¶
The
Serpent
of
diui●ion
.
WHylom
as
old
Bookes
maketh
mencion
,
whan
the
noble
&
famous
citie
of
Rome
was
most
shining
in
his
felicitie
,
and
flouring
in
hys
glorye
,
like
as
it
is
remembred
in
the
bookes
of
old
antiquitie
/
in
the
pryme
temps
of
his
foundacion
/
whan
the
walles
wer
reysed
on
height
by
the
manly
and
prudent
diligence
of
Remus
and
Romulus
:
the
citie
stode
vnder
gouernaunce
of
kinges
/
tyl
vnto
the
time
that
Tarquine
,
sonne
of
Tarquine
the
proude
,
dydde
the
great
outrageous
offence
vnto
Lucres
/
wyfe
of
the
woorthye
Senatour
Collatine
.
In
punishynge
of
which
trespace
by
the
manlye
pursuite
of
Collatines
kinred
and
ful
assent
of
all
the
Cenate
:
the
name
of
kynges
ceased
in
the
Citie
of
Rome
for
euermore
,
and
al
the
royal
stocke
of
the
forsaide
Tarquine
was
proscript
&
put
in
exile
.
And
after
by
the
prudent
aduise
of
the
Cenate
:
the
citie
was
gouerned
betwene
Councellers
/
and
so
continued
vnto
the
time
that
Pompei
the
proude
was
repayred
home
again
from
the
conquest
of
Tyre
/
whych
by
force
he
had
made
subiecte
vnto
the
Empyre
of
Rome
,
where
as
with
great
worthines
of
fame
hee
was
receiued
.
So
that
for
his
great
noblenes
he
was
chosen
one
of
the
.iii
for
to
gouerne
the
city
:
assigned
to
hym
other
twoo
full
renowmed
of
knighthoode
/
Iulius
Cezar
,
and
Marcus
Crassus
,
&
thus
was
the
name
of
counsellers
turned
into
the
name
of
Dictatours
,
which
was
that
time
an
office
partinent
to
princes
to
gouerne
other
.
And
for
a
special
cause
this
office
&
this
occupacion
of
a
Dictatour
,
by
assent
of
all
the
whole
Cenate
was
committed
vnto
thre
,
that
if
one
offended
,
the
other
twaine
should
be
mightie
&
strong
to
correct
the
thirde
.
And
another
cause
was
this
:
while
that
twayne
were
occupied
in
warre
outward
/
the
third
should
gouerne
at
home
.
And
thus
al
the
while
they
wer
of
one
hart
/
of
one
assent
/
and
void
of
variaunce
among
them selues
/
the
nobles
of
Rome
floured
in
prosperitie
,
but
as
sone
as
false
couetous
brought
in
pride
&
vain
ambicion
,
the
contagious
Serpent
of
diuision
clipsed
&
appalled
her
woorthines
,
concluding
soothly
as
in
sentence
that
euery
kyngdome
proued
by
diuision
/
is
conueyed
to
his
destruction
.
And
so
for
the
surquedous
pride
on
the
partie
of
Iulius
,
and
after
of
the
said
citie
of
Rome
:
the
contagious
couetous
entermedled
wyth
enuye
,
on
the
partye
of
Pompey
:
made
the
famous
citie
of
Rome
fullye
waste
and
wylde
/
not
onelye
of
their
inumerable
treasour
,
but
caused
them
also
to
be
ful
baren
and
desolate
of
their
men
/
where
to fore
of
worthines
,
of
knighthode
/
&
of
chiualry
they
wer
incomparable
.
And
finallye
,
the
false
diuision
amonge
them selues
,
was
more
importable
vnto
than
,
and
caunsed
more
the
ruine
of
the
Citie
/
than
when
they
had
warre
with
all
the
worlde
/
lyke
as
this
litle
storie
compendiously
shal
deuise
.
And
to
conuey
briefely
the
processe
of
this
ma●●er
:
ye
shal
first
vnderstand
that
Marcus
Crassus
was
sent
to
the
par●ies
of
the
North
wyth
syxe
legions
of
Knyghtes
against
the
kyng
of
Parthes
.
And
the
manly
man
Iulius
Cezar
with
other
syxe
legions
of
people
was
sent
downe
,
passing
the
great
bondes
of
Lombardye
/
dyscendynge
downe
by
highe
Alpies
/
and
auayling
downe
by
the
large
plage
of
Germanie
and
of
Almaygne
,
tyll
by
conquest
b●
his
manly
●orce
and
his
mortal
swoorde
he
broughte
all
Fraunce
into
subiection
/
and
al
the
land
of
Burgoyn
,
Brabant
,
Flaunders
,
and
Holand
.
In
which
conquest
he
continued
tyll
almoste
the
space
of
his
Lustre
was
wasted
out
that
is
to
say
,
that
was
the
space
limited
of
the
Romaines
,
the
whiche
was
called
a
Lustre
,
whiche
is
accompted
the
space
of
fiue
yere
,
and
who
so
euer
passed
that
space
by
occasion
of
anye
conquest
,
and
not
repayred
againe
at
his
time
set
and
limited
of
fiue
yere
:
he
was
foriudged
anone
and
dempt
as
enemye
&
rebel
vnto
the
noble
city
of
Rome
.
But
this
famous
and
manly
man
Iulius
/
prudentlie
deming
in
his
opinion
that
time
lost
while
the
Fortune
is
blādesshing
and
fauorable
throughe
the
contagious
occasion
of
necligence
and
of
sloth
/
is
afterward
ful
hard
for
to
be
recouered
.
Wherefore
of
knighthod
and
manly
prowesse
he
did
set
the
Romaines
statutes
aside
,
and
fully
purposed
in
his
noble
and
knightly
hart
for
to
passe
the
bondes
and
the
space
of
his
Lustre
,
and
to
enforce
hymselfe
with
his
●●●ualrie
to
wyn
the
bondes
〈…〉
/
and
ouersayle
by
force
the
west
partie
of
our
Occean
.
But
for
all
hys
surquedous
pryde
hee
was
twyse
beaten
of
at
his
arriuall
,
by
the
woorthynes
of
the
Britaine
king
called
Cassibelan
.
And
playnly
withoute
fauour
to
declare
and
specifie
the
truth
,
he
might
neuer
attain
to
ariue
at
his
lust
and
pleasure
,
tyll
this
manlye
king
Cassibelan
and
Androg●nes
Duke
of
Cornewaile
fel
at
debate
amonge
theym selues
/
whereby
I
may
conclude
/
that
whyles
vn●tye
and
concorde
stoode
vndefoyled
and
vndeuided
in
the
bondes
of
Britaine
,
the
mightie
conquerour
Iulius
was
vnable
and
impotent
to
vanquishe
them
.
By
which
ensample
ye
may
euidently
consider
and
see
,
that
diuision
lyke
as
is
specified
to
forne
,
is
originall
cause
in
Prouincies
and
Regions
of
all
destruction
.
For
whan
Iulius
by
fauour
of
Androgenes
recouered
ariuall
into
Britaine
,
shortlye
after
Cassibelan
the
manlye
king
/
proudly
and
kinghtlye
met
wyth
him
/
betwene
whom
there
was
a
mortall
warre
.
But
like
as
it
is
especially
remembred
and
recorded
by
the
wrytinge
of
the
most
worthye
and
graduate
Clarke
Eusebius
,
that
same
daye
when
Iulius
and
Cassybelan
me●
in
the
fielde
/
this
foresaid
Cassybelan
had
a
famous
and
a
passynge
manly
man
to
his
brother
,
the
which
with
his
bloody
mortal
swoord
neuer
ceased
to
●lea
and
oppresse
the
proud
Romaine
knightes
/
so
farre
forthe
that
they
fled
and
eschewed
his
swoord
as
the
death
.
