THE
SCHOLERS
MEDLEY
,
OR
AN
INTERMIXT
DISCOVRSE
VPON
HISTORICAL
AND
Poeticall
Relations
.
IN
the
suruey
of
Histories
,
the
true
Relators
of
things
done
,
with
a
probable
collection
of
things
to
come
,
by
precedent
euents
:
I
thought
good
compendiously
to
contract
some
especiall
caueats
,
as
well
for
obseruance
in
Historical
Discourses
,
as
for
preuention
of
such
inconueniences
Italian
Tryacala
(
which
taking
her
denominate
from
the
Greeke
,
comprehends
all
beauty
)
stand
against
the
iniury
of
Time
,
or
withstand
the
battry
of
all
assaults
;
which
makes
me
taxe
that
Ci●…ty
of
arrogance
(
whereof
Hyppo
.
speaketh
in
his
Booke
of
the
increase
of
Citties
)
vpon
the
gates
whereof
was
this
Impressa
ingrauen
,
Intact●…manet
.
To
see
these
states
so
well
and
liuely
decoloured
,
cannot
but
conferre
no
lesse
delight
(
being
grounded
on
vertue
,
where
all
true
and
perfect
delights
bee
seated
)
then
the
relation
of
the
Troian
affaires
(
being
made
by
so
excellent
and
experimented
an
Historian
as
Ithac●…s
)
delighted
that
chaste
Greeke
Penelope
:
Theseus
Trauels
Ariadne
,
or
Alcides
Labours
Omphale
.
But
to
the
vse
of
Historie
.
Historie
being
a
minte
of
profit
and
delight
,
the
seasoning
of
more
serious
studies
,
the
reporter
of
cases
adiudged
by
euent
,
the
enterlude
of
our
haps
,
the
image
of
fortune
,
the
compendiarie
director
of
affaires
,
the
representer
of
humane
successe
,
the
infallible
character
(
by
collation
had
with
things
past
,
and
things
to
come
)
of
succeding
euents
:
should
not
aime
at
lasciuious
stories
,
amorous
subiects
(
vnlesse
by
way
of
disgression
to
smooth
a
serious
discourse
with
a
modest
insertion
of
mirth
)
but
to
prosecute
the
argument
of
the
Historie
without
friuolous
Ambages
,
or
impertinent
circumstances
.
Affectation
ill
beseemes
an
Historian
:
For
hee
should
vnderstand
what
office
he
supports
;
not
any
thing
draind
from
his
owne
inuention
,
but
to
performe
the
charge
of
sincere
relation
.
I
approue
of
his
oppinion
that
thought
,
Inuention
to
be
least
needfull
to
an
Historian
,
but
disposition
more
then
to
any
.
It
is
sufficient
for
an
Historian
to
expresse
what
hee
hath
read
or
seene
,
truly
,
without
concealing
any
thing
,
in
partiall
r●…spect
to
any
person
,
making
truth
the
period
of
his
discourse
.
The
Phylosopher
thought
a
poore
man
was
not
to
be
an
historian
:
for
necessity
would
inforce
him
temporise
and
obserue
humors
:
Nor
a
rich
man
,
for
he
had
his
eye
fixed
vpon
his
estate
,
and
durst
not
vn-rip
great
mens
errors
,
lest
he
should
loose
by
his
labours
.
But
I
disaprou●…
his
censure
,
and
refell
it
with
anothers
opinion
of
the
same
sect
:
Si
diues
de
fortunis
&
infortunijs
scribat
,
sie
enim
vtriusque
fortunae
sortem
aequius
ferat
.
Si
pauper
de
fortunis
scribat
,
vt
cum
eas
attigerit
,
melius
eas
regat
&
teneat
.
The
error
of
iudgement
should
not
be
appropriated
either
to
want
,
or
eminence
of
fortune
:
for
so
should
we
subiect
the
inward
to
the
outward
,
the
intellectuall
power
to
the
externall
varnish
,
preferring
the
eye
of
the
body
before
the
light
of
the
minde
.
Yet
to
intermeddle
in
estates
,
so
much
as
to
dis-able
them
(
by
extenuating
their
powers
)
lessening
their
reuenewes
,
or
ecclipsing
their
pristine
honour
and
eminence
,
by
mentioning
some
insuccessiue
euents
they
haue
had
by
warre
,
or
other
occurrents
,
I
wholly
disallow
it
,
proceeding
either
from
priuate
enmity
to
the
state
,
or
from
a
malevolent
nature
(
vnfitting
for
so
good
a
professour
)
apt
to
sting
all
,
because
an
enmy
to
himselfe
and
all
.
States
should
not
bee
laid
too
open
:
but
when
occasion
serues
to
describe
the
seates
of
Countries
,
Regions
,
&c.
or
to
touch
the
manners
and
conditions
of
inhabitants
,
how
they
liue
,
and
to
what
trades
most
inclined
,
with
whom
they
haue
commerce
or
the
like
,
will
not
derogate
any
thing
from
the
scope
of
an
History
,
or
any
way
implye
a
digression
.
It
is
thought
,
(
and
that
by
the
Authentickst
Historians
)
that
Caesar
;
by
the
description
of
U●…lateranus
,
which
he
made
of
Britaine
,
declairing
how
the
people
were
sauage
,
and
vnapt
for
military
discipline
,
the
places
of
defence
vnprouided
:
and
then
shewing
how
fruitfull
the
whole
Island
was
,
replenished
with
all
necessaries
,
was
induced
to
take
his
expedition
into
Britaine
,
and
to
conquer
it
,
though
preuented
by
a
Brutus
,
who
to
rid
Rome
of
tyranny
,
restored
poore
Britaine
to
her
liberty
,
for
his
iourney
was
staied
by
death
.
And
(
doubtlesse
)
there
is
nothing
which
inflames
the
minde
of
man
more
vnto
valour
and
resolution
,
then
the
report
of
the
acts
of
their
Auncestors
,
whose
monuments
remaining
of
record
with
this
Impress
:
Non
norunt
h●…c
monumenta
mori
,
must
needs
stirre
vp
in
them
a
desire
of
imitation
.
Many
examples
I
could
produce
herein
,
as
the
Trophies
of
Mil●…iades
inducements
of
imitation
to
Casar
:
the
acts
of
Achilles
to
Alexander
,
of
Vlysses
to
T●…lamon
,
of
the
Greekish
Heroes
to
Prymaleon
,
of
Danaus
to
Linceus
,
Aegeus
to
Theseus
.
Many
times
(
we
reade
)
where
a
naturall
defect
and
want
of
courage
was
seated
,
euen
a
retrograde
from
the
sphere
of
valour
,
there
(
though
a
barren
seed-plot
to
work
on
)
by
historical
discourse
hath
magnanimity
shewne
herselfe
in
more
perfect
&
real
colors
,
than
if
nature
her selfe
had
implanted
in
that
man
a
Natiue
desire
to
fight
,
so
powerfull
is
history
in
her selfe
,
where
Nature
in
her selfe
expresseth
small
power
.
This
discourse
therefore
should
not
bee
emploied
in
any
thing
saue
in
excitements
to
Glory
,
motiues
to
warlike
designes
;
since
by
it
valour
is
quickened
,
a
desire
of
honour
inflamed
,
Countries
fame
dispersed
,
and
Monuments
of
neuer
dying
glory
erected
:
O
then
who
should
so
disalow
the
precious
treasure
of
a
refined
discourse
,
as
to
mix
it
with
impudent
and
scurrilous
inventions
;
such
fictions
as
are
not
onely
in
themselues
fabulous
,
but
to
the
vnstaid
Reader
(
of
which
sort
wee
haue
too
many
)
mortally
dangerous
.
Which
fables
(
in
my
opinion
)
fall
among
the
impertinent
and
feagured
Tables
called
Milesiz
;
onely
aiming
at
the
depravation
of
manners
,
and
the
effeminating
best
resolued
Spirits
.
The
ripnesse
whereof
(
by
such
vnseasoned
discourses
)
become
blasted
before
their
time
:
O
that
the
depravednesse
of
these
times
should
taint
so
generally
approued
study
:
making
Histories
meere
Panygi●…icks
(
poems
of
adulation
,
to
insinuate
and
winde
themselues
into
the
affection
of
the
great
,
leauing
the
scope
of
an
History
to
gaine
by
their
studious
trafficke
.
But
let
vs
returne
to
the
office
of
a
good
Historian
.
He
will
not
write
but
vpon
singular
Grounds
,
reasons
impregnable
;
conferring
with
the
best
to
make
his
Narrations
confirmed
of
the
Best
:
Hee
writes
the
stories
of
Princes
truely
without
concealing
their
errours
(
by
way
of
silencing
them
)
or
comment
vpon
an
History
,
annexing
to
it
an
vnnecessary
glosse
.
He
will
not
be
so
ingaged
to
any
,
as
that
he
will
be
restrained
of
his
scope
;
or
so
countermanded
,
as
that
he
must
of
necessity
illustrate
vice
,
vertue
cannot
passe
without
her
character
:
A
good
Historian
will
alwaies
expresse
the
actions
of
good
men
with
an
Emphasis
,
to
sollicite
the
Reader
to
the
affecting
the
like
meanes
,
whereby
hee
may
attaine
the
like
end
.
This
was
the
cause
all
the
Noble
Heroes
in
ancient
time
did
liue
to
posteritie
their
acts
to
imitate
:
not
so
much
for
record
of
their
owne
memorable
lifes
,
as
for
the
propagating
their
Countries
eternall
honour
by
succeding
Worthies
.
As
those
establishers
of
good
and
wholesome
Lawes
made
themselues
with
their
Countrie
renowned
:
Mynois
and
Radamanth
among
the
Cretensians
;
Orpheus
among
the
Thracians
,
Draco
and
Solon
in
Athens
,
Lycurgus
in
Lacedemon
,
Zamolx
is
among
the
Scythians
:
Nor
bee
Historians
(
if
so
the
Professours
merite
that
style
)
of
lesse
esteeme
then
the
prudentest
and
most
experienced
Statists
.
For
these
direct
euery
Senatour
in
polliticke
affaires
by
producing
such
as
excelled
in
administration
of
iustice
,
describing
the
very
natures
of
such
Lawes
,
and
the
causes
why
such
Lawes
were
enacted
to
present
times
.
These
Ages
haue
beene
,
and
are
to
this
day
,
much
Cleanthes
Fable
(
vertues
best
elucidary
)
had
her
Liberall
Sciences
neuer
better
portraied
,
then
the
differences
twixt
true
fortitude
,
and
a
foole-hardy
boldnesse
were
by
Homer
deblazoned
.
Here
a
Hectors
badge
of
true
valour
,
there
an
Antenor
whose
grauity
purchas'd
him
honour
:
there
a
Diomedes
no
lesse
wise
then
resolued
,
here
a
Troilus
stoutnesse
but
vnaduised
here
warres
well
managed
abroad
,
but
lesse
successiue
at
home
,
examplefied
in
Agamemnon
,
there
a
subtile
scouce
,
no
lesse
frieghted
with
pollocy
then
successe
in
Sinon
.
All
these
are
expressed
by
that
Heriocke
Historian
.
Qui
quid
sit
pulchrum
,
quid
turpe
quid
vtile
,
quid
non
?
Plenius
ac
melius
Chrysippo
&
Crantore
dicit
.
These
acts
couid
not
but
minister
sufficient
matter
of
admiration
to
such
Iudicious
Readers
,
as
apprehended
each
circumstance
in
the
subiect
;
making
that
apt
connexion
of
all
,
that
the
body
might
seeme
more
excellent
,
by
the
proportioning
of
euery
member
.
Commenting
Trauailers
:
others
lesse
then
they
haue
seene
(
or
at
least
the
most
〈◊〉
)
which
I
tearme
Phantasticke
Trauailers
.
Such
as
lye
on
their
trauell
,
either
doe
it
for
admiration
,
or
hauing
run
vpon
the
aduerse
shelues
of
a
deplored
fort●…ne
,
are
enforced
to
inuent
strange
things
for
the
reliefe
of
their
deiected
estate
.
Such
as
publish
lesse
then
they
haue
seene
,
(
omitting
things
of
the
greatest
consequence
,
to
satisfie
our
humors
with
trifles
)
do
it
to
gaine
pregnancy
,
or
singularity
rather
of
conceit
:
they
talke
not
of
the
acts
of
Princes
,
nor
the
sites
of
Regions
,
the
temperature
of
such
Clymates
,
or
any
materiall
discourse
,
but
to
shew
an
exquisite
straine
of
wit
,
purchased
by
a
little
fruitlesse
trauell
:
they
insert
friuolous
occurrents
,
borrowed
,
or
(
it
may
be
)
inuented
by
their
owne
phantasticke
braines
.
These
misse
the
marke
a
good
Traueller
should
aime
at
:
they
should
obserue
Lawes
in
forraigne
places
,
like
a
good
Lycurgus
to
●…ranspose
so
glorious
a
freight
to
their
owne
Countrey
.
They
should
not
(
like
our
Fashion-inuenters
,
our
Italionated
Albionacts
)
so
much
obserue
what
is
worne
on
the
body
,
as
what
habit
best
beseemes
the
nature
and
condition
of
their
minde
.
Since
flourishing
Common-weales
are
then
the
highest
,
when
in
externall
habilliments
the
lowest
:
for
Sparta
neuer
flourished
more
,
then
when
she
conformed
her
state
to
the
imitation
of
the
〈◊〉
.
Many
Realmes
haue
we
knowne
to
be
miraculouily
protected
,
by
meanes
of
experienced
men
:
which
experience
they
Sertorius
,
Eumenes
,
Marius
,
●…nd
Antonius
,
may
sufficiently
confirme
the
profite
to
bee
reaped
thereby
.
For
example
:
We
shall
read
in
all
the
Roman
Annals
,
a
certaine
vehement
desire
in
all
the
worthy
Patritians
of
imitating
whatsoeuer
But
to
returne
to
our
former
argument
:
by
the
right
vse
of
H●…story
,
we
see
vertue
reuiued
when
her
defender
is
dead
:
and
to
say
the
truth
,
I
may
vse
Thales
sentence
in
this
discourse
:
without
History
,
Nihil
mortem
à
vi●…a
differre
:
Since
the
life
of
the
dead
depends
vpon
the
memory
of
the
liuing
:
for
without
some
memoriall
of
actions
prosecuted
,
what
difference
betwixt
the
valiant
acts
of
Ithacus
,
and
the
shamefull
retirednesse
of
Aeg●…schus
?
betwixt
Aeneas
piety
,
and
Pigmalions
cruelty
?
They
are
dead
,
and
their
poore
vrne
can
speake
no
more
for
them
,
then
Pompeys
Sepulchre
spake
for
him
:
Hic
situs
est
mag●…us
,
here
hee
lyes
that
was
once
great
:
powerfull
in
popular
command
,
generally
succesfull
,
before
his
Pharsalian
discomfite
:
here
hee
lies
that
was
stiled
his
Countries
Patron
,
Romes
best
Centinell
:
yet
failing
in
the
close
of
his
fortunes
,
drooping
in
the
vpshot
of
his
victories
:
Time
can
erect
no
other
monument
in
his
remembrance
:
Uixi
,
&
Uici
:
onely
once
I
liued
,
and
was
once
conquerour
.
It
is
recorded
,
that
when
Alexander
came
to
the
Tombe
of
Achilles
,
and
beheld
the
mirror
of
Greece
,
shut
vp
in
so
small
a
scantling
of
earth
,
(
a
parcell
of
that
whole
which
could
hardly
containe
him
liuing
)
he
wept
bitterly
,
adding
:
Heccine
sunt
Trophea
?
Be
these
all
the
monuments
,
all
the
Trophies
this
world
could
affoord
thee
?
Is
greatnesse
so
soone
extinguished
,
and
the
lampe
of
Honour
so
soone
put
out
?
A
good
motiue
for
Alexander
,
to
caution
him
of
his
mortality
,
and
might
make
vp
this
conclusion
:
Alexander
thou
art
not
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
but
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
:
not
the
sonne
of
Iupiter
,
but
the
sonne
of
earth
.
The
like
we
reade
related
by
Qu●…ntus
Curtius
:
that
when
this
great
Prince
of
Maccdon
came
into
Persia
,
an
obiect
of
no
lesse
pitty
,
then
example
of
humanc
frail●…y
,
represented
it selfe
vnto
him
:
to
wit
,
the
poore
Sepulchre
of
that
victorious
Cyr●…s
,
on
which
he
found
no
other
Inscription
then
this
:
O
man
,
whosoeuer
thou
be
,
or
from
what
pl●…ce
soeuer
thou
shal●…
come
(
for
I
know
thou
wilt
come
)
know
,
that
I
am
Cyrus
,
who
translated
the
Emp●…re
from
the
Medes
to
the
Persians
:
pray
thee
doe
not
enur
me
for
this
little
handfull
of
earth
that
doth
couer
me
.
This
Epitaph
could
not
choose
but
fixe
an
impression
of
remorse
and
commiseration
(
as
indeed
it
did
)
in
that
great
Conquerours
heart
:
seeing
whereto
all
his
victories
tended
:
So
as
Neroes
affecting
command
and
soueraignty
was
well
answered
by
Seneca
:
Pulchrum
est
regnare
(
said
Ne●…o
:
)
Nihil
est
,
si
nihil
quaras
,
replied
Senec●…
:
certainly
(
if
I
be
not
blinded
with
the
loue
of
Historical
discourse
)
there
is
no
means
better
to
deter
from
vice
,
nor
more
effectuall
inducements
vnto
vertue
,
then
these
moral
relations
.
By
them
we
see
the
liues
of
Princes
,
and
their
employments
(
Prima
sp●…cie
leta
)
●…n
their
first
entrance
or
passage
pleasant
,
and
delightfull
,
promising
no
lesse
then
successe
,
and
in
successe
continuance
:
Afterwards
,
Tractu
dura
,
more
difficulties
attending
,
as
if
the
Wheele
of
Fortune
were
remoued
to
a
place
subiected
to
more
occurrents
;
yet
not
so
dangerous
,
as
to
bee
attended
by
ruine
:
nor
so
secure
,
as
to
promise
an
vndoubted
issue
.
Euentu
tristia
,
a
strange
Catastrophe
of
so
faire
beginnings
:
where
,
in
the
first
,
there
was
security
grounded
vpon
more
then
hope
:
in
the
second
,
hope
,
though
not
secure
:
In
the
third
,
neither
hope
nor
security
,
but
depriuall
of
both
.
Yet
euen
in
these
conuersions
,
if
it
please
the
Reader
to
cast
his
eye
vpon
the
admirable
moderation
of
some
Princes
affections
,
he
shall
see
verily
a
Christian
resolution
in
a
Pagan
.
Furius
Camill●…s
could
not
bee
daunted
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
Publicola
,
whose
moderation
in
the
ebbe
of
fortune
,
and
surplusage
of
miseries
,
made
him
more
admired
,
then
hated
.
The
equall
temper
of
Rutilli●…s
,
the
exceeding
modesty
of
L.
Quintius
,
the
graue
and
serious
respect
of
Fabius
Maximus
,
the
temperate
deliberation
of
Marcellus
,
and
the
admirable
gouernment
of
Tiberius
Gracchus
;
the
wi●…
staidnesse
of
Metellus
,
and
the
discreete
patience
of
Ma●…cus
Bibulu●…
.
We
vse
to
be
more
excited
to
goodnesse
by
examples
then
Precepts
,
and
such
instances
in
Histories
are
not
a
little
perswasiue
,
representing
to
our
eyes
the
diuers
obiects
of
Piety
in
C●…riolanus
,
of
Iustice
in
Aristides
,
of
Prudence
in
Cleobul●…
:
and
to
be
briefe
of
all
vertues
so
well
practised
by
Pagans
,
as
they
may
well
deserue
an
imitation
by
Christians
.
To
proceede
now
to
the
Discourse
it selfe
;
I
allow
of
a
copious
phrase
in
Historie
:
For
contraction
of
sentences
doth
oftimes
contract
the
sence
,
or
at
least
makes
the
Subiect
lesse
intelligible
:
Cornelius
Tac
:
seemed
to
affect
an
intricate
kind
of
writing
,
yet
his
Argument
in
it selfe
so
copious
might
modestly
Apologize
his
succinctnesse
;
approuing
Tullies
opinion
,
where
he
propounds
,
what
errors
are
most
subiect
to
Taxing
in
such
Discourses
-
Titio
sum
etiam
est
si
nimium
apparatis
v●…rbis
compositum
,
aut
nimium
longum
est
:
Taxing
in
the
one
Singularity
,
commending
in
the
other
Breuity
:
Yet
he
seemes
to
oppose
himselfe
in
it
by
plaine
contradiction
,
making
relation
of
the
same
Discourse
.
Non
parum
fructus
habet
in
se
copia
dicendi
,
Amici
Curi●…
,
were
Parasiti
Curi●…
:
The
Courts
friends
,
the
Courts
Popingayes
;
Heere
hee
shewes
a
great
Man
rising
,
and
his
fall
as
suddaine
as
his
erection
:
The
immeritorious
in
election
for
greatest
honours
,
and
the
vertuous
depressed
,
because
they
will
not
mount
by
sinister
meanes
.
There
a
Prince
that
shewed
great
testimonies
of
his
approued
vertues
,
so
long
as
he
was
subi●…ct
,
but
raised
to
an
vnexpected
height
he
seconded
this
Conclusion
:
-
an
ill
Prince
spoiled
a
good
Subiect
:
so
was
Galba
:
Omnium
consensu
capax
Imperij
,
nisi
imperasset
:
O
what
singular
fruits
may
be
gathered
out
of
that
one
History
,
to
teach
men
in
high
estates
how
to
moderate
their
Greatnesse
;
and
others
of
inferior
ranke
,
rather
to
liue
retired
,
then
to
purchase
eminence
in
place
by
seruile
meanes
.
