and sight thereof they might moderate their excesse,
which oftentimes hastneth death or else diseases.
Holy Scriptures furnisheth us with examples, as
those of Nebuchadonosor, Baltasar, and the rich glut∣ton,
who had the most exemplarie punishments in this
kinde that we reade of.
In the Roman History Cornelius Balbus recorded
by Tacitus, who, whilest he was under a cloud and
silence of night, carousing, quaffing, and laughing so
loud, that the sicke Emperor (his Lord) could heare
him from his chamber windowes with his camrades,
is memorable, who not only endangered the losse of
his Princes favour, but of his life also for his so unsea∣sonable
and insolent mirth.
Now, if we shall leave feasting, and but speake of
other Ioyes, we shall finde that when men thinke their
estate most secure, and doe rejoyce in the injoying of
it; that even then their suddaine fall hapneth, and
followeth them as their shadow: King David for
glorying in his numbered people, was plagued: Iuli∣us
Caesar in his imperiall Throne having by the over∣throw
of his enemies attained that verticall point of
earthly honour, was even then and there murdered.
King Henry the second of France, was amidst the
triumphs and tiltings of his Sisters wedding solemni∣ties,
killed. King Henry the third at the rendering up
of his rebellious Citie of Paris to him, was murthe∣red
by the trayterous stroake of a blacke Frier, his
predecessors both shortly taken away: But more mi∣serably,
his great and valorous successor Henry 4th.
in the middest of that glorious City, and of the pom∣pous
shewes at his Queenes coronation, was murde∣red.