For
as
he
went
there
was
no
resistence
,
and
this
continued
so
long
that
the
Romaynes
were
impotent
to
resist
.
But
oh
alas
when
he
was
wearied
of
fight
,
it
befel
casually
of
fortune
which
is
ay
contrary
and
peruerse
that
he
of
auenture
met
wyth
thys
manly
man
Iulius
,
and
bothe
two
like
as
made
is
mencion
fared
as
Tygers
and
Lyons
,
euerich
wounding
oth●r
ful
mortallie
,
til
sodeinly
by
dispocion
of
fate
Iulius
with
an
vnware
stroke
of
his
dreadfull
sword
,
rose
him
a
twaine
.
And
because
the
storie
maketh
no
mencion
what
this
worthy
knight
●ight
:
I
finde
none
other
name
〈◊〉
hym
,
but
that
he
was
brother
vnto
the
nob●e
Briton
king
Cassibelan
.
The
d●ath
of
whom
Britons
oughtful
wel
to
complaine
,
by
whose
death
Iulius
was
made
victorious
/
and
Cassibelan
brought
to
subieccion
vnto
the
Empire
of
Rome
,
&
constreyned
by
Cezar
to
pay
for
his
truage
thre
thousand
pound
euery
yeare
.
And
in
the
signe
of
this
conquest
&
victorie
Iulius
Cezar
edified
in
this
land
for
a
perpetual
memorie
to
put
his
name
in
remembraunce
,
the
castel
of
Douer
and
Caunturburie
/
Rochester
/
&
the
tower
of
London
,
the
castel
and
the
towne
of
Cezarisbury
,
which
now
is
called
Salesburie
.
And
moreouer
(
as
sayth
mine
Auctour
)
he
edified
Cezaris
Chester
,
that
now
is
called
Chichester
,
and
the
castle
of
Exeter
.
And
in
the
mean
while
that
Cezar
thus
proudlie
had
wholie
and
entirelye
the
gouernaunce
of
Brutes
Albion
,
his
felow
Marcus
Crassus
(
of
whom
tofore
is
made
mencion
)
was
sla●ne
in
the
East
partie
of
the
world
while
he
made
most
cruel
warre
agaynste
the
fierce
people
of
Parthes
.
And
for
his
gredie
vnstauncheable
thurst
of
couetise
/
his
enemies
slewe
him
in
this
wise
:
Thèy
made
melt
gold
and
poured
it
into
his
mouth
/
sayinge
to
hym
in
thys
wise
(
Aurum
sitisti
,
aurum
bib●
▪
)
Thou
haste
thursted
golde
all
thy
life
/
now
drinke
thy
fill
.
Lo
here
ye
may
consider
and
see
the
short
and
the
momentayne
tyme
transitorie
and
not
abyding
of
all
the
warryours
.
And
as
the
storie
rehearceth
also
,
as
for
lamentable
kalendes
of
more
infortune
that
after
shuld
folowe
:
Iu●ia
the
noble
wyfe
of
Pompey
,
and
daughter
to
Iulius
died
of
a
childe
.
For
whyche
cause
Pompeius
pretended
to
fynde
a
cause
to
reuoke
Iulius
agayne
to
Rome
by
assent
of
al
the
Senate
/
to
the
entent
that
he
shoulde
come
in
his
owne
persone
to
reuenge
in
al
hast
the
death
of
his
felow
Marcus
Crassus
,
as
before
is
sayde
so
vengeablie
slaine
in
his
conquest
.
This
●ame
Pompey
hauing
a
secret
dred
in
his
conceit
lest
that
Iulius
should
waxe
so
mighty
in
his
conquest
that
he
shuld
not
be
egall
of
power
,
nor
able
to
resist
him
in
his
repair
,
&
dreding
also
in
his
imaginacion
lest
that
Iulius
wold
of
presumptuous
pride
vsurpe
by
tiranny
to
take
vpon
him
the
lordship
and
the
dominacion
of
Rome
.
But
this
manlie
man
Cezar
aduerting
full
prudently
,
and
perceiuing
the
fradul●nt
meanynge
of
Pompey
on
the
one
side
/
and
the
compassed
sleigh●
of
the
Cenate
of
that
other
side
ful
aduisedly
gaue
answer
again
that
that
he
would
accomplish
and
perfourme
his
con●uest
which
he
had
begon
/
and
than
mekely
and
humblye
at
their
request
repayre
home
againe
.
And
in
this
wise
entred
in
the
Snake
of
wanhope
and
of
discord
,
which
caused
eueriche
to
suspect
other
,
&
thus
began
to
kyndle
the
fyre
of
enuie
,
enducing
successiuelye
warre
and
debate
amonge
them selues
/
and
here
vpon
wythout
delay
to
execute
their
purpose
/
and
euidently
to
shew
the
ende
of
of
their
entent
:
Pompey
&
the
Cenate
of
one
assent
withoute
respite
or
deliberacion
,
foriudged
Cezar
giltie
,
disobedient
,
rebel
,
and
traitour
to
Rome
/
and
gaue
vpon
him
a
sentence
diffinitiue
of
exyle
and
prescription
for
euermore
.
But
Iulius
not
consideryng
nor
hauynge
no
maner
euidence
●e
suspicion
of
that
malicious
conspiracye
,
that
Pompey
and
the
Cenate
wrought
against
hym
:
but
all
innocent
and
vnknowledging
of
theyr
enuious
malice
/
by
good
and
diligent
deliberacion
of
entent
,
didde
sende
his
Embassatours
,
not
onely
vnto
his
sonne
in
law
Pompey
,
but
also
vnto
al
the
woorthye
court
of
the
Cenate
/
and
to
all
other
of
the
Cityzens
of
the
citie
/
requyring
&
praying
theym
of
equitie
/
that
for
hys
meritorie
desert
they
should
not
be
contrary
against
him
nor
for
none
occasion
of
wylfulnes
to
deny
vnto
hym
hys
customable
gwe●don
/
the
which
is
due
of
old
antiquiti
to
be
geuen
to
Conquerours
,
but
that
they
would
frely
an●
wylfully
(
vncompelled
)
graunt
him
and
put
him
in
possession
of
the
Palme
/
and
the
Triumph
which
so
long
by
knightly
labour
and
manlye
diligence
he
had
(
for
the
encrease
and
the
augmentacion
of
the
common
profyte
of
al
the
Empire
of
Rome
)
traueled
for
.
Then
for
to
specifie
and
declare
the
honoure
and
Triumphe
whylome
vsed
in
Rome
/
firste
ye
shal
vnderstande
that
Triumphus
by
description
/
is
as
much
to
saye
in
English
as
a
treble
gladnes
,
or
els
a
singuler
excellencie
of
ioye
,
in
three
maner
of
wyse
ordeyned
for
Uictours
,
whyche
throughe
theyr
high
renowne
and
manly
prowesse
had
broughte
Regions
and
cityes
by
way
of
knightly
conquest
to
be
subiect
and
tributarie
to
the
Empyre
of
Rome
.
The
first
of
the
thre
worships
done
to
a
Conquerour
,
was
this
:
first
at
his
repaire
vnto
the
citi
/
al
the
people
of
high
estate
and
of
low
shoulde
with
great
ioy
and
reuerence
in
their
best
and
richest
aray
,
meete
him
on
the
waye
/
and
this
was
the
first
.
The
second
was
this
,
that
al
the
prisoners
and
they
that
were
in
captiuity
/
should
fetred
and
manacled
go
rounde
about
enuiron
his
charret
,
some
before
&
some
behinde
.
