Misodiaboles
and
his
opinion
of
Misacmos
and
his
metamorphosed
Aiax
,
written
to
his
deere
and
learned
friende
Master
Philaretes
.
PHilaretes
vpon
your
intreatie
and
in
satisfaction
of
my
promise
,
I
haue
perused
Misacmos
and
his
metamorphosed
Aiax
,
and
not
onely
pleasantlie
ouerlookt
it
and
laught
at
it
my selfe
:
But
also
communicated
and
commended
the
worke
to
the
censure
of
many
learned
and
discreete
gentlemen
;
who
(
to
be
plaine
with
you
)
after
they
had
red
and
conceited
it
,
thought
Auban
:
lib
:
1
ca
:
6.
de
omni
gent.
rit.
&
morib.
it
worthy
no
better
vsage
then
the
brides
haue
among
the
Nasamones
a
people
of
Africa
,
who
the
first
day
of
their
mariage
are
both
vsed
,
abused
,
and
defiled
by
all
the
guestes
and
straungers
that
accompany
the
festiuall
.
One
said
(
as
Apollidorus
did
of
Chrisippus
workes
)
that
if
other
mens
sentences
were
taken
out
of
his
booke
,
the
rest
would
be
fit
for
nothing
but
wast
paper
.
An
other
that
he
Bouchet
au
3.
Seree
.
had
plaide
as
mad
a
prancke
as
the
malcontented
fish
wife
in
Bouchet
,
who
vnder
pretence
to
shame
others
that
had
shrowdelie
angred
her
,
turnd
vp
her
naked
taile
in
the
market
place
to
shewe
the
dominicall
letter
B
in
her
buttockes
.
An
other
said
that
as
(
according
to
Aubanus
)
Aethiopia
was
mountainous
toward
Auban
lib.
1.
cap
:
4
Horace
.
Mou●…
corn●…
cula
risum
nudata
furtiuis
coloribus
.
Plin.
cap
:
21.
lib.
〈◊〉
the
west
,
sandie
in
the
midst
;
and
desert
in
the
east
:
So
this
booke
was
full
of
ostentation
and
protestation
in
the
ende
,
barraine
in
the
middest
,
and
dull
in
the
beginning
.
Another
compared
it
to
Horace
crow
deckt
with
many
sethers
.
An
other
to
the
herbe
Ferula
which
is
onelie
a
pleasant
foode
for
asses
,
but
a
poyson
to
all
other
beastes
.
There
were
some
that
said
that
Misacmos
wit
was
lighter
then
Archestratus
bodie
:
yet
Mercurial
:
lib
:
de
decorat
:
cap.
8.
both
Aelian
and
Atheneus
say
this
of
him
;
That
beeing
taken
by
his
enemies
,
and
wayed
in
a
ballance
,
he
and
his
prophecying
spirite
were
lighter
then
a
halfpenny
.
All
which
iudgementes
as
I
commend
them
not
for
true
,
so
I
condemne
them
not
for
false
,
but
onely
leaue
them
to
his
defying
,
and
defyning
,
who
woulde
faine
sweeten
A●…iax
by
his
wit
and
authoritie
.
Touching
mine
owne
opinion
(
because
you
expect
it
,
and
the
worlde
may
throughlie
knowe
it
)
I
will
obserue
Platoes
lawe
in
it
,
and
so
apply
my
woordes
to
the
subiect
,
that
I
may
rather
seeme
an
apt
and
modest
pleasant
in
writing
trueth
,
then
a
foule
mouth
Criticke
in
reprouing
bitterlie
,
(
not
beeing
vntaught
Gregor.
in
Ezechiel
:
lib.
1
Homel
.
21
Ecce
hoc
est
magisterium
disciplinae
,
vt
culpis
&
discrete
●…ou
erit
parcere
,
&
pie
resecare
.
by
Gregorie
descreetelle
to
spare
,
and
aptlie
to
reprehende
offences
)
:
Yet
woulde
Philaretes
shoulde
knowe
,
(
because
these
times
expect
it
)
that
as
I
will
forbeare
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
and
detraction
as
a
faulte
;
so
(
in
as
much
as
the
obscenitie
of
the
subiect
will
suffer
me
)
will
I
obserue
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
(
pleasant
and
scholler-like
vrbanitie
)
which
was
admitted
amonge
the
Grecians
,
and
commended
in
Cicero
.
Thus
therefore
in
shorte
touching
this
mouldie
Metamorphosis
:
It
is
an
affectation
of
singularitie
;
a
fruite
of
discontent
;
a
superfluitie
of
wanton
wit
;
a
madding
with
reason
;
a
diligence
without
iudgement
;
a
worke
fit
for
Volumnius
the
iester
not
Misacmos
the
courteour
.
In
forme
contrarie
to
all
rules
of
science
:
In
matter
vndecent
,
filthy
and
immodest
:
and
touching
the
authorities
,
they
are
so
weake
and
so
wrested
,
as
no
chast
or
christian
eare
may
in
reason
endure
them
,
which
if
I
prooue
not
by
reason
as
I
professe
in
wordes
,
let
Philaretes
disclaime
me
for
his
friend
,
and
Misacmos
shake
hands
with
me
for
a
fool
;
This
is
faire
play
my
masters
when
I
vse
friends
with
this
equality
.
Touching
the
forme
,
Perseus
scarre
sits
in
Misacmos
forehead
;
Scal.
lib.
poet
.
3.
cap.
98.
Ostentat
obstrusam
eruditionem
,
he
labors
to
shew
much
reading
&
profound
learning
:
and
beside
that
is
too
formall
which
is
no
lesse
grace
in
him
then
it
was
in
the
Nun
who
(
to
couer
her
naked
top
from
two
Friers
whome
she
let
into
her
monestarie
)
hastely
discouered
her
tayle
,
cum
multis
alijs
quae
nunc
perscribore
longum
est
.
Shal
I
rip
vp
obscenitie
in
words
as
filthy
as
euer
Iuuenal
vsed
?
shal
I
say
that
in
detracting
,
and
taxing
sinnes
,
he
instructeth
them
?
ah
las
no
,
the
world
sees
it
,
and
as
the
welch
man
said
of
the
Comedie
before
the
Queene
,
I
laugh
,
my
cosen
Peter
laugh
,
Dauie
ap
Powell
laugh
,
and
the
Queene
laugh
,
what
a
Hysteron
Proteron
is
heere
to
shewe
the
laughing
at
a
forc't
follie
,
a
dull
iest
,
and
his
idlenes
?
Well
on
afore
(
quoth
Susembrotus
.
the
procession
)
hold
vp
your
torches
for
dropping
,
we
shall
haue
more
mirth
at
our
next
meeting
.
Where
left
I
?
at
the
stoole
?
no
let
Misacmos
see
to
it
,
it
was
in
the
forme
,
so
so
now
let
vs
descend
to
the
subiect
:
Subiectumcirca
quod
,
subauditur
Aiax
.
Then
Aiax
is
the
subiect
:
In
good
time
say
,
but
which
Aiax
I
pray
you
,
was
it
that
Aiax
Telamonius
,
who
wonne
honour
by
his
courage
,
and
madnesse
by
his
discontent
?
whose
mind
too
greate
for
his
fortune
,
made
his
passion
too
strong
for
his
reason
?
Toto
erras
coelo
,
he
hath
no
neede
to
be
so
mannerlie
.
Oh
I
conceiue
him
,
I
conceiue
him
,
he
abhorres
Aequiuocations
it
is
a
iakes
in
deede
that
he
meaneth
without
all
sauing
your
reuerence
:
Who
perswades
him
to
this
Paradox
?
Tarletons
authority
,
and
his
cousens
incouragement
.
Goe
to
,
the
first
diede
;
a
foole
for
his
labor
,
the
next
may
smell
of
it
while
hee
liues
,
and
howsoeuer
Misacmos
sturre
him
in
the
seruice
,
it
will
bee
but
a
stincking
sturre
tho
hee
sturre
whilst
he
stiffle
.
I
,
but
manie
haue
writte
of
worse
subiects
,
and
whie
not
hee
of
this
?
A
good
reason
,
learnt
bee
that
conclusion
in
Cambridge
?
Faith
it
shall
neuer
doe
him
credit
,
no
more
then
did
the
Curates
Argument
,
who
applyed
the
authoritie
of
his
Horse
against
those
that
denyed
purgatorie
.
Fie
fie
,
who
knowes
not
this
,
that
an
euill
custome
is
no
instance
for
an
other
to
follow
it
?
and
that
it
is
too
weake
an
answere
in
a
wanton
,
to
excuse
her selfe
by
saying
,
forsooth
my
mistresse
taught
it
mee
?
Men
are
richest
in
infirmitie
,
and
weakest
in
foresight
,
apt
to
entertaine
priuie
pleasures
,
ignorant
to
reforme
them
,
who
therefore
limiteth
his
studdies
by
others
industries
,
and
rather
obserueth
what
other
men
doe
,
then
what
hee
ought
to
doe
;
rowleth
Sisiphus
stone
to
his
owne
miserie
,
and
is
foolishlie
diligent
to
register
his
owne
infirmities
.
A
las
alas
hath
the
good
gentleman
no
friends
to
tell
him
this
,
that
it
is
better
to
suffer
a
few
surfit
in
their
owne
sinnes
,
then
for
him
to
communicate
with
them
in
their
courses
,
causes
and
shame
?
I
will
talke
with
his
friend
,
&
mine
,
(
the
Chaplain
of
Lincons
Inne
)
about
this
poynt
,
and
he
shall
informe
him
.
Now
sir
,
what
is
next
?
The
petiagree
of
Aiax
,
preuented
with
the
authoritie
of
Rabbelais
,
(
a
condempned
Athiest
by
the
last
counsaill
of
Trent
)
and
some
course
fictions
(
as
filthy
as
Iyllyan
of
Braindfords
fartes
,
)
wherein
(
as
the
vomitte
of
a
corrupt
and
enuious
minde
:
)
Holinsheds
Chronicle
hath
a
quippe
,
and
Hale
the
olde
Counsailer
hath
a
lie
for
his
labour
.
Well
well
,
it
were
good
Misacmos
considered
this
of
Plautus
.
Plaut.
in
Bacaludib
.
Eia
Lide
leniter
qui
saeuiunt
sapiunt
magis
.
Plaut
in
Bucaludib
.
Mercurial
.
lib.
de
deco
.
rat
.
cap.
8.
The
bush
that
lente
him
a
thorne
to
pricke
them
,
wil
aford
a
thousand
to
gaul
him
,
except
he
be
as
fat
as
Nichomachus
of
Smirna
,
who
could
not
feele
a
pinne
thrust
into
his
buttocks
,
or
stirre
nor
touch
his
backe
partes
he
was
so
grosse
in
the
belly
.
To
the
petigree
the
petegree
,
for
there
is
the
misterie
(
the
miserie
Il
a
trouue
le
febue
au
gaste
●…u
.
I
should
say
,
and
the
sruite
of
much
idlenesse
:
)
Stercutius
or
Saturne
the
great
grandfather
:
how
prooue
you
this
?
he
first
brought
vp
in
Italy
the
dunging
and
mannuring
of
earth
,
Ergo
he
is
grandfather
to
A-iax
:
I
denie
the
argument
.
By
whome
shall
it
be
tried
?
by
the
olde
Tusean
husbandmen
at
this
day
,
and
those
in
Romagna
and
about
Rome
,
who
being
taught
by
Saturne
the
trimming
of
their
vines
,
haue
likewise
learnd
to
fatten
their
mould
by
burning
them
after
the
time
of
their
vintage
:
Would
not
this
puzle
Misacmos
inuention
Philaretes
if
it
were
well
followed
?
He
is
a
Lincolns
Inne
man
,
a
towarde
fellow
,
Rafe
Wilbram
the
pleasant
witted
Barister
knows
him
,
and
for
his
sake
in
perpetuam
hominis
imbecillitatem
(
memoriam
,
I
shoulde
haue
said
)
I
remitte
it
.
On
a
gods
name
,
Quidnouarum
rerum
,
what
new
matter
followeth
?
Lies
worse
then
Lucians
,
which
beeing
affected
are
more
ill
fauoured
,
and
howsoeuer
he
vnderstande
Omne
verbum
otiosum
quod
lo
quutifuerint
homines
,
&c.
them
,
he
shall
not
be
able
to
stand
vnder
them
:
Verba
otiosa
,
idle
wordes
,
which
(
if
the
Apostle
faile
not
)
must
be
soundlie
answered
for
;
not
spirando
ambitionem
in
a
latine
stile
,
sed
lamentando
incuriam
,
before
a
seuere
iudge
.
