
,
who
when
he
had
finished
a
boke
,
(
like
as
I
this
,
)
which
he
would
haue
deliuered
to
Augustus
,
and
was
come
in
presence
before
him
,
with
trembling
hand
,
he
did
both
profer
and
withdraw
that
hys
boke
again
,
which
thing
Augustus
apperceiuing
,
accepted
the
gift
,
and
reprehending
the
bashful
and
timorousnesse
of
the
geuer
,
said
:
what
thinckest
thou
,
that
thou
doest
nowe
erhibite
a
mite
to
an
Elephante
?
Such
clemency
and
familiaritye
was
there
in
the
mighty
Emperor
.
The
like
of
which
,
also
promiseth
this
your
worships
countenance
:
which
hath
now
exiled
,
and
clean
put
to
flight
,
the
cloudy
mistes
of
my
former
bashfulnesse
:
So
that
now
wythout
feare
or
drawinge
backe
,
I
haue
heare
preferred
to
your
worship
these
my
symple
trauailes
,
which
I
chose
amonge
others
to
employ
vpon
this
author
,
as
chefe
for
sondry
causes
.
Th
one
is
,
for
the
substaunce
and
matter
,
which
he
writeth
of
,
whiche
as
it
is
of
time
and
continuans
antique
,
so
is
it
of
all
men
far
before
other
histories
to
be
embraced
&
desired
to
be
knowen
.
An other
cause
is
,
for
the
where
diuers
Historiographers
aswell
Grekes
as
Latines
haue
vttred
to
their
posteritye
in
wryting
th
erploits
&
feats
atcheued
by
the
Romaines
,
as
well
in
peace
,
as
in
warre
,
yet
among
them
al
,
are
there
few
which
in
so
good
order
haue
placed
the
same
:
and
as
for
breuitye
and
compendiousnesse
,
I
am
assured
noone
there
are
,
but
of
force
muste
graunte
hym
the
pryce
.
And
all
be
it
that
as
Tullye
sayeth
,
and
as
experyence
teacheth
vs
,
dyuers
there
are
endued
wyth
very
excellente
wittes
by
nature
,
whyche
wittes
are
aided
by
preceptes
and
perfyted
by
experience
,
which
experiens
is
alone
the
maistres
of
al
things
,
who
instructeth
and
teacheth
vs
how
to
demene
and
gouern
both
our selues
and
our
doings
by
iudging
thynges
present
,
and
calling
to
memory
thynges
whyche
are
past
:
yet
amonge
all
those
whych
are
indued
with
suche
pregnante
wittes
by
nature
,
eche
one
hathe
not
attained
suche
perfectyon
in
learning
,
that
they
of
them selues
are
able
inough
to
attain
fully
to
the
knowledge
and
vnderstandinge
of
the
gestes
and
factes
of
dyuers
moste
victorious
nations
&
peoples
:
the
examples
of
whom
may
aminate
and
encourage
others
to
endeuour
and
laboure
to
purchase
and
attaine
suche
lyke
fame
and
praise
,
as
those
others
haue
done
,
so
muche
as
nothynge
canne
more
.
The
knowledge
of
which
examples
,
had
to
diuers
euen
to
thys
daye
lien
hidde
,
bene
vnknown
,
and
vnattained
vnto
,
had
not
that
theyr
default
in
learning
,
bene
aided
by
some
others
,
able
to
further
than
in
this
behalfe
.
Which
imperfection
of
many
,
diuers
here
to
fore
vnderstandyng
,
(
to
whome
the
talent
of
lernynge
hath
ben
more
aboundantly
graunted
,
)
endeuoringe
them selues
,
to
remedy
&
supply
that
want
&
defalt
in
others
,
haue
to
theyr
great
commendation
and
praise
immortall
,
by
their
industry
and
paines
taking
in
translating
diuers
Histories
and
Chronicles
,
(
as
in
theyr
myndes
best
seemed
to
them
)
out
of
sondry
languages
into
this
out
mother
tounge
,
made
perfect
and
healed
that
maime
,
which
otherwyse
the
want
of
knowledge
of
the
same
Historyes
for
wante
of
learninge
,
had
bred
to
dyuers
of
thys
our
country
.
By
whiche
example
of
theirs
,
I
was
the
more
hardye
to
attempte
thys
enterpryse
,
as
one
ryghte
gladde
if
by
oughte
that
lyeth
in
me
,
(
whyche
easelye
I
confesse
,
and
graunte
how
slender
it
is
,
)
any
one
myght
take
eyther
furtheraunce
or
pleasure
.
Which
my
simple
trauayles
I
haue
presumed
to
exhibyte
to
your
worship
,
not
for
any
the
causes
afore
sayde
,
(
knowinge
that
you
are
in
suche
studies
,
as
ye
are
also
in
all
other
good
scyences
verye
exactlye
seene
and
parfecte
,
)
but
onelye
to
signifye
,
and
as
argumente
to
testifye
the
good
wyl
whyche
to
my
power
my
poore
harte
vnto
your
worshyppe
,
as
of
duetye
doothe
owe
:
whyche
then
at
lengthe
shall
be
fullye
satisfyed
,
and
adiudged
it selfe
verye
happye
,
when
it
shall
seeme
to
haue
doone
anye
thynge
whyche
maye
appeare
acceptable
to
your
good
mastershyppe
.
And
all
thoughe
it
maye
be
graunted
that
experyence
of
thinges
maye
bee
attayned
wythout
learnynge
,
yet
is
experyence
purchased
by
learnynge
,
to
be
preferred
before
that
other
so
muche
as
quietnesse
is
more
to
be
regarded
then
trouble
.
For
as
Phillip
de
Comines
a
Frenche
wryter
affyrmeth
:
a
manne
shall
see
more
experyence
in
three
monethes
,
by
readynge
of
bookes
,
then
twentye
menne
shall
in
Processe
of
tyme
,
the
one
of
theym
lyuynge
after
the
other
:
Where
by
a
manne
shall
allso
vnderstande
the
vsage
and
and
fashions
of
sondrye
realmes
and
countries
,
aswell
in
peace
as
in
time
of
warre
,
the
ordinaunces
and
lawes
of
sondry
nations
,
the
wayes
and
meanes
by
whyche
they
haue
enlarged
their
kyngedoms
,
and
the
causes
of
the
decay
of
the
same
,
and
howe
those
ruinous
Empires
haue
bene
agayne
restored
,
and
haue
recouered
their
former
estates
.
All
which
things
like
as
they
are
plentifullye
,
so
are
they
chefly
contained
in
the
description
of
good
histories
,
whiche
historyes
of
Cicero
are
most
worthelye
called
the
wytnesse
bearers
of
time
,
the
lyghtes
of
veritye
,
the
liues
of
memorye
,
the
regentes
of
life
,
and
the
ambassadors
of
antiquity
:
by
whiche
we
maye
learne
how
to
bear
all
manner
fortune
,
as
well
aduerse
as
prosperous
,
whyche
shall
administer
vnto
vs
the
very
true
and
certain
experyence
of
thinges
,
so
that
wee
maye
certainly
know
howe
to
attayne
and
purchase
praise
and
fame
immortall
:
whiche
with
greate
encrease
and
long
contynuaunce
of
the
same
,
God
of
hys
infinite
goodnesse
,
graunt
to
your
worship
for
euer
.
From
Thauies
Inne
the
xxii
.
day
of
Iune
.
Your
faythful
and
daily
Orator
Nicholas
Haward
.
¶
To
the
Reader
.