And
the
third
worship
done
vnto
him
was
thys
:
that
he
shoulde
be
clad
in
a
purpurate
mante●l
of
Iupiter
as
God
/
&
syt
with
a
crowne
of
Laurer
vpon
his
head
in
a
charet
of
gold
/
and
aboute
his
necke
a
maner
of
a
circle
enuiron
made
of
gold
/
in
similitude
and
likenes
of
a
Palme
.
And
if
so
that
his
conquest
were
performed
and
accomplished
withoutes
sword
or
sheding
of
blood
/
than
shoulde
the
circle
of
the
Palme
be
forged
without
prickes
or
pynnes
.
And
yf
so
were
that
his
victorie
was
finished
by
the
cruel
fate
of
warre
,
than
of
custome
this
circle
or
his
pectoral
was
forged
al
ful
of
sharp
pricking
thornes
/
to
declare
and
specifie
that
there
is
no
conquest
accomplished
fully
to
the
ende
by
mediacion
of
warre
,
without
that
ther
be
felt
and
founde
therein
The
sharpe
thornes
of
aduersitie
,
and
that
eyther
by
deathe
or
els
by
pouertie
.
And
this
royal
and
victorious
charet
to
forsaid
,
was
drawen
with
.iiii.
white
stedes
through
the
most
royal
stretes
of
the
Citie
to
the
Capitole
,
he
hauing
a
Ceptre
in
his
handful
richly
deuised
/
and
there
vpon
in
signe
of
victori
an
Egle
of
gold
.
And
to
shew
clerelie
that
al
worldlie
glorie
is
transitorie
and
not
abiding
,
and
euidently
to
declare
that
in
hyghe
estate
is
no
assuraunce
/
there
was
sette
at
the
backe
of
the
Conquerour
,
behinde
in
the
Charet
,
the
most
vnlikelie
person
,
and
the
most
wretche
that
in
any
countrey
might
be
founde
/
disfigured
and
cladde
in
the
most
vglie
wyse
that
any
man
could
deuise
.
And
amyd
all
the
clamour
and
noyse
of
the
people
/
to
exclude
the
false
surquedie
,
vaine
glorie
,
and
idle
la●d
,
thys
foresayde
fowle
and
vglye
wretche
shoulde
of
custome
and
of
con●uetude
smite
the
Conquerour
in
the
necke
euer
&
vpon
the
head
/
and
stondemele
sayinge
to
hym
in
Greke
this
word
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
whiche
is
to
saye
in
oure
Englishe
toung
as
(
know
thy selfe
)
whych
declareth
vnto
hym
that
he
nor
none
other
shuld
for
no
such
worldli
glory
be
●urquedous
ne
waxe
proude
.
And
that
day
it
was
leful
without
punishing
to
euerie
man
,
of
high
estate
or
of
low
/
to
saye
to
him
that
was
Uictor
,
what
that
he
woulde
/
whether
it
were
of
honour
or
worshippe
/
of
repre●e
or
of
shame
.
And
this
was
admitted
for
this
cause
/
that
he
should
truelie
considre
and
aduert
that
there
is
no
earthly
glorie
that
fully
may
be
assured
without
daunger
of
fortune
.
And
shortlie
to
declare
the
difference
betwene
Triumphus
and
Trophe●m
.
Triumph
is
a
full
and
a
complener
ouercomming
of
enemies
bi
battel
,
and
Troph
is
whan
a
man
putteth
his
enemies
to
flight
withoute
stroke
of
sword
.
But
touching
this
honor
aforesaid
whiche
Iulius
required
and
asked
of
righte
as
for
a
gwerdon
,
which
him
thought
was
meritory
and
due
vnto
him
.
Anone
this
foresaide
Pompey
with
full
assent
of
all
the
Cenate
,
denyed
all
with
one
voyce
his
request
,
and
of
one
accord
answered
againe
,
and
sayd
him
platlie
he
should
not
be
accepted
there
vnto
no
such
honour
/
but
plainlie
they
bad
him
know
that
he
had
rather
deserued
to
be
deade
,
then
to
attain
to
any
such
worship
,
aledging
against
him
that
he
was
both
rebel
and
traytour
to
the
statutes
of
Rome
.
And
whan
Iulius
clerely
conceiued
the
short
answer
of
the
Cenate
and
of
this
Pompey
to
fore sayde
,
there
kyndled
a
full
great
hote
burning
fire
of
enuy
in
his
hart
of
the
freting
hate
,
specially
,
that
he
bare
in
his
breast
for
to
be
reuenged
of
Pompey
.
And
as
Lucan
rehearseth
in
his
poeticall
booke
,
the
denyeng
of
this
worship
to
Iulius
,
was
the
chiefe
grounde
and
occasion
of
all
the
warre
that
began
in
Rome
/
roote
and
begynning
also
of
al
the
contagious
diu●sion
among
them selfes
.
But
so
as
Lucan
liketh
to
reherce
and
specifie
in
his
booke
aforesaide
among
other
causes
that
he
put
.
Lye
in
especial
writeth
of
three
which
were
chiefe
beginning
and
roote
of
diuision
among
them selues
/
prouing
by
reason
in
those
thre
that
it
must
needes
be
that
the
felicitie
and
the
prosperitie
of
Rome
must
abate
&
draw
to
decline
.
The
which
three
,
firste
hee
saythe
it
was
necessarye
that
such
aduersitie
shoulde
fall
to
Rome
.
Secondarelye
he
saithe
it
was
consue●udinarie
.
And
thirdly
he
saith
it
was
voluntarie
.
Fyrst
that
it
was
necessarye
,
hee
proueth
by
example
of
nature
in
this
wyse
:
That
like
as
Phebus
the
sunne
/
when
he
ariseth
in
the
Orient
/
and
by
successiue
course
ascendeth
into
the
highest
pointe
of
the
Middaye
spere
,
and
of
his
kinde
and
natural
course
must
discend
and
hathe
his
golden
tressed
hornes
in
the
westren
wawes
,
and
then
dimmeth
&
darkneth
oure
emysperie
by
ablence
of
his
lighte
:
And
also
eke
when
the
same
golden
wayne
of
Titan
/
fro
the
Ariet
is
whirled
vp
to
the
hiest
tower
of
his
ascencion
in
the
celestian
signe
of
the
Crabbe
,
and
than
by
the
mightie
compelling
of
Natures
righte
,
he
is
constrayned
to
discende
downe
and
auale
his
charet
:
Ryght
so
sembla●lye
there
is
no
worldlie
worship
so
brighte
nor
clere
shyning
in
earthe
/
but
that
it
must
encline
&
auale
down
as
sone
as
he
hath
attained
to
the
hiest
&
the
most
famous
point
of
his
ascencion
.
For
like
as
the
rage
&
the
aboundant
flow
,
when
it
hath
raught
his
sturdy
waues
to
the
hiest
,
sodenli
foloweth
an
〈◊〉
&
maketh
hym
to
resort
againe
.
In
the
same
wyse
whan
any
temporal
prosperitie
is
most
flowinge
in
felicitie
/
then
is
a
sodein
ebbe
of
aduersitie
most
to
be
adrade
.
Also
in
the
same
wise
as
ye
may
clerely
discerne
&
considre
at
the
eye
/
in
trees
and
herbes
/
that
when
the
vege●atife
vertue
by
the
comfortable
influence
of
the
sunne
/
is
after
the
cold
winter
:
In
Uerre
by
litle
and
lytle
ascended
into
braunches
and
bowes
,
and
causeth
them
for
to
bud
and
to
blossome
newe
:
and
also
in
herbes
maketh
a
lustie
and
a
fresh
colour
newly
to
appere
.
And
moreouer
by
processe
of
tyme
wyth
her
holesome
bawme
aparaleth
them
,
with
manifolde
sondrye
colour
of
red
/
white
,
and
grene
,
and
than
anon
after
in
discence
of
Apollo
the
sunne
,
the
same
vertue
fro
the
crop
aualeth
again
into
the
roote
.
