¶
The
foundacion
of
Rhetorike
.
NAture
hath
indued
euery
man
,
with
a
certain
eloquence
,
and
also
subtilitee
to
reason
and
discusse
,
of
any
question
Rhetorike
and
Logike
giuen
of
nature
.
or
proposicion
propounded
,
as
Aristotle
the
Philosopher
,
in
his
Booke
of
Rhetorike
dooeth
shewe
.
These
giftes
of
nature
,
singuler
doe
flowe
and
abounde
in
vs
,
accordyng
to
the
greate
and
ample
indumente
and
plentuousnes
of
witte
and
wisedome
,
lodged
in
vs
,
therefore
Nature
it self
beyng
well
framed
,
and
afterward
by
arte
and
order
of
science
,
instructed
and
adorned
,
must
be
singularlie
Arte
furthereth
nature
.
furthered
,
helped
,
and
aided
in
all
excellencie
,
to
exquisite
inuencion
,
and
profounde
knowledge
,
bothe
in
Logike
and
Logike
.
Rhetorike
.
In
the
one
,
as
a
Oratour
to
pleate
with
all
facilitee
,
Rhetorike
.
and
copionslie
to
dilate
any
matter
or
sentence
:
in
the
other
to
grounde
profunde
and
subtill
argument
,
to
fortifie
&
make
stronḡe
our
assercion
or
sentence
,
to
proue
and
defende
,
by
the
force
and
power
of
arte
,
thinges
passyng
the
compasse
&
reach
Logike
.
of
our
capacitée
and
witte
.
Nothyng
can
bee
more
excellently
giuen
of
nature
then
Eloquence
,
by
the
which
the
florishyng
Eloquence
.
state
of
commonweales
doe
consiste
:
kyngdomes
vniuersally
are
gouerned
,
the
state
of
euery
one
priuatlie
is
maintained
.
The
commonwealth
also
should
be
maimed
,
and
debilitated
,
except
the
other
parte
be
associate
to
it
.
Zeno
the
Philosopher
zeno
.
comparing
Rhetorike
and
Logike
,
doeth
assimilate
and
liken
them
to
the
hand
of
man
.
Logike
is
like
saith
he
to
the
fiste
,
for
Logike
.
euen
as
the
fiste
closeth
and
shutteth
into
one
,
the
iointes
and
partes
of
the
hande
,
&
with
mightie
force
and
strength
,
wrappeth
and
closeth
in
thynges
apprehended
:
So
Logike
for
the
Similitude
Logike
.
deepe
and
profounde
knowlege
,
that
is
reposed
and
buried
in
it
,
in
soche
sort
of
municion
and
strength
fortified
,
in
few
wordes
taketh
soche
sorce
and
might
by
argumente
,
that
excepte
like
equalitée
in
like
art
and
knowledge
doe
mate
it
,
in
vain
the
disputacion
shal
be
,
and
the
repulse
of
th
aduersarie
readie
.
Rhetorike
is
like
to
the
hand
set
at
large
,
wherein
euery
part
Rhetorike
like
to
the
hande
.
Rhetorike
.
and
ioint
is
manifeste
,
and
euery
vaine
as
braunches
of
trées
sette
at
scope
and
libertée
.
So
of
like
sorte
,
Rhetorike
in
moste
ample
and
large
maner
,
dilateth
and
setteth
out
small
thynges
or
woordes
,
in
soche
sorte
,
with
soche
aboundaunce
and
plentuousnes
,
bothe
of
woordes
and
wittie
inuencion
,
with
soche
goodlie
disposicion
,
in
soche
a
infinite
sorte
,
with
soche
pleasauntnes
of
Oracion
,
that
the
moste
stonie
and
hard
hartes
,
can
not
but
bee
incensed
,
inflamed
,
and
moued
thereto
.
These
twoo
singuler
giftes
of
nature
,
are
absolute
and
perfect
Logike
and
Rhetorike
absolute
in
fewe
.
in
fewe
:
for
many
there
be
,
whiche
are
exquisite
and
profound
in
argument
,
by
art
to
reason
and
discusse
,
of
any
question
or
proposicion
propounded
,
who
by
nature
are
disabled
,
&
smallie
adorned
to
speake
eloquently
,
in
whom
neuertheles
more
aboundaunt
knowledge
doeth
somtymes
remaine
then
in
the
other
,
if
the
cause
shal
be
in
controuersie
ioined
,
and
examined
to
trie
a
manifeste
truthe
.
But
to
whom
nature
hath
giuen
soche
abilitée
,
and
absolute
excellencie
,
as
that
thei
can
bothe
copiouslie
dilate
any
matter
or
sentence
,
by
pleasauntnes
and
The
vertue
of
cioquence
.
swetenes
of
their
wittie
and
ingenious
oracion
,
to
drawe
vnto
theim
the
hartes
of
a
multitude
,
to
plucke
doune
and
extirpate
affeccions
and
perturbacions
of
people
,
to
moue
pitee
and
compassion
,
to
speake
before
Princes
and
rulers
,
and
to
perswade
theim
in
good
causes
and
enterprises
,
to
animate
and
incense
them
,
to
godlie
affaires
and
busines
,
to
alter
the
counsaill
of
kynges
,
by
their
wisedome
and
eloquence
,
to
a
better
state
,
and
also
to
be
exquisite
in
thother
,
is
a
thing
of
all
most
noble
and
excellent
.
The
eloquence
of
Demosthenes
,
I
socrates
,
Demosthenes
.
Tisias
.
Gorgias
.
Eschines
Tullie
.
Cato
.
Tisias
,
Gorgias
,
Eschines
,
were
a
great
bulwarke
and
staie
to
Athens
and
all
Grece
,
Rome
also
by
the
like
vertue
of
Eloquence
,
in
famous
and
wise
orators
vpholded
:
the
wise
and
eloquente
Oracions
of
Tullie
againste
Catiline
.
The
graue
and
sentencious
oracions
of
Cato
in
the
Senate
,
haue
been
onelie
the
meane
to
vpholde
the
mightie
state
of
Rome
,
The
Emperors
of
Rome
.
famous
in
Eloquence
.
in
his
strength
and
auncient
fame
and
glorie
.
Also
the
Chronicles
of
auncient
time
doe
shewe
vnto
vs
,
the
state
of
Rome
could
by
no
meanes
haue
growen
so
meruailous
mightie
,
but
that
God
had
indued
the
whole
line
of
Cesars
,
with
singuler
vertues
,
with
aboundaunt
knowlege
&
singuler
Eloquence
.
Thusidides
the
famous
Historiographer
sheweth
,
Thusidides
.
how
moche
Eloquence
auailed
the
citees
of
Grece
,
faliyng
to
dissencion
.
How
did
the
Corcurians
saue
them selues
from
the
Corcurians
.
inuasion
and
might
,
of
the
Poloponesians
,
their
cause
pleated
Peloponesians
.
before
the
Athenians
,
so
moche
their
eloquence
in
a
truthe
preuailed
.
The
Ambassadours
of
Corinth
,
wanted
not
their
Corinthians
copious
,
wittie
,
and
ingenious
Oracions
,
but
thei
pleated
before
mightie
,
wise
,
and
graue
Senators
,
whose
cause
,
accordyng
to
iudgement
,
truthe
,
and
integritée
was
ended
.
The
eloquent
Embassages
of
the
Corinthians
,
the
Lacedemonians
,
Lacedemonians
.
Mituleniās
.
Athenians
.
&
the
Mituleneans
,
the
Athenians
,
who
so
readeth
,
shall
sone
sée
that
of
necessitee
,
a
common
wealth
or
kyngdome
must
be
fortefied
,
with
famous
,
graue
,
and
wise
counsailours
.
How
often
did
Demosthenes
saue
the
common
wealthes
of
Athens
,
Demosthenes
.
how
moche
also
did
that
large
dominion
prospere
and
florish
by
I
socrates
.
Tullie
also
by
his
Eloquent
please
,
Cato
,
Crassus
,
Socrates
.
Cato
.
Crassus
.
Antonius
.
Catulus
.
Cesar
.
Antonius
,
Catulus
Cesar
,
with
many
other
,
did
support
and
vphold
the
state
of
that
mightie
kyngdom
.
No
doubte
,
but
that
Demosthenes
made
a
wittie
,
copious
,
and
ingenious
oracions
,
when
the
Athenians
were
minded
to
giue
and
betake
to
the
handes
of
Philip
kyng
of
the
Macedonians
,
their
Philippe
the
kyng
of
the
Macidonians
pestiferous
enemie
moste
vile
and
subtell
,
the
Orators
of
Athens
.
This
Philip
forseyng
the
discorde
of
Grece
,
as
he
by
subtill
meanes
compassed
his
enterprices
,
promised
by
the
faithe
of
a
Prince
,
to
be
at
league
with
the
Athenians
,
if
so
be
thei
would
betake
to
his
handes
,
the
eloquente
Oratours
of
Athens
,
for
as
long
saith
he
,
as
your
Oratours
are
with
you
The
saiyng
of
Philippe
.
declaryng
,
so
longe
your
heddes
and
counsaill
are
moued
to
variaunce
and
dissencion
,
this
voice
ones
seased
emong
you
,
in
tranquilitée
you
shal
bee
gouerned
.
Demosthenes
beyng
Demosthenes
.
eloquente
and
wise
,
foresawe
the
daungers
and
the
mischieuous
intent
of
him
,
wherevpon
he
framed
a
goodly
Oracion
vpon
a
Fable
,
whereby
he
altered
their
counsaile
,
and
repulsed
the
enemie
.
This
fable
is
afterward
set
forth
in
an
Oracion
,
after
the
order
of
these
exercises
,
profitable
to
Rhetorike
.
¶
A
Fable
.
FIrste
it
is
good
that
the
learner
doe
vnderstand
what
is
a
fable
,
for
in
all
matters
of
learnyng
,
The
ground
of
al
learning
it
is
the
firste
grounde
,
as
Tullie
doeth
saie
,
to
knowe
what
the
thing
is
,
that
we
may
the
better
perceiue
whervpon
we
doe
intreate
.
A
fable
what
is
a
fable
.
is
a
forged
tale
,
containing
in
it
by
the
colour
of
a
lie
,
a
matter
of
truthe
.
The
moralle
is
called
that
,
out
of
the
whiche
some
Morall
.
godlie
precepte
,
or
admonicion
to
vertue
is
giuen
,
to
frame
and
instruct
our
maners
.
Now
that
we
knowe
what
a
fable
is
,
it
is
good
to
learne
also
,
how
manifolde
or
diuers
thei
be
,
I
doe
finde
three
maner
of
fables
to
be
.
The
first
of
theim
is
,
Three
sortes
of
fables
.
wherein
a
man
being
a
creature
of
God
indued
with
reason
,
is
onely
intreated
of
,
as
the
Fable
of
the
father
and
his
children
,
i.
A
fable
of
reason
.
he
willing
them
to
concorde
,
and
this
is
called
Rationalis
fabula
,
whiche
is
asmoche
to
saie
,
as
a
Fable
of
men
indued
with
reason
,
or
women
.
The
second
is
called
a
morall
fable
,
ii
.
Morall
.
but
I
sée
no
cause
whie
it
is
so
called
,
but
rather
as
the
other
is
called
a
fable
of
reasonable
creatures
,
so
this
is
contrarilie
named
a
fable
of
beastes
,
or
of
other
thinges
wanting
reason
or
life
,
wanting
reason
as
of
the
Ante
and
the
Greshopper
,
or
of
this
the
beame
caste
doun
,
and
the
Frogges
chosyng
their
king
.
The
thirde
is
a
mixt
Fable
so
called
,
bicause
in
it
bothe
iii.
Mixt.
man
hauyng
reason
,
and
a
beaste
wantyng
reason
,
or
any
other
thing
wanting
life
,
is
ioyned
with
it
,
as
for
the
example
,
of
the
fable
of
the
woodes
and
the
housebandman
,
of
whom
he
desired
a
helue
for
his
hatchet
.
Aucthours
doe
write
,
that
Poetes
inuentours
of
fables
.
Poetes
firste
inuented
fables
,
the
whiche
Oratours
also
doe
vse
in
their
perswasions
,
and
not
without
greate
cause
,
both
Oratours
vse
fables
.
Poetes
and
Oratours
doe
applie
theim
to
their
vse
.
For
,
fables
dooe
conteine
goodlie
admonicion
,
vertuous
preceptes
Good
doctrin
in
fables
.
of
life
.
Hesiodus
the
Poete
,
intreatyng
of
the
iniurious
dealyng
of
Princes
and
gouernours
,
against
their
subiectes
,
admonished
Hesiodus
.
them
by
the
fable
of
the
Goshauke
,
and
the
Nightyngale
in
his
clause
.
Ouid
also
the
Poete
intreated
of
diuers
Ouide
.
fables
,
wherein
he
giueth
admonicion
,
and
godly
counsaile
.
Demosthenes
the
famous
Oratour
of
Athens
,
vsed
Demosthenes
vsed
fables
.
the
fable
of
the
Shepeherdes
,
and
Wolues
:
how
the
Wolues
on
a
tyme
,
instauntlie
required
of
the
Shepeherdes
their
bande
dogges
,
and
then
thei
would
haue
peace
and
concorde
with
theim
,
the
Shepeherdes
gaue
ouer
their
Dogges
,
their
Dogges
deliuered
and
murdered
,
the
shepe
were
immediatly
deuoured
:
So
saieth
he
,
if
ye
shall
ones
deliuer
to
Philip
,
the
king
of
the
Macedonians
your
Oratours
,
by
whose
learnyng
,
knowlege
and
wisedome
,
the
whole
bodie
of
your
dominions
is
saued
,
for
thei
as
Bandogges
,
doe
repell
all
mischeuous
enterprises
and
chaunses
,
no
doubte
,
but
that
rauenyng
Wolfe
Philip
,
will
eate
and
consume
your
people
,
by
this
Fable
he
made
an
Oracion
,
he
altered
their
counsailes
and
heddes
of
the
Athenians
,
from
so
foolishe
an
enterprise
.
Also
the
same
Demosthenes
,
seyng
the
people
careles
,
slothfull
,
and
lothsome
to
heare
the
Oratours
,
and
all
for
the
florishing
state
of
the
kingdome
the
ascended
to
the
place
or
pulpet
,
The
fable
of
Demosthenes
,
of
the
Asse
and
the
shadowe
.
where
the
Oracions
were
made
,
and
began
with
this
fable
.
Ye
men
of
Athens
,
saied
he
,
it
happened
on
a
tyme
,
that
a
certaine
man
hired
an
Asse
,
and
did
take
his
iourney
from
Athens
to
Megara
,
as
we
would
saie
,
from
London
to
Yorke
,
the
owner
also
of
the
Asse
,
did
associate
hymself
in
his
iourney
,
to
brynge
backe
the
Asse
againe
,
in
the
voyage
the
weather
was
extreame
burning
hotte
,
and
the
waie
tedious
the
place
also
for
barenes
and
sterilitée
of
trees
,
wanted
shadowe
in
this
long
broyle
of
heate
:
he
that
satte
one
the
Asse
,
lighted
and
woke
shadowe
vnder
the
bellie
of
the
Asse
,
and
because
the
shadowe
would
not
suffice
bothe
,
the
Asse
beyng
small
,
the
owner
saied
,
he
muste
haue
the
shadowe
,
because
the
Asse
was
his
,
I
deny
that
saieth
the
other
,
the
shadowe
is
myne
,
because
I
hired
the
Asse
,
thus
thei
were
at
greate
contencion
,
the
fable
beyng
recited
,
Demosthenes
descended
from
his
place
,
the
whole
multitude
were
inquisitiue
,
to
knowe
the
ende
about
the
shadowe
,
Demosthenes
notyng
their
follie
,
The
contencion
vpon
the
shadowe
and
the
Asse
.
afrended
to
his
place
,
and
saied
,
O
ye
foolishe
Athemans
,
whiles
I
and
other
,
gaue
to
you
counsaill
and
admonicion
,
of
graue
and
profitable
matters
,
your
eares
wer
deafe
,
and
your
mindes
slombred
,
but
now
I
tell
of
a
small
trifeling
matter
,
youthrong
to
heare
the
reste
of
me
.
By
this
Fable
he
nipped
their
follie
,
and
trapped
them
manifestlie
,
in
their
owne
doltishenes
.
Here
vpon
I
doe
somwhat
long
,
make
copie
of
wordes
,
to
shewe
the
singularitee
of
fables
well
applied
.
In
the
Fadles
well
applied
bee
singuler
.
tyme
of
Kyng
Richard
the
thirde
,
Doctour
Mourton
,
beyng
Bishop
of
Elie
,
and
prisoner
in
the
Duke
of
Buckynghams
house
in
Wales
,
was
often
tymes
moued
of
the
Duke
,
to
speake
his
minde
frelie
,
if
king
Richard
wer
lawfully
king
,
and
said
to
him
of
his
fidelitee
,
to
kepe
close
and
secret
his
sentence
:
but
the
Bishop
beyng
a
godlie
man
,
and
no
lesse
wise
,
waied
the
greate
frendship
,
whiche
was
sometyme
betwene
the
Duke
&
King
Richard
,
aunswered
in
effect
nothyng
,
but
beyng
daily
troubled
with
his
mocions
&
instigacions
,
spake
a
fable
of
Esope
:
My
lorde
saied
he
,
I
will
aunswere
you
,
by
a
Fable
of
Esope
.
The
Lion
on
a
tyme
gaue
a
commaundement
,
that
all
horned
beastes
should
flie
from
the
woode
,
and
none
to
remain
there
but
vnhorned
beastes
.
The
Hare
hearing
The
fable
of
the
Bishop
of
Elie
,
to
the
duke
of
Buckyngham
.
of
this
commaundement
,
departed
with
the
horned
beastes
from
the
woodde
:
The
wilie
Foxe
metyng
the
Hare
,
demaunded
the
cause
of
his
haste
,
forthwith
the
Hare
aunswered
,
a
commaundemente
is
come
from
the
Lion
,
that
all
horned
beastes
should
bee
exiled
,
vpon
paine
of
death
,
from
the
woode
:
why
saied
the
Foxe
,
this
commaundement
toucheth
not
any
sorte
of
beast
as
ye
are
,
for
thou
haste
no
hornes
but
knubbes
:
yea
,
but
said
the
Hare
,
what
,
if
the
i
saie
I
haue
hornes
,
that
is
an
other
matter
,
my
lorde
I
saie
no
more
:
what
he
ment
,
is
euident
to
all
men
.
In
the
time
of
king
Henry
th
eight
(
a
prince
of
famous
memorie
)
at
what
time
as
the
small
houses
of
religion
,
wer
giuen
euer
to
the
kinges
hand
,
by
the
Parliament
house
:
the
bishop
of
Rochester
,
Doctour
Fisher
by
name
stepped
forthe
,
beyng
greued
with
the
graunt
,
recited
before
them
,
a
fable
of
Esope
to
shewe
what
discommoditee
would
followe
in
the
Clergie
.
My
lordes
and
maisters
saieth
he
,
Esope
recited
a
fable
:
how
The
fable
of
the
Bishop
of
Rochester
againste
the
graunt
of
the
Chauntries
.
that
on
a
tyme
,
a
housebande
manne
desired
of
the
woodes
,
a
small
helue
for
his
hatchet
,
all
the
woodes
consented
thereto
waiyng
the
graunt
to
be
small
,
and
the
thyng
lesse
,
therevpon
the
woodes
consented
,
in
fine
the
housbande
man
cut
doune
a
small
peece
of
woodde
to
make
a
helue
,
he
framyng
a
helue
to
the
hatchette
,
without
leaue
and
graunt
,
he
cut
doune
the
mightie
Okes
and
Cedars
,
and
destroyed
the
whole
woodd
,
then
the
woodes
repented
them
to
late
.
So
saith
he
,
the
gift
of
these
small
houses
,
ar
but
a
small
graunt
into
the
kinges
handes
:
but
this
small
graunt
,
will
bee
a
waie
and
meane
to
pull
doune
the
greate
mightie
fatte
Abbees
,
&
so
it
happened
.
But
there
is
repentaunce
to
late
:
&
no
profite
ensued
of
the
graunte
.
¶
An
Oracion
made
by
a
fable
,
is
the
first
exercise
to
declame
by
,
the
other
,
bee
these
,
An
Oracion
made
by
a
-
A
Fable
,
a
Narracion
,
Chria
,
-
Sentence
.
Confutacion
,
-
Confirmacion
.
Common
place
.
-
The
praise
.
The
dispraise
.
-
The
Comparison
,
Ethopeia
.
-
A
Discripcion
.
Thesis
,
Legislatio
OF
euery
one
of
these
,
a
goodlie
Oracion
maie
be
made
these
excercises
are
called
of
the
Grekes
Progimnasmata
,
of
the
Latines
,
profitable
introduccions
,
or
fore
exercises
,
to
attain
greater
arte
and
knowlege
in
Rhetorike
,
and
bicause
,
for
the
easie
capacitée
and
facilitée
of
the
learner
,
to
attain
greater
knowledge
in
Rhetorike
,
thei
are
right
profitable
and
necessarie
:
Therefore
I
title
this
booke
,
to
bee
the
foundacion
of
Rhetorike
,
the
exercises
being
Progimnasmata
.
I
haue
chosen
out
the
fable
of
the
Shepeherdes
,
and
the
Wolues
,
vpon
the
whiche
fable
,
Demosthenes
made
an
cloquente
,
copious
,
and
wittie
Oracion
before
the
Athenians
,
whiche
fable
was
so
well
applied
,
that
the
citée
and
common
wealth
of
Athens
was
saued
.
¶
A
fable
.
The
firste
exercise
.
These
notes
must
be
obserued
,
to
make
an
Oracion
by
a
Fable
.
¶
Praise
.
-
1.
Firste
,
ye
shall
recite
the
fable
,
as
the
aucthour
telleth
it
.
-
2.
There
in
the
seconde
place
,
you
shall
praise
the
aucthoure
who
made
the
fable
,
whiche
praise
maie
sone
bée
gotte
of
any
studious
scholer
,
if
he
reade
the
aucthours
life
and
actes
therin
,
or
the
Godlie
preceptes
in
his
fables
,
shall
giue
abundant
praise
.
-
3.
Then
thirdlie
place
the
morall
,
whiche
is
the
interpretacion
annexed
to
the
Fable
,
for
the
fable
was
inuented
for
the
moralles
sake
.
-
4.
Then
orderlie
in
the
fowerth
place
,
declare
the
nature
of
thynges
,
conteined
in
the
Fable
,
either
of
man
,
fishe
,
foule
,
beaste
,
plante
,
trées
,
stones
,
or
whatsoeuer
it
be
.
There
is
no
man
of
witte
so
dulle
,
or
of
so
grosse
capacitée
,
but
either
by
his
naturall
witte
,
or
by
reading
,
or
sences
,
he
is
hable
to
saie
somwhat
in
the
nature
of
any
thyng
.
-
5.
In
the
fifte
place
,
sette
forthe
the
thynges
,
reasonyng
one
with
an
other
,
as
the
Ant
with
the
Greshopper
,
or
the
Cocke
with
the
precious
stone
.
-
6.
Then
in
the
vj.
place
,
make
a
similitude
of
the
like
matter
.
-
7.
Then
in
the
seuenth
place
,
induce
an
example
for
the
same
matter
to
bée
proued
by
.
-
8.
Laste
of
all
make
the
Epilogus
,
whiche
is
called
the
conclusion
,
and
herein
marke
the
notes
folowyng
,
how
to
make
an
Oracion
thereby
.
¶
An
Oracion
made
vpon
the
fable
of
the
Shepeherdes
and
the
wolues
.
¶
The
fable
.
THe
Wolues
on
a
tyme
perswaded
the
Shepeherdes
,
that
thei
would
ioyne
amitee
,
and
make
a
leagne
of
concord
and
vnitee
:
the
demaunde
pleased
the
Shepeherdes
,
foorthwith
the
Wolues
requested
to
haue
custodie
of
the
bande
Dogges
,
because
els
theiwould
be
as
thei
are
alwaies
,
an
occasion
to
breake
their
league
and
peace
,
the
Dogges
beyng
giuen
ouer
,
thei
were
one
by
one
murthered
,
and
then
the
Shepe
were
wearied
.
¶
The
praise
of
the
aucthour
.
THe
posteritee
of
tymes
and
ages
,
muste
needes
praise
the
wisedome
and
industrie
,
of
all
soche
as
haue
lefte
in
monumentes
of
writyng
,
thynges
worthie
fame
,
Inuentours
of
al
excellent
artes
and
sciences
,
commended
to
the
posteritee
.
what
can
bee
more
excellently
set
foorthe
:
or
what
deserueth
chiefer
fame
and
glorie
,
then
the
knowledge
of
artes
and
sciences
,
inuented
by
our
learned
,
wise
,
and
graue
auncestours
:
and
so
moche
the
more
thei
deserue
honour
,
and
perpetuall
commendacions
,
because
thei
haue
been
the
firste
aucthours
,
and
beginners
to
soche
excellencies
.
The
posteritée
praiseth
and
setteth
forth
the
wittie
and
ingenious
workes
of
Apelles
,
Parthesius
,
and
Polucletus
,
and
all
soche
as
haue
artificially
Apelles
.
Parthesius
.
Polucletus
.
setforth
their
excellent
giftes
of
nature
.
But
if
their
praise
for
fame
florishe
perpetuallie
,
and
increaseth
for
the
worthines
of
theim
,
yet
these
thynges
though
moste
excellent
,
are
inferiour
to
vertue
:
for
the
ende
of
artes
and
sciences
,
is
vertue
The
ende
of
all
artes
,
is
to
godlie
life
.
and
godlines
.
Neither
yet
these
thynges
dissonaunt
from
vertue
,
and
not
associate
,
are
commendable
onely
for
vertues
sake
:
and
to
the
ende
of
vertue
,
the
wittes
of
our
auncestours
were
incensed
to
inuent
these
thynges
.
But
herein
Poludetus
,
Apelles
,
and
Parthesius
maie
giue
place
,
when
greater
vertues
come
in
place
,
then
this
my
aucthour
Esope
,
for
his
Esope
worthie
moche
commendacion
godly
preceptes
,
wise
counsaill
and
admonicion
,
is
chiefly
to
bée
praised
:
For
,
our
life
maie
learne
all
goodnes
,
all
vertue
,
of
his
preceptes
.
The
Philosophers
did
neuer
so
liuely
sette
Philophie
in
fables
.
forthe
and
teache
in
their
scholes
and
audience
,
what
vertue
and
godlie
life
were
,
as
Esope
did
in
his
Fables
,
Citees
,
and
common
wealthes
,
maie
learne
out
of
his
fables
,
godlie
concorde
Realmes
maie
learne
concorde
out
of
Esopes
fables
.
and
vnitee
,
by
the
whiche
meanes
,
common
wealthes
florisheth
,
and
kingdoms
are
saued
.
Herein
ample
matter
riseth
to
Princes
,
and
gouernours
,
to
rule
their
subiectes
in
all
godlie
lawes
,
in
faithfull
obedience
:
the
subiectes
also
to
loue
Preceptes
to
Kynges
and
Subiectes
.
Preceptes
to
parentes
and
children
.
and
scrue
their
prince
,
in
al
his
affaires
and
busines
.
The
father
maie
learne
to
bring
vp
,
and
instructe
his
childe
thereby
.
The
child
also
to
loue
and
obeie
his
parentes
.
The
huge
and
monsterous
vices
,
are
by
his
vertuous
doctrine
defaced
and
extirpated
:
his
Fables
in
effcet
contain
the
mightic
volumes
and
bookes
of
all
Philosophers
,
in
morall
preceptes
,
&
the
infinite
monumentes
of
lawes
stablished
.
If
I
should
not
speake
The
content
of
al
Lawes
.
of
his
commendacion
,
the
fruictes
of
his
vertue
would
shewe
his
commendacions
:
but
that
praise
surmounteth
all
fame
of
glory
,
that
commendeth
by
fame
it self
,
the
fruictes
of
fame
I
true
praise
commended
by
fame
it self
.
in
this
one
Fable
,
riseth
to
my
aucthour
,
whiche
he
wrote
of
the
Shepeherd
,
and
the
Wolues
.
¶
The
Morall
.
WHerein
Esope
wittely
admonisheth
all
menne
to
beware
and
take
heede
,
of
cloked
and
fained
frendship
,
of
the
wicked
and
vngodlie
,
whiche
vnder
a
pretence
and
offer
of
frendship
or
of
benefite
,
seeke
the
ruin
,
dammage
,
miserie
or
destruccion
of
man
,
toune
,
citée
,
region
,
or
countree
.
¶
The
nature
of
the
thyng
.
OF
all
beastes
to
the
quantitée
of
his
bodie
,
the
Wolue
passeth
in
crueltée
and
desire
of
bloode
,
The
wolue
moste
rauening
&
cruell
.
alwaies
vnsaciable
of
deuouryng
,
neuer
contented
with
his
pray
.
The
Wolfe
deuoureth
and
eateth
of
his
praie
all
in
feare
,
and
therefore
oftentymes
he
casteth
his
looke
,
to
be
safe
from
perill
and
daunger
.
And
herein
his
nature
is
straunge
from
all
beastes
:
the
iyes
of
the
Wolfe
,
tourned
from
his
praie
immediatlie
,
the
praie
prostrate
vnder
The
wolues
of
all
beastes
,
moste
obliuious
.
his
foote
is
forgotten
,
and
forthwith
he
seeketh
a
newe
praie
,
so
greate
obliuion
and
debilitee
of
memorie
,
is
giuen
to
that
beaste
,
who
chieflie
seketh
to
denoure
his
praie
by
night
.
The
Wolues
are
moche
inferior
to
the
bandogges
in
strength
,
bicause
The
wolue
inferiour
to
the
bandogge
nature
hath
framed
them
in
the
hinder
parts
,
moche
more
weaker
,
and
as
it
were
manned
,
and
therefore
the
bandogge
dooeth
ouermatche
theim
,
and
ouercome
them
in
fight
.
The
Wolues
are
not
all
so
mightie
of
bodie
as
the
Bandogges
,
of
diuers
colours
,
of
fight
more
sharpe
,
of
lesse
heddes
:
but
in
The
Dogge
passeth
all
creatures
in
smellyng
.
smellyng
,
the
nature
of
a
Dogge
passeth
all
beastes
and
creatures
,
whiche
the
historie
of
Plinie
dooe
shewe
,
and
Aristotle
in
his
booke
of
the
historie
of
beastes
,
therein
you
shall
knowe
their
excellente
nature
.
The
housholde
wanteth
not
faithfull
and
trustie
watche
nor
resistaunce
,
in
the
cause
of
the
maister
,
the
Bandogge
not
wantyng
.
Plinie
sheweth
out
of
Plinie
.
his
historie
,
how
Bandogges
haue
saued
their
Maister
,
by
their
resistaunce
.
The
Dogge
of
all
beastes
sheweth
moste
loue
,
and
neuer
leaueth
his
maister
:
the
worthines
of
the
bandogge
is
soche
,
that
by
the
lawe
in
a
certaine
case
,
he
is
counted
accessarie
of
Felonie
,
who
stealeth
a
Bandogge
from
his
maister
,
a
robberie
immediatly
folowing
in
the
same
family
.
As
concernyng
the
Shepe
,
for
their
profite
and
wealthe
,
The
worthines
of
Shepe
that
riseth
of
theim
,
are
for
worthines
,
waiyng
their
smalle
quantitie
of
bodie
,
aboue
all
beastes
.
Their
fleshe
nourisheth
purely
,
beyng
swete
and
pleasaunt
:
their
skinne
also
serueth
to
diuers
vses
,
their
Wolles
in
so
large
and
ample
maner
,
The
wolle
of
Shepe
,
riche
and
commodious
.
commodious
,
seruyng
all
partes
of
common
wealthes
.
No
state
or
degrée
of
persone
is
,
but
that
thei
maie
goe
cladde
and
adorned
with
their
wolles
.
So
GOD
in
his
creatures
,
hath
created
and
made
man
,
beyng
a
chief
creatour
,
and
moste
excellent
Man
a
chief
creature
.
of
all
other
,
all
thinges
to
scrue
him
:
and
therefore
the
Stoicke
Philosophers
doe
herein
sheweth
excellencie
of
man
Stoike
Philosophers
.
to
be
greate
,
when
all
thinges
vpon
the
yearth
,
and
from
the
yearth
,
doe
serue
the
vse
of
man
,
yet
emong
men
there
is
a
diuersitee
of
states
,
and
a
difference
of
persones
,
in
office
and
condicion
of
life
.
As
concernyng
the
Shepherde
,
he
is
in
his
state
The
office
of
the
shepeherdes
,
are
profitable
and
necessarie
.
and
condicion
of
life
,
thoughe
meane
,
he
is
a
righte
profitable
and
necessarie
member
,
to
serue
all
states
in
the
common
wealthe
,
not
onely
to
his
maister
whom
he
serueth
:
for
by
his
diligence
,
and
warie
keping
of
them
,
not
onely
from
rauenyng
beastes
,
but
otherwise
he
is
a
right
profitable
member
,
to
all
partes
of
the
common
wealth
.
For
,
dailie
wée
féele
the
commoditie
,
wealth
,
profit
,
and
riches
riseth
of
the
wolles
of
Shepe
.
wealth
and
riches
,
that
riseth
of
theim
,
but
the
losse
wée
féele
not
,
except
flockes
perishe
.
In
the
body
of
man
God
hath
created
&
made
diuerse
partes
,
to
make
vp
a
whole
and
absolute
man
,
whiche
partes
in
office
,
qualitée
and
worthinesse
,
are
moche
differing
.
The
bodie
of
man
itself
,
for
the
excellent
workemanship
of
God
therein
,
&
meruailous
giftes
of
nature
and
vertues
,
lodged
and
bestowed
in
the
same
bodie
,
is
called
Man
called
of
the
Philosophers
,
a
little
worlde
.
of
the
Philosophers
Microcosmos
,
a
little
worlde
.
The
body
of
man
in
all
partes
at
concord
,
euery
part
executing
his
funccion
&
office
,
florisheth
,
and
in
strength
prospereth
,
otherwise
the
same
bodie
in
partes
disseuered
,
is
feeble
and
weake
,
and
The
bodie
of
man
without
concord
of
the
partes
,
perisheth
.
thereby
falleth
to
ruin
,
and
perisheth
.
The
singuler
Fable
of
Esope
,
of
the
belie
and
handes
,
manifestlie
sheweth
the
same
and
herein
a
florishing
kingdom
or
common
wealth
,
is
compared
to
the
body
,
euery
part
vsing
his
pure
vertue
,
strength
&
The
common
wealthe
like
to
the
bodie
of
manne
.
Menenius
.
operacion
.
Menenius
Agrippa
,
at
what
time
as
the
Romai
-
were
at
diuision
against
the
Senate
,
he
vsed
the
Fable
of
Esope
,
wherewith
thei
were
perswaded
to
a
concorde
,
and
vnitée
.
The
vilest
parte
of
the
bodie
,
and
baseste
is
so
necessarie
,
The
baseste
parte
of
the
bodie
moste
necessarie
.
that
the
whole
bodie
faileth
and
perisheth
,
the
same
wantyng
although
nature
remoueth
them
from
our
sight
,
and
shame
fastnes
also
hideth
theim
:
take
awaie
the
moste
vilest
parte
of
the
bodie
,
either
in
substaunce
,
in
operacion
or
function
,
and
forthwith
the
principall
faileth
.
So
likewise
in
a
kyngdome
,
or
common
wealth
,
the
moste
meane
and
basest
state
of
man
taken
awaie
,
the
more
principall
thereby
ceaseth
:
So
God
to
a
mutuall
concorde
,
frendship
,
and
perpetuall
societie
of
life
,
The
amiable
parte
of
the
body
doe
consiste
,
by
the
baseste
and
moste
beformeste
.
hath
framed
his
creatures
,
that
the
moste
principall
faileth
,
it
not
vnited
with
partes
more
base
and
inferiour
,
so
moche
the
might
and
force
of
thynges
excellente
,
doe
consiste
by
the
moste
inferiour
,
other
partes
of
the
bodie
more
amiable
and
pleasaunt
to
sight
,
doe
remain
by
the
force
,
vse
and
integritée
of
the
simpliest
.
The
Prince
and
chief
peres
doe
decaie
,
and
al
the
whole
multitude
dooe
perishe
:
the
baseste
kinde
of
menne
wantyng
.
Remoue
the
Shepeherdes
state
,
what
good
followeth
,
The
Shepeherdes
state
necessarie
.
The
state
of
the
husbande
manne
,
moste
necessarie
.
yea
,
what
lacke
and
famine
increaseth
not
:
to
all
states
the
belie
ill
fedde
,
our
backes
worse
clad
.
The
toilyng
housebandman
is
so
necessarie
,
that
his
office
ceasyng
vniuersallie
the
whole
bodie
perisheth
,
where
eche
laboureth
to
further
and
aide
one
an
other
,
this
is
a
common
wealth
,
there
is
prosperous
state
of
life
.
The
wisest
Prince
,
the
richest
,
the
mightiest
and
moste
valiauntes
,
had
nede
alwaies
of
the
foolishe
,
the
weake
,
the
base
and
simplest
,
to
vpholde
his
kingdomes
,
not
onely
in
the
affaires
of
his
kyngdomes
,
but
in
his
domesticall
thinges
,
for
prouision
of
victuall
,
as
bread
,
drinke
,
meat
clothyng
,
and
in
all
soche
other
thynges
.
Therefore
,
no
office
or
state
of
life
,
be
it
neuer
so
méete
,
seruyng
in
any
part
of
the
common
wealthe
,
muste
bée
contemned
,
mocked
,
or
skorned
No
meane
state
,
to
be
contempned
.
at
,
for
thei
are
so
necessarie
,
that
the
whole
frame
of
the
common
wealth
faileth
without
theim
:
some
are
for
their
wicked
behauiour
so
detestable
,
that
a
common
wealthe
muste
séeke
meanes
to
deface
and
extirpate
theim
as
wéedes
,
and
rotten
members
of
the
bodie
.
These
are
thefes
,
murtherers
,
and
adulterers
,
Rotten
members
of
the
common
wealth
.
and
many
other
mischiuous
persones
.
These
godly
Lawes
,
vpright
and
sincere
Magistrates
,
will
extirpate
and
cutte
of
,
soche
the
commo
wealth
lacketh
not
,
but
rather
abhorreth
as
an
infectiue
plague
and
Pestilence
,
who
in
th
ende
through
their
owne
wickednesse
,
are
brought
to
mischief
.
Read
Plato
in
his
booke
,
intiteled
of
the
common
wealth
who
sheweth
the
state
of
the
Prince
,
and
whole
Realme
,
to
Plato
.
stande
and
consiste
by
the
vnitée
of
partes
,
all
states
of
the
common
wealth
,
in
office
diuers
,
for
dignitée
and
worthines
,
bearing
A
common
wealth
doe
consiste
by
vnitie
of
all
states
.
Aristotle
.
what
is
a
common
wealth
.
not
equalitee
in
one
consociatee
and
knit
,
doe
raise
a
perfite
frame
,
and
bodie
of
kingdome
or
common
wealthe
.
Aristotle
the
Philosopher
doeth
saie
,
that
a
common
welth
is
a
multitude
gathered
together
in
one
Citée
,
or
Region
,
in
state
and
condicion
of
life
diuering
,
poore
and
riche
,
high
and
low
,
wise
and
foolishe
,
in
inequalitee
of
minde
and
bodies
differyng
,
for
els
it
can
not
bee
a
common
wealthe
.
There
must
be
nobles
and
peres
,
kyng
and
subiect
:
a
multitude
inferiour
and
more
populous
,
in
office
,
maners
,
worthines
alteryng
.
Manne
needeth
no
better
example
,
or
paterne
of
a
common
A
liuely
example
of
common
wealthe
.
wealthe
,
to
frame
hymself
,
to
serue
in
his
state
and
callyng
,
then
to
ponder
his
owne
bodie
.
There
is
but
one
hedde
,
and
many
partes
,
handes
,
feete
,
fingers
,
toes
,
ioyntes
,
veines
,
sinewes
,
belie
,
and
so
forthe
:
and
so
likewise
in
a
common
welth
there
muste
be
a
diuersitee
of
states
.
¶
The
reasonyng
of
the
thynges
conteined
in
this
Fable
.
THus
might
the
Wolues
reason
with
themselues
,
of
their
Embassage
:
The
Wolues
dailie
molested
and
wearied
,
with
the
fearce
ragyng
Masties
,
and
ouercome
in
fight
,
of
their
power
and
might
:
one
among
the
reste
,
more
politike
and
wise
then
the
other
,
called
an
assemble
and
counsaill
of
Wolues
,
and
thus
he
beganne
his
oracion
.
My
felowes
and
The
counsail
of
wolues
.
compaignions
,
sithe
nature
hath
from
the
beginnyng
,
made
vs
vnsaciable
,
cruell
,
liuyng
alwaies
by
praies
murthered
,
and
bloodie
spoiles
,
yet
enemies
wée
haue
,
that
séeke
to
kepe
vnder
,
and
tame
our
Woluishe
natures
,
by
greate
mightie
Bandogges
,
and
Shepeherdes
Curres
.
But
nature
at
the
firste
,
did
so
depely
frame
and
set
this
his
peruerse
,
cruell
,
and
bloodie
moulde
in
vs
,
that
will
thei
,
nill
thei
,
our
nature
wil
bruste
out
,
and
run
to
his
owne
course
.
I
must
moche
,
waiyng
the
line
of
our
firste
progenitour
,
from
whence
we
came
firste
:
for
of
a
man
wée
came
,
yet
men
as
a
pestiferous
poison
doe
erile
vs
,
and
abandon
vs
,
and
by
Dogges
and
other
subtill
meanes
doe
dailie
destroie
vs
.
Lycaon
,
as
the
Poetes
doe
Lycaon
.
faine
,
excedyng
in
all
crueltées
and
murthers
horrible
,
by
the
murther
of
straungers
,
that
had
accesse
to
his
land
:
for
he
was
king
and
gouernor
ouer
the
Moloffians
,
and
in
this
we
maie
worthilie
glorie
of
our
firste
blood
and
long
auncientrée
,
that
he
was
not
onelie
a
man
,
but
a
kyng
,
a
chief
pere
and
gouernour
:
The
firste
progenie
of
wolues
.
by
his
chaunge
and
transubstanciacion
of
bodie
,
wée
loste
by
him
the
honour
and
dignitée
due
to
him
,
but
his
vertues
wée
kepe
,
and
daily
practise
to
followe
them
.
