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Show Meena2h of the Fiftory of the Worlds »\ \ a Pain reg ard ofthemony,wherewith Demerrias had hiredhis affiftance ylorofthe booty: that yvas gotten;but forthat hauing vanquifhed theftouteft ofthéGrecks,he founditnor vn eafie,to enrich himfelte by fetting vpon the leffe warlike/Forioy ofthis he Feafteds and drankefoimmoderately, that hefell into 2 Plewrifie; which in few dayes ended his life, His Kingdome,together with his great hopesJhelefevato Teureshis wife, Teata gaueher people fice liberty; to rob all:forts at Seay making no differencebe. tween friend and foe; as if the, had'bin fole Miftreffe of the fult Watetsy'* Shear inedafleet, and fent ivinto Greece : vvilling her Captaines, to make vvarre where they foundaduanrage, without any further refpedt. Thefe fell with: the welteine-28alt of 1g Peleponne/as ; wherethey:inuaded the Eleans, and Meffenians. Afterwards theyveturnedalong by Epiras,:and ftayed at the Citie of Phenice, totakeinvictualles cat. ther neceflaries: There lay inPbenice eight hundred Ganies sthat having bin Méteenaries ofthe Carthaginians went about to betray, firkt 4erigentum,then Eryxito the'komant: but failing to doe ¢ither,they neuertheleffe reuolted,and were fortHeir mifdeedesdifarm-d . Scfentto Sea by the Remans,yet entertained by thefe Epirors,anditrufted to tye in' Gar< xifon within their' Towne.The Gawes yyere foone prowne acquainted vvith the fils +- #ns,to whom they betrafed Phenste; which deferuednoné otherjintrutting thet, A it Epirwsvvas prefently in armes, and haftned to driue ogt thefé vawelcome euehso But whileft the Zpirets lay before the Towne,there ‘came'newesincotheir Came: bfaro. 90 theriyrian\Armie,that vvas) marching thitherward: by Lands yndet one' scevaila? bes, whom Queen Tewtehad fent to help his fellowes." 'V pon this aduertifement{a part of themisfent away towards -4ntigenia,to make good that Townj& the fireights adidyNing; by vvhich thefe new commers muff enterintothcit Countrysanother part ofthem remaines. at Phewice,to continuethe fiege. Neither the one, not the other, {ped Vvell' in their bufineffe. For Scerdilaidas found meanesto ioyne vyith his fellowes ,and they that werebefieged within Phenicefallied out. of the towne, and gaue fiich an overthrow to the Epirots,as made them defpaire of fauing: their Country, without ‘great and fpeedy hédlp from abroad. Wherefore Embaffadours were fentto the "Acheans and étolians : Stauing their help, with very pictifulltcarmes of entreatic.: They obtained their {iit 3 3° neither was it long, beforean Army,fent by thefé two Nations, was teady in -Epirids} to prefent battailevnto Scerdilaidas. Buri Scerdilaidzsivyas called home, by letters' from Teatethe Queen,that fignified a rebellion of fome Myriams againfther: fo that he*had nomindeto puthis forcesto hazzard, byt offeredcompofitiony ywhich vvas accepted: Theagreement wvas'y Thatthe Epirors might ranfome their' Towne, and/all their people thar-vvere prifoners; and thatthe vijrians {hould quietly "depart, With ‘all their booty. and flaues»-Hauing made:this profitable and ‘honourable' bargaine 3 the Ubrians'retuined into their own Country by Land; fending their booty away by ‘Sea, Attheir comming home,they foundino fuch great trouble,as that which they brought, or had occafioned in this voyage. For in fulfilling the coinmandement oftheir Queene, 4° they had taken many /ta/iae Merchants, whileft they: lay ac Phaiwice; and made them 800dprize. Hereofthe complaints,made vato the Remax Senate,vverefo frequent, that Embaffadours were fenttorrequire of T¢wta; that' the! fhould abftaine'from doing fach iniuries. Thefe Embaffadours found her very iolly; borhfor the riches which her fleet had brought in'; and for char fhe had,in thort {pace,tamed her Rebels, and brought all to 800d order;faue only thetowne ///a,'vvhich her forces held ftreishtly befieged.' Swelling with this profperity,the could hardly afforda good look to the Romans ; chat found ault with her doings, \and calling them by atraé name) Pyrdcy, required amends.' Yet Whentheir fpeech vvas ended, {he vouchfafed to rellthem, "That iniuryin publike the Yvould dothem none: as for priuate matters, noaccount was to bélmade of thet': nei , ther was it the manner ofKings to forbid their Subie@s'to' gct comiiniodity, how' they 50 belt could by Sea. Bur (faid the younger of the two Bmbafladours') We Romanes haye a manner,8c avery laudable one,to take retienge in publickeJofthofe priate wrongs ‘that atc borne out by publike authority : therfore vve fhall reach you, God willing' tore*orme your kingly mannersjand learne better of vs: Thefe words the ‘Queete tooke fo ‘Mipatiently;:that no redenge could fatistie her; butthe ‘dear' of fii thachad fpoken fem.Wherefore,without allregard ofthe cemmon Law ofNationsfh¢ canfed him'to flaine as ifthat had ‘bin the way} ‘to fee her "heareat reft-ywhich 'yvas indeed the Meanexo difquict and afAiG it ever after! noqy ; m= Pi 35% |