Right
so
there
is
no
felicitie
so
flouryng
,
nor
none
so
apparailed
with
blossomes
of
transitorie
riches
,
but
as
soone
as
the
shi●ing
Sunne
of
her
glory
sheddeth
his
beames
moste
clere
,
full
vnwarelie
ere
they
can
aduert
or
take
hede
/
bene
robbed
and
reued
of
their
Lordship
/
and
pio●nged
a
downe
by
occasion
of
some
aduersitie
,
brought
and
induced
into
aduersitie
,
either
by
sickenes
or
by
death
.
And
thus
that
the
first
cause
is
natural
and
necessary
and
that
all
worldlye
pompe
and
pride
shall
passe
,
mine
Auctor
Lucan
hath
proued
by
reason
.
Than
as
touching
the
second
cause
which
is
called
customable
and
consuetudinarie
,
ye
may
considre
that
euer
of
custome
it
falleth
that
whan
the
blinde
goddesse
of
variaunce
dame
Fortune
hathe
enhaunced
a
man
highest
vpon
her
whele
,
wyth
a
sodein
sigh
she
plongeth
hym
downe
againe
.
Euident
example
ye
maye
take
of
kinges
and
princes
that
haue
bene
tofore
.
And
than
touching
the
third
cause
of
destruccion
of
the
citie
/
Lucan
liketh
to
call
it
in
his
poetical
muses
,
voluntarie
,
which
is
as
much
to
saye
,
as
a
cause
rooted
vpon
wilfulnes
without
ani
ground
founded
vpon
reason
.
For
onely
of
wilfulnes
they
were
so
blinde
:
that
them
list
not
to
know
them selues
/
but
thought
them selfes
so
assured
in
their
felicitie
/
that
they
mighte
not
by
no
collateral
occasion
of
aduersitie
be
perturbed
/
ne
put
oute
thereof
.
And
thus
throughe
false
surquedraunce
they
were
made
so
wilful
,
that
none
list
to
obey
other
.
And
so
was
brought
in
obstinacie
euerich
of
them
deming
hym selfe
egall
to
other
.
And
thus
of
contrarious
discorde
among
them selfes
onely
of
voluntari
they
stode
disseuered
and
deuided
/
which
was
one
of
the
chiefe
occa●ions
of
their
destruction
.
And
for
this
●kyl
toforne
declare●
/
Lucan
calleth
the
thyrde
cause
voluntarie
/
in
as
much
as
it
was
falselye
founded
vpon
wyll
.
And
thus
firste
by
a
cause
necessarie
,
and
by
the
seconde
cause
called
consuetudinarie
,
shewed
tofore
by
example
of
custome
/
and
by
thys
last
third
cause
called
voluntarie
,
rooted
onelye
vpon
will
:
the
Romaines
among
them selues
stode
in
such●
contrauersye
,
that
they
doubted
to
which
partie
thei
shuld
encline
.
And
compendiouselye
to
declare
how
al
the●e
causes
of
diuision
,
and
howe
the
warre
which
of
Clarkes
is
called
Bellum
Ciuile
:
which
is
as
muche
to
saye
in
English
as
a
warre
among
them selues
.
For
the
clere
compendious
proces
of
which
/
first
ye
shal
considre
that
Iulius
platlye
enformed
of
the
malicious
conspiracie
compassed
and
wrought
against
him
.
Anon
as
he
in
his
repayre
oute
of
Albion
was
passed
the
bondes
of
Almaigne
,
and
had
attained
to
the
high
Alpies
/
which
of
●uctours
bene
called
the
colde
frosty
hilles
/
&
the
bondes
of
Lombardie
,
and
so
holding
his
passage
by
the
stood
of
the
sturdy
riuer
called
of
Lucan
(
Rubicauis
)
ther
appeared
to
him
an
old
auncient
Lady
,
heauy
and
drery
in
a
mantel
of
blacke
her
face
wympled
tofore
in
ful
dolorous
wise
,
the
tresses
of
her
heade
for
age
full
hore
and
whyte
.
And
for
constraint
of
her
hartelye
wo
:
euen
vpon
the
time
whan
the
blacke
darke
night
had
ouerspred
their
emispery
with
the
bordu●e
of
her
vgly
&
her
cloudye
cope
.
This
wofull
Lady
tofore
said
,
began
her
lamentable
complaynt
to
Iulius
in
this
wise
:
Oh
ye
noble
worthy
knightes
,
most
renoumed
of
fame
/
Alas
,
whether
purpose
ye
with
so
mightie
apparail
of
Mars
to
procede●
Or
wher
cast
ye
to
fetch
your
sturdye
standerdes
,
or
to
displaye
your
fearfull
pinons
and
baners
?
Oh
alas
/
againste
whom
haue
ye
cast
finallye
to
execute
the
mortall
hate
that
brenneth
in
your
hart
,
or
against
whom
purpose
ye
in
suche
cruell
wise
to
proue
your
myghte
?
Remember
in
your
thought
that
ye
be
vpholden
by
the
Cenate
of
Rome
,
and
your self
accompted
as
for
noble
and
ful
worthie
knights
of
the
the
citie
/
and
shewe
not
your selfe
nowe
ennemyes
to
the
Empire
,
by
whose
worthines
afore
time
it
hath
bene
susteyned
and
mightely
supported
against
the
assa●t
of
all
her
●one
.
And
oh
alas
aduer●e
&
considre
in
your
hart
the
noble
and
the
prudent
statutes
of
the
pol●cie
of
Rome
/
the
which
ful
plainlye
doth
expresse
that
it
is
leful
vnto
no
man
for
to
passe
the
boundes
of
thys
streame
,
but
if
he
be
mortal
and
rebel
vnto
Rome
.
Now
ye
therefore
that
haue
so
long
bene
frends
,
and
so
manlye
mayntained
the
honour
of
the
Citie
,
withdrawe
your
foote
and
haste
not
to
faste
,
but
let
good
deliberacion
restrain
your
reines
,
that
hasty
wilfulness
leade
you
not
to
confusion
/
not
onely
of
your self
but
vnto
the
originall
ruine
of
the
citie
/
by
the
aboundant
sheding
of
blood
that
is
likely
to
ensue
.
And
sodenly
when
this
Lady
had
briefly
expressed
the
som
of
her
sentence
,
without
more
she
disapered
.
This
manly
man
and
fortunate
knight
Iulius
in
partie
di●maied
of
this
vnco●the
apparence
,
restrayned
his
host
/
&
made
them
to
fetche
their
tentes
endlong
the
strond
vpon
the
hindre
parties
of
the
riuer
.
And
in
his
vncou●he
affray
,
he
sodenly
abrayde
sayd
in
this
wise
:
Oh
thou
mightie
Iupiter
/
vnder
whose
demaine
Uulcanus
forgeth
the
dredful
soundes
of
the
thundre
,
&
causeth
harts
to
arise
with
the
firy
leuen
:
And
oh
ye
Gods
&
Goddesses
that
whilom
had
the
gouernaunce
of
ou●
Aunceters
in
Troy
,
&
oh
ye
noble
Gods
Remus
&
Romulus
,
the
famous
founders
&
the
might●
protectours
&
patrones
of
the
city
of
Rome
:
I
as
humble
subiect
vnto
your
deitiful
lowli
besech
&
requir
you
of
equiti
&
right
to
be
wel
willing
&
fauourable
to
promote
my
true
quarel
&
cause
,
&
beningly
of
your
bounteous
goodnes
to
fauour
&
fortune
the
high
enterprise
which
of
iust
tytle
I
purpose
for
lyfe
or
d●th
through
your
fauor
to
execut
&
not
as
enemy
or
rebell
to
Rome
/
but
as
a
true
citiz●n
and
a
proued
knight
cast
me
fullye
to
perseuer
/
with
co●dicion
that
like
as
I
haue
manly
deserued
/
I
maye
be
receyued
,
making
a
protestacion
that
not
as
enemy
,
but
as
ful
frend
and
subiect
to
Rome
/
I
will
be
found
stedfast
and
true
.