But
of
Augustus
,
Antonius
Pius
,
Septimus
Seuerus
;
one
whereof
seemed
rather
to
affect
popular
satisfaction
then
his
owne
,
subiecting
(
as
he
himfelfe
professed
)
his
entirest
thoughts
to
propagate
his
Countries
glory
:
Anton:
Clemency
,
was
the
chaine
that
vnited
and
combined
(
in
a
knot
inviolable
)
the
hearts
of
the
Romanes
to
him
,
publiquely
protesting
:
Hee
had
rather
saue
one
Citizen
,
then
destroy
a
thousand
enemi●…s
.
But
Seuerus
was
loued
(
which
seemes
no
lesse
admirable
)
for
that
which
engenders
,
for
most
part
,
greatest
occasion
of
offence
,
and
that
was
Seuerity
;
Being
no
lesse
exact
in
punishing
his
friends
then
enemies
.
But
to
reade
ouer
the
life
of
Scilla
,
we
shall
see
an
opposition
in
his
Nature
.
None
that
ere
did
more
good
to
his
friends
,
or
more
harme
to
his
enemies
:
Nay
,
euen
in
Brothers
(
deriued
from
one
Stem
)
discrepant
natures
;
Titus
,
the
loue
and
darling
of
Man-kind
,
Domitian
a
professed
foe
to
all
Man-kind
;
the
one
banishing
Parasites
his
Pallace
,
the
other
a
persecutor
of
flyes
:
what
more
delightfull
Subiect
can
be
imagined
,
then
to
conuerse
(
and
that
without
perill
)
of
the
dangerous
euents
of
warre
?
of
the
diuers
dispositions
of
Princes
,
raisings
and
razings
of
Empires
:
Some
shaken
by
the
vi●…iousnesse
of
the
people
which
inhabite
them
,
being
so
long
secure
,
till
ruine
impose
a
periode
to
their
security
:
Some
by
(
ciuill
and
intestine
Factions
)
making
their
deerest
Countrie
the
sad
Spectator
of
their
Funerals
,
their
entirest
friends
,
their
prof●…ssed
foes
;
and
the
argument
of
loue
and
amity
,
the
ground
of
ciuill
dissentions
:
The
cause
whereof
(
for
most
part
)
proceeds
from
a
continued
peace
,
for
retirednesse
from
forraigne
affaires
,
make
vs
bent
to
prosecute
Managements
d●…mesticke
,
and
the
ouer-flow
of
successe
(
purchased
by
peace
)
makes
men
more
capable
of
iniuries
,
euen
to
their
best
friends
.
This
was
the
reason
moued
Athens
to
erect
places
of
Martiall
exercises
(
euen
in
peace
)
That
so
the
youths
being
daily
invred
to
such
exercises
,
might
employ
their
strengths
in
them
,
and
not
in
ciuill
Commotions
.
This
we
haue
by
relation
of
Histories
,
which
so
manageth
affaires
of
State
,
as
I
am
of
that
Sages
opinion
who
auerred
:
That
no
man
could
be
an
experienc't
No●…cere
hoc
primum
〈◊〉
,
Quid
facere
Victor
debet
,
Uictus
pati
.
These
obseruations
,
are
receipts
,
or
cordials
against
the
maladies
of
Fortune
:
A
man
thus
resolued
cannot
be
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
a
P●…ince
,
for
hee
gouernes
a
Dominion
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
an
Empire
more
imperious
,
a
Dia●…hy
,
o●…
Monarchy
rather
:
hauing
disconsorting
affections
,
euer
laying
Siege
and
Battry
to
the
pallace
of
the
〈◊〉
.
●…hich
moued
Plutarch
in
his
Morals
defini●…
to
con●…lude
:
That
he
who
mod●…rated
his
affections
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
but
hee
that
neuer
past
the
bound●…
and
〈◊〉
of
temp●…rate
motiues
,
nor
felt
the
deluding
enforcements
o●…
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
●…im
,
was
wholy
vertuous
:
But
the
Mo●…als
p●…oposition
was
better
then
his
conclusion
:
〈◊〉
mortall
(
since
the
staine
of
his
Originall
Puri●…
)
co●…ld
〈◊〉
subsist
so
secure
,
or
remai●…e
so
vnmoueabl●…
,
as
neuer
to
be
engage●…
to
perturbations
,
the
〈◊〉
attendants
of
〈◊〉
.
In
this
first
entrance
to
my
Discourse
,
hauing
spo●…
some-thing
in
generall
,
of
the
vse
and
fruit
of
Hystory
:
hauing
by
an
(
equall
diameter
)
determined
For
Diuine
,
I
will
not
comprehend
them
in
my
discourse
,
being
such
as
depend
on
their
owne
Arches
,
drained
from
the
pure
Spring
of
Coelestiall
Wisedome
,
and
therefore
impossible
to
erre
either
in
Action
or
Relation
:
yet
necessarily
(
now
and
then
)
immixed
with
morall
Histories
,
because
their
weight
may
better
poise
in
the
scale
of
euery
Iudicious
Reader
,
when
hee
seeth
Morall
Discourse
so
well
fortefied
,
as
by
the
pillar
of
Truth
:
Albeit
I
approue
of
Hesiods
Fabulous
Relations
should
not
,
nor
ought
they
to
be
authorised
by
Holy
Writings
:
It
was
a
Pagans
obseruation
,
and
worthy
ours
:
So
should
our
prophane
Pamphleters
,
restraine
their
libidinous
writings
more
,
and
either
write
that
which
should
propagate
themselues
a
generall
reputation
,
without
derogation
to
the
sacred
Writings
of
the
Almighty
,
or
silence
Vid.
Lypsium
in
prescript
:
in
lib.
de
const.
their
workes
;
least
they
should
depraue
many
,
for
a
priuate
reward
,
or
pedling
gaine
:
More
I
insist
vpon
this
,
because
too
many
haue
I
knowne
steeped
in
this
promiscuous
Subiect
,
well
read
in
Scripture
,
to
wrest
them
,
otherwise
Babes
and
Sucklings
,
for
they
cannot
reach
to
the
depth
of
such
Mysteries
,
but
onely
touch
them
to
corrupt
them
:
But
their
Cymerian
Lucian
,
Cleand
:
Metrodoras
,
whose
disastrous
fals
answered
their
blasphemous
risings
,
contemning
the
sacred
Writ
of
Heauen
,
and
prostituting
their
labours
to
the
merited
censure
of
confusion
:
But
too
much
of
them
.
Times
are
not
so
easy
to
be
wained
from
their
habite
of
errour
,
or
induced
to
a
course
of
more
Sanctimony
:
Lampes
and
Oilely
Studies
were
made
fruitlesse
at
Epictetus
death
,
his
Lanthorne
hung
vp
,
(
as
a
Monument
of
his
vertues
)
made
a
deeper
impression
in
his
Schollers
,
then
all
our
Mo●…iues
,
Precepts
,
or
Examples
can
●…o
in
ours
:
that
Age
was
more
apprehensiue
of
Good
,
thi●…
of
Ill.
Now
to
our
Discursiue
Histo●…ies
.
Many
discourse
Discursiue
Histories
,
are
either
true
or
feygned
:
If
Cornel
:
T●…c
:
Tit:
Liu:
Trogus
Pompeius
,
and
many
others
,
whose
Subiect
confirme
their
authority
:
Being
such
as
repres●…nt
the
diuerse
euents
of
things
done
,
by
Histori●…all
Relation
,
and
Ocular
presentation
:
For
diuers
of
those
worthy
Historiographers
haue
bene
interrested
euen
in
such
probable
,
and
generally
allowed
discourses
by
personall
presence
,
in
the
management
Hee
was
almost
induced
to
throw
Aristobulus
after
:
A
Caueat
very
nece●…sary
for
all
clawing
Par●…sites
that
make
their
Pen
Mer●…enary
,
and
therefore
as
may
be
inferred
vpon
their
workes
,
dare
not
vnrip
the
vitiousnesse
of
times
,
least
by
vnbosoming
Truth
,
they
should
incurre
the
offence
of
some
person
,
to
whom
their
labours
are
ingaged
,
their
fortunes
subiected
,
and
their
endeauours
partially
deuoted
.
Plato
banished
all
Poets
Athens
:
But
a
fauourable
Glosse
would
restaine
that
Ostracisme
,
onely
to
peculiar
wits
(
petulant
I
meane
)
such
as
the
Prince
of
Sparta
prescribed
his
well-gouerned
Iulus
Canius
spirit
,
spit
in
the
face
of
●…anny
:
Hating
by
a
modest
Silence
to
Pamper
vice
,
though
reprehension
cost
him
a
gage
,
hee
could
redeeme
with
nothing
saue
life
:
Such
was
that
Cordus
(
the
Romane
Historian
)
who
for
speaking
truth
,
was
censured
vnworthily
.
But
if
Princes
or
Potentates
should
exactly
obserue
Many
worthy
Statists
haue
desired
,
and
in
themselues
no
lesse
deserued
(
though
perhaps
some
little
sparke
of
vaine-glory
may
seeme
to
appeare
in
them
)
to
haue
their
memorable
acts
recorded
:
as
Cicero
his
withstanding
Catyline
,
Cato
his
opposing
Caesar
,
Solon
his
Pysistratus
,
and
Demosthenes
his
Philip
:
their
acts
recount●…d
,
and
committed
to
memory
,
induce
others
to
the
like
attempts
;
and
like
a
coole
Arbour
to
a
wearied
passenger
,
yeelds
no
lesse
delight
to
themselues
,
which
Persius
seemes
couertly
to
shadow
in
his
first
Satyre
:
Et
pulchrum
est
digito
monstrari
&
dicier
hic
est
.
This
finger
is
History
,
which
truly
demonstrates
the
life
of
the
person
,
characters
his
vertues
,
or
vices
;
disposing
euery
particular
member
,
and
branch
of
his
discourse
in
such
an
exact
methode
,
that
it
res●…mbles
a
faire
beautifull
building
,
which
yet
deserues
more
commendations
for
the
contriuement
,
then
the
outward
and
garish
Garnishment
.
Edes
(
opera
sunt
)
quae
si
culte
extruantur
,
mi●…us
restat
,
si
minus
sumptuose
.
True
,
Bookes
Historicall
haue
no
better
beauty
(
nor
indeed
can
they
)
then
an
apt
and
methodicall
disposicion
:
other
accomplements
are
superfluous
,
resembling
some
of
our
works
now
and
then
published
,
with
faire
and
beautifull
frontispices
,
as
if
some
worthy
conueiances
(
rare
buildings
of
A●…t
and
Nature
)
were
within
so
comely
portalles
.
But
alasse
!
looke
inward
,
nought
but
rubbish
,
and
refuse
of
some
old
building
,
vnhandsomly
repaired
,
or
some
frothy
inuention
,
not
worth
halfe
so
much
cost
:
These
should
feare
(
as
the
Philosopher
Aelianus
,
in
his
Naturall
History
,
reports
,
how
the
vipers
issue
is
the
bane
and
death
of
the
parent
:
Certainly
,
as
Libri
are
our
Liberi
,
our
children
,
which
we
should
be
as
carefull
and
prouident
in
bringing
vp
,
as
the
Father
ouer
his
childe
:
so
oftentimes
they
play
the
Vipers
with
vs
,
they
murder
vs
in
our
name
&
reputation
,
much
disparraging
their
parents
,
being
priselesse
and
therefore
vnfit
for
presse
:
nay
,
they
do
more
,
they
oftentimes
asperse
an
imputation
vpon
her
that
should
bee
no
lesse
deere
(
if
not
more
)
vnto
vs
,
then
our
Debemur
morti
nos
nostraque
:
Where
our
workes
must
abide
scanning
,
and
that
by
a
iudicious
censurer
,
one
that
can
vnrip
the
secretest
of
imagination
,
and
knowes
the
Bent
of
our
purposes
.
Thus
much
I
haue
writ
briefly
(
by
way
of
inference
)
to
caution
such
as
by
their
labours
ere●…t
a
Throne
for
impiety
to
sit
in
:
these
Humor-mongers
,
that
can
with
Caesar
the
Dictator
,
Atros
dies
albos
facere
,
make
blacke
white
,
and
maske
Vice
with
a
vaile
better
suiting
with
Vertue
:
Now
will
I
discend
to
their
opposite
,
and
that
is
,
the
Satyricall
Writer
,
or
Historiomastix
.
Some
of
these
are
very
dangerous
to
a
State
,
laying
a
tergo
Nemesis
,
he
hath
vengeance
at
his
backe
,
a
spleenefull
●…on
disgorged
vpon
the
best
of
deserts
.
And
thus
he
inserts
the
iniuries
:
Such
a
family
(
well
meriting
of
Prince
and
Countrey
,
and
euer
sound
loyall
to
the
State
)
was
vndeser●…edly
censu●…ed
by
the
〈◊〉
suggestions
of
such
,
and
such
;
whose
suggestions
are
(
as
yet
)
vnreuenged
,
but
the
heauens
are
iust
.
What
motiues
more
enforcing
to
ciuill
commotion
?
Iniuries
Why
Achilles
should
yru
sustaine
so
great
reproach
,
that
haue
engaged
your selfe
for
Agamemnon
,
and
his
brothers
glory
?
Be
all
your
hopefull
serui●…es
,
your
valiant
exploits
,
y●…ur
incomparable
a●…chieuements
,
so
rewarded
?
Hath
Agamemnon
no
place
for
valour
?
no
r●…gard
to
honour
?
Why
then
desist
Achilles
,
embarke
your selfe
for
Greece
,
and
le●…ue
this
braue
Champion
to
himselfe
and
his
fortunes
,
your
merits
(
being
gone
)
will
be
better
esteemed
:
you
had
but
one
prize
,
(
and
that
prize
vnworthy
too
of
your
valour
▪
)
and
must
that
prize
,
got
with
much
sweate
,
many
difficulties
,
imminent
dangers
,
multitude
of
occurrents
,
now
be
taken
from
you
?
But
one
Briseis
,
one
deere
one
,
and
yet
Achilles
must
loose
her
,
Alasse
poore
resolution
!
Why
it
is
better
to
be
Aegystus
,
a
coward
,
a
recreant
,
one
that
retires
himselfe
from
Armes
,
fighting
close
under
Clytemnestra's
target
.
Such
a
Carpet-knight
is
better
then
a
Martiall-knight
.
Then
would
he
presently
moue
Agam●…mnon
in
like
sort
,
in
no
case
to
moderate
his
desires
:
Why
should
Achilles
haue
so
faire
a
Paramour
,
and
the
Prince
of
Greece
want
one
?
These
are
poysonous
and
virulent
heads
,
that
suggest
into
the
eares
of
Princes
,
arguments
of
reuenge
,
causes
of
distrust
,
motiues
of
suspition
and
iealousie
:
not
to
profite
themselues
,
but
to
satisfie
the
deprauednesse
of
their
owne
natures
,
intended
to
nothing
but
the
subuersion
of
states
,
the
setting
at
discord
vnited
Princes
:
En
'
pallor
!
&c.
—
It
was
thought
,
that
in
that
glorious
and
Christian-like
expedition
of
those
memorable
Heroes
,
Princes
recorded
in
the
eternall
booke
of
fame
,
against
the
Turkes
,
whose
hostility
had
laine
waste
those
blessed
and
fruitfull
coasts
,
where
the
remnant
of
Israel
was
once
planted
:
that
the
greatest
cause
of
the
ill
successe
of
that
warre
,
proceeded
from
some
factious
heads
,
setting
(
that
vnfortunat
,
yet
neuer
sufficiently
praised
Heroe
)
the
Duke
of
Normandie
,
and
the
King
of
France
,
at
variance
:
an
impious
and
The
like
we
reade
of
those
two
renowned
Citties
,
Sparta
and
Athens
:
which
two
flourishing
Common-weales
Thus
much
haue
I
spoken
of
State-snarling
Historians
,
that
make
their
workes
like
prickes
,
or
goads
to
the
publicke
state
.
I
will
now
proceed
with
my
former
diuision
of
History
,
and
finde
in
these
two
extreames
(
Assentation
,
and
State-inuection
)
a
meane
to
direct
vs
in
the
perfect
and
exact
vse
of
Historicall
Narrations
:
Medio
tutissimus
ibis
;
neither
too
depressed
,
Di●…ficile
est
Satyram
nonscribere
:
nam
qui●…
inique
,
For
the
first
,
I
neuer
knew
any
Discourse
worth
reading
,
proceed
from
so
base
and
ignoble
Merchants
:
They
sell
their
workes
by
retaile
;
and
hope
of
a
gainefull
Xerxes
,
when
of
a
populous
Army
,
as
euer
passed
out
of
Asia
,
he
had
but
so
many
left
as
might
attend
him
in
a
poore
Cocke-boat
,
to
accompany
him
in
his
distressed
expedition
,
the
History
mentions
,
that
he
wept
bitterly
;
enstiling
himselfe
,
The
rui●…e
of
his
Countrey
,
the
slaughter
of
many
resolute
Souldiers
.
Nay
,
Titus
himselfe
,
the
flower
of
all
the
Roman
Emperours
,
in
the
sacke
and
subuersion
of
that
once
glorious
Citty
Ierusalem
,
is
said
to
weepe
exceedingly
,
beholding
so
many
lamentable
obiects
of
pitty
(
dead
carkasses
lying
in
open
ditches
)
so
as
not
able
to
containe
himselfe
,
hee
cryed
out
,
I
call
Hea●…en
to
witnesse
,
I
am
not
the
cause
of
this
Peoples
slaughter
.
Many
such
representments
we
haue
very
vsuall
in
Histories
,
motiue
for
their
passion
,
and
memorable
for
their
end
,
proceeding
from
the
iust
iudgment
of
God
,
to
caution
others
by
their
miserable
fals
.
There
is
another
propriety
in
a
History
,
which
should
be
obserued
:
and
that
is
a
Iudicious
collation
,
Amul●…is
,
Romulus
and
Remus
,
with
their
mother
Rhe●…
,
o●…
Ilia
,
(
as
some
wil
haue
it
)
make
vp
a
laborinth
of
themselues
without
further
confusion
:
But
to
inferte
the
strange
conueyance
(
or
Apotheosis
)
of
Romulus
:
suddainely
vanished
forth
of
their
sight
,
and
by
the
testimony
of
Iulius
Proculus
,
transplanted
to
some
other
place
of
more
eminence
;
hardly
deserues
the
credite
o●…
an
Historian
:
Yet
some
there
be
which
shew
more
fauour
to
this
famous
founder
of
Rome
,
daigning
to
bestow
a
Monument
of
him
,
which
is
erected
for
him
in
the
Temple
Quirinus
.
Indeed
it
were
little
enough
to
memorize
so
renowned
an
Establisher
,
with
a
Tombe
,
and
to
consecrate
the
place
of
his
Buriall
;
As
Achilles
Tombe
,
or
Monument
in
Sygeum
,
Theseus
in
Athens
,
Aiax
in
the
Rhetian
Shore
,
and
Alcides
Reliques
in
Oëta
:
Reade
but
ouer
the
Romane
Annals
,
and
you
shall
find
the
discordancies
of
Historians
in
these
computations
of
times
to
be
great
:
As
especially
the
destruction
of
Troy
,
confounding
the
seuerall
times
of
Troies
Sacking
,
missing
their
accompt
from
Laomedon
to
the
succession
of
Priam.
But
I
haue
touched
the
errour
enough
,
let
vs
now
descend
to
the
preuention
of
it
.
Before
we
take
in
hand
any
Discourse
we
must
alwaies
Valerius
Maximus
had
recours●…
,
not
onely
to
Romane
Annals
(
which
were
kept
with
great
care
)
but
he
vsed
to
conferre
with
such
as
had
any
Breuiats
of
the
Romane
liues
in
their
hands
:
Comparing
them
together
,
that
he
might
cull
and
chuse
out
from
the
best
Authours
(
as
himselfe
witnesseth
)
such
documents
,
as
not
onely
propogated
the
glory
and
pristine
height
of
his
Country
,
but
might
moue
succeding
ages
to
emulate
their
vertues
.
The
like
of
that
true
Morall
Historian
Plutarch
,
whose
Style
so
modestly
garnished
,
and
so
sententiously
concluding
,
hath
(
a●…d
not
without
cause
)
purchased
him
the
name
of
the
Father
of
Histories
.
Laertius
a
worthy
Recorder
of
those
famous
Sages
of
Greece
;
describes
his
Countries
happinesse
with
great
modesty
:
Whose
Sentences
may
beseeme
the
grauest
Vnderstanding
to
extract
,
and
vpon
oc●…asion
to
accommodate
to
his
owne
purpos●…
:
Here
he
shewes
Spirit
in
a
Philosophers
pen
,
one
opposing
himselfe
Thus
much
for
the
former
branch
of
my
di●…ision
,
of
Histories
True
and
Authentique
:
Now
I
will
entreate
of
Relations
Feigned
;
yet
such
as
Moralized
include
an
excellent
meaning
,
drained
from
the
vncorrupted
Springs
of
Hellicon
.
All
Relations
feign●…d
are
not
to
be
excluded
:
for
Tho:
Heywood
,
hath
taken
in
hand
(
by
his
great
industry
)
to
make
a
Generall
(
though
Summary
)
description
of
all
the
Poets
liues
.
the
web
of
his
History
,
to
make
the
Subiect
it selfe
more
pleasant
:
The
more
I
commend
him
to
the
reading
of
the
Iudiciously
Generous
,
because
I
could
neuer
finde
in
his
Workes
any
scurrulous
Affectation
,
but
prosecuting
his
Discourse
with
a
modest
grauity
,
as
if
Nature
,
that
had
〈◊〉
him
of
his
Corporall
sight
,
had
done
it
,
to
make
the
eye
of
his
vnderstanding
more
piercing
:
For
to
reade
the
Maiesty
of
his
Stile
,
the
wel-coucht
Fables
immixt
in
his
warre
betwixt
the
Greekes
and
Troians
,
may
as
in
a
store-house
imagine
the
treasures
of
all
wits
to
be
locked
vp
in
him
.
