True
and
Wonderfull
:
A
Discourse
relating
a
strange
&
monstrous
Serpent
(
or
Dragon
)
lately
discouered
and
yet
liuing
,
to
the
great
anoyance
(
and
diuers
slaughters
)
both
of
Men
and
Cattell
,
by
his
strong
&
violent
Poyson
.
THere
is
nothing
more
miraculous
in
nāture
as
the
shalow
search
of
humane
apprehension
,
then
the
workes
of
the
diuinitie
specified
in
the
Creation
,
being
a
worke
beautified
with
distinction
,
order
and
measure
,
and
sifted
from
all
confusion
:
yet
if
we
more
narrowly
vnrip
the
natures
and
qualities
of
the
creatures
,
leauing
the
vnsearchable
depth
of
Gods
essence
beyond
the
shoomakers
last
of
capacitie
to
himselfe
,
we
shall
finde
that
there
is
sufficient
cause
for
our
weake
admirations
:
And
though
all
things
were
at
the
first
created
good
and
seruicable
to
man
,
because
God
is
not
the
author
of
any
euill
;
yet
since
euill
sprung
from
the
ill
of
Eue
,
many
miseries
haue
(
as
his
cursse
)
falne
to
man
,
euen
by
those
creatures
which
were
his
companions
in
Paradice
,
and
made
to
his
great
blessing
and
benefit
,
Insomuch
that
the
Serpent
which
first
was
familiar
with
Eue
,
&
seruiceable
to
mans
vse
,
is
now
turned
a
deadly
and
fatall
enemy
to
all
his
posteritie
,
frighting
the
earth
with
monstrous
and
prodigious
shapes
:
and
no
doubt
,
in
these
new
and
presaging
formes
,
are
sent
to
punish
our
new
inuentions
of
sinne
,
according
to
the
saying
of
a
reuerend
Father
:
Quia
deliquimus
in
multis
,
August
.
punimur
in
multis
:
Because
we
haue
offended
in
many
things
,
we
are
punished
in
many
.
But
to
omit
the
Sanctuary
of
vnfurnisht
wits
,
being
a
fugitiue
and
tedious
circuler
questions
,
we
will
apply
our
briefe
abstract
,
to
the
causes
and
originall
of
these
hideous
Creatures
,
for
the
vnderstanding
and
capacitie
of
the
simple
;
seeing
,
that
as
a
learned
man
saith
;
that
Scire
est
per
causas
scire
.
Plato
.
The
best
way
of
knowledge
is
to
know
by
the
causes
:
And
first
of
their
originall
.
First
it
is
Oraculous
and
plaine
in
Genesis
,
that
God
by
his
word
created
all
things
sensible
and
insensible
:
Fishes
,
Foules
,
Beasts
,
and
creeping
things
,
and
among
them
Serpents
:
But
since
the
great
worke
of
the
Creation
,
they
are
ingendred
either
naturally
or
prodigiously
:
Naturally
,
as
saith
Macrobius
,
Macrob.
as
in
Egipt
Frogs
and
Mice
,
are
ingendered
by
raine
and
shewres
,
so
also
are
Serpents
:
But
I
am
of
Aristotles
opinion
,
which
also
Pliny
confirmeth
,
that
Serpents
arise
not
from
putrifaction
,
but
by
the
naturall
act
of
generation
.
It
is
a
generall
rule
,
that
all
Beasts
wanting
feet
,
and
hauing
long
bodies
;
Elianus
.
performe
their
carnall
copulation
,
by
the
mutuall
imbracing
of
one
another
:
as
Lampreies
and
Serpents
:
And
it
is
certaine
,
that
two
Serpents
in
this
action
,
séeme
to
be
one
body
and
two
heads
:
for
they
are
so
indiuisibly
vnited
together
,
and
the
frame
of
their
body
vnapt
for
any
other
manner
of
Copulation
.
The
generation
of
Serpents
.
