A
Iustification
OF
A
STRANGE
ACTION
OF
NERO
;
In
burying
with
a
solemne
FVNERALL
One
of
the
cast
HAYRES
of
his
Mistresse
POPPAEA
.
Also
a
iust
reproofe
of
a
Romane
smell-Feast
,
being
the
fifth
Satyre
of
IVVENALL
.
Translated
by
George
Chapman
.
Imprinted
at
London
by
THO.
HARPER
.
M.DC.XXIX
.
TO
THE
RIGHT
VIRTVOVS
AND
WORthily
honoured
Gentleman
RICHARD
HVBERT
,
Esquire
.
SIR
,
Greate
workes
get
little
regard
;
little
and
light
are
most
affected
with
height
:
Omne
levesursum
;
grave
deorsum
,
you
know
;
For
which
,
and
because
Custome
or
Fashion
,
is
another
Nature
,
and
that
it
is
now
the
fashion
to
iustifie
Strange
Actions
;
I
(
vtterly
against
mine
owne
fashion
)
followed
the
vulgar
,
and
assaid
what
might
bee
said
,
for
iustification
of
a
Strange
Action
of
Nero
;
in
burying
with
a
solemne
Funerall
one
of
the
cast
hayres
of
his
Mistresse
Poppea
.
And
not
to
make
little
labours
altogether
vnworthy
the
sight
of
the
great
;
I
say
with
the
great
defender
of
little
labours
,
In
tenui
labor
est
,
at
tenuis
non
gloria
.
Howsoeuer
;
As
Seamen
seeing
the
aproches
of
Whales
cast
out
empty
vessells
,
to
serue
their
harmeful
pleasures
,
and
diuert
them
from
euerting
their
maine
aduenture
;
(
for
in
the
vast
and
immane
power
of
any
thing
,
no
thing
is
distinguisht
;
great
and
precious
things
,
basest
and
vilest
serue
alike
their
wild
and
vnwildy
swinges
)
so
my selfe
hauing
yet
once
more
some
worthier
worke
then
this
Oration
,
and
following
Translation
,
to
passe
this
sea
of
the
land
;
expose
to
the
land
and
vulgar
Leuiathan
,
these
slight
aduentures
.
The
rather
,
because
the
Translation
containing
in
two
or
three
instances
,
a
preparation
to
the
iustification
of
my
ensuing
intended
Translations
,
lest
some
should
account
them
,
as
they
haue
my
former
conuersions
in
some
places
;
licenses
,
bold
ones
,
and
utterly
redundant
.
Though
your
iudiciall
selfe
(
as
I
haue
heard
)
hath
taken
those
liberall
redundances
,
rather
as
the
necessary
ouerflowings
of
Nilus
;
then
rude
or
harmefull
torrents
swolne
with
head-strong
showers
.
To
whose
iudgement
and
merit
,
submits
these
and
all
his
other
seruices
,
GEORGE
CHAPMAN
.
To
the
Reader
.
BEcause
in
most
opinions
of
translation
,
a
most
asinine
error
hath
gotten
eare
and
head
,
that
men
must
attempt
it
as
a
mastery
in
rendring
any
originall
into
other
language
,
to
doe
it
in
as
few
words
,
and
the
like
order
;
I
thought
it
not
amisse
in
this
pore
portion
of
translation
;
to
pick
out
(
like
the
rotten
out
of
Apples
if
you
please
so
to
repute
it
)
apoore
instance
or
two
that
endeauour
to
demonstrate
a
right
in
the
contrary
.
And
the
rather
I
take
this
course
ocularily
to
present
you
with
example
of
what
I
esteeme
fit
to
saue
the
liberty
and
dialect
of
mine
owne
language
;
because
there
are
many
valetudinaries
,
that
neuer
know
the
goodnesse
of
their
stomacke
till
they
see
meat
afore
them
.
