¶
The
paradoxe
or
maruaylous
questions
of
Marcus
Tullius
/
to
his
familiar
Marcus
Brutus
.
I
Haue
many
tymes
notedde
and
marked
/
my
famylyare
Brutus
,
Marcus
Cato
,
thy
vncle
/
whan
he
shewed
his
mynde
in
the
Senate
/
entrate
of
matters
of
grauite
taken
out
of
phylosophy
/
far
distant
fro
this
exercise
of
oratory
in
the
iudiciall
place
&
touchyng
the
common
welthe
.
But
not
with
standynge
he
dyd
optayne
by
his
perswadyng
/
that
his
wordes
semed
to
the
people
to
be
allowed
/
whiche
in
hym
is
greatlyer
to
be
extemed
/
than
in
the
or
in
me
.
For
we
vse
more
that
parte
of
phylosophye
/
that
bryngeth
copy
of
eloquence
/
wherin
the
thynges
be
sayde
that
be
not
far
different
fro
the
opinion
of
people
.
Cato
in
myn
opinion
is
a
perfyte
Stoike
/
and
holdeth
the
opinions
/
which
be
not
allowed
amonge
the
commen
people
.
He
is
in
the
secte
whiche
followeth
no
florysshynge
of
speche
/
nor
dylateth
his
matter
.
But
he
brought
to
passe
by
breue
and
lytle
questions
(
and
as
a
man
wolde
say
)
by
sharpe
poyntes
the
thing
that
he
purposed
.
But
ther
is
nothynge
so
incredible
/
but
by
persuadyng
/
it
may
be
made
probable
&
to
be
allowed
:
Nothyng
so
ragged
and
so
rude
/
but
it
may
be
made
clene
and
ornate
.
which
after
I
considered
to
be
so
/
I
more
boldely
wente
to
worke
/
than
he
of
whom
I
speake
.
For
Cato
is
wonte
to
speke
after
the
schole
of
Zeno
/
onely
of
magnanimite
/
of
continence
/
of
dethe
/
of
all
maner
laude
of
vtue
/
of
goddes
immortall
/
of
the
loue
that
men
shulde
haue
to
theyr
natyue
countreye
/
vsynge
no
colours
or
ornamentes
of
an
orator
.
But
I
in
sport
haue
cast
in
to
the
commune
places
/
tho
thynges
/
whiche
the
scholes
of
Socrates
do
scantlye
allowe
in
scholes
/
or
in
tyme
of
quietnes
.
whiche
bicause
they
be
maruaylous
/
and
contrary
to
the
opinion
of
all
menne
/
be
also
called
the
Paradoxe
.
I
wolde
attempte
whether
they
myght
be
broughte
to
lyghte
/
that
is
to
saye
/
in
to
the
iudiciall
place
/
and
so
to
be
sayde
that
they
shulde
be
allowed
/
or
whether
ther
were
one
sondre
speche
of
lerned
men
and
an
other
vulgare
after
the
common
people
.
And
therfore
I
wrote
the
places
more
gladly
,
bicause
these
that
be
called
my
Paradoxe
semethe
specially
to
be
after
the
maner
of
Socrates
/
and
very
true
.
Therfore
thou
shalt
receiue
this
litle
worke
studied
&
compyled
these
nightes
nowe
beinge
shorte
:
Bycause
the
other
worke
of
greatter
watche
&
study
wente
forthe
in
thy
name
.
Thou
shalte
taste
a
maner
of
my
exercise
/
which
I
haue
ben
wont
to
vse
/
where
as
I
transpose
to
this
my
maner
of
oratory
/
persuadynge
tho
thynges
that
be
called
in
scholes
Ethica
/
whiche
be
priuate
opinions
of
philosophers
.
For
I
require
not
that
thou
shall
brynge
this
maner
of
speakynge
abrode
.
For
it
is
not
suche
that
it
may
be
set
in
the
towre
Capitoline
/
as
that
ymage
of
Minerua
that
Phidias
the
ymage
maker
made
/
but
only
that
it
may
seme
to
go
forthe
of
the
same
shop
(
fro
whens
that
more
worke
came
)
so
that
it
may
shewe
to
come
forthe
in
the
same
forme
and
fasshyon
.
¶
That
,
whiche
is
honest
,
is
onely
good
.
NOt
withstanding
I
feare
me
leste
this
sentens
may
seeme
to
some
of
you
/
to
be
taken
out
of
the
disputations
of
the
schole
of
the
Stoikes
/
and
not
of
myne
opinion
.
Albe
it
I
shall
shewe
my
mynde
therin
/
and
that
breuelyer
than
a
thynge
of
so
great
pondre
may
be
sayde
:
So
god
helpe
me
I
neuer
estemed
/
nother
the
money
of
these
men
/
nor
the
gorgyous
buyldinges
/
nor
theyr
riches
/
nor
theyr
empyre
/
nor
theyr
pleasures
wherunto
they
be
moste
bente
/
to
be
nombred
amonge
good
thinges
onelye
to
desyre
suche
thynges
/
wherin
they
moste
abounde
and
flowe
.
For
the
thyrst
of
couetyse
is
neyther
fylled
nor
satisfyed
.
