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Show Thefourth Bookeofthefir(part ~ "as. Cwar264, @ publikeDancer, he had Aridews, of yvhomwe (hall haue muchoccafion to {peake hereafter. CuarI. Of Alexander the Great. §. I I. A briefe rebearfall of Alexanders doings, before be inuaded Afia. 10 m% Lexander, afterward called the Great 5° fucceeded ynto Philip his Father; being a Prince no.leffe valiant by Nature, than by ¢. Education, vvell inftruéted,and inriched in all forts of Lear= and good Arts. He beganhis reiene ouer the Macedoni« Cwar.2.§01, of the Eliftory of the World. in occafions perillous,fummoned to affemble; fo doeall: men in generall condemne the Venters ofifuch trumpéry,and for them,fear vpon neceflary occafionsto entertaine the truthit felfe.This labour vnlooked for;and loffe oftime,was not onely very gricuousto Alixander, but by turning his fwordifrom the ignoble andeffeminate Perfans, azaintt which he had directedit, towardsithe manly & famous Grecians, of wholeaffiftance he ~ thought himfelfaffired;his prefentvndertaking was greatly difordered.But hethatcannot etidure to ftriueagainft chewinde, {hall hardly attainethe Port which he purpofeth torecouer : andit no leffe becommeth the worthicftmen to.oppofe misfortunes;thanit doththe weakeft children to bewaile them. 48 ‘Hetherefore made fuch expedition towards thefe Reuolters, as that himfelfe, with the Army that followed him,broughtthem thefirft newesof his preparation...Hereuponall ftagger,and the Athenians,as they werethiefirft that moued, fo were they the firt that fainted,fecking by their Embaffadours to pacifie the King,and to bereceiued again into his gtace. Alexander was not long-inrefoluing; for the Per/iavs perfwaded him to pardon théGracias.Wife men are not-eafily drawne from great pur pofes by fiich o¢ea- » ans foure hundred and feuenteene yeares after. Rome yvas fionsasmayeafily betaken off, neitherhath any ‘King euer brought to effect any great affaite, who hath intangled himfelfein many enterprifes at once,not tending to' one and the fame certaine'end. ae sur fe the iouee of Diana (ayvorkethe pale ) ghincent of the Wor 4 7 his birth, & that fo ftrange an accident was o o of-8 Nations whichlay onthe North-fide of a¢acedon,to wit,the Thracians,Tiribelles,Peoness built, and after his ownebirth twenty yeares. The ftrange y dreames of Philip his father, and that one of the godsin the begat him on Olpaspias his Mother, I omit rall victories,obtained by the Macedonians,it was very remarkea ble, & might withthe oe ofthofe times be interpreted for ominous, andfore-fhewin g the great things by A exander afterward performed. Vpon the change ofthe King,the Neighbor-Nations, whomPhilip had oppreft, began to confiult about the recouer y of theirformer liberty, and to aduentureit by force of Armes, Alexanders young-years gaue them hope ofpre- wailing,&& his fulpected feuerity increafed couragein thofe,who could betterrefolucto die,thanto liveflaui . uithly, But Alexander Saue notimetot j hofefwelling humours,which i .; mee tet y haue endangered the health of his Eftate. Forafterreuenge taken vpon ri : 1 es oe his Father,whom he flew vponhi s Tombe, & the celebration pies ae e . rit faftened vato him his own Nation, by freein g them from all extheir feruice in his Wars ;and vied fuchkingly aua as-0 °.ae ot e fterityy"tow. ae otherthan contemned his young yeares, and fuch clemency tothe reft & i = e ‘ hem! oe OFthe cruelty of his difjpofition,asall affecti - if e pac e a efentiourny into Peloponnefus, & fo well exercions beingpafled fed his fpirits a delice eek my: 2 Councell ofthe States of Greece, he wasaccording tothe great l us heart,elected Captain-Gencrall againft the Perfia ns,y pon which watPAi 4p had not only refolued, (who had obtainedth fi i of Gener ee al Comma Comman der) ¢g title fame the ree vaderrt t} ne leadin but had nder) E tranfp orteddvnde porte g OfParmenio,and Attalus.a part of his Army, t0 a rfomepl recoue ® places ac on Afta-f Afia-fide, ide forthe fafe defcen cet t ofthe reftsae : ‘a parses ife againtt the Perfianoccupied all Alexanders affect ions, thofe fairemarks oe CS, onour, and large Dominion, he nowthot at both fleeping and waking all c y ‘ . Tash ei