And
although
like
to
Fishes
,
they
want
floure
to
elaborate
the
sperme
,
yet
haue
they
two
open
passages
wherein
lyeth
their
generatiue
seed
;
which
being
spread
,
procureth
their
veneriall
lusts
:
which
seed
being
ciaculated
from
the
Male
,
into
Cels
and
receptacles
of
the
Female
,
it
is
framed
into
an
Egge
,
which
she
hydeth
in
the
earth
,
a
hundreth
in
a
cluster
,
about
the
quantitie
of
a
birds
Egge
:
And
this
is
the
naturall
proceeding
of
all
Serpents
,
except
Vipers
,
who
lay
no
Egges
,
but
hatch
their
young
ones
in
their
wombe
;
but
for
their
prodigious
generation
,
as
it
is
rare
,
A
woman
that
brought
forth
a
Serpent
.
Prodigious
dreames
of
Dragons
.
so
is
it
also
horrible
to
our
nature
.
It
is
reported
,
that
when
Lucius
Scipio
,
and
Caius
Norbanus
were
Consuls
,
that
the
mother
of
Claudius
in
Hytruria
,
brought
forth
a
Serpent
in
steade
of
a
Childe
.
And
Faustina
the
Empresse
dreamed
,
when
she
was
with
childe
but
very
prodigiously
,
that
she
brought
forth
two
Serpents
,
and
one
of
them
seemed
to
be
more
fiercer
then
the
other
,
which
proued
allegorically
true
:
for
Comodus
afterwards
her
youngest
sonne
was
so
tiranicall
and
barbarous
,
that
he
seemed
to
be
borne
a
prodigie
to
the
destruction
of
mankinde
:
and
thus
much
for
their
originall
,
naturall
and
prodigious
.
The
Irish
ground
is
most
happie
,
The
Irish
ground
happie
.
and
it
séemeth
lesse
sinnefull
,
that
are
frée
from
contagion
of
these
venomous
Creatures
:
but
as
it
is
true
,
that
Non
omnis
fert
omnia
tellus
,
Euery
ground
brings
not
forth
all
kind
of
fruites
:
for
this
Land
were
happie
if
it
were
lesse
fertile
in
these
contagious
kind
of
Serpents
,
which
I
ascribe
not
to
the
nature
of
the
earth
,
but
the
sinfull
nature
of
men
.
In
Phrigia
and
Ethiopia
are
many
Dragons
,
and
Serpents
,
and
these
were
as
Augustine
affirmeth
in
the
hollow
places
of
the
earth
:
and
not
onely
in
forraine
and
farre
remote-countries
:
but
also
in
neighboring
and
nere
adioyning
nations
:
A
Dragon
brought
to
the
French
King
.
Stiria
a
Towne
in
Germanie
.
and
first
of
all
there
was
a
Serpent
or
winged
Dragon
brought
vnto
Francis
the
French-King
:
when
he
lay
at
Sancton
,
Sancton
.
by
a
country-man
:
who
had
slaine
the
same
Serpent
with
a
spade
:
Chisuen
also
saith
that
in
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
,
1543
there
came
many
Serpents
with
féete
,
and
winges
,
neere
Stiria
:
who
wounded
the
inhabitants
incurably
.
Paris
a
Cittie
in
France
Stumphus
.
Cardan
writeth
that
at
Paris
in
France
hée
himselfe
saw
certaine
Serpents
with
winges
:
when
the
riuer
Tiber
ouerflowed
the
banckes
many
Serpents
were
discouered
.
As
also
in
the
time
of
Mauritius
the
Emperour
,
at
what
time
a
Dragon
came
ouer
the
Citty
after
which
prodigie
insued
a
great
pestilence
.
Now
as
these
hidious
creatures
are
hurtfull
to
man
,
so
also
are
they
most
inamored
of
man
:
and
if
there
be
any
truth
or
veritie
to
be
ascribed
to
Histories
:
they
haue
béen
most
passionately
affected
to
man
woman
and
child
:
which
showes
that
it
is
a
worke
of
diuinitie
as
a
iust
punishment
of
our
sinnes
,
to
turne
their
affable
natures
to
a
most
rauenous
and
deuouring
crueltie
,
Elianus
.
