This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...right honeft petitions made to that noble matrone Megifthona, who afterwardes caufed the other dames to bury thofe two bodyes in one graue. O how happy and famous had thefe two fifters bene, if they had not bene the daughters of fo wicked and cruell a father? But parentes offence or childrens trefpas ought not ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...right honeft petitions made to that noble matrone Megifthona, who afterwardes caufed the other dames to bury thofe two bodyes in one graue. O how happy and famous had thefe two fifters bene, if they had not bene the daughters of fo wicked and cruell a father? But parentes offence or childrens trefpas ought not to deface the vertuous dedes of their pofterity. THE SIXTH NOUELL. The maruaylous courage and ambition of a gentlewoman called Tanaqvil, the Queene and wife of Targvinivs Prifcvs the Jift Roman king, with his perfuqfions and pollicy to hir hujbandefor his aduauncement to the kingdom, her lyke encouragement of Servivs Tvllivs, wherein alfo is defcriled the ambition of one of the ii. daughters of Servivs Tvllivs thejixt Roman king, and her cruelty towards her owne natural father: with other accidents chaunced in the new erected common welth of Rome, fpecially of the lajl Romane king Tarqvinivs Svperbvs, who with murder at-teined the kingdome, with murder maynteined it, and by the murder and infolent lyfe of kisfonne was with al his progeny lanijhed. Angus Marcius beynge the fourthe king (after Romulus the firft builder of that Cittye) there came to dwell in Rome one Lucumo, a lufty gentleman, ryche and defirous of honour, who determined to continue his habitation there. The fame Lucumo was the fon of one Demaratus, a Corinthian, that for fedition fled his owne countrye, and dwelt in Hetruria amonge the ftocke of the Tar-quines: and after he was maried he begat n. fons, one of them was this Lucumo, and the other was called Aruns. Lucumo was heire to his father, for that Aruns died before leauing his wife gret with child, the father not knowing that his daughter in law was with child, gaue nothing in his wil to his nephew: for which caufe the...
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