item: #1 of 16 id: A01289 author: Fulbecke, William, 1560-1603?. title: An historicall collection of the continuall factions, tumults, and massacres of the Romans and Italians during the space of one hundred and twentie yeares next before the peaceable empire of Augustus Cæsar Selected and deriued out of the best writers and reporters of these accidents, and reduced into the forme of one entire historie, handled in three bookes. Beginning where the historie of T. Liuius doth end, and ending where Cornelius Tacitus doth begin. date: 1601 words: 44675 flesch: 60 summary: Pōpeius Strabo , Q. Caepio , C. Perperna , C. Marius , Valerius Messalla : and L. Caesar the other Consul , who had these Lieutenants , P. Lentulus , T. Didius , P. Licinius Crassus , L. Cornelius Sylla , M. Marcellus , all famous Captains , men of excellent desert and heroicall qualities , and the most of them fit not onely to manage a warre , but a kingdom , yea an Empire : yet of all these none did obtaine the victorie during the first yeare of their fight , C. Marius and L. Caesar onely excepted , yet Caesar was not long before with his whole armie discomfited , and Marius did with great difficultie atchieue one victorie , which was the beginning of a greater warre . Curio came to Caesar at the entrance of twilight , when the cloud of vapours and exhalations , is by nature disposed to turn men into melancholie , which tooke so deepe hold on Caesar , that making no answer to Curio , but casting himselfe on his bed he did in this sort expostulate with the Romanes . keywords: antonius; armie; battell; bene; bloud; brutus; caesar; catiline; cause; cicero; cinna; citie; consuls; consulship; death; doth; enemies; estate; fight; fortune; good; hath; haue; hauing; himselfe; house; ibid; italie; law; life; like; marius; men; mind; neuer; octauius; owne; people; place; pompeius; pompey; power; romanes; rome; scipio; senate; senators; slaine; souldiers; sylla; thee; things; thou; thy; time; triumph; victorie; vnto; vpon; warre; weale; yeare cache: A01289.xml plain text: A01289.txt item: #2 of 16 id: A01818 author: Goodwin, Thomas, 1586 or 7-1642. title: Romanæ historiæ anthologia An English exposition of the Romane antiquities, wherein many Romane and English offices are paralleld and divers obscure phrases explained. By Thomas Godwyn Master of Arts: for the vse of Abingdon Schoole. date: 1614 words: 72612 flesch: 76 summary: The second kind of altar was called Ara , either ab ardendo , because their sacrifices were burned vpon it : or from their imprecations vsed at that time , which in Greeke they called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . The fourth sort were comoediae , frō 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , which signifieth villages , and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 : because these kinde of actors did go vp and downe the country acting these Comedies in the villages as they passed along . keywords: aboue; act; alex; alwaies; antiq; army; assemblies; bee; betweene; body; caesar; calleth; cap; ceremonies; certaine; chap; chiefe; cic; citie; citizens; city; comitia; consuls; corona; court; custome; daies; day; dicti; doe; doth; end; english; enimies; erected; est; fire; fiue; forme; forum; frō; gen; generall; giue; gods; good; gowne; hand; hath; haue; having; head; hee; hill; himselfe; holy; honour; house; iudgement; iudges; iure; iustice; kinde; king; l. 1; l. 2; latine; law; lawes; lawfull; lex; lib; ludi; magistrate; making; manner; matter; men; mons; mony; non; note; numa; number; obserue; occasion; office; orat; parts; people; place; plutarch; power; praetor; priests; pro; provinces; quae; quasi; quid; quod; reason; respect; right; romane; rome; romulus; rosin; sacrifice; saith; sale; senate; senators; servius; set; shee; sig; signifie; signifying; sort; souldiers; space; tables; tearmed; temple; themselues; thē; thing; time; toga; token; touching; trib; vel; vid; vnde; vnto; voices; vpon; vse; warre; way; wee; word; yeare; ● ● cache: A01818.xml plain text: A01818.txt item: #3 of 16 id: A06415 author: Hulsius, Friedrich van, b. 1580, engraver. title: Lucans Pharsalia: or The ciuill warres of Rome, betweene Pompey the great, and Iulius Cæsar The whole tenne bookes, Englished by Thomas May, Esquire. date: 1631 words: 81961 flesch: 71 summary: These causes m●ou'd the Che●fes , and such as are In might● st●tes the common seeds of warre For since our C●ests the conquer'd world hath fill'd Too full , and vertue did to riches yeild , Since spoiles , and warrelike