And
to
instance
this
with
examples
,
Elianus
reports
,
that
their
was
one
Iliaua
a
Thesalian
Neatheard
,
that
kept
Oxen
in
Ossa
,
Dragons
in
loue
with
Men.
hard
by
the
Fountaine
Hemonius
,
that
a
Dragon
fell
in
loue
with
,
for
that
his
yellow
haire
,
which
séemed
in
his
amiable
colour
to
resemble
Gold
,
and
often
come
créeping
vnto
him
like
an
amorous
louer
,
licking
his
haire
and
face
so
gentlie
,
as
the
man
professing
he
neuer
felt
the
like
.
The
like
is
reported
of
Pindus
the
sonne
of
Macedo
King
of
Emuthia
,
who
was
a
man
of
honest
disposition
and
a
great
Hunter
:
hauing
lost
his
company
in
his
woonted
sport
in
a
thick
and
vnfrequented
desert
,
met
with
a
Dragon
of
great
stature
,
who
came
towards
Pindus
:
with
the
greatest
part
of
his
body
except
his
neck
lifted
vp
:
who
at
the
first
was
much
amazed
at
so
horride
a
spectacle
,
but
after
remembring
himselfe
of
certaine
birds
and
pieces
of
sacrifices
which
he
had
about
him
,
he
gaue
part
to
the
dragon
,
and
so
mittigated
the
furie
of
the
Serpent
,
who
being
smoothed
with
these
guifts
,
and
as
it
were
ouertaken
with
the
liberality
of
Pindus
,
was
so
inamoured
of
his
liberall
nature
,
that
he
forsooke
his
desert
habitation
,
and
followed
Pindus
like
an
ordinarie
Spaniell
.
There
was
also
a
Dragon
the
louer
of
Artheolis
,
as
Plutarche
Plutarch
.
writeth
,
who
came
to
her
euery
night
and
did
her
no
harme
,
but
gently
sliding
ouer
her
playd
with
her
till
morning
,
departing
away
assoone
as
light
appeared
,
least
he
should
be
discouered
.
Moreouer
it
is
obserued
that
those
Serpents
are
so
far
from
doing
harme
,
except
by
some
supernaturall
power
destinate
to
our
seuere
punishment
for
our
sinnes
,
that
they
haue
often
béen
the
preuenting
causes
of
sinne
,
and
instruments
of
preseruation
of
many
men
and
women
.
When
Messalina
the
wife
of
Claudius
did
send
certaine
men
to
take
away
the
life
of
Nero
,
Nero
saued
by
a
Dragon
.
who
was
a
Riuall
of
Britanicus
,
a
Dragon
appeared
out
of
the
earth
,
terrifying
the
murderers
with
such
furie
,
that
they
ranne
away
and
spared
Neroes
life
.
Againe
,
Suetonius
reports
of
one
Telephus
,
Suetonius
,
Incest
preuented
by
a
Dragon
.
who
had
committed
incest
with
his
mother
,
had
not
a
Dragon
by
diuine
prouidence
frighted
the
incestudus
sonne
,
and
parted
them
asunder
.
Therefore
saith
the
same
Author
,
that
Draconi
similis
est
vertus
indagatrix
,
quae
diligenter
omnia
perscrutatur
rimuturque
studiocissime
,
that
perfect
discretion
&
knowledge
is
allegorically
said
to
be
like
the
Dragon
,
because
it
diligently
searcheth
the
secret
crannies
of
all
things
,
and
according
to
the
common
prouerbe
,
thorough
the
smallest
hole
spies
day
light
.
But
these
examples
doe
not
conclude
,
but
that
there
is
a
secret
Antipathie
and
enmitie
betwixt
Man
kind
&
these
Serpentine
creatures
:
who
indéed
after
the
relapse
and
fal
of
our
first
Parents
,
as
a
curse
from
God
were
marked
out
for
most
noisome
and
infectious
creatures
to
man
and
the
womans
seed
&
posteritie
:
&
therfore
I
could
wish
that
the
remedy
of
this
our
home
bred
monster
(
which
hereafter
we
shall
more
largely
expresse
)
were
purged
with
as
much
breuity
as
the
contents
of
Caesars
Letter
to
the
Senate
,
Veni
,
vidi
,
vici
:
I
came
,
I
sawe
,
and
I
ouercame
:
vox
Dei
,
it
were
the
word
God
,
and
not
of
man
:
Many
are
the
deplorable
dangers
writ
with
a
tragicall
pen
of
famous
Historians
,
which
haue
insued
to
the
sad
inhabitants
of
many
famous
places
by
these
prodigious
Monsters
,
when
the
region
of
Heluctia
began
first
to
be
purged
from
these
noysome
beasts
,
Gellius
.