pag! te 4 ret e. wereei thergr ‘iad ievou s or hateful. Buta contra ry wind arlth; for eceiueth aduerti ; ‘ i Laced and Theba Athen a car had vnited zmoni ians, ns, te ne e ans, cap itathemfe te:lues+ rhim, and,by affiftance from the Perfian,hopedfor ther were periwaded ky Demajlhenes him isset gee meek thertoPer beingbte felfe SOte o they ao erfwad ec : gold Ag ynthe Perfia sth denice of Perfi ; he vied a:the vied waswa: more i oa the Tribailee hae editto be bruited that Alexander was{la ine ina bat Ba oe ae : " > roughtintotheaffembly a Companion whomhe had gO STareNG: Ear himfelfe was prefen and wounded in the battaile Serine Dottrine of Policy (as Policyist now . that deuifed rumors & lies. if, tl a feru ! \ able. Itis truethat common es ies is turn,b ut fora day orrwo falfe alarum the Warsdiculo the innen asessin tinebut : in all thaeI hee hee haue obferu I haue ed,e e found a thethe fuccef fuccelll like bruits, do at othertime Oras thofe that find themfelues at one time abufed by > mesnegleé their duties, when theyare vpon true reports,# Di And hauing now quieted hisbotderers towards the South,hie refoluedto affure thofe 20 Getes,\_dgrians, and other {aluage people, which had greatly vexed with ifcuffions not, onely other of his Predeceffours; but eucn Philip his-Father : withall which, afttr ‘di- | ers Ouerthrowes gitien them he made peace,orelfe brought themintofubiection, Not withftariding this good fucceffe,he could not yet finde the way out of Ew/ape. There is Rothing more natural! co man thanliberty ; the Greekes hadenioyedit ouer-long, and loftittod lateto forgetit ; theytherefore fhake offthe yoke once againe. The Thebans, Whohad intheir Citadell 4 Garrifon ofathouland Mmacedonsjattempt to forceiit ; Alex. ander haftnethto their fuccour,and prefents' himfelfe withthirty thoufand foot,all old fouldietsiéc three thoufand horfe;before the Cityj8 gaue the Intiabitants foie daics'to tefolue, being euen heart-ficke with the defire'of paffing into Aff4:So vawilling, indeed, 30he was to draw bloud ofthe Grecians, by whomhe hopedto ferue'himlelfe elfewhere, thathe offeredthe Thebansremilfion,ifthey wouldoncly delitet ifite his hands Phenix ahd Prothyes.the ftitrers vp ofthe Rebellion': Batthey,oppofing tlic mounting fortune Of Alexander,which bateall refiftatice beforeit, like the breaking in of the Ocean Sea) in ftead of fuch an an(wer; as menbefieged and abandoned fhould hate made, deman- ded Philoties and Awtipater tobe deliuered vatothem ; as if Thebes alone, then layed inthe ballanceof Fortune withthe Kingdome of Maredow;and many other ProuinCeS3vcould eyther ‘have euerted the{Cale orfwaied it. Therefore in the end they ‘pe+ rifhed in their obttinacy. For while the Thebans oppofe the Armyaffailant, they' are charged at the'backe by the Macedonian Gattifon, their City takett and razed to 49thegtound, fixethoufand flaine,/and thirty thouland foldiforflaues, at the price of uichundredand forty talents. ‘This the King'did tothe terrour of the other Gractaw ities, Many Arpuments were vied by clades one'ofthe prifonérs;to perfwade "Alexander toforbeare theidetttuction ofThebes: He prayed the King to belecuethat they were ra- ther miffe-led by'giuing hafty'creditto falfe reports, than any way mali¢ious-. for being Petfwaded of Alexanders death; they rebelled' but againtt his Sacceffolir: He alfo befought the Kingtoremembety thathis father Philip hadhis ediication in‘that City, yea that his Anceftour' Hercules was borne therein: but all peifwafions wefefruitleffe ; the times wherein offences are commitred; doe- greatly aggtauate rhém. Yet for the honout so Kebatero learnitig, hie pardonediall/of che tace ofPindarus the' Port, anid fpared,and fee ztliberry Timocleathe fitter of Theanenes,who died int defenceof the liberty of Greece a4 B2inkt his facher Philip: This noblewoman being taker by'a' Thracian, -and by himra- Bithed he threatned to take her lifewnleffe the would confefé her tteafure the led that len toa Wellatid told ‘trith that the had' thetein caft it Sand when the Tiirasiie a looke intothe Wells(he fuddenly thruft himiftto'thie meurh théreof,and fto- oe ; fhethebaws,as had Nowbecau fethe drhenians had:xecei ued into aie fomany 0 efcaped |