Nor
onely
they
be
turmented
with
the
desyre
of
encreasyng
of
suche
goodes
as
they
haue
/
but
also
with
feare
of
losse
therof
.
wherin
I
ofte
require
the
prudens
of
our
elders
most
continent
men
/
which
thought
that
these
weyke
&
mutable
membres
of
money
/
to
be
named
goodes
/
onely
in
worde
/
wher
as
they
shulde
haue
iudged
them
otherwyse
in
dede
&
effecte
.
May
that
thynge
that
is
good
in
dede
/
be
good
to
a
man
that
is
yuell
?
Or
may
any
man
flowe
in
abundance
of
goodes
/
hym selfe
not
beinge
good
?
And
we
se
all
suche
thynges
/
howe
that
yuell
men
haue
them
/
and
howe
they
hurte
good
men
.
wherfore
though
any
man
haue
derysyon
at
myne
opinion
(
if
any
be
suche
)
notwithstandynge
/
the
treuthe
reasoned
/
shal
be
of
more
credens
with
me
/
than
the
opinnion
of
raskall
people
.
Nor
I
wyll
not
say
that
a
man
hath
loste
his
goodes
/
if
he
haue
lost
his
cattell
/
or
his
householde
stuffe
.
Also
I
wyll
ofte
prayse
that
sage
man
Bias
/
whiche
(
as
I
suppose
)
is
nombred
amonge
the
seuen
sages
in
Athens
/
whose
countrey
called
Prienna
/
whan
a
certeyne
ennemye
dyd
subdue
/
and
other
of
his
neighbours
dyd
cruses
of
erthe
/
were
lesse
accepte
to
the
goddes
immortal
/
than
the
delicate
syluer
pecis
and
goblets
of
other
men
?
I
let
passe
the
resydue
of
other
kynges
/
for
they
all
be
equall
and
lyke
/
saue
onely
Tarquinius
superbus
.
If
so
be
any
man
aske
me
of
Brutus
what
he
dyd
in
settyng
his
countrey
at
lybertye
?
If
also
any
man
wyll
aske
me
of
other
of
his
company
of
that
counsell
?
what
they
desyred
?
what
they
gotte
or
wonne
thereby
?
whether
or
no
?
was
ther
any
of
them
?
to
whom
pleasure
?
to
whom
ryches
?
to
whom
(
to
conclude
)
any
thyng
was
purposed
as
auantage
?
but
the
office
and
duetye
of
a
valyant
&
a
bold
stomaked
man
?
what
thynge
moued
Quintus
Mutius
to
haue
sleyne
Porsenna
kyng
of
Hetruria
?
without
ony
hope
or
trust
of
his
owne
helth
or
profyte
therby
?
what
manheed
helde
and
kepte
Horatius
Cocles
alone
standing
vpon
the
brydge
called
Sublicius
agaynste
so
great
a
multitude
of
his
ennemyes
?
what
inuincible
/
stomake
styrred
Decius
the
father
to
vowe
his
son
to
dethe
/
sendyng
hym
amonge
the
thyckest
parte
of
his
ennemyes
in
battel
?
what
pretendeth
the
abstinence
of
Caius
Fabricius
?
(
whiche
refused
a
great
summe
of
golde
offered
by
Pyrrhus
)
what
mened
the
poore
fare
of
Marcus
Curius
(
That
eate
rosted
rapes
)
&
refused
the
gret
summe
of
golde
offered
by
the
Samnites
(
what
sygnyfyed
the
two
stronge
bulwarkes
or
forteresse
/
of
the
battell
of
Cartage
/
Caius
Scipio
and
Publius
Scipio
)
whiche
purposed
to
stoppe
the
inuasion
of
the
Carthaginenses
with
theyr
two
myghty
bodies
?
what
dyd
the
yonger
Aphricane
?
(
that
destroyed
Cartage
)
what
dyd
the
elder
?
(
that
made
Carthage
tributary
,
and
subdued
Hannibal
)
what
dyd
Cato
the
elder
called
Censorius
,
that
was
lyuynge
betwene
the
ages
of
bothe
Affricanes
?
what
dyd
other
innumerable
?
For
we
abounde
in
examples
of
our
Romaynes
?
whether
or
no
?
thinke
we
that
they
intended
in
theyr
lyfe
to
desyre
any
thynge
for
their
priuate
welthe
?
but
that
whiche
semed
laudable
and
vertuous
?
Therfore
let
them
come
forthe
all
that
haue
derision
at
this
my
sayinge
and
opinion
/
and
let
them
be
iudges
to
themselve
/
whether
they
had
leuer
be
lyke
to
any
of
them
/
whiche
dyd
abounde
in
the
gorgious
buyldinges
of
marble
/
burnysshed
with
euorye
and
golde
,
whiche
haue
abundaunce
of
ymages
/
tables
,
whiche
haue
abundans
of
graued
golde
and
syluer
,
whiche
haue
great
foyson
of
iuels
of
Corynthus
?
Or
els
to
be
lyke
Quintus
Fabricius
/
whiche
had
nothyng
of
the
afore
recited
/
nor
none
wolde
haue
.
And
suche
men
wyl
be
lightly
perswaded
to
deny
that
these
be
goodes
which
be
turmoyled
nowe
hyther
nowe
thyther
.