Wherefore
ye
mighty
and
noble
Senatours
of
Rome
I
require
you
of
right
that
ye
nothing
arect
nor
ascriue
to
my
gylte
that
I
come
with
strong
&
mighty
hande
,
that
I
enter
the
bondes
of
the
emperial
fraunchise
.
Making
a
ful
protestacion
that
onely
wyth
a
clene
conscience
not
entriked
with
none
entent
of
euell●
meanynge
/
that
I
come
to
you
of
full
purpose
to
be
receued
as
for
you
frend
,
and
not
as
your
foe
.
Requiring
also
to
holde
him
(
what
so
euer
he
bee
)
for
ful
enemy
to
your
noble
citye
,
that
of
will
&
entent
laboureth
to
make
discorde
a●wene
vs
twaine
.
For
so
that
my
meritorie
gwerdon
which
that
I
haue
in
my
conquest
instlie
deserued
be
not
denied
me
:
I
am
and
euer
will
be
for
life
or
death
,
a
true
knight
to
the
citie
to
my
liues
end
.
And
forthwith
making
no
delay
/
like
a
Lyon
not
dismayed
nor
afraid
/
first
of
al
in
his
own
person
he
passed
the
Riuer
,
the
which
Riuer
like
as
Lucan
remembreth
/
the
same
time
at
the
comming
of
Cezar
/
against
his
customable
course
was
reysed
on
heighte
into
a
great
floode
,
and
all
the
white
snowes
of
Alpies
wer
resolued
with
the
beames
of
Phebus
/
whe●
through
the
riuers
in
the
valeis
were
reised
so
high
that
vnnethes
any
man
might
passe
.
But
Iulius
of
none
vncouth
aduentures
afraid
/
but
like
a
manly
man
ful
wel
assured
in
himselfe
in
the
presence
of
all
his
woorthye
knightes
said
in
this
maner
:
Here
I
leaue
behinde
,
all
the
old
confederacies
made
betwixt
Rome
and
me
/
and
here
I
leaue
al
the
frendship
of
old
antiquitie
/
and
onely
folow
the
traces
of
Fortune
/
and
of
whole
entent
begynne
a
ryghtfull
warre
/
for
cause
onelie
that
by
mediacion
of
peace
was
profered
in
my
side
,
I
may
not
attain
my
title
of
right
.
And
anon
withoute
more
dilacion
euen
vpon
the
springe
of
the
daye
/
which
of
Clarkes
is
called
Au●ora
:
he
vnwarely
wyth
all
worthie
multitude
of
his
knights
entred
into
the
citie
(
called
of
Lucan
)
Ar●●ie
,
a
Citie
partinent
to
Rome
,
&
there
he
toke
first
possess●
on
of
the
Empire
/
none
so
hardi
to
resist
nor
to
withstand
the
furi
of
his
sword
/
&
al
this
while
the
Romaines
standing
in
dout
to
which
party
thei
should
encline
/
whether
to
Cezar
/
or
to
Pompey
.
For
of
charity
that
they
had
to
their
wiues
&
their
children
,
&
to
the
old
statutes
of
the
city
thei
were
fauourable
to
Pompey
/
&
of
dread
that
they
had
of
Cezars
sword
,
thei
stode
in
●o
great
ambiguicie
,
that
thei
could
not
deme
what
was
best
to
do
.
Lo
how
the
mortal
enui
of
twain
was
cause
&
occasion
that
that
noble
citie
which
had
all
the
world
in
subiection
,
&
was
called
lady
&
Empresse
of
al
Regions
was
brought
into
destruction
.
For
in
these
twoo
first
began
the
diuision
which
neuer
after
might
parfitlie
be
restored
nor
reconsiled
to
vnity
,
wherbi
as
semeth
vnto
men
that
al
prudent
princes
which
haue
the
gouernaunce
in
Prouinces
and
regions
shuld
take
example
what
harme
&
damage
it
is
,
&
how
final
a
destruction
it
is
to
be
deuided
among
them selfes
And
for
to
ratifie
by
more
Autentike
example
how
much
that
vnity
more
auaileth
then
diuision
,
I
wil
shortelye
rehearce
an
example
,
the
whiche
Ualerie
putte●h
/
and
it
is
this
.
This
auctour
reherceth
that
whilom
whan
the
Citye
of
Rome
stoode
likely
to
haue
b●ne
deuided
of
a
debate
that
was
newly
begon
among
them selues
.
There
was
a
wyse
Philosopher
amonge
theym
,
which
of
high
discression
con●idered
the
great
perill
that
was
likelye
to
●al
and
folow
,
&
thought
he
would
of
wisdom
voyd
that
might
ensue
.
And
in
presence
of
all
the
Cenate
and
Lordes
of
the
Citie
/
he
made
bring
foorth
an
horsse
which
had
a
long
and
a
thicke
tayle
growen
behinde
/
and
than
he
commaunded
the
mightiest
champion
of
the
towne
to
set
on
both
his
hands
,
and
assay
if
he
might
by
force
pul
of
the
hors
taile
at
a
plu●ke
.
And
all
●e
it
that
he
plucked
to
the
vttermost
of
hys
mighte
/
it
woulde
not
auaile
.
And
than
anon
this
Philosopher
made
call
to
the
presence
of
the
Cenate
/
the
most
impotent
man
of
the
citie
,
a
man
vnweldye
and
crooked
of
age
.
And
thys
Philosopher
made
this
old
man
to
pluck
the
one
hereafter
an
other
of
the
hors
taile
,
tyll
by
litle
and
litle
by
proces
the
tayl
was
wasted
cleane
awaye
,
and
the
hors
naked
and
bare
behinde
.
Beholde
sayde
the
Philosopher
,
that
while
the
tail
of
the
hors
was
hole
and
one
in
it selfe
,
and
eue●ich
here
with
other
(
vndeuided
)
the
mightiest
champion
of
your
city
might
do
thereto
no
damage
.
But
as
soone
as
euery
here
was
deuided
and
disseuered
fro
other
,
he
that
was
lest
of
power
among
ye
all
/
lefte
neuer
tyll
the
tayle
was
consumed
and
brought
to
nought
.
By
whiche
example
said
the
Philosopher
,
prudently
aduert
&
wisely
cast
tofore
,
that
as
longe
as
ye
be
one
in
your selues
/
&
of
one
hart
/
there
is
none
so
strong
nor
so
mightie
that
may
auail
by
force
to
attempt
your
worthines
.
But
as
sone
as
among
your selues
one
is
deuided
from
an
other
,
your
enemies
,
though
they
be
ful
impotent
of
power
/
they
shal
bi
process●
of
tyme
plucke
awaye
the
most
fairest
and
the
most
shene
fethers
of
your
worthines
.
And
by
this
example
the
Philosopher
toforesaid
reconciled
the
Romaines
againe
to
vnitie
,
&
voided
away
dit
uision
among
them selues
.
Now
compendiously
to
resorte
againe
to
my
matter
like
as
the
stori
maketh
mencion
/
the
Romaines
standynge
in
great
contrauersie
among
them
selues
to
which
partye
they
shoulde
draw
,
the
Gods
by
many
signes
&
pronosticacions
declared
vnto
them
the
great
mischiefe
that
was
lykelye
and
verie
semblable
to
folowe
.