The
fame
of
Lycaons
horrible
life
,
aseended
before
Iupiter
,
Iupiter
the
The
inuencion
of
the
Poet
Ouide
to
compare
a
wicked
man
,
to
a
wolue
.
mightie
God
,
moued
with
so
horrible
a
facte
,
left
his
heauenlie
palace
,
came
doune
like
an
other
mortall
man
;
and
passed
doune
by
the
high
mountaine
Minalus
,
by
twilighte
,
and
son
to
Licaons
house
,
our
firste
auncestoure
,
to
proue
,
if
this
thing
was
true
.
Lycaon
receiued
this
straunger
,
as
it
semed
Lycaon
.
doubtyng
whether
he
were
a
God
,
or
a
manne
,
forthwith
he
feasted
him
with
mannes
fleshe
baked
,
Iupiter
as
he
can
doe
what
he
will
,
brought
a
ruine
on
his
house
,
and
transubstanciated
Lycaon
chaunged
into
a
wolue
.
hym
,
into
this
our
shape
&
figure
,
wherein
we
are
,
and
so
sens
that
time
,
Wolues
were
firste
generated
,
and
that
of
manne
,
by
the
chaunge
of
Lycaon
,
although
our
shape
is
chaunged
from
the
figure
of
other
men
,
and
men
knoweth
vs
not
well
,
yet
the
same
maners
that
made
Wolues
,
remaineth
wolue
.
Manner
.
vntill
this
daie
,
and
perpetuallie
in
men
:
for
thei
robbe
,
thei
steale
,
and
liue
by
iniurious
catching
,
we
also
robbe
,
also
wee
steale
,
and
catche
to
our
praie
,
what
wee
maie
with
murther
come
to
.
Thei
murther
,
and
wee
also
murther
,
and
so
in
all
poinctes
like
vnto
wicked
menne
,
doe
we
imitate
the
like
fashion
of
life
,
and
rather
thei
in
shape
of
men
,
are
Wolues
,
and
wee
in
the
shape
of
Wolues
menne
:
Of
all
these
thynges
hauyng
consideracion
,
I
haue
inuented
a
pollicie
,
whereby
we
maie
woorke
a
slauter
,
and
perpetuall
ruine
on
the
Shepe
,
by
the
murther
of
the
Bandogges
.
And
so
wee
shall
haue
frée
accesse
to
our
bloodie
praie
,
thus
we
will
doe
,
wee
will
sende
a
Embassage
to
the
Shepeherdes
for
peace
,
saiyng
,
that
wee
minde
to
ceasse
of
all
bloodie
spoile
,
so
that
thei
will
giue
ouer
to
vs
,
the
custodie
of
the
Bandogges
,
for
The
counsail
of
wolues
.
otherwise
the
Embassage
sent
,
is
in
vaine
:
for
their
Dogges
being
in
our
handes
,
and
murthered
one
by
one
,
the
daunger
and
enemie
taken
awaie
,
we
maie
the
better
obtain
and
enioye
our
bloodie
life
.
This
counsaill
pleased
well
the
assemble
of
the
Wolues
,
and
the
pollicie
moche
liked
theim
,
and
with
one
voice
thei
houled
thus
,
thus
.
Immediatlie
communicacion
was
had
with
the
Shepeherdes
of
peace
,
and
of
the
giuyng
ouer
of
their
Bandogges
,
this
offer
pleased
theim
,
thei
concluded
the
peace
,
and
gaue
ouer
their
Bandogges
,
as
pledges
of
thesame
.
The
dogges
one
by
one
murthered
,
thei
dissolued
the
peace
,
and
wearied
the
Shepe
,
then
the
Shepeherdes
repented
them
of
their
rashe
graunt
,
and
foly
committed
:
So
of
like
sorte
it
alwaies
chaunceth
,
tyrauntes
and
bloodie
The
counsail
of
wicked
men
to
mischief
.
menne
,
dooe
seke
alwaies
a
meane
,
and
practise
pollicies
to
destroye
all
soche
as
are
godlie
affected
,
and
by
wisedome
and
godlie
life
,
doe
seke
to
subuerte
and
destroie
,
the
mischeuous
The
cogitacions
of
wicked
men
,
and
their
kyngdom
bloodie
.
enterprise
of
the
wicked
.
For
,
by
crueltie
their
Woluishe
natures
are
knowen
,
their
glorie
,
strength
,
kyngdome
and
renowne
,
cometh
of
blood
,
of
murthers
,
and
beastlie
dealynges
and
by
might
so
violent
,
it
continueth
not
:
for
by
violence
and
blooddie
dealyng
,
their
kyngdome
at
the
last
falleth
by
blood
and
bloodilie
perisheth
.
The
noble
,
wise
,
graue
,
and
goodlie
counsailes
,
are
with
all
fidelitée
,
humblenes
and
sincere
hartes
to
be
obeied
,
in
worthines
of
their
state
and
wisedome
,
to
The
state
of
counsailours
worthie
chief
honour
and
veneracion
.
be
embraced
in
chief
honour
and
veneracion
to
bee
taken
,
by
whose
industrie
,
knowledge
and
experience
,
the
whole
bodie
of
the
common
wealth
and
kyngdome
,
is
supported
and
saued
.
The
state
of
euery
one
vniuersallie
would
come
to
pardicion
,
if
the
inuasion
of
foraine
Princes
,
by
the
wisedom
and
pollicie
of
counsailers
,
were
not
repelled
.
The
horrible
actes
of
wicked
men
would
burste
out
,
and
a
confusion
ensue
in
al
states
,
if
the
wisedom
of
politike
gouernors
,
if
good
lawes
if
the
power
and
sword
of
the
magistrate
,
could
not
take
place
.
The
peres
and
nobles
,
with
the
chief
gouernour
,
slandeth
as
Shepherds
ouer
the
people
:
for
so
Plato
alledgeth
that
name
Plato
.
well
and
properlie
giuen
,
to
Princes
and
Gouernours
,
the
which
Homere
the
Poete
attributeth
,
to
Agamemnon
king
Homere
.
of
Grece
:
to
Menclaus
,
Vlisses
,
Nestor
,
Achillas
,
Diomedes
,
Aiar
,
and
al
other
.
For
,
bothe
the
name
and
care
of
that
state
The
Shepeherdes
name
giuen
to
the
office
of
kyngs
.
of
office
,
can
be
titeled
by
no
better
name
in
all
pointes
,
for
diligent
kepyng
,
for
aide
,
succoryng
,
and
with
all
equitie
temperyng
the
multitude
:
thei
are
as
Shepeherdes
els
the
sclie
poore
multitude
,
would
by
an
oppression
of
pestiferous
men
.
The
commonaltee
or
base
multitude
,
liueth
more
quietlie
then
the
state
of
soche
as
daily
seke
,
to
vpholde
and
maintaine
The
state
or
good
counsallers
,
troublous
.
the
common
wealthe
,
by
counsaill
and
politike
deliberacion
,
how
troublous
hath
their
state
alwaies
been
:
how
vnquiete
from
time
to
time
,
whose
heddes
in
verie
deede
,
doeth
seke
for
a
publike
wealth
.
Therefore
,
though
their
honor
bee
greater
,
and
state
aboue
the
reste
,
yet
what
care
,
what
pensiuenesse
of
minde
are
thei
driuen
vnto
,
on
whose
heddes
aucthoritée
and
regiment
,
the
sauegard
of
innumerable
people
doeth
depend
.
A
comparision
from
a
lesse
,
to
a
greater
.
If
in
our
domesticall
businesse
,
of
matters
pertainyng
to
our
housholde
,
euery
man
by
nature
,
for
hym
and
his
,
is
pensiue
,
moche
more
in
so
vaste
,
and
infinite
a
bodie
of
common
wealth
,
greater
must
the
care
be
,
and
more
daungerous
deliberacion
.
We
desire
peace
,
we
reioyce
of
a
tranquilitée
,
and
quietnesse
to
ensue
,
we
wishe
,
to
consist
in
a
hauen
of
securitée
:
our
houses
not
to
be
spoiled
,
our
wiues
and
children
,
not
to
bée
murthered
.
This
the
Prince
and
counsailours
,
by
wisedome
foresée
,
The
worthie
state
of
Princes
and
counsailours
.
to
kéepe
of
,
all
these
calamitées
,
daungers
,
miseries
,
the
whole
multitude
,
and
bodie
of
the
Common
wealthe
,
is
without
them
maimed
,
weake
and
feable
,
a
readie
confusion
to
the
enemie
.
Therefore
,
the
state
of
péeres
and
nobles
,
is
with
all
humilitée
to
be
obaied
,
serued
and
honored
,
not
without
greate
cause
,
the
Athenians
were
drawen
backe
,
by
the
wisedome
of
Demostnenes
,
when
thei
sawe
themselues
a
slauter
and
praie
,
to
the
enemie
.
¶
A
comparson
of
thynges
.
WHat
can
bée
more
rashly
and
foolishly
doen
,
then
the
Shepeherdes
,
to
giue
ouer
their
Dogges
,
by
whose
might
and
strength
,
the
Shepe
were
saued
:
on
the
other
side
,
what
can
be
more
subtlie
doen
and
craftely
,
then
the
Wolues
,
vnder
a
colour
of
frendship
and
amitée
,
to
séeke
the
blood
of
the
shepe
,
as
all
pestiferous
men
,
vnder
a
fained
profer
The
amitie
of
wicked
menns
.
of
amitée
,
profered
to
seeke
their
owne
profite
,
commoditée
and
wealthe
,
though
it
be
with
ruine
,
calamitie
,
miserie
,
destruccion
of
one
,
or
many
,
toune
,
or
citée
,
region
and
countree
,
whiche
sort
of
men
,
are
moste
detestable
and
execrable
.
¶
The
contrarie
.
AS
to
moche
simplicitie
&
lacke
of
discrecion
,
is
a
furtheraunce
to
perill
and
daunger
:
so
oftentimes
,
he
tasteth
of
smarte
and
woe
,
who
lightly
beleueth
:
so
contrariwise
,
To
beleue
lightly
,
a
furtheraunce
to
perill
.
disimulaciō
in
mischeuous
practises
begon
with
frendly
wordes
,
in
the
conclusion
doeth
frame
&
ende
pernisiouslie
.
¶
The
Epilogus
.
THerefore
fained
offers
of
frendship
,
are
to
bee
taken
heede
of
,
and
the
acte
of
euery
man
to
bee
examined
,
proued
,
and
tried
,
for
true
frendship
is
a
rare
thyng
,
when
as
Tullie
doth
saie
:
in
many
ages
there
are
fewe
couples
of
friendes
to
be
found
,
Aristotle
also
concludeth
the
same
.
¶
The
Fable
of
the
Ante
,
and
Greshopper
.
¶
The
praise
of
the
aucthour
.
ESope
who
wrote
these
Fables
,
hath
chief
fame
of
all
learned
aucthours
,
for
his
Philosophie
,
and
giuyng
The
praise
of
Esope
.
wisedome
in
preceptes
:
his
Fables
dooe
shewe
vnto
all
states
moste
wholsome
doctrine
of
vertuous
life
.
He
wholy
extolleth
vertue
,
and
depresseth
vice
:
he
correcteth
all
states
and
setteth
out
preceptes
to
amende
them
.
Although
he
was
deformed
and
ill
shaped
,
yet
Nature
wrought
in
hym
soche
vertue
,
that
he
was
in
minde
moste
beautifull
:
and
seing
that
the
giftes
of
the
body
,
are
not
equall
in
dignitie
,
with
the
vertue
of
the
mynde
,
then
in
that
Esope
chiefly
excelled
,
hauyng
the
moste
excellente
vertue
of
the
minde
.
The
wisedom
and
witte
of
Esope
semed
singuler
:
for
at
what
tyme
as
Cresus
,
Cresus
.
the
kyng
of
the
Lidians
,
made
warre
against
the
Samians
,
he
with
his
wisedome
and
pollicie
,
so
pacified
the
minde
of
Cresus
,
that
all
warre
ceased
,
and
the
daunger
of
the
countree
was
taken
awaie
,
the
Samians
deliuered
of
this
destruccion
Samians
.
and
warre
,
receiued
Esope
at
his
retourne
with
many
honours
.
After
that
Esope
departyng
from
the
Isle
Samus
,
wandered
to
straunge
regions
,
at
the
laste
his
wisedome
beyng
knowen
:
Licerus
the
kyng
of
that
countrée
,
had
hym
in
Licerus
.
soche
reuerence
and
honor
,
that
he
caused
an
Image
of
gold
to
be
set
vp
in
the
honour
of
Esope
.
After
that
,
he
wanderyng
ouer
Grece
,
to
the
citée
of
Delphos
,
of
whom
he
beyng
murthered
,
Delphos
.
a
greate
plague
and
Pestilence
fell
vpon
the
citee
,
that
reuenged
his
death
:
As
in
all
his
Fables
,
he
is
moche
to
bee
commended
,
so
in
this
Fable
he
is
moche
to
be
praised
,
which
he
wrote
of
the
Ante
and
the
Greshopper
.
¶
The
Fable
.
IN
a
hotte
Sommer
,
the
Grashoppers
gaue
themselues
to
pleasaunt
melodie
,
whose
Musicke
and
melodie
,
was
harde
from
the
pleasaunt
Busshes
:
but
the
Ante
in
all
this
pleasaunt
tyme
,
laboured
with
pain
and
trauaile
,
she
scraped
her
liuyng
,
and
with
fore
witte
and
wisedome
,
preuented
the
barande
and
scarce
tyme
of
Winter
:
for
when
Winter
time
aprocheth
,
the
ground
ceasseth
from
fruict
,
winter
.
then
the
Ante
by
his
labour
,
doeth
take
the
fruicte
&
enioyeth
it
:
but
hunger
and
miserie
fell
vpon
the
Greshoppers
,
who
in
The
Ante.
the
pleasaunt
tyme
of
Sommer
,
when
fruites
were
aboundaunte
,
ceassed
by
labour
to
put
of
necessitée
,
with
the
whiche
the
long
colde
and
stormie
tyme
,
killed
them
up
,
wantyng
al
sustinaunce
.
¶
The
Morall
.
HEre
in
example
,
all
menne
maie
take
to
frame
their
owne
life
,
and
also
to
bryng
vp
in
godlie
educacion
their
children
:
that
while
age
is
tender
and
young
,
thei
maie
learne
by
example
of
the
Ante
,
co
prouide
in
their
grene
and
lustie
youth
,
some
meane
of
art
and
science
,
wherby
thei
maie
staie
their
age
and
necessitée
of
life
,
al
soche
as
do
flie
labour
,
and
paine
in
youth
,
and
seeke
no
waie
of
Arte
and
science
,
in
age
thei
shall
fall
in
extreme
miserie
and
pouertée
.
¶
The
nature
of
the
thyng
.
NOt
without
a
cause
,
the
Philosophers
searchyng
the
nature
and
qualitee
of
euery
beaste
,
dooe
moche
commende
the
Ante
,
for
prouidence
and
diligence
,
in
that
The
Ante.
not
oneie
by
nature
thei
excell
in
fore
wisedome
to
themselues
,
but
also
thei
be
a
example
,
and
mirrour
to
all
menne
,
in
that
Manne
.
thei
iustlie
followe
the
instincte
of
Nature
:
and
moche
more
,
where
as
men
indued
with
reason
,
and
all
singulare
vertues
and
excellent
qualitees
of
the
minde
and
body
.
Yet
thei
doe
so
moche
leaue
reason
,
vertue
,
&
integritee
of
minde
,
as
that
thei
had
been
framed
without
reason
,
indued
with
no
vertue
,
nor
adorned
with
any
excellent
qualitée
.
All
creatures
as
nature
hath
wrought
in
them
,
doe
applie
themselues
to
followe
nature
their
guide
:
the
Ante
is
alwaies
diligent
in
his
busines
,
and
prouident
,
and
also
fore séeth
in
Sommer
,
the
sharpe
season
of
Winter
:
thei
keepe
order
,
and
haue
a
kyng
and
a
common
wealthe
as
it
were
,
as
nature
hath
taught
them
.
And
so
haue
all
other
creatures
,
as
nature
hath
wrought
in
them
their
giftes
,
man
onelie
leaueth
reason
,
and
neclecteth
the
chief
ornamentes
of
the
minde
:
and
beyng
as
a
God
aboue
all
creatures
,
dooeth
leese
the
excellent
giftes
.
A
beaste
will
not
take
excesse
in
feedyng
,
but
man
often
tymes
is
without
reason
,
and
hauyng
a
pure
mynde
and
soule
giuen
of
God
,
and
a
face
to
beholde
the
heauens
,
yet
he
doeth
abase
hymself
to
yearthlie
thynges
,
as
concernyng
the
Greshopper
:
as
the
Philosophers
Greshopper
.
doe
saie
,
is
made
altogether
of
dewe
,
and
sone
perisheth
The
Greshopper
maie
well
resemble
,
slothfull
and
sluggishe
persones
,
who
seke
onely
after
a
present
pleasure
,
hauyng
no
fore
witte
and
wisedom
,
to
foresee
tymes
and
ceasons
:
for
it
is
A
poincte
of
wisedome
.
the
poinct
of
wisedon
,
to
iudge
thinges
present
,
by
thinges
past
and
to
take
a
coniecture
of
thinges
to
come
,
by
thinges
present
.
¶
The
reasonyng
of
the
twoo
thynges
.
THus
might
the
Ante
reason
with
her self
,
althoughe
the
seasons
of
the
yere
doe
seme
now
very
botte
,
pleasaunt
A
wise
cogitacion
.
and
fruictfull
:
yet
so
I
do
not
trust
time
,
as
that
like
pleasure
should
alwaies
remaine
,
or
that
fruictes
should
alwaies
of
like
sorte
abounde
.
Nature
moueth
me
to
worke
,
and
wisedome
herein
sheweth
me
to
prouide
:
for
what
hurteth
plentie
,
or
aboundaunce
of
store
,
though
greate
plentie
commeth
thereon
,
for
better
it
is
to
bee
oppressed
with
plentie
,
and
aboundaunce
,
then
to
bee
vexed
with
lacke
.
For
,
to
whom
wealthe
and
plentie
riseth
,
at
their
handes
many
bee
releued
,
and
helped
,
all
soche
as
bee
oppressed
with
necessitie
and
miserie
,
beyng
caste
from
all
helpe
,
reason
and
prouidence
mainted
in
theim
:
All
arte
and
Science
,
and
meane
of
life
cutte
of
,
to
enlarge
and
maintain
better
state
of
life
,
their
miserie
,
necessitie
,
and
pouertie
,
shall
continuallie
encrease
,
Pouertie
.
who
hopeth
at
other
mennes
handes
,
to
craue
relief
,
is
deceiued
.
Pouertie
is
so
odious
a
thing
,
in
al
places
&
states
reiected
for
where
lacke
is
,
there
fauour
,
frendship
,
and
acquaintance
decreaseth
,
as
in
all
states
it
is
wisedome
:
so
with
my self
I
waie
discritlie
,
to
take
tyme
while
tyme
is
,
for
this
tyme
as
a
Wisedome
.
floure
will
sone
fade
awaie
.
The
housebande
manne
,
hath
he
not
times
diuers
,
to
encrease
his
wealth
,
and
to
fill
his
barne
,
Housebande
menne
.
at
one
tyme
and
ceason
:
the
housebande
man
doeth
not
bothe
plante
,
plowe
,
and
gather
the
fruicte
of
his
labour
,
but
in
one
tyme
and
season
he
ploweth
,
another
tyme
serueth
to
sowe
,
and
the
laste
to
gather
the
fruictes
of
his
labour
.
So
then
,
I
must
forsee
time
and
seasons
,
wherin
I
maie
be
able
to
beare
of
necessitie
:
for
foolishly
he
hopeth
,
who
of
no
wealth
and
no
abundaunt
store
,
trusteth
to
maintain
his
own
state
.
For
,
nothyng
soner
faileth
,
then
frendship
,
and
the
soner
it
faileth
,
as
Frendship
.
fortune
is
impouerished
.
Seyng
that
,
as
Homere
doeth
saie
,
a
flothfull
man
,
giuen
to
no
arte
or
science
,
to
helpe
hymself
,
Homere
.
or
an
other
,
is
an
vnprofitable
burdein
to
the
yearth
,
and
God
doorth
sore
plague
,
punishe
,
and
ouerthrowe
Citees
,
kyngdomes
,
and
common
wealthes
,
grounded
in
soche
vices
:
that
the
wisedome
of
man
maie
well
iudge
,
hym
to
be
vnworthie
of
all
helpe
,
and
sustinaunce
.
He
is
worse
then
a
beast
,
that
is
not
able
to
liue
to
hymself
&
other
:
no
man
is
of
witte
so
vndescrite
,
or
of
nature
so
dullc
,
but
that
in
hym
,
nature
alwayes
Nature
.
couereth
some
enterprise
,
or
worke
to
frame
relife
,
or
help
to
himself
,
for
all
wee
are
not
borne
,
onelie
to
our selues
,
but
The
cause
of
our
bearth
.
many
waies
to
be
profitable
,
as
to
our
owne
countrie
,
and
all
partes
thereof
.
Especiallie
to
soche
as
by
sickenes
,
or
infirmitie
of
bodie
are
oppressed
,
that
arte
and
Science
can
not
take
place
to
help
them
.
Soche
as
do
folowe
the
life
of
the
Greshopper
.
are
worthie
of
their
miserie
,
who
haue
no
witte
to
foresée
seasons
and
tymes
,
but
doe
suffer
tyme
vndescretly
to
passe
,
whiche
fadeth
as
a
floure
,
th
old
Romaines
do
picture
Ianus
with
two
faces
,
a
face
behind
,
&
an
other
before
,
which
resemble
Ianus
.
a
wiseman
,
who
alwaies
ought
to
knowe
thinges
paste
,
thynges
presente
,
and
also
to
be
experte
,
by
the
experience
of
many
ages
and
tymes
,
and
knowledge
of
thynges
to
come
.
¶
The
comparison
betwene
the
twoo
thynges
.
WHat
can
be
more
descritlie
doen
,
then
the
Ante
to
be
so
prouident
and
politike
:
as
that
all
daunger
of
life
,
&
necessitie
is
excluded
,
the
stormie
times
of
Winter
ceaseth
of
might
,
&
honger
battereth
not
his
walles
,
hauyng
soche
plentie
of
foode
,
for
vnlooked
bitter
stormes
and
seasons
,
Prouidence
.
happeneth
in
life
,
whiche
when
thei
happen
,
neither
wisedon
nor
pollicie
,
is
not
able
to
kepe
backe
.
Wisedome
therefore
,
it
is
so
to
stande
,
that
these
thynges
hurte
not
,
the
miserable
ende
of
the
Greshopper
sheweth
vnto
vs
,
whiche
maie
be
an
example
to
all
menne
,
of
what
degree
,
so
euer
thei
bee
,
to
flie
slothe
and
idelnesse
,
to
be
wise
and
discrite
.
¶
Of
contraries
.
AS
diligence
,
prouidence
,
and
discrete
life
is
a
singulare
gift
,
whiche
increaseth
all
vertues
,
a
pillar
,
staie
Diligence
.
and
a
foundacion
of
all
artes
and
science
,
of
common
wealthes
,
and
kyngdomes
.
So
contrarily
sloth
and
sluggishnesse
,
in
all
states
and
causes
,
defaseth
,
destroyeth
,
and
pulleth
doune
all
vertue
,
all
science
and
godlines
.
For
,
by
it
,
the
mightie
kyngdome
of
the
Lidians
,
was
destroied
,
as
it
semeth
no
small
vice
,
when
the
Lawes
of
Draco
,
dooe
punishe
with
Idelnes
.
death
idelnesse
.
¶
The
ende
.
THerefore
,
the
diligence
of
the
Ante
in
this
Fable
,
not
onelie
is
moche
to
be
commended
,
but
also
her
The
Ante.
example
is
to
bee
followed
in
life
.
Therefore
,
the
wiseman
doeth
admonishe
vs
,
to
go
vnto
the
Ant
and
learne
prouidence
:
and
also
by
the
Greshopper
,
lette
vs
learne
to
auoide
idelnes
,
lesse
the
like
miserie
and
calamitie
fall
vpon
vs
.
¶
Narratio
.
THis
place
followyng
,
is
placed
of
Tullie
,
after
the
exordium
or
beginnyng
of
Oracion
,
as
the
seconde
parte
:
whiche
parte
of
Rhetorike
,
is
as
it
were
the
light
of
all
the
Oracion
folowing
:
conteining
the
cause
,
matter
,
persone
,
tyme
,
with
all
breuitie
,
bothe
of
wordes
,
and
inuencion
of
matter
.
¶
A
Narracion
.
A
Narracion
is
an
exposicion
,
orderlaracion
of
any
thyng
dooen
in
deede
,
or
els
a
settyng
forthe
,
forged
of
any
thyng
,
but
so
declaimed
and
declared
,
as
though
it
were
doen.
A
narracion
is
of
three
sortes
,
either
it
is
a
narracion
historicall
,
of
any
thyng
contained
,
in
any
aunciente
storie
,
or
true
Chronicle
.
Or
Poeticall
,
whiche
is
a
exposicion
fained
,
set
for
the
by
inuencion
of
Poetes
,
or
other
.
Or
ciuill
,
otherwise
called
Iudiciall
,
whiche
is
a
matter
of
controuersie
in
iudgement
,
to
be
dooen
,
or
not
dooen
well
or
euill
.
In
euery
Narracion
,
ye
must
obserue
sixe
notes
.
-
1.
Firste
,
the
persone
,
or
doer
of
the
thing
,
whereof
you
intreate
.
-
2.
The
facte
doen.
-
3.
The
place
wherein
it
was
doen.
-
4.
The
tyme
in
the
whiche
it
was
doen.
-
5.
The
maner
must
be
shewed
,
how
it
was
doen.
-
6.
The
cause
wherevpon
it
was
doen.
There
be
in
this
Narracion
,
iiij
.
other
properties
belonging
-
1.
First
,
it
must
be
plain
and
euident
to
the
hearer
,
not
obscure
,
-
2.
short
,
and
in
as
fewe
wordes
as
it
maie
be
,
for
soche
a
matter
.
-
3.
Probable
,
as
not
vnlike
to
be
true
.
-
4.
In
wordes
fine
and
elegante
.
¶
A
narracion
historicall
,
vpon
Semiramis
Queene
of
Babilon
how
and
after
what
sort
the
obtained
the
gouernment
thereof
.
AFter
the
death
of
Ninus
,
somtime
kyng
of
Babilon
,
Tyme
.
his
soonne
Nuius
also
by
name
,
was
left
Persone
.
to
succede
hym
,
in
all
the
Assirian
Monarchie
,
Semiramis
wife
to
Ninus
the
firste
,
feared
the
tender
age
of
her
sonne
,
wherupon
she
thought
that
those
mightie
nacions
and
kyngdomes
,
would
not
obaie
The
cause
.
so
young
and
weake
a
Prince
.
Wherfore
,
she
kept
her
sonne
The
facte
.
from
the
gouernmente
:
and
moste
of
all
she
feared
,
that
thei
would
not
obaie
a
woman
,
forthwith
she
fained
her self
,
to
be
The
waie
how
.
the
soonne
of
Ninus
,
and
bicause
she
would
not
be
knowen
to
bee
a
woman
,
this
Quene
inuented
a
newe
kinde
of
tire
,
the
whiche
all
the
Babilonians
that
were
men
,
vsed
by
her
commaundement
.
By
this
straunge
disguised
tire
and
apparell
,
she
not
knowen
to
bee
a
woman
,
ruled
as
a
man
,
for
the
space
of
twoo
and
fourtie
yeres
:
she
did
marueilous
actes
,
for
The
facte
.
The
place
.
she
enlarged
the
mightie
kyngdome
of
Babilon
,
and
builded
the
same
citée
.
Many
other
regions
subdued
,
and
vallauntlie
ouerthrowen
,
she
entered
India
,
to
the
whiche
neuer
Prince
came
,
sauing
Alexander
the
greate
:
she
passed
not
onely
men
in
vertue
,
counsaill
,
and
valiaunt
stomacke
,
but
also
the
famous
counsailours
of
Assiria
,
might
not
contende
with
her
in
Maiestie
,
pollicie
,
and
roialnes
.
For
,
at
what
tyme
as
thei
knewe
her
a
woman
,
thei
enuied
not
her
state
,
but
marueiled
at
her
wisedome
,
pollicie
,
and
moderacion
of
life
,
at
the
laste
she
desiryng
the
vnnaturall
lust
,
and
loue
of
her
soonne
Ninus
,
was
murthered
of
hym
.
¶
A
narracion
historicall
vpon
kyng
Richard
the
third
,
the
cruell
tiraunt
.
RIchard
duke
of
Glocester
,
after
the
death
of
Edward
The
persone
the
fowerth
his
brother
king
of
England
,
vsurped
the
croune
,
moste
traiterouslie
and
wickedlie
:
this
kyng
Richard
was
small
of
stature
,
deformed
,
and
ill
shaped
,
his
shoulders
beared
not
equalitie
,
a
pulyng
face
,
yet
of
countenaunce
and
looke
cruell
,
malicious
,
deceiptfull
,
bityng
and
chawing
his
nether
lippe
:
of
minde
vnquiet
,
pregnaunt
of
witte
,
quicke
and
liuely
,
a
worde
and
a
blowe
,
wilie
,
deceiptfull
,
proude
,
arrogant
in
life
and
cogitacion
bloodie
.
The
fowerth
daie
of
Iulie
,
he
The
tyme
.
The
place
.
entered
the
tower
of
London
,
with
Anne
his
wife
,
doughter
to
Richard
Exle
of
Warwick
:
and
there
in
created
Edward
his
onely
soonne
,
a
child
of
ten
yeres
of
age
,
Prince
of
Wales
.
At
the
same
tyme
,
in
the
same
place
,
he
created
many
noble
peres
,
to
high
prefermente
of
honour
and
estate
,
and
immediatly
with
feare
and
faint
harte
,
bothe
in
himself
,
and
his
nobles
and
commons
,
was
created
king
,
alwaies
a
vnfortunate
The
horrible
murther
of
king
Richard
and
vnluckie
creacion
,
the
harts
of
the
nobles
and
commons
thereto
lackyng
or
faintyng
,
and
no
maruaile
,
he
was
a
cruell
murtherer
,
a
wretched
caitiffe
,
a
moste
tragicall
tyraunt
,
and
blood
succour
,
bothe
of
his
nephewes
,
and
brother
George
Duke
of
Clarence
,
whom
he
caused
to
bee
drouned
in
a
Butte
of
〈…〉
,
the
staires
sodainlie
remoued
,
wheron
he
stepped
,
the
death
of
the
lorde
Riuers
,
with
many
other
The
facte
.
nobles
,
compassed
and
wrought
at
the
young
Princes
commyng
out
of
Wales
,
the
.xix.
daie
of
Iuly
,
in
the
yere
of
our
lorde
.
1483.
openly
he
toke
vpon
him
to
be
king
,
who
sekyng
hastely
to
clime
,
fell
according
to
his
desart
,
sodainly
and
ingloriously
,
whose
Embassage
for
peace
,
Lewes
the
Frenche
king
,
for
his
miseheuous
&
boodie
slaughter
,
so
moche
abhorred
,
that
he
would
neither
see
the
Embassador
,
nor
heare
the
Embassage
:
for
he
murthered
his
.ij.
nephues
,
by
the
handes
of
one
Iames
Tirrell
,
&
.ij.
vilaines
more
associate
with
him
The
tyme
.
The
maner
how
.
the
Lieutenaunt
refusyng
so
horrible
a
fact
.
This
was
doen
he
takyng
his
waie
&
progresse
to
Glocester
,
whereof
he
was
before
tymes
Duke
:
the
murther
perpetrated
,
he
doubed
the
good
squire
knight
.
Yet
to
kepe
close
this
horrible
murther
,
he
caused
a
fame
and
rumour
to
be
spread
abrode
,
in
all
partes
of
the
realme
,
that
these
twoo
children
died
sodainly
,
thereby
thinkyng
the
hartes
of
all
people
,
to
bee
quietlie
setteled
,
The
cause
.
no
heire
male
lefte
aliue
of
kyng
Edwardes
children
.
His
mischief
was
soche
,
that
God
shortened
his
vsurped
raigne
:
he
was
altogether
in
feare
and
dread
,
for
he
being
feared
and
dreaded
of
other
,
did
also
feare
&
dread
,
neuer
quicte
of
minde
faint
harted
,
his
bloodie
conscience
by
outward
signes
,
condempned
hym
:
his
iyes
in
euery
place
whirlying
and
caste
about
,
his
hand
moche
on
his
Dagger
,
the
infernall
furies
tormented
The
state
of
a
wicked
man
.
him
by
night
,
visions
and
horrible
dreames
,
drawed
him
from
his
bedde
,
his
vnquiet
life
shewed
the
state
of
his
conscience
,
his
close
murther
was
vttered
,
from
the
hartes
of
the
subiectes
:
thei
called
hym
openlie
,
with
horrible
titles
and
names
,
a
horrible
murtherer
,
and
excecrable
tiraunt
.
The
people
sorowed
the
death
of
these
twoo
babes
,
the
Queene
,
kyng
A
dolefull
stale
of
a
quene
.
Edwardes
wife
,
beeyng
in
Sanctuarie
,
was
bestraught
of
witte
and
sences
,
sounyng
and
falling
doune
to
the
grounde
as
dedde
,
the
Queene
after
reuiued
,
knéeled
doune
,
and
called
on
God
,
to
take
vengaunce
on
this
murtherer
.
The
conscience
of
the
people
was
so
wounded
,
of
the
tolleracion
of
the
facte
,
that
when
any
blustryng
winde
,
or
perilous
thonder
,
or
The
wicked
facte
of
kyng
Richard
,
a
horror
and
dread
to
the
commons
.
dreadfull
tempest
happened
:
with
one
voice
thei
cried
out
and
quaked
,
least
God
would
take
vengaunce
of
them
,
for
it
is
alwaies
seen
the
horrible
life
of
wicked
gouernors
,
bringeth
to
ruin
their
kyngdom
and
people
,
&
also
wicked
people
,
the
like
daungers
to
the
kyngdome
and
Prince
:
well
he
and
his
supporters
with
the
Duke
of
Buckyngham
,
died
shamefullie
,
God
permit
meanes
,
to
pull
doune
tyrauntes
.
The
knotte
of
mariage
promised
,
betwene
Henrie
Erle
of
Richemonde
,
and
Elizabeth
doughter
to
kyng
Edward
the
fowerth
:
caused
diuerse
nobles
to
aide
and
associate
this
erle
,
fledde
out
of
this
lande
with
all
power
,
to
the
attainmente
of
the
kyngdome
by
his
wife
.
At
Nottyngham
newes
came
to
kyng
Richard
,
that
the
Erle
of
Richmonde
,
with
a
small
compaignie
of
nobles
and
other
,
was
arriued
in
Wales
,
forthewith
exploratours
and
spies
were
serit
,
who
shewed
the
Erle
to
be
encampled
,
at
the
toune
of
Litchfield
,
forthwith
all
preparacion
Lichefelde
.
of
warre
,
was
set
forthe
to
Leicester
on
euery
side
,
Leicester
.
the
Nobles
and
commons
shranke
from
kyng
Richarde
,
his
power
more
and
more
weakened
.
By
a
village
called
Bosworthe
,
Bosworthe
in
a
greate
plaine
,
méete
for
twoo
battailes
:
by
Leicester
this
held
was
pitched
,
wherin
king
Richard
manfully
fightyng
hande
to
hande
,
with
the
Erle
of
Richmonde
,
was
slame
,
his
bodie
caried
shamefullie
,
to
the
toune
of
Leicester
naked
,
without
honor
,
as
he
deserned
,
trussed
on
a
horse
,
behinde
Kyng
Richard
killed
in
Bosworth
fielde
.
a
Purseuaunte
of
Armes
,
like
a
hogge
or
a
Calfe
,
his
hedde
and
his
armes
hangyng
on
the
one
side
,
and
his
legges
on
the
other
side
:
caried
through
mire
and
durte
,
to
the
graie
Friers
churche
,
to
all
men
a
spectacle
,
and
oprobrie
of
tirannie
this
was
the
cruell
tiramites
ende
.
¶
A
narracion
historicall
,
of
the
commyng
of
Iulius
Cesar
into
Britaine
.
WHen
Iulius
Cesar
had
ended
his
mightie
and
huge
battailes
,
about
the
stood
Rhene
,
he
marched
into
the
The
tyme
.
region
of
Fraunce
:
at
the
same
time
repairing
with
a
The
persone
.
freshe
multitude
,
his
Legions
,
but
the
chief
cause
of
his
warie
in
Fraunce
was
,
that
of
long
time
,
he
was
moued
in
minde
,
to
see
this
noble
Islande
of
Britain
,
whose
fame
for
nobilitee
The
cause
.
The
fame
and
glorie
of
Britaine
.
was
knowen
and
bruted
,
not
onelie
in
Rome
,
but
also
in
the
vttermoste
landes
.
Iulius
Cesar
was
wroth
with
them
,
because
in
his
warre
sturred
in
Fraunce
,
the
fearce
Britaines
aided
the
Fenche
men
,
and
did
mightilie
encounter
battaill
with
the
Romaines
:
whose
prowes
and
valiaunt
fight
,
slaked
the
proude
and
loftie
stomackes
of
the
Romaines
,
and
droue
them
to
diuerse
hasardes
of
battaill
.
But
Cesar
as
a
noble
warrier
The
prowes
of
Iulius
Cesar
.
preferryng
nobilitee
,
and
worthinesse
of
fame
,
before
money
or
cowardly
quietnes
:
ceased
not
to
enter
on
the
fearce
Britaines
,
and
thereto
prepared
his
Shippes
,
the
Winter
tyme
folowyng
,
that
assone
as
oportunitee
of
the
yere
serued
,
to
passe
with
all
power
against
them
.
In
the
meane
tyme
,
Cesar
inquired
of
the
Marchauntes
,
who
with
marchaundise
had
accesse
The
maner
how
.
to
the
Islande
:
as
concernyng
the
quantitee
and
bignes
of
Cesars
communicacion
with
the
marchauntes
,
as
concernyng
the
lande
of
Britaine
.
The
ware
&
politike
gouernement
of
that
Britaines
.
Aliaunce
in
tyme
traiterous
.
Britain
somtyme
called
of
the
Grekes
Olbion
,
not
Albion
.
Caius
Volusenus
,
Embassadour
to
Britaine
.
it
,
the
fashion
and
maner
of
the
people
,
their
lawes
,
their
order
,
and
kinde
of
gouernmente
.
As
these
thynges
were
in
all
poinctes
,
vnknowen
to
Cesar
,
so
also
the
Marchauntes
knewe
no
more
than
the
places
bordring
on
the
sea
side
.
For
,
the
Britaines
fearing
the
traiterous
and
dissembled
hartes
of
aliauntes
,
politikelie
repelled
them
:
for
,
no
straunger
was
suffered
to
enter
from
his
Shippe
,
on
the
lande
,
but
their
marchaundice
were
sold
at
the
sea
side
.
All
nacions
sought
to
this
land
,
the
felicitee
of
it
was
so
greate
,
whereupon
the
Grekes
knowyng
and
tastyng
the
commoditée
of
this
Islande
,
called
it
by
a
Greke
name
Olbion
,
whiche
signifieth
a
happie
and
fortunate
countrie
,
though
of
some
called
Albion
,
tyme
chaunged
the
firste
letter
,
as
at
this
daie
,
London
is
called
for
the
toune
of
kyng
Lud.
Cesar
thereupon
before
he
would
marche
with
his
armie
,
to
the
people
of
Britain
,
he
sent
Caius
Volusenus
a
noble
man
of
Rome
,
a
valiaunte
and
hardie
Capitaine
,
as
Embassadour
to
the
Britaines
,
who
as
he
thoughte
by
his
Embassage
,
should
knowe
the
fashion
of
the
Island
,
the
maner
of
the
people
,
their
gouernemente
.
But
as
it
seemeth
,
the
Embassadour
was
not
welcome
.
For
,
he
durste
not
enter
from
his
Ship
,
to
dooe
his
maisters
Embassage
,
Cesar
knewe
nothing
by
him
.
Yet
Cesar
was
not
so
contented
,
but
sent
an
other
Comas
Atrebas
,
seconde
Embassador
from
Cesar
.
Embassadour
,
a
man
of
more
power
,
stomack
,
and
more
hardie
,
Comas
Atrebas
by
name
,
who
would
enter
as
an
Embassadour
,
to
accomplish
the
will
&
expectacion
of
Cesar
,
Comas
Atrebas
was
so
welcome
,
that
the
Britains
cast
him
in
prison
:
Embassages
was
not
common
emong
theim
,
nor
the
curteous
vsage
of
Embassadours
knowen
.
Al
these
thinges
,
made
Cesar
more
wrothe
,
to
assaie
the
vncourtous
Bristaines
.
In
those
daies
Cassibelan
was
kyng
of
London
,
this
Cassibelane
king
of
London
,
at
the
ariue
of
Cesar
Cassibelane
a
worthie
Prince
.
Cassibelan
was
a
prince
of
high
wisedom
,
of
manly
stomacke
and
valiaunt
in
fight
:
and
for
power
and
valiauntnesse
,
was
chosen
of
the
Britaines
,
chief
gouernour
and
kyng
.
Dissencion
and
cruell
warre
was
emong
them
,
through
the
diuersitie
of
diuers
kinges
in
the
lande
.
The
Troinouauntes
enuied
the
state
of
Cassibelan
,
bicause
Immanuencius
,
who
was
kyng
of
London
,
before
Cassibelan
,
was
put
to
death
,
by
the
counsail
of
Cassibelan
.
The
sonne
of
Immanuencius
,
hearing
of
the
commyng
of
Cesar
,
did
flie
traiterouslie
to
Cesar
:
The
Imanuēcius
Troinouauntes
fauoured
Immanuencius
part
,
&
thereupon
promised
,
as
moste
vile
traitours
to
their
countrie
,
an
enteryng
to
Cesar
,
seruice
and
homage
,
who
through
a
self
will
,
The
Troynouauntes
by
treason
let
in
Cesar
.
and
priuate
fauour
of
one
,
sought
the
ruine
of
their
countrie
,
and
in
the
ende
,
their
own
destruccion
.
But
Cassibelan
gaue
many
ouerthrowes
to
Cesar
,
and
so
mightelie
encountred
with
hym
,
so
inuincible
was
the
parte
of
Cassibelane
:
but
by
treason
of
the
Troinouauntes
,
not
by
manhod
of
Cesars
power
,
enteryng
was
giuen
.
What
house
can
stande
,
wherein
Treason
a
confusion
to
the
mightiest
dominions
.
discord
broile
?