A
murderer
fighting
with
the
Dragon
.
there
was
a
horrible
Dragon
found
néere
a
Countrey
Towne
called
Wilfer
,
who
destroyed
both
men
and
beasts
by
his
monstrous
and
insatiate
hunger
,
insomuch
that
that
towne
was
called
Deidwiler
,
that
is
,
a
Village
of
the
Wildernesse
:
for
all
the
Inhabitants
had
forsaken
the
same
and
fled
to
other
places
.
Also
there
is
a
memorable
History
of
a
man
in
the
same
Towne
(
which
I
will
rehearse
for
the
strangenesse
of
the
accident
)
that
was
banished
for
man-slaughter
,
who
promised
for
his
pardon
to
combate
with
the
same
Dragon
,
which
being
granted
,
with
much
ioye
he
was
called
home
,
and
in
the
presence
of
many
people
went
out
to
fight
with
the
Dragon
,
whome
hee
slewe
and
ouercame
with
diuine
assistance
,
where
for
ioy
he
lifted
vp
his
sword
imbrued
in
the
Dragons
blood
in
token
of
victorie
,
which
bloud
distilled
from
his
sword
,
and
caused
him
instantly
to
fall
down
dead
.
A
heauie
iudgement
of
God
to
punish
murder
in
the
same
kind
,
that
he
who
like
Cyrus
Cirus
.
delighted
in
blood
,
should
féele
the
curse
of
Tomiris
,
Diuine
Iustice
miraculouslie
showne
.
and
bee
choaked
with
bloud
.
Strange
that
this
man
who
was
pardoned
for
killing
of
the
Dragon
,
was
killed
by
the
Dragon
after
the
Dragon
was
slaine
.
Thus
bloud
was
the
sinne
,
because
it
brought
death
,
and
death
againe
brought
blood
to
bee
the
reuenger
of
the
first
,
that
the
bloud
of
man
might
be
washed
away
by
the
bloud
of
man
:
the
bloud
of
the
Dragon
being
vmpire
betwixt
,
that
I
may
say
truely
,
as
the
Poet
saith
in
another
case
,
Sanguine
succreuit
,
Sanguine
finis
erit
:
as
it
grew
so
shall
it
end
in
bloud
.
One
example
more
,
and
I
will
conclude
this
generall
discodrse
of
Serpents
,
and
come
to
the
particular
description
of
our
Sussexan
Serpent
.
Now
to
the
terror
of
the
póore
Inhabitants
,
breathing
forth
his
noisome
poysons
,
whose
Storie
deserues
more
lamentable
teares
and
spéedie
extirpation
then
the
flourishinges
of
Oratorie
,
or
Penne
and
Inke-horne
cordiall
.
Aristotle
.
Philip
of
Maceden
.
To
note
further
the
contagion
of
these
Creatures
by
the
noysome
euaporation
of
their
noysome
breath
.
In
the
dayes
of
Philip
King
of
Macedon
,
and
father
to
the
great
Alexander
,
whose
Tutor
Aristotle
was
,
there
was
a
way
into
a
mountaine
to
Armenia
,
ouer
which
the
King
had
prayed
that
neuer
man
might
goe
that
way
but
hee
might
die
.
Wherefore
Socrates
to
sée
the
effect
of
the
Kings
praier
,
set
his
Opticke
Philosophicall
glasse
,
such
as
now
a
daies
we
vse
to
apprehend
things
farre
distant
plainely
visible
,
to
see
what
was
in
the
way
,
and
presently
he
perceiued
two
Dragons
that
by
their
breath
infected
the
Region
of
the
aire
.
