THE
FIRST
INFORMATION
.
The
Society
of
Polititians
open
a
Ware-House
in
Parnassus
,
Wherein
are
sold
divers
sorts
of
Merchandize
,
very
usefull
for
the
vertuous
living
of
those
that
are
Learned
.
THe
Business
so
many
Moneths
in
Agitation
between
the
Society
of
Polititians
,
and
the
Ministri
Camerali
,
touching
the
opening
of
a
Publick
Ware
house
in
Parnassus
,
with
large
Priviledges
for
Polititians
,
was
the
last
Week
fully
concluded
;
and
they
yesterday
made
a
Glorious
Shew
in
the
Piazza
,
of
all
such
things
as
men
stand
most
in
need
of
:
Wherefore
Menante
thinks
not
much
to
acquaint
you
here
with
the
chiefest
of
them
,
firmly
believing
,
that
all
gallant
men
will
be
pleased
with
the
notice
thereof
.
In
the
first
place
,
great
store
of
Stuffing
,
or
Bombast
,
not
prized
by
the
meaner
sort
of
men
,
but
highly
esteemed
by
understanding
Courtiers
,
is
sold
in
this
Ware-house
:
For
those
of
great
capacity
,
know
that
the
shavings
of
those
finest
Clothes
which
wise
men
weave
with
the
superfine
Wool
of
forbearance
,
serves
to
stuff
up
the
Pack-Saddles
of
Slavery
,
to
the
end
that
they
may
sit
the
more
easily
upon
the
backs
of
those
wretched
Courtiers
,
and
not
gall
their
lean
sides
so
horribly
,
as
the
sides
of
some
are
seen
to
be
,
who
though
they
be
known
to
detest
labour
,
are
perswaded
notwithstanding
to
go
to
Court
,
with
assured
hopes
of
spending
their
time
there
merrily
,
and
to
command
others
,
though
they
themselves
serve
.
It
is
very
observable
,
that
some
young
men
,
though
they
live
at
home
in
the.
Fathers
houses
,
have
bought
good
store
of
this
pretious
Stuffing
,
to
bolster
up
some
smal
Pack
saddles
,
which
they
make
use
of
in
private
houses
,
to
the
end
that
they
may
not
come
like
raw
Colts
unto
the
Court
,
and
that
when
they
shall
first
undergo
that
weighty
Pack-saddle
of
Court
servitude
,
they
may
not
commit
those
senceless
absurdities
,
which
cause
the
Court
Colt-breakers
,
to
lash
them
with
bitter
distastes
,
the
better
to
inure
them
to
that
toilsom
slavery
.
There
is
likewise
sold
in
the
same
Ware-house
,
store
of
Pensils
,
which
are
very
excellent
for
those
Princes
,
who
upon
urgent
occasions
are
forced
to
paint
white
for
black
unto
the
people
:
And
although
this
be
a
Merchandize
proper
onely
for
Princes
,
yet
do
these
false
Cheaters
provide
themselves
thereof
,
who
setting
their
best
leg
forward
,
mind
only
mocking
and
cosenage
,
and
to
feed
the
silly
multitude
with
fair
words
,
and
foul
deeds
.
They
have
also
abundance
of
Spectacles
,
very
wonderfull
,
and
of
great
use
:
Some
of
them
serve
to
give
light
to
those
libidinous
men
,
who
amidst
their
goatish
lusts
,
grow
so
short
sighted
,
as
they
cannot
discern
between
honour
and
shame
,
not
know
a
friend
from
an
enemy
,
a
meer
stranger
from
a
Kinsman
,
nor
any
thing
else
to
which
respect
ought
to
be
given
.
So
great
is
the
riddance
which
these
Polititians
make
of
these
kind
of
Spectacles
,
as
it
is
evidently
known
that
few
men
see
well
in
carnal
affairs
.
There
are
other
Spectacles
of
a
clear
contrary
operation
,
which
keep
men
from
seeing
the
light
;
and
the
Polititians
affirm
,
that
though
they
be
generally
good
for
all
men
,
yet
are
they
particularly
more
useful
for
Courtiers
,
then
those
which
enlarge
the
sight
.
For
many
loathsom
things
present
themselves
often
to
the
sight
of
worthy
men
;
upon
which
,
if
you
shall
turn
your
back
,
you
may
peradventure
draw
upon
you
the
ill
will
of
Potent
men
;
and
to
behold
them
,
is
to
martyrize
ones
self
.
He
who
upon
such
an
occasion
puts
a
pair
of
these
miraculous
Spectacles
upon
his
nose
,
shall
thereby
free
himself
from
the
trouble
of
seeing
the
naucious
things
of
this
wicked
and
corrupted
world
,
and
shall
make
the
foolish
rabble
believe
that
he
eyes
them
very
accuratly
.
Others
serve
to
preserve
the
sight
of
unworthy
men
,
who
the
very
day
that
they
have
received
any
new
dignity
,
lean
towards
ingratitude
.
The
Masters
of
the
Ware-house
say
that
they
are
made
of
the
tenacious
memory
of
benefits
received
,
and
past
friendships
.
But
very
miraculous
is
the
workmanship
of
those
Spectacles
which
make
Fleas
appear
to
be
Elephants
,
and
Pigmies
Giants
;
these
are
greedily
bought
up
by
great
Personages
,
who
putting
them
upon
the
noses
of
unfortunate
Courtiers
,
do
thereby
work
such
an
alteration
in
the
eye-sight
of
those
wretches
,
as
,
if
their
Lord
do
but
lay
his
hand
upon
their
shoulders
,
or
do
but
cast
an
artificial
smile
upon
them
,
they
take
it
as
acceptably
as
a
reward
of
500
hundred
Crowns
a
year
.
But
the
Spectacles
lately
invented
in
Flanders
,
are
bought
at
the
dearest
rates
by
men
of
highest
rank
,
which
they
give
to
their
Servants
,
thereby
making
rewards
and
dignities
appear
near
unto
them
,
which
their
sight
cannot
reach
unto
,
and
which
peradventure
they
shall
never
arrive
at
as
long
as
they
live
.
There
are
sold
Moreover
in
the
same
Shop
(
but
at
a
very
dear
rate
)
Humane
Eyes
,
which
are
of
admirable
use
;
for
it
is
not
to
be
beleived
how
much
men
better
their
own
affairs
,
when
they
look
upon
them
with
the
eyes
of
other
men
.
Nay
the
very
Polititians
themselves
affirm
,
that
a
man
cannot
arrive
at
that
so
excellent
vertue
so
much
endeavored
by
great
men
,
of
Nosce
te
ipsum
by
any
other
instrument
better
then
by
these
.
There
are
certain
Compasses
also
sold
in
the
same
Shop
,
not
made
of
Silver
,
Brass
,
or
steel
,
but
of
the
purest
interest
of
unspotted
reputation
,
which
is
to
be
found
in
point
of
honour
;
and
they
are
exceeding
good
to
measure
a
mans
own
actions
by
:
For
it
is
known
by
experience
,
that
Compasses
made
of
the
base
materials
of
Capriciousness
,
and
of
sole
Interest
,
prove
not
just
to
those
who
in
all
their
affairs
desire
to
draw
paralel
lines
.
These
Compasses
are
excellently
good
for
those
who
know
how
to
use
them
exactly
,
to
take
the
just
latitude
of
those
ditches
which
other
men
out
of
honour
are
forced
to
leap
clean
over
,
so
to
keep
from
falling
into
the
midst
,
and
from
burying
themselves
shamefully
in
the
mire
of
Indiscretion
.
Nor
can
Scapethrifts
who
have
but
the
purse
of
a
private
man
,
yet
will
spend
like
a
Prince
,
learn
the
requisite
vertue
of
cutting
their
Coats
according
to
their
cloath
,
by
any
instrument
better
then
by
this
.
They
do
likewise
sell
Mathematical
Instruments
,
used
by
Surveyors
,
which
are
very
necessary
perfectly
to
deliniate
those
with
whom
one
hath
to
treat
in
great
affairs
,
or
to
impart
important
secrets
.