Songs
worse
then
the
Priapies
of
Virgil
forbidden
by
Plato
in
his
fourth
booke
of
lawes
,
and
by
the
lawe
of
the
twelue
tables
condemned
amonge
the
Ethnique
Romanes
;
A
songe
not
lesse
filthie
then
that
Tertulian
in
Apologia
Eusebius
,
Nicephorus
li.
1.
Ciril
.
epi.
20.
6
inter
epistolas
Augustini
.
Gregories
limitation
of
the
defence
o
song
.
which
the
Pagans
vsed
in
the
primitiue
Church
,
or
more
prodigious
then
that
for
which
Cirils
kinseman
was
condemned
to
hell
fyre
:
A
song
wherein
wordes
are
idle
,
wanting
both
rationem
iustae
necessitatis
&
intentionem
piae
vtilitatis
,
the
reason
of
iust
necessitie
,
and
intention
of
godlie
profit
.
What
s
the
hymne
?
Sutable
absurditie
to
the
song
;
a
preposterous
shewe
of
reading
,
where
notwithstanding
there
appeareth
some
error
,
(
in
deuiding
Aetius
the
heriticke
from
Atheos
,
)
if
auncient
and
ecclesiasticall
histories
may
be
beleeued
.
Touching
the
Etimologies
of
Aiax
,
what
thinke
you
of
them
?
Faith
they
are
triuiall
,
the
froth
of
wittie
Iohn
Watsons
idle
iests
,
I
heard
them
in
Paris
14.
yeares
agoe
:
besides
,
what
balductum
play
is
not
ful
of
them
,
as
this
?
Nose
quasi
no
hose
,
Capon
,
quasi
cap
one
,
I
woulde
Misacmos
would
be
couered
:
who
liues
not
could
not
ad
more
if
he
made
profession
to
be
idle
.
Rumsey
,
my
Lorde
of
Pembrokes
Iester
is
ful
of
them
,
if
Misacmos
want
coppie
,
he
will
instruct
him
.
For
his
friend
Philostilpnos
,
(
with
whose
name
he
endeth
this
vnsauered
induction
)
I
would
faine
knowe
his
godfathers
to
chide
them
for
his
bringing
vp
:
for
he
hath
raysed
vp
a
sent
)
by
his
incouragement
)
farre
worse
than
the
Popes
legate
,
who
brought
the
laste
Iubile
into
France
;
who
fearing
the
Pages
,
who
by
custome
bustled
about
him
to
deuide
his
Canipie
,
and
suspecting
Treason
among
them
;
sodainelie
layde
that
you
wot
of
in
his
britches
,
enough
I
warrant
you
to
feast
Aiax
for
one
meale
if
he
were
a
hungrie
.
I
am
thus
pleasant
contrarie
to
my
custome
,
to
let
Misacmos
know
his
owne
counterfait
in
my
Plut.
Tom.
1.
in
vit.
licurg
.
fol
,
118.
glasse
,
vsing
therein
the
customes
of
the
Spartanes
,
who
(
to
bring
their
children
in
hatred
of
dronkennesse
,
)
caused
their
slaues
to
drinke
greate
store
of
wine
,
and
in
their
presence
to
sing
illiberal
,
and
lasciuious
songs
,
&
vse
antique
&
filthy
actions
,
knowing
that
example
as
it
breedeth
incouragement
,
so
it
yeeldeth
and
inforceth
shame
.
Thus
much
for
this
Philaretes
,
now
descend
wee
to
the
rest
.
Misodiabolês
examination
of
Misacmos
authorities
,
and
argumentes
.
-
1
Wherin
he
findeth
scriptures
abused
prophanely
,
-
2
Learned
men
reproued
vniustly
,
-
3
And
obseruations
imployed
wickedly
.
Sic
tres
sequuntur
tria
.
NIcke
Beomond
(
a
wittie
and
pleasaunt
gallant
)
being
one
day
inuited
to
a
rich
gentlemans
table
,
who
tooke
delight
to
heare
himselfe
speake
,
perceiuing
manie
matters
begunne
by
him
,
and
no
man
suffered
to
answere
,
at
last
(
with
a
knocke
or
Aut
Tussi
,
aut
crepitu
,
a
man
may
fart
by
authoritie
of
Erasmus
.
a
hem
to
make
the
thing
mannerlie
)
he
let
me
a
rounde
cracke
that
was
hearde
throughout
the
companie
,
which
the
host
stomaking
and
the
rest
merelie
laughing
at
,
tut
tut
saide
he
(
to
the
gentleman
)
you
must
not
be
angerie
,
for
if
you
will
not
heare
vs
at
one
ende
you
shall
not
chuse
but
both
heare
and
smell
vs
at
the
other
.
In
like
sort
(
if
not
lesse
clenlie
)
doth
Misacmos
handle
the
world
,
who
perceiuing
some
his
precedent
workes
eyther
by
wisedome
obscured
,
or
reason
contemned
;
his
Ariosto
bawdie
,
condemned
by
a
counsaile
:
his
translation
barrain
&
seruile
(
such
as
Horace
disdaineth
)
seeing
the
worlde
so
full
of
Horat.
lib.
de
.
art.
poet
.
Nec
verbum
verbo
curabis
reddere
fidus
Interpres
marke
this
Misacmos
.
good
wittes
generallie
redde
and
applauded
,
and
himselfe
so
vnworthie
as
he
cannot
be
hearde
;
in
a
malcontented
humor
in
steade
of
a
wittie
treatise
,
hath
turnde
me
out
to
light
his
vnsauored
Aiax
;
which
howsoeuer
cloathed
like
an
ape
in
purple
(
as
he
himselfe
confesseth
)
and
perfumed
with
his
iestes
(
which
would
make
a
man
smell
though
he
were
of
Alexanders
complexion
)
is
worse
and
more
stinking
then
Beamondes
fart
(
by
three
ounces
of
Troy
waight
)
though
himselfe
holde
the
ballance
and
poise
them
.
For
which
cause
howe
happie
had
he
beene
,
if
in
steede
of
Cloacina
,
he
had
honoured
and
sacrificed
to
Numaes
goddesse
Tacita
,
since
Plutarch
To●…
in
vita
Nume
:
in
his
silence
he
had
proued
wise
,
where
in
his
discourse
hee
is
condemned
for
inconsiderate
:
And
in
him
rightlie
appeareth
the
miserie
of
the
curious
,
(
and
the
marke
of
follie
,
whereby
men
were
signed
after
Adams
fall
,
)
who
byting
his
fingers
,
beating
his
braines
,
loosing
his
repose
,
and
scantling
his
repaste
,
to
attaine
an
opinion
of
deserte
in
the
worlde
;
hath
condemned
himselfe
,
in
censuring
others
,
gathered
a
handfull
of
euill
winde
,
to
loose
it
in
a
breath
of
shorte
life
,
beeing
sure
to
leaue
nothing
eternall
after
him
,
but
his
ambition
without
measure
,
his
enuie
without
reason
,
and
his
labour
without
fruit
:
which
that
your
iudgement
may
apprehende
,
as
my
wordes
doo
expresse
it
,
consider
wiselie
what
I
write
,
whilst
I
sette
downe
faithfullie
that
which
I
haue
Grego
.
in
Izechi
.
lib.
1.
●…o
.
7
considered
.
It
is
Gregories
opinion
that
a
good
worke
muste
haue
discreete
eyes
:
And
Scaliger
thinkes
it
is
the
better
halfe
of
the
felicitie
in
a
poeme
to
haue
a
good
subiect
:
for
who
so
imployeth
his
witte
to
inuente
,
and
his
penne
to
set
downe
,
a
friuolous
matter
in
good
woordes
,
fareth
like
yoonge
children
,
that
score
out
their
castle
in
the
sande
,
which
are
defaced
with
euerie
breath
of
winde
.
Witte
,
and
follie
drawing
in
a
yoake
,
reasons
chariotte
is
ouerturned
;
and
a
curious
workeman
caruing
a
knottie
timber
,
shall
haue
toyle
withoute
ende
,
for
his
election
without
Iudgement
:
A
croopt
shoulder
is
a
blemmish
howe
soeuer
it
be
boulstered
,
and
who
paintes
an
olde
face
,
shall
hardlie
hide
the
wrinckles
.
Such
a
subiecte
is
onelie
sitte
for
a
vertuous
and
learned
Misacmos
,
as
in
his
owne
naked
perfection
(
like
Architas
the
musitions
Lute
)
can
speake
for
his
owne
Maister
.
Doth
not
hee
wante
election
that
in
a
whole
fielde
of
corne
pickes
out
one
cockle
to
laboure
on
?
and
wants
hee
not
discretion
,
that
hauing
a
whole
field
of
vertue
before
him
,
Phylosophies
of
either
kinde
,
sciences
of
greate
obseruation
,
wordlie
casualties
to
merease
iudgement
,
alteration
and
disposition
of
pollicie
(
an
excellent
subiect
)
had
rather
with
Daphidas
be
held
a
rayler
,
with
Menedemus
a
seller
of
tryfles
,
with
the
fooles
of
the
worlde
,
a
looser
of
time
;
then
with
the
lerned
Timon
.
de
Mened
.
Ille
supercilium
tollens
&
vendere
nugas
&c.
of
his
coate
,
an
honor
of
his
Countrie
?
Ah
las
for
this
man
,
who
taketh
glorie
to
boast
of
that
filthinesse
which
brute
beastes
(
by
naturall
instinct
)
after
they
haue
purged
themselues
doe
couer
.
What
iudgement
hath
this
man
that
striues
to
finde
a
lawe
of
reason
,
against
the
law
of
reuerence
?
Children
disabled
to
helpe
themselues
,
are
notwithstanding
taught
by
their
nurses
to
giue
modest
warning
;
and
those
of
discreete
yeares
(
though
neuer
so
vnnurtured
)
finde
many
necessities
of
nature
to
bee
done
,
that
are
not
plainely
to
be
talked
off
.
A
circumlocution
and
a
blush
is
sufficient
to
interpret
a
filthie
necessitie
,
whereas
hee
that
taketh
pleasure
in
speaking
that
which
infirmitie
forceth
or
lust
draweth
him
to
doe
,
shall
haue
a
tong
worse
then
his
tayle
,
though
the
worste
of
the
tayle
bee
the
T
,
with
his
complements
:
Shall
I
bee
pleasant
a
while
and
trifle
like
Misacmos
,
and
wax
as
impudent
at
he
was
that
shewed
his
tayle
to
the
Senate
,
Consuls
,
&
Pretors
in
iudgement
?
Not
no
neighbours
not
so
,
but
as
clenlie
as
wee
can
(
quoth
the
maide
when
shee
wypt
her
dishes
with
the
doggs
tayle
.
)
What
thinke
you
of
this
iest
my
maisters
?
giue
your
opinion
of
their
clenlinesse
.
A
certaine
grocers
wife
walking
through
the
streets
,
(
and
holding
vppe
her
gowne
behinde
her
,
because
the
weather
was
durtie
,
)
mette
with
a
merrie
companion
;
who
desirous
to
laugh
and
be
fatte
,
spurde
her
after
his
merrie
manner
this
homelie
question
;
Misteres
saide
hee
I
pray
you
sell
me
some
of
your
spices
whilest
your
hande
is
in
the
boxe
.
To
whome
she
answered
;
(
trussing
vppe
her
gowne
more
higher
;
)
Sir
if
you
haue
a
monthes
minde
to
them
,
put
your
hande
into
the
boxe
,
and
boldlie
take
them
:
Was
not
this
more
seemelie
for
her
to
answere
then
with
Misacmos
flatly
to
haue
tolde
all
to
her
vtter
discredit
?
What
thinke
you
of
this
likewise
?
Did
not
the
husband
talke
more
seemelie
,
that
saide
an
olde
shippe
is
alwaies
leakie
,
then
if
he
had
saide
in
Misacmos
broad
language
)
his
wise
had
bepist
the
bed
?
I
could
tell
you
more
as
hee
hath
done
(
out
of
that
most
learned
author
the
booke
of
merrie
tales
from
whence
his
best
iestes
are
deriued
)
but
that
as
the
olde
Manciple
of
Brasennose
Colledge
in
Oxforde
was
wont
to
say
;
There
are
more
fooles
to
meete
with
.
