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<P>A REGISTRE <HI>Of Hy&s;tories, conteining</HI> Martiall exploites of worthy <HI REND="blackletterType">war|riours, Politique practi&s;es of Ciuil Magistrates, wi&s;e Sentences of famous</HI> Philo&s;ophers, And other matters manifolde and me|morable. <HI>Written in Greeke, by Aelianus a</HI> Ro|mane: and deliuered in Engli&s;he (as well, according to the truth of the Greeke text, as of the La|tine) by <HI>Abraham Fleming.</HI></P>
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<P>Seene and allowed.</P>
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<Q>Speculum vitae, memoriae&abque; The|&s;aurus, Hystoria.</Q>
<P>&para; Imprinted at London, for Thomas Woodcocke: dwelling in Paules Churchyarde, at the &s;igne of the blacke Beare. <HI>Anno a Me&s;sia nato. 1576.</HI></P>
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<DIV1 LANG="lat" TYPE="dedication">
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<HEAD>Ornati&s;simo viro, necnon eruditione vitae&abque; inte|GRITATE CLARO, DOCTORI GOOD|MANNO, VVestmonasterien&s;is eccle&s;iae Cathedralis <HI>Collegijque celeberrimi digni&s;&s;imo Decano, A|brahamus Flemingus faelicitatem precatur &s;empiternam.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_CVm animo meo diu multumque voluta&s;&s;em, quonam &s;ymbolo volunta+tis meae propen&s;itatem er|ga amplitudinem tuam (Ornati&s;sime vir) propa|larem, quae plus petit po&s;tu latque, quam vel ingenij mei exilitas, vel laboris tenuitas po&s;sint elargiri: irrep&s;it tandem mihi id cogitanti humanitatis tuae affabilitatisque recordatio, quae nonnihil officij crebro efflagitare, et quodammodo ex|torquere videbatur. Postquam aute~ hanc multiplicem com|pendiariamque Hi&s;toriam ab Aeliano Romano, idioma te Attico, limat&egrave; politequ&egrave; contextam et coagmentatam, mentis acie perlustra&s;&s;em, in vulgarem Anglorum &s;ermo+nem conuerti&s;sem, eiu&s;dem denique aeditionem ad &s;udorem v&s;que promoui&s;sem atque exantla&s;sem, adeo vt nihil de&s;ide|rari videreretur q~ vt eande~ Typographicis p&s;ephi&s;matibus ab&s;olutam, alicui Mu&s;aru~ patrono con&s;ecrarem, occurrit mi hi &s;ic meditanti tua (Spectati&s;sime vir) in&s;ignis benignitas cui ha&s;ce interpretationis primitias dicare con&s;ulti&s;simum arbitrarer. Audax &s;an&egrave; et iuuenile factum &s;i iniquus liti|gio&s;usque iudex &s;uam &s;ententiam interponeret, &s;ed non
<PB REF="3"> tam audax, Aedepol, quam &s;agax, &s;i candidus arbiter inte+gritatis&abque; &s;tudio&s;us, idip&s;um ad calculos reuocaret.</P>
<P>Quid enim impudentiae, Proh &s;uperos, aut temeritatis in illo fo&s;&s;oris facto, quamuis rustico, tamen lepido delituit, qui perpu&s;illo munere prae&s;tanti&s;simum imperatorem du|cem&abque; animo&s;i&s;simum donauit? munu&s;culum illud &s;umptu ca|rebat et precio, &s;ed honestate pollebat, ita quid inuerecun|diae latet vbi probitas patet? quid reprehenditur vbi nihil fuci obtenditur? Pulchrum hoc pandocheum, cum politica|rum, tum phy&s;icarum rerum cognitione cumulatum, apoph|thegmatw~n et &s;trategemmatw~n varietate, vbertateque locupletatum, &s;ententiarum &s;ale conditum, verborum de|lectu exornatum, aromaticis eloquentiae odoribus perfu&s;um, orationis nitore puritateque decoratum, viatorem non &s;o lum inuitat, lenocinij&s;que &s;uis illectat ine&s;catque, verumeti am deliciarum affluentia ita permulcet, et effa&s;cinat, vt vel reluctante~ renitentemque retardet, atque remoretur.</P>
<P>Experientia nixus hi&s;ce a&s;tipulari au&s;im, cum quae dix|erim Sybillina folia &s;int, et cum oratio ex tripode loquatur. Nam &s;imulatque in hunc Aelianum incidi&s;sem, in manus &s;ump&s;i&s;sem, aperui&s;sem, in&s;pexi&s;sem, vnam atque alteram historiolam percurri&s;sem, integrum, denique, opu&s;culum ra|tionis &s;tatera, iudicijque aequilibrio examina&s;sem, volup|tatum phalanges, tanquam ex equo quodam Troiano, pro&s;i lierunt, quae tantopere animum meum irretitum illaquea|tumque tenebant, vt &s;pacio&s;um libelli Oceanum, an&s;erinis remis penetrare vtili&s;simum exi&s;timarem. Itaque, ne oti|ando mihimet ip&s;i obe&s;se, cum nonnihil factita~do prode&s;se po|&s;sem, vnamquamque paginam, lineam, verbum, literam, ex quibus, tanquam ex membris quibu&s;dam et articulis, to|tum huius enchiridij corpu&s;culu~ conflatur, a vertice ad vm|belicum, ab vmbelico ad calcem, velut miles leuis armaturae
<PB REF="3"> permeaui, arrepti&s;que, quibus vtendum fuit, instrumentis Anglicam interpretationem aggre&s;sus &s;um, cuius in ve&s;ti|bulo, repentina &s;e&s;e mihi prodidit delectatio, longe, vt aiunt a limine &s;ubito a&s;pectu &s;alutauit, obuijs tandem vlnis am|plexata est, animoque meo, ne la&s;&s;itudinis taedijque incom|modo deprimeretur, melli&s;tuos nectareo&s;que humores in&s;til|lauit: Cuius congre&s;su hoc lucri ad laborem acce&s;sit, vt vo|luptas &s;emper, &s;ine vlla interpellatione, &s;uggereretur, &s;atie|tas vero et nau&s;ea nunquam excitaretur, per &s;axa enim et &s;yrtes, per &s;alebras et &s;copulos, tanquam vmbra corpus, &s;olem &s;erenitas, hyemen ae&s;tas, ae&s;tate~ autumnus, flammam fumus, indiuiduo quodam nexu &s;e&s;e inuicem &s;equebantur. Nunc autem ad eam, meo Marte, maturitatem anhelauit libellus i&s;te, vt firmi&s;simo fundamento, artificio&s;ae contignationes, contignationibus, quidem, fastigia &s;atis &s;olida imponantur, adeoque perfecta est haec conuer&s;io (ab&s;it inuidia verbo) &s;u|isque numeris ab&s;oluta, vt cuilibet viatori &s;e&s;e vehiculi vice prebeat, ad pinguem alioru~ Mineruam &s;e&s;e componet, ad elaboratum aliorum Mercurium &s;e&s;e accommodet, deni|que, nulli non genero&s;i pectoris viro, &s;emina, germina, flo|res fructu&s;&abque;, cum vtilitatis, tum voluptatis, copio&s;i&s;&s;ime im partiatur atque communicet. Sed, ne haec luxurians oratio, tanquam planta hederacea, in immen&s;um excre&s;cat, caetera amoeni&s;&s;imi Authoris hortuli topiaria, taciturnitatis te|gumentis implicabo: de meip&s;o tamen paucula (pace tua, &s;pe|ctati&s;&s;ime vir) attexam. Si eam interpretandi facilitatem festiuitatemque, quam nonnulli nostri &s;eculi Phaenices &s;unt con&s;equuti adeptus e&s;sem, &s;i auream illam &s;cribendi formu|lam, praeclaram polygraphiam, egregias dilatandi dotes, et amplificandi facultates, inuentionis opulentiam et &s;caturi|ginem, conqui&s;itam rerum inauditarum enumerationem,
<PB REF="4"> chronologia, antiquitatis monumenta quarum flos nun|quam flacce&s;cit, quarum inquam gemma &s;emper re&s;plende&s;|cit, exemplorum agmina, verborum fulmina, aenigma|tum inuolucra, adagioru~ Laconi&s;mum, multiplices extera|rum linguarum proprietates, et quicquid hominum animos in admirationem raperet intellectu ob&s;epirem, Si denique dij de aeque, quot quot &s;u~t, in me tanquam in aliquam Pandw~ ram omnia omnium virtutum ornamenta congererent, et grandiora, et gratiora mihi negotium face&s;serent, manibus que tuis, vtpote religio&s;is, rarior&agrave; clarioraque con&s;ecrarem.</P>
<P>Sed cum nonnihil aetatulae temeritati &s;it concedendum, a|liquid triennali ab Academia intermi&s;&s;ioni tribuen|dum, plurimum denique &s;ini&s;tro omini (quod vtinam meo nunquam contigi&s;set nomini) a&s;cribendum, haec ieiuna in+terpretatio &s;atis iucunda, exanguis &s;atis &s;ucculenta, hir&s;uta &s;atis compta, incondita &s;atis ter&s;a (ita enim &s;perare tua iu|bet humanitas) videbitur.</P>
<P>Nequeo (Ornati&s;sime vir) expatianti calamo fraena inijcere, nequeo man&s;uetioribus Mu&s;is metas prae&s;cribere, nequeo orationem (quae torrentis in&s;tar) fluit, moderari, non quod verborum coaceruatione et tumultuaria varia|rum vocu~ multitudine (a qua ne&s;cio an alius qui&s;piamquam ego magis abhorret) memet oblectem, non quod nihil aut &s;altem non &s;atis me dixi&s;se putem ni&s;i mediocritatis ter+minos linguae volubilitate tran&s;ilirem, &s;ed quod ampli&s;simu~ illud et peruulgatum meritorum tuorum pelagus mihi ante oculos obuer&s;abatur, cuius reciprocas vices &s;imulat&abque;, per tra~ &s;ennam intueor, plenisque tibijs conor praedicare, &s;ubi|ta &s;ini&s;trae opinionis &s;u&s;picio vi&s;cera mentis meae diuexabat, cruciabat, torquebat, et (oratione~ futilibus mendaciunculis a&s;pergere odio&s;um est) magnopere vt a propo&s;ito deflecte
<PB REF="4"> rem, dehortabatur, deterrebat. Ea vero &s;u&s;picio nocte&s;que die&s;que animum occupauit, voluntatem, ne &s;ubuolaret et in co~trariu~ niteretur, deprimit, deijcit, vinculi&s;&abque; quib&s;dam et pedicis ca&s;tigat, adeo vt velle vecordiae videatur e&s;se cum facultas perficiundi voluntatem contabe&s;cat.</P>
<P>Porr&ograve;, non illa tantum &s;u&s;picio et metus mali animum meum a&s;&s;idu&egrave; agitauit, &s;ed aliud quiddam portento&s;um mi|hi contemplanti oboriebatur, adulationis nimirum et Gna|toni&s;mi pestis periculo&s;a, quamquidem etiam&s;i odio plu&s;|quam ho&s;tili pro&s;equor, deprauata tamen nonnullorum in|genia his atque illis vocibus virulentis honestum in&s;titu|tum et ab omni a&s;&s;entationis tinctura alieni&s;&s;imum infu&s;|cabunt. Itaque non &s;atis e&s;t imo vero nihil e&s;t, tanti pon|deris prouinciam leuiter et &s;ummis, vt aiunt, digitis at|tigi&s;&s;e, ni&s;i ad viuum re&s;ecare perrexero, non &s;atis est de|linea&s;&s;e, non &s;atis e&s;t adumbra&s;&s;e, aliquid e&s;t colorum gra|tia, varietate, et venu&s;tate orna&s;&s;e, decora&s;&s;e. Ni&s;i ergo vel le et po&s;&s;e con&s;pirent, ni&s;i vno eodem&abque; ligata loro vnum i|dem&abque; iugum trahant, nihil omnino dixi&s;se quam pauca o&s;+citanter et hae&s;itanter enuncia&s;&s;e laudabilius co~ducibiliu&s;&abque; exi&s;timo. In i&s;ta tamen contemplatione a&s;&s;iduus totu&s;que &s;um, vt quicquid addidero, &s;iue plus &s;it &s;iue minus (cum neu|trum po&s;sit e&s;&s;e quod nihil e&s;t) id totum in nominis tui ce|lebritatem meritorumque magnitudinem cedat, in ea con|&s;ene&s;cat, acquie&s;cat. Interim (Ornati&s;sime vir) balbutienti Tyronis linguae (quae adhuc enucleat&egrave; loqui ne&s;ciat) faue|to, claudicanti &s;tylo (qui &s;uis caret numeris, rythmis, &s;ucco, &s;anguine, membris et articulis) &s;uccurrito, orationem de|nique totam, quanta quanta &s;it, &s;ic &s;u&s;cipito, vt quamuis humi &s;erpat, pedibus tamen nequaquam conteratur, minu|tatim confringatur, elangue&s;cat, animam exhalet.</P>
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<P>Sed, ne verborum coaceruatione, dicendique prolixita|te mediocritatis repagula perfringerem, cum totus hic &s;er|mo tuis praecipue (ornati&s;sime vir) auribus obstrepat, fine~ fa+ciam, et epi&s;tolae meae filum, ne extra ripas fluat, amputabo. Deus Op. Max. tui tuorumque patrocinium &s;u&s;cipiat, tibi tui&s;que ex animi &s;ententia res omnes &s;uppeditet, finitoque, huius vitae calamitatibus et ae|rumnis coopertae, curriculo, faelicitate~ nunquam intermorituram largiatur.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>&leaf; Tuae dignitati dediti&s;simus Abrahamus Flemingus.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD><GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">.</HEAD>
<L><GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"></L>
<L><GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">,</L>
<L><GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"></L>
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<L><GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">,</L>
<L><GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">.</L>
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<DIV1 LANG="lat" TYPE="encomium">
<HEAD>Idem Epigramma, &s;ic Latio donauit <HI>T.S. Cantabr.</HI></HEAD>
<L>Sumito me manibus, &s;is doctus, an in&s;cius artis,</L>
<L>Cau&s;a vtri&s;&abque; ingens vtilitatis ero:</L>
<L>Amphora plena tibi &s;um, plenus fructibus hortus</L>
<L>Omnigenis: tuque h&iacute;c Attica mella legas.</L>
<L>Ob&s;curat genus &amp; nomen gens Inclyta nostra,</L>
<L>&V;rbs claros faciens patria Roma fuit.</L>
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<HEAD>In Abrahami Flemingi Aelianum Anglicum, Iohannes Bellus, Scholae Ratliffi|en&s;is <HI>Archidida&s;calus.</HI></HEAD>
<L>H&acirc;c facturus iter, decoratum floribus hortum</L>
<L>In&s;pice: tu&abque; tuo pollice carpe Ro&s;as.</L>
<L>Florum quicquid habet &s;pacio&s;i terminus Orbis,</L>
<L>Illud in hoc horto cernere qui&s;&abque; potest.</L>
<L>Cuius &s;uauifluum qui naribus hau&s;it odorem,</L>
<L>Hoc mag&eacute; gratus ei non odor vllus erit.</L>
<L>Tu mod&ograve; FLEMINGVM memori &s;ub mente reconde,</L>
<L>Qui &s;ua, qu&ograve; tua &s;int, non &s;init e&s;&s;e &s;ua.</L>
<L>Atque tuo &s;tudio quon&iacute;am &s;ic profuit omni,</L>
<L>Fac po&s;&s;it per te, &s;candere laudis iter.</L>
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<PB REF="6">
<HEAD>In laudem Aeliani Romani &amp; Ab. Fl. Hexameter R. Pr. <HI>Cantabr.</HI></HEAD>
<L>Istius meritas operis &s;ibi vendicet Author,</L>
<L>Ac habeat laudes: &s;ua namqu&eacute; industria &s;umma,</L>
<L>Hystoriam variam Graec&eacute; qui &s;crip&s;erat i&s;tam.</L>
<L>Sed tamen haec Anglis latuit vix cognita terris,</L>
<L>I&aacute;m nobis splendet, necn&oacute;n &s;ua lumina praebet</L>
<L>Phoebo candidi&ugrave;s, non ab&s;&abque; labore FLEMINGI:</L>
<L>Qui non &s;umma ferat quamuis preconia facti,</L>
<L>(Cui laudes magnae debentur, gratia magna,)</L>
<L>Attam&eacute;n ingratus n&eacute; &s;is, ROMANE, tuarum</L>
<L>Participem facito laudum, &s;ine fraude, FLEMINGVM.</L>
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<HEAD>In eiu&s;dem Aeliani Hy&s;toriam Graec&egrave;, Latin&eacute;, &amp; Anglic&eacute; con&s;criptam: <HI>T. S. Cantabr.</HI></HEAD>
<L>C&ugrave;r animo in studijs contingit nau&s;e&agrave; nulla?</L>
<L><GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">.</L>
<L>Erg&ograve; tuos minim&egrave; miror, ROMANE, labores,</L>
<L>Dum Romam Graec&egrave; <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">.</L>
<L>Nec, GERMANE, tuos dum pandis Graeca Latinis,</L>
<L>Nec noua depingit penna, BRITANNE, tua.</L>
<L>Dicere &s;ed cogor ver&eacute;: <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"></L>
<L>Hy&s;toria, &amp; mulcet Nectare quem&abque; &s;uo.</L>
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<DIV1 LANG="lat" TYPE="encomium">
<HEAD>In eundem Aelianum renatum, Cuthberti Hopi carmen <HI>Epaineticum</HI></HEAD>
<L>Ficta qu&iacute;d ingenium delectat fabula? Lector</L>
<L>Candide, quidu&eacute; iuuat? commoda quaeu&egrave; feret?</L>
<L>Nonn&eacute; foret melius, doctos tractare libellos,</L>
<L>Carmina qu&agrave;m vatum quae ni&s;i vana docent?</L>
<PB REF="6">
<L>Ex doctis &s;i docta libris didici&s;&s;e requiras,</L>
<L>Hunc lege: Multa feret commoda, Magna feret.</L>
<L>Viue igitur (Fleminge) precor, (Fleminge) beatus</L>
<L>Viue: tuas laudes, terra fretum&abque; &s;onet.</L>
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<DIV1 LANG="lat" TYPE="encomium">
<HEAD>In eundem Aelianum, Epigram|ma T.D. <HI>Cantabr.</HI></HEAD>
<L>Pinguia Nectareo gaudent pomaria fructu,</L>
<L>Fragranti&abque; nitet flore Sabaeus ager.</L>
<L>Doctum fidus habet medicamen Pharmacop&ocirc;la,</L>
<L>Morbo&s;is prae&s;ens quod ferat auxilium:</L>
<L>Vnicus iste liber tamen est praestantior illis,</L>
<L>Siue voluptates, commoda &s;iue petas.</L>
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<DIV1 LANG="lat" TYPE="encomium">
<HEAD>In eundem Aelianum Anglicum, Carmen Ri. B. <HI>Cantabr.</HI></HEAD>
<L>Scripta placent, tamen, interd&uacute;m non ant&eacute; placebunt,</L>
<L>Nec p&oacute;st, interd&uacute;m, qu&aacute;m tibi lecta &s;ient:</L>
<L>Ast vbi &s;ub docto, &s;ub amico Iudice lis est,</L>
<L>Si min&uacute;s ant&egrave; placent, p&oacute;st tamen illa placent.</L>
<L>Vtile delectat, Iucunda probantur, Honestum</L>
<L>Laudatur: tribus his non caret istud Opus.</L>
<L>Haec tria ve&s;titus idiomatis ant&eacute; Pelasgi</L>
<L>Induerant, &amp; p&oacute;st, inclyta Roma, tuos:</L>
<L>At n&uacute;nc, facundo incedunt ornata cothurno</L>
<L>Anglorum, nitido ver&s;a reuer&s;a &s;ono.</L>
<L>Laus e&s;t danda tibi, FLEMINGE, &amp; praemia danda,</L>
<L>Gratia par reliquis e&s;t referenda viris.</L>
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<DIV1 LANG="eng" TYPE="encomium">
<PB REF="7">
<HEAD>The poe&s;ie of Richard Tauer|ner <HI>Gent.</HI></HEAD>
<L>Yf &s;tories should lye fainting vnder foote,</L>
<L>(Synce foes with force marche on to foile their fame,</L>
<L>VVhos bui&s;y braines their flights of fury shoote,</L>
<L>To impaire their prai&s;e, and nippe their noble name)</L>
<L>If &s;uch I &s;ay should blotted be with blame,</L>
<L>No witte would worke a way by penne to showe</L>
<L>The &s;tate of &s;uch as liued longe agoe.</L>
<L>Yf Homers hed had &s;lept in &s;louthfull ea&s;e,</L>
<L>VVhat wight had knowne Vly&s;&s;es wandred wayes?</L>
<L>VVhat coa&s;ts he &s;capte, whar &s;yrts, and &s;urgeing &s;eas,</L>
<L>Before he had in Ithac' happy dayes:</L>
<L>The Poets penne his pa&s;&s;age open layes,</L>
<L>And many moe that diuer&s;ly indite,</L>
<L>Haue lefte at lenghte their labours large in lighte.</L>
<L>Such willinge wights in Englishe angle dwell,</L>
<L>VVho&s;e paineful pe~ns haue purcha&s;d peereles prai&s;e,</L>
<L>Obliuion blind their quiuering quills &s;o quell,</L>
<L>As once her hed, that Hagg, she dare not rai&s;e:</L>
<L>Among the which in theis our drouping dayes,</L>
<L>No will doth want to wring from wit a ver&s;e,</L>
<L>Of Flemings prai&s;e the pen&s;ion to rehear&s;e.</L>
<L>Through &s;tories &s;traunge and many a treti&s;e triewe.</L>
<L>Thy penne hath pear&s;t, thy quill hath traced quite</L>
<L>And left them vs in English gla&s;&s;e to viewe,</L>
<L>As precious pearles and Diamonds of delighte.</L>
<L>Let Sycophants a&s;&s;ault with darts of &s;pighte</L>
<L>This planted plot: yet of this worke mo&s;t wi&s;e,</L>
<L>The fame shall flye from yearth to azur &s;kyes.</L>
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<PB REF="7">
<HEAD>The poe&s;ie of Iohn <HI>Fo&s;ter.</HI></HEAD>
<L>AS garden greene bedevved vvith shoures</L>
<L>doth vvalkers &s;prits delight,</L>
<L>And yealdeth &s;tore of fragrant flovvers,</L>
<L>(A comfortable &s;ight.)</L>
<L>And as the byrds in golden &s;pringe</L>
<L>haue tunes of &s;undry &s;orte,</L>
<L>And diuer&s;ly dooe chirpe and &s;inge,</L>
<L>one boughe, for their di&s;porte:</L>
<L>Euen &s;o this booke doth mention make,</L>
<L>of matters chaunge and choyce.</L>
<L>VVherin thou mai&s;t thy plea&s;ure take,</L>
<L>and vvhen thou vvilt, reioyce.</L>
<L>And thoughe the booke a &s;torehou&s;e vvas,</L>
<L>of many things before,</L>
<L>Yet euery man could not in pa&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>tyll Fl. vnlockte the dore.</L>
<L>VVhos hart is vvaxt &s;o liberall,</L>
<L>He leaues it open &s;till:</L>
<L>That thou mai&s;t take thy choyce of all,</L>
<L>and v&s;e it at thy vvill.</L>
<L>For all his trauaile &s;pent herein,</L>
<L>Fl. craues none other meede.</L>
<L>Then fauour and good vvill to vvynne,</L>
<L>VVherof he hopes to &s;peede.</L>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 LANG="eng" TYPE="to the reader">
<PB REF="8">
<HEAD>To the Courteous <HI>Reader.</HI></HEAD>
<P>This booke repleni&s;hed with varietie &amp; chaunge, (Courteous Reader) may be compared to a greate &amp; &s;tately building, which is not altogether outwardly voide of beuty, but inwardly al&s;o, gaily decked &amp; finely furni&s;hed With all &s;ightly and &s;umptuous impleme~ts. yt is lyke vnto an ine&s;timable Iuell, or precious pearle, which although yt be inclo&s;ed in a homly wodde~ box, and &s;hut vp in a &s;imple ca&s;ket, litle or nothing worthe in compari&s;on, yet is it neuer a whit the le&s;&s;e in vallue notwith&s;tanding, but re&s;erueth his price vndimini|&s;hed. Wherfore (Courteous Reader) in con&s;ideration of thine owne profit, and vauntage, plea&s;ure, and harts ea&s;e, enter into this princely pallace, view euery roome circum&s;pectly, behold eache &s;euerall chamber and lodging adui&s;edly, and v&s;e the benefite of euery thing liberally, to thine owne contentation. Open this ba&s;e boxe, and lifte vp the lydd of this cour&s;e ca&s;ket, wher|in &s;o riche and co&s;tly a Iuell is inclo&s;ed, wey yt, and weare it, the commodity i&s;&s;uing from the &s;ame is &s;in|gular, &s;o is the delight redundant and plentifull. Take all, and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e all, thy title is &s;ub&s;tantiall, and thine intere&s;t &s;ufficient.</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>Farewell. </SALUTE>
<SIGNED>Abraham Fleming.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="errata">
<PB REF="8">
<HEAD>The corrections of faultes e&s;caped.</HEAD>
<P><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">Fol.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">Faultes.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">Correct.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>15.</CELL>
<CELL>Sotrates</CELL>
<CELL>Socrates.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>35</CELL>
<CELL>Phalarenis.</CELL>
<CELL>Phalareus</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>33.</CELL>
<CELL>Peripatici,</CELL>
<CELL>Peripatetici</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>36.</CELL>
<CELL>Eritolaus</CELL>
<CELL>Critolaus</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>40</CELL>
<CELL>Perdina</CELL>
<CELL>Perdiccas</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>37</CELL>
<CELL>Hiperborti.</CELL>
<CELL>Hyperborei</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>40</CELL>
<CELL>Perbere</CELL>
<CELL>Praebere</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>43</CELL>
<CELL>Sauroncates</CELL>
<CELL>Sauromates</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>41</CELL>
<CELL>Boetiam.</CELL>
<CELL>Boetiam</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>43</CELL>
<CELL>Linns</CELL>
<CELL>Lynus</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>44</CELL>
<CELL>Sordoi</CELL>
<CELL>Sardoi</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>38</CELL>
<CELL>Pre&s;ens.</CELL>
<CELL>Prae&s;ens</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>ibm</CELL>
<CELL>&amp;</CELL>
<CELL>es</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>42</CELL>
<CELL>inulum</CELL>
<CELL>Inultum</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>ibm</CELL>
<CELL>Commitat.</CELL>
<CELL>Committat</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>ibm</CELL>
<CELL>Cumulatum</CELL>
<CELL>Cumulatim</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>ibm</CELL>
<CELL>Alter</CELL>
<CELL>Altar</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>59</CELL>
<CELL>amore</CELL>
<CELL>Amor</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>ibm</CELL>
<CELL>A&s;&s;iduitat</CELL>
<CELL>a&s;&s;iduitati</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>77</CELL>
<CELL>xenephons</CELL>
<CELL>Xenophons</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>93</CELL>
<CELL>Hipppmeges</CELL>
<CELL>Hippomyges.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>ibm</CELL>
<CELL>Anum</CELL>
<CELL>Annum</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>138</CELL>
<CELL>amlecti</CELL>
<CELL>amplecti</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>144</CELL>
<CELL>imtari</CELL>
<CELL>imitari</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>147</CELL>
<CELL>Hunc</CELL>
<CELL>Hoc</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>151</CELL>
<CELL>Suphur</CELL>
<CELL>Sulphur</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>153</CELL>
<CELL>Mi&s;teria</CELL>
<CELL>My&s;teria</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>175</CELL>
<CELL>Antalcida.</CELL>
<CELL>Antalcidas.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>40</CELL>
<CELL><GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"></CELL>
<CELL><GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>104</CELL>
<CELL><GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"></CELL>
<CELL><GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>124</CELL>
<CELL><GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"></CELL>
<CELL><GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>59</CELL>
<CELL>Amyntae</CELL>
<CELL>Aminta</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>60</CELL>
<CELL>Pecuuiae</CELL>
<CELL>Pecuniae</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P>The Engli&s;he e&s;capes, wee leaue to the correction of the Engli&s;he Reader.</P>
</DIV1>
</FRONT>
<BODY>
<DIV1 N="1" TYPE="book">
<PB REF="9">
<PB N="1" REF="9">
<HEAD>The fir&s;t Booke of the variable History <HI>of <HI>Aelianus.</HI></HI></HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; Of the manifolde footed Fishes called POLYPODES.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_THe&s;e Fishes are indued</HI> with great force &amp; maine &s;trength in and about the belly p&eacute;ece, they deuoure what &s;oeuer is next them and make no bones of the matter, yea often times they &s;pare not ne yet forbere their owne kinde, but when the le&s;&s;er &s;orte are caught by the greater, falling into the &s;tronger and fa&s;ter &s;nares (which are called the Fi&s;hes whips) by and by they be &s;wallowed vp as meet meat and &s;auoury &s;u&s;tenaunce. Their v&s;e of in&s;naring and catching Fi&s;h, I wil deliuer in breuitie of woords.</P>
<P>The&s;e <HI>Polypodes</HI> lye lurking clo&s;ely by the &s;ides and rootes of Rocks, chaunging them &s;elues into the &s;ame coloure, in &s;o much as they app&eacute;er in &s;ight to be a parte of the Rock. When as therfore the fooli&s;h Fi&s;h &s;wim towards the Rocks, they ap|proch of nece&s;&s;ity &amp; draw n&eacute;er to the <HI>Polypodes</HI> in who&s;e nets (namely their whips) the poore ignorant fi&s;hes bothe vnwil|lingly and vnwittingly are intangled and taken.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; Of the Spiders Phalanges.</HEAD>
<P>_THe&s;e Spyders are not &s;kilful in the trade of weauing, neither doo they knowe neither wil they know how to weaue or to be acquainted with the gifts of the godde&s;&s;e <HI>Minerua.</HI> For ind&eacute;ed how &s;hould &s;uch a little bea&s;t were a wouen garme~t. The&s;e Spiders haue a &s;nare and as it were a Bowe net (wherewith they v&s;e to take
<PB REF="10"> what &s;o euer by Fortune falleth into them. They watch, they p&eacute;epe, toote and &s;py, with great &s;ilence and quietnes to incom|pa&s;&s;e and winde in their pray, &s;eeming to the eyes of the be|holder vtterly void of &s;tirring, moouing, f&eacute;eling, and to be as &s;til as a &s;tone and as dead as a doore naile, if they catche any thing they f&eacute;ed thervpon (what&s;oeuer it be) as vpon m&eacute;et mor+&s;els to maintain life: And &s;o muche commonly they catche in their Net as it can holde or receiue and as is inough and &s;u|fficient to &s;lake and a&s;&s;wage hunger.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of the Aegiptian Frogges.</HEAD>
<P>_THey are directed with meruailous light of &s;pe+ciall policy, and excell all others in &s;inguler wi&s;dome and fore&s;ight, for if a Frog chaunce to e&s;pye a water Serpent (which the Riuer <HI>Nilus</HI> nouri&s;heth) it &s;nappeth a Cane or a Reede in &s;under and taking a p&eacute;ece thereof beareth it ouerthwart waies and holdeth it fa&s;t and firme as we &s;ay, with tooth and nail. This defence in &s;uch &s;orte ordered, the <HI>Hyder</HI> is not able to deuoure the Frog. And why? becau&s;e the R&eacute;ed is a hinderaunce thervnto, for the mouth of the wa|ter Serpent is not of &s;uche widenes as the R&eacute;ede or Cane is of length. By this meanes the Frogs wel fraught with wi&s;|dome and polycy, auoide, e&s;cape, deceiue and ouermatch the &s;orce and &s;trength of the water Serpents.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; Of the Aegiptian Dogges.</HEAD>
<P>_THis in like manner is to be thought a great gift of wi&s;dome in the <HI>Aegiptian</HI> Dogs, for they lap not gr&eacute;edely of the Flud nor fainting+ly, not largely nor &s;paringly: But ca&s;ting their eyes vpon the cour&s;e of the &s;treme, they drink of the water, as they run by the Riuers
<PB N="2" REF="10"> brink, &s;o much as &s;&eacute;emeth &s;ufficient to quench their thir&s;ty|nes. The rea&s;on whereof is, becau&s;e they perceiue vnder the water, daungerous and deadly Bea&s;ts, who&s;e rauenous Chops to e&s;cape, the&s;e <HI>Aegiptian</HI> Dogges as they pa&s;&s;e be&s;ide the bank, lick the water with their ta&s;ting toungs, now a &s;natch and then a &s;natch, by fits as we &s;ay commonly in our familier &s;p&eacute;eche, whereby they pre&s;erue their liues from pe|ri&s;hing, and yet neuerthele&s;&s;e qualifye and quenche the tor|ments of thir&s;tyne&s;&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; Of the Sea Fox.</HEAD>
<P>_NOt the land Fox onely exc&eacute;edeth in craftines, but the Sea fox al&s;o pa&s;&s;eth in &s;ubtelties. For the Sea Fox hath no regarde to the baite for gr&eacute;edynes nor yet to the hooke, but before the Fi&s;herman draweth vp his Angling rod, and his Line, the Fox plungeth forewarde, and &s;naps the Line in &s;under and &s;o &s;wimmeth away, oftentimes it deuoureth vp two or thr&eacute;e Hookes, and yet the Angler ne|uer a whit the n&eacute;erer his pray, no not to take it, muche le&s;&s;e to ta&s;t it.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; Of a Shel fish called a Sea Tortoi&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>_THey deliuer their Broode on the Land, wher+of when they be di&s;burthened, what doo they? For&s;ooth they hide their Egges in the ground and foorthwith returne to the Sea, where they &s;wimme to and fro according to their accu&s;tomed manner.</P>
<P>Moreouer this rea&s;on remaineth in them that they can k&eacute;ep the
<PB REF="11"> which time and &s;pace their broode breake out of the &s;hell, b&eacute;e|ing of &s;ufficient abilytie to mooue. Then come the <HI>Tortoi|&s;es</HI> to the place where they couered their Egges &amp; they rai&s;e vp the ground which before was ca&s;t vpon them to hide them and at la&s;te leade their yung away quite, which haue &s;tre~gth inough to followe and might to continue.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; Of vvilde Sovves.</HEAD>
<P>_THey are not altogither vn&s;kilfull in Phi&s;ick, for when they haue of ignoraunce eaten <HI>Hy|o&s;ciamum,</HI> by and by they draw in their hin|der partes and &s;&eacute;eme for a while to want hart and life, yet not with&s;tanding, allbeit as it were &s;hrunk vp togither, they cr&eacute;epe to the &s;hore &s;ide and eate water Crabs, whiche offer vnto them (af|ter they haue fed fr&eacute;ely) a pre&s;ent remedy of their di&s;ea&s;e, and a recouering of their former helthfulnes.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of the &s;pider called Phalangium.</HEAD>
<P>_THey doo as much mi&s;ch&eacute;ef to Harts as they doo vn|to men, in &s;o muche as the Harts oftentimes fall in daunger of &s;uddain death, but if they might ne|uer &s;o little nip Iuy, the poy&s;oned &s;ting of the Spi|der dooth no harme nor leaueth any &s;park of infect|ing gr&eacute;ef. But take this by the way, that the Iuy mu&s;t be wilde.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>VVhat Phi&s;ick a Lion v&s;eth vvhen he is &s;ick.</HEAD>
<P><HI>A</HI> Lyon falling into &s;ickne&s;&s;e can be cured and healed of his di&s;&s;ea&s;e by none other medicine then by deuouring an Ape, which is a &s;oueraine &s;alue again&s;t the Lyons &s;ore.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; Hovv the Gotes of Crete cure the shots of Arrovves.</HEAD>
<PB N="3" REF="11">
<P>_THe people of <HI>Crete</HI> are cunning Archers and ex|perte Shooters, it is their exerci&s;e to direct their &s;hafts at rough Gotes which f&eacute;ed vpon the tops of mountains and on Hil heds whiche as &s;oone as they f&eacute;ele them &s;elues wounded with a pearcing Arrow, pre|&s;ently crop the hearbe <HI>Dictamus</HI> and &s;wallow it down their throte. The qualitie of who&s;e ta&s;te woorketh this effect, that the &s;hiuering &s;hafts which the Archers did &s;hoot, fall out of the Gotes fle&s;h wherin they were d&eacute;epely fa&s;tened before.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>That Mice haue knovvledge in things to come.</HEAD>
<P>_MIce excel all lyuing creatures in the knowledge of Prophecy &amp; in the experience of things to come, for when any olde, hou&s;e, habitacion, tenement or dwelling place waxeth olde, ruinous, and redy to fall to the ground, they perceaue it fir&s;t, yea &s;o plainly they perceaue it: that vpon that their fore&s;ight they make pre&s;ent auoydance from their holes and corners as fa&s;t as their leg|ges will giue them leaue, and &s;&eacute;eke an other abiding place wherin they may dwel without danger or fear of lo&s;&s;e of life.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; Of Antes.</HEAD>
<P>_ANtes in like manner (as I haue receiued by report) haue a certaine &s;ight and quick vnder&s;tanding in things to come, for if any fear of famin, any dread of dearth, any ha&s;ard of hunger be at hand, they are wunderful bu&s;y and painful, not onely to cary but al&s;o to lay vp proui&s;ion of Corne and other nece&s;&s;ary frutes fit for food to &s;uccour and &s;u&s;tain them &s;elues in the bitter time of nipping n&eacute;ed.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; Of Gelon.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_GElon</HI> a man of <HI>Siracu&s;ae,</HI> did dreame in his &s;l&eacute;epe that he was bla&s;ted with lightning, whervpon he was &s;o vexed with an inward agony and trouble of minde, that he cryed or rather rored out, not with
<PB REF="12"> a &s;oftly and &s;til voice, but (as the wunt is in dredful dreames) with a lowde and lofty voice, as if he had beene flighted with an outragious feare. But a Dog which lay by him, b&eacute;eing a waked out of &s;leep w^t the great noyes &amp; rageing outcry which <HI>Gelon</HI> made, ro&s;e vp and went rounde about him, one while barking vehemently at his hed and feet: another while how|ling terribly, at his right &s;ide and his left, and neuer did &s;tint or &s;tay, til <HI>Gelon</HI> was wakened and deliuered from the ter|ror of his dreame.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; Of the Svvanne.</HEAD>
<P>_THe Swanne, after <HI>Ari&s;totles</HI> opinion, bringeth foorth a goodly great broode, and is be&s;ides that, in|dued with that qualitie of minde, from whence wrath hath i&s;&s;ue, whervpon it commeth to pa&s;&s;e y^e when they ar angrye they fight &s;o fiercely togither that they doo not only fetch blood out of the fle&s;h, but al&s;o murther one a|nother before they giue ouer the quarrel. The &s;elf &s;ame Au|thor affirmeth that Swans fight again&s;t Eagles, to reuenge wrongs &amp; iniuries, rather then to obtaine rule: and v&s;e power or principality ouer the vanqui&s;hed. That they looue &s;inging it is &s;o common that it is growne in to a prouerb: But I neuer in all my life had the luck to heare a &s;wanne &s;ing, nor parad|uenture any other, yet notwith&s;tanding it is &s;uppo&s;ed that they &s;ing, and then &s;pecially (&s;ay &s;ome) is their &s;inging mo&s;te &s;w&eacute;et and delight&s;ome, when their exchau~ge of life with death approcheth. They pa&s;&s;e ouer the Sea, and through the wa|ues flye they with their vnwearied wings, &s;eruing them in &s;ted of a paire of Ores.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; Of Pigeons.</HEAD>
<P>_IT is &s;aide that Pigeones &s;it vpon their eggs by cour&s;e &amp; afterwards when they are chau~ged from Egges to chickens, the Cocke dooth f&eacute;ed and fo&s;ter them, bani&s;hi~g all anger from them (as they &s;ay)
<PB N="4" REF="12"> which if he &s;hould not doo, they would fight among them &s;elues and fall at varia~ce. The Hen bringeth foorth two egg&abis;, wherof the fir&s;t alwaies is a Cock chick, the other a hen. They breed at all &s;ea&s;ons of the y&eacute;er, whervpon it foloweth that they haue yung ten times a y&eacute;er. Somewhich write of <HI>AEgipt</HI> &s;ay that the pigeons in that countrey br&eacute;ed twelue times a y&eacute;er: <HI>Ari&s;|totle</HI> affirmeth that Stockdooues differ from pigeons, becau&s;e pigeons are &s;omwhat bigger, Stockdooues le&s;&s;er, and that pi|geons be tame and gentle, but Stockdooues wilde and vnapt to be handled. The &s;ame Author &s;aith moreouer, that the cock dooth not tread the hen, before he haue courteously ki&s;&s;ed her, for the Hen wil not haue company with the Cock, if &s;he want the due payment of a ki&s;&s;e. He &s;aith furthermore that the hens when they lack a Cock tread one another, but nothing entreth in to their bodies whiche hath the quality of ingendring: Yet not with&s;tanding they bring foorth egges, but the&s;e Egges ne-neuer prooue pigeons.</P>
<P>And if &s;o be that <HI>Callimachus</HI> de&s;erue credit, the Ringdone, the Pirall, the Pigeon, and the Turtle, are &s;o far from b&eacute;e|ing like one another that they are quite contrary. Some ther be which write of <HI>India,</HI> who reporte that there b&eacute;e in that country Pigeons of a yellowe couler. And <HI>Charon Lamp&s;acenus</HI> &s;ayeth, that about <HI>Athon</HI> white Pigeons app&eacute;ered and weare &s;&eacute;ene, at &s;uche time as the Gallyes of the <HI>Per&s;ians</HI> which were driuen with thr&eacute;e orders of Ores, were funk when they pa&s;&s;ed by <HI>Athon.</HI></P>
<P>And in <HI>Eryce</HI> of <HI>Sicily,</HI> wherin is builded the ble&s;&s;ed, the glorious, the holy and renowmed Chappell of <HI>Venus,</HI> &s;ome &s;ay that when the people of that place offer their ordinary and holy Oblations at a limited time, and when Lady <HI>Venus</HI> goeth in progre&s;&s;e fro~ <HI>Sicilia</HI> &s;oile into <HI>Libia</HI> land, all the Pi|geons vani&s;h out of &s;ight vppon a &s;uddaine as though they were of <HI>Venus</HI> retinue and gaue attendaunce vppon her grace: Certain it is, that all other times of the y&eacute;ere, there is great plentie of Pigeons &s;itting vppon the toppes of the Temple, and flying about the &s;tately Pinacles of the &s;ame. To knit vp this in a round knot of &s;hortnes and breuitie, the <HI>Graecians</HI> commend this to memory, that <HI>Iupiter</HI> him &s;elf took
<PB REF="13"> vpon him the &s;hape and porturature of a prety Pigeon, when he looued fine <HI>Pthia</HI> the famou&s;e Virgin who&s;e dwelling was in <HI>AEgio.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
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<HEAD>&leaf; Of Socrates vvhen he drank poy&s;on.</HEAD>
<P>_WHen the &s;hip had made return from <HI>Delus,</HI> and <HI>So|crates</HI> was to &s;uffer puni&s;hment namely lo&s;&s;e of life, <HI>Apollodorus</HI> the familier fr&eacute;end of <HI>Socrates</HI> comming to the Pri&s;on where he was laid vppe, brought vnto him a Cote of very fine and co&s;tly Wul, wel wo+uen and wrought, and there withall a Cloke of no cour&s;er &s;tuffe, de&s;iring him to put them on and to were them when he drunk the poy&s;on which &s;hould procure his death, for he &s;aid that <HI>Socrates</HI> could not want a rich and honorable buri|all if he b&eacute;eing attired with tho&s;e gorgious garments y&eacute;elded vp the &s;w&eacute;et pledge of his life, nor that he &s;hould lye dead al|togither vndecently, b&eacute;eing decked with &s;uch bewtifull and comely furniture. The&s;e woords vttered <HI>Apollodorus</HI> to <HI>So|crates.</HI> But he not alowing therof, &s;aid to <HI>Crito, Simmias</HI> and <HI>Phaedon.</HI> O what a notable and excellent opinion dooth <HI>Apol+lodorus</HI> conceiue of vs, if he hope to &s;&eacute;e <HI>Socrates</HI> in &s;uch braue+ry after he hath drunk vp the poy&s;oned Potion mini&s;tred to him by the hands of the <HI>Athenians:</HI> But if he did con&s;ider and beleeue that &s;hortly after I &s;hould droup downe, grouell on the ground, and at la&s;t lye like a lump of Lead vnder f&eacute;et, he would not vouch&s;afe to knowe me.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; Of a VVaggon vvith foure Hor&s;es and a Poe&s;y, made in a very little compa&s;&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e be the woorkes of <HI>Myrmecidas Mile&s;ius</HI> and <HI>Cal|licrates Lacedemonius,</HI> not &s;o wunderfull as worthy, bothe for the &s;malenes and the cunning thereof, they made a Waggon drawen with two couples of Hor&s;es, which might be hidden vnder a Flye: And wrote in a little &s;mall be|ry (no bigger then a Beane) a po&s;y of two ver&s;es in letters of Golde: neither of whiche a wi&s;e and vertuous man would
<PB N="5" REF="13"> worthely commend. For what other thing, importe the&s;e tri|fling toyes, but an idle &s;pending of the time.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of ryotous vvomen giuen vnto co&s;tly brauery.</HEAD>
<P>_MAy we not wel think that many wome~, haue b&eacute;en delighted in exce&s;&s;iue gorgiou&s;nes, while &s;ome haue worne on their hed&abis; high and huge Crownes, precious &s;lippers on their f&eacute;et, glo|rious Iuelles hanging at their eares, downe a great length, their garment&abis; from the &s;houl|ders &s;eames to the narrowing of the &s;l&eacute;eues at the wri&s;tes, were not &s;owed vp with n&eacute;edle or &s;ilke, but fa&s;tened with La|ces of Golde and Siluer? This was the pomp and pride in ages of auncient memory. What co&s;tlynes the women of <HI>A|thens</HI> v&s;ed in trimming them &s;elf, I referre you to the te&s;timo+ny and recorde of <HI>Ari&s;tophanes.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; Of the Sybarites, the Colophones, and the Corinthes <HI>&s;u|perfluetie in fine apparel and co&s;tly cheere.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_IT is a common &s;aying, and &s;wimmes in euery mans mouth, that the <HI>Sybarites</HI> &amp; their Citie came to vtter ruine and de&s;truction, by exce&s;&s;e, and &s;uper|fluous &s;pending. I wil by your leaue, declare in few woords &s;uch thi~gs as are not trudge motly, (as we terme it) that is, manife&s;t to the multitude, &amp; apparant to the peo|ple, known to the common &s;orte, and familiar to all. But that wherof mo&s;te be ignorant, and very few vnder&s;tand. Intolle|rable prodigalitie was the vtter vndooing and ouerthrow of the <HI>Colophones,</HI> for they limitted their proude and pompous apparel within no mea&s;ure, be&s;ides that, their behauiour was bea&s;tly, in that they abu&s;ed them &s;elues di&s;te~perately at their tables. And y^e office of authoritie which the <HI>Baccheiades</HI> had, when it was in the very top of power, and in the floure of fe|licitie, yet not with&s;ta~ding, through wa&s;tefull and &s;uperfluous riotou&s;nes it came to nought.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of Dioni&s;ius &s;tealing avvay holy things.</HEAD>
<PB REF="14">
<P><HI>_DIoni&s;ius</HI> albeit he was a king, yet he was not a heares bredth from a th&eacute;efe, for he did &s;teale much money out of Temples and Chappels, and holy places in <HI>Siracu&s;ae,</HI> he &s;poiled <HI>Iupi|ters</HI> Image of his garment and robbed him of all his fine furniture, whiche were valued at lxxxv. Talents of Golde. And albeit the woorkmen and Arti|ficers thought it a matter of m&eacute;ere con&s;cience to touch the I|mage, yet he was not only a&s;hamed to ha~dle the~ vnreuerently but ouer bolde to abu&s;e the~ felloniou&s;ly. He robbed in like ma|ner the Image of <HI>Apollo</HI> whiche glittered mo&s;te gloriou&s;ly with golden heares, commaunding one of his retinue to &s;haue them of to the very &s;tumps, and n&eacute;erer, if n&eacute;erer could be. And &s;ayling from thence into <HI>Troezenia,</HI> he tooke away with him (whiche was an hainous offence) the money of <HI>Apollo</HI> and <HI>Leucothoe.</HI> He gaue commaundement al&s;o that a &s;iluer table &s;tanding by the picture of <HI>Apollo</HI> &s;hould be remooued and con|ueyed from thence for his priuate v&s;e and profit, which table, pro&s;perous and lucky <HI>Fortune</HI> had be&s;towed vpon that God for maintainaunce of banketing and ho&s;pitalitie.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; I&s;menias vvorshipped the King of Per&s;ia and did <HI>him &s;elf no shame,</HI></HEAD>
<P>_I Cannot pa&s;&s;e ouer with &s;ilence, the d&eacute;ede of <HI>I&s;menias</HI> the <HI>Thebane,</HI> a d&eacute;ed &s;ea&s;oned with wi&s;dome, and &s;auouring altogither of <HI>Grae|cian</HI> policie. This man bearing the office of an Emba&s;&s;adoure in his Countryes behalfe, came vnto the King, and would in his owne per&s;on haue communication with him concerning the bu&s;ines whereabout he came: The ch&eacute;ef Officer therfore among the Souldiours, who&s;e &s;eruice and duetie was to cary Errands and tidings to the king, and to bring &s;uch before his pre&s;ence as were de&s;irous to attain to the &s;p&eacute;ech of him, &s;aid in this wi&s;e to <HI>I&s;menias.</HI> A&s;&s;uredly thou <HI>Theban</HI> &s;trau~ger (the&s;e woor|des he &s;pake vpon plea&s;ure and delight by the mouth of an interpreter, the Officers name was <HI>Tithrauftes</HI>) it is a natu+rall
<PB N="6" REF="14"> law among the <HI>Per&s;ians</HI> and the cu&s;tom of the Countrye, that he which commeth before the pre&s;ence of the King to en|ter talke with his maie&s;tie, &s;hould not obtain &s;uch licence and libertie excepte he humbly bowed his kn&eacute;es and did obey|&s;aunce. Wherfore if thou art willing to go before the Kings highnes, it is nece&s;&s;ary that thou &s;ati&s;fie the tenour of y^e awn|cient Statute in this point prouided, if thou refu&s;e &s;o to doo|we wil perforce con&s;traine th&eacute;e to exhibit &s;uch &s;eruice as the law of this our land requireth. <HI>I&s;menias</HI> made an&s;were, go to then &s;aith he, conduct me before your Prince. When he came within the compa&s;&s;e of the kings countenaunce, he drew of his finger a great Ring, which he did weare at the &s;ame time, this Ring he let fall fro~ him clo&s;ely &amp; priuely that his purpo&s;e was not perceiued, which b&eacute;eing doone, by &amp; by he did bend his body forward and ducked to the ground, vnder a pretence of wor&s;hipping the King, and in &s;touping down took vp his ring whiche he had let fall from him before, to woork the feat the more conueniently. Thus did <HI>I&s;menias</HI> honour and obey|&s;aunce to the king of <HI>Per&s;ia,</HI> and yet &s;aued harmeles &amp; blame|le&s;&s;e the renown of <HI>Grecia.</HI> What &s;oeuer therfore he demaun+ded, that he obtained, neither did the <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> Prince giue him a denyall in any reque&s;t.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; The gifts and pre&s;ents vvhich the Per&s;ian Kings <HI>v&s;ed to be&s;towe vpon Emba&s;&s;adours.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THe gifts whiche the King gaue to Emba&s;&s;a|dours that came vnto him, whether they were of <HI>Graecia</HI> or any other Countrey, were the&s;e: To euery one a <HI>Babilonian</HI> Talent of y^e be&s;t and the fine&s;t Siluer, which were two &s;iluer &s;tanding P&eacute;eces. A <HI>Babilonian</HI> Talent is worth lxx. pounds of <HI>Athenian</HI> Coine, Bracelets, Iewels, a <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> &s;word, and a Chaine. All the&s;e were valued at a thou+&s;and <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> p&eacute;eces of the golden &s;tamp. Moreouer, be&s;ides all the re&s;t he gaue them a <HI>Median</HI> royall robe, which was called <HI>Dorophorica.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB REF="15">
<HEAD>&leaf; Of Gorgias and Protagoras.</HEAD>
<P>_WHiles the au~cient <HI>Graecians</HI> flouri&s;hed &amp; were (as we &s;ay in their ruffe) <HI>Gorgias Leontinus</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Philolaus,</HI> and <HI>Protagoras</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Democritus,</HI> who but they in honor and renown, yet notwith&s;tanding their great &s;howe of wor&s;hip, they were as wi&s;e as Wood cocks, for they were as far from knowledge, as boyes be from manhood. Reporte dooth not alwaies bla&s;e abrode the trueth, and therefore oftentimes it deceiueth vs, and flattereth ere|whiles to win fauour, and filleth peoples eares with lewd ly|es and tatling tales.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of the contention of Hercules and Lepreas</HEAD>
<P><HI>_GLauco</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Neptune</HI> by <HI>A&s;tydameia,</HI> the daughter of <HI>Phorban,</HI> begat a Sonne na|med <HI>Lepreas,</HI> who con&s;pired with <HI>Augeas</HI> a|bout the binding of <HI>Hercules,</HI> when he requi|red of him the rewarde of his contention and labours. Wherfore (as it is not vnlike) they were bothe, not onely at variance one with an other, but al&s;o at vtter defiance. In the meane while, <HI>Iupiters</HI> &s;onne went to the <HI>Cautones,</HI> and <HI>A&s;tydameia</HI> by her earne&s;t reque&s;t, que~|ched all hatreds, &s;trifes and quarrels, betw&eacute;en <HI>Hercules</HI> and <HI>Lepreas.</HI> So it fortuned that an od youthful toy of trying ma|&s;teryes, in ca&s;ting a Leaden lump aloft into the Ayre, and in drawing water, grew betw&eacute;ene them, and whiche of the twain could fir&s;t deuoure a whole Oxe: In which practi&s;es <HI>Lepreas</HI> was quite quailed and ouercome.</P>
<P>After that, there aro&s;e betwixt them another contention, which could drink mo&s;te of them bothe: In which &s;trife <HI>Lepre|as</HI> went away, not the winner but the loo&s;er. At the la&s;t he b&eacute;e|ing in a fumi&s;h chafe and angry heat, tooke vnto him harne&s;&s;e and weapons, and challenged <HI>Hercules</HI> to fight with him hand to hand in Combat: wherefore he had his paiment
<PB N="7" REF="15"> and de&s;erued puni&s;hment, for tho&s;e things wher about he and <HI>Augeas</HI> ca&s;t their heds togither, his luck was to be &s;laine in fighting through his malapertnes.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; <HI>The large and Lordly liberalitie of Alexander</HI> towards Phocion, and againe of Phocion tovvards Alexander.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ALexander</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Philip,</HI> or (if it like you) of <HI>Iupiter,</HI> it makes no matter of which, when he did write to <HI>Phocion</HI> the Captaine of the <HI>Athenie~s</HI> he v&s;ed this woord, <HI>Salutem,</HI> that is, gr&eacute;eting commendions of curte&s;ie, or wi&s;hing of welfare, &s;o did he to none other be|&s;ide <HI>Phocion,</HI> for he had as it were, tied &amp; linckt fa&s;t vnto him the <HI>Macedonian</HI> Kings hart, as may app&eacute;ere by the&s;e pre&s;i|dents of his good wil. An hundred talents of Siluer for a gift, and the names of iiij. famou&s;e Cities to choo&s;e and take which he would, that the tributes, &s;ub&s;idies, annuities, and y&eacute;erly re|uennewes, which grew, of &amp; by the &s;ame, might wholly, &s;oly, and totally turn to his owne gain, profit and aduau~tage. The names of the Cities were the&s;e. The fir&s;t <HI>Chius,</HI> the &s;econd <HI>Elea,</HI> the third <HI>Myla&s;a,</HI> the fourth <HI>Patara.</HI></P>
<P>This liberalitie of <HI>Alexander</HI> was notable, honorable, and royall: But <HI>Phocion</HI> delt with <HI>Alexander,</HI> much more worthely, who would in no ca&s;e receiue neither Siluer nor Citie: And yet notwith&s;tanding, to the intent he might not &s;&eacute;eme to &s;et light or make no accou~t of <HI>Alexanders</HI> large gift&abis;, he gaue a te&s;timony of his thankful hart to the king, and v&s;ed his fr&eacute;e nature to liberalitie on this wi&s;e: For he reque&s;ted that tho&s;e which were captiues in the Ca&s;tle at <HI>Sardis</HI> might be let loo&s;e and &s;et at libertie, their names follow in this order, <HI>Echecratides</HI> the &s;ophi&s;ter, <HI>Athenodorus, Himaereus,</HI> and <HI>De maratus,</HI> which twaine were brethern and bothe of <HI>Rhodes.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; Of Aglais the great and greedy <HI>eater.</HI></HEAD>
<PB REF="16">
<P>_I Heare of a woman (<HI>Aglais</HI> was her name and <HI>Megacles</HI> was her mother) who&s;e pra|cti&s;e, trade, and occupation was to &s;ound the Trumpet, her heare was counterfect and deceiptfull, and &s;he did weare on her hed a Cre&s;t, as <HI>Po&s;idippus</HI> witne&s;&s;eth. This woman deuoured at euery meale xij. pou~d of fle&s;h, as muche Bread as two Bu&s;hels of Wheate could make, and &s;he glutted down her wide Throte thr&eacute;e quartes of Wine, or as &s;ome &s;ay (which is more like) thr&eacute;e Gallons.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; Of Gluttons and belly Gods.</HEAD>
<P>_IT is recorded in the Rege&s;ter of memory, that the within named were mightie eaters, <HI>Pi|tyreus</HI> the <HI>Phrigia~, Cambetes</HI> the <HI>Lydia~, Thy+us</HI> y^e <HI>Paphagonia~, Charidas, Cleonym&abus;, Pi&s;an|der, Charipus, Mithridates</HI> of <HI>Pontus, Calamo+dor&abus;</HI> of <HI>Cyzicen, Timocreo~</HI> of <HI>Rhodes</HI> who was both a wre|&s;tler &amp; a poet, <HI>Cartibaris</HI> the <HI>Per&s;ian, Ery&s;icthon</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Myrmido~</HI> who for y^e &s;ame cau&s;e was &s;urnamed an <HI>A&s;&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>Moreouer it is reported y^t in <HI>Sicily</HI> a temple is builded and de+dicated to gluttony, and that there is al&s;o an Image erected and &s;et vp in the honor of Lady <HI>Ceres</HI> the gracious godde&s;&s;e of Corne. And <HI>Alcman</HI> the Poet, te&s;tifieth of him &s;elf, that h&eacute;e was an in&s;atiable deuourer. To be &s;hort <HI>Anaxillas</HI> the En|terlude maker &s;aieth, that there was a certaine man called <HI>Cte&s;ias</HI> giue~ to vnme&s;urable con&s;uming of Victuals, who ne|uer was &s;ati&s;fied, but the more he had the more he might.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; VVhat meate the people of Rhodes mo&s;te esteemed.</HEAD>
<P>_I Wil rehear&s;e vnto you a <HI>Rhodian</HI> opinion. In <HI>Rhodes</HI> (as the talke goeth) he which looueth fi&s;h, &s;etteh &s;tore by it, regardeth the &s;w&eacute;etnes thereof, and preferreth it before all other vctualls: Him, I &s;ay, the common people account a right Courteour &amp; a ioly fel|low,
<PB N="8" REF="16"> a fr&eacute;e harted man. But contrarywi&s;e, he which is more delighted in fle&s;h then in Fi&s;h, refu&s;ing the latter and choo&s;ing the former, is il thought of in <HI>Rhodes,</HI> he is counted a Clow|ni&s;h loute and a bond&s;laue to his belly, to his greate &s;hame and reproche. But whether the fir&s;t or the la&s;t doo wel or il, it is not my meaning to giue iudgement.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>That a Sheep brought foorth a Lyon.</HEAD>
<P>_THe people <HI>Coi</HI> reporte that in the pa&s;tures of <HI>Nicippus</HI> the Tirant a &s;h&eacute;ep was di&s;bur+thened of her belly. And wil you knowe what &s;he brought foorth? not a Lamb of the male or the female kinde, but a Lyon whi|che Worlds wonder forewarned the Ti|ranny of <HI>Nicippus</HI> in time to come, who when this &s;traunge and mon&s;terous &s;ight app&eacute;ered was but a priuate man and no Prince.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; <HI>That Ptolomey looued Galetes not &s;o much for the</HI> com|lynes of his fauoure, as for the &s;ingularitie of his knowledge in &s;undry things.</HEAD>
<P>_KIng <HI>Ptolomey</HI> &s;w&eacute;etly loued <HI>Galetes</HI> a &s;pri~gal both bewtiful in face &amp; han&s;ome in proportion and making. But the yung mans vertuous minde did far &s;urmount his comely fauoure. <HI>Ptolomeus</HI> therefore oftentimes gaue wit|ne&s;&s;e to the &s;ame, &s;aying. O plea&s;ant hed, O &s;mooth tunge dyouthe, thou ha&s;te neuer b&eacute;en any mans hinde|raunce, but many mens furtheraunce.</P>
<P>It fortuned vppon a time that this noble Impe, <HI>Galetes</HI> by name, rode abrode with the King and e&s;pying a far of certaine men led to execution, &s;pake the&s;e woords to <HI>Ptolomey</HI> not coldely and cowardly, but boldely and valyantly: Becau&s;e (O King) &s;aith he, we are mounted on hor&s;eback to the good luck and fauourable fortune of yonder &s;ame condemned men, let
<PB REF="17"> vs if it be your graces plea&s;ure, &s;et &s;purres to our hor&s;e ribbes, that making po&s;te ha&s;te after them we may be as <HI>Ca&s;tor</HI> &amp; <HI>Pollux</HI> be to wandring Mariners, that is, helthfull helpers, &amp; gratious aiders, to poore wretched ca&s;tawayes (for that pro|pertie is bla&s;ed by tounge and by penne with a common pro|uerbe to con&s;i&s;t in tho&s;e Gods.) King <HI>Ptolomeus</HI> conceiuing &s;urpa&s;&s;ing plea&s;ure and delight through the beautie and good|nes of <HI>Galetes,</HI> and greatly alowing his nature prone to pi|tie and compa&s;&s;ion, did bothe pardon and &s;aue the condemned Pri&s;oners, &amp; doubled or rather multiplyed his looue towardes the merciful youngman.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; <HI>The lavve of the Per&s;ians concerning gifts and</HI> pre&s;ents to be brought to the Kings Maie&s;tie.</HEAD>
<P>_THe <HI>Per&s;ians</HI> haue a Lawe whiche among the re&s;t, beeing in number many, is mo&s;te dilly|gently and dutifully ob&s;erued. When the King goeth in Progre&s;&s;e to <HI>Per&s;ia,</HI> the people generally one with an other, offer pre&s;entes and gifts to his maie&s;tie, according to their a|bilitie, Hu&s;bandmen, labourers, farmers and Artificers, euery man proportionally.</P>
<P>The gifts which they offered vnto the king, as they weare not to ba&s;e, homely and vile: &s;o were they not to precious, co&s;tly and &s;umptuous. The ordinary gifts, were Oxen, &s;h&eacute;ep, Corne, wine and &s;uch like: The&s;e gifts are pre&s;ented vnto him as he pa&s;&s;eth in Progre&s;&s;e, and they be called Oblations, by which name he receiueth them at the giuers hand. The poorer people offer vnto him, Milke, Dates, Chee&s;e, the fir&s;t|lings of their frutes, and &s;uch like Iunkets.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; Of VVater pre&s;ented to the King of Per&s;ia <HI>for a gift</HI></HEAD>
<PB N="9" REF="17">
<P>_THis Hi&s;torye &s;auoureth of <HI>Per&s;ia,</HI> it is &s;aide that a certaine Per&s;ian named <HI>Sinetas,</HI> being far from his poore cottage, or dwelling hou&s;e, and m&eacute;eting <HI>Artaxerxes,</HI> who was &s;urnamed <HI>Micamon,</HI> vpon a &s;udde~, was not a litle vex|ed and troubled in mi~de, with the feare of the <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> lawe, and greatly a&s;hamed of him &s;elf, to beholde the King with empty handes. This <HI>Sinaetas</HI> beeing at that time ignorant what he might doo, and &s;&eacute;eing other go beyond him in duty and &s;eruice, was inwardly gr&eacute;eued, yet did he what he might not to de&s;erue in any ca&s;e y^e reprochfull reporte of &s;uch a one as had nothing to offer to his King. In this con&s;traint, what dooth he? he runneth with po&s;ting &s;p&eacute;ed, as fa&s;t as a foot|man might, to the next flood or riuer, which was called <HI>Cyrus,</HI> and &s;touping down, he tooke vp water in the holowe palme of his hand, and &s;pake after this manner to the kinges high|nes. O King <HI>Artaxerxes</HI> (&s;aith he) the Gods &s;aue your grace and graunt th&eacute;e a pro&s;perous and a perpetuall reigne ouer vs, your maie&s;ties &s;ubiects. I honour th&eacute;e as the occa&s;ion of this time and place dooth permit, and as the mea&s;ure of my welth and abilitie wil giue me leaue: To the intent, that thou &s;houl|de&s;t not pa&s;&s;e by, without &s;ome gift or other at my hands, lo as dutie required, &amp; as mine e&s;tate affoordeth, I woor&s;hip th&eacute;e with the water of <HI>Cyrus:</HI> but when your grace cometh to your lodging, I wil y&eacute;eld you &s;uch honor, as my &s;imple hou&s;e, my &s;mall &s;ub&s;taunce and weake welth may with all humilitie, and I wil offer vnto your highnes the ch&eacute;efe&s;t and the co&s;tlie&s;t things that I haue, &amp; peraduenture I wil be equal with them whiche honor your maie&s;tie with glorious gifts at this pre&s;e~t.</P>
<P><HI>Artaxerxes</HI> b&eacute;eing delighted therwith, made this an&s;were. Good fellow we receiue thy gift with great liking, and we ac|count it in the number of the very be&s;t, &amp; the worthye&s;t, for &s;o we take them in value and e&s;timation. Fir&s;t becau&s;e water of all things is mo&s;t excellent: Secondly becau&s;e it beareth the name of <HI>Cyrus.</HI> It is my ple&s;aure therfore y^t thou repair to our camp: The&s;e woords vttered, he gaue commaundement to his Chamberlains, to take the gift of the man, who ran &s;p&eacute;edyly towards him, and receiued the water running out of his hol|low ha~ds &amp; dropping of his fingers ends, into a goblet of golde.</P>
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<P>When the King came to his lodging, he &s;ent to the plaine contry man for a rewarde, a Per&s;ian Robe, a golden Cuppe, and a thou&s;and p&eacute;eces of Per&s;ian coine, commau~ding the bea|rer of tho&s;e riche giftes, to &s;ay this me&s;&s;age to the fellow, It is the Kinges will &amp; ple&s;ure that thou delight thy hart with this glittering golde, becau&s;e thou (when time &s;erued) did&s;t fill his minde with ioifulnes, not &s;ufferi~g his highnes to pa&s;&s;e by th&eacute;e vnpre&s;ented with a gift, but as nece&s;&s;itie gaue th&eacute;e leaue and libertie, &s;o did&s;t wor&s;hip &amp; honor him, with all &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion and lowlines. It is his plea&s;ure al&s;o that thou take water out of the riuer <HI>Cirus,</HI> and drinck it out of this golden goblet.</P>
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<HEAD>&leaf; Of a Pomegranate giuen to the &s;ame King.</HEAD>
<P>_TO <HI>Artaxerxes</HI> riding through <HI>Per&s;is,</HI> a man named <HI>Mi&s;es</HI> offered a great pomegranat in a fan or a &s;iue. The king wundring at the big+nes and largenes therof, a&s;ked him &s;aing, fre~d out of what garden cometh this pomegranate which thou ha&s;t brought m&eacute;e? The man aun|&s;wered, from mine owne how&s;e (O King) and out of mine owne garden, <HI>Artaxerxes</HI> reioy&s;ing thereat, inriched him with princely pre&s;ents &amp; glorious gifts, vttering the&s;e woords, By the &s;un that &s;hineth, this man in my iudgement, of a litle Citie can make a great, by his attendance and diligence.</P>
<P>This &s;aing of the King &s;ignifieth vnto vs that all thi~gs by carefulnes, continuall trauel and long la&s;ting labour, may be|come better and wax much more excellent, notwith&s;tanding the cour&s;e of their nature be contrary.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of a Father &s;itting in Iudgement vpon his ovvne Sonne, <HI>and &s;uing him to death.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_A Certain man of <HI>Mardus</HI> &s;tock named <HI>Rhaechones,</HI> had &s;euen Children, among whome the younge&s;t who was called <HI>Cartanes,</HI> did much mi&s;ch&eacute;ef to Ma|gicians, and was a &s;worne aduer&s;ary to wi&s;e men.
<PB N="10" REF="18"> His father therfore fir&s;t of all &s;pared no paines to in&s;truct and teach him, and &s;ought with councel and admonitions to win him into the way. But he lightly regarding or rather contem+ning his Fathers warnings and corrections, continued in his knauery. It fortuned on a time, that the Iudges there about came thither, among whome this youngmans father had his appointed &s;eat: Who took his &s;onne, bound his hands at his back, like a th&eacute;ef or a malefactor, brought him to the Se&s;&s;ion hou&s;e, in the pre&s;ence of Iudgement accu&s;ed him of d&eacute;eds of|fen&s;iuely committed through boldenes and &s;tubbornnes, and be&s;&eacute;eched the Iudges, not only to condemne him as a tre&s;pa|&s;&s;er, but to &s;ou~d out the &s;e~tence definitiue of death again&s;t him not vnde&s;eruedly. But they b&eacute;eing ama&s;ed in minde, &amp; much mole&s;ted with &s;tackering cogitations, would not vppon the fathers reque&s;t, giue iudgeme~t again&s;t the &s;onne, but brought them bothe before King <HI>Artaxerxes</HI> of <HI>Per&s;ia. Mardus</HI> or <HI>Rhaecones</HI> (which you wil) laboured again&s;t his Sonne with tooth and nail, as de&s;irous of his death, whome the king tooke vp in this &s;orte. Can&s;t thou, &s;aith he, for pitties &s;ake, &s;tand &s;taring vpon thy Sonne whiles he &s;uffreth death before thy face? Who aun&s;wered. Yea for&s;ooth, O King, and why not? For when I pluck or cut of the bitter &s;lip&abis; of Lettuce whiche growe in my Garden, the mother Herb fro~ whence the re&s;t did &s;pring, is &s;o far from &s;u&s;taining hurt or harme (that to con+fe&s;&s;e the trueth in good faith) it flouri&s;heth the more merrely, and increa&s;eth, not only in greatnes but al&s;o in &s;w&eacute;etnes. In like maner (O King) when I &s;hall &s;&eacute;e him, which endamageth my whole hou&s;holde, and bringeth the liues of his brethern in ha&s;&s;ard, and their good e&s;tate in daunger: When (I &s;ay) I &s;hall &s;&eacute;e him loo&s;e his life, and by that meanes preuented of all wrongs which he purpo&s;ed to woork again&s;t his brethern, my wor&s;hip &s;hall purcha&s;e the higher aduauncement, and I &s;hall beholde the remnaunt of my race and alliaunce inioying pro&s;|perous Fortune and luckye happynes.</P>
<P>Which woords when <HI>Artaxerxes</HI> hard, he commended the wi&s;dome of <HI>Rhaecones,</HI> and made him of the number of the Kings Iudges, vttering this &s;p&eacute;ech to the people that were pre&s;ent. He which is &s;o hard harted and pittile&s;&s;e in pronoun|cing
<PB REF="19"> &s;entence with &s;uch &s;eueritie, &s;harpnes, &amp; Iu&s;tice again&s;t his owne Sonne, he wil vndoutedly, &s;hew him &s;elf a Iudge vpright and vn&s;potted, in taking vengeaunce of other mennes offences.</P>
<P>At length the King pardoned the youngman, and cl&eacute;er|ly di&s;charged him of that pre&s;e~t tre&s;pa&s;&s;e, threatning vnto him an horrible and hedyous death, if he (after the&s;e faults forgiuen) &s;hould be found an offender in the lyke.</P>
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<TRAILER>The end of the fir&s;t Booke.</TRAILER>
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<HEAD>The &s;econd Booke of AElianus his variable <HI>HISTORY.</HI></HEAD>
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<HEAD>&leaf; <HI>Hovv Socrates incouraged Alcibiades that he should</HI> not fear the people more then needed.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WE will now make rehear|&s;all</HI> of <HI>Socrates</HI> woords to <HI>Alcibi|ades,</HI> who b&eacute;eing but a youngman, co~ceiued &s;o great fear in his mi~de, that he dur&s;t not go abrode into the a&s;&s;embly of the people. <HI>Socrates</HI> willing to arme him w^t bolde cou|rage and hardines, &s;aith thus vnto him: Doo&s;t thou not &s;et light by that &s;loue~ly &s;owter? (calling him by his name.) Wherunto <HI>Alcibiades</HI> grau~ted. The~ <HI>Socrates</HI> did proc&eacute;ed in talke, &s;ayi~g again: And doo&s;t thou not &s;et nought by that co~mon cryer at open playes and games, and by that &s;ame grea&s;y Currier? <HI>Alcibiades</HI> made no denyall. Then did <HI>Socra+tes</HI> infer the conclu&s;ion. And dooth, &s;aith he, the peoples a&s;&s;em|blyes con&s;i&s;t of any other the~ of &s;uch as I haue recou~ted? Wher+fore if thou de&s;pi&s;e&s;t euery particuler per&s;on &s;euerally one by one, there is no cau&s;e why thou &s;houlde&s;t fear them whe~ they be gathered togither in a hed in one place.</P>
<P>The&s;e things did the &s;onne of <HI>Sophroni&s;cus</HI> &amp; <HI>Phenerata,</HI> teach the &s;onne of <HI>Clinias</HI> and <HI>Dinomache.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>&leaf; Of Pictures rashly and vnaduy&s;edly <HI>commended.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THen <HI>Megabyzus</HI> vpon a time highly pray&s;ed pictures whiche were botcherly and vncun|ningly painted, and contrary wi&s;e d&eacute;eply di&s;|commended &s;uch as were worthely &amp; woork|ma~ly wrought <HI>Zeuxis</HI> &s;erua~ts (as they were grinding yellow oker) mocked &amp; &s;corned him.
<PB REF="20"> And <HI>Zeuxis</HI> him &s;elf bearing &s;tomack again&s;t him, &s;aid thus, when thou holde&s;t thy peace, <HI>Megabyzus,</HI> I cannot &s;ufficient|ly thinck in hart what great hope the&s;e fellowes haue of th&eacute;e, for they looke no further then vppon thy outwarde gorgious garments and gari&s;h gui&s;e of gooing. But when thy toung bewrayeth thy crooked opinion, and thy want of wit in giuing iudgement vppon any Artificiall and cunning wrought pi|cture: They make a &s;corne and a laughing &s;tock of th&eacute;e. Be circum&s;pect therfore and &s;paring of &s;p&eacute;ech to prai&s;e: Or rather he altogither toung tied: Neither commend thou the woork|man&s;hippe of any man, wherwith to meddle thou ha&s;t little thanks, becau&s;e it belonged not vnto th&eacute;e &s;o to doo.</P>
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<HEAD>&leaf; Of Alexander hovv he did not prai&s;e <HI>a Picture as it de&s;erued,</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_ALexander</HI> beholding his owne Picture at <HI>E|phe&s;us</HI> which <HI>Apelles</HI> made, did not commend it according as the worthyne&s;&s;e of the woork|man&s;hip required. But when a lyuing Hor&s;e was brought before hi~, which we hed at a Hor&s;e painted in coulours, as though it had b&eacute;en a ly|uing Hor&s;e, of fle&s;h, blood, and bone, and not repre&s;ented.</P>
<P>O King, &s;ayeth <HI>Apelles,</HI> this Hor&s;e b&eacute;eing void of rea&s;on &s;&eacute;emeth vnto me, to haue a better and a quicker Iudgement, then you in di&s;cerning pictures.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; <HI>Of the loue and freendship of Chariton and Melanippus</HI> and of Phalaris the tirants compa&s;&s;ion tovvards them conceiued.</HEAD>
<P>_I Wil rehear&s;e vnto you the d&eacute;ed of <HI>Phalaris</HI> clene contrary to his conditions, and re|pugnaunt to his manners, for it &s;melleth of gentlenes, &amp; it is leuened with lenitie and clemencye, and therefore it app&eacute;ereth not agreeable to his nature.</P>
<P>There was a certain man called <HI>Chari|ton</HI>
<PB N="12" REF="20"> of <HI>Agrigentine,</HI> a louer of beautie and comlines, &amp; &s;uche a one as was very bu&s;ye (but to his il luck) about fair and wel fauoured &s;pringalls. This man made much of one <HI>Melanip|pus,</HI> who was an <HI>Agrigentine</HI> al&s;o, a han&s;ome youth, of good and hone&s;t nature, and commendable comlynes therwithall.</P>
<P>To this <HI>Melanippus</HI> had <HI>Phalaris</HI> doon iniury in a certain ca&s;e. For when he and one of <HI>Phalaris</HI> fr&eacute;ends were at con|trouer&s;y in iudgement: The Tirant commaunded and char|ged him to giue ouer his &s;ute, who not obeying the voice of <HI>Phalaris,</HI> was threatned to dye a &s;hameful death, if he did not &s;hew him &s;elf conformable to the King, his liege Lords com|maundement. But he in iudgement ouerthrew the other, which would n&eacute;eds haue tyed him to nece&s;&s;itie. The Prin|ces of <HI>Phalaris</HI> b&eacute;eing iolly Courtiers, procured that the &s;en|tence of Iudgement &s;hould ve void and of none effect. At the which <HI>Melanippus</HI> was not a little di&s;plea&s;ed &amp; galled with inwarde grudge, in &s;omuch y^t he &s;pake plainly (as he thought &s;ecretly) &s;aying, that he had open wro~g wrought again&s;t him.</P>
<P>The youngman b&eacute;eing thus griped with greef, and rac|ked w^t rage, bewrayed the motions of his minde to his fr&eacute;end, rehear&s;ing the &s;um of all the matter, and de&s;iring him that he might haue his a&s;&s;i&s;tance to lye in wait for the Tirant, &s;ome|what therby to woork his &s;p&eacute;edy di&s;patch. Moreouer he was purpo&s;ed, to get other youthful Impes to be his coadiutors, fel|lowhelpers, &amp; parteners in that perillous co~&s;piracy &amp; dange|rous enterpri&s;e, and &s;uche as he him &s;elf &s;uppo&s;ed to be fit in|&s;truments to &s;erue his turn.</P>
<P><HI>Chariton</HI> perceiuing <HI>Melanippus</HI> madnes, and outrage, and &s;&eacute;eing him (as it were) frying &amp; broyling in the Fornace of fury, and b&eacute;eing al&s;o well a&s;&s;ured that no Citizen, for feare and terror of the Tirant, dur&s;t giue his con&s;ent to further &s;uch a rebellious intent, &s;aid, that he likewi&s;e of late time did not only deui&s;e in minde, but al&s;o be&s;towed his endeuour and di|ligence to the vttermo&s;te of his abilitie, how he might bani&s;h bondage out of the borders and bonds of his Countrey, and bewtifie the &s;ame with flouri&s;hing fr&eacute;edom and libertie. But as &s;ome d&eacute;eds be not aduentured without daunger, &s;o are they mo&s;te hainous to be commited. Wherfore he be&s;ought him to
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<PB REF="22"> giue him leaue and lea&s;ure to con&s;ider more narowly of this matter, and that he would watch a time conuenient to accom|pli&s;h his purpo&s;e. The yungman did y&eacute;eld to his adui&s;e, wher|fore <HI>Chariton</HI> pondering and peru&s;ing in his minde, all the co~ueyaunce of his indeuour would in no ca&s;e take <HI>Melanip|pus</HI> (who~e he intirely loued) to be partaker of &s;uch a tre&s;pa&s;&s;e, to the intent that he only b&eacute;eing apprehended in committing &s;o villanous a fact, might declare by manife&s;t euidences, that he was the offender, and that he alone was to &s;u&s;tain puni&s;h|ment, and not his d&eacute;er fr&eacute;end and louer, whome he would in no wi&s;e wi&s;h acce&s;&s;ary to the d&eacute;ed.</P>
<P>Taking his arming &s;woord therfore in his hardy hands, he prepared him&s;elf forward on his way to the Tirant, but b&eacute;e|ing vnable to di&s;patch his attempt clo&s;ely (for there were &s;un|dry impo&s;&s;ibilities in the matter) he was intercepted of the Garde, who in &s;uch perilous practi&s;es watch and warde mo&s;t preci&s;ely and carefully. After which &s;uddain apprehen&s;ion, he was impri&s;oned, examined, tormented and &s;harply execu|ted to appeach the re&s;idue that were confederate with him in this con&s;piracy, which cruel &s;marts and pinching puni&s;hme~t&abis; he neuerthele&s;&s;e mo&s;te valiantly &s;uffred, and couragiou&s;ly in+dured.</P>
<P>After long continuance of <HI>Charitons</HI> impri&s;onment and ca|lamitie, <HI>Melanippus</HI> came to <HI>Phalaris,</HI> entring and pre&s;en|ting a priuate accu&s;ation again&s;t his owne per&s;o~, aduouching that he was not only an acce&s;&s;ary to this councell, an a&s;&s;i&s;tant in this rebellion, and the ringleader in this in&s;urrection, but al&s;o the capitall procurer and onely author of the &s;ame: And that <HI>Chariton</HI> was vngiltie, blamele&s;&s;e and inculpable, and therfore harmele&s;&s;e and vnpuni&s;hed: This was the &s;umme of his confe&s;&s;ion. The king demaunded of him what occa&s;ion mooued him to doo as he did. He rehear&s;ed the totall di&s;cour&s;e, in &s;uch forme and order as we haue made mention before, a|ffirming, that bothe the aboli&s;hing of Iudgement and other &s;emblable circum&s;tances in law, &s;&eacute;emed vnto him trouble|&s;ome and intollerable.</P>
<P>The Tirant meruailing h&eacute;erat, &s;et bothe <HI>Chariton</HI> and <HI>Melanippus</HI> at libertie, pardoned their offences, and grau~ted
<PB N="13" REF="22"> them a di&s;charge, how beit vppon condition, That on the &s;elf &s;ame day of their relea&s;ement, they &s;hould departe, not onely out of the Citie <HI>Agrigentine,</HI> but al&s;o out of all the borders and limits of the land <HI>Sicilia,</HI> giuing and graunting neuerthe|le&s;&s;e, vnto them &amp; to either of them, of his &s;peciall fauoure, that they &s;hould reape the due commodities, reuenues, and ad+uantages, which did y&eacute;erely ari&s;e by their po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, heredi|taments, lands, tenements, and what &s;oeuer be&s;ide to them appertaining.</P>
<P>In proce&s;&s;e of time it fortuned, that the fame of this fr&eacute;end|&s;hip b&eacute;eing faithful and vnfained, was highly aduaunced of <HI>Apollo,</HI> in two &s;ententious ver&s;es in this wi&s;e.</P>
<Q><L>Of heuenly loue to mortal men approued captaines vveare</L>
<L>Bothe happy Chariton and Melanippus void of feare.</L></Q>
<P>The Oracle calling the amitie and loue of the&s;e twaine, Heauenly, diuine, and cele&s;tiall.</P>
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<HEAD>Of be&s;tovving time, and hovv vvalking vp and dovvne <HI>was not allowable among the Lacedemonians.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THe <HI>Lacedaemonia~s</HI> were of this iudgement, that mea&s;urable &s;pending of time, was great+ly to be e&s;t&eacute;emed, and therefore did they con|forme and apply them &s;elues to any kinde of laboure mo&s;te earne&s;tly and painfully, not with drawing their hands from woorks of much bodyly moouing, nor parmitting any perticuler per&s;on, b&eacute;eing a Citizen, to &s;pend the time in Idlenes, to wa&s;te it in vnthrifty gaming, to con&s;ume it in trifling, in vain toyes, and leud loytering, all whiche are at variance and enimity with vertue. Of this matter, among many te&s;timonyes, take this for one.</P>
<P>When it was reported to the Magi&s;trates of the <HI>Lace|daemonians</HI> called <HI>Ephori,</HI> in manner of complaint, that the inhabitants of <HI>Deceleia</HI> v&s;ed after noone walkings, they &s;ent vnto them Me&s;&s;engerrs with their commaundement &s;aying.
