THE
FIRST
BOOKE
,
OF
THE
WORTHIE
AND
MEMOrable
Histories
of
the
great
and
marueilous
Iudgements
of
God
sent
vpon
the
World
,
for
their
misdeeds
against
the
Commandements
of
the
first
and
second
Table
.
CHAP.
I.
❧
As
touching
the
Corruption
and
Peruersitie
of
this
World
,
how
great
it
is
.
EVen
as
one
that
taketh
pleasure
to
behold
a
pleasant
and
delightsome
place
,
a
peece
of
ground
couered
and
painted
with
all
manner
of
fine
flowers
,
a
garden
decked
,
and
as
it
were
clothed
with
exquisite
plants
and
fruitfull
trees
,
is
much
grieued
so
soone
as
he
perceiueth
all
this
beautie
and
pleasure
suddenly
to
be
withered
and
scortched
by
the
violence
of
some
outragious
tempest
:
or
if
he
be
constrained
to
cast
his
eies
from
them
vpon
some
other
place
by
,
all
craggie
and
parched
,
full
of
briars
and
brambles
.
In
like
sort
,
a
man
can
not
choose
,
but
be
sore
grieued
and
discontent
when
he
beholdeth
on
the
one
side
the
wholsome
light
of
the
sunne
,
whereby
the
heauens
do
many
waies
distill
their
fauours
vpon
this
world
,
gloriously
to
aduance
it selfe
:
on
the
other
side
,
he
perceiueth
such
an
army
of
thick
clouds
and
palpable
darknesse
,
from
whence
such
a
number
of
disorders
and
hurliburlies
doe
arise
that
most
strangely
disfigure
the
face
of
the
whole
world
:
when
that
he
which
ought
to
be
gentle
&
peaceable
,
is
become
mischieuous
and
quarellous
:
and
in
stead
of
being
true
&
single
hearted
,
disloiall
and
deceitfull
:
instead
of
being
modest
,
well
gouerned
,
and
courteous
;
is
proud
,
cruell
,
and
dissolute
:
in
steed
of
seruing
of
God
,
serueth
his
owne
humours
and
affections
:
which
kind
of
behauiour
is
but
too
common
and
vsuall
:
for
there
is
not
any
kind
of
wickednesse
which
is
not
found
in
this
rancke
.
Vngodlinesse
vomiteth
vp
his
furie
together
with
iniustice
,
in
those
men
of
whom
it
is
said
:
There
is
none
that
vnderstandeth
or
seeketh
after
God
,
their
throte
is
an
open
sepulchre
,
they
vse
deceit
in
their
tongues
,
the
poysen
of
aspes
is
vnder
their
lippes
,
they
haue
nothing
in
their
mouthes
but
cursing
and
bitternesse
,
their
feet
are
swift
to
shead
blood
:
destruction
and
miserie
is
in
their
waies
:
and
they
haue
not
knowne
the
way
of
peace
;
In
summe
,
the
feare
of
God
is
not
before
their
eies
.
From
whence
it
commeth
,
that
being
not
restrained
by
any
bridle
,
like
vntamed
colts
broke
loose
,
they
giue
the
full
swindge
to
their
bold
and
violent
affections
,
running
fiercely
to
all
filthinesse
and
mischiefe
:
and
being
thus
enraged
,
some
of
them
with
horrible
blasphemies
(
most
villainously
)
speake
and
doe
in
despite
of
God
,
and
denie
him
that
created
them
and
sent
them
into
the
world
:
others
are
not
ashamed
to
be
open
forswearers
of
themselues
,
violating
and
breaking
euerie
promise
without
regard
of
faith
or
honestie
.
Others
as
they
are
of
cruell
and
bloudie
natures
,
so
they
doe
not
cease
to
exercise
these
their
natures
by
outragious
practises
:
to
some
of
them
whoredomes
and
adulteries
are
no
more
esteemed
then
as
sports
and
pastimes
,
whereof
they
boast
and
vaunt
themselues
:
to
another
sort
,
cousenings
,
extortions
,
and
robberies
are
ordinarie
exercises
,
whereof
they
make
their
best
occupations
.
All
which
euils
are
so
common
and
so
vsual
at
this
time
amongst
men
,
that
the
world
seemeth
truly
to
be
nothing
else
but
an
Ocean
full
of
hideous
monsters
:
or
a
thicke
forrest
full
of
theeues
and
robbers
:
or
some
horrible
wildernesse
wherein
the
inhabitants
of
the
earth
,
being
sauage
and
vnnaturall
,
void
of
sence
and
reason
,
are
transformed
into
bruite
beasts
;
some
like
tygres
or
lyons
,
others
like
wolues
or
foxes
,
others
like
dogs
and
swine
:
Oh
sinfull
nation
(
would
the
man
of
God
say
if
he
liued
at
this
houre
)
a
people
laden
with
iniquitie
,
a
seed
of
the
wicked
,
corrupt
children
,
they
haue
forsaken
the
Lord
,
they
haue
prouoked
the
holy
one
of
Israell
to
anger
.
The
noble
and
high
minded
are
prowd
to
disdaine
the
lower
,
and
readie
alwaies
to
smite
them
;
making
their
countenance
pale
with
vices
and
othes
:
the
magistrate
partial
and
full
of
bribes
,
ouerthroweth
equity
:
the
marchant
couetous
and
desirous
of
gaine
,
remembreth
not
his
integrity
:
nor
the
labourer
his
simplicitie
.
And
so
vertue
in
most
men
lieth
buried
,
pietie
banished
,
iustice
oppressed
,
and
honestie
troden
vnder
foot
:
in
such
sort
that
all
things
being
as
it
were
ouerthrowne
and
turned
vpside
downe
,
men
speake
euill
of
good
,
and
good
of
euill
,
accounting
darkenesse
light
,
and
light
darkenesse
:
sower
sweet
,
and
sweet
sower
.
And
by
such
disorder
it
commeth
to
passe
,
that
the
most
vertuous
are
despised
,
whilest
naughty
packs
and
vicious
fellowes
are
esteemed
and
made
much
of
.
CHAP.
II.
What
the
cause
is
of
the
great
ouerflow
of
Vice
in
this
age
.
IF
wee
would
consider
from
whence
it
is
that
this
great
disorder
and
corruption
of
manners
doth
arise
,
wee
should
find
especially
that
it
is
because
the
world
euery
day
groweth
worse
&
worse
according
to
the
saying
of
our
Sauiour
and
redeemer
(
Christ
Iesus
the
sonne
of
God
)
That
in
the
latter
daies
(
which
are
these
wherein
we
liue
)
Iniquitie
shall
be
encreased
.
CHAP.
III.
That
great
men
which
will
not
abide
to
bee
admonished
of
their
faults
cannot
escape
punishment
by
the
hand
of
God
.
IN
this
poore
and
miserable
estate
euery
man
rocketh
himselfe
asleepe
,
and
flattereth
his
owne
humour
,
euerie
man
pursueth
his
accustomed
course
of
life
,
with
an
obstinat
mind
to
do
euill
:
yea
many
of
those
that
haue
power
&
authoritie
ouer
others
,
according
as
they
are
endued
and
persuaded
with
a
foolish
conceit
of
themselues
,
make
themselues
beleeue
that
for
them
euerie
thing
is
lawfull
,
and
that
they
may
do
whatsoeuer
they
please
,
neuer
imagining
that
they
shall
giue
vp
an
account
of
their
actions
to
receiue
anie
chastisement
or
correction
for
them
,
euen
as
though
there
were
no
God
at
al
that
did
behold
them
:
&
being
thus
abused
by
this
vaine
and
fickle
securitie
,
they
swimme
in
their
sinnes
,
and
plunge
themselues
ouer
head
and
eares
in
all
kind
of
sensualitie
:
giuing
heartie
welcome
and
entertainment
to
all
that
approoue
and
applaud
their
manners
,
and
that
studie
to
feed
and
please
their
humour
.
As
contrariwise
none
lesse
welcome
vnto
them
,
then
they
that
tell
them
of
their
faults
,
and
contradict
them
neuer
so
little
:
for
they
cannot
abide
in
anie
case
to
be
reprooued
whatsoeuer
they
doe
.
And
now
a
daies
euerie
base
companion
will
forsooth
storme
and
fume
as
soon
,
if
he
be
reproued
of
a
fault
,
as
if
he
had
receiued
the
greatest
wrong
in
the
world
:
so
much
is
euerie
man
pleased
with
himselfe
,
and
puffed
vp
with
his
owne
vices
and
foolish
vanities
.
And
what
should
a
man
doe
in
this
case
?
It
is
as
hard
to
redresse
these
great
mischiefs
as
if
we
should
goe
about
to
stop
and
hinder
the
course
of
a
mightie
streame
,
there
where
the
bancke
or
causey
is
broken
downe
:
if
it
be
not
by
applying
extreme
&
desperate
medicines
,
as
to
desperate
diseases
,
which
are
as
it
were
giuen
ouer
by
the
Phisition
,
and
to
the
which
a
light
purgation
will
do
no
good
.
For
as
for
admonitions
and
warnings
,
they
are
not
a
whit
regarded
:
but
they
that
giue
them
are
derided
or
laughed
to
scorne
or
reuiled
for
their
labors
.
What
must
we
therefore
do
?
It
is
necessarie
that
we
assay
by
all
means
to
bring
these
men
(
if
it
be
possible
)
to
some
modestie
&
fear
of
God
,
which
if
it
cannot
be
done
by
willing
and
gentle
means
,
force
and
violence
must
be
vsed
,
to
plucke
them
out
of
the
fire
of
Gods
wrath
,
to
the
end
they
be
not
consumed
:
if
not
all
yet
at
least
those
that
are
not
growne
to
that
height
of
stubbornes
,
and
of
whome
ther●●s
yet
left
some
hope
of
amendment
.
For
euen
as
when
a
captaine
hath
not
preuailed
by
summoning
a
citie
to
yeeld
vp
it selfe
,
he
by
and
by
placeth
his
canon
against
their
wals
,
to
put
them
in
feare
;
In
like
sort
must
wee
bring
foorth
against
the
prowd
and
high
minded
men
of
this
world
,
an
armie
of
Gods
terrible
iudgements
throwne
downe
by
his
mighty
and
puissant
hand
vpon
the
wicked
,
more
terrible
and
fearefull
,
then
all
the
roaring
canons
or
double
canons
in
the
world
,
whereby
the
most
prowd
are
destroied
and
consumed
euen
in
this
life
,
all
their
pride
and
power
how
great
soeuer
it
bee
being
not
able
to
turne
backe
the
vengeance
of
God
from
lighting
vpon
their
heads
to
their
vtter
destruction
and
confusion
.
As
it
is
manifest
by
infinit
examples
.
Now
because
that
the
nature
of
men
is
fleshly
and
giuen
to
be
touched
with
things
that
are
presented
before
their
faces
,
or
hath
beene
done
before
time
,
it
is
a
more
forcible
motiue
to
stirre
them
vp
,
then
that
which
as
yet
cannot
be
made
manifest
,
but
is
to
come
.
Therefore
I
purpose
here
to
set
downe
the
great
&
fearfull
iudgements
,
wherewith
God
hath
alreadie
plagued
manie
in
this
world
,
especially
them
of
high
degree
:
whose
example
will
serue
for
a
glasse
,
both
for
these
that
liue
now
,
or
shall
liue
hereafter
.
And
to
the
end
that
the
iustice
of
God
may
more
clearely
appear
and
shew
it selfe
in
such
strange
euents
,
before
wee
goe
any
further
we
will
run
ouer
certaine
necessarie
points
concerning
this
matter
.
CHAP.
IIII.
How
the
iustice
of
God
is
more
euidently
declared
vpon
the
mighty
ones
of
this
world
,
then
vpon
any
other
and
the
cause
why
.
SEeing
then
that
these
men
are
more
guiltie
and
culpable
of
sinne
then
any
other
,
they
deserue
so
much
a
more
grieuous
punishment
,
by
how
much
their
misdeedes
are
more
grieuous
:
There
is
a
God
that
iudgeth
the
earth
,
(
as
the
Psalmist
saith
)
who
as
he
is
benigne
and
mercifull
towards
those
that
fear
and
obey
him
,
so
he
will
not
suffer
iniquitie
to
goe
vnpunished
:
This
is
he
(
saith
the
Prophet
)
that
executeth
iustice
mercie
and
iudgement
vpon
the
earth
:
for
if
it
be
the
dutie
of
an
earthly
prince
to
exercise
not
onely
clemencie
and
gentlenesse
,
but
also
sharpenesse
and
seueritie
,
thereby
by
punishing
and
chastising
malefactors
to
suppresse
all
disorders
in
the
Commonwealth
;
then
it
is
verie
necessarie
that
the
iustice
of
our
great
God
to
whom
all
soueraine
rule
and
authority
belongeth
,
and
who
is
the
Iudge
of
the
whole
world
,
should
either
manifest
it selfe
in
this
world
,
or
in
the
world
to
come
:
and
chiefly
towardes
them
which
are
in
the
highest
places
of
account
,
who
being
more
hardned
and
bold
to
sinne
,
doe
as
boldly
exempt
themselues
from
all
corrections
and
punishments
due
vnto
them
,
being
altogether
vnwilling
to
bee
subiect
to
any
order
of
iustice
or
law
whatsoeuer
:
and
therefore
by
how
much
the
more
they
cannot
bee
punished
by
man
,
and
that
humane
lawes
can
lay
no
hold
vpon
them
,
so
much
the
rather
God
himselfe
becommeth
executioner
of
his
owne
iustice
vpon
their
pates
:
and
in
such
sort
,
that
euery
man
may
perceiue
his
hand
to
be
vpon
them
.
Let
anie
aduersitie
or
affliction
light
vpon
a
man
of
low
degree
,
or
which
is
poore
and
desolate
,
no
man
considereth
of
it
rightly
,
but
talking
thereof
,
men
cease
not
to
impute
the
cause
of
this
poore
soules
miserie
either
to
pouertie
or
want
of
succour
,
or
some
other
such
like
cause
.
Therefore
if
anie
such
be
in
griefe
,
or
by
chance
fallen
into
some
pit
,
and
drowned
,
or
robbed
&
killed
in
the
way
by
theeues
:
straight
way
this
is
the
saying
of
the
world
,
That
it
commeth
thus
to
passe
either
because
hee
was
alone
without
companie
,
or
destitute
of
helpe
,
or
not
well
looked
to
and
regarded
:
and
thus
they
passe
ouer
the
matter
.
But
as
concerning
great
men
,
when
they
are
anie
way
afflicted
,
no
such
pretences
or
excuses
can
be
alleaged
:
seeing
they
want
neither
seruants
to
attend
vpon
them
,
nor
any
other
means
of
help
to
succour
them
:
therefore
when
these
men
are
ouertaken
and
surprised
with
anie
great
euill
,
which
by
no
meanes
they
can
eschew
,
&
when
their
bold
and
wicked
enterprises
,
are
pursued
&
concluded
with
strange
and
lamentable
euents
,
in
this
wee
must
acknowledge
an
especiall
hand
of
God
,
who
can
entangle
and
pull
downe
the
prowdest
and
arrogantest
he
that
liues
,
&
those
whom
the
world
feareth
to
meddle
with
all
:
these
prowd
gallants
are
they
against
whom
God
displaieth
his
banner
of
power
more
openly
then
against
meaner
and
baser
persons
:
because
these
poore
soules
find
oftentimes
to
their
paines
that
they
are
punished
without
cause
,
and
tormented
and
vexed
by
those
Tyrants
,
not
hauing
committed
any
offence
at
all
,
to
deserue
it
:
whereas
(
as
Philip
Comine
saith
)
who
dare
be
so
bold
as
to
controll
or
reprehend
a
King
and
his
fauorites
,
or
to
make
inquirie
of
his
misdeedes
:
or
hauing
made
inquisition
of
them
,
who
dare
presume
to
enforme
the
Iudge
thereof
?
Who
dare
stand
vp
to
accuse
them
?
Who
dare
sit
downe
to
iudge
them
?
Nay
who
dare
take
knowledge
of
them
?
And
lastly
,
who
dare
assay
to
punish
them
?
Seeing
then
in
this
case
that
our
worldly
iustice
hath
her
handes
bound
behind
her
from
executing
that
which
is
right
:
it
must
needs
bee
that
the
soueraine
Monarch
of
heauen
and
earth
should
mount
vp
into
his
throne
of
iudgement
,
and
from
thence
giue
his
definitiue
vnchaungeable
sentence
to
deliuer
vp
the
most
guilty
and
hainous
sinners
,
to
those
paines
and
torments
which
they
haue
deserued
;
and
that
after
a
strange
and
extraordinarie
manner
which
may
serue
for
an
example
to
all
others
.
CHAP.
V.
How
all
men
both
by
the
law
of
God
and
Nature
,
are
inexcusable
in
their
sinners
.
NOw
to
the
end
that
no
man
should
pretend
ignorance
for
an
excuse
,
God
hath
bestowed
vpon
euery
one
a
certaine
knowledge
and
iudgement
of
good
and
euill
,
which
being
naturally
engraued
in
the
tables
of
mans
heart
,
is
commonly
called
The
law
of
nature
:
whereby
euery
mans
owne
conscience
giueth
sufficient
testimony
vnto
it selfe
,
when
in
his
most
secret
thoughts
it
either
accuseth
or
excuseth
him
:
for
there
is
not
a
man
liuing
,
which
doth
not
know
in
his
owne
heart
,
that
he
doth
an
euill
deed
when
he
wrongeth
another
,
although
he
had
neuer
bene
instructed
elsewhere
in
that
point
.
So
although
that
in
Tarquinius
Superbus
time
(
Cicero
saith
)
there
was
no
written
law
established
in
Rome
forbidding
the
rauishing
and
deflouring
of
wiues
and
virgines
:
yet
the
wicked
sonne
of
this
Tarquine
was
not
therefore
lesse
guilty
of
an
hainous
crime
,
when
contrary
to
the
law
of
nature
,
hee
violently
robbed
Lucrece
of
her
chastity
:
for
no
man
can
be
ignorant
that
it
is
a
most
grieuous
crime
to
lay
siege
to
the
chastitie
of
a
maried
woman
,
with
such
outrage
:
and
so
the
whole
people
of
Rome
did
esteeme
of
it
as
a
crime
most
wicked
,
strange
,
and
intollerable
,
and
worthy
of
grieuous
punishment
.
Euery
man
knoweth
thus
much
,
that
he
ought
not
to
do
that
to
another
,
which
he
would
not
another
should
do
to
him
:
which
sentence
the
Emperour
Seuerus
made
alwaies
to
be
spoken
aloud
and
declared
by
the
sound
of
the
trumpet
,
in
the
way
of
aduertisement
,
as
often
as
punishment
was
taken
vpon
any
offender
,
as
if
it
were
a
generall
law
pertaining
to
all
men
.
This
is
that
equity
&
iustice
,
which
ought
to
be
ingrafted
in
our
hearts
,
&
wherof
nature
herself
is
the
schoolmistresse
:
from
this
fountaine
all
humane
and
ciuill
lawes
are
deriued
:
if
we
had
not
rather
say
that
they
are
deriued
from
that
true
spring
of
equity
,
which
is
in
the
law
of
God
,
which
law
he
hath
giuen
for
a
plaine
and
familiar
manifestation
of
his
will
,
concerning
iust
,
holy
,
and
reasonable
things
,
touching
the
seruice
,
honour
,
and
glorie
which
is
due
vnto
himselfe
,
and
the
mutuall
dutie
friendship
and
good
will
,
which
men
owe
one
to
another
:
whereunto
he
exhorteth
and
entiseth
euery
one
by
faire
and
gratious
promises
,
and
forbiddeth
the
contrarie
,
by
great
and
terrible
threatnings
,
(
so
gentle
&
mercifull
is
he
towards
vs
and
desirous
of
our
good
.
)
This
is
that
law
which
was
published
before
the
face
of
more
then
six
hundred
thousand
persons
,
with
the
mighty
&
resounding
noise
of
trumpet
,
with
earthquake
,
fire
,
and
smoke
,
&
with
thunders
&
lightnings
to
make
men
more
attentiue
to
heare
&
more
prepared
to
receiue
it
with
all
humility
,
feare
,
&
reuerence
,
&
also
to
put
them
in
mind
,
that
if
they
were
disobedient
&
rebellious
,
he
wanted
no
power
and
ability
to
punish
them
,
for
he
hath
lightning
,
thunder
,
&
fire
,
prepared
instruments
to
execute
his
iust
vengeance
,
which
no
creature
vnder
heauen
is
able
to
auoid
,
when
by
the
obstinat
transgression
of
wicked
men
,
he
is
prouoked
to
anger
and
indignation
against
them
.
This
is
that
holy
law
which
hath
ben
set
forth
by
the
Prophets
:
by
the
rule
whereof
all
their
warnings
,
exhortings
,
and
reprouings
,
haue
ben
squared
:
to
this
law
the
onely
begotten
sonne
of
God
our
sauiour
and
redeemer
Iesus
Christ
conformed
his
most
holy
doctrine
;
bringing
men
to
the
true
vse
and
obseruation
thereof
,
from
which
they
had
declined
,
and
whereof
he
is
the
end
,
the
scope
,
and
perfect
accomplishment
:
so
that
so
far
it
is
that
a
Christian
man
may
be
ignorant
of
it
,
and
haue
it
in
contempt
,
that
none
can
be
counted
and
reputed
a
true
Christian
,
if
he
frame
not
his
life
by
the
rule
thereof
,
if
not
fully
,
yet
at
least
as
farforth
as
he
is
able
:
otherwise
,
what
a
shame
and
reproch
is
this
for
men
to
call
themselues
by
the
name
of
Gods
children
,
Christians
,
and
Catholicks
,
and
yet
to
do
euery
thing
clean
contrarie
to
the
will
of
God
,
to
make
no
reckoning
of
his
law
,
to
lead
a
dissolute
and
disordered
life
,
and
to
bee
as
euill
(
if
not
worse
)
then
the
vilest
miscreants
and
infidels
in
the
world
?
God
willeth
and
requireth
that
he
alone
should
bee
worshipped
and
praied
vnto
;
and
yet
the
greater
part
of
the
world
are
idolaters
,
and
full
of
superstition
,
worship
Images
,
stickes
and
stones
,
and
pray
to
creatures
instead
of
the
creator
.
God
forbiddeth
vs
to
sweare
by
his
name
in
vaine
:
and
yet
what
is
more
rife
then
that
?
so
that
a
man
can
heare
nothing
else
but
othes
and
blasphemies
.
Manie
for
the
least
trifle
in
the
world
stick
not
to
sweare
&
forsweare
themselues
.
God
forbiddeth
theft
,
murther
,
adulterie
,
and
false
witnesse
bearing
,
and
yet
nothing
so
common
as
backbitings
,
slanders
,
forgeries
,
false
reports
,
whoredomes
,
cousenings
,
robberies
,
extortions
,
and
all
manner
of
enuies
and
enmities
.
God
hath
commanded
that
we
loue
our
neighbours
as
our selues
:
but
we
in
stead
of
loue
;
hate
,
despise
,
and
seeke
to
procure
the
hurt
and
damage
of
one
another
,
not
regarding
anie
thing
but
our
owne
peculiar
profit
and
aduantage
.
Is
not
this
a
manifest
and
profest
disobedience
,
and
intollerable
rebellion
against
our
maker
?
What
child
is
there
that
is
not
bound
to
honour
and
reuerence
his
father
?
What
seruant
that
is
not
bound
to
obey
his
maister
,
and
to
doe
all
that
hee
shall
will
him
?
What
subiect
that
is
not
tied
in
subiection
to
his
Prince
and
Soueraigne
?
Yet
there
is
not
one
which
will
not
confesse
,
yea
and
sweare
too
with
his
mouth
,
that
God
is
his
Lord
and
father
;
Which
if
it
bee
true
,
what
is
then
the
cause
,
that
instead
of
seruing
and
pleasing
him
,
they
doe
nothing
else
but
displease
and
offend
his
Maiestie
?
Is
not
this
the
way
to
prouoke
his
wrath
,
and
stirre
vp
his
indignation
against
them
?
Is
it
any
maruaile
if
he
be
incensed
with
anger
,
if
he
be
armed
with
reuenge
,
and
send
abroad
his
cruell
scourges
vpon
the
earth
to
strike
and
whip
it
with
all
?
Is
it
any
wonder
if
he
pile
vp
the
wicked
ones
on
heapes
,
and
shoot
out
his
reuengefull
arrows
against
them
,
and
make
them
drunken
with
their
owne
blood
,
and
make
his
sword
of
iustice
as
sharpe
as
a
rasor
,
vengeance
is
mine
(
saith
he
)
and
belongeth
onely
vnto
me
,
whosoeuer
therefore
he
be
that
followeth
the
desires
and
concupiscence
of
his
owne
flesh
,
and
this
wicked
world
,
&
shall
lead
a
life
contrarie
to
the
instruction
and
ordinance
of
the
law
of
God
,
yea
although
he
neuer
heard
thereof
,
yet
is
he
guiltie
thereof
&
worthie
to
be
accursed
;
for
so
much
as
his
owne
conscience
ought
to
serue
for
a
law
vnto
himselfe
,
by
the
which
hee
is
condemned
in
those
euill
actions
which
he
committeth
(
euen
as
Paul
saith
)
all
that
haue
sinned
without
the
law
shall
likewise
perish
without
the
law
.
CHAP.
VI.
How
the
greatest
Monarchs
in
the
world
ought
to
be
subiect
to
the
law
of
God
,
and
consequently
the
lawes
of
man
and
of
nature
.
EVerie
man
confesseth
this
to
be
true
,
That
by
how
much
the
more
benefits
and
dignitie
hee
hath
receiued
from
another
,
by
so
much
is
he
the
more
bounden
and
beholden
to
him
:
now
it
is
so
that
Kings
and
Princes
are
those
vpon
whom
God
hath
bestowed
more
plentifully
his
gifts
and
graces
,
then
vpon
any
other
,
whom
hee
hath
made
as
it
were
his
Lieutenants
in
this
world
:
for
he
hath
extolled
and
placed
them
aboue
others
,
and
bedecked
them
with
honour
,
giuing
them
power
&
authoritie
to
rule
and
raigne
,
by
putting
people
in
subiection
to
them
:
and
therefore
so
much
the
more
are
they
bound
to
reacknowledge
him
againe
,
to
the
end
to
doe
him
all
honour
and
homage
which
is
required
at
their
hands
.
to
serue
the
Lord
euen
with
reuerence
.
This
then
their
high
and
superintendent
estate
,
is
no
priuiledge
to
exempt
them
from
the
subiection
and
obedience
which
they
owe
vnto
God
,
whom
they
ought
to
reuerence
aboue
all
things
.
Ye
Princes
and
high
Lords
(
saith
the
Prophet
)
giue
you
vnto
the
Lord
eternall
glorie
and
strength
:
giue
vnto
him
glorie
due
vnto
his
name
:
and
cast
your selues
before
him
to
doe
him
reuerence
.
If
they
owe
so
much
honour
vnto
God
as
to
their
soueraine
,
then
surely
it
must
follow
,
that
they
ought
to
obey
his
voice
,
and
feare
to
offend
him
;
and
so
much
the
rather
,
because
hee
is
a
great
deale
more
strong
,
and
terrible
then
they
,
able
to
cause
his
horrible
thunderbolts
to
tumble
vpon
their
heads
,
they
being
not
able
once
to
withstand
his
puissance
,
but
constrained
very
often
to
tremble
thereat
.
In
al
that
prescription
and
ordinance
ordained
&
set
downe
by
God
concerning
the
office
of
Kings
,
Antonius
Caracalla
seduced
;
who
hauing
by
her
lasciuious
and
filthy
allurements
,
enticed
her
sonne
in
law
to
lust
,
and
loue
her
,
and
to
desire
her
for
his
wife
,
perswaded
him
that
he
might
bring
his
purpose
to
passe
,
and
that
it
was
lawfull
enough
for
him
if
he
would
,
though
for
other
it
was
vnlawfull
,
seeing
that
he
was
Emperour
,
and
that
it
belongeth
not
to
him
to
receiue
,
but
to
giue
lawes
:
by
which
perswasion
,
that
braue
marriage
was
concluded
and
made
vp
,
contrary
to
the
law
of
nature
and
nations
,
and
to
all
honestie
and
vertue
.
So
it
was
reported
how
Cambyses
tooke
his
owne
sister
to
wife
,
Augustus
Caesar
hauing
kept
in
his
owne
hand
the
office
of
the
Triumuir
ten
yeeres
(
as
Suetonius
testifieth
)
hee
also
vsurped
the
Tribunes
office
and
authority
,
and
that
til
his
dying
day
:
and
likewise
tooke
vpon
him
the
Censureship
,
namely
the
office
of
correcting
and
gouerning
manners
and
lawes
,
if
need
required
:
whose
successours
(
a
man
may
truly
say
for
the
most
part
)
trampled
vnder
their
feete
all
sincere
and
sacred
lawes
,
by
their
notorious
intemperance
,
dissolutenesse
,
and
cruelties
.
And
yet
for
all
this
there
wanted
not
a
parasiticall
lawyer
,
who
to
please
the
Emperour
his
lord
and
master
the
better
,
and
to
vnderprop
,
and
as
it
were
seele
ouer
with
a
faire
shew
that
tyrannicall
gouernment
vsed
by
other
Emperours
,
foisted
in
this
as
a
law
amongst
the
rest
,
Princeps
legibus
solutus
est
,
That
the
prince
was
exempted
from
all
law
.
As
for
that
which
they
alledge
out
of
Aristotles
Politiques
,
maketh
nothing
to
set
a
colour
vpon
this
counterfait
:
for
(
saith
Aristotle
)
if
there
be
any
man
that
excelleth
so
in
vertue
aboue
all
others
,
that
none
is
able
to
compare
with
him
,
that
man
is
to
be
accounted
as
a
God
amongst
men
,
to
whome
no
law
may
be
prescribed
,
because
he
is
a
law
vnto
himselfe
:
all
which
,
I
graunt
to
be
true
,
if
that
which
was
presupposed
could
take
place
:
for
where
no
transgression
is
found
,
there
no
law
is
necessary
:
according
as
Saint
Paul
said
,
The
law
was
not
giuen
for
the
iust
,
but
for
the
vniust
and
offenders
:
but
where
is
it
possible
to
find
such
a
Prince
so
excellent
and
so
vertuous
,
that
standeth
not
in
need
of
some
law
to
be
ruled
by
?
Of
the
like
force
and
strength
is
that
which
is
written
in
the
first
booke
of
Institutions
tit.
2.
the
wordes
are
these
,
The
Princes
pleasure
serueth
for
a
law
,
because
the
whole
bodie
of
the
people
hath
translated
all
their
authoritie
,
power
,
and
iurisdiction
vnto
him
:
this
is
spoken
of
the
Romane
Emperours
,
but
vpon
the
ground
of
so
slender
&
silly
reason
,
that
vpon
so
weake
a
foundation
it
can
neuer
stand
:
for
if
it
be
demanded
,
whether
this
action
of
the
people
of
giuing
ouer
their
right
and
prerogatiue
to
their
Prince
,
be
willing
or
constrained
,
what
answere
will
they
make
?
If
it
be
by
constraint
and
feare
(
as
it
is
indeed
)
who
will
not
iudge
this
vsurping
of
their
libertie
vtterly
vniust
and
tyrannicall
:
when
one
man
shall
arrogate
that
to
himselfe
which
pertaineth
to
manie
,
yea
to
the
whole
bodie
of
the
people
?
And
admit
that
this
reason
was
effectual
:
yet
the
glose
vpon
the
place
saith
very
notably
,
That
the
princes
pleasure
may
be
held
for
a
law
so
far
forth
as
that
which
pleaseth
him
,
be
iust
and
honest
:
giuing
vs
to
know
thus
much
therby
,
that
euerie
will
and
pleasure
of
a
Prince
,
may
not
indifferentlie
be
allowed
for
a
law
if
it
be
in
an
vniust
and
dishonest
action
,
&
contrarie
to
the
rule
of
good
maners
.
Moreouer
it
appeareth
by
the
customes
of
many
ancient
people
,
and
realmes
,
that
Princes
had
neuer
this
license
giuen
them
to
doe
what
they
listed
:
for
let
them
be
neuer
so
mightie
,
yea
as
mighty
as
Darius
,
vnder
whose
raign
,
the
Persian
monarchie
was
abolished
:
yet
he
must
bee
content
(
according
to
the
law
of
the
Medes
and
Persians
)
not
to
bee
able
to
infringe
that
law
which
was
by
the
aduise
of
his
Peeres
and
priuie
counsell
enacted
,
and
by
his
owne
consent
and
authoritie
established
:
no
though
for
Daniels
deliuerance
sake
whom
he
loued
,
Such
in
old
time
was
the
custome
of
the
Kings
of
Aegypt
not
to
follow
their
owne
affections
in
any
actions
they
went
about
,
Cornelius
Tacitus
discouering
the
beginning
and
originall
of
the
Romane
ciuill
law
,
CHAP.
VII
.
Of
the
punishment
that
seased
vpon
Pharoa
king
of
Aegypt
for
resisting
God
,
and
transgressing
the
sixt
commandement
of
the
law
.
WE
haue
sufficiently
declared
in
the
premisses
,
that
the
mightiest
potentates
of
this
world
are
bound
to
range
themselues
vnder
the
obedience
of
Gods
law
:
it
remaineth
now
that
wee
produce
examples
of
those
punishments
that
haue
fallen
vpon
the
heads
of
the
transgressors
of
the
same
,
according
to
the
manner
of
their
transgression
,
of
what
sort
soeuer
:
which
that
wee
may
the
better
describe
,
it
behoueth
vs
to
follow
the
order
of
the
Commandements
,
as
the
examples
we
bring
may
be
fitly
referred
to
any
of
them
.
And
first
we
are
to
vnderstand
that
when
God
said
,
Thou
shalt
haue
none
other
Gods
before
me
,
he
condemneth
vnder
these
words
the
vanitie
of
men
that
haue
forged
to
themselues
a
multitude
of
gods
:
he
forbiddeth
all
false
religion
,
&
declareth
that
he
wold
be
acknowledged
to
be
the
sole
&
true
God
;
&
that
we
shold
serue
,
worship
,
loue
,
fear
,
&
obey
him
in
and
aboue
al
things
.
And
whoseuer
it
bee
that
doth
otherwise
either
by
hindering
his
worship
,
or
afflicting
those
that
worship
him
,
the
same
man
prouoketh
his
heauie
wrath
to
be
throwne
vpon
him
to
his
vtter
ruine
and
destruction
.
This
is
the
indignation
that
lighted
vpon
Pharoa
king
of
Aegypt
,
as
we
read
in
the
booke
of
God
:
CHAP.
VIII
.
Of
the
destruction
of
many
other
Kings
for
the
like
sinne
.
LIke
as
Pharaoh
by
his
vniust
and
outragious
persecuting
the
children
of
God
,
made
him selfe
so
guiltie
of
Gods
wrath
,
that
hee
deserued
to
be
vtterly
destroied
with
the
greatest
part
of
his
people
:
so
also
after
th●●r
miraculous
deliuerance
,
whosoeuer
laboured
either
to
hurt
,
hinder
,
or
resist
them
,
did
no
lesse
incurre
Gods
displeasure
and
fierce
wrath
against
them
,
wherewith
they
were
consumed
:
Whereof
,
the
ouerthrow
and
discomfiture
of
Amalech
is
a
plaine
example
:
who
admit
,
all
the
great
wonders
which
God
had
done
for
the
Israelites
in
Aegypt
,
and
in
the
red
sea
;
As
Amalech
,
and
for
the
like
sinne
,
CHAP.
IX
.
More
Examples
like
vnto
the
former
.
AFter
that
the
children
of
Israel
had
continued
a
season
peaceably
in
the
land
of
Canaan
which
the
Lord
had
bestowed
vpon
them
,
That
which
hapned
to
the
Madianites
in
the
time
of
Gedeon
,
A
while
after
it
came
to
passe
that
the
princes
of
the
Philistims
,
In
the
reigne
of
Saul
king
of
Israel
,
A
litle
while
after
,
Golia
a
gyant
of
the
Philistims
,
who
as
well
through
the
hugenes
of
his
stature
&
strength
of
body
,
CHAP.
X.
More
examples
like
vnto
the
former
.
IN
the
time
of
Achah
,
Benhadad
king
of
Syria
accompanied
with
two
and
thirty
kings
,
Aman
,
Balthasar
king
of
Babylon
as
he
was
feasting
among
his
princes
,
CHAP.
XI
.
Of
the
kings
which
in
hatred
to
the
law
and
religion
of
God
,
afflicted
the
Iewes
in
the
time
of
the
Machabees
.
Antiochus
the
sonne
of
this
wretched
father
,
A
while
after
reigned
Alexander
his
brother
,
Not
long
after
,
Antiochus
his
son
recouered
,
Antiochus
the
son
of
Demetrius
,
(
of
whom
mention
was
made
but
a
litle
before
)
after
he
had
chased
Triphon
from
the
kingdome
of
Asia
,
which
he
vsurped
,
CHAP.
XII
.
Of
those
that
persecuted
the
sonne
of
God
,
and
his
Church
.
IF
they
who
in
the
law
iniured
and
persecuted
the
Church
of
God
,
were
punished
according
to
their
deserts
,
as
we
haue
already
heard
;
is
it
any
maruell
then
,
if
the
enemies
&
persecuters
of
our
Lord
&
Sauiour
Christ
Iesus
,
which
labour
by
all
meanes
to
discountenance
and
frustrate
his
religion
,
and
to
oppresse
his
Church
,
do
feele
the
heauy
&
fearfull
vengeance
of
God
vpon
them
for
their
wickednes
&
vnbeliefe
?
No
verily
:
for
he
that
honoreth
not
the
sonne
,
honoureth
not
the
father
which
sent
him
,
and
is
guilty
therfore
before
God
of
impiety
&
prophanesse
.
From
this
hamous
crime
king
Herod
in
no
wise
can
be
exempted
,
that
caused
all
the
infants
of
Bethlehem
of
two
yeres
old
&
vnder
to
be
cruelly
murdred
,
As
for
Herod
the
Tetrarch
,
Iohn
Baptist
to
be
beheaded
)
when
he
had
likewise
prepared
snares
for
our
Sauiours
feet
,
and
being
sent
to
him
by
Pilate
to
quit
himselfe
and
gratifie
him
withall
,
had
ieasted
and
mocked
at
him
his
belly
full
,
As
touching
Pilate
the
gouernour
of
Iudea
hee
did
so
excell
in
wickednesse
and
iniustice
,
Tertul.
Nicephor
.
8.
Commandement
.
calumniation
.
Lib.
2.
cap.
44.
which
being
himself
guiltie
of
,
he
charged
them
withall
as
desirous
to
find
out
any
occasion
to
doe
them
hurt
:
wherefore
vnder
pretence
of
the
same
crime
,
discharinging
his
own
guilt
vpon
their
backs
,
he
exposed
them
to
the
furie
of
the
people
,
that
tormented
them
very
sore
,
as
if
they
had
ben
common
burners
&
destroiers
of
cities
,
&
the
deadliest
enemies
of
mankind
:
Suet.
Eutrop.
as
it
shal
be
shewed
more
at
large
in
the
2.
booke
.
The
authour
of
the
second
persecution
against
the
Christians
was
Domitian
,
who
was
so
puft
vp
and
swolne
with
pride
,
that
he
would
needs
ascribe
vnto
himselfe
the
name
of
God
.
Against
this
man
rose
vp
his
houshold
seruants
,
who
by
his
wiues
consent
slew
him
with
daggers
,
in
his
priuy
chamber
:
his
body
was
buried
without
honor
,
his
memory
cursed
to
posterity
,
&
his
ensignes
&
trophees
thrown
down
&
defaced
.
Traian
,
who
albeit
in
al
things
els
,
&
in
the
gouernment
of
the
Empire
also
,
shewed
himselfe
a
good
&
sage
Prince
;
yet
did
he
dash
&
bruise
himself
against
this
stone
with
the
rest
,
&
was
reckoned
the
third
persecutor
of
the
church
of
Christ
:
for
which
cause
he
vnderwent
also
the
cruel
vengeance
of
God
,
&
felt
his
heauy
hand
vpon
him
:
for
first
he
fel
into
a
palsie
,
Hadrian
in
the
9
year
of
his
Empire
caused
ten
thousand
Christians
to
be
crucified
in
Armenia
at
one
time
;
&
after
that
ceased
not
to
stir
vp
a
very
whot
persecution
against
them
in
all
places
:
Whilst
Marcus
Antonius
surnamed
Verus
,
swaied
the
Empire
,
there
were
exceeding
cruelties
set
abroach
against
the
poore
Christians
euery
where
,
but
especially
at
Lions
and
Vienna
in
Daulphine
(
as
Eusebius
in
his
Ecclesiasticall
historie
recordeth
:
After
that
Seuerus
had
proclaimed
himselfe
a
profest
enemie
to
Gods
church
,
his
affaires
began
to
decline
,
and
he
found
himselfe
pestered
with
diuerse
extremities
,
and
set
vpon
with
many
warres
:
and
at
length
assaulted
with
such
an
extreame
paine
throughout
his
whole
body
,
that
languishing
and
consuming
,
he
desired
oft
to
poyson
himselfe
:
and
at
last
died
in
great
distresse
.
Vitellius
Saturninus
,
one
of
his
Leiutenants
in
those
exploits
,
became
blind
:
Claudius
Herminianus
gouernour
of
Capadocia
,
who
in
hatred
of
his
owne
wife
that
was
a
Christian
,
had
extreamely
afflicted
many
of
the
faithfull
:
was
afterward
himselfe
afflicted
with
the
pestilence
,
persecuted
with
vermine
bred
in
his
owne
bowels
,
and
deuoured
of
them
aliue
in
most
miserable
sort
.
Now
lying
in
this
miserie
,
hee
desired
not
to
bee
knowne
or
spoken
of
by
any
,
least
the
Christians
that
were
left
vnmurthered
,
should
reioice
at
his
destruction
,
confessing
also
that
those
plagues
did
iustly
betide
him
for
his
cruelties
sake
.
Decius
in
hatred
of
Philip
his
predecessor
that
had
made
some
profession
of
Christianity
,
wrought
tooth
and
naile
to
destroy
the
church
of
Christ
,
vsing
all
the
cruelties
and
torments
which
his
wit
could
deuise
,
against
all
those
which
before
time
had
offered
themselues
to
be
persecuted
for
that
cause
.
But
his
diuelish
practises
were
cut
short
by
means
of
the
warre
which
he
waged
against
the
Scythians
:
Valerian
albeit
in
the
beginning
of
his
Empire
,
hee
shewed
himselfe
somewhat
mild
and
gentle
towards
the
professors
of
religion
,
yet
afterwards
he
became
their
deadly
enemie
:
but
when
he
had
terribly
persecuted
them
in
his
dominions
,
it
was
not
long
ere
he
was
taken
prisoner
in
the
Persian
warres
,
being
threescore
and
ten
yeares
old
,
and
made
a
slaue
to
his
conquerour
al
the
rest
of
his
life
:
Euseb.
histor.
ecclesiast.
booke
7.
chap.
30.
And
whose
condition
was
so
miserable
,
that
Sapor
king
of
Persia
,
vsed
his
backe
as
a
blocke
or
stirrop
to
mount
vpon
his
horse
.
Yea
hee
dealt
so
cruelly
with
the
poore
old
man
(
as
Eusebius
testifieth
)
that
to
make
vp
the
full
number
of
his
miseries
,
he
caused
him
to
be
slain
aliue
.
Aurelian
being
vpon
point
to
trouble
the
quiet
of
the
church
,
which
it
a
while
enioied
vnder
the
Emperour
Galien
;
euen
whilst
he
was
deuising
new
practises
against
it
,
a
thunderbolt
fell
from
heauen
at
his
feet
,
which
so
amased
him
,
that
his
malicious
and
bloodthirstie
mind
was
somewhat
rebated
and
repressed
from
doing
that
which
he
pretended
:
vntill
that
returning
to
his
old
bent
,
and
perseuering
to
pursue
his
purpose
,
when
Gods
thunder
could
not
terrifie
him
,
Dioclesian
went
another
way
to
worke
,
for
hee
did
not
set
abroach
all
his
practises
at
one
push
,
but
first
assaied
by
subtle
means
to
make
those
that
were
in
his
armie
to
renounce
their
faith
,
then
by
open
proclamation
commanded
that
their
churches
should
be
rased
and
beaten
downe
,
Maximinus
that
raigned
Emperour
in
the
East
,
Macentius
and
Licinius
the
one
Emperour
of
Italy
,
the
other
of
the
East
,
perceiuing
how
the
Emperour
Constantine
that
raigned
in
the
West
,
was
had
in
great
reputation
,
for
maintaining
the
cause
of
the
Christians
,
began
also
to
do
the
like
:
but
by
and
by
their
malice
and
hipocrisie
discouered
it selfe
when
they
vndertooke
to
trouble
&
afflict
those
whom
before
they
seemed
to
fauour
,
for
which
cause
Constantine
taking
armes
against
them
,
destroied
them
both
one
after
another
,
for
Maxentius
thinking
to
saue
himselfe
vpon
a
bridge
on
Tiber
,
was
deceiued
by
the
breaking
of
the
bridge
,
and
so
drenched
and
drowned
in
the
water
.
Licinius
was
taken
and
put
to
death
.
And
thus
two
tyrants
ended
their
daies
for
persecuting
the
church
of
Christ
.
Dioclesian
,
Galerius
his
chiefe
minister
and
instrument
in
that
practise
,
fell
into
a
greeuous
sicknesse
,
hauing
a
sore
risen
in
the
nether
part
of
his
belly
which
consumed
his
priuie
members
,
from
whence
swarmed
great
plentie
of
wormes
,
engendred
by
the
putrifaction
.
This
disease
could
not
bee
holpen
by
any
chirurgery
or
phisicke
:
wherefore
hee
confessed
that
it
iustly
happened
vnto
him
for
his
monstrous
cruelty
towards
the
Christians
,
&
called
in
his
proclamations
which
he
had
published
against
them
.
Howbeit
notwithstanding
he
died
miserably
,
and
as
some
write
slue
himselfe
.
CHAP.
XIII
.
More
examples
of
persecutors
.
SAint
Bartholmew
one
of
the
twelue
Apostles
after
hee
had
preached
Christ
Iesus
vnto
the
Indians
,
and
deliuered
them
the
Gospell
written
by
Matthew
,
and
had
conuerted
many
vnto
the
faith
:
albeit
the
miracles
which
he
wrought
were
strange
and
supernaturall
,
(
for
hee
restored
many
diseased
persons
to
their
health
,
Astiages
,
Polemius
yoonger
brother
,
at
the
instigation
of
the
idolatrous
priests
first
cruelly
beaten
with
clubs
,
after
flaied
,
and
last
of
al
beheaded
.
But
within
30
daies
after
both
the
wicked
king
,
and
the
sacrilegious
priests
were
possessed
with
Deuils
and
brought
to
a
wretched
and
miserable
death
.
Vnder
the
Empire
of
Iulian
the
Apostate
,
all
they
that
either
conspired
or
practised
the
death
of
Cyrillus
a
Deacon
of
Heliopolis
scituate
neere
to
Libanus
,
Processus
and
Martianus
,
keepers
of
the
prison
wherein
the
Apostles
Peter
and
Paul
were
inclosed
at
Rome
,
seeing
the
miracles
which
were
wrought
by
their
hands
,
beleeued
in
Christ
,
and
together
with
seuen
and
fourtie
other
prisoners
were
baptised
:
which
when
Paulinus
the
Iudge
perceiued
,
he
enioined
them
to
lay
aside
their
conscience
,
and
offer
sacrifice
to
idols
:
But
they
readier
to
obey
God
then
man
,
Nicephorus
reporteth
how
the
Emperour
Traian
hauing
caused
fiue
holy
Virgines
to
bee
burned
for
standing
in
the
profession
of
the
truth
,
As
Agrippus
a
yoong
man
of
fifteene
yeares
of
age
,
In
the
Empire
of
Iulian
the
Apostate
,
the
Lord
sent
such
horrible
earthquakes
vpon
the
world
,
that
what
for
the
fall
of
houses
and
ruptures
of
fields
,
neither
city
nor
countrie
was
safe
to
abide
in
;
besides
,
such
an
extreame
drought
dried
vp
the
moisture
of
the
earth
,
that
victuals
were
very
geason
and
deare
.
These
plagues
Theodoret
auoucheth
to
haue
fallen
vpon
the
world
for
the
impietie
of
Iulian
and
the
miserable
persecution
of
Christians
.
Gensericus
king
of
the
Vandals
,
Autharis
the
twelfth
King
of
Lumbardie
,
When
Arcadius
the
Emperour
through
the
persuasion
of
certaine
enuious
fellowes
and
his
wife
Endoxia
,
Iohn
Chrisostome
bishop
of
Constantinople
into
Bosphorus
;
the
next
night
there
arose
such
a
terrible
earthquake
,
that
the
Empresse
and
the
whole
Cittie
was
sore
affrighted
therewith
,
so
that
the
next
morrow
messengers
after
messengers
were
sent
without
ceasing
till
they
had
brought
him
backe
againe
out
of
exile
,
Smaragdus
an
exarch
of
Italie
,
was
transported
by
a
Deuill
for
tyrannising
ouer
Christians
in
the
first
yeare
of
the
Empire
of
Mauritius
.
CHAP.
XIIII
.
Of
the
Iews
that
persecuted
Christ
.
BY
how
much
the
offence
of
the
Iews
was
more
hainous
not
onely
in
despising
and
reiecting
the
Lord
of
glory
,
whom
God
had
sent
amongst
them
for
their
saluation
,
but
also
in
being
so
wicked
as
to
put
him
to
death
:
by
so
much
the
more
hath
God
shed
his
fearfull
indignation
vpon
them
:
as
at
many
other
times
,
so
especially
,
by
that
great
calamitie
and
desolation
which
they
abode
at
their
last
destruction
,
begun
by
Vespasian
,
and
perfected
by
Titus
:
which
was
so
great
and
lamentable
,
as
the
like
was
neuer
heard
of
vntill
this
day
:
for
if
the
sacking
and
ouerthrow
of
Ierusalem
,
then
when
Ieremie
the
Prophet
made
his
booke
of
Lamentations
ouer
it
,
was
reputed
more
grieuous
then
the
subuersion
of
Sodome
which
perished
suddenly
:
How
much
more
then
is
this
last
destruction
without
all
comparison
,
by
reason
of
those
horrible
&
strange
miseries
,
which
were
there
both
suddenly
and
in
continuance
of
time
committed
?
Neither
truly
is
there
any
history
which
containeth
a
description
of
so
many
miseries
as
this
doth
:
as
it
may
appeare
by
Iosephus
record
of
it
.
For
after
that
they
had
bene
afflicted
in
diuers
countries
,
and
tossed
vp
and
downe
by
the
deputies
a
long
while
,
there
were
slaine
at
Caesarea
in
one
day
,
twenty
thousand
:
at
Alexandria
another
time
,
fifty
thousand
:
at
Zabulon
and
Ioppe
,
eight
thousand
and
foure
hundred
,
besides
the
burning
of
the
two
townes
:
at
Damascus
ten
thousand
that
had
their
throates
cut
.
As
for
Ierusalem
,
when
it
had
a
long
time
endured
the
brunt
of
the
warre
both
within
and
without
,
it
was
pinched
with
so
sore
a
famine
,
That
it
should
be
besieged
on
euery
side
,
and
rased
to
the
ground
,
and
that
not
one
stone
should
be
left
vpon
another
,
because
it
knew
not
the
time
of
her
visitation
.
Likewise
said
he
to
the
women
that
bewailed
him
as
he
was
led
to
the
crosse
,
That
they
should
not
weepe
for
him
,
but
for
themselues
and
their
children
,
because
of
the
daies
of
sorrow
which
were
to
come
,
wherein
the
barren
and
those
that
had
no
children
,
&
the
dugs
that
neuer
suckled
should
be
counted
happy
.
So
horrible
and
pitifull
was
the
destruction
of
this
people
,
that
God
would
not
suffer
any
of
his
owne
children
to
be
wrapped
in
their
miseries
,
nor
to
perish
with
this
peruerse
and
vnbeleeuing
nation
:
for
(
as
Eusebius
reporteth
)
they
were
a
little
before
the
arriuall
of
these
mischiefes
aduertised
from
heauen
by
the
especiall
prouidence
of
God
to
forsake
the
city
,
and
retire
into
some
farre
countrey
where
none
of
these
euils
might
come
neere
them
.
And
yet
for
all
this
,
these
dispersed
reliques
ceased
not
to
vomit
out
the
fome
of
their
malice
against
Christ
,
it
being
so
deepe
rooted
an
euill
,
and
so
inueterate
,
that
time
nor
reason
could
reuoke
them
from
it
.
And
no
maruell
,
seeing
that
God
vseth
to
punish
the
greatest
sinnes
with
other
sinnes
as
with
the
greatest
punishment
:
so
they
hauing
shut
their
eies
to
the
light
when
it
shined
among
them
,
are
now
giuen
ouer
to
a
reprobate
and
hardened
sense
:
otherwise
it
were
not
possible
they
should
remaine
so
obstinate
.
And
albeit
(
God
be
thanked
)
wee
haue
many
conuerts
of
them
,
yet
I
dare
say
for
the
most
part
they
remaine
in
malitious
blindnes
,
barking
against
&
despiting
both
our
sauiour
himselfe
&
all
that
professe
his
name
,
although
their
punishments
haue
bin
still
according
to
their
deserts
:
as
by
these
examples
following
shall
appeare
.
The
Iewes
of
Inmester
a
towne
lying
betwixt
Calchis
&
Antioch
,
being
vpon
a
time
celebrating
their
accustomed
plaies
and
feasts
,
in
the
midst
of
their
iollity
,
as
their
vse
is
,
they
contumeliously
reuiled
not
onely
Christians
,
but
euen
Christ
himselfe
:
for
they
got
a
Christian
child
and
hung
him
vpon
a
crosse
,
and
after
many
mocks
&
taunts
,
making
themselues
merry
at
him
,
they
whipt
him
to
death
.
What
greater
villany
could
there
be
then
this
?
or
wherein
could
these
deuils
incarnate
,
shew
forth
their
malice
more
apparantly
,
then
thus
,
not
content
once
to
haue
crucified
Christ
the
Sauiour
of
the
world
,
but
by
imitation
to
performe
it
againe
,
and
as
it
were
to
make
known
,
that
if
it
were
vndone
,
they
would
do
it
?
So
also
handled
they
a
boy
called
Simeon
,
of
two
yeeres
and
an
halfe
old
in
the
yeere
of
our
Lord
1476
,
But
that
their
impiety
may
be
yet
more
discouered
,
I
will
here
set
downe
the
confession
of
one
of
their
owne
nation
,
a
Iewe
of
Ratisbone
,
conuerted
to
the
faith
,
one
very
skilfull
in
the
Hebrew
tongue
:
This
man
being
asked
many
questions
about
their
superstition
and
ceremonies
,
answered
verie
fittely
:
and
beeing
demaunded
why
they
thirsted
so
after
Christian
mens
blood
,
he
said
it
was
a
mystery
onely
knowen
to
the
Rabbines
and
highest
persons
:
but
that
this
was
their
custome
he
knew
,
when
any
of
them
was
ready
to
die
,
a
Rabbine
annointed
him
with
this
blood
,
vsing
these
or
such
like
words
:
If
he
that
was
promised
in
the
law
and
prophets
hath
truly
appeared
,
and
if
this
Iesus
crucified
be
the
very
Messias
:
then
let
the
blood
of
this
innocent
man
that
died
in
his
faith
clense
thee
from
thy
sinnes
,
and
helpe
thee
to
eternall
life
:
Nay
Epiphanius
affirmeth
,
that
the
Iews
of
Tiberias
did
more
confidently
affirme
it
then
thus
:
for
they
would
whisper
into
a
dying
mans
eare
,
Beleeue
in
Iesus
of
Nazareth
whom
our
princes
crucified
,
for
hee
shall
come
to
iudge
thee
in
the
latter
day
:
all
which
declareth
how
impious
they
are
to
goe
against
their
owne
conscience
,
and
vpon
how
fickle
ground
all
their
religion
standeth
.
CHAP.
XV.
Of
those
that
in
our
age
haue
persecuted
the
Gospell
in
the
person
of
the
faithfull
.
AS
the
religion
of
Christ
hath
beene
hitherto
cruelly
crossed
and
besieged
by
the
mightiest
captaines
of
this
world
(
as
hath
been
partly
declared
)
so
it
hath
not
beene
any
better
entertained
by
the
potentates
of
this
age
,
that
ceased
not
to
disturbe
the
quiet
and
pursue
to
death
the
liues
of
Gods
children
for
their
professions
sake
,
and
to
bring
them
vtterly
to
ruine
:
to
addresse
all
the
engines
and
subtleties
of
their
malicious
and
wicked
counsels
,
without
leauing
any
one
deuise
vnthought
of
that
their
wit
could
imagine
,
or
their
power
affoord
:
they
ioined
craft
with
force
,
and
vile
treason
with
horrible
cruelty
,
therby
to
suppresse
the
truth
&
quench
that
fair
&
cleare
light
,
which
God
after
long
time
of
blindnesse
and
ignorance
had
caused
of
his
infinit
mercy
to
shine
vpon
vs
.
Their
fires
were
kindled
euery
where
with
the
bones
of
Martyrs
,
whilst
for
the
space
of
fottie
years
or
thereabouts
they
neuer
ceased
to
burne
those
that
were
followers
of
that
way
.
Now
when
they
saw
that
all
their
butcheries
and
burnings
were
not
able
to
consume
this
holy
seed
,
but
that
the
more
they
went
about
to
choke
it
,
the
more
it
grew
vp
and
encreased
:
they
tooke
another
course
,
and
raised
vp
troubles
and
seditions
in
all
quarters
,
as
if
by
that
meanes
they
should
attaine
the
end
of
their
purpose
.
Hell
vomited
vp
all
her
furies
of
warre
,
the
whole
earth
was
in
a
tumult
,
young
and
old
with
tooth
and
naile
were
imployed
to
root
out
the
Church
of
Christ
:
but
God
stretching
forth
his
arme
against
all
their
practises
,
shewed
himselfe
not
only
a
conquerour
,
but
also
a
most
sharpe
reuenger
of
all
his
aduersaries
.
This
is
most
apparant
in
that
which
happened
to
Thomas
Arondell
an
English
man
,
Foelix
Eearle
of
Wartemberg
one
of
the
captains
of
the
Emperour
Charles
the
fift
,
In
the
reigne
of
Francis
de
Valoys
of
late
memory
,
the
first
king
of
France
of
that
name
,
those
men
that
shewed
themselues
frowardest
,
sharpest
,
and
most
cruell
in
burning
and
murdering
the
holy
martyrs
;
were
also
forwardest
examples
of
the
vengeance
of
God
prepared
for
all
such
as
they
are
.
For
proofe
whereof
,
the
miserable
end
of
Iohn
de
Roma
,
a
monke
of
the
order
of
the
white
Friers
may
serue
,
who
although
in
regard
of
his
hood
and
habite
ought
not
to
be
placed
in
the
number
of
men
of
note
,
yet
by
reason
of
the
notable
example
of
Gods
vengeance
vpon
him
,
wee
may
rightly
place
him
in
this
ranke
.
This
man
therefore
(
at
that
time
when
the
Christians
of
Cabrier
and
Merindol
began
to
suffer
persecution
)
hauing
obtained
a
commission
from
the
bishop
of
Prouince
and
the
ambassadour
of
Auignion
to
make
inquisition
after
and
seaze
vpon
the
bodies
of
all
them
that
were
called
Lutherans
,
ceased
not
to
afflict
them
with
the
cruellest
torments
he
could
deuise
:
Among
many
of
his
tortures
this
was
one
;
to
cause
their
bootes
to
be
filled
with
boiling
grease
,
and
then
fastening
them
ouerthwart
wise
ouer
a
bench
their
legs
hanging
ouer
a
gentle
fire
,
to
seeth
them
to
death
.
The
French
king
aduertised
of
this
his
cruelty
,
sent
out
his
letters
patents
from
the
parliament
of
Prouince
charging
that
the
said
●ohn
de
Roma
should
be
apprehended
,
imprisoned
,
and
by
processe
of
law
condemned
:
which
newes
when
the
caitiue
heard
,
hee
fled
backe
as
fast
as
hee
could
trot
to
Auignion
,
there
purposing
to
recreate
and
delight
himselfe
with
the
excrements
of
his
oppression
and
robbery
which
hee
had
wroong
out
of
the
purses
of
poore
people
:
but
see
how
contrary
to
his
hope
it
fell
out
:
for
first
hee
was
robbed
of
his
euill
gotten
goods
by
his
owne
seruants
,
and
presently
vpon
the
same
fell
sicke
of
so
horrible
and
strange
a
disease
,
that
no
salue
or
medicine
could
bee
found
to
asswage
his
paine
:
and
beside
it
was
withall
so
lothsome
,
that
a
man
could
not
endure
his
companie
for
the
stinke
and
corruption
which
issued
from
him
.
For
which
cause
the
white
Friers
(
his
cloisterers
)
conueyed
him
out
of
their
couent
into
the
hospitall
,
where
increasing
in
vlcers
and
vermine
,
and
being
become
now
odious
not
onely
to
others
but
to
himselfe
also
,
he
would
often
cry
either
to
be
deliuered
from
his
noisomnesse
,
or
to
be
slaine
,
being
desirous
but
not
able
to
perfourme
the
deed
vpon
him selfe
.
And
thus
in
horrible
torments
and
fearfull
despaire
,
he
most
miserably
died
.
Now
being
dead
,
there
was
none
found
that
would
giue
sepulture
to
his
rotten
carkasse
,
had
not
a
monke
of
the
same
order
dragged
the
carrion
into
a
ditch
,
which
he
prouided
for
the
purpose
.
The
lord
of
Reuest
who
a
while
supplied
the
place
of
the
chiefe
president
in
the
parliament
of
Prouince
,
by
whose
meanes
many
of
the
faithfull
were
put
to
death
,
after
hee
was
put
beside
his
office
,
and
returned
home
vnto
his
owne
house
,
was
attached
with
so
grieuous
a
sicknesse
,
and
such
furious
and
mad
fits
withall
,
that
his
wife
and
neerest
allies
not
daring
to
come
neere
him
,
hee
like
a
franticke
bedlem
enraged
,
and
solitarily
ended
his
life
.
A
counsellour
of
the
same
court
called
Bell●m●nt
,
was
so
hote
and
zealous
in
proceeding
against
the
poore
prisoners
for
the
word
of
Gods
sake
,
that
to
the
end
to
packe
them
soone
to
the
fire
,
hee
vsually
departed
not
from
the
iudgement
hall
from
morning
to
euening
,
but
caused
his
meat
and
drinke
to
be
brought
for
his
meales
,
returning
not
home
but
only
at
night
to
take
his
rest
.
But
whilst
hee
thus
strongly
and
endeauourously
emploied
himselfe
about
these
affaires
,
there
began
a
litle
sore
to
rise
vpon
his
foote
,
which
at
the
first
being
no
bigger
then
if
a
waspe
had
stung
the
place
,
grew
quickly
so
red
and
full
of
paine
,
and
so
encreased
the
first
day
by
ranckling
ouer
all
his
foot
,
and
inflaming
the
same
,
that
by
the
iudgement
of
Phisitians
and
Chirurgians
,
through
the
contagious
fire
that
spred
it selfe
ouer
his
whole
body
,
it
seemed
incurable
,
except
by
cutting
off
his
foot
the
other
members
of
the
body
might
be
preserued
:
which
hee
in
no
case
willing
to
yeeld
vnto
,
for
all
the
medicines
that
were
applied
vnto
it
,
found
the
second
day
his
whole
legge
infected
,
and
the
third
his
whole
thigh
,
and
the
fourth
day
his
whole
body
:
in
so
much
that
he
died
the
same
day
,
his
dead
body
being
all
parched
,
as
if
it
had
bene
rosted
by
a
fire
.
And
thus
hee
that
was
so
hote
in
burning
poore
Christians
,
was
himselfe
by
a
seeret
flame
of
Gods
wrath
,
as
by
slow
and
soft
fire
,
burned
and
consumed
to
death
.
Lewes
de
Vaine
brother
in
law
to
Menier
the
president
of
the
said
parliament
of
Prouince
,
Peter
Durand
,
chiefe
butcher
of
the
city
Aix
,
the
euening
before
their
horrible
crueltie
was
executed
at
Merindoll
,
fell
at
debate
amongst
themselues
,
and
the
morrow
as
instruments
of
Gods
iudgements
,
slew
one
another
.
The
Iudge
of
the
city
Aix
(
one
of
that
wretched
crew
)
drowned
himselfe
in
his
returne
,
As
for
the
chiefe
Iudge
that
was
principall
in
that
murderous
action
,
Iohn
Mesnier
lord
of
Oppede
another
chiefe
officer
of
the
foresaid
parliament
,
that
got
the
leading
of
that
murdering
armie
against
the
poore
Christians
aforesaid
,
committed
such
excesse
of
cruelty
,
that
the
most
barbarous
heathen
in
the
world
would
haue
yearned
to
doe
.
For
which
cause
hee
was
also
summoned
to
appeare
personally
at
the
parliament
of
Paris
,
there
to
answere
to
those
extortions
,
robberies
,
&
oppressions
,
which
were
laid
to
his
charge
:
and
being
conuinced
and
found
guilty
thereof
,
was
neuerthelesse
released
and
set
at
liberty
;
and
that
which
is
more
,
restored
to
his
former
state
.
Howbeit
though
he
escaped
the
hands
of
men
,
yet
was
he
ouertaken
by
the
hand
of
God
,
who
knew
well
enough
the
way
how
to
entrap
and
abate
his
proud
intents
:
for
euen
then
when
hee
was
in
the
height
of
worldly
prosperity
,
and
busier
then
euer
,
in
persecuting
Christians
,
euen
then
was
hee
pulled
downe
by
a
fluxe
of
blood
,
which
prouoking
his
priuie
partes
,
ingendred
such
a
carnositie
and
thicknesse
of
flesh
therein
,
and
withall
a
restraint
of
vrine
,
that
with
horrible
ourcries
and
rauing
speeches
hee
died
:
feeling
a
burning
fire
broiling
his
entrails
from
his
nauell
vpwards
,
and
an
extreme
infection
putrifying
his
lower
parts
:
and
beginning
to
feele
in
this
life
both
in
body
and
soule
,
the
rigour
of
eternall
fire
,
prepared
for
the
deuill
and
his
angels
.
Iohn
Martin
Trombant
of
Briqueras
in
Piemont
,
vaunting
himselfe
euery
foot
in
the
hindrance
of
the
Gospell
,
cut
off
a
ministers
nose
of
Angrogne
in
his
brauery
,
CHAP.
XVI
.
Other
Examples
of
the
same
subiect
.
ABout
the
same
time
,
there
happened
a
very
straunge
iudgement
vpon
an
ancient
lawier
of
Bourges
,
one
Iohn
Cranequin
,
a
man
of
ripe
wit
naturall
,
and
a
great
practitioner
in
his
profession
,
but
very
ignorant
in
the
law
of
God
,
and
all
good
literature
,
&
so
enuiously
bent
against
all
those
that
knew
more
then
himselfe
,
and
that
abstained
from
the
filthie
pollutions
of
poperie
,
that
hee
serued
in
stead
of
a
promootour
,
to
enforme
Ory
the
inquisitour
,
of
them
:
but
for
his
labour
,
the
arme
of
God
stroke
him
with
a
marueilous
straunge
phrensie
,
that
whatsoeuer
his
eies
beheld
,
seemed
in
his
iudgement
to
be
crawling
serpents
:
In
such
sort
,
that
after
hee
had
in
vaine
experienced
all
kind
of
medicines
,
yea
,
and
vsed
the
helpe
of
wicked
sorcerie
and
coniuration
,
yet
at
length
his
senses
were
quite
benummed
and
depriued
him
,
and
in
that
wretched
and
miserable
estate
,
hee
ended
his
life
.
Iohn
Morin
,
a
mighty
enemie
to
the
professors
of
Gods
truth
,
one
that
laboured
continually
at
Paris
in
apprehending
and
accusing
the
faithfull
,
in
so
much
that
hee
sent
daily
,
multitudes
that
appealed
from
him
to
the
high
court
of
the
pallace
,
died
himselfe
in
most
grieuous
and
horrible
torment
.
The
Chauncellour
of
Prat
,
hee
that
in
the
Parliaments
of
France
,
put
vp
the
first
bill
against
the
faithfull
,
and
gaue
out
the
first
commissions
to
put
them
to
death
,
died
swearing
and
blaspheming
the
name
of
God
,
his
stomacke
being
most
straungely
gnawen
in
peeces
,
and
consumed
with
wormes
.
The
Chauncellour
Oliuer
,
beeing
restored
to
his
former
estate
,
Thomas
More
,
L.
Chancellour
of
England
,
a
sworne
enemy
to
the
Gospell
,
and
a
profest
persecutour
by
fire
and
sword
of
all
the
faithfull
,
as
if
thereby
hee
would
grow
famous
and
get
renowme
,
caused
to
be
erected
a
sumptuous
sepulchre
,
and
thereby
(
to
eternize
the
memory
of
his
profane
cruelty
)
to
be
engrauen
the
commendation
of
his
worthy
deeds
:
amongst
which
the
principall
was
,
that
hee
had
persecuted
with
all
his
might
the
Lutherens
,
that
is
,
the
faithfull
:
but
it
fell
out
contrary
to
his
hope
,
for
being
accused
,
conuicted
,
and
condemned
of
high
treason
,
his
head
was
taken
from
him
,
and
his
body
found
no
other
sepulchre
to
lie
in
,
but
the
gibbet
.
Cardinall
Croscentius
,
the
Popes
ambassadour
to
the
Councill
of
Trent
,
in
the
yeere
of
our
Lord
1552
,
being
very
busie
in
writing
to
his
master
the
Pope
,
and
hauing
laboured
all
one
night
about
his
letters
;
behold
as
he
raised
himselfe
in
his
chaire
to
stirre
vp
his
wit
and
memory
,
ouerdulled
with
watching
,
a
huge
blacke
dogge
with
great
flaming
eies
and
long
eares
dangling
to
the
ground
,
appeared
vnto
him
;
which
comming
into
his
chamber
,
and
making
right
towards
him
,
euen
vnder
the
table
where
he
sate
,
vanished
out
of
his
sight
:
wherat
he
amazed
&
a
while
senslesse
,
recouering
him selfe
,
called
for
a
candle
,
&
when
he
saw
the
dog
could
not
be
found
,
he
fell
presently
sicke
with
a
strong
conceit
,
which
neuer
left
him
till
his
death
:
euer
crying
that
they
would
driue
away
the
blacke
dogge
which
seemed
to
clime
vpon
his
bed
:
and
in
that
humour
he
died
.
Albertus
Pighius
,
a
great
enemy
of
the
truth
also
(
in
so
much
that
Paulus
Iouius
calleth
him
the
Lutheranes
scourge
)
beeing
at
Bologne
at
the
coronation
of
the
Emperour
vpon
a
scaffold
to
behold
the
pompe
and
glory
of
the
solemnization
,
the
scaffold
bursting
with
the
weight
of
the
multitude
,
hee
tumbled
headlong
amongst
the
guard
that
stood
below
vpon
the
points
of
their
halberds
,
piercing
his
body
cleane
through
,
the
rest
of
his
company
escaping
without
any
great
hurt
:
for
though
the
number
of
them
which
fell
with
the
scaffold
was
great
,
yet
very
fewe
found
themselues
hurt
thereby
,
saue
only
this
honourable
Pighius
that
found
his
deaths
wound
,
and
lost
his
hearts
blood
,
as
hath
bene
shewed
.
Poncher
,
An
Augustine
frier
named
Lambert
,
doctor
and
Prior
in
the
city
of
Liege
,
one
of
the
troope
of
cruell
inquisitours
for
religion
,
whilst
he
was
preaching
one
day
with
open
mouth
against
the
faithfull
,
was
cut
short
of
a
sudden
in
the
midst
of
his
sermon
,
beeing
bereaued
of
sense
and
speech
,
in
so
much
that
he
was
faine
to
be
carried
out
of
the
pulpit
to
his
cloister
in
a
chaire
,
and
a
few
daies
after
,
was
found
drowned
in
a
ditch
.
In
the
yeere
of
our
Lord
1527
,
there
was
one
George
Hala
a
Saxon
,
minister
of
the
word
and
sacraments
,
In
a
city
of
Scotland
called
Fanum
Ianius
,
the
chiefe
mart
towne
of
that
countrey
,
foure
of
the
chiefest
citizens
were
accused
by
a
monke
before
the
Cardinall
,
for
interrupting
him
in
a
sermon
,
and
by
him
condemned
to
be
hanged
like
heretiques
,
when
no
other
crime
could
be
laid
to
their
charge
,
Thomas
Blauer
,
one
of
the
priuie
counsellours
of
the
king
of
Scots
,
was
a
sore
persecutour
of
the
faithfull
in
that
land
:
for
which
cause
,
lying
on
his
death
bed
,
he
fell
into
despaire
,
and
said
hee
was
damned
,
But
let
vs
come
to
our
homebred
English
stories
,
and
consider
the
iudgements
of
God
vpon
the
persecutors
of
Christs
Gospell
in
Queene
Maries
time
:
And
first
to
begin
with
Steuen
Gardiner
,
who
was
one
of
the
graund
butchers
in
this
land
,
what
a
miserable
end
came
hee
vnto
?