For
there
appeared
vnto
them
many
vncouth
ymages
of
stars
/
some
in
brenning
haberions
of
fire
,
and
some
with
bright
brondes
in
theyr
handes
casting
flame
enuiron
/
and
some
with
firie
dartes
&
sharpe
hoked
arowes
shootinge
in
the
ayre
.
And
in
especiall
there
appeared
a
large
Comete
of
stremes
the
whiche
raught
their
braunches
on
the
foure
plages
of
the
firmament
.
And
the
sun
also
when
he
shone
most
bright
in
the
meridional
plage
,
the
dai
vnwarelie
turned
to
nyghte
.
And
the
pale
moone
againste
the
common
course
of
her
kynde
:
sodeynlye
shee
was
clypsed
of
her
lyght
.
And
further
the
dreadfull
karibeis
of
the
sea
Cicile
was
turned
into
blood
.
Al
the
Houndes
also
beinge
in
the
bondes
●f
Rome
,
lefte
the
noy●e
of
their
barking
/
and
in
signe
of
pronosticacion
of
great
sorow
that
was
to
come
,
they
howled
and
we
imented
that
it
was
pitie
to
heare
/
and
the
supersticious
fire
whiche
continuallie
tofore
was
wont
to
burne
in
the
chaste
temple
of
the
Goddes
called
Uesta
,
the
flame
of
the
same
fire
euer
being
bright
vpon
her
auters
.
Of
the
which
fire
by
old
time
was
prophecied
/
that
as
sone
as
it
deuided
and
departed
at
wain
(
as
it
did
then
)
that
the
feastes
and
the
solempnities
of
Rome
shuld
cease
.
And
like
as
the
smokes
of
the
funeral
fyre
of
the
Theban
brethren
departed
at
Thebes
:
right
so
the
departing
of
fire
vpon
their
aulters
,
was
a
true
signe
and
a
pronostike
of
diuision
that
should
fal
amonge
them
,
finally
to
declare
to
euery
region
tha●
where
as
the
fire
of
loue
and
parfite
charity
stand
departed
and
deuided
amonge
them selues
/
it
is
a
very
e●idence
that
withoute
remedie
it
draweth
to
his
destruccion
.
Also
an
euident
token
●hat
sodein
mi●chief
of
diuision
s●ould
folow
/
the
foming
wawes
of
the
sea
surmounted
the
height
of
Athlantis
hylles
.
Also
al
the
rich
ymages
in
the
Temples
of
Rome
:
whyche
were
made
of
gold
/
syluer
,
and
dyuers
other
sundrye
metalles
:
so
as
they
stoode
in
their
rich
and
costly
tabernac●es
,
they
were
sene
th●●ke
time
of
diuision
wofully
complayning
and
weping
/
so
farforthe
that
the
teares
of
their
eyen
distylled
a
downe
into
the
earthe
,
so
complayning
the
desolacion
of
their
Citye
/
onelye
caused
by
occasion
of
theyr
contageous
diuision
among
them selues
.
Byrdes
also
against
the
custome
of
their
nature
,
were
secne
fleing
vpon
nightes
.
And
beastes
also
were
hearde
speakinge
,
and
women
brought
foorth
monstrous
children
.
And
all
these
vncouthe
wonders
befell
but
a
lytle
tofore
the
foresaide
diuision
in
the
noble
Citie
of
Rome
/
for
the
dreadfull
tyme
aproched
full
neare
/
of
the
which
Cibyll
so
long
had
prophecied
afore
,
when
she
sent
the
shorte
summe
of
her
sentence
to
the
Cenatours
of
Rome
compendiouslye
in
the
nombre
of
.vi.
letters
.
Thre
R.
R.
R.
and
three
F.
F.
F.
whyche
wer
fully
the
pronosticacion
of
.vi.
mischiefes
that
should
of
necessitie
fal
vnto
the
citie
of
Rome
,
comprehended
and
included
in
the
.vi.
letters
specified
in
this
wyse
/
Regna
Rome
Ruent
,
Fero
Flamme
Fame
,
The
Region
of
Rome
bi
thre
thinges
shall
drawe
to
ruine
:
Firste
by
the
sword
of
warre
amonge
them selues
/
and
next
by
fyre
,
and
than
by
hunger
.
The
whiche
three
myschiefes
so
contagiouslie
shal
assail
the
citie
:
that
it
shal
be
very
vnportable
vnto
them
/
and
the
grounde
and
roote
of
al
this
confusion
shal
be
among
them selues
discord
and
diuision
.
Furthermore
to
declare
sondry
pronosticacions
that
fell
in
their
citie
whan
the
Priests
made
sacrifice
to
their
Gods
:
their
fires
sodeinly
quenched
.
In
the
graues
and
sepulchres
of
dead
men
,
there
were
heard
woful
and
lamentable
noyses
and
●owndes
whych
dydde
put
the
people
in
very
great
dread
And
in
thys
wise
the
mischiefe
and
the
ruyne
was
shewed
and
declared
:
Fyrste
by
dyuers
figures
and
sondrye
likenesses
of
starres
shewed
in
the
heauen
,
and
next
by
wonderfull
Monsters
in
the
earthe
.
Also
the
birdes
and
the
foules
of
the
ayre
come
homelye
and
not
afraide
fleinge
into
the
Citie
/
by
the
which
signe
their
Clarkes
that
be
called
Augures
,
expounden
it
to
their
confusion
.
And
they
by
many
fold
mo
signes
than
I
maye
or
can
declare
,
the
subuersion
of
the
Citie
ful
long
was
shewed
toforne
,
onely
begon
by
this
contageous
diuision
.
But
shortelye
to
entreate
the
substaunce
of
the
storie
,
whan
that
Iulius
wyth
strong
hande
approched
the
bonds
of
Rome
:
after
whan
he
had
wonne
the
citie
of
Arimy
:
and
had
also
conquered
Rauenne
:
and
Pompey
for
feare
was
fledde
toward
the
parties
of
Grece
to
make
himself
strong
:
Thei
of
Rome
had
shortly
determined
in
sentence
that
Iulius
not
enter
the
Citye
,
but
so
were
that
his
whole
retinue
were
left
behinde
.
But
when
they
knew
and
saw
him
so
passingly
mightye
and
strong
:
they
began
to
quaken
in
theyr
hartes
,
and
namely
:
when
they
were
destitute
of
an
head
.
Of
which
and
for
that
,
some
Dukes
of
Pompey
drew
them
to
the
parties
of
Italy
into
a
city
which
whylom
was
called
Dirachium
.
And
euer
thys
woorthy
knight
Iulius
wyth
his
chiualry
pursued
after
,
and
all
that
wythstoode
he
slewe
/
and
the
remnaunt
he
put
manly
to
flyght
.
And
day
by
day
the
power
of
Iulius
gan
multiplye
and
encrease
/
and
mauger
al
his
enemies
of
very
force
he
entred
the
citye
.
And
as
some
auctours
write
/
whan
the
Romaines
(
for
dread
)
were
readye
to
receiue
him
by
theyr
gates
:
he
of
indignacion
and
disdayne
/
made
breake
the
walles
,
and
proudly
entred
as
a
Conquerour
,
and
iustified
the
Romaynes
as
his
,
and
wholy
tooke
on
hym
the
gouernaunce
/
not
onely
of
the
citie
/
but
of
all
the
whole
Empyre
.
And
maugre
the
Cenate
he
brake
the
brason
doore
of
their
treasure
,
and
by
violence
toke
and
●aught
it
away
,
and
plenteouslye
departed
it
amonge
hys
knights
.
And
in
this
meane
while
ful
many
kinges
of
the
East
party
of
the
worlde
,
came
and
assembled
before
the
foresaid
city
called
Dirachium
.
Of
entent
to
sustaine
the
party
of
Pompey
against
Iulius
.