Thus
wee
set
the
obnoxious
nature
of
these
Serpents
to
Mankinde
,
which
often
in
our
soules
best
meditation
receiue
their
birth
,
according
to
the
saying
of
holie
Augustine
,
that
Deus
exaudit
ad
penam
cum
petunt
peccatoris
fomitem
,
that
our
blessings
are
turned
into
cursings
,
and
our
Pater-nosters
to
punishments
,
when
we
pray
fui
suis
,
and
our
petitions
to
predictions
,
when
our
Christianity
is
poisond
with
sinne
:
and
therefore
now
leauing
this
Serpentine
circute
of
this
generall
discourse
,
and
now
come
to
that
particular
and
lamentable
Storie
of
our
yet
gréene
calamitie
,
as
Aeneas
said
to
Dido
,
Infandum
Regina
iubes
renouare
dolorem
.
Miserie
is
not
without
a
fatall
eccho
,
whose
imperfect
sillables
in
formation
thus
miserably
redoubles
.
Veritas
non
quaerit
angulos
.
Let
Truth
goe
vnmask't
because
her
face
is
vnpainted
,
plainely
and
truely
then
:
thus
,
there
is
discouer'd
in
our
neighbour
Countie
of
Sussex
,
a
strange
and
monstrous
Serpent
(
a
thing
most
noysome
and
dreadfull
to
the
Inhabitants
adioyning
,
and
may
with
pious
compassion
let
in
remorse
at
our
eares
,
to
haue
a
fellow
feeling
of
our
neighbours
miserie
,
still
remembring
this
,
that
sinne
puls
downe
punishment
,
and
yet
there
were
in
Ierusalem
as
great
sinnes
as
those
on
whome
The
Tower
of
Siloam
fell
,
Luke
13.
if
we
search
our
owne
bosomes
't
is
to
be
fear'd
there
will
bee
found
both
cause
and
effect
,
Sinne
and
Serpent
,
but
leauing
our
morrall
Serpents
,
let
vs
returne
to
the
description
of
our
Historicall
one
.
This
Serpent
(
or
Dragon
as
some
call
it
)
is
reputed
to
be
nine
foote
or
rather
more
in
length
,
and
shap't
almost
in
the
forme
of
an
Axeltrée
of
a
Cart
,
a
quantity
of
thicknesse
in
the
middest
,
and
somewhat
smaller
at
both
ends
,
The
former
part
which
he
shootes
forth
(
as
a
necke
)
is
suppos'd
to
be
an
elle
long
,
with
a
white
ring
(
as
it
were
)
of
scales
about
it
,
The
scales
along
his
backe
séemes
to
bée
blackish
,
and
so
much
as
is
descoured
vnder
his
bellie
appeareth
to
be
red
,
for
I
speake
of
no
nearer
description
then
of
a
reasonable
ocular
distance
,
for
comming
too
neare
it
,
hath
already
béene
too
dearely
payd
for
,
as
you
shall
heare
hereafter
.
It
is
likewise
discouered
to
haue
large
féete
,
but
the
eye
may
bee
there
deceaued
,
for
some
suppose
that
Serpents
haue
no
féete
,
but
glide
vppon
certaine
ribbes
and
scales
which
both
defend
him
from
the
vpper
part
of
his
throat
vnto
the
lower
part
of
his
bellie
,
and
also
cause
them
to
moue
much
more
the
faster
,
for
so
doth
this
by
first
drawing
together
&
then
shooting
forth
,
rids
way
(
as
we
call
it
)
as
fast
as
a
man
can
run
.
It
is
of
countenance
very
proud
and
at
the
sight
or
hearing
of
men
or
Cattell
,
will
raise
his
necke
vpright
,
and
séeme
to
listen
and
looke
about
with
great
arrogancy
:
There
are
likewise
on
either
side
of
it
discouer'd
two
great
bunches
so
big
as
a
large
foote-ball
,
and
(
as
some
thinke
)
will
in
time
grow
to
wings
,
but
God
(
I
hope
)
in
their
and
our
assistance
will
so
instruct
and
defend
vs
that
hée
shall
bée
destroy'd
before
hee
growe
so
fledge
.
depiction of a fire-breathing dragon facing a crouching cat, next to a man, woman, and dog or cow lying on the ground
IN
Sussex
there
is
a
pretty
Market
Towne
cal'd
Horsam
,
neare
vnto
it
a
Forrest
cal'd
S.
