THE
SECOND
PART
OF
THE
THEATRE
OF
GODS
IVDGMENTS
.
Collected
out
of
the
writings
of
sundry
Ancient
and
Moderne
Authors
,
By
the
late
Reverend
Divine
Dr
THOMAS
TAYLOR
,
sometime
Pastor
of
Aldermanbury
in
London
.
LONDON
,
Printed
by
Richard
Herne
.
An.
Dom.
1642.
THE
SECOND
PART
OF
THE
THEATRE
OF
GOD'S
JUDGMENTS
.
CHAP.
I.
Gods
Remarkable
Judgements
against
Pride
.
AS
in
the
two
former
learned
Tractates
,
bearing
Title
of
The
Theatre
of
Gods
Iudgements
inflicted
upon
the
severall
breaches
of
the
Ten
Commandements
;
so
now
,
to
these
we
adde
a
third
Tract
,
Of
his
most
remarkable
punishments
of
the
seaven
deadly
sinnes
;
and
these
illustrated
by
sundry
notable
Examples
,
aswell
Domestick
as
Forraine
.
And
because
Pride
was
the
first
,
which
began
in
the
Angels
,
and
hath
since
infected
all
mankinde
,
from
our
Protoplasti
(
our
first
Parents
)
Adam
and
Eve
,
and
hath
continued
through
all
generations
hitherto
;
and
shall
in
their
posterity
,
even
to
the
last
dissolution
:
I
derive
my
first
Discourse
from
that
.
There
be
foure
sorts
of
Pride
,
by
which
every
insolent
and
arrogant
man
Inchastity
,
Chastity
;
Bounty
,
Avarice
;
Wrath
,
Patience
;
and
so
of
the
rest
:
Pride
is
not
with
that
contented
,
as
to
oppose
Humility
and
Obedience
,
but
it
rageth
against
all
the
vertues
of
the
minde
,
and
like
a
generall
pestiferous
disease
,
striveth
to
putrifie
and
infect
them
all
:
For
Pride
in
riches
makes
men
the
more
covetous
:
In
idlenesse
,
scorning
labour
;
in
wrath
,
more
outragious
;
in
gluttony
,
more
intemperate
;
in
envy
,
more
malicious
:
neither
is
there
any
mortiferous
sinne
,
in
which
Pride
is
not
a
supreame
agent
;
The
signes
thereof
are
boldnesse
in
language
;
sullennesse
in
silence
;
arrogance
in
mirth
;
murmuring
in
melancholly
;
and
despising
all
others
,
doating
upon
himselfe
.
Aesop
being
asked
by
Chian
,
What
he
thought
Iupiter
was
at
that
time
doing
?
made
answer
,
Hee
is
now
dejecting
the
proud
,
and
exalting
the
humble
.
And
the
famous
Philosopher
Aristotle
,
spying
a
rich
young
man
(
but
altogether
unlearned
)
strutting
along
the
streets
,
with
a
proud
affected
gate
;
and
his
eyes
so
elevated
towards
Heaven
,
as
if
hee
despised
the
earth
,
whereon
he
troad
;
came
to
him
,
and
said
,
friend
,
Such
as
thou
thinkest
thy selfe
to
be
,
I
wish
I
were
;
but
to
be
such
as
thou
art
,
I
wish
onely
to
mine
enemie
.
This
also
Socrates
with
great
modesty
reproved
in
Alcibiades
,
who
finding
himselfe
suddenly
puft
up
with
his
extraordinary
abundance
in
riches
,
and
much
to
glory
in
his
many
spoyles
and
victories
,
he
drew
him
into
a
private
Gallery
;
and
shewing
him
a
Cosmographicall
Table
of
the
World
,
bid
him
looke
in
what
part
of
the
Map
he
could
spy
all
his
great
Trophies
and
Triumphs
?
And
when
hee
answered
him
,
They
were
not
there
to
be
seene
;
Socrates
replyed
,
Cur
igitur
ob
illa
superbis
,
quae
circa
nullam
terrae
partem
existunt
?
that
is
,
Why
then
art
thou
so
proud
of
these
things
which
are
not
visible
in
any
part
of
the
earth
?
Neither
was
the
Church
it selfe
free
from
this
sinne
in
the
dayes
of
learned
Saint
Bernard
,
who
in
one
of
his
Sermons
thus
complaines
.
Thou
shalt
see
many
in
the
Church
,
who
from
obscure
parentage
being
ennobled
,
and
from
poverty
made
rich
with
pride
,
so
suddenly
tumor'd
and
tympanized
,
that
forgetting
from
whence
they
came
,
have
contemned
their
parents
,
and
blusht
at
their
owne
births
:
Thou
shalt
see
also
some
pernicious
persons
aspire
unto
Ecclesiasticall
honours
,
and
then
pretend
to
themselves
a
seeming
sanctity
,
by
changing
of
their
vestures
,
not
their
vices
;
and
their
manner
of
habit
,
not
their
mindes
;
esteeming
themselves
to
deserve
that
dignity
which
they
have
insidiated
by
deceit
,
and
which
(
I
scarce
dare
say
)
have
attributed
that
to
their
merit
,
which
they
have
bought
with
their
money
.
But
as
the
smoake
,
which
of
its
owne
nature
is
blacke
and
obscure
,
yet
covets
to
ascend
from
a
light
and
bright
flame
;
but
in
the
midst
of
its
violent
reluctation
,
resolves
it selfe
into
aire
;
and
so
vanishing
,
loseth
both
nature
and
name
:
So
the
proud
and
ambitious
,
howsoever
coursly
and
obscurely
parted
,
yet
will
elevate
and
advance
himselfe
above
others
;
yet
in
his
striving
to
stand
high
,
is
often
precipitated
,
and
loseth
both
his
place
and
memory
;
Behold
(
saith
the
Prophet
)
He
that
lifteth
up
himselfe
,
his
minde
is
not
upright
;
but
the
Iust
shall
live
by
his
faith
.
Yea
,
indeed
,
The
proud
man
is
as
he
that
transgresseth
by
Wine
,
therefore
shall
he
not
endure
,
because
he
hath
enlarged
his
desire
as
the
Hell
,
and
is
as
death
,
and
cannot
be
satisfied
;
but
gathereth
unto
him
all
Nations
,
and
heapeth
unto
him
all
people
:
shall
not
all
these
take
up
a
Parable
against
him
?
and
a
taunting
Proverbe
,
and
say
,
Ho
,
he
that
increaseth
that
which
is
not
his
!
how
long
?
and
be
that
ladeth
himselfe
with
thicke
clay
?
Shall
they
not
rise
up
suddenly
that
shall
bite
thee
?
and
awake
that
shall
stirre
thee
?
and
thou
shalt
bee
their
prey
;
Because
&c.
How
Pride
hath
beene
severely
punished
by
the
Almighty
,
we
finde
frequent
examples
in
the
holy
Text
:
It
was
punisht
in
our
first
Parents
by
their
Exile
out
of
Paradise
.
In
the
Builders
of
Babel
,
(
who
said
,
Come
let
us
build
us
a
Citie
and
a
Tower
,
whose
top
may
reach
up
to
the
Heaven
,
that
we
may
get
us
a
name
,
&c.
)
In
their
scattering
over
the
face
of
the
earth
,
and
the
confusion
of
their
Languages
:
In
Sodome
and
Gomorrah
,
by
raining
down
fire
and
brimstone
upon
their
Cities
and
people
:
In
Miriam
the
sister
of
Moses
,
by
Leaprosie
:
In
Korah
,
Dathan
,
and
Abir●m
,
for
their
pride
,
and
rebellion
against
Moses
;
the
ground
clave
asunder
that
was
under
them
,
and
the
earth
opened
her
mouth
and
swallowed
them
up
,
with
their
families
;
and
all
the
men
that
were
with
Korah
,
and
all
their
goods
;
so
they
and
all
that
they
had
went
downe
alive
unto
the
pit
,
and
the
earth
covered
them
,
and
they
perisht
from
amongst
the
Congregation
:
In
Goliah
the
Philistime
,
slaine
by
the
hands
of
David
:
In
Sheba
the
sonne
of
Bicri
,
who
lift
up
his
hand
against
the
King
;
by
having
his
head
cut
off
,
and
cast
over
the
walls
to
Ioah
,
Captaine
of
the
hoast
:
In
Absalom
,
who
tooke
such
pride
in
his
haire
,
that
it
after
became
his
halter
:
In
destroying
of
Davids
people
,
for
his
pride
in
numbring
them
:
In
Adoniah
,
who
for
demanding
Abishag
the
Shunamite
to
wife
,
(
who
had
layen
in
his
fathers
bosome
)
was
slaine
at
the
commandment
of
Solomon
,
by
the
hand
of
Benaiah
the
sonne
of
Iehojadah
:
In
Benhadad
King
of
Aram
,
Rabsakeh
and
Zenacharib
:
In
Olofernes
the
great
Captain
of
the
Assyrian
hoast
,
slain
by
Iudith
at
the
siege
of
Bethulia
:
In
Haman
the
son
of
Hammedatha
the
Agagite
,
whom
the
great
King
Ahashuerosh
exalted
,
and
set
his
seat
above
all
the
Princes
that
were
under
him
;
whose
pride
growing
up
with
his
promotion
,
at
length
advanced
him
to
a
Gibbet
fiftie
foot
high
,
upon
which
in
the
glory
of
his
ambition
he
was
strangled
:
In
Nabuchadnezar
,
and
Balthassar
King
of
the
Chaldeans
:
In
the
great
King
Antiochus
,
who
went
up
towards
Iudea
and
Hierusalem
,
with
a
mighty
people
,
and
entred
proudly
into
the
Sanctuary
,
and
tooke
away
the
golden
Altar
,
and
the
Candlesticke
for
the
light
,
and
all
the
instruments
belonging
thereto
;
and
the
Table
of
the
Shewbread
,
and
the
powring
vessels
,
and
the
Bowles
,
and
the
golden
Basons
,
and
the
Vayle
,
and
the
Crownes
,
and
the
golden
apparrell
which
was
before
the
Temple
,
and
brake
all
in
pieces
:
He
brake
also
the
Silver
and
Gold
,
and
the
precious
Jewels
,
with
the
secret
treasures
that
he
found
,
and
then
departed
away
into
his
owne
Land
.
But
the
same
proud
Prince
comming
after
with
great
dishonour
from
Persia
,
the
God
Almighty
stroke
him
with
an
invisible
and
an
incurable
plague
,
by
a
paine
in
his
bowels
,
which
was
remedilesse
,
and
which
grievously
tormented
him
in
the
inner
parts
;
for
so
he
had
tormented
other
mens
bowels
with
divers
cruell
and
strange
torments
;
yet
would
not
hee
cease
from
his
arrogance
,
but
swelled
the
more
with
pride
,
against
Gods
owne
people
to
destroy
them
;
and
commanded
to
haste
his
journey
for
that
purpose
:
but
so
it
was
,
that
he
fell
downe
from
the
Chari●t
that
ranne
swiftly
,
and
all
the
parts
and
members
of
his
body
were
bruised
.
Thus
he
who
but
a
day
before
thought
hee
might
command
the
Flouds
,
(
such
was
his
Luciferian
pride
,
beyond
the
condition
of
man
)
and
to
weigh
the
high
mountaines
in
the
ballance
,
was
cast
on
the
earth
and
carried
in
an
horse-litter
;
declaring
unto
all
the
world
the
manifest
power
of
God
:
so
that
the
wormes
came
out
of
his
body
in
abundance
,
and
his
flesh
dropt
from
his
bones
with
paine
and
torment
,
and
all
his
Army
was
grieved
at
his
smell
:
No
man
could
now
endure
him
because
of
his
stinke
,
who
but
a
little
before
,
thought
with
his
hands
he
might
reach
the
starres
of
Heaven
:
And
then
(
though
too
late
)
he
began
to
abate
his
haughty
and
peremptory
insolence
;
when
being
plagued
,
he
came
to
the
knowledge
of
himselfe
by
the
just
scourge
'
of
God
;
and
by
his
inward
torments
which
every
moment
increased
upon
him
:
and
when
he
himselfe
could
not
abide
his
owne
favour
,
he
said
,
It
is
meet
for
man
to
be
subject
to
God
,
and
that
he
who
is
but
mortall
should
not
oppose
himselfe
against
his
Maker
.
The
like
punishment
we
reade
of
in
the
person
of
Nicanor
,
who
came
But
not
to
dwell
on
those
,
frequent
in
the
holy
Text
:
I
come
now
to
the
like
examples
gathered
from
Ethnick
and
Morall
remembrancers
,
and
out
of
them
give
you
onely
a
taste
to
prevent
surfet
,
till
I
fall
upon
those
more
familiar
and
moderne
.
Alexander
the
Great
,
in
his
height
of
potency
,
and
Iupiter
Hamon
;
who
notwithstanding
in
the
sufferance
of
many
heats
and
colds
,
his
subjection
to
humours
and
passions
,
his
enduring
of
smarts
and
wounds
,
and
all
other
infirmities
belonging
to
man
,
would
not
be
sensible
of
his
mortality
;
till
in
the
very
Apex
of
his
sublimity
he
was
treacherously
poysoned
,
and
so
most
miserably
expired
.
And
Nero
,
the
Arch-tyrant
since
Adam
,
after
he
had
filled
the
Earth
Rome
,
Neropolis
:
Yet
this
proud
man
in
the
end
,
being
quite
abandoned
and
forsaken
of
all
his
Sycophants
and
oily
flatterers
,
was
glad
to
fly
from
his
Royall
Court
to
seeke
refuge
in
a
rustick
Cottage
;
and
with
greater
terrour
to
his
owne
conscience
,
then
before
he
had
used
tyranny
upon
the
carkasses
of
others
;
he
was
compelled
to
fall
upon
his
sword
,
his
body
being
after
,
most
contemptibly
dragg'd
through
the
streets
of
the
Citie
,
with
more
bitter
execrations
and
curses
,
then
before
he
had
lived
houres
or
minutes
.
Another
,
called
Varus
Pergaus
,
was
so
infected
with
the
adulatory
assentations
of
his
Flatterers
,
Buffoones
,
and
Trencher-flyes
;
That
hee
was
We
further
reade
of
one
Menecrates
,
a
rare
Physitian
,
who
in
his
practise
Neither
have
Emperours
,
Kings
,
and
Princes
,
with
other
Sages
and
And
yet
to
looke
a
little
further
into
the
nature
of
this
deadly
sinne
,
Let
all
such
,
prided
in
their
owne
selfe-conceited
knowledge
and
wisedome
,
be
attentive
to
a
story
extracted
from
a
learned
and
grave
Spanish
Don
Pedro
,
one
who
was
very
confident
in
his
owne
wisedome
,
and
would
undertake
to
make
solution
of
what
difficulty
soever
the
King
at
any
time
propounded
;
of
which
hee
so
insolently
boasted
,
that
comming
to
the
Kings
eare
,
he
was
much
incensed
thereat
;
and
to
let
him
know
what
distance
his
weaknesse
had
from
essentiall
wisedome
,
he
caused
him
to
be
sent
for
;
and
when
he
,
according
to
his
summons
made
appearance
before
him
,
the
King
at
the
first
,
to
humour
his
selfe-conceit
,
began
much
to
applaud
his
witty
and
ready
answers
,
which
not
a
little
pleased
him
,
but
at
the
length
concluded
somewhat
more
sharply
,
telling
him
that
he
would
propose
three
Problems
;
of
the
interpretations
of
which
,
if
hee
could
not
within
one
and
twenty
dayes
give
him
a
true
and
plenall
account
,
both
his
life
and
goods
were
immediately
forfeit
to
the
crowne
;
and
this
sentence
notwithstanding
any
meanes
or
mediation
,
no
way
to
be
altered
.
The
three
Questions
were
these
,
which
he
delivered
unto
him
in
writing
:
The
first
,
What
hath
mans
labour
most
increast
,
The
second
,
What
hath
to
man
most
honour
gain'd
,
And
yet
with
least
lust
is
maintain'd
.
The
third
,
What
thing
is
it
men
soonest
rue
,
Yet
they
with
greatest
charge
pursue
.
These
he
no
sooner
received
,
but
the
King
with
a
contracted
brow
departed
,
and
so
left
him
;
by
which
he
might
easily
conjecture
in
what
a
dangerous
streight
he
was
now
environ'd
:
and
returning
very
sad
home
,
and
having
long
ruminated
upon
these
riddles
,
but
wanting
an
Oedipus
to
unfold
them
,
he
grew
into
a
deepe
melancholly
,
insomuch
that
he
abstained
both
from
meat
and
sleepe
:
which
observed
by
his
daughter
Petronella
,
a
faire
and
beautifull
virgin
,
of
some
sixteene
yeares
of
age
,
or
thereabout
,
she
so
farre
insinuated
into
her
fathers
discontents
,
and
to
know
the
cause
thereof
;
that
at
length
upon
her
great
importunity
he
unfolded
the
whole
matter
unto
her
:
who
after
some
pawse
,
began
greatly
to
comfort
him
,
and
told
him
she
would
interpose
her selfe
betwixt
him
and
all
danger
;
who
though
he
had
little
hope
to
be
relieved
by
her
,
yet
out
of
his
indulgence
towards
her
,
not
willing
to
crosse
her
,
especially
in
so
desperate
a
case
,
he
told
her
hee
would
be
swayed
according
to
her
direction
;
which
was
,
that
upon
the
day
prefixed
she
might
goe
with
him
to
appeare
before
the
King
,
and
that
to
her
he
would
commit
the
solution
of
these
questions
;
which
was
agreed
upon
betwixt
them
.
Imagine
the
day
come
,
and
the
King
attended
by
his
Lords
and
Peeres
,
seated
in
his
Throne
,
to
expect
Don
Pedroes
answer
;
who
presenting
himselfe
before
his
Majestie
,
attended
with
his
daughter
;
(
who
was
very
sumptuously
attyred
)
besought
his
Majestie
,
that
whilest
he
himselfe
was
silent
,
he
would
vouchsafe
to
heare
what
his
daughter
could
say
concerning
these
problems
before
propounded
.
The
King
much
taken
on
the
sudden
with
her
beauty
and
modest
behaviour
,
and
in
a
great
expectation
whether
shee
were
able
to
deliver
her selfe
in
language
answerable
to
the
former
,
gave
her
free
liberty
of
speech
;
when
bowing
her
face
to
the
earth
,
and
after
setling
her selfe
upon
her
knees
,
she
began
as
followeth
:
Wonder
you
may
my
Royall
Leige
,
that
so
grave
and
experienc't
a
Knight
as
my
father
here
present
,
should
lay
all
his
fortunes
both
of
life
and
livelyhood
,
upon
so
weake
and
infirme
an
apprehension
,
which
cannot
be
better
expected
from
my
tender
yeares
,
and
immature
knowledge
;
yet
since
his
confidence
is
so
farre
built
on
me
,
and
your
high
Majestie
so
gracious
to
accept
of
me
,
I
make
bold
thus
further
to
proceed
.
Touching
the
first
Question
,
What
hath
mans
labour
most
increast
,
Yet
of
it selfe
desires
it
least
.
In
my
weake
understanding
,
I
take
it
to
be
the
Earth
,
the
mother
of
all
Touching
the
second
,
I
take
it
to
be
Humility
;
which
teacheth
a
man
Man
hath
by
that
most
honour
gain'd
,
And
yet
with
least
losse
is
maintain'd
.
The
third
the
most
basely
vile
,
and
yet
the
highest
valued
;
the
most
cursed
to
mannage
,
yet
the
most
costly
to
maintain
;
in
my
ignorant
conceptions
I
hold
to
be
Pride
:
which
being
first
hatched
in
heaven
,
in
an
instant
,
precipitated
It
is
that
thing
men
soonest
rue
,
And
yet
with
greatest
charge
pursue
.
With
which
answer
so
modestly
delivered
,
and
in
a
kinde
of
matron-like
gravity
,
(
rarely
to
be
found
in
one
of
her
tender
and
young
yeares
)
the
King
was
so
highly
raptur'd
,
that
he
not
onely
received
her
father
into
former
grace
,
but
spake
openly
,
(
being
then
a
Batchelour
)
that
had
she
beene
borne
of
noble
bloud
,
he
would
have
made
her
his
Queen
and
Royall
Consort
;
and
taking
her
from
the
earth
,
caused
her
to
stand
before
him
:
when
instantly
newes
was
brought
him
that
an
Earledome
was
then
fallen
unto
the
Crowne
,
which
he
presently
for
her
sake
conferred
upon
Don
Pedro
her
father
:
of
which
she
taking
advantage
,
fell
downe
againe
upon
her
knees
,
This
History
though
it
have
a
comicall
conclusion
,
yet
is
pertinent
to
the
discourse
now
in
agitation
;
for
Don
Pedroes
pride
of
knowledge
was
sentene't
with
death
,
and
his
life
,
(
howsoever
redeem'd
by
his
faire
and
vertuous
daughter
)
was
immediately
forfeit
by
the
doome
of
the
King
;
and
therefore
the
judgement
in
Justice
,
howsoever
not
in
execution
,
remarkable
.
We
reade
in
the
French
Chronicle
of
one
Iordaine
of
Lisle
,
by
Nation
a
Gascon
,
and
Nephew
to
Pope
Iohn
the
two
and
twentieth
of
that
name
,
a
man
of
a
most
high
and
insolent
spirit
,
daring
any
thing
though
never
so
facinorous
,
cruell
,
inhumane
,
or
bloudy
,
building
all
his
heinous
and
horrid
acts
upon
the
greatnesse
of
his
Unkle
;
who
after
he
had
beene
pardoned
for
eighteene
capitall
crimes
,
still
grew
more
impious
and
shamelesse
,
(
former
mercy
making
him
still
the
more
presumptuous
)
at
the
last
being
apprehended
and
brought
to
Paris
,
he
was
arraigned
,
convicted
,
and
condemned
by
Charles
the
fourth
,
(
surnamed
the
Faire
)
King
of
France
;
where
notwithstanding
his
great
allyes
,
he
suffered
like
a
common
felon
and
murderer
on
the
Gallowes
.
It
is
credibly
reported
also
of
a
proud
Italian
Gentleman
,
borne
in
Genoa
,
who
in
a
single
duell
having
the
better
of
his
Antagonist
in
the
field
,
insomuch
that
he
disarmed
him
of
his
weapon
;
and
the
other
now
standing
at
his
mercy
,
he
fell
to
parle
with
him
upon
these
termes
,
that
there
was
no
way
for
him
to
escape
immediate
death
,
but
by
abjuring
his
Christianity
and
renouncing
his
Saviour
,
to
which
the
other
through
base
timerousnesse
assented
;
of
which
the
Victor
taking
divelish
advantage
,
even
in
the
midst
of
his
most
impious
Apostasie
,
he
stab'd
him
to
the
heart
and
slew
him
,
uttering
these
(
more
then
heathenish
)
words
:
before
I
had
been
onely
revenged
upon
thy
body
,
but
now
I
have
sent
both
thy
body
and
soule
to
the
Devill
,
and
that
's
a
revenge
which
deserves
a
chronicle
:
But
what
became
of
this
firebrand
of
Hell
,
and
limbe
of
the
Devill
?
being
apprehended
for
the
murder
,
and
his
diabolicall
proceedings
in
the
act
being
related
to
the
Judges
;
as
a
terrour
to
others
he
was
first
committed
to
the
rack
,
and
after
many
other
insufferable
tortures
,
despairing
of
all
mercy
from
God
,
having
shewed
no
compassion
towards
man
,
he
most
miserably
ended
his
life
.
One
Herebert
,
Earle
of
Vermendoys
in
France
,
was
of
that
haughty
and
insolent
spirit
,
that
he
durst
lay
hands
upon
his
Soveraigne
,
Charles
,
King
of
France
(
surnamed
the
Simple
)
who
caused
him
to
be
imprisoned
,
and
under
whose
custody
hee
shortly
after
died
at
Peroune
;
which
seem'd
for
a
time
to
be
smothered
,
and
he
still
subsisted
in
his
former
eminencie
:
but
where
man
seemeth
most
to
forget
,
God
doth
remarkably
remember
;
nor
doth
he
suffer
deeds
of
such
horrid
nature
to
passe
unpunished
in
this
world
,
what
vengeance
soever
he
(
without
true
repentance
)
reserveth
for
them
in
the
world
to
come
;
as
it
is
observable
in
this
present
History
:
for
Lewis
the
fourth
,
the
thirty
third
King
of
France
,
by
lineall
discent
,
comming
to
the
Crowne
,
(
being
the
sonne
to
the
before-named
Charles
the
simple
)
and
loath
that
so
grosse
a
treason
committed
against
his
father
,
should
be
smothered
without
some
notable
revenge
;
(
being
very
ingenious
)
he
bethought
himselfe
how
with
the
least
danger
or
effusion
of
bloud
,
in
regard
of
the
others
greatnesse
and
alliance
,
how
to
bring
it
about
;
and
therefore
he
devised
this
plot
following
.
He
caused
a
letter
to
be
writ
,
which
he
himselfe
did
dictate
,
and
hired
an
English-man
who
came
disguised
like
a
Poste
to
bring
it
unto
him
as
from
the
King
his
Master
,
at
such
a
time
when
many
of
his
Peeres
were
present
;
and
amongst
the
rest
this
Herebert
was
amongst
them
:
this
suborned
Poste
delivereth
the
letter
to
the
Kings
hands
,
hee
gives
it
to
his
principall
Secretary
,
who
read
it
privately
unto
him
;
who
presently
smiling
,
said
openly
,
Most
sure
the
English-men
are
not
so
wise
as
I
esteemed
them
to
be
:
for
our
Brother
of
England
hath
signified
unto
me
by
these
letters
,
that
in
his
Countrey
a
labouring-man
having
invited
his
Lord
and
Master
to
dine
with
him
at
his
house
,
and
he
vouchsafing
to
grace
his
Cottage
with
his
presence
;
in
the
base
requitall
of
so
noble
a
curtesie
,
he
caused
him
to
be
most
treacherously
slaine
:
and
now
my
Brother
of
England
desireth
my
counsell
,
to
know
what
punishment
this
fellow
hath
deserved
?
In
which
I
desire
to
be
instructed
by
you
my
Lords
,
that
hearing
your
censures
,
I
may
returne
him
the
more
satisfactory
answer
.
The
King
having
ended
his
Speech
,
the
Lords
were
at
first
silent
,
till
at
length
Theobant
Earle
of
Bloyes
was
the
first
that
spake
,
and
said
,
that
hee
was
worthy
first
to
be
tortured
,
and
after
to
be
hanged
on
a
Gibbet
;
which
Bajazet
the
great
Emperour
of
the
Turkes
,
who
in
his
mighty
pride
thought
with
his
numerous
Army
to
drinke
rivers
dry
,
and
to
weight
the
mountaines
in
a
ballance
;
who
had
made
spoyle
of
many
Nations
,
and
with
tyranny
persecuted
the
Christians
,
dispersed
through
his
vast
dominions
:
who
compared
the
world
to
a
Ship
,
and
himselfe
to
the
Pilot
:
who
commanded
the
sayles
,
and
secured
the
helme
:
yet
afterwards
being
met
in
battaile
by
Scythian
Tamberlaine
,
and
his
Army
being
quite
routed
,
his
person
also
taken
prisoner
in
the
field
,
the
Conquerour
put
this
untamed
beast
into
an
iron
cage
,
and
caused
him
to
be
fed
from
the
very
fragments
and
scraps
from
his
table
;
and
carried
along
with
him
whither
soever
hee
marched
,
and
onely
then
released
him
from
his
imprisonment
,
when
he
was
forced
to
stoope
and
humble
his
body
as
a
blocke
to
tread
upon
,
whilest
Tamberlaine
mounted
upon
his
steed
:
but
here
ended
not
Gods
visible
Judgements
against
this
Usurper
,
Persecutor
,
and
Tyrant
;
who
in
despaire
rayling
upon
his
Prophet
Mahomet
,
in
whom
he
had
in
vaine
trusted
,
against
the
Iron
grate
in
which
he
was
inclosed
,
beate
out
his
owne
braines
,
and
wretchedly
expired
.
Infinite
are
the
examples
to
the
like
purpose
,
but
I
will
leave
those
Forraine
to
come
to
our
Domestick
,
extracted
out
of
our
owne
Chronologers
,
and
first
of
King
Bladud
.
Who
was
the
sonne
of
Lud
Hurdribras
,
and
after
the
death
of
his
father
,
Gualfride
Polichronicon
,
and
other
ancient
remembrancers
.
This
Bladud
was
altogether
devoted
to
the
study
of
Magick
and
Necromancy
,
and
very
expert
in
Judiciall
Astrology
,
by
which
he
is
said
to
make
the
hot
Baths
in
the
Towne
then
called
Caerbadon
,
but
now
Bath
;
which
Citie
he
is
said
to
have
erected
.
This
King
caused
the
Art
of
Magick
to
be
taught
through
his
Realm
,
and
ordained
Schooles
and
Schoole
masters
to
that
purpose
,
in
which
hee
tooke
such
pride
and
presumption
,
as
that
he
thought
by
it
all
things
were
possible
to
be
done
:
so
much
the
Devill
,
the
first
master
and
founder
of
that
Art
had
deluded
him
so
farre
,
that
at
the
length
having
called
a
great
confluence
of
his
people
about
him
,
he
made
an
attempt
to
flie
in
the
arre
,
but
fell
upon
the
Temple
of
his
god
Apollo
,
where
he
brake
his
neck
,
his
body
being
torne
and
bruised
after
he
had
raigned
twenty
yeares
;
leaving
a
sonne
called
Leire
to
succeed
him
,
and
continue
his
posterity
.
Goodwin
,
Earle
of
west
Saxon
,
in
the
time
of
Edward
the
sonne
of
Egelredus
,
was
of
that
insufferable
ambition
,
by
reason
of
his
great
revenues
,
and
numerous
issue
,
(
for
he
had
five
sonnes
and
one
daughter
)
that
he
swayed
the
whole
Kingdome
,
and
almost
compulsively
compelled
the
King
his
Soveraigne
,
to
take
his
daughter
Edith
to
wife
:
After
rebelling
against
the
King
,
and
forced
with
his
sonnes
to
depart
the
Land
,
yet
after
he
made
such
meanes
,
that
hee
mediated
his
peace
,
and
was
reconciled
to
him
〈◊〉
but
amongst
all
his
other
insolencies
he
was
accessary
to
the
death
of
the
Kings
brother
,
or
at
least
much
suspected
to
be
so
,
which
was
the
first
breach
betwixt
his
Soveraigne
and
him
:
But
so
it
happened
in
the
thirteenth
yeare
of
the
raigne
of
this
King
Edward
,
Earle
Goodwin
upon
an
Easter
Monday
sitting
with
diverse
other
Lords
and
Peeres
of
the
Kingdome
,
at
the
Kings
table
in
the
Castle
of
Windsor
,
it
happened
one
of
the
Kings
Cup
●ea●●●s
to
stumble
,
and
yet
well
to
recover
himselfe
without
falling
;
and
not
spilling
any
of
the
wine
:
which
Earle
Goodwin
observing
,
laughed
aloud
and
said
,
There
one
brother
helped
the
other
,
(
thereby
intimating
that
the
one
leg
or
foot
had
well
supported
the
other
from
falling
.
)
To
which
words
the
King
instantly
replyed
,
and
so
might
my
brother
Alphred
have
bin
still
living
to
have
helped
and
supported
me
,
had
not
Earle
Goodwin
supplanted
him
by
death
:
At
which
words
being
startled
as
conceiving
that
the
King
suspected
him
of
his
brothers
murder
,
thinking
to
excuse
himself
of
that
horrible
act
;
he
said
to
the
King
,
Sir
,
I
perceive
by
your
speeches
late
uttered
,
that
some
who
are
no
well-wishers
of
mine
,
but
rather
seeke
to
poyson
my
reputation
with
your
Majesty
,
have
possessed
you
that
I
have
been
accessary
to
the
death
of
your
brother
;
and
proceeded
further
(
having
then
a
piece
of
bread
in
his
hand
,
ready
to
put
into
his
mouth
)
but
so
may
I
safely
swallow
this
morsell
,
as
I
am
altogether
innocent
and
guiltlesse
of
the
act
:
which
streyning
to
eate
,
he
was
therewith
immediately
choaked
at
the
table
;
which
the
King
seeing
,
and
observing
the
strange
Judgement
inflicted
upon
his
perjury
,
he
commanded
his
body
to
be
drag'd
from
thence
,
&
conveyed
to
Winchester
,
&
there
buried
.
But
Marianus
and
some
others
write
,
that
he
was
not
choaked
with
bread
,
but
upon
his
former
false
protestation
,
dining
with
the
King
upon
an
Easter
Monday
at
Winchester
,
he
was
suddenly
struck
with
a
dead
palsie
,
and
died
the
third
day
after
.
Neither
did
Gods
Judgements
upon
him
end
here
,
but
after
his
death
all
his
Lands
in
Kent
(
which
were
very
spacious
and
great
,
were
eaten
up
and
swallowed
by
the
Sea
,
and
turned
into
dangerous
quick
sands
,
on
which
many
a
goodly
vessell
hath
since
beene
shipwrackt
,
and
they
beare
the
name
of
Goodwins
sands
even
to
this
day
.
Harold
the
second
sonne
of
Earle
Goodwin
,
after
the
death
of
his
elder
brother
Swanus
,
aswell
heire
to
his
fathers
insolent
and
aspiring
spirit
,
as
to
his
Earledome
and
Lands
:
in
the
twentieth
yeare
of
the
raigne
of
the
before-named
Edward
the
Confessor
,
he
sayled
into
Normandy
to
visit
some
of
his
friends
;
but
by
adverse
windes
,
and
a
sudden
tempest
at
Sea
,
he
was
driven
upon
the
Province
of
Pountiffe
,
where
hee
was
tooke
prisoner
,
and
sent
to
Duke
William
of
Normandy
,
who
inforced
him
to
sweare
,
that
hee
should
marry
with
his
daughter
when
she
came
to
mature
age
;
and
farther
,
that
after
the
death
of
King
Edward
,
he
should
keep
the
Crowne
of
England
to
his
behoofe
,
according
to
the
will
of
the
Confessor
:
to
both
which
Articles
having
solemnly
sworne
,
he
was
dismissed
from
the
bastard
Duke
,
and
with
great
and
rich
gifts
sent
backe
to
England
.
But
after
the
death
of
Edward
,
in
the
yeare
of
the
Incarnation
,
one
thousand
threescore
and
sixe
,
Harold
forgetting
his
former
oath
and
promise
made
to
Duke
William
,
he
caused
himselfe
to
be
crowned
King
of
the
Lande
;
who
was
no
sooner
warme
in
his
Throne
,
but
Harold
Harfoot
sonne
to
Canutus
,
with
a
puissant
hoast
of
Danes
invaded
the
Realme
,
whom
Harold
of
England
met
in
a
set
battaile
,
slew
him
hand
to
hand
,
and
discomfited
his
whole
Army
;
for
he
was
of
an
invincible
hardinesse
and
valour
:
which
victory
was
no
sooner
obtained
,
but
newes
was
brought
him
that
William
of
Normandy
was
landed
with
a
potent
Army
,
to
claime
his
right
and
interest
he
had
in
the
Crowne
of
England
,
by
the
last
Testament
of
Edward
the
Confessor
;
with
these
tydings
being
thoroughly
heated
,
he
marched
with
all
speed
from
the
North
,
scarce
suffering
his
Army
to
rest
by
the
way
,
to
give
the
Normans
battaile
,
betwixt
whom
was
a
dreadfull
and
bloudy
conflict
:
But
when
the
victory
rather
hovered
over
the
English
then
the
other
,
Harold
after
many
deepe
and
dangerous
wounds
,
was
shot
into
the
eye
with
an
arrow
and
slaine
.
In
whose
death
may
be
observed
Gods
heavy
Judgements
against
price
and
perjury
.
Of
my
first
sinne
,
namely
Pride
,
none
hath
ever
beene
by
our
English
Chronologers
more
justly
taxed
then
that
French
Gerson
,
Pierre
Gavestone
,
the
great
misleader
and
seducer
of
Edward
the
second
;
whom
though
his
Royall
Father
King
Edward
the
first
,
sirnamed
Long-shanks
,
upon
his
death-bed
caused
to
bee
banished
;
yet
the
sonne
was
no
sooner
inaugurated
and
admitted
to
the
government
of
the
Realme
,
but
contrary
to
the
wils
of
all
his
Lords
and
Peeres
,
he
caused
his
Exile
to
be
repealed
,
sent
for
him
over
,
and
advanced
him
to
great
honour
:
in
which
he
demeaned
himselfe
like
a
proud
upstart
,
or
as
our
English
Proverbe
goes
,
Like
a
beggar
set
on
horsebacke
,
who
is
ready
to
ride
poste
to
the
Devill
:
for
whose
sake
the
King
committed
William
Lancton
Bishop
of
Chester
(
in
the
second
yeare
of
his
raigne
)
to
the
Tower
,
because
he
had
perswaded
the
King
against
his
Minion
,
for
which
the
Barons
of
the
Realme
,
and
especially
Sir
Henry
Lacy
,
Sir
Guy
,
and
Sir
Aymery
de
Valence
,
Earle
of
Lincolne
,
of
Warwick
and
Pembroke
,
to
whom
the
late
King
had
given
charge
for
his
exile
upon
his
death-bed
,
wrought
so
farre
by
their
power
,
that
contrary
to
the
Kings
will
,
hee
was
avoyded
the
Land
,
and
banisht
into
Ireland
for
that
yeare
,
whither
his
Majestie
sent
many
secret
messengers
with
rich
gifts
to
comfort
him
,
and
made
him
chiefe
Ruler
of
that
Countrey
.
But
in
the
third
yeare
of
his
reigne
,
divers
grudges
and
discontents
began
to
arise
betwixt
the
King
and
his
Nobles
,
insomuch
,
that
for
quietnesse
sake
,
and
in
hope
of
his
amendment
,
he
was
againe
repealed
,
but
more
and
more
increased
in
his
insufferable
insolence
,
insomuch
,
that
having
charge
of
all
the
Kings
Jewels
and
Treasure
,
he
went
to
Westminster
,
and
out
of
the
Kings
Jewell-house
tooke
a
Table
and
a
paire
of
trestles
all
of
pure
gold
,
and
conveyed
them
(
with
other
precious
gems
)
out
of
the
Land
,
to
the
great
exhausting
and
impoverishing
of
the
same
:
by
whose
wanton
effoeminacies
,
and
loose
conditions
,
he
drew
the
King
to
many
vitious
courses
,
as
adulteries
,
and
the
like
:
which
mischiefes
the
Lords
seeing
daily
to
increase
,
they
tooke
counsell
againe
at
Lincolne
,
and
notwithstanding
the
Kings
main
opposer
,
he
was
a
second
time
confined
into
Flanders
,
but
in
his
fifth
year
was
again
sent
for
over
,
when
not
able
to
contain
himselfe
from
his
immoderate
luxury
,
as
he
demeaned
himselfe
far
more
arrogantly
than
before
,
insomuch
that
he
disdained
and
had
in
contempt
all
the
Peeres
of
the
Land
,
giving
them
much
opprobrious
and
despightfull
language
,
wherefore
seeing
there
was
no
hope
of
his
amendment
,
with
an
unanimous
consent
they
vowed
to
rid
the
Land
of
such
a
Caterpiller
,
and
soon
after
besieged
him
in
the
Castle
of
Scarborrow
,
and
taking
the
Fort
they
surprised
him
,
and
brought
him
to
Gaversed
besides
Warwicke
,
and
the
nine
and
twentieth
day
of
●une
smote
off
his
head
.
Thus
was
Gods
just
doom
against
his
pride
,
luxury
,
and
avarice
.
But
there
succeeded
him
both
in
ambition
and
the
Kings
favour
,
of
our
own
Natives
,
the
two
Spencers
,
the
father
and
the
son
,
his
great
minions
and
favorites
,
who
both
in
wealth
,
power
,
and
pride
,
overtopt
all
the
Nobles
of
the
Land
,
commanding
their
Soveraigne
,
and
confounding
the
Subjects
,
of
whom
you
may
reade
in
the
Records
of
the
Tower
,
that
in
the
fourteenth
year
of
this
Edward
the
second
,
Hugh
Spencer
the
elder
,
for
his
riots
and
extortions
being
condemned
by
the
Commonalty
,
and
expelled
the
Land
,
an
Inventory
of
his
estate
being
taken
,
it
was
found
by
inquisition
that
the
said
Spencer
had
in
sundry
Shires
fifty
nine
Mannours
,
and
in
his
possession
of
his
own
goods
and
chattels
,
twenty
eight
thousand
sheep
,
one
thousand
oxen
and
steeres
,
twelve
hundred
beeves
with
their
calves
,
fourty
mares
with
their
coltes
,
one
hundred
and
threescore
drawing
horses
for
the
teame
,
two
thousand
hogges
,
three
hundred
bullockes
,
in
his
cellar
fourty
tonnes
of
wine
,
he
had
moreover
six
hundred
bacons
,
and
fourscore
carcases
of
Martinmasse
beeves
,
six
hundred
muttons
in
larder
,
ten
tonnes
of
sider
,
besides
his
provision
of
ale
,
(
for
beer
in
these
dayes
was
not
known
)
thirty
six
sackes
of
wooll
,
with
a
fair
library
of
bookes
,
and
other
rich
and
costly
utensils
;
his
armour
,
plate
,
jewels
,
and
ready
money
,
amounting
to
more
than
an
hundred
thousand
pounds
;
but
what
in
the
end
became
of
all
this
mag●zine
?
This
Spencer
being
after
called
home
by
the
King
,
and
restored
to
all
his
former
estate
,
mauger
the
Queen
and
the
chief
Peeres
of
the
Realme
,
she
with
an
Army
pursued
the
King
,
with
these
his
proud
favourites
;
the
father
she
surprised
in
Bristow
,
(
which
Town
the
King
had
fortified
and
left
unto
his
charge
)
himselfe
for
his
better
safeguard
flying
with
his
son
into
Wales
,
whither
she
pursued
them
,
and
se●sed
upon
them
both
,
bringing
Sir
Hugh
the
elder
,
and
Sir
Hugh
the
younger
to
Hereford
,
where
upon
the
morrow
following
the
Feast
of
Simon
and
Iude
,
at
Bristow
Sir
Hugh
Spencer
the
father
upon
a
publique
scaffold
lost
his
head
,
and
his
body
was
after
buried
at
Winchester
;
and
upon
Saint
Hugh's
day
following
being
the
eighteenth
of
November
was
Sir
Hugh
his
son
drawn
,
hanged
,
and
quartered
at
Hereford
and
his
head
sent
to
London
,
and
was
set
upon
a
pole
amongst
other
Traitours
,
of
whom
a
Poet
of
those
times
made
this
short
Epitaph
.
Funis
cum
lignis
à
te
miser
ensis
&
ignis
,
Hugo
securis
equus
,
abstulit
omne
decus
.
And
thus
paraphrased
or
interpreted
in
old
English
,
suiting
these
times
.
With
ropes
wert
thou
bound
,
and
on
the
gallowes
hunge
,
And
from
thy
body
thine
head
with
sword
was
kit
,
Thy
bowels
in
the
fire
were
thrown
,
and
burned
long
,
Thy
body
in
four
parts
eke
with
axe
was
slit
,
With
horse
before
drawn
,
few
men
pittying
it
,
Thus
with
these
torments
for
thy
sinnes
sake
,
From
thee
wretched
Hugh
,
all
worldly
wealth
was
take
.
And
these
were
remarkable
judgements
of
such
as
being
raised
from
humble
and
mean
fortunes
to
high
and
eminent
posture
through
pride
and
vainglory
,
attributed
that
to
their
own
merit
which
is
onely
due
to
their
Maker
.
I
come
next
to
Sir
Roger
Mortimer
,
who
being
highly
puft
up
with
the
favour
that
he
had
from
Queen
Isabel
,
who
in
the
minority
of
her
young
son
Edward
swayed
all
,
during
the
imprisonment
of
her
husband
Edward
the
second
,
whether
by
the
Queenes
consent
or
no
,
I
dare
not
say
,
but
of
most
assured
truth
it
is
,
that
this
Roger
caused
the
King
to
be
removed
from
Kenelworth
Castle
to
the
Castle
of
Barkley
,
where
by
his
direction
and
command
he
was
most
bloodily
and
inhumanely
murdered
.
After
which
Edward
his
son
(
the
third
of
that
name
)
at
the
age
of
fifteen
yeares
was
crowned
King
,
but
for
a
time
kept
in
a
kinde
of
pupillage
under
the
Queen
and
Mortimer
,
betwixt
whom
there
was
suspected
to
have
been
too
much
familiarity
,
in
whose
power
was
all
the
management
of
State
,
and
many
things
past
by
them
to
the
great
dishonour
of
the
Kingdom
.
This
Mortimer
was
by
the
King
made
Earle
of
March
,
who
imitated
King
Arthur
by
keeping
so
many
Knights
of
the
Round
Table
,
to
whom
he
allowed
both
meat
and
meanes
,
and
bore
himselfe
in
that
high
straine
,
that
he
had
in
contempt
the
greatest
Peeres
in
the
Land
,
but
in
processe
of
time
he
was
surprised
in
Votengham
Castle
,
and
from
thence
sent
prisoner
to
the
Tower
of
London
,
when
a
Parliament
being
called
in
the
fourth
year
of
the
King
,
He
was
convicted
of
five
Articles
:
first
,
of
the
murder
of
the
King
;
next
,
that
he
had
dealt
perfidiously
betwixt
our
Nation
and
the
Scots
;
thirdly
,
that
he
received
certain
summes
of
money
from
Sir
Thomas
Duglas
,
and
caused
to
be
delivered
unto
them
the
Church
called
Rugium
,
to
their
great
advantage
and
Englands
prejudice
;
fourthly
,
that
he
had
got
unlawfully
into
his
possession
much
of
the
Kings
treasure
,
and
wastfully
mispent
it
;
and
lastly
,
that
he
was
more
private
with
the
Queen
than
was
to
Gods
pleasure
or
the
Kings
honour
:
of
all
which
being
convicted
by
the
said
Parliament
;
upon
Saint
Andrews
day
,
next
following
he
was
drawn
upon
an
hurdle
to
the
common
place
of
execution
(
since
called
Tiburne
)
and
there
like
a
Fellon
and
Traitour
upon
the
Gallowes
hanged
,
such
is
the
end
of
greatnesse
when
it
abandons
goodnesse
and
honour
,
and
opposeth
it selfe
against
humility
.
Great
also
were
the
arrogancies
and
insolencies
of
Sir
William
Scroop
Earle
of
Wiltshire
,
and
Treasurer
of
England
,
Sir
Iohn
Bushey
,
Sir
Henry
Green
,
and
others
,
in
the
time
of
Richard
the
second
,
who
by
him
greatly
animated
and
incouraged
,
greatly
vexed
and
oppressed
the
people
,
men
advanced
from
the
cottage
to
the
Court
,
and
from
basenesse
to
honour
,
who
through
their
great
pride
forgetting
from
whence
they
came
;
in
their
surplus
of
wealth
,
and
height
of
ambition
,
were
surprised
in
Bristow
by
Henry
Duke
of
Lancaster
(
as
cankers
and
caterpillars
of
the
Common-wealth
)
the
son
of
Iohn
of
Gaunt
,
who
then
laid
claim
to
the
Crown
,
and
by
him
caused
to
be
executed
on
a
publike
scaffold
.
Infinite
are
Gods
threatning
judgements
to
this
purpose
,
of
which
there
be
infinite
examples
,
but
being
loath
to
tire
the
Reader
with
too
much
prolixity
,
I
will
conclude
this
Tract
against
pride
with
one
notable
president
as
much
(
if
not
more
remarkable
)
than
any
of
the
former
.
In
the
time
of
King
Henry
the
eighth
,
Thomas
Wolsey
Archbishop
of
Yorke
and
Cardinall
,
had
in
his
hall
daily
three
Tables
or
Boards
,
mannaged
by
three
principall
Officers
;
a
Steward
,
who
was
alwayes
a
Priest
;
a
Treasurer
,
no
lesse
degreed
than
a
Knight
;
and
a
Controwler
,
who
was
by
Place
an
Esquire
;
he
had
also
a
Cofferer
,
who
was
a
Doctor
of
Divinity
;
three
Marshals
,
three
Yeomen
Ushers
in
the
Hall
,
besides
two
Groomes
,
and
Almners
:
in
his
Kitchen
belonging
to
the
Hall
,
two
Clerkes
of
the
Kitchin
,
a
Clerke
Controller
,
a
Surveyour
of
the
Dresser
,
a
Clerke
of
the
Spicery
,
(
and
these
kept
a
continuall
messe
in
the
Hall
)
two
master-cookes
,
and
of
other
Cookes
Labourers
and
Children
of
the
Kitchen
twelve
persons
,
four
Yeomen
of
the
ordinary
Scullery
,
four
Yeomen
of
the
silver
Scullery
,
two
Yeomen
of
the
Pastry
,
with
two
or
three
Pastulers
under
the
Yeomen
.
In
his
Privy
Kitchin
he
had
a
Master-cook
who
wore
alwayes
Satten
and
Velvet
with
a
great
chain
of
gold
about
his
necke
,
with
two
other
Yeomen
and
a
Groom
,
in
the
Scalding-house
a
Yeoman
and
two
Groomes
,
in
the
Pantry
two
Yeomen
;
in
the
Buttery
two
Yeomen
,
two
Groomes
,
and
two
Pages
;
in
the
Chandry
,
two
Yeomen
;
in
the
Wafery
,
two
Yeomen
;
in
the
Wardrobe
of
Beddes
,
the
Master
of
the
Wardrobe
,
and
ten
other
persons
attending
;
in
the
Laundry
,
a
Yeoman
,
and
a
Groom
,
thirty
Pages
,
two
Yeomen-purveyours
,
and
one
Groom
;
in
the
Bake-house
,
a
Yeoman
and
two
Groomes
;
in
the
Wood-yard
,
a
Yoman
and
a
Groom
;
in
the
Barne
one
;
in
the
Garden
,
a
Yeoman
and
two
Groomes
;
a
Yeoman
of
his
Bardge
,
a
Master
of
his
Horse
,
a
Clerke
of
the
Stable
,
and
a
Yeoman
,
a
Sadler
,
a
Farrier
,
a
Yeoman
of
his
Chariot
,
a
Sumptur-man
,
a
Yeoman
of
his
Stirrop
,
a
Muleter
,
and
sixteen
Groomes
of
his
Stable
,
every
one
keeping
foure
Geldings
;
Porters
at
his
Gate
,
two
Yeomen
and
two
Groomes
;
in
the
Almnery
,
a
Yeoman
and
a
Groom
.
In
his
Chappell
he
had
a
Dean
,
who
was
a
great
Divine
,
and
a
man
of
excellent
learning
;
a
Subdean
,
a
Repeater
of
the
Quier
,
a
Gospeller
,
an
Epistoler
,
ten
singing
Priests
,
a
Master
of
the
Children-quiristers
,
twelve
Seculars
being
singing
men
of
the
Chappell
,
ten
singing
boyes
with
a
servant
to
attend
upon
them
;
in
the
Revestry
,
a
Yeoman
and
two
Groomes
,
besides
divers
retainers
who
repaired
to
his
Palace
at
principall
feasts
.
The
rich
Furniture
of
his
Chappell
almost
exceeded
apprehension
,
for
jewels
and
sumptuous
ornaments
continually
there
used
,
where
have
been
seene
in
a
Procession
about
the
Hall
foure
and
fourty
rich
Copes
all
of
one
suit
,
with
Crosses
,
and
Candlestickes
,
and
other
furniture
of
great
value
;
he
had
moreover
two
Crosse-bearers
,
and
two
Pillar-bearers
in
his
Great-chamber
;
and
in
his
Privy-chamber
,
a
Chamberlain
and
a
Vice-chamberlain
,
twelve
Gentlemen-ushers
,
besides
one
continually
in
his
Privy-chamber
,
and
six
Gentlemen-waiters
,
he
had
ten
Lords
to
attend
him
,
and
every
one
had
two
Gentlemen
to
attend
upon
them
,
onely
the
Earle
of
Derby
had
five
allowed
him
;
he
had
of
Gentlemen
,
Cup-bearers
,
Carvers
,
Sewers
,
and
the
like
,
to
the
number
of
fourty
persons
,
six
Yeomenushers
,
eight
Groomes
,
and
Yeomen
that
daily
waited
in
his
Chamber
fourty
five
.
