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Show a aeG Lhe third Booke ofthe first part Cuar,3.§.5, gauethe King knowledge,that God had numbredthetime of his Kingdome,& finithed it: That he was weighediintheballance of Gods iuftice, and found too light ; and that i his Empire was diuided and giuen to the Medes and Perfians, Thevery eucning ornight ofthis day, wherein Baltha/arfeafted and perithed, Cyrses ae t % : er either byhis efpiall,according to Xenephon,or infpired by God himfelfe,whofe enfigne he followedin this warre,found the time and opportunityto inuite him:and therefore whilethe Kings head,and the heads ofhis Nobili ty werenoleffefilled withthe vapors of wine,thantheirhearts withthe feare of Gods iudgement,he caufed allthe banks and headsof his trenchesto be opened andcut downe withthat diligence, as by themhee drewthe great Riuer ofEuphrates dry forthe prefent, by whofe channel! running, his Army inade their entrance,finding none todifturbe them. All the Towne lay buried (as 10 the Poet faith) in fleepe and wine: fuchas camein the Perfians way, were put to the fword,vnleffe they faued themfelues by flight,as fome did,who ‘anne away crying,a nd filling the ftreets with an vncertaine tumult. Such Affyrian Lordsas had reuolted from Balthazar , and betaken themfel ues to the party ofCyrws,did now condu@a fele&ed compaay tot he Kings Palace ; which haning eafily forced, fily forced they rufhed {hed intointo the th chamber b wherethe King with Bhi his Princes werebanqueting , flew both himand them without any-mercy, in vaine vai tokeepe whocftrugled in thofeliues which God had newly threatnedto take awa And nowwas the prophecy ofJeremy fulfilled, and that ofEfay, two hund ted yearesy.'before this fubuerfion, whoit ,, his feuen and fortieth Chapter,and elfewher ¢,writeth this-deftruétion fo feelingly and liuely,as if he had beene prefent both atthet errible flaughter there committe d,and had feene thegreatandvnfeared ch: angeand calamity ofthis great Empire ; yea,and had alfo heard the forrowes and bewailings. of eutery furniuing foulethe rcuntofubicd. His prophifie of this place he beginnethin thefe words : Come downe, and fit in the duit , 0 virgine daughter beet. cxp.ay 47: L ofBabel :fit onthe ground, there ts noThronecrc, And againe,si t (ill and ! ‘ ft NokSia nima . sangiter afthebeChaldedn s, for aie ofKingdomes. ten For though it cannot doubted, that Godvfe ce sane the Chaldzans,to punith the idolatry ofthe ludeans, yet Efayteacd Nabuchodonofor and hethvs inthis place, That he didnot yer forget, ; that the execution ofhisiudgements was mixt with arigo-3° Lous extremit as y. For (faith E/ay)inthe perfon ofGod, 1 wes wreth with my people, I bane d polluted mine inheritance,and‘giuen them : intothine hand :thou didft(herp themJino mercy, , but thou aiafi lay thy very heanyyoakl e upow the ancient, I will rife up against them,faith the Lord War; ofHaits, and will cut offroBabel the name and the remnant, and thefonne and the Towie eats'. And in the this teenth, Every one that tsfound, ballbe trikes thorow sand whofoeuernephew. merodach and felfe ioyneth ball ful th dah et eee 7, Baahyaee iw A s pidtad LEE poyled Seal and fllbyshef ovardphe ir children al afbalibe broken inpicces before their cee houfes their wines ranifbed. Soas there atthis yictory Of Cyrms,or that receiued the reportis noHiftorian who was either prefent fromothers truly as it was,that could < ; fsstesdeatieste fameto /pofterity after, it. happened, than E/ay. hath done in manypla- cesof his Propheci ee prophecies , which were written ; two hundred ae yeares before any thing ing atate- 4o ae The greatneffe and magnificenée of Babylon,were . it not by:diners graue Authors fet downe,might.feeme altogether fabulous : for,befides the reports ofSaint Aicranie; Soll fi ean the thirdof his Politikes, the fecond Chapter; receiued the , jes h-nie not i he2 part ofthe " taken ise three City knew ee da daics that theAareft was ich is not impoflible, if the teftimony of Diodorws Siculus may bee taken; Whofindes.the thereof three hundred and threefcore: Stadia‘or Furlong', which makes,fiucompaile e and forty milesat : the.walls whereof had fogreat a breadth, that {xe chariots might pafle in front thereon. And of height,according to Ctefiasand Clitraciy - three bundvedthreefcore and fiue foot, garnithed with an hundred andfifty Towers: $9 Strabointhe beginning of his fixteenth Booke of Geography giues ita greater c -Adding| fiue: and twenty furlongs mMoreto the former compatle. reckoning the three reand fine furlon s, which ahundred fourefco makes eighrand