But
the
Epicures
streytely
holde
this
/
and
defende
it
diligently
/
that
pleasure
is
perfet
felicite
of
man
,
whiche
voyce
semeth
to
me
,
rather
to
sounde
like
vnto
beastes
than
men
.
Thou
reasonable
man
/
where
as
god
/
or
elles
Nature
the
mother
(
as
I
may
say
)
of
all
thynges
hath
gyuen
to
the
a
soule
:
than
the
whiche
nothynge
is
more
excellent
/
nor
more
spirituall
.
wyll
thou
so
cast
awaye
thy selfe
/
and
throwe
thy selfe
downe
?
That
thou
iudgest
no
difference
to
be
betwene
that
and
a
beest
.
Is
there
any
thyng
good
that
maketh
not
better
hym
that
hath
it
in
possession
?
For
the
more
a
man
is
a
partener
of
goodues
/
the
more
laudable
he
is
.
Nor
there
is
any
thynge
good
/
wherof
he
that
hath
it
may
reioyce
without
dishonestye
.
what
of
the
thynges
that
maketh
a
man
laudable
is
in
voluptuous
plesure
?
(
as
who
sayth
nothyng
)
.
Dothe
voluptuous
pleasure
make
a
man
bett
or
more
laudable
?
(
As
who
sayth
no
)
.
whether
or
no
?
dothe
any
man
auaunce
hym selfe
by
braggynge
or
bostynge
whan
he
opteyneth
his
pleasure
?
as
who
sayth
no.
But
if
so
be
pleasure
/
which
is
defended
by
the
ayde
of
very
many
,
it
is
not
to
be
taken
amonge
thynges
that
be
honest
.
And
the
more
that
plesure
is
/
the
more
it
remoueth
the
minde
from
his
seate
of
quietenes
.
For
a
certente
,
to
lyue
well
and
welthyly
/
is
nothyng
els
,
but
to
lyfe
honest
lye
and
iustly
.
¶
In
whom
vertue
is
,
he
maye
lacke
nothynge
to
lyue
welthylye
.
NOr
I
iudged
at
any
tyme
that
Marcus
Regulus
was
a
man
sorowfull
/
vnhappy
/
or
myserable
.
For
the
magnanimite
of
his
herte
was
not
turmented
of
the
Carthaginenses
/
nother
his
grauite
/
nor
his
fidelite
/
nor
his
constans
/
nor
any
vertue
,
nor
to
conclude
his
manly
stomacke
,
enuironed
with
the
fortresse
of
so
many
vertues
,
and
enclosed
with
so
stronge
a
garyson
of
vtue
.
whan
his
body
was
taken
prisoner
/
surely
he
hym selfe
coude
not
be
a
captyue
.
I
haue
sene
Caius
Marius
whiche
semed
to
me
in
tyme
of
prosperite
/
one
of
the
foriunate
men
,
and
in
aduersite
/
one
of
very
excellent
men
.
Than
the
whiche
Marius
fortunate
ande
valyannte
nothynge
may
chaunce
to
any
mortall
man
more
happyly
Thou
mad
man
.
¶
All
fooles
be
madde
men
agayne
Clodius
.
I
Iudge
the
not
onely
a
foole
,
as
thou
art
many
tymes
,
not
only
a
leude
persone
,
as
thou
arte
at
al
times
,
but
also
out
of
thy
wyt
&
a
mad
man
.
Shal
the
hert
&
stomak
of
a
wise
man
fensed
with
thinges
necessary
to
liue
by
,
with
abundance
of
counsell
,
with
patiens
of
worldly
chaunses
,
with
the
contempte
of
blynde
fortune
,
and
(
to
conclude
)
with
all
maner
of
vertues
,
be
ouercome
&
subdued
,
whiche
can
not
be
expelled
out
of
the
citie
?
For
what
is
a
citie
?
whether
or
no
?
All
the
companye
of
wylde
beastes
and
cruell
?
or
whether
all
the
multitude
of
fugitiue
persones
and
theuysshe
assembled
to gether
in
to
one
place
?
Surely
thou
wylte
saye
no.
Than
that
was
no
citie
,
whan
lawes
toke
no
effecte
therin
,
whan
iudgementes
were
layde
downe
,
whan
the
custome
and
maner
of
the
coūntrey
is
decayed
,
whan
officers
be
expulsed
by
force
of
weapons
,
the
name
of
the
Senate
was
not
fpoken
of
in
the
commenty
.
The
recourse
of
theuys
and
robbynge
&
spoyle
(
Thowe
beinge
captayne
)
was
appoynted
in
the
myddle
of
the
market
place
,
And
remaynes
or
resydue
with
suche
as
were
confederate
in
the
conspiracie
of
Cati.
+line
,
was
retourned
to
the
myschyefe
and
fur●e
of
the
,
it
was
no
cite
.
Therfore
I
am
not
expulsed
out
of
the
citie
,
whiche
was
none
,
I
was
called
in
to
the
citie
,
to
th
entent
,
that
a
Consul
shuld
be
in
the
cite
,
whiche
notwithstandinge
was
no
Consul
in
dede
,
&
to
th
entent
a
Senate
shuld
be
,
whiche
that
time
was
decaied
to
th
entent
the
concent
of
the
people
shuld
be
fre
&
to
th
entent
that
remembrans
of
right
&
equite
shulde
be
reuoked
,
which
be
the
sure
bandes
of
a
citie
/
But
regarde
howe
I
haue
dispised
the
weappons
of
this
thine
roberi
I
haue
thought
thy
wycked
iniury
tost
&
cast
by
the
vpon
me
,
yet
I
iudged
that
it
shuld
neuer
haue
come
to
me
,
excepte
parauenture
whan
thou
dyd
distroble
the
walles
,
or
elles
what
time
thou
brought
in
myschyuous
fyrebrandes
to
sette
the
houses
of
fyre
,
thou
thoughte
that
some
of
my
goodes
shuld
decaye
in
to
the
citie
or
brene
.