The
same
Shop
vents
likewise
great
store
of
certain
Iron
Instruments
,
not
unlike
such
as
are
used
by
Surgeans
and
Tooth-drawers
;
and
they
serve
to
enlarge
the
jawes
of
unfortunate
Courtiers
,
who
being
to
make
vertue
of
necessity
,
are
oft-times
forced
to
swallow
down
great
Pompions
,
instead
of
little
Mastick
Pils
.
They
have
likewise
great
store
of
Besoms
,
made
of
Circumspection
,
which
the
wariest
Courtiers
make
provision
of
,
diligently
to
clense
the
staires
both
morning
and
evening
,
from
those
dangerous
beans
scattered
thereupon
by
such
malignant
people
,
who
delighting
more
in
spoyling
other
mens
affairs
,
then
in
accommodating
their
own
,
practice
nothing
but
how
to
break
the
neck
of
reputation
of
men
of
honour
.
There
you
may
likewise
have
(
but
at
the
weight
of
Gold
)
very
fine
Ink
,
which
being
well
made
use
of
upon
paper
,
by
the
labour
of
learned
Writers
,
serves
to
imbalm
and
perfume
the
dead
bodies
of
vertuous
men
;
whereas
the
bodies
of
the
ignorant
cast
forth
a
horrible
stench
,
and
are
soon
turned
to
ashes
:
and
by
this
Ink
only
are
the
names
of
learned
men
eternized
in
memory
,
when
the
like
of
the
ignorant
,
perish
as
soon
as
their
eyes
are
closed
:
A
Balsom
certainly
of
more
then
humane
vertue
,
since
those
who
anoynt
themselves
therewith
,
live
after
death
,
and
parting
only
with
their
body
from
the
world
,
abide
there
eternally
in
the
memory
of
their
Writings
.
These
Polititians
enrich
themselves
likewise
much
by
an
Oyle
which
they
sell
,
which
hath
sundry
times
been
experimented
to
be
good
for
the
strengthening
of
Courtiers
stomacks
,
to
the
end
,
that
without
weakening
the
complexion
of
Patients
,
these
unfortunate
people
may
chearfully
digest
the
bitter
distastes
which
they
are
so
often
enforced
to
swallow
down
at
Court
.
There
is
likewise
sold
in
little
Glass
Viols
(
of
which
Menante
,
who
writes
these
things
,
had
the
good
fortune
to
come
by
some
very
cheap
)
odoriferous
humane
sweat
,
very
admirable
to
perfume
those
,
who
by
the
fragrancy
of
the
Musk
,
and
Civet
of
their
honourable
labours
,
desire
to
appear
amongst
the
learned
with
pen
in
hand
.
The
same
Shop
vents
much
Pa●…te-royal
,
very
good
to
sharpen
the
appetite
of
certain
obstinate
Stoicks
,
to
the
end
that
they
may
greedily
swallow
down
the
loathsom
things
of
this
world
;
which
,
though
they
nauseate
others
very
much
,
and
go
absolutely
against
the
stomacks
of
good
men
;
yet
some
,
that
they
may
not
draw
upon
them
the
displeasure
of
powerfull
men
,
and
so
disorder
their
own
affairs
,
are
forced
to
seem
very
desirous
of
them
,
and
to
hunger
after
them
.
There
are
moreover
in
this
Shop
many
Boxes
of
perfumed
Comfeits
,
very
good
to
sweeten
the
breath
of
such
Councellers
,
Secretaries
,
and
Senators
,
as
are
bound
to
suffer
their
secrets
to
putrifie
in
their
bodies
.
In
a
room
apart
,
they
sell
Horse
.
Trammels
,
made
of
Iron
of
maturity
,
which
though
they
be
abhorred
by
some
foolish
people
,
as
Instruments
fit
for
Beasts
,
yet
advized
men
have
purchased
them
so
much
credit
,
as
they
are
bought
at
dear
rates
by
those
forward
and
precipitate
Wits
,
who
strangely
apprehending
the
juditious
maturity
of
the
weekly
Carrier
,
delight
in
speedily
dispatching
their
affairs
by
the
Post.
But
there
is
no
Merchandize
in
this
Ware-House
which
sels
better
,
then
certain
Fans
,
not
made
of
the
Feathers
of
Ostriches
or
Peacocks
,
or
any
other
better
coloured
Bird
,
but
of
Herbs
and
Flowres
;
and
because
Andrew
Matthiolo
,
the
Delfick
Herbarist
,
found
out
amongst
those
Flowres
and
Herbs
,
the
Infernal
Wolfebane
,
the
wary
Vertuosi
of
Parnassus
have
clearly
discovered
,
that
those
mysterious
Fans
serve
not
to
coole
ones
self
in
the
heat
of
Summer
,
but
to
drive
those
troublesome
flies
from
ones
nose
,
which
some
unadvised
men
indeavouring
to
chase
away
violently
with
a
Dagger
,
have
shamefully
cut
their
own
noses
.
The
Second
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
usual
Guard
of
Parnassus
having
taken
a
Poetaster
,
who
had
been
banished
Parnassus
,
upon
pain
of
death
,
found
a
Paire
of
Cards
in
his
Pocket
;
which
when
Apollo
saw
,
he
gave
order
that
he
should
read
the
Game
of
Trump
in
the
publick
Schools
.
TO
the
end
that
the
ignorant
sort
of
people
,
by
their
sottishness
of
soul
,
may
not
profane
the
vertuous
Habitations
of
Parnassus
,
Apollo
sent
many
years
agoe
for
two
Companies
of
Riming
Poets
from
Sicily
,
who
were
very
fortunate
in
their
Meeter
,
and
had
their
conceits
at
their
fingers
ends
,
whose
Office
was
to
scoure
the
Country
,
and
keep
the
fields
free
.
These
some
eight
daies
agoe
took
a
Poetaster
prisoner
,
who
was
banished
from
Parnassus
upon
forfeiture
of
life
if
he
should
ever
return
thether
;
and
who
,
though
he
were
interdicted
the
use
of
Books
,
or
exercise
of
Pen
,
yet
he
was
seen
every
day
,
in
despite
of
Apollo
,
and
in
Scorn
of
the
Soveraign
Muses
,
to
defile
paper
with
Verses
,
and
even
to
pretend
to
the
sublime
name
of
Poet.
The
misdements
of
this
fellow
were
much
aggravated
by
a
pair
of
Cards
,
which
the
Sergeants
,
whilst
they
were
searching
him
,
found
in
his
pocket
;
which
,
as
conducing
only
to
vice
,
are
capitally
condemned
:
They
being
therefore
forthwith
brought
to
Apollo
,
he
was
strangely
astonished
at
the
bruitishness
of
the
invention
found
out
by
vitious
men
,
to
spend
their
time
,
and
waste
their
reputation
and
means
:
but
his
Majestie
did
much
more
wonder
,
when
he
understood
that
the
foolishness
of
these
men
was
arived
at
that
height
,
that
they
called
that
play
,
which
is
done
in
so
very
great
earnest
,
and
that
they
thought
it
a
delight
,
sport
,
and
pastime
,
to
hazard
that
money
which
is
purchased
with
so
much
labour
,
and
which
serves
for
so
many
things
,
as
without
it
,
Aristotle
would
be
thought
ignorant
by
the
modern
world
,
and
Alexander
the
Great
,
a
Plebeian
.
Apollo
asked
this
man
,
what
Game
he
used
to
play
most
at
?
Who
answering
,
Trump
;
Apollo
commanded
him
to
play
at
it
;
which
when
he
had
done
,
Apollo
penetrating
into
the
deep
mysteries
thereof
,
cryed
out
,
That
the
Game
of
Trump
,
was
the
true
Court-Philosophy
;
a
Science
necessary
for
all
men
to
learn
,
who
would
not
live
blockishly
.