rapine taught vs riot , Excesse in Plate , in buildings reignes ; he dye● Of formertimes wee sco●n ; that soft attire . Thou canst not touch this life to fate he owes Thousands of liues , ere he his owne can loose : Cease thy vaine fury : if you Cimbrians wou'd Revenge on Rome your sl●ughtred Nations blood , Saue this old man , whom their sterne will to serue Not the gods loue , but anger did preserue : A cruell and fit man , when Fate contriu'de Romes ruine : he on Libyan coasts arriu'de Wandred through empty cottages vpon Triumphed Iugurth's spoil'd dominion , And Punicke ashes troad : each others state Carthage ( e ) and Marius there commiserate , And both cast downe , both now the gods excus'd : But into Marius minde that ayre infusde A Libian rage ; when Fortune turn'de againe , Slaues from ( f ) their Lords , & prisoners frō the chaine He free'de , and arm'de : no man his Ensignes bore , But who the badge of some knowne mi●chief● wore , And brought guilt to the campe : oh Fates how sad A day was that , when conquering Marius had Surpris'de the walls ? how swift flew cruell death ? Senators with Plebeians lost their breath . keywords: aegypt; againe; aire; armes; army; backe; blood; breast; caesar; campe; cato; cause; civill; civill war; cold; command; conquer'd; course; day; dead; death; dire; doe; doth; doubtfull; downe; earth; end; ere; eyes; face; fall; fame; fate; fathers; feare; field; fierce; fight; fire; foes; force; fortune; free; funerall; fury; generall; giue; gods; goe; good; great; ground; hand; haue; head; heere; high; hills; himselfe; hold; hope; hot; italy; keepe; king; knowne; land; leaue; left; let; life; like; liue; long; loose; loue; makes; marius; men; nations; new; ocean; ore; people; pharsalia; place; pompey; power; quoth; rest; rivers; roman; rome; sad; sands; saw; sea; seas; senate; ships; shore; sky; slaine; small; sonne; souldiers; stand; state; stay; straight; strength; strong; swords; sylla; t ●; th ●; thee; themselues; thinke; thou; thy; time; troopes; vaine; vnder; vpon; vvhen; vvith; war; warre; wars; water; waues; way; windes; world; wound; ● d; ● e; ● s; ● ● cache: A06415.xml plain text: A06415.txt item: #4 of 16 id: A07324 author: Cockson, Thomas, engraver. title: A continuation of Lucan's historicall poem till the death of Iulius Cæsar by TM date: 1630 words: 36525 flesch: 58 summary: Then let vs sue for Ptolomey's release : Caesar ( though now incenst ) will grant vs peace On easie termes ; and thinke it better farre Then to be here entangled in a warre , Whilest yet Pharsalia's reliques doe remaine To ioyne their strength , and trie their fate againe : Whilest the dispers'd not conquer'd powers of Rome Are gathering head , and furious nations come From Iuba's kingdome , Ammons farthest sands , And where Spaines Calpe bounds the Westerne lands To crosse his growing fortunes : Caesar , lest Rome should iudge he first did moue This warre alone for Cleopatra's loue , To winne for her , not for his Countries sake , ( For conquer'd Aegypt he intends to make No a Roman prouince ) and on th' other side Too much suspecting that th' Aegyptians pride , His bountious fauour would farre lesse esteeme If that a woman wore their Diadem , Whilest yet a male childe liu'd of Lagus blood ; Thus cleares both doubts ; to make the action good One colour serues : young Ptolomey , whom he Before had married to Arsinoë , A childe of eight yeares old , must now supply The roome of his dead brother Ptolomey , And weare two shadowes both of loue and State , Of Aegypts King , and Cleopatra's mate . keywords: againe; battell; blood; caesar; cleopatra; conquest; day; death; doe; doth; ere; euery; eyes; faire; fall; fame; fatall; fate; feare; field; fight; finde; foes; fortune; giue; gods; goe; great; hand; haue; high; himselfe; iuba; king; land; life; like; long; loue; men; ore; owne; place; pompey; power; roman; rome; ruine; scipio; selfe; souldiers; spaine; state; strength; thee; thou; thy; time; vaine; vpon; warre; young cache: A07324.xml plain text: A07324.txt item: #5 of 16 id: A14316 author: Gruterus, Janus, 1560-1627. title: Velleius Paterculus his Romane historie in two bookes. Exactly translated out of the Latine edition supervised by Ianus Gruterus. According to the reformations in such parts of him, in which the Latin hath suffered either by time, or negligence in the transcribers of the ablest commenters upon him. And rendred English by Sr. Robert Le Grys Knt. date: 1632 words: 52619 flesch: 58 summary: But who when hee sees a man in adversity retaines the memory