But
there
is
nothing
myne
,
nor
any
other
mans
,
that
maye
be
taken
awaye
,
that
maye
be
stollen
,
that
maye
be
looste
.
If
thou
shuldeste
haue
taken
fro
me
the
longe
constauns
of
my
mynde
/
my
cares
,
watches
,
counsels
in
the
commen
welthe
,
whiche
common
welth
standeth
in
prosperite
by
my
cares
and
watches
of
me
.
If
thou
shuldest
haue
fordone
the
immortall
memorie
of
this
my
eternall
benefite
:
&
moche
rather
if
thou
haddest
taken
away
that
mynde
wherof
these
counselles
dyd
issue
fro
me
.
Than
wold
I
haue
confessed
,
that
I
had
taken
wronge
.
But
if
so
be
thou
nother
did
this
nor
coude
do
this
,
thy
iniury
gaue
vnto
me
a
famous
returne
,
not
a
sorowful
departyng
away
.
Therfore
I
at
all
tymes
haue
be
a
citesyn
,
and
that
tyme
specially
whan
the
holle
Senate
commended
to
straunge
nations
my
helthe
and
lyfe
as
of
a
speciall
citesn
.
Arte
thou
now
a
citesin
?
except
perauenture
the
same
may
be
an
ennemy
&
a
citesyn
.
whether
or
no
dost
thou
diuide
a
citesin
from
Turrian
ennemy
,
by
nature
&
place
/
not
by
his
mynd
&
dedes
.
Thou
dyd
murdre
in
the
market
place
.
Thou
tokest
the
temples
wyth
the
vose
in
harnes
.
Thou
setest
on
fire
the
houses
of
priuat
men
,
&
holi
places
whi
shuld
Spartachus
be
taken
for
an
ennemye
and
thou
a
citesyn
?
May
thou
be
a
citezyn
.
For
whose
sake
sometyme
the
citie
of
Rome
was
no
citie
?
And
callest
thou
me
a
banisshed
man
aft
thi
name
?
where
as
all
men
iudged
that
the
comen
welthe
was
banisshed
bi
mi
deꝑting
thens
?
wil
thou
neuer
loke
about
the
thou
starke
mad
man
?
will
thou
neuer
considre
what
thou
doest
?
or
what
thou
saist
?
Knowest
not
thou
that
exyle
is
punysshmente
of
myschyefe
?
And
that
my
iourney
was
taken
to
do
very
noble
actes
here
before
time
al
mischeuous
&
vngracōus
persones
,
of
whom
thou
professeth
that
thou
arte
captayne
,
whom
the
lawe
wylle
to
be
punysshed
with
ey
exyle
.
Be
they
banysshed
men
,
though
they
change
nother
soyle
nor
countrey
?
Than
whether
or
no
?
whan
all
lawes
iudge
the
to
be
a
banysshed
man
,
wyll
thou
not
be
a
banysshed
man
?
He
is
not
called
an
ennemye
/
whiche
hathe
ben
before
the
Senate
with
his
weapon
/
thy
skeine
(
wher
with
thou
slewest
a
man
)
was
taken
all
blodye
.
Is
not
he
to
be
taken
an
ennemye
that
hath
kylled
a
man
?
ey
and
thou
hast
kylled
many
.
Is
not
he
an
ennemye
that
setteth
fyre
in
the
cite
?
Thy
handes
set
fyre
vpon
the
temple
of
virgins
.
Is
not
he
an
enemye
that
inuadeth
the
temples
of
the
goddes
?
Thou
dyd
pytche
thy
tentes
in
the
iudiciall
place
of
Rome
.
But
where
to
shulde
I
speake
of
the
commune
lawes
that
thou
hast
broken
?
by
the
whiche
all
&
singler
thou
art
a
banisshed
man
?
Thy
chyefe
familiar
Ceser
made
a
lawe
for
the
,
that
if
so
be
thou
came
within
the
secrete
place
of
the
goddes
called
Bonadea
,
thou
shulde
be
banysshed
,
But
thou
arte
wont
to
make
thy
boste
also
,
that
thou
dyd
so
.
By
what
reason
than
was
thou
caste
in
to
exile
by
so
many
lawes
?
dost
not
thou
abhorre
the
name
of
a
bannyshed
man
?
¶
That
all
wise
men
be
fre
men
,
and
all
fooles
bande
men
.
¶
Here
Tully
disputeth
agayne
Anthonius
.
MAye
the
emperour
Anthonius
be
praysed
?
or
also
maye
he
be
named
emperour
?
or
may
he
be
thoughte
worthye
that
name
?
by
what
reason
may
he
haue
Emppire
?
or
to
conclude
what
freman
man
may
he
gouerne
that
canne
not
gouerne
his
afferccions
and
desyres
.
