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WE must speake a lytle of Sardanapalus, how he was depryued of his kingdome, & that afterward the kingdomes were diuided. Whan God wyll punyshe the worlde, he geueth it lecherous prynces. By the hi∣stories* 1.1 it is manifest, that Sardanapalus nothinge
regardyng the gouernaunce of the kyngdom, ga••* 1.2 hym selfe only to pleasures, in so much also, that •••• vsed to paynte and coloure him selfe, to make h•••• beawty, and to clothe him with womens garment. It is said that he sat in the middes of dishonest wo∣men, and vsed all maner of vnclennesse. How shuld not such an empyre haue had a pyteful ende? Whan nowe the Medes & Babilonians were fallen from hym and rebell, and that he had loste the battayll a∣gainst hys enemies, neither coulde no where mer∣chandes be more salfe, he set ye castell at Babylon in* 1.3 fyre, and burnt him selfe in it. Howbeit (as wryteth Duris) he sent afore his thre sonnes to Niniue: and hereby it commeth, that after the decease of Sar∣danapalus, the kyngdomes are diuided. Bolochus reigned at Babilon, whiche fell from Sardanapa∣lus with Arbace. Arbaces kepte the kingdome of the Medes. The posteryte of the Assirians dured a certaine space of yeares by them of Niniue. Ma∣ny yeares haue these thre kyngdomes foughte and stryuen for the Monarchye.
A lecherous prynce.
Sardanapa∣lus wanton∣nesse.
The death of Sardana∣palus