The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.
Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675., G. B. (George Bright), d. 1696., Strype, John, 1643-1737.

§ 7. Agrippa in his own Kingdom.

You may well presume that the stay of Agrippa would not be long at Alexandria, where his intertainment was so foul, and his invitation to his own home was so fair and good. His welcome thither was not so full of scorn and disgrace, as in the other place, but as full of unkindness, because the unkindness was from his own sister. Hero∣dias, the incestuous wife of Herod the Tetrarch, and once some comfort to this her brother whilest he was in distress, growes now, the bitter envier of his prosperity. A woman ever active to the mischief of others, but now beginning to twine a whip for her own back. It griveth her to see the unlooked for pomp of the new King Agrippa: A man that had so lately been under the hatches of fortune, and in her bilboes, debt Page  836 and danger, that had but the other day fled from his wife, country, and friends for po∣verty and shame, unable to pay the monies that he ought, and which was worse, as un∣able to borrow more, and now he is returned again with a Kingdom, a Crown, and with pomp and train agreeable to both: Oh how this grated her haughty and emulative spirit, though he were her brother! Well, whether it were in spite to his promotion, or in disdain to her degree that was now below him, which is the more like, the shower and storms of her discontents do shower upon her husband. She lays in his dish the present spectacle of Agrippa's glory, and his own inferioritie. Taxeth him with dulness and sleepiness, that would not seek for a higher dignity, which might be had for a journey to Rome; twitteth him for being an underling when he might prevent it, perswadeth him to spare no cost nor travail for that prevention, and in fine worketh so with him by uncessant clamours, that though he could well have been contented to have sitten quiet at home, yet he is induced or driven to travail, and she with him to Rome to Caius. A∣grippa was not unacquainted with her discontents and with both their designs, and will not be far behind in reciprocal requital of such intentions, but their meeting, pleading and success at Rome must be reserved to another year.