Sixteen
Doctours
and
Chaplaines
besides
those
of
his
Chappell
continually
waited
at
his
Trencher
,
with
the
Clerke
of
the
Closet
,
two
Secretaries
,
two
Clerkes
of
the
Signet
,
and
four
Counsellours
learned
in
the
Lawes
,
and
for
as
much
as
it
was
necessary
,
for
divers
Officers
of
the
Chancery
to
attend
him
;
namely
,
the
Clerke
of
the
Crown
,
a
riding
Clerke
,
a
Clerke
of
the
Hamper
,
a
Clerke
of
the
Wax
,
and
a
Clerke
of
Checke
;
he
gave
meanes
and
allowance
to
them
all
;
he
had
also
four
Footmen
cloathed
in
rich
Coates
with
his
Armes
imbroidered
upon
them
;
an
Herald
at
Armes
,
a
Serjeant
at
Armes
,
a
Physitian
,
an
Apothecary
,
four
chief
Musitians
with
their
Consort
,
a
Keeper
of
his
Tents
,
an
Armourer
,
an
Instructer
of
his
Wards
,
two
Yeomen
of
his
Wardrobe
of
Robes
,
and
a
Keeper
of
his
Chamber
continually
in
the
Court
;
he
had
moreover
in
his
House
the
Surveyour
of
Yorke
,
a
Clerke
of
the
Green-cloath
,
and
all
these
were
with
him
uprising
and
down-lying
,
and
dieted
at
his
charge
;
he
kept
in
his
Great-chamber
a
continuall
Table
for
the
Chamberers
and
Gentlemen-Officers
,
with
a
Messe
of
young
Lords
,
and
another
of
young
Gentlemen
;
nor
was
there
any
Officers
Gentlemen
or
other
persons
of
account
,
but
were
allowed
some
one
,
some
two
,
some
three
servants
to
attend
them
,
which
no
question
grew
to
a
mighty
number
,
besides
Officers
extraordinary
,
retainers
and
sutors
who
might
come
freely
and
dine
in
the
Hall
without
any
to
contradict
them
:
and
thus
far
out
of
his
Checke
role
,
whereby
we
see
his
exceeding
greatnesse
,
but
of
which
grew
such
pride
,
that
he
blushed
not
to
prefer
himselfe
before
his
Soveraigne
,
in
these
words
,
Ego
&
Rex
meus
,
I
and
my
King
.
But
to
conclude
with
him
,
this
potent
prelate
falling
after
into
a
praemunire
,
forfeited
his
whole
estate
to
the
Crown
,
and
then
(
though
late
)
confessing
,
That
if
he
had
sought
so
much
to
honour
God
as
he
had
strived
to
honour
his
King
,
he
might
still
have
continued
in
his
revenew
eminently
:
and
being
deprived
of
all
his
power
and
pompe
,
riches
and
substance
,
and
brought
almost
to
the
extremest
indigence
and
penury
,
being
sent
for
from
Yorke
to
London
,
(
as
some
have
supposed
to
answer
for
his
life
)
he
fell
sicke
by
the
way
,
and
in
a
poor
Friery
ended
his
wretched
dayes
not
without
suspition
of
poyson
;
and
such
have
been
Gods
judgements
from
the
beginning
against
this
first
and
capital
of
the
seven
mortall
sinnes
called
Pride
,
of
which
I
cease
to
write
further
,
and
proceed
to
the
second
.
CHAP.
II.
Of
Gods
just
Judgements
inflicted
upon
envious
persons
.
ENvy
is
defined
to
be
a
grievance
and
sorrow
for
the
thriving
and
prosperity
of
others
,
who
in
his
heart
would
kill
the
happinesse
of
his
Neighbour
,
and
before
God
is
held
no
better
than
an
Homicide
,
the
Hebrews
call
it
Kineah
and
Kanno
,
which
is
Emulation
or
Envy
,
in
which
we
are
said
four
wayes
to
offend
;
first
,
when
we
grieve
at
the
good
estate
or
fortune
of
another
man
,
as
fearing
because
of
his
ability
,
he
may
be
also
willing
to
endamage
us
or
others
.
Secondly
,
when
we
repine
at
another
mans
felicity
,
because
we
have
not
what
he
hath
,
nor
abound
with
the
like
abundance
and
riches
,
and
this
the
Philosopher
cales
Zelus
,
and
the
first
may
be
in
some
kinde
held
laudable
,
If
we
emulate
a
man
for
his
vertues
and
goodnesse
seeking
by
imitating
to
exceed
them
,
but
if
it
be
for
temporall
goods
it
may
be
brought
within
the
compasse
of
sin
.
The
third
is
,
when
we
maligne
another
man
,
because
he
injoyes
these
temporall
blessings
which
he
doth
not
deserve
,
and
such
vexation
,
because
it
is
concerning
riches
and
honour
,
which
happen
both
to
the
worthy
and
unworthy
alike
,
by
the
Philosopher
it
is
called
Nemesis
,
which
though
Aristotle
approves
,
yet
our
Christian
Religion
will
not
allow
.
The
fourth
is
,
when
we
are
sad
and
troubled
at
our
neighbours
increase
in
wealth
and
substance
,
because
he
exceedeth
us
,
and
we
are
not
so
rich
nor
so
well
possessed
as
he
;
and
this
is
plain
Envy
in
her
own
naturall
and
absolute
colours
,
and
is
alwayes
evill
,
and
is
a
mortiferous
sin
,
because
we
grieve
at
that
at
which
we
ought
to
rejoyce
;
namely
,
the
prosperity
of
our
neighbour
,
and
this
the
Schoolmen
distinguish
into
three
branches
,
mortall
,
veniall
,
capitall
.
That
is
called
mortall
,
when
it
is
hatched
and
premeditated
,
nay
prosecuted
by
the
consent
of
reason
,
because
it
directly
opposeth
the
Charity
due
from
us
to
our
neighbour
.
That
which
is
called
veniall
,
is
an
emulation
bred
meerly
in
sensuality
or
wantonnesse
,
when
there
was
no
preceding
of
the
consent
of
reason
:
and
as
they
are
the
first
motions
,
so
they
are
held
to
be
idle
and
imperfect
.
The
third
is
called
capitall
,
because
from
it
ariseth
susurratio
,
that
is
,
a
muttering
or
murmuring
behinde
ones
backe
,
striving
to
darken
or
ecclypse
the
reputation
or
good
name
of
another
in
secret
.
Next
Detraction
,
when
openly
we
scandall
or
revile
any
man
to
lessen
his
worth
,
or
darken
his
glory
.
Then
Exultation
,
when
we
triumph
or
rejoyce
in
the
disastre
or
distresse
of
our
neighbour
.
Next
Affliction
,
when
we
are
grieved
and
discontented
at
his
prosperity
.
And
lastly
,
Od●um
,
or
hate
,
by
which
we
are
not
onely
sadded
and
molested
at
his
happinesse
,
but
withall
we
insidiate
his
estate
,
or
malevolently
desire
his
ruine
.
Frequent
are
the
Texts
in
the
holy
Scripture
,
against
this
sin
of
Envy
,
and
sundry
examples
to
shew
it
hath
been
even
from
the
beginning
,
and
so
continued
through
all
succeeding
Ages
:
it
was
betwixt
the
two
first
Brothers
,
for
we
reade
Genesis
4.
5.
Because
God
accepted
Abels
offering
,
and
despised
that
of
Cain
,
He
was
exceeding
wroth
,
and
his
countenance
fell
down
:
(
among
strangers
)
Because
Isaac
had
flockes
of
sheep
and
heards
of
cattell
,
and
a
mighty
houshold
,
Therefore
the
Philistims
had
envie
at
him
,
insomuch
that
they
stopped
and
filled
up
with
earth
all
the
wells
which
his
fathers
servants
digged
in
his
father
Abrahams
time
,
&c.
Betwixt
Sisters
,
When
Raechel
saw
that
she
bare
Iaacob
no
children
,
she
envyed
her
Sister
,
and
said
unto
her
husband
,
Give
me
children
or
I
die
.
In
Iosephs
brethren
,
who
when
they
saw
that
their
father
Iacob
loved
him
more
then
them
,
they
hated
him
,
and
could
not
speake
peaceably
unto
him
;
and
when
he
dreamed
a
dreame
and
told
it
his
brethren
,
the
Text
saith
,
they
hated
him
the
more
:
Against
which
you
shall
reade
,
Levit.
19.
17.
Thou
shalt
not
hate
thy
brother
in
thine
heart
,
but
thou
shalt
plainly
rebuke
thy
neighbour
,
and
suffer
him
not
to
sinne
.
Thou
shalt
not
avenge
,
nor
be
mindfull
of
wrong
against
the
children
of
thy
people
,
but
shalt
love
thy
neighbour
as
thy selfe
:
I
am
the
Lord
.
We
finde
in
the
twelfth
of
Numbers
,
that
when
Aaron
and
Miriam
murmured
against
Moses
,
because
he
had
married
a
woman
of
Ethiopia
,
the
Lord
was
therefore
angry
with
them
,
and
immediately
Miriam
was
strook
with
a
Leprosie
white
as
snow
.
Saul
envyed
David
,
because
the
Virgines
in
their
songs
and
dances
,
gave
to
him
but
the
honour
of
killing
thousands
,
and
to
David
ten
thousands
.
In
Eliab
the
brother
of
David
,
who
when
he
spake
unto
the
men
that
stood
with
him
,
and
said
,
What
shall
be
done
to
him
that
killeth
this
Philistime
,
(
meaning
Goliah
)
and
taketh
away
the
shame
from
Israel
,
&c.
Eliab
this
hearing
was
very
angry
with
David
,
and
said
,
Why
camest
thou
downe
hither
?
and
with
whom
whom
hast
thou
left
those
few
sheepe
in
the
Wildernesse
?
I
know
the
pride
and
the
malice
of
thine
heart
,
that
thou
art
come
downe
to
see
the
battaile
:
in
Sanballat
and
Tobias
,
who
envyed
and
hindered
the
building
of
the
Temple
,
as
you
may
reade
in
Nehemiah
.
In
the
Princes
and
Officers
of
Darius
,
Dan.
6.
4.
who
sought
an
occasion
against
him
concerning
the
Kingdome
,
but
they
could
finde
no
fault
;
for
he
was
so
faithfull
,
that
no
blame
could
bee
found
in
him
.
Come
to
the
New
Testament
,
or
Gospell
:
In
the
Pharisees
,
Mat
9.
11.
Why
eateth
your
Master
with
Publicans
and
Sinners
?
Again
,
Luke
19.
39.
Then
some
of
the
Pharisees
said
unto
him
,
Master
,
rebuke
thy
Disciples
.
In
the
Disciples
of
Iohn
,
Mat.
9.
14.
Then
came
the
Disciples
of
Iohn
to
him
,
saying
,
Why
doe
we
and
the
Pharisees
fast
often
,
but
thy
Disciples
fast
not
?
In
the
chiefe
Priests
and
Scribes
,
Matth.
21.
15.
Who
when
they
saw
the
marvels
that
hee
did
,
and
the
children
crying
in
the
Temple
,
Hosanna
to
the
sonne
of
David
,
they
disdained
.
In
the
Jewes
;
who
when
they
were
gathered
together
,
and
Pilat
said
unto
them
,
Whether
will
you
that
I
let
loose
unto
you
,
Barabbas
,
or
Iesus
which
is
called
Christ
?
They
said
Barabbas
.
In
the
brother
of
the
Prodigall
,
Luke
15.
25.
Now
the
elder
brother
was
in
the
field
,
and
when
hee
came
neare
unto
the
house
and
heard
musicke
and
dancing
,
he
called
to
one
of
his
servants
and
asked
what
these
things
meant
?
and
hee
said
unto
him
,
thy
brother
is
come
,
and
thy
father
hath
killed
the
fat
Calfe
,
because
he
hath
received
him
safe
and
sound
:
then
hee
was
angry
and
would
not
goe
in
;
therefore
came
his
father
out
and
intreated
him
,
&c.
In
the
High
Priests
and
Pharisees
,
Iohn
11.
47.
who
gathered
a
Counsell
and
said
,
What
shall
we
doe
,
for
this
man
doth
many
miracles
?
if
we
let
him
thus
alone
,
all
men
will
beleeve
in
him
,
and
the
Romans
will
come
and
take
away
both
our
place
and
the
Nation
.
Then
Caiphas
the
High
Priest
stood
up
and
said
,
Ye
perceive
nothing
at
all
;
nor
doe
you
consider
that
it
is
expedient
for
us
that
one
man
die
for
the
people
,
and
the
rest
perish
not
.
In
the
Rulers
,
Elders
,
and
Scribes
,
Acts
5.
17.
Then
the
chiefe
Priest
rose
up
,
and
all
that
were
with
him
(
which
was
the
sect
of
the
Sadduces
)
and
were
full
of
indignation
,
and
laid
hands
on
the
Apostles
,
and
put
them
in
the
common
prison
,
&c.
And
thus
you
see
how
envy
hath
beene
in
all
ages
:
and
most
fitting
it
is
that
I
first
shew
you
the
nature
and
condition
of
the
sinne
,
before
I
come
to
the
judgements
inflicted
upon
it
.
This
Envy
shooteth
at
others
,
and
woundeth
her selfe
:
Lyons
are
knowne
by
their
clawes
,
Ravens
by
their
feathers
,
Cocks
by
their
spu●res
,
and
envious
Men
by
their
manners
;
who
(
like
Syrian
dogges
)
barke
at
the
starres
,
and
spurne
at
what
they
cannot
reach
;
and
is
like
lightning
,
which
in
the
duskiest
myst
,
or
darkest
fogge
,
will
plainliest
appeare
.
Envy
is
the
daughter
of
pride
,
the
mother
of
slaughter
and
strage
,
the
innovator
of
sedition
,
and
the
perpetuall
tormentor
of
vertue
:
She
is
moreover
the
slime
and
impostume
of
the
soule
,
a
daily
corrasive
to
him
in
whom
she
abideth
;
a
venome
,
a
poyson
,
a
Mercury
or
quicksilver
,
which
consumeth
the
flesh
,
and
dryes
up
the
bones
:
and
of
vices
it
is
said
,
Envy
to
be
the
most
generall
,
Pride
the
greatest
,
and
Lust
the
foulest
.
The
envyed
man
doth
many
times
forget
,
but
the
envious
man
doth
never
spare
to
prosecute
;
and
as
griefe
or
paine
is
a
disease
of
the
body
,
so
malice
is
the
malady
of
the
soule
.
It
is
a
meere
slave
to
its
owne
affections
,
and
is
found
alwayes
to
waite
at
Vertues
elbow
.
Alanus
de
Plancta
naturae
with
great
elegancy
saith
thus
:
To
the
envious
man
anothers
prosperity
is
his
adversity
,
their
adversity
his
prosperity
:
At
their
mirth
they
are
sad
,
and
in
their
sorrow
they
rejoyce
:
They
imagine
their
owne
riches
to
subsist
in
other
mens
poverty
,
and
their
poverty
to
be
in
other
mens
riches
.
The
serenity
of
their
neighbours
fame
they
endeavour
either
by
detraction
to
eclipse
,
or
by
silence
to
conceale
.
Inglorious
Envy
striveth
to
deface
the
glory
of
wisedome
;
then
which
,
no
monster
more
monstrous
,
no
dammage
more
dammageous
,
no
torment
more
torturous
,
no
sinne
more
contagious
;
of
blindnesse
it
is
the
abysse
,
the
spurre
to
contention
,
the
sting
of
corruption
,
the
motions
whereof
are
adversaries
to
humane
tranquillity
,
of
mundane
temptations
the
instigators
and
inciters
;
of
a
labouring
minde
the
vigilant
enemies
,
and
of
common
peace
and
amity
the
combustuous
disturbers
.
We
reade
Proverb
.
17.
A
seditious
person
seeketh
onely
evill
,
and
a
cruell
messenger
shall
be
sent
against
him
.
He
that
rewardeth
evill
for
good
,
evill
shall
not
depart
from
his
house
.
The
froward
heart
findeth
no
good
,
and
he
that
hath
a
naughty
tongue
falleth
into
evill
.
And
Prov.
28.
A
man
with
a
wicked
or
envious
eye
hasteth
to
riches
,
and
knoweth
not
that
poverty
shall
come
upon
him
Wisdom
.
1.
9.
Inquisition
shall
be
made
for
the
thoughts
of
the
ungodly
,
and
the
sound
of
the
words
shall
come
unto
God
for
the
correction
of
his
iniquities
:
Therefore
beware
of
murmuring
which
profiteth
nothing
,
and
refraine
thy
tongue
from
slander
;
for
there
is
no
word
so
secret
that
shall
goe
for
nought
,
and
the
mouth
that
speaketh
lyes
slayeth
the
soule
.
It
is
the
counsell
of
the
Wise
man
:
Eate
not
the
bread
of
him
that
is
envious
,
or
hath
an
evill
eye
,
neither
desire
his
d
〈…〉
meates
;
for
(
as
though
he
thought
it
in
his
heart
)
bee
will
say
,
Eate
and
drinke
,
but
his
heart
is
not
with
thee
:
thou
sh〈…〉
t
vomit
the
●arsel●
that
thou
hast
〈◊〉
,
and
thou
shalt
lose
thy
sweet
words
,
&c.
The
booke
of
Wisdome
〈◊〉
us
that
through
Envy
of
the
Devill
came
death
into
the
world
,
and
they
that
hold
of
his
side
prove
it
:
therefore
let
us
be
advised
by
Saint
Peter
,
who
in
the
second
chapter
of
his
first
Epistle
saith
,
Wherefore
laying
aside
all
malitiousnesse
,
and
all
guile
,
and
dissimulation
,
and
envy
;
and
evill
speaking
as
new
borne
babes
,
desire
that
sincere
milke
of
the
Word
,
that
yee
may
grow
thereby
&c.
But
from
the
discovery
of
the
foulenesse
of
the
sinne
,
I
come
now
to
shew
what
severall
judgements
have
beene
inflicted
upon
it
.
And
first
to
search
forraine
Histories
before
we
come
to
fearefull
and
tragicall
Examples
,
moderne
and
domestick
of
our
owne
,
(
that
the
one
may
the
better
illustrate
and
set
off
the
other
.
I
begin
with
that
incestuous
brood
of
Thebes
,
the
two
brothers
Eteocles
and
Polynices
,
whose
father
Oedipus
,
ignorant
of
his
owne
naturall
parents
,
and
having
first
most
unfortunately
slaine
his
owne
father
,
and
after
retyring
himselfe
to
Thebes
,
by
the
solution
of
Sphinxes
riddle
,
married
with
his
owne
mother
Iocasta
(
neither
of
them
knowing
their
proximity
in
bloud
)
and
by
that
match
swayed
the
Kingdome
:
together
with
those
two
before-named
sonnes
,
and
two
daughters
,
Antigone
and
Ismene
,
which
he
had
by
her
.
But
at
length
having
knowledge
of
that
incestuous
match
made
with
his
mother
,
he
in
griefe
thereof
with
his
nayles
pulled
out
his
owne
eyes
,
and
she
in
despaire
strangled
her selfe
:
after
which
the
Kingdome
falling
to
the
two
brothers
;
They
first
agreed
to
raigne
monethly
,
and
then
yearely
by
turnes
;
but
soone
after
there
grew
such
malitious
envy
betwixt
them
,
that
whatsoever
the
one
did
in
his
regency
,
the
other
when
the
power
came
into
his
hands
,
utterly
abrogated
and
disanull'd
,
making
new
lawes
,
to
the
former
quite
contrary
;
which
also
lasted
but
a
moneth
:
for
then
the
succeeder
paid
the
resigner
in
his
owne
coyne
.
Upon
this
grew
faction
,
and
divers
partisans
on
either
side
;
some
favouring
the
one
,
and
some
affecting
the
other
;
in
the
end
from
threatnings
and
braves
,
it
came
to
battaile
and
blowes
;
in
which
the
two
brothers
encountering
hand
to
hand
,
in
a
single
duell
they
interchangably
slew
one
another
;
whose
envy
in
life
was
so
irreconcilable
and
invererate
,
that
it
appeared
after
their
deaths
:
for
their
two
bodies
being
brought
to
be
burnt
in
one
funerall
pile
,
the
very
flame
was
seene
to
divide
it selfe
,
and
burne
in
two
parts
,
suting
to
their
opposite
soules
and
contrary
conditions
.
Another
Example
of
Gods
Judgements
against
Envy
,
Greece
affordeth
us
.
Perseus
the
sonne
of
Philip
,
King
of
Macedon
:
(
but
not
that
Philip
who
was
father
to
Alexander
the
Great
)
hee
had
an
elder
brother
whose
name
was
Demetrius
,
a
man
of
most
approved
honesty
,
and
imitable
condition
;
whose
knowne
vertues
his
younger
brother
,
of
a
malevolent
and
cumbred
spirit
much
envying
,
framed
a
most
scandalous
and
detracting
inditement
against
him
;
pretending
that
he
had
privately
insidiated
his
fathers
life
and
Kingdom
,
and
sold
them
both
unto
his
enemies
the
Romans
;
of
which
by
suborned
witnesses
,
he
had
made
such
proofe
,
(
and
bribing
to
that
purpose
)
prevailed
so
farre
,
that
he
was
convented
,
convicted
,
and
condemned
,
and
most
innocently
suffered
the
rigout
of
the
Law
,
by
having
his
head
strooke
off
:
But
the
King
having
had
notice
of
these
barbarous
and
injust
proceedings
,
surprised
with
excesse
of
griefe
,
died
not
long
after
;
and
this
malicious
fratricide
succeeded
in
the
Kingdome
:
who
now
having
all
things
answerable
to
his
own
desires
,
thinking
Macedonia
too
narrow
a
limit
for
his
unbounded
ambition
;
he
in
great
presumption
not
onely
opposed
,
but
invaded
the
Roman
Empire
,
whose
envy
and
detraction
against
his
brother
God
thus
punished
:
He
drew
him
with
all
his
puissant
Army
neare
unto
the
river
of
Danubius
;
where
being
encountred
by
the
Roman
Consul
Aemilius
,
he
and
his
whole
hoast
were
cut
to
pieces
,
and
utterly
ruined
;
insomuch
,
that
the
power
of
the
Macedonians
being
utterly
confounded
,
it
became
after
subject
and
tributary
to
the
Roman
Empire
:
and
thus
his
defamatory
destruction
conspired
against
another
,
fell
upon
his
owne
head
;
and
is
still
registred
to
his
perpetuall
shame
and
inflamy
.
It
is
reported
of
the
Roman
Emperour
Caligula
,
who
was
a
man
of
infinite
vices
,
that
he
never
spared
man
in
his
rage
,
not
woman
in
his
lust
,
to
whom
sisters
and
strangers
were
alike
;
he
was
so
infected
with
this
vice
of
envy
,
that
in
contempt
of
the
most
noble
families
in
Rome
,
from
the
Torquati
hee
tooke
the
honour
of
wearing
golden
chains
;
from
the
Cin●innats
,
(
so
called
for
their
crisped
and
curled
looks
)
he
tooke
their
haire
,
and
caused
them
to
be
shorne
to
the
skull
;
and
so
of
others
:
besides
,
from
〈◊〉
Pompe●●s
he
caused
the
denomination
of
Great
to
be
taken
away
;
and
Aesius
Proculeus
a
very
beautifull
young
man
,
because
hee
was
for
feature
and
favour
preferred
before
him
,
he
caused
to
be
murdered
:
for
which
and
other
like
vices
hee
was
deposed
from
the
Imperiall
purple
,
and
put
to
a
most
base
,
wretched
,
and
ignoble
death
.
Antoninus
and
Geta
were
the
two
sonnes
of
the
Emperour
Severus
,
betwixt
whom
he
divided
the
Empire
after
his
death
.
To
Antoninus
was
all
Europe
allotted
,
and
whole
Asia
was
the
possession
and
patrimony
of
Geta.
Bizantium
kept
a
great
Garrison
of
Souldiers
for
Antoninus
,
and
Caloedon
a
Citie
of
Bythinia
was
the
place
of
strength
,
to
which
Geta
trusted
;
besides
,
the
two
great
Cities
of
Antioch
and
Alexandria
were
the
Royall
and
Kingly
feats
for
Geta
,
and
Mauritania
and
Numidia
for
Antoninus
;
who
was
of
a
dangerous
and
divelish
nature
;
but
Geta
of
a
very
curteous
and
affable
temperature
:
for
which
he
was
the
more
envyed
by
the
Elder
,
and
his
attrocities
and
inhumanities
as
much
disaffected
by
the
younger
.
By
which
mutuall
enmity
those
glorious
victories
which
Sever●s
atchieved
,
and
after
by
concord
and
peace
enjoyed
,
to
the
great
advancement
of
the
Empire
;
were
now
almost
wholly
ruined
.
The
Empresse
their
mother
fore-seeing
some
great
and
eminent
disaster
,
gave
them
often
very
matron
and
pious
admonitions
,
exhorting
them
to
unity
and
concord
;
but
her
indulgent
and
wholesome
counsell
nothing
prevailed
with
them
,
for
daily
their
discord
,
hatred
,
and
bloudy
practises
increased
,
and
the
one
was
so
jealous
of
the
other
,
that
they
durst
not
eate
nor
drinke
together
for
feare
of
poyson
.
In
this
mutuall
feare
they
continued
,
till
at
the
length
Antoninus
grew
so
sicke
of
his
brothers
generall
love
and
welfare
,
that
his
ambition
is
now
to
be
the
sole
possessour
of
the
whole
Empire
;
and
therefore
in
the
dead
of
night
,
with
other
of
his
assasinates
,
Supplantation
is
one
of
the
branches
of
Envy
,
concerning
which
I
have
read
an
History
to
this
purpose
.
A
Roman
Emperour
in
those
dayes
,
before
Grand
Kayre
,
and
by
the
way
revealed
unto
his
friend
all
that
had
past
betwixt
him
and
the
Soldan
,
concerning
the
Princesse
,
and
withall
shewed
him
the
ring
;
who
most
perfidiously
watching
his
opportunity
in
the
night
,
whilest
the
Prince
was
fast
sleeping
,
he
stole
away
the
ring
:
and
poasting
to
the
Court
,
presented
it
to
the
Lady
,
who
accepting
both
of
it
and
him
,
the
false
Imposter
had
her
to
wife
,
and
was
crowned
King
of
Persia.
For
which
affront
,
not
able
to
right
himselfe
,
his
great
spirit
was
so
afflicted
,
that
he
grew
into
a
dangerous
and
deadly
feaver
;
yet
before
his
death
he
writ
a
Letter
,
and
sent
it
to
his
Father
and
the
Senate
,
in
which
he
discovered
the
whole
passage
of
the
businesse
as
is
before
related
,
and
then
died
:
who
by
Embassadours
informing
the
Queene
and
the
State
of
Persia
,
the
truth
of
all
which
was
confirmed
by
the
dying
Princes
Letter
.
The
Impostor
at
length
confessed
all
,
but
because
he
had
been
their
King
,
the
State
would
not
put
him
to
death
or
torture
,
but
delivered
him
to
the
Roman
Embassadors
to
dispose
of
him
at
their
pleasure
:
who
carrying
him
to
Rome
with
the
body
of
the
dead
Prince
,
he
was
doomed
to
be
shut
alive
into
the
Princes
Sepulchre
,
where
the
trayterous
wretch
most
miserably
finished
his
dayes
.
A
second
to
the
like
purpose
wee
reade
in
the
History
of
the
Popes
:
which
tells
us
that
Pope
Nicholas
being
dead
,
one
Celestine
,
a
man
of
a
sincere
and
innocuous
life
and
conversation
,
was
by
a
common
suffrage
advanced
to
the
Papacie
,
who
bore
himselfe
with
all
humility
and
piety
;
whose
godly
life
one
of
the
proud
Cardinals
envying
,
and
ayming
to
supplant
him
,
hee
preferred
a
young
kinsman
of
his
to
waite
in
his
chamber
;
who
growing
in
favour
with
his
Holinesse
,
the
Cardinall
gave
him
a
long
trunke
of
brasse
,
through
which
hee
whispered
in
the
Popes
eare
divers
times
when
he
was
slumbering
,
that
it
was
Gods
will
,
and
for
his
soules
safety
,
to
resigne
the
Father-hood
over
to
some
others
,
and
himselfe
to
lead
a
private
religious
life
;
which
being
often
done
,
took
in
him
such
impression
,
as
in
a
publike
Consistory
he
told
them
what
revelation
he
had
from
Heaven
:
humbly
desiring
,
that
with
their
good
love
and
leave
he
might
resigne
his
great
charge
,
and
betake
himselfe
to
a
private
and
monastick
life
;
which
motion
this
Cardinall
seconded
,
and
by
bribery
and
gifts
(
having
many
friends
)
and
partisans
on
his
side
,
by
his
voluntary
resignement
was
elected
Pope
in
his
steed
by
the
name
of
Boniface
.
Who
now
attaining
to
the
height
of
his
wishes
,
and
being
feised
of
the
tripple
Diadem
,
was
not
ashamed
openly
to
boast
how
fraudulently
hee
came
to
that
high
Ecclesiasticall
honour
,
growing
therewith
more
proud
,
haughty
,
and
insolent
,
insomuch
,
that
he
pick●
a
quarrell
with
Lewis
King
of
France
;
and
would
have
forced
his
personall
appearance
to
acknowledge
him
for
his
supreame
Father
and
Master
;
which
because
the
King
denyed
,
he
excommunicated
his
Clergy
,
and
interdicted
his
Realme
,
curfing
him
and
his
Subjects
with
Bell
,
Booke
,
and
Candle
:
But
at
length
the
King
,
troubled
and
tyred
with
his
so
many
contumacies
,
sent
a
Knight
called
Sir
Guillam
de
Langaret
with
a
troope
of
Souldiers
,
who
so
well
awaited
their
opportunity
,
that
as
the
Pope
was
riding
from
Avignon
to
one
of
his
Castles
in
Provence
called
Poursorge
,
he
surprised
him
,
and
brought
him
prisoner
into
France
,
then
put
him
into
a
strong
Tower
,
where
for
want
of
food
he
was
forced
to
eate
the
flesh
from
his
armes
,
and
so
died●
of
whom
the
story
gives
this
Character
,
That
he
estred
into
the
Papacie
like
a
Fox
,
that
he
ruled
like
a
Lyon
,
and
in
the
end
died
like
a
Dogge
.
Nero
Caesar
who
had
all
the
seaven
deadly
sinnes
predominant
in
him
,
even
in
his
minority
and
first
comming
to
the
Empire
,
was
in
a
high
measure
worthily
as●●●st
and
branded
with
this
horrid
and
abhominable
vice
of
Envy
;
who
when
Cesar
Germanicus
,
a
Prince
of
great
hope
and
expectation
,
on
whom
all
the
eyes
of
Rome
were
fixt
,
was
made
competitor
with
him
in
the
Empite
,
〈◊〉
●ligning
his
greatnesse
and
goodnesse
though
his
neare
kinsman
:
he
with
his
owne
hands
tempered
a
strong
and
mo●●●serous
poyson
,
and
most
〈…〉
ously
inviting
him
to
a
feast
,
in
the
height
of
all
their
〈◊〉
and
〈◊〉
,
he
caused
that
deadly
draught
to
be
minist●ed
unto
him
:
which
he
had
no
sooner
tasted
,
but
immediately
he
sunke
from
his
seat
,
and
fell
downe
dead
at
the
Table
;
at
which
all
the
guests
being
startled
and
amazed
;
Nero
the
master
of
the
feast
put
it
off
with
this
sleight
saying
onely
,
remove
the
body
into
some
withdrawing
roome
,
and
let
it
be
buried
according
to
the
custome
of
Romans
:
but
how
God
revenged
this
and
other
his
inhumanities
,
you
may
reade
in
his
wretched
and
unlamented
death
,
in
the
former
Tractate
expressed
.
Macrinus
who
had
murdered
Antoninus
the
brother
of
Geta
,
attaining
to
the
Empire
,
when
he
had
raigned
one
yeare
,
his
head
was
cut
off
in
Calcedon
a
Citie
of
Bythinia
,
with
his
sonne
Diadumenus
,
whom
in
his
life-time
he
had
made
competitor
with
him
in
the
Empire
.
Bassianus
,
otherwise
called
Heliogabalus
,
the
sonne
of
Semiamira
,
succeeded
in
the
Empire
;
He
was
first
a
Priest
of
the
sunne
,
and
after
by
meanes
of
his
grandmother
Mesa
(
a
rich
and
potent
woman
)
was
made
Emperour
;
who
though
a
young
man
of
an
extraordinary
aspect
and
feature
,
able
to
attract
the
loves
and
affections
of
all
men
,
yet
was
he
inwardly
infected
with
the
contagion
of
all
the
vices
that
could
be
named
:
Insomuch
,
that
in
all
his
actions
he
rather
appeared
a
monster
then
a
man
,
so
that
hee
grew
not
onely
despised
,
but
hatefull
to
the
people
.
Which
the
wise
Lady
Mesa
seeing
,
and
fearing
his
fall
,
and
in
his
,
her
owne
ruine
;
as
farre
as
she
could
she
excused
his
grossest
crimes
,
laying
the
fault
upon
the
tendernesse
of
his
youth
;
and
wrought
so
,
that
by
his
consent
Alexianus
who
was
the
sonne
of
Mammea
,
her
daughter
was
admitted
companion
with
him
in
the
Empire
,
which
Alexianus
after
called
Alexander
Severus
,
was
a
wise
and
prudent
Prince
,
whose
vertue
had
gained
him
the
generall
love
of
the
Senate
and
people
;
for
which
Heliogabalus
so
envied
him
(
for
vice
and
vertue
are
still
in
opposition
)
that
he
made
many
attempts
to
poyson
him
,
which
by
the
care
of
Mesa
and
Mammea
,
were
prevented
.
But
how
was
this
envy
punished
?
The
people
seised
upon
Heliogabalus
,
with
his
mother
Semiamira
,
and
dragging
their
bodies
through
the
chiefe
streets
of
Rome
,
having
after
torne
them
piece-meale
;
would
not
affoord
them
the
honour
of
buriall
,
but
cast
their
quarters
into
the
common
jakes
,
that
stood
upon
the
river
Tiber.
Neither
have
women
beene
free
from
this
rankorous
sinne
of
Envy
,
as
Alexander
Severus
afore-named
,
all
the
time
that
his
grandmother
Mesa
lived
,
who
suffered
none
but
grave
and
wise
men
to
be
about
him
;
(
insomuch
that
no
Emperour
before
or
after
him
could
be
said
to
exceed
him
in
all
these
attributes
that
belong
to
an
Imperiall
Monarch
)
was
both
beloved
and
feared
:
But
she
being
dead
,
his
mother
Mammea
grew
to
that
height
of
pride
,
covetousnesse
,
and
envy
,
that
his
indulgent
sufferance
of
her
ambition
was
a
great
,
and
the
sole
blemish
of
his
government
,
who
comming
to
maturity
,
and
the
Empire
now
setled
in
his
owne
hands
,
he
tooke
to
wife
a
daughter
of
one
of
the
most
noblest
Senators
of
Rome
,
which
was
also
by
his
mothers
consent
:
but
when
this
Lady
came
to
take
upon
her
the
state
of
an
Empresse
,
Mammea
,
who
challenged
that
title
solely
to
her selfe
,
malitiously
envying
her
estate
;
wrought
so
,
that
first
the
father
The
French
Chronicles
speake
of
one
Prince
Cranne
,
the
sonne
of
Clotharius
,
who
having
raigned
forty
five
yeares
at
Soissons
,
now
called
the
Belgick
Gant
,
upon
the
decease
of
his
elder
brother
Childebert
,
who
died
without
issue
male
,
was
proclaimed
the
seventh
King
of
France
.
This
Cranne
(
on
whom
that
may
be
truly
construed
of
the
Poet
,
Filius
ante
diem
patrios
inquirit
in
annos
,
)
was
sicke
of
his
fathers
life
,
envying
and
grieving
that
he
kept
him
so
long
from
the
Crowne
:
but
wanting
meanes
to
make
him
away
privately
by
poyson
,
or
the
like
,
because
his
servants
about
him
were
faithfull
,
and
not
to
be
corrupted
;
he
therefore
opposed
him
by
publike
hostility
,
incensing
his
Unkle
Childebert
against
him
,
who
supported
him
in
all
his
insolencies
against
his
father
.
But
Childebert
being
dead
,
and
he
now
wanting
his
great
support
,
was
forc't
to
mediate
his
peace
with
his
father
,
who
upon
his
submission
tooke
him
to
grace
,
and
gave
him
his
free
pardon
:
But
his
former
heart
burning
envy
still
boyling
in
his
breast
,
he
fell
into
a
second
rebellion
;
yet
finding
the
successe
of
his
bad
attempts
to
grow
still
worse
and
worse
,
as
his
last
refuge
,
hee
fled
to
the
Prince
or
Duke
of
the
Brittons
,
(
whom
some
call
Conobee
,
others
Canubo
,
)
who
undertooke
to
secure
him
from
the
pursute
of
his
father
:
Whereupon
Clotharius
with
his
Army
invaded
that
Countrey
,
and
joyned
battaile
with
the
Prince
and
his
sonne
,
in
which
the
Brittons
lost
the
day
;
their
Army
was
routed
,
the
Prince
slaine
and
Cranne
taken
prisoner
,
of
whom
his
father
having
seised
,
hee
caused
him
to
be
shut
up
in
an
house
,
and
with
his
wife
and
children
to
be
burnt
to
death
;
a
just
judgement
from
heaven
,
but
a
cruell
sentence
from
a
father
;
who
that
very
day
twelve-moneth
after
died
,
being
the
one
and
fiftyeth
yeare
of
his
raigne
.
I
come
now
to
our
Moderne
Histories
.
Ferrex
and
Porrex
joyntly
succeeded
their
father
Gorboduc
in
the
governement
of
this
Land
of
Brittaine
,
in
the
yeare
of
the
World
foure
thousand
seaven
hundred
and
eleven
;
and
continued
in
love
and
amity
for
a
season
:
but
in
the
end
,
Envy
the
mother
of
all
misorder
and
mischiefe
so
farre
prevailed
with
them
,
that
the
one
began
to
maligne
the
others
estate
;
insomuch
,
that
they
both
studied
and
devised
to
supplant
each
other
,
thereby
to
gaine
the
entire
supremacy
,
which
first
brake
out
in
Porrex
,
who
gathering
an
Army
unknowne
to
his
brother
,
thought
suddenly
to
surprise
and
kill
him
:
of
which
he
having
notice
,
and
yet
not
able
for
the
present
to
provide
for
opposition
,
he
was
forced
to
fly
into
France
;
where
craving
ayde
,
he
was
supplyed
with
a
sufficient
Hoast
of
Galls
:
with
which
,
landing
in
England
,
he
gave
his
brother
Porrex
battaile
,
defeated
his
Army
,
and
slew
him
in
the
field
:
Ferrex
proud
of
his
victory
retyred
himself
to
his
Tent
,
whither
his
mother
Midan
came
by
night
,
with
some
of
her
women
;
and
being
freely
admitted
to
the
place
where
he
lay
sleeping
,
she
with
the
rest
most
cruelly
murdered
him
,
and
after
cut
his
body
into
small
pieces
,
causing
them
to
be
scattered
in
the
field
:
and
in
these
two
brothers
ended
the
line
of
Brute
.
Thus
you
see
a
most
dreadfull
judgement
against
Envy
,
as
well
in
the
vanquisht
as
the
victor
;
but
the
greatest
in
the
last
:
to
be
so
cruelly
murdered
,
rather
by
a
monster
then
a
mother
.
Morindus
was
the
bastard
sonne
of
Flavius
King
of
Brittaine
,
by
his
Concubine
Fanguestela
;
and
was
inaugurated
in
the
yeare
of
the
World
one
thousand
eight
hundred
fourescore
and
ten
,
and
made
Governour
of
the
Land
:
The
Chronicle
reports
him
to
have
beene
of
a
comely
and
beautifull
personage
,
of
liberall
gifts
,
having
an
active
body
,
and
a
most
daring
spirit
,
and
strength
withall
above
any
Peere
or
Subject
in
the
Land
;
but
as
a
grievous
staine
and
blemish
to
all
these
good
parts
and
endowments
,
hee
was
of
an
envious
condition
,
and
cruell
disposition
,
for
he
grew
jealous
of
all
such
as
either
were
great
in
wealth
,
or
gracious
in
the
Court
for
any
noble
vertue
:
for
the
first
,
hee
had
a
way
to
confiscate
their
estate
;
and
the
latter
he
so
suppressed
,
that
they
never
came
into
favour
,
or
grew
to
preferment
:
being
further
so
subject
to
wrath
,
that
whosoever
crost
or
vexed
him
,
he
would
suddenly
slay
with
his
owne
hands
.
Afterward
his
Land
being
invaded
by
a
Prince
of
Mauritania
,
he
met
him
in
battaile
,
and
chased
him
to
the
Sea
,
taking
many
prisoners
:
whom
,
to
satisfie
this
cruelty
and
tyranny
,
he
caused
to
be
put
to
death
in
his
presence
and
sight
,
with
severall
sorts
of
torments
;
by
heading
,
killing
,
hanging
,
burning
,
drowning
,
and
other
kindes
of
execution
:
but
at
the
length
(
as
testifieth
Guido
de
Columna
and
others
)
this
Morindus
whom
our
English
Chronicles
call
Morwith
,
walking
by
the
Sea
side
,
and
spying
a
dreadfull
monster
upon
the
shore
,
he
out
of
his
bold
and
Kingly
prowesse
,
assaying
to
kill
the
beast
,
after
a
long
fight
was
devoured
and
swallowed
by
the
monster
,
when
he
had
eight
yeares
governed
the
Land
;
which
was
a
most
strange
and
remarkable
Judgement
.
Envy
and
dissension
was
the
first
bondaging
of
this
our
free
and
noble
Nation
,
in
becomming
tributary
to
the
Romans
:
King
Lud
of
famous
memory
being
dead
,
during
the
minority
of
his
two
sonnes
,
Androgeus
and
Tenantius
;
Cassibelan
the
brother
to
Lud
was
made
King
in
the
yeare
of
the
World
,
five
thousand
one
hundred
forty
two
,
who
was
a
Prince
,
noble
,
bountifull
,
just
,
and
valorous
:
when
the
young
Princes
came
to
yeares
of
discretion
,
hee
gave
to
Androgeus
the
elder
the
Citie
of
London
,
with
the
Earledome
of
Kent
;
and
to
Tenantius
the
younger
,
the
Dukedome
of
Cornewall
.
In
this
season
Iulius
Caesar
being
in
the
warres
of
France
,
and
beholding
the
white
cliffes
and
rocks
by
Dover
,
demanded
of
the
Gauls
whether
it
were
inhabited
or
no
?
or
by
whom
?
being
satisfied
of
his
demand
,
hee
first
exhorted
the
Brittaines
by
writing
,
to
pay
tribute
to
the
Romans
:
to
whom
Cassibelan
returned
a
short
and
sharpe
answer
;
with
which
Caesar
much
incensed
,
makes
ready
his
Navy
and
people
:
but
when
they
should
have
landed
,
they
found
long
and
sharpe
stakes
pitcht
by
the
Brittons
,
which
put
them
to
great
trouble
and
danger
;
yet
at
length
gaining
the
shore
,
Cassibelan
with
a
strong
Army
of
Brittans
gave
them
battaile
,
and
beat
them
to
their
shippes
.
Notwithstanding
,
Caesar
soone
after
made
a
second
Invasion
,
with
a
greater
power
,
and
had
the
like
brave
repulse
,
to
his
great
dishonour
.
For
which
double
victory
Cassibelan
having
first
given
great
thankes
to
the
gods
,
assembled
his
Lords
and
Peeres
to
feast
them
;
and
held
sundry
triumphs
and
sports
:
amongst
which
,
two
young
Knights
,
one
Nephew
to
the
King
,
called
Herilda
;
and
the
other
Euelinus
,
allyed
to
Androgeus
;
made
a
challenge
for
wrastling
:
in
the
performing
of
which
exercise
they
grew
to
words
,
and
from
words
to
blowes
,
so
that
parties
were
made
,
and
in
this
tumult
Herilda
was
slaine
;
whose
death
the
King
tooke
heinously
,
and
sent
to
his
Nephew
Androgeus
,
that
Euelinus
might
be
delivered
up
,
to
know
how
he
could
acquit
himselfe
of
the
murder
;
which
Androgeus
denying
,
the
King
gave
him
to
understand
,
that
it
was
in
his
power
to
chastise
his
presumption
;
which
the
other
fearing
,
sent
to
Iulius
Caesar
,
not
onely
letters
,
but
thirty
hostages
,
(
to
assure
him
of
his
fidelity
)
that
if
hee
would
make
a
third
attempt
for
Brittaine
,
he
would
ayde
him
with
a
puissant
Army
:
of
which
Caesar
gladly
accepting
,
with
a
strong
hoast
landed
,
and
encamped
himselfe
neare
unto
Canterbury
;
of
which
when
Cassibelan
had
notice
,
he
marched
towards
him
,
and
betwixt
them
was
fought
a
strong
and
bloudy
battaile
,
where
many
were
slaine
on
either
side
,
and
the
day
likely
to
incline
to
the
Brittons
,
when
on
the
sudden
Androgeus
came
in
with
fresh
forces
,
by
which
the
wearied
Souldiers
were
compelled
to
forsake
the
field
,
and
gave
place
to
the
Romans
,
who
slew
them
without
mercy
;
so
that
Cassibelan
,
with
those
few
that
were
left
,
retired
himselfe
to
places
of
safety
.
Whose
valour
Caesar
admiring
,
would
not
prosecute
his
victory
any
further
for
the
present
,
but
offered
him
peace
,
conditionally
that
he
should
pay
a
yearely
tribute
of
three
thousand
pounds
to
the
Romans
;
which
conditions
Cassibelan
accepted
,
and
still
continued
King
;
and
Androgeus
who
had
so
basely
betrayed
his
Countrey
,
not
daring
to
trust
his
owne
Nation
,
whom
in
so
high
a
nature
he
had
injured
,
abandoned
the
Realme
,
and
went
with
Caesar.
Now
if
any
shall
aske
me
where
were
Gods
dreadfull
Judgements
in
all
this
?
I
answer
,
what
greater
,
then
for
a
free
Nation
to
lose
their
immunities
,
and
become
tributary
and
vassals
to
strangers
;
from
which
they
were
not
freed
many
hundred
yeares
after
.
Long
after
this
Constantine
was
made
King
,
and
left
three
sonnes
behinde
him
:
Constantine
the
eldest
(
because
he
was
of
a
very
milde
and
gentle
temper
,
and
no
way
addicted
to
any
martiall
exercise
)
hee
put
into
a
religious
house
,
called
Saint
Swithens
Abbey
,
and
made
him
a
Monke
:
his
two
other
sonnes
were
Aurelius
Ambrosius
,
and
Vter
,
sirnamed
Pendragon
.
But
Constantine
the
father
being
trayterously
murdered
,
one
Vortiger
,
who
then
was
the
most
potent
Peere
in
the
Land
;
tooke
Constantine
the
eldest
sonne
out
of
the
Monastery
,
and
made
him
King
onely
in
name
,
for
he
himselfe
swayed
the
government
of
the
Kingdome
,
with
all
the
power
that
belonged
to
a
Crowne
and
Scepter
.
Yet
not
with
that
contented
,
he
envied
the
state
of
the
innocent
King
;
and
though
he
had
all
the
power
,
yet
he
could
not
content
himselfe
without
the
title
;
and
therefore
placed
a
guard
of
an
hundred
Picts
and
Scots
about
the
Kings
person
,
and
having
ingrossed
into
his
hands
the
greatest
part
of
the
Kings
Treasury
,
hee
was
so
bountifull
to
those
strangers
,
that
they
feared
not
to
say
openly
that
be
better
deserved
to
be
King
then
Constantine
;
and
waiting
their
best
advantageous
opportunity
,
murdered
him
:
Whose
head
being
presented
to
Vortiger
,
then
at
London
,
he
made
much
seeming
sorrow
for
his
death
;
and
to
acquit
himselfe
of
the
act
,
caused
all
those
hundred
Knights
to
be
beheaded
:
by
which
the
people
holding
him
innocent
,
crowned
him
King
,
when
the
other
had
raigned
about
five
yeares
:
and
this
his
coronation
caused
those
that
had
the
keeping
of
the
two
younger
brothers
,
Aurelius
and
Vter
,
to
flie
with
them
into
little
Brittain
,
where
they
remained
long
after
:
but
as
a
just
reward
of
this
trayterous
supplantation
,
hee
was
never
after
in
any
peace
or
quietnesse
,
his
Land
being
alwayes
in
combustion
and
trouble
;
his
Peeres
suspecting
him
of
the
death
of
the
King
,
made
insurrection
against
him
;
insomuch
that
he
was
forced
to
sollicite
aide
of
the
Saxons
:
who
though
they
helped
him
for
the
present
;
after
,
of
his
friends
they
grew
to
be
his
enemies
,
and
were
too
mighty
for
him
:
so
that
when
he
had
raigned
in
great
molestation
and
trouble
sixteen
years
,
the
Brittaines
deprived
him
of
all
Kingly
dignity
,
and
crowned
his
eldest
sonne
Vor●imerus
in
his
stead
.
Who
when
he
had
in
many
battailes
overcome
the
Saxons
,
and
had
almost
quite
expulsed
them
the
Land
,
he
was
poysoned
by
his
stepmother
R●waine
,
when
he
had
gloriously
and
victoriously
seaven
yeares
governed
the
Land
,
and
his
father
Vortimer
was
againe
made
King
,
who
was
after
twice
taking
prisoner
by
Hengest
King
of
the
Saxons
,
and
his
Peeres
and
Nobles
cruelly
butchered
in
his
presence
.
At
length
the
two
younger
brothers
of
Constantine
invaded
the
Land
,
being
aided
by
the
distressed
Brittains
,
and
pursued
him
into
Wales
,
where
hee
and
divers
of
his
complices
fortified
themselves
in
a
strong
Castle
;
which
Castle
the
two
brothers
with
their
Army
besieged
,
and
after
many
vaine
assaults
,
(
it
being
valiantly
defended
)
with
wilde-fire
they
burned
and
consumed
the
Fort
,
together
with
Vortiger
,
and
all
his
souldiers
and
servants
.
Worthy
it
is
to
observe
by
how
many
severall
kinde
of
Judgements
this
sinne
of
Envy
hath
beene
punisht
,
as
in
the
former
examples
is
made
apparant
:
namely
,
by
the
single
sword
,
by
battaile
,
by
poysoning
,
strangling
,
heading
,
torturing
,
by
murdering
and
cutting
to
pieces
,
by
being
swallowed
up
of
monsters
;
the
living
to
be
buried
with
the
dead
,
by
famishing
in
prison
,
by
being
torne
piece-meale
,
and
the
bleeding
limbes
cast
into
common
privies
:
some
burnt
with
ordinary
fire
,
others
with
wilde-fire
;
the
brother
murdering
the
brother
,
and
the
mother
the
sonne
;
the
bondage
and
vassalling
of
Nations
,
&c.
which
sinne
,
though
for
the
commonnesse
and
familiarity
it
hath
amongst
us
,
is
scarce
minded
,
or
thought
upon
;
(
because
many
who
are
envious
may
so
hide
it
,
that
they
may
appeare
honest
withall
;
)
yet
is
this
hypocrisie
no
excuse
,
for
you
see
how
hatefull
it
is
in
the
eyes
of
the
Creator
,
by
so
many
visible
punishments
thereof
.
But
I
proceed
.
