Otherwise why do they lay it in his son’s dish, and call unto him for[145] easing of the burden? _Make_, say they, _the grievous servitude of thy father, and his sore yoke, lighter_. [Sidenote: 1 Kin. 12. 4.] Belike he had charged them with some levies, and troubled them with some carriages; hereupon they raise up a tragedy, and wish in their heart the temple had never been built. So hard a thing it is to please all, even when we please God best, and do seek to approve ourselves to every one’s conscience. [Sidenote: The highest personages have been calumniated _C. Cæsar. Plutarch_.] If we will descend to latter times, we shall find many the like examples of such kind, or rather unkind, acceptance. The first Roman Emperor did never do a more pleasing deed to the learned, nor more profitable to posterity, for conserving the record of times in true supputation, than when he corrected the Calendar, and ordered the year according to the course of the sun: and yet this was imputed to him for novelty, and arrogancy, and procured to him great obloquy. [Sidenote: _Constantine._] So the first Christened Emperor (at the least wise, that openly professed the faith himself, and allowed others to do the like,) for strengthening the empire at his great charges, and providing for the Church, as he did, got for his labour the name _Pupillus_, as who would say, a wasteful Prince, that had need of a guardian or overseer. [Sidenote: _Aurel. Vict. Theodosius. Zosimus._] So the best Christened Emperor, for the love that he bare unto peace, thereby to enrich both himself and his subjects, and because he did not seek war, but find it, was judged to be no man at arms, (though indeed he excelled in feats of chivalry, and shewed so much when he was provoked,) and condemned for giving himself to his ease, and to his pleasure. [Sidenote: _Justinian._] To be short, the most learned Emperor of former times, (at the least the greatest politician,) what thanks had he for cutting off the superfluities of the laws, and digesting them into some order and method? This, that he hath been blotted by some to be an Epitomist, that is, one that extinguished worthy whole volumes, to bring his abridgements into request. This is the measure that hath been rendered to excellent Princes in former times, _cum bene facerent, male audire_, for their good deeds to be evil spoken of. Neither is there any likelihood that envy and malignity died and were buried with the ancient. No, no, the reproof of _Moses_ taketh hold of most ages, [Sidenote: Num. 32. 14. Eccles. 1. 9.] _You are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men. What is that that hath been done? that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun_, saith the wise man. And St. _Stephen_, _As your fathers did, so do ye_. [Sidenote: Acts 7. 51. His Majesty’s constancy, notwithstanding calumniation, for the survey of the English translation. Αὐτὸς καὶ παῖδες,