<PB REF="23"> Go not vp and downe like loyterers, nor walke not abrode at your plea&s;ure, pampering the wantones of your natures, ra|ther then acu&s;toming your &s;elf to excercices of actiuity. For it beco~meth the <HI>Lacedemonians,</HI> to regarde their helth, and to maintaine their &s;afety, not with walking to and fro, but with bodily labours,</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; A pre&s;ident teaching vs that vve mu&s;t not <HI>plea&s;e a multitude.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_HIppomachus</HI> (as Fame flieth) a mai&s;ter of wre&s;tling, when one of his &s;cholers did exhibit and &s;howe a ca&s;t of his cunning in &s;uche &s;orte that all the people gathered in a great a&s;&s;em|bly to &s;&eacute;e him, gaue a &s;howt in his commenda|tio~, <HI>Hippomachus</HI> his Ma&s;ter &s;mot him with a wand, &s;aying thus. Thou ha&s;t plaid thy parte ra&s;hely, vnad|ui&s;edly, &amp; not as it became th&eacute;e, in that point principally, whi|che &s;hould haue been doon more curiou&s;ly and more plau&s;ibly: For if thou had&s;t handled the matter, like an expert fellowe ind&eacute;ed, this multitude would not haue prai&s;ed th&eacute;e one whit: Meaning that &s;uch as ob&s;erue in all things, order, comlynes, and vniformitie, plea&s;e not the vn&s;kilfull people, but delight &s;uch only as haue knowledge &amp; experience in the thing wher|of they make a &s;howe.</P>
<P><HI>Socrates</HI> therfore dooth excellent wel in refu&s;ing y^e blinde opinion of the people, making no account thereof in his com|munication had with <HI>Crito,</HI> at his comming to him when he was in pri&s;on, which <HI>Crito,</HI> mini&s;tred this councel to <HI>Socra|tes,</HI> namely to &s;&eacute;eke meanes of e&s;caping, and to corrupt the iudgement of the <HI>Atheniens</HI> bent again&s;t him.</P>
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<HEAD>&leaf; That the people of Thebes put not avvay their infants <HI>to de&s;perate aduentures.</HI></HEAD>
<PB N="14" REF="23">
<P>_THis law of the <HI>Thebans</HI> as it was tempered with wi&s;dome, &s;o was it poudred with com|pa&s;&s;ion. For they made a Statute and a law, that no Inhahitant of <HI>Thebes</HI> &s;hould for&s;ake the frute of his owne Loynes, namely their d&eacute;er Children in their infancy, nor cary them into wildernes, there to leaue them at &s;ix and &s;euen, to &s;inck and &s;wimme, to liue or dye, to lot and luck: The penaltie of which law was pre&s;ent death. Prouided alwaies by authori|tie, that if the father were in n&eacute;ed, penury, want, and begger|lines, he was con&s;trained by vertue of the &s;tatute in that ca&s;e appointed, to bring their Infants, whether it were male or fe|male, in their &s;wathling cloutes, vnto the Magi&s;trates. Who receiuing the Babe, deliuered the &s;ame to one or other to k&eacute;ep at re&s;onable charges (they to whome the Childe was commit|ted) religiou&s;ly &s;wearing by their faith and hone&s;tie, that they wil nuri&s;h, f&eacute;ed, &s;uccoure &amp; rel&eacute;eue the childe, during the terme of his or her infancy. And when they a&s;pire and come to ripe|nes ef y&eacute;eres, make them their hou&s;hold &s;eruants, to recom|pence with dutiful dilligence, tru&s;ty &s;eruice, and vprightnes, the expences of their nur&s;ing and bringing vppe, when they were vnder age of ablenes.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; Of Xenocles and Euripides contending for <HI>preeminency in Olympia.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_IN the fir&s;t and the &s;ixt <HI>Olympiad,</HI> wherin <HI>Ex+anetus Agrigentinus</HI> got the gole, <HI>Xenocles</HI> and <HI>Euripides</HI> did &s;triue for &s;uperioritie and excellency. In whiche contention <HI>Xenocles</HI> plaid his pagiant fir&s;t (what &s;oeuer he was) by his <HI>Oedipus,</HI> his <HI>Lycaon,</HI> his <HI>Bacchae,</HI> and his <HI>Athamas Satyricall.</HI> After him <HI>Euripides</HI> in the &s;econde place, by his <HI>Alexander,</HI> his <HI>Palamedes,</HI> his <HI>Troians,</HI> and his <HI>Si&s;yphus Satyricall.</HI> It is a toy therfore that the one was not ouercome, nor the other &s;et vp with the mai&s;teryes. Where|fore this mu&s;t n&eacute;eds follow that the cau&s;e h&eacute;ereof remained in
<PB REF="24"> one of the&s;e two rea&s;ons, namely that the principall and ch&eacute;e|fe&s;t in giuing of voyces, like blinde Beetels, either, perceiuing nothing therby, bewrayed their owne ignoraunce, reuolting from &s;oundnes in iudgement, or els were corrupted with mo+ney which peruerteth Iu&s;tice and ouer throweth right. Bothe which blemi&s;hes and &s;taining &s;pots, aee reprochful and igno|mious to the <HI>Atheniens.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>&leaf; The ordinaunces of the Atheniens for Rebelles and <HI>reuolters from true allegiaunce.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_O Good and gratious gods, what &s;tatutes, what lawes, and ordinau~ces, made the <HI>Atheniens,</HI> yea in the popular Regiment, that is, when the mon&s;ter with many heds, namely the peo+ple, bare &s;winge and &s;way? They cut of the thumbes from the right hands of euery <HI>Aege+nite,</HI> to the intent they &s;hould not be able to holde their Spea|res, &s;woords, and warlike wepons, but to handle their Oares in rowing at libertie without hinderaunce. They murthered the youth of the <HI>Mitylenen&s;es,</HI> and that was determined by <HI>Cleon</HI> the Sonne of <HI>Claenaetus</HI> pronouncing it: As for the cap|tiues of the <HI>Samies,</HI> they cau&s;ed them to to be marked in the vi&s;ages with a hot Iron, the forme wherof re&s;embled the I|mage of an Owle, which decr&eacute;e was made in like maner by the <HI>Atheniens.</HI> But <HI>Pallas, Minerua, Iupiter, Eleutherius,</HI> &amp; all the glorious Gods of the <HI>Graecians,</HI> vtterly forbid, that it &s;hould be reported by me, that the <HI>Atheniens</HI> were the Au|thors of the&s;e Acts and Statutes: or that they gaue their a|&s;&s;ent and agr&eacute;ement vnto the &s;ame.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; Hovv Timotheus, after he had heard the di&s;putation of <HI>Plato, thought him &s;elf &s;car&s;e happy and fortunate.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_TImothy,</HI> the Sonne of <HI>Conon,</HI> Captain of the the <HI>Atheniens,</HI> when he was in the blo&s;&s;om of his brauery, the flower of his felicitie, and the Pearle of his pro&s;peritie, when he had &s;ubdued, conquered
<PB N="15" REF="24"> and taken famous Cities with little laboure, in &s;o much, that the people of <HI>Athe~s,</HI> could not deui&s;e what honour and renown to exhibite vnto him, for his pui&s;aunce, worthynes, and vali|ancy.</P>
<P>This <HI>Timothy</HI> chaunced to m&eacute;et <HI>Plato,</HI> walking with|out the walles in the Suburbs, accompanied with certaine of his Scholers, and diuer&s;e of his acquaintaunce, whome <HI>Ti|mothy</HI> beholding and &s;&eacute;eing to be a man in body gro&s;e, heuy and corpulent, but in countenaunce milde, m&eacute;ek, gentle, and fauourable, rea&s;oning of ponderous and waightie maters, not of di&s;bur&s;ing money, not of Galleyes driuen with thr&eacute;e orders of Ores, not of &s;ayling, or affaires pertaining to the Sea, not of &s;upplying wants where n&eacute;ed is, not of aide and &s;uccoure to be mini&s;tred, not of tribute to be dema~ded of league fellowes, not of I&s;eland borderers, and inhabithants, finally of no &s;uche trifles or toyes: but of &s;uch cele&s;tiall &s;ciences, as he him &s;elfe profe&s;&s;ed, taught, practi&s;ed, and publi&s;hed, wherin he accu&s;to|mably &s;pent all his &s;tudy, in&s;omuch that the &s;onne of <HI>Conon</HI> bur&s;t foorth into the&s;e woords. Oh ble&s;&s;ed life, ind&eacute;ed, oh mo&s;te happy condition. Wherby it is manife&s;tly gathered, that <HI>Ti|mothy</HI> did not therfore iudge him &s;elf fortunate and lucky, be|cau&s;e he was &s;o honorable in the &s;ight of the people.</P>
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<HEAD>VVhat Socrates &s;pake of them vvhich vvere &s;lain <HI>of the xxx. Tyrants.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_SOcrates</HI> &s;&eacute;eing many men, of no &s;lender repu|tation or meane countenaunce, in the time of the thirty Tirants dominion, rule, and go|uernment, to be murthered: and euery riche and welthy man, by crafty and fraudulent practi&s;es, to be puni&s;hed, &s;aid thus (as the ru|mor runneth) to <HI>Anti&s;thenes.</HI> Dooth it repent th&eacute;e that we in all the cour&s;e of our life, haue not obtained any great and notable thing? As we &s;ee Emperours en&s;igned with the Dia|dem royall, in Tragicall Treati&s;es repre&s;ented?</P>
<PB REF="25">
<P>As tho&s;e &s;ame <HI>Atreos,</HI> tho&s;e <HI>Thie&s;tes,</HI> tho&s;e <HI>Agame~nons,</HI> and <HI>Aegi&s;thos:</HI> of whiche &s;ome are recounted mi&s;erably to haue been murtherd, other &s;ome reported to haue banquited and fe|&s;ted with loth&s;ome &s;eruices, vn&s;eemely me&s;&s;es of meat at their tables: But there was neuer any Poet &s;o bol&s;tred with bold|nes and &s;olde to &s;hamele&s;nes, to bring vpon a &s;tage in a play, a Pigge or Hogge killed.</P>
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<HEAD>&leaf; Of Themistocles renouncing and for&s;aking <HI>Prodigalitie.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THis d&eacute;ed of <HI>Themi&s;tocles</HI> the Sonne of <HI>Ne|ocles,</HI> whether it merit commendation or no, I wot not wel, after his father had for&s;a|ken him, he recouered the remembrance of him &s;elfe, renowncing inordinate &s;pend|ding, wilful wantonnes, and &s;uch like con|tagious and infectiue qualities, returning into the right way, for&s;wearing by pathes of in&s;olency, and ab&s;tayning from the filthy and polluted company of Harlots. And b&eacute;eing inflamed with another kinde of affection contra|ry and oppo&s;ite to the former, he did what he coulde, with the vttermo&s;te of his indeuoure, to beare authoritie in the commo~ welth of <HI>Athens,</HI> to excel and &s;urmount others, and to be prin|cipall and &s;uperminent in gouernaunce. Wherfore he &s;aid to his fr&eacute;ends and acquaintaunce, what wil you be&s;towe on me, whome no man, woman, nor Childe hath hated to this day? As for &s;uch who&s;e delectation is grafted vpon the &s;tock of enuy, runneth hedlong to that <HI>T&oacute; periulapte&s;thai</HI> of <HI>Euripi|des,</HI> and y^t is extreme fooli&s;hnes, <HI>Euripides</HI> him &s;elf approuing it.</P>
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<HEAD>&leaf; Of Socrates beeing openly rebuked of Aristophanes <HI>in a Comedy.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_ANytus</HI> &s;ought occa&s;ion and wayes of quarrelling with <HI>Sotrates</HI> for the&s;e rea&s;ons which we haue re|hear&s;ed, fearing, neuerthele&s;&s;e, &amp; &s;u&s;pecting the incli+nation
<PB N="16" REF="25"> of the <HI>Atheniens</HI> wil, how they would take the accu|&s;ation of the man. For the name of <HI>Socrates,</HI> as it was notable &s;o was it famou&s;e and the reporte of him was in a maner v|niuer&s;all. For many and &s;undry thing&abis;, and e&s;pecially, for that he ca&s;t out inuectiue &s;p&eacute;eches, bitter taunts, and &s;harp woords again&s;t iangling Sophi&s;ters, in whome was no &s;ound or &s;ub|&s;tantiall ground of knowledge, but m&eacute;er &s;hadowes and appa|raunces of lerning, teaching nothing that was profitable and commodious. He took his beginning therfore from them, and put in proof, how they would take the accu&s;ation of <HI>Socrates,</HI> for they &s;uppo&s;ed that it was no auailable way for them blunt+ly to burthen him with the blame of an offender, partely for the cau&s;es which we haue recited, and partely le&s;t the fr&eacute;ends and companions of <HI>Socrates</HI> conceiuing an inward grudge a|gain&s;t the accu&s;er, &s;hould di&s;&s;wade and withdraw the mindes of the Iudges, to determine on their &s;ide, whervpon &s;ome mi&s;|ch&eacute;ef &s;hould fall vpon him fal&s;ely and fraudulently accu&s;ing in+nocent <HI>Socrates,</HI> who procured no harme, hurt nor ha&s;&s;ard to the common welth, but contrary wi&s;e was to the <HI>Athaniens,</HI> an ornament and Iuel of high honor. What dooth the aduer|&s;ary in this ca&s;e? he hireth <HI>Ari&s;tophanes</HI> the Comicall Po|et, a trifling fellow, a merchant of vain meryments, &amp; a com|mon Ie&s;ter (for &s;o to be counted and named he did what hee could) and winning him to his will, that in a certain Comedy he would rebuke, check, taunt and nip <HI>Socrates,</HI> and charge him in an a&s;&s;embly, and conuent with all the euill that was bla&s;ed abrode of him among the people, allbeit peraduenture de&s;pightfully and vnde&s;eruedly. To reporte of him that he was a brabler, that he &s;hould &s;ay moreouer, that he was able by the eloquence of his language, and the finenes of his phra&s;e to make cau&s;es clene contrary and repugnaunt to trueth and rea&s;on, to cary a copy or countenaunce of credit, ill matters good, wrong right, iniu&s;tce equitie, and &s;o foorth, Furthermore that he introduced and brought in new and &s;traunge God&abis;, he him&s;elf, in the meane &s;ea&s;on b&eacute;eing an <HI>Athei&s;t,</HI> void of deuo|tion, Religion, and reuerence. And that he in&s;tilled this peril|lous opinion in to the mindes of &s;uch as imbraced his doctrine.</P>
<P><HI>Ari&s;tophanes</HI> taking to him&s;elf a foundation &s;ub&s;tantiall,
<PB REF="26"> an argument pithy, popular and plau&s;ible, tempred his toyes with the leuen of laughter, and perfumed his playes with the plea&s;ant poma~der of his po&s;ies, choo&s;ing for his theme, the be&s;t ma~ and the mo&s;t excellent, (without exception) among all the <HI>Grecians,</HI> for he did not backbite, &s;claunder, and defame the <HI>Lacedemonians, Cleon</HI> was not repre&s;ented in his pageant&abis; and &s;pectacles, he barked not at the <HI>Thebans, Pericles</HI> was not a bone to gnaw vppon with his t&eacute;eth, But &s;uch a man he mi&s;u&s;ed, &s;uch a man he reueiled and vnreuerently rated, as the gods them &s;elues (and principally <HI>Apollo</HI>) mo&s;te d&eacute;erly loo+ued and preciou&s;ly e&s;t&eacute;emed.</P>
<P>Wherfore at the &s;tra~genes of the thing, at the vnaccu&s;tomed &s;pectacle &amp; ga&s;ing &s;tock, abu&s;iuely brought in vpon open &s;tage, to the vtter di&s;crediting, and defamation of <HI>Socrates,</HI> the <HI>Athe+niens</HI> were a&s;toni&s;hed, and &s;o much the rather were they rapt in admiration, as they perceiued that publiquely plaied which they le&s;te &s;u&s;pected, looking, ind&eacute;ed, for no &s;uch thi~g as was vn+dece~tly doon. Afterwad&abis; the people (becau&s;e naturally they were prone to enuy, and &s;wift to &s;clander the be&s;t men that <HI>Graecia</HI> bred among them, not only &s;uch as in the gouernment of the common welth and in place and office of authoritie ma|ny degr&eacute;es excelled the re&s;t, but &s;uch al&s;o as in learning, know+ledge, &s;obernes, grauitie, and mode&s;tie of life and maners, glit+tered like Lampes through out the the whole land) were wun+derfully delighted with that Comedy of <HI>Ari&s;tophanes,</HI> inti|tuled <HI>Nebulae,</HI> that is to &s;ay, Clowdes.</P>
<P>Oh how plea&s;ant a &s;pectacle it &s;&eacute;emed to the multitude, who &s;o exce&s;&s;iuely reioyced at him which repre&s;ented the per&s;on of <HI>Socrates,</HI> as they did neuer the like at any before, giuing and graunting vnto him, with one voice, the victory, and co~maun|ding the Iudges, that the name of <HI>Ari&s;tophanes,</HI> and none be|&s;ide, &s;hould be magnified with the highe&s;t and the &s;tatelye&s;t in&s;cription. The Enterlude was conueyed in this order. <HI>So|crates</HI> came &s;eldome in &s;ight vpon the &s;tage, except when <HI>Eu|ripides</HI> the Tragicall Poet contended with his new Trage|dyes, then v&s;ed he to enter into place vpon the &s;caffolde. And then, Lo, was he pre&s;ent al&s;o when <HI>Euripides</HI> was at conten|tion with <HI>Pyreus,</HI> for he looued the man meruailou&s;ly, a&s;well
<PB N="17" REF="26"> for his learning and wi&s;dome, as al&s;o for the pith and &s;appe of his vear&s;e.</P>
<P>On a certain time <HI>Alcibiades</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Clineas</HI> and <HI>Cri|tias</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Calle&s;chrus,</HI> &s;pieng him to re&s;ort vnto plaies, to view their behauiour, and to heare their di&s;cour&s;es, kept a bu&s;keling with him, as very lothe to haue him pre&s;ent, &amp; thru&s;t him of y^e &s;tage, who&s;e re&s;i&s;tance he did not greatly regarde, but like a mode&s;t ma~, made light of the matter, &amp; like a iu&s;t, a good, and a wi&s;e ma~, pa&s;&s;ed all ouer with patience. Thus did he be|haue him &s;elfe towardes &s;uche, as wrongfully &amp; iniuriou&s;ly, delt with him, &s;natching and catching at him like cur doggs, and vomiting out the venom of their &s;tomackes again&s;t him, all which he &s;uffered very continently, to the wunderful vex|ation of the contrary parte. This was, as it were, the &s;eedes wherof his comedies &s;prung and grewe, and not tho&s;e things only which <HI>Anytus</HI> and <HI>Melitus</HI> &s;urmi&s;ed. It is not vnlikely al&s;o, that <HI>Ari&s;tophanes</HI> him &s;elf, was by this meanes, greatly inriched, for when they in&s;tantly required, &amp; with importunce and &s;p&eacute;edy per&s;wa&s;ions, a&s;&s;aulted him, to race the comme~dable name of <HI>Socrates,</HI> out of the rege&s;ters of remembrance, with their &s;claunderous and reprochful &s;p&eacute;eches: <HI>Ari&s;tophanes</HI> be|ing at that time beggarly, &amp; &s;kar&s;e woorth thr&eacute;e half pence (and be&s;ides his poouerty inclined to lewdnes of life &amp; mi&s;ch&eacute;ef) was conte~t to b&eacute;e a hyreling, and to receaue wages to further a di&s;|hone&s;t d&eacute;ed, and to maintaine a matter altogether built vppon the maine pri&s;e of malice, what ab&s;urditie therfore can in&s;ue if we giue this iudgement vpon him, according to his de&s;arts? Of which two tre&s;pa&s;&s;es he is culpable, and cannot deny that he is guilty of them bothe. The enterlude purcha&s;ed princi|pall prai&s;e, and caried awaye the Crowne of commendation, for the &s;entence of <HI>Cratinus,</HI> was at that pre&s;ent mo&s;te trew, that the Theater did holde many a hateful and helli&s;h hart.</P>
<P>And becau&s;e great recour&s;e was made, to the celebratio~ of the fea&s;t daies of God <HI>Bacchus,</HI> a maine multitude of the <HI>Greci|ans</HI> &s;warmed thither by heapes, thick and thr&eacute;efold, as de&s;i|rous and gr&eacute;edy to &s;&eacute;e their v&s;uall &s;ights, and accu&s;tomable &s;o|lemnities. Whe~ therfore <HI>Socrates</HI> was borne about in y^e play, and be&s;ides that was ofte~times named. (No meruail I trow)
<PB REF="27"> if he were &s;&eacute;en repre&s;ented in the per&s;on of a player: for certain it is and an vndoubted veritie, that Potters made his picture commonly vpon pitchers, Iugges, and &s;uch like tr&eacute;ene ve&s;&s;els: &s;traungers there a&s;&s;embled, a&s;ked the que&s;tion what he was that was borne aboute and ga&s;ed at, like an ill faced Owle in the Comedy, and b&eacute;eing togither ignorant in tho&s;e knacks of knauery, made a pryuy whi&s;pering and murmuring noi&s;e, of|tentimes demaunding what fellow that &s;ame <HI>Socrates</HI> was (which when he him &s;elf had preci&s;ely marked, for he was pre&s;ent at the playes, not of purpo&s;e but by fortune) and plain+ly perceiued that it was he and none els whome the Poet did &s;o prick and pinche in his play (for he &s;at in a co~uenient place where he might bothe hear and &s;&eacute;e the whole drift of the mat+ter) To aboli&s;h and blot out all dubitations, and wauering opi+nions out of the mindes of the &s;traungers, then and there a&s;&s;e~|bled, &s;tood boult vpright, and &s;o continued all the while that the Comedy indured, throughout euery Acte as the Players talked togither, &s;o that there coulde be no choy&s;e but the eyes of the people mu&s;t of nece&s;&s;itie pa&s;&s;e and perce vnto him, &s;tand+ing in the ful face of the multitude. So little did <HI>Socrates</HI> &s;et by the canckred natures of the <HI>Atheniens,</HI> and the &s;pightfull practi&s;es of <HI>Ari&s;tophanes.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>&leaf; Of a plane Tree vvhich king Xerxes loued.</HEAD>
<P>_I Cannot (bel&eacute;eue me) but laugh at <HI>Xerxes,</HI> that he (all the woorks of <HI>Iupiter</HI> bothe on Sea and land &s;et a&s;ide) appointed and ad|uentured &s;traunge iourneyes to ride, and vnv&s;uall viages to &s;ail, y^t he became a &s;er|uiture to a plane tr&eacute;e and had the &s;ame in &s;inguler admiration.</P>
<P>In <HI>Lydia</HI> (as the voice goes) when he &s;aw a tall and a lofty faire plane tr&eacute;e, he made a whole dayes tarriance by it, no ne|ce&s;&s;itie co~&s;training him &s;o to doo, he pitched his pauilions and tents in the void and empty places round about the &s;ame.</P>
<P>Moreouer he did hang precious Iewelles of great valure ther+vpon, he adorned and beautified the boughes and braunches
<PB N="18" REF="27"> therof with chaines of Golde, with Bracelet&abis;, with Tablet&abis;, with Spangles and &s;uch like co&s;tly things, yeelding thervnto great wor&s;hip and reuerence. Furthermore he appointed an ouer&s;eer or keeper to pre&s;erue and defend the &s;ame from all mi&s;ca&s;ualties. But what aduauntage (I be&s;&eacute;eche you) did the &s;enceles tr&eacute;e reap by this curious dutifulnes. That ba&s;tardly beauty and counterfait comlynes be&s;towed vppon the body and the braunches beeing outwarde, and extraordinary Or|naments, and no naturall tokens, are to no purpo&s;e, nether yet auaileable to make the tr&eacute;e better, or more fruteful then o|therwi&s;e it receaueth by kinde. But the naturall braunches of tr&eacute;es as they grow in Orchards and gardens, merit comenda|tion in my iudgement, for the aboundance of their green lea|ues, for their firme &amp; fa&s;t timber, for their deep &amp; &s;tedfa&s;t root&abis;: for the &s;preading boughes gathering comfortable ayer, for their large compa&s;&s;es procuring hol&s;ome &s;hadowes, and for the ple~|tifulnes of their frute, when the furrowes of the &s;oile is mea&s;u|rably moi&s;tned, with water belowe, or with raine and dewe from aboue: But the crim&s;on &s;karfes of <HI>Xerxes,</HI> his rich robes of purple and perles, his fine golde fet from forraine countreis and the re&s;idue of tho&s;e precious Iuels which he be&s;towed vp|on the plane tr&eacute;e, procured no one iot of furtheraunce, neither to the bettering of the tree, nor to the dainty amending of any other tr&eacute;e.</P>
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<HEAD>&leaf; Of the &s;eates of the Lacedemonian magi&s;trates, <HI>be&s;mered with &s;oute and du&s;t.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_CErtain men of <HI>Clazomenia</HI> co~ming to <HI>Spar|ta:</HI> with no le&s;&s;e iniury then di&s;daine, filthely berayed the &s;eates of the magi&s;trats, <HI>Ephori</HI> with &s;oyling &s;oute and du&s;t, where they v&s;ual|ly &s;at to giue iudgement in cau&s;es of contro|uer&s;ie, and to determine vpon maters concer|ning the wele publique. Of which d&eacute;ed the magi&s;trates haui~g had knowledg, lightly pa&s;&s;ed it ouer, and &s;ent for the co~mon cry+er, to whome they gaue co~maundement, that he &s;houlde open|ly proclame this Priuiledge graunted to the <HI>Clazomenians.
<PB REF="28"> Liceat Clazomeniis indecore facere,</HI> let the <HI>Clazomeninans,</HI> haue licence to play the &s;louens,</P>
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<HEAD>&leaf; Of Phocion</HEAD>
<P>_I E&s;t&eacute;eme this d&eacute;ede of <HI>Phocion</HI> the Sonne of <HI>Phocus</HI> worthy comendation, who hauing to deale with the <HI>Atheniens</HI> in a Courte of a&s;&s;i&s;e, rebuking in them a certain vnthanckfulnes, &s;aid very learnedly, no doubte, and &s;omwhat angerly therewithall, the&s;e woords in&s;uing: I had rather, O y&eacute;e <HI>Athenians,</HI> take wrong, then doo wrong, I had rather &s;uffer harme, then inforce harme.</P>
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<HEAD>&leaf; Of the vvi&s;dome of the Per&s;ian magicians, <HI>and of Ochus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_MEruailous is the wi&s;dome of the <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> Ma|gicians, who were furni&s;hed with the know|ledge a&s;well of &s;uch things, as of dutie they ought, and throughly practi&s;ed in the Science and experience of Prophecie: They did fortell the bloody crueltie and mercile&s;&s;e murther of <HI>Ochus,</HI> threatned and executed vppon his Subiects, for&s;&eacute;eing the &s;ame by &s;undry &s;ignes, euidences, and tokens. For when <HI>Ochus</HI> po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed the Scepter and Crown royal, after the fune|rall of his father fini&s;hed, the Magicians gaue coun&s;el to one of the kings Chamberlaines, diligently to ob&s;erue and marke when the table was &s;pred and &s;erued, vnto what thing <HI>Ochus</HI> fir&s;t put foorth his hand&abis;, among &s;o many and diuer&s;e as were &s;et before him to choo&s;e &amp; to v&s;e. The Chamberlain hauing as quick an eye in this behalfe as any Eagle or Hauke, &s;pied <HI>O|chus</HI> &s;tretching out both his ha~ds, taking vp w^t his right hand a knife which lay not far from his reach, &amp; with his left a lofe of bread, which he did cut in &s;lyces, &amp; laid vpo~ them gobbets of fle&s;h, which he deuoured with a &s;harp &s;et &s;tomack. When the Magicia~s were certified heerof, they prophecied of ij. things to come. The fir&s;t was the &s;ea&s;onable ripening of frutes, and the plentifulnes of victualles, whiles he occupyed the &s;eat of the
<PB N="19" REF="28"> kingdome, the other was the manyfolde murthers whiche &s;hould be committed within the compa&s;&s;e of his reign. Bothe which prophecyes were veryfied, and they found true in their premon&s;trations.</P>
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<HEAD>Of delicate Dinners, &s;umptuous Suppers, and <HI>prodigall banqueting.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_TImothy</HI> the Sonne of <HI>Conon</HI> Captain of the <HI>Atheniens,</HI> leauing his &s;umptuous &s;are and royall banqueting, b&eacute;eing de&s;ired and intertai|ned of <HI>Plato</HI> to a fea&s;t Philo&s;ophicall, &s;ea&s;oned with contentation and Mu&s;ick, at his retur|ning home from that &s;upper of <HI>Plato,</HI> he &s;aid vnto his familiar fr&eacute;ends. They whiche &s;uppe with <HI>Plato</HI> this night are not &s;ick or out of te~per the next day following, and pre&s;ently vpon the enunciation of that &s;p&eacute;ech, <HI>Timothy</HI> took occa&s;ion to finde fault with great dinners, &s;uppers, fea&s;ts, and banquets, furni&s;hed with exce&s;&s;iue fare, immoderate con|&s;uming of meats, delicates, dainties, tooth&s;ome iunkets &amp; &s;uch like, which abridge the next dayes ioy, gladnes, delight, mirth, and plea&s;antnes. Yea that &s;entence is con&s;onant and agr&eacute;ea|ble to the former, and importeth the &s;ame &s;ence, notwith&s;tand+ing in woords it hath a little difference: That the within na|med <HI>Timothy,</HI> m&eacute;eting the next day after with <HI>Plato,</HI> &s;aid vn him. You Philo&s;ophers (fr&eacute;end <HI>Plato</HI>) &s;up better the day follo|wing, then the night pre&s;ent.</P>
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<HEAD>Of Alexander vvho vvould needs be named a God.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ALexander</HI> after he had vanqui&s;hed <HI>Darius,</HI> and &s;ub|dued the whole kingdome of <HI>Per&s;ia</HI> to his owne do|minion, b&eacute;eing wi&s;e aboue his capacitie, &amp; puffed vp with the &s;uddain bla&s;ts of his pro&s;perous fortune and luckynes, which for the time pre&s;ent he inioyed, wrote vn+to the <HI>Graecians</HI> to deify him and to make him a God. A fooli&s;h reque&s;t, no dout, &amp; m&eacute;er ridiculous. For he we~t about to obtain y^e of mortal me~ by peticio~ &amp; intrela~ce, which nature neuer grau~+ted him, wherfore &s;o~e &s;uppo&s;ing this, &amp; other determini~g that.
<PB REF="29"> The <HI>Lacedemonians</HI> among the re&s;t made this decr&eacute;e, &s;ay|ing thus. Becau&s;e <HI>Alexander</HI> wil n&eacute;ed&abis; b&eacute;e a God, a God let him be. Breefly and according to the cu&s;tome of their countrie quipping the want of wit whiche was in <HI>Alexander,</HI> his im|moderate madnes, and impudent ambition.</P>
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<HEAD>&leaf; Of the clemency of King Antigonus.</HEAD>
<P>_THey &s;ay, that <HI>Antigonus</HI> was appliant to gen+tlenes, and ful of affability, who &s;oeuer ther|fore hath a de&s;ire to bee in&s;tructed throughly in the certain knowledge of this man, and in|qui&s;itiue after his deedes, mu&s;t frequent the ful flowing fou~tai~es of other volume writers, (for the narowe riuer of this hi&s;toricall treati&s;e is in&s;ufficient in that behalf), whiche if he doo he &s;hall of nece&s;&s;itie, bla&s;e a|broad the &s;inguler bounty of <HI>Antigonus,</HI> his inco~parable cle|mency, his lowlines &amp; lenytie, wherof I wil now &s;peake com|pendiou&s;ly. This <HI>Antigonus</HI> perceauing his So~ne &s;omwhat more fearce, ha&s;tie and violent with his &s;ubiectes the~ him &s;elf, &s;aide to his Sonne as foloweth. Knowe&s;t thou not y^t our King+dome is a noble &s;eruitude, and an honorable bondage? which woordes of the father, vttered to the Sonne, gaue a gli~mering of gentlenes, fauour &amp; clemency, whereof who&s;oeuer alloweth not according to the worthynes of the &s;ame, &s;&eacute;emeth vnto me to knowe nether Pri~ce nor people, nether King nor co~moner, but rather to leade the life of a blood thir&s;ty, and in&s;atiable Ti|rant.</P>
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<HEAD>&leaf; Of Pau&s;anias, vvho looued the Poet Agatho.</HEAD>
<P>_THe potter <HI>Pau&s;anias,</HI> looued the poet <HI>Agatho,</HI> this no doubt, is manife&s;t and euident, But I wil reporte vnto you, that which is not &s;o com+mon. Vppon a certaine time, they came bothe to <HI>Archelaus</HI> (a ma~ no le&s;&s;e lo~ging after loue, the~ groning after knowledge,) wherfore when he perceiued that there aro&s;e betw&eacute;en <HI>Pau&s;anias</HI> and <HI>Agatho</HI>
<PB N="20" REF="29"> many &s;tormes of di&s;&s;ention, &s;uppo&s;ing that looue had not arri|ued in the hauen of their harts, he que&s;tioned with <HI>Agatho,</HI> and demaunded of him, how it fortuned that he was at &s;quare and daggers drawing &s;o often with him, of whome he was &s;o tenderly and vnfainedly belooued. To whome <HI>Agatho</HI> gaue this an&s;were. Of this matter O King I wil render a rea&s;on, I am not his aduer&s;ary, I owe him no il will, I harboure no inwarde hatred nor grudging to his preiudice, neither doo I that which I doo, vpon any clowni&s;h and vncurteous p&eacute;eui&s;h|nes. For a&s;&s;uredly, if I haue attained to the vnder&s;ta~ding of any thing which depe~deth vpon good maners, then I finde both out of Hi&s;toricall narrations, and al&s;o out of Poeticall di&s;cour+&s;es, that nothing is more plea&s;ant or delight&s;om to &s;uch as be lightned with the Lamp of looue, then by &s;trifes iarryings, brawlings, and variau~ce, to alienate their mindes from mu|tuall amitie, and to growe in fauour again by louely reconci|liation. And vndoutedly, to &s;peake as I think, nothing is more ioyful and comfortable to &s;uch as be linked in loue, and as it were fettered in fr&eacute;end&s;hippe, then that which I haue alredy rehear&s;ed. Of this con&s;olation and plea&s;ure I make him par|taker oftentimes, by v&s;uall iangling and dayly wrangling with him: for he conceiueth great gladnes in his hart, if I di&s;|&s;olue the knots of loue by di&s;cention, and &s;alue vp the &s;ore a|gain with the medicine of renewed amitie, if I quenche the flames of fr&eacute;endly affection, and kindle the &s;ame again with the &s;parks of curte&s;ie. But if I deale all alike with him, not in|terlacing loue with variablenes, continuing one cu&s;tome, and following one fa&s;hion, he &s;hould not reape the harue&s;t of per|fect looue, nor ta&s;te the &s;w&eacute;et &s;ap of fr&eacute;end&s;hips frutes, the be|nifit wherof, lo, now he dooth imbrace by trying the nature of contention. This rea&s;on of <HI>Agatho</HI> did <HI>Archelaus</HI> highly commend and extoll.</P>
<P>The &s;ame <HI>Agatho,</HI> did the Poet <HI>Euripides</HI> loue exc&eacute;eding+ly, for who&s;e &s;ake (as Chronicles reporte) he compiled an En|terlude called <HI>Chry&s;ippus.</HI> That it is a certain, vndouted, and an infallible trueth, I am not able to affirme preci&s;ely. But thus much I dare boldely aduouch, vpon perfect knowledge in this point, that this rumor hath b&eacute;en &s;cattered abrode by the
<PB REF="30"> toungs of very many people.</P>
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<HEAD>&leaf; Of the Mantinen&s;es, that they vvere iu&s;t, and <HI>righteous.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THe <HI>Mantinen&s;es</HI> are mo&s;te vpright, (for &s;o they be reported) and no le&s;&s;e iu&s;t then the <HI>Lo+cren&s;es,</HI> then the <HI>Creten&s;es,</HI> then the <HI>Lacede|monians,</HI> and the <HI>Atheniens</HI> them &s;elues.</P>
<P>For <HI>Solon</HI> was a pa&s;&s;ing wi&s;e, &s;ober, iu&s;t, and righteous Citizen. Notwith&s;tanding the <HI>Atheniens</HI> in tract of time, abrogated and tooke awaye the Lawes, Statutes &amp; ordinances which were written by him.</P>
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<HEAD>Of Nicodorus the VVre&s;tler, that vvas made <HI>a Law giuer.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_NIcodorus</HI> an excelent wre&s;tler, of great fame and name, In his latter y&eacute;eres by rea&s;on of his age and weakenes, b&eacute;eing vnable to exer|ci&s;e his limmes and ioints in wre&s;tling, as he had doon in his young and lu&s;ty dayes, chaun|ged his coppy, and became a Law maker a|mong the <HI>Mantinen&s;es,</HI> wherein he declared him &s;elf muche more profitable and honorable, then when he was proclaimed Conquerour in the common games and &s;howes. Yet they &s;ay that <HI>Diagoras Melius,</HI> who loued <HI>Nicodorus,</HI> made lawes for him. Much more might I &s;peake concerning <HI>Nicodorus,</HI> but le&s;t I &s;hould &s;&eacute;eme to aduaunce a mi&s;creant with vnde&s;erued commendation, I meane to limit my talke with mea&s;ure.</P>
<P>For this <HI>Diagoras</HI> was a mortall enemye to the Gods, and I (to confe&s;&s;e the trueth) reape little plea&s;ure in calling him to remembrance.</P>
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<HEAD>That Milo vvas &s;trong and valiant in body, but vveake <HI>and cowardly in minde.</HI></HEAD>
<PB N="21" REF="30">
<P>_SOme haue extolled the &s;trength of <HI>Milo Cro+toniates</HI> to the very heauens, wherof many haue had much and often co~munication, &s;oun+ding as it were in a trumpet, this and that of him: But wil you hear an example of <HI>Milos</HI> p&eacute;eui&s;hnes? Not the mightie&s;t aduer&s;ary of this manne, was able to wre&s;t or wring an Aple out of his hands, which he griped fa&s;t in his fi&s;ts: But yet for all that, his Lemmon and concubine, got the &s;ame from him, without any re&s;i&s;tance, playeng with him wantonly, and v&s;ing tricks of daliaunce. By which circum&s;ta~ces it is manife&s;t, that <HI>Mi|lo</HI> in body was more then a ma~, but in minde a very lout and a mome, and far wor&s;e then a woman.</P>
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<HEAD>&leaf; That the &s;ixt of February, vvas a lucky day <HI>to the Grecians</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THe &s;ixte of the moneth <HI>February,</HI> did y&eacute;eld ma+ny good thi~gs, not only to the <HI>Atheniens,</HI> but al&s;o to many other people. Vpon y^e day came <HI>Socrates</HI> in to the world. Vpon that day the <HI>Per&s;ians</HI> were put to flight, and vtterly ouer|throwne. Vppon that day the <HI>Atheniens</HI> at <HI>Agrotera,</HI> offered thr&eacute;e hundred young Kids, for a Sacrifice, performing that ceremonye according to the vow of <HI>Miltia|des.</HI> Vppon the &s;ame day (b&eacute;eing the eight of the Ides) there was a foughten f&eacute;eld at <HI>Plateas,</HI> the <HI>Graecians</HI> b&eacute;eing conque|rours. For the fir&s;t &s;laugter (which I remember) was commit+ted in the Moneth of <HI>May,</HI> as the common voice goeth. And the victory which the <HI>Graecians</HI> got at <HI>Mycales,</HI> it is to be re|ferred vnto none other day, then to the &s;ixth of <HI>February,</HI> be|cau&s;e the Triumph had at <HI>Plateas</HI> and at <HI>Mycales</HI> happened in one day. Moreouer vppon this day <HI>Alexander</HI> of <HI>Macedo|nia,</HI> King <HI>Philips</HI> Sonne and heyre, put many Millions of the barbarous people his enemyes to flight, vanqui&s;hed them, o|uer threwe them, made hauocke of them, to their great infa|my and &s;hame, but vnto his owne Honoure and renowne:
<PB REF="31"> At which time <HI>Darius</HI> was taken, by the pui&s;ant power of the &s;aide <HI>Alexander.</HI> Finally vpon this day (as the due ob&s;erua|tion of chronicles recorde) <HI>Alexander Magnus</HI> receaued the benefite of life and breath, and lo&s;t the aduantage of the &s;ame, in &s;embable manner.</P>
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<HEAD>&leaf; Of Hiperboreus Apollo, and of certaine meruelous <HI>documents touching Pithagoras.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_ARi&s;totle</HI> affirmeth, that <HI>Apollo Pithius</HI> was &s;urnamed <HI>Hiperboreus,</HI> of y^e <HI>Crotoniates.</HI> And the &s;ame <HI>Ari&s;totle,</HI> the Sonne of <HI>Nichomacus,</HI> addeth thus much more, that <HI>Pithagoras</HI> was &s;&eacute;en in two &s;undry places in one day, and in one houre, namely in <HI>Metapontio</HI> and in <HI>Crotona,</HI> where he &s;he|wed his golden thigh. (A worlds wu~der to way) The &s;elf&s;ame Author affirmeth, that as <HI>Pithagoras</HI> pa&s;&s;ed ouer the flood <HI>Co&s;a,</HI> he was called by his name, adioyni~g to this reporte, that many heard the &s;ounde of the voice.</P>
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<HEAD>&leaf; <HI>Of Anniceris, that he vvas a good hor&s;man: and that</HI> he which in &s;mall matters is ouer curious, dooth neglect cau&s;es of greater waight.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ANniceris Cyrene&s;is,</HI> for his cunning in rid|ing, and his &s;kilfulnes in guiding a chariot, &s;pred a brode his proude Pecocks taile, and was wunderful arrogant. This <HI>Anniceris</HI> be+ing di&s;po&s;ed vppon a time, to &s;howe <HI>Plato</HI> a ca&s;t of his cunning, ioined his chariot and his hor&s;&s;es &amp; furni&s;hed them with their co~uenient harnes, which when he had doone, he rode round aboute many cour&s;es and turnes (in the place called <HI>Academia,</HI> nigh to <HI>Athens</HI> where <HI>Plato</HI> publi&s;hed his profe&s;&s;ion, in philo&s;ophicall excerci&s;es) ru|ling the hor&s;&s;es &s;o artificially, and k&eacute;eping the running of the chariot, vpon the whirling wh&eacute;eles &s;o vigilantly, that it &s;war|ued not a fingers breadth, out of the rundels, but alwaies re|mained in one, and the &s;elf &s;ame compa&s;&s;e of &s;pace &amp; place and
<PB N="22" REF="31"> neuer erred be&s;ide the Circle. All the company that were a&s;&s;embled, &s;&eacute;eing this notable facte of <HI>Anniceris</HI> were ra|ui&s;hed with a &s;uddain admiration of the man: Onely <HI>Plato,</HI> a+mong the re&s;t, &s;urpa&s;&s;ing in prudence, and excelling in Iudge|ment, reproued the curio&s;itie of his labour, &s;aying, that it could none otherwi&s;e be, but that he, whiche in matters of no mo|me~t, of no waight, or nece&s;&s;itie, be&s;towed &s;uch double dilige~ce, &s;hould be idle and vnoccupyed, or at lea&s;t wi&s;e very remi&s;&s;e and di&s;&s;olute in bu&s;y ca&s;es, and notable affaires. For where al a mans inuention, all a mans indeuour, and &s;tudy is imploy|ed in trifles and toyes, it foloweth orderly that he mu&s;t n&eacute;eds doo tho&s;e things negligently, which in very deed are worthy to be wundered at, of the multitude.</P>
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<HEAD>&leaf; From vvhence Cock fighting tooke originall <HI>beginning.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_AFter the <HI>Per&s;ians</HI> were vanqui&s;hed, the <HI>A+theniens</HI> made a Law that one ordinarye day euery y&eacute;ere, there &s;hould be Cock fight|ing, in open place to be &s;een vpon the The|ater or &s;kaffolde. But from whence the oc|ca&s;ion of this Statute or Iniunction proc&eacute;e|ded, I wil now make plain and manife&s;t.</P>
<P>At what time <HI>Themi&s;tocles</HI> was Capitain to an Army of Citize~s, and again&s;t the barbarous and forrain people, he &s;aw two Cocks fighting fiercely togither, picking with their billes one at an others Comb, and &s;miteing with their &s;purres &s;o &s;toutly that they drew blood. Of which game or &s;ight he did not &s;hew him &s;elf an idle ga&s;er, but gathering his whole ar|mye round about him, made this &s;hort Oration vnto them.</P>
<P>The&s;e two Cocks indaunger them &s;elues, as we &s;&eacute;e to the death, not for their countryes cau&s;e, not for the hou&s;holde god&abis;, not for the Priuiledges of their honorable ance&s;tors, not for re+nown, not for libertie, not for wife &amp; children: But that th'one might not ouercrowe &amp; beat th'other, or that th'one &s;hould giue ground and game to the other, as the wur&s;e to the better, the weaker to the &s;tronger. Which woords b&eacute;eing beutified with
<PB REF="32"> the flowers of poli&s;ie, mini&s;tred meruailous incouragment to the harts of the <HI>Atheniens,</HI> which &s;toutnes and audacitie, he wi&s;hed and al&s;o willed &s;o to be put in practi&s;e, that thereby they might purcha&s;e perpetuall remembrance.</P>
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<HEAD>&leaf; Hovv Pittacus painted and figured Lady <HI>Fortune.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_PIttacus</HI> made a Ladder in a Temple at <HI>Mi|tylene,</HI> &s;eruing to none other v&s;e in the world then to be a gift dedicatory to Lady <HI>Fortune,</HI> figuring al&s;o that &s;uche clymed vp the &s;teppes therof without impediment or hinderaunce, whome <HI>Fortune</HI> fauoured. And &s;uch came tot|tering down whome &s;he re&s;i&s;ted, in whiche repre&s;entation there was &s;ignified a certain &s;uddain motion.</P>
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<HEAD>&leaf; Of the Philo&s;opher Plato.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_PLato</HI> the Sonne of <HI>Ari&s;to,</HI> at the fir&s;t, affec|ted and marryed his minde to Poetrye, and was delighted in making ver&s;es <HI>He|roicall.</HI> But afterwards he made a volun|tary &s;eperation from that kinde of exerci&s;e, vtterly renouncing the &s;tudy of ver&s;ifying, when he had examined them with the &s;tile of <HI>Homer,</HI> and perceiued his owne to be far wur&s;e. Where|fore he turned his wit another way, and applied his labour to write Tragedyes, which he deliuered into the hands of Play|ers to be publi&s;hed, and per&s;waded him &s;elf that his inuention and conueyance therin was excellent, wherupon he woulde n&eacute;eds make a challenge to beare away the prick and price.</P>
<P>But after that he heard <HI>Socrates</HI> (not long time before the &s;o|lemnizatio~ of y^e banqueti~gs ordained in the honor of <HI>Bacchus</HI>) and beeing inchaunted with the &s;w&eacute;et and mellodious vtte|raunce of his deui&s;es, he did not only cea&s;e and withdraw him &s;elf from that ra&s;h contentio~, but did vtterly giue ouer and for+&s;ake the compo&s;ing of Tragedyes, and made Philo&s;ophy his
<PB N="23" REF="32"> ordinary diet, which he preferred before all other &s;tudyes.</P>
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<HEAD>&leaf; That none of the paynims and heathen people, <HI>were giuen to vngodlines.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_WHat manne, would not highly commend the wi&s;dome of the <HI>Barbarians?</HI> &s;ithence none of them, at any time fel in to contempt of y^e God&abis; immortall, nether yet called this in que&s;tion, whether there were Gods, yea or nay, that gouerned the worlde with their diuinitie, and cele&s;tiall authoritie, and to whome the condition of men, was a thing worthy of care and regard. No <HI>Indian,</HI> no <HI>Cel|tan,</HI> no <HI>Aegiptian,</HI> harbored &s;o helli&s;h an opinio~ in their hart&abis; As <HI>Euemerus Me&s;&s;enius</HI> intertained in to the man&s;ion of his infected minde, as <HI>Dioni&s;ius Phrigius</HI> fo&s;tred in the clo&s;et of his bre&s;t, as <HI>Hippen,</HI> as <HI>Diagoras,</HI> as <HI>So&s;ias,</HI> and as <HI>Epicu|rus</HI> nur&s;ed in the cradles of theire mi&s;bel&eacute;euing braines. But the heatheni&s;h &amp; paynime people (whom I haue named) mani+fe&s;tly affirm, bothe, that there be gods which inhabit the glori|ous heauens, and al&s;o that they haue a re&s;pect vnto vs mortall men, communicating vnto vs, the knowledge of things to come, by Birdes, by bowels and entrails of bea&s;tes, by &s;ignes of a&s;&s;ured certainty, by &s;undry ob&s;eruations, and manifolde circum&s;tances. Of what things therfore, men, by the fauour and permi&s;&s;ion of the &s;upernall powers, (namely the Gods) may haue a forevnder&s;tanding, a great and principall parts of the &s;ame, by doutful dreames, mi&s;ticall imaginations, and glittering &s;tarres in the &s;kies. &amp;c. are &s;ignified.</P>
<P>Which opinion they maintayning, with a con&s;tant and immoouable bel&eacute;ef, doo the Gods &s;inguler &s;eruice with &s;impli|citie and &s;incerity, lead their life in purity and holines, im|brace the right v&s;e of cerimonies, ob&s;erue the rites and in&s;ti+tutions of <HI>Bacchus,</HI> &amp; performe other duties &s;o deuoutly, that the&s;e te&s;timonies, giue a reporte of an vndoubted trueth, that they exhibit to the Gods great woor&s;hip and reuerence.</P>
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<PB REF="33">
<HEAD>&leaf; Of Hercules his &s;urname, and of Apollos Oracle <HI>concerning him.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_CErtain rumors are &s;cattered abrode in <HI>Del|phus,</HI> that <HI>Hercules</HI> was the Sonne of <HI>Iupi|ter</HI> and <HI>Alcmens,</HI> and that his name by di&s;&s;e~t of con&s;anguinitie, was <HI>Heraclides.</HI> Vppon a time he came to demaund que&s;tions of the Oracle, and to require councell in a matter, which he obtained in &s;uch &s;ort, that his comming was effectu|all. Moreouer (among all other things) this is reported, y^t <HI>Her|cules</HI> &s;tanding alone by him &s;elf, heard the&s;e woords pronoun|ced by the mouth of <HI>Apollo.</HI></P>
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>Heraclem te alio Phoebus cognomine dicit,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Gratificando etenim, decus immortale tenebis.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Phoebus</HI> calles the <HI>Heracles,</HI> thy name &s;o termeth he:</L>
<L>By dooing good &amp; gracious d&eacute;eds, thy prai&s;e &s;hal endles be.</L>
</LG></Q>
</DIV2>
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<HEAD>&leaf; Of the Images and figures of Fluds.</HEAD>
<P>_WE &s;&eacute;e and beholde before our eyes the nature of fluds, their chanels, their reaches, their row|ling, their ebbing and their flowing, we are not curious to a&s;&s;igne them any re&s;emblance, yet notwith&s;tanding, &s;ome there be, whiche hauing de&s;crybed Fluds, haue pretermitted &s;ome without forme, and appointed other &s;ome a certain &s;imi|litude. They haue compared &s;ome in fa&s;hion and figure to bul|locks, of this number were the people <HI>Stimphalij,</HI> who likened the two fluds <HI>Era&s;mus</HI> and <HI>Metopa,</HI> to the forme afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>The people of <HI>Lacedemon,</HI> who compared the flud <HI>Eurotas</HI> to the &s;ame figure, the people <HI>Sicyonij,</HI> and the people <HI>Phlia&s;ij,</HI> who likened the flud <HI>A&s;opus</HI> to the &s;ame forme, the people <HI>Argiui</HI> who compared the flud <HI>Cephi&s;&s;us</HI> to the &s;ame figure. Other &s;ome likened fluds to the fa&s;hion of a man, of this num|ber were the people <HI>P&s;ophilij,</HI> who co~pared the flud <HI>Eryncan+thius</HI> to the &s;ame forme. The people <HI>Heraen&s;es,</HI> who likened
<PB N="24" REF="33"> the flud <HI>Alpheus</HI> to the &s;ame figure. The people <HI>Cherrone&s;ij</HI> were of y^e &s;ame imaginatio~, as touching the flud <HI>Alpheus</HI> afor+&s;aid. The people of <HI>Athens</HI> wor&s;hip the flud <HI>Cephi&s;&s;us,</HI> which they liken to a man w^t a pair of hornes. Furthermore the peo|ple <HI>Siracu&s;ij</HI> in <HI>Scilia,</HI> compare the flud <HI>Anapus</HI> in portura|ture to a man, but the &s;pring or brooke <HI>Cyana,</HI> they liken to a woman and haue it in honor. The people <HI>Aege&s;ten&s;es,</HI> reue|rence and adore the fluds <HI>Porpax, Crimi&s;&s;us,</HI> and <HI>Telmi&s;&s;us,</HI> in the &s;imilitudes of men. The people of <HI>Agrigentine,</HI> offer &s;acrifices and oblations to a flud of &s;emblable name to the Ci|tie which they inhabited, imagining that it hath the likenes of a bewtiful Springall. And they al&s;o at <HI>Delphos,</HI> who con&s;e|crated the Iuory image, and intituled the fluds name, made the Image, the Image of a Lad.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; Of olde, crooked, and decrepite age.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_EPicharmus</HI> b&eacute;eing very olde, and laden with the burthen of y&eacute;eres, &s;itting among his ac|quaintance, and interchaunging communica|tion with them, after euery one &s;euerally had &s;poken as he thought good. One after this &s;ort, fiue y&eacute;ers &s;pace to liue for me is &s;ufficient. An|nother after this manner, foure y&eacute;eres are euen as much as I would wi&s;h and de&s;ire. The third in this wi&s;e, thr&eacute;e y&eacute;eres is a number to my ful contentation: <HI>Epicharmus</HI> made the con+clu&s;ion, &s;aying. O good fr&eacute;ends, why contend you among your &s;elues about a few dayes? for a&s;much as we that are h&eacute;ere a|&s;&s;embled and &s;it togither at this pre&s;ent, are by the ordinaunce and ratified decr&eacute;e of de&s;teny, n&eacute;ere neighbours to death and mortalitie, wherfore it is high time for vs all, to make &s;p&eacute;edy pa&s;&s;age from hence, before we ta&s;te the inconueniences of olde decrepite age, any further.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>That &s;leepe is the brother of Death, and of Gorgias <HI>dravving to his end.</HI></HEAD>
<PB REF="34">
<P><HI>_GOrgias Leontinus,</HI> looking towardes the end of his life, and b&eacute;eing wa&s;ted with the weake|nes and wery&s;omne&s;&s;e of drouping olde age, falling into &s;harp and &s;ore &s;ickne&s;&s;e, vppon a time &s;lumbred and &s;lept vpon his &s;oft pillowe a little &s;ea&s;on: Vnto who&s;e Chamber, a fami|liar fr&eacute;end of his re&s;orting to vi&s;it him in his &s;icknes, demaun|ded how he felt him &s;elf affected in body. To whome <HI>Gorgias Leontinus</HI> made this pithy and plau&s;ible an&s;were. <HI>Iam me &s;omnus incipit &s;uo fratri, Morti, tradere.</HI> Now &s;l&eacute;ep begin|neth to deliuer me vp into the Iuri&s;diction of his brother Ger|mane, death.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; Of Socrates beeing bothe olde and &s;ick.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_SOcrates</HI> b&eacute;eing worne with olde Age, and crooked through the f&eacute;eblenes of his bodily members, certain a&s;king him how he fa|red? Very wel, &s;aith he, how &s;o euer the world &s;hall wag. For if I haue my life pro|longed, I &s;hall increa&s;e mine enemyes to bait me with rebukes: Again, if death &s;hor+ten my dayes, I &s;hall winne more fr&eacute;ends to Crown me with commendation.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; Of the lavv inioyned to &s;ick Patients, for the ab&s;tinence <HI>from drinking of VVine.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_MAny lawes were made by <HI>Zaleucus Locren|&s;is,</HI> of which &s;ome were politiquely ordained, other&s;ome conueniently enacted, and among all other, this one mo&s;te prudently prouided, as a law of no le&s;&s;e nece&s;&s;itie, then e&s;timation.</P>
<P>If any of the <HI>Locren&s;es Epizepyrij</HI> b&eacute;eing a&s;&s;aulted with &s;icknes, pre&s;umed to drink wine (the Phi&s;iti|an prohibiting &s;uch kinde of receipts, or at the lea&s;t not pre&s;cri+bing them) albeit he or &s;he (after the Potion taken) recouered their accu&s;tomed helth, and e&s;caped the danger of death, yet
<PB N="25" REF="34"> notwith&s;tanding, the appointed puni&s;hment for the offender in this ca&s;e, was violent lo&s;&s;e of life without parcialitie, be|cau&s;e they dur&s;t drink wine b&eacute;eing forbidden, or at lea&s;t wi&s;e not warranted by the Phi&s;itian.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; <HI>The lavv of the Romains and other people not permit|ting</HI> the drincking of VVine to all maner of per&s;ons, nor to all ages.</HEAD>
<P>_THis likewi&s;e was a law made by the people <HI>Ma&s;&s;aliotae.</HI> That women &s;hould ab&s;tain fro~ wine, of what age &s;oeuer they were. What was their drink then I pray you? For&s;ooth fair water bubling out of the Spring. <HI>Theo+phra&s;tus</HI> affirmeth that this law was effectu+all among the people <HI>Mile&s;ij,</HI> and that the people <HI>Iadae</HI> kept them &s;elues within the limits &amp; reach of the &s;ame law: What impediment re&s;traineth me fro~ reher&s;ing the <HI>Romanish</HI> law in this hehalf prouided? And how can I auoid y^e reprehen&s;ion of fooli&s;hnes, if I hauing alredy made mentio~ of y^e <HI>Locren&s;es,</HI> the <HI>Ma&s;&s;aliotae</HI> &amp; the <HI>Mile&s;ij,</HI> &s;hould pretermit with &s;ile~ce the actes and &s;tatutes of mine owne countrymen the <HI>Romaines?</HI> who ob&s;erued y^e vertue of this law very preci&s;ely, that it was not tollerable, either for fr&eacute;e women or bond women to drink wine, nor &s;ufferable by &s;tatute, that any noble per&s;onage ei|ther male or female, from th'age of xij. &amp; xiiij. yeeres, to xxxv. y&eacute;eres, &s;hould violate the law aboue reher&s;ed.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>The lavv of the Locre~&s;es prouiding vvhat their Children <HI>shold learne.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THe <HI>Creten&s;es</HI> commau~ded by publique autho|ritie, that the &s;onnes of freemen &s;hould learne the lawes and ordinaunces of the land, &s;ea&s;o|ned with the &s;weet &s;ound and plea&s;ant a&s;&s;ent of Mu&s;ick, to th'intent that they co~ceiuing a|abundant delight in that method of learning,
<PB REF="35"> might plant the &s;ame with more facilitie in the furrowes of their remembrance, and al&s;o that they, if at any time they chaunced to tran&s;gre&s;&s;e the lawes, might not pleade ignora~ce and by that cloke couer their &s;kins from the rain. The &s;econd thing which they were bound to learne, were &s;ongs and So|nets made in the honor of the &s;upernall Gods. The third and la&s;t thing was, the prai&s;es and triumphant commendations of noble and valiant men.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of brute bea&s;ts vvhich abhorre VVine, and yet chaunce <HI>to be ouercome with drunckennes.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_ALl brute bea&s;ts abhorre Wine naturally, and principally tho&s;e bea&s;ts, which after they haue immoderately filled them &s;elues with grapes, fall into extreme drunckennes. Furthermore Crowes, if they eat the crops of the herb <HI>Sinuta,</HI> are driuen perforce into contagious madnes.</P>
<P>The Dog al&s;o is &s;ubiect to the operation of the &s;ame, if he bite therof and ta&s;te it. But the Ape and the Elephant, the one &s;ur+mounting in &s;trength, the other exc&eacute;eding in nimblenes, are bothe inf&eacute;ebled, if they drink Wine, For this is depriued of his craftynes, and that is robbed of his valliantnes, for the time, and bothe ind&eacute;ed &s;o weakned, that they are ea&s;ely to be caught without re&s;i&s;tance,</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Great Svvillers and drinkers.</HEAD>
<P>_IN the catalogue of Chronicles, among great drinkers, and in&s;atiable &s;willers, the&s;e, and many more were reconed. <HI>Dioni&s;ius</HI> of Si|cilia, the Tirant, <HI>Ni&s;eus</HI> the Tirant, <HI>Apollo|crates</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Dioni&s;ius</HI> the Tira~t, <HI>Hip|parion,</HI> Co&s;&s;in to <HI>Dioni&s;ius, Timolaus Thebanus, Charidemus Orites, Arcado Era&s;ixenus. Aloetas Macedo,</HI> and <HI>Diotimus Athenien&s;is,</HI> whiche <HI>Diotimus</HI> was &s;urnamed <HI>Funnel</HI> or <HI>Tunnel,</HI> becau&s;e he gulped down Wine through the Channel of his throte, whiche was poured into a
<PB N="26" REF="35"> Funnel, the end wherof was put into his mouth, without in|ter&s;piration or drawing winde betw&eacute;ene gulpes. It is re|ported that <HI>Cleomenes Lacedaemonius,</HI> did not only drink ve|ry much, but was al&s;o inclined to that euil cu&s;tome of the <HI>Scy+thians,</HI> namely, to vnmea&s;urable &s;willing. Furthermore <HI>Ion Chius</HI> a Poet (as men &s;ay) in drinking of wine kept no rea|&s;on. Be&s;ides him <HI>Alexander</HI> of <HI>Macedonia,</HI> when he (in the honoure of <HI>Calanus Brachmanus</HI> the <HI>Indian</HI> &s;ophi&s;ter, who burned his owne body to poulder) appointed games of Mu|&s;ick, games of wre&s;tling, and &s;uch like &s;pectacles, b&eacute;eing de&s;i|rous and willing to &s;hew the <HI>Indians</HI> a plea&s;ure, adioyning to the former Pageants, a v&s;uall practi&s;e of his owne Coun|trie, in&s;tituted a common game of &s;willing Wine, and trou|ling the Cuppe and the Canne from hand to mouth, wherein he that did excell receiued for his rewarde, a whole Ta|lent. The &s;econd to the be&s;t, receiued for his Guerdon thir|tye poundes. And the third receiued the &s;umme of tenne pounds for a recompence of his laboure. In this exerci&s;e one <HI>Promachus</HI> went away with the Spurres, for he was p&eacute;erles, <HI>In Poto, potaui, &amp; potatus &s;um,</HI> in troule the Boule to me.</P>
<P>In the fea&s;ts of God <HI>Bacchus,</HI> there was a pen&s;ion appoin|ted for him that could drinck more then the re&s;t, and that was a Crown of Golde, whiche <HI>Xenocrates Chalcedemoni|us</HI> de&s;erued, who after the receipt thereof at his return from banquetting, &s;et the &s;ame vppon <HI>Mercuries</HI> hed, who &s;tood at the entraunce or Gate according to the auncient cu&s;tome.</P>
<P>For it was the v&s;uall fa&s;hion of this man to &s;et light by gar|lands of flowers, of Myrre, of Iuy, and of Laurell. Moreouer (it is a common &s;aying) that <HI>Anacharfis</HI> was an immoderate drinker and a Wine &s;willer, whiche proui&s;ion and mainte|naunce he caried from hou&s;e to hou&s;e. For it is the cu&s;tome of the <HI>Scythians</HI> to gul out of &s;quare. <HI>Lacidas</HI> al&s;o and <HI>Timon,</HI> were in&s;atiable drinckers b&eacute;eing bothe Philo&s;ophers.</P>
<P>Furthermore <HI>Mycernius</HI> the <HI>Aegiptian,</HI> when a Prophe|cie was brought vnto him out of <HI>Buta,</HI> giuing him premoni&s;h|ments and forewarnings of the &s;hortnes of his life, he, b&eacute;e|ing di&s;po&s;ed captiou&s;ly to cauill, and Sophi&s;tically to deale
<PB REF="36"> with the &s;ame, by doubling his time and putting the nights to the dayes, wedded him &s;elfe to continuall watching, be|queathed him &s;elf to bibbing, &amp; became a notable &s;wil Boule.</P>
<P>Among this rowe and rablement recken <HI>Anachar&s;is</HI> the <HI>Aegiptian,</HI> of whome <HI>Herodotus</HI> giueth &s;ufficient te&s;ti|mony. And <HI>Nicocles</HI> the <HI>Corinthian,</HI> who could not be bro|ken from this exce&s;&s;iue bibbing. <HI>Scopas</HI> in like manner the Sonne of <HI>Creon,</HI> and <HI>Antiochus</HI> the King, whiche were ex|treme gr&eacute;edy of wine, and be&s;ides that, in&s;atiable &s;willers, by the meanes of which enormitie he was &s;o vnabled, as tou|ching the gouernment of his Kingdome, that <HI>Ari&s;teus</HI> and <HI>Themi&s;tion, Cyprians,</HI> were faine to be his Vicegerents in that behalfe, he him &s;elfe bearing a bare and naked Cogni|&s;aunce of Principalitie.</P>
<P>Moreouer <HI>Epiphanes</HI> called <HI>Antiochus,</HI> who was giuen for a pledge to the <HI>Romaines,</HI> lu&s;ted after Wine and deligh|ted therein without moderation. Another <HI>Antiochus</HI> al&s;o, of the &s;ame name, who at &s;uche time as he made battail a|gain&s;t <HI>Ar&s;aces,</HI> with the <HI>Medes,</HI> be&s;towed his &s;eruice in &s;willing and gulling. <HI>Antiochus</HI> the great may not be ex|empted out of the Catalogue of the&s;e, nor <HI>Agron</HI> the King of <HI>Illyrium,</HI> who fel into a &s;icknes of the &s;ides, called the painful Pleuri&s;y, and with vnmea&s;urable bibbing of wine ha&s;tened his owne death.</P>
<P>There was be&s;ides him whome we haue rehear&s;ed, ano|ther King of <HI>Illyrium</HI> a notable eater and a famous drincker. What &s;hould we burthen you with the enumeration of <HI>Or|hopheres</HI> the King of <HI>Capodacia?</HI> who&s;e v&s;e was to &s;wil ex|ce&s;&s;iuely. And if it be your plea&s;ures, that I &s;hould wade fur|ther in this matter and touch the Female kinde (notwith&s;tan+ding it is a Bea&s;tly and an vndecent thing, that a woman &s;hould be di&s;po&s;ed to immoderate drinking, and haue the re|ports of &s;uch Bibbers who&s;e bellyes are bottomle&s;&s;e) to &s;ati&s;|fie your de&s;ires in that ca&s;e, I wil be applyant.</P>
<P><HI>Cleio,</HI> was &s;o experimented h&eacute;erin, that &s;he dur&s;t chalenge bothe women and men, what &s;oeuer, to trye Mai&s;teryes in drinking mo&s;te, in which practi&s;e &s;he pa&s;&s;ed, and left them all many Miles behinde her. But this Victory and triumphe
<PB N="27" REF="36"> which &s;he obtained, was not &s;o hone&s;t and commendable, as it was filthy, loth&s;ome, and dete&s;table.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; Of PLATOES renovvne, and of <HI>his equabilitie.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THe renown of <HI>Plato,</HI> and the honourable reporte of his vertue pearced into forrain Regions, and came to the <HI>Arcadians</HI> and the <HI>Thaebans,</HI> who &s;ending certain &s;elected men in Emba&s;&s;age vnto him, earne&s;tly re|que&s;ted y^t he would take the paines to in|&s;truct the young men of their Countrey, in knoweledge, and reade Philo&s;ophy vnto them, be&s;ides that (which was a greater matter) to pre&s;cribe and appoint vnto them lawes and ordinaunces. Which reque&s;t they were in likelihood and po&s;&s;ibilitie to obtains (for <HI>Plato Ari&s;tonides</HI> conceiued plentiful delectation in the me&s;&s;age. And when he had demaunded this que&s;tion of the Emba&s;&s;adours, how they were inclined to equall diui&s;ion of riches and honour, and perceiued euidently that they were at defyaunce and ho&s;tili|tie therewith, and would by no meanes be therunto per&s;wa|ded, he conde&s;cended to trauail vnto them.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; <HI>VVhat Graecians vvere moste excellent,</HI> and yet neuerthele&s;&s;e very poore and needy.</HEAD>
<P>_THe verye be&s;t among the <HI>Graecians</HI> led their liues in pouertie and n&eacute;ede. <HI>Ari&s;tides</HI> the Sonne of <HI>Nicomachus Phocion</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Phocus. Epaminondas</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Polyma|tides. Pelopidas Thebanus, Lamachus A|thenien&s;is. Socrates</HI> the Sonne of <HI>Sophroni+&s;cus,</HI> and <HI>Ephialtes</HI> the Sonne of <HI>Sophonidas.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB REF="37">
<HEAD>&leaf; The declaration of a Picture vvhiche <HI>Theon painted.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_INfinit Te&s;timonyes there be of <HI>Theons</HI> cunning, among which this Picture is prin+cipall. A man in armoure, running po&s;te ha&s;te out of the gates of a Citie, the ene|mies a&s;&s;aulting the &s;ame and &s;eeking the ru+ine and ouerthrowe of the land. The har|ne&s;&s;ed Souldiour ran with a courage to bat+tail, yea, &s;o liuely was the Image made, that the beholder (if he had &s;&eacute;en it) would haue giuen iudgement, that the fellowe was mad, frantique, lunatique, and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed with the furious force of murthering <HI>Mars.</HI> His vi&s;age was &s;auage, &s;tearne, &s;tubborne, and Lyonlike, he wringeth his weapons as one greedy of the conflict, he ru&s;heth vppon his enemyes with violence, he holdeth out his victorious Target, &s;haketh his naked Swoord, whiche glittered like Gla&s;&s;e again&s;t the Sun beames, the terror of his cou~tenau~ce threatned a &s;laugh|ter to his aduer&s;aryes: Finally in all his ge&s;tures and behaui|our, were re&s;emblances of blood&s;hed without compa&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P><HI>Theon</HI> painted no warlike a&s;&s;i&s;tance aboute him, no &s;howe of Martiall magnanimitie, no Standard bearer, no band of Souldiours, no Capitain ouer hundreds, no Dimolaunce, no Gunners, no Archers, to be &s;hort, no &s;uche warlike furniture. But this one harne&s;&s;ed man painted he alone, who&s;e Image was &s;ufficiently &s;et foorth, a&s;wel to giue witnes of the liuely|nes which was apparant therein, as al&s;o to leaue credit, that the cunning of <HI>Theon</HI> was miraculous.</P>
<P>The woorkman of this Picture, did not hang it out in &s;ight of the a&s;&s;embly, before the Trumpeter (whome he hy|red) &s;tanding hard by, &s;ounded vp a thumping Alarum, as a &s;ignification of battail and &s;pedy preparation to the feeld. So &s;oone therefore as the Trumpet did &s;ound, <HI>Theon</HI> bringeth foorth his Table containing the Picture aboue &s;pecified, which he placed in the open a&s;pect of the multitude, whiche was viewed and looked vppon very circum&s;pectly, all which &s;pace the Trumpeter continued &s;ounding, whiche &s;tirred vp more
<PB N="28" REF="37"> effectuall cogitations in the mindes of the beholders, ga&s;ing more greedyly vppon the harne&s;&s;ed Souldiour, whi|che <HI>Theon</HI> by Art and excellent cunning compri&s;ed in a Table.</P>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>&leaf; <HI>The end of the &s;econd Booke.</HI></TRAILER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="3" TYPE="book">
<PB REF="38">
<HEAD>The third Booke of the variable History <HI>of AELIANVS.</HI></HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&leaf; By vvhat Characters, pictures and Images, the learned <HI>Aegiptians expre&s;&s;ed the my&s;teries of their mindes.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_WHen they would &s;ignifie</HI> wrathe &amp; fury, they &s;et down the image of a Lyon. Whe~ they wold &s;ignify talke, they &s;et down the fi|gure of a toung. When they wold &s;ignifye fle&s;hly plea&s;ure, they &s;et down the number of <HI>XVI.</HI> Whe~ the would &s;ignify lerning, they &s;et down the picture of Dew dropping from the Clowdes. By a Rat they meane de&s;tructio~ By a flye, they meane &s;hamele&s;nes. By the Ant running into the Corne, they meane proui&s;ion. By a man walking in water without a hed, they meane a thing vn+po&s;&s;ible. By a &s;warme of B&eacute;es folowing the mai&s;ter B&eacute;e, they &s;ignifie obedient Subiects. By a man hiding his priuy mem|bers with his hands, they meane Temperaunce. By the flou|res of Poppy, they &s;ignifie &s;icknes. By an armed man &s;hoo|ting in a Bowe of &s;teele, they meane Rebellion. By an Eagle flying again&s;t the Sun, they meane windy weather. By an Owle &s;tanding vppon a Tr&eacute;e, they &s;ignifie death. By a Lace tyed in many knots, they meane mutuall Loue. By Bookes and Scrowles, they meane Auncientnes. By a Ladder &s;et again&s;t a Ca&s;tle wall, they meane a &s;&eacute;edge about a Town or a Fortre&s;&s;e. By a Mule, they &s;ignifie a woman with a bar|rain wombe. By a Mole, they meane blindene&s;&s;e. By a Lap|wing &s;itting vppon a Clu&s;ter of Grapes, the meane a plenti|ful Vintage. By a Scepter and an eye on the top therof loo|king downwarde, they meane power and poli&s;ie. By a Spindle ful of thred broken of from the Di&s;taf, they meane the &s;hortnes of mans life. <HI>Apollo Niliacus</HI> de&s;cribeth at large the <HI>Aegiptian</HI> Characters, &amp; openeth the meaning of y^e &s;ame.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="29" REF="38">
<HEAD>&para; The de&s;cription of a plea&s;ant plot of lande in <HI>The&s;&s;alia,</HI> which may worthily be cal|led an earthly heauen.</HEAD>
<P>_GO to then, and let vs launch further with good lucke, paynting out with penne, and relating with tong, the places of plea&s;ure and ine&s;timable delightes, which are bla|&s;ed abroad, to be in <HI>The&s;&s;alia.</HI> For many|fe&s;t it is, that wordes, if they beare the badge of eloquence, and be en&s;igned with the cogni&s;ance of &s;ub&s;tanciall and pithy rea&s;ons, canne no le&s;&s;e expre&s;&s;e a thing, before the eies of the people: the~ y^e artificial fingers, and the &s;princkling pencil of a cunning paynter, excelling in his profe&s;&s;ion, and &s;inguler in his &s;cience. The places aboue &s;pecified, are, a percel of lande &s;ituate and lying be|tw&eacute;ene two mightie mountaines, namely, <HI>Olympus,</HI> and <HI>O&s;&s;a,</HI> whiche huge hils are of an vnaccu&s;tomable heigth, and &s;eparated the one from the other, by the wonderfull working of the euerla&s;ting God, who&s;e habitation is in heauen. Betw&eacute;en which two mountaines, as it were in y^e mid&s;t, a plot of ground is incompa&s;&s;ed, the length whereof ari&s;eth by e&s;timation to fortie furlongs, euery furlong containing the mea&s;ure of a hundred twentie and fiue pa|ces, the breadth in &s;ome places (but not in all) containing two hundred fortie and two foote, and in other &s;ome pla|ces &s;omewhat more. In this middle plot of grounde run|neth a riuer, called <HI>Penaus,</HI> into who&s;e receptacle, other channels haue recour&s;e, making the &s;ame a great floude, by the abundant &s;treams which i&s;&s;ueth into the bo&s;ome of the &s;ame. The place before rehear&s;ed, is adorned &amp; decked with diuers goodly lodgings (as it were) &amp; harbours of all &s;ortes, wonderfull workes not wrought with the handes of men, but framed by the prede&s;tination and foreappoint|ment of Lady Nature, which principall and preeminent priuiledges &s;he be&s;towed therevpon, when the place was
<PB REF="39"> (as it were) in his infancie, &amp; had his original beginning. There groweth green Iuie mo&s;t plentifully, there it flou|ri&s;heth mo&s;t beautifully, there it cr&eacute;epeth vpwarde to the tops of tal tr&eacute;es, winding it &s;elfe round about the barkes, imbracing the branches, &amp; &s;pringing about the body &amp; the armes of them, in the &s;imilitude &amp; likenes of mo&s;t fruitful vines. There grow Yew tr&eacute;es abundantly, ouer&s;hadow|ing the gr&eacute;en banks, wrapping them&s;elf round about the rocks, &amp; couering the &s;tone, in &s;uch &s;ort, that y^e rocke is al|togither hidden, nothing perceiued but the fre&s;h gr&eacute;en co|lour, glorious to y^e &s;ight, &amp; &s;umptuous &s;pectacles to delight the eye. In the field it &s;elf, &amp; the plain land, there be &s;undry gardens &amp; arbours of great compa&s;&s;e, plea&s;ant Sommer parlours, and comfortable clo&s;&s;ets of re&s;t &amp; recreation for wayfaring me~, to be &s;uccoured in the hot &s;ea&s;on of y^t yere, wherin they may conuenie~tly (as it were with re&s;toritie) refre&s;h their wery me~bers in their tedious &amp; comber&s;ome iourny. Through this goodly grou~d, many cleere brookes &amp; hol&s;ome &s;prings haue pa&s;&s;age, who&s;e water is cold, &s;w&eacute;et, &amp; &s;auory to drink for the quenching of thir&s;t. Some &s;ay, that &s;uch as wa&s;h their lims, &amp; bath their bodies in this water, reap an incomparable aduantage, for the maintenance of their healthfulnes, &s;uch &s;inguler vertue is in&s;tilled from a|boue, into the mylde &amp; gentle &s;treams of the &s;aide &s;prings. Furthermore, braue birdes of &s;undry &s;orts, &s;yt &s;cattering here &amp; there, in diuers corners, &s;inging mo&s;t &s;w&eacute;etly vpon the boughes, beautified w^t blo&s;&s;oms &amp; green leaues, &amp; &s;peci|ally &s;uch birds, who&s;e chirping tongs &amp; whi&s;tling throats make &s;uch a mu&s;ical &s;ound, &amp; &s;uch tuneable harmony, that y^e delight proceding fro~ the &s;ame, &amp; pearcing into the eares ingender &s;uch an indefatigable delight in the mind, that y^e weary traueller forgetteth the tediou&s;nes of his way, for &s;o much as the loth&s;omnes of his labor is not only a&s;&s;ua|ged, but al&s;o abandoned. On both &s;ides of the floud, are (as I haue already made rehear&s;al) places or rather pallaces of plea&s;ure, garni&s;hed with notable delights, repleni&s;hed
<PB N="30" REF="39"> with renoumed recreation. Through the mid&s;t of this ter|re&s;trial Paradi&s;e, the floud <HI>Peneus</HI> doth runne, &s;liding for|ward with a &s;mothe and a calme &s;treame, as it were &s;lip|perie oyle, it is al&s;o ouer&s;hadowed with the boughes and branches of excellent tr&eacute;es, planted about the banks of the &s;ame, by the benefit wherof, the &s;un beames (which other|wi&s;e would ca&s;t a great heate) are kept from the &s;uperfice of the water the mo&s;t part of the day, offering to &s;uch as &s;aile that way, a temperate pa&s;&s;age by rea&s;on of the ayre, which is moderately mixed with two contrary qualities. Be&s;ides the premi&s;&s;es, this in like manner is not to be o|mitted, that the people bordering and inhabiting there|abouts, make their accu&s;tomable conuents, their &s;olemne &s;acrafices, their v&s;uall a&s;&s;emblies, and &s;umptuous ba~kets in tho&s;e plea&s;ant places. When therfore there be many to pay their oblations to the &s;upernal gods, and to be&s;tow their diligent labour, in the adoration and wor&s;hippe of them, &amp; in the accompli&s;hment of &s;acred exerci&s;es, it com|meth to pa&s;&s;e, that they preparing their pa&s;&s;age, and con|tinuing their progre&s;&s;e this way, eyther by lande or wa|ter, by hor&s;e or by &s;hippe, by waggon or any kynde of ve&s;|&s;el, &s;eruing the nece&s;&s;itie of Nauigation, &s;w&eacute;ete &s;mels, &amp; o|doriferous &s;auours are caried &amp; conueyed by the &s;pireable ayre to their no&s;trils, &s;ea&s;oning the in&s;trument of the fa|cultie of odoration, with the perfumes aboue &s;pecifyed.</P>
<P>Thus the perpetual &s;eruice exhibited to the gods, maketh the place, &s;hal I &s;ay prophane? No, but holy and heauenly. The people of <HI>The&s;&s;alia</HI> reporte, that in this Paradi&s;e of plea&s;antnes, <HI>Apollo Pytheus</HI> was purged at the co~man|dement of <HI>Iupiter,</HI> when he &s;lue the Serpent <HI>Python,</HI> with his bowe and arrowes, k&eacute;eping as yet <HI>Delphos,</HI> the countrey hauing the Oracle, Being afterwardes crowned with a garlande of Lawrell leaues, whiche &s;prang in tho&s;e mo&s;te plea&s;ant Medowes aboue mentio|ned, and holding in his ryght hande a Boy braunche, and &s;o came to <HI>Delphos,</HI> Finally, that he whiche di&s;cended
<PB REF="40"> of the loynes of <HI>Iupiter</HI> and <HI>Latona,</HI> occupied the Oracle. There is al&s;o in the fore&s;ayde place, an Altar, where he was crowned, and tooke away the branch. And therefore the people of <HI>Delphos,</HI> euery nynth yeare ordinarily, &s;end the yong &s;onnes of their nobilitie, accompanied with the principal &s;uperintendant, in diuine rites and &s;acred cere|monies, to tho&s;e famous places in <HI>The&s;&s;alia,</HI> (of which the whole &s;umme of this pre&s;ent treati&s;e dependeth) who at their comming thither, execute diuine &s;eruice with no le&s;&s;e pompe and magnificence, than with deuotion and reue|rence, making garlandes of the Lawrell tr&eacute;e, which grew in that &s;peciall place, whereof the louing God al&s;o (when time was) made him &s;elfe a crowne, and &s;o depart. In which returne of theirs, they followe the way, which is called <HI>Pythias,</HI> leading by <HI>The&s;&s;alia,</HI> into <HI>Pelagonia,</HI> into <HI>Oeta,</HI> into the region of the <HI>Aenians,</HI> the <HI>Melians,</HI> the <HI>Do|rians,</HI> and the <HI>Locrans He&s;perij.</HI> The conducters al&s;o of the boyes, exhibite great honour and reuerence to the <HI>Hyperboreans,</HI> which bring oblations and &s;acrifices to the &s;ame God. And herevpon &s;pringeth this cu&s;tome, that Lawrell garlandes are giuen to &s;uch as winne the victo|rie in the&s;e games and exerci&s;es which were &s;olemnized in the renoume of <HI>Apollo,</HI> called <HI>Pythiorum &s;pectacula.</HI> But of the terre&s;triall Paradi&s;e in <HI>The&s;&s;alia,</HI> and of al the plea&s;ures wherewith it is adorned, let this which I haue rehear&s;ed, &s;eeme &s;ufficient.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of <HI>Anaxagoras,</HI> valiantly &s;uffering the death of his children.</HEAD>
<P>_WHen a certain man brought the&s;e heauie ti|dings and &s;orowfull newes, to <HI>Anaxagoras Clazomenius</HI> at &s;uch time as he was bu&s;i|ly occupyed, that two of his children were deade and departed: He, notwith&s;tanding that lo&s;&s;e, depriued him of the comfortable name of a fa|ther,
<PB N="31" REF="40"> (for he had no more &s;onnes nor daughters in all the worlde be&s;ides them) was neuer a whit di&s;mayde at the mi&s;erable me&s;&s;age of the man, but made this an&s;were, embaulmed with boldne&s;&s;e, and &s;pyced with wi&s;edome, <HI>Sciui eos mortales e&s;&s;e natos,</HI> I knowe well inough, that by byrth, they were mortall.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of <HI>Xenophon</HI> &s;toutly abyding the death of his &s;onne</HEAD>
<P>_AS <HI>Xenophon</HI> was intentiuely occupyed in diuine &s;eruice, There came a me&s;&s;en|ger from <HI>Mantinea,</HI> and tolde him that his &s;onne <HI>Gryllus</HI> was dead: <HI>Xenophon</HI> put off his crowne or garlande, and per|&s;euered in holy &s;acrifice notwith&s;tan|ding. Moreouer, when the me&s;&s;enger added the&s;e words, &s;aying, that the yong man dyed not villanou&s;ly, but victo|riou&s;ly, he put on his garlande againe. The&s;e hi&s;torycall abridgements flowe in the mouthes of all men, and are common among the multitude.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of <HI>Dion,</HI> who was not di&s;quieted for the death of his &s;onne.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_DIon</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Hipparianus,</HI> the &s;choler of <HI>Plato,</HI> being conuer&s;ant in publike af|faires, at what time his &s;onne fell from the roofe of an high hou&s;e to the grounde in a court, in &s;o much that his body was not only bru&s;ed pitifully, but his bones al|&s;o broken lamentably, to the vtter &s;hipwracke of his lyfe: <HI>Dion</HI> was not moued one whit in his mynd, neyther yet changed his countenance, but con&s;tantly continued to bring that to perfectio~ which he had taken in hand, neglec|ting, in the meane &s;ea&s;on, the infortunate fal of hys &s;onne.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB REF="41">
<HEAD>&para; <HI>Antigonus</HI> &s;eeing the dead carka&s;&s;e of his &s;onnes body, was not mole&s;ted in mynde at &s;o &s;orowfull a &s;pectacle.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ANtigonus</HI> the &s;econd, when certaine &s;oul|diers carried y^e carkas of his deade &s;onne out of the armie, he behelde the body, but did not alter his vi&s;age, eyther with clou|die lowring, or with watry w&eacute;eping, in con&s;ideration of &s;o crooked a chance, But pray&s;ed him that he dyed like a valyant ympe of mightie <HI>Mars,</HI> and commaunded that he &s;huld be decently buryed.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the magnificence and &s;umptuou&s;ne&s;&s;e of <HI>Crates Thebanus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THe di&s;po&s;ition of <HI>Crates Thebanus,</HI> was noted in many pointes, to be &s;umptuous and &s;inguler. For he de&s;pi&s;ed all &s;uche things as the popular &s;orte delighted in, and greatly e&s;t&eacute;emed. And &s;pecially he was a contemner of his countrey, and an aduer&s;arie to riches, That he gaue all his wealth and &s;ub&s;tance from him &s;elfe, to the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion and v&s;e of the <HI>Thebans.</HI> What infant is ignorant? but his other d&eacute;ede is not &s;o common, and therfore not &s;o manife&s;tly known. Will ye vnder&s;tande what it is? <HI>Non opus est inquit, mihi ciuitate, quam Alexander, vel alius &s;ubuer&s;urus &s;it.</HI> What n&eacute;ede haue I, &s;ayth he, of a towne or a citie, for ambitious <HI>Alexander,</HI> of &s;ome other &s;emblably inclyned to &s;poyle, to wa&s;te, and ouerthrowe?</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the reprochfull accu&s;ations and &s;lan|ders of the people.</HEAD>
<P><HI>DEmochares</HI> the kin&s;man of <HI>Demo&s;thenes,</HI> intending to &s;ignifie that he &s;et nought by the backbyting tongs,
<PB N="32" REF="41"> the &s;launderous reports, and peruer&s;&s;e accu&s;ations of the people, when he e&s;pyed many of the &s;ect of obtrectators, &s;itting together in a Barbers &s;hop, &amp; gr&eacute;edie to tattle vn|reuerently of him, what &s;ayth he, do you babble &amp; mutter among your &s;elues, you <HI>Di&s;monidae.</HI> By this name di&s;|couering the corrupt conditions, and euidently detecting the naughtine&s;&s;e of their nature.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of <HI>Phrynicus,</HI> who was elected a captaine, for certaine poe&s;ies which he made.</HEAD>
<P>_THe <HI>Atheniens</HI> did elect, con&s;titute, and make <HI>Phrynicus</HI> a captaine in warre. And why? not for his pui&s;ance, not for his manhoode, not for the noblene&s;&s;e of his natiuitie and byrth, nor yet for any externall ornament, of wealth, of &s;ub|&s;tance, and riches in lands, goodes and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, (Albeit the <HI>Atheniens,</HI> commonly turne their eyes and their myndes to tho&s;e things, preferring &s;uch v&s;ually, before o|ther in election.) But when he in a certaine tragedie, made proper poe&s;ies, and ver&s;es altogether warlike, that they di&s;agr&eacute;ed not from armed men, marching in battell aray, and dauncing their martial mea&s;ures, in their clat|tering cor&s;elets and glittering furniture: He did &s;o in|chant the iudgements of the people, and &s;trike &s;uche an a|&s;toni&s;hment into the hearts of the Theatre or a&s;&s;embly, (without acception of any one) that they immediately did elect and cho&s;e him a captaine in martiall affaires, Sup|po&s;ing that he was not in&s;ufficient and vnable to gouerne an army of men, and to guide &s;ouldiers in battell po|litikely, that had inuention, &s;kil, and conueyance enough, to make valiant ver&s;es in a Playe, and poe&s;ies poli&s;hed with &s;uch thundering tearmes, clattering words, and tri|umphant &s;entences, that they differed very litle from the things repre&s;ented, namely harne&s;&s;ed men &s;kuffeling and &s;kirmi&s;hing.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB REF="42">
<HEAD>&para; Of Loue.</HEAD>
<P>_WHat man that doth not loue, woulde pro|claime battel, &amp; enter a conflict with &s;uch a one as doth loue? &s;ithence in &s;o harde a ca&s;e, armor &amp; weapon &s;huld beare &s;winge and &s;way, without further arbitrement or deliberation. For he which wanteth loue, doth alwayes auoide and fl&eacute;e from his louer lyke a prophane fellowe, burthened with imperfections, and &s;o farre he dareth pre&s;ume, as the courage of his mynde, and the &s;trength of his body doe warrant him to preuaile.</P>
<P>Moreouer he feareth the other, as one kindled with cer|taine &s;parkles of a heauenly and vehement concitation, and inflamed, not onely with the outrageous heate of <HI>Mars,</HI> whiche in d&eacute;ede is common, but al&s;o with the furi|ous fire of <HI>Cupido.</HI> For &s;uch as be &s;upported onely with the pui&s;ant power of one of the&s;e two gods onely, and not ayded by both, (of which twaine, the one raungeth with madne&s;&s;e in mens mynds, as it were <HI>Mars</HI> him &s;elf,) whe~ their heartes be haunted with one of the&s;e &s;pirites, they fight &s;toutly and lu&s;tily, &s;o farre forth as that one &s;pirite is able of it &s;elfe to mini&s;ter vnto them manhoode and cou|rage. But when the &s;eruitures of <HI>Cupido</HI> do fight, being pricked forward as well with the &s;pur of martiall might, as f&eacute;eling al&s;o the &s;ting of effectuall loue, in that they &s;u|&s;taine the power of a double &s;pirite, or rather are wrapt with two violent perturbations, purcha&s;e (as the <HI>Creten|&s;es</HI> helde opinion) double honour by their pui&s;ance. No ma~ therefore will expo&s;tulate the matter about him, who kil|leth and &s;layeth, being furni&s;hed with the complet might of <HI>Mars</HI> and <HI>Cupido.</HI> If an armed man can not counter|uaile his vertue, muche le&s;&s;e &s;uppre&s;&s;e the fulne&s;&s;e of his force, fighting with the ayde and &s;uccoure of one God a|lone.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="33" REF="42">
<HEAD>&para; Of &s;uch as were amarous and Para|mours among the <HI>Lace|demonians.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_FOr &s;o much as I haue many worthy &s;ay|inges, and notable d&eacute;edes to rehear&s;e, con|cerning the <HI>Lacedemonian</HI> magi&s;trates, called <HI>Ephori,</HI> among a multitude I will picke out them onely, which I haue pri|uately purpo&s;ed to repeate. When one with the baite if his beauty allured vnto him the loue of a rich and welthy commoner, he him&s;elf being poore, n&eacute;e|die, and di&s;tre&s;&s;ed, the <HI>Lacedemonians</HI> &s;ea&s;&s;ed a fine vp|on his head, puni&s;hinge (as it appeareth) his vnlawful lu&s;t and concupi&s;cence, with a penaltie of money. They puni&s;hed in like manner, another welfauoured and an hone&s;t man, becau&s;e he loued none that were of a contra|rie inclination to him &s;elfe, in that he being good and ver|tuous, reputed none worthy of his loue, For by the com|municating of his loue, he might peraduenture, make his paramour like vnto him &s;elfe.</P>
<P>Sythence the familiaritie and conuer&s;ation of louers, preuayleth effectually in the hearts of their paramours, to the honourable intertainment of vertue, and the noble furtherance of hone&s;tie: If they them &s;elues be vertuou&s;|ly di&s;po&s;ed, and garny&s;hed with the garmentes of mode|&s;tie. Furthermore, the <HI>Lacedemonians</HI> enacted and made this lawe, that if any yong man &s;upplying the place of a paramour, offended in his behauiour and did ami&s;&s;e, &s;omewhat they were content to a&s;cribe to the &s;implicity of his manners, and to graunt a tolleration in re&s;pect of his tender yeares: But they made his louer to &s;mart: willing that there &s;hould be ouer&s;&eacute;ers and arbiters in all things which they did.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB REF="43">
<HEAD>&para; Of the &s;oule of man.</HEAD>
<P>_THe Philo&s;ophers called <HI>Peripatici,</HI> main|tained this opinion, that the &s;oule of man in the day time was wrapped in the bo|dy (as it were in a blanket) or cla&s;ped vp, as it were in a pri&s;on, doing dutifull &s;er|uice to the body, and euery perticuler member of the &s;ame, and that it was not of abilitie to a&s;|pire vnto the perfection of trueth: Moreouer, that in the night &s;ea&s;on the &s;oule obtained fr&eacute;edome, and was deliue|red out of the bondage of the body, re&s;ting in a certaine place be&s;ide the &s;tomacke, and to be made more m&eacute;ete for the proui&s;ion and capacitie of thinges to come, wherevpon dreames, phanta&s;ies, and vi&s;ions take their generation.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the order of loue among the <HI>Lacedemonians.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_AMong the <HI>Lacedemonians,</HI> &s;uch as were of a beautifull fauour and comely complexi|on, did not behaue them&s;elues, wantonly, in&s;olently, nor arrogantly towardes their louers: for the&s;e do cleane contrary to all other yong men, in that they be&s;&eacute;eche and require their louers to loue them, and this is a prouerb a|mong the <HI>Spartans,</HI> that loue ought of duty to be had, &s;ay|ing that loue and a <HI>Lacedemonian</HI> knowe nothing that is filthie, vncha&s;t, bea&s;tly, loth&s;ome, and vndeceent. For whe|ther a yong man dur&s;t con&s;ent to &s;uffer the blemi&s;h of bo|dily abu&s;e, or the louer &s;o hardy and pre&s;umptuous to of|fer or inforce it, certain it is that no aduantage might re|dound to a <HI>Spartane,</HI> &s;ithen &s;uch a fault was puni&s;hable, either with the lo&s;&s;e of liberty in his countrey, &amp; vtter ex|ile, or els (which was more grieuous) with depriuation of lyfe.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="34" REF="43">
<HEAD>&para; Of the &s;uperfluous wa&s;ting of wine which the people <HI>Tapyri</HI> v&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>_THe people <HI>Tapiri</HI> are &s;o wedded to wine, that they lead their liues altogether there|in, and &s;pend much of their time in that li|centious v&s;age, Neither do they abu&s;e the benefite of wine in drinking onely im|moderately, but in anointing their bodyes therewith, as other people doe with oyle.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the wine bibbing of the people <HI>Bizantij.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THe people <HI>Byzantij</HI> are &s;o prone &amp; ad|dicted to drinking of wine, that they for&s;ake their owne man&s;ions and te|neme~ts, which they ought to inhabite, &s;etting and letting them for rent to &s;trangers, and they them &s;elues in the meane &s;ea&s;on haunt vittailing hou&s;es and Tauerns: Neither do they &s;et ouer their dwellings to &s;ale, but al&s;o (which is a mo&s;t execrable abu&s;e) deliuer their wiues to aliens and forriners to hyre as hacknys. By the meanes of which di&s;&s;olutenes, they intangle them &s;elues in a reprochful laberinth of two dete&s;table offences, name+ly, drunkennes, and baudrie. Furthermore becau&s;e they haue planted the perfection of al their plea&s;ure in tippling and quaffing of wine, they intermingle this delight with mu&s;ical di&s;portes, as with the &s;ound ofth flute, the viole, the harpe, the lute and &s;uch like tuneable in&s;trumentes. But the &s;hrill &s;ound of the trumpet they cannot abide to heare in any ca&s;e, which is an euident argument &amp; a plaine demon&s;tration, that this p&eacute;eui&s;h people haue holow harts, and can away neither with warre nor warlike weapons. For this cau&s;e the captaine generall of their army, that is to &s;ay, lu&s;ty <HI>Leonidas</HI> in a very fearce and &s;harp a&s;&s;ault