What
small
power
,
is
not
able
to
enter
the
mightiest
dominions
or
regions
:
to
ouercome
the
strongeste
fortresse
,
treason
open
the
gate
,
treason
giuyng
passage
.
Although
Cesar
by
treason
entered
,
so
Cesar
writeth
.
Yet
the
fame
of
Cesar
was
more
commended
,
for
his
enterprise
into
Britain
,
and
victorie
:
then
of
all
his
Conquest
,
either
against
Pompey
,
or
with
any
other
nacion
.
For
in
a
Piller
at
Rome
A
sentence
grauen
of
Britaine
,
in
the
commendacion
of
Cesar
.
this
sentence
was
engrauen
:
Of
all
the
dominions
,
Citees
,
and
Regions
,
subdued
by
Cesar
,
his
warre
attempted
against
the
fearce
Britaines
,
passeth
all
other
.
After
this
sort
Cesar
entred
our
Islande
of
Britaine
by
treason
.
¶
A
narracion
iudiciall
,
out
of
Theusidides
,
vpon
the
facte
of
Themistocles
.
THe
Athenians
brought
vnder
the
thraldome
of
the
Lacedemonians
,
soughte
meanes
to
growe
mightie
,
and
to
pull
them
from
the
yoke
,
vnder
the
Lacedemonians
.
Lacedemonia
was
a
citee
enuironed
with
walles
.
Athenes
at
the
same
tyme
without
walles
:
whereby
their
state
was
more
feeble
,
and
power
weakened
.
Themistocles
a
noble
Sage
,
and
a
worthie
pere
of
Athens
:
gaue
the
Athenians
counsaile
to
wall
their
citee
strongly
,
and
so
forthwith
to
be
lordes
and
rulers
by
them selues
,
after
their
owne
facion
gouerning
.
In
finishing
this
enterprise
,
in
all
poinctes
,
policie
,
and
wittie
conueiaunce
wanted
not
.
The
Lacedemonians
harde
of
the
purpose
of
the
Athenians
,
&
sent
Embassadours
,
to
knowe
their
doynges
,
and
so
to
hinder
them
.
Themistocles
gaue
counfaill
to
the
Athenians
,
to
kepe
in
safe
custodie
,
the
Embassadours
of
Lacedemonia
,
vntill
soche
tyme
,
as
he
from
the
Embassage
was
retourned
from
Lacedemonia
.
The
Lacedemonians
hearyng
of
the
commyng
of
Themistocles
,
thought
little
of
the
walle
buildyng
at
Athens
.
Themistocles
was
long
looked
for
of
them
,
because
Themistocles
lingered
in
his
Embassage
,
that
or
the
matter
were
throughly
knowen
:
the
walle
of
Athens
should
be
builded
.
The
slowe
commyng
of
Themistocles
,
was
blamed
of
the
Lacedemonians
:
but
Themistocles
excused
hymself
,
partly
infirmitie
of
bodie
,
lettyng
his
commyng
,
and
the
expectacion
of
other
,
accompaignied
with
hym
in
this
Embassage
.
The
walle
ended
,
necessitie
not
artificiall
workemanship
finishing
it
,
with
al
hast
it
was
ended
:
then
Themistocles
entered
the
Senate
of
Lacedemonia
,
and
saied
:
the
walle
whom
ye
sought
to
let
,
is
builded
at
Athens
,
ye
Lacedemonians
,
that
wee
maie
be
more
strong
.
Then
the
Lacedemonians
could
saie
nothyng
to
it
,
though
thei
enuied
the
Athenians
state
,
the
walle
was
builded
,
and
leste
thei
should
shewe
violence
or
crueltie
on
Themistocles
,
their
Embassadours
were
at
Athens
in
custodie
,
whereby
Themistocles
came
safe
from
his
Embassage
,
and
the
Athenians
made
strong
by
their
walle
:
this
was
politikely
dooen
of
Themistocles
.
¶
A
narracion
Poeticall
vpon
a
Rose
.
WHo
so
doeth
maruaile
at
the
beautée
and
goodly
colour
of
the
redde
Rose
,
he
must
consider
the
blood
,
that
came
out
of
Venus
the
Goddes
foot
.
The
Goddes
Venus
,
as
foolishe
Poetes
dooe
feigne
,
beyng
the
aucthour
of
Loue
:
loued
Adonis
the
soonne
of
Cynara
kyng
of
Cypres
.
But
Mars
called
the
God
of
battaile
,
loued
Venus
,
beyng
nothyng
loued
of
Venus
:
but
Mars
loued
Venus
as
feruently
,
as
Venus
loued
Adonis
.
Mars
beyng
a
God
,
loued
Venus
a
goddes
,
but
Venus
onely
was
inflamed
with
the
loue
of
Adonis
,
a
mortall
man
.
Their
loue
was
feruent
,
and
extremely
set
on
fire
in
bothe
,
but
their
kinde
and
nature
were
contrary
,
wherevpon
Mars
beyng
in
gelousie
,
sought
meanes
to
destroie
,
faire
amiable
,
and
beautifull
Adonis
,
thinkyng
by
his
death
,
the
loue
of
Venus
to
be
slaked
:
Adonis
and
Mars
fell
to
fighting
Venus
as
a
louer
,
ranne
to
helpe
Adonis
her
louer
,
and
by
chaunce
she
fell
into
a
Rose
bushe
,
and
pricked
with
it
her
foote
,
the
blood
then
ran
out
of
her
tender
foote
,
did
colour
the
Rose
redde
:
wherevpon
the
Rose
beyng
white
before
,
is
vpon
that
cause
chaunged
into
redde
.
Chria
.
CHria
,
this
profitable
exercise
of
Rhetorike
,
is
for
the
porfite
of
it
so
called
:
it
is
a
rehersall
in
fewe
wordes
,
of
any
ones
fact
,
or
of
the
saiyng
of
any
man
,
vpon
the
whiche
an
oracion
maie
be
made
.
As
for
example
,
Isocrates
did
say
,
that
the
roote
of
learnng
was
bitter
,
but
the
fruictes
pleasaunt
:
and
vpon
this
one
sentence
,
you
maie
dilate
a
ample
and
great
oracion
,
obseruyng
these
notes
folowyng
.
The
saiyng
dooeth
containe
so
greate
matter
,
and
minister
soche
plentie
of
argumente
.
Aucthors
intreatyng
of
this
exercise
,
doe
note
three
sortes
to
bee
of
theim
,
one
of
theim
a
Chria
verball
,
that
is
to
saie
,
a
profitable
exercise
,
vpon
the
saiyng
of
any
man
,
onely
conteinyng
the
wordes
of
the
aucthour
,
as
the
sentence
before
.
The
seconde
is
,
conteinyng
the
facte
or
deede
of
the
persone
:
As
Diogines
beyng
asked
of
Alexander
the
Greate
,
if
he
lacked
any
thyng
,
that
he
was
able
to
giue
hym
,
thinkyng
his
demaunde
vnder
his
power
,
for
Diogenes
was
at
the
same
tyme
warmyng
hymself
in
the
beames
of
the
Sunne
:
Diogenes
aunswered
,
ye
take
awaie
that
,
that
ye
are
not
able
to
giue
,
meanyng
that
Alexander
by
his
bodie
,
shadowed
hym
,
and
tooke
awaie
that
whiche
was
not
in
his
power
to
giue
,
Alexander
tourned
hymself
to
his
men
,
and
saied
,
if
I
were
not
Alexander
,
I
would
be
Diogenes
.
The
thirde
is
a
Chria
mirt
,
bothe
verball
and
notyng
the
facte
,
as
Diogenes
seyng
a
boie
wanton
&
dissolute
,
did
strike
his
teacher
with
a
staffe
,
vetteryng
these
woordes
:
why
doocst
thou
teache
thy
scholer
so
dissolutlie
.
You
shall
learne
to
make
this
exercise
,
obseruyng
these
notes
.
-
Firste
,
you
shall
praise
the
aucthour
,
who
wrote
the
sentence
,
waighing
his
life
,
if
his
life
be
vnknowen
,
and
not
easie
to
finde
his
sentence
or
sentences
:
for
godlie
preceptes
will
minister
matter
of
praise
,
as
if
these
saiynges
bee
recited
,
thei
are
sufficient
of
them selues
,
to
praise
the
aucthour
.
-
Then
in
the
seconde
place
,
expounde
the
meanyng
of
the
aucthour
in
that
saiyng
.
-
Then
shewe
the
cause
,
why
he
spake
this
sentence
.
-
Then
compare
the
matter
,
by
a
contrary
.
-
Then
frame
a
similitude
of
the
same
.
-
Shewe
the
like
example
of
some
,
that
spake
the
like
,
or
did
the
like
.
-
Then
gather
the
testimonies
of
more
writers
of
the
same
-
Then
knit
the
conclusion
.
¶
An
Oracion
.
I
Socrates
did
saie
,
that
the
roote
of
learnyng
is
was
bitter
,
but
the
fruictes
were
pleasaunt
.
¶
The
praise
.
THis
Oratour
Isocrates
,
was
an
Athenian
borne
,
who
florished
in
the
time
of
Lusimachus
the
chief
Lusimachus
gouernor
of
Athens
:
this
Isocrates
was
brought
vp
in
all
excellencte
of
learning
,
with
the
moste
famous
and
excellent
Oratour
Prodicus
,
Gorgias
Leontinus
Prodicus
.
Gorgias
Leontinus
.
indued
him
with
all
singularitie
of
learnyng
and
eloquence
.
The
eloquence
of
Isocrates
was
so
famous
,
that
Aristotle
the
chief
Pholosopher
,
enuied
his
vertue
&
praise
therin
:
Demosthenes
also
,
who
emong
the
Grecians
chieflie
excelled
,
learned
his
eloquence
,
of
the
Oracions
whiche
Isocrates
wrote
,
Demosthenes
learned
eloquence
of
Isocrates
.
to
many
mightie
and
puisaunt
princes
and
kinges
,
do
shewe
his
wisedome
,
&
copious
eloquence
,
as
to
Demonicus
the
king
to
Nicocles
,
Euagoras
,
against
Philip
the
king
of
the
Macedonians
,
by
his
wisedome
and
counsaill
,
the
Senate
and
vniuersal
state
of
Athens
was
ruled
,
&
the
commons
and
multitude
thereby
in
euery
part
florished
:
chieflie
what
counsaill
,
what
wisedome
,
what
learnyng
might
bee
required
,
in
any
man
of
high
fame
and
excellencie
:
that
same
was
aboundantly
in
Isocrates
,
as
in
all
his
Orations
he
is
to
be
praised
,
so
in
this
sentence
,
his
fame
importeth
like
commendacion
.
¶
The
exposicion
.
IN
that
he
saieth
,
the
roote
of
learnyng
is
bitter
,
and
the
fruictes
pleasaunt
:
he
signifieth
no
excellent
qualitie
or
gift
,
vertue
,
arte
or
science
can
bee
attained
,
All
exellence
〈…〉
is
attained
.
except
paine
,
labour
,
diligence
,
doe
plant
and
sette
the
same
:
but
when
that
noble
gift
,
either
learnyng
,
or
any
excellente
qualitee
,
is
lodged
and
reposed
in
vs
,
then
we
gather
by
painfull
labours
,
greate
profite
,
comforte
,
delectable
pleasures
,
wealth
,
glorie
,
riches
,
whiche
be
the
fruictes
of
it
.
¶
The
cause
.
AND
seyng
that
of
our
owne
nature
,
all
men
are
enclined
from
their
tender
yeres
and
infancie
,
to
the
extirpacion
of
vertue
,
folowyng
with
all
earnest
studie
and
gréedie
,
the
free
passage
to
vice
,
and
specially
children
,
whose
iudgementes
and
reason
,
are
not
of
that
strengthe
,
to
rule
their
weake
mindes
and
bodies
,
therefore
,
in
them
chieflie
,
the
roote
of
learning
is
bitter
,
because
not
onely
many
yeres
thei
runne
their
race
,
in
studie
of
arte
and
science
.
With
care
and
paine
also
,
with
greuous
chastisment
and
correccion
,
thei
are
compelled
by
their
teachers
and
Maisters
,
to
apprehende
the
same
:
the
parentes
no
lesse
dreaded
,
in
the
educacion
of
their
children
,
in
chastisement
and
correction
,
so
that
by
all
meanes
,
the
foundacion
and
roote
of
all
learnyng
,
in
what
sort
so
euer
it
is
,
is
at
the
firste
vnpleasaunte
,
sower
,
and
vnsauerie
.
The
roote
of
learnyng
bitter
.
To
folowe
the
times
and
seasons
,
appoincted
for
the
same
,
is
moste
painfull
,
and
in
these
painfull
yeres
:
other
greate
pleasures
,
as
the
frailtie
of
youth
,
and
the
imbecilitie
of
nature
iudgeth
,
dooeth
passe
by
,
but
in
miserable
state
is
that
childe
,
and
vnfortunate
,
that
passeth
the
flower
of
his
Who
is
a
vnfortunate
childe
.
youth
and
tender
yeres
,
instructed
with
no
arte
or
Science
,
whiche
in
tyme
to
come
,
shal
be
the
onelie
state
,
helpe
,
the
piller
to
beare
of
the
sore
bront
,
necessitie
,
and
calamities
of
life
.
Herein
the
noble
Romaines
,
laied
the
sure
foundacion
of
their
mightie
dominion
,
in
the
descrite
prouidente
,
and
politike
Good
educacion
the
foundacion
of
the
Romaine
Empire
.
educacion
of
children
:
to
whom
the
Grecians
gaue
,
that
necessarie
bulwarke
and
faundacion
,
to
set
vp
all
vertue
,
all
arte
and
science
.
In
Grece
no
man
was
knowen
,
to
liue
in
that
common
wealth
,
but
that
his
arte
and
science
,
gaue
manifest
probacion
and
testimonie
,
how
and
after
what
sorte
he
liued
.
The
Romaines
in
like
sorte
,
the
sworde
and
aucthoritie
of
the
Magistrate
,
executyng
the
same
,
did
put
forthe
,
and
draw
to
the
attainment
of
learnyng
,
art
or
science
,
all
youth
hauyng
maturitie
and
ripenesse
to
it
,
and
why
,
because
that
in
a
common
wealth
,
where
the
parentes
are
vndescrete
and
foolishe
,
as
in
all
common
wealthes
,
there
are
not
a
fewe
,
but
many
,
thei
not
ponderyng
the
state
of
the
tyme
to
come
,
bringing
vp
their
children
without
all
ciuilitie
,
vnframed
to
vertue
,
ignoraunt
of
all
arte
and
science
:
the
children
of
their
owne
nature
,
vnbrideled
,
vntaught
,
wilfull
,
and
heddie
,
doe
run
with
free
passage
to
all
wickednes
,
thei
fall
into
al
kinde
of
follie
,
oppressed
with
all
kinde
of
calamitie
,
miserie
,
and
vnfortunate
chaunces
,
whiche
happen
in
this
life
.
Nothyng
doeth
soner
pulle
doune
a
kyngdome
,
or
common
wealthe
,
Euill
educacion
bringeth
to
rume
mightie
kingdoms
then
the
euill
and
leude
educacion
of
youth
,
to
whom
neither
substaunce
,
wealth
,
riches
,
nor
possessions
doe
descende
,
from
their
auncestours
and
parentes
,
who
also
of
themselues
want
all
art
,
science
and
meanes
,
to
maintain
them
to
liue
,
who
of
themselues
are
not
able
to
get
relief
,
for
onely
by
this
meanes
,
life
is
maintained
,
wealth
and
riches
ar
possessed
to
many
greate
siegniorics
,
landes
,
and
ample
possessions
,
left
by
their
parentes
,
and
line
of
auncetours
,
haue
by
lacke
of
vertuous
educacion
,
been
brought
to
naught
,
thei
fell
into
extreme
miserie
,
pouertie
,
and
wantyng
learnyng
,
or
wealth
,
to
maintaine
their
state
and
delicate
life
,
thei
haue
robbed
,
spoiled
,
murthered
,
to
liue
at
their
owne
will
.
But
then
as
rotten
,
dedde
,
and
putride
members
from
the
common
wealth
thei
are
cutte
of
by
the
sworde
,
and
aucthoritie
of
the
Magistrate
.
What
kyngdome
was
more
mightie
and
strong
,
then
the
kyngdome
of
Lidia
,
whiche
by
no
other
meanes
was
brought
to
rume
and
destruccion
,
but
by
idlenes
:
in
that
thei
Lydia
.
were
kepte
from
all
vertuous
exercise
,
from
the
studie
of
artes
and
sciences
,
so
longe
as
thei
meditated
and
liued
in
the
schoole
of
vertuous
life
:
no
nacion
was
hable
to
ouerthrowe
them
,
of
themselues
thei
were
prone
and
readie
,
to
practise
all
excellencie
.
But
Cyrus
the
kyng
of
Persians
,
by
no
other
Cyrus
.
meanes
was
able
to
bring
them
weaker
.
He
toke
from
them
al
furtherance
to
artes
,
destroied
all
occupacions
of
vertue
whervpon
by
commaundement
and
terrour
,
wer
driuen
to
practise
the
vaine
and
pestiferous
practise
,
of
Cardes
and
Dice
.
Harlottes
The
decay
of
a
kyngdome
.
then
schooled
them
,
and
all
vnhoneste
pastyme
nurtered
them
,
Tauernes
an
quaffyng
houses
,
was
their
accustomed
and
moste
frequented
vse
of
occupacion
:
by
this
meanes
their
nobilitie
and
strengthe
was
decaied
,
and
kyngdome
made
thrall
.
Ill
educacion
or
idlenes
,
is
no
small
vice
or
euill
when
so
mightie
a
prince
,
hauyng
so
large
dominions
,
whom
all
the
Easte
serued
and
obaied
.
Whose
regimente
and
gouernemente
was
so
infinite
,
that
as
Zenophon
saieth
,
tyme
would
rather
want
,
then
matter
to
speake
of
his
mightie
and
large
gouernement
,
how
many
nacions
,
how
diuerse
people
The
mightie
dominions
of
Cyrus
.
and
valiaunte
nacions
were
in
subieccion
to
hym
.
If
this
mightie
Prince
,
with
all
his
power
and
populous
nacions
,
was
not
hable
to
giue
the
ouerthrowe
,
to
the
kyngdome
of
Lidia
,
but
by
ill
educacion
,
not
by
marciall
attemptes
,
sworde
Euill
educacion
.
or
battaill
:
but
by
giuyng
them
scope
and
libertie
,
to
dooe
as
he
would
.
No
doubt
but
that
Cyrus
sawe
,
by
the
like
example
of
other
kyngdomes
,
this
onelie
pollicie
to
bee
a
ruine
of
that
kyngdome
.
Pythagoras
the
famous
and
godlie
Philosopher
,
Pithagoras
.
saued
the
kyngdome
and
people
of
Crotona
,
thei
leauyng
all
studie
of
arte
,
vertue
and
science
.
This
people
of
Crotona
,
was
ouercome
of
the
people
of
Locrus
,
thei
left
all
Eatona
.
exercise
of
vertue
,
neclectyng
the
feates
of
chiualrie
,
whervpon
Pythagoras
hauyng
the
profitable
and
godlie
lawes
of
Lycurgus
,
which
he
brought
from
Lacedemonia
:
and
the
lawes
of
Minos
kyng
of
Creta
,
came
to
the
people
of
Crotona
,
and
by
his
godlie
teachyng
and
Philosophie
,
reuoked
&
brought
backe
the
people
,
giuen
ouer
to
the
neglectyng
of
all
vertue
,
declaryng
to
them
the
nobilitie
and
excellencie
thereof
,
he
liuely
set
foorthe
the
beastlinesse
of
vice
.
Pithagoras
recited
to
them
,
the
fall
and
ruine
of
many
regions
,
and
mightie
kingdomes
,
whiche
tooke
after
those
vices
.
Idlenes
beyng
forsaken
,
vertue
embrased
,
and
good
occupacions
practised
,
the
kyngdome
and
people
grewe
mightie
.
Emong
the
godlie
lawes
of
Lycurgus
,
Lycurgus
omitted
Lycurgus
.
not
to
ordaine
Lawes
,
for
the
educacion
of
youthe
:
in
the
whiche
he
cutte
of
all
pamperyng
of
them
,
because
in
tender
yeres
,
in
whose
bodies
pleasure
harboreth
,
their
vertue
,
science
,
cunnyng
rooteth
not
:
labour
,
diligence
,
and
industrie
onelie
rooteth
vertue
,
and
excellencie
.
Vices
as
vnprofitable
Vertue
.
weedes
,
without
labour
,
diligence
and
industrie
growe
vp
,
Vice
.
and
thereby
infecteth
the
minde
and
bodie
,
poisoneth
all
the
mocions
,
incensed
to
vertue
and
singularitie
.
Who
euer
attained
cunnyng
,
in
any
excellent
arte
or
science
,
where
idlenes
or
pleasure
helde
the
swaie
.
Philosophie
sheweth
,
pleasure
to
bée
vnmete
for
any
man
of
singularitie
,
for
pleasure
,
Pleasure
.
Idlenes
.
Ignoraunce
.
idlenes
,
and
ignoraunce
,
are
so
linked
together
,
that
the
possession
of
the
one
,
induceth
the
other
.
So
many
godlie
monumentes
of
learning
,
had
not
remained
to
this
posteritie
of
ours
and
of
all
ages
:
if
famous
men
in
those
ages
and
tymes
,
had
hunted
after
immoderate
pleasure
.
Thindustrie
of
soche
,
who
left
to
the
posteritie
of
all
ages
,
the
knowledge
of
Astronomie
is
knowen
:
the
monumentes
of
all
learnyng
of
lawes
,
and
of
all
other
woorkes
of
antiquitie
,
by
vertue
,
noble
,
by
industrie
,
labour
,
and
moderacion
of
life
in
studie
,
not
by
pleasure
and
wantones
,
was
celebraied
to
all
ages
.
the
mightie
volumes
of
Philosophers
,
bothe
in
morall
preceptes
,
and
in
naturall
causes
,
knewe
not
the
delicate
and
dissolute
life
of
these
our
daies
.
Palingenius
enueighyng
against
the
pampered
,
and
lasciuious
life
of
man
,
vttereth
a
singulare
sentence
Qui
facere
et
qui
nosce
,
cupit
quam
plurima
et
altum
,
In
terris
virtute
aliqua
sibi
querere
nomen
:
Hunc
vigilare
opus
est
,
nam
non
preclara
geruntur
,
Stertendo
,
et
molles
detrectat
gloria
plumas
.
Who
so
coueteth
to
purchase
fame
by
actes
,
or
whose
minde
hunteth
for
aboundaunte
knowledge
,
or
by
vertue
in
this
life
,
to
purchause
good
fame
.
He
had
not
nede
to
slugge
and
flepe
in
his
doynges
:
for
good
fame
is
not
vpholded
by
gaie
Pecockes
feathers
.
Of
this
,
Demosthenes
the
famous
Oratour
of
Athens
,
vttereth
a
worthie
saiyng
to
the
Athenians
in
his
Epistle
:
if
any
will
iudge
Alexander
the
greate
,
to
be
famous
and
happie
,
in
that
he
had
successe
in
all
his
doynges
,
let
this
be
his
cogitacion
,
that
Alexander
the
greate
,
alwaies
did
inure
hymself
to
doe
thynges
,
and
manfullie
to
Alexander
the
great
,
commended
for
diligence
.
assaie
that
he
enterprised
.
The
felicitie
of
his
successe
came
to
hym
not
slepyng
,
or
not
cogitatyng
thereof
:
Alexander
the
greate
now
dedde
,
Fortune
seketh
with
whom
she
maie
accompanie
,
and
associate
her self
.
Thusidides
comparyng
the
Lacedemonians
,
and
the
Athenians
together
,
shewed
a
rare
moderacion
,
and
temperature
of
life
,
to
be
in
the
Athenians
:
wherupon
thei
are
moste
commended
,
and
celebrated
to
the
posteritie
.
¶
The
contrarie
.
EVen
as
idlenes
and
a
sluggishe
life
,
is
moste
pleasant
to
all
soche
,
as
neglecte
vertuous
exercises
,
and
godlie
life
.
So
paine
,
labour
,
and
studie
,
bestowed
and
emploied
,
in
the
sekyng
out
of
vertue
,
arte
,
or
science
is
moste
pleasaunt
to
well
affected
mindes
:
for
no
godlie
thyng
can
be
attained
to
,
without
diligence
and
labour
.
¶
The
similitude
.
EVen
as
housbandmen
,
with
labour
and
trauaile
,
dooe
labour
in
plantyng
and
tillyng
the
grounde
,
before
thei
receiue
any
fruicte
of
the
same
.
Euen
so
no
vertue
,
arte
,
or
science
,
or
any
other
thyng
of
excellencie
is
attained
,
without
diligence
and
labour
bestowed
thereto
.
¶
The
example
.
LEt
Demosthenes
,
the
famous
Oratour
of
Athenes
,
bee
an
example
of
diligence
to
vs
,
who
to
auoide
all
let
from
studie
,
vsed
a
meanes
to
kepe
hymself
therto
:
preuentyng
also
the
industrie
of
artificers
.
The
same
Demosthenes
,
wrote
seuen
tymes
out
the
storie
of
Thusidides
,
to
learne
thereby
his
eloquence
and
wisedome
.
¶
The
testimonie
.
PLinie
,
Plato
,
and
Aristotle
,
with
many
other
mo
,
are
like
examples
for
diligence
to
vs
:
who
wrote
vpon
vertue
and
learnyng
like
sentences
.
¶
The
conclusion
.
THerefore
,
Isocrates
dooeth
pronounce
worthelie
,
the
roote
of
learning
and
vertue
to
be
bitter
,
and
the
frutes
pleasaunte
.
¶
A
Sentence
.
THe
Oracion
,
whiche
must
be
made
by
a
sentence
is
in
al
partes
like
to
Chria
,
the
profitable
exercise
,
onelie
that
the
Oracion
made
vpon
a
sentence
,
as
aucthours
do
saie
:
hath
not
alwaie
the
name
of
the
aucthour
prefixed
in
the
praise
,
a
small
matter
of
difference
,
who
so
can
make
the
one
,
is
expert
and
exquisite
in
the
other
,
aucthours
doe
define
a
sentence
in
this
maner
.
A
sentence
is
an
Oracion
,
in
fewe
woordes
,
shewyng
a
godlie
precept
of
life
,
exhorting
or
diswadyng
:
the
Grekes
dooe
call
godly
preceptes
,
by
the
name
of
Gnome
,
or
Gnome
.
Gnomon
,
whiche
is
asmoche
to
saie
,
a
rule
or
square
,
to
direct
any
thyng
by
,
for
by
them
,
the
life
of
manne
is
framed
to
all
singularitie
.
Thei
are
diuers
sortes
of
sentences
,
one
exhorteth
,
an
other
diswadeth
,
some
onely
sheweth
:
there
is
a
sentence
simple
,
compounde
,
profitable
,
true
,
&
soche
like
.
Frame
your
Oracion
vpon
a
sentence
,
as
in
the
Oracion
before
.
-
1.
The
praise
of
the
aucthour
.
-
2.
The
exposicion
of
the
sentence
.
-
3.
A
confirmacion
in
the
strength
of
the
cause
.
-
4.
A
conference
,
of
the
contrarie
.
-
5.
A
similitude
.
-
6.
The
example
.
-
7.
The
testimonie
of
aucthors
,
shewing
the
like
.
-
8.
Then
adde
the
conclusion
.
¶
An
Oracion
vpon
a
sentence
.
¶
The
sentence
.
In
a
common
wealthe
or
kyngdome
,
many
kynges
to
beare
rule
,
is
verie
euill
,
let
there
be
but
one
kyng
.
¶
The
praise
of
the
aucthour
.
HOmere
,
who
of
all
the
Poetes
chiefly
excelled
,
spake
this
sentence
in
the
persone
of
Vlisses
,
vpon
the
king
Agamemnon
,
kyng
of
Grece
.
This
Homere
intreating
of
all
the
princely
affaires
,
and
greate
enterprices
of
the
Grecians
:
and
of
the
mightie
warre
againste
the
Troians
,
emong
whom
soche
discorde
rose
,
that
not
onely
the
warre
,
for
lacke
of
vnitie
and
concorde
,
continued
the
space
of
tenne
yeres
.
But
also
moche
blood
shed
,
hauocke
,
and
destruccion
,
came
vpon
the
Grecians
,
vttered
this
sentence
.
This
Homere
for
his
learnyng
and
wisedome
remaineth
,
intteled
in
many
monumentes
of
learnyng
:
with
greate
fame
and
commendacion
to
all
ages
.
What
Region
,
Isle
,
or
nacion
is
not
,
by
his
inuencion
set
foorthe
:
who
although
he
were
blinde
,
his
minde
sawe
all
wisedome
,
the
states
of
all
good
kyngdomes
and
common
wealthes
.
The
verie
liuely
Image
of
a
Prince
The
praise
of
Homere
.
or
gouernour
,
the
faithfull
and
humble
obedience
of
a
subiect
,
toward
the
prince
,
the
state
of
a
capitaine
,
the
vertue
and
noble
qualities
,
that
are
requisite
,
in
soche
a
personage
,
be
there
The
content
of
Homers
bookes
.
set
forthe
.
The
perfite
state
of
a
wiseman
,
and
politike
,
is
intreated
of
by
hym
.
The
Iustice
,
and
equitie
of
a
Prince
,
the
strength
of
the
bodie
,
all
heroicall
vertues
:
also
are
set
forthe
his
eloquence
and
verse
,
floweth
in
soche
sorte
,
with
soche
pleasauntnes
:
so
copious
,
so
aboundaunt
,
so
graue
and
sentencious
,
that
his
singularitie
therein
excelleth
,
and
passeth
.
The
mightie
prince
Alexander
,
in
all
his
marciall
enterprices
,
Alexander
,
and
great
conquestes
,
did
continually
night
by
night
,
reade
somewhat
of
the
Ilias
of
the
Poete
Homere
,
before
he
The
Ilias
of
Homere
,
mete
for
princes
to
looke
vpon
.
slepte
,
and
askyng
for
the
booke
,
saied
:
giue
me
my
pillowe
.
Alexander
as
it
semeth
,
learned
many
heroical
vertues
,
policie
,
wisedome
,
&
counsaill
thereof
,
els
he
occupied
in
so
mightie
and
greate
warres
,
would
not
emploied
studie
therein
.
Iulius
Cesar
the
Emperour
,
commendeth
this
Poete
,
for
his
singularitie
,
his
commendacion
giueth
,
ample
argument
,
in
this
singulare
sentence
,
whiche
preferreth
a
Monarchie
aboue
all
states
of
common
wealthes
or
kyngdome
.
¶
The
exposicion
.
HOmere
the
Poete
,
signified
by
this
one
sentence
,
no
kyngdome
or
common
wealthe
can
prospere
,
or
florishe
to
continue
,
where
many
holde
gouernement
as
kynges
.
For
,
the
mindes
of
many
rulers
and
princes
,
doe
moste
affecte
a
priuate
wealthe
,
commoditie
and
glorie
:
and
where
,
many
doe
beare
soche
swaie
and
dominion
,
the
common
wealth
can
not
be
good
.
For
,
thei
priuatly
to
theim
selues
,
doe
beare
that
regiment
,
and
alwaie
with
the
slaughter
of
many
,
do
seke
to
attain
and
clime
,
to
the
whole
gouerment
¶
The
cause
.
MAny
occasions
dooe
rise
,
whereby
many
princes
,
and
gouernours
in
a
common
wealth
,
be
diuerslie
affected
,
The
state
of
many
kinges
in
one
lande
.
so
that
the
gouernment
of
many
,
can
not
prosper
.
For
,
bothe
in
quiete
state
,
their
counsailes
must
bee
diuerse
,
and
vncertaine
:
and
where
thei
so
differ
,
the
kyngdome
standeth
in
great
ieopardy
and
daunger
.
Isocrates
intreatyng
of
a
Monarchie
,
sheweth
that
the
common
wealth
of
Athenes
,
Athenes
.
whiche
detested
and
refused
,
that
forme
and
state
,
after
the
ruine
and
fall
of
their
citee
:
beyng
vnder
the
thraldome
of
the
Lacedemonians
,
bothe
in
their
externall
chiualrie
and
seates
,
bothe
by
sea
and
by
lande
,
and
also
in
regimente
otherwise
,
their
citee
grewe
mightie
,
and
state
stedfast
.
The
Carthagineans
also
,
gouerned
by
one
,
had
their
gonernment
Carthage
in
a
monarchie
.
stedfaste
,
and
kyngdome
totall
:
who
in
puisaunte
actes
,
might
compare
with
the
noble
Romaines
.
As
the
obedience
to
one
ruler
and
chief
gouernour
,
sekyng
a
common
wealth
,
is
in
the
hartes
of
the
subiectes
:
feruent
and
marueilous
with
loue
embraced
,
so
the
Maiestie
of
hym
is
dreade
,
with
loue
serued
,
and
with
sincere
barte
,
and
fidelitie
obeied
,
his
maners
folowed
,
his
lawes
imitated
.
Many
gouernours
The
state
of
many
kinges
mone
lande
.
bearyng
regiment
,
as
their
maners
be
diuers
,
and
fashion
of
life
:
euen
so
the
people
bee
like
affected
,
to
the
diuersitie
of
diuers
princes
.
And
if
we
weigh
the
reuolucion
of
the
heauens
and
the
marueiles
of
God
therein
,
the
maker
of
the
same
,
who
beyng
one
God
,
ruleth
heauen
and
yearth
;
and
all
thynges
contained
in
the
same
.
The
heauen
also
adorned
with
many
a
A
monarchie
in
heauen
.
One
Sunne
starre
,
and
cleare
light
,
haue
but
one
Sunne
to
gouerne
them
:
who
being
of
a
singulare
vertue
aboue
the
rest
,
by
his
vertue
and
power
,
giueth
vertue
to
the
reste
.
Also
in
small
thynges
the
Ante
and
the
Bee
,
who
for
prouidence
and
wisedome
,
at
The
Ante.
The
Bee
.
moche
commended
:
haue
as
it
were
a
common
wealth
,
and
a
king
to
gouerne
them
,
so
in
all
thinges
as
a
confusion
,
the
state
of
many
kings
is
abhorred
in
gouernment
.
After
the
death
of
Constantinus
the
greate
,
Constancius
his
sonne
was
made
Emperour
,
and
Licinius
with
him
,
partaker
in
felowship
of
Constancius
Licinius
Marabodius
the
Empire
.
But
forthwith
,
what
blood
was
shed
in
Italie
,
with
all
crueltie
,
vntill
Constancius
had
slaine
Licinius
,
partaker
of
the
Empire
,
and
Marabodius
was
slaine
also
,
whom
Licinius
did
associate
with
hym
in
the
gouernment
.
So
moche
princes
and
chief
gouernours
,
doe
hate
equalitie
,
or
felowship
in
kingdomes
.
After
the
same
sort
,
in
this
mightie
Pompey
.
Cesar
.
Marius
.
Silla
.
Monarchie
of
Rome
,
diuerse
haue
attempted
at
one
and
sondrie
tymes
,
to
beare
the
scepter
and
regiment
therein
,
but
that
mightie
Monarchie
,
could
not
suffer
but
one
gouernor
.
The
kyngdome
of
Thebes
,
was
in
miserable
state
,
the
twoo
sonnes
of
Dedipus
,
Eteocles
,
and
Polunices
:
striuing
bothe
to
be
Monarche
,
and
onely
kyng
.
The
kyngdome
of
Assiria
;
Assiria
the
first
monarchie
.
whiche
was
the
golden
kyngdome
,
and
the
first
Monarchie
:
hauyng
.
36.
kynges
by
succession
,
continued
.
1239.
yeres
,
this
kyngdome
for
all
nobilitie
and
roialnes
excelled
,
and
all
in
a
Monarchie
.
The
kyngdome
of
the
Medes
,
in
a
Monarchie
florished
in
wealthe
and
glorie
and
all
felicitie
:
who
in
dominion
had
gouernmente
.
300.
lackyng
.
8.
yeres
.
After
that
,
the
monarchie
of
the
Medes
ceased
,
the
Persian
people
rose
mightie
,
The
monarchie
of
the
Medes
.
The
Persian
.
Macedonia
.
bothe
in
people
and
Princes
,
and
continued
in
that
state
236
and
7
monethes
.
Macedonia
rose
from
a
base
and
meane
people
,
to
beare
the
whole
regiment
,
and
power
ouer
all
kingdomes
.
So
God
disposeth
the
state
and
seate
of
princes
,
ouerthrowyng
often
tymes
mightier
kyngdomes
at
his
will
:
the
continuaunce
of
this
Monarchie
was
.
157.
and
eight
monethes
,
ten
kynges
linealie
descendyng
.
Asia
and
Siria
,
was
Asia
Siria
gouerned
by
one
succedyng
in
a
sole
gouernement
.
Nicanor
gouerned
Siria
32.
yeres
.
In
the
other
Antigonus
raigned
,
Demetrius
Poliorchetes
one
yere
,
Antiochus
Soter
also
,
the
scepter
of
gouernment
,
left
to
the
succession
of
an
other
,
then
Antiochus
Soter
,
ruled
all
Asia
and
Siria
,
hauyng
.
16.
kinges
whiche
in
a
monarchie
,
continued
189.
yeres
.
The
Egipcians
,
Egipte
in
a
Monarchie
had
famous
,
wise
,
and
noble
princes
,
whose
kyngdome
and
large
deminion
,
in
all
felicitée
prospered
:
whiche
was
in
the
tyme
of
Ninus
,
the
first
king
of
the
Assirians
,
who
hauing
10
▪
princes
,
one
by
one
succedyng
,
Cleopatra
their
Quéene
,
gouerning
,
stoode
in
a
monarchie
.
288.
This
one
thyng
sheweth
,
that
kinde
of
gouernmente
to
bee
roiall
,
and
moste
famous
,
not
onely
for
the
felicitée
and
glory
therof
:
but
also
for
the
permanent
and
stedfast
state
thereof
.
Aristotle
and
Plato
setteth
forthe
,
thother
formes
of
gouernment
.
But
in
all
those
,
no
long
continuaunce
of
felicitee
,
nor
of
happy
state
can
appere
in
them
,
as
for
the
contrarie
to
a
Monarchie
,
is
tirannis
,
pestiferous
,
Tirannis
Nero
Domicianus
Caligula
.
and
to
be
detested
,
where
one
man
gouerneth
to
his
priuate
gaine
,
pillyng
and
polyng
his
subiectes
,
murderyng
with
all
crueltie
,
neither
Lawe
nor
reason
,
leadyng
thereto
:
but
will
bearyng
regiment
ouer
lawe
,
Iustice
and
equitee
,
whiche
princes
often
tymes
see
not
.
How
the
wilfull
rashenes
,
or
tirannicall
minde
doeth
abase
them
,
and
make
them
,
though
in
vtter
porte
the
same
princes
,
yet
in
verie
déede
,
thei
bee
thrall
and
slaue
to
beastlie
affeccion
.
Nothyng
dooeth
so
what
doeth
beautifie
the
throne
of
a
Prince
moche
adorne
and
beautifie
,
the
seate
and
throne
of
a
prince
,
as
not
onely
to
beare
dominion
,
ouer
mightie
people
and
regions
,
then
to
be
lorde
ouer
hymself
.
The
state
of
a
fewe
pèeres
Aristocratia
.
or
nobles
,
to
holde
the
chief
and
whole
gouernment
,
who
bothe
in
vertue
,
learnyng
,
and
experience
dooe
excelle
,
is
a
goodlie
state
of
common
wealth
.
But
the
profe
of
that
common
wealthe
and
ende
sheweth
,
and
the
maner
of
Princes
:
who
,
although
thei
be
,
of
life
godlie
,
wise
,
graue
,
expert
and
politike
.
For
,
these
vertues
or
ornamentes
,
ought
to
be
reposed
in
soche
noble
personages
,
thei
doe
marueilously
chaunge
and
alter
:
So
honour
and
preeminente
state
,
puffeth
theim
vp
,
and
blindeth
theim
,
that
euery
one
in
the
ende
,
seeketh
to
climbe
ouer
all
,
as
hed
and
gouernour
.
Shewe
me
one
kinde
of
this
state
,
and
forme
of
gouernmente
,
whiche
either
longe
prospered
,
or
without
bloodshed
,
and
destruccion
of
the
rest
of
the
nobles
and
peres
,
haue
not
caught
the
whole
regimente
.
Seyng
that
in
all
common
wealthes
and
kingdomes
,
equalitee
or
felowshippe
,
will
not
be
suffred
in
gouernmente
:
for
,
it
can
not
bee
,
that
this
forme
of
common
wealthe
maie
bée
good
,
as
Aristotle
and
Plato
sheweth
:
The
ende
of
this
gouernemente
,
The
ende
of
Aristocratia
.
fell
euer
to
one
,
with
a
ruine
of
the
kingdome
and
people
.
The
multitude
to
beare
dominion
,
and
though
a
Politeia
.
publike
wealth
bée
sought
for
a
tyme
,
moche
lesse
thei
continue
in
any
good
state
:
for
in
the
ende
,
their
rule
and
gouernement
,
will
be
without
rule
,
order
,
reason
,
modeste
,
and
their
lawe
must
bee
will
.
The
other
three
states
,
are
the
refuse
of
good
common
wealthes
,
not
to
bée
tollerated
in
any
region
.
The
one
of
them
is
a
tyraunte
,
to
bée
gouernour
onely
to
his
Tirannis
.
owne
glorie
,
with
crueltie
tormented
his
subiectes
,
onelie
to
haue
his
will
and
lust
,
ouer
all
lawe
,
order
,
and
reason
.
The
nobilitée
rulyng
to
themselues
,
euery
one
for
his
owne
time
The
third
,
the
base
and
rude
multitude
,
euery
one
for
hymself
,
Oligarthia
.
and
at
his
will
.
This
troublous
state
,
all
Regions
and
Democratia
.
common
wealthes
,
haue
felte
in
open
sedicions
ano
tumultes
,
raised
by
theim
,
it
is
a
plagued
and
pestiferous
kinde
of
gouernemente
.
The
example
of
a
good
Monarchie
,
is
of
greate
force
,
to
confounde
the
state
of
al
other
common
wealthes
,
and
formes
of
Regimente
.
The
nobilitée
of
Persia
hauyng
no
kyng
,
linially
descendyng
,
A
monarchie
prefarred
of
the
Persians
to
rule
that
mightie
dominion
of
Persia
,
Cambises
beyng
dedde
,
the
vsurper
murthered
,
thei
tooke
counsaill
in
their
assemble
,
what
state
of
gouernment
was
beste
,
thei
hauyng
the
profe
of
a
Monarchie
:
in
their
longe
counsaill
,
thei
knewe
the
felicitie
of
that
state
,
thei
knewe
as
it
seemed
,
the
perilous
state
of
the
other
gouernmentes
.