And
appearing
much
displeased
at
the
affront
done
this
man
,
he
first
honoured
him
with
the
name
of
Vertuoso
;
and
then
causing
him
to
be
set
at
liberty
,
he
commanded
the
Beadles
,
that
the
next
morning
a
particular
Colledge
should
be
opened
,
where
,
with
the
Sallary
of
500
Crowns
a
year
,
for
the
general
good
,
this
rare
man
might
read
the
most
excellent
Game
of
Trump
;
and
commanded
upon
great
penalty
,
that
the
Platonicks
,
Peripateticks
,
and
all
other
the
Moral
Philosophers
,
and
Vertuosi
of
Parnassus
,
should
learn
so
requisite
a
Science
;
and
that
they
might
not
forget
it
,
he
ordered
them
to
study
that
Game
one
hour
every
day
;
and
though
the
learneder
sort
thought
it
very
strange
that
it
should
be
possible
to
gather
any
thing
that
was
advantagious
for
the
life
of
man
,
from
a
base
Game
,
used
only
in
Ale-houses
;
yet
knowing
that
his
Majesty
did
never
command
any
thing
which
made
not
for
the
bettering
of
his
Vertuosi
,
they
so
willingly
obeyed
him
,
as
that
School
was
much
frequented
.
But
when
the
Learned
found
out
the
deep
Mysteries
,
the
hidden
secrets
,
and
the
admirable
cunning
of
the
excellent
Game
of
Trump
,
they
extolled
his
Majesties
Judgement
,
even
to
the
eighth
heaven
,
celebrating
and
magnifying
every
where
,
that
neither
Philosophy
,
nor
Poetry
,
nor
Astrologie
,
nor
any
of
the
other
most
esteemed
Sciences
,
but
only
the
miraculous
Game
of
Trump
,
did
teach
(
and
more
particularly
,
such
as
had
business
in
Court
)
the
most
important
secret
,
that
every
the
least
Trump
,
did
take
all
the
best
Coat-Cards
.
The
Third
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
having
notice
how
Henry
the
fourth
,
that
Potent
King
of
France
,
was
most
wickedly
Assassinated
,
ordered
for
the
indempnity
of
his
beloved
French
,
that
powerfull
Succour
should
be
sent
from
Arcadia
into
France
.
ON
the
two
and
twentieth
of
this
present
Moneth
,
late
at
night
;
Apollo
heard
by
an
express
Post
,
sent
with
all
speed
from
the
University
of
Paris
,
the
sad
news
of
the
murder
committed
upon
the
glorious
King
of
France
,
Henry
the
fourth
;
which
news
did
so
afflict
his
Majestie
,
as
in
testimony
of
his
inward
grief
,
he
presently
vailed
his
face
with
a
thick
dark
cloud
,
from
which
for
three
whole
daies
he
showred
down
great
store
of
tears
:
And
all
the
Letterati
,
both
Spaniards
,
English
,
Flemmish
,
Germans
,
and
Italians
,
did
with
abundance
of
tears
,
bewaile
the
unfortunate
mischance
of
so
great
a
King
.
It
must
not
be
here
forgot
that
Apollo
amidst
his
deepest
sighes
,
was
heard
to
break
forth
into
these
words
,
That
the
world
was
come
to
the
poynt
of
being
ready
to
return
to
its
first
Principles
,
since
the
wicked
perfidiousness
of
some
was
grown
to
that
height
of
impiety
,
as
they
would
expose
their
lives
to
the
Hangmans
hands
,
rather
to
purchase
bad
,
than
good
Fame
.
Two
daies
after
the
Posts
arival
,
solemn
Obsequies
were
ordered
for
so
mighty
a
Monarch
;
so
as
not
only
all
Parnassus
was
covered
with
blacks
,
but
every
of
the
Letterati
put
on
his
long
mourning
Weede
.
And
to
shew
to
all
the
sacred
Colledge
of
the
Vertuosi
,
that
the
Father
of
Learning
was
departed
this
world
,
the
Mecenas
of
the
Vertuosi
,
and
the
very
Muses
themselves
,
did
with
dishevel'd
hair
,
assist
at
the
Obsequies
in
widowy
apparel
:
A
piece
of
sorrow
not
seen
in
Parnassus
since
the
death
of
Octavianus
Augustus
.
The
Learned
of
all
the
Colledges
,
and
several
Sects
of
Philosophers
,
made
above
two
hundred
mournfull
Orations
;
and
yet
of
all
the
vertues
of
so
great
a
King
,
his
more
then
humane
Valor
was
only
praised
;
and
t
is
very
true
,
that
by
reason
of
the
many
sighs
of
the
Vertuosi
,
the
Orators
were
scarce
heard
:
So
as
Apollo
esteeming
it
a
piece
of
cruelty
to
rub
the
sore
of
so
bitter
a
wound
by
continual
remembrance
,
as
was
done
by
Scollership
,
throughout
the
whole
world
,
he
commanded
that
the
Obsequies
of
so
magnanimous
a
King
,
should
be
no
farther
proceeded
in
,
since
such
,
and
so
great
was
the
loss
,
as
,
lest
the
world
might
live
in
perpetual
affliction
,
men
should
strive
soon
to
forget
it
:
and
so
much
the
rather
,
for
that
the
Heroick
Vertues
of
this
invincible
King
,
were
arived
at
such
a
height
of
Eminency
,
as
they
stood
no
more
in
need
of
being
praised
by
men
.
And
for
that
the
noble
Kingdom
of
France
may
vie
and
weigh
even
with
Greece
it self
in
point
of
Learning
(
as
is
clearly
testified
by
the
Delfick
Library
,
so
fully
fraught
with
infinite
Labours
of
the
French
Vertuosi
)
for
the
Indempnity
of
that
florishing
Kingdom
,
so
dear
unto
his
Majesty
.
And
for
the
better
safety
of
his
beloved
French
,
Apollo
commanded
that
60000
Pack-Horses
should
immediately
be
sent
from
Arcadia
into
France
:
Some
of
the
Vertuosi
wondred
much
at
this
his
Majesties
resolution
,
and
told
him
,
that
France
,
which
was
furnished
with
so
numerous
and
so
noble
a
Cavalry
,
as
that
she
did
not
only
nor
know
nor
fear
danger
,
but
did
so
farr
despise
it
,
as
that
she
went
in
quest
thereof
even
by
night
,
with
the
Lanthorn
of
her
undaunted
heart
,
that
having
with
her
invincible
Sword
won
so
famous
a
Kingdom
,
she
would
be
so
well
able
to
maintain
her self
in
this
her
present
misfortune
,
as
not
to
stand
in
need
of
Arcadian
Pack-Horses
.
To
this
Apollo
answered
.
That
his
beloved
French
in
this
their
Modern
calamity
,
and
for
the
better
security
of
their
flourishing
Kingdom
,
needed
no
armed
Cavalry
;
but
that
since
the
peace
and
quiet
of
the
Kingdom
did
chiefly
depend
upon
the
unity
of
their
Natives
,
that
this
peace
and
unity
could
not
be
better
come
by
,
by
any
other
means
,
then
by
the
perpetual
remembrance
of
the
miserable
wasting
of
their
Country
,
cruel
sacking
of
their
Cities
,
of
the
woful
loss
they
had
undergon
,
not
onely
of
means
,
but
of
reputation
in
their
last
40
years
civil
wars
;
and
that
nothing
was
so
good
to
put
them
still
in
mind
of
these
so
sad
afflictions
,
as
these
Pack-horses
,
which
by
instinct
of
nature
,
did
detest
passing
a
second
time
by
the
same
way
,
wherin
formerly
they
had
run
hazard
of
breakng
their
necks
.
The
Fourth
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Whilst
Michel
Angelo
Buonaroti
was
coppying
forth
the
ilfavoured
fore-front
of
Anneus
Seneca's
House
,
he
was
asked
by
Pierius
Valeriano
,
wherefore
he
did
so
?
And
Buonaroti
gives
him
this
reason
,
ALthough
the
habitation
of
Anneus
Seneca
,
for
pleasantness
of
situation
,
beautiful
Gardens
,
abundance
of
fresh
and
clear
waters
,
multitude
of
Lodgings
,
good
both
for
Summer
and
Winter
,
and
for
all
other
exquisite
delights
which
may
be
imagined
for
humane
accommodation
,
may
compare
in
all
points
to
Neros
famous
house
of
Gold
,
yet
the
forefront
thereof
is
like
the
rotten
rack
of
a
Carriers
Stable
:
Yet
did
the
famous
Michel
Angelo
Buonaroti
draw
out
the
designe
thereof
the
other
day
;
which
when
Pierius
Valeriano
,
as
he
was
passing
by
,
saw
,
he
wondred
very
much
,
that
so
famous
an
Architecter
should
mispend
his
time
in
drawing
so
loathsome
a
thing
;
which
made
him
ask
Buonaroti
,
what
singular
thing
he
could
see
in
that
Frontispiece
,
which
deserved
the
Pensil
of
so
famous
a
man
as
himself
?
