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.

§ 1. Herod and Herodias before the Emperour.

WE are now to present to Caius as bloody a woman as he was a man: He∣rodias, that hath committed as much murder in taking away but one mans life, John the Baptist, as he hath done in all his: And when these two are met together, two Princes of the greatest cruelty and bloodiness that either sex could then afford, are met together. You may remember that not long since we left Her and her Herod (for husband I may not call him) shipped for Rome to purchase, if possible, the Emperours good respect, and with that, an augmenta∣tion of their dignity and dominion. Agrippa, knowing of this their journey, and sus∣pecting that as it began in envy and emulation to him, so would it terminate, if they could compass it, to his disadvantage, he sendeth his servant Fortunatus after them with letters to the Emperour, either because himself was not yet at leasure to come, or in policy trying how his letters would speed and be entertained before he ventured his own person. At Baiae they all met before Caesar, and Agrippa's complaint by writing meeteth theirs by word of mouth. He layeth to Herods charge, confederacy with Seja∣nus at Rome and with Artabanus in Parthia, and an armory and magazine at his own home, sufficient to furnish seven thousand men, all which laid together could not but breed a just suspition of his revolting. Herod not being able upon questioning, to de∣ny the last thing that he was charged withall about his arms, gave Caius presumption to conclude the truth of all the other: whereupon he adjudgeth him to perpetual banish∣ment to Lions in France: and thus (thank Herodias) by his looking for a greater dig∣nity and honour, he lost that which he had already.

Caesar would have spared Herodias for Agrippa's sake as being his sister, but she re∣fused the curtesie, and chose to suffer the same fortune with her husband; and but very justly neither, for she had brought him to it. And she could not in civility re∣fuse to take part with him in his misery, as he had done with her in her folly, that had caused it; both their estates, dignities and dominions Caius bestoweth upon Agrippa to their greater vexation; and so we leave them going to Lions, there to think, and re∣pent too late, how wholesome the counsel was that was given them by the Baptist and that they tooke it not.