COnsidering
wyth
my selfe
(
gentl●
reader
)
wyth
how
infinite
payne
and
labo●
diuers
here
tofore
me●
of
most
excellent
wits
and
of
passyng
knowledge
haue
compyle●
theyr
bookes
,
&
wyth
what
heede
and
cyrcumspectnesse
they
haue
examined
and
perfited
theyr
sayde
trauayles
and
wyth
what
fear
and
warinesse
they
haue
publyshed
the
same
,
(
nor
that
wythoute
good
cause
why
.
)
For
there
by
they
exponed
themselues
,
theyr
name
and
fame
to
no
smal
daungers
and
hasardes
.
Namelye
to
the
vewe
iudgement
,
and
report
of
all
men
.
For
which
causes
(
me
semes
)
I
haue
taken
vpon
mee
a●
thys
present
a
hard
enterprise
:
A
burden
ouer
heauy
for
these
slender
shoulders
to
sustayne
,
who
haue
at
length
shewed
my selfe
so
hardy
as
to
publishe
abrode
thys
small
booke
to
the
skanning
and
trying
of
so
many
touch
stones
.
Amonge
whome
like
as
those
other
moost
famous
men
haue
doubted
to
credit
theyr
wrytrnges
(
dreading
how
they
might
eskape
the
close
carpinge
of
diuers
slaunderous
and
p●ruers
detractors
:
)
so
I
who
now
haue
wayed
the
safe
ankers
)
of
closenesse
,
and
hoysted
vp
the
sayles
of
fearfulnesse
,
to
receiue
the
blastes
of
rumours
and
reports
,
haue
launched
forth
thys
symple
ship
to
take
his
waye
amyd
the
sapde
gulfes
,
where
as
nothing
elsse
is
to
be
looked
for
,
but
captayne
perdition
,
wythoute
the
singuler
lenitye
of
the
beneuolente
Readers
doo
supplye
the
Pylottes
steade
to
safe
conducte
hym
alonge
those
daungers
,
and
defende
hym
from
those
violente
and
surgynge
waues
whych
shall
s●ke
to
ouerwhelm
him
:
who
shoulde
well
haue
contented
my selfe
to
haue
gratified
only
that
excellent
yong
(
gentleman
my
singuler
good
master
,
master
Compton
(
whome
I
here
name
for
hys
worthines
sake
)
wythoute
hazardynge
my selfe
by
farther
daungers
,
to
seeke
suche
aduentutes
as
myght
betide
.
Neuerthelesse
,
sith
it
hath
pleased
hym
to
wyll
me
to
attempte
thys
enterpryse
(
whose
request
to
againe
saye
,
or
commaundement
to
wythstand
in
no
case
I
might
,
)
I
haue
the
boldlyer
,
vnder
the
banner
of
his
Protectyon
aduenturxed
to
endaunger
theese
firste
fruites
of
my
trauayles
.
Where
in
I
doo
as
yet
adiudge
my selfe
to
stande
in
farre
more
safetye
and
lesse
daunger
,
then
those
others
doo
,
of
whome
I
made
mertyon
before
:
for
that
if
in
theyr
doinges
any
errour
might
haue
happely
bene
espised
,
it
could
hardelye
haue
beene
wyncked
at
,
eyther
for
theyr
singuler
knowledge
and
learnynge
where
in
they
did
excell
,
or
for
theyr
tipenesse
of
iudgemente
,
whyche
well
nigh
passed
all
mennes
credite
.
But
as
for
me
,
if
oughte
there
bee
doprehended
in
thys
small
treatyse
,
worthy
reprehension
(
as
one
submittynge
my selfe
to
the
iudgemente
of
others
,
)
yet
I
desire
of
thee
gentle
Reader
,
graunte
of
fauourable
skannynge
:
whyche
I
truste
easelye
wythout
repinynge
,
I
shall
at
thy
handes
obtayne
:
For
that
what
so
euer
hathe
chaunced
to
escape
me
,
maye
bee
adscribed
to
my
imperfectnesse
,
(
whome
I
yelde
to
thy
iudgement
)
or
imputed
to
youthe
,
and
so
the
easlyer
be
remytted
,
or
at
leaste
dissymuled
.
Neyther
thyncke
I
that
I
coulde
be
so
incircumspecte
in
sit
placynge
of
wordes
,
ne
so
exacte
a
translatoure
,
that
I
coulde
(
thoughe
mooste
I
couetie
it
)
please
and
satisfye
of
eache
one
hys
fantalye
:
Suffiseth
it
me
therefore
,
if
amonge
suche
a
companye
,
some
:
amonge
so
many
,
shall
seeme
all
together
not
to
reiect
these
my
simple
trauayles
.
And
to
the
end
I
may
indue
the
frendlye
Reader
to
conceyue
the
better
opynyon
of
thys
small
booke
,
I
shall
shewe
to
thee
what
profitte
and
commoditye
is
annexed
to
the
same
,
and
howe
muche
doothe
auayle
the
readynge
of
good
hystoryes
.
And
then
haue
I
to
speake
to
the
obloquy
of
certayn
persones
,
whyche
seeme
greatly
to
disalowe
the
translatynge
of
Historiographers
,
and
other
good
authoures
,
foorthe
of
diuers
languages
into
hys
owne
mother
tounge
:
where
by
they
detracte
and
depriue
the
trauaylers
in
those
affayres
of
theyr
prayse
whych
moste
worthely
oughte
to
ensue
theyr
sayde
laboures
.
And
as
touchynge
the
first
poynt
,
which
is
to
expresse
the
profitte
and
commodytye
whyche
doo
ensue
the
reuoluynge
and
often
perusyng
of
hystoryes
,
and
to
declare
of
what
force
and
effecte
they
are
to
quycken
and
encourage
others
to
atcheue
the
lyke
,
the
saying
of
worthye
Themistocles
seemeth
to
proue
suffycyently
:
who
in
hys
first
youthful
yeres
gaue
hym selfe
wholye
to
followe
luste
and
sensualitye
,
regardynge
nothing
but
ryotousnesse
and
satisfying
hys
fantasy
,
but
so
soone
as
Melciades
obtained
oportunity
,
and
wan
throughe
hys
prowesse
and
manhode
greate
victoryes
of
Themistocles
,
who
alwaye
before
had
bene
drowned
in
folly
(
and
wantonnesse
)
conferrynge
the
life
of
Milciades
with
that
of
hys
,
dyd
in
shorte
space
so
aultare
himselfe
,
as
if
he
had
neuer
bene
anye
suche
kynde
of
persone
.
Where
at
diuers
muche
meruaylyng
,
demaunded
of
hym
the
cause
of
that
hys
so
sodayne
chaunge
.
To
whome
Themistocles
aunsweared
that
the
victoryes
and
conquestes
of
Melciades
would
not
permit
hym
anye
longer
to
sleepe
or
slumber
.
Of
suche
force
and
efficacy
,
and
the
examples
of
others
,
that
of
one
who
to fore
was
a
member
skante
worthye
to
lyue
in
a
common
welth
,
the
example
of
that
other
made
a
valyaunt
and
mooste
victoryous
conqueroure
.
Whyche
thynges
beinge
so
.
who
dothe
dou●e
howe
requisite
and
necessarye
historyes
are
:
in
whyche
are
contayned
suche
noumber
of
notable
examples
,
of
men
more
famous
farre
then
was
Melciades
.