To
which
,
as
the
same
Pierius
told
me
,
he
answered
in
these
words
;
Sir
,
The
skilful
do
so
clearly
discern
in
this
Front
which
appears
to
you
so
ugly
,
all
the
rules
of
Dorick
,
Tomick
,
Corinthian
Architecture
,
and
of
Composts
which
are
,
and
yet
appear
not
,
as
by
the
opinion
of
Vitruvius
himself
,
it
ought
to
be
added
as
the
eight
,
to
the
seven
Wonders
of
the
world
.
My
most
vertuous
Iohnghirollimo
Aquaviva
,
Duke
of
Atri
,
commanded
me
to
draw
this
copy
which
you
see
,
and
told
me
,
he
intends
to
send
it
to
Naples
,
to
some
of
the
Barons
there
,
who
are
his
good
friends
,
and
who
being
besotted
with
the
vanity
of
seeming
to
be
more
then
what
they
are
,
have
very
much
need
ocularly
to
discover
in
the
workmanship
of
this
fore-front
,
how
wise
men
govern
their
affairs
,
who
are
,
and
doe
not
appear
.
The
fifth
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Contention
which
arose
between
many
learned
men
,
touching
which
is
the
best
Political
law
,
which
the
most
praise-worthy
Order
in
the
flourishing
Commonwealth
of
Venice
,
is
decided
,
and
fully
ended
by
the
very
Venetian
liberty
,
which
with
the
joint
agreement
of
all
the
learned
men
,
was
chosen
Umpire
.
THe
gallant
Dispute
which
arose
some
six
dayes
ago
between
some
Letterati
of
the
State
,
deserves
to
be
written
;
who
whilst
they
were
discoursing
of
the
famous
Order
,
gallant
Laws
,
and
other
rare
Institutions
,
which
maintain
the
Illustrious
Republick
of
Venice
in
so
great
luster
,
there
arose
variety
of
Opinions
between
them
which
deserved
the
greatest
commendation
:
and
for
that
every
one
of
these
Vertuosie
defended
their
own
Opinion
as
the
best
;
to
the
end
that
so
great
a
difference
might
be
quietly
decided
,
they
joyned
unanimously
in
this
resolution
;
that
they
would
all
of
them
personally
appear
before
the
most
Illustrious
Venetian
Liberty
,
to
whom
they
would
first
make
known
their
several
sences
,
and
would
afterwards
acquiesce
in
her
judgement
.
This
was
then
made
known
to
that
Illustrious
Lady
,
who
was
gratiosluy
pleased
to
give
those
Vertuosi
what
satisfaction
they
desired
.
Peter
Crenitus
spoke
first
,
and
said
:
That
since
it
was
agreed
upon
by
all
men
,
that
all
sublunary
things
,
are
first
born
,
grow
,
and
increase
afterwards
,
and
in
process
of
time
decay
;
it
seemed
very
strange
to
him
,
that
onely
the
Commonwealth
of
Venice
,
was
seen
still
to
flourish
the
more
,
the
elder
it
grew
;
and
that
the
Laws
,
Orders
,
and
wholesome
Institutions
,
which
after
a
relaxation
,
are
at
last
quite
forgotten
in
other
Principallities
,
were
known
to
increase
in
vigour
,
and
exactness
,
and
to
be
more
diligently
,
and
readily
observed
only
in
Venice
:
which
was
the
cause
that
in
the
Venetian
Commonwealth
those
reformations
of
Government
,
those
reassumings
of
State
were
never
seen
,
which
with
infinite
tumults
the
Roman
and
Florentine
Commonwealths
had
so
often
used
:
it
being
the
peculiar
vertue
of
the
Venetian
Senate
,
to
perpetuate
her self
in
her
flourishing
liberty
,
by
the
punctual
observance
of
her
ancient
laws
;
and
that
those
defects
not
being
seen
in
Venice
,
which
as
it
appears
other
Potentates
know
not
how
to
shun
;
and
that
all
diligence
though
never
so
exquisite
,
doth
soon
terminate
in
that
supine
negligence
,
which
bereaves
all
Principalities
both
of
liberty
and
life
,
he
thought
he
might
assuredly
affirm
that
thorough
such
wisdome
,
the
Republick
of
Venice
should
last
as
long
as
the
world
did
.
Next
spake
Angelo
Politiano
,
saying
;
That
he
admired
the
wise
Venetian
Commonwealth
,
for
what
Peter
Crinito
had
related
,
and
for
a
thousand
other
most
excellent
orders
:
but
that
he
thought
it
to
be
a
very
rare
thing
,
that
an
Aristocratical
Commonwealth
,
the
true
foundation
whereof
was
held
by
the
most
understanding
Writers
upon
Common-wealths
,
to
consist
in
the
parity
of
means
amongst
the
Nobility
;
could
be
so
long
maintained
in
so
much
peace
and
greatness
,
in
that
disproportionable
inequality
of
riches
which
was
apparently
seen
in
the
Venetian
Nobility
;
in
which
though
there
were
the
two
so
hazardous
extreams
of
immense
wealth
,
and
great
poverty
,
yet
that
defect
did
not
appear
in
Venice
,
which
humane
laws
seem
not
able
to
inhibit
,
that
the
rich
should
trample
upon
the
poor
,
who
though
they
did
greatly
envy
the
fortune
of
the
wealthy
,
yet
either
by
reason
of
the
immense
charity
which
reigns
in
all
the
Venetian
Nobility
towards
the
publick
liberty
,
or
that
the
very
great
riches
of
those
that
possessed
them
were
not
made
use
of
to
the
injury
of
inferiours
;
the
poor
as
well
as
the
wealthy
did
live
peacefully
and
modestly
together
in
that
happy
Country
.
After
Politiano
spoke
Pierio
Valeriano
,
and
said
,
that
the
onely
miracle
which
was
to
be
wondred
at
in
the
Venetian
Commonwealth
,
was
the
rare
and
miraculous
situation
of
her
Metrapolitan
City
,
from
which
he
thought
that
the
Venetians
,
ought
immediately
to
acknowledge
the
great
benefit
of
their
glorious
liberty
,
as
that
which
hath
still
preserved
them
from
the
forces
of
many
forraign
Princes
,
who
have
endeavoured
to
put
upon
them
the
chain
of
servitude
.
Then
said
Iulius
Scalager
,
that
the
stupendiousness
of
the
Venetian
liberty
,
which
fild
the
whole
world
with
wonder
,
was
,
that
the
very
Nobility
which
sate
at
the
Healm
,
did
not
only
patiently
pay
the
ancient
grievous
taxes
of
the
publick
Treasury
,
but
with
incredible
readiness
did
oft
times
impose
new
ones
upon
themselves
,
which
were
afterwards
rigorously
exacted
by
the
receivers
:
and
that
it
had
been
often
seen
that
the
Noble
Venetians
,
upon
any
urgent
occasion
of
the
Commonwealth
,
rather
then
to
lay
any
new
impositions
upon
the
people
,
would
open
their
own
Coffers
;
and
did
this
in
so
ample
a
manner
,
and
with
so
strange
alacrity
for
the
publick
liberty
,
as
this
action
deserved
the
preheminence
over
all
the
miracles
which
were
observed
to
be
in
the
fortunate
Venetian
freedome
;
as
that
which
made
it
appear
clearly
to
the
whole
world
,
that
they
were
fully
indued
with
that
excellent
quality
which
doth
eternise
Republicks
,
of
having
their
Nobility
so
hugely
in
love
with
living
free
,
as
they
did
chearfully
prefer
the
publick
interest
before
their
own
profit
.
Next
said
Bernardo
Tasso
,
that
he
had
lived
long
in
Venice
,
where
he
found
nothing
to
be
more
wondred
at
,
then
to
see
those
very
noble
Venetians
,
who
did
so
much
delight
in
pleasures
,
pastimes
and
Idleness
,
govern
the
publick
affairs
with
such
gallantry
,
as
they
seemed
to
others
to
be
men
of
exemplary
lives
,
and
Lords
born
to
perpetual
labour
.