Euen
the
same
day
that
B.
Ridley
,
and
M.
Latimer
were
burnt
at
Oxford
;
hee
hearing
newes
thereof
,
reioiced
greatly
:
and
being
at
dinner
,
eate
his
meat
merily
.
Morgan
bishop
of
S.
Dauids
sitting
vpon
the
condemnation
of
the
blessed
martyr
,
bishop
Farrar
,
whose
roome
he
vniustly
vsurped
,
was
not
long
after
stricken
by
Gods
hand
,
after
such
a
strange
sort
,
that
his
meat
would
not
go
downe
,
but
rise
and
picke
vp
againe
,
sometime
at
his
mouth
,
sometime
blowne
out
of
his
nose
,
most
horrible
to
behold
,
and
so
continued
to
his
death
:
Where
note
moreouer
,
that
when
maister
Leyson
(
being
then
sherife
at
bishop
Farrars
burning
)
had
fetcht
away
the
cattell
of
the
said
bishop
,
from
his
seruants
house
into
his
owne
custodie
,
diuers
of
them
would
neuer
eat
meat
,
but
lay
bellowing
and
roaring
,
and
so
died
.
Bishop
Thornton
Suffragan
of
Douer
,
another
grand
persecutor
,
comming
vpon
a
Saturday
from
the
chapter
house
at
Canterbury
,
and
there
vpon
the
Sunday
following
looking
vpon
his
men
playing
at
bowles
,
fell
suddenly
into
a
palsie
,
and
died
shortly
after
.
But
hee
that
will
read
more
hereof
,
I
referre
him
to
the
latter
end
of
the
Acts
and
Monuments
of
the
English
Church
,
where
he
shall
find
a
whole
catalogue
of
such
like
histories
.
The
ouerthrow
of
many
mighty
ones
in
our
age
serue
for
a
looking
glasse
to
represent
the
high
exploits
of
the
wonderfull
iudgements
which
the
king
of
kings
hath
sent
vpon
those
that
haue
in
any
place
or
countrey
whatsoeuer
resisted
and
stroue
against
his
truth
:
whereof
some
after
great
victories
,
which
their
singular
dexteritie
and
worldly
wisdome
in
the
managing
of
their
affaires
haue
atchieued
,
by
a
peruerse
and
ouerthwart
end
contrary
to
their
former
prosperity
,
haue
darkened
and
obscured
the
renowme
and
glory
of
all
their
braue
deeds
,
their
good
report
dying
with
their
bodies
,
and
their
credit
empaired
and
buried
with
them
in
their
graues
:
Others
in
like
manner
hauing
addressed
all
their
forces
,
laid
their
battery
,
and
placed
all
their
peeces
and
canons
against
the
wals
of
Sion
,
and
thinking
to
blow
it
vp
and
consume
it
to
ashes
,
haue
made
many
breaches
into
the
sides
thereof
,
yea
they
haue
so
bent
all
their
strength
against
it
,
and
afflicted
it
with
such
outragious
cruelty
,
and
vnmerciful
effusion
of
blood
,
that
it
is
pitifull
and
lamentable
to
remember
:
howbeit
after
all
their
pollicies
and
practises
,
their
courage
hath
bene
at
length
abated
,
and
themselues
raked
one
after
another
out
of
this
world
,
with
manifest
markes
of
the
iust
vengeance
of
God
vpon
them
.
For
though
it
may
seeme
for
a
time
that
God
sleepeth
,
and
regardeth
not
the
wrongs
and
oppressions
of
his
seruants
,
yet
he
neuer
faileth
to
carry
a
watchfull
eie
vpon
them
,
and
in
his
fittest
time
to
reuenge
himselfe
vpon
their
enemies
.
Along
the
verdant
fields
all
richly
dide
With
natures
paintments
,
and
with
Floraes
pride
:
Whose
goodly
bounds
are
liuely
chrystall
streames
Begirt
with
bowres
to
keepe
backe
Phoebus
beames
,
Euen
when
the
quenchlesse
torch
,
the
worlds
great
eie
,
Aduanc't
his
rayes
orethwartly
from
the
skie
,
And
by
his
power
of
heauenly
influence
,
Reuiu'de
the
seeds
of
springs
decaied
essence
:
Then
many
flockes
vnite
in
peace
and
loue
,
Not
seeking
ought
but
naturall
behoue
,
Past
quietly
vncharg'd
with
other
care
,
Saue
of
their
feed
within
that
pasture
faire
.
These
flockes
a
shepherd
had
(
of
power
and
skill
)
To
fold
and
feed
and
saue
them
from
all
ill
:
By
whose
aduise
they
liu'd
:
whose
wholsome
voice
They
heard
,
and
feard
with
loue
,
and
did
reioice
Therein
,
with
melodie
of
song
and
praise
,
And
dance
,
to
magnifie
his
name
alwaies
.
He
is
their
guide
,
they
are
his
flock
and
fold
,
Nor
will
they
be
by
any
else
controld
:
Well
knowing
that
whome
he
takes
care
to
feed
,
He
will
preserue
and
saue
in
time
of
need
.
Thus
liu'd
this
holy
flocke
at
hearts
content
,
Till
cruell
beasts
all
set
on
rauishment
,
Broke
off
their
peace
,
and
ran
vpon
with
rage
Themselues
,
their
young
,
and
all
their
heritage
:
Slitting
their
throats
,
deuouring
lambes
and
all
,
And
dissipating
them
that
scapt
their
thrall
.
Then
did
this
iolly
feast
,
to
fast
transforme
,
(
So
askt
the
fury
of
that
ragefull
storme
)
Their
ioyfull
song
was
turn'd
to
mournfull
cries
,
And
all
their
gladnesse
chang'd
to
welladaies
.
Whereat
heauen
greeuing
,
clad
it selfe
in
black
:
But
earth
in
vprore
,
triumpht
at
their
wrack
.
What
profits
then
the
sheepehooke
of
their
guide
?
Or
that
he
lies
vpon
a
beacons
side
With
watchfull
eie
to
circumscribe
their
traine
,
And
hath
no
more
regard
vnto
their
paine
?
To
saue
them
from
such
dangers
imminent
(
Say
some
)
as
are
so
often
incident
.
T
is
not
for
that
his
arme
wants
strength
to
breake
All
proud
attempts
,
that
men
of
might
doe
make
,
Or
that
he
will
abandon
vnto
death
His
owne
,
deare
bought
with
exchange
of
his
breath
:
Nor
must
we
thinke
that
though
they
die
they
perish
:
Death
dies
in
them
,
and
they
in
death
reflorish
:
And
this
liues
losse
,
a
better
life
renews
,
Which
after
death
eternally
ensues
.
Though
then
their
passions
neuer
seeme
so
great
:
Yet
neuer
comfort
wants
to
swage
their
heat
:
Though
strength
of
torments
be
extreame
,
in
durance
,
Yet
are
they
quencht
,
by
hopes
and
faiths
assurance
.
For
thankfull
hope
,
if
God
be
grounded
in
it
,
Assures
the
heart
and
pacifies
the
spirit
.
To
them
that
loue
and
reuerence
his
name
,
Prosperity
betides
and
want
of
shame
.
Thus
can
no
tyrant
pull
them
from
the
hands
Of
mightie
God
,
that
for
their
safety
stands
.
Who
euer
sees
,
and
euer
can
defend
Them
whom
he
loues
,
he
loues
vnto
the
end
:
So
that
the
more
their
furie
ouer
floweth
,
The
more
ech
one
his
owne
destruction
soweth
.
And
as
they
striue
with
God
in
policie
;
So
are
they
sooner
brought
to
miserie
.
Like
as
the
sauage
bore
dislog'd
from
den
,
And
hotely
chased
by
pursuit
of
men
,
Runnes
furiously
on
them
that
come
him
neare
,
And
gores
himselfe
vpon
the
hunters
speare
.
The
gentle
puissant
lamb
,
their
champion
bold
,
So
helpes
to
conquer
al
that
hurts
his
fold
,
That
quickly
they
and
all
their
progenie
,
Confounded
is
and
brought
to
miserie
.
This
is
of
Iuda
the
couragious
Lion
The
conquering
captaine
,
and
the
rock
of
Sion
,
Whose
fauour
is
as
great
to
Iacobs
line
:
As
is
his
fearfull
frwone
to
Philistine
.
CHAP.
XVII
.
Of
Apostataes
and
Backsliders
,
that
through
infirmitie
and
feare
haue
fallen
away
.
IT
is
a
kind
of
Apostasie
and
Backsliding
condemned
by
this
first
commandement
of
the
law
,
when
as
hee
that
hath
beene
once
enlightned
by
the
word
of
God
in
the
knowledge
of
saluation
,
and
nourished
&
instructed
therin
from
his
cradle
,
doth
afterward
cast
behind
his
backe
the
grace
of
Gods
spirit
,
or
disallow
thereof
,
&
exempt
himselfe
from
the
seruice
of
God
,
to
serue
idols
,
or
make
any
outward
shew
to
doe
it
:
which
kind
of
sinne
may
be
committed
after
two
sorts
;
either
through
infirmitie
and
feare
,
or
willingly
and
with
deliberation
:
when
not
being
pressed
or
constrained
thereto
by
any
outward
meanes
,
a
man
dooth
clearely
and
of
himselfe
abandon
and
forsake
the
true
Religion
,
to
march
vnder
the
banner
of
●●than
and
Antichrist
:
and
this
also
of
two
sorts
:
either
when
a
man
dooth
simply
forsake
the
profession
of
the
truth
,
to
follow
superstition
and
idolatrie
,
without
attempting
any
thing
beside
the
meere
deniall
of
his
faith
;
or
when
after
his
reuolt
he
professeth
not
onely
the
contrarie
religion
,
but
also
endeuoureth
himselfe
by
all
meanes
possible
to
aduance
it
,
and
to
oppresse
and
lay
siege
to
the
doctrine
of
Gods
truth
in
those
that
maintaine
the
same
.
By
this
it
appeareth
that
there
are
three
kinds
of
apostasie
:
one
as
it
were
enforced
and
compelled
,
the
second
voluntarie
,
the
last
both
voluntary
and
malicious
:
which
though
they
be
all
very
hainous
and
offensiue
in
the
sight
of
God
;
yet
the
second
and
third
sort
are
most
dangerous
,
&
of
them
also
one
more
hurtfull
and
pernicious
then
the
other
,
as
wee
shall
perceiue
by
that
which
followeth
.
Now
as
all
these
kinds
are
different
one
from
another
;
so
I
wil
referre
the
examples
of
each
sort
to
his
seuerall
place
,
that
the
efficacy
therof
may
be
the
better
perceiued
.
And
first
of
those
which
haue
fallen
away
through
feare
and
infirmitie
,
and
afterward
in
order
of
the
rest
.
Although
that
they
who
by
the
conceit
and
feare
of
tortures
presented
before
their
eies
,
or
of
speedy
and
cruell
death
threatned
against
them
,
do
decline
and
slide
backe
from
the
profession
of
the
Gospell
,
may
pretend
for
excuse
the
weakenesse
and
feeblenes
of
the
flesh
,
yet
doubtlesse
they
are
found
guiltie
before
the
throne
of
God
,
for
presetting
the
loue
of
this
transitorie
and
temporarie
life
before
the
zeale
of
his
glorie
,
and
the
honor
which
is
due
to
his
only
begotten
sonne
,
especially
at
that
time
when
they
are
called
out
of
purpose
by
their
Martyrdome
to
witnesse
his
sacred
truth
before
man
,
and
he
desireth
most
to
bee
glorified
by
their
free
and
constant
perseuerance
therin
:
to
the
which
perseuerance
they
are
exhorted
by
many
faire
promises
of
eternall
life
and
happinesse
:
and
from
the
contrarie
terrefied
by
threats
of
death
and
confusion
,
and
vpon
paine
to
bee
discarded
from
the
presence
of
Christ
before
God
,
because
they
haue
denied
him
here
before
men
:
which
is
the
miserie
of
al
miseries
,
&
the
greatest
that
can
happen
to
any
man
;
for
what
shall
become
of
that
man
whome
the
sonne
of
God
dooth
not
acknowledge
?
Now
to
prooue
that
God
is
indeed
highly
offended
at
this
fainthearted
cowardlinesse
,
hee
himselfe
hath
made
knowne
vnto
vs
by
the
punishments
which
diuerse
times
hee
hath
sent
vpon
the
heades
of
such
offenders
.
As
in
the
time
of
the
Emperour
Valerian
the
eighth
persecutor
of
the
church
,
vnder
whose
persecution
albeit
that
many
champions
bestirred
themselues
most
valiantly
in
that
combate
of
faith
,
yet
there
wanted
not
some
whose
hearts
failing
them
,
and
who
in
steed
of
maintaining
and
standing
for
their
cause
to
the
death
,
as
they
ought
haue
done
,
retired
and
gaue
vp
themselues
to
the
enemie
at
first
assault
.
Amongst
the
number
of
which
doubtie
souldiors
,
there
was
one
that
went
vp
into
the
Capitall
at
Rome
in
that
place
where
Iupiters
temple
in
old
time
stood
,
A
woman
likewise
hauing
renounced
her
profession
,
These
are
the
fearefull
examples
of
Gods
Iudgements
which
Saint
Ciprian
reporteth
to
haue
light
vpon
Backsliders
in
his
time
,
adding
moreouer
that
besides
these
,
many
were
possessed
with
Deuils
,
robbed
of
their
wits
,
and
enraged
with
furie
and
madnesse
,
and
all
for
this
offence
of
Apostasie
.
Amongst
all
the
examples
of
our
age
of
Gods
seuere
iustice
vpon
Apostataes
,
the
examples
of
Francis
Spiera
an
Italian
Lawier
,
a
man
of
credite
and
authoritie
in
his
countrey
,
is
most
pitifull
and
lamentable
:
who
hauing
embraced
the
true
religion
with
maruellous
zeale
,
and
made
open
profession
of
the
same
,
Sleidan
lib.
21.1
feared
not
freely
to
declare
his
opinion
of
euery
point
of
doctrine
that
came
in
question
:
and
grew
in
knowledge
euery
day
more
and
more
.
But
it
was
not
long
ere
hee
was
complained
off
to
the
Popes
Embassadour
,
which
when
hee
vnderstood
,
and
saw
the
danger
wherein
hee
was
like
to
fall
.
After
hee
had
long
debated
and
disputed
the
matter
in
his
owne
conscience
,
the
counsaile
of
the
flesh
and
wordlie
wisedome
preuailing
,
hee
resolued
at
last
to
goe
to
the
Embassadour
to
the
intent
to
appease
his
wrath
,
and
doe
whatsouer
hee
should
command
:
Thus
comming
to
Venice
,
and
ouerruled
with
immoderate
feare
,
he
confessed
that
hee
had
done
amisse
and
craued
pardon
for
the
same
,
promising
euer
after
to
bee
an
obedient
subiect
to
the
Popes
lawes
:
and
that
which
is
more
,
when
it
was
enioined
him
that
at
his
returne
home
,
hee
should
in
his
owne
countrie
openly
recant
his
former
profession
,
hee
refused
not
,
but
performed
his
recantation
in
due
sort
.
But
it
chaunced
very
soone
after
that
this
miserable
man
fell
sicke
of
bodie
and
soule
,
and
began
to
despaire
of
Gods
mercie
towardes
him
.
His
Phisitian
perceiuing
his
disposition
iudged
that
the
cause
of
his
bodies
disease
,
was
a
vehement
conceit
and
thought
of
mind
:
and
therefore
gaue
aduise
to
minister
counsaile
to
his
troubled
mind
verie
carefully
,
that
the
cause
beeing
taken
away
,
the
effect
also
might
surcease
:
To
this
end
many
learned
men
frequented
him
euery
day
,
recalling
into
his
mind
,
and
laying
open
before
him
manie
expresse
places
of
Scripture
touching
the
greatnesse
of
Gods
mercie
:
which
thinges
hee
auouched
to
bee
true
:
but
said
that
those
promises
pertained
not
to
him
,
because
hee
had
renounced
Christ
Iesus
,
and
forsworne
the
knowne
truth
,
and
that
for
this
cause
nothing
was
prepared
for
him
but
hell
fire
,
which
alreadie
in
soule
hee
saw
and
felt
.
I
would
(
said
hee
)
willingly
if
it
were
possible
loue
God
,
but
it
is
altogether
impossible
:
I
onely
feare
him
without
loue
.
These
and
such
speeches
vsed
he
with
a
stedfast
countenance
:
neither
did
his
tongue
at
any
time
run
at
randome
,
nor
his
answers
sauour
of
indiscretion
or
want
of
memorie
:
but
aduisedly
warned
all
that
stood
by
,
to
take
heed
by
his
example
how
to
listen
too
much
to
worldly
wisdome
,
especially
then
when
they
should
bee
called
before
men
to
professe
the
religion
of
Christ
.
And
lying
in
this
extremity
he
refused
all
manner
of
sustenance
,
rebuking
and
being
angrie
with
his
sonnes
that
opened
his
mouth
to
make
him
swallow
some
food
,
to
sustain
him
,
saying
,
Since
hee
had
forsaken
his
Lord
and
maister
,
all
his
creatures
ought
to
forsake
him
;
I
am
afeard
of
euery
thing
,
there
is
not
a
creature
that
hath
not
conspired
to
worke
my
destruction
;
let
me
die
,
let
mee
die
,
that
I
may
goe
and
feele
that
vnquenchahle
fire
which
already
consumeth
mee
,
and
which
I
can
by
no
means
escape
.
And
thus
he
died
indeed
pined
to
death
in
despaire
and
horrible
torment
of
conscience
.
Tamerus
a
professour
of
the
true
religion
was
seduced
by
his
brother
to
cleaue
vnto
Poperie
,
Richard
Denton
a
blacksmith
,
dwelling
at
Wels
in
Cambridgeshire
,
hauing
beene
a
professor
of
the
Gospell
before
time
,
when
William
Wolsey
Martyr
(
whome
the
said
Denton
had
first
conuerted
vnto
the
truth
)
sent
him
certaine
money
out
of
prison
at
Ely
with
this
commendations
,
That
he
maruelled
hee
tarried
so
long
behind
him
,
seeing
he
was
the
first
that
deliuered
him
the
booke
of
scripture
into
his
hand
,
There
was
also
one
Burton
,
Bailife
of
Crowland
in
Lincolnshire
,
who
pretending
an
earnest
friendship
to
the
gospel
in
king
Edwards
time
,
after
the
kings
death
began
lustily
to
set
vp
the
Popish
masse
againe
,
and
would
haue
beaten
the
poore
Curate
if
hee
had
not
setled
himselfe
thereto
:
but
see
how
the
Lords
iudgement
ouertooke
him
;
as
he
came
riding
from
Fennebancke
one
day
a
crow
flying
ouer
his
head
,
let
fall
her
excrements
vpon
his
face
,
so
that
it
ran
from
the
top
of
his
nose
,
downe
to
his
beard
,
Hither
may
wee
ad
the
examples
of
one
Hendrie
Smith
,
a
Lawier
of
the
middle
temple
,
Arnoldus
Bomelius
a
student
of
Louaine
,
both
which
hauing
professed
the
truth
a
while
,
and
after
being
seduced
by
euill
companie
,
the
one
of
Gilford
,
the
other
of
Maister
Tileman
,
Smith
afterward
hanged
himselfe
in
his
chamber
in
the
temple
in
the
year
of
our
Lord
,
1569.
Bomelius
murdered
himselfe
with
his
owne
dagger
.
And
thus
these
two
Apostataes
felt
the
heauy
scourge
of
Gods
wrath
for
reuolting
from
the
truth
which
they
once
professed
.
CHAP.
XVIII
.
Of
those
which
haue
willingly
fallen
away
.
THese
kind
of
Apostataes
which
wee
are
now
to
speake
of
,
are
such
as
without
any
outward
compulsion
,
threats
,
or
likelihood
of
daunger
,
forsake
freely
Gods
true
Religion
,
and
giue
themselues
ouer
to
all
idolatry
,
against
whom
there
is
a
decree
ordained
in
the
thirteenth
of
Deutronomie
by
the
lawgiuer
of
heauen
,
which
is
this
,
If
the
inhabitants
of
any
cittie
haue
turned
from
the
Lord
,
to
follow
after
strange
Gods
,
let
them
be
destroied
with
the
edge
of
their
sword
,
and
their
cittie
consumed
with
fire
,
that
they
may
bee
vtterly
rased
out
and
brought
to
nothing
.
This
was
the
sinne
of
Salomon
King
of
Israell
(
a
braue
and
mightie
kingdome
in
his
time
)
a
man
subiect
to
none
for
power
,
Roboam
his
sonne
succeeded
him
as
well
in
the
likenesse
of
his
sinne
as
of
his
kingdome
,
Ptolomey
Philopater
abode
in
Aegypt
,
and
willingly
renounced
the
law
and
seruice
of
God
,
in
hope
thereby
better
to
prouide
for
their
worldly
commodities
,
enioied
not
long
their
ease
and
prosperity
:
for
the
other
Iews
which
had
couragiously
stucke
to
their
profession
,
and
had
beene
miraculously
deliuered
from
their
enemies
,
being
greeued
and
chafed
at
their
recoile
,
made
their
supplications
to
the
king
(
whose
heart
God
enclined
to
fauour
their
suit
)
that
hee
would
permit
them
to
reuenge
Gods
quarrell
vpon
those
Apostataes
as
they
had
deserued
:
CHAP.
XIX
.
Of
the
third
and
worst
sort
of
Apostataes
,
those
that
through
Malice
forsake
the
truth
.
IF
so
bee
that
they
of
whom
we
haue
spoken
in
the
two
former
chapters
are
in
their
reuoltings
inexcusable
(
as
indeed
they
are
)
them
much
more
worthy
condemnation
are
they
,
who
not
only
in
a
villanous
contempt
cast
away
the
grace
of
Gods
spirit
,
and
his
holy
worship
:
but
also
of
a
purposed
malice
set
themselues
against
the
same
,
yea
and
endeuour
with
all
their
power
vtterly
to
race
and
root
it
out
,
and
in
stead
thereof
to
plant
the
lies
errors
and
illusions
of
Sathan
,
by
all
meanes
possible
.
Against
this
kind
of
monsters
,
sentence
is
pronounced
in
the
thirteenth
of
Deutronomie
to
wit
,
That
iustice
should
be
executed
vpon
them
with
al
extremity
,
and
no
mercie
and
compassion
showne
vnto
him
,
be
he
Prophet
or
what
else
,
that
goeth
about
to
seduce
others
from
the
seruice
of
the
almighty
,
where
sinne
aboundeth
,
there
grace
aboundeth
much
more
.
Admit
that
this
reuolt
of
Manasses
was
far
greater
and
more
outragious
then
was
Salomons
,
yet
his
true
repentance
found
the
grace
to
be
raised
vp
from
that
wofull
downfall
:
for
,
God
hath
mercie
on
whome
hee
will
haue
mercie
,
and
compassion
on
whome
he
will
haue
compassion
.
O
the
profound
riches
of
the
wisdome
and
knowledge
of
God!
How
vnspeakeable
are
his
iudgements
,
and
his
waies
past
finding
out
.
CHAP.
XX.
Of
the
third
and
worst
sort
of
Apostataes
.
BY
how
much
the
more
God
hath
in
these
latter
daies
poured
forth
more
plentifully
his
graces
vpon
the
sonnes
of
men
,
by
the
manifestations
of
his
sonne
Christ
Iesus
in
the
flesh
,
and
sent
forth
a
more
cleare
light
by
the
preaching
of
his
Gospell
into
the
world
then
was
before
times
:
by
so
much
the
more
culpable
before
God
,
and
guilty
of
eternall
damnation
are
they
,
who
being
once
enlightned
and
made
partakers
of
those
excellent
graces
,
come
afterwards
either
to
despise
or
make
light
account
of
them
,
or
go
about
to
suppresse
the
truth
and
quench
the
spirit
,
which
instructed
them
therein
.
This
is
the
sinne
against
the
Holy
Ghost
,
which
is
mentioned
in
the
sixt
and
tenth
chapter
to
the
Hebrews
;
and
in
the
12
of
Luke
,
and
in
another
place
,
it
is
called
a
sinne
vnto
death
,
because
it
is
impardonable
,
by
reason
that
no
excuse
of
ignorance
can
be
pleaded
,
nor
any
plaister
of
true
repentance
applied
vnto
it
.
The
Apostataes
of
the
old
Testament
vnder
the
law
,
were
not
guilty
of
this
sin
:
for
although
there
were
many
that
willingly
and
maliciously
reuolted
and
set
themselues
against
the
Prophets
of
God
,
making
warre
as
it
were
with
the
holy
ghost
,
yet
seeing
they
had
no
such
cleare
testimonies
of
Christ
Iesus
,
&
declaration
of
Gods
spirit
as
we
haue
,
their
sin
can
not
be
properly
said
directly
to
be
against
the
H.
ghost
,
&
so
neuer
to
be
remitted
;
according
to
the
description
of
this
sin
in
those
passages
of
Scripture
,
which
were
before
recited
:
as
it
may
manifestly
appeare
by
the
former
example
of
king
Manasses
.
The
Apostle
himselfe
likewise
doth
auerre
the
truth
hereof
,
when
he
saith
,
If
wee
sinne
w●llingly
after
that
wee
haue
receiued
the
knowledge
of
the
truth
,
there
remaineth
no
more
sacrifice
for
sinnes
:
but
a
fearefull
looking
for
of
iudgement
,
and
violent
fire
which
shall
deuoure
the
aduersaries
.
If
any
man
despised
Moses
law
,
he
died
without
mercie
vnder
two
or
three
witnesses
:
of
how
much
sorer
punishment
suppose
yee
shall
he
be
worthy
,
which
treadeth
vnder
foot
the
son
of
God
,
and
counteth
the
blood
of
the
Testament
as
a
prophane
thing
,
whereby
hee
was
sanctified
,
and
doth
despight
the
spirit
of
grace
?
Here
we
may
see
,
that
this
sinne
is
proper
to
those
only
that
liued
vnder
the
Gospell
,
and
haue
tasted
of
the
comfort
and
knowledge
of
Christ
.
Iudas
Iscariot
(
that
wicked
&
accursed
varlet
)
committed
the
deed
,
and
feeles
the
scourge
of
this
great
sinne
:
for
he
(
being
a
disciple
,
nay
an
Apostle
of
Christ
Iesus
,
mooued
with
couetousnes
,
after
he
had
deuised
and
concluded
of
the
manner
and
complot
of
his
treason
with
the
enemies
sold
his
Lord
and
master
the
Sauiour
of
the
world
,
for
thirty
peeces
of
siluer
,
and
betraied
him
into
the
hands
of
theeues
and
murderers
,
who
sought
nothing
but
his
destruction
.
After
this
vile
traitour
had
perfourmed
this
execrable
purpose
(
by
reason
whereof
hee
is
called
the
sonne
of
perdition
)
hee
could
find
no
rest
nor
repose
in
his
guilty
conscience
,
but
was
horribly
troubled
and
tormented
with
remorse
of
his
wickednesse
,
iudging
himselfe
worthy
of
a
thousand
deaths
,
for
betraying
that
innocent
and
guiltlesse
blood
.
If
he
looked
vp
,
hee
saw
the
vengeance
of
God
ready
to
fall
vpon
him
and
ensnare
him
:
if
hee
looked
downe
,
hee
saw
nothing
but
hell
gaping
to
swallow
him
vp
:
the
light
of
this
world
was
odious
to
him
,
and
his
owne
life
displeased
him
,
so
that
being
plunged
into
the
bottomles
pit
of
despaire
,
he
at
last
strangled
himselfe
,
Porphyrie
also
(
a
whelpe
of
the
same
litter
)
after
hee
had
receiued
the
knowledge
of
the
truth
,
for
despite
and
anger
that
he
was
reprooued
of
his
faults
by
the
Christians
,
set
himselfe
against
them
,
and
published
bookes
full
of
horrible
blasphemies
to
discredit
and
ouerthtow
the
Christian
faith
.
But
when
he
perceiued
how
fully
and
sufficiently
hee
was
confuted
,
and
that
he
was
reputed
an
accursed
and
confounded
wretch
for
his
labour
,
in
terrible
despaire
and
anguish
of
soule
,
he
died
.
Iulian
the
Emperour
,
sirnamed
the
Apostate
,
cast
himselfe
headlong
into
the
same
gulfe
:
for
hauing
beene
brought
vp
and
instructed
from
his
childhood
in
the
Christian
faith
,
and
afterward
a
while
a
profest
reader
thereof
to
others
in
the
Church
,
assoone
as
he
had
obtained
the
Empire
,
malitiously
reuolted
from
his
profession
,
and
resisted
with
all
his
power
,
S.
Chrysostome
reporteth
against
the
heathen
)
in
which
he
put
so
much
confidence
,
seemed
ere
long
to
be
rather
a
vast
and
weake
multitude
of
women
&
infants
,
then
an
host
of
warriours
:
for
by
his
euil
and
foolish
conduct
and
gouernment
,
there
rose
so
great
a
famine
amongst
them
,
that
their
horses
which
were
prouided
for
the
battell
,
serued
for
their
bellies
,
yea
and
for
want
of
that
too
,
many
hundreds
died
for
hunger
and
thirst
.
Euer
when
he
skirmished
his
own
side
came
to
the
worst
,
doing
more
scath
to
themselues
,
then
to
their
enemies
:
and
last
(
leading
them
so
vndiscretely
)
they
could
not
by
any
meanes
escape
,
but
were
constrained
after
he
was
slaine
,
to
intreat
the
Persians
to
suffer
them
to
retire
:
and
so
as
many
as
could
,
escaped
and
fled
away
to
saue
their
liues
.
And
thus
this
braue
armie
was
thus
miserably
dismembred
and
discomfited
,
to
the
euerlasting
shame
of
that
wicked
Apostate
.
One
of
the
treasurers
of
this
wicked
Emperour
,
(
who
to
please
his
master
,
Theod.
lib.
3.
cap.
13.
Sozom.
lib.
5.
cap.
8.
Contempt
the
word
,
Lib.
1.
cap.
34.
forsooke
also
the
religion
of
Christ
)
being
on
a
time
mocking
and
deriding
the
ministery
of
the
holy
word
,
died
miserably
on
a
sudden
,
vomiting
his
owne
blood
out
of
his
mouth
:
and
(
as
Chrysostome
saith
)
his
priuie
parts
being
rotten
and
putrified
,
and
consumed
with
lice
,
for
all
that
euer
he
could
doe
to
remedy
the
same
.
It
is
recorded
of
Trebellius
the
first
king
of
the
Bulgarians
,
that
being
conuerted
with
his
people
to
the
faith
of
Christ
,
to
the
end
to
giue
himselfe
the
quieter
to
the
meditation
&
exercise
of
religion
,
resigned
ouer
his
kingdome
to
his
eldest
sonne
:
whome
when
he
perceiued
to
renounce
the
faith
,
and
to
follow
strange
gods
,
he
not
only
depriued
of
all
his
roiall
dignity
,
but
also
caused
his
eies
to
be
put
out
for
a
punishment
of
his
Apostasie
,
and
bestowed
the
kingdome
vpon
his
other
sonne
:
shewing
thereby
,
that
hee
that
abandoneth
the
true
light
of
saluation
,
is
not
worthy
to
enioy
the
comfortable
light
of
the
world
.
A
Diuine
of
Louaine
,
one
Iames
Latonus
,
who
was
well
instructed
at
the
first
in
the
knowledge
of
the
truth
:
afterwards
renouncing
the
same
,
endeuoured
with
all
his
power
to
impugne
&
oppresse
it
:
this
man
being
on
a
time
mounted
into
a
pulpit
to
preach
before
the
Emperor
Charles
the
fift
,
was
at
the
very
instant
so
amased
&
astonished
,
that
no
man
could
perceiue
what
he
said
,
&
so
made
himself
a
laughing
stock
to
all
that
audience
:
seeing
himselfe
thus
disgraced
,
he
returned
from
Brussels
to
Louaine
,
where
he
fell
into
such
grief
&
sorow
of
mind
for
the
dishonor
which
hee
had
gotten
,
that
it
turned
at
length
into
despaire
:
and
in
his
daily
lectures
these
or
like
words
oftentimes
escaped
him
,
after
that
goodly
sermon
,
that
he
had
impugned
the
truth
of
God
:
which
when
diuers
of
his
own
coat
heard
,
they
caused
him
to
be
shut
vp
fast
in
a
house
,
where
in
desperation
he
died
telling
euery
man
he
was
damned
,
and
that
hee
could
not
hope
for
saluation
or
remission
of
his
sinnes
,
because
that
of
meere
malice
hee
had
resisted
and
made
war
with
God
.
Cardinal
Poole
an
Englishman
,
had
also
somtimes
professed
himself
to
be
wel
seene
in
the
sincerity
of
the
gospel
,
yet
contrary
to
his
conscience
he
sent
into
his
countrie
the
trophees
and
ensignes
of
Antichrist
the
Pope
,
which
before
had
been
rased
out
,
and
abolished
the
realme
:
but
he
died
two
or
three
daies
after
queene
Mary
,
in
horrible
griefes
terrors
and
fearefulnesse
,
without
any
shew
of
repentance
.
Stephan
Gardiner
bishop
of
Winchester
,
and
afterward
Chancelor
of
England
,
shewed
in
his
yoong
yeares
some
forwardnesse
to
withstand
the
Popish
abuses
and
superstitions
:
but
assoone
as
he
was
exalted
to
honor
he
turned
ouer
a
new
leafe
,
&
began
freshly
and
furiously
to
afflict
and
to
rend
the
poor
and
faithfull
seruants
of
Christ
,
putting
them
to
the
cruellest
deaths
hee
could
deuise
.
And
yet
more
to
discouer
his
profanesse
&
rebellion
,
he
wrot
many
books
against
the
pure
religion
of
God
:
&
being
thus
swolne
with
venomous
spight
against
the
son
of
God
,
beside
the
extreame
couetousnesse
,
whoredomes
,
&
extortions
which
raigned
in
him
,
behold
the
Lord
laid
his
hand
of
wrath
vpon
him
,
&
stroke
him
with
so
strange
a
malady
,
that
before
his
death
such
horrible
stincke
issued
from
him
,
that
none
of
his
friends
and
seruants
no
not
himselfe
could
endure
the
sauour
therof
:
his
belly
was
swoln
like
a
taber
,
his
eies
distracted
and
sunke
into
his
head
,
his
cheeks
thin
,
&
the
appearance
of
his
whole
face
very
terrible
:
his
breath
sauoured
of
a
filthie
&
intollerable
stincke
,
and
all
his
members
were
rotten
,
with
continual
griefes
&
sownings
:
yet
this
vile
wretch
in
the
middest
of
al
these
torments
ceased
not
to
yell
out
continual
blasphemies
,
and
infamous
speeches
,
and
so
despighting
and
maugring
God
,
died
.
Peter
Castellan
bishop
of
Maston
hauing
attained
to
great
riches
and
renowne
by
the
meanes
of
the
gospell
,
turned
notwithstanding
his
backe
to
Christ
,
and
mightily
inueyed
in
his
sermons
at
Orleance
against
the
profession
of
his
religion
:
seeking
to
make
it
knowne
that
he
had
not
onely
abiured
and
denied
it
,
but
also
that
hee
was
a
profest
aduersarie
vnto
it
.
This
man
sitting
at
a
time
in
his
chaire
,
fell
into
a
strange
disease
which
no
Phisition
had
euer
seen
or
could
search
out
the
cause
of
,
for
one
halfe
of
his
body
was
extreme
hote
and
burned
like
fire
,
the
other
extreame
cold
and
frozen
like
ise
:
and
in
this
torment
with
horrible
cries
and
gronings
hee
ended
his
life
.
A
gray
frier
called
Picard
,
who
once
was
not
ashamed
of
the
Gospell
,
afterwards
set
himselfe
to
preach
against
that
which
he
had
professed
,
&
being
in
the
pulpit
at
Orleance
after
infinit
blasphemies
which
he
disgorged
against
the
truth
,
at
last
said
,
That
he
protested
before
God
and
the
whole
assemblie
that
hee
would
neuer
preach
more
after
that
day
,
because
he
was
an
Apostatae
:
which
saying
hee
by
and
by
impudently
and
constantly
denied
to
the
perill
&
damnation
of
his
owne
soule
:
thinking
by
his
horrible
curses
&
forswearings
to
abuse
the
poore
ignorant
and
superstitious
people
:
but
he
no
sooner
came
into
the
field
,
but
the
puissant
hand
of
God
ouerreached
him
and
stroke
him
speechlesse
,
so
that
he
was
caried
thence
halfe
dead
:
and
with
in
short
space
died
altogether
without
any
appearance
of
repentance
.
Among
many
other
iudges
which
shewed
themselues
hot
and
rigorous
in
persecuting
and
proceeding
against
the
faithfull
prisoners
of
Valence
in
Daulphin
and
other
Romanes
,
at
that
season
when
two
ministers
of
the
same
citie
suffered
martyrdome
:
one
Lanbespin
a
Counsellor
,
and
Ponsenas
the
Kings
attourney
at
the
parlement
of
Grenoble
,
both
two
hauing
beene
professors
in
times
past
,
were
not
the
backwardest
in
that
action
:
but
God
made
them
both
strange
examples
of
his
wrath
;
for
Lanbespin
falling
in
loue
with
a
young
maid
was
so
extreamely
passionate
therein
,
that
hee
forewent
his
owne
estate
,
and
all
bounds
of
ciuill
honestie
,
to
follow
her
vp
and
downe
whether
soeuer
shee
went
:
and
seeing
his
loue
and
labour
despised
and
set
at
naught
,
hee
so
pined
away
with
verie
thought
,
that
making
no
reckoning
of
himselfe
,
such
a
multitude
of
lice
so
fed
vpon
him
,
&
took
so
good
liking
of
their
pasture
,
that
by
no
meanes
he
could
be
clensed
of
them
,
for
they
increased
&
issued
out
of
euery
part
of
his
body
in
such
number
,
as
maggots
are
wont
to
engender
in
a
dead
&
rotten
carrion
.
At
length
a
litle
before
his
death
seeing
his
owne
miserie
,
and
feeling
Gods
heauie
vengeance
vpon
him
,
he
began
to
despaire
of
all
mercie
;
&
to
the
end
to
abridge
his
miserable
daies
,
hee
resolued
to
hunger
starue
himself
to
death
:
which
purpose
the
lice
furthered
,
for
they
stack
so
thick
in
his
throat
as
if
they
would
haue
choked
him
euery
moment
:
neither
could
he
suffer
any
sustenance
to
passe
downe
by
reason
of
them
.
They
that
were
eie
witnesses
of
this
pittifull
spectacle
,
were
wonderously
mooued
with
compassion
,
and
constrained
him
to
eat
whether
hee
would
or
not
.
And
that
they
might
make
him
take
cullisses
and
other
stewed
broathes
,
because
hee
refused
and
stroue
against
them
,
they
bound
his
armes
and
put
gagges
into
his
mouth
to
keepe
it
open
whilest
others
poured
in
the
food
.
And
in
this
wise
being
gagged
,
he
died
like
a
mad
beast
with
aboundance
of
lice
that
went
downe
his
throat
:
in
so
much
that
the
very
Papists
themselues
stucke
not
to
say
,
As
touching
Pons●nas
commonly
called
Bourrell
,
(
a
very
butcher
indeed
of
poore
Christians
)
after
hee
had
sold
his
owne
patrimonie
and
his
wiues
and
friends
also
to
the
end
to
buy
out
his
office
,
&
had
spent
that
which
remained
in
house
keeping
,
hoping
in
short
space
to
rake
vp
twise
as
much
as
he
had
scattered
,
fell
suddainly
into
a
strange
and
vnknown
disease
,
and
shortly
grew
in
despaire
of
Gods
succour
and
fauor
towards
him
,
by
a
strong
remembrance
of
those
of
Valence
and
the
other
Romanes
which
hee
had
put
to
death
,
which
would
neuer
depart
out
of
his
mind
,
but
still
presented
themselues
before
him
:
Steuen
,
Steuen
,
thou
art
blacke
:
So
I
am
and
it
please
you
(
quoth
hee
)
but
I
am
neither
Turke
nor
Moore
,
nor
Bohemian
,
but
a
Gascoigne
of
red
haire
.
No
,
no
(
answered
he
)
not
so
,
but
thou
art
blacke
:
but
it
is
with
sinne
.
That
is
true
(
quoth
hee
)
but
I
hope
in
the
bountifull
mercie
of
God
that
for
the
loue
of
Christ
who
died
for
mee
,
my
blacke
sinnes
shall
not
bee
imputed
to
me
.
There
he
redoubling
his
choler
,
cried
mainely
after
his
clarke
,
calling
him
Lutheran
,
Huguenot
,
villaine
.
At
which
noise
his
friends
without
rushed
in
to
know
what
the
matter
was
:
but
hee
commanded
that
Steuen
his
clarke
should
presently
haue
a
paire
of
bolts
clapt
on
his
heeles
,
and
to
bee
burned
for
an
Heretike
.
In
briefe
his
choler
and
rage
boiled
so
furiously
in
him
,
that
in
short
space
hee
died
a
fearfull
death
,
with
horrible
houling
&
outcries
:
his
creditors
scarce
gaue
them
respite
to
draw
his
carcase
out
of
his
bed
,
before
they
seased
vpon
all
his
goods
,
not
leauing
his
poore
wife
and
children
so
much
as
a
bed
of
straw
to
lie
in
:
so
grieuous
was
the
curse
of
God
vpon
his
house
.
Another
great
Prince
hauing
in
former
time
vsed
his
authoritie
and
power
to
the
aduancing
of
Gods
kingdome
:
afterwards
being
seduced
by
the
allurements
of
the
world
renounced
God
,
and
took
part
with
the
enemies
of
his
church
to
make
warre
against
it
;
in
which
warre
hee
was
wounded
to
death
:
and
is
one
notable
example
of
Gods
iust
vengeance
to
all
that
shall
in
like
manner
fall
away
.
CHAP.
XXI
.
Of
Heretikes
.
AS
it
is
a
matter
necessarily
appertaining
to
the
first
commandement
that
the
puritie
and
sinceritie
of
the
doctrine
of
Gods
word
be
maintained
,
by
the
rule
whereof
hee
would
haue
vs
both
know
him
and
vnderstand
the
holy
mysteries
which
are
reuealed
to
vs
therein
:
so
also
by
the
contrarie
,
whatsoeuer
tendeth
to
the
corrupting
or
falsifieng
of
the
same
word
,
rising
from
foolish
and
strange
opinions
of
humane
reason
,
the
same
transgresseth
the
limits
of
this
commandement
:
of
which
sort
is
Heresie
,
an
euill
of
it
owne
nature
verie
pernicious
and
contagious
,
and
no
lesse
to
bee
feared
and
shunned
then
the
heate
of
persecution
:
and
by
meanes
whereof
the
whole
nation
of
Christendome
hath
beene
heretofore
tossed
with
many
troubles
,
and
the
church
of
God
greeuously
vexed
.
But
as
truth
got
euer
the
vpper
hand
,
and
preuailed
against
falshood
:
so
the
brochers
and
vpholders
of
falshood
came
euer
to
the
worse
,
and
were
confounded
as
well
by
the
strength
of
truth
,
as
by
the
speciall
iudgements
of
God
sent
downe
vpon
the
most
part
of
them
.
Acts.
5.36.39
.
Euseb.
eccle.
hist.
lib
2.
cap.
10.
Ioseph
.
antiq.
lib.
18.
cap.
1.
&
lib.
20
,
cap.
2.
Theudas
and
Iudas
Galilaeus
were
two
that
seduced
the
Iewes
before
Christ
:
for
the
first
of
them
said
hee
was
a
Prophet
sent
from
God
,
and
that
hee
could
deuide
the
waters
of
Iordan
by
his
word
,
as
Ioshua
the
seruant
of
the
Lord
did
.
The
other
promised
to
deliuer
them
from
the
seruitude
and
the
yoke
of
the
Romanes
.
And
both
of
them
by
that
means
drew
much
people
after
them
:
so
prone
is
the
common
multitude
to
follow
nouelties
,
and
to
beleeue
euery
new
fangle
that
is
but
yesterday
set
on
broch
.
But
they
came
both
to
a
deserued
destruction
:
for
Fatus
the
gouernour
of
Iury
ouertooke
Theudas
,
&
sending
his
trunck
to
the
graue
,
carried
his
head
as
a
monument
to
Ierusalem
.
As
for
Iudas
hee
perished
also
&
al
his
followers
were
dispersed
,
manifesting
their
ends
that
their
works
were
not
of
God
but
of
men
,
and
therfore
must
needs
come
to
naught
.
Sergius
Paulus
the
Deputy
,
and
sowed
a
contrarie
heresie
in
his
mind
,
but
Paul
full
of
the
holy
Ghost
set
his
eies
on
him
and
said
:
O
full
of
all
subtiltie
and
mischiefe
,
the
child
of
the
Deuill
and
enemie
of
righteousnesse
,
wilt
thou
not
cease
to
peruert
the
straight
waies
of
the
Lord
?
Now
therefore
behold
the
hand
of
the
Lord
is
vpon
thee
,
and
thou
shalt
be
blind
for
a
season
.
And
immediately
there
fell
vpon
him
a
mist
and
darkenesse
,
and
he
went
about
to
seeke
some
to
lead
him
by
the
hand
.
And
this
recompense
gained
he
for
his
erronious
and
hereticall
practise
.
It
is
reported
of
Cerinthus
an
Heretike
,
that
hee
denying
and
going
about
to
darken
the
doctrine
of
Christs
euerlasting
kingdome
,
Manes
,
Montanus
that
blasphemous
caitife
,
of
whom
came
the
Montanistes
,
or
Pepuzian
heretikes
of
a
towne
in
Phrigia
called
Pepuza
,
denied
Christ
our
sauiour
to
bee
God
,
and
said
he
was
but
a
man
only
like
other
men
,
without
any
participation
of
diuine
essence
:
hee
called
himselfe
the
comforter
and
holy
spirit
which
was
forepromised
to
come
into
the
world
:
and
his
two
wiues
,
Priscilla
and
Maximilla
,
hee
named
his
prophetisses
,
and
their
writings
prophecies
:
howbeit
all
their
cunning
could
not
foretell
nor
preuent
a
wretched
and
desperate
end
which
befell
him
,
for
hee
hong
himself
after
he
had
deluded
the
world
a
long
season
,
&
proued
by
his
end
,
his
life
to
haue
beene
vile
and
damnable
,
according
to
the
Prouerbe
,
Qualis
vita
,
finis
ita
,
A
cursed
life
and
a
cursed
death
.
Of
all
Heretikes
that
euer
troubled
and
afflicted
Gods
church
,
the
Arians
were
the
chiefe
:
the
author
and
ringleader
of
which
crue
,
as
by
his
vainglorious
pride
and
ambition
he
sought
to
extoll
himselfe
aboue
the
clouds
,
bosting
and
vaunting
in
his
damnable
error
:
The
Emperour
Valence
was
infected
also
with
this
poison
,
As
for
Nestorius
,
which
would
maintaine
by
his
foolish
&
dangerous
opinions
,
that
the
diuinitie
of
Christ
was
deuided
from
his
humanity
,
making
as
it
were
two
Christs
of
one
,
and
two
persons
of
one
,
Concerning
the
Anabaptists
,
which
rose
vp
about
fiue
hundred
yeres
since
,
it
is
euidently
knowen
how
diuers
waies
God
scourged
and
plagued
many
of
them
:
some
of
them
were
destroied
by
troupes
and
by
thousands
:
others
,
miserably
executed
and
put
to
death
in
diuers
places
,
as
well
for
their
monstrous
&
damnable
heresies
,
as
for
many
mischiefes
and
outrages
which
they
committed
.
By
all
which
things
,
God
doth
exhibite
and
set
before
our
eies
,
how
deare
&
precious
in
his
sight
the
purenesse
of
his
holy
word
,
&
the
vnion
of
his
Church
is
:
and
how
carefull
&
zealous
euery
one
of
vs
ought
to
be
in
maintaining
and
vpholding
the
same
:
when
as
he
reuengeth
himselfe
so
sharply
vpon
all
those
that
go
about
to
peruert
and
corrupt
the
sincerity
therof
,
or
which
be
breeders
of
new
sects
and
diuisions
among
his
people
.
Olympus
,
(
by
office
bishop
of
Carthage
,
but
by
profession
a
fauourer
and
maintainer
of
the
Arrian
heresie
)
being
vpon
a
time
in
a
bath
washing
himselfe
,
4.
Blasphemie
,
Lib.
1.
cap.
31.
Atheisme
,
Lib.
1.
cap.
25.
hee
vttered
with
an
impious
mouth
,
blasphemous
words
against
the
holy
Trinitie
:
but
a
threefold
thunderbolt
came
from
aboue
,
and
stroke
him
dead
in
the
same
place
;
teaching
him
by
his
paine
,
and
all
other
by
experience
,
what
it
is
to
blaspheme
the
Lord
of
heauen
,
or
with
polluted
lippes
to
mention
his
sacred
maiestie
:
this
happened
in
the
yeere
of
our
Lord
God
510.
Cyrill
hath
recorded
vnto
vs
of
his
owne
knowledge
,
a
more
wonderfull
and
admirable
wonder
of
God
vpon
an
heretique
then
all
the
rest
,
and
such
an
one
indeed
,
as
the
like
(
I
dare
say
)
was
neuer
heard
of
,
the
history
is
this
;
After
the
decease
of
S.
Ierome
,
there
stood
vp
one
Sabinianus
,
a
peruerse
and
blasphemous
fellow
,
that
denied
the
distinctions
of
persons
in
the
Trinitie
,
and
affirmed
the
Father
,
the
Sonne
,
and
the
Holy
Ghost
to
be
but
one
indistinct
person
:
and
to
giue
credit
to
his
heresie
,
he
wrote
a
booke
of
such
blasphemies
,
tending
to
the
confirmation
of
the
same
;
and
fathered
it
vpon
S.
Ierome
,
as
being
the
authour
of
it
.
But
Siluanus
the
bishop
of
Nazaren
mightily
withstood
,
and
reproued
him
for
deprauing
so
worthy
a
man
now
dead
;
and
offering
his
life
for
the
truth
,
made
this
bargaine
with
Sabinianus
,
that
if
S.
Ierome
the
next
day
did
not
by
some
miracle
testifie
the
falsnesse
of
his
cause
,
hee
would
offer
his
throat
to
the
hangman
,
and
abide
death
:
but
if
he
did
that
,
then
he
should
die
.
This
was
agreed
vpon
by
each
party
;
and
the
day
following
both
of
them
accompanied
with
great
expectation
of
the
people
,
resorted
into
the
Temple
of
Ierusalem
to
decide
the
controuersie
.
Now
the
day
was
past
,
and
no
miracle
appeared
,
so
that
Siluanus
was
commaunded
to
yeeld
his
necke
to
that
punishment
which
himselfe
was
authour
of
:
which
as
hee
,
most
willingly
and
confidently
did
,
behold
,
an
Image
like
to
Saint
Ierome
in
shew
,
appeared
and
slaied
the
hangmans
hand
,
which
was
now
ready
to
strike
;
and
vanishing
forthwith
,
another
miracle
succeeded
,
Sabinianus
head
fell
from
his
shoulders
,
no
man
striking
at
it
:
and
his
carkasse
remained
vpon
the
ground
dead
and
senselesse
.
Whereat
the
people
amazed
,
praising
God
,
claue
vnto
Siluanus
,
and
abiured
Sabinianus
heresie
.
Wherein
wee
may
obserue
the
wonderfull
wisdome
of
God
,
both
in
punishing
his
enemies
,
and
trying
his
children
whether
they
will
stand
to
his
truth
or
no
:
and
learne
therby
,
neither
rashly
to
measure
and
limit
the
purposes
of
God
,
nor
yet
timerously
to
despaire
of
helpe
in
a
good
cause
,
though
we
see
no
meanes
nor
likelihood
thereof
.
Grimeald
king
of
Lumbardie
,
was
infected
with
the
Arrian
heresie
,
for
which
cause
the
Lord
punished
him
with
vntimely
death
,
for
hauing
beene
let
blood
,
the
eleuenth
day
after
as
he
stroue
to
draw
a
bow
,
hee
opened
the
vaine
a
new
,
and
so
bled
to
death
.
Cabades
,
Photinus
a
Gallograecian
,
for
renuing
the
heresie
of
Hebion
,
The
Emperour
Iustinian
,
Moreouer
,
besides
those
,
there
were
vnder
Pope
Innocent
the
third
,
certaine
heretiques
celled
Albigonses
,
or
Albiani
,
which
being
possessed
with
the
same
spirit
of
fury
,
that
the
Maniches
were
,
affirmed
that
there
were
two
Gods
;
one
good
,
and
another
euill
:
they
denied
the
resurrection
,
despised
the
sacraments
,
and
said
that
the
soules
of
men
after
their
separation
,
passed
either
into
hogs
,
oxen
,
serpents
,
or
men
,
according
to
their
merits
:
Gregory
of
Tours
hath
recorded
the
life
and
death
of
an
hereticall
monke
of
Bordeaux
,
that
by
the
helpe
of
Magicke
wrought
miracles
,
and
tooke
vpon
him
the
name
and
title
of
Christ
,
saying
hee
could
cure
diseases
,
and
restore
those
that
were
past
helpe
by
phisicke
,
vnto
their
healths
:
he
went
attired
with
garments
made
of
goars
haire
,
and
an
hood
,
professing
an
austerity
of
life
abroad
,
whereas
he
plaied
the
glutton
at
home
:
but
at
length
his
cousenage
was
discouered
,
&
he
was
banished
the
citie
,
as
a
man
vnfit
for
ciuill
societie
.
In
the
yeere
of
our
Lord
God
1204
in
the
Empire
of
Otto
the
fourth
,
there
was
one
Almaricus
also
that
denied
the
presence
of
Christ
in
the
sacrament
,
Anastasius
,
Emperour
of
Constantinople
,
being
corrupted
with
the
heresie
of
Eutiches
,
published
an
edict
,
wherein
all
men
were
commanded
to
worship
God
not
vnder
three
persons
as
a
trinity
,
but
as
a
quaternitie
,
containing
in
it
foure
persons
:
and
could
not
by
any
counsell
be
brought
from
that
deuilish
errour
,
but
repelled
from
him
diuers
bishops
with
great
reproch
,
which
came
to
perswade
him
to
the
contrary
:
for
which
cause
not
long
after
,
a
flash
of
lightning
from
heauen
suddenly
seazed
vpon
him
,
and
so
he
perished
when
hee
had
reigned
eight
and
twentie
yeeres
.
Iustinus
the
second
also
,
who
after
the
death
of
Iustinian
obtained
the
Imperiall
crowne
,
was
a
man
of
exceeding
pride
and
crueltie
,
contemning
pouertie
and
murdering
the
nobilitie
for
the
most
part
.
In
auarice
his
desire
was
so
insatiate
,
that
he
caused
iron
chests
to
be
prepared
,
wherein
hee
might
locke
vp
that
treasure
which
by
vniust
exactions
hee
had
extorted
of
the
people
.
Notwithstanding
all
this
,
hee
prospered
well
enough
,
vntill
he
fell
into
the
heresie
of
Pelagian
,
soone
after
which
,
the
Lord
bereft
him
of
his
wits
,
and
shortly
after
of
his
life
also
,
when
he
had
reigned
eleuen
yeeres
.
Mahomet
,
by
birth
an
Arabian
,
and
by
profession
one
of
the
most
monstrous
heretikes
that
euer
liued
,
began
his
heresie
in
the
yeere
625
,
his
offspring
was
but
out
of
a
base
stocke
:
for
being
fatherlesse
,
one
Abdemonoples
a
man
of
the
house
of
Ismael
,
bought
him
for
his
slaue
,
and
loued
him
greatly
for
his
fauour
and
wit
:
for
which
cause
,
he
made
him
ruler
ouer
his
marchandize
and
other
businesse
.
Now
in
the
meane
while
one
Sergius
a
monke
,
(
flying
for
heresie
into
Arabia
)
instructed
him
in
the
heresie
of
Nestorius
:
a
while
after
,
his
master
died
without
children
,
and
left
behind
him
much
riches
,
and
his
wife
a
widow
of
fifty
yeeres
of
age
,
whome
Mahomet
married
;
and
when
shee
died
,
was
made
heire
vnto
all
her
riches
.
So
that
now
(
what
for
his
wealth
and
cunning
in
magicke
)
he
was
had
in
high
honour
among
the
common
people
.
Wherefore
(
by
the
counsell
of
Sergius
)
he
called
himselfe
,
The
great
Prophet
of
God
.
And
shortly
after
(
when
his
fame
was
published
)
hee
deuised
a
law
and
kind
of
religion
called
Alcaron
,
wherein
he
borrowed
something
almost
of
all
the
heresies
that
were
before
his
time
:
with
the
Sabellians
he
denied
the
Trinitie
:
with
the
Maniclies
he
said
there
was
but
two
persons
in
the
Deity
:
hee
denied
the
equalitie
of
the
Father
with
the
Sonne
,
with
Eunomius
:
and
said
with
Macedone
,
that
the
Holy
Ghost
was
a
creature
:
and
approoued
the
community
of
women
,
with
the
Nicholaits
:
hee
borrowed
of
the
Iewes
circumcision
,
and
of
the
Gentiles
much
superstition
:
and
somewhat
he
tooke
of
the
Christian
verity
,
besides
many
deuilish
fantasies
inuented
of
his
owne
braine
:
those
that
obeied
his
law
,
he
called
Sarazins
.
Now
after
he
had
liued
in
these
monstrous
abuses
fourty
yeeres
,
the
Lord
cut
him
off
by
the
falling
sicknesse
,
which
he
had
dissembled
a
long
time
,
saying
when
hee
was
taken
therewith
,
that
the
Angell
Gabriel
appeared
vnto
him
,
whose
brightnesse
hee
could
not
behold
;
but
the
Lord
made
that
his
destruction
,
which
he
imagined
would
be
for
his
honour
,
and
setting
forth
his
sect
.
William
Geffery
that
constantly
auouched
a
companion
of
his
,
called
Iohn
Moore
,
to
be
Christ
our
Sauiour
,
and
could
not
be
reclaimed
from
this
mad
perswasion
,
vntill
he
was
whipped
from
Southwarke
to
Bedlam
,
where
the
said
Moore
meeting
him
,
was
whipped
also
vntill
they
both
confessed
Christ
to
be
in
heauen
,
and
themselues
to
be
sinfull
and
wicked
men
.
But
most
strange
it
is
,
Edmond
Coppinger
&
Henry
Arthington
,
two
gentlemen
being
associated
with
one
William
Hacket
,
somtimes
a
profane
&
very
leud
person
,
but
now
conuerted
in
outward
shew
,
though
not
in
inward
affection
,
were
so
seduced
by
his
hypocriticall
behauiour
&
the
deuils
extraordinary
deuices
,
that
from
one
point
to
another
they
came
at
last
to
thinke
,
that
this
Hacket
was
anointed
to
be
the
Iudge
of
the
world
:
&
therfore
comming
on
a
day
to
Hacke●s
lodging
in
London
,
Hacket
,
lib.
1.
c.
22.
he
told
them
that
he
had
bin
annointed
of
the
H.
ghost
:
then
Coppinger
asked
him
what
his
pleasure
was
to
be
done
:
Go
your
way
(
saith
he
)
&
proclaime
in
the
city
that
Christ
Iesus
is
come
with
his
fan
in
his
hand
to
iudge
the
earth
:
&
if
they
wil
not
beleeue
it
,
let
them
come
&
kill
me
if
they
can
.
Then
Coppinger
answered
,
it
should
be
don
forthwith
:
&
therupon
(
like
mad
men
)
he
&
Arthington
ran
into
the
streets
,
&
proclaimed
their
message
aforesaid
,
&
when
by
reason
of
the
concourse
of
people
they
could
not
proceed
any
further
,
they
got
vp
into
two
empty
carts
in
Cheap
,
crying
,
Repent
,
repent
,
for
Christ
Iesus
is
come
to
iudge
the
world
:
&
then
pulling
a
paper
out
of
his
bosom
,
he
read
out
of
it
many
things
touching
the
office
&
calling
of
Hacket
,
how
he
represented
Christ
by
partaking
part
of
his
glorified
body
,
&c.
besides
,
they
called
themselues
his
prophets
,
one
of
Iustice
,
another
of
mercy
.
And
thus
these
simple
men
were
strangely
deceiued
by
a
miraculous
illusion
of
Satan
,
who
no
doubt
by
strange
apparitions
had
brought
them
into
this
vain
conceit
.
But
let
vs
obserue
the
end
of
it
,
it
was
thus
:
The
whole
citie
being
in
a
maze
,
tooke
Hacket
the
breeder
of
this
deuise
,
and
arraigning
him
before
the
Maior
&
other
Iustices
,
found
him
guilty
as
well
of
this
seditious
practise
,
as
of
speaking
traiterous
words
against
the
Queene
:
Wherefore
hee
was
shortly
after
hanged
on
a
gibbet
in
Cheape-side
,
counterfaiting
to
his
last
,
his
old
deuises
,
and
at
length
vttering
horrible
blasphemies
against
the
maiestie
of
God
.
As
for
his
Prophets
,
Coppinger
died
the
next
day
in
Bridewell
,
and
Arthington
was
kept
in
prison
vpon
hope
of
repentance
.
This
though
it
be
no
fit
example
for
Heresie
,
yet
because
it
commeth
somewhat
neere
vnto
it
,
I
thought
it
meet
to
insert
it
in
this
place
.
CHAP.
XXII
.
Of
Hypocrites
.
AS
God
is
a
spirit
and
truth
,
so
hee
will
be
worshipped
in
truth
of
spirit
and
affection
,
and
not
in
hypocrisie
and
dissimulation
:
for
which
cause
hee
commaundeth
vs
by
the
mouth
of
Moses
in
the
sixt
and
tenth
Chapters
of
Deuteronomie
,
To
loue
and
honour
him
with
all
our
heart
,
with
all
our
soule
,
and
all
our
strength
,
which
Hypocrites
are
so
farre
from
doing
,
that
they
haue
nothing
in
them
but
a
vaine
shew
of
coined
religion
,
and
so
by
that
meanes
breake
the
first
commaundement
,
thinking
to
bleare
Gods
eies
with
their
outward
shewes
and
ceremonies
,
as
if
hee
were
like
men
to
see
nothing
but
that
which
is
without
,
and
offereth
it selfe
to
the
view
:
but
it
is
quite
contrary
:
for
it
is
he
that
descrieth
the
heart
,
In
this
range
may
wee
place
,
Geefie
,
Blizeus
seruant
,
who
being
as
it
were
the
Disciple
and
profest
follower
both
of
his
maisters
life
and
doctrine
,
the
true
Prophet
of
God
,
by
whom
for
the
further
assurance
and
confirmation
of
the
grace
and
blessing
of
God
hee
had
seene
many
notable
and
excellent
miracles
wrought
:
Nicephorus
telleth
of
one
Philip
the
first
Emperour
that
vndertooke
the
name
and
profession
of
Christ
,
but
by
the
report
of
other
writers
,
it
proceeded
not
from
any
zeale
of
religion
or
feare
of
God
:
but
onely
to
the
intent
to
counterfeit
a
kind
of
honestie
and
couer
his
foule
vices
and
cruelties
vnder
the
cloke
of
religion
.
But
God
quickly
espied
and
punished
his
deepe
hypocrisie
:
for
before
hee
had
raigned
full
fiue
yeares
,
both
hee
and
his
sonne
were
slaine
at
Verona
by
his
men
of
warre
.
Let
vs
learne
then
this
lesson
,
by
these
examples
to
carrie
our selues
in
all
purenesse
,
sinceritie
,
and
good
conscience
before
God
;
that
our
thoughts
,
wordes
,
and
deedes
being
estranged
from
all
hypocrisie
and
dissimulation
,
may
bee
agreeable
and
acceptable
in
his
sight
.
Moreouer
euen
as
hypocrisie
can
wind
and
insinuate
her selfe
into
the
pure
and
sincere
seruice
of
God
,
as
hath
ben
declared
;
so
doth
she
play
her
part
with
no
lesse
brauery
and
ostentation
in
superstition
and
idolatrie
:
for
the
truth
whereof
(
before
I
proceed
further
)
I
will
set
downe
a
hystorie
not
altogether
vnworthy
the
reading
and
remembring
:
Two
hundred
yeares
are
not
yet
past
since
there
was
in
the
raigne
of
Charles
the
seuenth
king
of
France
,
certaine
preaching
Frier
of
Britaine
called
Frier
Thomas
,
But
let
vs
hear
the
issue
of
this
holy
hypocrit
,
it
was
thus
,
when
hee
had
in
the
forenamed
sort
trauersed
aswell
France
and
Flanders
;
it
took
him
in
the
head
to
passe
the
mountains
and
visit
Rome
:
imagining
that
it
was
no
hard
matter
to
obtaine
the
Popeship
,
seeing
that
in
all
places
where
hee
went
there
was
equall
honour
giuen
vnto
him
:
or
if
hee
should
faile
of
that
hope
,
yet
at
least
the
Pope
and
his
cardinals
would
entertaine
him
honourably
:
but
it
happened
far
shorr
of
his
expectation
,
for
Popes
are
not
so
prodigall
of
their
honors
to
do
any
such
reuerence
to
a
poore
silly
Monke
,
but
are
very
niggards
and
sparing
thereof
euen
towards
Kings
;
so
farre
are
they
from
leauing
their
thrones
of
maiesty
to
any
other
:
neither
must
wee
thinke
that
the
Pope
cared
greatly
for
all
those
tricks
and
quiddities
of
Frier
Thomas
,
seeing
hee
himselfe
is
the
onely
Marchant
of
such
trash
.
When
hee
was
arriued
at
Rome
,
Pope
Eugenius
seeing
that
hee
came
not
according
to
custome
to
kisse
his
holinesse
feet
,
sent
for
him
twise
,
and
vnderstanding
that
he
refused
to
come
,
and
that
hee
fained
himselfe
to
bee
euill
at
ease
:
sent
his
treasurer
,
but
not
to
impart
to
him
any
treasure
,
but
to
apprehend
and
attach
him
.
The
Frier
now
perceiuing
that
inquirie
was
made
for
him
,
and
that
they
were
at
his
chamber
dore
,
leapt
out
at
a
window
thinking
by
that
meanes
to
escape
:
but
hee
was
quickly
taken
prisoner
by
the
treasurers
seruants
waiting
before
the
dore
,
and
brought
before
the
consistorie
of
Cardinals
:
law
proceeded
against
him
,
by
doome
wherof
though
no
erronious
opinions
could
bee
proued
against
him
,
hee
was
adiudged
to
the
stake
to
bee
burned
for
an
Heretike
:
but
it
was
sufficient
to
make
him
guiltie
,
because
hee
defamed
the
Priests
in
his
sermons
,
and
had
spoken
so
broadly
of
their
gossips
,
and
had
beene
so
bold
to
vsurpe
the
authority
of
giuing
pardons
,
which
the
Popes
claim
for
a
priuiledge
of
their
own
sea
,
and
besides
had
made
no
more
account
of
him
that
is
a
pettie
God
on
earth
:
but
had
done
all
these
things
without
his
leaue
and
license
:
it
was
an
hard
matter
to
bee
induced
of
the
bishops
of
Rome
that
a
silly
Monke
should
so
intermeddle
with
their
affaires
,
and
should
derogate
any
whit
from
their
supremacie
:
seeing
that
they
quit
themselues
so
wel
with
Kings
and
Emperours
,
and
can
at
euery
right
occasion
make
them
stoope
:
neither
is
it
to
be
doubted
,
but
that
Pope
Eugenius
was
very
iealous
of
the
honour
which
Frier
Thomas
attained
vnto
in
euery
place
,
&
fearfull
least
his
presence
might
disturbe
his
present
estate
.
By
this
meanes
God
who
vseth
all
instruments
for
his
owne
purpose
,
and
can
direct
euery
particular
to
the
performing
of
his
will
,
did
punish
and
correct
the
hypocrisie
of
this
Monke
,
that
seemed
to
bee
holy
and
wise
being
indeed
nothing
but
foolish
,
stubborne
and
ambitious
.
Moreouer
most
notable
was
the
hypocrisie
of
two
counterfait
holy
maids
,
Elizabeth
Barton
,
the
other
of
France
called
Ioane
la
Pucelle
:
the
former
of
which
by
the
procurement
&
information
of
one
Richard
Master
,
person
of
Aldington
,
and
Edward
Bocking
Doctor
of
diuinity
a
Monk
of
Canterbury
,
and
diuerse
others
,
counterfeited
such
manner
of
traunces
and
distortions
in
her
bodie
,
with
the
vttering
of
diuers
counterfeit
vertues
,
&
holy
words
tending
to
the
rebuke
of
sinne
,
&
reprouing
such
new
opinions
as
there
began
to
spread
,
that
she
won
great
credit
amongst
the
people
,
&
drew
after
her
a
multitude
of
fauourites
:
besides
shee
would
prophesie
of
things
to
come
,
as
that
shee
should
bee
helped
of
her
disease
by
none
but
the
image
of
our
lady
in
Aldington
;
whether
being
brought
,
she
appeared
to
the
people
to
be
sodainly
releeued
from
her
sicknesse
:
by
means
of
which
hypocrital
dissimulation
,
she
was
brought
into
maruellous
estimation
,
not
only
with
the
common
people
,
but
with
diuerse
great
men
also
,
insomuch
that
a
book
was
put
in
print
,
touching
her
fained
miracles
&
reuelations
.
Howbeit
not
content
to
delude
the
people
,
shee
began
also
to
medle
with
the
king
himself
,
Henry
the
eigth
:
saying
that
if
he
proceeded
to
be
deuorced
from
his
wife
Queene
Katharine
he
should
not
remaine
king
one
month
after
,
and
in
the
reputation
of
God
not
one
day
:
for
which
&
many
other
tricks
practised
by
her
,
shee
with
her
complices
was
arraigned
of
high
treason
,
and
after
confession
of
all
her
knauerie
,
drawne
from
the
tower
to
Tiborne
and
there
hanged
;
the
holy
maides
head
being
set
vpon
London
bridge
,
&
the
others
on
certain
gates
of
the
city
.
la
Pucelle
de
dieu
,
maruellously
deluded
with
her
counterfeit
hipocrisie
,
Charles
the
seuenth
king
of
France
,
and
al
the
whole
French
nation
in
such
sort
that
so
much
credit
was
attributed
vnto
her
,
that
she
was
honoured
as
a
saint
,
and
thought
to
bee
sent
of
God
to
the
aid
of
the
French
king
:
by
her
meanes
Orleance
was
won
from
the
English
,
and
many
other
exploits
atchieued
,
which
(
to
be
short
)
I
will
refer
the
reader
vnto
in
the
French
Chronicles
,
where
they
shall
find
her
admirable
knauerie
at
large
discouered
.
But
touching
her
end
it
was
on
this
sort
:
as
shee
marched
on
horsebacke
to
the
town
of
Champaigne
,
to
remoue
the
siege
wherewith
it
was
girt
by
the
Duke
of
Burgoine
and
other
of
the
English
captaines
,
Sir
Iohn
Leupembrough
a
Burgonian
knight
took
her
aliue
,
and
conueied
her
to
the
city
of
Roane
,
where
she
faining
her self
with
child
,
when
the
contrarie
was
knowne
,
was
condemned
and
burnt
.
And
thus
these
two
holy
women
that
in
a
diuerse
kind
mocked
the
people
of
England
and
France
by
their
hypocrisie
,
by
the
iustice
of
God
came
to
deserued
destructions
.
CHAP.
XXIII
.
Of
Coniurers
,
and
Enchanters
.
IF
God
by
his
first
commandement
hath
enioined
euery
one
of
vs
to
loue
serue
and
cleaue
unto
him
alone
in
the
coniunction
and
vnity
of
a
true
faith
and
hope
vnremoueable
:
there
is
no
doubt
but
he
forbiddeth
on
the
other
side
that
which
is
contrarie
to
this
foresaid
dutie
,
and
herein
especially
that
cursed
familiarity
which
diuerse
miserable
wretches
haue
with
that
lying
spirit
the
father
of
error
,
by
whose
delusions
and
subtiltie
they
busie
themselues
in
the
studie
of
sorceries
and
enchantments
,
wherevpon
it
is
forbidden
the
Israelites
in
the
nineteenth
of
Leuiticus
,
That
if
either
man
or
woman
haue
a
spirit
of
diuination
or
soothsaying
in
them
,
they
should
die
the
death
,
they
should
stone
them
to
death
,
their
blood
should
be
vpon
them
:
Thou
shalt
not
suffer
a
witch
to
liue
:
and
Moses
following
the
same
steps
,
giueth
an
expresse
charge
in
in
the
eighteenth
of
Deutronotny
against
this
sinne
saying
,
Let
none
bee
found
among
thee
that
vseth
witchcraft
,
nor
that
regardeth
the
clouds
or
times
,
nor
a
sorcerer
,
or
a
charmer
,
or
that
counselleth
with
a
spirit
,
or
a
teller
of
fortunes
,
or
that
asketh
counsell
at
the
dead
:
for
all
that
doe
such
things
are
abhomination
vnto
the
Lord
:
When
they
shall
say
vnto
you
(
saith
the
Prophet
)
enquire
at
them
that
haue
a
spirit
of
diuination
and
at
the
soothsaier
which
whisper
and
murmure
:
answer
Should
not
a
people
inquire
at
their
God
?