Many
excellent
Histories
haue
bene
deriued
from
him
,
as
well
in
Prose
as
contracted
Measures
,
for
his
pleasing
variety
r●…lisheth
more
then
others
,
because
through
all
his
Workes
,
he
vseth
lesse
digression
then
others
:
And
pitty
it
is
,
that
euery
impolish'd
hand
should
haue
to
do
with
the
Transcription
of
his
Lab●…urs
:
grieuing
the
poore
Blind-man
with
their
blindnesse
,
For
who
so
blind
as
Buzzard
?
And
if
Stesychorus
was
worthily
strucke
blinde
for
commenting
on
U●…nus
beauty
,
and
discommending
Hellens
forme
:
much
more
deserue
they
an
exacter
punishment
,
that
dare
comment
on
his
eterniz'd
labours
,
who
detected
Lernean
Hydra
,
and
the
winged
Hart
:
He
who
purchased
no
lesse
memorable
Trophies
in
Hell
,
then
on
Earth
;
haling
the
three-necked
C●…rberus
,
and
rescuing
Pros●…rpina
,
(
if
the
supreme
powers
had
not
inhibited
)
from
the
tyrannicke
hands
of
infernall
Pluto
:
Discomfiting
the
Centaures
,
vanquishing
Achelous
(
being
his
corriuall
in
the
loue
of
faire
Deianeira
,
the
〈◊〉
,
the
Cremona
Giants
,
the
traiterous
Nessus
,
Antheus
,
Augeas
Stables
,
Apples
of
Hesperides
,
Cacus
,
Busyris
,
hurling
Diomedes
to
his
horses
(
to
quit
his
own
tyranny
)
freeing
Hesyone
from
the
Whale
,
sacking
Troy
in
reuenge
of
the
perfidious
Laomedon
,
subduing
those
inuincible
Giants
,
〈◊〉
and
Albion
,
redeeming
Orcalia
,
and
Betricia
from
the
captiuity
of
Gerion
:
and
wearing
the
Amazon
Baldricke
,
to
intimate
his
victories
in
those
warlicke
Prouinces
▪
These
,
and
the
like
,
doth
Hesyode
set
downe
with
that
probable
coherence
,
that
i●…
the
matter
it selfe
did
not
imply
an
impossibility
,
one
would
be
certainly
induced
to
beleeue
so
concorda●…t
an
History
.
Presently
he
descends
to
the
generation
of
the
Gods
,
making
vp
a
Genealogy
in
that
distinct
order
,
as
the
Pagan
Gods
(
for
so
one
hath
obserued
)
were
much
indebted
to
him
for
so
wel
deriuing
their
pedigree
,
which
without
his
inuention
(
perhaps
)
had
laine
obscure
.
Lucian
deserues
his
place
,
whose
otherwise
ill-deseruing
parts
,
being
a
profest
foe
to
all
diuine
adoration
,
purchased
him
an
end
as
miserable
as
his
prophanations
merited
;
being
deuoured
by
dogges
:
yet
in
this
regard
we
haue
propounded
our
opinion
about
Historical
fictions
,
I
will
giue
him
his
dueplace
:
one
of
an
excellent
wit
,
ripe
vnderstanding
,
and
labourious
withall
,
to
finde
out
the
ancient
Manuscript●…
,
and
Records
of
authorized
Histories
:
yet
,
foras●…uch
as
his
●…itings
are
interlarded
now
●…nd
then
with
inuectiue
sp●…ches
against
the
Coelestiall
powers
,
arguing
too
much
of
Natures
power
,
too
little
of
the
Soueraigne
of
Natur●…
.
I
would
haue
the
Generous
Reader
to
prepare
himselfe
in
the
perusall
of
such
Discourses
,
as
Calypso
instructed
Vlysses
against
the
Syrens
Inchauntments
,
thus
inuiting
him
:
Hue
ades
ô
ingens
Graecorum
gloria
Vlysses
.
Thus
Englished
.
Come
hither
Noble
Ithacus
,
of
valiant
Grekes
the
choice
,
Take
harbor
here
,
incline
thine
eare
vnto
the
Syrens
voice
:
For
there
nere
was
any
did
passe
,
since
we
arriued
here
,
This
liquid
way
,
but
wisht
to
stay
,
our
warbling
notes
to
heare
.
Hence
pregnant
wits
,
and
ripe
conceits
much
knowledge
haue
conceiu'd
:
As
for
the
acts
you
did
at
Troy
,
we
newes
long
since
receiu'd
.
And
how
the
Gods
pursu'd
the
Greekes
,
the
Troians
Greekes
pursue
,
The
Grecians
hate
in
sacking
Troy
,
Heauens
hate
in
wracking
you
.
Of
these
Inchauntments
did
Calypso
fore-warne
Ulysses
with
this
preparation
,
that
he
should
command
his
Assotiates
in
his
Ship
,
to
binde
him
,
when
he
approached
neere
those
fatall
Harmonists
,
and
to
stoppe
their
eares
,
least
they
should
be
made
a
prey
to
their
cr●…elty
.
So
must
euery
one
prepare
himselfe
in
such
Syren-discourses
The
liberty
of
these
times
,
perswades
some
too
easily
to
Lucian●…
Arguments
;
and
those
which
(
in
feare
of
diuine
power
)
dare
not
deny
the
Omnipotencie
of
the
Immort●…ll
Power
in
word
,
yet
their
prophane
couuersation
implies
an
absolute
Apostasi●…
in
them
in
their
workes
.
I
wish
these
digrssions
were
not
needfull
:
for
then
I
might
more
directly
proceed
in
my
discourse
,
which
the
deprauednesse
of
times
will
in
no
case
suffer
.
But
in
these
feigned
Histories
I
wholly
exclude
all
Primalion
,
Palmerin
de
Olina
,
The
Knight
of
the
Sunne
,
Gerilion
,
with
many
other
fictiue
Discourses
should
be
entertained
by
youth
:
many
of
these
Relations
haue
strangely
transported
diuers
well-promising
wits
into
strange
amazements
;
especially
such
as
conceiue
more
delight
in
them
,
then
more
serious
studies
.
Some
we
haue
heard
,
that
in
reading
the
strange
aduentures
of
Orlando
Furios●…
,
and
conueying
the
very
impression
of
his
amorous
passion
to
themselues
,
would
presently
imitate
his
distraction
,
run
starke
naked
,
make
loue-songs
in
commendation
of
their
Angelica
,
put
themselues
●…o
intollerable
torments
to
gaine
the
affection
of
their
supposed
mistresses
.
Others
,
in
imitation
of
some
valiant
Knights
,
haue
frequented
Desarts
,
and
inhabited
Prouinces
,
ecchoi●…g
in
euery
place
their
owne
vanities
,
endorsing
their
names
in
barkes
of
trees
,
wholly
turned
Sauag●…
,
and
vntractable
to
personate
that
knight
more
liuely
.
Such
Histories
I
onely
allow
of
(
whether
in
Prose
,
Others
there
be
,
that
transported
onely
with
the
delight
and
present
variety
of
the
History
,
make
History
onely
(
as
our
Gallants
doe
their
Tobacco
)
a
spender
of
time
:
they
apply
not
the
fruit
or
vse
of
Histories
.
But
as
in
some
pleasant
or
delightfull
dreame
,
satisfied
for
the
present
time
:
but
past
,
quite
razed
out
of
memory
.
In
stories
of
this
nature
,
(
such
I
meane
as
bee
●…eigned
)
I
approue
of
those
best
that
res●…mble
Truth
:
the
neerest
according
to
Flaccus
opinion
:
Ficta
volupt●…tis
causa
sint
proxima
veris.
For
the
impossibility
of
the
relation
oftentimes
maketh
the
subiect
more
ridiculous
:
whereas
the
concordancy
,
or
apt
connexion
of
the
History
(
though
the
maine
plot
be
false
)
enforceth
more
attention
.
And
thus
much
of
Poeticall
Histories
:
I
will
come
to
the
second
Branch
of
my
Diuision
of
Histories
(
to
wit
)
Morall
.
Morall
Histories
be
such
,
as
conduce
to
a
ciuill
and
Moral
Histories
teach
men
to
behaue
themselues
in
all
〈◊〉
:
If
imployed
in
Embassages
,
Commerce
,
or
any
n●…gotiation
whatsoeu●…r
,
it
directs
them
how
to
hazard
f●…irely
,
beare
themselues
discreetly
,
and
support
the
burthen
imposed
on
them
stoutly
.
These
kind
of
stories
are
the
best
Nurses
,
they
weane
vs
from
a
childish
effeminacy
,
and
traine
vs
in
more
virile
and
man-like
actions
:
so
as
Education
is
called
by
the
Phylosopher
,
A
second
Nature
,
habituating
vs
to
the
kinde
of
our
breding
:
Morality
likewise
is
called
,
the
Soueraignesse
of
Education
,
The
squar●…
of
human
Actions
,
the
best
Schoole-mistresse
for
vnbridled
youth
,
that
r●…straines
affections
raging
,
erects
our
passions
too
much
asswaging
,
tempers
our
spirit
,
and
〈◊〉
vs
to
that
perfect
Symmetrie
,
Ut
expede
Herculem
,
you
may
know
H●…rcules
by
his
foote
,
the
inward
habite
by
externall
appearance
,
Hence
was
it
that
Alexander
glorified
so
much
of
his
Stagyrian
Moralist
:
Achilles
of
his
Phenix
:
of
whom
he
had
receiued
so
much
good
,
as
hee
ingeniously
acknowledged
;
by
Phenix
he
could
both
,
Bene
dicere
,
&
bene
agere
.
To
be
briefe
,
there
is
no
exorbitancie
in
Nature
,
which
by
Morall
Narrations
hath
not
beene
reformed
:
Seneca
was
naturally
couetous
:
which
disposition
,
or
malady
rather
,
he
shrowdes
couertly
in
that
sentence
of
his
,
inserted
in
his
Book●…
,
De
Tranquillitate
Animae
.
Nec
aegroto
,
nec
valeo
.
Yet
by
daily
conference
with
Morall
Histories
,
and
Precepts
of
ciuill
institution
,
he
could
moderate
his
desire
of
hauing
,
esteeming
the
treasure
of
his
minde
o●…ely
worth
possessing
.
Qui
cuncta
habet
,
nec
tamen
habetur
,
as
Salust
obserueth
.
The
like
we
reade
of
Stylpho
,
a
Romane
,
whom
(
as
Cicero
speaketh
)
was
of
all
other
most
libidinous
,
yet
by
reading
of
Morall
Pr●…cepts
,
amplified
with
graue
examples
,
became
most
continent
.
The
infirmities
of
this
time
are
great
,
and
need
the
hand
of
an
expert
Physitian
;
No
Medicine
,
nor
Antidote
,
more
soueraigne
to
cure
these
contagious
Vlcers
,
then
Morall
Physicke
,
if
the
disease
be
greene
,
(
I
meane
the
diseases
of
the
minde
:
)
Wee
haue
heere
Lenitiues
to
mittigate
,
if
it
be
old
,
and
growne
to
a
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
a
very
Gangrene
,
griefes
insensible
,
being
most
incurable
?
We
haue
Corrasiues
to
eate
away
all
those
corrupt
Galens
,
Aesculapius
,
or
Hypocrates
:
their
cures
were
but
externall
,
these
internall
:
and
so
much
more
worthy
is
the
cure
of
the
Minde
then
the
Body
,
by
how
much
the
one
is
more
pretious
then
the
other
.
O
Diuine
Art
!
O
secret
mystery
!
The
Greekes
called
this
Discourse
,
The
life
of
Man
:
for
without
it
,
he
would
degenerate
from
Man
,
and
loose
the
best
ornaments
of
humane
nature
:
The
light
of
Reason
,
The
Eye
of
Election
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
great
indeed
,
in
comparison
of
the
small
esteeme
this
world
makes
of
it
:
labouring
of
a
great
burthen
of
impiety
,
an
huge
freight
of
sinne
,
an
insupportable
carriage
,
&
feeling
her
own
strength
vnfit
for
such
a
weight
,
yet
refuseth
to
entertaine
a
companion
that
would
willingly
and
readily
lighten
her
burden
.
Distempered
Age
,
that
labours
of
minds
phrensie
,
captiuated
to
vnworthy
bondage
:
how
long
will
thy
intellectuall
eye
be
shut
?
How
long
hood-winckt
?
If
thou
fall
with
open
eyes
,
thy
misery
is
greater
,
seeing
thy
fall
yet
would
not
preuent
it
,
falling
with
blinded
eyes
:
No
maruell
,
that
sees
thine
owne
infirmity
,
and
scornes
the
direction
of
others
eyes
to
conduct
thee
.
Alasse
,
here
be
many
intricate
Mazes
,
vnfrequented
Laborinths
,
places
of
imminent
perrill
,
and
thou
art
blind
:
no
suspect
of
any
Strata
geme
or
Ambush
doth
possesse
thee
,
thou
promisest
thy selfe
most
security
,
when
most
beleagred
with
perill
.
It
was
no
meruail●…
if
miserable
Oedipus
,
runne
into
Brakes
and
Bri●…rs
,
when
his
erring
feete
were
guided
by
two
bli●…d
eyes
?
Here
be
many
seducements
:
And
as
in
the
Pagan
time
,
there
were
more
Temples
erected
in
honour
to
Bacchus
and
Uenus
,
then
to
Iuppiter
and
Apollo
:
So
for
one
example
of
Piety
and
Religion
,
wee
haue
ten
of
vice
and
licentiousnesse
:
Heere
the
baite
o●…
Ambition
,
hung
out
and
swallowed
,
and
like
enough
by
a
Gudgion
;
there
the
painted
Flagge
of
Vaine-glory
,
leading
a
troupe
of
vices
in
a
Ring-dance
:
Heere
a
Silken
Foole
welesteemed
Homo
est
Animal
Bipes
,
implune
:
No
matter
for
reason
:
They
would
bee
loath
to
be
indued
with
more
then
is
needefull
for
a
phantasticke
head
—
An
ordinary
portion
of
reason
will
serue
an
Ordina●…y
.
O
that
these
poiselesse
Braines
would
but
imploy
their
time
in
Morall
Discourses
,
what
excellent
matter
might
they
find
out
worthy
the
iudicious
approbation
of
refined
Wits
.
It
is
obserued
that
in
Athens
,
and
in
Rome
also
,
yong
Gentlemen
were
to
bee
imploied
in
preferring
some
Law
in
behalfe
of
the
people
:
or
Patronizing
such
as
were
poore
,
and
destitute
of
succour
in
themselues
:
Patronizing
such
,
and
protecting
them
in
publicke
defence
of
their
cause
,
or
the
like
.
This
was
the
first
step
of
preferment
vnto
Cicero
,
defending
Roscius
against
Scilla
:
and
that
with
such
vehemency
,
as
generally
hee
was
approued
for
his
seriousnesse
in
a
poore
Actors
cause
.
And
sure
generous
mindes
cannot
be
better
expressed
then
in
actions
of
this
nature
,
whereby
they
may
not
onely
secure
themselues
and
their
entirest
affections
from
the
friuolent
assaults
of
irregular
perturbations
;
but
also
purchase
vnto
him
,
the
generall
loue
and
fauour
of
such
as
obserue
their
disposition
,
and
admire
it
.
By
Morall
reading
wee
vse
to
bee
most
excited
to
these
compassionate
effects
:
exampled
in
them
whom
Lucil
:
Many
(
saith
he
)
my
frierd
Lucilius
commit
faults
in
Rome
,
but
will
in
n●…
case
heare
that
they
committed
them
:
the
Aedile
laies
blame
vpon
the
Questor
,
the
Questor
on
the
Praetor
,
the
Praetor
on
the
Consul
,
the
Consul
on
the
Censor
,
the
Censor
on
the
〈◊〉
.
Apollogizing
and
defending
errours
,
the
greatest
cherisher
of
them
:
For
how
is
it
possible
we
should
am●…nd
them
,
that
will
not
confesse
we
did
commit
them
?
But
acknowledgement
is
a
precedent
direct●…sse
to
reformation
,
according
to
the
Traged
:
word●…
:
Quem
paenitet
fecisse
pene
est
innocens
.
In
Morall
Many
old
men
we
haue
(
that
can
discourse
of
the
change
of
Princes
,
)
whose
Gray-haires
be
as
so
many
records
of
what
they
haue
seene
:
But
alasse
,
confer
with
them
of
true
Morall
experience
,
and
you
shall
finde
them
as
yong
in
houres
,
as
old
in
yeares
:
Their
knowledge
in
the
Infancy
,
though
their
one
foote
in
the
graue
,
ready
to
bid
adiew
to
the
world
,
when
they
are
halfe
scarcely
erudiated
in
the
preuentiue
sleights
of
this
world
:
A
simple
age
,
when
we
haue
no
other
testimony
that
we
haue
liued
long
,
saue
onely
our
Gray-haires
,
and
yet
the
generall
ignorance
pleades
pardon
:
None
so
generous
as
those
which
know
the
least
,
none
of
a
ranked
spirit
,
that
wil
cast
the
●…ie
of
a
iudicious
applause
,
vpon
the
meriting
labors
of
any
man
.
It
is
recorded
,
that
Licinius
,
Coleague
in
the
Empire
The
like
of
Maximiman
,
who
wa●…
d●…sirous
to
attaine
some
extraordinary
height
in
●…loquence
;
which
when
he
could
not
(
by
reason
of
his
naturall
duln●…sse
)
attaine
I
recall
to
minde
the
a●…cient
presage
vpon
all
Arts
,
and
the
pr●…iction
concurres
well
with
this
time
:
〈◊〉
for
a
Philos●…pher
,
and
smoake
for
a
Coun●…
.
It
was
spoken
in
the
declining
age
of
the
Rom●…n
Empire
,
when
Vice
rode
in
his
foot-cloath
,
and
Vertue
(
like
a
poore
Iris●…
Lacky
)
ran
at
his
stirrop
.
But
Morall
learning
illumines
the
intellectuall
power
with
a
better
and
cleerer
fore-sight
;
shewing
the
difference
betweene
goodnesse
and
appearance
:
for
true
Morals
loue
not
to
garnish
their
portraitures
with
shadowes
.
The
best
meanes
to
distinguish
betwixt
the
ignorant
Agathocles
,
that
tyrant
of
Syracusa
,
in
all
his
tyranny
,
But
I
may
seeme
to
run
too
farre
in
this
subiect
,
confounding
Morall
History
with
Philosophy
:
which
though
I
might
defend
for
Morall
Phylosophy
,
is
nothing
else
then
a
globe
of
Morall
precepts
drawne
from
Historicall
grounds
;
yet
to
make
mine
own
passage
mo●…
smooth
,
I
will
descend
to
the
next
branch
of
History
,
intituled
Physicall
.
Histories
Physicall
,
be
especially
conuersant
in
the
search
of
the
natures
of
things
:
approuing
that
opinion
of
the
Phylosopher
:
Ea
Physica
sunt
,
quae
Natur
as
rerum
explorare
solent
:
whether
things
animate
or
inanimate
;
in
liuing
Creatures
,
as
in
the
search
of
Beasts
,
Birds
,
Serpents
,
and
the
like
;
and
of
vegetiue
Bodies
,
as
Plants
:
In
●…reatures
inanimate
,
as
in
the
sc●…utiny
of
Me●…als
,
the
distinct
natures
of
stones
,
&c.
Wi●…h
which
discourses
the
greatest
Emperours
haue
beene
delighted
.
Those
admirall
workes
Plinie
,
Aristotle
,
and
Aelian
,
with
many
others
,
are
sufficient
to
erudiate
the
most
incapable
in
these
relations
:
where
they
doe
,
Abdita
rerum
rimari
.
Here
describing
the
very
intimate
natures
of
Beasts
,
the
rar●…
and
incredible
vertues
of
Plants
,
and
Hearbs
,
the
virulent
natures
of
Serpents
,
and
the
attractiue
powers
To
set
downe
the
seuerall
properties
of
all
,
or
of
most
sorts
of
Beasts
,
would
craue
an
ample
Volumne
of
it selfe
:
I
will
onely
(
as
in
my
former
discourse
)
expresse
the
vse
of
Naturall
Histories
,
and
to
what
persons
most
accommodate
.
We
reade
of
diuers
most
famous
Princes
and
Monarchs
to
haue
applied
their
mindes
to
the
search
of
these
studies
:
Alexander
(
otherwise
most
potent
in
〈◊〉
Aspi●…kes
,
Cerasts
,
and
many
other
kindes
of
Serpents
,
continualy
infesting
his
Army
;
professing
(
as
he
himselfe
writeth
)
he
found
more
difficulty
in
discomfiting
beasts
,
then
subduing
men
:
for
the
one
sort
assaulted
him
when
his
Troopes
were
well
disposed
,
cheerefull
,
and
full
of
alacrity
:
but
the
other
inuaded
him
by
night
.
Ita
vt
ne
in
castris
quidem
nimium
ocij
detur
:
Alwayes
was
this
puissant
Prince
much
giuen
to
see
the
naturall
qualities
of
beasts
,
so
as
no
present
could
bee
more
gratefull
,
or
acceptable
to
him
,
then
some
strangely
natured
sauage
,
making
excellent
vse
of
this
Theory
,
appropriated
to
the
natures
of
men
:
which
vpon
all
occasions
(
with
singular
delight
)
hee
vsed
to
apply
vnto
his
Nobles
disposition
,
which
attended
him
.