After
many
dreadfull
battailes
fought
(
and
not
without
great
effusion
of
bloud
)
betwixt
Edmund
,
sirnamed
for
his
strength
and
valour
Iron-side
,
the
sonne
of
Ethelstane
,
and
Canutus
the
sonne
of
Swanus
,
during
this
warre
betwixt
those
martiall
Princes
,
to
the
great
desolation
of
the
Realme
,
and
mortality
of
the
people
;
It
was
agreed
betwixt
the
two
Generals
to
conclude
the
difference
in
a
single
duell
:
The
place
where
this
should
be
performed
was
in
an
I
le
called
Olney
,
neare
unto
Glocester
,
incompast
with
the
water
of
the
Severne
:
In
which
place
at
the
day
appointed
both
the
Champions
met
,
without
any
company
or
assistance
;
and
both
the
hoasts
stood
as
spectators
without
the
Isle
,
there
awaiting
the
fortune
of
the
battaile
:
where
the
Princes
first
proved
one
another
with
sharpe
speares
,
and
they
being
broken
,
with
keene
cutting
swords
;
where
after
a
long
fierce
combate
,
both
being
almost
tyred
,
by
giving
and
receiving
of
hard
and
ponderous
blowes
,
at
length
(
the
first
motion
comming
from
Canutus
)
they
began
to
parle
;
and
lastly
to
accord
,
friendly
kissing
and
embracing
each
other
:
and
soone
after
,
by
the
advise
of
both
their
Counsels
,
they
made
an
equall
partition
of
the
Land
betwixt
them
;
and
during
their
naturall
lives
lived
together
,
and
loved
as
brothers
.
But
there
was
one
E●ri●us
Duke
of
Mercia
,
of
whom
my
Author
gives
this
character
:
A
man
of
base
and
low
birth
,
but
raised
by
favour
to
wealth
and
honour
;
subtile
of
wi●
,
but
false
of
turning
;
eloquent
of
speech
,
but
perfidious
both
in
thought
and
promise
;
who
in
all
his
actions
complyed
with
the
Danes
,
to
the
dammage
of
his
owne
Countrey
men
;
and
yet
with
smooth
language
,
protestations
,
and
false
oathes
,
could
fashion
his
excuse
at
his
pleasure
.
This
false
Traytor
,
in
whose
heart
the
serpent
of
envy
and
base
conspiracy
ever
burned
,
●t
length
breaking
out
into
flame
against
his
owne
Prince
Iron-side
,
(
for
what
cause
is
not
knowne
)
and
thinking
to
get
the
grace
and
favour
of
Canutus
,
he
so
awaited
his
opportunity
,
that
hee
most
treacherously
slew
his
King
and
Master
Iron-side
.
Which
done
,
thinking
thereby
to
be
greatly
exalted
,
he
poasted
in
all
haste
to
Canutus
,
shewing
him
what
he
had
done
for
his
love
;
and
saluted
him
by
the
stile
of
sole
King
of
England
:
which
,
when
the
Prince
of
Danes
had
well
understood
,
and
pondering
what
from
his
owne
mouth
he
had
confest
,
like
a
just
and
wise
Prince
,
he
answered
him
after
this
manner
;
Since
Ed●●c●s
thou
hast
(
for
the
love
thou
sayest
thou
bearest
unto
me
)
slaine
thy
naturall
Lord
and
King
,
whom
I
most
loved
,
I
shall
in
requitall
exalt
thy
head
above
all
the
Lords
(
thy
fellow
Peeres
)
of
England
,
and
forthwith
commanded
Unparalleld
was
that
piece
of
Envy
in
Fostius
,
one
of
the
sonnes
of
Earle
Goodwin
,
and
brother
to
Harold
,
after
King
;
hee
in
the
two
and
twentieth
yeare
of
the
raigne
of
Edward
the
Confessor
,
upon
some
discontent
betwixt
him
and
his
brother
Harold
,
came
with
a
company
of
Ruffins
and
rude
Pellowes
,
and
rid
downe
to
Hereford
in
the
marches
of
Wales
,
where
at
that
time
his
brothers
servants
were
very
busie
to
make
provision
for
the
entertainment
of
the
King
,
invited
thither
by
Harold
:
who
,
when
he
was
thither
come
,
most
cruelly
and
inhumanely
he
fell
upon
the
innocent
servants
,
and
●lew
them
all
;
and
after
,
cut
them
into
pieces
and
gobbets
,
which
he
put
into
sowce
and
salt
,
pickling
and
powdering
their
limbes
;
and
afterward
sent
messengers
to
the
King
and
his
brother
,
to
give
them
to
understand
,
that
if
they
brought
fresh
meate
along
with
them
,
hee
had
provided
them
of
powdered
meate
,
as
much
as
they
could
desire
.
Which
barbarous
act
being
bruited
abroad
,
it
made
him
so
hatefull
to
all
men
,
that
his
owne
tenants
and
people
,
(
men
of
Northumberland
)
the
Province
of
which
he
was
then
Lord
,
rose
up
in
Armes
against
him
,
seising
all
the
Lands
and
Goods
of
which
he
was
possest
;
and
chased
him
into
Flanders
,
with
no
more
then
one
or
two
Harold
Harfager
the
sonne
of
Canutus
,
King
of
Denmarke
and
Norway
,
invaded
the
Realme
,
Fostius
took
part
with
him
against
his
brother
Harold
,
and
in
a
dreadfull
battaile
fought
neare
Stemisford
Bridge
;
he
with
all
his
complices
and
adherents
were
miserably
cut
to
pieces
:
A
just
Judgement
suting
with
his
former
envy
,
butchery
,
and
tyranny
.
But
leaving
many
Histories
and
Examples
with
strange
inflictions
imposed
upon
this
sinne
.
I
come
to
the
later
times
,
as
low
as
to
the
raigne
of
Edward
the
sixt
:
over
whom
,
by
his
fathers
last
Will
,
for
the
time
of
his
minority
,
his
two
Unkles
the
brothers
Seymors
being
made
chiefe
Guardians
;
it
happened
that
the
two
great
Dukes
of
Northumberland
and
Suffolke
,
Dudley
and
Gray
,
much
murmured
and
maligned
that
they
should
beare
such
sway
in
the
Kingdome
:
The
one
being
Lord
Protector
,
the
other
Lord
high
Admirall
;
one
having
great
power
by
Land
,
the
other
by
Sea
,
by
which
their
glories
seemed
to
be
much
ecclipsed
:
and
finding
no
way
how
to
supplant
them
by
their
servants
,
they
took
a
newer
course
,
and
practised
it
by
their
wives
,
to
draw
their
ruines
out
of
their
owne
bosomes
;
and
thus
it
happened
.
Sir
Thomas
Seymor
the
younger
brother
being
Admirall
,
and
having
married
King
Henries
Queene
Dowager
,
(
whose
good
fortune
it
was
of
all
the
rest
to
survive
her
husband
)
she
was
suggested
to
contest
with
her
sister
in
law
,
for
priority
in
place
,
to
which
the
other
(
for
both
were
privately
incouraged
by
the
two
Dukes
)
would
no
way
assent
:
the
one
claiming
precedence
as
she
had
beene
Queene
,
the
other
challenging
it
as
she
was
now
the
Protectors
wife
.
The
wives
set
their
husbands
at
oddes
by
taking
their
parts
;
insomuch
,
that
there
grew
envy
and
heart-burning
betwixt
them
,
so
that
in
the
third
yeare
of
the
young
King
,
the
Admirall
was
questioned
about
his
Office
;
and
by
the
consent
of
his
brother
,
condemned
in
Parliament
to
have
his
head
strooke
off
,
the
Protector
with
his
owne
hand
signing
the
Warrant
for
his
death
.
The
one
brother
being
thus
removed
,
there
was
now
the
lesse
difficulty
to
supplant
the
other
:
for
in
the
same
moneth
of
February
in
which
his
brother
lost
his
head
,
was
the
Protector
by
the
Lords
of
the
Counsell
committed
to
the
Tower
;
but
about
a
yeare
after
,
by
intercession
of
the
King
,
and
his
submission
to
the
Lords
of
the
Counsell
,
upon
the
sixt
of
February
he
was
released
and
set
at
liberty
:
yet
this
proved
but
a
lightning
before
a
clap
of
thunder
.
For
the
two
Dukes
,
his
great
and
potent
adversaries
,
still
prosecuted
their
malice
;
insomuch
,
that
not
long
after
,
calling
him
to
a
second
account
,
when
he
had
nobly
acquitted
himselfe
of
all
Treasons
whatsoever
,
that
could
be
alleadged
against
him
;
He
was
in
a
tryall
at
Guild-Hall
(
not
having
a
Jewry
of
his
Peeres
)
convicted
of
Felony
;
and
in
the
first
yeare
of
the
King
,
upon
the
two
and
twentieth
day
of
Ianuary
the
great
Duke
of
Sommerset
(
the
Kings
Unkle
and
Lord
Protector
)
was
beheaded
upon
the
Tower
Hill
.
But
this
envy
in
the
two
Dukes
escaped
not
without
Gods
heavy
Judgements
;
for
after
the
Kings
death
Northumberland
having
a
large
commission
from
the
Lords
,
signed
with
the
great
Seale
of
England
,
to
raise
an
Army
to
suppresse
the
Lady
Mary
:
afterward
repenting
thereof
,
sent
a
countermand
after
him
,
and
when
he
thought
himselfe
in
most
security
,
the
Nobility
forsaking
him
,
and
the
Commons
abandoning
him
,
hee
with
his
sonnes
and
some
few
servants
in
Cambridge
were
left
alone
;
where
notwithstanding
in
the
open
Market-place
he
proclaimed
the
Lady
Mary
Queene
;
yet
in
Kings
Colledge
he
was
arrested
of
high
Treason
,
and
thence
brought
to
the
Tower
of
London
,
and
on
a
scaffold
upon
the
Hill
,
the
twelfth
day
of
August
next
following
,
lost
his
head
.
The
Duke
of
Suffolke
being
likewise
proclaimed
Traytor
,
had
a
servant
called
Vnderwood
,
whom
he
had
raised
to
a
faire
estate
,
and
therefore
to
his
trust
he
committed
his
person
;
who
for
some
moneths
concealed
him
in
an
hollow
tree
,
and
morning
and
evening
brought
him
his
food
;
with
millions
of
oaths
engaged
for
his
truth
and
fidelity
:
but
being
corrupted
with
a
small
quantity
of
gold
,
and
some
large
promises
,
he
betrayed
him
,
and
delivered
him
up
to
the
noble
Earle
of
Huntington
,
under
whose
conduct
the
Duke
with
a
strong
guard
of
speare-men
,
was
conveyed
through
London
to
the
Tower
,
and
the
seaventh
day
after
his
surprisall
he
was
arraigned
and
convicted
of
Treason
in
the
great
Hall
at
Westminster
;
and
upon
the
twenty
fourth
day
on
the
Tower
Hill
beheaded
.
In
this
relation
it
is
worthy
to
be
observed
in
those
two
great
Dukes
of
Sommerset
and
Northumberland
,
that
though
the
whole
Kingdome
could
scarce
satiate
their
ambitions
,
yet
now
a
small
piece
of
earth
contents
them
:
for
they
lie
buried
together
before
the
Altar
in
Saint
Peters
Church
in
the
Tower
betwixt
two
Queenes
,
the
wives
of
King
Henry
the
eight
,
Queene
Anne
and
Queene
Katharine
,
they
being
also
both
beheaded
.
CHAP.
III.
Gods
dreadfull
Judgements
against
Wrath.
DIverse
are
the
divisions
and
branches
of
this
sinne
of
Wrath
,
which
some
reduce
to
these
foure
heads
;
Mortall
,
Veniall
,
Capitall
,
Generall
:
It
is
then
called
Mortall
,
when
it
hath
a
desire
to
punish
,
not
to
satisfie
the
Justice
of
the
Law
,
but
its
spleene
;
or
when
through
the
vehemence
of
anger
,
it
divides
from
the
love
of
God
,
and
our
neighbour
;
or
when
it
seekes
a
severe
and
cruell
revenge
for
trifling
delinquencies
:
It
is
called
Veniall
,
when
the
motion
of
ire
doth
prevent
the
judgement
of
reason
,
but
the
consent
followeth
not
;
when
we
are
too
spleenfull
and
chollerick
within
:
or
when
the
signes
of
our
outward
indignation
too
manifestly
appeares
outwardly
.
That
which
is
called
Capitall
,
ariseth
either
from
the
heart
,
the
mouth
,
or
the
act
;
that
from
the
heart
is
rather
cal'd
indignation
,
when
him
whom
we
suppose
to
have
injur'd
us
,
we
hold
base
and
unworthy
;
and
upon
that
wee
animate
and
incourage
our
revenge
,
or
Tumor
ment●●
,
the
pride
and
haughtinesse
of
the
minde
,
by
which
he
that
is
incensed
,
is
still
devising
severall
wayes
how
to
be
avenged
,
by
which
his
fancies
are
molested
,
and
his
thoughts
much
troubled
:
That
which
ariseth
from
the
mouth
is
either
clamour
,
when
by
confused
and
inordinate
speeches
,
without
a
modest
restraint
of
the
tongue
,
we
openly
expresse
our
spleene
and
envy
:
or
blasphemy
,
when
being
vehemently
incensed
,
we
breake
into
words
which
tend
to
Gods
dishonour
:
or
contumely
,
when
being
angry
with
our
neighbour
,
we
use
slanderous
and
despightfull
language
against
him
.
In
Act
,
that
is
called
R●xa
,
which
is
rayling
and
scoulding
:
In
which
are
understood
all
the
nocuments
and
dammages
,
which
through
wrath
we
can
possibly
doe
to
our
neighbour
.
Of
the
fourth
called
Generall
,
there
be
three
species
;
Acuta
,
which
is
that
anger
which
ariseth
upon
small
or
no
occasion
at
all
;
Amara
,
or
bitter
,
when
for
an
injury
done
we
keepe
it
long
in
remembrance
;
and
stile
a
fit
opportunity
for
revenge
:
Gravis
or
Difficilis
,
when
we
never
remit
an
injury
,
till
we
satisfie
our
rage
by
punishment
.
Against
all
these
there
be
Texts
in
the
Holy
Scripture
,
Genesis
27.
21.
Therefore
Esau
hated
his
brother
Iacob
,
because
of
the
blessing
wherewith
his
father
blessed
him
:
and
Esau
thought
in
his
minde
,
the
dayes
of
mourning
will
come
,
and
then
will
I
slay
my
brother
Iacob
.
Prov.
22.
29.
Make
no
friendship
with
an
angry
man
,
neither
goe
with
the
furious
man
,
least
thou
learne
his
wayes
,
and
leave
destruction
to
thy
soule
,
29.
22.
An
angry
man
stirreth
up
strife
,
and
a
furious
man
aboundeth
in
transgression
.
Eccles.
6.
11.
Be
not
thou
of
an
hasty
spirit
to
be
angry
,
for
anger
resteth
in
the
bosome
of
fooles
.
Matth.
5.
22.
But
I
say
unto
you
,
whosoever
is
angry
with
his
brother
unadvisedly
,
shall
be
culpable
of
Iudgement
,
&c.
Ephes.
4.
31.
Let
all
bitternesse
,
and
anger
,
and
wrath
,
crying
and
evill
speaking
,
be
put
away
from
you
,
with
all
maliciousnesse
.
Coloss.
3.
8.
But
now
put
yee
away
all
these
things
,
wrath
,
anger
,
malitiousnesse
,
cursed
speaking
,
filthy
speaking
out
of
your
mouthes
.
Tim.
1.
2.
8.
I
will
therefore
that
the
men
pray
everywhere
,
lifting
up
pure
hands
without
wrath
or
doubting
.
Tit.
1.
7.
For
a
Bishop
must
be
unreproveable
,
as
Gods
steward
;
not
froward
,
not
angry
,
not
given
to
wine
,
no
striker
,
not
given
to
filthy
lucre
.
We
reade
in
the
fourth
of
Luke
,
that
when
Jesus
came
to
Nazareth
,
where
he
had
beene
brought
up
;
and
as
his
custome
was
,
went
into
the
Synagogue
on
the
Sabbath
day
,
and
stood
up
to
reade
;
at
which
divine
Sermon
it
is
said
,
Vers.
28.
Then
all
that
were
in
the
Synagogue
when
they
heard
it
,
were
filled
with
wrath
,
and
rose
up
and
thrust
him
out
of
the
City
,
and
led
him
unto
the
edge
of
the
hill
on
which
their
City
was
built
,
to
cast
him
downe
headlong
;
but
he
passed
through
the
midst
of
them
and
went
his
way
.
Many
other
Texts
are
to
this
purpose
,
to
reprove
and
condemne
wrath
and
anger
;
the
fruits
and
effects
whereof
are
for
the
most
part
manslaughter
,
murder
,
and
the
like
;
of
which
by
reason
of
their
consanguinity
and
alliance
,
I
am
tyed
to
speak
something
,
though
briefly
.
Of
Homicides
,
these
amongst
others
are
named
in
the
Scriptures
;
Cain
,
Simeon
and
Levi
,
Abimelech
,
Doeg
the
Edomite
,
Ioab
,
Baanah
and
Rechab
,
Ammon
.
Athalias
the
servants
of
Ioash
King
of
Iudah
,
who
slew
him
in
the
house
of
Millo
,
with
infinite
others
;
who
as
they
were
inhumane
in
their
practises
,
so
were
their
ends
miserable
and
abortive
,
even
all
of
them
who
have
not
truely
repented
.
But
I
come
now
to
Ethnick
Histories
;
and
first
of
them
most
forraigne
:
In
handling
of
which
,
I
will
give
you
to
begin
with
a
Catalogue
of
such
as
have
beene
most
cruell
.
Ptolomaeus
Pisco
one
of
the
Kings
of
Aegypt
,
caused
his
owne
sonne
Memphites
(
whom
he
had
begot
of
his
wife
and
sister
Cleopatra
)
to
be
slaine
,
and
then
commanded
his
head
,
hands
,
and
feet
,
to
be
cut
off
,
and
to
be
shut
in
a
curious
casket
made
for
the
purpose
,
and
sent
them
unto
her
as
a
present
on
his
birth-day
;
and
then
after
,
when
he
perceived
that
by
his
barbarous
tyranny
he
was
growne
odious
unto
all
his
subjects
,
that
he
might
the
better
oppose
the
danger
,
hee
caused
a
Schoole
(
where
most
of
the
Nobilities
children
,
with
others
,
were
doctrinated
)
to
be
beset
and
round
environed
with
swords
and
fire
,
and
so
suddenly
assaulted
them
;
that
some
by
steele
,
others
by
the
flame
,
were
all
destroyed
,
not
one
of
them
escaping
:
But
that
which
hee
thought
to
be
his
refuge
,
proved
his
ruine
.
For
the
people
were
so
much
incenst
with
this
barbarous
and
bloudy
Act
,
that
with
an
unanimous
consent
they
fell
upon
him
,
and
tore
him
in
pieces
.
The
like
(
if
not
greater
cruelty
)
was
practised
by
a
woman
,
one
Cycenis
the
daughter
of
Diogerides
,
King
of
Thrace
,
who
greatly
delighted
to
behold
living
men
cut
in
the
middle
,
and
invite
parents
to
feast
with
their
owne
murdered
children
,
cookt
and
drest
severall
wayes
;
but
she
was
after
deposed
from
her
principality
,
and
none
of
her
former
subjects
relieving
her
,
(
so
hatefull
were
her
inhumanities
)
she
was
famisht
to
death
,
and
died
of
hunger
.
Thus
Artaxerxes
caused
her
who
was
his
wife
and
mother
in
law
,
(
for
his
marriage
was
incestuous
)
to
have
her
head
parted
from
her
shoulders
,
though
nothing
worthy
death
could
be
alleadged
against
her
;
nor
did
his
tyranny
end
there
,
for
after
his
father
had
resigned
the
Kingdome
to
his
charge
,
like
an
unnaturall
paracide
,
he
caused
him
,
with
an
hundred
of
his
children
,
Nephewes
and
Kinsmen
,
to
be
cruelly
murdered
:
nor
did
hee
escape
unpunished
,
for
the
Kingdome
tyred
with
his
insolencies
,
and
the
World
weary
with
his
horrible
murders
,
made
him
in
his
death
remarkable
;
for
as
some
write
,
he
died
by
the
stroake
of
lightening
.
Vitoldus
,
Prince
of
Lituania
,
studied
divers
sorts
of
tortures
and
torments
for
men
,
upon
any
sleight
cause
condemned
to
death
,
one
of
which
,
was
,
he
would
command
them
to
be
sewed
in
Beares
skinnes
,
and
then
made
it
his
sport
to
behold
them
torne
in
pieces
with
fierce
Mastiffes
:
Moreover
in
all
his
warlike
expeditions
,
hee
had
alwayes
a
steele
bow
ready
bent
,
and
what
souldier
soever
but
stept
out
of
his
ranke
,
hee
instantly
strooke
him
dead
with
an
arrow
,
glorying
to
himselfe
that
he
was
so
good
a
marks-man
:
But
after
these
,
and
infinite
other
cruelties
,
hee
that
delighted
to
see
men
die
like
Beares
,
was
himselfe
in
the
end
torne
in
pieces
with
wilde
Wolfes
,
being
paid
in
the
like
(
though
not
in
the
same
coyne
)
which
hee
lent
to
others
.
Suiting
to
which
is
that
story
of
Perillus
,
who
hearing
that
Phalaris
the
Tyrant
over
the
Agrigentines
,
was
much
delighted
in
the
severall
wayes
of
tormenting
men
,
and
presuming
that
nothing
could
better
comply
with
his
cruelty
,
then
to
present
him
with
some
rare
and
unheard
of
machine
to
that
purpose
,
he
devised
and
forged
by
his
Art
a
brazen
Bull
,
to
open
on
the
one
side
,
and
shut
againe
at
pleasure
;
which
being
brought
to
Phalaris
,
he
demanded
of
him
the
use
for
which
it
was
made
?
who
answered
him
again
,
he
had
forged
it
to
punish
offendors
of
high
nature
;
for
(
saith
he
)
let
the
naked
body
be
put
in
at
this
doore
,
and
then
an
hot
fire
made
under
it
,
the
person
tormented
will
not
utter
the
voyce
of
a
man
,
to
put
a
telenting
commiseration
upon
you
,
but
the
sound
will
appeare
like
the
bellowing
of
a
Bull
,
to
make
it
the
lesse
terrible
;
which
Phallaris
hearing
and
grieving
in
his
ambitions
evill
,
that
any
should
offer
to
out-doe
him
in
his
cruelty
:
He
told
the
workeman
that
he
accepted
of
his
gift
,
but
commanded
withall
that
he
should
make
proofe
of
his
owne
worke
,
which
was
instantly
done
;
and
he
most
miserably
tormented
in
his
owne
engine
:
for
who
more
fit
to
taste
of
tortures
,
then
they
that
have
the
inhumanity
to
devise
them
?
and
they
by
Gods
Justice
meritedly
suffer
themselves
what
they
devise
for
others
:
of
which
O●id
speakes
thus
.
Ipse
Perillaeo
Phalaris
permisit
in
are
,
Edere
mugitus
,
&
bovis
ore
queri
.
The
purpose
this
.
All
that
the
Workeman
by
his
Art
did
gaine
,
He
in
his
owne
brasse
bellowed
out
his
paine
.
Amongst
these
bloudy
minded
men
let
me
give
you
a
taste
of
some
no
lesse
cruell
women
:
Parisatis
the
mother
of
Cyrus
Iunior
,
not
content
with
inflicting
ordinary
and
common
torments
upon
the
bodies
of
men
,
devised
with
her selfe
a
new
and
unheard
of
way
,
how
to
put
men
to
a
lingring
death
,
by
putting
wormes
unto
them
being
alive
,
and
so
to
be●d
evoured
.
And
Irene
the
Empresse
and
wife
of
Leo
the
fourth
,
caused
her
owne
sonne
Constantinus
Sextus
,
first
to
be
cast
in
prison
,
next
to
have
his
eyes
torne
out
of
his
head
,
and
lastly
to
die
in
a
dungeon
.
Fulvia
the
wife
of
Antony
,
one
of
the
Triumuirat
,
after
her
husband
had
caused
the
head
of
Marcus
Cicero
to
be
cut
off
,
he
commanded
it
to
be
brought
home
to
him
,
and
plac't
upon
his
Table
;
and
when
he
had
for
a
whole
day
glutted
his
revengefull
eyes
with
the
sight
thereof
,
he
sent
it
to
his
wife
Fulvia
;
who
no
sooner
saw
it
,
but
(
as
if
it
had
still
enjoyed
the
sence
of
hearing
)
rail'd
upon
it
with
many
bitter
and
despightfull
words
;
and
having
tyred
her selfe
with
maledictions
and
womanish
taunts
,
she
tooke
the
head
into
her
lap
,
and
calling
for
a
knife
,
she
with
her
owne
cruell
hands
cut
out
the
tongue
,
(
once
the
pride
and
glory
of
Eloquence
)
and
with
the
pinnes
from
the
tyre
of
her
head
,
prickt
it
full
of
holes
,
as
if
it
had
still
beene
sensible
of
paine
,
till
she
had
fully
●●ted
her
spleene
and
cruelty
.
Tomyris
Queene
of
the
Scythians
,
after
she
had
taken
Cyrus
King
of
Persia
in
battaile
,
when
he
was
brought
unto
her
presence
,
she
first
caused
a
great
and
large
Tombe
to
be
filled
with
the
bloud
of
his
slaine
subjects
,
and
then
commanded
his
head
to
be
cut
off
and
cast
there
in
;
which
done
,
she
tauntingly
said
,
Now
Cyrus
drinke
bloud
enough
in
thy
death
,
which
in
thy
life
time
thou
hast
so
much
thirsted
after
.
Dirce
a
Theban
woman
,
when
she
understood
that
her
husband
Lyc●s
was
inamored
of
Antiope
the
daughter
of
Nict●●s
;
in
her
pestilent
jealousie
she
caused
the
Virgine
to
be
surprised
,
and
being
in
her
power
,
she
commanded
her
to
be
first
bound
unto
the
head
of
a
wilde
Bull
,
and
then
made
fire
to
be
fastened
to
his
hornes
;
by
which
he
being
the
more
inraged
,
ran
madly
through
woods
,
and
over
rocks
,
untill
her
body
was
miserably
torne
in
pieces
.
Alike
(
if
not
more
bloudy
minded
)
was
Amos
〈…〉
the
wife
of
〈◊〉
,
〈◊〉
jealous
of
the
wife
of
Masista
;
president
over
the
Ba●●rians
,
in
his
absence
most
cruelly
butchered
her
;
causing
first
both
her
breasts
to
bee
cut
off
,
which
she
cast
to
the
dogges
to
be
eaten
;
then
her
nose
,
eares
,
lippes
,
and
tongue
to
be
throwne
into
the
fire
:
and
all
these
torments
she
endured
being
yet
alive
.
Progne
the
daughter
of
Pandion
King
of
Athens
,
having
by
her
husband
Terenus
King
of
Thrace
,
a
sweet
young
Prince
called
Itis
,
because
her
husband
had
ravished
her
sister
Philomel
,
and
cut
out
her
tongue
because
shee
should
not
reveale
the
incestious
Act
:
of
this
having
notice
,
she
in
an
unworthy
revenge
slew
her
sonne
,
whom
the
King
much
loved
;
and
having
cookt
his
limbes
with
sundry
sawces
,
she
set
them
before
his
father
,
who
eate
thereof
:
and
after
,
because
he
should
be
sensible
of
what
he
had
done
,
in
the
last
course
she
served
in
his
head
.
Tullia
the
wife
of
Tarquinus
,
sirnamed
Superbus
,
the
proud
,
and
daughter
to
Servius
,
then
King
of
the
Romans
,
when
her
father
was
by
her
consent
slaine
in
the
Capitoll
,
and
his
body
throwne
in
the
streets
;
she
riding
that
way
in
her
Chariot
,
when
the
horses
stopt
their
course
,
and
the
driver
stood
amazed
,
she
compelled
him
to
drive
over
her
fathers
body
,
with
whose
bloud
and
braines
her
coach-wheeles
were
stained
:
yet
was
shee
so
farre
from
being
daunted
,
that
she
was
said
to
rejoyce
highly
in
the
Act.
Yet
for
this
accident
,
so
hatefull
it
shewed
to
all
the
multitude
,
that
the
very
street
where
this
was
done
is
called
Vicus
sceleratus
,
the
impious
or
wicked
street
,
even
to
this
day
.
Now
if
any
shall
taxe
my
promise
in
the
title
of
this
worke
,
and
say
,
True
it
is
,
that
these
were
very
bloudy
and
cruell
women
,
and
their
horrid
Acts
worthy
both
to
be
condemned
,
and
hated
of
all
people
whatsoever
;
but
where
are
the
Judgements
,
or
what
were
the
punishments
inflicted
upon
them
?
I
answer
:
It
is
not
to
be
doubted
but
all
,
or
most
of
these
,
suffered
by
the
heavy
hand
of
God
in
this
life
,
and
that
remarkably
:
howsoever
,
the
ancient
Remembrancers
and
Chronologers
of
those
times
forgot
to
leave
the
manner
and
particular
circumstances
of
their
ends
,
in
that
to
give
the
World
a
more
full
satisfaction
.
But
howsoever
,
of
this
I
am
assured
,
that
no
greater
Judgement
can
be
imposed
upon
any
man-slayer
or
murderer
,
than
to
have
his
,
or
her
name
,
branded
to
all
posterity
.
Their
actions
,
as
they
were
prodigious
,
so
their
very
memories
are
to
be
made
hatefull
,
and
abhorrid
of
all
.
Caligula
the
Roman
Emperour
,
when
his
Grandmother
Antonia
was
dead
,
and
her
much
lamented
body
being
brought
to
the
funerall
pile
,
he
would
not
so
much
as
grace
it
with
his
presence
;
but
all
the
time
of
the
Ceremony
,
was
sporting
with
his
Jesters
and
Buffoons
in
a
summer
Parlor
:
He
slew
his
brother
Tiberius
,
and
used
his
wives
father
with
all
contempt
and
contumelies
:
He
stuprated
all
his
sisters
;
and
which
is
worse
,
(
if
worse
might
be
)
hee
after
made
them
prostitutes
to
his
Ruffians
and
Villaines
.
Ptolomaeus
the
sonne
of
Iuba
,
his
neare
Kinsman
,
and
Macro
and
Euma
his
Coadjutors
in
the
Empire
,
for
their
good
and
faithfull
service
he
caused
to
be
put
to
death
:
He
commanded
a
Questor
in
Rome
(
because
his
name
was
given
up
in
a
Conjuration
)
to
bee
stript
naked
and
openly
scourged
.
Many
of
worthy
birth
and
condition
(
for
crimes
devised
,
not
proved
against
them
)
to
branded
with
hot
irons
,
or
otherwise
marked
and
maimed
:
Some
he
confin'd
to
the
mending
of
high-wayes
;
others
,
to
labour
and
dig
in
mynes
;
and
others
he
imprisoned
like
bruit
beasts
in
Grates
and
Cages
:
some
hee
caused
to
be
sawed
in
pieces
in
the
middle
,
and
that
for
a
small
fault
,
or
none
.
When
he
punisht
the
sonnes
or
the
daughters
,
he
usually
sent
for
the
parents
to
bee
spectators
of
the
torment
;
and
when
a
father
upon
a
time
would
have
excused
himselfe
by
the
messenger
,
that
hee
was
grievously
sicke
and
could
not
come
;
hee
sent
a
bed
to
his
house
,
and
had
him
brought
thereon
.
Because
a
Comick
Poet
used
in
his
Sceane
one
doubtfull
versicle
,
which
by
a
double
construction
might
bee
wrested
to
trench
upon
the
Emperours
person
;
he
commanded
him
to
be
burnt
upon
the
very
stage
on
which
the
Dramma
was
acted
.
When
hee
had
sentenc't
a
Roman
Knight
to
be
torne
by
wilde
beasts
,
because
the
condemned
person
proclaimed
his
innocence
,
he
first
commanded
his
tongue
to
be
cut
out
,
and
then
sent
him
presently
to
be
devoured
.
Having
called
a
Nobleman
from
Exile
,
when
after
his
returne
he
came
into
his
presence
,
the
Emperour
demanded
of
him
,
What
he
and
the
rest
did
all
the
time
of
their
banishment
?
who
thinking
to
flatter
with
him
,
and
insinuate
into
his
favour
;
made
answer
,
We
continually
prayed
that
your
brother
Tiberius
might
die
,
and
your
sacred
selfe
survive
and
raigne
long
over
us
:
at
which
words
,
a
sudden
fansie
tooke
him
,
that
all
these
which
remained
in
Exile
,
desired
his
death
;
and
therefore
hee
sent
in
all
haste
to
have
them
suddenly
dispatched
out
of
their
lives
:
Besides
his
facinorous
workes
,
he
used
words
,
fierce
,
hasty
,
and
favouring
of
all
inhumanity
;
among
others
this
phrase
was
often
in
his
mouth
,
All
things
against
all
men
are
to
me
lawfull
.
When
certaine
Gauls
and
Grecians
were
together
put
to
death
,
hee
boasted
openly
,
as
of
a
great
conquest
,
saying
,
He
had
conquered
Gallogracia
.
Those
whom
he
tortured
by
degree
,
still
as
they
fainted
hee
would
have
them
comforted
with
hot
drinkes
,
to
make
them
longer
endure
their
paine
;
giving
alwayes
a
charge
to
the
tormentors
in
these
words
,
Have
yee
a
care
to
make
them
sensible
that
they
must
die
.
He
would
also
often
bragge
of
that
sentence
of
the
Tragicall
Poet
,
Oderunt
dum
metuunt
;
They
hate
whilest
they
fear
.
He
often
wished
that
all
the
people
of
Rome
had
but
one
neck
,
that
at
one
blow
with
an
axe
hee
might
cut
it
asunder
.
Hee
would
often
grieve
and
complaine
of
those
times
wherein
hee
lived
,
because
they
were
not
made
notorious
by
some
great
affliction
and
dire
calamity
or
other
,
wishing
the
slaughter
of
Armies
,
famine
,
pestilence
,
combustions
in
the
Empire
,
swallowing
of
Cities
by
earthquakes
;
and
whatsoever
all
good
men
desired
of
the
gods
might
not
chance
,
but
be
removed
from
them
:
all
these
mischiefes
and
miseries
hee
wisht
might
be
inflicted
on
them
,
not
excepting
the
security
of
his
owne
person
.
Being
at
Putcoli
at
a
solemne
annuall
dedication
made
to
the
Sea
,
where
a
multitude
of
people
were
assembled
;
he
called
and
beckoned
a
great
company
of
men
,
women
,
and
children
,
to
come
to
that
part
of
the
shore
where
he
was
seated
;
which
having
done
,
he
commanded
the
souldiers
of
his
guard
to
precipitate
them
into
the
water
;
and
those
who
catcht
hold
of
any
thing
to
save
themselves
from
drowning
,
they
with
their
speares
and
javelins
pusht
from
all
safety
,
so
that
they
all
perisht
together
.
At
a
publike
banquet
,
because
a
servant
that
waited
mistooke
the
taking
away
of
a
plate
trencher
,
he
presently
delivered
him
to
the
Hangman
to
have
his
hands
cut
off
,
and
then
the
plate
to
be
hanged
about
his
neck
,
and
to
rest
upon
his
bosome
:
then
a
scroule
in
large
letters
to
be
pasted
thereon
,
where
was
inscribed
his
fault
and
cause
of
punishment
;
and
in
that
manner
to
be
led
as
a
spectacle
to
all
the
Feasters
.
Hee
contracted
a
combat
with
a
valiant
and
strong
man
,
who
stooping
to
his
mercy
,
(
as
was
before
agreed
betwixt
them
)
he
tooke
the
advantage
,
fell
upon
him
and
slew
him
.
I
am
tyred
with
the
recicall
of
his
many
tyrannies
,
these
being
but
part
of
them
,
on
which
I
have
dwelt
the
longer
,
because
in
the
subsequent
examples
,
I
purpose
to
be
more
compen●ious
,
and
end
him
with
his
death
and
lasting
ignomi●y
,
who
was
〈◊〉
by
a
Tribune
comming
from
the
Theatre
,
his
wife
after
him
,
and
his
daughter
crushed
to
death
against
a
wall
.
Avidius
Cassius
a
barbarous
and
bloudy
fellow
,
the
Romans
called
a
second
Cateline
,
because
he
was
so
covetous
and
thirsty
after
bloud
,
for
besides
many
publike
slaughters
and
private
murders
,
striving
to
imitate
Peri●●s
,
he
invented
an
engine
of
torture
never
heard
,
or
I
thinke
,
scarce
heard
of
before
,
for
he
caused
a
beame
or
pole
(
betwixt
fourscoure
and
an
hundred
foot
in
length
)
to
be
fixed
in
the
earth
,
to
which
from
the
top
to
the
bottome
thereof
he
caused
the
living
Bodies
of
men
to
be
fastened
,
and
a
fire
of
we●●illets
and
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
and
straw
to
be
put
under
them
,
till
some
with
the
flame
consumed
,
others
with
the
smoake
suffocated
,
all
perished
to
other
,
with
which
manner
of
torture
(
borrowed
from
his
president
)
in
the
ten
Persecutions
was
used
upon
the
Christians
;
but
he
escaped
not
a
notorious
judgement
,
dying
(
as
some
have
reported
)
a
strange
and
remarkable
death
,
for
,
sitting
at
dinner
when
an
extrordinary
feast
was
served
,
whilest
his
hand
was
in
the
dish
,
and
the
meat
between
his
fingers
,
one
hired
to
that
purpose
,
(
standing
or
waiting
behinde
him
)
with
his
sword
at
one
blow
strook
off
his
head
;
and
thus
he
perished
without
any
remorse
or
penitence
in
himselfe
,
or
any
commiseration
or
pity
from
others
.
Though
I
have
spoken
of
Domitius
Nero
,
and
withall
the
judgement
in
his
death
,
yet
hear
but
megive
ye
a
brief
relation
of
his
inimitable
butcheries
,
and
execrable
murders
,
with
actions
every
way
as
prodigious
.
He
was
the
son
of
Domitius
Aenobarbus
and
Agrippina
,
who
slew
his
mother
.
He
first
married
Octaviae
,
and
then
Sabina
Poppaea
,
first
commanding
their
husbands
to
be
slain
,
and
was
the
cause
of
both
their
deaths
after
,
for
after
in
his
implacable
fury
he
had
killed
Poppaea
(
being
at
that
time
big
with
childe
)
with
a
spurne
upon
her
wombe
,
by
which
she
perished
with
her
infant
,
because
Antonia
the
daughter
of
Claudius
(
fearing
the
like
)
refused
to
marry
with
him
,
he
commanded
her
to
be
put
to
death
.
He
persecuted
the
Church
,
and
under
his
Tyranny
,
Saint
Peter
and
Saint
Paul
both
suffered
Martyrdom
.
Aulus
Plancius
a
beautifull
young
Roman
,
after
he
had
violently
and
against
his
will
stuprated
,
he
put
to
death
〈◊〉
Crispinus
his
step
son
by
the
marriage
of
Poppaea
,
a
beardlesse
youth
,
in
rage
he
made
to
be
drowned
.
Many
freed
men
when
they
came
to
the
estate
of
riches
he
cut
off
by
the
sword
.
He
pulled
out
the
eyes
of
Cassius
Longinus
an
excellent
Lawyer
or
Orator
,
and
never
made
known
the
cause
of
his
offence
.
To
P●li●hagus
,
by
Nation
an
Aegyptian
,
who
was
accustomed
to
eat
raw
flesh
,
he
gave
living
men
to
be
devoured
:
these
are
but
a
part
of
his
barbarous
inhumanities
,
who
not
throughly
sated
with
the
blood
of
men
,
sought
to
exercise
his
hate
upon
Rome
his
own
City
,
by
setting
a
great
part
of
it
on
fire
,
his
excuse
being
the
deformity
thereof
,
which
incendiary
he
beheld
from
the
Mece●●tian
Tower
,
glorying
in
the
flames
thereof
,
being
so
far
from
commanding
the
fire
to
be
extinguished
,
that
he
suffered
not
any
man
to
enter
into
his
own
house
to
save
any
part
of
his
Goods
;
and
yet
how
mercifull
was
God
in
his
judgement
,
to
punish
this
Tyrant
with
one
miserable
death
,
who
had
indeed
deserved
more
than
a
thousand
.
Creon
a
Tyrant
of
Thebes
,
besides
many
other
cruelties
,
in
which
he
exprest
a
most
bestiall
and
unmercifull
nature
,
denied
Buriall
to
all
the
dead
Bodies
of
his
Enemies
slain
in
Battell
with
others
of
his
own
Subjects
who
had
any
way
offended
him
,
whom
Theseus
after
slew
in
a
conflict
,
and
served
him
with
the
same
sauce
,
forbidding
his
dead
carcase
to
be
inhumed
or
sepulcred
,
but
thrown
out
in
the
fields
,
for
the
brute
beasts
to
feed
,
and
the
fowles
of
the
air
to
prey
on
.
Anton●●●
Commodus
one
of
the
Roman
Emperours
,
had
so
troubled
the
Empire
with
gladiatory
slaughters
,
that
the
people
in
contempt
gave
him
the
denomination
of
Gladiator
or
Fencer
.
He
(
as
Lampridius
witnesseth
)
when
he
saw
any
man
weak
or
unserviceable
by
reason
of
some
disease
in
his
feet
,
would
shoot
him
with
arrowes
to
death
,
having
a
strong
steel
Bowe
made
for
that
purpose
.
The
braines
of
others
he
used
to
beat
out
of
their
heads
with
clubs
,
and
boasted
that
therein
he
imitated
Hercules
,
to
that
purpose
putting
on
a
Lions
skin
.
He
was
also
so
irriligious
and
such
a
contemner
of
the
gods
,
that
offerings
and
sacrifice
at
the
altars
he
would
mingle
with
the
blood
and
flesh
of
men
,
and
if
any
man
shewed
either
a
smiling
or
supercilious
brow
at
what
he
did
,
(
both
were
alike
)
him
he
commanded
to
be
cast
to
the
Lions
and
other
wilde
beasts
to
be
devoured
.
One
of
his
servants
being
commanded
to
reade
unto
him
the
tyrannous
Raigne
of
Caligula
,
with
the
manner
of
his
death
,
as
it
was
set
down
in
S●etoniu●
Tranquillus
,
because
it
displeased
him
as
somewhat
reflecting
on
his
person
,
he
commanded
to
be
cast
to
the
Lions
.
If
any
man
in
his
own
hearing
or
by
the
information
of
other
,
said
he
must
die
,
he
was
precipitated
from
a
rocke
,
or
some
other
high
place
,
and
his
body
crushed
to
pieces
:
he
delighted
to
see
the
bellies
of
fat
men
ript
up
,
and
how
suddenly
their
guts
and
entrals
would
tumble
to
the
ground
.
But
the
people
after
so
great
sufferings
,
now
at
length
tired
with
his
inhumanities
,
in
the
very
height
of
his
insolencies
,
when
he
least
dreamed
of
any
such
disaster
,
caused
him
to
be
flain
;
which
though
a
violent
death
,
yet
in
all
mens
judgements
may
appear
somewhat
too
milde
for
his
merit
,
but
the
great
Judge
of
all
,
sometime
mitigates
the
punishments
of
such
grand
malefactours
here
,
to
make
their
torments
more
great
and
perdurable
in
the
world
to
come
.
The
next
I
present
to
your
view
is
Caius
Marius
the
Roman
,
who
as
he
was
of
great
power
and
potency
in
Rome
,
so
his
pride
was
boundlesse
and
unmeasured
,
but
his
inhumanity
far
exceeding
them
both
,
for
after
his
exile
,
when
he
had
again
emptied
the
City
of
all
those
whom
he
suspected
to
have
but
the
least
finger
in
his
confinement
,
by
the
assistance
of
Cinna
Carbo
and
Sertorius
he
presently
fell
upon
the
slaughters
of
the
Princes
and
Senatours
,
which
was
so
violent
that
the
channels
overflowed
with
the
blood
of
the
slain
Nobility
.
He
took
away
the
head
from
Octavius
the
Consul
,
and
caused
that
of
Octavius
a
consular
Senator
to
be
brought
and
set
upon
his
table
,
taunting
and
deriding
him
even
after
death
.
Casar
and
Fimbria
two
of
the
most
eminent
in
the
City
he
commanded
to
be
murdered
in
their
own
houses
,
breaking
them
violently
open
in
the
night
,
and
killing
them
in
their
beds
:
the
two
Crassi
the
father
and
the
son
he
flew
one
in
the
sight
of
the
other
(
the
more
to
aggravate
their
sorrow
in
their
alternate
indulgence
.
)
Bebius
and
Numitorius
he
commanded
to
be
dragged
through
the
Forum
by
the
common
hangmans
clutches
,
but
Catulus
Lactutius
by
swallowing
fire
ended
his
life
,
and
escaped
his
greater
cruelty
.
Archarius
and
Flamen
Dialis
a
priest
,
whose
office
was
sacred
and
in
great
reverence
amongst
the
Romans
,
he
commanded
to
be
through
pierced
with
swords
.
All
which
examples
of
Tyranny
he
committed
from
the
Kalends
of
January
,
to
the
Ides
of
the
same
moneth
,
but
what
heavy
judgements
God
laid
upon
him
,
you
shall
next
hear
in
the
relation
upon
Sylla
.
Which
Lucius
Sylla
made
a
deluge
and
over●●ux
of
blood
through
Rome
and
all
Italy
:
four
legions
of
the
contrary
faction
of
Marius
being
surprised
and
imploring
his
mercy
he
commanded
instantly
to
be
cut
in
pieces
:
the
Prestines
who
had
received
and
entertained
Marius
junior
into
their
City
,
after
they
had
yeelded
themselves
unto
his
mercy
,
he
put
them
out
of
the
City
,
commanding
Putilius
Cethegus
to
kill
them
every
man
without
the
wals
,
and
their
bodies
to
be
left
in
open
fields
without
buriall
,
in
which
inhumanity
perished
at
once
five
thousand
men
;
four
thousand
and
700
slain
by
strength
of
his
bloody
Edict
of
proscription
,
he
caused
their
names
to
be
registred
in
the
publike
tables
,
lest
the
memory
of
that
facinorous
act
might
be
buried
in
oblivion
:
and
not
sating
himselfe
with
the
strage
of
men
,
his
tyranny
usurped
upon
women
,
not
sparing
matron
or
virgin
,
but
he
commanded
their
heads
(
being
cut
off
)
to
be
brought
unto
him
,
that
he
might
thereby
the
better
glut
his
savage
indignation
,
and
implacable
fury
.
Marcus
Marius
the
Praetor
he
deprived
not
of
his
life
before
his
eyes
were
pulled
out
of
his
head
,
and
after
caused
all
the
bones
in
his
body
to
be
broken
.
Marcus
Pletori●s
because
being
sent
to
kill
his
enemy
Caius
Marius
,
he
was
daunted
at
his
brave
aspect
and
honourable
presence
,
and
therefore
left
the
fatall
act
unperformed
,
he
commanded
him
instantly
to
be
slain
.
Nor
did
his
malitious
rankor
and
hate
end
in
the
death
of
Marius
,
for
commanding
his
body
to
be
burnt
,
he
sprinkled
and
threw
his
ashes
into
the
river
Anien
:
after
all
which
and
many
more
his
bloody
executions
he
was
strook
by
the
hand
of
God
with
the
lowsie
disease
,
so
that
his
living
body
crawled
with
vermin
,
in
so
much
that
before
his
death
his
houshold
servants
were
almost
stifled
with
the
stench
of
his
carcase
:
such
or
the
like
are
the
terrible
judgements
of
God
,
against
these
proud
Nimrods
,
mighty
Giants
and
great
hunters
of
the
earth
,
to
day
in
their
pride
and
pontificalibus
,
glorying
in
their
oppressions
and
persecutions
,
and
to
morrow
worse
than
any
carrion
of
beast
stinking
in
the
grave
,
their
memories
being
as
hatefull
to
the
hearing
,
as
their
corrupt
putrefaction
to
the
smell
.
I
have
hitherto
spoken
of
cruell
and
bloody
Tyrants
,
let
me
treat
a
little
of
Ire
or
Wrath
it self
,
for
they
are
sinonima's
,
since
all
these
are
but
siens
growing
from
that
stocke
.
Anger
and
power
meeting
in
one
breast
are
more
violent
than
any
thunderbolt
:
wrath
and
revenge
take
from
man
the
mercy
of
God
,
destroying
and
quenching
that
Grace
which
he
hath
before-time
given
.
Anger
consisteth
in
habit
and
disposition
,
but
Ire
and
Wrath
indeed
and
effect
.
Hasty
and
froward
speeches
beget
Anger
,
Anger
being
kindled
,
begets
Wrath
,
Wrath
seeketh
greedily
after
Revenge
,
and
Revenge
is
never
satisfied
without
blood
,
which
blood
is
never
shed
without
just
vengeance
from
Heaven
,
as
may
be
made
apparant
by
many
pregnant
examples
.
For
instance
,
Cl●tarius
smothering
in
his
breast
the
seeds
of
ranker
and
malice
for
the
space
of
ten
yeares
against
Galterus
Rhothomanges
,
when
that
most
holy
day
cald
the
Parasceve
,
in
which
our
blessed
Saviour
suffered
death
for
all
mankind
,
slew
him
as
he
was
at
his
devotion
upon
his
knees
in
an
holy
Chappell
in
Paris
,
(
for
so
the
French
Chronicles
report
)
who
for
that
horrid
act
was
after
fearfully
punished
in
himselfe
and
his
issue
.
The
like
hath
often
happened
in
the
Temples
of
Italy
,
betwixt
that
imbestuous
faction
of
the
Guelfs
and
the
Gibbelines
,
who
made
no
conscience
of
person
or
place
,
but
in
the
time
of
divine
Service
have
pistolled
one
another
in
their
pewes
,
as
they
were
kneeling
at
their
prayers
,
when
the
Church
hath
been
full
of
drawn
swords
,
to
the
disturbing
of
the
whole
Congregation
,
making
no
more
reverence
of
the
place
than
a
slaughter-house
or
shambles
;
upon
whose
but
cheries
God
inflicted
such
vengeance
,
that
the
one
party
quite
destroyed
the
other
,
till
they
were
mutually
cut
off
,
and
utterly
extinguished
.
Such
is
the
irreligious
boldnesse
of
some
,
that
I
heard
a
Scotishman
of
note
(
soon
after
King
Iames
came
into
the
Land
)
speak
in
the
company
of
prime
Gentlemen
after
this
manner
,
Such
a
one
killed
my
brother
,
and
I
could
not
meet
him
in
seven
yeares
after
,
but
at
length
espying
him
in
the
Church
on
a
Sabbath-day
,
my
fury
could
not
contain
it selfe
,
but
even
where
he
sate
I
shot
him
with
my
pistoll
and
slew
him
,
and
the
arrant
puritans
(
saith
he
)
would
have
excomunicated
me
for
nothing
else
but
for
killing
him
who
had
before
killed
my
brother
.
But
though
men
make
slite
of
these
atheisticall
and
sacrilegious
butcheries
,
that
God
who
made
man
after
his
own
Image
,
and
all
men
of
one
and
the
selfesame
earth
and
clay
,
will
not
let
them
escape
his
fearfull
and
terrible
judgements
.
Neither
have
the
holy
Fathers
the
Popes
been
altogether
free
of
this
sin
of
Ire
and
implacability
,
for
we
reade
in
their
own
Chronicles
,
that
upon
the
day
when
the
Sacra
Cineritia
were
celebrated
,
that
was
upon
Ash-wednesday
,
in
which
is
used
great
solemnity
,
when
the
great
Presbiters
and
Cardinals
according
to
the
custome
came
to
kneel
to
Pope
Boniface
,
to
receive
the
ashes
,
he
took
the
ashes
and
vessell
in
which
they
were
contained
,
and
in
great
rage
flung
them
in
the
face
of
Prochetus
Archbishop
of
Genoa
,
with
whom
he
was
at
oddes
,
and
hated
him
exceedingly
,
and
changing
his
words
of
exhortation
and
benediction
,
he
violently
brake
out
into
this
language
,
Remember
O
thou
man
that
thou
art
of
the
faction
of
the
Gebelines
,
and
with
those
Gibelines
thou
shalt
die
;
for
he
was
of
that
party
,
and
enemy
to
the
Guelfs
,
whom
the
Pope
favoured
.