Leonards
Forrest
,
and
there
in
a
vast
and
vnfrequented
place
,
heathie
,
vaultie
,
full
of
vnholesome
shades
,
and
ouer-growne
hollowes
it
is
thought
to
bee
bred
,
but
wheresoeuer
bred
,
certaine
and
too
true
it
is
that
there
it
yet
liues
,
so
within
thrée
or
foure
miles
compasse
are
his
vsuall
haunts
,
oftentimes
at
a
place
cal'd
Faygate
,
and
he
hath
béen
séene
within
halfe
a
mile
of
Horsam
,
a
wonder
no
doubt
most
terrible
and
noisome
to
the
Inhabitants
thereabouts
,
there
is
alwaies
in
his
tracke
or
path
left
a
glutinous
and
filmie
matter
(
as
by
a
smal
similitude
we
may
perceiue
in
a
snailes
)
which
is
very
corrupt
and
offensiue
to
the
scent
,
insomuch
that
they
perceiue
the
aire
to
bée
putrified
withall
,
which
must
néedes
be
very
dangerous
,
for
though
the
corruption
of
it
cannot
strike
the
outward
part
of
a
man
,
vnlesse
heated
into
his
blood
,
yet
by
receauing
of
it
in
at
any
of
our
breathing
Organs
,
(
the
Mouth
or
Nose
)
it
is
by
authority
of
all
Authors
(
writing
in
that
kind
)
mortall
and
deadly
,
as
one
thus
saith
,
Noxia
serpentum
est
admixto
sanguine
pectis
.
Lucanus
.
Neither
is
this
Serpent
(
in
my
opinion
)
litterall
to
be
receiued
,
as
when
it
shall
please
God
that
he
shall
bee
destroyed
,
that
then
it
may
bee
presentlie
forgotten
,
but
rather
to
be
fear'd
as
an
Eclips
or
fearefull
Comet
,
whose
prodigious
effects
do
alwaies
follow
,
for
wee
know
the
our
Countrie
being
temperate
,
&
rather
more
colde
then
hot
,
doth
not
naturally
breede
them
,
but
rather
that
it
is
sent
amongst
vs
to
giue
vs
warning
of
some
Serpentine
sinnes
that
liue
amongst
vs
,
which
will
(
without
penitent
preuention
and
constant
amendment
)
destroy
vs
faster
and
farther
,
then
this
Serpent
doth
or
can
:
Holendshed
.
wee
may
reade
in
our
English
Chronicle
of
the
prodegie
in
the
three
and
twentith
yeare
of
Edward
the
Third
,
and
in
the
yeare
of
our
redemption
1349.
In
Oxford-shire
neere
a
place
cal'd
Chippingnorton
,
At
Chippingnorton
in
Oxford-shire
.
there
was
a
Serpent
was
found
with
two
faces
and
two
heads
like
women
,
the
one
hauing
the
shape
of
the
new
Perewig
and
attire
of
that
time
,
and
another
in
the
fashion
of
the
old
attire
,
and
it
had
also
wings
after
the
manner
of
our
Rere-Mice
or
Bats
:
this
was
a
dreadfull
aparition
no
doubt
,
and
it
is
to
be
doubted
that
wee
are
not
short
of
that
sinne
of
new-fangled
Tyres
now
:
nay
,
doe
wee
not
lay
it
in
deeper
coulers
,
and
lay
on
painting
too
,
which
perhaps
they
had
not
?
may
we
not
feare
such
another
Serpents
appearance
,
or
rather
be
blasted
without
the
warning
peece
:
it
were
so
much
the
happier
if
wee
were
sure
of
warning
:
and
certainlie
it
may
thence
be
gathered
,
that
sinne
was
then
corrected
and
amended
:
for
not
many
ages
since
our
fashions
were
all
plaine
and
decent
,
yet
safely
(
I
suppose
)
wee
may
conclude
of
that
mutable
sinne
of
head-tyring
(
which
hath
faster
new
formes
,
and
more
number
then
Hydra
had
heads
)
as
sometime
Seneca
did
of
couetousnes
,
Etiam
fuerint
Antiqui
.