Whyche
histories
like
as
they
are
to
be
had
in
estimation
,
and
greatly
to
be
regarded
for
the
worthinesse
of
them
,
whose
actes
they
recount
,
so
are
they
highlye
to
be
hadde
in
pryce
,
for
that
by
mean
of
them
onlye
those
gestes
of
suche
menne
are
so
ryfe
in
memory
,
that
in
manner
they
doo
yet
lyue
,
and
seme
presentlye
to
put
them
in
practyse
.
For
why
,
hath
not
Virgill
that
deuyne
Poet
by
his
worthye
verses
geuen
Troye
suche
perpetuitye
,
that
it
doothe
as
yet
seeme
to
burne
,
wyth
an
inextinguible
fire
:
whych
elsse
doubtlesse
had
peryshed
together
with
the
fadynge
of
that
consnmynge
flame
.
Who
shoulde
nowe
haue
bene
able
to
recite
the
worthye
prowesse
of
famous
Achilles
,
if
Homere
hadde
not
crowned
the
same
wyth
eternitye
?
And
that
whych
is
more
,
(
that
I
maye
saye
wyth
mightye
Alexander
,
)
what
hadde
it
auayled
that
worthy
Achilles
?
what
hadde
it
auauntaged
dyuers
other
valyaunte
menne
to
haue
aduentured
theym selues
to
suche
daungers
,
to
haue
attempted
so
hearde
enierpryses
,
Finallye
to
haue
declared
theym selues
alwayes
inuincible
,
if
suche
theyr
victoryes
,
that
theyr
manhoode
,
those
theyr
excellen●e
vertues
shoulde
haue
beene
wyth
theym
ouer
whelmed
in
the
earthe
,
and
pearished
in
that
small
coffen
?
Whyche
doubtlesse
hadde
hapned
,
if
the
worthynesse
of
wryters
hadde
not
chalenged
and
deliuered
them
from
that
lamentable
destiny
.
Where
hadde
the
renowne
,
the
fame
and
glory
of
the
Romaines
.
the
Grecians
,
the
Macedonians
,
the
Persians
and
dyuers
other
victoryous
Natyons
beene
nowe
become
?
They
hadde
certesse
ben
quite
worne
oute
by
antiquity
,
decaied
by
descent
of
ages
,
and
geuen
place
to
tyme
,
if
the
fame
of
them
so
deceassed
,
had
not
ben
shrowded
in
the
pardurable
seereclothes
of
famous
wryters
,
(
as
Lyuius
,
Plutarche
,
Curtius
wyth
others
whome
I
here
passe
ouer
,
)
and
theyr
sayde
factes
farsed
wyth
the
pure
poulders
of
the
wrytinges
,
and
monumentes
of
such
men
as
those
wer
moste
soueraign
preseruatiues
agaynste
suche
putrefactyons
.
And
thus
muche
as
touchynge
the
commodious
and
well
nyghe
requisite
knowledge
of
Historyes
.
Nowe
resteth
it
to
speke
a
worde
or
two
to
satisfye
the
mislikynge
of
certayne
personnes
,
wyth
suche
as
haue
trauayled
in
translatinge
dyuers
authoures
foorthe
of
other
languages
into
thys
our
mother
tonnge
.
For
the
aucthorisinge
and
defence
whereof
,
(
me
seemes
)
the
woordes
of
the
famous
Oratoure
Apollonius
doothe
auayle
not
a
lyttle
.
Who
commyng
by
chaunce
into
the
schole
where
Tullye
was
,
beynge
but
a
chylde
as
yer
,
and
apperceiuing
his
for
wardnesse
in
lernynge
,
and
hys
naturall
inclinatyon
to
the
same
,
sayde
:
Truelye
Cicero
I
commende
thee
,
and
bewail
grestly
the
chaunce
and
case
of
the
Grecians
.
For
why
,
ful
wel
that
worthy
Orator
apperceiued
that
Tully
should
in
processe
of
time
bereft
the
Gretians
of
theyr
exacinesse
in
all
sciences
(
where
in
they
myghte
worthely
at
those
daies
claim
singularitye
to
them selues
)
and
communicate
the
same
with
the
Romains
and
others
.
Which
thyng
though
Culli
did
not
as
an
interpretor
of
any
,
yet
did
he
it
so
,
that
he
semed
as
an
erpositor
to
mani
.
For
looke
what
absolutenesse
or
perfection
anye
of
the
Grecians
,
the
Hebricians
or
any
other
straunge
nations
hadde
throughe
their
laboure
and
trauayle
attayned
vnto
in
leatnynge
,
and
lefte
wrytten
in
theyr
languages
,
for
the
prolytte
and
behoufe
of
theyr
country
menne
,
whyche
was
neyther
commodious
or
profytable
to
bee
knowen
.
All
that
hathe
he
by
hys
industry
left
most
eloquentlye
published
in
the
Laten
tounge
,
a
language
more
rife
and
familiare
then
those
from
whence
he
desumed
them
.
And
lyke
as
manye
had
failed
of
that
knowledge
whych
they
nowe
haue
aspyred
vnto
,
had
not
Tully
trodden
forth
vnto
them
suche
easy
pathes
,
tyghte
had
there
bene
no
fewe
among
vs
in
thys
our
region
,
which
had
not
as
yet
attayned
vnto
any
vnderstandyng
of
so
many
histories
,
and
wyth
them
sondrye
other
thynges
worthye
to
be
knoweu
,
had
not
the
diligence
of
Translators
,
&
theyr
paynes
imployed
in
that
behalf
,
remoued
and
cleared
the
thycke
mistes
of
theyr
ignorans
,
where
by
it
may
appeare
that
suche
as
busye
them selues
for
the
furtheraunce
and
commodity
of
others
,
are
not
only
worthy
to
be
void
of
reprehensyon
vndepryued
of
theyr
wel
deserued
prayse
,
but
are
also
to
bee
encouraged
to
perseuer
in
those
theyr
well
doinges
.
And
where
as
some
theyr
be
whyche
obtecte
that
throughe
these
translatyons
,
the
affectynge
and
desyre
of
the
attaynynge
of
the
Greeke
,
Latyne
,
Italian
and
other
tounges
dooth
decay
,
and
is
the
lesse
soughte
after
,
who
seeth
not
howe
friuolous
and
vaine
that
theyr
saying
is
.
For
as
it
is
very
absonant
that
anye
one
who
hath
the
perfect
vse
of
corn
&
grain
,
and
tasted
the
plesauntnesse
there
of
,
woulde
refuse
the
same
to
be
fed
wyth
Acornes
,
so
is
it
no
lesse
dissonant
to
say
,
that
anye
man
hauing
ones
tasted
the
pleasaunte
puritye
of
the
Greke
and
Latine
tounges
,
woulde
(
for
saking
the
same
,
)
fal
to
the
barbarousnesse
(
in
respect
)
of
thys
oure
Englyshe
tounge
.
But
lyke
as
Ce●es
hathe
not
so
indifferently
delt
wyth
all
men
,
to
instruct
and
shewe
them
the
vse
of
corne
,
for
whyche
some
muste
of
force
content
them selues
to
be
fed
wyth
Acornes
.
So
for
that
eche
man
hathe
not
attayned
the
knowledge
of
those
languages
,
in
whych
notwythstandinge
many
thinges
are
worthy
to
be
knowen
,
some
must
neades
contente
themselues
to
wade
only
in
the
troubled
streames
of
Translators
:
for
that
they
are
not
able
to
attayne
to
the
well
spryng
it selfe
:
with
translations
if
they
had
any
manner
waye
sounded
to
the
decay
or
hinderaunce
of
learnynge
or
knowledge
.