If
these
noble
and
peres
had
been
ambicious
,
and
that
eche
of
them
would
haue
had
felowshippe
,
or
participacion
in
kyngdomes
:
thei
would
not
haue
preferred
a
Monarchie
aboue
the
reste
.
The
antiquitie
of
that
tyme
sheweth
,
their
personages
,
wisedomegrauitie
,
and
maiestie
was
soche
,
that
eche
one
of
theim
was
mete
for
his
vertues
,
to
haue
a
whole
kyngdome
.
If
Aristocratia
would
haue
contented
them
,
then
was
tyme
and
occasion
offered
,
no
kyng
remainyng
to
haue
preferred
that
state
.
But
thei
as
vpright
nobles
,
sincere
and
faithfull
,
hauyng
altogether
The
duetie
of
al
noble
peres
respecte
to
a
publique
wealthe
:
to
a
permanent
state
and
felicitie
of
kingdome
,
sought
no
participacion
by
priuate
wealthe
,
to
dissolue
this
Monarchie
.
But
thei
beyng
moste
godlie
,
eche
were
content
to
proue
,
whose
chaunce
might
be
,
to
set
vp
againe
that
Monarchie
.
The
kyngdome
at
the
laste
came
to
the
handes
of
Darius
,
who
was
after
kyng
of
the
Darius
.
Persians
.
This
is
a
goodly
example
,
to
shewe
the
worthines
of
a
Monarchie
,
the
Persian
kingdome
after
many
yeres
declinyng
,
from
his
power
and
state
,
not
for
any
faulte
of
gouernment
,
but
God
as
he
seeth
tyme
,
raiseth
vp
kyngdomes
and
plucketh
them
daune
.
Afterward
Darius
the
kyng
,
not
Kyngdomes
rise
and
fall
able
to
make
his
parte
good
with
Alexander
the
Greate
:
offered
to
hym
the
greatest
parte
of
his
kyngdome
,
euen
to
the
stood
of
Euphrates
,
and
offred
his
daughter
to
wife
:
Alexander
was
content
to
take
the
offer
of
Darius
,
so
that
he
would
The
answer
of
Alexander
to
Darius
,
as
concernyng
a
monarchie
.
bee
seconde
to
hym
,
and
not
equall
with
hym
in
kyngdome
.
For
,
Alexander
saied
,
that
as
the
worlde
can
not
bee
gouerned
with
twoo
Sunnes
,
neither
the
worlde
can
suffer
twoo
mightie
kingdomes
:
wherupon
it
is
manifest
,
that
no
kingdome
will
suffer
equalitie
or
felowship
,
but
that
if
the
will
&
minde
of
Princes
might
brust
out
,
the
state
of
all
the
worlde
,
would
bee
in
one
mightie
gouernours
handes
.
For
,
alwaies
Princes
dooe
seke
to
a
sole
regimente
.
Alexander
the
greate
Alexander
the
great
prefarred
a
Monarchie
.
conquerour
also
,
preferring
for
worthines
a
Monarchie
,
at
the
tyme
of
his
death
,
demaunded
whom
he
would
haue
to
succede
him
in
his
mightie
dominions
,
he
by
one
signifiyng
a
Monarchie
,
saiyng
:
Dignissimus
,
that
is
to
saie
,
the
worthiest
.
After
the
death
of
Alexander
,
Antipater
caught
the
gouernmente
Alexanders
monarchie
fel
by
many
kinges
.
Antipater
.
Crates
.
Meliagrus
.
Perdiceas
.
Ptolemeus
.
Learcus
.
Cassander
.
Menander
.
Leonatus
.
Lusimacus
.
Eumenes
Seleucus
.
of
Macedonia
and
Grece
,
and
Crates
was
Treasurer
.
Meleagrus
and
Perdiceas
caught
other
of
his
dominions
,
then
Ptolemeus
possessed
Egipte
,
Africa
and
a
parte
of
Arabia
,
Learcus
,
Cassander
,
Menander
,
Leonatus
,
Lusimachus
,
Eumenes
,
Seleucus
and
manie
other
,
who
were
for
their
worthines
in
honor
and
estimacion
with
Alexander
,
caught
into
their
handes
other
partes
of
his
dominions
,
euerie
one
sekyng
for
his
time
,
his
owne
priuate
glorie
,
dignitie
,
and
aduauncemente
,
but
not
a
publike
wealthe
,
and
so
in
fine
,
ambicion
broiled
in
their
loftie
stomackes
,
eche
to
attaine
to
others
honor
.
Whereupon
bloodshed
,
destruction
of
the
people
and
countries
,
the
fall
of
these
Princes
ensued
.
So
moche
kingdomes
hate
equalitie
or
felowshipe
let
vs
laie
before
our
iyes
,
the
kyngdomes
nere
at
hand
.
Fraunce
,
from
the
tymes
of
Faramundus
vntill
this
daie
haue
stoode
,
and
did
florishe
Fraunce
.
Spaine
.
Germanie
.
Britaine
.
in
a
Monarchie
.
The
state
of
Spaine
,
from
the
tyme
of
the
firste
Kyng
,
vntill
this
daie
,
hath
florished
continually
in
a
Monarchie
.
The
great
seigniories
of
Germanie
,
by
one
succedyng
in
gouernment
,
haue
been
permanent
in
that
goodlie
state
.
Our
noble
Isle
of
Britain
from
Brutus
,
hath
stoode
by
a
Monarchie
:
onely
in
those
daies
,
the
state
of
gouernment
chaunged
,
at
the
commyng
of
Iulius
Cesar
,
Emperour
of
Rome
.
The
lande
beyng
at
diuision
,
and
discorde
,
through
the
diuersitie
of
diuerse
kynges
:
so
moche
the
state
of
diuerse
kynges
in
one
lande
,
is
to
be
expelled
,
or
the
gouernment
of
the
base
multitude
,
to
haue
vniuersally
power
of
dominion
,
or
the
state
of
peres
,
to
bee
chief
in
regiment
,
no
kyng
lefte
to
commaunde
ouer
the
people
,
and
nobles
,
or
els
there
can
not
be
but
discorde
in
th
ende
,
whiche
pulleth
doune
mosse
mightie
Regions
and
dominious
,
so
that
the
beste
state
,
the
moste
stedfaste
and
fortunate
,
is
in
all
tymes
,
in
all
ages
,
in
all
lawes
,
and
common
wealthes
,
where
one
king
sekyng
the
aduauncement
,
wealthe
,
glorie
,
of
hym
and
his
people
.
¶
The
contrarie
.
THat
housholde
or
familie
,
can
not
be
well
gouerned
,
where
many
and
diuerse
beareth
gouernment
,
necleayng
the
state
prosperous
vniuersallie
:
for
where
obedience
is
drawen
to
diuers
and
many
,
there
can
not
bee
good
gouernment
,
nor
faithfull
obedience
.
And
so
in
a
kingdome
where
one
chiefly
gouerneth
,
and
to
a
common
wealth
there
the
hartes
of
the
subiectes
,
be
moste
knitte
to
obaie
.
¶
The
similitude
.
EVen
as
thei
,
whiche
serue
one
maister
,
shall
soneste
with
labour
please
,
and
with
fidelitie
,
accomplishe
his
will
and
pleasure
.
For
,
the
maners
of
many
men
be
diuerse
,
and
variable
,
so
in
a
Monarchie
,
the
state
of
one
is
sone
obaied
,
the
minde
and
lawe
of
one
Prince
sone
folowed
,
his
Maiestie
dreaded
and
loued
.
¶
The
example
.
LET
the
fower
thief
Monarchies
of
the
Assirian
,
the
Persian
,
Grecian
,
and
the
Romaine
,
whiche
haue
continued
from
the
beginnyng
mightie
,
moste
happie
,
bee
an
example
herein
.
If
that
state
of
gouernement
,
had
not
been
chiefe
of
all
other
,
those
mightie
kyngdomes
would
not
haue
preferred
,
that
kinde
of
gouernment
.
¶
The
testimonie
of
auncient
writers
.
THerefore
,
Aristotle
,
Plato
,
and
all
the
chief
Philosophers
,
intreatyng
of
the
administracion
of
a
common
wealthe
:
doe
preferre
before
all
states
of
gouernment
a
Monarchie
,
bothe
for
the
felicitie
of
it
,
and
stedfaste
state
.
¶
The
conclusion
.
HOmere
therefore
deserueth
greate
commendacion
,
for
this
one
sentence
,
whiche
preferreth
a
Monarchie
before
all
states
.
The
destruccion
.
THis
exercise
of
Rhetotike
,
is
called
destruccion
,
or
subuersion
,
because
it
is
in
a
oracion
,
a
certain
reprehension
of
any
thyng
declaimed
,
or
dilated
,
in
the
whiche
by
order
of
art
,
the
declaimer
shall
procede
to
caste
doune
by
force
,
and
strengthe
of
reason
,
the
contrarie
induced
.
In
this
exercise
of
Rhetorike
,
those
proposicions
are
to
be
subuerted
,
whiche
are
not
manifeste
true
,
neither
it
so
repugnaunt
from
reason
,
as
that
there
can
appere
no
bolde
,
to
induce
a
probable
reason
to
confounde
the
same
.
But
soche
proposicions
are
meete
for
this
parte
,
as
are
probable
in
both
sides
,
to
induce
probabilitie
of
argument
,
to
reason
therupon
.
-
It
shall
behoue
you
firste
,
for
the
entryng
of
this
matter
,
to
adde
a
reprehension
there
against
those
,
whiche
haue
confirmed
as
a
truthe
,
that
,
whiche
you
will
confute
.
-
In
the
same
place
,
adde
the
exposion
,
and
meanyng
of
his
sentence
.
-
Thirdly
,
shew
the
matter
to
be
obscure
,
that
is
vncertain
-
Incrediblie
.
-
Impossible
.
-
Not
agreyng
to
any
likelihode
of
truthe
.
-
Vncomlie
to
be
talked
of
.
-
Vnprofitable
.
This
exercise
of
Rhetorike
doeth
contain
in
it
al
strength
of
arte
,
as
who
should
saie
,
all
partes
of
Rhetorike
,
maie
copiouslie
be
handled
in
this
parte
,
called
confutacion
,
so
ample
a
matter
Tullie
doeth
note
this
parte
to
be
.
¶
The
theme
or
proposicion
of
this
Oracion
.
It
is
not
like
to
be
true
,
that
is
said
of
the
battaill
of
Troie
.
¶
The
reprchension
of
the
aucthor
,
and
of
all
Poetes
.
NOt
without
a
cause
,
the
vanities
of
Poetes
are
to
bee
reproued
,
and
their
forged
inuencions
to
bee
reiected
:
in
whose
writynges
,
so
manifestlie
are
set
forthe
as
a
truthe
,
and
Chronicled
to
the
pesteritie
of
ages
and
times
,
soche
forged
matters
of
their
Poeticall
and
vain
wittes
.
Who
hath
not
heard
of
their
monsterous
lies
against
God
,
thei
inucntyng
a
genealogie
The
vanities
of
Poetes
.
of
many
Goddes
procreated
,
where
as
there
is
but
one
God
.
This
vanitie
also
thei
haue
set
forthe
,
in
their
monumentes
and
woorkes
.
How
a
conspiracie
was
sometyme
emong
the
Goddes
and
Goddes
,
to
binde
the
great
God
Iupiter
.
How
impudentlie
doe
thei
set
forthe
the
Goddes
,
to
bee
louers
of
women
,
and
their
adulterous
luste
:
and
how
thei
haue
transformed
theimselues
,
into
diuers
shapes
of
beastes
and
foules
,
to
followe
after
beastly
luste
:
The
malice
and
enuie
of
the
Goddes
,
one
to
another
▪
The
feigne
also
the
heauen
to
haue
one
God
,
the
sea
an
other
,
helle
an
other
,
whiche
are
mere
vanities
,
and
false
imaginacions
of
their
Poeticall
wittes
.
The
like
forged
inuencion
haue
thei
wrote
,
of
the
mightie
The
battaill
of
Troie
,
x
,
yeres
for
a
harlotte
.
and
terrible
battaill
bruted
of
Troie
,
for
a
beautifull
harlot
susteined
ten
yeres
.
In
the
whiche
,
not
onely
men
and
noble
peeres
,
gaue
the
combate
of
battaile
,
but
the
Goddes
toke
partes
against
Goddes
,
and
men
wounded
Goddes
:
as
their
The
vain
inuention
of
Poetes
.
lies
exceade
all
nomber
,
because
thei
hee
infinite
,
so
also
thei
passe
all
truthe
,
reason
,
and
iudgemente
.
These
fewe
examples
of
their
vanities
and
lies
,
doe
shewe
the
feigned
ground
and
aucthoritie
of
the
reste
.
Accordyng
to
the
folie
and
supersticiousnes
of
those
tymes
,
thei
inuented
and
forged
folie
vppon
folie
,
lye
,
vpon
lye
,
as
in
the
battaill
of
Troie
,
thei
aggrauate
the
dolour
of
the
battaill
,
by
pitifull
and
lamentable
inuencion
.
Plato
reiecteth
Poetes
from
the
common
wealth
.
As
for
the
Poetes
themselues
;
Plato
in
his
booke
,
made
vpon
the
administracion
of
a
common
wealth
,
maketh
theim
in
the
nomber
of
those
,
whiche
are
to
bee
banished
out
of
all
common
wealthes
.
¶
The
exposicion
.
HOmere
dooeth
saie
,
and
many
other
Poetes
,
that
the
warres
of
the
Grecians
against
the
Troians
,
was
for
beautifull
Helena
,
and
continued
tenne
yeres
.
The
Goddes
and
Goddis
toke
partes
,
and
all
the
people
of
Grece
,
aided
Menelaus
,
and
the
kyng
Agamemnon
,
to
bryng
home
again
Helena
,
neclecting
their
own
countrie
,
their
wife
and
children
,
for
one
woman
.
The
Grekes
inuentyng
a
huge
and
mightie
horse
made
of
Firre
tree
,
and
couered
with
brasse
,
as
huge
as
a
mountain
,
out
of
the
whiche
the
Grecians
by
treason
issuyng
,
brought
Troie
to
ruine
.
¶
The
obscuritie
of
the
matter
.
IT
semeth
a
matter
of
folie
,
that
so
many
people
,
so
mightle
nacions
should
bee
bewithed
,
to
raise
so
mightie
a
armie
,
hassaroyng
their
liues
,
leauyng
their
countrie
,
their
wiues
,
their
children
,
for
one
woman
:
Be
it
so
,
that
Helena
passed
all
creatures
,
and
that
Nature
with
beautie
had
induedher
with
all
vertue
,
and
singularitie
:
Helena
.
yet
the
Grecians
would
not
be
so
foolishe
,
that
vniuersallie
that
would
seke
to
caste
doune
their
owne
wealthe
,
and
moche
more
the
common
wealthe
of
Grece
,
and
kyngdome
to
stande
in
perill
.
Neither
is
it
to
be
thought
,
the
Grecians
,
sekyng
to
aduaunce
the
beautie
of
Helena
:
would
leaue
their
owne
state
.
But
it
is
like
,
the
wittes
of
Poetes
did
immagine
The
cause
of
the
forged
inuencion
.
so
forged
a
Chronicle
,
that
the
posteritie
of
ages
followyng
,
should
rather
wounder
at
their
forged
inuencion
,
then
to
beleue
any
soche
warre
truly
mencioned
.
There
was
no
soche
cause
,
seyng
that
the
kyngdome
of
Grece
,
fell
by
no
title
of
succession
to
Helena
,
for
them
to
moue
warre
,
for
,
the
bringyng
backe
of
that
beutifull
harlotte
Helena
.
Neither
in
Helena
was
there
vertue
,
or
honestie
of
life
,
to
moue
and
exasperate
the
Grecians
,
to
spende
so
greate
treasures
,
to
raise
so
mightie
an
armie
on
euery
side
.
What
commendacion
had
Nocommendacion
in
vpholdyng
and
,
maintainyng
of
hariottes
.
the
Troians
to
aduaunce
Helena
,
and
with
all
roialnesse
to
entreate
her
,
she
beyng
a
harlotte
:
the
folie
of
the
Grecians
and
the
Troians
,
is
so
on
euery
side
so
greate
,
that
it
can
not
be
thought
,
soche
a
warre
truely
chronicled
.
If
violence
and
power
,
had
taken
Helena
from
her
housebande
,
and
not
her
owne
will
and
luste
,
caught
with
the
adulterous
loue
of
Paris
,
Helena
followed
Paris
.
beyng
a
straunger
.
If
her
moderation
of
life
had
been
so
rare
,
as
that
the
like
facte
for
her
chastitie
,
had
not
been
in
any
age
or
common
wealthe
,
her
vertues
would
haue
giuen
occasion
:
The
Princes
and
nobles
of
Grece
to
stomacke
the
matter
.
The
example
of
the
facte
,
would
with
all
praise
and
Vertuous
life
,
worthie
commendation
in
al
ages
.
Lucrecia
.
Tarquinius
.
the
kyng
banished
for
rauishyng
Lucrecia
,
and
all
of
his
name
banished
.
Penelopes
chastitie
.
commendacion
be
mencioned
,
and
celebrated
to
al
ages
.
Lucretia
for
her
chastite
,
is
perpetuallie
to
be
aduaunced
,
whervpon
the
Romaines
banished
Tarquinius
their
kyng
,
his
stocke
and
name
from
Rome
.
The
rare
chastite
of
Penelope
,
is
remainyng
as
a
example
herein
:
So
many
shares
laied
to
caste
doune
her
vertuous
loue
towarde
her
housebande
Vlisses
.
But
Vlisses
made
hauocke
by
murder
,
on
these
gaie
and
gallante
Ruffins
,
who
in
his
absence
sought
to
alienate
and
withdrawe
,
the
chaste
harte
of
Penelope
,
consumyng
his
substance
.
A
greater
example
remaineth
in
no
age
,
of
the
like
chastite
.
As
for
the
battaile
of
Troie
,
raised
for
Helena
,
could
wise
men
,
and
the
moste
famous
nobles
of
Grece
:
So
occupie
their
heddes
,
and
in
the
same
,
bothe
to
hasarde
their
liues
for
a
beautifull
strumpet
or
harlot
.
The
sage
and
wise
Nestor
,
whom
Agamemnon
for
wisedome
preferred
,
before
Nestor
.
the
moste
of
the
péeres
of
Grece
,
neither
it
Vltisses
wanted
at
the
same
tyme
,
hauyng
a
politike
and
subtill
hedde
,
to
withdrawe
Vlisses
.
theim
from
so
leude
and
foolishe
a
enterprise
.
Grece
wanted
not
beautifull
creatures
,
Nature
in
other
had
bestowed
Grece
the
lande
of
faire
women
.
amiable
faces
,
personage
,
and
comelie
behauiour
.
For
,
at
those
daies
,
Grece
thei
called
A
chaida
calligunaica
,
that
is
,
Grece
the
lande
of
faire
women
.
The
dolorous
lamentacion
of
the
Ladies
and
Matrons
in
Grece
,
would
haue
hindered
soche
a
foolishe
enterprise
,
seyng
their
owne
beautie
neclected
,
their
honestie
of
life
caste
vp
to
perilles
,
one
harlot
of
innumerable
people
followed
and
hunted
after
,
in
whom
neither
Vncomelie
.
honestie
,
vertue
,
nor
chastite
was
harbored
.
¶
Vncredible
.
ALthough
the
folie
of
men
is
greate
,
and
the
will
of
princes
and
gouernours
beastlie
and
rashe
,
yet
by
no
meanes
it
can
be
so
many
yeres
,
so
greate
folie
to
take
roote
in
their
hartes
,
and
that
the
wisedom
of
the
Grecians
should
not
rather
caste
of
as
naught
,
the
beautie
Beautie
without
vertue
,
nothyng
of
valour
.
of
Helena
:
rather
then
the
whole
multitude
,
the
state
of
the
Prince
,
the
welfare
of
the
subiecte
,
to
stande
in
perill
for
the
beautie
of
one
.
What
is
beautie
,
when
a
beastlie
and
adulterous
minde
is
possessed
:
Beautie
without
chastitie
,
harboreth
a
monsterous
rabelmente
of
vices
,
a
snare
and
haire
,
Beautie
a
poison
,
in
a
adulterous
mynde
.
to
poison
other
.
Beautie
in
fewe
yeres
,
is
not
onely
blemished
,
but
decated
,
and
wholie
extinguished
:
it
is
vncredible
,
that
the
Grecians
would
seeke
to
bryng
home
Helena
,
who
Beautie
sone
fadeth
.
had
loste
the
chaste
loue
toward
her
housband
,
beyng
caught
with
the
adulterous
loue
of
Paris
,
soonne
to
Priamus
kyng
Paris
Helenas
louer
.
Phrigia
.
of
Troie
.
The
lande
of
Phrigia
was
a
mightie
Region
,
the
people
noble
,
puissaunte
in
warre
:
the
kyng
for
nobilitie
of
actes
famous
.
The
Citee
of
Troie
,
wherein
the
kyng
helde
his
Scepter
of
gouernement
,
was
riche
,
mightie
,
and
populous
:
ruled
and
gouerned
,
by
the
wisedome
and
policie
of
famous
counsailours
,
so
that
by
all
meanes
it
is
vncredible
,
without
any
possibilitie
.
Thei
neclectyng
their
owne
state
Vncomelie
.
and
kyngdom
,
so
to
preferre
the
beautie
of
one
,
that
the
whole
multitude
of
Grece
thereby
to
perishe
.
It
is
a
matter
vncredible
in
all
Grece
,
whiche
for
the
fame
of
wisedome
,
is
moste
Grece
the
fountain
of
al
learnyng
.
celebrated
emong
all
nacions
,
not
one
wiseman
at
the
same
tyme
to
be
therein
:
whose
counsaile
and
politike
heddes
,
might
ponder
a
better
purpose
.
Grece
,
whiche
was
the
mother
and
fountaine
of
all
artes
and
sciences
,
all
Eloquence
,
Philosophie
,
wisedome
flowyng
from
them
,
and
yet
wisedome
to
want
in
their
breastes
.
Reason
can
not
make
any
parswasion
that
any
probabilitie
can
rise
,
of
any
soche
matter
enterprised
,
what
could
the
intent
be
of
the
Grecians
,
as
concerning
Menelaus
.
In
Menelaus
there
was
no
wisedom
,
to
seke
and
Menelaus
housbande
to
Helena
.
hunte
after
Helena
,
or
by
any
meanes
to
possesse
her
,
she
beyng
a
harlotte
,
her
loue
alienated
,
her
hart
possessed
with
the
loue
of
an
other
manne
:
foolishlie
he
hopeth
to
possesse
loue
,
that
seeketh
to
enioye
the
cloked
,
poisoned
,
and
dissembled
Harlottes
loue
dissentbled
.
harte
of
a
harlotte
,
Grece
was
well
ridde
of
a
harlotte
,
Troie
harbouryng
Helena
.
In
the
Troians
it
is
not
to
be
thought
,
Troians
.
that
either
the
kyng
,
or
nobles
,
for
a
harlotte
,
would
see
the
the
people
murthered
,
their
owne
state
,
the
king
to
be
in
danger
of
ruine
.
In
the
Grecians
there
was
neither
wisedome
,
Grecians
.
neither
commendacion
,
to
pursue
with
a
maine
hoste
,
with
a
greate
Nauie
of
Shippes
,
to
bryng
backe
againe
a
harlotte
,
whose
enterprise
rather
might
better
bee
borne
,
to
banishe
&
exile
soche
a
beastlie
disposed
persone
.
The
Troians
mighte
Absurditie
.
well
scorne
the
Grecians
,
if
that
the
possession
of
a
beautifull
moste
amiable
,
and
minsyng
harlotte
,
was
of
soche
valour
,
estimacion
,
and
price
with
theim
,
not
onely
the
beautie
of
all
other
to
bee
reiected
.
But
moste
of
all
the
vertuous
life
,
and
chastitie
of
all
their
matrons
and
honourable
Ladies
,
to
bee
caste
of
as
naught
.
Grece
that
had
the
name
of
all
wisedome
,
The
defence
of
Helena
.
of
all
learnyng
and
singularitie
,
might
rather
worthelie
bee
called
,
a
harbouryng
place
of
harlottes
:
a
Stewe
and
vpholder
of
whoredome
,
and
all
vncleanes
.
Wherefore
,
these
absurdities
ought
to
bee
remoned
,
from
the
minde
and
cogitacion
of
all
menne
,
that
should
worthelie
ponder
the
state
of
Grece
.
Troie
of
like
sorte
to
bee
a
kyngdome
and
common
Troie
a
kingdome
of
whordome
.
wealthe
of
all
vice
:
whoredome
in
soche
price
with
the
kyng
,
and
people
,
that
moste
fortunate
should
the
harlotte
bee
,
and
the
adulterour
in
soche
a
common
wealthe
,
that
for
adulterous
loue
,
putteth
rather
all
their
state
to
hasarde
and
perill
,
for
the
maintenaunce
of
beastlie
loue
,
brutishe
societie
moste
,
in
price
with
soche
a
nacion
chastitie
and
moderacion
of
life
,
abandoned
and
caste
of
.
¶
Vnpossible
,
and
not
agreyng
.
IF
wee
weigh
naturall
affeccion
,
it
can
not
bee
,
that
Nature
abhorreth
the
warre
of
the
Grecians
.
the
Grecians
so
moche
abhorring
from
nature
,
should
cast
of
the
naturall
loue
of
their
wifes
,
their
children
and
countrie
,
to
bryng
home
againe
,
by
slaughter
of
infinite
people
:
soche
an
one
as
had
lefte
honestie
,
and
chaste
loue
of
her
housbande
.
For
,
what
praise
can
redounde
to
the
Grecians
by
warre
,
to
bryng
home
Helena
,
though
she
of
all
creatures
Helena
.
was
moste
beautifull
,
beyng
a
harlotte
:
followyng
the
bridell
and
will
of
an
other
man
.
Maie
shame
or
commendacion
riseto
the
Troians
,
can
wisedome
,
counsaile
,
or
grauitie
,
defende
the
adulterous
luste
of
Priamus
soonne
,
yea
,
could
Priamus
.
Priamus
so
loue
Helena
,
for
Paris
his
sonnes
sake
,
as
that
he
had
rather
venter
the
ruine
and
destruccion
of
his
citee
,
and
the
falle
of
his
people
,
the
murder
and
ruine
of
his
children
,
and
wife
for
the
beautie
of
one
.
For
what
is
beautie
,
where
honestie
and
vertue
lacketh
,
it
is
an
vncomply
matter
,
though
the
Poetes
so
faigne
it
,
not
onely
that
in
heauen
,
a
contencion
should
fall
emong
the
Goddises
of
their
beautie
,
or
that
Iupiter
of
whom
thei
make
an
ignoraunt
God
,
to
chuse
Paris
the
kynges
sonne
of
Troic
,
chief
arbitratour
&
Iudge
of
that
matter
,
to
whom
he
should
giue
the
golden
Apell
to
her
beautie
,
as
chief
of
al
other
,
was
ascribed
these
thynges
,
are
vndecent
to
thinke
of
the
Goddeses
,
and
moste
of
all
,
to
thinke
there
is
more
Goddes
then
one
.
And
euen
as
these
are
vanities
,
and
forged
imaginacions
of
the
Goddes
,
so
of
the
hattaile
.
¶
Vncomelie
and
vnprofitable
.
THE
daunger
of
many
people
doeth
shewe
,
that
no
soche
thyng
should
happen
,
either
of
the
Grecians
or
of
the
Troians
:
for
,
it
is
a
matter
dissonaunt
from
all
truthe
,
that
thei
should
so
moche
neclecte
the
quiete
state
,
and
prosperous
renoume
of
their
kyngdome
,
in
all
tymes
and
ages
,
since
the
firste
can
stitucion
of
all
Monarchies
and
kyngdomes
.
Who
euer
harde
soche
a
forged
matter
to
be
Chronicled
,
and
set
forthe
.
Or
who
can
giue
credite
to
soche
warre
,
to
be
enterprised
of
so
small
a
matter
:
to
leaue
the
state
of
waightier
thynges
for
one
woman
.
All
the
women
of
that
countrie
to
stande
in
perill
,
the
slaughter
of
their
deare
housbandes
,
the
violent
murder
of
their
children
to
insue
.
Therefore
,
the
wilfulnesse
of
people
and
princes
,
are
the
cause
of
the
falle
and
destruccion
,
of
many
mightie
kyngdomes
,
and
Empires
.
The
fall
of
Grece
ensued
,
when
the
chief
citees
,
Athenes
and
Lacedemonis
tooke
partes
,
and
did
consederate
Ambicion
.
Eesar
fell
by
ambicion
.
diuers
citees
to
them
to
assiste
theim
,
and
aide
theim
in
battaile
onely
:
ambicion
and
desire
of
glorie
,
moued
bothe
the
Athenians
and
Lacedemonians
,
from
concorde
and
vnitie
Discorde
.
by
whiche
meanes
,
the
power
,
glory
,
and
strength
of
all
kingdomes
falleth
.
Ambicion
was
the
cause
that
mightie
Pompey
fell
,
and
died
violently
.
Cesar
likewise
caught
with
ambicion
,
not
bearyng
the
equalitée
,
or
superioritie
of
Pompei
,
Pompey
.
was
tourned
of
violentlie
from
Fortunes
whéele
.
Many
princes
of
like
sorte
and
kingdomes
.
By
ambicion
onely
,
had
the
cause
of
their
ruine
.
The
glorie
of
the
Assirian
Monarchie
grewe
moste
mightie
,
by
the
ambicion
of
Ninus
kyng
of
Babilon
:
the
offpryng
of
Ninus
,
whiche
were
kynges
lineallie
descendyng
to
the
firste
kyngdome
of
the
Medes
,
bothe
inlarged
their
kyngdomes
,
and
also
had
the
decate
of
theim
by
ambicion
.
Let
the
Medes
also
assoriate
them selues
to
them
,
from
Arbactus
the
first
kyng
,
vnto
Astiages
the
laste
:
the
beginnyng
and
falle
of
the
Persian
Monarchie
.
The
mightie
state
of
Grece
,
the
seate
Imperiall
of
Rome
,
by
ambicion
first
Romulus
killed
Remus
by
ambicion
.
extolled
theim selues
:
and
also
by
it
,
their
glorie
,
scepter
,
and
kyngdome
was
translated
,
but
the
falle
of
Troie
came
not
,
by
ambicion
,
that
the
Grecians
sought
.
But
as
the
Poetes
doe
saigne
,
the
beautie
of
one
women
so
wounded
their
hartes
,
that
the
Grecians
did
hasarde
,
the
perilles
of
their
countrie
.
The
Troians
so
moche
estemed
,
the
beautie
of
Helena
,
as
that
the
state
of
all
their
kyngdome
perished
.
I
alas
no
glorie
nor
honour
to
the
Grecians
,
to
resiste
by
armour
,
and
to
defende
the
violente
takyng
awaie
of
Helena
,
from
her
housbande
:
nor
it
was
no
honour
,
the
Grecians
to
pursue
by
armour
,
the
takyng
awaie
of
Helena
,
beyng
a
harlotte
.
So
that
by
no
meanes
it
can
followe
,
these
thynges
to
bee
true
,
of
the
battaile
of
Troie
.
¶
Confirmacion
.
The
other
part
,
contrary
to
destruccion
or
subuersion
,
is
called
confirmacion
.
Confirmacion
,
hath
in
it
so
greate
force
of
argumente
,
to
stablishe
and
vpholde
the
cause
or
proposicion
:
as
destruccion
hath
in
castyng
doune
the
sentence
or
proposicion
.
Confirmacion
is
a
certain
oracion
,
whiche
with
a
certain
reprehension
of
the
persone
or
facte
,
by
order
and
waie
of
art
,
casteth
doune
,
the
contrary
propounded
.
As
in
the
other
parte
called
destruccion
,
those
proposicions
are
to
bee
subuerted
,
whiche
are
not
manyfestlie
true
,
with
all
other
notes
before
specified
:
so
in
contrariwise
,
this
oracion
by
contrary
notes
is
declaimed
by
,
as
for
example
.
-
1.
It
shall
behoue
you
first
,
for
the
entring
of
the
oracion
,
to
induce
a
reprehension
againste
those
,
whiche
haue
confutid
as
a
truthe
,
that
whiche
you
will
confirme
.
-
2.
In
the
seconde
parte
,
place
the
exposicion
and
meanyng
of
the
aucthours
sentence
.
-
3.
Shewe
the
matter
to
be
manifest
.
-
4.
Credible
.
-
5.
Prossible
.
-
6.
Agreyng
to
the
truthe
.
-
7.
Shewe
the
facte
comelie
.
-
8.
Profitable
.
This
exercise
of
Rhetotike
,
doeth
contain
in
it
all
strength
of
arte
,
as
who
should
saie
,
all
partes
of
Rhetorike
maie
〈…〉
bee
handled
in
this
parte
,
called
confirmacion
.
You
〈…〉
matter
riseth
,
ioigne
twoo
notes
together
,
as
the
reason
of
the
argumente
cometh
in
place
,
whiche
Apthonius
a
Greke
aucthour
herein
vseth
.
As
manifest
and
credible
possible
and
agreyng
to
truthe
,
comelie
and
profitable
,
but
in
al
these
,
as
in
all
the
reste
:
the
theme
or
proposicion
by
itself
,
is
to
bee
placed
,
the
reprehension
of
the
aucthour
by
itself
,
the
exposicion
of
the
theme
by
itself
.
¶
The
theme
or
proposicion
.
IT
is
true
that
is
saied
of
Zopyrus
,
the
noble
Persian
,
who
ventered
his
life
:
&
did
cause
the
deformitie
of
his
bodie
,
for
the
sauegarde
of
his
countrie
.
¶
The
praise
.
Iustinus
the
Historiographer
,
for
worthinesse
Iustinus
.
of
fame
and
wisedome
,
deserueth
to
the
posteritie
of
all
tymes
,
immortall
fame
,
by
whom
the
famous
actes
of
Princes
,
and
other
noble
men
,
doe
remaine
Chronicled
.
Giuyng
examples
Chronicles
moste
necessary
to
be
red
of
all
valiauntnesse
and
vertue
:
for
,
bothe
the
actes
and
worthie
feares
of
Princes
,
would
passe
as
vnknowen
in
all
ages
,
excepte
the
worthinesse
of
them
,
were
in
monumentes
of
writyng
Chronicled
:
For
,
by
the
fame
of
their
worthines
,
and
vertues
,
common
wealthes
and
kyngdomes
,
doe
stablishe
and
make
Lawes
,
the
hartes
of
people
are
incensed
,
and
inflamed
,
to
the
like
nobilitie
of
actes
,
and
famous
enterprices
,
The
worthinesse
of
histories
.
Histories
of
auncient
tymes
,
bee
vnto
vs
witnesses
of
all
tymes
and
ages
,
of
kyngdomes
and
common
wealthes
,
a
liuely
example
.
A
light
to
all
truthe
and
knowledge
,
a
scholemaister
:
of
maners
a
memorie
of
life
,
for
,
by
it
we
se
the
wisedom
what
is
a
historie
.
of
all
ages
,
the
forme
of
the
beste
and
florishing
common
wealthes
.
We
learne
by
the
vertues
of
Princes
and
gouernours
,
to
followe
like
steppe
of
vertue
:
to
flie
and
auoide
vices
,
and
all
soche
thynges
,
as
are
to
the
destruccion
and
decaie
,
of
realme
and
countrie
.
How
brutishe
wer
our
life
,
if
we
An
ignorant
life
,
〈…〉
.
knewe
no
more
then
we
se
presently
,
in
the
state
of
〈…〉
wealthe
and
kyngdome
.
The
kyngdomes
〈…〉
and
common
wealthes
that
〈…〉
by
the
longe
experience
,
wisedome
,
pollicy
,
counsaile
,
and
godlie
lawes
of
Princes
of
auncient
times
,
no
smal
praise
and
commendation
can
be
attributed
,
to
all
suche
as
doe
trauell
The
knowlege
of
Histories
maketh
vs
as
it
were
liuyng
in
all
ages
.
Historiogriphers
.
in
the
serching
out
the
veritie
of
auncient
Histories
,
for
bi
the
knoledge
of
them
,
we
are
as
it
were
liuyng
in
all
ages
,
the
fall
of
all
kyngdomes
is
manifeste
to
vs
,
the
death
of
Princes
,
the
subuersions
of
kingdomes
and
common
wealthes
,
who
knoweth
not
the
first
risyng
&
ende
of
the
Assiriane
monarchie
,
the
glorie
of
the
Persians
,
and
the
ruynge
of
the
same
,
the
mightie
Empire
of
the
Grekes
,
risyng
&
fallyng
,
the
Romane
state
after
what
sorte
florishyng
and
decaiyng
,
so
that
no
state
of
common
wealthe
or
kyngdome
is
vnknowen
to
vs
,
therefore
Iustine
,
and
all
suche
as
doe
leue
to
the
posteritie
,
the
state
of
al
things
chronicled
,
deserue
immortal
commendacions
.
¶
The
exposicion
.
IN
the
time
of
Darius
kyng
of
the
Persians
,
the
Assyrians
who
ware
subiects
to
him
,
sence
the
time
The
treason
of
the
Assyrians
.
of
Cirus
the
firste
kynge
of
the
Persians
,
rebelled
,
inuaded
and
toke
the
myghtie
Citie
of
Babilon
,
whiche
beyng
possessed
,
with
much
difficultie
,
and
not
withoute
greate
daungers
coulde
bee
attained
.
Darius
the
Darius
.
kynge
hearyng
of
the
treason
of
the
Assyrians
and
that
the
mightie
Citie
of
Babilon
was
taken
,
was
very
wroth
waiynge
Babilon
taken
of
the
Assyrians
.
with
himselfe
,
that
there
by
,
the
ruyne
of
the
Persian
Kyngdome
mighte
happen
.
Zopyrus
one
of
the
.vij.
noble
Peres
of
Persia
,
seing
the
daunger
of
the
countrie
,
the
state
of
the
Prince
,
and
the
welfare
of
the
subiectes
to
decaie
,
in
the
safegarde
of
his
countrie
,
leuyng
all
priuate
commoditie
,
for
the
behoufe
and
felicitie
of
the
Persian
kyngdome
,
did
venter
his
owne
life
,
commaunded
his
seruauntes
at
home
to
The
fact
of
Zopyrus
.
〈…〉
rente
his
bodie
with
whippes
,
to
cut
of
his
nose
,
his
〈…〉
his
eares
,
these
thinges
being
vnknowen
to
Darius
〈…〉
.
As
sone
as
Darius
sawe
Zopyrus
so
torne
and
deformed
,
bewailed
his
state
being
astonished
,
at
so
horrible
Zopyrus
caused
the
deformitie
of
his
bodie
,
for
the
good
state
of
his
countrie
.
a
faict
:
but
Zopyrus
shewed
to
the
kynge
his
hole
intente
and
purpose
that
he
mynded
to
go
to
Babylon
,
whiche
the
Assyrians
dyd
traitorouslie
possesse
,
&
complained
as
that
these
things
had
ben
don
by
the
tyrannte
and
crueltie
of
Darius
,
be
went
to
Babilon
,
and
there
complained
of
the
crueltie
of
his
Kyng
,
whereby
purchasyng
the
fauor
and
loue
of
the
Assyrians
,
he
shewed
them
how
Darius
came
to
be
kyng
not
by
worthines
,
not
by
vertue
,
not
by
the
common
consent
of
men
,
but
by
the
neynge
of
a
horse
.
Zopyrus
therefore
admonished
them
,
that
they
should
trust
more
to
their
armour
,
then
to
their
walles
,
he
willed
them
to
proclame
open
warre
,
The
pollicie
of
Zopyrus
.
forthwith
they
encountred
with
the
Persians
,
and
for
a
time
victorie
fel
on
the
Babilonians
side
,
suche
was
the
pollice
of
Zopyrus
.
The
Assyrians
reioised
of
the
successe
and
felicitie
of
their
warres
,
the
King
of
the
Babilonians
gaue
to
Zopyrus
,
the
chiefe
power
&
office
,
to
leede
a
mightie
armie
,
of
the
whiche
beynge
Lientenaunt
,
he
betraied
the
Babilonians
and
their
Citie
.
¶
Manifeste
.
NOt
onlie
Trogus
Pompeius
the
famous
Historiographer
,
and
Iustine
which
tooke
the
Story
of
him
,
Trogus
Pompeius
.
but
also
the
Greke
writers
doe
sette
forthe
,
as
matter
of
truthe
,
the
valiaunte
enterprises
of
Zopyrus
:
so
that
the
straunge
and
mightie
facte
of
him
can
not
seme
vncredible
,
hauyng
testimonie
of
it
in
all
ages
.
Zopyrus
hauing
not
respect
Zopyrus
.
to
his
owne
life
,
to
his
owne
priuate
wealthe
or
glorie
,
did
thereby
put
of
the
daunger
that
insued
to
the
Persiane
Kyngdome
:
It
maie
seme
a
greate
matter
,
to
a
mynde
not
well
affected
towarde
his
countrie
,
to
destroie
or
deforme
his
The
saiyng
of
Tullie
.
owne
bodie
,
for
the
sauegarde
of
countrie
or
common
welth
.
But
if
we
waie
the
State
of
oure
bearth
,
oure
countrie
chalengeth
more
at
oure
handes
then
frindes
or
parentes
,
so
muche
price
Plato
the
Philosopher
,
and
〈…〉
Plato
,
Aristotle
.
vnto
our
countrie
,
the
volumes
of
all
〈…〉
doe
prefare
oure
naturall
countrie
before
the
priuate
state
of
owne
manne
,
wealthe
,
glorie
,
honor
,
dignitie
,
and
riches
of
The
state
of
a
publike
wealthe
,
is
to
been
preferred
before
a
priuate
wealth
.
Pericles
.
one
or
fewe
,
the
Statutes
of
all
Princes
,
sekyng
the
glorie
of
their
countrie
,
doe
prefare
a
vniuersal
welthe
,
before
a
priuate
and
particulare
commoditie
.
Pericles
the
noble
Athenian
in
his
oration
made
to
the
Athenians
,
sheweth
that
the
glorie
and
welthe
of
one
man
or
manie
,
cannot
plante
suche
glorie
,
and
renowne
to
their
countrie
,
as
that
in
all
partes
thereby
to
be
beautified
and
decorated
,
but
when
glorie
a
happie
and
florishyng
state
redoundeth
to
the
kyngdome
,
the
subiectes
,
the
nobelles
and
hye
peres
,
the
gouuernour
standeth
happie
and
fortunate
.