Lucius
Catiline
accused
by
Marcus
,
Cicero
for
raising
a
flame
in
the
Citie
,
I
beleeue
it
said
hee
,
and
if
I
Valerius
:
lib.
9
cap.
11.
cannot
extinguish
it
with
water
,
I
wil
with
ruine
:
Into
the
like
intemperance
is
Misacmos
falne
,
who
hauing
kindled
a
fyre
of
follie
by
publishing
his
filthie
A-iax
,
since
he
cannot
colour
it
with
modestie
,
will
countenaunce
it
with
wrested
or
wicked
authorities
(
wherby
religion
is
soonest
ruinate
.
)
But
as
the
Bee
looseth
his
life
by
imploying
his
stinge
to
wounde
others
,
so
shal
the
world
easelie
perceiue
that
the
sword
whereby
he
defendeth
himselfe
shal
be
his
owne
death
,
and
those
authorities
and
argumentes
(
wherby
he
seeketh
to
intangle
others
)
are
the
verie-nets
,
trappes
,
and
toyles
to
insnare
himselfe
.
To
beat
out
therfore
a
plaine
path
in
tracting
whereof
we
may
easelie
discouer
his
treatcherie
,
consider
a
while
in
Misacmos
his
reasons
&
authorities
.
How
approueth
he
the
praising
or
writing
vpon
A-iax
?
Mary
thus
;
Men
once
in
24.
howres
visit
him
,
if
they
be
in
health
,
Ergo
the
homlimes
of
the
name
,
&
praise
of
the
same
may
be
borne
withal
,
temples
to
be
raised
,
genealogies
to
be
reckoned
vp
,
Aetimologies
to
be
sought
,
Hymns
and
Dirges
to
be
deuised
,
filthie
and
immodest
iestes
to
hee
vsed
,
&c.
Non
sequitur
,
non
sequitur
,
you
may
bee
ashamed
of
it
:
Corrumpunt
bonos
mores
colloquia
praua
,
Paul
.
〈◊〉
.
ad
Corin
.
cap.
8.
euill
woordes
corrupt
good
manners
,
(
saith
both
Paule
and
Menander
)
;
howe
brookes
Misacmos
that
counterbuffe
?
verie
easelie
:
The
intente
of
the
speaker
maketh
them
badde
.
Pardon
me
,
pardon
me
,
Paule
saith
the
woord
,
not
the
intent
.
Intente
is
the
corruption
of
the
hearte
,
but
woordes
the
poyson
of
the
tongue
.
Goe
to
,
goe
to
,
let
vs
graunt
that
out
of
the
aboundance
of
the
hearte
the
tongue
speaketh
,
and
that
men
forme
their
badde
woordes
according
to
their
depraued
thoughts
.
Nowe
tell
me
this
;
whether
a
childe
yoonge
in
yeares
,
towarde
in
apprehension
,
dearelie
beloued
by
his
parentes
,
cockered
by
his
mother
,
learneth
his
swearing
,
idle
speaking
,
cursings
and
blasphemies
,
by
the
cuill
intent
,
base
minde
,
or
filthie
conceite
of
his
father
,
(
perhappes
breaking
out
into
such
impieties
in
his
choller
)
or
by
the
wordes
spoken
,
vndoubtedlie
no
waies
intended
by
him
to
depraue
his
child
?
In
deede
that
's
somewhat
more
then
his
hoste
tolde
him
;
But
let
it
be
,
let
it
bee
,
(
saide
the
mayde
when
the
yoonge
man
kist
her
,
)
wee
must
haue
matters
of
more
waight
to
woorke
vppon
Misacmos
.
Nowe
therefore
consider
his
groundworke
and
positions
:
The
vse
of
homelie
woordes
saith
hee
,
is
to
be
borne
with
in
necessarie
matters
:
Howe
prooues
hee
that
?
Esay
compareth
our
iustice
panno
menstruatae
,
the
scripture
vseth
,
Anos
aureos
;
the
Psalme
percussit
eos
in
posteriora
:
Exodus
of
Stigma
,
or
Prepuce
,
Paul
of
Stercora
,
Saul
went
into
a
caue
,
vt
purgaret
ventrem
.
Therefore
Misacmos
may
write
of
A-iaxes
,
because
a
necessarie
matter
;
write
of
shiting
,
because
a
necessarie
matter
,
let
him
beshite
the
canuas
that
concludes
so
,
though
he
stoode
to
be
proctor
;
For
the
wordes
precedent
and
afore
alledged
,
as
they
bee
in
the
scriptures
,
are
,
(
as
Misacmos
implyeth
and
confesseth
)
properlie
to
beate
downe
sinne
and
sensualitie
,
but
not
lewdlie
to
bee
inuerted
by
him
in
maintenance
of
his
scurrilitie
and
ribaldrie
.
For
if
he
consider
the
scriptures
as
he
ought
,
and
deeplie
waigh
with
the
fathers
,
that
the
most
wordes
haue
their
misteries
;
he
shall
finde
,
this
dragging
of
verbal
scriptures
vnchristian
like
into
his
cause
,
is
a
verie
pranke
of
Arius
;
Qui
verba
scripturarum
simplicia
sicuti
in
eis
expressa
reperiuntur
,
itidem
vt
diabolus
assimulauit
.
Who
like
the
diuell
sinfullie
wrested
the
simple
words
of
the
scripture
,
as
they
are
expressed
in
the
same
(
if
Eusebius
lie
not
;
)
who
euer
of
all
the
fathers
hath
taken
on
him
this
custome
?
who
euer
this
loosenesse
of
libertie
?
who
euer
this
lightnesse
of
vanities
.
Augustine
he
sayeth
,
that
when
anie
thing
is
founde
in
the
historie
of
the
sacred
scriptures
,
that
seemeth
absurde
or
contrarie
to
good
manners
,
the
historicall
sence
is
to
bee
left
,
and
the
metaphoricall
and
mixt
,
is
to
bee
imbraced
;
and
the
reason
is
,
because
the
sacred
historie
contayneth
nothing
which
is
not
true
,
and
consonant
and
agreeable
with
good
manners
:
and
an
other
(
agreeing
therein
,
with
Isodorus
)
saith
S.
August
.
lib.
3.
de
doct.
Christ
.
cap.
5.
&
1.
Isodore
.
lib.
1.
de
sum
.
bone
cap.
9.
Nich.
de
Blo
.
ser.
38.
D.
Oportet
sic
historam
tenere
,
so
ought
we
to
keepe
the
historie
,
as
that
wee
interprete
it
morallie
,
and
vnderstand
it
spirituallie
:
who
therefore
dealeth
otherwise
,
by
the
generall
concent
of
the
fathers
,
maie
bee
tearmed
a
rash
man
in
applying
scripture
in
that
manner
,
which
peruerteth
the
nature
,
order
and
meaning
of
the
same
.
Ah
las
for
Misacmos
,
(
I
meane
,
not
a
lasse
for
his
bed
,
but
ah
las
for
his
follie
,
)
let
him
leaue
his
building
gay
Priuies
,
and
get
him
good
masters
:
for
it
is
more
necessarie
to
fill
the
head
with
true
knowledge
and
christian
lerning
,
then
to
emptie
the
bellie
of
lothsome
excrementes
:
Out
vpon
this
wresting
,
it
driues
all
witt
out
of
harmony
.
Then
pray
Misacmos
to
leaue
it
,
for
I
sweare
to
him
hee
shall
neuer
get
three
Bishopprickes
in
one
yeare
,
as
Woolsey
did
for
this
doctrine
,
why
this
is
worse
then
welchin
steed
of
Hebrewe
in
Doctor
Propriums
sermon
.
Nomo
contra
vnanimem
consensum
patrum
ipsam
scripturam
sacram
allegare
audeat
:
(
saith
the
counsaile
of
Trent
,
)
Let
no
man
dare
alledge
the
holy
scriptures
contrarie
to
the
generall
concent
of
the
fathers
.
Tut
Misacmos
cares
not
for
them
they
are
too
precise
for
his
purpose
.
Let
Gregorie
(
in
his
seauenth
homelie
on
Ezechiell
)
say
the
scripture
in
wordes
containeth
Pal
:
de
figur
:
sacrae
Bib.
misteries
;
Let
Paleologus
vow
that
the
whole
bodie
of
hystoricall
scripture
is
a
schoole
of
morall
discipline
,
and
hidden
doctrine
;
but
he
is
a
dunce
.
Let
Ierome
talke
of
Anagogia
,
Tropologia
and
Allegoria
,
which
vnited
(
with
historie
,
)
Ierome
ad
paul.
containe
the
whole
matter
of
the
Bible
.
Let
him
say
of
Deuteronomie
,
that
it
is
Euangelicae
legis'
praefiguratio
;
of
Esay
and
Ieromie
,
Quis
potest
intelligere
vel
exprimere
?
It
matters
not
for
the
wordes
,
Misacmos
will
abuse
them
,
he
will
dignifie
his
Aiax
by
disgracing
your
scripture
.
But
harke
I
pray
you
Philaretes
what
Ierome
concludeth
,
Haeresis
dicitur
Graece
ab
electione
eo
quod
sibi
cam
eligat
disciplinam
quam
putat
esse
meliorem
.
Quicunque
igitur
scripturam
vel
scripturae
verba
intelligit
aliter
,
quam
spiritus
sanctus
efflagitat
a
quo
scriptura
est
,
licet
ab
Ecclesia
non
recessit
,
tamen
Haereticus
appellari
potest
.
Heresie
the
Ierome
super
Gal.
Greeke
woorde
(
saith
hee
)
is
so
called
of
election
,
because
hee
that
is
infected
therewith
,
chooseth
vnto
himselfe
that
kinde
of
doctrine
which
in
his
owne
opinion
hee
supposeth
to
be
best
,
whosoeuer
therefore
shall
otherwise
vnderstande
eyther
the
scripture
,
or
the
woordes
thereof
,
then
the
holie
Ghost
requireth
(
from
whome
the
scripture
is
deriued
)
although
he
hath
not
departed
from
the
Church
,
yet
may
hee
bee
called
an
heretike
.
Let
Misacmos
gather
howe
hee
liste
vpoon
this
,
he
shall
finde
the
Puntilio
of
his
hononr
blunted
,
which
trust
me
,
of
set
purpose
,
I
handle
thus
in
cloudes
without
grating
him
to
the
quicke
,
because
as
Socrates
did
in
Alcibiades
,
Effulgentem
&
magnum
video
testimonium
eruditionis
&
aegregiae
indolis
,
Let
him
construe
this
if
he
list
,
least
the
world
should
suspect
what
I
meane
not
.
Nowe
Sir
if
we
descend
to
Cloacina
(
first
deified
or
defied
by
Tatius●…
,
)
what
shall
wee
say
?
but
that
in
his
readinges
he
hath
curiously
obserued
matters
of
lesse
respect
,
and
forgotten
thinges
of
most
decorum
.
For
when
Romulus
and
this
(
draught
deifie
)
the
one
Captaine
of
the
Romanes
,
the
other
of
the
Sabines
were
readie
to
wage
battell
,
and
by
the
intreatie
of
Hersitia
and
other
ladies
the
accord
and
league
of
peace
was
then
concluded
;
A
lawe
was
made
in
honour
of
them
as
Plutarch
witnesseth
.
Ne
ijs
praesentibus
quicquam
obsoeni
diceretur
;
That
no
filthie
or
immodest
speech
shoulde
be
vsed
in
their
presence
Nowe
,
sir
,
had
he
marked
and
noted
this
priuieledge
,
as
he
was
diligent
in
obseruing
the
other
,
he
had
beene
more
sparing
in
his
loose
speech
,
being
taught
modestie
by
the
verie
Ethniques
themselues
.
And
surelie
I
thinke
in
my
conscience
it
was
a
chiefe
cause
whie
Romulus
left
Tatius
death
vnreuenged
,
because
hee
was
so
superstitions
in
deifying
a
draught
house
.
But
perhappes
hee
hath
redde
all
this
and
woulde
obserue
none
of
it
.
Then
may
I
sate
with
Valerius
,
Quod
rectum
sit
scit
,
sed
id
facere
negligit
:
Hee
knoweth
that
which
is
right
,
but
he
neglecteth
to
doe
it
;
His
Embleme
and
Elegie
are
prettie
,
and
I
haue
redde
farre
wittier
and
better
pende
without
the
picture
of
a
fellowe
in
a
square
cap
,
skummering
at
a
pri●…
u●…e
.