Doubtlesse
in
those
so
manye
so
famous
menne
,
whyche
haue
sustayned
so
greate
paynes
in
that
behalfe
greate
folly
and
ouersight
might
haue
bene
imputed
that
they
wold
haue
busied
them selues
so
many
yeres
about
so
harmfull
studies
.
But
so
muche
are
the
mindes
of
men
nowe
depraued
with
malyce
,
and
puffed
vp
wyth
pride
,
that
they
can
not
only
broke
the
wel
meanyng
mindes
of
any
,
but
narowly
examine
and
try
the
errours
of
others
.
Being
sure
in
the
meane
time
that
they
them selues
wyll
attempt
no
such
enterprise
:
(
warely
preuentyng
what
men
myght
fortune
to
report
by
them
,
)
worthy
to
be
resembled
to
Esopes
dogge
.
Who
lying
in
the
Oxes
racke
,
would
not
onlye
not
eat
the
haye
hym self
,
neyet
wold
permyt
the
Oxe
,
who
●ould
gladlye
haue
fed
.
Whose
ouer
hedeful
●eades
I
passe
ouer
wythout
regarde
,
desyringe
thee
gentle
Reader
,
(
for
whose
cause
I
haue
sustained
these
laboures
,
and
endaungered
my
name
)
to
conceiue
of
thys
my
rude
enterpryse
accordingly
.
Exhortynge
thee
also
earn
estly
,
daily
to
reunlue
and
peruse
the
nomber
of
good
histories
whych
eyther
are
all
redye
,
or
shall
here
after
happen
to
be
publyshed
for
thy
behoufe
.
Wyshinge
thou
mayste
lyke
as
Themistocles
,
)
pexceyue
there
by
suche
fru●e
and
profit
,
that
thou
mayste
be
animated
by
readinge
those
worthye
actes
and
exployees
of
others
,
to
purchase
and
gayne
lyke
praise
and
fame
to
them
,
whome
those
theyr
factes
commend
to
thee
.
☞
Farewell
from
my
chamber
in
Cha●…es
Inne
.
¶
The
first
booke
of
the
Breuiary
of
EVTROPLVS
.
THe
Romain
Empire
,
which
was
at
the
fyrst
beginning
Whose
death
the
Romain
matrones
did
by
the
space
of
a
yere
,
bewaile
,
as
they
did
the
deathe
of
Brutus
before
.
In
the
.ix.
yere
after
the
banishyng
of
the
kinges
,
when
Tarquinius
hys
sonne
in
law
had
assembled
together
¶
The
seconde
boke
of
the
breuiary
of
Eutropius
.
IN
the
three
hundreth
thre
skore
and
v.
yeare
after
the
buyldynge
of
the
citye
of
Rome
,
and
in
the
firste
yeare
after
Thys
Pyrrhus
was
descended
of
the
line
of
Achilles
.
Thys
was
the
fyrste
battaile
that
the
Romaynes
Howe
be
it
the
nyghte
fynished
their
skyrmishe
for
that
time
.
Leuinus
the
Consull
fledde
that
nyghte
:
In
the.
CCCC
.lxxviii.
yeare
after
the
buildinge
of
Rome
,
the
name
and
renoume
of
the
Romaynes
became
now
famous
,
and
yet
had
they
neuer
waged
any
battaile
forthe
of
Italy
.
To
the
end
therfore
that
they
might
vnderstande
what
power
they
were
able
to
make
,
there
was
a
muster
In
the
yere
folowing
Martus
Valerius
,
In
the
third
yere
after
,
preparation
for
warre
was
made
against
Hieron
in
Sicilie
.
But
he
,
together
with
In
the
fifthe
yeare
after
that
the
Romaines
firste
waged
battayle
againste
the
Afers
,
(
Caius
Duillius
,
and
Cneus
Cornelius
Asina
beyng
And
as
for
him
,
he
was
not
worthye
to
be
so
muche
esteamed
(
being
now
very
aged
)
that
for
his
cause
,
and
the
redeminge
of
a
fewe
others
whyche
¶
The
thyrde
booke
of
the
breuiary
of
Eutropius
.
WHen
the
battayle
agaynste
the
Carthaginiens
was
thus
determined
,
which
hadde
continued
by
the
space
of
.xxii.
yeres
,
the
Romaynes
(
who
were
nowe
become
famouse
,
)
sente
Legates
to
Ptolomeus
kynge
of
Egypt
,
proferynge
to
ayde
hym
,
For
whye
,
there
wer
slain
in
that
battaile
,
Emilius
Paulus
then
consull
,
and
twentye
other
of
the
order
of
Consulles
and
Pretoures
:
of
the
Senators
ther
wer
taken
and
slayne
.xxx.
noble
men
,
to
the
nomber
of
three
hundreth
:
soldioures
to
the
noumber
of
.xl.
M.
and
.iii.
M.
and
fiue
hundreth
gentlemen
besides
.
For
al
whych
great
mischaunce
,
there
was
not
yet
anye
one
among
the
Romaines
whiche
made
anye
mentyon
of
Then
Annibal
profered
the
Romaynes
that
they
shoulde
redeame
suche
He
wan
Carthage
in
Spayn
,
where
the
Affricanes
hadde
all
theyr
golde
and
Siluer
,
and
furniture
for
warre
While
these
things
wer
in
talk
,
Annibal
as
he
retourned
into
Africk
,
infringed
the
league
,
for
he
and
hys
armye
wroughte
diuers
thynges
by
But
they
were
by
the
commaundement
of
Scipio
straightway
dismiste
againe
.
Not
long
after
,
Annibal
himselfe
being
sore
wearyed
with
those
contynuall
battailes
,
desired
peace
:
¶
The
fourth
booke
of
the
Breuiary
of
Eutropius
.
WHen
the
battaile
against
the
Carthaginiens
was
finyshed
,
there
ensued
battaile
in
Macedonie
agaynst
Phillip
who
was
kig
ther.
In
the
.
ccccc
.
and
.li.
yere
after
the
buildinge
of
the
Citye
Titus
Quintius
Flaminius
was
sent
againste
kyng
Gentius
and
his
brother
,
and
hys
sonnes
,
were
led
before
his
charyot
.
There
came
to
Rome
kynges
for
the
of
sondrye
countries
to
beholde
thys
sight
.
Amonge
whome
wer
Attalus
Then
they
who
slewe
this
Viriatus
,
There
was
sene
against
this
Aristonicus
,
Publius
Lucinius
Crassus
,
who
was
aided
of
sondrye
kinges
.
For
whye
,
Nicomedes
kinge
of
Bythinia
,
Mithridates
king
of
Pontus
,
(
betwene
whome
and
the
Romains
was
waged
afterwardes
most
sharp
and
cruel
warre
)
,
Ariarathes
kynge
of
Cappadocia
,
and
Pilemenes
king
of
Paphlagonia
assisted
the
Romaines
.
Howe
be
it
,
Crassus
was
ouercome
and
slaine
in
that
bataile
,
hys
head
was
stricken
of
and
brought
to
¶
The
fyfthe
booke
of
the
Breuiary
of
Eutropius
.
IN
the
meane
while
that
battaile
was
waged
in
Numidia
agaynste
Iugurth
the
Romain
Consuls
Marcus
Where
vppon
,
Marius
after
that
For
whyche
facte
,
he
was
in
hys
absence
,
made
Consul
the
fifth
time
.