Those
noble
and
couragious
Dogges
,
which
were
sent
The
like
desire
of
exploring
the
naturall
properties
of
beastes
,
possessed
S●…torius
:
one
no
lesse
prouident
,
to
shelter
himselfe
in
aduersity
,
then
in
all
his
actions
continent
,
amidst
his
prosperity
;
who
after
his
regiment
in
Spaine
,
erected
many
places
for
taming
of
wild
beasts
,
delighting
exceedingly
to
see
the
aptnesse
of
some
ioyned
with
a
certaine
naturall
flexibility
,
and
the
backwardnesse
of
others
,
retaining
euer
a
certaine
semblance
of
their
first
Nature
,
so
Demetrius
a
worthy
Souldiour
,
and
one
well
meriting
of
his
Country
,
was
much
inclined
to
this
Study
:
So
as
at
home
,
if
at
any
time
sequestred
from
his
more
serious
Affaires
,
he
conceiued
exceeding
pleasure
and
delight
in
the
portraying
of
those
beasts
he
had
seene
:
Excellent
he
was
in
the
frame
of
any
simillitude
,
but
more
diuine
in
his
owne
;
being
of
that
exact
forme
,
elegant
constitution
,
and
sweetely
mixt
ComplexionUt
â
pictoribus
,
sculptoribusque
ei
similis
non
potuerit
effugi
:
A
rare
Modell
of
Nature
,
when
(
by
Nature
)
he
was
imparrale●…d
.
Alcibyades
,
no
lesse
deseruing
,
yet
worse
censured
,
was
well
experimented
in
the
Natures
of
Beasts
,
but
more
in
Plants
:
hauing
an
hearbe
,
euen
to
this
day
And
for
Mettals
,
Minerals
,
or
the
like
.
None
more
Plutarch
&
Suet.
accommodated
to
such
Studies
then
that
Soueraigne
of
Romane
hearts
Augustus
,
hearing
his
Lapidary
Dioscorides
with
especiall
delight
:
So
as
in
time
hee
was
not
onely
able
to
distinguish
of
any
Stone
,
but
to
describe
their
Natures
:
Vsing
likewise
the
Art
of
Alchemy
,
more
expert
in
their
recalcinations
(
saith
the
Romane
Historian
)
then
the
best
Professours
of
that
time
,
and
consequently
I
may
conclude
then
the
gro●…se
Quacke-saluers
of
our
time
.
You
see
it
is
no
disparagement
for
the
Generous
,
It
is
an
happy
thing
to
keepe
a
meane
in
wisedome
,
not
to
striue
(
i●…
an
ouer-flow
of
vnderstanding
)
to
out-strip
Nature
,
in
the
investigation
or
search
of
Naturall
things
:
A
little
will
serue
vs
in
indifferent
things
,
and
more
it
relisheth
of
discretion
,
to
know
when
we
haue
enough
;
then
,
with
an
vnbounded
will
of
affecting
knowledge
,
superstitiously
to
know
more
then
Nature
hath
prescribed
.
This
excesse
in
desire
of
knowing
,
hath
beene
a
contagion
,
that
hath
infected
and
poisoned
the
mature●…t
Studies
:
especially
in
things
so
impertinent
,
as
when
the
pitch
of
that
they
expected
was
attained
;
Their
knowledge
conduced
no
more
to
the
profite
of
the
Repub:
then
if
with
Endymion
they
had
sl●…pt
their
time
,
and
passed
their
life
ouer
i●…
a
fruitlesse
silence
.
It
pleaseth
the
Orator
to
tearme
such
a
Study
—
Invitilis
mentis
agitatio
:
Sayling
in
the
troubled
streame
,
where
a
more
cleere
and
calme
passage
doth
shew
her selfe
.
Thus
I
approue
in
these
Naturall
Discourses
,
a
superficiall
Discursiue
Knowledge
,
to
exclude
Ignorance
,
but
no
such
affectiue
height
,
least
in
so
exquisite
a
search
of
Nature
,
we
should
show
our selues
Naturals
.
Wee
say
the
Generous
should
be
but
Mediocrit●…r
Doctus
:
I
need
not
insist
vpon
the
perswasion
,
wee
haue
too
many
of
Iuvenals
painted
blockes
in
the
way
of
Learning
,
that
neuer
meane
to
come
neerer
.
So
as
I
may
The
best
and
ripest
wits
are
most
subiect
to
corrupting
,
concording
well
with
the
natiue
deprauation
of
these
times
,
where
Medeas
Rule
is
made
an
Axiome
,
euery
one
with
Lin●…ius
seeing
the
best
,
but
with
blinde
Baiard
,
depriued
of
the
eye
of
their
election
.
Too
much
of
them
:
our
Treatise
requires
a
better
subiect
,
then
such
staines
to
their
Countries
fame
,
and
pristine
honour
,
making
her
complaine
,
as
Rome
did
in
time
of
old
:
Eone
vos
produxi
,
&c.
Is
this
the
fruit
of
Thus
did
Rome
hollow
out
her
complaint
against
her
ill-nurtured
issue
,
and
no
lesse
cause
Albion
against
her
vndisciplined
race
,
that
seeme
as
if
they
were
,
Fruges
consumere
Nati
.
But
to
proceede
in
our
discourse
:
Histories
of
this
Nature
,
are
very
needful
for
professors
of
Phisicke
:
for
how
shold
they
conceiue
the
true
Art
of
composition
,
if
the
simples
wherof
the
compounds
are
made
,
&
their
vertues
be
not
perfectly
knowne
vnto
them
?
Braseualus
,
de
examine
herbarum
,
exemplifies
this
discourse
more
fully
,
I
will
referre
th●…m
to
that
place
,
not
entertaining
that
subiect
which
is
but
superficially
traduced
to
me
;
and
I
haue
alwayes
made
that
obs●…ruance
(
in
way
of
axiome
)
to
all
my
readings
,
which
Siluius
●…n
his
booke
,
De
Simplici●…
.
Medicament
.
inioyne●…h
himselfe
:
What
Art
soeuer
a
man
knoweth
,
let
●…im
only
exercise
and
vse
it
:
For
otherwise
he
shall
but
descry
his
owne
Ignorance
,
as
I
haue
noted
in
some
:
Quos
cum
nes●…e
piguit
,
mentiri
n●…n
pig●…bat
.
An
odious
scandall
to
a
generous-minded
Scholler
,
to
write
that
which
he
is
ignorant
of
himselfe
;
Lesse
ashamed
to
lye
,
then
to
be
defectiue
in
knowledge
.
But
especially
some
we
haue
of
this
sort
,
that
lie
vpon
their
knowledge
:
Some
(
as
in
Traians
fabling
Age
)
write
Arts
of
Horsem●…nship
,
that
neuer
rode
otherwise
then
Agesilaus
with
his
children
,
on
Cocke-horse
.
Others
can
exactly
prescribe
times
for
planting
,
sowing
,
reaping
,
and
the
like
;
playing
the
good
Husband-man
(
I
pray
you
marke
him
)
that
neuer
read
Virgils
Bucolickes
:
These
are
vsurping
wits
,
presuming
on
the
affable
censures
of
these
depraued
times
.
Ignorance
can
Apologize
herselfe
:
for
what
writer
now
a
dayes
weares
not
that
liuery
?
To
our
History
:
These
naturall
discourses
of
the
qualities
of
Beasts
,
Birds
,
Serpents
,
and
other
Crea●…ures
,
be
likewise
especially
ne●…dfull
for
Diuines
:
●…hey
may
amply
dilate
vpon
the
admirable
wo●…kes
of
their
Creator
,
by
the
s●…ruey
of
his
Creatures
.
For
euen
all
Nay
,
they
are
very
motiue
perswasions
to
the
acknowledging
of
our
owne
weakenesse
and
infirmity
:
spurres
to
thankfulnesse
,
as
that
excellent
Embleme
where
a
Larke
was
pearched
,
with
these
verses
:
Cantat
Al●…uda
Deo
laudes
gratissima
summo
,
Englished
thus
.
The
early
Larke
her
gratefull
minde
displaies
,
Discanting
morne
by
morne
her
Makers
praise
:
Whence
she
doth
taxe
such
as
vnthankefull
be
,
That
haue
more
cause
,
yet
giue
lesse
thankes
then
she
.
We
haue
many
such
witty
Embl●…mes
,
well
befitting
the
most
Christian
vnderstanding
to
contemplat●…
;
drawing
the
inscrutable
wisedome
of
God
from
the
excellency
of
his
Creatures
:
the
diuerse
formes
whereof
generally
varying
,
their
different
natures
in
few
things
concurring
,
and
their
continuance
so
mainly
discording
,
may
minister
to
the
greatest
Atheist
,
no
lesse
c●…e
of
admiration
,
then
c●…use
of
execration
of
his
irreligious
and
damnable
opinion
.
Here
the
Hyene
(
as
Plinie
relates
)
can
imitate
the
There
the
Fiber
,
or
Beuer
(
by
what
instinct
humane
wisedome
could
neuer
reach
to
)
to
satisfie
his
couetous
pursuer
,
bites
off
his
owne
stones
,
being
the
price
(
he
knowes
)
for
which
he
is
pursued
.
Here
see
the
dissembling
Sphinx
,
able
to
personate
any
p●…ssion
,
either
of
ioy
or
sorow
.
There
the
wonderfull
Nature
of
the
Rhynocer●…s
:
the
Lyon
so
naturally
vali●…nt
,
as
not
to
be
daunted
;
yet
behold
the
silly
Cocke
can
make
him
tremble
.
Then
represent
to
your
generous
reading
,
the
naturall
enmity
betwixt
the
Horse
and
the
Beare
,
the
Wolfe
and
the
Lyon
,
the
●…ox
and
the
Badger
;
such
a
natiue
disagreeing
remaines
among
these
beasts
,
as
their
hatred
is
implacable
;
euer
pursuing
their
enemy
with
an
inueterate
hate
:
for
an
enmity
ingrafted
by
nature
,
cannot
be
suppressed
by
lesse
then
nature
.
Many
conflicts
were
instituted
in
Rome
(
at
solemnization
of
any
festiuall
,
or
in
remembrance
of
some
memorabl●…
exploite
atchieued
)
betwixt
Beasts
:
whence
the
Romanes
gathered
great
knowledge
,
seeing
the
remisnesse
of
some
natures
,
and
the
eagernesse
of
others
.
Some
of
an
vnquailed
spirit
,
yet
in
strength
vnable
to
maintaine
their
spirit
:
others
(
like
our
vnweldy
Epicures
)
sinowy
and
fleshy
enough
,
haue
stre●…gth
at
will
,
but
defect
of
cour●…ge
so
curbes
them
,
as
the
ouer-flow
of
ability
waines
in
the
rising
;
not
daring
to
encounter
with
one
of
lesse
strength
,
but
more
vivacity
.
When
Fabius
Maximus
went
in
Embassage
to
Pyrrhus
,
The
sound
of
a
Roman
Ram
will
be
more
terrible
then
the
voice
of
an
Epyrian
El●…phant
.
But
these
grewe
afterward
to
publicke
spectacles
:
so
as
in
any
Triumph
of
some
victorious
,
or
puissant
Captaine
,
there
were
many
Elephants
,
Ounces
,
Panther●…
,
Tygers
,
and
other
sauadge
beasts
slaine
,
offering
them
(
in
triumphant
manner
)
to
the
Temple
of
the
Goddesse
Victoria
.
Varr●…
,
a
Romane
Peere
,
one
to
whom
the
Romane
tongue
was
much
indebted
,
did
illustrate
the
Annals
of
Rome
with
their
ceremoniall
triumphs
;
shewing
also
These
naturall
desc●…iptions
of
beasts
are
very
delightfull
to
the
generous
Reader
;
they
are
very
fit
for
illustrating
any
Subiect
;
making
comparison
betwixt
the
Natures
of
Beasts
,
Birds
,
or
Plants
,
and
other
materiall
subiects
of
our
discourse
;
comparing
lust
,
incest
,
and
such
lasci●…ious
exorbitances
to
the
Lapwing
,
represented
by
Tereus
,
the
rauisher
of
Phylomele
:
Inferring
by
the
Spider
,
arrogancy
,
or
p●…ide
,
that
durst
compare
with
Pallas
for
preëminency
.
By
the
C●…rmorant
,
grating
oppression
,
sencelesse
and
remorc●…sse
of
others
miseries
.
Progue
(
i●…
a
Swallowes
habite
)
implying
the
swiftnesse
of
reuenge
to
murder
.
In
the
Beasts
of
the
Forrest
this
may
likewise
be
obserued
:
the
Lyon
(
a
fierce
beast
)
of
an
heroicke
nature
,
contemning
the
deiected
ones
,
nor
caring
to
feed
on
Carrion
:
He
is
of
a
Maiesticke
disposition
,
and
hates
to
be
vngratefull
for
the
least
benefites
receiued
:
If
the
Mouse
rid
him
of
base
seruitude
,
he
will
finde
time
to
requite
her
loue
one
way
or
other
.
This
may
represent
the
person
of
a
King
(
for
indeed
he
is
the
King
of
beasts
)
who
scornes
to
triumph
ouer
the
subiected
,
but
to
tyrannise
ouer
the
proud
.
The
El●…phant
resembles
a
man
prest
downe
with
honour
;
The
Wol●…
,
(
a
State-gormandizer
)
preyes
vpon
the
innocent
,
suckes
the
bloud
of
the
Orphane
,
i●…paires
others
meanes
to
enlarge
his
owne
:
cruelty
is
the
habilliment
he
best
liketh
,
making
the
state
a
wilde
Forrest
for
euery
Sauage
to
liue
in
,
but
a
shambles
for
the
poore
silly
Lambkin
to
suffer
in
.
The
Goate
,
your
wanton
and
sensuall
Amorist
,
that
skippes
here
a●…d
there
,
in
euery
brake
of
vani●…y
,
till
so
entwined
,
as
the
sale
of
his
repu●…ation
makes
him
beg
for
a
good
Name
:
but
the
Eyes
of
Generall
Obseruance
are
not
so
dazeled
,
they
haue
seene
his
Heart
,
and
registred
his
follies
.
The
Beare
,
one
that
portends
by
his
Birth
,
what
he
The
Lambe
cannot
drinke
of
a
troubled
Spring
,
no
more
can
Innocence
.
The
Hare
euer
sleepes
with
open
eyes
:
so
doth
good
Prouidence
.
The
Cony
is
fruitfull
and
fearefull
:
So
is
Nuptiall
Chastity
.
The
Emmet
is
in
Summer
euer
fore-seeing
a
Winter
:
Such
is
good
Husbandry
.
Shall
we
proceede
in
Birds
likewise
,
and
examine
their
Natures
?
The
Turtle
for
Constancy
:
The
Cran●…
for
Vigilancy
:
The
Rohin
expresseth
his
loue
to
Man
:
the
Nightingall
to
women
:
None
more
industrious
then
the
Larke
,
more
laborious
then
the
Wr●…
:
more
odious
to
her selfe
,
and
others
,
then
the
Cuckow
:
More
Heroicke
then
the
Eagle
,
more
Base
then
the
Buzz●…rd
?
Then
obserue
what
〈◊〉
ins●…incts
gi●…en
to
certaine
Birds
,
to
prognosticate
the
euents
of
things
.
The
Crow
a
●…ore-teller
of
what
weather
will
come
to
passe
.
The
Halcion
or
Seamew
remarkeable
in
prediction
Swallow
,
Craue
,
and
many
others
,
exact
obseruers
of
Seasons
.
Other
Birds
there
be
that
haue
more
Humane
feeling
:
Pliny
reports
that
there
be
certaine
Birds
which
howle
excedingly
at
the
Ecclipse
of
the
Sunne
;
as
if
naturally
moued
by
som
(
by
some
miraculous
influence
or
instinct
from
heauen
)
to
suffer
with
a
Diuine
Body
.
so
extremely
suffering
:
Let
vs
descend
to
Wormes
,
Serpents
,
and
Creeping
things
,
we
shall
see
in
them
distinct
Qualities
also
.
The
Serpent
Pareas
,
creepeth
on
his
Taile
,
and
with
Strange
things
be
reported
of
the
Serpent
S●…raphis
,
adored
by
the
Aegyptians
as
a
God
:
Some
feeding
vpon
The
Far●…ell
of
Fashions
.
In
Aulular
.
raw
flesh
,
intimating
their
rauenous
Natures
:
Others
on
fish
(
as
diuers
Serpents
)
liuing
vpon
the
Banke
of
the
Riuer
Nilus
:
Others
on
Plants
,
and
the
fruit
of
Trees
,
which
Plautus
expresseth
by
the
Vine-fretter
.
Matura
Uitis
folia
Inuoluolus
carpit
.
But
other
creep●…ng
Creatures
there
be
very
beneficiall
to
Humane
Society
.
The
Silke-worme
,
whose
labours
make
our
Silken-Gallants
.
To
that
excesse
are
we
come
,
as
our
brauery
must
be
maintained
,
by
the
diligence
of
the
simplest
creatures
,
cloathing
our
The
Add●…r
in
her selfe
obnoxius
and
hurtfull
,
yet
she
casts
her
skin
(
to
expresse
●…er
good
meaning
to
man
)
an
excellent
cure
to
many
diseases
.
The
poore
Worme
,
of
her selfe
,
neither
greatly
harmefull
nor
profitable
,
onely
(
by
a
Synonomy
b●…twixt
M●…n
and
Her
)
she
is
the
best
Mirrour
of
Humany
Glory
,
an
Embleme
of
our
Mortallity
:
and
an
importunate
Guest
that
will
come
to
banquet
on
our
bodies
,
though
not
inuited
:
Shee
is
called
Uermis
(
quasi
inermis
)
shee
can
but
turne
againe
,
that
's
all
the
defensiue
,
or
offensiue
weapon
she
hath
ready
.
These
silly
contemptible
Creatures
be
especiall
O
Lord
,
thou
mightst
haue
made
mee
like
this
Worme
,
contemptible
and
base
,
to
liue
in
the
holes
and
cauernes
of
the
earth
;
But
such
was
thy
mercy
,
as
thou
wouldest
not
,
bestowing
on
me
thine
owne
Image
,
that
thy
similitude
might
bee
glorified
in
mee
:
A
comfortable
Meditation
of
a
zealous
Father
,
and
wo●…thy
our
obseruation
.
We
will
now
discourse
of
the
skaly
fishes
in
their
Iulis
vide
Plinium
quam
●…nacem
piscem
appellat
,
&c.
meane
:
the
Sturgeon
(
swimming
against
the
Streame
)
sharpens
her
Note
,
more
neere
a
Treble
:
the
●…ulis
a
smoth
Counter-tenor
,
and
the
rowling
Porpoise
the
Base
.
Here
is
great
enmity
likewise
for
predominancy
:
The
Acipenser
,
or
which
Pliny
cals
,
Sacer
piscis
,
feeds
on
nothing
but
mans
flesh
,
implying
a
caueat
to
man
:
that
hauing
so
many
enemies
euen
in
Earth
,
and
not
free
from
them
in
the
Depths
,
should
not
spend
his
time
in
security
,
but
preuent
the
enmity
of
all
creatures
by
a
dilligent
and
vigilant
care
to
himselfe
.
Long
could
I
protract
this
discourse
,
but
two
materiall
parts
of
this
Relation
with
hold
me
from
insisting
longer
:
The
first
whereof
first
offering
themselues
,
be
Plants
and
Vegetatiue
Bodies
.
The
wis●…st
of
all
Kings
was
much
conuersant
in
Probus
the
Romane
Emperour
,
who
succeeded
Florianus
in
the
Empire
,
was
much
addicted
to
Planting
,
and
distinguishing
the
natures
of
Flowers
,
the
vertues
of
Plants
,
with
proper
obseruances
accommodated
for
the
knowledge
of
all
seasons
,
apt
for
grafting
,
Stilling
and
the
like
:
Planting
the
Mountaine
Almus
scited
neere
Syrmius
,
and
the
Mount
Aureus
in
Maesia
the
Higher
,
with
Vines
.
The
like
we
reade
of
Galerius
Maximinus
,
Surnamed
Armentarius
,
and
many
others
of
the
Romanes
,
whose
diligence
was
much
employed
in
such
pleasant
affaires
.
Resemblances
in
these
vegeta●…iue
Bodies
,
requires
obseruance
;
To
see
the
Vime
like
a
fruitfull
mother
The
Vine
seemes
sometime
to
weepe
(
for
teares
indeed
she
sheds
)
as
if
in
Throwes
and
paine
of
her
labour
:
These
teares
distilling
from
the
Vine
cure
the
Many
of
these
teare-shedding
Trees
there
be
,
as
Rosined
Fyrrh
:
These
by
allusion
may
seeme
to
commiserate
our
vnhappy
states
subiected
to
miriads
of
anxieties
,
by
the
taste
of
one
Tree
,
whose
dismall
fruite
made
vs
wretched
.
Some
Trees
we
haue
for
harbour
and
Shadow
one●…y
,
resembling
our
dissembling
Professours
;
whose
externall
appearance
makes
great
show
of
a
fruitefull
inside
,
when
nothing
,
saue
a
meere
naked
pretence
of
Piety
,
remaines
in
them
.
Others
for
fruit
,
without
any
store
of
blossomes
,
and
such
be
they
as
desire
rather
to
be
good
,
then
so
accompted
.
Some
Trees
pine
away
,
as
if
surprised
with
an
Some
loose
not
their
colour
in
Winter
,
like
the
patient
man
,
who
beleagred
with
the
worst
of
fortunes
oppositions
,
neuer
changeth
countenance
for
the
matter
:
but
like
that
Uenetian
Motto
writ
in
Triumph
:
Nec
stuctu
nec
statu
mouetur
.
Others
not
subiect
to
any
hurt
by
Thunder
,
as
the
Bayes
:
resemble
the
sincere
Conscience
,
not
discomfited
with
any
assault
,
or
dismaied
with
any
terrour
.