g eightand fortym $s, which makes {one forty i arlong; bus finds thewall farre ynder that which:Diedore reports : andfo mileat doth Certis# Mealuretheithickeneffe butat two andthirtyfoot, andthei r height at an hut bits, whichis alfo very much; euery-cubit containinga foot and o, halfe of the large me furesthoughtothe whole circuitofthe City hegitiés the fame with Sica/us, Surlongs more. Herodotus findes.a Stcatercontentthan Séraée doth, namely, foure hua- Fa he Hift Cuarg.5-6. ae Sri the World, dredand fourefcore furlongs circle; the thickneffe ofthe wall he meafires nee ie ¥ bits,and the height at two hundred of thefame ee eer Te :a dred gates of Braffe; with pofts and hookesto hang thei ono : ' ca Sais , The Princefle therfore did the Prophet £/ay rightly Sc abit & Glory of Kingintitle Babylon Sing- 2/2476 £447tid 43 . e un- ‘ole Te lomes. : 5 DE : But when Cyrus had wonncher, he ftript her vs - e eee her aflaue; diuiding not onely all her goodly hou ers Ee mine theriches therein contained,among his eas e foto dicdnii noe aahtacrethenic felues a$ bond-flaues vpon thofe that had taken - : ; ion 9 ee aoa plekeasoit Touching the reigne ofCyrus, and the time iain tt wailCiromale a ae 1° can fay no moreofic, thanthatit is signetti Poe _ jhe rele from fted only feuen yeares : in which time ae Ic uch ee : = iS Gicneice s the Ordinances of all wife Kings that are defirons to efta y: feluesand their pofterity. §. VI. endes of Cyrus. nf The Te balla Bile puss? poem heslsfe : Cyras, is diuerfly Tee warre, andthe endo fthis great great King King Cyras, : 20 : e onqueftof Afiathe leffe, Cyrus inuaded ieeal wreselipes, ipa ee a Scythians pl by Tomyra = the Maflagetes, avery etarS, se each eenge ea thele NW aitheric hoe their Queene : and that in an ea e FES i oeante Th ieee mades,Tomyrés loft her Army, an jeu ee ue Rratre andl followin g the Warre whereof, this Queene ea cryie Perfian Army "and taking Cyras prifoner, againft Cyrus , nyt Gite b zs at andcaty-the lame inte-aladile dt binned , viing thefe cutoff his head sy ,. open thirited for blond, wow drinke thy fill, and fatiate ws Thou that hast all thy life ti tay 2 felfe. ; 1b ld heereby feeme, that Cyras knowing , the/ftvength and multitud e of thofe f mene slecreby-ihe af Std tens alee cis fury by fomefor cible inuafion and degen Nations , was perfwade : Cyaxares, father'to Aifyages, thofe Scythians inBpereo8 » becai(e: inthe eandh adh fame in afernile fubiection eight andtwenuaded Media and Afiathe leffe,and held the fame tyvyyeares, : he) lie) fifixe yeares, isw arre which gae,| j Metafthenes calleth Tomyvriga Thisw wigee, (faith ares, and 3 lafted1 ¢(faith y voobengar rhe seats yer: vith Vigtwer, that this Scythian Warre was ratherthe _ Dutinthis particular I beleeuc with agiaer, tl ey eft of Lydiaaccording to fame which Cyrus made againft the Sacians, before the conque t yaa, Ci ‘cited.who calleth Tamyrus,Sparetha,though he deliver the fucceffe of that _ : eas before cited,who calleth Tamyrs ae ther(faith Fipiner) becanfe Straboin his Vigprim p, uke otherwife than- Herodotus er ee Sicisns a the fame ftratageme by ee ae ‘ ee t Cy, irprized he the Sz P which wheats eee of Tomyris, And the faine Ctefias alfo2 repor- cedsbi ch Zuflinefaith teth,Tha he defeated t the laft,Rerre the made was againft which Corus Oe 4morrhe ee ns ee ors Derbici- P44 ee : ano hough he ouereame, ye ve Nation (as the reft) ofScythia eo a sanind of hisdeath,which hefuffere dinhis owne City of Pafagardes,which himsenab.t§: Gerere ath enn sea!mire in his time:whi chis faid to haute bin : 0 vi;aut. hissibieean this: Epitaph ee wasaducnis, qhicunwhere wees," se haet.neque enim rh ; te 3 adueuturume ignorant: is Ego Ee frm Cyris du: GRE OSs" flitwi, pufillum boc terrequo meno tegitur corpus mihi ney ir eg eeseiperiums cen lita, er thon comme; for Iwas not ignoers O thou man, whofiener then wr o oehencefoen seAit Perfian Empire,d oe wot enny vats " 3a ante Erg bam Cages ae : Thi tiHlecarthwith which my AEAE COUETeA ibis Cortisreporteth, either vpon hope of cut us Tombe was opened by AlexanderasQu. ee Pare to honour his dead boWealure fuppofedto hane been buried with sense ree an oldrott en Target,two Scy¥ with certaine ceremonies ; in whichthere wasfound z Mian Bow. daSword. The Coffin wherein his body lay, Alexand /; ler caufed to bee Couered pee eres DbRh0 aCe wne ofgold tobe fet vponit. Thefeoe things well. ath his a et pas Soalidere d,asowne bonand they es giue credit to ees Zonards,f os aae i ese Xer.ped.8. ofTFemgri te o they dero- Zonsbatst.20> Seemuch from Heredgtus,who leanes his body in the And |