From
the
liuing
to
the
dead
?
To
the
law
and
to
the
testimony
?
Wherfore
it
was
a
commendable
thing
and
worthy
the
imitation
when
they
that
had
receiued
the
faith
by
Paules
preaching
,
Cod.
tit.
18.
enacted
that
whosoeuer
should
attempt
any
action
by
art
Magicke
against
the
safety
of
any
person
,
or
should
bring
in
or
stirre
vp
any
man
to
make
him
fall
into
any
mischiefe
or
riotous
demeanour
,
should
suffer
a
greeuous
punishment
:
in
the
fifth
law
hee
forbiddeth
euery
man
to
aske
counsaile
at
witches
,
or
to
vse
the
helpe
of
charmers
and
sorcerers
vnder
the
paine
of
death
.
Let
them
(
saith
hee
in
the
sixt
law
)
bee
throwne
to
wild
beasts
to
bee
deuoured
,
that
by
coniuring
or
the
helpe
of
familiar
spirits
go
about
to
kill
either
their
enemies
or
any
other
.
Moreouer
,
in
the
seuenth
law
hee
willeth
,
that
not
so
much
as
his
owne
courtiers
and
seruants
,
if
they
were
found
faulty
in
this
crime
,
should
be
spared
but
seuerely
punished
:
yet
neuerthelesse
,
many
of
this
age
giue
themselues
ouer
to
this
filthy
sinne
,
without
either
feare
of
God
or
respect
of
law
:
Some
thorough
a
foolish
and
dangerous
curiositie
:
others
through
the
ouerruling
of
their
owne
vile
and
wicked
affections
;
and
a
third
sort
troubled
with
the
terrours
of
an
euill
conscience
,
desire
to
know
what
shall
befall
and
happen
vnto
them
in
the
end
.
Thus
Saul
the
first
king
of
Israel
being
troubled
in
himselfe
,
&
terrified
with
the
army
of
the
Philistims
that
came
against
him
,
would
needs
foreknow
his
owne
fortune
,
and
the
issue
of
this
doubtfull
warre
.
Now
whereas
before
whilst
he
perfourmed
the
duty
of
a
good
king
,
and
obeied
the
commaundement
of
God
,
hee
had
cleansed
his
realme
of
witches
and
enchaunters
:
yet
is
he
now
so
mad
as
to
make
them
serue
his
owne
turne
,
and
to
vse
their
counsels
in
his
extremitie
,
adding
this
wickednesse
to
the
number
of
his
other
great
sinnes
,
that
the
measure
thereof
might
be
full
:
hee
went
therefore
to
a
witch
to
seeke
counsell
,
who
caused
a
deuill
to
appeare
and
speake
unto
him
in
the
shape
of
Samuel
,
and
foretell
him
of
(
Gods
iust
iudgement
vpon
his
wickednesse
)
his
vtter
and
finall
ruine
and
destruction
.
Plutarch
in
the
life
of
Romulus
reporteth
of
one
Cleomedes
,
a
man
in
proportion
of
body
and
cruell
practises
,
Ancient
histories
make
mention
of
one
Piso
,
a
man
of
credit
and
authoritie
among
the
Romanes
,
Olaus
Magnus
telleth
of
one
Meth●tin
,
a
noble
magitian
in
old
time
,
that
by
his
delusions
did
so
deceiue
and
blind
the
poore
ignorant
people
,
that
they
accounted
him
not
only
for
some
mightie
man
,
but
rather
for
some
demy
god
;
&
in
token
of
the
honour
and
reuerence
they
bare
him
,
There
was
a
coniurer
at
Saltzbourg
,
that
vaunted
that
he
could
gather
togither
all
the
serpents
within
halfe
a
mile
round
about
into
a
ditch
,
and
feed
them
and
bring
them
vp
there
:
and
being
about
the
experiment
,
behold
the
old
and
grand
serpent
came
in
the
while
,
which
whilst
he
thought
by
the
force
of
his
charmes
to
make
to
enter
into
the
ditch
among
the
rest
,
he
set
vpon
,
and
enclosed
him
round
about
like
a
girdle
so
strongly
,
that
he
drew
him
perforce
into
the
ditch
with
him
,
where
he
miserably
died
.
Marke
here
the
wages
of
such
wicked
miscreants
,
that
as
they
make
it
their
occupation
to
abuse
simple
folke
,
they
are
themselues
abused
&
cousened
of
the
deuill
,
who
is
a
finer
iuggler
then
them
all
.
It
was
a
very
lamentable
spectacle
that
chanced
to
the
gouernour
of
Mascon
,
a
magitian
whome
the
deuill
snatched
vp
in
dinner
while
,
and
hoisted
aloft
,
carrying
him
three
times
about
the
towne
of
Mascon
in
the
presence
of
many
beholders
,
to
whome
hee
cryed
on
this
manner
,
Helpe
,
helpe
,
my
friends
:
About
the
yeere
1437
,
Charles
the
seuenth
being
king
of
France
,
Sir
Giles
of
Britaine
,
lord
of
Rayes
,
and
high
Constable
of
France
,
was
accused
(
by
the
report
of
Enguerran
de
Monstrelet
)
for
hauing
murdered
many
infants
and
women
great
with
child
,
Iohn
Francis
Picus
of
Mirand
saith
,
that
hee
conferred
diuers
times
with
many
,
who
being
enticed
with
a
vaine
hope
of
knowing
things
to
come
,
were
afterwards
so
grieuously
tormented
by
the
deuill
(
with
whome
they
had
made
some
bargaine
)
that
they
thought
themselues
thrise
happy
,
if
they
escaped
with
their
liues
.
He
saith
moreouer
,
that
there
was
in
his
time
a
certaine
coniurer
that
promised
a
too
curious
&
no
great
wise
prince
,
to
present
vnto
him
vpon
a
stage
the
siege
of
Troy
,
and
Achilles
and
Hector
fighting
togither
as
they
did
when
they
were
aliue
:
but
he
could
not
performe
his
promise
,
for
another
sport
and
spectacle
more
hideous
&
ougly
to
his
person
,
for
hee
was
taken
away
aliue
by
a
deuill
in
such
sort
,
that
he
was
neuer
afterward
heard
of
.
In
our
owne
memory
the
Earle
of
Aspremont
and
his
brother
lord
of
Orne
,
were
made
famous
and
in
euery
mans
mouth
for
their
straunge
and
prodigious
feats
,
wherein
they
were
so
vnreasonably
dissolute
and
vainglorious
,
that
sometime
they
made
it
their
sport
and
pastime
to
breake
downe
all
the
windowes
about
the
castle
Aspremont
where
they
kept
(
which
lieth
in
Lorraine
two
miles
from
S.
Michael
)
and
threw
them
peece
meale
into
a
deep
well
,
to
heare
them
crie
plumpe
:
but
this
vaine
excesse
prefaged
a
ruine
and
destruction
to
come
,
aswell
vpon
their
house
,
which
at
this
present
lieth
desolate
and
ruinous
in
many
respects
,
as
vpon
themselues
that
finished
their
daies
in
miserie
one
after
another
;
as
wee
shall
now
vnderstand
of
the
one
,
the
Lord
of
Orne
:
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a
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a
Albeit
the
author
forget
himselfe
,
for
there
is
no
more
mention
made
of
him
in
the
whole
booke
.
as
for
the
Earle
how
he
died
wee
shall
see
more
at
large
in
the
second
booke
&
28
chapter
,
to
which
place
his
history
properly
belongeth
.
Now
it
chanced
that
as
this
Lord
of
Orne
was
of
most
wicked
and
cruell
conditions
,
so
he
had
an
euil
fauoured
looke
answerable
to
his
inclination
,
and
name
to
be
a
coniurer
:
the
report
that
went
of
his
cruelty
was
this
;
that
vpon
a
time
he
put
the
baker
(
one
of
his
seruants
,
whose
wife
he
vsed
secretly
to
entertaine
)
into
a
tunne
,
which
he
caused
to
be
rouled
from
the
top
of
a
hill
into
the
bottome
,
bounsing
some
times
as
high
as
a
pike
,
as
the
place
gaue
occasion
:
but
by
the
great
mercy
of
God
,
notwithstanding
all
this
,
this
poore
man
saued
his
life
.
Furthermore
,
it
was
a
common
report
that
when
any
Gentlemen
or
Lords
came
to
see
him
,
they
were
entertained
(
as
they
thought
)
very
honorably
being
serued
with
al
sort
of
most
dainty
fare
and
exquisite
dishes
,
as
if
hee
had
not
spared
to
make
them
the
best
cheare
that
might
bee
:
but
at
their
departure
they
that
thought
themselues
wel
refreshed
,
found
their
stomacks
empty
&
almost
pined
for
want
of
food
,
hauing
neither
eaten
nor
drunk
any
thing
saue
in
imagination
only
:
&
it
is
to
bee
thought
that
their
horses
found
no
better
fare
then
their
masters
.
It
happened
one
day
that
a
certaine
Lord
being
departed
from
his
house
,
one
of
his
men
hauing
left
something
behind
returned
to
the
castle
,
&
entering
sodainly
into
the
hal
where
they
dined
a
little
before
,
he
espied
a
Munkie
beating
the
maister
of
the
house
that
had
feasted
them
of
late
,
very
sore
:
And
there
be
others
that
say
that
hee
hath
ben
seene
through
the
chinke
of
a
dore
lying
on
a
table
vpon
his
belly
all
at
length
,
&
a
Monkie
scourging
him
verie
strangely
,
to
whome
he
should
say
,
Let
me
alone
,
let
me
alone
;
Wilt
thou
alwaies
torment
me
thus
?
And
thus
he
continued
a
long
time
:
but
at
length
,
after
he
had
made
away
all
his
subhance
,
hee
was
brought
to
such
extremitie
,
that
being
destitute
of
maintenance
and
forsaken
of
all
men
,
hee
was
faine
(
for
want
of
a
better
refuge
)
to
betake
himself
to
the
hospitall
of
Paris
,
which
was
his
last
mansion
house
wherein
he
died
.
See
here
to
how
pitifull
&
miserable
an
end
this
man
fell
,
that
hauing
beene
esteemed
amongst
the
mighties
of
this
world
;
for
making
no
more
account
of
God
,
and
for
following
the
illusions
of
Satan
,
the
common
enemie
of
mankind
,
became
so
poore
and
wretched
as
to
die
in
an
hospitall
among
creeples
and
beggers
.
It
is
not
long
since
there
was
in
Lorraine
,
a
certaine
man
called
Coulen
,
that
was
ouermuch
giuen
to
this
cursed
Art
,
amongst
whose
tricks
this
was
one
to
be
wondred
at
:
that
he
would
suffer
Harquebouses
or
a
pistoll
to
be
shot
at
him
,
and
catch
their
bullets
in
his
hand
without
receiuing
any
hurt
:
but
vpon
a
certaine
time
one
of
his
seruants
being
angry
with
him
,
hot
him
such
a
knock
with
a
pistoll
(
notwithstanding
all
his
great
cunning
)
that
he
killed
him
therewith
.
Moreouer
it
is
worthy
to
be
obserued
,
that
within
these
two
hundred
yeeres
hitherto
,
more
monkes
and
priests
haue
bene
found
giuen
ouer
to
these
abominations
and
deuilishnesses
,
then
of
all
other
degrees
of
people
watsoeuer
,
as
it
is
declared
in
the
second
volume
of
Enguerran
de
Monstrelet
more
at
large
:
where
he
maketh
mention
of
a
monke
that
vsed
to
practise
his
sorceries
in
the
top
of
a
tower
of
an
Abbey
lying
neere
to
Login
vpon
Marne
,
where
the
deuils
presented
themselues
to
be
at
his
commaundement
:
and
this
was
in
the
raigne
of
Charles
the
sixt
.
In
the
same
booke
it
is
recorded
,
that
in
the
raigne
of
Charles
the
seuenth
,
one
Master
William
Ediline
Doctor
in
Diuinitie
,
and
Prior
of
S.
Germaine
in
Lay
,
hauing
bene
an
Augustane
frier
,
gaue
himselfe
to
the
denill
for
his
pleasure
,
euen
to
haue
his
will
of
a
certaine
women
:
he
was
vpon
a
time
in
a
place
where
a
synagogue
of
people
were
gathered
togither
,
where
to
the
end
that
he
might
quickly
be
(
as
he
himselfe
confessed
)
he
tooke
a
broome
and
rode
vpon
it
:
he
confessed
also
that
hee
had
done
homage
to
that
enemie
of
God
the
deuill
,
who
appeared
vnto
him
in
the
shape
of
a
sheepe
,
and
made
him
kisse
his
hinder
parts
,
as
he
reported
:
for
which
causes
,
In
the
reigne
of
the
same
king
1457
,
there
was
a
certaine
curat
of
a
village
neere
to
Soissons
,
who
to
reuenge
himselfe
of
a
farmer
that
reteined
from
him
the
tenths
which
were
appointed
to
the
knights
of
the
Rhodes
,
went
to
a
witch
of
whome
he
receiued
in
gift
a
fat
tode
in
an
earthen
pot
,
which
shee
,
had
a
long
while
fed
and
brought
vp
,
which
shee
commanded
him
to
baptize
,
as
hee
also
did
,
and
called
it
by
the
name
of
Iohn
:
Froissard
,
who
was
treasurer
&
canon
of
Chymay
,
reporteth
of
another
Curat
in
the
countrey
of
Beare
(
●nner
Charles
the
seuenth
)
that
had
a
familiar
spirit
,
which
he
called
Orthon
:
whose
helpe
he
vsed
to
the
disturbance
of
the
lord
of
Corasse
,
by
causing
a
terrible
noise
to
be
heard
euery
night
by
him
and
his
seruants
in
his
castle
,
because
the
said
lord
withheld
his
tithes
from
him
,
and
conuerted
them
to
his
owne
vse
.
In
the
yeere
15●0
at
Nuremberg
a
certaine
priest
studied
Art
magicke
,
By
like
means
came
Benedict
the
ninth
to
the
Popedome
,
for
he
was
a
detestable
magitian
:
Gregorio
the
sixt
,
scholler
to
Siluester
,
as
great
a
coniurer
●s
his
master
,
wrought
much
mischiefe
in
his
time
,
Iohn
the
two
and
twentieth
,
being
of
no
better
disposition
then
these
we
haue
spoken
of
,
but
following
iudiciall
astrologie
,
fed
himselfe
with
a
vaine
hope
of
long
life
,
whereof
hee
vanted
himselfe
among
his
familiars
,
one
day
aboue
the
rest
at
Viterbum
,
in
a
chamber
which
hee
had
lately
builded
,
saying
,
that
hee
should
liue
a
great
while
,
hee
was
assured
of
it
:
presently
the
flore
brake
suddenly
in
pieces
,
and
hee
was
found
seuen
daies
after
crushed
to
pieces
vnder
the
ruines
thereof
.
All
this
notwithhanding
,
yet
other
Pope
eased
not
to
suffer
themselues
to
be
infected
with
this
execrable
poison
:
as
Hildebrand
,
who
was
called
Gregorie
the
seuenth
,
and
Alexander
the
sixt
,
of
which
kind
we
shall
see
a
whole
legend
in
the
next
booke
and
43
chapter
;
do
but
marke
these
holy
fathers
how
abominable
they
were
,
to
be
in
such
sort
giuen
ouer
to
Satan
.
Cornelius
Agrippa
,
a
great
student
in
this
cursed
Art
,
and
a
man
famous
both
by
his
owne
workes
and
others
report
for
his
Necromancie
,
Get
thee
hence
thou
cursed
beast
,
which
hast
vtterly
destroied
mee
:
neither
was
the
dog
euer
after
seene
:
some
say
hee
leapt
into
Araris
and
neuer
came
out
againe
.
Agrippa
himselfe
died
at
Lions
in
a
base
and
beggerly
Inne
.
Zoreastres
,
king
of
Bactria
,
is
notified
to
haue
beene
the
inuentor
of
Astrologie
and
Magicke
,
Charles
the
seuenth
of
Fraunce
,
put
Egidius
de
Raxa
marshiall
of
his
kingdome
,
Bladud
the
sonne
of
Lud
king
of
Britaine
,
now
called
England
,
in
the
yeere
of
the
world
3100
,
hee
that
builded
the
citie
Bath
(
as
our
late
histories
witnesse
)
and
also
made
therin
the
hote
bathes
,
addicted
himselfe
so
much
to
the
deuilish
arte
of
Necromancie
,
that
he
wrought
wonders
thereby
:
in
so
much
that
hee
made
himselfe
wings
,
and
attempted
to
flie
like
Dedalus
:
but
the
deuill
(
as
euer
,
like
a
false
knaue
)
forsooke
him
in
his
iourney
,
so
that
he
fell
downe
and
brake
his
necke
.
In
the
yeere
of
our
Lord
1578
,
one
S●mon
Penbrooke
dwelling
in
S.
Georges
parish
in
London
,
being
a
figure
setter
,
and
vehemently
suspected
to
be
a
coniurer
;
by
the
commaundement
of
the
iudge
appeared
in
the
parish
Church
of
S.
Sauiour
at
a
court
holden
there
:
where
,
whilst
hee
was
busie
in
entertaining
a
proctour
,
and
leaned
his
head
vpon
a
pew
a
good
space
,
the
proctour
began
to
lift
vp
his
head
to
see
what
hee
ailed
,
and
found
him
departing
out
of
this
life
,
and
straight
waies
hee
fell
downe
rattling
in
the
throat
,
without
speaking
any
one
word
:
this
straunge
iudgement
happened
before
many
witnesses
,
who
searching
him
,
found
about
him
fiue
deuilish
bookes
of
coniuration
,
and
most
abominable
practises
,
with
a
picture
in
tinne
of
a
man
hauing
three
dice
in
his
hand
with
this
writing
,
Chance
dice
fortunately
,
and
much
other
trash
:
so
that
euery
one
confessed
it
to
be
a
iust
iudgement
against
sorcerie
,
and
a
great
example
to
cause
others
to
feare
the
iustice
of
God
.
Now
let
euery
one
learne
by
these
examples
to
feare
God
,
and
to
stand
firme
&
stedfast
to
his
holy
word
without
turning
from
it
on
any
side
,
so
shall
he
be
safe
from
such
like
miserable
ends
as
these
wicked
varlets
come
vnto
.
CHAP.
XXXIIII
.
Of
those
that
through
pride
and
vainglory
,
stroue
to
vsurpe
the
honour
due
vnto
God
.
A
Forgetfull
and
vnthankfull
mind
for
the
benefits
which
God
bestoweth
vpon
vs
,
is
a
braunch
of
the
breach
of
this
first
commaundement
,
as
well
as
those
which
went
before
:
and
this
is
,
when
we
ascribe
not
vnto
God
the
glory
of
his
benefits
to
giue
him
thanks
for
them
,
but
through
a
foolish
pride
extoll
our selues
higher
then
we
ought
,
presuming
aboue
measure
and
reason
in
our
owne
power
,
desire
to
place
our selues
in
a
higher
degree
then
is
meet
.
With
this
fond
and
foolish
affection
(
I
know
not
how
)
our
first
fathers
were
tickled
and
tainted
from
the
beginning
to
thinke
to
empaire
the
glory
of
God
:
Is
not
this
great
Babel
which
I
haue
built
for
the
house
of
the
kingdome
,
by
the
might
of
my
power
,
and
for
the
honour
of
my
maiestie
?
Now
whilst
the
word
was
yet
in
his
mouth
,
a
voice
was
heard
from
heauen
,
saying
,
O
king
,
to
thee
it
is
spoken
,
Thy
kingdome
shall
depart
from
thee
:
and
according
to
the
tenor
of
the
voice
,
hee
was
immediatly
deposed
from
his
roiall
seat
,
spoiled
of
all
his
glory
,
driuen
from
the
society
of
men
,
depriued
of
sense
,
&
made
a
companion
for
the
bruit
beasts
,
and
wild
asses
,
eating
grasse
like
oxen
,
euen
so
long
,
vntill
his
haire
was
growen
stiffe
like
Eagles
feathers
,
and
his
nailes
like
the
clawes
of
birds
.
In
which
estate
,
hee
continued
the
space
of
seuen
yeeres
:
euen
hee
,
that
a
little
before
was
so
proud
and
arrogant
,
and
hee
that
had
conquered
so
many
kingdomes
and
nations
,
that
triumphed
ouer
Iewry
and
Ierusalem
,
with
the
kings
thereof
.
This
is
a
most
excellent
looking
glasse
for
kings
to
behold
the
ficklenesse
and
instabilitie
of
all
their
power
and
pompe
,
when
it
pleaseth
God
to
humble
and
bring
them
vnder
:
there
is
neither
sceptet
,
crowne
,
stay
,
or
strength
of
man
that
is
able
to
hinder
and
turne
aside
the
hand
of
the
Almightie
,
the
King
of
kings
,
from
abasing
and
weakening
the
most
high
and
strong
of
this
world
,
let
them
be
neuer
so
braue
and
iolly
,
and
bringing
them
vnto
a
low
,
contemptible
,
and
brutish
estate
.
Besides
this
which
we
haue
already
touched
,
there
is
another
kind
of
pride
and
presumption
most
damnable
and
detestable
of
all
:
and
it
is
,
when
a
man
doth
so
much
forget
himselfe
,
as
to
sease
and
take
vpon
him
that
honour
which
appertaineth
only
to
God
,
ascribing
to
himselfe
a
certaine
deity
:
one
would
hardly
thinke
that
there
were
any
such
in
the
world
,
so
proud
as
to
commit
this
sinne
,
did
not
experience
by
certaine
examples
teach
vs
the
contrary
:
As
first
of
all
the
king
of
Tyre
,
whose
heart
was
so
exalted
with
the
multitude
of
●iches
,
and
the
renowme
and
greatnesse
of
his
house
,
that
hee
doubted
not
to
esteeme
himselfe
a
god
,
and
to
desire
maiesty
and
power
correspondent
thereunto
:
for
which
presumption
,
King
Herod
,
sirnamed
Agrippa
,
which
put
Iames
the
brother
of
Iohn
to
death
,
Simon
Magus
,
otherwise
called
Simon
the
Samaritane
,
borne
in
a
village
called
Gitton
,
after
hee
was
cursed
of
Peter
the
Apostle
,
for
offering
to
buy
the
giftes
of
the
spirit
of
God
with
money
,
went
to
Rome
,
To
Simon
the
holy
God
:
besides
,
all
the
Samaritanes
,
and
diuers
also
of
other
nations
accounted
him
no
lesse
,
as
appeared
by
the
reuerence
and
honour
which
they
did
vnto
him
:
in
so
much
,
as
they
called
his
companion
,
or
rather
his
whore
Helena
(
for
that
was
her
profession
in
Tyre
a
citie
of
Phenicia
)
The
first
moouer
that
distilled
out
of
Simons
bosome
.
Now
hee
,
to
foster
this
foolish
and
ridiculous
opinion
of
theirs
,
and
to
eternize
his
name
,
boasted
that
hee
would
at
a
certaine
time
flie
vp
into
heauen
,
which
,
as
hee
attempted
to
doe
by
the
helpe
of
the
deuill
,
Peter
the
Apostle
commaunded
the
vncleane
spirit
to
cast
him
downe
againe
,
so
that
he
fell
vpon
the
earth
and
was
bruised
to
death
,
and
prooued
himselfe
thereby
to
be
no
more
then
a
mortall
,
wicked
,
and
detestable
wretch
.
Moreouer
,
elsewhere
wee
read
of
Alexander
the
great
,
whose
courage
and
magnanimitie
was
so
exceeding
great
,
that
he
enterprised
to
go
out
of
Greece
and
set
vpon
all
Asia
,
only
with
an
army
of
two
and
thirty
thousand
footmen
,
There
was
in
Siracusa
a
city
of
Sicilia
(
which
is
now
called
Saragosse
)
a
Phisition
called
Menecrates
,
whose
folly
and
presumption
was
so
great
that
hee
accounted
himselfe
a
god
:
and
desired
to
bee
so
reputed
by
others
:
insomuch
that
he
required
no
other
wages
and
recompence
of
the
patients
which
hee
tooke
in
hand
(
as
Aelianus
witnesseth
)
but
that
they
should
onely
acknowledge
him
to
bee
Iupiter
,
and
call
him
so
,
&
auow
themselues
to
his
seruice
.
Vpon
a
time
Denis
the
tyrant
desirous
to
make
some
pastime
with
him
,
made
a
feast
and
inuited
him
amongst
others
to
be
his
guest
:
but
because
he
was
a
god
,
to
do
him
honor
answerable
to
his
name
,
hee
placed
him
a
table
all
alone
,
and
set
before
him
no
dishes
,
but
onely
a
censer
with
frankincense
,
which
was
a
proper
and
conuenient
seruice
for
the
gods
:
this
honourable
dutie
pleased
the
Phisitian
very
wel
at
the
first
,
so
that
he
snuffed
vp
the
perfume
most
willinglie
:
but
when
this
poore
god
saw
the
other
guests
eating
and
drinking
indeed
,
and
himselfe
not
being
able
to
bee
fed
with
smoke
,
readie
to
starue
with
hunger
rose
vp
and
went
away
all
enraged
in
himselfe
,
and
derided
of
others
,
hauing
more
need
to
purge
his
owne
braine
from
their
superfluous
humor
,
then
others
from
their
sicknesses
.
Caligula
the
first
Emperour
,
being
become
an
ordinarie
despiser
and
open
mocker
of
all
religion
,
it
came
presentlie
in
his
braine
to
beleeue
(
so
drunken
was
hee
with
a
draught
of
his
owne
foolish
conceit
)
that
there
was
no
other
God
but
himselfe
:
therefore
he
caused
men
to
worship
him
,
&
to
kisse
his
hands
or
his
feet
in
token
of
reuerence
,
(
which
honor
afterwards
the
Popes
tooke
vnto
them
)
yea
and
was
so
besotted
,
that
he
went
about
by
certaine
engines
of
art
to
counterfeit
thunder
and
lightnings
:
albeit
in
all
this
pride
and
arrogancie
or
rather
folly
,
there
was
none
so
timorous
and
fearefull
as
he
,
or
that
would
sooner
vpon
lighter
occasion
be
dismaied
.
One
day
as
he
was
by
mount
Aetna
in
Cicilie
hearing
by
chance
the
violent
cracking
of
the
flames
which
all
that
season
ascended
out
of
the
top
of
the
hill
,
it
stroke
so
soddaine
and
horrible
a
feare
into
him
,
that
he
neuer
ceased
flying
all
night
till
hee
came
to
Phar
in
Messina
.
Euery
little
thunderclap
put
him
in
feare
of
death
,
for
hee
would
leape
vp
and
downe
like
a
mad
man
when
hee
heard
it
thunder
,
finding
himselfe
not
able
by
all
his
godhead
to
defend
himselfe
from
the
power
thereof
:
but
if
there
chanced
greater
crackes
then
ordinarie
,
then
would
not
his
whote
bed
hold
him
,
but
needes
must
he
run
into
the
cold
floure
vnderneath
the
bed
to
hide
himselfe
.
Thus
was
hee
compelled
against
his
will
to
feare
him
,
whome
willinglie
hee
would
not
deigne
to
acknowledge
.
And
thus
it
falleth
out
with
all
wicked
miserable
Atheists
whose
hearts
imagine
there
is
no
God
:
and
therfore
haue
so
little
assurance
in
themselues
,
that
there
need
no
thunder
and
lightning
to
amase
them
:
for
the
shaking
of
euerie
leafe
,
is
sufficient
to
make
them
tremble
.
To
conclude
,
this
Atheist
void
of
religion
and
feare
of
God
,
and
full
of
all
prophanesse
,
was
according
to
his
due
desert
murthered
by
one
of
his
owne
seruants
:
of
the
which
,
will
follow
more
at
large
in
the
next
booke
.
Domitian
likewise
was
so
blinded
with
pride
,
that
he
would
be
called
a
god
and
worshipped
:
To
these
we
may
adde
them
also
,
Did
not
the
king
of
Elide
the
like
,
and
to
the
same
end
also
by
the
deuice
of
a
chariot
drawn
about
with
foure
horses
,
wherein
were
certaine
iron
workes
,
which
with
wrinching
about
,
gaue
an
horrible
sound
resembling
thunder
,
and
torches
and
squibs
which
hee
caused
to
be
throwen
about
like
lightnings
in
such
sort
,
that
he
oftentimes
burnt
the
beholders
:
I
saw
Salmon
in
cruell
torments
lie
,
For
counterfatting
thunder
of
the
skie
,
And
Ioues
cleare
lightning
:
whilst
with
torches
bright
,
Drawne
with
foure
steedes
,
and
brandishing
his
light
,
He
rode
triumphantly
through
Elis
streats
,
And
made
all
Grecia
wonder
at
his
feats
.
Thinking
to
win
the
honor
of
a
god
,
(
Mad
as
he
was
)
by
scattertng
fire
abroad
.
With
brazen
engines
,
and
with
courses
faining
,
A
noise
like
that
which
in
the
clouds
is
raining
,
And
no
where
else
:
but
God
from
thickest
skie
,
No
torch
,
but
such
a
thunderbolt
let
flie
At
him
,
that
headlong
whirld
him
from
his
cell
,
And
tumbled
downe
into
the
deepest
hell
.
Thus
this
arrogant
king
was
punished
according
to
the
quality
of
his
offence
,
euen
in
the
same
kind
wherin
he
offended
,
which
thing
though
it
bee
found
written
in
a
Poet
,
yet
ought
not
be
reiected
for
an
old
wiues
tale
,
seeing
it
is
not
incredible
that
a
king
might
make
such
pastimes
,
&
yron
crashing
noises
,
nor
that
he
might
be
iustly
punished
for
the
same
;
and
the
rather
because
Caligula
did
the
like
,
as
wee
haue
heard
before
.
And
we
read
also
that
one
Arthemisius
in
the
time
of
the
Emperour
Iustinian
,
counterfeited
by
certain
engines
and
deuises
in
his
owne
house
in
Constantinople
,
But
aboue
all
others
that
by
darkening
the
glorie
of
God
to
encrease
their
own
power
haue
prowdly
exalted
themselues
against
him
,
the
Popes
are
the
ringleaders
,
whose
vnbrideled
boldnes
hath
ben
so
much
the
more
impudent
&
pernicious
,
for
that
in
tearming
themselues
the
seruants
of
the
seruants
of
God
,
in
word
;
in
deed
,
take
vnto
them
the
authoritie
and
power
of
God
himself
:
as
of
pardoning
&
absoluing
sins
,
creating
laws
&
ordinances
at
their
pleasure
in
binding
or
vnbinding
mens
consciences
;
which
things
appertain
to
God
only
:
nay
they
haue
ben
so
brasen
faced
,
as
to
command
Angels
and
deuils
,
as
Clement
the
fift
did
in
one
of
his
buls
:
so
impudent
,
as
to
be
carried
like
idols
vpon
their
vassal●
shoulders
,
&
weare
three
crownes
vpon
their
heads
:
so
prowd
and
arrogant
as
to
constraine
kings
and
Emperours
to
kisse
their
feet
,
to
make
them
their
vassals
,
to
vsurpe
Lordship
&
dominion
ouer
them
and
all
their
lands
and
possessions
:
and
to
dispossesse
whome
they
like
not
,
of
kingdomes
,
&
enstall
in
their
roomes
whom
they
please
:
and
all
this
by
the
thunder
of
excommunication
,
whereby
they
make
themselues
feared
and
stood
in
awe
of
.
By
which
dealings
of
theirs
they
verifie
in
themselues
that
which
the
scripture
speaketh
of
Antichrist
,
which
is
the
man
of
sinne
,
the
sonne
of
perdition
,
This
it
is
to
ouerreach
the
clouds
,
of
the
Chronicles
of
Fraunce
.
and
not
content
with
earthly
power
,
to
vsurpe
a
supremacy
and
praeeminence
ouer
kings
:
such
was
the
pride
of
Pope
Boniface
the
eigth
,
when
he
sent
an
embassage
to
Philip
the
Faire
,
king
of
France
,
to
command
him
to
take
vpon
him
an
expedition
against
the
Sarasens
beyond
the
sea
,
vpon
paine
of
forfeiting
his
kingdome
into
his
hands
:
and
when
hauing
his
sword
by
his
side
he
shamed
not
to
say
,
that
he
alone
and
none
else
was
Emperour
and
Lord
of
all
the
world
:
in
demonstration
wherof
he
bestowed
the
Empire
vpon
Duke
Albert
,
together
with
the
crowne
of
Fraunce
:
and
not
content
herewith
,
his
insolencie
was
so
importunat
,
that
he
charged
Philip
the
Faire
to
acknowledge
himselfe
to
bee
his
subiect
in
all
causes
as
well
spirituall
as
temporall
:
and
to
leuie
a
subsidie
for
his
holinesse
out
of
his
Clergie
,
disabling
his
authority
in
bestowing
church
liuings
,
which
prerogatiue
hee
chalenged
to
his
sea
:
the
conclusion
of
this
bull
was
in
these
words
:
Aliud
credentes
fatitos
reputamus
:
as
much
to
say
,
as
whosoeuer
is
of
another
mind
then
this
,
we
esteeme
him
a
foole
.
Wherevnto
the
King
answered
in
this
wise
,
Philippus
dei
gratia
Francorum
rex
Bonifacio
se
gerenti
pro
summ●
pontificé
salutem
modicam
siue
nullam
.
Sciat
tua
maxima
fatuitas
,
in
temporalibus
nos
alicui
non
subesse
,
ecclesiarum
&
prebendarum
vacantium
collationem
ad
nos
iure
regio
pertinere
:
secus
autem
credentes
fatuos
reputamus
deuiantes
,
in
English
thus
,
Philip
by
the
grace
of
God
King
of
France
,
to
Boniface
bearing
himselfe
for
Pope
little
or
no
health
.
Be
it
knowne
vnto
thy
exceeding
great
foolishnesse
,
that
we
in
temporall
affaires
are
subiect
to
none
,
that
the
bestowing
of
benefices
belongeth
to
vs
by
our
royall
right
:
and
if
there
bee
any
that
thinke
otherwise
,
we
hold
them
for
erronious
fooles
.
A
memorable
answere
well
beseeming
a
true
royall
and
French
heart
:
immediately
hee
assembling
together
a●●
nationall
councill
of
all
the
Barons
and
prelates
within
his
dominion
at
Paris
,
wherein
Boniface
being
pronounced
an
Heretike
,
a
Simonist
,
and
a
manslaier
,
it
was
agreed
vpon
by
a
ioint
consent
that
the
king
should
doe
no
more
obeysance
,
but
reiect
as
nothing
worth
,
whatsoeuer
he
should
impose
.
Wherfore
the
king
to
tame
his
proud
&
malicious
nature
,
dispatched
secretly
two
hundred
men
at
armes
,
vnder
the
conduct
of
one
captaine
●oguard
towards
Auian
in
Naples
(
whither
his
holines
was
fled
for
feare
of
diuerse
whose
houses
and
castels
he
had
caused
to
be
rased
downe
)
there
to
surprise
him
on
a
sodaine
:
which
stratageme
they
speedily
performed
,
and
carried
him
prisoner
to
Rome
,
where
hee
died
most
miserably
.
Peter
Mesie
a
Spanish
Gentleman
of
Seuill
,
saith
in
many
of
his
lectures
that
he
died
in
prison
enraged
with
famine
.
Nicholas
Gilles
in
his
first
volume
of
French
chronicles
,
reporteth
that
he
died
in
the
castell
Saint
Angelo
,
through
a
flux
of
his
belly
which
cast
him
into
a
frenzie
,
that
hee
gnew
off
his
owne
handes
:
and
that
at
the
hower
of
his
death
there
were
heard
horrible
thunders
and
tempests
and
lightnings
round
about
:
this
is
hee
in
whose
honour
this
fine
Epitaph
was
made
:
Intrauit
vt
vulpes
,
regnauit
vt
leo
,
mortuus
est
vt
canis
:
He
entered
like
a
fox
,
raigned
like
a
lion
,
and
died
like
a
dog
.
And
this
was
hee
that
on
the
first
day
of
Lent
giuing
ashes
to
the
bishop
of
Genes
,
in
stead
of
vsing
the
ordinarie
forme
of
speech
which
is
,
Momento
homo
quod
cinis
es
,
&
in
cinerem
conuerteris
,
Remember
man
that
thou
art
ashes
,
and
into
ashes
thou
shalt
returne
:
said
in
despight
and
mockerie
,
Memento
homo
quia
Gibellinus
es
,
&
cum
Gibellinis
in
cinerem
conuerteris
:
Remember
that
thou
art
a
Gibelline
,
and
together
with
the
Gibillines
thou
shalt
bee
turned
into
ashes
:
and
in
stead
of
laying
the
ashes
vpon
his
forehead
,
threw
them
into
his
eies
;
and
forthwith
depriued
him
of
his
Bishoprick
,
and
would
haue
done
worse
if
it
had
ben
in
his
power
:
mark
what
little
account
this
holy
father
himselfe
made
of
these
ceremonies
:
and
therefore
it
is
no
maruell
if
others
mocke
at
them
,
seeing
the
Popes
themselues
make
them
but
matters
of
pastime
.
If
it
bee
so
therefore
that
no
man
ought
to
arrogate
to
himselfe
any
title
of
diety
,
then
consequently
it
is
no
lesse
vnlawfull
to
giue
that
diuine
honour
to
any
other
mortall
creature
:
and
therefore
the
people
of
Cesarea
faulted
greatly
when
blasphemously
they
called
King
Herod
a
god
,
as
hath
beene
declared
before
.
Likewise
it
was
high
and
prowd
presumption
in
the
Senate
of
Rome
not
to
receiue
any
god
to
their
Commonwealth
without
their
owne
foreapprobation
and
consent
,
as
if
that
God
could
not
maintaine
his
dignitie
,
nor
stand
without
the
good
liking
and
assent
of
men
;
or
as
if
that
man
could
deifie
whom
he
listed
,
which
is
a
most
rediculous
and
absurd
thing
.
And
thus
the
Romans
in
time
of
Tiberius
consecrating
to
themselues
a
whole
legion
,
euen
thousands
of
false
gods
,
Among
al
the
vanities
of
the
Athenians
this
was
one
worthy
noting
,
how
they
ordained
that
Demetrius
,
Alexanders
successor
(
for
reestablishing
their
popular
and
ancient
liberty
)
with
his
father
Antigonus
should
be
called
kings
,
and
honored
with
the
title
of
Sauing
gods
,
and
to
haue
a
Priest
that
should
offer
sacrifice
vnto
them
:
and
moreouer
caused
their
pictures
to
be
drawn
in
the
same
banner
where
the
pictures
of
Iupiter
&
Minerua
(
the
protectors
of
their
city
)
were
drawen
,
in
brodered
worke
:
but
this
goodly
banner
as
is
was
carried
about
in
procession
was
rent
in
peeces
by
a
tempestuous
storme
that
arose
soddainly
,
God
thereby
manifesting
how
odious
and
displeasant
both
this
new
and
old
superstition
was
in
his
sight
:
besides
that
doe
but
consider
the
laudable
vertues
that
so
commended
this
new
god
Demetrius
,
to
make
them
honour
him
in
such
sort
:
they
were
violence
,
and
cruelties
,
intemperance
,
with
all
inordinate
lasciuiousnes
,
vilanies
,
and
whoredomes
:
so
that
it
was
no
maruel
if
they
had
made
him
a
God
,
being
vnworthy
altogether
of
humane
society
.
This
new
found
god
hauing
gotten
a
great
victory
by
sea
,
as
hee
triumphed
and
braued
it
with
ships
after
the
same
,
was
so
shattered
with
a
sodain
tempest
,
that
the
greatest
part
of
his
nauy
went
to
wrack
,
and
afterwards
was
vanquished
by
Seleuchus
in
a
battel
,
wherin
his
father
Antigonus
was
slain
:
&
when
he
thought
to
retire
to
Athens
,
they
shut
their
gates
vpon
him
,
whom
a
little
before
they
had
canonized
for
a
god
:
for
which
cause
he
raised
war
against
them
,
&
so
wearied
them
with
onsets
on
ech
side
,
and
so
inclosed
them
both
by
sea
&
land
,
that
being
brought
to
extreame
famine
&
necessity
,
they
were
compelled
to
entertaine
him
againe
,
and
to
behold
the
horrible
outrages
of
their
own
made
god
,
to
their
griefe
&
confusion
.
But
not
long
after
Seleuchus
once
againe
damped
his
courage
,
in
so
much
that
hauing
liued
three
years
in
a
countrie
of
Siuia
like
a
banished
outlaw
,
for
fear
to
be
deliuered
into
his
hands
,
&
weary
of
his
own
life
,
he
stuffed
himself
so
with
food
that
he
burst
in
peeces
.
Therefore
let
euery
man
learne
by
these
examples
not
to
translate
the
honor
and
maiestie
of
God
to
any
creature
,
but
to
leaue
it
to
him
alone
,
who
is
iealous
therof
,
&
will
not
(
as
the
Prophet
saith
)
giue
his
glorie
vnto
another
.
CHAP.
XXV
.
Of
Epicures
and
Atheists
.
AS
touching
voluptuous
Epicures
and
cursed
Atheists
,
that
deny
the
prouidence
of
God
,
beleeue
not
the
immortality
of
the
soule
,
think
there
is
no
such
thing
as
life
to
come
,
and
consequently
impugne
all
diuinity
,
liuing
in
this
world
like
brute
beasts
,
&
like
dogs
and
swine
,
wallowing
in
all
sensuality
;
they
do
also
strike
themselues
against
this
commandement
,
by
going
about
to
wipe
out
and
deface
the
knowledge
of
God
,
and
if
it
were
possible
,
to
extinguish
his
very
essence
;
wherein
they
shew
themselues
more
then
mad
,
and
brutish
,
whereas
notwithstanding
all
the
euident
testimonies
of
the
vertue
,
bounty
,
wisedome
,
and
eternall
power
of
God
,
which
they
daily
see
with
their
eies
,
and
feele
in
themselues
,
doe
neuerthelesse
striue
to
quench
his
light
of
nature
which
enlightneth
and
persuadeth
them
and
all
Nations
of
this
,
There
is
a
God
,
by
whom
we
liue
,
moue
,
and
haue
our
being
;
Hereof
Pope
Leo
the
tenth
a
Florentine
by
birth
,
may
serue
for
an
example
:
who
as
he
was
a
very
effeminate
person
,
giuen
to
all
manner
of
delights
and
pleasure
,
hauing
no
other
care
but
of
himselfe
,
and
his
owne
filthie
carcasses
ease
;
so
had
hee
no
more
tast
at
all
nor
feeling
of
God
and
his
holy
word
,
then
a
dog
:
hee
made
the
promises
and
threats
contained
in
holy
scripture
,
and
all
else
that
we
beleeue
,
matter
to
laugh
at
,
and
things
friuolous
and
of
no
waight
,
mocking
at
the
simplicitie
,
the
faith
and
beleefe
of
Christians
:
for
one
day
when
Cardinall
Bembus
(
who
also
shewed
himselfe
to
bee
none
of
the
best
Christians
in
the
world
,
by
his
Venetian
hystorie
,
where
as
oft
as
hee
speaketh
of
God
hee
vseth
the
plurall
number
after
the
manner
of
Heathen
writers
)
alleadged
a
place
out
of
the
Gospell
,
his
damnable
impudencie
was
so
great
as
to
replie
,
That
this
fable
of
Christ
had
brought
to
him
and
such
as
hee
,
no
little
profite
.
Oh
stincking
and
cursed
throat
to
belch
out
such
monstrous
blasphemie
!
doe
not
these
speeches
bewray
a
villanous
and
abhominable
Atheist
,
if
euer
any
were
?
Is
not
this
to
declare
himselfe
openlie
to
bee
Antichrist
?
For
hee
is
Antichrist
which
denieth
Iesus
to
bee
Christ
,
and
which
denieth
the
Father
and
the
Sonne
,
Philip
Strozze
whom
Paulus
Iouius
reporteth
to
haue
ben
commonly
bruted
to
be
an
Atheist
,
Cosimus
Medius
the
Prince
of
that
Commonwealth
(
against
whom
this
Philip
had
enterprised
to
make
warre
)
and
being
in
prison
hee
killed
himselfe
with
a
sword
of
a
Spaniard
his
keeper
which
by
ouersight
hee
had
left
behind
,
setting
the
point
against
his
throat
&
falling
down
vpon
it
:
so
may
all
Atheists
perish
and
come
to
naught
.
Francis
Rabelais
hauing
suckt
vp
also
this
poison
,
vsed
like
a
prophane
villaine
to
make
all
religion
a
matter
to
laugh
and
mocke
at
:
but
God
depriued
him
of
his
sences
,
that
as
hee
had
led
a
brutish
life
so
he
might
die
a
brutish
death
:
for
he
died
mocking
all
those
that
talked
of
God
,
or
made
any
mention
of
mercy
in
his
eares
.
How
miserable
was
the
end
of
Periers
,
the
author
of
that
detestable
booke
intituled
Symbalum
mundi
,
wherin
he
openly
mocked
at
God
and
his
religion
:
euen
hee
fell
finally
into
despaire
,
and
notwithstanding
all
that
guarded
him
killed
himselfe
.
Iodelle
also
,
a
Frenel
tragicall
Poet
,
being
an
Epicure
and
an
Atheist
,
made
a
very
tragicall
and
most
pittifull
end
:
for
he
died
in
great
miserie
and
distresse
euen
pined
to
death
after
he
had
rioted
out
al
his
substance
and
consumed
his
patrimonie
.
Lignereles
the
courtier
to
make
himselfe
seeme
a
man
of
seruice
made
open
profession
of
Atheisme
,
but
his
end
and
destruction
came
from
thence
,
whence
hee
looked
for
credit
and
aduancement
.
To
bring
the
matter
to
an
end
,
I
will
here
set
downe
a
notable
and
strange
thing
,
that
chanced
in
the
reigne
of
Lewis
the
ninth
(
as
Enguerran
de
Monstrelet
in
his
second
volume
of
Hystories
recordeth
it
:
)
vpon
the
fifteenth
day
of
Iune
in
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
God
1464
there
happened
a
strange
thing
in
the
pallace
at
Paris
:
so
it
was
that
there
was
a
matter
in
law
to
bee
tried
betwixt
the
Bishop
of
Angiers
and
a
rich
Cittizen
,
whome
the
Bishop
charged
to
haue
spoken
before
manie
witnesses
,
that
hee
beleeued
not
that
there
was
eithere
God
or
Deuill
,
Heauen
or
hell
.
Now
whilest
the
Bishops
Lawier
laid
to
his
charge
these
things
,
the
place
began
to
tremble
verie
much
,
wherein
they
were
,
and
a
stone
fell
downe
from
the
roofe
amongst
them
all
without
hurting
any
:
yet
euery
man
was
sore
afraid
,
and
departed
out
of
the
house
vntill
the
morrow
:
when
the
matter
was
begun
againe
to
bee
pleaded
,
which
was
no
sooner
in
hand
,
but
the
chamber
begun
afresh
to
shake
,
and
one
of
the
summers
came
forth
of
his
mortise
hole
,
falling
downwards
two
foot
and
there
staied
:
so
that
all
that
were
within
the
hall
looking
to
haue
beene
slaine
outright
,
ran
out
so
violently
that
some
left
behind
them
their
caps
,
others
their
hoodes
,
others
their
slippers
:
summarily
,
glad
was
hee
that
could
get
out
first
;
neither
durst
they
plead
any
more
causes
in
that
place
vntill
it
was
mended
.
Thus
much
reporteth
Enguerran
without
mention
of
any
decision
of
that
matter
:
now
for
as
much
as
nothing
happeneth
by
chance
,
it
is
most
likely
that
God
by
that
accident
would
giue
vs
to
vnderstand
both
how
monstrous
and
detestable
all
such
speeches
are
,
as
also
how
men
ought
to
feare
&
abhorre
them
,
seeing
that
the
dumbe
&
senslesse
creatures
&
wood
,
beames
,
planckes
and
stones
,
and
the
earth
at
selfe
,
(
by
nature
stedfast
and
fixed
)
are
so
farre
from
enduring
them
,
that
they
are
moued
withall
.
There
was
a
certaine
blasphemous
wretch
that
on
a
time
being
with
his
companions
in
a
common
Inne
carousing
and
making
merrie
;
Pherecides
by
birth
a
Syrian
,
a
tragicall
Poet
and
a
Philosopher
by
profession
,
Hermannus
Biswick
,
a
grand
Atheist
,
and
a
notable
instrument
of
Sathan
,
who
affirmed
that
the
world
neuer
had
beginning
,
as
foolish
Moses
dreamed
:
and
that
there
was
neither
Angels
nor
deuils
,
nor
hell
,
nor
future
life
,
but
that
the
soules
of
men
perished
with
their
bodies
:
besides
,
that
Christ
Iesus
was
nothing
els
,
but
a
seducer
of
the
people
;
and
that
the
faith
of
Christians
,
and
whatsoeuer
else
is
contained
in
holy
writs
,
was
meere
vanity
.
These
articles
full
of
impietie
and
blasphemie
,
hee
constantly
auouched
to
the
death
:
And
for
the
same
cause
was
togither
with
his
bookes
burnt
in
Holland
.
A
certaine
rich
man
at
Holberstadium
abounding
with
all
manner
of
earthly
commodities
,
Not
inferiour
to
any
of
the
former
in
Atheisme
&
impiety
,
and
equall
to
all
in
maner
of
punishment
was
one
of
our
own
nation
,
of
fresh
and
late
memory
,
called
Marlin
,
CHAP.
XXVI
.
Touching
the
transgressours
of
the
second
commandement
,
by
Idolatrie
.
WEe
haue
hitherto
seene
how
and
in
what
sort
they
,
that
either
by
malice
,
or
impiety
,
or
Apostasie
,
or
heresie
,
or
otherwise
haue
transgressed
the
first
commandement
,
haue
beene
punished
:
Let
vs
now
consider
the
iudgements
that
haue
befallen
Idolatours
,
the
breakers
of
the
second
commaundement
.
But
before
wee
proceed
,
wee
must
know
,
that
as
it
is
required
of
vs
by
the
first
commaundement
to
hold
God
for
our
true
and
onely
God
,
to
repose
all
our
whole
trust
and
confidence
in
him
,
and
call
vpon
him
,
serue
and
worship
him
alone
:
so
in
the
second
,
the
contrary
to
this
is
forbidden
;
which
is
,
to
doe
any
manner
of
seruice
,
honour
,
and
reuerence
by
deuotion
to
Idols
,
forasmuch
as
he
is
a
spirit
(
that
is
to
say
,
To
whome
will
you
liken
God
,
or
what
similitude
will
you
set
vp
vnto
him
.
Therefore
if
it
be
not
Gods
will
,
that
vnder
pretence
and
colour
of
his
owne
name
,
any
image
or
picture
should
be
adored
,
(
being
a
thing
not
only
inconuenient
,
but
also
absurd
and
vnseemely
)
much
lesse
can
he
abide
to
haue
them
worshipped
vnder
the
name
and
title
of
any
creature
whatsoeuer
.
And
for
this
cause
gaue
he
the
second
commandement
,
Thou
shalt
not
make
to
thy selfe
any
grauen
image
,
&c.
which
prohibition
the
Israelielits
brake
in
the
desert
,
when
they
set
vp
a
golden
calfe
,
&
bowed
themselues
before
it
after
the
maner
of
the
Painyms
,
giuing
it
the
honour
which
was
only
due
to
God
:
whereby
they
incurred
the
indignation
of
Almightie
God
,
And
albeit
that
after
all
this
,
being
brought
by
him
into
the
land
of
promise
,
hee
had
forbidden
and
threatned
them
for
cleauing
to
the
idols
of
the
nations
whose
land
they
possessed
,
yet
were
they
so
prone
to
idolatry
,
that
notwithstanding
all
this
,
they
fell
to
serue
Baal
and
Astaroth
:
wherefore
the
fire
of
Gods
wrath
was
enflamed
against
them
,
and
hee
gaue
them
ouer
to
be
a
spoile
and
prey
vnto
their
enemies
on
euery
side
,
so
that
for
many
yeeres
,
sometimes
the
Moabites
oppressed
them
,
otherwhiles
the
Madianites
,
and
euer
after
the
death
of
any
of
their
Iudges
and
rulers
which
God
raised
vp
for
their
deliuerance
,
some
grieuous
punishment
befell
them
:
for
then
(
being
without
law
or
gouernment
)
euery
man
did
that
which
seemed
good
in
his
owne
eies
,
and
so
turned
aside
from
the
right
way
.
Now
albeit
these
examples
may
seeme
to
haue
some
affinity
with
Apostasie
,
yet
because
the
ignorance
and
rudeness●
of
the
people
was
rather
the
cause
of
their
falling
away
from
God
,
then
any
wilfull
affection
that
raigned
in
them
,
therefore
wee
place
them
in
this
rancke
,
as
well
as
they
that
haue
beene
alwaies
brought
vp
and
nuzled
in
Idolatrie
.
Nadab
,
Ieroboams
sonne
,
being
nuzled
and
nurtured
vp
in
Idoll
worship
,
after
the
example
of
his
father
,
CHAP.
XXVII
.
Of
many
euils
that
haue
come
vpon
Christendome
for
idolatrie
.
IF
wee
consider
and
search
out
the
cause
of
the
ruine
of
the
East
Empire
,
and
of
so
many
famous
and
florishing
Churches
as
were
before-time
in
the
greatest
part
of
Europe
,
&
namely
in
Greece
,
wee
shall
find
,
that
Idolatry
hath
beene
the
cause
of
all
:
for
euen
as
it
got
footing
and
increase
in
their
dominions
;
so
equally
did
the
power
of
Saracens
and
Turkish
tyrany
take
root
and
foundation
amongst
them
,
and
prospered
so
well
,
that
the
rest
of
the
world
trembled
at
the
report
thereof
;
God
hauing
raised
and
fortified
them
,
as
beforetime
he
had
done
the
Assyrians
and
Babylonians
as
whips
and
scourges
to
chasten
the
people
and
nations
of
the
world
that
wickedly
had
abused
his
holy
gospell
,
&
bearing
the
name
of
Christians
,
had
become
idolaters
:
for
no
other
name
then
this
can
be
giuen
them
,
that
in
deuotion
do
any
maner
of
homage
to
images
&
pictures
,
whatsoeuer
may
superficially
be
alledged
to
the
contrary
.
For
be
it
the
image
either
of
Prophet
,
Apostle
,
or
Christ
Iesus
himself
,
yet
it
is
necessary
that
the
law
of
God
stand
whole
and
sound
,
which
saith
,
Thou
shalt
make
thy selfe
no
grauen
image
,
nor
any
likenes
of
things
either
in
heauen
aboue
,
or
in
earth
beneath
:
thou
shalt
not
bow
downe
to
them
,
nor
worship
them
,
&c.
Wherefore
he
perfourmed
the
part
of
a
good
bishop
,
that
finding
a
vaile
spred
in
the
entrance
of
a
Church
dore
wherein
the
image
of
Christ
or
of
some
other
Saint
was
pictured
,
rent
it
in
peeces
,
with
these
words
,
That
it
was
against
the
authoritie
of
the
sacred
scripture
to
haue
any
image
of
Christ
set
vp
in
the
Church
.
After
the
same
manner
,
Serenus
bishop
of
Marseilla
,
beate
down
&
banished
all
images
out
of
his
Churches
,
as
occasions
of
idolatry
:
&
to
shun
them
the
more
,
it
was
ordained
in
the
Elibertine
councill
,
that
no
image
nor
picture
should
be
set
vp
in
any
Church
:
for
which
cause
also
the
Emperour
Leo
the
third
,
by
an
open
edict
commanded
his
subiects
to
cast
out
of
their
temples
all
pictures
and
statues
of
Saints
,
This
is
the
gallant
God
of
Christians
.
And
thus
did
God
license
and
permit
these
sauage
Turkes
to
commit
eueryday
grieuous
outrages
,
and
to
make
great
wastes
and
desolations
in
all
Christendome
,
till
that
they
grew
so
mighty
that
it
is
to
bee
feared
least
the
saying
of
Lactantius
touching
the
returne
of
the
Empire
into
Asia
,
be
not
verified
and
accomplished
verie
shortly
,
if
there
bee
no
amendment
practised
:
for
we
see
by
wofull
experience
,
that
almost
all
the
forces
which
Christian
Princes
haue
mustered
together
from
all
quarters
in
pretence
to
resist
their
furie
and
rage
,
haue
not
onely
beene
bootlesse
and
vnprofitable
,
but
also
that
which
is
worse
,
giuen
them
further
occasion
by
their
bloodie
victories
and
wonderfull
slaughter
of
so
many
millions
of
men
,
to
make
them
more
obstinate
in
their
detestable
Mahumetisme
and
Turkish
religion
,
then
they
were
before
:
for
they
make
their
boasts
thereof
,
and
reare
vp
trophees
of
their
cruelties
,
taking
no
more
pittie
of
the
vanquished
,
then
a
butcher
doth
of
sheepe
alotted
to
the
slaughter
.
Whereof
we
haue
a
pittifull
example
in
the
ouerthrow
of
the
French
armie
which
Iohn
the
sonne
of
Philip
duke
of
Burgundie
led
against
the
Turke
Pazaite
,
and
by
the
trecherie
and
cowardise
of
the
Hungarians
,
who
in
the
time
of
battaile
turned
their
backes
and
fled
,
was
ouercome
:
in
that
this
wicked
and
cruell
tyger
expresly
charged
that
all
the
prisoners
(
in
number
many
)
should
be
murdered
one
after
another
;
which
was
readily
executed
before
his
eies
:
so
that
sauing
the
chiefe
captaine
and
certain
few
lords
of
the
companie
that
were
spared
in
respect
of
great
ransoms
,
there
scaped
not
one
aliue
.
Besides
these
generall
calamities
,
the
Lord
hath
particularly
showne
foorth
his
indignation
against
priuate
persons
and
places
for
Idolatrie
:
Alexander
Seuerus
,
after
that
the
left
hand
of
the
image
of
Iupiter
was
miraculously
melted
,
Behold
the
Lord
rideth
vpon
a
swift
cloud
,
and
shall
come
into
Aegypt
,
and
the
Idols
of
Aegypt
shall
melt
in
the
middest
of
her
:
Besides
the
generall
silence
of
the
Deuill
in
all
his
Oracles
throughout
the
world
presently
vpon
Christs
incarnation
is
a
thing
knowne
and
confessed
of
all
men
.
Notwithstanding
al
which
the
holy
Pope
will
still
maintaine
his
idolatrie
,
albeit
the
Lord
hath
made
knowne
manifest
tokens
of
his
indignation
against
it
.
As
appeareth
by
that
which
happened
in
the
year
1451
being
the
Popes
Iubilie
,
when
such
a
concourse
of
people
was
made
from
all
quarters
of
the
world
to
honour
that
superstitious
day
:
for
the
people
being
vpon
Adrians
bridge
were
so
thrust
together
that
two
hundred
men
and
three
horses
lost
their
liues
being
trampled
vpon
and
stifled
to
death
▪
manie
fell
into
the
water
ouer
the
bridge
,
and
so
perished
:
of
whom
an
hundred
and
thirty
were
buried
at
Saint
Selsus
:
and
these
are
the
fruits
of
their
indulgences
which
are
so
much
brought
and
sought
for
,
and
of
their
Iubilies
,
proceeding
from
the
Bishop
of
Rome
his
impious
and
sacralegious
zeale
.
Now
to
eschew
these
and
such
like
misfortunes
the
true
and
onely
meanes
is
,
an
vnfeigned
diuersion
from
all
Idolatrie
and
superstition
,
and
whatsoeuer
else
contrarieth
the
pure
seruice
of
God
,
and
a
conuersion
vnto
him
to
serue
him
in
spirite
and
truth
as
the
Scripture
exhorteth
.
CHAP.
XXVIII
.
Of
those
that
at
any
time
corrupted
and
mingled
Gods
religion
with
humane
inuentions
,
or
went
about
to
change
and
disquiet
the
discipline
of
the
Church
.
NOw
seeing
that
God
hath
set
downe
a
certaine
forme
of
doctrine
and
instruction
,
according
to
which
hee
would
haue
vs
to
serue
him
,
and
established
a
kind
of
discipline
and
pollicie
to
bee
obserued
and
maintained
of
euerie
man
inuiolablie
,
it
behooueth
therefore
euery
Christian
to
conforme
himselfe
vnto
this
order
:
and
not
to
bee
guided
by
euerie
fickle
imagination
of
his
own
braine
,
or
euerie
rash
presumption
that
ariseth
in
himselfe
,
but
onely
by
the
direct
rule
of
Gods
word
,
which
onely
wee
ought
to
follow
:
by
meanes
of
neglecting
which
dutie
many
vaine
and
pernicious
ceremonies
and
strange
superstitions
haue
beene
brought
in
,
and
swaied
mightily
:
by
reason
whereof
,
great
controuersies
and
disputations
are
taken
vp
at
this
day
.
Albeit
indeed
it
bee
a
thing
manifest
,
that
being
not
grounded
and
propped
vpon
the
anchore
of
the
scriptures
,
they
ought
to
be
abolished
,
what
braue
outward
shew
in
appearance
soeuer
they
beare
.
And
that
they
that
set
abroch
such
things
are
not
blamelesse
and
excusable
before
God
,
This
moderation
also
ought
to
be
obserued
in
the
church
discipline
,
to
wit
,
that
euery
man
contain
himselfe
within
the
precincts
of
his
vocation
,
and
that
none
intrude
themselues
into
any
charge
without
being
called
of
god
therunto
:
wherin
Corah
greatly
faulted
,
Oziah
king
of
Iuda
caried
himselfe
a
long
while
vprightly
and
modestly
in
the
seruice
of
God
:
When
the
arke
of
the
couenant
was
in
bringing
from
Abinadabs
house
in
Kyriathiarim
in
a
cart
guided
by
Vzza
and
Ahio
,
Abinadabs
sonnes
,
CHAP.
XXIX
.
Of
Periurers
.
THe
third
commandement
,
which
is
,
Thou
shalt
not
take
the
name
of
the
Lord
thy
God
in
vaine
,
is
first
and
especially
broken
by
periurie
,
when
God
is
so
lightly
esteemed
,
nay
so
despised
that
without
any
regard
had
to
his
name
(
that
is
to
say
)
to
his
greatnes
,
maiesty
,
power
,
diuine
vertue
and
fearfull
iustice
,
(
for
these
be
his
names
)
men
by
fraud
and
malice
abuse
their
othes
,
either
in
denying
that
which
is
true
,
or
affirming
that
which
is
vntrue
,
or
neglecting
their
promises
made
&
vowed
to
others
:
for
this
is
neither
to
haue
respect
vnto
his
presence
who
is
euery
where
,
nor
reuerence
to
his
maiestie
who
is
God
of
heauen
and
earth
,
but
rather
to
make
him
bear
witnes
to
our
lie
&
falshood
:
as
if
he
approued
it
,
or
had
no
power
to
reuenge
the
iniury
&
dishonor
done
vnto
him
.
And
therfore
against
such
in
threatning
words
he
denounceth
this
iudgement
,
that
Hee
will
not
hold
him
guiltlesse
that
taketh
his
name
in
vain
.
Howbeit
very
many
ouerboldly
giue
themselues
ouer
to
this
sinne
,
making
little
or
no
conscience
to
cousen
one
another
euen
by
forswearings
,
whereby
they
giue
most
cleare
euidence
against
themselues
,
that
they
haue
very
little
feare
of
God
before
their
eies
,
and
are
not
guided
by
any
other
rule
,
saue
of
their
owne
affections
,
by
which
they
square-out
,
and
build
their
othes
and
pull
them
downe
againe
at
their
pleasures
,
for
let
it
be
a
matter
of
vantage
,
and
then
they
wil
keepe
them
,
but
straightway
if
a
contrarie
persuasion
come
in
their
braine
they
will
cancell
them
by
and
by
:
wherein
they
deale
farre
worse
and
more
iniuriously
with
God
,
then
with
their
knowne
enemies
:
for
hee
that
contrarie
to
his
sworne
faith
,
deceiueth
his
enemie
,
declareth
that
therein
he
feareth
him
,
but
feareth
not
God
;
and
careth
for
him
,
but
contemneth
God
.
It
was
therefore
not-without
good
reason
that
all
antiquity
euer
marked
them
with
the
coat
of
infamie
that
forswore
themselues
.
And
therevpon
it
is
that
Homer
so
often
taunteth
the
Troians
by
reason
of
their
so
vsuall
periuries
.
Attilius
Regulus
chiefe
captaine
of
the
Romane
army
against
the
Carthaginians
was
so
highly
commended
of
all
men
,
because
when
hee
was
ouercome
and
taken
prisoner
and
sent
to
Rome
,
he
only
for
his
othes
sake
which
hee
had
sworne
returned
againe
to
the
enemie
,
albeit
hee
knew
what
greeuous
torments
were
prouided
for
him
at
his
returne
.
Others
also
that
came
with
him
though
they
were
entreated
,
and
by
their
parents
,
wiues
and
allies
instantly
vrged
not
to
returne
to
Hannibals
campe
could
in
no
wise
bee
moued
therevnto
:
but
because
they
had
sworne
to
the
enemie
,
if
the
Romans
did
not
accord
to
those
conditions
which
were
offered
,
to
come
againe
:
they
preferred
the
bond
and
reuerence
of
their
promised
faith
,
though
accompanied
with
perpetuall
captiuity
,
before
their
priuate
commodities
,
and
neerest
linke
of
affection
.
But
two
of
those
ten
(
for
so
many
were
they
)
falsified
their
oth
,
&
whatsoeuer
mist
they
may
cast
to
darken
and
disguise
their
periurie
with
,
yet
were
they
condemned
of
all
men
for
cowards
,
and
fainthearted
traitors
:
in
so
much
that
the
Censors
also
noted
them
with
infamie
for
the
fact
,
whereat
they
tooke
such
griefe
and
inward
sorrow
,
that
being
wearie
of
their
liues
,
they
slew
themselues
.
Now
what
can
they
pretend
that
professe
themselues
Christians
and
Catholickes
to
excuse
their
periuries
,
not
to
falsifie
his
oth
that
he
sweared
though
it
bee
to
his
dammage
.
The
Gibaonites
although
they
were
so
execrable
a
people
that
for
their
great
and
horrible
wickednesses
and
abhominations
they
might
be
well
esteemed
for
Heretikes
,
yet
the
Princes
of
Israell
after
they
had
sworne
and
giuen
their
faith
vnto
them
,
would
in
no
wise
retract
or
goe
against
their
oth
,
albeit
therein
they
were
abused
&
deceiued
by
them
,
for
feare
of
incurring
the
wtath
of
God
,
that
suffereth
not
a
periurer
to
go
vnpunished
.
Vpon
what
ground
or
example
of
holy
Scripture
then
may
that
doctrine
of
the
counsell
of
Constance
bee
founded
,
the
purport
whereof
is
,
That
a
man
ought
not
to
keepe
his
faith
to
Heretiks
?
I
omit
to
speake
how
these
good
fathers
(
by
Heretikes
)
meant
those
men
who
fearing
God
,
relied
themselues
vpon
his
word
,
and
reiected
the
foolish
and
superstitious
inuentions
of
men
.
And
vnder
what
colour
can
the
Popes
vsurpe
this
authoritie
,
to
quit
and
discharge
subiects
of
their
oth
wherwith
they
are
bound
to
their
superiors
?
yet
this
was
the
impious
audacity
of
Pope
Zacharia
,
pope
Boniface
the
eight
,
and
pope
Benedict
de
la
Lune
,
Howbeit
if
an
oath
be
made
either
against
God
,
or
to
the
dammage
and
hurt
of
our
neighbour
(
it
being
for
that
cause
vnlawfull
)
it
behooueth
vs
to
know
that
we
ought
to
reuoke
it
,
least
wee
fall
into
the
sinne
of
Saul
and
Herod
.
Among
the
beadroll
of
sinnes
which
Sedechias
the
last
king
of
Iuda
is
noted
withall
in
holy
scripture
,
periury
is
one
of
the
count
,
for
notwithstanding
hee
receiued
his
kingdome
of
Nabuchadnezzar
,
and
had
sworne
fealty
to
him
as
to
his
soueraigne
,
yet
brake
hee
his
oath
in
rebelling
against
him
,
which
was
the
very
cause
of
his
destruction
:
Metius
Suffetius
,
Generall
of
the
Albanes
,
procured
the
Fidenates
to
enter
war
against
the
Romanes
,
contrary
to
his
oth
which
he
had
sworne
vnto
them
,
and
being
called
by
the
Romans
to
their
succour
and
placed
in
an
outwing
to
helpe
if
need
were
,
whilst
the
rest
were
fighting
,
he
droue
away
the
time
in
ordering
his
men
,
and
ranging
them
into
squadrons
,
to
see
which
part
should
haue
the
best
,
that
hee
might
ioyne
himselfe
vnto
that
side
.
But
Tullus
the
Romane
king
hauing
obtained
the
victory
,
and
seeing
the
cowardise
,
subtilty
,
and
treason
of
this
Albane
,
adiudged
him
to
a
most
straunge
and
vile
death
answerable
to
his
fact
:
for
as
hee
had
in
his
bodie
a
double
heart
swimming
betweene
two
streames
,
and
now
ready
to
go
this
way
now
that
,
so
was
his
body
dismembred
and
torne
in
pieces
by
foure
horses
,
drawing
foure
contrarie
waies
,
to
serue
for
an
example
to
all
others
to
be
more
faithfull
and
true
obseruers
of
their
othes
then
he
was
.
In
old
time
the
Africanes
and
Carthaginians
were
generally
noted
for
perfidie
and
falshood
aboue
other
nations
;
Albeit
that
periurers
and
forswearers
were
to
the
Aegyptians
very
odious
and
abominable
(
as
wee
said
before
)
yet
among
them
there
was
one
Ptolome
,
A
most
notable
example
of
the
punishment
of
periurie
&
falshood
in
Vladislaus
king
of
Hungary
and
his
army
destroied
by
the
Turkes
,
is
set
downe
in
Bonfinus
his
Hungarian
history
,
after
this
manner
.
It
fell
out
that
the
king
of
Hungary
had
so
well
bestirred
himselfe
against
the
Turkes
,
that
Amurathes
was
glad
(
vpon
vnequall
conditions
and
euen
to
his
owne
hurt
,
and
their
good
)
to
conclude
a
peace
with
him
:
wherein
it
was
agreed
,
that
certaine
prouinces
should
be
restored
to
the
Hungarians
,
which
otherwise
could
not
haue
beene
recouered
but
by
great
losse
of
men
:
this
league
beeing
made
,
and
the
articles
thereof
engrossed
in
both
languages
,
with
a
solemne
oth
taken
on
both
parties
for
the
confirmation
of
the
same
:
Behold
the
Cardinall
of
Florence
Admirall
of
the
nauie
which
lay
vpon
the
sea
Hellespont
(
now
called
S.
Georges
arme
,
CHAP.
XXX
.
More
examples
of
the
like
subiect
.
BVt
let
vs
adde
a
fewe
more
examples
of
fresher
memory
as
touching
this
vngodly
periury
:
and
first
,
not
to
ouerpasse
king
Philip
of
Macedonie
,
who
neuer
made
reckoning
of
keeping
his
othes
,
but
swore
and
vnswore
them
at
his
pleasure
,
and
for
his
commoditie
:
doubtlesse
it
was
one
of
the
chiefest
causes
why
hee
and
his
whole
progenie
came
quickely
to
destruction
(
as
testifieth
Pausanias
)
for
hee
himselfe
beeing
sixe
and
fourty
yeeres
old
,
Cleopatra
Attalus
his
neece
,
whome
shee
sod
to
death
in
a
cauldron
:
his
daughter
Thessalonicaes
children
likewise
all
perished
:
and
lastly
,
Alexander
after
all
his
great
victories
,
in
the
midst
of
his
pompe
,
was
poisoned
at
Babylon
.
Gregory
Tours
maketh
mention
of
a
wicked
varlet
in
France
among
the
people
called
Auerni
,
that
forswearing
himselfe
in
an
vniust
cause
had
his
tongue
so
presently
tied
,
that
hee
could
not
speake
but
roare
,
and
so
continued
,
till
by
his
earnest
praiers
and
repentance
,
the
Lord
restored
to
him
the
vse
of
that
vnruly
member
.
Thete
were
in
old
time
certaine
people
of
Italy
called
Aequi
,
whereof
the
memory
remaineth
onely
at
this
day
,
for
they
were
vtterly
destroied
by
Q.
Cincinnatus
,
Gracchus
Cluilius
for
their
captaine
,
and
vnder
his
conduct
spoiled
the
fields
and
territories
of
the
Romans
,
contrary
to
their
former
league
and
oth
.
Whereupon
the
Romans
sent
Q.
Fabius
,
P.
Voluminus
,
&
A.
Posthumius
Embassadours
to
them
,
to
complaine
of
their
wrongs
and
demand
satisfaction
:
but
their
captaine
so
little
esteemed
them
,
that
he
bad
them
deliuer
their
message
to
an
oake
standing
thereby
,
whilst
he
intended
other
businesse
.
Then
one
of
the
three
turning
himselfe
towards
the
oake
,
spake
on
this
manner
:
Thou
hallowed
oke
,
and
whatsoeuer
els
belongeth
to
the
gods
in
this
place
,
heare
and
beare
witnesse
of
this
disloiall
part
,
and
fauour
our
iust
complaints
,
that
with
the
assistance
of
the
gods
wee
may
be
reuenged
on
this
iniurie
.