Sweete
Odours
,
Flowers
,
and
all
other
Beauties
strowed
vpon
this
Arteficiall
Carpet
garnish
the
earth
,
as
the
internall
vertues
inhabiting
the
minde
do
the
For
Stones
,
and
all
kinds
of
Minerals
,
it
is
a
knowledge
worthy
Gentlemen
:
wherein
I
may
likewise
comprehend
the
ancient
knowledge
of
Coines
,
in
what
Emperours
time
,
and
their
seuerall
inscriptions
.
We
reade
how
Iulius
Caesar
came
into
Bri●…tany
in
hope
to
finde
Pearles
;
though
Caligula's
trafficke
seemed
lesse
worthy
,
commanding
his
Souldiers
to
gather
Cockle-shels
.
It
is
a
very
generous
quality
,
(
and
sometimes
hee
shall
be
put
to
his
iudgement
)
to
distinguish
rightly
and
●…xactly
of
Saphires
,
Emraudes
,
Diamonds
,
&c.
This
requires
exact
iudgement
,
Iustres
may
be
giuen
to
Glasse
,
as
well
as
Diamond
:
Adulterate
Gemmes
,
passe
current
with
our
Nouice
:
The
Siluer-Smiths
of
●…phesus
haue
instructed
●…his
age
sufficiently
,
and
fraud
must
be
incorporate
to
euery
Profession
.
If
these
Gemmes
,
I
talke
of
,
were
ornaments
of
the
minde
,
I
should
desire
longer
to
insist
vpon
them
:
but
being
(
as
these
times
vse
them
)
rather
foments
to
ensnare
and
entrappe
,
then
attractiue
motiues
,
according
to
their
Natiue
Properties
,
being
ordained
as
resemblances
of
vertues
:
I
will
not
dilate
of
their
valewes
,
onely
of
their
power
,
more
pertinent
to
my
Discourse
,
and
better
according
with
my
knowledge
,
who
Aeschylus-like
,
haue
long
time
drawne
water
out
of
anothers
Cesterne
,
but
neuer
filled
mine
owne
Bucket
.
Many
excellent
vertues
of
Stones
,
doth
Pliny
in
Mul●…a
scribit
,
quae
mehercule
vera
non
existimanda
s●…nt
:
Yet
to
stand
in
suspence
with
vs
(
for
the
reuerence
of
such
a
learned
Authour
)
because
their
effects
haue
not
bene
as
yet
tried
of
vs
.
Many
things
(
I
confesse
)
seeme
by
all
probability
like
the
Amalga
,
to
haue
more
Moone
then
Sunne
in
them
:
But
the
experiments
which
we
haue
in
some
,
makes
vs
more
credulous
in
others
.
The
Diamond
(
whose
Character
is
not
to
be
razed
)
resembles
the
pure
Impressions
of
vertue
we
haue
receiued
,
and
which
is
traduced
to
vs
by
the
intellectuall
eye
of
the
soule
,
which
in
no
case
should
be
razed
or
abolished
in
vs
,
but
to
be
augmented
with
a
greater
encrease
of
vertues
:
It
resembles
also
the
truely
Charitable
man
,
that
to
do
good
to
others
,
impaires
his
owne
fortunes
:
For
the
best
Motto
that
euer
was
made
of
the
Diamond
was
this
:
Dum
formo
,
minuo
.
The
stone
Mithrax
(
saith
Pliny
)
is
of
a
perfect
colour
,
till
opposed
to
the
Sunne
,
and
then
it
looseth
Quantum
mutatur
ab
Illa
:
True
Sodoms
Apples
,
no
sooner
touched
,
then
to
dust
and
corruption
turned
.
Topaz
,
her
opposite
(
in
Natiue
vertue
)
shineth
most
in
the
thickest
darkenesse
:
The
very
Idea
of
Vertue
her selfe
:
The
Clouds
cannot
interpose
themselues
betwixt
her
,
and
her
Natiue
lustre
:
The
Glo-worme
glisters
To
recount
the
vertues
of
all
,
were
a
superfluous
taske
,
for
so
should
I
make
a
Collection
meerely
of
what
hath
beene
wri●…ten
before
,
I
onely
set
downe
with
my selfe
,
to
extract
the
speciallest
,
and
to
make
resemblances
of
them
with
the
Natiue
proportions
of
such
things
as
are
most
vsuall
obiects
to
our
outward
sences
.
I
will
briefly
touch
the
admirable
deuices
of
Minerals
,
and
so
proceede
to
my
intended
〈◊〉
.
Mines
the
lower
laid
,
the
better
:
in
them
we
disbowell
C●…sar
in
his
Commentaries
,
seemes
greatly
to
haue
delighted
herein
,
ha●…ing
so
quickely
found
out
with
what
sorts
of
Mettals
,
these
Britaine-coasts
most
abounded
:
Some
we
haue
of
these
Mineralists
that
by
the
supe●…fices
of
the
earth
,
can
iudge
,
what
kinde
of
Mettall
best
agrees
with
that
Soile
;
and
without
pier●…ing
the
ground
(
can
prettily
well
)
presage
the
euent
of
their
labour
:
Their
Studies
deserue
cherishing
,
being
grounded
on
honest
foundations
,
and
such
as
ha●…e
much
be●…efited
their
Countrey
by
their
industry
.
The
North-part
in
their
Copp●…r-workes
most
labourious
,
merite
their
share
of
commendations
;
Yet
in
these
labours
(
in
themselues
praise-worthy
)
I
altogether
disalow
such
(
of
which
our
reading
ministers
too
many
examples
)
that
haue
digged
the
Sepulchres
of
the
dead
,
to
finde
some
hidden
treasure
buried
with
them
.
A
sharpe
law
was
enacted
(
for
this
end
)
amongst
the
Aegyptians
,
(
which
nation
vsed
to
interre
their
chiefest
Iewels
with
the
dead
party
)
that
whosoeuer
should
violate
the
sacred
rites
of
the
dead
,
by
digging
vp
their
Treasures
inchested
with
them
,
should
be
buried
quicke
.
A
pretty
story
to
this
purpose
is
recorded
of
Semyramis
,
Whosoeuer
shall
digge
vp
this
stone
,
let
him
but
looke
vnder
it
,
and
he
shall
finde
an
infinite
masse
of
treasure
.
Cyrus
hauing
conquered
that
people
,
chanced
to
come
where
that
curious
monument
was
erected
;
and
seing
this
Inscription
vpon
it
,
presently
commanded
the
stone
to
be
taken
vp
,
which
being
done
accordingly
,
he
found
no
treasure
,
but
this
caution
of
better
value
then
all
treasures
:
None
but
Fooles
and
Mis●…rs
would
digge
vp
the
bones
of
the
dead
.
A
reward
well
fitting
the
miserable
desire
of
an
insatiate
minde
.
I
might
annexe
to
this
Discourse
,
the
excellent
study
of
Antiquities
,
and
speake
in
part
of
them
,
But
our
coast
is
freighted
with
such
elaborate
Antiquaries
,
as
the
digression
might
seeme
lesse
necessary
:
through
all
the
body
of
this
discourse
(
including
Physicall
Relations
)
I
haue
but
shadowed
the
chiefest
,
without
intention
to
entreate
of
●…uery
particular
,
vsing
Ualerius
Maximus
words
:
Quis
omnis
●…ui
gesta
modico
voluminum
numero
comprehenderit
?
I
will
descend
to
Mixt
Hist●…ries
,
which
was
the
last
branch
of
my
diuision
.
Mixt
Histories
are
composed
,
or
compounded
of
I
approue
of
Salusts
opinion
:
Ex
ijs
Negotijs
quae
ingenio
ex●…rcentur
,
in
primis
magno
vsu
est
memoria
rerum
gestarum
.
Yet
of
all
those
Records
,
none
in
themselues
more
eminent
,
because
none
more
elaborate
then
mixt
Histories
:
they
contract
in
one
leafe
(
as
it
were
)
what
a
whole
volumne
could
scarcely
comprehend
.
There
must
be
a
generall
knowledge
in
these
discourses
,
Wits
compared
to
Soiles
:
some
naturally
fruitfull
,
without
forci●…g
:
others
,
without
continuall
labour
and
●…illage
,
will
bring
forth
nothing
but
tares
(
or
the
Husbandmans
teares
)
Some
fit
for
Barley
,
others
for
Wheat
,
Oates
,
or
the
like
:
and
some
most
apt
for
Missellane
.
Exquisite
labour
is
the
producer
of
these
Histories
;
which
(
for
the
most
part
)
is
intolerable
to
your
sharpest
wits
;
being
rather
for
the
present
,
then
any
serious
deliberation
.
Salust
in
his
Iugurthine
Warre
,
includes
a
pretty
commixture
of
Histories
;
as
if
he
had
intended
to
These
Histories
are
most
fruitfull
,
they
draw
both
Some
Historians
in
this
kinde
,
and
not
vnfitly
,
lay
open
the
causes
of
decayes
in
Citties
,
Empires
,
and
Gouernments
:
as
Romes
fall
proceeding
from
her
Popes
pride
,
Babylons
from
her
ryot
,
the
Medes
from
her
security
,
the
Tyrians
from
their
sumptuousnesse
in
apparrel
;
the
Christians
(
in
Easterne
parts
)
more
to
their
shame
,
and
our
griefe
,
from
their
ciuill
dissention
among
themselues
.
Thus
haue
the
flourishingest
Common-weales
fallen
to
desolation
,
and
dissolution
,
their
highest
spires
ruinate
,
their
Temples
,
with
their
places
,
of
prophane
adoration
,
defaced
;
nothing
remaining
to
boast
of
,
Many
Histories
of
these
natures
there
be
,
which
depend
Nero
▪
then
whom
,
none
more
desertlesse
to
his
followers
.
Here
a
working
crafty
wit
,
stirring
vp
trifling
rewards
,
to
containe
him
in
suspence
;
instanced
in
Ti●…erius
:
there
an
affable
minde
,
set
out
in
threed-bare
words
,
one
that
could
neuer
flatter
;
specified
in
Titus
.
These
seuerall
natures
we
may
see
,
and
marke
what
successe
they
had
:
some
,
the
more
thinking
,
the
more
not
knowing
what
to
thinke
:
yet
to
obserue
the
work
of
Heauen
,
seldome
,
or
neuer
haue
these
suspitio●…s
heads
cause
to
rest
;
but
th●…
more
they
suspect
,
the
more
motiues
they
haue
to
suspect
:
for
this
craft
is
alwayes
hatefull
,
and
procureth
enemies
:
sub●…ill
councels
being
odious
vnto
the
world
,
and
so
dis-fauoured
of
God
,
that
they
are
alwaye●…
waited
on
,
and
attended
with
most
vnprosperous
ends
.
We
shall
see
in
prophane
Ferox
sceleris
:
Such
aspiring
spirits
be
(
for
the
most
part
)
vsed
like
Sponges
,
wet
with
their
spoyles
and
extortions
,
The
simple
(
or
Innocently
imagining
statist
)
comes
euer
to
an
expected
end
in
his
hopes
;
as
they
are
not
great
,
so
not
subiect
to
so
great
an
Ecclipse
:
yea
,
the
hopes
of
these
men
attaine
sometimes
ends
aboue
expectance
:
Such
was
H●…luius
Pertinax
his
successe
,
who
(
neuer
aiming
at
the
Title
of
Emperour
)
was
crowned
when
he
was
from
thoughts
of
Titulary
honour
most
sequestred
:
R●…pugnansque
suscipiens
vsing
a
kinde
of
withstanding
ere
he
would
entertaine
so
great
a
weight
.
And
in
al
histories
,
if
we
obserue
the
diuers
occurrents
which
befell
men
in
great
and
eminent
places
,
we
shall
see
euer
the
honestest
purposes
seconded
with
the
happiest
euents
;
and
the
disproportion
of
the
end
euer
sorting
with
the
discordance
of
the
minde
:
for
the
intention
is
discussed
by
him
that
layeth
the
foundation
,
and
(
of
all
Empires
in
dust
at
his
pleasure
)
breathing
euer
vpon
the
sincere
purposes
of
the
good
,
and
confounding
the
deepe
defigues
(
vpon
what
pretence
soeuer
grounded
)
of
the
euill
.
In
Mixt
Histories
(
as
the
scope
whereat
they
ai●…
)
is
mixed
part
with
profite
,
and
part
with
delight
,
to
There
be
three
things
which
be
especially
required
in
Histories
of
this
nature
,
to
make
them
perfect
:
first
Truth
,
in
●…incerely
relating
,
without
hauing
any
thing
(
as
Tacitus
obserueth
)
●…austum
ex
van●…
,
foisted
in
by
our
owne
inuention
,
to
smooth
the
passage
of
our
story
.
Secondly
,
an
explanation
in
discouering
,
not
onely
the
sequels
of
things
,
but
also
the
causes
and
reasons
drawing
to
the
conclusions
.
Thirdly
,
iudgement
in
distinguishing
things
by
approuing
the
best
,
and
disallowing
the
contrary
.
For
the
first
,
stories
should
be
true
,
or
at
least
resemble
Such
were
those
Apologae
Fabulae
(
whereof
we
haue
in
part
spoken
before
)
which
contained
in
them
many
pitthy
and
graue
〈◊〉
,
and
worthy
obseruation
in
the
excellentest
Moral
:
these
are
fitly
called
by
Tully
,
Mirrors
of
Mans
life
,
Patternes
of
Manners
,
and
Images
of
truth
.
Their
neere
resemblance
of
truth
,
made
the
reader
more
attentiue
,
subiecting
his
eare
to
Discourses
probable
,
more
then
to
things
surpassing
the
bounds
and
limits
of
beliefe
,
as
producing
vnheard
of
miracles
(
meere
conceptions
of
the
braine
)
phanaticke
Chymeras
:
A
Gyant
immured
in
a
rocke
,
yet
able
to
pierce
it
through
,
win
a
whole
Monarchy
with
his
owne
single
hands
,
lead
a
multitude
of
Kings
captiues
,
and
returne
home
without
a
wound
.
Here
strange
Inchaunted
Castles
,
Ladies
and
Knights
detained
in
most
base
seruitude
by
an
Airy
Monster
:
there
admirable
victories
purchased
vpon
incredible
,
oddes
:
and
to
be
belieued
,
it
pleaseth
the
Painter
so
to
deliniate
their
vertues
.
But
of
these
erronious
stories
there
be
some
obserue
no
methode
,
planting
an
Arcadie
in
a
Brittanny
:
To
be
short
,
my
opinion
positiuely
is
this
:
That
Historian
which
can
ioyne
profite
with
a
modest
delight
together
in
one
body
or
frame
of
one
vnited
discourse
,
grounding
his
story
vpon
an
essentiall
truth
,
deserues
the
first
and
principall
place
:
and
he
who
(
vpon
a
fained
discourse
)
can
proportion
it
to
a
likenesse
of
truth
,
merits
the
next
.
As
for
him
that
(
like
one
of
Duke
Humphreyes
Knights
)
obserues
neither
meane
nor
measure
,
but
gorge
their
own
insatiate
appetites
with
full
messes
of
vntruths
(
without
probability
)
should
be
dealt
withall
,
as
that
wandring
Italian
Squire
was
vsed
,
for
his
monstrous
lying
:
Tost
in
a
Blanket
,
till
his
erring
spirit
by
suffumigations
,
or
some
such
like
meanes
,
were
canuased
out
of
him
.
Great
blemishes
these
be
to
so
reputed
a
Profession
,
aiming
neither
at
profite
nor
modest
delight
,
but
imitating
your
Mercenary
Actors
,
spurt
out
some
obsoene
ieast
to
make
a
prophane
Rogue
applaud
him
:
and
sure
if
the
strict
doome
,
and
censure
,
of
banishment
,
were
to
be
inflicted
vpon
any
kinde
of
learning
,
rather
should
it
be
pronounced
against
such
as
these
then
any
.
The
Pagans
haue
abhorred
them
and
much
more
odious
should
they
bee
in
a
Christian
Common-wealth
,
where
vertue
should
be
the
scope
of
all
our
actions
.
They
are
like
some
Comoedies
wee
reade
now
a
daies
;
The
first
Act
whereof
is
in
Asia
,
the
next
in
Affrica
,
the
third
in
Europa
,
the
fourth
in
America
:
and
if
Ptolomeus
,
or
Marcus
Paulus
had
found
out
a
fi●…fth
part
of
the
world
,
no
question
but
it
had
beene
represented
on
their
vniuersall
Stage
:
Such
as
these
ought
to
haue
some
distinct
language
,
Utopian
,
or
some
other
grunting
tongue
eng●…ossed
to
themselues
:
For
they
should
profite
more
,
by
being
lesse
vnderstood
.
Much
they
speake
of
vallour
,
and
many
imaginary
Heroes
are
pitching
their
Pauillions
;
But
I
will
take
my
leaue
of
them
with
my
French
Prouerbe
:
Beaucoup
de
bruit
,
è
peu
de
fruict
:
Much
bruite
,
but
little
fruite
:
Battels
more
fierce
(
by
report
)
then
Alcahors
:
That
was
but
Kings
,
their
's
Giants
:
and
one
of
those
Giants
as
able
to
vanquish
all
those
Kings
,
as
for
Milo
to
carry
his
Bull
on
his
shoulders
.
For
the
second
:
Their
should
be
an
explanation
in
The
like
we
reade
of
the
destruction
and
vtter
subuersion
of
the
Gabians
,
in
the
time
of
Tarquin
Superbus
:
The
generall
vnion
of
Historians
,
about
the
time
,
place
,
and
occasion
,
so
concordantly
iumping
,
as
if
all
those
proceedings
(
as
well
in
the
Stratagemes
by
Tarquins
yongest
sonne
,
as
the
very
Contents
of
The
like
in
that
Combat
,
or
bloudy
Banquet
rather
of
Thomyris
her
eldest
sonne
,
and
the
Persian
Cyrus
,
with
such
natiue
descriptions
of
euery
circumstance
,
the
Riuer
Araxis
,
the
place
of
their
passage
,
the
reasons
which
moued
Thamyris
to
suffer
their
passage
,
and
the
very
plot
where
their
Tents
were
pitcht
,
their
dainty
viands
left
for
the
Scythian
surffet
,
in
what
sort
prepared
,
&
how
insatiably
desired
by
the
Scythian
army
,
comming
rather
to
feast
then
to
fight
:
And
then
their
defeate
,
being
there
vanquished
,
where
they
were
most
confident
of
victory
.
In
these
explanations
,
the
Reader
should
not
be
delayed
,
or
frustrated
too
much
in
his
hopes
,
by
vnnecessary
ambages
:
We
should
not
trifle
out
the
time
in
vaine
and
impertinent
repetitions
,
it
cloies
and
satiates
the
appetite
too
much
:
not
vnlike
to
your
great
feasts
,
reseruing
the
choycest
dainties
for
the
end
,
when
the
appetites
of
the
Guests
are
satisfied
before
they
come
:
It
is
a
good
frugall
course
,
and
includes
an
Occonomicke
pollicy
,
their
best
dishes
may
be
preferued
for
another
time
:
He
that
discouers
euents
and
sequels
without
their
precedent
causes
,
is
as
one
that
would
draw
a
Riuer
dry
,
without
knowing
whence
the
Spring
is
deriued
:
applying
the
conclusions
of
things
,
as
it
pleased
the
Ethnickes
in
ancient
time
,
to
reserre
them
to
the
arbitriment
of
Fortune
;
making
euer
this
womanish
argument
:
The
euent
was
so
,
because
it
was
so
;
and
it
was
so
because
fate
would
haue
it
so
:
answering
Titus
opinion
,
Potestates
fato
dari
:
But
these
which
thus
apply
the
course
of
all
conclusions
to
fortune
,
be
as
blind
as
Fortune
:
Nay
,
farre
more
;
for
though
Fortune
be
blind
,
yet
she
is
not
inuisible
:
But
these
men
are
not
onely
blind
in
the
eye
of
common
sence
,
but
invisible
in
the
composure
of
their
owne
Arguments
;
their
Conclusions
being
as
blind
as
themselues
.
In
making
likewise
our
iudgement
of
Histories
,
and
considerately
applying
it
to
our
present
interests
,
we
must
specially
regard
the
dispositions
of
the
Agents
,
and
dilligently
remarke
how
they
are
affected
in
minde
,
this
is
the
least
dece●…uing
ground
of
forming
opinion
:
By
the
nature
of
the
Agent
,
coniecturall
euents
or
reasons
of
euents
may
be
drawne
:
As
if
an
ambitious
man
be
imployed
in
Embassage
twixt
Prince
and
Prince
,
he
is
to
be
suspected
that
his
Treaty
will
be
lesse
happy
,
in
that
his
illimited
Passions
oftimes
,
rather
aggrauate
then
allay
causes
of
ciuill
discord
.
Men
of
moderate
dispositions
,
purchase
peace
with
lesse
adoe
,
and
more
successefull
;
For
Princes
(
ballancing
their
owne
wrongs
,
to
their
apprehension
insupportable
)
cannot
endure
brauing
▪
but
The
like
we
haue
obserued
in
the
successe
of
war
,
a
wise
and
experienc't
Leader
,
to
haue
accomplished
great
matters
with
a
handfull
of
men
;
and
that
Aphorisme
Better
is
an
Army
of
Harts
,
with
a
Lyon
to
their
Leader
,
then
an
Army
of
Lyons
,
hauing
an
Hart
to
their
Leader
:
And
contrary
wise
the
vnhappy
euents
of
most
flourishing
Empires
,
the
miserable
slaughters
of
most
puissant
Armies
,
by
the
vnaduised
gouernement
of
their
Agents
,
or
tyranny
of
their
Regents
,
whose
improuidence
made
much
people
vnfortunate
:
To
see
Han●…iball
once
a
Conquerour
,
because
his
hopes
were
not
seated
on
indirect
meanes
,
and
by
his
owne
traculent
disposition
,
to
become
a
prey
to
the
conquered
,
makes
●…his
Assertion
good
.