Where
therefore
the
most
worthy
Satyrist
,
describes
the
differences
of
pages
that
attend
the
Lord
and
the
guest
at
the
table
,
and
expresses
the
disdaine
of
the
Lords
page
to
attend
his
guest
;
he
speakes
for
his
pride
thus
;
—
sed
forma
sed
aetas
digna
supercilio
—
Which
I
take
out
with
this
bold
one
:
And
to
say
truth
,
his
forme
and
prime
beside
May
well
alow
him
some
few
grains
of
pride
.
To
speake
truth
,
is
too
much
,
you
say
;
I
confesse
it
,
in
policy
;
but
not
in
free
and
honest
poesie
.
In
the
other
,
the
words
are
vtterly
altered
;
it
should
be
so
,
to
avoid
verball
seruitude
.
But
the
sense
,
I
might
wish
my
betters
could
render
no
worse
.
It
followes
:
where
hee
sets
downe
the
difference
betwixt
the
Lords
bread
and
the
guests
;
where
he
hath
plaid
vpon
the
coursenesse
and
mustinesse
of
the
guests
pantry
;
he
differences
his
Lords
thus
;
Sed
tener
&
niveus
,
mollique
siligine
factus
,
Servatur
domino
.
Which
I
thus
;
But
for
his
bread
,
the
pride
of
appetite
,
Tenderly
soft
,
incomparably
white
,
The
first
flowre
of
fine
meale
subdu'd
in
paste
That
's
a
peculiar
for
my
Lords
owne
taste
.
O
this
you
will
say
is
a
bold
one
;
which
I
am
too
bashfull
to
answere
otherwise
then
thus
,
that
here
the
purest
bread
affects
a
full
description
;
which
I
amplifying
no
more
then
is
needfull
for
the
full
facture
of
it
;
if
I
be
ouerflowing
,
my
Author
is
arid
;
but
who
would
not
greedily
here
haue
falne
vpon
snowy
?
it
lying
so
faire
for
him
,
put
soft
faithfully
in
his
proper
place
,
and
would
euer
haue
dreamed
of
subdu'd
in
paste
?
because
it
was
not
put
in
his
mouth
.
And
I
hope
it
will
seem
no
ouer-broad
bold
one
,
to
enter
where
the
purest
bread
out
of
industry
,
should
make
his
expected
apparance
.
A
number
more
out
of
this
of
no
number
,
I
could
instance
,
that
would
trouble
men
made
of
greatest
number
to
imitate
.
But
all
mastery
hath
his
end
,
to
get
great
men
to
commend
.
It
is
the
outward
not
the
inward
vertue
that
preuailes
.
The
candlestick
more
then
the
candle
,
is
the
learning
with
which
blind
fortune
useth
to
preferre
her
fauorites
.
And
who
but
the
spawnes
of
candlesticks
(
men
of
most
lucubration
for
name
)
winne
the
day
from
such
Dormise
as
wake
sleeping
;
and
rest
onely
in
those
vnprofitable
and
abhord
knowledges
,
that
no
man
either
praises
or
acknowledges
.
Me
dulcis
saturet
q●ies
.
Leni
pefruar
ocio
.
Ignotus
omnibus
.
Cognitus
egomet
mihi
.
Quite
opposite
to
your
admir'de
and
knowne
learned
man
:
Qui
notus
nimis
omnibus
,
Ignotus
moritur
sibi
.
And
so
shall
know
nothing
either
in
life
or
death
when
euery
truly-learned
mans
knowledge
especially
begins
.
Your
seruant
.
THE
FVNERALL
ORATION
made
at
the
buriall
of
one
of
POPPAEAS
hayres
.
THis
solemne
Pageant
graced
with
so
glorious
a
Presence
as
your
Highnesse
selfe
,
and
others
,
as
you
see
,
that
mourne
in
their
gowns
and
laugh
in
their
sleeues
;
may
perhaps
breed
a
wonder
in
those
that
know
not
the
cause
,
and
laughter
in
those
that
know
it
.