This
done
,
they
returned
home
,
and
shortly
after
gathering
a
power
of
men
,
set
vpon
and
ouercame
that
truce-breaking
nation
.
In
the
yeere
of
Rome
built
317
,
the
Fidenates
reuolted
from
the
friendship
and
league
of
the
Romanes
to
Toluminus
the
king
of
the
Veyans
,
and
adding
crueltie
to
treason
,
killed
foure
of
their
Embassadours
that
came
to
know
the
cause
of
their
defection
:
which
disloialty
the
Romans
not
brooking
,
vndertooke
war
against
them
;
and
notwithstanding
all
their
priuat
and
forraine
strength
,
ouerthrew
and
slew
them
.
In
this
battell
it
is
said
,
that
a
Tribune
of
the
souldiers
seeing
Toluminus
brauely
galloping
vp
and
downe
and
encouraging
his
souldiers
,
&
the
Romans
trembling
at
his
approch
,
said
,
Is
this
the
breaker
of
leagues
,
&
violatour
of
the
law
of
nations
?
If
there
be
any
holines
on
earth
,
my
sword
shall
sacrifice
him
to
the
soules
of
our
slaine
Embassadours
;
&
therewithall
setting
spurs
to
his
horse
,
he
vnhorst
him
,
&
fastening
him
to
the
earth
with
his
speare
,
cut
off
his
perfidious
head
:
whereat
his
army
dismaid
,
retired
,
&
became
a
slaughter
to
the
enemies
.
Albertus
Duke
of
Franconia
hauing
slaine
Conrade
the
Earle
of
Lotharingia
,
brother
to
Lewes
the
fourth
,
then
Emperour
,
The
Pope
of
Rome
with
all
his
heard
of
bishops
opposed
himselfe
against
the
Emperour
Henry
the
fourth
,
Petra
dedit
Petro
,
Petrus
diadema
Rodulpho
,
that
is
,
The
rocke
gaue
vnto
Peter
,
and
Peter
gaue
vnto
Rodulph
the
crowne
:
notwithstanding
Rodulph
remembring
his
oth
to
the
Emperour
,
&
how
vile
a
part
it
was
to
betray
him
whome
he
had
sworne
to
obey
and
defend
,
at
first
refused
the
Popes
offer
:
howbeit
by
the
persuasion
of
the
bishops
sophistry
he
was
induced
to
vndertake
the
name
and
title
of
Cesar
,
and
to
oppugne
the
Emperour
Henry
by
armes
,
euen
by
foure
vniust
battels
,
in
the
last
of
which
Rodulph
being
ouercome
,
lost
his
right
hand
,
and
was
sore
wounded
otherwise
:
wherfore
being
ready
to
die
;
when
one
brought
vnto
him
his
hand
that
was
cut
off
in
the
battell
,
he
in
detestation
of
the
popes
villany
burst
forh
into
these
termes
(
many
bishops
standing
by
)
Behold
here
the
hand
wherewith
I
swore
fealty
to
the
Emperour
,
this
will
be
an
argument
of
my
breach
of
faith
before
God
,
and
of
your
traiterous
impulsion
thereunto
.
And
thus
hee
deceased
,
iustly
punished
euen
by
his
owne
confession
for
his
periurie
.
Howbeit
for
all
this
manifest
example
the
pope
and
bishops
continued
to
persecute
the
poore
Emperour
,
yea
and
to
stirre
vp
his
owne
sonnes
,
Conrade
and
Henry
to
fight
against
him
;
so
hardened
are
their
hearts
against
all
iudgements
.
Narcissus
bishop
of
Ierusalem
,
If
I
lie
,
I
pray
God
I
may
perish
by
fire
:
the
second
.
If
I
speake
ought
but
truth
,
I
pray
God
I
may
be
consumed
by
some
filthy
and
cruell
disease
:
If
I
accuse
him
falsly
,
I
pray
God
I
may
be
depriued
of
my
sight
and
become
blind
.
Thus
although
the
honesty
and
chastitie
of
Narcissus
was
so
well
knowen
to
all
the
faithful
,
that
they
beleeued
none
of
their
othes
,
yet
the
good
bishop
partly
mooued
with
griefe
of
this
false
accusation
,
and
partly
with
desire
of
quietnesse
from
worldly
affaires
,
forsooke
his
bishopricke
,
and
liued
in
a
desert
for
many
yeeres
.
But
his
forsworne
accusers
by
their
death
witnessed
his
innocencie
,
which
by
their
words
they
impugned
:
for
the
first
his
house
being
set
on
fire
extraordinarily
,
perished
in
the
flame
with
all
his
family
and
progenie
:
The
second
languished
away
with
an
irkesome
disease
that
bespread
his
body
all
ouer
:
The
third
seeing
the
wofull
ends
of
his
companions
,
confessed
all
their
villany
,
and
lamenting
his
case
and
crime
,
persisted
so
long
weeping
,
till
both
his
eyes
were
put
out
.
Thus
God
in
his
iust
iudgement
sent
vpon
ech
of
them
their
wishes
,
and
thereby
cleared
his
seruant
from
shame
and
opprobry
.
The
small
successe
that
the
Emperor
Sigismond
had
in
all
his
affaires
(
after
the
violation
of
his
faith
giuen
to
Iohn
Hus
,
In
the
yeere
of
our
Lord
1055
,
Goodwine
Earle
of
Kent
sitting
at
the
table
with
king
Edward
of
England
,
Anne
Aueri●●
widdow
,
who
forswore
her selfe
for
a
little
mony
that
she
should
haue
paid
for
six
pound
of
tow
at
a
shop
in
Woodstreet
for
which
cause
being
suddenly
surprized
with
the
iustice
of
God
,
shee
fell
downe
speechlesse
forthwith
,
and
cast
vp
at
her
mouth
in
great
aboundance
&
with
horrible
stinke
that
matter
which
by
natures
course
should
haue
bene
voided
downwards
,
and
so
died
to
the
terrour
of
all
periured
and
forsworne
wretches
.
There
are
in
Histories
many
more
examples
to
be
found
of
this
hurtfull
and
pernicious
sinne
exercised
by
one
nation
towards
another
,
and
one
man
towards
another
,
in
most
profane
and
villanous
sort
,
neither
shaming
to
be
accounted
forsworne
,
nor
consequently
fearing
to
displease
God
and
his
maiestie
.
But
forasmuch
as
when
we
come
to
speake
of
murderers
in
the
next
booke
,
we
shall
haue
occasion
to
speake
of
them
more
,
or
of
such
like
,
I
will
referre
the
handling
thereof
vnto
that
place
;
only
this
,
let
euery
man
learne
by
that
which
hath
bene
spoken
,
to
be
sound
and
fraudlesse
,
and
to
keepe
his
faith
and
promise
towards
all
men
,
if
for
no
other
cause
,
yet
for
feare
of
God
,
who
leaueth
not
this
sinne
vnpunished
,
nor
holdeth
them
guiltlesse
that
thus
take
his
name
in
vaine
.
CHAP.
XXXI
.
Of
Blasphemers
.
AS
touching
Blasphemie
,
it
is
a
most
grieuous
and
enormous
sinne
,
and
contrary
to
this
third
commandement
,
when
a
man
is
so
wretched
and
miserable
as
to
pronounce
presumptuous
speeches
against
God
,
whereby
his
name
is
slandered
and
euill
spoken
of
,
which
sinne
can
not
choose
but
be
sharpely
and
seuerely
punished
:
for
if
so
be
that
God
holdeth
not
him
guiltlesse
that
doth
but
take
his
name
in
vaine
,
must
hee
not
needs
abhorre
him
that
blasphemeth
his
name
?
See
how
meritoriously
that
wicked
and
peruerse
wretch
that
blasphemed
and
murdered
(
as
it
were
)
the
name
of
God
among
the
people
of
Israel
in
the
desert
,
was
punished
:
hee
was
taken
,
S.
Lewes
of
France
to
be
commended
,
Nichol.
Gil.
vol.
1.
Of
French
Chronicles
.
who
especially
discharged
all
his
subiects
from
swearing
&
blaspheming
within
his
realme
,
insomuch
that
when
he
heating
a
[
a
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a
Lord
of
Ienville
.
noble
man
blaspheme
God
most
cruelly
,
he
caused
him
to
be
laid
hold
on
,
&
his
lips
to
be
slit
with
an
hor
iron
,
saying
,
he
must
be
content
to
endure
that
punishment
,
seeing
he
purposed
to
banish
othes
out
of
his
kingdome
.
Now
we
call
blasphemie
(
according
to
the
scripture
phrase
)
euery
word
that
derogateth
either
from
the
bountie
,
mercy
,
iustice
,
eternity
,
&
soueraigne
power
of
God
:
of
this
sort
was
that
blasphemous
speech
of
one
of
king
Iorams
princes
,
who
at
the
time
of
the
great
famine
in
Samaria
,
when
it
was
besieged
by
the
Sirians
,
hearing
Elizaeus
the
Prophet
say
,
that
the
next
morow
there
should
be
plenty
of
victuals
,
and
good
cheape
,
reiected
this
promise
of
God
made
by
his
Prophet
,
In
the
time
of
the
Machabees
those
men
that
were
in
the
strong
hold
called
Gazara
,
Holofernes
,
when
Achior
aduanced
the
glory
of
the
God
of
Israel
,
Since
thou
hast
prophesied
vnto
vs
that
Israel
shall
be
defended
by
their
god
,
thou
shalt
prooue
that
there
is
no
God
but
Nabuchadonosor
,
when
the
sword
of
mine
army
shall
passe
through
thy
sides
,
and
thou
shalt
fall
among
their
slaine
:
but
for
this
blasphemy
the
Lord
cut
him
short
,
and
preuented
his
cruell
purpose
by
sudden
death
,
and
that
by
the
hand
of
a
woman
,
to
his
further
shame
.
Nay
this
sinne
is
so
odious
in
the
sight
of
God
,
that
he
punisheth
euen
them
that
giue
occasion
therof
vnto
others
,
yea
though
they
be
his
dearest
children
,
as
it
appeareth
by
the
words
of
the
Prophet
Nathan
vnto
king
Dauid
:
Because
of
this
deed
(
saith
he
)
of
murdering
Vriah
and
defiling
Bathshabe
,
thou
hast
made
the
enemies
of
the
Lord
to
blaspheme
,
the
child
that
is
borne
vnto
thee
shall
surely
die
.
In
the
Empire
of
Iulian
the
Apostata
,
there
were
diuers
great
men
that
for
the
Emperors
sake
forsooke
Christ
&
abiured
his
religion
:
Theod.
llb.
3.
cap.
11
,
&
12.
Contempt
of
holy
things
.
Lib.
1.
cap.
3
,
4.
amongst
whom
was
one
Iulian
vncle
to
the
Emperor
&
gouernor
of
the
East
;
another
Faelix
,
the
Emperors
treasurer
:
the
first
of
which
two
,
after
he
had
spoiled
all
Christian
Churches
and
temples
,
pissed
against
the
table
whereon
the
holy
sacraments
were
vsed
to
be
administred
,
in
contempt
,
and
stroke
Euzoius
on
the
eare
for
reproouing
him
for
it
:
the
other
beholding
the
holy
vessels
that
belonged
to
the
Church
,
said
,
See
what
precious
vessels
Maries
sonne
is
serued
withall
.
After
which
blasphemie
,
the
Lord
plagued
them
most
strangely
;
for
Iulian
fell
into
so
strange
a
disease
,
that
his
entrails
beeing
rotten
,
hee
voided
his
excrements
at
his
mouth
,
because
when
they
passed
naturally
,
hee
abused
them
to
the
dishonour
of
God
.
Foelix
vomited
blood
so
excessiuely
night
and
day
at
his
blasphemous
mouth
,
that
hee
died
forthwith
.
About
the
same
time
there
liued
a
famous
sophister
&
Epicure
called
Libanius
,
who
beeing
at
Antioch
,
Michael
that
blasphemous
Rabbine
,
that
was
accounted
of
the
Iewes
as
their
Prince
and
Messias
,
Three
soldiers
(
amongst
the
Tyrigetes
a
people
of
Sarmatia
)
passing
through
a
wood
,
there
arose
a
tempest
of
thunder
and
lightning
,
which
though
commonly
it
maketh
the
greatest
Atheists
to
tremble
,
yet
one
of
them
to
shew
his
contempt
of
God
and
his
iudgements
,
burst
forth
into
blasphemie
&
despitings
of
God
.
But
the
Lord
soone
tamed
his
rebellious
tongue
:
for
he
caused
the
wind
to
blow
vp
by
the
root
a
huge
tree
that
fell
vpon
him
&
crushed
him
to
pieces
,
the
other
escaping
to
testifie
to
the
world
of
his
destruction
.
No
lesse
notable
is
the
example
of
a
young
gyrle
,
named
Denis
Benifield
of
twelue
yeres
of
age
,
In
the
yeare
510
an
Arrian
bishop
called
Olimpius
being
at
Carthage
in
the
bathes
reproched
and
blasphemed
the
holy
and
sacred
trinitie
,
and
that
openly
:
Paul
.
Diacon
.
in
the
historie
of
Anastatius
.
Sabell
.
Aenead.
8.
lib.
2.
Anton.
Panor
.
of
the
acts
of
Alphonsus
Aeneas
.
Siluius
of
the
acts
of
Alphonsus
.
but
lightning
fell
downe
from
heauen
vpon
him
three
times
,
and
he
was
burnt
and
consumed
therewith
.
There
was
also
in
the
time
of
Alphonsus
king
of
Arragon
and
Sicily
in
an
Isle
towards
Affrica
,
a
certaine
Hermite
called
Antonius
a
monstrous
and
prophane
hypocrite
,
that
had
so
wicked
a
heart
to
deuise
,
and
so
filthy
a
throat
to
belch
out
vile
and
iniurious
speeches
against
Christ
Iesus
and
the
virgine
Mary
his
mother
:
but
hee
was
stricken
with
a
most
grieuous
disease
,
euen
to
bee
eaten
and
gnawne
in
peeces
of
wormes
vntill
he
died
.
CHAP.
XXXII
.
Of
those
that
by
cursing
and
denying
God
giue
themselues
to
the
Deuill
.
AS
concerning
those
that
are
addicted
to
much
cursing
,
and
as
if
their
throats
were
Hell
it selfe
,
to
despightings
and
reuilings
against
God
(
that
is
blessed
for
euer
)
and
are
so
mad
as
to
renounce
him
and
giue
themselues
to
the
Deuill
:
truly
they
worthily
deserue
to
be
forsaken
of
God
,
&
giuen
ouer
to
the
deuil
indeed
,
to
go
with
him
into
euerlasting
perdition
:
which
hath
ben
visibly
experienced
in
our
time
vpon
certain
wretched
persons
,
which
haue
ben
caried
away
by
that
wicked
spirit
to
whom
they
gaue
themselues
.
In
the
year
of
our
Lord
1551
at
Megalopole
neer
Voildstat
it
happened
in
the
time
of
the
celebration
of
the
feast
of
Pentecost
,
the
people
being
set
on
drinking
&
caroussing
,
About
the
same
time
there
liued
in
a
citie
of
Sauoy
one
that
was
both
a
monstruous
swearer
,
and
also
otherwise
very
vicious
,
who
put
many
good
men
to
much
fruitlesse
paines
,
that
in
regard
of
their
charge
emploied
themselues
often
to
admonish
and
reprooue
his
wicked
behauiour
,
to
the
end
he
might
amend
it
:
but
all
in
vain
,
they
might
as
wel
cast
stones
against
the
wind
;
for
he
would
not
so
much
as
listen
to
their
words
,
much
lesse
reforme
his
manners
.
Now
it
fell
out
that
the
pestilence
being
in
the
city
,
hee
was
infected
with
it
,
and
therefore
withdrew
himselfe
a
part
with
his
wife
&
another
kinswoman
into
a
garden
which
hee
had
:
neither
yet
in
this
extremity
did
the
ministers
forsake
him
,
but
ceased
not
continually
to
exhort
him
to
repentance
,
&
to
lay
before
his
eies
his
faults
and
offences
,
to
the
end
to
bring
him
into
the
right
way
.
But
he
was
so
farre
from
being
touched
or
moued
with
these
godly
admonitions
that
he
stroue
rather
to
harden
himselfe
more
and
more
in
his
sinnes
.
Therefore
one
day
hasting
forward
his
own
mishap
,
as
he
was
swearing
&
denying
God
,
and
giuing
himselfe
to
the
Deuill
,
and
calling
for
him
with
vehemencie
,
behold
euen
the
Deuill
indeed
snatched
him
vp
soddainly
,
and
heaued
him
into
the
aire
,
his
wife
and
kinswoman
looking
on
,
and
seeing
him
flie
ouer
their
heads
,
being
thus
swiftly
transported
,
his
cap
tumbled
from
his
head
,
and
was
found
at
Rosne
,
but
himselfe
no
man
could
euer
after
set
eie
on
.
The
Magistrate
aduertised
hereof
,
came
to
the
place
where
he
was
taken
to
bee
better
enformed
of
the
truth
,
taking
the
witnesse
of
the
two
women
touching
that
which
they
had
seene
.
Here
wee
may
see
the
strange
and
terrible
euents
of
Gods
iust
vengeance
vpon
such
vile
;
caitifes
which
doubtlesse
are
made
manifest
to
strike
a
feare
and
terror
into
the
heart
of
euery
swearer
and
denier
of
God
,
(
the
world
being
but
too
full
at
this
day
of
such
wretches
)
that
are
so
inspired
with
Sathan
,
that
they
cannot
speak
but
they
must
name
him
,
euen
him
that
is
both
an
enemie
to
God
&
man
,
and
like
a
roaring
lion
runneth
and
roueth
to
&
fro
to
deuoure
them
:
not
seeking
any
thing
but
mans
destruction
And
yet
when
any
paine
assaileth
them
,
or
any
trouble
disquieteth
their
minds
,
or
any
danger
threatneth
to
oppresse
their
bodies
,
desperately
they
cal
vpon
him
for
aid
,
when
indeed
it
were
more
needful
to
commend
themselues
to
God
and
to
pray
for
his
grace
and
assistance
,
hauing
both
a
commandement
so
to
doe
,
and
a
promise
adioined
,
that
hee
will
helpe
vs
in
our
necessitie
,
if
we
come
vnto
him
by
true
&
hearty
praier
.
It
is
not
therfore
without
iust
cause
that
God
hath
propounded
and
laid
open
in
this
corrupt
age
a
Theatre
of
his
iudgements
that
euery
man
might
be
warned
thereby
.
CHAP.
XXXIII
.
More
examples
of
Gods
Iudgements
vpon
cursers
.
BVt
before
wee
goe
to
the
next
commandement
we
will
adioine
a
few
more
examples
of
this
diuellish
cursing
.
Martin
Luther
hath
left
registred
vnto
vs
a
notable
example
showne
vpon
a
Popish
priest
that
was
once
a
professour
of
the
sincere
religion
,
Adam
Budissina
was
the
reporter
:
this
man
thundered
out
most
bitter
curses
against
Luther
in
the
pulpit
at
a
towne
called
Ruthnerwald
:
and
amongst
the
rest
,
wished
that
if
Luthers
doctrine
was
true
,
a
thunderbolt
might
strike
him
to
death
.
Now
three
daies
after
,
there
arose
a
mighty
tempest
with
thunder
and
lightning
:
whereat
the
cursed
priest
bearing
in
himselfe
a
guilty
conscience
for
that
he
had
vntruly
and
maliciously
spoken
,
ran
hastily
into
the
church
,
and
there
fell
to
his
praiers
before
the
altar
most
deuoutly
;
but
the
vengeance
of
God
found
him
out
and
his
hipocrisie
,
so
that
he
was
stroken
dead
with
the
lightning
,
and
albeit
they
recouered
life
in
him
againe
,
yet
as
they
led
him
homewards
through
the
churchyard
,
another
flash
so
set
vpon
him
that
it
burnt
him
from
the
crowne
of
the
head
to
the
sole
of
his
foot
as
blacke
as
a
shoe
,
so
that
he
died
with
a
manifest
marke
of
Gods
vengeance
vpon
him
.
Theodorus
Beza
reporteth
vnto
vs
two
notable
histories
of
his
owne
knowledge
of
the
seuerity
of
Gods
iudgement
vpon
a
curser
and
a
periurer
,
the
tenour
whereof
is
this
:
I
knew
(
saith
he
)
in
France
a
man
of
good
parts
,
well
instructed
in
religion
,
and
a
master
of
a
family
,
who
in
his
anger
cursing
and
bidding
the
Deuill
take
one
of
his
children
,
had
presently
his
wish
,
for
the
child
was
possessed
immeadiately
with
a
spirit
:
from
which
though
by
the
feruent
&
continual
praiers
of
the
church
he
was
at
length
released
,
yet
ere
hee
had
fully
recouered
his
health
he
died
.
The
like
we
read
to
haue
happened
to
a
woman
whom
her
husband
in
anger
deuoted
with
bitter
curses
to
the
deuill
;
for
Satan
assaulted
her
presently
and
robbed
her
of
her
wits
,
so
that
she
could
neuer
be
recouered
.
116.
Periurie
lib.
1.
cap.
29.
Another
example
(
saith
he
)
happened
not
far
hence
,
euen
in
this
countrie
vpon
a
periurer
that
forswore
himselfe
,
to
the
end
to
deceiue
and
preiudice
another
thereby
:
but
hee
had
no
sooner
made
an
end
of
his
false
oth
,
but
a
greeuous
apoplexie
assailed
him
,
so
that
without
speaking
any
one
word
he
died
within
few
daies
.
Paul
,
Paul
,
if
thy
doctrin
touching
the
receiuing
the
sacrament
in
both
kinds
be
true
,
&
if
it
be
a
wicked
thing
to
receiue
it
otherwise
,
then
would
the
deuill
might
take
me
:
&
(
turning
to
the
people
)
if
the
popes
doctrin
concerning
this
point
be
not
true
,
then
am
I
the
deuils
bondslaue
,
neither
do
I
fear
to
pawn
my
soule
vpon
it
:
these
&
many
other
blasphemous
words
he
vsed
,
till
the
deuil
came
indeed
transformed
into
the
shape
of
a
tall
man
black
&
terrible
,
sending
before
him
such
a
fearful
noise
and
such
a
wind
,
that
the
people
supposed
that
the
church
would
haue
fallen
on
their
heads
;
but
he
not
able
to
hurt
the
rest
,
took
away
the
old
priest
being
his
deuoted
bondslaue
,
&
caried
him
so
far
that
he
was
neuer
heard
of
:
the
bishop
of
Rugenstines
brother
hardly
escaped
his
hands
,
for
he
came
back
to
fetch
him
,
but
he
defending
himselfe
with
his
sword
wounded
his
own
body
,
&
very
narrowly
escaped
with
his
life
.
Beside
after
this
there
were
many
visions
seen
about
the
city
,
as
armies
of
men
ready
to
enter
&
surprise
them
,
so
that
wel
was
he
that
could
hide
himself
in
a
corner
.
At
another
time
after
the
like
noise
was
heard
in
the
church
whilst
they
were
baptising
an
infant
:
&
al
this
for
the
abominable
cursing
and
blasphemie
of
the
prophane
priest
.
In
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
1556
at
S.
Gallus
in
Heluetia
,
Iohn
Baptists
day
,
the
whole
people
exhorting
her
to
leaue
off
that
monstrous
villany
:
but
shee
nothing
bettered
continued
her
course
,
till
all
the
companie
were
set
at
dinner
,
and
very
merry
.
Then
loe
the
Deuill
hauing
got
full
possession
of
her
,
came
in
person
and
transported
her
into
the
aire
before
them
all
,
with
most
terrible
outcries
and
roarings
,
&
in
that
sort
carried
her
round
about
the
town
,
that
the
inhabitants
were
ready
to
die
with
feare
,
and
by
and
by
tore
her
in
foure
peeces
,
leauing
in
four
seuerall
high
waies
a
quarter
,
that
all
that
came
by
might
be
witnesses
of
her
punishment
.
And
then
returning
to
the
marriage
,
threw
her
bowels
vpon
the
table
before
the
Maior
of
the
towne
with
these
words
:
Behold
these
dishes
of
meat
belong
to
thee
,
whome
the
like
destruction
awaiteth
,
if
thou
doest
not
amend
thy
wicked
life
.
The
reporters
of
this
hystorie
were
Iohn
Herman
the
minister
of
the
said
towne
,
with
the
Maior
himselfe
,
and
the
whole
inhabitants
,
being
desirous
to
haue
it
knowne
to
the
world
for
example
sake
.
In
Luthers
conferences
there
is
mention
made
of
this
story
following
:
A
cettaine
man
not
farre
from
Gorlitz
prouided
a
sumptuous
supper
,
&
inuited
many
guests
vnto
it
,
It
is
notoriously
knowne
in
Oundle
a
town
in
Northamptonshire
,
amongst
all
that
were
acquainted
with
the
partie
,
namely
one
Hacket
,
of
whome
more
hath
beene
spoken
before
,
how
he
vsed
in
his
earnest
talke
euer
to
curse
himselfe
on
this
manner
:
If
it
be
not
true
,
then
let
a
visible
confusion
come
vpon
me
.
Now
hee
wanted
no●
his
wish
,
for
hee
came
to
a
visible
confusion
indeed
,
as
hath
ben
declared
more
at
large
in
the
20
chap.
of
this
booke
.
At
Witeberg
before
Martin
Luther
and
diuerse
other
learned
men
,
a
woman
whose
daughter
was
possessed
with
a
spirit
,
confessed
that
by
her
curse
that
plague
was
fallen
vpon
her
,
for
being
angry
at
a
time
she
bad
the
deuil
take
her
,
&
she
had
no
sooner
spoken
the
word
but
he
tooke
her
indeed
,
&
possessed
her
in
most
strange
sort
.
No
whitlesse
strange
and
horrible
is
that
which
happened
at
Neoburge
in
Germany
to
a
son
that
was
cursed
of
his
mother
in
her
anger
with
this
curse
,
Iohn
Peter
sonne
in
law
to
Alexander
that
cruel
keeper
of
Newgate
,
being
a
most
horrible
swearer
and
blasphemer
,
vsed
commonly
to
say
,
If
it
be
not
true
,
I
pray
God
I
may
rot
ere
I
die
:
and
not
in
vaine
,
for
he
rotted
away
indeed
,
&
so
died
most
miserably
.
Hether
we
may
ad
a
notable
example
of
a
certain
yoong
gallant
that
was
a
monstrous
swearer
,
who
riding
in
the
company
of
diuerse
gentlemen
,
began
to
swear
and
most
horribly
blaspheme
the
name
of
God
:
vnto
whom
one
of
the
company
with
gentle
words
,
said
hee
should
one
day
answere
for
that
:
the
yonker
taking
snuffe
thereat
,
why
said
hee
takest
thou
thought
for
mee
?
CHAP.
XXXIIII
.
Punishments
for
the
contempt
of
the
word
and
the
Sacraments
:
and
abuse
of
holy
things
.
NOw
it
is
another
kind
of
taking
the
name
of
God
in
vain
,
to
despise
his
words
and
sacraments
;
for
like
as
among
earthly
princes
it
is
accounted
a
crime
no
lesse
then
treason
either
to
abuse
their
pictures
,
to
counterfeit
or
depraue
their
seales
,
to
rent
,
pollute
,
or
corrupt
their
letter
patents
,
or
to
vse
vnreuerently
their
messengers
,
or
any
thing
that
commeth
from
them
:
So
with
the
prince
of
heauen
it
is
a
sin
of
high
degree
,
either
to
abuse
his
word
prophanely
,
which
is
the
letter
patents
of
our
saluation
:
or
handle
the
sacraments
vnreuerently
,
which
are
the
seales
of
his
mercy
:
or
to
despise
his
ministers
,
which
are
his
messengers
vnto
vs
.
And
this
he
maketh
known
vnto
vs
not
only
by
edicts
&
commandements
,
but
also
by
examples
of
his
vengeance
on
the
heads
of
the
offenders
in
this
case
:
for
the
former
look
what
Paul
saith
,
That
for
the
vnworthy
receiuing
of
the
Sacraments
many
were
weake
and
sicke
among
the
Corinthians
,
&
many
slept
,
how
much
more
then
for
the
abusing
&
contemning
the
Sacraments
?
Vide
lib.
1.
cap.
14.
example
of
the
Iews
.
But
let
vs
come
to
the
examples
,
wherin
the
grieuousnesse
of
this
sin
will
lie
more
open
then
by
any
words
can
bee
expressed
.
Denterius
an
Arrian
bishop
being
at
Bezantium
,
as
he
was
about
to
baptise
one
Barbas
after
his
blasphemous
maner
,
saying
,
I
baptise
thee
in
the
name
of
the
father
through
the
son
in
the
Holy-ghost
.
Which
forme
of
words
is
contrary
to
the
prescript
rule
of
Christ
,
that
bad
his
disciples
to
baptize
al
nations
,
In
the
name
of
the
father
the
son
and
the
Holy-ghost
;
the
water
sodenly
vanished
,
so
that
he
could
not
then
bee
baptised
:
wherefore
Barbas
all
amased
fled
from
thence
to
a
church
of
purer
religion
,
and
there
was
entertained
into
the
church
by
baptisme
.
Vrbanus
Farmensis
,
and
Foelix
Iducensis
,
two
Donatists
by
profession
,
rushing
into
Thipasa
a
Citty
of
Mauritania
,
commaunded
the
Eucharist
to
bee
throwne
amongst
the
dogges
;
but
the
dogges
growing
mad
thereby
,
set
vpon
their
owne
maisters
,
and
rent
them
with
their
teeth
as
being
guiltie
of
despising
the
body
of
Christ
:
certainely
a
noble
iudgement
to
condemne
the
wicked
behauiour
of
those
miscreants
,
who
were
so
profane
,
as
not
onely
to
refuse
the
sacrament
themselues
,
Theopompus
a
Philosopher
being
about
to
insert
certaine
things
out
of
the
writings
of
Moses
into
his
prophane
workes
,
and
so
to
abuse
the
sacred
word
of
God
,
was
stroken
with
a
frensie
;
and
being
warned
of
the
cause
therof
in
a
dreame
,
In
a
towne
of
Germany
called
Itzsith
there
dwelt
a
certaine
husbandman
that
was
a
monstrous
despiser
and
prophaner
of
the
word
of
God
and
his
sacraments
:
D.
Iustus
Ionas
in
Luthers
conferences
reporteth
to
be
most
true
.
In
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
1553
a
certaine
coblers
seruant
being
brought
vp
among
the
professors
of
the
reformed
religion
,
and
hauing
receiued
the
sacrament
in
both
kinds
,
When
the
great
persecution
of
the
Christians
was
in
Persia
vnder
king
Sapor
in
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
347
,
Most
lamentable
was
the
iudgement
of
God
vpon
one
Iohn
Apowel
(
somtimes
a
seruingman
)
for
mocking
&
iesting
at
the
word
of
God
:
this
Iohn
Apowell
hearing
one
William
Malden
,
reading
certaine
English
praiers
,
mocked
him
after
euery
word
with
contrary
gauds
&
flouting
termes
;
insomuch
that
at
last
he
was
terribly
afraid
,
so
that
his
hair
stood
vpright
on
his
head
,
and
the
next
day
was
found
besides
his
wits
,
crying
night
and
day
without
ceasing
,
The
deuill
,
the
deuill
,
O
the
deuill
of
hell
,
now
the
deuill
of
hell
,
there
he
goeth
,
for
it
seemed
to
him
as
the
other
read
Lord
haue
mercie
vpon
vs
at
the
end
of
the
praier
that
the
deuill
appeared
vnto
him
,
and
by
the
permission
of
God
depriued
him
of
his
vnderstanding
:
this
is
a
terrible
example
for
all
those
that
bee
mockers
at
the
word
of
God
to
warne
them
(
if
they
do
not
repent
)
least
the
vengeance
of
God
fall
vpon
them
in
like
manner
.
Thus
wee
see
how
seuerely
the
Lord
punisheth
all
despisers
and
prophaners
of
his
holy
things
,
and
thereby
ought
to
learne
to
carrie
a
most
dutifull
regard
and
reuerence
to
them
,
as
also
to
note
them
for
none
of
Gods
flocke
whosoeuer
they
be
that
deride
or
contemne
any
part
of
religion
or
the
ministers
of
the
same
.
CHAP.
XXXV
.
Of
those
that
prophane
the
Sabboth
day
.
IN
the
fourth
&
last
commandement
of
the
first
table
it
is
said
,
Remember
to
keep
holy
the
sabboth
day
:
by
which
words
it
is
ordained
and
enioined
vs
to
seperate
one
day
of
seuen
from
al
bodily
and
seruile
labor
,
not
to
idlenes
&
loosenes
,
but
to
the
worship
of
God
,
which
is
spirituall
and
wholesome
.
Which
holy
ordinance
when
one
of
the
children
of
Israel
in
contempt
broke
,
as
they
were
in
the
wildernesse
,
Des
dominicus
(
that
is
)
The
day
of
our
Lord
:
Because
vpon
that
day
he
rose
from
the
dead
,
to
wit
,
the
morrow
after
the
Iewes
sabboth
being
the
first
day
of
the
weeke
:
to
which
sabboth
it
by
common
consent
of
the
church
succeeded
,
to
the
end
that
a
difference
might
be
put
betwixt
Christians
&
Iews
.
Therfore
it
ought
now
religiously
to
be
obserued
,
as
it
is
also
commanded
in
the
ciuil
law
,
with
expresse
prohibition
not
to
abuse
this
day
of
holy
rest
in
vnholy
sports
&
pastimes
,
And
that
it
is
a
thing
odious
and
condemned
of
God
,
these
examples
following
will
declare
.
Gregory
Turonensis
reporteth
,
that
a
husbandman
who
vpon
the
Lords
day
went
to
plow
his
field
;
as
he
cleansed
his
plowshare
with
an
iron
,
the
iron
stucke
so
fast
into
his
hand
,
that
for
two
yeeres
hee
could
not
be
deliuered
from
it
,
but
carried
it
about
continually
to
his
exceeding
great
paine
and
shame
.
A
certaine
noble
man
vsed
euery
Lords
day
to
go
a
hunting
in
the
sermon
while
,
At
Kimstat
a
town
in
France
,
Anno
Dom.
1126
:
which
though
it
might
seeme
to
be
a
thing
more
casuall
,
Famous
and
memorable
also
is
that
example
which
happened
at
London
in
the
yeere
1583
at
Paris
garden
,
where
,
vpon
the
Sabbath
day
,
were
gathered
togither
(
as
accustomably
they
vsed
)
great
multitudes
of
prophane
people
to
behold
the
fport
of
bearbaiting
,
without
respect
of
the
Lords
day
,
or
any
exercise
of
religion
required
therin
:
which
profane
impiety
the
Lord
that
he
might
chasten
in
some
sort
,
&
shew
his
dislike
therof
,
he
caused
the
scaffolds
suddenly
to
breake
,
and
the
beholders
to
tumble
headlong
downe
:
so
that
to
the
number
of
eight
persons
men
&
women
,
were
slain
therwith
,
besides
many
others
which
were
sore
hurt
&
bruised
to
the
shortning
of
their
daies
.
Surely
a
friendly
warning
to
such
as
more
delight
themselues
with
the
cruelty
of
beasts
&
vaine
sports
,
than
with
the
works
of
mercy
&
religion
,
the
fruits
of
a
true
faith
,
which
ought
to
be
the
sabbath
daies
exercise
.
And
thus
much
for
the
examples
of
the
first
table
,
wherof
if
some
seeme
to
exceed
credit
,
by
reason
of
the
strangenes
of
them
,
yet
let
vs
know
,
that
nothing
is
impossible
to
God
;
and
that
he
doth
often
worke
miracles
to
controll
the
obstinate
impietie
and
rebellion
of
mortall
men
against
his
commaundements
.
Besides
,
there
is
not
one
example
here
mentioned
,
but
it
hath
a
credible
or
probable
authour
for
the
auoucher
of
it
.
Let
vs
now
out
of
all
this
that
hath
beene
spoken
,
gather
vp
this
wholsome
lesson
,
to
loue
God
with
all
our
heart
and
affection
,
to
the
end
wee
may
worship
him
,
inuocate
his
holy
name
,
and
repose
all
the
confidence
of
our
saluation
vpon
him
alone
through
Christ
Iesus
,
seeking
by
pleasing
and
obeying
his
will
,
to
set
forth
his
glorie
,
and
render
him
due
thankes
for
all
his
benefits
.
FINIS
.
The
second
Booke
.
CHAP.
I.
Of
rebellious
and
stubborne
children
towards
their
parents
.
WEe
haue
seene
in
the
former
booke
what
punishments
they
haue
incurred
,
that
either
malitiously
or
otherwise
haue
transgressed
and
broken
the
commandements
of
the
first
Table
:
Now
it
followeth
to
discouer
the
chastisements
which
God
hath
sent
vpon
the
transgressours
of
the
second
Table
.
And
first
concerning
the
first
commandement
thereof
,
which
is
,
Honour
thy
father
and
mother
,
that
thy
daies
may
be
prolonged
in
the
land
which
the
Lord
thy
God
hath
giuen
thee
.
Cham
,
one
of
old
Noahs
sonnes
,
Marueilous
strange
was
the
malice
of
Absolom
to
rebell
so
furiously
against
his
father
Dauid
,
as
to
wage
warre
against
him
:
Notwithstanding
all
this
,
yet
is
the
world
full
of
ill
aduised
and
ill
nourtured
youth
,
that
are
little
lesse
disobedient
vnto
their
parents
then
Absolom
was
,
as
Adramalech
and
Sarasar
that
slew
their
father
Sennacherib
as
he
was
worshipping
in
the
temple
of
Nisroth
his
god
:
but
whereas
they
looked
for
the
soueraignty
,
they
lost
the
benefite
of
subiection
,
and
were
banished
into
Armenia
,
their
brother
Esarhaddon
reigning
in
their
stead
.
Gregory
of
Tours
maketh
mention
of
one
Crannius
the
sonne
of
Clotarius
king
of
France
,
Philip
Comineus
in
the
reign
of
Lewis
the
twelfth
,
chap.
63.
Philip
Comineus
hath
recorded
the
treacherous
tragedy
of
a
most
wicked
and
cruel
sunne
called
Adolphus
(
for
the
world
waxeth
euery
day
worse
then
other
)
that
came
in
an
euening
suddenly
to
take
his
father
the
Duke
of
Gilderland
prisoner
euen
as
he
was
going
to
bed
,
and
would
not
giue
him
so
much
liberty
as
to
pull
on
his
hose
(
for
he
was
bare
legged
)
but
carried
him
away
in
all
hast
,
making
him
march
on
foot
without
breeches
fiue
long
Almaine
miles
in
a
most
cold
weather
:
and
then
clapt
him
vp
in
the
bottome
of
a
deepe
tower
,
where
there
was
no
light
saue
by
a
little
window
,
and
there
kept
him
close
prisoner
sixe
moneths
togither
.
After
which
cruell
fact
,
he
himselfe
was
taken
prisoner
in
like
manner
,
and
carried
bound
to
Namur
,
where
hee
lay
a
long
time
,
vntill
the
Gaunts
repriued
him
forth
,
and
led
him
with
them
against
Tournay
,
where
he
was
slaine
:
in
the
while
of
his
imprisonment
,
his
father
yeelding
vnto
nature
,
disinherited
him
of
all
his
goods
,
for
his
vile
ingratitude
and
vnnatural
cruelty
,
and
left
the
succession
of
his
dukedome
to
the
Duke
of
Burgundy
.
In
the
yeere
of
our
Lord
1461
,
in
a
village
called
Iuchi
neere
to
Cambray
,
In
this
place
I
may
fitly
insert
two
memorable
examples
of
the
same
subiect
,
Concerning
the
second
I
will
also
set
downe
the
Authors
owne
words
as
followeth
:
of
all
the
strange
things
(
sayth
he
)
that
euer
I
heard
report
of
,
that
which
happened
not
long
since
at
Rome
is
most
worthy
to
be
remembred
,
of
a
certain
yoong
man
of
Gabia
borne
of
a
base
and
poore
familie
,
but
endued
with
a
a
terrible
and
furious
nature
,
and
addicted
to
a
loose
&
disordinate
life
.
This
gallant
picking
a
quarrell
with
his
owne
father
in
his
anger
reuiled
him
with
most
grosse
and
reprochfull
tearmes
:
In
which
mad
fits
,
as
one
wholly
giuen
ouer
to
the
Deuill
,
hee
purposely
departed
to
Rome
to
practise
some
naughtie
deuise
against
his
father
:
but
his
ghostly
father
the
Deuill
met
with
him
in
the
way
vnder
the
shape
of
a
cruell
and
ougly
fellow
with
a
thicke
bushy
beard
and
head
hanging
disorderly
,
and
clothes
al
rent
and
tottered
,
who
(
as
they
walked
together
)
enquired
of
him
why
hee
was
so
sad
.
He
answered
that
there
had
passed
some
bitter
speeches
betwixt
his
father
and
him
,
and
now
hee
deuised
to
worke
him
some
mischiefe
.
The
deuill
by
&
by
like
a
crafty
knaue
soothed
him
vp
and
said
;
that
he
also
vpon
the
like
occasion
went
about
the
same
practise
,
and
desired
that
they
might
pursue
both
their
voiage
&
enterprise
together
:
it
was
soone
agreed
vpon
betwixt
them
,
being
like
to
like
as
the
Prouerbe
goeth
.
Therefore
being
arriued
at
Rome
,
and
lodged
at
the
same
Inne
,
one
bed
did
serue
them
both
,
where
whilest
the
yoong
man
securely
&
soundly
slept
,
the
old
malicious
knaue
watching
his
oportunity
caught
him
by
the
throat
to
strangle
him
:
whereat
the
poor
wretch
awoke
,
and
cried
for
help
to
God
,
so
that
the
wicked
spirit
was
constrained
to
forsake
him
without
performing
his
purpose
,
and
to
flie
out
at
the
chamber
with
such
force
&
violence
,
that
the
house
roofe
crackt
&
the
tiles
clattered
downe
abundantly
.
The
host
of
the
house
being
awaked
with
the
noise
,
cried
out
to
know
what
the
matter
was
,
&
running
into
the
chamber
where
this
noise
was
with
a
candle
in
his
hand
,
found
the
poor
yoong
man
all
alone
betwixt
dead
and
aliue
,
of
whom
(
recouered
)
he
learnt
out
the
whole
truth
as
hath
beene
told
:
but
he
after
this
terrible
accident
repented
him
of
his
wicked
life
,
and
was
touched
with
the
sence
of
his
greeuous
sinne
so
nearely
,
that
euer
after
hee
led
a
more
circumspect
and
honest
life
.
Thus
much
we
find
written
in
that
author
.
Henry
the
fift
inspired
with
the
furies
of
the
Pope
of
Rome
made
war
vpon
his
father
Henry
the
fourth
,
There
was
(
saith
Manlius
)
an
old
man
crooked
with
age
,
Another
not
so
cruell
and
disdainefull
as
the
former
,
yet
cruell
and
disdainefull
enough
to
plucke
downe
vengeance
vpon
his
head
,
Moreouer
this
is
another
iudgement
of
God
,
that
commonly
as
children
deale
with
their
parents
,
so
doe
their
children
deale
with
them
:
&
this
in
the
law
of
proportion
is
most
iust
,
&
in
the
order
of
punishing
most
vsuall
:
for
the
proofe
wherof
as
experience
daily
teacheth
so
one
example
or
two
I
wil
subioine
.
At
Millan
there
was
an
obstinate
and
vngodly
sonne
that
when
he
was
admonished
by
his
mother
of
some
fault
which
hee
had
committed
,
made
a
wrie
mouth
,
Henry
the
second
of
that
name
king
of
England
sonne
of
Geffrey
Plantagenet
and
Maud
the
Empresse
,
Ludouicus
Viues
saith
,
that
in
his
time
a
certaine
woman
in
Flaunders
did
so
much
pamper
and
cocker
vp
two
of
her
sonnes
euen
against
her
husbands
will
,
that
shee
would
not
suffer
them
to
want
money
or
any
thing
which
might
furnish
their
riotous
life
,
both
in
drinking
,
banquetting
&
dicing
;
yea
she
would
steale
from
her
husband
to
minister
vnto
them
:
but
as
soone
as
her
husband
was
dead
,
shee
was
iustly
plagued
in
them
both
,
for
they
fell
from
rioting
to
robbing
,
(
which
two
vices
are
commonly
linked
together
)
and
for
the
same
one
of
them
was
executed
by
the
sword
,
&
the
other
by
the
haltar
,
shee
her selfe
looking
on
as
a
witnesse
of
their
destructions
,
whereof
her
conscience
told
her
that
her
indulgence
was
the
chiefest
cause
.
Hether
may
wee
referre
that
common
and
vulgar
story
,
and
I
suppose
verie
true
which
is
almost
in
euery
childs
mouth
,
of
him
that
going
to
the
gallowes
desired
to
speake
with
his
mother
in
her
eare
ere
hee
died
,
CHAP.
II.
Of
those
that
rebell
against
their
Superiours
.
NOw
as
it
is
a
thing
required
by
law
and
reason
,
that
children
beare
that
honour
and
reuerence
to
their
naturall
parents
which
is
commanded
:
so
it
is
as
necessary
by
the
same
respect
,
that
all
subiects
perfourme
that
duty
of
honor
&
obedience
to
their
Lords
,
Princes
,
and
Kings
,
which
is
not
derogatory
to
the
glory
of
God
:
and
the
rather
,
because
they
are
,
as
it
were
,
their
fathers
,
in
supplying
that
duty
towards
their
subiects
which
fathers
owe
their
children
:
as
namely
in
maintaining
their
peace
&
tranquility
in
earthly
things
,
and
keeping
them
vnder
the
discipline
of
Gods
Church
,
to
which
two
ends
they
were
ordained
.
To
honour
the
king
;
and
,
To
giue
vnto
Caesar
that
which
is
Caesars
,
as
vnto
God
that
which
is
Gods
.
So
also
in
Moses
law
we
are
forbidden
to
detract
from
or
speake
euill
of
the
magistrate
,
or
to
curse
the
ruler
of
the
people
.
Yet
for
all
this
the
children
of
Israel
were
not
afraid
many
times
to
commit
this
sinne
,
but
then
especially
when
they
charged
Moses
with
conspiring
the
murder
of
those
rebels
that
(
vnder
Corah
,
Dathan
,
and
Abiram
,
captaines
of
that
enterprise
)
set
themselues
against
him
and
Aaron
;
In
the
time
of
king
Dauids
flight
from
Absolom
,
who
pursued
him
to
bereaue
him
of
his
kingdome
,
But
let
vs
passe
ouer
these
sacred
histories
&
come
to
prophane
,
yet
probable
and
more
neare
examples
.
When
Camillus
besieged
the
Phalischi
,
Did
Tarpeia
the
daughter
of
Sp.
Tarpeius
speed
any
better
when
shee
betraied
the
tower
whereof
her
father
was
the
ouerseer
,
to
Tatius
king
of
the
Sabines
,
Neither
did
those
noble
young
men
of
Rome
,
Pub.
Valerius
,
by
Vindicio
a
bondslaue
,
they
were
apprehended
,
hauing
letters
about
them
written
to
Tarquinius
to
the
same
effect
:
and
being
condemned
,
were
first
shamefully
scourged
with
roddes
,
and
after
executed
to
death
.
When
Brennus
captaine
of
the
Gaules
,
brother
to
Belinus
and
sonne
to
Molnutius
king
of
Britaine
,
besieged
Ephesus
,
a
deuilish
woman
enticed
with
the
iewels
which
Brennus
wore
about
him
,
betraied
the
citie
into
his
hands
.
But
Brennus
detesting
this
abominable
couetousnesse
,
when
hee
entred
the
city
so
loaded
her
with
gold
,
that
he
couered
and
oppressed
her
therewith
.
In
like
manner
,
Heradamon
deliuered
vp
to
the
Emperor
Aurelian
his
owne
natiue
citie
Tiana
,
in
hope
to
saue
his
owne
life
by
betraying
his
countrey
.
But
it
fell
out
quite
contrary
to
his
expectation
,
for
though
Caesar
had
sworne
not
to
leaue
a
dogge
aliue
within
the
wals
,
because
they
shut
their
gates
against
him
;
and
also
his
souldiers
were
instant
and
vrgent
vpon
his
promise
:
In
the
yeere
of
our
Lord
1270
,
the
bishop
of
Colonea
practising
to
spoile
the
citie
of
her
priuiledges
,
and
reduce
it
vnder
his
owne
iurisdiction
:
Hermanus
Grinu
consull
and
chiefe
magistrate
,
withstood
his
power
and
authoritie
with
all
his
force
,
so
that
hee
could
not
bring
his
purpose
about
.
Wherefore
two
Canons
belonging
to
the
Bishop
,
sought
to
vndermine
this
their
enemy
by
pollicie
,
and
to
take
him
out
of
the
way
:
for
which
end
they
inuited
him
in
very
kind
manner
to
dinner
,
but
when
he
was
come
,
they
brought
him
into
a
yong
lyons
denne
(
which
they
kept
in
honour
of
the
bishop
)
and
vnawares
shut
the
dores
vpon
him
,
bidding
him
shift
for
himselfe
,
thinking
that
it
was
impossible
for
him
to
scape
out
aliue
.
But
the
Consull
perceiuing
in
what
great
danger
hee
was
,
wrapped
his
cloake
about
his
left
arme
,
and
thrusting
it
into
the
mouth
of
the
hungry
lyon
,
killed
him
with
his
right
hand
,
and
so
by
the
wonderfull
prouidence
of
God
,
escaped
without
hurt
.
But
the
two
traiterous
Canons
he
caught
right
soone
,
and
hung
them
at
their
cathedrall
Church
gate
,
to
their
owne
confusion
and
terror
of
all
traitors
.
It
was
a
noble
saying
and
worthy
the
marking
,
of
Augustus
Caesar
to
Rhaemitalches
king
of
Thracia
,
who
hauing
forsaken
Anthony
to
take
part
with
Augustus
,
boasted
very
insolently
of
his
deserts
towards
him
:
then
Caesar
dissembling
his
folly
,
dranke
to
another
king
,
and
said
,
I
loue
treason
,
but
I
can
not
commend
nor
trust
a
traitour
.
The
same
also
in
effect
,
Philip
of
Macedony
and
Iulius
Caesar
were
wont
to
say
,
That
they
loued
a
traitour
at
the
first
,
but
when
he
had
finished
his
treason
,
they
hated
him
more
then
any
other
:
signifying
,
that
traitours
deserued
no
retribution
of
thankes
,
seeing
their
office
was
accepted
for
a
time
,
yet
they
themselues
could
neuer
be
counted
lesse
than
naughty
and
disloiall
persons
:
for
no
honest
man
euer
betraied
his
countrey
or
his
friend
:
and
what
greater
punishment
can
there
be
than
this
?
But
for
manifest
proofe
hereof
,
let
this
one
example
serue
in
stead
of
many
,
namely
of
Theodoricke
king
of
Francia
,
and
Irminfride
king
of
Thuringia
,
Heraclia
,
Harmonia
her
sister
,
guiltlesse
and
witlesse
of
the
crime
(
for
no
other
cause
,
but
because
shee
was
sister
vnto
her
)
was
pluckt
from
the
altar
,
and
slaine
in
the
tumult
with
two
of
her
daughters
that
were
virgins
.
And
thus
is
treason
plagued
not
only
in
traitors
themselues
,
but
also
in
those
that
are
linked
vnto
them
in
friendship
and
affinity
.
The
glory
and
reputation
of
Fabritius
,
the
Romane
is
eternized
by
that
noble
act
of
his
,
What
notable
treasons
did
Hadrian
the
fourth
,
Pope
of
Rome
,
practise
against
the
Emperor
Fredericke
Barbarossa
,
yet
all
was
still
frustrate
;
for
the
Lord
protected
the
Emperour
,
and
punished
the
traitour
with
a
sudden
and
straunge
death
;
for
he
was
choked
with
a
fly
which
went
downe
his
throat
,
and
stopped
his
breath
,
and
could
by
no
meanes
be
pulled
out
till
it
made
an
end
of
him
.
Besides
,
many
others
that
went
abour
the
same
practise
,
were
brought
to
notable
destructions
:
as
that
counterfait
foole
whome
the
Italians
set
on
to
murder
Fredericke
in
his
chamber
,
which
had
beene
perfourmed
,
had
he
not
leaped
out
of
a
window
into
a
riuer
,
and
so
saued
his
life
:
for
the
foole
being
taken
,
was
throwne
headlong
out
of
the
same
window
,
and
broke
his
necke
.
As
also
an
Arabian
doctor
,
a
grand
poisoner
,
who
going
about
to
infect
with
poison
his
bridle
,
his
saddle
,
his
spurs
,
and
stirrops
,
that
assoone
as
hee
should
but
touch
them
,
he
might
be
poisoned
,
was
discouered
and
hanged
for
his
labour
.
In
the
yeere
of
our
Lord
1364
,
CHAP.
III.
More
examples
of
the
same
subiect
.
WHen
Manuel
the
Emperour
of
Constantinople
lay
about
Antioch
with
an
army
prepared
against
the
Turke
,
When
the
Turke
besieged
Alba
Graca
certaine
souldiors
conspired
to
betray
the
citie
into
his
hands
,
Paulus
Kynisius
gouernour
of
Hungarie
,
who
constrained
them
to
eat
one
anothers
flesh
,
seething
euery
day
one
to
feed
the
other
withall
,
but
hee
that
was
last
was
faine
to
deuour
his
owne
body
.
Scr
bonianus
a
Captaine
of
the
Romanes
in
Dalmatia
,
rebelled
against
the
Emperour
Claudius
,
To
rehearse
all
the
English
traitors
that
haue
conspired
against
their
kings
from
the
conquest
vnto
this
day
,
Roger
Mortimer
,
and
his
head
set
vpon
the
tower
of
London
.
In
like
sort
was
Dauid
Lewlines
brother
serued
.
Ries
&
Madok
escaped
no
better
measure
in
stirring
the
Welchme●
vp
to
rebellion
.
No
more
did
the
Scots
,
who
hauing
of
their
owne
accord
committed
the
gouernment
of
their
kingdome
to
king
Edward
,
after
the
death
of
Alexander
(
who
broke
his
necke
by
a
fall
from
an
horse
,
and
left
no
issue
male
)
and
sworn
feaulty
vnto
him
:
yet
dispensed
with
their
oth
by
the
Popes
commission
,
and
Frenchmens
incitement
,
and
rebelled
diuerse
times
against
King
Edward
:
for
hee
ouercame
them
sundrie
times
,
and
made
slaughter
of
their
men
slaying
at
one
time
32000
,
and
taking
diuerse
of
their
Nobles
prisoners
.
In
like
manner
they
rebelled
against
King
Edward
the
third
,
who
made
three
voiages
into
that
land
in
the
space
of
foure
yeares
,
and
at
euerie
time
ouercame
and
discomfited
them
,
in
so
much
that
well
neare
all
the
nobilitie
of
Scotland
,
with
infinite
number
of
the
common
people
were
slaine
.
Thus
they
rebelled
in
Henry
the
sixts
time
,
and
also
Henrie
the
eights
,
and
diuerse
other
kings
raignes
,
euer
when
our
English
forces
were
busied
about
forraine
warres
inuading
the
land
on
the
other
side
most
traiterously
.
And
thus
it
is
to
bee
feared
they
will
euer
doe
,
except
they
degenerate
from
their
old
natures
:
and
therefore
it
ought
to
bee
a
Caueat
to
vs
how
wee
trust
them
in
any
extremity
,
but
neuerthelesse
they
euer
yet
were
whipped
for
their
treason
,
as
the
histories
of
our
English
Chronicles
doe
sufficiently
record
.
Iohn
Holland
D.
of
Excester
,
with
the
Dukes
of
Aumarle
,
Surrey
,
Salisburie
,
and
Gloucester
:
and
at
another
time
Sir
Thomas
Percie
Earle
of
Worcester
,
and
Henry
Percie
sonne
to
the
Earle
of
Northumberland
:
at
another
,
Sir
Richard
Scroope
Archbishop
of
Yorke
,
and
diuerse
others
of
the
house
of
the
Lord
Moubray
:
at
another
time
Sir
Henry
Percie
the
father
,
Earle
of
Northumberland
,
&
the
Lord
Bardolph
.
And
lastly
Ryce
ap
Dee
and
Owen
Glendour
two
Welchmen
:
all
which
were
either
slaine
,
as
Sir
Hendry
Percie
the
yoonger
;
or
beheaded
,
as
the
rest
of
these
noble
rebels
;
or
starued
to
death
as
Owen
Glendour
was
in
the
mountains
of
Wales
after
he
had
deuoured
his
owne
flesh
.
In
the
raigne
of
Henry
the
fift
,
Sir
Richard
Earle
of
Cambridge
,
Sir
Richard
Scroope
treasurer
of
England
,
and
Sir
Thomas
Gray
were
beheaded
for
treason
.
No
lesse
was
the
perfidious
and
vngratefull
trecherie
of
Humfrey
Banister
an
Englishman
towards
the
duke
of
Buckingham
his
Lord
&
maister
,
whom
the
said
duke
had
tenderly
brought
vp
,
&
exalted
to
great
promotion
.
For
when
as
the
duke
being
driuen
into
extremity
,
by
reason
of
the
seperation
of
his
army
which
he
had
mustered
together
against
king
Richard
the
vsurper
,
fled
to
the
same
Banister
as
his
trustiest
friend
to
be
kept
in
secret
vntill
hee
could
find
oportunity
to
escape
.
This
false
traitor
vpon
hope
of
a
thousand
pounds
which
was
promised
to
him
that
could
bring
forth
the
duke
,
betraied
him
into
the
hands
of
Iohn
Mitton
sheriefe
of
Shropshire
,
who
conueied
him
to
the
citie
of
Salisbury
,
where
king
Richard
kept
his
houshold
:
where
he
was
soon
after
put
to
death
.
But
as
for
vngrateful
Banister
,
the
vengeance
of
God
pursued
him
to
his
vtter
ignominy
:
for
presently
after
,
his
eldest
son
became
mad
&
died
in
a
bores
stie
:
his
eldest
daughter
was
sodainly
stricken
with
a
foule
leprie
:
his
second
sonne
marueilously
deformed
of
his
lims
,
and
lame
:
his
yoongest
sonne
drowned
in
a
puddle
:
And
he
himself
in
his
old
age
arraigned
and
found
guiltie
of
a
murder
,
and
by
his
clergie
saued
.
And
as
for
his
thousand
pounds
,
king
Richard
gaue
him
not
a
farthing
:
saying
that
hee
which
would
bee
vntrue
to
so
good
a
master
,
must
needs
be
false
to
all
other
.
To
passe
ouer
the
time
of
the
residue
of
the
kings
,
wherein
many
examples
of
treasons
&
punishments
vpon
them
are
extant
,
&
to
come
nearer
vnto
our
own
age
,
let
vs
consider
the
wonderfull
prouidence
of
God
in
discouering
the
notorious
treasons
which
haue
ben
pretended
so
often
&
so
many
against
our
soueraign
now
liuing
Queen
Elizabeth
,
&
protecting
her
so
fatherly
from
the
dint
of
them
all
.
First
therefore
to
begin
with
the
chiefest
,
the
Earle
of
Northumberland
&
Westmerland
in
the
eleuenth
year
of
her
raign
began
a
rebellion
in
the
North
,
pretending
their
purpose
to
bee
sometimes
to
defend
the
Queens
person
&
gouernment
from
the
inuasion
of
strangers
,
and
sometimes
for
conscience
sake
to
seeke
reformation
of
religion
:
vnder
colour
whereof
they
got
together
an
army
of
men
to
the
number
of
sixe
thousand
souldiors
:
against
whom
marched
the
Earle
of
Sussex
leiutenant
of
the
North
,
and
the
Earle
of
Warwick
sent
by
the
Queen
to
his
aid
:
whose
approch
stroke
such
a
terror
into
their
hearts
,
that
the
two
Earles
with
diuerse
of
the
Archrebels
fled
by
night
into
Scotland
,
leauing
the
rest
of
their
companie
a
prey
vnto
their
enemies
,
whereof
threescore
and
sixe
or
thereabout
,
were
hanged
at
Durham
.
As
for
the
Earles
,
one
of
them
(
to
wit
)
of
Northumberland
,
was
after
taken
in
Scotland
and
beheaded
at
Yorke
.
Westmerland
fled
into
another
countrie
,
and
left
his
house
and
family
destroied
and
vndone
by
his
folly
.
A
while
after
this
what
befell
to
Iohn
Throgmorton
,
Thomas
Brooke
,
George
Redman
,
and
diuerse
other
Gentlemen
at
Norwich
,
who
pretended
a
rebellion
vnder
the
colour
of
suppressing
strangers
,
were
they
not
discouered
by
one
of
their
owne
conspiracy
Thomas
Ket
,
and
executed
at
Norwich
for
their
paines
?
The
same
end
came
Francis
Throgmorton
to
,
whose
trecheries
as
they
were
abominable
,
&
touching
the
Queens
owne
person
,
so
they
were
disclosed
not
without
the
especial
prouidence
of
God
.
But
aboue
all
that
vile
and
vngratefull
Traitor
William
Parry
vpon
whome
the
Queene
had
poured
plentifully
her
liberalitie
,
deserueth
to
bee
had
in
euerlasting
remembrance
to
his
shame
:
whose
Treasons
being
discouered
hee
paied
the
tribute
of
his
life
in
recompence
thereof
.
What
shall
I
say
of
the
Earle
of
Arundell
,
and
a
second
Earle
of
Northumberland
?
Did
not
the
iustice
of
God
appeare
in
both
their
endes
,
when
being
attainted
for
Treason
,
the
one
slew
himselfe
in
prison
,
and
the
other
died
by
course
of
nature
in
prison
also
?
Notorious
was
the
conspiracie
of
those
Arch-traitors
.
Ballard
,
Babington
,
Sauadge
,
and
Tylney
,
&c.
yet
the
Lord
brought
them
downe
,
and
made
them
spectacles
to
the
world
,
of
his
iustice
.
Euen
so
that
notorious
villaine
doctor
Lopus
(
the
Queens
Phisitian
)
who
a
long
time
had
not
onely
beene
an
intelligencer
to
the
Pope
and
King
of
Spaine
,
of
our
English
counsailes
,
but
also
had
poysoned
many
Noblemen
,
and
went
about
also
to
poyson
the
Queene
her selfe
,
was
he
not
surprised
in
his
trecherie
and
brought
to
suddaine
destruction
?
In
summe
the
Lord
hath
preserued
her
maiestie
not
onely
from
these
but
many
other
secret
and
priuie
foes
,
and
that
most
miraculously
and
contrarie
to
all
reason
,
and
hath
spread
his
winges
ouer
her
to
defend
her
from
all
her
enemies
:
the
consideration
whereof
as
it
ought
to
stirre
vp
in
euerie
one
a
thankfull
heart
to
acknowledge
his
mercies
,
and
a
fearefull
care
not
to
displease
him
that
is
so
gratious
vnto
vs
:
so
it
ought
also
to
incite
euerie
one
of
vs
to
pray
incessantly
for
her
further
preseruation
,
as
being
the
soule
of
our
soules
,
and
life
of
our
liues
:
for
surely
if
the
Lord
depriue
vs
of
her
life
,
our
sinnes
are
the
cause
,
and
our
smart
will
be
the
effect
thereof
.
Moreouer
there
is
yet
another
kind
of
treason
,
and
another
rancke
of
traitors
as
pernicious
as
any
of
the
former
,
and
as
odious
before
God
and
man
.
Such
are
they
which
either
vpon
priuate
quarrels
,
or
receiued
iniuries
,
or
hope
of
gaine
,
or
any
other
silly
respect
,
forsake
their
countries
,
&
take
part
with
the
enemies
to
fight
against
it
:
or
they
that
in
time
of
necessity
refuse
to
fight
or
dare
not
fight
in
defence
of
it
:
the
former
sort
are
called
fugitiues
,
and
the
latter
cowards
.
As
touching
the
first
they
haue
beene
alwaies
in
detestation
in
well
gouerned
pollicies
,
and
also
euermore
seuerely
punished
.
The
Aeginates
punished
them
with
the
losse
of
their
right
hand
thumbes
,
to
the
end
they
might
no
more
handle
a
speare
or
a
sword
but
an
oare
.
The
Mitylenians
with
losse
of
their
liues
.
The
inhabitants
of
Samos
marked
them
in
the
face
with
the
picture
of
an
oule
:
and
the
Romanes
punished
them
after
diuerse
fashions
:
Fabius
Maximus
caused
all
those
that
had
fled
from
the
Romane
succours
to
the
enemy
to
loose
their
hands
.
Africanus
the
former
,
though
gentle
&
mild
by
nature
,
yet
in
this
respect
he
borrowed
from
forraine
cruelty
,
for
hauing
conquered
Carthage
&
got
into
his
power
all
those
Romane
rebels
that
tooke
part
against
his
country
,
hee
hung
the
Romanes
as
traitors
to
their
countrie
;
Lucius
Paulus
after
the
conquest
of
the
king
of
Persia
,
committed
these
fellows
to
the
mercie
of
Eliphantes
.
Generally
there
is
no
Nation
vnder
the
sunne
which
holdeth
them
not
in
execration
;
and
therfore
our
English
fugitiues
,
who
vnder
cloke
of
religion
not
onely
abandon
their
countrie
,
their
kindred
and
their
Prince
,
but
also
conspire
the
vndoing
&
swear
the
destruction
of
them
:
are
they
not
worthie
to
be
handled
like
traitors
and
to
haue
their
quarters
spectacles
of
perfidie
?
The
bridge
and
gates
of
London
beare
witnesse
of
the
wofull
ends
that
these
Iesuits
come
vnto
.
As
touching
cowards
(
I
meane
such
as
preferring
their
liues
or
liberty
or
any
other
by-respects
before
their
countries
welfare
,
&
either
dare
not
or
wil
not
stand
stoutly
in
defence
of
it
in
time
of
war
and
danger
)
they
deserue
no
lesse
punishment
then
the
former
,
seeing
that
as
they
are
open
oppugners
,
so
these
are
close
vnderminers
of
the
good
thereof
.
And
therefore
the
Romans
did
sharply
chasten
them
in
their
gouernment
,
as
may
appear
by
diuerse
examples
of
the
same
:
as
first
they
were
noted
with
this
ignominy
,
neuer
to
eat
their
meat
but
standing
;
&
hereunto
they
were
sworne
:
Nay
they
were
in
such
hatefull
account
amongst
them
,
L.
Calpurnius
Piso
handled
Titius
the
captaine
of
his
horsemen
in
Sicilia
(
one
who
being
ouercharged
with
enemies
deliuered
his
weapons
vnto
them
)
on
this
maner
,
Caius
Vatienus
(
who
to
the
end
to
priuiledge
himselfe
from
the
Italick
war
,
cut
off
all
the
fingers
of
his
left
hand
)
euen
they
proscribed
his
goods
,
and
cast
him
into
perpetuall
prison
,
that
that
life
which
he
refused
to
hazard
in
defence
of
his
countrie
,
hee
might
consume
in
bondage
and
fetters
.
Fulgosius
saith
,
CHAP.
IIII.
Of
such
as
haue
murdered
their
rulers
or
Princes
.
ZImri
captaine
of
halfe
the
chariots
of
Elah
King
of
Israel
,
conspired
against
his
Lord
,
The
fathers
shal
not
be
put
to
death
for
the
children
,
nor
the
children
for
the
fathers
,
but
euerie
man
shall
beare
his
owne
sinne
.
Amon
the
sonne
of
Manasseh
was
slaine
by
his
owne
seruants
,
but
the
Lord
stirred
vp
the
people
of
the
land
to
reuenge
his
death
,
&
to
kill
all
them
that
had
conspired
against
their
king
.
But
to
let
passe
the
holy
histories
of
the
sacred
scripture
,
wherein
euer
after
any
treason
,
the
Holy-ghost
presently
setteth
down
the
punishment
of
traitors
,
as
it
were
of
purpose
to
signifie
how
the
Lord
hateth
all
such
rebels
that
rose
vp
against
his
owne
ordinance
.
Let
vs
consider
a
little
the
consequents
of
these
in
prophane
yet
credible
authors
,
and
applie
them
vnto
our
purpose
.
Ludouicus
Sfortia
to
the
end
to
inuest
himselfe
with
the
dukedome
of
Millain
,
spared
not
to
shed
the
innocent
blood
of
his
two
nephewes
;
the
sonnes
of
Galeachus
,
togither
with
their
tutors
,
and
one
Francis
Calaber
a
worthy
and
excellent
man
.
But
the
Lord
so
disposed
of
his
purposes
,
that
he
(
in
stead
of
obtaining
the
kingdome
)
was
taken
prisoner
by
the
king
of
France
,
so
that
neither
hee
nor
any
of
his
offspring
enioyed
that
which
he
so
much
affected
.
When
Numerianus
was
to
succeed
Carus
his
father
in
the
Empire
,
Arrius
Axer
his
father
in
law
to
the
end
to
translate
the
Empire
vnto
himselfe
,
entred
a
conspiracie
and
slew
his
sonne
in
law
,
that
nothing
mistrusted
his
disloialty
:
But
the
Pretorian
army
vnderstanding
the
matter
,
discharged
Arrius
and
elected
Dioclesian
in
his
roome
,
who
laying
hold
vpon
his
competitor
,
laid
an
action
of
treason
to
his
charge
,
and
put
him
to
death
in
the
sight
of
the
multitude
.
Theodericke
and
Fredericke
conspired
against
their
owne
brother
Thurismund
king
of
the
Visigothes
,
Aelias
Antonius
Gordianus
,
the
third
Emperour
of
Rome
,
Philip
Arabs
,
when
hee
was
but
two
and
twentie
yeere
old
:
after
whose
decease
this
Philip
got
himselfe
elected
Emperour
by
the
band
,
&
confirmed
by
the
Senat.
Priscus
,
Heraclianus
,
and
Phorius
,
three
of
his
chiefest
captaines
,
conspiring
against
him
,
with
three
seuerall
armies
gaue
him
such
an
alarme
at
once
at
his
owne
dores
,
that
they
soone
quailed
his
courage
;
and
after
much
mangling
of
his
body
,
cut
him
shorter
by
the
head
and
the
kingdome
at
one
blow
.
In
the
time
of
Edward
the
second
and
Edward
the
third
in
England
,
Roger
Mortimer
committed
many
villanous
outrages
in
shedding
much
blood
,
and
at
last
king
Edward
himselfe
lying
at
Barkley
castle
;
to
the
end
that
he
might
(
as
it
was
supposed
)
enioy
Isabell
his
wife
,
with
whom
he
had
very
suspitious
familiarity
.
After
this
,
hee
vniustly
accused
Edmond
Earle
of
Kent
of
treason
,
and
caused
him
to
be
put
to
death
therefore
:
and
lastly
,
he
conspired
against
king
Edward
the
third
,
as
it
was
suspected
,
for
which
cause
he
was
worthily
and
deseruedly
beheaded
.
Among
this
ranke
of
murderers
of
kings
we
may
fitly
place
also
Richard
the
third
vsurper
of
the
crowne
of
England
,
Iames
Tirrell
knight
,
a
man
for
natures
gifts
worthy
to
haue
serued
a
much
better
prince
then
this
Richard
,
if
he
had
well
serued
God
,
and
bene
indued
with
as
much
truth
&
honestie
as
he
had
strength
&
wit
:
also
Miles
Forest
,
&
Iohn
Dighton
,
two
villains
fleshed
in
murders
:
but
to
come
to
the
fact
.
It
was
on
this
sort
:
When
Richard
the
vsurper
had
enioined
Robert
Brackenbury
to
this
peece
of
seruice
of
murdering
the
yo
●g
king
Edward
the
fift
his
nephew
in
the
tower
,
with
his
brother
the
duke
of
York
,
and
saw
it
refused
by
him
,
hee
committed
the
charge
of
the
murder
to
Sir
Iames
Tirrel
,
who
hasting
to
the
tower
by
the
kings
commission
receiued
the
keies
into
his
own
hands
,
and
by
the
help
of
those
two
butchers
,
Dighton
&
Forest
,
smothered
the
two
princes
in
their
bed
,
&
buried
them
at
the
staires
feet
:
which
being
done
,
Sir
Iames
node
back
to
king
Richard
,
who
gaue
him
great
thanks
,
&
as
some
say
,
made
him
knight
for
his
labor
.
All
which
things
on
euery
part
wel
pondered
,
it
appeareth
that
God
neuer
gaue
the
world
a
notabler
example
,
both
of
the
vnconstancie
of
worldly
weale
,
and
also
of
the
wretched
end
which
ensueth
such
despitefull
crueltie
:
for
first
to
begin
with
the
ministers
,
Miles
Forest
rotted
away
peecemeale
at
S.
Martins
:
Sir
Iames
Tirrell
died
at
the
tower
hill
beheaded
for
treason
:
king
Richard
himselfe
(
as
it
is
declared
elsewhere
)
was
slaine
in
the
field
,
hacked
and
hewed
of
his
enemies
,
carried
on
horsebacke
dead
,
his
haire
in
despight
torne
and
tugged
like
a
dog
:
besides
the
inward
torments
of
his
guilty
conscience
were
more
then
all
the
rest
,
for
it
is
most
certenly
reported
,
that
after
this
abominable
deed
done
,
he
neuer
had
quiet
in
his
mind
:
when
hee
went
abroad
,
his
eie
whirled
about
,
his
body
was
priuily
fenced
,
his
hand
euer
vpon
his
dagger
,
his
countenance
and
manner
like
one
alwaies
ready
to
strike
,
his
sleepe
short
and
vnquiet
,
full
of
fearefull
dreames
,
insomuch
that
he
would
often
suddenly
start
vp
and
leape
out
of
his
bed
,
and
runne
about
the
chamber
:
his
restlesse
conscience
was
so
continually
tossed
and
tumbled
with
the
tedious
impression
of
that
abominable
murder
.