And
as
soone
as
there
was
made
relacion
to
Iulius
Cezar
of
thys
great
assemble
:
he
made
no
delay
/
but
with
all
his
power
passed
by
a
countrey
which
of
mine
authour
is
called
Epirum
,
and
so
he
entred
in
to
the
costes
of
Thessalie
/
wher
as
he
founde
Pompey
/
batayled
againste
hym
wyth
foure
score
Cohortes
and
eight
,
departed
into
.iii
wardes
.
Now
to
declare
the
nombre
&
the
multitude
of
a
cohort
:
ye
shal
vnderstand
that
there
be
two
maner
of
Cohortes
,
the
more
,
&
the
lesse
.
And
the
more
by
discripcion
of
Auctours
,
conteineth
fiue
hundred
,
and
the
lesse
foure
hundred
.
There
were
also
on
the
partye
of
Pompey
,
fortie
thousande
of
foote
men
/
and
in
the
left
wing
ther
wer
beside
al
this
,
sixe
hundred
knighes
on
horsebacke
.
And
in
the
ryghte
wyng
ther
wer
.v.
C.
among
which
as
Unicent
in
his
mirrour
historiall
maketh
minde
there
were
many
kynges
and
princes
/
and
many
other
woorthye
Cenatoures
and
knightes
of
Rome
which
came
in
defence
of
Pompey
.
And
as
it
is
remembred
also
/
Cesar
had
.lxxx.
Cohortes
,
deuided
&
departed
in
thre
wardes
.
And
with
this
he
hadde
xxx
.
M.
of
footemen
,
without
passing
great
nomber
of
knightes
on
hors
backe
.
And
in
this
mortal
battail
/
al
the
party
of
Pompey
wer
●ut
to
flight
,
and
there
were
slaine
on
his
syde
.xii.
M.
and
of
worthy
●eders
which
be
called
Centurians
,
were
slayne
.xxxiii.
And
Pompey
fledde
out
of
the
field
,
and
for
refuge
toke
a
shyp
and
passed
by
the
bondes
of
A●ie
through
Thyrye
/
and
aryued
in
Egipt
.
And
there
anone
at
hys
aryual
by
the
commaundement
of
Tholome
kynge
of
Egipt
,
he
was
beheaded
onely
for
loue
&
fauoure
of
Iulius
.
And
fro
this
victorye
thys
foresaid
Iulius
hasted
to
the
parties
of
Syrye
/
toward
the
mightie
City
of
A●yzaundre
.
And
there
T●olome
king
of
Alizaundre
held
a
battail
with
Iulius
Cezar
,
both
on
lande
and
on
water
.
In
whyche
warre
were
slayne
.xxii.
M.
in
the
fielde
/
and
.xii
,
hundred
ships
dyscom●ited
and
drowned
.
And
Tholome
the
kinge
/
as
he
woulde
haue
fled
out
of
a
ship
(
for
haste
)
he
fel
in
to
the
sea
and
was
drowned
.
And
as
his
bodye
was
cast
to
lande
/
he
was
knowen
and
discouered
by
a
gile
haberion
,
the
which
haberion
Iulius
Cezar
made
to
be
sent
vnto
the
citie
of
Alizandre
/
for
dread
of
which
they
of
Alizandre
yelded
the
citie
vnto
him
.
Than
he
repayred
againe
into
Egipt
/
and
by
occasion
of
the
death
of
Tholome
he
gaue
the
Septer
and
the
Realme
and
the
whole
gouernaunce
of
Egipt
vnto
the
Queene
Cleopatra
.
And
so
after
the
conquest
of
manye
other
Prouincies
,
Regions
/
and
landes
,
he
made
his
repaire
again
the
seconde
time
vnto
the
Citye
of
Rome
/
and
there
he
did
take
vpon
him
two
offices
,
both
of
Consull
&
of
Dictatour
.
And
from
thence
he
went
vnto
the
conquest
of
Affcike
and
there
began
a
new
warre
,
in
especial
against
al
the
aliaunce
and
the
blood
of
Pompey
,
and
slew
all
the
Dukes
that
were
enclined
to
be
fauourable
to
the
partie
of
Pompey
,
among
which
were
slaine
thre
mightie
princes
,
Faustus
/
Cilla
/
&
Postumus
,
&
Pompeia
,
the
doughter
of
Pompey
iudged
to
be
dead
.
And
from
those
parties
he
entred
with
a
mightie
and
strong
hand
in
to
Spayne
/
and
there
(
so
as
Suetonins
writeth
)
he
tooke
vpon
him
power
to
receiue
the
tribute
,
which
on
the
partie
of
Spayne
was
due
vnto
Rome
.
And
so
as
thys
storye
maketh
mencion
/
he
proceeded
so
far●e
in
his
conquest
,
so
that
he
came
to
the
pillers
of
Gad●s
,
and
there
he
entered
into
the
Temple
of
the
stronge
mightie
champion
called
Hercu●es
.
And
whan
he
beheld
in
the
same
Temple
a
riche
image
of
gold
/
set
vp
for
a
memorie
of
kyng
Alizaundre
:
anon
this
Cezar
gan
to
sigh
and
complayne
in
his
selfe
that
he
neuer
might
attayne
in
his
conquest
to
deserue
so
victorious
a
Palme
of
worthines
as
in
theyr
tyme
dyd
Alisaunder
and
Hercules
.
And
thus
pensible
and
heauye
(
he
issuing
oute
of
the
Temple
of
Hercules
)
fullye
purposed
hym
in
his
courage
,
knightly
to
take
vpon
him
of
manly
courage
,
some
newe
enterprises
of
hygh
prowesse
.
And
whiles
that
he
was
thus
surprised
in
his
best
thought
/
the
next
night
ensuynge
,
he
ha●de
a
wonderfull
vision
/
whych
was
thys
:
It
seemed
vnto
hym
in
hys
sleepe
/
that
he
meddled
wyth
hys
owne
Mother
:
Of
the
whyche
dreame
hee
full
greatly
afrayde
/
and
horribly
agrised
/
made
call
to
his
presence
,
his
wise
Philo●ophers
and
Diuinours
/
to
geue
a
plaine
and
a
clere
interpretacion
vpon
hys
dreame
.
And
they
anon
concluded
in
shorte
sentence
,
that
it
was
an
euident
signe
that
he
should
be
fully
put
in
pos●ession
to
haue
the
imperiall
dominacion
ouer
al
the
world
.
For
these
prudent
Philosophers
vnderstode
nothing
by
the
fleshly
coniunction
that
he
had
with
his
mother
/
but
a
knot
of
Aliaunce
,
perfourmed
vp
betwene
the
earth
and
him
.
Understandyng
in
their
exposicion
/
that
the
earth
is
primordinall
mother
of
al
thing
/
concluding
therby
that
he
should
attaine
to
be
Lorde
and
Emperour
ouer
all
the
parties
of
the
earth
.
And
thus
in
al
hast
after
the
mighty
conquest
of
Affrike
/
he
repaired
the
third
time
to
Rome
,
and
was
made
Emperour
ouer
al
the
world
/
and
was
so
farforth
enhaunced
on
height
,
that
the
sunne
of
his
worthines
was
●unne
so
fa●
vpon
his
spere
,
that
it
attayned
to
the
highest
pricke
of
his
exaltacion
,
so
that
of
necessitie
he
must
discend
.
For
as
the
story
maketh
mencion
/
he
perseuered
not
in
his
Empire
fully
the
space
of
fiue
yeare
.
And
for
to
rehearce
compendiously
the
prodigies
and
the
wonderful
signes
that
befell
afore
his
death
.