Who
so
hopeth
in
sparing
costes
and
charges
,
monie
or
ornaments
,
to
the
behouf
and
imploiment
of
his
countrie
and
not
by
all
meanes
to
his
power
and
strength
aydeth
and
defendeth
his
naturall
countrie
,
from
the
daunger
and
inuasion
of
his
enemie
,
what
state
inioyeth
A
good
subiecte
is
redie
to
liue
and
die
for
his
countrie
.
he
,
or
what
wealth
remaineth
priuatlie
,
when
the
trone
and
scepter
of
his
kyng
faileth
,
the
enemie
wasteth
,
spoileth
and
destroieth
all
partes
of
his
state
,
with
the
reste
his
life
perisheth
,
so
that
no
daunger
,
coste
,
is
to
bee
refused
,
to
serue
the
kingdom
and
prince
,
by
whose
scepter
,
iustice
,
lawes
,
and
equitie
we
are
gouuerned
,
there
is
no
subiect
well
affected
,
but
that
he
onlie
liueth
to
proffite
his
countrie
,
to
liue
&
dye
therein
.
¶
Probabell
.
IF
only
Zopyrus
had
enterprised
this
valiaunt
act
,
and
that
no
memorie
were
remainyng
in
anie
age
of
the
noble
acts
of
other
men
,
it
may
seme
not
truelie
chronacled
;
but
from
time
to
time
,
in
all
ages
&
common
wealthes
,
famous
men
for
their
acts
&
nobilitie
haue
ben
,
whiche
with
like
courrage
and
magnanimitie
haue
saued
their
countrie
,
by
the
losse
of
their
owne
liues
.
Horatius
Horacius
Cocles
.
Cocles
is
bothe
a
witnesse
and
a
light
to
the
same
,
by
whose
aduenture
the
mightie
and
stronge
Citie
Rome
was
saued
:
For
at
what
time
as
the
Hetruscians
entred
on
the
citie
,
and
were
on
the
bridge
,
Horatius
cocles
defendid
the
ende
of
the
same
,
baryng
of
the
brunte
,
and
stroke
of
the
enemie
,
vntill
the
Romans
,
for
the
sauegarde
of
the
cytie
,
had
broken
doun
the
bridge
,
as
sone
as
Horatius
Cocles
sawe
the
Cytie
thus
deliuered
,
and
the
repulse
of
the
enemie
,
he
lepte
with
his
armours
into
the
flud
Tibar
,
it
semed
he
had
not
regard
to
his
life
,
that
beyng
burdened
with
the
waighte
and
grauitie
of
his
armour
,
durst
venter
his
life
to
so
main
and
depe
a
water
.
Marcus
Attilius
in
the
defence
of
his
Prince
,
his
right
hand
Marcus
Attilius
.
being
cut
of
,
the
which
he
laide
on
the
ship
of
the
Massilians
,
forthwith
he
apprehended
with
the
lefte
hand
,
and
ceased
not
vntill
he
hadde
soouncke
the
same
ship
.
Cynegerus
the
Athenian
lineth
by
fame
and
like
nobilitie
of
actes
,
venteryng
his
Cynegerus
.
life
for
his
countrie
.
The
mightie
cytie
of
Athenes
,
brought
vnder
the
dominions
of
the
Lacedemonians
.
Thrassbulus
,
Hismenias
and
Lisias
bi
their
aduenture
,
and
noble
atchiue
Hismenias
.
Thrasibulus
reduced
Athenes
to
his
falicitie
so
moche
loue
,
soo
faithefull
hartes
they
hadde
towardes
theire
countreie
.
Leonides
the
King
of
the
Lacedemonians
,
defendyng
the
narow
straights
of
the
cytie
Thermopolie
with
sower
thousand
men
against
the
mightie
and
huge
armie
of
Xerxes
,
for
Xerxes
contemned
theire
smalle
number
and
armie
:
Leonides
the
kyng
hearde
Leonides
kyng
or
the
Lacedemonians
.
that
the
place
and
hill
of
the
battell
was
preuentid
of
.xx.
thousande
enemies
,
he
exorted
his
souldiours
parte
of
them
to
departe
vntill
a
better
time
might
be
locked
for
,
and
onlie
with
the
Lacedemonians
he
proued
the
conflicte
and
the
combate
,
although
the
campe
of
Xerxes
was
mightier
&
more
in
number
:
yet
Leonides
the
kyng
thought
it
good
for
the
sauegarde
of
his
contrie
,
for
saieth
he
,
I
must
rather
saue
it
,
then
to
haue
respecte
to
my
life
,
although
the
oracle
of
Delphos
had
foreshewed
,
that
euen
Leonides
muste
die
in
the
fielde
or
battell
of
the
enemie
,
and
therefore
Leonides
entred
battall
,
&
comfortid
his
men
for
their
countrie
sake
,
as
to
die
therein
,
therefore
he
preuented
the
narrowe
straightes
of
the
countrie
,
and
the
dangerous
places
,
where
the
force
of
the
enemie
mought
bruste
in
,
he
lingered
not
,
leste
the
enemie
mighte
compasse
him
in
,
but
in
the
quiet
season
of
the
nighte
,
he
set
vppon
his
enemie
vnloked for
,
and
they
beynge
but
sixe
hundred
men
with
the
kyng
Leonides
,
brust
into
the
campe
of
their
enemies
Leonides
.
beyng
sixe
hundred
thousand
menne
,
their
valiauntnes
was
suche
,
and
the
ouerthowe
of
their
enemies
so
great
,
and
Xerxes
the
Kyng
hauyng
two
woundes
,
retired
with
shame
and
loste
the
honor
.
Agesilaus
and
Conon
valiaunte
in
actes
,
Agesilaus
.
Conon
.
and
excellynge
in
all
nobilitie
,
what
great
and
mightie
dangers
haue
thei
atchiued
and
venterid
for
their
countrie
sake
,
howe
moche
haue
thei
neglectid
their
owne
wealth
,
riches
,
life
and
glorie
,
for
the
aduauncement
and
honor
of
their
countries
.
Lisander
also
the
Lacedemonian
,
was
indued
with
like
nobilitie
with
faithfull
and
syncéer
harte
towarde
his
country
.
Lisander
.
Archidamus
also
lieth
not
in
obliuion
,
whose
fame
death
buried
not
the
famous
aduenture
of
Codrus
kyng
of
the
Athenians
Archidamus
Codrus
.
is
maruelous
and
almoste
incredible
,
but
that
the
Histores
,
truelie
set
forth
,
and
declare
a
manifest
truthe
therof
,
who
is
more
famous
then
Epaminundas
,
bothe
for
virtue
,
Epamniundas
.
nobilitie
and
marciall
feates
among
the
Thebans
,
the
mightie
armie
of
the
Grecians
,
at
the
longe
sege
of
Troie
,
Grecians
.
what
valiaunte
Capitains
hadde
thei
,
whiche
in
the
defence
of
their
countrie
hasarde
their
life
:
the
Troians
also
wanted
Troians
.
not
for
proues
valiauntnes
and
al
nobilitie
,
their
péeres
and
nobles
:
amonge
the
Romans
,
what
a
greate
number
was
Romans
.
of
noble
peres
,
whose
studie
alwaies
was
to
liue
and
dye
in
the
glorie
,
aide
and
defence
of
their
countrie
,
for
he
liueth
not
by
whose
cowardlines
fainted
harte
and
courage
,
the
contrie
or
kyngdome
standeth
in
perrill
,
he
liueth
in
shame
,
that
refuseth
daunger
,
coste
or
charge
,
in
the
defence
or
procuryng
,
better
state
to
his
countrie
.
The
worthie
saiyng
of
Epaminundas
declareth
,
who
liueth
to
his
countrie
,
who
diyng
valiauntlie
who
liueth
in
shame
.
in
the
felde
,
beyng
thrust
thorow
with
the
speare
of
his
enemie
,
asked
those
questions
of
these
that
stoede
by
him
at
the
poincte
of
deathe
,
is
my
speare
manfullie
broken
,
and
my
enemies
chassed
awaie
,
the
whiche
things
his
companions
in
warre
affirmed
,
then
saide
he
:
nowe
your
Capitaine
Epaminundas
beginneth
to
liue
in
that
he
dieth
valiauntlie
for
Epamenundas
a
most
noble
and
valiaunt
pere
.
his
countrie
,
and
in
the
proffite
&
aduauncement
of
the
same
,
a
worthie
man
,
noble
and
valiaunte
,
his
sentence
also
was
worthie
to
be
knowen
,
and
followed
of
all
suche
as
bee
well
affected
and
Godlie
mynded
to
their
countrie
,
Marcus
Marcellus
of
like
sorte
,
and
Titus
Manlius
Torquatus
,
&
Scipio
Aemilianus
,
Marcus
Attilius
shewed
in
what
hye
price
our
naturall
countrée
ought
to
bee
had
,
by
their
valiaunt
atchifes
,
and
enterprises
:
I
might
passe
by
in
silence
Scipio
Cato
,
and
Publius
Scipio
Nasica
,
but
that
thei
by
like
same
,
honour
and
glorie
liue
immortall
to
their
countrie
,
the
fame
also
of
Vibeus
,
Valerius
Flaccus
,
and
Pedanius
Centurio
giueth
ampell
and
large
matter
to
all
menne
,
endued
with
nobilitie
and
valiaunt
proues
,
for
the
defence
of
their
countrie
with
Quintus
Cocctus
,
Marcus
Sceua
and
Sceuola
.
¶
Possibilitie
.
THere
nedeth
no
donte
to
rise
of
possibilitie
,
seinge
that
examples
doe
remain
of
famous
men
,
of
godlie
and
well
affected
persones
,
whiche
haue
with
like
magnaunimitie
putte
in
daunger
their
life
,
to
saue
their
Prince
,
kyngdome
,
and
countrie
.
Greate
honour
was
giuen
of
the
Athemans
,
to
soche
noble
and
valiaunte
men
,
whiche
ventered
their
liues
for
their
common
wealthe
,
The
order
of
Athenes
.
to
maintaine
the
florishyng
state
thereof
.
The
eloquente
and
copious
oracion
of
Thusidides
,
the
true
,
faithfull
,
and
eloquente
Historiographer
doeth
shewe
:
what
honour
and
immortall
Thusidides
.
fame
was
attributed
,
to
all
soche
as
did
venter
their
liues
,
in
the
florishyng
state
of
their
countrie
,
in
supportyng
,
mainteinyng
,
and
defendyng
the
same
.
Who
,
although
thei
loste
their
liues
,
whiche
by
death
should
bee
dissolued
,
their
fame
neuer
buried
,
liueth
with
the
soule
to
immortalitie
,
the
losse
of
their
Priuate
wealthe
,
glorie
,
riches
,
substaunce
,
or
dignitie
,
hath
purchased
and
obtained
fame
,
that
withereth
not
,
and
glorie
that
faileth
not
.
¶
Agreyng
and
comelie
.
BOthe
the
true
Histories
,
doe
leaue
in
commendacion
,
the
facte
of
Zopyrus
,
and
the
noble
and
worthie
enterprises
of
other
:
whiche
haue
giuen
the
like
assaie
,
and
their
fame
is
celebrated
and
titeled
with
immortall
commendacion
and
glorie
,
to
the
posteritie
of
all
ages
followyng
.
What
harte
can
bee
so
stonie
,
or
brutishly
The
duetie
of
all
good
subiectes
,
affected
,
that
wil
not
venter
his
life
,
goodes
,
landes
,
or
possessions
:
if
with
the
daunger
of
one
,
that
is
of
hymself
,
the
whole
bodie
and
state
of
his
countrie
,
is
thereby
supported
,
and
saued
.
What
securitie
and
quietnesse
remained
,
what
wealth
,
honour
,
or
fame
to
Zopyrus
:
if
not
onely
Zopyrus
had
perished
,
but
the
kyng
&
people
vniuersally
had
been
destroied
.
Therevpon
Zopyrus
weighing
and
consideryng
,
the
state
of
his
birthe
,
that
his
countrie
chalenged
his
life
,
rather
then
the
dissolucion
of
the
whole
kyngdome
,
the
decaie
of
the
The
cause
of
our
birthe
.
Prince
,
the
takyng
awaie
of
the
scepter
,
the
slaughter
of
infinite
people
to
ensue
.
He
was
borne
to
be
a
profitable
member
to
his
countrie
,
a
glorie
and
staie
to
the
same
:
and
not
sparyng
his
life
,
or
shunnyng
the
greate
deformitie
of
his
bodie
,
to
bee
a
ruine
of
the
same
.
Was
it
not
better
that
one
perished
,
then
by
the
securitie
of
one
,
a
whole
lande
ouer
runned
,
as
partes
thereby
spoiled
:
it
was
the
duetie
of
Zopirus
,
to
take
vpon
hym
that
greate
and
famous
enterprise
.
It
was
also
comelie
,
the
kyngdome
standyng
in
perill
,
a
sage
and
descrite
persone
to
preuente
and
putte
of
,
soche
a
daunger
at
hande
:
The
faicte
altogether
sheweth
all
vertue
and
greate
The
facte
of
Zopyrus
.
singularitie
,
and
a
rare
moderacion
of
minde
,
to
cast
of
all
respectes
and
excuses
,
forsakyng
presentlie
honour
,
quietnesse
and
obiecting
himself
to
perill
,
he
sawe
if
he
onelie
died
,
or
by
ieopardie
saued
his
countrie
,
many
thereby
liued
,
the
kyngdome
&
people
florished
,
where
otherwise
,
he
with
his
Prince
and
kyngdome
might
haue
perished
.
¶
Proffitable
.
AL
the
power
of
the
Babilonians
,
was
by
his
pollicie
The
fact
of
Zopyrus
.
throwen
doune
,
the
Citee
taken
,
the
enemie
brought
to
confusion
:
on
the
other
side
,
the
Persians
rose
mightie
,
soche
a
mightie
enemie
put
vnder
foote
.
The
fame
of
Zopryus
and
glorie
of
the
facte
,
will
neuer
be
obliterated
,
or
put
out
of
memorie
,
if
this
were
not
profitable
to
the
kyngdome
of
Persia
:
if
this
were
not
a
renoume
to
the
prince
and
people
,
and
immortall
glory
to
Zopryus
iudgeye
.
Zopyrus
therfore
,
beautified
his
countree
,
by
Zopyrus
deformed
,
a
beautie
of
his
countree
.
the
deformitie
of
his
bodie
.
Better
it
wer
to
haue
many
soche
deformed
bodies
,
then
the
whole
state
of
the
realme
destroied
or
brought
to
naught
:
if
we
weigh
the
magnanimitie
of
that
man
,
and
his
enterprise
,
there
is
so
moche
honour
in
the
fact
,
that
his
fame
shall
neuer
cease
.
¶
A
common
place
.
A
Common
place
is
a
Oracion
,
dilatyng
and
amplifiyng
Why
it
is
called
a
common
place
.
good
or
euill
,
whiche
is
incidente
or
lodged
in
any
man
.
This
Oracion
is
called
A
common
place
,
because
the
matter
conteined
in
it
,
doeth
agree
vniuersally
to
all
menne
,
whiche
are
partakers
of
it
,
and
giltie
of
the
same
A
Oracion
framed
againste
a
certaine
Thefe
,
Ertorcioner
,
Murderer
,
or
Traitor
,
is
for
the
matter
conteined
in
it
,
metelie
and
aptlie
compiled
,
against
all
soche
as
are
giltie
of
theft
,
murder
,
treason
,
or
spotted
with
any
other
wickednes
.
This
oracion
of
a
common
place
,
is
like
to
the
laste
argument
or
Epilogus
of
any
oracion
,
whiche
the
Grekes
doe
call
Deuterologian
,
whiche
is
as
moche
to
saie
,
as
a
rehearsall
of
that
whiche
is
spoken
of
before
.
Wherefore
,
a
common
place
hath
no
exhordium
,
or
beginnyng
,
yet
neuerthelesse
,
for
the
profite
and
exercise
of
the
learner
,
you
maie
place
soche
a
proemium
,
or
beginnyng
of
the
oracion
,
as
maie
be
easie
to
induce
the
learner
.
This
parte
of
Rhetorike
is
large
to
intreate
vpon
,
for
the
aboundaunce
of
matter
.
This
part
of
Rhetorike
is
large
to
intreate
vpon
,
for
the
aboundaunce
of
matter
.
The
common
place
,
whiche
Aphthonius
intreateth
of
,
is
to
be
aplied
against
any
man
,
for
the
declaimor
to
inuade
,
either
against
vices
,
or
to
extoll
and
amplifie
his
vertues
.
This
oracion
of
a
common
place
,
serueth
bothe
for
the
accuser
and
the
defender
.
For
the
accuser
,
to
exasperate
and
moue
the
Iudges
or
hearers
,
against
the
offender
,
or
accused
.
For
the
defendour
to
replie
,
and
with
all
force
&
strength
of
matter
,
to
mollifie
and
appease
the
perturbacions
of
the
Iudges
and
hearers
,
to
pulle
doune
and
deface
the
contrarie
alledged
.
There
is
greate
force
in
this
oracion
,
on
bothe
the
sides
.
Properlie
this
kinde
of
Rhetorike
,
is
called
a
common
place
,
though
it
semeth
to
be
made
againste
this
man
,
or
that
man
:
because
the
matter
of
the
same
shall
properly
pertain
to
all
,
giltie
of
the
same
matter
.
Pristianus
sheweth
,
that
this
parte
of
Rhetorike
,
is
as
it
Pristianus
.
were
a
certaine
exaggeracion
of
reason
,
to
induce
a
manifest
probacion
of
any
thyng
committed
.
As
for
example
,
a
Theife
taken
in
a
robberie
,
in
whom
neither
shamefastnesse
,
nor
sparcle
of
grace
appereth
against
soche
a
one
:
this
oracion
maie
be
made
,
to
exasperate
the
Iudges
from
all
fauour
or
affeccion
of
pitie
,
to
be
shewed
.
¶
The
order
of
this
Oracion
followeth
with
these
notes
to
be
made
by
.
¶
The
firste
Proheme
.
▪
DEmosthenes
the
famous
Orator
of
Athenes
in
his
oracion
made
against
Aristogiton
doeth
saie
,
that
Lawes
wherewith
a
common
wealthe
,
citie
what
are
Lawes
.
or
Region
is
gouerned
,
are
the
gifte
of
God
,
a
profitable
Discipline
among
men
,
a
restraint
to
with
holde
and
kepe
backe
,
the
wilfull
,
rashe
,
and
beastilie
life
of
man
,
and
therupon
Aristotle
and
Plato
doe
shewe
,
that
Aristotle
.
Plato
.
through
the
wicked
behauour
of
men
,
good
lawes
were
first
ordained
,
for
,
of
ill
maners
,
saie
thei
,
rose
good
lawes
,
where
lawes
doe
cease
,
and
good
order
faileth
,
there
the
life
of
man
Order
.
will
growe
,
rude
,
wild
and
beestlie
:
Man
beyng
a
chiefe
creature
Man
borne
by
nature
to
societee
.
or
God
,
indued
with
manie
singuler
vertues
,
is
framed
of
nature
to
a
mutuall
and
Godlie
societie
of
life
,
without
the
whiche
moste
horrible
wolde
the
life
bee
,
for
not
onlie
by
concorde
and
agremente
,
the
life
of
man
dothe
consiste
but
al
things
on
the
earth
haue
therin
their
being
:
the
heauens
and
lightes
conteined
in
the
same
,
haue
a
perpetuall
harmonie
&
concente
in
finishyng
their
appointed
race
.
The
elementes
of
the
worlde
,
where
with
the
nature
and
substaunce
of
all
All
thinges
beyng
on
the
yearth
,
dooe
consiste
by
a
harmonie
or
concorde
.
thinges
,
doe
consiste
onlie
by
a
harmonie
and
temperature
of
eche
parte
,
haue
their
abidyng
increase
&
prosperous
beyng
,
otherwise
their
substaunce
,
perisheth
and
nature
in
all
partes
decaieth
:
Kyngdomes
and
common
wealthes
doe
consiste
in
a
harmonie
,
so
long
as
vertue
and
all
singularitie
tempereth
their
state
and
gouernemente
,
and
eche
member
thereof
obeieth
his
function
,
office
and
callynge
,
and
as
partes
of
thesame
bodie
,
euerie
one
as
nature
hath
ordained
theim
occupiyng
,
their
roume
and
place
,
the
vse
of
euerie
parte
,
all
to
the
vse
and
preseruacion
of
the
hole
bodie
,
and
as
in
the
bodie
so
in
the
common
wealthe
,
the
like
concorde
of
life
oughte
to
be
in
euery
part
,
the
moste
principall
parte
accordyng
to
his
dignitie
of
office
,
as
moste
principall
to
gouerne
thother
inferior
partes
:
and
it
thei
as
partes
moste
principal
of
thesame
bodie
with
all
moderacion
and
equabilitie
temperyng
their
state
,
office
and
calling
.
The
meanest
parte
accordyng
to
his
lowe
Order
conserueth
common
wealth
.
state
,
appliyng
hymselfe
to
obeie
and
serue
the
moste
principall
:
wherein
the
perfecte
and
absolute
,
frame
of
common
wealthe
or
kyngdome
is
erected
.
And
seyng
that
as
the
Philosophers
doe
saie
,
of
ill
maners
came
good
lawes
,
that
is
to
saie
,
the
wicked
and
beastlie
life
of
man
,
their
iniurius
behauiour
,
sekyng
to
frame
themselues
from
men
to
beastes
moued
Euil
maners
was
theoccasion
of
good
Lawes
.
the
wise
and
Godlie
,
elders
to
ordaine
certaine
meanes
,
to
rote
discipline
,
whereby
the
wickedlie
disposed
personne
should
bee
compelled
to
liue
in
order
,
to
obeie
Godlie
lawes
,
to
the
vpholdyng
of
societie
.
Therefore
,
all
suche
as
dissolue
lawes
,
caste
doune
good
order
,
and
state
of
common
wealth
,
out
as
putride
and
vnprofitable
weedes
,
to
be
extirpated
and
plucked
vp
from
Citie
and
Common
wealthe
,
from
societie
,
who
by
mischeuous
attemptes
seke
,
to
extinguishe
societie
,
anntie
,
and
concord
in
life
.
Princes
&
gouernors
with
al
other
magistrates
ought
in
their
gouernment
to
imitate
the
practise
of
the
Phisician
,
the
nature
of
man
,
wekedned
and
made
feble
with
to
moche
abundaunce
of
yll
humors
,
or
ouermoch
with
ill
bloode
replenished
,
to
purge
and
euacuate
that
,
and
all
to
the
preseruacion
and
healthe
of
the
whole
bodie
:
for
so
was
the
meanyng
of
the
Philosopher
,
intreatyng
of
the
politike
,
gouernment
of
kingdome
and
commonwealth
,
when
thei
compared
a
kingdome
to
the
bodie
of
man
:
the
thefe
and
robber
as
a
euill
and
vnprofitable
member
,
and
all
other
as
without
all
right
,
order
,
lawe
,
equitie
and
iustice
,
doe
breake
Theiues
not
mete
to
be
in
any
societie
.
societie
of
life
,
be
the
against
lawe
and
nature
:
possessing
the
goodes
of
a
other
man
,
are
to
bee
cutte
of
,
as
no
partes
,
méete
to
remaine
in
any
societie
.
¶
The
seconde
Proheme
.
THe
chifest
cause
that
moued
gouernours
and
magistrates
,
Why
theiues
and
wicked
men
,
are
cut
of
by
lawe
.
to
cutte
of
the
race
of
theues
,
and
violente
robbers
,
and
of
all
other
mischeuous
persons
,
was
that
by
them
a
confusion
would
ensue
in
al
states
.
What
Citee
could
stande
in
prosperous
state
,
yea
,
or
what
house
priuatlie
inhabited
,
where
lawes
and
aucthoritee
were
exiled
:
where
violence
,
will
,
luste
,
and
appetite
of
pestiferous
men
,
might
without
terrour
bee
practised
.
If
the
labour
and
industrie
of
the
godlie
,
should
be
alwaie
a
praie
to
the
wicked
,
and
eche
mannes
violence
and
iniurious
dealyng
,
his
owne
lawe
,
the
beaste
in
his
state
,
would
bee
lesse
brutishe
and
iniurious
.
Who
so
seketh
to
caste
doune
this
societee
,
he
is
not
méete
to
be
of
any
societée
,
whiche
he
dissolueth
.
Who
so
robbeth
or
stealeth
,
to
liue
by
the
gooddes
of
an
other
manne
,
as
his
possession
,
is
by
violence
and
againste
Nature
:
so
by
violence
and
against
nature
,
their
pestiferous
doinges
do
frame
A
due
rewardes
for
thieues
and
murtherers
.
their
confusion
:
their
execrable
&
desietable
purpose
,
do
make
theim
a
outcaste
from
all
good
people
,
and
as
no
members
thereof
,
cut
of
from
all
societée
,
their
euill
life
rooteth
perpetual
ignomie
and
shame
.
And
〈…〉
the
tragicall
ende
of
their
enterprise
.
¶
The
contrarie
.
HErein
the
lose
and
dissolute
state
of
gouernments
called
of
the
Grekes
Democratia
,
haue
contented
the
wilfull
heddes
of
pestiferous
men
:
wherein
Democratia
.
euery
man
must
bee
a
ruler
.
Their
owne
will
is
their
Lawe
:
there
luste
setteth
order
,
no
Magistrate
,
but
euery
one
to
hymself
a
Magistrate
.
All
thynges
in
common
,
as
long
as
that
state
doeth
remain
emong
the
wicked
,
a
most
happie
state
coumpted
,
a
wished
state
to
idell
persones
,
but
it
continueth
not
.
Herein
the
murtherer
,
the
thiefe
were
meete
The
thiefe
.
The
murtherer
:
to
be
placed
.
The
greater
thiefe
,
the
better
manner
the
moste
execrable
murtherer
,
a
moste
mete
persone
,
for
soche
state
of
gouernemente
.
There
is
no
nacion
vnder
the
Sunne
,
but
that
one
tyme
or
other
,
this
troublous
state
hath
molested
theim
:
and
many
haue
sought
to
sette
vp
soche
a
monsterous
state
of
regiment
,
a
plagued
common
wealthe
,
and
to
be
detested
.
Soche
was
the
order
of
men
,
when
thei
liued
without
lawes
.
When
the
whole
multitude
were
scattered
,
no
citee
,
Toune
,
or
house
builded
or
inhabited
,
but
through
beastlie
maners
,
beastlie
dispersed
,
liued
wilde
and
beastlie
.
But
the
wise
,
sage
,
and
politike
heddes
reduced
by
wisedome
,
into
a
societie
of
life
,
nature
leadyng
thereto
:
Houses
and
habitacions
,
Houses
.
Families
.
Tounes
.
Citees
.
were
then
for
necessitte
made
,
families
multiplied
,
villages
and
Taunes
populoustie
increased
,
and
Citees
raised
emong
so
infinite
people
.
Nature
by
God
inuented
and
stablished
Lawe
,
and
the
sage
and
wise
persones
,
pronounced
and
gaue
sentence
vpon
Lawes
.
Whereupon
,
by
the
obedience
of
lawes
,
and
preeminente
authoritie
of
Magistrates
.
The
state
of
mightie
kyngdomes
and
Common
wealthes
,
haue
growen
to
soche
a
roialnesse
and
loftie
state
,
many
famous
kingdomes
haue
been
on
the
face
of
the
yearth
:
many
noble
Princes
from
tyme
to
tyme
succedyng
,
whiche
without
a
order
of
godlie
lawes
,
could
not
haue
continued
.
What
Obedience
of
Lawes
did
stablishe
the
mightie
monarchies
.
was
the
cause
that
the
mightie
Monarchies
,
continued
many
hundred
yeres
:
did
the
losse
and
dissolute
life
of
subiectes
and
Princes
,
cause
the
same
but
good
lawes
,
and
obedience
to
orders
.
Therefore
,
where
Magistrates
,
bothe
in
life
and
office
,
liue
in
the
obedience
of
Lawes
:
the
multitude
inferiour
,
by
The
life
of
the
Magistrate
,
a
lawe
example
of
the
Magistrates
singularitie
,
incensed
dooe
place
before
them
,
their
example
of
life
,
as
a
strong
lawe
.
Theodosius
Emperor
of
Rome
,
writyng
to
Volufianus
The
Epistle
of
Theodosiuus
Emperor
of
Rome
his
chief
Pretor
,
as
concernyng
his
office
,
in
these
woordes
,
saieth
:
Digna
vox
est
maiestate
regnantis
legibus
alligatum
se
principem
profiteri
.
Adeo
de
autoritate
Iuris
nostra
pendet
autoritas
et
reuera
maius
imperio
est
submittere
legibus
principatum
&
oraculo
presentis
edicti
quod
nobis
licere
non
patimur
alijs
indicamus
.
It
is
a
worthie
saiyng
,
and
meete
for
the
Maiestie
of
a
Prince
,
to
acknowledge
hymself
vnder
his
lawe
.
For
,
our
aucthoritie
,
power
,
and
sworde
,
doeth
depende
vpon
the
force
,
might
,
and
aucthoritie
of
Lawes
,
and
it
passeth
all
power
and
aucthoritie
,
his
gouernemente
and
kyngdome
to
be
tempered
by
lawe
,
as
a
moste
inuiolable
Oracle
and
decrée
,
so
to
doe
as
we
prouulgate
to
other
.
Whereupon
it
is
manifeste
,
what
force
godlie
lawes
gaue
to
the
Prince
,
what
aucthoritie
.
Take
lawes
awaie
,
all
order
of
states
faileth
,
the
Prince
by
Lawe
,
is
a
terrour
to
the
malefactour
:
his
Princes
Lawe
.
Maiestie
is
with
all
humblenesse
serued
,
feared
,
and
obeied
.
By
lawes
,
his
state
maketh
hym
as
a
God
,
emong
menne
,
at
whose
handes
thé
preseruacion
of
eche
one
,
of
house
,
citee
and
countrie
is
sought
.
Seing
bothe
lawes
and
the
Prince
,
haue
that
honour
and
strength
,
that
without
them
,
a
Chaos
a
confusion
would
followe
,
in
the
bodie
of
all
common
wealthes
and
kyngdomes
.
Let
them
by
aucthoritie
and
lawe
bee
confounded
,
that
practise
to
subuerte
aucthoritie
,
to
neclecte
the
Prince
,
and
his
godlie
lawes
.
¶
The
exposition
.
THe
theife
,
or
any
other
iniurious
persons
,
doeth
seke
Theiues
and
all
iniurious
persones
.
to
bee
aboue
all
lawes
,
exempted
from
all
order
,
vnder
no
obedience
,
their
pestiferous
dealyng
,
dooe
vtter
the
same
:
For
,
as
Demosthenes
the
famous
Orator
of
Athenes
Demosthenes
in
Aristogiton
.
doeth
saie
.
If
that
wicked
men
cease
not
their
violence
if
that
good
men
in
all
quietnes
,
and
securitie
,
can
not
enioys
their
owne
goddes
,
while
lawe
and
aucthoritie
of
the
magistrate
,
seuerelie
and
sharply
vseth
his
aucthoritie
and
sword
.
If
dailie
the
heddes
of
wicked
men
,
cease
not
to
subuerte
lawes
,
orders
,
and
decrees
godlie
appoincted
.
Whiles
that
in
all
Citees
and
common
wealthes
,
the
Princes
and
gouernours
,
are
by
lawes
a
terror
to
them
.
Lawes
then
ceasyng
,
The
force
of
lawes
.
the
dreadfull
sentence
of
the
Iudge
and
Magistrate
wanting
.
The
sworde
vndrawen
,
all
order
confounded
,
what
a
confusion
would
followe
:
yea
,
what
an
open
passage
would
bee
lefte
open
to
all
wickednesse
.
The
terrour
of
Lawes
,
the
sworde
and
aucthoritie
of
the
Magestrate
,
depresseth
and
putteth
doune
,
the
bloodie
cogitacions
of
the
wicked
,
and
so
hindereth
and
cutteth
of
,
many
horrible
and
bloodie
enterprises
.
Els
there
would
bee
neither
Prince
,
Lawe
,
nor
subiects
,
no
hedde
or
Magistrate
:
but
euery
manne
his
owne
hedde
,
his
owne
lawe
and
Magistrate
,
oppression
and
violence
should
bee
lawe
,
and
reason
,
and
wilfull
luste
would
bee
in
place
of
reason
,
might
,
force
,
and
power
,
should
ende
the
case
.
Wherefore
,
soche
as
no
lawe
,
no
order
,
nor
reason
,
will
driue
lo
liue
as
members
in
a
common
wealthe
,
to
serue
in
their
function
.
Thei
are
as
Homere
calleth
theim
,
burdeins
to
the
yearth
,
wicked
men
burdeins
of
the
yearth
.
for
thei
are
of
no
societie
linked
with
Nature
,
who
through
wickednesse
are
disseuered
,
abhorryng
concorde
of
life
,
societie
and
felowship
.
Whom
sinister
and
bitter
stormes
of
fortune
,
doe
daiely
vexe
and
moleste
,
who
in
the
defence
of
their
countrie
are
masmed
,
and
thereby
their
arte
and
science
,
for
,
imbecilitie
not
practised
,
all
art
otherwise
wantyng
,
extreme
Maimed
soldiours
muste
be
prouided
for
.
pouertee
fallyng
on
them
,
reason
muste
moue
,
and
induce
all
hartes
,
to
pitee
chieflie
their
state
:
who
in
defence
and
mainteinaunce
of
our
Countrie
,
Prince
,
and
to
the
vpholdyng
of
our
priuate
wealthe
at
home
,
are
become
debilitated
,
deformed
and
maimed
,
els
their
miseries
will
driue
them
to
soche
hedlesse
aduentures
,
that
it
maie
bee
saied
,
as
it
was
saied
to
Alexander
the
Greate
.
Thy
wartes
,
O
Prince
,
maketh
many
The
saiyng
of
a
shuld
our
to
Alexander
the
greate
.
theues
,
and
peace
will
one
daie
hang
them
vp
.
Wherein
the
Grecians
,
as
Thusidides
noteth
,
had
a
carefull
prouidence
,
for
all
soche
as
in
the
defence
of
their
Countrie
were
maimed
,
yea
,
euen
for
their
wiues
,
and
children
of
all
soche
,
as
died
in
warre
,
to
be
mainteined
of
the
common
charge
and
threasure
of
Grece
.
Reade
his
Oracion
in
the
seconde
booke
,
niade
vpon
the
funerall
of
the
dedde
soldiours
.
¶
A
comparison
of
vices
.
THe
dronkarde
in
his
state
is
beastlie
,
the
proude
The
drunkard
The
proude
persone
.
The
prodigal
The
coueites
:
is
.
The
robber
.
and
arrogante
persone
odious
,
the
riotous
and
prodigall
persone
to
be
contempned
,
the
coueitous
and
nigardlie
manne
to
bee
reietted
.
But
who
so
by
violence
,
taketh
a
waie
the
goodes
of
an
other
man
,
or
by
any
subtill
meanes
,
iniustlie
possesseth
the
same
,
is
detestable
,
with
all
seueritée
to
be
punished
.
The
adulterer
and
the
harlotte
,
who
by
brutishe
behauiour
,
leude
affection
,
not
godlines
leadyng
theréto
:
who
by
their
vnchast
The
adulterer
.
The
hariot
.
behauior
,
and
wanton
life
doe
pollute
,
and
contaminate
their
bodie
,
in
whom
a
pure
muide
ought
to
be
reposed
.
Who
therowe
beastly
affection
,
are
by
euill
maners
transformed
to
beastes
:
and
as
moche
as
in
theim
lieth
,
multipliyng
a
brutishe
societie
.
The
homicide
in
his
state
more
horrible
,
accordyng
The
homicide
.
to
his
outragious
and
bloodie
life
,
is
to
bee
tormented
,
in
like
sort
all
other
vices
,
accordyng
to
their
mischiues
,
reason
,
Lawe
and
Iustice
,
must
temper
and
aggrauate
due
reward
,
and
sentence
to
them
.
¶
The
sentence
.
NO
vice
was
more
greuous
,
and
horrible
emong
the
Scithians
then
thefte
,
for
this
was
their
saiyng
:
Thefte
horrible
among
the
Scitheans
.
Quid
〈…〉
potent
silicet
furarl
,
what
can
be
safe
,
if
thefte
bee
lefull
or
tolerated
.
Herein
the
vniuersalle
societee
of
life
is
caste
doune
,
hereby
a
confusion
A
sentence
agenst
thefte
.
groweth
,
and
a
subuersion
in
all
states
immediatlie
followeth
,
equitee
,
iustice
,
and
all
sincere
dealyng
is
〈…〉
,
violence
extirpateth
vertue
,
and
aucthoritie
is
cutte
of
.
¶
The
digression
.
THe
facte
in
other
maie
be
with
more
facilitie
tolerated
,
in
that
to
theim selues
,
the
facte
and
conuersacion
of
life
is
moste
pernicious
,
and
hurtfull
,
but
by
so
he
kinde
of
nature
,
whole
kyngdomes
and
common
wealthes
would
bee
〈…〉
for
a
prosperous
state
and
common
wealthe
,
a
common
woe
and
calamitee
would
fall
on
them
,
tumultes
and
vprores
maintained
,
right
and
lawe
exiled
:
neither
in
field
quitnes
,
welth
Horrible
vices
.
or
riches
,
houses
spoiled
,
families
extinguished
,
in
all
places
sedicion
,
warre
for
peace
,
violence
for
right
,
will
and
lust
for
lawe
,
a
hedlesse
order
in
all
states
.
And
as
concernyng
Vsurers
though
their
gaines
be
neuer
so
ample
,
and
plentifull
Vserers
.
to
enriche
them
,
whereby
thei
growe
to
be
lordes
,
ouer
many
thousandes
of
poundes
:
yet
the
wealthe
gotten
by
it
is
so
iniurious
,
that
thei
are
a
greate
plague
,
to
all
partes
of
the
common
wealthe
:
so
many
daungers
and
mischiues
,
riseth
of
them
Cato
the
noble
and
wise
senator
of
Rome
,
being
demaunded
diuers
questions
,
what
was
firste
to
bee
sought
,
in
a
familie
The
sentence
of
Cato
against
vsurers
.
Vsure
is
murther
.
or
housholde
,
the
aunsweres
not
likyng
the
demaunder
:
this
question
was
ashed
,
O
Cato
,
what
senfence
giue
you
of
Vsurie
,
that
is
a
goodlie
matter
to
bee
enriched
by
.
Then
Cato
aunswered
in
fewe
woordes
.
Quid
hominem
occidere
.
What
saie
you
to
be
a
murderer
?
Soche
a
thyng
faieth
he
,
is
Vsurie
.
A
brief
sentence
againste
Vsurers
,
but
wittely
pronounced
from
the
mouth
of
a
godlie
,
sage
,
noble
,
and
descrite
persone
,
whiche
sentence
let
the
Vsurer
,
ioigne
to
his
Vsure
retourned
,
and
repeate
at
the
retourne
thereof
,
this
sentence
of
Cato
,
I
haue
murthered
.
This
one
sentence
will
discourage
any
Vsurer
,
knowyng
hymself
a
murtherer
.
Though
The
sentence
of
Cato
a
discomfort
〈…〉
.
moche
more
maie
be
spoken
against
it
,
this
shal
be
sufficient
.
The
Hebrues
calleth
Vsurie
,
by
the
name
of
Shecke
,
that
is
a
bityng
gaine
,
of
the
whiche
many
haue
been
so
bitten
,
that
whole
families
haue
been
deuoured
,
&
beggerie
haue
been
their
gaine
.
And
as
Palingenius
noteth
.
Debitor
aufugiens
portat
cum
faenore
sortem
.
The
debtour
often
tymes
saieth
he
,
runneth
awaie
,
and
carieth
with
hym
,
the
debte
and
gaines
of
the
Vsurie
.
The
Grekes
calleth
Vsurie
Tokos
,
that
is
properlie
the
trauaile
of
women
of
their
childe
:
soche
is
their
Vsurie
,
a
daungerous
gettyng
.
Demosthenes
likeneth
their
state
as
thus
,
as
if
terrestriall
thynges
should
be
aboue
the
starres
:
and
the
heauens
and
celestialle
bodies
,
gouerned
by
the
base
and
lowe
terrestriall
matters
,
whiche
by
no
meanes
,
can
conserue
the
excellencie
Vsure
a
dangerous
gaue
.
of
them
,
for
,
of
them
onely
,
is
their
matter
,
substaunce
and
nature
conserued
.
¶
Exclusion
of
mercie
.
WHerefore
,
to
whom
regimente
and
gouernemente
is
committed
,
on
whose
administracion
,
the
frame
of
the
common
wealth
doe
staie
it self
:
thei
ought
with
al
wisedome
and
moderacion
,
to
procede
in
soche
causes
,
whose
office
in
worthinesse
of
state
,
and
dignitie
,
maketh
them
as
Goddes
on
the
yearth
,
at
whose
mouthes
for
wisedome
,
counsaill
,
and
fortunate
Princes
and
magistrates
be
as
Gods
on
the
earth
.
state
,
infinite
people
doe
depende
.
It
is
no
smal
thing
in
that
their
sword
&
aucthoritee
,
doeth
sette
or
determine
all
thinges
,
that
tendereth
a
prosperous
state
,
whereupon
with
all
integritee
and
equitée
;
thei
ought
to
temper
the
affeccions
of
their
mynde
:
and
accordyng
to
the
horrible
facte
,
and
mischiues
of
the
wicked
,
to
exasperate
&
agrauate
their
terrible
iudgemente
,
and
to
extirpate
from
the
yearth
,
soche
as
be
of
no
societie
in
life
.
The
〈…〉
,
the
thief
,
the
adulterer
,
for
by
these
all
vertue
〈…〉
out
,
all
godlie
societie
The
homicide
.
The
Theue
.
The
Adulteror
.
extinguished
,
cities
,
realmes
,
and
countries
,
prostrate
&
plagued
for
the
toleracion
of
their
〈…〉
against
such
frendship
in
iudgemente
muste
cease
,
and
accordyng
to
the
state
of
the
cause
,
equitee
to
retaine
frendship
,
money
muste
not
blinde
,
nor
rewardes
to
force
and
temper
Iudgementes
:
but
accordyng
to
the
veritie
of
the
cause
,
to
adde
a
conclusion
.
