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Show The.fourth Bookeofthe firstpart Cuari2.§.19, . : CsWAP.2°9.19, eethe Eifflorie ofthe World. any boaft)and therefore better omitted by fome Hiftoriahs) than fohiphly extolled as agreatexploit,by others. GPIGHTS DSUS3 yh , While Alexaider wasaffuring himfelfe ofthofe: Soythians ibordering!vpon Taxirtes. drunken Banquet. C/ytus, indeed,had deferued as muchat the Kings hands, asany mah lining-had-done,andhadin particularfaued hislife, vyhich the King vvell remembred when he cameto himfelfe,and whenit vvas too late. Yet to fay the truth, €4t4shis infolencie was intolerable. Ashein his Cups forgat whom heoffende d, fo the Kine in his he receiucd the illnewesthat Afenedemms wasflaine by Spitamenes, the Armie( by-him led broketjand thegreateft munibers flaihesto wit,two thoufand foor;'‘and three hin. dred horle:' Hetherefore, to' appeafethesrebellion, and totakereuchge ofSpitamenes; makes all the haftehe cansbut Spitumenes fits into Badtriaudlexander ils, burns; & lakes wafte all beforehim ; not {paring the innocentchildren, and fo depaits, leauiiga'new Gouernout in thatProuince: 2% ring Sn nant 171 forthetein he toticht him to the quicke, the fame being delivered in publike; \and-ara oe (forneyther, of them were themfelues )forgat whom he went aboutto flay,for thegtiefe wheteof he tare his'own face atid forrowed {6 inordinat ely, as, but for the perfwafichs OfCalifthenes.it is thought he would haueflain€himfelfe: Wine begat Furi¢, Furie matter of Repentance : but precedin g mifchiefe in: Torepaire this lod hereveiueda great {upply of ninereenethoufand Souldieis outof Greece, Lyeia,andSyriazwith allwhich,& theold Armie,he retutnes cowardsthe South, and pafieth the Riuet.ofOveo1the South-fide whereof) he-built fixe Townésneere eachotherfor mutuall fuccout, But he findeswrew ftart!vp:Rebell; called Arimazes,(a Sogdian) followed withthirty thoufand Souldiers,that defended ‘againit-him:a ftrong picceof groundon thetop ofa high Hill ; whom when Alexander'had fought in vaine sare nota. romended by fucceeding bewailing : Omme vitinms ebrictas ¢ incendit, &\detecis « abfan lents tothefirft nine to the fecond, and{foin propoitionto the reftythatcould findea waytocreepe vpto'thetopthereof. Thisthey performed:with the doffe' offonie tivo Sooneafterthis, Spitamenes,who flew Beffasjand hadlately revolted fromi Alesxamdey was murdered by his Wife,and his head prefented to Alexander . Spitamewes being taken tem malts conatibus verecundiam remouet vbiPolfedit aninBani nimia vis viri, guicquld wali latebatemergit : wonfacit cbrietas vitia,fed protrahit. Drarkenne ffe both hindlesand layes Open cuery vice ; it remoones ont ofthe way that[bame which gies impediment vate baddé at. tempts swhere winevets the maffricsall the illthat before lay hidden breakes ont:drunkennelfe indeedyather difconers vices,than makes them. to wits byfairewords,he made choicé ofthree hundred young men3& promifed ted ta- and thirty oftheir men,andthen madea figneto Alexamaér,that they-had:performedhis commandement.Hereupon he fent one Cophesto perfwade Arimaxes to yeeld the place; who,being thewed by Cophesthatthe Armie ofAtacedoawas already mounted vp,yeeldedfimply to Alexanders mercy, and was ( withall his kinred ) fcourged and crucified to death;which punifhmentthey well deferued for neglecting to-keepe' good watchin away,the Dabsas alfo {eized vpon his fellow-con{pirator ‘Dataphern es! and delivered himvp.So Alexasder being nowfreedfromall thefe pettie-R ebels,dif pofed ofthe Pro. 29uinces which he paft ouet,ahd went on with his Armie into Gabaza, Whereit {iffered fo much Hunger, Cold, Lightning,Thunder,and Storme,ashe lof in one Tempeftathonfand of his Traine. From hencehe inuaded the Sacans, and deftroyéd their Country: Then camehe into the Territorie of Cobortanes,yvho fubrtiitted himfelfevnto him;feas fodangerousatime.For the place,as feemesby the defcription;might éafily hauebeene defended againft all'the Armies ofthe World:But;what ftrength cannot doe,Manswit, being the moft forcible‘engine, hath often effected; OfwhichI will giue youanexam- pleina place oftotr:owne.t 7:4 £ Redhim greatly,& prefenced him with thittie beautifull Vi rgins, amotig Whom Roxane; afterward his Wife ; Was one : which althoughall the Macedowia ns difdained, yet none oftheir durft(fe any: freedome offpeech after Chrus his death. From hetice hedire@ted is courfe towards Jndia,hauing fo increafed his nucibers;43 they amounted to an huns dted and twenty thoufand armed men. K In themeane while‘he would needs be honoured as 2° God': whiertto'that he mighe : The IlandofSarke,ioynitig