In
this
while
,
the
Danes
and
Almains
of
whome
there
remayned
as
yet
great
store
in
those
parties
,
wer
passed
ouer
into
Italy
:
with
whom
Caius
Marius
,
and
Quintus
Catulus
encountred
agayne
:
but
the
matter
fell
forthe
more
luckely
on
Catulus
his
side
.
For
in
that
battayle
whyche
Marius
and
Catulus
fought
ioyntly
together
,
there
were
slayne
of
theyr
aduersaries
,
(
what
in
fighte
,
&
what
as
they
fled
,
)
to
the
noumber
of
a
C.
and
.xl.
M.
men
.
And
there
wer
taken
prisonners
lx.
M.
besides
.
And
of
the
Romayne
souldioures
,
were
slain
of
eyther
army
,
no
mo
but
.ccc.
men
only
.
There
were
won
in
that
battayle
from
the
Danes
.xxxiii.
auncients
:
of
For
Mithridates
kynge
of
Pontus
,
had
gotten
nowe
bothe
Armenia
the
lesse
,
and
al
the
sea
called
Ponticum
in
compasse
,
and
Bosphorus
also
.
This
Mithridates
would
firste
haue
driuen
Nicomedes
forth
of
Bithinia
,
For
durynge
thys
whyle
that
Silla
warred
vppon
Mithridates
in
Asia
and
Achaia
,
Marius
(
whome
Silla
hadde
before
constrayned
to
flee
the
citye
,
)
and
Cinna
one
of
the
Consuls
,
renued
battaile
in
Italye
,
and
entrynge
into
the
city
of
Rome
,
they
slewe
the
mooste
noble
menne
All
the
residue
of
the
Senate
,
leauing
the
city
of
their
own
acord
,
fled
to
Sylla
into
Grece
:
and
besoughte
him
,
that
he
woulde
without
farther
delaye
succoure
his
countrye
.
Sylla
¶
The
syxthe
booke
of
the
Breuiary
of
Eutropius
.
WHen
Marcus
Emilius
Lepidus
,
and
Quintus
Catulus
were
Consuls
,
and
Sylla
had
now
appeased
and
sette
in
order
the
weal
publique
,
battayles
grew
agayn
a
fresh
.
One
in
Spaine
:
An
other
in
Pamphilia
and
Cilicia
.
The
third
in
Macedonie
:
The
fourthe
in
Sclauonia
.
For
whye
Sertorius
,
who
toke
part
Quintus
Cecilius
Metellus
,
sonne
of
that
Metellus
which
subdued
king
Iugurth
,
and
Domitius
the
Pretor
were
sent
forthe
captaines
agaynste
him
.
Domitius
was
slayne
by
Hyrtuleius
captain
of
Sertorius
his
host
.
In
the
second
battaile
whych
was
waged
at
the
citye
Cabira
,
Mithridates
hadde
prouided
.xxx.
M.
menne
,
Sone
after
,
Lucullus
required
him
to
deliuer
his
ennemy
,
whom
he
had
put
to
slyght
.
Whiche
request
when
he
withstode
and
denyed
the
deliuerye
of
Mithridates
,
Lucullus
forthewith
inuaded
kynge
Tigranes
hys
realme
,
and
wanne
there
Tigra
nocerta
the
chiefest
citye
of
Armenia
,
and
hauinge
but
.xviii.
M.
souldiours
to
ayde
him
,
he
gaue
king
Tigranes
a
passinge
great
ouerthrow
,
which
Tigranes
came
againste
hym
wyth
vi
.
M.
men
on
barbed
horsses
,
and
an
huddreth
thousande
Archers
,
besides
other
menne
of
armes
.
He
slewe
the
But
they
whome
Lucullus
had
left
behinde
in
Pontus
with
parte
of
hys
armye
,
to
the
ende
that
they
shoulde
keepe
vnder
to
the
behoufe
of
the
Romaynes
suche
people
as
he
hadde
all
ready
subdued
there
(
demeanyng
them selues
very
rechlesly
,
and
with
great
cruelty
)
gaue
oportunity
to
Mithridates
Not
long
after
,
the
same
Pompeius
was
also
designed
to
go
agaynste
Mithridates
,
and
Tigranes
whyche
viage
when
he
had
taken
in
hand
,
he
ouercame
Mithridates
in
battayl
by
These
things
being
thus
finished
,
he
wente
into
Asia
,
and
so
ended
he
the
war
,
which
had
long
continued
.
when
In
the
six
hundreth
and
ninetenth
yeare
after
the
buildinge
of
Rome
.
When
Decius
Iunius
Sillanus
,
and
Lucius
Murena
were
Cansuls
,
Metellus
triumphed
ouer
Crete
,
and
Pompeius
tryumphed
for
the
battaile
In
the
sixe
hund
,
eth
nineteth
,
and
thirde
yeare
after
the
buildynge
of
Fraunce
was
committed
to
hys
gouerment
,
and
the
coast
of
Illiria
(
now
called
Sclauonia
,
)
together
wyth
.x.
legions
of
souldioures
Fyrst
he
subdued
the
Heluetians
whych
are
also
called
the
Sequanes
or
Burgonians
.
Then
he
passed
forth
stil
conquering
and
subduing
as
he
went
,
with
greuous
battayles
,
vntyll
he
came
to
the
Englyshe
Ocean
sea
.
And
with
in
the
space
of
.ix.
yeres
,
he
broughte
wel
nyghe
all
Fraunce
in
subiertyon
,
so
muche
as
is
situate
betweene
the
Alpes
,
the
riuer
of
Roan
,
the
floud
of
Rheyn
and
the
Occean
sea
,
whiche
in
circuit
extendeth
to
.
ccccc
.
miles
.
Sone
after
,
he
warred
vppon
the
Britaynes
whyche
before
his
aryuing
When
these
thynges
were
thus
finished
,
there
ensued
an
horryble
and
lamentable
battaile
:
By
meane
whereof
,
(
besides
dyuers
other
calamityes
whyche
chaunced
in
the
Romain
weale
publique
)
the
condition
&
wonted
estate
of
that
famous
Empire
was
aultered
.
For
when
Cesar
returned
conqueror
forth
of
Fraunce
he
required
to
be
created
Consull
agayne
.
Whyche
thyng
when
it
was
by
diuers
of
the
Romaines
wythout
contradictyon
graunted
vnto
hym
,
Marcellus
(
who
was
then
Consul
,
)
Bibulus
,
Pompeius
,
and
Cato
,
dyd
openlye
wythstande
it
,
and
sente
commaundemente
to
Cesar
that
he
shoulde
dismisse
hys
army
,
and
come
home
to
the
citye
.
Vppon
whyche
aunswere
Cesare
conceyuinge
dyspleasure
from
Ariminus
(
where
he
had
hys
armye
assembled
)
towardes
Rome
to
inuade
it
.
Where
hppon
the
Consull
,
the
Senate
,
and
all
the
Nobilytye
of
Rome
together
with
Pompeius
,
fled
forth
of
the
citye
,
and
passed
ouer
into
Greece
,
and
made
preparaunce
for
warre
agaynste
Cesar
,
at
Epirus
Macedonie
and
Achaia
,
and
those
Pompeius
to
be
theyr
Captayne
.
When
Cesar
was
entred
the
vacaunte
and
forsaken
Cytye
,
forthwith
he
made
himself
Dictator
.
From
thence
,
he
went
into
Spayn
.
There
he
discomfited
the
most
strong
He
hadde
succour
besides
,
forthe
of
all
the
Casto
parties
:
and
moreouer
innumerable
Senators
and
pretors
,
and
others
of
the
Consuls
,
and
almost
all
the
nobilitye
of
Rome
on
his
side
,
and
suche
as
ere
that
tyme
had
bene
conquerors
of
verye
stoute
nations
.