Fyrst
let
hym
brydle
his
owne
lewed
lustes
/
suppresse
his
waunton
pleasures
/
modifye
his
fume
of
ire
/
restrayne
his
auarice
and
put
awaye
other
spottes
and
blemmishes
of
his
soule
.
Than
let
hym
begyn
to
rule
other
,
whan
he
shall
ceasse
to
obeye
to
theyr
fylthy
and
lewed
maistres
,
shame
infamye
,
and
villinous
lyfe
.
For
whyles
he
doth
obey
to
them
/
he
is
not
onely
not
to
be
taken
as
an
emperour
/
nor
yet
in
any
wyse
as
a
fre
man
.
This
prouerbe
notable
is
vsed
of
well
lerned
men
,
whose
authoryte
I
wolde
not
vse
yf
I
shulde
make
this
oracion
before
some
rude
persons
.
But
for
as
mych
as
I
speke
before
very
prudent
and
syngler
lerned
men
,
to
whome
suche
thynges
be
not
vnharde
,
wherfore
shulde
I
semble
my selfe
to
haue
loste
my
labour
,
yf
I
haue
bestowed
any
in
suche
maner
of
studye
.
For
where
it
ys
sayde
of
syngler
lerned
men
/
that
no
man
is
a
free
man
except
he
be
wyse
.
For
what
is
libertie
?
power
and
free
choyse
to
do
what
thou
woll
.
who
than
liueth
as
he
woll
?
but
he
that
taketh
ryght
wayes
,
and
he
that
enioyeth
in
honestye
,
to
whome
the
waye
of
lyuynge
is
consydereth
&
prouideth
before
/
which
obeyeth
the
lawes
,
not
for
drede
,
but
foloweth
them
and
kepeth
them
,
bycause
he
iudgeth
that
to
be
moste
wholsome
.
whiche
nothynge
saieth
,
nothynge
doeth
,
nothynge
to
conclude
thynketh
,
but
wyth
hys
good
wyll
and
not
coacte
/
whose
entencyons
all
and
singuler
,
and
all
thynges
that
he
goth
about
,
cometh
forth
fro
hym selfe
of
free
wyll
and
returneth
the
same
way
.
Nor
there
is
any
thynge
that
is
more
acceptable
to
hym
,
than
his
owne
wyll
and
iudgement
.
To
whome
also
fortune
(
whiche
is
sayde
to
beyre
moste
power
)
doth
herselfe
gyue
place
,
As
the
wyse
poete
sayde
,
Euery
man
vseth
his
owne
maners
.
Therfore
this
one
thynge
chaunseth
vnto
a
wyse
man
onely
,
that
he
doth
nothynge
agayn
his
wyll
/
nothynge
with
heuynesse
/
nothynge
by
compulsyon
.
wherfore
for
as
mych
as
I
must
dispute
by
longe
cyrcumstaunce
/
that
it
is
so
/
notwithstandynge
the
same
is
to
be
confessed
&
that
breuely
,
that
no
man
is
fre
,
except
any
man
be
so
affeccionate
as
is
saide
before
.
Therfore
all
fooles
be
bond
men
.
Nor
this
is
so
contrary
to
the
comen
opinion
and
meruelouse
in
ded●
,
but
also
in
worde
.
For
philosop●ers
name
not
them
bond
men
as
●●che
whiche
be
take
in
warre
whiche
been
so
made
by
a
bonde
of
theyr
gouernours
/
by
any
lawe
ciu●●e
.
But
yf
there
be
any
bonda●●
(
as
is
the
obedience
of
a
faynt
an●
cowarde
stomacke
,
lackynge
his
owne
fre
wyll
)
who
can
denye
th●●
all
lyght
brayned
fellowes
,
al●●●uetyse
persones
,
all
to
conclude
lewed
vnthriftes
to
be
.
And
rude
lyke
as
in
a
great
howshold
of
seruauntes
some
be
more
clenly
as
they
thynke
them selfe
/
yf
so
be
seruantes
be
seruantes
to
theyr
own
follye
by
lyke
act
,
whom
images
,
tables
,
whom
siluer
plate
/
whom
iuels
of
Corinthus
/
whose
gorges
buyldynges
with
curiouse
workemanshyp
doth
delyte
and
please
.
And
we
be
they
saye
chyef
rulers
of
the
city
,
you
be
rulers
of
your
seruauntes
But
like
as
in
a
gret
housholde
such
as
excercise
these
thynges
,
whiche
scowre
&
oyle
,
which
swepe
and
brushe
,
whiche
strawe
the
chambres
,
kepe
a
rowme
of
bondage
not
most
honest
.
So
in
the
citye
of
Rome
suche
as
haue
gyue
them selfe
to
the
affeccyons
and
desyrous
of
suche
thynges
afore
sayd
(
as
vile
pleosures
)
occupye
almoste
the
vilest
rowme
of
suche
seruitute
.
I
haue
made
Here
Tully
tauntes
hye
Braggynge
parsons
.
great
battels
(
thou
sayest
)
I
haue
ruled
great
empyres
and
prouinces
/
shewe
thou
than
a
stomake
worthy
to
be
praysed
.
But
thy
spoyle
and
robbery
to
be
sold
openly
letteth
the
,
or
some
image
that
Policletus
made
.