CHAP.
V.
Of
such
as
rebelled
against
their
superiours
,
because
of
subsidies
and
taxes
imposed
vpon
them
.
AS
it
is
not
lawfull
for
children
ro
rebel
against
their
parents
,
though
they
be
cruell
and
vnnaturall
,
so
also
it
is
as
vnlawfull
for
subiects
to
withstand
their
princes
and
gouernours
,
though
they
be
somewhat
grieuous
and
burdensome
vnto
them
:
which
wee
affirme
,
not
to
the
end
that
it
should
be
licensed
to
them
to
exercise
all
manner
of
rigour
and
vnmeasurable
oppression
vpon
their
subiects
(
as
shall
be
declared
in
the
35
chapter
of
this
booke
more
at
large
)
but
wee
intreat
only
here
of
their
duties
which
are
in
subiection
to
the
power
of
other
men
,
whose
authoritie
they
ought
in
no
wise
to
resist
,
vnlesse
they
oppose
themselues
against
the
ordinance
of
God
.
Therfore
this
position
is
true
by
the
word
of
God
,
that
no
subiect
ought
by
force
to
shake
off
the
yoke
of
subiection
and
obedience
due
vnto
his
prince
,
or
exempt
himselfe
from
any
taxe
or
contribution
which
by
publike
authoritie
is
imposed
:
Giue
(
saith
the
Apostle
)
tribute
to
whome
tribute
belongeth
,
custome
to
whome
custome
pertaineth
,
feare
to
whome
feare
is
due
,
and
honour
to
whom
honour
is
owing
.
And
generally
in
all
actions
wherein
the
commodities
of
this
life
(
though
with
some
oppression
and
grieuance
)
and
not
the
religion
and
seruice
of
God
,
nor
the
conscience
about
the
same
is
called
into
question
,
wee
ought
with
all
patience
to
endure
whatsoeuer
burden
or
charge
is
laid
vpon
vs
,
without
moouing
any
troubles
or
shewing
any
discontentments
for
the
same
:
for
they
that
haue
otherwise
behaued
themselues
,
these
examples
following
will
shew
how
well
they
haue
bene
appaied
for
their
misdemeanours
.
In
the
yeere
of
our
Lord
1304
,
Two
yeeres
after
this
Flemish
stirre
,
In
the
raigne
of
Charles
the
sixt
,
the
Parisians
(
by
reason
of
a
certaine
taxe
which
hee
minded
to
lay
vpon
them
)
banded
themselues
and
conspired
togither
against
him
:
they
determined
once
(
saith
Froissard
)
to
haue
beaten
downe
Loure
and
Saint
Vincents
castle
,
About
the
same
time
the
Flandrians
,
and
especially
the
inhabitants
of
Gaunt
wrought
much
trouble
against
Lewys
the
Earle
of
Flanders
,
Philip
Arteuill
slaine
in
the
throng
hee
caused
to
bee
hanged
on
a
tree
.
A
while
before
this
,
In
the
yere
of
our
Lord
1525
,
In
the
yeere
of
our
Lord
1517
,
in
the
Marquesdome
of
the
Vandales
,
the
like
insurrection
and
rebellion
was
of
the
comminaltie
;
especially
the
baser
sort
against
the
nobilitie
,
spirituall
and
temporall
,
by
whom
they
were
oppressed
with
intollerable
exactions
:
their
army
was
numbred
to
stand
of
ninety
thousand
men
all
clownes
and
husbandmen
,
that
conspired
togither
to
redresse
and
refourme
their
owne
grieuances
,
without
any
respect
of
ciuill
magistrate
,
or
feare
of
Almightie
God
.
This
rascality
of
swaines
raged
and
tyranized
euery
where
,
burning
and
beating
downe
the
castles
and
houses
of
noble
men
,
and
making
their
ruines
euen
with
the
ground
:
Nay
they
handled
the
noble
men
themselues
as
many
as
they
could
attaine
vnto
,
not
contumeliously
only
,
but
rigorously
and
cruelly
;
for
they
tormented
them
to
death
,
and
carried
their
heads
vpon
speares
in
token
of
victory
.
Thus
they
swaied
a
while
vncontrolled
,
for
the
Emperour
Maximilian
winked
at
their
riots
,
as
beeing
acquainted
with
what
iniuries
they
had
bene
ouercharged
:
but
when
he
perceiued
that
the
rude
multitude
did
not
limit
their
fury
within
reason
,
but
let
it
runne
too
lauish
to
the
damnifying
as
well
the
innocent
as
the
guilty
,
hee
made
out
a
certaine
small
troupe
of
mercenary
souldiers
togither
with
a
band
of
horsemen
to
suppresse
them
,
who
comming
to
a
city
were
presently
so
inuironed
with
such
a
multitude
of
these
swaines
that
like
locusts
ouerspread
the
earth
,
that
they
thought
it
impossible
to
escape
with
their
liues
;
wherefore
feare
and
extremitie
made
them
to
rush
out
to
battel
with
them
.
But
see
how
the
Lord
prospereth
a
good
cause
,
for
all
their
weake
number
in
comparison
of
their
enemies
,
yet
such
a
feare
possessed
their
enemies
hearts
,
that
they
fled
like
troupes
of
sheepe
,
and
were
slaine
like
dogs
before
them
:
insomuch
that
they
that
escaped
the
sword
,
were
either
hanged
by
flockes
on
trees
,
or
rosted
on
spits
by
fires
,
or
otherwise
tormented
to
death
.
And
this
end
befell
that
wicked
rebellious
rout
,
which
wrought
such
mischiefe
in
that
countrey
with
their
monstrous
villanies
,
that
the
traces
and
steppes
thereof
remaine
at
this
day
to
be
seene
.
In
the
yeere
of
our
Lord
1381
,
Wat
Tilour
,
Iacke
Straw
,
Tom
Miller
,
but
yet
they
caused
much
trouble
and
disquietnesse
in
the
realme
,
and
chiefly
about
the
citie
of
London
,
where
they
committed
much
villanie
in
destroying
many
goodly
places
;
as
the
Sauoy
,
and
others
:
and
being
in
Smithfield
vsed
themselues
very
proudly
and
vnreuerently
towards
the
king
:
but
by
the
manhood
and
wisdome
of
William
Walworth
Maior
of
London
,
(
who
arrested
their
chiefe
captaine
in
the
midst
of
them
)
that
rude
company
was
discomfited
,
and
the
ringleaders
of
them
worthily
punished
.
In
like
manner
in
the
raigne
of
Henry
the
seuenth
,
Thus
we
may
see
the
vnhappie
issue
of
all
such
seditious
reuoltings
,
and
thereby
gather
how
vnpleasant
they
are
in
the
sight
of
God
.
Let
all
people
therefore
learne
by
these
experiences
to
submit
themselues
in
the
feare
of
God
to
the
higher
powers
,
whether
they
be
lords
,
kings
,
princes
,
or
any
other
that
are
set
ouer
them
.
CHAP.
VI.
Of
Murderers
.
AS
touching
Murder
,
which
is
(
by
the
second
commaundement
of
the
second
table
)
forbidden
in
these
words
,
Thou
shalt
not
kill
:
the
Lord
denounceth
this
iudgement
vpon
it
,
that
he
which
striketh
a
man
that
hee
dieth
,
shall
die
the
death
.
And
this
is
correspondent
to
that
edict
which
he
gaue
to
Noah
presently
after
the
vniuersall
flood
,
to
suppresse
that
generall
crueltie
which
had
taken
root
from
the
beginning
in
Cain
and
his
posterity
,
being
carefull
for
mans
life
,
That
hee
will
require
the
blood
of
man
,
at
the
hands
of
either
man
or
beast
that
killeth
him
:
adding
moreouer
,
That
whosoeuer
sheddeth
mans
blood
,
by
man
also
his
blood
shall
be
shed
,
seeing
that
God
created
him
after
his
owne
image
:
which
he
would
not
haue
to
be
basely
accounted
of
,
but
deare
and
pretious
vnto
vs
.
That
the
blood
of
Abell
cried
for
vengeance
from
the
earth
.
And
although
this
cursed
and
wicked
murderer
receiued
not
immediatly
a
condigne
punishment
answerable
to
his
crime
,
(
God
to
the
end
to
spare
mans
blood
,
vsing
vndeserued
fauour
towards
him
)
yet
escaped
he
not
scotfree
,
for
he
was
pursued
with
a
continuall
torment
and
sting
of
conscience
,
togither
with
such
an
incessant
feare
,
that
he
became
a
vagabond
and
a
runnagate
vpon
the
earth
:
and
seeing
himselfe
brought
into
so
miserable
an
estate
,
he
fell
to
complaining
that
the
punishment
was
greater
then
he
was
able
to
beare
.
Thus
God
permitted
this
wretch
to
draw
out
his
life
in
such
anguish
,
that
for
a
greater
punishment
he
might
pine
away
the
rest
of
his
daies
without
comfort
.
A
man
may
find
in
this
world
many
such
brother-murdering
Cains
,
who
for
no
occasion
sticke
not
to
cut
their
throats
,
whom
(
for
the
bond
of
common
nature
wherein
all
men
are
linked
togither
as
branches
of
one
root
)
they
ought
to
acknowledge
for
their
brethren
&
friends
:
vpon
whome
,
the
heauie
hand
of
God
hath
not
beene
more
slacke
to
punish
either
by
one
means
or
other
,
then
it
was
vpon
their
eldest
brother
Cain
.
But
seeing
the
number
of
them
is
so
great
,
and
it
is
not
so
conuenienr
to
heap
vp
here
so
huge
a
multitude
togither
,
it
shall
suffice
only
to
recount
the
most
famous
and
notablest
of
them
,
as
of
those
that
haue
ben
men
of
note
and
reputation
in
the
world
,
or
that
through
an
ambitious
desire
of
raigning
,
haue
by
armes
sought
to
atchieue
their
purposes
:
for
these
for
the
most
part
are
the
greatest
murderers
and
butchers
of
all
,
that
through
their
wicked
affections
,
worldly
pomp
,
or
desire
of
reuenge
,
haue
no
remorse
of
making
the
blood
of
men
runne
like
riuers
vpon
the
earth
,
making
no
more
account
of
the
life
of
a
man
,
then
of
a
fly
or
a
worme
.
The
bloody
treacherie
of
Baana
and
Rechab
,
Ishbosheth
,
Sauls
sonne
,
in
conspiring
against
and
murdering
their
master
whilst
hee
slept
,
abode
not
long
vnpunished
;
for
hauing
cut
off
his
head
,
they
presented
it
for
a
present
to
king
Dauid
,
hoping
to
gratifie
the
king
,
For
the
like
cause
was
Ioab
(
generall
of
king
Dauids
host
)
for
killing
Abner
traiterously
,
(
who
forsaking
Ishbosheth
,
had
yeelded
himselfe
to
the
king
)
cursed
of
Dauid
with
all
his
house
,
CHAP.
VII
.
A
suit
of
Examples
like
vnto
the
former
.
LEauing
the
Scripture
,
wee
find
in
other
writers
notable
examples
of
this
subiect
:
This
Cirus
was
that
mighty
and
awfull
king
of
Persia
,
whome
God
vsed
as
an
instrument
for
the
deliuery
of
his
people
out
of
the
captiuity
of
Babylon
,
as
he
foretold
by
the
Prophet
Isaiah
,
who
yet
(
following
kind
)
made
cruell
war
in
many
places
for
the
space
of
thirty
yeres
:
and
therfore
it
was
necessary
that
he
should
tast
some
fruits
of
his
insatiable
and
bloodthirstie
desire
,
as
hee
indeed
did
:
for
after
many
great
victories
and
conquests
ouer
diuers
cuntries
atchieued
,
Now
glut
thy selfe
with
blood
which
thou
hast
thirsted
after
so
long
time
Cambyses
,
Cyrus
sonne
,
was
also
so
bloody
and
cruel
a
man
,
After
that
Xerxes
by
his
ouerbold
enterprise
had
distu●bed
the
greatest
part
of
the
world
,
The
thirtie
gouernours
which
the
Lacedemonians
set
ouer
the
Athenians
by
compulsion
,
were
such
cruell
Tyrants
,
oppressors
,
and
bloodsuckers
of
the
people
,
that
they
made
away
a
great
part
of
them
,
vntil
they
were
chased
away
themselues
violently
:
and
then
being
secretly
dogged
&
pursued
were
all
killed
one
after
another
.
Pirrhus
King
of
Epire
that
raigned
not
long
after
Alexander
the
great
,
was
naturally
disposed
to
such
a
quicknesse
&
heat
of
courage
,
that
he
could
neuer
be
quiet
but
when
he
was
either
doing
some
mischiefe
to
another
,
or
when
another
was
doing
some
vnto
him
:
euer
deuising
some
new
practise
of
molestation
for
pastimes
sake
.
This
his
wild
and
dangerous
disposition
began
first
to
shew
it selfe
in
the
death
of
Neoptolemus
who
was
conioined
King
with
him
,
whom
hauing
bidden
to
supper
in
his
lodging
vnder
pretence
of
sacrifice
to
his
gods
,
he
deceitfully
slew
:
preuenting
by
that
meanes
Neoptolemus
pretended
purpose
of
poisoning
him
when
occasion
should
serue
.
After
this
he
conquered
Macedonia
by
armes
,
and
came
into
Italie
to
make
warre
with
the
Romanes
in
the
behalfe
of
the
Tarentines
,
and
gaue
them
battaile
in
the
field
,
and
slew
fifteene
thousand
of
them
in
one
day
:
he
took
their
campe
,
reuoked
many
cities
from
their
alliance
,
&
spoiled
much
of
their
country
euen
to
the
wals
of
Rome
:
and
all
this
in
a
trice
without
breathing
.
Againe
by
Ascoly
he
encountred
them
the
second
time
,
where
there
was
a
great
ouerthrow
of
ech
side
of
fifteen
thousand
men
:
But
the
Romans
had
the
worst
&
took
their
heeles
.
When
he
was
intreated
by
the
Sicilian
Embassadours
to
lend
them
aid
to
expulse
the
Carthaginians
out
of
their
isle
,
hee
yeelded
presently
and
chased
them
out
.
Being
recalled
by
the
Tarentines
into
Italy
for
their
succour
,
hee
was
conquered
by
the
Romans
after
he
had
made
war
vpon
them
six
yeares
.
At
his
returne
to
Epire
he
reentred
by
violence
Macedonia
,
tooke
many
places
,
ouercame
the
army
of
king
Antigonus
that
resisted
him
,
and
had
all
the
whole
Realme
rendered
into
his
hand
.
Being
intreated
by
Cleominus
to
make
warre
vpon
Sparta
,
to
the
end
to
reinstall
him
in
his
kingdome
which
hee
was
depriued
of
:
forthwith
he
mustered
his
forces
,
besieged
the
city
,
and
spoiled
and
wasted
all
the
whole
country
.
Afterwards
there
being
a
sedition
raised
in
the
city
Argos
betweene
two
of
the
chiefest
citizens
,
one
of
the
which
sent
vnto
him
for
aid
,
hee
(
what
issue
soeuer
was
like
to
ensue
,
whether
victorie
or
vanquishment
)
could
not
abide
in
peace
from
disquieting
others
and
himselfe
,
but
must
needes
goe
to
take
part
in
that
sedition
;
but
to
his
cost
euen
to
his
destruction
.
For
first
in
his
way
hee
found
an
euill-fauoured
welcome
by
an
Ambush
placed
of
purpose
to
interrupt
his
iourney
,
amongst
whom
he
lost
his
sonne
:
which
mishap
nothing
dismaied
him
,
nor
abated
any
whit
of
his
purpose
or
courage
from
pursuing
this
iourney
to
Argos
,
though
the
citizens
themselues
intreated
him
to
retire
,
and
though
he
had
no
businesse
there
saue
only
to
looke
ouer
the
towne
:
being
arriued
by
night
,
&
finding
a
gate
left
open
for
him
to
enter
by
,
by
the
means
of
him
that
had
sent
for
him
to
his
aid
,
hee
put
his
souldiors
in
,
and
possessed
himselfe
of
the
towne
incontinently
.
But
the
city
being
aided
by
Antigonus
and
the
king
of
Sparta
,
charged
and
pressed
him
so
sore
,
that
he
sought
meanes
to
retire
out
of
the
same
,
but
could
not
.
At
which
time
being
about
ro
strike
a
yoong
man
of
the
citie
that
had
done
him
some
hurt
,
his
mother
being
aloft
vpon
the
roofe
of
an
house
,
perceiuing
his
intent
threw
downe
a
tile
with
both
her
handes
vpon
his
head
,
and
hat
him
such
a
knocke
vpon
the
necke
through
default
of
his
armour
,
that
it
so
brused
his
ioints
that
hee
fell
into
a
suddaine
sound
,
&
lost
his
sight
,
his
raines
falling
out
of
his
hand
,
&
he
himselfe
tumbling
from
his
saddle
vpon
the
ground
,
which
when
some
of
the
souldiors
perceiued
they
drew
him
out
of
the
gate
,
&
there
to
make
an
end
of
the
tragedy
cut
off
his
head
.
The
cruelty
of
the
Ephori
was
maruellous
strange
,
when
being
vnwilling
once
to
heare
the
equality
of
lands
and
possessions
to
be
named
,
Alexander
the
tyrant
of
Pheres
neuer
ceased
to
marke
&
spie
out
al
occasions
of
war
against
the
people
of
Thessaly
,
Iugurth
,
son
to
Manastabal
brother
to
Micipsa
,
Methridates
king
of
Parthia
put
to
death
the
king
of
Cappadocia
to
get
his
kingdome
,
and
after
vnder
pretence
of
parlying
with
one
of
his
sons
,
slew
him
also
:
for
which
cause
the
Romanes
tooke
vp
the
quarrell
,
and
made
warre
vpon
him
,
by
means
whereof
much
losse
and
inconuenience
grew
vnto
him
as
well
by
sea
as
by
land
.
After
his
first
ouerthrow
,
where
one
of
his
sisters
was
taken
prisoner
,
and
when
he
saw
himselfe
in
so
desperate
a
case
that
no
hope
of
helpe
was
left
,
he
slew
two
other
of
his
sisters
with
two
of
his
wiues
,
hauing
before
this
war
giuen
his
fourth
sister
(
who
also
was
his
wife
)
a
dram
of
poison
to
make
vp
the
tragedie
.
Afterward
beeing
vanquished
in
the
night
by
Pompey
the
Romane
,
and
put
to
flight
with
onely
three
of
his
company
,
as
hee
went
about
to
gather
a
new
supply
of
forces
,
behold
tidings
was
brought
him
of
the
reuolt
of
many
of
his
Prouinces
and
countries
,
and
of
the
deliuering
vp
of
the
rest
of
his
daughters
into
Pompeis
hand
,
and
of
the
treason
of
his
yoong
sonne
Pharnax
the
gallantest
of
his
sonnes
,
and
whome
hee
purposed
to
make
his
successour
,
who
had
ioined
himselfe
to
his
enemie
,
which
troubled
and
astonished
him
more
then
all
the
rest
:
so
that
his
courage
being
quite
dashed
,
and
all
hope
of
bettering
his
estate
extinguished
,
his
other
two
daughters
he
poysoned
with
his
owne
handes
,
and
sought
to
practise
the
same
experiment
vpon
himselfe
,
but
that
his
body
was
too
strong
for
the
poison
and
killed
the
operation
thereof
by
strength
of
nature
:
but
that
which
poyson
could
not
effect
,
his
owne
sword
performed
.
Though
Pompey
the
great
was
neuer
any
of
the
most
notorious
offenders
in
Rome
,
Quintius
Valerius
a
wise
and
well
lettered
man
,
with
whome
walking
but
two
or
three
turnes
,
hee
committed
to
a
cruel
and
vnexpected
slaughter
.
He
executed
seuere
punishment
vpon
the
enemies
of
Silla
,
sepecially
those
that
were
most
of
note
and
reputation
,
and
vnmercifully
put
Brutus
to
death
that
had
rendered
himselfe
vnto
his
mercie
.
It
was
he
that
deuised
that
new
combate
of
prisoners
and
wild
beasts
,
to
make
the
people
sport
withall
,
a
most
inhumane
and
bloodie
pastime
to
see
humane
and
manly
bodies
torne
and
dismembred
by
brute
and
sencelesse
creatures
:
which
if
we
will
beleeue
Plutarch
,
was
the
only
cause
of
his
destruction
.
Now
after
so
many
braue
&
gallant
victories
,
so
many
magnificent
triumphs
:
as
the
taking
of
king
Hiarbas
,
the
ouerthrow
of
Domitius
,
the
conquest
of
Africa
,
the
pacifying
of
Spaine
,
and
the
ouerwelding
of
the
commotions
that
were
therein
,
the
clearing
of
the
sea
coasts
from
Pyrates
,
the
victory
ouer
Methridates
,
the
subduing
of
the
Arabians
,
the
reducing
of
Siria
into
a
prouince
,
the
conquest
of
Iudea
,
Pontus
,
Armenia
,
Cappadocia
,
&
Paphlagonia
:
I
say
after
all
these
worthy
deeds
of
armes
and
mighty
victories
,
he
was
shamefully
ouercome
by
Iulius
Caesar
in
that
ciuil
war
,
wherin
it
was
generally
thought
that
hee
had
vndertaken
the
better
cause
in
maintaining
the
authority
of
the
Senat
,
&
defending
the
liberty
of
the
people
,
as
he
pretended
to
do
:
being
thus
put
to
flight
,
&
making
towards
Aegypt
,
in
hope
the
king
(
for
that
before
time
hee
had
ben
his
tutor
)
would
protect
&
furnish
him
,
that
he
might
recouer
himselfe
again
:
he
found
himself
so
far
deceiued
of
his
expectation
,
that
in
stead
thereof
the
kings
people
cut
him
short
of
his
purpose
,
&
of
his
head
both
at
once
,
sending
it
for
a
token
to
Caesar
to
gratifie
him
withall
.
Neuerthelesse
,
for
all
this
his
murderers
&
betraiers
,
as
the
yong
king
,
&
all
others
that
were
causers
of
his
death
were
iustly
punished
for
their
cruelty
,
by
the
hands
of
him
whom
they
thought
to
gratifie
;
for
as
Cleopatra
the
kings
sister
threw
her selfe
downe
at
Caesars
feet
to
intreat
her
portion
of
the
kingdome
,
and
he
being
willing
also
to
shew
her
that
fauor
,
was
by
that
meanes
gotten
into
the
kings
pallace
:
forthwith
the
murderers
of
Pompey
beset
the
pallace
,
&
went
about
to
bring
him
into
the
same
snare
that
they
had
caught
Pompey
in
.
But
Caesar
after
that
he
had
sustained
their
greatest
brunt
,
frustrated
their
purposes
&
recouered
his
forces
into
his
hands
,
assailed
them
with
such
valor
&
prowesse
on
al
sides
that
in
short
space
he
ouercame
this
wicked
&
traiterous
nation
.
Amongst
the
slain
the
dead
body
of
this
young
and
euill
aduised
king
was
found
ouerborn
with
durt
.
Although
that
Iulius
Caesar
(
concerning
whom
more
occasion
of
speech
will
be
giuen
in
the
39
chapter
)
did
tyranously
vsurpe
the
key
of
the
Romane
common-wealth
,
Caesar
.
Brutus
also
a
few
daies
after
,
CHAP.
VIII
.
Other
examples
like
vnto
the
former
.
AFter
that
the
Empire
of
Rome
declining
after
the
death
of
Theodosius
,
was
almost
at
the
last
cast
,
ready
to
yeeld
vp
the
ghost
:
It
was
not
without
cause
that
Attila
was
called
the
scourge
of
God
:
Ithilbald
king
of
Gothia
at
the
instigation
of
his
wife
put
to
death
very
vnaduisedly
one
of
the
chiefe
peeres
of
his
realm
,
after
which
murder
as
he
sat
banquetting
one
day
with
his
princes
,
enuironed
with
his
guard
&
other
attendants
,
hauing
his
hand
in
the
dish
and
the
meat
betweene
his
fingers
,
one
sodainly
reached
him
such
a
blow
with
a
sword
that
it
cut
off
his
head
,
so
that
it
almost
tumbled
vpon
the
table
,
to
the
great
astonishment
of
all
that
were
present
.
The
Emperour
Phocas
attained
by
this
bloody
means
the
emperiall
dignity
,
Among
all
the
strange
examples
of
Gods
iudgements
that
euer
were
declared
in
this
world
,
that
one
that
befell
a
king
of
Poleland
called
Popiell
for
his
murders
,
is
for
the
strangenesse
thereof
most
worthy
to
bee
had
in
memory
:
hee
raigned
in
the
year
of
our
Lord
1346
,
this
man
among
other
of
his
particular
kinds
of
cursings
and
swearing
whereof
he
was
no
niggard
,
vsed
ordinarily
this
oth
:
If
it
bee
not
true
would
rats
might
deuour
me
,
3.
Cursing
.
lib.
1.
cap.
32.
prophecying
thereby
his
owne
destruction
;
for
hee
was
deuoured
euen
by
the
same
means
which
hee
so
often
wished
for
,
as
the
sequele
of
his
historie
will
declare
.
The
father
of
this
Popiell
feeling
himselfe
neare
death
resigned
the
gouernment
of
his
kingdome
to
two
of
his
brethren
,
men
exceedingly
reuerenced
of
all
men
for
the
valor
and
vertue
which
appeared
in
them
.
He
being
deceased
and
Popiell
being
growne
vp
to
ripe
and
lawfull
yeares
,
when
hee
saw
himselfe
in
full
libertie
without
all
bridle
of
gouernment
to
doe
what
he
listed
,
he
began
to
giue
the
full
swindge
to
his
lawlesse
and
vnruly
desires
,
in
such
sort
that
within
few
daies
he
became
so
shamelesse
,
that
there
was
no
kind
of
vice
which
appeared
not
in
his
behauior
,
euen
to
the
working
of
the
death
of
his
owne
vncles
,
for
all
their
faithfull
dealing
towards
him
,
which
hee
by
poyson
brought
to
passe
.
Which
being
done
he
caused
himself
forthwith
to
be
crowned
with
garlands
of
flowers
and
to
bee
perfumed
with
pretious
ointments
:
and
to
the
end
the
better
to
solemnize
his
entrie
to
the
crowne
,
commanded
a
sumptuous
and
pompous
banket
to
be
prepared
,
wherevnto
all
the
princes
and
lords
of
his
kingdome
were
inuited
.
Now
as
they
were
about
to
giue
the
onset
vpon
the
delicate
cheare
,
behold
an
army
of
rats
sallying
out
of
the
dead
and
putrified
bodies
of
his
vncles
set
vpon
him
,
his
wife
,
and
children
,
amid
their
dainties
to
gnaw
them
with
their
sharp
teeth
,
insomuch
that
his
guard
with
all
their
weapons
&
strength
were
not
able
to
chase
them
away
,
but
being
weary
with
resisting
their
daily
&
mightie
assaults
,
gaue
ouer
the
battaile
:
wherfore
counsell
was
giuen
to
make
great
coale
fires
round
about
them
,
that
the
rats
by
that
meanes
might
bee
kept
off
,
not
knowing
that
no
pollicy
or
power
of
man
was
able
to
withstand
the
vnchangeable
decree
of
God
:
for
,
for
all
their
huge
forces
they
ceased
not
to
run
through
the
midst
of
them
and
to
assault
with
their
teeth
this
cruell
murderer
.
Then
they
gaue
him
counsaile
to
put
himselfe
,
his
wife
,
&
children
into
a
boat
and
thrust
it
into
the
middest
of
a
lake
,
thinking
that
by
reason
of
the
waters
the
rats
would
not
approch
vnto
them
:
But
alasse
in
vain
,
for
they
swum
through
the
waters
amaine
&
gnawing
the
boat
,
made
such
chinckes
into
the
sides
thereof
that
the
water
began
to
run
in
,
which
being
perceiued
of
the
boatmen
,
amazed
them
sore
,
and
made
them
make
post
hast
vnto
the
shore
,
where
he
was
no
sooner
arriued
,
but
a
fresh
muster
of
rats
vniting
their
forces
with
the
former
,
encountred
him
so
sore
,
that
they
did
him
more
scath
then
all
the
rest
.
Wherevpon
all
his
guard
and
others
that
were
there
present
for
his
defence
,
perceiuing
it
to
be
a
iudgement
of
Gods
vengeance
vpon
him
,
abandoned
and
forsooke
him
at
once
:
who
seeing
himselfe
destitute
of
succour
and
forsaken
on
all
sides
,
flew
into
a
high
tower
in
Chousuitze
,
whether
also
they
pursued
him
,
and
climing
euen
vp
to
the
highest
roome
where
he
was
,
first
eat
vp
his
wife
and
children
(
shee
being
guilty
of
his
vncles
death
)
and
lastly
gnew
and
deuoured
him
to
the
very
bones
.
After
the
same
sort
was
an
Archbishop
of
Mentz
,
called
Hatto
,
After
this
Archbishop
in
the
same
ranke
of
murderers
we
find
registred
many
Popes
,
of
all
whome
the
notorious
and
markable
are
these
two
,
Innocent
the
fourth
and
Boniface
the
eight
,
who
deserued
rather
to
be
called
Nocents
&
Malefaces
than
Innocents
&
Boniface
,
for
their
wicked
&
peruerse
liues
:
for
as
touching
the
first
of
them
,
from
the
time
that
hee
was
first
installed
in
the
Papacy
,
he
alwaies
bent
his
horns
against
the
Emperor
Fredericke
,
&
fought
with
him
with
an
army
not
of
men
,
but
of
excommunications
&
cursings
as
their
manner
is
:
&
seeing
that
all
his
thundering
buls
and
canons
could
not
preuaile
so
far
as
hee
desired
,
hee
presently
sought
to
bring
to
passe
that
by
treason
which
by
force
he
could
not
:
for
hee
so
enchanted
certain
of
his
houshold
seruants
with
foule
bribes
and
faire
words
,
Conrade
,
Fredericks
son
,
wherein
hee
reaped
a
crop
of
discomfitures
&
ouerthrows
:
after
which
he
was
found
slain
in
his
bed
,
his
body
being
full
of
black
marks
,
as
if
he
had
ben
beaten
to
death
with
cudgels
.
Concerning
Boniface
,
CHAP.
XIX
.
Other
memorable
examples
of
the
same
subiect
.
IF
wee
descend
from
antiquities
to
histories
of
later
&
fresher
memory
,
we
shall
find
many
things
worthy
report
and
credit
,
as
that
which
happened
in
the
year
1405
betwixt
two
gentlemen
of
Henault
,
Iohn
Petit
a
Sorbonist
doctor
,
whose
rashnes
and
brasen-facednes
was
so
great
,
as
in
the
counsell
house
of
the
king
,
stoutly
to
auerre
,
that
that
which
was
done
in
the
death
of
the
duke
of
Orleance
,
was
a
vertuous
and
commendable
action
,
and
the
authour
of
it
to
be
void
of
fault
,
and
therefore
ought
to
be
void
of
punishment
.
The
preface
which
this
braue
oratour
vsed
was
,
That
he
was
bounden
in
duty
to
the
duke
of
Burgundy
,
in
regard
of
a
goodly
pension
which
he
had
receiued
at
his
hands
,
and
for
that
cause
he
had
prepared
his
poore
tongue
in
token
of
gratitude
to
defend
his
cause
.
Hee
might
better
haue
said
thus
,
That
seeing
his
tongue
was
poore
and
miserable
,
and
he
himselfe
a
senslesse
creature
,
therfore
he
ought
not
to
allow
or
defend
so
obstinately
such
a
detestable
and
traiterous
murder
committed
vpon
a
Duke
of
Orleance
,
and
the
same
the
kings
brother
,
in
such
vile
sort
;
and
that
if
hee
should
do
otherwise
,
he
should
approoue
of
that
which
God
and
man
apparantly
condemned
,
yea
the
very
Turkes
and
greatest
Painyms
vnder
heauen
;
&
that
he
should
iustify
the
wicked
&
condemne
the
innocent
,
which
is
an
abomination
before
God
;
&
should
put
darknes
in
stead
of
light
,
and
call
that
which
is
euill
,
good
(
for
which
the
Prophet
Esai
in
his
1
chapter
denounceth
the
iudgements
of
God
against
false
prophets
)
&
should
follow
the
steps
of
Balaam
,
which
let
out
his
tongue
to
hire
for
the
wages
of
iniquity
:
but
none
of
these
supposes
came
once
into
his
mind
.
But
to
returne
to
our
history
:
The
duke
of
Burgundy
hauing
the
tongues
of
these
braue
doctors
at
his
commaundement
,
and
the
Parisians
who
bore
themselues
partially
in
this
quarrel
)
generally
fauourers
of
his
side
,
came
to
Paris
in
armes
,
to
iustifie
himselfe
as
he
pretended
,
and
stroke
such
a
dreadfull
awe
of
himselfe
into
all
mens
minds
,
that
notwithstanding
all
the
earnest
pursuit
of
the
Duchesse
the
widow
of
Orleance
for
iustice
,
he
escaped
vnpunished
,
vntill
God
(
by
other
meanes
)
tooke
vengeance
vpon
him
:
which
happened
after
a
while
,
after
that
those
his
complices
of
Paris
(
being
become
lords
and
rulers
of
the
city
)
had
committed
many
horrible
and
cruell
murders
,
as
of
the
Constable
and
Chancellour
,
two
head
officers
of
the
realme
,
whose
bodies
fast
bound
togither
they
drew
naked
through
the
streets
from
place
to
place
in
most
despitefull
maner
:
for
the
Daulphin
escaping
their
hands
by
night
,
and
safeguarded
in
his
castle
,
after
that
hee
heard
of
the
seasure
of
the
citie
,
found
meanes
to
assemble
certaine
forces
,
and
marched
to
Montereaufautyon
with
twenty
thousand
men
,
of
purpose
to
be
reuenged
on
the
Duke
for
all
his
braue
&
riotous
demeanors
:
hither
vnder
colour
of
parling
&
deuising
new
means
to
pacifie
these
old
ciuill
troubles
,
he
enticed
the
duke
,
&
being
come
,
at
his
very
first
arrtuall
,
as
he
was
bowing
his
knee
in
reuerence
to
him
,
he
caused
him
to
be
slaine
:
And
on
this
manner
was
the
duke
of
Orleance
death
quitted
,
&
the
euill
and
cruelty
shewed
towards
him
,
returned
vpon
the
murderers
owne
necke
;
for
as
hee
slew
him
treacherously
&
cowardly
,
so
was
hee
also
treacherously
and
cowardly
slaine
,
and
iustly
requited
with
the
same
measure
that
he
before
had
measured
to
another
:
Peter
,
sonne
to
Alphonsus
king
of
Castill
,
CHAP.
X.
Of
diuers
other
murderers
,
and
their
seuerall
punishments
.
MAximinus
from
a
shepheard
in
Thracia
,
grew
to
be
an
Emperor
in
Rome
by
these
degrees
:
his
exceeding
strength
and
swiftnes
in
running
commended
him
so
to
Seuerus
then
Emperour
,
that
he
made
him
of
his
guard
;
from
that
hee
arose
to
be
a
Tribune
,
and
at
last
to
be
an
Emperour
:
which
place
he
was
no
sooner
in
possession
of
,
but
immoderate
crueltie
(
all
this
while
buried
)
began
to
shew
it selfe
:
for
he
made
hauocke
of
all
the
nobilitie
,
and
put
to
death
those
that
hee
suspected
to
be
acquainted
with
his
estate
:
insomuch
as
some
called
him
Cyclops
,
some
Busiris
,
others
Anteus
,
for
his
cruelty
.
Wherfore
the
Senat
of
Rome
seeing
his
indignity
,
proclaimed
him
an
enemy
to
their
commonwealth
,
and
made
it
lawfull
for
any
man
to
procure
his
death
:
which
being
knowen
,
his
souldiers
lying
at
the
siege
of
Aquileia
mooued
with
hatred
,
entred
his
tent
at
noone
day
,
and
slew
him
and
his
sonne
togither
.
Iustinian
the
younger
(
no
lesse
hatefull
to
his
subiects
for
his
cruelty
than
Maximinus
)
was
deposed
from
the
Empire
by
conspiracie
,
and
hauing
his
nosthrils
slit
,
exiled
to
Chersona
,
Leontius
succeeding
in
his
place
.
Howbeit
ere
long
hee
recouered
his
crowne
and
scepter
,
and
returned
to
Constantinople
,
exercising
more
cruelty
at
his
returne
,
then
euer
hee
had
done
before
him
:
for
he
not
only
put
to
death
Leontius
and
Tiberius
,
but
also
all
that
any
way
fauoured
their
parts
.
It
is
said
of
him
,
that
he
neuer
●●●w
his
mangled
nose
,
but
he
caused
one
of
them
to
be
executed
to
death
.
At
last
he
was
slaine
by
Philippicus
to
verifie
the
word
of
the
Lord
,
That
he
which
striketh
with
the
sword
,
shall
perish
with
the
sword
.
Albonius
king
of
Lumbardy
,
drinking
vpon
a
time
to
his
wife
Rosimund
in
a
cup
made
of
her
fathers
skull
(
whome
he
in
battaile
had
slaine
)
so
displeased
her
therewith
,
that
shee
(
attributing
more
to
naturall
affection
then
vnity
of
marriage
)
decreed
with
her selfe
to
hazard
life
and
kingdome
,
to
be
reuenged
vpon
this
grieuous
iniury
;
wherefore
shee
thus
practised
:
A
knight
called
Hemichild
was
enamoured
with
one
of
her
maids
;
him
she
brought
into
a
secret
darke
place
by
pollicie
,
in
shew
to
enioy
his
loue
,
but
indeed
to
be
at
her
commaund
,
for
shee
supplied
his
loues
place
:
and
then
discouering
her selfe
,
put
it
to
his
choise
either
to
kill
her
husband
,
or
to
be
accused
by
her
of
this
villany
.
Hemichild
chose
the
former
,
and
in
deed
murdered
his
lord
in
his
bed
;
and
after
the
deed
done
,
fled
with
her
to
Rauenna
.
But
marke
how
the
Lord
requited
this
murder
,
euen
most
strangely
;
for
they
both
which
had
beene
linkt
togither
in
the
fact
,
were
linkt
togither
also
in
the
punishment
;
and
as
they
had
beene
ioynt
instruments
of
anothers
destruction
,
so
he
made
them
mutuall
instruments
of
their
owne
:
for
Rosimund
thinking
to
poison
him
too
,
made
him
drinke
halfe
her
medicine
;
but
he
feeling
the
poison
in
his
veines
,
staied
in
the
midway
,
and
made
her
sup
vp
the
other
halfe
for
her
part
,
so
they
died
both
togither
.
The
Electors
of
the
Empire
disagreeing
in
suffrages
,
After
the
death
of
Woldimirus
king
of
Rhythenia
,
his
son
Berisus
succeeded
in
the
kingdome
,
Iohn
the
high
priest
of
Ierusalem
,
sonne
and
successour
to
Iudas
,
had
a
brother
tearmed
Iesus
,
to
whome
Bagoses
the
lieuetenant
of
Antaxerxes
army
,
promised
the
priesthood
,
r
1.
c
,
7
meaning
in
deed
to
depose
Iohn
and
install
him
in
his
roome
:
vpon
which
occasion
,
this
Iesus
growing
insolent
,
spared
not
to
reuile
his
brother
,
&
that
in
the
temple
with
immodest
&
opprobrious
speeches
,
so
that
his
anger
being
prouoked
,
Gerhardus
Earle
of
Holsatia
,
after
he
had
conquered
the
Danes
in
many
and
sundry
battailes
,
Nicolaus
Iacobus
a
rich
Baron
,
so
that
whome
the
open
enemie
feared
in
the
field
,
him
the
priuie
subtill
foe
murdered
in
his
chamber
.
But
the
traitour
and
murderer
albeit
he
fled
to
the
castle
Schaldenburg
,
and
got
a
band
of
soldiers
to
defend
himselfe
,
yet
he
was
surprised
by
the
Earls
sonnes
,
who
tormenting
him
as
became
a
traitor
to
be
tormented
,
at
last
rent
his
body
into
foure
quarters
,
and
so
his
murder
and
treason
was
condignly
punished
.
Aboue
all
,
the
execution
of
Gods
vengeance
is
most
notably
manifested
in
the
punishment
and
detection
of
one
Parthenius
an
homicide
,
treasurer
to
Theodobert
king
of
France
,
Pipin
,
and
Martellus
his
sonne
,
kings
of
France
,
enuying
prosperity
and
ease
,
How
manifest
and
euident
was
the
vengeance
of
God
vpon
the
murderers
of
Theodoricke
hishop
of
Treuerse
:
About
the
yeere
of
our
Lord
700
,
Geilian
the
wife
of
Gosbert
prince
of
Wurtiburg
,
A
certaine
woman
of
Millaine
in
Italy
hung
a
young
boy
,
and
after
deuoured
him
instead
of
meat
,
when
as
she
wanted
none
other
victuals
:
and
when
shee
was
examined
about
the
crime
,
shee
confessed
that
a
spirit
persuaded
her
to
doe
it
,
telling
her
that
after
it
,
she
should
attaine
vnto
whatsoeuer
she
desired
:
for
which
murder
,
shee
was
tormented
to
death
by
a
lingring
and
grieuous
punishment
:
This
,
Arlunus
reporteth
to
haue
happened
in
his
time
.
And
surely
howsoeuer
openly
the
deuill
sheweth
not
himselfe
,
yet
hee
is
the
moouer
and
persuader
of
all
murders
,
and
commonly
the
detector
.
For
hee
delighteth
in
mens
bloods
and
their
destruction
as
in
nothing
more
.
At
Winsheime
in
Germanie
a
certaine
theefe
after
many
●obberies
&
murders
committed
by
him
vpon
trauailers
and
women
with
child
,
went
to
the
shambles
before
Easter
and
bought
three
calues
heads
,
which
when
he
put
into
a
wallet
they
seemed
to
the
standers
by
to
be
mens
heads
.
Theat.
histor
.
Though
strange
yet
not
incredible
:
since
God
can
as
well
turne
calues
heads
into
mens
,
as
a
rod
into
a
serpent
,
or
water
into
blood
Whereof
being
attached
&
searched
by
the
officers
,
and
found
so
indeed
,
hee
being
examined
how
hee
came
by
them
,
answered
and
proued
by
witnesses
that
he
bought
calues
heads
,
&
how
they
were
transformed
hee
knew
not
.
Whereat
the
Senat
amazed
not
supposing
this
miracle
to
arise
of
naught
,
cast
the
partie
into
prison
,
and
tortured
him
to
confesse
the
villany
whereof
the
Lord
would
haue
him
detected
,
as
hee
did
indeed
,
and
was
worthely
punished
for
the
same
:
and
then
the
heads
recouered
their
old
shapes
.
Another
theefe
at
Tubing
betraied
his
murder
&
robbery
by
his
own
sighes
,
Mandat
.
lib.
2
,
cap.
35.
which
were
so
incessant
in
griefe
not
of
his
fact
,
but
of
his
small
bootie
,
that
being
but
asked
the
question
,
he
confessed
the
crime
and
vnderwent
worthy
punishment
.
Another
murderer
in
Spaine
was
discouered
by
the
trembling
of
his
heart
:
for
when
many
were
suspected
of
the
murder
,
and
all
renounced
it
,
the
iudge
caused
all
their
breasts
to
bee
opened
,
and
him
in
whom
he
saw
most
trembling
of
breast
,
hee
condemned
,
who
also
could
not
deny
the
fact
,
but
presently
confessed
the
same
.
At
Isenacum
a
certaine
young
man
being
in
loue
with
a
maid
,
&
not
hauing
wherewith
to
maintain
her
,
vsed
this
vnlawfull
means
,
he
vpon
a
night
slew
his
host
,
Mandat
.
lib.
2.
cap.
35.
&
throwing
his
body
into
the
seller
,
tooke
away
all
his
money
,
and
then
hasted
away
;
but
the
terror
of
his
owne
conscience
,
and
the
iudgement
of
God
so
besotted
him
,
that
he
could
not
stirre
a
foot
vntill
he
was
apprehended
.
At
the
same
time
Martin
Luther
&
Philip
Melancton
abode
at
Isenacum
,
&
were
eie
witnesses
of
this
miraculous
iudgement
,
who
also
dealt
with
the
murderer
,
that
in
most
humble
and
penitent
confession
of
his
sins
&
comfort
of
soule
he
ended
his
life
.
By
all
these
examples
we
see
how
hard
it
is
for
a
murderer
to
escape
without
his
reward
.
Nay
rather
then
he
shal
go
vnpunished
sencelesse
creatures
and
his
owne
soule
riseth
to
giue
sentence
against
him
.
In
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
1546
Iohn
Diazius
a
Spaniard
by
birth
,
liuing
a
student
and
professor
in
Paris
came
first
to
Geneua
,
and
then
to
Strasbrough
,
and
there
by
the
grace
of
Gods
spirit
saw
his
Sorbonicall
errors
and
renounced
them
,
betaking
himselfe
to
the
profession
of
the
purer
religion
,
and
the
company
and
acquaintance
of
godly
men
:
amongst
whome
was
Bucer
that
excellent
man
,
who
sent
him
also
to
Nurnburge
to
ouersee
the
printing
of
a
booke
which
he
was
to
publish
.
Duke
Abrogastes
slew
Valentinian
the
Emperour
of
the
West
,
and
aduanced
Eugenius
to
the
crowne
of
the
Empire
:
but
a
while
after
the
same
sword
which
had
slaine
his
Lord
and
maister
was
by
his
owne
hands
turned
into
his
own
bowels
.
Mempricius
the
sonne
of
Madan
the
fourth
king
of
England
,
then
called
Britaine
after
Brute
,
In
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
God
745
one
Sigebert
was
authorised
king
of
the
Saxons
in
Brittaine
,
a
cruell
and
tyrannous
Prince
towards
his
subiects
,
and
one
that
chaunged
the
ancient
lawes
and
customes
of
his
realme
after
his
owne
pleasure
,
and
because
a
certaine
Nobleman
somewhat
sharpely
aduertised
him
of
his
euill
conditions
,
he
malitiously
caused
him
to
bee
put
to
death
:
but
see
how
the
Lord
reuenged
this
murder
,
hee
caused
his
Nobles
to
depriue
him
of
his
kingly
authority
,
and
at
last
as
a
desolate
and
forlorne
person
wandering
alone
in
a
wood
,
to
bee
slaine
of
a
swine-heard
,
whose
maister
hee
(
being
king
)
had
wrongfully
put
to
death
.
In
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
678
Childerich
king
of
Fraunce
,
caused
a
Nobleman
of
his
Realme
called
Bolyde
,
to
bee
bound
to
a
stake
and
there
beaten
to
death
without
the
pretence
of
any
iust
crime
or
accusation
against
him
;
for
which
cruelty
his
Lords
and
commons
,
being
grieuously
offended
conspired
togither
and
slew
him
with
his
wife
as
they
were
in
hunting
.
In
the
raigne
of
Edward
the
second
and
Edward
the
third
Sir
Roger
Mortimer
committed
many
villanous
outrages
in
sheading
much
humane
blood
,
but
hee
was
also
iustlie
recompenced
in
the
end
:
first
he
murdered
king
Edward
the
second
lying
in
Barkley
castell
,
to
the
end
hee
might
as
it
was
supposed
enioy
Isabell
his
wife
with
whome
hee
had
very
suspitious
familiarity
.
Secondly
,
hee
caused
Edward
the
third
to
conclude
a
dishonourable
peace
with
the
Scots
,
by
restoring
to
them
all
their
ancient
writings
,
charters
,
and
patents
,
whereby
the
kings
of
Scotland
had
bound
themselues
to
be
feudaries
to
the
kings
of
England
.
Thirdly
,
he
accused
Edmund
Earle
of
Kent
vncle
to
king
Edward
of
treason
,
and
caused
him
vniustly
to
be
put
to
death
.
And
lastly
he
conspired
against
the
king
to
worke
his
destruction
,
for
which
and
diuerse
other
things
that
were
laid
to
his
charge
he
was
worthely
and
iustly
beheaded
.
In
the
raigne
of
Henry
the
sixt
,
Humfry
the
good
duke
of
Gloucester
&
faithfull
protector
of
the
king
,
by
the
meanes
of
certaine
malicious
persons
,
and
especially
the
Marques
of
Suffolke
(
as
it
was
suspected
)
was
arrested
,
cast
into
hold
,
&
strangled
to
death
in
the
Abbey
of
Bury
:
for
which
cause
the
Marques
was
not
only
banished
the
land
for
the
space
of
fiue
yeares
,
but
also
banished
out
of
his
life
for
euer
,
for
as
he
sailed
towards
France
,
he
was
met
withall
by
a
ship
of
warre
,
and
there
presently
beheaded
,
and
the
dead
corps
cast
vp
at
Douer
,
that
England
wherein
hee
had
committed
the
crime
might
be
a
witnesse
of
his
punishment
.
As
the
murder
of
a
gentleman
in
Kent
called
maister
Arden
of
Feuersham
was
most
execrable
,
so
the
wonderfull
discouerie
thereof
was
exceeding
rare
:
this
Arden
being
somewhat
aged
had
to
wife
a
young
woman
no
lesse
faire
then
dishonest
,
who
being
in
loue
with
one
Mosby
more
then
her
husband
,
did
not
onely
abuse
his
bed
,
but
also
conspired
his
death
with
this
her
companion
:
for
togither
they
hired
a
notorious
ruffian
one
Blacke
Will
to
strangle
him
to
death
with
a
towell
as
hee
was
playing
a
game
at
tables
:
which
though
secretly
done
,
yet
by
her
own
guiltie
conscience
and
some
tokens
of
blood
which
appeared
in
the
house
was
soon
discouered
and
confessed
.
Wherfore
she
her selfe
was
burnt
at
Canterbury
:
Michael
maister
Ardens
man
was
hanged
in
chaines
at
Feuersham
:
Mosby
and
his
sister
were
hanged
in
Smithfield
.
Greene
another
partner
in
this
bloody
action
was
hanged
in
chaines
in
the
high
way
against
Feuersham
.
And
Blacke
Will
the
ruffian
after
his
first
escape
was
apprehended
and
burnt
on
a
scaffold
at
Flushing
in
Zealand
.
And
thus
all
the
murderers
had
their
deserued
dewes
in
this
life
,
and
what
they
endured
in
the
life
to
come
(
except
they
obtaine
mercy
by
true
repentance
)
it
is
easie
to
iudge
.
CHAP.
XI
.
Of
Paricides
or
parent
murderers
.
IF
all
effusion
of
humane
blood
bee
both
horrible
to
behold
and
repugnant
to
nature
,
then
is
the
murdering
of
parents
especially
detestable
,
when
a
man
is
so
possessed
with
the
deuill
,
or
transported
with
a
hellish
fury
,
that
he
lifteth
vp
his
hand
against
his
owne
naturall
father
or
mother
to
put
than
to
death
:
this
is
so
monstrous
and
inormious
an
impiety
that
the
greatest
Barbarians
euer
haue
had
it
in
detestation
:
wherefore
it
is
also
expressely
commanded
in
the
law
of
God
,
that
whosoeuer
smiteth
his
father
or
mother
in
what
sort
soeuer
,
though
not
to
death
,
Lucius
Ostius
,
after
the
first
Punick
war
;
although
other
writers
affirme
that
M.
Malliolus
was
the
first
,
and
Lucius
the
second
:
howsoeuer
it
was
they
both
vnderwent
the
punishment
of
the
law
Pompeia
,
which
enacted
that
such
offendors
should
be
thrust
into
a
sack
of
lether
,
&
an
ape
,
a
cock
,
a
viper
&
a
dog
put
in
to
accompany
them
,
&
then
to
be
thrown
into
the
water
,
to
the
end
that
these
beasts
being
enraged
&
animated
one
against
another
,
might
wreke
their
teene
vpon
them
,
&
so
depriue
them
of
life
after
a
strange
fashion
,
being
debarred
of
the
vse
of
aire
,
water
,
&
earth
,
as
vnworthy
to
participate
the
very
elements
with
their
deaths
,
much
lesse
with
their
liues
:
which
kind
of
punishment
was
after
practised
and
confirmed
by
the
constitution
of
Constantine
the
great
.
And
albeit
the
regard
of
the
punishment
seemed
terrible
&
the
offence
it self
much
more
monstrous
,
yet
since
that
time
there
haue
ben
many
so
peruerse
&
exceedingly
wicked
,
as
to
throw
themselues
headlong
into
that
desperat
gulfe
.
As
Cleodorick
son
of
Sigebert
king
of
Austria
,
After
the
death
of
Hircanus
,
Nero
that
vnnaturall
Tyrant
surpassed
all
that
liued
,
A
certaine
degenerate
and
cruel
sonne
longing
and
gaping
after
the
inheritance
of
his
father
,
which
nothing
but
his
life
kept
him
from
,
wrought
this
meanes
to
accomplish
his
desire
:
he
accused
his
father
of
a
most
filthy
and
vnnameable
crime
,
euen
of
committing
filthinesse
with
a
cow
;
knowing
,
that
if
he
were
conuicted
thereof
,
Manfred
,
prince
of
Tarentum
,
Phil
Melanct.
Chron.
lib.
4.
No
better
fruit
to
be
expected
of
an●
bastard
im●
bastard
sonne
to
Fredericke
the
second
,
smothered
his
father
to
death
with
a
pillow
,
because
(
as
some
say
)
he
would
not
bestow
the
kingdom
of
Naples
vpon
him
:
&
not
content
herewith
,
he
poisoned
also
the
heires
of
Fredericke
,
to
the
end
hee
might
attaine
vnto
the
crowne
,
as
Conrade
his
elder
brother
,
and
his
nephew
the
sonne
of
Henry
the
heire
,
which
Henry
died
in
prison
;
&
now
only
Conradinus
remained
betwixt
him
and
the
kingdome
,
whome
though
he
assailed
to
send
after
his
father
,
yet
was
his
intention
frustrate
,
for
the
Pope
thundered
out
his
curses
against
him
,
and
instigated
Charles
duke
of
Angiers
to
make
warre
against
him
:
wherein
bastard
and
vnnaturall
Manfred
was
discomfited
and
slaine
,
and
cut
short
of
his
purpose
,
for
which
he
had
committed
so
many
tragedies
.
Martin
Luther
was
wont
to
report
of
his
owne
experience
this
wonderfull
history
of
a
locksmith
,
a
young
man
,
riotous
and
vicious
,
who
to
find
fuell
for
his
luxury
,
was
so
bewitched
,
that
he
feared
not
to
slay
his
owne
father
and
mother
with
a
hammer
,
to
the
end
to
gaine
their
mony
and
possessions
:
after
which
cruell
deed
,
he
presently
went
to
a
shomaker
and
bought
him
new
shoes
,
leauing
his
old
behind
him
,
by
the
prouidence
of
God
to
be
his
accusers
:
for
after
an
houre
or
two
,
the
slaine
bodies
being
found
by
the
magistrate
,
and
inquisition
made
for
the
murderer
,
no
manner
of
suspition
being
had
of
him
,
hee
seeming
to
take
such
griefe
thereat
.
But
the
Lord
that
knoweth
the
secrets
of
the
heart
,
discouered
his
hypocrisie
,
and
made
his
owne
shoes
which
he
had
left
with
the
shoemaker
rise
vp
to
beare
witnesse
against
him
:
for
the
blood
which
ran
from
his
fathers
wounds
besprinkled
them
so
,
that
thereof
grew
the
suspition
,
&
from
thence
the
examination
,
&
very
soone
the
confession
,
&
last
of
all
his
worthy
&
lawfull
execution
.
From
hence
wee
may
learne
for
a
generall
truth
,
that
murder
,
neuer
so
secret
,
will
euer
by
one
means
or
other
be
discouered
;
the
Lord
will
not
suffer
it
to
goe
vnpunished
,
so
abominable
it
is
in
his
sight
.
Another
sonne
at
Bosil
,
in
the
yere
of
our
Lord
God
1560
,
bought
a
quantitie
of
poison
of
an
Apothecary
,
The
ancient
Ammonites
had
an
idoll
called
Moloch
,
to
the
which
they
offered
their
children
in
sacrifice
:
this
idoll
(
as
the
Iewes
write
)
was
of
a
great
stature
and
hollow
within
,
hauing
seuen
chambers
in
his
hollownesse
,
whereof
one
was
to
receiue
meate
,
another
turtle
doues
,
the
third
a
sheepe
,
the
fourth
a
ram
,
the
fift
a
calfe
,
the
sixt
an
oxe
,
and
the
seuenth
a
child
:
his
hands
were
alwaies
extended
to
receiue
gifts
,
and
when
a
child
was
offered
,
they
were
made
fire
hot
to
burne
it
to
death
;
none
must
offer
the
child
but
the
father
:
&
to
drowne
the
cries
of
it
,
the
Chemarims
(
for
so
were
the
priests
of
that
idoll
called
)
made
a
noise
with
bels
,
cymbals
,
and
hornes
:
thus
it
is
written
that
king
Achab
offered
his
son
,
yea
&
many
of
the
children
of
Israel
beside
,
as
the
Prophet
Dauid
affirmeth
:
They
offered
(
saith
he
)
their
sonnes
and
daughters
to
deuils
,
&
shed
innocent
blod
,
euen
the
blood
of
their
children
,
whom
they
offered
vnto
the
idols
of
Canaan
,
and
their
land
was
defiled
with
blood
:
this
is
the
horrible
crime
.
Now
mark
the
iudgement
touching
the
Canaanites
;
the
land
spued
them
out
for
their
abominations
,
Achab
with
his
posterity
was
accursed
,
himselfe
being
slaine
by
his
enemies
,
and
the
crowne
taken
from
his
posterity
,
not
one
being
left
of
his
off-spring
to
pisse
against
the
wal
:
according
to
the
saying
of
Elias
:
as
for
the
Iewes
,
the
Prophet
Dauid
in
the
same
place
declareth
their
punishment
,
when
he
saith
,
That
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
was
kindled
,
and
he
abhorred
his
inheritance
,
and
gaue
them
into
the
hands
of
the
heathen
,
that
they
that
hated
them
were
lords
ouer
them
.
In
the
yeere
of
our
Lord
1551
,
in
a
towne
of
Hassia
called
Weidenhasten
,
Concerning
stepmothers
,
it
is
a
world
to
read
,
how
many
horrible
murders
they
haue
vsually
practised
vpon
their
children
in
law
,
to
the
end
to
bring
the
inheritance
to
their
owne
brood
,
or
at
least
to
reuenge
some
iniury
supposed
to
be
done
vnto
them
:
of
which
,
one
or
two
examples
I
will
subnect
,
as
a
tast
out
of
many
hundred
,
leauing
the
residue
to
the
iudgement
and
reading
of
the
learned
.
Constantius
,
the
sonne
of
Heraclius
,
hauing
raigned
Emperour
but
one
yeere
,
was
poisoned
by
his
stepmother
Martina
,
Fausta
the
wife
of
Constantine
the
Great
,
fell
in
loue
with
Constantine
her
sonne
in
law
,
begotten
vpon
a
concubine
,
CHAP.
XII
.
Of
Subiect
Murderers
.
SEing
then
they
that
take
away
their
neighbours
liues
,
doe
not
escape
vnpunished
,
(
as
by
the
former
examples
it
appeareth
)
it
must
needs
folow
,
that
if
they
to
whom
the
sword
of
iustice
is
committed
by
God
to
represse
wrongs
and
chastise
vices
,
doe
giue
ouer
themselues
to
cruelties
,
and
to
kill
and
slay
those
whome
they
ought
in
duty
to
protect
and
defend
,
must
receiue
a
greater
measure
of
punishment
,
according
to
the
measure
and
quality
of
their
offence
.
Such
an
one
was
Saul
the
first
king
of
Israel
,
who
albeit
he
ought
to
haue
bene
sufficiently
instructed
out
of
the
law
of
God
in
his
duty
in
this
behalfe
:
yet
was
hee
so
cruell
and
bloody
minded
,
as
contrary
to
all
iustice
,
to
put
to
death
Abimelech
the
high
priest
,
with
fourescore
and
fiue
other
priests
of
the
family
of
his
father
,
Amongst
all
the
sinnes
of
king
Achab
and
Iezabel
which
were
many
and
great
,
Ioram
sonne
of
Iehosaphat
king
of
Iudah
,
being
after
his
fathers
death
possessed
of
the
crowne
and
scepter
of
Iudah
,
Albeit
that
in
the
former
booke
we
haue
already
touched
the
pride
and
arrogancie
of
king
Alexander
the
Great
,
yet
wee
can
not
pretermit
to
speake
of
him
in
this
place
,
his
example
seruing
so
fit
for
the
present
subiect
;
for
although
as
touching
the
rest
of
his
life
hee
was
verie
well
gouerned
in
his
priuat
actions
,
as
a
monarch
of
his
reputation
might
be
,
yet
in
his
declining
age
(
I
meane
not
in
yeeres
▪
but
to
deathward
)
he
grew
exceeding
cruell
,
not
only
towards
strangers
,
as
the
Cosseis
,
whome
he
destroied
to
the
sucking
babe
,
but
also
to
his
houshold
and
familiar
friends
:
Insomuch
,
that
being
become
odious
to
most
,
fewest
loued
hi●
and
diuers
wrought
all
meanes
possible
to
make
him
away
but
one
especially
,
whose
sonne
in
law
and
other
neare
friends
he
had
put
to
death
,
neuer
ceased
vntill
he
both
ministred
a
deadly
draught
vnto
himselfe
,
Phalaris
,
the
tyrant
of
Agrigentum
,
made
himselfe
famous
to
posterity
by
no
other
meanes
,
Edward
the
second
of
that
name
,
king
of
England
,
at
the
request
and
desire
of
Hugh
Spencer
his
darling
,
Iohn
Maria
duke
of
Millan
may
be
put
into
this
rancke
of
murderers
:
Alphonsus
the
second
king
of
Naples
Ferdinands
son
was
in
Tyranny
towards
his
subiects
nothing
inferiour
to
his
father
,
Philip
Comineus
that
was
an
eie
witnesse
of
this
iourney
,
reporteth
that
euerie
night
hee
would
crie
,
that
hee
heard
the
Frenchmen
,
and
that
the
verie
trees
and
stones
ecchoed
Fraunce
into
his
eares
:
And
on
this
manner
was
his
flight
to
Sicily
.
King
Charles
in
the
meane
while
hauing
by
force
and
bloodshed
to
terrifie
the
rest
taken
two
passages
that
were
before
him
,
the
whole
realme
without
any
great
resistance
yeelded
it selfe
vnto
his
mercie
:
albeit
that
the
young
king
had
done
what
hee
could
,
to
withstand
him
.
But
at
length
seeing
the
Neapolitanes
ready
to
rebel
and
himselfe
in
danger
to
be
taken
prisoner
,
he
fled
from
the
castell
of
Naples
,
and
with
a
small
company
got
certaine
brigandines
wherein
hee
sailed
to
the
Island
Ischia
,
thirty
miles
from
Naples
,
saying
at
his
departure
this
verse
out
of
the
Psalmes
:
How
vaine
are
the
watchmen
and
guards
of
that
city
which
is
not
guarded
and
watched
by
the
Lord
?
which
he
oftentimes
repeated
,
and
so
long
as
Naples
was
in
his
view
.
And
thus
was
crueltie
punished
both
in
Ferdinand
the
father
,
and
Alphonse
the
son
.
Artaxerxes
Ochus
the
eight
king
of
the
Persians
began
his
raign
with
thus
many
murders
;
Eie
for
eie
,
tooth
for
tooth
,
&c.
In
the
yeare
of
the
world
3659
Morindus
a
most
cruell
and
bloodie
minded
Prince
raigned
here
in
England
,
who
for
his
cruelties
sake
came
to
an
vnhappie
and
bloodie
end
:
There
was
(
as
Elianus
Childericus
who
in
the
yeare
697
succeeded
in
the
kingdome
of
Fraunce
Theodoricke
(
that
for
his
negligence
and
sluggish
gouernment
was
deposed
and
made
of
a
king
a
Frier
)
exercised
barbarous
and
inhumane
cruelty
vpon
his
subiects
:
Tymocrates
the
king
or
rather
tyrant
of
the
Cyrenians
wil
giue
place
to
none
in
this
commendation
of
cruelty
:
for
hee
●fflicted
his
subiects
with
many
and
monstrous
calamities
,
●nsomuch
that
hee
spared
not
the
priests
of
his
gods
,
which
commonly
were
in
reuerent
regard
among
the
Heathen
,
as
the
bloody
death
of
Menalippus
(
Apolloes
Priest
)
did
witnesse
,
whome
to
the
end
to
marry
his
faire
and
beautiful
wife
Aretaphila
,
hee
cruelly
put
to
death
:
howbeit
it
prospered
not
with
him
as
he
desired
;
for
the
good
woman
not
contented
with
this
sacrilegious
contract
sought
rather
meanes
to
reuenge
her
first
husbands
death
,
than
to
please
this
new
lechers
humour
.
Wherefore
she
assaied
by
poyson
to
effect
hir
wish
:
and
when
that
preuailed
not
,
she
gaue
a
young
daughter
shee
had
to
Leander
the
tyrants
brother
to
wife
,
who
loued
her
exceedingly
,
but
with
this
condition
that
hee
should
by
some
practise
or
other
worke
the
death
and
destruction
of
his
brother
:
Which
indeed
hee
performed
,
for
hee
so
bribed
one
of
the
groomes
of
the
tyrants
chamber
,
that
by
his
helpe
he
soone
rid
wicked
Tymocrates
out
of
the
way
by
a
speedy
&
deserued
death
.
But
to
abridge
these
long
discourses
,
let
vs
looke
into
all
times
and
ages
and
to
the
hystories
of
all
countries
and
nations
,
and
we
shall
find
that
tyrants
haue
euer
co●●
to
one
destruction
or
other
.
Diomedes
the
Thracian
king
fed
his
horses
with
mans
flesh
as
with
prouender
,
Hercules
.
Calippus
the
Athenian
that
slew
Dian
his
familiar
friend
,
and
deposed
Dionisius
the
Tyrant
,
and
committed
many
other
murders
among
the
people
,
was
first
banished
Rheginum
,
and
then
liuing
in
extreame
necessity
,
Polyserchon
.
Clephes
the
second
king
of
the
Lumbardies
,
for
his
sauadge
cruelty
towards
his
subiects
was
slaughtered
by
one
of
his
friends
.
Damasippus
that
massacred
so
many
citizens
of
Rome
was
cut
off
by
Silla
.
Ecelinus
that
plaied
the
tyrant
at
Taurisium
,
gelding
boies
,
deflouring
maides
,
maiming
Matrones
of
their
dugs
,
cutting
children
out
of
their
mothers
bellies
,
and
killing
1200
Patauians
at
once
that
were
his
friendes
,
CHAP.
XXIII
.
Of
those
that
are
both
cruell
and
disloiall
.
NOw
if
it
bee
a
thing
so
vnworthy
and
euill
beseeming
a
Prince
as
nothing
more
,
to
bee
stained
with
the
note
of
cruelty
:
how
much
more
dishonourall
is
it
,
when
with
crueltie
,
disloialtie
and
falshood
is
coupled
?
and
when
hee
is
not
ashamed
not
onely
to
play
the
Tyrant
but
also
the
traitor
,
dissembler
,
and
Hypocrite
,
to
the
end
hee
may
more
freely
poure
out
the
fome
of
his
rage
against
those
that
put
confidence
in
him
.
This
is
one
of
the
foulest
and
vilest
blots
that
can
bee
,
wherewith
the
honour
and
reputation
of
a
man
is
not
onely
stained
,
but
blasted
and
blotted
out
,
not
euer
to
bee
recouered
:
for
what
persuasion
can
one
haue
of
such
?
Or
who
is
so
fond
as
to
put
affiance
in
them
?
But
aboue
all
that
by
Treason
and
deceit
made
way
vnto
their
cruelty
,
Seturus
Galba
,
another
bird
of
the
same
feather
,
exercised
no
lesse
perfidious
cruelty
vpon
the
people
of
three
cities
in
Lusitania
,
for
he
assembled
them
togither
in
colour
of
prouiding
for
their
common
affaires
:
but
when
hee
had
gotten
them
into
his
hands
vnarmed
and
weaponlesse
,
he
took
nine
thousand
of
the
flower
of
their
youth
,
and
partly
committed
them
to
the
sword
,
and
partly
sold
them
for
bondslaues
.
The
disloiall
and
treacherous
dealing
of
Stilico
towards
the
Gothes
,
how
deare
it
cost
him
and
all
Italy
beside
,
Stilico
,
Honorius
his
father
in
law
(
a
man
of
a
stirring
,
stubborne
,
and
rash
spirit
)
pursueth
and
chargeth
them
with
battaile
vnawares
,
and
dreaming
of
nothing
lesse
:
whereat
they
,
being
at
the
instant
amazed
,
quickly
gathered
their
spirits
togither
,
and
putting
themselues
in
defence
,
fought
it
out
with
such
courage
and
eagernesse
,
that
the
traitours
army
was
wholly
discomfited
,
and
he
himselfe
with
one
of
his
sonnes
slaine
.
The
Gothes
hauing
gotten
this
victory
,
broke
off
their
voiage
to
France
,
and
turned
their
course
backe
againe
to
Italy
,
with
purpose
to
destroy
and
spoile
:
And
so
they
did
,
for
they
laid
wast
all
the
countrey
of
Piemont
and
Lumbardy
,
and
elsewhere
,
and
besieged
Rome
itselfe
:
so
that
from
that
time
Italy
neuer
ceased
to
be
scourged
and
tormented
with
the
Gothes
,
for
the
space
of
eighteene
yeeres
.
Moreouer
,
whosoeuer
else
haue
bene
found
to
follow
the
steps
of
these
truce
,
peace
,
&
promise
breakers
(
void
of
truth
and
regard
of
reputation
)
alwaies
vnderwent
worthy
punishment
for
their
vnworthy
actes
,
and
fell
headlong
into
confusion
and
ignominy
,
making
themselues
subiects
worthy
to
be
curst
&
detested
of
all
men
.
CHAP.
XIIII
.
Of
Queenes
that
were
Murderers
.
IF
these
and
such
like
cruelties
as
we
haue
spoken
of
before
,
be
strange
and
monstrous
for
men
,
what
shall
wee
then
say
of
wicked
and
bloody
women
,
who
(
contrary
to
the
nature
of
their
sexe
)
addict
themselues
to
all
violence
and
bloodshedding
,
as
cursed
Iezabel
Queene
of
Israel
did
;
of
whome
sufficient
hath
beene
spoken
before
.
Athaliah
,
Achabs
daughter
,
and
wife
to
Ioram
king
of
Iuda
,
was
a
bird
of
the
same
feather
;
for
shee
was
possessed
with
such
a
spirit
of
fury
and
rage
,
Nathan
,
Salomons
brother
,
to
whome
by
right
of
succession
,
the
inheritance
of
the
crowne
appertained
;
to
the
end
,
that
shee
might
install
her selfe
into
the
kingly
diademe
:
after
this
cruell
butchery
of
all
the
roiall
male
children
,
except
Ioas
,
who
(
by
Gods
prouidence
)
was
preserued
aliue
,
shee
vsurped
the
crowne
and
scepter
of
Iuda
full
seuen
yeeres
;
at
the
end
of
which
date
,
Ioas
was
exalted
to
the
crowne
,
and
she
not
onely
deposed
,
but
slaine
by
the
hands
of
her
guard
that
attended
vpon
her
.
Brunchild
(
whome
histories
call
Brunhault
)
a
Queene
of
France
by
marriage
,
Let
euery
one
both
great
and
small
learne
by
these
examples
to
containe
themselues
within
the
limits
of
humanitie
,
and
not
to
bee
so
readie
and
prompt
to
the
shedding
of
humane
blood
,
knowing
nothing
to
be
more
true
than
this
,
That
he
that
smiteth
with
the
sword
,
shall
perish
with
the
sword
.
CHAP.
XV.
Of
such
as
without
necessitie
or
conference
,
vpon
euery
light
cause
,
mooue
warre
.
AS
in
surgerie
,
so
in
a
commonwealth
we
must
account
warre
as
a
last
refuge
,
and
as
it
were
,
a
desperate
medicine
,
which
without
very
vrgent
necessity
,
when
all
other
meanes
of
maintaining
our
estate
against
the
assaults
of
the
enemy
faile
,
ought
not
to
be
taken
in
hand
:
and
indeed
the
chiefe
scope
and
marke
that
all
those
that
lawfully
vndertake
warre
,
Amongst
the
good
kings
of
Iuda
,
Iosias
for
piety
&
zeale
in
the
seruice
of
God
,
was
most
renowmed
;
for
hee
purged
the
realme
from
all
drosse
of
idolatry
,
repaired
the
decaied
temple
,
and
restored
it
to
the
first
glory
:
and
yet
for
all
this
,
for
committing
this
one
crime
,
he
lost
his
life
;
for
as
Nechao
king
of
Aegypt
was
passing
with
an
army
towards
the
king
of
Babylon
in
Charcamis
beside
Euphrates
to
bid
him
battaile
,
he
would
needs
encounter
him
by
the
way
,
King
Iohn
of
France
(
for
refusing
reasonable
conditions
of
peace
at
the
English
mens
hands
)
was
ouerthrowen
by
them
two
miles
from
Poytiers
,
with
a
great
ouerthrow
:
Moreouer
,
as
it
is
a
rash
part
to
hazard
the
doubtfull
euent
of
battaile
indiscretely
,
and
without
cause
,
so
it
is
a
point
of
no
lesse
folly
to
thrust
ones
selfe
voluntarily
into
any
action
of
war
without
charge
,
not
being
particularly
called
and
bound
thereunto
,
or
hauing
a
body
vnsufficient
and
vnfit
for
the
same
.