<PB REF="44"> again&s;t the citie, when the enemies aduentured vpon the walles, and they neglecting watche and warde, con&s;umed whole dayes, from the ri&s;ing of the &s;onne, to the falling of the &s;ame, in their v&s;uall and accu&s;tomed ho&s;pitalles: <HI>Le|onidas</HI> commaunded that the victualling hou&s;es which they frequented, &s;hould be remoued to the citie walles, by which &s;ubtile &s;light and politike deui&s;e, he per&s;waded them not to for&s;ake the army, each coulourable pretence, and rea&s;onable occa&s;ion why they &s;hould &s;o do, being vtterly da&s;hed and remoued. The&s;e things concerning them doth <HI>Doemon</HI> manife&s;tly affirme, to whom <HI>Menander</HI> allu|deth, &s;aying: <HI>Vinolentos negotiatores facit Byzantium, totam noctem perpotat. <HI>Bizantium</HI></HI> maketh winebibbing and dronken merchantes, and con&s;umeth whole nightes in &s;willing and gulling.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the winebibbing of the <HI>Argiues,</HI> the <HI>Corin|thians,</HI> the <HI>Thracians,</HI> and the <HI>Illirians.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THe <HI>Argiues</HI> and the <HI>Corinthes</HI> haue binne openly rebuked in publike plaies and enterludes for their vnmea&s;urable &s;willing of wine. As for the <HI>Thratians</HI> the rumor which &s;wimmeth abroade of them, is ratified with a warrant, and confirmed with this a&s;&s;urance, that they are notorious canne&s;uckers. Neither are the <HI>Illirians</HI> cleare of this bea&s;tly abu&s;e, who haue annexed and added to that their dete&s;table property, this &s;hameles and re|prochefull v&s;age, that it is tollerable (by their permi&s;&s;ion) that &s;trangers in banqueting, and belly ch&eacute;ere, &s;hould quaffe about to women if they li&s;t, albeit they had nothing to do, or to deale with them.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; A compari&s;on of the two captaines <HI>Demetrius,</HI> and <HI>Timotheus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WHich of the&s;e two captains <HI>Demetrius</HI> or <HI>Timothe|us</HI> was y^e mo&s;t pui&s;&s;ant &amp; excelle~t, <HI>Demetrius,</HI> I &s;ay,
<PB N="35" REF="44"> <HI>Poliorcetes,</HI> or <HI>Timotheus Athenien&s;is,</HI> it is a que&s;tion to be demaunded. I wyll rehear&s;e vnto you the d&eacute;eds and actes of them both, which being accompli&s;hed, finall iudg|ment &s;halbe re&s;igned vnto you, to determine of certenty, which of the twayne de&s;erueth preferment. <HI>Demetrius</HI> by violent and couetous meanes mole&s;ted manye, dealyng iniuriou&s;ly with them and contrary to equitie, he conque|red cities by force, be&s;&eacute;eged them with warlike engines, vndermining the walles, battering them and vtterly ra|cing them vp. But <HI>Timotheus</HI> on the other&s;ide per&s;wa|dyng with wordes, and teachyng with talke, that it was more profitable and commodious to be obedient to the voyce of the <HI>Atheniens,</HI> brought the &s;elfe &s;ame thinges to pa&s;&s;e by words, which the other dyd with weapons.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; That Philo&s;ophy is nece&s;&s;ary for the gouern|ment of a weale publique, and that cer|taine Philo&s;ophers haue had the admini&s;tration of a com|mon wealth.</HEAD>
<P>_AMong <HI>Philo&s;ophers</HI> (of who~ there was a &s;warme innumerable) &s;ome &s;ate in place of aucthoritie, &amp; had the gouern|ment of commo~ wealthes committed vnto the~. Other&s;ome were &s;ati&s;fied w^t this, namely, that their mindes were garni&s;hed and beautyfied with the pre|cious pearles of vertue, and that al the cour&s;e of their life was peaceable, quiet, and repleni&s;hed with tranquillitie. For <HI>Zeleucus</HI> refourmed the common wealth of the <HI>Lo|cren&s;es, Charondas</HI> of the <HI>Catanen&s;es,</HI> &amp; of the <HI>Reginen&s;es</HI> in lyke maner, when he was ca&s;t into exile and bany&s;hed out of <HI>Catana.</HI> Al the&s;e did amend the e&s;tate of &s;uch people as we haue already mencioned. <HI>Architas</HI> was a furthe|rance to the <HI>Tarentines, Solon</HI> &s;emblably to the <HI>Atheni|ens,
<PB REF="45"> Bias</HI> and <HI>Thales</HI> conueied great commodyties into <HI>Io|nia, Chilon</HI> helped the <HI>Lacedemonians,</HI> &s;o did <HI>Pittacus</HI> the <HI>Mitylens,</HI> &s;o dyd <HI>Cleobulus</HI> the people of the <HI>Rhods, Anaximander</HI> brought people from <HI>Miletum</HI> to in|habit <HI>Apolonia, Xenophon</HI> flouri&s;hed in warlyke re|nowne, and is iudged a pui&s;aunt captaine amonge them which accompanied <HI>Cyrus,</HI> at &s;uch time as he him&s;elf and many more with hym were &s;layne: For when nece&s;&s;itie required that &s;ome one or other &s;hould be a pre&s;eruation to the <HI>Grecians,</HI> to co~duct them home in &s;afety, this charge was committed vnto hym, <HI>Plato</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Ari&s;to</HI> brought <HI>Dion</HI> into <HI>Sicilia,</HI> and gaue him aduerti&s;mentes how he might ouerthrow the tyrannical dominion of <HI>Dio|ny&s;ius,</HI> and bring him to vtter and extreame ruin without any great toyle or mole&s;tation. But <HI>Socrates</HI> tooke vpon him no charge of the <HI>Athenien</HI> weale publique, becau&s;e he perceiued the popular power to be more lyke tyrannicall regiment: therefore did not he geue his con&s;enting voyce that the tenne Captaines &s;hould be adiudged to dye, nei|ther had he any conferrence with y^e thyrty tyrants in their heynous and horryble enterpry&s;es. Neuerthele&s;&s;e when nece&s;&s;itie con&s;trained, that weapons &s;hould be taken in hand for the defence and protection of the land, he &s;upply|ed the place of a &s;ouldiour, and played his part without a|nie contradiction, hee wore armour again&s;t <HI>Delus, Am|phipolis,</HI> and <HI>Potidea. Ari&s;totle</HI> did lyft vp his countrye (not falling vpon her kn&eacute;es, as they &s;ay, but rather lying along with her face flat vpon the ground) wherein was a &s;ignificatio~ of valia~tnes. <HI>Demetrius Phalarenis</HI> gouerned the common wealth of the <HI>Atheniens</HI> with great wor&s;hip, vntyll &s;uch time as the accu&s;tomed duty and v&s;ual &s;pight|fulne&s;&s;e of the people di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed hym &amp; thru&s;t him into ex|ile, yet notwith&s;tanding the &s;elfe &s;ame man was of a noble countenaunce and credite in <HI>Aegipt,</HI> occuping the chiefe&s;t and mo&s;t principall place vnder King <HI>Ptolomeus</HI> in ma|kyng
<PB N="36" REF="45"> and enacting Lawes. Moreouer what man wyll &s;tand in denyall that <HI>Pericles</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Xantippus,</HI> was expert in the precepts of Phylo&s;ophy? And y^t <HI>Epami|nondas</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Polimnius, Phocion</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Phocus, Ari&s;tides</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Li&s;imachus,</HI> and <HI>Ephealtes</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Sophonidas,</HI> and after them in proces of time <HI>Carneades,</HI> &amp; <HI>Eritolaus</HI> to haue ben excellent in the profe&s;|&s;ion of &s;apience? becau&s;e they were &s;ent in emba&s;&s;age to <HI>Rome</HI> in the behalfe of the <HI>Atheniens,</HI> &amp; obtayned peace, who&s;e &s;age &s;peach &s;ea&s;oned with &s;oberne&s;&s;e, and moi&s;tened with the orientall dew of wi&s;edome, was &s;o effectual, that it con&s;trayned the a&s;&s;emblye of Senators, to vtter the&s;e words following: <HI>Mi&s;erunt Athenien&s;es legatos, qui nos non per&s;uaderent modo, &s;ed etiam cogerent facere quod ip&s;is colli|bitum e&s;t.</HI> The <HI>Atheniens</HI> haue &s;ent Emba&s;&s;adours vnto vs, which doe not onely winne vs with the grauitie of their talk, but al&s;o compell vs, after a &s;orte, to condi&s;cende vnto what&s;oeuer they them &s;elfe ly&s;t. I haue al&s;o to re|hear&s;e vnto you, that, of <HI>Per&s;eus</HI> in the admyni&s;tration of a commo~ wealth, which was an in&s;truction &amp; a pre&s;ident to <HI>Antiochus.</HI> And I haue to repeat vnto you, y^t, of <HI>Ari&s;to|tle,</HI> who planted y^e precepts of Phylo&s;ophy in <HI>Alexanders</HI> remembraunce, at &s;uch time as he was youthfull, and in &s;ubiection to perturbations, and commotions of the mind. Finally I haue to let you vnder&s;tand further, that <HI>Ly&s;ias</HI> the Di&s;ciple of <HI>Pithagoras,</HI> was the teacher and the tutor of <HI>Epaminondas.</HI> Yf any man therefore obiect, that Phy|lo&s;ophers were idle drones and frutle&s;&s;e fellowes, he doth not onely babble like a bea&s;tly foole, but al&s;o dealeth lyke a di&s;&s;ardly doult. For (to tell you the plaine truth) I my &s;elfe wolde be content to imbrace their idlene&s;&s;e of lyfe with all my harte, and repine neuer a whit at the plea&s;ure of their &s;olytarine&s;&s;e.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB REF="46">
<HEAD>&para; Of the familiaritie of <HI>Midas</HI> the Phrigian, and <HI>Selenus,</HI> and of certaine circum|&s;taunces which he incredibly reported.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_THeopompus</HI> declareth that <HI>Mi|das</HI> the <HI>Phrigian,</HI> and <HI>Silenus</HI> were knit in familiaritie and ac|quaintance. This <HI>Selenus</HI> was the &s;onne of a Nimphe inferiour to the Gods in condition and de|gr&eacute;e, but &s;uperiour to men concer|ning mortalytie and death. The&s;e twaine mingled communication of &s;undrye thinges, at length in proce&s;&s;e of talke, <HI>Selenus</HI> tolde <HI>Midas</HI> of certaine Ilandes, named <HI>Europa, A&s;ia,</HI> and <HI>Libia,</HI> which the Ocean Sea circum&s;cribeth and com|pa&s;&s;eth round about. And that without this worlde there is a continent or percell of dry lande, which in greatne&s;&s;s (as hee reported) was infinite and vnmea&s;urable, that it nouri&s;hed and maintained, by the benefite of the gr&eacute;ene medowes and pa&s;ture plots, &s;undrye bigge and mighty bea&s;tes, that the men which inhabite the &s;ame climats, ex|c&eacute;ede the &s;tature of vs twi&s;e, and yet the length of there life is not equall to ours. That there be many and diuers great citties, manyfold orders, and trades of liuinge, that their Lawes, Statutes, and ordinaunces are different, or rather, cleane contrary to ours, &s;uch and lyke thinges dyd he rehearce. He added moreouer to this, that among all o|ther Cities there were two Metrapolitan and capitall, di&s;crepant in all re&s;pects one from the other, of which, one is called <HI>Machimus,</HI> that is to &s;ay <HI>Pugnax,</HI> the other is named <HI>Eu&s;eues,</HI> that is by interpretation, <HI>Pia,</HI> that the in|habitants of the hindermo&s;t Citie pa&s;&s;e the pilgrimage of their life in peace, and plenty of all riches, that their &s;oile y&eacute;eldeth aboundaunce of all kinde of graine and fruite,
<PB N="37" REF="46"> without trauail in tillage, without paines at the ploughe, without the v&s;e of oxen or yoke, and that they &s;tand not in neede of harrowing, &s;owing, w&eacute;eding, reaping, thre&s;hing, or &s;uch &s;emblable nece&s;&s;aries in hu&s;bandrie. Furthermore that they are (as he reported infected with no &s;ickene&s;&s;es, mole&s;ted with no di&s;&s;ea&s;es, nor vexed with any &s;orow, but that theyr whole life is a perpetual plea&s;ure, a continuall delight, interlaced with laughters and di&s;portes. Be&s;ides this that they are fauourers and &s;upporterers of iu&s;tice, fol|lowers of equitie, and mainteiners of vpright dealing, &amp; that the immortall gods, oftentimes k&eacute;epe them compa|panie, vouch&s;afeing to aba&s;e and conforme them &s;elfe to their fellow&s;hip. Moreouer, he added this, that the inhabita~ts of the citie <HI>Machimus,</HI> are altogether warlike, couered with complet harne&s;&s;e, and bu&s;ied in battell, &s;ub|duing to their dominions &s;uch cuntries and people as bor|dered about them, and that this one citie alone, hath &s;in|guler iuri&s;diction ouer infinit nations, and regions innu|merable. The Citizens of the &s;ame are not vnder two hundred thou&s;and in nomber, &s;ome of them die with di&s;ea|&s;es, but that fortuneth very &s;eldome, becau&s;e they are bea|ten downe in warre, with &s;tones, and with clubbes, for no &s;worde can wound the fle&s;h, maime any member, or lame any limme of their bodies. Golde and &s;iluer is to them plentifull in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, in &s;o much that the&s;e metalles are of no more e&s;timation with them then yron is in reputa|tion and value among vs. Furthermore, he &s;aid, that they attempted vpon a time to inuade our I&s;landes, that ten thou&s;andes of them had pa&s;&s;ed ouer the <HI>Ocean</HI> &s;ea, and came as farre as the people <HI>Hiperborti,</HI> and hearing the report of the inhabitants of our land, that they were mo&s;t religious, holy and deuout, they had them in contempte, dete&s;ting &amp; abhorring them as naughty people, of prepo&s;te|rous properties, &amp; damnable behauiour, and for that cau&s;e interrupted their progre&s;&s;e, &s;uppo&s;ing it an enterpri&s;e of litle worthine&s;&s;e or rather none at al, to trauaile into &s;uch
<PB REF="47"> a countrey. Furthermore he tolde one thing among all o|thers, meriting admiration, that certain men called <HI>Me|ropes</HI> dwelt in many cittyes ther about, and that in the borders adiacent to their countrey, was a perilous place named <HI>Ano&s;tus,</HI> that is to &s;ay, wythout returne, being a gaping gulfe, or bottomles pit, for the ground is as it were cleft and rent in &s;onder, in &s;o much that it openeth like to the mouth of in&s;atiable hell, y^e it is neither perfectly light|&s;ome, nor ab&s;olutely dark&s;ome, but that the ayer hangeth ouer it, being tempered with a certaine kinde of clowdy rednes, that a couple of floodes fet their recour&s;e that way, the one of plea&s;ure the other of &s;orow, and that about each of them growe plantes an&s;weareble in quantity and big|nes to a great plaine tr&eacute;e. The trees which &s;pring by y^e flood of &s;orow yeldeth fruite of one nature, qualitie, and opera|tion. For if any man ta&s;te thereof, a &s;treame of teares floweth from his eyes, as out of a conduite pipe, or &s;lu&s;e in a running riuer, yea, &s;uch effect followeth immediatly after the eating of the &s;ame, that the whole race of their life is turned into a tragical lamentation, in &s;o much that w&eacute;eping and wayling knitteth their carke&s;es depriued of vitall mouing, in a winding &s;h&eacute;ete, and maketh them gob|bettes for the gr&eacute;edy graue to &s;wallow and deuoure. The other tr&eacute;es which pro&s;per vpon the bankes of the floode of plea&s;ure, beare fruite cleane contrary to the former, for who&s;oeuer ta&s;teth thereof, he is pre&s;ently weined from the pappes of his auncient appetites and inueterate de&s;ires, &amp; if he were linked in loue to any in time pa&s;t, he is fette|red in the forgetfulnes of them, &s;o that al remembrance is quite aboli&s;hed, by litle and litle he recouereth the yeres of his youth, rea&s;uming vnto him by degr&eacute;es, the times &amp; &s;ea|&s;ons, long &s;ince, &s;pent and gone. For, the frowardnes and crookednes of old age being fir&s;t &s;haken of, the amiablenes and louelyne&s;&s;e of youth beginneth to budde, in &s;o much as they put on y^e e&s;tate of &s;tripplings, then become boyes, then change to children, then reenter into infancie, &amp; at length
<PB N="38" REF="47"> death maketh a finall end of all. If any man doth &s;uppo&s;e this report of <HI>Chius</HI> worthy credit, let him fix the anchor of his bel&eacute;efe in the &s;lippery &s;ande of his imaginations talke: as for mine owne part, (to tell you the plaine truth) I take him to be a coyner of lyes, and a forger of fond fables.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the Emulation and variance which was betweene <HI>Plato</HI> and <HI>Ari&s;totle</HI> two famous Philo&s;ophers.</HEAD>
<P>_THe fir&s;t contention betw&eacute;ene <HI>Ari&s;totle,</HI> &amp; <HI>Plato,</HI> tooke original beginning herevpon. <HI>Plato</HI> di&s;allowed <HI>Ari&s;totles</HI> di&s;ordred life, the apparel which he did weare he could by no meanes approue, and his behauiour, as he thought, de&s;erued much blame. For <HI>A|ri&s;totle</HI> (&s;omewhat to touche his attire) trimmed him&s;elfe with gorgeous garments, yea, the very &s;hooes of his f&eacute;ete were co&s;tly and &s;umpteous, he v&s;ed to &s;haue his head, con|trary to the cu&s;tome of <HI>Plato,</HI> and vpon his fingers he did weare gimmalles, and golden rings beautified with preci|ous &s;tones, for o&s;tention &s;ake, and vaine &s;uperfluous bra|uery. Furthermore, his countenance was altogether giuen to quarreling, to &s;coffing, and to caueling: be&s;ide this, his vntimely tattling, wherein he pa&s;&s;ed the Parrat, the popingey, or the pie, di&s;couered his cankard conditions &amp; corrupt inclination. That the&s;e things become not a Phi|lo&s;opher it is as euident as the bright beames of the &s;onne at midde day, as al&s;o howe offen&s;iue they were to &s;uch as framed their liues after their profe&s;&s;io~ it is marueilous manife&s;t. For prudent <HI>Plato</HI> perceiuing and pondring <HI>A|ri&s;totles</HI> demeanure, could not dige&s;t or brooke him in his bre&s;t, but &s;et before him <HI>Xenocrates, Speu&s;ippus, Amiclas</HI> &amp; others, whom he had onely in e&s;timation and reuerence, but al&s;o admitted them to be partakers of his de&s;putati|ons. Vpon a time <HI>Xenocrates</HI> tooke a iournei into his own countrey, in who&s;e ab&s;ence, <HI>Ari&s;totle</HI> with a company of his Di&s;ciples or &s;chollers, (among whom was <HI>Mna&s;on
<PB REF="48"> Phocen&s;is,</HI> and diuers other) impugned and with&s;tood <HI>Pla|to</HI> of purpo&s;e. At the &s;ame in&s;tant was <HI>Speu&s;ippus</HI> &s;icke, &amp; therfore could not conueniently be pre&s;ent with <HI>Plato,</HI> the~ al&s;o was y^e ancient Philo&s;opher 80. yeres of age in &s;o much that through m&eacute;ere extremitie of age the abilitie of memo|ry decayed in him, which did the more animate <HI>Ari&s;totle</HI> in his madnes, and mini&s;tred audacity vnto him to a&s;&s;ault olde <HI>Plato</HI> with Sophi&s;ticall conclu&s;ions, quarreling que&s;tions, and &s;ubtile argumentes which he tempe|red with taunting tearmes, and carping language: by which circum&s;tances he &s;hewed plaine &s;ignes and tokens, not onely of iniury but al&s;o of ingratitude (&amp; the &s;elf &s;ame, not indifferent, but exce&s;&s;iue) co~mitted again&s;t &s;o profound a Philo&s;opher. <HI>Plato</HI> therefore auoided, and in&s;tituted his way directly to his owne hou&s;e, hauing the company of his familiar friendes. After thr&eacute;e monethes were expired and ended <HI>Xenocrates</HI> returned and found <HI>Ari&s;totle</HI> wal|king vp and downe, and teaching in the &s;ame place where he left <HI>Plato,</HI> at &s;uch time as he tooke his iourney, and per|ceiuing him with his complices and adherentes, &s;o farre from folowing <HI>Plato,</HI> that they &s;egregated them&s;elues vt|terly from his a&s;&s;embly, and to haue a conuenticle of their owne, he demaunded of one in the place of exerci&s;es called <HI>Peripatum</HI> what was happened to <HI>Plato,</HI> and what was become of him? An&s;wer was made, that he was not &s;icke, howbeit the occa&s;ion of his ab&s;ence from hence proc&eacute;eded of <HI>Ari&s;totle,</HI> who of late mole&s;ted the man in &s;uch &s;ort, &amp; was &s;uch an intollerable trouble vnto him, that he was fain of force to for&s;ake <HI>Peripatum</HI> the place of his profe&s;&s;ion, &amp; at this pre&s;ent he is at his owne hou&s;e, reading, teaching, and di&s;cour&s;ing in Philo&s;ophie priuately in his garden. When <HI>Xenocrates</HI> had receiued this an&s;wer, w^tout any further interpo&s;ition of talke, vpon a very &s;udden, prepared &s;p&eacute;edy pa&s;&s;age to <HI>Plato,</HI> whom he found (as it was reported) rea|&s;oning with his auditory which were many in nomber, &amp; the &s;elf &s;ame of no &s;mall countenance, &amp; credit, and &s;ome of
<PB N="39" REF="48"> them al&s;o yong men de&s;cended of good degree &amp; in very wor+&s;hipful place. When <HI>Plato</HI> had fini&s;hed his di&s;putatio~s, he &s;aluted <HI>Xenocrates</HI> mo&s;t louingly, according to his accu&s;to+med courte&s;ie, and <HI>Xenocrates</HI> in lyke maner did the lyke to <HI>Plato.</HI> Anon, when the a&s;&s;emblye was broken vp &amp; di&s;|mi&s;&s;ed, <HI>Xenocrates</HI> moued no co~munication to <HI>Plato</HI> co~cer+ning the former matter, neither dyd <HI>Plato</HI> once make me~|cion thereof, nor called it in que&s;tion. But gathering his companions togeather about him, fir&s;t reprehended <HI>Speu|&s;ippus</HI> &s;harply for geuing place to <HI>Ari&s;totle</HI> in <HI>Peripato,</HI> and then con&s;equently bent the mayne force of his mighte again&s;t him, contending with wordes, and with&s;tanding his proc&eacute;edings ind&eacute;ede in&s;omuch y^t the &s;trife betw&eacute;ene the~ both waxed hot and fyery. In conclu&s;ion was kindled with &s;uch commotions of minde that he di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed <HI>Ari&s;totle</HI> of the <HI>Peripatum,</HI> expelled and thru&s;t him out by the &s;houl|ders as obtayning that place by v&s;urpation, and therefore mo&s;t worthy of di&s;location: So that in fine, the deuine Philo&s;opher <HI>Plato,</HI> that good olde man recouered his ac|cu&s;tomed roome, and was (by compul&s;ory meanes) re&s;tored to his proper place.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of <HI>Ly&s;ander,</HI> and of the pre&s;ents which were offered vnto hym.</HEAD>
<P>_TO <HI>Ly&s;ander</HI> the <HI>Lacedemonian</HI> going in progre&s;&s;e to <HI>Ionia,</HI> among many other giftes and oblations pre&s;ented vnto him by y^e borderers and inhabitantes, as &s;imbols and pledges of his welcome to them, a fat bullock and another iuncket both daynty and tooth&s;ome was offered: <HI>Ly&s;ander</HI> beholding the iuncket demaunded what maner of meate it was, and of what &s;imples it was made, to whome, the bringers ther|of made an&s;wer, that it was a confection made of Hony,
<PB REF="49"> Creame, fine flower, and other things &s;omwhat as it &s;hould &s;&eacute;eme lyke a tarte, or a Marchpane. Then &s;aide <HI>Ly&s;ander</HI> agayne, friends geue this to them that be accquainted with it and know what it is, for it is no meate for a gentleman, or great &s;tate. As for the bullock he procured that to be led to the &s;laughter, to be di&s;membered, &s;undred out in &s;eue|rall quarters and ioynts, and after the cu&s;tome of the coun|try, to be dre&s;&s;ed diuer&s;ly, wherupon he fed and reaped great plea&s;ure in that kinde of repa&s;t.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the courage and &s;tout hart of <HI>Themi&s;tocles.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_THemi&s;tocles</HI> when he was but a boy com|ming from &s;choole, was commaunded by his in&s;tructer &amp; techer to geue place to <HI>Pi|&s;i&s;tratus</HI> the tyrant, if peraduenture hee met him: To whome the noble lad ca&s;t out this an&s;wer with boldne&s;&s;e of minde, &s;toutne&s;&s;e of &s;tomack &amp; lybertie of &s;peach. <HI>Nunquid hec via ei non &s;ufficit?</HI> is not this way &s;ufficent for him to pa&s;&s;e by? Whereupon from that time forwardes great hope of man|hood and valyantne&s;&s;e &s;hined in <HI>Themi&s;tocles.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the godly di&s;po&s;ition of <HI>Aeneas,</HI> and of the compa&s;&s;ion of the <HI>Grecians</HI> towardes the <HI>Troians.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_WHen <HI>Troy</HI> was taken, the <HI>Grecians</HI> pittying the perplexities &amp; mi&s;eries of the captiues, made this generall pro|clamation in the <HI>Grecian</HI> tongue, that it &s;houlde be lawfull for euery Citizen which was fr&eacute;e, to conuey and carry a|way with them &s;ome one thing or o|ther,
<PB N="40" REF="49"> what they them&s;elfe would be&s;t lyke of, and mo&s;t ten|derly loued. <HI>Aeneas</HI> therefore, contempning al other things what&s;oeuer of great value and e&s;timation, carried out with him the Gods of ho&s;pytalitie, which when the <HI>Greci|ans</HI> behelde, and con&s;idered the vertuous and gracious in|clynation of the gentleman, gaue hym leaue in lyke maner to take and chu&s;e one thing, what he mo&s;t made of, among all his goodes, riches, and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions. <HI>Aeneas</HI> v&s;ing the benefit of this their mercifull graunt, tooke his Father be|yng olde and auncient, vppon his &s;houlders, and bore the burthen of his body out of the Citie, whereat the <HI>Grecians</HI> being wonderfully a&s;toni&s;hed, left vnto him the &s;ub&s;tance of al his wealth vndimini&s;hed, adding the&s;e words importing a te&s;timony of their opinion. <HI>Pietatem in homines &amp; deos exercentibus parentesque reuer enter colentibus, etiam natura inimicos, non po&s;&s;e non aequos &amp; placatos &s;e perbere.</HI> Such as behaue them &s;elfe relygiou&s;ly towardes the Gods, and v&s;e them&s;elfe al&s;o reuerently to their parentes, mu&s;t of ne|ce&s;&s;itie make blunt the &s;harpe edge of the yrefull enemye, and con&s;traine &s;uch to be parciall as gaped gr&eacute;edely after the &s;poyle.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of <HI>Alexander.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_COmmendable and renowned be the actes of <HI>Alexander</HI> which hee dyd at <HI>Granicus</HI> and <HI>I&s;&s;us.</HI> His foughten field at <HI>Arbeles,</HI> the taking of <HI>Darius,</HI> the &s;ub|duing of the <HI>Per&s;ians</HI> to the <HI>Macedoni|ans,</HI> the conquering of al <HI>A&s;ia,</HI> the bring|yng of the <HI>Indians</HI> vnder his owne dominion. &amp;c. Lawdible be his feats of armes donne at <HI>Tyrus,</HI> and <HI>Oxydacris:</HI> But what meane we to comprehend in a &s;kantlyng of lynes the pui&s;aunce of &s;o incomparable a Prince? let it be as &s;ome
<PB REF="50"> enuyous varlets and backbiting tonges woulde haue it, that the pro&s;perous &s;ucce&s;&s;e of his aduentures is to be at|tributed to <HI>Fortune,</HI> what of that? yet is he notable and prai&s;e worthy, notwith&s;tanding, in&s;omuch as his fortune neuer fainted nor fayled, and in that hee was lulled in the lappe of &s;o louing a Lady that &s;he neuer withdrew her fa|uour from him. But the&s;e enumerations following de|&s;erue no &s;haddow nor cypher of commendation. Fir&s;t, vp|pon the fifte day of one month (as the reporte runneth) hee drunk &s;omuch at <HI>Eumeus</HI> Manour, that he was quite ouer|come, &s;l&eacute;eping out his bea&s;tly &s;urfeiting all the &s;ixt day folowing, wherin he did nothing at al in a maner, but ri&s;e a litle from his drunken pillow and gaue commaunde|ment of the morrowes voiage, &s;aying, that it &s;hould be the next morning very early at the &s;pring of the light from the Ea&s;t. The &s;eauenth day folowing he fea&s;ted and ban|queted at the Lorde of <HI>Perdina</HI> his Pallace, at what time he pampered his paunche like an epicure, with choi&s;e of ch&eacute;ere, and change of wines, ouer drinking him&s;elfe, in &s;uch in&s;atiable &s;orte, that all the eight day next in&s;ueing was con&s;umed in &s;l&eacute;epe. Furthermore vpon the fift&eacute;enth day of the &s;ame month he fell to winebibbing againe, and &s;pent the next day after in &s;l&eacute;epe to dige&s;t his &s;urfeting. The foure and twenty day folowing he &s;upped at <HI>Bago|as</HI> table, who&s;e Manour, was di&s;tant from Courte, about a tenne furlongs, the &s;econd &s;eruice of who&s;e vnmea&s;ura|ble abu&s;e (&s;wallowing wine as &s;wine do their &s;will) was drow&s;ines and &s;l&eacute;epe, which folowed his intemperaunce, &s;ucce&s;&s;iuely. Wherfore to knyt vp all in one conclu&s;ion, of the&s;e two circum&s;taunces mu&s;t of nece&s;&s;itie in&s;ue, eyther that lu&s;ty <HI>Alexander,</HI> by con&s;umyng &s;o many dayes in E|picuri&s;m and drunkene&s;&s;e, did impare his owne profite, or els that they which were reporters of this vndecent and reprehen&s;ible v&s;age, were &s;tark &s;taring lyers. Whereby it may be gathered, that they al&s;o in other things wander wide from the truth, among whom that fellow <HI>Cardianus</HI>
<PB N="41" REF="50"> hath not the hindermo&s;t place.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; That <HI>Xenophon</HI> was preci&s;e in fyne&s;&s;e of furniture.</HEAD>
<P>_AS <HI>Xenophon</HI> had a &s;inguler regarde, in &s;undry hone&s;t and good things, &s;o had he a &s;peciall care to haue his harne&s;&s;e cleane, fayre, bright and &s;hining. For &s;ayde he, if happe did &s;o hit, that he &s;houlde be con|querour and valiant in victorie, the be&s;t, the braue&s;t, and the mo&s;t beautifull robe among all his enemies, &s;hould be his to weare with wor&s;hip. Agayne, if lucke did &s;o light, that he &s;houlde be &s;ubdued in battell, and lo&s;e his life, that then his carka&s;&s;e or corpes &s;houldly vpon the ground, not vile and deba&s;ed, but garni&s;hed with glittering armour, which to a &s;trong and courageous cap|taine is an ornament of honour, wherewith he ought de|cently to be decked. <HI>Xenophon</HI> therefore was curious in the proui&s;ion of martiall furniture, he had an <HI>Argolican</HI> target, an <HI>Athenien</HI> brea&s;t plate, a <HI>Boetian</HI> head peece, an <HI>Epidauria~</HI> ceval, &amp;c. I do not make a recapitulatio~ of the&s;e things to any other purpo&s;e, then to giue a &s;pecialtie by the way, of <HI>Xenophons</HI> de&s;ire in neatne&s;&s;e and featne&s;&s;e, and to iudge him worthy in d&eacute;ede, of that which is both rare, co&s;tly, fayre, fine, and curious.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of <HI>Leonidas,</HI> and the thirtie men, who offe|red them &s;elfe to dy of their own accord, for the &s;afetie of Grecia.</HEAD>
<P><HI>LEonidas</HI> the <HI>Lacedemonian,</HI> and thirtie men more of &s;tout &s;tomackes, yelded their bodies to the bitter pa&s;|&s;ion of dreadful death at <HI>Pylas,</HI> which was pronou~ced vp|on them by a vaticination or prophe&s;ie. Who induring
<PB REF="51"> battel boldly, and continuing conflict courageou&s;ly, for the pre&s;eruation of all <HI>Grecia,</HI> obtained a mo&s;t glorious and triumphant end, leauing behind them a name of nobilitie, and a perpetuall monument of excellent worthyne&s;&s;e.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the tyrant Pyndarus.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_PYndarus</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Melanis, A|lyattus</HI> nephewe to <HI>Hydran,</HI> by his daughter, not degenerating from the tyrannie of the <HI>Ephe&s;ians,</HI> &s;hew|ed him &s;elfe of nature faire inexo|rable, and pa&s;te intreataunce, in the execution of puni&s;hmentes, I meane: but in other things his be|hauiour was mylde, gentle, prudent, and curteous, apply|ing his vttermo&s;t diligence, that his countrey &s;hould not be burthened with barbarous bondage, but fr&eacute;e from all forreine force. That the&s;e things are to be verefied, the &s;equele of this pre&s;ent hi&s;torie maketh declaration. Whe~ his vncle <HI>Cre&s;&s;us</HI> by the mothers &s;ide had all <HI>Ionia</HI> in &s;ub|iection, he &s;ent emba&s;&s;adours to <HI>Pyndarus,</HI> requiring that the <HI>Ephe&s;ians</HI> might be deliuered into his dominion. But <HI>Pyndarus</HI> woulde not &s;ub&s;cribe to the &s;umme of the me&s;|&s;age, wherevpon <HI>Cre&s;&s;us</HI> made preparation again&s;t the citie, and layde &s;iege therevnto. In this tumult, a certain tower or fortre&s;&s;e being &s;o a&s;&s;aulted, that it was ouer|throwne and ruinou&s;ly raced, whiche afterwardes was called <HI>Proditrix,</HI> that is, trayterous, and &s;&eacute;eing the incon|uenience of the mi&s;chiefe before his face, <HI>Pyndarus</HI> gaue adui&s;e to the <HI>Ephe&s;ians,</HI> that from the gates and towers of the citie, to the pillers of <HI>Venus</HI> temple they &s;hould tye ropes, and let the citie be <HI>Anathema</HI> to that Godde&s;&s;e. By this he per&s;uaded the <HI>Ephe&s;ians</HI> to be &s;ecure, and to &s;et all at &s;ixe and at &s;euen, mini&s;tring moreouer vnto them this coun&s;el as commodious: that they in their owne per&s;ons &s;huld repayre to <HI>Cre&s;&s;us</HI> and de&s;ire peace. The <HI>Ephe&s;ians</HI> did &s;o, opening their &s;uites and &s;upplications to the &s;ame
<PB N="42" REF="51"> intent. Whereat <HI>Cre&s;&s;us</HI> laughed, and &s;&eacute;emed neuer a|whit to be moued in mynde, at this their diligent ende|uour, but graunted vnto them fr&eacute;edome and libertie. Ne|uertheles vpon condition, namely that <HI>Pyndarus</HI> &s;houlde auoyde the citie, who indeede was &s;o farre from impug|ning that appointment, that he gaue both heart and hand to the vtter &s;ati&s;faction of the &s;ame, taking with him &s;uch of his friendes, as would willingly beare him company. As for his &s;onne and all his &s;ub&s;tance, he &s;urrendred them to the citie. Thus the tuition and charge of his &s;onne, be|ing committed to the con&s;cience and credite of one of his be&s;t beloued and approued friendes named <HI>Pa&s;iclus,</HI> and due order being taken for the di&s;po&s;ition of his goods, he de|parted into <HI>Pelloponne&s;us,</HI> making an excha~ge of pomp and royaltie, with voluntarie bani&s;hment, to the intent that the &s;ouldiers of the countrey, &s;hould not &s;hrinke vn|der the yoke of <HI>Hydrans</HI> &s;ubiection.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Platos pouertie, and howe he a&s;pired to to the &s;tudie of Philo&s;ophy.</HEAD>
<P>_I Haue hearde this reported (whether it be true or not, I can not tel,) neuerthele&s;&s;e, I wil take leaue to rehear&s;e that which I haue heard. <HI>Plato</HI> the &s;on of <HI>Ari&s;ton</HI> being plagued with impoueri&s;hment, &amp; nip|ped with nece&s;&s;itie, determined with him &s;elf to be a &s;oul|dier, and to go on warfare. But being taken in that mind by <HI>Socrates,</HI> and in&s;tructed in that, which was not onely more commendable, but al&s;o more auaileable, he &s;olde his harne&s;&s;e and weapons, changed his purpo&s;e, &amp; framed him &s;elf to the &s;tudy of philo&s;ophy, at <HI>Socrates</HI> per&s;ua&s;ions.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Howe Socrates &s;uppre&s;&s;ed the pryde and hautine&s;&s;e of Alcibiades.</HEAD>
<P><HI>SOcrates</HI> &s;&eacute;eing <HI>Alcibiades</HI> puft vp with pryde, and broy|ling in ambitious behauioure (becau&s;e hee was
<PB REF="52"> po&s;&s;e&s;&s;er of &s;uch great wealth, and Lorde of &s;o large lands) brought him to a place where a table did hang, containing a di&s;cription of the worlde vniuer&s;all: Then did <HI>Socrates</HI> wil <HI>Alcibiades</HI> to &s;&eacute;eke out the &s;ituation of <HI>Athens,</HI> which whe~ he fou~d, <HI>Socrates</HI> proc&eacute;eded further, and willed him to point out that plot of ground, where his lands &amp; lord&s;hips lay. <HI>Alcibiades</HI> hauing &s;ought a long time, and yet neuer the neare, &s;ayde to <HI>Socrates,</HI> that his liuings were not &s;et foorth in that table, nor any di&s;cription of his po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, therin made euident. Whom <HI>Socrates</HI> rebuked with this &s;ecret quip. <HI>Horu~ po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ione te effers, quae nulla pars &s;unt terrae?</HI> And art thou &s;o arrogant, (&s;ayth he) and &s;o hautie in heart for that, which is no percell of the world.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of <HI>Diogenes</HI> his beggerlyne&s;&s;e, and of his hautine&s;&s;e.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_DIogenes Sinopen&s;is</HI> &s;ayde v&s;ually of him &s;elf, that he &s;uffered many &s;harp &s;houres and &s;turdie &s;tormes, that he had no abyding place, but was of the brotherhoode of vagabunds, that he was a verie begger, &amp; y^t his wearing garments were vile and ylfauoured, and yet he vaunted him &s;elfe in this, that he liued notwith&s;tanding, yea, &s;o he liued, that he was no le&s;&s;e &s;ati&s;fied with this &s;car&s;itie, then <HI>Alexander</HI> was delighted with his &s;uperfluitie, and no le&s;&s;e contented with his want, then <HI>Alexander</HI> was proude of the whole world, when he hauing &s;ubdued the <HI>Indians,</HI> returned in|to <HI>Babylon.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of certaine mode&s;t, cha&s;te, and continent per&s;ons.</HEAD>
<P><HI>A</HI> Certaine harper named <HI>Amoebeas,</HI> hath the report of maruellous cha&s;titie, who albeit he had to his wife
<PB N="43" REF="52"> and bedfellowe, a woman of rare beautie, yet dealt not with her in carnall knowledge. Such another continent fellowe was one <HI>Dioni&s;ius</HI> the tragicall player. To the&s;e mu&s;t be annexed <HI>Clytomacus Pancratia&s;tes,</HI> a man cun|ning and p&eacute;erele&s;&s;e in all exerci&s;es of actiuitie: who was of &s;o cha&s;te a countenance, that if peraduenture he &s;aw at any time a dogge a lyning a bitch that went &s;alute, he tur|ned his hone&s;t eies a&s;ide, to the intent that he might not &s;&eacute;e the coupling of them in their kynde. The verie &s;ame man was of &s;uch mode&s;t di&s;po&s;ition, that if he heard any leche|rous communication, and baudy taulke pertayning to Venerie, in bankets, and fea&s;ts, where he was pre&s;ent, As impatient of &s;uche vnreuerent &s;p&eacute;eche, he aro&s;e immedi|ately from the table, left his trencher, and departed.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the earne&s;t labour of <HI>Niccas,</HI> which he be&s;towed in his Arte.</HEAD>
<P><HI>NIccas</HI> the paynter was &s;o earne&s;t, &s;o intentiue, and &s;o bu&s;ily occupyed in paynting, that he forgot to take foode and &s;u&s;tenance to &s;uccour nature.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of <HI>Alexander</HI> and <HI>Hercules,</HI> learning to play vpon the violyn.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ALexander</HI> the &s;onne of king <HI>Phillip,</HI> when he was in a manner but a boy, and &s;car&s;e|ly growen to the age of a &s;tripling, lear|ned to play vpon the violyn, who&s;e ma&s;ter bidding him play vpon a &s;tring agr&eacute;eing in tune, called a concorde, as the &s;cience of Mu&s;ike required, <HI>Alexander</HI> ouerthwarted him, &s;aying, and what matter is it, if I &s;trike vpon a contrary corde. The teacher an&s;wered againe in this &s;orte, Ind&eacute;ede, it is not materiall to th&eacute;e as thou wilt be a king, but as thou wilt be a Mu&s;itian, it is worthy of marking. This man
<PB REF="53"> &s;u&s;pected, that if he taught not <HI>Alexander</HI> fitly, y^e like lot would light vpon him, which fel in <HI>Linus</HI> lap. For <HI>Linus</HI> taught <HI>Hercules</HI> when he was but a ladde, to play on the in&s;trument, and to &s;ing to the &s;ame in a tuneable voyce, whome <HI>Linus</HI> reprehending, becau&s;e he handled his re|becke &s;omewhat rudely, <HI>Hercules</HI> &s;welling with the poy|&s;on of anger, &s;mote his ma&s;ter <HI>Linus</HI> with his bowe, and harmed him in &s;uch &s;ort, that he dyed.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of <HI>Satyrus</HI> the whi&s;tler or pyper.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_SAtyrus</HI> the Piper was pre&s;ent at the Philo|pher <HI>Ari&s;tos</HI> di&s;putatio~s, and being myracu|lou&s;ly moued with the rea&s;ons which he had vttered, &s;ayde, <HI>Cur ego non igni trado hoc mihi vtile tecum.</HI></P>
<Q><L>Why doe not I vile hare braine foole,</L>
<L>Con&s;ume with fire this fruitle&s;&s;e toole.</L></Q>
<P>Meaning ind&eacute;ede &s;omewhat darkly, his pype, wherein he v&s;ed to whi&s;tle, and after a &s;ecret &s;ort, and clo&s;e conceit of di&s;daine, aba&s;ing his homely profe&s;&s;ion, or rather vtter|ly contemning the &s;ame, in compari&s;on of the &s;tudie and knowledge of Philo&s;ophy.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of a lawe common to the Romaines and the Lacedemonians.</HEAD>
<P>_THe <HI>Lacedemonians</HI> and the <HI>Romanes</HI> had a lawe, that no man &s;hould &s;uppe when he li&s;te, nor with what he li&s;te: meaning to withdrawe their citizens and people from intemperance, by many policies, and principally by due order &amp; re&s;onable v&s;age at the table, which was not accounted among the ba&s;e&s;t.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="43" REF="53">
<HEAD>&para; That it was not lawfull to laugh in the &s;chole|hou&s;e called <HI>Academia.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THe rumour concerning <HI>Athens</HI> is &s;o common, that it rouleth in euery ma~s mouth, Namely, that in auncient time it was not permitted, nor grau~|ted, that any &s;huld laugh in the &s;chole|hou&s;e called <HI>Academia:</HI> For they did what they could with the vttermo&s;t of their might, to pre&s;erue this place from lightne&s;&s;e, from iniurie, and from ydlene&s;&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; For what con&s;ideration Ari&s;totle did for&s;ake Athens.</HEAD>
<P><HI>ARi&s;totle</HI> being troubled with the fearefull cogitation and thought of iudgement, dyd for&s;ake <HI>Athens:</HI> To a certaine man mouing this que&s;tion vnto him, and de|maunding what manner of citie it was, made this an|&s;were: <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">. That is to &s;ay, A goodly citie, and a very fayre, &s;auing that one Peare tr&eacute;e waxeth olde by an|other, and one figge tr&eacute;e wythereth by another, meaning Sycophants, fal&s;e accu&s;ers, carrytales and yll di&s;po&s;ed per&s;ons. And to one a&s;king why he left <HI>Athens,</HI> he an|&s;wered, Becau&s;e he woulde not be a &s;tumbling blocke to the <HI>Atheniens,</HI> to make them offende twi&s;e again&s;t Phi|lo&s;ophy, &s;hewing &s;omwhat ob&s;curely, and as it were vn|der a cloud, the death of <HI>Socrates,</HI> and giuing an ynckling of the daunger which he him &s;elfe was like to incurre, if he made any tarryance among &s;uch pernitious people.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; The Statute of the people Cei, con|cerning auncient men.</HEAD>
<P>THe people <HI>Cei</HI> ob&s;erue this lawe accu&s;tomably, that &s;uch farre &s;pent in yeres, &amp; much wa&s;ted with old age,
<PB REF="54"> waxing hoarie and auncient, &s;hould byd one another (as it were) to a computation and banket, or &s;hould a&s;&s;emble them &s;elfe at &s;ome &s;olemne &s;acrafice, and being crowned with garlandes in glorious maner, &s;hould drinke poy&s;on, knowing this a&s;&s;uredly, that their &s;tre~gth was weaknes, and their wit dotage, and therefore vtterly vnable to fur|ther their countrey in any re&s;pect. It followeth then, that we are to be &s;haken off from the tr&eacute;e of the co~mon wealth like rotten fruite, re&s;erued for no nece&s;&s;arie v&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of diuers things which were fir&s;t inuented at Athens.</HEAD>
<P>_AT <HI>Athens</HI> (as &s;ome reporte) was the Oliue tr&eacute;e, and the fig tr&eacute;e (which that cuntrey &s;oile did y&eacute;eld before any other ground,) fir&s;t founde out. The &s;ea&s;&s;ing of fines, penalties, and forfetures, and the appointing of puni&s;hments, were in like manner deui&s;ed among them. They al&s;o were the fir&s;t that inuented wre&s;tling, and cor|porall exerci&s;es, &s;triping them&s;elues to their naked &s;kins, and anointing their bodies. And, to be briefe, <HI>Ericthonius</HI> was the fir&s;t that ioined hor&s;es together to &s;erue in draw|ing.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; What &s;ome people in times pa&s;t v&s;ed to eate.</HEAD>
<P>_THe <HI>Arcadians</HI> did eate acornes, the <HI>Argiues</HI> did eat wardens of the woode. The <HI>Athenians</HI> did eate figges, the <HI>Tyrinthes</HI> did eate wilde peares, the <HI>Indians</HI> did eate flagges, the <HI>Carucanes</HI> did eate dates, the <HI>Moeotes</HI> and the <HI>Sauroncates</HI> did eate millet, the <HI>Per&s;i|ans</HI> did eate of the turpentine tr&eacute;e. &amp;c.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="40" REF="54">
<HEAD>&para; Of the <HI>Satires. Titires</HI> and <HI>Silens.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THe <HI>Satires</HI> were <HI>Bacchus</HI> companions alwaies: who~ &s;ome terme by this word <HI>Tityres,</HI> which name they borowed <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">, that is to &s;ay, of wanton lewde and filthy &s;onges, le|cherous and baudy ballades, and daun|ces ful of dete&s;table demeanure, where|in the <HI>Satires</HI> &s;pecially reioyced. They are called <HI>Satiri, <HI>ab oris rictu,</HI></HI> of the gaping of the mouth. And the <HI>Silens</HI> haue their name, <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">, y^t is of reuilyng, vpbrayding, and reprochfull raylinges, for they dyd &s;hoote out of their braine&s;ick bowes, &s;coffing boults, with a certaine kinde of yrck&s;ome dallyaunce. The attyre which the <HI>Sylens</HI> v&s;ed, were cotes all heary on both &s;ides. This longe garment, doth repre&s;ent the plantyng of <HI>Bacchus,</HI> the indented leaues of the vine tr&eacute;e, the thickne&s;&s;e of the braunches as they &s;pring, and the grapes growing in clu&s;ters.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; The manyfolde &s;irnames of <HI>Bacchus</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THe auncient men (time out of minde) tear|med the plentyfull increa&s;e of fruits by this worde <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">, which &s;ignifieth to abound, wheruppon &s;prang one of <HI>Bacchus</HI> &s;irnames that is to be called <HI>Philecon,</HI> he was called in like maner <HI>Protigas,</HI> he was called more|ouer, <HI>Staphilitas,</HI> he was al&s;o called <HI>Omphacitas.</HI> Finally, he was called by manyfold and &s;undry appellations, which to recount in this place, were not a &s;igne of &s;o great wi&s;|dome, as a token of vaine curio&s;itie.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of certaine mad women.</HEAD>
<P>THe Qu&eacute;ene of <HI>Cyprus</HI> prouoked <HI>Elega,</HI> and <HI>Cel en a,</HI> the daughters of <HI>Proetus,</HI> to &s;uch extreame madne&s;&s;e, and
<PB REF="55"> outrage, that they were &s;&eacute;ene running vp and downe in &s;undry places of <HI>Peloponne&s;us</HI> &s;tarke naked, &s;tamping and &s;taring like helli&s;h feendes. They ru&s;hed al&s;o, into &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ndry regions of <HI>Grecia,</HI> being perplexed with this lunatique pa&s;|&s;ion. I haue receiued al&s;o, by report, that there were diuers women in <HI>Lacedemonia</HI> which were haunted with the mad &s;pirit of <HI>Bacchus,</HI> of diuers women among the people <HI>Chij,</HI> and of diuers women, in lyke maner, among the <HI>Boe|otians</HI> which were frantique, furious, and filled with a certaine cele&s;tiall commotion. Moreouer the tragicall pa|geants are repleni&s;hed with outragious rorrings and ter|rible outcries. The women called <HI>Miniades, Leucippe, A|ri&s;tippe,</HI> and <HI>Alcithoe</HI> by name, onely they refu&s;ed (as the voice goes) the daunces of bawdy <HI>Bacchus,</HI> becau&s;e they de&s;iered hu&s;bandes, and for that cau&s;e refrained them&s;elfe from &s;uch v&s;age as &s;hould &s;erue the celebration of <HI>Bacchus,</HI> whereuppon his choler &s;o increa&s;ed, that he fell into an an|gry heate. Now when they were bui&s;ie about their hu&s;|wifes cloth, and were occupyed in &s;pinning thred, and in carding wooll, wandring Ivy with gr&eacute;ene leaues, crept vp incontinent, and ran rounde about their di&s;taues. In their O&s;yer ba&s;kets did Serpents make their ne&s;tes, and ingen|dered, and from the endes of the flax or wooll, drops of hony and wine di&s;tilled. But when the&s;e wayes woulde not win them to the wor&s;hip of the for&s;ayde God, no le&s;&s;e madne&s;&s;e and outrage entered into their hartes without <HI>Citheron,</HI> then in <HI>Citheron.</HI> For <HI>Minyades</HI> being po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed with an implacable &s;pirit of outrage, pulled and tare in mammocks the &s;onne of <HI>Leucippe</HI> being but yong and tender, &s;uppo&s;ing in the&s;e their frantique fits, that he was a fawne, and then dragged him to the aboue reher&s;ed <HI>Minyades,</HI> who makyng &s;peedy pur&s;uit after them for the murther committed, were chaunged into contrary &s;hapes, the fir&s;t into the likene&s;&s;e of a crow, the &s;econd into the figure of a bat, and the thirde into the fourme of an owle.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="42" REF="55">
<HEAD>&para; Of a Harper whom the <HI>Sybarits</HI> murthered.</HEAD>
<P>_AT what time a certaine Mu&s;itian, who commonly v&s;ed y^e Harp, did both &s;ing and play at <HI>Sybaris</HI> in a &s;olemne &s;hew made &amp; &s;et forth in y^e honour of heauenly <HI>Iuno,</HI> there aro&s;e about him, a great variance amonge the <HI>Sybarits.</HI> Now when this contention was &s;o kindled, that the mat|ter came to be tryed with harne&s;&s;e and weapon, and euery one furni&s;hed to fight, the Harper, being attired in his long robe, fled with might and maine to the Aulter of <HI>Iu|no.</HI> But the <HI>Sybarits,</HI> not &s;paring the holyne&s;&s;e of the place, layde violent handes vpon the Mu&s;itian, in&s;o much that a|mong them he was murthered. Anon the temple of <HI>Iuno</HI> appeared to flow with bloud, lyke &s;treames of water from a xiuer, immediatly after that &s;laughter. The <HI>Sibarits</HI> &s;en|ding to the <HI>Oracle</HI> for coun&s;ell in that ca&s;e of crueltie, re|ceiued this &s;harp and bitter an&s;were.</P>
<Q><L>Cede meis men&s;is, manibus nam &s;anguis adhaerens</L>
<L>De&s;tillan&s;que recens, prohibet tibi limina templi.</L>
<L>Non tibi fata canam: Magnae Iunonis ad aram,</L>
<L>Mu&s;arum innocuum &s;traui&s;ti caede mini&s;trum.</L>
<L>Non immortales hoc dii patientur inulum.</L>
<L>Si quis enim prudens, &s;celerata &egrave; mente profectum.</L>
<L>Commitat facinus, grauis hunc prop&egrave; paena &s;equetur.</L>
<L>Non exorabit, neque &s;i genus ab Ioue &s;ummo</L>
<L>Duceret: ip&s;e &s;uo collo, colli&s;que nepotum,</L>
<L>Hoc luet, &amp; generis cumulatum damna ferentur.</L></Q>
<P>Thus in Engli&s;h.</P>
<Q><L>My table come not nere, for hands with bloud imbrude,</L>
<L>Which floweth fre&s;h, fro~ holy temple gates doth thee exclude</L>
<L>Thy fate I wil not tel: By <HI>Iunos</HI> alter thou ha&s;t &s;lain,</L>
<PB REF="56">
<L>A guiltles &s;oule, vnto the <HI>Mu&s;es</HI> nine who did retaine.</L>
<L>Th'immortal gods of this foule fact &s;hal &s;harp reue~gment take:</L>
<L>For he which wilfully offends, &amp; doth a mi&s;chife make</L>
<L>Of minde malicious, torments &s;trong &s;hall be his hoped hyre,</L>
<L>No &s;uite may &s;erue, but &s;mart hee mu&s;t, though <HI>Ioue</HI> be bla&s;d his &s;yre:</L>
<L>His head, &amp; al his childrens heads, vpon the bloudy block</L>
<L>From &s;houlders &s;hal be chopt, ill luck &s;hall light vpon his &s;tock.</L></Q>
<P>Neither was the reuengment lingred, and delayed from morrow to morrow: But as they receiued of the <HI>Oracle</HI> &s;o it came to pa&s;&s;e. For when they entred battaile again&s;t the <HI>Crotomates,</HI> this prophe&s;ie had &s;ucce&s;&s;e, &s;o that they were &s;ubdued to the power of their enemies, and their citie (oh pytifull &s;pectacle) brought to vtter ruine and de&s;olation.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of one that might haue &s;uccoured his fellow in daunger, but would not, and of another that dyd his good wyll to aide him, but had yll Fortune.</HEAD>
<P>_THr&eacute;e yong men, being all of one ci|tie, and traueilyng together to <HI>Del|phos</HI> to a&s;ke coun&s;ell and to be ad|uerti&s;ed by the <HI>Oracle,</HI> fell into the &s;poyling hands of th&eacute;eues, One of the thr&eacute;e, tendring his owne lyfe, tooke his h&eacute;eles and ran away, and &s;o e&s;caped perill. Another (after that all the villans were hackt, hewne, and kylled, except one, whom he inuaded al&s;o with might and mayue) bent the force of his blow to &s;lay hym which was left aliue. But it fortuned (ah gr&eacute;euous chance) that as he foyned with his &s;worde at the th&eacute;efe, thinking to haue thru&s;t him through, he mi&s;&s;ed his marke, and &s;mote his owne fellow with &s;uch a bloudy blow, that he gaue him his deathes wound. To him therefore which by taking flight,
<PB N="38" REF="56"> auoyded daunger, this an&s;wer was made by the <HI>Oracle.</HI></P>
<Q><LG>
<L>Occidi &s;ocium pre&s;ens &amp; pa&s;&s;us amicum,</L>
<L>Non tibi vaticinor, &s;acro te proripe templo.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thou being pre&s;ent did&s;t abide thy fellow to be &s;laine,</L>
<L>To thee I doo not prophe&s;ie: my holy place refraine.</L>
</LG></Q>
<P>And to the other a&s;king adui&s;e of the <HI>Oracle,</HI> this an&s;wer was rendred.</P>
<Q><LG>
<L>Defendens &s;ocium, ver&s;o mucrone neca&s;ti:</L>
<L>Purior es manibus nunc, quam prius e&s;&s;e &s;olebas.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thou &s;eeking to defend thy mate,</L>
<L>dyd&s;t kill hym with thy blade:</L>
<L>Thy handes, then they were wont to be,</L>
<L>are now much cleaner made.</L>
</LG></Q>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; The Oracle which pronounced to <HI>Phillip.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_PHillip</HI> in <HI>Boetia</HI> heard this pronounced by the <HI>Oracle</HI> in the temple of <HI>Tropho|nius,</HI> that he &s;hould be circum&s;pect in a|uoyding a Waggon or Charriot, wher|vppon he fearing the premonition of the <HI>Oracle</HI> would turne to his detriment &amp; harme, if he con&s;idered not &s;uperficially of y^e &s;ame, would neuer mount vp after that into his chariot of e&s;tate. As concerning this hi&s;tory, there runneth a double rumour abroad. For &s;ome &s;ay that the &s;word of <HI>Pau&s;anias,</HI> wherew^t he &s;lue <HI>Phillip,</HI> had in the hiltes or handle therof, a Chariot of Elephants bone or yuery ingrauen. Other&s;ome &s;ay, that he was killed, at &s;uch time as hee rode in circuite about a fen or marri&s;&s;e called <HI>Palus Thaebaica,</HI> which place
<PB REF="57"> was called by the name of a Chariot. But the fir&s;t report is the more v&s;ual, the &s;econd not &s;o common. By this is &s;igni|fied, that de&s;teny cannot be auoyded.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; The Statute of the <HI>Stagirites.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THis is a Statute of the <HI>Stagirites,</HI> and &s;uch a Statute it is that a man may ma|nyfe&s;tly perceiue that it is a <HI>Grecian</HI> law the &s;ume wherof is this. <HI>Quod non depo|&s;ui&s;ti, ne tollas.</HI> Take not vp that which thou ha&s;t not laide downe.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of <HI>Timothy,</HI> and other valiaunt men, that were not aduantaged by their vertue.</HEAD>
<P>_THe <HI>Athenians</HI> did &s;ingularly commend <HI>Timothy</HI> at the fir&s;t, but afterwardes when he &s;&eacute;emed to offend, his former ver|tue auailed him not a ru&s;he, neither dyd his pui&s;aunt d&eacute;edes in times pa&s;t, pur|cha&s;e him a pinnes worth of profit. As for <HI>Themi&s;tocles,</HI> though he did &s;ow the &s;&eacute;ede of his valyantne&s;&s;e aboundantlye, yet hee reaped ad|uauntage very &s;paringlye, for his commodyties were not great which he got by a battaile fought vpon the &s;ea about <HI>Salamis,</HI> or by the emba&s;&s;age which he bare to <HI>Sparta:</HI> for his reward, in the end, was bani&s;hme~t out of the borders of the Citie, and al&s;o out of all the coa&s;tes of <HI>Grecia</HI> vniuer&s;all. Moreouer, <HI>Pau&s;anias</HI> had very &s;lender furtheraunce, by his victory at <HI>Plateas,</HI> when he tooke new matters in hande at <HI>Byzantium</HI> and was troubled with a <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> &s;ickne&s;&s;e, not|with&s;tanding,
<PB N="44" REF="57"> all his practi&s;es of prowe&s;&s;e, and valliaunt vertue, he lo&s;t the grace and fauour, which he had obtayned by his former feates. And as for <HI>Phocion,</HI> hee was &s;o farre from the rewarde of commendation for his iu&s;tice and bounty, that he was drowned in the depth of de|te&s;tation: For he being thr&eacute;e&s;core and fife|t&eacute;ene yeares olde (a goodly and a gracious age) and hauing donne litle iniurie, or rather none at all to the <HI>Atheni|ans,</HI> yet becau&s;e it was <HI>Anti|paters</HI> plea&s;ure, who was willing to betray <HI>Pireum</HI>) he &s;toode to the &s;entence of condemnation pro|nounced by the <HI>Athenians.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>&para; <HI>The end of the thirde Booke of <HI>Aelianus.</HI></HI></TRAILER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="4" TYPE="book">
<PB REF="58">
<HEAD>&para; The fourth Booke of Aelianus <HI>variable Hi&s;torie.</HI></HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; The &s;undry manners of diuers people, and nations.</HEAD>
<P>_THe people of <HI>Leueani</HI> had a Lawe, the &s;um whereof was this. Yf a Straunger, or &s;o|iourner, was come amonge them, and entred into the &s;oyle which they enhabited, a litle before the &s;unne &s;etting, and was de&s;irous to lodge in one mans hou&s;e or other, if he were not receiued, intertai|ned, and harboured, he or they, which neglected duty in this re&s;pect, payd an appointed penalty for their inhumanytie, and &s;u&s;tayned de&s;erued puni&s;hment for their churly&s;hne&s;&s;e. A Law (as it &s;&eacute;emeth vnto m&eacute;e) very profitable to the way|faring man, and allowable to <HI>Iupiter</HI> the louer of ho&s;py|talytie.</P>
<P>The <HI>Dardane Illyrrians,</HI> v&s;ed to wa&s;he and &s;koure their &s;kinnes but thr&eacute;e times in all their lyfe, namely, after their birth, at their marriage, and at their deathes.</P>
<P>The <HI>Indians</HI> put not their money to v&s;ury, neither doe they receiue money to v&s;ury. Becau&s;e it is not lawfull that any <HI>Indian</HI> amonge them all &s;hould take wronge, or doe wrong. And therefore they make no bonds, no oblygations, nor hand writings to iu&s;tyfie any matter, neither doe they lay any thing to gage and to pledge.</P>
<P>There is a Law ob&s;erued among the people <HI>Sordoi,</HI> that the &s;onnes &s;ow&s;e and thumpe their fathers being aged and weaklings, with clubs to the death, and after they haue &s;laine them in &s;uch &s;ort, to prouide for the due execution of
<PB N="49" REF="58"> their funeralles, iudging it an ab&s;urd thing, and altogether repugnant to rea&s;on, that olde men &s;hould haue their liues prolonged, becau&s;e that when their bodies be worne with multytude of yeares and imbecilytie, their wits are fre&s;he and ripe to excogitate and deui&s;e &s;ubtilties, crafts, deceipts, and mi&s;chiefes. The &s;ame people prouided by br&eacute;efe of &s;ta|tute, that &s;louthfulne&s;&s;e, and ydlene&s;&s;e, &s;hould be recompen|&s;ed with due puni&s;hment, and that &s;uch as lyued without labour, and &s;hifted the world without taking paines, &s;hould render an accounts (narrow examination being pro&s;ecu|ted) after what &s;ort they liued, and whereuppon they were maintained.</P>
<P>The <HI>A&s;&s;yrians,</HI> when their virgins, and yong damo&s;elles are of &s;ufficient yeares and mariageable, they bring them altogeather into one Citie, and &s;et them out to &s;ale lyke wares in a common market, and euery man is wedded and bedded with her, as with his &s;pou&s;e legitimate, whom hee purcha&s;eth with his penny.</P>
<P>The people <HI>Biblij,</HI> if they &s;&eacute;e any thing lo&s;te by the way, they take it not vp, becau&s;e they layde it not downe. For if any infringed and brake the &s;taffe of that Statute, they iudged the thing taken vp, not to be found, but rather to be &s;tolne, and &s;o hee or they that offended were atta|ched of felony.</P>
<P>The people of <HI>Berbicae</HI> kill and &s;lay all that be aboue the age of thr&eacute;e&s;core and ten yeares, hacking and hewing their men, &s;tranglyng and choking their women.</P>
<P>The people of <HI>Colchi</HI> bury their dead in hydes and &s;kinnes, &s;owing them vp clo&s;e, and hanging them vpon trees.</P>
<P>The <HI>Lydyans</HI> v&s;e and cu&s;tome was, that women before they lay in bed with their hu&s;bandes, &s;hould lye open to be occupied, and hauing once had carnall knowledge and re|ceaued the &s;&eacute;ede of generation, they &s;hould liue afterwardes cha&s;t and continent. And what&s;oeuer &s;he was that dur&s;te deale in fle&s;hly delight with the body of any other, &s;he &s;hould
<PB REF="59"> be puni&s;hed (as a terrible example) without all mercy and Pitie.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the &s;trife betweene the two Min|&s;trelles, <HI>Nico&s;tratus</HI> and <HI>Laodocus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_AT what time <HI>Nico&s;tratus</HI> was at &s;trife with <HI>Laodocus</HI> about the art and &s;cience of min&s;trel&s;y, he vttered &s;uch and &s;uch words, &s;aying, y^t <HI>Laodocus</HI> in a great art had but litle &s;kill, and in chiefe cunning &s;mall knowledge. But that he him&s;elfe in a &s;mall art had great experience, and in a homely &s;cience &s;ingular vnder&s;tanding. Therfore it is not onely commendable, to amplyfie and inlarge a mans family, or to augment and increa&s;e his &s;ub&s;taunce, but al&s;o to prouide &s;o by indu&s;trious labour, and carefull dilligence, that cunning likewi&s;e may &s;pringe, grow, flouri&s;h, and at|tayne to excellencie, if we will geue eare to the coun&s;ell and aduice of <HI>Nico&s;tratus,</HI> and li&s;ten to his lore in this behalfe.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the two painters <HI>Dioni&s;ius</HI> and <HI>Polignotus</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_POlygnotus Tha&s;ius,</HI> and <HI>Diony&s;ius Colophonius</HI> were painters both by their trade, &s;cience, occupatio~, and profe&s;&s;ion. <HI>Polygnotus</HI> v&s;e and cu&s;tome was to decipher and painte out thinges which were great and large, be&s;ides that in pictures perfectly, preci&s;ely, and arty|ficially handled, he made challenges and contended for &s;u|perioritie. But <HI>Dyoni&s;ius</HI> pictures be&s;ides their magni|tude &amp; bignes comprehended al&s;o an exqui&s;ite, &s;inguler, and curious imitation of <HI>Polignotus</HI> art, it contained al&s;o liue|ly re&s;emblances of affections, of mouing the members, &s;tir+ring the lims and ioynts, naturall compo&s;ition and &s;hape, wrinckles, &s;eames, plights, foldinges, hems, and &s;uch lyke worthy and wonderfull workman&s;hip.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="54" REF="59">
<HEAD>&para; The Law of the Thebans concerning Artificers and painters.</HEAD>
<P>_THe <HI>Thebans</HI> had an ordinance which char|ged handy crafts men, and commaunded al artificers, but principally Painters, &amp; pot|ters, and caruers, that they &s;hould de&s;cribe, delineat, and &s;et forth the fa&s;hion forme and lykene&s;&s;e of &s;uch things as were incident to their art, after the fine&s;t, the feate&s;t, and the comlye&s;t manner. The &s;ame &s;tatute did inhibit and forbid all Painters and Caruers to doe any thing gro&s;ly, &s;lightly, and vncunningly, prouided al|waies by authorytie, that &s;uch as did contrary to the pre|&s;cript of their law, &s;hould incur a penalty, and &s;tande to the payment of a certaine &s;ome of mony for tra~&s;gre&s;&s;ing the te|nor of the fore&s;aide Statute.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; What men haue bine mindefull of benefits and good turnes in time conuenient.</HEAD>
<P>_AMonge many which haue maintained the remem|braunce of benefits, and haue not only &s;hewed them &s;elfe thankfull therby geuing an euident argument of gratitude, but al&s;o making a recompence and requitall of the &s;ame among the number, I &s;ay, of &s;uch was <HI>The&s;eus</HI> to <HI>Hercules,</HI> for when <HI>Aedonius</HI> the king of <HI>Mollo&s;us</HI> im|pri&s;oned and &s;hackelled <HI>The&s;eus</HI> at &s;uch, time as he came with <HI>Pirithous</HI> to take away the kings concubine by vio|lence, not to wed her, but to haue her for <HI>Pirithous</HI> behoofe. <HI>Hercules</HI> directing his iourney to <HI>Molo&s;&s;us</HI> deliuered <HI>The|&s;eus</HI> out of his bolts and fetters, and let him lo&s;e at large in the plea&s;ant pa&s;tures of golden lybertie. For the which oc|ca&s;ion, <HI>The&s;eus</HI> erected and built an alter in his honor and renown. Moreouer the&s;e &s;eauen per&s;ons of <HI>Thebes</HI> did not &s;uffer y^e &s;inguler curte&s;ie of <HI>Pronax</HI> to pas vnrecompenced, for whe~ <HI>Pronax</HI> had peri&s;hed for their &s;akes, in y^e wor&s;hip &amp; celebratio~ of him they in&s;tituted &amp; appointed publique plaies
<PB REF="60"> which (as many hold opinion) were con&s;ecrated to captaine <HI>Archemorus.</HI> Furthermore <HI>Hercules</HI> rewarded <HI>Ne&s;tor</HI> for his good d&eacute;edes, for when <HI>Neleus</HI> would not entertaine him, and al the re&s;idue of his &s;onnes had, as it were, &s;worne to the like, &s;o that all curte&s;ie was excluded, <HI>Ne&s;tor,</HI> not|with&s;tanding, con&s;ented not vnto them, but was contrary|wi&s;e inclined. Wherfore when the Citie was taken, <HI>Her|cules</HI> made hauock of &s;ome, paying vnto them a new re|uenge for an old grudge with a <HI>recumbentibus,</HI> for he made a &s;laughter of <HI>Neleus</HI> the father, and &s;erued the remnaunt of his &s;onnes, (<HI>Neleus</HI> onely excepted) with the &s;ame &s;owre &s;awce, As for <HI>Ne&s;tor</HI> he found fauour at <HI>Hercules</HI> hands, in &s;omuch y^t he did not only e&s;cape w^t the &s;afety &amp; pre&s;eruation of his precious life, but receiued al&s;o the gouernment of his predece&s;&s;ors kingdome, to rule and raigne with &s;worde and Scepter in maie&s;tie and royall order. Whereupon the <HI>A|thenians</HI> &s;hewed them&s;elfe thankfull to the po&s;teritie of <HI>Hercules,</HI> and becau&s;e the author of their &s;tock de&s;erued well at <HI>The&s;eus</HI> handes, therfore the <HI>Athenians</HI> did accom|pany them into <HI>Peloponne&s;us.</HI> Be&s;ides al this <HI>Hercules</HI> re|compen&s;ed the &s;ame thr&eacute;e hundred and thr&eacute;e&s;core <HI>Cleoni|ans,</HI> which helped, &s;uccoured and defended him again&s;t the inua&s;ion of th&eacute;eues, and the &s;harp a&s;&s;aults of &s;poylers, who as they &s;ought to make a &s;laughter, &s;o were they them&s;elfe vanqui&s;hed, &s;laine and murthered, vpon whom he be&s;tow|ed the wor&s;hip which the <HI>Nemen&s;es</HI> exhibited vnto hym, when he ouerthrew and ouercame by maine &s;trength, the force of a cruell Lyon, which ramped and raunged ouer the borders of their landes, wa&s;ting their tillage, and bring|ing all their workes to nought. In like maner <HI>Mene&s;thae|us</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Peteo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s</HI> &s;hewed him&s;elfe not vnthankfull in behauiour towardes the <HI>Tyndarides,</HI> who after that <HI>The&s;eus</HI> was expelled and ca&s;t out into exile, and his mo|ther <HI>Athera</HI> led away captiue, deliuered vp the &s;cepter and crowne of the kingdome to <HI>Mene&s;thaeus,</HI> for which cau&s;e
<PB N="51" REF="60"> <HI>Mene&s;thaeus</HI> exhibited great reuernce vnto them, honou|ring them with this tytle of great dignitie, namely, of Em|perours, and Sauiours. <HI>Darius,</HI> al&s;o, when he was inferi|our to a prince, and not &s;uperiour to a priuate man or com|moner, receiuing a gorgious garment, or rich robe of <HI>So|lon</HI> for a gift, after y^t the felycity of Fortune had e&s;tabli&s;hed and confirmed hym in the throne royall, hee recompen&s;ed the curte&s;ie of <HI>Solon,</HI> committing vnto him power, autho|rytie, gouernment, and iuri&s;diction in the Countrie <HI>Samis,</HI> and &s;o made an exchange (if wee ponder preci&s;ely the val|lue of the giftes on both partes) of glittering Golde with ru&s;tie yron.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; The Oracle pronounced for the <HI>Athenians.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_WHen the <HI>Lacedemonians</HI> were fully de|termined vtterly to ouerthrow and race vp the Citie of the <HI>Athenians,</HI> a&s;|king coun&s;ell of the <HI>Oracle,</HI> an&s;were was made in this fourme and maner, <HI>Communem aram Greciae ne moueatis.</HI> Re|moue not the common alter of <HI>Grecia,</HI> &s;tyrre it not but let it &s;tande.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; That wicked and malicious men are &s;o far from tranquilytie, that they are neuer in re&s;t and quietne&s;&s;e, no not in death, and of <HI>Pau&s;anias.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_WIcked &amp; heinous offenders reape no aduantage at al by death. And why &s;o? Becau&s;e they are then voide of re&s;t, and depriued of quietne&s;&s;e. Moreouer becau&s;e they do rather want the rites of their funerall, or els at the lea&s;t, notwith&s;tanding they be buried for a &s;ea&s;on, yet their
<PB REF="61"> corps is di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed at length of y^e honorable hauen which is common to all dead bodyes. This to be true, take this te&s;timoniall of the Lacedemonians and of <HI>Pau&s;anias,</HI> which <HI>Pau&s;anias</HI> takeing part with the Medes, was not onely fami&s;hed and hunger &s;tarued to death, but al&s;o his carca&s;&s;e was &s;o farre from being intoumbe~d, that it was ca&s;t out of the borders of the land. This was the v&s;age of the <HI>Lacedemonians</HI> towardes <HI>Pau&s;anias,</HI> as <HI>Epitimedes</HI> reporteth.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of the variablenes of Fortune.</HEAD>
<P>_WHat man is &s;o blind, blunt, &amp; blocki&s;h, that can be ignorant of y^e &s;udden and vn&s;table changing of Fortune? So the <HI>Lacedemonians</HI> when they were Lords ouer the <HI>Thebans,</HI> they were &s;o &s;ubdued vnto the~, and of captaines made captiues, that the <HI>Thebans</HI> did not onely ru&s;he into <HI>Pelloponne&s;us,</HI> but al&s;o pa&s;&s;ed ouer into <HI>Eurotas,</HI> wa&s;ting the land of the <HI>Lacedemonians,</HI> and ruinou&s;ly ran&s;acking the &s;ame, in &s;omuch that they had almo&s;t taken the citie and brought it into &s;ubiection, but that <HI>Epaminondas</HI> feared lea&s;t the <HI>Pelloponne&s;ians,</HI> ma|king a con&s;piracy and an vniuer&s;all in&s;urrection, &s;hould take the <HI>Lacedemonians</HI> parte, and venture lymme and lyfe in their defence and pre&s;eruation. <HI>Dioni&s;ius</HI> the Ty|ranne being intercepted of the <HI>Carthagineans,</HI> and taken in the midde way of his enterpri&s;e, when hee perceaued that there was no hope of &s;afty remaining, he was altoge|ther aba&s;hed in hart, and his courage not onely cooled, but quite quenched, in&s;omuch that he thought to &s;aue his life by flight. But when one of his acquaintance who&s;e name was <HI>Hellopidas,</HI> &s;aid vnto him, <HI>O Dioni&s;i, quam &s;pecio&s;um &s;epulchrum e&s;t ip&s;a tyrannis? <HI>O Dioni&s;ius,</HI></HI> how glorious a
<PB N="56" REF="61"> graue is Tyranny? he blu&s;hing at the&s;e wordes and loo|king with a countenance &s;tayned (as it were) with crim|&s;on colour, tooke hart of grace, and gathered his &s;kattered &s;trength together, in &s;omuch that with a very fewe &s;ouldi|ours, he ouer ranne many thou&s;ands, inlarging his king|dome, and amplifiing his dominion.</P>
<P><HI>Amintas</HI> the <HI>Macedonian</HI> when he was vanqui&s;hed by the borderers and inhabitantes of out cuntreys, and had lo&s;t his kingdome, he purpo&s;ed in minde vtterly to for&s;ake his natiue &s;oile &s;o that he might e&s;cape with the &s;afgard of his life. Whiles he was beating and canua&s;&s;ing his braines with this cogitation, one came to him and vttered the &s;p&eacute;eche of the aboue named <HI>Hellopidas,</HI> which was this <HI>Amyntae, quam &s;pecio&s;um &s;epulchrum e&s;t ip&s;a Tyrannis?</HI> O <HI>Amintas</HI> how beutyfull a tumbe is tyranny? At which wordes he was &s;o affectioned, that he po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed his for|mer place of principalitie, gathered &s;ouldiours againe a|bout him &s;ufficiently furni&s;hed, and recouered his king|dome which he had lo&s;t before.</P>
<P>The <HI>Aegiptians</HI> called <HI>Ochus</HI> an A&s;&s;e in their mother toung, comparing his cowardne&s;&s;e and blocki&s;hne&s;&s;e to the weakne&s;&s;e and vn&s;kilfulne&s;&s;e of that vnrea&s;onable bea&s;t, in his di&s;commandation and reproch: wherefore he violently &s;natching away their great God, which was an oxe, offered the &s;ame to an A&s;&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Dion</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Hipparinus</HI> being thru&s;t into exile, and driuen into bani&s;hment by the force of <HI>Dyoni&s;ius,</HI> &s;et vpon <HI>Dioni&s;ius</HI> againe, with two thou&s;ande &s;ouldiours, vanqui&s;hed him, and brake the &s;taffe of his power in &s;hi|uers, yea, he brought thus much to pa&s;&s;e by his valiaunt|nes, that the authour and procurer of his former mi&s;erie, was likewi&s;e tormented with &s;emblable calamitie.</P>
<P>The <HI>Syracu&s;i</HI> &s;etting vppon an hundred and twenty gallies of the <HI>Carthaginians,</HI> with the aide and &s;uccour of
<PB REF="62"> nine gallies of their owne, notwith&s;tanding the inequally|tie of the number of Gallies, and warrelyke furniture, were more valliaunt and conquerous then the other by many degr&eacute;es.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the lowlynes and humilytie of <HI>Plato,</HI> and of the ingratitude and vnthank|fulne&s;&s;e of <HI>Ari&s;totle.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_PLato</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Ari&s;ton</HI> in the <HI>Olim|piad,</HI> was in company with certaine per&s;ons to him vnknowne, hee him&s;elfe al&s;o being a &s;traunger to them and vn|acquainted, who&s;e mindes neuertheles he did &s;o bow and bende, &s;o winde and winne vnto his de&s;ire, meritoriou&s;ly no doubt, in &s;ocietie and fellow&s;hip, banqueting, and making merrie with them, and &s;pending a whole daies &s;pace in their company, in&s;omuch that the &s;traungers, then and there a&s;&s;embled, reioyced greatly that it was their good luck to light vpon &s;o notable a companion. But hee, albeit that merry m&eacute;eting, mini&s;tred no communication concer|ning the <HI>Academy,</HI> neither yet entred into any talke tou|ching <HI>Socrates.</HI> Thus much onely did hee di&s;clo&s;e and lay open to their knowledge and vnder&s;tandinges, that his name was <HI>Plato.</HI> When the within written per&s;ons came to the famous citie of <HI>Athens, Plato</HI> intertained them with &s;ingular courte&s;ie, and with manife&s;t &s;ignifications of friend&s;hip: anon the Gue&s;tes entreated him &s;aying, go, we be&s;&eacute;ech th&eacute;e, and &s;hew vs the phi&s;iognomy, face, and per&s;o|nage of <HI>Plato</HI> the Philo&s;opher, who is of thine owne name, and &s;omtimes the Di&s;ciple or &s;choller of <HI>Socrates,</HI> and con|duct vs, wee pray th&eacute;e, into his <HI>Academy,</HI> bring vs before the man that we may &s;ati&s;fie our eies with the &s;ight of him, and reape &s;ome plea&s;ure by his procurement. At which
<PB N="59" REF="62"> reque&s;t of theirs, <HI>Plato</HI> &s;miled in his &s;l&eacute;ene (as his maner was) and &s;aide vnto them, <HI>Aedepol, quem quaeritis ego &s;um,</HI> I am the man whom you &s;&eacute;eke, I am euen hee, which wordes when they heard, they were merueilou&s;lye a|ma&s;ed, and why? becau&s;e <HI>Plato</HI> was in their company, and they neuerthele&s;&s;e ignoraunt of the &s;ame, for they had v&s;ed the famylyaritie of that famous Philo&s;opher, and he lykewi&s;e did vnite him&s;elfe to their &s;ociety, yet were they ignoraunt all this while that learned <HI>Plato</HI> was among them, for he detected not, ne yet di&s;couered the &s;ecret mi&s;|teries of his knowledge, with o&s;tentation and vainglory, neither &s;hewed any token of his excellent learning, yet notwith&s;tanding (this accu&s;tomed &s;peaches, poudered with philo&s;ophycall &s;alt excepted) was able enough to purcha&s;e the fauour, the friend&s;hip, and the goodwyll of whom he him&s;elfe li&s;t. This princely Philo&s;opher v&s;ed to call <HI>Ari&s;totle</HI> Mule, what this tearme did importe, may ea&s;ely be &s;u&s;pected, becau&s;e a Mule when he hath &s;uckt his fill, and hath enough of his dams milke, ca&s;teth vp his h&eacute;eles and kicks vnkindly, <HI>Plato</HI> therfore &s;ignified by this comparatiue &s;peach, the ingratitude and vnthankfull nature of <HI>Ari&s;totle,</HI> for he hauing receiued plentyfull &s;&eacute;edes, and aboundant increa&s;e in the garden of phylo&s;o|phye, through <HI>Platos</HI> meanes and admi&s;&s;ion, in &s;omuch that he was perfectly furni&s;hed, and fraught, not onely with the principles and elements of that &s;ingular &s;cience, but with the profounde practi&s;e, and ab&s;olute knowledge of the &s;ame, in tract of time this <HI>Ari&s;totle,</HI> di&s;dained and contempned his ma&s;ter <HI>Plato,</HI> he renounced and for&s;ooke him, he planted a &s;chole, and gathered an a&s;&s;embly in his de&s;pight. In conclu&s;ion, he and his auditory re&s;i&s;ted <HI>Plato</HI> in <HI>Peripato</HI> &s;hewing him&s;elfe an vtter aduer&s;ary, rather then a dutyfull di&s;ciple.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB REF="63">
<HEAD>&para; Of what minde and affections <HI>Pericles</HI> was towardes the people of Athens.</HEAD>
<P>_DId not <HI>Pericles</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Xantip|pus</HI> greatly regarde the people of <HI>A|thens,</HI> had he them not in high e&s;tima|tion, a&s;&s;uredly I &s;uppo&s;e yea, For &s;o often as he came in open place to con|fer with the <HI>Athenians,</HI> he wi&s;hed that no word &s;hould i&s;&s;ue out of his mouth, whereby the people might be di&s;plea&s;ed at him &amp; &s;harpen the weapon of their wrath and anger again&s;t hym, in any re&s;pect, or that might &s;ound to their di&s;contentation, or &s;&eacute;eme in any one point or other, repugnant to their wils.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the nycene&s;&s;e, the featne&s;&s;e, and the finene&s;&s;e of <HI>Socrates.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_DIogenes</HI> dyd &s;ay that <HI>Socrates</HI> him&s;elfe v&s;ed to be curious, nice, neat, fine, and feate, for he built him&s;elfe a Manour, which &s;erued to no v&s;e in the world &s;i|thence he was not vrged thereunto by any nece&s;&s;ary occa&s;ion. Moreouer hee made a hor&s;e licter to ride in, which was but &s;uperfluous. Finally he made him a paire of bu&s;kins, or as &s;ome &s;ay, a payre of buckled &s;hooes, which he v&s;ed to weare &s;om|times at his plea&s;ure.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the picture of <HI>Helena</HI> which <HI>Zeuxis</HI> paincted.</HEAD>
<P><HI>ZEuxis Heracleotes,</HI> after he had painted the picture of amiable <HI>Helena,</HI> he gained greatly thereby, and his aduantage did amount to no &s;mall valure, &s;o excellent was his workman&s;hip, for he did not let who li&s;t to looke
<PB N="60" REF="63"> vpon it for nought, but &s;uch as were de&s;ierous to &s;&eacute;e the &s;ame &s;hould pay downe a certaine &s;um at his demaund, which being done, they were permitted to view, and be|holde the picture of that beautyfull Qu&eacute;ene, without di&s;|turbance. And becau&s;e <HI>Zeuxis Heracleotes</HI> gathered in a plentyful harue&s;t into his barne by this p&eacute;erele&s;&s;e picture, that is, becau&s;e his gaine was exce&s;&s;iue, therfore the <HI>Gre|cians</HI> which were liuing at the &s;ame time, called <HI>Helena</HI> a common &s;trumpet, &s;ithence it is the property of a &s;trum|pet to pledge her hone&s;tie, and &s;o profite may be reaped, to let &s;hamefa&s;tne&s;&s;e &s;uffer &s;hipwrack.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; The opinion of Epicurus, his felicitie and happines.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_EPicurus Gargettius</HI> was of this opini|on, that hee which was not contented with a litle, was in&s;atiable and neuer had enough. The &s;elfe &s;ame <HI>Epicurus</HI> &s;ayd, he was redy buckled and harne&s;|&s;ed to contend with <HI>Iupiter</HI> him&s;elf, in beatitude and ble&s;&s;edne&s;&s;e of lyfe, if h&eacute;e might not want meate and drink. Seing that <HI>Epicurus</HI> was of this iudgment, with what di&s;p&s;ition of minde, hee commended &amp; prai&s;ed plea&s;ure, we &s;hal learne otherwi&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of &s;paring, &s;pending, and keeping money.</HEAD>
<P>_THe mony, which is &s;craped and raked vp together like dunghils, and pinched in &s;paringly &s;kar&s;ely ounce by ounce (according to y^e &s;aying of <HI>Archilochus</HI>) is powred by heaps and handfuls into a harlotes bagge, and put plentyfully into a &s;trumpets pur&s;&s;e. For there is more facilytye and ea&s;ines in purueying &amp; getting riches, then in k&eacute;eping and
<PB REF="64"> pre&s;eruing the &s;ame, which to doe is a very hard matter, and pa&s;&s;eth the capacitie of many men, wherefore it is no|tably and truly &s;aide of <HI>Anaxagoras,</HI> and very agr&eacute;eable to our purpo&s;e in the&s;e wordes, &s;aith he in his Booke inti|tuled <HI>De regno,</HI> &s;ententiou&s;ly thus <HI>Magno cum negotio pecuuiae comportantur, &s;ed multo maiori opera con&s;eruantur &amp; cu&s;todiuntur,</HI> Riches and wealth are gotten together with great trauaile and toyle, but much more labour &amp; paines is required in the keping and pre&s;eruing of the &s;ame.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of &s;ome which in their &s;ickne&s;&s;e learned mu&s;ick, and other thinges be&s;ides, and recouered their former health.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_HIero</HI> the <HI>Sicilian</HI> tyrant was at the fir&s;t but a priuate man, and &s;uch a one ind&eacute;ede, as of all other men cared lea&s;t for Mu&s;ick, bending his &s;tudy another way, but abhorring harmonious and tuneable in&s;truments, the &s;ame <HI>Hie|ro,</HI> in ru&s;ticalytie and clowni&s;hne&s;&s;e differed not from his brother <HI>Gelon,</HI> neuerthele&s;&s;e he fal|ling &s;ick, at a certaine &s;ea&s;on, became very cunning and &s;kilfull, when as he be&s;towed much lea&s;ure (which the im|becilytie and weakne&s;&s;e of his body lent him) in hearing the talke and communication which flowed from lear|ned mens lippes, when, therefore he recouered his former health, and e&s;caped the ha&s;&s;ard of &s;ickne&s;&s;e, he became a frequent hearer <HI>Simonides Cous,</HI> of <HI>Pindarus Thebanus,</HI> and <HI>Bacchylides Iulieta:</HI> But <HI>Gelon</HI> his brother conti|nued vnlearned, and remained ru&s;ticall. It is recorded al|&s;o, that <HI>Ptolomeus &s;ecundus</HI> a&s;pired to great learning and knowledge in the time of his &s;ickne&s;&s;e. <HI>Plato</HI> in lyke maner, affirmeth that <HI>Theages</HI> vnder&s;toode the precepts
<PB N="61" REF="64"> of Phylo&s;ophy by none other occa&s;ion and meanes, then by the lea&s;ure which hee obtayned in his &s;ickne&s;&s;e, for whiles that re&s;trained him from politique matters, hee was as it were &s;purred forward to the loue of wi&s;dome, and the &s;tudy of Philo&s;ophy. What wi&s;e man woulde not haue wi&s;hed &s;uch a &s;ickne&s;&s;e as this, to <HI>Alcibiades</HI> to <HI>Critras,</HI> to <HI>Pau&s;anias</HI> the <HI>Lacedemonian,</HI> and the re&s;idue? who reuolting from <HI>Socrates</HI> and his di&s;cipline, dealt in|iuriou&s;ly with him, and one whiles tooke part with <HI>Beo|trans,</HI> another while with the <HI>Spartanes,</HI> and &s;omtimes to the <HI>The&s;&s;alians,</HI> the <HI>Medians,</HI> and the <HI>Per&s;ians,</HI> cleauing to <HI>Barnabazus</HI> as confederat. The other, namely, <HI>Critras</HI> became a bloudy butcher, and &s;tayning his handes with manyfolde murthers, and &s;laughters infinit, procured no &s;mall mi&s;eries to his country, in&s;omuch that all men had his lyfe in hatred, enuy, and dete&s;tation. The&s;e twaine, notwith&s;tanding their wi&s;edome and eloquence, were &s;aide to be, <HI>Suis quidem ciuitatibus non bonos,</HI> that is, they were not good to their Cities, &s;o that then, the contrary may be concluded, <HI>Suis quidem ciuitatibus fui&s;&s;e malos,</HI> that they were yll di&s;po&s;ed towardes their Cities.</P>
<P>Furthermore, <HI>Straton</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Corrhagus</HI> fel &s;ick, but his &s;ickne&s;&s;e was &s;o far from working his hindrance that it procured him great aduantage and furtheraunce, (as appeareth). This man di&s;&s;ending of a noble lynage, and an honorable hou&s;e, be&s;ides that flowing in &s;treames of riches, and wallowing in waues of wealth, applied him &s;elfe to no laborious and painfull practi&s;e, before that he was troubled with the di&s;ea&s;e of the Spl&eacute;en. Then lo, h&eacute;e framd him&s;elf to &s;&eacute;eke &s;ome remedy again&s;t that &s;icknes, namely, by wre&s;tling, and &s;emblable exerci&s;es of the bo|dely members, which he v&s;ed at the fir&s;t, as meanes and in&s;truments to recouer his accu&s;tomed health. In pro|ce&s;&s;e of time, hauing by practi&s;e, obtained the habit of that art, and &s;uch perfection as de&s;erued not repentance. For
<PB REF="65"> as he vttered a triall what he could doe, he did &s;o far pa&s;&s;e others, that in the games at <HI>Olympus</HI> in one day, he woon the be&s;t at wre&s;tling, and at all other games of actiuitie, &s;o did he in the <HI>Olimpiad</HI> following, &s;o did he in <HI>Nemea,</HI> &s;o did he in <HI>Pitho,</HI> &s;o did he in <HI>I&s;thmo.</HI> To conclude, <HI>Demo|crates</HI> the wre&s;tler, notwith&s;tanding he was gr&eacute;eued with the goute, yet came he to the common games, and &s;tan|ding in the place v&s;ually appointed for the playes he made a round circle about him&s;elfe, and challenged the aduer|&s;aryes (if they coulde) to driue him without the compas of the lyne. But &s;o far vnable were they to doe the d&eacute;ede, that they them&s;elfe were ouercome by the re&s;i&s;tance of a man who&s;e limmes were not &s;ounde but di&s;ea&s;ed (the greater commendation his) &s;o that <HI>Democrates</HI> &s;tanding &s;toutly in his place, and not &s;hrinking fro~ the &s;ame, carried away the crowne of victore, and bare away the golden bell.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; The properties and conditions of diuers men in auncient time.</HEAD>
<P>_YF any man follow the rule of <HI>Callias,</HI> he &s;hal &s;oone proue a drunkard. If any man treade in the &s;tepes of <HI>I&s;menias,</HI> he &s;hall &s;oone proue a Mu&s;itian. If any man k&eacute;epe company with <HI>Alcibiades</HI> he &s;hal &s;oone proue a proude &amp; a vain|gloryous fellow. If any man lyke well of <HI>Crobylus,</HI> hee &s;hal &s;oone proue a cooke. If any ma~ builde vpon y^e platform of <HI>Demo&s;thenes,</HI> he &s;hal &s;oone proue an excellent Orator. If any man be delighted with <HI>Epaminondas,</HI> he &s;hal &s;oone proue a &s;kilfull &s;ouldiour. If any man loue to learne of <HI>Age&s;ilaus,</HI> he &s;hall &s;oone proue honorable.</P>
<PB N="62" REF="65">
<P>If any man frame him&s;elfe after <HI>Phocions</HI> rule, he &s;hall &s;oone proue hone&s;t. If any man regard the di&s;cipline of <HI>A|ri&s;tides</HI> he &s;hall &s;oone proue vpright and iu&s;t, if any man draw in one and the &s;elfe&s;ame yoke with <HI>Socrates,</HI> he &s;hal &s;oone proue wi&s;e, fober and di&s;crete.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of diuers wonders and opinions concerning <HI>Pythagoras.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_PIthagoras</HI> taught men that his gene|ration was not temporall, but that he was bred and borne of the confu&s;ion and mixture of the mo&s;t notable and be&s;t &s;&eacute;edes, and therfore that he was e|uerla&s;ting, and not &s;ubiect to the do|minon of death. This <HI>Pythagoras</HI> (as the rumor goeth) was &s;&eacute;ene in two &s;euerall places, namly in <HI>Metapontio</HI> and <HI>Crotona,</HI> in one pre&s;ent day, and in one in&s;tant houre. Be&s;ides that, he di&s;couered his golden thigh in the <HI>Olimpiad.</HI> Moreouer he informed <HI>Milo Cro|toniata,</HI> that hee was <HI>Midas</HI> the <HI>Phrygian,</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Gordius.</HI> Furthermore hee plucked of the feathers of a white eagle which carried him, and as he pa&s;&s;ed ouer the floud <HI>Co&s;a,</HI> the &s;treame &s;pake vnto him with an intelligi|ble voice, calling him by his right name in this manner, <HI>Salue Pythagora,</HI> welcome <HI>Pythagoras.</HI></P>
<P>The within named <HI>Pithagoras</HI> defended many <HI>Para|doxicall</HI> opinions, and per&s;i&s;ted in &s;undry erronious a&s;|&s;ertions, he &s;aide that the leafe of <HI>Mallowes,</HI> was a thing mo&s;t holy and &s;acred, hee &s;ayde that the number <HI>binary,</HI> that is the number of two, which is compounded of two vnities, was the number wherin mo&s;t wi&s;edome and vn|der&s;tanding was contayned, becau&s;e it gaue names to things. He held this ab&s;urde opinion, that terre&s;trial com|motions, &amp; earthquakes, proc&eacute;eded from none other cau&s;e, then fro~ y^e m&eacute;eting together &amp; a&s;&s;embling of dead bodies.
