gned her to be turned into a stone, as being
stupefied through the extremity of grief. [2324]_Aegeas, signo lugubri
filii consternatus, in mare se praecipitatem dedit_, impatient of sorrow
for his son's death, drowned, himself. Our late physicians are full of such
examples. Montanus _consil. 242._ [2325]had a patient troubled with this
infirmity, by reason of her husband's death, many years together.
Trincavellius, _l. 1. c. 14._ hath such another, almost in despair, after
his [2326]mother's departure, _ut se ferme praecipitatem daret_; and ready
through distraction to make away himself: and in his Fifteenth counsel,
tells a story of one fifty years of age, "that grew desperate upon his
mother's death;" and cured by Fallopius, fell many years after into a
relapse, by the sudden death of a daughter which he had, and could never
after be recovered. The fury of this passion is so violent sometimes, that
it daunts whole kingdoms and cities. Vespasian's death was pitifully
lamented all over the Roman empire, _totus orbis lugebat_, saith Aurelius
Victor. Alexander commanded the battlements of houses to be pulled down,
mules and horses to have their manes shorn off, and many common soldiers to
be slain, to accompany his dear Hephestion's death; which is now practised
amongst the Tartars, when [2327]a great Cham dieth, ten or twelve thousand
must be slain, men and horses, all they meet; and among those the
[2328]Pagan Indians, their wives and servants voluntarily die with them.
Leo Decimus was so much bewailed in Rome after his departure, that as
Jovius gives out, [2329]_communis salus, publica hilaritas_, the common
safety of all good fellowship, peace, mirth, and plenty died with him,
_tanquam eodem sepulchro cum Leone condita lugebantur_: for it was a golden
age whilst he lived, [2330]but after his decease an iron season succeeded,
_barbara vis et foeda vastitas, et dira malorum omnium incommoda_, wars,
plagues, vastity, discontent. When Augustus Caesar died, saith Paterculus,
_orbis ruinam timueramus_, we were all afraid, as if heaven had fallen upon
our heads. [2331]Budaeus records, how that, at Lewis the Twelfth his death,
_tam subita mutatio, ut qui prius digito coelum attingere videbantur, nunc
humi derepente serpere, sideratos esse diceres_, they that were erst in
heaven, upon a sudden, as if they had been planet-strucken, lay grovelling
on the ground;

[2332] "Concussis cecidere animis, seu frondibus ingens
Syl