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¶ Capitulum 44

ANtonius putte from him his wyf Cleopatra cesars sister / and wedded the quene of egypte and yaue hir Arabia By couetyse that women haue she desired to regne in Rome / and by hir counseyll and comforte Antonius moeued a ciuile bata¦ylle ayenst octauianus and was ouercome at actia in grece ¶Petrus visesimo octauo Herodes was not at that batayll / for that tyme Antonius had sente hym ageyne to the kynge of Arabye atte prayer of cleopatra. so that he shold haue his kyng¦dome that were ouercome whether it euer were ¶ Eutropius libro septimo ¶ Antonius whan he was ouercome at Actiū / he sledde in to Egypte / there he slough hym self ffor he had none hope of helpe ne of socour ¶ Cleopatra made hir gay and mette with Augustus entendynge to meoue him to lechery / But she myghte not spede and was put in warde and escaped away and leyd hir self in the graue by hir husband Antonius and dyed by the venym of a naddre that she toke with hir / Afterward E¦gipte fell to thempyre Petrus 78. After this augustus enlarged herodes kingdom for he had wytly prouided for hym what him neded while he was toward egipte / R. Sōme acompte the firste yere of augustus hole kyngdom from this place for aftward he regned al one. Beda su{per} danielē seith so as it semeth· that tyme marc{us} terenci{us} varro dyed that was lxxx yere olde & x. Virgili¦us mar••o the poete of mantua dyed at Brundusium / whan he was aboute fyfty wynter old and was buryed in naples with

such a wrytynge vpon his tombe that he made whan he dyed ow¦the•• ouidius afterward as somme men say Mantua broughte me forth calabres rauessed me / holdeth now percinope / made leefe feldes and leders R ¶ This was wyse and connynge of Phi¦losophye and vsed ofte nigromancy Therfor Al••xandre de na¦turis cerum tellith wonderly of him and sayth that napl••s was greued with a pestylence by blode soukers and virgyl threwe a golden blood souker in to the bottom of a pytte / And many yere after this golden blood souker was take vp oute of the pytte / & anone the cyte was ful of bloode soukers withoute remedye / til the golden blood souker was put in to the pytte agayne / It is al¦so sayd there / th••t one marcell{us} of naples myght not kepe fles••he long withoute appayryng / but virgyl by his wytte ordeyned re∣medye ayenste that meschyef and closed flessh sauered / I not by what vertue of herbes soo that fyue honderd yere the flesshe was founde fressh and of good sauour. Also there it is sayd that vyr∣gyle closed his orcha••d al aboute with ayer in stede of a wal· And he made a brygge of ayer and vsed to go ouer that brydge whan and whyder him lyked / There it is sayde also that he bylde that noble paleys at rome· in the which were sette al the ymages of prouinces and of londes Hugo sayth the same and put••et•• more therto of collosens that ymage of the sonne owther of rom•• Loke more herof in the fyrst book in the chapyter of Rome / Pol libro primo / Me sayth the poete of mantua that is vyrgyl axed of marcellus of napl••s the neuewe of Augustus. wherf••re ••e slough many byrdes and whether hym were leuer be shapen to a byrd to take byrdes owther to a flye to take & slee flyes / he tolde this to his graūtsi•• augustus & by coūseylle of him he chesse to be made a flye that he myght dryue al the flyes oute of naples Herby it semeth that the comune profyt shold be put bifore euery werk / Varrus and tuctu virgyls felawes by commaundement of Augustus amended vyrgyls booke Eneydos· netheles vpon suche a condicion that they shold put no thynge more therto This yere Saynt marie crystys moder is born. hir fader was Ioa¦chim of the lygnage of Iuda and hir moder was anna Isachars doughter of the lygnage of leuy ¶ R ¶ Here take heede as Ierom sayth that ••nna and emerea were twey sustres ¶ Of Emerea cam Elyzabeth Iohan baptiste moder ¶ Also Anna was firste wedded to Ioachym and had by hym marye Cristes moder / ¶ And she was afterwarde wedded to cleophas and

had by hym marye cleophe that was wedded to alphens and of hem come Iacobus minor / the lasse Iames called Alpheus / And Symon cananeus Iudas thaddeus and Ioseph otherwise callyd barsabas but in historia ecclesiastica Eusebius libro. 2 ca 2 Seyth that Iacobus minor the lasse Iames was cleped our lor¦des broder / for he was the sonne of Ioseph the spouse of marie But that is not comynly holden Also Anna was wedded to Salome and had by hym marye salome that was wedded to Ze¦bedeus and had by hym the more Iames & Iohan Euangelist The fyrst marye that was cristes moder was wedded to Ioseph the forsayde cleophas broder Gaufr and Alfr ¶ Kinbe••••nus tenancius sonne regned in Brytayne and gate twey sonnes gui¦derius and aruyragus Oracius flactus and Satiricus seuen & fyfty yere olde dyed at Rome the xxxvj yere of themperour au¦gustus and the xiiij yere of Augustus marcus / Porcius Cato Latinus that was declamator a grete doctor and Seneca the philosophres felawe slough hym self for noy. & sorowe of a dou¦ble quarteyne ¶Marianus libro secundo In the one and fourty yere of Augustus in the seuenth moneth that is september in the enleuēth day of the mone the xxiiij day of september on a thurs¦day Iohan baptist was conceyued and there after two honderd dayes lxxv on a fryday he was born And soo he went bifore crist in his conceyuyng in his byrth in his baptisinge in his pre∣chyng and in his dyeng / for he must wane and crist must waxe and encrease· For a woman goth with childe from the concepcion to the byrth two honderd dayes lxxvj / soo many dayes crist had in his moders wombe· though not alle women goo so longe with child as seynt Austyn meaneth de ciuitate dei libro quarto capi∣tulo quinto. But Iohan had twey dayes lasse in his moders wombe ¶ Also Iohan was born whan the day bygan to shor¦ten or wane And crist whan the day bigan to waxe long Also Iohan was buryed without hede & in crist was no bone broken