To
see
the
mighty
Emperor
of
Rome
march
in
a
mourning
habit
,
and
after
him
all
the
state
of
the
Empire
either
present
or
presented
;
The
Peeres
in
person
though
with
drie
eyes
,
yet
God
knowes
their
hearts
;
Others
in
their
Rankes
;
One
representing
the
state
of
a
Courtier
(
as
I
iudge
by
his
legge
;
)
another
of
a
Citizen
(
as
I
iudge
by
his
head
;
)
another
of
a
Souldier
,
(
as
I
iudge
by
his
looke
;
)
another
the
state
Poeticall
(
as
I
iudge
by
his
clothes
;
)
for
the
state
Physicall
,
it
hath
no
place
heere
;
for
who
euer
saw
a
Physitian
follow
a
Funerall
?
To
see
,
I
say
,
all
this
Assemblie
masking
in
this
Funerall
pomp
;
could
hee
that
saw
it
imagine
any
lesse
Funerall
subiect
would
follow
,
then
the
Herse
of
your
deare
Mother
Agrippina
?
or
your
beloued
wife
Octauia
?
or
else
of
her
whom
you
preferre
to
them
both
,
your
diuine
Poppaea
?
At
least
who
would
imagine
,
that
a
poore
hayre
broken
loose
from
his
fellowes
;
or
shaken
off
,
like
a
windfall
from
the
golden
tree
before
his
time
;
should
haue
the
honour
of
this
Imperiall
solemnitie
:
And
bee
able
to
glory
like
the
flie
in
the
Cart
;
good
heauen
what
a
troope
of
fooles
haue
I
gathered
together
?
It
is
fatall
to
all
honourable
actions
to
fall
vnder
the
scourge
of
detracting
tongues
,
and
for
the
most
part
to
bee
condemn'd
before
they
come
to
triall
.
In
regard
whereof
,
I
will
borrow
so
much
of
your
patience
,
as
that
I
may
in
a
word
or
two
examine
the
whole
ground
of
this
spectacle
:
Not
doubting
but
that
I
shall
make
it
appeare
to
all
vpright
eares
,
that
it
is
an
action
most
worthy
your
wisedome
(
my
gracious
Soveraigne
)
and
that
this
silly
,
this
base
,
this
contemptible
hayre
on
this
Herse
supported
,
receiues
no
thought
of
honour
,
but
what
it
well
deserueth
.
Etiam
capillus
unus
habet
umbram
suam
,
was
the
saying
of
your
master
Seneca
;
and
may
not
your
Highnesse
goe
one
step
further
,
and
say
,
Etiam
capillus
unus
habet
urnam
suam
?
To
enter
into
the
common
place
of
womens
hayre
,
I
list
not
;
though
it
would
afford
scope
enough
for
my
pen
to
play
in
;
that
Theame
hath
beene
already
canvast
,
and
worne
halfe
threed-bare
by
Poets
and
their
fellowes
.
My
meaning
is
not
to
exceede
the
compasse
of
this
hayre
,
which
we
haue
here
in
hand
.
This
sacred
beame
falne
from
that
sunne
of
beauty
Poppaea
;
whose
very
name
is
able
to
giue
it
honour
,
though
otherwise
base
.
And
albeit
hayre
were
of
it selfe
the
most
abiect
excrement
that
were
,
yet
should
Poppaeas
hayre
be
reputed
honourable
.
I
am
not
ignorant
that
hayre
is
noted
by
many
as
an
excrement
,
a
fleeting
commodity
,
subiect
to
spring
,
and
fall
;
&
he
whose
whole
head
last
day
was
not
worth
one
hayre
,
it
shall
bee
in
as
good
estate
the
next
day
as
it
was
euer
before
:
And
such
as
last
yeare
had
as
faire
a
crop
of
haire
as
euer
fruitfull
head
afforded
;
if
there
come
but
a
hot
summer
;
it
shall
bee
so
smooth
that
a
man
may
slur
a
Dye
on
't
.
An
excrement
,
it
is
,
I
deny
not
;
and
yet
are
not
all
excrements
to
be
vilified
as
things
of
no
value
:
for
Maske
,
Ciuet
,
Amber
,
are
they
not
all
excrements
?
yet
what
more
pleasing
to
the
daintiest
sense
wee
haue
?
