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Show The fourth Booke of ce Furthormone,ifafter the Hight wefhallinvenour cc tomeetanie ihere, tue haue the marithes Heerebee neath to hive bs in1,and the bils round about to keepe " them off, fo that by no meanesthep thall baue thet Theftate ofthe Br: Queene Voadicia marcheth a print the ‘Romans,to whom{hegiueth afhamefull motion ofmercie;dredfullexamples cc Deaute armour,fhall neither beable to follow,if tue fit; tio; efcape out of our Danger, if thep be put to ofthe Bricains crueltie indiffcrentlie executed without exception of ageorfex. «<¢ defirous tomakearode, theyreturne by and by to theit appointed p'aces, there wemate take themas 1° birds alrcavie in cage. Zn all thich things, as thep < are farte inferio2 to vs, mof ofall in this,that they «c Cat not indure buriger, thirft, colo,beat,and funnes pisarmicsthofethattaviedbehind twere opprefier bp the eninies:: md the like defrudion bapened to Aheu.of.Merolaninnt, a totone in thofe daies of great fane,fituat cere to the place therethe totone ofDain tAlbons nov fmbdeth, (Phewritains leaning the eattels and fortreites tuatiaulten,follotven their gaine i {pot irg-of thofe The twelfe Chapter. yen Voadtciahad mane Zan end of birprater, the fet Paulinus Suetontus, being as then ti Anglefep (as before thep either die forthiwith , 02 cite in time thep Lane Lo! eS Y pe haue heard.) Wherefore the : << gufth and confume: fehereas to bs eueric hearbe and «¢ Cot ts meat, enerie tutce an oile , all water plea: 20 Romans that were in Cameloounum fent for aid Se buto Catus Dectanus theprocurater, thatis, the anus yrocare é¢ faritiwine,and eucric trée an boute.Betive this,there ec Of thethadow , that if anteof thee Dw faile them, emperours agent, treafurer, o2receiucr, forin that to;, titie (although it tuere inhabited by Homans)there was no great garrifon of able men, Wherebponthe procuratozfent them fuch aid as be thought be night « Wecan with cafe Awim ouer euric riuer both nakeo Well {pare thtch was not pat theo bundzed men,and « « cc ‘c¢ cc «c MND clad,thich thep With their great thips are {carte thofe not fuffictentlie furntthed cither with tseapon o2armour, able to perfoxme. Therefore tnfth hope and gad lucke let bs fet bpon themcouragioulite , and teach Thecitie tas not compatled with anie rampire them to onderfand , that fince thep are no better 30 02 Ditch) for nefenfe, fuchas baypilie tere patnie to Khan bares aio fores,thep attempt a tw2ong match, the confpiracte,bauing put into the headsof the to then thep indeuour to (uboue the grebounds and mans that 110 fortification needed : neither tere the thetwolucs, TAith thic tvors the quene let an Aged metto2 women fentatwaie, therebythe pong have goont of bir lap,as it were therebp to gue pros able perfonages might totthout trouble of themthe gnottication of bir fuccetle, Hhich conning well to better attendte the pefenfe of the citie : but euenas patte,allthe compante hotwten, and cried out port fuch as not long before bad Dorie fad) biolence to fo hoblea perfonrage. qretentlic wpon this action,tor ec MONG fae amnightie people , ¥ beted) thie to qeant then Wictosic, Health, and libertic , Again thefe cow €f tevitidus, wicker,and orfatiavle men tif thep maie cc BoCALLeD Mien LhEeh Wf toarate bathings,delicate Gi Hite, bot tuines;Nuceroites, for bens, fire nuificke, fad fo witkindlic Luts) tho ave Mfogtther giaeto ©e catetouttette and erueltic, as thetr dewings De do ¢¢ ave.Leenot ¥ betiedt thie,the erofwan o> Domus cc MAR Cypantte antic' mroe PrUAtte Dpor meso? (te caeetait bat tet then tether ferue thee, * wbofe dyNHon thou batt bone withrll a « Neate at - twitt@itlbe our helper ia « noble Lave,> wae we Pancic marched though the middeft of His entmies to London, being as then not greatlic peopled with Romans, though there was a colonte of them , but Cull of ntercbants,, and Well pzoutded of ittels: be twas in great Doubt at bis comming thither whether be might beftttate there as in a place moft conuent ent,or rather fieke forme other moze cafe to be Defers ded. At length confidering the (mall number of bis men of tuarre, andremembzing bow Cerealis bad {ped by bistw mncrathnedde,be thougdt better with the lofing of ene towne fo fane the wbole, than to put albin danger of irrecoucrable loffe | Annthere: Yolth nothing moved at the praicr ¢ teares of them dich befongdt bin of aid and fieccour , be Depacten, a them, baning thiped bir naken being an aged ipo man,and forced hir Daughters to fatifite theirfilthie °? concupifcence : but (fatthye) the gods are at Hand 29 Feanie to take inf revenge, 90 55 {Abe