Many
examples
we
haue
of
the
like
,
where
the
Nature
of
the
Agent
ill
affected
,
crossed
not
onely
the
successe
of
hopefull
designes
,
but
buried
their
Names
in
obliuion
,
of
such
I
speake
,
as
haue
bene
interrested
in
the
like
aduentures
.
As
sometimes
where
the
Agents
haue
bene
neglectfull
of
Religion
;
depending
more
vpon
their
owne
proper
resolutions
,
then
the
power
of
heauen
directing
all
humane
a●…aires
to
their
appointed
ends
:
As
wee
may
reade
in
that
memorable
disaster
of
the
Romanes
at
Canne
,
where
the
Consull
The
like
of
Potitius
detracting
from
the
honour
of
Hercules
:
The
like
reuenge
inflicted
on
Virilius
by
Aesculapius
:
By
Iuno
Lacinian
Q.
Fulv
:
By
Proserpine
Sometimes
by
the
libidinous
disposition
of
the
Gouernour
,
other
sometimes
by
his
Auarice
:
now
and
then
by
his
Impatience
,
and
most
of
all
by
his
recklesnesse
,
haue
the
sequels
of
things
proued
lesse
fortunate
,
because
the
precedent
motiues
,
or
instruments
directing
to
the
end
,
had
no
better
likely-hoods
in
them
.
Wee
wonder
not
at
all
,
to
see
troubled
water
come
from
an
v●…cleere
Spring
:
Nor
at
tares
growing
in
the
sluggards
field
;
but
we
admire
successiue
ends
,
drawne
from
improbable
causes
:
Many
times
there
be
(
I
confesse
)
intrinsecall
motiues
,
which
like
,
as
that
Beauty
is
the
best
which
cannot
be
expressed
by
the
Painter
,
so
arrogates
it
the
chiefest
place
(
that
inwardly
mouing
cause
,
I
meane
)
because
,
the
efficient
cause
of
causes
,
more
sure
,
more
infallible
then
the
euidentest
demonstration
:
And
I
haue
(
for
my
part
)
euer
superstitiously
Cardine
Uerso
)
to
oppose
themselues
.
It
is
true
;
But
tell
mee
(
whosoeuer
thou
art
)
that
Lucian-like
composest
this
Argument
:
Is
he
that
sets
vp
,
and
confounds
,
what
Empires
as
b●…st
pleaseth
him
,
tyed
to
meanes
,
or
secondary
causes
?
There
is
no
Realm
which
for
some
abuse
or
other
,
hath
no●…
deserued
to
loose
her
glor●…
;
and
herei●…
doth
the
Maiesticke
power
of
heauen
shew
aboundant
mercy
,
to
some
Kingdomes
in
chasti●…ing
them
before
they
come
to
the
heigth
of
sinne
,
that
their
eclypse
of
glory
,
might
be
an
increase
vnto
them
of
vertue
;
their
●…bbe
of
honour
,
an
occasion
of
acknowledgement
of
their
Creator
.
For
euen
in
the
best
Common-weales
,
we
reade
,
Explanation
of
causes
,
is
an
elucidary
or
examply●…g
,
as
it
were
of
the
matter
whereon
we
entreate
:
Happy
(
saith
t●…e
Poet
)
is
hee
,
that
hath
knowne
,
or
doth
know
,
the
principall
causes
of
things
,
as
well
precedent
as
su●…uent
:
Euents
may
be
knowne
(
I
confesse
)
without
their
causes
,
but
so
defectiue
is
that
knowledge
,
as
the
Co●…ntrie
Shepe-heards
prediction
is
of
weather
:
His
obseruances
are
causelesse
because
Artlesse
,
iudging
of
the
Cloude
(
by
vsuall
approbation
)
making
experiment
his
ground
,
without
recourse
had
to
Naturall
causes
:
To
shew
the
destruction
of
Troy
by
Alcydes
,
without
explaning
the
perfidious
dealing
of
Laomed●…n
:
or
of
Troies
second
subuersion
,
without
the
rape
of
Hellen
:
or
of
Romes
translated
Aristocracy
,
without
relation
made
of
those
ciuill
warres
,
planting
C●…sar
in
his
Mona●…chy
;
or
of
that
ample
and
potent
Empire
of
Media
translated
to
the
Persians
,
without
the
precedent
causes
arising
from
the
glory
,
and
eternall
renowne
of
Cyrus
,
would
make
a
confused
History
,
as
if
the
former
chaos
were
If
we
should
reade
the
diuers
effects
of
glory
,
the
sundry
mouing
causes
of
perpetuall
honour
,
amongst
the
Romanes
,
we
would
admire
them
:
Some
hauing
raised
themselues
to
an
exceeding
eminent
pitch
of
greatnesse
,
and
that
by
as
vnaccustomed
meanes
,
Selfe-affiance
,
or
Confidence
of
their
owne
vallour
,
instanced
in
Cne
:
Scipio
,
publiquely
proclaming
:
That
nothing
was
more
generous
then
this
Confidence
,
more
infallible
then
Prediction
,
more
powerfull
than
celerity
in
dispatch
,
or
more
eminent
then
the
digni●…y
of
the
Person
:
The
like
of
Scipio
Aemilian●…s
,
Scipio
N●…ca
,
Furius
Phyl●…s
,
Luc.
Crassus
,
M.
Scaurus
▪
and
many
others
,
whose
greatest
fame
was
purchased
by
that
meane
,
which
vseth
to
be
the
greatest
errour
i●…
humane
society
,
〈◊〉
of
a
mans
owne
deseruings
:
Which
likewise
hath
beene
ruine
to
many
populous
and
most
puissant
Empires
.
Then
to
diuert
our
eye
to
an
opposite
of
Conceit
,
and
that
is
Modesty
,
or
a
silent
shadowing
of
their
owne
demerites
:
Excellent
and
memorable
examples
whereof
may
be
produced
out
of
Valer
:
M●…ximus
in
his
4.
Booke
,
entreating
of
Modesty
:
where
he
obserues
(
by
way
of
explanation
,
)
the
meriting
parts
of
many
,
whose
resolutions
shadowed
,
made
the
lustre
of
their
Country
more
eminent
.
Likewise
to
describe
,
the
strange
,
and
vnexpected
,
rising
of
some
,
Qui
p●…steris
fuere
nobilitatis
initium
,
&
virtutis
exemplum
:
Borne
of
nothing
;
yet
by
some
priuate
indowments
,
either
of
i●…sinuating
,
as
the
ignoble
wits
:
or
of
State-obserui●…g
,
as
those
elated
Natures
,
grieued
(
as
it
were
)
with
the
obscurity
of
their
birth
,
in
seeing
others
lesse
(
it
may
be
)
meritorious
,
ascend
the
Throne
of
highest
honours
,
possesse
the
eminentst
places
,
in
contempt
&
despi●…e
of
Fortune
,
&
humblenes
of
b●…rth
,
crowde
in
the
presse
of
the
honored
,
Tullus
Hostilius
,
Tarquinius
priscus
,
Tulliu●…
Seruius
,
Perpenna
,
and
T●…rrentius
〈◊〉
,
&
that
mirror
of
countries
loue
,
M.
Portius
Cato
:
Their
births
ignoble
,
y●…t
they
made
their
Cradles
Noble
by
their
many
d●…seruing
parts
;
Characters
of
proper
Nobility
,
not
deriued
from
their
fathers
greatnesse
,
but
from
their
owne
eminence
:
Nor
haue
there
wanted
others
who
degenerated
from
their
A●…cestors
well
deserued
liues
:
Scipio
Affriā
,
his
Countries
honor
,
leaues
a
Scipio
the
monument
of
his
own
dishonor
:
Fabius
Maximus
,
●…
sonne
,
for
worthlesse
respect
,
deseruing
the
name
of
Fabi●…s
Minimus
:
Clodius
Pulcher
beautified
with
ornaments
of
mind
,
as
well
as
body
,
makes
his
Country
no
In
the
description
of
their
natures
we
include
the
causes
of
●…heir
ends
;
vertue
being
(
as
we
said
before
)
euer
seconded
with
euent
answerable
to
her
intent
,
either
in
the
beginning
,
middle
,
or
end
.
And
certai●…ly
,
whosoeuer
should
but
read
the
desolations
of
the
mightiest
Empires
,
or
their
rising
,
shall
see
some
appearance
of
causes
proceeding
from
their
gouernment
,
occasions
of
their
glory
,
or
ruine
.
Nor
can
we
(
wi●…hout
cause
)
admire
the
erection
&
establishing
of
the
Turk●…sh
Empire
,
Explanation
of
the
discouery
of
causes
,
I
will
limit
and
restraine
it
to
an
asser●…aine
bound
.
We
must
must
not
search
causes
aboue
their
natures
;
there
be
Dijudication
of
Histories
,
or
i●…dgement
in
distinguishing
the
approuedst
,
proceeds
from
a
mature
vnderstanding
.
In
this
Historicall
scale
we
must
ba●…ish
all
lasci●…ious
and
petulant
wits
,
conuersant
●…bout
fro●…thy
and
licentious
obscenities
.
The
workes
of
an
Historian
should
be
Monuments
of
Antiquity
,
true
Heralds
of
acts
;
either
prosperously
,
or
insucc●…ssiuely
atchieued
:
and
not
forments
to
lust
,
inducements
to
sensuality
.
Two
sorts
there
be
which
ecclipse
an
Historians
glory
:
from
the
one
,
we
reape
the
haruest
of
shame
,
where
characters
of
Myrrha
,
and
Uenus
(
the
wantons
votarie●…
)
are
deblazoned
in
their
colours
:
yet
in
their
descrip●…ions
more
pernitious
to
easily-inclined
youth
,
then
euer
Archilochus
was
to
the
Spa●…tan
dames
.
Poore
Albion
hath
laboured
too
long
of
this
impostume
;
such
Historians
must
either
be
exiled
,
or
the
Common-wealth
must
of
necessity
be
depraued
.
Vice
h●…th
too
many
supporters
,
without
the
furtherance
of
Authors
.
From
the
other
,
there
redounds
no
other
benefite
,
then
impertinent
inquisitions
of
strangely-sought
out
Antiquities
;
so
●…recise
in
description
,
so
cur●…ous
in
foundation
and
so
selfe-opiniona●…e
of
their
owne
writings
,
as
they
oft-times
doe
on●…ly
(
Haerere
in
verb●…
)
omit●…ing
the
substance
to
set
out
(
with
Phydias
)
the
shadow
:
search
of
a
fruitlesse
Antiquity
,
occasioning
a
contempt
in
the
body
of
the
History
.
As
in
the
foundation
of
a
Cit●…y
,
neglecting
the
materiallest
parts
of
the
discourse
;
as
vpon
what
occasion
the
Citty
was
rather
erected
there
,
then
in
another
place
,
by
what
meanes
it
was
augmented
,
how
con●…inued
,
and
other
necessary
circumstances
omitted
:
they
insist
vpon
affaires
of
l●…sse
consequence
;
finding
out
where
the
first
stone
was
laid
,
when
the
foundation
of
such
a
Citty
was
digged
.
This
causes
often-times
great
volumes
,
with
small
benefite
to
the
Reader
,
and
indeed
rather
implies
an
affecting-opinion
in
the
Authour
,
of
pleasing
himselfe
,
then
others
.
Ancient
Records
are
necessarily
inserted
in
Histories
;
but
such
are
to
be
supported
by
truth
,
including
a
necessary
relation
to
the
subiect
where
of
he
intreats
.
Otherwise
,
such
Antiquities
(
as
for
selfe-pleasing
)
are
produced
,
expresse
nothing
.
Propt●…r
plebaeium
&
invtilem
quendam
opinioni●…
succum
.
These
be
rather
Opinionists
then
Historians
.
These
two
kindes
(
like
Ianu●…
face
)
stand
contrary-wayes
:
the
one
sort
(
to
wit
the
first
)
are
Charons
best
Factors
,
they
traffique
for
a
Ladyes
bon-voyage
to
hell
;
there
s
not
a
line
in
all
their
writings
,
that
tastes
of
modesty
,
or
relish
v●…rtue
:
If
Pluto
and
his
Angels
had
not
one
she-prophet
,
nor
state-moppet
within
all
his
dominions
,
to
make
his
Empire
noble
:
yet
these
Broth●…ll-authors
(
●…or
better
I
cannot
name
them
)
would
by
their
Lime-twigges
furnish
his
(
Malasperanza
)
with
a
full
saile
.
My
Lady
here
sits
and
reades
,
wonders
at
the
ingenuity
of
the
man
,
(
a
pr●…gnant
youth
doubtlesse
,
)
and
will
make
her
pregnant
too
,
if
she
haue
any
mouing
faculty
in
h●…r
;
his
best
character
is
the
schoole-maister
of
folly
,
the
introduccr
of
sensuall
liberty
,
extinguisher
of
pure
loue
,
experienced
instructer
to
lust
,
harbourer
of
illimited
desires
;
and
consequently
harbinger
to
the
Diuell
.
As
the
Martin
will
not
build
,
but
in
faire
houses
,
so
this
man
will
not
liue
,
but
in
the
ruines
of
honour
:
he
is
too
conuersan●…
in
the
Court
,
too
familiar
in
the
Citty
,
and
sometimes
too
willingly
entertained
in
the
Countrey
.
His
pen
,
as
it
is
mercenary
,
so
his
labours
pernitious
,
his
state
labours
of
penury
(
and
he
would
rais●…
it
)
his
soule
of
a
lethargy
,
but
seekes
not
to
redeeme
it
.
To
be
briefe
(
for
such
a
subiect
is
not
worthy
dilating
on
.
)
As
Augustus
banished
Naso
to
Naxos
,
and
his
depraued
workes
to
the
darkest
corner
of
his
study
:
so
should
these
petulant
wits
bee
expulsed
euery
well-gouerned
Common-weale
,
and
their
prostitute
labours
sustaine
Enpolis
censure
.
For
the
other
,
as
none
yeeld
or
affoord
more
benefite
to
their
countrey
,
then
laborious
and
iudicious
Antiquaries
:
so
trifling
and
opinionately-conceited
Historians
may
benefite
themselues
,
but
hardly
can
communicate
the
best
of
their
knowlege
vnto
others
.
Opinion
is
a
maine
opponent
to
Iudgement
:
the
one
guided
(
or
rather
drawne
)
by
a
precipitant
will
,
the
other
disposed
by
the
directing
eye
of
reason
.
Opinion
(
Lesbian-like
)
frame
their
line
by
their
worke
,
and
not
their
worke
by
their
line
:
but
Iudgement
hath
euer
(
Cleanthes-like
)
a
table
equaly
mixed
or
furnished
with
Arete
&
Pomona
,
vertue
and
pleasure
:
the
one
to
profite
,
the
other
to
delight
:
Which
equally-mixed
iudgement
should
be
especially
conuersant
in
censurers
of
Histories
;
they
must
not
do
,
as
it
is
reported
of
Ualerius
Maximus
,
inhibite
many
things
in
the
euening
,
which
he
would
approue
of
in
the
morning
,
and
command
that
to
be
enacted
one
houre
,
which
he
would
be
ashamed
to
confirme
the
next
houre
.
A
setled
&
wel-seasoned
iudgment
will
with
(
circumspection
)
not
so
much
censure
a
modest
digression
in
a
History
,
as
the
vse
which
may
be
made
of
that
digression
;
nor
tax
●…ny
thing
in
a
faithfull
Historian
,
though
he
Sicut
Bestiae
in
Eremo
,
ita
Genti●…es
in
mundo
.
Greg
:
in
Moral
.
29.
cap.
18.
shadow
at
the
corruptions
of
the
age
with
bitternes
:
for
oylie
and
temporising
tongues
,
are
nourishers
of
these
vitious
and
irregular
times
;
where
,
as
beasts
in
the
desart
,
so
men
liue
in
the
world
:
nor
be
censurers
to
taxe
such
things
for
impossibilities
,
because
they
haue
not
heard
of
the
like
;
nor
such
R●…lations
as
false
,
which
haue
not
occurred
to
their
readings
.
For
how
should
we
giue
credite
to
those
incredible
attempts
of
former
times
,
where
victories
were
atchieued
with
lesse
adoe
,
then
May-games
in
these
times
.
To
s●…e
Antheus
renewing
his
strength
,
and
doubling
his
force
by
falling
:
those
magnanimous
Romans
erecting
their
spirits
most
when
they
were
neerest
declining
.
I
haue
euer
obserued
these
times
,
as
they
second
the
first
in
gradation
,
so
they
stand
inferior
to
the
first
in
exploits
and
managements
of
resolution
.
Censures
should
b●…
ballances
equally
and
euenly
disposed
;
neither
inclining
to
partiall
affectation
of
person
or
state
;
but
ready
to
giue
approbation
where
the
verity
of
discourse
,
and
sincerity
of
the
Author
giues
his
pen
fre●…
scope
to
curbe
errour
,
and
attribute
to
vertue
her
merited
Titles
.
Alasse
,
that
Censurers
should
be
either
so
engagaged
to
the
seruile
command
of
popular
glory
,
or
tied
to
great
mens
sleeues
,
that
the
Historian●…
labours
must
be
razed
,
which
truth
would
haue
raised
:
Vertue
hath
in
her selfe
a
soueraigne
end
,
to
which
all
liberall
Arts
and
Sciences
(
in
themselues
truly
noble
,
and
meriting
honour
)
haue
their
aime
and
recourse
.
This
occasions
learning
to
be
neglected
,
and
the
exact
scrutinie
of
ancient
Records
(
then
the
which
nothing
more
beneficiall
)
to
be
suppressed
,
or
at
least
,
not
a
little
darkned
:
when
a
Rhadamanth
,
or
Criticke
Censurer
must
haue
the
corrections
of
our
industrious
labours
,
and
iuditious
volumes
:
which
(
to
feed
his
owne
indigested
humour
)
must
be
subiect
to
many
friuolous
inte●…lacings
.
But
patience
(
which
is
C●…mes
sapientiae
,
non
famula
concupiscenti●…
)
must
be
the
poore
Historians
supporter
,
making
vse
of
times
abuse
,
and
applying
this
salue
to
his
misery
,
which
the
Poet
inferred
,
as
cause
of
Romes
subuersion
,
and
calamity
.
Prim●…
Virg.
in
A●…nead
30.
peregrinos
obsc●…na
pecu●…ia
mor●…s
intulit
.
But
let
me
stay
a
little
,
that
I
may
make
an
end
the
sooner
;
●…re
I
proceed
to
the
tru
〈◊〉
of
Histories
,
I
must
caution
two
so●…
of
men
,
which
(
in
their
reading
)
peruert
the
vse
and
scope
of
History
,
by
a
maleuolent
disposition
,
either
bred
in
them
by
nature
,
or
ingendred
by
custome
,
a
second
nature
:
the
one
foolishly
precise
,
whose
behauiour
(
as
one
obserueth
)
are
like
a
verse
,
wherein
euery
sillable
is
measured
;
or
like
your
Spaniards
aspect
,
who
will
not
smile
beyond
a
poynt
,
for
feare
to
vnstarch
his
looke
.
These
cannot
taste
any
thing
well
,
that
is
not
absolute
;
yet
for
their
iudgement
a
Uenetian
Asse
may
The
other
,
farre
more
intollerable
,
because
more
troubled
with
the
rising
of
spleene
:
he
detracteth
from
the
best
,
and
findes
scruples
in
infallible
truths
;
his
owne
iudgement
,
as
it
is
defectiue
,
so
it
en●…ies
a-against
others
,
maturer
in
the
height
of
vnderstanding
,
and
more
exact
in
the
ancient
surueyes
of
truth
.
But
as
fortitude
of
body
deriues
her
essence
from
the
imbecility
of
the
minde
,
and
the
ability
of
the
mind
from
the
d●…bility
of
the
body
:
So
the
Authors
glory
is
oft-times
reuiued
,
and
augmented
by
the
sting
of
Detraction
,
as
the
Detractors
in●…amy
by
the
Authors
glory
:
Vertue
alone
is
crowned
,
Vertue
in
her selfe
,
is
of
all
possessed
.
She
it
is
alone
by
which
man
is
eternized
.
Hae●…
〈◊〉
quae
faci●…
〈◊〉
Deum
,
&c.
S●…neca
This
is
she
that
steeres
the
poore
Historians
Barke
against
all
oppositions
.
In
this
harbour
therefore
may
I
repose
,
leauing
the
depraued
Reader
to
the
distemprature
of
his
owne
humor
,
and
betaking
my selfe
to
my
propounded
taske
.
We
must
walke
in
a
more
modest
path
for
iudgement
Thar
memorable
Law-giuer
being
demanded
what
punishment
was
to
be
inflicted
on
him
,
who
should
chance
to
slay
his
Father
,
or
Mother
:
he
answered
them
with
,
Haud
equidem
puto
,
&c.
I
do
not
think
there
can
be
any
of
so
vnnaturall
disposition
.
Acts
silenced
sometimes
doe
better
then
if
expressed
:
for
the
Curtaine
of
vices
drawne
,
moues
imitation
rather
than
euitation
:
In
distinguishing
also
of
things
good
and
necessary
from
their
contraries
,
we
should
not
mixe
triuiall
discourses
in
our
maine
Relation
:
they
much
impaire
and
disparage
the
weight
of
an
History
,
distracting
the
readers
minde
with
impertinencies
,
where
the
subiect
might
of
it selfe
be
better
Now
such
serious
discourses
(
in
themselues
graue
and
ponderous
)
are
not
to
be
mixed
with
euery
friuolous
digression
;
the
body
of
the
History
b●…ing
solid
,
should
not
depend
of
weake
and
infi●…me
members
:
which
might
seeme
to
resemble
the
Roman
Colosse
,
of
an
huge
proportion
in
body
,
but
feeble
feet
;
so
as
one
day
the
frame
of
the
whole
was
demolished
by
the
debility
of
one
part
.