And
this
was
also
one
of
the
warlike
points
of
discipline
,
which
the
ancient
Romans
vsed
;
That
none
should
presume
to
fight
for
his
countrey
,
before
hee
had
beene
admitted
by
some
captaine
by
a
solemne
oath
.
Of
all
the
histories
that
I
euer
read
,
I
know
none
more
strange
in
matter
of
warre
,
than
this
which
I
now
goe
about
to
recite
,
of
Henry
of
Luxenbourge
,
Emperour
of
Germanie
,
who
when
he
heard
that
his
sonne
Charles
king
of
Bohemia
was
in
the
French
army
,
In
the
yeere
1455
,
the
Hungarians
without
any
iust
cause
or
pretence
,
Penda
,
king
of
middle
England
,
CHAP.
XVI
.
Of
such
as
please
themselues
ouermuch
in
seeing
cruelties
.
THe
Romanes
were
so
accustomed
by
long
vse
of
warre
to
behold
fightings
and
bloodshed
,
that
in
time
of
peace
also
they
would
make
themselues
sports
and
pastimes
therewith
:
for
they
would
compell
poore
captiues
and
bondslaues
,
either
to
kill
one
another
by
mutuall
blowes
,
or
to
enter
combat
with
sauadge
and
cruell
beasts
,
to
be
torne
in
peeces
by
them
.
The
first
(
according
to
Seneca
It
was
not
then
without
cause
,
but
by
a
special
will
of
God
to
reuenge
cruelty
,
Clodius
Glaber
,
they
sallied
so
rudely
and
boisterously
vpon
him
,
that
the
victory
and
spoile
of
their
enemies
tents
,
remained
on
their
sides
:
after
this
,
they
ran
ouer
all
the
land
,
forraged
the
countrey
,
and
destroied
many
villages
and
townes
,
but
especially
these
foure
,
Nola
,
Nocera
,
Terreneuae
,
and
Metaponte
,
were
by
them
sacked
and
spoiled
with
a
strange
and
bloody
ouerthrow
:
after
all
which
,
hauing
encountred
two
Consuls
,
they
ouercame
Lentulus
on
mount
Apennine
,
and
discomfited
Gaius
Cassius
here
Modene
:
all
which
victories
and
luckie
proceedings
did
so
embolden
&
puffe
vp
the
courage
of
captaine
Fencer
,
that
he
determined
to
giue
an
alarme
to
Rome
,
and
to
lay
siege
vnto
it
:
but
the
Romans
preparing
and
directing
all
their
forces
to
withstand
their
practises
,
gaue
him
&
his
crew
so
sore
a
repulse
,
that
from
Rome
they
were
faine
to
flie
to
the
vttermost
borders
of
Italy
,
&
there
seeing
themselues
pent
in
on
all
sides
,
and
driuen
to
deep
extremity
,
they
gaue
so
desperat
an
onset
vpon
their
enemies
,
that
both
their
captaine
&
they
were
all
slaine
.
And
thus
the
Romans
made
iolly
pastime
with
their
fencers
and
bondslaues
,
and
more
(
I
thinke
at
this
time
)
than
they
either
looked
or
wished
for
:
for
four
hundred
of
them
being
taken
by
the
bondmen
,
were
enforced
to
shew
them
pastime
at
the
same
game
,
How
curious
and
desirous
the
people
of
Rome
was
wont
to
be
of
beholding
these
bloody
and
mischieiuous
games
,
Cornelius
Tacitus
in
the
fourth
boooke
of
his
Annales
declareth
at
large
:
where
he
reporteth
,
That
in
the
city
of
the
Fidenauts
(
in
the
twelfth
yeere
of
the
raigne
of
Tiberius
)
the
people
being
gathered
togither
to
behold
the
fencers
prises
,
were
fiftie
thousand
of
them
hurt
and
maimed
at
one
time
by
the
Amphitheatre
that
fell
vpon
them
:
●
cruell
pastime
indeed
,
and
a
strange
accident
,
not
comming
by
aduenture
(
as
some
suppose
)
but
by
the
iust
vengeance
of
God
,
to
suppresse
such
pernicious
and
vnciuill
sports
.
The
same
storie
is
registred
by
Paulus
Orosius
in
his
seuenth
booke
,
with
this
adiection
,
That
at
that
time
were
slaine
more
than
twenty
thousand
persons
.
I
can
not
passe
ouer
in
silence
two
notable
and
memorable
histories
of
two
lyons
,
Aulus
Gellius
the
other
.
The
first
of
whom
reporteth
,
that
he
saw
on
the
Theatre
,
a
lyon
,
who
seeing
a
slaue
that
sometimes
had
beene
his
keeper
throwen
among
the
beasts
to
be
deuoured
,
acknowledged
him
and
defended
him
from
their
teeth
,
and
would
not
suffer
any
of
them
to
doe
him
hurt
.
A
certaine
bondslaue
,
too
roughly
handled
by
his
master
,
forsooke
him
,
and
fled
away
,
and
in
his
flight
retiring
into
a
desart
,
and
not
knowing
how
to
bestow
himselfe
,
tooke
vp
a
caue
for
his
lodging
,
where
hee
had
not
long
abode
,
but
a
mightie
lyon
came
halting
to
his
denne
,
with
a
sore
and
bloody
legge
:
the
poore
slaue
all
forgone
at
this
strange
and
ougly
sight
,
looked
euery
minute
to
be
deuoured
,
but
the
lyon
in
another
moode
came
fawningly
and
softly
towards
him
,
as
if
he
would
complaine
vnto
him
of
his
griefe
:
whereat
(
somewhat
heartened
)
hee
bethought
himselfe
to
apply
some
medecine
to
his
wound
,
and
to
bind
vp
the
sore
as
well
as
he
could
,
which
hee
had
no
sooner
done
,
but
the
lyon
made
out
for
his
prey
,
and
ere
long
returning
,
brought
home
to
his
host
and
surgeon
certaine
gobbets
of
raw
flesh
,
which
he
halfe
rosting
vpon
a
rocke
by
the
sunne
beames
,
made
his
daily
sustenance
,
for
the
time
of
his
abode
there
:
notwithstanding
at
length
wearied
with
this
odde
&
sauage
life
,
and
hating
to
abide
long
in
that
estate
,
he
forsooke
the
desart
,
and
put
himselfe
againe
to
aduenture
:
now
it
chaunced
,
that
hee
was
taken
by
his
old
master
,
and
carried
from
Aegypt
to
Rome
,
to
the
end
to
be
an
actour
in
those
beastly
tragedies
,
but
by
good
chance
his
old
patient
the
lyon
(
taken
also
since
his
departure
,
being
ready
amongst
other
beasts
to
play
his
part
)
knew
him
by
and
by
,
and
ranne
vnto
him
,
fawning
and
making
much
of
him
:
the
people
wondering
at
this
strange
accident
,
after
enquiry
made
of
the
cause
therof
,
gaue
him
the
Lion
and
caused
him
to
lead
him
in
a
string
through
the
city
for
a
miracle
:
for
indeed
both
this
and
the
former
deserue
no
other
name
.
Thus
God
reprooueth
the
sauadge
inhumanitie
of
men
,
by
the
example
of
the
wild
and
furious
beasts
,
at
whose
teeth
poore
seruants
found
more
fauor
,
than
at
their
masters
hands
.
The
Emperour
Constantine
,
weighing
the
indignitie
of
these
and
such
like
pastimes
,
and
knowing
how
farre
they
ought
to
be
banished
from
the
society
of
men
,
by
a
publike
edict
abolished
all
such
bloody
and
monstrous
spectacles
.
In
like
manner
these
monomachies
and
single
combats
perfourmed
in
places
inclosed
for
the
purpose
,
wherein
one
at
the
least
if
not
both
must
of
necessitie
die
,
ought
to
be
abrogated
in
a
Christian
pollicy
,
as
by
the
Laterane
councill
it
was
well
enacted
with
this
penalty
,
That
whosoeuer
should
in
that
manner
be
slaine
,
his
body
should
be
depriued
of
Ecclesiasticall
buriall
:
and
truely
most
commonly
it
commeth
to
passe
,
that
they
that
presuming
most
vpon
their
owne
prowesse
and
strength
,
are
most
forward
in
offering
combat
,
either
loose
their
liues
,
or
gaine
discredit
,
which
is
more
grieuous
than
death
.
CHAP.
XVII
.
Of
such
as
exercise
too
much
rigor
and
Seueritie
.
FVrthermore
we
must
vnderstand
,
that
God
doth
not
only
forbid
murder
and
bloodshed
,
but
also
all
tyranny
and
oppression
,
therin
prouiding
for
the
weake
against
the
strong
,
the
poore
against
the
rich
,
and
bondslaues
against
their
masters
:
to
the
end
,
that
none
might
be
trode
vnder
foote
and
oppressed
of
others
,
vnder
paine
of
his
indignation
.
Insomuch
therefore
as
the
Romans
vsed
such
rigour
towards
their
seruants
,
it
came
to
passe
by
a
iust
iudgement
of
God
,
that
they
being
lords
ouer
all
the
world
,
were
three
sundry
times
driuen
by
their
seruants
into
great
extremities
.
As
first
in
Rome
within
the
walles
,
at
the
same
time
when
they
also
were
troubled
with
the
seditious
factions
of
their
tribunes
.
Secondly
in
Sicily
,
where
they
horribly
laid
wast
the
whole
country
▪
the
cause
of
which
commotion
was
,
because
the
Romans
had
chained
a
multitude
of
slaues
togither
;
and
in
that
order
sent
them
to
manure
&
til
the
ground
:
for
a
certain
Sirian
first
assembled
two
thousand
men
of
them
that
came
next
hand
,
then
breaking
vp
the
prisons
,
multiplied
his
army
to
forty
thousand
,
and
with
them
pulled
downe
castles
,
razed
vp
townes
,
&
destroied
euery
where
.
The
third
vndertaken
by
a
shepheard
,
who
hauing
killed
his
master
,
set
at
liberty
all
the
bondmen
,
and
prepared
an
army
of
them
,
wherewith
he
spoiled
cities
,
townes
,
&
castles
,
&
discomfited
the
armies
of
Seru●lius
and
Lucullus
,
who
were
Pretours
at
that
time
:
but
at
last
they
were
destroied
and
rooted
out
by
little
and
little
:
and
this
good
seruice
got
the
Romanes
at
their
seruants
hands
.
As
euery
nation
hath
his
proper
vertue
and
vice
ascribed
to
it
,
so
the
Spaniards
for
their
part
are
noted
famous
for
cruelty
towards
their
subiects
and
vassals
,
insomuch
that
(
as
experience
in
many
witnesseth
)
they
are
intollerable
in
that
kind
:
for
which
cause
they
haue
borne
the
marke
of
Gods
iustice
,
for
their
rigorous
&
b●rbarous
handling
of
the
poore
west
Indians
,
whom
they
haue
brought
to
that
extremity
by
putting
them
to
such
excessiue
trauels
in
digging
their
mines
of
gold
(
as
namely
in
the
island
Hispagnola
)
that
the
most
part
by
sighes
and
teares
wish
by
death
to
end
their
miseries
:
Bonzoni
.
Milan
.
of
the
new
world
.
many
(
first
killing
their
children
)
haue
desperatly
hung
themselues
on
high
trees
:
some
haue
throwen
themselues
headlong
from
steepe
mountaines
,
and
others
cast
themselues
into
the
sea
to
be
rid
of
their
troubles
:
but
the
tyrants
haue
neuer
escaped
scotfree
,
but
came
alwaies
to
some
miserable
end
or
other
:
for
some
of
them
were
destroied
by
the
inhabitants
,
others
slewe
one
another
with
their
owne
hands
,
prouoked
by
insatiable
auarice
,
some
haue
beene
drowned
in
the
sea
,
and
others
starued
in
the
desart
;
in
fine
,
few
escaped
vnpunished
.
Bombadilla
,
one
of
the
gouernours
of
Hispagnola
,
after
hee
had
swaied
there
awhile
,
and
enriched
himselfe
by
the
sweate
and
charge
of
the
inhabitants
,
was
called
home
againe
into
Spaine
:
whitherward
(
according
to
the
commaundement
receiued
)
as
hee
embarked
himselfe
,
shipping
with
him
so
much
treasure
as
in
value
amounted
to
more
than
an
hundred
and
fifty
thousand
ducats
,
beside
many
peeces
and
graines
of
gold
,
which
he
carried
to
the
Spanish
queene
for
a
present
,
whereof
one
weighed
three
thousand
duckats
:
there
arose
such
a
horrible
and
outragious
tempest
in
the
broad
sea
,
and
beat
so
violently
against
his
ships
,
that
foure
and
twentie
vessels
were
shiuered
in
peeces
and
drowned
at
that
blow
;
there
perished
Bombadilla
himselfe
with
most
of
his
captaines
,
and
more
than
fiue
hundred
Spaniards
,
that
thought
to
returne
full
rich
into
the
countrey
,
and
became
with
all
their
treasures
a
prey
vnto
the
fishes
.
In
the
yeere
of
our
Lord
1541
,
the
eight
day
of
September
,
CHAP.
XVIII
.
Of
Adulterers
.
IT
followeth
by
the
order
of
our
subiect
,
now
to
touch
the
transgressions
of
the
third
commandement
of
the
second
.
Table
,
which
is
,
Thou
shalt
not
commit
Adulterie
;
In
which
words
,
as
also
in
many
other
texts
of
Scripture
,
Adultery
is
forbidden
,
&
grieuous
threatnings
denounced
against
all
those
that
defiling
their
bodies
with
filthy
and
vnpure
actions
,
estrange
themselues
from
God
,
and
conioyne
themselues
to
whores
and
ribauds
.
This
sin
did
the
Israelites
commit
with
the
women
of
Midian
,
by
means
whereof
,
they
were
to
follow
strange
gods
,
&
to
fall
into
Gods
heauy
displeasure
,
who
by
a
cruell
plague
destroied
24
thousand
of
them
for
the
same
sinne
.
And
forasmuch
as
the
Madianites
(
through
the
wicked
and
pernicious
counsell
of
Balaam
)
did
lay
this
snare
for
them
,
&
were
so
villanous
and
shamelesse
,
as
to
prostitute
,
and
be
bauds
vnto
their
owne
wiues
;
therefore
they
were
by
the
expresse
commandement
of
God
discomfited
,
their
kings
&
false
prophets
with
all
their
men
&
women
,
except
onely
their
vnpolluted
virgins
,
that
had
known
no
man
,
slaine
:
and
all
their
cities
&
dwellings
,
burned
and
consumed
to
ashes
.
As
euery
one
ought
to
haue
regard
and
care
to
their
honesty
,
so
maids
especially
,
whose
whole
credit
and
reputation
,
hangeth
thereupon
;
for
they
that
make
no
account
thereof
,
but
suffer
themselues
to
be
polluted
with
any
filthinesse
,
draw
vpon
them
not
onely
most
vile
infamy
,
but
also
many
great
miseries
:
as
is
prooued
by
the
daughter
of
Hippomenes
prince
of
Athens
,
who
being
a
whore
,
her
father
shut
vp
in
a
stable
with
a
wild
horse
,
giuing
him
no
prouender
,
nor
other
meat
to
eate
,
that
the
horse
(
naturally
furious
enough
,
but
more
enraged
by
famine
)
might
teare
her
in
pieces
,
and
with
her
carcasse
,
refresh
his
hunger
,
as
he
did
.
Pontius
Aufidian
,
vnderstanding
that
his
daughter
had
bene
betraied
&
sold
into
a
leachers
hands
,
by
a
slaue
of
his
that
was
her
schoolmaster
,
put
them
both
to
death
.
In
like
maner
serued
Pub.
Attilius
,
Falisque
his
daughter
that
fell
into
the
same
infamie
.
Viues
reporteth
,
that
in
our
fathers
daies
,
CHAP.
XIX
.
Of
Rapes
.
NOw
if
adulterie
which
with
liking
and
consent
of
parties
is
committed
,
bee
condemned
,
how
much
more
greeuous
and
hainous
is
the
offence
,
and
more
guiltie
the
offendour
,
when
with
violence
the
chastity
of
any
is
assailed
,
and
enforced
?
This
was
the
sinne
wherwith
Sichem
the
sonne
of
Hemor
the
Leuit
is
marked
in
holy
scripture
,
for
hee
rauished
Dina
,
Iaacobs
daughter
,
In
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
1271
vnder
the
raign
of
the
Emperour
Rodolphe
,
Fredericke
,
Ferdinands
sonne
,
entered
the
priuie
chamber
of
the
Queene
his
mother
,
to
salute
her
and
the
other
Ladies
of
the
court
,
that
the
Prince
of
Bissenio
waighting
in
the
outward
chamber
for
his
returne
,
was
slaine
by
one
of
his
owne
seruants
that
suddainely
gaue
him
with
his
sword
three
deadly
strokes
in
the
presence
of
many
beholders
,
which
deed
,
hee
confessed
that
hee
had
watched
three
yeares
to
performe
,
in
regard
of
an
iniurie
done
vnto
his
sister
,
and
in
her
to
him
,
Benzoni
.
Milan
.
of
the
new
found
land
.
whome
hee
rauished
against
her
will
.
The
Spaniards
that
first
tooke
the
Isle
Hispaniola
were
for
their
whoredomes
and
Rapes
whhich
they
committed
vpon
the
wiues
and
Virgins
,
all
murdered
by
the
inhabitants
.
The
inhabitants
of
the
Prouince
Cumana
,
when
they
saw
the
beastly
outrage
of
the
Spanish
nation
,
The
great
calamity
and
ouerthrow
which
the
Lacedemonians
endured
at
Leuctria
,
wherein
their
chiefest
strength
and
powers
were
weakened
and
consumed
,
was
a
manifest
punishment
of
their
inordinate
lust
committed
vpon
two
Virgines
,
Macrinus
the
Emperour
punished
two
souldiours
that
rauished
their
hostesse
on
this
manner
:
hee
shut
them
vp
in
an
oxes
bowels
with
their
heads
out
,
and
so
partly
with
famishment
,
and
partly
with
wormes
,
and
rottennesse
,
they
consumed
to
death
.
At
the
sacking
and
destruction
of
Thebes
by
king
Alexander
,
a
Thracian
captaine
which
was
in
the
Macedonian
army
tooke
a
noble
Matron
prisoner
,
called
Tymoclea
,
whome
when
by
no
persuasion
of
promises
he
could
entise
to
his
lust
,
he
constrained
by
force
to
yeeld
vnto
it
:
When
Cn.
Manlius
hauing
conquered
the
Gallo-Grecians
,
pitched
his
army
against
the
Tectosages
(
people
of
Narbonia
towards
the
Piren
mountains
)
amongst
other
prisoners
,
a
very
fair
woman
wife
to
Orgiagous
Regulus
was
in
the
custodie
of
a
Centurion
,
that
was
both
lustfull
and
couetous
:
Andreas
king
of
Hungary
hauing
vndertaken
the
voiage
into
Siria
for
the
recouety
of
the
holy
land
,
together
with
many
other
kings
and
Princes
,
committed
the
charge
of
his
kingdome
and
family
to
one
Bannebanius
,
Equall
to
this
king
in
punishing
a
Rape
,
was
Otho
the
first
,
Nothing
inferiour
to
these
in
punishing
this
sin
,
was
Gonzaga
duke
of
Ferrara
,
as
by
this
historie
following
may
appear
:
in
the
yeare
1547
a
citizen
of
Comun
,
As
these
before
mentioned
excelled
in
punishing
this
sin
,
so
this
fellow
following
excelled
in
committing
it
,
and
in
being
punished
for
it
;
Nouellus
Cararius
Lord
of
Pauie
,
a
man
of
note
and
credite
in
the
world
for
his
greatnesse
,
but
of
infamy
and
discredit
for
his
wickednesse
.
This
man
after
many
cruell
murders
and
bloodie
practises
,
which
he
exercised
in
euery
place
where
he
came
,
fell
at
last
into
this
notorious
,
and
abhominable
crime
:
for
lying
at
Vincentia
hee
fell
in
loue
with
a
young
maid
of
excellent
beautie
but
more
●ent
honestie
,
an
honest
citizens
daughter
,
whome
hee
●anded
her
Parents
to
send
vnto
him
,
that
hee
might
haue
his
pleasure
of
her
:
but
when
they
regarding
their
credit
,
and
shee
her
chastitie
,
more
then
the
Tyrants
command
,
refused
to
come
;
he
tooke
her
violently
out
of
their
house
,
and
constrained
her
body
to
his
lust
;
and
after
to
ad
crueltie
to
villanie
,
chopt
her
into
small
peeces
,
and
sent
them
to
her
Parents
in
a
basket
for
a
present
:
wherewith
her
poore
father
astonished
,
caried
it
to
the
Senate
,
who
sent
it
to
Venice
,
desiring
them
to
consider
the
fact
,
and
to
reuenge
the
cruelty
.
The
Venetians
vndertaking
their
defence
,
made
war
vpon
the
Tyrant
,
and
besieging
him
in
his
own
city
,
took
him
at
last
prisoner
,
and
hanged
him
with
his
two
sons
Francis
and
William
.
Diocles
,
sonne
of
Pisistratus
,
Tyrant
of
Athens
,
for
rauishing
a
maid
,
Mundus
a
young
Gentleman
of
Rome
,
In
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
955
Edwine
succeeding
his
vncle
Eldred
was
king
of
England
:
CHAP.
XX.
Other
examples
of
Gods
Iudgements
vpon
Adulterers
.
AMongst
all
other
things
this
is
especially
to
bee
noted
,
how
God
(
for
a
greater
punishment
of
the
disordinate
lust
of
men
)
stroke
them
with
a
new
(
yet
filthy
and
stinking
)
kind
of
disease
,
called
the
French
pocks
;
though
indeed
the
Spaniards
were
the
first
that
were
infected
therewith
,
by
the
heat
which
they
caught
among
the
women
of
the
new
found
lands
,
Plinie
telleth
of
Cornelius
Gallus
and
Q.
Elerius
,
Theodebert
,
the
eldest
sonne
of
Clotharius
,
Bertrane
Ferrier
,
Giachet
Geneue
of
Saluces
,
Claudius
of
Asses
,
counsellour
of
the
Parliament
of
Paris
(
a
man
very
euill
affected
towards
the
professors
of
the
Gospell
)
committed
villanie
with
one
of
his
waighting
maids
,
in
the
very
middest
whereof
hee
was
taken
with
an
apoplexie
,
which
immediately
after
made
an
end
of
him
.
CHAP.
XXI
.
Shewing
that
Stues
ought
not
to
be
suffered
amongst
Christians
.
BY
this
which
hath
beene
spoken
it
appeareth
manifestly
,
how
infamous
a
thing
it
is
among
Christians
to
priuiledge
and
allow
publike
places
for
adulteries
,
albeit
it
is
a
common
thing
in
the
greatest
cities
of
Europe
,
yea
and
in
the
very
bowels
of
Christendome
,
where
no
such
villanie
should
be
tollerated
.
There
is
nothing
that
can
cast
any
coulor
of
excuse
vpon
it
,
seeing
it
is
expressely
contrarie
to
Gods
edict
in
many
places
,
as
first
:
Thou
shalt
not
commit
Adulterie
.
And
in
the
19
of
Leuit.
29.
Thou
shalt
not
pollute
thy
daughter
in
prostituting
her
to
be
a
whore
,
least
the
land
bee
defiled
with
whoredome
,
and
filled
with
wickednesse
.
And
in
Deut.
23.17
.
Let
there
bee
no
whore
of
the
daughters
of
Israell
,
neither
a
whorekeeper
of
the
sonnes
of
Israel
:
this
is
the
decree
of
God
,
and
the
rule
which
hee
hath
giuen
vs
to
square
our
affections
by
,
and
it
admitteth
no
dispensation
.
But
some
doe
obiect
that
those
things
are
tollerated
to
auoid
greater
mischiefes
:
as
though
the
Lord
were
not
well
aduised
when
he
gaue
forth
those
commandements
,
or
that
mortall
men
had
more
discretion
than
the
immortall
God
.
This
truly
is
nothing
els
but
to
reiect
and
disanull
that
which
Saint
Paul
requireth
as
a
duty
of
al
Christians
:
Cornelius
Agrippa
saith
,
that
of
all
the
hee-bauds
of
his
time
,
Pope
Sextus
was
most
infamous
,
for
hee
builded
a
most
glorious
and
stately
Stues
(
if
any
state
or
glorie
can
abide
in
so
bad
a
place
)
aswell
for
common
Adulterie
,
as
vnnaturall
Sodomy
,
to
bee
exercised
in
.
Hee
vsed
(
as
Heliogabalus
was
wont
to
doe
)
to
maintain
heards
of
whores
with
whom
he
participated
his
friends
and
seruants
as
they
stood
in
need
;
and
by
Adulteries
reared
yearely
great
reuenues
into
his
purse
.
Baleus
sayth
,
that
at
this
day
euery
whore
in
Rome
paies
tribute
to
the
Pope
,
a
Iulle
,
which
amounted
then
to
twentie
thousand
dukats
by
the
yeare
at
least
,
but
now
the
number
is
so
encreased
that
it
ariseth
to
fortie
thousand
.
I
thinke
there
is
none
ignorant
how
Pope
Paule
the
third
had
by
computation
fiue
and
fortie
thousand
whores
and
courtizans
,
that
paid
him
a
monthly
tribute
for
their
whoredomes
;
and
thus
also
this
holy
father
was
a
protector
and
vpholder
of
the
Stues
,
and
deserued
by
his
villanous
behauiour
(
for
hee
was
one
of
the
lewdest
Adulterers
of
that
time
)
to
beare
the
name
of
the
maister
and
erector
of
these
filthie
places
:
And
herein
both
hee
and
the
rest
of
that
crue
haue
shewed
themselues
enemies
to
God
,
and
true
Antichrists
indeed
,
and
haue
not
onely
imitated
,
but
farre
surpassed
shamelesse
and
wicked
Caligula
in
all
filthie
and
monstrous
dealings
.
F.
de
ritu
nuptius
:
L.
palam
.
Qui
habet
mancipia
,
&c.
the
meaning
whereof
is
,
That
hee
which
for
gaine
prostituteth
his
slaues
to
the
lust
of
men
,
and
draweth
thereby
commoditie
to
himselfe
,
is
a
baud
:
Hee
is
also
stained
with
infamie
by
the
law
Athletas
,
that
pertaketh
the
gaine
or
wages
of
a
whore
.
How
much
more
then
is
that
law
of
Iustinian
to
be
commended
which
commandeth
all
whores
to
bee
banished
out
of
the
confines
of
Citties
and
Commonwealths
?
CHAP.
XXII
.
Of
whoredomes
committed
vnder
colour
of
Marriage
.
SEeing
that
oftentimes
it
falleth
out
that
those
which
in
shew
seeme
most
honest
,
thinke
it
a
thing
lawfull
to
conuerse
together
as
man
and
wife
by
some
secret
and
priuat
contract
,
without
making
account
of
the
publicke
celebration
of
marriage
as
necessarie
,
but
for
some
worldly
respects
according
as
their
foolish
and
disordinate
affections
mispersuadeth
them
,
to
dispence
therewith
:
It
shall
not
bee
impertinent
as
wee
goe
,
to
giue
warning
how
vnlawfull
all
such
conuersation
is
,
and
how
contrarie
to
good
manners
,
and
to
the
laudable
customes
of
all
ciuill
and
well
gouerned
people
.
For
it
is
so
farre
from
deseruing
the
name
of
marriage
,
that
on
the
other
side
it
can
bee
nothing
but
plaine
whoredome
and
fornication
:
In
the
raigne
of
Lewis
the
ninth
king
of
France
,
and
Iulius
the
second
Pope
of
Rome
,
there
was
a
Gentleman
of
Naples
called
Antonio
Bologne
that
had
beene
gouernour
of
Fredericke
of
Arragons
house
when
hee
was
king
of
Naples
,
and
had
the
same
office
vnder
the
Duchesse
of
Malfi
after
she
was
widdow
,
with
whom
in
protract
of
time
,
hee
grew
to
haue
such
secret
and
priuie
acquaintance
(
albeit
shee
was
a
Princesse
and
he
her
seruant
)
that
he
enioied
her
as
his
owne
wife
.
And
thus
they
conuersed
secretly
togither
vnder
coulor
of
marriage
accorded
betwixt
them
,
the
space
of
certaine
yeares
,
vntill
shee
bore
vnto
him
three
children
:
by
which
meanes
,
their
priuate
dealings
which
they
so
much
desired
to
smother
and
keepe
close
,
burst
out
and
bewraied
it selfe
.
The
matter
being
come
to
her
brothers
eares
,
they
tooke
it
so
to
the
heart
,
that
they
could
not
rest
,
vntill
they
had
reuenged
the
vile
iniurie
&
dishonor
which
they
pretended
to
haue
ben
done
to
them
&
their
whole
house
,
equally
by
them
both
.
Therefore
when
they
had
chased
them
first
from
Ancona
,
whether
in
hope
of
quietnes
they
had
fled
out
of
Naples
,
they
draue
them
also
out
of
Tuscane
:
who
seeing
themselues
pursued
so
hotely
on
euery
side
,
resolued
to
make
towards
Venice
,
thinking
there
to
find
some
safetie
:
But
in
the
midway
shee
was
ouertaken
and
brought
backe
to
Naples
,
where
in
short
space
shee
miserably
ended
her
life
:
For
her
brothers
guard
strangled
her
to
death
,
together
with
her
chambermaid
,
who
had
serued
in
stead
of
a
baud
to
them
;
and
her
poore
infants
which
shee
had
by
the
said
Bologne
.
But
he
by
the
goodnesse
of
his
horse
escaping
,
tooke
his
flight
to
Millaine
,
where
hee
soiourned
quietly
a
long
while
,
vntill
at
the
instant
pursuit
of
one
of
her
brothers
,
the
Cardinall
of
Arragon
,
he
was
slaine
in
the
open
streets
,
when
he
least
mistrusted
any
present
danger
.
And
this
was
a
true
Cardinal-like
exploit
indeed
,
representing
that
mildnesse
,
mercifulnesse
,
and
good
nature
which
is
so
required
of
euery
Christian
,
in
traiterous
murthering
a
man
so
many
yeres
after
the
first
rancour
was
conceiued
,
that
might
well
in
halfe
that
space
haue
beene
digested
,
in
fostering
hatred
so
long
in
his
cruell
heart
,
and
waging
ruffians
and
murtherers
to
commit
so
monstrous
an
act
:
wherein
albeit
the
Cardinals
crueltie
was
most
famous
,
as
also
in
putting
to
death
the
poore
infants
,
yet
Gods
iustice
bare
the
sway
,
that
vsed
him
as
an
instrument
to
punish
those
,
who
vnder
the
vaile
of
secret
marriage
,
thought
it
lawfull
for
them
to
commit
any
villany
.
And
thus
God
busieth
sometime
the
most
wicked
about
his
will
,
and
maketh
the
rage
and
fury
of
the
deuill
himselfe
serue
for
meanes
to
bring
to
passe
his
fearefull
iudgements
.
CHAP.
XXIII
.
Of
vnlawfull
marriages
,
and
their
issues
.
NOw
to
redresse
all
such
euils
as
haue
before
beene
mentioned
,
and
to
auoid
all
inconueniences
in
this
case
,
God
of
his
bountifull
mercy
hath
ordained
marriage
as
a
remedy
to
be
applied
to
all
such
as
haue
not
the
gift
of
continencie
,
least
they
should
fall
into
fornication
:
which
notwithstanding
many
shamelesse
creatures
that
blush
not
at
their
owne
filthines
,
but
rather
reioice
thererein
,
make
no
account
of
.
Such
are
they
,
that
making
marriage
one
of
the
sacraments
of
the
Church
,
doe
neuerthelesse
despise
it
as
a
vile
and
prophane
thing
;
albeit
that
the
Apostle
saith
,
That
marriage
is
honourable
among
all
men
,
and
the
bed
vndefiled
;
but
whoremongers
and
adulterers
God
will
iudge
.
But
they
haue
it
not
in
that
estimation
,
seeing
by
authority
they
are
depriued
of
the
vse
thereof
,
and
not
of
adultery
.
That
which
is
honest
and
laudable
is
forbidden
,
and
that
which
is
sinnefull
and
vnlawfull
,
allowed
of
.
This
(
saith
Sleidan
)
is
the
custome
of
the
Germane
bishops
,
Iohn
le
Maire
said
,
How
vnder
the
shew
and
colour
of
chastity
,
priests
whoredomes
did
ouerflow
,
beeing
men
abandoned
to
all
dissolute
and
riotous
liuing
.
Now
then
it
were
farre
better
to
marrie
than
to
burne
,
yet
in
such
sort
to
marry
,
that
all
giddinesse
and
inconsideration
set
aside
,
euery
one
should
match
himselfe
according
to
his
degree
and
age
,
with
great
respect
and
good
aduisement
had
vnto
them
both
,
to
the
end
to
auoid
those
mischiefes
and
enormities
which
oftentimes
happen
,
when
either
by
an
ouer
hardy
,
foolish
,
and
rash
presumption
,
a
man
would
nestle
himselfe
in
an
higher
nest
than
his
estate
and
calling
requireth
,
or
by
a
sensuall
and
fleshly
lust
passing
the
bounds
of
reason
,
goeth
about
to
constraine
,
and
interrupt
the
law
of
nature
.
The
chiefest
thing
that
is
required
in
marriage
,
is
the
consent
of
parties
,
as
well
of
themselues
that
are
to
be
ioyned
togither
,
as
of
each
of
their
parents
;
the
contrary
whereof
is
constraint
,
where
either
partie
is
forced
:
This
was
a
reproch
to
Romulus
,
the
first
king
of
Rome
,
when
hee
rauished
the
Sabine
virgins
that
came
to
see
their
sports
,
which
was
cause
of
great
warre
betwixt
them
.
Moreouer
,
besides
the
mutuall
ioynt
of
loue
which
ought
to
be
betwixt
man
and
wife
,
it
is
necessary
that
they
that
marrie
,
doe
marry
in
the
Lord
,
to
serue
him
in
greater
puritie
,
and
with
lesse
disturbance
;
which
can
not
be
,
if
a
Christian
marrie
an
infidell
,
for
the
great
difficulties
and
hinderances
that
vsually
spring
from
such
a
roote
.
CHAP.
XXIIII
.
Touching
Incestuous
marriages
.
NOw
as
it
is
vnlawfull
to
contract
marriages
with
parties
of
contrary
religion
,
so
it
is
as
vnlawfull
to
marry
those
that
are
neare
vnto
vs
by
any
degree
of
kindred
or
affinitie
,
as
it
is
inhibited
not
only
by
the
law
of
God
,
but
also
by
ciuill
and
politique
constitutions
;
whereunto
all
nations
haue
euer
by
the
sole
instinct
of
nature
agreed
and
accorded
,
except
the
Aegyptians
and
Persians
,
whose
abominations
were
so
great
,
as
to
take
their
owne
sisters
and
mothers
to
be
their
wiues
,
Cambyses
,
king
of
Media
and
Persia
,
married
his
owne
sister
,
but
it
was
not
long
ere
he
put
her
to
death
;
a
iust
proofe
of
an
vniust
and
accursed
marriage
.
Many
others
there
were
in
protract
of
time
,
that
in
their
insatiable
lustes
,
shewed
themselues
no
lesse
vnstaied
and
vnbridled
in
their
lawlesse
affections
than
hee
:
One
of
which
,
was
Antiochus
king
of
Iuda
,
sonne
of
Herodes
,
sirnamed
Great
;
Herode
also
the
Tetrarch
was
so
impudent
and
shamelesse
,
Anton.
Caracalla
,
tooke
to
wife
his
mother
in
law
,
allured
thereunto
by
her
faire
enticements
,
whose
wretched
and
miserable
end
hath
already
beene
touched
in
the
tenth
Chapter
of
this
booke
.
The
Emperour
Heraclius
,
after
the
decease
of
his
first
wife
,
married
his
owne
neece
,
the
daughter
of
his
brother
,
which
turned
mightily
to
his
vndoing
:
for
besides
that
,
that
vnder
his
raigne
,
and
as
it
were
,
by
his
occasion
,
the
Saracens
entred
the
borders
of
Christendome
,
and
spoiled
and
destroied
his
dominions
vnder
his
nose
,
to
his
soule
and
vtter
disgrace
:
hee
was
ouer
and
aboue
smitten
corporally
with
so
grieuous
and
irkesome
a
disease
of
dropsie
,
that
hee
died
thereof
.
Thus
many
men
run
riot
,
by
assuming
to
themselues
too
much
libertie
,
and
breake
the
bounds
of
ciuill
honesty
,
required
in
all
contracts
,
and
too
audaciously
set
themselues
against
the
commaundement
of
God
,
which
ought
to
be
of
such
authority
with
all
men
,
that
none
(
be
they
neuer
so
great
)
should
dare
to
derogate
one
iot
from
them
,
vnlesse
they
meant
wholly
to
oppose
themselues
as
profest
enemies
to
God
himselfe
,
and
to
turne
all
the
good
order
of
things
into
confusion
.
All
which
notwithstanding
some
of
the
Romish
Popes
haue
presumed
to
encroch
vpon
Gods
right
,
and
to
disanull
by
their
foolish
decrees
,
the
lawes
of
the
almightie
:
Henry
the
seuenth
,
king
of
England
,
after
the
death
of
his
eldest
sonne
Arthur
,
caused
(
by
the
speciall
dispensation
of
Pope
Iulius
)
his
next
sonne
named
Henry
,
to
take
to
wife
his
brothers
widdow
called
Katherine
,
daughter
to
Ferdinando
king
of
Spaine
,
for
the
desire
hee
had
to
haue
this
Spanish
affinitie
continued
:
who
succeeding
his
father
in
the
crowne
,
after
continuance
of
time
,
began
to
aduise
himselfe
,
and
to
consult
whether
this
marriage
with
his
brothers
wife
might
be
lawfull
or
no
;
and
found
it
by
conference
both
of
holy
and
prophane
lawes
,
vtterly
vnlawfull
:
whereupon
hee
sent
certain
bishops
to
the
Queene
to
giue
her
to
know
,
That
the
Popes
dispensation
was
altogither
vniust
,
and
of
none
effect
to
priuiledge
such
an
act
:
to
whome
shee
answered
,
that
it
was
too
late
to
call
in
question
the
Popes
bull
which
so
long
time
they
had
allowed
of
.
The
two
Cardinals
that
were
in
Commission
from
the
Pope
to
decide
the
controuersie
,
and
to
award
iudgement
vpon
the
matter
,
were
once
vpon
point
to
conclude
the
decree
,
which
the
king
desired
,
had
not
the
Pope
impeached
their
determination
in
regard
of
the
Emperour
Charles
,
nephew
to
the
said
Queene
,
whome
hee
was
loth
to
displease
:
wherefore
the
king
seeing
himselfe
frustrate
of
his
purpose
in
this
behalfe
,
sent
into
diuers
countries
to
know
the
iudgement
of
all
the
learned
Diuines
concerning
the
matter
in
controuersie
,
who
(
especially
those
that
dwelt
not
farre
off
)
seemed
to
allow
and
approoue
the
diuorce
:
thereupon
hee
resolued
(
reiecting
his
old
wife
)
to
take
him
to
a
new
,
and
to
marry
(
as
he
did
)
Anne
of
Bullaine
one
of
the
Queenes
maids
of
honour
,
a
woman
of
most
rare
and
excellent
beauty
.
Now
as
touching
his
first
marriage
with
his
brothers
wife
how
vnfortunate
it
was
in
it
owne
nature
,
and
how
vniustly
dispensed
withall
by
the
Pope
,
we
shall
anon
see
,
by
those
heauie
,
sorrowfull
,
and
troublesome
euents
and
issues
which
immediatly
followed
in
the
necke
thereof
.
And
first
and
foremost
of
the
euill
fare
of
the
Cardinall
of
Yorke
,
with
whome
the
king
beeing
highly
displeased
,
for
that
at
his
instance
and
request
,
the
Pope
had
opposed
himselfe
to
this
marriage
,
requited
him
(
and
not
vndeseruedly
)
on
this
manner
:
First
he
deposed
him
from
the
office
of
the
Chancellourship
:
secondly
,
depriued
him
of
two
of
his
three
bishopricks
which
he
held
:
&
lastly
,
sent
him
packing
to
his
owne
house
,
as
one
whom
hee
neuer
purposed
more
to
see
.
Yet
afterward
being
aduertised
of
certaine
insolent
and
threatning
speeches
which
hee
vsed
against
him
,
hee
sent
againe
for
him
:
but
he
not
daring
to
refuse
to
come
at
his
call
,
died
in
the
way
with
meere
griefe
,
and
despight
.
The
Pope
gaue
his
definitiue
sentence
against
this
act
,
and
fauoured
the
cause
of
the
diuorced
ladie
:
But
what
gained
hee
by
it
?
saue
onely
that
the
king
offended
with
him
,
reiected
him
and
all
his
trumperie
,
retaining
his
yearely
tribute
leuied
out
of
this
realme
,
and
conuerted
it
to
another
vse
;
and
this
was
the
recompence
of
his
goodly
dispensation
with
an
incestuous
mariage
:
wherein
although
to
speake
truly
and
properly
he
lost
nothing
of
his
owne
,
yet
it
was
a
deepe
checke
and
no
shallow
losse
to
him
and
his
successors
to
be
depriued
of
so
goodly
a
reuenue
,
and
so
great
authoritie
in
this
realme
,
as
hee
then
was
.
CHAP.
XXV
.
Of
Adulterie
.
SEeing
that
marriage
is
so
holy
an
institution
and
ordinance
of
God
,
as
it
hath
been
shewed
to
be
,
it
followeth
by
good
right
that
the
corruption
thereof
,
namely
Adulterie
,
whereby
the
bond
of
marriage
is
desolued
,
should
bee
forbidden
:
for
the
woman
that
is
polluted
therewith
,
despiseth
her
owne
husband
,
yea
and
for
the
most
part
hateth
him
,
and
foisteth
in
strange
seed
(
euen
his
enemies
brats
)
in
stead
of
his
owne
,
not
onely
to
bee
fathered
,
but
also
to
bee
brought
vp
,
and
maintained
by
him
,
and
in
time
to
bee
made
inheritours
of
his
possessions
;
which
thing
being
once
known
,
must
needs
stirre
vp
coles
,
to
set
anger
on
fire
,
and
set
a
broch
much
mischiefe
:
and
albeit
that
the
poore
infants
are
innocent
and
guiltlesse
of
the
crime
,
yet
doth
the
punishment
and
ignominy
thereof
redound
to
them
,
because
they
can
not
be
reputed
as
legitimate
,
but
are
euer
marked
with
the
blacke
cole
of
bastardy
whilst
they
liue
:
so
grieuous
is
the
guilt
of
this
sinne
,
and
vneasie
to
be
remooued
.
For
this
cause
the
very
heathen
not
onely
reprooued
adultery
euermore
,
but
also
by
authority
of
law
prohibited
it
,
and
allotted
to
death
the
offenders
therein
.
Abimelech
,
king
of
the
Philistims
,
a
man
without
circumcision
,
and
therefore
without
the
couenant
,
In
old
time
the
Aegyptians
vsed
to
punish
adultery
on
this
sort
,
the
man
with
a
thousand
ierkes
with
a
reed
,
Iulius
Antonius
,
a
man
of
great
parentage
and
reputation
among
the
Romanes
,
Cornelius
Tacitus
reporteth
)
was
for
this
crime
executed
to
death
.
Aurelianus
the
Emperour
did
so
hate
and
detest
this
vice
,
that
to
the
end
to
scare
and
terrifie
his
souldiers
from
the
like
offence
,
he
punished
a
soldier
which
had
committed
adultery
with
his
hostesse
in
most
seuere
manner
,
euen
by
causing
him
to
be
tied
by
both
his
feet
to
two
trees
bent
downe
to
the
earth
with
force
,
which
being
let
goe
,
returning
to
their
course
,
rent
him
cruelly
in
pieces
,
the
one
halfe
of
his
body
hanging
on
the
one
tree
,
and
the
other
on
the
other
.
Yea
and
at
this
day
amongst
the
very
Turkes
and
Tartarians
,
this
sinne
is
sharply
punished
.
So
that
we
ought
not
wonder
that
the
Lord
should
ordaine
death
for
the
adulterer
.
If
a
man
(
saith
the
law
)
lie
with
another
mans
wife
,
When
king
Dauid
,
after
hee
had
ouercome
the
most
part
of
his
enemies
,
Bathshabe
,
Vriahs
wife
,
that
hee
caused
her
to
be
conueied
to
him
to
lie
with
her
:
to
which
sinne
,
hee
combined
another
more
grieuous
,
to
wit
,
when
he
saw
her
with
child
by
him
(
to
the
end
to
couer
his
adultery
)
he
caused
her
husband
to
be
slaine
at
the
siege
,
by
putting
him
in
the
vantgard
of
the
battaile
at
the
assault
;
and
then
thinking
himselfe
cocksure
,
married
Bathshabe
.
But
all
this
while
,
as
it
was
but
vaine
allurements
,
no
solid
ioy
that
fed
his
mind
,
and
his
sleep
was
but
of
sinne
,
not
of
safety
,
wherein
he
slumbered
:
so
the
Lord
awakened
him
right
soone
by
afflictions
and
crosses
,
to
make
him
feele
the
burden
of
the
sinne
which
hee
had
committed
:
Thamar
,
Absoloms
sister
,
was
rauished
by
Ammon
one
of
his
owne
sonnes
;
CHAP.
XXVI
.
Other
examples
like
vnto
the
former
.
THe
history
of
the
rauishment
of
Helene
,
registred
by
so
many
worthy
and
excellent
authours
,
and
the
great
euils
that
pursued
the
same
,
epist.
of
Hermione
to
Orestes
.
she
was
at
that
time
spared
,
and
entertained
againe
by
Menelaus
her
husband
;
but
after
his
death
,
shee
was
banished
in
her
old
age
,
and
constrained
for
her
last
refuge
(
beeing
both
destitute
of
reliefe
and
succour
,
and
forsaken
of
kinsfolkes
and
friends
)
to
flie
to
Rhodes
,
where
at
length
(
contrary
to
her
hope
)
shee
was
put
to
a
shamefull
death
,
euen
hanging
on
a
tree
,
which
shee
long
time
before
deserued
.
Sextus
Tarquinius
,
sonne
to
Superbus
the
last
king
of
Rome
,
Iulius
Caesars
time
.
Thus
was
Tarquinius
the
father
shamefully
deposed
from
his
crowne
,
for
the
adultery
,
or
rather
,
rape
of
his
sonne
;
and
Tarquinius
the
sonne
slaine
by
the
Sabians
,
for
the
robberies
and
murders
which
by
his
fathers
aduise
he
committed
amongst
them
;
and
hee
himselfe
not
long
after
in
the
warre
which
by
the
Tuscane
succours
hee
renued
against
Rome
to
recouer
his
lost
estate
,
Ammianus
Marcellinus
.
When
Europe
after
the
horrible
wasting
and
great
ruines
which
it
suffered
by
the
furious
inuasion
of
Attilia
,
Petronius
Maximus
a
Senatour
of
Rome
,
by
forcing
her
to
his
pleasure
;
an
act
indeed
that
cost
him
his
life
,
and
many
more
beside
,
and
that
drew
after
it
the
finall
destruction
of
the
Romane
Empire
,
and
the
horrible
besacking
and
desolation
of
the
city
of
Rome
:
For
the
Emperour
being
thus
taken
and
set
on
fire
with
the
loue
of
this
woman
,
through
the
excellent
beauty
wherewith
shee
was
endued
,
endeauoured
first
to
entice
her
to
his
lust
by
faire
allurements
;
and
seeing
that
the
bulwarke
of
her
vertuous
chastity
,
would
not
by
this
meanes
be
shaken
,
but
that
all
his
pursuit
was
still
in
vaine
,
hee
tried
a
new
course
,
and
attempted
to
get
her
by
deceit
and
pollicy
;
which
to
bring
about
,
one
day
setting
himselfe
to
play
with
her
husband
Maximus
,
he
woon
of
him
his
ring
,
which
he
no
sooner
had
,
but
secretly
he
sent
it
to
his
wife
in
her
husbands
name
with
this
commaundement
,
That
by
that
token
shee
should
come
presently
to
the
court
,
to
do
her
duty
to
the
Empresse
Eudoxia
:
shee
,
seeing
her
husbands
ring
,
doubted
nothing
,
but
came
forthwith
as
shee
was
commanded
;
where
,
whilst
she
was
entertained
by
certaine
suborned
women
whome
the
Emperour
had
set
on
,
he
himselfe
commeth
in
place
,
and
discloseth
vnto
her
his
whole
loue
,
which
he
said
he
could
no
longer
represse
,
but
must
needs
satisfie
,
if
not
by
faire
meanes
,
at
least
by
force
and
compulsion
,
and
so
he
constrained
her
to
his
lust
.
Her
husband
aduertised
hereof
,
Iohn
de
la
March
)
being
found
guilty
by
proofe
,
were
adiudged
to
perpetuall
imprisonment
.
And
the
Adulterers
(
two
brethren
of
the
countrie
of
Aniou
)
with
whom
these
ladies
had
often
lien
,
were
first
cruelly
slain
,
and
after
hanged
.
Iaques
le
Grys
of
the
country
of
Alanson
being
enamoured
with
a
lady
no
lesse
faire
than
honourable
,
the
wife
of
the
Lord
of
Carouge
,
came
vpon
a
day
when
hee
knew
her
husband
to
bee
from
home
to
her
house
,
&
faining
as
if
hee
had
some
secret
message
to
vnfold
vnto
her
on
her
husbands
behalfe
(
for
their
familiarity
was
so
great
)
entred
with
her
all
alone
into
a
most
secret
chamber
,
A
certaine
Seneschall
of
Normandy
,
Messelina
the
wife
of
Claudius
the
Emperour
was
a
woman
of
so
notable
incontinency
,
that
she
would
contend
with
the
common
harlots
in
filthie
pleasure
;
at
last
shee
fell
in
loue
with
a
faire
young
Gentleman
called
Silius
,
and
to
obtaine
more
commodiously
her
desire
,
she
caused
his
wife
Sillana
to
be
diuorced
;
and
notwithstanding
she
was
wife
to
the
Emperor
there
liuing
,
yet
shee
openly
married
him
:
for
which
cause
after
great
complaint
made
to
the
Emperour
by
the
Nobles
she
was
worthely
put
to
death
.
Abusahed
king
of
Fez
was
with
six
of
his
children
murdered
at
once
by
his
secretary
for
his
wiues
sake
whom
hee
had
abused
.
CHAP.
XXVII
.
Other
examples
like
vnto
the
former
.
Rodoaldus
the
eight
king
of
Lumbardie
,
Iohn
Malatesta
slew
his
wife
and
the
adulterer
together
when
hee
tooke
them
amidst
their
embracements
.
So
did
one
Lodewicke
steward
of
Normandy
kill
his
wife
Carlotta
and
her
louer
Iohn
Lauernus
,
as
they
were
in
bed
togither
Hedion
in
his
Chronicle
telleth
of
a
Doctor
of
the
law
that
loued
his
proctors
wife
,
Wolfius
Schrenk
reported
to
Martin
Luther
how
in
Vaytland
four
murders
were
committed
vpon
the
occasion
of
one
Adultery
;
for
whilst
the
Adulteresse
strumpet
was
banquetting
with
her
louers
,
her
husband
came
in
with
a
hunting
speare
in
his
hand
and
stroke
him
through
that
sat
next
vnto
her
,
and
then
her
also
,
other
two
in
the
meane
while
leapt
downe
the
staires
with
feare
and
hast
,
broke
their
armes
and
shortly
after
died
.
Martin
Luther
hath
left
recorded
in
his
writings
many
examples
of
iudgements
on
this
sin
,
but
especially
vpon
clergie
men
,
whose
profession
as
it
requireth
a
more
strict
kind
of
conuersation
,
so
their
sins
and
iudgements
were
more
notorious
,
both
in
their
owne
natures
,
and
in
the
eie
and
opinion
of
the
world
,
some
of
which
as
it
is
not
amisse
to
insert
in
this
place
,
so
it
is
not
vnnecessary
to
beleeue
them
proceeding
from
the
mouth
of
so
worthie
a
witnesse
.
There
was
(
saith
he
)
a
man
of
great
authoritie
&
learning
that
forsaking
his
secular
life
betooke
himselfe
into
the
colledge
of
preists
,
There
was
another
nobleman
that
so
delighted
in
lust
,
Luther
.
Mandat
.
1.
Atheisme
.
li.
1.
cap.
25.
&
was
so
inordinat
in
his
desires
,
that
he
shamed
not
to
say
,
that
if
this
life
of
pleasure
,
&
passing
from
harlot
to
harlot
might
endure
euer
,
he
would
not
care
for
heauen
or
life
eternal
:
what
cursed
madnesse
&
impiety
is
this
?
a
man
to
be
so
forgetful
of
his
maker
&
himself
,
that
he
preferred
his
whores
before
his
Sauiour
,
and
his
filthy
pleasure
before
the
grace
of
God
,
doth
it
not
deserue
to
be
punished
with
scorpions
?
Yes
verily
,
as
it
was
indeed
,
for
the
polluted
wretch
died
amongst
his
strumpets
,
being
stroken
with
a
suddaine
stroke
of
Gods
vengeance
.
In
the
yeare
1505
a
certaine
Bishop
well
seene
in
all
learning
and
eloquence
,
and
especially
skilfull
in
languages
,
was
notwithstanding
so
filthy
in
his
conuersation
,
that
he
shamed
not
to
defile
his
bodie
and
name
by
many
Adulteries
:
but
at
length
hee
was
slaine
by
a
cobler
whose
wife
hee
had
often
corrupted
,
being
taken
in
bed
with
her
,
and
so
receiued
a
due
reward
of
his
filthinesse
.
Arichbertus
eldest
son
vnto
Lotharius
king
of
France
,
died
euen
as
he
was
imbracing
his
whores
.
In
summe
to
conclude
this
matter
,
our
English
Chronicles
report
that
in
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
349
there
was
so
great
plentie
of
corne
and
fruit
in
Britaine
that
the
like
had
not
ben
seene
many
yeares
before
,
but
this
was
the
cause
of
much
idlenesse
,
gluttony
,
lechery
,
and
other
vices
in
the
land
,
for
vsually
ease
and
prosperitie
are
the
nurses
of
all
enormitie
,
but
the
Lord
requited
this
their
riotous
and
incontinent
life
with
so
great
a
pestilence
&
mortalitie
,
that
the
liuing
scantly
sufficed
to
bury
the
dead
.
Martin
Luther
reported
,
that
a
bishop
being
a
common
frequenter
of
the
Stues
in
Hidelberge
came
to
this
miserable
end
:
The
bords
of
the
chamber
whither
hee
vsed
to
enter
were
loosened
,
that
assoone
as
hee
came
in
hee
flipt
through
and
broke
his
necke
.
But
aboue
all
,
that
which
wee
find
written
in
the
second
booke
of
Fincelius
is
most
strange
and
wonderfull
,
CAAP.
XXVIII
.
More
examples
of
the
same
argument
.
I
Cannot
passe
ouer
in
silence
a
history
truly
tragical
,
touching
the
death
of
many
men
who
by
reason
of
an
Adulterie
slew
one
another
in
most
strange
and
cruell
manner
,
&
indeed
so
strangely
,
that
(
as
farre
as
I
euer
red
or
knew
)
there
was
neuer
the
like
particular
deed
heard
of
,
wherein
God
more
euidently
poured
forth
the
stream
of
his
displeasure
,
turning
the
courage
and
valor
of
ech
part
into
rage
and
furie
,
to
the
end
that
by
their
owne
meanes
he
might
bee
reuenged
on
them
.
In
the
Dukedome
of
Spoleto
which
is
the
way
from
Ancona
to
Rome
(
of
the
ancient
Latines
called
Vmbria
)
there
were
three
brethren
who
kept
in
their
possession
three
cities
of
the
said
dukedome
,
namely
Faligno
,
Nocera
,
and
Treuio
,
the
eldest
of
whom
whose
sirname
was
Nicholas
,
as
he
passed
from
one
town
to
the
other
,
being
at
Nocera
,
lodged
diuers
times
in
the
castell
in
the
keepers
and
captaines
house
,
whome
hee
had
there
substituted
to
defend
the
place
with
an
ordinary
band
of
souldiors
:
now
as
he
made
his
abode
there
a
few
daies
,
hee
grew
to
cast
a
more
lasciuious
eie
vpon
the
captains
wife
than
was
meet
,
and
from
looking
fell
to
lusting
after
her
,
in
such
sort
that
in
short
space
hee
got
very
priuy
&
familiar
acquaintance
with
her
,
&
oftentimes
secret
,
&
suspicious
meetings
:
which
being
perceiued
by
her
husband
,
he
after
watched
so
narrowly
their
haunts
,
that
once
hee
spied
them
together
without
being
seen
of
them
:
Neuerthelesse
disgesting
and
swallowing
vp
this
sorrow
with
silence
,
and
without
giuing
forth
any
tokens
therof
,
he
consulted
in
himself
to
reuenge
the
iniury
by
the
death
&
rasing
out
,
not
only
of
the
Adulterer
,
but
also
of
the
whole
race
&
fraternity
.
Now
when
hee
had
hammered
this
enterprise
&
laid
forth
the
plot
thereof
in
his
head
,
he
dispatched
presently
a
messenger
to
the
three
gentlemen
brethren
,
to
inuite
them
against
the
next
day
to
the
hunting
of
the
fairest
wild
bore
that
was
this
many
a
day
seene
in
the
forrests
of
Nocera
.
Signior
Nicholas
failed
not
to
come
at
the
time
appointed
accompanied
with
Duke
Camerino
,
who
desired
to
be
one
of
this
iolly
crue
:
they
supped
in
the
towne
but
lodged
in
the
castel
,
where
being
at
rest
about
midnight
,
the
captain
rushed
into
his
chamber
with
the
greatest
part
of
his
guard
,
&
there
handled
Signor
Nicholas
on
this
maner
,
he
first
cut
off
his
priuy
members
as
being
principal
in
the
offence
,
them
thrust
him
through
on
both
sides
with
a
spear
,
next
pluckt
out
his
heart
,
&
lastly
tore
the
rest
of
his
body
into
a
thousand
peeces
.
As
for
the
duke
Camerino
hee
shut
him
vp
in
a
deep
&
darke
dungeon
with
all
the
strangers
of
his
retinue
.
At
day
breake
another
of
the
brethren
called
Caesar
,
that
lay
that
night
in
the
town
was
sent
for
to
come
&
speak
with
his
brother
,
&
assoone
as
he
was
entred
into
the
court
of
the
castell
,
seuen
or
eight
of
the
guard
bound
him
&
his
followers
,
&
caried
him
into
the
chamber
where
his
dead
brother
lay
chopt
as
small
as
flesh
to
the
pot
,
&
there
murdered
him
also
.
Conrade
the
third
brother
being
by
reason
of
a
marriage
absent
from
this
feast
,
when
hee
receiued
the
report
of
these
pitifull
newes
,
gathered
togither
a
band
of
men
from
all
quarters
,
and
with
them
(
assisted
with
the
friends
and
allies
of
the
duke
Camerino
then
prisoner
)
laid
siege
to
the
castle
,
they
battered
the
walles
,
made
a
breach
,
and
gaue
the
assault
of
entrance
,
and
were
manfully
resisted
fiue
houres
long
,
till
the
defendants
beeing
but
thirtie
or
fortie
men
at
the
most
,
not
able
to
stand
any
longer
in
defence
,
were
forced
to
retire
and
lay
open
way
of
entrance
to
the
enemie
,
then
began
a
most
horrible
butchery
of
men
:
for
Conrade
hauing
woon
the
fort
,
first
hewed
them
in
pieces
that
stood
in
resistance
,
then
finding
the
captaines
father
,
slue
him
,
and
cast
him
piecemeale
to
the
dogs
,
some
he
tied
to
the
tailes
of
wild
horses
,
to
bee
drawne
ouer
hedges
,
ditches
,
thornes
and
briers
;
others
hee
pinched
with
hote
yrons
,
and
so
burnt
them
to
death
,
which
when
the
captaine
from
the
top
of
the
dungeon
,
where
hee
had
saued
himselfe
,
beheld
,
he
tooke
his
wife
whome
hee
held
there
prisoner
,
and
binding
her
hand
and
foot
,
threw
her
headlong
from
the
top
of
the
tower
vpon
the
pauement
;
which
the
souldiors
perciuing
,
put
fire
to
the
tower
,
so
that
he
was
constrained
through
heat
and
smoke
(
himself
,
his
brother
,
and
his
little
child
)
to
sally
downe
the
same
way
,
which
he
had
taught
his
wife
a
little
before
to
goe
:
and
so
all
three
broke
their
neckes
:
their
carcasses
were
cast
out
to
bee
meat
for
wolues
,
as
vnworthy
of
humane
sepulture
.
And
this
was
the
catastrophe
of
that
wofull
tragedy
,
where
by
the
occasion
of
one
adulterie
(
so
heauie
is
the
curse
of
God
vpon
that
sin
)
a
number
of
men
came
to
their
ends
.
CHAP.
XXIX
.
Of
such
as
are
diuorced
without
cause
.
BY
these
and
such
like
iudgements
,
it
pleaseth
God
to
make
knowne
vnto
men
how
much
hee
desireth
to
haue
the
estate
of
mariage
maintained
and
preserued
in
the
integritie
,
and
how
much
euery
one
ought
to
take
heed
how
to
depraue
or
corrupt
the
same
:
now
then
to
proceed
;
if
it
be
a
sinne
to
take
away
,
rauish
,
or
entise
to
folly
another
mans
wife
,
shall
we
not
thinke
it
an
equall
sinne
for
a
husband
to
forsake
his
wife
,
and
cast
her
off
to
take
another
,
shee
hauing
not
disanulled
and
cancelled
the
band
of
marriage
by
adultery
?
Yes
verily
:
for
as
concerning
the
permission
of
diuorce
to
the
Israelits
vnder
the
law
,
Antiochus
Theos
sonne
of
Antiochus
Soter
king
of
Siria
,
who
to
the
end
to
goe
with
Ptolomie
Philadelphus
king
of
Aegypt
,
and
marry
his
daughter
Bernice
,
cast
off
his
wife
Laodicea
that
had
borne
him
children
,
and
tooke
Bernice
to
bee
his
wife
:
but
ere
long
hee
reiected
her
also
,
and
betraied
her
to
her
enemies
(
namely
his
sonne
Callinicus
)
who
slew
her
with
one
of
her
sonnes
,
and
all
that
belonged
vnto
her
;
and
then
he
tooke
again
his
old
wife
,
for
which
cause
Ptolomie
Euergetes
(
sonne
to
Philadelphus
)
renued
war
vpon
him
.
Herod
the
Tetrarch
was
so
bewitched
with
the
loue
of
Herodius
his
brother
Philips
wife
,
Amongst
the
Remans
Marcus
Antonius
was
noted
for
the
most
dissolute
and
impudent
in
this
case
of
diuorce
,
Charles
the
eight
king
of
France
,
CHAP.
XXX
.
Of
those
that
either
cause
or
authorise
vnlawfull
diuorcements
.
Hugh
Spencer
one
of
king
Edward
of
Englands
chiefest
fauourits
,
insomuch
that
his
eare
and
heart
was
at
his
pleasure
,
was
he
that
first
persuaded
the
king
to
forsake
and
repudiate
the
Queene
his
wife
(
daughter
to
Philip
the
Faire
,
king
of
France
)
vpon
no
other
occasion
,
but
onely
to
satisfie
his
owne
appetite
,
and
the
better
to
follow
his
delights
:
And
thus
by
this
meanes
shee
was
chased
out
of
England
,
and
driuen
to
retire
to
king
Charles
her
brother
;
where
hoping
to
find
rest
and
refuge
,
shee
was
deceiued
:
for
what
by
the
crafts
and
practises
of
the
English
,
and
what
by
the
Popes
authoritie
(
who
thrust
himselfe
into
this
action
,
as
his
custome
is
)
shee
was
constrained
to
dislodge
her selfe
,
and
to
change
her
countrey
very
speedily
:
wherefore
from
thence
shee
went
to
craue
succour
of
the
Countie
of
Henault
,
who
furnished
her
with
certaine
forces
,
and
sent
her
towards
England
:
where
being
arriued
,
and
finding
the
people
generally
at
her
commaund
,
and
ready
to
doe
her
seruice
,
shee
set
vpon
her
enemie
Hugh
Spencer
,
tooke
him
prisoner
,
and
put
him
to
a
shamefull
death
,
as
hee
well
deserued
.
For
hee
was
also
the
causer
of
the
deaths
of
many
of
the
Nobles
of
the
Realme
,
therefore
he
was
drawne
through
the
streets
of
Herford
vpon
a
hurdle
,
and
after
his
priuie
members
,
his
heart
,
and
head
were
cut
off
,
his
foure
quarters
were
exalted
in
foure
seuerall
places
to
the
view
of
the
world
.
Now
if
these
be
found
guiltie
,
that
either
directly
make
or
indirectly
procure
diuorcements
,
shall
wee
excuse
them
that
allow
and
authorize
the
same
,
without
lawfull
and
iust
occasion
?
No
verily
,
secund.
part
.
quaest
.
7.
Hi
qui
matrimonium
:
wherein
is
imported
,
that
marriage
ought
not
to
be
infringed
for
any
default
or
imperfection
,
no
not
of
nature
;
but
Popes
may
maime
and
clip
both
the
word
of
God
and
all
other
writings
,
and
doe
whatsoeuer
themselues
liketh
,
be
it
good
or
bad
.
CHAP.
XXXI
.
Of
Incestuous
persons
.
ALthough
incest
be
a
wicked
and
abominable
sinne
,
and
forbidden
both
by
the
law
of
God
and
man
,
in
so
much
that
the
very
heathen
held
it
indetestation
,
yet
are
there
some
so
inordinately
vicious
and
so
dissolute
,
that
they
blush
not
once
to
pollute
themselues
with
this
filthinesse
.
The
same
Absolom
that
slew
Ammon
for
incest
with
his
sister
,
Diuers
of
the
Romane
Emperours
were
so
villanous
and
wretched
,
Caligula
,
Antoninus
,
and
Commodus
:
and
some
with
their
mothers
,
as
Nero
,
so
much
was
he
giuen
ouer
and
transported
to
all
licentiousnesse
.
Plutarch
telleth
vs
of
one
Cyanippus
,
that
being
ouercome
with
wine
,
defloured
his
owne
daughter
Cyane
,
but
hee
was
slaine
of
her
for
his
labour
.
Neither
doe
I
thinke
it
so
vnnaturall
a
part
for
her
to
kill
her
father
,
as
in
him
to
commit
incest
with
his
own
daughter
:
for
the
oracle
lessened
,
or
rather
approoued
her
fault
,
when
it
abhorred
and
chastened
his
crime
:
for
when
Siracusa
was
grieuously
infected
with
the
pestilence
,
it
was
pronounced
by
the
oracle
that
the
plague
should
continue
,
till
the
wicked
person
was
sacrificed
:
which
darke
speech
when
no
man
knew
,
Cyane
haled
her
father
by
the
head
to
the
altar
,
telling
them
that
hee
was
that
wicked
person
pointed
at
by
the
Oracle
,
and
there
sacrificed
him
with
her
owne
hands
,
killing
her selfe
also
with
the
same
knife
,
that
her
innocencie
might
be
witnessed
euen
by
her
blood
.
Thus
it
pleased
God
euen
among
the
idolatrous
heathen
to
execute
iustice
&
iudgement
vpon
the
earth
,
though
by
the
meanes
of
the
deuill
himselfe
,
who
is
the
authour
of
all
such
villany
.
Valeria
Thusculana
was
in
loue
with
her
owne
father
,
Papyrius
a
Romane
,
got
with
child
his
owne
sister
Canusia
,
which
when
their
father
vnderstood
,
hee
sent
each
of
them
a
sword
wherewith
they
slue
themselues
.
But
aboue
all
,
the
vengeance
of
God
is
most
apparant
in
the
punishment
of
Heraclius
the
Emperour
,
Agathias
,
Most
abominable
was
the
incest
of
Artaxerxes
king
of
Persia
,
Now
to
teach
vs
how
execrable
and
monstrous
this
kind
of
sinne
is
,
and
how
much
to
be
abhorred
of
all
men
,
the
example
of
a
poore
bruit
beast
may
stand
in
stead
of
a
lesson
for
vs
,
it
being
so
worthy
of
remembrance
,
that
I
thought
meet
to
make
rehearsall
of
it
in
this
place
.
It
is
reported
by
Varro
,
CHAP.
XXXII
.
Of
effeminate
persons
,
Sodomites
,
and
other
such
like
monsters
.
SArdanapalus
king
of
Assyria
,
Such
like
was
the
impudent
lasciuiousnes
of
two
vnworthy
Emperors
,
Touching
those
abominable
wretches
of
Sodome
and
Gomorrah
,
The
Lord
will
raine
vpon
each
wicked
one
Howbeit
this
maketh
not
but
that
still
there
are
too
many
such
monsters
in
the
world
,
so
mightily
is
it
corrupted
and
depraued
:
neither
is
it
any
maruell
,
seeing
that
diuers
bishops
of
Rome
,
that
take
vpon
them
to
be
Christs
vicars
,
and
Peters
successours
,
are
infected
with
this
filthy
contagion
:
As
namely
,
Pope
Iulius
the
third
,
whose
custome
was
to
promote
none
to
Ecclesiasticall
liuings
,
saue
onely
his
buggerers
:
amongst
whome
was
one
Innocent
,
whome
this
holy
father
(
contrary
to
the
Suffrages
of
the
whole
colledge
)
would
needs
make
Cardinall
:
nay
,
the
vnsatiable
and
monstrous
lust
of
this
beastly
and
stinking
goat
was
so
extraordinary
,
that
hee
could
not
abstaine
from
many
Cardinals
themselues
.
Iohn
de
la
Casa
,
a
Florentine
by
birth
,
and
by
office
Archbishop
of
Beneuento
,
and
Deane
of
his
Apostaticall
chamber
,
was
his
Legat
and
Intelligencer
in
all
the
Venetian
signiories
:
a
man
equall
or
rather
worse
than
himselfe
,
and
such
a
one
,
as
whose
memory
ought
to
be
accursed
of
all
posteritie
,
for
that
detestable
booke
which
he
composed
in
commendation
and
praise
of
Sodomie
,
and
was
so
shamelesse
,
nay
rather
possessed
with
some
deuilish
and
vncleane
spirit
,
as
to
divulgate
it
to
the
view
of
the
world
.
Here
you
may
see
(
poore
soules
)
the
holinesse
of
those
whome
you
so
much
reuerence
,
and
vpon
whome
you
build
your
beleefe
&
religion
:
you
see
their
braue
&
excellent
vertues
,
and
of
what
esteem
their
lawes
and
ordinances
ought
to
be
amongst
you
:
Now
touching
the
end
that
this
holy
father
made
,
it
is
declared
in
the
former
booke
among
the
rank
of
Atheists
,
where
we
placed
him
.
And
albeit
that
he
&
such
like
villains
,
please
their
owne
humours
with
their
abominations
,
and
approoue
and
cleare
themselues
therein
,
yet
are
they
rewarded
by
death
,
not
onely
by
the
law
of
God
,
When
Charlemaigne
reigned
in
France
,
there
happened
a
most
notable
iudgement
of
God
vpon
the
monkes
of
Saint
Martine
in
Tours
,
for
their
disordinate
lusts
:
they
were
men
whose
food
was
too
much
and
dainty
,
whose
ease
was
too
easie
,
and
whose
pleasures
were
too
immoderate
,
being
altogither
addicted
to
pastimes
and
meriments
:
In
their
apparell
they
went
clad
in
silke
like
great
lords
;
Nichol.
Gill.
in
his
first
volume
of
French
Chronicles
saith
)
their
shoes
were
gilt
ouer
with
gold
,
so
great
was
the
superfluity
of
their
riches
and
pride
:
in
summe
,
their
whole
life
was
luxurious
and
infamous
:
for
which
cause
there
came
forth
a
destroying
angell
from
the
Lord
(
by
the
report
of
Eudes
the
Abbot
of
Clugny
)
and
slew
them
all
in
one
night
,
as
the
first
borne
of
Aegypt
were
slaine
,
saue
one
onely
person
that
was
preferued
,
as
Lot
in
Sodome
was
preserued
:
this
strange
accident
mooued
Charlemaigne
to
appoint
a
brotherhood
of
Canons
to
be
in
their
roome
(
though
little
better
,
and
as
little
profitable
to
the
common
wealth
as
the
former
.
)
It
is
not
for
nothing
that
the
law
of
God
forbiddeth
to
lie
with
a
beast
,
CHAP.
XXXIII
.
Of
the
wonderfull
euill
that
ariseth
from
this
greedinesse
of
lust
.
