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Show ee En - Theyift Baokeopithefirftpart ~ bamacspen. Cuar.6,§.3, ae Neateep {hould wait vpon/hisbrotlierto Rome, and makethem, forgetting their duti¢s ro their tring old King,becomeferuantsto thisyong TraytoriPemciris. Hereto.Deme nade an: Cua BOi83. of the-tisflory oftheWorld. = Moréin regard ofhe‘benefitiw Sepe raesr i i siavotes is wi reaped by:their concord; shan iti rez {wersby relicarfirig all paflages of theday and nighpforegoingsin fuch,mannersas heres membred themjandhdd:conceiued af them + bitterly xt prehending: Perfes,.that:cons cherifhed himin his minoriti Bu t erenath king Antigonashis Tarot had faithfully himfelfe of an vamercifulbnatiiresand theref uthewas fore vnmect toobbe agood 8 o¢: perfwader voto -kindiy affections The murders by hi whereby he fotight bisinnocent brathers deathisAsifortheloue hich the Romansdid of hisbloud-thirfty appetite,he delightfully facconea re whichforthe fatiating ftrangers,and fubiects ofhis owne; did now procure vas aiedoue ee uerted matters ofPaftime,and what was doneonfpoken inawine, to {uchian acenfation, beare him) He.faid thatiitgrew,ifgor from his ownevertue, at leat wifefromtheir opi- nionthereof? foasby animpiousiprastice, Heeaweremone liketolofe it wholly, than roincreafeits In'this wretclied pleading. there waited notifuchpailions, asare incident to fathersychildren,andibrethren}) befides thofe thagare commori.co all Plaintiffes and 16 efendants, before ordinarie ludges. The king pnatiginbed likea father, though: aiea- lous father;‘Phat he wouldconclude sothing vponthe excefle orerror, whatlocuerit weresofone day and night, nor vpon.ése hourcsandience ofthe marter, but ypon better obferuation of theirdives, manniers,and whole!éatriage of themfelues borh in word and deeds Andherein hemayfeenic'tohaue dealt bor inftly and.compaflionately. But from this time forward he gaue himfelfover wholly-to:Per/eusevfingdolittle conference with his yongerfonne, that when hehad mattersiofiveight in band, fach efpecially as concerned the Romans,Heliked neither to hauehimprefent,nar neere vnto him.Aboue alljhe had efpeciall caré,to learne out what had paffed ‘between Demetrins and T..Quintiws,or any other of the Roman greavoness Andto chis\purpofehefet Embafladors to 2 Rome,Philecles and Apellet ; men whomhee thought nowayinterefled) in the quatrells betweene the brethren, though indeed they altogether dependedion the elder, whom they faw theiiiore in grace. Thefe brought home-withthem letter; {aid to be written by Titas (whofe feale they had counterfeited) vito the King. The, contents whereof were, A deprecation for the yong Princeswith anantimation, as byway of grantingit, That his youthfull and ambitionsdefires had caufed himto enter into practices vaiuftifiable,againft his elder brother ; whichyetfhould neuertakeeffect; for that Tiss him- felfe would not be author, or abetter sof any impious device. This manner ofexcufedid forcibly perfwadetheking, tothinke his fonne a dangerous traytor. To ftrengthen him inthis opinion; one Didas,to whom he gaue Demetrius in cuftodie, made thew as if he 3° pon many of his friends,together with the barbarous outrages, whic tect, itm-done that rewarded him witha draught of his owne Poyfon ae pons from Heauen, He too late began to examine the crimes that had beeneubiedt oe a poe 40 in amore equall ballance. Then found he nothing that could it . 2 : nee chew good probabilitie induce him thinke, that fnalice had not ee iy proceffc. His onely remaining Son Per/eas could {oil diffemble ecaisace ~ "me tooke,in being freed fromall danger.ofcompetition; as there mi htenGly oa cond . in him a notable change,proceeding from fome other caufe ‘ba ee - dangers, which he hadlately pretended. The Romanes were foW n i etobe walle than at othertimes, when he, as haning accomplithed the moftofhis defies, lef se viuall trouble ofminde, and carefulneffe of making prouifion dpaing lea SE morediligently courted, than in formertimes; by thofe thar well vaderttoud whed if rence, betweenea rifing anda fetting Sunne. As for old philip, hewas left ina Inger 20 defolate, fome expecting his death , and fome featce enduring the tedioufnelle of fuch expectation. This.bred inthe king a deepe melancholy; and filled his head with fufpi Hous imaginations; the like whereofhee had neuer beene flowto apprehend. He * " much vexed: and fo muchthe more, forthat heknew,neither well to whom nenpe fectly whereofto complaine. Onehonourableman,a Coufinofhis, named Abtigonns, continued fo true to Philip, that hee grew thereby‘hatefull ro Perfous: and thus becomming fubiect vnto the fame iealous impreffion which troubled the King} becamealfo partaker ofhis fecrets, ‘This counfailour, when he found that the anger conceiued a: pant Perfeus would not ventit felfe, and giue eafe to the king, vorillthe trath were howne