I
merueyle
fro
whens
thou
stele
away
,
how
dyd
thou
behaue
thy selfe
after
thy
spoyle
and
fraude
gasynge
amased
/
and
takynge
vp
an
exclamacyon
/
whan
I
se
this
,
I
iudge
the
a
band
man
of
all
folly
,
and
waunton
tutches
.
But
than
be
not
these
thynges
afore
sayde
comely
and
gorges
?
Let
theym
be
so
,
but
we
haue
tryed
eyes
to
discerne
suche
thynges
/
but
I
praye
ye
let
them
be
extemed
gorges
and
comely
so
that
they
entangle
not
wyse
men
but
let
them
be
taken
as
poppettes
&
tryfles
that
please
chyldern
what
iudgeth
thou
yf
Lucius
Minutius
Lutius
Mutius
dysttroyed
Corrynthus
that
yt
shulde
not
rebell
agayne
the
Romans
shulde
haue
seen
any
of
these
lasciuious
persons
(
that
bragge
them selfe
to
be
chyefe
rulers
)
what
thynketh
thou
of
Matellio
of
Corinthus
,
that
full
desyrously
handeleth
such
iuels
/
where
as
he
the
sayd
Minutius
despised
Corinthus
wholy
.
whyther
wolde
Minutius
exteme
Matellio
to
be
an
excellent
citesyn
?
or
ellys
a
dylygent
seruaunt
of
the
court
/
I
wold
Marcus
Curius
were
a
life
agayn
or
some
of
them
in
whose
grandge
in
the
countre
and
house
at
home
no
gorgesse
thynge
,
no
freshe
ornament
was
besyde
them selfes
.
And
I
wolde
that
he
myghte
beholde
some
man
that
is
set
in
hye
offyce
and
authoryte
by
the
people
/
catchynge
and
handelyng
out
of
the
fyshe
pounde
Barbles
&
mullettes
/
and
takyng
great
pleasure
in
the
multitude
of
lampreys
.
wolde
not
Marcus
Curius
exteme
that
man
so
bonde
/
that
he
wold
iudge
that
he
were
not
worthy
any
rowmeth
in
a
howshold
/
whither
or
no
/
is
there
bondage
doutfull
?
whiche
refuse
no
condicyon
of
bondage
/
for
the
couetous
mynde
that
they
haue
to
money
.
The
hope
and
truste
of
enheritaunce
what
vnreasonable
payne
of
bondage
woll
he
take
vppon
hym
?
what
bekke
of
a
ryche
olde
churle
hauynge
no
chyldre
woll
not
a
couetyse
wretche
merke
and
watche
?
what
so
euer
is
sayde
he
spekes
after
the
olde
churles
pleasure
,
he
doth
after
his
pleasure
,
he
flatereth
,
he
sytteth
by
hym
yf
he
be
sykke
/
he
pleaseth
the
olde
chorle
.
which
of
all
these
poyntes
belong
to
a
gentylman
?
whiche
of
these
tutches
(
to
conclude
)
do
perteyne
but
to
a
bande
man
dilygent
to
please
?
Here
Tully
toucheth
ambitious
parsons
that
be
couytous
of
honoure
.
Now
what
is
that
inordinate
couetise
of
honour
?
empire
gouernaunce
of
prynces
?
whiche
semeth
to
resemble
more
gentylnes
,
or
fre
hart
.
Howe
harde
and
payfull
a
maystres
is
she
/
howe
emperious
&
sharpe
a
maystres
is
she
?
That
thynge
compelled
such
men
whiche
extemed
theym selfe
iolly
felowes
,
to
do
seruice
&
to
sende
priuely
by
nyght
tyme
brybes
to
Cethegus
Cethegus
was
one
of
the
conspiracy
of
Catel
a
man
not
moost
allowed
/
&
to
come
to
hym
by
nyght
tyme
and
to
entreate
hym
/
also
vpon
handes
and
fete
to
beseche
hym
of
fauoure
.
what
bondage
is
there
?
yf
this
may
be
extemed
a
lybertye
.
what
shall
we
saye
?
whan
the
empyre
of
couetyse
desyres
is
gone
,
and
another
ruler
and
mayster
drede
is
rysen
vp
of
the
conscyence
and
remorse
of
euyll
dedes
.
Howe
wretched
and
harde
a
maystres
is
bondage
?
A
man
must
studye
to
please
yonge
boyes
,
which
be
somwhat
at
blabbe
&
lyberall
of
tongue
,
and
all
that
seme
to
knowe
any
thynge
they
be
dredde
as
they
were
lordes
&
gouerners
,
what
authorite
hath
a
iudge
?
with
what
drede
doth
he
punysh
an
euyll
doer
,
whyther
or
no
/
is
not
euery
drede
a
bondage
?
what
than
auayled
that
oracyon
of
the
very
eloquent
man
Lucius
Crassus
?
more
full
of
eloquence
than
of
wysdome
(
wherin
he
sayde
)
O
ye
noble
senatours
deliuer
vs
Romaynes
out
of
bondage
,
what
bondage
is
this
to
so
famous
a
man
,
and
so
noble
a
man
?
For
all
feblenes
and
weykenes
of
harte
,
stoppyng
cowardnes
and
soone
ouer
caste
is
a
bondage
and
villeyny
.