IT
is
to
very
good
reason
,
that
the
scripture
forbiddeth
vs
to
abstaine
from
the
lust
of
the
flesh
and
the
eies
,
We
haue
a
most
notable
example
of
the
miserable
end
of
a
certaine
woman
,
with
the
sacking
and
destruction
of
a
whole
city
,
and
all
caused
by
her
intemperance
and
vnbridled
lust
.
About
the
time
that
the
Emperour
Phocas
was
slaine
by
Priscus
,
CHAP.
XXXIIII
.
Of
vnlawfull
gestures
,
Idlenesse
,
Gluttony
,
Drunkennes
,
Daunsing
,
and
other
such
like
dissolutenes
.
LIke
as
if
we
would
carry
our selues
chastly
and
vprightly
before
God
,
it
behooueth
vs
to
auoid
all
filthines
and
adultery
,
so
wee
must
abstaine
from
vnciuill
and
dishonest
gestures
,
which
are
(
as
it
were
)
badges
of
concupiscense
,
&
coles
to
set
lust
on
fire
,
and
instruments
to
iniury
others
withall
:
Kissing
is
no
lesse
to
be
eschewed
than
the
former
,
if
it
be
not
betwixt
those
that
are
tied
togither
by
some
bond
of
kindred
or
affinitie
,
as
it
was
by
auncient
custome
of
the
Medes
and
Persians
,
and
Romanes
also
,
according
to
the
report
of
Plutarch
and
Seneca
:
and
that
which
is
more
,
Tiberius
Caesar
forbad
the
often
and
daily
practise
thereof
in
that
kind
,
as
a
thing
not
to
be
frequented
,
but
rather
vtterly
abhorred
,
though
it
bee
amongst
kinsfolkes
themselues
.
It
was
esteemed
an
indignitie
among
the
Grecians
,
to
kisse
any
maid
that
was
not
in
blood
or
affinitie
allied
vnto
them
;
as
it
manifestly
appeareth
by
the
earnest
sure
and
request
of
the
wife
of
Pisistratus
the
tyrant
of
Athens
,
to
put
to
death
a
yong
man
for
kissing
her
daughter
in
the
streets
,
as
he
met
her
,
Next
to
Idlenesse
,
the
too
much
pampering
the
bodie
with
dainty
and
much
food
,
is
to
be
eschued
;
for
like
as
a
fat
and
well
fed
horse
wincheth
and
kicketh
against
his
rider
,
so
the
pampered
flesh
,
rebelleth
against
God
,
and
a
mans
owne
selfe
:
this
fulnes
of
bread
and
abundance
of
fleshly
delights
,
was
the
cause
of
the
destruction
of
Sodome
and
Gomorrha
,
but
to
walke
honestly
,
not
beeing
giuen
to
gluttony
and
drunkennesse
,
chambering
and
wantonnesse
:
and
in
another
place
,
Not
to
be
drunke
with
wine
wherein
is
excesse
:
Noah
,
that
holy
Patriarch
,
by
drinking
too
much
wine
,
Lot
,
though
he
hated
the
sinne
of
Sodom
,
Balthasar
,
rioting
and
reuelling
amongst
his
pots
,
had
the
end
both
of
life
and
kingdome
denounced
against
him
,
The
Emperours
Septimus
Seuerus
,
and
Iouinianus
,
died
with
eating
and
drinking
too
much
.
Likewise
a
certaine
African
called
Donitius
,
Gregory
of
Tours
reporteth
of
Childericke
a
Saxon
,
that
glutted
himselfe
so
full
of
meat
and
drinke
ouer
night
,
that
in
the
morning
he
was
found
choked
in
his
bed
.
In
our
memory
,
there
was
a
priest
in
Rouergne
neare
Millaine
,
that
(
dining
with
a
rich
farmer
for
his
yeeres
dinner
)
cheered
himselfe
so
well
,
and
filled
his
belly
so
full
,
that
it
burst
in
two
,
and
he
died
suddenly
.
The
same
Alexander
was
himselfe
subiect
to
wine
,
and
so
distempered
diuers
times
therewith
,
that
hee
often
slew
his
friends
at
the
table
in
his
drunkennesse
,
whome
in
sobriety
he
loued
dearest
.
Cle●mines
,
king
of
Lacedemonia
,
being
disposed
to
carouse
after
the
manner
of
the
Scithians
,
dranke
so
much
,
that
hee
became
and
continued
euer
after
senslesse
.
Anacreon
the
Poet
,
a
grand
consumer
of
wine
,
and
a
notable
drunkard
,
was
choked
with
the
huske
of
a
grape
.
The
monstrous
and
riotous
excesses
of
diuers
Romane
Emperours
(
as
Tiberius
by
name
,
who
was
a
companion
of
all
drunkards
)
is
strange
to
be
heard
,
and
almost
incredible
to
be
beleeued
:
hee
loued
wine
so
well
,
that
instead
of
Tiberius
,
they
called
him
Biberius
;
and
in
stead
of
Claudius
,
Caldus
;
and
in
stead
of
Nero
,
Mer●
:
noting
by
those
nicknames
,
how
great
a
drunkard
he
was
.
The
Earle
of
Aspremont
,
(
after
he
had
by
infinite
excesse
exhausted
all
his
substance
)
beeing
vpon
a
day
at
S.
Michell
,
dranke
so
excessiuely
,
that
he
died
therewith
.
Cyrillus
,
a
citizen
of
Hippon
,
had
an
vngratious
son
,
Bonosus
the
Emperour
,
Philostrates
,
being
in
the
bathes
at
Sinvess●
,
Zeno
,
the
Emperor
of
the
East
,
Pope
Paulus
the
second
,
beside
the
exceeding
pompe
of
apparel
which
he
vsed
,
he
was
also
very
careful
for
his
throat
,
for
(
as
Platina
writeth
of
him
)
he
delighted
in
all
kind
of
exquisite
dishes
and
delicate
wine
,
and
that
in
superfluitie
;
by
which
immoderate
and
continuall
surfetting
,
hee
fell
into
a
grieuous
apoplexy
,
which
quickly
made
an
end
of
his
life
.
It
is
reported
of
him
,
that
hee
ate
the
day
before
he
died
,
two
great
melons
,
and
that
in
a
very
good
appetite
;
when
as
the
next
night
the
Lord
stroke
him
with
his
heauy
iudgement
.
Alexander
,
the
sonne
of
Basilius
,
Concerning
Daunsing
(
the
vsuall
dependants
of
feasts
and
good
chear
)
there
is
none
of
sound
iudgement
that
know
not
,
that
they
are
baits
end
allurements
to
vncleannesse
,
and
as
it
were
,
instruments
of
bawdry
:
by
reason
whereof
,
they
were
alwaies
condemned
among
men
of
honour
and
reputation
,
whether
Romans
or
Greekes
,
and
left
for
vile
and
base
minded
men
to
vse
.
And
this
may
appeare
,
by
the
reproch
that
Demosthenes
the
oratour
gaue
to
Philip
of
Macedonie
and
his
courtiers
,
in
an
oration
to
the
Athenians
,
wherein
hee
tearmed
them
common
dauncers
,
and
such
as
shamed
not
assoone
as
they
had
glutted
their
bellies
with
meat
,
and
their
heads
with
wine
,
to
fall
scurrilously
a
daunsing
:
As
for
the
honourable
dames
of
Rome
,
truly
wee
shall
neuer
read
that
any
of
them
accustomed
themselues
to
daunce
,
according
to
the
report
of
Salust
touching
Sempronia
,
whome
hee
iudged
to
bee
too
fine
a
dauncer
and
singer
to
be
honourable
withall
:
as
if
these
two
could
no
more
agree
than
fire
and
water
.
Cicero
in
his
apologie
of
Muraena
,
That
no
sober
and
discreet
man
euer
would
commit
that
fault
,
vnlesse
his
sence
and
reason
was
bereft
him
.
Plutarch
also
setting
forth
the
vertues
of
women
putteth
in
this
among
the
rest
,
that
she
ought
to
be
no
dancer
:
and
speaking
in
a
not
her
place
to
all
others
aswell
as
women
,
biddeth
them
to
repulse
euen
their
friends
if
they
should
lead
and
entise
them
to
that
exercise
.
Besides
,
all
the
ancient
Doctours
of
the
Church
haue
vtterly
condemned
them
as
vnlawfull
:
Thou
learnest
to
sing
prophane
and
idle
songs
(
saith
Basil
)
and
forgettest
the
godly
Psalmes
and
Hymns
which
were
once
taught
thee
:
thou
caperest
and
leapest
with
thy
feet
in
daunses
(
vnwise
as
thou
art
)
when
as
thou
shouldst
rather
bend
thy
knees
in
praier
to
the
almighty
:
but
what
gaine
is
got
hereby
?
Marry
this
,
that
virgines
return
robbed
of
their
Virginities
,
and
maried
wiues
of
their
troth
to
their
husbands
;
both
,
and
all
,
lesse
chast
than
they
went
,
and
more
dishonest
then
they
should
,
if
not
in
act
,
which
peraduenture
may
bee
,
yet
stained
in
thought
which
cannot
be
eschewed
.
Heare
(
saith
Chrisostome
)
you
maids
and
wiues
which
are
not
ashamed
to
daunse
and
trip
it
at
others
marriages
,
and
to
pollute
your
sexes
;
wheresoeuer
a
lasciuious
daunce
is
daunced
,
there
the
deuill
beareth
the
other
part
and
is
the
author
of
it
.
It
is
better
(
saith
Ambrose
)
to
dig
and
delue
vpon
holy
daies
than
to
dance
.
And
in
another
place
writing
to
his
sister
,
he
saith
,
that
he
need
not
care
for
dissolute
behauiours
and
songs
which
are
vsed
at
marriages
to
make
him
merry
with
all
,
for
when
banquets
are
concluded
with
daunces
,
then
is
chastity
in
an
euill
case
and
in
great
danger
to
suffer
shipwracke
by
those
suspicious
allurements
.
Besides
this
,
At
the
feast
which
Herod
the
Tetrarch
made
to
the
princes
and
captains
and
nobles
of
Galilee
,
the
daughter
of
Herodias
pleased
him
and
his
company
so
well
with
her
dauncing
,
Iohn
Babtist
to
be
beheaded
.
Lodowicke
Archbishop
of
Magdeburge
celebrating
a
solemne
feast
at
a
Towne
called
Caluen
,
inuited
many
of
the
worthy
citizens
to
make
merry
with
him
;
the
place
for
their
ioyaltie
was
the
great
hall
,
wherein
iudiciall
causes
were
appointed
to
bee
discussed
:
here
after
the
banquet
ended
they
fell
a
dauncing
men
and
women
mixtly
together
,
such
a
ridiculous
rounde
clay
and
such
a
multitude
,
that
what
with
the
weight
of
their
bodies
,
or
rather
the
indignation
of
God
against
than
for
this
scurrilous
&
immodest
behauior
,
the
beams
of
the
house
began
to
crack
&
threaten
a
certain
ruin
,
wherat
the
Archbishop
affrighted
caught
hold
by
a
fair
dame
and
began
first
to
go
down
the
staires
,
but
the
steps
afore
losened
,
assoon
as
he
trod
vpon
them
tumbled
down
and
he
&
his
comfort
headlong
withal
,
and
were
crushed
in
peeces
:
and
thus
he
that
was
principall
of
the
feast
&
sport
,
was
made
an
example
to
all
the
rest
of
the
Lords
vengeance
,
because
he
dishonored
his
calling
and
profession
by
such
lewd
&
light
behauior
:
and
this
was
one
goodly
effect
of
dancing
.
Moreouer
,
in
many
places
by
dances
,
grieuous
&
spitefull
quarrels
haue
ben
stirred
vp
,
&
many
murders
executed
,
the
examples
wherof
are
so
euident
&
notorious
,
that
it
is
not
needfull
now
to
stand
vpon
them
:
to
conclude
therefore
this
point
with
the
saying
of
Lud.
Viues
;
L.
Viues
.
Now
touching
Mummeries
&
Maskes
,
I
place
them
in
the
same
ranck
with
the
other
,
forsomuch
as
they
are
deriued
from
the
same
fountain
,
&
communicate
the
same
nature
,
&
produce
the
same
effects
,
&
oftentimes
are
so
pernicious
,
that
diuerse
honorable
women
haue
ben
rauished
&
conueied
away
by
their
means
:
Nay
&
some
Masquers
haue
ben
wel
chastised
in
their
own
vices
:
as
it
happened
in
the
raign
of
Charles
the
sixt
,
to
six
that
masked
it
to
a
mariage
at
the
hostell
of
S.
Pauls
in
Paris
,
being
attired
like
wild
horses
,
couered
with
loose
flax
dangling
down
like
haire
:
albedaubed
with
greafe
for
the
fitter
hanging
therof
,
&
fast
bound
one
to
another
,
&
in
this
guise
entred
the
hall
,
dancing
with
torches
before
them
:
but
behold
sodainly
their
play
turned
to
a
tragedy
,
for
a
spark
of
one
of
their
torches
fell
into
the
greasie
flax
of
his
neighbor
,
and
set
it
immediately
on
fire
,
so
that
in
the
turning
of
an
hand
they
were
all
on
flame
,
then
gaue
they
out
a
most
horrible
outcrie
:
one
of
them
threw
himselfe
headlong
into
a
tub
of
water
prouided
to
rense
their
drinking
cups
and
gobblites
,
and
vpon
that
occasion
standing
not
farre
off
;
two
were
burnt
to
death
without
stirring
once
from
the
place
:
the
bastard
Foix
&
the
Earle
of
Iouy
escaped
indeed
present
death
,
but
being
conueied
to
their
lodgings
they
suruiued
not
two
daies
:
the
king
himselfe
being
one
of
the
six
,
was
saued
by
the
duchesse
of
Berry
,
that
couering
him
with
her
loose
and
wide
garments
quenched
the
fire
before
it
could
seaze
vpon
his
flesh
.
It
resteth
now
that
we
speake
somewhat
of
Plaies
&
Comedies
,
and
such
like
toies
and
may
games
which
haue
no
other
vse
in
the
world
but
to
depraue
and
corrupt
good
manners
,
and
to
open
a
dore
to
all
vncleannesse
:
the
ears
of
yong
folke
are
there
polluted
with
many
filthy
&
dishonest
speeches
,
their
eies
are
there
infected
with
lasciuious
and
vnchast
gestures
and
countenances
,
and
their
wits
are
there
stained
and
imbrued
with
so
pernicious
liquor
,
that
(
except
Gods
good
grace
)
they
will
euer
sauour
of
it
:
the
holy
and
sacred
scripture
ordained
to
a
holy
&
sacred
vse
,
is
oftentimes
by
these
filthie
swine
prophaned
to
please
and
to
delight
their
audience
.
In
few
words
there
is
nothing
els
to
be
found
amongst
them
but
nourishment
to
our
sences
of
foolish
and
vaine
delights
:
Tiberius
Caesar
himselfe
though
of
most
corrupt
and
rotten
manners
and
conuersation
,
If
then
such
pastimes
were
by
the
iudgement
of
the
Romans
noted
with
infamy
,
shall
we
haue
their
equals
in
follies
in
better
account
?
Basill
calleth
such
sports
and
pastimes
,
The
workehouse
,
forge
,
and
common
shop
of
all
wickednesse
:
We
renounce
and
send
backe
(
saith
hee
)
sports
&
plaies
vnto
you
as
to
the
head
and
fountain
from
whence
they
were
first
deriued
:
wee
make
no
reckoning
of
those
thinges
which
we
know
were
drawne
from
superstition
:
we
loue
not
to
behold
the
folly
of
turning
with
chariots
,
nor
the
vnchastity
of
the
Theatre
,
nor
the
cruelty
of
sword
playing
,
nor
the
vanity
of
leaping
,
wrestling
,
and
dancing
:
but
take
pleasure
in
exercises
of
better
report
,
and
lesse
hurt
.
Moreouer
how
odious
and
irkesome
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord
such
spectacles
are
,
and
what
power
and
sway
the
deuill
beareth
therein
,
the
iudgement
of
God
vpon
a
Christian
woman
(
reported
by
Tertullian
The
same
author
reporteth
another
example
as
strange
,
of
a
woman
also
that
went
to
see
a
tragedie
acted
,
to
whome
the
night
following
appeared
in
a
dreame
the
picture
of
a
sheet
(
a
presage
of
death
)
casting
in
her
teeth
that
which
she
had
done
;
and
fiue
daies
after
,
death
himselfe
seazed
vpon
her
.
As
touching
wanton
songs
and
vnchast
and
ribald
bookes
(
that
I
may
be
briefe
)
I
will
content
my selfe
onely
with
that
which
is
alledged
by
Ludiuicus
Viues
concerning
that
matter
.
The
Magistrate
(
saith
hee
)
ought
to
banish
out
of
his
dominion
all
vnhonest
songs
and
Poemes
,
and
not
to
suffer
nouelties
to
bee
published
day
by
day
in
rimes
and
Ballades
,
as
they
are
:
as
if
a
man
should
heare
in
a
city
nothing
but
foolish
and
sturrilous
dirties
,
such
as
would
make
euen
the
younger
sort
that
are
well
brought
vp
to
blush
,
and
stir
vp
the
indignation
of
men
of
honour
and
grauitie
:
this
ought
Magistrate
to
preuent
,
and
to
discharge
the
people
from
reading
Amadis
,
Tristram
,
Launcelot
,
du
lake
,
Melusine
,
Poggius
scurrilities
,
and
Boccace
nouelties
,
with
a
thousand
more
such
like
toies
:
and
thus
much
out
of
Viues
.
CAAP.
XXXV
.
Of
Theenes
and
Robbers
.
IT
followes
that
wee
speake
in
the
next
place
of
such
as
by
their
greedy
couetousnesse
and
vnquenchable
desire
of
lucre
,
transgresse
the
fourth
commandement
of
the
second
table
,
to
wit
,
Thou
shalt
not
steale
:
wherein
not
only
simple
theft
but
also
sacriledge
is
condemned
,
and
first
of
Sacriledge
.
Into
this
sinne
fell
wretched
Achan
in
the
time
of
Ioshua
,
But
to
come
vnto
prophane
stories
,
let
vs
begin
with
Heliodorus
measurer
of
Seleuchus
king
of
Asia
:
who
by
the
Kings
commandement
and
suggestion
of
one
Simon
,
gouernour
of
the
Temple
,
came
to
take
away
the
gold
and
siluer
which
was
kept
in
the
treasurie
of
the
Temple
,
and
to
transport
it
vnto
the
kings
treasurie
,
whereat
the
whole
city
of
Ierusalem
put
on
sackcloth
,
and
poured
out
praiers
vnto
the
Lord
:
so
that
when
Heliodorus
was
present
in
the
Temple
with
his
souldiours
readie
to
seaze
vpon
the
treasure
,
the
Lord
of
all
spirits
and
power
,
shewed
so
great
a
vision
that
hee
fell
suddainely
into
extreame
feare
and
trembling
:
for
there
appeared
vnto
him
an
horse
with
a
terrible
man
sitting
vpon
him
most
richly
barbed
,
which
came
fiercely
and
smote
at
him
with
his
foreseer
;
moreouer
there
appeared
two
young
men
,
notable
in
strength
,
excellent
in
beautie
,
and
comely
in
aparrell
,
which
stood
by
him
on
either
side
and
scourged
him
with
many
striples
,
so
that
Heliodorus
that
came
in
with
so
great
a
company
of
souldiours
and
attendants
,
was
stroken
dumbe
and
caried
out
in
a
litter
vpon
thens
shoulders
:
for
his
strength
was
so
abated
that
he
could
not
helpe
himselfe
,
but
lay
destitute
of
all
hope
of
recouery
,
so
heauy
was
the
hand
of
God
vpon
him
,
vntil
by
the
praiers
of
Onias
the
high
priest
he
was
restored
;
then
loe
,
he
confessed
that
hee
which
dwelt
in
heauen
had
his
eie
on
that
place
,
and
defended
it
from
all
those
that
came
to
hurt
and
spoile
it
.
Another
of
this
true
,
was
in
Crassus
the
Romane
,
who
entring
Ierusalem
robbed
the
Temple
of
two
thousand
talents
of
siluer
and
gold
;
Iulian
the
Apostatae
robbed
the
church
of
the
reuenues
thereof
,
and
tooke
away
all
beneuolences
and
contributions
to
schooles
of
learning
,
to
the
end
the
children
might
not
be
instructed
in
the
liberall
arts
,
nor
in
any
other
good
literature
.
Hee
exaggered
also
his
sacriledge
with
scornefull
ieasts
,
saying
that
hee
did
further
then
saluation
by
making
them
poore
:
seeing
it
was
written
in
their
owne
bibles
;
Blessed
are
the
poore
,
for
theirs
is
the
kingdome
of
heauen
:
but
how
this
sacreligious
theefe
was
punished
,
Leo
Croponymus
tooke
out
of
the
Temple
of
Constantinople
an
excellent
crowne
of
gold
beset
with
precious
stones
,
which
Mauritius
had
dedicated
to
the
Lord
,
but
assoone
as
he
had
set
it
on
his
head
,
a
cruell
feuer
seased
vpon
him
that
he
died
very
shortly
.
Moreouer
the
Lord
so
hateth
this
ireligious
sinne
,
that
he
permitteth
the
deuil
to
exercise
his
cruelty
vpon
the
spoilers
of
prophane
and
idolatrous
temples
,
as
he
did
vpon
Dionisius
the
tyrant
of
Siracusa
;
Iupiter
Olimpus
of
his
golden
raiment
,
and
gaue
him
a
woollen
coat
in
steed
thereof
;
saying
it
was
too
heauie
for
him
in
the
summer
,
and
too
cold
in
winter
,
and
that
this
was
more
conuenient
for
both
seasons
:
the
pretext
of
al
his
sacriledge
was
this
,
that
seeing
the
Gods
were
good
,
why
should
not
he
be
pertaker
of
their
goodnesse
.
Such
another
was
Cambises
king
of
Persia
,
Iupiter
Ammon
,
but
in
their
iourney
so
mighty
a
tempest
arose
,
that
they
were
ouerwhelmed
with
the
sand
,
not
one
of
them
remaining
to
carry
news
of
their
successe
.
Brennus
was
constrained
to
slay
himselfe
for
enterprising
to
rob
the
Temple
of
Apollo
at
Delphos
:
Philomelus
,
Cardinal
Wolsey
being
determined
to
erect
two
new
colledges
,
And
thus
much
of
Sacriledge
,
now
let
vs
come
and
see
the
punishment
of
simple
theft
;
the
principall
cause
whereof
is
couetousnesse
,
which
is
so
vnruly
an
euill
,
and
so
deepe
rooted
in
the
heart
of
man
,
that
euer
yet
it
hath
vsed
to
encroch
vpon
the
goods
of
others
,
and
to
keepe
possession
of
that
which
was
none
of
it
owne
;
breaking
all
the
bandes
of
humanity
,
equity
,
and
right
,
without
being
contained
in
any
measure
or
mean
:
whereof
we
haue
a
most
notable
example
in
the
old
world
before
the
floud
,
which
(
by
Moses
report
)
ouerflowed
with
iniquitie
and
extortion
;
the
mightie
ones
oppressed
the
weake
,
the
greater
trod
vnder
foot
the
lesse
,
and
the
rich
deuoured
the
poore
:
when
the
Lord
saw
the
generall
deluge
of
sinne
and
disorder
thus
vniuersally
spread
(
which
indeed
was
a
signe
of
great
defection
and
contempt
of
him
)
hee
like
a
iust
iudge
that
could
not
endure
these
monstrous
iniquities
,
sent
a
deluge
of
waters
amongst
them
by
opening
the
windows
of
heauen
,
and
breaking
vp
the
fountaines
of
the
great
deepes
,
and
giuing
passage
to
the
waters
both
by
heauen
and
by
earth
,
so
that
it
rained
fortie
daies
and
fortie
nights
without
ceasing
,
and
the
waters
preuailed
vpon
the
earth
,
and
ouercouered
the
high
mountaines
by
fifteene
cubites
,
the
earth
being
reduced
into
the
same
estate
which
it
had
in
the
beginning
before
the
waters
were
tooke
away
from
the
face
thereof
:
verily
it
was
a
most
hideous
and
sad
spectacle
to
see
first
the
vallies
,
then
the
hils
,
and
last
the
highest
mountaines
so
ouerflowne
with
water
,
that
no
shew
or
appearance
of
them
might
be
perceiued
,
it
was
a
dreadful
sight
to
behold
whole
houses
tossed
to
and
fro
vp
and
downe
in
the
waues
,
and
at
last
to
be
shiuered
in
peeces
,
there
was
not
a
citie
nor
village
that
perished
not
in
the
deepe
,
not
a
tree
nor
tower
so
high
that
could
ouerpeere
the
waters
:
as
they
encreased
more
and
more
in
abundance
,
so
feare
,
horror
,
and
despaire
of
safetie
encreased
in
the
heart
of
euery
liuing
soule
.
And
on
this
fashion
did
God
punish
those
wicked
rebels
,
not
at
one
blow
,
but
by
little
and
little
encreasing
their
paine
,
that
as
they
had
a
long
time
abused
his
patience
,
and
made
no
reckoning
of
amendment
,
so
the
punishment
of
their
sinne
might
bee
long
and
tedious
.
Now
in
this
extremitie
one
could
not
helpe
another
,
nor
one
enuie
another
,
but
all
were
concluded
vnder
the
same
destruction
,
all
surprised
,
assieged
,
and
enuironed
alike
,
aswell
he
that
roued
in
the
fields
as
he
that
staied
in
the
houses
,
he
that
climed
vp
vnto
the
mountains
,
as
hee
that
abode
in
the
vallies
,
the
merciles
water
spared
none
:
it
was
to
no
purpose
that
some
ascended
their
high
houses
,
some
climed
vpon
trees
,
and
some
scaled
the
rockes
,
neither
one
nor
other
found
any
refuge
or
safety
in
any
place
,
the
rich
were
not
saued
by
their
riches
,
nor
the
strong
by
the
pith
of
their
strength
,
but
all
perished
and
were
drowned
togither
,
except
Noah
and
his
familie
:
which
punishment
was
correspondent
vnto
the
worlds
iniquitie
,
for
as
the
earth
was
corrupted
and
polluted
with
abundance
of
sinne
:
so
God
sent
abundance
of
water
to
purge
and
clense
away
the
filthinesse
thereof
,
as
at
the
latter
day
hee
will
send
fire
to
purifie
and
refine
heauen
and
earth
from
their
dregs
,
and
restore
them
to
their
first
and
purest
estate
.
And
thus
God
reuenged
the
extortion
and
crueltie
of
that
age
.
But
yet
for
all
this
those
sinnes
were
not
then
so
defaced
and
rooted
vp
,
but
that
they
be
burnished
againe
and
grown
in
time
to
as
big
a
Bulke
:
for
euen
at
this
day
the
greatest
part
of
the
world
is
giuen
to
practise
fraud
and
deceit
,
and
by
vnlawfull
meanes
to
encroch
vpon
others
goods
;
which
subtleties
,
though
they
desire
neuer
so
to
disguise
and
cloke
,
yet
will
they
euer
bee
condemned
&
reputed
kinds
of
theft
before
God
:
now
as
some
are
of
greater
power
and
authority
than
others
in
the
world
,
so
answerable
to
their selues
is
the
qualitie
of
their
sinnes
,
and
by
consequence
the
punishment
:
the
greater
of
power
,
the
greater
theeues
and
the
greater
iudgement
:
for
if
a
poor
man
through
pouerty
and
necessity
cutteth
a
purse
,
of
stealeth
any
other
trifle
,
be
culpable
;
how
much
more
culpable
shall
he
that
is
rich
bee
,
that
vsurpeth
the
goods
of
his
neighbor
?
Draco
the
lawgiuer
of
Athens
appointed
death
to
be
the
punishment
of
theft
:
Solon
mitigated
that
rigor
,
and
punished
it
with
double
restitution
:
The
Locrians
put
out
his
eies
that
had
stolen
ought
from
his
neighbour
:
The
Hetrurians
stoned
them
to
death
:
The
Scythians
abhorred
them
more
than
all
creatures
,
because
they
had
a
communitie
of
all
things
except
their
cups
.
The
Vacceians
vsed
such
seuerity
towards
this
kind
of
men
,
that
if
one
had
taken
but
a
handfull
of
corne
,
he
was
sure
to
die
for
it
.
Marcus
Fabius
being
Censor
,
condemned
his
own
son
Bute●
to
death
being
apprehended
for
theft
.
Tiberius
the
Emperor
punished
a
souldior
after
the
same
manner
for
stealing
a
Peacock
:
in
sum
,
there
was
no
Commonwealth
wherin
this
sin
was
not
highly
detested
,
&
sharply
punished
,
except
the
Lacedemonian
,
where
it
was
permitted
and
tollerated
for
their
exercise
of
warlike
discipline
.
It
was
a
rash
and
seuere
,
When
Theophilus
raigned
Emperour
in
the
East
,
there
was
a
certaine
souldiour
possessed
of
a
very
gallant
and
braue
horse
,
which
his
captaine
by
all
meanes
possible
sought
to
get
from
him
,
Ibicus
the
Poet
being
set
vpon
by
theeues
,
when
hee
saw
that
they
would
not
only
spoile
him
of
his
money
but
of
his
life
also
,
he
cried
for
help
and
reuenge
to
the
cranes
that
flew
ouer
his
head
,
a
while
after
as
these
murdering
theeues
sat
togither
in
the
market
place
,
the
same
cranes
appearing
vnto
them
in
the
aire
,
they
whispered
one
another
in
the
eare
,
and
said
,
yonder
flie
Ibicus
reuengers
,
which
though
secretly
spoken
,
yet
was
ouerheard
:
so
that
they
being
examined
and
found
guiltie
,
were
put
to
death
for
their
paines
.
The
like
story
Martin
Luther
There
is
another
kind
of
theft
practised
of
them
that
be
in
authority
,
who
vnder
the
title
of
confiscation
assume
vnto
themselues
stollen
goods
,
and
so
much
the
readilier
,
by
how
much
the
value
of
the
things
amounteth
to
more
worth
:
an
action
altogither
vniust
and
contrary
to
both
diuine
and
humane
law
,
which
ordaine
to
restore
vnto
euery
man
his
own
:
&
truly
he
that
in
steed
of
restitution
with
holdeth
the
good
of
his
neighbour
in
this
manner
,
differeth
no
more
from
a
theefe
,
than
that
the
one
stealeth
boldly
without
feare
,
the
other
timorously
and
with
great
danger
:
and
what
greater
corruption
of
Iustice
can
there
be
then
this
?
For
who
would
follow
the
law
vpon
a
theefe
when
he
knoweth
hee
shall
rather
run
into
further
charge
,
than
recouer
any
of
his
old
losse
?
Beside
this
,
it
happeneth
that
poore
small
theeues
are
often
drawne
to
the
whip
,
or
driuen
to
banishment
,
or
sent
to
the
gallows
,
when
rich
grand
theeues
lie
at
their
ease
and
escape
vncontrouled
,
albeit
the
qualitie
of
their
crime
bee
far
vnequal
,
according
to
the
Poet
:
The
simple
doue
by
law
is
censured
,
The
world
was
euer
yet
full
of
such
rauenous
rauens
,
so
nimble
in
pilling
others
goods
,
and
so
greedy
of
their
owne
gaine
;
that
the
poore
people
in
steed
of
being
maintained
and
preserued
in
the
peaceable
enioying
of
their
portions
,
are
gnawne
to
the
very
bones
amongst
them
:
for
which
cause
Homer
in
the
person
of
Agamemnon
calleth
them
deuourers
of
men
:
likewise
also
the
Prophet
Dauid
in
the
sixteenth
Psalme
calleth
them
eaters
of
his
people
:
and
yet
want
they
not
flatterers
and
trencher-friends
(
Canckerwoms
of
a
Commonwealth
)
that
vrge
them
forwards
,
&
deuise
daily
new
kind
of
exactions
,
like
horseleaches
to
sucke
out
the
very
blood
of
mens
purses
,
shewing
so
much
the
more
wit
&
deceit
therein
,
by
how
much
the
more
they
hope
to
gaine
a
great
part
therof
vnto
their selues
:
being
like
hungerstarued
Harpeis
,
that
will
neuer
bee
satisfied
,
but
still
snatch
and
catch
al
that
commeth
neare
their
clouches
:
and
these
are
they
that
doe
good
to
no
man
,
but
hurt
to
all
;
of
whom
the
Marchant
findeth
himselfe
agreeued
,
the
Artificer
troden
vnder
foot
,
the
poore
laborer
oppressed
,
and
generally
all
men
endamaged
.
CHAP.
XXXVI
.
Of
the
excessiue
burdenings
of
the
Comminaltie
.
AS
it
is
a
iust
&
approued
thing
before
God
to
doe
honor
and
reuerence
to
kings
and
Princes
,
and
to
bee
subiect
vnder
them
in
all
obedience
:
so
it
is
a
reasonable
and
allowable
duty
to
pay
such
tributes
and
subsidies
,
(
whereby
their
great
charges
&
honourable
estate
may
bee
maintained
)
as
by
right
of
equitie
are
due
vnto
them
:
and
this
is
also
commanded
by
our
Sauior
Christ
in
expresse
words
when
hee
saith
,
Giue
vnto
Caesar
that
which
is
Caesars
.
And
by
the
Apostle
Paule
more
expressely
,
pay
tributes
,
render
vnto
all
men
their
due
:
tribute
to
whome
tribute
belongeth
,
and
custome
to
whom
custome
:
Marke
how
hee
saith
,
Giue
vnto
all
men
their
due
:
and
therein
obserue
that
kings
and
princes
ought
of
their
good
and
iust
disposition
bee
content
with
their
due
;
and
not
seeke
to
load
and
ouercharge
their
subiects
with
vnnecessary
exactions
,
but
to
desire
to
see
them
rather
rich
and
wealthie
than
poore
and
needy
,
for
thereby
commeth
no
profite
vnto
themselues
;
further
it
is
most
vnlawfull
for
them
to
exact
that
aboue
measure
,
vpon
their
commons
,
which
being
in
mediocrity
is
not
condemned
:
I
say
it
is
vnlawfull
both
by
the
law
of
God
and
man
,
[
the
law
of
God
and
man
is
termed
all
that
which
both
God
and
man
allow
and
agree
vpon
,
and
which
a
man
with
a
safe
conscience
may
put
in
practise
:
]
for
the
former
we
can
haue
no
other
schoolmaster
nor
instruction
,
saue
the
holy
scripture
,
wherein
God
hath
manifested
his
will
vnto
vs
,
concerning
this
very
matter
,
as
in
Deuteronom.
18
,
speaking
of
the
office
and
duty
of
a
king
,
he
forbiddeth
them
to
be
horders
vp
of
gold
and
siluer
,
and
espousers
of
many
wiues
,
and
louers
of
pride
;
signifying
thereby
,
that
they
ought
to
containe
themselues
within
the
bounds
of
modestie
and
temperance
,
and
not
giue
the
raines
to
their
owne
affections
,
nor
heape
vp
great
treasures
to
their
peoples
detriment
,
nor
to
delight
in
warre
,
nor
to
be
too
much
subiect
to
their
owne
pleasures
;
all
which
things
are
meanes
of
vnmeasurable
expense
:
so
that
if
it
be
not
allowable
to
muster
togither
multitudes
of
goods
,
for
the
danger
and
mischiefe
that
ensueth
thereof
,
as
it
appeareth
out
of
this
place
;
then
surely
is
it
much
lesse
lawfull
to
leuy
excessiue
taxes
of
the
people
;
for
the
one
of
these
can
not
be
without
the
other
:
and
thus
for
the
law
of
God
it
is
cleare
,
that
by
it
authority
is
not
committed
vnto
them
,
to
surcharge
,
and
as
it
were
,
trample
downe
their
poore
subiects
,
by
vnmeasurable
and
vnsupportable
imposition
.
As
for
that
which
the
Prophet
Samuel
in
the
name
of
God
,
giueth
notice
to
the
Israelites
of
,
touching
the
right
of
a
king
;
wherein
he
seemeth
to
allow
him
the
disposition
of
the
goods
and
persons
of
his
subiects
:
I
answer
first
,
that
God
being
an
immooueable
truth
,
cannot
contradict
himselfe
by
commanding
and
forbidding
the
same
thing
;
and
secondly
,
that
the
word
of
the
text
in
the
originall
,
signifieth
nothing
else
,
but
a
custome
,
or
fashion
,
as
it
appeareth
in
the
1.
Sam.
11.13
:
besides
,
the
speech
that
the
Prophet
vseth
,
importeth
not
a
commandement
,
but
an
aduertisement
of
the
subiection
,
whereunto
the
people
were
about
to
thrust
themselues
,
by
desiring
a
king
after
the
manner
of
other
nations
,
whose
customes
amongst
them
,
was
to
exercise
authority
and
dominion
as
well
ouer
their
goods
as
their
persons
:
for
which
cause
,
God
would
haue
them
forewarned
,
that
they
might
know
how
vile
a
yoke
they
put
their
owne
neches
vnder
,
and
what
grieuous
and
troublesome
seruitude
they
vndertooke
,
from
the
which
they
could
no
waies
be
deliuered
,
no
though
they
desired
it
with
teares
.
Furthermore
,
that
a
king
in
Israel
had
no
power
(
in
right
and
equity
)
to
take
away
the
possessions
of
any
of
his
subiects
,
and
appropriate
it
to
himselfe
,
it
appeareth
by
Nabaoths
refusal
to
king
Achab
,
Let
it
suffice
,
O
princes
of
Israel
,
leaue
off
crueltie
and
oppression
,
and
execute
iudgement
and
iustice
:
take
away
your
exactions
from
my
people
,
and
cease
to
thrust
them
from
their
goods
and
heritages
.
Now
concerning
the
law
of
man
,
which
all
men
agree
vnto
,
because
it
is
grounded
vpon
reason
and
equitie
,
we
find
no
permission
giuen
to
kings
to
vse
the
goods
of
other
men
at
their
pleasures
;
for
that
was
far
from
equity
:
neither
was
there
any
such
liberty
bestowed
vpon
them
,
by
those
that
first
in
the
beginning
exalted
them
to
that
degree
of
dignity
:
but
rather
(
as
diuers
worthy
authors
auouch
)
their
owne
vertues
vnd
good
behauiour
which
woon
them
credit
amongst
the
better
sort
,
installed
them
first
vnto
that
honor
.
Tiberius
Caesar
,
being
sollicited
by
the
gouernours
of
the
prouinces
,
to
lay
heauier
tributes
,
and
leuy
larger
subsidies
from
his
people
,
made
(
though
a
Painym
)
this
notable
answer
:
That
a
good
shepheard
ought
to
sheare
his
sheepe
,
not
to
slea
them
.
Saint
Lewes
,
that
good
king
,
amongst
all
his
otherwise
and
vertuous
exhortations
which
he
gaue
vnto
his
sonne
before
his
death
,
this
was
none
of
the
least
nor
last
;
CHAP.
XXXVII
.
Of
those
that
haue
vsed
too
much
crueltie
towards
their
subiects
in
Taxes
and
Exactions
.
IT
is
cleare
then
by
these
foresaid
assumptions
,
that
a
king
may
not
impose
vpon
his
subiects
vnmeasurable
taxes
,
and
subsidies
,
least
hee
make
himselfe
guiltie
of
extortion
;
the
roote
and
fountaine
many
times
of
many
great
mischiefes
and
inconueniences
,
and
in
very
deed
from
whence
oftener
changes
,
seditions
,
and
ruines
of
common-wealths
haue
proceeded
,
than
from
any
other
cause
beside
.
What
happened
to
Roboam
,
king
of
Israel
,
for
shewing
himselfe
too
rigorous
on
this
behalfe
to
his
subiects
,
but
the
defection
of
the
greater
part
of
his
kingdome
from
him
;
for
being
come
to
the
crowne
after
the
death
of
his
father
Salomon
,
when
the
people
came
and
made
a
supplication
to
him
to
be
eased
from
his
fathers
burdens
,
hee
(
despising
the
counsell
of
his
sage
and
ancient
counsellours
,
Achaeus
,
king
of
Lydia
,
was
hanged
vp
against
a
hill
,
and
his
head
throwne
into
a
riuer
running
by
,
because
of
the
great
subsidies
which
he
exacted
of
his
people
.
Of
the
Romane
Emperours
that
most
vexed
the
comminalty
with
tributes
and
taxes
,
these
three
were
chiefe
,
Caligula
,
Nero
,
and
Caracalla
,
of
whome
,
this
latter
did
most
pill
and
pull
the
people
,
and
would
often
say
,
The
Emperour
Constance
,
sonne
to
Constantine
,
whose
father
was
Heraclius
,
comming
at
a
time
out
of
Greece
to
Rome
,
Lewis
the
eleuenth
,
king
of
France
,
after
hee
had
ouercharged
his
subiects
with
too
grieuous
burdens
of
paiments
and
taxes
,
fell
into
such
a
timerous
conceit
&
feare
of
death
,
as
neuer
any
man
did
the
like
:
hee
attempted
all
meanes
of
auoiding
or
delaying
the
same
,
as
first
during
his
sicknesse
,
he
gaue
his
phisition
monethly
ten
thousand
crownes
,
by
that
meanes
to
creepe
into
his
fauour
;
wherein
hee
beeing
in
all
other
things
a
very
niggard
and
pinchpenny
,
shewed
himselfe
on
the
other
side
more
then
prodigall
:
next
he
sent
into
Calabria
for
a
Hermit
reported
to
be
a
holy
and
deuout
man
,
to
whome
at
his
arriuall
,
hee
perfourmed
so
much
dutie
and
reuerence
,
as
was
wonderfull
and
vnseemely
:
for
hee
threw
himselfe
on
his
knees
,
and
besought
him
to
prolong
his
decaying
life
,
as
if
hee
had
beene
a
God
and
not
a
man
:
but
all
that
hee
could
doe
was
to
no
purpose
,
no
nor
the
reliques
which
Pope
Sixtus
sent
him
to
busie
himselfe
withall
,
nor
the
holy
viall
of
Rheims
which
was
brought
him
,
could
prorogue
this
life
of
his
,
nor
priuiledge
him
from
dying
a
discontent
and
vnwilling
death
:
he
suspected
the
most
part
of
his
nearest
attendants
,
and
would
not
suffer
them
to
approch
vnto
him
in
his
sicknesse
:
after
hee
had
thus
prolonged
the
time
in
hope
,
and
yet
still
languished
in
extreame
distresse
of
his
disease
,
it
was
at
length
told
him
in
all
speed
,
that
hee
should
not
set
his
mind
any
longer
vpon
those
vaine
hopes
,
nor
vpon
that
holy
man
,
for
his
time
was
come
,
and
hee
must
needs
die
.
And
thus
hee
that
during
his
raigne
shewed
himselfe
rough
and
cruell
to
his
subiects
,
by
too
many
and
heauy
impositions
,
was
himselfe
in
his
lattet
end
thus
roughly
and
hardly
dealt
withall
.
Christiern
,
the
eleuenth
king
of
Denmarke
,
Norway
,
and
Suecia
,
after
the
death
of
king
Iohn
his
father
,
raigned
the
yeere
of
our
Lord
1514
,
and
was
too
intollerable
in
imposing
burdens
and
taxes
vpon
his
subiects
;
for
which
cause
the
Swecians
reuolted
from
his
gouernment
:
whome
though
after
many
battailes
and
sieges
hee
conquered
,
and
placed
amongst
them
his
garrisons
to
keepe
them
in
awe
,
yet
ceased
they
not
to
rebell
against
him
,
and
that
by
the
instigation
of
a
meane
gentleman
,
who
very
quickely
got
footing
into
the
kingdome
,
and
possessed
himselfe
of
the
crowne
and
gouernment
.
Now
Christiern
hauing
lost
this
prouince
,
and
beeing
also
in
disdaine
and
hatred
of
his
owne
countrey
,
and
fearing
least
this
inward
heat
of
spight
should
grow
to
some
flame
of
danger
to
his
life
,
seeing
that
the
inhabitants
of
Lubeck
conspiring
with
his
vncle
Fredericke
,
began
to
take
armes
against
him
,
hee
fled
away
,
with
his
wife
(
sister
to
the
Emperour
Charles
the
fift
)
and
his
young
children
to
Zeland
,
a
prouince
of
the
Emperours
,
after
hee
had
raigned
nine
yeeres
:
after
which
,
the
Estates
of
the
realme
(
aided
by
them
of
Lubeck
)
assembling
togither
,
exalted
his
vncle
Fredericke
,
prince
of
Holsatia
,
(
though
old
and
ancient
)
to
the
crowne
;
and
publishing
certaine
writings
,
addressed
them
to
the
Emperour
and
the
princes
of
his
Empire
,
to
render
a
reason
of
their
con-proceeding
,
and
to
make
knowne
vnto
them
vpon
how
good
siderations
,
they
had
deposed
and
banished
Christierne
,
for
the
tyranny
which
hee
exercised
among
them
:
ten
yeres
after
this
,
hee
got
togither
a
new
army
by
sea
,
in
hope
to
recouer
his
losses
,
but
contrary
to
his
hope
he
was
taken
prisoner
,
and
in
captiuity
ended
miserably
his
daies
.
Henry
,
king
of
Suecia
,
was
chased
from
his
scepter
for
enterprising
to
burden
his
commons
with
new
contributions
.
Those
that
were
deuisers
of
new
taxes
and
tributes
,
Likewise
was
George
Presquon
cruelly
put
to
death
by
the
people
for
persuading
and
setting
forward
Henry
of
Suecia
,
to
the
vexation
and
exaction
of
his
subiects
.
CHAP.
XXXVIII
.
More
Examples
of
the
same
subiect
.
At
Paris
there
is
to
be
seene
in
the
corne
market
,
a
certain
monument
hard
at
the
mouth
of
the
common
sinke
,
which
conuaieth
away
all
the
filth
out
of
the
city
;
Barnabe
Vicount
of
Millane
by
the
report
of
Paulus
Ionius
,
Iohn
Galeacius
,
and
after
seuen
months
imprisonment
poysoned
to
death
.
Archigallo
brother
to
Gorbonianus
in
nature
,
Hardiknitus
king
of
Denmarke
,
William
Rufus
second
sonne
of
William
the
conquerour
succeeded
his
father
as
in
the
kingdome
of
England
,
so
in
disposition
of
nature
,
for
they
were
both
cruell
,
vnconstant
and
couetous
,
and
burdened
their
people
with
vnreasonable
taxes
:
insomuch
that
what
with
the
morreine
of
men
by
pestilence
,
and
the
oppressions
of
them
by
exactions
,
the
tillage
of
the
earth
was
put
off
for
one
yeare
,
being
the
yeare
1096
,
whereby
ensued
great
scarsitie
the
yeare
following
throughout
all
the
land
:
but
for
the
oppression
William
was
iustly
punished
by
sodaine
death
,
when
being
at
his
disport
of
hunting
hee
was
wounded
with
an
arrow
glaunsing
from
the
bow
of
Tyrill
a
French
knight
:
and
so
his
tyranny
and
life
ended
togither
.
It
is
not
vnworthie
to
bee
noted
,
how
Edward
the
third
king
of
England
,
prospered
a
long
while
in
the
warres
against
France
,
and
got
many
worthie
and
wonderfull
victories
:
but
when
Prince
Edward
,
sonne
vnto
the
foresaid
Edward
,
after
conditions
of
peace
concluded
,
began
to
set
taxes
and
impositions
vpon
the
country
of
Aquitaine
,
then
did
king
Edwards
part
begin
to
decline
,
and
the
successe
of
war
which
the
space
of
fortie
years
neuer
forsooke
him
,
now
frowned
vpon
him
,
so
that
he
quickly
lost
all
those
lands
which
by
composition
of
peace
were
granted
vnto
him
.
CAAP.
XXXIX
.
Of
such
as
by
force
of
armes
haue
either
taken
away
,
or
would
haue
taken
away
,
the
goods
and
lands
of
other
men
.
NOw
if
they
that
oppresse
their
subiects
and
deuour
them
in
this
manner
,
Cursed
bee
thou
that
spoilest
and
dealest
vnfaithfully
;
when
thou
hast
made
an
end
of
spoiling
others
,
thou
thy selfe
shall
bee
spoiled
:
and
when
thou
hast
done
dealing
traiterously
,
then
treason
shall
begin
to
be
practised
against
thee
:
and
this
curse
most
commonly
neuer
faileth
to
sease
vpon
these
great
Theeues
and
Robbers
,
or
at
least
vpon
their
children
and
successours
;
as
by
particular
examples
wee
shall
see
,
after
wee
haue
first
spoken
of
Adonias
,
who
not
content
with
his
owne
estate
of
being
a
kings
sonne
,
Policrates
the
Tyrant
,
Aristodemus
got
into
his
hands
the
gouernment
of
Cuma
,
Seruius
Tullus
the
sonne
to
a
bondman
,
addicted
himselfe
so
much
to
the
exploits
of
warre
,
that
by
Prowesse
hee
got
so
great
credite
and
reputation
among
the
Romanes
;
that
hee
was
thought
worthie
to
bee
made
the
sonne
in
law
of
king
Tarquinius
by
marrying
one
of
his
daughters
:
Manlius
after
hee
had
maintained
the
fortresse
of
Rome
against
the
Gaules
,
glorying
in
that
action
,
In
former
times
there
liued
in
Carthage
one
Hanno
,
That
great
and
fearefull
warriour
Iulius
Caesar
,
one
of
the
most
hardie
and
valiants
peeces
of
flesh
that
euer
was
,
after
he
had
performed
so
many
notable
exploits
,
ouercome
all
his
enemies
,
and
brought
all
high
and
haughtie
purposes
to
their
desired
effect
:
being
prickt
forward
with
the
spur
of
ambition
and
a
high
mind
,
through
the
meanes
and
assistance
of
the
mightie
forces
of
the
Commonwealth
,
which
(
contrary
to
the
constitution
of
the
Senate
)
were
left
in
his
hands
,
hee
set
footing
into
the
state
,
and
making
himself
maister
&
Lord
of
the
whole
Romane
Empire
,
vsurped
a
soueraigntie
ouer
them
.
But
as
he
attained
to
his
dignitie
by
force
and
violence
,
so
he
inioied
it
not
long
,
Balthasar
,
Arbaces
being
the
worker
of
the
first
,
and
Darius
king
of
Persia
of
the
latter
;
both
of
them
receiuing
the
wages
not
of
their
wickednesse
,
but
also
of
their
predecessours
&
great
grandfathers
crueltie
and
oppressions
,
by
whome
many
people
and
nations
had
bene
destroied
.
Moreouer
,
as
the
Babylonian
Empire
was
ouerthrowne
by
Darius
of
Persia
,
so
was
his
Persian
kingdome
(
in
Darius
the
last
king
of
that
country
his
time
,
this
mans
successour
)
ouerturned
by
Alexander
.
Againe
,
the
great
dominion
of
Alexander
(
who
suruiued
not
long
after
)
was
not
continued
to
any
of
his
by
inheritance
,
but
deuided
like
a
prey
amongst
his
greatest
captaines
,
and
from
them
the
most
part
of
it
in
short
time
descended
to
the
Romans
;
who
spreading
their
wings
and
stretching
their
greedie
talents
far
and
neere
,
for
a
while
rauened
and
preyed
ouer
all
the
world
,
and
enriched
and
bedecked
themselues
with
the
spoiles
of
many
nations
;
and
therefore
it
was
necessarie
that
they
also
should
be
made
a
prey
,
and
that
the
far
fetcht
Gothes
and
Vandales
should
come
vpon
them
,
as
vpon
the
body
of
a
great
Whale
that
suffers
shipwracke
vpon
the
sea
shore
:
since
which
time
the
Romane
Empire
went
to
decay
,
and
grew
euery
day
weaker
than
other
:
yea
and
many
princes
setting
themselues
against
and
aboue
it
,
haue
robbed
it
of
the
realmes
and
prouinces
which
it
robbed
others
of
before
:
and
thus
wee
may
see
,
how
all
things
runne
,
as
it
were
,
in
a
circle
,
and
how
great
the
vncertentie
of
this
world
is
,
seeing
that
the
mightiest
are
subiect
to
so
many
and
great
changes
:
For
if
there
be
any
thing
vnder
the
sunne
that
may
carry
any
shew
of
stabilitie
or
continuance
,
surely
it
is
a
monarchie
or
common
wealth
,
grounded
vpon
the
vnitie
and
consent
of
all
people
,
maintained
by
the
authority
of
the
greatest
and
most
mightie
,
and
vnderpropped
with
the
shores
of
much
strength
and
wealth
,
as
that
Romane
Empire
was
:
and
yet
for
all
that
,
there
was
neuer
any
,
though
neuer
so
well
reared
and
furnished
,
and
deepe
rooted
,
which
at
the
length
hath
not
bene
demolished
,
ransacked
,
and
pulled
vp
by
some
notable
and
strange
calamity
.
And
this
is
that
which
the
spirit
of
God
would
giue
vs
to
know
,
by
the
vision
of
that
great
image
,
represented
to
Nabuchadnezzar
in
a
dreame
,
according
to
Daniels
interpretation
thereof
;
to
wit
,
that
the
foure
great
and
puissant
monarchies
of
the
world
,
should
at
last
bee
ruinated
and
dispersed
,
like
the
chaffe
before
the
wind
,
till
they
were
consumed
and
brought
to
nothing
,
albeit
they
were
glorious
and
excellent
as
gold
and
siluer
,
or
strong
and
mightie
as
brasse
and
iron
.
How
much
more
foolish
and
euill
aduised
are
they
then
,
that
for
a
certaine
apparant
splendour
and
shew
of
worldly
honour
(
which
is
as
fraile
as
any
rose
,
as
variable
as
the
wind
,
as
light
and
vaine
as
a
shadow
or
smoke
,
as
vnassured
as
a
rotten
planke
)
haue
the
eies
of
their
minds
so
dazled
,
and
their
wits
so
bewitched
,
&
all
their
affections
so
transported
,
as
to
mingle
heauen
and
earth
togither
,
to
dash
the
East
against
the
West
,
to
stirre
vp
discord
and
dissention
betwixt
man
and
man
,
and
to
shed
so
many
thousand
mens
blood
,
and
all
for
a
paltry
desire
of
raigne
,
though
to
their
owne
finall
ruine
and
destruction
?
Peter
Caudian
,
who
(
not
content
with
his
dukedome
)
went
about
to
vsurpe
a
tyrannicall
rule
ouer
the
whole
segniory
,
and
that
by
pride
and
threats
;
desiring
rather
to
make
himselfe
terrible
to
the
people
by
those
bad
means
,
than
amiable
and
beloued
by
any
meanes
whatsoeuer
;
and
thus
daily
he
grew
as
in
age
so
in
insolencie
:
hee
placed
a
garrison
of
men
about
his
pallace
,
and
so
fortifying
himselfe
,
presently
he
shewed
himselfe
in
his
colours
,
namely
a
cruell
tyrant
:
which
when
the
multitude
perceiued
,
and
remembred
withall
,
their
liberty
,
which
they
were
like
to
lose
,
they
tooke
vp
armes
forthwith
,
in
purpose
to
beat
downe
his
hautie
mind
;
therefore
they
first
set
on
fire
his
house
,
and
caused
him
to
forsake
his
fortresse
,
and
to
betake
himselfe
to
his
shifts
:
but
when
by
reason
of
the
stopping
of
the
passages
he
could
not
escape
,
they
tooke
him
and
his
young
sonne
also
which
was
with
him
,
and
put
them
to
a
most
cruell
and
suddaine
death
,
and
cast
their
carcasses
to
be
deuoured
of
dogs
.
In
the
Empire
of
Maximilian
,
Lewes
Sforce
,
Bemh●●
.
lib.
2.
of
the
Ven●●●
historie
.
a
prince
of
an
inconstant
and
turbulent
spirit
,
ambitious
,
and
one
that
made
no
account
of
his
promises
nor
faith
,
tooke
vpon
him
the
gouernment
of
Millaine
,
after
the
death
of
his
brother
Galeaz
duke
of
Millaine
,
who
was
traiterously
slaine
:
in
which
action
,
the
first
wrong
which
he
did
,
was
to
his
brothers
widow
,
whome
hee
deposed
;
the
second
to
his
young
nephew
,
his
brother
Galeaz
sonne
,
whome
he
so
brought
vp
,
as
if
hee
neuer
meant
he
should
come
to
honour
or
goodnes
,
for
hee
suffered
him
not
to
be
trained
vp
either
in
learning
or
armes
,
but
let
him
runne
into
all
possible
occasions
that
might
corrupt
and
spoile
his
tender
age
:
thus
hee
enioyed
the
principalitie
thirteene
yeeres
,
all
the
while
vnder
his
nephewes
raine
;
to
whome
when
,
Alphonsus
king
of
Naples
had
giuen
in
marriage
one
of
his
daughters
,
and
perceiued
what
small
reckoning
his
vncle
made
of
restoring
him
his
dukedome
,
after
hee
had
often
and
instantly
entreated
him
without
preuailing
,
at
length
he
fell
to
threaten
him
with
warre
:
he
fearing
to
haue
the
worse
and
to
loose
so
great
a
dignitie
,
wrought
so
by
his
owne
shifts
and
deuices
,
togither
with
the
helping
hand
of
Pope
Alexander
,
that
he
put
it
in
the
head
of
Charles
the
eight
of
Fraunce
to
goe
and
conquer
Naples
,
for
the
hatred
which
his
heart
possessed
against
Alphonsus
,
supposing
by
this
meanes
the
better
to
accomplish
his
affaires
to
his
owne
desire
.
The
king
of
France
was
no
sooner
entred
Italy
,
but
Lewes
Sforce
ministred
an
Italian
posset
to
his
young
nephew
Iohn
Galeaz
,
that
hee
immediatle
died
vpon
it
,
Iohn
Galeaz
,
being
then
but
fiue
yeeres
old
:
but
he
declared
presently
his
inconstant
and
perfidious
nature
,
in
breaking
promise
with
the
king
of
Fraunce
,
whome
hee
had
induced
with
so
many
faire
speeches
,
to
vndertake
that
voyage
;
and
entring
a
new
league
with
the
Venetians
both
against
him
and
the
Pope
,
although
ere
long
hee
serued
them
with
the
same
measure
:
but
Lewis
the
twelfth
,
succeeding
in
the
crowne
of
France
,
could
not
brooke
this
iniury
done
to
his
predecessour
,
but
pretending
a
title
to
the
Duchie
of
Millaine
,
he
dispatched
an
army
thitherward
,
that
bestirred
it selfe
so
well
,
that
in
short
space
they
brought
vnder
their
subiection
,
all
the
cities
and
townes
neere
adioyning
:
which
the
citizens
perceiuing
,
begun
to
rebell
against
their
duke
,
and
killed
his
treasurer
;
whereupon
he
(
being
not
able
to
make
his
part
good
with
the
French
abroad
,
nor
daring
to
put
any
confidence
in
his
owne
at
home
)
left
his
castle
to
the
charge
and
custody
of
a
captaine
,
and
fled
himselfe
with
his
children
to
Almaine
,
towards
the
Emperour
Maximilians
court
,
hoping
to
find
succour
at
his
hand
,
as
indeed
he
did
;
for
hee
returned
to
Millaine
with
fiue
hundred
Burgundians
,
and
eight
thousand
Zwitzers
,
and
was
receiued
againe
into
the
citie
:
being
thus
refortified
with
these
and
other
moe
troupes
that
came
vnto
him
,
he
encamped
before
Nauarre
,
and
by
composition
,
got
the
city
into
his
hands
from
the
Frenchmen
.
The
French
king
in
the
meane
while
sent
a
new
supply
of
men
into
the
Duchie
,
amongst
whome
were
many
Zwitzers
,
who
so
dealt
with
their
countrimen
that
were
on
the
dukes
side
,
that
they
brought
them
also
to
fauour
the
king
of
France
,
and
to
forsake
the
duke
:
which
when
he
vnderstood
,
hee
presently
departed
the
city
,
and
posting
to
the
campe
,
hardened
his
souldiers
,
desiring
them
to
play
the
men
,
and
not
to
shrinke
,
for
hee
meant
to
giue
battell
without
delay
:
but
the
captaines
made
answer
,
That
they
might
not
fight
against
their
owne
nation
without
especiall
leaue
from
their
lords
.
Now
in
the
meane
while
,
whilst
these
things
were
in
doing
,
they
tooke
order
that
the
Frenchmen
should
approch
to
Nouare
and
intercept
all
the
passages
,
that
the
duke
might
not
escape
,
hee
therefore
laid
aside
his
horse
and
marched
on
foot
in
the
squadron
of
Switzers
,
now
ioyned
to
the
French
,
in
attire
and
armour
like
a
Switzer
,
thinking
by
this
tricke
to
saue
his
life
:
but
all
his
counterfaiting
could
not
saue
him
from
being
taken
,
and
from
lying
ten
yeeres
prisoner
in
the
Tower
of
Loches
,
where
hee
also
died
:
With
the
like
turbulent
and
furious
spirit
of
ambition
haue
many
Roman
bishops
bene
inspired
,
who
what
by
their
iuggling
trickes
,
cousenages
,
and
subtill
deuises
,
and
what
by
force
,
haue
prospered
so
well
,
that
of
simple
bishops
(
which
they
were
wont
to
be
)
they
are
growne
temporall
lords
,
and
as
it
were
monarchs
;
hauing
in
their
possessions
,
lands
,
cities
,
castles
,
fortresses
,
hauens
,
garrisons
,
and
guards
,
after
the
maner
of
kings
,
nay
they
haue
exalted
themselues
aboue
kings
,
(
so
intollerable
is
their
impudencie
)
and
made
them
subiect
to
their
wils
:
Pope
Adrian
the
fourteenth
,
a
monkes
sonne
,
succeeding
Lucius
both
in
the
Papacie
,
Hither
may
be
referred
,
that
which
befell
the
Emperour
Albert
,
duke
of
Austria
,
and
one
of
his
lieutenants
in
Swizzerland
,
for
going
about
to
vsurpe
and
appropriate
certaine
lands
and
dominions
to
him
,
which
belonged
not
vnto
him
.
This
Emperour
had
many
children
whome
hee
desired
to
leaue
rich
and
mightie
,
and
therefore
by
all
meanes
possible
he
endeauoured
to
augment
his
liuing
,
euen
by
getting
from
other
men
whatsoeuer
hee
could
:
and
amongst
all
the
rest
,
this
was
one
especiall
practise
wherein
hee
laboured
tooth
and
naile
,
to
alienate
from
the
Empire
the
land
of
the
Swizzers
,
and
to
leaue
it
for
an
euerlasting
inheritance
to
his
heires
:
which
although
the
Swizzers
would
in
no
case
condiscend
nor
agree
vnto
,
but
contrariwise
sued
earnestly
vnto
his
maiesty
,
for
the
maintenance
of
their
auncient
liberties
and
priuiledges
which
were
confirmed
vnto
them
by
the
former
Emperours
,
and
that
they
might
not
bee
distracted
from
the
Empire
;
yet
notwithstanding
were
constrained
to
vndergoe
for
a
season
the
yoake
of
most
grieuous
tyrannie
and
seruirude
imposed
by
force
vpon
them
:
and
thus
the
poore
comminalty
endured
many
mischiefes
,
and
many
grieuous
and
cruell
extortions
and
indignities
at
the
hands
of
the
Emperours
officers
,
whilst
they
liued
in
this
wretched
and
miserable
estate
.
Amongst
the
rest
there
was
one
called
Grislier
that
began
to
erect
a
strong
fort
of
defence
vpon
a
little
hill
neere
vnto
Altorfe
,
to
keepe
the
countrey
in
greater
awe
and
subiection
;
and
desiring
to
discrie
his
friends
from
his
foes
,
hee
inuented
this
deuise
:
Hee
put
a
hat
vpon
the
end
of
a
long
pole
,
and
placed
it
in
the
field
before
Altorfe
,
where
great
multitudes
of
people
,
with
this
commandement
,
That
euery
one
that
came
by
should
do
obeisance
,
&
vaile
bonnet
to
the
hat
,
and
in
euery
respect
shew
themselues
as
dutifull
vnto
it
,
as
to
his
owne
person
,
imagining
that
his
greatest
enemies
could
not
endure
nor
find
in
their
hearts
to
doe
it
,
and
therefore
vpon
this
ocasion
he
might
apprehend
them
,
and
discouer
all
their
close
practises
&
conspiracies
,
which
they
might
brew
against
him
:
now
there
was
one
,
a
stout
hearted
man
,
that
passing
euery
day
vp
and
downe
that
waies
,
could
in
no
wise
be
brought
to
reuerence
the
dignity
of
the
worthy
hat
,
(
so
vnreasonable
a
thing
it
seemed
in
his
eies
)
whereupon
being
taken
,
the
tyrant
commaunded
him
(
for
punishment
of
his
open
contempt
)
to
shoot
at
an
apple
laid
vpon
the
crown
of
the
head
of
his
dearest
child
,
and
if
hee
mist
the
apple
,
to
be
put
to
death
:
the
poore
man
after
many
excuses
,
and
allegations
,
and
entreaties
that
hee
might
not
hazard
his
childs
life
in
that
sort
,
was
notwithstanding
enforced
to
shoot
,
and
shooting
,
God
so
directed
his
shaft
,
that
the
apple
was
hit
&
the
child
vntoucht
;
and
yet
for
all
this
,
he
adiudged
him
to
perperuall
prison
:
out
of
which
hee
miraculously
escaping
,
watched
the
tyrants
approch
in
so
fit
a
place
,
that
with
the
shaft
that
should
haue
bene
the
death
of
his
sonne
,
he
stroke
him
to
the
heart
:
whose
vnluckie
end
,
was
a
luckie
beginning
of
the
Switzers
deliuerance
from
the
bondage
of
tyrants
,
The
Emperour
Albert
,
purposing
to
be
reuenged
vpon
them
for
his
iniury
,
as
also
for
slaying
many
more
of
his
men
,
and
breaking
down
his
castles
of
defence
which
he
had
caused
to
be
builded
in
their
countrey
,
determined
to
make
war
vpon
them
;
but
he
was
slaine
ere
he
could
bring
that
determination
to
effect
by
one
of
his
owne
nephewes
,
from
whom
(
being
his
ouerseer
and
guardant
for
his
bringing
vp
)
he
withheld
his
patrimony
against
all
equity
;
neither
by
praiers
or
entreatie
could
be
persuaded
to
restore
it
.
These
things
(
according
to
Nicholas
Gils
report
in
his
1
volume
of
the
Chronicles
of
France
)
happened
about
the
raigne
of
Saint
Lewes
.
CHAP.
XL.
Of
Vserers
and
their
thest.
IF
open
larcinies
and
violent
robberies
and
extortions
are
forbidden
by
the
law
of
God
,
as
wee
haue
seene
they
are
,
then
it
is
no
doubt
but
that
all
deceit
and
vniust
dealings
and
bargaines
vsed
to
the
dammage
of
others
are
also
condemned
by
the
same
law
;
and
namely
Vsurie
,
when
a
man
exacteth
such
vnmeasurable
gaine
for
either
his
money
or
other
thing
which
he
lendeth
,
that
the
poore
borrower
is
so
greatly
indammaged
,
that
in
steed
of
benefitting
and
prouiding
for
his
affaires
,
which
he
aimed
at
,
hee
hitteth
his
further
losse
and
finall
ouerthrow
.
This
sinne
is
expressely
prohibited
in
Leuiticus
25
,
That
he
which
oppresseth
or
vexeth
the
poore
and
afflicted
,
he
which
robbeth
or
giueth
to
vsurie
,
and
receiueth
the
encrease
into
his
bags
,
shall
die
the
death
,
and
his
bloud
shall
bee
vpon
his
pate
.
Neither
truly
doth
the
iustice
of
God
sleep
in
this
respect
,
but
taketh
vengeance
vpon
all
such
,
and
punisheth
them
after
one
sort
or
other
,
either
in
body
or
goods
,
as
it
pleaseth
him
:
I
my self
knew
a
grand
vsurer
in
the
country
of
Vallay
that
hauing
scraped
togither
great
masses
of
gold
&
siluer
by
these
vnlawful
means
,
was
in
one
night
robbed
of
fifteene
hundred
crownes
by
theeues
,
that
broke
into
his
house
.
I
remember
also
another
Vsurer
dwelling
in
a
Towne
called
Argentall
,
nigh
vnto
Anouay
vnder
the
iurisdiction
of
Tholosse
in
high
Viuaria
,
who
being
in
hay
time
in
a
medow
,
was
stong
in
the
foot
by
a
serpent
or
some
other
venomous
beast
,
that
hee
died
thereof
:
an
answerable
punishment
for
his
often
stinging
and
biting
many
poore
people
with
his
cruell
and
vnmercifull
vsurie
.
Nay
it
is
so
contrary
to
equitie
and
reason
,
that
all
nations
led
by
the
instinct
of
nature
haue
alwaies
abhorred
and
condemned
it
,
insomuch
that
the
condition
of
theeues
hath
ben
more
easie
and
tollerable
then
vsurers
;
for
theft
was
wont
to
be
punished
but
with
double
restitution
,
but
vsurie
with
quadruple
:
and
to
speake
truly
,
these
rich
and
gallant
vsurers
,
doe
more
rob
the
common
people
and
purloine
from
them
,
then
all
the
publicke
theeues
that
are
made
publicke
examples
of
iustice
in
the
world
.
It
is
to
bee
wished
that
some
would
examine
vsurers
bookes
,
In
the
Bishopricke
of
Coline
a
notable
famous
Vsurer
lying
vpon
his
death
bed
readie
to
die
,
mooued
vp
and
downe
his
chops
and
his
lips
as
if
hee
had
beene
eating
something
in
his
mouth
,
The
same
Author
telleth
of
another
Vsurer
,
that
a
little
before
his
death
called
for
his
bags
of
gold
and
siluer
,
and
offered
them
al
to
his
soule
,
vpon
condition
it
would
not
forsake
him
:
but
if
hee
would
haue
giuen
all
the
world
it
could
not
ransome
him
from
death
,
wherefore
when
hee
saw
there
was
no
remedie
but
hee
must
needes
die
,
hee
commended
his
soule
to
the
deuill
to
bee
carried
into
euerlasting
torments
,
which
wordes
when
hee
had
vttered
hee
gaue
vp
the
ghost
.
Another
Vsurer
being
ready
to
die
,
made
this
his
last
Will
and
testament
:
My
soule
(
quoth
he
)
I
bequeath
to
the
Deuill
who
is
owner
of
it
;
my
wife
likewise
to
the
Deuill
who
induced
mee
to
this
vngodly
trade
of
life
;
Vsurie
consisteth
not
onely
in
lending
and
borrowing
,
but
in
buying
and
selling
also
,
and
all
vniust
and
craftie
bargaining
,
yea
and
it
is
a
kind
of
Vsurie
to
detaine
through
too
much
couetousnesse
those
commodities
from
the
people
which
concerne
the
publicke
good
,
and
to
hoord
them
vp
for
their
priuate
gaine
,
till
some
scarsitie
or
want
arise
,
and
this
also
hath
euermore
ben
most
sharply
punished
,
as
by
these
examples
may
appeare
.
About
the
yeare
1543
at
what
time
a
great
famine
and
dearth
of
bread
afflicted
the
world
,
there
was
in
Saxony
a
countrie
peasant
,
that
hauing
carried
his
corne
to
the
market
,
and
sold
it
cheaper
than
hee
looked
for
,
as
hee
returned
homewards
hee
fell
into
most
heauie
dumpes
and
dolours
of
mind
with
greife
that
the
price
of
graine
was
abated
,
and
when
his
seruants
sang
merrily
for
ioy
of
that
blessed
cheapenesse
,
hee
rebuked
them
most
sharpely
and
cruelly
,
yea
and
was
so
much
the
more
tormented
and
troubled
in
mind
by
how
much
the
more
he
saw
any
poore
soule
thankfull
vnto
God
for
it
:
but
marke
how
God
gaue
him
ouer
to
a
Reprobate
and
desperate
sence
:
Whilest
his
seruants
rode
before
hee
hung
himselfe
at
the
cart
taile
,
being
past
recouery
of
life
ere
any
man
looked
backe
or
perceiued
him
.
A
notable
example
for
our
English
cormorants
,
who
ioine
barne
to
barne
,
and
heap
to
heap
,
and
will
not
sell
nor
giue
a
handfull
of
their
superfluitie
to
the
poore
when
it
beareth
a
low
price
,
but
preserue
it
til
scarsity
and
want
come
,
and
then
they
sell
it
at
their
owne
rate
;
let
them
feare
by
this
,
least
the
Lord
deale
so
or
worse
with
them
.
