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Show 7 he fecond Booke ofthefirstpare Guaray.§i7. =Couar.17.§.7, by staid their contra. padions and aftec tions, by which the foules of men ae Xe coe , 0, 7m Hesoften-times refitted or qualified. But ambition, which begetteth every vice, and is looketh onc wp owardsthe ends byit felfe {er it felfethe childeand darling of Satar, downe, forgetting nothing ( howfearefullandint v ne locuer Whicth may ferueit: remembring nothing, whatfoeucriuttice, pictic, right or |religion can offer and alledge onthe contrary. Itaicribeth the lamentableeffects of like weakeneffe of the vndertakers, and rather praifet hin feuenoftheir fonnes euery yearefor tribute,whom he inclofed within a Labyrinth; to bedenoured by the moniter AZizoraur : becaule belike the fonnes of Taarus, which he begat on Pa(iphae the Queene, hadtlic charge of them: among thefe feuen, Thefews thrukk himfelfe, novdoubting by his valourtodeliuer the reft, andto free the Gounttie of that flauetie occafioried for the death of Androzeus, Minos his {onne: Andhauing poffeft himfelfe of ArzadnesaffeQion;who was Minos danghter, he receiz atrertipts, to the crrour or ¢ aducnture than fea reth the like ued from hera bottome of thred, by which he conduéted hiinfelfe through all thecrog= ked and inextricable turnings ofthe Labyriath,made inall like'tthat of the Citie of Craco- fuccefle. It wasthefirft finne thatthe world had, and began in -4xgels for which they werecaftintohell, without hope of redemption. It was more anci nt than mat, and therefore no part of his naturall corruption. The punifhment alfo preceded his creation, yet hath the Diuell which felt the {mart thereof, taught him to forget dilesin Egypt; by meane whereof hauing flaine A¢imotaur, he founda ready. wayto re- xo turme./But whereashis father Acgenws had giuenorder, that if hee.came ba blacke faile, vnder which they left the port of w4thens; This inftrnétion being cither forgotten orneglected , degewsdefcrying the Shippeof The/eus with a blacke fayle, did afi himfelfe ouer the rockes downe inzo the Sea, afterward calledof His name wxe- hisbéft perfivafions toalienate the Sechemites,from the affifting Of this mercile ff tyrant, letting them know, thatrhofe which were vertuous, and whom reafon and religion had ‘one ofthe firtt famous a&s of 7 hefeus, wasthekilling ofSeren, who kept a, palace tweene Megara and the Pelepoxnefian I/thmos, andthrewallwhomvhee maftercd into eSea, fromthe high tockes. Afterward he did the hke to Cercyon, by wreftling, who, -dby that Aretokillothers: Hee alfotidde the Counatrie of Pracraftes, who vied to pend downe theftrong linabes oftwo trees;and faftened by codes {ach ag hee tooke, rt of themto one,andpart to the otherbotigh,and by the {pringing vp tare themafur= taught the fafe and happyeftate of moderatefubiection, had refufedtor ecciucas volawe fall, what others had no power to giue, without direction from theKingof Kings : Who from the beginning (asto his owne peculiar people ) had appointed them by whomand howtobeegouorned. This hee taught them by the Oliue, which contenteditfelfeys withirs fatneffe, the Figge-tree with its{weetnefle, and the Vine withthe good iuyce it had : the Bramble oncly, who was moft bafe, cut downe all the reft, and accepted the Soucraigntie, Hee alfo foretold them by a Propheticall {pirit, what fhould befall them in the end; and howa fire fhould come outof the Bramble, and confiumethe Ces der. Sodid he root out Periphetes and other mifchieuous theeues and murtherers. Hee darsof Libanen. Now(asitisan eafie matterto call thofe men backe whom rage without rightled on) Gaal the fonne of Ebed withdrewthe Citizens of Sechem, from the fernice of Abienelechs whothereforeafter {ome affaults entred the place,and maftered ‘it; and.in conclufion fi- red thetowne;wherein their Idoll Baalberith was worlhipped, and putall the people of allfortstotheflaughter.: Liaftly, in the affault ofthe Caftle or Tower of Teber, himielfe % was wounded .intheheadwitha ftonethrowneouerthe wall byra woman, and finding himfelfe mortally brnifed, hecommanded his owne Page to piercehis body, thereby avoid the difhonout ofsbtingflaine by fo feeble a hand. While Abimelech vfurjiedthe Gouernment, the Lapitheand Centanres made wate Deut.'3.14. Nam. 12,41. tiidg, To. toot. tr Tuft. and efcape, which wounds Aefculapins,to wit, fome skilfull Phyfitian, or Chirurgion healed againe ; after whichhee pafled into Jéa/ie, where he liued with Disza, that is, the ; elfelwritten sinistan argumentthat duringall theif times; Hrae/liued without difturban and itt. peaces: bouWhenilzixinidged'i/rel, Priamus begantoraigne in: Trey; who at fucktime 4s" tulesfacked team;was'carried away,captiue with hisfitter Hefione into Greece, and beilg