Stephanus
Sextus
because
Formosus
upon
his
death-bed
would
not
set
his
hand
to
his
election
,
(
who
was
Pope
before
him
)
when
he
came
to
be
instated
in
the
Papacy
,
he
commanded
him
to
be
plucked
out
of
his
sepulcher
,
and
buried
in
the
Church-yard
,
causing
his
fingers
first
to
be
cut
off
,
and
so
basely
dismembred
him
being
dead
,
for
refusing
to
subscribe
for
him
being
alive
.
With
the
like
malevolent
hatred
also
did
Sergius
the
third
prosecute
the
same
Formosus
,
who
again
commanded
his
body
to
be
taken
out
of
the
second
Grave
,
and
brought
it
into
the
Forum
or
publike
Rialto
,
when
the
head
was
cut
from
the
body
,
and
cast
into
the
river
Tiber
,
and
this
he
did
to
insinuate
into
the
favour
of
Lotharius
King
of
France
,
to
whom
Formosus
living
was
in
great
opposition
.
Divers
other
examples
of
the
like
malitious
nature
I
could
extract
out
of
their
Annals
,
and
those
remembrancers
who
have
writ
the
lives
of
the
Popes
,
which
for
brevity
sake
I
omit
,
but
am
confident
withall
,
that
these
evil
presidents
from
the
Clergy
(
whose
light
should
shine
to
others
)
have
been
a
great
encouragement
to
the
Laity
to
offend
in
the
like
,
who
for
the
most
part
paterne
their
actions
,
be
they
good
or
evill
,
by
their
teachers
and
instructers
.
Mahometes
Otomanus
the
Grand
Seignior
missing
but
two
Cucumers
out
of
his
Garden
in
his
returne
home
,
(
after
solacing
himselfe
abroad
)
he
in
his
rage
slew
two
of
his
Catamites
with
his
own
hands
,
being
young
boyes
of
choice
feature
and
beauty
.
And
Commodus
was
of
that
fiery
indignation
,
that
when
he
came
into
the
Bath
to
wash
himselfe
,
and
found
it
somewhat
more
hot
than
usuall
,
he
commanded
the
Bath-keeper
to
be
thrown
into
the
fornace
,
and
there
burnt
to
ashes
.
And
Quintus
Metellus
was
of
such
a
testy
and
cholericke
disposition
,
that
having
lived
some
yeares
as
Consul
,
and
Proconsull
in
Spain
,
when
he
heard
by
the
decree
of
the
Senate
of
Rome
,
Pompeius
whom
he
much
hated
was
to
succeed
him
in
his
command
and
soveraignty
,
his
anger
grew
so
violent
that
he
diminished
his
army
,
and
made
all
the
Magazine
of
Grain
and
provision
of
victuall
a
spoil
and
prey
to
the
souldiers
,
he
caused
all
the
Bowes
and
Arrowes
in
the
Army
to
be
broken
and
knapt
asunder
,
forbidding
the
Horses
and
Elephants
to
have
their
ordinary
and
customed
food
and
fare
,
not
leaving
him
at
his
arrivall
any
one
thing
of
any
moment
wherewith
he
might
succour
or
relieve
either
himselfe
or
his
Army
.
Pr●merus
a
domesticke
servant
of
Archelaus
King
of
Macedonia
,
with
such
an
intestine
hatred
persecuted
Euripides
,
that
one
night
he
watched
him
when
he
came
late
from
supper
with
the
King
,
and
in
the
way
let
loose
fierce
Mastiffes
upon
him
,
by
which
he
was
most
miserably
torne
to
pieces
.
Such
also
was
the
grounded
and
inveterate
hare
of
the
unanimous
people
of
Rome
to
Heliogabolus
,
that
being
dead
they
cast
his
martyred
body
into
the
common
jakes
of
the
City
with
his
mother
Semile
,
and
after
flung
them
into
the
river
Tiber
,
making
also
an
Edict
,
that
his
statues
before
erected
should
be
demolished
,
and
his
very
name
to
be
raced
out
of
all
the
monuments
of
the
City
,
willing
(
if
it
had
been
possible
)
quite
to
have
extirped
his
memory
.
They
likewise
when
the
Emperour
Michael
Paleologus
was
dead
,
denyed
unto
his
body
any
place
for
Buriall
.
Marti●s
Sabinus
much
troubled
and
in●enced
that
Hostilius
was
by
the
sufferage
of
the
people
preferred
unto
the
Crown
and
Kingdom
,
to
which
he
had
before
aspired
,
when
he
saw
his
malice
could
not
vent
it selfe
against
his
competitor
,
not
able
to
suppresse
his
implacable
indignation
,
and
not
knowing
any
meanes
to
embrew
his
hands
in
the
blood
of
his
adversary
,
he
could
not
contain
himselfe
but
shed
his
own
,
and
falling
upon
his
sword
desperately
slew
himselfe
.
Full
of
cruelty
,
(
and
savouring
no
humanity
at
all
)
was
that
wrath
and
fury
of
Septimus
Severus
,
who
having
overcome
Clodius
Sabinus
in
battail
,
and
utterly
defeated
his
Army
,
himselfe
being
taken
prisoner
,
he
commanded
that
he
should
be
transpierced
with
a
sword
and
slain
:
but
not
content
with
this
,
he
caused
his
wounded
body
to
be
stripped
naked
,
and
laid
before
his
Palace
as
a
publike
spectacle
to
all
men
,
so
that
himselfe
might
take
a
full
view
thereof
from
the
prospect
of
his
window
:
yet
could
not
all
this
satisfie
his
malitious
cruelty
,
but
further
he
commanded
a
wilde
and
untamed
jennet
to
be
brought
forth
,
to
trample
and
tread
upon
his
face
,
breast
,
belly
,
and
the
other
parts
of
his
body
,
untill
all
his
bones
were
bruised
and
broken
in
his
skin
,
and
he
disfigured
all
over
.
Nor
ended
his
fury
here
,
for
he
would
not
suffer
his
body
(
thus
mangled
and
martyred
)
to
be
taken
thence
,
till
the
stench
thereof
grew
so
noysome
to
the
place
that
it
could
be
indured
no
longer
;
and
then
lastly
,
as
a
close
to
the
rest
,
he
gave
leave
that
it
should
be
cast
into
the
river
.
This
and
the
like
prove
the
old
adage
to
be
true
,
Homo
homini
lupus
,
one
man
is
a
wolfe
to
another
:
but
I
thinke
such
fire-hearted
and
pouder-brained
men
are
worse
,
for
no
brute
beast
will
prey
upon
its
like
,
the
Lion
will
not
tyrannize
over
the
Lion
,
the
Bear
fall
upon
the
Bear
,
nor
the
Wolfe
on
the
Wolfe
,
onely
Man
who
is
sensible
and
indowed
with
reason
,
will
not
spare
his
own
similitude
and
likenesse
.
I
have
read
in
Solinus
an
approved
Authour
,
of
a
strange
fowle
or
bird
bodied
like
a
Gryphin
,
and
equall
to
it
in
bignesse
,
onely
bearing
the
face
of
a
man
;
this
ravenous
Harpy
(
for
no
more
proper
appellation
I
can
bestow
upon
it
)
above
all
other
Creatures
desires
to
make
his
prey
upon
humane
flesh
,
and
when
he
hath
slain
any
man
and
glutted
himselfe
with
his
dead
carcase
,
his
use
is
to
go
to
drinke
at
the
next
river
,
in
which
he
no
sooner
spies
his
own
face
,
but
presently
a
telenting
and
repentance
commeth
upon
him
,
sorrowing
to
have
been
the
death
of
a
Creature
of
his
own
aspect
and
countenance
,
which
taketh
in
him
such
a
sensible
and
deep
impression
,
that
after
that
time
he
wil
never
taste
the
least
food
or
sustenance
,
punishing
his
unnaturall
act
with
one
the
most
terriblest
deaths
that
can
be
invented
,
Famine
.
If
these
roysters
,
cutters
,
and
swashbucklers
,
those
bloody
minded
Canibals
(
for
they
are
no
better
in
their
brutish
condition
)
would
but
make
this
Bird
their
Embleme
,
and
consider
with
themselves
what
sorrow
and
repentance
with
a
remorse
of
conscience
waites
at
the
heeles
of
every
slaughter
and
murder
committed
,
they
would
not
be
so
forward
to
give
the
lye
,
strike
,
stab
,
nor
(
that
which
in
seeming
of
all
those
Fowle
ones
appeares
to
the
outward
view
the
fairest
)
be
so
ready
to
send
or
entertain
challenges
,
or
meetings
in
single
combats
and
duels
,
not
before
considering
,
that
he
who
fals
by
the
others
sword
in
his
rage
,
(
and
therefore
without
charity
)
there
is
great
doubt
of
his
salvation
,
and
the
conquerour
must
dearly
answer
for
his
lost
soul.
Besides
,
if
he
escape
the
justice
of
the
Law
,
the
worme
of
conscience
shall
never
leave
him
,
but
continue
him
in
perdurable
torment
.
And
now
to
such
murders
arising
from
wrath
,
their
strange
discovery
and
judgement
.
In
the
Raigne
of
Christierne
the
second
King
of
Denmarke
,
when
some
twelve
of
his
prime
Courtiers
were
making
merry
in
a
parlor
,
and
amongst
them
one
who
was
Post-master
to
the
King
,
it
happened
that
dissention
falling
amongst
them
,
upon
the
suddain
all
the
lights
(
in
the
tumult
)
were
put
out
,
and
one
amongst
them
slain
with
a
poniard
,
but
lights
at
length
brought
in
,
and
the
Body
found
murdered
and
breathlesse
,
the
King
desired
to
have
account
for
his
dead
subject
,
the
Nobles
lay
all
the
guilt
upon
this
Postmaster
,
but
the
King
with
whom
he
was
then
gracious
,
thought
it
to
be
done
of
malice
,
and
perswaded
himselfe
that
he
was
innocent
of
the
act
:
they
on
the
contrary
alledge
that
he
was
the
cause
of
that
meeting
,
that
there
had
been
a
former
grudge
and
malice
betwixt
them
,
and
moreover
,
that
when
the
lights
were
brought
in
he
was
found
next
to
the
dead
Body
,
so
that
they
desired
the
Body
to
be
laid
upon
a
table
,
and
every
one
singly
to
lay
his
hand
upon
the
naked
breast
of
the
person
murdered
,
with
a
deep
protestation
,
that
they
were
innocent
of
the
act
,
which
was
done
in
the
Kings
presence
,
and
they
came
all
by
course
according
to
the
manner
proposed
,
but
in
the
Body
was
found
no
change
or
alteration
at
all
:
at
last
came
the
Cursor
or
Postmaster
,
and
first
embracing
his
feet
,
and
with
many
teares
kissed
them
,
thinking
by
that
meanes
,
if
it
were
possible
,
to
pacific
his
just
incensed
spirit
,
and
at
length
comming
to
lay
his
hand
upon
the
breast
of
the
dead
body
,
a
double
flux
of
bloud
issued
from
his
wounds
and
nostrils
,
and
that
in
great
abundance
;
by
which
finding
himselfe
convicted
,
he
confessed
his
malitious
act
,
and
by
the
King
was
committed
to
the
common
Executioner
.
This
story
the
Lord
Henricus
Ranzovius
,
Vicar
generall
to
the
King
of
Denmarke
,
in
all
his
Dukedomes
a
man
illustrious
in
Nobility
and
Learning
,
relates
in
his
Responsory
to
the
Consulatory
of
David
Chitraus
.
Another
suiting
to
this
I
finde
related
by
Doctor
Othe
Melander
,
in
his
Iocoserni
;
who
speaks
of
a
man
,
who
through
rankor
and
hatred
had
watched
his
neighbour
till
he
had
found
meanes
by
meeting
him
in
the
thickets
and
woods
,
(
a
place
convenient
for
such
a
mischiefe
)
to
lay
violent
hands
upon
him
,
and
murder
him
;
and
after
escaped
without
the
least
suspition
of
the
fact
:
but
the
body
being
after
brought
to
the
Iizehohensian
Senate
,
they
gave
command
that
one
of
the
hands
should
be
cut
off
,
and
hanged
up
over
the
dining-table
in
the
common
Jayle
or
Prison
.
It
happened
that
the
malefactor
being
some
ten
yeares
after
committed
upon
some
delinquency
,
(
of
no
great
matter
or
moment
)
that
he
was
brought
into
the
same
roome
,
and
by
accident
when
hee
sate
downe
to
meate
,
plac't
just
under
the
hand
,
which
though
it
had
beene
withered
and
dryed
for
so
many
yeares
,
bled
freshly
,
and
dropt
upon
his
trencher
;
at
which
all
being
amazed
,
the
Gaoler
went
straight
to
informe
the
Senate
,
who
sent
to
examine
him
,
and
he
being
convinced
in
conscience
by
that
divine
prodigy
,
soone
acknowledged
himselfe
guilty
;
for
which
he
was
committed
to
the
charge
of
the
Executioner
,
and
according
to
the
custome
of
those
Countries
,
broken
upon
the
wheele
.
In
the
Diocesse
of
one
of
the
Dukedomes
of
Saxony
,
commonly
called
Gerstenauta
,
there
lived
in
one
Village
a
Shepheard
and
a
Rustick
or
Husbandman
,
who
were
of
that
antipathy
in
condition
,
that
above
all
measure
they
hated
one
another
;
and
though
neighbours
and
friends
on
both
sides
had
appointed
sundry
meetings
,
to
mitigate
and
reconcile
this
inveterate
malice
,
yet
they
found
it
unpossible
to
be
done
,
and
so
left
them
to
their
giddy
and
haire-brain'd
fury
;
which
gave
them
now
the
more
scope
and
liberty
to
insidiate
one
another
,
yet
neither
of
them
durst
attempt
their
worst
of
indignation
,
as
fearing
the
danger
of
the
Law
:
Yet
they
ceased
not
back-biting
,
slandering
,
railing
,
calumniating
openly
,
besides
private
whispering
and
murmuring
,
(
insomuch
as
in
them
lay
)
to
take
away
each
others
reputation
and
good
fame
:
and
moreover
,
to
devise
and
seeke
out
by
what
meanes
they
might
dammage
one
another
in
their
goods
,
chattels
,
or
any
other
part
of
their
estate
,
which
grew
to
such
unsufferable
height
,
that
neither
of
them
able
to
indure
their
mutuall
incumbrances
and
detriments
,
secretly
agreed
together
to
make
an
end
of
all
in
single
fight
;
for
which
they
both
prepared
themselves
against
the
day
appointed
:
The
Husband
man
provides
himselfe
of
a
good
forrest
bill
,
with
some
other
shorter
weapons
,
as
a
ponyard
or
a
dagger
,
to
speed
his
enemy
if
they
should
happen
to
close
in
the
encounter
:
The
other
causeth
a
sheephooke
to
be
made
of
a
strong
ashen
plant
,
in
the
bottome
a
pike
of
three
inches
long
,
sharpned
like
the
point
of
a
needle
,
and
to
skrew
in
and
out
at
pleasure
:
the
head
thereof
(
though
fashioned
like
a
hooke
)
was
of
massy
steele
,
yet
made
with
the
like
skrew
;
and
being
taken
off
,
there
was
another
pike
of
six
or
seaven
inches
long
,
insomuch
that
the
Smith
who
had
the
charge
of
forging
the
materials
,
greatly
wondered
for
what
use
it
was
:
Before
the
day
of
combate
came
,
newes
was
brought
to
the
other
of
this
dreadfull
weapon
,
which
●ut
him
into
a
great
affright
,
as
doubting
the
successe
of
the
conflict
;
but
though
his
courage
failed
him
,
yet
the
canker
of
his
malice
still
continued
,
and
fearing
open
hostility
,
he
began
to
fly
to
stratagems
,
and
so
devilishly
ordered
the
matter
,
that
in
the
silence
of
the
night
,
when
the
other
was
fast
sleeping
,
he
broke
into
his
Cottage
and
murdered
him
in
his
bed
;
which
done
,
providing
him
at
home
of
such
things
as
were
necessary
,
he
betooke
him
to
his
heeles
,
and
fled
into
the
Province
of
Hessia
:
The
body
being
found
,
his
suddaine
flight
might
easily
(
without
contradiction
)
confirme
who
was
the
Homicide
,
and
therefore
the
Countrey
left
off
farther
inquiry
.
He
now
concealeth
himselfe
in
a
private
house
,
unsuspected
of
any
,
thinking
himselfe
secur'd
both
from
pursuit
and
punishment
;
but
Gods
Judgements
are
nearest
when
malefactors
(
in
that
heinous
kinde
)
thinke
them
to
be
farthest
off
,
as
shall
appeare
by
the
subsequence
:
for
soone
tyred
with
the
closenesse
of
the
house
,
(
as
being
still
used
to
the
fields
,
and
liberty
of
the
fresh
aire
)
he
one
day
walking
abroad
,
happened
to
come
within
the
Toyles
,
where
the
Illustrious
Prince
of
Hesse
,
Philip
the
first
of
that
name
,
was
hunting
the
wilde
Boare
;
and
when
the
beast
(
who
was
of
an
extraordinary
magnitude
)
was
in
the
hottest
of
the
chase
,
most
fiercely
pusued
by
the
dogges
,
he
ranne
directly
against
this
Homicide
,
and
goaring
him
with
his
tusks
,
gave
him
sundry
mortiserous
and
deadly
wounds
,
and
so
left
him
as
dead
in
the
place
:
presently
the
Prince
came
in
,
and
though
not
knowing
the
party
,
in
his
great
commiseration
commanded
his
body
(
yet
breathing
)
to
be
borne
to
Hirifeldia
,
the
nearest
Towne
,
and
all
meanes
possible
to
be
provided
for
his
cure
:
but
all
was
in
vaine
,
within
two
dayes
he
died
.
In
which
time
he
confest
all
the
manner
of
his
former
murder
to
those
that
were
his
visitants
;
withall
affirming
,
that
he
saw
not
the
shape
of
any
Boare
,
but
in
him
the
right
figure
of
the
Shepheard
,
who
with
his
dreadfull
shoep-hooke
gave
him
these
lacerating
and
tormenting
wounds
:
which
misprision
of
his
is
worthy
your
observation
,
and
his
History
is
verified
by
the
fore-named
Author
,
Doctor
Oth●
Melander
.
You
may
reade
in
the
Turkish
History
,
in
the
time
of
Sir
Thomas
Glovers
being
there
Embassadour
,
that
the
same
noble
Gentleman
entertained
into
his
family
an
English-man
,
and
made
him
one
of
his
Domestick
servants
,
who
was
not
one
whom
he
brought
over
out
of
England
,
but
found
there
as
a
stranger
and
traveller
;
whom
at
his
earnest
suit
,
(
what
for
charity
,
and
what
for
Countrey-sake
)
hee
admitted
into
his
house
,
imploying
him
in
sundry
affaires
,
in
all
which
he
diligently
and
carefully
demeaned
himselfe
:
But
it
so
happened
,
that
the
Embassadours
servants
being
abroad
recreating
themselves
,
a
company
of
the
rude
and
barbarous
Turkes
gave
them
some
affront
;
in
conclusion
,
from
words
they
grew
to
blowes
,
and
so
unto
hurliburly
,
in
which
,
by
the
hurling
of
an
unfortunate
stone
,
one
of
the
Turkes
being
hit
under
the
eare
,
died
of
the
blow
:
The
Englishmen
retire
within
their
priviledge
,
and
the
Turkes
threaten
to
pull
downe
the
house
,
and
to
make
spoyle
of
all
that
was
therein
;
for
bloud
(
they
said
)
ask't
bloud
,
and
therefore
they
would
have
no
satisfaction
till
the
offender
were
delivered
into
their
hands
:
now
this
servant
late
entertained
was
not
in
the
company
,
nor
out
of
his
Lords
doores
all
that
day
:
briefly
,
because
they
said
they
knew
the
man
,
hee
was
fore't
to
cause
every
servant
of
the
house
to
shew
themselves
;
they
with
an
unanimous
voyce
clamour
That
is
he
,
That
is
he
:
who
was
the
man
that
kept
house
the
day
of
the
tumult
.
His
Lord
to
acquit
his
innocence
,
made
pretes●●tion
of
the
same
,
but
all
to
no
purpose
;
that
was
the
man
mark't
for
their
vengeance
,
and
none
else
they
would
have
;
and
so
hurried
him
away
to
prison
to
be
executed
the
next
day
:
but
the
same
night
the
Lord
Embassadors
Chaplaine
came
to
comfort
him
with
godly
instructions
for
his
soules
health
,
and
the
rather
because
of
his
knowne
innocence
.
But
to
cut
off
circumstance
,
the
prisoner
freely
confessed
unto
him
that
he
had
slaine
a
man
in
England
,
no●
〈◊〉
his
owne
defence
,
but
malitiously
,
and
fled
for
the
murder
;
where
a
〈…〉
travelling
div●re
Countries
,
he
at
length
came
into
Turkie
,
where
he
had
●o●●d
to
have
●etled
himselfe
.
Then
penetently
acknowledging
how
God
in
his
just
Judgement
had
found
him
out
in
that
remote
place
,
where
he
thought
to
have
〈◊〉
orne
his
vengeance
.
The
day
after
he
was
the
subject
of
the
Infid●●●
me●●ilesse
cruelty
,
who
hanged
him
at
the
Embassadors
gate
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
anu●
,
and
Iohannes
Budeus
report
a
strange
discourse
of
a
malicious
servant
,
whom
the
Devill
had
possest
with
his
owne
diabolicall
inhumanity
:
who
taking
a
virulent
spleene
from
some
rough
usage
by
his
master
,
watched
his
opportunity
when
he
was
absent
,
and
shut
and
barricadoed
all
the
doores
about
the
house
;
then
hee
broke
open
a
chamber
upon
his
Mistresse
,
and
when
he
had
contemptuously
and
despightfully
demeaned
himselfe
towards
her
,
hee
after
bound
her
hand
and
foot
,
and
so
left
her
groveling
upon
the
floore
:
then
he
tooke
three
young
children
(
the
eldest
not
seaven
years
old
)
and
carried
them
up
to
the
battlements
,
and
when
he
espied
his
master
comming
home
,
he
called
to
him
,
and
in
his
sight
first
precipitated
one
childe
,
and
then
another
,
from
the
top
to
the
pavement
,
where
their
bodies
were
miserably
dasht
and
shattered
to
pieces
,
and
hold
up
the
other
in
his
armes
to
doe
the
like
to
him
;
at
which
the
wretched
father
extreamely
stupefied
,
(
for
who
can
imagine
lesse
)
fell
upon
his
knees
,
and
humbly
besought
the
villaine
to
spare
the
life
of
the
third
,
and
he
would
pardon
him
for
the
deaths
of
the
former
:
to
which
the
barbarous
homicide
replyed
,
that
there
was
but
one
way
in
the
world
for
him
to
redeeme
his
life
;
the
indulgent
father
with
teares
and
intreaties
desired
to
know
what
that
way
was
?
who
presently
replyed
,
that
he
should
with
his
knife
instantly
cut
off
his
nose
,
for
there
was
no
other
ransome
for
him
:
The
passionate
father
who
dearely
tendered
the
safety
of
his
childe
,
having
now
no
other
left
,
agrees
to
the
condition
,
and
disfigured
and
dishonoured
his
face
,
according
to
the
covenant
made
betwixt
them
;
which
was
no
sooner
done
,
but
the
inhumane
butcher
framed
a
loud
and
scornefull
laughter
;
at
which
,
whilest
the
other
stood
amazed
,
the
childe
which
he
still
held
in
his
armes
,
he
●●ung
to
the
rest
,
and
then
most
desperately
cast
himself
after
,
preventing
a
worse
death
by
torment
:
and
such
was
the
end
of
this
Arch-limbe
of
his
father
the
Devill
,
and
the
fruits
of
Ire
,
Anger
,
Indignation
,
and
Malice
.
CHAP.
IV.
Gods
Judgements
against
Sloath.
SAlomon
saith
of
Sloath
,
Proverbs
19.
Vers.
15.
Sloathfulnesse
causeth
to
fall
asleepe
,
and
a
deceitfull
person
shall
be
affamished
.
And
28.
Vers.
19.
He
that
tilleth
his
land
shall
be
satisfied
with
bread
,
but
hee
that
followeth
the
Idle
shall
be
filled
with
poverty
.
Againe
,
Proverb
.
6.
6.
Goe
to
the
Pismire
,
O
sluggard
,
behold
her
wayes
,
and
be
wise
,
for
she
having
no
guide
,
governour
,
nor
ruler
,
prepareth
her
meate
in
the
summer
,
and
gathereth
her
food
in
harvest
.
How
long
wilt
thou
sleepe
O
sluggard
?
When
wilt
thou
arise
out
of
thy
sleepe
?
Yet
a
little
sleepe
,
a
little
slumber
,
a
little
foulding
the
hands
to
sleepe
:
Therefore
thy
poverty
commeth
as
one
that
travelleth
by
the
way
,
and
thy
necessity
like
an
armed
man
.
This
being
a
sinne
generally
rather
of
omission
then
commission
;
Examples
and
the
punishments
thereof
are
not
so
frequent
in
the
holy
Text
;
nor
other
Ethnick
Authors
as
those
actuall
and
in
continuall
agitation
,
yet
as
farre
as
Authentick
authority
will
give
me
leave
,
I
will
strive
to
delineate
and
expresse
it
to
the
full
;
that
being
(
howsoever
sleighted
and
unminded
)
mortiferous
and
deadly
,
and
therefore
subject
to
judgement
and
condemnation
,
it
may
be
the
more
carefully
abandoned
and
avoyded
.
Pride
,
fulnesse
of
bread
,
and
idlenesse
,
which
is
a
neglect
of
that
duty
which
belongs
to
God
,
and
a
cessation
of
that
consociety
and
converse
which
is
requisite
amongst
men
,
were
part
of
those
sinnes
which
caused
God
to
raine
down
fire
and
brimstone
upon
Sodome
and
Gomorrah
,
whose
lazinesse
and
sloath
begot
incest
,
adultery
,
and
that
most
preposterous
and
abhominable
sinne
,
since
called
(
from
the
place
)
Sodometry
.
But
I
desire
first
to
annalyse
and
distinguish
of
the
vice
,
before
I
proceed
to
further
president
.
This
fourth
head
of
the
beast
of
Hell
,
called
Accidia
or
Desidia
,
hath
a
bad
root
,
and
spreadeth
into
many
evill
branches
;
for
it
keepeth
from
beginning
well
,
and
hindereth
from
ending
well
.
It
hindereth
good
beginnings
by
six
sundry
sinnes
:
The
first
may
be
called
Faintnesse
,
which
is
,
when
a
mans
love
,
which
ought
to
be
zealous
and
servent
towards
his
Creator
and
Redeemer
,
is
cold
,
faint
,
and
weake
,
and
therefore
made
unapt
either
for
Devotion
,
or
Prayer
;
and
this
commonly
happeneth
when
he
is
backward
and
averse
to
enterprise
any
good
worke
of
piety
or
charity
.
The
second
may
be
titled
Tendernesse
,
which
is
the
very
couch
and
day-bed
on
which
the
Devill
resteth
and
reposeth
himselfe
,
still
prompting
to
the
man
or
woman
;
Thou
hast
beene
ever
tenderly
and
indulgently
brought
up
,
not
borne
to
trouble
thy selfe
with
any
toylesome
vocation
:
thou
art
moreover
of
a
weake
constitution
,
not
able
to
endure
paine
or
labour
,
much
lesse
fasting
,
or
any
needfull
chastising
of
thy
body
;
that
sighing
for
thy
sinnes
were
hurtfull
for
thine
health
,
and
weeping
for
thy
transgressions
would
in
time
spoyle
thine
eye-sight
,
with
the
like
malevolent
suggestions
;
which
aptly
comply
with
a
sentence
of
one
of
the
Fathers
,
Iustum
est
cum
Deo
,
ut
moriens
obliviscatur
sui
,
qui
vivus
,
oblitus
est
Dei
:
Most
just
it
is
with
God
,
that
such
men
should
forget
him
in
their
death
,
who
would
not
remember
him
in
their
lives
.
The
third
branch
is
Idlenesse
,
from
whence
many
evils
arise
,
as
witnesseth
the
holy
Text
:
for
when
the
old
adversary
of
mankinde
findeth
a
man
idle
in
his
duty
towards
his
Maker
,
he
then
findeth
him
imployment
in
his
owne
wicked
workes
:
first
putting
him
in
minde
to
think
of
evill
,
and
then
to
act
it
;
addicting
himselfe
wholly
to
villany
,
ribaldry
,
luxury
;
to
neglect
time
and
opportunity
,
wherein
hee
might
doe
much
good
,
and
make
his
way
towards
Heaven
:
Where
on
the
contrary
,
doing
much
evill
,
hee
prepares
his
passage
to
Hell
and
eternall
damnation
.
The
fourth
beares
the
title
of
Dulnesse
or
Heavinesse
,
when
we
solely
incline
our selves
to
drowsinesse
and
sleep
;
and
then
are
the
adversary
and
his
ministers
vigilant
and
waking
,
to
insidiate
us
in
all
our
senses
:
and
the
lesse
apt
he
findes
us
to
the
service
of
God
,
the
more
plyant
and
flexible
hee
makes
us
for
the
workes
of
Sathan
;
and
such
are
they
,
who
for
one
houres
sleep
will
neglect
comming
to
divine
Service
,
to
heare
the
word
of
God
preached
,
or
to
be
present
at
the
administration
of
the
holy
Sacraments
:
The
first
is
Refrectory
perversnesse
,
that
is
,
when
we
lie
and
snort
in
sinne
,
and
are
sensible
and
apprehensive
of
the
temptations
of
the
World
,
the
Flesh
,
and
the
Devill
,
yet
we
neither
lift
up
our
heads
nor
hearts
to
God
by
way
of
contrition
,
nor
implore
unto
him
devoutly
by
confession
,
nor
list
up
our
hands
unto
him
,
as
promising
repentance
:
like
that
obstinate
and
wilfull
prisoner
,
who
had
rather
lie
rotting
in
a
stinking
and
noysome
dungeon
,
then
take
the
paines
to
walke
up
the
staires
where
the
doores
stand
wide
open
,
to
gaine
himselfe
his
franchise
and
liberty
.
The
sixt
may
be
stiled
Pus●llanimity
;
that
is
,
when
we
dare
not
enterprise
any
pious
act
(
after
a
good
motion
)
in
a
diffidence
,
that
God
will
not
assist
us
in
the
performance
thereof
;
and
this
is
a
foolish
dread
that
some
apprehend
from
their
vaine
dreames
,
and
may
be
resembled
to
such
as
dare
not
venture
to
walke
in
such
a
path
,
because
there
the
snaile
putteth
forth
his
hornes
;
or
young
children
,
that
shun
their
way
for
the
hissing
and
gagling
of
Geefe
.
These
are
the
six
impediments
that
hinder
to
begin
well
;
there
are
six
other
quite
averse
from
ending
well
.
The
first
is
Delay
:
for
when
God
putteth
into
the
heart
of
man
to
have
an
appetite
,
or
purpose
to
doe
any
good
worke
,
or
to
repent
him
of
his
old
sinnes
,
and
prepare
himselfe
to
newnesse
of
life
:
Then
comes
the
old
Tempter
and
wispers
in
his
eare
;
What
needes
this
early
and
too
forward
beginning
?
thou
art
yet
in
thy
prime
and
strength
,
take
the
benefit
and
pleasures
of
thy
youth
:
it
is
yet
too
soone
:
Age
will
come
on
,
and
then
thou
shalt
have
leisure
,
for
when
the
delights
of
youth
forsake
thee
,
thou
shalt
in
thy
decrepit
estate
have
little
else
or
nothing
to
doe
:
thus
dallying
and
dandling
a
wretched
soule
to
it's
eternall
destruction
.
Most
true
it
is
that
God
saith
,
At
what
time
soever
a
sinner
repenteth
himselfe
of
his
wickednesse
,
he
will
blot
out
all
his
offences
;
but
he
that
made
that
promise
,
hath
not
promis'd
to
give
the
sinner
a
time
of
repentance
.
After
Delay
comes
Negligence
,
for
whosoever
maketh
doubts
and
demurres
to
turne
to
God
,
it
is
no
wonder
if
he
doe
it
feignedly
,
superficially
,
and
negligently
;
and
this
is
a
vice
generall
and
avoyded
by
few
:
for
alas
,
how
many
are
to
be
sound
that
use
care
and
diligence
in
performing
their
bounden
duty
to
God
,
and
executing
that
charity
in
which
we
are
obliged
towards
our
neighbour
.
The
third
is
Oblivion
and
Forgetfulnesse
,
and
consequent
it
is
,
that
whosoever
is
negligent
,
must
needs
be
forgetfull
;
and
both
these
hinder
us
from
a
devout
confession
of
our
sins
to
God
;
for
by
casting
a
neglect
upon
our
transgressions
and
offences
,
they
soone
slip
out
of
our
thoughts
;
and
when
we
have
occasion
to
acknowledge
them
,
and
be
sorry
for
them
,
they
are
quite
out
of
our
remembrance
,
by
which
the
soule
incurres
great
danger
of
Judgement
.
Then
followeth
Feare
or
Dread
,
which
is
a
faintnesse
of
the
heart
bred
by
evill
custome
,
which
makes
us
to
grow
in
a
distrust
of
Gods
mercy
,
and
by
that
meanes
to
incurre
the
fearefull
sinne
of
Desperation
:
of
which
,
not
onely
former
●ges
,
but
even
the
times
present
affoord
too
many
dreadfull
examples
.
And
then
there
is
a
lazy
Supini
,
which
breeds
a
diminution
and
abatement
of
all
devotion
;
and
is
a
disease
to
the
soule
,
as
a
Consumption
to
the
body
;
when
in
the
stead
of
going
on
,
we
rather
stand
still
,
or
draw
backe
;
and
this
recreance
and
defiling
,
if
not
taken
in
time
,
may
turne
to
Infidelity
and
Apostasie
;
sinnes
of
that
attrocity
and
diabolicall
nature
,
scarce
amongst
Christians
to
be
named
.
Sixely
and
lastly
,
there
is
a
Fond
Zeale
,
or
foolish
fervour
,
by
which
men
weaken
their
bodies
,
and
disable
their
spirits
by
superstitious
Vigils
and
Fasts
,
by
which
they
thinke
to
merit
Heaven
,
but
in
the
interim
fall
into
such
langor
,
malady
,
sicknesse
,
and
disease
,
that
they
make
themselves
disabled
,
either
for
the
service
of
God
,
or
following
their
owne
vocation
and
calling
;
but
of
such
I
presume
there
be
not
many
.
Sloath
is
no
better
then
the
pillow
or
bo●ster
of
the
Devill
,
the
originall
Cap.
21.
Vers.
4.
After
,
they
departed
from
the
Mount
Hor
by
the
way
of
the
red
Sea
,
to
compasse
the
land
of
Edom
;
and
the
people
were
sore
grieved
because
of
the
way
:
And
they
spake
against
God
,
and
against
Moses
,
saying
,
Wherefore
have
ye
brought
us
out
of
Aegypt
to
die
in
the
Wildernesse
?
for
here
is
neither
Bread
nor
water
,
and
our
soule
loatheth
this
light
bread
:
Wherefore
the
Lord
sent
fiery
serpents
amongst
the
people
,
which
stung
them
,
so
that
many
of
the
people
of
Israel
died
.
We
reade
further
in
the
first
of
Haggat
,
Vers.
2.
Thus
speaketh
the
Lord
of
Hosts
,
saying
,
The
people
say
the
time
is
not
yet
come
that
the
Lords
house
should
be
builded
:
Then
came
the
word
of
the
Lord
by
the
ministery
of
the
Prophet
Haggai
,
saying
,
Is
it
time
for
your selves
to
dwell
in
your
seiled
houses
,
and
this
house
lie
waste
?
Now
therefore
thus
saith
the
Lord
of
Hosts
,
Consider
your
own
wayes
in
your
hearts
;
yee
have
sowne
much
,
and
bring
in
little
yee
eate
,
but
ye
have
not
enough
:
ye
drinke
,
but
ye
are
not
filled
:
ye
cloath
ye
,
but
you
are
not
warme
:
and
he
that
earneth
wages
,
putteth
the
wages
into
a
broken
bagge
,
&c.
Come
to
the
Gospell
,
Matthew
25.
Vers
26.
And
his
Master
answered
to
him
and
said
,
Thou
evill
servant
and
floathfull
,
thou
knewest
that
I
reapt
where
I
sowed
not
,
and
gathered
where
I
strawed
not
:
thou
oughtest
therefore
to
have
put
my
money
to
the
Exchangers
,
and
then
at
my
comming
should
I
have
received
mine
owne
with
advantage
:
Take
therefore
the
talent
from
him
,
and
give
it
to
him
that
hath
ten
talents
;
for
unto
every
one
that
hath
,
it
shall
be
given
,
and
he
shall
have
abundance
:
and
from
him
that
hath
not
,
even
that
he
hath
shall
be
taken
away
;
Cast
therefore
that
unprofitable
servant
into
utter
darkenesse
,
there
shall
be
weeping
and
gnashing
of
teeth
.
This
drowsinesse
is
also
blamed
by
our
Saviour
Christ
in
his
Apostles
,
Marke
14.
37.
Then
hee
came
and
found
them
sleeping
,
and
said
to
Peter
,
Simon
,
sleepest
thou
?
couldest
thou
not
watch
one
houre
?
watch
ye
and
pray
,
that
ye
enter
not
into
temptation
.
From
Divine
,
I
come
to
Ethnick
Examples
:
Capitolinus
hath
left
remembred
unto
us
,
that
Authonius
Pius
being
Emperour
,
caused
the
roofes
and
coverings
of
all
such
houses
to
be
taken
away
,
as
were
knowne
to
receive
any
idle
people
;
affirming
that
nothing
was
more
uncomly
or
absurd
to
be
suffered
,
then
such
idle
caterpillars
and
slow-wormes
,
to
have
their
food
and
nourishment
from
that
common-weale
;
in
the
maintenance
of
which
there
was
no
supply
from
their
industry
and
labour
.
Notorious
was
the
lazinesse
and
sloath
of
Honorius
the
Emperour
,
for
where
,
as
it
is
the
custome
of
all
Princes
whatsoever
,
not
to
set
their
hand
or
seale
to
any
Briefe
,
Grant
,
or
Warrant
,
before
they
had
diligently
perused
the
contents
,
lest
perchance
they
might
doe
something
against
their
honour
and
dignity
;
yet
he
was
of
that
idle
condition
,
that
he
had
neither
the
patience
to
peruse
himselfe
,
or
to
heare
read
any
thing
(
of
what
import
soever
)
he
was
to
subscribe
:
which
his
sister
Placida
observing
,
and
willing
as
farre
as
she
durst
,
modestly
to
reprove
and
taxe
this
strange
sloathfulnes
in
him
;
she
devised
an
instrument
or
writing
,
in
which
the
Emperour
had
contracted
her
his
onely
sister
to
a
most
vile
,
sordid
,
and
contemptible
fellow
,
who
used
about
the
Court
,
and
was
generally
knowne
to
all
;
which
done
,
she
caused
that
paper
to
be
shuffled
in
amongst
many
others
upon
the
sealing
day
,
to
which
the
Emperor
set
his
hand
and
signet
:
and
the
next
morrow
she
came
and
prostrated
her selfe
to
him
,
weeping
,
and
complaining
to
him
of
her
infelicity
and
strange
disastrous
fortune
;
at
which
the
Emperour
wondring
,
demanded
the
cause
of
her
so
great
sorrow
and
heavinesse
?
to
whom
she
shewed
the
writing
,
and
his
hand
and
seale
to
confirme
it
:
at
which
being
more
amazed
,
he
made
a
great
protestation
,
that
he
never
had
any
such
thought
or
purpose
;
of
which
the
wise
and
discreet
Lady
taking
advantage
,
she
told
him
the
whole
circumstance
how
every
thing
came
about
,
and
that
it
was
her
owne
Act
;
withall
beseeching
him
(
under
pardon
)
to
avoid
the
like
or
greater
inconvenience
,
which
might
trench
upon
the
honour
and
discretion
of
his
sacred
Majesty
:
which
was
delivered
in
such
passionate
and
affectionate
language
,
that
the
Emperour
received
it
from
her
gratefully
,
and
reformed
that
errour
in
himselfe
for
ever
after
.
This
drowsie
and
snorting
sinne
,
howsoever
in
outward
appearance
it
seemes
innocuous
and
harmelesse
,
neither
dammaging
the
party
infected
therewith
,
nor
others
,
yet
hath
many
virulent
and
bitter
impendencies
,
which
alwayes
hang
over
it
,
as
may
appeare
by
History
;
tyrannizing
over
the
strong
,
and
insulting
over
the
mighty
:
For
example
,
the
invincible
Hercules
,
whom
neither
Giants
,
Savage
Beasts
,
Serpents
,
nor
Monsters
,
could
withstand
;
after
all
his
active
and
immutable
labours
,
when
hee
gave
but
the
least
way
to
sloath
and
idlenesse
,
it
brought
him
to
his
utter
ruine
and
destruction
;
who
casting
off
his
Lyons
skinne
,
and
laying
aside
his
mortiferous
club
,
with
his
fatall
shafts
and
bow
,
betook
himselfe
unto
all
effeminacie
:
insomuch
,
that
changing
his
masculine
habit
,
he
put
on
the
loose
garments
belonging
to
women
,
that
he
might
the
more
freely
insinuate
into
the
good
grace
and
favour
of
O●phale
Queene
of
the
Lydians
,
of
whom
he
was
perditly
inamoured
:
At
whose
command
he
fashioned
those
his
stubborne
and
rude
fingers
(
before
imployed
in
quelling
Tyrants
,
and
subduing
Monsters
)
to
spinne
,
card
,
and
draw
a
corse
and
untoward
thread
from
the
distaffe
;
but
what
was
the
end
of
this
sloathfull
effeminacie
?
His
chaste
wife
Dianeyra
hearing
how
strangely
he
had
lost
himselfe
,
both
in
his
person
and
reputation
of
the
world
;
thinking
to
recall
him
from
this
dull
and
sleepy
Lethargy
,
sent
him
a
shirt
for
a
present
,
(
but
ignorant
that
it
was
poysoned
)
which
hee
had
no
sooner
put
on
,
but
it
instantly
putrified
and
infected
his
body
all
over
,
cleaving
so
fast
to
his
skinne
,
that
in
striving
to
plucke
away
the
linnen
,
he
tore
the
flesh
from
the
bones
;
so
that
overcome
with
the
anguish
and
insufferable
torture
of
the
poyson
,
he
built
a
huge
pile
of
wood
which
he
had
torne
from
the
trees
that
grew
upon
Mount
Oeta
,
to
which
having
put
fire
,
it
no
sooner
grew
into
a
violent
flame
,
but
first
having
cast
in
his
club
,
and
then
his
Lyons
spoyles
,
he
afterwards
threw
himselfe
,
where
he
was
burnt
to
ashes
.
The
like
we
reade
of
the
great
Assyrian
Monarch
Sardanapalus
,
whose
brave
Predecessors
from
many
discents
,
imployed
themselves
in
warlike
expeditions
and
martiall
affaires
,
all
of
them
great
undertakers
,
and
some
mighty
Conquerours
,
insomuch
that
the
Nation
was
dreaded
throughout
the
world
;
but
this
last
and
worst
abandoning
all
masculine
vertue
,
gave
himselfe
onely
to
sloathfull
delicacy
,
luxury
,
and
base
metriculosity
,
in
that
abject
and
sordid
manner
that
laying
aside
all
that
sublimity
and
excellence
which
belongs
to
regall
Majestie
,
he
forsooke
his
virill
habit
and
ornaments
,
willing
if
it
had
beene
possible
to
have
altered
his
noble
sexe
by
putting
on
female
habit
,
and
sequestring
himselfe
from
his
martiall
Nobility
,
and
Counsellers
of
State
,
converst
,
and
had
consociety
onely
with
Whores
,
Bawdes
,
Panders
,
Eunuches
,
and
Catamites
,
insomuch
that
he
made
his
Royall
Palace
worse
then
any
Burdeile
,
or
common
Brothel-house
:
which
his
Nobles
and
Peeres
impatient
to
indure
,
when
neither
humble
intreaty
,
perswasion
,
counsell
,
nor
menaces
could
divert
him
from
his
sloath
and
idlenesse
,
they
made
an
insurrection
against
him
:
And
under
Arbactes
the
Generall
,
having
first
seised
all
the
Castles
,
and
places
of
strength
,
belonging
to
the
Empire
,
they
besieged
him
in
his
Pallace
,
profering
him
even
then
,
if
he
would
change
his
loathed
sensuality
,
they
would
likewise
alter
their
purpose
of
deposing
him
;
but
this
desperate
Devill
,
constant
in
his
ruine
,
despising
their
indulgent
proffers
,
and
preferring
his
beastly
and
abhominable
lusts
before
life
or
honour
,
whilest
they
were
yet
in
parley
,
or
before
returned
them
any
answer
,
gathered
together
all
his
Gems
,
Jewels
,
and
Treasure
,
even
his
whole
Magazine
,
which
amounted
to
an
infinite
:
Then
all
his
Prostitutes
and
Concubines
,
with
the
whole
brood
of
Brothelry
,
and
setting
fire
on
the
whole
Seragl●a
at
once
,
leapt
in
himselfe
amongst
them
;
than
which
incendiary
,
no
more
acceptable
sacrifice
could
have
beene
made
to
the
Devill
.
Moreover
,
what
greater
Conquerour
then
Iulius
Caesar
,
eterniz'd
through
all
Ages
for
his
magnanimity
and
valour
,
of
whose
brave
and
heroicke
Acts
to
give
a
full
expression
,
would
aske
a
voluminous
Chronicle
,
who
more
wakefull
,
provident
,
active
,
adventurous
,
laborious
,
industrious
?
and
never
out
of
agitation
,
till
he
had
attained
unto
that
height
of
supremacy
at
which
he
aimed
,
which
was
no
lesse
then
to
be
the
sole
Monarch
of
the
world
,
but
after
when
he
came
to
submit
himselfe
to
the
affect
of
peace
,
and
ease
,
and
was
no
longer
in
action
,
he
fell
into
many
monstrous
sinnes
,
and
horrible
and
hatefull
adulteries
:
for
thus
Suetoninus
reports
of
him
,
Hee
vitiated
and
corrupted
many
illustrious
Matrons
;
(
I
say
not
all
,
after
he
came
to
be
perpetuall
Dictator
,
which
in
effect
was
Emperour
)
but
these
are
remembred
amongst
others
;
He
stuprated
Posthumia
the
wife
of
Servius
Sisipitius
,
Lollia
the
wife
of
Aul●s
Gabinus
,
Tertullia
the
wife
of
Marcus
Crassus
and
M●●a
,
of
C●eius
Pompeius
:
divorcing
himselfe
from
his
owne
wife
,
hee
was
said
above
all
others
to
be
most
inamored
of
Servilia
the
mother
of
Marcus
Brutus
,
whose
love
he
bought
with
a
Jewell
valued
at
sixe
hundred
sexterti●
,
hee
vitiated
also
Iumia
Tertia
,
the
daughter
of
Servilia
,
and
wife
of
Marcus
Crassus
.
Hee
was
said
also
to
devote
himselfe
to
the
love
of
divers
Queenes
,
as
Euria
Maura
,
the
wife
of
King
Bogades
,
and
Cleopatra
most
amorously
above
the
rest
,
with
whom
hee
banquetted
and
rioted
night
and
day
,
from
the
Sunnes
uprising
to
his
sett
,
and
from
the
twilght
to
the
dawning
of
the
day
,
and
in
the
same
ship
and
bed
accompanied
her
through
Egypt
,
almost
to
the
Confines
of
Aethiopia
,
by
whom
hee
had
a
young
sonne
called
Caesaria
:
Hee
is
also
reckoned
amongst
the
Cinaedi
,
and
to
bee
a
Pederastes
,
that
is
,
one
abused
against
nature
;
of
which
,
with
Mamuria
Termanus
he
is
taxt
by
Catullus
:
which
aspertion
Suetonius
labours
to
acquit
him
of
,
in
these
words
,
Caesars
great
familiarity
and
bed-fellowship
,
with
Nicomedes
King
of
Bithynia
,
(
wich
was
he
with
whom
he
was
suspected
)
doth
no
way
hurt
or
blemish
the
modesty
of
Caesar
:
of
whose
bloudy
butchery
in
the
Capitoll
who
hath
not
heard
?
Thus
you
see
even
in
the
greatest
and
most
active
,
when
they
fall
into
this
Mollicies
,
and
pillowy
sluggishnesse
,
what
effects
it
workes
upon
them
,
and
what
fearefull
judgements
it
brings
upon
them
;
for
doubtlesse
there
is
scarce
a
whoredome
acted
,
or
adultery
committed
,
no
incestuous
congression
,
or
pathick
preposterous
luxury
,
in
which
this
Socordia
,
this
snaylie
and
sluggish
vice
hath
not
a
predominant
hand
.
Of
the
last
,
modesty
will
scarce
suffer
me
to
speake
,
or
almost
to
name
,
being
more
then
brutish
and
altogether
abhominable
:
And
before
I
enter
on
the
former
,
give
me
leave
to
remember
unto
you
some
few
of
these
soft
,
idle
,
and
effeminate
fellowes
,
which
merit
rather
the
names
of
Musk-cats
,
then
men
.
Augustus
Caesar
in
sundry
of
his
Epistles
written
to
Mecoenas
,
expresseth
his
tendernesse
,
softnesse
,
and
delicacy
;
but
especially
in
that
where
hee
delivereth
himselfe
to
this
purpose
:
Farewell
Mecoenas
,
the
Honey
of
Nations
,
the
Ivory
of
Etruria
,
the
Laser
of
Aretinum
,
the
Margarite
of
Tibur
,
the
Smarage
of
the
Gilneans
,
the
Jasper
,
Berill
and
Carbuncle
,
&c.
strange
Mellite
and
oily
Gnatonicall
language
,
(
being
seriously
intended
)
to
a
subject
from
so
great
and
wise
an
Emperour
:
yet
the
learned
and
grave
Seneca
calls
him
Mecoenatem
discimitum
mollicima
ejus
delicias
,
&
portentosum
orationem
:
His
dissolute
or
unguerded
Mecoenas
,
his
most
effeminate
delicacy
,
and
portentous
speech
:
who
saith
farther
of
him
,
that
he
was
able
to
give
an
excellent
example
of
the
Roman
Eloquence
,
if
too
much
felicity
and
worldly
prosperity
,
mixt
with
ease
and
idlenesse
,
had
not
mollified
and
enerved
his
spirits
.
So
also
Macrobius
and
Crinitus
both
report
of
him
.
Cai●
Duellius
after
he
had
triumpht
over
the
Carthaginians
,
and
returned
thence
a
glorious
Conquerour
,
grew
unto
that
voluptuousnesse
and
lazinesse
,
that
he
gave
himselfe
over
to
all
the
intemperances
of
lust
and
riot
;
for
if
he
went
at
any
time
by
invitation
to
banquet
or
feast
abroad
,
hee
had
a
Trumpet
or
a
Coronet
to
sound
him
to
the
place
;
and
when
the
meeting
dissolv'd
,
to
usher
him
back
to
his
owne
house
.
The
Mass●●tenses
were
with
this
lazie
luxury
so
contaminated
and
infected
,
that
they
imitated
women
in
their
habit
and
vesture
,
perfuming
their
haire
with
pretious
unguents
,
and
then
bound
up
their
lockes
with
laces
and
ribbands
:
hence
grew
a
proverbe
to
their
lasting
disgrace
,
if
any
man
was
seene
to
sp●uce
up
himselfe
too
curiously
,
they
would
say
unto
him
,
E
Massi●ia
●enisti
,
Thou
camest
but
now
from
Massilla
.
And
of
this
unmasculin'd
condition
,
were
Abram
,
Artemon
,
Clistine
,
Lysicrates
,
Argyri●●
B
〈…〉
us
,
N●arus
,
Aristodamus
,
Andramites
King
of
Lydia
,
with
infinite
others
;
perpetually
and
unto
all
posterity
made
notorious
for
their
sloath
,
and
branded
for
their
idlenesse
.