<PB REF="66"> Other opinions he maintained, concerning the rainbow, and the riuer <HI>Nilus</HI> in <HI>Aegipt</HI> which is the onely hope of that countrye and the certaine &s;ignification of plenty or &s;car&s;nes.</P>
<P>Of &s;oundes al&s;o perciptible by the organ or in&s;trument of hearing namely, the eare, he had his &s;euerall a&s;&s;ertions.</P>
<P>It was not lawfull, nor tollerable, to call any thing in controuer&s;ie or doubt, which he pronounced, neither was it permitted to a&s;ke him one que&s;tion twi&s;e. But &s;uch as were pre&s;ent at his lectures, di&s;putations, and rea&s;o|nings gaue great credit vnto him, and bel&eacute;eued his words which they e&s;t&eacute;emed equiualent, and counteruaileable in truth, with <HI>Apollos</HI> Oracles. When he came to any ci|tie, the report &s;pred abroade of him, that his cunning was not to in&s;truct lyke a teacher, but to heale and cure lyke a Phi&s;itian. The &s;ame <HI>Pithogaras</HI> in lyke maner gaue pre|cepts of ab&s;tinence, namely to forbeare the eating of the hart of any bea&s;t, not to touch or medle with a white hen, and generally, to ab&s;taine from all cattell, finally not to deale with Akehorne, nor to trade in common waies, and beaten pathes, becau&s;e it was doubtfull, whether the&s;e things were con&s;ecrated and holy, yea or no.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the reuerence and honour which <HI>Dyoni&s;ius</HI> did exhibit and &s;hew to <HI>Plato.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_AT what time many me&s;&s;engers came to <HI>Plato</HI> from <HI>Dioni&s;ius</HI> to vi&s;it <HI>Sicily</HI> &s;oyle. <HI>Dioni&s;ius</HI> being then but a &s;trip|lyng, let <HI>Plato</HI> ride in a Chariot, hee him&s;elfe in the meane &s;ea&s;on, v&s;urping the office of the driuer. At the &s;ame time (&s;ay &s;ome) this man of <HI>Siracu&s;e,</HI> was inclyned to &s;ingular courte&s;ie, hee was gracious in
<PB N="57" REF="66"> the eies of the people, and furni&s;hed with the fauour and goodwill of all men, at which in&s;tant he remembred the Heroical ver&s;es of <HI>Homer,</HI> and was delighted aboue mea|&s;ure to &s;&eacute;e &s;o glorious a pageant and to beholde &s;o beauty|full a &s;ight. Then <HI>Dioni&s;ius,</HI> rayneing in the hor&s;es, and making the Chariot to &s;tay, or at lea&s;t, to goe by leaue and lea&s;ure, rehear&s;ed the&s;e ver&s;es out of the <HI>Iliades.</HI></P>
<Q><L><GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"></L>
<L><GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">.</L></Q>
<P>&para; Which words &s;ound thus in Engli&s;h.</P>
<Q><L>The Axell tree of Beech mo&s;t &s;trong,</L>
<L>a creaking noy&s;e did make,</L>
<L>With bearing of that worthy wight,</L>
<L>who&s;e toung deuinely &s;pake.</L>
<L>And who&s;e renowne through cloudy &s;kies,</L>
<L>to Ioues abiding brake.</L></Q>
<P>This <HI>Dioni&s;ius,</HI> albeit he mi&s;tru&s;ted other and &s;hreud|ly had them in &s;u&s;pitio~, yet his behauiour towards <HI>Plato</HI> was not only not culpable but al&s;o commendable and or|derly, for &s;omuch as he denied him not pa&s;&s;age, recour&s;e, and acce&s;&s;e to and fro, fr&eacute;ely (all cumber&s;ome cogitations and mi&s;d&eacute;eming conceipts abandoned) yet was not <HI>Dio|ni&s;ius</HI> ignoraunt, that betwixt <HI>Plato</HI> and <HI>Dion</HI> friend|&s;hip was confirmed, and e&s;tabli&s;hed vpon a fa&s;te foun|dation.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Phillip, how he loued learning, and of Ari&s;totle.</HEAD>
<P><HI>PHilip</HI> of <HI>Macedonia</HI> was not onely famous in war|lyke affaires and virtues of magnimitie and valiant|nes, but he was likewi&s;e excellent &amp; notable in the art and
<PB REF="67"> faculty of an exqui&s;it orator Furthermore he was a great fauourer, and an earne&s;t wel willer to learning, and had knowledge in high honour and &s;ingular e&s;timation. H&eacute;e be&s;towed gifts vpon <HI>Ari&s;totle</HI> very largely, liberally, and bountifully, and as for money he wanted none, the kings bene&s;icence was &s;uch. This laudable v&s;age was an occa|&s;ion therefore, that hee increa&s;ed in vnder&s;tandinge, and that his learning attayned great maturitie and ripne&s;&s;e, as well that which he had in ciuill matters touching the politique e&s;tate, as that al&s;o which hee had in naturall things, namely, in bea&s;ts and &s;emblable creatures indu|ed with the benefit of life, wherin his contemplation was frequent, and v&s;uall. The hi&s;tory of which lyuing bodies, <HI>Nicomachus</HI> &s;onne gained for the aboundance of <HI>Phillips</HI> riches. Finally he gaue gifts to <HI>Plato</HI> plentifully, and his large&s;&s;e to <HI>Theophra&s;tus</HI> was not lame, or colde, but fre&s;h and flouri&s;hing.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of <HI>Democritus</HI> and of his glory, and of the glory of <HI>Theophra&s;tus, Hipo|crates,</HI> and others.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_DEmocritus Abderita</HI> (if reports be true) was inriched w^t the indowme~ts of wi&s;|dome in many and &s;undry thinges, and &s;pecyally in this, that he was de&s;irous to be vnknowne, which ind&eacute;ede he com|pa&s;&s;ed, brought to pa&s;&s;e, &amp; di&s;patched. For he trauailed into many lands and countries, he ventured into <HI>Caldea,</HI> &amp; entred into <HI>Babi|lon,</HI> at la&s;t he came among the <HI>Magicians</HI> and <HI>Sophi&s;|ters</HI> of <HI>India.</HI> When di&s;tribution &s;hould be made of his fa|thers <HI>Dama&s;ippus</HI> po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, hereditamentes, and al things deuided by him in thr&eacute;e portions to thr&eacute;e Brethern, he tooke neither &s;cot nor lot of any kinde of implementes (&s;o litle regard had he to enrich him&s;elfe) except money,
<PB N="58" REF="67"> to beare his expen&s;es and to di&s;charge his co&s;ts in the con|tinuance of his voiage. The remnaunt of goodes which were left after his fathers decea&s;&s;e hee was content to re|&s;igne vp his intere&s;t therin, and conueied all by gifte and graunt fr&eacute;ely, to the v&s;e and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of his Brethren. For which cau&s;e he was commended by <HI>Theophra&s;tus,</HI> in&s;omuch as he pa&s;&s;ing from Countrey to Countrey (as it were in peregrination) gathered into his barnes a gre|ter harue&s;t then either <HI>Menelaus,</HI> or <HI>Vli&s;&s;es,</HI> &s;ithence they traueiled from region to region, after the cu&s;tome of the Marchantes of <HI>Phenicia,</HI> for they did hourde and heape vp money lyke mountaines, the de&s;ire wherof &s;pur|red them forward, and imboldened them to attempt dan|gerous iourneys by lande, and perilous voyages by &s;ea. The <HI>Abdirites</HI> in lyke maner, called <HI>Democritus Philo|&s;ophy:</HI> But they named <HI>Protagoras, Phanta&s;ie.</HI> The &s;aide <HI>Democritus</HI> v&s;ed to laugh at euery man, affirming that they were mad, whereupon he was called <HI>Gela&s;inus,</HI> that is, a man &s;oulde to laughter, or &s;uch a one as could not re|fraine from that condition, wherefore he was worthely counted by the mouthes of all the citizens, one with ano|ther to be in name, as h&eacute;e was ind&eacute;ede. Furthermore (the rumor goes) that <HI>Hippocrates</HI> at his fir&s;t m&eacute;eting with <HI>Democritus,</HI> thought none otherwi&s;e of hym than of a foole, and of &s;uch a one who was vtterly voide of wi&s;dome. But as proce&s;&s;e of time, and continuance of conference increa&s;ed their acquaintance, he woondered aboue mea|&s;ure at the profound knowledge of the man.</P>
<P>To conclude, <HI>Hippocrates</HI> (if reportes de&s;erue credite) was of <HI>Dorica</HI> (a part of <HI>Greece</HI> about <HI>Tha&s;&s;aly</HI>) and hee wrote his booke in the &s;peach and language of <HI>Ionia,</HI> for <HI>Democritus</HI> his &s;ake.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB REF="68">
<HEAD>&para; Ths Paramours of <HI>Socrates</HI> and of <HI>Plato.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>ALcibiades</HI> was the Paramour of <HI>Socrates, Dion</HI> was the Paramour of <HI>Plato,</HI> who reaped profit and ad|uantage by <HI>Plato</HI> his louer.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the delicatene&s;&s;e, and &s;uperfluous nicenes of the Atheniens.</HEAD>
<P>_THe auntient <HI>Atheniens</HI> v&s;ed to weare purple garments, and to attire them|&s;elfe with chaungeable apparell, they bound vp their heire with &s;ilken laces, and mingled their hearie lockes with aglets and round knobs of golde lyke to litle beries, mufflyng their mouthes w^t ornaments &amp; Iuels of the &s;ame met|tall, which were formed and wrought after the &s;imilitude of Gre&s;hoppers, with the&s;e and &s;uch lyke thinges of no &s;mal e&s;timation and co&s;t they decked and garni&s;hed them|&s;elues, and &s;o went abroade in the common &amp; open &s;tr&eacute;ets to be &s;&eacute;ene of all men. Furthermore whether &s;oeuer they went they had their waighters attending vpon them and following them with folding chaires, to auoide the nece&s;|&s;ity of &s;itting downe &s;odenly and ra&s;hly in any place. It is manyfe&s;t al&s;o, that they at meate and meale, finally in all their fare and trade of life, were too nice. And albeit they were &s;o delicate and effeminate in maners and beha+uiour: yet in a battaile called <HI>Praelium Marothenen&s;e,</HI> they got the victory and were conquerours.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of certaine wa&s;t goodes and &s;pend thriftes.</HEAD>
<P>PRodigall laui&s;hing of &s;ub&s;taunce, vnthrifty &amp; wa&s;tfull &s;pending, voluptuou&s;nes of life, &amp; palpable &s;en&s;ualitie
<PB N="59" REF="68"> brought <HI>Pericles, Callias</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Hipponicus,</HI> and <HI>Nicias,</HI> not onely to nece&s;&s;itie, but to pouertie and begge|rie. Who, after their money waxed &s;cant, and turned to a very lowe ebbe, they thr&eacute;e drinking a poy&s;oned potion one to another (which was the la&s;t cuppe that they ki&s;&s;ed with their lippes) pa&s;&s;ed out of this life) as it were from a ban|ket) to the powers infernall.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; By what meanes friend&s;hip is kept and mainteined.</HEAD>
<P>_VNto <HI>Leoprepes Ceus,</HI> the father of <HI>Simo|nides,</HI> as he &s;at on a time, in the appoin|ted place of wre&s;tling and games of acti|uitie, two yong men came, which were of his acquaintance, and a&s;ked him howe it might be prouided, that their loue and friend&s;hip might be knit and lincked to continuance, and remayne inuiolable many yeres and dayes. Vnto who&s;e demaunde <HI>Simonides</HI> &s;haped this an&s;were. <HI>Mutuus a|more a&s;siduitat &s;ociatur, &s;i amicitia coniuncti ne&abque; mutua ira concitati, ne&abque; di&s;sidentes animis, alter alterum irritarit.</HI> Loue may long continue without breach, if one friend prouoke not the other to anger and indignation, with contentious myndes, but agr&eacute;e together, like concordes in mu&s;icall in|&s;trumentes.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the &s;odeyn outrage and madne&s;&s;e of Thra&s;yllus.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_THra&s;yllus Aexoneus,</HI> was haunted with a &s;traunge, rare, and a miraculous kynde of madne&s;&s;e, for hee went into <HI>Piraeum,</HI> for&s;aking his owne countrey, And whyles he tooke vp his dwelling thereaboutes, all the &s;hippes which lay at anker in that ha|uen,
<PB REF="69"> he imagined to be his owne, yea the force of his fran|tique phanta&s;ie wrought &s;o effectually in his braine, that he thought vndoubtedlye, they were all his by good title and intere&s;t, in &s;o much that hee regi&s;tred the number of them in a paire of tables. Moreouer if any &s;hip arriued &s;afe, &s;ounde, and vn&s;haken, he reioyced aboue mea&s;ure. In this mad &s;icknes he continued a long &s;ea&s;on, vntil his bro|ther comming out of <HI>Sicily</HI> had committed hym to a cun|ning phi&s;ician to be healed, who taking him as his pacient, &amp; mini&s;tring &s;uch confections as he thought nece&s;&s;ary, de|liuered him at length from that di&s;ea&s;e. This <HI>Thra&s;illus,</HI> when hee fell in communication of the life which he led during the tearme and &s;pace of his madne&s;&s;e (whereof he made mencion oftentimes) he affirmed that his hart was neuer more glad and light, then when he &s;aw &s;hips &s;aued from wrack, &s;poyle, and daunger, notwith&s;tanding none of them were his, neither in whole nor in part.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Electra.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_XAnthus</HI> the ver&s;ifyer, who was the Legat of <HI>Ste&s;ichorus Himeraeus,</HI> &s;aith, that <HI>Elec|tra</HI> the daughter of <HI>Agamemnon</HI> was not called by that name at the fir&s;te, but that her originall name was <HI>Laodice.</HI> How then happened this, that &s;hee was called <HI>Electra?</HI> this was an accidentall name, for when <HI>Agamemnon</HI> was dead, and <HI>Aegi&s;tus</HI> maryed to <HI>Cly|temne&s;tra,</HI> and gouerned the kingdome, &s;he continued a maide and was vnwedded, in&s;omuch that &s;he waxed olde and full of yeares, &s;o long la&s;ted the time of her virginity. For which occa&s;ion the <HI>Grecians</HI> called her <HI>Electra,</HI> be|cau&s;e &s;he liued a &s;ingle woman, viduated of the company of a man, or rather not regardinge the &s;ocietie of a hu&s;|band (for &s;he was yoked in no &s;uch felow&s;hip before) yea,
<PB N="60" REF="69"> &s;o far was &s;he from the degr&eacute;e of wedlocke, that &s;hee wi&s;t not what marriage ment.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of <HI>Pampheus</HI> and <HI>Diotimus</HI> their giftes.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_PAmpheus Pyrenen&s;is</HI> gaue to <HI>Cre|&s;us</HI> the <HI>Lidian</HI> his father being yet a|liue, thirty poundes fr&eacute;ely, who when he came to the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the &s;eate royal, &s;ent vnto him againe for a re|ward, a carte lode of &s;iluer. <HI>Dioge|nes</HI> al&s;o hauing receiued a &s;mall por|tion of money, at the handes of <HI>Dio|timus Cari&s;ius,</HI> vttered the&s;e words. <HI>Dij tibi tantum largi|antur, quantum animo tuo cogitas, &amp; cupis: virum nempe &amp; donum.</HI> The Gods be bountifull vnto th&eacute;e, and be&s;towe as much vpon th&eacute;e as thou doe&s;t wi&s;h in hart, &amp; de&s;ire in thought: namely, a man able to make retribution and re|compence, and a gifte of congratulation, that lyke may be rewarded with like. This <HI>Diotimus</HI> &s;&eacute;emed to be &s;om|what nice and &s;tately of &s;tomack.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of <HI>Pherecides</HI> who&s;e fle&s;h was eaten with lyce very loth&s;omly for his wicked|ne&s;&s;e again&s;t the Gods im|mortall.</HEAD>
<P><HI>PHerecides Sirius</HI> ended his lyfe mo&s;t mi&s;erably, mo&s;t &s;traungly, and mo&s;t horribly, for his whole body was eaten vp and con&s;umed with lyce: mo&s;t &s;traungely, be|cau&s;e no man &s;uffered the lyke puni&s;hment, and mo&s;t ho|ribly, becau&s;e lyce lodged in his fle&s;he, and &s;crawled in all partes of his body, as Caterpillers vpon tr&eacute;es in the &s;pring of the yeare, when fruites bee younge.</P>
<P>This <HI>Pherecides</HI> when his face appeared mo&s;t yrck|&s;ome
<PB REF="70"> and ougly to looke vpon, he ab&s;ented him &s;elfe out of the company and countenance of his acquaintance, and forbeared the fellow&s;hip of his friendes. If any man came vnto him, and demaunded howe he did, he putting one of his fingers which was withered, and wa&s;ted away in a mo&s;t mi&s;erable manner, out of the keyhole of a dore, made this an&s;were. <HI>Totum corpus perinde &s;e habet at&abque; digi|tus iste.</HI> My whole body, from the crowne of the heade, to the &s;oule of the foote, is in the &s;ame ca&s;e that this finger is in which you &s;&eacute;e. The people <HI>Delien&s;es</HI> &s;ay, that the great God in <HI>Delus</HI> being moued mightely wyth wrath and in|dignation at this man, puni&s;hed him with this mo&s;t grie|uous plague and loth&s;ome perplexitie. For <HI>Pherecydes</HI> vpon a time &s;ytting with his &s;chollers, bragged and boa|&s;ted very much of his owne wi&s;edome, and among all o|ther wordes which he vttered, &s;pake the&s;e following, with great pryde, ambition, and in&s;olencie. <HI>Etiam &s;i nulli Deo rem facram facio, nihilo iniucundius, ne&abque; tristius vitam ago, qua~ qui Hecatombas &s;acrificant.</HI> Although I do &s;acrifice to no God, yet my lyfe is as plea&s;ant and as voyde of &s;orowe in euery re&s;pect, as the life of &s;uch as offer an hundred bea&s;ts for an oblation. This arrogant and mallapart &s;p&eacute;ech, lea|uened with contempte of the Gods, and &s;auouring altogether of di&s;daine of the religious ceremonies, purcha+&s;ed to <HI>Pherecydes</HI> that &s;harpe and bytter puni&s;hment, which he not vnde&s;eruedly &s;uffered.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Alexander, who was of this beliefe, that there were worldes without number.</HEAD>
<P>_I Can not mea&s;ure my &s;elfe with mode&s;tie, but mu&s;t of nece&s;&s;iti, laugh at <HI>Alexander</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Philip.</HI> For when he heard that <HI>De|mocritus</HI> in diuers of his bookes helde opini|on, that there were worldes infinite and in|numerable,
<PB N="61" REF="70"> h&eacute;e was &s;mytten and &s;tung to the harte with great angui&s;h, becau&s;e he was not Lorde, King, and Em|perour of one world among &s;o many. What n&eacute;edeth it to declare how <HI>Democritus</HI> laughed at him, &s;ythence it was his propertie, and accu&s;tomed fa&s;hion to doe no le&s;&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>&para; The ende of the fourth Booke of <HI>Aelianus.</HI></TRAILER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="5" TYPE="book">
<PB REF="71">
<HEAD>&para; The fifth Booke of the varia|ble <HI>hi&s;tory of</HI> Aelianus.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of <HI>Tachus</HI> who fini&s;hed his lyfe, by geuing him&s;elfe to exce&s;&s;iue fare.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_TAchus</HI> the <HI>Egiptian,</HI> &s;o long as he con|tented him&s;elfe w^t moderate diet, v&s;ed his owne country fare, and leda thrifty &amp; commendable lyfe. No man in the worlde was more healthfull in body then he, but after y^t he came among the <HI>Per&s;ians</HI> and framed him&s;elfe for a time to their exce&s;&s;iue fare and belly cheare, being vnable to continue long in their &s;traunge di&s;hes which hee was not acquainted withal, he fell into a di&s;ea&s;e called <HI>Dy&s;&s;en|teria</HI> a fretting of the guts, and in the ende lo&s;t his lyfe, by rea&s;on of his &s;uperfluous &amp; vnaccu&s;tomed diet, which in|gendred the dy&s;&s;entery, and the dy&s;&s;entery wearied him to death.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the order and maner of Pherecides his death.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_PHerecides</HI> the ma&s;ter of <HI>Pithagoras,</HI> being a&s;&s;aulted and oppre&s;&s;ed with &s;ickne&s;&s;e, fel fir&s;te into a hot &s;weatyng agonye, which was &s;lymy and ilfauo|red lyke vnto filthy mooldine&s;&s;e in &s;ighte, and as thicke as byrdlyme to a mans f&eacute;elyng. Anon hee became as it
<PB N="64" REF="71"> were, putryfied and rotten carrion, after that his fle&s;he turned into &s;praulyng lyce: and then lo, the &s;ub&s;taunce of his body mouldered and became m&eacute;ere muck, &s;o that at the la&s;t, one alteration &s;ucce&s;&s;iuely following another, h&eacute;e dyed a mo&s;t mi&s;erable death.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the pillers of Hercules.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ARi&s;totle</HI> affirmeth y^t tho&s;e pillers which are now called the pillers of <HI>Hercules,</HI> before the a&s;&s;umption &amp; taking of this name, were called the columnes or pil|lers of <HI>Briareus.</HI> But after that Her|cules had &s;coured the &s;eas &amp; the Land, and had, no doubt, very well de&s;erued of all men, they blotted the remembraunce of <HI>Briareus</HI> with obliuion, and named them the pillers of <HI>Hercules,</HI> to his high honour, dignltie, worthines, and renoune.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of certaine plants and trees which flouri&s;h in Delus.</HEAD>
<P>The reporte runneth thus, that in <HI>Delus</HI> the Oliue tr&eacute;e, and the Date tr&eacute;e flouri&s;heth mo&s;t fruitfully, which when <HI>Latona</HI> had touched, &s;hee was &s;odeinly di&s;burthe|ned of childebyrth, whereas before &s;hee could not be de|lyuered.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the pouertie of Epaminondas, and of his Lordly di&s;|po&s;ition.</HEAD>
<P><HI>EPaminondas</HI> had but one garme~t to couer his nakednes &amp; no more, which was not very good nor &s;kant worth wearing, if al things be true which ar reported, for it was
<PB REF="72"> &s;louenly and yll fauoured, which is an argument that it was very &s;imple, if at any time he &s;ent the &s;ame to the ful|lars, his choice and chaunge was &s;o great, that hee was con&s;trained euen for extreame n&eacute;ede, and beggerlyne&s;&s;e, to tary at home and k&eacute;epe him within the dores, for hee had none other, but that alone, to put vpon his back. You heare how rich he was, what his wealth was you vnder|&s;tande, and you are not ignoraunt of his &s;ub&s;tance, yet when the king of the <HI>Per&s;ians</HI> &s;ent vnto him a great trea|&s;ure of golde for a gifte he receiued it not. Now wyll you heare my iudgement concerning them both. He, as I &s;up|po&s;e, was more magnificent and lordly di&s;po&s;ed that tooke not the golde, then he which gaue the golde.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the voluntary and willing death of <HI>Calanus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THe ende of <HI>Calanus</HI> de&s;erueth no le&s;&s;e co~mendation, then it procureth admi|ration, it is no les prai&s;e worthy, the~ it is worthy wo~der. The maner therfore was thus. The within named <HI>Calanus</HI> being a &s;ophi&s;ter of <HI>India,</HI> when he had taken his long leaue &amp; la&s;t farwell of <HI>Alexander</HI> king of <HI>Macedonia,</HI> and of his life in lyke ma|ner, being willing, de&s;irous, and earne&s;t to &s;et him&s;elfe at lybertie from the cloggs, chaines, barres, boults and fet|ters of the pri&s;on of the body, pyled vp a bounefire in the &s;uburbs of <HI>Babilon</HI> of dry woodde, and cho&s;en &s;ticks proui|ded of purpo&s;e to geue a &s;w&eacute;ete &s;auour &amp; an odoriferous &s;mell in burning. The kindes of wood which hee v&s;ed to &s;erue his turne in this ca&s;e were the&s;e. Cedre, Ro&s;emary, Cipres, Mirtle, and Laurell. The&s;e things duely ordered, he buckled him&s;elfe to his accu&s;tomed exerci&s;e, namely, running and leaping into the midde&s;t of the wod&s;tack he &s;toode boult vpright, hauing aboute his head a garlande
<PB N="63" REF="72"> made of the gr&eacute;ene leaues of r&eacute;edes, the &s;unne &s;hining full in his face, as he &s;toode in the pile of &s;tycks, who&s;e glorious maie&s;ty, glittering with bright beames of amiable beuty, he adored and wor&s;hipped. Furthermore he gaue a token and &s;igne to y^e <HI>Macedonians</HI> to kindle the fire, which when they had done accordingly, hee being compa&s;&s;ed round a|bout with flickering flames, &s;toode &s;toutly and valiauntly in one and the &s;elfe &s;ame place, and dyd not &s;hrincke one foote, vntil he gaue vp the gho&s;t, whereat <HI>Alexander</HI> mer|uailyng, as at a rare &s;trange &s;ight, and worldes wonder, &s;aide (as the voice goes) the&s;e wordes, <HI>Calanus potentiores hostes debellauit quam ego, <HI>Calanus</HI></HI> hath &s;ubdued, ouercome and vanqui&s;hed &s;tronger enemies then I. For <HI>Alexander</HI> made warre again&s;t <HI>Porus, Taxilas,</HI> and <HI>Darius.</HI> But <HI>Calanus</HI> did denounce and bid battell to labour, &amp; fought fearcely and manfully with death.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of <HI>Anachar&s;is.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THe <HI>Scythians</HI> trauell onely in the coa&s;tes of their owne country: but <HI>Anachar&s;is</HI> being a Philo&s;opher furni&s;hed and fenced with the excellent in&s;truments of wi&s;dom and knowledge, aduentured further a great way. For he came into the region of <HI>Graecia,</HI> and was much made of, and greatly &s;et by, and e&s;t&eacute;emed of <HI>Solon.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; How &s;ome men haue forborne, and paciently put vp frumpes flouts and &s;coffes.</HEAD>
<P>SCoffes, floutes, frumps, reuilinges, and &s;emblable lan|guage, flowing from a foule and a filthy mouth, haue no force (in mine opinion) of them&s;elfe, for if they bee
<PB REF="73"> throwne out and ca&s;t at a man of a &s;ound iudgment, a &s;tedfa&s;t minde, and a con&s;tant nature, they vani&s;he lyke &s;moke in the ayre. But if they be attempted and v&s;ed a|gain&s;t an yll di&s;po&s;ed per&s;on, and &s;uch a one who&s;e condi|tions are corrupt, who&s;e maners are peruers, and who&s;e behauiour is prepo&s;terous and mi&s;chieuous, they preuaile mightely, and work many efects, for oftentimes (as wee &s;&eacute;e) they do not onely inffecte the hartes of men with mo|mentany &s;orow, and tran&s;itory angui&s;h, which pa&s;&s;eth a|way in tract of time, but driue them to de&s;peration, death, and de&s;truction. Will you that I borrow an example of both? <HI>Socrates,</HI> when he was villanou&s;ly reuiled, &s;coffed, &s;korned, and taken vp lyke a di&s;hclout in an open Inter|lude, was &s;o far from conceiuing gr&eacute;efe and vexation of minde, that hee fell in a laughter con&s;idering their folly. But <HI>Polyagrus</HI> co~trariwi&s;e was &s;o impacie~t in this point and therewithall &s;o de&s;perate, that hee made no more a doe, but &s;trangled him&s;elfe.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Ari&s;tntle,</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ARi&s;totle</HI> hauinge con&s;umed, &s;pente, and wa&s;ted all his &s;tock of money which was left him by inheritaunce, after the death of his father, v&s;urped the office of a &s;ouldiour and went on warfare. Alter|wardes, his lucke being crooked and fro|ward, and his fortune ilfauored and &s;tark naught, he tooke vpon him to be an Apothecary, and fre|quenting the Philo&s;ophycall Schoole called <HI>Peripatum,</HI> where <HI>Plato</HI> taught, &amp; hearing the readinges and rea&s;o|nings there v&s;uall (for &s;omuch as he of nature was much more excellent then many of them) he acquainted him&s;elfe with the right trade of their exerci&s;es, which in proce&s;&s;e of tyme, he profe&s;&s;ed and put in practi&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="62" REF="73">
<HEAD>&para; The number of Ships, and armed men which the Atheniens lo&s;t.</HEAD>
<P>_THe <HI>Atheniens</HI> alwaies prouided them &s;elues a nauy of &s;hips with great dily|gence, and carefulne&s;&s;e, and being &s;ub|iect to the chaungable countenaunce, and variablenes of lady fortune, were &s;omtimes conquerours, and &s;omtimes conquered. They lo&s;te two hundred galleis in <HI>Aegipt</HI> with al the furniture vnto them belon|ging. Furthermore this was a warranted &s;tatute and or|dinaunce among them, &s;aide they, <HI>Bouem aratorem, qui iu|gum trahit, vel in aratro, vel in plau&s;tro ne mactes,</HI> Slay not an oxe which beareth the yocke, either goyng to plough, or going to carte. They render a rea&s;on of their law, <HI>Quo|niam ille etiam agricola est, &amp; humano generi laboru~ &s;ocius,</HI> be|cau&s;e the &s;elfe &s;ame, in lyke maner, is a hu&s;bandman, &amp; a felow labourer with men in their tillage, and nece&s;&s;arye practi&s;es.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Proper places in Athens appointed for the A&s;&s;i&s;e and Se&s;&s;ions to the mainte|naunce of iudgment in &s;un|dry matters.</HEAD>
<P>_THere were certaine &s;peciall places ap|pointed in <HI>Athens</HI> for the court of A&s;|&s;i&s;e and Se&s;&s;ions to be kept in. If any man offended the lawes by committing wylful murther, iudgement was pro&s;e|cuted in a place called <HI>Martius Pagus.</HI> Yf a man tran&s;gre&s;&s;ed the ordinaunces of the land by committing murther again&s;t his wyll, not thinking to haue done &s;o foule a fact, the Se&s;&s;ions were kept at a place called <HI>Palladium.</HI> Moreouer, if a mur|therer were apprehended, and acknowledged hym&s;elfe
<PB REF="74"> guilty, but the controuer&s;ie requyring canua&s;&s;ing, whe|ther the fact were wilfull, or chaunce medley, whether there was any right or iniury in the &s;ame, then iudgment did proc&eacute;ede in <HI>Delphico.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; An elui&s;h boy condemned to dye for &s;tealing church goodes, and holy reliques.</HEAD>
<P>_A Litle elui&s;he boy taking vp a golden plate which fell from <HI>Diana</HI> her Dia|dem or crowne, and carryng the &s;ame away with him, was apprehended, arrayned and pronounced guilty. The Iudges therfore being &s;omwhat parci|all, and loth to geue &s;entence definitiue to his condemnation and death, &s;uppo&s;ing that the boy did the offence of &s;implycity, rather then of any voluntary di&s;|po&s;ition, commaunded the officers to lay before the boy a plate of golde, and a timbrell or pipe, or a top and &s;courge, or &s;ome &s;uch lyke childi&s;h toy, to try whether of the twain the boy would elect and choo&s;e, or leaue and refu&s;e: The officers dooing as they were commaunded, and experience taken in the &s;ight of the whole A&s;&s;i&s;e, the boy was brought fourth, and bydden take his choy&s;e of the things which lay before him, he put fourth his handes to the plate of golde, tooke it vp, and offered to put it in his pocket agayne as he did before, which thing the iudges perceiuing and con|&s;idering the corrupt inclynation of the lewde lad, &s;tayed iudgement no longer, but as he had committed &s;hamefull &s;acrilege, &s;o was he puni&s;hed in the order of a th&eacute;efe. No compa&s;&s;ion or pittie proffered in re&s;pecte of his tender yeares, but &s;harpe reuengement pronounced for his fe|lonious fact.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="65" REF="74">
<HEAD>&para; Of the &s;uper&s;tition or &s;uperfluous deuotion of the Atheniens.</HEAD>
<P>_THe <HI>Atheniens</HI> nur&s;&s;ed &s;uper&s;ticion in the cradles of their harts, and fo&s;tered vaine reuerence with too preci&s;e v&s;age: For it was agr&eacute;ed vpon among them, that who &s;oeuer dur&s;te &s;crape and &s;haue any thing of from the monument of any noble and renowmed per&s;onage, &s;hould not e&s;cape with impunity, but for his tre&s;pa&s;&s;e committed, lo&s;e his lyfe. Moreouer they puni&s;hed <HI>Artabes</HI> bitterly and &s;harply, becau&s;e hee had cha&s;ed and wearied the &s;parrow of <HI>A&s;clepius</HI> to death. Wherefore as his mi&s;d&eacute;ede was death, &s;o his re|warde was death, his iudgment was death, his de&s;art was death, his puni&s;hment was death. Thus did the <HI>A|theniens,</HI> hauing con&s;ideration, neither of his ignorance, nor yet of his madne&s;&s;e, but preferring &s;acred and holy things before other outward circum&s;tances, le&s;&s;e auaile|able. This <HI>Artabes</HI> was thought and &s;uppo&s;ed to haue done the d&eacute;ede afore&s;ayde contrary to his knowledge and vnder&s;tanding. Other&s;ome &s;ay that hee was no in hys right minde, but out of his wits when he fell in the with|in named offence.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of a woman condemned to die which was great with Childe.</HEAD>
<P>_THe Iudges of <HI>Areopagum</HI> whe~ they had brought before them a woman which was a &s;orcere&s;&s;e and witch, her accu&s;ers &s;tanding at the bar and geuing euidence again&s;t her, in&s;omuch y^t &s;he was founde guilty, and &s;entence of death vttered a|gain&s;t
<PB REF="75"> her. Howbeit, becau&s;e &s;hee was at that pre&s;ent &s;ea&s;on great with Childe (and it &s;&eacute;emed &s;inguler iniu&s;tice that the infant &s;hould dye being innocent) &s;hee was not forthwith executed, but deliuered back againe to the Iay|ler, vntill &s;uch time as &s;he was lightened, which time be|ing pa&s;t and expire, &s;he was puni&s;hed for her m&eacute;ere tre&s;|pa&s;&s;e of &s;orcery (the blamele&s;&s;e babe being &s;aued harme|le&s;&s;e) and as the mea&s;ure of her merits required death, &s;o death &s;he &s;uffered.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; How <HI>Ae&s;chilus</HI> e&s;caped without daunger, albeit he was accu|&s;ed and condemned of impietie.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_AE&s;chylus</HI> the Tragedie writer, for a certaine repre&s;entation &amp; &s;how whiche he made in an open play, was condem|ned of impyetie and vnreuerence to|wardes the &s;upernal gods. Now when the <HI>Atheniens</HI> had prouided the in&s;tru|mentes of his torments, and were prepared to &s;tone him to death: <HI>Amintas</HI> the younger Brother, putting of his garment in the common a&s;&s;embly of the people and great multitude, &s;hewed his naked arme which wanted a hande, differing very litle in lykne&s;&s;e from a &s;tumpe, vn|to all that were pre&s;ent (This <HI>Amintas</HI> was one of the princypall and ch&eacute;efe&s;t at <HI>Salamis</HI> where he lo&s;t his hand in fighting, and got the noble&s;t name among all the <HI>A|theniens.</HI>) The Iudges beholding the hurt happened to the man, and con&s;idering the lack of &s;o nece&s;&s;ary and re|qui&s;ite a lymme, pondering al &s;o how, when, and where|fore he lo&s;t the &s;ame, callyng al&s;o to remembraunce what feates of actiuytie and marciall prowe&s;&s;e he had done in
<PB N="66" REF="75"> times pa&s;t, were tickled with compa&s;&s;ion, pardoned <HI>Ae|&s;chylus</HI> for <HI>Amintas</HI> &s;ake, and &s;et him at lyberty againe, notwith&s;tanding he was condemned.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the fa&s;ting of the Ta|rentines and the <HI>Rhegineans.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_WHen the <HI>Tarentines</HI> were a&s;&s;aulted and be&s;&eacute;eged by the <HI>Romanes,</HI> they were intangled and trayned in &s;uch nettes of de&s;perate di&s;tre&s;&s;e, that a man woulde haue &s;worne that the force of fami&s;hement, and the gr&eacute;e|dye grating of horrible hunger would haue con&s;trayned them to y&eacute;elde.</P>
<P>The <HI>Rhegineans</HI> fa&s;ting euery tenth day, victualled the <HI>Tarentines.</HI> Wherefore when the force of the <HI>Ro|manes</HI> fayled, and the <HI>Tarentines</HI> recouered lybertye, they ordained a fea&s;tiual day in the reme~braunce of their former mi&s;ery and di&s;tre&s;&s;e, which they called by this name <HI>Ieiunium.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; That Medea murthered not her owne Children.</HEAD>
<P>_SOme &s;ay that it is a fal&s;e tale which is blowne abroade of <HI>Medea,</HI> for &s;hee did not kyll her Children, but the <HI>Co|rinthians</HI> did &s;uch a d&eacute;ede. The reporte which touched <HI>Medea</HI> &s;o narrowly a|ro&s;e vppon this occa&s;ion. <HI>Euripides</HI> at the reque&s;tes and intreataunce of the <HI>Corinthians,</HI> imagined and fayned &s;uch a thing to be, in&s;omuch that the &s;un of truth was blinded and darckned
<PB REF="76"> with the clowdes of lyes, by rea&s;on of the Poetes wittie inuention, and &s;kilfulne&s;&s;e in his arte and profe&s;&s;ion. And now the voice goes abroad very common, that the people of <HI>Corinth,</HI> in con&s;ideration of their foule offence wro|ught vpon their owne &s;onnes, offer &s;acrifices pacificato|rye vnto them, and pay vnto them, as it were a certaine tribute of duty.</P>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>&para; The ende of the fifth Booke of <HI>Aelianus.</HI></TRAILER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="6" TYPE="book">
<PB N="67" REF="76">
<HEAD>&para; The &s;ixte Booke of the varia|ble <HI>hi&s;tory of</HI> Aelianus.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of certaine mens anger, vngentlene&s;&s;e, wrong, violence, and reproch|full v&s;age.</HEAD>
<P>_AFter the <HI>Chalcedonians</HI> were van|qui&s;hed and ouercome, the <HI>Atheniens</HI> diuided their lande which was called <HI>Hippabota</HI> into forty porcions. But the temples of <HI>Minerua</HI> they left in the place named <HI>Lelantum.</HI> All the re|&s;idue of their land they did let out for rent, not &s;o much as the pillers which ioyned to the porch royall but contained monuments to be hyred and let out. As for their pri&s;oners and captiues they layd them fa&s;t in fetters, neither thought they this &s;ufficient, but let the furiou&s;nes of their anger flame further, which was kind|led again&s;t the <HI>Chalcedonen&s;es.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Lacedemonians,</HI> after y^e <HI>Me&s;&s;ans</HI> were vanqui&s;hed did take and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e the halfe part of euery thing in <HI>Me&s;|&s;ania,</HI> what &s;o euer. They vrged fr&eacute;e women by compul|&s;ory meanes, to goe furth to funerals, to bewayle and la|ment &s;traungers which were dead, who pertained vnto them in no kinde of re&s;pect or circum&s;taunce.</P>
<P>They left &s;ome men to plough and till the land, other|&s;ome they &s;olde, and many they murthered and put to death. The <HI>Atheniens</HI> v&s;ed the lyke crueltie, for when for|tune fauored &amp; &s;miled vpon the~, notwith&s;tanding they had pro&s;perous &s;ucce&s;&s;e, yet their v&s;age was not tollerable, nor their behauiour moderate, &s;ober and commendable. For they con&s;trayned the daughters and yong dam&s;els of
<PB REF="77"> &s;uch newcome dwellers as were amonge them, to beare boothes before their daughters and dam&s;els, &s;o dealt they in lyke maner with their women and maryed wiues: as for the men, they compelled them to carry mattockes, &s;houels, &s;pades, and other thinges, at their appointment, vpon their heads and &s;houlders.</P>
<P>The people <HI>Sicyonii,</HI> when they had taken <HI>Pellena,</HI> they abu&s;ed the wiues and daughters of the <HI>Pellenen&s;es</HI> mo&s;t villanou&s;ly, as it were in a commo~, filthy, and &s;tinc|king &s;tues. (O euerla&s;ting God) a d&eacute;ede mo&s;te damnable, and vn&s;&eacute;emely for a bea&s;tly <HI>Barbarian</HI> and trecherous Turke (in my iudgement and opinion) to commit.</P>
<P>When <HI>Philip</HI> was conquerour in the <HI>Cheronean</HI> battell, as well hee him&s;elfe, as the <HI>Macedonians</HI> were meruailou&s;ly puffed vp with pride for the pui&s;&s;aunt d&eacute;eds and feates of chiualry which they had done. The <HI>Greci|ans,</HI> &s;tanding in feare of him, y&eacute;elded vp them&s;elfe into his hands, according to their &s;euerall cities. The <HI>Thebans</HI> did nole&s;&s;e. The <HI>Megarians,</HI> the <HI>Corinthes,</HI> the <HI>A|chaians,</HI> the <HI>Elians,</HI> and the <HI>Euboians,</HI> all which bordered by the &s;ea coa&s;tes did the lyke. <HI>Philip,</HI> notwith&s;tanding their &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion and humilitie, &s;toode not to the coue|naunts which he had contracted and made with them, but (contrary to iu&s;tice, right, and equitie) brought them all into bondage, captiuity, and &s;eruitude.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the &s;trength and manhoode of <HI>Harmacodius</HI> his &s;onne.</HEAD>
<P>_THe &s;onne of <HI>Harmacodius The&s;pien&s;is</HI> accompanied with other Citizens to &s;uc|cour and ayde the <HI>Atheniens,</HI> at the fir&s;te a&s;&s;ault and encounter, fought &s;toutlye, couragiou&s;ly, and manfully. In fine when all his weapons were worne, wa&s;ted, broken, and quite &s;poyled, he continued the conflict &s;till,
<PB N="68" REF="77"> buffityng his enemies with his hands and fi&s;ts, and &s;o did fini&s;h and ende his lyfe with nole&s;&s;e renoume, prai&s;e, pui|&s;aunce and glory, then admyration. Wherefore I haue called y^e yongman after y^e name of his father &amp; his cuntry, and haue extolled hym with <HI>Homericall</HI> commendaci|ons. His proper name who&s;oeuer be de&s;irous to vnder|&s;tand, let hym &s;&eacute;eke els where, and be re&s;olued.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the young &s;pringall <HI>I&s;adas.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THe <HI>Lacedomonians</HI> crowned <HI>I&s;adas</HI> being but a &s;pringall, and &s;uch a one in d&eacute;ede as the law allowed not, ne yet admitted to battell: which rewarde <HI>I|&s;adas</HI> receiued, becau&s;e he behaued him|&s;elfe valiantly in the wre&s;tlyng place. Howbeit, the &s;elfe &s;ame <HI>I&s;adas,</HI> becau&s;e he (his age not requiring it) ru&s;hed vppon his enemies with vnu&s;uall weapons, and fence not accu&s;tomed, was puni&s;hed accordingly, at the determination of the fore|&s;ayde <HI>Lacedemonians.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of a youngman, to whom <HI>Li&s;anders</HI> daughter was betrouthed.</HEAD>
<P>_AFter <HI>Ly&s;ander</HI> was deade, a certaine yongma~ which had geuen faith and truth towards wedlocke vnto <HI>Li&s;anders</HI> daugh|ter, (a proper yong damo&s;ell and a wi&s;e wenche) did not perfourme that ind&eacute;ede which he pretended in word, for the mayden being left fa|therles, and <HI>Ly&s;anders</HI> ca&s;e, after his decea&s;e, founde no|thing &s;o good as was thought, &amp; bel&eacute;eued, y^e youngman re|uolted from his vow, and &s;hrunke from his promi&s;e made in the way of marriage, affirming preci&s;ely that he wolde neither medle nor make further with her in that matter.
<PB REF="78"> The mage&s;trats <HI>Ephori</HI> vnder&s;tanding of this dealing, by a common voice, con&s;ent, and agr&eacute;ement, puni&s;hed the yongman as an offender. For it was not (as they &s;uppo|&s;ed) y^e point of <HI>Lacedemonian</HI> hone&s;ty and con&s;cience, nor agr&eacute;eable to the nature of <HI>Grecia,</HI> that any man &s;houlde crack his credit after the death of his friends to whom he made &s;olemne promi&s;e, and by that meanes prefer riches and wealth before his oth and couenaunt.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the Emba&s;&s;adours of the Atheniens.</HEAD>
<P>_THe <HI>Atheniens</HI> put their Emba&s;&s;adors to death, their Emba&s;&s;adors, I &s;ay, whome they &s;ent into <HI>Arcadia.</HI> And why? Becau&s;e they went not the way which was commaunded them, but tooke a contraryway. This rewarde had they notwith&s;tanding y^e di&s;charge of their me&s;&s;age, and the accompli&s;hment of the preceptes whereto they were deputed and put in office.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of certaine Lacedemonian lawes.</HEAD>
<P>_DO not the&s;e ordinaunces &s;mell of <HI>La|cedemonian</HI> di&s;cipline? it is a lawe among the <HI>Lacedemonians</HI> or <HI>Spar|tanes,</HI> y^t hee which had deliuered thr&eacute;e &s;onnes to the common wealth &s;hould be priuiledged from watching both by day and by night, he which delyuered fiue &s;onnes &s;houlde not be burthened with any publique office and bui&s;ie charge, &s;o highly e&s;t&eacute;emed they procreati|on of Children, and increa&s;ing the multytude with bodely
<PB N="69" REF="78"> i&s;&s;ue, it was a law amonge them al&s;o that no marriages &s;hould be made for dowries. Moreouer that &s;uch as went to warfare &s;hould be apparelled in purple, to thintent that the coulour might repre&s;ent greater force, and that drops of bloud &s;pirting out of the wounded fle&s;h, &amp; &s;prink|led vpon their attire, might &s;trike the more feare and ter|rour into the hartes of the aduer&s;aries, the &s;ight of the &s;ame pearcing their &s;en&s;es more vehemently.</P>
<P>Furthermore it was not lawful for a <HI>Lacedemonian,</HI> to take from their enemies, no not the booty or &s;poyle: But &s;uch <HI>Spartanes</HI> as &s;hewed them&s;elfe &s;tout and valli|aunt, and lo&s;t their liues in battaile couragiou&s;ly, were crowned w^t garlands of olyue &amp; other braunches, to their great prai&s;e, co~mendacion, &amp; aduancement. Such al&s;o as prooued them&s;elf conquerrours, ind&eacute;ede, &amp; fought it out w^t &s;trength and manhood in &s;treames of bloud, they were not only clad, in purple robes gorgeou&s;ly, but they were al&s;o, buried mo&s;t gloriou&s;ly.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of an Earthquake which was in Sparta.</HEAD>
<P>_AT what time the <HI>Spartanes,</HI> or <HI>Lace|demonians,</HI> violently, proditoriou&s;ly, and traiterou&s;ly rebelled again&s;t their &s;eruitours the <HI>Teraneans,</HI> making a butchery and &s;laughter of their bodies (the&s;e &s;eruitours were of the race and di&s;&s;ent of the <HI>Eilotanes) Nep|tune</HI> was in a great rage, in a heauy di&s;plea&s;ure, and a hoat anger, in &s;omuch that there a|ro&s;e a terrible Earthquake, which put the <HI>Spartanes</HI> fearing no &s;uch violent &s;torme, to great vexatio~ and trou|ble, and &s;hooke the whole Citie &s;o mightely, that through|out the compa&s;&s;e and circute of the &s;ame, were left but a
<PB REF="79"> very few tenements &s;tanding.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the &s;laughter and murthering of <HI>Artaxerxes.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_ARtaxerxes,</HI> who was lykewi&s;e, &s;yrnamed <HI>Ochus,</HI> when as <HI>Bagoas</HI> the <HI>Aegiptian Eunuche</HI> had wrought his de&s;truction by &s;nares and priuy practi&s;es of deceipte, in &s;omuch that the one, to his vtter de&s;olati|on lo&s;te his lyfe, and the other to his con|tentation had that which he &s;ought: his fle&s;he was cut in mor&s;els and mammocks mo&s;t mi&s;erably, and ca&s;t to cats to gnaw vpon and to deuoure. In who&s;e place another was buryed, and layde vp in the &s;epulchre royall. This <HI>Ochus</HI> had bin a long practi&s;ed pilferer and &s;tealer of ho|ly things from &s;undry and diuers temples, and &s;pecially from <HI>Aegipt.</HI> The aboue named <HI>Bagoas</HI> was not &s;a|ti&s;fied with the murthering of <HI>Ochus,</HI> but hee &s;ought further meanes to &s;taunche his cruell de&s;ire, for hee cau|&s;ed the thigh bones of <HI>Artaxerxes</HI> to be &s;awne in &s;under, to be fyled, to be &s;craped, to be &s;hauen, to be carued, and made handles for &s;wordes and daggers. <HI>Hoc fecit vt am|mum &s;uum ad caedes prop en&s;um reprae&s;entaret.</HI> This dyd hee to geue a manife&s;t token and &s;ignification of his tyranical &s;tomack gr&eacute;edely &s;et vpon man&s;laughter and bloud&s;hed. He hated him &s;omuch the more becau&s;e hee had &s;laine the white oxe in <HI>Aegipt</HI> whom they wor&s;hipped for their gra|cious God, as <HI>Cambi&s;es</HI> had likewi&s;e done before.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the trea&s;ure which the people <HI>Delphi</HI> &s;ought for in the temple of Apollo.</HEAD>
<P>BEcau&s;e there ran a rumor to <HI>Delphos,</HI> by the meanes of <HI>Homer</HI> his ver&s;es, that <HI>Apollos</HI> Temple, in aunci|ent
<PB N="70" REF="79"> time, was mo&s;t riche, and wealthy, which ver&s;es are the&s;e.</P>
<Q><L><GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">,</L>
<L><GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">.</L></Q>
<P>Sounding thus in Engli&s;h.</P>
<Q><L>Nor yet &s;uch riches plentyfull, of &s;iluer &s;ine, &amp; golde.</L>
<L>As doth <HI>Apollos</HI> temple pau'de with &s;tone, containe &amp; hold.</L></Q>
<P>This reporte dyd &s;o kindle the mindes of the people at <HI>Delphos</HI> with &s;uch a de&s;ire of couetou&s;ene&s;&s;e, that they beganne with mattocks and &s;pades to digge about the al|tar and the thr&eacute;efooted table called the <HI>Tripod,</HI> thus they continued digging and vndermining, vnto &s;uch time as mo&s;t horrible Earthquakes &s;uddenly aro&s;e, then loe they con&s;idered of their doynges, and accounting that which happened as a premonition and forewarnyng of further mi&s;ch&eacute;efe to follow, left of from their enterpri&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; A lawe made by <HI>Pericles</HI> to pri|uiledge Citizens.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_PEricles</HI> the Captayne of the <HI>Athe|niens</HI> enacted and made a law, that it &s;hould not be tollerable nor per|mitted, that any &s;hould be aduaun|ced to the gouernment of the com|mon wealth but &s;uch as were borne and bred of Parentes beynge both Cityzens. The force of which lawe &s;tretched out vnto him&s;elfe: For his two &s;onnes <HI>Patroclus</HI> and <HI>Xantippus,</HI> being both &s;icke of an ex|treame pe&s;telence and plaguy feauer, neuer recouered their health, but dyed. To &s;&eacute;e and con&s;ider the &s;equeale if is &s;omwhat &s;traunge, for <HI>Pericles</HI> departyng out of the worlde left behinde him certaine &s;onnes mi&s;begotten,
<PB REF="80"> commonly called ba&s;tardes, from whom the authorytie and priuiledge prouided for the admini&s;tration and go|uernement of the common wealth, was withdrawne and vtterly taken away, by the meanes of his owne decr&eacute;e and ordinaunce.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Gelon being willing to re&s;tore regiment and rule to the Subiectes.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_GElon,</HI> after hee had vanqui&s;hed the <HI>Carthagineans</HI> in a foughten field at <HI>Himera,</HI> brought all <HI>Sicily</HI> into his rule and dominion. Afterwardes he goyng forth into the place of re&s;orte called the market place, naked, vnar|med, and voide of furniture, made an Oration to the a&s;&s;embly, &s;aying that hee was willyng to re&s;igne and geue ouer to the citizens, their rule and au|thorytie, who refu&s;ed his offer after the tryall of his cour|te&s;ie, becau&s;e he was more homely in conuer&s;ation and more ba&s;e in behauiour, then was decent or &s;&eacute;emely for a King. And therfore &s;tandeth his &s;imulachre or image in the temple of <HI>Iuno,</HI> &s;tarke naked without any garment or cloth to couer the &s;kin. The bare body of which dumb and &s;p&eacute;echle&s;&s;e picture, &s;etteth before the eyes of the beholders the d&eacute;ede of <HI>Gelon,</HI> and reuiueth the remembraunce of hym.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Diony&s;ius his beatitude and hap|pine&s;&s;e, and what ende was a|lotted to the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<P><HI>DIony&s;ius</HI> the &s;econde of that name, was well appoin|ted, e&s;tabli&s;hed, and confirmed in his kingdome: hee
<PB N="71" REF="80"> had in his po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion no le&s;&s;e then foure hundred Ships, he had in his po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion a great number of Gallies, &s;ome of fiue orders of oares, and &s;ome of &s;ixe, he was furni&s;hed with footemen, amounting to the number of a hundred thou&s;and, and his hor&s;emen were at lea&s;t nine thou&s;and by computation.</P>
<P>Moreouer, the Citie <HI>Siracu&s;ae</HI> was defended, and &s;ub|&s;tancially maintained with very great hauens, and com|pa&s;&s;ed about with high, mayne, and mighty wals. Final|lye he had all warlyke proui&s;ion and nece&s;&s;aries at hande in a redine&s;&s;e in fiue hundred Ships. Be&s;ides all this hee had plenty of Corne in &s;tore, about a hundred thou&s;ande quarters in mea&s;ure. And as for hys Armorye that was filled with &s;healds, &s;wordes, &s;peares, morris pykes, har|ne&s;&s;e for the legges, bre&s;t plates, gauntlettes, helmettes, call&eacute;euers, partizens, bowes, and quyuers (the&s;e &s;ame bowes were of <HI>Dioni&s;ius</HI> his own inuention and deuice) furthermore he had confederates and league fellowes in|numerable, redy at a becke to ayde hym by theyr power, and what was it that <HI>Diony&s;ius</HI> wanted. The aboun|daunce of his wealth, and this his plentyfull proui&s;ion did &s;o infect his hart with the poy&s;on of pryde, that he bea|ring him&s;elf bould, &amp; to to lu&s;ty hereupo~, thought his king|dome, and Empire fa&s;t founded, and grounded vpon hard &s;tones of Marble or Adamant. But marke the &s;udden al|teration &amp; chaunge of his felicitie, &amp; ponder how Fortune tourned al things top&s;ie turuey, for fir&s;t of all he procu|red his brethren to be murthered, then he &s;aw his &s;onnes cruely &s;layne before his face, be&s;ydes that he behelde his daughters &s;hamefully and villanou&s;ly abu&s;ed, and at the la&s;t murthered as naked as they were borne of their mo|ther. To be br&eacute;efe, none of his po&s;terytie and of&s;pring en|ioyed that kinde of buriall which they looked and hoped for, and why? Some of them were burnt aliue and con|&s;umed to a&s;hes, other&s;ome were mangled, &s;la&s;hte, and
<PB REF="81"> ga&s;ht and throwne into the &s;alt &s;ea, this &s;owre and vn&s;a|very &s;awce was &s;erued him when he occupied the king|dome of <HI>Dion Hipparinus,</HI> and as for him&s;elfe, &s;uch was his luck, &s;uch was his fortune, that when he was an olde man, and had &s;&eacute;ene many dayes and y&eacute;eres, hee fini&s;hed and ended his lyfe, not in courtly iollity, not in ruflyng brauery, not in aboundaunce of riches, but in n&eacute;ede and penury, in patcht beggery, and in extreame wretchednes. <HI>Theopompus</HI> &s;ayth that hee lo&s;t both his eyes with vn|mea&s;urable glutting and &s;willyng of wine, in&s;omuch that he became as blinde as a block, or a b&eacute;etell. Further|more, that his cu&s;tome and fa&s;hion was to &s;it in barbars &s;hops, tellyng tales to &s;uch as came to be notted, &s;hauen, and wa&s;hed, and moued them to mirth and laughter by his behauiour in &s;peach. Finally that he led his lyfe in the midde&s;t of all <HI>Grecia</HI> bea&s;tly, vndecently, and loth&s;omly. This mutation, chaunge, &s;upplantation, and ouerthrow of <HI>Diony&s;ius</HI> from &s;uch wealth, &s;uch wor&s;hip, &s;uch re|nowne, and &s;uch maie&s;tie, into &s;uch pouertie, &s;uch &s;hame, &s;uch nece&s;&s;itie and nakedne&s;&s;e of all things, was, and may be an effectuall and forceable example, a &s;pectacle, and warning, to admoni&s;h men of their e&s;tate, and to printe in the tables of their minds that they ought to intertaine temperaunce, to harbour hone&s;ty, to imbrace mode&s;ty, &amp; highly to e&s;t&eacute;eme commendable maners.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of tyraunies which continued in Grecia, but to the ages following.</HEAD>
<P>_IT is worthely (no doubt) prouided by the gods immortall, that no tyranny is lynked to long continuance, but a|bridged before it come to the third ge|neratio~. They crack the yoke therof, they bru&s;e, and breake it lyke a r&eacute;ede, yea they &s;poyle and depriue tyrannes children of all force and violence. Among the <HI>Grecians</HI>
<PB N="72" REF="81"> the&s;e tyrannies are onely recounted, (time out of minde) to haue la&s;ted to the next line of affinitie, namely, the ty|ranny of <HI>Gelon</HI> in <HI>Sicily,</HI> the tyranny of the <HI>Lucanes</HI> in <HI>Bo&s;phorus,</HI> and the tyranny of <HI>Cyp&s;ellus</HI> of&s;pryng in <HI>Corinth.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of <HI>Darius</HI> being layd in waight for to be taken.</HEAD>
<P>_THis d&eacute;ede doth import and &s;ignifie vn|to vs a certayne &s;inguler gentlene&s;&s;e and courte&s;ie in <HI>Darius</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Hyda&s;pis. Aribazus Hyrcanus</HI> layde &s;nares to intangle and take hym, and &s;o did more be&s;ides him, which were men of no &s;mall countenaunce and wor&s;hip in <HI>Per&s;ia.</HI> The&s;e &s;nares were ca&s;t in the game of venery or hunting, and as they were a br&eacute;eding, <HI>Darius</HI> perceiued them, and was not for all that, di&s;couraged with any fearefull conceipt, but with boldne&s;&s;e of &s;pirite bad them take their weapons and their hor&s;es. In the vt|teraunce of which wordes hee ca&s;t a &s;owre, a &s;tearne, a grimme &amp; a Saracen vi&s;age vpon them, and manife&s;tly vnder&s;tanding wherabout they went he &s;aide, vnto them yet againe. <HI>Quid igitur non exequimini id, cuius gratia ve|ni&s;tis?</HI> Why doo you not, &s;ayth he, di&s;patch your purpo&s;e, in re&s;pect of the accompli&s;hment whereof you be re&s;orted hether? When they behelde the countenaunce of <HI>Darius</HI> to be &s;o farre from feare, that it repre&s;ented a lyonlike boldne&s;&s;e, they did not only withdraw their force and vio|lence, but were al&s;o &s;o ama&s;ed, &s;o terrified, and aga&s;t, that they threw downe their &s;peares, lighted of their &s;addels, and did humble obei&s;aunce vnto <HI>Darius,</HI> &s;ubmitting them &s;elfe &amp; proffering their voluntary &s;eruice, to doo what&s;oe|uer he gaue the~ in co~mandeme~t: <HI>Darius</HI> &s;eperated the~ one from another, and &s;ent one into the borders of <HI>India,</HI> and
<PB REF="82"> another into the coa&s;tes of <HI>Scithia,</HI> and they both, from that time forward, being mindful of his gracious benefit, were faithfull vnto hym, were obedient, and full of dutye and allegiaunce. Thus did he preuent the pre&s;ent perill of tho&s;e which layd in waight for his lyfe, wherein was no le&s;&s;e wi&s;edome then polycie declared.</P>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>&para; <HI>The ende of the &s;ixte Booke of <HI>Aelianus.</HI></HI></TRAILER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="7" TYPE="book">
<PB N="73" REF="82">
<HEAD>&para; The &s;eauenth Booke of the varia|ble <HI>hi&s;tory of</HI> Aelianus.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of <HI>Semiramis,</HI> and how &s;he conueied the kingdome of A&s;&s;iria into her owne po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion.</HEAD>
<P>_OF <HI>Semiramis</HI> &s;ome &s;ay this, and &s;ome &s;et downe that, and amonge all o|ther thinges this (as de&s;eruing a mo|nument of &s;empeternall memorye) is recorded that &s;hee was the mo&s;te bewtifull, the mo&s;t amiable Lady and Qu&eacute;ene throughout the vniuer|&s;all worlde, albeit &s;hee dyd litle regarde her fine pro|porcion, her excellent comlyne&s;&s;e, her angelicall grace: and had no re&s;pect to y^e trymming &amp; decking of her body w^t gorgeous garments, &amp; robes of royalty. It fortuned y^t this <HI>Semiramis,</HI> by rea&s;on of the rumor and fame of her &s;urpa&s;&s;ing beauty, was &s;ent for into <HI>A&s;&s;iria,</HI> that the king of that region might &s;ati&s;fie him&s;elfe with the &s;ight of her p&eacute;erele&s;&s;e maie&s;tie, before who&s;e pre&s;ence &s;he came accor|ding to the tennor of the me&s;&s;age. The King of <HI>A&s;&s;iria,</HI> had no &s;ooner ca&s;t his wanton eye vpo~ her, but was forth|with inflamed with the fire of affection towardes her. After certaine circum&s;taunces ouer pa&s;&s;ed, &s;he required of the King a rich rewarde, namely, a robe of e&s;tate, the gouernement of <HI>A&s;ia</HI> for fiue dayes continuaunce, and the ab&s;olute authorytie in all thinges that were done in the kingdome. Which peticion of the Qu&eacute;ene was gran|ted vnto by the king, no deniall made to the contrary. In conclu&s;ion when &s;he was &s;et and e&s;tabli&s;hed in the throne of maie&s;ty, and had gotten all things (without exception) in the gripes of her a&s;piryng minde, &s;he commaunded the
<PB REF="83"> king to be &s;layne, whereby he was di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of his do|minion, and &s;he pre&s;ently therevpon enioyed the &s;cepter and crowne imperiall ouer <HI>A&s;&s;yria</HI> vniuer&s;all.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the delicates, the di&s;portes, and wanton toyes of Straton and Nicocles.</HEAD>
<P>_IT is reported that <HI>Straton Sidonius,</HI> applyed his wit and will to exc&eacute;ede and go beyond al men in &s;uperfluitie, ryot, and magnificence, Wherevpon <HI>Theopompus Chius</HI> compareth his life, to the gormondi&s;ing and belly cheare of the <HI>Phaeacen&s;es,</HI> whiche the Poet <HI>Homer</HI> according to his cu&s;tome and knowledge, hath de&s;cribed in his <HI>Odi&s;&s;es.</HI> This lu&s;tie youth was not contented to haue one alone pre&s;ent at his fea&s;ting and &s;umptuous table, to moue his mynde to myrth, with the &s;w&eacute;etne&s;&s;e of &s;ongs and &s;onets, and &s;uch like in&s;truments of plea&s;ure, but &s;car&s;ely &s;ati&s;fied with a multitude of wa~|ton women, &s;ome cunning in mu&s;ick, &s;ome expert in play+ing vpon the pype, and &s;uche like practi&s;es of la&s;ciuiou&s;|ne&s;&s;e. Moreouer, he had the company of arrant whores and &s;trong &s;trumpets, but yet braue and beautiful at his banket. And be&s;ides all this, &s;elected dauncers, to kindle his greater delight amid&s;t his exce&s;&s;iue cheare. He coulde in no ca&s;e abyde to heare of one which was equall to him in the aboue named &s;pectacles of leudne&s;&s;e and prodigali|tie, whervpon &s;prang a certaine &s;trife and contention be|tw&eacute;ene <HI>Nicocles Ciprius</HI> &amp; him, whiles the one did what he could to excel the other. O vaine and ridiculous emu|lation, not ari&s;ing in the behalfe of vertue, but of belly|cheare, not of commendable demenour, but of bea&s;tly be|hauiour. For when the one had vnder&s;tanding by com|mers and goers, of the others conditions and fa&s;hions in
<PB N="74" REF="83"> fea&s;ting, &s;uch &s;pitefulnes, &s;uch repining, &s;uch ambition, &amp; grudging was ingendred in the hearts of them both, that the one, with might and maine, with tooth and naile, with &s;hippe and &s;aile, laboured with all po&s;&s;ibilitie to pa&s;&s;e be|yonde the other: But to &s;ay the very trueth, neither of the twaine did enioy the&s;e their delicates, and di&s;portes con|tinually, and why? becau&s;e violent and &s;udden death a&s;|&s;aulted them whereby they were cut &s;hort, contrary to their expectation.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>A &s;peach of Ari&s;tippus very conue|nient to a&s;&s;wage &s;orowe.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ARi&s;tippus,</HI> when certaine of his friends, vexed and tormented them &s;elues wyth vehement and bitter lamentations, vt|tering many thinges to mitigate their griefe and heauines of heart, &s;pake the&s;e wordes vnto them, as an entrance to further communication. <HI>Non venio vt ad ve&s;tros dolores meum adiungam, &s;ed vt vobis omnem moerorem ex animis exi|mam.</HI> I come not hether (my friendes) to annex my hea|uines to your pen&s;iuenes, but to expell and bani&s;h out of your mindes all angui&s;h and vexation.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>The commendation of a mill.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_PIttacus</HI> preci&s;ely prai&s;ed a grinding mill, and a&s;cribed great commendati|ons to the &s;ame, becau&s;e that, it being contained in a little compa&s;&s;e, &s;etteth many to worke labour and exerci&s;e. There was a ballade made thervpon called <HI>Epimylion,</HI> the &s;ong of the mill.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB REF="84">
<HEAD>&para; Of the handy worke of <HI>Achilles</HI> and <HI>Vly&s;&s;es</HI> in many and &s;undry thinges.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_LAertes</HI> the Father of <HI>Vly&s;&s;es</HI> was founde at his handy worke and bodely labour, namely, grafting and plan|ting, at &s;uch time as hee &s;touped for|warde by rea&s;on of his feablene&s;&s;e and aged yeares. Furthermore <HI>Vly&s;&s;es</HI> &s;ayeth of him&s;elfe that hee was well &s;&eacute;ene in the knowledge of many things, and perfectly ex|perime~ted and practi&s;ed to worke them with his hands, the ver&s;es wherein the vaunting &s;peach of his cunning is compri&s;ed, are the&s;e.</P>
<Q><LG>
<L><GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">,</L>
<L><GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Viribus haud potuit qui&s;quam contendere mecum,</L>
<L>Ad bene condendos ignes et ligna &s;ecanda.</L>
</LG></Q>
<P>Thus in Engli&s;h.</P>
<Q><LG>
<L>No man was able, t'ncounter with mee,</L>
<L>In cunningly cutting downe wood from the tree,</L>
<L>And makyng of fires which v&s;ed mu&s;t bee.</L>
</LG></Q>
<P>He made Ships and ve&s;&s;els to &s;erue vpon the Seas, by the dillygence of his owne labour and cunning work|man&s;hip. And <HI>Achilles</HI> in like maner, obtayning the third place next <HI>Iupiter,</HI> playde the butcher, in cutting out of flea&s;h, the cooke in dre&s;&s;ing it, and making the &s;ame ready to be &s;erued in at a &s;upper, which he prepared for the in|tertainement of certaine Emba&s;&s;adours that came from the country of <HI>Grecia.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="75" REF="84">
<HEAD>&para; The aun&s;wer of a Scythian to a de|maunde concerning colde.</HEAD>
<P>_WHen aboundaunce of &s;now fell vpon the face of the earth, from the gro&s;&s;e and congeled cloudes, the king of <HI>Scy+thia</HI> que&s;tioned with a certayne odde fellow, who&s;e cu&s;tome was continu|ally to goe &s;tarke naked, and deman|ded of him if he felt not the horror of colde ran&s;acking his flea&s;h &amp; &s;inewes. The which que&s;ti|on propounded, this <HI>Scythian</HI> did ab&s;olue with an other demaunde, namely, whether his forhead might f&eacute;ele the coldne&s;&s;e of the wether? whereunto the king made aun|&s;wer and &s;ayd no. Why then &s;ayeth the <HI>Scythian</HI> &s;hould not I &s;uffer and indure the &s;harpne&s;&s;e of fro&s;t and &s;now, &s;&eacute;eing I am nothing els but altogeather a m&eacute;ere fore|head?</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the watching and nightely &s;tudies of the Orator <HI>De|mo&s;thenes.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_PYtheas</HI> &s;coffed at the Rhetorician <HI>De|mo&s;thenes,</HI> &s;aying that his oratory ex|erci&s;es &s;auored of the candle, becau&s;e he con&s;umed the whole night &s;ea&s;on in watching without winking, and &s;tu|dying without &s;l&eacute;eping, meditating and committing to the tables of re|membraunce &s;uch matters as h&eacute;e was to publy&s;h in the common conuent and a&s;&s;embly of the <HI>Atheniens.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB REF="85">
<HEAD>&para; The lamentation and heauyne&s;&s;e of <HI>Alexander</HI> for the death of <HI>Hephae&s;tion.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_AT what time <HI>Hephae&s;tion</HI> was dead, <HI>Alexanders</HI> minde was much moued with &s;orrow, in&s;omuch that he ca&s;t his armour, his riches of gold and &s;iluer, a Per&s;ian garment of great valuation and price, into the bonefyre with the carca&s;&s;e. Moreouer he cau&s;ed all his warlyke and marciall &s;ouldiours to become &s;hauelyngs, not exempting him&s;elfe from the communion of their vn|comfortable chaunces, but including his owne per&s;on within the fellow&s;hip of their fortune, wherin he &s;&eacute;emeth to tread y^e trace, &amp; to follow y^e foot&s;teps of <HI>Achilles</HI> of who~ y^e poet <HI>Homer</HI> maketh mention. But yet neuertheles h&eacute;e v&s;ed more violence then the other, in&s;omuch as he ouer|threw y^e fortres of y^e <HI>Ecbatanes.</HI> So far forth therfore as he &s;haued of his haire, he dyd lyke a <HI>Grecian</HI> (in my imagina|tion) but in that he fell to batteryng and racyng downe wals, fences, &amp; &s;uch like munitions, his lamentation is leauened with y^e behauiour of a <HI>Barbarian.</HI> He chaunged likewi&s;e his robe of royaltie, offeryng, and opening a gap and fr&eacute;e pa&s;&s;age, to &s;orrowfulne&s;&s;e, to teares, to com|plaintes, and heauyne&s;&s;e. <HI>Hephae&s;tion</HI> let his lyfe at <HI>Ec|batana,</HI> the reporte was that the circum&s;taunce before rehear&s;ed, were prouided for the dead body of the &s;ayde <HI>Hephae&s;tio~,</HI> but de&s;tiny (who&s;e dominion is vniuer&s;all) &s;o wrought in this matter, that all the abouenamed pre|paration was be&s;towed vpon his owne carka&s;&s;e. For the angui&s;h and &s;orrow which <HI>Alexander</HI> conceiued through the decea&s;e of <HI>Hephae&s;tion,</HI> tooke &s;uch d&eacute;epe roote in his bowels, that being vnable to refraine heauine&s;&s;e, he was
<PB N="76" REF="85"> in lyke maner &s;wallowed and deuoured vp by death.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of a continent, cha&s;t, and vertuous matrone.</HEAD>
<P>_WAs not this continence incompara|ble, this &s;obriety &s;ingular, and this vertue p&eacute;erele&s;&s;e? de&s;eruing (in my iudgement) a common admiration? For the wife of <HI>Phocion,</HI> wore <HI>Pho|cions</HI> garment, &s;he had no n&eacute;ede of a traine gowne purfled and embroy|dered, plighted and garded, &s;hee had no n&eacute;ede of a rounde &s;ilcken kertle to beautyfie her body, &s;he had no n&eacute;ede of a co&s;tly call hung with glittering &s;pangles of golde and &s;il|uer, &s;he had no n&eacute;ede of lawne &s;l&eacute;eues and neckerchers of fine lynnen wrought with curious flowers and intricate knots, &s;he had no n&eacute;ede of gorgeous attire &s;tayned with the princely colours of purple and Crim&s;on. But fir&s;te and principally &s;hee apparelled her &s;elfe with tempe|rance, and &s;o con&s;equently &s;ought for other thinges ne|ce&s;&s;ary.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of <HI>Xantippe</HI> the wife of <HI>Socrates.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_TT what time <HI>Socrates</HI> his wife <HI>Xantip|pe</HI> by name, refu&s;ed to put on his gar|ment, and in that &s;orte to goe abroad and beholde &s;umptuous &s;ightes and plea&s;ant pageants, he &s;ayde vnto her. <HI>Vt quam non &s;pectandi cau&s;a, &s;ed potius vt &s;pecteris, abeas, video.</HI> I perceaue thy goyng abroade is not to &s;&eacute;e, but ra|ther to be &s;&eacute;ene.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB REF="86">
<HEAD>How the women of Rome v&s;ed to be &s;hod.</HEAD>
<P>MAny of the <HI>Romani&s;h</HI> women accu&s;tomed to weare &s;uch &s;hooes as the men did weare.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; The Apophthegme or &s;hort &s;entence of <HI>Ly&s;ander</HI> concerning periury.</HEAD>
<P>_CHildren mu&s;te be circumuented and compa&s;&s;ed in &s;ubtely with playing at cardes, dice, and tables, but men mu&s;t be inclo&s;ed and deceitfully dealt with all by periury and fore&s;wearing. Som a&s;cribe this &s;aying to <HI>Ly&s;ander,</HI> other|&s;ome attribute the &s;ame to <HI>Philip</HI> of <HI>Macedonia.</HI> But whether of the twayne was the author of this &s;entence, he wandereth wide (in my iudgement) from the pathway of iu&s;tice and equitie. Neither may it &s;&eacute;eme a thing ab&s;urd and repugnaunt to rea&s;on in that I di&s;&s;agr&eacute;e from <HI>Ly&s;ander,</HI> for he v&s;ed tyranny. Of what minde therfore I am in this ca&s;e it is manyfe&s;t and eui|dent, in that I much mi&s;lyke of the fore&s;ayde &s;entence.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the pacience, and &s;ufferaunce of <HI>Age&s;ilaus.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_AGe&s;ilaus</HI> of <HI>Lacedemonia</HI> being an old man and hauing &s;&eacute;ene in the cour&s;e of his yeares many choices and chaun|ges, went abroad oftentimes, barefote, barelegd, and a ragged cote vpon his back in the colde morning of &s;harp and fro&s;ty winter. When one rebuked and blamed him for
<PB N="77" REF="86"> behauyng him&s;elfe more childi&s;hly and boylyke then be|came his old age, if (&s;ayeth he) I &s;hould weare a youthfull garment ouer this, the Citizens of the younger &s;orte would &s;tande &s;taryng vpon me lyke a company of A&s;&s;es and Mules.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Philo&s;ophers that were both warriers and mage&s;trates.</HEAD>
<P>_WHy &s;hould not learned Philo&s;ophers be accoumpted &s;kilfull in battell? in mine opinion there is no impediment to the contrary, for <HI>Architas</HI> was e|lected &s;ix times by the <HI>Tarentines</HI> to &s;upply the place of their Captaine. <HI>Meli&s;&s;us</HI> had the gouernement and charge of a battell fought by &s;ea. <HI>Socrates</HI> marched in battell ray, and went on warfare. <HI>Plato</HI> in lyke maner was at the a&s;&s;aultyng of <HI>Tanagra,</HI> and the be&s;&eacute;eging of <HI>Corinth.</HI> As for <HI>Xenephons</HI> voyages, his exploytures, his feates of armes, and practi&s;es of pui&s;aunce and magna|nimitie, many haue mo&s;te largely written of them, and he him&s;elfe in his bookes of <HI>Cyrus</HI> maketh mencyon &s;uf|ficiently. <HI>Dion</HI> &s;uppre&s;&s;ed the tyrany of <HI>Hipparinus Dio|ni&s;ius. Epaminondus Boetarchns</HI> being &s;ent to <HI>Leuctra</HI> vnqui&s;hed the <HI>Lacedemonians,</HI> and was principall a|mong the <HI>Romanes</HI> and the <HI>Grecians. Zenon</HI> wroughte many things wi&s;ely and worthely for the <HI>Atheniens</HI> a|gain&s;t <HI>Antigonus.</HI> For, whether &s;uccour be mini&s;tred by coun&s;ell, adui&s;ement, and poli&s;ie, or by manhood, courage, an actiuitie, it is not to be called in que&s;tion.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; How the league felowes of the Mitylenen&s;es were puni&s;hed for &s;weruing from allegiance.</HEAD>
<P>WHen the rule, power, dominion, and authorytie of the <HI>Mitylenen&s;es</HI> &s;tretched ouer the &s;eas, they exe|cuted
<PB REF="87"> this puni&s;hment vpon their league fellowes, which had drawne their necks and &s;houlders out of the yoke of their communion, and &s;hrunke from the participation of their &s;eruice, that it &s;hould not be lawfull for them to traine vp their children in learning nor in y^e knowledge and experience of liberall &s;ciences, &s;uppo&s;ing this of all puni&s;hments the &s;harpe&s;t, namely a lyfe in vn&s;kilfunes, and ignoraunce of al arts lyberall.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Rome, of Remus, Romulus, and Seruia.</HEAD>
<P>THe Citie of <HI>Rome</HI> was founded and builte by <HI>Remus</HI> and <HI>Romulus,</HI> the &s;onnes of <HI>Mars,</HI> and <HI>Seruia,</HI> who were of the di&s;&s;ent, lynage, and of&s;pring of <HI>Aeneas.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Eudoxus comming into Sicilia.</HEAD>
<P>_WHen <HI>Eudoxus</HI> was come into <HI>Sicilia, Dioni&s;ius</HI> intertained him courte|ou&s;ly with aboundaunce of wordes, geuing him thankes in lyke maner for his comming. But <HI>Eudoxus</HI> not flattering him with &s;emblable affa|bilitie, without &s;oothing or &s;moothing the matter, &s;ayde thus to <HI>Dioni&s;ius, <HI>Veni qua&s;i ad bonum ho&s;pitem, apud quem Plato diuerteret.</HI></HI> I am come hether (as to a common Inne) and a fr&eacute;e harbouring Oa&s;te, with whom <HI>Plato</HI> &s;houlde be lodged and bourded, meaning in|deede that he came not &s;o much for his owne &s;ake, as for <HI>Dioni&s;ius</HI> behoofe.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="75" REF="87">
<HEAD>&para; That the Aegyptians are patient in tormentes, and of the wo|men of India.</HEAD>
<P>_THey &s;ay that the <HI>Aegyptians</HI> patiently &s;uffer torments, and con&s;tantly indure the &s;tinging &s;martes of the &s;ame, and that they will &s;ooner dye the death, be|ing pittifully pinched and payned with the horrour of puni&s;hment, rather then they will acknowledge and confe&s;&s;e the truth. Among the <HI>Indians</HI> al&s;o, the women of that coun|trey are &s;o courageous, bolde, and manly, that they dare plunge into the fire, with the deade bodyes of their hu&s;|bandes. They boyle in like maner with the fire of emula|tion, many women louing one man, till lottes be ca&s;t to end the controuer&s;ie, and &s;he vpon whom the lot lighteth, obtaineth her louer, &amp; is content to be burned with him.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Solons Strategemme again&s;t the Megaren&s;es, and how he conuin|ced them with words.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_SOlon</HI> in a battell fought for an I&s;land by <HI>Athens</HI> named <HI>Salamis,</HI> played the valiant captayne, and tooke a couple of great temples or churches (as we call them) wherein he put the chiefe&s;t of the <HI>Atheniens,</HI> and gaue to his &s;ouldiers the harue&s;&s;e of the enemies to weare, and &s;o circumuented the <HI>Megaren&s;es</HI> which were vnar|med, that there was a great and a bloudy &s;laughter made of them: he conuinced them al&s;o, not with fine&s;&s;e &amp; curi|ou&s;nes of vttera~ce, but with &s;ub&s;tancial arguments built vpon a firme fundation. For he opening the old &amp; auncie~t reuo&s;itories, &s;hewed al y^e <HI>Atheniens</HI> lying towards y^e we&s;t
<PB REF="88"> after the cu&s;tome of the country. But the <HI>Megariens</HI> di&s;|orderly and confu&s;edly buried. Of which thing the <HI>La|cedemonians</HI> declared the occa&s;ion.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of an olde man of Ceus that dyed his haires.</HEAD>
<P>_AN olde man of <HI>Ceus</HI> comming to <HI>La|cedemonia,</HI> being puffed vp with pryde and &s;wellyng with in&s;olency, was, for his fatherly olde age, had in reuerence, and honour, in&s;omuch that hee couloured his hoary head ouergrowne with gray haires. This olde man comming into an a&s;&s;embly of <HI>La|cedemonians,</HI> di&s;couered his head for them to behold, and made a declaration of &s;uch matters about which he cam. <HI>Archidamus</HI> the king of the <HI>Lacedemonians</HI> ry&s;ing vp, &s;ayde in this wi&s;e, what &s;ounde and true tale canne the toung of this felow reporte, who&s;e hart is &s;tayned with &s;pots of hipocri&s;ie and double dealyng, and who&s;e head is coloured with counterfect comelyne&s;&s;e. Thus would hee in no ca&s;e alow the wordes of the olde man, but vtterly reiected them, taunting the euill inclynation of the olde mans nature, by tho&s;e circum&s;taunces which were ob|iect to the fight, and apparaunt to the eye.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the diligence of Cae&s;ar and Pompey, in learning &s;uch things as pertay|ned to the admini&s;tration and right gouernaunce of a common wealth.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> di&s;dained not to frequent the thre&s;holde of <HI>Ari&s;t|on,</HI> nether did <HI>Pompey</HI> think &s;korne to go oftentimes to the hou&s;e of <HI>Cratippus.</HI> For their principallytie and
<PB N="79" REF="88"> honourable e&s;tate were not alluremntes to drawe them from vertuous &s;tudies, nor &s;purres to pricke them for|ward to the contempte of &s;uch thinges, as were thought both commodious and comme~dable for them to imbrace: yea they were glad and faine to reque&s;t and be&s;&eacute;ech them (notwith&s;tanding their titles of renowne) to impart &s;ome principles of Philo&s;ophy vnto them, <HI>Non enim imperare, vt apparet, &s;ed rect&egrave; imperare cupiebant.</HI> For they de&s;ired not to gouerne only (as it appeareth) but gouerne prudently, vertuou&s;ly, and politiquely.</P>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>&para; <HI>The ende of the &s;euenth Booke of <HI>Aelianus.</HI></HI></TRAILER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="8" TYPE="book">
<PB REF="89">
<HEAD>&para; The eight Booke of the varia|ble <HI>hi&s;tory of</HI> Aelianus.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the &s;pirite of the Philo&s;opher <HI>Socrates.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_SOcrates</HI> had this communica|tion, concerning his &s;pirite which alwayes did accompa|ny and folow him, with <HI>The|agenes Demodocus,</HI> and di|uers other, that oftentimes he harde a heauenly voice ful of maie&s;tie (which &s;ayeth he) at &s;uch time as it &s;oundeth in mine eares, it &s;ignifieth a de|hortation and a &s;p&eacute;edy inter|mi&s;&s;ion from the thing which he purpo&s;ed to accompli&s;h, but the &s;elfe &s;ame voyce doth neuer per&s;wade mee to at|tempt any thing. Moreouer, if any of my frindes make me of their coun&s;ell touching any waighty bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, and this voyce chaunce to &s;ounde, it is a forewarning that he mu&s;t not continue or per&s;euer in his intent, &amp; this voyce maketh me pertaker of his &s;ecret adui&s;e. Then I, imbra|cyng the heauenly premonitions of this &s;acred &s;ounde, re|&s;orte to my familiar friend, who craued my iudgement, and withdraw him quite from the thing which he deter|mined to doo. In this behalfe he recited <HI>Charmis</HI> the &s;on of <HI>Glauco</HI> for a witnes, who vpon a time woulde n&eacute;edes buckle him&s;elf with al preparation to go vnto the games and &s;howes of <HI>Nemea,</HI> this voyce was hard immediatly, &s;peaking vnto <HI>Socrates,</HI> wherupon he di&s;&s;uaded <HI>Charmis</HI> from his purpo&s;e, but hee not admitting <HI>Socrates</HI> faire warnyng, receaued &s;uch a recompence as his labour de&s;erued.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="77" REF="89">
<HEAD>&para; Of the the wi&s;dome of <HI>Hipparchus,</HI> and of his loue towardes his in&s;truc|tours, and of <HI>Homers</HI> ver&s;es.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_HIpparchus,</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Pi&s;i&s;tratus,</HI> as hee was the elde&s;t of all his brethren, &s;o was he the wi&s;e&s;t Gentleman amonge all the <HI>Atheniens,</HI> he was the fir&s;te that brought the ver&s;es of <HI>Homer</HI> into <HI>Athens,</HI> and compelled mu&s;icians (appoynted for the lyke purpo&s;e) to &s;ing and &s;ounde them in an open a&s;&s;em|bly, and common audience of <HI>Grecians.</HI> He &s;ent al&s;o a na|uye of fifty &s;ayle, for <HI>Anacreon Teius</HI> to come vnto him, he made very much of <HI>Simonides Ceus,</HI> to whom he clea|ued as cloa&s;ely as the &s;kin to the fle&s;h, or as the fle&s;h to the bone, or as one ioynt to another, be&s;towing vpon him ma|ny great gifts, precious Iuelles, and royal rewards who ind&eacute;ede, was &s;oone per&s;waded, where any hope of gayne remayne, or any commodytie was graunted, for if I &s;hould report vnto you the in&s;atiable couetou&s;enes, and gr&eacute;edy yawning of <HI>Simonides,</HI> hunting after money and mundained muck (which moldereth away lyke mo&s;&s;e,) I thinke there is none to &s;tande in contradiction with m&eacute;e, that will &s;ay I burthen him with an vntruth. This <HI>Hip|parchus</HI> &s;pent all his time, his &s;tudie, dilligence, and la|bour, in the company and &s;ocietie of &s;uch as excelled in wi&s;dome, knowledg and vnder&s;tanding, wherein he was to the <HI>Atheniens,</HI> a bright burning bearo~, directing them by his lyght to the loue of the lyke labour, wherein he ap|plyed him&s;elfe to &s;urpa&s;&s;e them all, and did his vttermo&s;t endeuour y^t his gouernment might be linked to learning, and the <HI>Atheniens</HI> the better di&s;po&s;ed. Hee &s;uppo&s;ed moreouer, that no man &s;hould be enuyed for his wi&s;dome, becau&s;e he him&s;elfe was both bountifull and vprighte,
<PB REF="90"> The&s;e thinges are reported of <HI>Hipparchus</HI> by the pen of Philo&s;ophycall <HI>Plato,</HI> who&s;e &s;choler and di&s;ciple he was.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of the &s;laughter of a bullock amonge the Atheniens, and of their fe&s;tiuall dayes called <HI>Dijpolia</HI> and <HI>Buphonia.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_IT is a cu&s;tome and a v&s;e continued a|mong the <HI>Atheniens,</HI> that when they haue &s;tayne a bullock, they pronounce al things fr&eacute;e and vnguilty (after particular iudge|ment geuen orderly in euery ca&s;e) by pro|clamation. The &s;word only, as the comit|ter of the murther, they accu&s;e, and al&s;o condemne. Final|ly the dayes fe&s;tiuall, wherin the&s;e things are performed, they call by the&s;e names <HI>Dijpolia,</HI> and <HI>Buphonia.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the wa&s;tfull and fooli&s;h pro|digally tie of <HI>Poliarchus.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_POliarchus</HI> was &s;o grafted &amp; grown in fooly&s;h prodigallytie, and exce&s;|&s;iue nicene&s;&s;e, that he would bring forth the dead carka&s;&s;es of dogs and cocks (if hee loued them when they were liuing) &amp; gather al his frendes and acquaintance to the buriall of them, wherein he &s;pared no co&s;tes, charges nor expences: for he rai&s;ed vp out of their graues great pillers, and cau&s;ed Epitaphes to be carued in the &s;ame.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="81" REF="90">
<HEAD>Of Neleus, Medon and the twelue cities of Ionia.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_NEleus</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Codrus</HI> being dri|uen out of his kingdome left <HI>Athens,</HI> becau&s;e the oracle of <HI>Apollo</HI> had ap|pointed the Empire for <HI>Medon</HI> who departed out of the citie into a place &s;ometime &s;olitarie, and not inhabi|bited, and he arriued at <HI>Naxus</HI> (as he &s;ayled on the &s;eas) not according to his will and wi&s;he, but by the violence and outragiou&s;nes of the tempe&s;tes. Then would he full faine haue lanched from that Land, but contrary windes ari&s;ing &s;topped his pa&s;&s;age with their blu&s;tring bla&s;tes, being therefore lefte, as it were in a laberinth of doubtes, the <HI>Magicians</HI> tolde him that his army &s;hould be clen&s;ed and purified, becau&s;e many of them which were vnder &s;aile with him, had pol|luted their hands with bloud&s;hed, wherfore he fained that he had murthered a childe, &amp; that he vpon that occa&s;ion, &s;toode in n&eacute;ede of a purgation, as well as the re&s;idue: by which example of his owne per&s;on he per&s;waded all that knewe them &s;elues offenders to pleade for an expiation. Which being brought to pa&s;&s;e, &amp; they manife&s;tly knowne that were tre&s;pa&s;&s;ers, he for&s;ooke their felow&s;hippe and left them behinde to inhabite <HI>Naxus.</HI> But <HI>Neleus</HI> him &s;elfe came into <HI>Ionia,</HI> and ariued fir&s;t at <HI>Miletum,</HI> driuing out the <HI>Cares,</HI> the <HI>Mydones,</HI> the <HI>Leleges,</HI> and other barbarous people of whome the twelue cities in <HI>Ionia</HI> were named, who&s;e appellations be the&s;e, <HI>Miletus, Ephe&s;us, Erythrae, Clazomenae, Priena, Le&s;bus, Teus, Colophon, Myus, Phocaea, Samus, and Chius.</HI> And he procured many mo ci|ties &s;ittuate vpon the continent or firme land to be inha|bited.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB REF="91">
<HEAD>&para; Of the ignoraunce, and want of know|ledge which was in the Barbarians.</HEAD>
<P>_OF the auncient <HI>Thracians</HI> there was not one indued with the precious iu|ell of learning. The <HI>Barbarians</HI> al&s;o which inhabited <HI>Europa,</HI> thought it a thing mo&s;t filthy, di&s;commendable, and reprochfull, to haue knowledge and vnder&s;tanding. The people of <HI>A|&s;ia</HI> (as olde recordes te&s;tify) attayned cl&eacute;erer light of lear|ning and di&s;cipline, wherupon they were &s;o bolde as to a|uouche that <HI>Orpheus,</HI> the experte mu&s;ician, wanted wi&s;|dome, and what was the rea&s;on which they rendred? for|&s;ooth, becau&s;e he was a <HI>Thracian</HI> bred and borne, they af|firmed likewi&s;e, that his &s;onets, ver&s;es, and dities were fear&s;ed with fooli&s;h fables, &s;tuffed with triflyng toyes, and &s;ea&s;oned with the leuen of lyes. Thus much hath <HI>Androtion</HI> committed to the monuments of memorye, if any man account his authorytie worthy credite, in the within named circum&s;tances concerning the gro&s;e ignoraunce and vn&s;kilfulnes of the <HI>Thracians.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of a wedding &s;olemni&s;ed by <HI>Alexander</HI> after Darius was vanqui&s;hed.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ALexander,</HI> after he had vanqui&s;hed <HI>Darius,</HI> made a wedding banket for him&s;elf and for his frends, y^e nu~ber of y^e wome~ who~ they &s;hould marry were by co~putation, foure&s;kore &amp; ten, and as many bedchambers. The pallace which was a&s;&s;igned for the &s;eruice of the fea&s;t and the intertainment of the gue&s;ts, was of great capa|cytie and receipt, contayning in it, no le&s;&s;e then an hun|dred tables, al which &s;toode vpon frames of &s;iluer, &amp; the ta|ble royall vpon a frame of golde. They were couered with carpetes of purple, and with &s;undry &s;umptuous clothes of outlandi&s;h worke being of great price and e&s;ti|mation.