Another
couetous
wretch
,
when
hee
could
not
sell
his
corne
so
deare
as
hee
desired
,
said
the
mise
should
eat
it
rather
then
he
would
lessen
one
iot
of
the
price
thereof
:
which
words
were
no
sooner
spoken
,
but
vengeance
tooke
them
;
for
all
the
mise
in
the
countrie
flocked
to
his
barnes
and
fields
,
so
that
they
left
him
neither
standing
nor
lying
corne
,
but
deuoured
all
:
this
story
was
written
to
Martin
Luther
,
Another
in
Mifina
in
the
yeare
1559
hauing
great
store
of
corne
hoorded
vp
refused
to
succour
the
necessitie
of
his
poore
and
halfe
famished
neighbours
,
No
lesse
strange
was
that
which
happened
in
a
Towne
of
Fraunce
called
Stenchansen
to
the
gouernour
of
the
Towne
,
Equall
to
all
the
former
both
in
cruelty
touching
the
person
,
and
miracle
touching
the
iudgement
,
Sergius
Galba
,
before
hee
came
to
bee
Emperour
,
(
being
President
of
Affrica
vnder
Claudius
,
when
as
through
penurie
of
vitailes
,
corne
and
other
food
was
verie
sparingly
shared
out
and
deuided
among
the
army
)
punished
a
certaine
souldiour
that
sold
a
bushell
of
wheat
to
one
of
his
fellowes
for
a
hundred
pence
,
in
hope
to
obtaine
a
new
share
himselfe
,
in
this
maner
,
he
commanded
the
Quaestor
or
treasurer
to
giue
him
no
more
sustinance
,
since
hee
preferred
lucre
before
the
necessitie
of
his
owne
bodie
and
his
friends
welfare
;
neither
suffered
hee
any
man
els
to
sell
him
any
:
so
that
he
perished
with
famine
,
and
became
a
miserable
example
to
all
the
armie
of
the
fruits
of
that
foule
dropsie
couetousnesse
.
And
thus
we
see
how
the
Lord
raigned
down
vengeance
vpon
all
couetous
Vsurers
and
oppressors
,
plaguing
some
on
this
fashion
,
and
some
on
that
,
and
neuer
passing
any
,
but
either
in
this
life
some
notable
iudgement
ouertakes
them
either
in
themselues
or
their
ofsprings
,
(
for
it
is
notoriously
knowne
that
Vsurers
children
,
though
left
rich
,
yet
the
first
or
second
generation
became
alwaies
beggers
)
or
in
the
life
to
come
they
are
throwne
into
the
pit
of
perdition
,
from
whence
there
is
no
redemption
nor
deliuerance
.
CHAP.
XLI
.
Of
dicers
and
card
plaiers
,
and
their
theft
.
IF
any
recreation
be
allowed
vs
as
no
doubt
there
is
,
yet
surely
it
is
not
such
as
whereby
wee
should
worke
the
dammage
and
hurt
of
one
another
,
as
when
by
gaming
we
draw
away
another
mans
money
with
his
great
losse
,
and
this
is
one
kind
of
theft
,
to
vsurpe
any
mans
goods
by
vnlawfull
meanes
:
wherfore
no
such
sports
ought
to
find
any
place
amongst
Christians
,
especially
those
wherin
any
kind
of
lot
or
hazzard
is
vsed
,
by
the
which
the
good
blessings
of
God
are
contrary
to
their
true
and
naturall
vse
exposed
to
chance
and
fortune
as
they
tearme
it
,
for
which
cause
Saint
Augustine
is
of
this
opinion
concerning
them
:
Horace
an
Heathen
Poet
auouched
the
vnlawfulnes
of
this
thing
euen
in
his
time
,
In
the
yeere
1553
,
neare
to
Belissan
a
citie
in
Heluetia
,
Vlrich
Schraeterus
hauing
lost
much
mony
,
and
offended
God
with
many
cursed
speeches
,
at
last
presaging
to
him selfe
good
lucke
,
he
burst
forth
into
these
termes
,
But
that
wee
may
see
yet
more
the
vanity
&
mischieuous
working
of
this
sport
,
I
will
report
one
story
more
out
of
the
same
author
,
though
not
equall
to
the
former
in
strangenesse
and
height
of
sinne
,
yet
as
tragicall
and
no
lesse
pitifull
.
Adam
Steckman
,
one
that
got
his
liuing
by
trimming
,
pruning
,
&
dressing
vines
:
this
man
hauing
receiued
his
wages
,
fell
to
dice
,
&
lost
all
that
he
had
gotten
,
insomuch
that
he
had
not
wherwith
to
norish
his
family
,
so
that
he
fell
into
such
a
griefe
of
mind
,
&
withall
into
such
paines
of
the
head
,
that
hee
grew
almost
desperate
withall
:
one
day
his
wife
beeing
busie
abroad
,
left
the
care
of
her
children
vnto
him
,
but
he
tooke
such
great
care
of
them
,
that
he
cut
all
their
throats
,
euen
three
of
them
,
whereof
one
lay
in
the
cradle
;
and
lastly
would
haue
hanged
himselfe
,
had
not
his
wife
come
in
,
in
the
meane
while
,
who
beholding
this
pitifull
tragedy
,
gaue
a
great
outcry
,
and
fell
downe
dead
:
whereupon
the
neighbours
running
in
,
were
eie
witnesses
of
this
wofull
spectacle
:
as
for
him
,
by
law
hee
was
iudged
to
a
most
seuere
and
cruell
punishment
;
and
all
these
pitiful
euents
arose
from
that
cursed
root
of
dice-play
.
Wee
ought
therefore
to
learne
by
all
these
things
that
haue
bene
already
spoken
,
to
abstaine
not
only
from
this
cursed
pastime
,
but
also
from
extortion
,
robberies
,
deceit
,
guile
,
and
other
such
naughty
practises
that
tend
to
the
hurt
and
detriment
of
one
another
;
and
in
place
thereof
,
to
procure
the
good
and
welfare
of
each
one
in
all
kindnes
and
equitie
,
following
the
Apostles
counsel
,
where
he
saith
,
Let
them
that
stole
steale
no
more
,
but
rather
trauaile
by
labouring
with
his
hands
in
that
which
is
good
,
that
hee
may
haue
wherewith
to
succour
the
necessitie
of
others
:
for
it
is
not
enough
not
to
do
euill
to
our
neighbour
,
but
we
are
tied
to
doe
him
good
,
or
at
least
to
endeauour
to
doe
it
.
CHAP.
XLII
.
Of
such
as
haue
bene
notorious
in
all
kind
of
sinne
.
WEe
haue
seene
by
these
foreplaced
examples
,
Semiramis
,
queene
of
Assyria
,
was
a
woman
of
an
ambitious
spirit
,
The
tyrant
Periander
vsurped
the
gouernment
ouer
Corinth
,
In
this
ranke
deseruably
we
may
place
the
second
Dionysius
his
sonne
,
Clearchus
another
tyrant
after
hee
had
put
to
death
the
most
part
of
the
Nobles
and
chiefe
men
of
account
in
the
citie
Heraclea
,
vsurped
a
tyrannous
authoritie
ouer
the
rest
:
Agathocles
,
king
or
rather
Tyrant
of
Sicile
,
Romulus
the
first
king
of
Rome
was
(
as
Florus
Marcus
Marius
of
the
aduerse
faction
before
the
whole
city
,
with
his
hands
al
embrued
in
bloud
,
which
he
also
washed
in
the
holy
waterstack
of
Apolloes
temple
,
being
neer
vnto
that
place
;
and
all
this
being
commended
&
countenanced
by
Sill●
:
he
decreed
a
general
disanulment
&
abrogation
of
all
titles
and
rights
that
were
passed
before
his
time
,
to
the
end
to
haue
more
libertie
both
to
put
to
death
whom
he
pleased
,
&
to
confiscat
mens
goods
&
also
to
vnpeople
&
to
repeople
cities
,
&
to
sack
,
pull
down
,
&
build
,
&
to
depose
&
make
kings
at
his
pleasure
:
the
goods
which
he
had
thus
seazed
,
he
shamed
not
to
sell
with
his
own
handssitting
in
his
tribunall
seat
,
giuing
oftentimes
a
faire
woman
a
whole
country
or
the
reuenues
of
a
city
for
her
beauty
,
and
to
plaiers
,
iesters
,
iuglers
,
minstrels
,
and
other
wicked
effranchised
slaues
,
great
and
vnnecessary
rewards
:
yea
and
to
diuerse
married
women
also
,
whome
(
pleasing
his
eie
)
he
depriued
their
husbands
of
perforce
,
and
espoused
them
to
himselfe
,
maugre
their
wils
:
being
desirous
to
ally
himselfe
with
Pompey
,
he
commanded
him
to
cast
off
his
lawfull
wife
,
and
taking
from
Magnus
Glabrio
,
his
wife
Aemilia
,
made
him
marry
hir
,
though
alreadie
great
with
child
by
her
former
husband
:
but
shee
died
in
trauaile
in
his
house
.
In
feasts
and
banquettings
hee
was
too
immoderate
,
for
it
was
his
continuall
and
daily
practise
;
the
wine
that
he
dranke
vsually
was
forty
yeare
old
,
and
the
company
that
he
delighted
to
keepe
was
compact
of
minstrels
,
tumblers
,
players
,
singers
,
and
such
like
rascals
,
and
with
these
hee
would
spend
whole
daies
in
drinking
,
carousing
,
dancing
,
and
all
dissolutenesse
.
Now
this
disordinate
life
of
his
,
did
so
augment
a
disease
which
was
growne
in
his
bodie
,
to
wit
an
impostume
,
that
in
time
it
corrupted
his
flesh
,
&
turned
it
into
lice
:
in
such
sort
that
though
he
had
those
that
continually
followed
him
,
to
sweepe
them
off
and
to
louse
him
night
&
day
,
yet
the
encrease
was
still
so
plentiful
that
al
would
not
serue
to
cleare
him
for
a
moment
:
in
so
much
that
not
his
apparrell
though
neuer
so
new
and
changeable
,
nor
his
linnen
though
neuer
so
fresh
,
nor
his
bath
nor
his
lauer
,
no
nor
his
meat
and
drinke
could
bee
kept
vnpolluted
from
the
flux
of
this
filthy
vermine
,
it
issued
in
such
abundance
:
oftentimes
in
a
day
hee
would
wash
himselfe
in
a
bath
,
but
to
no
great
purpose
;
for
his
shame
increased
the
more
:
the
day
before
hee
died
hee
sent
for
one
Granius
,
who
attending
his
death
delaied
to
pay
that
which
hee
ought
to
the
Commonwealth
,
and
being
come
in
his
presence
he
commanded
him
to
bee
strangled
to
death
before
his
face
:
but
with
straining
himselfe
in
crying
after
his
execution
,
his
impostume
burst
and
vomitted
out
such
streames
of
bloud
,
that
his
strength
failed
him
withall
,
and
passing
that
night
in
great
distresse
,
the
next
day
made
vp
his
wicked
and
miserable
end
.
Iulius
Caesar
)
the
Tribune
presented
himselfe
as
if
in
regard
of
his
office
,
to
impart
some
matter
of
importance
vnto
him
:
and
hauing
receiued
a
currish
word
or
two
at
his
hands
(
as
his
custome
was
)
hee
gaue
him
so
sodaine
a
stroke
betweene
the
head
and
the
shoulders
,
that
what
with
it
and
the
blowes
of
his
complices
,
that
going
for
the
same
entent
rushed
vpon
him
,
he
was
slain
amongst
them
,
no
man
stirring
a
foot
to
deliuer
him
out
of
their
handes
,
though
many
looked
on
and
might
haue
aided
him
if
they
would
;
hee
was
no
sooner
slain
but
his
wise
incontinently
was
sent
after
,
and
his
daughter
also
,
that
was
crushed
to
death
against
a
wall
:
and
thus
came
his
wretched
selfe
with
his
filthie
progeny
,
to
a
wretched
and
miserable
end
.
Vitellius
for
the
murders
and
other
outragious
misdeedes
which
he
committed
,
Domitian
was
a
cruell
enemy
of
the
Christians
,
Antonius
Caracalla
,
Heliogabalus
,
and
other
like
,
may
be
worthily
placed
in
this
ranke
.
Tigellinus
,
one
of
the
captaines
of
Neros
guard
,
&
a
chiefe
procurer
and
setter
forward
of
his
tyrannie
,
was
the
cause
of
the
death
of
many
great
personages
in
Rome
;
and
being
enriched
by
their
spoile
and
other
such
like
robberies
,
after
the
death
of
Nero
(
whome
in
his
extremity
he
forsooke
)
plunged
himselfe
and
wallowed
in
all
manner
of
licencious
and
disordinate
delights
:
now
though
he
was
worthy
of
a
thousand
deaths
for
his
cruelties
towards
many
good
citizens
,
yet
by
the
meanes
of
one
Iunius
,
the
Emperour
Galba
his
chiefe
minion
,
whose
fauour
he
had
by
great
summes
of
mony
bought
and
obtained
(
for
he
gaue
vnto
his
daughter
at
one
time
fiue
and
twenty
thousand
crownes
,
and
to
himselfe
at
another
a
carknet
worth
fifteene
thousand
crownes
for
a
present
)
hee
was
spared
and
kept
in
safetie
:
but
as
soone
as
Otho
was
installed
in
the
Empire
,
his
downfall
and
destruction
began
presently
to
follow
:
for
Otho
to
the
end
to
gratifie
the
Romans
,
sent
to
apprehend
him
,
who
was
then
in
his
houses
of
pleasure
in
the
field
,
banketting
and
sporting
with
his
harlots
,
and
vsing
all
manner
of
riot
,
albeit
by
reason
of
a
deadly
disease
which
was
vpon
him
,
he
was
euen
at
deaths
dore
.
When
he
saw
himselfe
thus
taken
,
and
that
no
meanes
of
escape
was
left
,
(
no
not
by
the
vessels
which
he
had
prepared
at
the
sea
shore
for
purpose
if
need
were
to
conueigh
him
away
)
&
that
hee
which
had
commission
to
take
him
,
would
giue
him
no
aduantage
of
escaping
,
though
he
offered
him
great
rewards
for
the
same
;
he
entreated
only
leisure
to
shaue
his
beard
before
he
went
,
which
being
granted
,
he
tooke
a
rasour
,
and
in
stead
of
shauing
,
cut
his
owne
throat
.
CHAP.
XLIII
.
More
Examples
of
the
same
argument
.
HIeronymus
,
a
true
tyrant
of
Cicile
,
Andronicus
was
one
of
the
most
wickedst
men
that
liued
on
the
earth
in
his
time
,
for
hee
excelled
in
all
kind
of
euill
,
in
ambition
,
boldnesse
in
doing
mischiefe
,
cruelty
,
whoredom
,
adultery
,
and
incest
;
also
to
make
vp
the
whole
number
,
besides
he
was
so
treacherous
and
disloiall
,
that
he
traiterously
slew
the
sonne
and
heire
of
the
Emperour
Emanuel
,
shutting
him
in
a
sacke
,
and
so
throwing
him
into
the
sea
:
after
which
,
by
violence
he
tooke
possession
of
the
Empire
of
Constantinople
,
and
like
a
strong
theefe
seazed
vpon
that
which
was
none
of
his
owne
:
but
assoone
as
hee
had
gotten
his
desire
,
then
began
his
lusts
to
rage
and
raue
,
then
hee
fell
to
whoring
and
forcing
women
and
maids
to
his
lust
;
whome
after
hee
had
once
robbed
of
their
chastities
,
hee
gaue
ouer
to
his
bauds
and
ruffians
to
abuse
:
and
that
which
is
more
than
all
this
,
he
rauished
one
of
his
owne
sisters
,
and
committed
incest
with
her
:
moreouer
,
to
maintaine
and
vphold
his
tyranous
estate
,
hee
slew
most
of
the
nobilitie
,
and
all
else
that
bore
any
shew
of
honestie
or
credit
with
them
,
and
liued
altogither
by
wrongs
and
extortions
:
Wherefore
his
subiects
(
prouoked
with
these
multitudes
of
euils
which
raigned
in
him
,
and
not
able
to
endure
any
longer
his
vile
outrages
and
indignities
)
rebelled
against
him
and
besieged
him
,
got
him
into
their
mercilesse
hands
,
and
handled
him
on
this
fashion
following
:
first
they
degraded
him
and
spoiled
him
of
his
imperiall
ornaments
,
then
they
pulled
out
one
of
his
eyes
,
and
set
him
vpon
an
asse
backeward
,
with
the
taile
in
his
hand
in
steed
of
a
scepter
,
and
a
rope
about
his
necke
instead
of
a
crowne
:
and
in
this
order
and
attire
they
led
him
through
all
Constantinople
,
the
people
shouting
and
reuiling
him
on
all
sides
,
some
throwing
durt
,
others
spittle
,
diuers
dung
,
and
the
women
their
pispots
at
his
head
:
after
all
which
banketting
dishes
,
he
was
transported
to
the
gallowes
,
and
there
hanged
to
make
an
end
of
all
.
Charles
king
of
Nauarre
,
Lewes
Lutton
king
of
France
,
was
another
that
oppressed
his
subiects
with
cruelty
and
rough
dealing
,
for
hee
imposed
vpon
them
grieuous
taxes
and
tributes
,
and
when
many
of
the
chiefest
of
his
common
wealth
came
to
make
knowne
vnto
him
the
pouertie
of
his
people
,
and
that
they
were
not
able
to
endure
any
more
such
heauy
burdens
,
he
caused
them
all
to
be
put
to
death
for
their
boldnesse
:
he
was
the
kindler
of
many
great
mischiefes
in
France
,
and
of
the
fire
wherewith
diuers
places
of
strength
and
castles
of
defence
were
burned
to
ashes
:
he
counselled
the
Countie
of
Foix
his
sonne
to
poison
his
father
,
and
not
only
so
,
but
gaue
him
also
the
poison
with
his
owne
hands
,
wherewith
to
doe
the
deed
:
Lugtake
,
king
of
Scots
,
succeeding
his
father
Galdus
in
the
kingdome
,
was
so
odious
and
mischieuous
a
tyrant
,
that
eueryman
hated
him
no
lesse
for
his
vices
,
Besides
these
,
there
was
another
king
of
the
Scots
,
called
Atherco
,
in
the
yeere
of
our
Lord
240
,
who
shewed
himselfe
also
in
like
manner
a
most
vile
and
abominable
wretch
;
The
great
outrages
which
the
Spaniards
haue
committed
in
the
West
Indies
,
are
apparant
testimonies
of
their
impiety
,
iniustice
,
crueltie
,
insatiable
couetousnesse
and
luxurie
,
and
the
iudgements
wherewith
God
hath
hunted
them
vp
and
downe
both
by
sea
and
land
(
as
late
and
fresh
histories
doe
testifie
)
are
manifest
witnesses
of
his
heauy
anger
and
displeasure
against
them
:
amongst
all
which
,
I
will
here
insert
none
but
that
which
is
most
notorious
and
worthy
memory
,
as
the
wretched
accident
of
Pamphilus
Nauares
and
his
companie
:
This
man
with
sixe
hundred
Spaniards
making
for
the
coast
of
Florida
to
seeke
the
gold
of
the
riuer
of
Palme
trees
,
Francis
Pizare
,
a
man
of
base
parentage
,
for
in
his
youth
he
was
but
a
hogheard
,
and
of
worse
qualities
and
education
,
Ferdinand
,
Gonzall
,
Iohn
Martin
of
Alcantara
,
and
Diego
of
Almagro
;
who
as
they
were
principall
in
the
action
,
so
were
they
in
the
punishment
:
the
first
that
was
punished
was
Iohn
Pizarre
,
who
with
many
other
Spaniards
was
surprised
in
the
citie
Cusco
and
slaine
by
the
men
of
warre
of
Mangofrem
and
Artabaliba
:
next
after
that
there
arose
such
a
deuision
and
heartburning
betwixt
the
Pyzarres
and
Almagro
&
their
partakers
,
that
after
they
had
robbed
and
wasted
and
shared
out
the
great
and
rich
countrie
of
Peru
they
slew
one
another
by
mutuall
strokes
:
and
albeit
that
there
was
by
common
consent
an
agreement
accorded
betwixt
them
,
for
the
preseruing
of
their
vnity
,
and
friendship
,
yet
Francis
Pizarre
enuying
that
Almagro
should
be
gouernour
of
Cusco
&
he
not
,
interrupted
all
their
agre●ments
by
starting
from
his
promises
,
and
rekindled
the
halfe
quenched
fire
of
war
by
his
own
ambition
:
for
he
presently
defied
Almagro
,
&
sent
his
brother
Ferdinand
before
to
bid
him
battaile
,
who
so
well
behaued
himselfe
that
he
tooke
Almagro
prisoner
,
and
deliuered
him
bound
to
his
brother
Francis
,
who
caused
him
to
bee
strangled
in
prison
secretly
,
and
after
to
be
beheaded
in
publicke
:
now
Ferdinand
being
sent
by
his
brother
towards
Spaine
with
a
great
masse
of
gold
to
cleare
himselfe
of
the
death
of
Almagro
could
not
so
well
iustifie
the
fact
as
that
all
his
treasure
could
saue
him
from
the
prison
,
&
what
became
of
him
afterwards
knowne
it
is
to
God
,
but
not
to
the
world
.
A
while
after
the
fellows
and
friends
of
Almagro
,
whose
goods
the
Pizarrists
had
seazed
vpon
,
tooke
counsell
with
Don
Diego
Almagro
his
sonne
to
reuenge
the
death
of
his
father
,
therefore
being
in
number
but
twelue
,
with
vnsheathed
swords
,
they
desperately
burst
into
Francis
Pizarres
house
,
(
then
Marques
and
gouernor
of
Peru
)
and
at
the
first
brunt
slew
a
captaine
that
guarded
the
entrance
of
the
hall
,
and
next
him
Martin
of
Alcantara
,
with
other
moe
that
kept
the
entrance
of
the
chamber
,
so
that
hee
fell
dead
euen
at
his
brother
the
Marquesses
feet
:
who
albeit
his
men
were
all
slaine
before
his
eies
,
&
himselfe
left
alone
amidst
his
enemies
,
yet
gaue
not
ouer
to
defend
himselfe
stoutly
and
manfully
,
vntill
all
of
them
setting
vpon
him
at
once
,
he
was
stabd
into
the
throat
&
so
sel
dead
vpon
the
ground
,
and
thus
finished
he
&
his
complices
their
wretched
daies
,
answerable
to
their
cruell
deserts
:
but
their
murderers
(
though
they
deserued
to
be
thus
delt
withal
)
yet
for
dealing
in
this
sort
without
authority
,
were
not
faultlesse
,
but
receiued
the
due
wages
of
their
furious
madnes
;
for
Don
Diego
himself
after
he
had
ben
a
while
gouernor
of
Peru
had
his
army
ouercome
&
discomfited
by
the
Emperors
force
,
&
was
betraied
into
their
hands
by
his
own
lieutenant
of
Cusco
,
where
he
thought
to
haue
saued
himself
:
&
right
soon
lost
his
head
with
the
greatest
captains
and
fauourits
that
hee
had
,
who
were
also
quartered
.
Now
of
the
fiue
brethren
wee
haue
heard
foure
of
their
destruction
,
onely
one
remaineth
(
namely
Gonzalle
Pyzare
)
to
bee
spoken
of
,
who
being
sent
for
by
the
conquerors
to
be
their
chiefetaine
and
Protector
against
the
Viceroy
,
that
went
about
to
make
them
obserue
the
Emperours
lawes
and
decrees
,
touching
the
liberty
of
the
Indian
Nation
,
was
betraied
and
forsaken
by
the
same
men
that
sent
for
him
,
and
so
fell
into
his
enemies
hands
that
cut
off
his
head
:
the
Generall
of
his
army
,
a
couetous
and
cruell
man
,
that
in
short
space
made
away
aboue
three
hundred
Spaniards
,
and
all
as
it
were
with
his
owne
hand
,
was
drawne
vp
and
downe
at
a
horse
taile
,
the
space
of
halfe
a
quarter
of
an
houre
,
and
then
hanged
vpon
the
gallowes
,
and
quartered
in
foure
parts
.
The
Munke
of
Vauuard
called
Vincent
,
who
with
his
crosse
&
porteise
had
encouraged
Pizarre
&
his
army
against
Artabaliba
,
and
was
for
that
cause
treated
bishop
of
Peru
,
when
Diego
came
to
the
gouernement
fled
into
the
Island
Puna
to
escape
his
wrath
,
but
in
seeking
to
auoid
him
hee
fell
into
as
great
a
snare
,
for
the
Islanders
assaulted
him
one
night
,
and
knockt
him
to
death
with
staues
and
clubs
,
togither
with
fortie
Spaniards
of
his
fellowship
,
that
accompanied
him
in
his
flight
and
started
not
from
him
in
his
death
.
And
thus
the
good
and
holy
Monke
for
medling
with
and
setting
forward
the
murder
of
so
many
poore
people
,
was
for
his
paines
and
good
deeds
iustly
rewarded
by
the
Indians
of
that
Island
.
Moreouer
,
after
&
beside
al
these
troubles
,
seditions
,
&
ciuill
wars
of
Peru
,
all
they
that
returned
from
Spaine
suffered
shipwrack
for
the
most
part
,
for
their
fleet
had
scarse
attained
the
midst
of
their
course
,
when
there
arose
so
terrible
a
tempest
,
that
of
18
ships
,
13
so
perished
that
they
were
neuer
heard
of
after
:
&
of
the
fiue
which
remained
,
two
were
tumbled
back
to
the
coast
of
S.
Dominick
,
al
berent
&
shiuered
in
peeces
:
other
three
were
driuen
to
Spain
;
wherof
one
hitting
against
the
bay
of
Portugal
lost
many
of
hir
men
,
the
admiral
hir selfe
of
this
fleet
,
perished
neere
vnto
S.
Lucar
de
barra
meda
,
with
two
hundred
persons
that
were
within
her
:
and
but
one
onely
of
them
all
got
safe
into
the
hauen
of
Calix
without
dammage
.
Here
we
may
see
how
mightily
the
hand
of
God
was
stretched
foorth
to
the
reuenge
of
those
wicked
deedes
and
villanies
which
were
committed
by
the
Spaniards
in
those
quarters
.
Peter
Loys
bastard
son
to
Pope
Paule
the
third
,
Some
of
the
Bishops
of
Rome
for
their
rare
and
notable
vertues
,
and
the
glory
of
their
braue
deeds
,
may
be
honoured
with
this
dignity
,
to
be
placed
in
this
worthy
ranke
,
for
their
good
conditions
and
behauiours
were
such
,
that
no
tyrant
,
butcher
,
theefe
,
robber
,
ruffian
,
nor
any
other
,
euer
excelled
them
in
crueltie
,
robbery
,
adulterie
,
and
such
like
wickednesse
,
or
deserued
more
the
credit
and
reputation
of
his
place
than
they
:
And
hereof
we
haue
a
manifest
example
in
Iohn
the
thirteenth
,
who
pulling
out
the
eies
of
some
of
his
Cardinals
,
cutting
out
the
tongues
of
others
,
hewing
off
the
hands
,
noses
,
and
priuy
members
of
others
,
shewed
himselfe
a
patterne
of
such
crueltie
,
as
the
world
neuer
saw
the
like
:
Hee
was
accused
before
the
Emperour
Otho
in
a
synode
,
first
of
incest
with
two
of
his
owne
sisters
,
secondly
for
calling
the
deuill
to
helpe
him
at
dice
,
thirdly
for
promoting
young
infants
to
bishoprickes
,
bribed
thereto
by
the
gift
of
certaine
peeces
of
gold
,
fourthly
for
rauishing
maides
and
wiues
,
and
lying
with
his
fathers
concubine
,
yea
and
lastly
,
for
lying
with
his
owne
mother
,
and
many
other
such
monstrous
villanies
;
for
which
cause
hee
was
deposed
from
the
papacie
,
though
reinstalled
againe
by
the
sute
and
cunning
practise
of
his
whores
,
by
whome
as
hee
recouered
his
triple
crowne
,
so
he
lost
shortly
after
his
vicious
life
,
by
the
meanes
of
a
married
whore
that
betraied
him
.
Pope
Clement
the
sixt
of
name
contrary
to
his
nature
,
for
his
inclemencie
,
crueltie
&
pride
towards
the
Emperor
Lewis
of
Bauarie
,
was
intollerable
;
he
procured
many
horrible
wars
against
the
Empire
,
and
caused
the
destruction
of
twenty
thousand
Frenchmen
by
the
king
of
England
,
yea
and
poysoned
the
good
Emperour
also
so
well
he
wished
to
him
:
Howbeit
ere
long
himselfe
was
stifled
to
death
,
and
that
sodainly
,
not
by
any
practise
of
man
as
it
was
thought
,
but
by
the
speciall
hand
of
God
,
in
recompence
of
all
his
notable
acts
.
Iohn
the
foure
and
twentith
was
deposed
by
the
councell
of
Constance
for
these
crimes
following
;
heresie
,
Simonie
,
It
would
bee
too
long
to
run
ouer
the
discourse
of
euery
particular
Pope
of
like
conditions
,
and
therefore
wee
will
content
our selues
in
briefe
with
the
legend
of
Pope
Alexander
the
sixt
,
reported
by
two
authors
of
credite
and
renowne
,
&
vnsuspected
,
to
wit
,
Guicciardine
a
Florentine
gentleman
,
Iohn
Michell
the
Cardinall
of
Venice
at
Rome
,
for
his
gold
and
treasure
which
hee
abounded
with
:
whose
insatiable
couetousnesse
prouoked
him
to
the
committall
of
all
mischiefe
,
to
the
end
he
might
maintaine
the
forces
of
his
son
,
who
went
about
to
bring
the
whole
lands
and
dominions
of
all
Italy
into
his
possession
:
in
adulteries
hee
was
most
filthy
and
abhominable
,
in
tyrany
most
cruell
,
and
in
Magicke
most
cunning
,
and
therefore
most
execrable
:
supping
one
night
with
Cardinall
Adrian
his
very
familiar
friend
,
in
his
garden
,
hauing
foreappointed
his
destruction
that
night
by
poyson
;
through
the
negligence
and
ouersight
of
his
butler
to
whom
hee
had
giuen
the
exploit
in
charge
,
that
was
deceiued
by
mistaking
the
bottles
,
hee
dranke
himselfe
the
medicine
which
he
had
prepared
for
his
good
friend
the
Cardinall
:
and
so
hee
died
(
saith
Bembus
)
not
without
an
euident
marke
of
Gods
heauy
wrath
,
in
that
he
which
had
slaine
so
many
Princes
and
rich
men
to
enioy
their
treasures
,
and
went
now
about
to
murder
his
host
which
entertained
him
with
friendship
and
good
cheare
into
his
house
,
was
caught
in
the
same
snare
which
he
had
laid
,
and
destroied
by
the
same
meanes
himselfe
,
which
he
had
destinated
for
another
;
being
thus
dead
,
the
whole
city
of
Rome
(
saith
Guicciardine
)
ran
out
with
greedines
&
ioy
to
behold
his
carcasse
,
not
being
able
to
satisfie
their
eies
with
beholding
the
dead
serpent
,
whose
venime
of
ambition
,
trecherie
,
cruelty
,
adultry
,
&
auarice
,
had
impoisoned
the
whole
world
.
Some
say
that
as
he
purposed
to
poyson
certaine
Cardinals
,
he
poysoned
his
owne
father
,
that
being
in
their
company
chanced
to
get
a
share
of
his
dregs
:
and
that
hee
was
so
abhominable
to
abuse
his
owne
sister
Lucrece
in
the
way
of
filthines
.
When
Gemen
the
brother
of
Baiazet
the
Emperor
of
the
Turkes
came
and
surrendred
himselfe
into
his
hands
,
&
was
admitted
into
his
protection
,
he
being
hired
with
two
hundred
duccats
by
Baiazet
,
gaue
poyson
to
his
new
client
,
euen
to
him
to
whom
hee
had
before
sworne
and
vowed
his
friendship
:
besides
,
that
he
might
mainteine
his
tyranny
hee
demanded
and
obtained
aid
of
the
Turke
against
the
king
of
France
,
which
was
a
most
vnchristian
and
antichristian
part
;
he
caused
the
tongue
&
two
hands
of
Antony
Manciuellus
(
a
very
learned
&
wise
man
)
to
be
cut
off
,
for
an
excellent
oration
which
he
made
in
reproofe
of
his
wicked
demeanours
and
dishonest
life
.
It
is
written
moreouer
by
some
that
hee
was
so
affectionated
to
the
seruice
of
his
good
Lord
and
master
the
deuil
,
that
he
neuer
attempted
any
thing
without
his
counsel
and
aduise
,
who
also
presented
himself
vnto
him
at
his
death
in
the
habite
of
a
post
,
according
to
the
agreement
which
was
betwixt
them
:
and
although
this
wretched
Antichrist
straue
against
him
for
life
,
saying
that
his
terme
was
not
yet
finished
;
yet
he
was
enforced
to
diflodge
and
depart
into
his
proper
place
,
where
with
horrible
cries
and
hideous
fearefull
grones
he
died
.
Thus
we
see
how
miserable
such
wretched
and
infamous
miscreants
and
such
pernicious
&
cruell
Tyrants
,
haue
ended
their
wicked
liues
,
their
force
&
power
being
execrable
and
odious
,
CHAP.
XLIIII
.
Of
calumniation
and
false
witnesse
bearing
.
WEe
haue
seene
heretofore
what
punishments
the
Lord
hath
laid
vpon
those
that
either
vex
their
neighbours
in
their
persons
,
as
in
the
breakers
of
the
fift
,
sixt
,
and
seuenth
commandements
;
or
dammage
them
in
their
goods
,
as
in
the
eight
:
now
let
vs
looke
vnto
those
that
seeke
to
spoile
them
of
their
good
names
and
rob
them
of
their
credite
by
slanderous
reproches
and
false
and
forged
calumniations
,
and
by
that
means
goe
against
the
ninth
commandement
,
which
sayth
,
Thou
shalt
not
beare
false
witnesse
against
thy
neighbour
:
in
which
words
is
condemned
generally
all
slanders
,
all
false
reports
,
all
defamations
,
and
all
euill
speech
els
whatsoeuer
,
wherby
the
good
name
and
credit
of
a
man
is
blemished
,
stained
,
or
impouerished
;
and
this
sin
is
not
onely
inhibited
by
the
diuine
law
of
the
almighty
,
but
also
by
the
lawes
of
nature
and
nations
,
for
there
is
no
country
and
people
so
barbarous
with
whom
these
pernicious
kind
of
creatures
are
not
held
in
detestation
:
of
tame
beasts
(
sayth
Diogenes
)
a
flatterer
is
worst
,
and
of
wild
beasts
a
backbiter
or
a
slaunderer
,
and
not
without
great
reason
;
for
as
there
is
no
disease
so
daungerous
as
that
which
is
secret
,
so
there
is
no
enemy
so
pernicious
as
hee
which
vnder
the
colour
of
friendship
biteth
and
slandereth
vs
behind
our
backes
;
but
let
vs
see
what
iudgements
the
Lord
hath
shown
vpon
them
,
to
the
end
the
odiousnesse
of
this
vice
may
more
clearely
appeare
.
And
first
to
begin
with
Doeg
the
Edomir
,
Why
beastest
thou
in
thy
wickednes
thou
tyrant
,
thy
tongue
imagineth
mischeife
,
and
is
like
a
sharpe
rasor
that
cutteth
deceitfully
,
&c.
but
God
shall
destroy
thee
for
euer
,
hee
shall
take
thee
and
pluck
thee
out
of
thy
tabernacle
,
and
root
thee
out
of
the
land
of
the
liuing
.
Next
to
this
man
,
Hast
thou
killed
(
saith
he
)
and
taken
possession
?
Thus
saith
the
Lord
,
In
the
place
where
dogs
licked
the
blood
of
Naboth
,
shall
dogs
euen
licke
thy
bloud
also
:
&
as
for
Iezabel
,
dogs
shal
eat
her
by
the
wall
of
Israell
,
thy
house
shall
be
like
the
house
of
Ieroboam
the
son
of
Nebat
,
I
will
cut
off
from
Ahab
him
that
pisseth
against
the
wall
,
&c.
Neither
was
this
onely
denounced
but
executed
also
,
as
we
may
read
,
1.
Kin.
22.38
.
&
2.
Kin.
9.36.37
.
&c.
&
2.
Kin.
10.7
,
&c.
Thy
wife
shall
be
an
harlot
in
the
city
,
thy
sons
and
thy
daughters
shall
fal
by
the
sword
,
&
thy
land
shall
be
deuided
by
liue
,
and
thou
shalt
die
in
a
polluted
land
:
loe
there
was
the
punishment
of
his
false
accusation
.
Notorious
is
the
example
of
the
two
iudges
that
accused
Susanna
,
both
how
she
was
deliuered
and
they
punished
:
the
credit
of
which
history
,
because
it
is
doubtfull
I
here
omit
to
speake
further
of
.
But
let
vs
come
to
prophane
histories
,
Apelles
that
famous
painter
of
Ephesus
,
felt
the
sting
and
bitternesse
of
this
venomous
viper
,
for
hee
was
falsly
accused
by
Antiphillus
another
painter
,
an
enuier
of
his
art
and
excellent
workmanship
,
to
haue
conspired
with
Theodota
against
king
Ptolomie
,
and
to
haue
ben
the
cause
of
the
defection
of
Pelusium
from
him
,
which
accusation
hee
laid
against
him
,
to
the
end
that
seeing
hee
could
not
attaine
to
that
excellencie
of
art
which
he
had
,
12.
example
of
Nero.
Euseb.
li.
9.
ca.
5.
This
tricke
vsed
Maximinus
the
tyrant
to
deface
the
doctrine
and
religion
of
Christ
in
his
time
,
for
when
he
saw
that
violence
&
torments
preuailed
not
,
It
was
a
law
among
the
Romans
,
that
if
any
man
had
enformed
an
accusation
against
another
,
Eustathius
bishop
of
Antioch
,
a
man
famous
for
eloquence
in
speech
&
vprightnesse
of
life
,
The
like
slander
the
same
heretikes
deuised
against
Athanasius
in
a
synode
conuocated
by
Constantine
the
Emperour
at
Tyrus
,
William
Feming
,
who
accused
an
honest
man
called
Iohn
Cooper
,
of
speaking
traiterous
words
against
Queene
Mary
,
and
all
because
he
would
not
fell
him
two
goodly
bullockes
which
he
much
desired
,
for
which
cause
the
poore
man
being
arraigned
at
Berry
in
Suffolke
was
condemned
to
death
by
reason
of
two
false
witnesses
which
the
said
Feming
had
suborned
for
that
purpose
,
whose
names
were
White
and
Greenewood
;
so
this
poore
man
was
hanged
drawne
and
quartered
and
his
goods
taken
from
his
poore
wife
and
nine
children
,
which
are
left
destitute
of
all
helpe
:
but
as
for
his
false
accusers
one
of
them
died
most
miserably
,
for
in
haruest
time
being
well
and
lusty
,
of
a
sodaine
his
bowels
fell
out
of
his
body
,
and
so
hee
perished
;
the
other
two
what
ends
they
came
vnto
it
is
not
reported
,
but
sure
the
Lord
hath
reserued
a
sufficient
punishment
for
all
such
as
they
are
.
CHAP.
XLV
.
That
kings
and
princes
ought
to
looke
to
the
execution
of
Iustice
,
for
the
punishment
of
naughtie
and
corrupt
manners
.
NO
man
ought
to
be
ignorant
of
this
,
that
it
is
the
duty
of
a
prince
,
not
onely
to
hinder
the
course
of
sinne
,
from
bursting
into
action
,
but
also
to
punish
the
doers
of
the
same
,
making
both
ciuill
iustice
to
be
administred
vprightly
,
and
the
law
of
God
to
be
regarded
and
obserued
inuiolably
:
for
to
this
end
are
they
ordained
of
God
,
that
by
their
means
euery
one
might
liue
a
quiet
and
peaceable
life
,
in
all
godlinesse
and
honestie
:
to
the
which
end
,
the
maintenance
and
administration
of
iustice
beeing
most
necessary
,
they
ought
not
so
to
discharge
themselues
of
it
,
as
to
translate
it
vpon
their
officers
and
iudges
,
but
also
to
looke
to
the
execution
thereof
themselues
,
as
it
is
most
needfull
:
for
if
law
(
which
is
the
foundation
of
iustice
)
be
(
as
Plato
saith
)
a
speechlesse
and
dumbe
magistrate
,
who
shall
giue
voice
and
vigour
vnto
it
,
if
not
hee
that
is
in
supreame
and
soueraigne
authority
?
for
which
cause
the
king
is
commaunded
in
Deuteronomie
,
The
same
we
read
of
king
Dauid
,
of
whome
it
is
said
,
That
during
his
raigne
,
Ioram
,
king
of
Israel
,
son
of
Achab
,
Moreouer
,
that
this
was
the
greatest
part
of
the
office
and
duty
of
kings
in
ancient
times
,
to
see
the
administration
of
iustice
,
Homer
the
Poet
may
bee
a
sufficient
witnesse
,
when
hee
saith
of
Agamemnon
,
That
the
scepter
and
law
was
committed
to
him
by
God
,
to
do
right
to
euery
man
;
answerable
to
the
which
,
Virgil
(
describing
the
Queene
of
Carthage
)
saith
,
Shee
sate
in
iudgement
in
the
midst
of
her
people
:
as
if
there
was
nothing
more
beseeming
such
a
person
than
such
an
action
.
And
therefore
the
Poets
not
without
cause
faigne
Iupiter
alwaies
to
haue
Themis
(
that
is
to
say
,
Iustice
)
at
his
elbow
:
signifying
thereby
,
not
that
whatsoeuer
kings
or
princes
did
,
was
iust
and
lawfull
,
bee
it
neuer
so
vile
in
it
owne
nature
(
as
that
wanton
flatterer
Anaxarthus
said
to
Alexander
)
but
that
equity
&
iustice
should
alwaies
accompany
them
,
&
neuer
depart
from
their
sides
.
And
hereupon
it
was
,
that
Acacus
,
Minos
,
and
Radamanthus
the
first
king
of
Grecia
,
were
so
renowmed
of
old
antiquity
,
because
of
their
true
and
vpright
execution
of
iustice
,
and
therefore
were
not
honoured
with
any
greater
title
,
than
the
name
of
Iudges
.
Iulius
Caesar
,
who
is
recorded
to
haue
taken
great
paines
in
giuing
audience
to
parties
,
and
in
dealing
iustice
betwixt
them
.
In
like
manner
Augustus
Caesar
is
commended
for
his
care
and
trauaile
in
this
behalfe
,
for
he
would
ordinarily
sit
in
iudgement
vpon
causes
and
controuersies
of
his
subiects
,
and
that
with
such
great
delight
and
pleasure
,
that
often
times
night
was
faine
to
interrupt
his
course
,
before
his
will
was
to
relinquish
it
;
yea
though
hee
found
himselfe
euill
at
ease
,
yet
would
hee
not
omit
to
apply
himselfe
to
the
diuision
of
iudgement
,
or
else
calling
the
parties
before
him
to
his
bed
.
The
Emperour
Claudius
,
though
a
man
otherwise
of
a
dull
and
grosse
spirit
,
yet
in
this
respect
hee
discharged
the
dutie
of
a
good
prince
,
for
that
hee
would
intermeddle
with
hearing
his
subiects
causes
,
and
doe
right
vnto
them
:
He
chaunced
once
to
make
a
very
prety
and
witty
end
of
a
sute
betwixt
a
sonne
and
his
mother
,
who
denying
and
disclaiming
him
to
be
her
sonne
,
was
by
the
Emperour
commanded
to
marry
him
;
&
so
least
shee
should
agree
to
that
mischiefe
,
was
constrained
to
acknowledge
and
auow
him
for
her
sonne
:
and
to
be
short
,
it
was
very
ordinary
and
vsuall
among
the
Emperours
,
to
take
knowledge
of
matters
controuerted
;
but
especially
of
criminall
and
capitall
causes
,
by
meanes
whereof
the
Apostle
Paul
desirous
to
shew
the
iudgement
and
lyings
in
waight
of
his
enemies
the
Iewes
,
appealed
from
them
to
Caesar
,
which
he
would
neuer
haue
done
,
if
Caesar
had
not
in
some
sort
vsed
to
meddle
with
such
affaires
:
and
for
further
proofe
hereof
,
hither
may
be
added
the
saying
which
is
reported
of
Nero
in
the
beginning
of
his
raigne
,
That
when
he
should
signe
with
his
hand
a
sentence
of
death
against
a
condemned
person
,
hee
wished
that
he
could
neither
wright
nor
read
,
to
the
end
to
auoid
that
necessary
action
.
The
bold
answer
of
an
old
woman
to
the
Emperour
Adrian
is
very
worthy
to
be
remembred
;
CHAP.
XLVI
.
Of
such
princes
as
haue
made
no
reckening
of
punishing
vice
,
nor
regarded
the
estate
of
their
people
.
IT
cannot
choose
but
be
a
great
confusion
in
a
common-wealth
,
when
iustice
sleepeth
,
and
when
the
shamelesse
boldnesse
of
euill
doers
is
not
curbed
in
with
any
bridle
,
but
runneth
it
owne
swinge
:
and
therefore
a
Consull
of
Rome
could
say
,
That
it
was
an
euill
thing
to
haue
a
prince
,
vnder
whome
license
and
libertie
is
giuen
to
euery
man
to
doe
what
him
listeth
:
for
so
much
then
as
this
euill
proceedeth
from
the
carelesnes
and
slothfulnesse
of
those
that
hold
the
sterne
of
gouernment
in
their
hands
,
it
can
not
be
but
some
euill
must
needs
fall
vpon
them
for
the
same
:
The
truth
of
this
may
appeare
in
the
person
of
Philip
of
Macedonie
,
(
whome
Demosthenes
the
oratour
noteth
for
a
treacherous
and
false
dealing
prince
:
)
after
that
he
had
subdued
almost
all
Greece
,
not
so
much
by
open
warre
,
as
by
subtilty
,
craft
,
and
surprise
,
and
that
being
in
the
top
of
his
glory
,
hee
celebrated
at
one
time
the
marriage
of
his
sonne
Alexander
,
whome
hee
had
lately
made
king
of
Epire
,
and
of
one
of
his
daughters
with
great
pompe
and
magnificense
:
as
hee
was
marching
with
all
his
traine
betwixt
the
two
bridegroomes
,
(
his
owne
sonne
&
his
sonne
in
law
)
to
see
the
sports
and
pastimes
which
were
prepared
for
the
solemnitie
of
the
marriage
,
behold
suddenly
a
young
Macedonian
gentleman
called
Pausanias
,
ran
at
him
,
and
slew
him
in
the
midst
of
the
prease
,
for
not
regarding
to
doe
him
iustice
when
hee
complained
of
an
iniury
done
vnto
him
by
one
of
the
peeres
of
his
realme
.
What
happened
to
the
Romanes
for
refusing
to
deliuer
an
Embassadour
,
Childericke
king
of
France
,
King
Richard
of
England
,
amongst
other
foule
faults
which
he
was
guilty
of
,
incurred
greatest
blame
for
this
,
because
he
suffered
many
theeues
and
robbers
to
roue
vp
and
down
the
land
vnpunished
:
for
which
cause
the
citizens
of
London
commenced
a
high
sute
against
him
,
&
compelled
him
hauing
raigned
22
yeres
,
to
lay
aside
the
crown
,
&
resigne
it
to
another
,
in
the
presence
of
all
the
states
,
&
died
prisoner
in
the
Tower
.
Moreouer
,
this
is
no
small
defect
of
iustice
,
when
men
of
authority
do
not
only
pardon
capitall
and
detestable
crimes
,
but
also
grace
and
fauour
the
doers
of
them
:
and
this
neither
ought
nor
can
be
done
by
a
soueraigne
prince
,
without
ouerpassing
the
bounds
of
his
limited
power
,
which
can
in
no
wise
dispence
with
the
law
of
God
,
Thou
shalt
plucke
him
from
my
altar
(
saith
the
Lord
)
that
hee
may
die
,
thy
eye
shall
not
spare
him
,
to
the
end
it
may
goe
well
with
thee
:
which
was
put
in
practise
in
the
death
of
Ioab
,
In
the
yeere
of
our
Lord
978
,
Egebrede
the
sonne
of
Edgare
end
Alphred
,
king
of
England
,
was
a
man
of
goodly
outward
shape
and
visage
,
but
wholly
giuen
to
idlenesse
and
abhorring
all
princely
exercises
:
besides
,
he
was
a
louer
of
riot
&
drunkennesse
,
and
vsed
extreame
cruelty
towards
his
subiects
,
hauing
his
eares
open
to
all
vniust
complaints
;
in
feats
of
armes
of
all
men
most
ignorant
:
so
that
his
cruelty
made
him
odious
to
his
subiects
,
and
his
cowardise
encouraged
strange
enemies
to
inuade
his
kingdome
:
by
meanes
whereof
,
England
was
sore
afflicted
with
warre
,
famine
,
and
pestilence
.
In
his
time
(
as
a
iust
plague
for
his
negligence
in
gouernment
)
decaied
the
noble
kingdome
of
England
,
and
became
tributary
to
the
Danes
:
for
euer
when
the
Danes
oppressed
him
with
warre
,
he
would
hire
them
away
with
sommes
of
mony
,
without
making
any
resistance
against
them
:
in
so
much
that
from
ten
thousand
pounds
by
the
yeere
,
the
tribute
arose
in
short
space
to
fiftie
thousand
,
wherefore
hee
deuised
a
new
trick
,
and
sought
by
trechery
to
destroy
them
,
sending
secret
commissioners
to
the
Magistrats
throughout
the
land
,
that
vpon
a
certaine
day
and
houre
assigned
,
the
Danes
should
sodainly
and
iointly
bee
murdered
:
which
massacre
being
performed
,
turned
to
bee
the
cause
of
greater
misery
,
for
Swaine
king
of
Denmarke
hearing
of
the
murder
of
his
countrymen
,
landed
with
a
strange
armie
in
diuerse
parts
of
this
Realme
,
and
so
cruelly
without
mercy
and
pitty
spoiled
the
countrie
,
and
slew
the
people
,
that
the
Emglishmen
were
brought
to
most
extreame
and
vnspeakeable
miserie
:
and
Egelrede
the
king
driuen
to
flie
with
his
wife
and
children
to
Richard
duke
of
Normandie
,
leauing
the
whole
kingdome
to
be
possessed
of
Swaine
.
Edward
the
second
of
that
name
,
Peirce
de
Gaueston
,
and
Hugh
the
Spencers
;
whose
wanton
counsel
he
following
,
neglected
to
order
his
Commonwealth
by
sadnesse
,
discretion
and
iustice
,
which
thing
caused
first
great
variance
betwixt
him
and
his
nobles
,
so
that
shortly
he
became
to
them
most
odious
,
and
in
the
end
was
depriued
of
his
kingdome
:
for
the
Scots
that
were
so
curbed
in
his
fathers
daies
,
now
plaied
reakes
through
his
negligence
,
and
made
many
irruptions
into
his
land
,
killing
&
discomfiting
his
men
at
three
sundry
battels
:
besides
Charles
of
Fraunce
did
him
much
scath
vpon
his
lands
in
Gascoin
and
Guyan
,
and
at
last
Isabell
his
own
wife
with
the
help
of
Sir
Iohn
of
Henault
and
his
Henowaies
(
to
whom
the
nobles
&
commons
gaue
their
assistance
)
tooke
him
and
depriued
him
of
his
crowne
,
installed
his
young
sonne
Edward
in
his
place
,
keeping
him
in
prison
at
Barteley
,
where
not
long
after
hee
was
murdered
by
Sir
Roger
Mortimer
.
CHAP.
LXVII
.
How
rare
and
geason
good
Princes
haue
ben
at
all
times
.
IT
appeareth
by
all
these
former
histories
,
what
a
multitude
there
hath
ben
of
dissolute
,
prowd
,
cruell
,
and
vicious
princes
,
and
of
tyrants
&
oppressors
,
so
that
the
number
of
good
and
vertuous
ones
seemeth
to
haue
beene
but
small
in
comparison
of
them
:
which
is
also
intimated
by
the
tenour
of
the
histories
of
the
kings
of
Iuda
and
Israell
,
of
whom
(
being
in
number
forty
)
but
tenne
onely
were
found
that
pleased
God
in
their
raignes
,
and
they
of
Iuda
;
&
yet
of
them
ten
,
one
was
corrupted
in
his
old
age
,
&
fell
away
to
vile
iniquities
:
but
of
Israel
,
ther
was
not
one
that
demeaned
not
himself
euil
in
his
estate
,
and
dealt
not
vniustly
and
wickedly
before
the
Lord
:
as
for
the
first
Emperors
what
maner
of
men
they
were
for
the
most
part
,
we
haue
already
sufficiently
declared
.
Wherefore
it
was
not
vnfitly
spoken
of
him
that
iesting
wise
told
the
Emperour
Claudius
,
that
al
the
good
Caesars
might
be
engrauen
in
one
litle
ring
they
were
so
few
:
so
that
then
a
king
or
prince
indued
with
vertue
,
bounty
,
&
clemency
,
&
that
loueth
his
subiects
,
endeth
strifes
&
kindleth
concord
,
is
an
especiall
note
of
Gods
fauor
,
&
a
gift
inestimable
;
and
that
people
that
haue
such
a
prince
for
their
support
&
stay
,
are
infinitly
blessed
;
they
lie
as
it
were
vpon
a
sunny
banke
,
and
ride
in
a
most
safe
and
quiet
hauen
,
whilst
other
are
exposed
&
laid
open
to
the
cruelty
of
time
,
and
are
tossed
&
turmoiled
with
the
waues
of
calamity
&
oppression
;
therfore
this
may
be
their
song
of
mirth
&
reioicing
,
whilst
other
nations
sing
nothing
but
welladaies
.
A
sad
afflicted
soule
all
pale
with
griefe
and
wrong
,
Being
easd
from
sence
of
dole
,
doth
straightway
change
his
song
From
mone
to
mirth
;
for
why
,
his
thicke
and
cloudie
night
Is
turnd
to
purity
of
T●tans
glorious
light
.
The
raging
storme
is
past
,
and
feare
of
shipwrack
gone
,
Their
weary
ships
at
last
a
calmy
shore
haue
wonne
.
The
pilot
safely
lies
reposed
vnder
lee
,
Not
fearing
frowne
of
skies
or
other
miserie
.
The
strong
and
mighty
blast
of
furious
winds
are
still
,
They
doe
no
more
downe
cast
huge
firr
trees
at
their
will
:
A
pleasant
gale
succeeds
of
fruitfull
Zephirus
,
Which
recreates
the
seeds
of
spring
voluptuous
.
Pack
hence
you
wicked
ones
with
all
your
equipage
Of
murdering
champions
enuenomed
with
rage
:
Your
horse
are
tir'd
with
toile
and
all
your
strengths
pluckt
down
,
Your
swords
haue
caught
a
foile
by
louely
peaces
crown
.
O
blessed
glorious
peace
(
that
beautifiest
ech
land
,
And
mak'st
all
dangers
cease
whereof
in
feare
we
stand
)
Distill
thy
fauours
pure
(
which
are
immortall
things
)
On
vs
that
lie
secure
in
shadow
of
thy
wings
.
Euen
those
thy
holy
traine
which
still
attendance
yeeld
,
Let
them
wax
yong
againe
and
flourish
in
our
field
:
Iustice
and
veritie
which
ballance
right
from
wrong
,
Let
them
attend
on
thee
with
equitie
among
.
Then
shall
the
Swaines
reioice
vnder
a
figtree
lien
,
And
sing
with
chearefull
voice
vntill
the
suns
decline
:
And
all
the
world
shall
ring
with
ecchoes
of
our
praise
,
Which
to
the
Lord
our
king
we
warble
out
alwaies
.
The
simple
harmlesse
lambe
no
greedy
wolfe
shall
feare
,
Nor
kid
new
wean'd
from
dam
shall
stand
in
awe
of
beare
:
But
sheepe
and
wolfe
shall
make
like
friends
one
flock
&
fold
,
A
fearelesse
child
shall
take
the
rule
of
tygres
old
.
You
flockes
of
Sion
hill
which
through
so
many
feares
Of
war
and
crosses
,
still
haue
sowne
your
field
with
teares
,
Take
comfort
to
your
hope
,
straight
comes
the
ioifull
houre
,
To
reape
a
fruitfull
crop
for
all
your
torments
soure
.
But
alasse
it
commeth
to
passe
through
the
sins
and
wickednesse
of
men
,
that
realms
are
oftentimes
scarred
with
the
alarmes
and
assaults
of
foes
,
and
strangely
afflicted
with
many
euils
,
CHAP.
XLVIII
.
That
the
greatest
and
mightiest
cities
are
not
exempt
from
punishment
of
their
iniquities
.
WHereas
great
and
populous
cities
are
as
it
were
the
eies
of
the
earth
(
as
Athens
and
Sparta
were
said
to
be
of
Greece
)
there
is
no
question
but
that
they
are
so
much
the
more
blameable
for
glutting
and
ouercharging
themselues
with
sins
,
by
how
much
the
more
they
abound
with
temporable
goods
and
commodities
,
and
that
at
length
they
tumble
into
vtter
ruin
and
desolation
;
for
in
steed
of
being
a
patterne
and
direction
vnto
others
of
wisdome
and
good
gouernement
,
as
they
ought
,
they
are
for
the
most
part
examples
of
folly
and
vanity
:
for
where
is
there
more
euils
and
dissolutenesse
raigning
,
than
in
them
?
the
principall
cause
whereof
is
that
greedy
worme
Auarice
,
which
begetteth
in
al
estates
much
fraud
,
coosening
,
&
other
naughtie
practises
,
with
many
such
like
children
:
for
through
it
euery
man
looketh
to
prouide
for
his
owne
affaires
,
and
to
get
any
commoditie
or
ease
whatsoeuer
to
himselfe
,
euen
with
all
his
power
,
not
caring
who
be
damnified
so
he
be
enriched
:
the
plenty
of
riches
which
there
aboundeth
,
instilleth
pride
and
haughtinesse
of
mind
into
some
,
maketh
others
dissolute
and
effeminate
,
and
besotteth
others
with
carnall
and
vnhonest
pleasures
;
from
which
head
,
spring
riuers
of
euils
,
as
enuies
,
quarrels
,
dissention
,
debates
,
and
murders
,
all
which
things
happen
to
them
that
being
transported
&
distracted
with
the
furious
contrariety
of
their
disordinate
affection
,
can
find
no
contentment
nor
agreement
with
themselues
,
but
must
needes
burst
out
into
some
outward
mischiefes
:
hence
is
that
wonderfull
pompe
and
brauery
,
aswell
of
aparrell
as
other
things
:
hence
all
gourmandise
and
drunkennesse
are
so
common
,
yea
and
adulteries
so
much
frequented
:
wherefore
the
anger
of
the
almighty
must
needs
be
kindled
,
to
consume
them
in
their
sins
.
One
of
the
notablest
cities
of
the
world
for
greatnesse
and
antiquity
was
Niniue
,
the
capitall
and
chiefe
citie
of
the
Assyrian
Empire
,
howbeit
her
greatnesse
and
power
could
not
so
protect
her
,
but
that
after
she
had
once
been
spared
by
the
means
of
the
Prophet
Ionas
,
who
foretold
her
of
her
destruction
,
being
returned
to
her
former
vomit
againe
,
to
wit
,
of
robberies
,
extortions
,
wrongfull
dealings
and
adulteries
,
shee
was
wholly
and
vtterly
subuerted
,
God
hauing
deliuered
her
for
a
prey
into
the
hands
of
many
of
her
enemies
,
that
spoiled
and
pilled
her
to
the
quicke
;
and
lastly
into
the
hands
of
the
Medes
,
who
brought
hir
to
a
final
&
vnrecouerable
desolation
,
as
it
was
prophecied
by
the
prophet
Nahum
.
Babilon
was
wont
to
be
the
seat
of
that
puissant
monarchy
vnder
Nabuchadnezzar
,
where
flourished
the
famous
Astrologers
and
notable
wise
men
of
the
world
,
where
the
spoiles
and
riches
of
many
nations
and
countries
were
set
vp
as
trophies
&
kept
as
the
remembrance
of
their
victories
,
where
also
vices
raigned
,
&
al
maner
of
excesse
and
villany
ouerflowed
:
Q.
Curtius
the
city
did
so
exceed
in
whoredome
and
adulteries
,
that
fathers
and
mothers
were
not
ashamed
to
bee
bauds
vnto
their
daughters
,
no
nor
husbands
to
their
wiues
,
a
thing
most
strange
&
odious
;
Amongst
sea-bordring
cities
,
&
for
renown
of
merchandise
,
Tire
in
former
ages
was
most
famous
,
for
thither
resorted
the
marchants
of
al
countries
for
trafficke
of
Palestina
,
Siria
,
Aegypt
,
Persia
,
&
Assyria
;
they
of
Tarshis
brought
thither
yron
,
lead
,
brasse
,
&
siluer
;
the
Sirians
sold
their
Carbuncles
,
purple
,
brodered
worke
,
fine
linnen
,
corrall
,
&
pearle
;
the
Iewes
hony
oile
,
triacle
,
Cassia
,
and
Calamus
;
the
Arabians
trafficked
with
lambs
muttons
,
&
goats
;
the
Sabeans
brought
merchandise
of
all
exquisit
spices
and
apothecary
stuffe
,
with
gold
and
pretious
stones
;
by
means
where●●
it
being
grown
exceeding
wealthy
,
enriched
by
fraud
&
deceit
,
&
being
lifted
vp
to
the
height
of
pride
&
plunged
in
the
depth
of
pleasures
,
it
was
at
length
by
the
iust
iudgement
of
God
so
sacked
&
ruinated
,
The
like
iudgement
fell
vpon
Sidon
,
&
vpon
that
rich
&
renowned
city
of
Corinth
,
which
through
the
commodiousnes
of
the
hauen
was
the
most
frequented
place
of
the
world
for
the
entercourse
of
merchants
out
of
Asia
&
Europe
;
Eutrop.
Oros
.
lib.
9.
she
vnder
went
this
punishment
,
to
be
first
finally
destroied
,
and
brought
into
cinders
by
the
Romans
;
and
then
after
her
reedification
,
to
be
debased
into
so
low
and
vile
an
estate
,
that
that
which
remaineth
is
no
wise
comparable
to
hir
former
glory
.
Again
Athens
the
most
florishing
&
famous
city
of
Greece
for
hir
faire
buildings
,
large
precincts
&
multitude
of
inhabitants
,
but
especially
for
hir
philosophy
,
by
means
whereof
recourse
was
made
from
all
parts
to
her
as
the
fountaine
&
welspring
of
arts
,
&
the
schoole
&
vniuersity
of
the
whole
world
:
whose
pollicy
and
manner
of
gouernment
was
so
much
esteemed
by
the
Romans
,
that
they
drew
from
thence
their
laws
,
but
now
she
lies
dead
and
buried
in
forgetfulnesse
,
not
carrying
any
of
hir
former
proportion
or
appearance
.
Carthage
that
noble
city
,
mistresse
of
Africa
,
and
Paragon
to
Rome
,
may
not
brag
of
any
better
issue
than
hir
fellowes
:
for
though
shee
resisted
and
made
her
part
good
with
Rome
for
many
yeares
,
yet
at
length
by
means
of
hir
own
inward
&
ciuill
iars
,
shee
was
vtterly
destroied
by
them
;
for
the
inhabitants
not
able
to
stand
any
longer
in
defence
,
Numantium
in
Spain
being
besieged
by
the
Romans
after
it
had
borne
the
brunt
of
war
and
sacking
,
a
long
while
made
many
desperate
sallies
vpon
their
enemies
,
and
lastly
seeing
themselues
consumed
with
famine
,
rather
than
they
would
bow
their
neckes
to
the
yoke
of
seruitude
,
barring
their
gates
,
set
fire
on
all
;
and
so
burning
themselues
with
their
whole
citie
,
left
the
enemy
nothing
but
ashes
for
his
prey
and
triumph
:
It
is
a
maruellous
and
strange
thing
to
consider
,
how
that
prowd
citie
hath
lifted
vp
her
head
aboue
all
others
,
and
vsurped
a
tyranny
ouer
nations
;
and
which
Lactantius
,
Hierom
,
CHAP.
XLIX
.
Of
such
punishments
which
are
common
to
all
men
in
regard
of
their
iniquities
.
THese
and
such
like
effects
of
Gods
wrath
ought
to
admonish
&
instruct
euery
man
to
look
vnto
himselfe
for
doing
euill
,
and
to
abhorre
and
detest
sin
,
since
it
bringeth
forth
such
soure
and
bitter
fruits
;
for
albeit
the
waies
of
the
wicked
seeme
in
their
owne
eies
faire
and
good
,
A
God
executing
iustice
and
iudgement
vpon
the
earth
;
Now
according
to
the
variety
and
diuersity
of
mens
offences
,
the
Lord
in
his
most
iust
and
admirable
iudgement
,
vseth
diuersity
of
punishments
:
sometimes
correcting
them
one
by
one
in
particular
,
other
whiles
altogither
in
a
heape
;
sometimes
by
stormes
and
tempests
both
by
sea
and
land
,
other
times
by
lightning
,
haile
,
and
deluge
of
waters
;
often
by
ouerflowing
and
breaking
out
of
riuers
,
and
of
the
sea
also
;
and
not
seldome
by
remedilesse
and
sudden
fires
,
heauen
&
earth
and
all
the
elements
beeing
armed
with
an
inuincible
force
,
to
take
vengeance
vpon
such
as
are
traitors
and
rebels
against
God
:
sundry
times
he
scourgeth
the
world
(
as
it
well
deserueth
)
with
his
vsuall
and
accustomed
plagues
,
namely
of
warre
,
and
famine
,
and
pestilence
,
which
are
euident
signes
of
his
anger
,
according
to
the
threats
denounced
in
the
law
touching
the
same
:
and
therefore
if
at
any
time
he
defer
the
punishment
of
the
wicked
,
it
is
for
no
other
end
,
but
to
expect
the
fulnesse
of
their
sinne
,
and
to
make
them
more
inexcusable
,
when
contrary
to
his
bountifulnesse
and
long
suffering
(
which
inuiteth
and
calleth
them
to
repentance
)
they
harden
themselues
and
grow
more
obstinate
in
their
vices
and
rebellion
,
drawing
vpon
their
heads
the
whole
heape
of
wrath
the
more
grieuously
to
assaile
them
.
And
thus
the
vengeance
of
God
marcheth
but
a
soft
pace
(
as
saith
Valerius
Maximus
)
to
the
end
to
double
and
aggrauate
the
punishment
for
the
slacknesse
thereof
.
CHAP.
L.
That
the
greatest
punishments
are
reserued
and
laid
vp
for
the
wicked
in
the
world
to
come
.
NOtwithstanding
all
which
hath
bene
spoken
,
and
howsoeuer
sinners
are
punished
in
this
life
,
yet
is
certaine
,
that
the
greatest
and
terriblest
punishments
are
kept
in
store
for
them
in
another
world
:
and
albeit
that
during
this
transitory
pilgrimage
,
they
seeme
to
themselues
often
times
to
liue
at
their
ease
,
and
enioy
their
pleasures
and
pastimes
to
their
hearts
contentment
:
yet
doubtlesse
it
is
so
,
that
they
are
indeed
in
a
continuall
prison
,
and
in
a
dungeon
of
darkenesse
,
bound
and
chained
with
fetters
of
their
owne
sinne
,
and
very
often
turmoiled
and
butchered
with
their
owne
guiltie
conscience
,
ouercharged
with
the
multitude
of
offences
,
&
fore-feeling
the
approch
of
hell
:
and
in
this
case
many
languish
away
with
care
,
feare
,
and
terror
,
being
toiled
and
tired
with
vncessant
and
vnsupporrable
disquietnesse
,
and
tossed
and
distracted
with
despaire
,
vntill
by
death
they
be
brought
vnto
their
last
irreuocable
punishment
:
which
punishment
is
not
to
endure
for
a
time
and
then
to
end
,
but
is
eternall
and
euerlastingly
inherent
both
in
body
and
soule
:
I
say
in
the
bodie
,
after
the
resurrection
of
the
dead
;
and
in
soule
,
after
the
departure
out
of
this
life
till
all
eternity
:
for
it
is
iust
and
equall
that
they
which
haue
offended
and
dishonored
God
in
their
bodies
in
this
life
,
should
be
punished
also
in
their
bodies
in
the
world
to
come
with
endles
torments
:
of
which
torments
,
when
mention
is
made
in
the
holy
scripture
,
they
are
for
our
weake
capacity
sake
called
gehenna
,
or
a
place
of
torment
,
vtter
darkenesse
and
hell
fire
,
where
there
is
weeping
and
gnashing
of
teeth
,
&c:
againe
,
eternall
fire
,
a
poole
and
pit
of
fire
and
brimstone
,
which
is
prepared
for
the
deuill
and
his
darlings
:
and
how
miserable
their
estate
is
that
fall
therein
,
our
Sauiour
Christ
giueth
vs
to
know
in
the
person
of
the
rich
glutton
,
CHAP.
LI.
How
the
afflictions
of
the
godly
,
and
punishments
of
the
wicked
differ
.
WHich
seeing
it
is
so
,
it
is
necessary
that
the
wicked
and
peruerse
ones
should
feele
the
rigor
of
Gods
wrath
for
the
presumption
and
rebellion
wherewith
they
daily
prouoke
him
against
them
:
and
although
with
those
that
feare
God
,
and
striue
to
keepe
themselues
from
euill
,
and
take
paines
to
liue
peaceably
and
quietly
,
it
often
times
goeth
worse
here
below
than
with
others
,
being
laid
open
to
millions
of
iniuries
,
reproches
,
and
cruelties
,
and
are
as
it
were
sheepe
appointed
to
the
slaughter
;
whereof
some
are
massacred
,
some
hanged
,
some
hedded
,
some
drowned
,
some
burned
,
or
put
to
some
other
cruell
death
:
yet
notwithstanding
their
estate
and
condition
is
farre
happier
than
that
of
the
wicked
,
for
so
much
as
all
their
sufferings
and
aduersities
are
blessed
and
sanctified
vnto
them
of
God
,
who
turneth
them
to
their
aduantage
,
according
to
the
saying
of
S.
Luke
,
That
all
things
worke
for
the
good
to
them
that
feare
God
:
for
whatsoeuer
tribulation
befalleth
them
,
they
cannot
be
separated
from
the
loue
of
God
,
which
hee
beareth
vnto
them
in
his
well
beloued
sonne
Christ
Iesus
:
be
it
then
that
God
visiteth
them
for
their
faults
(
for
there
is
none
that
is
cleare
of
sinne
)
it
is
a
fatherly
chastisement
,
to
bring
them
to
amendment
:
be
it
that
he
exerciseth
them
by
many
afflictions
,
as
he
did
Iob
,
it
is
to
prooue
their
faith
and
patience
,
to
the
end
they
may
be
better
purified
like
gold
in
the
furnace
,
and
serue
for
examples
to
others
.
If
it
be
for
the
truth
of
the
Gospell
that
they
suffer
,
then
they
are
blessed
,
because
they
are
conformed
to
the
image
of
the
sonne
of
God
,
that
they
might
also
be
partakers
of
his
glory
,
for
they
that
suffer
with
him
,
are
assured
to
raigne
with
him
:
hence
it
is
,
that
in
the
midst
of
their
torments
and
oppressions
,
in
the
midst
of
fires
and
fagots
flaming
about
them
,
beeing
comforted
with
the
consolations
of
Gods
spirit
through
a
sure
hope
of
their
happie
repose
and
incorruptible
crowne
which
is
prepared
for
them
in
the
heauens
,
they
reioice
and
are
so
chearefull
:
contrariwise
the
wicked
,
seeing
themselues
ensnared
in
the
euils
which
their
owne
sinnes
brought
vpon
them
,
gnash
their
teeth
,
fret
themselues
,
murmure
against
God
,
and
hlaspheme
him
,
like
wretches
,
to
their
endlesse
perdition
.
There
is
therfore
great
difference
betwixt
the
punishments
of
ech
of
these
,
for
the
one
tendeth
to
honour
and
life
,
the
other
to
shame
and
confusion
:
and
euen
as
it
is
not
the
greatnes
of
torments
that
maketh
the
martyr
,
but
the
goodnes
of
the
cause
;
so
the
infliction
of
punishment
vniustly
,
neither
maketh
the
partie
afflicted
guilty
,
nor
any
whit
diminisheth
his
reputation
:
wheras
the
wicked
that
are
iustly
tormented
for
their
sinnes
,
are
so
marked
with
infamie
and
dishonour
,
that
the
staine
thereof
can
neuer
be
wiped
out
.
Let
euery
one
therefore
learne
to
keepe
himselfe
from
euill
,
and
to
containe
himselfe
in
a
kind
of
modestie
and
integritie
of
life
,
seeing
that
by
the
plagues
and
scourges
wherewith
the
world
is
ordinarily
afflicted
,
Gods
fierce
wrath
is
clearely
reuealed
from
heauen
vpon
all
impiety
and
iniustice
of
men
,
to
consume
all
those
that
rebell
against
him
.
Thinke
vpon
this
you
inhabitants
of
the
earth
,
small
and
great
,
of
what
qualitie
or
condition
soeuer
you
be
.
If
you
be
mighty
,
puissant
,
and
fearfull
,
know
that
the
Lord
is
greater
than
you
;
for
he
is
almighty
,
all-terrible
,
&
al-feareful
;
in
what
place
soeuer
you
are
,
he
is
alwaies
aboue
you
,
ready
to
hurle
you
downe
and
ouerturne
you
,
to
breake
,
quash
,
&
crush
you
in
pieces
as
pots
of
earth
;
he
is
armed
with
thunder
,
fire
,
and
a
bloody
sword
to
destroy
,
consume
,
and
cut
you
in
peeces
:
heauen
threatneth
from
aboue
,
and
the
earth
which
you
trample
on
from
below
,
shaking
vnder
your
feet
,
and
being
ready
to
spue
you
out
from
her
face
,
or
swallow
you
vp
in
her
bowels
:
in
briefe
,
all
the
elements
&
creatures
of
God
looke
a
skew
at
you
in
disdaine
,
and
set
themselues
against
you
in
hatred
,
if
you
feare
not
your
Creatour
your
Lord
and
Master
,