Suffer
not
vs
(
sayde
Crassus
)
to
be
in
bondage
to
any
man
.
He
woll
by
reuengynge
be
set
in
to
lybertye
,
no
,
what
adioyneth
he
more
?
but
to
you
vniuersall
to
chaunge
your
gouerner
.
He
woll
be
no
gentylman
or
fre
man
(
where
he
sayth
)
to
whom
you
we
maye
&
are
bounde
to
do
seruice
.
But
we
(
because
we
be
of
a
manly
and
an
hye
stomakke
and
enuiront
with
vertue
)
saye
,
we
nother
be
bonde
nor
maye
be
in
seruitute
.
Thou
Crassus
saye
that
thou
maye
be
in
seruitute
for
bycause
thou
may
Thou
can
not
say
thou
arte
bond
For
no
man
is
bounde
to
restore
any
thynge
/
but
that
is
shameful
not
to
restore
.
¶
That
a
wyse
man
onely
is
ryche
.
WHat
meanethe
thys
prowde
Here
Tully
inueyeth
agaynst
Crassus
for
hys
insaciable
couetyse
of
ryches
.
of
so
great
customes
and
reuenewes
now
this
longe
tyme
is
scantly
able
to
attayne
vnto
.
Therfore
in
thys
purpose
thou
shall
neuer
be
a
riche
man
/
before
the
tyme
that
so
mych
prouentes
yssue
out
of
thy
possessyons
/
so
that
thou
maye
be
able
to
maynteyne
therby
.vi.
legyons
/
also
greate
wynges
of
horse
men
or
fote
men
.
Therfore
now
thou
confesseth
that
thou
acte
not
ryche
,
whyche
lakketh
so
mych
to
accomplishe
that
thynge
that
thou
desyres
.
Therfore
thou
neuer
toke
obscurely
but
manyfestely
this
thy
pouerty
and
rather
thy
necessyte
and
beggarly
degre
.
Here
he
calleth
Crassus
a
begger
.
For
lyke
as
we
iuge
that
they
which
gette
geynes
by
honest
maner
in
makynge
of
merchaundyse
/
in
settynge
&
lettynge
out
workemen
for
hoyre
&
money
in
takynge
to
ferme
customes
&
tolles
/
hath
nede
of
gaynes
.
So
he
that
seeth
at
home
at
thy
house
the
resorte
of
suters
and
iudges
accompanyed
togyder
/
he
that
seeth
these
wronge
doers
/
and
suche
that
be
gylte
full
of
money
labouryng
(
thou
beynge
theyr
patrone
)
to
corrupte
the
trewe
iudgement
by
brybes
,
whiche
seeth
thy
compaccions
for
tuicyon
in
theyr
causes
diminished
by
reason
of
thy
promesse
not
kepte
/
he
that
seeth
thy
compaccions
in
eleccions
of
such
men
that
labour
to
be
in
office
to
be
lykewyse
withdrawen
,
for
lacke
of
thy
promyse
not
kepte
/
whiche
seeth
the
sendynge
forth
of
suche
as
thou
haste
made
fremen
/
to
other
countreys
to
occupye
vsury
/
to
poll
and
shaue
prouinces
and
countreys
by
pyllage
.
That
seeth
expulsyon
of
thy
neyghbours
ou●
theyr
habitacions
/
whiche
se
thy
robbery
in
the
countreys
about
/
which
seeth
thy
famylyarite
with
thy
vile
bond
men
and
free
men
/
with
thy
clientes
,
&
all
for
money
.
whiche
se
thy
landes
and
possessions
stande
desolate
,
by
reason
of
thy
pyllage
&
expulsyon
of
tenauntes
/
whiche
the
bannyshment
of
ryche
men
,
which
seeth
the
morder
of
fre
holders
/
whiche
remembreth
that
harrost
and
spoyle
in
the
tyme
of
Silla
/
whiche
seeth
the
forged
testamentes
/
whiche
remembreth
that
all
thynge
was
to
be
solde
wyth
the
for
money
/
as
mustre
of
men
,
none
accept
without
money
decre
and
sentens
made
by
the
senate
/
the
sentens
gyue
by
an
other
man
/
lyke
wise
sentens
gyue
by
hym
/
causes
iudiciall
,
lettyng
no
man
in
at
his
durres
excepte
he
brought
somwhat
/
hys
voyce
in
persuadynge
for
any
man
/
his
silens
forberynge
to
speke
agayne
any
man
without
money
.
who
wold
not
iudge
but
he
wold
confesse
that
he
hadde
nede
of
gaynes
●
who
wolde
repute
at
any
tyme
that
he
is
ryche
,
whiche
hath
nede
of
gadderynge
and
gaynes
?
For
the
frute
of
ryches
is
in
pleynteth
.