How
apt
is
plenty
and
fulnesse
of
bread
to
alter
even
the
best
natures
,
and
of
men
to
make
monsters
!
Augustus
Caesar
was
a
wise
,
discreet
,
and
well
govern'd
Prince
,
and
celebrated
for
many
rare
vertues
:
yet
it
is
related
of
him
by
Suetonius
,
Sextus
Aurelius
,
and
others
,
that
he
was
accustomed
to
lodge
nightly
with
twelve
hee
Catamites
of
the
one
side
,
and
as
many
she
Prostitutes
of
the
other
;
who
rejecting
his
wife
Scribonia
,
contracted
himselfe
to
Livia
,
who
was
glad
to
hasten
the
nuptials
,
lest
her
great
belly
should
be
discovered
:
and
though
hee
were
a
bondslave
to
lust
,
he
used
to
punish
it
in
others
with
all
severity
;
(
for
so
the
former
Authors
report
of
him
)
at
a
Feast
where
was
a
great
assembly
of
the
Patricians
,
and
Senators
with
their
wives
;
in
the
middle
of
the
service
,
betwixt
the
second
and
third
course
,
(
not
able
to
containe
himselfe
any
longer
)
he
tooke
by
the
arme
one
of
the
beautifull'st
Matrons
,
(
whose
husband
was
present
as
a
guest
)
and
led
her
into
a
with-drawing
roome
;
where
after
some
stay
he
brought
her
backe
to
her
seat
,
with
her
linnen
ruffled
and
out
of
order
,
and
a
great
flushing
in
her
face
,
which
was
palpable
to
all
there
present
.
He
is
also
said
to
have
stuprated
Tertullia
,
Terentilla
,
Drusilla
,
Salvia
,
Citiscenia
,
and
others
.
But
more
prodigious
were
the
lusts
of
his
Successor
Tiberius
,
who
according
to
Tranquillus
,
devised
a
seller
or
vault
,
which
was
as
a
schoole
of
Venery
;
and
where
all
libidinous
acts
were
practised
in
his
owne
presence
.
In
the
woods
also
he
built
venereall
Groves
,
where
prostitution
was
daily
practised
;
with
some
things
fearefull
to
be
named
.
And
as
there
were
many
prodigious
examples
of
Neroes
cruelty
,
so
there
are
also
of
his
incontinence
and
luxury
;
all
which
adde
to
his
hatefull
and
abhominable
life
,
to
make
it
the
more
infamous
,
who
most
irreligiously
committed
a
rape
upon
Rubria
,
one
of
the
vestall
Virgines
,
to
whom
it
was
held
worse
then
sacriledge
to
offer
the
least
violence
.
Hee
caused
from
the
beautifull
childe
Sporus
;
his
virill
parts
to
be
cut
away
,
indeavouring
to
have
made
him
a
woman
,
(
if
Art
could
have
done
it
;
)
and
then
to
have
married
him
,
and
so
he
did
:
from
whence
grew
a
saying
,
made
common
in
the
mouthes
of
all
,
Happy
had
it
beene
for
Rome
and
the
Empire
,
if
Neroes
mother
had
beene
such
a
wife
as
Sporus
.
Many
of
his
actions
are
too
obscene
for
modesty
to
utter
;
Hee
had
naturall
congresse
and
consociety
with
his
naturall
mother
Agrippina
;
He
caused
also
one
Doriph●●
a
freed
man
to
be
cut
like
Sporus
,
and
married
him
also
.
Thus
farre
of
him
Tranquillus
,
but
much
more
Cornelius
Tacitus
.
Caligula
incested
his
owne
sisters
,
and
prostituted
them
to
his
slaves
and
vassals
,
that
in
the
cause
of
Aemilius
they
might
be
condemned
as
adultresses
,
or
vitiated
persons
,
which
otherwise
had
gone
against
him
.
Livia
Horestilla
the
wife
of
Caius
Piso
he
violently
tooke
from
him
,
and
made
her
his
Empresse
,
but
within
two
yeares
being
tyred
with
his
new
Peere
,
he
turned
her
off
to
grazing
;
and
then
he
tooke
from
Caius
Memmius
his
wife
Lolliae
Pa●lina
,
and
in
a
short
time
repudiated
her
also
;
consining
them
both
from
marriage
,
or
to
have
consociety
with
any
man
whatsoever
.
He
was
much
inamoured
of
one
Cesonia
a
beautifull
Damsell
,
and
his
custome
was
to
his
private
friends
oft
to
shew
her
naked
.
Hee
was
said
much
to
love
Marcus
Lepidus
,
and
Marcus
Nestor
the
Pantomine
,
(
which
is
a
Buffoone
or
common
Jester
)
for
no
other
cause
,
but
onely
for
the
commerse
of
mutuall
and
alternate
brothelry
;
of
these
and
many
other
his
brutish
ribauldries
witnesseth
Suctonius
.
The
Emperour
Commodus
in
like
manner
constuperated
his
owne
naturall
sisters
,
in
the
sight
of
his
other
Paramores
and
Prostitutes
,
and
then
offered
them
to
his
friends
,
such
libidinous
wretches
as
himselfe
,
to
have
the
like
congresse
with
them
:
being
a
young
man
he
was
a
scandall
to
all
those
whom
he
made
his
companions
,
and
they
reciprocally
were
scandalized
by
being
in
his
company
:
These
with
infinite
others
of
his
licentious
irregularities
are
recorded
by
Lampridius
.
Hee
had
also
(
as
the
same
Author
testates
)
three
hundred
Concubines
of
selected
forme
and
feature
;
chosen
out
of
the
families
of
the
Senatours
and
Patritians
;
and
as
many
choice
young
men
of
sweet
aspect
and
undespised
proportion
,
taken
out
of
the
best
of
the
Nobility
;
and
with
these
hee
did
continually
riot
,
drinke
,
and
wanton
in
his
Pallace
,
where
were
used
all
immodest
postures
,
and
uncomely
gestures
,
that
the
very
Genius
of
lust
could
devise
:
so
that
his
Court
shewed
rather
a
common
stewes
,
then
the
royall
dwelling
house
and
mansion
of
a
Prince
.
Gordianus
Iunior
,
who
wore
the
Imperiall
purple
with
his
father
,
absenting
himselfe
from
all
warlike
imployment
,
lived
in
lazinesse
and
ease
,
giving
himselfe
solely
to
voluptuousnesse
and
carnall
concupiscence
,
having
at
once
two
and
twenty
Concubines
,
and
by
every
one
of
them
three
or
foure
children
at
the
least
;
for
which
by
some
he
was
called
the
Priamus
of
his
age
:
but
by
others
(
in
scorne
)
the
Priapus
.
And
Proculus
the
Emperour
in
one
expedition
,
(
besides
many
other
spoyles
)
tooke
captive
an
hundred
Sarmatian
Virgines
;
all
which
hee
boasted
not
onely
to
have
vitiated
and
deflowred
,
but
to
have
perpetrated
,
or
more
plainly
got
with
childe
,
within
fifteene
dayes
,
for
so
Flavius
Vopiscus
reports
of
him
;
as
also
Sabellicus
,
in
Exemplis
.
Heliogabalus
that
Monster
of
nature
,
gathered
together
Bawdes
,
Whores
,
Catamites
,
Pimps
,
Panders
,
Rounsevalls
,
and
Stallions
,
(
the
very
pest
and
poyson
of
a
Nation
or
People
)
even
till
they
grew
to
a
great
multitude
:
to
which
he
added
all
the
long-nos'd
vagabonds
,
and
sturdy
beggars
he
could
finde
;
for
these
they
say
have
the
greatest
inclination
to
libidinou
filthinesse
,
and
these
he
kept
together
and
maintained
at
his
great
charge
,
onely
to
satisfie
his
brutish
humour
:
Therefore
Lampridius
writing
to
the
Emperour
concerning
his
prodigious
Venery
,
useth
these
words
;
Who
can
endure
a
Prince
who
committeth
lust
in
all
the
hollowes
of
his
body
,
when
Roomes
,
Cages
,
and
Grates
,
the
receptacle
and
dennes
of
wilde
beasts
cannot
amongst
them
all
shew
a
beast
like
him
.
He
also
kept
cursors
and
messengers
,
who
had
no
other
imployment
,
but
to
ride
abroad
,
and
seek
out
for
these
Masuti
,
and
to
bring
them
to
Court
,
that
he
might
pollute
and
defile
himselfe
amongst
them
:
But
these
whose
dissolute
and
floath-infected
lives
have
growne
to
such
an
execrable
height
of
impudence
,
have
not
escaped
Gods
terrible
Judgements
by
miserable
and
tragick
ends
;
as
you
may
read
in
the
premises
,
where
I
have
had
occasion
to
speake
of
the
same
persons
,
though
to
other
purpose
.
I
will
prosecute
this
further
by
example
,
wherein
the
effects
of
this
dull
and
drowsie
vice
of
idlenesse
and
sloath
,
shall
be
better
illustrated
,
and
in
none
more
proper
then
that
of
●Egistus
and
Clitemuestra
:
for
Agamemnon
King
of
Mycena
,
(
and
brother
to
Menelaus
King
of
Sparta
,
the
husband
of
Helena
,
ravisht
thence
by
Paris
,
one
of
the
sonnes
of
King
Priam
)
being
chosen
.
Generall
of
the
Grecian
Army
,
in
that
great
expedition
against
Troy
,
for
the
rape
of
that
Spartan
Queene
:
In
his
absence
he
left
Aegistus
to
governe
his
family
,
and
mannage
his
Domesticke
affaires
,
who
lull'd
in
ease
,
and
loytring
in
idlenesse
,
and
she
a
lusty
Lady
,
and
lying
in
a
widdowed
and
forsaken
bed
,
such
familiarity
grew
betwixt
them
,
that
at
length
it
came
into
flat
adultery
;
of
whom
the
Poet
thus
ingenuously
writes
:
Quaeritur
Aegistus
,
quare
sit
factus
adulter
?
In
prompt●
causa
est
,
Desidiosus
erat
,
&c.
Aske
any
why
Aegistus
did
Faire
Clitemnestra
woe
,
'T
is
answer'd
:
he
was
idle
,
and
Had
nothing
else
to
doe
.
Now
this
Egistus
was
before
espoused
to
a
young
Lady
the
daughter
of
Phocas
Duke
of
Creophen
,
whose
bed
he
repudiated
,
and
sent
backe
to
her
father
.
For
the
love
of
this
Queene
of
Micena
,
of
whom
he
begot
a
daughter
called
Egiona
;
and
in
the
absence
of
his
Lord
and
Master
(
supported
by
the
Queene
)
tooke
upon
him
all
regall
authority
,
and
was
obeyed
as
King
.
Now
Agamemnon
had
a
young
sonne
called
Orestes
,
who
was
then
under
the
tuition
or
guardianship
of
a
worthy
Knight
called
Fultibius
,
who
fearing
lest
the
adulterer
and
the
adulteresse
might
insidiate
his
life
,
he
conveyed
him
out
of
the
Land
,
and
brought
him
to
Idomeneus
King
of
Creet
,
a
pious
and
just
Prince
,
who
undertooke
to
bring
him
up
,
educate
,
and
instruct
him
like
the
sonne
of
such
a
father
;
and
protect
him
against
all
his
enemies
whatsoever
.
Imagine
now
the
ten
yeares
warres
ended
,
Troy
sackt
and
spoyled
,
rak't
to
the
earth
,
and
quite
demolished
;
and
Agamemnon
at
his
returne
the
very
first
night
of
his
lodging
in
the
Palace
,
cruelly
murdered
in
his
bed
by
Egistus
and
the
Queene
.
By
this
time
Orestes
being
of
the
yeares
able
to
beare
Armes
,
and
having
intelligence
how
basely
his
father
was
butchered
,
and
by
whom
,
he
made
a
solemne
vow
to
avenge
his
death
upon
the
Authors
thereof
,
and
to
that
end
besought
aide
of
the
King
Idomeneus
his
foster
father
and
protector
,
who
first
made
him
Knight
,
and
furnisht
him
with
a
competent
Army
.
To
assist
whom
came
Fultibius
his
first
Guardian
,
with
all
the
forces
he
could
levy
;
as
also
Phocas
,
whose
daughter
Egistus
had
before
forsaken
:
These
sped
themselves
so
well
,
that
in
few
dayes
they
entred
the
Land
,
and
after
laid
siege
to
the
chiefe
Citie
called
Micene
,
where
the
Queen
then
lay
(
for
Aegistus
was
at
that
time
abroad
to
solicit
a●d
against
invasion
,
which
he
much
feared
)
but
finding
the
gates
shut
,
and
the
wals
manned
,
and
all
entrance
denied
,
they
made
a
fierce
assault
;
and
though
it
was
very
couragiously
and
valiantly
defended
;
yet
at
length
the
City
was
taken
,
and
the
Queen
surprised
in
the
Palace
,
who
being
brought
unto
the
presence
of
her
son
,
all
filiall
duty
set
apart
,
and
forgetting
the
name
of
mother
,
he
saluted
her
onely
by
the
title
of
Adulteresse
,
and
Murderesse
,
and
when
he
had
thundered
into
her
eares
the
horridnesse
and
trocity
of
her
crime
,
having
his
sword
drawn
in
his
hand
,
he
suddenly
transpie●●'d
her
body
,
and
left
her
dead
upon
the
pavement
,
as
an
expla●ion
or
bloody
sacrifice
to
appease
the
soul
of
his
dead
farher
.
Some
would
aggravate
the
fact
,
and
say
,
that
he
caused
her
breasts
to
be
torne
off
,
(
she
being
yet
alive
)
and
cast
to
the
dogges
to
be
eaten
,
but
that
had
been
a
cruelty
beyond
nature
,
for
a
son
to
exercise
upon
a
mother
;
now
whilest
these
things
were
in
ag●●ation
,
Aegistus
had
gathered
an
Army
for
the
raising
of
the
●●ege
,
and
reclaiming
the
City
,
of
which
Orestes
having
intelligence
,
ambu●hed
him
in
his
way
,
and
had
such
good
successe
,
that
having
incompassed
him
in
,
he
set
upon
his
Forces
,
both
before
and
behinde
,
routed
them
,
and
took
Aegistus
prisoner
,
whom
after
he
had
put
to
the
greatest
tortures
that
humane
apprehension
could
invent
or
devise
,
he
commanded
his
body
to
be
hanged
in
chaines
upon
a
gibbet
without
the
City
,
the
place
where
malefactors
were
executed
;
there
to
remain
till
it
dropped
thence
limbe
from
limbe
:
all
this
comming
to
the
ear
of
the
adulterate
brood
Esyone
,
(
who
was
said
to
have
been
accessary
to
the
death
of
Agame●nón
)
she
in
extreme
sorrow
for
the
disaster
happened
to
her
father
and
mother
,
despairing
,
strangled
her selfe
,
and
Orestes
after
he
had
more
considerately
pondered
his
cruelty
towards
his
mother
,
which
(
how
soever
just
)
had
better
to
have
come
from
any
mans
hand
than
his
own
,
and
further
,
that
in
the
mouthes
of
all
men
he
was
held
no
better
than
a
matricide
,
(
a
name
hatefull
both
to
God
and
man
)
he
upon
this
grew
into
a
great
melancholy
,
and
from
melancholy
to
madnesse
,
never
being
able
to
recover
his
senses
after
.
It
being
worthy
observation
,
what
murders
,
revenges
,
adulteries
,
divers
selfe-killings
,
and
what
not
?
arise
from
this
(
seeming
harmelesse
)
drowsie
,
and
sleepy
sin
of
i
〈…〉
enesse
;
of
which
I
will
present
you
further
with
a
strange
and
most
lamentable
story
.
Dom.
Ioannes
Gygas
postilla
suae
,
parte
secunda
,
pag.
200.
A
noble
and
vertuous
At
this
discourse
the
Nobleman
was
stupified
,
and
though
he
ever
found
her
indulgent
and
affectionate
towards
him
,
and
could
never
tax
her
of
the
least
lascivious
glance
or
incontinent
gesture
,
yet
he
remembred
that
when
his
custome
was
to
rise
early
to
hunt
,
or
hawk
,
or
to
survey
his
Parkes
and
grounds
,
he
found
her
scarce
up
or
ready
when
he
came
backe
to
break
fast
,
and
then
his
jealousie
began
to
suggest
him
that
in
that
interim
this
wickednesse
might
be
committed
;
and
so
growing
full
of
thoughts
,
he
left
her
(
the
devils
agent
)
to
attend
the
event
,
who
let
slip
no
occasion
to
prosecute
the
mischief
that
she
had
begun
,
but
finding
him
comming
early
one
morning
(
after
his
sports
)
and
knowing
her
Lady
was
then
in
bed
,
ran
presently
to
the
stable
and
called
one
of
the
Groomes
in
haste
,
and
told
him
he
must
run
suddenly
to
her
Lady
in
her
chamber
,
for
she
had
a
serious
businesse
in
which
to
imploy
him
,
which
she
did
with
such
servency
,
that
the
Groom
ran
to
the
chamber
as
if
it
had
been
for
life
and
death
,
(
and
so
indeed
it
proved
)
and
finding
his
Ladies
door
open
,
entered
:
in
which
time
she
cals
her
Lord
,
and
hastens
him
to
the
place
,
but
before
he
came
thither
,
the
Lady
spying
the
Groom
to
rush
so
suddenly
into
the
chamber
,
called
him
bold
and
saucy
varlet
,
and
(
ignorant
of
the
deceit
)
flung
bed-staves
at
his
head
,
and
not
having
the
patience
to
hear
what
he
had
to
say
for
himselfe
,
bad
him
get
him
thence
with
a
vengeance
,
whom
his
master
met
just
at
the
door
,
and
with
his
sword
ran
him
through
,
so
that
without
speaking
he
fell
dead
in
the
place
,
and
there
in
the
heat
of
fury
,
ere
she
had
the
leisure
to
aske
what
the
matter
was
,
he
as
she
lay
in
her
bed
and
without
any
question
or
answer
expected
transpierc'd
her
to
the
heart
,
whose
chaste
soul
(
no
doubt
)
mounted
unto
that
blessed
place
of
rest
to
which
her
piety
,
devotion
,
and
charity
in
her
life
time
chiefly
aymed
;
now
as
he
stood
leaning
upon
his
sword
so
lately
imbrued
in
the
bloud
of
these
two
innocents
,
having
a
thousand
chimera's
in
his
brain
,
and
her
flinty
and
obdurare
heart
mean
time
relenting
at
the
horridnesse
of
the
strage
committed
,
she
could
keep
her
own
devillish
counsell
no
longer
,
but
presently
burst
out
into
this
language
;
Alas
my
Lord
,
what
have
I
done
?
Never
was
Lady
more
chaste
or
constant
to
the
bed
and
imbraces
of
her
husband
than
she
who
here
lies
weltering
in
her
innocent
blood
,
whatsoever
I
spake
of
her
was
false
and
untrue
,
as
meerly
suggested
by
the
devill
,
and
this
I
malitiously
devised
in
revenge
of
a
blow
she
gave
meto
correct
my
〈◊〉
and
slo
〈…〉
fulnesse
,
which
not
able
in
my
ill
disposition
to
digest
;
I
,
am
onely
I
am
sole
authour
of
their
commiserated
and
much
to
be
lamented
deaths
,
which
hath
happened
more
difastrous
than
I
expected
.
This
being
so
feelingly
and
passionately
delivered
,
strooke
such
a
deep
impression
into
him
,
that
sometimes
casting
his
eye
upon
his
honest
and
faithfull
servant
,
and
then
upon
his
vertuous
and
untainted
Wife
,
being
possest
with
a
world
of
distractions
at
once
,
which
swayed
him
above
the
strength
of
nature
,
he
first
dispatched
her
of
life
,
and
after
fell
upon
his
own
sword
;
making
up
the
fourth
in
the
Tragedy
.
If
you
expect
to
hear
further
judgements
inflicted
upon
this
sin
,
every
Sessions
and
Assises
through
the
Kingdom
can
afford
presidents
sufficient
,
how
many
children
are
brought
to
the
execution
place
,
who
complain
of
their
parents
for
their
idle
and
slothfull
bringing
up
;
who
being
neither
set
to
school
,
nor
put
to
manufacture
or
trade
,
whereby
to
get
their
livings
,
have
been
found
to
filch
,
pillage
,
steal
,
and
break
houses
,
which
brings
them
at
length
to
the
Gallowes
:
what
fils
the
Bridewels
and
Correction-houses
with
so
many
rogues
and
vagabonde
;
but
idlenesse
?
what
makes
so
many
maunders
and
high-way
beggers
,
so
many
brothers
of
the
broomesta●●e
,
who
not
able
to
compasse
a
sword
or
pistoll
,
will
adventure
to
set
upon
men
and
rob
them
,
with
staves
,
bats
,
and
cudgels
?
what
makes
so
many
pimps
,
panders
,
apple-squires
,
bawdes
,
prostitutes
and
whores
(
the
very
cankers
and
impostumes
of
a
Common-weal
)
but
sloth
and
idlenesse
?
and
what
are
the
fruits
of
their
ribaldries
and
〈…〉
ries
,
but
aches
,
and
it
ches
,
●●rpegues
,
fluxes
,
rheumes
,
catarrhes
,
and
a
thousand
other
diseases
?
who
though
they
escape
the
rope
(
which
is
the
presentest
and
sudde●nest
cure
for
them
all
yet
the
best
houses
they
can
hope
to
purchase
,
are
lame
spittles
;
and
hospitals
.
I
need
not
aggravate
these
any
further
,
as
not
being
things
private
,
rare
,
or
scarce
happening
in
an
age
,
but
as
common
as
Noverint
univers●
,
for
scarce
a
monethly
Sessions
passes
here
in
the
City
,
without
hanging
and
carting
.
To
prevent
which
,
and
to
avoid
the
manifold
mischiefes
incident
,
nay
impending
over
this
sin
of
floath
and
idlenesse
,
let
every
man
and
woman
in
the
fear
of
God
apply
themselves
to
their
severall
vocations
and
callings
,
to
supply
(
as
far
as
in
them
lies
)
the
necessities
belonging
to
this
life
,
and
to
become
industrious
and
laborious
members
of
the
Church
and
Common-weal
;
and
for
the
life
to
come
,
to
take
the
counsell
of
our
Saviou
〈…〉
,
Matth.
24.
22.
Watch
therefore
,
for
you
know
not
at
what
hour
your
Master
will
come
:
of
this
be
sure
,
That
if
the
good
man
of
the
house
knew
at
what
watch
the
theefe
would
come
,
he
would
surely
watch
,
and
not
suffer
his
house
to
be
digged
through
.
This
condemneth
sleepy
floath
and
●rowfie
negligence
;
neither
is
doing
good
onely
commanded
,
but
the
negligence
and
omitting
of
doing
good
is
damnable
and
subject
to
everlasting
torment
,
as
you
may
reade
Matth.
5.
41.
Then
he
shall
say
to
them
on
the
left
hand
,
depart
from
me
ye
●ursed
into
everlasting
fire
,
which
is
prepared
for
the
devill
and
his
angels
,
for
I
was
an
hungred
and
yee
gave
me
no
m●●●
,
I
thirsted
and
ye
gave
me
no
drinke
,
I
was
a
stranger
and
ye
took
me
not
in
unto
ye
,
I
was
〈◊〉
and
ye
clothed
me
not
,
I
was
in
prison
and
ye
visited
me
not
,
and
these
are
me
sinnes
of
omission
.
Their
judgement
is
not
for
taking
away
the
bread
from
the
hungry
,
and
drinke
from
the
thirsty
,
but
for
not
supplying
them
with
such
necessities
when
they
stood
in
want
thereof
(
for
this
is
spoken
of
the
poor
members
of
Christ
)
I
conclude
with
this
sin
of
Idlenesse
thus
,
most
sure
we
shall
Reddere
rationem
,
that
is
,
answer
for
every
idle
act
,
when
we
shall
render
an
account
for
every
idle
word
.
CHAP.
V.
Gods
Iudgements
against
Covetousnesse
.
THis
Vice
is
defined
to
be
a
dishonest
and
insatiable
desire
of
having
,
which
is
superabundant
in
desiring
,
acquiring
,
and
keeping
,
but
altogether
deficient
in
parting
with
,
or
giving
:
this
inordinate
desire
of
riches
is
quite
opposite
to
Liberality
,
and
to
Justice
,
which
ought
to
distribute
suum
cuique
,
and
may
be
divided
into
these
four
Heads
,
Mortall
,
Veniall
,
Capitall
,
and
Generall
.
It
is
called
mortall
,
when
a
man
taketh
or
reteines
that
which
belongeth
to
another
man
unjustly
;
and
then
it
is
either
Theft
,
Rapine
,
Vsury
,
or
Deceit
in
buying
or
selling
,
or
else
when
we
prefer
the
inordinate
love
of
riches
before
our
love
to
God
and
our
neighbour
.
And
then
called
veniall
,
when
though
we
love
wealth
,
we
use
no
indirect
course
to
get
it
,
nor
hinder
others
by
our
illiberality
or
gripplenesse
to
keep
it
,
and
may
be
called
good
husbandry
.
It
is
capitall
,
and
so
called
,
because
it
is
the
head
of
many
other
sinnes
,
and
exceedeth
either
in
retaining
,
from
whence
ariserh
obduration
against
pity
,
which
is
also
called
inhumanity
,
or
the
unquietnesse
of
the
minde
,
which
begets
superfluous
solicitude
and
care
:
or
violence
,
when
we
take
from
others
injustly
and
by
force
:
or
fallacy
,
when
we
equivocate
in
our
bargaines
:
or
perjury
,
when
we
use
an
oath
to
confirme
it
:
or
fraud
,
when
for
gain
we
sticke
not
to
deceive
:
or
prodition
,
and
that
was
the
sin
of
Iudas
,
who
for
a
price
betrayed
his
Master
.
It
is
called
generall
,
because
of
it
there
be
many
species
,
one
specially
consists
either
in
the
defect
of
giving
,
or
the
excesse
in
the
desire
of
having
;
of
the
first
in
giving
,
he
is
called
Parcus
who
giveth
little
,
Tenax
who
gives
nothing
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
who
parts
with
that
he
gives
with
great
difficulty
.
Excesse
in
acquiring
consists
in
gaining
filthily
,
or
injustly
;
filthily
,
by
illiberall
acts
,
as
striving
to
enrich
ones
selves
by
base
,
vile
,
and
sordid
meanes
,
in
which
is
included
all
meretricall
gain
got
by
prostitution
or
panderisme
,
with
the
like
:
and
amongst
these
injustly
avaritious
,
are
numbered
,
Vsurers
guilty
of
oppression
and
extortion
,
Theeves
who
rob
either
openly
or
privately
,
spoilers
of
the
dead
,
false
Executours
,
&c.
and
Dicers
,
who
covet
to
prey
on
the
goods
of
their
friends
living
.
And
this
grand
vice
with
all
the
severall
branches
thereof
is
condemned
in
the
holy
Scriptures
,
Gen.
18.
21.
Moreover
,
provide
thou
amongst
all
the
people
,
men
of
courage
,
fearing
God
;
men
dealing
truly
,
hating
covetousnesse
,
&c.
It
is
the
tenth
Commandment
,
Thou
shalt
not
covet
thy
neigbours
house
,
neither
shalt
thou
covet
thy
neighbours
wife
.
And
Levit.
19.
11.
Ye
shall
not
steal
,
neither
deal
falsly
,
neither
lye
one
to
another
,
thou
shalt
not
do
thy
neighbour
wrong
,
nor
rob
him
.
Deut.
23.
20.
Thou
shalt
not
lend
upon
usury
to
thy
brother
,
that
the
Lord
thy
God
may
blesse
thee
in
all
that
thou
settest
thine
hand
to
,
in
the
land
whether
thou
goest
to
possesse
it
.
Iob
20.
15.
He
hath
devoured
substance
,
and
he
shall
vomit
it
,
for
God
shall
draw
it
out
of
his
belly
.
And
27.
8.
For
what
hope
hath
the
hypocrite
when
he
hath
heaped
up
riches
,
if
God
take
away
his
soul.
Psal.
62.
10.
Trust
not
in
oppression
nor
in
robbery
,
be
not
vain
,
if
riches
encrease
set
not
thine
heart
upon
them
.
Prov.
1.
19.
Such
are
the
wayes
of
every
one
that
is
greedy
of
gain
,
he
would
take
away
the
life
of
the
owners
thereof
.
Ier.
8.
10.
Therefore
will
I
give
their
wives
unto
others
,
and
their
fields
unto
them
that
shall
possesse
them
,
for
every
one
from
the
least
unto
the
greatest
is
given
unto
covetousnesse
,
and
from
the
Prophet
unto
the
Priest
every
one
dealeth
falsly
.
Ezech.
18.
7.
He
that
hath
not
oppressed
any
,
but
hath
restored
the
pledge
to
his
debtour
,
he
that
hath
spoiled
none
by
violence
,
but
hath
given
his
bread
to
the
hungry
,
and
hath
covered
the
naked
with
a
garment
,
and
hath
not
given
forth
upon
usury
,
neither
hath
taken
any
increase
,
but
hath
withdrawn
his
hand
from
iniquity
,
and
hath
executed
true
judgement
betwixt
man
and
man
,
and
hath
walked
in
my
statutes
,
and
hath
kept
my
judgements
,
to
deal
truly
,
he
is
just
,
and
shall
surely
live
,
saith
the
Lord
.
Matth.
6.
24.
No
man
can
serve
two
masters
,
for
either
he
shall
hate
the
one
and
love
the
other
,
or
else
he
shall
leane
to
the
one
and
despise
the
other
,
ye
cannot
serve
God
and
riches
.
Luke
12.
15.
Wherefore
he
said
nnto
them
,
take
heed
and
beware
of
covetousnesse
,
for
though
a
man
have
abundance
,
his
life
standeth
not
in
his
riches
.
Iohn
12.
4.
Then
said
one
of
his
Disciples
,
even
Iudas
Iscariot
Simons
son
which
should
betray
him
,
Why
was
not
this
oyntment
sold
for
three
hundred
pence
and
given
to
the
poor
?
now
he
said
this
not
that
he
cared
for
the
poor
,
but
because
he
was
a
thiefe
and
had
the
bag
,
and
bare
that
was
given
.
It
is
Radix
omnium
malorum
.
1
Tim.
6.
10.
For
the
desire
of
money
is
the
root
of
all
evill
,
which
whilest
some
lusted
after
they
erred
from
the
faith
,
and
pierced
themselves
through
with
many
sorrowes
,
for
they
that
will
be
rich
fall
into
many
temptations
and
snares
,
and
into
many
foolish
and
noysome
lusts
,
which
drown
men
in
perdition
and
destruction
.
Covetous
men
are
contemners
of
Gods
Word
,
Matth.
13.
22.
And
he
that
received
the
seed
amongst
thornes
is
he
that
heareth
the
Word
,
but
the
cares
of
the
world
,
and
the
deceitfulnesse
of
riches
choak
the
Word
,
and
he
is
made
unfruitfull
.
It
is
no
better
than
idolatry
,
Col.
3.
5.
Mortifie
therefore
your
members
which
are
on
earth
,
fornication
,
uncleannesse
,
the
inordinate
affections
,
evill
concupiscence
,
and
covetousnesse
,
which
is
idolatry
.
They
are
miserable
and
vain
,
Iob
20.
19.
He
hath
undone
many
,
he
hath
forsaken
the
poor
,
and
hath
spoiled
houses
which
he
builded
not
,
surely
he
shall
feel
no
quietnesse
in
his
body
,
neither
shall
he
reserve
of
that
which
he
desired
,
there
shall
none
of
his
meat
be
left
,
therefore
none
shall
hope
for
his
goods
,
when
he
shall
be
filled
with
his
abundance
,
he
shall
be
in
pain
,
and
the
hand
of
the
wicked
shall
assail
him
,
he
shall
be
about
to
fill
his
belly
,
but
God
shall
send
upon
him
his
fierce
wrath
,
and
shall
cause
to
rain
upon
him
,
even
upon
his
meat
,
&c.
They
are
not
capable
of
everlasting
life
,
Col.
6.
10.
Nor
thieves
,
nor
covetous
,
nor
drunkards
,
nor
railers
,
nor
extortioners
shall
inherit
the
Kingdom
of
God
.
Many
more
Texts
there
are
to
the
like
purpose
,
but
I
come
nearer
to
shew
you
examples
of
Covetousnesse
,
and
the
punishments
thereof
out
of
the
sacred
Scriptures
.
We
reade
Iosh.
7.
20.
And
Achan
answered
Ioshua
,
and
said
,
I
have
sinned
against
the
Lord
God
of
Israel
,
and
thus
and
thus
I
have
done
,
I
saw
amongst
the
spoiles
a
goodly
Babylonish
garment
,
and
two
hundred
shekels
of
silver
,
and
a
wedge
of
gold
of
fifty
shekels
weight
,
and
I
covered
them
,
and
behold
,
they
lie
hid
in
the
earth
,
in
the
midst
of
my
tent
,
and
the
silver
under
it
.
It
followeth
,
Verse
24.
Then
Ioshua
took
Achan
the
son
of
Zerah
,
and
the
silver
,
and
the
garment
,
and
the
wedge
of
gold
,
and
his
sonnes
,
and
his
daughters
,
and
his
oxen
,
and
his
asses
,
and
his
sheep
,
and
his
tents
,
and
all
that
he
had
,
and
all
Israel
with
him
brought
them
to
the
valley
of
Achor
:
and
Ioshua
said
,
in
asmuch
as
thou
hast
troubled
us
,
the
Lord
shall
trouble
thee
this
day
;
and
all
Israel
threw
stones
at
him
,
and
burnt
them
with
fire
and
stoned
them
with
stones
,
&c.
It
was
also
punished
in
Nabal
,
1
Sam
1.
25.
who
was
churlish
,
gripple
,
and
covetous
,
and
ungratefull
to
David
and
his
servants
,
for
which
the
Text
saith
,
Verse
36.
And
about
ten
dayes
after
the
Lord
smote
Nabal
that
he
died
:
who
not
onely
lost
his
life
,
hut
had
his
wife
Abigail
given
unto
David
,
whom
he
before
despised
.
Ahab
King
of
Israel
for
coveting
of
Naboths
vineyard
,
and
by
the
meanes
of
his
wife
Iezebel
putting
him
to
death
,
that
her
husband
might
take
possession
thereof
:
hear
his
terrible
judgement
that
followed
,
1
Kings
21.
17.
The
Word
of
the
Lord
came
to
Eliah
the
Tishbite
,
saying
,
Arise
,
go
down
to
meet
Ahab
King
of
Israel
which
is
in
Samaria
,
lo
,
he
is
in
the
vineyard
of
Naboth
,
whither
he
is
gone
down
to
take
possession
of
it
:
therefore
shalt
thou
say
unto
him
,
thus
saith
the
Lord
,
hast
thou
killed
,
and
also
gotten
possession
:
and
thou
shalt
speak
unto
him
saying
,
thus
saith
the
Lord
,
in
the
place
where
dogs
licked
the
blood
of
Naboth
,
shall
dogs
licke
even
thy
blood
also
,
behold
,
I
will
bring
evill
upon
thee
,
and
will
take
away
thy
posterity
,
and
will
cut
off
from
Ahab
him
that
pisseth
against
the
wall
,
as
well
him
that
is
shut
up
,
as
him
that
is
left
in
Israel
:
and
I
will
make
thy
house
like
the
house
of
Ieroboam
the
son
of
Nebat
,
and
like
the
house
of
Baasha
the
son
of
Ahijah
,
for
the
provocation
whereby
thou
hast
provoked
and
made
Israel
to
sin
:
and
of
Iezebel
spake
the
Lord
,
saying
,
the
dogs
shall
eat
Iezebel
by
the
wals
of
Iezreel
;
the
dogs
shall
eat
him
of
Ahabs
stocke
that
dieth
in
the
City
,
and
him
that
dieth
in
the
fields
shall
the
fowles
of
the
air
eat
,
&c.
Now
what
more
fearfull
judgement
could
have
been
pronounced
against
them
?
all
which
punctually
happened
unto
them
according
to
the
Prophets
saying
.
Further
,
we
reade
Esay
1.
23.
Thy
Princes
are
rebellious
,
and
companions
of
thieves
,
every
one
loveth
gifts
,
and
followeth
after
rewards
,
they
judge
not
the
fatherlesse
,
neither
doth
the
widows
cause
come
before
them
,
therefore
saith
the
Lord
God
of
hostes
,
the
mighty
One
of
Israel
,
Ah
,
I
will
case
me
of
my
adversaries
,
and
avenge
me
of
mine
enemies
.
Ier.
22.
17.
Thine
eyes
and
thine
heart
are
but
onely
for
thy
covetousnesse
,
and
to
shed
innocent
blood
,
and
for
oppression
,
and
for
destruction
,
even
to
do
this
;
Therefore
thus
saith
the
Lord
against
Iehoiakim
the
son
of
Iosiah
King
of
Iudah
,
they
shall
not
lament
him
,
saying
,
ah
my
brother
,
and
ah
my
sister
;
neither
shall
they
mourne
for
him
saying
,
ah
Lord
,
or
ah
his
glory
,
he
shall
be
buried
as
an
asse
is
buried
,
and
cast
forth
without
the
gates
of
Ierusalem
.
Ezech.
22.
27.
Her
Princes
in
the
midst
thereof
are
like
wolves
,
ravening
the
prey
to
shed
blood
,
and
to
destroy
soules
for
their
own
covetous
lucre
.
In
thee
have
they
taken
gifts
to
shed
bloud
,
thou
hast
taken
usury
,
and
the
increase
,
and
thou
hast
defrauded
thy
neighbour
by
extortion
,
and
hast
fogotten
me
,
saith
the
Lord
God
,
behold
therefore
I
have
smitten
mine
hands
upon
thy
covetousnesse
that
thou
hast
used
,
and
upon
the
blood
which
hath
been
in
the
midst
of
thee
:
I
will
scatter
thee
amongst
the
heathen
,
and
disperse
thee
in
the
countries
,
&c.
Amos
4.
1.
Hear
this
word
ye
kine
of
Baashan
,
that
are
in
the
mountaines
of
Samaria
,
which
oppresse
the
poor
,
and
destroy
the
needy
,
&c.
The
Lord
God
hath
sworne
by
his
holinesse
,
that
loe
,
the
dayes
shall
come
upon
you
,
that
he
will
take
you
away
with
thornes
,
and
your
posterity
with
fish-hookes
.
Micah
2.
2.
And
they
covet
fields
,
and
take
them
by
violence
;
and
houses
,
and
take
them
away
,
so
they
oppresse
a
man
and
his
house
,
even
man
and
his
heritage
,
therefore
thus
saith
the
Lord
.
Behold
,
against
this
family
have
I
devised
a
plague
,
whereout
ye
shall
not
plucke
your
neckes
,
and
you
shall
not
go
so
proudly
;
for
this
time
is
evill
.
Again
,
3.
11.
The
heads
thereof
judge
for
rewards
,
and
the
priests
thereof
teach
for
hire
,
and
the
prophets
thereof
prophesie
for
money
,
yet
will
they
lean
upon
the
Lord
,
and
say
,
Is
not
the
Lord
amongst
us
?
no
〈◊〉
can
come
upon
us
:
therefore
shall
Sion
for
your
sakes
he
plowed
as
〈◊〉
field
,
and
Ierusalem
shall
be
an
hea●
,
and
the
mountain
of
the
house
as
the
high
places
of
the
forest
.
Hab.
2
9.
Ho
,
he
that
coveteth
an
evill
covetousnesse
to
his
house
,
that
he
may
set
his
nest
on
high
,
to
escape
from
the
power
of
evill
.
Thou
hast
consulted
shame
to
thine
own
house
,
by
destroying
many
people
,
and
hast
sinned
against
thine
own
soul
,
for
the
stone
shal
〈…〉
out
of
the
wall
,
and
the
beame
out
of
the
timber
shall
answer
it
,
We
unto
him
that
buildeth
a
town
with
blood
,
and
erecteth
a
city
by
iniquity
.
2
Mach.
10.
20.
Now
they
that
were
with
Simon
being
led
with
covetousnesse
,
were
intreated
for
money
(
through
certain
of
those
that
were
in
the
castle
)
and
took
seventy
thousand
drac
〈…〉
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
some
of
them
escape
,
but
when
it
was
told
Machubeus
what
was
done
,
he
called
the
governours
of
the
people
together
,
and
accused
those
men
,
that
they
had
sold
their
brethren
for
money
,
and
let
their
enemies
go
,
so
he
slew
them
when
they
〈◊〉
convict
of
treason
,
and
won
the
two
castles
.
Eccles.
4.
8.
There
is
one
alone
,
and
there
a
not
a
second
,
which
hath
neither
son
nor
brother
,
yet
is
there
no
end
of
all
his
travell
,
neither
can
his
eye
be
satisfied
with
riches
,
neither
doth
he
thinke
,
for
whom
do
I
travell
,
and
defraud
my
soul
of
pleasure
?
this
also
is
vanity
,
and
this
is
an
evill
travell
.
Again
5.
9.
He
that
loveth
silver
shall
not
be
satisfied
with
silver
,
and
he
that
loveth
riches
shall
not
enjoy
the
fruits
thereof
,
where
goods
increase
they
are
increased
that
eat
them
,
and
what
goods
commeth
to
the
owners
but
the
beholding
thereof
with
their
eyes
?
the
sleep
of
him
that
travelleth
is
sweet
,
whether
he
eat
little
or
much
,
but
the
satiety
of
the
rich
will
not
suffer
him
〈◊〉
sleep
.
There
is
an
evill
sicknes
that
I
have
seen
under
the
sun
,
to
wit
riches
reserv●●
to
the
owners
thereof
for
their
evill
,
and
their
riches
vanish
by
evill
travell
,
〈◊〉
he
begetteth
a
son
and
in
his
hand
is
nothing
.
I
conclude
with
that
of
Zephan
.
1.
18.
Neither
their
silver
nor
their
gold
shall
be
able
to
deliver
them
in
the
day
of
the
Lords
wrath
,
but
the
whole
land
shall
be
devoured
by
the
fire
of
his
jealousie
,
for
he
shall
make
a
speedy
riddance
even
of
all
them
that
dwell
in
the
land
.
And
thus
far
the
Scriptures
against
this
horrid
vice
of
Covetousnesse
.
I
come
to
the
Fathers
:
Saint
Augustine
,
De
verbo
Domins
,
useth
these
words
,
What
is
this
avidity
of
concupiscence
without
measure
?
when
even
beasts
themselves
observe
a
mediocrity
;
they
onely
prey
when
they
are
an
hungred
,
but
cease
to
spoil
when
they
are
satisfied
,
onely
the
avarice
of
the
rich
is
insatiable
,
it
alwayes
rages
,
and
is
never
sated
,
it
neither
feareth
God
,
nor
reverenceth
man
;
it
spareth
not
the
father
,
nor
acknowledgeth
the
mother
;
it
regardeth
nor
brother
,
nor
childe
,
but
breaketh
covenant
with
a
friend
,
it
oppresseth
the
widdow
,
invadeth
the
orphant
,
distresseth
the
poor
,
and
is
prone
to
bring
false
witnesses
,
and
what
a
madnesse
is
it
to
desire
death
for
life
?
and
in
seeking
to
finde
gold
,
to
lose
Heaven
?
And
Saint
Ambrose
in
his
Sermons
thus
:
It
is
all
one
for
him
that
hath
,
to
take
from
him
that
wants
,
and
when
thou
hast
,
and
canst
,
to
deny
relief
to
the
indigent
and
needy
;
it
is
the
bread
of
the
hungry
that
thou
deteinest
,
the
cloathing
of
the
naked
that
thou
keepest
backe
,
the
money
that
thou
hidest
in
the
earth
is
the
redemption
of
the
captive
,
and
know
,
thou
robbest
so
many
of
those
goods
as
it
is
in
thy
power
to
confer
upon
the
miserable
,
when
thou
denyest
to
succour
them
:
Those
fortunes
and
those
riches
are
not
a
mans
owne
,
which
he
cannot
carry
with
him
,
onely
mercy
and
charity
forsake
not
a
man
in
his
death
.
Saint
Hierome
saith
,
To
a
covetous
man
that
is
as
much
wanting
which
he
hath
,
as
what
he
hath
not
,
because
hee
rather
desires
to
have
what
hee
wants
,
or
is
still
in
feare
to
lose
what
he
hath
;
who
,
whilest
in
adversity
he
hopes
for
prosperity
,
in
prosperity
hee
feares
adversity
.
And
in
another
place
.
The
covetous
man
burnes
here
with
the
heat
of
concupiscence
,
and
shall
burne
after
in
the
fire
of
Gehenna
.
If
hee
see
one
more
potent
then
himselfe
,
he
suspects
an
oppressor
:
If
one
inferiour
,
hee
feares
a
thiefe
:
and
such
are
most
unhappy
,
who
really
suffer
whatsoever
they
shall
but
feare
to
suffer
.
Huge
lib.
de
Clar.
useth
these
words
:
There
be
foure
things
in
the
possessing
of
goods
and
riches
to
be
observed
;
namely
,
that
lawfull
things
we
doe
not
acquire
injustly
;
or
being
injustly
acquired
,
we
doe
not
strive
to
injoy
them
unlawfully
:
that
we
strive
not
to
possesse
much
,
though
lawfully
;
nor
things
justly
got
,
defend
unlawfully
;
for
either
evilly
to
acquire
,
or
badly
to
use
what
is
acquired
,
what
is
lawfull
makes
unlawfull
:
for
,
to
possesse
much
hath
some
alliance
to
avarice
,
and
commonly
it
happens
,
what
is
too
much
lov'd
,
is
ill
defended
.
I
conclude
with
Gregory
in
one
of
his
Homilies
,
Every
avaritious
man
from
drinke
doth
multiply
thirst
;
because
when
he
hath
once
injoyed
what
he
before
coveted
,
he
is
not
therewith
satisfied
,
but
hath
the
greater
inclination
to
cover
more
.
But
from
the
Fathers
I
come
to
Ethnick
History
,
and
first
I
will
give
you
the
appellation
of
some
rich
men
:
Cacilius
Camidius
was
of
that
infinite
estate
,
that
though
he
had
lost
a
great
part
of
his
riches
in
the
civill
warres
of
Rome
,
yet
at
his
death
he
left
foure
thousand
domestick
servants
and
retainers
;
in
his
stables
he
had
an
hundred
and
threescore
horses
,
three
thousand
and
sixe
hundred
oxen
,
and
of
other
head
of
cattle
two
hundred
fifty
and
seaven
thousand
,
and
pecuniis
numeratis
,
that
is
in
ready
coyne
sixe
hundred
thousand
pound
weight
,
who
also
gave
to
be
expended
upon
his
Funerall
eleven
thousand
Sestertii
.
Marcus
Crassus
would
not
allow
any
man
to
be
called
a
rich
man
,
who
was
not
able
out
of
his
private
coffers
to
maintaine
a
Legion
of
Souldiers
for
a
yeare
;
the
annuall
revenue
of
his
fields
and
grounds
arrable
and
pasture
,
amounted
to
fiftie
hundred
thousand
crownes
of
gold
:
Neither
did
this
suffice
him
(
saith
Pliny
)
but
he
was
ambitious
to
winne
and
possesse
all
the
gold
of
the
Parthians
.
The
greatest
part
of
his
wealth
he
purchast
out
of
the
civill
garboyles
,
seditions
,
and
combustions
,
converting
the
publike
calamities
to
his
private
use
and
benefit
;
for
when
he
had
left
him
three
hundred
Talents
onely
from
his
fathers
Inheritance
,
before
he
enterprised
any
expedition
against
the
Parthians
,
hee
had
gathered
together
into
one
Magazine
seaven
thousand
and
one
hundred
Talents
,
though
hee
had
before
consecrated
the
Tenths
and
Tythes
of
his
whole
estate
to
the
Temple
of
Hercules
.
Hee
moreover
made
a
publique
Banquet
,
in
which
he
feasted
the
whole
people
of
Rome
,
and
gave
to
every
one
of
his
guests
three
pounds
in
silver
:
He
kept
moreover
as
his
servants
that
had
dependance
of
him
,
five
hundred
Smiths
and
Carpenters
,
skilfull
in
Architecture
;
whom
hee
not
onely
imployed
in
his
owne
sumptuous
Buildings
and
Aedisices
;
but
to
any
noble
Citizen
who
had
a
will
and
desire
to
build
,
he
not
onely
lent
them
freely
,
but
paid
them
at
his
owne
charge
:
yet
this
man
overcome
with
covetousnesse
of
the
Parthian
gold
,
was
by
them
taken
prisoner
in
battaile
,
who
knowing
his
great
avarice
,
caused
molten
gold
to
be
powr'd
downe
his
throat
,
deriding
his
insaciety
in
these
tearmes
;
For
gold
thou
thirstest
in
thy
life
,
and
now
take
thy
fill
of
it
in
thy
death
.
And
yet
Pallas
the
freed
man
of
Claudius
Caesar
was
held
to
bee
twenty
times
richer
then
Crassus
:
Plinius
the
Praetor
speakes
of
this
Pallas
,
as
also
of
Calistus
and
Narcissus
,
possest
of
innumerable
wealth
,
during
the
principality
of
Claudius
,
insomuch
that
the
plenty
of
Narcissus
grew
to
a
proverbe
,
for
if
they
had
to
speake
of
any
man
who
was
possese
of
superabundant
wealth
,
they
would
say
he
was
as
rich
as
Narcissus
:
of
this
Pallas
Iuvenall
speakes
in
his
first
Satyre
,
who
with
Narcissus
were
the
freed
men
of
Claudius
;
and
by
the
generall
suffrage
of
the
Senate
,
had
not
onely
mighty
Donatives
conferred
upon
them
,
but
they
were
admitted
unto
prime
Magistrates
,
and
underwent
the
most
honourable
offices
in
the
Citie
:
More
over
the
Emperour
(
as
Tacitus
writes
)
bestowed
upon
Pallas
the
Praetorian
Ensignes
,
with
great
summes
of
money
,
being
yearely
possest
(
besides
his
domestick
wealth
)
of
three
thousand
Sestertii
;
but
what
happinesse
had
hee
by
the
enjoying
of
such
abundance
?
the
same
Author
relates
,
that
Ner●
Caesar
grieving
that
hee
had
lived
so
long
,
(
for
hee
was
growne
aged
)
caused
him
to
be
poysoned
;
and
by
that
meanes
confiscated
his
goods
to
his
owne
use
.
Antiochus
the
great
King
of
Syria
did
so
abound
in
riches
,
that
purposing
to
make
warre
upon
the
Romans
,
he
gathered
a
puissant
and
numerous
Army
,
who
were
accommodated
in
all
the
bravery
that
could
be
possible
;
their
Helmets
being
richly
plumed
,
and
the
heads
of
their
Speares
and
Shields
shining
with
silver
and
gold
;
who
after
with
great
esteeme
,
shewing
the
glory
of
his
Souldiers
,
and
pride
of
his
Host
to
Hanniball
,
he
asked
him
whether
he
thought
that
these
were
not
able
to
conquer
the
Romane
?
who
after
some
small
pause
made
him
answer
:
I
cannot
presume
that
they
are
able
to
vanquish
them
,
but
of
this
I
am
most
assured
,
they
are
able
to
satisfie
them
,
if
the
Romans
be
covetous
;
and
so
it
after
proved
to
his
great
dishonour
.
Pythius
Bythinius
a
Persian
,
gave
to
Dari
〈…〉
a
plaine
tree
and
a
Vine
all
of
gold
;
he
also
feasted
Xerxes
Army
,
(
in
his
expedition
towards
Greece
)
which
consisted
of
seaven
hundred
fourescore
and
eight
thousand
men
,
and
allowed
unto
them
five
moneths
provision
of
corne
,
victuall
,
and
pay
;
and
onely
because
that
of
five
sonnes
he
had
,
Xerxes
would
leave
one
of
them
at
home
with
him
to
comfort
him
image
.
Herodotus
and
Pliny
both
testifie
of
him
,
that
being
demanded
of
the
King
of
what
possession
〈◊〉
was
?
he
made
answer
.