Worthelie
the
pictures
of
Princes
,
Gouernours
and
Magistrates
Whey
the
pictures
of
magistrates
bee
picturid
with
oute
handes
.
in
auncient
tymes
doe
shewe
this
,
where
the
antiquitée
maketh
theim
without
handes
,
therein
it
sheweth
their
office
,
and
iudgemente
to
proceade
with
equitée
,
rewardes
not
to
blind
,
or
suppresse
the
sinceritie
of
the
cause
.
Magistrates
not
to
bee
bounde
to
giftes
,
not
rewardes
to
rule
their
sentence
.
Alciatus
in
his
boke
called
Emblemata
,
in
senatum
sancti
principis
.
Effigies
manibus
trunce
ante
altaria
diuum
Hic
resident
,
quarum
himine
capta
prior
Signa
potestatis
fumme
,
sanctique
senatus
,
Princes
and
magistrates
,
graue
&
constante
.
Thebanis
fuerant
ista
reperta
viris
.
Cur
resident
?
Quia
mente
graues
decet
esse
quieta
Iuridicos
,
animo
nec
variare
leui
.
Cur
sine
sunt
manibus
?
Capiant
ne
xenia
,
nec
se
Pollicitis
flecti
muneribus
ve
smant
.
Cecus
est
princeps
quod
solis
auribus
,
absque
Affectu
constans
iussa
senatus
agit
.
Where
vertue
and
integritie
sheweth
it self
,
in
the
persone
and
cause
,
to
vpholde
and
maintain
the
same
.
Roote
out
horrible
vices
from
common
wealthe
,
that
the
more
surer
and
stronge
foundacion
of
vertue
maie
be
laied
:
for
,
that
onelie
cause
,
the
scepter
of
kinges
,
the
office
of
magistrates
was
left
to
the
posteritee
of
all
n2
.
¶
Lawfull
and
just
.
SEyng
that
lawes
bee
godlie
,
and
vniuersally
thei
Lawes
giue
equitee
to
all
states
.
temper
equitée
to
all
states
,
and
giue
according
to
iustice
,
euery
man
his
owne
:
he
violateth
vertue
,
that
dispossesseth
than
other
manne
of
his
own
;
and
〈…〉
Iustice
.
And
thereupon
his
beastly
life
What
briueth
the
magistrate
to
horrible
sentence
against
wicked
persons
.
by
merite
forceth
and
driueth
,
lawe
and
Magistrate
,
to
terrible
iudgement
.
For
,
who
so
against
right
,
without
order
,
or
lawe
,
violateth
an
other
man
,
soche
a
one
,
lawes
of
iustice
,
muste
punishe
violentlie
,
and
extirpate
from
societée
,
beyng
a
〈◊〉
of
societee
.
¶
Profitable
.
IF
soche
wicked
persones
be
restrained
;
and
seuerelie
punished
,
horrible
vices
will
be
rooted
out
:
all
artes
sciences
,
and
godlie
occunacions
maintained
,
vpholded
and
kept
.
Then
there
must
bee
a
securitee
in
all
states
,
to
practise
godlines
,
a
mutuall
concorde
.
The
Magistrate
with
Magistrate
.
equitée
,
the
subiecte
with
faithful
and
humble
obedience
,
accomplishyng
Subiect
.
his
state
,
office
,
and
callyng
.
Whereupon
by
good
Magistrates
,
and
good
subiectes
,
the
common
wealthe
and
kyngdom
is
in
happie
state
stablished
,
For
,
in
these
twoo
poinctes
,
as
Plato
doeth
saie
,
there
is
vertuous
rule
,
and
like
obedience
.
¶
Easie
and
possible
.
AL
this
maie
easely
be
doen
;
when
wickednes
is
cutte
of
,
in
his
firste
groweth
,
when
the
magistrate
driueth
continually
,
by
sworde
and
authoritee
,
all
menne
to
obedience
,
bothe
of
lawes
and
gouernuurs
.
Then
in
al
good
common
wealthes
,
vices
are
neuer
tolerated
to
take
roote
:
because
The
begynnyng
of
vice
is
to
be
cutaf
.
the
beginnyng
and
increase
of
vices
,
is
sone
pulled
vp
,
his
monsterous
kyngdome
thereby
ouerthrowen
.
¶
The
conclusion
.
SO
doyng
,
happie
shall
the
kyng
be
,
happie
kyngdome
,
and
moste
fortunate
people
.
¶
The
parte
of
Rhetorike
called
praise
.
His
Oracion
,
which
is
titeled
praise
,
is
a
declamacion
of
the
vertuous
or
good
qualitees
,
properties
belongyng
to
any
thyng
,
whiche
doeth
procede
by
certaine
notes
of
arte
.
All
thynges
that
maie
be
seen
with
the
iye
of
man
,
touched
,
or
with
any
other
sence
apprehended
;
that
maie
be
praised
,
or
dispraised
.
-
〈◊〉
.
-
〈◊〉
.
-
Foule
.
-
Beaste
.
-
Orthardes
-
Stones
.
-
Trees
.
-
Plantes
.
-
〈◊〉
.
-
〈◊〉
-
〈◊〉
.
-
Ca●●●●●
.
-
T●●●●●
.
-
●a●d●ins
.
-
〈◊〉
.
-
Artes
.
-
Sciences
.
Any
vertue
maie
be
praised
,
as
wisedome
,
rightuousnes
fortitude
,
magnanimitie
,
temperaunce
,
liberalitee
,
with
all
other
.
These
are
to
be
celebrated
with
praise
.
The
persone
,
as
Iulius
Cesar
,
Octauius
Augustus
,
Hieremie
,
Tullie
,
Cato
,
Demosthenes
.
Thynges
,
as
rightuousnes
,
temperaunce
.
Tymes
,
as
the
Spring
tyme
of
the
yere
,
Sommer
,
Haruest
,
Winter
.
Places
,
as
Hauens
,
Orthardes
,
Gardeins
,
Toures
,
Castles
,
Temples
,
Islandes
.
Beastes
wantyng
reason
,
as
Horse
,
Shepe
,
Oxen
〈…〉
.
In
the
praise
of
vertue
,
this
maie
be
saied
THe
excellencies
of
it
,
the
antiquitie
and
originalls
beginnyng
〈…〉
any
region
by
it
,
as
no
〈…〉
without
vertues
and
to
extoll
the
same
,
in
makyng
a
comparison
,
with
other
giftes
of
nature
,
or
with
other
giftes
of
fortune
,
more
inferiour
or
base
.
Vpon
a
citee
,
praise
maie
be
recited
,
consideryng
the
goodlie
situacion
of
it
,
as
of
Paris
,
Venice
,
London
,
Yorke
:
consideryng
Wherein
the
praise
of
a
citie
consisteth
the
fertilitie
of
the
lande
,
the
wealthe
and
aboundaunce
,
the
noble
and
famous
gouernours
,
whiche
haue
gouerned
the
same
.
The
first
aucthors
and
builders
of
the
same
,
the
politike
lawes
,
and
godlie
statutes
therein
mainteined
:
The
felicitee
of
the
people
their
maners
,
their
valiaunt
prowes
and
hardines
.
The
buildyng
and
ornatures
of
the
same
,
with
Castles
,
Toures
,
Hauens
:
Floodes
,
Temples
:
as
if
a
manne
would
celebrate
with
praise
.
The
olde
,
famous
,
and
aunciente
Citée
of
London
,
shewyng
the
auncient
buildyng
The
praise
of
London
.
of
the
same
:
the
commyng
of
Brutus
,
who
was
the
firste
aucthor
and
erector
of
the
same
.
As
Romulus
was
of
the
mightie
Brutus
builded
London
in
the.
x.
yeare
of
his
raine
,
Citée
Rome
,
what
kyngs
haue
from
tyme
to
tyme
,
lineally
descended
,
and
succeded
,
bearing
croune
and
scepter
therein
:
the
valiauntnes
of
the
people
,
what
terror
thei
haue
been
to
all
forraine
nacions
.
What
victories
thei
haue
in
battaile
obteined
,
how
diuers
nacions
haue
sought
their
amitée
and
league
.
The
false
Scottes
,
and
Frenche
menne
truce
breakers
:
Fraunce
and
Scotlande
vpholdid
by
the
gouernors
of
this
lande
.
many
and
sonderie
tymes
,
losyng
their
honour
in
the
field
,
and
yet
thei
,
through
the
puissaunt
harte
of
the
kynges
of
this
lande
,
vpholdyd
and
saued
,
from
the
mighte
and
force
of
other
enemies
inuadyng
theim
.
The
twoo
famous
Vniuersitées
of
this
lande
,
from
the
whiche
,
no
small
nomber
of
Cambridge
.
Oxforde
.
greate
learned
men
and
famous
,
haue
in
the
comon
wealthe
sprong
,
with
all
other
thynges
to
it
.
The
praise
of
a
Kyng
,
Prince
,
Duke
,
Erle
,
Lorde
,
Baron
,
Squire
,
or
of
any
other
man
be
maie
declaimed
of
obseruing
the
order
of
this
parte
of
Rhetorike
.
This
parte
of
Rhetorike
called
praise
,
is
either
a
particuler
praise
of
one
,
as
of
kyng
Henry
the
fifte
,
Plato
,
Tullie
,
Demosthenes
,
Cyrus
,
Darius
,
Alexander
the
greate
.
Or
a
generalle
and
vniuersalle
praise
,
as
the
praise
of
all
the
Britaines
:
or
of
all
the
citezeins
of
London
.
¶
The
order
to
make
this
Oracion
,
〈…〉
.
Firste
,
for
the
enteryng
of
the
matter
,
you
shall
place
a
exordium
,
or
beginnyng
.
The
second
place
,
you
shall
bryng
to
his
praise
.
Genuseius
,
that
is
to
faie
:
Of
what
kinde
be
came
of
,
whiche
dooeth
consiste
in
fower
poinctes
.
-
Of
what
nacion
.
-
Of
what
countrie
.
-
Of
what
auncetours
.
-
Of
what
parentes
.
After
that
you
shall
declare
,
his
educacion
:
the
educacion
is
conteined
in
thrée
poinctes
.
In
-
Institucion
.
-
Arte.
-
Lawes
.
Then
put
there
to
that
,
whiche
is
the
chief
grounde
of
al
praise
:
his
actes
doen
,
whiche
doe
procede
out
of
the
giftes
,
and
excellencies
of
the
minde
,
as
the
fortitude
of
the
mynde
,
wisedome
,
and
magnanimitée
.
Of
the
bodie
,
as
a
beautifull
face
,
amiable
countenaunce
swiftnesse
,
the
might
and
strength
of
the
same
.
The
excellencies
of
fortune
,
as
his
dignitée
,
power
,
aucthoritie
,
riches
,
substaunce
,
frendes
.
In
the
fifte
place
vse
a
comparison
,
wherein
that
whiche
you
praise
,
maie
be
aduaunced
to
the
vttermoste
.
Lasts
of
all
,
vse
the
Epilogus
,
or
conclusion
.
¶
The
example
of
the
Oracion
.
¶
The
praise
of
Epaminundas
.
IN
whom
nature
hath
powred
singuler
giftes
,
in
whom
vertue
,
&
singularitee
,
in
〈…〉
enterprises
aboundeth
:
whose
glorie
&
renowne
,
rooteth
to
the
posteritie
,
immortall
commendacion
.
In
the
graue
,
their
vertues
and
godlie
life
,
tasteth
not
of
Obliuion
,
whiche
at
the
length
ouershroweth
Obliuion
.
all
creatures
,
Citées
,
and
regions
.
Thei
liue
onelie
in
all
ages
,
whose
vertues
spreadeth
same
and
noble
enterprises
,
by
vertue
rooteth
immortalitee
.
Who
so
liueth
as
that
his
good
fame
after
death
ceaseth
not
,
nor
death
with
the
bodie
Who
liue
in
all
ages
.
rutteth
of
their
memorie
of
use
:
Soche
not
onely
in
life
,
but
also
in
death
are
moste
fortunate
.
In
death
all
honor
,
dignitee
,
glorie
,
wealthe
,
riches
,
are
taken
from
vs
:
The
fame
and
glorie
of
singulare
life
is
then
,
chieflie
takyng
his
holde
Good
fame
chieflie
routeth
after
death
.
Tuilie
.
Demostheues
.
Iulius
Cesar
.
Ocrauius
Augustus
.
Vespasianus
Theodosius
.
Traianus
.
Adrranus
.
and
roote
,
wise
men
and
godlie
,
in
life
,
knowen
famous
,
after
death
,
remain
woste
worthie
&
glorious
.
Who
knoweth
not
of
Tullie
,
the
famous
Oratour
of
Rome
.
Doeth
Demosthenes
lieth
hidden
,
that
noble
Oratour
of
Athenes
.
Is
not
that
fame
of
Iulius
Cesar
,
Octauius
Augustus
remainyng
of
Vespasianus
:
of
Theodosius
,
of
Traianus
,
of
Adrianus
,
who
by
praise
minded
,
be
left
to
the
ende
of
al
ages
.
Soche
a
one
was
this
Epaminundas
,
the
famous
Duke
of
Thebe
,
whose
vertues
gaue
hym
honour
in
life
,
and
famous
enterprises
,
immortalitée
of
fame
after
death
.
What
can
bee
saied
more
,
in
the
praise
and
commendacion
,
of
any
peere
of
estate
,
then
was
saied
in
the
praise
of
Epaminundas
,
for
his
vertues
were
so
singulare
,
that
it
was
doubted
,
he
beyng
so
good
a
manne
,
and
so
good
a
Magistrate
,
whether
he
were
better
manne
,
or
better
Magistrate
:
whose
vertues
were
so
vnited
,
that
vertue
alwaies
tempered
his
enterprises
,
his
loftie
state
as
fortune
oftentymes
blindeth
,
did
not
make
hym
vnmindfull
of
his
state
.
No
doubt
,
but
that
in
all
common
wealthes
,
famous
gouernours
haue
been
,
but
in
all
those
,
the
moste
parte
haue
not
been
soche
,
that
all
so
good
men
,
and
so
good
magistrates
:
that
it
is
doubted
,
whether
thei
〈…〉
,
or
better
magistrates
.
It
is
a
rare
thyng
to
be
〈…〉
,
Good
man
,
good
magistrate
,
boothe
a
good
man
and
a
good
magistrate
.
but
a
more
difficult
matter
,
to
bee
a
good
Magistrate
:
and
moste
of
all
,
to
be
bothe
a
good
man
,
and
a
good
Magistrate
.
Honour
and
preeminent
state
;
doeth
〈…〉
,
whereupon
thei
ought
the
more
vigilantlie
to
wade
:
in
all
causes
,
and
with
all
moderacion
,
to
temper
their
preeminent
state
.
The
Philosophers
ponderyng
the
brickle
and
slippere
state
of
fortune
,
did
pronunce
this
sentence
:
Difficilius
The
saiynge
of
the
Philosophers
.
est
res
aduersas
pati
,
quam
fortunam
eslantem
ferre
,
it
is
more
easie
to
beare
sharpe
and
extreme
pouertie
,
then
to
rule
and
moderate
fortune
,
because
that
the
wisest
menne
of
all
haue
as
Chronicles
doe
shewe
,
felte
this
obliuion
,
that
their
maners
haue
been
so
chaunged
,
as
that
natures
molde
in
them
Obliuion
.
had
ben
altered
or
nuelie
framed
,
in
the
life
of
Epaminundas
moderacion
and
vertue
,
so
gouerned
his
state
,
that
he
was
a
honor
and
renowne
to
his
state
,
nothing
can
be
more
ample
in
his
praise
,
then
that
which
is
lefte
Chronicled
of
him
.
Of
his
countrie
.
EPaminundas
was
borne
in
Thebe
a
famous
citie
in
Beotia
,
the
which
Cadmus
the
sonne
of
Agenor
builded
,
Cadmus
.
whiche
Amphion
did
close
&
enuiron
with
walles
,
Amphion
.
in
the
whiche
the
mightie
and
valiaunt
Hercules
was
Hercules
.
borne
,
&
manie
noble
Princes
helde
therin
scepter
,
the
which
Citie
is
tituled
famous
to
the
posterity
by
the
noble
gouernment
of
Epaminundas
.
¶
Of
his
auncetours
.
EPaminundas
came
not
of
anie
highe
nobilitie
or
blood
,
but
his
parentes
were
honeste
and
verteous
who
as
it
semed
were
verie
well
affected
to
vertue
,
instructyng
their
soonne
in
all
singulare
and
good
qualities
,
for
by
good
and
vertuous
life
and
famous
enterprises
from
a
meane
state
,
manie
haue
bene
extolled
to
beare
scepter
,
or
to
attaine
greate
honour
,
for
as
there
is
a
begynnyng
of
nobilitie
,
so
there
is
an
ende
,
by
vertue
and
famous
Nobility
rose
by
vertue
.
actes
towarde
the
common
wealthe
,
nobilite
first
rose
.
The
stock
of
Cesar
and
Cesars
was
exalted
from
a
meaner
state
,
Cesar
.
Scipio
.
by
vertue
onelie
to
nobilitie
.
Scipios
stocke
was
not
alwais
noble
,
but
his
vertues
graffed
nobilitie
to
the
posteritie
of
his
line
and
ofspryng
followynge
.
And
euen
so
as
their
famous
enterprices
excelled
,
nobilite
in
theim
also
increased
.
Catilina
wicked
,
was
of
a
noble
house
,
but
he
degenerated
Catilina
.
from
the
nobilitie
of
his
auncestours
,
the
vertues
that
graffed
nobilitie
in
his
auncestors
,
were
first
ertinguished
in
Catiline
.
Marcus
Antonius
was
a
noble
Emperour
,
a
Prince
Marcus
Antonius
.
indued
with
all
wisedome
and
Godlie
gouernment
,
who
was
of
a
noble
parentage
,
it
what
a
wicked
sonne
succeded
him
,
the
father
was
not
so
godlie
,
wise
,
and
vertuous
,
as
Commodus
Commodus
.
was
wickedlie
disposed
and
pestiferous
.
There
was
no
vertue
or
excellence
,
meete
for
suche
a
personage
,
but
that
Marcus
attained
to
.
Who
for
wisedome
was
called
Marcus
Philosophus
,
in
his
sonne
what
vice
was
then
that
he
practised
not
,
belie
chier
,
druncknes
and
harlottes
,
was
his
delite
,
his
crueltie
and
bluddie
life
was
suche
that
he
murthered
all
the
godlie
and
wise
Senatours
,
had
in
price
with
Marcus
his
father
.
Seuerus
in
like
maner
,
was
a
noble
and
famous
Seuerus
.
Emperor
,
in
the
Senate
moste
graue
,
politike
,
and
in
his
warres
moste
fortunate
,
but
in
his
sonne
Marcus
Antoninus
Marcus
Antonius
Caracalla
.
Caracalla
,
what
wickednes
wanted
,
whose
beastlie
life
is
rather
to
be
put
in
silence
,
then
spoken
of
.
In
the
assemble
of
the
Grecians
,
gathered
to
consulte
vpon
the
contencion
of
Achilles
armour
,
Aiax
gloriouslie
aduaunceth
hymself
of
his
auncestrie
,
from
many
kinges
descended
,
whom
Vlisses
his
Aiax
.
Vlisses
.
aduersarie
aunswered
:
makyng
a
long
and
eloquente
Oracion
,
before
the
noble
péeres
of
Grece
,
concernyng
Aiax
his
auncetours
.
These
are
his
woordes
.
Nam
genus
et
proauos
et
que
non
fecimus
ipsi
,
Vix
ea
nostra
voco
,
sed
enim
quia
retulit
Aiax
,
esse
louis
pronepos
.
As
for
our
parentage
,
and
line
of
auncetours
,
long
before
vs
,
and
noble
actes
of
theirs
:
as
we
our selues
haue
not
doen
the
like
,
how
can
we
call
,
and
title
their
actes
to
be
ours
.
Let
them
therefore
,
whiche
haue
descended
from
noble
blood
,
and
famous
auncetours
:
bee
like
affected
to
all
nobilitée
of
their
auncetours
,
what
can
thei
glory
in
the
nobilitée
of
their
auncetours
.
Well
,
their
auncetours
haue
laied
the
foundacion
,
and
renoume
of
nobilitee
to
their
ofspryng
.
What
nobilitee
Nobilitee
.
is
founde
in
them
,
when
thei
builde
nothyng
,
to
their
auncetours
woorke
of
nobilitée
.
Euen
as
their
auncetours
,
noblie
endeuoured
them selues
,
to
purchase
and
obtain
,
by
famous
actes
their
nobilitée
)
for
,
nobilitée
and
vertue
,
descendeth
alwaies
to
the
like
)
so
thei
contrary
retire
and
giue
backe
,
from
all
the
nobiliée
of
their
auncestours
,
where
as
thei
ought
,
with
like
nobilitée
to
imitate
them
.
Many
haue
been
,
whiche
through
their
wisedome
,
and
famous
enterprises
,
in
the
affaires
A
beginnyng
of
nobilitee
,
of
their
Prince
,
worthche
to
honour
haue
been
extolled
and
aduaunced
:
who
also
were
the
firste
aucthours
and
founders
of
nobiliée
,
to
their
name
and
ofspring
.
Whose
ofspring
indued
with
like
nobilitee
of
vertues
,
and
noble
actes
haue
increased
their
auncestors
glorie
:
the
children
or
ofspring
lineally
descendyng
,
hauyng
no
part
of
the
auncestours
glorie
,
how
can
thei
vaunte
them selues
of
nobiliée
,
whiche
thei
lacke
,
and
dooe
nothyng
possesse
thereof
,
Euen
from
lowe
birthe
and
degree
.
Galerius
Armentarius
was
aduaunced
,
euen
from
a
Shepherdes
sonne
,
to
sit
in
the
Imperiall
seat
of
Roome
.
Galerius
Maximinus
whom
all
the
Easte
obaied
,
Galerius
a
Shepherds
,
sonne
Emperor
of
Rome
.
Probus
a
Gardeiners
sonne
,
Emperour
.
his
vertues
and
noble
acts
huffed
hym
to
beare
scepter
in
the
Empire
of
Roome
.
Probus
a
Gardiners
soonne
,
to
the
like
throne
and
glorie
ascended
,
so
God
disposeth
the
state
of
euery
man
,
placyng
and
bestowing
dignitée
,
where
it
pleaseth
him
as
he
setteth
vp
,
so
he
pulleth
doune
,
his
prouidence
&
might
is
bounde
to
no
state
,
stocke
,
or
kindred
.
¶
Of
his
educacion
.
Epaminundas
beyng
borne
of
soche
parentes
,
was
brought
vp
in
all
excellente
learnyng
,
for
,
vnder
hym
Philippe
the
kyng
of
the
Macedonians
,
the
soonne
of
Amintas
,
was
brought
vp
.
This
Epaminundas
,
the
Histories
note
hym
to
be
a
chief
Philosopher
,
and
a
capitaine
moste
valiaunte
.
In
Musike
,
in
plaiyng
,
and
singyng
finelie
to
his
Instrumente
,
notable
and
famous
,
no
kinde
of
learnyng
,
arte
,
or
science
,
wanted
in
his
breaste
:
So
greate
and
aboundante
were
his
vertues
,
that
aboue
all
gouernours
,
whiche
haue
been
in
Thebe
,
his
name
and
fame
is
chieflie
aduaunced
.
¶
The
praise
of
his
actes
.
EPaminundas
beyng
moste
valiaunte
and
noble
,
leauing
all
priuate
commoditée
,
glory
,
and
The
dutie
of
good
gouernors
.
riches
a
side
:
sought
the
renoume
of
his
countree
,
as
all
rulers
and
gouernours
ought
to
do
.
For
,
a
kyngdome
or
common
wealth
,
can
not
rise
to
any
high
nobilitée
or
Roialnesse
,
where
gouernours
,
rulers
,
and
magistrates
,
neclecting
the
vniuersall
,
and
whole
Nowe
a
kingdome
riseth
to
all
felicitie
.
body
of
the
common
wealthe
,
doe
cogitate
and
vigilantly
endeuour
themselues
,
to
stablish
to
them
and
theirs
,
a
priuate
,
peculiar
,
and
domesticall
profite
,
glorie
,
or
renoume
.
Coueiteousnes
,
whiche
is
in
all
ambicious
Magistrates
the
poison
,
plague
,
destruccion
,
and
ruine
of
the
beste
and
florishing
common
wealthes
,
of
al
wickednes
and
mischief
the
roote
:
a
vice
,
whereupon
all
vice
is
grounded
,
from
whom
all
mischiefe
Couetousnes
a
great
euill
.
floweth
,
all
execrable
purposes
issueth
.
That
wanted
in
Epaminundas
,
for
in
the
ende
of
his
life
,
his
coffers
were
so
thin
and
poore
,
that
euen
to
his
Funerall
,
money
wanted
to
solempnise
the
same
.
Priuate
glorie
nor
excesse
,
was
hunted
after
of
hym
,
yet
his
vertues
were
of
soche
excellencie
,
that
honour
,
dignitée
,
and
prceminent
state
,
was
offered
and
giuen
to
hym
vnwillinglie
.
This
Epaminundas
was
in
gouernement
so
famous
,
and
so
vertuouslie
and
politikelie
ruled
the
same
,
that
he
was
a
glorie
,
renoume
,
honour
,
and
felicitée
to
his
kingdome
,
by
his
state
.
Before
the
time
of
Epaminundas
,
the
countree
of
Beotia
was
nothyng
so
famous
Beotia
.
in
their
enterprises
:
neither
the
citee
of
Thebe
so
roiall
,
puissaunt
Thebes
.
or
noble
,
the
antiquitee
of
that
tyme
sheweth
,
that
Epaminundas
wantyng
the
power
of
Thebes
,
their
glorie
,
strength
,
and
felicitee
fell
and
decaied
.
The
learning
of
Epaminundas
and
knowlege
,
was
so
aboundant
and
profounde
bothe
in
Philosophie
,
and
in
all
other
artes
and
sciences
,
that
it
was
wounderfull
.
In
chiualrie
and
in
feates
of
warre
,
no
péere
was
more
couragious
and
bolde
,
or
hardie
,
neither
in
that
,
whiche
he
enterprised
,
any
could
be
of
greater
counsaile
in
hedde
more
pollitike
,
of
minde
more
sage
and
wittie
:
his
gouernement
so
good
,
that
beyng
so
good
a
Magistrate
,
it
is
doubted
,
whether
he
be
better
man
,
or
better
Magistrate
,
Epaminundas
died
in
the
defence
of
his
countrée
.
The
Athenians
were
enemies
to
the
Thebanes
,
and
many
greate
battailes
were
assaied
of
theim
and
foughten
:
and
often
tymes
the
Athenians
felt
many
bitter
stormes
,
and
fortune
loured
of
them
,
he
beyng
so
valiaunt
a
capitain
.
Epaminundas
beyng
dedde
,
the
Athenians
ceased
to
practise
,
any
one
parte
of
chiualrie
,
their
prowesse
and
dexteritée
decaided
:
thei
hauyng
no
aliaunte
,
and
forraine
enemie
to
moleste
theim
,
or
whom
thei
feared
.
So
that
a
famous
,
wise
,
pollitike
,
and
valiaunte
capitaine
,
is
not
onely
a
staie
,
a
pillar
and
strong
bulwarke
A
valiant
capitain
,
to
his
countrie
a
pillar
to
his
enemie
,
a
occasion
to
dexteritie
.
to
his
countrée
.
But
also
forraine
nacions
,
hauyng
one
,
whom
for
his
valiauntnes
thei
dreade
,
doe
practise
and
inure
themselues
,
to
all
dexteritee
,
counsaile
,
wisedome
,
and
pollicie
:
soche
a
one
was
Epaminundas
,
to
his
enemies
and
countrée
.
¶
The
comparison
.
NEither
Hector
of
Troie
,
nor
Achilles
of
Grece
,
might
bee
compared
with
Epaminundas
,
Numa
Pompilius
Hector
.
Achilles
.
Numa
Pompeius
.
Adrianus
.
was
not
more
godlie
,
Adriane
the
Emperour
of
Roome
,
no
better
learned
,
nor
Galba
the
Emperour
more
valiaunte
,
Nerua
no
more
temperate
,
nor
Traianus
more
noble
,
neither
Cocles
nor
Decius
,
Scipionor
Marcus
Regulus
,
did
more
valiauntly
in
the
defence
of
their
countrie
,
soche
a
one
was
this
Epaminundas
.
¶
The
conclusion
.
OF
many
thynges
,
these
fewe
are
recited
,
but
if
his
whole
life
and
vertues
,
wer
worthely
handeled
:
fewe
would
beleue
,
soche
a
rare
gouernour
,
so
vertuous
a
Prince
,
so
hardie
and
valiaunte
a
capitaine
,
to
haue
remained
in
no
age
.
¶
The
parte
of
Rhetorike
,
called
dispraise
.
THis
parte
of
Rhetorike
,
which
is
called
dispraise
,
is
a
suuectiue
Oracion
,
made
againste
the
life
of
any
man
.
This
part
of
Rhetorike
,
is
contrary
to
that
,
whiche
is
before
set
,
called
laus
,
that
is
to
saie
,
praise
:
and
by
contrary
notes
procedeth
,
for
the
Oratour
or
declaimer
to
entreate
vpon
.
This
parte
of
Rhetorike
,
is
called
of
the
Grekes
Psogos
.
In
praise
,
we
extoll
the
persone
:
First
by
his
countrée
.
Then
by
his
auncestours
and
parentes
.
In
the
third
place
,
by
his
education
and
institucion
.
Then
in
the
fowerth
place
,
of
his
actes
in
life
.
In
the
fifte
place
vse
a
comparison
,
comparyng
the
persone
with
other
,
whiche
are
more
inferiour
.
Then
the
conclusion
.
Now
in
dispraise
,
contrarily
we
doe
procede
.
Firste
,
in
the
dispraise
of
his
countrée
.
Of
his
auncetours
and
parentes
.
His
educacion
is
dispraised
.
Then
his
actes
and
deedes
of
life
.
Also
in
your
comparison
with
other
,
dispraise
hym
.
Then
in
the
laste
place
,
adde
the
conclusion
.
All
thynges
that
maie
be
praised
,
maie
be
dispraised
.
¶
The
dispraise
of
Nero.
AS
vertue
meriteth
commendacion
and
immortall
renoume
,
for
the
nobilitée
and
excellencie
reposed
in
it
:
so
ougle
vices
for
the
deformitée
of
Vertue
.
them
,
are
in
mynd
to
be
abhorred
and
detested
,
and
with
all
diligence
,
counsaile
,
and
wisedome
aucided
.
As
pestiferous
poison
extinguisheth
with
his
corrupcion
and
nautinesse
,
the
good
and
absolute
nature
of
all
Vice
.
thinges
:
so
vice
for
his
pestiferous
nature
putteth
out
vertue
and
rooteth
out
with
his
force
all
singularitée
.
For
,
vice
and
vertue
are
so
of
nature
contrary
,
as
fire
and
water
,
the
violence
of
the
one
expelleth
the
other
:
for
,
in
the
mansion
of
vertue
,
vice
at
one
tyme
harboreth
not
,
neither
vertue
with
vice
can
be
consociate
or
vnited
,
for
,
vertue
is
a
singuler
meane
,
what
is
vertue
.
or
Mediocrite
in
any
good
enterprise
or
facte
,
with
order
and
reason
finished
.
Whose
acte
in
life
,
doeth
repugne
order
and
reason
,
disseuered
from
all
Mediocrite
,
soche
do
leaue
iustice
,
equitée
,
wisedome
,
temperaunce
,
fortitude
,
magnanimitée
,
and
al
other
vertues
,
bothe
of
minde
and
body
:
onely
by
vertues
life
men
shewe
theimselues
,
as
chief
creatures
of
God
,
with
reason
,
as
a
moste
principall
gifte
,
beautified
and
decorated
:
In
other
giftes
,
man
is
farre
inferiour
to
beastes
,
both
in
strength
of
bodie
,
in
celeritée
and
swiftnesse
of
foote
,
in
labour
,
in
industrie
,
in
sense
,
nothyng
to
bee
compared
to
beastes
,
with
beastes
as
a
peculier
and
proper
thyng
,
wee
haue
our
bodie
of
the
yearth
:
but
our
minde
,
whiche
for
his
diuinitée
,
passeth
all
thynges
immortall
,
maketh
vs
as
gods
emong
other
creatures
.
The
bodie
therefore
,
as
a
aliaunt
and
forain
enemie
,
beyng
made
of
a
moste
base
,
moste
vile
and
corruptible
nature
,
repugneth
the
mynde
.
This
is
the
cause
,
that
wickednesse
taketh
soche
a
hedde
,
and
that
the
horrible
facte
and
enterprise
of
the
wicked
burste
out
,
in
that
,
reason
exiled
and
remoued
from
the
minde
,
the
ougle
perturbacions
of
the
minde
,
haue
their
regiment
,
power
,
and
dominion
:
and
where
soche
state
of
gouernemente
is
in
any
one
bodie
,
in
priuate
and
domesticalle
causes
,
in
forraine
and
publike
affaires
,
in
kyngdome
and
common
wealthe
.
Vertue
fadeth
and
decaieth
,
and
vice
onely
beareth
the
swaie
.
Lawe
is
ordered
by
luste
,
and
their
order
is
will
,
soche
was
the
tyme
and
gouernment
of
this
wicked
Nero.
¶
Of
his
countres
.
NEro
was
a
Romaine
borne
,
though
in
gouernement
he
was
wicked
,
yet
his
countrée
was
famous
,
and
noble
:
for
,
the
Romaines
wer
lordes
and
heddes
ouer
all
the
worlde
.
The
vttermoste
Indians
,
the
Ethiopes
,
the
Persians
,
feared
the
maiestie
and
aucthoritée
of
the
Romaines
.
From
Romulus
,
who
was
the
firste
founder
,
and
builder
of
that
Citee
:
the
Romaines
bothe
had
their
name
of
hym
,
and
grew
afterward
to
marueilous
puisaunt
Rome
.
roialnes
.
There
was
no
nacion
vnder
the
Sunne
,
but
it
dreaded
their
Maiestie
,
or
felte
their
inuincible
handes
:
there
hath
been
many
mightie
kyngdomes
,
on
the
face
of
the
yearth
,
but
no
kyngdome
was
able
,
with
like
successe
and
felicitée
in
their
enterprise
,
or
for
like
famous
gouernors
,
and
continuance
of
their
state
,
to
compare
with
them
.
This
was
,
and
is
,
the
laste
mightée
Monarchie
in
the
worlde
.
Roome
a
olde
aunciente
citee
,
inhabited
firste
of
the
Aborigines
,
which
came
from
Troie
.
The
prouidence
of
God
,
so
disposeth
the
Carthage
.
tymes
and
ages
of
the
world
,
the
state
of
kyngdomes
,
by
the
fall
of
mightier
kyngdomes
,
meaner
grewe
to
power
and
glorie
.
The
Carthagineans
,
contended
by
prowes
,
and
magnanimitee
,
to
be
lordes
ouer
the
Romaines
.
Carthage
was
a
greate
,
mightie
,
olde
,
auncient
&
famous
citee
,
in
the
whiche
valiaunte
,
wise
,
and
pollitike
gouernours
,
helde
therein
regiment
,
long
warres
was
susteined
betwene
the
Romaines
and
Carthagineans
,
emong
whom
infinite
people
,
and
many
noble
péeres
fell
in
the
duste
.
Fortune
and
happie
successe
fell
to
the
Romaines
:
the
people
of
Carthage
vanquished
,
and
prostrate
to
the
grounde
.
Scipio
the
noble
Consull
,
beyng
at
the
destruccion
of
it
,
seeyng
with
his
iye
,
Carthage
by
fire
brunte
to
ashes
,
saied
:
Talis
exitus
aliquando
erit
Rome
:
euen
as
of
Carthage
,
like
shall
the
destruccion
of
Rome
bee
,
as
for
Destruction
of
Rome
to
ashes
in
tune
.
continuaunce
of
the
Romaine
state
,
of
their
glorie
,
power
,
and
worthie
successe
,
no
nacion
vnder
the
Sunne
,
can
compare
with
theim
:
soche
was
the
state
of
Rome
,
wherein
wicked
Nero
raigned
.
¶
Of
his
anncestours
.
DOmitianus
Nero
,
the
sonne
of
Domitius
Enobarbus
,
Agrippina
was
his
mothers
name
:
this
Agrippina
,
was
Empresse
of
Rome
,
wife
to
Claudius
Tiberius
,
the
daughter
of
his
brother
Germanicus
.
This
Agrippina
,
the
Chronicle
noteth
her
,
to
be
indued
with
al
mischief
Agrippina
.
and
crucltée
:
For
Tiberius
her
housbande
,
hauyng
by
his
firste
wife
children
,
thei
were
murthered
by
her
,
because
she
might
,
thei
beyng
murthered
,
with
more
facilitée
,
further
the
Empire
,
to
her
soonnes
handes
,
many
treasons
conspired
against
them
oftentimes
,
Agrippina
poisoned
her
husbande
,
then
Nero
succeded
.
¶
Of
his
educacion
.
SEneca
the
famous
Poete
&
Philosopher
,
was
scholemaister
Seneca
schol
maister
to
Nero.
to
Nero
,
who
brought
hym
vp
in
all
nobilitie
of
learnyng
,
mete
for
his
state
:
though
that
Nero
was
wickedlie
of
nature
disposed
,
as
his
beastlie
gouernement
sheweth
,
yet
wickednes
in
him
,
was
by
the
seueritie
of
Seneca
,
and
his
castigacion
depressed
:
for
Traianus
Emperour
of
Rome
,
would
saie
,
as
concernyng
Nero
,
for
the
space
of
fiue
yeres
,
no
Prince
was
like
to
hym
,
for
good
gouernement
,
after
fiue
yeres
,
losely
and
dissolutly
he
gouerned
.
¶
Of
his
actes
.
THis
Nero
,
at
what
tyme
as
his
mother
was
conceiued
The
dreame
of
Agrippina
mother
to
Nero
,
in
his
concepcion
.
of
him
,
she
dreamed
that
she
was
conceiued
of
a
Viper
:
for
,
the
young
Viper
alwaies
killeth
his
dame
.
He
was
not
onely
a
Viper
to
his
mother
whom
he
killed
,
but
also
to
his
kyngdome
and
common
wealthe
a
destroier
,
whiche
afterward
shal
be
shewed
,
what
a
tyraunte
and
bloodie
gouernour
he
was
.
This
Nero
made
in
the
Citee
of
Rome
,
the
rounde
seates
and
scaffoldes
,
to
beholde
Nero
a
viper
spectacles
and
sightes
,
and
also
the
bathes
.
He
subdued
Pontus
a
greate
countrée
,
whiche
ioineth
to
the
sea
Pontuswhiche
countrée
containeth
these
realmes
,
Colchis
,
Cappadocia
,
Armenia
,
and
many
other
countrées
,
and
made
it
as
a
Prouince
,
by
the
suffraunce
of
Polemon
Regulus
,
by
whose
Pontus
.
Colchis
.
Cappadocia
.
Armenia
.
name
it
was
called
Pontus
Polemoniacus
.
He
ouer
came
the
Alpes
,
of
the
king
Cotteius
,
Cottius
the
king
being
dedde
The
life
followyng
of
Nero
was
so
abhominable
,
that
the
shame
of
his
life
,
will
make
any
man
a
fraied
,
to
leaue
any
Nero
vnworthie
to
be
chronicled
.
Seneca
memorie
of
hym
.
This
Domitius
Nero
,
caused
his
Scholemaister
Seneca
to
be
put
to
death
,
Seneca
chosing
his
owne
death
,
his
veines
beyng
cutte
in
a
hotte
bathe
died
,
bicause
he
corrected
wicked
Nero
,
to
traine
hym
to
vertue
.
He
was
outragious
wicked
,
that
he
had
consideracion
,
neither
to
his
own
honestie
,
nor
to
other
,
but
in
continuaunce
,
he
tired
hymself
as
virgines
doe
when
thei
marie
,
callyng
a
Senate
,
the
dourie
assigned
,
and
as
the
maner
of
that
solemnitee
is
,
many
resortyng
and
frequentyng
,
in
maidens
tire
and
apparell
.
He
went
beyng
a
man
,
to
be
maried
as
a
woman
:
beside
this
,
at
The
shamful
life
of
Nero.
other
tymes
he
cladde
hymself
with
the
skin
of
a
wilde
beast
,
and
beastlie
did
handle
that
,
whiche
Nature
remoueth
from
the
sight
.
He
defiled
hymself
with
his
owne
mother
,
whom
he
killed
immediatlie
.
He
maried
twoo
wiues
,
Octauia
,
and
Sabina
,
otherwise
called
Poppea
,
firste
murtheryng
their
housbandes
.
In
that
tyme
Galba
vsurped
the
Empire
,
and
Caius
Iulius
:
as
sone
as
Nero
heard
that
Galba
came
nere
Galba
.
Caius
Iulius
.
towardes
Rome
,
euen
then
the
Senate
of
Rome
had
determined
,
that
Nero
should
bee
whipped
to
death
with
roddes
,
accordyng
to
the
old
vsage
of
their
auncestours
,
his
necke
yoked
with
a
forke
.
This
wicked
Nero
,
seyng
himself
forsaken
of
all
his
friendes
,
at
midnight
he
departed
out
of
the
Citée
,
Ephaon
,
and
Epaphroditus
waityng
on
hym
,
Neophitus
and
Sporus
his
Eunuche
:
whiche
Sporus
before
tyme
,
had
Nero
assaied
to
frame
and
fashion
out
of
kinde
.
In
the
ende
,
Nero
thruste
himself
through
,
with
the
poinct
of
his
sworde
,
his
wicked
man
Sporus
,
thrustyng
foreward
his
trembling
hande
:
this
wicked
Nero
before
that
,
hauyng
none
to
murther
The
death
of
Nero.
hym
,
he
made
a
exclamacion
,
in
these
woordes
.
Is
there
neither
friende
nor
enemie
to
kill
me
,
shamefullie
haue
I
liued
,
and
with
more
shame
shall
〈◊〉
,
in
the
.xxxij.
yere
of
his
age
he
died
.
The
Persians
so
atire
ly
loued
hym
,
that
after
his
death
thei
sente
Ambassidours
,
desiryng
licence
to
erecte
to
hym
a
monumente
,
all
countrées
and
Prouinces
,
and
the
whole
Citée
of
Rome
,
did
so
moche
reioyce
of
his
death
,
that
thei
all
wearyng
the
Toppintant
hattes
,
whiche
bonde
men
doe
vse
to
ware
,
when
thei
bee
sette
at
libertie
,
and
so
thei
triumphed
of
his
death
,
deliuered
from
so
cruell
a
tyraunte
.
¶
A
comparison
.
AS
for
wicked
gouernement
,
Nero
doeth
make
Caligula
like
to
Comodus
,
Domitianus
,
Antoninus
Nero.