afterward tedécindd forsatifome he rebuilt and gteatly ftrengrtiened,and adored isi ‘ and {0 fatrcinlargéd his Dominioné;ashee becainiethe fupreame Lord-in effet oF 9,5 cAjathe lelle. He married: Heeuba the daughterof Ciffeus King of Thrace; and hadif a (faith Cicero Mfiftiefonnes, whereof feuenteene by. Hecuba; of whom Part Was . : whoattempting to.recouicthisaunt Hefiane; tooke Helena the wife ofMenelausthee ofithe warre which followed, ‘ rs +» Thefensthe tenth Kitig of athens began likewifeto raigne: in: the beginning of i fome'wtiterscall him the fonne ofNeptaneand Aithras burPlatark in the Stone ot lite,finds him begorten by Acgeus,ofwhomthe Grecias fea betweene it and 4/i* the > bea. o Adino tookenam¢.Bor when ‘ s had mhaftered the WAshemians ‘, f< ,{o far as he forc cthema a hin yher in her hunting; and field {ports. It isprobablethar Hippolytus, when his Father fought hislife, thinking to efZape by Sea, was afftonted thereat, and.didreceiue many wounds in‘forcing his paflage parts that deuifedto manage horfes, to bridle andtofit them : infomuch as when they firft came downe from the mountaines of Pindus,into the plaines,thofe which had neuet Palephatus,t. 1. feene horfemen before, thought themcreatures compounded of menand horfes; fo dt After thé death of Abimelech, Tholoof Ifachar gouerned Ifrael 23. ycares, andafter4 him Zair the Gileadite 22. yeares, who feemes to be defcended of/air the fonne of M& wajfe;whdineAde/es time conquered agreatpartof Gilead, and called the fame after hi owashamesHauoth Jair, Foro this Zairithere remained thittie of thofe Cities, vie hisnateftorhad- recovered fromthe Amorites.. Ofhele Iudges,becaufe there is nothing ouerthrew the Armie of the zmazons, who after many vidtoriesand vaftations, entred the Territorie of Athens, Thefens hauing taken their Queene Hipzolita prifoner,begaton her Hippolytiss 5: with whomafterwaid his mother in law Phedra, falling in loue,and hee refuliag toabufehis fathers bed, Phedra perfwaded The/eus that his fonne offredto force her; after whichitis fained, that Thefeas befought Veptune to reuenge this wrong ofhis fonnes , by fomeviolent death: Neptanetaking atime of aduantage; fent out his SeaCalues, as Hippolytus paffed by the fea fhore, and fo affrighted his horfes, as cafting the 30 Coachouer, hee was by being intangledtherein} torne in pieces.. Which miferable andvndeferued deftinie, whem Phedra hadheard of, the ftrangled herfelfe. After which itis fained, that Diana entreated Acfeulapius to fet Hippolitus his piecestogether, and to reftore himto life: whichdone; becaufe he was chatte, fheled hint with herinto sralse, to accompan _ gainft the Thebanes., Thefe Nations were defcended ofApollo,and were the firftin thofe the Mexicans when Ferdinando Cortes the Spaniard firft inuaded that Empire. With Vis étorie arid in fafetie, he fhould vfea white faile infiene thereof; andinot thar mournefull the oneasourof date, and topractife the other, as befitting eucty age, and mans condition. ‘ totham, the youngeft of Gidions fonnes, hauing efcaped the prefent perill, fought by de wacredib. ofthe Hiffory ofthe World, life of a hunter, in which hee moft delighted. But of thofe ancient prophane Sto- ap ties, Plutarch faith welt; tharas Cofmographers in their defcriptions of the world;. where they, finde many vaft places whereof they knownothing, fill:che famé with ftrangé Beafts Birds, and Fithesjiaad with,Atethematical/ lines; fo doe. the Grecian Hiftotians and Poets imbroderandintermixethetales of ancient times, witha world of fi- ctions and fabulous difcourfes. Truc it ts; that Thefews did-smany great things in imitation of Hercules, whom heemade-his patterne, and was the firft that gathered the Athenians» from being difperfed.in thinne and ragged Villages : in re¢ompence whereof, and for deuifing theny, Lawesto line vader, and in order; hee was by the beggerly, mutable, and vngratefall multitude, in the end banifhed. Somé fay, per Oftrae aifpira, by the Law of Lottes, or namesiwritten on.fhells; which was'a denice of his 5Slowne. He ftole Helen( asthey Say. when the wasfiftie yeates old,from Aphidna,which City Caffor and Pollux ouerturned, when they,followed after 7:hefeus to recouer. their fifter. Eraftiftratusand Paufanias write that Thefexs begotherwith childe at argos vehere thee ef sereb ii, a reéteda T, emple.to Zaciza: butherage makes thattale vnlikely.to\ beé true, and)fo.dor pests c Ouid, N, ontamener fattofinclum tulitille petitunyeres The rape Ed/ebius findes in the ie Epi. firftof fairs who gouetned dfracl 224 ,yedress:to whom fucceeded Lephta or fepte fixe tadg10.7. Yeatesste whom2am whosuled {euenyeares,andthen Hebden eight yeares; : in whofe time Wastheifall of Tray, So,asiif Thee had achilde by her:in' the firlt ober f * which |