That
he
had
in
his
Coffer
ten
thousand
Talents
of
silver
,
and
foure
hundred
Mirlads
of
gold
,
besides
of
the
coyne
of
the
Daricans
,
which
amounted
to
seaven
thousand
pound
weight
in
gold
,
all
which
when
he
had
prostrated
to
the
Kings
service
and
free
dispose
,
he
wondring
at
his
extraordinary
liberality
,
tooke
to
supply
his
present
use
the
foure
hundred
Miriads
of
gold
,
and
left
him
the
rest
:
notwithstanding
which
,
in
his
returne
from
Greece
,
whence
he
was
basely
beaten
and
baffled
,
he
caused
that
young
man
the
sonne
of
so
bountifull
a
father
,
before
his
face
to
be
cut
in
pieces
.
And
thus
we
see
there
is
no
trust
in
riches
:
for
even
King
David
and
his
sonne
,
who
had
wealth
above
account
,
and
gold
and
treasure
beyond
numbe●
,
the
one
〈◊〉
into
Murder
and
Adulterie
,
the
other
into
Lust
and
Idolatrie
.
From
those
which
were
rich
,
I
come
to
the
covetous
:
Constat
,
Manasses
,
Annaltum
pag.
94.
relates
that
Chaganus
King
of
the
Septentrionall
Scythians
,
when
he
had
invaded
many
of
the
Roman
Forts
and
Cittadels
,
even
those
most
strongly
manned
and
defenc't
,
in
his
first
violent
assaults
tooke
in
many
walled
Cities
,
and
all
the
Region
bordering
upon
Ister
,
quite
depopulutated
;
insomuch
that
the
whole
River
was
sanguin'd
with
the
bloud
of
the
Natives
.
And
having
surprised
many
Captives
,
to
the
number
of
twelve
thousand
men
,
hee
sent
to
the
Emperour
Mauricius
to
know
if
hee
would
redeeme
them
being
Christians
,
and
his
subjects
:
but
neither
the
extreame
rage
of
the
Scythian
cruelty
,
nor
the
barbarous
Kings
inhumanity
,
neither
the
cryes
and
ejaculations
of
the
miserable
and
distressed
prisoners
,
could
move
the
minde
of
this
obdure
and
flinty-hearted
Emperour
,
who
was
wholly
given
over
the
base
and
sordid
avarice
.
Againe
,
Chaganus
sent
unto
him
.
Embassadours
with
more
moderate
and
reasonable
conditions
,
with
a
great
part
of
the
first
price
deducted
;
to
which
the
covetous
Emperour
would
not
lend
any
eare
at
all
:
which
Chaganus
hearing
,
he
raged
like
a
Tyger
,
and
caused
them
all
to
be
hewed
to
pieces
;
the
whole
Region
to
be
covered
with
their
carkasses
;
the
fields
to
bee
stain'd
with
their
bloud
;
and
their
bodies
to
be
piled
in
an
heape
almost
to
the
height
of
a
Pine-tree
:
which
cruell
act
of
the
Emperour
my
Author
thus
aggravates
.
O
gold
and
love
of
gold
,
more
cruell
then
a
Tyrant
!
of
men
the
persecutor
,
the
Fort
of
mischiefe
,
the
Castle
of
destruction
,
the
eversion
of
Towers
,
the
depopulation
of
Cities
,
the
demolishing
of
Walls
and
Gates
,
the
fall
of
Houses
,
the
ruine
of
Families
:
O
with
what
mischiefes
doest
,
thou
afflict
us
mortals
!
no
earthly
thing
can
compare
with
thee
in
cruelty
:
Thou
softnest
the
hard
,
indurat'st
the
soft
;
thou
givest
speech
to
the
silent
,
and
makest
mute
the
free
speaker
:
In
roving
,
thou
makest
the
swift
slow
pac't
,
and
puttest
wings
to
the
feet
of
the
lazy
:
Thou
kickest
against
Law
and
Justice
,
expellest
bashfulnesse
and
modesty
,
violat'st
Sepulchres
,
diggest
through
;
there
is
nothing
which
thou
wilt
not
sell
,
nothing
which
thou
wilt
not
betray
.
Now
let
us
looke
upon
the
dreadfull
Judgement
of
God
,
which
fell
upon
this
gripple
minded
Prince
,
who
was
so
hated
amongst
the
Christians
,
that
upon
Christmas
day
,
as
he
was
entring
into
the
Temple
,
was
like
to
have
beene
stoned
to
death
:
After
which
he
grew
jealous
even
of
his
owne
brother
,
and
all
the
best
friends
about
him
,
lest
they
should
supplant
him
from
the
Imperiall
dignity
;
of
which
he
grew
the
more
timerous
,
in
regard
of
divers
ominous
dreames
:
for
there
appeared
unto
him
in
his
slumbers
a
blazing-starre
like
a
sword
,
and
a
Monke
running
with
a
sword
drawn
to
the
Emperours
Statue
,
inrag'd
and
crying
out
aloud
,
Imperatorem
ferr●
periturum
:
(
i●
)
That
the
Emperour
shall
perish
by
steele
.
Hee
dreamed
also
,
That
he
was
given
to
be
murdered
to
one
Phocas
;
upon
which
he
sent
for
one
Philippicus
out
of
prison
,
a
man
whom
hee
much
trusted
,
and
asked
him
,
Qualis
sit
Phocas
?
What
kinde
of
man
is
that
Phocas
?
To
whom
Philippicus
answered
,
Centurio
ambitiosus
,
sed
timidus
:
To
whom
the
Emperour
againe
replyed
,
If
he
be
a
coward
,
he
is
then
a
murderer
.
In
conclusion
,
he
grew
into
such
a
great
contempt
of
the
Army
,
that
they
sought
to
depose
him
;
and
the
Legions
and
men
of
Warre
about
Istrus
chose
Phocas
a
barbarous
and
bloudy
Thracian
to
be
Emperour
,
who
made
all
the
haste
possible
to
Constantinople
,
where
he
was
crowned
in
the
Suburbs
by
Cyprian
the
Patriarch
.
Mauricius
in
this
interim
was
with
his
wife
and
children
at
Chalcedon
,
where
through
griefe
and
trouble
of
minde
he
fell
sicke
:
thither
Phocas
sped
him
with
all
expedition
,
who
first
caused
his
two
youngest
Sons
to
be
slaine
in
his
sight
,
and
then
his
three
daughters
;
and
next
their
mother
Constantina
,
the
daughter
of
Tiberius
the
second
,
the
next
Emperour
before
Mauricius
;
who
beheld
the
deaths
of
his
sonnes
and
daughters
with
great
patience
:
but
when
he
saw
his
wife
in
the
hand
of
the
tormentor
,
he
burst
forth
into
these
words
,
(
acknowledging
his
faults
)
O
Lord
God
,
thou
art
just
,
and
and
thy
Iudgements
are
right
.
Lastly
,
Phocas
commanded
his
head
to
be
cut
off
,
whose
body
,
with
his
wives
and
children
,
were
cast
upon
the
shore
,
to
be
a
publike
spectacle
for
all
the
people
;
where
they
lay
upon
the
ground
till
one
of
the
enemies
which
had
belonged
to
Mauricius
,
caused
them
to
be
interted
.
Achaeus
a
King
of
the
Lydians
,
was
much
branded
with
this
vice
of
covetousnesse
,
who
when
he
had
accumulated
much
riches
,
and
that
too
by
sinister
meanes
,
not
therewith
contented
,
hee
proceeded
further
,
and
put
new
and
unheard
of
taxes
and
exactions
upon
his
subjects
;
when
they
knew
his
Treasury
abounded
with
all
fulnesse
and
plenty
:
In
hate
of
whose
extreame
avarice
they
conspired
together
,
and
made
an
insurrection
against
him
;
and
having
surprised
him
in
his
Palace
,
they
haled
him
thence
,
and
hanged
him
on
a
Gibbet
with
his
heeles
upward
,
and
his
head
drowned
in
the
waters
of
Pactolus
;
whose
streames
(
as
sundry
Authors
write
)
are
of
the
colour
of
gold
,
and
hath
name
amongst
the
golden
rivers
;
an
Embleme
of
his
avarice
.
Thus
you
see
this
deadly
sinne
seldome
or
never
escapes
without
Judgement
.
Neither
did
Iustinianus
the
second
,
the
sonne
of
Constantinus
Barbatus
,
escape
the
aspersion
of
this
horrid
vice
,
he
was
the
last
of
the
stocke
of
Heraclius
,
a
man
covetous
,
unquiet
,
cruell
,
and
unfortunate
:
He
had
two
Sycophants
who
furnisht
his
coffers
,
and
for
that
were
graced
by
him
with
all
Imperiall
power
and
authority
;
the
one
Theodosuis
,
a
Monke
,
the
other
Stephanus
the
Emperours
Chaplaine
:
who
was
in
such
credit
with
his
Master
,
that
he
durst
beate
the
old
Empresse
.
These
two
not
onely
exercised
extortion
and
oppression
amongst
the
Subjects
,
but
great
cruelty
upon
the
Princes
,
Dukes
,
and
Captaines
,
keeping
one
of
them
called
Leontius
two
yeares
in
prison
;
who
after
escaping
by
the
helpe
of
the
Patriarch
,
was
made
Emperour
,
and
cut
off
the
nostrils
of
Iustinian
,
and
sent
him
as
an
Exile
to
Chersonesus
.
Which
Leontius
being
after
surprised
by
Tiberius
Apsimarus
,
he
cut
off
his
nostrils
and
sent
him
into
a
Monastery
.
After
Iustinian
returned
,
being
ayded
by
the
Bulgarians
,
and
suprising
both
Leontius
and
Apsimarus
,
he
caused
them
to
be
led
bound
through
the
Market-place
;
and
having
first
trod
upon
their
necks
,
cut
off
their
heads
:
then
hee
pulled
out
the
eyes
of
Callinious
the
Patriarch
,
and
hanged
up
Heraclius
the
brother
of
Apsimarus
.
But
at
what
time
he
sent
his
Army
against
Chirson
,
the
Host
made
Philippicus
Bardanes
Emperour
,
who
made
all
speed
to
Constantinople
;
and
taking
Iustinian
and
his
sonne
Tiberius
from
the
Sanctuary
,
commanded
them
most
miserably
to
be
slaine
.
Nay
,
even
your
greatest
Prelates
,
and
in
the
primest
places
of
Episcopall
dignity
,
have
not
beene
excluded
from
this
generall
sinne
of
Avarice
.
Martinus
Papa
was
of
that
gripple
and
penurious
condition
,
that
he
commanded
the
ends
of
wax-candles
left
after
Masse
,
and
the
other
Service
,
to
bee
brought
him
home
to
his
Palace
,
to
save
him
light
in
the
nights
for
his
houshold
and
family
.
And
Pontanus
writes
of
one
Agolastus
,
a
Priest
and
Cardinall
,
who
though
he
allowed
liberally
meat
for
his
horses
,
after
repenting
him
of
the
charge
,
would
in
the
night
steale
privately
into
the
stable
,
and
take
the
provender
out
of
their
mangers
;
which
hee
used
so
long
,
that
being
watcht
by
the
master
of
his
horse
,
and
knowing
him
,
beate
him
soundly
,
as
if
he
had
beene
a
common
theefe
.
But
contrary
to
these
,
Alexander
the
first
,
Pope
,
was
of
that
bounty
and
munificence
,
that
scarce
any
meriting
man
but
tasted
freely
of
his
liberality
;
who
used
to
say
unto
his
friends
in
sport
,
I
will
tell
you
all
my
fortunes
:
I
was
a
rich
Bishop
,
I
was
a
poore
Cardinall
,
and
am
at
this
present
a
beggarly
Pope
.
A
great
example
of
this
vice
of
desiring
to
get
and
have
,
was
that
of
Alcmaeon
the
son
of
Megaclus
,
who
when
he
had
entertained
some
of
the
chief
Nobility
of
Croesus
King
of
Lidia
in
their
way
to
Delphos
,
with
great
humanity
and
curtesie
,
the
King
loth
to
remain
indebted
to
him
,
or
at
least
,
not
some
way
to
correspond
with
his
bounty
,
invited
him
to
his
Palace
,
and
having
abundantly
feasted
him
for
some
dayes
,
when
he
was
ready
to
depart
and
take
his
leave
of
the
King
,
Nay
(
saith
he
)
you
shall
not
part
thus
empty-handed
from
me
before
you
have
seen
my
Treasury
,
and
take
from
thence
as
much
gold
as
you
are
able
to
carry
,
who
being
of
the
craving
and
having
condition
,
presently
provided
himselfe
of
large
garmenrs
,
and
wide
cloathes
,
with
deep
and
spatious
pockets
,
and
thought
not
all
sufficient
,
for
comming
to
the
Magazine
,
having
taken
thence
as
much
as
it
was
possible
for
him
to
dispose
of
in
any
place
about
him
,
he
then
filled
his
mouth
,
and
crammed
it
to
the
very
teeth
,
and
had
conveyances
in
hair
,
and
so
swearing
under
this
burden
,
disguised
like
a
man
distracted
and
quite
out
of
his
senses
,
he
appeared
before
the
King
,
who
when
he
saw
him
so
estranged
from
himselfe
,
burst
into
a
loud
laughter
,
and
in
contempt
of
his
covetousnesse
,
with
great
scorne
and
derision
let
him
depart
.
Thus
far
Herodotus
.
Neither
hath
the
Feminine
sexe
been
altogether
free
from
the
same
aspersions
,
but
most
justly
taxed
;
for
when
Brennus
our
Countriman
(
and
brother
to
Belinus
King
of
this
Land
)
being
then
Captain
of
the
Gauls
,
besieged
Ephesus
with
his
Army
,
a
great
Lady
of
the
City
,
called
Dominica
sent
to
parle
with
him
,
and
made
a
covenant
,
for
a
mighty
great
sum
of
money
to
betray
it
into
his
hands
,
which
Brennus
according
to
the
composition
entred
,
and
after
sacked
and
spoiled
,
and
standing
at
one
of
the
great
gates
to
receive
the
reward
,
he
willing
to
keep
his
promise
,
and
yet
in
his
heart
detesting
the
avarice
of
the
woman
,
caused
so
much
gold
and
treasure
to
be
thrown
upon
her
,
till
under
the
huge
masse
she
was
buried
alive
.
Near
allied
to
the
former
is
the
story
of
Tarpeia
,
one
of
the
vestall
virgins
in
Rome
,
who
having
covenanted
with
Sabine
the
enemies
to
the
Romans
,
to
betray
unto
them
the
Capital
for
the
bracelets
they
wore
on
their
left
arme
,
which
were
very
rich
and
costly
,
they
when
they
were
entred
and
had
possession
of
the
place
,
in
stead
of
their
bracelets
and
carcanets
threw
upon
her
their
shields
and
targets
worne
of
their
left
armes
,
and
so
sti●●ed
,
smothered
and
pressed
her
to
death
:
in
memory
of
whose
soul
and
traiterous
act
grounded
on
Covetousnesse
the
Hill
where
she
was
buried
is
called
,
The
Tarpeian
Mountain
,
even
to
this
day
,
and
this
hapned
in
the
year
of
the
world
2305.
Europhites
was
likewise
the
wife
of
Amphi●rus
,
who
for
a
carcanet
of
gold
given
her
by
P●linyces
,
betrayed
her
husband
,
and
discovered
him
in
the
place
where
he
had
hid
himselfe
,
because
he
would
not
go
to
the
The
〈…〉
warres
,
because
it
was
told
him
by
the
Oracle
,
that
there
he
should
assuredly
die
,
for
which
he
left
a
strict
charge
with
his
son
Alema●●
,
that
he
should
no
sooner
hear
of
his
death
,
but
he
should
instantly
kill
his
mother
,
which
Orestes-like
he
performed
,
and
proved
a
Ma●●icide
to
performe
the
will
of
his
deceased
father
.
Thus
you
see
not
one
of
these
three
escaped
a
fearfull
judgement
.
Of
contrary
disposition
to
these
was
the
virgin
Placidia
daughter
to
the
Emperour
Valentintanut
and
Eudosia
,
who
neglecting
all
her
fathers
riches
and
honours
,
abandoned
the
vanities
of
the
world
,
and
betook
her selfe
to
a
devout
and
sequestred
life
.
As
the
like
did
Elburga
,
daughter
to
Edward
King
of
England
,
(
a
Saxon
)
and
had
the
sirname
of
Seignior
,
or
the
elder
Edward
.
And
if
we
look
no
further
than
to
this
City
London
the
Metropolis
of
the
Kingdom
,
how
many
pious
and
devout
matrons
hath
it
yeelded
even
from
antiquity
to
this
present
,
who
have
contributed
largely
to
the
erecting
and
repairing
of
Temples
,
building
of
Almes-houses
and
Hospitals
,
erecting
schooles
for
learning
,
maintaining
poore
Ministers
in
preaching
,
in
giving
liberally
towards
Halls
,
leaving
stockes
to
set
up
young
beginners
,
and
bequeathing
legacies
for
poor
maides
marriages
,
and
these
not
for
the
present
,
but
to
the
end
of
the
world
.
For
which
God
be
praised
,
and
daily
increase
their
number
:
but
this
is
directly
averse
to
the
argument
now
in
agitation
,
which
is
Covetousnesse
.
If
it
be
dangerous
to
be
rich
even
to
him
that
knowes
how
to
use
his
wealth
,
how
much
more
fearfully
perillous
then
for
him
that
hath
abundance
of
all
worldly
fortunes
,
and
knows
only
how
to
abuse
them
.
Caesar
being
in
Spain
,
extorted
great
summes
of
money
most
injustly
from
the
Proconsul
there
,
and
certain
Cities
of
the
Lusitanians
,
though
they
neither
offended
him
,
nor
violated
any
covenant
with
them
,
yet
when
they
friendly
set
open
their
gates
to
receive
him
as
their
patton
and
defender
,
he
spoiled
their
houses
,
made
seisure
of
their
goods
,
and
even
the
Temples
of
the
gods
he
sacrilegiously
robbed
,
it
being
his
custome
to
rifle
Cities
,
not
for
any
fault
committed
,
but
for
the
certain
prey
expected
.
In
the
first
year
of
his
Consulship
he
stole
(
for
no
better
attribute
my
Author
giveth
it
)
〈◊〉
thousand
pound
weight
of
gold
out
of
the
Capitol
;
he
moreover
sold
societies
,
liberties
,
and
immunities
,
nay
even
Crownes
,
Scepters
,
and
Kingdomes
for
gold
;
he
also
defrauded
King
P●olomeus
of
six
thousand
talents
at
one
time
,
in
his
own
name
and
Pompeys
,
before
they
were
at
distance
.
Eutropius
writes
that
Flavius
Vespatianas
was
wretchedly
corrupted
with
this
vice
,
and
evermore
gaping
after
gold
,
who
at
his
comming
to
the
Empire
called
in
all
those
debts
and
impositions
which
were
remitted
or
forgotten
by
his
predecessour
Galba
,
to
which
he
added
new
taxes
more
grievous
and
burdensom
than
the
former
,
he
increased
all
the
tributes
in
the
Provinces
,
and
in
some
doubled
them
,
and
for
the
avidity
of
money
would
sit
upon
all
triviall
and
common
causes
,
such
with
which
a
private
man
would
have
been
ashamed
to
have
troubled
himselfe
;
to
the
●anditates
〈◊〉
fold
honours
,
and
to
the
guilty
of
any
notorious
act
,
pardon●
;
his
custome
was
to
raise
procurators
(
such
as
were
the
most
●apacious
)
to
great
and
gainfull
Offices
,
for
no
other
cause
,
but
that
〈◊〉
they
were
●●ll
,
he
like
a
spunge
might
squeeze
them
,
by
forfeiting
their
whole
ill-gotten
estate
into
his
own
hands
,
neither
was
he
ashamed
to
raise
money
out
of
urine
,
(
for
so
saith
Suetonius
.
)
Thus
we
see
what
a
monster
money
can
make
of
the
most
mighty
and
potent
men
.
Sergius
Galba
who
was
Emperour
in
the
year
of
our
Redemption
,
71.
Those
Cities
of
Spain
and
France
,
who
were
most
constant
to
the
Roman
Empire
,
upon
them
he
imposed
the
most
grievous
exactions
and
tributes
;
he
rob'd
the
stat●e
of
Iupiter
of
his
crown
of
fifteen
pound
weight
in
gold
;
the
souldiers
who
desired
the
Roman
Eagle
and
military
Ensignes
he
decim●ted
and
tythed
,
dismissing
,
nine
parts
;
and
(
to
save
charges
)
reserved
the
tenth
onely
;
the
German
Cohorts
,
appointed
by
the
Caesars
to
be
the
Guard
of
their
bodies
,
as
most
intrusted
next
their
persons
,
he
quite
dissolved
,
and
sent
them
empty
handed
into
their
Countries
without
any
reward
at
all
;
he
was
moreover
of
that
parsimony
,
that
if
at
any
time
he
had
at
his
table
more
fare
than
ordinary
,
he
would
horribly
repine
at
it
(
forgetting
the
state
of
an
Emperour
)
and
say
,
that
it
was
money
expended
in
waste
he
said
openly
,
for
his
own
part
he
could
content
himselfe
with
a
dish
of
pulse
or
pease
,
as
sufficient
to
content
nature
.
Of
the
like
penurious
disposition
was
Didius
Iulianus
Emperour
,
who
made
a
Law
called
Did
〈…〉
x
,
to
restrain
the
excesse
in
banqueting
,
who
for
his
Imperiall
table
would
make
a
pig
,
or
an
hare
,
to
serve
him
for
three
severall
suppers
,
when
his
dinner
was
nothing
else
but
a
few
olives
and
herbes
.
Which
abstinence
had
been
very
commendable
,
had
it
been
for
continence
sake
,
and
not
the
avaritious
desire
to
save
money
.
And
Aelius
Pertinax
was
of
that
frugality
that
he
would
set
before
his
guests
onely
an
halfe
sallad
,
of
lettice
and
thistles
,
two
sops
and
a
few
apples
,
or
if
he
would
exceed
at
any
time
in
his
diet
,
he
would
feast
them
with
a
leg
or
a
wing
of
a
hen
.
And
these
two
last
Emperours
may
compare
with
the
former
,
who
notwithstanding
all
his
masse
of
wealth
wrestingly
and
injuriously
purchased
,
was
wretchedly
murdered
by
his
souldiers
in
the
sixty
third
year
of
his
age
,
after
he
had
reigned
onely
seven
moneths
and
seven
dayes
.
Many
others
are
for
this
sin
alike
branded
,
as
Tiberius
Caesar
successour
to
Augustus
in
the
Empire
.
Candaulus
a
domesticke
servant
to
Mausolus
Queen
of
Caria
.
Ochus
King
of
Persia
,
Cornelius
Ruffinus
,
Valerius
Bastius
,
Aulus
Posthumius
Albinus
,
Pigmalion
King
of
Tyre
,
Polymnestor
King
of
Thrace
:
neither
of
this
greedy
appetite
of
having
,
could
Cato
Vticensis
,
or
Seneca
the
grave
and
learned
Philosopher
acquit
themseves
.
Of
a
quite
opposite
condition
,
and
meerly
antipathide
to
these
earth-wormes
were
Cimon
the
Athenian
,
who
all
the
spoiles
and
treasures
gained
from
the
enemy
,
freely
distributed
amongst
his
sellow
Citizens
,
reserving
no
part
or
portion
for
his
private
use
or
benefit
,
who
kept
open-house
,
and
entertainment
for
all
commers
,
strangers
or
others
,
where
they
were
dayly
feasted
and
entertained
;
and
whensoever
he
saw
any
indigent
and
needy
persons
,
who
laboured
to
their
utmost
power
to
sustain
themselves
,
and
their
families
,
but
could
not
do
it
,
he
sent
his
domesticke
servants
privately
to
relieve
them
with
meat
and
money
;
he
caused
moreover
all
the
hedges
,
ditches
,
and
fences
,
to
be
taken
from
his
fields
,
orchyards
and
gardens
,
that
the
people
might
freely
taste
the
fruits
of
them
without
any
contradiction
.
Which
extraordinary
liberality
,
(
not
guilty
of
the
sin
of
prodigality
)
Plutarch
and
Lactantius
much
commend
in
him
.
And
Scipio
sirnamed
Africanus
(
who
by
his
warlike
prowesse
first
made
Africa
subjugate
to
Rome
)
was
never
known
at
any
time
to
depart
from
the
forum
,
before
by
his
bounty
and
benevolence
,
he
had
added
some
one
or
more
to
the
number
of
his
friends
,
who
though
he
conquered
Carthage
,
and
had
all
the
rich
spoiles
thereof
,
yet
at
his
death
,
when
his
coffers
were
searched
,
there
were
found
in
them
but
thirty
three
pounds
in
money
,
and
two
in
gold
,
so
great
was
his
munificence
.
And
the
Emperour
Nerva
for
the
relief
and
sustentation
of
the
needy
and
decayed
Citizens
,
disbursed
at
one
time
sixty
hundred
thousand
pieces
of
silver
,
and
made
choice
of
divers
of
the
prime
and
most
trusty
Senatours
to
buy
and
purchase
such
fields
as
were
vendible
,
and
to
divide
them
amongst
the
poor
,
according
to
their
present
necessities
,
as
with
cloathes
,
dishes
,
and
vessels
to
the
furnishing
of
their
houses
,
and
the
rest
to
be
given
them
in
money
;
nay
,
he
made
sale
of
lands
and
houses
of
his
own
to
make
good
to
the
utmost
his
charitable
purposes
,
(
for
so
Dion
Cassius
reports
of
him
)
further
,
what
fine
,
forfeit
,
or
penalty
soever
came
under
the
name
of
Tribute
he
remitted
,
all
the
Cities
under
his
Dominions
afflicted
with
plague
or
famine
he
relieved
,
girles
and
boyes
borne
of
poor
and
needy
parents
he
gave
order
to
be
kept
and
educated
at
the
publike
charge
,
and
this
he
caused
to
be
punctually
performed
through
all
the
Cities
of
Italy
.
All
this
and
much
more
Aurelius
Victor
testifies
of
him
:
and
these
onely
amongst
many
other
I
have
presented
to
your
view
,
as
a
beauty
and
splendor
to
make
the
opposite
vice
shew
the
more
deformed
and
ugly
;
adding
onely
this
,
thateven
one
Nation
can
afford
plenteous
presidents
of
the
like
bounty
and
liberality
.
But
I
come
now
to
shew
you
what
dreadfull
murders
have
been
committed
through
this
grand
sin
of
Covetousnesse
,
their
strange
discovery
,
and
the
fearfull
judgements
that
have
fallen
upon
the
malefactours
:
in
the
relating
of
which
,
Heu
lacrymae
,
I
am
not
able
to
vindicate
our
own
Nation
,
for
in
the
time
of
Queen
Elizabeth
(
of
blessed
memory
)
there
dwelt
in
the
lower
end
of
Cheap-side
in
a
place
called
Honey-lane
,
an
old
man
and
woman
,
the
least
of
them
threescore
and
ten
yeares
of
age
,
who
lived
privately
and
kept
no
servant
,
and
because
they
had
some
meanes
comming
in
yearly
,
and
lived
sparingly
upon
it
,
were
imagined
by
the
neighbours
to
have
good
store
of
money
,
and
rather
because
the
furniture
of
their
house
was
very
neat
and
handsom
,
and
fit
to
entertain
any
reasonable
guests
,
(
though
they
seldom
invited
any
)
and
whether
this
by
prating
gossips
were
talked
of
at
the
conduit
,
and
so
overheard
by
some
idle
raskals
,
who
have
no
other
trade
or
meanes
to
live
,
but
robbing
,
stealing
,
burglary
,
and
the
like
;
it
is
not
certain
,
but
most
true
it
is
that
in
the
dead
of
night
,
their
house
by
a
false
key
(
or
some
other
pick-locke
engine
)
was
entred
,
the
two
old
people
fast
sleeping
,
murdered
in
their
beds
,
their
chests
broke
open
,
and
rifled
,
and
whatsoever
was
portable
,
and
of
any
value
carried
away
,
and
the
doores
fast
shut
upon
the
dead
bodies
:
the
next
day
they
were
not
seen
by
their
neighbours
,
who
wondred
they
appeared
not
as
they
customably
were
wont
,
yet
suspected
little
,
but
the
second
day
when
they
found
their
door
to
continue
shut
,
no
noise
at
in
all
the
house
,
nor
any
newes
of
them
,
they
knockt
and
rapt
at
the
door
,
but
received
no
answer
:
in
the
end
they
sent
for
an
Officer
,
who
with
his
assistants
,
forced
open
the
doores
,
and
found
in
the
first
room
all
things
out
of
order
,
and
walking
up
the
staires
they
might
see
the
chests
and
trunkes
wide
open
,
but
looking
further
towards
the
bed
,
they
might
easily
discover
the
good
man
and
his
wife
miserably
murdered
:
upon
which
,
warrants
were
made
for
a
privy
search
,
and
divers
taken
in
suspition
,
but
no
witnesse
or
evidence
could
be
brought
against
them
:
at
length
one
vagabond-like
sellow
was
laid
hold
on
,
who
being
brought
before
one
of
the
City
Justices
,
and
examined
,
could
give
no
account
of
his
life
,
and
by
reason
he
had
been
by
some
observed
to
hanker
two
or
three
dayes
before
thereabout
,
he
was
upon
that
presumption
sent
to
Newgate
,
and
the
next
Sessions
arraigned
and
by
some
errour
or
default
found
in
his
answer
,
condemned
and
hanged
,
but
innocently
for
that
crime
(
heaven
knowes
;
)
for
the
malefactor
after
the
murder
done
,
with
his
rich
prise
escaped
into
the
Low-countries
,
where
he
set
up
a
trade
,
made
good
use
of
his
stocke
,
and
proved
a
very
thrifty
and
thriving
man
,
in
so
much
that
he
grew
into
the
knowledge
and
familiarity
of
the
Burgers
,
and
was
of
good
credit
and
countenance
amongst
them
,
and
so
he
might
have
continued
,
but
after
some
twelve
yeares
aboad
there
,
being
grown
out
of
all
knowledge
and
remembrance
here
in
his
own
Country
,
he
could
not
rest
in
his
bed
,
nor
sleep
quietly
,
but
he
must
needs
see
England
,
and
made
a
voyage
hither
to
that
purpose
,
having
no
other
businesse
but
to
buy
a
piece
of
plate
in
Cheap-side
,
to
carry
over
backe
with
him
into
the
Low-countries
:
to
a
Goldsmith
he
comes
,
and
in
some
few
shops
above
the
Standard
he
cheapens
a
bowle
,
and
whilest
he
was
bargaining
about
the
price
,
it
happened
at
the
same
time
a
Gentleman
was
arrested
just
over
against
Bow-Church
,
who
presently
drawing
his
sword
,
made
an
escape
from
the
Serjeants
,
and
ran
up
towards
the
Crosse
,
the
Serjeants
and
the
people
cried
,
stop
him
,
and
all
their
faces
were
bent
that
way
;
which
the
murderer
hearing
and
seeing
,
and
not
knowing
the
cause
of
their
noise
and
tumult
,
he
apprehends
that
he
is
discovered
,
and
that
this
is
done
in
his
pursuit
,
and
so
begins
to
take
his
heeles
.
The
people
seeing
him
run
,
they
ran
after
him
,
(
all
not
knowing
the
originall
of
this
uprore
)
they
stop
him
and
demand
the
cause
of
his
flight
,
who
in
his
great
affright
and
terrour
of
conscience
said
,
He
was
the
man
.
They
asked
what
man
?
he
answered
,
the
same
man
that
committed
such
a
bloody
murder
so
many
yeares
since
:
upon
which
he
was
apprehended
and
committed
to
Newgate
,
arraigned
by
his
own
confession
,
condemned
,
and
hanged
first
on
a
gibbet
,
and
after
at
Mile-end
in
chaines
.
Thus
we
see
how
the
devill
never
leaves
his
ministers
and
servants
,
especially
in
this
horrid
case
of
murder
,
without
shame
and
judgement
.
Another
strange
but
most
true
story
I
shall
relate
of
a
young
Gentleman
of
good
meanes
and
parentage
brought
up
in
Cambridge
,
(
whose
name
for
his
worshipfull
kinreds
sake
,
I
am
desirous
to
conceal
)
he
being
of
a
bould
spirit
,
and
very
able
body
,
and
much
given
unto
riot
and
expence
,
could
not
containe
himselfe
within
his
exhibition
;
but
being
a
fellow-commoner
,
lavisht
much
beyond
his
allowance
:
to
helpe
which
,
and
to
keepe
his
credit
in
the
Towne
,
he
kept
a
good
horse
in
the
stable
,
and
oftentimes
would
flie
out
and
take
a
purse
by
the
high-way
;
and
thus
he
continued
a
yeare
,
or
thereabouts
,
without
the
jealousie
or
suspition
of
any
:
At
length
his
quarterly
meanes
not
being
come
up
from
his
father
,
and
hee
wanting
money
to
supply
his
ordinary
riots
,
hee
put
himselfe
into
a
disguise
,
tooke
horse
,
and
crossing
New-market
Heath
he
discovered
a
purchase
,
a
serving-man
with
a
cloak-bag
behinde
him
;
and
spying
him
to
travell
singly
and
alone
,
he
made
towards
him
,
and
bid
him
stand
and
deliver
;
the
other
unacquainted
with
that
language
,
answered
him
,
that
he
had
but
little
money
,
and
what
he
had
he
was
loath
to
part
with
;
Then
,
said
the
Gentleman
thiefe
,
thou
must
fight
for
it
;
Content
,
saith
the
other
;
and
withall
both
alight
,
and
drew
,
and
fell
stoutly
to
their
businesse
;
in
this
conflict
the
honest
serving-man
was
infortunately
slain
:
which
done
,
the
other
but
sleightly
wounded
,
tooke
away
his
cloak-bagge
,
and
binding
it
behinde
his
owne
horse
,
up
and
fled
towards
the
University
;
and
having
set
up
his
horse
in
the
Town
,
and
carried
the
cloak-bagge
or
Portmantuan
to
his
chamber
;
he
no
sooner
opened
it
,
but
he
found
a
Letter
directed
to
him
from
his
father
:
the
contents
whereof
were
,
That
hee
had
sent
him
his
quarterly
or
halfe-yeares
allowance
by
his
owne
man
a
faithfull
servant
,
(
commended
unto
him
by
a
deare
friend
)
whom
he
had
lately
entertained
;
willing
his
sonne
to
use
the
man
kindly
for
his
sake
:
which
Letter
when
he
had
read
,
and
found
the
money
told
to
a
penny
,
and
considering
he
had
kil'd
his
owne
fathers
man
,
whom
he
had
intreated
to
be
used
curteously
at
his
hands
,
and
onely
to
take
away
his
owne
by
force
abroad
,
which
hee
might
have
had
peaceably
and
quietly
brought
home
to
his
chamber
;
he
grew
to
be
strangely
alter'd
,
changing
all
his
former
mirth
into
a
deepe
melancholy
.
In
briefe
,
the
robbery
and
murder
were
found
and
known
,
and
the
Lord
chiefe
Justice
Popham
then
riding
that
Circuit
,
(
whose
neare
kinsman
hee
was
)
he
was
arraigned
and
condemned
at
Cambridge
Assises
,
though
great
meanes
were
made
for
his
pardon
,
yet
none
could
prevaile
;
the
Judge
forgetting
all
alliance
,
would
neither
commiserate
his
youth
,
nor
want
of
discretion
,
but
caused
him
(
without
respect
of
person
)
to
be
hanged
up
amongst
the
ordinary
and
common
malefactors
.
Doctor
Otho
Melander
reports
this
horrible
parricide
to
be
committed
Quae
non
Aurum
hominem
cogis
?
quae
non
mala
suades
?
In
Natos
etiam
stringere
ferra
Iubes
?
That
is
,
O
Gold
!
to
what
dost
thou
not
compell
man
?
to
what
evils
dost
thou
not
perswade
?
are
not
these
sufficient
,
but
must
thou
cause
parents
to
sheath
their
weapons
in
their
owne
bowels
their
children
?
which
words
were
uttered
with
such
a
loud
and
shrill
shreeke
,
that
it
was
heard
by
the
neighbours
;
who
starting
out
of
their
beds
,
and
breaking
open
the
doores
,
found
them
in
the
very
act
before
the
body
was
cold
,
for
which
they
were
apprehended
and
laid
in
prison
,
fettered
with
heavy
chaines
;
and
after
being
condemned
,
the
morning
before
the
execution
the
father
strangled
himselfe
,
and
the
mother
was
carried
by
the
Devill
both
out
of
the
Tower
and
Dungeon
,
and
her
body
found
dead
in
a
muddy
ditch
,
with
her
necke
broken
asunder
.
Sorry
I
am
that
I
can
paralell
this
inhumanity
(
arising
from
the
insatiate
desire
of
Gold
)
out
of
our
owne
Countrey
;
thus
it
hapned
:
An
Inne-keeper
in
a
knowne
City
of
this
Kingdome
,
whose
wife
was
living
,
and
they
having
betwixt
them
lost
one
onely
sonne
,
and
a
sole
daughter
;
the
sonne
he
made
meanes
to
be
put
to
an
East-India
Merchant
,
who
imploye
him
to
Sea
,
and
to
trade
and
traffick
in
that
Countrey
,
where
he
stayed
long
,
(
some
ten
yeares
or
thereabout
)
insomuch
that
there
was
great
doubt
of
his
life
;
and
to
his
parents
and
friends
it
was
credibly
reported
that
he
was
dead
,
and
therefore
they
gave
over
the
care
for
him
dead
,
to
provide
for
the
daughter
living
;
and
at
convenient
age
provided
her
of
an
husband
,
and
gave
her
a
competent
portion
,
so
that
the
young
couple
lived
well
and
thriftily
together
in
the
Countrey
,
some
two
miles
distant
from
their
fathers
house
:
In
this
interim
the
Climate
had
much
changed
the
young
mans
complexion
,
who
being
but
a
beardlesse
stripling
when
hee
went
his
voyage
,
after
ten
yeares
was
growne
hairy
and
a
full
man
,
and
might
be
easily
out
of
knowledge
;
who
returning
into
England
with
a
good
stocke
,
as
having
the
best
part
of
a
thousand
markes
in
his
purse
,
after
he
had
dispatched
his
businesse
here
about
the
Towne
,
he
had
a
great
minde
to
travell
downe
into
the
Countrey
,
to
see
how
the
good
old
folke
his
father
and
mother
did
;
and
having
trust
up
his
money
in
a
port
mantuan
,
he
provided
himself
of
a
good
Nag
,
and
fastning
it
safe
behinde
him
,
and
being
well
accommodated
for
his
journey
,
he
set
forward
,
and
in
few
dayes
sped
him
so
well
,
that
he
came
within
some
six
or
seven
miles
of
his
fathers
;
but
all
the
way
as
he
was
travelling
alone
,
he
was
meditating
with
himselfe
,
that
his
father
and
his
mother
were
growne
aged
,
and
he
was
now
as
willing
as
able
to
furnish
them
in
any
necessities
whatsoever
;
or
if
his
sister
were
living
and
unmarried
,
hee
had
wherewithall
to
give
her
a
sufficient
portion
,
to
see
her
well
bestowed
:
and
these
were
his
true
filiall
and
fraternall
conceptions
,
to
depart
liberally
of
what
he
had
unto
them
.
He
further
apprehended
,
that
because
every
body
tels
me
,
that
knew
me
in
my
minority
,
I
am
so
altered
and
growne
out
of
knowledge
,
I
will
conceale
my selfe
at
the
first
;
that
when
after
I
shall
open
and
discover
my selfe
to
them
,
I
shall
finde
the
more
kinde
and
loving
welcome
at
their
hands
.
By
this
time
comming
to
the
next
thorow-fare
Towne
,
in
the
way
to
the
Citie
he
alighted
,
and
called
for
wine
,
and
the
host
to
keepe
him
company
;
of
whom
he
demanded
earnestly
if
such
a
man
were
in
health
?
and
how
his
wife
fared
?
who
answered
,
they
were
passing
well
,
and
able
to
live
in
very
good
and
fashionable
manner
:
Then
demanded
he
of
their
daughter
,
and
what
was
become
of
her
?
who
replyed
,
that
she
was
honestly
married
to
a
thrifty
and
carefull
husband
,
and
that
she
lived
in
the
next
village
just
in
his
way
to
the
Citie
;
of
all
which
being
exceedingly
joyfull
,
hee
tooke
horse
againe
,
and
found
the
house
where
his
sister
lived
;
whose
husband
being
from
home
,
after
some
discourse
past
betwixt
them
,
and
she
ingeniously
confessing
to
him
that
he
was
a
stranger
,
and
no
way
knowne
to
her
,
he
at
length
told
her
what
he
was
,
(
her
brother
)
whom
they
supposed
to
bee
dead
;
withall
the
successe
of
his
fortunes
〈…〉
at
which
,
when
by
circumstance
she
found
true
,
she
was
extreamely
extasied
,
and
first
would
have
him
to
alight
and
stay
till
her
husband
came
home
,
which
he
would
not
by
any
meanes
doe
;
then
she
would
have
accompanied
him
to
her
fathers
:
but
he
would
yeeld
to
neither
,
telling
her
his
conceit
;
how
he
meant
to
carry
himselfe
to
the
two
old
people
,
intreating
her
of
all
loves
,
to
conceale
his
comming
for
a
day
or
two
,
and
then
to
come
and
aske
for
him
at
their
fathers
,
where
she
should
finde
what
welcome
hee
would
give
her
:
to
which
(
though
unwilling
)
she
assented
,
and
he
rid
forward
,
and
an
houre
before
sunne-set
,
came
to
his
fathers
Inne
,
and
calling
to
the
hostler
,
bad
him
to
take
off
his
port-mantuan
,
and
after
to
walke
his
horse
well
,
and
then
put
him
into
the
stable
;
and
then
he
called
for
mine
host
,
who
presently
appeared
like
a
joviall
old
lad
;
hee
called
then
for
his
hostesse
,
and
gave
her
the
port-mantuan
,
saying
to
her
,
good
hostesse
,
lay
this
up
till
I
call
for
it
,
for
here
is
that
which
I
hope
will
make
us
all
merry
:
then
hee
desired
to
have
the
best
chamber
in
the
house
,
and
bespake
supper
,
telling
them
he
was
alone
,
and
desired
them
both
to
keepe
him
company
;
yet
all
this
while
they
not
so
much
as
suspected
what
he
was
:
and
whilest
he
was
gone
into
the
stable
to
see
his
horse
,
the
woman
feeling
what
weight
the
port-mantuan
had
,
told
her
husband
,
and
the
Devill
presently
put
it
into
their
mindes
to
murder
the
stranger
for
his
money
:
supper-time
came
,
and
they
accompanied
him
,
much
discourse
at
randome
past
amongst
them
,
but
covetousnesse
and
the
Devill
so
blinded
their
eyes
,
that
all
this
while
they
knew
him
not
:
After
supper
they
tooke
their
leaves
,
to
plot
what
they
before
had
apprehended
:
To
bed
he
went
,
and
in
the
dead
of
night
they
both
entred
his
chamber
,
and
murdered
him
sleeping
;
then
they
conveyed
his
body
into
a
backe
place
and
buried
it
,
his
horse
they
tooke
out
of
the
stable
,
washt
the
bloud
out
the
chamber
,
and
shifted
a
new
bed
in
the
place
,
so
that
all
things
were
handsome
,
as
if
nothing
had
beene
.
In
the
morning
when
they
thought
the
worst
had
beene
past
,
comes
the
sister
with
her
husband
,
she
askes
for
such
a
stranger
,
they
stifly
deny
that
any
such
lodged
there
;
which
they
did
so
constantly
,
that
she
entreated
them
not
to
keepe
her
owne
brother
and
their
sonne
from
her
,
who
was
come
out
of
the
Indies
with
such
a
summe
of
money
,
to
relieve
all
their
necessities
:
at
first
they
are
both
strooke
silent
,
but
questioning
her
further
,
when
by
all
circumstances
whatsoever
she
said
,
they
found
it
to
be
true
,
not
able
longer
to
containe
themselves
,
they
fell
into
a
loud
exclamation
,
weeping
,
and
wringing
their
hands
.
Briefly
,
for
this
they
were
both
publickly
executed
,
and
the
strangenesse
of
the
accident
by
all
that
heard
it
,
admired
.
I
have
read
strange
reports
concerning
the
death
of
grating
Usurers
,
who
though
by
their
broking
exactions
,
and
corroding
oppressions
,
doe
not
visibly
imbrue
their
hands
in
the
bloud
of
the
indigent
and
needy
;
yet
by
their
horrible
extortions
have
put
them
to
more
lingering
and
torturing
deaths
,
as
to
starve
,
famish
,
and
perish
,
not
beggering
private
persons
who
are
compelled
to
come
within
their
griping
clutches
only
,
but
annihilating
and
undoing
of
whole
families
and
housholds
at
once
:
I
have
heard
of
one
of
those
earth-wormes
,
who
dying
of
a
suddaine
appoplex
,
his
Executors
with
his
wife
,
desired
to
have
his
body
dissected
and
opened
,
that
they
might
know
certainly
of
what
disease
he
died
;
one
giving
out
one
cause
,
a
second
another
;
and
to
satisfie
that
doubt
,
when
the
Surgeon
came
to
use
his
Art
,
and
had
searcht
him
thorowly
,
he
found
all
his
entrayles
in
good
order
,
onely
his
heart
was
wanting
,
at
which
all
the
spectators
were
amazed
,
and
almost
stupified
,
as
holding
it
to
be
prodigious
;
till
at
length
one
of
the
neighbours
(
pleasantly
conceited
)
and
being
well
acquainted
with
his
having
disposition
,
you
had
best
(
said
he
)
to
looke
for
his
heart
in
his
great
bar'd
chest
,
for
there
it
was
ever
in
his
life
,
and
why
not
now
in
his
death
;
which
though
jestingly
spoke
,
the
Executors
tooke
in
earnest
,
and
causing
the
chest
to
be
opened
,
they
found
it
panting
upon
his
treasure
.
This
(
whether
true
or
no
)
yet
sure
I
am
that
it
is
a
just
taxation
conferred
upon
Extortioners
and
Usurers
.
Doctor
Melander
puts
me
in
minde
of
another
of
the
like
,
(
if
not
worse
condition
)
who
being
borne
towards
his
grave
,
was
interposed
by
a
devout
man
,
who
by
reason
of
his
cruell
and
abhominable
extortions
,
denied
him
the
right
of
Christian
buriall
:
which
seeing
they
could
not
obtaine
,
as
of
custome
and
president
,
they
(
I
meane
his
wife
and
friends
)
offered
a
large
summe
of
money
to
have
him
buried
,
if
it
were
but
in
any
corner
of
the
Church-yard
,
but
the
Pastor
would
be
neither
moved
by
prayers
or
bribes
,
but
alleadging
that
he
who
lived
his
whole
life-time
worse
then
any
Turke
,
Heathen
,
or
Infidell
,
ought
not
in
death
to
have
those
solemne
rights
belonging
to
a
Christian
;
and
therefore
stopt
his
eares
to
whatsoever
they
could
alleadge
in
his
behalfe
:
at
length
,
after
long
debating
the
matter
,
it
was
concluded
betwixt
the
two
parties
,
that
a
Cart
and
two
Oxen
should
be
provided
,
and
the
Coffin
to
be
put
into
the
Cart
,
and
to
what
place
soever
the
Beasts
should
carry
him
(
without
guide
)
there
should
his
place
of
buriall
be
:
well
,
the
Oxen
were
put
into
the
Cart
,
and
the
body
in
it
,
who
went
their
way
of
their
owne
accord
out
at
the
Townes
end
,
and
then
forward
,
just
to
the
common
execution
place
,
where
they
made
a
stand
,
and
could
not
by
any
violence
been
compelled
any
further
,
and
there
his
grave
was
digged
and
he
buried
;
a
place
due
to
all
that
generation
of
vipers
.
Sic
Deus
eventu
mirando
ostendit
in
orbe
Vsurae
quantum
,
sit
scelus
atque
nephas
.
God
by
the
event
,
thus
shewes
them
what
to
trust
,
What
base
use
is
;
how
perjur'd
and
unjust
.
I
will
onely
adde
a
third
from
the
before-named
Author
,
who
(
if
possible
)
exceeding
the
other
in
his
foenatory
exactions
,
fell
into
an
extreame
agony
of
sicknesse
,
which
grew
desperate
and
mortall
;
so
that
there
was
no
helpe
to
be
expected
from
Physitians
or
others
,
but
that
needs
he
must
die
:
which
his
wife
perceiving
,
came
weeping
unto
him
,
and
humbly
besought
him
to
make
his
Will
;
and
as
to
provide
a
place
for
his
soule
in
Heaven
,
so
withall
to
settle
his
estate
upon
earth
:
to
which
he
seemed
very
unwilling
;
but
upon
her
great
importunity
hee
called
for
pen
,
inke
,
and
pape
,
and
writ
with
his
owne
hand
as
followeth
:
Imprimis
,
I
bequeath
my
soule
to
the
Devill
,
who
as
in
life
he
ever
had
it
in
keeping
,
so
in
death
it
is
fit
that
he
,
and
hee
onely
,
should
take
it
to
his
charge
:
which
his
wife
hearing
,
shee
grew
greatly
astonished
,
and
besought
him
,
that
since
hee
had
no
care
of
himselfe
,
that
hee
would
have
some
respect
of
her
,
by
knowing
what
shee
should
trust
to
after
his
death
:
when
straitway
he
writ
farther
;
And
thou
wife
also
shalt
goe
with
me
to
Hell
,
who
hast
beene
conscious
of
all
my
fraudulencies
,
crafts
,
and
cozenages
,
being
partly
to
maintaine
thy
pride
and
gay
cloathes
,
and
hast
made
me
rob
the
Orphant
of
his
coat
,
and
the
Widdow
of
her
garment
,
to
helpe
thy
superfluity
.
Then
she
thinking
him
distracted
,
and
quite
out
of
his
senses
,
sent
presently
to
the
Parson
of
the
Parish
to
give
him
some
ghostly
instructions
for
his
soules
health
;
adding
in
the
conclusion
,
that
he
hoped
he
would
not
forget
him
in
his
Will
:
at
which
words
he
tooke
pen
,
and
writ
againe
as
followeth
.
Item
,
and
thou
O
Parson
shalt
beare
us
company
to
the
infernall
torments
below
;
for
knowing
of
all
my
wicked
and
injust
proceedings
,
thou
wast
so
farre
from
reproving
them
,
that
thou
didst
rather
smooth
me
up
in
my
sinnes
,
and
connive
at
my
delinquencies
,
onely
to
be
welcome
at
my
house
,
and
eate
fat
bits
at
my
table
;
for
such
are
the
just
judgments
denounced
against
us
.
His
moritur
dictis
,
subito
Vir
,
Pastor
,
&
Vxor
Abrepti
,
ardentes
ad
Phlegetontis
aquas
.
Thus
Englished
.
This
said
,
the
Man
,
the
Parson
,
Wife
,
all
three
Died
,
and
were
borne
to
Hell
immediately
.
Salomon
saith
,
Prov.
11.
3.
The
uprightnesse
of
the
Iust
shall
guide
them
,
but
the
frowardnesse
of
the
Transgressors
shall
destroy
them
.
Riches
availe
not
in
the
day
of
wrath
,
but
righteousnesse
delivereth
from
death
.
And
of
the
hatefulnesse
and
contemptible
estimation
of
usury
amongst
good
men
,
we
may
reade
Cato
Major
in
the
Proem
to
his
booke
De
re
Rustica
,
thus
:
Majores
nostri
sic
habuere
,
&
it
a
in
Legibus
posuert
.
Furem
dupli
condemnari
,
Faenerat●●em
quadrupli
:
Our
Ancestors
held
this
position
,
and
put
it
amongst
their
Lawes
,
that
the
mulct
or
penalty
imposed
on
a
Theefe
should
be
double
,
but
of
an
Usurer
foure
fold
.
And
Cicero
Offic.
lib.