The
satysfieng
of
a
mans
mynde
sheweth
pleynteth
and
aboundans
of
goodes
whiche
thou
by
reason
thou
can
not
attayne
shall
neuer
be
riche
/
bycause
thou
disprayses
my
poore
substaunce
,
and
ryghtfully
(
for
it
is
but
meane
after
the
opinion
of
the
comen
people
/
and
after
thyne
opinion
no
substauns
and
after
myne
lytell
)
of
my selfe
I
wyll
not
speke
/
I
w●ll
speke
of
the
/
yf
the
mater
be
put
to
my
iudgement
and
estimacion
/
whyther
in
conclusyon
whyther
I
shall
exteme
more
the
money
of
Pyrrhus
whiche
he
gaue
to
Fabricus
/
or
the
continents
of
Fabricus
,
which
forsoke
the
sayd
money
?
whyther
I
shall
exteme
more
the
golde
of
the
Samnetes
;
or
the
vnsuer
of
Marius
Curius
?
whyther
the
enherytaunce
of
Lucius
Paulus
,
or
the
liberalyte
of
Affricane
whiche
gaue
vnto
his
brother
Ostintus
Marimus
his
part
of
enheritans
.
Surely
these
that
be
better
membres
of
singuler
vertues
/
be
more
to
be
extemed
than
they
that
be
membres
of
money
.
Than
who
douteth
,
yf
so
be
the
more
a
man
haue
in
his
possessyon
;
the
more
ryche
he
is
to
be
extemed
.
But
ryches
is
in
vertue
/
for
no
possessyon
no
aboundans
of
golde
&
syluer
/
is
to
be
compted
more
of
valour●
than
vertue
.
O
ye
goddes
immortall
,
men
knowe
not
how
great
a
gayne
or
profyte
is
for
a
man
to
be
a
sparer
and
a
sauer
?
For
now
I
woll
come
to
sumptuouse
spenders
/
I
lette
passe
this
great
geyner
Crassus
/
he
receyueth
of
hys
annuall
rentes
.vi.
C.
sesterce
whiche
is
.xviii.
C.li.
I
but
an
hundreth
of
myne
he
hath
,
that
maketh
the
roofes
of
his
house
gylte
in
his
maner
places
/
&
the
floures
or
pauimentes
of
marble
and
that
couettes
to
haue
gloriouse
images
,
tables
curiously
depicte
houshold
stuffe
and
apparell
out
of
measure
/
hath
but
small
substans
to
expende
for
his
own
vse
/
nor
after
his
encrease
of
profyte
.
Of
my
poore
reuenewes
/
the
expenses
/
that
I
made
for
th
entent
of
lucre
/
take
away
yet
sūe
ouerplus
shall
remayne
,
Than
whedre
is
more
ryche
he
that
lakketh
or
he
that
hath
suffycyent
withe
the
ouerplus
?
he
that
is
nedy
or
he
that
hath
habundaunce
?
whedre
is
rycher
he
?
that
the
more
possessions
that
he
hath
/
the
more
hit
requyreth
to
defende
it selfe
?
or
eles
he
whos
possession
doth
bere
it selfe
?
But
wherfore
do
I
speake
of
my selfe
?
whyche
am
trobled
sumwhat
with
the
myserye
of
the
euill
maners
of
this
tyme
?
ey
paraduenture
with
the
erroure
&
blyndnes
of
this
wreched
worlde
,
Marcus
Manlius
whome
oure
fathers
myght
remembre
/
lest
we
shulde
speke
alwayes
of
Curins
&
Luscinius
/
was
a
pore
man
at
the
last
,
For
he
had
a
place
in
Carinis
,
&
a
percel
of
grounde
in
Labicano
.
Therfore
we
be
riche
which
haue
more
,
wolde
to
god
we
were
so
in
dede
,
But
the
mesure
and
quantytie
of
money
/
is
determyned
or
taken
not
by
estemacion
of
riches
but
by
meate
and
drynke
and
apparrell
/
it
is
a
gayne
and
profet
/
not
to
be
couetyse
of
money
/
no●
to
a
great
occupyer
in
byeng
and
seling
/
A
man
to
be
content
with
his
owne
goodes
and
suche
as
he
hath
/
is
the
gretest
and
the
most
sure
ryches
for
though
these
crafty
and
subtel
praysers
/
do
prayse
meadous
/
and
certeyn
groundes
at
a
greate
pryce
/
because
/
as
a
man
woll
say
/
there
can
no
hurte
be
done
to
this
maner
of
possessyons
,
how
greate
a
pryce
shall
we
exteme
vertue
to
be
worth
?
which
nother
can
be
violently
take
from
vs
,
nor
be
priuely
stoolne
,
nor
is
loste
by
wrake
vppon
the
see
,
nor
by
fyre
,
nor
is
chaunged
by
mutacyon
of
trobles
tempest
,
nor
of
tyme
,
with
the
which
they
that
be
indewed
,
they
onely
be
ryche
For
theye
onelye
doo
possede
goodes
frutefull
,
and
euerlastynge
,
and
theye
onelye
,
whyche
thynge
ys
appropred
to
ryches
,
be
contente
wythe
that
goodes
whyche
theye
haue
they
iude
it
suffycyent
that
they
haue
,
they
couet
no
thynge
,
they
nede
nothyng
,
they
fele
no
lakke
,
they
require
nothing
,
But
noughty
and
nygarde
parsons
,
whiche
haue
possessions
and
ryches
vncerteyne
,
and
standynge
in
casuall
chaunce
,
and
alwayes
couet
more
,
nor
ther
is
any
of
them
founde
which
was
content
with
that
substance
that
theye
had
,
or
to
be
externed
not
onely
no
welthy
and
ryche
men
,
But
rather
nedye
&
poore
beggers
.
Finis
.