CHAP. VI.
LIuius Dr••sus, one of the ancestors of Liuia, Augustus his Empresse, a hote spirited, and a very vehement fiery humord man, hauing put new common wealthes in the peoples head, and stirde a new the old tumults of the two brethren, the Gracchi being manned almost with all the power that Italie could make, hauing not yet well weighed the end of things, which now hee could not accomplish to his desire; nor had he yet the liberty to leaue in the middest, hee fell in detestation of his owne vnquiet state from the day of his birth till then, and is saide to haue vttered these very words: I am only he I think that neuer yet had leaue to play, no not when I was a boy: for indeed being vnder age, and comming but as children did into the Senate with his father, he presumed to speake to iudge in the behalfe of diuers men, and laide his credite on the matter in so vehement a sort, that it was saide, many iudgements were giuen wholly as it pleased him. Whether would not so young an aspiring humor, if it had continued, for well a man may coniecture, so soone ripe a stirring head must needes grow in time to the great hurt, publike or priuate, some where or other, and therefore too too late hee made complaint, he had neuer yet leaue to play, who was of a child so trou∣blous, and importunate to the State where hee liued, as hee was. Some make question if he did not kill himselfe or no: for a wound hee had in his groine, which was his death: what time though some men doubted, whether he had slaine himselfe or no, yet all men thought it high time for him so to bee dis∣patched. It were needelesse here to reckon more of this same humor, who be∣ing in the eye of other men most fortunate and h••ppy, notwithstanding gaue true testimony against themselues, in great hatred and mislike of all that euer they had done; but with these complaints of theirs, they did neyther alter o∣thers, nor amend themselues: for the words sometime brake from them, to the sense I haue said: yet their desires kept on the old vnconstant course, and were no changelings, which sort of life assuredly might it possibly continue a thou∣sand yeere or more, yet will it seeme in the end to haue beene but very small, and of no continuance, and all these seu••rall conceits, what age or great account of time wll they not consume? Surely these few yeeres allotted vs, albeit na∣ture thinke them long, & reason amplifie the course of them, yet must it needs seeme quickly gone, for wee take no holde of them, wee stay them not, nor lay