whether Demetrius were guiltyor no ofthetreafon obieGed;as alfo that Phile30 les and Apelles, (the Embaffadours which had brought from Rome that Epiftle ofF/sminis, that ferued asthe greateft euidence again{t Demetrins) were fufpected of forgery hadpittied the eftate ofthe vnhappy Prince; and fo wrung out of himhis fecret intenti- inthe bufineffe: madediligent inquirie after therruth. In thus doing,he found one Xp- cretly to Rome; where he might hopenotonelyto liue in {afery,from his father & bros fadors. Him he apprehended,brought tothe Court,and prefented vntothe King : fay- ons, which hefhortly difcouered vato Phzlip. It was the purpofe of Demetrins toflye fe- ther, but in greaterlikelihood, than he could finde at home,of bettering fuch claimeas he had in teuerfion vnto the Crown ofMacedon. Whatfocuer hishopes and meanings were, all cameto nought through thefalfhood of Dida; who playing on both-hands, effered vatothe Prince his helpe for making the efcape, & in the meane while revealed the whole mattertothe King.So Philip refolued to put bis fonne to death, without fur- ther'expencoftime. Itwasthought behouefull tomake himaway priuily,for fearelelt the Romans fhouldtakethe matter to heart,and holdit asa proofe fufficient, at leaft, of 4° the kings defpight againft them,ifnot of his meaning to renew the warre. Didasthere- fore was commanded torid the vnhappy Prince ont of hislife. This accurfed Minifter of his Kings vnaduifed fentence, firft gaue poyfonto Demetrius: which wrought neither fo haftily,nor fo fecretly, as was defired. Heereuponhefent a couple of Ruffians, to finifh thetragedic:who villainoufly accomplifhed their work by {mothering that Prince, in whofe life confifted the greateft hope of Macedon. Inall the race of 4atigonus there had not beenc found aking, that, had thus cruelly dealt with any Prince of his owne bloud.. ‘The houfes of Lyfimachys and Caffander felk either with themfelues,or euen vpontheirheeles; by inteftine difcord andiealoufies, 50 grounded on-defire of foueraignerule,or feare oflofing it. By the like yvanatural | hatred, hadalmoft beene cut offthelines of Prolomie and Seleucus : which thonghnatow- ly they efcaped the danger,yetwerethcir kingdomestheieby grieuoutly diftempered Contrariwife,it was worthy ofextraordinary note,howthat wpitart family of the kings of Pergamushad raifedit felfe to'maruellous greatneffe;iin, very. hort {pace fromfn condition of meere flauery ¥ whereof 2 'principall caufe.was, the brotherly JouematNeitheriwasbilip 1g" tained by them , withfingulsr commendation of theif:pietie. rantofthefe examples; butis: {aid to hauc propounded the-laft of them, te his owne si children, as @ patterne fortliem toiinvitate, Certainely hee-had reafon fo, ro doe: nore P i chws,a man moft likely, to haue vnderftood whatfalfe dealing was vied by thofe Embaf- ing, Thatthis fellow knewall,and muft therfore be made to veter what he knews‘Xychas for feare oftorture, vttered as muchas was before fufpected: confefling againtt himfelf, that he had beene employed by the Embafladorsimthat wicked piece ofbufineffe. No maruell,ifthe Fathetspaffions were extreme;whenhe vnderftoodthat by the viitatural practice ofone fonne,he had fowretchedly caftaway another, farre more vertuous and 4 innocent. He raged exceedingly againft himfelfe, and withall againftthe authors ofthe mifchiefe. Vpon the firkt newes ofthis difcouerie, pelles fled away, and gorintoItalie, Philecles was taken:.and eitherfora{muchas he could not denieit when Xychus confron- ted Him, yeelded himfelfe guilty ; orelfe was put cotorture.: Per/ews was now growne tonger,thanthathe fhould need to fly¢ the Countrie: yer not {o' ftoutas to adventure imfel fe into his fathers prefence. He kept on theborders of the kingdome, towards Thrace,whileft his father wintred at Demetrias. Philip therefore,not hoping toget into his powerthis his vngracious fone, tookea refolution, to aliene the Kingdome fiom im,and conferitvpon Anticon But his weake body, and excefliue gricte of minde, fo difabled himin the traviellthereto belonging'; that ere he could bringhis purpofero soeticd, hee was conftrainedto yeeld to nature: Hee had reigned: abour two and forty Yeeres: alwaics full oftrouble ;as vexed by others,and vexed himfelfe with continual Warres. of which that with the Romanswas moft yvnhappy, and few ornoncoftherctt ound the conclufion, whicha wife Prince would haue defired, ofbringing forth toge- ther, both honourand profit. But forall the euill that befell him,:hee might:thanke his own peruerfe condition: face his Vacle, king Anriganai, had lefevnto-himan,cttate, fo Breat, and (o well fertled, as madeit eafiefor him, to.accomplith any nvolerare Uelires; ifhehad not abhorred all good coyofell:\ Wherefore he was jnftly puniflied by feeling the diffcreace betweencthe imaginary happinelle ofa‘Tyrant, which hee affected, 7. a; fi |