<PB N="82" REF="91"> He entertained &s;traungers to bee his gue&s;tes, whom he commaunded to &s;it downe directly again&s;t his owne per&s;on. There &s;at in the common hall or pallace at the celebration of the&s;e weddings, both land and &s;ea &s;oul|diours, hor&s;&s;emen, emba&s;&s;adours, pur&s;euants, and &s;tran|gers of <HI>Grecia.</HI> Before the me&s;&s;es of meate were &s;erued in, the trumpet did &s;ound an alarum to a&s;&s;emble them to+gether when time required that the tables &s;hould be fur|ni&s;hed, there was in lyke maner, another alarum &s;oun|ded, when they &s;hould ari&s;e being &s;ufficiently refre&s;hed. The &s;olemnization of the&s;e marriages were of fiue whole daies continuance. There re&s;orted to the&s;e fea&s;les, cun|ning mu&s;icians, practi&s;ed players, as well tragicall as commicall, repre&s;enters of plea&s;aunt interludes, as of &s;tately and pitifull di&s;cour&s;es, not a few. There came al&s;o thither crafty and &s;ubtile iugglers, which &s;hewed many &s;traunge and wonderfull ca&s;tes of legerdemaine which they brought w^t them out of <HI>India,</HI> who in their arte and exerci&s;e far excelled the iugglers of al other countreis.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the art or &s;cience of porturating or painctyng.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_COnon Cleonen&s;is</HI> perfourmed &amp; made perfect the arte of painting, when it did as it were, but bud and blo&s;&s;ome, being v&s;ed in his time without know|ledge and cunning, and when it lay as it were in y^e cradle wrapped in &s;wath|ling clowts, hauing attained no matu|rytie and ripenes of liuelynes, for the which his trauaile he receiued a reward of greater value then al the paine|ters and limmers that were before him many yeares.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of a tyrant, that was murthered by the hands of his paramour.</HEAD>
<P><HI>ARchelaus</HI> a tyraunt of <HI>Macedonia</HI> (for &s;o <HI>Plato</HI> tear|meth him &amp; not a king) was murthered by the handes
<PB REF="92"> of his paramour who&s;e name was <HI>Cratenas,</HI> that lu&s;ted no le&s;&s;e after the kingdome, then the tyrane longed after the loue of him. <HI>Cratenas</HI> therefore &s;lew <HI>Archelaus</HI> vpon hope of po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing the &s;eate imperiall and princely pro&s;perytie. But <HI>Cratenas</HI> the paramour, hauing binne king, &s;carcely thr&eacute;e or foure dayes &s;pace, was layde in waight for, and murthered in &s;emblable maner by the meanes of other men. To this <HI>Macedonian</HI> d&eacute;ede, this ver&s;e agr&eacute;eeth as it were in a mu&s;icall con&s;ent.</P>
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>Qui &s;truit in&s;idias alij,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Sibi damna dat &s;ibi.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Who &s;eeketh other men t'in&s;nare</L>
<L>Nets for him&s;elfe he doth prepare.</L>
</LG></Q>
<P>For it is regi&s;tred that <HI>Age&s;ilaus</HI> promi&s;ed and be|trothed one of his daughters vnto him, whom hee after|wardes contrary to his couenaunt be&s;towed vpon an o|ther, which d&eacute;ede kindled &s;uch indignation and fury in the bowels of <HI>Cratenas,</HI> that he became the manqueller of <HI>Archelaus.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Solon and his &s;tatutes, and of the lawes of Draco.</HEAD>
<P>_THe <HI>Atheniens</HI> did choo&s;e wi&s;e <HI>Solon</HI> to gouerne and rule the bodye of their common wealth, not by hap ha&s;&s;ard (as they &s;aye) but by voyce and con&s;ent, who anon after he was admitted and e&s;tabli&s;hed in the admini&s;tration ther|of, he adorned and beautified the Cittie with many goodly things. He did write actes and Sta|tuts for their better e&s;tate which they ob&s;erue at this pre|&s;ent
<PB N="83" REF="92"> day ratyfied &amp; confirmed. They kepe them religiou&s;|ly and inuiolably without any breach. Then did the <HI>A|theniens</HI> adnihilate and make of no force the bloudy or|dinaunces of <HI>Draco,</HI> called <HI>The&s;mi,</HI> which were writen in wodden tables or plates of bra&s;&s;e. But the lawes and &s;tatutes made concerning man&s;laughter was not abo|li&s;hed.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the con&s;uming and wa&s;tyng away of thinges which &s;eemed euerla&s;|ting, and of the wyde worlde.</HEAD>
<P>_WHy &s;houlde we mu&s;e, and maruaile that man is mortal, and in &s;ubiectio~ to death? knowing that his nature is vncertayne and tran&s;itory: and therefore his lyfe, is of no long conti|nuance, muchle&s;&s;e of perpetuity. We &s;ee before our eyes that thinges of great induraunce, namely, floudes and &s;eas haue dryed vp and became drie lande, and that mighty mountaines haue con&s;umed, and at length became hollow bottomes and low valleies. Thus &s;ay &s;ome which pa&s;&s;e perilous biages vpon the &s;eas, aledging in this behalfe the highe hill <HI>Aetna,</HI> which appeareth le&s;&s;e in &s;ight by a great parte then it was woont to be. The &s;ame ob&s;eruacions are to be noted in the two tottering mountaines of <HI>Parna&s;&s;us,</HI> and <HI>Olympus Piericus.</HI> Moreouer they which profe&s;&s;e them&s;elfe to be mo&s;t &s;kilful in the coagmentation and na|ture of the worlde vniuer&s;all, affirme that it &s;hal vani&s;h, con&s;ume, wa&s;te, peri&s;h, and come to nought.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB REF="93">
<HEAD>&para; Of Demo&s;thenes, Ae&s;chines, Theophra&s;tus and De|mochares.</HEAD>
<P>_PEraduenture it may &s;&eacute;eme a lowd lye, but yet it is a &s;ub&s;tancial truth, y^t whe~ <HI>Demo&s;thenes</HI> wit faynted, &amp; his vtte|raunce fayled him in <HI>Macedonia, Ae|&s;chines Cathocides</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Atro|mita</HI> was of flouri&s;hing fame and re|nowne among the <HI>Macedonians,</HI> and excelled al other Rhetoricians in iudgement, vtterance, and coun&s;ell.</P>
<P>The occa&s;ion why <HI>Ae&s;chines</HI> had &s;uch fortunate &s;uc|ce&s;&s;e in his exerci&s;es, was the beneuolence of king <HI>Phi|lip,</HI> his liberalytie, his attentiue hearing, his fauourable countenaunce, and rich rewardes, be&s;ides that, many e|uident demon&s;trations of his bountifull affection concei|ued towards <HI>Ae&s;chines,</HI> all which circum&s;taunces were incouragements, and prouocatio~s to the Orator, to bold|nes of minde, libertie of inuention, copy of wordes and flinging out of eloquence. The aboue named infirmyties were not incident, onely to <HI>Demo&s;thenes,</HI> that excellent Rhetorician in <HI>Macedonia,</HI> but to <HI>Theophra&s;tus Ere|&s;ius</HI> al&s;o, for he at &s;uch time as he &s;hould haue made an o|ration in <HI>Areopago,</HI> was vnable at that in&s;tant by rea|&s;on of &s;ome &s;oddaine preturbation, albeit (no doubt) &s;uf|ficient in knowledge and vnder&s;tanding, which defection of his at that pre&s;ent he couered with this excu&s;e, namly, that he was aba&s;hed at the authorytie of the Senate. To which &s;peach of <HI>Theophra&s;tus, Demochares</HI> very &s;pight|fully, but yet not vnaptly, made this aun&s;were. They which &s;ate in iudgement <HI>(Theophra&s;tus)</HI> were magi&s;|trates of <HI>Athens,</HI> and not the twelue Gods full of maie|&s;tie
<PB N="84" REF="93"> and power: meaning y^t it was enough to tremble at the pre&s;ence of the &s;upernal gods &amp; not at y^e &s;ight of mor|tall men, albeit, mo&s;t honourable.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of &s;uch as neuer laughed.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ANaxagoras Clazomenius</HI> (as it is re|corded) was neuer &s;&eacute;ene laughing, or perceiued to &s;mile from the day of his natiuity and birth. <HI>Ari&s;toxenus</HI> in lyke maner, did wonderfully bridle him&s;elfe from laughter. And to con|clude, <HI>Heraclitus</HI> was at &s;uch dete&s;ta|tion and defiaunce with laughing, that w&eacute;eping was the gaye&s;t and the braue&s;t flower in his garland, for he wept at euerything that he &s;aw, what&s;oeuer.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the death of Diogenes.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_DIogenes Sinopen&s;is,</HI> being &s;o &s;orely a&s;|&s;aulted with the force of &s;icknes, and drawyng towardes his death, threw him&s;elf toppling downe from a bridge abutting next to y^e common place of ex|erci&s;es, and commaunded the k&eacute;eper, or ouer&s;&eacute;er, that when lyfe fayled, and breath was quite departed, he would ca&s;t his carka&s;&s;e in|to the riuer <HI>Ili&s;&s;us. <HI>Ade&ograve; pro nihilo duxit mortem &amp; &s;e|pulturam Diogenes.</HI></HI> So litle regarded <HI>Diogenes</HI> the inua|&s;ion of death, or the tranquilytie and quietne&s;&s;e of the bo|dy in the graue.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB REF="94">
<HEAD>&para; Of the continency of <HI>Philip,</HI> and of what thing his plea&s;ure was to be put in remembraunce.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_PHilip</HI> hauing conquered the <HI>Atheni|ens</HI> in <HI>Chaeronea,</HI> notwith&s;tanding fortune had &s;et him a floate in felycity, yet he brideled his affections with rea|&s;on, &amp; dyd &s;o moderate the motions of his minde, that he inferred wronge to no man. Wherefore he thought it ne|ce&s;&s;ary and auaileable for the auoyding of in&s;olency and alienation of behauiour, that one of his pages or cham|berlaines, euery day, early in the morning &s;hould knocke at his lodging and put him in remembraunce that he was &s;ubiect to mortalytie. This was the office and charge a&s;|&s;igned to his page, neither would the King &s;et his foote o|uer the thre&s;houlde, neither was licence graunted to any man, to haue acce&s;&s;e to the kings maie&s;tie (no not in pon|derous cau&s;es) before his page had pronounced this &s;en|tence, thr&eacute;e &s;eueral times a day, <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">. O <HI>Philip</HI> thou art a man.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Solon and Pi|&s;i&s;tratus</HEAD>
<P><HI>_SOlon</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Excece&s;tida</HI> at &s;uch time as hee was aged and had &s;&eacute;ene many yeares, began to mi&s;d&eacute;eme and to haue in &s;u&s;picion <HI>Pi&s;i&s;tratus</HI> of hun|ting after the power imperiall ambi|tiou&s;ly, and of a de&s;ire to exerci&s;e ty|rany. When he went among a great a&s;&s;embly of <HI>Atheniens,</HI> requiring the ayde, &s;uccour and
<PB N="85" REF="94"> a&s;&s;i&s;taunce of the people, <HI>Solon</HI> perceiuing the <HI>Atheni|ens</HI> negligently ly&s;tening to the wordes which proc&eacute;eded from him, but geuing ayme as it were to <HI>Pi&s;i&s;tratus,</HI> and leuellyng their cogitations to his per&s;on, &s;ayde that h&eacute;e was craftyer then &s;ome, and &s;tronger then other &s;ome, for who a&s;pyred not to the vnder&s;tanding of this, namely that he would become a flat tyrant, if he might get garde for the pre&s;eruation of his per&s;on, hee was craftyer then they: and who perceiued and knew it well inough, &amp; yet drowned their vnder&s;tanding, in that poynte obtayned, with &s;ilence and pau&s;ing from &s;peach, hee was &s;tronger then they. Neuertheles when <HI>Pi&s;i&s;tratus</HI> had obtayned power &s;ufficient, hee chaunged his coppy, and became a tyrant. <HI>Solon</HI> &s;itting at the gates of his manour, &s;tretched out both his handes holding in the one a &s;peare, and in the other a &s;hielde, and with his ge&s;ture vttered the&s;e words &s;ea&s;oned with magnanimitie &amp; courage, that he was har|ne&s;&s;ed and weaponed, to defende his country, and to pre|&s;erue the &s;ame according to the mea&s;ure of his mighte, and the proportion of his &s;trength, notwith&s;tanding the ripene&s;&s;e of his yeares in that poynt prohibiting, and his inhabilytie of bodely fortitude, which &s;&eacute;emed to reuoke him from the &s;eruice of a captayne or &s;ouldiour, yet his hart, his lyfe, his bloud, and his breath, was (as he &s;ayde) payable for his country which hee fauoured as him&s;elfe. So <HI>Pi&s;i&s;tratus</HI> (whether he was woon with the wi&s;dome and worthyne&s;&s;e of &s;o reuerend a gentleman, or reclay|med with the remembraunce of his youthfull yeares (for he was reported to haue binne <HI>Solons</HI> paramour) as hap was did him no harme. In proce&s;&s;e of time <HI>Solon</HI> wax|yng very olde, and droupinge downwarde through the extremitye of age, and weakne&s;&s;e, ended at lengthe, his lingring lyfe, and left behind him &s;inguler &s;pectacles, principall prai&s;es, and honourable commendations of his polycie, his manhood, his pui&s;aunce, and valiantne&s;&s;e
<PB REF="95"> as &s;empiternall monumentes of his remembraunce ne|uer vading, but euer flouri&s;hing. In who&s;e worthyne&s;&s;e and dignitie (after his death and funerall) according to the mea&s;ure of his merits, a &s;tanding image was erected and &s;et vp in publique place of common concour&s;e and popular re&s;orte, and a &s;epulchre was n&eacute;ere to the wall gates at the right hand of the entraunce, and there was built vpon his graue a tumbe pa&s;&s;ing fayre and beauty|full.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Oenycinus, the king of the Zanclaeans.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_OEnycinus</HI> a <HI>Scithian,</HI> the king of the <HI>Zanclaeans,</HI> when he came vp to <HI>Dari|us</HI> into <HI>A&s;ia, Darius</HI> &s;uppo&s;ed him in iu&s;tice and equitie to &s;urmount and excell all other which came out of <HI>Grecia:</HI> becau&s;e he went to the king into <HI>Cicily,</HI> to require peace, and tooke his iourney backward againe to the king, from <HI>Cicily.</HI> But <HI>Demonides</HI> the <HI>Crotonate</HI> did not &s;o, and therefore <HI>Darius</HI> gaue him the&s;e trecherous termes, naming him a &s;ubtile, a craftie, a deceitfull, a fraudulent, and a naughty fellow. So the <HI>Scithian</HI> led his lyfe in <HI>Per&s;ia</HI> enioying pro&s;perytie and happynes, and his felycity remayned in her gloryous and chaungeable colour vntyll the day of his death.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Eutymus, and of a noble man in Te|me&s;a, and of a prouerbe.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Eutimus Locren&s;is</HI> the ch&eacute;efe&s;t and the be&s;t wre&s;tler in all <HI>Italy,</HI> was &s;uppo&s;ed to be wonderfull &s;tronge and &s;toute of body, and of might incredible and beyond all be|l&eacute;efe, for the <HI>Locren&s;es</HI> &s;hewed a certayne &s;tone of a mer|ueylous
<PB N="86" REF="95"> mon&s;trous magnitude and bigne&s;&s;e which hee did lifte vp lu&s;tely and layde in the open &s;treate, Moreo|uer there was a noble man in <HI>Teme&s;a,</HI> who was collector of tributs and &s;ub&s;idies of the inhabitants and borderers theraboutes, whom <HI>Eutymus</HI> depriued of his authority and put be&s;ide the v&s;e and commodity of his office, for comming to his temple, whereunto the vulgar &s;orte might not haue acce&s;&s;e, <HI>Eutymus</HI> chalenged him to wre&s;t|lyng, and held him tacke &s;o &s;toutly &amp; &s;trongly, y^t he co~&s;trai|ned y^e other, to re&s;tore much more then he receued, much more then he purloyned. Wherupon &s;prange a prouerbe, aptely agr&eacute;eing, to &s;uch as gather gaine gr&eacute;edely, but yet reape not y^e profit of their hoorded harue&s;t. <HI>That the noble man of Teme&s;a wil come to them in vi&s;itation.</HI> Further|more, it is reported, that <HI>Eutymus,</HI> when he went downe to the floud <HI>Caetis,</HI> who&s;e &s;treame ronneth by the citie of the <HI>Locren&s;es,</HI> vani&s;hed out of &s;ight and appeared no more vpon the earth, whereby it may be &s;uppo&s;ed that he was taken vp into the heauens and crowned with im|mortalytie, or els that &s;ome other &s;udden and &s;traunge metamorpho&s;is or alteration happened to the man in a moment of time, and the twincklyng of an eye which &s;&eacute;e|med miraculous to the mindes of people.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; The Epitaph which was ingrauen vppon Anaxagoras Tumbe, and of his Altar.</HEAD>
<Q><LG>
<L><GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"></L>
<L><GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">.</L>
</LG>
<PB REF="96">
<LG>
<L><HI>Hic &s;itus ille e&s;t cui rerum patuere rece&s;&s;us</HI></L>
<L><HI>Atque arcana poli, Magnus Anaxagoras.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The bones of him in this &s;epulchre lye</L>
<L>Who&s;e pa&s;&s;ing &s;kill did many &s;ecrets trie</L>
<L>And cau&s;ed truth de&s;cend from heauen hie.</L>
</LG></Q>
<P>There was, likewi&s;e, erected vnto him an Altar, wher|upon was written an epainetical po&s;y, or Epigramme, in the honour of vnder&s;tanding, as the other was dedicated in the renowne of truth. Of his lyfe <HI>Diogenes Laertius</HI> writeth abundantly in his booke intituled <HI>De vitis Philo|&s;ophorum.</HI> Where his opinion, in like maner, which hee held in &s;undry circum&s;taunces is largely declared.</P>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>&para; <HI>The ende of the eight Booke of <HI>Aelianus.</HI></HI></TRAILER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="9" TYPE="book">
<PB N="87" REF="96">
<HEAD>&para; <HI>The ninth Booke of the varia|ble</HI> hi&s;tory of <HI>Aelianus.</HI></HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Hiero an earne&s;t louer of learning, of his free hart and liberality to all men, and of the faithfull frend&s;hip and vnitie which he did profe&s;&s;e, and practi&s;e towardes his Bre|thren.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_HIero</HI> of <HI>Siracu&s;ae,</HI> bare &s;pecial goodwill and affection to Gr&eacute;eke learninge, and had knowledge in high reputati|on. In di&s;tribition and lar|ges he was notable, ye more redy was he to geue then the a&s;ker was to receaue, hee was in lyke maner of a com|mendable courage, and his &s;toutne&s;&s;e of mind was wor|thy principall prai&s;e. Moreouer it is recorded in the regi|&s;ters of remembraunce, that this <HI>Siracu&s;an Hiero</HI> v&s;ed company and fellow&s;hip of his thr&eacute;e brethren, with no-le&s;&s;e affection and friendlyne&s;&s;e then became fraternitye and brotherhood (all iarring, all &s;trife, all debate, vari|aunce, and di&s;&s;ention vtterly &s;uppre&s;&s;ed) woonderfully louing them, &amp; being recompenced againe w^t &s;emblable mea&s;ure of amitye and kindnes. He led his lyfe, all after one &s;orte, with <HI>Simonides</HI> and <HI>Pindarus,</HI> neither did the olde crooked age of <HI>Simonides</HI> hinder him, from hauing acce&s;&s;e and recour&s;e vnto <HI>Hiero:</HI> for he was inclyned to
<PB REF="97"> couetou&s;nes, and gr&eacute;edely geuen to the de&s;ire of money, and how much, the liberall dealyng of <HI>Hiero</HI> was inlar|ged and encrea&s;ed &s;o much the more was the couetous minde of <HI>Simonides</HI> kindled and inflamed.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the victory of Tauro&s;thenes.</HEAD>
<P>_THe victory of triumphing <HI>Tauro&s;the|nes</HI> was made manyfe&s;t to his father (as &s;ome affirme) by a certaine fan|ta&s;ie, imagination, and vi&s;ion, and de|clared vnto him by reuelation, from <HI>Olimpia</HI> to <HI>Aegina,</HI> in one daies &s;pace which is a very &s;mall and a &s;hort time in con&s;ideration of &s;o great di&s;taunce of place. Other&s;o in &s;ay that this <HI>Tauro&s;thenes</HI> tooke a pigeon out of her ne&s;t from her broode which were &s;kar&s;ly fledged, being but lat|ly hatcht, and crept out of the &s;hell, which hen pigeon hee tooke out of <HI>Aegina</HI> and carried the &s;ame with him into <HI>Pi&s;a.</HI> So that at &s;uch time as he woon the victory, he tyed a ribbend of purple &s;ilke about the pigeons legge, and im|mediately threw her vp into the open ayre, which liber|tie of wings being obtayned, &s;he prepared her flight with great &s;wiftne&s;&s;e from <HI>Pi&s;a</HI> to <HI>Aegina</HI> in one dayes &s;pace, to her young ones which were left in the ne&s;t, whereby intelligence and vnder&s;tanding was geuen of <HI>Tauro&s;t|henes</HI> his victory.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of diuers mens &s;uperfluous finene&s;&s;e, and of Alexanders &s;umptuous curio&s;itye.</HEAD>
<P><HI>ALexander</HI> was &s;o infected with &s;uperfluous finne&s;&s;e y^t he corrupted many of his friendes and companyons
<PB N="88" REF="97"> with the &s;ame &s;pice of his prodigalitye. <HI>Agnon</HI> was &s;o neate and nice in his attyre, that he ware golden buc|kles, and &s;iluer nayles in his &s;hoes. <HI>Cletus,</HI> al&s;o, when&s;o|euer he was to pleade any cau&s;e in the courte, his appa|rell was altogether of purple, in which kinde of gorge|ous garment he v&s;ed to &s;hew him&s;elfe in the pre&s;ence of his Clients, and in the &s;ight of the iudges that &s;ate vpon the deciding and due determination of the matter which was in controuer&s;ie. Furthermore <HI>Perdiccas</HI> and <HI>Cra|terus</HI> being altogether geuen, and d&eacute;epely delighted in the practi&s;e of wre&s;tlyng, and in &s;emblable games of ac|tiuity, and had a great many gotes hides, (or as &s;ome &s;up|po&s;e bucks &s;kynnes) which were &s;owed one to another, carryed after them, which were in mea&s;ure and length &s;ix hundred, twenty and fiue f&eacute;ete, wherewith they com|pa&s;&s;ed and inclo&s;ed a large plot of grounde be&s;ide their campe, y^t they might therin exerci&s;e them&s;elf conuenient|lye, no impediment or hindraunce to the contrary with|&s;tanding. There did follow them al&s;o, a great deale of drye &s;and and du&s;t, which was carryed after them in waynes and cartes drawne with oxen, all which were appertenaunces and vten&s;iles to the nece&s;&s;itie of their game. <HI>Leonnatus</HI> and <HI>Menelaus,</HI> both &s;kilfull, conning, and paynefull hunters, had a hundred, twenty and fiue elles of Tape&s;try worke carryed after them. <HI>Alexan|der</HI> in lyke maner had a pompous and princely pauilyon, garni&s;hed and decked with a hundered Tables, euery table hauing fifty grauen pillers to &s;tay and vnderprop it, and al&s;o to bewtyffe and adorne it. Which tables be|&s;ide their multytude of pillers, where poli&s;hed and trim|med with gold guilt, variable workman&s;hip, artificially, cunningly, and curiou&s;ly compact. There &s;toode rounde about him a goodly company of <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> Pen&s;ioners na|med <HI>Melophori,</HI> which were attyred in robes &s;ome of crim&s;on, &s;ome of purple, &s;ome of murry, &s;ome of yellow, &amp; &s;ome of orange colour veluet. Next vnto the~ a thou&s;ande
<PB REF="98"> archers in garments of bright red &s;ilk and &s;karlet, before them a hundred <HI>Macedonians</HI> armed with &s;iluer &s;hields, and in the midde&s;t of the campe was a golden throne e|rected, whereupon <HI>Alexander</HI> v&s;ually &s;ate to heare and vnder&s;tand the cau&s;es of &s;uch as had any &s;uite or &s;uppli|cation to his maie&s;tie: the guarde of his body compa&s;&s;ing and hemming him on euery &s;ide, Moreouer there was a trench round about the camp, which a thou&s;and <HI>Macedo|nians,</HI> and ten thou&s;and <HI>Per&s;ians</HI> did defend and kepe, &s;o that no man dur&s;t be &s;o hardy, pre&s;umptuous and bolde as once to come n&eacute;ere the kings per&s;on: For there was a great and a terrible feare crept into mens hartes, be|cau&s;e of <HI>Alexanders</HI> ambitious, hautye, and arrogant minde, and his fr&eacute;e fortune furni&s;hed with all felycity, which was altered and tourned to tyrannicall regi|ment.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the diligence of <HI>Policrates</HI> in hearing Anacreon. And of gelou&s;ie.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_POlicrates Samius</HI> did imparte and be&s;towe much dilligent labour in learning, and made very much of <HI>Anacreon Teius,</HI> to whom hee dyd cleaue in vnfayned kindne&s;&s;e, be|yng greatly delyghted not onely in the company of his per&s;on, but al&s;o in the &s;uger&s;ome &s;w&eacute;etne&s;&s;e of his po&s;ies, howebeit, notwith&s;tanding the premi&s;&s;es, I can|not account his exce&s;&s;iue behauiour in carnal knowledge worthy commendation. <HI>Anacreon</HI> aduaunced <HI>Smerdias</HI> the Paramour of <HI>Polycrates</HI> with a peculier prai&s;e, wherin the young &s;triplyng reioy&s;ing, had <HI>Anacreon</HI> in wor&s;hip, and reuerence, who loued the proper youth for
<PB N="89" REF="98"> his wit and gentle nature, and not for any externall qua|lytie of body: For no man (by the Gods immortall I dare &s;weare) can &s;peake any thing in reproch of this poet <HI>Teius,</HI> or once accu&s;e him of vncha&s;te and incontinent behauiour: But <HI>Polycrates</HI> being kindled with the &s;parc|kles of gelou&s;y, &s;u&s;pecting that the Poet loued the &s;trip|lyng <HI>Smerdias</HI> exc&eacute;edingly, &s;haued of the golden lockes of his head, thereby (as hee &s;uppo&s;ed) to make the louely youth mi&s;&s;hapen and ilfauoured, and <HI>Anacreon,</HI> in lyke maner, heuy and &s;orrowfull, who&s;e gelous d&eacute;ede in this re&s;pect the poet being di&s;po&s;ed to rebuke, yet in &s;uch &s;orte as his purpo&s;e might not be playnly perceiued, v&s;ed &s;ub|tilty and di&s;&s;imulation in this behalfe, tran&s;ferring the fault from <HI>Polycrates</HI> the Agent, to <HI>Smerdias</HI> the pacient, whom he charged with great folly on the one &s;ide, &amp; with ra&s;h bouldne&s;&s;e on the other &s;ide, in that he &s;pared not to clip and &s;haue of his owne hearie bu&s;h and fayre tu&s;kes, with an edge toole. But let <HI>Anacreon,</HI> in his owne per&s;on, reporte the vnlucky lo&s;&s;e of the&s;e louely lockes, for he can declare it more orderly, by many degr&eacute;es, then my Penne can expre&s;&s;e it.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Hiero and Themi&s;tocles.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_THemi&s;tocles</HI> &s;&eacute;eing <HI>Hiero</HI> comming to the games and pageantes at <HI>Olim|pus,</HI> and with him a fayre troope of hor&s;emen, with&s;toode and re&s;i&s;ted him, &s;aying the&s;e wordes followyng for a confirmation of his d&eacute;ede. <HI>Qui maximi periculi &s;e &s;ocium non praebuerit, non aequum e&s;t, vt communis conuentus particeps fieret.</HI> He which in mayne ha&s;&s;ard withdrew his helping hand, and a&s;&s;i&s;ting ayde, it was no right nor rea&s;on, that &s;uch a one &s;hould be admitted and receiued into open a&s;&s;emblies and common m&eacute;etinges of people, to view and behold the &s;tately &s;howes and games
<PB REF="99"> of the country. For which cau&s;e <HI>Themi&s;tocles</HI> purcha&s;ed a preci&s;e commendation.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Pericles and his &s;onnes which dyed of the plague or pe&s;te+lence.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_PEricles</HI> was depriued of his children in a hot and infectiue &s;ickne&s;&s;e of the pe&s;tilence, yet was he &s;o far from con|ceiuing &s;orrow, that hee &s;uffered the lo&s;&s;e of &s;uch deare &amp; precious pledges with no le&s;&s;e wi&s;edom then &s;toutnes, and by his example procured the <HI>A|theniens,</HI> paciently to take the deathes of their n&eacute;ere kin&s;|folks, and be&s;t beloued friends, were they neuer &s;o d&eacute;eply planted in the tables of their harts.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the con&s;tant, and vnmoueable minde of &s;age Socrates, in all thinges.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_XAntippe</HI> &s;ayde, that though a thou&s;ande thou&s;ande troubles incombred and ouer|whelmed the commonwealth, yet <HI>Socra|tes</HI> was of an vnchaungeable countena~ce, of an vnuariable vi&s;&s;age, and of an vnmo|uable minde, whether he went from home, or whether he retourned home, or wher&s;oeuer hee came in company: for he was of a nature to pacience inclinea|ble, to gentlene&s;&s;e conformable, to plea&s;antne&s;&s;e apply|aunt, to &s;orrowe repugnant, to feare an enemy, with &s;toutne&s;&s;e in amitye, To be &s;horte in all ca&s;es con&s;tant.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="90" REF="99">
<HEAD>&para; The loth&s;ome lu&s;t of Diony&s;ius towardes young women.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_DIony&s;ius Iunior</HI> comming into the citie of y^e <HI>Locren&s;es</HI> (for his mother <HI>Doris</HI> was a <HI>Locrean</HI> borne) tooke vp, po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed, occupi|ed, v&s;ed, or rather abu&s;ed, the greate&s;t, the large&s;t, and the fayre&s;t hou&s;es that were in all the citie, &s;trewing them with Da|ma&s;ke ro&s;es, Lauender, Sauoury, and &s;uch lyke odoriffe|rous Floures, and &s;w&eacute;ete &s;mellyng hearbes. He &s;ent for the daughters and younge Dam&s;els of the <HI>Locreans</HI> to come vnto him, w^t whom he had fle&s;hly plea&s;ure &amp; delight pa&s;t all &s;hame, hone&s;ty, or regarde of cha&s;tity. The filthy|ne&s;&s;e of which lewde and loth&s;ome offence abounding in him, e&s;caped not vnpuni&s;hed: for when his kingdom was rent and torne from him by <HI>Dion,</HI> the <HI>Locreans</HI> (rewar|ding lyke with lyke) dealte carnallye with the wife and daughters of <HI>Diony&s;ius,</HI> inforceyng vpon them mo&s;t ab|homynable fornication, without intermi&s;&s;ion or cea&s;ing. And &s;uch, &s;pecially, as were of the lynnage, con&s;anguini|tye, and kinred of tho&s;e virgins and younge maydens whom <HI>Diony&s;ius</HI> defloured, were mo&s;t egar and fearce to be &s;o reuenged. After they had &s;ati&s;fied and &s;taunched the lu&s;t of their flea&s;h with the bodies of <HI>Diony&s;ius</HI> his wife and daughters, they tooke n&eacute;edels and thru&s;t them into their fingers and toes vnder the nayles, mi&s;&s;erably mur|thered them, &amp; &s;tamped their bones in morters, from the which they had launced &amp; cut collops of fle&s;h, offering the gobbitts to be eaten, wherof, who&s;o refu&s;ed to ta&s;te, &s;uch they abu&s;ed mo&s;te villanou&s;ly, and handled wor&s;e then hell houndes. The remnaunte of the &s;laughtered
<PB REF="100"> and di&s;membered carka&s;&s;es was ca&s;t into the Sea, there to be con&s;umed with the wharlyng waues, or to be de|uoured by mon&s;trous fi&s;hes. As for <HI>Diony&s;ius</HI> him&s;elfe, after he had indured manyfold mi&s;chaunces, and &s;u&s;tay|ned &s;undry di&s;tre&s;&s;es of lyfe and e&s;tate, at <HI>Corinth,</HI> being pinched with extreame neede, he became a &s;tarke begger, and went from place to place, playing vpon a Timbrell and a Flute, and &s;inging ballades, in the company of &s;uch as hyred him, and gaue him for his labour. This was the ende of <HI>Diony&s;ius,</HI> and after this &s;orte he fyni&s;hed the cour&s;e of his lyfe in no le&s;&s;e beggery then infamy.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; That Demetrius was incontinent.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_DEmetrius Poliorcetes</HI> when hee had taken cities in &s;eage, &s;ellyng him&s;elfe ouer (as it were in &s;eruitude) to pro|digalytie, and lechery, commaunded and compelled the people whom hee had vanqui&s;hed and &s;ubdued, to pay him euery yeare a thou&s;and and two hundred talents. Of which great &s;umme hee &s;pent a very &s;mall porcion vpon his army and &s;ouldiours, all the re&s;te he wa&s;ted in fle&s;hly filthynes, and con&s;umed in lecherous lewdnes, he was wa&s;ht with perfumed waters, and rub|bed with compounde oyntments, and &s;o were the paue|ments and flooers of his lodgings. Moreouer, be&s;ides the former expences which were idle and &s;uperfluous, fre&s;h Floures and gr&eacute;ene herbes were gathered at all times of the yeare to &s;katter vpon the ground for hym to treade vnder his f&eacute;ete, &s;o nice, and &s;o effeminate a miny|on was he. Furthermore he was greatly geuen to wo|mens company, and addicted to bodyly delight aboue all mea&s;ure, he hunted after the loue of fayre and wel fauou|red youthes, and was &s;o curious and dainty in trimming
<PB N="91" REF="100"> him&s;elfe, in pre&s;eruing his bewty, in increa&s;ing his com|lyne&s;&s;e, and mayntayning his han&s;omne&s;&s;e, that no wo|man was euer hard of, more fine in fa&s;hions then hee: for his v&s;e and cu&s;tome was to pieck and kembe his head in &s;uch &s;mooth &s;ort, that one heire &s;hould not lye awry. Fur|thermore he had a certayne kinde of liquor or &s;trong wa|ter, wherwith he &s;tayned the naturall coulour of his heire and made it looke betwixt red and yellow, he wa&s;hed his face often with &s;undry &s;orts of oyntments, to &s;&eacute;eme ami|able and louely. Finally what labour refrayned he, what expences &s;pared hee, to paynte out his owne prorer, and pecocklyke per&s;on.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Plato his contempte of lyfe.</HEAD>
<P>_AT what time the <HI>Academy</HI> was re|ported to be infected with the pe&s;ti|lence, the Phi&s;icians gaue <HI>Plato</HI> coun|&s;ell to remoue his &s;choole from the <HI>A|cademy</HI> into <HI>Lyceus:</HI> But he neuer a-whit agr&eacute;eing to the coun&s;ell mini&s;|tred vnto him by the mouthes of the Phi&s;ician, &s;ayd. <HI>Sed ego producendae vitae cau&s;a, ne in Atho quidem &s;ummitatem tran&s;migrare velim:</HI> I would not re|moue to the high tops of the maine mountaine <HI>Athos,</HI> for the prolonging of my daies, and the pre&s;eruinge of my mortall lyfe. So litle regarded that good Philo&s;opher the contagion of the pe&s;tilence.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Parrha&s;ius the painter.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_PArrha&s;ius</HI> the painter v&s;ed to weare pur|ple apparrell, and to weare vpon his head a crowne of golde. This to be no vntruth, there be many te&s;timonials, and amonge other euidences, certayne Epigrames, in|&s;criptions,
<PB REF="101"> and po&s;ies of pictures, which he made, beare manyfe&s;t recorde. He contended for preeminence vpon a time at <HI>Samus,</HI> and chaunced vpon &s;uch an aduer&s;ary, as was able to counteruaile w^t him, both in courage and in &s;trength, in&s;omuch that he was ouercome in the conten|tion. The argument or theame whereupon their artifi|ciall handy worke was expre&s;&s;ed, was this. <HI>Aiax dimi|cans cum Vly&s;&s;e, pro Achillis armis. <HI>Aiax</HI></HI> &s;tanding in contro|uer&s;ie with <HI>Vly&s;&s;es</HI> for <HI>Achilles</HI> armour. In the de&s;criptio~ of which hi&s;tory, <HI>Parrha&s;ius</HI> being conquered and greatly ouermatched, made this &s;ober, wi&s;e, prudent, and mode&s;t aun&s;were to a fr&eacute;ende of his, who was not a litle gr&eacute;eued at <HI>Parrha&s;ius</HI> his yll and crooked luck, his an&s;were was this. <HI>Equidem paruipendo victoriam: condoleo potius filio Te|lamonis, qui in eadem re bis iam aduer&s;ario fuerit inferior.</HI> I pa&s;&s;e not much for the victory my &s;elfe, but I am &s;ory at my hart for <HI>Telamons</HI> &s;onn, who&s;e chance it is to betwi&s;e vanqui&s;hed in one thing by his aduer&s;ary. He went with a walking &s;taffe, which had wrought rounde aboute it braunches of golde. The vpper lether of his &s;hooes were tyed with golden latchets. To conclude, it is noy&s;ed of him, that in his worke he was &s;o far from a mole&s;ted and troubled minde, that what&s;oeuer he tooke in hande, he did it with a courage, with a &s;tomacke, with a delight and a plea&s;ure: for his v&s;e and cu&s;tome was to temper and &s;ea|&s;on the painefulne&s;&s;e of his labours, with &s;w&eacute;ete tuned &s;onges, and ditties made in mea&s;ure, and equall number of &s;illables. This is reported concerning him, by the pen of <HI>Theophra&s;tus.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the Epicures, whom the Ro|manes and the Me&s;&s;anians expelled.</HEAD>
<P>THe <HI>Romanes</HI> expelled and droue out of their citie, the Epicures, namely <HI>Alcaeus</HI> and <HI>Phili&s;tus</HI> becau&s;e they
<PB N="92" REF="101"> were the &s;owers of many dete&s;table de&s;ires, and procu|res of many pe&s;tilent concupi&s;cences, and the maintai|ners of many mi&s;&s;chefous lu&s;tes in the mindes of young men, wherewith they were corrupted. And as the <HI>Ro|manes</HI> dealt with them, &s;o did the <HI>Me&s;&s;anians</HI> in lyke ma|ner, who &s;erued the Epicures with the &s;ame &s;yrrup of ex|pul&s;ion.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the deuoureing greedyne&s;&s;e of Diony&s;ius, and of the glore fatne&s;&s;e of his fle&s;h.</HEAD>
<P>_THe common voyce is, y^t <HI>Diony&s;ius Hera|cleotes</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Clearchus,</HI> through his immoderate glutony, &s;uperfluous fare and in&s;atiable f&eacute;eding, by the meanes wherof he waxed gro&s;&s;e by litle &amp; litle, &amp; at length became &s;o big, that his fle&s;h was a burthen to his bones, and his fatnes not much differing from bacon, his lymmes therefore and bodely members (in con&s;ideration of the former circum&s;taunces) mu&s;t n&eacute;edes &s;urmount all mea&s;ure, and &s;&eacute;eme in a maner, mon&s;trous. The fulnes of his flea&s;h, and the increa&s;e of his fatnes, did not only hin|der his &s;peach, but al&s;o &s;top his windpipe, in &s;uch &s;ort, y^t he had no abilitie to vtter any voice. The phy&s;icians coun|&s;ell being inquired for the remedy of y^t di&s;ea&s;e, he pre&s;cri|bed the&s;e meanes following, that he &s;hould take long and &s;lender wyers, &s;harp at the points like n&eacute;edles, prouided of purpo&s;e for the &s;ame intent, and thru&s;te them into his &s;ides and his belly: which he not dareyng doe to him&s;elfe, the matter was committed ouer into y^e hands of another to performe &amp; fulfil. So long therfore as y^e &s;harp &amp; pearce|ing wiers went through y^e thick, gro&s;&s;e, &s;uperfluous, and wa&s;te fle&s;h, he lay &s;till like a &s;tone, without &s;oule, &s;ence, or f&eacute;eling: But when they touched the quick, namely the na|turall flea&s;h, which was of the liuely &s;ub&s;taunce of the bodye, when, I &s;ay, that flea&s;he, beynge not ouer|growne
<PB REF="102"> with glore larde and fatne&s;&s;e was pricked with y^e n&eacute;edles, then lo began he to f&eacute;ele &s;ome &s;mart, and &s;prang &s;uddenly and &s;tartingly out of his &s;l&eacute;epe. The afore&s;ayde felow, <HI>Diony&s;ius</HI> I meane, if at any time he had to deale in matters of controuer&s;y betwixt man &amp; man, and wold therein geue iudgement and pronownce &s;entence accor|ding to law, he v&s;ed to haue &s;et before his body, a great pre&s;&s;e or a chea&s;t, (&s;ome &s;ay it was not a pre&s;&s;e but a litle ca&s;tle or towre) to thintent that all the partes and men|bers of his mon&s;trous body might be couered and hidden from the eyes of the people, and nothing &s;&eacute;ene but his platter face only, which was a &s;ufficent &s;pectacle for the a&s;&s;embly to ga&s;e and &s;tare vpon. After this fa&s;hion and order &s;pake he to &s;uch as were pre&s;ent in the court, put|ting on that yll fauoured garment which was vnm&eacute;ete for a man to occupy, and more lyke a grate full of cro&s;&s;e barres to kepe in wilde and vntamed bea&s;tes, rather then for any man to v&s;e for the couerte of his body.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the leanene&s;&s;e and light|ne&s;&s;e of Philetas his body.</HEAD>
<P>_BEcau&s;e <HI>Philetas</HI> the Philo&s;opher was very &s;mall and litle of lymme, &s;lender of ioynt, and leane of body, it is there|fore reported that euery litle and try|flyng occa&s;ion was lyke to ouerthrow him, again&s;t which inconueniences he did weare &s;hooes with yron &s;oles, to thintent that the blu&s;tring bla&s;tes of the windes &s;hould not whurle him from place to place, and to&s;&s;e him from po&s;t to piller, if at any time the weather was &s;omewhat rough, &s;tormy, and tempe&s;tuous. Wherefore &s;ithence his
<PB N="93" REF="102"> weakne&s;&s;e was &s;uch, and his body &s;o voyde of &s;trength and ability, that he could by no meanes with&s;tand y^e puf|fing of the winde, how then I pray you would he carry a|ny great burthen vpon his h&eacute;eles? Vndoubtedly it &s;&eacute;e|meth vnto me a thing exc&eacute;eding all lyklyhood and credite, neuerthele&s;&s;e blame me not for that which I haue regi&s;|tred, for that which I haue both red and knowne I may be bolde to report.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the Poet Homer.</HEAD>
<P>_THe <HI>Argiues</HI> gaue principall prai&s;e in Poetry to <HI>Homer,</HI> all other Poets and ver&s;ifyers they accoumpted his vnder|lyngs. Moreouer if they were at any time to exhibit reuerence, due adorati|on, and wor&s;hip, and to offer &s;acrifice, they v&s;ed inuocation and callyng vpon <HI>Apollo</HI> and <HI>Homer</HI> in their ho&s;pitals. Finally the &s;elfe &s;ame Poet doubting how he might be&s;tow his daughter, and with whom to marry her, to thintent that this re|port &s;hould not pa&s;&s;e amonge the people, that &s;he had no porcion to-be geuen with her, which might hinder the mayden from a hu&s;band, a&s;&s;igned vnto her for her dowry certaine <HI>Cyprian</HI> poe&s;ies. As <HI>Pindarus</HI> manyfe&s;tly wit|ne&s;&s;eth.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of <HI>Italy,</HI> and of <HI>Mares</HI> who was named <HI>Hipppmeges.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THe people <HI>Au&s;ones</HI> inhibited <HI>Italy</HI> fir&s;t being both bred and borne in that coun|try. It is reported al&s;o, that there is in the &s;ame Citie a very auncient and a|ged man, who is called <HI>Mares,</HI> who&s;e vi&s;&s;age and face had the &s;imilitude of a
<PB REF="103"> a man very formall, but he was lyke vnto a hor&s;e behinde in proportion and fa&s;hion, which among the <HI>Grecians</HI> is declared by this worde <HI>Hippomyges.</HI> Howbeit I am of this opinion that ther was no &s;uch mi&s;&s;haped mon&s;ter in that country, but y^t this rumor &amp; brute bred of an acciden|tall cau&s;e otherwi&s;e then is &s;uppo&s;ed: namly that he was the fir&s;t that did ryde hor&s;&s;e with bytt and brydle, brought them into &s;ubiection and obedience, tamed them &amp; made them &s;eruiceable for the &s;undry v&s;es and purpo&s;es of men, for which occa&s;ion he might be thought and imagined, to haue bin deformed with the double nature of a man and a hor&s;&s;e. Furthermore it is &s;aide that hee liued a hundred, twenty, and thr&eacute;e yeares, that he died thr&eacute;e times, reuiued &amp; receiued life after death thr&eacute;e tymes againe, which fable &s;eemeth vnto me ridiculous and repugnant vnto truth thr&eacute;e tymes. Moreouer it is &s;aid that in <HI>Italy</HI> many and &s;undry people inhabyt, and &s;o many ind&eacute;ede, as are not dwelling in the whole wide worlde almo&s;t be&s;ides: which plentyfullnes of people is procured by this cau&s;e princip|ally, that is to &s;ay, becau&s;e euery quarter of the yeare w^c them is temperate and &s;ea&s;onable, becau&s;e their &s;oile &s;ur|pa&s;&s;eth in abu~dance, bicau&s;e it is repleni&s;hed with &s;prings of exc&eacute;eding plea&s;auntnes, becau&s;e it is full of all manner fruits, medowes, arable la~d, pa&s;tures, &amp;c, becau&s;e it contai|neth many faire flouds &amp; cl&eacute;ere ronning riuers, becau&s;e it hath the &s;wifte &s;ea adioyneing vnto it, becau&s;e it hath ma|ny hauens belonging vnto it, to lodge ther &s;hipps &amp; other &s;ayleing ve&s;&s;ells in places conuenient, and to lawnch into the d&eacute;epe when occa&s;ion &s;o requireth. Be&s;ides all the pre|mi&s;&s;es, &amp; circum&s;taunces aboue rehear&s;ed, &s;uch is the gen|tlnes of the <HI>Italian</HI> inhabitants, and &s;o &s;inguler is their courte&s;y, that they allure many to for&s;ake their natiue country, their to builde, and among them to abide. Final|ly, they &s;ay, that <HI>Italy</HI> (time out of mind) was gayly gar|ni&s;hed, and brauely beautyfied with a thou&s;and, a hun|dred,
<PB N="94" REF="103"> foure &s;kore, and &s;eauen famous cities.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the ambitious di&s;po&s;ition, and vaine minde of De|mo&s;thenes.</HEAD>
<P>_THis &s;hort hi&s;tory regi&s;tred in the mo|numents of antiquitie, importeth an accu&s;ation again&s;t <HI>Demo&s;thenes,</HI> for-his lightne&s;&s;e and vanitye, for it is a common voyce blowne abroade, that Porters and Waterbearers in&s;tilled the liquor of arrogancy into his harte, at &s;uch time as they whi&s;pered together one in an others eare, as he pa&s;&s;ed by them through the &s;tr&eacute;etes, for hee was tickled with their admurmurations, priuy &s;peaches, and &s;ecret conferences, and was not a litle infected with the ytch of ambitio~. The &s;elf &s;ame <HI>Demo&s;thenes</HI> if at any time the auditory, or a&s;&s;embly of people, gaue a plau&s;ible &s;howte in his pray&s;e and commendation, he tooke it for a cu&s;tome to erect and lifte vp his body, and to &s;tand vp on typtowe, that he might be &s;&eacute;ene y^e better of the multitude.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Themi&s;tocles.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_THemi&s;tocles</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Neocles,</HI> com|pared him&s;elfe vnto Oake tr&eacute;es, who&s;e &s;trong and &s;tretched out armes, men cannot choo&s;e but &s;tande in n&eacute;ede of, to protect and defende them again&s;t rai|ney &s;howers, blu&s;tring winde bla&s;tes, crackling haile&s;tones, and &s;uch lyke tempe&s;tuous and &s;tormy weather. The broade boughes and braunches al|&s;o of the &s;ame, are no le&s;&s;e nece&s;&s;ary for refection &s;ake, to gather the coole and fre&s;h ayre, when the &s;onne &s;hineth
<PB REF="104"> bright, and the &s;kies &s;&eacute;eme calme and cl&eacute;ere. In &s;uch ca&s;es men doe not onely &s;hroude them&s;elfe vnder the &s;hadow of the oakes, but for the refre&s;hing of them&s;elfe robbe the tr&eacute;es not onely of their leaues but al&s;o of their rynds. The &s;ame <HI>Themi&s;tocles</HI> was not a&s;hamed to haue this dam|nable &s;peach in his mouth. <HI>Si quis mihi duas vias mon&s;tra|ret, alteram ad infernum ducentem, alteram ad tribunal, mul|t&ograve; libentius ingrederer eam quae recta ad infernum tenderet.</HI> If any man &s;how me two &s;eueral wayes, the one leading to heauen, the other guiding to hell, I wolde choo&s;e that way which leadeth directly vnto hell, rather of the twaine. O|ther&s;ome interpret the&s;e wordes after another maner thus, if any man &s;hould &s;et before me two &s;undry pathes, the one leading to the throne of e&s;tate, the other to the tumbe of vilene&s;&s;e, of the twaine I had rather take y^e la&s;t, and leaue the fir&s;t.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Demo&s;thenes whom Diogines cal|led to come into a victualling hou&s;e, and he refu&s;ed and wold not.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_DIogines,</HI> vpon a certayne time en|tring into a victuallyng hou&s;e, and &s;pying <HI>Demo&s;thenes</HI> pa&s;&s;e by the dore called vnto him, and de&s;ired him to take parte of his homly fare, who re|fu&s;ed <HI>Diogenes</HI> courte&s;y in that ca&s;e, wherupon hee vttered the&s;e wordes following by way of reprehen&s;ion: <HI>Putas, O Demo&s;the|nes, hoc e&s;&s;e tibi dedecori, &s;i in cauponam ingrediaris, cum nulla dies praetereat quin Dominus tuus intr&ograve; veniat?</HI> Thinke&s;t thou, O <HI>Demo&s;thenes,</HI> that it is a reprochfull and &s;hame|full thing vnto th&eacute;e to be &s;&eacute;ene in a victuallyng hou&s;e, &s;ith|then there is neuer a day throughout the whole yeare but thy good Lorde and ma&s;ter haunteth the &s;ame? Meane|ning the people, and euery one of the co~monalty, becau&s;e
<PB N="95" REF="104"> Coun&s;ellers atturneyes, Barri&s;ters, Petyfoggers, &amp; &s;uch lyke officers be, after a &s;ort, &s;eruantes, and hyrelinges to the multytude.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Ari&s;tippus.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ARi&s;tippus</HI> &s;aylyng in a &s;hippe which was &s;haken almo&s;te in &s;hiuers with the &s;ourges of the &s;eas, and to&s;&s;ed to and fro with the wallowing of the waues was afrayde out of mea&s;ure, to whom a certaine man beyng of the number of the pa&s;&s;engers which were in the ve&s;&s;ell or barke, &s;aide: what, art y^u al&s;o flighted with feare as the common &s;orte be? To whom <HI>Ari&s;tippus</HI> coyned this aun&s;were, yea mary, and not without &s;ub|&s;tancyall cau&s;e, for the care which you conceaue, and the pre&s;ent danger which you doubt, is only for your vnlucky lyfe, and infortunate condition: But the thought that I take is for th'imbaceing of my pro&s;perity, the abateing of my beatitude, and the ha&s;&s;arde of my happines.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Theramenes.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_THeramenes</HI> being vnder the roofe of an hou&s;e, and going out of the &s;ame (as lucke &s;erued him) the foundation &s;hrunck, the walles ru&s;hed togeather, the &s;laight came ratlyng downe, the beames fell flat to the ground, and all vpon a &s;udden, in a moment. To whom when the <HI>Atheniens</HI> came by &s;warmes, &s;ome from one place, &s;ome from another, by heaps as thick as hops, reioy&s;ing that he had auoyded the violent and mortal ru|ine of the hou&s;e, and &s;aued his lyfe, which a man woulde haue &s;worne was in de&s;perate perrill pa&s;te all hope of
<PB REF="105"> e&s;caping: He contrary to the opinions of them all, &s;pake the&s;e words <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">, O God <HI>Iu|piter</HI> vnto what time doe&s;t thou re&s;erue me, for what day doo&s;t thou &s;pare me? Not longe after, this <HI>Theramenes</HI> was tormented by the thirty tyrants, and being con&s;trai|ned to drink poy&s;on, y&eacute;elded vp his lyfe.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; What men be&s;towed their time in the &s;tudy, and profe&s;&s;ion of phy&s;icke.</HEAD>
<P>_IO begin w^c a &s;inguler &s;ect, it is &s;aide y^t y^e <HI>Pithagoreans</HI> &s;pente great payne &amp; employed much labour in the profe&s;&s;io~ and practi&s;e of Phy&s;ick. So did <HI>Plato</HI> with no le&s;&s;e &s;edulity, &amp; erne&s;tnes. Se~|blably did <HI>Ari&s;tole,</HI> and other Philo|phers infinite and innumerable.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Ari&s;totle when he was &s;icke and di&s;ea&s;ed.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ARi&s;totle</HI> being &s;urpri&s;ed with &s;icknes, a phy&s;ician came to vi&s;it him, and to mini&s;ter hol&s;ome coun&s;ell vnto hym for the mitigation of his malady, and the recouering of his former health, To whom <HI>Ari&s;totle</HI> gaue this blunt language: <HI>Ne me cures vel vt Bubul|cum, vel vt Fo&s;&s;orem, &s;ed prius cau&s;am edi&s;&s;ere: &s;ic etiam facili per&s;ua&s;ione me morigeru~ reddideris.</HI> Deale not, nor heale not me, like a heardma~, a deluer, a ditcher, a reaper, and a la|bourer: But fir&s;t of all canua&s;&s;e and &s;ifte out the cau&s;e of my di&s;ea&s;e, &s;o &s;halt thou win me to thy wyll, and binde me in obedience to thy precepts. By which wordes he &s;ig|nified that nothing is, either to be taught, wrought, or thought vnadui&s;edly, ra&s;hly, &amp; w^tout a re&s;onable occa&s;ion.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="96" REF="105">
<HEAD>&para; Of the wantonne&s;&s;e and deintines of Smyndaridas.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_SMyndaridas</HI> a <HI>Sybarite</HI> borne, wallowed in &s;uch waues of wantonne&s;&s;e, and was &s;o drowned in delicatnes of lyfe that (not with&s;tanding his country men tooke plea|&s;ure in pampering their bodies, and were wonderfull loo&s;e, di&s;&s;olute, and remi&s;&s;e, in maners) he went beyond them in this poinct many fur|longs. For <HI>Smyndaridas</HI> lying alonge, tumbling him&s;elfe in ro&s;e leaues, and &s;olacinge his deinty nature with &s;l&eacute;ep, anon awaked, complayneing that he had certaine bumps and &s;wellings ry&s;en in his fle&s;h, by rea&s;on of the hardnes of his bed wherein he tooke his re&s;t. How coulde this fel|lowe abide to lye vpon harde Boordes, vpon the bare ground, vpon a mattri&s;&s;e, vpon a bed&s;trawe, or vpon the thinne gra&s;&s;e of &s;ome &s;tiepe hill? Or how coulde he frame him&s;elfe to &s;l&eacute;epe in an oxe hide, as <HI>Diomedes</HI> did, which kinde of cabbynes and lodges, become a couragious cap|tayne and a valiaunt &s;ouldiour. How, I &s;ay, coulde hee content him&s;elfe to haue a buls hide, or the &s;kinne of &s;ome other wilde bea&s;te &s;pred vnder his bones and his flea&s;h, and &s;ati&s;fy his nature therewith, as with pillowes and boul&s;tres of the &s;ofte&s;t doune.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; How Pi&s;i&s;tratus behaued him&s;elfe towards his Cityzens.</HEAD>
<P><HI>PI&s;i&s;tratus</HI> being e&s;tabli&s;hed in his kingdome, comman|ded al &s;uch to be co~uented &amp; brought before him, as &s;pe~t their time in going vp &amp; downe loyteringly, like ma&s;ter|les
<PB REF="106"> men of no trade, &s;cience, or occupation, and que&s;tio|ned with them, what occa&s;ions moued them to pa&s;&s;e to and fro in the common &s;tr&eacute;ets con&s;uming the day in idle|ne&s;&s;e. Thus much more al&s;o added he, &s;aying to &s;uch as were a&s;&s;embled before his pre&s;ence, if thy ploughing oxen be dead, take vnto th&eacute;e &s;ome of mine to &s;erue thy turne, and buckle thy &s;elfe about &s;ome bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, if thou lack &s;&eacute;ede to &s;ow, go to my garners, &amp; take of my &s;tore for thy priuate v&s;e &amp; behoofe. This did <HI>Pi&s;i&s;tratus,</HI> fearing lea&s;t the permi&s;&s;ion and &s;ufferaunce of them to liue &s;ecurely and idely, &s;hould one time br&eacute;ede &s;ome &s;cab of daunger a|gain&s;t his maie&s;ty.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Zeno and Antigonus.</HEAD>
<P>_KIng <HI>Antigonus</HI> had <HI>Zeno Citien&s;is</HI> in great reuerence, wor&s;hip, &amp; e&s;tima|tion. It fortuned therefore vpon a time that hee being ouercome with wine and drunckene&s;&s;e out of mea|&s;ure, mette <HI>Zeno</HI> full in the face, ki&s;&s;ing and cla&s;ping him, not lyke a &s;ober &s;oule, but lyke a drunken &s;ot, and de&s;iring <HI>Zeno</HI> to commaund him any &s;eruice and hee would do it, binding his wordes, moreouer, vndi&s;cretly and vnadui&s;edly with an oth, that hee woulde perfourme no le&s;&s;e then he promi&s;ed. To whom <HI>Zeon</HI> aun&s;wered, <HI>Abi et euome.</HI> Auoyde and vomit, pack hence and &s;pew, rebukeing in the&s;e few wordes, both wi&s;ely and &s;oberly the drunkenne&s;&s;e of <HI>Antigonus,</HI> and geuing him a watch-worde therewithall, that immoderate gluttony, and vn|&s;ea&s;onable &s;willing would doe him much harme and mi&s;|ch&eacute;efe,</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="97" REF="106">
<HEAD>&para; Of naturall di&s;po&s;ition.</HEAD>
<P>_A Certaine man rebuked a country fel|low (who ind&eacute;ede was a <HI>Lacedemoni|an</HI> borne) becau&s;e he wept with tears, and &s;orrow bru&s;ting from the very bot+tom of his bowells: But this Clowne and country lobbe made this witty aun&s;wer without hypocritical double|nes and di&s;&s;imulation, &s;aying: <HI>Quid facerem? non enim ego &s;ed natura mea mihi luctum excutit.</HI> what &s;hould I dooe? for it is not I that lament and w&eacute;epe, but my nature and in|clination, which inforceth me thervnto.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Diogenes</HEAD>
<P>A Certaine man of <HI>Sparta,</HI> aduaunced this vear&s;e of the Poet <HI>He&s;iodus</HI> to the Azur &s;kyes.</P>
<Q><LG>
<L><GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Non vel bos pereat, ni&s;i vicinus malus ad&s;it.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It cannot be an oxe &s;hould dy,</L>
<L>Except yll neighbours dwell hard by.</L>
</LG></Q>
<P><HI>Diogenes</HI> h&eacute;ering that, &s;ayd to the <HI>Spartane</HI> in this ma|ner. But the people <HI>Me&s;&s;enii</HI> dyed, and lyke lucke was a|lotted to their oxen: and you are their nexte neighbours.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; How Socrates as he forced not for feare, &s;o he regarded not gifts.</HEAD>
<P><HI>SOcrates</HI> vppon a time comming &s;omewhat late in the night from &s;upper, it chaunced that certaine young men better fed then taughte (as they &s;ay) haueing an inckling
<PB REF="107"> before hand which way he would pa&s;&s;e, di&s;gui&s;ed them|&s;elfe with deuilles vizardes, and had in their handes ligh|ted lincks, wherwith they lay in waight clo&s;ly, thinking to haue &s;lighted <HI>Socrates</HI> (for it was the cu&s;tome and prac|ti&s;e of the&s;e mumming merchauntes to delude men by the&s;e meanes, and to &s;pende the time which they got at their lea&s;ure, in &s;uch triflyng toyes and paultery page|ants) When <HI>Socrates</HI> &s;aw their iugling and percea|ued their legerdemaine, hee &s;toode &s;till, and was neuer a whit aba&s;hed at the matter, and as his fa&s;hion was a&s;|ked que&s;tions of them, according to his cu&s;tome and order in <HI>Lyceo</HI> and <HI>Academia</HI> two common &s;chooles.</P>
<P><HI>Alcibiades</HI> was a great di&s;tributer and be&s;tower of giftes, of a proude, arrogant, and ambicious minde. He &s;ent gifts to <HI>Socrates,</HI> which as they were very great, &s;o were they very many, wherat <HI>Xantippe</HI> wondring, for the dignity and worthines of them, was &s;emblably de&s;ie|rous and gr&eacute;edy to receaue them. That is not enough &s;aid <HI>Socrates</HI> to <HI>Xantippe,</HI> but let vs rather contend with <HI>Alcibiades</HI> in large&s;&s;e and liberality, not taking &s;uch thinges as he &s;endeth: In which refu&s;all, a &s;inguler kinde of beneuolence, and fr&eacute;e exhibition con&s;i&s;teth. Moreouer, to a certayne man &s;aying that it was a matter of great difficulty and hardnes, to haue and hold that, which hee doth wi&s;h and would: <HI>Socrates</HI> made this &s;hort aun&s;wer. That it was a farre greater matter not to couet and de|&s;ire at all.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the prophecy of Anax|archus.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ANaxarchus,</HI> in &s;harp and bitter wether, foreknow|ing that <HI>Alexander</HI> would pitch his pauilion, and incampe in a place where was no wood nor fuell, layd vp all his vten&s;iles, implementes, and nece&s;&s;aries
<PB N="98" REF="107"> in &s;tore for a d&eacute;ere yeare, as they &s;ay, and a &s;ea&s;on of &s;kar|&s;ity, he cau&s;ed &s;kulleines, drudges, and &s;laues to carrye wood al&s;o by the loade for his owne proui&s;ion, &amp; mainte|naunce. When <HI>Alexander</HI> came to the appoynted plot of lande, they found that there was great want of woodde, which droue them to &s;uch inconuenience, that they were faine to burne their tables to warme them in thextremi|ty of the colde. In this lack (being in a maner vniuer|&s;all) it fortuned that one odde fellowe amonge the re&s;t, tolde <HI>Alexander</HI> that <HI>Anaxarchus</HI> had fyering &s;ufficient, whereupon the king made re&s;orte vnto him, and refre&s;|&s;hed his fro&s;en limmes in <HI>Anaxarchus</HI> tent, prai&s;eing the man that he was not vnpurueyed at &s;uch a pinche, and redoubling all that he had receiued, as well ve&s;&s;els, as ve&s;tures, becau&s;e he had the v&s;e, benefyt, and profyt of his fyers.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of a Wre&s;tler who woonne the be&s;t game, and dyed before he did weare the gar|land of victory.</HEAD>
<P>_A Wre&s;tler of <HI>Crotona,</HI> winning the victory at <HI>Olympus,</HI> where common games were playde, and goyng from thence to <HI>Hellanodicas</HI> to receiue and weare the garland of glory &s;or his re|warde, had a &s;udden fall, and a &s;ore, whereof he waxed &s;o &s;icke, and di&s;ea|&s;ed, that he fainted very pittifully, and at la&s;t dyed: by which meanes he was vtterly depriued and di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of the recompence, whereof peraduenture he made full accoumpte.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB REF="108">
<HEAD>&para; Of the picture of Phryna the &s;tewd whore, and of the images of Cymons Mares.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_PHryna</HI> the &s;tronge &s;trumpet which &s;olde her hone&s;ty for mony, had her picture erected &amp; &s;et vpon an high pil+ler by the <HI>Grecians,</HI> not by y^e <HI>Grecia~s</HI> generally, I will not &s;ay &s;o, lea&s;t I &s;hould &s;&eacute;eme to make the~ culpable &amp; giltie of this offence, whom I fauour mo&s;t d&eacute;erely, and loue mo&s;t d&eacute;epely: but of &s;uch naughty, peruer&s;e, and ill di&s;po&s;ed per&s;ons of <HI>Grecia</HI> as de&s;erue blame and repre|hen&s;ion. The picture of that arrant whore was al of gold. Furthermore <HI>Cymons Mares</HI> of bra&s;&s;e, which be at <HI>A|thens</HI> were of no &s;mall quantity and &s;ub&s;taunce, when as they counteruailed <HI>Mares</HI> in d&eacute;ede, in bignes, in great|ne&s;&s;e, in mea&s;ure, and proportion.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; The aun&s;were of a young &s;triplyng to his father, demaunding of him what he had learned.</HEAD>
<P>_A Certayne young &s;triplyng of <HI>Eretria,</HI> had frequented the &s;choole of <HI>Zeno</HI> a longe time, at who&s;e comming home to vi&s;it his friends, his father being very de&s;ire|ous and earne&s;t to vnder&s;tande how hee had profited and increa&s;ed in knowledge al that &s;pace, demaunded how much wi&s;dome he had at|tayned, &amp; to what learning he had a&s;pired: who aun&s;we|red his father, Syr I wil &s;hew you anon. At which words of the &s;onne the impacient father being di&s;plea&s;ed, and much moued in minde &s;mote his &s;onne, who bearing the blowes without re&s;i&s;taunce or grudging, yea with|out any re&s;emblance of repineing, &s;ayde, <HI>Hoc ip&s;um didici, Pater, vt iram tuam verberaque moderat&egrave; ferrem.</HI> Thus much haue I learned, Father, to take well in worth the heate of thine anger, and paciently to &s;uffer the bitter|ne&s;&s;e of thy blowes.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="99" REF="108">
<HEAD>&para; Of &s;uch as were gorgeou&s;ly apparelled.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_DIogenes</HI> when as he was come to <HI>O|limpia,</HI> and &s;aw certayne youngmen of <HI>Rhodes</HI> gorgeou&s;ly decked, &amp; &s;ump|tuou&s;ly apparelled, laughed at them and &s;ayde. <HI>Hoc nihil e&s;t praeter fa&s;tum.</HI> This is nothing elles but m&eacute;ere pride and hautyne&s;&s;e. The &s;ame <HI>Diogenes</HI> chaunceing to &s;&eacute;e certaine <HI>Lacedemonians</HI> in ragged, iagged, rent, riuen, &s;louenly and loth&s;ome garments, &s;aid: <HI>Haec long&egrave; alia e&s;t &s;uperbia,</HI> This al&s;o is a kind of pride, but farre differing from the former.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the pride of <HI>Anti&s;thenes,</HI> which he tooke in his tatterd and torne cloake.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_SOcrates,</HI> when he marked this in <HI>An|ti&s;thenes,</HI> that he dyd all wayes weare the ragged p&eacute;ece of his threde bare cloake outwarde in &s;ighte, &s;ayde vnto him. <HI>Quin de&s;inis, arrogantiam tuam nobis prodere?</HI> Wilte thou neuer leaue be|wraying vnto vs thine arrogancy and pryde?</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of <HI>Antigonus,</HI> and a certaine Mu&s;ician.</HEAD>
<P><HI>A</HI> Mu&s;ician comming into the pre&s;ence of <HI>Antigonus,</HI> &s;hewed his cunning in the Art of Mu&s;ick, whom <HI>An|tigonus</HI> oftentimes interrupting with the&s;e words, Fel|low &s;et vp thy treble &s;tring higher, and yet once agayne
<PB REF="109"> thy meane: The Mu&s;ician takeing pepper in the no&s;e &s;aid thus vnto <HI>Antigonus.</HI> The deuill is in it, by the Gods I &s;weare, if thou (O Kinge) art more &s;kilfull and expert then I in this &s;cience and profe&s;&s;ion.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; How Anaxarchus laughed Alexander to &s;korne, who would needes be numbred among the Gods.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ANaxarchus,</HI> &s;yrnamed <HI>Eudaemonicus,</HI> laughed and &s;coffed at the extreame folly of <HI>Alexander,</HI> becau&s;e he made him&s;elfe, not a Gods fellow, but a very God. This <HI>Alexander</HI> falling into &s;odayne &s;icknes, the Phy&s;ician was &s;ent for, who mini&s;|tred purgations vnto him, &amp; pre&s;cribed certaine receptes and potions for the recouery of his health. Whereat <HI>An|axarchus</HI> laughed, and floutingly &s;ayde thus: <HI>At Deo no&s;tro &s;pes omnis in &s;orbillatione patellae po&s;ita e&s;t.</HI> All the hope of our goodly God is in &s;ypping a platter, for in &s;uch ve&s;&s;els were the confections and &s;yrops geuen by the Phy&s;ician.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Alexander, and of the Cyterne of Paris.</HEAD>
<P>_WHen <HI>Alexander</HI> came to <HI>Troy,</HI> and viewed euery thinge with earne&s;te eyes, a certayne <HI>Troian</HI> approching towards him, &s;hewed him y^e Cyterne of <HI>Paris.</HI> To whom the king &s;ayde, I woulde haue this harpe of <HI>Paris</HI> in more value and e&s;timation, if thou coulde&s;t helpe me to a &s;ighte of the Cyterne of <HI>Achilles,</HI>
<PB N="100" REF="109"> for he de&s;ired to &s;&eacute;e &s;omthing which belo~ged to &s;o &s;towte, &s;o valiaunt and &s;o conquerous a Martiali&s;t, and &s;pecially his Cyterne wherwith he v&s;ed to play the pa&s;&s;ing pray|&s;es of notable per&s;onages. As for the Cyterne of <HI>Paris</HI> whereunto &s;erued it ells, then to &s;ounde baudy ballads, fil|thy &s;ongs, wanton tunes, &amp; lewde daunces, being baytes to allure younge women to lightnes, vanity, &amp; naughty|nes.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of ridiculous Loues, and louers exceeding the limits of rea&s;on.</HEAD>
<P>_WHo is &s;o blocki&s;he, &s;o &s;en&s;les, &amp; &s;o de&s;ti|tute of iudgeme~t, y^t wil not think the&s;e loues, &amp; louers, worthy to be laughed to &s;korne, as &s;howes of &s;ingular foole|i&s;hnes, and de&s;eruing di&s;prai&s;e, rebuke &amp; di&s;co~mendation for their vnre&s;ona|blenes? Fir&s;t the fonde &amp; phanta&s;ticall loue of <HI>Xerxes,</HI> who&s;e hart was wo~derfully bewitched to loue a Planetr&eacute;e. The light hed of a certain youngman of <HI>Athens,</HI> di&s;cending from a noble hou&s;e, who loued the pic|ture of <HI>Bona Fortuna</HI> which &s;tode hard by the portall of the Parleament hou&s;e, yelding him &s;elfe mo&s;t amorou&s;ly into the bo&s;om of the image, and ki&s;&s;ing the &s;ame as if it had bene indued with breath and lyfe: Vpon the continuance of which officious and dutyfull behauior, he waxed fran|tique, and &s;&eacute;emed in the &s;ight of men extreamely haunted w^t madnes, in &s;o muche that his conceit of minde gathered &s;uch efficacy and force, and his de&s;ire in this ca&s;e, tooke &s;uch d&eacute;epe roote, that he could no longer conceale and couer y^e flaming affections of his perplexed &s;pirit, but entred in|to y^e conuocation hou&s;e boldly and lu&s;tely, be&s;&eacute;eching &s;uch as &s;ate there in place of authority, mo&s;t earne&s;tly &amp; vehe|me~tly that they wold geue him leaue to buy the picture of
<PB REF="110"> <HI>Bona Fortuna.</HI> But he not preuaileing in his &s;uite and &s;up|plication, vttered neuertheles, manyfe&s;t &s;ignifications of his kindled concupi&s;cence, for he beutyfied the image with co&s;tly garlands, &amp; princely crownes, he offered &s;acrifices &amp; oblatio~s vnto it, he garni&s;hed and adorned the &s;ame with precious apparrell, all which circum&s;taunces being acco~|pli&s;hed he wepte mo&s;t pityfully (O immoderate and exce|&s;&s;iue folly (&s;tremes of teares gu&s;hing out of his eies, which &s;tayned his tender ch&eacute;eks, and made his fauour fru&s;trate, in the end he murthered him&s;elf &s;o far gone was he from the rule of rea&s;on, and robbed of his righte wytts. Som &s;ay that <HI>Glauca,</HI> a woman which played vpon the harpe, loued a Duck, other&s;ome &s;ay &s;he loued a Goo&s;e. Moreouer it is reported y^t <HI>Xenophons</HI> &s;onne loued a dogge in <HI>Sole</HI> a city of <HI>Cilicia.</HI> And to knytt vpp the knott, the voice go|eth that a certaine mi&s;&s;hapen and yll fauoured fellow of <HI>Sparta,</HI> fell in loue with a Iack dawe, &s;ett greate &s;tore by the &s;ame and planted therin al his plea&s;ure and delectati|on.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the Gouernours of the Carthaginean &s;hipps.</HEAD>
<P>_THe <HI>Carthagineans</HI> appointed two go|uernours in euery &s;hippe, &s;aying: that it was not &s;&eacute;emly, nor conuenient that a ve&s;&s;ell haueing twoo ruthers, (a thing mo&s;t profitable for &s;ailers, and to pa&s;&s;ingers not incommodious, be|&s;ides that dooyng be&s;t &s;eruice for direc|tion in voyages) &s;hould be de&s;titute of one to &s;upply &s;o nece&s;&s;ary a roome, and to furni&s;he &s;o fit an office.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="101" REF="110">
<HEAD>&para; Of Pau&s;anias, and of Simonides</HEAD>
<P><HI>_SImonides</HI> being pre&s;ent at a certaine banquet, it fortuned that <HI>Pau&s;anias</HI> the <HI>Lacedemonian,</HI> was bydden thi|ther as gue&s;t at the &s;ame in&s;taunt, at which m&eacute;eting <HI>Pau&s;anias</HI> tooke occa&s;i|on to de&s;ire <HI>Simonides,</HI> that he would vtter a &s;ewe preceptes and rules of wi&s;dome: at who&s;e wordes the good old man laughed and &s;aid, <HI>Tune memento te hominem e&s;&s;e.</HI> Then beare in remem|brance that thou art but a man. Which watchword pre|uayled not with <HI>Pua&s;anias,</HI> &s;ithence hee &s;et nought there|by, but being pufte vp with pride, becau&s;e he had entred confederacy and partner&s;hip with the <HI>Medes,</HI> had obtai|ned great familiarity, and intertainement &s;inguler, with the kinge, and be&s;ides that, peraduenture, not all with the wi&s;e&s;t (for &s;omuch as he had ouerdrunke him&s;elf with wine) looked aloft in&s;olently, lightly regarding the &s;horte precepte of wi&s;dome geuen by <HI>Simonides.</HI> Howbeit this <HI>Pau&s;anias,</HI> at what time he was in a pri&s;on of bra&s;&s;e, wre&s;tling with hunger, and fightinge for lyfe and death with fami&s;hmente, furthermore &s;&eacute;eing before his face a mo&s;t mi&s;erable, a mo&s;t lamentable, and wofull ende, hee remembred, vpon a &s;udden, the &s;aying of <HI>Simonides,</HI> cry|yng out with a loude, and a pityfull voyce, thr&eacute;e &s;eue|rall times in this &s;ort: <HI>O Cee ho&s;pes, magnum quidda~ in tuo &s;ermone inerat, ego vero inani per&s;ua&s;ione &s;um adductus vt eum nullius momenti putarem.</HI> O friende <HI>Simonides,</HI> in thy watchword was a great and a waighty matter included, as for me I was caried away with vaine per&s;wa&s;ions, and made &s;mal acoumpt (Alas) of thy wi&s;e warning.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB REF="111">
<HEAD>&para; Of Artaxerxes, and of Darius.</HEAD>
<P>_AFter that <HI>Artaxerxes</HI> had cau&s;ed his el|de&s;t &s;onne <HI>Darius</HI> to be &s;layne, for certen trecherous tricks and di&s;obedient beha|uiour: the &s;econd brother next vnto him, hearing of his fathers commaundement drew out his <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> &s;kuchillatro, which was fa&s;hioned lyke a woodknife, and therewithall mur|thered him&s;elfe violently, before the kings pallace.</P>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>&para; <HI>The ende of the ninth Booke of <HI>Aelianus.</HI></HI></TRAILER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="10" TYPE="book">
<PB N="102" REF="111">
<HEAD>&para; The tenth Booke of the varia|ble <HI>hy&s;tori of</HI> Aelianus.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of <HI>Pherenice,</HI> who was admitted and allowed to looke vppon the games at Olympus.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_PHerenice</HI> brought her &s;onne to the games at <HI>Olympus,</HI> to &s;how his a|bility &amp; actiuene&s;&s;e in tho&s;e &s;olemne exerci&s;es. But the ouer&s;&eacute;ers or offi|cers called <HI>Hellanodica</HI> with&s;toode her, and would not let her &s;&eacute;e them in any ca&s;e, whom &s;he for their quar|rellyng called to a reckoninge be|fore the Iudge, referring all to the determynation of the law, &amp; aledging the rea&s;ons folowing in her owne behalf. My Father &s;ayde &s;he was a conquerour in the games at <HI>Olympus,</HI> my thr&eacute;e Bretheren were Captaines in lyke maner: and h&eacute;ere I haue brought my &s;onne, the fruite of my body, who is a wre&s;tler by nature &amp; by art. By which rea&s;ons vttered with opportunity, &s;he ouerthrewe her aduer&s;aries the officers, and obtained her purpo&s;e: ma|king that lawe, &s;tatute, and ordinaunce, of no force or ef|fect, which was prouided again&s;t the admi&s;&s;io~ of women to common games. Thus did <HI>Pherenice</HI> &s;&eacute;e and beholde all the exerci&s;es exhibited and &s;hewed at <HI>Olympus.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the continency, and cha&s;tity of Eubatas.</HEAD>
<P><HI>LAis,</HI> when &s;he &s;aw <HI>Eubatas Cyrenen&s;is,</HI> &s;hee had &s;uch good liking of him, that &s;he burned in loue extreamely for his &s;ake, in&s;omuch that &s;he fel in co~munication w^t him
<PB REF="112"> about contracting, and marrying: who&s;e &s;ubtile &s;nares, and daungerous deceiptes the youngman mi&s;tru&s;ting, promi&s;ed to do no le&s;&s;e then &s;he de&s;ired, yet dealt he not with her in bodily delight or carnall plea&s;ure, but, where|as he might haue had his will, to the full &s;taunchinge of his fle&s;hly lu&s;t, yet did hee not v&s;e any &s;uch meanes, but &s;hewed him&s;elf of hone&s;t v&s;age, and vn&s;potted behauiour in that poinct. The couenaunt and promi&s;e was conclu|ded and agreed vpon with the&s;e conditions, that after the common &s;howes and pageants then publi&s;hed, were en|ded: it &s;hould be ratifyed and confirmed by actuall mar|riage, which was graunted before at the knittinge of the contract. No w&s;yr when the games were fini&s;hed, and all things pertaining thereunto di&s;patched, this youngman <HI>Eubatas</HI> being winner in the fore&s;aide exerci&s;es, &amp; percea|uing him&s;elfe intangled, and hooked in, with the &s;nares of an harlot, to th'intent that he might not be thought to re|uoult from his former bargin, and agr&eacute;ement made with the wanton woman, he cau&s;ed the picture of <HI>Lais</HI> to be painted in a &s;cutchio~, &s;aying: <HI>Ecce Laide~ duco &amp; pactum non praetereo:</HI> Beholde <HI>Lais,</HI> I &s;tande to my worde, and per|fourme the &s;umme, of my promi&s;e. For which occa&s;ion of con&s;tancy, and perfect pre&s;ident of vnfayned loue, the young mayden which was betrouthed vnto him, and af|terwarde luckely wedded, procured a great and a fayre &s;tandinge image to be erected and &s;et vp at <HI>Cyrena,</HI> re|compencinge his temperaunce and cha&s;tity with this wor&s;hipfull rewarde. The pretty conueyaunce of <HI>Eu|batas</HI> commendable &s;hift, con&s;i&s;teth in this word <HI>Ducere,</HI> which importeth a double meanyng, for it doth not onely &s;ignifie to marry, but al&s;o to beare. The fir&s;t interpreta|tion &s;eruing the worde wedlock, the &s;econde proper to a burden. So that, notwith&s;tanding, <HI>Eubatas</HI> did not ob|&s;erue <HI>Ducere,</HI> one way, yet he ob&s;erued the &s;ame another, but &s;ophi&s;tically &amp; not &s;imply, as y^e woma~ was per&s;waded.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="103" REF="112">
<HEAD>&para; Of the properties of certaine brute bea&s;tes, and birds.</HEAD>
<P>_YOunge Partridge pullettes are very &s;wift and nimble in running, &s;o &s;oone as their legs be out of the &s;hell: young ducklinges &s;wimme imediatly, in a manner, after they be hatched: and Lyons whelps &s;cratch and claw their dams bellyes, being gr&eacute;edy to get out of &s;o clo&s;e a pri&s;on.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Alexanders &s;peedine&s;&s;e in di&s;|patching his attempts.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ALexander</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Philip</HI> v&s;ed no &s;top, nor &s;tay for the &s;pace of thirtye furlonges, whiles hee encountered with his enemyes and ouercame them, during which time, neither hee nor his &s;ouldiours tooke any re&s;t.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Tyrauntes, an opinion out of Ae&s;ops writinges.</HEAD>
<P>_I His hi&s;tory &s;auoureth of a <HI>Phrigians</HI> opinion, &amp; this <HI>Phrigian</HI> is <HI>Ae&s;op.</HI> If any man holde a hog fa&s;t by the eares, it roreth, and maketh a &s;hrewd noi&s;e. And wott you why? Becau&s;e they beare no wooll, nor y&eacute;elde any thinge from their backes of any &s;uch kinde, but carry fat flea&s;h, &s;eruing for the &s;u&s;tenaunce of man. And Tyrauntes are very lyke them (in mine opinion)
<PB REF="113"> who liue alwaies in feare and &s;u&s;pition, knowing that their liues are compared to the liues of hogs, which albe|it they liue, are re&s;erued and kept for the &s;laughter: &s;y|thence all men gape after the deaths of tyrauntes, and wi&s;h their de&s;truction, and ouerthrow by &s;ome violent meanes or other.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of leane, &s;lender, and light men of body.</HEAD>
<P>_THe exc&eacute;edinge &s;malne&s;&s;e, and &s;lender|ne&s;&s;e of the&s;e men vndernamed, hath pa&s;&s;ed by reporte, to the eares of ma|ny people. Fir&s;t and formo&s;t the lea|ne&s;&s;e and lightne&s;&s;e of <HI>Samyzio,</HI> the Comicall Poet. The &s;lenderne&s;&s;e of <HI>Melitus</HI> the tragical writer: the &s;mal|ne&s;&s;e of <HI>Cine&s;ias</HI> the Vauter or Tumbler, who was &s;o litle, and therewithall &s;o nimble, that hee coulde daunce through a ringe. The pretyne&s;&s;e of <HI>Philetas</HI> the heroicall ver&s;efier. The lightne&s;&s;e of <HI>Arche&s;tratus</HI> the Poet, who being apprehended and taken by the handes of the ene|mies, and put into a payre of ballaunce, was founde (as it is reported) to haue wayed no more but &s;ixt&eacute;ene barely cornes. Furthermore <HI>Panaretus</HI> was very &s;mal and &s;len|der of body, yet notwith&s;tanding he was fr&eacute;e from all in|fection of &s;icknes, and far from any con&s;umptio~: albeit he was as leane as a rake. Moreouer, the voyce goeth that the Poet <HI>Hipponactes,</HI> was not onely of &s;mall &s;tature and making, but al&s;o yll fauoured and ougly therewithal: be&s;ids al the&s;e, <HI>Philippides,</HI> of whom <HI>Hipperides</HI> maketh mencion, was a very &s;pare man of limme and ioynte, meruailous leane, litle, &amp; &s;lender, in&s;omuch y^t he became a common prouerbe amonge people, for when they were di&s;po&s;ed to talke and common of any maner of per&s;on
<PB N="104" REF="113"> that was &s;inguler in leanes and lightnes, they &s;aide that &s;uch a one did <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"> that hee re&s;embled <HI>Phi|lippides.</HI> Heareof is <HI>Alexis</HI> able to geue te&s;timony, and witne&s;&s;e &s;ufficient.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of certaine A&s;trologians and of the great yeare called <HI>Annus Magnus.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_OEnopides Chius,</HI> a man &s;ingularlye &s;&eacute;ene in the &s;cience of A&s;trology, dedi|cated and &s;et vp a table of lawes in <HI>Olympijs</HI> wherein hee de&s;cribed the reuolution of the &s;tarres for the tearm of fifty yeares and nine, affirming that this was <HI>Annus Magnus</HI> y^e great y&eacute;ere. <HI>Meton</HI> the <HI>Lacedemonian,</HI> a man no le&s;&s;e &s;kilfull and cunning in the art A&s;trologicall, erected and &s;et vp, co|lumes or pillers, wherein he did ingraue the circle and cour&s;e of the &s;un, &amp; found out (as he &s;aid) <HI>Anum Magnum,</HI> the great yeare, which he included within the compa&s;&s;e, and &s;pace of nint&eacute;ene yeares.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Benefites, and Goodturnes.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ARi&s;totle Cyrenen&s;is</HI> had this &s;entence in his mouth: <HI>Non oportet beneficium oblatum a quoquam recipere: aut enim vt rependere po&s;&s;it, mole&s;tias habiturus: aut &s;i non referat, in ingratitudinis repre|hen&s;ionem incur&s;urus.</HI> We ought not to receaue a benefyt, although it be offe|red and put into our handes: And why? Becau&s;e it is a gr&eacute;efe vnto vs, yf wee bee not able to make &s;uffi|ciente requitall for that which wee haue taken, or elles yf wee doe not recompence like, with like, in due and
<PB REF="114"> equall proportion, we ar obiect to reprehen&s;ion, and guil|ty of ingratitude.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; That Philoxenus was a Glutton</HEAD>
<P><HI>_PHiloxenus</HI> was a notorious glutton &amp; a very bond&s;laue to his belly. It was his chaunce to be in a victualing hou&s;e wher the pot was boyling full of broth b&eacute;elyke, and good flea&s;he, with the &s;mell &amp; &s;auour wherof he was &s;o delighted, that he &s;hewed him&s;elfe no ydle gue&s;t in that ca&s;e. After y^t the odour and fume of the liquor and the meate, had &s;harpned his appetite, and prouoked his &s;tomacke to barcke, he being vnable to bridle his inor|dinate de&s;ire, commaunded his &s;onne (O gods imortall) to buy potte and all out righte: whoo &s;ayd to his Father againe, y^t the cooke wold hold it at to highe a pryce: who&s;e obiection <HI>Philoxenus</HI> an&s;wered in this &s;orte. <HI>Hoc &s;uaui|or erit &amp; iucundior, quo maiori pretio ollam emero.</HI> Hold thee content, the more it doth co&s;t the &s;w&eacute;eter it wil be. The&s;e things are to be committed to remembraunce, not that we &s;hould imitate and followe the like fooli&s;hnes, but ra|ther learne to auoide and flye &s;uch vanity.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Painters in the old auncient tyme.</HEAD>
<P>_WHen as the art of painting and limming was newly brued, &amp; &s;karcely &s;ett a broche, when, I &s;ay, it lay, as it were in the cradle and &s;wathling clowts: painters de&s;cribed the formes and &s;hapes of bea&s;ts, byrdes, &amp; other things &s;o homely, &s;o &s;imply &s;o rudely, &amp; &s;o nakedly, that for the better vnder&s;tanding of their botchery (for it
<PB N="105" REF="114"> was farre di&s;&s;onant from cunning worckman&s;hip, they were fayne to write the&s;e po&s;ies ouer &s;uch things as thei painted. <HI>Hoc e&s;t Bos. Hoc e&s;t Equus. Hoc e&s;t Miluus. Hoc e&s;t Arbor.</HI> This is an Oxe, This is a hor&s;e, This is a Puttock, and this is a Tr&eacute;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Diogenes hauing a &s;ore &s;houlder.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_DIogenes</HI> being gr&eacute;eued very much in one of his &s;houlders, by &s;ome wounde (as I &s;uppo&s;e) or &s;uch like mi&s;chance &s;&eacute;emed to &s;uffer great pain &amp; angui&s;h by y^e extremity of the &s;ore: to who~ one of his aduer&s;aries co~ming, reioycing and triumphing to &s;&eacute;e him in &s;uch an yll taking, &s;aid: <HI>Quin igitur mortem obis, &amp; teip&s;um his dam nis liberas?</HI> why doo&s;t thou not kill thy &s;elf, if thou art wil|ling to be deliuered out of this torment? who&s;e coun&s;ell, not &s;o enuious, as vnadui&s;ed, <HI>Diogenes</HI> ouerthrew with this prudent and wi&s;e &s;entence. <HI>Qui &s;ciunt quae in vita fieri dicique conuenit, in vita manere aequum e&s;t.</HI> It is conuenie~t and requi&s;ite that &s;uch &s;hould liue, as knowe both what is to be donne &amp; what is to be &s;aide, in the cour&s;e of their life (in the number of whom he reckened him&s;elf) But as for th&eacute;e, &s;aith <HI>Diogenes,</HI> which art ignorant what &s;hould be wrought, and what &s;hould be thought, it is more the~ highe time to be dead. <HI>Me vero, qui &s;ciam illa, par e&s;t in vi|uis agere.</HI> As for me, who vnder&s;tand the vttermo&s;t in y^e matters aboue mencioned, it is good rea&s;on to liue &amp; not to dye.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB REF="115">
<HEAD>&para; The Apophthegme of Archytas concerning men.</HEAD>
<P>_THis was the &s;entence of <HI>Archytas.</HI> As it is not po&s;&s;ible for a man to finde a fy&s;he without prickelinges, although he take neuer &s;o greate paines &amp; la|bour neuer &s;o bu&s;ily: &s;o it is not po&s;&s;i|ble to finde a man, that hath not &s;om craft, &s;ubtiltie, and captious inuention harbouring in his hed,</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; The Te&s;timonie of Archilocus in his owne rebuke</HEAD>
<P><HI>_CRitias</HI> reproued <HI>Archilocus,</HI> becau&s;e he &s;pake not well of him&s;elf. For if, &s;aide <HI>Critias,</HI> he had not &s;pred &s;uch an infamous report and opinion touch|ing his owne per&s;on in the country of <HI>Grecia:</HI> we &s;hould neuer haue known that <HI>Enippo</HI> the bondwoman was his mother: nor that he leauing <HI>Parus,</HI> was driuen by ex|treame n&eacute;ede and beggery to <HI>Tha&s;us,</HI> and that he fell at variance w^t the inhabitants when he cam thither, nor y^t he was of &s;uch a crooked, cankard, and corrupt inclina|tion, and naughty nature, that he &s;pake yll of all men in|differently, as well of fr&eacute;ends as foes with out exceptio~. Moreouer if his own tongue had not betrayed his &s;en&s;u|ality and peruer&s;e di&s;po&s;ition (&s;ayth <HI>Critias</HI>) we had not knowne that he was a whoremounger, a lecherous var|lot, an iniurious merchant, a wrangling and vniu&s;t per+&s;on. Neither had we attained the vnder&s;tanding of his behauiour in battell, how he ca&s;t away his weapon and threw his target out of his hand lyke a cowardly cullion, which was far woor&s;e then all the re&s;t. The&s;e circum|&s;taunces
<PB N="106" REF="115"> &s;houlde not haue b&eacute;ene di&s;couered to the ca|pacities of our wits and memories, if his owne tongue had not b&eacute;en the trumpet to &s;ounde his owne prepo&s;te|rous properties in the eares of people. Now certainly, &amp; as God helpe me, <HI>Archilocus</HI> fauoured not him&s;elfe, to bla&s;e abrode &s;uch bea&s;tly talke touching his owne e&s;tate, neither was his te&s;timony commodious or profitable, &s;ythence therby he was &s;o far from reaping aduauntage that he purcha&s;ed a reprochefull, an ignominious, and a &s;hameful name. But as for me I iudge <HI>Archilocus</HI> in|culpable and voyde from any blot of blame in this be|halfe: it is <HI>Critias,</HI> peraduenture, that forgeth &s;uch &amp; &s;uch fal&s;e fables, and coineth this accu&s;ation again&s;t <HI>Archilo+cus,</HI> to his contumelie and &s;claunder.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Slouthfullnes or ydelnes.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_SOcrates</HI> was the Author of this &s;w&eacute;ete &s;entence. <HI>Soror libertatis e&s;t pigritia,</HI> &s;louth|fulnes is the &s;i&s;ter of liberty: to the con|firmation wherof, he alledged notable te&s;timonies and &s;ingular examples, de|riued and borowed of &s;towte and &s;trong men &amp; people liuing in greate licentiou&s;nes: As the <HI>In|dians</HI> &amp; the <HI>Per&s;ians,</HI> both which people are very &s;lowe &amp; &s;luggi&s;h to take pain, &amp; loth to labor. But the <HI>Phrygians,</HI> and the <HI>Lydians,</HI> being of conditions cleane contrary, ar quicke and &s;p&eacute;edy at their worke, and loue to labour, &s;o y^t it may be gathered, that what is wanting throughe de|fault of liberty in the fir&s;t, is &s;upplied by &s;ubiection and bondage in the la&s;t.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="108" REF="116">
<HEAD>&para; Of tho&s;e which made a contract with the daughters of Ari&s;ti|des, and gaue their fayth &amp; truth &s;olemnly to marry them: &amp; of Ly&s;ander.</HEAD>
<P>_THe be&s;t &amp; the ch&eacute;efe&s;t among the <HI>Gre|cians</HI> gaue their fayth and troth pre|ci&s;ely, to marry the daughters of <HI>A|ri&s;tides,</HI> this promi&s;e &amp; contracte was made whiles y^e good father was aliue. But they had not an eye of iu&s;tice to <HI>Ari&s;tides</HI> trade of life, neither did they regarde his vpright and irreprehen&s;ible dealing: for if they had b&eacute;en of that profe&s;&s;ion, if, I &s;ay, they had b&eacute;en his Di&s;ciples and Scholers, they would neuer haue &s;tretched and &s;trangled their credit, by the violation and breach of their couenaunt. Now therfore, when <HI>Ari&s;ti|des</HI> was dead, they were &s;o farre from marying the mai|dens, that they vtterly refu&s;ed to make and meddle with them any more, yea thei &s;eque&s;tred them&s;elues out of the wenches company, ca&s;t of all acquaintaunce, and b&eacute;e|came very &s;trange as if there had no &s;uch promi&s;&s;e pro|c&eacute;eded from them. For &s;o &s;oone as the aboue named &s;onne of <HI>Ly&s;imachus</HI> died (as we were giuing you to vn|der&s;tand before) an inuentory taken of his goods, &amp; a &s;ur|uiew had of his wealth and &s;ub&s;tance, he was found to be but a poore ma~, and far vnable to contribute &s;o large|ly as was thought to his daughters marriages: which thing procured this mi&s;ch&eacute;efe, that the younge women lo&s;t their hu&s;bands, and tho&s;e vnhappy men were di&s;mi&s;t of their wiues, with whom otherwi&s;e they would haue b&eacute;en wedded. The &s;elfe &s;ame lucke was alotted to <HI>Ly|&s;ander,</HI> for &s;o &s;oone as the youthes which were &s;uiters to his daughters, had vnder&s;tanding that he was not wel|thy, they wrung their neckes out of the yoke, and with|drewe
<PB N="109" REF="116"> both witt and will from wedlocke.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Anti&s;thenes and Diogenes.</HEAD>
<P>_AFter that <HI>Anti&s;thenes</HI> had bydde~ many gue&s;ts to the banquet of wi&s;dom, &amp; none wold come at y^e &s;ound of his voice, b&eacute;eing very angry at the length, and much mo|ued in his minde he wold admit neither one nor other to ta&s;t of the learned ch&eacute;ere, which he was purpo&s;ed to &s;et before them: wherupon he excluded <HI>Dio|genes</HI> in like maner out of his &s;ociety &amp; fellow&s;hip. But when he perceaued the man more de&s;irous of his compa|ny, &amp; the more he was prohibited &amp; forbiddden to repaire vnto him, y^e more to frequent and co~tinue his comming: <HI>Anti&s;thenes</HI> did not only check him but threatned him al+&s;o, &amp; not therwith contented proc&eacute;eded further, and &s;mote him vpo~ the pate with a cudgel which he had in his hand: <HI>Diogenes</HI> notw^t&s;tanding the&s;e thunderclaps &amp; tempe&s;ts, was neuer awhit terre&s;ted he &s;hrunk not an inch fro~ his purpo&s;e, but was &s;o much the more con&s;tant and vnmo|ueable in mind to heare <HI>Anti&s;thenes</HI> wi&s;dom, vttering the&s;e words vnto him. <HI>Tu percute tantum, ego tibi caput prae bebo: neque vero tam durum fu&s;tem inueneris, quo me a di&s;pu|tationibus tuis abigas.</HI> Lay on and &s;pare not, h&eacute;ere is my hed and &s;houlders, for thou can&s;t not finde a &s;laffe hard e|nough, although it were crab tr&eacute;e, to driue me from hea|ring thy di&s;putatio~s. Which words <HI>Anti&s;thenes</HI> hearing, &amp; therwithall pondering how inclinable <HI>Diogenes</HI> was to learning, he ca&s;t a fauourable countenaunce vppon him, cut of all contention and varriance, became his fer|uent and faythfull fr&eacute;end, and made great account of him for his prudent per&s;euerance.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB REF="117">
<HEAD>&para; Of &s;uch as increa&s;ed their riches, and amplifyed their po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, by bearing the offices of mage&s;trates in the common wealth.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_CRitias</HI> &s;ayth, that <HI>Themi&s;tocles</HI> before he was elected to beare authoritie in y^e com|mon welth, was worth no more the~ three talents which were left vnto him by Le|gacy: In proce&s;&s;e of time when he had oc|cupied that place of &s;uperioritie and pr&eacute;eminence, an ap|pri&s;ment or valuation of his goods being taken, after his exile &amp; bani&s;hment: he was found to haue bynne worth a hundred talents, which he had hoorded vp &amp; kept in &s;tore. <HI>Cleon</HI> in lyke maner, before he was aduanced to place of authoritie in the commonwealth, had not the &s;ub&s;taunce that a fr&eacute;e man ought to haue, yet neuertheles he gathe|red as much wealth as was worth fifty talents, &amp; a bet|ter pounde.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Daphnis the Syracu&s;ane, and of Poe&s;ies called Po|emata Pa&s;toritia.</HEAD>
<P>_SOm &s;ay (vppon their immagination) that <HI>Mercury</HI> loued <HI>Daphnis</HI> y^e herd|man tenderly and d&eacute;erly. other&s;om &s;uppo&s;e that <HI>Daphnis</HI> was his &s;onne, and that he had his name <HI>Ex euentis</HI> of the i&s;&s;ue of his luck &amp; fortune. For he is reported to haue had a <HI>Nymphe</HI> to his mother, and anon, after his natiuitie and birth to haue bynelayed vnder a Bay tr&eacute;e. As for the bullocks which he did gra&s;e, they were (as &s;om &s;urmi&s;e) the &s;i&s;ters of <HI>Sol,</HI> of whome mencion is made by <HI>Homer</HI> in his O|dy&s;&s;es. So it is y^e when <HI>Daphnis</HI> did gra&s;e in <HI>Sicilia,</HI> one
<PB N="108" REF="117"> of the <HI>Nymphes</HI> was intangled with the loue of him, be|ing an amiable youngeman, louely of looke, and comely of complexion, yea, &s;o farr did the fyer of affection kindle &amp; burne: that &s;he had to deale with him in the very floure &amp; pearle of his lu&s;ty youth, at which time bewty is in her blo&s;&s;om. At y^e &s;ame in&s;tant, that the things within writ|ten were a doing, the <HI>Nymph</HI> vrged him to make this preci&s;e couenant: That he &s;hould not v&s;e the company of any other woman, to ioyne in bodily plea&s;ure w^e her, but to ab&s;tain from al other, her &s;elf excepted: which promi&s;e if he did not perfourme, his de&s;tenie &s;hould be to loo&s;e his eye &s;ight, and to become &s;tarke blinde, if he brake the bar|gain: to this they both co~de&s;cended and were fully agr&eacute;ed. In tract of time it chaunced that the Kings daughter fell in loue of <HI>Daphnis,</HI> with whome, he (the wine being in his braine and the witte quite out) had carnall know|ledge: vpon the committing of which d&eacute;ede he was detec|ted &amp; found vnfaithfull in the couenant which he conclu|ded. Hereuppon &s;prunge the &s;hepherds poe&s;ies called <HI>Po|emata Pa&s;toritia,</HI> which were &s;olemnly &s;unge: the occa&s;i|on wherof the lo&s;&s;e of <HI>Daphnis</HI> ey&s;ight mini&s;tred. <HI>Ste&s;i|chorus Himeroeus</HI> is reported to haue b&eacute;en y^e fir&s;t inditer of the&s;e &s;onnets, and ditties.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of him which &s;wallowed down his owne teethe.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_EVrydamas</HI> of <HI>Cyrena,</HI> was Victor in a game of whurlebatting, or (as &s;ome &s;ay) in an excerci&s;e of buffet|ting, who&s;e t&eacute;eth, when his aduer&s;ary had da&s;hed out, he made no &s;ower cou~|tenaunce at y^e matter, but &s;wallowed downe his t&eacute;eth, bloud and al: To thintent that he which gaue him the blowe might not perceaue the mi&s;&s;chief.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="112" REF="118">
<HEAD>&para; Of Age&s;ilaus</HEAD>
<P>_THe king of the <HI>Per&s;ians</HI> &s;ent emba&s;&s;a|dors to <HI>Age&s;ilaus</HI> to co~clude a league of peace betw&eacute;ene them: who made them, which repre&s;ented the kings per&s;on, this aun&s;were. <HI>Fieri non potest vt mea priuatim amicitia fruatur, &s;in La|cedemonijs communiter omnibus amicus fieret, ego quoque in amicitiae ius ventu|rus &s;um.</HI> It is not po&s;&s;ible for him to knit concord &amp; agr&eacute;e|ment with my priuate per&s;on only, but if he enter friend &s;hip with the <HI>Lacedemonians</HI> generally: I &s;halbe wil|ling al&s;o to &s;ub&s;cribe to the &s;ame condition. For the king hath an intere&s;t and title in all his people and &s;ubiects.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Plato.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_PErictione</HI> caried <HI>Plato</HI> in her armes when he was an infant: And when <HI>Ari&s;ton</HI> was &s;acrificing to the <HI>Mu&s;es</HI> and the <HI>Nymphes</HI> in <HI>Himetto</HI> hil, &s;he in like manner being di&s;po&s;ed to &s;em|blable deuotion, layd <HI>Plato</HI> downe vpon the &s;oft gr&eacute;ene gra&s;&s;e, vnder the thicke&s;t Myrtyle tr&eacute;es whiche grewe in that place: to the end &s;he might with le&s;&s;e interruption &amp; hinderance occupy her&s;elf in deuiue &s;eruice. Whiles they both were religiou&s;ly bu&s;yed, a greate &s;warme of Bees did light vppon the babes lipps, buzzing, humming, and makeing &s;w&eacute;ete &s;ugred honny vppon his minikyn mouth, pro|phecying by this their d&eacute;ede, what eloquent and Rheto|ricall vtterance, what heauenly learneing, and famous philo&s;ophy &s;hould flow from him when he came to yeares of rypenes.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="109" REF="118">
<HEAD>&para; Of Dioxippus.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_DIoxippus,</HI> in the pre&s;ence of <HI>Alexander,</HI> and a multitude of <HI>Macedonians</HI> caught a club fa&s;t in his fi&s;tes, and challenged <HI>Corrhagus</HI> all armed, to enter cumbat with him: when <HI>Dioxippus</HI> had &s;mitten <HI>Corrhagus</HI> &s;peare out of his handes, hee clo&s;ed with him, laid gryping hold vpon him, his harne&s;&s;e, and his weapons: threw him downe, &s;et his foote vpon the neck of <HI>Corrhagus,</HI> lying pro&s;trate on the grounde, drewe out his Sworde, and gored him through with the &s;ame. For which act and d&eacute;ede <HI>Alexander</HI> conceiued hate again&s;t him, wherupon <HI>Dioxippus</HI> tooke inward thought and gaue &s;uch &s;cope to the force of phanta&s;y, that hee py|ned and con&s;umed away with extreame agony of minde, and at length ended his lyfe, no le&s;&s;e lamentably, then mi|&s;erably.</P>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>&para; <HI>The ende of the tenth Booke of <HI>AElianus.</HI></HI></TRAILER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="11" TYPE="book">
<PB REF="119">
<HEAD>&para; The eleuenth Booke of the varia|ble <HI>hy&s;torie of</HI> Aelianus.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of <HI>Oricadmus,</HI> and of the Art of Wre&s;tling.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ORicadmus</HI> in&s;tituted the law of wre&s;t|ling, and whurlbatting: and by his indu&s;trye and dilligence, the game of wre&s;tling, after the <HI>Sicilyan</HI> fa&s;&s;hi|on, (as they tearme it) was deui&s;ed. A proper pa&s;time, and an actiue ex|erci&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the ver&s;es of <HI>Oraebantius,</HI> of <HI>Dares,</HI> and <HI>Meli&s;ander.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THe Ver&s;es of <HI>Oraebantius</HI> are more auncient then the Ver&s;es of olde <HI>Ho|mer,</HI> &s;o &s;ay the <HI>Troe&s;enians,</HI> a people lincked in mo&s;t &s;incere, and inuiolable &s;ociety with the <HI>Atheniens. Dares</HI> al&s;o the <HI>Phrygian</HI> liued before <HI>Homer,</HI> and wrote a Booke called the <HI>Illiades,</HI> or the <HI>Troian</HI> &s;kir|mi&s;h, in the <HI>Phrygian</HI> &s;peach: which are kept and pre|&s;erued in a certaine Regi&s;ter or Library, I wot not where. <HI>Meli&s;ander Mile&s;ius</HI> likewi&s;e, made certaine Poems, wherein he de&s;cribed the warres betw&eacute;ene the <HI>Lapithes</HI> (inhabitants &s;ometime of <HI>The&s;&s;alia</HI>) and the <HI>Centaures,</HI> whiche were al&s;o named <HI>Hippocentauri,</HI> who&s;e dwellinges were be&s;ides the hill <HI>Peleus,</HI> in the &s;ame countrey.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="110" REF="119">
<HEAD>&para; Of Ichus, and of Wre&s;tling.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_TArentinus</HI> practi&s;ed Wre&s;tling, du|ring the time of which his accu&s;to|med exerci&s;e, he liued mo&s;t continent|ly, eating his meat with moderation, and mea&s;ure: and forbearing fle&s;hly plea&s;ure, with great ab&s;tinence and cha&s;titye, all the tearme of his lyfe,</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of the bouldne&s;&s;e of Agathocles.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_AGathocles</HI> the <HI>Sicilian</HI> Tyraunt, had an ylfauoured head to looke vpon, and good for nothing but to moue laughter and &s;korning. For when the very &s;kinne of his &s;kull might ea&s;ly be &s;&eacute;ene, by rea&s;on of his haire, which grew &s;o thin, that the lea&s;t winde in the worlde di&s;|pear&s;ed and blew it abroad: he being a&s;hamed of him&s;elfe for that foule deformity, v&s;ed to weare a garland of Myr|tel leaues, which was a couering, as it were, to his bauld pate. But the <HI>Syracu&s;ans</HI> were not ignoraunt of that which <HI>Agathocles</HI> would haue concealed: yet feare and terror con&s;trained them to be &s;ilent, becau&s;e the Ty|raunt was of an ill di&s;po&s;ed nature, and of a minde much &s;et vpon mi&s;chiefe.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB REF="120">
<HEAD>&para; Of certaine men which were vniu&s;tly condemned of Sacrilege.</HEAD>
<P>_AS certaine men were occupied, in of|fering &s;acrifice to <HI>Apollo:</HI> They of <HI>Delphos</HI> inuironed them rounde a|bout &s;ubtelly, and threw in amonge them, clo&s;ly and couertly, plate, which was con&s;ecrated and made holy, and therwithall franckin&s;ence, and tooth|&s;ome iunckets to blind their eies, as it were, with a mi&s;t: vpon whom they layde handes, in the ende, as fellons, th&eacute;eues, and &s;tealers of holy metall, leading them to an high and huge rock (being the appointed place of executio~ for &s;uch offenders) from the top whereof, they were ca&s;t downe hedlong, and yet were innocent.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of an Adulterer, or Fornicator.</HEAD>
<P>_IT fortuned, that an Adulterer was take~ in the towne of <HI>The&s;pie,</HI> whom, (as he was leade about the common &s;tr&eacute;ets and market place fa&s;t bounde) certaine of his fr&eacute;ends and fauourers came with maine force, and violently tooke him away, whereupon &s;prange an vprore, and tumulte, an vniuer&s;all in&s;urrection, a great &s;laughter of people, and mi&s;erable murthers, infinit and innumerable.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Ly&s;ander and Alcibiades.</HEAD>
<P><HI>EThocles,</HI> the <HI>Lacedemonian</HI> did &s;ay that <HI>Sparta</HI> might not &s;uffer two <HI>Ly&s;anders.</HI> And <HI>Archi&s;tratus</HI> the
<PB N="111" REF="120"> <HI>Athenian</HI> did &s;ay, that the city of <HI>Athens</HI> might not abide two <HI>Alcibiades.</HI> A&s;&s;uredly, (notwith&s;tanding they were in maners diuers and contrary) yet they were both intol|lerable.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the death of Hipparchus.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_HIpparchus</HI> was murthered by the meanes of <HI>Harmodius,</HI> and <HI>Ari&s;to|geiton,</HI> becau&s;e (peraduenture) hee would not let <HI>Harmodius</HI> &s;i&s;ter beare a ba&s;ket, as the cu&s;tome of the coun|try required, when the fea&s;tes of <HI>Mi|nerua,</HI> called <HI>Panathenaica,</HI> were &s;o|lemnized: which continued fiue dayes long. (A &s;mal occa|&s;ion to worke &s;uch a mi&s;che) he put the damo&s;el be&s;ide, as vnworthy place, whereupon followed the depriuation of his owne lyfe.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of certaine men in manners very commendable, and therewith|all very poore, who, not|with&s;tanding, recea|ued no gifts when they were largely offered.</HEAD>
<P>_THe worthye&s;t, the wi&s;e&s;t, and the no|table&s;t men amonge the <HI>Grecians,</HI> li|ued a lyfe loden with extreame &s;kar|&s;ity, and perplexed with perpetual po|uerty. Who therfore would attempte to prai&s;e and extoll riches? &s;&eacute;eing be|fore their eyes &s;uch &s;peciall paternes, types, and pre&s;idents of the contrary. Their names folow
<PB REF="121"> orderly in a &s;hort catalogue. <HI>Ari&s;tides</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Ly&s;i|machus,</HI> who&s;e behauiour was commendable in the time of peace and tranquillity, and al&s;o auailable in the &s;tate of warlyke affaires: hee obtayned many tributes, pay|ments, and pen&s;ions for the aduantage of the <HI>Grecians,</HI> yet notwith&s;tanding his politique proui&s;ion, hee had not in all the world, &s;o much as would di&s;charge his funeral, as the ouer&s;&eacute;ers found at the day of his death. <HI>Phocion,</HI> in lyke ca&s;e, was merueilous indigent and poore, yet when <HI>Alexander,</HI> of his gracious liberality, &s;ent him an hun|dred talentes: Hee moued this demaunde to him that brought the gifte. <HI>Quam ob cau&s;am haec mihi donat?</HI> why doth his maie&s;ty be&s;tow vpon me &s;o large a pre&s;ent? who made this aun&s;wer to <HI>Phocion. <HI>Quoniam te &s;olum ex om|nibus Athenien&s;ibus bonum hone&s;tumque virum iudicat,</HI></HI> Be|cau&s;e his iudgement inclineth &s;o much to th&eacute;e, that a|mong all the <HI>Atheniens,</HI> thou art in his memory, for thy vertue and hone&s;tye: <HI>Sinat, inquit, me talem e&s;&s;e,</HI> Let his grace geue me leaue to continue in that cour&s;e &s;till, &s;ay|eth prudent <HI>Phocion.</HI> What &s;hall we &s;ay touching <HI>Epa|minondas</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Polymnis,</HI> was he riche? was hee wealthy? nay, hee was poore and n&eacute;edy, yet when <HI>Ia&s;on</HI> &s;ent vnto him fifty talentes of fine golde, hee woulde not receaue them, but &s;ayde, <HI>Iniuriam mihi facis.</HI> Thou deale&s;t not vprightly with me. The &s;ame <HI>Epaminondas</HI> borrow|ed fifty groates of a certaine Citizen a friend of his to pay his expences, and co&s;tage by the way, in in his iourney towardes <HI>Peloponne&s;us,</HI> &amp; complaint being made vnto him, y^t one of his reteiners or &s;eruitors, tooke mony of &s;uch as were captiue, vttered the&s;e wordes vnto him: <HI>Mihi da &s;cutum: Tu vero tibi caupouam ome, in qua viuas, non enim vl|terius pericula &s;ubire potes, cum factus &s;is diues.</HI> Geue me my target, and buy thy &s;elfe a tauerne or ale hou&s;e, to main|tayne belly ch&eacute;ere, for thou can&s;t not henceforwarde, in|daunger thy lyfe willingly, &s;ithence thou art waxed weal|thy.