to:Garu/ey and ofthat gouernement,was'in Queene Maries time fuiprifed bythe French, and ‘couldoneuer haue beenerecoucted againe by ftrong hand,hauing cattell and corneenoligh vpon the placeto feed fo many men as will ferue 30 todefendit,and being euery way fo inacceffible,thatit might be heldagainft the Great Tarke,Yet by theinduftry ofa' Gentlemanof the Netherlands, *ityyas inthis fort rega'ned. He anchoreéd'in the roade with one Ship of final burden;and pretending the death of his Merchant, befoughtthe French, being fomethirty 'in:number, that they might 32a lore the Macedonians, he imployed two pernicious Parafites, Hagis'and cleo; whom Califthenes oppofed : For,among many other honeft areuments vfed toldcleo, Thar he thonghr, that 4/exander would difdainé the gift tothe affem bly, he of God-head from his Vaffils 3 That the opinion of Sanétity, thoughi t did foinerime follow the death of *holewhoin theirlife-time had donethe greateft things, yet itneuer accompanied any oneas yet lining inthe world, He further told him, That neither Herca/es nor Bacthas butie theit Merchant in‘ hallowed' Ground; and in the Chappell of that prefenttothe French offuch Commodities 2s they had aboord ; wheretoIflesoffcring 4 (with conditien that theyfhould not Werte Deified ata banquet,and vpondrinke, (for this mattet was propotinded by Clo at come a-fhore with any vveapon,no not fo much as with #Catowfing feaft)but that,for the more than manly a@s by themperformed while they Knife) the Freach wen yeelded.Then didthe Flemings puta Coffin into their Boat, not filled withadead carkefie,but with Sword s,Tatgets, and Harqiebuifes; The Frenchteceiued them attheitlandingand fearching every ofthem {fo narrowlyas theycould not4® hide a Pen-knifeyeane themleave todraw theirCoffin vpthe R ockes withgreat diffien!ty;fomepart efthe Freechtookethe Flemsif Boat & rowedaboard théir Ship,to fete the commodities promifed@c what elfe they: pleafed;-butibeing entred;they were taken liued,they vvere in future and fucceeding Ages numbred among the pods. Alexander 4 ftood behinde a partition and heard all that was fpoken, waiting but an opportuni tie, to ekcuenged on Calithenes,who being amanof freefpeech,honeft, learned, anda' louér ofthe Kings honour, was yet foone after tormented to death ; hotforthat he had'betratedthe king to othets : but becaufe he neue would condefcend to betray the king to imfelfe, as all his deteftable flatterers did. Forina confpitacie againft the king made Rane ermolaus and others(whichthey confeft') he catifed Califthene s without confer and bound. ‘The Flemings onthe Land, when they:had:¢arried: their Coffin into the Chappell,(hut the dooreto them, and taking their weapons our ofthe Goffin, fet vpo® theFreach ; they-rim to the Cliffe and cty to their Company aboord ‘the Fleming 10 "h.aecufation,ortriall.to be torhe afunder vpoa the racke: This deed vnworthy ofa ing, Semeca thus cenfureth. Hoc eff Alexandri crimen aternum, quod nulle virtas, wile itamlelicitas redime. Nam quoties quis dixerit, Octidit Perfarum malta willie : oppo- cometotheirficcour, but finding the Boatcharged:with Flem/nos)yeelded themfclues and the place.Thus. Fox-taile doth fometimes helpeé wellto piece ouvthe Lions-sk%, that elfe would-be'too fhort. Are Califthenem : Quoties di@imerit, Occidie Dariurn + opponitur,> So - Caemene ° §.X1TX. How Alexander flew his ownefriends. ft Freer thefe Segdiaisand Scythian Wares; vve redde of Alexanders killing ofa Lion,and otherfrivolous matters, ahd that he committed the. Gouernmentot ** racande,.and the Country about it, to C/ytws, and how heflewhim foone - for valuine the vertueofPhilipthe father before that ofAlexander the fon, ot erent caule he objectedtothe King the death of Parmenio,and derided thcOpacle of Hom Califthenems arn, dium erit, Omnia Occanotenus vicit, itfum quogue tentanit montis clafsibus, Tin le oi angulo Thracie Ufque ad Orientis terminos protulit:ditetar, fed Califthenem Ochs sia? aia licet antigua Ducum Regumguecxembla tr anfiertt, ex his que fecit nibiltam mag» Berfein quamfoclus Califthenes ; This is the eternal crime of Alexander, whith no'vertue : be Wciite of bis in warre[ball ener be able to rédeeme. Fo ds Often as any man foal fay, Sew many thoufand Perfians it [hall be replied, He did fo, aud he flew Califthenes: # [ball bee Said, He flew Darius, it {ball be' replied, and Califtheries; when ithall > He wane all zsfarre a the very Ocean, thereon alfo he aduentured with vnufualt ag ‘e 34nd extended his Empirefrom a corner of Thractjtothe vtmofi bounds of the Oris =a valbefaid withaBathe kided Califthenes. Lethim bane ont-gone all aoe : examples |