§ 2. Agrippa at Alexandria an unexpected and unwilling occasion of further troubles.
Those incendiaries that had kindled this fire will be sure to lose no blast that may make it flame and keep it burning: Agrippa that had not long ago departed from Alexan∣dria a poor private man, returneth now thither in prosperity and a King. Caius that had promoted him to his kingdom, did lovingly direct him by Alexandria, as the safest way to it. Thither he came with as great privacy as such a personage could do, and yet was he espied by the jealous eyes of these rare counsellours, and his coming misconstrued, through their malice to the Jews. They perswade Flaccus that his coming thither was an affront to him in his own Province, that his Pomp and Train was more sumptuous than his, that the eyes of all men were upon the new King Agrippa, and in short that his presence there, was his present disgrace and would prove his future disadvantage. The ill governed Governour was ready enough to hearken to such buzzings as these, and to yeeld them impression in his mind, yet durst he not put any thing in execution against the King for fear of him that sent him. He therefore thought it best to carry a fair out∣side to Agrippa, and to his face he speaketh fair and pretendeth friendship, but behind his back, he did not only descry his hate and revile him in secret, but also connived at those that did so openly: so that within a little while, the King that neither thought nor came for any hurt is made the publick scoff and scorn throughout the City, and on their stages, in their plays, ballads, speeches, houses, streets, there is no language so common nor so currant, as the abusive of Agrippa.