And
touching
his
obseruation
of
pictures
,
what
shoulde
I
say
in
his
commendation
,
but
this
.
He
hath
prettelie
obserued
absurdities
;
But
shoulde
he
paye
for
them
as
soundly
as
Captane
Cheuilles
souldier
did
in
Burbonois
,
he
would
beware
of
writing
of
shitten
fingers
,
whilest
hee
liued
.
Which
is
his
next
discent
?
For
soothe
to
Poets
,
Tireea
quatre
cheuar
.
and
who
marcheth
foremost
to
fighte
the
battaile
for
him
?
Martial
:
Oh
ho
I
knowe
wherefore
hee
preferreth
him
so
much
,
it
is
because
hee
redde
a
Chapter
De
Cunilinguis
to
him
;
hee
is
verie
much
behouldinge
I
promise
you
:
But
what
is
this
Martial
?
Faith
a
good
wit
ill
imployed
like
himselfe
.
This
is
hee
,
(
I
speake
it
in
his
commendations
)
that
writ
epigrams
of
Aethons
farting
in
the
capitol
,
of
his
boyes
kisse
;
This
is
the
incourager
of
letcherie
,
in
victor
,
Misacmos
neede
Lib.
2.
Epig.
78
lib
:
11.
Epig.
11.
not
feare
to
alledge
him
about
Cacacanit
,
that
gloried
to
fill
Emperours
eares
with
flatterie
,
bauderie
and
Sodomie
.
vaugh
spurciciem
,
nugas
.
It
is
pittie
that
as
in
Catalogina
,
there
is
a
lawe
,
that
euerie
Cuckold
shoulde
paie
a
fine
or
tribute
;
So
among
vs
there
is
not
a
statute
that
such
as
teach
such
filthinesse
,
should
be
publiquely
punished
.
I
will
not
examine
the
Epigrams
,
for
they
are
too
obscene
to
be
lookt
vppon
;
and
who
so
rubbeth
stincking
weedes
,
shall
haue
filthy
fingers
.
(
Moore
)
ingenious
,
tho
too
ressolute
,
whose
learning
deserued
a
better
death
,
and
whose
death
was
accompanied
with
heroick
constancie
.
(
Looke
howe
this
Tode
sucketh
poyson
from
the
pleasant
wit
.
)
But
he
that
founde
the
Merda
,
let
him
take
it
;
and
hee
that
wresteth
the
Crepitus
so
crookedlie
,
let
him
vse
it
for
a
gale
of
his
good
fortune
,
till
it
blow
him
to
Cloacinas
temple
.
For
maister
Dauies
epigram
,
I
hold
it
for
prittilie
impure
,
yet
two
bowes
and
a
halfe
short
of
the
cloute
Haewod
stucke
in
:
and
(
by
the
way
for
your selfe
)
a
Yoong
that
will
be
olde
,
(
saith
thus
)
in
behalfe
of
olde
Young
that
except
you
presentlie
put
one
a
habit
of
more
conformity
,
if
some
his
enimies
maie
promote
you
,
you
shall
bee
the
next
dog
shall
be
sacrifisd
in
the
Lupercalia
,
and
therfore
prouide
your selfe
for
it
;
(
except
you
get
a
bettertong
into
you
heade
;
or
a
modester
pen
in
your
hande
.
)
Whither
nowe
Misacmos
?
Cannot
hee
who
for
pietie
is
matchlesse
,
in
lerning
peerles
,
whose
iudgement
his
friends
admire
,
and
enimies
wonder
at
:
cannot
a
spirite
so
heauenly
,
a
father
so
reuerend
,
a
Muse
so
sacred
,
escape
your
censure
?
Stoope
and
shroud
you
night
byrd
,
when
this
sunne
shineth
;
hee
that
clotheth
religion
with
simplicitie
and
trueth
,
clymeth
highest
by
his
humilitie
,
groweth
learned
in
his
zeale
,
and
waxeth
famous
by
his
diligence
,
maie
laugh
at
you
,
(
whilst
like
the
Wolfe
you
barke
against
the
Moone
)
but
you
can
not
bite
him
.
Come
come
,
a
poore
spring
,
sed
by
the
Ocean
of
his
witte
:
a
little
sparkle
gathered
from
his
diuine
flame
;
a
verie
worme
of
witte
,
a
puney
of
Oxford
,
shal
make
you
more
hatefull
then
Battalus
the
huugry
fidler
for
this
presumption
.
Italici
Angaei
stabulum
faedumque
cloacam
.
Discit
enim
ci
tius
miminisque
libentius
illud
Quod
quis
de
ridet
quam
quod
probat
&
veneratur
.
A
te
purgari
Romanaque
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
tolli
.
What
fault
is
here
?
Forsooth
an
vnapt
metaphore
.
O
grosse
,
peeuish
&
blinde
absurditie
!
I
challenge
thee
from
the
French
to
the
Spanish
;
the
Italian
to
the
Latin
;
the
Greeke
to
the
Hebrewe
:
Runne
mee
ouer
the
whole
librarie
of
baudrie
,
thy
legends
of
Athiesme
,
and
proue
me
one
metaphore
better
applyed
,
and
thou
shalt
be
priuie
to
mee
in
my
next
necessities
.
What
fitter
metaphore
for
so
corrupt
traditions
,
as
our
Church
at
this
daye
acknowledgeth
,
(
the
Church
of
Rome
to
yeelde
?
)
which
if
it
bee
glorious
in
so
sacred
and
matchlesse
a
maiden
Princesse
,
to
exhauste
and
ou
erthrow
;
it
shall
be
no
indignitie
in
her
to
admit
the
metaphore
,
(
especially
since
)
with
such
decorum
and
art
,
he
hath
couched
it
,
as
had
Moore
,
Haiwoode
,
and
the
rest
obserued
;
Misacmos
might
bee
ashamed
to
alledge
them
.
And
what
is
that
think
you
?
He
hath
vsed
Inu●…nals
modest
moderation
including
that
in
Scal.
lib.
Po●…
.
3●…
Cap.
98.
a
Greek
garment
,
which
otherwise
in
his
owne
tongue
woulde
seeme
vncomely
.
But
in
this
you
fare
like
him
I
haue
read
of
in
an
author
of
yours
,
who
begining
to
read
a
certaine
worke
of
Erasmus
intituled
Moria
,
and
hauing
such
a
Lege
the
booke
of
mery
tales
,
Tale
130.
Fre
learne
to
quote
your
plac●…
.
shallowe
wit
as
Misacmos
hath
,
cast
away
the
booke
,
fearing
he
should
fal
into
some
heresie
,
because
the
stile
was
so
high
.
I
meane
not
that
great
stile
into
Mar●…bone
Parke
,
neere
which
the
two
Heroicall
and
manly
Knights
fought
there
Duellum
:
but
Erasmus
stile
which
Misacmos
hath
pretily
met
with
,
if
he
had
some
of
his
pith
and
matter
.
How
proceedeth
he
now
?
forsooth
he
heapeth
on
history
.
To
what
purpose
?
to
prooue
certaine
Emperors
murdered
priuily
,
or
at
a
priuy
,
or
in
a
lakes
,
or
at
a
Iakes
;
yet
can
I
Lib
Cro●…
cum
figur
.
tel
him
this
,
that
the
Iakes
Heliogabalus
,
(
the
last
of
the
Antonini
)
was
drag'd
thorow
per
scurras
,
was
per
cloacaes
by
the
sincks
of
Roome
,
and
through
the
streets
of
Roome
,
without
all
paraquestions
quoth
Tarlton
,
neither
hath
his
knowledge
attained
all
the
secret
of
historie
on
this
subiect
beside
Bassianus
;
but
that
some
of
as
serious
obseruation
are
left
for
mee
:
as
that
Traian
the
Iust
of
so
famous
memorie
,
and
Henry
the
seuenth
King
of
the
Romaines
,
both
died
of
the
Discenteria
alias
dictus
the
laxatiue
flux
.
Nabuchadonoser
likwise
gaue
Zedechias
(
after
hee
had
made
him
daunce
and
play
before
him
a
long
while
)
a
laxatiue
drinke
,
so
that
like
a
beaslly
olde
fellow
(
as
there
are
many
According
to
an
olde
ballad
,
and
●…ll
to
be
shitte
was
he
was
he
such
betwixt
Yorke
and
London
)
totus
deturpatus
fuit
he
smelt
as
ill
as
your
AIAX
.
Thus
may
Misacmos
see
that
other
men
haue
examples
of
sent
,
(
I
woulde
say
sence
)
as
well
as
hee
,
yet
will
I
subscribe
to
him
the
dignitie
in
all
things
.
First
I
acknowledge
him
as
deep
a
Philosopher
as
Me●…rocles
who
could
neuer
argue
without
farting
.
I
will
set
to
my
hand
that
hee
is
well
seene
in
a
hawkes
muting
.
Lastly
I
beseech
Master
Dalton
to
set
vp
his
name
in
Lineolnes
In
priuy
,
and
register
him
there
among
the
durtie
writers
of
his
time
in
steed
of
a
bastard
Cronicle
,
because
in
his
booke
,
modestie
is
as
hard
to
be
found
as
Adulteries
in
Sparta
;
and
this
done
:
O
vos
de
Croidon
o
vos
de
rust●…o
Ro●…don
,
Bibite
blakciackos
pre
gaudio
soluite
sackos
.
Nay
wee
will
haue
yerses
to
which
a
dog
shal
not
interpret
:
Here
let
the
people
laugh
,
for
heere
make
I
my
breathing
point
.
Misodiaboles
Perfume
for
filthy
smels
,
containing
a
mad
Purge
for
Misacmos
Lunacie
of
wit
.
LIke
as
a
good
foldier
in
the
beginning
of
a
fight
,
first
sendeth
out
his
light
armed
winges
to
begin
the
skirmish
,
and
after
bringeth
on
the
battle
,
wherin
consisteth
the
force
of
his
good
fortune
;
so
Misacmos
(
hauing
distasted
vs
at
first
with
certaine
homely
fictions
&
vnciuell
Epigrames
)
now
marcheth
forth
mainly
with
his
Tatius
,
Tarquine
,
Claudius
,
Vespatian
,
Traian
,
Priscus
,
and
Hercules
,
by
whose
lawes
,
proclamations
,
letters
,
and
decrees
,
he
laboreth
to
approue
,
how
carefully
they
prouided
,
and
diligently
employed
both
theyr
time
&
treasures
,
for
the
building
with
great
state
,
and
the
ordering
without
annoiances
,
of
vaults
,
common
shoares
,
&
sinckes
:
but
without
al
contradiction
priuies
.
Touching
which
,
as
I
consent
with
him
in
the
three
first
,
so
with
the
old
dunce
(
Iohannes
de
Portu
Hibernico
)
Credo
quod
haud
,
concerning
the
last
.
For
though
(
besides
Dollabellas
caution
,
the
office
of
trium
hominum
,
&
many
of
that
kinde
)
I
finde
care
&
diligent
prouision
made
for
the
common
shoares
:
yet
in
particuler
name
I
am
sure
(
except
Misacmos
him selfe
be
interpreter
)
his
foul
breath'd
AIAX
was
neuer
prouided
for
.
But
I
see
now
it
fareth
with
him
as
with
subtill
sophisters
,
who
wantyng
matter
to
worke
vpon
,
do
cauill
vppon
words
:
For
what
signifieth
this
Cloaca
,
on
which
hee
so
much
worketh
?
fetch
him
Cooper
(
that
learned
father
of
famous
memorie
)
his
Thomas
Thomasius
(
a
diligent
furtherer
of
good
studies
,
)
not
with
fie
,
fa
,
fough
,
a
smelles
,
but
in
plain
dealing
:
What
say
they
of
Cloaca
?
a
channell
,
a
gutter
,
a
sinke
of
a
towne
,
Cloacale
flumen
,
besides
(
as
Vlpian
testifieth
)
there
was
Cloacarium
,
a
certayne
fee
or
scot
,
payd
to
these
tres
bomines
,
the
suruayours
of
the
common
shoares
,
vnlesse
therefore
(
as
in
talking
of
all
kindes
of
grain
)
we
set
downe
Rie
:
For
al
millitarie
and
souldierlike
furniture
,
we
nominate
a
dagger
:
so
for
all
sinkes
,
shores
,
and
vaults
,
Misacmos
vse
a
priuie
,
he
shall
get
no
more
fame
for
thys
then
Erostratus
for
burning
Dianaes
temple
.
