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The XLIX. ADVERTISEMENT.
Natalis Comes, an Historian, is severely punisht by Apol∣lo, for having said somewhat in an Assembly of the Li∣terati, which did hainously offend his Majesty.
VVHilst Natalis Comes, the Latin Historian discoursed some daies since under Melpomenes Porch, together with many other Literati of this Court, of the glory of those great Princes, who have left eternal memory behind them, of their honorable actions; accor∣ding to the custom of Historians, tearmed the seisure or getting of a Kingdom, made by a Potent Prince, without any title of right or justice, a glorious atchievement: Which being suddenly carried to Apollo's ear by those malignant spirits, which both the air and earth doe continu∣ally abound in, his Majesty grew so incenst against Natalis, as at the very instant that he was brought prisoner to him, he forbad him entrance into any of the Libraries for three year: And though his Majesty hath been intreated by the chief Historians of this State, to shew some mercy to this his Vertuoso, he hath not only denied to doe it, but hath freely said, that since there could be no greater wickedness committed, then the unjust liberty which some Princes have usurped to bereave one ano∣ther of their States; an action which hath filled the whole world with those sad disorders, wherewith mankind is so much afflicted; he thought it too sore an iniquity, that any so perfidious Literato should be found in his State, who should dare to call those wicked thefts, which are not committed without a million of aggravating circumstances, glorious at∣chievements.