When
Tasso
had
done
,
Francisco
Berny
according
to
his
wonted
pleasantness
,
which
did
much
delight
the
Venetian
liberty
,
said
;
That
the
rarest
and
most
admirable
thing
,
that
great
wits
were
to
admire
in
the
State
of
Venice
,
was
that
all
the
Channels
of
that
City
being
full
of
Gudgins
,
the
Venetian
Senators
did
notwithstanding
take
so
few
of
them
,
as
they
were
deservedly
held
by
all
Nations
to
be
the
salt
of
the
earth
.
Then
Sabilico
followed
,
and
said
,
that
whilst
he
writ
the
Venetian
History
,
having
diligently
observed
the
excellent
institutions
of
that
glorious
liberty
,
he
found
nothing
more
to
wonder
at
therein
,
then
that
the
publick
Treasury
should
be
so
faithfully
managed
,
even
by
needy
Senators
;
as
to
have
their
hands
greased
with
one
penny
of
St.
Marks
,
was
held
by
the
Nobility
not
onely
to
be
a
capital
excess
,
but
great
infamy
.
Iaccopo
Sanazzarro
said
then
,
that
it
appeared
strange
to
him
in
the
Venetian
Commonwealth
,
that
there
being
many
of
the
Nobility
but
of
mean
fortunes
,
they
did
notwithstanding
with
incredible
patience
tolerate
their
private
miseries
,
not
so
much
as
in
a
thought
,
coveting
the
mass
of
publick
wealth
,
by
those
seditious
Frumentary
,
and
Agrarian
Laws
,
with
which
the
famous
Commonwealth
of
Rome
was
so
much
vexed
by
her
Citizens
;
and
that
it
was
a
thing
praise
worthy
,
and
to
be
wondred
at
,
to
see
that
in
Venice
,
the
poor
Nobleman
strove
only
through
vertue
and
worth
to
comfort
himself
amidst
his
miseries
;
studdying
to
make
himself
worthy
to
be
imployed
by
his
Country
in
advantagious
imployments
;
which
made
that
vertue
,
worth
and
honesty
,
served
instead
of
a
rich
Patrimony
to
the
poor
Noble
Venetian
.
Iovanni
Ioviano
Pontano
added
,
that
all
that
had
been
said
was
very
miraculous
;
but
that
the
greatest
thing
which
he
had
alwaies
observed
in
the
Venetian
Liberty
was
,
that
the
immense
wealth
,
which
some
of
the
Nobility
possessed
,
did
not
puff
them
up
with
pride
and
vain
glory
,
as
many
were
seen
to
be
in
other
Commonwealths
;
that
therefore
it
was
a
rare
custome
in
Venice
,
that
such
Senatours
who
were
as
rich
as
Princes
,
knew
how
to
live
at
home
in
their
own
houses
like
private
Citizens
,
and
did
not
differ
at
all
in
the
Piazza's
from
the
poorest
men
.
And
that
the
Venetians
onely
know
how
to
separate
the
evils
of
ambition
and
pride
,
and
the
being
attended
by
multitudes
of
the
meaner
sort
of
Citizens
,
from
great
riches
,
which
the
famous
Roman
liberty
either
could
not
,
or
would
not
prohibit
in
Caesar
,
in
Pompey
,
and
in
many
other
wealthy
Senators
.
When
Pontano
had
ended
his
discourse
,
the
Commendador
Hannibal
Caro
said
,
that
above
all
other
stupendious
things
in
the
Commonwealth
of
Venice
,
he
had
alwayes
much
admired
to
see
the
mighty
Prince
of
so
famous
a
liberty
,
observed
with
so
much
obsequiousness
,
reverence
,
King-like
Majesty
,
and
Citizen
Authority
;
and
that
the
coherence
of
so
great
veneration
,
with
limited
Authority
,
the
long
extent
of
the
Prince
his
Empire
,
with
modesty
,
was
a
temper
not
known
to
the
wisdome
of
the
ancient
Legislators
of
former
Republicks
,
and
which
was
happily
practised
onely
by
the
Venetian
Senate
.
Bartolomeo
Cavalcanti
replyed
next
,
that
as
Pontano
had
observed
it
for
a
great
rarity
in
the
Venetian
Commonwealth
,
that
store
of
wealth
did
not
make
rich
Senators
wise
,
so
was
it
a
much
greater
portent
to
see
,
that
the
orders
of
that
excelse
liberty
,
the
sacred
laws
of
that
eternal
Commonwealth
were
such
,
as
even
the
chiefest
Places
,
did
not
fasten
any
thing
of
ambition
or
pride
to
them
who
did
exercise
them
with
great
authority
;
a
particularity
the
more
worthy
of
observation
;
for
that
the
like
was
never
seen
in
whatsoever
other
Principallity
,
or
well
constituted
Common-wealth
,
as
being
a
thing
which
did
directly
oppugne
nature
.
And
that
when
he
was
in
Venice
,
he
did
not
admire
the
rich
Treasure
of
St.
Mark
,
the
Arsenal
,
the
grand
Cannale
,
with
the
stately
Palaces
of
the
Cornari
,
Grimani
,
Foscari
,
and
other
magnificent
buildings
,
built
at
vast
expence
in
that
miraculous
City
,
wonders
onely
obvious
to
the
eye
of
ordinary
men
;
but
that
it
appeared
marvelous
to
him
to
see
Signior
Sebastiano
Vinieri
,
lately
General
of
so
powerful
a
Fleet
,
so
famous
for
the
glorious
Naval
Victory
which
he
obtained
against
the
Turks
,
to
return
a
private
man
to
Venice
,
and
to
walk
the
Piazza
with
that
decent
Modesty
,
as
he
appeared
not
to
differ
in
any
thing
from
those
Senators
who
never
stird
from
the
City
;
and
that
it
was
a
singular
thing
,
that
in
the
Venetian
Common-wealth
,
the
Nobles
therof
could
behave
themselves
so
modestly
and
civilly
at
home
,
who
when
they
were
imployed
abroad
in
important
Magistracy
,
and
great
commands
,
could
with
splendid
and
Princely
liberality
make
themselves
known
to
the
world
,
not
to
be
barely
Citizens
of
a
well
regulated
Republick
,
but
men
born
to
command
those
who
were
descended
from
Royal
bloud
;
and
that
therefore
he
believed
that
there
was
no
Nation
in
the
world
that
knew
better
how
to
obey
modestly
,
and
command
gallantly
,
then
the
Venetian
Nobility
:
A
thing
so
true
,
that
whereas
in
other
states
,
they
were
forced
for
the
honour
of
their
publick
Magistrates
to
put
their
Senators
in
mind
with
what
magnificency
of
spirit
they
should
make
good
the
Majesty
of
their
publick
imployments
;
the
Venetian
Senate
had
several
times
been
necessitated
to
make
severe
Laws
to
inhibit
those
who
did
exercise
any
authority
or
jurisdiction
out
of
the
City
,
the
using
of
any
splendid
Magnificency
.
Thus
said
Cavalcanti
,
when
Flavio
Biondo
added
;
That
when
he
was
in
Venice
,
he
was
much
amazed
to
see
,
that
in
a
meer
Aristocrasie
,
the
Citizens
and
Plebeains
lived
with
such
satisfaction
in
that
happy
Country
,
as
that
for
many
months
that
he
tarried
there
,
he
could
never
discern
whether
the
publick
Venetian
Liberty
was
better
beloved
,
and
held
dearer
by
the
Nobility
which
commanded
,
or
by
the
bare
common
sort
of
Citizens
who
obeyed
.
Then
followed
Paulus
Iovius
,
who
said
,
that
not
only
to
himself
,
but
to
many
great
Princes
,
with
whom
he
had
discoursed
at
large
of
the
miraculous
Government
of
the
State
of
Venice
,
it
seemed
very
strange
that
the
Senat
of
that
Commonwealth
studied
nothing
more
then
peace
,
and
yet
with
great
vigilancy
and
asseduity
did
perpetually
prepare
for
Warr
;
and
that
Armed
Peace
was
only
seen
in
the
flourishing
Venetian
State
.