Wel
Gods
blessing
on
his
hart
,
Eras●…us
Apo●…
.
he
is
a
toward
yong
man
,
and
hath
great
cause
to
thanke
God
for
his
knowledg
,
(
like
the
old
dunce
in
Brazen
nose
colledge
in
Doctour
Colmers
time
)
who
comming
from
a
schoole
among
certaine
sophisters
,
from
a
certaine
Quodlibet
,
with
a
great
sigh
thanked
god
that
now
at
last
after
seuen
yeeres
studie
in
the
Predicables
,
he
could
define
Proprium
.
Now
fie
vpon
it
,
fie
vpon
it
,
what
is
this
to
AIAX
?
you
trifle
,
you
are
fond
,
marie
that
's
true
.
Wel
,
if
this
please
him
not
,
let
him
stay
till
a
second
digestion
,
and
hee
shall
haue
Assets
inter
main
as
assurance
to
prooue
how
well
I
meane
〈◊〉
among
〈◊〉
Lawier
9.
him
.
Alas
,
alas
how
much
I
wronge
him
?
beleeue
me
Philaretes
,
I
am
sorry
for
my
negligence
;
〈◊〉
I
forget
his
succinct
collection
of
historie
:
his
compendious
&
apr
obseru●…ōs
in
the
Emperors
liues
?
God
forbid
nay
you
shall
haue
right
Romain
courage
in
me
;
praise
for
desert
,
though
otherwise
his
professed
reprouer
in
●…ollie
.
What
note
?
what
note
?
Why
thus
much
touching
his
succinct
obseruations
out
of
the
Emperors
liues
,
I
say
(
as
Tully
did
of
Demostines
orations
)
I
like
that
best
,
which
is
longest
.
Yet
for
al
this
the
wo●…lde
apprehendeth
his
iud●…scretiō
;
who
trapping
an
asse
in
golden
furniture
,
sutin●…
a
cou●…se
subiect
in
rich
ornaments
of
learning
,
hath
approued
his
great
wit
,
&
litle
wisedome
.
Howe
more
happy
had
it
beene
for
himselfe
and
more
honorable
for
his
profession
,
to
haue
obserued
the
customes
of
the
V●…nctians
and
Germans
?
the
first
of
which
banish
b●…llards
from
their
counsailes
:
and
the
next
vouchsafe
no
degree
of
learning
,
to
any
of
them
in
their
most
famous
Vniuersities
.
Nowe
if
in
example
of
these
,
if
his
sentenses
of
condigne
merite
,
had
been
answered
with
an
apt
,
appropriate
,
and
fit
matter
;
nulla
publica
laudaetione
indigeret
(
as
Valerius
saith
of
Romulus
)
his
praise
had
beene
generall
,
but
in
that
Val.
lib.
3.
cap.
〈◊〉
.
cleauing
to
rashnes
(
the
enemy
ofendeour
(
and
forsaking
discretion
)
which
as
Anthony
the
father
said
omnia
laudabili
fine
concludit
,
endeth
all
thinges
laudably
Henri
de
vrmar
.
lib.
4.
de
perfect
.
in
t
.
hom.
cap.
1.
he
hath
betrayed
his
owne
fame
to
infamie
.
Qua
E●…am
tum
v●…uit
cum
esse
credas
mortuam
.
Plaut.
in
Pres.
Which
then
suruiues
when
thou
beleeu'st
him
dead
.
Who
liueth
of
any
reading
(
were
hee
content
to
surfet
in
his
folly
)
that
with
A●…ctrine
could
not
talke
of
Nana
?
with
an
other
of
a
red
nose
?
with
Perieres
of
a
pie
and
Piaux
,
I
haue
seene
an
oration
made
in
praise
of
a
colledge
custard
,
&
very
much
written
in
commendation
of
an
asse
;
who
in
commending
a
goose
,
could
not
bring
in
Plutarch
to
proue
she
was
sacrificed
to
Iuno
;
or
in
talking
of
an
oxe
,
could
not
say
it
was
the
stamp
the
Athenians
put
on
their
money
?
say
a
man
were
so
foolish
to
make
a
book
of
lowsines
,
were
it
not
possible
for
him
(
that
had
red
history
)
to
bring
in
Scilla
lowsie
,
A●…stus
the
sonne
of
Peleus
dying
lowsie
,
Mutiu●…
Plutarch
.
the
lawier
,
Eunus
the
fugitiue
lowsie
;
Arnolphus
the
Emperor
lowsie
;
Phoerecides
and
Calisthenes
lowsie
;
or
if
this
subiecte
seemed
too
nittie
,
what
say
you
to
Ioubert
&
his
booke
of
laughte●…
the
common
place
of
faits
(
handled
in
Bouchet
)
in
helping
a
gentlewoman
of
the
colicke
?
Tut
and
I
were
set
on
a
mery
pinne
,
I
coulde
write
in
praise
of
spindle
shankes
,
because
Germanicus
had
such
;
and
in
commendation
of
pissing
,
bringing
in
out
of
Valerius
,
the
storie
of
the
Cretans
,
who
beseidged
by
Metellus
,
drunke
their
owne
pisse
.
How
vaine
a
vaine
is
this
?
Nay
how
vaine
is
Misacmos
in
his
vaine
?
trust
me
the
very
feare
to
heare
of
this
folly
,
were
sufficient
to
make
the
domb
sonne
of
Crassus
to
cry
out
mainely
.
How
vndecent
is
it
for
a
man
,
in
yeares
staied
,
in
birth
noble
,
infortunes
rich
,
in
friendes
mighty
,
to
be
so
poore
onely
in
his
discretion
?
Better
had
it
beene
and
more
worthy
Misacmos
learning
to
haue
digested
custome
into
a
volume
,
and
made
a
treatise
of
obseruations
,
wherein
as
especial
,
and
with
more
decorum
(
then
he
conceited
)
he
might
write
how
the
priuy
that
Arrius
died
on
,
was
hangd
vp
euer
after
for
a
perpetual
monument
,
till
those
of
his
Heresie
(
to
extinguishe
Nicopli
cap.
〈◊〉
lib.
〈◊〉
.
the
indignitie
thereof
)
raised
and
built
a
sumptuous
house
in
the
place
.
Hee
might
gather
out
of
Segonius
,
how
capitall
it
is
amongst
the
Turkes
to
dispute
on
the
lawes
of
Mahomet
,
where
amongst
vs
heere
in
England
it
is
too
common
a
custome
to
breake
ours
.
Besides
if
hee
would
be
pleasant
&
set
downe
Ethnique
heresies
,
what
lets
him
to
remember
that
among
the
Turks
it
is
an
heresie
to
pisse
standing
,
&
here
in
England
in
Caesars
time
,
it
was
a
prophane
thing
to
taste
a
hen
,
where
nowe
a
daies
it
is
good
fellowshippe
both
to
steale
,
and
to
roste
it
.
He
might
likewise
seriously
obserue
Diagoras
banishment
,
who
(
more
modester
Valerius
lib.
〈◊〉
.
Cap.
〈◊〉
.
then
Misacmos
)
only
wrote
that
he
knew
not
the
Gods
,
where
he
both
knowing
,
&
reading
,
the
Lawes
of
God
,
and
(
which
is
most
to
be
a
bhorred
)
a
Christian
,
taketh
a
felicitie
to
peruert
them
.
But
such
is
the
custome
of
the
world
,
and
to
blind
the
elections
of
men
,
that
the
most
part
seeke
out
the
poisons
of
wit
to
corrupt
the
same
and
the
worlde
like
the
maid
(
of
whom
Aristotles
comenter
speaketh
)
being
accustomed
to
seede
on
serpents
,
takes
it
now
for
a
natural
refection
to
nourish
it selfe
with
poison
.
But
returne
we
to
Misacmos
teshe
.
I
long
to
heare
his
conclusion
:
Forsooth
and
please
you
the
last
part
of
his
learned
trea●…se
,
is
the
maner
&
meanes
how
to
build
cleane
,
handsome
and
necessary
priuies
,
not
altogether
of
M.
Dal●…s
built
,
whom
he
handles
(
as
Horace
did
Moecc●…as
)
s●…arce
cleanly
for
his
curtesies
,
but
with
Hidraulique
Engines
a●…
it
seemes
(
the
manner
whereof
hee
hath
borowed
from
Vitruuius
,
or
els
taken
some
patern
from
a
trauellers
mouth
who
hath
seene
the
Cardinall
of
F●…rraras
buildings
at
●…uolt
)
and
truelie
of
al
his
booke
,
I
hold
this
the
clenliest
,
since
hauing
deuised
and
deified
a
Goddesse
so
filthie
,
hee
hath
at
least
wise
founde
a
cleanlie
conuyance
to
wash
her
f●…e
when
she
is
too
slouenlie
.
But
if
with
his
patience
I
may
speak
,
and
by
your
courtesies
be
heard
;
Philaretes
,
I
dare
promise
a
forme
,
and
prefer
an
inuention
,
where
(
by
the
helpe
of
wind
●…as
he
by
water
)
I
wil
build
you
a
priuye
without
Houldens
wiues
priuye
fault
,
that
shall
neither
farre
,
foyste
,
nor
stink
,
as
she
doth
in
her
sleep
;
and
how
say
you
by
that
sir
?
Mary
Sir
my
Priuie
shal
be
a
Round
,
(
one
of
the
fiue
regular
bodies
in
Geometrie
)
built
like
the
tower
of
Babel
,
&
vppon
vaults
to
,
wel
tarras't
after
the
finest
fashion
:
now
for
the
tunnel
I
mean
to
raise
it
in
the
midst
,
prouided
that
diuers
doores
and
windowes
shall
bee
made
on
euery
side
,
that
if
neuer
so
little
winde
blowe
(
if
a
man
bee
wetherwise
)
hee
shall
bee
able
to
emptie
his
belly
without
diseasing
his
nose
:
et
fiet
say
I
(
like
the
olde
end
of
a
doctors
bill
)
I
but
how
if
no
winde
blow
?
mary
then
the
poore
milners
in
Moore
fields
wold
be
banckrout
for
their
rents
,
&
the
witches
to
the
Northwards
shall
sell
no
mery
gales
to
sailers
for
their
money
.
Wier●…s
d●…
pr●…●…tigiis
demon●…
Carda●…
.
Let
mee
not
iest
it
out
,
it
is
a
very
great
fault
in
my
Colfabus
;
but
thinkes
Misacmos
that
he
can
escape
me
?
no
marie
can
he
not
as
long
as
ther
is
a
scape
in
my
bellie
.
Nowe
what
fault
a
Gods
name
?
Forsooth
,
hee
hath
prouided
no
seemely
glasse
windowes
for
his
AIAX
,
and
by
that
meanes
hee
bringeth
those
that
shal
haue
vse
of
it
,
into
a
great
inconuenience
,
and
that
shall
I
she
we
by
an
example
(
and
the
rather
)
because
éxempla
●…llustrant
non
probant
.
A
certaine
gentleman
of
England
going
to
Bocardo
to
do
sauereuerēce
,
&
hauing
his
quiuer
well
furnished
to
offer
on
Cloacinas
Alter
;
after
he
had
read
a
lecture
of
vntrusse
,
claps
mee
a
Corpus
cum
causa
on
the
face
of
Don
AIAX
,
who
darkning
al
the
house
with
a
frowne
of
his
furie
,
made
the
poore
gentleman
grone
&
grin
till
he
were
disburthened
.
Now
sir
,
the
priuy
dark
and
he
in
the
heat
of
his
seruice
:
behold
(
hold
B.
I
should
haue
said
)
a
maide
of
his
beeing
sicke
of
Traianes
disease
&
som
what
laxatiue
,
notstaying
the
Qui
vous
la
?
or
the
word
?
but
hauing
her
piece
ready
chargd
,
let
s
flie
into
her
maisters
lap
at
both
endes
,
and
sette
both
her
winde-mill
and
water-mill
a
working
.
Out
whore
(
quoth
the
Maysler
)
A'as
,
fie
vpon
me
(
quoth
the
maid
)
new
clothes
cries
he
with
a
vengeance
,
away
runnes
she
barearst
without
wiping
.
By
this
example
it
were
good
Misacmos
woulde
bespeake
Masons
and
Glasiers
,
least
sitting
at
his
AIAX
in
great
meditation
on
his
Elegie
;
a
maide
of
his
should
serue
a
Lattitat
on
him
&
lay
the
●…bell
in
his
bosome
.