legton that peetumed to tnecunter with bets ‘ thus toon andconquexen,, Jfo2 theretvas: nothing, thoufands as ive are here afembled:, much iefle the P, Suetonius théRomane witha freth power affaleeth the Britains, whofe armie confifted as well of women asmen: queene Voadici 4 incourageth hirfouldiers; fo dooth Suetoniushis warriors, both at mies havea fharpeconPiBsthe Britains are ascomsfited andmifcrablicflaine; the Queene dieth, PeniusPofthum us killeth hinifelfe, the Brieainsare n perfecuted with fire;fwoord, and famine, the grudge betweene Cafli- cianus and Suetonius,whome Poly.:? cletus is fentto reconcile,ofhis aine, and how the Britains repined ac him. <¢ ‘et Merefore Mehens F have obteiey.a hingdomncas 65 backe out of Angtefep , and with maruglions corw tneveaten , that thep (parc neither the bovtes of olp 22 hop ponig but ivere teavic most (hamefullie to abute » placestitch evegafiotaget, mid ithone great plenr fthom theylooithien mott reuereittlic: thep bap bene inall fucrtieof peace, and frée from fufptcton of anie warre, thep tuere fuddenlie befet totth the huge arntic of the Wzttains, andfo all tuent adicla calling them togtther againe, proceed fow to fpotleand fire that coulpbe found totthout theine Wardinith bic prater, which tye mane before them 4o clofureof the temple, into the which the 2omans All, bolbing op bir handsatter this manner : fouldters (ftriken with {under feare bpthis funder Malue ther thanks D Adsatke, and call vpon thee conuning of the entmics) bad thzonged themfelues. « hon woman of Loomen , hich reignetf not ouer the Where being alleged by the Writains, twithin the $ urthen-bearitig Aegpptians, as Mitocris; neither {pace oftivo daies the place was twanne, and they g¢ Olter their merchants ,as doth Semnteamis, for there je Were found within it, Maine eucric mothers a teifies We hatic learned latelic ofthe Romans : net: nnte, -. theroucr the people of Rome, as alitic heretofore After this,the Wettains incouraged with this vice S¢ qpeMalina, thon Agrippina, and now Mero , whois fozie,tuent tommet twith Wetus Cerealis lieutenant Ke Called bp the nameof amar, butis in Dé&Da veric of the legion farnamed the ninth,and bolblie incoury as twomiatt,as danth aypecte by his voice, bis barpe,and 50 tering withthe fame legion, gauethe Womansthe His tomnans ative: buty call bponthee as a rod: ouerthzotw and fue all the-fotment , fo that Cerealis S¢ Dole Hhich gouernet the Writains , that haue lene) twtth mad) adm efcapen toith bis ho2lemen, and got ¢c Med iot Co till the field, 10; to be Handicrafts trex, bim bacte tothe campe, and faucd bimfelfe tithin % but tolead theie Lites in the warres after the bet the trenches. Catus the procurato: being put in Mamiter : tho alas thep bate all otber things, & feare-twith this ouerthzot , and perceining teat bar acs Haue they lihetwite their tines and chitosert conv tred the WBzitains bare totwards brim , bauting with cc MON, teherebp the tuomenbaue the like audanttie biscouetoutnelle thus bought the warre bpon the With the men , ad n0 letfe boloeMe in the warres bead of the Romans got bim ouer inte Gallta, &¢ thathey, Wut Surtonius aduertilevof thefe doings, cane centionsIuttof theatomans was fo: farrefpen ann " force of our great puifance and dzeapinll bands. Ff > iiththeBritains but hanghter, firesyallotecs;and fudjltise 5:f0 earnefiltewere:.thep fet oni teuenge, ve therefore (fat the) would ep and confider with , > Mop {pared neither age naz fers twomeit of great pout felues pour huge numbersof:men of fwarre, anbthe cates bhp pe baue mourd this tarre; pe > Hobilitic: md toaxthio fame they toe and haged ‘Dpnaked; and cutting of thett paps;:fotwen them to ‘Wwanld furclic determine cither inthis battell tepte 5, theirmouthes, that thep might femeastf thep fuc- 20 With honpur,o2elfe to banquith the enimic by plaine kedann fedomthern, annfomeof theteboviesthey force,for fo (quoth the)% beinga oman am fulliere: ° Hotrod ont tin length; au thentt them: oi fharpe folucd, as for pou nen pe maie (if pe lift) lfueannbe ? fakes, All thefe thingsthepdinin great vetpite ait. byoughtintobondage, 7 facrificed in their terteplésjay made feats, _RNeitherdid Suetonius cealle to erhort hispeople: >> tmuntelie-in the tomacconfecraten to the honour of fothough betruttes in theirmanhod,pet as he han " Gndates, for fo thepcallen: the gonbette of ‘bictozie Rinided his atrhic:into the battels, fo niohe makes tute in deedof thettlieutenant isno placeof the land Snknotwneto bs , nettherpet pnttiendlic to (uccour vs at ned; thereas to the g Romansthey are for the moft part ouknotone anv cc altogither dangerous, if