Iovius
was
followed
by
Iohn
Bocatchio
,
who
said
,
that
the
true
Salt
which
preserved
the
Venetian
Liberty
from
the
putrifaction
and
corruption
of
all
abuse
,
was
that
Supreme
Queen
of
all
Laws
,
that
excellent
Institution
,
so
inviolably
observed
by
her
,
that
neither
the
greatness
of
Parentage
,
abundance
of
wealth
,
nor
the
merits
of
fore-Fathers
were
considered
in
the
preferment
of
Senators
to
high
places
,
but
the
sole
worth
of
him
who
pretended
to
the
Magistracy
,
was
weighed
:
whence
it
was
that
there
was
many
vitious
and
ignorant
Gentlemen
of
Venice
,
but
only
the
most
vertuous
and
well-deserving
commanded
,
and
governed
with
that
wisdom
which
was
known
to
all
the
world
.
But
Leonardo
Aretine
,
after
having
much
commended
Bocatchios
opinion
,
added
,
that
the
excellent
custom
of
the
State
of
Venice
,
in
not
conferring
places
upon
her
Nobility
by
skips
and
leaps
,
but
by
degrees
and
gradation
,
was
that
sound
Basis
whereon
the
greatness
and
eternity
of
such
Liberty
was
grounded
;
and
that
it
was
an
excellent
rule
,
that
whatsoever
Noble
man
would
arive
at
the
Supreme
Dignities
,
he
must
even
from
his
youth
begin
at
the
meanest
Magistracies
:
A
wholsom
custom
which
produceth
the
important
effect
of
maintaining
that
true
and
essential
equality
amongst
the
Nobles
of
an
Aristocracy
,
which
makes
Liberty
long-liv'd
:
For
with
those
that
understand
State
Affairs
,
the
parity
of
wealth
is
not
that
which
equals
Senators
in
a
Commonwealth
;
but
the
making
all
the
Nobles
march
on
towards
the
grandeur
of
the
highest
Dignities
,
beginning
at
the
meanest
Imployments
.
A
Law
well
worthy
the
Venetian
Wisdom
;
which
because
the
ancient
Roman
Commonwealth
did
want
,
her
Liberty
was
but
short-liv'd
,
and
yet
was
still
molested
with
dangerous
infirmities
,
and
tumultuous
insurrections
.
For
the
base
abuse
of
giving
the
Consulship
of
a
Free
Country
,
and
the
chief
places
in
the
Army
,
to
Pompey
and
Cesar
,
and
other
rich
Subjects
in
the
prime
of
their
youth
,
was
no
better
then
to
deal
with
them
rather
like
men
born
of
Royal
bloud
,
like
Lords
and
Masters
of
their
Countries
Liberty
,
then
like
Senators
of
a
well
regulated
Republick
.
For
since
it
is
a
certain
truth
,
that
that
is
a
well
ordered
Commonwealth
,
where
the
hopes
of
some
yet
higher
dignity
remains
,
even
to
the
worthyest
Senators
,
and
men
of
great
merit
,
which
may
serve
for
sharp
spurs
to
such
as
are
ambitious
of
glory
,
to
make
them
make
haste
in
the
streight
path
of
Vertue
,
that
they
may
the
sooner
arive
at
the
Gole
of
the
desired
Magistracy
;
what
greater
preferment
remained
to
be
hoped
for
in
their
age
,
by
Cesar
and
Pompey
,
who
in
their
youth
obtained
from
the
Commonwealth
of
Rome
,
not
without
much
imprudency
,
the
highest
honours
,
and
supremest
dignities
,
then
that
absolute
Tyrannical
Power
,
to
which
Cesar
openly
,
and
Pompey
more
cunningly
did
afterwards
aspire
?
A
great
mis-government
,
and
from
which
the
famous
Roman
Liberty
might
presage
her
death
.
Though
the
most
glorious
Venetian
Liberty
gave
great
signes
that
she
was
very
well
pleased
with
Aratines
opinion
,
she
notwithstanding
commanded
the
remainder
of
the
Vertuosi
,
to
speak
theirs
.
Then
thus
began
Benedetto
Varchi
;
My
Republick
of
Florence
,
which
never
had
the
luck
to
work
peace
and
union
between
her
noble
Families
,
and
that
mutual
love
which
doth
perpetuate
the
liberty
of
Commonwealths
,
was
at
last
compelled
to
fall
into
servitude
.
Wherefore
this
appears
to
me
to
be
the
rarest
of
humane
Miracles
,
that
a
noble
Venetian
,
though
never
so
highly
offended
by
the
murder
of
his
children
,
and
in
his
own
person
,
being
more
violently
wrought
upon
by
his
fervent
charity
towards
the
freedom
of
his
Country
,
then
frighted
by
the
rigor
of
Magistrates
,
can
with
a
free
soul
put
on
the
hard
resolution
of
forgiving
his
enemy
(
at
that
very
instant
)
the
injury
which
he
hath
received
.
Certainly
a
most
admirable
resolution
,
and
so
much
the
more
worthy
of
wonder
,
as
that
it
is
evidently
seen
,
that
the
noble
Venetian
knows
how
to
trust
the
Senat
willingly
with
the
revenge
of
any
injury
he
can
receive
,
when
sensual
men
are
very
loath
to
remit
the
like
into
the
hands
of
God
,
from
whom
we
receive
all
that
we
have
of
good
.
Thus
said
Varchi
,
when
Lodovico
Dolci
added
,
That
if
that
were
true
,
which
is
confessed
by
all
men
,
that
the
rarest
and
most
considerable
vertue
in
a
Prince
,
was
to
be
able
with
ease
,
and
without
any
danger
,
to
disarm
his
Captain
General
,
and
to
receive
perfect
obedience
from
him
,
even
then
when
he
knew
he
was
sent
for
back
by
an
incensed
Prince
,
and
one
who
did
much
suspect
his
Loyalty
;
his
opinion
was
,
that
of
all
other
things
which
the
rest
had
mentioned
of
rare
in
the
State
of
Venice
,
this
was
to
be
preferred
,
That
she
did
not
only
with
great
ease
,
disarm
her
Captain
Generals
at
Sea
;
but
that
when
her
chiefest
Ministers
knew
that
the
Senat
was
highly
displeased
with
them
,
and
that
therefore
they
were
sure
to
be
severely
punished
:
though
they
were
absent
well
arm'd
,
and
in
great
command
,
if
it
should
so
happen
that
they
should
be
sent
for
by
the
State
,
they
would
with
great
readiness
obey
,
and
laying
down
their
Arms
,
and
Authority
of
Chief
Magistrates
,
hasten
to
Venice
to
receive
Judgement
from
their
friends
and
kin●…ed
,
though
it
might
cost
them
their
lives
.
The
examples
whereof
had
been
so
often
seen
in
Venice
in
his
time
,
as
it
had
filled
the
whole
world
with
wonder
.
That
therefore
he
thought
he
might
justly
say
he
should
be
much
injured
,
if
the
so
great
Authority
of
the
State
of
Venice
,
the
so
great
submission
,
obedience
,
and
unheard
of
charity
of
the
Venetian
Nobility
to
the
Publick
Liberty
,
were
not
preferred
before
all
those
admirable
Laws
,
and
excellent
Institutions
,
which
others
had
spoken
of
before
him
.
The
most
S●…ene
Venetian
Liberty
,
which
without
replying
any
one
word
to
these
Vertuosi
,
had
heard
all
these
her
so
many
lawdable
Customs
,
and
her
so
many
miraculous
Prerogatives
,
said
to
Lodovico
●…olci
,
that
what
he
had
said
,
was
very
considerable
;
but
that
it
was
a
benefit
which
the
Ottaman
Emperors
likewise
enjoyed
,
but
that
she
acknowledged
all
her
Grandesta
from
one
only
Prerogative
,
which
she
was
exactly
Mistress
of
,
and
wherein
she
knew
she
did
excell
all
Principalities
,
and
all
Commonwealths
,
as
well
past
as
present
;
which
had
not
yet
been
touched
upon
by
any
of
those
Vertuosi
.
