3Z ARevelation o, f tlae Apocalÿple. C A P. 9 à !laughter, that he got his name from thence, and was commonly called the death of the Saracens. There is fo great a confent of the time here, as if the Holy Ghofthad pointed at this Countrey onely, and had ordained to make it afpeLtacle of Gods wrath, by deliver- ing it over to be ranfaked and undone by thefe Loctefis, as the which had beene a Mifreffe of Impiety to the whole earth, and out of which that otherkinde of Locufts iffued out no leffe pernicious then that former. But of thefe we (hall fee more by and by let us now profccute thofe things which are yet behinde to write of thofefar- mer Locufts. This fit-it troope therefore, which by the determinate fpace of an hundred and fiftie yeeres,didviolently invade divers places by acer- taine changeablecowrfe, had at length, when they failed, new com- paniesofTurkifh Locuffs, to follow after them, and tofupply their roome ; Who at the firft were not fo noyfome by any damage, that they did by themfelves, as in that they did drive forth the Saracens more and more to the whole weft, after they had feazed upon their habitations who before did in great abundance dwell in the Eaft. But after that the poyfon of the Ararens waxed old andde- cayed, to the end that the Chriftianprofeffion might not enjoyany the lea(t breathing time ; the Turkes play their parts in their rooms, and that far more cruelly then ever they did, whom they fucceeded. For they began with Diogenes the Empereur of Rome in the yeere a o 7 ;. Whom when they had taken captive, they let him goe againe, but at length he was killed by his owne people after they had firft put out his eyes. The Terkes not induring to have their kindneffe fo littleor no- thing to be regarded by the Romans, difgaieted the whole Eaf,un- till a newaffault of the Scythian ftroke a feare into them, and made them to bethinke and devife rather how todefend. themfeives,then to provokeothers; to which point when they werebrought, they in- treated and obtained peace at the hands ofjohn Duca, the Emperor ofRome, who then lived at Nice, becaufe Bizantiumwas ofold ta- kenby the Latines; which thing fell.out in,the yeere 1223. N- ceph. Gregor. Booke 2. Rom. Hifor. For fo it pleated Gad the htghe/t Governour ofall things, that the Turks (houldfirft torment men like Locuft. andScorpions, ere they made (laughter upon laughter, with- out all indifferent refpe i ofperfon,age,orfexe,like fierce and inraged Lyons ; And therefore the affaults theymade till the yeere i 3 00. are worthily called.by-the;Hiflory -writers, robberies, rather thenjuit wars ;
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