How
,
say
you
?
is
not
this
worthy
deepe
consideration
Philaretes
especially
,
in
so
cleanlie
Continu●…
.
That
is
as
neato
as
Lic●…n
in
his
app●…l
,
and
as
manner
he
as
〈◊〉
country
w●…nch
,
(
whom
the
abbo●…●…ed
)
who
instead
of
requesting
le●…
to
dip
●…ir
ca●…
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
in
the
〈◊〉
:
d●…sn
,
de●…
bye
Lo●…ship
that
she
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
her
a●…e
into
his
sa●…ce
.
N●…ta
●…uod
〈◊〉
●…ota
nihil
va●…
.
a
gentleman
as
Misacmos
?
What
,
like
you
my
aduertisement
?
then
haue
at
it
for
an
other
bout
:
And
what
s
that
?
Mary
it
standeth
very
muche
with
the
iudgement
of
Misacmos
to
alter
this
element
of
water
(
and
if
it
were
possible
)
and
the
reason
is
,
least
some
of
Floras
handemaides
hauing
Lots
wiues
sicknes
,
look
backe
on
that
shee
let
fall
in
the
water
:
Why
what
of
this
?
Marrye
a
dangerous
thing
,
for
since
Ea
quae
per
medium
aquae
apparent
,
groff●…or
avidentur
,
such
things
as
are
seen
in
the
water
seeme
greater
;
it
is
to
be
feared
least
the
poore
soule
should
take
a
strong
imagination
,
and
commit
more
trust
to
her
belly
,
then
she
can
digest
by
her
back
parts
.
Yet
an
other
,
it
must
be
ordered
(
or
taken
order
by
Misacmos
)
that
hys
AIAX
haue
a
doore
with
a
spring
locke
,
least
some
gentle
woman
going
to
speake
with
her-maid
in
priuity
,
haue
as
il
fortune
as
a
prity
wench
in
my
cuntry
.
Wold
you
kno
how
it
was
,
and
what
it
was
?
vnder
promise
you
wil
shew
(
Misacmos
my
good
friend
)
how
it
hapened
,
I
le
instruct
you
.
A
certaine
noble
man
of
Englande
hauing
two
necessary
delights
that
accompany
great
fortunes
;
viz.
a
faire
house
to
dwell
in
,
and
a
foole
to
laugh
at
:
thinking
it
a
decenter
thing
in
him
to
chase
his
Iester
,
then
for
Socrates
to
play
with
●…sla
s●…l
.
1.
〈◊〉
.
cap.
5.
Lamprocles
,
Ageselaus
,
to
ride
on
a
Reede
with
his
sonne
,
and
Architas
to
playe
with
his
seruants
,
one
day
in
a
merrie
&
pleasant
vaine
,
droue
him
vp
and
down
from
chamber
to
chamber
,
(
making
him
smart
with
a
rod
hee
carried
in
hys
hand
)
hee
forest
hym
into
a
necessarie
place
where
the
close
stoole
stoode
,
where
the
poore
asse
finding
a
wench
at
the
priuy
,
and
very
willing
to
defend
himselfe
,
because
he
was
shrowdly
pursued
,
he
tooke
her
boldly
in
his
armes
(
her
clothes
about
her
eares
)
and
bare
it
single
on
her
buttockes
.
Nowe
sir
,
here
growes
a
Quaere
,
and
a
Caution
,
in
this
place
;
the
Quaeritur
is
,
whether
if
the
poore
wench
had
called
on
Cloacina
for
help
,
her
Goddes-ship
could
haue
deliuered
her
?
the
Cautton
,
that
henceforth
both
Misacmos
(
and
whatsoeuer
builders
)
prouide
them
sockes
&
doores
to
their
AIAX
,
least
some
coy
Dame
that
feares
to
walke
abroade
without
a
maske
,
be
sodainely
scratched
and
ierke
ouer
her
face
that
hath
neuer
a
nose
.
Is
not
this
gaye
geere
Philaretes
?
haue
I
not
matcht
Misacmos
at
his
own
game●…
beleeue
me
,
beleeue
mee
,
I
blush
as
I
write
,
yet
I
write
to
make
men
blush
.
For
from
my
soule
I
protest
,
and
to
the
world
I
publish
it
,
that
as
the
compounders
of
Metbridate
(
before
the
whole
body
of
the
Venetian
Se●…ate
)
shew
their
simple
poisons
to
make
them
knowne
;
and
as
the
quacksaluers
in
Germany
swalow
spiders
in
open
assemblies
to
shew
the
vertue
of
their
confections
:
So
to
let
the
world
know
,
the
poison
of
lewd
language
,
to
bring
that
in
hate
which
is
nowe
swallowed
with
too
secure
delight
;
I
haue
swallowed
those
morssels
,
which
religion
shoulde
not
digest
;
and
rather
opened
the
caue
to
discouer
a
serpent
,
then
to
suffer
men
hedlong
to
poste
to
hel
on
the
backe
of
vnciuell
pleasures
.
Ouid
1.
〈◊〉
.
Impi●…
sub
dul●…
m●…lle
ven●…na
〈◊〉
Helleborum
frustra
cum
iam
cutis
agra
tumebit
.
Poscentes
videas
,
venienti
occurrite
morb●…
.
Preuent
thy
griefe
,
in
desperat
estate
:
To
many
seeke
for
remedy
too
late
.
Thus
farre
Philarites
hath
thy
friendship
and
Misacmos
errors
enforced
me
,
yet
this
stile
,
and
one
fielde
more
,
and
thou
hast
brought
mee
home
where
I
would
be
:
Come
,
come
,
tho
the
high
waies
are
durtie
,
the
fieldes
are
delightfull
,
and
a
litle
close
of
compasse
may
haue
many
trees
of
pleasure
.
Me
thinkes
I
see
thee
wonder
what
storie
I
haue
to
tell
thee
,
and
smile
to
thy selfe
like
leane
Cicero
,
at
the
iust
reproofe
of
this
Cotta
:
Harke
in
thine
eare
,
Misacmos
is
a
Satire
,
a
quipping
fellow
:
But
sirrha
,
what
if
with
the
merry
Lord
:
in
Homer
,
I
should
play
the
mad
fellow
,
and
aime
at
his
Vlisses
head
and
polliticke
pate
with
a
neats
foote
?
Dost
thou
request
me
to
doe
so
?
why
mine
honest
freend
,
I
shall
dispatch
it
quickly
.
But
how
?
marry
I
shall
talke
to
him
thorow
thy
letter
,
and
teach
him
plainly
that
which
I
haue
obserued
out
of
a
French
secretary
:
Que
le
trop
cuider
rouge
les
os
,
de
l'sprit
iusques
aux
moesles
de
l'ignorance
:
that
too
much
presumption
Du
Trauchi●…●…pi
.
231.
gnaweth
the
bones
of
the
spirite
euen
to
the
marrow
of
ignorante
:
and
that
when
as
malice
and
enuie
coupled
with
presumption
and
ignoraunce
,
barke
against
the
modestye
of
the
vertuous
,
the
fire
refecteth
to
burne
those
that
kindle
it
,
lighting
those
that
are
detracted
from
the
ruines
of
the
malicious
,
till
they
haue
attayned
both
the
path
and
possession
of
honour
.
Beleeue
me
(
ill
christened
as
thou
are
by
thy
Greeke
Godfather
)
as
to
reprehend
iustlye
requireth
a
due
discretion
,
so
to
detract
insriouslye
,
in
a
great
man
,
is
a
staine
of
honour
,
in
a
learned
,
a
noat
of
irreligion
,
in
all
sortes
a
plague
of
nature
,
rising
from
the
thought
of
a
corrupt
,
vnbrideled
,
and
sinfull
hart
.
How
much
better
matter
hadst
thou
to
remember
,
if
thou
hast
read
muche
?
and
what
a
thing
oughst
thou
sooner
forget
,
if
thou
regarde
socyetye
?
But
thou
wilt
saye
I
haue
taxed
none
but
such
as
deserue
it
:
and
yet
I
tell
thee
(
and
therein
taxe
thine
indiscretion
)
that
except
thou
hast
córrected
priuatelye
,
before
thou
hast
disgraced
publiquelye
,
thou
art
a
good
Aristarcus
,
but
an
ill
christian
.
I
prethe
looke
backe
into
the
ages
,
and
let
my
pen
helpe
thy
memorie
;
and
in
the
face
of
other
mens
fals
,
read
thine
own
infirmities
.
Whom
hath
glory
raised
so
high
,
that
enuy
could
not
aime
at
?
or
vertue
made
so
temperate
,
that
misfortunes
could
not
torture
?
Who
euer
had
felicitie
to
counsaile
,
without
weaknes
to
fall
?
or
his
reason
so
stronge
that
his
passion
could
not
alter
it
?
Alas
Misacmos
,
it
is
a
misery
of
wit
thou
art
fallen
into
;
wherein
the
more
thou
art
foulded
,
the
more
thou
art
fyled
.
Aemilus
Paulus
the
admired
for
constancy
,
yet
was
he
contemned
in
pouertie
.
〈◊〉
virtut●…●…solue
.
The
Marshall
of
S.
Androw●…
deuic●…
Alexander
the
worlds
wonder
,
though
praise-worthye
for
his
clemencye
,
in
ouercomming
Darius
:
yet
hated
in
his
druncken
furye
,
when
hee
murthered
Clytus
:
So
that
his
fortitude
,
liberalitye
,
magnanimitye
,
and
continence
,
grace
him
not
so
much
,
but
that
his
vnseasonable
banqueting
,
inordinate
excesse
,
his
ambition
in
suffering
the
applause
of
his
flatterers
,
his
iniuries
to
Calist
henes
,
make
him
subiect
to
detraction
.
Alcibiades
,
astuiterer
and
inconstant
,
but
that
his
magnificence
and
bounty
,
redeemed
those
disgraces
:
Agesilaus
a
louer
of
his
citizens
,
yet
suspected
of
Pedrastria
with
Megabates
:
neither
was
his
honor
so
greate
in
contempning
vaine
thynges
,
as
his
infamie
deserued
,
in
vsing
all
impietie
in
obtaining
kingdomes
.
Crassus
couetous
in
fortune
,
yet
constant
in
miserie
.
Demetrius
constant
and
liberall
,
yet
pompous
,
prophane
,
and
lecherous
.
Cato
(
the
sensor
of
men
for
all
his
seueritie
)
had
not
so
stronge
a
sheild
of
his
continence
,
grauitie
,
fortitude
,
and
perseueraunce
,
but
that
beeing
studious
to
accuse
others
,
hee
was
accused
himselfe
of
contempt
of
Philosophie
,
hate
of
Phisitions
,
praise
of
himselfe
,
and
inhumanitie
in
his
behauiour
,
nay
they
wrote
this
Epigram
of
him
which
followeth
.
Rufus
mordaces
solitusque
illidere
dentes
Omnibus
et
glaucus
Porcius
vt
periit
;
Ipsa
timens
saeue
rabiem
Proserpina
li●…guae
.
Ullum
〈◊〉
apud
manes
noluit
esse
locum
.
Why
presse
I
further
,
where
these
few
may
suffice
me
?
and
what
may
not
Misacmos
obserue
,
if
hee
disiest
this
consideratlie
?
If
all
these
in
the
brightnes
of
their
honor
had
some
blemishe
and
infirmitie
,
what
priuiledge
hath
he
far
inferior
to
the
worst
of
them
?
If
he
be
not
exempt
from
error
(
as
I
know
he
is
not
)
but
that
either
passion
denoureth
him
,
ambition
ouerhaleth
him
,
intemperance
seduceth
him
,
and
a
thousand
other
imperfections
attaint
him
:
why
is
he
so
readye
to
breath
out
other
mens
reproches
,
where
the
sachell
behinde
his
backe
hath
sinnes
enough
in
it
to
blast
him
with
?
hath
he
a
locke
for
all
mens
tongues
?
a
brydle
Non
videmus
mantice
quod
intergo
est
.
for
all
mens
pens
?
or
impudencye
to
outface
all
disgraces
?
Cicero
was
more
eloquent
then
he
,
but
counted
a
babler
;
Demosthenes
more
wise
then
hee
,
yet
knowen
for
a
coward
;
Socrates
a
iust
man
,
but
accused
of
impietie
:
Cities
dies
mihi
defic●…ret
quaem
oratio
,
there
were
no
end
if
I
should
prosecute
this
.
