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CHAP. XIIII.
* 1.1WHy should I leade thee thorow so innumerable examples of great men, and complaine their wretchednesse? as if it bee not a harder matter to finde out happy men? what house is it that hath continually stood at one stay in all respects? wherein there hath not hapned some disaster and perturbation? Consider the yeeres one after another, and marke those that haue beene Consuls, and if thou will Lucius Bibulus, and C••ius Caesar, and thou shalt see betwixt these two com∣panions that were mortall enemies, one and the same fortune. Lucius Bibulus a man more honest then stout, had two of his sonnes slaine at one time. They were both of them a scorne to an Egyptian souldier; so that the Father had more occasion to bewaile the indignity they had receiued at his hands, then the losse of his children; yet Bibulus that during the whole time of his Consu∣late, had kept house by reason of the euill carriages of his fellow Consull, re∣ceiuing tidings of this accident, came abroad and performed his wonted and publike offices. What could hee doe lesse then bestow one day on his two sons? so quickly ended hee his sorrow for his children, who had bewailed the Con∣sulate a whole yeare. Caius Caesar when hee had ouerrunne the whole Country of England, and could not containe his felicity within the Ocean, had tidinges that his daughter was dead, that by her losse drew the publike peace into dan∣ger: he had represented before his eyes his sonne in law, Cnaius Pompey, who could not endure that any other should be reputed or held more great in Rome then him••elfe, and who would haue opposed himselfe against all those which pretended to bee aduanced, although it were not to his disaduantage•• yet not∣withstanding all this, Caesar which three dayes executed that charge which was committed vnto him in being Generall, and ouercame his sorrow so soone as hee was wont to ouercome all other things.