And
now
speaking
of
couetousnes
,
extortions
,
crueltie
and
the
like
,
&
what
sin
may
this
prodigious
Serpent
be
applyed
more
aptlie
to
them
,
that
poysonous
deuouring
Serpentine
son
of
couetousnes
:
Let
these
Cormorants
,
but
looke
vpon
this
Dragon
,
and
they
shall
as
apparantly
behold
themselues
in
it
as
in
those
times
aforesaid
the
woman
did
in
the
Perewig-Serpents
,
they
enclose
grounds
where
the
true
owner
,
dare
not
set
foote
in
,
on
paine
of
their
remaining
estates
:
so
doth
this
Serpent
,
for
none
dare
approach
his
abidings
,
(
though
none
of
his
owne
)
but
t
is
the
danger
of
their
liues
,
hee
poysons
foure
rod
from
him
,
and
there
the
Miser
exceedes
the
Serpent
,
for
hee
poysons
many
acres
distant
:
The
Serpent
deuours
poore
mens
cattell
,
so
doth
the
couetous
wretch
,
both
cattell
,
and
chattell
,
goods
,
houses
and
all
,
his
scales
of
defence
are
said
to
be
blacke
and
reddish
,
and
doth
it
not
resemble
the
Inke
&
Waxe
,
wherein
gentlemens
lands
are
morgagde
,
which
afterwards
turnes
offensiue
to
themselues
?
his
necke
is
long
to
ouerlooke
much
,
and
doth
not
the
Miser
so
?
T
is
said
likewise
,
to
prey
vpon
Conies
,
and
doe
wee
not
in
this
age
of
ours
call
those
sillie
men
that
fall
into
their
snares
,
Connies
?
and
the
poore
Mastiffes
that
were
poysond
,
may
they
not
bee
properly
figur'd
by
poore
mens
cursses
bark't
out
and
sent
against
them
?
but
alas
,
they
mooue
them
not
,
but
are
beaten
downe
and
poyson'd
with
their
stronger
venome
.
And
lastly
(
if
they
change
not
the
coppy
of
their
Serpentine
condition
)
they
will
leaue
behind
them
at
their
returne
from
this
world
such
as
the
tracke
of
the
Serpent
is
,
when
he
shifts
his
ground
,
a
stench
and
vnholsome
steame
:
neither
the
sweet
odour
of
poore
mens
prayers
,
nor
the
happie
farewell
of
a
blessed
memorie
,
their
farewels
will
bee
both
a
like
,
good
for
the
world
when
they
are
both
gone
out
of
it
.
Auarus
nisi
cum
moritur
,
nil
rectè
facit
.
Seneca
.
Might
I
not
goe
further
and
apply
this
Serpent
to
the
stinging
tongues
of
calumnious
backe-biters
and
slanderers
?
doe
not
their
breaths
often
poison
the
reputation
and
good
names
of
honest
men
and
women
?
let
them
listen
to
this
larum-bell
too
.
What
if
I
added
Drunkards
,
is
there
not
a
loathsome
trackt
left
after
them
wheresoeuer
they
goe
?
nay
,
doe
they
not
dailie
throw
forth
their
venome
?
vomites
not
onely
in
the
fields
,
but
in
the
stréetes
,
yea
,
the
houses
,
nay
,
their
verie
friends
bosomes
are
often
made
the
receptacles
of
their
ore-charged
stomackes
.
Me
thinkes
in
two
words
more
I
could
heere
aptlie
applie
this
Serpent
to
the
most
common
kind
of
Creatures
,
(
I
doe
not
meane
the
Common-wealth
,
but
the
common
pouerty
rather
)
to
the
Serpentine
sisterhoode
of
Brotherly
,
the
diseased
strumpetrie
of
the
Suburbes
:
(
oh
that
the
Cittie
were
not
frée
of
,
but
frée
from
that
Companie
:
)
is
not
our
Serpent
disciphered
by
a
white
Ring
about
his
necke
?
How
thinke
you
when
you
sée
onely
a
white
Tiffanie
about
the
necke
of
one
of
those
tugging
Gally-slaues
of
Damnation
,
and
all
the
rest
poison
?
May
they
not
make
themselues
readie
by
looking
into
this
mirror
?
I
dare
goe
no
further
in
application
,
and
bootelesse
it
were
vnlesse
I
knew
how
to
kill
the
Serpent
.