Cesar
had
in
his
armye
not
full
oute
.xxx.
M.
footem
on
,
and
a.
M.
horsmen
.
The
force
and
strengthe
of
the
Romains
was
neuer
before
that
day
assembled
either
in
greater
number
,
or
vnder
more
worthy
captains
,
so
that
nowe
they
coulde
eastye
haue
subdued
all
the
whole
world
,
if
they
should
haue
fought
against
the
Barbarians
.
The
battaile
was
handled
with
greate
prowesse
and
manhode
on
both
parties
.
And
at
length
Pompeius
was
discomfited
,
and
his
tents
Not
longe
after
,
Cesar
came
to
Alexandria
,
where
Ptolomeus
also
conspyred
agaynste
him
:
vpon
which
occasyon
,
Cesar
made
warre
on
the
kyng
,
who
when
he
was
ouercome
,
drowned
hym selfe
in
the
ryuer
of
When
Cesar
hadde
on
thys
sorte
obtayned
Alexandria
,
he
gaue
that
kyngdome
to
Cleopatra
,
syster
to
From
thence
,
he
went
into
Affrick
,
where
as
a
greate
noumber
of
the
nobility
,
together
wyth
Iuba
kynge
of
Mauritania
renued
battail
against
Afterwards
,
when
as
now
ciuil
wars
¶
The
seuenth
boke
of
the
Breuiary
of
Eutropius
.
When
Cesar
was
slayne
,
whyche
was
in
the
.vii.
C.
and
.ix.
yeare
after
the
building
of
Rome
,
In
this
meane
while
,
Brutus
and
Cassius
whyche
were
two
of
them
that
slewe
Cesar
,
prepared
a
greate
battaile
,
hauynge
assembled
manye
armies
through
Macedonie
and
the
Easte
partes
.
There
went
forth
agaynste
them
Cesar
,
Octanianus
,
Augustus
,
and
Marcus
Antonius
.
In
the
firste
battayle
Cesar
and
Antonius
were
discomfited
.
How
be
In
the
seconde
battayle
,
Brutus
was
slayne
also
,
and
an
infynyte
noumber
of
the
Nobylytye
,
whyche
Thus
when
warres
were
pacified
throughe
the
whole
world
,
Octanian
Augustus
retourned
to
Rome
in
the
twelfthe
yeare
after
that
hee
was
firste
created
Consul
,
and
from
that
tyme
he
gouerned
the
Romaine
Empire
him selfe
alone
,
by
the
space
of
foure
and
forty
yeres
.
For
duryng
the
other
twelue
yeres
before
,
he
administred
it
ioyntlye
together
wyth
Antonius
and
Lepidus
.
So
from
the
In
the
.xxiii.
yere
of
his
raigne
,
hee
deceased
in
Campania
with
the
great
After
him
succeaded
Caius
Cesar
,
After
him
succeded
Claudius
,
vncle
by
the
fathers
side
to
Caligula
,
and
sonne
to
Drusus
:
(
vnto
whyche
Claudius
,
there
was
a
mooste
honorable
After
him
,
succeaded
Nero
,
who
And
when
he
had
slaine
hys
owne
brother
,
his
wife
,
and
his
mother
,
he
set
the
citye
of
Rome
on
fire
,
that
he
The
Parthians
did
berefte
hym
of
Armenia
,
and
broughte
the
Romain
armies
vnder
subiectyon
.
How
be
it
,
there
were
two
Prouinces
created
during
his
raigne
,
Pontus
Polemoniacus
,
Afterward
,
Sergius
Galba
succeded
When
Otho
had
thus
slayne
Galba
,
he
inuaded
the
Empyre
,
and
detained
In
his
Empire
he
could
not
shew
anye
greate
experimente
of
hys
doynges
,
for
that
at
the
same
time
that
he
slew
Galba
,
Vitellius
was
made
Emperoure
by
th
armyes
of
the
Germaynes
,
(
who
attempted
battayle
agaynst
hym
.
And
Otho
was
discomfited
in
a
very
lighte
skirmish
at
Bebriacus
,
(
notwythstandinge
that
hee
had
with
hym
a
great
band
of
men
,
)
where
hee
slewe
hym selfe
,
whome
when
hys
Souldyoures
requested
,
that
hee
woulde
not
so
lyghtlye
despayre
Then
Vitellius
obtained
the
Empire
,
After
him
succeaded
Vespasiane
,
who
was
created
Emperour
at
Palestina
:
And
lyke
as
hee
dyd
wyth
earnest
meanes
and
diligence
,
studye
to
gather
it
together
,
so
dyd
he
verye
cyrcumspectlye
distribute
the
same
abrode
,
espetiallye
to
suche
as
hadde
great
nede
there
of
.
So
that
vnnethe
any
man
canne
fynde
eyther
greater
liberalitye
,
or
more
iustly
employed
of
anye
Prince
that
euer
was
before
his
tyme
.
He
was
verye
pacyent
and
gentle
:
In
so
muche
that
he
woulde
not
lightlye
punyshe
anye
suche
as
In
the
tyme
of
hys
Empyre
,
Iudea
and
Ierusalem
,
the
mooste
famouse
and
notable
Cities
of
Palestina
,
were
annexed
to
the
Romaine
Empire
.
Moreouer
he
reduced
Achasa
,
Licia
,
Rhodus
,
Bizantium
,
(
whiche
is
nowe
called
Constantinople
,
)
and
Samos
,
whiche
before
wer
free
cities
,
)
and
likewise
Trachea
,
Cilicia
,
Thracia
and
Comagenes
which
were
vnder
the
dominion
of
sondrye
kinges
,
suche
as
were
frendes
to
the
Romaines
,
into
the
fourme
of
Prouinces
.
He
would
quickly
forget
displeasures
and
grudges
of
minde
.
He
woulde
pacientlye
suffer
and
heare
the
rebukes
and
tauntes
of
Philosophers
,
and
of
those
whyche
pleaded
mennes
causes
tofore
him
.
But
hee
was
an
earnest
reformer
of
Martiall
pollicy
.
He
and
hys
sonne
Titus
triumphed
He
had
with
suche
obseruation
di●gentlye
marked
the
naituityes
and
byrthes
of
his
sonnes
,
that
when
son
drye
conspiratyes
were
pretended
againste
him
and
were
deseried
,
hee
When
he
was
throughe
thys
demeaninge
hym selfe
passyngly
well
beloued
of
all
men
,
he
fell
sicke
and
died
at
the
same
Manor
place
where
hys
father
dyd
,
after
that
hee
hadde
At
length
,
beinge
abhorred
and
detested
of
all
menne
for
diuers
hys
wycked
doinges
,
hee
was
slayne
in
¶
The
eyghte
boke
of
the
Breuiary
of
Eutropius
.
IN
the
eyght
hundreth
&
fifty
yeare
after
the
building
For
after
the
deathe
of
Domitianus
that
deadlye
tiraunt
,
Nerua
succeaded
:
a
manne
whyche
in
hys
priuate
life
,
behaued
hym selfe
verye
soberlye
,
and
yet
was
he
both
stoute
and
manfull
.
He
was
descended
but
of
a
meane
line
of
nobilitye
.
●y
the
procur
ement
of
Petronius
Secundus
,
who
was
captayne
of
the
garde
,
and
Parthenius
whyche
was
he
that
slew
Domitianus
,
he
was
chosen
Emperor
,
beinge
then
berye
aged
.