2.
hath
these
words
:
When
it
was
demanded
of
Cato
Major
,
what
was
most
conducent
and
necessary
in
a
private
family
?
he
answered
,
To
feed
well
:
being
askt
what
was
the
second
?
he
said
,
To
feed
well
,
and
enough
:
being
askt
what
was
the
third
?
he
replyed
,
To
be
well
cloathed
:
being
askt
the
fourth
,
he
returned
answer
,
To
plow
and
till
the
earth
:
lastly
,
being
askt
what
it
was
to
be
an
Usurer
?
he
replyed
,
Even
so
much
as
to
be
a
Murderer
.
They
that
will
be
further
satisfied
concerning
this
Argument
,
I
referre
them
to
Mart.
Schipperus
in
speculo
vitae
anlicae
,
ad
Tomum
Germanicum
sextum
D.
Lutheri
,
D.
Musculum
in
Psalm
.
15.
Benedict
.
Aretius
in
Problem
.
Iohannes
Fulgent
.
Baptist.
in
Psalm
.
15.
And
Gorhardus
,
Lorichius
,
Hadumarius
,
in
Institutione
Catholiea
,
&c.
CHAP.
VI.
Gods
Iudgements
against
Lust.
THis
sinne
is
by
some
defined
to
be
a
lascivious
petulancie
,
an
inordinate
use
of
pleasures
and
delights
,
or
an
over-doing
prosusenesse
,
either
in
curiosity
of
apparrell
or
superfluity
in
feasting
:
others
call
it
a
concupiscence
of
proving
unlawfull
pleasures
,
a
desire
of
copulation
above
measure
,
or
against
reason
;
it
is
also
a
solution
or
dissolving
into
voluptuousnesse
,
and
by
the
Law
of
God
is
condemned
:
as
Marke
7.
21.
For
from
within
,
even
out
of
the
heart
of
men
proceed
evill
thoughts
,
adulteries
,
fornications
,
murders
,
thefts
,
covetousnesse
,
wickednesse
deceit
,
uncleannesse
,
a
wicked
eye
,
backbiting
,
pride
foolishnesse
,
all
these
evils
come
from
within
,
and
defile
a
man
,
&c.
Rom.
13.
12.
The
night
is
past
,
and
the
day
is
at
hand
,
let
us
therefore
cast
away
the
workes
of
darknesse
,
and
let
us
put
on
the
armour
of
light
,
so
that
we
walke
honestly
as
in
the
day
;
not
in
gluttony
and
drunkennesse
,
neither
in
chambering
and
wantonnesse
,
&c.
Corinth
.
2.
12.
21.
I
feare
least
when
I
come
againe
my
God
shall
abase
me
amongst
you
,
and
I
shall
bewaile
many
of
them
which
have
sinned
already
,
and
have
not
repented
them
of
the
uncleannesse
,
and
fornication
,
and
wantonnesse
which
they
have
committed
.
Ephes.
4.
19.
Which
being
past
feeling
have
given
themselves
unto
wantonnesse
,
and
to
worke
all
uncleannesse
.
2
Peter
2.
18.
For
in
speaking
swelling
words
of
vanity
,
they
beguile
with
wantonnesse
through
the
lusts
of
the
flesh
,
them
that
were
cleane
escaped
from
those
which
were
wrapped
in
errour
;
promising
them
liberty
,
and
are
themselves
the
servants
of
corruption
.
And
againe
,
1
Peter
,
4.
3.
For
it
is
sufficient
that
we
have
spent
the
time
past
of
our
life
after
the
lusts
of
the
Gentiles
,
walking
in
wantonnesse
,
lust
,
drunkennesse
;
in
gluttony
,
drinking
,
and
abhominable
Idolatry
:
wherein
it
seemeth
to
them
strange
,
that
you
runne
not
with
them
into
the
same
excesse
of
riot
;
therefore
speake
they
evill
of
you
,
&c.
There
is
also
Fornicatio
,
differing
in
some
kinde
from
the
former
,
and
this
includeth
all
unlawfull
copulation
,
or
illicite
congression
,
in
any
tye
of
wedlock
,
consanguinity
,
affinity
,
order
,
religion
,
or
vow
:
and
this
is
twofould
,
spirituall
and
corporall
,
or
carnall
;
that
spirituall
is
meere
Idolatry
,
so
hatefull
to
God
,
and
so
often
forbid
in
the
holy
Text
,
which
is
attended
by
infidelity
,
and
every
hurtfull
superstition
:
It
includes
also
the
lust
of
the
eye
,
with
the
consent
of
the
minde
,
according
to
that
Text
,
Whosoever
shall
looke
upon
a
woman
and
lust
after
her
,
&c.
All
uncleane
pollution
is
called
carnall
fornication
,
and
that
which
is
called
simplex
,
or
simple
,
is
Soluti
,
cum
soluta
,
and
a
most
mortall
sinne
,
and
provoketh
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
:
Deut.
22.
23.
If
a
maid
be
betrothed
to
an
husband
,
and
a
man
finde
her
in
the
Towne
and
lie
with
her
,
then
you
shall
bring
them
both
out
unto
the
gates
of
the
same
Citie
,
and
shall
stone
them
with
stones
to
death
:
the
maide
because
she
cryed
not
,
being
in
the
Citie
;
and
the
man
,
because
he
humbled
his
neighbours
wife
:
so
thou
shalt
put
away
evill
from
among
you
,
Eccles.
19.
2.
Wine
and
women
leade
wise
men
out
of
the
way
,
and
put
men
of
understanding
to
reproofe
;
and
hee
that
accompanieth
adulterers
shall
become
impotent
:
rottennesse
and
wormes
shall
have
him
to
heritage
,
and
he
that
is
bold
shall
be
taken
away
and
be
made
an
example
.
Jerem.
6.
and
7.
How
should
I
spare
thee
for
this
?
thy
children
have
forsaken
me
,
and
sworne
by
them
that
are
no
gods
.
Though
I
fed
them
full
,
yet
they
committed
adultery
,
and
assembled
themselves
by
companies
in
the
harlots
houses
:
they
rose
up
in
the
morning
like
fed
horses
,
for
every
one
neighed
after
his
neighbours
wife
;
shall
I
not
visit
for
these
things
,
saith
the
Lord
?
shall
not
my
soule
be
avenged
on
such
a
Nation
as
this
?
Hosea
4.
10.
For
they
shall
eate
and
not
have
enough
,
they
shall
commit
adultery
and
shall
not
increase
,
because
they
have
left
off
to
take
heed
of
the
Lord
:
wheredome
,
and
wine
,
and
new
wine
,
take
away
thine
heart
.
Againe
,
Vers.
14.
I
will
not
visit
your
daughters
when
they
are
harlots
,
nor
their
spouses
when
they
are
whores
,
for
they
themselves
are
separated
with
harlots
,
and
sacrifice
with
whores
,
therefore
the
people
that
doth
not
understand
shall
fall
.
1
Cor.
6.
The
fornicatour
shall
not
inherit
the
Kingdom
of
Heaven
.
Hebr.
3.
Nor
the
fornicatours
and
adulterers
.
Adulterium
,
or
Adultery
the
Greekes
call
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
The
Hebrews
Ninph
;
and
it
is
twofold
,
Spirituall
and
Carnall
:
that
which
is
called
spirituall
is
metaphoricall
,
including
every
sin
committed
by
a
Christian
man
,
because
every
Christian
soul
is
contracted
to
Christ
the
Husband
.
That
which
is
called
carnall
,
is
either
simple
or
single
,
when
but
the
one
party
is
married
;
or
double
,
when
both
are
in
the
matrimoniall
or
conjugall
tie
:
and
all
of
these
are
condemned
in
the
holy
Text
,
Gen.
20.
3.
God
came
to
Abimelech
in
a
dream
by
night
,
and
said
unto
him
,
Behold
,
thou
art
but
dead
,
because
of
the
woman
(
Sarah
)
whom
thou
hast
taken
;
for
she
is
a
mans
wife
.
Now
then
deliver
the
man
his
wife
again
,
for
he
is
a
Prophet
,
and
he
shall
pray
for
thee
,
that
thou
mayst
live
:
but
if
thou
deliver
her
not
again
,
be
sure
that
thou
shalt
die
the
death
,
even
thou
and
all
that
thou
hast
.
Lev.
20.
10.
And
the
man
that
committeth
adultery
with
another
mans
wife
,
because
he
hath
committed
adultery
with
another
mans
wife
,
the
adulterer
and
the
adulteresse
shall
die
the
death
.
Lev.
5.
20.
But
if
thou
hast
turned
from
thine
husband
,
and
so
art
defiled
,
and
some
man
hath
lien
with
thee
besides
thine
husband
,
then
the
Priest
shall
charge
the
woman
with
an
oath
of
cursing
,
and
the
Priest
shall
say
unto
the
woman
,
The
Lord
make
thee
to
be
accursed
and
detestable
for
the
oath
among
the
people
,
and
the
Lord
cause
thy
thigh
to
rot
,
and
thy
belly
to
swell
.
Verse
28.
When
ye
have
made
her
drinke
the
water
(
if
she
be
defiled
,
and
have
transgressed
against
her
husband
)
then
shall
the
cursedwater
(
turned
into
bitternesse
)
enter
into
her
,
and
her
belly
shall
swell
,
and
herthigh
shall
rot
,
and
the
woman
shall
be
accursed
amongst
the
people
.
Prov.
&
.
32.
He
that
committeth
adultery
with
a
woman
is
destitute
of
understanding
,
he
that
doth
it
destroyeth
his
own
soul
,
he
shall
finde
a
wound
and
dishonour
,
and
his
reproach
shall
never
be
put
away
.
Again
,
30.
18.
There
be
three
things
hid
from
me
;
yea
,
four
that
I
know
not
:
The
way
of
an
Eagle
in
the
air
,
the
way
of
a
Serpent
upon
a
stone
,
the
way
of
a
ship
in
the
midst
of
the
sea
,
and
the
way
of
a
man
with
a
maid
.
Such
is
the
way
also
of
an
adulterous
woman
,
she
eateth
and
wipeth
her
mouth
,
and
saith
,
I
have
not
committed
iniquity
.
Eccles.
23.
22.
And
thus
shall
it
go
with
every
wife
that
leaveth
her
husband
,
and
getteth
inheritance
by
another
:
for
first
,
she
hath
disobeyed
the
law
of
the
most
High
:
and
secondly
,
she
hath
trespassed
against
her
own
husband
:
and
thirdly
,
she
hath
played
the
where
in
adultery
,
and
gotten
her
children
by
another
man
,
she
shall
be
brought
into
the
congregation
,
and
examination
shall
be
made
of
her
children
,
her
children
shall
not
take
root
,
and
her
branches
shall
bring
no
fruit
,
a
shamefull
reproach
shall
she
leave
,
and
her
reproach
shall
not
be
put
out
,
&c.
Wisd.
3.
16.
The
children
of
adulterers
shall
not
be
partakers
of
the
holy
things
,
and
the
seed
of
the
wicked
shall
be
rooted
out
,
and
though
they
live
long
,
yet
shall
they
be
nothing
regarded
,
and
their
last
age
shall
be
without
honour
,
if
they
die
hastily
they
have
no
helpe
,
neither
comfort
in
the
day
of
triall
;
for
horrible
is
the
end
of
the
wicked
generation
.
Again
4.
3.
The
multitude
of
the
ungodly
which
abound
in
children
,
is
unprofitable
,
and
the
bastard
plants
shall
take
no
deep
roots
,
nor
lay
any
fast
foundation
:
for
though
they
bud
forth
in
the
branches
for
a
time
,
yet
they
shall
be
shaken
with
the
winde
,
for
they
stand
not
faste
,
and
through
the
vehemency
of
the
winde
they
shall
be
rooted
out
,
for
the
imperfect
branches
shall
be
broken
,
and
their
fruit
shall
be
unprofitable
,
and
sower
to
eat
,
and
meet
for
nothing
,
for
all
the
children
that
are
borne
of
the
wicked
bed
shall
be
witnesse
of
the
wickednesse
against
the
parents
when
they
be
asked
.
And
what
more
terrible
judgements
than
these
can
be
threatned
against
the
Adulterers
.
Let
us
now
hear
the
Fathers
:
this
is
Saint
Austins
counsell
,
De
verbo
Dom.
tract
.
48.
If
you
will
marry
wives
,
keep
your selves
unto
them
,
and
let
them
finde
you
the
same
you
desire
to
finde
them
?
What
is
he
desirous
to
marry
,
and
would
not
be
coupled
to
a
chaste
wife
?
Or
if
a
virgin
,
one
that
is
untoucht
?
Be
thou
also
chaste
and
untoucht
.
Dost
thou
desire
one
to
be
constant
and
pure
to
thee
?
Be
constant
and
pure
to
her
;
for
can
she
prove
so
to
thee
,
and
not
thou
also
to
her
?
Saint
Chrisostome
,
Hom.
3.
As
that
Pilot
which
suffers
his
ship
to
be
wracked
in
a
port
or
harbour
is
inexcusable
,
so
he
that
to
qualifie
the
lusts
of
the
flesh
shall
lawfully
take
a
spouse
to
live
withall
for
better
and
for
worse
,
and
shall
after
insidiate
the
bed
of
his
neigbour
;
neither
can
that
man
whose
wanton
eyes
and
petulant
fancies
wander
after
every
loose
prostitute
or
strumpet
,
either
acquit
himselfe
to
men
,
or
excuse
himselfe
towards
God
,
although
he
shall
ten
thousand
times
alleadge
his
naturall
inclination
to
pleasure
:
or
how
can
that
properly
be
called
pleasure
,
which
is
waited
on
by
fear
,
diffidence
,
danger
,
and
where
there
is
expectation
of
so
many
evils
:
accusation
the
seat
or
the
tribunall
of
justice
,
and
the
ire
and
wrath
of
the
Judge
,
he
stands
in
dread
of
all
things
,
shadowes
,
walls
,
stones
,
graves
,
neighbours
,
adversaries
,
nay
even
his
dearrest
friends
.
But
be
it
granted
,
that
their
guilt
be
private
,
and
known
onely
to
the
delinquents
,
they
are
not
therefore
safe
,
here
shall
they
bear
a
conscience
even
reproving
,
and
suggesting
bitter
and
fearfull
things
against
them
?
and
the
conscience
to
be
alwayes
about
them
.
For
as
no
man
can
fly
him
,
so
none
can
evade
or
avoid
the
sentence
of
that
private
Court
,
for
this
judicatory
sense
is
not
with
gold
to
be
corrupted
,
with
flattery
mitigated
,
not
by
friends
mediated
,
in
regard
it
is
a
thing
divine
,
and
by
God
himselfe
placed
and
appointed
to
have
residence
in
our
hearts
.
Saint
Ambrose
de
Patriarchis
,
in
speaking
of
the
Patriarchs
,
Abraham
and
Iacob
,
and
of
their
multiplicity
of
wives
,
he
in
excuse
of
them
saith
,
that
Abraham
was
before
either
the
Law
or
the
Gospell
,
and
in
his
time
Big
〈…〉
y
was
rot
forbidden
.
Now
the
punishment
of
a
fault
grew
from
the
time
of
the
Law
,
for
it
was
not
a
crime
before
it
was
inhibited
and
forbid
;
so
〈◊〉
had
four
wives
,
which
whilest
it
was
a
custom
was
no
crime
,
who
as
they
married
not
meerly
for
concupiscence
,
and
to
fulfill
the
lust
full
desires
of
the
flesh
,
but
rather
instigated
by
providence
to
the
propagation
of
issue
;
therefore
let
no
man
flatter
himselfe
by
making
them
their
president
,
for
all
adultery
is
damnable
,
&c.
Ioses
the
son
of
Iehochanan
in
that
Book
which
the
Hebrews
stile
Capi
〈…〉
vel
apothegmata
,
hath
this
saying
,
the
time
which
a
man
spends
in
multiplying
words
with
a
woman
,
he
loseth
to
his
great
damage
;
for
at
length
with
her
petulancy
she
will
bring
him
to
perdition
.
And
Rabbi
A●●ba
saith
,
Laughter
,
and
the
light
and
unconstant
moving
of
the
head
,
easily
convince
a
man
of
loosnesse
and
effeminacy
.
And
Habbiben
Syra
saith
,
For
the
sake
of
beautifull
women
the
strongest
have
fallen
,
and
many
have
perished
;
therefore
hide
thine
eyes
from
the
allurements
of
a
fair
woman
,
lest
she
catch
thee
in
her
snare
,
and
thou
become
her
captive
,
to
thy
des●●●ction
.
Dionysius
the
elder
(
though
otherwise
a
Tyrant
)
when
he
by
complaint
made
had
understood
his
son
to
whose
charge
he
had
committed
the
government
of
a
Province
,
to
have
stuprated
the
wife
of
a
noble
young
Gentleman
,
he
sent
for
him
,
and
being
exceeding
angry
,
demanded
of
him
,
if
he
had
seen
any
such
president
in
his
father
.
To
whom
he
replied
,
Many
,
for
he
had
not
a
King
to
his
father
.
Nor
thou
,
said
Diony
〈…〉
s
,
art
likely
to
have
a
King
to
thy
son
,
if
thou
followest
these
lewd
and
luxurious
courses
.
The
Tyrant
holding
Adultery
a
crime
worthy
to
disinherit
him
from
all
regall
Authority
,
which
is
now
made
no
more
than
a
sport
and
pastime
amongst
great
ones
:
for
Sylla
sirnamed
Faustus
,
the
freed
man
of
Sylla
the
great
competitour
against
Marius
,
hearing
that
his
naturall
filler
had
entertained
two
Adulterers
into
her
service
at
once
,
which
were
Fulvius
Fullo
and
Pomponius
whose
sirname
was
Macula
,
he
put
it
off
with
a
jest
upon
their
names
,
Miror
(
inquit
)
sororem
meam
maculam
habere
cum
fullonem
habet
:
that
is
,
I
wonder
my
sister
should
have
a
macula
,
or
wear
any
spot
or
stain
,
when
she
hath
a
fullo
,
a
fuller
,
that
washeth
and
taketh
out
staines
still
so
near
her
.
There
is
also
scortation
,
of
Scortum
a
whore
,
which
the
Greekes
call
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
and
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
is
Scortari
,
the
Hebrews
Zonach
.
To
this
capitall
head
of
lust
likewise
belongeth
incest
,
which
is
a
venereall
abuse
in
Affinity
and
consanguity
,
which
for
these
reasons
may
be
said
justly
to
be
prohibited
,
because
man
naturally
acknowledgeth
an
honour
to
his
parents
,
and
so
by
consequence
a
more
than
common
respect
to
those
of
his
near
blood
and
alliance
.
Secondly
,
because
it
is
necessitous
,
that
persons
arising
from
one
root
and
stem
be
mutually
conversant
.
Thirdly
,
it
hindereth
the
increase
of
friends
,
which
are
lost
by
not
marrying
into
other
stockes
and
families
.
Lastly
,
when
a
man
naturally
loveth
his
sister
or
cousin-germine
,
being
so
neer
to
him
in
blood
,
if
that
venereall
ardor
which
comes
from
commixtion
were
added
,
love
would
break
out
into
raging
lust
,
which
is
altogether
repugnant
to
all
modesty
and
chastity
.
There
is
also
Sodomia
,
Turpitudo
in
masculum
facta
,
contranaturam
:
of
which
to
speak
I
will
be
very
sparing
.
Thus
you
see
the
sixth
of
the
seven
heads
as
the
Beast
,
dissected
and
anatomised
:
But
I
come
now
to
History
and
Example
.
Cateline
that
firebrand
of
Rome
,
and
pestilent
incendiary
of
all
sedition
,
to
adde
to
all
his
other
criminall
and
capitall
malefactions
,
which
were
indeed
beyond
president
,
or
since
his
time
,
by
any
of
the
most
notorious
ruffians
,
that
the
later
ages
have
bred
,
if
imitated
,
yet
scarce
equalled
,
and
therefore
much
lesse
exceeded
:
this
Arch
yillain
(
I
say
)
to
all
his
other
wicked
acts
added
also
these
of
Adultery
and
Incest
:
he
was
infamous
for
his
many
stuprations
with
a
noble
virgin
of
Rome
;
he
raped
also
one
of
the
Vestal●
or
priests
of
Vesta
;
and
further
,
to
enjoy
the
embraces
of
Aurelia
Arestilla
,
he
took
away
her
son
by
poyson
,
because
being
grown
to
maturity
and
yeares
of
discretion
,
he
opposed
his
mothers
second
nuptials
,
which
was
in
those
dayes
held
to
be
immodesty
amongst
the
noblest
matrons
of
Rome
;
and
thus
Salustius
and
Valerius
report
of
him
.
Calius
cap.
30.
lib.
8.
reports
that
Bagoas
the
Eunuch
was
much
indeated
to
Alexander
the
great
,
for
no
other
cause
but
that
there
was
some
brutish
and
unnaturall
congresse
betwixt
them
;
therefore
when
Orsines
a
noble
Persian
came
to
see
Alexander
,
and
presented
to
him
,
and
to
them
of
his
choice
and
intimate
friends
,
many
great
and
rich
gifts
,
but
gave
to
Bagoas
not
so
much
as
the
least
honour
or
respect
,
being
asked
the
reason
thereof
,
he
made
answer
,
I
owe
unto
Alexander
and
his
friends
all
the
duty
and
reverence
that
can
be
expectect
from
a
true
loyall
and
faithfull
heart
,
but
to
a
whore
or
strumpet
such
as
Bagoas
is
,
to
him
I
acknowledge
not
so
much
as
the
least
notice
to
be
taken
that
such
a
wretched
fellow
lives
.
Of
the
lusts
and
intemperances
of
Augustus
,
Iulius
,
Tiberius
,
Heliogabalus
,
Caligula
,
Commodus
,
Domitian
,
Proculus
,
and
others
,
I
have
sufficiently
spoken
before
:
which
shewed
,
as
the
Roman
Emperours
exceeded
in
state
,
power
and
majesty
,
so
most
of
them
maculated
and
poluted
their
high
and
sacred
calling
with
the
most
base
effeminacies
and
sordidst
luxuries
that
the
heart
could
conceive
,
or
the
fancy
of
man
apprehend
.
Neither
have
they
alone
been
guilty
of
these
notorious
crimes
and
vices
,
but
all
Nations
have
been
tainted
with
the
like
impurities
,
which
hath
been
the
depopulation
of
famous
Cities
,
the
ruines
of
Kingdomes
,
the
removing
of
Monarchies
,
from
one
people
and
language
to
another
,
when
seldom
any
Conquerour
from
any
Nation
brought
home
their
victory
without
their
vices
,
of
which
there
be
frequent
examples
.
The
Babylonians
were
the
first
that
usurped
the
name
of
a
Monarchy
;
the
Medes
and
Persians
wrested
it
from
them
;
the
Grecians
wan
it
from
the
former
;
and
lastly
the
Romans
from
the
Grecians
,
who
as
they
learned
of
them
Graecari
,
to
drinke
hard
,
so
Mechari
,
to
stuprate
and
adulterate
;
and
as
they
used
their
Dominion
,
and
tyranny
,
governing
them
by
substitutes
,
and
praefects
,
and
proconsuls
,
and
the
like
;
so
with
their
power
they
brought
in
their
prodigalities
,
riots
,
feastings
,
rapes
,
adulteries
,
stuprations
,
scortations
,
fornications
,
even
to
abhominations
above
nature
,
too
immodest
to
speak
,
then
by
consequent
,
too
devillish
to
act
.
But
from
generalities
I
come
to
particulars
.
Gemelius
Tribunitius
,
though
he
were
one
of
the
Patricians
family
,
and
a
Nobleman
of
Rome
,
yet
was
so
degenerate
in
his
condition
,
that
of
his
own
house
he
made
a
Brothell
or
Stewes
,
where
amongst
others
were
vitiated
Mutia
and
Fulvia
,
two
illustrious
women
,
and
of
especiall
remarke
in
the
City
,
with
a
noble
youth
called
Saturninus
;
who
was
polluted
and
defiled
against
nature
:
but
as
some
report
of
the
master
of
the
family
,
his
house
was
after
accidentally
set
on
fire
,
and
he
himselfe
added
part
of
the
fewell
to
the
flame
.
And
in
this
kinde
of
punishment
lust
may
be
said
,
(
and
not
altogether
unproperly
)
to
be
quenched
with
fire
.
Calius
reports
of
Dionysius
junior
,
that
comming
into
the
City
of
Locris
,
where
he
had
the
entertainment
belonging
to
a
Prince
of
his
estate
and
quality
,
but
the
Town
abounding
with
fair
and
beautifull
virgins
,
he
could
not
bridle
his
exorbitant
appetite
,
but
some
he
courted
with
fair
words
,
others
bribed
with
rich
gifts
,
and
such
as
he
could
win
to
his
insatiate
desires
by
neither
,
he
committed
violence
upon
their
persons
,
insomuch
that
divers
of
the
noblest
maidens
were
by
him
vitiated
and
corrupted
,
which
they
not
having
patience
to
endure
)
made
an
insurrection
against
him
,
and
having
first
dispatched
his
Guard
,
to
whom
he
most
trusted
,
they
seised
upon
his
person
,
and
put
him
so
great
maceration
and
torment
:
for
,
binding
him
to
a
stake
,
they
thrust
sharpe
needles
betwixt
the
nailes
and
flesh
of
his
toes
and
fingers
,
and
when
he
had
endured
as
well
the
taunts
of
their
tongues
,
as
the
exquisite
tortures
of
their
engines
,
they
put
him
to
death
,
and
after
having
dried
his
bones
,
pouned
them
to
dust
in
a
morter
:
and
such
was
the
reward
of
his
brutish
and
beastly
luxury
:
to
whom
I
will
adde
Lusius
the
nephew
to
Marius
by
the
sisters
side
,
who
for
offering
a
preposterous
carriage
of
lust
to
Treboninus
a
young
man
of
an
excellent
aspect
and
feature
,
and
withall
of
a
civill
and
modest
carriage
,
(
by
profession
a
Souldier
)
was
slain
by
him
in
his
tent
,
notwithstanding
the
greatnesse
of
his
alliance
and
kinred
,
of
which
he
prefumed
so
far
,
that
even
the
most
abhominable
evils
by
them
countenanced
,
might
be
held
lawfull
.
And
by
the
like
encouragement
,
namely
the
impurity
of
the
times
,
Sotodes
the
obscene
Iambicke
writer
composed
his
verses
in
that
strain
,
as
savouring
nothing
but
Pathicke
and
Cinedicke
venery
;
abhorred
by
all
modest
and
chaste
eares
and
eyes
;
insomuch
that
of
them
grew
a
proverbe
,
If
any
mans
workes
tasted
of
ribaldry
or
obscenity
,
it
was
called
Sotadicum
poëma
:
and
of
him
Politianus
speakes
in
his
Natricia
.
The
Corinthians
were
extremely
taxed
with
this
incontinence
,
for
it
is
said
of
them
,
that
they
prostituted
their
wives
and
daughters
for
gain
,
and
hence
grew
a
proverbe
,
Non
cuivis
homini
contingit
adire
Corinthum
;
It
is
not
for
every
man
to
go
to
Corinth
,
they
pay
so
dear
for
their
pleasure
.
The
Babylonians
,
Tyrrhenians
,
and
Massagelans
were
also
greatly
contaminated
with
this
vice
,
abusing
their
bodies
in
that
monstrous
sort
,
that
they
were
said
,
rather
to
live
like
beasts
than
men
.
It
is
a
sin
which
compelleth
men
neither
to
have
care
of
their
own
good
names
,
nor
of
their
posterity
which
shall
come
after
them
;
and
therefore
Draco
the
famous
Law-giver
writ
so
bitterly
against
this
concupiscence
,
that
he
is
said
,
rather
than
to
have
drawn
them
in
inke
,
to
have
inscribed
them
in
blood
:
and
no
wonder
if
he
were
so
austere
and
supercilious
against
it
;
when
it
inforceth
us
to
covet
above
our
power
,
to
act
beyond
our
strength
,
and
to
die
before
our
time
.
One
defineth
it
thus
,
an
enemy
to
the
purse
,
a
foe
to
the
person
,
a
canker
to
the
minde
,
a
corrasive
to
the
conscience
,
a
weakner
of
the
wit
,
a
besotter
of
the
sense
,
and
a
mortall
enemy
to
the
whole
body
;
it
sweetneth
with
pleasure
to
the
path
of
perdition
,
and
is
the
loadstone
leading
and
guiding
to
ruth
and
ruine
,
(
so
far
Pliny
.
)
Demonax
termes
it
,
a
pleasure
bought
with
pain
,
a
delight
hatched
with
unquiet
,
a
contentment
accompanied
with
fear
,
and
a
sin
finished
with
sorrow
,
by
continuance
it
growes
to
impudence
,
and
shame
,
and
infamy
continually
waites
at
the
heeles
thereof
.
For
further
instance
,
one
Hostius
a
Prince
who
lived
in
the
time
of
Augustus
Caesar
,
was
a
man
of
a
most
perdit
obscenenesse
,
practised
in
that
superlative
degree
of
filthinesse
,
that
scarce
any
age
could
produce
a
prodegy
to
paralell
him
,
modesty
will
not
suffer
me
to
give
them
name
.
And
Tegillinus
(
according
to
Tacitus
lib.
17.
)
was
a
man
of
a
most
corrupted
life
,
who
soothed
and
humoured
Nero
in
all
his
ribaldries
,
his
sirname
was
Othonius
,
by
whose
flattery
and
calumny
many
a
noble
Roman
was
put
to
death
:
and
when
Otho
who
succeeded
Nero
,
came
to
wear
the
Imperiall
purple
,
and
to
be
instated
Emperour
,
he
sent
(
amongst
other
malefactours
)
for
him
,
to
suffer
as
a
putrified
and
corrupt
member
of
the
State
,
and
when
the
executioner
with
other
lictors
and
officers
came
to
surprise
him
in
his
house
,
they
found
him
drinking
and
rioting
amongst
his
catamites
and
harlots
,
where
without
limiting
any
time
either
to
settle
his
estate
,
or
to
take
leave
of
any
of
his
friends
,
he
was
instantly
slain
,
and
his
wounded
body
cast
into
the
open
streets
.
Crassus
the
richest
of
the
Roman
fathers
,
after
the
death
of
one
of
his
brothers
,
married
his
wife
,
by
whom
he
had
many
children
.
And
Surinus
the
wealthiest
and
most
potent
of
the
Parthians
next
to
the
King
,
had
in
his
tents
two
hundred
concubines
at
one
time
.
And
Xerxes
King
of
Persia
was
so
given
over
to
all
licentiousnesse
and
luxury
,
that
he
hired
pursuivants
,
and
kept
Cursors
and
messengers
in
pay
to
inquire
and
finde
out
men
who
could
devise
new
wayes
of
voluptuousnesse
,
and
to
them
gave
great
rewards
,
for
so
Valerius
Maximus
reports
of
him
.
And
Volateranus
remembers
us
of
one
Vgutius
a
Florentine
Prince
,
who
was
slain
of
his
Citizens
and
Subjects
for
stuprating
their
wives
,
and
vitiating
their
virgins
.
Thus
seldom
we
see
this
vice
to
go
unpunished
.
Nor
is
it
particular
to
the
masculine
sex
,
as
the
sole
provocatours
hereof
,
but
women
have
been
equally
and
alike
guilty
.
We
reade
in
Genesis
of
Potiphars
wife
,
who
solicited
Ioseph
to
her
adulterate
embraces
,
who
because
he
refused
to
commit
such
villany
,
and
to
offend
both
God
and
his
master
,
she
accused
him
to
his
Lord
,
that
he
would
have
done
to
her
violence
,
for
which
he
lay
two
years
in
prison
.
But
from
prophane
Histories
we
have
many
examples
.
For
Iulia
Agrippina
the
mother
of
Nero
was
said
to
have
unlawfull
congresse
with
Domitian
,
for
so
Iuvenal
saith
:
nay
more
,
after
feasting
and
banqueting
,
in
the
heat
of
her
cups
,
when
she
with
her
son
were
together
topt
with
wine
,
they
commonly
used
incestuous
consociety
:
the
conclusion
of
which
impious
lust
was
,
that
the
son
in
the
end
having
caused
his
mother
to
be
slain
,
commanded
her
body
to
be
dissected
,
and
ript
open
before
his
face
,
as
longing
to
see
the
bed
wherein
he
lay
when
he
was
an
unborne
infant
.
She
was
the
daughter
to
Germanicus
,
sister
to
Caligula
,
the
wife
first
of
Domitius
,
after
of
Clodius
whom
she
poysoned
,
for
no
other
cause
but
to
make
Nero
her
son
Emperour
:
and
you
hear
how
well
he
requited
her
.
A
chicken
of
the
same
brood
was
Messalina
the
daughter
of
Messala
,
and
the
wife
and
Empresse
of
Claudius
Caesar
,
a
woman
of
a
most
insatiate
lust
,
whose
custome
was
to
disguise
her selfe
like
a
private
Gentlewoman
,
so
that
she
might
not
be
known
,
and
with
her
pandor
ushering
her
,
to
walke
unto
common
stewes
and
brothell-houses
,
and
there
prostitute
her selfe
to
all
commers
whosoever
,
nay
,
she
was
not
ashamed
to
contend
with
the
ablest
and
strongest
Harlot
in
the
City
for
masterie
,
whence
also
shee
returned
rather
tyred
then
satisfied
;
nay
more
,
she
selected
out
of
the
noblest
Wives
and
Virgins
to
be
eye
witnesses
and
companions
in
her
filthinesse
,
whither
men
also
were
not
denied
accesse
,
as
spectators
,
against
all
womenly
shame
and
modesty
:
and
if
any
noble
Gentleman
of
whom
she
seemed
to
be
enamoured
,
refused
or
despised
her
profered
imbraces
,
shee
would
feigne
and
devise
some
crime
or
other
to
be
revenged
on
him
,
and
his
whole
familie
.
Pliu.
lib.
29
tels
us
,
That
one
Vectius
Valius
a
notable
Physitian
was
nobilitated
meerly
for
pandthering
to
her
luxuries
.
Fabia
the
Wife
of
Fabrius
Fabricanus
grew
greatly
besotted
on
the
love
of
a
faire
Petroninus
Valentinus
,
who
the
more
freely
to
injoy
in
her
petulant
imbraces
caused
her
husband
to
be
traiterously
murdred
.
But
being
(
in
regard
of
the
high
measure
of
the
fault
)
complain'd
upon
by
her
husbands
Kinred
and
Friends
,
shee
was
convicted
by
the
Iulian
Law
,
and
suffered
according
to
the
penalty
thereof
.
Martiall
reckoneth
up
as
notorious
Strumpets
and
Adulteresses
,
Leviana
,
Paula
,
Proculina
,
Zectoria
,
Gallia
,
as
Catullus
remembreth
us
of
Austelina
,
and
Iuvenall
of
Hyppia
.
Zoe
one
of
the
Roman
Empresses
caused
her
husband
Arginopilus
to
be
slaine
to
adulterate
her selfe
with
Michael
Paleologus
:
but
who
shall
As
these
for
Scortation
and
Adultery
,
so
others
have
been
notoriously
Pomminius
Laurentinus
grew
into
such
an
extreme
dotage
of
her
sonne
in
law
Comminius
,
that
not
able
to
compasse
her
unchaste
desires
,
and
her
Incestuous
love
being
discovered
to
her
husband
,
shee
dispairingly
strangled
her selfe
;
of
which
death
also
Phoedra
alike
besotted
on
her
husbands
sonne
Hippolitus
perished
.
Papinius
the
sonne
of
Papinius
Volucris
had
a
beautifull
Sister
whose
name
was
Canusia
:
you
must
not
live
,
which
the
wretched
creatures
understanding
,
&
knowing
the
austeritie
of
their
Father
,
and
his
constancy
in
his
resolutions
,
hee
fell
upon
the
one
,
and
shee
on
the
other
,
and
so
miserably
ended
their
lives
.
Iulia
was
the
step-Mother
of
Antonius
Caracalla
Emperour
of
the
Romans
,
who
having
cast
many
wanton
glances
towards
her
,
and
she
reciprocally
Antonia
Coracalla
.
answering
them
,
at
length
when
they
were
in
familiar
discourse
together
,
he
brake
forth
into
these
words
,
vellem
si
liceret
,
I
would
if
it
were
lawfull
:
whose
meaning
she
soone
apprehending
suddenly
answered
again
,
and
without
pause
,
si
lubet
licet
,
leges
dat
Imperator
non
accipit
,
if
you
like
it
is
lawfull
,
Emperours
make
Lawes
but
are
tide
to
none
;
with
which
words
being
emboldned
,
he
first
contracted
,
and
then
publikely
married
her
,
notwithstanding
some
few
dayes
beforehe
had
caused
her
owne
sonne
Geta
to
be
put
to
death
,
and
this
is
related
by
Sextus
Aurelius
,
and
by
Aeli●●
Spartanus
.
Amongst
these
Incestuous
is
listed
Capronia
the
vestall
Virgin
,
Diodorus
,
lib.
tertio
,
shee
grew
to
bee
of
that
venerious
and
libidinous
disposition
,
she
did
not
onely
admit
but
hire
and
inforce
divers
of
the
youngest
and
ablest
Souldiers
to
her
lascivious
and
incontinent
imbraces
,
and
further
as
Trogus
Pompeius
,
lib.
2.
hath
left
remembred
,
shee
laboured
to
have
Carnall
congression
with
her
sonne
Ninus
,
(
whom
she
concealed
in
her
Pallace
,
)
and
whose
shape
she
adulterated
:
for
which
setting
all
Filiall
respect
and
obedience
aside
hee
slew
her
with
his
owne
hands
,
and
after
raigned
in
her
stead
.
A
young
Spanish
Maid
having
prostituted
her selfe
to
a
Gentleman
upon
A
Gentleman
of
Millan
a
Widower
,
tho
of
60
yeares
of
age
,
fell
in
Nicholas
Prince
of
Opolia
,
was
so
monstrously
given
to
corrupt
wives
A
Burgesse
of
Ulmes
,
finding
his
wife
wantonly
given
,
did
often
advise
An
Advocate
of
Constance
,
having
had
the
carnall
knowledge
of
an
A
Nobleman
of
Piedmont
,
having
married
a
Maid
of
mean
parentage
,
notwithstanding
the
honour
she
received
by
him
,
she
shamelesly
abused
Plutarch
reckons
this
out
of
Dosythaus
lib.
3.
rerum
saecularum
,
Cyanippus
The
like
Arisidas
Italic
.
lib.
3.
relates
of
one
Armutius
,
who
all
the
time
of
his
youth
lived
a
very
continent
and
abstemious
life
,
but
upon
a
Fabinus
Fabricanus
,
the
Cousin
of
Maximus
,
having
subdued
Fuxia
the
chiefe
City
of
the
Samnites
;
in
which
interim
his
Wife
Fabia
falling
into
the
wanton
embraces
of
her
neare
kinsman
Petronius
Valentinus
,
at
his
home
returne
they
conspired
to
murther
him
;
which
having
done
,
they
made
a
match
together
and
were
marryed
:
But
shee
fearing
that
her
new
Husband
might
insiduate
the
life
of
her
young
Sonne
Fabricianus
,
who
was
then
but
a
Childe
,
she
conveigh'd
him
thence
to
be
liberally
educated
and
instructed
abroad
:
who
when
hee
grew
to
be
a
man
,
and
understood
how
treacherously
and
perfidiously
his
Father
had
been
murdered
,
and
by
whom
,
he
came
disguis'd
to
Rome
,
and
having
waited
his
opportunity
,
slew
both
the
Adulterer
and
the
Adulteresse
;
and
for
that
act
was
acquit
by
the
Senate
.
One
Story
I
connot
forget
,
remembred
by
Platine
,
who
writ
the
lives
of
the
Popes
,
though
it
be
a
mighty
shame
,
and
a
most
ignominious
aspersion
,
not
to
exceed
those
in
vertue
,
whom
we
antecell
in
place
and
dignity
;
yet
this
nothing
mov'd
Pope
Iohn
the
twelfth
of
that
name
,
but
that
all
honesty
set
apart
,
and
modesty
quite
banish'd
,
he
kept
at
his
own
charge
a
whole
Seraglia
of
Prostitutes
and
Strumpets
,
with
whom
night
and
day
hee
revelled
and
rioted
,
which
wickednesse
escaped
not
without
a
most
remarkable
Judgement
:
For
he
was
after
miserably
slaine
in
the
very
act
of
Adultery
.
Childebert
the
second
,
and
seventeenth
King
of
France
,
anno
692.
grew
Philip
the
second
,
sirnamed
Augustus
,
upon
discontents
repudiated
Boys
de
Vinennes
,
to
which
place
the
Queen
was
confined
;
where
having
lovingly
imbrac'd
her
,
and
received
her
into
his
former
true
conjugall
affection
,
there
was
never
the
least
distaste
knowne
to
bee
betwixt
them
after
.
Nor
let
this
Story
seem
altogether
impertinent
to
the
argument
now
in
agitation
,
which
is
to
shew
the
Judgements
impending
in
Adultery
,
and
Spouse-breach
;
't
is
fit
also
that
wee
should
know
how
God
in
his
great
mercy
and
goodnesse
favoureth
and
protecteth
vertue
and
Innocents
:
For
his
holy
Angels
are
alwayes
the
Guardians
of
the
just
and
faithfull
.
Common
is
this
sinne
of
Concupiscence
;
and
howsoever
damnable
in
the
eyes
of
God
,
and
detestable
in
the
sight
of
good
men
;
yet
those
most
reddere
ratione
velle
rationis
suae
,
they
will
bee
found
to
be
the
same
grosse
,
grievous
,
capitoll
and
mortall
sinnes
:
For
which
those
that
continue
therein
,
without
true
and
hearty
repentance
shall
dearely
answer
.
But
amongst
the
vexations
,
molestations
,
and
incombrances
belonging
D.
Otho
Melanders
.
A
Noble
Gentleman
lived
very
conjugally
and
lovingly
with
his
Lady
;
she
had
a
Chamber-maid
of
a
very
sweet
aspect
and
feature
,
not
any
way
Strange
were
that
act
abroad
,
which
cannot
in
some
sort
be
parallel'd
with
us
at
home
.
At
Gainsborough
in
Lincolnshire
,
it
happened
that
a
Brig
house
.
)
In
this
intrim
,
a
Serving-man
comming
in
,
and
hearing
his
Mistris
was
in
great
displeasure
and
distemperature
gone
up
with
her
maid
,
and
knowing
her
froward
and
hasty
disposition
,
he
went
to
the
doore
and
knockt
;
but
hearing
none
but
one
as
it
were
miserably
forcing
breath
for
life
:
he
lookt
in
either
at
some
chinke
,
or
the
key-hole
,
where
he
saw
his
Mistris
in
the
same
posture
I
before
described
,
with
a
knife
in
her
hand
,
and
one
pittifully
bleeding
under
her
:
He
broke
open
the
doore
,
being
Wainscot
,
and
casting
her
off
from
the
Bed
to
the
floore
,
tooke
up
the
Maid
,
nigh
stifled
,
and
carried
her
to
a
neighbours
house
,
where
Chyrurgeons
were
sent
for
,
and
she
in
time
recovered
of
life
,
though
shee
had
made
her
utterly
unable
of
Conception
.
But
what
gain'd
shee
by
this
her
uncivill
cruelty
?
she
was
after
abhorr'd
by
all
good
and
modest
women
,
asham'd
to
looke
out
of
her
owne
doores
;
neither
would
any
of
fashion
converse
with
her
,
but
held
it
a
scandall
to
be
but
seen
in
her
company
.
But
now
to
return
to
the
Judgments
inflicted
upon
adultery
,
and
to
shew
Brithricus
,
the
first
King
of
the
West
Saxons
,
began
his
Reigne
in
the
Off
a
King
of
Mercia
;
he
was
a
valiant
Prince
,
and
renowned
for
many
Warlike
exploits
;
but
especially
for
beating
the
Danes
,
and
compelling
them
to
avoid
the
Land
.
But
what
can
Valour
or
Prowesse
availe
against
a
wicked
and
cursed
woman
,
who
the
more
freely
to
enjoy
the
moecall
embraces
of
her
libidinous
companion
,
plotted
divers
ways
to
take
away
her
husbands
life
,
which
at
length
she
affected
,
by
poysoning
him
,
and
divers
of
his
family
;
which
having
done
,
and
fearing
to
be
questioned
about
the
Fact
,
she
truss'd
up
her
Jewels
,
and
the
best
things
about
her
,
and
fled
into
France
,
unto
the
Court
of
Charles
the
Great
,
with
whom
she
so
temporized
and
qualified
her
owne
impious
Cause
,
and
being
withall
a
Lady
of
extraordinary
aspect
and
presence
,
that
she
grew
highly
into
his
grace
and
favour
.
But
when
after
he
was
informed
of
her
unstable
condition
,
hee
thought
to
make
some
tryall
of
her
;
and
being
at
that
time
a
Widdower
,
one
day
when
hee
was
in
some
private
conference
with
her
at
a
window
.
hee
said
openly
;
Now
Lady
I
put
it
to
your
free
election
,
whether
you
will
take
mee
for
your
wedded
Lord
and
Husband
,
or
this
my
Son
here
standing
in
presence
?
To
which
Question
,
shee
without
the
least
pause
gave
this
Now
to
shew
how
the
Creator
of
all
,
who
instituted
chaste
Matrimony
in
Paradice
,
as
hee
hates
those
contaminated
with
all
impurity
,
so
of
the
contrary
,
he
is
a
Guardian
and
Potector
to
those
of
cleane
and
undefiled
life
,
as
may
appeare
by
this
subsequent
story
.
In
the
time
of
Edward
,
the
sonne
of
King
Edgar
,
by
his
first
wife
Egelfleda
,
who
began
his
reigne
This
King
Edward
upon
a
time
being
hunting
in
the
Forrest
,
and
having
lost
his
Traine
,
and
finding
none
of
his
servants
neare
him
,
hee
bethought
himself
that
his
Mother-in-law
Elphaida
,
with
her
Sonne
Egelredus
,
lived
at
a
place
called
Corfe-Castle
(
which
is
in
the
West-Countrey
)
and
thought
it
no
better
a
time
then
now
to
give
her
a
visit
:
but
the
malicious
woman
looking
out
of
her
window
,
and
knowing
him
a
far
off
,
called
to
one
of
her
servants
(
of
her
owne
breeding
)
and
told
him
what
he
had
to
doe
;
for
she
perceived
he
was
alone
,
and
none
of
his
Peeres
,
or
Attendants
about
him
.
By
this
time
the
King
was
come
to
the
Castle
gate
,
whither
she
descended
,
and
offered
him
all
the
Courtesie
of
entertainment
that
any
Syren
(
who
only
flatters
to
destruction
)
could
have
done
:
for
with
courteous
words
she
besought
him
to
alight
,
and
to
lodge
in
the
Castle
that
night
;
both
which
he
with
great
affability
and
gentlenesse
refused
,
saying
he
would
onely
taste
a
Cup
of
her
Beere
,
and
then
ride
to
finde
out
some
of
his
Company
:
but
the
Cup
being
brought
,
he
had
no
sooner
moved
it
towards
his
mouth
,
but
this
Barbarous
Villaine
,
Traitor
,
and
Regicide
,
Neither
could
some
Church-men
cleare
themselves
of
those
Capitall
Crimes
which
they
very
bitterly
reproved
in
others
:
For
Sigandus
made
Bishop
of
Shirburne
,
about
the
twelfth
yeare
of
Edward
,
sirnamed
the
Confessor
,
shortly
after
usurped
the
Bishoprick
of
Winchester
by
strength
,
Nunc
aliud
tempus
,
alii
pro
tempore
mores
.
Now
the
times
are
chang'd
,
and
wee
have
learnt
to
suit
our
Manners
and
Conditions
to
the
present
;
(
a
notorious
Church-temporizer
in
those
dayes
.
)
But
though
he
reign'd
long
in
great
pompe
and
prosperity
,
he
was
in
the
time
of
William
the
Conquerour
deprived
of
all
his
Ecclesiasticall
honours
,
and
confined
to
Winchester
,
and
there
kept
prisoner
till
he
dyed
;
who
in
that
extreame
dejection
,
when
he
should
onely
have
repented
him
of
his
former
Avarice
,
and
studied
newnesse
of
life
,
would
usually
sweare
he
was
a
very
poore
man
,
and
not
worth
one
peny
,
and
that
hee
was
free
from
all
Concupiscence
of
Lust
;
both
which
were
proved
untrue
:
For
after
his
death
a
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
found
about
his
necke
,
by
which
in
divers
places
of
the
earth
was
discovered
much
Treasure
;
and
those
Women
that
ministred
unto
him
were
no
other
then
Prostitutes
and
Concubines
.
Henry
the
second
was
a
potent
and
most
victorious
Prince
;
But
after
he
had
falne
into
the
libidinous
embraces
of
the
Lady
Rosamond
,
Daughter
To
descend
unto
these
latter
times
,
how
many
strange
and
bloudy
murders
have
beene
committed
through
Lust
?
I
will
give
them
but
a
meere
nomination
,
because
most
of
them
have
beene
Staged
,
Book'd
,
and
Balleted
,
and
disperst
abroad
through
the
Kingdome
:
As
Master
Arden
of
Black
Will
,
who
after
the
deed
done
,
and
his
reward
received
,
fled
into
the
Low-Countries
,
where
he
thought
himselfe
secure
:
But
Gods
hand
reached
him
even
thither
;
where
for
some
other
deed
of
the
same
nature
,
he
was
burnt
on
a
Stage
in
Flushing
;
and
shee
her selfe
,
with
Cosby
and
his
Sister
,
together
with
a
Gentleman
Master
Green
,
who
had
carried
Letters
betwixt
the
two
Adulterers
:
(
though
hee
took
it
upon
his
death
,
he
knew
not
the
intents
of
them
)
were
all
publikely
executed
at
the
Gallowes
.
The
like
murder
was
committed
on
the
person
of
one
Master
Page
of
Plymouth
,
by
his
young
wife
;
and
one
Master
George
Strangwidge
,
who
And
but
of
late
dayes
,
those
two
bloudy
Ministers
of
the
Devill
,
most
Cambury
Besse
,
who
made
a
trade
to
have
her
his
Whore
walke
in
the
evening
into
the
Fields
;
and
where
she
saw
any
Gentleman
or
other
likely
to
have
money
about
him
,
or
good
cloathes
on
his
backe
,
shee
would
insinuate
into
his
Company
,
and
with
her
libidinous
allurements
offer
her selfe
to
his
prostitution
;
which
if
he
accepted
of
,
that
arch-limbe
of
the
Devill
(
who
hid
himselfe
privately
for
that
purpose
,
and
stealing
upon
them
with
a
Bastinado
hooped
and
plated
with
Iron
)
beate
out
his
Braines
,
even
in
the
very
act
of
Lust
,
neither
having
pitty
of
body
or
soule
:
Then
rifled
they
their
Pockets
,
and
stript
them
of
their
cloathes
,
of
which
they
made
profitable
chaffer
,
being
vendible
at
the
Brokers
;
for
the
last
of
which
,
being
committed
upon
a
young
Gentleman
of
good
quality
,
by
his
cloathes
they
were
discovered
and
apprehended
,
hee
being
executed
neare
unto
the
place
where
the
last
Fact
was
committed
:
and
after
being
thence
removed
to
a
more
remote
place
,
his
body
hangs
in
chaines
upon
a
Gibbet
even
to
this
day
;
and
shee
was
hang'd
in
Clerken-well
fields
,
over
against
Islington
.
If
any
would
have
further
inspection
into
the
cursed
fruits
of
Lust
,
let
him
but
enquire
after
the
monethly
Sessions
at
New-gate
,
where
scarce
one
passeth
without
those
that
goe
for
Maid-servants
,
either
strangling
their
Bastard-Issue
,
or
putting
them
downe
into
privities
,
not
caring
to
save
their
smal
credit
in
this
world
,
to
hazard
everlasting
perdition
in
the
world
to
come
:
yet
notwithstanding
all
their
close
packings
,
they
are
in
the
end
found
out
,
and
brought
to
the
Gallowes
.
I
am
loath
to
be
more
tedious
in
this
then
the
rest
;
therefore
I
conclude
with
this
Distick
,
as
a
generall
Caveat
unto
all
libidinously
addicted
:
Quid
facies
,
facies
,
veneris
cum
veneris
ante
,
Non
Sedeas
,
sedeas
,
ne
pereus
pereus
.