<PB N="112" REF="121"> <HI>Pelopidas,</HI> when his fr&eacute;endes fell out with him, and reproued him for his carele&s;ne&s;&s;e, in that he regarded not mony (without the which mans lyfe is vnpurueied of all nece&s;&s;aries) &s;ayd thus vnto the~. Now out of doubte mony is a profitable thing, and very requi&s;ite: But for whome? for <HI>Nicomedes</HI> for&s;ooth: pointing with his finger at one which was hault and lame.</P>
<P><HI>Scipio,</HI> for the &s;pace of fifty and foure yeares, neither bought nor &s;ould any kinde of thinge, he was &s;o well &s;a|ti&s;fied and contented with a litle. A certaine man &s;hew|ing him a &s;heald finely made, and well trymmed, he &s;ayde (as it is reported) behoofull it is, that a citizen of <HI>Rome</HI> hold hope in his right hand, and not in the left.</P>
<P><HI>Ophialtes</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Sophonidas</HI> was very bare, and n&eacute;edy, yet when his fr&eacute;ends offered him fr&eacute;ely (with|out expectation of retribution) tenne talents, he receiued them not, &s;aying. The&s;e giftes would inforce mee (albeit I am bound by &s;pecialty of duty to haue you in reuere~ce) &s;omewhat to pre&s;ume which is repugnant and rebelling again&s;t the rule of right and rea&s;on. For in takinge and not requiting, is cold courte&s;y, ingratitude, and vnthank|fulne&s;&s;e.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of zoilus.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_NOilus Amphipolitanus,</HI> who wrote a|gain&s;t <HI>Homer, Plato,</HI> and other learned men, was the Di&s;ciple and Scholar of <HI>Polycrates,</HI> this was the &s;elf&s;ame <HI>Poly|crates</HI> that indited an accu&s;ation again&s;t <HI>Socrates.</HI> And the abouenamed <HI>Zoilus</HI> was called the doggi&s;h Rhetorician, or the Rhetoricall and eloquent Dogge, whether you will, &s;ince neither of both are di&s;&s;agreable. But &s;hall I de&s;cribe the Man?
<PB REF="122"> He kept his bearde &s;omwhat long, but the heire of his hed he cau&s;ed to be &s;hauen of to the hard &s;tumps, his mantell houng aboue his kn&eacute;es, his delight was in deui&s;ing &s;laun|derous and malicious reportes, he &s;pared no labour nor lea&s;ure, to &s;catter and &s;ow the &s;&eacute;edes of damnable di&s;&s;en|tions: To be &s;horte he had a rakehels tounge of his own, from whence contumelious, and reuiling language flow|ed as fa&s;t, as water out of a &s;luce. A learned Doctor de|maunding of him, why he &s;pake wel by none, he gaue him this &s;hort aun&s;wer: <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">. Becau&s;e I cannot doe yll when I would.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Diony&s;ius the tyraunt of Sicily.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_DIony&s;ius</HI> y^e tyrant of <HI>Sicilia,</HI> employed much indu&s;try, labour, and dilligence in the art of Phi&s;icke and Surgery, he was cunning in curing, in cutting, in launcing, in boxing, in burning, in &s;ea|ringe, and in euery thinge be&s;ides, to tho&s;e profe&s;&s;ions and Sciences apper|tayning.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the banketing di&s;he, or deinty Iunket which Alcibiades, &s;ent to Socrates.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ALcibiades,</HI> vpon a time &s;ent to <HI>Socra|tes</HI> a delicate iuncket, &s;w&eacute;ete, tooth|&s;ome, and made with great co&s;t (which kinde of gifts louers &s;end one to ano|ther, to excite, &s;tyr vp, increa&s;e, and confirme their harts with mutual af|fection) at which in&s;tant, <HI>Xantippe</HI>
<PB N="113" REF="122"> the wife of <HI>Socrates</HI> was in her mad moode of vnbrideled braulyng, (as her accu&s;tomed maner &amp; v&s;ual trade was) and taking the ba&s;ket and all as it was brought, &s;hee threw the banqueting di&s;h vnder foote, and trod it to durt: at which folly <HI>Socrates</HI> laughing, &s;aid: thou might&s;t haue had thy parte in it, as well as I, but now wee are both lyke to goe without. If any man think this which I haue tolde m&eacute;ere childi&s;h, and &s;karce worth reher&s;all, I dare be &s;o bolde to &s;ay, that his tounge goes before his wit: For who is ignoraunt, that by &s;uch circum&s;taunces, due and true tryall of a &s;tout harted man is taken: In &s;o much as they &s;et light by &s;uch co&s;tly and curious cates as the common people haue in great e&s;timation: &s;uppo&s;ing, and affirming that they are the beauty of their boorde, the trimne&s;&s;e of their table, the floure of their foode, and dellicatnes of their dyet.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of a certaine Sicilian who&s;e ey &s;ight was woonder|full &s;harpe, and quicke.</HEAD>
<P>_THere was in <HI>Sicilia</HI> a certaine man indued with &s;uch &s;harpne&s;&s;e, quick|ne&s;&s;e, and cl&eacute;erene&s;&s;e of &s;ight (if re|port may challenge credite) that hee coulde &s;&eacute;e from <HI>Lilybaeus</HI> to <HI>Carthage,</HI> with &s;uch perfection and con&s;tancy, that his eies coulde not be deceiued: and that he tooke true and iu&s;t account of all Ships and Ve&s;&s;els which went vnder &s;ayle from <HI>Carthage,</HI> ouer|&s;kipping not &s;o much as one in the vniuer&s;all number.</P>
<P>Something &s;traunge it is, that is recorded of <HI>Argus,</HI> a man that had no le&s;&s;e then an hundred eyes, vnto who&s;e
<PB REF="123"> cu&s;tody <HI>Iuno</HI> commited <HI>Io,</HI> the daughter of <HI>Inachus,</HI> be|ing tran&s;formed into a young heyfer: which <HI>Argus</HI> (his luck being &s;uch) was &s;laine &s;l&eacute;eping, but the Godde&s;&s;e <HI>Iu|no</HI> &s;o prouided, that all his eyes (what&s;oeuer became of his carka&s;&s;e) &s;hould be placed in the Pecoks taile: wher|vpon (&s;ithence it came to pa&s;&s;e) the Pecock is called <HI>Auis Iunonia,</HI> Lady <HI>Iunos</HI> Birde. This hi&s;torie is notable, but yet the former (in mine opinio~) is more memorable.</P>
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<TRAILER>&para; <HI>The ende of the eleuenth Booke of <HI>Aelianus.</HI></HI></TRAILER>
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<PB N="114" REF="123">
<HEAD>&para; The twelfth Booke of the varia|ble <HI>hy&s;torie of</HI> Aelianus.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of beutifull <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_ASpa&s;ia</HI> the Daughter of <HI>Her|motimus Phocen&s;is,</HI> after y^t her mother dyed in childbed, was trained &amp; brought vp, not as the children of rich, welthy and wor&s;hipfull parents, (for &s;uch ability of &s;ub&s;tance was wa~ting) but like a friendle&s;&s;e infant, in pouerty and great lacke, and yet notwith&s;tan|ding in hone&s;ty, han&s;omne&s;&s;e, and decent order. There appered often times to her in her &s;l&eacute;epe a vi&s;ion, or dreame, prophecying what fortune &s;he was borne vnto, namely that &s;he &s;hould be marri|ed to a wel fauoured gentlman, of courteous demeanour &amp; laudable behauiour. This <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia</HI> when &s;he was but a younge wenche and nothing n&eacute;ere womans e&s;tate, had ry&s;en vnder her chinne a &s;ore &s;welling, much lyke vnto a wenne, which was a meruelous deformity, and a di&s;figu|ring to her faire and amiable countenaunce, an occa|&s;ion of great gr&eacute;efe to her father, and a prouocation of no le&s;&s;e &s;orow to the tender maiden. Wherfore y^e careful &amp; louing man being de&s;ireous to haue his Daughter de|liuered from &s;uch a blemi&s;he, brought her vnto a certain Surgeon to be cured, who after he had &s;&eacute;ene the damo|&s;ell, to &s;alue and handled the tumor with his fingers, promi&s;ed vp the &s;ore, and to heale it &s;o perfectly, that all future inconueniences &s;houlde be preuented and no doubt of daunger remaine. Howbeit he made this couenaunt vppon condition, that vnto hym &s;houlde
<PB REF="124"> be payd the &s;um of thr&eacute;e Staters, which kinde of poy&s;e is by valluation the &s;umme of &s;ix nobles of engli&s;he coyne. The poore man making aun&s;were that hee had not &s;o|much as he demaunded, no more &s;ayde the Surgion haue I further to deale with you younge daughters di&s;ea&s;e. Whereupon <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia</HI> conceiued &s;uch &s;orrow and angui&s;h of hart, as the penne of this hi&s;toriographer cannot &s;uffi|ciently de&s;cribe, nor the mindes of &s;uch as reade this pre|&s;ent declaration perfectly enough con&s;ider: in &s;o much that &s;he departing from thence home to her fathers hou&s;e where her continuall abydinge was, wept, wayled, la|mented and mourned, that great &s;treames and riuers of teares gu&s;hed from her eyes, in which &s;orrowfull e&s;tate &s;he tooke her looking gla&s;&s;e &s;undry and oftentimes, &amp; lay|ing the &s;ame in her lap, behelde the wenne which grewe by her throate, and pondring what a great &s;tayne it was to her face, pitifully complained, as the &s;w&eacute;et &s;inging and &s;iluer feathered Swanne, at the appropinquation and drawing n&eacute;ere of death: when as therefore &s;he was plun|ged in this perplexity, and drowned in the whirlpoole of hideous and ga&s;tly heauine&s;&s;e, when I &s;ay the increa&s;e of her comfortle&s;&s;e cogitations, and trouble&s;ome thoughts, did &s;o &s;ting her that &s;he for&s;ooke her ordinary &s;u&s;tenance, &s;he fell into a d&eacute;epe and dead &s;l&eacute;epe (very luckely no doubt) and therewithall appeared vnto her a vi&s;ion in the forme and figure of a Pigeon, which immediatly chaun|ged his &s;hape, and was tran&s;formed into the &s;imilitude of a woman, vttering the&s;e wordes to <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia,</HI> with a cl&eacute;ere and a &s;w&eacute;ete &s;ounding voice. <HI>Bonum animum geras A&s;pa&s;ia, vale antque medici cum &s;uis pharmacis: tu vero ro&s;ea &s;erta veneris, que iam aruerint, cape, eaque contrita tuberi im|pone.</HI> Be of good ch&eacute;ere <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia,</HI> and let the Surgeons goe with their &s;alues, their empla&s;ters, their in&s;truments &s;er|uing for inci&s;ion, and adu&s;tion: onely take thou the ro&s;es which are in the garlands dedicated to Godde&s;&s;e <HI>Venus,</HI>
<PB N="115" REF="124"> &s;o they be dry and withered, bru&s;e them and &s;tampe them to pouder, and lay them to thy &s;welling. After <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia</HI> had heard the&s;e words of con&s;olation, and had put that in experience which was reported vnto her by reuelation, the wenue con&s;umed, and vani&s;hed away, and was no more perceiued then a trembling &s;tarre when the bright and glittering &s;unne &s;hineth in &s;cortching <HI>Cancro,</HI> then a pale primero&s;e or purple violet among high Elmes and Okes, then a litle wren among great birds with &s;preding winges, then a young lambe among a thick flock of &s;h&eacute;ep, or a huge heard of tall &s;t&eacute;eres, then a light wherry among a multitude of mighty Ships. Then was <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia</HI> recko+ned in the number of beutifull and amiable maydens, and her comly countenance was couloured with crim&s;on hew, which came to pa&s;&s;e by and through the co~pa&s;&s;ion &amp; cleme~cie of Lady <HI>Venus,</HI> in &s;omuch that (to acknowledge the manyfe&s;t truth) &s;he looked &s;o louingly, and gli&s;tered as it were, &s;o gloriou&s;ly that &s;he had not her match aliue, but was &s;inguler and incomparable: her haire was as yellow as Saffron, Cytron, or beaten Gold: her locks were cur|led, cri&s;ped, fri&s;eled, and tu&s;ked: her eyes were great, gray, round, and rowling: her no&s;e was white, &s;moth, &s;hi|ning, &s;lipperye, and crooked, her &s;kinne &s;oft as &s;ilke, and tender as carded wull: her eares &s;hort, thinne, prety, feat, fine, and proper: Finally her whole countenaunce, for|hed, eilids, no&s;e, ch&eacute;eks, eares, lips, &amp; what&s;oeuer els, was lyke the dama&s;ke ro&s;e &s;prinkled with morning dew. For which circum&s;taunces thin habitants of <HI>Phocis</HI> called her when &s;hee was but an infant, and &s;ucking babe, by the name of <HI>Milto:</HI> her lippes were bright &s;anguine red, her t&eacute;eth as white as the elephants tooth, or as the fethers of a &s;wan, as the tops of hills couered with da&s;eling &s;now, as lawne, callecooe, or the fine&s;t Holland, wa&s;ht and &s;wad|led in cl&eacute;ere running water. Be&s;ides all this &s;hee was &s;wift footed, as the women were in the age of <HI>Homer</HI> that auncient and gray bearded Poet, whom he tearmed
<PB REF="125"> by this Epithet <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">, a worde well agr&eacute;eing to <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia</HI> for that property, &s;he had a fine and a &s;w&eacute;ete toung, in &s;o much that when &s;he &s;pake a man would haue auouched that he heard a <HI>Syren</HI> &s;ing, for the vtterance of her voyce excelled the reuiuing &s;ound of the wyre &s;tryng|ed Citerne: and yet, notwith&s;tanding the premi&s;&s;es, &s;he abhorred brauery, &s;he pa&s;&s;ed not for pompe, pride &s;he vt|terly defied, gayne&s;&s;e &s;he &s;et light by, curious apparel &s;he contemned, to trim and painct out her &s;elfe &s;hee had no de&s;ire (for &s;uch co&s;tly proui&s;ion requireth large expences, and the maintenaunce therof a mountaine of money) as for her, &s;he was but a poore mayden, her cofers were not ouercharged with coyne, &s;ithence &s;he was borne, bred, and brought vp vnder the winges of her poore parentes: and therfore had not to di&s;bur&s;e and lay out largely in gor|geous ornamentes, to ca&s;t a mi&s;ty cloude ouer mens eyes to iudge ami&s;&s;e of &s;uch &s;uborned beuty.</P>
<P>It fortuned vpon a time, that <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia</HI> was brought be|fore the pre&s;ence of <HI>Cyrus</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Darius,</HI> and <HI>Para|&s;atis,</HI> the brother of <HI>Artexerxes,</HI> but &s;ore again&s;t her will, and no le&s;&s;e, likewi&s;e again&s;t her fathers minde, who was very loth to geue his con&s;ent thereunto: but being vrged to goe by compul&s;orie meanes, after which manner com|monly, they came by the con&s;traint of the Kinge, his P&eacute;eres, and Nobles, when their cities were taken, ouer|runne, and &s;ubdued. One therfore of <HI>Cyrus</HI> his Lordes amonge the re&s;t, tooke vpon him to bring her before the Kings Maie&s;tie, in the companye, and trayne of other young floureing damo&s;els: vpon which generall pre&s;en|tation (wherin there was &s;uch varietie of vi&s;ages, &s;uch confu&s;ion of faire faces, &s;uch a &s;elected troupe of <HI>Venus</HI> beutifull blo&s;&s;oms) Fortune did &s;o fauour her, and her ine&s;timable indowments &s;o further her, that &s;he was pre|ferred before all the trim troupe of damo&s;els, and cary|ed awaye the golden &s;purres of pray&s;e from all that
<PB N="116" REF="125"> faire flocke. Which name of noblene&s;&s;e &s;he at that in&s;tant obtained for thr&eacute;e &s;euerall qualities. <HI>Primo, propter integri|tatem animi. Secundo, propter morum verecundiam. Tertio, propter carentem omni fuco pulchritudinem.</HI> Fir&s;t for the vp|rightnes of her minde, &s;econdly, for her hone&s;t behauior, &amp; thirdly for her fairenes which was meere natural, and in no re&s;pect adulterine or counterfait. Moreouer, this was a &s;ingular helpe, that &s;he grew and increa&s;ed in the fauor and loue of the King, becau&s;e wi&s;edome had, as it were, taken vp an harbour or lodging in her humble hart, in &s;o much that her deui&s;es were preci&s;e, her &s;tudies &s;ingular and her policies p&eacute;ereles: for which cau&s;es <HI>Cyrus</HI> required her coun&s;el in many matters, and di&s;dained not to v&s;e her adui&s;e in ponderous and waighty affaires belonging to the common wealth. At the fir&s;t time that <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia</HI> was pre&s;ented before the kings per&s;on, he had but newly ended &s;upper, and n&eacute;edes would carrow&s;e the cup after the cu&s;tome of the <HI>Per&s;ians,</HI> (who&s;e order was after meate, to haue a druncken compotation) and notwith|&s;tanding they had packed, far&s;ed, and &s;tuffed their paun|ches with choy&s;e of di&s;hes before, yet mu&s;t they fall to their bibbing and bouling immoderatly, wre&s;tling with wine as it were with their enemie, of full intent and purpo&s;e, not to &s;pare it till it were con&s;umed, wa&s;ted, and &s;pent. In the midde&s;t of this their &s;uperfluous quaf|fing, continued of cu&s;tome and not required of nece&s;&s;itie, two couples of amiable maidens <HI>Graecians</HI> borne, were brought before the kinge, namely <HI>Cyrus,</HI> vnprofitably occupied at that in&s;tant and vndecently: of which foure <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia Phocen&s;is</HI> was one, and they were brauely ap|parelled, gorgeou&s;ly decked, and &s;et out after the fine&s;t and the trymme&s;t fa&s;hion. For the other thr&eacute;e damo|&s;ells had their heary locks peckt, kempt, and &s;pred in or|der, by the helping hands of certaine women being their friends, which al&s;o came vp with them: their faces were wa&s;hed with oyle, fragrant oyntments, and &s;w&eacute;ete
<PB REF="126"> &s;w&eacute;ete &s;melling waters, that the orient &s;auor &s;pringing from their &s;kinnes (as it were from a mu&s;ke ro&s;e tr&eacute;e) might make them appeare more amiable. They were al|&s;o in&s;tructed and taught of their ouer&s;&eacute;ers, what behaui|our they &s;houlde v&s;e before the pre&s;ence of the Prince, and what maners might be&s;t be&s;&eacute;eme them towardes his grace when occa&s;ion required: that they &s;hould not &s;pare painted &s;peach, that they &s;hould not &s;hrink for deinty da|lyaunce, that they &s;hould &s;tande &s;till in one place if he approched n&eacute;ere them, that they &s;hould not take it in dou|geon if he did touch and finger their faire &s;kins and fine fle&s;h: Finally that they &s;hould be liberall in ki&s;&s;ing, and pay one for another.</P>
<P>Thus were they furni&s;hed with the compleat harne&s;&s;e of loue, which women commonly v&s;e, as well to allure the hartes of men with their faire faces, as al&s;o to pur|cha&s;e good will with their wanton qualities, in &s;o much that one of the&s;e young damo&s;els did contend &amp; &s;triue w^t another, to &s;urpa&s;&s;e and excell in beautye, brauery, and behauiour. As for <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia</HI> &s;he was &s;o far &s;eque&s;tred from this corrupt v&s;age, that &s;he did vtterly abhorre and dete&s;t the &s;ame, &s;&eacute;eing in a mirrour as it were, the mi&s;chefes de|pendinge thereupon and pondring all thinges in the bal|launce of wi&s;dom, perceaued what was conuenient, and what was &s;&eacute;emely and decent. She would weare no gor|geous garment, no &s;umptuous apparell would &s;hee put on, &s;he wold not be &s;princkled with co~pound waters, &s;he would not be poudered with perfumes, but contemning all &s;uch vanity, wept, wailed, and made inuocation to the <HI>Grecian</HI> Gods, and the Gods <HI>Eleutherian.</HI></P>
<P>She cryed vpon the name of her father <HI>Hermotimus,</HI> and ca&s;t out wofull inuectiues again&s;t him and her &s;elfe, as accur&s;ed wretches, borne vnder an vnfortunate pla|net, for &s;he thought the &s;traunge and vnaccu&s;tomed train gowne which &s;he was compelled to weare, to be a mani|fe&s;t argument of &s;eruitude, and the &s;uperfluous apparel
<PB N="116" REF="126"> which &s;he was forced to putt one, to be an euident token of bytter bondage. She re&s;i&s;ted to weare &s;uch attire, till &s;he was beaten, buffeted, and vncurteou&s;ly intreated for her &s;o dooing, and albeit &s;he &s;ub&s;cribed to the will of the noble man, who&s;e office and peculier charge it was, to &s;&eacute;e &s;uch things orderly done, and did yeald to his commaundement with a grudgeing and a repining &s;tomack (as they might apparauntly perceaue) yet was &s;he con&s;trained to put that in practi&s;e, which became not a cha&s;t and vn&s;potted Virgine, but an impudent &amp; &s;hame+les &s;trumpet. The other thr&eacute;e young maidens (if they were &s;uch) entred into the priuy chamber of King <HI>Cyrus,</HI> beheld him boldly without blu&s;hing, &s;miled vppon him &s;moothely, and ca&s;t a venerious countenaunce vppo~ him, not re&s;pecting the cel&s;itude &amp; highenes of his grace, nor regarding the homelynes and ba&s;e e&s;tate of them&s;elues. But <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia</HI> (who was al&s;o with them at the &s;ame time) looked downward to the ground, hanging her chin in her bo&s;ome (for her face was &s;tayned with the crim&s;on cou|lour of &s;hamfa&s;tne&s;&s;e) &amp; from her eyes gu&s;hed fluds of &s;alt teares: &s;uch were y^e perturbatious of y^e mode&s;t maidens minde. To be &s;hort, in al her behauiour and external ge&s;|ture (which was aun&s;werable to the commotions of her hart) &s;he &s;hewed a certaine kinde of &s;eemly ba&s;hfulnes, O how properly it b&eacute;ecame her per&s;on. Now when the king had viewed and reuiewed them with glauncing eyes, &amp; commaunded them all to &s;yt downe about him, the other thr&eacute;e damo&s;els, without &s;trayning courte&s;y, did as the kings maie&s;ty bad them, &amp; tooke their &s;eates with a great redynes. Onely <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia,</HI> gaue no eare to y^e words of <HI>Cy|rus,</HI> or at lea&s;t wi&s;e though &s;he heard his voice, was very lothe in that pointe (con&s;idering her lowe degr&eacute;e) to be obedient. But the noble man which pre&s;ented her to the king wold not haue her &s;o excu&s;ed, but pulled her perforce and placed her in a conuenient roome. When <HI>Cyrus</HI> had b&eacute;en a while in this amorous company of damo&s;els, whe~
<PB REF="127"> he fealt &amp; fingred their &s;ofte fle&s;he, when he beheald their rowleing eyes, when he plea&s;ed him &s;elfe with the &s;ighte of their cherry cheekes, when he handled their longe and &s;lender fingers, when he did what &s;en&s;ualities &s;tinge prouoked him to practi&s;e, they let hym alone and gaue him leaue to dooe with their bodyes what he ly&s;t. But <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia</HI> being impacient of &s;uch petulant and wanton demeanour, &s;hriked and &s;queaked out when <HI>Cyrus</HI> offered to touche her after &s;uch an vnhone&s;te fa&s;hion, and &s;ayd that if his Grace would not leaue &s;uch wanton dalliance, &s;hee would make him be&s;hrewe his owne fin|gers. As for <HI>Cyrus</HI> he was inclined to the greater di&s;port, and proc&eacute;eded further then he did before in &s;o much that he was bui&s;y to handle her &s;ilck &s;ofte, and milck white papps, wheruppon &s;he being moued, aro&s;e &s;uddenly out of her &s;eate, and ranne awaye from him contrary to the cu&s;tom of the <HI>Per&s;ians.</HI> Then <HI>Cyrus</HI> broyleing in loue, beganne to burne, or rather to flame in the fyer of affec|tion, for the bewty of <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia</HI> had not &s;o much inchaun|ted his hart, as her behauiour had bewitched the &s;ame. Anon <HI>Cyrus</HI> lookeing vppon the Noble man whiche bought and brought <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia</HI> to the Courte, &s;ayde, <HI>Hanc &s;olum ingenuam &amp; incorruptam adduxisti, Reliquae vero tam facie quam moribus &s;unt impostrices.</HI> This damo&s;ell whome thou ha&s;t pre&s;ented vnto me is hone&s;t, blameles, vn&s;pot|ted, &amp; without blemi&s;he: as for the other thr&eacute;e, both their painted and &s;tarched faces, and their vnmode&s;t manners betrayes them to be no better then harlots. And therfor did <HI>Cyrus</HI> plant his loue vppon her, more then he did vp|on any other, with whom he had aquaintaunce and kept company. After y^t tyme, loue begaine to gather &s;trenghte and tooke d&eacute;epe roote in the harts of them both, in&s;omuch that the &s;w&eacute;et &s;app of mutuall amity, di&s;per&s;ed and &s;pred it &s;elfe &s;o abundantly, that the braunches of true loue beganne to budde and beare blo&s;&s;oms, yea at la&s;t yealded
<PB N="117" REF="127"> &s;uch fragrant frute, and therwithall &s;o comfortable, that <HI>Cyrus</HI> and <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia</HI> waxed in a maner all one, and &s;&eacute;e|med, in all points and circum&s;taunces, to agr&eacute;e and con|&s;ent in the &s;ober &s;ociety of mariage, after the cu&s;tom and trade of <HI>Grecia.</HI> This goodwill of king <HI>Cyrus</HI> to <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia</HI> was &s;o manyfe&s;tly te&s;tifyed both by worde and by d&eacute;ede, that the fame therof dyd flye, not throughe <HI>Ionia</HI> alone, but al&s;o throughe out the whole region of <HI>Grecia:</HI> and <HI>Peloponne&s;us</HI> in &s;emblable manner was repleni&s;hed and filled with the &s;ame reporte. Furthermore Kinge <HI>Cyrus</HI> was enriched with this renowne be&s;ides, and this glory was added to his noblene&s;&s;e, for it was thought and bel&eacute;eued that he v&s;ed the company of no woman, nether one nor other, but for&s;ooke all his lemmans, con+cubines, &amp; paramours, after he had gotten the loue of <HI>A&s;|pa&s;ia,</HI> and obtained the body of &s;o bewtifull and vertuous a damo&s;ell. Among al the&s;e alterations, chaunges &amp; cha~|ces, <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia</HI> remembred her dreame of the Pigeon, and recorded y^e wordes which were vttered vnto her by reue|lation in her &s;l&eacute;epe, and what&s;oeuer ells was prophecyed by the lady of loue &s;he called to memory: wherfor, &s;he be|ing touched with deuotion, to thintent &s;he might &s;&eacute;eme wel to de&s;erue of &s;o gracious a Gode&s;&s;e, procured a great image to be made, which &s;he called by the name of Ami|able <HI>Venus,</HI> and cau&s;ed the type and forme of a white Pigeon to be &s;et next by it, which &s;he decked with pearls and inriched with precious &s;tones, offring &s;acrifices vnto <HI>Venus</HI> daily, be&s;&eacute;eching her with prayers and &s;upplicati|ons, that &s;he wold of her clemency ca&s;t the glymmering beames of beuty vppon her continually, and that &s;he wold indure to be her fauorable mi&s;tres and louing lady that as &s;he had wonne a certaine pr&eacute;eminent opinion of wor&s;hip and e&s;timation, &s;o &s;hee might by due de&s;artes, kepe the &s;ame vndemini&s;hed, &s;uch was her noblenes of minde, and her vertuous inclination &s;o incomparable.</P>
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<P>Moreouer <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia</HI> was kindled with due con&s;ideration of her fathers <HI>Hermotimus</HI> pouerty, to whom &s;he &s;ent innumerable gifts, and pre&s;ents of no &s;mall pryce and e&s;timation, wherby of a pore man he was made rich, &amp; of one worth naught, he waxed opulent &amp; welthy. She was al&s;o very cha&s;t, &s;ober, mode&s;t and continent, al the length of her lyfe, wherof the women, as well of <HI>Grecia,</HI> as al&s;o of <HI>Per&s;ia</HI> can giue &s;ufficient te&s;timony &amp; witne&s;&s;e. There was &s;ent to <HI>Cyrus</HI> from <HI>Scopas Iunior</HI> out of <HI>The&s;&s;alia,</HI> a Iewel of great value &amp; price, which was fir&s;t &s;e~t to <HI>Sco+pas</HI> out of <HI>Sicilia.</HI> This Iewel was wrought with wo~der+ful cunning, &amp; therin was variety of workman&s;hip, in &s;o much that euery one to whom <HI>Cyrus</HI> gaue a &s;ight therof marueled not a litle at y^e worthines of the &s;ame. <HI>Cyrus</HI> re+ioycing in this Iewel out of mea&s;ure, &amp; accompting ther+of as of an ine&s;timable trea&s;ure, went to <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia</HI> vpon a &s;odain, when the &s;unne was entred into y^e South, whom he founde fa&s;t a &s;l&eacute;epe in her bed chamber: then crept he clo&s;ely vnder the couerlyd or carpett, and layed him&s;elf, downe by her with &s;uch &s;ilence &amp; quietnes, that in this his endeuour he procured vnto <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia</HI> no maner di&s;tur|baunce in the world, but lay as &s;til as a lambe vntill &s;he had ended her golden &s;l&eacute;epe. when <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia</HI> awaked, and &s;awe <HI>Cyrus</HI> her &s;w&eacute;ete hart &s;o nighe vnto her, &s;he ca&s;t her armes abroade, and after her accu&s;tomed fa&s;hion of courte&s;y, embraced him louingly. Then <HI>Cyrus</HI> takeing out of a ca&s;kett or boxe, the Iewell aboue mencyoned, &s;hewed the &s;ame to <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia,</HI> &s;aying, <HI>Hoc vel filia vel ma|tre regia dignum donum est,</HI> This Iewell is worthy to be giuen to the daughter or mother of a Kinge: wherat <HI>A&s;|pa&s;ia</HI> beckned with her hed, as not di&s;&s;alowing y^e words of <HI>Cyrus: <HI>En, inquit, id tibi po&s;&s;idendum dono, tu vero cura vt e collo &s;u&s;pen&s;um ge&s;tes.</HI></HI> Behold, &s;ayth y^e kinge, I giue it vnto th&eacute;e <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia</HI> to po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e, and to v&s;e, k&eacute;epe it &amp; were it about thy lilly white necke. Nuertheles &s;he did not receaue the
<PB N="118" REF="128"> Tablet at <HI>Cyrus</HI> handes, but aun&s;wered his Maie&s;ty in this &s;orte very prudently, di&s;cr&eacute;etly and wi&s;ely, &s;ayeing.</P>
<P><HI>Et quomodo au&s;im, cum hoc donum matrem tuam Para&s;a|tidem, potius deceat? illi igitur mittito: Ego vero vel &s;ine orna|mento hoc, tibi collum &s;atis venustum praestitero.</HI> Should I be &s;o bold to weare &s;uch a princely Iewell, which is more m&eacute;ete for thy mother <HI>Para&s;atis?</HI> &s;end it, I be&s;&eacute;ech th&eacute;e, vnto her: As for me (O <HI>Cyrus</HI>) I hope to &s;hewe vnto th&eacute;e, a necke amiable and beutyfull enoughe, notwith&s;tand|ing this tablet be wanting. Thus (as is largely declared) <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia</HI> practi&s;ed and accompli&s;hed with her policy, pru|dent wi&s;dom, and coun&s;ell, things contrary, <HI>Et ex diame|tro pugnantia,</HI> and flat ouerthwart to the d&eacute;eds of the re&s;t of the kings wiues and concubines: and pa&s;&s;ed them as far in excellencie, as the Sunne dooth the Moone, as <HI>Ara|bian</HI> gold doth ru&s;ty yron, as <HI>Indian</HI> pearles dooe grauell &s;tones, as <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> &s;iluer dooth Engli&s;h leade, as the yel|lowe marygold doth the wilde w&eacute;ede, finally as the bet|ter thing dooth the wor&s;e: albeit they were &s;uper&s;yne and too too curious in trymming them&s;elues, and more ny&s;e then wi&s;e in all things to their attyre appertaining. But <HI>Cyrus</HI> being &s;ingularly delighted with the &s;ober an|&s;wers of <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia,</HI> and her commendable demeanour, lo|ued her &s;till more outragiou&s;ly, &s;o that her wi&s;e words, and her faire d&eacute;edes were vnto his hart, as oyle to a bur|neing lampe, and as &s;&eacute;ere wood to a &s;cortching ouen. In this effectuall operation and working of loue, he wrote all the &s;ayinges and dooinges of <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia</HI> methodically and orderly in a letter, which when he had ended, and &s;ealed with his owne Signet, hee &s;ent it vnto his Mo|ther <HI>Para&s;atis,</HI> and therwithall in a ca&s;kett or boxe, the Iewell or tablet, wherof mencyon &s;o often was made before. After that the letter and the gifte were deliuered, the one peru&s;ed, and the other vallued, <HI>Para&s;atis</HI> concea|ued greate ioye and gladnes in them both. But &s;he was
<PB REF="129"> not &s;o much delighted in the gifte &s;ent vnto her by the meanes of <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia,</HI> as &s;he was enamoured with the re|porte of the younge damo&s;els courte&s;y: For which con&s;i|derations <HI>Para&s;atis</HI> the mother of <HI>Cyrus,</HI> recompenced <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia</HI> with royall rewards and princely pre&s;ents. The young woman (no doubt) was prudent and circum&s;pect, For albeit &s;he was &s;o far admitted into the fauor of the kinge that all other were excluded, that others were for|gotten and contempned, yet thus &s;he thought with her &s;elfe &s;ecretly. In the &s;ight of <HI>Cyrus</HI> the &s;onne, I am preci|ous, and he exhibiteth that excellence of loue vnto me, wherunto none hath ability &s;ufficient (as it &s;&eacute;emeth) to a&s;pire: neuertheles, I am not &s;o hauty of hart, to think my &s;elf equall to <HI>Para&s;atis</HI> the mother, but acknoweledg my &s;elf (in compari&s;on of her Gracious lady&s;hip) a very vnderling. The pre&s;ents and gifts which <HI>Para&s;atis</HI> &s;ent vnto <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia,</HI> were glorious and vnualuable, yet did not &s;he de&s;ire to po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e them, but prai&s;ing the &s;ame, and a&s;|cribing greate aduauncment vnto them for their ine&s;ti|mable worthines, &s;aide y^t &s;he had no n&eacute;ede of &s;uch Iewels &s;ythence &s;he had of her owne &s;tore, both money and other precious trea&s;ures, which were giuen her franckly and fr&eacute;ely. Being thus contented with her owne, and not de|&s;ireous to increa&s;e that which &s;he po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed, &s;he gaue the pre&s;ents of <HI>Para&s;atis</HI> vnto <HI>Cyrus,</HI> &s;ayeing. <HI>Tibi haec v|&s;ui e&s;&s;e po&s;&s;unt, qui magnam hominum multitudinem alis: mihi vero &s;ufficit, &s;i te &s;imul amem, &amp; ornamento vtar.</HI> Thes thi~gs will doo th&eacute;e &s;eruice, O <HI>Cyrus,</HI> which maintaine&s;t many pen&s;ioners, many of y^e garde, many officers and &s;eruitu|res in thy court and ells wher: as for me I thinke this &s;ufficient, namely to loue the, and to liue with the as the pearle of my plea&s;ure, the Diamond of my delighte and the Iewel of my ioy. With this and &s;emblable v&s;age, &s;he kindled the kinde hart of <HI>Cyrus</HI> towards her more and more, for (without que&s;tion) this rare woman, as &s;he
<PB N="119" REF="129"> was mo&s;t amorous in face, &s;o was &s;he mo&s;t vertuous in minde, and there was not halfe &s;o much force in her heauenly hew, as there was grace in her noble nature. This woman (as you &s;&eacute;e) with vertue adorned, to honour aduaunced, in fauour confirmed, &s;hee was to the people an admiratio~, to the courteor a &s;pectacle, to the Prince a &s;ingular delight, to none inferiour as touching good qua|lities, beyond all otherin gracious indouments, incom|parable and p&eacute;erele&s;&s;e in all re&s;pects, for her mode&s;ty, for her beuty, for her prudence, for her excellencie in all nota|ble properties.</P>
<P>In tract of time, it fortuned y^t <HI>Cyrus</HI> in a foughten feeld again&s;t his brother was &s;laine, and his army di&s;comfited by the force of the aduer&s;ary. <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia,</HI> in lyke maner, fell into the cruell clawes of the gr&eacute;edy enemye, but <HI>Artax|erxes</HI> made diligent inqui&s;ition for her, vnder&s;ta~ding her dexteritie in behauiour &amp; noblenes. Now when the mer|cyle&s;&s;e &s;ouldiours brought her bound with halters lyke a pri&s;oner and mi&s;erable abiect, <HI>Artaxerxes</HI> was angry out of mea&s;ure thereat, and charged that the ma&s;ters of the mi&s;ch&eacute;efe &s;hould be impri&s;oned for their paines. Hee commaunded moreouer (after he had &s;ati&s;fyed his eyes with the &s;ight of <HI>A&s;pa&s;ias</HI> beuty) that gorgeous garme~ts &s;hould be geuen her to weare &amp; put on, which words whe~ &s;he had no &s;ooner hard, &s;he refu&s;ed all w^t &s;ighings, &s;obings lame~tatio~s, &amp; &s;iluered teares trickling downe her ch&eacute;eks, wherwith all her bo&s;ome was wet &amp; moy&s;tened, yet not|with&s;tanding the&s;e euident &s;ignes of a grudgeing &s;to|mack, &s;he was con&s;trained to be clad w^t y^e rich robe which the king a&s;&s;igned &amp; gaue her, al this while &s;he mourned &amp; &s;orrowed mo&s;t bitterly for y^e death of her d&eacute;erely beloued <HI>Cyrus.</HI> When <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia</HI> had put on the apointed prince|ly apparell, there was not a woman more beutyfull to beholde throughout all the Borders of that Region: Then, loe, the forge of <HI>Artaxerxes</HI> affections flamed,
<PB REF="130"> then, Lo, it &s;parckled, then, Lo, it was in an inextingui|ble heate which might hardly be quenched, in &s;o much that his hart fryeing in this fornace, langui&s;hed and fainted with extreame loue: wherefore he e&s;t&eacute;emed more of her, then he did of all his wyues and concubines, and as &s;he was ch&eacute;efe&s;t and principall, &s;o had &s;he mo&s;te be|&s;towed vppon her, to her wor&s;hip, honour, and renowne, by the benefite of her externall fauour which was ange|licall, and her internall vertue, whiche was &s;upernatu|rall. Thus dealt <HI>Artaxerxes</HI> with <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia,</HI> hopeing in|d&eacute;ede, and confidently per&s;uading him&s;elf, y^t this was the only way to roote and race <HI>Cyrus</HI> out of the regi&s;ter of her remembraunce, and to conuert and turne her hart wholy, and &s;oly vnto him&s;elfe.</P>
<P>But he &s;at be&s;ide the &s;addle (as the prouerbe &s;ayth) and leaned be&s;yde the cu&s;hing, immagining &s;uch a mat|ter: for her hart was &s;o clo&s;ely lincked and chayned to the hart of <HI>Cyrus</HI> whiles he liued, that nothing might &s;up|pre&s;&s;e &amp; ouerwhelme the &s;ame when he was dead: &s;ythe~ce the loue of him was ingrauen in the depth of her bowels, &amp; wrought in her, like a magical incantantion and witch craft, effects that were incureable. Not many dayes after this, <HI>Teridates</HI> the Eunuche, (who was the faire&s;t youngman in all <HI>A&s;ia,</HI> and the very floure of beutye in compari&s;on of the re&s;t, when he was pa&s;t the &s;tate of a &s;tripling, &amp; was newly planted in the pearle of his age, the &s;ofte heares &s;pringing about his ch&eacute;ekes, his chynne, and his lipps like &s;oft wooll or fine downe, and his youth|ful bloud di&s;per&s;ed through his tender fle&s;h, &s;tayning his allaba&s;ter &s;kynne with a crim&s;one colour) ended his life.</P>
<P>This proper youth was the kyngs principall de|light, and therfore did h&eacute;e mo&s;te gr&eacute;euou&s;ly, and pitiful|lye lament the lo&s;&s;e of his lu&s;ty loue, and the gemme of his Ioy: be&s;ides that, there was a vniuer&s;all &s;orrowe
<PB N="121" REF="130"> and a generall mourning throughout all <HI>A&s;ia,</HI> euery one &s;uppo&s;ing that they exhibited good &s;eruice and duty to the kings per&s;on, in pertaking his pen&s;iuene&s;&s;e, angui&s;h, vex|ation and perplexity. No man dur&s;t be &s;o bold as to come within the Princes pre&s;ence, either to comforte his hart oppre&s;&s;ed with heauine&s;&s;e, or to mitigate and a&s;wage the motions of his minde, con&s;idering that it did exceede all po&s;&s;ibility to reclaime him from the&s;e perturbations, or to &s;uccour him in this grating agonie.</P>
<P>After thr&eacute;e dayes were expired and ouer pa&s;&s;ed, beuti|full <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia</HI> hauing on her mourning gowne, &s;toode in the way as the king &s;hould goe to the bath, w&eacute;eping way|lyng, wringing her yuory handes, and looking downe|ward to the grownd as one da&s;hed with tenne thou&s;and doubtfull doumps: whom when the king behelde in that plainting plight, hee was aba&s;hed, his harte was griped with gr&eacute;efe, and he demaunded the true occa&s;ion of her &s;o &s;udaine comming vnto that place. To whom &s;he &s;ha|ped this aun&s;wer and &s;ayde, <HI>Te, Rex, lugentem moerentem|que con&s;olatum veni, &s;i tibi &s;ic vi&s;um e&s;&s;et: &s;in minus retrogre|diar.</HI> I come, O King, to mini&s;ter con&s;olation and com|fort vnto th&eacute;e, which lamente&s;t &s;o bitterly the death of thy late delight, if it may plea&s;e th&eacute;e to admit my goodwyll, and to accept my &s;eruice: if not, as I am come hether, &s;o am I content to returne. The king reioy&s;ing at the &s;ober &s;peach of <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia,</HI> bad her goe back agayne, and abide in her bedchamber till his comming, who&s;e commaunde|ment &s;he fulfilled with great diligence, and no le&s;&s;e du|ty and obedience. When <HI>Artaxerxes</HI> returned from the bath, and founde <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia</HI> in the appointed place, he tooke the garment of <HI>Teridates</HI> the Eunuch, and put it on <HI>A&s;|pa&s;ias</HI> mourning gowne, and the young mans robe did in a manner fit her body, as if mea&s;ure had bin taken to k&eacute;epe iu&s;t &s;yze, in &s;o much that the brightne&s;&s;e of her fa|uour, and the glittering gla&s;&s;e of her coulour, appeared more gloryous in the pre&s;ence of the kings maie&s;ty then
<PB REF="131"> it was wont: for <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia</HI> by the wearing of that appar|rell, repre&s;ented the per&s;o~ of the Eunuche whom <HI>Artax|erxes</HI> loued exc&eacute;edingly, and within the &s;ame co&s;tly w&eacute;ede was her owne body harboured, &s;o that the gemination and coupling of the&s;e two &s;eueral and &s;ingular benefits, ingendered delight in the hart of the King. Then <HI>Ar|taxerxes</HI> declaring him&s;elf well plea&s;ed with that kinds of attire, which <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia</HI> at that in&s;tant had put on, in|treated her &s;w&eacute;etly and louingly, that &s;he would v&s;e his company oftentimes, in that &s;orte apparrelled, vntill the &s;tormes and tempe&s;ts of &s;orrowes, which were but latly and newly ry&s;en, were alayd and ouer pa&s;te. To who&s;e de&s;ire &s;he &s;hewed her &s;elfe applyaunt to the vttermo&s;t of her ability, as one mo&s;t willing to do his maie&s;tie good. And &s;he alone (all other exempted) comforted his Grace, a&s;&s;waged, or rather &s;oundly &s;alued vp the &s;ore of his harts heauine&s;&s;e: for the which her kindne&s;&s;e he behaued him|&s;elfe courteou&s;ly vnto her, and framed him&s;elfe to &s;ome lightne&s;&s;e of &s;pirit, and at length forgat all vexation and angui&s;h. Thus did <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia</HI> performe and accompli&s;he that, which al the faire women in <HI>A&s;ia</HI> be&s;ides, not al his &s;onns, nor any of his affinity and kinred could compa&s;&s;e by any maner of poli&s;y and practi&s;e.</P>
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<HEAD>&para; Of the Mu&s;es.</HEAD>
<P>_NO Painter nor Grauer, hath at any time de&s;cribed and &s;ette out before the eyes of the people the Images of <HI>Iupiters</HI> Daughters harne&s;&s;ed like warlike women. Whereby is &s;ignified, that the lyfe which is led in learning, and &s;pent in know|ledge, ought not to be tumultuous, and trouble&s;ome, but calme and peaceable.</P>
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<PB N="122" REF="131">
<HEAD>&para; Of Epaminondas, Daiphantus, and Iolaida.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_EPaminondas</HI> hauing receiued his dea|thes wounde in a foughten f&eacute;elde at <HI>Mantina,</HI> &amp; being carryed all in gore|bloude to his owne tentes while hee was yet aliue, commaunded that one &s;hould go for <HI>Daiphantus,</HI> y^t he might re&s;igne his whole authority vnto him and proclaime him Captaine general in his place. When they which were pre&s;ent at the geuing out of this man|date, or me&s;&s;age, &s;aide that <HI>Daiphantus</HI> was &s;layne, hee commaunded yet once agayne that <HI>Iolaida</HI> &s;houlde bee gone for, that hee might occupy the roome by &s;ucce&s;&s;ion: when aun&s;were was made, that <HI>Iolaida</HI> was dead al&s;o, <HI>Epaminondas</HI> per&s;uaded his people to conclude peace, and agr&eacute;ement with the enemies, becau&s;e there was not remaining in all <HI>Thebes,</HI> after his decea&s;e, a man fyt en|nough for the office of a Captayne.</P>
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<HEAD>&para; Of Se&s;o&s;trides.</HEAD>
<P>THe <HI>Aegiptians</HI> &s;aye, that <HI>Se&s;o&s;trides</HI> learned cun|ning, &s;kilfulne&s;&s;e, coun&s;el, and knowledge of eloquent <HI>Mercurie,</HI> the Emba&s;&s;adour to the Gods immortal.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Lais.</HEAD>
<P><HI>LAis</HI> the Harlot, as <HI>Ari&s;tophanes, Byzantius</HI> rehear|&s;eth, was called by the name of <HI>Axine,</HI> which worde reproued her &s;en&s;ualitie, her wyldne&s;&s;e, her forwardnes, and her cruelty.</P>
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<PB REF="132">
<HEAD>&para; Of the the parents of Marius, and Cato.</HEAD>
<P>_THey which brag, and boa&s;t of the nobilitie of their byrth, &amp; vaunt of the antiquity of their progenie, ar not &s;o much to be commended as to be di&s;prai&s;ed and &s;korned: For it cannot be knowne who was father to <HI>Marius,</HI> among the <HI>Romanes,</HI> and yet his worthy prowe&s;&s;e, and valiaunt feates of Armes, haue made him a worlds wonder. Furthermore, who&s;oeuer is de&s;irous to learne and vnder&s;tande, who was father to <HI>Cato Senior,</HI> it is requi&s;ite, and nece&s;&s;ary, that he impart much paines, and be&s;tow great labour, in &s;earching out the &s;ame in olde records, and yet peraduen|ture be neuer a whit n&eacute;ere his purpo&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Alexander, and Hephae&s;tion.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ALexander</HI> crowned the tumbe of <HI>Achilles,</HI> and <HI>Hephoe&s;tion</HI> crowned the tumbe of <HI>Patroclus:</HI> &s;ignifying that he loued <HI>Alexander</HI> as &s;incerly, as <HI>Patroclus</HI> loued <HI>Achilles.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the craft and deceipt, of Cleo|menes, again&s;t Archo|nides.</HEAD>
<P><HI>CLeomenes Lacon,</HI> taking vnto him one of his ac|quaintaunce called <HI>Archonides,</HI> made him coadiu|tor, partner, and fellowhelper with him of his purpo&s;e: To whom <HI>Cleomenes</HI> &s;ware, that if he might be ma&s;ter
<PB N="123" REF="132"> of his attempt, he would neuer take any enterpri&s;e in hand but <HI>Archonides</HI> hed &s;hould be at one end therof, to &s;peake more plainly, that the head of <HI>Archonides</HI> &s;hould be pre&s;ent with him in euery practi&s;e, and poli&s;y. Now when his luck was &s;uch that he obtayned his de&s;ire, and had his will and wi&s;h to his owne contentation, he found the meanes to murther his companion, cut his head from his &s;houlders, and layde it in a ba&s;en of hony: &s;o when <HI>Cleomenes</HI> was determined to put any deui&s;e in aduen|ture, he ca&s;t his eyes a&s;ide and looked vpon the ba&s;en, or charger wherein the head of <HI>Archonides</HI> lay, which hee v&s;ed in al his con&s;ultations &s;aying the&s;e wordes. <HI>Pactum meum non violo, neque iu&s;iurandum fallo, Etenim con&s;ilium cum Archonidis capite capio.</HI> I breake not my promy&s;e, but I &s;tand to mine oth, for I take coun&s;ell with the head of <HI>Archonides</HI> according to my couenaunt,</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; How Time&s;ias departed out of his countrey, vpon a con|ceipt of his owne. minde.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_TIme&s;ias</HI> gouerned the <HI>Clazomenians,</HI> in iu&s;tice and equitie, for hee was a man well furni&s;hed with all kinde of vertues. Enuy therfore, which com|mo~ly controuleth &s;uch men as he was, did &s;pyt and &s;pewe out the canckeringe &s;ting of her poy&s;on at him. At the fir&s;t the hate and yll will of the people hunted him, but hee was not much moued therewithall. The cau&s;e why hee for&s;ooke his country (as &s;ome &s;ay) was this. Vpon a time as he pa&s;&s;ed by a &s;choole, he met certaine boyes comming homward, and as two of them were di&s;puting and rea|&s;oning <HI>De Linea,</HI> of a Line, the one of them &s;ware with
<PB REF="133"> an oth, &s;aying, <HI>Sic ego Time&s;iae cerebrum di&s;cu&s;&s;erim.</HI> Thus would I knock <HI>Time&s;ias</HI> about the co&s;tarde, and beate out his braynes: which wordes <HI>Time&s;ias</HI> heareing, con|ceiued in his mind, and imagined with him&s;elfe &s;ecreat|ly, that he was hated of all men, and that nether citie nor countrey could abide him: be&s;ides that, he gathered thus by his priuate con&s;ideration, that he whom pilde boyes had in &s;uch contempte, mu&s;t n&eacute;edes be le&s;&s;e regarded a|mong men indued with di&s;cretion, whereupon he packte with &s;p&eacute;ede out of his countrey.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; That the Aeginets fir&s;t coyned money.</HEAD>
<P>_THe <HI>Aeginets,</HI> when time was, coulde doe very much, and in a maner what they wold, among the <HI>Grecians,</HI> v&s;ing the aduauntage and profit of all &s;ea|&s;ons as well as they: For they had their nauies furni&s;hed for fighting, and they were of great force, and po|wer. Be&s;ides that, they preuailed again&s;t the <HI>Per&s;ians,</HI> and therefore they had the fir&s;t victorye, and triumph. They were the fir&s;te that coyned or &s;tamped money, wherupon it was called by this aun&s;werable name, that is to &s;ay, <HI>Aeginean</HI> Coyne.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the hill Pallantium, and of the Temple, and Altar of Febris.</HEAD>
<P>THe <HI>Romans</HI> erected and built a temple &amp; an altar to <HI>Febris,</HI> at the foote or bottome of the mountayne <HI>Pal|lantium.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="124" REF="133">
<HEAD>&para; Of an Adulterer, which was appre|hended and taken in Crete.</HEAD>
<P>_AN Adulterer taken at <HI>Cortyna,</HI> a citie in <HI>Crete,</HI> after his apprehen|&s;ion, was brought before the iudge was accu&s;ed, co~demned, and wore about his head a wreath or rowle of wull: &s;ignifying thereby, his &s;en&s;ualite, lightne&s;&s;e, effeminacy, and womanlyne&s;&s;e. Moreouer he had a penalty &s;et vpon his pate publiquely, namely the &s;um of fifty <HI>Staters.</HI> Thus &s;u&s;tained he &s;ingular &s;hame for his mi&s;d&eacute;ede, and was vtterly vnabled, and debarred from all po&s;&s;ibility of preferment, and wor&s;hipfull offi|ces in the common wealth.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; How Gnathena gaue a pratlyng fellow a priuy quippe.</HEAD>
<P>_A Certen louer came from <HI>Helle&s;po~tus</HI> to <HI>Gnathena,</HI> an harlot of <HI>Athens,</HI> by and through a certaine brute, which was publi&s;hed and blowne abroade of her: when as therefore this fellow babled many words without rime or re&s;on (as they &s;ay) among the cuppes and cannes, and could not &s;&eacute;e when to make an ende of tatling: <HI>Gnathena</HI> &s;pake vnto him in this &s;ort, did&s;t thou &s;ay thou cam&s;t from <HI>Helle&s;pontus?</HI> who aun&s;wered yea, why then (&s;ayth &s;he) art thou ignorant of the <HI>Archipolis,</HI> or principall citie in that region? what citie I be&s;&eacute;ech th&eacute;e &s;aith he is that, I wot not wel: It is faith &s;he, <HI>Sigeum.</HI> By which word or name (very witely and pretily) &s;hee quipt the pratling panion, for his liberty of &s;peach which was limited with no mea&s;ure. For this word in Gr&eacute;eke &s;igni|fieth Silence, wherof cam <HI>Sigeum,</HI> y^e name of y^e &s;aid citie.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB REF="134">
<HEAD>&para; Of diuers which excelled in beu|ty and comlyne&s;&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>_AMong the <HI>Grecians, Alcibiades</HI> is re|ported to haue carried away y^e &s;purres for amiablene&s;&s;e of countenaunce, and comline&s;&s;e of proportion. Amonge the <HI>Romanes, Scipio,</HI> and <HI>Demetrius Po|liorcetes</HI> were counted p&eacute;erele&s;&s;e. And <HI>Alexander</HI> the Sonne of <HI>Phillip</HI> was very faire, and louely, yet did he be&s;towe no labour, nor co&s;t in decking, pecking, and painting him&s;elfe: for his haires hung about his eares and &s;houlders this way, and that way, being as yellow as the Marygold, &amp; in coulour lyke Safron. Some al&s;o &s;ay that <HI>Alexanders</HI> looke was &s;omwhat terrible, his vi&s;age fearefull and tyrannicall. The auncient Poet <HI>Homer,</HI> in de&s;cribing &s;uch as were fayre of fauour, and amiable in making, compareth them to tall tr&eacute;es.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of certaine notable men, that made them&s;elues playfel|lowes with children.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_HErcules</HI> (as &s;ome &s;ay) a&s;&s;waged the te|diou&s;ne&s;&s;e of his labours, which he &s;u&s;|tayned in open and common games, with playing. This <HI>Hercules,</HI> I &s;ay, being an incomparable warriour, and the &s;onne of <HI>Iupiter</HI> and <HI>Latona,</HI> made him&s;elfe a playfellowe with boyes. <HI>Euripides</HI> the Poet introduceth, and bringeth in, the &s;elfe &s;ame God &s;peaking in his owne per&s;on, and &s;aying, <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">. I playe, becau&s;e choyce
<PB N="125" REF="134"> and chaunge of labors is delectable and &s;w&eacute;ete vnto me, which wordes he vttered holdinge a boy by the hande. <HI>Socrates</HI> al&s;o was e&s;pied of <HI>Alcibiades</HI> vpon a time, play|ing with <HI>Lamprocles,</HI> who was, in manner but a childe. <HI>Age&s;ilaus</HI> riding vpon a r&eacute;ede, on cockhor&s;e as they terme it, played with his &s;onne being but a boy: and when a certayne man pa&s;&s;ing by, &s;awe him &s;o doe, and laughed therewithall, <HI>Age&s;ilaus</HI> &s;ayde thus. <HI>Nunc tace, cum ver&ograve; &amp; ip&s;e pater eua&s;eris, tunc etiam patres imitaberis.</HI> Now hold thy peace and &s;ay nothing: but when thou art a father, I doubt not, thou wilt doe as fathers &s;hould doe with their children. <HI>Architas Tarentinus,</HI> being both in authoritie in the common wealth, that is to &s;ay a mage&s;trat, and al+&s;o a Philo&s;opher, not of the ob&s;cure&s;t &s;orte, but a preci&s;e louer of wi&s;dom: at what time he was a hou&s;ba~d, a hou&s;|keeper, and mainteined many &s;eruaunts, he was great|ly delighted with their younglinges, v&s;ed to play of|tentimes with his &s;eruauntes children, and was wonte, when he was at dinner and &s;upper, to reioyce in the &s;ight and pre&s;ence of them: yet was <HI>Tarentinus</HI> (as all men knowe) a man of famous memorie and noble name.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; At who&s;e vertue Alexander was di&s;plea&s;ed.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ALexander</HI> could not abide <HI>Perdiccas,</HI> becau&s;e he was warlyke, he hated <HI>Ly|&s;imachus,</HI> becou&s;e he was cunning in ordering a battel and pitching a f&eacute;eld: he enuied <HI>Seleucus,</HI> becau&s;e he was full of prowe&s;&s;e, courage, and valiant|ne&s;&s;e, he abhorred <HI>Antigonus,</HI> becau&s;e he was ambitious, and high minded, he grudged at <HI>At|talus,</HI> becau&s;e his power was princelyke, and his e&s;tate imperiall. Finally he repined at <HI>Ptolomeus,</HI> becau&s;e of
<PB REF="135"> his beatitude, his pro&s;peritie, and happine&s;&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Demetrius haunting the hou&s;e of an harlot.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_DEmetrius,</HI> y^e Lord of &s;o many nations, and Prince of &s;o many people, haun|ted the hou&s;e of an harlot called <HI>Lami|a,</HI> hauing on his armour, the badge of a warrior, and his Diadem or croune, the cogni&s;aunce of a King. It woulde haue binne a great &s;hame and re|proche vnto his per&s;on, if he had &s;ent for her to come to his Pallace: what was it then, in that he frequented her baudy abideing, and v&s;ed her company &s;o la&s;ciuiou&s;ly and wantonly. A&s;&s;uredly I commende the Mu&s;ician <HI>Diodorus</HI> beyonde <HI>Demetrius,</HI> for he although he was &s;ent for, and de&s;ired to goe, refu&s;ed the harlot <HI>Lamias</HI> courte&s;ie.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; That Phaon was of a fayre complexion.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_PHaon,</HI> a proper youth, excelling al o|ther in fauour and comlyne&s;&s;e, was hidden of <HI>Venus</HI> among long letti&s;&s;e which &s;prung vp and grew very ra~c|kly. Some holde opinion that this <HI>Phaon</HI> was a ferry man, and that he v&s;ed that trade of lyfe and exerci&s;e. So it fortuned that <HI>Venus</HI> had occa&s;ion to pa&s;&s;e ouer the water, whom he not &s;o redely as willingly, tooke by the hand, and receiued into his whery, and carryed her ouer with as great dilligence as he could for his lyfe, not kno|yng all this while what &s;he was: For which dutifull &s;er|uice at that in&s;taunt exhibited, <HI>Venus</HI> be&s;towed vppon
<PB N="126" REF="135"> him an Allabla&s;ter box full of oyntment for her ferrage, wherwith <HI>Phaon</HI> wa&s;hing and &s;kouring his &s;kin, had not his fellow in fairene&s;&s;e of fauour, and beutyful complexi|on aliue: in&s;omuch that the women of <HI>Mitylen</HI> were in|flamed with the loue of <HI>Phaon,</HI> his comlyne&s;&s;e did &s;o kin|dle their affections. To be &s;hort, he was taken playing y^e leude knaue with a commo~ whore, and abu&s;ing his body in bea&s;tly plea&s;ure of the flea&s;h, which &s;w&eacute;ete meat had &s;ower &s;awce, for he was &s;layne and murthered.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Sapho.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_PLato</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Ari&s;to,</HI> numbreth <HI>Sapho</HI> the Ver&s;ifyer, and daughter of <HI>Scamandronymus</HI> amonge &s;uch as were wi&s;e, lerned and &s;kilful. I heare al&s;o, that there was another <HI>Sapho</HI> in <HI>Lesbus:</HI> which was a &s;tronge whore, and an arrant &s;trumpet.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the Nightingale, and the Swallow.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_HE&s;iodus</HI> reporteth that no byrde, but the Nightingale alone, auoydeth &s;lepe and is greatly addicted to watching, for &s;he &s;itteth all night &s;inging vpon a bough, the &s;harpe end of a thorne &s;tan|dinge again&s;t her brea&s;t to kepe her broad waking: he &s;aith al&s;o, that the <HI>Swallow</HI> doth not watch alwaies and at all houres, but &s;l&eacute;epeth now and then, by halfes as they &s;ay and fyttes, which is no &s;ound kinde of re&s;t. This puni&s;hment &s;uffer they both for the heynous offence committed at <HI>Thra|cia,</HI> in a banquet mo&s;t abhominable &amp; an vnlawfull fea&s;t
<PB REF="136"> wherin the mother made the father eate the flea&s;h of his owne &s;onne: afterwardes there was a tran&s;mutation of &s;hapes, for <HI>Tereus</HI> was turned into a Lapwing, <HI>Itys</HI> in|to a Phe&s;ant, <HI>Progne</HI> into a Swallow, and <HI>Philomela</HI> into a Nightingale.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of the women of La|cedemonia</HEAD>
<P>_THe Mothers of the <HI>Lacedemoni|ans,</HI> as many as heard &s;aye that their &s;onnes were &s;laine in bat|tel, v&s;ed to goe and &s;earche their dead bodies, how, and in what or|der they were cut, &s;la&s;ht, &amp; mang|led: And yf the woundes, and the ga&s;hes were in their forepartes, then they carried their &s;onnes to the monumentes of their progenitours, and tumbes of their aunce&s;tours, with manyfe&s;t re&s;emblaunces of ioy: but yet ca&s;ting grim and &s;ower vi&s;&s;ages now and then, for the lo&s;&s;e of &s;uch courageous ympes. Againe, if they were wounded behinde, or one either &s;ide, they blu|&s;hed thereat, as vtterly a&s;hamed: and pyning away with bitter teares, and wofull lamentations, conueied them|&s;elues clo&s;ely out of &s;ight, leauing the carka&s;&s;es of &s;uch cowardly children behinde them, that they might be bui|ryed among the common graues, &s;ithence they de&s;erued no peculier place, by their pui&s;aunce and manhoode: Or els they gotte the dead bodies away by &s;tealth, and laide them in Sepulchers priuatly, at their owne man&s;ions.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="127" REF="136">
<HEAD>&para; Of the &s;trength of Titormus, and Milo, and of a certaine Prouerbe.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_MIlo</HI> &s;preading abroade his proude pe|coks tayle, becau&s;e he was &s;o &s;tronge in body and large of lymmes, chaun|ced to m&eacute;ete <HI>Titormus</HI> the heardman, and perceiuing hym of &s;tature &s;ub|&s;tantiall, huge, big and mighty, wolde n&eacute;edes take a triall of his &s;trongth: but <HI>Titormus</HI> &s;ayde that he was nothing &s;o &s;trong as he &s;&eacute;emed, or as he was &s;uppo&s;ed. Now when he was prepa|red to wre&s;tling, and ca&s;t his garmentes a&s;ide, he drewe towardes him a &s;tone of maine bigne&s;&s;e and waight, hee did lift it vp and downe twi&s;e or thri&s;e: Anone hee tooke it vp againe and did lift it to his kn&eacute;es, then to his &s;houl|ders and ca&s;t it quite from him. As for <HI>Milo</HI> he could not once &s;tyr the &s;tone for his hart.</P>
<P>The &s;econd exerci&s;e that <HI>Milo</HI> and <HI>Titormus</HI> had, was this. <HI>Titormus</HI> went to his herd of bullocks, &amp; &s;tanding in the mid&s;t of the~, caught a fearce Bul fa&s;te by the foote, and griped him with &s;uch &s;ure and harde holde, that the Bull could not &s;ting or flurt out of his fingers, though he would neuer &s;o tayne, he tooke holde in like maner of an|other Bull which came towards him, and did as he had done before. When <HI>Milo</HI> had &s;&eacute;ene and marked the&s;e practi&s;es of <HI>Titormus,</HI> as a man all ama&s;ed in minde at the&s;e miracles, he ca&s;t vp his hands to heauen, and made this exclamation, or outcry. O <HI>Iupiter, <HI>num hunc alterum Herculem nobis dedi&s;ti?</HI></HI> O <HI>Iupiter,</HI> ha&s;te thou geuen vs this fellow as another <HI>Hercules?</HI> Hereupon &s;prung and &s;pred this common prouerbe, <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">.</P>
<P>This is a &s;econd <HI>Hercules.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB REF="137">
<HEAD>&para; Of the audacitie and bouldnes of the people Celtae.</HEAD>
<P>_THe people <HI>Celtae</HI> are mo&s;t ready, and able, to take any kinde of daungerous aduenture, and are not afrayde of any blu&s;tringe &s;torme. Therefore in the honour of &s;uch as fought manfully in f&eacute;elde and lo&s;t their liues lu&s;tely in battel, were hymmes &amp; &s;ongs deui&s;ed and made: and the v&s;e of them was, when they went to &s;kuffling and &s;kirmi&s;hing to weare garlands or crownes vpon their heades, as in|fallible and confident per&s;ua&s;ions to them&s;elues of ho|ped victory. Furthermore they appointed them&s;elues monuments of triumphes, vaunting of their valiaunt|ne&s;&s;e, and left euidences of their vertues for their po&s;te|ritie and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors, as the maner of the <HI>Grecians</HI> was. They count runninge away &s;o reprochfull, that often|times they will &s;karce moue when a hou&s;e is ruinous, and ready to fall vpon their heades, or when it burneth eagerly in euery corner, and is in a bright flame rounde about them: Moreouer &s;ome of them are &s;o boulde or ra|ther de&s;perate, that they throw them&s;elues into y^e fomey floudes with their &s;wordes drawne in their handes, and &s;haking their Iauelines, as though they were of force and violence to with&s;tand the rough waues, to re&s;i&s;t the &s;trength of the &s;treame, and to make the floudes affraide lea&s;t they &s;hould be wounded with their weapons.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Smyndiridas curiou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and co&s;tly|nes in meates, and of his gluttony.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Smyndiridas</HI> the <HI>Sybarite,</HI> was &s;o geuen to gluttony, and belly cheare, that when a younge man, who had
<PB N="128" REF="137"> long wooed and at la&s;t wedded <HI>Agari&s;ta</HI> the daughter of <HI>Cli&s;thenes,</HI> he tooke a iorney to <HI>Sicyon,</HI> and brought with him from thence, a thou&s;ande Cookes, a thou&s;ande But|chers, a thou&s;and Foulers, and a thou&s;and Fi&s;hers.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>What helpers &amp; frendes many worthy and noble men haue v&s;ed.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_VLy&s;&s;es</HI> had <HI>Alcinus</HI> to be his helper, <HI>Achilles</HI> had <HI>Chiron, Patroclus</HI> had <HI>Achilles, Agamemnon</HI> had <HI>Ne&s;tor, Telemachus</HI> had <HI>Menelaus,</HI> and <HI>Hec|tor</HI> had <HI>Polidamas.</HI> The <HI>Troians</HI> had <HI>Antenor</HI> &s;o farre fourth as they were his followers, the <HI>Pithagore|ans</HI> had <HI>Pythagoras,</HI> the <HI>Democri&s;tes</HI> had <HI>Democritus,</HI> and certenly, if the <HI>Atheniens</HI> had geuen eare to <HI>Socra|tes,</HI> and had ben de&s;irous to acquaint them&s;elues with his wi&s;dome, happy, yea twi&s;e happy had they bene, &amp; might meritoriou&s;ly haue bene named <HI>Socrati&s;ts. Hiero</HI> the &s;on of <HI>Dionomenes,</HI> v&s;ed the familiarity of <HI>Simonides Ceus, Polycrates</HI> v&s;ed <HI>Anacreon, Proxinus</HI> v&s;ed <HI>Xenophon, Antigonus</HI> v&s;ed <HI>Zeno.</HI> It is my duty al&s;o (as I think) to make co~memoration &amp; reher&s;all of <HI>Rome</HI> mine auncient Countrey, as wel as of <HI>Greece</HI> a forreigne region, &s;ithens I am a <HI>Roman</HI> bred and borne. <HI>Lucullus</HI> v&s;ed the fami|liaritie of <HI>Antiochus A&s;calonita, Mecoenas</HI> v&s;ed <HI>Arius, Cicero</HI> v&s;ed <HI>Apollonius, Augu&s;tus</HI> v&s;ed <HI>Athenodorus.</HI> And <HI>Plato</HI> the Prince of Philo&s;ophers, who excelled me in wi&s;dome and learninge many degr&eacute;es, &s;ayth that <HI>Iu|piter</HI> him&s;elfe hath one or other to be his coun&s;eler: But who he is or what he is, or how he healpeth, or wherin, we wold gladly and willingly, that <HI>Plato</HI> gaue vs to vn|der&s;tand.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB REF="138">
<HEAD>&para; Of certaine To&s;&s;pots, and Drunckardes.</HEAD>
<P>_The&s;e vnder named, ar reported to haue bin the greate&s;t &s;willers and mo&s;t no|table drunkards among all men. <HI>Xe|nagoras Rhodius,</HI> who was called <HI>Am+phora,</HI> a Flaggon. <HI>Heraclites</HI> the wre|&s;tler. <HI>Puteas</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Lanica,</HI> who&s;e education, and bringing vp was with <HI>Alexander</HI> the king. And <HI>Alexa~der</HI> him&s;elf was counted a &s;inguler winebibber, and &s;uch a one ind&eacute;ed, as no man was able to ouermatch.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; That Hercules &s;hewed him&s;elfe pityfull and gentle to his enemyes.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_HErcules</HI> v&s;age towardes his enemies (as &s;ome &s;ay) was very pitifull and gentle. For he (time out of minde) de|liuered, according to his couenaunt, the carka&s;&s;es and dead bodies of men to their fr&eacute;endes and acquaintance, hone&s;tly and decently to be buried: when it was not the cu&s;tome in tho&s;e daies, to be touch|ed with any care of the dead, for they left them vnburied, to be eaten and deuoured of Dogges, whereof <HI>Homer</HI> maketh mencion.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Leocorium a Temple in Athens</HEAD>
<P><HI>LEocorium</HI> at <HI>Athens,</HI> was called the Temple of the daughters of the people, namly <HI>Paraxithea, Theopa,</HI> and <HI>Eubula.</HI> The voice goeth, that the people deliuered
<PB N="129" REF="138"> them to the Oracle at <HI>Delphos,</HI> and that they were &s;lain for the health and &s;auegard of <HI>Mineruas</HI> citie. For the O|racle &s;ayde, that except they lo&s;t their liues, there was no hope of pre&s;eruation. So the Temple was called <HI>Leo|corium,</HI> by the meanes of them and the people, <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">, which &s;ignifyeth <HI>Populus,</HI> and <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">, which &s;ignifieth <HI>Puella,</HI> or, <HI>Filia.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; What Plato &s;aide of the Agrigentines for their prodigall and exce&s;|&s;iue &s;pending.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_PLato</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Ari&s;to,</HI> when he &s;aw the <HI>Agrigentines</HI> be&s;tow vn|mea&s;urable co&s;tes and charges in building, and banqueting, vttered the&s;e words. <HI>Agrigentini aedificant, qua&s;i &s;emper victuri: &amp; comedunt, qua&s;i &s;emper morituri,</HI> The <HI>Agrigen|tines</HI> builde as though they &s;hould alwaies liue, and they f&eacute;ede as though they &s;hould al|wayes dye. And <HI>Timaeus</HI> &s;aith, that they v&s;ed oyle potts and in&s;truments of Siluer in forme lyke hor&s;combs, and that their tables were made, wholy of Elephantes tooth, or Iuory.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the drunkenne&s;&s;e of the Tarentines, and of the intemperaunce of the Cyreneans.</HEAD>
<P>_IT was the maner of the <HI>Tarentines</HI> to &s;will lyke Swine, &s;o &s;oone as they &s;tarted out of their ne&s;tes, and to make them&s;elues drunke in open place of re&s;ort, in the mid&s;t of the multitude. The <HI>Cyreneans</HI> al|&s;o, did &s;o contaminate and &s;tayne their liues with the fil|thy
<PB REF="139"> &s;pots of &s;urfeiting and intemperaunce, that when they &s;ent for <HI>Plato</HI> to in&s;titute and appoinct them lawes, he refu&s;ed to come among them, becau&s;e their loo&s;enes &amp; la&s;ciuiou&s;nes, was knytt to continuance by the lincks of cu&s;tom, and their &s;louthfulnes and ydlnes d&eacute;eply rooted in them from the begining. And <HI>Eupolis</HI> wittne&s;&s;eth in <HI>Marica,</HI> that the meane&s;t men, and they which be of the ra&s;call rablement, had armeing &s;worde girdles of tenne pounde, and that they graued rings very cunningly, cu|riou&s;ly, and incomparably, in&s;omuch that their woorck|man&s;hip was woonderfull.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; The &s;oundry &s;orts of wines which the Grecians had.</HEAD>
<P>_NOw will I commemorate and re|hear&s;e vnto you the diuers kinds of wines amoung the <HI>Grecians,</HI> which wines were mo&s;t co~mended in aun|cient tyme, and principally pray&s;ed in the dayes of our predece&s;&s;ours. Ther was one kinde which they cal|led <HI>Vinum Paramneum</HI> becau&s;e it was con&s;ecrated &amp; made holy to <HI>Ceres</HI> y^e Godde&s;&s;e of Graine. And another called <HI>vinum Chium</HI> after the name of a certaine I&s;land in the middland Sea. And another cal|led <HI>vinum Tha&s;ium</HI> after the name of <HI>Tha&s;us</HI> an I&s;land in the <HI>Agean</HI> &s;ea, very famous for the cobnuts which grow there, and for the goodnes of the wine which is made in that &s;oile. And another called <HI>vinum Le&s;bium,</HI> after the name of a certaine I&s;land called <HI>Le&s;bos,</HI> abbutting nighe <HI>Troas</HI> a Countrey in <HI>A&s;ia</HI> bordering vppon <HI>Helle&s;pon|tus.</HI> Moreouer, they had be&s;ides the aboue &s;pecified, a certain wine called <HI>vinum Dulce</HI> (which we call Yppo|cra&s;&s;e, or Bracket) becau&s;e it was &s;w&eacute;ete, deinty, tooth&s;om and plea&s;aunt. And another called <HI>vinum Creticum,</HI> af|ter
<PB N="130" REF="139"> the name of an I&s;eland called <HI>Creta</HI> lyeing betw&eacute;ene <HI>Graecia</HI> and <HI>Cyrenea,</HI> and in <HI>Syracu&s;e</HI> the &s;ame wine is called <HI>vinum Polium,</HI> which tooke that name of a certaine king of that region. And another wine called <HI>vinum Co|um:</HI> after y^e name of a certaine I&s;land called <HI>Coos</HI> or <HI>Cos</HI> in the <HI>Aegean</HI> Sea. And what &s;hall I &s;ay to this variety of wines? ar they not te&s;timonies of the <HI>Grecians</HI> intem|perance, &amp; manife&s;t argume~ts of their exce&s;&s;iue &s;willing? To conclude, they v&s;ed to drinck Wine mingled w^t oint|ments, which kinde of medley they inglutted aboue mea|&s;ure, and thru&s;t in more then nature (whiche is &s;ati&s;fied with a &s;mall quantity) required. The name of the &s;aid compound wine was <HI>vinum Myrrhinitum. <HI>Philip</HI></HI> the Comicall Poet maketh mention therof in his poe&s;ies.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the Garments and the &s;hooes of Pythagoras, Empedocles Hippias, and Gorgias.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_PYthagoras Samius</HI> was clothed in white apparel, and did weare vppon his head a crowne of Golde, &s;o did <HI>A|naxyrides. Empedocles Agrigenti|nus</HI> did weare murrey or violet blewe garme~ts, and his &s;hoes were of bra&s;&s;e. As for <HI>Hippias</HI> &amp; <HI>Gorgias</HI> they v&s;ed to iet vp and downe the &s;treats, in clothing of purple colour.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the Romanes, that allowed not of the &s;ubtilty, and fal&s;e dealing of the Phi&s;ician of king Pyrhus, again&s;t his &s;oueraigne Lorde and King, intended.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Cyneas</HI> the Phy&s;ician of King <HI>Pyrhus,</HI> wrote letters priuely to the Courte and coun&s;ell of <HI>Rome,</HI> where|in hee craued a p&eacute;ece of money and promi&s;ed that he
<PB REF="140"> would &s;o worke with potions and Apothecary compo&s;i|tions, that king <HI>Pyrhus</HI> &s;hould come to ruine, and de|&s;tructio~. As for the Gentlemen, to who~ the&s;e trayterous &s;chedules were &s;ent, and directed, they vtterly mi&s;lyked of &s;o mi&s;cheuous a fact, and refu&s;ed his proditorious pro|mi&s;e in that pe&s;tilent point, and damnable attempt: for <HI>Romanes</HI> haue learned to be valiaunt in vertue, and &s;eeke not to &s;ubdue their enemies by &s;uch couert and clo&s;e practi&s;es, and deceiptfull dealynges. Shortly after they informed king <HI>Pyrhus</HI> of <HI>Cyneas</HI> his knauery, and be|wrayed the trayterous purpo&s;e which he was fully inte~|ded (for lucres &s;ake) to accompli&s;h again&s;t the King, his league Lorde and Soueraigne.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the loues of Pau&s;anias, and Appelles.</HEAD>
<P>_AMong all the Loues in auncient age, longe &s;ince pa&s;te and gone, which are left in the Annales of antiquitie, and recorded in the Chronicles of our great grandfa|thers, the&s;e following (in compa|ri&s;on of the re&s;te) are memorable, and excellent. <HI>Pau&s;anias</HI> loued his wife, &s;o ferue~tly, and &s;o vnfainedly, that it is not po&s;&s;ible to de&s;cribe it. <HI>Appeles</HI> in like maner, loued <HI>Alexanders</HI> Leman, named <HI>Panca&s;ta,</HI> a <HI>Lari&s;&s;ean</HI> borne with no le&s;&s;e con&s;tancy: with whom (as it is &s;uppo&s;ed) <HI>Alexander</HI> had fle&s;hly plea&s;ure.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="131" REF="140">
<HEAD>&para; Of the Perianders, the Miltiades, the Sibylls, and the Bacides.</HEAD>
<P>_THere were two <HI>Perianders,</HI> the fir&s;te a Philo&s;opher, and the &s;econd a tyran. There were thr&eacute;e <HI>Miltiades,</HI> the fir&s;t was the founder and bulder of <HI>Chero|ne&s;us,</HI> the &s;econde was the &s;onne of <HI>Cyp&s;ellus:</HI> and the third was the &s;onne of <HI>Cymon.</HI> Ther were foure <HI>Sibylls,</HI> the fir&s;te an <HI>Erithraen,</HI> the &s;econde a <HI>Samian,</HI> the third an <HI>Aegiptian:</HI> and the fourth a <HI>Sardia|nan.</HI> Some there be which ioyne &s;ix more, to the other foure, and &s;o make tenne in number, among which they recon the&s;e twaine: <HI>Sibylla</HI> the <HI>Cymean,</HI> and <HI>Sibylla</HI> the <HI>Iudean.</HI> There were thr&eacute;e <HI>Bacides</HI> the fir&s;t a <HI>Grecian,</HI> the &s;econd an <HI>Athenien:</HI> and the third an <HI>Arcadian.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; The numder of Niobes &s;onnes.</HEAD>
<P>_THe olde auncient writers di&s;&s;agr&eacute;e a|mong them&s;elues, in the number of <HI>Ni|obes</HI> Sonnes. <HI>Homer</HI> recounteth &s;yxe Sonnes, and &s;yx Daughters. <HI>La&s;us</HI> re|cordeth twi&s;e &s;eauen, that is fouret&eacute;ene. <HI>He&s;iodus</HI> rehear&s;eth two eightes and a third, that makes ninet&eacute;ene. But (peraduenture) they ar not <HI>He&s;iodus</HI> ver&s;es, wherin that number is expre&s;&s;ed, for hee was thought to be the author of many poe&s;ies, which ind&eacute;ede he neuer deui&s;ed, nor yet penned. <HI>Alcman</HI> &s;aith that there were but tenne. <HI>Mimermus</HI> affirmeth that there were twi&s;e tenne, that is twenty. And <HI>Pin|darus</HI>
<PB REF="141"> is of the &s;ame opinion, who al&s;o writeth that there were no more, nor no le&s;&s;e then twenty.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Alexander being in &s;kar&s;itie of victuals: and how certaine vil|lages, or country townes were taken by the &s;ight of &s;mok.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ALexander,</HI> in pur&s;ueinge <HI>Be&s;&s;us,</HI> was driuen to great &s;kar&s;itie of vic|tuals, both he and his &s;ouldiours (ex|cept they had rather &s;tarue and dye with fami&s;hment) began to eate the flea&s;h of Camels, oxen, and other cat|tell. In which want of nece&s;&s;ary foode, they were con&s;trayned (for the great lack of wood and fuell) to eate the flea&s;h rawe, that the bloud ranne about their t&eacute;eth and gummes, as they did cra&s;he it with their grinders.</P>
<P>Other&s;ome they did eate, boyled and ro&s;ted, accordinge as their burnable &s;tuffe (which was a certen hearb wher|of commeth, as &s;ome &s;ay <HI>Gumme Benioyne,</HI> or as other &s;ome &s;ay, <HI>Gumme La&s;er</HI>) &s;erued them, wherof their was aboundaunce, and plenty in that place growing.</P>
<P>Moreouer the &s;ouldiours tooke certayne villages and townes of the <HI>Bactrians,</HI> by rea&s;on of the &s;moke whiche they perceiued a loofe, after they had remoued the abun|daunce of &s;now which lay before their dores.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the hor&s;es of the people Sacae, and of their maners, cu&s;tom, and behauiour.</HEAD>
<P>THe Hor&s;es of the <HI>Saces,</HI> (a people inhabiting beyonde <HI>Scythia,</HI> and thought of &s;ome to be <HI>Per&s;ians</HI>) if at any time they hoy&s;ted, ca&s;t of, and vn&s;adled their riders, v&s;ed
<PB N="132" REF="141"> to &s;tand &s;till like Lambes, that they might mount vp a|gaine on their backs, at their plea&s;ure without perill, to delight them without daunger. Moreouer, if any man was de&s;irous to marry a maide, and to wedde her to his wife, the fa&s;hion and cu&s;tome was, that hee &s;hould fight with her, in which encounter, if he were ouermatched, it was lawfull for her to leade him away as pri&s;oner, and to haue rule ouer him and full authoritie: But if &s;hee were the weaker (as women commenly be) and therfore vnable to moue ma&s;teries with him, then had hee iuri&s;|diction and power ouer her. Furthermore, they &s;triue and contend, but why? and for what? not about life and death, but about victory, liberty, and triumphe. Finally, the cu&s;tome and trade of the people <HI>Sacae</HI> is, to hide them|&s;elues in certain blinde, &amp; vnfrequented places, as darke as pitch, like dens, and dongeons, at &s;uch time as they mourne, and lament.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the bouldnes of Perdiccas, and of a Lyone&s;&s;e.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_PErdiccas</HI> the <HI>Macedonian,</HI> who follow+ed <HI>Alexander Magnus</HI> in battel, was &s;o &s;tout and bolde, that he feared not, to enter into the daungerous denne, of a Lyone&s;&s;e, &s;olitary, alone, and no body, accompanyed with him. But (in this aduenture) he tooke not the Dam, but her welpes, which he caryed out of the Denne with him, not fearing y^e clawes of &s;o viole~t a bea&s;t: which d&eacute;ed of <HI>Perdiccas</HI> de&s;erued the admiration and a&s;toni&s;hement of all men, and challenged a commendation of de&s;perate courage, not onely among the <HI>Grecians,</HI> but al&s;o among the <HI>Barbarians.</HI> And therefore (&s;ay &s;ome) y^t <HI>Semiramis</HI> of <HI>A&s;&s;yria,</HI> wolde not, that a Lyon, a Pardall, or any &s;uch &s;auage and &s;tately bea&s;t &s;hould bee &s;laine: and that
<PB REF="142"> &s;he her owne &s;elfe (if it were her chaunce at any time to haue a Lyone&s;&s;e) was &s;o far from killing her, that &s;he did mo&s;t carefully k&eacute;epe her, delight in her, and plant the principall portion of her plea&s;ure in her, accordingly.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the proui&s;ion, and purueyaunce which followed Xerxes in his expedition.</HEAD>
<P>_AS great proui&s;ion and &s;tore of all ne|ce&s;&s;aryes, followed the Campe of <HI>Xerxes,</HI> &s;o was ther water al&s;o of the riuer <HI>Choa&s;pis</HI> carried, to &s;erue and &s;uccour the &s;ouldiours. It fortuned that in their expedition, they came to a &s;andy &s;oyle, and dry plot of lande, in maner of a de&s;ert or wildernes, in&s;omuch that they were a&s;&s;aulted, and oppre&s;&s;ed with an extreame thyr&s;t, to quench the heat wherof, no remedy could be found. Then was the king him&s;elf a co~municant of y^e &s;ame vniuer&s;al inco~uenience, y^e peril wherof to preuent (in re&s;pect of his owne per&s;on) he cau&s;ed proclamatio~ to be made, through out the whole army, that if any maner of man (what de|gr&eacute;e &s;o euer he bare) had any water of the riuer <HI>Choa&s;pis</HI> he &s;hould bringe it to the kings maie&s;tie, to a&s;&s;wage his thyr&s;t. The Proclamation being made, and the charge geuen generally, an od fellow was founde who had a li|tle of the &s;ame water in &s;tore, but it was &s;o farre from &s;w&eacute;etne&s;&s;e, that it &s;tunk lyke puddle py&s;&s;e: Howbeit the kings maie&s;tie did not onely reioyce at that &s;ame pre|&s;ent pre&s;eruatiue, but al&s;o v&s;ed the benefit of the &s;ame in|continent, and drunke vp the filthy &amp; vn&s;auory water, with a good &s;tomak, whereby he &s;laked the fire of his for|mer thir&s;t. As for the homely fellow, who pre&s;ented and offered this tymely medecine, and hol&s;ome antidote, to
<PB N="133" REF="142"> <HI>Xerxes,</HI> was recompenced for his labour, and the kings Grace numbred the meane man, amoung his benefac|tors and wellwillers, becau&s;e he had bene in ha&s;&s;ard and lo&s;&s;e of lyfe, if that water had not bin brought with &s;uch-oportunitie, wherby he was pre&s;erued from imminent mi&s;ch&eacute;efe, as by a principall potion mini&s;tred by the Phy&s;ician in due &s;ea&s;on.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Protegenes the Paynter.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_PRotogenes,</HI> after he had con&s;umed and &s;pent &s;euen yeres &s;pace, in lim|ming, and paincting, the picture of <HI>Iali&s;us,</HI> at la&s;t (as hap was) he fini|&s;hed and ended the &s;ame. when cun|ning <HI>Apelles</HI> &s;aw it, he &s;toode &s;till at the fir&s;t, a pretty while, and held his tounge, as alltogether aba&s;hed at the brauenes of the &s;ame: At the lenghte he looked be|hinde him and &s;aid, <HI>Labor magnus e&s;t, &amp; artifex item excel|lens, veru~ operi gratia non ine&s;t: quam &s;i homo con&s;ecutuse&s;&s;et, Labor eius caelum attingeret.</HI> The worckman&s;hip (vndoub|tedly) is notable, &amp; the worckman excellent, but it wan|teth Grace, which, if <HI>Protogenes</HI> his picture might haue obtained, the prai&s;e therof would haue pearced the Azur &s;kyes.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of certaine men which were nouri&s;hed, and fo&s;tered by wilde bea&s;ts.</HEAD>