Then
said
Dionigi
Antonigi
,
That
the
greatest
wonder
,
and
which
ought
to
be
praised
even
to
the
skies
,
was
,
To
see
that
the
dreadful
Tribunal
of
the
Councel
of
Ten
,
and
the
Supreme
Magistracy
of
the
State-Inquisitors
,
could
with
three
Balleting
Balls
,
easily
bury
alive
any
Cesar
or
Pompey
,
which
began
to
discover
himself
in
that
well-governed
State
.
Attonigi
had
no
sooner
spoke
his
opinion
,
but
Ierolimo
Mercuriali
added
,
That
whilst
he
exercised
his
charge
of
reading
in
the
so
famous
Schools
of
Physick
in
Padua
,
it
happened
that
some
Plebeians
in
Venice
,
being
gon
according
to
their
custom
,
to
the
Sea-side
to
sollace
themselves
with
some
young
Courtisans
which
they
had
carried
along
with
them
,
they
were
so
beaten
by
some
Noble
Venetians
,
as
the
former
betaking
themselves
unto
their
swords
,
slew
one
of
the
others
,
and
handled
the
rest
but
ill
.
For
which
fault
,
being
sent
for
by
the
Judges
,
those
Plebeians
,
although
they
saw
all
the
Judges
in
the
power
of
the
offended
Nobility
,
yet
they
hoped
so
much
in
the
uprightness
of
the
Senat
,
and
in
the
exact
Justice
of
the
Tribunals
for
offences
,
as
they
stuck
not
to
make
their
appearance
,
and
go
to
Prison
:
Nor
were
they
deceived
in
their
opinion
;
for
the
Judges
finding
by
the
defence
which
they
made
,
how
they
had
been
molested
by
those
Noble
Venetians
,
they
were
as
innocent
,
set
at
liberty
,
to
the
eternal
glory
of
the
uncorrupt
Venetian
Justice
.
And
that
it
was
a
prodigie
not
formerly
seen
,
and
which
could
not
be
believed
,
but
by
those
that
practised
it
,
that
the
Noble
man
,
though
of
powerfull
Parentage
,
famous
for
his
riches
,
and
of
great
Authority
through
the
honours
he
had
received
in
the
Commonwealth
,
the
Citizen
proved
the
harder
adversary
in
pleading
,
than
the
Noble
man
.
And
that
if
the
Politick
Precept
written
by
great
men
,
was
true
,
That
Aristocrasies
never
died
when
the
young
Nobility
used
Modesty
,
and
the
Tribunals
maintained
equal
Justice
,
he
could
not
see
when
the
most
happy
Venetian
Liberty
,
which
was
so
severe
in
punishing
the
licentiousness
of
her
Nobles
,
and
so
exquisitly
just
in
her
Tribunals
,
should
ever
have
an
end
.
Learned
Ermolao
Barbaro
would
be
the
last
that
spake
,
who
said
;
That
Tyranny
being
then
introduced
in
free
Countries
,
when
the
most
important
secrets
of
Commonwealths
was
communicated
but
to
a
few
Senators
,
the
excellent
Venetian
Liberty
,
to
shun
splitting
upon
so
dangerous
a
Rock
,
communicated
secrets
,
and
had
the
most
important
business
of
her
State
discust
in
the
Supreme
Magistracy
of
the
Pregadi
:
Wherein
were
above
250
Senators
,
and
that
it
seemed
very
strange
to
him
,
that
the
Commonwealth
of
Venice
could
find
that
secrecy
in
so
great
a
number
of
Senators
,
which
Princes
did
often
in
vain
endeavor
with
such
diligence
,
and
through
such
liberal
gifts
,
in
one
sole
Secretary
,
and
a
couple
of
Councellers
.
Then
did
the
most
excellent
Lady
of
the
Venetian
Liberty
rest
her
hand
upon
Ermolao
Barbaro's
shoulder
,
and
said
unto
him
;
You
have
found
out
that
pretious
Jewel
,
which
I
so
much
glory
in
,
and
for
which
I
deserve
to
be
envied
by
all
the
world
;
for
secrecy
is
no
less
necessary
for
the
well
governing
of
States
,
then
good
councel
.
The
Sixth
ADVERTISEMENT
:
A
Learned
Laconick
is
severely
punished
by
the
Laconick
Senat
,
for
not
having
used
requisite
brevity
in
his
discourse
.
THat
unluckie
Laconick
Letterato
,
who
exprest
that
in
three
words
,
which
was
judged
by
the
Laconick
Senat
,
might
have
been
said
in
two
,
and
which
was
reputed
a
more
then
Capital
fault
,
by
those
Laconicks
who
are
more
penurious
of
words
,
then
courteous
men
are
of
pence
;
after
eight
moneths
long
and
teadious
imprisonment
,
received
his
sentence
five
daies
agoe
;
which
was
,
That
he
should
read
only
once
over
the
Warr
of
Pisa
,
written
by
Guicchardino
;
the
Laconick
read
over
the
first
leaf
with
much
agony
;
but
so
horribly
teadious
did
that
rabble
of
discourse
appear
to
him
,
as
the
unfortunate
wretch
threw
himself
down
before
his
Judges
feet
,
who
had
sentenced
him
,
and
earnestly
entreated
them
that
they
would
condemn
him
to
row
in
the
Gallies
during
life
,
that
they
would
immure
him
between
two
Walls
,
and
that
for
mercies
sake
they
would
flea
him
alive
;
for
to
read
those
endless
discourses
,
those
so
teadious
Councels
,
those
empty
Harangues
made
at
the
taking
in
of
a
Pigeon-house
,
was
a
punishment
which
surpast
all
the
bitter
pains
of
child-birth
,
and
all
the
most
cruel
deaths
that
ever
the
pittiless
Perillus
could
think
upon
,
at
the
instance
of
the
most
cruel
Tyrants
.
The
Seventh
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Censors
of
Learning
do
severely
punish
one
of
their
Associates
,
who
in
his
more
mature
years
,
seemed
to
be
pleased
with
Italian
Poetry
.
A
Vertuoso
was
taken
yesterday
by
the
Marshals
belonging
to
the
Court
of
the
Censors
of
Learning
,
who
was
found
with
his
spectacles
on
his
nose
,
reading
some
Italian
Poetry
;
and
this
morning
early
,
by
order
from
Apollo
,
he
received
three
sound
lashes
with
a
cord
first
,
and
was
afterward
told
,
that
being
,
as
he
was
,
of
the
age
of
55
years
,
he
should
learn
to
apply
himself
to
graver
studies
,
and
leave
the
reading
of
those
Madrigals
,
Songs
,
and
Sonnets
,
to
be
idlely
spent
by
those
spruce
Youngsters
,
in
whom
those
things
were
tolerated
,
which
were
severely
punished
in
old
men
.
The
Eighth
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apuleius
his
Golden
Ass
,
and
Plantus
his
Assinaria
,
complain
to
Apollo
of
their
Masters
great
severity
,
and
receive
no
very
pleasing
answer
.
THe
eight
of
this
present
moneth
,
Apuleius
his
glorious
Golden
Asse
,
and
the
famous
Assinaria
of
Plantus
,
appear'd
before
Apollos
Majesty
;
to
whom
in
the
name
of
all
sorts
of
Pack-Horses
,
they
joyntly
said
,
That
if
those
creatures
deserved
to
be
better
treated
,
which
were
of
little
charge
,
and
much
use
,
they
had
more
reason
to
complain
of
their
Masters
,
than
any
other
beasts
;
for
though
by
their
perpetual
labour
,
they
bore
the
greatest
weight
in
their
Masters
house
,
both
by
day
and
night
;
and
for
their
food
were
contented
with
a
little
course
grass
and
water
,
and
made
it
a
Holy
day
when
they
got
but
a
little
bran
;
yet
they
were
so
indiscreetly
dealt
withall
through
their
Masters
ingratitude
and
cruelty
,
as
that
miserable
beasts
that
they
were
,
they
became
the
spectacle
of
all
brutish
usage
;
and
that
since
they
could
not
mollifie
their
Masters
cruelty
by
humble
prostrating
of
their
service
,
they
did
in
all
submission
beseech
his
Majestie
,
to
the
end
that
some
bounds
,
though
not
utter
period
,
might
be
put
to
their
Ass
like
sufferings
,
he
would
vouchsafe
to
command
their
Masters
to
use
more
gratitude
,
atleast
more
humanity
to
so
meritorious
beasts
.