of any former benefit ? who doth thinke any thankes due to men in calamity ? or when fortune changeth doth not also change ●is faith ? From the King therfore ●here were some sent that should receive Pompeius●omming ●omming to him ( who had a lit●le before at Mitylene taken aboard his ship , his wife Cornelia●or ●or a companion to him in his ●light ) by the advice of Theode●us and Achillas : and perswade him to goe out of the ship of burden in which he came , into that in which they came to meet him . For when the Lacede●onians did with a sharpe warre ●resse upon Attica , and the Pythi●n god had by his Oracle let thē●now [ that the Army whose Generall should happen to bee ●ain by the Enemy , should be the ●onqueror ] he devesting him●●lfe of his royall acoutrements ●●d cloathed like a peasant , put ●●mself into the Enemies campe ; keywords: age; antonius; armes; army; augustus; bee; brutus; caesar; caius; cassius; chap; citie; city; cnaeus; command; consull; consulship; day; death; doe; doth; end; father; forces; fortune; generall; germany; head; hee; himselfe; honour; italy; king; law; legions; life; long; lucius; man; marcus; men; o ●; owne; people; place; pompeius; pompey; power; provinces; publius; romans; rome; sea; senate; slaine; sonne; souldiers; state; sylla; things; thou; tiberius; time; triumph; victory; warre; wealth; wee; yeares; ● ● cache: A14316.xml plain text: A14316.txt item: #6 of 16 id: A18424 author: Chapman, George, 1559?-1634. title: The vvarres of Pompey and Caesar Out of whose euents is euicted this proposition. Only a iust man is a freeman. By G.C. date: 1631 words: 19588 flesch: 87 summary: THough ( my good Lord ) this martiall History suffer the diuision of Acts and Scenes , both for the more perspicuity and height of the celebration , yet neuer toucht it at the Stage ; or if it had ( though some may perhaps causelesly empaire it ) yet would it , I hope , fall vnder no exception in your Lordships better-iudgeing estimation , since scenicall representation is so farre from giuing iust cause of any least diminution ; that the personall and exact life it giues to any History , or other such delineation of humane actions , 〈◊〉 to them luster , spirit and apprehension , which the only section of Acts and 〈◊〉 makes mee stand vpon thus much , si●ce that only in some precisianismes will require a little preuention : And the hasty prose the stile auoides , obtaine to the more temperate and stai'd numerous elocution , some assistance to the acceptation and grace of it . Porc. A●d all these are said To be suborn'd , in chiefe , against your selfe ; Since Caesar chiefly feares , that you will ●it This day his opposite ; in the cause for which Both you were sent for home ; and he hath stolne Accesse so soone here ; Pompey : whole rest raisde To his encounter ; and on both sides , Rome In generall vproa●e . keywords: army; caesar; cat; cato; cor; day; death; dem; doe; euer; feare; fro; giue; gods; good; great; hath; haue; heauen; life; lord; loue; man; men; oph; owne; pompey; rome; selfe; sir; thou; time; world cache: A18424.xml plain text: A18424.txt item: #7 of 16 id: A18425 author: Chapman, George, 1559?-1634. title: Caesar and Pompey (The Wars of Caesar and Pompey) date: 1631 words: 238748 flesch: -226 summary: epHeader> Incorporated ~ 10,000 textual changes made to the SHC corpus by Hannah Bredar, Kate Needham, and Lydia Zoells between April and July 2015 during visits, separately or together, to the Bodleian, Folger and Houghton Libraries as well as the Rare Book Libraries at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago

CAESAR AND POMPEY : A Roman Tragedy , declaring their Warres .

Out of whose euents is euicted this Proposition .

Only a iust man is a freeman .

By GEORGE CHAPMAN .

LONDON pos=d-x xml:id=A18425-016-b-0870>no fit distinction in maine battaile , That you will please still to prolong the stroke Of absolute decision to these iarres , Considering you shall strike it with a man Of much skill and experience , and one That will his Conquest sell at infinite rate , If that must end your difference ; but I doubt There will come humble offer on his part , Of honor'd peace to you , for whose sweet name So cryed out to you in our late-met Senate , Lost no fit offer of that wished treaty . Take pity on your Countreys blood as much As possible may stand without the danger Of hindering her iustice on her foes , Which all the gods to your full wish dispose . ; rendition="#hi">,; sp xml; stage xml; text xml; trailer xml; type="contract2; unit="sentence">.