Yet
in
this
graue
and
firme
composition
,
there
must
be
one
necessary
cau●…at
inserted
:
that
whencesoeuer
we
draine
the
approbation
of
our
Di●…course
(
as
from
many
,
and
those
to
our
iudgement
of
the
selected
Authours
)
we
reconcile
their
opinions
,
and
make
one
vnited
body
of
so
many
dispersed
parts
.
This
I
thought
to
caution
(
as
well
the
Histories
peruser
,
as
the
generallest
Collectors
of
)
because
I
haue
obserued
this
foule
errour
(
and
that
in
both
Ancient
and
Moderne
relations
)
where
diuers
This
implies
a
double
defect
;
either
from
stupidity
,
These
beseeme
not
a
History
,
dilated
circumstances
,
instances
too
much
stood
vpon
,
an
ambiguous
leauing
of
some-thing
vndetermined
:
They
leaue
the
vnde●…standing
in
doubt
what
to
resolue
,
the
iudgement
what
to
thinke
,
the
thoughts
what
to
deliberate
:
So
as
our
reading
conferres
no
other
profite
,
saue
an
int●…icate
●…inding
,
or
wr●…athing
,
of
many
anxities
vp
together
:
Giuing
the
minde
free
scope
to
imagine
the
euent
,
being
implyed
by
the
Authour
.
An
Historian
in
his
writings
should
haue
a
kind
of
seeming
security
,
for
his
Stile
and
Order
of
Speech
:
Misce●…do
v●…ile
dulci.
But
alasse
,
where
this
distinguishing
of
iudgement
of
Histories
requires
great
labour
,
it
os●…imes
ob●…aines
as
little
fauour
:
The
present
age
cannot
admit
of
such
discourses
,
they
be
too
serious
:
So
that
whosoeuer
should
compile
a
Volume
of
Iudiciall
Extractions
,
or
approued
Obseruances
,
should
hardly
haue
as
many
Readers
,
as
Persius
coniectured
for
his
Labours
:
Vel
duo
,
v●…l
nemo
:
O
ill
disposed
times
!
when
iudgement
goes
a woolgathering
.
〈◊〉
had
two
which
he
especially
respected
aboue
the
rest
of
his
Nobles
,
and
the
one
of
them
was
a
Mecenas
,
a
Patron
of
learning
,
and
a
grace
to
the
sacred
influence
of
Poesie
:
But
where
should
we
finde
an
Atl●…s
for
Pernassus
in
these
daies
,
where
Noble
(
yet
degenerate
Spirits
)
esteeme
him
that
will
be
Pandor
to
his
Punke
,
aboue
him
that
will
be
Patron
to
a
Poem
:
It
seemes
strange
that
in
best
experienc't
times
,
where
knowledge
should
be
hightned
,
the
foggy
vapours
of
ignorance
dispelled
:
Nay
,
where
these
times
haue
respite
from
warlike
Alarums
,
and
therefore
may
securely
feede
at
Mineruaes
Table
,
should
be
so
delighted
with
superficiall
shadowes
,
contemning
the
perfect
essence
and
lustre
of
man
,
(
to
wit
)
how
to
know
himselfe
.
Here
the
Miser
digs
(
and
with
the
Dormouse
)
sleepes
out
his
time
in
a
fruitlesse
scraping
;
There
the
Prodigall
(
carelesse
of
times
expence
)
bastardizeth
his
fathers
Prouidence
,
leauing
no
more
to
himselfe
,
then
that
he
could
not
take
from
himselfe
,
a
poore
Graue
:
Heere
the
Ambitious
man
,
displaying
his
pie-coulored
flags
of
vanity
(
in
the
elation
of
his
Spirit
)
contemnes
the
inferiour
ranke
of
men
,
euer
aiming
at
an
higher
sphere
then
popular
presse
,
till
his
aspiring
produce
his
falling
,
and
the
honour
which
he
purchast
without
merite
,
forsakes
him
not
without
shame
:
But
which
of
these
will
take
paines
to
see
himselfe
represented
in
exemplary
Histories
?
If
the
picture
of
old
Menedemus
were
hung
vp
in
the
eye
of
the
Miser
(
he
would
I
doubt
it
not
)
gaze
with
his
foure
eyes
on
the
Picture
,
but
make
little
or
no
vse
on
the
Patterne
:
The
Ambitious
man
,
if
he
saw
the
character
of
himselfe
in
that
vast
and
indetermined
minde
of
Catyline
,
in
that
ambitiously
insinuating
spirit
of
Sejan
,
I
feare
me
he
would
rather
make
vse
of
the
meanes
of
his
rising
then
caution
himselfe
by
his
vntimely
declining
:
The
Prodigall
(
expressing
his
owne
Mirrour
,
by
Theotimus
errour
)
who
preferred
lust
before
his
eyes
,
would
(
m●…ch
I
feare
it
)
rath●…r
da●…ken
the
eye
of
his
soule
,
to
satisfie
the
eye
of
his
body
,
then
moderate
hi●…
passions
on
earth
,
to
reape
the
fruite
of
his
moderation
in
heauen
.
O
that
these
times
would
so
distinguish
of
their
abuses
,
as
being
discou●…red
they
may
be
censured
;
for
where
abuses
are
concealed
they
seeme
afresh
to
be
renewed
,
and
(
with
Authority
)
confirmed
,
but
being
openly
ript
,
they
may
be
whipt
and
stript
:
first
displayed
to
the
eye
of
the
world
,
then
summoned
before
the
Throne
of
Iustice
.
O
let
Histories
,
as
they
be
Records
of
what
were
done
,
whether
good
or
euill
;
excite
vs
to
be
good
,
and
deter
vs
from
being
euill
:
Stories
are
replenished
with
examples
of
both
sorts
,
for
they
be
Store-houses
of
precedent
euents
,
and
consequently
so
to
be
obserued
and
digested
,
as
the
Iudicious
Reader
may
better
dispose
of
his
euen●…s
.
I
haue
noted
in
Discourses
of
this
kind
,
the
obseruance
of
that
Generally
Iudicious
Gentlman
,
Some
Bookes
are
to
be
tasted
,
some
to
bee
swallowed
few
to
be
chewed
and
dig●…sted
.
Such
as
are
to
be
tasted
I
comprehend
,
in
S●…ories
of
modest
accomplement
,
superficiall
flourishes
,
garnishing
our
Discourse
modestly
without
vaine
ostentation
or
brauery
:
Such
are
to
be
swallowed
,
as
those
Amorous
,
and
fruitlesse
labours
of
braine-sicke
Authours
,
freighted
with
continuall
hyperboles
,
comely
in
nothing
but
loue
,
Such
are
to
be
chewed
and
digested
,
as
include
discourse
tending
both
to
instruction
and
delight
,
&c
,
So
then
heere
we
may
come
to
our
iudiciall
point
,
we
see
and
reade
Histories
,
some
onely
to
be
tasted
,
others
swallowed
,
some
few
chewed
,
as
beasts
were
in
the
old
Law
.
Histories
being
ruminated
and
chewed
,
yeeld
a
continuall
profite
,
and
the
more
meditated
,
the
more
beneficiall
;
which
seemed
well
approued
(
and
no
lesse
worthy
our
obseruance
)
by
his
institution
▪
that
wished
●…uery
Reader
to
take
these
three
remembrances
Libenter
,
Dilligenter
,
and
Intelligenter
;
The
first
yeeldes
a
present
delight
,
because
it
includes
a
willingnesse
;
the
next
a
dilligent
attention
,
implying
a
seriousnesse
;
the
last
an
vse
of
both
,
enfolding
The
methode
which
I
propounded
to
my selfe
in
the
beginning
,
was
first
to
describe
the
scope
of
Histories
:
Secondly
,
the
vse
,
fruite
,
and
eff●…ct
of
Histories
in
generall
:
and
the
third
●…xtracted
from
the
second
,
was
the
parti●…ular
profite
which
redounded
either
to
a
Family
in
p●…iuate
,
or
administration
of
States
in
publique
The
fruit
&
vse
of
history
,
the
speciall'st
motiue
inducing
reading
.
The
greatest
and
mouingst
argument
of
perswasion
The
Miser
,
that
is
indebted
to
both
back
and
belly
,
Now
Maister
Miser
,
that
is
,
meere
wretched
man
,
thou
hast
sufficient
,
and
more
then
is
competent
for
Nature
,
yet
thou
art
not
satisfied
:
A
very
,
very
little
will
serue
thee
for
thy
vse
,
for
thou
neuer
hadst
the
Grace
to
know
what
an
honest
expence
meant
:
Thou
cautalizest
thy selfe
,
amidst
of
plenty
,
〈◊〉
;
Thou
hast
a
good
minde
to
be
rich
,
but
that
's
impossi●…le
:
I
will
leade
thee
into
a
spatious
field
of
Histories
,
where
thou
shalt
see
thy
immerited
minde
deblazoned
in
her
colours
,
not
a
memorable
instruction
for
Liberality
(
thy
absolute
Opponent
)
but
shall
be
produced
for
thy
vse
:
that
seeing
the
eminence
of
thy
Aduersary
,
thou
maist
hate
thy selfe
,
and
be
r●…conciled
a●…
last
to
thy
foe
.
The
Liberall-hearted-man
is
as
much
Maister
to
To
giue
,
and
to
delight
i●…
giuing
:
And
that
day
Ti●…us
,
Amici
,
perdidimus
diem
:
This
day
hath
bene
an
ab●…idgement
of
my
generous
intentions
,
a
restraint
to
my
extended
mind●…
;
I
did
n●…uer
show
my selfe
,
lesse
to
be
my selfe
,
then
in
this
daies
exigent
:
This
is
he
who
measures
vertue
for
his
meere
peace
and
contentment
,
and
not
according
to
successe
;
he
shows
not
his
liberality
for
obseruance
,
but
peculiar
satisfaction
,
for
he
imagines
no
greater
infelicity
,
then
to
be
miserable
;
his
promises
are
euer
relatiues
with
his
performances
:
He
scornes
to
dissemble
with
the
Quintus
Considius
(
of
all
most
memorable
)
an
Vsurer
Quod
nunquam
ignem
vidiss●…nt
clariorem
:
That
they
neuer
saw
a
cleere●…
,
or
more
comfortable
fire
in
all
their
dayes
:
It
may
be
Considiu●…
did
this
,
because
he
saw
the
disability
of
his
Debtors
(
●…or
those
Ciuill
Commotions
had
much
empou●…rished
all
Estates
)
and
therefore
in
pollicy
,
once
to
exp●…sse
hi●…
bounty
,
thought
it
fittest
to
forgiue
Quintiu●…
Flaminius
,
who
in
an
Isthmiam
triumph
,
in
the
presence
of
his
Countries
soe
,
the
daring
Phillip
of
Macedon
,
redeemed
such
as
were
Phillips
Captiues
at
his
owne
charge
:
Worthy
our
obseruation
it
is
,
willing
to
answere
so
publique
solemnity
,
with
an
vniuersall-concording
harmony
,
making
such
free
spectators
,
that
were
before
in
seruitude
.
The
modest
Prince
Hier●…
of
Syracusa
,
who
in
meere
Auarice
,
or
(
which
is
extended
●…urther
)
Mysery
▪
was
best
exempli●…ied
in
Hermon
;
who
to
decciue
his
owne
friends
,
and
depriue
them
of
that
which
he
made
his
god
,
at
his
death
,
made
himselfe
his
owne
Excecutor
:
This
man
would
be
loth
to
loose
so
pretious
a
friend
,
death
must
not
part
him
and
his
riches
.
No
question
but
his
opi●…ion
was
,
he
might
purchase
himselfe
a
tabernacle
of
rest
with
his
rust
:
and
translated
from
History
may
yeeld
no
lesse
profite
to
the
Prodigall
,
who
makes
himselfe
the
last
of
his
name
;
who
no
sooner
(
yea
oft-times
sooner
)
then
he
hath
shut
his
fathers
eyes
,
opens
his
fathers
Chest
,
and
wipes
away
the
remembrance
Q●…m
propri●…tatis
seruantissimum
,
voc●…t
Gelliu●…
.
vpon
Crispius
Salustus
)
saw
thus
m●…ch
into
his
disposition
,
that
so
long
as
he
retired
himselfe
from
tho●…e
factious
and
〈◊〉
spirits
,
Cethegus
,
Leutuli●…s
,
with
others
of
that
hatefull
consort
,
none
shewd
himselfe
a
more
profitable
member
to
the
Common-weale
,
or
more
ready
to
endanger
himselfe
for
her
〈◊〉
;
imploying
his
time
in
s●…rious
discourses
;
which
not
onely
moderated
his
affections
▪
but
poised
him
to
the
equall
ballance
of
a
vertuous
discourse
:
which
afterwards
per●…erted
by
the
depraued
suggestions
of
those
Ruffi●…s
,
reduced
those
faire
beginnings
to
nothing
,
&
him
to
a
miserable
death
,
&
perpetual
i●…famy
.
The
very
same
effect
we
see
in
all
other
vices
(
which
wo●…ld
be
w●…ll
extenuated
)
if
vitiou
▪
mi●…des
would
Vit
ellij
,
spending
their
fortunes
in
pampering
their
worst
houshold
seruant
;
our
carnall
Brothellists
,
by
those
impudent
prostitutes
in
N●…roes
time
,
who
were
neuer
weary
of
their
shame
,
till
●…heir
publicke
filthinesse
ingendred
a
loathing
in
the
professors
themselues
:
looke
to
th●…se
me●…s
ends
.
Oh
how
long
might
I
prosecute
this
argument
without
want
of
copiou●…
discourse
!
Here
producing
an
Helliogab●…lus
,
generally
Such
exemplary
motiues
be
frequent
in
Histories
,
and
able
in
themselues
(
if
duly
pondered
)
to
e●…force
Nature
from
herselfe
,
and
reduce
man
,
prima●…ily
addicted
to
this
or
that
vice
,
to
a
consideration
of
his
own
estate
,
wisely
fore-seeing
his
owne
danger
by
others
misery
;
wisely
cautioning
the
yong
man
to
leuell
his
affections
at
an
other
scope
,
then
the
depraued
intendments
of
the
time
wherein
he
liueth
;
making
difference
betwixt
sence
and
reason
:
the
o●…e
common
to
Beasts
with
men
:
the
other
a
disiunct
propriety
onely
But
to
come
more
neere
thee
in
this
second
part
of
my
diuision
,
we
must
distinguish
of
the
seuerall
fruits
and
effects
of
History
,
directed
to
peculiar
ends
:
As
first
,
art
thou
a
louer
,
and
desirest
to
complement
with
thy
beloued
?
Thou
art
in
a
dangerous
way
,
and
if
thou
wisely
select
not
such
Histories
,
as
may
(
like
soueraignes
)
rather
allay
&
moderate
thy
brain-sicke
passion
,
then
kindle
the
fire
of
thy
sencelesse
reason
,
be-lulled
with
nightly
apparitions
of
thy
beloued
faire
one
,
to
what
exorbitances
shalt
thou
be
made
subiect
?
But
I
know
the
nature
of
thy
sicknesse
:
thou
art
like
one
who
hath
taken
poyson
;
and
though
drinke
be
mortall
to
him
,
yet
he
longeth
out
of
all
measure
for
it
.
There
is
no
subiect
so
fitting
thy
humor
,
as
amorous
Sonn●…ts
,
Historicall
Relations
,
carolli●…g
out
the
discontents
of
vns●…tisfied
loue
.
Leander
swimming
ouer
Hellespont
,
to
crop
a
blossome
alrea●…y
cropped
.
Achilles
retiring
discontented
for
the
losse
of
his
Briseis
,
Agamem●…on
for
his
Chryseis
:
Nec
m●…
minor
vrget
a●…or
:
with
hard-hearted
Mistresse
,
inconstant
Dame
,
fickle
in
affection
,
inconstant
in
thy
resolution
,
shedding
as
many
teares
as
would
drowne
our
Mistresse
,
if
she
were
not
so
light
,
as
she
is
able
to
beare
herselfe
aboue
water
.
Alasse
poore
louer
!
and
whereto
so
many
fruitlesse
wishes
,
so
discomfortabl●…
laments
,
so
discordant
ecco's
of
redoubled
sighes
,
Aye
me
vnhappy
?
Thou
knowest
not
how
these
reasonlesse
perturbations
make
thee
more
lothed
then
loued
,
more
intranced
then
fancied
;
and
more
beleagred
with
passions
a-new
,
then
to
salue
those
passions
wherewith
thou
wast
tormented
of
old
.
Reade
the
continent
life
of
Zenocrates
,
dedicated
wholly
to
chastity
;
not
a
Lais
(
though
neuer
so
motiue
)
can
induce
him
to
gage
his
reputation
to
a
harlot
.
Reade
me
the
noble
disposition
of
Scipio
Affrican
,
who
scorn'd
to
make
himselfe
a
slaue
to
his
fancie
,
the
Vid.
Val.
Max.
lib.
4.
cap.
30.
replied
;
Dij
meliora
:
Heauen
forefend
a
strumpet
should
put
on
a
Tragicke
Buskin
.
These
continent
relations
will
reduce
thy
stragling
motions
to
a
more
setled
and
retired
harbour
.
But
yet
I
must
proceed
further
;
Art
thou
ambitious
,
and
hast
both
wings
and
will
to
flye
?
Thou
art
soaring
with
Icarus
,
and
thy
waxen
wings
(
no
question
)
must
be
dissolued
with
Icarus
:
he
gaue
a
sea
a
name
:
but
thou
hast
a
sea
in
thine
owne
braine
,
tho●…
art
floting
,
and
(
Camelion-like
)
feedest
vpon
the
air●…
of
thy
own●…
fancy
:
Thou
art
now
for
building
a
second
Pyr●…mides
in
the
aire
;
and
no
doubt
but
thou
wouldst
p●…rfect
thy
intentions
,
if
death
preuent
thee
not
.
Thou
〈◊〉
a
vaine
foole
,
thou
seest
many
daily
decli●…ing
meri●…s
vnd●…seruing
,
raised
to
height
aboue
themselues
:
not
a
Senator
,
or
sage
Purple
Father
,
but
subiected
to
an
vndese●…uing
censure
:
and
what
is
the
cause
?
Why
,
honour
procureth
censure
;
and
yet
thou
art
well
,
serued
w●…ll
,
safely
retired
,
not
enuied
,
nor
maligned
by
●…he
opposites
of
greatn●…sse
;
and
yet
thou
desirest
(
like
another
Phoe●…s
)
to
shine
in
the
eye
of
the
Court
,
to
shew
thine
owne
admiration
by
a
vaine
flourish
,
commenting
on
thine
owne
per●…ections
,
which
need
some
exposition
▪
●…or
they
cannot
demonstrate
themselues
.
Alas●…e
,
how
strangely
art
thou
transported
aboue
thy selfe
!
not
apprehending
how
the
meanes
of
rising
oft-times
procure
an
vnexpected
fall
.
Consider
thy
owne
vnb●…idled
desires
,
and
seeke
to
repr●…sse
them
,
I
pray
thee
do
;
and
take
this
obseruance
with
thee
:
Neue●…
looke
into
,
either
Moderne
Histories
,
or
An●…ient
,
for
the
proiect●…
,
how
they
grounded
the
foundation
of
their
plots
;
but
aime
at
the
end
and
euent
of
their
designes
,
what
issue
they
had
:
there
thou
shal●…
see
a
Caesar
reign●…
long
,
and
attaine
the
very
height
of
his
hopes
;
yet
his
continuance
●…bridged
,
and
his
new-established
Monarchy
(
in
himselfe
)
qui●…e
ruinate
To
run
〈◊〉
euery
vice
pa●…ticularly
,
would
require
a
〈◊〉
ampler
of
themselues
,
then
I
haue
allot●…d
The
particular
profit●…
which
redounds
to
euery
priuate
stat●…
or
family
,
from
discourses
of
this
nature
.
I
know
that
the
naturall
deprauation
of
man
is
such
,
as
that
he
fixeth
his
minde
vpon
that
,
which
(
for
the
most
part
)
conferres
least
profite
,
and
most
delight
:
this
is
liuely
exemplified
euen
in
Historicall
Discourses
;
where
we
shall
see
men
(
for
the
most
part
)
rather
addicted
to
fabulous
Trauels
,
the
suruey
of
str●…nge
and
neuer-heard
of
Ilands
,
prodigious
sights
,
Monsters
,
Chymera's
,
and
meere
imaginary
fancies
,
then
to
such
narrations
as
might
minister
instruction
●…nd
benefite
to
euery
particular
Reader
.
Some
we
see
delighted
with
the
strange
and
incredible
miracles
of
Mandeuill
:
others
with
the
victorious
combats
of
our
Beuis
of
South-hampton
:
others
,
Don
Quixotte
transformed
into
a
Knight
with
the
Golden
Pestle
)
with
many
other
fruitlesse
inuentions
,
moulded
onely
for
delight
without
profite
.
These
Histories
I
altogether
exclude
my
Oeconomy
,
or
priuate
family
;
I
haue
culd
out
more
beneficiall
Discourses
for
youth
●…o
employ
themselues
withall
;
producing
a
subiect
from
the
pure
Cabbin
of
Truth
:
not
from
the
brain●…
of
euery
Quackesaluer
,
that
runs
out
his
inuentions
by
selling
lyes
at
grosse-sale
.
To
expresse
our
Latine
Authors
I
need
not
,
so
much
is
our
Countrey
be●…ited
by
Translators
,
as
the
Neat-heard
in
this
Houell
may
discourse
as
well
of
Corneliu●…
Tacitus
(
if
he
●…now
his
mothers
tongue
)
as
our
best
Latinist
.