thep thould ffand in need: aud thaniefull defloutingof hfr danghters :for the 1 feof, ri hes ivas. to ibe found,) ofiig: thetr bicopie ro Maine mid beaten dotwne. The refioue hepe them 2" fnith furhcrueltie;ttiat thop due (as the report went) clofe-fulthin their holos , o2 elfe fake wates hom to 25 fothenumber of-7oithoufurd Romans ; ard fuchas flee out of the countric: they (all not be once able 22 foke-theit part in the: fato places bythe Britains Much as to.abtoe the noife and clamo2:of{9 mante « forlvard agqaintt bir enimies, thine,as we cando. *¢ Su their houtes alfo and tents,they make much ace <« countof their baked meates, tfite,ofle, andabzoad the Hiftori¢-of England. ap thote that tyonly go ivith him be receiued into and bloudie ouerthrow without anie <c. purpote of bsabereas thep being snercharged twith S fight: tf they haypen to breake out at ante time as sarindenthe Romans. Lhexij. Chapter. ! 3s MM this meane time there A' ey camte ouer to the ain of Succ ‘bnfo ed)cf thema feucrall oation, willing them >? notte feare the thrill and bainemenasing thzeats of 22 the Britains , fith there Masamong them moze wo, a 30 Inenthanmen,thep having m0 (hil tn warrelibe vif cipline , and hereto being naked without furniture °7 of armour, toould fozthiwith gite place then thep 25 fhould fele the fharpe pointsof the womans twea- 5 pons and the force of thembp thom thep ban fo of ton bene putto flight. an manie legions (faith he) 2> tye number is {mall of thent that twin the battefl. 55 Their glove therefore fhould be the more , for that e thep being. a fnrall number thould twin the fame duc fo the iigle armmie, tfthep wonlo (hzonging to: >> 40° glther) beftotp theft iycaponsfreélie; and With thefr 5, fihwzds and targets peeafe forward bpon their ent. * mies,contiiutng the danghtertwithont regard to the 2? fhofle, thep might alure themfclues thenthe pido 2 tie was once atchtued to haueall at their pleafures, 23 Such forvardnetie in the fonlotersfollotven pon this erboztation of the couragtous general! ; that es tonins, the legion farnamed ucrie one prepared bimfelfe foreanilicto dw his bu fouldiers and menof tarre, that Suetonius having conceiued an afuren hope fie,and that with (uch a thetw of Mill and experience, @ to the number of ten thous 5° of gmdlucte to folloty, caufen the trumpets fo found fandin the tibole, therebpon Aq (chicfliebicaufebittelsbegan give battell to bis ents ‘28ND thofe outa plotof ground betie ftrong in the beginning was berie Harpe and cruell, betin Scould notatfault his campe but on the front: the end the WBzitains being a let one to another (bv reafonof the warrotunelfe of the place) twere not a {fae bim) be pre} paredto toithin Oraits, av backen With awod, fo thatthe 2 -to the batfell. The onfet was ginenin the Qraits, greatlie to the aduantage of the Komans,being but abannfall in comparifon to their enimies.ahe fight he ie Conceived bp. their late profperous fuccefte, ble to futtcine the biolent force of the laomans their Seen ains Onder the conduc of quene Coadicia 6o aid fo being Difordered were put to flight, and dtter; cata Duentey teafon of their great multitude and bape of enimics,fo that thep toere conffreind to gine backe, tO to giue battell, hauing thefe women n to be thitnettes of the Dictorie, thonte thep plattets at the bttermoft fide oftheir field. 2 fone cla, 02 Youvicia (fox fo we find bit writtert Copies, and $Bonuica alfo bp Dion) having afore bie being mounted into a char: a maaices "palled bp the foulbiers ofech fundsie coun them it twas a thing accuffomed among « Mioomen fo go tothe tarres.der the leading the was not note come fozth as one beneof fd uthoble anceffors as the was defcended fom tfor bir kingdome anb riches; butas « toedte Neatter fot, rather to defend bic loff liber: « TOttuenge bie felfe of the. enimie , fos theit « ' to iN courgiug bic like a bagabond, lie dffcomfited, There tere flaine of the Weitains that dav fey 80000, Bris leffe than 80000 thonfand, as Tacitus twriteth. Jfo2 things flaine, the fratts being flopped twith the charrets, ffateo the flight of the Britains, foas thepcouln not eaft Ite efcape : amb the Romans were lo (et on reuenge, that thep {pared netther mtan nor fooman, fo that manie were flaine inthe battell , manie amongtt the charrets, anda great nuutberat the mds fide, bbicy wap thep made their Aight, and mante were taken p2lfoners. Zhofe that cfcaped, twould haue fought a netw battell, butin the meane time Gos abicia,o2 WBonutca veceafled of a naturall tnfirmt tie, as Dion Caffius toriteth , but other fap that fhe polfonedbir felfe, and fo died , becaule He nn? no} |