All
life
whatsoeuer
is
bu●…
a
Chaos
of
infirmities
,
and
who
so
wil
reprehend
,
must
either
be
a
God
amongst
men
without
fault
,
or
a
byword
to
men
for
his
foule
tong
.
Fye
vpon
me
,
whether
am
I
growne
?
Misacmos
is
pleasant
,
why
then
in
a
pleasant
and
a
merrye
moode
,
let
vs
haue
libertie
to
talk
with
him
.
Nay
first
let
s
shake
handes
as
fencers
doe
ere
they
play
their
Prises
,
for
I
am
sure
to
giue
the
Venie
,
I
feele
my
fist
so
nimble
.
But
what
weapons
?
what
weapons
?
faith
with
a
pen
in
one
hand
,
and
a
paper
booke
in
an
other
:
None
better
,
haue
at
you
Sir
,
I
would
wish
you
keepe
your
footing
.
Why
,
howe
will
you
vse
me
?
Faith
as
the
milkmaid
of
Hackney
vsed
that
moste
wittie
and
learned
Master
Fleetwoode
Recorder
of
London
,
(
and
that
was
scarce
mannerly
)
and
how
it
was
(
without
any
further
interogatiues
)
I
shal
presently
tell
you
.
This
honest
Gentleman
walking
for
his
pleasure
from
London
towardes
Hackney
,
by
chaunce
(
at
the
very
towns
'
end
heard
a
bird
of
May
singe
,
I
think
you
call
it
a
Cucko●…
.
Heereupon
looking
round
about
him
to
spie
out
some
one
to
break
his
bitter
iest
vpon
,
he
encountred
by
good
hap
with
this
mayd
,
whome
sodainely
and
pleasantly
,
hee
bourded
with
this
question
.
Maide
quoth
he
,
who
is
this
that
singes
so
merelie
,
is
it
the
vicar
of
Hackney
?
no
forsooth
saide
she
,
you
mistake
your selfe
,
it
is
the
recorder
of
London
,
(
a
foule
on
her
for
a
lying
queane
,
how
vnmanerly
she
was
?
)
Well
he
digested
the
matter
like
a
wise
gentleman
.
Now
in
like
maner
must
I
try
your
patience
:
Was
it
you
that
translated
Ariosto
?
I
marry
was
it
sir.
In
faith
you
had
beene
better
to
haue
sette
your
legges
before
it
then
your
arms
,
for
the
lines
are
very
gowty
&
to
vntoward
to
climb
Hellicon
.
What
are
you
angry
at
this
iest
?
for
shame
be
patient
,
you
haue
vs
'
de
a
Doctour
farre
worse
,
and
therefore
looke
for
ill
chieuing
.
●…nall
lib.
3.
Sa●…
.
9.
O
Coridon
Coridon
secretum
diuitis
vllum
esse
〈◊〉
.
I
,
but
you
set
your
armes
before
it
,
least
after
you
were
dead
,
citties
and
countries
should
striue
for
you
as
they
did
about
Homer
:
Feare
not
that
man
,
for
what
between
Cloacinas
Temple
,
the
stationers
pastbordes
,
the
Grocers
and
Chandlers
spices
,
and
mustard-pots
,
your
bookes
shall
be
out
worne
in
your
age
I
warrant
you
.
Onelie
if
some
surviue
by
the
mercy
of
a
friends
Library
,
the
after-world
shall
rather
pittie
your
lost
time
,
then
commende
your
diligence
.
That
s
for
maister
Daltons
sake
,
and
I
pray
you
so
take
it
.
Nowe
for
mayster
Plat
mine
old
and
honest
friende
,
why
what
of
him
?
His
life
in●…al
mens
eies
so
vpright
,
his
birth
not
to
be
contemned
,
his
studie
for
the
commoditie
of
hys
countrie
,
you
haue
lewdely
Iybed
against
him
beeing
a
gentleman
of
your
owne
societie
;
and
so
iested
at
his
coles
,
that
you
deserue
to
be
burnt
with
them
for
your
labor
.
Bona
verba
quaeso
:
nay
you
shall
not
so
scape
it
.
Shoulde
a
man
(
because
the
Fishmongers
boy
saw
you
in
a
goodlye
gay
veluet
cloake
and
on
your
foote-cloth
,
and
iestingly
saide
as
you
past
by
him
thorowolde
olde
fishstreet
that
you
sat
on
your
horse
like
a
slouen
on
a
close
stoole
)
that
therefore
your
writing
in
praise
of
AIAX
,
was
fore-prophecied
?
or
to
vse
(
Charles
Chesters
iest
,
because
you
are
faced
like
Platina
)
'
would
it
not
anger
your
hart
strings
,
if
a
man
shoulde
say
that
you
looke
like
a
sturdie
Hostler
that
could
guird
a
mire
til
she
sart
again
.
Truly
it
were
vnseemly
to
vse
a
gentleman
of
worth
so
grosly
:
now
if
miu●…ies
to
your self
,
disgraces
to
your
own
per●…on
,
Iybing
at
your
own
writings
so
mightily
moue
you
:
Imagine
that
in
others
which
you
feele
in
your selfe
,
and
if
you
take
felicitie
to
heare
well
,
remember
carefully
hereafter
to
speake
well
.
But
I
forget
my self
,
I
forget
my selfe
,
there
is
a
pad
in
the
shaw
,
there
is
matter
in
it
said
the
hostler
when
he
felt
his
horse
backe
,
there
are
reasons
of
discontent
,
whiche
haue
mooued
this
desaster
twixt
maister
C●…nelius
Ag●…
de
vault
Sce●…c
.
Plat
and
you
:
I
mary
bether
sir
,
he
is
a
seducer
,
his
coales
are
like
the
Alcumists
Elixar
,
muche
t●…kte
of
,
but
neuer
bronght
to
passe
:
You
deceaue
your selfe
Misacmos
,
and
I
dare
sweare
it
by
as
much
honestie
as
you
can
pledge
me
,
that
the
coles
Maister
Plat
maketh
profession
of
to
deuise
,
are
possible
to
nature
,
not
contrary
to
the
rules
of
Philosophie
,
euen
now
this
t●…a
me
readye
to
be
prooued
by
a
demonstration
,
so
that
as
Fierouants
said
to
the
Galenists
of
Italie
〈◊〉
lib.
3.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
et
a●…i
.
and
other
chimicall
fellowes
;
Mayster
Plat
ma●…
boldely
vrge
against
you
,
mine
is
the
effect
,
dispute
you
on
the
cause
.
I
but
your
iudgement
(
say
you
)
apprehendeth
not
any
such
thing
,
and
for
that
cause
you
will
iest
at
a
trueth
,
in
that
you
suspect
it
a
falshoode
,
Heeres
faire
playe
Misacmos
,
and
I
offer
open
challendge
.
Drawe
the
quintescene
of
your
wit
,
capitulate
●…ll
your
readinges
,
make
an
abstract
of
your
experiments
,
and
set
me
downe
what
arguments
you
can
against
these
coles
,
and
you
shall
see
me
make
you
carry
coles
till
you
fall
tout
plat
for
your
labour
.
For
your
coniecture
of
stale
and
cow-dung
,
it
standes
not
with
nature
,
it
stands
not
with
reason
,
you
are
mis informed
,
and
it
were
good
you
were
reformed
,
learne
a
truer
Credo
,
and
wee
will
sing
a
kinder
Salue
to
you
.
If
you
stil
braue
it
til
your
conceit
be
blunt
,
I
wil
steele
it
with
reason
,
&
though
maister
Plats
maide
hath
coulted
your
intelligencer
,
that
wold
haue
wrought
the
secret
of
these
coales
out
of
her
,
vnder
pretence
of
a
woing
daunce
(
for
whiche
cause
you
are
waxt
so
tetchie
,
)
I
le
vse
you
more
honestly
;
and
not
onlye
instruct
you
like
a
probable
disputer
,
but
with
as
good
pillers
as
all
sciences
consist
on
,
I
meane
demonstrations
(
as
sound
matter
as
Aristotles
Pasteriora
.
I
warrant
you
)
I
coulde
vse
Tarltons
lye
vppon
you
touching
the
secret
of
Barly
:
who
(
attending
one
day
at
a
great
dinner
on
sir
Christopher
Hatton
Lorde
Chauncellour
deceased
)
by
chance
(
amongst
other
pretie
iests
)
gaue
him
vnaduisedly
the
lie
:
for
which
,
the
honorable
person
merily
reprouing
him
,
insteed
of
submitting
himself
,
he
thus
witily
iustified
:
My
Lord
(
said
he
)
is
it
not
a
custome
when
a
prince
hath
spoken
anye
thing
note-worthy
,
to
say
he
hath
deliuered
it
maiestically
?
Again
when
you
the
are
Monsieurs
,
my
Lorts
,
excellenses
,
Altesses
,
&
such
like
,
speak
any
thing
:
Saynot
the
assistants
straight
waies
,
he
concluded
honorably
?
Nay
in
euery
estate
,
if
either
noble
,
right
worshipful
,
worshipful
,
gentle
,
common
,
honest
,
dishonest
,
poore
or
rich
,
sick
or
whole
(
&
sic
ad
infinitum
)
speak
any
thing
;
dooth
not
the
worlde
conclude
straight
,
that
they
haue
spoken
nobly
,
right
worshipfully
,
worshipfully
,
gently
,
commonly
,
honestly
,
dishonestly
,
poorely
,
richly
,
sickly
,
wholy
?
Nought
without
,
alye
my
Lord
(
quoth
dick
Tarlton
)
naught
without
a
lie
:
Hee
that
therefore
paies
it
with
a
frowne
,
or
a
stab
,
forgetteth
himselfe
.
But
thus
will
not
I
vse
Misacmos
,
least
hee
that
stands
so
muche
on
his
pointes
,
shoulde
point
me
out
with
his
poyniard
;
onelie
this
wil
I
say
(
and
that
modestlie
too
)
a●…
Tully
did
of
Voconius
,
and
his
children
,
and
(
E
)
onely
deducted
.
Phaeb●…
hand
scinente
hic
seminauit
libros
.
Pl●…arch
in
●…a
Cico
.
To.
3.
so
.
〈◊〉
.
Which
is
as
much
to
say
,
as
the
man
had
beene
happy
if
his
booke
had
lyen
stinking
in
his
studio
.
But
heere
mee
thinkes
I
spie
a
worse
then
Enthimi●…
miserie
falne
vpon
you
,
(
who
abusing
the
Corinthians
in
iest
,
was
plaugde
in
earnest
)
for
in
discoursing
your
Monapole
,
wherein
you
angle
for
nothing
Your
own
word●…
Avengeance
on
them
that
●…e
these
Monapol●…
17.
Ed.
4.
Sto●…
.
but
Carps
to
feede
other
men
with
,
you
not
onelie
wax
tooe
bitter
a
curser
of
your
betters
(
a
fault
worse
than
Burdets
,
and
it
were
pittie
it
should
be
expiated
with
his
destiny
)
.
But
you
priuelye
gird
likewise
at
patents
,
(
I
meane
not
the
father
and
the
sonne
both
wittie
and
learned
gentlemen
)
who
(
as
I
am
inspired
)
are
the
very
Genii
and
good
angells
in
furthering
your
best
studies
,
but
Iob
serue
not
As
gesclaus
,
law
heare
:
Difficile
est
miser
eriet
●…pore
,
but
coldly
past●…
that
ouer
which
might
be
wrought
like
wa●…
.
those
pattents
which
beeing
priueledges
graunted
by
a
prince
,
fruits
of
her
royall
prerogatiue
,
rewardes
of
her
trustie
and
honourable
seruants
,
acte●…
for
humble
subiectes
to
receiue
wyth
thankes
,
not
to
examine
according
to
their
owne
shallow
iudgements
priuat
lawes
in
beeing
priuiledges
,
as
both
the
legists
and
schoolemen
determine
,
are
〈◊〉
.
not
groslie
to
bee
iested
at
,
carelessie
to
be
disgraced
,
or
fondly
to
be
delt
withal
.
Beware
of
this
good
Misacmos
,
I
wish
you
as
a
friend
,
&
if
hereafter
you
mean
to
rest
publiquely
,
and
force
your
wit
to
stemme
the
streame
of
worlds
iudgments
,
vse
Pericles
custom
,
who
determining
to
speake
any
thing
publikely
,
desired
the
immortall
Gods
,
that
no
improuident
worde
shoulde
passehys
mouth
.