It
is
remembred
that
the
same
yere
of
Iulius
death
,
in
the
yle
of
Capwey
:
there
was
found
by
Quarreours
of
the
country
a
rich
Tombe
of
stone
,
and
therein
was
founde
a
litle
tablet
of
golde
,
grauen
wyth
letters
of
Greeke
/
sayinge
in
thys
wise
:
When
euer
it
shal
befall
that
the
Tombe
of
Capis
shall
be
opened
,
and
that
his
bones
shal
be
vnclosed
:
that
same
yeare
shal
the
noble
&
worthy
Conquerour
Iulius
Cezar
be
murdred
in
the
Capitole
at
Rome
by
the
false
conspiracye
and
ymaginacion
of
theym
that
he
hathe
trust●d
moste
.
Nowe
was
thys
foresayde
Capis
a
worthye
man
and
o●
great
Aucthoritie
,
and
the
first
Founder
and
beginner
of
the
Countrey
of
Capwey
/
and
named
after
him
.
And
like
as
the
letters
in
Greeke
specified
/
it
befell
.
And
the
seconde
prodigye
that
befel
tofore
the
deathe
of
Cezar
was
thys
:
Upon
the
same
nighte
tofore
that
he
was
slayne
on
the
morowe
,
thys
noble
Conqueroure
Iulius
had
a
reuelacion
/
seemynge
vnto
him
in
his
sleepe
,
that
he
was
winged
lyke
an
Eagle
,
and
howe
hee
tooke
hys
flyght
so
hygh
,
that
he
sored
aboue
the
skyes
,
and
approched
to
the
celestiall
see
of
Iupiter
/
And
fell
downe
vppon
the
ryghte
hande
of
hys
God
.
An
other
marueilous
signe
or
prodigy
there
fel.
Also
his
Wife
named
Caliphurna
a
lytle
tofore
the
death
of
her
Lord
Iulius
,
had
a
wonderful
dreame
or
〈◊〉
/
seming
vn●o
her
whan
she
was
a
sleepe
,
that
the
most
highest
Pinacle
of
the
imperial
palace
,
●odainly
&
vnwarly
fel
downe
,
●
ther
vpon
incontinentli
al
the
windowes
of
the
Chamber
where
she
slept
,
wi●h
out
hand
of
ani
man
,
sodainly
brake
a
twoo
theyr
barres
of
yron
and
opened
.
Of
whyche
noyse
she
being
sore
afrayde
in
her
sleepe
/
and
of
a
feminiue
dreade
full
sore
syghed
in
her
harte
as
she
that
coulde
not
conceyne
in
mynde
what
it
ment
.
Also
as
Unicent
in
hys
hystoriall
bookes
maketh
mencion
,
an
hundred
dayes
before
hys
pyteous
murder
in
the
large
Market
place
of
Rome
/
where
as
the
stature
and
the
great
ymage
of
Cezar
stoode
/
vppon
an
highe
piller
of
stone
/
the
name
of
Cezar
grauen
with
letters
of
gold
aboue
his
head
,
when
the
wether
&
the
att●mper
ayre
was
most
clere
and
styl
,
with
a
sodayne
stroke
of
the
firie
leuen
/
the
fyrste
letter
of
his
name
.
C.
was
smyten
away
.
Declaring
by
this
pronostical
signe
,
that
like
as
this
letter
C
in
nombre
betokeneth
an
hundred
/
&
was
also
most
craftely
wrought
and
grauen
as
for
the
chief
capital
letter
of
his
name
,
to
shew
openly
that
the
rasing
away
of
this
letter
by
violence
of
the
firye
leuen
:
that
he
that
was
head
of
all
the
earthe
,
within
the
space
of
a
hundred
daies
next
ensuing
,
should
be
vengeabli
murdred
in
Rome
.
Also
the
same
day
of
his
murdre
as
he
went
most
royally
in
his
Imperiall
araye
toward
the
Consistorie
,
a
poore
man
named
Tong●lius
tooke
him
letters
of
all
the
purposed
conspiracy
by
the
Cenate
vpon
his
death
/
but
for
hee
was
negligent
to
reade
the
letters
,
and
to
vnclose
them
,
the
vengeable
murder
was
execute
vpon
hym
.
By
which
example
let
no
man
be
slow
nor
negligent
to
reade
his
letters
,
lest
after
for
his
negligence
it
may
turne
him
to
great
damage
which
after
may
not
lightly
be
recouered
.
And
the
chiefe
cause
and
worker
of
this
murder
/
was
Brutus
Crassus
/
associed
vnto
him
.ii.
hundred
and
syxty
of
the
Cenate
,
al
hauing
bodkins
in
theyr
sleues
.
And
as
it
is
in
storye
remembred
,
he
had
.xxiiii.
deadly
woundes
as
he
sat
in
the
Capitole
,
and
as
saith
mine
aucthour
/
he
neuer
in
all
hys
smarte
/
made
neyther
crye
nor
no
noyse
/
except
onelye
a
lamentable
and
a
dolorous
sigh
,
like
a
man
that
with
sodaine
sorowe
were
afrayde
.
So
that
touchinge
the
vengeable
maner
of
hys
pyteous
murder
I
maye
conclude
with
him
that
was
Floure
of
Poetes
in
our
Englishe
tounge
/
and
the
first
that
euer
enlumined
our
language
with
floures
of
Rethorique
and
Eloquence
,
I
meane
my
maister
Chaucer
,
which
compendiouslie
wrote
the
death
of
this
mightie
Emperour
,
saying
in
this
wise
,
as
foloweth
hereafter
in
these
lines
of
metre
.
¶
With
bodkins
was
Cezar
Iulius
,
Murdred
at
Rome
by
Brutus
Crassus
when
many
a
region
he
had
broght
lov
Lowho
mai
trust
fortune
ani
throw
¶
Thus
by
writing
of
my
wise
prudent
maister
tofore
said
:
the
fro
warde
and
the
contrarious
Ladye
Dame
Fortune
,
spareth
neyther
Emperour
nor
king
to
plunge
him
downe
sodenly
fro
the
highest
prik
of
her
vnstable
wheele
.
Alas
that
neuer
man
lyft
to
lift
vp
his
harts
eye
/
and
prudentlye
to
aduerte
the
mutabilitie
and
the
sodain
chaunge
of
this
false
world
.
And
let
the
wyse
gouernours
of
euery
lande
and
region
make
a
mirror
in
theyr
minde
of
this
manly
man
Iulius
,
&
consider
in
their
hartes
the
contagious
damages
,
and
the
importable
harmes
of
diuision
,
and
let
them
se
aduisedly
,
and
take
example
how
the
ambicous
pride
of
Iulius
,
the
fretinge
enuie
of
Pompeyus
,
and
the
vnstaunchable
gredye
couetise
of
Marcus
Crassus
,
were
chiefe
and
primordial
cause
of
their
destruccion
,
executed
&
accomplished
by
cruel
death
.
And
not
onelye
that
these
aforesaide
three
abhominable
vyces
were
cause
of
their
owne
death
onely
,
but
occasion
of
many
a
thousand
other
,
many
more
than
I
can
tel
Thus
the
City
of
Rome
not
onely
made
bare
and
barein
of
their
old
riches
,
&
spoyled
of
their
treasoure
on
the
tone
syde
,
but
destitute
and
desolate
by
death
of
their
knyghthoode
on
the
other
side
/
me
semeth
ought
inough
suffice
to
exemplifie
what
is
to
begin
a
warre
/
and
specially
to
considre
the
irrecuperable
harmes
of
diuision
.
And
for
thys
skyl
most
especially
by
commaundement
of
my
maister
/
I
tooke
vpon
me
this
litle
translacion
,
and
after
my
litle
cunning
,
haue
put
it
in
remembraunce
.
¶
Thus
endeth
this
litle
treatise
entituled
:
the
Serpent
of
diuision
,
made
by
Iohn
Lydgate
.