<P><HI>CYrus</HI> y^e &s;onne of <HI>Mandala</HI> was nouri&s;hed by a Bitch, <HI>Telephus</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Agaue</HI> and <HI>Hercules</HI> by a Hynde, <HI>Pelias</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Neptune</HI> &amp; <HI>Tyro</HI> by a Mare, <HI>Alexander</HI> the &s;onn of <HI>Alope</HI> &amp; <HI>Pryamus</HI> by a Bytchfox,
<PB REF="143"> <HI>Aegi&s;thus</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Thye&s;tes,</HI> and <HI>Pelopia,</HI> by a Goate.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; What men, comming of a homely and ob&s;cure off&s;pring, became noble, and honorable.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_DArius</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Hi&s;ta&s;pa</HI> was <HI>Cyrus</HI> his quiuerbearer. The la&s;t <HI>Darius,</HI> who~ <HI>Alexander</HI> vanqui&s;hed, was borne of the body of a bondwoman. <HI>Archelaus,</HI> the <HI>Macedonian</HI> Kinge, cam of y^e loynes of <HI>Smicha,</HI> a poore maid &s;eruant. <HI>Mene|laus,</HI> the Graundfather of <HI>Philip,</HI> was numbred among ba&s;tards: and <HI>Amyntas,</HI> his &s;onne, was a &s;eruingman, &amp; gaue attendaunce vppon <HI>Aeropa. Per&s;eus,</HI> whome <HI>Pau|lus</HI> the <HI>Romane</HI> ouercame, was but an <HI>Argiue,</HI> &amp; &s;prung of a homely hou&s;e. <HI>Eumenes</HI> (as it is thought) had but a poore fellow to his father.</P>
<P><HI>Antigonus,</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Philip</HI> (who had but one eye, &amp; theruppon was called a <HI>Cyclop</HI>) &s;erued for &s;allery, and waighted for wages, vnder <HI>Poly&s;perches,</HI> and differed litle from a th&eacute;ef, for he practi&s;ed purloyneing prancks, and filching fetches. <HI>Themi&s;tocles,</HI> who foiled his foes, in a &s;kirmi&s;he made on the Sea, who had, al&s;o, the graci|ous gift of interpreting Oracles, was the &s;onne of a &s;im|ple <HI>Tre&s;&s;an</HI> woman, named <HI>Abrotonus. Phocion,</HI> &s;yrnamed <HI>Iu&s;tus,</HI> was at the fir&s;t but a Spoonemaker or a Ladell maker. <HI>Demetrius Phalareus,</HI> was but a &s;er|uaunt in the mai&s;on and hou&s;e of <HI>Timothy</HI> and <HI>Conon. Hyperbolus, Cleophon,</HI> and <HI>Demadas,</HI> notwith&s;tanding they were in place of principality, in the <HI>Athenien</HI> com|monwelth, yet it is a difficil and hard matter to prick out their parentage. <HI>Callicratidas, Philip</HI> &amp; <HI>Ly&s;ander</HI> were
<PB N="130" REF="143"> called <HI>Mothaces</HI> in <HI>Lacedemonia,</HI> which &s;ignifieth &s;uch as were dome&s;tical &s;eruants, trayned and brought vp a|mong the children of the hou&s;e. Co~cerning the~ <HI>Lycurgus</HI> made a lawe, wherin was graunted, that &s;uch as conti|nued their children in exerci&s;es, (which was no le&s;&s;e ne|ce&s;&s;ary to the common e&s;tate, then profitable to their priuate per&s;on) &s;hould haue fr&eacute;e pa&s;&s;age (without inter|turba~ce) to offices of dignity in the <HI>Lacedemonian</HI> weale publique. <HI>Epaminondas</HI> al&s;o, had but a &s;imple man to his father. And to be &s;hort, <HI>Cleon</HI> the tyrant, Monarch. or kinge of the <HI>Sicyonian</HI> people, was but a <HI>Pyrat,</HI> or ro|ner vppon the Sea.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of certaine per&s;ons, which continued a long tyme in quarreyes of &s;tone in Sicilia</HEAD>
<P>_IN the bounds of <HI>Sicilia</HI> were certain quarreyes of &s;tone the lenghte of one furlong, and the bredthe of two Acres. In y^e place were diuer&s;e per&s;ons kept &s;o longe, that they marryed, mingled, and rai&s;ed vpp i&s;&s;ue of eather &s;ex: And if any of their children cam to <HI>Sira|cu&s;e,</HI> and &s;awe hor&s;&s;es draweing waynes and waggons, they were &s;o flighted and frayed, at the &s;ighte thereof (which to them was &s;traunge, and vnaccu&s;tomed) that they roared and ranne away, with hydious and yrck|&s;ome &s;queaking. The faire&s;t, and large&s;t place of the&s;e quarreys of Stone, borrowed the name of the Poet <HI>Philoxenus,</HI> wherin, at &s;uch tyme as he was conuer&s;ant, he made his <HI>Cyclopean</HI> Pamphlet, which contained the be&s;t, the fine&s;te, and the excellente&s;t Poems that euer his brayne deuy&s;ed: little regarding the puni&s;hmente
<PB REF="144"> which <HI>Diony&s;ius</HI> had appointed him, and not careing, a corne graine, for his condemnation. But this man was &s;o far from feare and trembling, that in his tormentes and mi&s;eries, he would exerci&s;e &s;weete and delight&s;ome mu&s;icke.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Midas, Plato, and Pindarus, in the time of their in fancie.</HEAD>
<P>_THis is a <HI>Phrygian</HI> reporte, whereof I am now to make relation: when <HI>Midas</HI> was but a &s;ucking babe, and lay fa&s;te a &s;l&eacute;epe, Ants or Pi&s;mers crept vpon his face, and carryed into his mouth (as in|to a barne or garner) wheate, rye, and other portable graine, with great &s;edulitie and paineful|ne&s;&s;e. Of <HI>Plato,</HI> it is &s;aide all ready, that the B&eacute;es made hony in his mouth, as in a hiue. <HI>Pindarus,</HI> al&s;o af|ter he was committed to the de&s;perat aduenture of dout|full luck, B&eacute;es mini&s;tred &s;u&s;tenance to the infant, f&eacute;eding him with tooth&s;ome, and comfortable hony, in &s;teade of milk, and &s;ugred pap.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of a &s;traunge Miracle, and wonder, prog|no&s;ticating the gouernment of Diony&s;ius.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_DIony&s;ius,</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Hermocrates,</HI> &s;wamme ouer a riuer vppon his Ce|uals back, now, Syr, when his Paul|frey approched nie the &s;hoare, the durt &amp; mud was &s;o fat and &s;o fa&s;t, that the hor&s;e faultred, and was not able to wade through without much moyle|inge: Howbeit <HI>Diony&s;ius</HI> made &s;hifte to fauour him|&s;elfe, and by meanes made as hee might, caught holde
<PB N="135" REF="144"> of the bank &s;ide, and left his hor&s;e behinde him, as though it were his, no longer to po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e and v&s;e: when <HI>Diony&s;i|us</HI> was gone, and the hor&s;e left in that ha&s;&s;arde, by much &s;trugling he recouered y^e land, which aduantage being ob|tained, he made &s;wift gallop after his Lorde and ma&s;ter, wehing very often, and flurting vp his h&eacute;eles all the way as he went, in&s;omuch that <HI>Diony&s;ius</HI> hearing the noy&s;e which his hor&s;e made after him, returned and m&eacute;e|ting his Paulfrey, tooke him by the mayne, offering to mount vpon his back, &amp; as he was thus dooing a &s;warme of B&eacute;es, came buzzing about his hand, which when <HI>Dio|ny&s;ius</HI> marked, and mu&s;ed at, he demaunded what this Miracle and &s;traunge thing might preporte and &s;ignifie: To whom the <HI>Galeotae</HI> made aun&s;were, that it did prog|no&s;ticate and fore&s;hew the Monarchie, and Regiment of <HI>Diony&s;ius.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Ari&s;tomache, the wife of Dion.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_DIony&s;ius</HI> hauing expelled, &amp; driuen <HI>Di|on</HI> out of y^e limits &amp; bounds of <HI>Sicilia,</HI> kept his wife <HI>Ari&s;tomache,</HI> &amp; his &s;onn in lyke maner, &s;till with him, &amp; dealte not with them, as he did with the hou&s;|band, and the father <HI>Dion</HI> aboue na|med: In tract of time, it came to pas, that he be&s;towed the Gentlewoman in wedlocke (but &s;ore again&s;t her wil) vpon a Pen&s;ioner of his, called <HI>Po|lycrates,</HI> a &s;tudious &s;eruitour, diligent in his office, &amp; duti|ful in all re&s;pects, by birth &amp; of&s;pring a <HI>Syracu&s;a~.</HI> But, for|tune fayling <HI>Diony&s;ius,</HI> and furthering <HI>Dion,</HI> it hapned that <HI>Dion</HI> tooke <HI>Syracu&s;ae,</HI> and droue <HI>Diony&s;ius</HI> to <HI>Lo|cris,</HI> a country of <HI>Phocis.</HI> The matter being brought to
<PB REF="145"> this i&s;&s;ue, <HI>Arete</HI> his Si&s;ter (after much communication continued) intreated <HI>Dion</HI> (for at that in&s;tant, &s;he vouch|&s;afed to be mediator, and interce&s;&s;or, in <HI>Ari&s;tomache</HI> her behalfe, for her re&s;titution, and reconciliation to her hu&s;|band, and yokfellow) to take vnto him <HI>Ari&s;tomache</HI> his wife, whom &s;ini&s;ter luck had before abandoned: As for the Gentlewoman (notwith&s;tandinge the ca&s;e touched her owne per&s;on to the quick, and did as it were &s;earche the marrow and &s;inewes) yet by rea&s;on of her &s;hamfa&s;t|ne&s;&s;e, and ba&s;hfulne&s;&s;e, whereunto &s;he was forced by her late froward Fortune, &s;he was &s;o far from pleading her owne &s;uite, that &s;he hid her &s;elfe out of &s;ight, and dur&s;te not be &s;o bould as once to come within the compa&s;&s;e of her hou&s;bands countenaunce, much le&s;&s;e to &s;peake with him per&s;onally: and this did &s;hee, becau&s;e &s;he was con|&s;trayned, by compull&s;ory dealyng, in de&s;pight of her hart, and vtterly again&s;t her will, to breake the bondes of du|tie, &s;ealed with the &s;ignet of faith and truth in marriage, and to crack in &s;under the couenaunt whereunto &s;hee &s;ub&s;cribed &s;olemnly. But after <HI>Arete</HI> had maintai|ned her cau&s;e, and made the be&s;t of the matter, like a wi&s;e and prudent woman, affirming alwaies this in circu|lar talke, that what &s;oeuer &s;he had doone, proc&eacute;eded of prouocation, and con&s;traincte, by the meanes of <HI>Diony|&s;ius: Dion</HI> was intreated, contented, and pacify|ed, and commaunding that his wife <HI>Ari&s;tomache,</HI> and his &s;onne &s;houlde be brought before him, &s;ent them both home to his owne manor.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Gf the poe&s;ies of Homer.</HEAD>
<P>THe <HI>Indians</HI> v&s;ed to &s;ing the poe&s;ies of <HI>Homer,</HI> as they were tran&s;lated and turned into their mother tounge. So did the kinges of the <HI>Per&s;ians,</HI> if we count them wor|thy
<PB N="132" REF="145"> credite, who haue &s;o reported.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Phocion, who pardoned and for|gaue his enimies, and &s;uch as did him harme.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_PHocion</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Phocus</HI> (who oftentimes, &s;pent his labour and diligence, in the affaires of his na|tiue country) was adiudged to die: Now when hee was deliuered to the Gaile, and kept in clo&s;e pri&s;on, diuers of his fr&eacute;endes had recour&s;e vnto him: &amp; when the poy&s;on was mini&s;tred in a Cup or a Chalice, by the hands of the exe|cutioner or officer, his acquaintaunce &s;tandinge by, de|maunded of him, what he woulde leaue to his &s;onne in charge, after his death to be accompli&s;hed? To whom <HI>Phocion</HI> made this aun&s;were. <HI>Hoc ei mando, ne cum iniu|riae memoria rependat Athenien&s;ibus hanc propinationem, quam ego nunc bibo.</HI> It is my will and plea&s;ure that, for this cup of poy&s;on, which I take, ta&s;te, and drinke vp, as my pre&s;ent di&s;patch, hee recompence not the <HI>Atheniens</HI> with remembraunce of iniurie. He which denieth this man worthy of aduauncement and prai&s;e, wanteth wi&s;|dome and iudgement in my &s;imple opinion.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the Lacedemonians, imparting no paines, nor be&s;towing any labour, in the learning of liberal &s;ciences.</HEAD>
<P>THe <HI>Lacedemonians</HI> were vtterly vnlearned, for they regarded nothing but the excerci&s;es of the body, and to be warlyke was their whole &s;tudy and de&s;ire, if a|ny of them &s;toode in n&eacute;ede of the helpe of knowledge, the ayde of learneing, and the &s;uccoure of coun&s;ell, eyther by occa&s;ion of &s;ickne&s;&s;e, or in an opinion prepo&s;terus, and
<PB REF="146"> perilous, or els a common calamity of the people: they betooke them to the adui&s;e of &s;traungers, as ignoraunt of them&s;elues, what &s;hould be done in &s;uch ca&s;es: After this &s;orte they v&s;ed the furtheraunce of Phy&s;icians, and the Oracles of <HI>Apollo Pythius.</HI> They &s;ent for <HI>Terpander,</HI> for <HI>Thales,</HI> for <HI>Tyrteus,</HI> for <HI>Cedoniat Nimpheus,</HI> and <HI>Alcman</HI> a Mu&s;ician, to be conuer&s;aunt amonge them. And <HI>Thucidides</HI> (&s;peaking of <HI>Bra&s;idas</HI>) reporteth, y^t they were de&s;titute of learning, and vnder&s;tanding, for (&s;aith h&eacute;e) this <HI>Bra&s;idas,</HI> being a <HI>Lacedemonian,</HI> was very vn|&s;kilfull, and ind&eacute;ede, differed but litle from an idiot.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the o&s;tentation, and bragging of Menecrates, and how Phillip gaue him a dry frumpe, and a priuy mock.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_MEnecraces,</HI> did &s;o &s;well in pride (being a Phy&s;ician) that he called him&s;elfe <HI>Iupiter,</HI> or <HI>Iuuans <HI>Pater.</HI></HI> This arro|gant a&s;&s;e, &s;ent vpon a time, to Kinge Phillip of <HI>Macedonia</HI> a letter, where|in was written this &s;awcy &s;alutation <HI>Menecrates Iupiter, Philippo &s;alutem &amp;c. <HI>Menecrates Iupiter,</HI></HI> to <HI>Phillip</HI> gr&eacute;eting &amp;c. who&s;e vaunting vaine the king perceiuing, wrote back againe in this &s;ort and maner. <HI>Philippus Menecrati &s;anitatem. &amp;c <HI>Philip Macedo,</HI></HI> to <HI>Menecrates</HI> wi&s;heth welfare, &amp;c. <HI>Con|&s;ulo vt ad Anticyram te conferas,</HI> I coun&s;ell th&eacute;e to take thy iorney to <HI>Anticyra:</HI> meaning by this drye frumpe, that the man was moone&s;ick, and be&s;ide his right wits. The fore&s;aid <HI>Philip,</HI> made vpon a time, a &s;umptuous and co&s;t|ly banquet, whereunto he inuited and bad <HI>Menecrates,</HI> commaunding his &s;eruitours that ther &s;hould be a table prouided, and &s;et by it &s;elfe in a place &s;euerall, that the
<PB N="136" REF="146"> cuppboorde &s;hold be furni&s;hed with due preparation, and &s;w&eacute;ete perfumes tempered, burned, &amp; &s;cattered, again&s;t the comming of the &s;ayd <HI>Menecrates,</HI> all which co&s;tes was expended and laid out, to plea&s;ure the fyne no&s;de gentleman, whooe &s;at &s;olitary, and alone at a &s;yde boorde by him&s;elfe. Whiles all the company (which were bydde~ gue&s;ts) ta&s;ted of the tooth&s;ome ch&eacute;ere, and the &s;umptuous fea&s;te, which wanted no variety of delicates, but nothi~g &s;erued in to the table where he &s;at by him&s;elfe: he held him contented, for a &s;ea&s;on, and delighted, in the greate wor&s;hip and honor which was exhibited vnto him (being in a manner regall, &s;aueing that he was kept fa&s;ting, which was after a &s;orte, &s;eruile) But after that hunger griped his gutts, and appetite whetted his &s;tomack, in &s;o much that his t&eacute;eth watered at the Cates which he &s;awe he was then taught by experience that he was not <HI>Me|necrates Iupiter,</HI> but <HI>Menecrates Mortalis,</HI> &amp; forthwith he aro&s;e from the table, went his way, &amp; thervppon com|plained of the iniury which he &s;uffered, b&eacute;eing a bydden gue&s;t to that banquet, wherof he not once ta&s;ted. Thus did <HI>Philip</HI> cut <HI>Menecrates</HI> combe, and detected the mad mans vanity.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of I&s;ocrates, vnto what he com|pared Athens.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ISocrates</HI> the Rhetorician, was woont to &s;ay, that the city of <HI>Athens</HI> was comparable to a Strumpet, or a com|mon whore for (&s;ayth he) &s;uch as be al|lured and enty&s;ed with y^e beuty of har|lots, would willingly deale with them in bodily delight: but yet no man (ex|cept he cared not for his hone&s;ty and life) &s;o wel thinketh of a &s;trumpet, that he e&s;t&eacute;emeth her worth the marrying. And, a&s;&s;uredly, the citie of <HI>Athens</HI> is at the &s;ame &s;tay, for
<PB REF="147"> it is plea&s;ant &amp; delectable to &s;oiourne in (&amp; in that point excelleth all other Cityes through out the countrey of <HI>Grecia</HI>) but it is &s;cant hol&s;om to inhabit. By the&s;e words he gaue a glaunce to Pickthanks, Clawbackes, and Flat|terers, of whom <HI>Athens</HI> nouri&s;hed a great number, for the Citie was naturally addicted to harbour and lodge &s;uch Helhounds.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the beginnings of bloudy Battailes, and of cau&s;es of contentious.</HEAD>
<P>_I Am not ignoraunt, what wofull warres, and bloudy battailes haue &s;prounge of &s;mall beginnings (as &s;ore con&s;umeing fy|ers, commonly are &s;&eacute;ene, to be kindled of litle glittering &s;parckles) and tryfling matters, in a maner. For the <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> &s;kirmi&s;h grewe by the occa&s;ion of a grudge betwene <HI>Maeander Samius,</HI> and the <HI>Atheniens.</HI> The <HI>Peloponne&s;ian</HI> warre aro&s;e a+bout the table of the <HI>Megaren&s;es.</HI> The conflict, called <HI>Praelium Sacrum,</HI> began about the exaction of the iudg|ments of the <HI>Amphyctions.</HI> The <HI>Cheronean</HI> warre, bred of a light occa&s;ion betw&eacute;ene <HI>Philip</HI> and the <HI>Atheniens.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; How Ari&s;totle attempted, to turne the anger of Alexander, to gentlenes.</HEAD>
<P><HI>ARi&s;totle</HI> being de&s;ireous to a&s;&s;uage y^e wrath of <HI>Alex|ander,</HI> and to mitigate y^e motions of his angry mind or rather to quench the flame of his fury: wrote the&s;e words vnto him. <HI>Excande &s;centia &amp; ira, non in pares, &s;ed in meliores existere &s;olet, tibi vero nemo par est,</HI> Indignation, and anger, ought not to be conceiued again&s;t a mans E|quall, but again&s;t his Better: As for th&eacute;e, (O <HI>Alexander</HI>)
<PB N="137" REF="147"> I know none that is thy p&eacute;ere, much le&s;&s;e thy &s;uperiour. The &s;ame <HI>Ari&s;totle</HI> mini&s;tring coun&s;ell to <HI>Alexander,</HI> in his affaires, and informing him, what to doo was con|uenie~t: procured &s;undry &s;oueraigne co~modities in many matters, and &s;pecially in reedifiyng, &amp; building his coun|trey, which <HI>Philip</HI> had, almo&s;t, vtterly &s;ubuerted, &s;poy|led and ouerthrowne.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of &s;uch, among the Libyans, as were &s;laine of Elephants, or els lo&s;t their liues in hunting, or fighting.</HEAD>
<P>_THe <HI>Libyans</HI> buiry &s;uch, as were &s;laine of Elephantes, or dyed in battell, or hunting, mo&s;te honou|rably, and &s;oung funerall ditties in their high commendation. The argument of tho&s;e &s;onets is this: that &s;uch men as valiauntly, and victoriou&s;ly behaued them&s;elues, in re&s;i&s;tinge, and as it were in wre&s;tling with wilde, &s;auage, and indomitable bea&s;ts, not feareing their force, were worthy the name of noble <HI>Martiali&s;ts.</HI> Furthermore, this is their &s;ayeing, that to make an exchaunge of lyfe for death, gloriou&s;ly, is a tri|umphant tumbe, to him which is interred, and layde in the bo&s;ome of the graue.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; What Diogenes &s;pake of the Megareans.</HEAD>
<P><HI>DIogenes</HI> did after a &s;ort, vehemently inueigh again&s;t the doulti&s;hnes, and blocki&s;hnes, of the <HI>Megareans,</HI> &s;peaking of them in this order. <HI>Mallem alicuius Me|garen&s;is arietem e&s;&s;e, quam filium,</HI> that is to &s;ay: I had
<PB REF="148"> rather be the Ram, then the &s;onne, of a <HI>Megarean:</HI> im|porting by this his &s;peache that tho&s;e people are more carefull ouer their cattell, then ouer their children.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the Miracles, which appeared to the Thebans, when Alexander a&s;&s;aulted the Citie.</HEAD>
<P>_WHen <HI>Alexander</HI> was conductinge his ho&s;te to the <HI>Theban</HI> Citie, the &s;u|pernall powers, namely the Gods, &s;ent &s;traunge &s;ignes, and tokens a|monge them, progno&s;ticatinge, and fore&s;howing &s;uch a &s;laughter, as the &s;emblable was neuer before. But they heareing that <HI>Alexander</HI> was dead at <HI>Illyrium,</HI> di&s;|charged opprobrious pillats, of &s;launderous language a|gain&s;t him. The Miracles which appeared vnto the~ were the&s;e: A certaine Lake in <HI>Onche&s;tus,</HI> made &s;uch a horri|ble &amp; continual roaring, that both wals, fortre&s;&s;es, gates, foundations, and buildinges &s;ub&s;tantial, trembled and &s;haked therewithall. Moreouer a certaine Springe, or brooke, called <HI>Dirce,</HI> which was not far of from <HI>I&s;me|nus,</HI> and &s;omwhat nye the walles of the Cittie, where as at all other times before, it ran with a cl&eacute;ere, pure, fayre, &s;w&eacute;ete, and whol&s;om &s;treame, &s;udainly and contrary to all expectation, was turned into bloude: By which pro|digeous and wonderfull &s;ight, the <HI>Thebans</HI> &s;u&s;pected, that the Gods immortall threatened de&s;truction to the <HI>Macedonians.</HI> Moreouer within the citie walles, namely in the Temple of <HI>Ceres,</HI> a venemous &s;pider, hard by the vi&s;&s;age and face of the delubre, or Image, practi&s;ed her &s;cience and art of &s;pinning, and drew her cobweb &s;trings in great length, very nimbly. The Image al&s;o of the god|de&s;&s;e <HI>Minerua</HI> called <HI>Alalcome~is</HI> (&s;ignifiyng by interpre|tation,
<PB N="138" REF="148"> mighty to defend, and pui&s;&s;aunt to pre&s;erue) &s;et it &s;elfe on a fyre, and fla&s;hed out flickering flames, like ligh|tenings, no man could tell how, or by what meanes, but it was burned vp, and quite con&s;umed. The&s;e and ma|ny more &s;uch lyke terrible tokens, infinit &amp; inumerable, fortuned among the <HI>Thebans.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Dioxippus.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_DIoxippus</HI> the <HI>Athenien,</HI> a worthy wre&s;tler at <HI>Olympus,</HI> at what time he pa&s;&s;ed into the Citie of <HI>Athens</HI> on hor&s;eback (as the cu&s;tome of &s;uch wre|&s;tlers craued) a great &s;warme of peo|ple, &s;ome from this place, and &s;ome from that place, came clu&s;tering into the &s;treates, as mo&s;t de&s;ireous to haue a &s;ight of the man. Among all which multitude, there was a certaine wo|man, pa&s;&s;ing faire, and beutifull, who came as the re&s;te did, to behold <HI>Dioxippus</HI> in his brauery. As <HI>Dioxippus</HI> rode through the throng, ca&s;ting his eyes rounde aboute and e&s;pying this young woman (an enty&s;ing &s;nare of &s;lip|pery Lady <HI>Venus</HI>) was &s;uddenly ouercom with the com|lyne&s;&s;e of her countenaunce, in&s;omuch that his face was &s;eldom be&s;ide her, which was &s;ubiect to as many colours (by rea&s;on of the preualent, and forcible perturbation of his minde) as the chaungeable Cameleon: this affection of <HI>Dioxippus</HI> (being lyke vnto a violent &s;treame which will perforce, haue i&s;&s;ue) became &s;o manyfe&s;t in the ende to the people, then and ther a&s;&s;embled, that one with a|nother gaue this opinion, that there was &s;ome blo&s;&s;ome of beuty which had bewitched his hart. But among all the re&s;t, <HI>Diogenes Sinopen&s;is,</HI> rebuked this mans mind, &s;o lo&s;ely led with loue into lu&s;t, for he bought him a gol|den looking gla&s;&s;e, of <HI>Corynthian</HI> worke, and &s;ayde to the~ which &s;toode by him: <HI>En pugilem ve&s;trum magnum, quomad|modum
<PB REF="149"> a puella configitur.</HI> Beholde youre valliaunt wre&s;|tler, how pittifully he is pearced, and as it were, gored to the heart, with the vaine beuty of a young gyrle.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of verity or truthe, and of benefits or good turnes.</HEAD>
<P>_THis is the &s;entence of prudent <HI>Pytha|goras. <HI>Haec duo diuinitus data homini|bus, longe &s;unt pulcherrima, veritatem am|lecti, &amp; beneficijs operam dare: vtrumque enim cum Deorum immortalium operibus comparari po&s;&s;unt.</HI></HI> Two things ther be ge+uen to men from heauen, which ar mo&s;t excellent, the one is to imbrace Truthe, and the other to doo Good: both which may be compared with the workes of the Gods euerla&s;ting.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Diony&s;ius, and of Philip.</HEAD>
<P>_IT fortuned vpon a time, that <HI>Dinoy&s;ius</HI> the &s;econd, &amp; <HI>Philip</HI> y^e &s;onne of <HI>Amyntas</HI> met together, and falling into communi|cation of many matters (as the v&s;e and cu&s;tom is in conferrence, &amp; circular talke) they harped both vpon this &s;tring: <HI>Philip</HI> a&s;ked this que&s;tion of <HI>Diony&s;ius, <HI>Quomodo, cum tantum regnum accepi&s;&s;et a parente, non id defendi&s;&s;et, &amp; con&s;erua&s;&s;et.</HI></HI> How it chaunced, that he, hauing receiued &s;o ample a pa|trimony, and &s;o large an inheritaunce of his father, did not defend, and mainetaine the &s;ame. Who made this aun|&s;wer
<PB N="139" REF="149"> vnto <HI>Philip, <HI>Non mirum, quoniam cum reliqua mihi pa|ter omnia reliqui&s;&s;et: fortunam &s;olam, qua ea parauerat, &amp; tuta|tus fuerat, non etiam tradidit.</HI></HI> Meruaile not man, at that &s;ayth he, for my father leauing all thinges vnto me in a|boundaunce, to po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e: did not deliuer in lyke maner, vn|to me his flouri&s;hing fortune, and good luck, wherby he ob|tained, and gouerned the &s;ame.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the honour, exhibited to the Northerne Winde called Boreas.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_DIony&s;ius</HI> prepared a nauy of thirtie &s;ayle, well fraught with Bi&s;ket, bread, b&eacute;efe, and conuenient victuals, and no le&s;&s;e furni&s;hed with warlike nece&s;&s;a|ries, in his expedition again&s;t the <HI>Thu|rians:</HI> But the blu&s;teringe bla&s;tes of <HI>Boreas</HI> the <HI>Northren winde,</HI> wre&s;tled &s;o violently with them, that it did not onely hinder them in their pa&s;&s;age, but al&s;o &s;unck certaine of their ve&s;&s;els, rent their &s;ayles, bur&s;t their ma&s;tes, and &s;poiled al things vnto them belonging. Wherupon the <HI>Thurians</HI> exhibited heauenly honour to the <HI>Northren Winde,</HI> by a common con&s;ent proclaymed it fr&eacute;e of their incorporation, parta|ker of all immunities to their citie pertaining, allowed it an hou&s;e to dwell in, furni&s;hed with conuenient imple|ments, and vten&s;iles dome&s;ticall, and offered vnto it (as vnto a God) yearely &s;acrifices. Not the <HI>Atheniens</HI> there|fore only thought the <HI>Northren Wind</HI> their fauourer: but the <HI>Thurians</HI> al&s;o e&s;teemed it their defender. The &s;elfe &s;ame thing to haue bene done of the <HI>Megalopolites</HI> repor|teth <HI>Pau&s;anias.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB REF="150">
<HEAD>&para; The Per&s;ian law concerning the kings coun&s;elours.</HEAD>
<P>_THe cu&s;tome of the <HI>Per&s;ians</HI> was, that if any man mini&s;tred coun&s;ell to the king, in ob&s;cure, difficil, ambiguous, and doubtfull matters, he &s;hould &s;tand vpon a golden plate: And if the coun&s;ell, which he vttered, were approueable, nece&s;&s;arie, and hol&s;om, he &s;hould receiue the golden plate in recompence of of his labour, and departe &s;o rewarded. Neuerthele&s;&s;e, if he &s;tood in contradiction with the king, &amp; &s;aid otherwi&s;e then the king him&s;elfe did, it was proui|ded, that whipping and &s;kourging, &s;hould be his &s;ati&s;fac|tion and wages. But to deale in this order (wherein ex|treame iniurie apparauntlye is practi&s;ed) with a good man, agr&eacute;eeth not (in my iudgement) with rea&s;on or right: for thus ought vagabonds to be &s;erued, and &s;laui&s;h hyrelinges: greater courte&s;y, to the prudent, &s;hould be ex|hibited.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the loue of Archedicas.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ARchedicas</HI> loued a certaine harlot in <HI>Nancrata,</HI> but &s;he (in con&s;ideration of his ca&s;e) was hauty, high harted, di&s;|dainfull, pitile&s;&s;e, exacting large &s;ums and demanding vnme&s;urable gaines, for one halfe houres delectation: her fa&s;hion and cu&s;tome was, fir&s;t to haue her rewarde in hande (for &s;hee lyked to deale the &s;ure&s;t way) and then for a while to &s;hewe &s;uche &s;ignes of &s;olace and &s;uch louely lecherous tricks of di&s;port, as might con|tent the de&s;yre of him, who laide her downe &s;o liberall, or rather &s;o prodigall a payment, as &s;hee accu&s;tomably re|quired,
<PB N="140" REF="150"> afterwards &s;he would wax &s;traunge (as though &s;he were to woo againe) and wold medle no more, except &s;he were accordingly plea&s;ed. The youngman (<HI>Arche|dicas</HI> I meane) being inflamed with the loue of this har|lot, but not inioying her company, to quallyfie his kin|dled concupi&s;ence (for &s;he was wonderfull wealthy, and therfore the more high minded) fixed his phanta&s;ies &s;o firmly vpon her, and kept the image of her body &s;omuch in his memory, that at nighte going to his bed, and lay|ing him downe to &s;l&eacute;epe, &s;uch imaginations occupied his braine: that he fell into mo&s;t plea&s;aunt and delight&s;ome dreames, wherein, he thought that he was in naked bed with the woman, and v&s;ed her body in actual venery, in|&s;omuch that, <HI>Titillatione earnis &s;permate euocato,</HI> the &s;&eacute;ede of generation &s;lipped from him in his &s;l&eacute;epe: And thus were the &s;parkling flames of his affections quenched for a &s;ea&s;on.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Alexander when he was dead.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ALexander,</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Philip,</HI> and <HI>Olympias,</HI> when he was dead at <HI>Babilon,</HI> he lay vnburied: He (I &s;aye, who vaunted him&s;elfe to be the &s;onne of <HI>Iupiter</HI>) whiles his P&eacute;eres and Nobles, were at va|riaunce about &s;ucce&s;&s;ion in the kingdo~e, remained aboue ground and his carrion carka&s;&s;e wanted a &s;epulchre: which is be|&s;towed vpon the body of euery poore, impotent, and &s;uc|courles begger, y^e law of nature exacting &s;uch &s;peciall du|ties in funeralles, that the dead &s;hould not be vnbuyried: He neuerthele&s;&s;e, continued aboue ground for the &s;pace of twenty dayes and tenne, and &s;o remayned, till <HI>Ari&s;|tander Telmi&s;en&s;is</HI> (whether he was pricked thereunto
<PB REF="151"> by &s;om extraordinary, and heuenly motio~, or by &s;om other rare, &s;ecret and mi&s;tical meanes) ru&s;hed into the route of the <HI>Macedonians,</HI> and made this &s;hort &s;peache vnto them then a&s;&s;embled: <HI>Omnes omnium &s;eculorum reges Alexan|der faelicitate &s;uperauit, tam viuus, quam mortuus: Etenim Dij immortales mihi notum fecerunt, in quacunque terra ip&s;ius an|ima requiem primum e&s;&s;et habitura, cam faelicitate abundantem &amp; ab omni hostili vastatione in perpetuum fore liberam. <HI>Alex+ander,</HI></HI> when he was liueing, and now al&s;o being deade, excelled all Kings of all Ages, in felicity, happines, bea|titude, and pro&s;perytie: For the Gods euerla&s;tinge, haue reuealed and made manyfe&s;t vnto me, that in what regi|on &s;oeuer the &s;oule of <HI>Alexander</HI> fir&s;t did re&s;t, the &s;ame &s;hould be crowned with plenty and aboundance, it &s;hould not feare the wa&s;teing of forreigne force, nor be &s;ubiect to the violent inua&s;ion of the &s;pightful aduer&s;arie. When the P&eacute;eres of the people, and noble men hard the&s;e words pronounced by <HI>Ari&s;tander,</HI> they cut of all quarreling for &s;upremacie, and euery one of them put to his helping hand, with no le&s;&s;e de&s;ire then duty, to conuey <HI>Alexan|ders</HI> carka&s;&s;e, into his owne empire, that they might po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;e their Trea&s;ure, and althings in peace, hauinge a|mong them the &s;oule of &s;o Conquerous a king (&s;o wel ac|counted of in heauen, and &s;o much merueiled at in the earth) as an a&s;&s;uraunce of the valliauntne&s;&s;e, a warrant of the continuance, and a &s;peciall pledge of the perpetui|tie and euerla&s;tingnes, of the dominion vniuer&s;al. <HI>Pto|lomeus</HI> (if report may challenge credit) made inqui&s;ition and &s;earch after the dead body of great <HI>Alexander,</HI> found the &s;ame, and cau&s;ed it to be caryed (with all &s;p&eacute;ede po&s;&s;i|ble) to the citie of <HI>Alexander,</HI> &s;ituate and built in <HI>Egipt.</HI> As for the <HI>Macedonians</HI> they were calme, quiet, and &s;tyl, <HI>Perdiccas</HI> onely excepted, who pur&s;ued, <HI>Ptolomey</HI> with might and mayne (not &s;o much for the loue, duty, and re|uerence
<PB N="141" REF="151"> which he had to <HI>Alexander,</HI> as for the words of prophe&s;ie, pronounced by <HI>Ari&s;tander</HI>) and after he had ouertaken <HI>Ptolomey,</HI> he &s;tayed him perforce, in&s;omuch that there aro&s;e betwixt them, a &s;harpe and &s;udden con|flicte and encounter, about the carka&s;&s;e of y^e <HI>Macedonian</HI> Monarche (I meane) <HI>Alexa~der.</HI> This &s;kirmi&s;h was com|parable (in &s;om re&s;pect) to that which &s;proung about the &s;imulachre of <HI>Troy,</HI> as <HI>Homer</HI> recordeth, &s;aying that <HI>A|pollo</HI> ru&s;hed among y^e thicke&s;t of the Nobles for <HI>Aeneas:</HI> But <HI>Ptolomey</HI> &s;uppre&s;&s;ed the power of <HI>Perdiccas,</HI> and cooled his courage: For he made an image which re&s;em|bled <HI>Alexander</HI> the pui&s;&s;aunt, he garni&s;hed it gayly and gorgeou&s;ly: he beutifyed it with apparell of princelyne&s;&s;e, he adourned it with Epigrams, in&s;criptions, and poe&s;ies of high honour, he layde it in a <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> Chariot, and dec|ked his coffin and beiare, brauely with golde, &s;iluer, and yuory, as became the e&s;tate of an Emperour: As for the carka&s;&s;e it &s;elfe, it was but homelye handled, for it was wrapt in no co&s;tly geere, but very ba&s;ely v&s;ed, and as pre|&s;ent occa&s;ion craued, priuily &s;ent away, by &s;ecret and vn|knowne waies to thintent it might not be intercepted or &s;taid. Now whe~ the lord <HI>Perdiccas</HI> e&s;pied y^e &s;umptuous &s;i|mulachre of <HI>Alexa~der,</HI> &amp; &s;aw euery thing (as he thought) royally executed, &amp; pompou&s;lye perfourmed, hee pau&s;ed from his &s;p&eacute;edye pur&s;uit after <HI>Ptolomey,</HI> per&s;wading him&s;elfe, that he had obtayned the thinge (namely the dead body of <HI>Alexander</HI>) whereabout &s;uch &s;trife and contention kindled, and burned, betw&eacute;ene them both &s;o eagerly. But he was deluded for all that, and vnder|&s;toode the truthe &s;omwhat to late, and perceaued that he was craftely circumuented, after he had prolonged his pur&s;uit, &amp; was not able to continue the &s;ame any further Of the ende of <HI>Alexander</HI> (nothing like the cour&s;e of his lyfe) this declaration, is a cl&eacute;ere, &s;mooth, bright, and gli&s;te|ring Gla&s;&s;e.</P>
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<P>But leauing to di&s;cour&s;e of <HI>Perdiccas, Ptolomey,</HI> and <HI>Alexander</HI> (who&s;e dooings are copiou&s;ly regi&s;tred, in the volums of famous Hi&s;toriographers, and compendiou&s;ly here mencioned by me, in this &s;hort ab&s;tract, and abridg|ment) I wyll haile vp mine ancker, hoy&s;e vp my &s;ayle, and direct my &s;hipp to the thirt&eacute;enth hauen, which lyeth betwixt me, and the ende of this my determined voyage and purpo&s;ed pa&s;&s;age, hopeing that as I haue hi|therto had good luck and pro&s;perous &s;ucce&s;&s;e in my Nauigation, &s;o to finde a fyt a|riuall, aun&s;werable to mine owne expectation.</P>
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<TRAILER>&para; <HI>The ende of the thriteenth Booke of <HI>Aelianus.</HI></HI></TRAILER>
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<HEAD>&para; The thirteenth Booke of the variable Hy&s;torie of Aelianus.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>&para; Of <HI>Atalanta.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_OF <HI>Ia&s;ione Atalanta</HI> this brute is bla&s;ed. When &s;hee was borne, her father (not regarding her) for&s;ooke her vtterly, defending his fact, with this br&eacute;efe and blunt &s;aying, <HI>Non faeminis opus ha|beo, &s;ed viris,</HI> I haue no n&eacute;ede of wome~, but of me~: &s;onnes I &s;et by, but I care not for daughters. Howbeit the fellow to whom &s;he was dely|uered to be made away, did not kill her, but being tou|ched with tenderne&s;&s;e, and kindled with compa&s;&s;ion, car|ryed her to the mountaine <HI>Parthenius,</HI> and laide her by a &s;pring, wher was a gr&eacute;ene banck, a caue, &amp; a groue of oks: this hapened to her in the &s;ucking yeares of her infancy. The childe was reiected, ca&s;te away, and appointed for the &s;laughter, howbeit it came to pa&s;&s;e prepo&s;terou&s;ly, her luck being louely, and her fortune fauourable, This to be true the euent, and &s;ucce&s;&s;e of thinges evidently proue: For &s;hortly after that the babe was left to ad|uenture, a wilde beare, whom certaine huunt&s;men had lately robbed of her whelps, hauing her dugs &s;wolne, as it were, with aboundaunt increa&s;e of milk, raunged that way &amp; (as it came to pa&s;&s;e, by y^e inopinable prouidence of almighty God) was &s;o far from deuouring the &s;w&eacute;et in|fant, that &s;he delighted in it aboue all mea&s;ure, gaue it &s;uck mo&s;t tenderly: whereby in&s;ued a mitigation of woe and gr&eacute;efe to the heare, and &s;ufficient &s;u&s;tentatio~ to the
<PB REF="153"> prety babe which otherwi&s;e had b&eacute;ene comfortle&s;&s;e: This Beare after &s;h&eacute;e had geue~ &s;ucke to the Childe, rau~|ged about, to &s;&eacute;eke her whelpes which were take~ away, &amp; co~tinued her comming by y^e &s;ame place, where y^e &s;&eacute;ely infa~t lay, whome &s;h&eacute;e nour&s;ed, &s;uccoured, fo&s;tered, &amp; rel&eacute;e|ued with her milke, in &s;tede of her owne whelps, whome (becau&s;e &s;h&eacute;e had vnluckely lo&s;t) &s;h&eacute;e could not feede, and cheri&s;he. The hunt&s;men (who had &s;poyled this beare of her younge) &s;ought vpp hill &amp; downe dale for this bea&s;te, to catch &amp; in&s;nare her, that, as they had gotten y^e whelps, &s;o they might al&s;o haue the Damme: and as they were &s;earcheing euery corner of the Groue of okes, where the Beare raunged (after her accu&s;tomed manner) through pa&s;ture plotts for &s;u&s;tenance, they happened vppon <HI>A|talanta</HI> the Babe (who&s;e name, at that tyme, was not <HI>Atalanta,</HI> for it was geuen her afterwardes by occa&s;io~) and they carryed her away with them out of the wilder|nes, where &s;h&eacute;e lay de&s;olate, and for&s;aken, to their owne habitations, and dwellings, bringing her vp among the~ with &s;uch countrey fare, as with them was v&s;uall. In proce&s;&s;e of tyme, when &s;h&eacute;e began to growe in &s;tature, and increa&s;ed in yeares (althoughe youthe be &s;ubiect to infinite infectio~s, and poi&s;oned with innumerable pe&s;ti|lent enormities) yet &s;h&eacute;e (&s;uch were y^e gracious endowe|ments, of her mode&s;t minde) imbraced cha&s;titie, ab&s;tai|ned from the company of men, de&s;ired, and delighted to liue &s;olitary, and the hills of <HI>Arcadia</HI> were her accu&s;to|med walking places. Not farre from the~ce (if I &s;aid w^c|in the &s;ame circuit or compa&s;&s;e I &s;hould not lye) there was a plaine plott of land, watered with braue brokes, and &s;w&eacute;ete &s;prings, growne about wyth tall okes, open to the puffes and bla&s;ts of the whi&s;king windes, &amp; ther was a woode of a notable thickne&s;&s;e, and largene&s;&s;e. Why &s;hould yt b&eacute;e tedyous and weary&s;ome to h&eacute;ere of <HI>Atalantas</HI> denne, as in <HI>Homer</HI> of <HI>Calip&s;us?</HI> in the botto~ or valley wherof, was a certaine lo~g caue, of a wo~derful
<PB N="144" REF="153"> profundity and depthe, the pa&s;&s;age wherunto was pe|rilous, by rea&s;on of the fortifications and fences of &s;t&eacute;epe and breaknecke bancks, the cr&eacute;eping Iuy grewe thera|bout, wrapping the bodyes of the young tr&eacute;es, and ten|der plants, as yt were with armes, endeuouring to clyme vp to the very tops. There &s;pronge yellowe &s;a|fron, in the plaine plott, I meane, and al&s;o in the wyld wood there flouri&s;hed the floure deluce, and other flou|ers of &s;undry &s;orts, and diuer&s;e coulors, which did not only delight the eyes of the pa&s;&s;ingers, but did &s;o &s;ea&s;on the &s;pirable ayer with their &s;w&eacute;ete &s;auours, and perfu|med &s;mel, that the braines were abundantly comforted. And albeit they, by their fragrant, orient, aromaticall, and heauenly vertue, di&s;pear&s;ed a &s;ingular &s;ollace, and a plea&s;ure incomparable, to all the corporall &s;en&s;es and powers of the body, yet the &s;en&s;e of odoration or &s;mel|ling, peculiarly, and aboue the re&s;t, was &s;erued with ple~|tifull delectation, Furthermore, there grewe goodly lau|rell tr&eacute;es, who&s;e gr&eacute;enene&s;&s;e neuer vani&s;hed, but conti|nued and kept colour without variation or chaunge, then which comfortable hew what might mini&s;ter more recreation to the eye &s;ight. Be&s;ides the aboue rehear&s;ed plea&s;ures, there grewe at the mouth, or entraunce of the caue (as it were in the forme, of arbours) vine tr&eacute;es both red and white, clu&s;tred with purple grapes, garni|&s;hed with gr&eacute;ene crangles about the braunches, &amp; deckt with indented leaues in all places, which offered many+fe&s;t (that is &s;omwhat more then probable) arguments and tokens, that <HI>Atalanta</HI> was not in &s;ubiection to ydel|nes, nor yet vnfrutefully occupied. Furthermore there were cl&eacute;ere &s;prings, who&s;e running water re&s;embled Chri&s;tall, the hol&s;ome, and healthfull &s;treame wherof was &s;eruiceable, as well to drinke for the a&s;&s;wageing of thyr&s;t, as al&s;o to wa&s;he, &amp; to bathe y^e body, for y^e refre|&s;hing of y^e fle&s;h. The&s;e &s;prings did afford &s;peciall &s;uccour to &s;uch tr&eacute;es as grewe ny that plot of land, maintaining
<PB REF="154"> the lyfe of them with their comfortable moy&s;tenes, and pre&s;eruing the increa&s;e of &s;ap with their excellent virtue. This princely pallace (for it was a peculier place, and, to &s;ay the truthe, p&eacute;ereles) as it was fytt, apt, and conueni|ent for delectation, &s;o was it not vnm&eacute;ete, for the medita|tion of wi&s;dom, learning, &amp; knowledge: and &s;uch a place was it, as therby was declared mo&s;t euidently the &s;kil|fulnes of the young maiden, her dilligence, her art, excer|ci&s;e, indu&s;trie, and painefullnes. She was more wi&s;e then nyce, (for &s;he was nyce in no degr&eacute;e) con&s;idering y^e hard|nes of her life, &amp; how &s;h&eacute;e counted want, welth: and &s;kar|&s;ity &s;ufficient riches. For her bed, &s;he had not the fine tyke &s;tuffed with &s;ofte fethers, &s;he had not blancketts of fu&s;ti|on or flannell, &s;he had not couerlyds of co&s;tly tape&s;try, &s;he had not &s;h&eacute;etes of cho&s;en Holland, &s;he had not cur|tains of changeable &s;ar&s;enet, &s;he had not labells of glit|tering metall, &s;he had not ta&s;&s;ells of twy&s;ted &s;ilcke: but all &s;uch &s;uperfluity being put a parte and not &s;o much as once thought vppon, &s;he quieted her &s;elfe with the hard hydes of brute bea&s;ts. As for her meat, it was not pigeon, plouer, partriche, nor phe&s;aunt, it was not capon, quaile wodcok, nor herne&s;hewe: it was not larke, &s;parrowe, bullfinche, rudock, nor black byrde: but it was flea&s;he of the fore&s;t, that was her ordinary diet. Her drincke was not co~pound with grapes or with graine: but &s;imple, &s;in|gle, &s;mall, thynne, and without mixture, for it was the cl&eacute;ere running water of the riuer. And as for her appar|rell, &s;uch was it, as became her proper per&s;on, her vertu|ous e&s;tate, and &s;ober trade of lyfe: yea &s;uch, ind&eacute;ede, was it, as <HI>Diana</HI> her &s;elfe was therwithall well plea&s;ed, and in no re&s;pect di&s;contented. For &s;he had this &s;aying in her mouth, by often repetitio~, <HI>Tam in tenui &amp; inornato vestitu, quam in perpetua virginitatis con&s;eruatione, Dianam imtari volo,</HI> I meane to imitate <HI>Diana,</HI> as well in playne and homely garments, as in the k&eacute;eping of perpetuall virgi|nity and maidenhed. This <HI>Atalanta,</HI> was by nature,
<PB N="145" REF="154"> &s;wiftfooted, in &s;o much that no wild bea&s;t was of power, &s;trength, or abilyty to out run her, nor any man of might &s;ufficient to in&s;nare &amp; tangle her by traps, if &s;he were di&s;|po&s;ed to fetch her ful cour&s;e: Not only &s;uch therfor as &s;aw her, but &s;uch al&s;o as heard of her by report, were kindled with y^e fier of affection to loue &s;o worthy a maiden of ho|nor. But let vs proc&eacute;ede (if it &s;&eacute;eme not troubl&s;ome) to de|&s;cribe &amp; &s;et forth, her beutyful fauour, &amp; other ornaments of the mind, which made her a mirrour to the multitude. And fir&s;t of al, to begin at y^e wel hed, namely with her &s;ta|ture &amp; bignes (when &s;he was but a wench in compari&s;o~ of woma~s degr&eacute;e) &s;he &s;urpa&s;&s;ed all of the female &s;ex, vniuer|&s;ally without exception: notwith&s;tanding they had a&s;pi|red to maturitie of yeares, and fully attained to perfecti|on and rypnes of Age. As for her fauour, and comelynes (as well in proportion, as in complexion) no damo&s;ell in all <HI>Peloponne&s;us</HI> might be her match, her countenaunce was manlyke, and &s;omwhat &s;ower to beholde, the occa&s;i|on wherof, was her foode and &s;u&s;tenaunce, which was (as is before reme~bred) the fle&s;h of &s;auage &amp; vntamed bea&s;ts: &s;he was &s;toute, &s;terne, valiaunt, victorious, couragious, and con&s;tant, &s;he abandoned all wanton and in&s;olent ex|cerci&s;es, &s;h&eacute;e did not addict, conforme, and apply her &s;elfe to the company of women and wenches, to follow their practi&s;es in the hils which &s;he haunted, &s;he kept her accu|&s;tomed clo&s;&s;et, and chamber v&s;uall, &s;he was not of their number to whom the mothers haue geuen &s;ucke, or the nources milke and pappe, &s;he was not cumbred with &s;u|perfluous fattnes of fle&s;he, and why? becau&s;e &s;he kept her body within the limits of mea&s;urable quantitie, and in|different &s;ub&s;taunce, by Hunting, and &s;emblable excerci|&s;es of actiuenes &amp; moueing: her haire was yellowe, but not by any extraordinary meanes, (as many women v&s;e to coulour their locks) not with &s;tayning Lye, not w^c trumpery oinctments, nor any &s;uch ylfauoured &s;labber|&s;auces: but her vi&s;&s;age being couloured with the beutifull
<PB REF="155"> beames of the glorious &s;unne, glittered more cleare and bright then gold, &s;iluer, or any other metall or minerall. What floure in the feeld or the garden, is &s;o faire, &s;o fyne, &amp; &s;o fragrant as the face of a pure and vnblemi&s;hed vir|gin &s;hining with &s;hamefa&s;tnes? There were in <HI>Atalanta</HI> twoo qualities, which moued men to admire and woonder her countenance of maie&s;ty, &amp; wel proportioned making, feare al&s;o and terror which her grim lookes did &s;trike in|to the hearts of the beholders: No white liuerd or Lub|berly Lurdane might loue her &s;eeing her frowning face, no cowardely turneback, might abide to behold her: ther was &s;uch a brightnes yoked with her beuty, that they both, lincked together, blinded the eyes of the lookers on. Many things made people meruaile at her, &amp; principally, this, for that &s;he came &s;eldom in &s;ight: for &s;he did not offer her &s;elfe of &s;et purpo&s;e to be viewed of any man, but vpon occa&s;ion, whe~ &s;he was cha&s;ing &s;ome wild bea&s;t, or taking reuengment vpon one or other with &s;odain &amp; &s;harp force, then app&eacute;ered &s;he to &s;uch as were within the compa&s;&s;e of the ground, wher &s;he was to be &s;&eacute;ene like a &s;parkling &s;tarre, or rather, like a fla&s;he of lightening, clattering out of a cloude: after which appearaunce &s;he vani&s;hed with &s;uddaine motion, like an Arrowe out of a Bowe, and hid her&s;elf among the thick Okes in the gr&eacute;ene Groue, or els in &s;om vally, and &s;hadowed &s;ecret angle. It fortuned that two youngmen of the country bordering hard by, who&s;e names were <HI>Hylaeus,</HI> and <HI>Rhoecus</HI> both <HI>Centaures,</HI> two pre&s;umptuous companions, &amp; inclined to lechery &amp; wan|tonne&s;&s;e, re&s;orted to the caue or denne of <HI>Atalanta,</HI> about midnight, hoping (as it might be &s;u&s;pected) to obtain &s;uch grace and fauour at her hands, as they them&s;elues would wi&s;he and de&s;ire. The&s;e twoo lu&s;ty blouds, in this their louely enterpri&s;e, v&s;ed no Mu&s;icians or any thinge els which youngmen were accu&s;tomed vnto, in the City, but they had flaming torches with them, which ca&s;t a glitte|ring
<PB N="146" REF="155"> lighte, at the &s;hineing &s;ier whereof, the people ge|nerally, quaked for feare, <HI>Atalanta</HI> only excepted. Then, Lo, did they &s;tripp the pinetr&eacute;es of their braunches, wher|of they made wreathes, and garlands, adorning them|&s;elues therwithall, and running vp hill and downe dale with a continuall clattering noy&s;e of weapons, burning vp tr&eacute;es in their pa&s;&s;age towardes the maydens man&s;i|on, mo&s;te iniuriou&s;ly: She, not ignorant of their intent (for &s;he &s;pyed the flickering flames throughe a clyfte, or rifte) and knowing very well what fanta&s;ticall, fonde, and furious fellowes they were, was neuer a whit di&s;|maid, nor once chaunged her countenaunce (a &s;en&s;ible argument of a minde fr&eacute;e from commotions) but bent her bowe tightly, drewe it &s;trongly, and leuelled a &s;harpe arrow at one of them, wherwithall he was &s;o wounded, that immediatly followed an ineuitable faintnes of all the limmes and members, in &s;o much that his feete faul|tred vnder the burthen of his body, and downe he fell to the grounde, as to much inf&eacute;ebled, to &s;uccour him&s;elfe. The other companion, perceauing what was done, laide loue a&s;ide, and turned his &s;tudy a contrarie waye, he for|gate wooing wordes, and beetoke him to woundinge weapons, as one preci&s;ely purpo&s;ed, and ab&s;olutly deter|mined, to take pre&s;ent and vndeferred reuengment, of his companions de&s;truction. Whiles he was harne&s;&s;ing him &s;elfe to tho&s;e practi&s;es of ho&s;tilitie, and &s;ought to be fur|ni&s;hed compleatly with force of furiou&s;ne&s;&s;e, <HI>Atalanta</HI> di&s;charged a &s;wift, and a &s;harpe headed flighte at him al|&s;o, which wroughte in him &s;emblable &amp; &s;odaine di&s;patch, in all re&s;pects, as it did in his partener. And thus much of <HI>Atalanta Ia&s;ione,</HI> at this in&s;tant, &s;uppo&s;e I &s;ufficient, wherin (as in a mirour, and a cleere looking gla&s;&s;e) we may behold the natiuitie and byrthe, the education and bringing vp, the practi&s;es and behauiour, to be &s;hort, the comendable cour&s;e of the lyfe of <HI>Atalanta.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>&para; Of Macareus, who for his crueltie, and wickednes was puni&s;hed, of the Gods euerla&s;ting.</HEAD>
<P>_A Certaine man of <HI>Mitylen,</HI> named <HI>Macareus,</HI> a &s;acrificing prie&s;te of God <HI>Bacchus,</HI> in countenaunce and fauour, re&s;embled great gentlenes and cour|te&s;ie, yet in lyfe, and maners, no man more wicked, no man more abhomi|nable. It fortuned vpon a time, that a certaine &s;oiourner lodged at his hou&s;e, and committed to his credit, a certaine &s;um of money in golde, This <HI>Ma|careus,</HI> being a&s;&s;aulted with auarice, and caryed as it were into captiuitie to couetou&s;ne&s;&s;e, makes a hole w^c a mattock, in a &s;ecret place of the temple, and therein hides the golde, where with he was put in tru&s;te: after a fewe dayes were expired, the &s;oiourner de&s;ired to haue his owne, vpon which reque&s;t <HI>Macareus</HI> led the man (mi&s;t|tru&s;ting no mi&s;ch&eacute;efe, nor doubting any daunger) into the temple, vnder a pretence, cloke, and colour, to re&s;tore the man his right, and hauing (as he thought) oportunitie of time and place, to worke his villanie, murthered the man: which being compa&s;&s;ed to his contentation, he tooke vp the golde, and layd the right owner thereof (whom he had iniuriou&s;ly &s;layne) in the &s;elfe &s;ame place, couered him ouer with earth, and damd vp the pit in &s;uch &s;ort as althings (in his thinking) were cock &s;ure, per&s;wading him &s;elfe that, as men be deceiued &amp; mocked, &s;o the powers &s;u|pernall (the eternall Gods I meane) might be deluded, and blinded. But the matter fell out vnhappely enough- and had another euent then was hoped for on <HI>Macare|us</HI> parte: for after a few daies were pa&s;&s;ed, the &s;olemne &s;eruice, and ob&s;equies, of God (which were yearely) ap|proched, and was celebrated, accordinge to the auncient
<PB N="147" REF="156"> cu&s;tome, wherein <HI>Macareus</HI> behauinge him&s;elfe after a gorgeous and gloryous e&s;tate, and being very bu&s;y in the fe&s;tiuall ceremonies, his two &s;onnes, which were left at home, did imitate their fathers order in holy &s;eruice, the one repre&s;enting the oblation, the other the &s;acrificer, in &s;uch &s;ort, &amp; effectual maner, that the younger brother ca&s;t him&s;elf pro&s;trate vpon the ground, and laid his head vpo~ a block very m&eacute;ekly, which the elder brother with an old ru&s;ty whineard or cankard woodknif, did chop of from the &s;houlders: Anon came the &s;eruants of the hou&s;e, &amp; &s;ee|ing what was done, gaue a great &s;hout, a terrible outcry, and pitiful noy&s;e, as merueilou&s;ly ama&s;ed at &s;o &s;traunge and bloudy a &s;pectacle. The vehemency of this lamen|table clamour, and outrageous roaryng, &s;p&eacute;edely pear|ced to the eares of the mother, who came, lyke a mad wo|man, to vnder&s;tand the meaning of the matter: and &s;&eacute;e|yng one of her &s;onnes &s;laughtered, &amp; weltring in &s;tremes of bloud, and the other holding a ru&s;ty glaue in his hand, and all &s;tayned with the crim&s;on bloud of his brothers flea&s;he, caught vp a fyre brande very fearcely, and in the heate of her great rigour, did &s;o thumpe and &s;ow&s;e her liueing &s;onne, that he dyed the death in her owne pre|&s;ence. Then cam tideings to <HI>Macareus</HI> what butcheries were committed at home in his priuate hou&s;e, who, im|mediatly vppon the report, lefte holy &s;eruice, and, lyke a moone&s;icke man, or rather a f&eacute;eind of hell, ranne home with might and maine, and haueing in his hand at the &s;ame in&s;tant a burninge torche or taper, dyd &s;o beat, bounce, and ba&s;t his wife, ouer euery limme and ioynct, that &s;h&eacute;e was &s;oone di&s;patched of life, al&s;o. The rumors of the&s;e murders, &s;pread abroad amonge the multitude, in &s;omuch that, vpon the generall knowledge of &s;uch rare, and &s;eldome chaunces, <HI>Macareus</HI> was apprehended, exa|mined, and tormented, to confe&s;&s;e each circum&s;taunce of this bloudy tragedie: And as he was opening the mat|ter,
<PB REF="157"> and di&s;couering the mi&s;chiefe which he committed in he holy temple, prophaning a &s;euerall and &s;acred chap|pell, with twoo notorious and inexpiable tre&s;pa&s;&s;es, the panges of death oppre&s;&s;ed him, and he gaue vp the gho&s;te vppon a &s;oudaine. As for the innocent &s;oiourner, who lo&s;t his life again&s;t lawe, and con&s;cience: to him was greate honor exhibited, and a monument made, at the mandate and commaundment of highe <HI>Ioue,</HI> in his perpetuall re|membrance. Thus was <HI>Macareus</HI> puni&s;hed, in his wife, in his children, and in him&s;elf, for his thefte, his murther, and abhominable hehauiour.</P>
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<HEAD>&para; Of the Tumbe of Belus, and the in|fortunate woonder &s;hewed to Xerxes.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_XErxes,</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Darius,</HI> opening the tumbe of auncient <HI>Belus,</HI> found therin a certaine ve&s;&s;ell, or mea&s;ure of gla&s;&s;e, wherin the body of the dead man was laid, drowned all ouer with oyle: yet was not the ve&s;&s;ell full, but did lacke almo&s;t a hand bredth, to the brymme: Next vnto this mea&s;ure lay a columne or piller, of a pre|ty bigne&s;&s;e, wheruppon was imprinted this Patheticall poe&s;ie.</P>
<P><HI>Qui hunc &s;epulchrum aperuerit, &amp; vrnam non impleuerit: pe&s;|&s;ime &s;e habuerit.</HI> He which openeth this tumbe, and doth not &s;ill vpp the mea&s;ure, &s;hall haue ill lucke, and crooked fortune. When <HI>Xerxes</HI> had read the&s;e words, his coulour altered, and he waxed as pale as a&s;hes, commaunding, that oile &s;hould be poured into the mea&s;ure immediatly, without intermi&s;&s;ion or cea&s;ing, till it was repleni&s;hed &amp; filled. There was labour on al &s;ides applied, but yet to no purpo&s;e, oile was brought, and emptyed in the mea&s;ure, but it could not be filled for all that, after continuaunce
<PB N="148" REF="157"> of toyling without aun&s;werable &s;ucce&s;&s;e, they &s;till &s;uppo|&s;ing to &s;&eacute;e a profitable end of their paine, and yet di&s;apoin+ted, beganne to be weary of &s;uch wa&s;te working, and gaue ouer &s;o fruteles a labour. Then was the Tumbe clo&s;ed vp againe, the ve&s;&s;ell b&eacute;eing vnfilled, and <HI>Xerxes</HI> the king departed with a heauy and perplexed &s;pirit: and good cau&s;e why, for it cam to pa&s;&s;e vpon him, as the poe&s;ie did progno&s;ticate, which was ingrauen vppon the piller aboue &s;pecified. For he prepareing an army of fifty thou|&s;and men, and marching forward with the &s;ame, again&s;t the <HI>Grecians,</HI> had very yll &s;ucce&s;&s;e, and vntoward luck: for not his Souldiours only were &s;laine in cruell battell mo&s;t mi&s;erably, but he him&s;elf al&s;o, at his returne from the field, fini&s;hed his lyfe mo&s;t infortunatly, being mur|thered in his bed in the night &s;ea&s;on, by the hands of his &s;onne, begotten of his owne flea&s;he, bloude and bone: then which death what myght be more lamentable?</P>
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<HEAD>&para; Of <HI>Euripides,</HI> who was &s;tarck druncke, at a certaine Bancket</HEAD>
<P>_KIng <HI>Archelaus</HI> made a delicate &amp; &s;ump|tuous bancket, for his frends and fami|liars: wherat <HI>Euripides</HI> was pre&s;ent, ca|row&s;eing ch&eacute;erly, and &s;paring neyther, bole, goblet, maizer, nor cup: at the la&s;te he was ouercome, and b&eacute;ecame &s;tarcke &s;taring drunck. The Poet b&eacute;eing in his madde moode (witte &s;uppre&s;&s;ed and remembraunce quite quenched) waxed wanton, and beganne to be full of lecherous and lewde toyes, imbracing the Tragicall Poet <HI>Agatho,</HI> in his armes, (for he &s;at next his elbow) and ki&s;&s;ed him, as if he had b&eacute;en a flowreing younge
<PB REF="158"> damo&s;els, when he was (to &s;ay the truth) a man of four|ty yeares olde, and vpward. <HI>Age&s;ilaus</HI> demaunding whe|ther he de&s;erued to be e&s;t&eacute;emed, and made of, yea by God &s;aith he, <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">. For, not the glorious &s;pring only, of all good things is the be&s;t, but al&s;o the plentifull harue&s;t.</P>
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<HEAD>&para; Who fir&s;t fell in loue, with beuty|full Boyes.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_LAius</HI> (as it is imagined) was the fir&s;t that boyled in the loue, of faire and beutyfull Boyes, in&s;omuch that, by the force of this perturbation, he &s;tole away <HI>Chry&s;ippus</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Pe|lops:</HI> whereupon &s;prunge a cu&s;tome among the <HI>Thebans,</HI> which di&s;pen|&s;ed in &s;uch &s;orte with y^e filthy affection, that it was not counted or thought any poynte of di&s;&s;hone&s;tye, to loue faire faced Boyes, and to v&s;e the bodies of per&s;onable &s;pringalles.</P>
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<HEAD>&para; The properties of the wines of Arcadia, Tha&s;us, and Achaia.</HEAD>
<P>_IN <HI>Heraia,</HI> a f&eacute;eldy plotte of <HI>Arcadia</HI> growe Vine tr&eacute;es, aboundinge with clu&s;ters of grapes, who&s;e &s;ap and &s;yr|rop being pre&s;&s;ed out, and turned into the nature of wine, hath that efficacy in it, being ta&s;ted, that it maketh the <HI>Arcadians</HI> as wi&s;e as wodcocks, or rather much wor&s;e, namely m&eacute;ere blocki&s;h and &s;en&s;ele&s;&s;e. Moreouer the &s;elfe &s;ame wine hath this &s;ingular opera|tion in it, that by the drinking of the &s;ame, the women of
<PB N="149" REF="158"> <HI>Arcadia</HI> are made pregnant, great bellyed, fruitful and full of children. The <HI>Tha&s;ians</HI> haue two &s;orts of wines among them, of which one after it is ta&s;ted, lulleth men a &s;l&eacute;epe, and mini&s;treth vnto them &s;w&eacute;et re&s;t, and delecta|ble quietnes: the other is an aduer&s;ary and profe&s;&s;ed foe to lyfe, a cau&s;e of tedious watchinge, &amp; an in&s;trument of trouble and mole&s;tation. Furthermore in <HI>Achaia,</HI> be|&s;ides <HI>Ceraunia,</HI> is wine made, the drinking whereof doth affoorde a &s;pecyall benefit to great bellied women, for it procureth &s;p&eacute;edy, and ea&s;y deliuerance to them, of their abor&s;ements.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Thebes taken by Alexander, and of Pindarns</HEAD>
<P>_WHen <HI>Alexander</HI> had taken the citie of <HI>Thebes,</HI> he &s;olde all the fr&eacute;e men there, the prie&s;tes only excepted: and &s;uch al&s;o as were his fathers aunci|ent intertainers (for king <HI>Philip</HI> in his young yeares was deliuered to them in ho&s;tage) he di&s;charged: with all &s;uch as were knit to them in any degr&eacute;e of kynred, or lyne of con&s;anguinitie. Furthermore he made the fami|lie of <HI>Pindarus</HI> honourable, and &s;uffered his hou&s;e to &s;tand &s;afe, &s;ounde, and vndamnified. To conclude, he made a &s;ore &s;laughter of the <HI>Thebans,</HI> and a bloudy but|chery, for there were &s;laine of them foure&s;kore and ten-thou&s;and: and thirtie thou&s;ande he &s;ubdued as captiues, and pri&s;oners.</P>
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<HEAD>&para; Of Ly&s;ander.</HEAD>
<P><HI>LY&s;ander</HI> the <HI>Lacedemonian,</HI> at what time he was in <HI>Ionia,</HI> reiected the lawes of <HI>Lycurgus</HI> as laborious and trouble&s;ome, leading his lyfe in loo&s;ene&s;&s;e, leudnes, lechery, and licentiou&s;ne&s;&s;e.</P>
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<HEAD>&para; Of Lamia.</HEAD>
<P><HI>LAmia</HI> an harlot of <HI>Athens,</HI> had this &s;entence in her mouth, <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">. The Lyons of <HI>Grecia,</HI> are made Foxes at <HI>Ephe&s;us.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>&para; Of Diony&s;ius who wedded two wyues in one day.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_DIony&s;ius</HI> matched him&s;elfe in marri|age with two wiues in one day, nam|ly with <HI>Doris Locren&s;is,</HI> and <HI>Ari&s;ta|nela</HI> the daughter of <HI>Hippanius,</HI> and &s;i&s;ter to <HI>Dion,</HI> with whom he &s;lepte, and tooke his plea&s;ure by turnes: The one of them folowed in his expediti|ons, and warlike affaires, and there did him &s;eruice: the other tarried at home, to intertaine him at his returne from battell, and to &s;hew him plea&s;ure in time of peace, and tranquillitie.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the &s;ubduing of the Per&s;i|ans, and of I&s;ocrates.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ISocrates</HI> the Rhethorician (as I haue re|ceaued by report) was the cau&s;e efficient of the <HI>Per&s;ians</HI> &s;ubiection, and the procu|rer of their &s;eruitude vnder the <HI>Macedo|nians.</HI> For the <HI>Panegyrical</HI> oratio~ which <HI>I&s;ocrates</HI> made to the <HI>Grecians</HI> was carryed into <HI>Mace|donia,</HI> and fir&s;t of all excited <HI>Philip</HI> again&s;t all <HI>A&s;ia:</HI> and &s;ucce&s;&s;iuely, after his death, <HI>Alexander</HI> his &s;onne, heire to all his fathers po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, that hee might fini&s;he the quarell which his father begonne.</P>
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<PB N="150" REF="159">
<HEAD>&para; That Meton withdrew him&s;elfe from a voyage which he &s;hould haue gone, and of the out|rage of Vly&s;&s;es.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_MEton</HI> the A&s;tronomer, when the Ar|mie of the <HI>Grecians</HI> made their expe|dition and voyage into <HI>Sicilia,</HI> he was in&s;crouled, and named in the bill of particulars for one of the number. The man pre&s;uppo&s;ing what daun|gers were lyke to in&s;ue, and followe, beganne to be affrayde, and &s;&eacute;emed wonderfull loth to &s;aile vpon the Seas, wherupon he deui&s;ed with him&s;elfe what menes he might v&s;e to auoyd &s;o venturous a voy|age. After he had experime~ted many, but none, for al that auailable for his purpo&s;e, he fained him&s;elf frantique, and di&s;&s;embled madne&s;&s;e: Furthermore that his hipocri|&s;ie in this point might challenge credit among men, and draw them into an opinion that hee was lunatique in|d&eacute;ede, he played many outragious partes, and practi&s;ed much mi&s;ch&eacute;efe, amonge all which his furious v&s;age and de&s;perate behauiour, he &s;et his owne hou&s;e (which was nigh to <HI>Paecilia</HI>) one a light fyre, and burned it to coles and a&s;hes. Whereupon the Captaines generall, and go|uernours of the army, &s;uppo&s;ing that he was, as he pre|tended, mad ind&eacute;ede da&s;hed his name out of the Cataloge or Table, and di&s;chargd him of that voiage: Now que&s;ti|onle&s;&s;e (in mine opinion) <HI>Meton</HI> di&s;&s;embled his madnes much more fraudulently and craftely then did <HI>Vly&s;&s;es Ithacen&s;is:</HI> for <HI>Palamedes</HI> tooke this man in y^e tryp &amp; re|buked him, as for the other, not &s;o muche as one man a+monge all the <HI>Atheniens,</HI> did &s;o muche as once vtter a worde again&s;t him in his reprehen&s;ion.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB REF="160">
<HEAD>&para; Of the ample liberalitie of Ptolomeus.</HEAD>
<P>_IT is &s;ayde, that <HI>Ptolomeus</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Lagus,</HI> had a &s;ingular delight and plea&s;ure in making his fr&eacute;endes rich: for &s;aide he, <HI>Melius e&s;t ditare quam dite&s;cere:</HI> Better it is to inriche other, then a man to in|riche him&s;elfe.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the ver&s;es of Homer, and of his poetrie,</HEAD>
<P>_THe olde auncients (time out of minde) &s;ou~g the heroicall Ver&s;es of <HI>Homer,</HI> diuided into certaine partes and por|tions: Some made a rehear&s;all of the contention by &s;ea continued, &s;ome of the victory of <HI>Agamemnon,</HI> &s;ome of the furni&s;hed fl&eacute;ete and prepared Na|uie, &s;ome of <HI>Patroclus,</HI> the rewardes of his ran&s;ome, the open Pageants appoynted in his honour, and their prices, &s;ome of the violating of oathes, and cracking of credit, &s;ome of the exployts and martiall feates at <HI>Pylus,</HI> &amp; <HI>Lacedemon,</HI> &s;ome of the barks and ve&s;&s;els pa&s;&s;ing vn|der &s;ayle, &s;ome of <HI>Alcinous</HI> fables, &s;ome of the Bathes, Banes, Lauers, inchauntmentes, and witchcraftes of <HI>Cyrces,</HI> &s;ome of the &s;laughters of the wanton wooers, co~|mitted as well in open feelde, as al&s;o in <HI>Laerta:</HI> &s;ome one thing, and &s;ome another. <HI>Lycurgus</HI> of <HI>Lacedemonia</HI> car|ried the whole body of <HI>Homers</HI> Poetry into <HI>Grecia,</HI> out of <HI>Ionia</HI> in his voyage and peregrination. After that (as &s;undry circum&s;taunces mini&s;tred occa&s;ion, (<HI>Pi&s;i&s;tratus,</HI> collected all his ver&s;es together in a boundell, and redu|ced them in to two formall Tomes, &s;ections, or volumes, wherof the one is called the <HI>Iliades,</HI> the other is named the <HI>Ody&s;&s;es.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="151" REF="160">
<HEAD>Of diuers men which were vnmea&s;urably doulti&s;h, blocki&s;he, and fooli&s;he.</HEAD>
<P>_THe makers of enterludes, and pen|ners of familiar playes, make menti|on of one <HI>Polydorus,</HI> who was won|derfull blocki&s;he, and doulti&s;he: This man (be&s;ides that his incomparable foli&s;hnes) was made of a &s;traunge and a miraculous kinde of metall, for notwith&s;tanding he was in great and notorious daungers, of fyer, and &s;uch like, yet was h&eacute;e &s;o fr&eacute;e from any inconuenience and harme, that his &s;kynne was not once &s;ynged, much le&s;&s;e &s;corched: then how farre his fle&s;h was from &s;uffering &s;hipwracke, plea&s;e it you to giue iudgement. Further|more, they make commemoratio~ of another fellow, cal|led, <HI>Cecyllio,</HI> who attempted to tell the waues of the &s;welling Sea as they boyled in the tumbling &s;treame, (O extreame fooli&s;he A&s;&s;e) There is in like maner, a certaine brute blowne abrode, of one <HI>Sannyrio,</HI> a fel|low not vnlike the la&s;t, of whome w&eacute;e made lately rela|tion, who &s;ought for a ladder to go downe into a pitcher: Finally, it is recorded that <HI>Chorebus,</HI> &amp; <HI>Melitiades</HI> had but &s;mall witt, in their great b&eacute;etle heds compri&s;ed.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of the people Apolloniatae, of their countrey: and of Epidamnus.</HEAD>
<P>_THe city of the people <HI>Apolloniatae,</HI> bor|dereth vppon the brymmes of <HI>Epidam|nus,</HI> &s;ituate in the bo&s;om of <HI>Ionia:</HI> In certaine la~ds lying therabout, are mines of brim&s;tone, which runne w^t a &s;treame as doe other fre&s;h &s;prings and riuers. Not farr from thence is a fyer, which flameth continu|ally, and a litle hill not of any greate compa&s;&s;e, but yet
<PB REF="161"> terrible by rea&s;on of his perpetuall burneing, this hill &s;melleth of <HI>Suphur</HI> and <HI>Allum,</HI> and round about it are goodly, flouri&s;hing groues, and gay, gr&eacute;ene medowes: which (notwith&s;tanding they are pitched nye the places remembred, which &s;pit fla&s;hes of flameing fyer) yet are they free from harme, &amp; ha&s;ard, and theyr braunches, boughes, twigs, blo&s;&s;oms, leaues, and what &s;oeuer b&eacute;e|&s;ides, &s;u&s;taine no manner of annoyau~ce. As for the fyer yt &s;elfe, that burneth day and nyght without intermi&s;|&s;ion or cea&s;ing, without extingui&s;hment or quenching (as the <HI>Apolloniatae</HI> reported) before the battell b&eacute;e|twixt them had, and the <HI>Illyrians.</HI> The&s;e <HI>Apolloniatae</HI> expelled (according to the <HI>Lacedemonian</HI> lawe) &s;traun|gers out of their citie. But y^e people of <HI>Epidamnus</HI> prohi|bit none their country, &s;o farr be they from the di&s;po&s;iti|on of the former people.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>An old prouerbe of Phrynicus.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_PHrinycus</HI> feareth a &s;warme of wa&s;pes like a cockrel. This adage or prouerbe, is agr&eacute;eable to &s;uch as &s;uffer harme and hurt: For when <HI>Phrynicus</HI> the Tragedio|grapher, or writer of &s;tately and pithy playes, was in captiuity &amp; impri&s;onment at <HI>Miletum,</HI> h&eacute;e being in a greate feare and horror of minde, for his pre&s;ent e&s;tate, was by that meanes ca&s;t out, of the <HI>Athe|niens.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="152" REF="161">
<HEAD>Of Diony&s;ius.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_DIony&s;ius</HI> y^e great Tyrant of <HI>Sicilia,</HI> had Tragedies in highe venerati|on, and bloudy &s;howes, (which ex|cited &s;orrowes &amp; lamentations) he preci&s;e&s;ly commended, which repre|&s;entations h&eacute;e him&s;elfe, erwhile, would publi&s;he and practi&s;e. As for Comedies, enterludes, and popu|lar playes, he did not regard them but vtterly reiect the~, in re&s;pect of this rea&s;on, that they prouoked laughter, which he, at no hand, might acquaint him&s;elf withall.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>The Opinion of Cleomenes, concerning Homer, and He&s;iod.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_CLeomenes</HI> after his homely ma~ner, &s;pake br&eacute;efly and wi&s;ely &s;aying, thus. <HI>Lacedaemoniorum poeta Homerus, He|lotarum vero He&s;iodus. <HI>Homer</HI></HI> is the Poet of the <HI>Lacedemonia~s,</HI> and <HI>He|&s;iod</HI> of the <HI>Helotans:</HI> becau&s;e the fir&s;t di&s;cour&s;eth of warrs and martiall prowe&s;&s;e, this other of hu&s;bandry, and Tillage,</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of one which willingly dyed, to the end he might &s;ee his predece&s;&s;ours.</HEAD>
<P>_A Certaine <HI>Megalopolitane</HI> of <HI>Arcadia,</HI> who&s;e name was <HI>Cercidas,</HI> lying vppon his death bed, &s;aid to a co~pany of his acquainta~ce the&s;e words. <HI>Non aegre morte~ obio, &s;pero namque
<PB REF="162"> me conuenturum ex philo&s;ophis Pythagoram, ex hi&s;toricis He cataeum, ex mu&s;icis Olympum, ex poetis Homerum.</HI> I am not loth to departe this life, for I hope it wil be my good luck to &s;&eacute;e and talcke with <HI>Pythagoras,</HI> among the philo&s;o|phers: with <HI>Hecataens</HI> among the hi&s;toriagraphers, w^c <HI>Olympus</HI> among the mu&s;icians, and with <HI>Homer</HI> a|mo~g the <HI>Poets.</HI> Which words &s;o &s;oone as he had vttered, he gaue vp the gho&s;te.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of the Phrygian harmonie.</HEAD>
<P>YF any man &s;ound the harmonie of <HI>Phrygia</HI> vnto the <HI>Celaenes,</HI> the pipe moueth as if it weare quicke: if yt b&eacute;e &s;ounded to <HI>Apollo</HI> yt is quiet, &s;till, and void of &s;tyrring.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of the Temple of Homer, and of his picture.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_PTolomeus Philopater,</HI> building a Temple in the honour of <HI>Homer,</HI> placed his picture in the &s;ame, very &s;&eacute;emely and orderly &s;itting, &amp; made rounde about him all &s;uch cities as fauoured <HI>Homer,</HI> and e&s;t&eacute;emed of his name. <HI>Galateon</HI> the painter, de&s;+cribed the &s;ame Poet, in liuely cou|lours artificially, in this manner: that is to &s;ay, &s;pueing, vomiting, and as yt were ca&s;ting vp a full and ouer bur|thened &s;tomacke, and all other Poets, of greate dignity and worthines, lapping and licking vp the &s;uperfluitie of his Gorge, namely the loth&s;ome vomyt. A homly and loth&s;ome de&s;cription, but yet an excellent and &s;ingular my&s;terie.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="153" REF="162">
<HEAD>&para; Of the Lacdemonian Lycurgus.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_LYcurgus</HI> the <HI>Lacedemonian,</HI> and &s;on to <HI>Eunomus,</HI> being purpo&s;ed to con|forme and &s;hape the <HI>Lacedemonians</HI> (his country men) to iu&s;tice and equy|tie, receaued an vnworthy pen&s;ion and reward, inco~&s;ideratio~ of an enterpri&s;e &s;o honourable, for <HI>Alexander</HI> da&s;hed out one of his eyes by ca&s;ting a &s;tone at him (as &s;ome &s;up+po&s;e) or as other&s;om think by &s;miting him with a cudgel or wa&s;ter, This example is agr&eacute;eable to &s;uch as ar other|wi&s;e recompenced, then their expectation and hope did put them in comfort of, by painted promi&s;es. <HI>Euphorus</HI> reporeth that this <HI>Lycurgus</HI> was thru&s;t into exile and bani&s;hement, where he dyed with hunger, and peri&s;hed with fami&s;hment.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of diuers men, to whom their owne lawes haue bene preiudicial, and their owne &s;tatuts an hinde|raunce.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_LYcurgus</HI> enacted and made a lawe, that wome~ &s;hould not ride in coches at the fe&s;tiual &s;olemnities of the tri|umphes called <HI>Mi&s;teria:</HI> what&s;oe|uer &s;he was that dur&s;te violate the law in that pointe, &s;he &s;hould &s;uffer &s;uch penaltie as it plea&s;ed him to ap+poynt. So it fortuned, that his owne wyfe was the fir&s;ts that tran&s;gre&s;&s;ed the afore&s;ayde ordinance, yet notwith|&s;tanding, &s;uch was the &s;ingularitie of this lawemaker,
<PB REF="163"> that as &s;he was accu&s;ed as an offender, &s;o was &s;he al&s;o (without any countenaunce of parcialitie) condemned, and puni&s;hed as a tre&s;pa&s;&s;er. <HI>Pericles</HI> in lyke maner, enacted, y^e none &s;hould be incorporated &amp; made a me~ber of the body of the <HI>Athenien</HI> common wealth, but &s;uch who&s;e fathers and mothers were citizens legitimate and ordinarie: the which &s;tatute had infortunate &s;ucce&s;&s;e, for after he had buried his owne &s;onnes lawfully begot|ten, and thereby had no po&s;terytie to enioy the fore&s;ayde priuelege: a youngman, ba&s;ely borne, being his ba&s;tard by the body of an harlot, was lykewi&s;e excluded from the commoditie and benefit of the &s;ame &s;tatute. Whereby it is manyfe&s;t, that the purpo&s;e of <HI>Pericles,</HI> was repugnant to his fortune, and his law contrary to his luck.</P>
<P><HI>Cli&s;thenes</HI> the <HI>Athenien,</HI> was the inuenter of exile and bani&s;hment, who&s;e chaunce it was (vpon circum&s;taun|ces offered) to partake the &s;marte of his deui&s;ed puni&s;h|ment.</P>
<P><HI>Zaleucus Locen&s;is,</HI> co~maunded that the whoremonger and adulterer &s;hould lo&s;e both his eyes: But when he made that a law, he knew not what &s;hould in&s;ue, neither was the euent of things to come apparant vnto him, nei|ther had he fore&s;kil in the mutability of fortune, whereby he might haue intercepted y^e cour&s;e of &s;uch a &s;tatute. For his owne &s;onne was taken occupying a whore, &amp; therby did incurre the &s;mart of the law: Howbeit compa&s;&s;ion in this point pleaded for parcialitie, but the father being vnwilling, that a law made, &s;ealed and confirmed, with the &s;uffrages and con&s;enting voyces of all e&s;tates, &s;hould be broken: co~manded the executioner to pluck out one of his owne eyes, and one of his &s;onnes eyes, to thintent that the youngman &s;hould not be blemi&s;hed with the de|formitie of blindene&s;&s;e: nor the lawe in all re&s;pectes left vn&s;ati&s;fied.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="154" REF="163">
<HEAD>&para; Of Pindarus whom Corinna ouercame.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_PIndarus</HI> a <HI>Theban</HI> Poet, in a ca&s;e of co~tentio~ for preemine~ce &amp; &s;uperiori|tie, haueing ignorant, vn&s;kilful and vnlearned auditors, was ouercome and vanqui&s;hed of <HI>Corinna</HI> fiue &s;e|uerall times, notwith&s;tanding the controuer&s;ie was &s;o determinable, and the matter &s;o arbitrable: who&s;e blocki&s;h blindne&s;&s;e <HI>Pindarus</HI> reprouing with inuectiue words, called therwithall vpon his aduer&s;arie <HI>Corinna.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; After what &s;ort Diogenes comforted him&s;elf, in the tempe&s;tes of pinch|ing pouertie.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_DIogenes Sinopen&s;is</HI> being for&s;aken of all men, was left &s;olitary, becau&s;e of his beggerlyne&s;&s;e, and inabilitie, touching ho&s;pitalitie and intertaine|ment to bee exhibited to his acquaine|taunce, and becau&s;e of his bytter and &s;owre language which he v&s;ed of cu&s;|tome again&s;t &s;uch as he rebuked, wherby he became con|temptible, and no better accounted the~ an abiect or ca&s;t|away: at length he behaued him&s;elfe frowardly and vn|towardly, as wel in maners &amp; conditions, as in &s;peache, &amp; comunication, in&s;omuch y^t this his moro&s;itie &amp; crooked|nes, ingendered a certaine heauine&s;&s;e, wherof, in&s;ued a con&s;umption of his body (after hee was abandoned from the tables of his fr&eacute;endes, and acquaintaunce) and being thus di&s;tre&s;&s;ed, he fell to eating gr&eacute;ene herbs, and leaues which fell from tr&eacute;es, for the pre&s;eruation of his lyfe: to the partaking and ta&s;ting of which cour&s;e &s;u&s;tenaunce,
<PB REF="164"> when he perceiuing a mou&s;e to come, and behelde how pretely it did eate the offalles vpon the ground, which he had ca&s;t away, hee began to recouer him&s;elfe, and with this pre&s;ent &s;pectacle was &s;o comforted, that hee vte|red the&s;e wordes with a plea&s;aunt countenaunce: <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">. This mou&s;e hath no n&eacute;ede of the <HI>Atheniens</HI> meate and drinke, and why then art thou gr&eacute;eued (O <HI>Diogenes</HI>) that thou art not partaker with the <HI>Atheniens</HI> of their dinners and &s;uppers? by this meanes dyd hee re&s;cue and &s;uccour his hart, which before was (as it were) hanged and haultered in heauine&s;&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the body of Socrates.</HEAD>
<P>_IT is &s;uppo&s;ed that <HI>Socrates</HI> was cha&s;t, mode&s;t, and continent of body: And for that cau&s;e, in a vniuer&s;all in|fection when the <HI>Atheniens</HI> were di&s;|&s;ea&s;ed one by another lyke &s;cabby and rotten &s;h&eacute;epe, in&s;omuch that &s;ome ne|uer recouered of their di&s;ea&s;e, but died as pa&s;t all remedy, <HI>Socrates</HI> being an od man among the re&s;t, was cl&eacute;ere from all contagion of &s;ickne&s;&s;e, yea hee was not &s;o much as once mole&s;ted with any grudging of di&s;ea&s;e. Now certenly if this mans body was in &s;o &s;in|gular an e&s;tat, I leaue it to your arbitrements, to iudge of his minde.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="155" REF="164">
<HEAD>Of the &s;eruant of Diogenes, who was torne in peeces with dogges.</HEAD>
<P>_WHen <HI>Diogenes</HI> left his countrie, one of his &s;eruants named <HI>Manes,</HI> footed after him for a while, and being at length tyred with wearynes, or ra|ther di&s;daining his company, tooke his h&eacute;eles, and plaid the runnegate: when certaine men came to <HI>Dioge|nes,</HI> and gaue him adui&s;e to &s;&eacute;eke after the lewde fellow, he made them this awn&s;wer. <HI>An non turpe e&s;&s;et, cum Manes Diogenis non egeat, Diogenem Manis indigere?</HI> Is it not a bea&s;tly thing, and a d&eacute;ede di&s;commendable, that <HI>Diogenes</HI> &s;hould &s;ta~d in n&eacute;ede of <HI>Manes,</HI> and <HI>Ma|nes,</HI> contrarywi&s;e, &s;tand in no n&eacute;ede of <HI>Diogenes?</HI> The &s;elf &s;ame vnthrifty &s;eruaunt, being afterwards (as op|portunity &s;erued) apprehe~ded, was brought to <HI>Delphos</HI> was torne in p&eacute;eces and mangled in mammockes with Cur dogs: A puni&s;hment mo&s;t m&eacute;ete (I tell you truthe) for runnegates from their ma&s;ters.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of Hope.</HEAD>
<P><HI>PLato</HI> had this &s;e~tence in his mouth, <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">. Hope is the dreme of me~ whiles they are wakeing.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of Olympias, heuily lamenting the death of Alexan|der, and lying aboue ground vnburied.</HEAD>
<P><HI>OLympias</HI> the mother of <HI>Alexander,</HI> when &s;h&eacute;e hard that her &s;onne was kepte aboue grounde a longe tyme, after he was dead, &s;h&eacute;e tooke on very pittifully, &amp; made this mourneing lamentation. <HI>O fili, fili, tu cum in deorum numerum referri volueris, &amp; id perficere &s;ummo