Nature
giues
many
things
with
the
left
hand
,
which
Art
receiues
with
the
right
:
Sublimate
and
other
drugges
are
by
nature
poyson
:
yet
Art
turnes
them
to
wholsome
medicines
;
so
hayre
though
by
nature
giuen
vs
as
an
excrement
,
yet
by
Art
it
is
made
our
capitall
ornament
.
For
whereas
the
head
is
accounted
the
chiefe
member
of
the
body
,
hayre
is
giuen
vs
as
the
chiefe
ornament
of
the
head
;
I
meane
of
womens
heads
;
for
men
haue
other
ornaments
belonging
to
their
heads
,
as
shall
hereafter
appeare
more
largely
.
And
howsoeuer
hayre
fals
within
the
name
of
excrement
;
yet
it
is
euermore
the
argument
of
a
rancke
or
rich
soyle
where
it
growes
,
and
of
a
barren
where
it
failes
;
for
I
dare
bouldly
pronounce
in
despight
of
all
paltry
prouerbs
,
that
a
mans
wit
is
euer
rankest
,
when
his
hayre
is
at
the
fullest
.
I
say
not
his
wit
is
best
,
but
ranckest
;
for
I
am
not
ignorant
,
that
the
ranckest
flesh
is
not
alwayes
the
soundest
,
as
the
ranckest
breath
is
not
alwaies
the
sweetest
.
And
thus
much
more
I
will
adde
for
the
generall
commendation
of
hayre
,
that
nature
in
no
part
hath
exprest
such
curious
and
subtill
skill
as
in
this
(
as
wee
terme
it
)
excrement
;
for
what
more
excellent
point
of
Art
can
there
be
,
then
to
indurate
and
harden
a
thinne
vapor
into
a
dry
and
solid
substance
?
And
this
whole
bush
of
hayre
,
hath
both
his
being
and
his
nour●shment
from
those
sweet
vapors
,
which
breathe
and
steame
from
the
quintessence
of
the
braine
,
through
those
subtill
pores
of
the
head
in
which
they
are
fashioned
and
spunne
by
natures
finger
into
so
slender
and
delicate
a
thred
;
as
if
she
intended
to
doe
like
the
painter
that
came
to
see
Apelles
,
drew
that
subtill
lyne
for
a
masterpeece
of
his
workmanship
.
And
besides
the
highest
place
giuen
to
the
hayre
,
and
singularity
of
workmanship
exprest
in
it
,
Nature
hath
endowed
it
with
this
speciall
priuiledge
,
and
left
therein
so
great
an
impression
of
her selfe
,
as
it
is
the
most
certaine
marke
by
which
we
may
ayme
at
the
complexion
and
condition
of
euery
man
;
as
red
hayre
on
a
man
is
a
signe
of
trechery
,
what
t
is
in
a
woman
,
let
the
sweet
musique
of
rime
inspire
vs
;
a
soft
hayre
chicken-hearted
;
a
harsh
hayre
churlish
natur'd
;
a
flaxen
hayre
foolish
brain'd
;
what
a
black-hayr'd
man
is
aske
the
prouerbe
;
if
ye
beleeue
not
that
,
aske
your
wiues
;
if
they
will
not
tell
you
,
looke
in
your
glasses
,
and
ye
shall
see
it
written
on
your
foreheads
.
So
that
nature
hauing
honoured
hayre
with
so
great
a
priuiledge
of
her
fauour
,
why
should
wee
not
thinke
it
worthy
all
honour
in
it selfe
without
any
addition
of
other
circumstance
.
And
if
Nature
hath
grac't
the
whole
Garland
with
this
honour
,
may
not
euery
flower
challenge
his
part
?
If
any
hayre
,
then
this
hayre
(
the
argument
of
our
present
mourning
)
more
then
any
:
But
wee
must
not
thinke
(
Princes
and
Senators
)
that
the
vndanted
heart
of
our
Emperor
,
which
neuer
was
knowne
to
shrinke
at
the
butchering
of
his
owne
mother
Agrippina
;
and
could
without
any
touch
of
remorse
,
heare
(
if
not
behold
)
the
murther
of
his
most
deare
wife
Octavia
after
her
diuorce
;
wee
must
not
thinke
(
I
say
)
this
Adamantine
heart
of
his
could
resolue
into
softnesse
,
for
the
losse
of
a
common
or
ordinary
hayre
.