Caligula
.
Domitianus
Antoninus
.
Caracalla
,
thei
were
all
so
wicked
,
that
the
Senate
of
Rome
thought
it
méete
,
to
obliterate
their
name
,
from
all
memorie
and
Chronicle
,
because
of
their
wickednesse
.
¶
The
conclusion
.
MOche
more
the
life
and
gouernement
of
wicked
Nero
,
might
be
intreated
of
,
but
this
shall
be
sufficient
:
to
shewe
how
tyrannically
and
beastly
,
he
gouerned
vnmete
of
that
throne
.
¶
A
comparison
.
A
Comparison
,
is
a
certain
Oracion
,
shewyng
by
a
collacion
the
worthines
,
or
excellencie
of
any
thing
:
or
the
naughtines
of
the
same
,
compared
with
any
other
thyng
or
thynges
,
either
equalle
,
or
more
inferiour
.
In
a
comparison
good
thynges
,
are
compared
with
good
as
one
vertue
with
an
other
:
as
wisedome
&
strength
,
whiche
of
them
moste
auaileth
in
peace
and
warre
.
Euill
thynges
maie
bee
compared
with
good
,
as
Iustice
,
with
iniustice
,
wisedome
with
foolishnes
.
Euill
thynges
maie
be
compared
,
with
euill
thynges
,
as
wicked
Nero
,
compared
to
Domitianus
,
or
Caligula
to
Commodus
,
theft
to
homicide
,
drunkenes
with
adulterie
.
Small
thynges
maie
be
compared
with
greate
:
the
king
with
his
subiect
,
the
Elephant
or
Camell
to
the
Flie
,
a
Crocodile
to
the
Scarabe
.
In
a
comparison
,
where
monumente
is
supputated
on
bothe
the
sides
,
worthetie
to
praise
,
or
dispraise
.
Where
a
comparison
is
made
,
betwene
a
thyng
excellente
,
and
a
thyng
more
inferiour
:
the
comparison
shall
procede
with
like
facilitee
.
All
thynges
that
maie
bee
celebrated
with
praise
,
or
that
meriteth
dispraise
:
al
soche
thynges
maie
be
in
a
comparison
.
The
persone
,
as
Cato
being
a
wise
man
,
maie
be
compared
with
Nestor
,
the
sage
péere
of
Grece
:
Pompei
with
Cesar
,
as
Lucane
compareth
them
,
and
so
of
all
other
men
.
Thynges
maie
bee
compared
,
as
golde
with
siluer
:
one
mettall
with
an
other
.
Tymes
maie
bee
compared
,
as
the
Spryng
with
Sommer
:
Harueste
with
Winter
.
Places
maie
be
compared
,
as
London
with
Yorke
,
Oxforde
with
Cambridge
.
Beastes
without
reason
,
as
the
Bée
with
the
Ante
,
the
Oxe
with
the
Shepe
.
Plantes
,
as
the
Vine
,
and
the
Oliue
.
First
,
make
a
proemium
or
beginnyng
to
your
comparison
Then
compare
them
of
their
countrée
.
Of
their
parentes
.
Of
their
auncestours
.
Of
their
education
.
Of
their
actes
.
Of
their
death
.
Then
adde
the
conclusion
.
¶
A
comparison
betwene
Demosthenes
and
Tullie
.
TO
speake
moche
in
the
praise
of
famous
men
,
no
argument
can
wante
,
nor
plentie
of
matter
to
make
of
them
,
a
copious
and
excellent
Oracion
.
Their
actes
in
life
through
nobilitée
,
will
craue
worthelie
more
,
then
the
witte
and
penne
of
the
learned
,
can
by
Eloquence
expresse
.
Who
can
worthelie
expresse
and
sette
foorthe
,
the
noble
Philosopher
Plato
,
or
Aristotle
,
as
matter
worthelie
forceth
to
commend
,
Plato
.
Aristotle
.
when
as
of
them
,
all
learnyng
,
and
singularitée
of
artes
hath
flowen
.
All
ages
hath
by
their
monuments
of
learning
,
participated
of
their
wisedome
.
Grece
hath
fostered
many
noble
wittes
,
from
whom
all
light
of
knowlege
,
hath
been
deriued
by
whose
excellencie
Rome
in
tyme
florishyng
,
did
seeke
by
nobilitée
of
learnyng
,
to
mate
the
noble
Grecians
.
So
moche
Italie
was
adorned
,
and
beautified
with
the
cunnyng
of
the
Grecians
.
Emong
the
Romaines
many
famous
Oratours
and
other
noble
men
hath
spronge
vp
,
who
for
their
worthinesse
,
might
haue
contended
with
any
nacion
:
either
for
their
glorie
Tullie
.
of
learnyng
,
or
noble
regiment
.
Emong
whom
Tullie
by
learning
,
aboue
the
rest
,
rose
to
high
fame
,
that
he
was
a
renoume
to
his
countree
:
to
learnyng
a
light
,
of
all
singuler
Eloquence
a
fountaine
.
Whom
Demosthenes
the
famous
Oratour
of
Athenes
,
as
a
worthie
mate
is
compared
with
,
whom
not
onely
the
nobilitée
,
and
renoume
of
their
Countrée
shall
decorate
,
but
them selues
their
owne
worthines
&
nobilitée
of
fame
.
No
age
hath
had
twoo
more
famous
for
learnyng
,
no
common
wealthe
hath
tasted
,
twoo
more
profitable
to
their
countrée
,
and
common
wealthe
:
for
grauitée
and
counsaile
,
nor
the
posteritée
of
ages
,
twoo
more
worthie
celebracion
.
Thusidides
speakyng
,
in
the
commendacion
of
famous
men
sheweth
:
as
concernyng
the
fame
of
noble
men
,
whose
Thusidides
.
vertue
farre
surmounteth
them
,
and
passeth
al
other
.
Thenuious
The
enuious
manne
.
man
seketh
to
deprane
,
the
worthinesse
of
fame
in
other
,
his
bragging
nature
with
fame
of
praise
,
not
decorated
.
The
The
ignoraunte
.
ignoraunte
and
simple
nature
,
accordyng
to
his
knowlege
,
iudgeth
all
singularitée
,
and
tempereth
by
his
owne
actes
the
praise
of
other
.
But
the
fame
of
these
twoo
Oratours
,
neither
the
enuious
nature
can
diminishe
their
praise
,
nor
the
ignoraunt
be
of
them
a
arbitrator
or
iudge
,
so
worthely
hath
all
ages
raised
fame
,
and
commendacion
of
their
vertues
.
¶
Of
their
countree
.
IN
Grece
Demosthenes
,
the
famous
Oratour
of
Athenes
was
borne
,
whose
Countrée
or
Citee
,
lacketh
no
commendacion
:
either
for
the
nobilitée
of
the
lande
,
or
glorie
of
the
people
.
What
nacion
vnder
the
Sunne
,
hath
not
heard
of
that
mightie
Monarchie
of
Grece
:
of
their
mightie
citees
,
and
pollitike
gouernaunce
.
What
famous
Poetes
how
many
noble
Philosophers
and
Oratours
,
hath
Grece
brede
.
What
science
and
arte
,
hath
not
flowne
from
Grece
,
so
that
for
the
worthinesse
of
it
,
it
maie
bee
called
the
mother
of
all
learnyng
.
Roome
also
,
in
whom
Tullie
was
brought
vp
,
maie
contende
in
all
nobilitee
,
whose
power
and
puisant
glorie
,
by
nobilitee
of
actes
,
rose
to
that
mightie
hed
.
In
bothe
soche
excellencie
is
founde
,
as
that
no
nacion
might
better
contende
,
of
their
singularitée
and
honour
of
countrée
,
then
Grece
and
Rome
:
yet
first
from
the
Grekes
,
the
light
of
Philosophie
,
and
the
aboundant
knowledge
of
all
artes
,
sprange
to
the
Romaines
,
from
the
Grecians
.
The
Godlie
Lawes
,
wherewith
the
Romaine
Empire
was
decorated
and
gouerned
,
was
brought
from
the
Grecians
.
If
the
citee
maie
bee
a
honour
and
glorie
,
to
these
twoo
Oratours
,
or
their
Eitees
a
singuler
commendacion
,
there
wanteth
in
bothe
,
neither
honour
,
or
nobilitee
.
¶
Of
their
auncestours
,
and
parentes
.
BOthe
Demosthenes
and
Tullie
were
borne
,
of
verie
meane
parentes
and
auncestours
:
yet
thei
thorowe
their
learnyng
and
vertues
,
became
famous
,
ascendyng
to
all
nobilitee
.
Of
their
vertues
and
learnyng
,
not
of
their
auncestours
,
nobilitée
rose
to
them
.
¶
Of
the
educacion
.
THE
singuler
vertues
of
theim
bothe
,
appered
euen
in
their
tender
youth
:
wherupon
thei
being
brought
vp
,
in
all
godlie
learnyng
and
noble
Sciences
,
theibecame
moste
noble
Oratours
,
and
by
their
copious
Eloquence
,
counsaile
,
and
wisedom
,
aspired
to
nobilitée
&
honor
.
¶
Of
their
〈…〉
.
BOthe
were
taught
of
the
mouthe
of
the
best
learned
,
Demosthenes
of
Iseus
,
a
man
moste
Eloquent
:
Cicero
of
Philo
and
Milo
,
famous
in
wisedome
and
Eloquence
.
¶
Of
their
exercise
.
CIcero
did
exercise
hymself
verie
mothe
,
to
declaime
,
bothe
in
Greke
and
Latine
,
with
Marcus
Piso
,
and
with
Quintus
Pampeius
.
Demosthenes
wanted
not
industrie
and
labour
,
to
attain
to
that
singularitée
,
whiche
he
had
,
bothe
in
Eloquence
,
and
pronounciacion
.
¶
Of
the
giftes
of
their
minde
:
IN
bothe
,
integritee
,
humanitee
,
magnanimitee
,
and
all
vertue
flowed
:
at
what
time
as
Demosthenes
was
commaunded
of
the
Athenians
,
to
frame
a
accusacion
,
againste
a
certaine
man
,
Demosthenes
refused
the
acte
.
But
when
the
people
,
and
the
whole
multitude
,
were
wrothe
with
hym
,
and
made
a
exclamacion
against
hym
,
as
their
maner
was
.
Then
Demosthenes
rose
,
and
saied
:
O
ye
men
of
Athenes
,
againste
my
will
,
you
haue
me
a
counsailer
,
or
pleater
of
causes
before
you
:
but
as
for
a
accuser
,
&
calumniator
,
no
,
not
although
ye
would
.
Of
this
sorte
Tullie
was
affected
,
excepte
it
were
onely
in
the
sauegard
of
his
countrée
:
as
against
Catiline
,
bothe
were
of
godlie
,
and
of
vpright
conuersacion
,
altogether
in
Mediocrite
,
and
a
newe
leadyng
their
life
.
¶
Of
their
actes
.
DEmosthenes
and
Tullie
bothe
,
gaue
themselues
to
trauail
,
in
the
causes
and
affaires
of
their
common
wealthe
,
to
the
preseruacion
of
it
.
How
vehemently
did
Demosthenes
pleate
,
and
ingeniouslie
handle
the
cause
of
all
his
countree
,
against
Philip
,
for
the
defence
of
their
libertee
:
whereupon
he
gatte
fame
,
and
greate
glory
.
Whereby
not
onely
,
he
was
coumpted
a
great
wise
counsailour
:
but
one
of
a
valiaunte
stomacke
,
at
whose
wisedome
,
all
Grece
stode
in
admiracion
.
The
kyng
of
Persia
,
Darius
.
Philip.
Demostheues
.
laboured
to
enter
fauour
with
him
.
Philip
the
king
of
the
Macedonians
,
would
saie
often
tymes
,
he
had
to
doe
against
a
famous
man
,
notyng
Demosthenes
.
Tullie
also
by
his
Eloquence
and
wisedome
,
saued
Roome
and
all
partes
of
that
dominion
,
from
greate
daungers
.
¶
Of
their
aucthoritee
.
THeir
aucthoritee
and
dignitee
was
equalle
,
in
the
common
wealthe
:
For
,
at
their
twoo
mouthes
,
Roome
and
Athenes
was
vpholed
.
Demosthenes
was
chief
in
fauour
with
Caretes
,
Diophetes
,
Leostines
,
Cicero
with
Pompei
:
Iulius
Cesar
,
ascending
to
the
chief
seate
and
dignitee
of
the
Consulship
.
¶
Of
a
like
fall
that
happened
to
them
,
before
their
death
.
YOu
can
not
finde
soche
twoo
Orators
,
who
borne
of
meane
&
poore
parentes
,
that
attained
so
greate
honour
,
who
also
did
obiecte
themselues
to
tyrantes
a
like
,
thei
had
losse
of
their
children
a
like
,
bothe
were
out
of
their
countree
banished
men
,
their
returne
was
with
honour
,
bothe
also
fliyng
,
happened
into
the
haudes
of
their
enemies
.
¶
Of
their
death
.
BOthe
a
like
,
Demosthenes
and
Tully
wer
put
to
death
,
Demosthenes
died
,
Antipater
gouernyng
Antipater
.
Demosthenes
.
Archias
.
Marcus
Antonius
.
Tullie
.
by
the
handes
of
Archias
.
Cicero
died
by
the
commaundement
of
Marcus
Antonius
:
by
Herenius
his
hedde
was
cutte
of
,
and
sette
in
Marcus
Antonius
halle
.
His
handes
also
were
cutte
of
,
with
the
whiche
he
wrote
the
vehement
Oracions
against
Marcus
Antonius
.
¶
The
conclusion
.
TO
speake
as
moche
as
maie
bee
saied
,
in
the
praise
of
theim
:
their
praise
would
rise
to
a
mightie
volume
,
but
this
is
sufficiente
.
¶
Ethopoeia
.
Ethopoeia
is
a
certaine
Oracion
made
by
voice
,
and
lamentable
imitacion
,
vpon
the
state
of
any
one
.
This
imitacion
is
in
iij.
sortes
,
either
it
is
.
-
Eidolopoeia
.
-
Prosopopoeia
.
-
Ethopoeia
.
That
parte
,
whiche
is
called
Ethopoeia
is
that
,
whiche
hath
the
persone
knowne
:
but
onely
it
doeth
faigne
the
maners
of
the
same
,
and
imitate
in
a
Oracion
the
same
.
Ethopoeia
is
called
of
Priscianus
,
a
certaine
talkyng
to
of
any
one
,
or
a
imitacion
of
talke
referred
to
the
maners
,
aptly
of
any
certaine
knowen
persone
.
Quintilianus
saieth
,
that
Ethopoeia
is
a
imitacion
of
other
meane
maners
:
whom
the
Grekes
dooe
calle
,
not
onelie
Ethopoeia
,
but
mimesis
,
&
this
is
in
the
maners
,
and
the
fact
.
This
parte
is
as
it
were
,
a
liuely
expression
of
the
maner
and
affeccion
of
any
thyng
,
whereupon
it
hath
his
name
.
The
Ethopoeia
is
in
three
sortes
.
The
firste
,
a
imitacion
passiue
,
whiche
expresseth
the
affection
,
to
whom
it
parteineth
:
whiche
altogether
expresseth
the
mocion
of
the
mynde
,
as
what
patheticall
and
dolefull
oracion
,
Hecuba
the
quene
made
,
the
citee
of
Troie
destroied
,
her
housbande
,
her
children
slaine
.
The
second
is
called
a
morall
imitacion
,
the
whiche
doeth
set
for
the
onely
,
the
maners
of
any
one
.
The
thirde
is
a
mirt
,
the
whiche
setteth
for
the
,
bothe
the
maners
and
the
affection
,
as
how
,
and
after
what
sorte
,
Achilles
spake
vpon
Patroclus
,
he
beyng
dedde
,
when
for
his
sake
,
he
determined
to
fight
:
the
determinacion
of
hym
sheweth
the
maner
.
The
frende
slaine
,
the
affection
.
In
the
makyng
of
Ethopoeia
,
lette
it
be
plaine
,
and
without
any
large
circumstaunce
.
In
the
makyng
of
it
,
ye
shall
diuide
it
thus
,
to
make
the
Oracion
more
plaine
,
into
three
tymes
.
-
A
presente
tyme
.
-
A
tyme
paste
.
-
A
tyme
to
come
.
Eidolopoeia
is
that
part
of
this
Oracion
,
whiche
maketh
a
persone
knowne
though
dedde
,
and
not
able
to
speake
.
Eidolopoeia
is
called
of
Priscianus
,
a
imitacion
of
talke
of
any
one
,
vpon
a
dedde
manne
,
it
is
then
called
Eidolopoeia
,
when
a
dedde
man
talketh
,
or
communicacion
made
vpon
a
Eidolopoeia
dedde
manne
.
Eidolopoeia
,
when
a
dedde
manne
talketh
,
is
set
forthe
of
Euripides
,
vpon
the
persone
of
Polidorus
dedde
,
whose
spirite
entereth
at
the
Prologue
of
the
tragedie
.
Hector
slain
,
speaketh
to
Eneas
in
Eidolopoeia
.
O
Eneas
thou
goddes
sonne
,
flie
and
saue
thy self
,
from
this
ruine
and
fire
:
the
enemies
hath
taken
the
walles
,
and
loftie
Troie
is
prostrate
to
the
grounde
.
I
would
haue
thought
,
I
had
died
valiantlie
inough
to
my
countrée
,
and
my
father
Priamus
,
if
with
this
my
right
hande
,
Troie
had
bee
defended
.
Polidorus
beyng
dedde
,
in
Eidolopoeia
talketh
to
Eneas
whiche
Virgil
sheweth
in
his
thirde
booke
of
Eneados
.
Iulia
the
wife
of
Pompei
beyng
dedde
,
spake
to
Pompe
,
preparyng
his
arme
against
Cesar
,
Eidolopoeia
.
Reade
Lucane
,
in
the
beginnyng
of
his
thirde
booke
.
Tullie
vseth
Eidolopoeia
,
when
he
maketh
talke
vpon
Hiero
beyng
dedde
.
If
that
kyng
Hiero
were
reduced
from
his
death
,
who
was
a
aduauncer
of
the
Romaine
Empire
,
with
what
countenaunce
,
either
Siracusa
or
Rome
,
might
be
shewed
to
hym
,
whom
he
maie
beholde
with
his
iyes
.
His
countree
brought
to
ruin
,
&
spoiled
,
if
that
kyng
Hiero
should
but
enter
Rome
,
euen
in
the
firste
entryng
,
he
should
beholde
the
spoile
of
his
countree
.
Tullie
also
vseth
the
like
Eidolopoeia
,
as
thus
,
vpon
Lucius
Brutus
dedde
.
If
it
so
wer
,
that
Lucius
Brutus
,
that
noble
and
famous
Lucius
Brutus
.
manne
were
on
liue
,
and
before
your
presence
:
would
he
not
vse
this
oracion
:
I
Brutus
,
somtyme
did
banishe
and
cast
out
for
crueltee
,
the
state
and
office
of
kinges
,
by
the
horrible
fact
of
Tarquinius
,
againste
Lucretia
,
and
all
that
name
banished
,
but
you
haue
brought
in
tyrauntes
.
I
Brutus
did
reduce
the
Romain
Empire
,
to
a
fredome
and
libertée
:
but
you
foolishly
can
not
vphold
and
maintein
,
the
same
giuen
to
you
.
I
Brutus
,
with
the
daunger
of
my
life
,
haue
saued
my
countree
of
Roome
,
but
you
without
all
daunger
,
lose
it
.
¶
Prosopopoeia
.
AS
concerning
Prosopopoeia
,
it
is
as
Pristianus
saith
,
when
to
any
one
againste
nature
,
speache
is
feigned
to
bee
giuen
.
Tullie
vseth
for
a
like
example
this
,
when
he
maketh
Roome
to
talke
againste
Cateline
.
¶
Prosopopoeia
of
Roome
.
NO
mischief
hath
been
perpetrated
,
this
many
yeres
,
Catiline
.
but
by
thee
Catiline
,
no
pestiferous
acte
enterprised
,
without
thee
:
thou
alone
,
for
thy
horrible
murther
perpetrated
vpon
the
citee
of
Rome
,
for
the
spoile
and
robberies
of
their
gooddes
art
vnpunished
.
Thou
onelie
haste
been
of
that
force
and
power
,
to
caste
doune
all
lawes
and
aucthoritee
.
Although
these
thinges
were
not
to
be
borne
,
yet
I
haue
borne
them
:
but
now
thy
horrible
factes
are
come
to
soche
an
issue
,
that
I
feare
thy
mischiues
.
Wherfore
leaue
of
Cateline
and
deminishe
this
feare
from
me
,
that
I
maie
be
in
securitée
Lucane
the
Poete
,
intreating
of
mightie
and
fearce
warres
,
againste
Pompei
and
Cesar
,
maketh
Roome
to
vse
this
Prosopopoeia
againste
Cesar
.
Quo
tenditis
vltra
quo
fertis
mea
signa
viri
,
Si
iure
venitis
si
aues
hucusque
licet
.
Prosopopoeia
is
properlie
,
when
all
thinges
are
faigned
bothe
the
maners
,
the
persone
,
as
of
Roome
in
this
place
.
¶
what
lamentable
Oracion
Hecuba
Quene
of
Troie
might
make
,
Troie
being
destroied
.
WHat
kyngdome
can
alwaies
assure
his
state
,
or
glory
?
What
strength
can
alwaies
last
?
What
Kyngdomes
.
power
maie
alwaies
stande
?
The
mightie
Okes
Okes.
Cedars
.
are
somtyme
caste
from
roote
,
the
Ceadars
high
by
tempestes
falle
,
so
bitter
stormes
dooe
force
their
strength
.
Soft
waters
pearseth
Rockes
,
and
ruste
the
massie
Iron
doeth
bryng
to
naught
.
So
nothyng
can
by
strength
so
stande
,
but
strength
maie
ones
decaie
:
yea
,
mightie
kingdoms
in
time
decaie
haue
felt
.
Kingdomes
weake
haue
rose
to
might
,
and
mightie
kyngdomes
fallen
,
no
counsaile
can
preuaile
,
no
power
,
no
strength
,
or
might
in
lande
.
God
disposeth
Princes
seates
,
their
kyngdome
there
with
standes
.
I
knewe
before
the
brickell
state
,
how
kyngdomes
ruine
caught
,
my
iye
the
chaunge
of
fortune
sawe
,
as
Priamus
did
aduaunce
his
throne
,
by
fauour
Fortune
gat
,
on
other
Fortune
then
did
froune
,
whose
kingdom
did
decaie
.
Well
,
now
I
knowe
the
brickle
state
,
that
fortune
hath
no
staie
,
all
rashe
her
giftes
,
Fortune
blind
doeth
kepe
no
state
,
her
stone
doth
Fortune
hath
no
staie
.
roule
,
as
floodes
now
flowe
,
floodes
also
ebbe
.
So
glory
doth
remaine
,
sometyme
my
state
on
high
,
was
sette
in
Princelie
throne
,
my
porte
and
traine
ful
roiall
was
,
a
kyng
my
father
also
was
,
my
housband
scepter
held
.
Troie
and
Phrigia
serued
his
becke
,
many
kynges
his
power
did
dreade
,
his
wille
their
power
did
serue
.
The
fame
of
Troie
and
Brute
,
his
glorie
and
renouine
,
what
landes
knoweth
not
?
But
now
his
falle
,
all
toungues
can
speake
,
so
greate
as
glorie
was
,
though
kyngdomes
stronge
was
sette
,
loftie
Troie
in
duste
prostrate
doeth
lye
,
in
blood
their
glorie
,
people
,
kyng
are
fallen
,
no
Quene
more
dolefull
cause
hath
felte
.
The
sorowes
depe
doe
passe
my
ioyes
,
as
Phebus
light
with
stormes
caste
doune
.
Hectors
death
did
wounde
my
hart
,
by
Hectors
might
Troie
stiffe
did
stande
,
my
comforte
Hector
was
,
Priamus
Hector
.
ioye
,
of
Troie
all
the
life
,
the
strength
,
and
power
,
his
death
did
wound
me
for
to
die
,
but
alas
my
dolefull
and
cruell
fate
to
greater
woe
reserueth
my
life
,
loftie
Troie
before
me
felle
,
sworde
,
and
fire
hath
seate
and
throne
doune
caste
.
The
dedde
on
heapes
doeth
lye
,
the
tender
babes
as
Lions
praies
are
caught
in
bloode
,
before
my
sight
,
Priamus
deare
murdered
Priamus
.
was
,
my
children
also
slain
,
who
roiall
were
,
and
princes
mates
.
No
Queene
more
ioye
hath
tasted
,
yet
woe
my
ioyes
hath
quite
defaced
.
My
state
alwaie
in
bondage
thrall
,
to
serue
my
enemies
wille
,
as
enemie
wille
,
I
liue
or
dye
.
No
cruell
force
will
ridde
my
life
,
onely
in
graue
the
yearth
shal
close
my
woes
,
the
wormes
shall
gnawe
my
dolefull
hart
in
graue
.
My
hedde
shall
ponder
nought
,
when
death
hath
sence
doune
caste
,
in
life
I
sought
no
ioye
,
as
death
I
craue
,
no
glorie
was
so
wished
as
death
I
seeke
,
with
death
no
sence
.
In
prison
depe
who
dolefull
lieth
,
whom
Fetters
sore
dooeth
greue
.
Their
dolefull
state
moste
wisheth
death
,
in
dongion
deepe
of
care
my
harte
moste
pensiue
is
,
vnhappie
state
that
wisheth
death
,
with
ioye
long
life
,
eche
wight
doeth
craue
,
in
life
who
wanteth
smart
?
Who
doeth
not
féele
,
or
beare
somtime
,
a
bitter
storme
,
to
doleful
tune
,
mirth
full
oft
chaunged
is
,
the
meaner
state
,
more
quiet
rest
,
on
high
,
who
climes
more
deper
care
,
more
dolefull
harte
doeth
presse
,
moste
tempestes
hie
trees
,
hilles
,
&
moutaines
beare
,
valle
is
lowe
rough
stormes
doeth
passe
,
the
bendyng
trees
doeth
giue
place
to
might
by
force
of
might
,
Okes
mightie
fall
,
and
Ceders
high
ar
rent
from
the
roote
.
The
state
full
meane
in
hauen
hath
Ancre
caste
,
in
surgyng
seas
,
full
ofte
in
vaine
to
saue
the
maste
,
the
shippe
Ancre
casteth
.
¶
The
descripcion
.
THis
exercise
profitable
to
Rhetorike
,
is
an
Oracion
that
collecteth
and
representeth
to
the
iye
,
that
which
he
sheweth
,
so
Priseianus
defineth
it
:
some
are
of
that
opinion
,
that
descripcion
is
not
to
bee
placed
emong
these
exercises
,
profitable
to
Rhetorike
.
Because
that
bothe
in
euery
Oracion
,
made
vpon
a
Fable
,
all
thynges
therein
conteined
,
are
liuely
described
.
And
also
in
euery
Narracion
,
the
cause
,
the
place
,
the
persone
,
the
time
,
the
fact
,
the
maner
how
,
ar
therin
liuely
described
.
But
most
famous
and
Eloquente
men
,
doe
place
descripcion
,
in
the
nomber
of
these
exercises
.
Descripcion
serueth
to
these
things
,
the
person
,
as
the
Poete
Lucane
describeth
Pompei
&
Cesar
:
the
person
is
described
,
thynges
or
actes
,
tymes
,
places
,
brute
beastes
.
Nec
coiere
pares
,
alter
vergentibus
annis
In
senium
longo
que
toge
,
tranquilior
vsu
.
Dedidicit
.
&c.
Homer
describeth
the
persone
of
Thersites
,
in
the
second
booke
of
his
Ilias
.
Homer
setteth
out
Helena
,
describing
the
persone
of
Menalaus
and
Vlisses
,
in
the
fowerth
booke
of
Ilias
.
Thynges
are
described
,
as
the
warres
attempted
by
sea
and
lande
,
of
Xerxes
.
Lucan
describeth
the
war
of
the
Massilians
against
Cesar
Thusidides
setteth
forthe
in
a
descripcion
,
the
warres
on
the
sea
,
betwene
the
Corcurians
,
and
the
Corinthians
.
Tymes
are
described
,
as
the
Spryng
tyme
,
Sommer
,
Winter
,
Harueste
,
Daie
,
Night
.
Places
are
described
,
as
Citees
,
Mountaines
,
Regions
,
Floodes
,
Hauens
,
Gardeines
,
Temples
:
whiche
thynges
are
sette
out
by
their
commoditees
,
for
Thusidides
often
tymes
setteth
forthe
Hauens
and
Citees
.
Lucane
also
describeth
at
large
,
the
places
,
by
the
whiche
the
armie
of
Cesar
and
Pompei
passed
.
The
descripcion
of
any
man
,
in
all
partes
is
to
bee
described
,
in
mynde
and
bodie
,
what
he
was
.
The
acttes
are
to
bee
described
,
farre
passed
,
by
the
presente
state
thereof
,
and
also
by
the
tyme
to
come
.
As
if
the
warre
of
Troie
,
should
be
set
forthe
in
a
descripcion
,
it
must
bée
described
,
what
happened
before
the
Grecians
arriued
at
Troie
,
and
how
,
and
after
what
sorte
it
was
ouerthrowne
,
&
what
thing
chaunced
,
Troie
being
destroid
.
So
likewise
of
Carthage
,
destroied
by
the
Romaines
.
Of
Hierusalem
,
destroied
by
Titus
Vespasianus
,
what
admonicion
thei
had
before
:
of
what
monsterous
thynges
happened
also
in
that
ceason
:
Of
a
Comete
or
blasyng
Starre
,
and
after
that
what
followed
.
Lucane
also
setteth
forthe
the
warres
of
Pompe
and
Cesar
,
what
straunge
and
marueilous
thynges
fell
of
it
.
¶
A
descripcion
vpon
Xerxes
.
WHen
Darius
was
dedde
,
Xerxes
his
soonne
did
succede
hym
,
who
also
tooke
vpon
him
to
finishe
the
warres
,
begon
by
his
father
Darius
,
against
Grece
.
For
the
whiche
warres
,
preperacion
was
made
,
for
the
space
of
fiue
yeres
,
after
that
Xerxes
entered
Grece
,
with
seuen
hundred
thousande
Persians
,
The
armie
of
Xerxes
.
and
three
hundred
thousande
of
forrain
power
aided
him
that
not
without
cause
,
Chronicles
of
aunciente
tyme
dooe
shewe
,
mightie
floodes
to
be
dried
vp
of
his
armie
.
The
mightie
dominions
of
Grece
,
was
not
hable
to
receiue
his
houge
,
and
mightie
power
,
bothe
by
sea
and
lande
:
he
was
no
small
Xerxes
a
cowarde
.
Prince
,
whom
so
many
nacions
,
so
mightie
people
followed
hym
,
his
Nauie
of
Shippes
was
in
nomber
tenne
hundred
thousande
,
Xerxes
had
a
mightie
power
,
but
Xerxes
was
a
cowarde
,
in
harte
a
childe
,
all
in
feare
the
stroke
of
battaile
moued
.
In
so
mightie
an
armie
it
was
marueile
,
the
chiefe
Prince
and
Capitaine
to
be
a
cowarde
,
there
wanted
neither
men
,
nor
treasure
,
if
ye
haue
respecte
to
the
kyng
hymself
,
for
cowardlinesse
ye
will
dispraise
the
kyng
,
but
his
threasures
beeyng
so
infinite
,
ye
will
maruaile
at
the
plentie
thereof
,
whose
armie
and
infinite
hoste
,
though
mightie
floodes
and
streames
,
were
not
able
to
suffice
for
drinke
,
yet
his
richesse
semed
not
spente
nor
tasted
of
.
Xerxes
hymself
would
be
lasto
Xerxes
laste
in
battaile
,
and
first
to
runne
awaie
.
in
battaile
to
fight
,
and
the
firste
to
retire
,
and
runne
awaie
.
In
daungers
he
was
fearfull
,
and
when
daunger
was
paste
,
he
was
stoute
,
mightie
,
glorious
,
and
wonderfull
crakyng
,
before
this
hassarde
of
battaile
attempted
.
He
thought
hymself
The
pride
of
Xerxes
.
a
God
ouer
nature
,
all
landes
and
Seas
to
giue
place
to
hym
,
and
puffed
with
pride
,
he
forgatte
hymself
:
his
power
was
terrible
,
his
harte
fainte
,
whereupon
his
enteryng
into
Grece
was
not
so
dreaded
,
as
his
flight
from
thence
was
shamfull
,
mocked
and
scorned
at
,
for
all
his
power
he
was
driuen
backe
from
the
lande
,
by
Leonides
king
of
the
Lacedemonians
,
he
hauing
but
a
small
nomber
of
men
,
before
his
second
battaile
fought
on
the
Sea
:
he
sente
fower
thousande
armed
men
,
to
spoile
the
riche
and
sumpteous
temple
of
Apollo
,
at
Delphos
,
from
the
whiche
place
,
not
one
man
escaped
.
After
that
Xerxes
entered
Thespia
,
Platea
,
and
Athenes
,
in
the
whiche
not
one
man
remained
,
those
he
burned
,
woorkyng
his
anger
vpon
the
houses
:
for
these
citees
were
admonished
to
proue
the
maisterie
in
wodden
walles
,
whiche
was
ment
to
bee
Shippes
,
the
power
of
Grece
,
brought
into
one
place
Themistocles
,
fauoryng
their
part
,
although
Xerxes
thought
otherwise
of
Themistocles
,
then
Themistocles
perswaded
Xerxes
to
assaie
the
Grecians
.
Artemisia
the
Quene
of
Halicarnasis
aided
Xerxes
in
his
battaile
:
Artemisia
fought
man
Themistocles
.
fullie
,
Xerxes
cowardly
shronke
,
so
that
vnnaturally
there
was
in
the
one
a
manlie
stomacke
,
in
the
other
a
cowardlie
harte
.
The
men
of
Ionia
,
that
fought
vnder
Xerxes
banner
,
by
the
treason
of
Themistocles
,
shranke
from
Xerxes
,
he
was
not
so
greate
a
terrour
or
dreade
,
by
his
maine
hoste
,
as
now
smally
regarded
&
least
feared
.
What
is
power
,
men
,
or
money
,
when
God
chaungeth
and
pulleth
doune
,
bothe
the
successe
,
and
kyngdome
of
a
Prince
.
He
was
in
all
his
glorie
,
a
vnmanlie
,
and
a
cowardly
prince
,
yet
for
a
time
happie
state
fell
on
his
side
,
now
his
might
and
power
is
not
feared
.
He
flieth
awaie
in
a
Fisher
boate
,
whom
all
the
worlde
dreaded
and
obaied
,
whom
all
Grece
was
not
able
to
receiue
,
a
small
boate
lodgeth
and
harboureth
.
His
owne
people
contemned
hym
at
home
,
his
glorie
fell
,
and
life
ingloriously
ended
,
whom
whom
God
setteth
vp
,
neither
treason
nor
malice
,
power
nor
money
can
pull
doune
.
Worthelie
it
is
to
be
pondered
of
all
Princes
,
the
saiyng
of
Vespasianus
Emperour
of
Rome
,
at
a
certain
time
a
treason
wrought
and
conspired
against
him
,
the
conspiratours
taken
,
Vespasianus
satte
doune
betwene
The
saiyng
of
Vespasianus
.
theim
,
commaunded
a
sworde
to
be
giuen
to
either
of
theim
,
and
saied
to
them
:
Nonne
videtis
fato
potestatem
dari
.
Dooe
you
not
see
?
Power
,
aucthoritée
,
and
regimente
,
by
the
ordinaunce
of
God
,
is
lefte
and
giuen
to
princes
:
A
singuler
sentence
,
A
sentence
comfortable
to
al
princes
.
to
comforte
all
good
Princes
in
their
gouernemente
,
not
to
feare
the
poisoned
hartes
of
men
,
or
the
traiterous
hartes
of
pestiferous
men
.
No
man
can
pull
doune
,
where
God
exalteth
,
neither
power
can
set
vp
and
extoll
,
where
God
displaseth
or
putteth
doune
:
Soche
is
the
state
of
Princes
,
and
their
kyngdomes
.
¶
Thesis
.
THesis
,
is
a
certain
question
in
consultacion
had
,
to
bée
declaimed
vpon
vncertaine
,
notyng
no
certaine
persone
or
thyng
.
As
for
example
.
Whether
are
riches
chieflie
to
be
sought
for
,
in
this
life
,
as
of
all
good
thynges
,
the
chief
good
.
Whether
is
vertue
the
moste
excellente
good
thynge
in
this
life
.
Whether
dooe
the
giftes
of
the
mynde
,
passe
and
excelle
the
giftes
and
vertues
of
Fortune
,
and
the
bodie
.
Whether
doeth
pollicie
more
auaile
in
war
,
then
strength
of
menne
.
Who
so
will
reason
of
any
question
of
these
,
he
hath
nede
with
reason
,
and
wittie
consultacion
to
discourse
,
and
to
declaime
vpon
the
same
.
The
Greke
Oratours
doe
call
this
exercise
Thesis
,
that
is
to
saie
,
a
proposicion
in
question
,
a
question
vncertain
,
included
with
no
certaintée
,
to
any
perticuler
thyng
.
The
Latine
men
doeth
call
it
a
question
infinite
,
or
vniuersall
:
Tullie
in
his
booke
of
places
called
Topickes
,
doeth
call
Thesis
,
Propositum
,
that
is
to
saie
,
a
question
,
in
determinacion
.
Priscianus
calleth
it
positionem
,
a
proposicion
in
question
on
ether
parte
to
be
disputed
vpon
.
As
for
example
.
Whether
is
it
best
to
marie
a
wife
?
Whether
is
frendship
aboue
all
thynges
to
be
regarded
.
Is
warre
to
be
moued
vpon
a
iuste
cause
?
Is
the
Greke
tongue
mete
,
and
necessarie
to
be
learned
?
There
is
an
other
kinde
of
question
called
hypothesis
,
hypothesis
is
called
questio
finita
,
that
is
to
saie
,
a
question
certaine
notyng
a
certaine
persone
,
or
thyng
,
a
certaine
place
,
tyme
,
and
so
forthe
.
As
for
example
.
Is
it
mete
for
Cesar
to
moue
warre
against
Pompei
?
Is
not
there
a
certain
persone
?
Is
the
Greke
tongue
to
be
learned
of
a
Diuine
?
Is
the
Greke
tongue
maete
for
a
Phisicion
?
In
this
kinde
of
exercises
,
famous
men
of
auncient
time
did
exercise
youth
,
to
attain
bothe
wisedome
and
Eloquence
therby
,
to
make
a
discourse
vpon
any
matter
,
by
art
of
lerning
Aristotle
the
famous
Philosopher
,
did
traine
vp
youthe
,
to
be
perfite
in
the
arte
of
eloquence
,
that
thei
might
with
all
copionsnes
and
ingenious
inuencion
handle
any
cause
.
Nothing
doeth
so
moche
sharpe
and
acuate
the
witte
and
capacitee
of
any
one
,
as
this
kinde
of
exercise
.
It
is
a
goodly
vertue
in
any
one
man
,
at
a
sodain
,
to
vtter
wittely
and
ingeinouslie
,
the
secrete
and
hid
wisedome
of
his
mynde
:
it
is
a
greate
maime
to
a
profounde
learned
man
,
to
wante
abilitee
,
to
vtter
his
exquisite
and
profounde
knoweledge
of
his
mynde
.
¶
Thesis
.
tHis
question
Thesis
,
which
is
a
question
,
noting
no
certaine
persone
or
thyng
:
is
moche
like
to
that
Oracion
,
intreated
of
before
,
called
a
Common
place
.
¶
A
Common
place
.
BVt
a
Common
place
,
is
a
certaine
exaggeracion
of
matter
,
induced
against
any
persone
,
conuicted
of
any
crime
,
or
worthie
defence
.
¶
Thesis
.
Thesis
is
a
reasonyng
by
question
,
vpon
a
matter
vncertaine
.
Thesis
,
that
is
to
saie
,
a
question
generall
is
in
two
sortes
.
A
question
-
Ciuill
.
-
Contemplatiue
.
QVestions
Ciuill
are
those
,
that
dooe
pertaine
to
the
state
of
a
common
wealth
:
and
are
dailypractised
in
the
common
wealthe
.
As
for
example
.
Is
it
good
to
marie
a
wife
.
Is
Vsurie
lefull
in
a
citee
,
or
common
wealthe
.
Is
a
Monarchis
the
beste
state
of
gouernement
.
Is
good
educacion
the
grounde
and
roote
,
of
a
florishyng
common
wealthe
.
¶
A
contemplatiue
question
.
THe
other
Thesis
is
a
question
contemplatiue
,
which
the
Grekes
dooe
call
Theoricas
,
because
the
matter
of
them
is
comprehended
in
the
minde
,
and
in
the
intelligence
of
man
.
The
example
.
Is
the
soule
immortall
?
Had
the
worlde
a
beginnyng
?
Is
the
heauen
greater
then
the
yearth
?
A
questionA
question
is
either
-
Simple
.
-
Compounde
.
Is
it
good
for
a
man
to
exercise
hymself
in
wrastlyng
,
or
in
Is
it
profitable
to
declaime
.
A
compounde
.
Is
vertue
of
more
value
then
gold
,
to
the
coueitous
man
Doeth
wisedome
more
auaile
,
then
strength
in
battaile
?
Doe
olde
men
or
young
men
,
better
gouerne
a
common
wealthe
?
Is
Phisicke
more
honourable
then
the
Lawe
?
A
Oracion
made
vpon
Thesis
,
is
after
this
sorte
made
.
Vse
a
exordium
,
or
beginnyng
.
Vnto
the
whiche
you
maie
adde
a
Narracion
,
whiche
is
a
exposicion
of
the
thyng
doen.
Then
shewe
it
lawfull
.
Iuste
.
Profitable
:
And
possible
.
Then
the
conclucion
.
To
this
in
some
parte
of
the
Oracion
,
you
maie
putte
in
certaine
obieccions
,
as
thus
.
Vpon
this
question
:
Is
it
good
to
marie
a
wife
?
In
Mariage
is
greate
eare
,
and
pensiuenesse
of
minde
,
by
losse
of
children
,
or
wife
,
whom
thou
loueste
.
There
is
also
trouble
of
dissolute
seruauntes
.
There
is
also
greate
sorowe
if
thy
children
proue
wicked
and
dissolute
.
The
aunswere
to
this
obiection
,
will
minister
matter
to
declaime
vpon
.
¶
Is
it
good
to
Marie
.