<PB REF="165"> &s;tudio couatus &s;is, nunc neque illorum quidem, quorum omni|bus mortalibus aequale &amp; par ius e&s;t, particeps fieri potes, terrae &amp; &s;epulturae.</HI> My &s;onne, my &s;w&eacute;ete &s;onne, n&eacute;edes woulde&s;t thou be recounted among the Gods immortall, &amp; did&s;t what thou coulde&s;t to accompli&s;he thy purpo&s;e: But now, my &s;onne, my &s;w&eacute;ete &s;onne, thou art &s;o farr from being heauenly, that thou art mo&s;t vile, wa~ting the com+mon benefit of buryall: wherof not &s;o much as the low|&s;ey begger is depriued. Thus did &s;h&eacute;e bewayle her yll lucke, and frowarde fortune, detecting al&s;o, the pride and vanity of her &s;onne <HI>Alexander,</HI> in her bitter lame~|tation.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>That Xenocrates was pittifull.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_XEnocrates</HI> the <HI>Carthaginean, Platoes</HI> companion, gaue euident tokens of his pittifulnes, and manife&s;t paterns of his compa&s;&s;ion, conceiued as well towards dum creatures, and vnrea|&s;onable: as extended to men politique and ciuil As this man was &s;itting (at a certaine &s;ea&s;on) in a &s;unny place, a litle chirping &s;parrowe, being fearcely followed of a coruoraunt hauke, almo&s;t wearyed to death, and fainting in flighte, fled into the bo&s;ome of <HI>Xenocrates,</HI> which &s;elly byrd h&eacute;e entertayned with delight, and harboured it tenderly, tyll all daungers were pa&s;t. Som man would haue killed the &s;imple foule, but he gaue her fr&eacute;e pa&s;&s;age to flye whether &s;h&eacute;e would, vttering the&s;e wordes when he ca&s;t her vp into the ayre, <HI>Ho&s;ti &s;upplicem non prodidi,</HI> The &s;uccourle&s;&s;e &s;oule crauing re&s;cewe, I haue not be|trayed into the clawes of the aduer&s;arie.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="156" REF="165">
<HEAD>How Socrates aun&s;wered an impudent harlot</HEAD>
<P><HI>_XEnophon</HI> &s;ayeth, that <HI>Socrates,</HI> vp|pon a time, fell in communication with the harlot <HI>Theodota,</HI> a woman (notwith&s;tanding her lewdenes of lyfe, and corruption of manners) pa&s;&s;ing faire and bewtifull. He had conference al&s;o with <HI>Cali&s;te,</HI> who vttered the&s;e words in cour&s;e of talke to <HI>Socrates, <HI>Ego tibi Socrates, multum prae&s;to: Nam cum tu neminem a me po&s;&s;is abalienare, ego cum libitum e&s;t tuos omnes a te auoco.</HI></HI> I excell th&eacute;e, <HI>Socrates,</HI> many degr&eacute;es, for when thou can&s;t not allure men from m&eacute;e, I canne enty&s;e any of thyne from th&eacute;e, when &s;oeuer I ly&s;t: To whome <HI>Socra|tes</HI> &s;haped this aun&s;wer, <HI>Quid mirum e&s;t? &s;iquidem tu ad decliuem &amp;c.</HI> What wounder is that? for thou doo&s;t trayle men downe the dale of vice and de&s;truction, but I hayle them vp the hill of vertue and Eternity, wher|vnto is no ea&s;y pa&s;&s;age, or common climeing.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of the fortune of the harlot. Rhodope</HEAD>
<P><HI>_RHodope</HI> the harlot, was the faire&s;t amonge all the <HI>Aegiptians,</HI> and of bewtie (as the rumor runneth) inco~|parable. To this <HI>Rhodope</HI> was For|tune fauourable, and be&s;towed vp|pon her, a gift worthy her comelynes, and to her proportion aun&s;werable: For as &s;h&eacute;e was wa&s;hing her &s;elf, vp|pon a time, and her wayting maydens k&eacute;eping her
<PB REF="166"> apparell, an Eagle came &s;wingeing downe out of the Chri&s;tall ayer, and &s;natcheth vp with her talans, one of <HI>Rhodopes</HI> &s;hooes, and caried the &s;ame with her as far as <HI>Memphis,</HI> and there let it fall in the lap of <HI>P&s;ammeti|chus</HI> as he &s;ate in iudgement: at the fairenes wherof, and the cunning workeman&s;hip therin &s;hewed he much mer|uailing, and be&s;ides that, wondering not a little at the &s;traunge d&eacute;ede of the Eagle, commanded that a general &s;earch &s;hould be made throughout al <HI>Grecia,</HI> for the per|&s;on who&s;e fine foote, that prety &s;hooe fitly &s;erued: in y^e exe|cuting of which precept <HI>Rhodope</HI> was founde, and ther|upon pre&s;ented to <HI>P&s;ammetichus,</HI> in &s;o much that the vertue of her amiable per&s;onage, did not only kindle the fier of loue in <HI>P&s;ammetichus</HI> hart wherby he had her in no &s;mall e&s;timation, but did &s;o inflame his affections, and wynde his wil in &s;uche knots of intangling de&s;ires, that h&eacute;e maryed her forthwith, and enioyed her compa|ny in the plea&s;aunt and delectable bed of wedlocke.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of Diony&s;ius.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_DIony&s;ius</HI> after he had commanded y^e a Lyon, which he cau&s;ed to be brought before him, &s;hould be &s;laine, he chau~|ged his mind, &amp; in y^e point made re&s;|trainte of his determination: This did he thr&eacute;e &s;euerall times, and &s;till altered his intent, and yet agayne after that thr&eacute;e tymes, &amp; reuolted as often from his for|mer will ki&s;&s;ing and imbracing the bea&s;t with teares de&s;tilling downe his ch&eacute;ekes, &amp; cur&s;ing him&s;elf, becau&s;e he (being at length &s;ubdued and brought vnder the &s;la|uei&s;he e&s;tate of feare) drewe out his &s;word, and comma~|ded the Lyo~ to be &s;laine, vttering therwithal the&s;e words following: <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">. O Lyon thou mai&s;t no longer liue.</P>
</DIV2>
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<HEAD>&para; Of the natural medicines, and health|full pre&s;eruatiues, which hartes v&s;e when they be di&s;ea&s;ed.</HEAD>
<P>_SVch as di&s;cour&s;e vpon things natu|rall, and expre&s;&s;e their peculiar pro|perties, affirme that hartes when they &s;tand in n&eacute;ede of a remedye a|gain&s;t any daungerous di&s;ea&s;e, v&s;e to eate wilde Per&s;ley. And again&s;te the infection of &s;cabs and itche, pro|cured by the poy&s;on of the Spiders <HI>Phalangia,</HI> they are acu&s;tomed to deuoure Creui&s;&s;es. Thus hath nature vouch&s;afed of her clemency, to in&s;till in &s;undry thinges, &s;euerall operations, for the maintenaunce of her crea|tures, in their proper kinde.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the death of Eurydica, the daughter of Philip.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_OLympias</HI> &s;ent to <HI>Euridica,</HI> y^e daugh|ter of <HI>Philip,</HI> who was begotten vnto him by the body of a wyf which he had at <HI>Illyrium:</HI> &s;hee (I &s;ay) &s;ent vnto her thr&eacute;e fatall thinges, where|with to fini&s;h her lyfe, <HI>Cicutam, La|queum, &amp; En&s;em,</HI> pre&s;ent poy&s;on to di&s;patch her&s;elf, a hempen haulter to &s;trangle her &s;elfe, and a perceing &s;word to murther her &s;elf: of which thr&eacute;e execrable things, &s;he elected and cho&s;e one, namely the hempen haulter to compa&s;&s;e the mi&s;chiefe of her death.</P>
</DIV2>
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<PB REF="167">
<HEAD>&para; Of Gelon, and of them which laid in waight to worke him harme.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_GElon,</HI> the tyraunt of <HI>Syracu&s;ae,</HI> be|haued him&s;elfe merueilous milde|ly, gently, and peceably in his king|dome: But certaine bu&s;y braines, (malicious men I meane) &s;ought waies to worke him harme, wher|of when <HI>Gelon</HI> was informed and certified, he called a court, and &s;ommoned an a&s;&s;embly, or &s;e&s;&s;ion of <HI>Syracu&s;ans,</HI> which being done, in the pre|&s;ence and countenaunce of them all, he went vp into an hauty and high place, in maner lyke a Pulpit, hauinge on his body harne&s;&s;e, and in his hands, weapons, bright and gli&s;tering, in which &s;ort and order, he &s;toode be for them, making a commemoration and rehear&s;all of all his merits and dutifull de&s;arts on their behalfe, &amp; deli|uered vnto their eares and mindes a di&s;couerye of &s;uch deuili&s;h mi&s;creants, as &s;ought meanes to cut him &s;hort both of wor&s;hip and life: hauing thus done, he vnarmed him&s;elfe, laide downe both armour and weapons at his f&eacute;ete, and vttered the&s;e wordes to the congregation, and head of people: <HI>En amictus tunicula, uudus armorum a&s;to, dedo me vobis, vt pro voluntate, libitoque mecum agatis.</HI></P>
<P>Beholde I &s;tande before you naked, vnarmed, in a thin and &s;ingle wa&s;tcote, I y&eacute;eld my lyfe into your handes, my body is yours at commaundement, deale with it ac|cording to your plea&s;ure. At this compendious oration of <HI>Gelon,</HI> the whole a&s;&s;embly of <HI>Syracu&s;ans</HI> were much ama&s;ed, and thereupon, immediatly were &s;o affectioned in minde, that n&eacute;edes they would (there was no way to the contrary) deliuer tho&s;e traitrous varlots, and re|bellious villans to the kings power, to puni&s;h them ac|cording to the proportion of their offence, and gaue him their &s;uffrages and vniuer&s;all con&s;entes, to continue o|uer
<PB N="158" REF="167"> them his dominion and gouernment, Yet notwith|&s;tandinge would not <HI>Gelon</HI> bui&s;y him&s;elfe about the&s;e yll di&s;po&s;ed per&s;ons, but lefte them to the people, that they &s;hould correct that in the offenders which was puni&s;hable. In the high veneration of this man, the <HI>Sy|racu&s;ans</HI> erected and planted a &s;tanding Image, wea|ring a &s;ingle Peticote, &s;lit downe right, and open all a|bout: and it was a monument, and &s;empiternall te&s;ti|mony of the perfect goodwyll, whereby he fauoured the people, and a &s;ingular document al&s;o, and effectuall in|&s;truction for his &s;ucce&s;&s;ours, in &s;eat of gouernment.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Alcibiades.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ALcibiades,</HI> e&s;t&eacute;emed of <HI>Homer</HI> out of mea&s;ure, and had him in preci&s;e e&s;timation, for his lear|nings &s;ake: wherefore, when hee (at a &s;udaine &s;ea&s;on) came to a certaine &s;chole, where &s;undrye authors workes were read and learned, hee de&s;ired to haue the <HI>Iliades</HI> of <HI>Homer</HI> (thinking that &s;o famous a writer might not be wanting, in any place con&s;ecrated to lear|ning) but when the Scholma&s;ter, &s;aid vnto him, that he had no part or percell of that Poet, <HI>Alcibiades</HI> checked him in great anger and di&s;plea&s;ure, tearming hym by the name of a patch and a doull, and adding moreouer vnto that his &s;harp rebuke, this &s;entence: That &s;o ma|ny as were of his teaching, would proue lyke the mai&s;|ter, namely &s;tarke a&s;&s;es. The &s;ame <HI>Alcibiades</HI> beinge &s;ent for, by the <HI>Atheniens,</HI> out of <HI>Sicylia,</HI> about a matter of lyfe and death, refu&s;ed to be obedient to any &s;uch pre|iudiciall me&s;&s;age, &s;ayeing. <HI>Stultum e&s;t iudicium que|rere, non fuga tibi con&s;ulere, cum fugere po&s;&s;is. &amp; cet.</HI></P>
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<P>It is a poynte of extreame folly, and madne&s;&s;e, for a man to &s;&eacute;eke iudgment again&s;t him&s;elfe, and not to v&s;e the benefyt and aduantage of flight, when oportunitie to e&s;cape, is offered. And when a certaine ma~ put forth this que&s;tion vnto him, <HI>Annon credis teip&s;um patriae?</HI> Can&s;t thou not finde in thy hart, to tru&s;t thy owne cun|trey with thy lyfe? he made this aun&s;were, <HI>Imo ne ma|tri quidem crederem,</HI> no &s;yr &s;ayth hee, with &s;o precious a trea&s;ure, I woulde not credite my naturall moother: <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">. For I doubt greatly, lea&s;t &s;he, through ignoraunce, and want of vnder&s;tanding y^e truth, &s;hold dele erroniou&s;ly, and &s;o lay downe a black &s;tone in &s;t&eacute;ede of a white. The &s;ame <HI>Alcibiades,</HI> heareing that the Citizens with one con&s;ent, had pronounced him a condemned man, and &s;ounded the &s;entence of death again&s;t him: is it euen &s;o (&s;ayth he) now vndoubtedly, we will &s;hewe that wee are yet aliue: wherupon he made preparation towards <HI>Lacedemonia,</HI> and moued war again&s;t the <HI>Atheniens,</HI> this war was called <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">, <HI>Decelium prelium,</HI> of &s;ome place, peraduenture, where it was fought. The &s;ame <HI>Alcibiades</HI> had this &s;ayeing in his mouth. <HI>Nil uouum e&s;t, &s;i Lacedaemonij intrepide mortem in bellis occumberent, defugiunt hoc modo legum &s;eueritatem &amp; cruciatum, atque labores alacriter prompteque cum mor|te commutant:</HI> It is no worlds wonder, that the <HI>Lace|demonians</HI> lo&s;e their liues in battell, valiauntly and couragiou&s;ly: for by that meanes they flie the rigour of lawes, and make an exchaunge (willingly) of tedious labours, with peaceable death. This <HI>Alcibiades</HI> was accu&s;tomed to &s;aye of hym &s;elfe, and his d&eacute;edes, that he leade a lyfe lyke the Sonnes of God <HI>Iupiter.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Quotidie namque morior, &amp; reuiui&s;co,</HI> for I die
<PB N="159" REF="168"> daily &amp; recouer lyfe againe: meaning that &s;o long as he was in the fauour &amp; goodwill of the people, he was haile fellow well met with the gratious Gods: and when h&eacute;e lo&s;t the loue of the people, then he lytle differed from the corrupt ca&s;e of a carrian Carca&s;&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of Ephialtes.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_EPhialtes,</HI> being ca&s;t in the t&eacute;eth with his pouerty, &amp; di&s;tre&s;&s;ed e&s;tate, &s;pake the&s;e wordes to the Captaine that v|&s;ed that exprobration: And why doo&s;t thou not make reher&s;all of the other thing, namely that I loue lawe, and regarde right.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of Themi&s;tocles.</HEAD>
<P>_A Riche chaine of Golde, made after y^e <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> maner, lay vppon the grou~d, by the which <HI>Themi&s;tocles</HI> &s;ta~ding, &s;ayd to a boy in this &s;orte: Syr boy why doo&s;t not thou take vp &s;o benifi|ciall a lo&s;&s;e, pointing to the chaine: for thou art not <HI>Themi&s;tocles.</HI> Whe~ the <HI>Atheniens</HI> had openly reuiled him, and after that called him to rule and gouernment agayne, he &s;ayd thus: <HI>Non laudo eos homines qui eodem va&s;e, &amp; matula, et ad in|fundendum vinum vtuntur.</HI> I canne, in no ca&s;e, account thos men worthy commendation, which make one ve&s;|&s;ell &s;erue twoo &s;euerall v&s;es, namely to powre wine in, &amp; to pi&s;&s;e in. The &s;ame <HI>Themi&s;tocles,</HI> &s;pake &s;omewhat (belyke) to <HI>Euribiadas</HI> the <HI>Lacedemonian,</HI> which moued him to choler, &amp; being di&s;conte~ted offered to &s;mite him w^c a cudgell, to whome <HI>Themi&s;tocles</HI> vttered the&s;e wordes: <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">. &s;mite and &s;pare not, &s;o thou
<PB REF="169"> geue eare &amp; marke. For <HI>Themi&s;tocles</HI> knewe y^t he &s;pake nothing which might (any way) empayre and dimini&s;he the profit of the Common wealth.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of Phocion.</HEAD>
<P>_CErtaine per&s;ons, who were conde~|ned, and iudged to dye with <HI>Phocio~</HI> made wofull lamentations, bytter complaints, and &s;orowfull mour|nings. Whereuppon <HI>Phocion</HI> (&s;peaking to one particular man, among the re&s;t) &s;ayd, doo&s;t thou not per&s;uade thy &s;elfe, (O <HI>Thudippus</HI>) that yt is a precious thing, to dye with <HI>Phocion.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of Epaminondas.</HEAD>
<P>_AT what tyme <HI>Epaminondas</HI> at his returne out of <HI>Laconia,</HI> was condem|ned to dye, becau&s;e he bare &s;uprema|cy, and dignitie imperiall ouer the <HI>Boeotians,</HI> the terme of foure whole monethes, again&s;t the pre&s;cript and tenure of the lawe: wherof h&eacute;e ha+uing vnder&s;tanding, and per&s;wading him &s;elfe of the wor&s;te, gaue commandement, to his companions, and confederates, to lay, the whole burthen of blame vppon his &s;houlders, becau&s;e he vrged &amp; con&s;trained them to offend again&s;t their wills: at his entrance into the Se&s;|&s;ion hou&s;e, and &s;tanding at the barr, he &s;aid y^t h&eacute;e would alledge no rea&s;ons more probable and plau&s;ible, the~ his d&eacute;eds of armes and cheualrie: neuertheles &s;ayth h&eacute;e if they may not preuaile, <HI>I be&s;ech you let my lyfe pay the price of my tre&s;pa&s;&s;e: and graunt thus much vnto me be&s;ides, that ther may be erected vppon my &s;epulchre
<PB N="160" REF="169"> or graue, a piller of &s;tone, and theruppon let this be in|grauen: that throughe my procurement and in&s;tigati|on, the Thebans (long nilling, and re&s;i&s;ting) &s;poiled, &s;acked, raced and battred downe Laconia, with viole~ce of weapon and Fyer: which was not, &s;o muche as once touched by &s;orren force for the &s;pace of fiue hundreth yeares expired &amp; pa&s;t: and to reare &amp; build, vp againe Mecena, which lay lyke a de&s;ert, and wa&s;t wildernes for the terme of three hundred and thirty yeares toge|ther. That I was the cau&s;e, of the concord, knit among the Arcadians: and that by my meanes the Grecians had their libertie re&s;tored &amp;c.</HI> When <HI>Epaminondas</HI> had ca&s;t the&s;e notable remembrances, in their bo&s;oms, the Iudges being a&s;hamed of them&s;elues, di&s;charged him quite, and pronounced him fr&eacute;e from all &s;u&s;picions of offence, whereuppon in&s;ued his pre&s;ent deliuerance. So that by the cour&s;e of this de&s;cription, wee are in|&s;tructed, and (as it were by manyfe&s;t demon&s;trations and &s;en&s;ible rea&s;ons) ab&s;olutely taught, that the vertu|ous di&s;po&s;ition of a man, his hone&s;t and vppright trade of lyfe, his wi&s;dome, policie and experience, his valiant|nes, manhoode and pui&s;aunce: his willing hart to bene|fite all men, his nilling mind to hinder any man, doth more vehementlie kindle the coles of con&s;ideration, and &s;ooner &s;et &s;incere iudgement one fyer, then the painted &s;peache of the eloquent Rhetorician, Albeit he were co~|parable to <HI>Apollo</HI> or <HI>Mercurie.</HI> And as the &s;aid <HI>Epami+nondas</HI> returned from the Court of A&s;&s;i&s;e, a litle whelp of his owne, met him and fauned vppo~ him, mo&s;t louing+ly, wagging his taile, and &s;kipping vp and &amp; downe (all which were re&s;emblances of inward ioy) in the open &s;treate: wheruppo~ <HI>Epaminondas</HI> (as it is reported) &s;aid thus to &s;uch as were by, <HI>Hic catulus pro beneficio gratiam reponit &amp;c.</HI> This whelp, remembreth a good turne, and is thankfull therfore: But the <HI>Thebans</HI> (of whome I haue honorably de&s;erued) haue condemned m&eacute;e for
<PB REF="170"> my commendable d&eacute;eds, &amp; haue donne, what they might, to recompence my dutifull de&s;erts with death, mo&s;t de&s;|pitefully.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of Timothie.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_TImothie</HI> the <HI>Athenien</HI> Captaine, was &s;uppo&s;ed to haue liued in beatitude &amp; happines, and to haue had a perpetual flowe of all felicity at his harts de&s;ire. This man affirmed ofte~, that <HI>Fortune</HI> was the cau&s;e of his goode lucke &amp; &s;in|guler &s;ucce&s;&s;e, and not <HI>Timothie.</HI> Painters therefore haue de&s;cribed this captaine in liuely colours, (to his reprehen&s;ion, rather then to his aduauncement) bright+ly harne&s;&s;ed, and well weaponed, and <HI>Fortune</HI> &s;tanding ouer his head, holding in her hands a &s;preding net, wher|withall &s;h&eacute;e caught cityes and regions. The &s;ame <HI>Ti|mothie</HI> being demau~ded of <HI>Themi&s;tocles,</HI> in what thing he did principally delight, and take plea&s;ure: made this aun&s;wer, In y^t a &s;olemne a&s;&s;embly of people, at the pub|like pageants of <HI>Olympus,</HI> behold, and looke &s;tedfa&s;tly vppon my per&s;on, as yt were with one eye.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of the Contention betwene Themi&s;tocles and A|ri&s;tides.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_THemi&s;tocles,</HI> and <HI>Ari&s;tides</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Ly&s;imachus,</HI> wer both &s;ubiect to the tui|tio~ of one man, vnder who&s;e wings they were brought vp, in&s;tructed, &amp; trayned: The&s;e twaine, in their Childehoode, fell often times at varriaunce, &amp; quarelling: this contention, tooke originall in theyr young yeares &amp; continued vntill the time of their old and withered age.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
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<HEAD>&para; Of the vngodlines of Diony&s;ius.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_DIony&s;ius</HI> poy&s;oned his mother, and ther|by wrought her de&s;truction, O wofull mother, O deuili&s;h &s;onne: The &s;ame <HI>Diony&s;ius</HI> &s;uffered his brother <HI>Lepti|nes</HI> to be &s;laine in battell vpon the &s;ea, whom he might haue &s;uccoured and &s;a|ued without his priuate preiudice, and daunger (O in|fortunate youngman, O butcherly bea&s;t.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of a Dragon, which was mind|full of a benefite.</HEAD>
<P>_THere was in <HI>Achaia,</HI> a citie named <HI>Patrae,</HI> in the &s;ame citie there was a boy which bought him a litle &s;erpent and brought the &s;ame vp no le&s;&s;e lo|uingly, then delight&s;omly, this Ser|pent as it grew in bigne&s;&s;e, &s;o it in|crea&s;ed further in familiarity, in &s;o|much that the young lad &s;pake vnto it, playde with it, lay with it, and continued dayly in company with it. In tract of time it grew from a worme, to a &s;erpent, from a Serpent to a viper, and from a viper to a mon&s;terous Dragon, ougly to &s;&eacute;e to, and hideous to beholde: where|upon the Citizens con&s;ulted amonge them&s;elues, how they might be deliuered of the &s;ame, &s;ithence the Citie (wherin concour&s;e of ciuill people ar frequent, and v|&s;uall) ought not to be pe&s;tered with &s;uch a pernicious mon&s;ter. In the ende, policye &s;o prouided, that this Dragon was cha&s;ed out of the citie (a place of peoples re&s;ort) into the de&s;ert or wildernes (a conuenient lodge for &s;uch horible mon&s;ters) In proce&s;&s;e of yeares, the lad, afore&s;aide, waxed a proper youngman, and returninge
<PB REF="171"> (vpon a time as his fortune was) from commo~ games, and &s;hewes, with other of his companions, fell into the hands of th&eacute;eues, and perceiuing him&s;elf ouer matched, &amp; therfore comfortles, and fearing there withal the lo&s;&s;e of his &s;w&eacute;ete lyfe, made a great outcry, and roring noy&s;e. Anon lo, at this &s;oudaine exclamation, the Dragon aboue named came fling|ing out contrary to all expectation, (but yet at the appointment of &s;u|pernall prouidence) &amp; put &s;om of the th&eacute;eues to &s;p&eacute;edy flight, other &s;ome he &s;lew, &amp; made to &s;ure for &s;tarting, &amp; the youngman he pre&s;er|ued aliue, defended and kept vnharmed whom the gr&eacute;edy aduer&s;aries had otherwi&s;e vn+mercifully murthe|red.</P>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>&para; <HI>The ende of the thirteenth Booke of <HI>Aelianus.</HI></HI></TRAILER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="14" TYPE="book">
<PB N="162" REF="171">
<HEAD><HI>The fourteenth and la&s;t Booke</HI> of Aelianus his variable Hy&s;torie.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the inclination of <HI>Ari&s;totle</HI> towards dignitie.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ARi&s;totle,</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Nico|machus,</HI> a man both in opi|nion and d&eacute;ede, of &s;ingular wi&s;dome, and perfect expe|rience, when as one deroga|ted from him at <HI>Delphos</HI> his due dignitie, and pecu|lier e&s;timation, he wrot vn|to <HI>Antipater</HI> thereof, in this method and order: <HI>Ea quae Delphis mihi decreto &s;unt a&s;&s;ignata, quibu&s;que nunc priuatus &s;um, animum meum afficiunt, vt neque mihi magnopere cor|di &s;unt, neque tamen omnino non cordi &s;unt.</HI> Tho&s;e thinges which were a&s;&s;igned vnto me by con&s;ent and decr&eacute;e, and whereof I am (at this in&s;tant time) quite di&s;po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ed, in &s;uch a &s;orte occupy my minde and cogitati|ons, that I haue no great good likeing of them, and yet I doo &s;o e&s;t&eacute;eme of them, as of thinges not altogether to be reiected and abhorred. The&s;e wordes (as my &s;imple iudgment gathereth by the circum&s;tances of the letter) do not i&s;&s;ue from a minde infected with ambition, nei|ther would I, by my wyl, burthen <HI>Ari&s;totle</HI> with &s;uch an iniurious accu&s;ation: for he &s;uppo&s;ed mo&s;t prudent|ly, that betwixt the attainment of wor&s;hip, and the lo&s;&s;e therof againe, after it was once gotten, is infinit oddes: yet could he with the bridles of rea&s;on re&s;traine his af|fection. It is no matter of waight (in compari&s;on) to be inglorious and vnwor&s;hipfull &s;imply:</P>
<PB REF="172">
<P>But the depriuation of dignitye, after it is once pur|cha&s;ed, that is it which &s;tingeth a man with &s;orrow and goreth the hart with heauine&s;&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Age&s;ilaus, and of the periurie of certaine outlandi&s;he people.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_AGe&s;ilaus</HI> commended certaine people of forreigne countr&eacute;es, in that they did violate their oathes, and therby became periures: Hee accounted them prai&s;e worthye, becau&s;e that, by fore&s;weringe them&s;elues, they purcha&s;ed the heate and heauy di&s;plea&s;ure of the Gods, and wonne his fauour, goodwill, fellow&s;hip, and &s;ociety.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Prodigalitie.</HEAD>
<P><HI>TImothy</HI> &s;harply inueihed again&s;t the prodigalitie of <HI>Ari&s;tophanes,</HI> v&s;eing the&s;e wordes: <HI>Cui nihil &s;atis e&s;t, eidem etiam nihil turpe.</HI> He that neuer hath &s;ufficient, thinketh nothing filthy, di&s;hone&s;t, or vndecent.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Ari&s;tides.,</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ARi&s;tides Locren&s;is,</HI> beinge bytten of a Polecat, in&s;omuch that the &s;ore fe&s;tred, rankled, and put him to extreame an|gui&s;h, drawing towardes deathes dore, vttered the&s;e words, <HI>Mors mihi multo iucundior futura fui&s;&s;et, &amp;c.</HI> Death had bin more welcom to me by many degr&eacute;es, if it had bin my fortune to haue falne into the renting clawes of a Lyon, or the raue|nous chaps of a Pardale: whereas now I thinke mine ende ignominous, &s;hamefull, and inglorious, for that
<PB N="163" REF="172"> yt is mine vnhappy luck to be bitten of a vile vermine, and thereuppon to lo&s;e my life. which wordes, mini&s;ter this opinion vnto m&eacute;e, that he was more greued with the &s;hame and infamie, which did i&s;&s;ue from y^e nipping of &s;uch a baggage bea&s;te, then h&eacute;e was at the lo&s;&s;e of his lyfe.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>What manner of men the Atheniens did choo&s;e, to gouerne their Common wealth.</HEAD>
<P>_THe <HI>Athenie~s</HI> did not co~mitte the charge of the Common welth in tranquilitie and peace, and the offices of warrlike affaires to Citizens only, not with&s;tan|ding they were men mo&s;t m&eacute;ete and &s;eruiceable for the purpo&s;e: But oftentimes put &s;traungers in &s;uch places of countenaunce and credit, when the other were di&s;&s;apointed. Neuer+thele&s;&s;e, they dealt not &s;o honorably with all, but &s;uch only did they exalt, and &s;hewe them &s;elues in &s;uch &s;orte beneficiall vnto, whome they vnder&s;tode by freque~t &amp; co~+mon reporte, and experimented al&s;o in &s;undry actuall circum&s;tances, to b&eacute;e good men, hone&s;t men, and not vn|m&eacute;ete, for the admini&s;tration of the Common wealth. They did inaugurate and co~firme, <HI>Apollodorus Cizi|cenus</HI> Captaine in warre oftentimes, notwith&s;tanding he was an Allien, and Outlander. The like courte&s;ie did they communicate and be&s;towe, vppon <HI>Heraclides Clazomenius,</HI> and diuers others, who&s;e vertues reaped reputation: For this was familiar and ordinarie amo~g the <HI>Atheniens,</HI> that &s;uch, as by their behauiour, de&s;erued commendatio~, &s;hould not only prepare to them&s;elues a plau&s;ible opinion among the people, but b&eacute;e elected
<PB REF="173"> al&s;o and e&s;tabli&s;hed, in highe place of authoritie and go|uernement. This notable humanity of <HI>Athens,</HI> not on|ly di&s;couered in furthering their owne citi&s;ens, by their bountifulnes, but al&s;o mo&s;t apparently veryfied, in ad|uaunceing &s;uch as were knyt vnto them, in no degr&eacute;e of con&s;anguinitie, (and yet for vertue &s;ake worthy of &s;ingular honour) de&s;erueth (no doubte) double dignitie &amp; worthines.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>The opinion of Ari&s;tippus, concer|ning a con&s;tant and vnchaung|able minde.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ARi&s;tippus</HI> v&s;eing &s;trong rea&s;ons, pi|thy per&s;wa&s;ions, and &s;ub&s;tantiall ar+guments, exhorted men, to conceaue no care of things pa&s;t, after they wer pa&s;t: nor of things to come before they were com: His rea&s;o~ was this. <HI>Animi namque bene con&s;tituti &s;ignum e&s;t, et hilarae cogitationis argumentum,</HI> For that &s;aith he, is a certaine &s;igne of a con&s;tant minde, and an infallible to|ken of an e&s;tabli&s;hed con&s;cience. The &s;ame <HI>Ari&s;tippus,</HI> did impart and giue this auailable adui&s;e vnto men, <HI>Nempe in diem animum intendere, illamque &s;olum modo di|ei partem, qua qui&s;que quid ageret, aut cogitaret,</HI> Namely to direct and leuell all the cogitations of their mindes, to the pre&s;ent day (yea) to that portion of the day only, wherin either the in&s;truments of the body ar to be v&s;ed, or the faculties of the minde to be occupied: The Philo|&s;ophers rea&s;on, (not &s;o prompt and ready, as true and learned) was this: <HI>Solum enim prae&s;ens in no&s;tra manu po|&s;itum, non praeteritum, neque in&s;tans,</HI> For &s;aith h&eacute;e neither that which was, neither that which &s;halbe, but that which is, ought w&eacute;e to meditate vppon, and here|in to b&eacute;e conuer&s;aunt: for that which in pa&s;t, returneth
<PB N="164" REF="173"> not, &amp; that which &s;halbe is vncertaine, But in things pre+&s;e~t is profit to be obtained.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>The lawe of the Lacedemonians concerning the cou|lour, the habit, &amp; e&s;tate, of the body And of &s;uch as were fat and ful of flea&s;h.</HEAD>
<P>_THe <HI>Lacedemonians</HI> made a lawe that no man &s;hould haue a colour re&s;em|bling any loo&s;enes or licentiou&s;nes of life, they made a &s;tatute al&s;o again&s;t the increa&s;e and abundance of fat and fle&s;h, as m&eacute;ere burthens to the bones: for their meaning was that euery mans co~po&s;ition, ma+keing, proportion, and &s;tate of members, &s;hould b&eacute;e in that plight alwayes, that no exerci&s;e of actiuitie to the~ might com amy&s;&s;e: Againe the one is a declaration of &s;luggy&s;hnes, the other a manife&s;tation of womanlines: neither of which qualities to the <HI>Lacedemonians</HI> were agr&eacute;eable. This al&s;o was written in their lawes, and re+ligiou&s;ly ob&s;erued, that euery tenth day (nothing to the contrary with&s;tanding) the youth (whom we call &s;try|plings, of fourt&eacute;ene, fift&eacute;ene, or &s;ixt&eacute;ene yeares olde) of the Lande, from the fir&s;t to the la&s;t, that is, all and eue|ry of them, &s;hould be &s;tript bare, &amp; di&s;couer their naked|nes, that &s;ufficient viewe might be take~ of their bodies, and &s;uch who&s;e &s;kynnes were &s;cratcht, and their flea&s;he pincht, raced, and blemi&s;hed with blewe blowes and &s;karres (which among them was counted an excellent habite and e&s;tate of body, very good likeing, and pa&s;&s;ing plight) they were preci&s;ely prai&s;ed, and meritoriou&s;|ly commended: But if any were found, who&s;e &s;kinne was &s;mothe his flea&s;he &s;oft, and his limmes and ioynts te~der, &s;o farr were &s;uch from fauour excluded, that both lawe &amp; mage&s;trates co~ma~ded the~ to be &s;harply &s;courged.
<PB REF="174"> Furthermore the officers called <HI>Ephori,</HI> had a principal care, and &s;peciall regarde in veweing euery day y^e wea|ring garments and apparell of the fore&s;aid Striplings: and if any thing were found about them vnfyt, vnhan|&s;ome, and vn&s;eemely, it was puni&s;hable. Moreouer it was not di&s;pen&s;able by lawe, that any kind of vittellers (Cookes and Butchers, for the vtterance of fle&s;he excep|ted, whome the &s;tatutes of the land did tollerate) &s;hould b&eacute;e &s;uffered in <HI>Lacedemonia:</HI> if any were knowne other wi&s;e to practi&s;e and occupie, <HI>Sparta</HI> &s;pued them out of the bo&s;om of her bounds into bani&s;hment, as &s;uperflu|ous and noy&s;om excrements of the di&s;&s;ea&s;ed. The &s;ame <HI>Lacedemonians</HI> perceauing <HI>Nauclydes,</HI> the &s;onn of <HI>Po|lybias</HI> extreame fat of body, and that his gro&s;nes was &s;uche (proc&eacute;eding of ea&s;e, plea&s;ure, and ydlenes) as they therwithall were offended, They tooke and lead him through an a&s;&s;emblie of people, euery one &s;taring vp|pon him as vppon a worlds wonder: Be&s;ides that they threatned to puni&s;he him with expul&s;ion out of the city, if he (leauing that corrupt order of lyfe which ingendred &s;uch exce&s;&s;iue &s;ub&s;tance of fat and flea&s;h) did not confirm him &s;elfe to an alteration and chaunge, wherby that de+formitie in him might &s;omewhat be dimini&s;hed, &s;ythe~s the lawes of the land lothed thereat, as awn&s;werable to <HI>Ionia,</HI> rather then to <HI>Lacedemonia,</HI> which abhorred &s;uch porklyke gro&s;nes, e&s;t&eacute;eming the &s;ame a thing &s;o far from commendation, that yt did incurre vtter infamie reproche, and contempte.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>How Polycletus, and Hyppomachus rebuked the vn&s;kilfulnes of the multitude.</HEAD>
<P><HI>POlycletus</HI> made two &s;euerall pictures, at one tyme, one after the common fa&s;hion and plaine forte, the
<PB N="165" REF="174"> other cu~ningly, and lyke a worthy worckman. He grewe in popularitie and fauour of the multitude after this manner. As euery man cam to &s;&eacute;e his picture and gaue iudgment therof, (&s;om &s;ayeing, if this were thus, it would be well, if that were &s;o, it would be better) &s;o did he alter and chaunge his worcke, as de&s;ireous to conforme him|&s;elf to their contentment, and &s;tudious to compo&s;e and frame his pincell to their opinion and lykeing. At la&s;t (as tyme, in his thinckeing, &s;&eacute;emed conuenient) he &s;ett both his pictures abroade, as well that which he had &s;ha|ped and proportioned after the mindes of the multitude, as that al&s;o which the people had not &s;&eacute;ene: at one of the&s;e twaine euery man woundred, at the other euery man laughed, accounting the fir&s;t a &s;pectacle of plea&s;auntnes and &s;uppo&s;eing the other a mirour of maddnes. <HI>Polycle|tus</HI> &s;tanding by, and perceauing the peoples di&s;po&s;ition, held his peace for a &s;ea&s;on: at lenghte, as tyme offered occa&s;ion, he &s;pake in this wi&s;e to the Beholders. <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">. The picture which youe &s;o much di&s;pray&s;e and reprehend, did proc&eacute;ede from your owne opinion, &s;kill, &amp; experience: But the picture which you aduaunce and commend, was of myne owne makeing. <HI>Hippoma|chus</HI> the Mu&s;itian, when his di&s;ciple and &s;cholar &s;warued be&s;ide his art, as he plaide one his in&s;trument, and yet notwith&s;tanding, purcha&s;ed a popular <HI>Plaudite,</HI> he &s;mote him with a &s;taf &s;ayeing: <HI>Perperam fistula&s;ti, nam alioquin hi tibi non applauderent,</HI> naughtely and vn&s;killfully ha&s;t thou plaid, otherwi&s;e this rude a&s;&s;embley woulde not haue commended thy dooing: By this hy&s;torie is di&s;couered, y^e ignoraunce of the fooli&s;he people.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the patience of Xenocrates.</HEAD>
<PB REF="175">
<P><HI>_Xnocrates Chalcedonius,</HI> whe~ he was rebuked by <HI>Plato</HI> of vnthankefulnes he was not once aggr&eacute;eued at that reprehen&s;ion, but vttered thes fewe words to the fellow, who incited and prouoked him to ouer thwart <HI>Plato</HI> againe, for his in&s;imulation and re|buke: The thing which I dooe, Now, (&s;ayth h&eacute;e) to m&eacute;e is more profitable (meaning &s;ile~ce and forbearau~ce) By which wi&s;e and prudent <HI>Apophthegme</HI> he &s;topped the mouth of that malicious merchaunt.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>How Phocion gaue Demas quip for quip.</HEAD>
<P>_THe <HI>Atheniens</HI> preferring <HI>Demas</HI> before <HI>Phocion,</HI> made him their Captaine Generall and Ringe-leader in battel: who perceauing him&s;elfe in higher place of repu|tation, came to <HI>Phocion,</HI> and all in a brauery and Iolitie of minde, &s;pake the&s;e words to <HI>Phocion</HI> after a flouting fa&s;hio~: Lend me (good Syr) your &s;louenly mantyll which you v&s;e to weare in warrfare: To whome <HI>Phocion</HI> framed this frumpe, with equall waighte and mea&s;ure of di&s;|daine: Thou wilt neuer want the lyke &s;o long as thou art in a &s;louens &s;kynne.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>What manner of man A King ought to be towards his &s;ubiects.</HEAD>
<P><HI>PHili&s;cus,</HI> whilom, &s;aid vnto <HI>Alexander</HI> of <HI>Macedonia</HI> <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"> Win glorye, doe what y^u
<PB N="166" REF="175"> can&s;t to amplifie thy renowne: But yet in thy doings haue this con&s;ideration, that thou bee&s;t not a plague &amp; pe&s;tilence, but rather healthfullnes and tranquilitie: Meaning that to ouerthrowe and &s;upplant the e&s;tate of people, to race cittes, and to &s;ubuert Commo~wealths was a very pe&s;tilence: But to haue a carefull eye ouer the people, and to let them quietly clocke vnder his &s;preding wings, was the benefite of peace, and the com|moditie of concorde.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Wherin the King of the Per&s;ians &s;pent the tyme of his progre&s;&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>_THe King of the <HI>Per&s;ians</HI> going in pro|gre&s;&s;e, (to the intent that hee might not think the time tedious) caried in his hand braunches, of Byrche and ther|withall A knyfe, wherwith h&eacute;e did cut of the &s;mall &s;priggs, from the &s;talke and hackeled and hewed the re&s;t in litle &s;lices: with this kinde of worke did the King occupie his hands, not con|firming him&s;elfe, either to peru&s;e any page, leaf, or lyne of any philo&s;ophicall pamphlet, either, to meditate or &s;tudie, any thing worthy knowledge, or to determine vppon any kinde of circum&s;tance which might merit remembrance.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of the Tragedies of Agatho.</HEAD>
<P><HI>AGatho</HI> intermedled Oppo&s;ites and Co~traries, much in his Tragedies: A certaine fellow (allowing his owne dooing, more then another mans) would n&eacute;edes put them out, as friuolous, pretending to amend them, and to better <HI>Agathos</HI> building: To whome <HI>Agatho</HI> &s;pake the&s;e words, <HI>Quid bone vir? Quomodo tuip&s;ius oblitus es? vt Agathonem ex Agathone reijcere, at&abque; delere coneris</HI>
<PB REF="176"> what now Sira (&s;ayth he) ha&s;t thou forgotte~ thy &s;elf, that thou goe&s;t about to pull <HI>Agatho</HI> from <HI>Agatho.</HI> He was &s;o delighted with his dooings, that he e&s;t&eacute;emed them, euen as he reputed of his owne per&s;on.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Stratonicus the Mu&s;ician.</HEAD>
<P>_WHen a certaine man, had very cour|teou&s;ly intertained <HI>Stratonicus</HI> the Mu&s;ician, coming into an vnknown place, and being, as then, de&s;titute of any other harbour: he was mer|uailous glad of the mans gentlnes, and yealded him, thancks innume|rable, in that he vouch&s;afed him the benefite of his hou&s;e at y^e in&s;tant. But, after a while, when <HI>Stratonicus</HI> &s;awe, now &amp; the~ one, now &amp; the~ another, &amp; ano~ too or thr&eacute;e more (as they came) to be &s;e~blably intertained, &amp; no difference made betwene man and man, but all (lyke Graues end Barge pa&s;&s;ingers) for their penny con&s;idered: &s;ira (&s;ayd he) to the fellowe (his &s;eruaunt, as I &s;uppo&s;e) which kept him companie, let vs pack hence &s;p&eacute;edely from this place for I thought we had met with a gentle Pigeon, but I perceaue we haue mette with a rauening Faulcone: meaning that he tooke the hou&s;e, wherin he was purpo&s;ed to &s;oiourne, for an vnfreque~ted place, and not for an har|bour of all re&s;ort, inclined to the &s;poile.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the &s;entences of Socrates.</HEAD>
<P>THe &s;entences of <HI>Socrates,</HI> were compared to the pic|tures of <HI>Pau&s;on</HI> the paincter. For when a certaine man, de&s;ired <HI>Pau&s;on</HI> to paincte him a flyeing hor&s;&s;e, he contrarywi&s;e paincted a galloping palfrey. Now when the man, to whom the picture belonged, was angrie with
<PB N="167" REF="176"> <HI>Pau&s;on,</HI> in that he made not the hor&s;&s;e an&s;werable to his expectation, and accordinge to the tenoure of the coue|nant, <HI>Pau&s;on</HI> held him &s;elfe contented, and willed the an|gry fellowe to turne the table vp&s;ide downe, which when the man had doone: the hor&s;&s;e which, before &s;&eacute;emed to gal|lop, appeered then to flye: euen &s;o, the &s;entences of <HI>Socra|tes</HI> the Sapient, had in them, certaine ambiguities, and doubtful my&s;teries, which might not be vnder&s;toode with &s;uch facilitie: But if the meaning of them were medita|tiuely marked, and prudently pondred, they &s;hould &s;oone &s;hewe them&s;elues naked to the eyes of the wit: For this <HI>Socrates</HI> was loth to &s;mouther his con&s;cience, with the concealing of truth, and nilling to incurre the enuy of his auditorie: for which occa&s;ions he v&s;ed to &s;ea&s;on and tem|per his di&s;putations, with crooked, ob&s;cure, mi&s;tie, and darck phra&s;es of &s;peache.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the ambition of Hipponicus</HEAD>
<P><HI>_HIpponicus</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Callias,</HI> in|tending to erect and &s;ett vp a &s;tand|ing image (as a principall pre&s;ent) in the honor and aduauncement of his countrie: A certaine man cam vnto him, and gaue him coun&s;ell that (&s;y|thence hee was determined to at|tempt &s;uch an enterpri&s;e) he would graunt the worcking therof, to <HI>Polycletus</HI> the famous and excellent Grauer, To whom <HI>Hipponicus</HI> made this aun&s;were: <HI>Non eiu&s;|modi donarium apud animum propo&s;ui, cuius gloria non ad con|&s;ecratorem, &s;ed ad factorem &s;it reditura.</HI> Hold th&eacute;e contente (my frend) it is not my meaneing, to be&s;towe &s;uch a pre|&s;ent vpon my countrie, as the maker therof &s;hal carry a way the crowne of commendation, and the pray&s;e of the principall procurer lye buried in the graue. For this is an a&s;&s;ured truthe, that &s;uch as beheld the image, would
<PB REF="177"> &s;ooner haue aduaunced the artificiall handy woorcke of <HI>Polycletus,</HI> then the liberal gifte, and fr&eacute;e hart of <HI>Hippo|nicus.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Archelaus, and of the pictures of Zeuxis.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ARchelaus</HI> (by the report of <HI>Socrates</HI>) &s;pent a greate &s;umme of money, in the beutificing of his hou&s;e, for he hyred <HI>Zeuxis Heracleotes</HI> (y^e notable work|man) to adorne, &amp; garni&s;h it with pic|tures of the fine&s;t fa&s;hion: in &s;o much that y^e fame of <HI>Archelaus</HI> hou&s;e grew in &s;uch honour, that many cam from farr countreys, and outer parts of the world to haue a &s;ight of the &s;ame. This man laid out largely vppon paincted po&s;tes, but vppon his owne per&s;on, he would nothing be&s;towe, nether was his hou&s;e in &s;o great admiration, but he him&s;elf was in as greate contempte: for no man, woulde once vouch&s;afe to take the paines, to go to <HI>Macedonia</HI> in his behalf, except his labor had bin throughly con&s;idered, &amp; his paines reco~|penced with ample rewards: wherwith hone&s;t and good men, ind&eacute;ede, ar not once allured, much le&s;&s;e intrapped, notwith&s;tanding the allurement of the commoditie.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; The puni&s;hement, that a certaine ma&s;ter would haue his &s;eruaunt &s;uffer.</HEAD>
<P><HI>A</HI> certain inhabitant of <HI>Chius</HI> being kindled with an|ger again&s;t his &s;eruaunt &s;pake the&s;e wordes: <HI>Non in pi&s;irinum ego te detrudam, &s;ed ad Olympiam ducam.</HI> I wil not thru&s;t y^e into litle ea&s;e, I will not haue y^e grinde in the mil nether will I haue the laid fa&s;t by the h&eacute;els in &s;tocks: But it is my minde to haue the to the highe hill <HI>Olympia.</HI> For
<PB N="168" REF="177"> he &s;uppo&s;ed with him&s;elf, that to &s;tand vpon the top of the hill <HI>Olympia,</HI> wher the &s;onne beames might fry his flea&s;h, was more torme~ntable, then to runne about and turne a wh&eacute;ele, which, in compari&s;on, was but a m&eacute;ere &s;port.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the mildenes, &s;obernes, and hone&s;tie, of Archy|tas, in communi|cation.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ARchytas</HI> was a &s;ober man, and in &s;un|drie re&s;pects of behauiour, notable: yea &s;uch a one was this <HI>Archytas,</HI> as by no meanes, mighte awaye withe leude &s;peach &amp; corupt communication. This man, when as vrgent nece&s;&s;itie (as a man would haue thought) might haue con&s;trained him to vtter a thing in words, which we~t flat again&s;t his mind, he brideled his toung with &s;uch &s;ilence not with&s;tanding, that he &s;pared his &s;peach, with manife&s;t re&s;emblaunces of &s;obrietie. Howbeit, if the matter requie|red di&s;couery, and yet &s;&eacute;emed to impugne his will, he wrot it downe in his v&s;uall characters, &s;ati&s;fying the expecta|tion of &s;om, in cau&s;es of importaunce. But is not the mo|de&s;tie of this man merualous, who could te~per his toung when matters of much weight moued him to fr&eacute;e vtter|raunce?</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of a certaine Sybariti&s;he tale, de|&s;eruing laughter.</HEAD>
<P><HI>A</HI> Certaine <HI>Sybarite,</HI> a Schoolema&s;ter by his office and calling (which kinde of men are very loo&s;e liuers, as all other <HI>Sybarits</HI> are) when a certaine boy, which went with him by the way, &s;pying a figge vnder foote, &s;tooped, tooke it vp, and offered to eate it: he chid him cur&s;tly, and ther by &s;o terrified the lad, y^t he made him for&s;ake y^e &s;ame
<PB REF="178"> The Ma&s;ter haueing gotten the aduauntage which he &s;oughte, and &s;natching the figge from the boy (who was vnder obedience and corection) deuoured it vp quite, with a lickerous paier of lipps, &amp; a coruorant throte. When I read this, in the <HI>Sybariti&s;he</HI> hy&s;tories, I could not bridle my &s;elf from laughter, to &s;&eacute;e the craftie foxe beguile the &s;elly &s;h&eacute;epe, vnder a pretended &s;howe of &s;implicitie, and therfore haue I (that yow might vnder&s;tand the &s;ame with me) &s;ett it downe in writeing, not as a thing memo|rable for any commodious circum&s;taunce, as that in per|u&s;eing this <HI>Encheiridion</HI> of &s;horte hy&s;tories, you might ponder this tale, as a paterne of di&s;&s;embling dealing in all poincts di&s;&s;alowable.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the Poet Syagrus.</HEAD>
<P>THer was a certaine Poet named <HI>Syagrus,</HI> the &s;uc|ce&s;&s;our of <HI>Orpheus</HI> and <HI>Mu&s;eus:</HI> who is reported to haue b&eacute;ene the fir&s;t, that di&s;cour&s;ed vpon the <HI>Troi|an</HI> warres. The argument or matter is hauty and highe, yet he was &s;o bould as to comprehend the &s;ame in his &s;pareing poetrie.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of a Tyraunt, forbidding his &s;ubiects to haue confer|rence, and comunicati|on one with ano|ther.</HEAD>
<P><HI>A</HI> certaine <HI>Tryzan</HI> Tyraunt, intending to cutt of all occa&s;ions of rebellions, trea&s;ons in&s;urrections, and con&s;piracies, made a lawe for the inhabitants of his land, y^e no ma~, eather priuately at home, or publiquely abroade &s;hould be &s;o bould as co~ferr and talke with his neighbour,
<PB N="169" REF="178"> fr&eacute;end, and acquaintance, this prohibitiue proclamati|on was vniuer&s;all: A d&eacute;ede (I tell the truth) both grie|nous and intollerable. But this commandement of the king, as it &s;&eacute;emed to re&s;traine nece&s;&s;itie (for talke and conference is naturall and may not &s;o &s;traightly be li|mited) &s;o it was &s;oone violated, infringed and broken. Howbeit, not with manyfe&s;te tokens, but with &s;ecret &s;ignes of the &s;en&s;es, made one to another, one while of the face looking &s;owrely, &s;tearnly, &s;orrowfully, merely, &amp;c. another while of the handes and fingers bent this way and that way importing many my&s;teries, and &s;emblably of other &s;en&s;es, whereby one certefied ano|ther of their meanings &amp; determinations. This chang|able copie of countenaunces, and variable &s;ignificati|ons of the organs of the body, gaue the king to vnder|&s;tand, what a heauy yoke of &s;eruilitie, he had layde vp|on the &s;houlders of his &s;ubiects, and how impaciently they tooke &s;uch extreame and vnrea&s;onable barbari&s;me The con&s;ideration of this &s;ecret and &s;ignificant com|municating of coun&s;ell, moued the king exc&eacute;edingly: for he mi&s;tru&s;ted, that he had not yet made al &s;ure, &s;afe, and &s;ounde enough, but this &s;peaking &s;ilence (as it were) of his &s;ubiects, and the manifold induments and putting on of faces, did progno&s;ticate and fore&s;hew, &s;ome immi|nent mi&s;ch&eacute;efe, intended again&s;te his proper per&s;on. Wherefore he made a newe lawe be&s;ide the former, which did abrogate the libertie of v&s;eing &s;uch &s;ignes as are before mencioned. This extremitie, kindled no &s;mal fyre of enuy, in the hartes of his people, and &s;pecially in the hart of one particular and priuate man (who ei|ther of valliauncie or els of de&s;peration) tooke the high way into the market place of the citie, where he &s;toode w&eacute;eping and wayling in a mo&s;t pitifull plight, &amp; round about him a &s;warme of people flocked, thick and three-folde, howlyng and lamenting in lyke maner. Hereup|pon word was carried to the king, that no man v&s;ed to
<PB REF="179"> &s;peake by &s;ignes, but that all priuie and &s;ecret tokens of countenaunce, all mi&s;tical motions of bodely members, and all other &s;emblable &s;ignifications (whereby his &s;ub|iectes did communicate the conceipts of their mole&s;ted mindes) were vtterly lefte, and that tho&s;e their former fa&s;hions, and trade of behauiour, was turned into a v|niuer&s;all and &s;traunge kinde of lamentation: vpon the reporte of which tidings, the king (fearing &s;till that in|conuenie~ce, which faine he wold haue cut of, &amp; could not) maketh preparatio~, &amp; (w^t as much &s;p&eacute;ede as he might by any po&s;&s;ibility) &s;etteth forward one foot, w^c a traine of his guarde and Pe~&s;ioners: intending to &s;uppre&s;&s;e this in&s;o|lent and vnaccou&s;tomed kinde of &s;pectacle: Howbeit, the people (who~ the pre&s;ent perturbations of their intol|lerable &s;ubiection pricked) gathered together in a flock, &amp; e&s;pying a farre of, a certaine glimmering &s;hew of y^e king and his traine, made them&s;elues ready to rebell again&s;t his per&s;on, and fir&s;t of all encountred his a&s;&s;i&s;tauntes, from whom they violently wroonge their weapons, and by that meanes left them vnmunified and naked: and bending the fulne&s;&s;e of their force again&s;t the Tyraunt, hackt and hewde him in p&eacute;eces. Thus may we perceiue that <HI>Metus e&s;t malus duturnitatis cu&s;tos,</HI> Nothing can continue, which feare hath in k&eacute;eping.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Clinias and Achilles, who a&s;waged their anger, with the &s;weetnes of Mu&s;icke.</HEAD>
<P><HI>CLinias,</HI> a man in behauiour right hone&s;te, and in the profe&s;&s;ion of Philo&s;ophy a Pithagorian, at what time he was angrie, and perceiued the motions of &s;o mon&s;trous a fiende rageing in his harte, lea&s;te that
<PB N="170" REF="179"> his minde &s;hould be corrupted with the contagion of &s;o vile and yrk&s;om a Caterpiller, he betooke him to his mu|&s;icall in&s;trument, the &s;trings wherof, at all times were ready tuned, and with the &s;w&eacute;etene&s;&s;e of the noy&s;e fil|led his eares, and delighted his minde: A certaine man comming vnto him and demanding what his meaning was to do &s;o, he made this aun&s;wer: <HI>Nunc mitigor animo.</HI> Euen now, &s;ayth he, I was in a vengeable choler, but now the heat of the &s;ame is quite quallified. <HI>Achilles</HI> (of whome, the ver&s;es <HI>Homericall</HI> make mention) &s;oung &s;w&eacute;etely to his Cyterne, and called to memorie, the pu|i&s;aunt exploits, &amp; feates of Cheualrie, wherin the aunci|ent worthies were not inglorious: By which delectable excerci&s;e, and pre&s;eruing receipte, he v&s;ed to &s;lake the fi|ery flames of indignation, and to winde in the plea&s;ure and profit of a pacified minde. This man, being an ex|pert mu&s;itian, in the riche &s;poile &amp; botie which he obtai|ned of his enemies, notwith&s;tanding he might haue ta|ken many a precious Iewel, and ine&s;timable orname~t, yet the fir&s;t thing wheron he laid his ha~ds, was a &s;w&eacute;ete melodious Cyterne: wherby may be coniectured, that he preferred mu&s;icke, before fat &s;poyles.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of diuer&s;e which contemned money for the &s;afetye of their Citize~s and of certaine debters, and Creditors.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_THeocles</HI> of <HI>Corynth, Thra&s;onides,</HI> &amp; <HI>Praxis</HI> of <HI>Mitylen,</HI> contemned riches declaring therein, the naturall nobi|litie of their mindes, and di&s;couering by their di&s;cr&eacute;ete demeanour, that they weare true Gentlemen in|d&eacute;ede. The&s;e worthy and famous per&s;ons, &s;ailyng in Seas of &s;ub&s;tance, and waues of
<PB REF="180"> worldly wealth, and &s;&eacute;eing their Citizens, to want that wherewith they them&s;elues did bounde, laboured by wayes of exhortation, and per&s;ua&s;ion, to procure rel&eacute;efe out of the pur&s;es and &s;toare of the riche, to the indi|gent and needy, for the attenuating, and empaireing of their impoueri&s;hment. But diuer&s;e, not di&s;po&s;ing them+&s;elues, to the coun&s;els of the for&s;aide per&s;ons, &s;auouring of liberalitie; and large bounty: would in no ca&s;e bee wonne to the procurement of their owne hindraunce. Whereupon <HI>Theocles, Thra&s;onides</HI> and <HI>Praxis</HI> not obtaining that which they intended, and hauing hartes conformable to vertuous excerci&s;es, opened the &s;lu&s;es of their &s;ub&s;taunce, and let the &s;treames of their libera|litie runne abroad to the commodity of &s;uch whom lack had ouerburthened, whereby many debtes were di&s;|charged, many billes of demaundes aun&s;wered, many great &s;ummes of money payed, many exactions cl&eacute;e|red, and infinite reckonings blotted out of the Booke: by which excellent d&eacute;ede they de&s;erued, and atchiued, (&s;hall I &s;ay golde, and &s;iluer, which are corruptible) no, but euerla&s;ting fame, perpetuall prai&s;e, and renowne &s;empiternall.</P>
<P>Moreouer &s;uch (&s;&eacute;e the inconueniences of couetou&s;|nes) as would not conforme them&s;elues to the per&s;ua|&s;ions of the abouenamed <HI>Theocles, Thra&s;onides,</HI> and <HI>Praxis,</HI> through their gr&eacute;edye gapeing after priuate gaine (whiles they did &s;traine a Gnat, and &s;wallow a Camell) they did incurre double daunger: namely the lo&s;&s;e of their mony, and their liues, for &s;uch per&s;ons, as were indetted, and had not wherwithall to aun&s;wer to &s;uch &s;ummes as they did owe, by pondering their owne pinching pouertie, became &s;o bould and de&s;perate, that they ca&s;t violent handes vpon their creditours, &amp; &s;mote them downe to the ground, with bloudy woundes ir|recouerable: after which Sara&s;en &s;orte they dealte with as manye, as ventured within the compa&s;&s;e of
<PB N="171" REF="180"> their weapons. Had they not b&eacute;ene better, to haue for|geuen their debts, and &s;o haue &s;aued their liues, rather then by couetou&s;nes to haue &s;u&s;tained &s;o &s;hrewd a &s;hip|wracke?</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>The per&s;ua&s;ion of a certaine man, for the maintenance of co~cord and vnitie, in the common wealth.</HEAD>
<P>_THe people <HI>Chii,</HI> being at variance and di&s;&s;ention, yea at defyance, and dea|ling of blowes, among the~+&s;elues: A certaine man, of nature courteous and ci|uil, and &s;uch a one, ind&eacute;ede, as loued peace, and vnitie: vnder&s;tanding that their de&s;ire was, to haue al &s;uch expelled out of the liberties of the Citie, and the &s;ub|urbes of the &s;ame, as were an occa&s;ion of enimitie and contention, vttered the&s;e words very politiquely, and plau&s;ibly: <HI>Nequaquam, &s;ed cum victoriam obtinuerimus, relinquamus aliquos, ne procedente tempore, non habentes aduer&s;arios, nobis ip&s;is, bellum mutuo inferamus:</HI> I would not wi&s;h you to dooe &s;o (&s;ayth he) but rather, yea euen then, when w&eacute;e haue the victorie, let vs relinqui&s;h and leaue &s;ome foes among vs: lea&s;t peraduenture, in proce&s;&s;e of time, w&eacute;e hauing no enemies vppo~ who~e to wreake our wrath fal together by y^e eares, one with another, and &s;o proue in&s;truments of our owne preiudice and daunger. By this coun&s;ell, &s;ounding to rea&s;on, he &s;uppre&s;&s;ed that-pre&s;e~t &s;tryfe, and &s;et them at peace and vnion: for he &s;ee+med vnto them to &s;peake none otherwi&s;e, then the &s;pi|rit of truth gaue him vtterance.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB REF="181">
<HEAD>Of Antagoras, reuiling Arce|&s;ilaus.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ANtagoras</HI> the Poet, reuiled <HI>Arce&s;ilaus Academicus,</HI> in the commo~ place of A&s;|&s;emblie, howbeit to his owne harme and dammage: But <HI>Arce&s;ilaus</HI> not regar|ding his co~tumelious termes, and &s;lau~|derous language, helde him&s;elfe patie~t: Neuerthele&s;&s;e to &s;uppre&s;&s;e the in&s;olencie of his &s;peache, he v&s;ed this aduantage. When he perceaued much peo|ple &s;tanding together in a throng, he re&s;orted thither, walking and talking with them, to the intent that if <HI>Antagoras</HI> came to vppraide him, he might &s;pyt out his poy&s;on, in a full auditorie, to the end, that he therby, might purcha&s;e the &s;harper reprehen&s;ion, and incurre the greater &s;hame: when therfore <HI>Antagoras</HI> fortuned, or rather appointed, to be in the &s;elf &s;ame place, and af|ter his v&s;uall order, &s;pake &s;pitefully again&s;t <HI>Arce&s;ilaus:</HI> the pre&s;ent a&s;&s;emblie of people turned them&s;elues to|wards <HI>Antagoras,</HI> and accu&s;ed him of his extreame foo|li&s;hnes, and mi&s;demeanour.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of Age&s;ilaus.</HEAD>
<P>_I Thinke them worthy commendation and prai&s;e, which cut of mi&s;chiefes whe~ they beginne to budde &amp; blo&s;&s;om, le&s;t by not re&s;training them of libertie when they are you~g, they might procure foule enormities when they are olde, and e&s;|e&s;tabli&s;hed. <HI>Age&s;ilaus</HI> cou~&s;ell, therfore, was profitable, in alotting &s;uch to dye the death, as without cau&s;e clu&s;|tered together in a confederacie, a litle before the <HI>The|ban</HI> in&s;urrection.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="172" REF="181">
<HEAD>Of Pytheas the Orator.</HEAD>
<P>_ONe accu&s;ed <HI>Pytheas</HI> that h&eacute;e was a naughtie and leude fellow, wherof <HI>Pytheas</HI> made no denyall, for h&eacute;e acknowledged him&s;elfe culpable in con&s;cience: Howbeit he vttered this &s;peache apollogetical and defen&s;orie, in his owne behalf: That none of the~ y^t bare rule in y^e <HI>Athenien</HI> weale publique, remained, &s;o &s;hort a tyme, in mi&s;chiefe and naughtines: he reioyced againe, one the other&s;ide, that he continued not &s;uch a one as he was reputed to be: and &s;uppo&s;ed that he was iniurious to no man, in any re&s;pect, but innocent &amp; vn|blameable, yf he was not co~pared to &s;uch as were wic|ked in the highe&s;t degr&eacute;e. This is but a fooli&s;he, and a ri|diculous opinion of <HI>Pytheas</HI> the Rhetorician: For, not he onely which doth iniurie, is yll to be adiudged, but he al&s;o (in my iudgement) which thinketh theruppon, is not good to be e&s;t&eacute;emed.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of Ly&s;ander, carrying mony into Lacedemonia.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_LY&s;ander</HI> carryed money into <HI>Lace|demonia,</HI> and made the people of the land, to offend again&s;t the highe Gods commandement, (for they were charged, y^t no pa&s;&s;age &s;hould lye ope~ to golde or &s;iluer, in <HI>Sparta</HI>) diuers wi&s;e men therfore, maintai|ning integritie, and righteou&s;nes, with no le&s;&s;e affection, then per&s;eueraunce and con&s;tan|cie, oppo&s;ed and &s;et them &s;elues again&s;t <HI>Ly&s;ander,</HI> and re&s;i&s;ted him, in this his pernicious enterpri&s;e. Other &s;ome, there al&s;o were, of a contrary inclination, who did both fauour and further <HI>Ly&s;anders</HI> purpo&s;e: but as the other men, by their vertue woonne wor&s;hip
<PB REF="182"> &amp; renowne, &s;o the&s;e, for their labour, purcha&s;ed reproche and infamie: Yea, y^e noble name, and flouri&s;hing fame, which they had obtained in tymes pa&s;t, being blemi&s;hed and &s;tained, came to naught and peri&s;hed.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of Annon, who would needs be accounted A God.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ANnon</HI> the <HI>Carthaginean,</HI> by rea&s;on of his boyleing concupi&s;cence, and wa~+dring de&s;ires, would not content him|&s;elfe, with the e&s;tate of a man but &s;ought mo&s;t ambitiou&s;ly to clyme a|boue all temporall preeminence and wordly dominion, namely, to the de|degr&eacute;e of a God. To the intent therefore, that he might compa&s;&s;e his purpo&s;e, he bought him many di&s;ciplina|ble byrds, apt to &s;inge &s;ongs, and to &s;ounde words which were taught them: all which h&eacute;e fedde and taught in a &s;euerall place, wherunto, there was no common acce&s;&s;e or comming: The words which he taught them to &s;peak weare the&s;e <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">, and nothing els but onely <HI>Annon</HI> is a God, <HI>Annon</HI> is A God, <HI>Annon</HI> is A God. When they had b&eacute;ene long &s;chooled in this point, and had learned their <HI>Kyriele&s;on</HI> all alyke, and as <HI>Annon</HI> dremed, &s;o perfect|ly, that it was not po&s;&s;ible for them to &s;warue, he tooke them one by one &amp; threwe, the~ into the foure quarters of the world, &s;uppo&s;ing, a&s;&s;uredly, that (as they did in clo&s;e corner, and couert cage) &s;o they would in ope~ ayer, &s;ing none other &s;o~ge, but the &s;ame, which he had &s;o &s;tudiou&s;|ly taught them, theruppon per&s;uading him&s;elfe, that y^e name of <HI>Annon</HI> &s;hould be bla&s;ed through out the world vniuer&s;all, and this his deification proclamed, in euery region, both Ciuil &amp; Barbarous. But yt came to pa&s;&s;e,
<PB N="173" REF="182"> farre otherwi&s;e, then the &s;lumbring phanta&s;&s;es of <HI>An|nons</HI> ambitious minde conceaued: for the Byrds be|ing re&s;tored to their naturall place, and cutting the &s;pi|reable ayre with their &s;lickering fethers, and hauing be &s;ides that, recouered their originall trade of lyfe, chaun|ged al&s;o the counterfect note, which <HI>Annon</HI> taught them, and re&s;umed the ordinarie kinde of tunable and harmonious noy&s;e, which Lady nature had a&s;&s;igned them, by her immutable ordinaunce. Thus was <HI>An|nons</HI> ambitious hart &s;poyled of vaine hope, and the dei|fication which he hunted after &s;o gr&eacute;edely, was turned to his &s;hame: for what rea&s;onable creature woulde be &s;o pre&s;umptuous, or what hone&s;t nature dur&s;t be &s;o ven|turous, as (not contented with the title of mortalitie, and yet di&s;cended of corruptible &s;perme) to exalte and aduaunce his owne priuate per&s;on, with &s;uch notable paternes of imprudence, and &s;uch rare Pageantes of impudence,</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Polomey, who was &s;yrnamed Tryphon,</HEAD>
<P><HI>_PTolomeus Tryphon</HI> (for that was his &s;yrname) at what time a certayne beautifull woma~, was de&s;irous to haue &s;ome talke and communication with him, and he perceaued her meaning in that behalfe, &s;aide thus to the younge damo&s;ell: <HI>Prohibuit &s;oror ne &s;er|monem a &s;pecio&s;a faemina &s;u&s;ciperem,</HI> My Si&s;ter for bad me to enter talcke with any faire woman: vpon who&s;e wordes &s;he replied in this &s;orte, with a man then, be|like, you may: which when <HI>Ptolome</HI> heard, he gaue her commendation.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB REF="183">
<HEAD>&para; Of Timandridas, who did not prai&s;e his &s;onne for increa&s;ing his &s;ub&s;taunce, whiles he was ab&s;ent.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_TImandridas</HI> a certaine <HI>Lacedemonian</HI> takeing his iourney into a far country, committed the admini&s;tratio~, gouern|ment, and charge of his whole hou&s;hold to his &s;onne: who in the ab&s;ence of his father was not ydle, but bu&s;&s;ily occupi|ed in worldly affaires, for the augmenting and increa|&s;ing of his &s;tock: Afterwardes <HI>Timandridas,</HI> returned home, and finding his wealth and &s;ub&s;taunce, more by many portions inlarged then it was before, &s;aide the&s;e wordes to his &s;onne, by way of reprehen&s;ion. <HI>Multos deos, familiares, atque Ho&s;pites no&s;tros &amp;c.</HI> Thou ha&s;t begui|led, both the Gods aboue, our neighbours about, our ac|quaintance and cu&s;tomers: for the &s;urplu&s;age of our &s;ub&s;taunce, ought of dutie, to be di&s;tributed vnto them. But (&s;aith he) <HI>Dum in viuis agas pauperem atque egenum videri, et cum vita defunctus &s;is, opes, &amp; diuitias rei familiaris apud te deprehendi, id turpi&s;&s;imu~ in hominu~ &s;ocietate exi&s;tit.</HI> To, &s;&eacute;eme poore and n&eacute;edy whiles a man is aliue, &amp; to be found rich and wealthy in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions and goods, when he is dead, is the foule&s;t faulte, and mo&s;t vn&s;&eacute;emely blemi&s;h that can cr&eacute;epe into the felow&s;hip and &s;ocietie of men.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of Plato and Diogenes.</HEAD>
<P><HI>PLato,</HI> rea&s;oning vpon certaine points of learning, in pre&s;ence of <HI>Diogenes,</HI> who &s;&eacute;emed not attentiue to y^e wordes which were vttered by y^e Philo&s;opher, t&oacute;oke oc|ca&s;ion to be di&s;plea&s;ed with <HI>Diogenes</HI> thereupon, and &s;aide vnto him, in the boyling beate of his choler. <HI>Quin diligenter &s;ermones meos au&s;cultas Canis?</HI> is this the eare
<PB N="174" REF="183"> thou geue&s;t to my doctrine, thou Dogge? whereat <HI>Dio|genes,</HI> nothing offended in minde, with &s;uch reprochefull language, &s;aide to <HI>Plato</HI> againe. <HI>At ego nunquam e&ograve; &s;um reuer&s;us, vnde veni, quod Canes &s;olent.</HI> But I neuer retur|ned back againe thither, from whence I came, which is a propertie incident to Dogs: rebuking in this &s;horte re|ply, and ouerthwart phra&s;e of &s;peache, the fatherly Phi|lo&s;opher, for his iourney into <HI>Sicilia.</HI> Moreouer, it is a &s;aying in y^e mouthes of &s;ome, that <HI>Plato</HI> accu&s;tomably called <HI>Diogenes,</HI> furious and frantique <HI>Socrates.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of whom the Aegiptians lear|ned their lawe, and of their Iudges.</HEAD>
<P>_THe <HI>Aegiptians,</HI> vaunt very gloriou&s;|ly, of this thinge, as of a rare, and in|comparable priueledge, namely that their lawes, &s;tatutes, ordinaunces, and iniunctions, did flow from diuine <HI>Mercurie:</HI> Such al&s;o among them, as occupied the &s;eates of iudgementes, belonged to the order of prie&s;thoode: &s;o that a double title of dignitie in them did incurre, namely <HI>Titulus Iudicis, &amp; In&s;igne Sacerdotis,</HI> among the number of whom, he occu|pied the principall place in geuing &s;entence, that was the elde&s;t and the mo&s;t auncient. Prouided alwaies, that he which &s;upplied that <HI>Rome,</HI> ought of dutie, in vprightnes and integritie, to excell all other men. Moreouer he did weare in a colar which houng about his neck, a precious <HI>Saphyre</HI> &s;tone, wherin was in grauen this Gr&eacute;eke word <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">, which &s;ignifieth Truthe, meaninge, thereby, that as they had that co&s;tly and &s;umptuous Tablet han|ging downe their bo&s;ome in outward &s;ight, &s;o they &s;huld haue the vertue (repre&s;e~ted in the precious &s;tone) d&eacute;epe|ly planted in the furrowes of their remembraunce.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB REF="184">
<HEAD>&para; Of Lais.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_LAis</HI> the harlote, was called by the name of <HI>Axine,</HI> which worde de|clared the vntowardnes of her na|ture, and di&s;couered her vnhone&s;te gathering of gaine, for &s;hee v&s;ed to take too great a reward, for a mo|ment of plea&s;ure, of traueilers &s;pe|cially, whom &s;he knew to be &s;harp &s;et, by re&s;on of their ab&s;ence from home, &amp; to haue no time of tariaunce, be|cau&s;e of the &s;p&eacute;edines of their iourney</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; That they proue them&s;elues fooles which vaunt of their progenitors.</HEAD>
<P>_THey de&s;erue di&s;prai&s;e, and extreame laughter (in my opinion) which brag of their progenitours, and think them &s;elues trim men, becau&s;e their forefa|thers were famous in feats of armes: For who knoweth who was y^e &s;yer of <HI>Marius?</HI> A&s;&s;uredly not we, his valianntne&s;&s;e and pui|&s;aunce is recorded in &s;undrye hi&s;tories, but yet who begat him remaineth doubtfull and vnknowne. The &s;ame we affirme of <HI>Cato, Seruilius, Ho&s;tilius, Romu|lus,</HI> &amp;c. all notable and pui&s;&s;aunt p&eacute;eres, in the <HI>Romane</HI> Empire.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of pictures, and Images.</HEAD>
<P>WHen I take a vew of the caruers cutting in fa&s;hi|oning an image, and the painters drawing, in framing a Picture: I conclude this, that in both their handywoorkes, exqui&s;ite iudgement is be&s;towed, and that in the&s;e Artes, rea&s;on is mo&s;te nece&s;&s;arie:
<PB N="175" REF="184"> This to b&eacute;e true, I canne bring diuers te&s;timonies for no caruer nor painter hath at any time, b&eacute;ene &s;o farr &s;eque&s;tred from rea&s;on, and &s;o much depriued of iudgement, as to de&s;cribe and &s;et out the nyne <HI>Mu&s;es,</HI> God <HI>Iupiters</HI> Daughters, in a wrong &s;hape and prepo&s;|terous proportion, namely, in harne&s;&s;e lyke the &s;kirmi|&s;hing <HI>Amazones:</HI> which is an argument that the life which is allotted to y^e <HI>Mu&s;es</HI> &s;hould not be tumultuous but peaceable and full of tranquilitie, For, <HI>Quid Mu&s;is cum Marte?</HI> what felow&s;hip haue that <HI>Mu&s;es</HI> w^c <HI>Mars?</HI> what agr&eacute;ement betwixt learning, and weapons.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of Epaminondas and of Pe|lopidas.</HEAD>
<P>AMou~g many notable &s;ayings and doings of <HI>Epami|nondas</HI> (which ind&eacute;ede are innumerable) this a|mong the re&s;t is regi&s;tred: &s;peaking to <HI>Pelopidas,</HI> he vttered this &s;e~tence, <HI>Non prius interdum di&s;cedendum e foro quam nouum aliquem amicum ad veteres adieceris.</HI> That a man &s;hould depart out of a common concour&s;e of people no day, before he had gotten a newe friend to his olde: meaning that the life of man is continued with mutuall loue, which, where &s;oeuer it be wanting, all things there are &s;oone di&s;&s;olued, and brought to de&s;o|lation.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>How Antalcidas found fault with a gifte which was &s;ent him, becau&s;e it was &s;prinkled with &s;weete compound water.</HEAD>
<P>THe king of the <HI>Per&s;ians</HI> (for I will f&eacute;ede your fan|&s;ies, by your leaue, with a p&eacute;ece of plea&s;ure) made a garland of ro&s;es, and &s;prinkled the &s;ame all ouer with perfumed waters, &amp; &s;w&eacute;ete &s;melling oyntments: which when he had doone, he cau&s;ed the &s;ame to b&eacute;e caried to
<PB REF="185"> <HI>Antalcidas</HI> (who at that tyme was emba&s;&s;adour for peace) for a pre&s;ent: But <HI>Antalcidas,</HI> not &s;o well liking of the thinge brought &amp; offered, &s;aid: <HI>Su&s;cipio quidem donu~, atque animi promptitudinem laudo, &s;ed Ro&s;arum odorem na|turaeque fragrantiam, artis adulteratione perdidi&s;ti.</HI> I thanke th&eacute;e for thy gifte, and I commend thy fr&eacute;e and liberall hart, neuerthele&s;&s;e I mu&s;t tell th&eacute;e thus much, y^t with thy curious co&s;t, thou ha&s;t &s;poiled the &s;w&eacute;etenes of the ro&s;es, and by thy counterfetting of &s;mells, ha&s;t quite da&s;ht the delight&s;omnes of the fine flowers.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>The crueltie of Alexander, the Pheren&s;ian Tyraunt.</HEAD>
<P><HI>ALexander,</HI> y^e <HI>Pheren&s;ian</HI> tyra~t, was a merciles ma~, and a bloudy butcher: for at what tyme, <HI>Theodorus</HI> y^e tragediographer, &s;et forth the hi&s;tory of <HI>Aerops,</HI> with great vehemencie of minde, pitifull &s;peaches, lamenta|ble ge&s;tures, and &s;emblable circum&s;taunces, &s;ea&s;oned with the &s;ap of &s;orow: <HI>Alexander</HI> aro&s;e out of his &s;eate, (the teares trickling downe his ch&eacute;ekes) and departed from the Theater, or Stage, where this tragedie was played with &s;uch liuely and effectuall repre&s;entations: The &s;oudaine goyng away of whom, mini&s;tred no &s;mall doubt to the mindes of many men, but ch&eacute;efely to <HI>Theodorus:</HI> whereupon <HI>Alexander,</HI> excu&s;ing the Poet, &s;aide in plaine wordes thus to <HI>Theodorus,</HI> I departed not y^e place to this ende &amp; purpo&s;e, therby to make the contemptible and de&s;pi&s;ed, but rather, for that I was touched with a &s;odaine &s;hame of mine owne per&s;on, whom the repre&s;e~tations of things, moued to that com|pa&s;&s;ion and pittie, which could not pearce my flinty harte, in the ponderous and waighty e&s;tate of my poore people and &s;ubiects.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="176" REF="185">
<HEAD>&para; Of the madne&s;&s;e of Apollodorus procured by wine.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_APollodorus</HI> carrow&s;ing wine, more exce&s;&s;iuely then the re&s;idue of his companions, could not con|ceale the filthye and loth&s;ome vice of drunkenes, nor couer the fruites and mi&s;chiefes of the &s;ame: But being inflamed and kindled with the heat of &s;o &s;trong a liquor, waxed fearce and vnruly, and framed his body to the di&s;po&s;ition of his nature.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>The &s;entence, or opinion, of Xenocrates.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_XEnocrates,</HI> the familiar friend of <HI>Plato,</HI> had this &s;entence in his mouth, of Cu&s;|tome: <HI>Nihil interest pedesn&eacute; an oculos in aliena domo defigere.</HI> That betw&eacute;ene en|tring into a mans how&s;e, and lookinge therin: was no differe~ce. His rea&s;o~ was this, for (&s;aith he) as well they which looke, where they ought not, as they which enter, where they &s;hould not, are in equall proportion of reprehen&s;ion and blame.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of Ptolomeus anb Be|renice.</HEAD>
<P>TO <HI>Ptolomeus,</HI> at what tyme he &s;at, playeing at Ta|bles, an officer read a Catalogue of condemned me~, their tre&s;pa&s;&s;es, &amp; the order of y^e proce&s;&s;e again&s;t the~, y^t he might pronounce &s;entence, what kinde of puni&s;hment, they were to &s;uffer after the mea&s;ure of their merits.
<PB REF="186"> But <HI>Berenice,</HI> y^e wife of <HI>Ptolome,</HI> takeing y^e &s;croule out of the regi&s;ters hands, interrupted him in r&eacute;eding for|ward the &s;euerall inditements, which remained: &s;aying <HI>Non &s;ic obiter animus e&s;t aduertendus, cum de hominis &s;alute di&s;ceptetur, &s;ed cogitandum, et relinquenda ludicra.</HI> Yt is not m&eacute;ete to determine ra&s;hly and vnadui&s;edly in matters of lyfe and death, but all tryfling toyes, and exerci&s;es of di&s;porte &s;et a&s;ide, &s;uch waighty cau&s;es ar &s;kilfully to b&eacute;e decided: for (&s;ayth &s;h&eacute;e) ca&s;ting of a payre of dyce, and re|moueing table men from place to place, is not lyke to hanging, killing, and murthering, quick and rea&s;onable creatures. <HI>Ptolomeus,</HI> at the hearing of the&s;e wordes of <HI>Berenice</HI> his wife, pondered &s;o preci&s;ely of that pre&s;ent occa&s;ion, that he would neuer (from that time, forward, when he was recreating him&s;elfe in any kinde of game) allowe cau&s;es of life and death, to be called to accounte.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>The Lawe of the Lacedemo|nians, again&s;t Coue|tou&s;nes.</HEAD>
<P>_A certaine youngman of <HI>Lacedemonia,</HI> hauing bought a plot of land, for a &s;mall and ea&s;y price (and, as they &s;ay, dogge cheape) was arre&s;ted to appeare before y^e magi&s;trates: &amp; after y^e trial of his mater he was charged w^c a penalty. The re&s;o~, why h&eacute;e was iudged worthy this puni&s;hme~t, was, becau&s;e he being but a you~gma~, gaped &s;o gredely after gain, &amp; yaw|ned after filthy couetou&s;nes: For yt was a mo&s;t com|mendable thing, among the <HI>Lacedemonians,</HI> not only to fighte again&s;t the enemie, in battell manfully: but al&s;o, to wre&s;tle and &s;truggle with couetou&s;nes, (that mi&s;&s;chiefous mon&s;ter.) valliauntly.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="177" REF="186">
<HEAD>&para; Of diuers notable and famous Women.</HEAD>
<P>_WEe are now determined to &s;peake &s;om|what, in the prai&s;e of worthy women, and to deliuer you a bedrowe of &s;uch as de&s;erue commendation. And fir&s;te of all we wil begin with the mo&s;t renowmed. Such a one was <HI>Penelope,</HI> the cha&s;te: <HI>Alce&s;tis,</HI> the con&s;tant: <HI>Laodamia</HI> the wife of <HI>Prote&s;ilaus,</HI> the louing: the&s;e women were <HI>Grecians.</HI> Now to come &amp; touch our owne country, <HI>Cornelia,</HI> the learned: <HI>Porcia</HI> y^e p&eacute;erles: &amp; <HI>Ce&s;tilia,</HI> the famous: The&s;e women were <HI>Romanes.</HI> More could I recounte, but I wyll not, lea&s;t I might be &s;u&s;pected of flattery, and ca&s;t in the t&eacute;eth with para&s;itical practi&s;e, and the art of ad|lation: which I vtterly abhorre.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>&para; Of the Army of the Magnets, again&s;t the Ephe&s;ians.</HEAD>
<P>_THe <HI>Magnets</HI> (a people bordering by the floode <HI>Meander</HI>) making war a|gain&s;t the <HI>Ephe&s;ians,</HI> v&s;ed this order in their incounter. Euery hor&s;eman had with him to the f&eacute;eld, a dogge to hunt, and a footeman to throw the dart: Now when they were prepared to geue the on&s;et vpon their aduer&s;aries, the <HI>Ephe&s;ians:</HI> they did let lo&s;e their dogges, who ranne fiericely vpon the &s;ouldiers of the contrary &s;ide, byt them, tare their fle&s;h with their t&eacute;eth, and interturbed the whole aray, in &s;uch &s;ort, that they could not deui&s;e what were be&s;t to be doonne, for their owne &s;uccour, whiles the dogges did &s;o wearie and plague them. Then the
<PB REF="187"> Dart men gaue y^e &s;econd a&s;&s;ault, playeing their partes al&s;o with full purpo&s;e to vanqui&s;h their enemies. And la&s;t of all, the <HI>Magnetian</HI> Hor&s;emen, prepared their power, again&s;t the <HI>Ephe&s;ians.</HI> And thus you haue a &s;traunge kinde of order in warfare, as appeareth, in mine opinion.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>Of the Image of Helena, made by Zeuxis, and of the painter Nico&s;tratus.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ZEuxis,</HI> when he had painted y^e picture of <HI>Helena, Nico&s;tratus</HI> beheld it earne&s;tly and wondering at the workman&s;hip, therein &s;hewed, was greatly ama&s;ed: One coming vnto him, and demau~ding the occa&s;io~ of his &s;odaine a&s;toni&s;hment he made this wi&s;e and prudent au~&s;wer: <HI>Non id me roga|res, &s;imeos haberes oculos.</HI> Thou would&s;t a&s;ke me no &s;uch que&s;tion, if thou had&s;t mine eyes in thy hed. The &s;ame, may be applied (in my iudgement) to a learned and elo|quent phra&s;e of writing, and &s;peaking: For except a ma~ haue di&s;cretion and iudgement in a &s;ettled minde, and attentiue eares therunto pertaining, yt is not po&s;&s;ible to determine with rea&s;on, and &s;oundnes of opinion: No more then yt is po&s;&s;ible for a Bunglers and Botchers eye, to e&s;pye an errour in, artes and &s;ciences &s;urpa&s;&s;ing their capacities.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>What per&s;ons they were, whome Alexander di&s;liked.</HEAD>
<P><HI>PTolomey,</HI> for his dexteritie and actiuenes: <HI>Arrius,</HI> for his bui&s;ines, and comber&s;omnes, And <HI>Python,</HI> for his deui&s;e of nouelties, and &s;traunge thinges.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="178" REF="187">
<HEAD>Wherefore King Philips plea&s;ure was, to haue the &s;onnes of noble men, attend and waighte vppon his princely per&s;on.</HEAD>
<P><HI>PHilip</HI> did take and choo&s;e, the &s;onnes of Noble and honorable men, to &s;erue and attend vppon his per&s;o~, not of an iniurious, and &s;pitefull minde, but to this end and purpo&s;e, that they might he acquainted to abide labour, indure to take paines, and be alwaies prompt and redy to do their duty. For what&s;oeuer he was a|mo~g them, that addicted and gaue him&s;elfe to loo&s;ene&s;&s;e of lyfe, and conformed not him&s;elfe to the kinges com|mau~dement, dilligently and dutifully: he did incurre the di&s;plea&s;ure of his maie&s;tie exc&eacute;edinglye. And for this cau&s;e was <HI>Apthonetus</HI> taken and &s;courged, becau&s;e (when he was &s;urpri&s;ed with thir&s;t) he brake order, and left his way to lodge at a commo~ Inne. He cau&s;ed <HI>Ar|chedamus</HI> al&s;o to lo&s;e his lyfe, becau&s;e he, being charged and commaunded by the king, to continue in armour, contrary (neuerthele&s;&s;e) to the precept geuen him, put it of and vnharne&s;&s;ed him&s;elfe. He thought he might be &s;o much the more bolde, and pre&s;umptuous vppon the kings fauour, as (for lucres &s;ake, and de&s;ire of gaine) he flouri&s;hed in faire &s;peaches, and flatering phra&s;es, wherewith he per&s;uaded him&s;elf to auoide his princes di&s;plea&s;ure.</P>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Vernalis Abrahami Flemingi <HI>Partus.</HI></HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE><DATE><HI>ANNO A MESSIA NATO. 1576.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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