He
demeaned
hym selfe
very
vprightlye
and
curtuously
.
He
prouided
very
●ire
unispectlye
for
the
weale
publique
,
by
adopting
Traianus
to
hys
sonne
.
Nerua
After
him
succeded
Vlpius
Traianus
Crinitus
,
who
was
born
at
Italica
in
Spayne
,
whose
parentage
was
more
auncient
of
time
then
noble
of
birthe
.
His
father
was
fyrste
Consul
:
them
after
he
became
to
haue
gouernment
of
thother
Agripina
a
city
in
Fraunce
.
He
gouerned
the
weale
publique
in
suche
sort
,
that
he
might
worthelye
be
preferred
aboue
all
other
Princes
.
He
was
one
of
passyng
great
ciuility
and
stoutnesse
wythal
.
Hee
enlarged
bothe
in
lengthe
and
bredthe
,
the
borders
and
marches
of
the
Romaine
Empire
,
whyche
sithe
the
tyme
of
Augustus
,
was
rather
but
defended
and
onlye
conserued
,
then
worthely
augmented
.
He
repaired
those
cities
which
were
ruinous
and
fallen
in
decaye
on
the
farther
side
of
Rheine
in
Germany
.
He
subdued
Dacia
,
and
vanquished
Decibalus
.
Hee
created
a
Prouince
on
the
farther
side
of
Danubius
,
in
those
parties
where
as
now
the
Taiphalianes
inhabite
.
That
Prouince
extended
to
a
thousand
miles
in
cixcuit
.
He
recouered
Armenia
,
which
the
Parthians
had
won
,
and
slewe
Pharnaces
the
Sirian
who
deteined
it
.
He
appoynted
one
to
be
king
ouer
the
Albanes
.
Hee
receiued
vnder
obeysaunce
,
the
kynges
of
the
Spaniardes
,
the
Moscouites
,
the
Bosphoranes
,
the
Arabiaues
,
the
Dsdroenes
,
and
of
the
inhabitaunts
of
Cholchos
.
He
conquered
the
Adiabenes
and
Marchomedes
.
He
subdued
Antemusiū
a
greate
region
of
Persia
.
He
wanne
Seleucia
,
Ctesiphontes
,
Babilone
,
and
Edissios
,
and
broughte
that
countrey
in
subiection
vnto
the
borders
of
India
,
and
marched
still
forwarde
,
vntill
he
came
to
the
redde
sea
,
where
he
founded
three
Prouinces
,
Armenia
,
Assiria
,
and
Mesopotamia
:
together
He
went
oftentimes
to
hys
frendes
houses
to
salute
the●
and
visit
them
if
they
were
sicke
and
diseased
.
If
they
feasted
one
an
other
,
he
woulde
also
banket
amonge
them
,
without
putting
anye
difference
betwene
them
and
hym selfe
.
Often
woulde
he
ride
wyth
them
in
theyr
chariottes
.
He
would
Meuer
harme
anye
Senator
,
nor
commit
anye
thinge
contrarye
to
iustice
,
for
the
augmenting
of
his
treasoure
.
He
vsed
greate
liberalitye
towardes
all
menne
.
Bothe
openlye
and
secreatlye
enryched
hee
all
personnes
,
and
aduaunced
to
honoures
diuers
suche
as
he
hadde
but
very
small
acquayntaunce
and
familiaritye
wythall
.
He
buylte
in
manner
a
whole
worlde
hym selfe
.
He
enfraunchised
manye
cities
.
In
fine
,
he
did
nothinge
,
but
it
was
very
quietly
done
,
and
voyde
of
all
trouble
.
For
during
all
hys
whole
raigne
,
there
was
but
onlye
one
Senatour
condempned
,
whome
the
residue
〈◊〉
the
Senate
adiudged
to
deathe
,
vnwittynge
to
Traianus
.
For
whyche
cause
,
he
was
throughe
al
the
whole
worlde
reputed
of
all
men
most
lyke
to
a
God
.
So
that
both
whilest
he
ye●
When
Traianus
was
deceassed
,
Elius
Adrianus
was
created
Emperoure
,
This
Adrianus
enuyinge
at
the
glorye
of
Traianus
,
yelded
vppe
the
keepinge
of
those
three
Prouynces
whyche
Traianvs
hadde
annexed
to
the
city
of
Rome
,
and
remouing
hys
armye●
from
Assiria
,
Mesopotamia
,
and
Armenia
,
hee
mineded
that
hys
Empire
shuld
not
haue
extended
any
further
that
way
,
than
to
the
riuer
Euphrates
.
But
when
hee
purposed
to
geue
ouer
Dacia
also
,
which
then
the
Romaines
kept
,
his
frendes
disswaded
him
from
that
(
fearinge
leaste
by
that
meanes
,
many
Romain
citizens
shuld
haue
ben
endangered
to
fal
in
to
the
handes
of
the
Barbarians
.
)
For
Traianus
after
that
he
had
subdued
Dacia
,
)
remoued
thither
great
plenty
of
people
,
whome
he
assembled
together
throughe
all
the
Romayne
Empire
and
dominion
,
to
inhabyte
there
,
and
manure
that
lande
.
For
that
Dacia
was
through
the
continuall
warres
of
Decibalus
,
become
now
voide
of
inhabitauntes
,
and
cleane
wythout
strength
,
He
had
peace
during
the
whole
time
of
his
Empyre
.
Only
one
battail
waged
he
and
that
Nexte
after
him
,
Marcus
Antonius
Theese
two
were
bothe
of
one
kindred
and
aliaunce
.
For
why
,
Verus
Annius
Antoninus
espoused
the
daughter
of
Marcus
Antoninus
,
and
Marcus
Antoninus
,
was
sonne
in
lawe
to
Antoninus
Pius
,
by
meane
of
his
wyfe
Galeria
Faustina
the
yonger
,
which
was
his
sisters
daughter
,
and
cosen
germaine
to
hym
.
They
waged
battayle
agaynste
the
Parthianes
,
whyche
neuer
erste
Verus
Antonius
tooke
on
him
that
viage
,
and
staying
for
a
time
in
Antioche
,
and
in
the
borders
of
Armenia
,
hee
atcheued
sondrye
and
those
worthy
feates
there
,
by
meane
of
his
captaines
.
He
wan
Seleucia
a
verye
Where
vppon
when
by
the
space
of
three
yeares
continuallye
wythoute
intermissyon
,
he
hadde
continued
his
battayle
at
Carnuntum
,
he
finyshed
at
length
his
battayl
against
He
slewe
there
many
thousandes
of
men
:
and
when
he
had
deliuered
the
Hungarians
forth
of
bondage
,
he
triumphed
againe
at
Rome
wyth
hys
Nexte
after
him
Saluius
Iulianus
got
the
Empire
,
a
noble
manne
He
diffamed
and
prostituted
himself
to
all
kinde
of
shame
and
reproche
.
He
liued
very
vnchastly
and
filthily
.
And
about
two
yeares
and
.viii.
monethes
afterward
.
Hee
was
slaine
in
After
him
,
Aurelius
Alexander
be
¶
The
ninthe
booke
of
the
Breuiary
of
Eutropius
.
AFter
that
Aurelius
And
toke
his
viage
from
thence
into
these
parts
,
he
waged
battel
against
the
During
the
time
of
their
Empire
,
After
him
Lucinius
Valerianus
,
who
had
the
gouernment
of
Rhoetia
and
Norseus
,
and
was
lieuetenaunt
Afterward
geuing
himself
wholy
ouer
to
wantonnesse
and
ryot
from
thence
forth
he
gouerned
the
weal
publique
,
with
exceadinge
great
cowardise
,
so
that
things
fell
into
passynge
greate
desperation
.