Away
with
this
serious
talke
,
let
vs
turkish
this
text
into
a
merrier
colour
.
One
turn
from
Leaden
hal
corner
into
Gracious
streete
,
and
so
haue
with
you
to
West
minster
:
Why
into
Gracious
street
?
Because
of
al
streets
in
London
you
haue
thought
this
the
best
market
to
make
proclamation
of
cuckcoldry
.
Now
sir
what
Iohn
of
himself
,
or
Iohn
by
constraint
know
you
there
that
hathinheritance
in
Cornhil
,
whom
you
so
pretilie
iutitle
to
Hornden
?
Mum
budget
not
a
worde
.
In
an
inuentory
of
such
housholde
stuffe
it
is
ill
falling
to
perticulers
,
such
vniuersall
propositions
,
or
prepositions
require
noi●…ance
.
If
a
gentlewench
haue
inuited
you
to
a
banquet
of
Turnups
,
be
not
too
talkatiue
,
least
suting
your selfe
in
pure
rash
,
your
loue
repent
her
lying
abrode
,
and
you
your
speaking
too
broadly
.
In
handling
your
common
places
,
shut
vp
your
tongue
,
least
being
Plenus
●…arum
,
(
as
Parmeno
said
of
him selfe
)
you
be
naroly
lookt
into
O
Misacmos
since
all
men
may
bee
cuckolds
,
actu
vel
potentia
it
is
dangerous
to
talk
of
them
,
but
if
you
will
needs
bite
on
this
morsel
,
beware
to
be
T●…ent
.
Eunuch●…
offensiue
,
for
to
general
terms
none
but
the
guilty
take
exception
.
Should
I
play
at
this
weapon
what
should
let
mee
to
hit
home
&
yet
obserue
the
lawes
of
humanity
?
show
wiht
witout
profe●…g
wrong
.
As
thus
in
a
pleasant
Irone
,
to
disfigure
a
householder
in
a
figure
.
The
man
hath
a
great
charge
,
and
therefore
this
deere
yeere
,
it
is
good
hauing
Cornucopia
in
his
householde
.
〈◊〉
,
●…orn
,
the
horn
of
plenty
,
or
otherwise
plenty
of
horne
.
This
is
a
iest
without
gall
,
and
this
no
lesse
pleasant
then
the
former
.
If
it
bee
true
that
Phisitions
say
,
that
the
perfume
of
borne
is
a
soueraigne
medicine
against
the
Pestilence
;
how
happie
shall
many
mens
neighbors
be
that
haue
hornes
of
their
owne
to
burne
and
driue
the
plague
out
of
their
Chambers
?
This
is
a
forme
I
informe
you
of
,
because
I
knowe
some
exceptions
taken
against
your
other
deformed
obseruation
:
Mend
it
,
mendit
,
or
burne
your
booke
as
the
desperate
Zanthians
did
theyr
,
Cittie
least
from
the
Babell
of
A●…s
dict●…
〈◊〉
Bable
.
your
pride
,
men
say
you
deriue
your
babling
.
Harke
what
a
tale
I
heard
in
Gratious
streete
of
an
vngratious
turne
,
which
was
return'd
vpon
a
gentlewoman
.
A
pleasant
wench
of
the
country
(
who
beside
Chaucers
iest
,
had
a
great
felicitie
in
iesting
)
incountring
in
a
morning
with
a
farmour
of
hir
husbands
,
who
came
that
Michaelmas
day
to
pay
his
quarters
rent
(
beside
a
dozen
of
powtings
for
my
Lanslady
his
mistres
)
seeing
him
scrape
his
curtesies
a
farre
off
,
and
very
loath
to
come
neere
and
salute
her
,
pleasantly
said
thus
;
Come
neere
Thomas
,
be
not
afraid
,
I
neither
fling
nor
bite
:
T
the
poore
felow
gathering
heart
of
grace
on
this
encouragement
,
returned
her
this
answer
:
by
th
masse
mistris
,
and
you
be
so
gentle
,
you
are
the
fitter
beast
to
be
ridden
:
heere
is
Diog.
Laertius
in
vita
Memn
,
prae
moerore
laque●…
vitam
sibi
e●…torsit
.
quid
pro
quo
:
a
girde
for
a
gibe
:
beware
of
mocking
plaine
fellowes
,
lest
after
this
sort
in
plain
termes
they
thus
mocke
you
.
Go
to
Menippus
in
wit
,
God
keepe
you
from
his
fortune
.
Vse
citizens
wel
.
And
though
you
bee
as
familiar
with
some
of
their
wiues
,
as
Tullies
epistles
:
yet
to
the
husbands
reade
nothing
but
his
Offices
,
lest
they
preferre
you
to
an
office
or
officer
.
I
haue
to
talke
with
you
for
the
Markams
too
,
my
worthy
worshipfull
and
beloued
friends
:
and
therefore
prepare
new
we
apons
,
for
I
must
wring
you
for
wronging
them
.
Though
their
desert
can
out●…ue
your
disgrace
,
yet
shall
your
disgrace
liue
by
your
disgracing
them
:
get
therefore
the
grim
sire
to
seale
you
a
pardon
of
Course
,
or
my
second
Course
shall
be
so
currant
,
that
I
will
course
you
out
of
breath
:
these
are
but
easie
tricks
,
as
wrestlers
Plutare
.
In
vita
Alexand.
vse
before
they
begin
their
vtmost
.
The
other
shal
be
labored
like
your
own
,
as
ready
to
moue
laughter
,
as
Naptha
to
take
fire
,
which
til
you
meet
,
make
a
register
of
your
best
conceits
,
for
I
meane
to
make
triall
of
the
vtmost
of
your
learned
corage
.
Enough
of
this
till
the
feast
of
enough
follow
.
They
say
,
Once
warned
,
well
armed
,
thanke
me
kindly
for
these
courtesies
.
What
remaineth
now
?
but
in
few
words
to
counsell
Misacmos
:
first
,
if
he
pretend
to
iest
,
to
obserue
the
custome
of
the
Spartans
,
in
auoyding
scurrilitie
:
next
,
in
the
modest
carriage
of
his
wordes
,
to
become
an
Athenian
,
who
had
a
custome
to
couer
and
colour
obscenities
and
filthinesse
with
apt
and
decent
names
,
according
as
Solon
taught
them
.
Adubber
to
crie
,
Mother
goe
cacke
,
when
hee
is
able
to
trusse
himselfe
is
vndecent
.
Remember
what
your
grand
mother
taught
you
Misacmos
,
and
make
your
Bookes
more
mannerly
.
Lastly
,
in
correcting
,
learne
of
Phitaroh
to
doe
all
things
in
way
of
commiseration
,
and
not
in
contempt
,
for
who
reproueth
in
derision
,
defaulteth
in
humanity
&
iudgement
:
To
be
short
,
instead
of
the
salt
of
bitter
language
,
let
Misacmos
learne
to
seeke
the
salt
of
wisedome
:
for
as
the
one
is
fretting
,
galling
,
and
a
sucker
of
bloud
,
so
the
other
(
as
saieth
Gregory
)
Acquiritur
per
pacem
,
is
gotten
by
peace
,
breedeth
peace
,
nourisheth
vertue
,
instructeth
errour
,
and
maketh
the
life
sauery
,
which
appeareth
in
that
of
the
euangelist
Marke
,
Habete
in
vobis
sal
,
&
pacem
habebitis
inter
vos
.
Haue
salt
among
you
,
and
you
shall
haue
peace
among
you
.
To
conclude
with
Misacmos
,
let
mee
teach
him
twoo
receits
,
and
so
leaue
him
:
First
,
to
auoyde
euill
smelles
,
let
him
get
him
a
cleane
tongue
,
and
a
sweete
breath
,
for
that
is
pleasing
to
gentlewomen
:
let
him
vse
the
incense
of
prayer
,
to
kill
the
stinking
venome
of
serpents
lurking
in
his
heart
,
lette
him
put
lesse
worme
woode
in
his
incke
,
and
more
continence
in
his
thoughtes
:
and
if
his
tongue
will
not
leaue
clacking
,
let
him
learne
to
light
the
candle
of
charity
before
him
,
as
Gardners
are
wont
to
set
lampes
by
lakes
sides
:
to
put
croking
and
troublesome
frogges
to
silence
.
Finally
:
to
purge
his
lunacie
of
wit
,
I
neither
prescribe
him
Turbith
,
Agaric
,
Sarcocolla
,
Trincauel
de
vsu
med.
li.
1.
c
,
14
nor
a
dramme
of
Scammony
,
according
to
Dioscorides
,
neither
rhubarb
of
Pontus
,
nor
manna
of
Calabria
,
but
an
ounce
of
good
thought
mixt
with
a
scruple
of
Pythagoricum
silentium
,
which
shall
so
purge
him
of
ambition
,
heale
the
inflamations
of
his
tongue
,
and
exhale
the
venome
of
his
heart
,
that
when
he
next
meetes
mee
,
he
shall
say
,
I
am
the
happiest
of
Physitions
(
of
whom
Bouchet
iestingly
speaketh
in
the
person
of
a
bon
Drole
or
Francatripe
)
Bouchet
au
10.
Secr.
that
the
sunne
beholdes
their
good
cures
,
and
the
earth
couereth
their
greeuous
faults
.
Thus
kindly
leaue
I
Misacmos
with
his
Car
ie
penscray
acquerir
plus
de
lou
ange
au
seruice
de
la
vertu
,
que
ie
ne
seroy
pas
a
la
suitte
de
vice
.
cure
,
which
if
he
requite
with
choller
,
let
him
resolue
himselfe
,
that
I
haue
wit
and
learning
enough
to
make
him
as
tame
as
Crassus
lamprey
:
For
hauing
truth
on
my
side
,
and
diligence
my
friend
,
I
neyther
fear
his
grim
looks
,
nor
his
Martials
pen
.
Bouchet
au
7.
Secr.
Let
him
write
neuer
so
soone
,
I
will
become
nouus
homo
a
new
man
(
with
Cato
)
rising
from
obscuritie
to
same
by
his
disgrace
:
Plutarch
.
in
vita
Cat.
and
so
I
leaue
him
.
For
thee
Philaretes
and
thy
friends
,
I
end
,
in
heartily
commending
me
:
and
since
I
am
assured
of
your
well-meaning
,
you
may
boldely
commaund
my
seruice
.
But
euen
here
in
shutting
vp
of
my
letter
,
a
merry
iest
incounters
me
,
which
I
must
needs
tel
you
.
Henry
the
8.
in
his
youth
,
a
prince
of
famous
memorie
,
riding
a
hunting
in
grasse
time
with
certaine
his
nobles
and
familiars
,
by
chance
made
toward
a
gentlemans
parke
of
good
estimation
and
reckoning
whom
he
highly
fauored
;
where
(
finding
the
parke
gate
lockt
,
and
being
very
desirous
to
enter
.
)
hee
set
his
horne
to
his
mouth
,
and
merrily
winded
it
to
call
the
Keeper
.
Sir
Andrew
Flamocke
(
a
valiant
and
quicke
witted
gentleman
)
standing
hard
behinde
him
(
and
that
very
instant
troubled
with
the
chollicke
)
euen
at
the
very
time
the
King
drewe
his
horne
from
his
mouth
lets
mee
flie
a
rouncing
F.
from
his
T.
The
King
looking
backe
,
and
angerly
asking
who
it
was
that
durst
be
so
beastly
in
his
presence
?
Sir
Andrew
(
after
a
low
congee
)
made
this
answer
:
If
it
please
your
Maiestie
,
you
blew
for
the
Keeper
,
and
I
blew
for
Iohn
the
Keepers
man
.
Now
to
allude
this
(
Philaretes
)
in
this
sort
conceit
me
.
For
those
of
thy
faction
that
kindely
interpret
,
courteously
accept
,
&
friendly
protect
my
pleasures
,
I
commit
the
kingly
blast
of
incouragement
,
I
meane
the
matters
of
weight
,
worth
,
and
discretion
.
For
the
rest
that
captiously
desire
to
prie
,
carelesly
to
condemne
,
and
iniuriously
detract
,
I
commit
the
filth
,
worse
then
sir
Andrew
Flamoks
fart
to
their
disgesting
.
And
so
to
Tarletons
Testament
I
commend
you
,
a
little
more
drinke
,
then
a
little
more
bread
,
a
little
more
bread
,
and
a
few
more
clothes
,
and
God
be
at
your
sport
Master
Tarleton
.
Misodiaboles
.