But
now
I
will
set
forth
two
notable
examples
,
the
one
of
a
Dragon
,
the
other
of
a
Dog
,
and
the
rather
I
séeke
to
set
them
out
,
that
the
wicked
thereby
may
know
what
they
themselues
are
,
when
bruite
beasts
shall
set
them
all
to
schoole
.
There
was
a
man
(
as
Plinie
Plinie
.
writeth
)
which
fostered
vp
a
young
Dragon
,
Thankefulnesse
of
a
Dragon
to
his
Master
.
who
séeing
the
same
beast
to
waxe
wonderfull
great
,
feared
to
keepe
his
Dragon
any
longer
within
his
house
,
and
therefore
he
put
him
out
into
a
wilde
Forrest
.
It
happened
afterward
that
the
same
man
trauailing
on
his
iourney
through
the
Forrest
,
was
beset
with
théeues
.
And
now
béeing
in
this
distresse
,
and
looking
for
no
other
end
but
death
,
made
(
as
loath
to
depart
)
a
great
showte
and
an
out-crie
:
straight
vpon
whose
noise
,
and
at
the
knowledge
of
his
voice
,
the
Dragon
came
to
him
in
all
the
hast
possible
.
Wherevpon
the
théeues
being
greatly
affraid
,
ran
cleane
away
to
saue
themselues
harmelesse
.
Then
the
Dragon
conducted
his
Maister
safe
out
of
the
danger
homewards
,
and
returned
to
the
Forrest
againe
.
Thankefulnesse
of
a
Dog
to
his
Maister
.
The
Dog
of
the
Romane
Fuluius
is
more
wonderful
.
This
Fuluius
trauailing
by
the
way
,
was
slaine
with
slaues
that
lay
in
waite
for
him
.
His
Dogge
séeing
his
Master
dead
,
laye
by
him
for
the
space
of
two
daies
.
Whereuppon
when
the
man
was
missing
,
and
search
made
for
him
:
they
found
him
dead
,
with
his
Dog
lying
by
him
.
Some
maruailing
to
sée
the
Dog
lye
there
by
his
dead
Maister
,
stroke
him
,
and
would
haue
driuen
him
from
the
dead
corse
,
and
could
not
:
some
séeing
such
kindnesse
in
the
Dogge
,
and
pittying
him
that
he
should
lye
there
without
meat
two
or
thrée
daies
before
:
cast
him
a
piece
of
flesh
,
wherevpon
the
Dog
straight
carried
the
meat
to
his
Maisters
mouth
,
and
would
not
eate
any
whit
himselfe
,
though
he
had
forborne
meat
so
long
before
.
And
last
of
all
,
when
this
dead
body
should
be
cast
into
the
riuer
,
(
according
to
the
manner
of
the
Romaines
)
the
Dog
leapt
in
after
,
and
holding
vp
his
Maister
so
long
as
he
could
,
did
choose
rather
to
die
with
him
,
then
to
liue
without
him
.
I
would
with
my
conclusion
I
could
haue
concluded
with
the
death
of
this
terrible
and
noisome
Creature
,
and
that
(
from
that
generall
good
to
our
Countrie
)
I
might
haue
return'd
into
euery
mans
particular
bosome
to
haue
destroy'd
the
home-bred
Serpents
,
which
are
indéed
rather
our
Penates
or
houshold
Gods
,
then
any
annoyance
to
vs
,
for
't
is
our
miserable
estate
(
heauen
reuert
it
)
rather
to
adore
then
abhorre
our
sins
and
iniquities
.
Reuelat.
The
Dragons
taile
hath
drawen
after
it
most
part
of
the
stars
of
Heauen
:
as
reuerend
Bernard
saith
,
hat
,
Magnitudo
penarum
,
facit
multitudo
peccatorum
,
from
the
monsters
of
our
sinnes
,
the
monsters
of
our
punishment
increaseth
.
These
persons
whose
names
are
herevnder
printed
,
haue
seene
this
Serpent
,
besides
diuers
others
as
the
Carrier
of
Horsam
,
who
lieth
at
the
white
Horse
in
Southwarke
,
can
certifie
the
truth
of
all
.
Iohn
Steele
,
Christopher
Holder
,
And
a
widdow
woman
dwelling
nere
Faygate
.
FINIS
.