SInce
the
tyme
of
all
ages
,
and
the
creacion
of
the
worlde
,
GOD
hath
so
blessed
his
creacion
,
and
meruailous
workemanship
in
manne
:
as
in
all
his
other
creatures
,
that
not
onelie
his
omnipoteucie
,
is
therby
set
forthe
.
But
also
from
tyme
to
tyme
,
the
posteritee
of
men
,
in
their
ofspring
and
procreacion
,
doe
aboundantlie
commonstrate
the
same
.
The
state
of
Kyngdomes
continue
by
mariage
and
common
welth
all
kyngdomes
and
common
wealthes
:
by
procreacion
deriued
,
haue
onelie
continued
on
the
face
of
the
yearth
,
thereby
many
hundred
yeres
.
How
sone
would
the
whole
worlde
be
dissolued
,
and
in
perpetuall
ruine
,
if
that
God
from
tymes
and
ages
,
had
not
by
godlie
procreacion
,
blessed
this
infinite
The
dignitee
of
man
,
sheweth
the
worthines
of
mariage
.
issue
of
mankinde
.
The
dignitee
of
man
in
his
creacion
,
sheweth
the
worthie
succession
,
maintained
by
procreation
.
In
vaine
were
the
creacion
of
the
worlde
,
if
there
were
not
as
manne
so
excellente
a
creature
,
to
beholde
the
creatour
,
and
his
meruailous
creacion
.
To
what
vse
were
the
Elementes
and
Heauens
,
the
Starres
and
Planettes
,
all
Beastes
and
Foules
,
Fisshe
,
Plantes
,
Herbes
and
trees
,
if
men
wer
not
,
for
mannes
vse
and
necessitée
,
all
thinges
in
the
yearth
were
made
and
procreated
.
Wherein
the
Stoike
Philosophers
do
note
the
excellencie
of
man
to
be
greate
:
for
saie
thei
,
Que
in
terris
gignuntur
omnia
ad
vsum
hominum
creari
.
To
what
vse
then
were
all
thynges
,
if
man
were
not
,
for
whose
cause
,
vse
,
&
necessitée
these
thynges
were
made
.
If
a
continuaunce
of
Gods
procreacion
were
not
,
immediatlie
a
ruine
and
ends
would
ensue
of
thinges
.
What
age
remaineth
aboue
a
hundred
yeres
?
If
after
a
hundred
yeres
,
no
issue
wer
to
be
,
on
the
Godlie
procreacion
.
face
of
the
yearth
,
how
sone
wer
kyngdoms
dissolued
,
where
as
procreacion
rooteth
,
a
newe
generacion
,
issue
and
ofspring
,
and
as
it
were
a
newe
soule
and
bodie
.
A
continuaunce
of
lawes
,
a
permanente
state
of
common
wealthe
dooeth
ensue
.
Though
the
life
of
manne
be
fraile
,
and
sone
cutte
of
,
yet
by
Mariage
,
man
by
his
ofspryng
,
is
as
it
were
newe
framed
,
his
bodie
by
death
dissolued
,
yet
by
issue
reuiued
.
Euen
as
Plantes
,
by
the
bitter
season
of
Winter
,
from
their
flowers
fadyng
and
witheryng
:
yet
the
seede
of
them
and
roote
,
vegitable
and
liuyng
,
dooe
roote
yerelie
a
newe
ofspryng
or
flower
in
them
.
So
Mariage
by
godlie
procreacion
blessed
,
doth
perpetually
increase
a
newe
bodie
,
and
therby
a
vaste
world
,
A
similitude
.
and
infinite
nacions
or
people
.
Xerres
the
mightie
kyng
of
Persia
,
vewing
and
beholding
his
maine
and
infinite
hoste
,
weeped
:
who
beyng
demaunded
,
why
he
so
did
.
Doleo
inquit
post
centum
annos
,
neminem
ex
hijs
superesse
.
It
is
a
pitéefulle
and
dolefull
case
,
that
after
a
hundred
yeres
,
not
one
of
these
noble
capitaines
,
and
valiant
soldiers
to
be
left
.
¶
The
obieccion
.
But
you
will
saie
parauenture
,
mariage
is
a
greate
bondage
,
alwaies
to
liue
with
one
.
¶
The
solucion
.
To
followe
pleasure
,
and
the
beastlie
mocions
of
the
mynde
:
what
libertée
call
you
that
,
to
liue
in
a
godly
,
meane
,
and
Mediocritee
of
life
,
with
thy
spoused
wife
.
There
is
no
The
libertie
in
mariage
.
greater
ioye
,
libertee
,
or
felicitée
,
who
so
practiseth
a
dissolute
life
:
whose
loue
and
luste
is
kindeled
,
and
sette
on
fire
with
a
harlotte
,
he
followeth
a
brutishe
societée
.
What
difference
is
there
,
betwene
them
and
beastes
?
The
beaste
as
nature
leadeth
,
A
brutishe
societie
with
harlottes
.
he
obaieth
nature
.
Reason
wanteth
in
beastes
,
manne
then
indued
with
reason
,
whiche
is
a
guide
to
all
excellencie
how
is
it
that
he
is
not
ruled
by
reason
.
Whom
GOD
hath
clothed
and
beautified
,
with
all
vertue
and
all
singularitée
:
If
a
godly
conuersacion
of
life
,
moueth
thee
to
passe
thy
daies
without
mariage
,
then
must
the
mocions
of
thy
minde
,
be
tamed
and
kepte
vnder
.
Otherwise
,
execrable
is
thy
purpose
,
and
determinacion
of
the
life
.
If
thou
hopest
of
loue
of
a
harlot
Ehastitee
in
mariage
.
though
thou
enioye
her
otherwise
,
thou
art
deceiued
.
Bacchis
the
harlot
,
whom
Terence
maketh
mencion
of
,
in
the
persone
of
her self
,
sheweth
the
maners
of
all
harlots
to
Antiphila
,
saiyng
.
Quippe
forma
impulsinostranos
amatores
colunt
:
Hec
vbi
immutata
est
,
illi
suum
animum
alio
conferunt
.
Nisi
prospectum
est
interea
aliquid
nobis
,
deserte
viuimus
.
For
saieth
she
,
the
louer
anamoured
with
our
loue
,
and
sette
on
fire
therewith
,
it
is
for
our
beautie
and
fauour
:
but
when
beautie
is
ones
faded
,
he
conuerteth
his
loue
to
an
other
,
whom
he
better
liketh
.
But
that
we
prouide
for
our
selues
in
the
meane
season
,
wee
should
in
the
ende
liue
vtterlie
forsaked
.
But
your
loue
incensed
with
one
,
whose
maners
and
life
contenteth
you
:
so
you
bothe
are
linked
together
,
that
no
calamitèe
can
separate
you
:
who
so
hopeth
loue
of
a
The
loue
of
a
harlotte
.
harlotte
,
or
profite
,
he
maie
hope
as
for
the
fruite
of
a
withered
tree
,
gaine
is
all
their
loue
,
vice
their
ioye
and
delite
.
In
vertue
is
libertee
,
in
vertue
is
felicitee
,
the
state
of
mariage
is
vertuous
,
there
can
be
no
greater
bondage
,
then
to
obaie
many
beastly
affections
,
to
the
whiche
whoredome
forceth
hym
vnto
,
Loue
is
fained
,
cloked
amitée
,
a
harte
dissembled
,
many
a
mightie
person
and
wise
,
hath
been
ouerthrowen
by
the
deceiptes
of
harlottes
:
many
a
Citee
plagued
,
many
a
region
ouerthrowen
for
that
mischief
,
to
obaie
many
affections
is
a
greate
bondage
.
Who
so
serueth
the
beastlie
affections
of
his
mynde
to
that
purpose
,
he
must
also
as
Hercules
to
Omphala
Hercules
.
Omphala
.
bee
slaue
,
not
onely
to
his
owne
will
and
affection
:
but
to
the
maners
,
will
,
and
exspectacion
of
the
harlotte
.
So
serued
Thraso
,
and
Phedria
Thais
,
that
Gorgious
harlot
,
Antony
and
Iulius
Cesar
,
Cleopatra
,
this
is
a
bondage
,
to
liue
slaue
from
reason
and
all
all
integritee
,
to
a
monsterous
rablement
The
harlottes
lesson
to
her
louers
.
of
vices
,
who
so
serueth
a
harlot
,
thei
must
learne
this
lesson
.
Da
mihi
&
after
,
giue
and
bryng
.
The
women
of
Scithia
,
abhorryng
the
godlie
conuersacion
of
mariage
,
with
their
housbandes
,
lefte
theim
,
who
in
tyme
waxe
so
mightie
,
that
thei
repelled
theim
by
force
:
thei
called
mariage
not
Matrimonie
,
but
bondage
.
For
,
the
chronicles
doe
testifie
,
thei
became
conquerours
ouer
many
kynges
,
all
Asia
obaied
them
:
thei
did
builde
many
a
great
citee
,
and
for
theire
successe
,
thei
might
compare
with
many
princes
.
These
women
were
called
Amazones
afterwarde
,
the
The
life
of
the
Amazones
.
order
of
their
life
was
this
,
ones
in
the
yere
thei
would
enioye
the
compainie
of
a
man
:
if
it
so
were
that
thei
had
a
man
childe
,
the
father
to
haue
it
,
if
a
daughter
,
then
thei
possessed
her
,
and
foorthwith
burned
her
right
pappe
:
for
thei
were
all
Archers
,
and
wonderfully
excelled
therein
,
but
in
the
ende
,
thei
came
all
to
ruine
.
One
of
them
,
Thalestris
their
Quene
in
the
tyme
of
Alexander
the
Greate
,
came
to
Alexander
,
Thalestris
.
thinkyng
that
he
had
been
,
some
monstrous
man
of
stature
:
whom
,
when
she
did
beholde
(
for
Alexander
was
of
no
mightie
The
offer
of
a
woman
to
Alexander
.
stature
)
did
contemne
hym
,
and
offered
him
hand
to
hande
to
fight
with
hym
.
But
Alexander
like
a
wise
Prince
,
saied
to
his
men
,
if
I
should
ouercome
her
,
that
were
no
victorie
,
nor
manhoode
againste
a
woman
:
and
being
ouercome
,
that
were
greater
shame
,
then
commendacion
in
all
my
victories
The
answer
of
Alexander
to
the
offer
.
and
conquestes
,
but
afterwarde
,
there
was
a
greate
familiaritee
betwene
them
.
The
adulterer
and
the
adulteris
,
neuer
prospereth
,
for
many
mischiues
are
reserued
,
to
that
wicked
and
beastly
loue
.
Sincere
loue
is
not
rooted
,
frendship
coloured
:
the
sober
and
demure
countenaunce
,
is
moche
to
be
commended
in
a
chaste
woman
,
whose
breaste
pondereth
a
chaste
life
.
The
facte
of
the
matrones
of
Rome
,
semeth
straunge
to
The
facte
of
the
matrones
of
Rome
.
be
tolde
,
of
Papirius
a
Senators
soonne
,
beyng
taken
to
the
Senate
house
,
of
his
father
:
the
childe
beyng
indued
with
a
singuler
wit
,
harde
many
causes
in
the
assemble
,
talked
and
consulted
vpon
,
at
his
retourne
home
,
his
mother
was
inquisitiue
of
their
consultacion
,
to
heare
somewhat
.
The
childe
was
commaunded
by
his
father
,
to
vtter
no
secrete
that
he
heard
,
wherevpon
of
a
long
tyme
,
he
refused
his
mothers
demaunde
:
but
at
the
laste
subtelie
,
he
satisfied
his
mothers
request
.
Truth
it
is
,
my
father
willed
me
,
to
vtter
no
secret
,
you
Papirius
.
keping
my
counsaill
,
I
will
shewe
you
,
it
is
concluded
by
the
Senate
house
,
that
euery
man
shall
haue
twoo
wines
,
that
is
a
straunge
matter
,
saieth
the
mother
:
foorthwith
she
had
communicacion
with
all
the
matrones
of
Roome
,
that
could
doe
somewhat
in
this
matter
,
thei
also
full
willyngly
assembled
themselues
,
to
let
this
purpose
,
to
the
Senate
house
,
thei
went
to
vtter
,
their
swollen
griues
.
The
Senators
were
amased
at
their
commyng
,
but
in
this
matter
bolde
thei
were
,
to
enterprise
that
,
whiche
thei
wer
greued
at
.
A
Dame
more
eloquente
then
all
the
reste
,
and
of
stomacke
more
hardie
,
began
in
these
woordes
.
Otherwise
then
right
,
we
are
iniuriously
The
Oracion
of
a
matrone
,
to
the
Senatours
.
handled
,
and
that
in
this
assemble
,
that
now
we
should
be
caste
of
and
neclected
:
that
whereas
it
is
concluded
in
this
counsaile
,
that
euery
manne
should
haue
twoo
wiues
,
more
meter
it
were
,
that
one
woman
should
haue
twoo
housbandes
.
Straunge
it
was
in
the
Senators
eares
soche
a
request
,
whereupon
a
proofe
made
how
that
rumour
rose
,
Papirius
was
found
the
aucthor
,
who
tolde
before
the
Senate
,
his
mother
alwaies
inquisitiue
to
knowe
that
,
whiche
he
should
not
tell
,
and
thereupon
he
faigned
that
,
whiche
he
might
better
tell
.
It
is
to
be
supposed
the
Senators
mused
thereat
,
and
the
matrones
of
Rome
went
home
ashamed
:
but
their
secrete
cogitacion
of
minde
was
manifest
,
what
willingly
in
hart
thei
wished
.
What
greater
felicitee
can
there
bee
,
then
in
a
vnitée
of
life
,
the
housebande
to
liue
with
his
wife
.
The
beastes
in
their
kinde
,
doe
condemne
mannes
brutishe
affections
herein
:
there
is
no
facte
that
sheweth
a
man
or
woman
,
more
like
to
beastes
,
then
whoredome
.
¶
The
obieccion
.
But
you
will
saie
,
many
calamitées
happeneth
in
mariage
?
¶
The
solucion
.
Fortunne
herein
is
to
bee
blamed
,
and
not
mariage
,
if
any
misfortune
happeneth
to
manne
therein
,
the
felicitée
and
Eleccion
in
Mariage
.
quiet
state
that
any
man
enioieth
thereby
.
The
discrete
eleccion
is
therein
approued
,
in
the
state
itself
,
nothyng
can
bee
founde
worthie
reprehension
,
if
a
man
will
impute
the
bitter
stormes
of
life
to
mariage
:
whatseouer
happeneth
,
our
owne
reason
maie
iudge
contrary
.
Place
before
thy
iyes
all
the
affaires
,
and
occupacions
of
this
life
,
bee
all
tymes
pleasaunte
to
the
housebande
man
,
many
a
colde
storme
perceth
his
bodie
,
and
many
a
mightie
tempeste
,
dooeth
moiest
hym
and
greue
hym
.
Sommer
is
not
the
tyme
,
to
caste
his
seede
in
the
grounde
,
or
implowyng
to
occupie
hymself
:
shall
he
therfore
leaue
his
housebandrie
,
or
doeth
he
rather
neclecte
it
,
his
diligence
therein
is
the
more
,
and
labour
more
industrious
.
From
whence
commeth
the
tempeste
,
the
stormes
and
bitter
seasons
?
From
his
house
,
from
his
wife
,
from
his
art
and
occupacion
,
all
those
thynges
by
violence
are
expelled
from
the
aire
.
No
state
of
life
is
able
to
giue
riches
,
healthe
,
or
securitée
to
his
state
.
There
hath
been
princes
and
Emperours
,
nedie
,
Emperours
.
full
of
infirmitées
and
sickenes
,
in
daungerous
state
,
oppressed
with
many
calamitées
:
was
their
dignitie
and
office
,
the
cause
of
their
calamitées
?
No
,
God
tempreth
the
state
of
euery
one
,
how
,
and
after
what
sorte
to
possesse
the
same
.
Some
are
fulle
fortunate
in
Mariage
,
if
Mariage
were
of
necessitée
the
cause
,
then
all
should
be
onely
fortunate
,
or
onely
vnfortunate
:
Mariage
.
then
in
mariage
is
not
the
cause
,
if
in
marige
the
maners
doe
disagrée
,
and
loue
is
extinguished
,
blame
thyn
own
maners
,
thy
choise
,
and
thy
eleccion
.
The
Mariner
that
passeth
the
daungerous
Seas
,
and
by
dreadfull
tempestes
,
and
The
Mariners
.
huffyng
waues
is
alwaies
in
perille
,
and
many
often
tymes
drouned
.
The
Marchaunt
lesyng
his
marchaundise
by
shipwrack
,
The
Marchauntes
.
shall
thei
impute
the
daunger
and
losse
,
to
their
wife
at
home
?
Or
doe
the
Mariners
leaue
for
all
these
tempestes
,
their
arte
of
Nauigacion
?
Or
the
owner
breake
his
shippe
?
Or
the
Marchaunt
proue
no
aduentures
,
because
of
his
losse
,
and
many
haue
been
of
this
sort
drouned
.
No.
But
more
earnestlie
thei
dooe
assaie
theim selues
thereto
.
Because
warre
spoileth
many
a
man
of
his
life
,
doe
Princes
therefore
,
leaue
warre
,
to
moue
armour
againste
the
enemie
,
but
because
,
who
so
in
the
defence
of
his
countrée
,
dieth
manfullie
,
is
worthelie
aduaunced
,
and
in
perpetuall
memorie
,
no
daunger
is
refused
,
because
euill
thynges
happeneth
in
life
,
is
the
state
of
good
thynges
to
be
auoided
and
eschued
.
Were
it
not
vnsemelie
,
if
housebande
men
,
for
no
storme
or
tempeste
,
doe
leaue
their
state
,
their
laborious
and
rough
condition
of
life
,
nor
the
shipman
his
arte
of
Nauigacion
,
because
he
seeth
many
drouned
venteryng
thesame
,
and
he
hymself
often
tymes
in
daunger
,
nor
the
soldiour
or
capitain
,
their
perilous
condicion
of
life
,
doe
leaue
for
daunger
.
Should
Mariage
bée
lesse
sette
by
,
because
alwaies
riches
and
quietnes
happeneth
not
.
¶
The
obieccion
.
The
losse
of
a
good
wife
and
children
,
is
a
greate
grefe
to
any
man
,
and
a
cause
to
blame
mariage
.
¶
The
aunswere
.
You
your self
are
borne
to
dye
,
thei
also
by
death
obaye
likewise
Nature
,
this
is
the
Lawe
of
Nature
ones
to
dye
,
The
lawe
of
Nature
.
whiche
you
seeme
to
blame
.
Thou
the
death
of
thy
wife
and
children
,
is
not
the
blame
in
Mariage
.
What
is
the
cause
that
you
dye
?
Natures
imbecillitie
and
weakenes
,
then
in
theim
Mariage
is
not
the
cause
:
Nature
in
her
firste
molde
hath
so
framed
all
,
wherefore
doe
you
ascribe
that
to
mariage
,
that
is
founde
faultée
in
Nature
.
Thei
die
that
marie
not
,
what
infirmitie
,
daunger
or
peril
happeneth
to
any
in
mariage
,
as
sharpe
and
perilous
,
doe
molest
and
torment
the
other
.
If
any
manne
by
death
,
leaseth
aright
honeste
wife
,
clothed
with
all
chastites
,
demurenesse
,
sobrietée
,
and
also
with
all
singularitée
of
vertue
adorned
:
he
hath
losse
a
rare
treasure
,
a
iewell
of
price
,
not
in
all
to
bee
sounde
.
Did
you
loue
your
wife
,
that
A
chaste
woman
.
was
so
goodlie
,
so
honeste
and
vertuous
:
there
was
greate
cause
saie
you
,
for
her
vertuous
sake
,
God
hath
chosen
her
from
a
mortall
creature
,
to
immortalitée
,
with
her
it
can
not
bee
better
.
There
is
no
cause
why
you
should
blame
mariage
,
for
the
losse
of
her
,
or
of
thy
children
,
or
for
the
losse
of
thee
,
she
to
blame
mariage
.
If
for
thy
owne
sake
,
this
sorowe
bee
,
Estseipsum
amantis
non
amici
,
it
is
then
of
a
self
loue
,
to
thy self
,
not
for
her
cause
:
for
I
muste
aunswere
as
Lelius
did
to
Affricanus
;
Cumea
optime
esseactū
quis
neget
,
quid
est
quod
no
assecuta
est
immortalitatem
.
Who
can
deny
saieth
he
,
but
that
with
her
it
can
not
bee
better
?
What
is
it
that
she
hath
not
attained
.
Immortalitée
.
She
was
vertuous
,
chaiste
,
sober
,
descrete
,
of
behauiour
womanlie
:
for
her
vertues
beloued
.
Well
,
now
she
hath
immortalitée
and
blesse
,
are
you
sorie
thereat
,
that
were
enuious
.
Did
you
loue
her
liuyng
,
loue
her
also
departed
,
her
vertuous
shewed
vnto
vs
,
her
immortalitee
.
¶
The
obieccion
.
There
is
a
care
for
the
wife
and
children
;
if
the
housband
dye
before
theim
.
¶
The
aunswere
.
If
thou
leaue
them
riches
,
hope
not
that
thy
riches
shal
be
a
staie
to
theim
,
though
thei
bee
innumerable
:
a
wretched
,
a
miserable
executour
,
wasteth
and
destroieth
oftentymes
,
the
fruictes
of
thy
trauaile
,
who
reioyseth
more
of
thy
death
,
then
A
wretched
executour
.
of
thy
life
.
Or
thy
childrens
father
in
Lawe
,
shall
spoile
and
spende
with
a
merie
harte
,
that
whiche
thou
haste
long
t●rauailed
for
.
Staie
thy self
and
thyne
vpon
Gods
prouidence
,
for
it
hath
been
seen
,
many
a
riche
widowe
,
with
infinite
treasure
lefte
,
to
her
children
also
like
porcions
descendyng
:
Gods
prouidence
.
afterwarde
bothe
wife
and
children
,
haue
been
brought
to
miserie
and
beggerlie
state
.
Otherwise
,
poore
children
committed
to
the
prouidence
of
God
,
and
vertuouslie
brought
vp
,
and
the
wife
in
like
state
,
yet
thei
haue
so
passed
their
daies
,
that
thei
haue
rose
to
a
goodlie
state
.
See
that
thy
richesse
bée
not
iniuriouslie
gotten
by
falshode
,
by
liyng
,
by
Vsurie
,
if
it
so
be
,
then
Male
parta
male
dilabuntur
.
That
is
this
,
gooddes
euill
gotte
,
euill
spente
,
soche
riches
neuer
giue
déepe
roote
to
their
ofspryng
.
That
is
an
euill
care
,
by
a
iniurious
care
,
to
purchase
thynges
and
gooddes
wickedlie
.
Also
mariage
taketh
awaie
widowhed
,
and
doeth
repare
with
a
newe
freshe
mariage
,
the
lacke
and
priuacion
of
the
other
.
She
that
was
by
death
left
a
widowe
,
mariage
again
Death
.
Mariage
.
hath
coupled
her
to
a
newe
housbande
:
and
doeth
restore
that
whiche
death
tooke
awaie
.
That
that
death
dissolueth
and
destroieth
,
mariage
increaseth
,
augmenteth
,
and
multiplieth
.
Bee
it
so
,
but
mariage
is
a
painfull
life
,
it
forceth
euery
one
to
trauaile
,
to
vpholde
and
maintaine
his
state
,
I
commende
not
the
idell
life
,
neither
a
life
occupied
to
no
vertuous
ende
.
Nature
moueth
euery
manne
to
loue
hymself
and
his
,
so
thy
care
and
paine
be
to
a
godlie
purpose
.
It
is
commendable
.
It
is
the
duetie
of
euery
man
,
as
his
power
,
witte
,
and
industrie
is
able
,
to
emploie
thereto
his
cogitacion
.
To
laboure
for
thy
wife
,
whom
thou
loueste
,
and
deare
children
,
thy
laboure
is
pleasure
,
the
ioye
easeth
thy
labour
.
To
behold
thyself
in
thy
children
,
thei
beyng
vertuouslie
broughte
vp
,
it
is
a
goodlie
comfort
,
to
liue
with
a
chaste
woman
,
sober
and
continente
,
The
mariage
of
a
chaste
woman
.
her
vertues
be
a
continuall
pleasure
,
a
passyng
ioye
.
In
mariage
ought
to
be
greate
deliberacion
,
whom
thou
chosest
to
thy
continuall
compainie
or
felowshippe
,
her
life
paste
well
knowen
,
her
parentes
and
kindrede
how
honeste
and
vertuous
,
her
maners
,
her
fame
,
how
commendable
,
her
countinaunce
The
choise
of
a
wife
.
sober
,
a
constaunt
iye
,
and
with
shamefastnes
beautified
,
a
mouthe
vttering
fewe
woordes
discretlie
.
She
is
not
to
be
liked
,
whom
no
vertuous
qualitées
in
her
educacion
,
beutifieth
and
adorneth
,
the
goodlie
qualitees
sheweth
,
the
well
framed
and
nurtured
mynde
.
These
thynges
maie
be
sufficiente
,
to
shewe
what
excellencie
is
in
mariage
and
how
necessarie
it
is
,
to
the
procreacion
and
preseruacion
of
mankind
.
¶
Legislatio
.
¶
A
Oracion
either
in
the
defence
of
a
Lawe
,
or
againste
a
Lawe
.
MAny
learned
menne
are
in
this
opinion
,
that
vpon
a
Lawe
alledged
,
a
Oracion
maie
bee
made
in
the
defence
of
it
:
or
matter
maie
be
suppeditated
,
to
inuaigh
by
force
of
argument
againste
it
.
Although
the
lawe
alleged
be
in
maner
the
whole
cause
,
bicause
it
doeth
contain
al
the
matter
included
in
the
oracion
.
In
this
Oracion
,
the
persone
is
induced
to
be
spoken
vppon
,
vnknowne
,
vncertaine
:
wherefore
it
is
to
be
placed
,
rather
in
the
state
and
forme
of
consultacion
,
and
to
bée
examined
with
iudgement
.
The
induccion
of
a
Lawe
,
is
in
twoo
sortes
.
A
confirmacion
of
any
olde
Lawe
,
or
a
confutacion
.
As
for
example
.
The
Ciuill
Lawe
doeth
well
commende
,
bondmen
to
be
manumised
,
that
is
,
to
be
made
free
.
The
lawe
is
herein
to
be
praised
,
that
willeth
the
counsail
of
the
parentes
&
frendes
,
to
be
knowne
before
the
contracte
.
Vpon
a
Lawe
alledged
,
worthelie
matter
maie
rise
,
waighyng
the
godlie
ende
,
whereunto
the
Lawe
was
firste
inuented
,
derreed
and
stablished
,
what
profite
thereof
ensueth
and
foloweth
.
What
it
is
to
vertue
a
mainteiner
,
otherwise
if
it
be
not
profitable
:
What
moued
any
one
to
frame
and
ordain
soche
a
Lawe
,
as
was
to
a
common
wealthe
vnprofitable
,
to
vertue
no
aider
,
if
it
were
a
profitable
Lawe
and
godlie
,
it
is
as
Demosthenes
safeth
,
of
God
inuented
,
though
by
famous
wife
,
and
godlie
menne
,
stablished
and
decréed
.
Good
Lawes
Lawe
.
tempereth
to
all
states
equitee
and
iustice
,
without
fauour
or
frendship
,
no
more
to
the
one
then
the
other
.
The
order
to
make
an
Oracion
by
a
lawe
,
is
in
this
sort
.
First
,
make
a
prohemium
or
beginning
to
enter
your
matter
.
In
the
seconde
place
,
adde
a
contrary
to
that
,
whiche
you
will
entreate
vpon
.
Then
shewe
it
lawfull
.
Iuste
.
Profitable
.
Possible
.
You
maie
as
in
Thesis
,
whiche
was
the
Oracion
before
,
vse
a
contradiction
or
obiection
:
and
to
that
make
an
answere
or
solucion
.
¶
A
confutacion
of
that
Lawe
,
whiche
suffered
adultrie
to
bee
punished
with
death
,
no
iudgement
giuen
thereupon
.
SOlon
,
who
was
a
famous
Philosopher
,
in
the
time
of
Cresus
king
of
Lidia
,
and
a
lawe
giuer
The
moste
rigorous
and
moste
cruell
lawe
of
Solon
to
the
Athenians
:
by
whose
Lawes
and
godlie
meanes
,
the
Athenians
were
long
and
prosperouslie
gouerned
.
Emong
many
of
his
lawes
,
this
Solon
set
forthe
againste
adulterers
:
Fas
esse
deprehendentimaechum
in
ipso
adulterio
interficere
:
it
shal
bee
lawfull
saieth
he
,
who
so
taketh
an
adulterer
in
his
beastlie
facte
,
to
kill
hym
.
Solon
beyng
a
wise
man
,
was
more
rigorous
and
cruell
,
in
this
one
Lawe
,
then
he
ought
to
be
.
A
meruailous
matter
,
and
almoste
vncredible
,
so
wise
,
so
noble
and
worthy
a
Lawe
giuer
,
to
bruste
out
with
soche
a
cruell
and
bloodie
lawe
,
that
without
indgement
or
sentence
giuen
,
the
matter
neither
proued
nor
examined
,
adulterie
to
be
death
.
Wherefore
,
reason
forceth
euery
manne
,
to
Iudge
and
ponder
with
hymself
,
that
either
adulterie
is
a
moste
horrible
vice
,
moste
beastlie
&
pestiferous
,
and
not
mere
to
tary
vpon
the
censure
,
Adulterie
a
horrible
vice
.
and
sentence
of
a
Iudge
:
or
Solon
was
not
so
wise
,
discrete
,
and
a
politike
persone
,
but
a
rashe
and
fonde
lawe
giuer
,
that
in
soche
a
terrible
voice
,
he
should
burste
out
,
as
adulterie
so
horrible
,
as
not
worthie
to
be
pondered
,
examined
and
boulted
of
in
Iudgemente
.
The
Athenians
receiued
that
Lawe
,
thei
did
also
obaie
his
other
lawes
.
Their
dominions
thereby
in
felicitée
was
gouerned
:
there
was
no
populous
nomber
of
adulterers
,
to
let
that
Lawe
,
thei
liued
mosts
godlie
,
a
straunge
worlde
,
a
rare
moderacion
of
that
age
and
people
.
Plato
the
godlie
Philosopher
,
who
leste
in
his
woorkes
,
and
Plato
againste
adultrie
made
a
lawe
.
monumentes
of
learnyng
,
greate
wisedome
and
also
godlie
Lawes
in
his
bookes
:
intiteled
vpon
Lawes
,
and
gouernement
of
a
common
wealth
,
did
not
passe
by
in
silence
,
to
giue
and
ordain
a
Lawe
against
adulterie
.
Who
also
as
it
semed
Iudged
adulterie
as
moste
horrible
and
detestable
,
in
his
.ix.
booke
de
Legibus
.
This
is
the
Lawe
.
Adulteram
deprehensam
impune
occidi
a
viro
posse
.
The
adultrous
woman
saith
he
,
taken
in
the
crime
,
her
housbande
maie
without
daunger
of
death
,
or
feare
of
punishement
slea
her
.
A
straunge
matter
twoo
so
noble
,
so
famous
for
wisedome
,
to
make
adulterie
present
death
,
no
Iudgement
or
sentence
of
Magistrate
,
procedyng
to
examime
and
iudge
,
vpon
the
state
of
the
cause
.
A
man
maie
saie
,
O
goodlie
age
,
and
tyme
in
vertue
tempered
,
eche
state
as
seemeth
brideled
and
kepte
vnder
,
and
farre
from
voluptuousnes
remoued
.
There
was
no
stewes
or
Baudes
houses
,
where
soche
Lawes
and
Lawmakers
were
.
Sobrietée
was
in
maides
,
and
chastitée
harboured
in
matrones
and
wedded
wiues
,
a
harte
inuiolable
to
honeste
conuersacion
.
Where
adulterie
is
cutte
of
,
there
many
detestable
vsces
,
and
execrable
purposes
are
remoued
.
Cato
the
sage
Peere
of
Catos
sentence
vpon
adulterie
.
Rome
,
indued
with
like
seueritée
,
did
fauour
that
lawe
and
highlie
extolled
it
.
Although
adulterie
bee
a
detestable
vice
horrible
,
yea
,
although
it
be
worthie
death
,
better
it
were
by
iudgemente
,
and
the
sentence
of
the
Magistrate
,
the
faute
to
bee
determined
:
then
at
the
will
of
euery
manne
,
as
a
Lawe
Lawe
.
by
death
to
bee
ended
,
the
common
wealthe
shal
bee
in
more
quiet
state
,
when
the
horrible
factes
of
wicked
menne
,
by
the
Lawe
made
worthie
of
deathe
:
are
neuerthelesse
by
a
liuelie
The
Iudge
,
a
liuely
lawe
.
Lawe
,
whiche
is
the
Iudge
,
pronounced
and
condemned
,
accordyng
to
the
Lawe
.
Els
many
mischiues
might
rise
in
all
kyngdomes
and
common
wealthes
,
vnder
a
colour
of
lawe
,
many
a
honeste
persone
murthered
:
and
many
a
murtherer
,
by
cloke
of
a
Lawe
,
from
daunger
saued
.
In
Rome
somtime
a
Lawe
there
was
ordained
againste
adulterie
,
whiche
was
called
Lex
Iulia
,
this
Lawe
Octauius
Augustus
set
foorthe
.
The
Lawe
was
thus
,
Gladio
iussit
animaduerti
in
adulteros
The
lawe
commaunded
adulterers
to
be
hedded
.
The
chronicles
of
aunciente
tymes
herein
doe
shew
,
and
the
decrées
of
auncient
elders
also
,
how
horrible
a
thing
adulterie
is
,
when
thei
punishe
it
with
death
.
Who
knoweth
not
emong
the
Israelites
,
and
in
the
olde
lawe
thei
wer
stoned
to
death
.
Well
as
Magistrates
are
in
common
wealthes
remoued
,
or
as
times
chaunge
,
lawes
also
are
chaunged
and
dissolued
:
and
as
the
Prouerbe
is
,
Lex
vt
Regio
,
the
Lawes
are
accordyng
to
the
Region
.
Afterwarde
Valerius
Publicola
,
a
man
ascendyng
to
high
nobilitée
of
honour
,
and
fame
emong
,
the
Romaines
gaue
this
Lawe
.
Qua
neminem
licebat
indicta
causa
necare
.
By
this
lawe
it
was
not
lefull
,
any
manne
to
be
put
A
godly
law
.
to
death
,
their
cause
not
examined
in
Iudgemente
,
this
was
a
goodlie
Lawe
.
Then
afterwarde
,
Lawe
giuers
rose
in
the
common
wealth
,
that
with
more
facilitee
tolerated
that
vice
,
then
wickednesse
flowed
,
adulterie
not
punished
by
death
.
And
sence
that
,
the
Romaine
Empire
,
wrapped
and
snared
with
soche
mischiues
hath
decaied
,
in
fame
,
nobilitée
and
vertue
.
Many
a
parte
of
their
dominion
plagued
,
deuoured
,
and
destroied
.
The
good
and
godlie
menne
,
nede
not
to
feare
any
The
good
manne
.
Lawe
godlie
,
their
life
beyng
in
vertue
and
godlines
nurtured
.
The
terrible
sentence
of
a
lawe
,
forceth
the
good
and
godlie
,
to
perseuere
and
continue
in
godlines
.
The
terrible
sentence
Lawe
.
of
a
Lawe
,
cutteth
of
the
wicked
enterprises
of
pestiferous
menne
.
Vice
where
lawe
is
not
to
correcte
,
will
inure
it
Vice
as
a
lawe
by
custome
.
self
by
custome
as
a
Lawe
,
or
borne
and
tolerated
againste
a
Lawe
.
Therefore
as
adulterie
without
Iudgemente
,
to
bee
punished
worthie
of
death
is
vngodlie
:
so
it
ought
not
to
bee
passed
ouer
,
or
tolerated
in
any
Region
or
common
wealth
,
as
no
lawe
seuerely
to
punishe
the
same
.
Adulterie
.
¶
The
contrarie
.
AL
other
lawes
doe
differ
,
from
that
rigorous
lawe
of
Solon
and
Plate
herein
,
yea
,
and
though
thei
be
vices
horrible
,
yet
thei
ar
not
determined
,
with
out
the
sentence
of
the
Magistrate
and
Iudge
.
But
this
cruell
Lawe
of
Solon
,
doeth
repugne
all
lawes
,
stablished
in
all
Citees
and
common
wealthes
.
And
sithe
the
lawe
The
lawe
vniuersall
and
equall
to
all
menne
.
is
of
hymself
vniuersall
,
with
equitée
,
giuing
and
tempering
to
all
states
.
Fonde
muste
that
Lawe
bee
of
Solon
,
whiche
rashely
,
without
consideracion
of
iudgement
doeth
procede
,
no
man
ought
in
his
own
cause
,
to
be
his
own
iudge
or
Magistrate
.
This
is
argument
sufficient
to
confounde
the
lawe
of
Solon
.
All
Lawes
are
repugnaunte
to
that
,
because
with
Iudgement
thei
procede
against
vices
moste
pestiferous
.
In
common
wealthes
Theft
is
by
lawe
,
pronounced
worthie
of
Thefte
.
death
,
whereupon
also
the
Magistrate
and
Iudge
,
determineth
the
matter
,
and
heareth
of
bothe
the
action
of
the
case
,
before
he
condempneth
,
so
in
all
other
mischiues
.
But
you
maie
saie
,
many
mischiues
riseth
of
adulterie
.
Although
it
so
be
,
the
Iudge
determineth
vpon
Murder
,
whiche
is
in
like
sort
horrible
,
soche
also
as
dooe
séeke
to
caste
into
perill
their
countrée
,
and
by
treason
to
destroie
the
same
,
Iudgemente
proceadeth
by
determinacion
of
the
Lawe
and
Iudge
.
And
so
in
all
other
wicked
factes
,
and
mischiuous
enterprises
,
the
Iudgement
in
euery
cause
procedeth
,
as
Lawe
and
right
willeth
,
from
the
mouthe
of
the
Iudge
,
he
beyng
a
The
Iudge
&
liuely
lawe
.
liuelie
Lawe
,
to
the
Lawe
written
.
The
cruell
Lawe
of
Solon
,
is
like
to
the
phantasie
and
wille
of
a
tyraunte
,
who
,
as
phantasie
and
will
leadeth
,
murdereth
at
his
pleasure
,
whose
will
is
alwaies
a
sufficient
Lawe
to
hymself
,
as
who
should
saie
,
so
I
wille
,
so
I
commaunde
,
my
wille
shall
stande
for
a
The
will
of
a
tyraunte
his
owne
lawe
.
Lawe
:
but
godlie
lawes
doe
iustlie
,
accordyng
to
reason
and
vertue
,
tempereth
the
cause
of
euery
man
.
No
godlie
Lawe
,
maketh
the
accuser
his
owne
Iudge
.
¶
Lawfull
.
WHo
so
by
Lawe
is
iudged
,
and
the
offence
proued
,
there
is
no
excuse
in
the
malefactour
,
nor
suspicion
Lawes
were
made
for
two
causes
.
seing
that
,
accordyng
to
lawe
,
the
fact
is
punished
,
and
as
Demosthenes
saieth
,
twoo
thynges
moued
the
wise
Elders
to
make
Lawes
,
that
the
wicked
should
bee
hindered
,
and
cutte
of
from
their
purpose
,
and
that
good
men
seyng
by
a
lawe
,
the
actes
of
pestiferous
men
kepte
vnder
,
by
the
terrour
of
them
,
are
afraied
to
commit
the
like
facte
.
This
was
euen
accordyng
to
lawe
.
The
terrible
sentence
of
a
law
executed
,
vpon
moste
wicked
persones
,
doe
kepe
vnder
many
a
mischiuous
enterprise
,
whiche
through
the
dolefull
and
lamentable
ende
of
the
wicked
,
doe
driue
and
force
all
other
to
all
godlines
.
¶
Iuste
.
THe
accuser
by
Lawe
and
Iudge
,
is
able
to
defende
hymself
,
when
his
cause
is
ended
accordyng
to
law
.
Vertue
thereby
vpholded
,
when
by
order
of
lawe
,
vice
is
condempned
.
The
malifactour
hath
no
excuse
,
all
staie
and
colour
remoued
,
the
accuser
by
iuste
Lawe
pleateth
,
when
the
law
is
thereby
supported
and
saued
.
And
herein
a
greate
parte
of
Iustice
is
placed
,
when
the
fauour
of
the
Iudge
or
frendship
,
is
onely
on
the
cause
,
the
persone
neclected
,
that
is
Iustice
,
to
giue
to
euery
one
his
owne
.
¶
Profitable
.
IT
must
be
profitable
to
the
whole
bodie
of
the
common
wealthe
,
when
by
the
Iustice
of
godlie
lawes
,
vertue
is
in
high
price
aduaunced
,
vice
by
the
open
sentence
,
and
manifeste
profe
conuicted
,
the
malefactour
shall
be
knowen
,
the
sincere
and
godlie
deliuered
,
and
from
tyme
to
tyme
maintained
.
Lawes
as
thei
be
vniuersall
so
thei
openlie
ought
to
giue
sentence
.
¶
Possible
.
THen
without
lawe
to
procede
,
and
iudgemente
of
the
Magistrate
,
as
Solon
did
in
this
lawe
,
it
were
not
possible
,
any
common
wealthe
to
florishe
therby
.
Therefore
in
Iudgemente
ought
the
cause
of
euery
one
to
be
pleated
and
examined
,
that
thereby
all
suspicion
,
&
greuous
enormitees
,
maie
be
put
of
.
Vice
is
not
therefore
tolerated
,
because
for
a
tyme
,
Iudgemente
ceaseth
,
but
hereupon
vices
are
more
depely
rooted
out
,
all
people
knowyng
the
determinacion
of
the
lawe
,
and
the
manifest
sentence
of
the
Iudge
heard
.
A
terrour
ensueth
to
al
malefactours
and
pestiferous
men
,
good
men
are
incensed
to
all
godlines
,
when
vice
by
Lawe
is
condempned
,
cutte
of
,
and
destroied
.
Good
menne
by
Lawe
and
aucthoritée
,
vpholded
and
maintained
.
This
is
the
state
of
good
lawes
,
by
order
to
procede
,
the
cause
in
Iudgemente
examined
,
the
facte
proued
,
The
state
of
good
lawes
.
vertue
in
any
persone
vpholded
,
vice
in
all
caste
doune
and
defaced
,
so
there
is
good
Lawe
,
as
Demosthenes
saieth
,
sincere
Iudge
,
and
sentence
inuiolable
.