But
this
was
(
alas
why
is
it
not
)
a
hayre
of
such
rare
and
matchlesse
perfection
,
whether
yee
take
it
by
the
colour
or
by
the
substance
,
as
it
is
impossible
for
nature
in
her
whole
shop
to
patterne
it
:
So
subtill
and
slender
as
it
can
scarce
be
seene
,
much
lesse
felt
;
and
yet
so
strong
as
it
is
able
to
binde
Hercules
hand
and
foot
;
and
make
it
another
of
his
labors
to
extricate
himselfe
.
In
a
word
it
is
such
a
flowre
as
growes
in
no
garden
but
Poppaeas
;
borne
to
the
wonder
of
men
,
the
enuie
of
women
,
the
glory
of
the
Gods
,
&c.
A
hayre
of
such
matchlesse
perfection
,
that
if
any
where
it
should
be
found
by
chance
,
the
most
ignorant
would
esteeme
it
of
infinite
value
,
as
certaynely
some
hayres
haue
beene
.
The
purple
hayre
of
Nisus
,
whereon
his
kingdome
and
life
depended
,
may
serue
for
an
instance
.
And
how
many
yong
gallants
doe
I
know
my selfe
,
euery
hayre
of
whose
chin
,
is
worth
a
thousand
crowns
;
and
others
(
but
simple
fornicators
)
that
haue
neuer
a
hayre
on
their
crownes
,
but
is
worth
a
Kings
ransome
?
At
how
much
higher
rate
then
shall
we
value
this
hayre
,
which
if
it
were
not
Poppaeas
,
yet
being
such
as
it
is
,
it
deseru'd
high
estimation
;
but
being
Poppaeas
(
if
it
were
not
such
)
it
can
bee
worth
no
lesse
.
When
therefore
a
hayre
of
this
excellence
is
fallen
like
an
Apple
from
the
golden
Tree
,
can
the
losse
bee
light
?
And
can
such
losse
doe
lesse
then
beget
a
iust
and
vnfayned
griefe
,
not
proceeding
from
humour
in
our
Emperour
▪
nor
flattery
in
vs
,
but
out
of
true
iudgement
in
vs
all
?
Albeit
I
must
adde
this
for
the
qualifying
of
your
griefe
(
most
sacred
Emperour
)
that
this
diuine
hayre
is
not
vtterly
lost
;
It
is
but
sent
as
a
Harbenger
before
,
the
rest
must
follow
it
:
And
in
the
meane
time
this
remaines
in
blessed
estate
;
it
is
at
rest
;
it
is
free
from
the
trouble
and
incombrance
which
her
miserable
fellowes
that
suruiue
are
dayly
enforc't
to
endure
.
The
cruell
combe
shall
no
more
fasten
his
teeth
vpon
it
;
it
shall
no
more
bee
tortured
with
curling
bodkins
,
tied
vp
each
night
in
knots
,
wearied
with
tyres
,
and
by
all
meanes
barr'd
of
that
naturall
freedome
in
which
it
was
borne
:
And
,
which
is
a
torment
aboue
torments
,
subiect
to
the
fearefull
tincture
of
Age
,
and
to
change
his
amber
hew
into
a
witherd
and
mortified
gray
.
From
all
this
feare
and
trouble
this
happie
hayre
is
freed
;
it
rests
quietly
in
his
Vrne
,
straight
to
bee
consecrated
as
a
relique
vpon
this
altar
of
Venus
,
there
to
bee
kept
as
her
treasure
,
till
it
hath
fetcht
to
it
a
fayre
number
more
;
and
then
to
be
employed
by
Venus
,
eyther
as
a
bracelet
for
her
paramour
Mars
,
or
else
(
which
I
rather
beleeue
)
for
a
Periwig
for
her selfe
;
all
his
fellowes
and
his
Mistresse
,
hauing
from
it
taken
the
infection
of
the
falling
sicknesse
.
Dixi.