Prolicionycion [sic]

¶ Sequitul capitulum 38

THolomeus Sother the sonne of cleopatra regned in egipt seuenten yere Marcus tullius Cithero is born in the vul¦cene kynde Valerius He kepte beestes in his youth and ruled thempyre of Rome in his elde / ¶It is wonder that he despysed lettres / and was hym self a plentuous welle of lettres ¶ This was a noble speker in al maner tonges of wytte and of wyse∣dom and chyef speker with tonge. he assoylled al doutes clerely· at wyll and clensed and enorned al Rethoryke Me axed him somtyme how he come to the fayr spekyng that he had / noble fa∣cunde sayd he is a grete gifte of god almyghty· Who that knew how he shold haue fayr maner of spekyng He wrote all the ges∣tes of Troye subtylly as it myghte be closed in a note sha••e Pol libro quinto capitulo sexto Cithero wold somtyme bye an hows in the palays and had no money and borowed of one scil¦la / but he was wryed er the bargayne was made· Than Cythero was moeued and denyed al that he had receyued and sayde that ••e wolde bye none hows. And yf I bye an hows sayd he / I shal knowleche the sothe of that ye putte to me / and afterward whan he had bought the hows it was putt ayenst him / Ye be vn¦wyse seyde he yf ye knowe not that byers forsake yf they wole ought bye and make it as though they wold no thynge there of to haue the b••tter chepe and soo what he myght not denye / he turned it to bourde and to laughyng and not to blame and to tre¦spasse· He hadde alway that maner doynge that as ofte as ony fowle dede was put ayenst hym that he myght not denye / he wold put it of with a mery answer ¶Ieronimus ad nepoc Me said somtyme of one to tullius in this maner / Demostenes by nam the that thou were not fyrste pleder and thou hast bynom hym that he is not pleder allone This tullius made many bookes as he sayth libro secundo de diuinacione ¶Liber hortensibus Four Archademicis fyue tusculanis Six annunciandi de diuinaciōe. De Senectute. De amicicia / de rethorica de officijs. de re publica / ¶ Titus Six honderd yere and fyue and fourty after the byl¦dyng of Rome was a bataylle bytwene Sertorius and pompei{us}

¶ In that batayll were dede six honderd knyghtes on that one syde and six honderd on that other side / the fyrst bataylle endured vnto nyght / A morowe a knyght of pompe••us came amonge the dede bodyes that shold be buryed and perceyued that he had slain his owne broder and despysed the bataylle· and slough him self for sorowe of that dede and fylle downe deede vpon his broders

body / Petrūs capitulo tercio ¶ Iohan hircanus. dyed after thre and thyrtty yere of his ducherye and lefte after hym his wyf that was a noble speker / and fyue sonnes to rule the Iew∣ry· The eldest was called Aristobolus that myght not suffre his moder to regne ouer him / therfor he prysonned his moder and his thre yong bretheren and slough hem with honger / therfore he ly∣ued afterward but one yere kyng and bisshop and made his bro¦der Antygonus But he lete slee hym whan he come in armes oute of the Iewry and that made his sister for he wold not lye by hir / And soo the kyngdome of Iuda was restored ayene that had be withdrawe fro Sedechias tyme vnto the aristobolus iiijClxxv yere Petrus capitulo quinto ¶ Whan this Aristobolus was deed his wyf that had no child by him toke his elder broder Alysaundre Iammeus oute of bandes and made him kyng This was a ful euil man and slough his owne second broder & kepte the thyrdde brother to lyue pryuely the space of fyue ye∣re / He slough fyfty thousande of old men for they withsayde his vices and euyl doyng / he axed on a tyme how he shold plese the Iewes and was answerd that he shold plese hem yf he were de∣de Than he henge foure score wedded men and her wyues and childre ¶ Iosephus seyth that he dyed atte last the xxvij yere of his kyngdome and lefte twey sonnes a lyue· Hircanus and Arystobolus and wyste that they were odyous to the Iewes & made his wyf Alexandria lady of the Iewes / She had ofte bi¦fore wonne loue of the peple for she abated ofte the malyce and the tyrannye of hir husband while he was a lyue Marius duc of Rome and six sithes consul after that he had ouercome Iugur¦ta in munidia he slew two honderd thousand of cunbres that co∣me ayenst the Romaynes and he toke four score thousand pryso∣ners and eft with one catulus were dede four score thousand ¶ Tholomeus alexander ••egned in egypte ten yere / For tholome¦us sother was put oute by his moder cleopatra and chasid in to Cyprys Lucrecius the poete is y born that dranke afterward loue drynkes and werth wode / Netheles he wrote somme bookes bytwene the reses of his wodenesse. and slough hym self with his owne honde the yere of his lyf four and fourty and cythero amended his bookes Eutropius libro quinto / The▪ kyngdom of Siria faylyd and fyl to the lordship of the Romaynes. The batayll that was cleped sociale bellum began in ytaly for the py¦teus marses pelignes werred strongly foure yere ayenste the

romayns / In that were dede twey consuls and porans 〈◊〉〈◊〉 But they were ouercome at last of scylla and of marius pompe¦ius