What
wilt
thou
doe
,
when
thou
before
Loose
Venus
shalt
appeare
,
Stay
not
,
but
take
thine
heeles
,
lest
her
Allurements
cost
thee
deare
.
CHAP.
VII
.
Gods
Judgements
against
the
Sinne
of
Gluttony
.
TThis
Sinne
of
Gluttony
tooke
its
originall
in
our
great
Genesis
2.
16.
And
the
Lord
God
commanded
the
man
saying
,
thou
shalt
eat
freely
of
every
Tree
of
the
Garden
,
but
of
the
Tree
of
Knowledge
of
good
and
evill
,
thou
shalt
not
eate
of
it
;
for
in
the
day
that
thou
eatest
thereof
thou
shalt
surely
dye
the
death
.
Againe
3.
6.
So
the
Woman
seeing
that
the
Tree
was
good
for
meat
,
and
that
it
was
pleasant
to
the
eyes
,
and
a
Tree
to
be
desired
to
get
Knowledge
,
took
of
the
fruit
thereof
,
and
did
eate
,
and
gave
also
to
her
husband
with
her
,
and
he
did
eate
:
For
which
they
were
most
grievously
punished
,
and
all
man-kinde
for
their
sakes
:
For
Verse
16.
Vnto
the
Woman
God
said
,
I
will
greatly
encrease
thy
sorrowes
and
thy
conception
:
In
sorrow
shalt
thou
bring
forth
children
;
and
thy
defire
shal
be
subject
to
thy
husband
,
and
he
shall
rule
over
thee
.
Also
to
Adam
he
said
,
Because
thou
hast
obeyed
the
voice
of
thy
wife
,
and
hast
eaten
of
the
Treewhereof
I
commanded
thee
,
saying
,
Thou
shalt
not
eate
of
it
:
Cursed
is
the
earth
for
thy
sake
;
in
sorrow
shalt
thou
eate
of
it
all
the
dayes
of
thy
life
:
Thornes
also
and
Thistles
shall
it
bring
forth
unto
thee
;
and
thou
shalt
eate
the
herbe
of
the
field
:
in
the
sweat
of
thy
face
shalt
thou
eate
bread
,
till
thou
returne
to
the
earth
;
for
out
of
it
wast
thou
taken
,
because
thou
art
dust
,
and
to
dust
shalt
thou
returne
.
We
read
Numb
.
11.
32.
then
the
people
arose
all
that
day
,
and
all
that
night
,
and
all
the
next
day
,
and
gathered
the
Quailes
:
he
that
gathered
the
least
,
gathered
ten
Homers
full
;
and
they
spread
them
abroad
for
their
use
round
about
the
Host
:
whilst
the
flesh
was
yet
in
their
teeth
,
before
it
was
chewed
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
was
kindled
against
the
people
,
and
the
Lord
smote
the
people
with
an
exceeding
great
plague
:
There
they
buried
the
people
that
fell
a
lusting
,
Deut.
6.
When
thou
shalt
eate
and
be
satisfied
,
beware
diligently
that
thou
forgettest
not
the
Lord
thy
God
,
who
brought
thee
out
of
the
Land
of
Egypt
,
and
the
house
of
bondage
.
Againe
,
21.
20.
The
Parents
shall
say
to
the
Elders
of
his
City
,
This
our
Son
is
stubborne
and
disobedient
,
and
will
not
obey
our
commandement
,
but
is
a
Rioter
and
a
Drunkard
.
Then
all
the
men
of
the
City
shall
stone
him
with
stones
unto
death
,
so
shalt
thou
take
away
evill
from
amongst
you
,
that
all
Israell
may
heare
it
and
feare
,
Ecclesiasticus
31.
12.
If
thou
sittest
at
a
costly
Table
,
open
not
thy
mouth
wide
upon
it
,
and
say
not
,
behold
much
meat
:
Remember
that
an
evill
eye
is
a
shame
;
and
what
thing
created
is
worse
then
a
wicked
eye
;
for
it
weepeth
for
every
cause
:
Stretch
not
thine
hand
wheresoever
it
looketh
,
and
thrust
it
not
with
it
into
the
Dish
.
Eate
modestly
that
which
is
set
before
thee
;
and
devour
not
,
lest
thou
bee'st
hated
.
Leave
then
off
first
for
nurtures
sake
;
and
be
not
insatiable
,
lest
thou
offend
.
When
thou
sittest
amongst
many
,
reach
not
thy
hand
out
first
of
all
:
How
little
is
sufficient
for
a
man
well
taught
?
and
thereby
he
belcheth
not
in
his
Chamber
,
nor
feeleth
any
paine
.
A
wholsome
sleep
commeth
of
a
temprate
Belly
;
he
riseth
up
in
the
morning
,
and
is
well
at
ease
with
himselfe
;
but
paine
is
watching
and
choler
,
like
diseases
and
pangs
of
the
belly
are
insatiable
men
.
If
thou
bee
inforced
to
eate
,
arise
,
goe
forth
,
and
empty
thy
stomack
,
and
then
take
thy
rest
;
so
shalt
thou
bring
no
sicknesse
unto
thine
house
.
Shew
not
thy
valiantnesse
in
Wine
,
for
wine
hath
destroyed
many
;
the
Furnace
proveth
the
edge
of
the
tempering
,
so
doth
Wine
the
hearts
of
the
proud
by
drunkennesse
.
Wine
soberly
drunk
is
profitable
for
the
life
of
man
:
what
is
life
that
is
overcome
with
Wine
?
Wine
was
made
from
the
beginning
to
make
man
glad
,
and
not
for
drunkennesse
:
Wine
measurably
taken
and
in
time
,
bringeth
gladnesse
,
and
chearefulnesse
of
the
minde
;
but
drinke
with
excesse
maketh
bitternesse
of
minde
,
brawlings
,
and
scoldings
.
Drunkennesse
increaseth
the
rage
of
a
Foole
,
till
he
offend
;
it
diminisheth
his
strength
,
and
maketh
wounds
,
&c.
Againe
37.
28.
be
not
greedy
in
all
delights
,
and
bee
not
too
hasty
of
all
meats
:
for
excesse
of
meats
bringeth
sicknesse
,
and
gluttony
commeth
with
cholerick
Diseases
.
By
surfeit
have
many
perished
,
and
he
that
dyeteth
himselfe
prolongeth
his
life
.
Thus
farre
the
old
Testament
;
let
us
now
heare
what
the
Gospel
saith
Iesus
Christ
,
and
take
no
thought
for
the
flesh
to
fulfill
the
lusts
of
it
.
And
Luke
17.
In
the
dayes
of
Noe
they
eate
and
dranke
,
they
marryed
Wives
,
and
were
given
in
marriage
,
even
untill
the
day
that
Noe
entred
into
the
Arke
,
and
the
floud
came
and
destroyed
them
all
.
Thus
farre
the
Scriptures
:
I
come
now
to
the
Fathers
,
St.
Ambrose
Innocentius
lib
de
Vil.
Condit
.
Human
.
useth
words
to
this
purpose
:
Gluttony
shut
up
Paradice
,
sold
the
Birth-right
,
hang'd
the
Baker
,
beheaded
the
Baptist
;
Nebuzandan
the
Prince
of
Cooleus
,
burnt
the
Temple
,
destroyed
Jerusalem
;
&
Baltazer
sitting
at
his
great
Feast
saw
the
hand-writing
upon
the
Wall
,
and
that
night
was
slaine
by
the
Caldeans
.
Hugo
in
Claus.
saith
,
That
there
be
some
who
sit
downe
to
a
feast
with
an
unquiet
agitation
of
the
members
,
expressing
the
insatiate
intemperance
of
their
mindes
,
they
shake
their
heads
,
shrug
the
shoulders
,
they
expand
their
hands
,
and
not
without
great
uncomlinesse
,
and
unseemly
gesture
,
as
if
they
were
rowzing
and
preparing
themselves
to
ingorge
and
swallow
the
whole
banquet
.
Other
unmannerly
postures
and
carriages
at
Table
they
use
;
for
sitting
in
one
place
,
with
their
eyes
they
greedily
survey
every
dish
that
is
served
in
;
their
hands
ready
to
reach
to
the
full
length
of
their
armes
,
removing
this
further
off
,
and
pulling
that
nearer
;
then
they
breake
the
Bread
,
poure
wine
into
the
Cups
and
Glasses
,
besieging
themselves
round
with
the
best
dishes
;
then
they
pant
,
swell
,
and
breath
short
,
through
the
vehemence
and
extremity
of
feeding
,
so
that
you
wou'd
thinke
them
seeking
for
some
wide
passage
to
tumble
in
their
fat
bits
,
to
satisfie
their
craving
and
crooking
bellies
,
as
if
the
narrownesse
of
their
chaps
and
jawes
could
not
supply
their
voracious
stomack
with
that
superabundance
which
it
expects
:
Thus
sits
hee
like
one
besieging
a
City
,
doubting
in
what
place
first
to
begin
his
assault
,
and
therefore
would
make
irruption
upon
all
places
,
and
at
once
;
and
such
is
this
Gastrimargia
,
or
Cormorantedulitie
.
They
were
wont
of
old
to
build
Temples
to
the
gods
,
erect
Altars
,
appoint
Flammins
and
Priests
to
serve
,
kill
beasts
for
the
Sacrifice
,
burne
Incense
:
and
so
the
carnall
and
voluptuous
men
in
these
dayes
,
they
make
their
Kitchin
their
Temple
,
their
Table
their
Altar
,
their
Cookes
their
Priests
,
their
Veales
,
Lambs
,
Capons
,
&c.
provided
for
their
Dyets
;
the
Beasts
for
imitation
,
and
the
fumes
and
steame
of
their
sawe'd
Dishes
,
Censary
Incense
.
Indeed
over
superstitious
is
the
industry
and
care
they
have
in
setting
forth
the
services
and
severall
courses
at
their
great
and
solemne
Feasts
and
Banquets
.
Infinite
are
the
varieties
and
multiplicity
of
their
decoctions
,
Rostings
,
Bakings
,
Fryings
,
Stewings
,
and
the
like
;
with
new
devised
Sawces
,
composed
of
severall
ingredients
,
now
soft
,
then
hard
,
now
cold
,
then
hot
;
some
temper'd
with
Pepper
,
others
with
Onions
and
Garlick
,
then
with
Cinamon
,
then
with
Salt
;
mens
guts
longing
as
Women
with
great
Bellies
.
Then
ariseth
a
disputation
amongst
these
Helnoes
,
whether
such
a
Dish
tastes
better
boyl'd
or
roasted
,
bak'd
or
broyl'd
,
carbinado'd
,
or
otherwise
:
insomuch
that
after
a
dozen
dishes
of
solid
meat
devovr'd
,
there
is
no
impediment
or
let
,
but
that
the
last
course
of
more
curious
and
dainty
Cates
,
is
as
soone
swallowed
:
and
when
the
stomack
by
often
belching
,
and
eructations
shall
say
it
hath
enough
;
yet
are
not
their
boundlesse
and
unlimited
appetites
satisfi'd
:
such
are
they
who
make
their
bellies
their
God
:
and
thus
far
Hugo
.
Augustus
Caesar
hearing
one
Erotes
a
Procurator
of
Egypt
had
bought
a
Bird
which
in
fighting
was
never
conquered
,
but
had
the
victory
of
all
The
Devill
by
Wine
worketh
miracles
;
but
all
quite
averse
and
opposite
The
meere
contrary
to
these
hee
practiseth
against
Gluttons
and
Drunkards
;
for
let
them
with
never
so
constant
and
steady
steps
walke
to
the
Taverne
,
they
often
returne
from
thence
indenturing
and
reeling
this
way
and
that
way
;
their
knees
being
made
unserviceable
;
and
their
legs
so
debilitated
,
that
they
are
scarce
able
to
support
them
from
falling
to
the
earth
.
Let
the
Drunkards
eyes
bee
never
so
perfect
and
cleare
at
his
going
in
,
at
his
comming
back
hee
shall
finde
them
so
waterish
,
filmy
and
blear'd
with
the
fumes
of
Wine
,
that
he
shall
scarcely
see
to
finde
his
way
to
his
owne
dwelling
:
Be
his
speech
never
so
voluble
and
distinct
,
hee
shall
finde
a
great
change
and
alteration
in
his
tongue
;
for
it
will
falter
in
his
mouth
,
he
shall
lispe
and
clip
his
English
,
and
be
scarce
able
to
utter
any
one
intelligible
word
:
And
be
his
hearing
never
so
aggragate
&
quick
,
excesse
and
superfluity
of
Wine
shall
so
dull
and
stupifie
that
sense
,
that
he
shall
seem
to
be
appoplex'd
all
over
,
that
till
the
charme
be
over
,
and
the
Wine
have
left
working
,
hee
shall
not
have
power
to
awake
,
or
the
strength
to
hold
up
his
head
,
though
a
Drum
should
beate
by
him
,
or
a
Cannon
be
shot
off
by
his
care
.
Moreover
,
our
Saviour
restored
the
mad
and
lunatick
to
their
senses
;
but
the
devill
(
by
Wine
abused
)
takes
from
the
sober
all
sense
,
and
from
the
apprehension
all
understanding
;
the
moderate
spirit
it
makes
mad
,
and
the
low-minded
Lunatick
;
and
these
are
the
Anti-maskes
with
which
he
fooles
and
deludes
his
servants
,
dandling
,
and
cockering
them
to
their
utter
ruine
and
destruction
.
I
come
now
to
History
.
One
Albidinus
,
a
young
man
of
a
most
perdit
and
debaucht
course
of
Lucullus
a
noble
Roman
,
in
his
Praetorship
govern'd
Africk
two
severall
It
is
reported
of
him
,
that
Pompey
and
Cicero
one
night
stealing
upon
him
with
a
self-invitation
to
supper
,
he
caused
on
the
suddaine
a
Feast
to
be
made
ready
,
the
cost
whereof
amounted
to
fifty
thousand
peeces
of
silver
;
the
state
of
the
place
,
the
plenty
of
meat
,
the
change
and
variety
of
Dishes
,
the
costly
sawces
,
the
finenesse
and
neatnesse
of
the
Services
,
driving
the
guests
into
extraordinary
admiration
.
Briefely
,
having
given
himselfe
wholly
to
a
sensuall
life
,
his
high-feeding
,
and
deep
quaffing
brought
him
to
such
a
weaknesse
,
that
hee
grew
apoplex'd
in
all
his
senses
;
and
as
one
insufficient
to
governe
either
himselfe
or
his
estate
,
hee
was
committed
to
the
keeping
of
M.
Lucullus
his
neare
Kinseman
,
dying
soon
after
.
Caesar
the
sonne
of
Pope
Alexander
,
was
one
of
those
who
much
doted
And
Galentius
,
the
sonne
of
Iohn
Galentius
,
the
first
Duke
of
Imsubria
,
Ricks
Doller
.
One
Peter
a
Priest
,
and
Cardinall
in
the
time
when
Syxtus
was
Pope
,
in
the
space
of
two
yeares
was
knowne
to
lavish
and
waste
three
hundred
thousand
Double-Duckets
(
rated
at
twelve
shillings
English
the
piece
)
upon
vanities
and
unnecessary
disbursements
,
the
greatest
part
of
which
was
consumed
in
his
Kitchin
and
Seller
,
the
rest
in
sundry
kindes
of
excesse
and
prodigality
.
I
read
also
of
one
Belflorius
by
Nation
a
Sicilian
;
at
first
of
very
meane
Let
us
therefore
bethinke
our selves
,
that
whensoever
wee
sitdowne
to
Salust
saith
,
nothing
can
appeare
more
abject
and
mis-becomming
man
,
who
is
the
Image
of
the
Creatour
,
then
to
live
as
a
slave
to
the
mouth
and
belly
.
But
how
hard
a
matter
is
it
(
faith
Cato
)
to
preach
Abstinence
to
the
Belly
which
hath
no
Eares
,
and
yet
is
importunate
,
whether
the
hand
have
wherewith
to
supply
it
or
no.
Socrates
inviting
certaine
of
his
friends
to
a
Schollers
pittance
,
or
a
spare
Supper
,
when
he
was
taxed
by
one
of
his
Guests
for
too
slender
provisions
,
made
answer
;
If
these
whom
I
invited
be
vertuous
,
they
will
say
here
is
enough
;
but
if
they
be
otherwise
,
then
I
say
here
is
too
much
:
Intemperancy
is
a
root
that
hath
hand
in
every
disease
that
belongeth
unto
mans
body
:
and
it
is
a
Proverbe
common
amongst
us
;
Much
meat
,
much
malady
.
Origen
tells
us
,
that
Vessells
more
fully
fraught
then
they
are
able
to
carry
,
are
forc'd
to
sinke
;
and
the
stomack
and
belly
surcharged
with
too
much
meat
and
drinke
causeth
bodies
to
surfeit
,
which
is
the
readiest
meanes
to
prepare
sicknesse
,
and
sicknesse
is
the
immediate
path-way
to
death
.
One
Gorgius
,
a
very
temperate
and
abstemious
man
,
being
demanded
how
he
came
to
arrive
to
the
number
of
an
hundred
and
eight
yeares
,
and
in
all
that
time
was
not
visited
with
any
grievous
sicknesse
?
made
Answer
,
I
never
eate
but
when
I
was
hungry
,
nor
never
drunke
but
when
I
was
thirsty
,
and
then
both
moderately
.
And
King
Cyrus
being
asked
by
one
of
his
great
Captaines
,
named
Artabazus
,
in
a
long
and
heavy
March
,
what
he
would
have
provided
for
his
Supper
?
He
answered
,
Bread
;
for
Drinke
(
saith
he
)
we
shall
finde
in
every
Current
or
Fountaine
by
the
way
:
To
order
our
lives
well
and
frugally
,
is
to
live
temperately
,
and
avoid
high
and
voluptuous
feeding
;
for
there
is
a
great
difference
betwixt
living
well
,
and
living
sumptuously
:
Because
the
first
proceeds
from
Discipline
,
Temperance
,
Frugality
,
and
moderation
of
the
soule
,
contented
with
her
owne
Riches
:
The
other
of
Waste
,
Excesse
,
Luxurious
Riot
,
and
contempt
of
all
order
and
mediocrity
;
but
in
the
Catastrophe
or
Conclusion
,
the
one
is
attended
with
shame
and
dishonour
,
the
other
with
applause
and
glory
:
They
be
the
very
words
of
Plato
;
Therfore
let
us
suffice
nature
,
but
surfeit
not
,
supply
the
bodies
necessities
,
but
offend
it
not
:
For
who
so
shall
endeavour
the
contrarie
,
let
him
be
forewarned
by
the
subsequent
examples
.
Maximinus
,
a
Groome
of
base
and
sordid
condition
,
borne
of
needy
Alexander
Severus
his
Lord
and
Master
,
to
eminent
place
and
Office
,
and
grew
of
great
remarke
in
the
Campe
:
But
such
was
his
ambition
,
and
ingratitude
withall
,
that
he
conspired
the
death
of
his
Prince
,
and
caused
him
with
his
Mother
Mammaea
to
bee
slaine
,
leaving
not
one
that
was
friend
or
favourite
to
his
vertuous
predecessor
alive
:
Which
done
,
hee
usurped
the
Imperiall
Purple
;
who
as
hee
was
a
Barbarous
Thracian
by
birth
,
so
hee
was
by
nature
covetous
after
Bloud-shed
,
removing
all
without
any
mercy
,
whom
hee
either
feared
or
hated
;
or
if
neither
,
so
he
knew
him
to
be
rich
,
to
possesse
himselfe
of
his
estate
.
I
will
not
stand
to
make
a
particular
Relation
of
all
his
Insolencies
,
Rapines
,
Extortions
,
Massacres
,
and
Murthers
,
but
come
unto
that
which
is
now
in
agitation
,
his
Gluttony
;
which
was
in
such
Excesse
,
that
every
day
for
his
owne
particular
allowance
,
he
had
forty
pounds
of
Flesh
,
and
Bread
answerable
to
the
quantity
of
Meat
,
and
five
Gallons
of
Wine
for
his
Drink
;
and
so
much
hee
constantly
devoured
,
besides
Sallets
,
made
Dishes
,
and
other
Junkets
and
Kickshawes
that
came
by
the
bye
;
For
though
his
maine
repast
was
sollid
Food
,
on
which
hee
laid
his
foundation
,
yet
was
hee
lickerish
also
after
any
other
rarity
that
was
served
into
his
Table
:
And
yet
for
all
this
,
could
not
(
his
God
)
his
Belly
save
him
,
but
after
three
yeares
Usurpation
,
in
whose
Imperiall
Command
hee
had
demeaned
himselfe
with
all
brutish
Tyranny
,
returning
from
the
siege
of
Aquilaea
,
which
he
was
compell'd
to
leave
to
his
great
dishonour
,
he
was
at
Rome
with
one
Balbitinus
miserably
cut
to
pieces
amongst
his
Souldiers
.
The
Emperour
Bonosus
was
also
such
another
.
Vopiscus
reports
of
him
,
Amphorum
pendere
non
hominem
;
That
it
was
no
man
that
hung
there
,
but
a
Tun
or
Hogshead
.
The
same
Author
Vopiscus
speakes
of
one
call'd
Phago
,
an
insatiable
Devourer
,
who
had
no
other
pride
nor
practice
;
in
somuch
,
that
hee
A
certaine
Noble
Generall
being
told
that
one
of
his
Souldiers
could
at
once
eate
such
an
huge
quantity
of
provant
and
victuall
,
that
it
seemed
to
him
incredible
,
hee
sent
for
him
,
and
finding
his
other
abilities
no
way
exceeding
others
,
hee
presently
commanded
him
to
bee
hanged
,
saying
,
that
he
and
an
hundred
more
such
as
himselfe
,
were
in
one
moneths
space
able
to
starve
him
and
his
whole
Army
.
Clodius
Albinus
,
whose
Guts
were
as
a
sinke
or
common
Shore
to
entertaine
It
is
spoke
of
one
called
Heterognathus
,
that
through
hasty
eating
,
he
Heraclides
Pictas
was
such
an
Helno
,
that
scarce
any
of
his
time
could
parallell
him
:
some
he
would
invite
to
Breakfast
,
some
others
to
Dinner
,
a
third
company
to
Supper
,
and
feed
heartily
with
them
all
,
(
sit
as
long
as
they
would
)
and
eate
and
drinke
with
them
without
Intermission
,
or
Cessation
,
and
at
night
see
all
the
Tables
cleare
,
that
nothing
were
left
for
morning
.
King
Mithridatus
also
may
truely
bee
call'd
an
insatiate
eater
,
who
would
give
rewards
to
such
as
would
feed
highest
,
and
drinke
deepest
,
making
K.
of
Pontus
.
it
his
greatest
glory
that
hee
was
never
exceeded
in
either
;
yet
was
desirous
to
have
others
companions
with
him
in
his
Gluttony
;
setting
which
aside
,
hee
was
a
man
of
admirable
parts
,
and
had
so
exquisite
a
memory
,
that
hee
was
able
to
speake
two
and
twenty
severall
Languages
,
and
call
all
the
Souldiers
in
his
Army
by
their
names
:
Besides
,
for
his
Valour
he
was
feared
of
all
;
yet
hee
was
overthrowne
in
Battaile
first
by
Syllus
,
next
by
Lucullus
,
and
lastly
by
Pompey
quite
defeated
:
Hee
used
to
eate
Poison
;
and
in
his
last
great
overthrow
would
have
poyson'd
himselfe
,
but
it
had
not
the
strength
to
worke
upon
him
.
Being
in
prison
,
such
was
the
Majesty
of
his
Countenance
,
that
when
an
Executioner
was
sent
to
put
him
to
death
,
hee
frighted
him
with
his
very
looke
,
and
loath
to
have
any
other
deaths-man
but
himselfe
,
he
was
found
slaine
by
his
owne
hand
,
piercing
those
Bowells
that
had
beene
the
receptacle
of
so
much
unnecessary
dyet
.
With
whom
may
be
numbred
Eresicthon
,
who
after
hee
had
consumed
his
whole
Revenue
,
sold
his
Daughter
Metra
for
money
,
by
p
〈…〉ng
her
body
to
every
stranger
,
and
having
devoured
all
,
he
after
eate
the
flesh
off
from
his
owne
Armes
,
and
in
the
end
dy'd
of
hunger
.
Eusebius
reports
of
one
Domitius
Affer
,
who
receiving
more
meat
at
Philoxenes
was
of
that
nasty
and
beastly
greedinesse
,
that
being
invited
to
any
Table
,
without
respect
to
the
honour
of
him
who
made
the
The
Emperour
Galba
who
succeeded
Nero
in
the
Imperiall
Purple
,
I
have
hitherto
spoke
of
Eaters
,
I
come
now
to
Drinkers
;
the
first
onely
hastning
their
owne
ruines
,
but
the
latter
having
been
the
destruction
of
themselves
and
others
.
Concerning
this
Sinne
of
Bibacity
and
Vinosity
,
Infinite
are
the
Amongst
the
Grecians
,
Proteus
the
Macedonian
had
the
name
of
an
Hee
grew
to
such
intemperance
,
that
after
excesse
of
Drinking
,
he
was
forc'd
to
keepe
his
bed
two
dayes
and
two
nights
together
,
without
being
seeene
abroad
:
In
his
Wine
hee
would
cause
his
best
friends
to
bee
slaine
,
and
then
grievovsly
lament
them
being
sober
.
He
was
call'd
by
his
owne
Souldiers
the
Cup-Conquerer
:
and
whosoever
could
poure
most
Wine
downe
his
Throat
,
they
would
say
of
him
;
yea
marry
,
this
is
a
fellow
that
may
drinke
with
Alexander
;
who
when
twenty
have
beene
in
company
together
,
hee
hath
drunke
to
every
one
of
them
round
,
and
then
pledg'd
them
againe
severally
;
which
horrible
vice
was
a
mighty
Eclipse
to
all
his
other
Vertues
.
Calostiphenus
the
Sophist
comming
to
him
into
the
Symposian
,
the
King
offered
him
a
deepe
Draught
,
which
hee
refused
with
this
Answer
,
I
desire
not
,
O
Alexander
,
to
receive
such
a
Pledge
from
thee
;
by
taking
of
which
,
I
must
bee
enforc'd
to
enquire
for
a
Physitian
.
But
this
great
Captaine
and
Commander
,
who
was
Lord
of
the
whole
earth
,
who
made
his
body
no
better
then
a
Seller
or
Stowage
for
Wine
,
which
he
took
in
voluntarily
:
At
the
same
passage
against
his
will
he
received
poison
,
which
ended
both
his
life
and
the
hope
of
all
his
future
Victories
.
And
no
wonder
when
men
come
to
glory
in
a
sinne
,
and
make
it
their
pride
;
for
Cares
Mitelenus
reports
of
him
,
that
when
hee
came
to
the
Tombe
of
Calanus
,
the
Indian
Philosopher
,
hee
celebrated
to
his
honour
and
memory
three
prizes
;
for
Musick
,
Wrastling
,
and
Drinking
;
in
which
who
excell'd
in
the
first
,
had
a
Talent
;
in
the
second
,
three
hundred
pieces
of
silver
,
in
the
last
ten
:
and
in
that
thirty
Indians
contending
for
mastery
,
drunke
themselves
dead
in
the
place
,
and
six
more
expired
some
few
houres
after
.
Antiochus
was
so
besotted
with
Wine
,
that
scarce
a
day
passed
him
Polybius
speakes
of
one
Agrones
,
King
of
the
Illirians
,
who
by
often
Dionisius
junior
drunke
out
his
eyes
;
and
Cleomenes
the
Lacedemonian
,
stabb'd
himself
with
his
knife
when
he
was
extreamely
cup-shot
.
Elpenor
,
having
drunke
hard
,
would
needs
climbe
a
Ladder
;
but
his
head
having
taken
the
winde
,
(
as
his
body
had
received
the
Wine
)
his
hands
and
feet
both
failing
,
hee
fell
downe
and
brake
his
neck
.
The
like
happened
to
one
Philostratus
comming
from
the
Sinuesanian
Baths
;
and
Cleomenes
King
of
Sparta
,
in
striving
to
imitate
the
Scithian
Vinoleuch
,
grew
frantick
,
and
so
dy'd
.
Lacides
the
Philosopher
by
too
much
Compotation
fell
into
the
Disease
call'd
Paralysus
,
and
dy'd
of
it
▪
Armitus
and
Cyannippus
,
both
of
Syracusa
,
in
their
drunkennesse
ravish'd
their
daughter
;
and
in
their
sobriety
were
after
slaine
by
their
owne
children
whom
they
had
vitiated
.
It
is
further
read
of
Alexander
,
that
he
was
of
a
wondrous
temperate
and
abstemious
continence
,
till
he
had
subdu'd
the
Persians
,
who
liv'd
the
most
deliciously
of
any
nation
under
the
Sunne
:
but
as
he
Conquered
them
,
so
their
vices
Captiv'd
him
,
and
made
him
a
meere
slave
to
all
sensuality
and
pleasure
.
So
the
Romans
were
a
people
of
civill
demeanour
,
and
of
a
most
thrifty
and
temperate
Dyet
;
but
having
won
the
Monarchy
from
the
Grecians
,
as
they
could
teach
the
other
to
fight
,
so
they
could
quickly
learne
of
them
to
drinke
and
health
it
after
their
lavish
and
riotous
manner
:
Briefely
,
you
shall
scarcely
read
of
any
brave
and
victorious
Nation
,
who
brought
any
forraigne
people
under
subjection
;
but
though
the
spoils
he
took
thence
were
of
never
so
great
value
,
there
came
with
him
the
greatest
part
of
their
vices
,
were
they
never
so
vile
.
I
need
not
presse
this
much
farther
,
the
late
Examples
from
the
Roman
Emperours
and
others
,
may
sufficiently
illustrate
it
.
I
come
now
to
the
most
bitter
fruits
that
grow
upon
this
cursed
Tree
of
Pad
.
pag.
211.
hath
this
History
:
In
the
same
City
(
saith
he
)
where
St.
Augustine
was
borne
,
dwelt
a
very
rich
man
,
both
of
great
power
and
substance
who
had
one
onely
Sonne
,
the
sole
heire
to
his
meanes
and
fortunes
,
who
taking
very
debaucht
,
and
riotous
courses
,
notwithstanding
his
Fathers
dayly
admonishments
;
yet
still
hee
persisted
in
his
former
course
of
life
.
The
Father
out
of
his
greater
indulgence
,
as
having
but
one
,
had
allowed
him
large
exhibition
;
and
the
mother
too
of
her
naturall
love
had
still
supply'd
his
riotous
expences
,
both
using
him
with
gentle
and
courteous
language
,
hoping
by
that
fair
course
to
draw
him
to
some
regularity
:
But
finding
that
it
nothing
prevailed
,
but
that
every
day
he
grew
worse
then
other
,
he
began
then
to
change
his
Coppy
,
his
Brow
was
more
austere
,
and
his
look
more
supercilious
,
and
his
tongue
(
before
altogether
inur'd
to
advise
and
gently
perswade
)
grew
now
to
another
tone
,
sharply
to
reprove
and
reprehend
him
:
But
that
which
toucht
the
Son
nearest
,
was
,
he
took
away
all
his
meanes
from
him
,
leaving
him
to
the
wide
world
,
thinking
(
if
any
thing
)
want
and
necessity
might
make
him
look
into
himselfe
,
and
in
time
reduce
him
to
some
goodnesse
:
but
alas
his
hopes
were
all
in
vaine
;
for
the
young
man
grew
so
stupid
and
besotted
in
drunkennesse
,
that
hee
grew
like
one
sencelesse
,
at
least
uncapable
of
any
good
and
wholsome
counsell
.
It
happened
some
moneths
after
he
had
this
neglect
from
his
Father
,
and
his
scores
abroad
grew
so
high
,
that
neither
Taverne
nor
Ale-house
(
knowing
him
to
be
in
his
Fathers
displeasure
)
would
give
him
any
further
credit
:
He
came
home
to
the
house
(
whence
hee
had
been
foure
weekes
absent
)
and
being
full
of
Wine
,
entred
at
the
gate
,
whom
his
father
meeting
,
and
seeing
him
in
that
distemperature
,
he
began
to
chide
him
after
the
old
manner
;
which
the
other
impatient
to
heare
,
catcht
him
by
the
throat
,
and
having
utter'd
many
execrable
oathes
,
call'd
him
old
Dotard
,
and
said
,
Money
he
wanted
,
and
money
he
would
have
ere
he
departed
:
The
Father
seeing
violence
offered
,
called
out
for
helpe
;
at
which
the
Sonne
drew
his
Dagger
,
and
stabb'd
him
into
the
Shoulder
,
most
of
the
Servants
were
absent
abroad
;
but
the
mother
hearing
her
husbands
I
could
almost
parallell
this
Story
,
even
here
in
our
Countrey
,
with
a
Solomon
,
With-hold
not
correction
from
the
childe
,
if
thou
smite
him
with
the
rod
hee
shall
not
dye
;
thou
shalt
smite
him
with
the
rod
,
and
shalt
deliver
his
soule
from
hell
.
Notwithstanding
these
fearefull
judgements
,
how
many
may
we
meet
in
the
day-time
come
either
led
,
or
else
reeling
from
the
Tavernes
,
but
But
it
hath
not
happened
so
to
others
;
for
a
Butcher
who
was
observed
In
Norfolke
three
men
comming
drunke
out
of
an
Ale
house
,
late
in
the
A
Glasier
in
Chancery
lane
,
not
long
since
so
overcharged
his
stomack
These
have
been
examples
of
such
as
wee
call
downe-right
Drunkards
,
I
come
now
to
that
from
which
I
late
deviated
,
as
to
those
who
through
excesse
of
Gusling
(
for
manners
sake
call'd
good
fellowship
)
destroy
not
themselves
with
suddaine
Deaths
,
but
rather
Consumptions
and
lingring
Maladies
,
which
also
by
degrees
bringeth
on
an
assured
and
untimely
end
,
one
of
the
branches
thereof
is
luxurious
Prodigality
,
mixt
with
intemperate
Vinocity
,
of
which
I
will
give
you
but
one
President
.
A
rich
Citizens
sonne
,
and
well
ally'd
amongst
the
Aldermen
,
being
a
personable
and
proper
young
man
,
daring
,
and
valiant
,
of
a
wondrous
He
had
a
great
longing
to
please
all
his
five
senses
at
once
;
nor
could
he
bee
at
peace
within
himselfe
till
he
had
accomplish'd
it
;
and
allow'd
to
Hee
then
had
all
the
choicest
Musicke
that
could
be
heard
of
,
and
how
farre
off
soever
to
be
sent
for
,
with
all
the
varieties
or
rarities
that
could
be
raised
from
any
Instrument
,
to
give
him
content
to
the
eare
.
Then
he
had
all
the
Aromaticks
,
and
Odoriferous
Perfumes
to
delight
his
sent
in
smelling
:
Next
all
the
Candies
,
Preserves
,
all
the
Junkets
,
even
to
the
stretching
of
the
Apotecaries
,
or
Confectionaries
Art
to
palliate
his
taste
:
and
lastly
a
beautifull
and
faire
strumpet
lodg'd
with
him
in
a
〈…〉
e
compass'd
,
to
accommo
〈…〉
〈…〉
ore
then
ever
Sardanapalus
did
)
〈…〉
To
tell
of
his
mea
〈…〉
〈◊〉
,
〈◊〉
these
(
though
they
were
great
in
themselves
)
yet
in
the
relation
would
appeare
nothing
,
and
therefore
I
omit
them
:
Briefly
,
as
he
grew
in
an
instant
to
wealth
,
so
he
fell
as
suddenly
to
want
;
and
then
those
who
had
been
his
greatest
sycophants
,
would
shun
the
way
of
him
:
He
drew
to
all
the
debauchtnesse
that
could
be
nam'd
,
being
a
brother
of
the
Broom-staffe
,
not
worth
a
cloak
,
though
never
so
thred-bare
,
being
forc'd
most
shamefully
to
beg
of
his
acquaintance
,
and
those
he
had
knowne
;
hee
was
after
prest
for
a
common
souldier
,
and
for
running
away
from
his
Captaine
should
have
been
hang'd
(
but
for
his
Worshipfull
kindred
,
for
whose
sake
I
also
forbeare
to
name
him
)
the
matter
was
put
off
:
But
now
followes
the
wonder
,
after
all
this
contempt
,
misery
,
and
penury
,
two
or
three
Gentlemen
call'd
him
up
into
a
Tavern
,
of
purpose
to
have
some
discourse
with
him
;
and
one
amongst
them
desired
him
to
resolve
him
faithfully
of
one
question
he
would
aske
him
,
who
protested
unto
him
that
he
would
unfaignedly
doe
't
:
He
then
said
to
him
,
you
have
been
a
Gentleman
well
bred
,
and
have
spent
a
very
faire
Fortune
,
you
are
now
cast
downe
to
the
lowest
disgrace
that
can
be
,
as
having
tasted
of
all
miseries
whatsoever
;
and
you
know
them
both
,
plenty
&
poverty
,
in
a
full
measure
;
now
my
demand
of
you
is
,
(
the
premisses
considered
)
if
you
had
all
your
former
estate
in
your
hands
entire
(
knowing
what
you
now
know
)
would
you
not
be
a
very
good
Husband
?
To
whom
he
made
answer
,
and
bound
it
with
a
great
oath
;
if
I
had
,
said
hee
,
all
the
estate
I
before
enjoyed
,
and
ten
times
a
greater
,
I
would
spend
it
all
to
liveone
week
like
a
God
,
though
I
were
sure
to
be
dam'd
to
hell
the
next
day
after
:
which
strook
the
Gentlemen
into
such
astonishment
,
and
anger
withall
,
that
instead
of
giving
him
money
,
which
was
their
purpose
,
they
thrust
him
out
of
the
roome
as
a
prophane
and
blasphemous
wretch
,
and
would
never
look
upon
him
after
.
Who
that
shall
look
upon
all
the
Prodigalls
and
spend-thrifts
that
have
had
great
fortune
,
and
have
wasted
them
to
nothing
;
or
consider
how
many
young
Shop-keepers
that
have
had
good
and
sufficient
stocke
to
set
up
with
,
and
through
Drinking
and
Company-keeping
,
(
neglecting
their
home-affaires
)
have
suddenly
proved
Trade-falne
;
and
what
hath
been
the
end
?
but
to
fill
Gaoles
,
and
furnish
prisons
;
or
if
they
escape
with
Liberty
,
to
fall
into
dissolute
and
desperate
courses
,
which
bring
them
into
certaine
disgrace
,
but
most
commonly
unto
untimely
end
.
Besides
,
how
many
young
heires
in
the
Countrey
,
borne
to
faire
Revenues
,
and
possest
of
great
estates
,
who
having
liv'd
formerly
in
the
Countrey
,
and
after
come
to
see
the
fashions
of
the
City
,
what
by
Tavernes
,
Ordinaries
,
Game-houses
,
Brothell-houses
,
and
the
like
,
have
been
so
besotted
and
stupified
,
that
they
have
suddenly
run
themselves
out
of
all
their
fortunes
;
and
then
growing
desperate
,
having
spent
their
own
,
forc'd
from
others
,
and
taking
purses
by
the
high-way
side
,
have
come
at
length
to
disgrace
their
gentry
by
their
infamous
deaths
at
the
Gallows
.
And
these
and
the
like
are
the
remarkable
judgments
continually
exercis'd
upon
gluttons
&
drunkards
:
from
which
sin
of
Gurmandizing
,
as
from
all
the
rest
,
God
of
his
infinite
mercy
,
even
for
the
merits
of
his
Sonne
Christ
Jesus
deliver
us
all
.
Amen
.
FINIS
.
A
Table
of
the
severall
Chapters
contained
in
the
two
first
parts
of
this
Book
.
-
Chapt.
1.
TOuching
the
corruption
and
perversity
of
this
World
,
how
great
it
is
.
Pag.
1
-
2.
What
is
the
cause
of
the
great
overflow
of
vice
in
this
Age.
3
-
3.
That
great
men
,
which
will
not
abide
to
be
admonished
of
their
faults
,
cannot
escape
punishment
by
the
hand
of
God
.
4
-
4.
How
the
justice
of
God
is
more
evidently
declared
upon
the
mighty
ones
of
this
world
,
then
upon
any
other
,
and
the
cause
why
.
5
-
5.
How
all
men
both
by
the
Law
of
God
and
Nature
are
inexcusable
in
their
sinnes
.
7
-
6.
How
the
greatest
Monarchs
in
the
World
ought
to
be
subject
to
the
Law
of
God
;
and
consequently
to
the
Laws
of
Men
and
Nature
.
9
-
7.
Of
the
punishments
that
seized
upon
Pharoah
King
of
Egypt
,
for
resisting
God
,
and
transgressing
the
first
Commandement
of
the
Law
.
13
-
8.
More
examples
like
unto
the
former
.
17
-
9.
Of
those
that
persecuted
the
Son
of
God
and
his
Church
.
20
-
10.
More
examples
like
unto
the
former
.
25
-
11.
Of
the
Iews
that
persecuted
Christ
.
29
-
12.
Of
those
that
in
our
age
have
persecuted
the
Gospell
in
the
person
of
the
faithfull
.
32
-
13.
Other
examples
of
the
same
subject
.
36
-
14.
A
Hymne
of
the
persecution
of
Gods
Church
,
and
the
deliverance
of
the
same
.
43
-
15.
Of
Apostata's
and
Back-sliders
,
that
through
infirmity
and
feare
have
falne
away
.
45
-
16.
Of
those
that
have
willingly
falne
away
.
49
-
17.
Of
the
third
and
worst
sort
of
Apostates
,
those
that
through
Malice
forsake
the
Truth
.
51
-
18.
More
examples
like
unto
the
former
.
55
-
19.
Of
Hereticks
.
61
-
20.
Of
Hypocrites
.
67
-
21.
Of
Conjurers
,
and
Inchanters
.
71
-
22.
Of
those
that
through
pride
and
vaine
glory
,
strove
to
usurpe
the
honour
due
to
God
.
79
-
23.
Of
Epicures
and
Atheists
.
87
-
24.
Touching
the
Transgressors
of
the
2.
Commandement
by
Idolatrie
.
94
-
25.
Of
many
evills
that
have
come
upon
Christendome
for
Idolatrie
.
96
-
26.
Of
those
that
at
any
time
corrupted
and
mingled
Gods
Religion
with
humane
Inventions
,
or
went
about
to
change
or
disquiet
the
Discipline
of
the
Church
.
99
-
27.
Of
Perjurers
.
101
-
28.
More
examples
of
the
like
subject
.
116
-
29.
Of
Blasphemers
.
130
-
30.
Of
those
that
by
cursing
,
and
denying
God
give
themselves
to
the
Devill
.
134
-
31.
More
examples
of
Gods
judgement
upon
Cursers
.
136
-
32.
Punishments
for
the
contempt
of
the
Word
and
Sacraments
,
and
abuse
of
holy
things
.
140
-
33.
Those
that
prophane
the
Sabbath-day
.
147
Judgements
in
the
second
Book
.
-
Chap.
1.
Of
rebellious
and
stubborne
Children
towards
their
Parents
.
151
-
2.
Of
those
that
rebell
against
their
Superiours
.
158
-
3.
More
examples
of
the
same
subject
.
163
-
4.
Of
such
as
have
murthered
their
Rulers
and
Princes
.
168
-
5.
Of
such
as
rebelled
against
their
Superiours
,
because
of
Subsidies
and
●●●es
imposed
upon
them
.
171
-
6.
Of
Mu
〈…〉
〈◊〉
●74
-
7.
A
suit
of
examples
like
unto
the
former
.
177
-
8.
Other
examples
like
unto
the
former
.
193
-
9.
Other
memorable
examples
of
the
like
subject
.
197
-
10.
Of
divers
other
Murtherers
,
and
their
severall
punishments
.
201
-
11.
Of
the
admirable
discovery
of
murthers
.
203
-
12.
Of
such
as
have
murthered
themselves
.
214
-
13.
Of
Paracides
,
or
Parent
murtherers
.
221
-
14.
Of
Subject-murtherers
.
226
-
15.
Of
those
that
are
both
cruell
and
disloyall
.
231
-
16.
Of
Queens
that
were
murtherers
.
234
-
17.
Of
such
as
without
necessity
,
upon
every
light
occasion
move
war
.
236
-
18.
Of
such
as
please
themselves
overmuch
in
seeing
cruelties
.
239
-
19.
Of
such
as
exercise
too
much
rigor
and
severity
.
241
-
20.
Of
Adulteries
.
244
-
21.
Of
Rapes
.
245
-
22.
Other
Examples
of
Gods
Iudgements
upon
Adulterers
.
251
-
23.
Shewing
that
Stewes
ought
not
to
be
suffered
amongst
Christians
.
254
-
24.
Of
Whoredomes
committed
under
colour
of
marriage
.
256
-
25.
Of
unlawfull
marriages
and
their
Issues
.
257
-
26
Touching
incestuous
marriages
.
259
-
27.
Of
Adulterie
.
261
-
28.
Other
Examples
like
unto
the
former
.
264
-
29.
Other
Examples
like
unto
the
former
.
268
-
30.
More
Examples
of
the
same
Argument
.
272
-
31.
Of
such
as
are
Divorced
without
cause
.
275
-
32.
Of
those
that
either
cause
,
or
authorize
unlawfull
Divorcements
.
277
-
33.
Of
Insestuous
persons
.
278
-
34.
Of
effeminate
persons
,
Sodomites
,
〈…〉
●onsters
.
280
-
35.
Of
the
wonderfull
evill
that
ariseth
from
the
greedines
of
Lust.
282
-
36.
Of
unlawfull
Gestures
,
Idlenesse
,
Gluttony
,
Drunkennesse
,
●ancing
,
and
other
such
like
dissolutenes
.
283
-
37.
Of
Theeves
and
Robbers
.
292
-
38.
Of
the
excessive
burdening
of
the
Commonalty
.
297
-
39.
Of
those
that
have
used
too
much
cruelty
towards
their
subjects
in
taxes
and
exactions
.
299
-
40.
More
examples
of
the
same
subject
.
302
-
41.
Of
such
as
by
force
of
Armes
have
either
taken
away
,
or
would
have
taken
away
the
goods
,
and
land●
of
other
men
.
304
-
42.
Of
Vsurers
,
and
their
Theft
.
373
-
43.
Of
Dicers
,
Card-players
,
and
their
Theft
.
376
-
44.
Of
such
as
have
been
notorious
in
all
kind
of
sin
.
379
-
45.
More
examples
of
the
same
argument
.
385
-
46.
Of
Calumniation
and
false
witnesse
.
393
-
47.
That
Kings
and
Princes
ought
to
look
to
the
execution
of
justice
,
for
the
punishment
of
naughty
and
corrupt
manners
.
40●
-
48
Of
such
Princes
as
have
made
no
reckoning
of
punishing
vice
,
nor
regarded
the
estate
of
their
people
.
402
-
49.
How
rare
and
geason
good
Princes
have
been
at
all
times
.
40●
-
50.
That
the
greatest
and
mightiest
Cities
are
not
exempt
from
punishment
of
their
iniquities
.
408
-
51.
Of
such
punishments
as
are
common
to
all
men
in
regard
of
their
iniquities
.
409
-
52.
That
the
greatest
punishments
are
reserved
and
laid
up
for
the
wicked
in
the
world
to
come
.
410
-
53.
How
the
afflictions
of
the
godly
,
&
punishments
of
the
wicked
differ
.
411
A
brief
Summary
of
more
examples
annexed
to
the
form●
〈◊〉
●●e
same
Author
.
-
Chap:
1.
Of
such
as
have
persecuted
the
Church
of
Christ
.
414
-
2.
Of
Perjury
.
414
-
3.
Of
Epicures
and
Atheists
.
ibid.
-
4.
Of
Idolatry
.
418
-
5.
Of
Blasphemy
.
418
-
6.
Of
Conjurers
,
Magitians
,
and
Witches
.
ibid.
-
7.
Of
the
prophanation
of
the
Sabbath
.
419
-
8.
Of
Drunkennesse
.
420
-
9.
Of
rebellious
&
disobedient
children
to
parents
.
426
-
10.
Of
murtherers
.
ibid.
-
11.
Of
Adultery
.
428
-
12.
Of
Theeves
and
Robbers
.
429
-
13.
Of
〈◊〉
431
-
14.
Of
the
molestation
of
evill
spirits
,
and
their
execution
of
Gods
judgements
upon
men
.
ibid.
-
15.
The
Conclusion
,
concerning
the
protection
of
holy
Angels
,
over
such
as
feare
God
.
437
A
Table
of
the
most
remarkable
judgements
contained
in
the
last
part
of
this
Book
,
never
before
imprinted
.
-
DEvoured
by
Wormes
.
pag.
3
-
Poisoned
.
4
-
Self-murther
.
ibid.
-
●●postume
.
5
-
A
Spanish
History
against
pride
in
knowledge
.
〈◊〉
,
&c.
-
The
Popes
Nephew
hanged
.
8
-
An
Italian
rack●
〈◊〉
death
9
-
Herbert
Earle
of
Vermendois
.
10
-
Bajazet
beats
out
his
own
brainis
.
ibid.
-
B●adaas
neck
broke
by
a
fall
.
ib.
-
Earle
Goodwin
choaked
at
the
table
.
11
-
Earle
Harold
shot
in
the
eye
.
11
,
12
-
Pierce
Gaveston
beheaded
.
13
-
Sir
Hugh
Spencer
beheaded
,
and
his
sonne
hang'd
and
quartered
.
13
-
Earle
Mortimer
hanged
.
14
-
Sundry
others
executed
.
15
-
A
briefe
relation
of
the
life
and
death
of
Cardinall
Wolsey
.
15
,
16
-
Envious
persons
punished
sundry
wayes
.
17.
-
One
Brother
murthereth
another
.
21
-
A
remarkable
history
of
a
Roman
Prince
22
-
Pope
Boniface
his
miserable
death
.
23
-
The
death
of
Caesar
Germanicus
.
ib.
-
Matrinus
head
cut
off
.
24
-
Bassianus
and
his
mother
torne
in
pieces
&
throwne
into
a
●akes
.
24
-
Alexander
Severus
miserably
slaine
.
ib.
-
Prince
Cranne
,
with
his
Wife
and
Children
burnt
to
death
.
25
-
One
brother
killeth
another
,
and
the
mother
murdereth
her
owne
Son
.
25
,
26
-
Prince
Morwith
devoured
by
a
Sea
monster
.
-
Sundry
other
remarkable
judgements
upon
envious
persons
.
27
-
The
unfortunate
deaths
of
Edw.
6.
his
two
Vncles
.
30
,
31
-
Ptolomeus
Pisco
torne
in
pieces
.
33
-
Cirenes
famished
to
death
.
ibid.
-
One
destroy'd
by
Lightning
.
ibid.
-
Of
another
torne
in
pieces
by
Wolves
.
ibid
-
The
story
of
Philaris
brazen
Bull.
33
,
34
-
Sundry
relations
of
bloudy
women
.
34
,
35
-
Remarkable
observations
upon
the
Emperor
Caligula
,
together
with
his
death
.
35
-
Avidius
Cassius
his
bloudy
acts
and
miserable
death
.
37
-
Sundry
murthers
strangely
discover'd
.
42
-
Sundry
judgments
against
the
sin
of
sloth
46
-
A
strange
story
of
a
slothfull
Chamber-maid
.
55
-
Covetousnesse
defined
.
58
-
The
infinite
riches
of
some
men
.
62
-
The
monstrous
covetousness
of
Mauritius
the
Emperor
,
together
with
his
death
.
64
-
Sundry
judgments
against
covetousnes
.
66
-
A
strange
Murther
committed
in
Honey-lane
,
and
as
strangely
discover'd
.
69
-
A
Scholler
murdereth
his
Fathers
Servant
.
70
-
Parents
murder
their
own
children
.
71
-
Iudgements
inflicted
upon
Usurers
.
74
-
Lust
learnedly
defined
.
76
,
&c.
-
Gods
judgements
against
Gluttony
.
96
,
&c.
FINIS
.
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