In
my
opinion
no
Argument
better
for
instruction
then
that
Authour
:
and
if
I
should
dwell
vpon
one
,
I
had
rath●…r
insist
vpon
his
phrases
(
though
seemingly
perplexed
)
then
any
other
Roman
Authour
,
how
perspicuous
soeuer
.
Tranquillus
writes
true
,
but
he
vnrips
the
immodesties
of
the
time
with
too
long
discourse
vpon
euery
particular
vice
.
Nothing
(
saith
Quintillian
)
can
be
esteemed
more
perfect
,
then
the
elegancy
and
breuity
of
Salusts
speech
(
Presertim
apud
vacuas
&
eruditas
aures
)
Aulius
Gellius
(
a
very
Aristarchus
for
the
search
of
Antiquities
)
testifieth
of
him
.
Neither
was
●…abius
afraid
to
entitle
him
,
The
chiefe
of
the
Roman
Historians
,
as
Thucydides
the
Prince
of
the
Grecians
.
Yet
in
these
Histories
there
is
an
exactnesse
of
vnderstanding
required
;
and
more
do
their
writings
conduce
to
state-affaires
,
then
priuate
and
domesticke
employment
.
I
will
retire
my selfe
to
such
as
may
yeeld
the
reader
no
little
profit
by
consideration
had
to
the
iudgments
of
God
;
modestly
mixing
morall
instructions
with
a
sweet
variety
of
diuine
discourse
:
a
matter
which
may
seeme
directly
opposite
to
my
first
intention
,
but
is
not
so
;
for
these
Histories
which
I
meane
to
produce
,
are
so
grounded
vpon
infallible
truths
,
as
in
that
respect
The
Citty
of
the
great
King
,
demolished
,
and
laid
leuell
with
the
ground
.
Then
to
direct
our
eye
to
the
wonderfull
iudgments
of
God
in
raising
ciuil
discords
,
and
mutinies
amongst
the
Iewes
themselues
,
the
greatest
means
of
their
subuersion
,
the
main
predictions
of
their
ruine
and
vtter
destruction
,
before
these
warres
came
Evagoras
,
Socrates
,
&c.
For
their
Diuine
examples
plentifull
,
the
successe
of
the
Christians
amidst
the
tirannies
of
the
cruellest
Emperours
wonderfull
:
the
diuerse
sorts
of
〈◊〉
by
those
Tyrant●…
inuen●…ed
,
pittifull
;
and
●…he
dismall
and
terrible
end
of
those
Bloud
▪
suckers
,
fearefull
.
Heere
thou
shalt
see
an
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
aboue
himselfe
,
with
the
acclamation
Not
the
voyce
of
Man
,
but
of
God
:
A●…d
presen●…ly
behold
●…is
pompe
conuerted
into
loathsomnesse
,
his
precedent
ioy
,
to
a
subsequent
pensiuenesse
,
and
the
●…xcellency
of
admiration
to
a
suddaine
amazednesse
;
he
that
seemed
before
a
God
,
and
no
man
,
is
now
by
God
made
the
miserablest
of
man
,
forlorne
and
deiected
:
Nay
,
if
we
would
obserue
the
whole
current
of
their
Histories
,
we
shall
see
in
them
that
God
euer
vsed
to
recompence
the
offendour
with
a
punishment
of
the
l●…e
nature
:
Nic●…phorus
reports
,
how
Herodias
daughter
hauing
begged
the
head
of
Iohn
Baptist
,
chanced
on
a
time
to
go
ouer
a
maine
Riuer
,
frozen
ouer
with
Ice
,
where
the
Ice
presently
parting
receiued
her
,
and
meeting
againe
cut
off
her
head
,
a
true
and
euident
testimony
of
Gods
iudgement
.
The
like
of
that
Blasphemous
wretch
Iulian
,
a
foule
mouth'd
detractor
from
the
glory
of
God
:
who
on
a
time
mocked
a
Christian
for
talking
reuerently
of
the
Bowels
of
CHISTS
Co●…passions
:
but
what
end
came
of
this
miserable
Atheist
:
His
bowels
fell
out
of
Vicisti
ô
Galilee
,
&c.
yet
vouchsafing
to
bestow
no
better
name
on
him
,
then
Galilean
,
a
fearefull
end
of
a
most
prophane
Blasphemer
.
The
like
of
Dioclesian
that
cruell
Emperour
(
and
a
great
persecutor
of
the
Christians
)
who
,
whilst
he
raigned
seemed
little
or
nothing
to
feare
the
Diuine
Power
of
heauen
,
yet
the
History
records
,
that
Feare
was
the
greatest
occasion
of
his
death
,
no
,
that
he
died
by
a
voluntarry
feare
,
very
iealous
of
the
Aire
,
least
it
should
peirce
his
Braine
.
These
examples
extracted
from
infallible
grounds
,
may
seeme
the
iudicious
vnderstanding
of
the
Grauest
,
and
fittest
for
Priuate
Families
,
where
order
is
best
attained
by
examples
:
We
vfe
most
to
be
moued
,
when
we
see
the
end
of
such
a
man
,
to
caution
vs
;
who
hauing
led
his
life
securely
,
concludes
the
period
Nunc
Ebrius
astet
—
Neque
suem
sumpsisse
suam
formam
:
Drunkard
,
if
●…hou
wouldst
see
this
forme
of
thine
,
Come
heere
and
see
't
depictured
in
a
Swine
.
The
lasciuious
and
sensuall
worldling
,
deciphered
with
this
character
:
Myrha
hanging
in
a
chaine
of
Hinc
amor
vt
tenuit
suspendet
.
The
miserable
wretch
that
makes
his
gold
his
God
,
best
expressed
by
Menedemus
,
with
his
Spade
,
deluing
and
digging
for
life
,
with
this
Mo●…r
:
Sic
mihi
diuitijas
Famulique
parti
.
Trewest
deciphering
os
all
vices
,
proceeding
from
the
exemplary
〈◊〉
of
delinquents
,
committing
what
they
like
,
and
at
last
feeling
what
they
like
not
:
If
our
Historians
,
now
a
daies
,
would
employ
their
Lampes
and
Oile
in
the
deliuery
of
profitable
History
,
such
as
might
rather
tend
to
the
cherishing
of
the
vnripned
blossomes
of
vertue
,
then
the
nipping
of
them
:
How
happy
members
were
they
,
yea
:
that
I
may
vse
Titus
Liuius
was
so
violent
against
poore
Salust
(
as
Aurelius
Fuscus
also
,
noteth
to
be
done
,
as
it
were
,
of
set
purpose
by
Salust
,
to
derogate
from
the
excellency
of
Thucydides
Writings
:
A
meere
detraction
to
such
a
worthy
Authour
:
But
what
workes
meriting
emulation
,
haue
not
euer
had
enuy
for
their
attendants
.
I
conc●…iue
the
reason
to
proceed
from
that
of
Hesiod
,
who
inferreth
in
Professions
,
none
to
be
more
apt
to
en●…y
one
another
,
then
such
as
be
of
one
Trade
:
Figulus
figulum
odit
:
True
,
for
where
either
singularity
If
History
comprehend
in
it
any
ceertaine
documents
For
euen
as
it
fares
in
a
most
sumptuous
and
royall
This
is
the
reason
that
we
see
some
so
delighted
with
the
sweetnesse
of
reading
,
as
obeying
their
owne
pleasure
,
they
loose
the
inestimable
fruits
thereof
.
Such
haue
no
other
scope
in
all
Histories
,
then
with
which
our
Generous
Musitions
,
vs●…
to
passe
time
away
,
vpon
their
Instruments
,
employed
in
reading
onely
,
to
spend
their
weary
houres
,
which
be
presently
encountred
with
more
wearisomenesse
:
For
there
is
no
pleasure
in
it
,
which
hath
no
reference
to
Uert●…e
,
the
glitt●…ring
obiect
of
glory
and
ambition
exciteth
others
,
and
that
which
showes
a
flexibility
of
minde
in
all
other
things
,
vainely
transports
them
to
euery
braue
and
eminent
image
,
forgetfull
how
glorious
and
remarkeable
examples
are
produced
by
Writers
;
not
onely
to
follow
vertue
,
and
contemne
honour
offered
vs
;
but
if
a
Competitor
were
admitted
vs
to
countermaund
the
authority
of
our
honour
,
to
endure
him
with
patience
;
yet
,
though
none
but
fooles
will
purpose
to
aspire
to
such
merited
excellence
,
without
the
like
meriting
vertue
:
We
see
many
men
,
by
the
very
reading
of
excellent
things
,
to
taste
in
themselues
a
certaine
kind
of
excellency
,
arrogating
much
to
themselues
,
and
resembling
those
Tragedians
,
who
imitate
the
State
of
such
persons
they
represented
,
after
they
haue
put
off
their
Habits
.
There
be
also
(
but
of
these
there
be
but
a
few
)
●…hom
new
,
and
vnacustomed
things
do
delight
(
men
●…f
vulgar
apprehension
)
who
hearing
the
State
of
Emperors
,
for
the
most
part
,
more
esteeme
the
Purple
then
the
Man
,
the
Picture
the●…
the
Work
:
So
effectuall
Now
it
is
the
scope
,
and
draught
of
all
Histories
to
excite
mans
sloth
,
and
to
arme
him
against
all
dangers
;
a●…d
whereas
the
force
of
examples
(
then
which
nothing
can
be
imagined
more
powerfull
to
perswade
)
tend
especially
to
that
end
;
it
commeth
to
passe
that
by
the
security
of
men
(
who
thinke
other
mens
harmes
little
or
nothing
to
concerne
them
)
such
things
(
as
in
themselues
are
memorable
and
worthy
obseruatio●…
)
be
read
and
heard
with
a
deafe
and
carelesse
●…are
.
To
briefe
,
there
be
some
also
(
which
on●…
would
hardly
thinke
)
offend
in
a
more
seuere
,
and
critticke
kind
of
reading
:
As
if
things
should
not
be
writ
as
they
were
done
,
but
as
they
ought
to
haue
beene
done
.
Where●…ore
,
partly
by
this
curio●…ity
,
partly
by
that
secu●…ity
(
the
very
surfet
of
confused
and
rash
reading
)
it
commeth
to
passe
(
as
in
a
body
pestred
with
corrupt
humors
)
that
a
certaine
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
or
ill
disposion
of
iudgement
and
opinion
,
which
ought
especially
to
be
sound
and
sincere
in
the
course
of
our
life
,
and
a
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
or
bad
temperature
,
conuerting
all
food
into
ill
humours
,
vseth
to
be
contracted
in
vs
:
And
as
meate
auaileth
such
as
be
distempered
nothing
,
so
no
prosite
at
all
by
these
meanes
is
ministred
to
our
reading
.
I
suppose
thou
s●…
est
how
the
very
same
reason
is
in
reading
History
,
&
disposing
the
course
of
thy
life
:
but
this
is
certainly
the
greatest
difficulty
(
to
wit
)
the
per●…ersenes
of
our
iudgment
,
which
is
the
speciali'st
cause
;
that
we
are
not
moued
with
examples
as
we
ought
,
●…ut
what
way
as
our
minds
is
inclined
and
affected
most
:
and
this
difficulty
is
no
lesse
then
the
other
:
forasmuch
as
writers
so
desc●…ibe
things
done
,
as
they
do
An
Historian
is
the
best
interpreter
of
Acts
atchieued
;
whose
iudgement
,
i●…
it
chance
to
be
corrupt
,
it
commeth
to
passe
,
as
when
Wine
(
of
it selfe
neat
and
generous
)
taketh
either
some
wa●…t
of
the
Caske
,
or
is
corupted
by
some
other
distast
,
which
either
proceeds
from
an
imposture
,
or
folly
great
&
intollerable
.
We
may
see
in
one
onely
example
,
the
iudgement
of
the
writer
:
The
prophane
Historian
ascribeth
the
●…uents
of
serious
and
weighty
affaires
,
to
the
councell
and
industry
of
men
;
al-be-it
he
hath
sufficiently
tried
how
fowly
those
men
were
deceiued
in
the
euents
.
Hence
it
is
that
men
be
drawne
to
great
●…olly
;
that
they
,
whose
knowledge
was
scarce
sufficient
for
the
consideration
of
things
subiected
before
their
eyes
;
and
whose
force
and
strength
not
much
〈◊〉
little
Worm●…s
,
should
by
one
small
successe
arrogate
the
gouernment
of
the
whole
world
vnto
them
.
But
a
good
Historian
teacheth
thus
:
Things
(
saith
he
)
are
purposed
by
Man
,
but
〈◊〉
,
and
moderated
by
God
;
whereby
he
riddeth
the
scrupulous
reader
both
of
folly
and
superstition
(
a
mischi●…fe
no
less●…
then
the
other
:
)
and
in
all
other
pro●…
good
Historians
(
whose
studies
are
onely
consecrated
to
holinesse
)
ought
not
to
be
ignorant
of
the
Agent
and
Instrument
wherein
they
differ
,
and
what
be
their
seuerall
effects
:
the
one
mouing
,
and
the
other
moued
.
But
especially
I
admonish
thee
to
this
end
;
that
whereas
I
obserue
many
Authors
of
that
kinde
,
who
for
their
exceeding
force
of
innumerable
examples
,
deserue
to
be
read
;
I
could
wish
that
the
No●…ice-reader
discusse
with
himselfe
as
circumspectly
and
seriously
as
he
can
by
proposing
to
himselfe
both
the
fruits
which
might
redound
,
&
the
dangers
which
might
occurre
him
in
his
reading
:
For
to
one
that
runnneth
ouer
all
Histories
cursorily
,
or
who
rashly
and
vnaduisedly
spends
his
time
without
any
exact
obseruance
,
of
priuate
or
publicke
duties
,
it
commeth
to
passe
as
to
Countrey
Clownes
,
who
in
sacking
of
a
neighbour
Citty
,
take
spoile
of
some
Apothecaries
shop
well
furnished
with
all
receits
;
where
,
prouoked
with
the
sweetnesse
of
some
iunkets
or
spices
,
being
the
first
that
came
to
their
hands
,
and
imagining
the
rest
to
be
of
the
same
sort
,
they
swallow
,
sup
vp
,
deuoure
,
and
gormandize
all
before
them
;
whereby
presently
some
are
taken
with
a
strange
disease
,
others
with
a
phrensie
,
most
are
bereft
of
life
;
none
but
strangely
distempered
,
which
occasions
laughter
through
all
the
Army
:
For
as
Mans
life
(
so
History
the
Image
of
Mans
life
)
hath
her
commodities
and
discommodities
:
for
the
Gouernment
of
Mans
life
consisteth
onely
in
the
vse
of
his
life
.
In
these
Collections
,
as
in
a
most
cleare
mirror
,
may
our
yong
Ga●…lant
see
into
his
errors
:
he
shall
be
of
necessity
forced
to
distaste
himselfe
,
till
he
haue
relinquished
his
mid-night
reuels
,
surceased
from
his
licentious
meetings
,
and
reduced
his
disconsorting
passions
vnto
a
calme
&
retired
harbour
;
here
the
publicke
Magistrate
shall
be
able
to
dispose
of
himselfe
,
and
Office
deputed
vnto
him
;
seeing
matters
worthy
imitation
,
and
precepts
worthy
the
Grauest
and
Ripest
Consideration
:
one
to
Instruct
,
others
to
Correct
,
and
all
to
make
per●…ct
this
whole
module
of
Man
.
The
Philosophers
Axiome
is
:
Om●…e
quod
non
ens
est
,
malum
est
.
And
worse
then
no
being
,
(
hau●…
they
)
who
measure
out
their
liues
without
a
due
proportion
drawne
from
others
,
and
applied
to
themselues
Instruction
Absolute
Histories
will
not
admit
of
the
least
concealement
;
but
representing
euery
Act
,
Person
,
and
Euent
,
vse
to
illustrate
what
is
worth
insisting
vpon
,
omitting
(
or
at
least
cursorily
passing
ouer
)
more
fruitlesse
subiects
:
and
how
delightfull
may
it
seeme
to
euery
iuditious
man
,
when
in
reading
of
Ancient
Records
,
he
conferres
the
stratagems
of
warre
then
vsed
,
with
the
present
obseruance
of
this
time
:
sees
(
and
seeing
)
notes
the
sundry
dispositions
of
men
,
how
noble
in
themselues
,
and
how
generally
esteemed
inuincible
,
by
a
sudden
conuersion
laid
low
,
beneath
the
stirrop
of
Fortune
,
and
made
a
spectacle
of
Fate
.
Then
to
obserue
states
,
better
gouerned
in
their
decline
then
in
their
height
;
and
farre
more
able
in
power
,
when
in
the
eye
of
the
world
least
powerfull
.
The
Romans
,
when
they
had
attained
the
very
height
of
felicity
,
that
all
Gouernements
were
their
Tributaries
,
then
they
began
to
stoope
most
vnder
their
burden
;
and
pressed
with
their
owne
grandeure
,
seemed
to
imitate
the
Phoenix
,
who
weary
of
her selfe
,
desired
to
haue
Euery
priuate
Family
may
draine
hence
vnspeakeable
Lucius
Quintius
,
who
was
chosen
one
of
the
Patricij
from
his
plow
stilt
,
and
afterwards
by
his
valour
and
magnanimity
,
reserueth
the
name
to
this
day
,
of
Triumphalis
Agricola
:
a
poore
Husband-man
sitting
in
his
Chaire
of
Triumph
,
will
desire
by
all
meanes
to
imitate
so
notable
a
president
;
scorning
to
rip
vp
the
bosome
of
the
earth
,
when
he
may
purchase
himselfe
more
fame
by
the
deblazing
his
honour
vpon
earth
.
The
home-spun
Sheepheard
hearing
the
renowned
Acts
of
Romul●…
,
fed
and
brought
vp
among
Sheepheards
:
and
of
Cyrus
,
who
bare
himselfe
a
Prince
among
Sheepheards
,
will
cast
away
sk●…ippe
and
sheepe-crooke
,
and
behaue
himselfe
a
worthy
successor
in
their
profession
.
The
Gardiner
hath
an
Emperour
of
his
profession
to
imitate
,
and
an
honest
one
too
,
as
his
name
implies
,
to
wit
,
Probus
.
The
Wood-man
,
or
Forrester
,
a
Pompilius
.
The
Diuiner
,
a
Zoroastres
,
and
the
Philosopher
,
an
Anto●…ius
.
But
many
haue
we
,
that
we
may
better
imitate
then
Princes
:
as
their
state
was
eminent
,
so
were
their
natures
depraued
.
Wee
shall
read
that
many
of
them
were
as
good
Law-breakers
,
How
safe
thought
Cyrus
himselfe
established
in
his
new
Translated
Monarchy
,
when
behold
his
security
ends
as
miserably
,
as
his
beginnings
had
a
flourish
of
seeming
happinesse
:
Vnfortunate
he
was
to
be
depriued
of
his
hoped-for
Greatnesse
,
by
a
Sex
so
weakely
effeminate
:
Soucing
that
head
(
which
was
Head
to
a
powerfull
Gouernement
)
in
a
Tunnell
of
bloud
,
with
this
bitter
inuection
:
Satia
te
sanguine
quem
diu
sitij●…ti
,
cuiusque
insatiabilis
semp●…r
fuisti
.
The
like
of
his
successour
Cambyses
,
who
hoping
to
plant
himselfe
in
a
royall
Throne
by
bloud
,
miserably
ended
his
owne
life
by
his
owne
bloud
.
An
excellent
These
examples
being
best
motiues
vnto
piety
,
and
The
greatest
benefite
in
priuate
,
I
imagine
to
be
drawne
likewise
,
from
the
right
and
exact
vse
of
History
:
which
particular
good
I
haue
ranked
in
the
second
place
,
and
that
is
this
:
In
priuate
to
behold
the
sundry
dispositio●…s
of
Princes
and
people
:
Reasons
whereof
cannot
be
giuen
,
but
onely
from
the
temperature
of
the
Region
wherein
they
liue
:
Which
reasons
drawne
from
coniecturall
grounds
are
oftimes
deceiued
in
themse●…ues
;
as
in
disposing
or
ordering
of
States
to
the
square
of
wisedome
.
This
benefite
I
haue
gathered
,
and
placed
in
the
rereward
:
Last
obseruances
(
I
know
)
take
greatest
impression
,
and
none
more
needfull
then
this
:
when
we
shall
haue
commerce
with
any
people
,
then
to
call
to
mind
their
disposition
,
least
we
incurre
a
greater
mischiefe
through
our
ignorance
.
Strangely
iealous
are
some
Nations
,
they
haue
Actaeons
eyes
,
perchance
his
eares
:
We
must
shew
our selues
modestly
bashfull
toward
such
;
euery
lasciuious
looke
is
as
good
as
a
comment
for
such
men
,
taking
our
eye
to
be
the
directresse
of
our
heart
:
Others
more
prodigall
of
their
wiues
reputation
,
seeme
respectlesse
of
their
shame
,
or
the
hostage
of
honour
,
so
they
may
encrease
their
estate
,
and
raise
their
fortunes
out
of
honours
ruines
.
Other
people
we
know
to
be
of
a
surly
,
proud
,
and
intractable
nature
,
liuing
more
by
their
owne
will
(
making
it
their
Law
)
then
the
square
of
Reason
.
Others
seemingly
humble
,
more
dangerous
farre
then
the
other
;
vnder
pretences
religiously
honest
,
masking
Treacherous
and
Disloyall
Proiects
:
Neuer
lesse
your
friend
,
then
when
seeming
most
so
:
He
hath
a
fleering
LVCID
.
Scriptis
aspiret
meis
,
qui
fa●…et
voti●…
▪
FINIS
.