The
Almaines
when
they
had
despoiled
Fraunce
,
In
this
meane
space
,
Galienus
&
Valerianus
were
slaine
at
Millaine
,
in
the
ninthe
yere
of
their
raign
,
and
Claudius
succeaded
after
them
,
who
was
chosen
by
the
souldiors
,
and
by
Next
after
Quintilius
brother
to
that
same
Claudius
,
was
by
the
whole
consent
of
the
souldiours
nominated
eripe
me
his
muicte
malis
(
which
is
)
.
Deliuer
me
forth
of
these
miseries
thou
victoryous
,
and
inuincible
conqueroure
.
He
toke
Zenobia
prisnoner
in
an
exceading
greate
battaile
,
almost
faste
by
Antioche
,
when
he
had
first
slain
her
husbande
Odenatus
:
who
had
nowe
got
all
the
East
partes
vnder
his
dominion
.
And
conueying
all
the
Romaines
●●et●
of
the
Cities
and
Countries
of
Dacia
,
he
planted
them
in
the
myddest
of
Moesia
,
which
is
new
situate
lying
on
the
right
side
of
Danubius
,
where
the
lea
hath
hys
course
,
which
before
lay
more
on
the
lefte
side
.
Hee
was
slain
through
the
treason
of
hys
Next
after
him
,
Tacitus
obtayned
th
empire
,
a
man
of
excedinge
good
Then
Florianus
,
who
succeaded
After
him
Carus
was
created
Augustus
,
who
was
borne
at
Narbona
For
why
,
the
souldioures
whych
folowed
the
horse
liter
wherin
he
was
caried
,
beyng
anoyed
with
the
smel
,
plucking
of
the
coueringes
from
the
bed
,
found
him
dead
,
and
within
short
while
after
vnderstode
how
he
was
slaine
.
In
this
meane
while
,
Carinus
whom
Carus
his
father
(
when
he
made
his
expedition
against
the
Persians
)
had
deputed
Cesar
ouer
Illiria
,
Fraunce
and
Italy
,
gaue
him selfe
ouer
to
all
kinde
of
mischief
.
He
put
diuers
innocents
to
death
for
verye
small
crimes
.
He
forsed
and
defloured
dyuers
noble
mennes
wiues
,
and
harmed
oft
times
such
his
schole
felowes
as
reproued
him
gently
,
and
wyth
faire
woordes
for
certaine
misdemenures
which
he
vsed
in
th
auditory
or
place
wher
they
hard
theyr
lectures
,
throughe
which
occasious
,
he
grewe
to
be
hated
of
all
men
,
and
not
long
after
,
suffred
condigne
punishmentes
for
those
his
factes
.
For
when
the
army
was
retourned
forth
of
Persia
,
after
these
discomfitures
(
that
is
to
saye
,
)
when
they
had
lost
Carus
Augustus
by
lightning
,
and
Numerianus
Cesar
by
treason
,
they
created
Dioclesianus
He
get
moreouer
great
plenty
of
the
Persians
treasoure
,
and
forst
the
king
to
flee
to
the
vttermost
desert
places
of
his
Empire
.
Thus
returning
with
great
ioy
he
was
again
receiued
very
honorably
by
Dioclesiane
,
who
taried
him
in
Mesopotamia
with
ayde
there
,
redy
if
nede
hadde
bene
.
After
that
they
bothe
together
,
and
eache
of
them
alone
,
waged
sondrye
battailes
.
They
subdued
the
Carpianes
and
the
Basternes
,
and
conquered
the
Sarmatians
.
From
amonge
whiche
nations
,
they
brought
a
great
noumber
of
such
as
they
had
taken
prisonners
,
and
placed
them
in
the
borders
of
the
Romaine
Empire
.
Dioclesianus
ordered
his
doinges
verye
cyrcumspectly
,
as
one
that
was
of
a
very
sharpe
wit
,
and
suche
one
as
could
¶
The
tenthe
booke
of
the
Breuiary
of
Eutropius
.
WHen
they
hadd
Aboute
the
same
time
,
Licinius
was
created
Emperoure
by
Galerius
.
At
this
time
,
Maxentius
exercised
great
tiranny
vpon
diuers
the
peres
of
his
Empire
.
Not
longe
after
that
,
Maximinus
attempted
warresin
the
But
when
he
apperceiued
that
he
was
like
to
be
discomfited
,
he
preuented
the
mischiefs
imminent
,
by
dying
sodenly
After
that
Iulianus
was
Emperoure
,
who
wyth
greate
preparation
He
delt
very
vprightly
with
th
inhabitauntes
of
the
Prouinces
,
whyche
were
vnder
the
Romaynes
.
He
charged
his
subiectes
to
pay
as
few
tares
and
tributes
as
mighte
be
.
Hee
was
very
ciuil
and
curtuous
to
all
men
.
He
sought
litle
to
augment
hys
own
tresure
.
He
was
very
desirous
to
attaine
glory
and
renoum
:
In
so
much
that
he
did
affect
it
sometimes
wyth
out
measure
.
He
was
an
exceadinge
But
Iouinianus
(
dreadynge
that
he
shoulde
haue
beene
supplanted
in
the
Empire
,
)
helde
hym selfe
styll
in
the
East
partes
,
geuing
in
the
mean
time
small
hede
or
regarde
to
his
r●nowme
.
After
that
,
as
he
tooke
his
iourne●
from
thence
to
warde
Illiria
,
he
dye
sodenlye
in
the
borders
of
Galacia
one
who
in
no
other
his
affairs
was
eyther
slouthfull
or
neglygente
,
or
wanted
any
wyt
.
Of
the
hys
so
sodayn
deathe
,
dyuers
coniectured
diuersly
.
Some
thoughte
that
he
tooke
it
by
eatynge
rawe
meate
,
for
in
deede
he
had
surfited
ouer
nyght
.
Other
some
supposed
that
it
proceaded
throughe
the
vnholsome
ayre
of
the
chamber
,
whyche
for
that
that
it
was
newlye
pargeted
wyth
lyme
,
was
verye
noysome
to
him
lyinge
there
in
.
And
other
some
adiudged
that
it
●ame
by
reason
of
the
vnmeasurable
burnynge
of
charcoles
in
his
chamber
,
of
whyche
,
for
the
it
was
extreme
colde
weather
,
hee
wylled
there
shuld
be
burned
great
plenty
.
He
de●eased
in
the
.vii.
yere
of
his
raigne
,
●he
.xxiiii.
of
the
Kalends
of
March
,
in
ye●xxiii
.
yere
of
his
age
:
&
throughe
the
〈◊〉
neuolens
of
them
which
succeded
●im
in
the
Empire
,
was
canonised
.
He
was
geuen
very
muche
to
ciuility
,
and
was
by
nature
very
liberall
.
Suche
was
the
state
of
the
Romaine
Empire
,
at
what
time
the
sayd
Iouinianus
,
and
Verouianus
gouerned
it
(
which
was
)
in
the
M.
C.
and
.xix.
yere
after
the
first
building
of
the
city
of
Rome
.
(
⸫
)
¶
Thus
endeth
the
Breuiary
of
Eutropius
.
¶
Imprinted
at
London
in
Fletestrete
,
near
to
Saynt
Dunstons
Churche
,
by
Thomas
Marshe
.