470 A Commentary upon the Glel Clue, time, caufe ro think, It were bearer tobe Herod' Minftrell then Miriíher, Player then Preacher, Daunccr then Dolour. e.4nd given' to the I.)amsfell ] The Romans condemned it for a detefhable cruelty in 2Laintus l'l aniviur eha t to gratifiehis har- lot Ph centina, he be..eaded a certain prifoncr in her pretence at a frail-. This, Lill calleth facintsr faysrn,' ate atrox, acurled and horridfad : And Cato the Cei for caff hies oot of the Senat(; for ir. Neither was itlong era this tyrant Herodhad his payment from heaven. For Aretas King of Arabia (offended with him for puttingaway his daughter, and taking to wife Herodias) came Ioepo lib 13. upon him with an army, and cut off all his forces. Which loff'e cap 7' all me s interpreted , faith lotplans , as aloft vengance ofGod upon, him, for his unjull ufage of the Baptift. And, within a while after, beingaccu(ed at Rome by his brother Agrippa, and convic°ed that he had 7ocoo .armes in readinefleagainff the Em. d"l'c°'9' perour, he was ban:flied into France (as is above laid) together with his Hcrediar, where he became his own deathfman, And ,the brought it to her mother] Asa molt welcomepre- fent, and pleafant difla at this Thyellian (upper. Whether it was carried about the table for a merry fight (as ztrerias thinks) er whether rile prick his tongue with, needles, as Jcrephm faith, (as they didTidies, letting up his head in the pleading -place, ubi j $ concionibua malt-arum capita fervârar, as Sem a hath it) I have nothing to affirm. But We want not exampf:s of fume Tigers and Tigrelles, that have takenpieafure in fuch unrigghteoufneffe Wi totfte Hannibal,, O farnaofifn$ jfit #aculnns ! O goodly bloody .a<iatoa: fight, when he law a pit frill ofmans blood :balefar,his0 rem re- ßiamwhen he had (lain ÿ-oo. Stok fly his glorying on his death. bed, that hehad been the deathof so herewigs,hereticks he meant. dbid. ist s, Story his vaunting, that he toff a faggot at Demy the Martyrs face, as he was tinginga Plaim, and fèt a wine bulbofthorns un- der his feet, a little to prick him, &c. This he fpake in the Parli- ament in Q Elizaberhs dayes, whom he ufùaIly carted in his grace afore meat, and was therefore worthily hangd, drawn, and quartered. Whereunto we may add that Qreen (another fif N vco..n Herodias) who when the law tomeof her Protefhant fubjefts ty- ingdeaf,and {tripped upon the earth, cryed out, The good/id./ ta- pFfl ry that everJhebeheld. Verfe i a. And his Di;'cipics creme a. d took] A pons and coar'tecus office,fuch as lofeeL of .driinadtea boldlyperlcr:ned to Chrit},"
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