To
which
Apollo
answered
,
That
the
severity
used
by
Masters
to
their
Pack-Horses
,
for
which
they
so
much
complained
,
arose
not
from
their
Masters
cruelty
,
since
there
was
none
that
hated
the
profit
of
his
own
Patrimony
;
but
that
it
was
occasioned
through
the
great
sloathfulness
,
and
monstrous
dulness
of
the
Pack-Horses
:
For
which
their
Masters
were
forced
by
store
of
bastenadoes
to
egg
them
on
to
do
that
which
they
had
not
spirit
enough
to
do
by
any
vivacity
of
their
own
wit
:
And
that
they
who
would
judge
aright
of
the
cruelties
used
to
any
whosoever
,
must
not
regard
so
much
his
genius
,
who
useth
severity
,
as
the
parties
condition
who
complains
of
ill
usage
.
The
Ninth
ADVERTISEMENT
.
A
Sommary
of
what
the
Learned
in
Sciences
have
sowed
and
reaped
.
THe
Harvest
is
already
over
,
and
the
whole
encrease
of
this
year
is
brought
by
the
Possessers
thereof
into
their
Grainaries
;
which
though
it
hath
been
various
,
according
to
the
nature
of
the
grounds
,
and
condition
of
seed
,
which
hath
been
thereupon
sown
;
yet
the
Harvest
may
be
said
in
general
,
to
be
penurious
.
Since
by
the
publick
calamity
of
mankind
,
peoples
wits
are
become
steril
and
barren
,
as
well
as
is
the
aire
and
earth
.
Those
who
have
sowed
the
study
of
the
Law
,
have
usually
had
a
great
encrease
,
and
many
are
much
enriched
thereby
,
particularly
those
who
have
cultivated
the
fields
in
the
Common
Pleas
;
their
Harvest
is
so
plentifull
,
as
it
yields
fifty
for
one
.
Greater
things
have
been
seen
in
the
fruitfull
fields
of
the
Courts
at
Rome
,
where
particularly
Silvestro
Aldobrandini
,
and
Markantonio
Borghese
,
two
Roman
Advocates
,
each
of
whose
sons
were
Popes
,
having
sowed
the
study
of
the
Law
with
much
cost
,
and
infinite
labour
,
and
watered
it
with
their
sweat
,
have
filled
their
Granaries
with
rich
treasure
,
and
their
sons
who
have
practised
the
same
Husbandry
,
have
thereby
purchased
Principalities
for
their
Families
,
and
Divine
Dignities
for
themselves
.
Those
who
have
sowed
the
study
of
Phisick
,
have
likewise
had
a
good
harvest
;
but
not
to
be
compared
with
that
of
the
Law
;
for
it
gives
only
twelve
for
one
.
The
Plowers
of
Poetry
have
seen
their
fields
make
a
beautifull
shew
in
the
Spring
of
their
age
,
and
had
great
reason
to
expect
a
rich
harvest
;
but
when
in
the
beginning
of
Iuly
,
the
season
of
earing
began
,
they
saw
their
sweat
and
labours
dissolve
all
into
leaves
and
flowres
;
so
as
having
laboured
in
vain
,
the
Poets
find
themselves
pil'd
and
pol'd
,
not
having
meat
to
eat
:
Wherefore
this
sort
of
Husbandry
,
as
being
more
for
appearance
then
profit
,
is
almost
given
over
:
But
little
Greek
hath
been
sown
,
there
being
in
these
times
but
small
vent
thereof
;
which
may
peradventure
be
occasioned
because
the
bread
which
is
made
of
such
grain
,
although
it
hath
formerly
been
the
daily
food
of
a
numerous
Nation
,
it
seems
notwithstanding
that
it
proves
hard
of
digestion
to
the
squeasie
stomacks
of
modern
weak-wits
.
Hence
it
is
that
some
of
the
more
Learned
sort
have
only
sowed
so
much
thereof
in
their
Gardens
as
will
serve
for
their
houshold
expence
,
and
rather
not
to
appear
ignorant
,
than
to
seem
learned
;
and
to
maintain
Seed
,
but
not
to
make
Merchandize
thereof
.
The
Seed
of
Hebrew
is
almost
quite
lost
;
for
it
being
no
longer
in
use
,
there
are
but
very
few
that
sow
any
;
and
certainly
it
redounds
much
to
the
general
shame
of
all
men
,
that
this
tongue
is
not
ambitiously
aspired
unto
,
since
God
by
his
speaking
in
that
Language
,
hath
given
it
so
great
reputation
.
The
Husbandmen
of
Philosophy
have
even
lost
their
seed
;
and
therefore
the
world
is
about
to
give
over
such
Merchandize
,
as
that
which
requireth
the
fruitfull
fields
of
subtile
wits
,
and
infinite
study
to
make
it
grow
and
come
to
maturity
;
and
since
it
yields
but
little
fruit
,
and
but
very
few
buyers
of
that
little
,
to
intend
it
,
is
to
loose
the
Principal
.
They
who
have
sowed
good
turns
(
contrary
to
the
opinion
of
many
)
have
had
a
most
plentifull
harvest
:
and
certainly
such
seed
is
as
pretious
as
wonderfull
:
For
,
of
many
bushels-full
thereof
,
if
one
onely
grain
spring
up
and
prosper
,
it
yields
so
abundant
an
encrease
to
the
Husbandman
,
as
it
makes
him
rich
.
It
is
true
,
that
only
magnanimous
minds
,
and
men
of
great
liberality
,
attend
the
most
noble
Husbandry
of
sowing
Benefits
;
for
the
costive
avaricious
men
,
whose
greediness
is
such
,
as
they
would
reap
before
they
sow
,
dare
not
venture
to
throw
that
seed
upon
the
ground
,
which
they
see
is
for
the
most
part
lost
.
Those
who
have
sown
threats
and
injurious
words
,
have
reaped
great
store
of
actual
offences
;
the
sowers
of
curses
,
reap
great
store
of
maledictions
.
Those
likewise
who
have
sown
tribulation
,
have
reaped
so
plentifull
a
harvest
of
Thorns
,
as
they
have
filled
their
Granaries
therewithall
,
even
up
to
the
top
,
for
their
own
use
,
and
from
those
that
shall
descend
from
them
,
even
to
the
sixtieth
generation
.
The
Tenth
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Menante
comes
into
the
Politians
Ware-House
,
and
by
the
Merchandizes
which
the
Learned
buy
there
,
he
studies
how
to
know
the
quality
of
their
Wits
.
TO
make
an
exact
judgement
of
every
mans
genius
,
it
is
very
behooffull
to
frequent
those
places
where
vertuous
exercises
are
used
,
and
those
Shops
wherein
vitious
things
are
sold
,
and
to
observe
them
that
frequent
them
.
For
Libraries
serve
as
well
to
make
known
the
lovers
of
Learning
,
as
living
riotously
denotes
out
Gamsters
,
or
Cooks
Shops
Gluttons
;
nor
is
there
a
better
way
to
discover
vain
men
,
then
to
frequent
Barbers
shops
often
,
and
to
observe
who
those
Ganemedes
are
,
who
those
Narcissi
,
who
having
the
patience
to
sit
two
hours
under
the
Barbers
hands
,
will
be
trim'd
with
such
exquisite
diligence
,
as
they
spend
more
time
in
turning
up
their
beard
,
then
a
faire
Lady
doth
in
dressing
her
head
:
they
think
that
every
hair
which
stands
out
of
order
,
will
make
them
appear
so
many
fowle
fiends
when
they
are
in
company
.
Menante
therefore
,
who
is
very
well
acquainted
with
this
piece
of
skill
,
entertains
himself
often
in
the
aforesaid
Ware-House
opened
in
Parnassus
,
by
the
Colledg
of
Polititians
,
the
which
he
doth
,
that
he
may
come
to
know
the
genius
of
many
of
this
Court
,
by
the
qualities
of
Ware
which
they
buy
there
,
that
he
may
afterwards
give
a
more
exact
account
thereof
to
his
friends
and
acquaintance
.
Three
daies
since
Iohn
Baptista
Sanga
,
a
famous
Secretary
in
the
Court
of
Rome
,
happened
into
this
the
Polititians
Shop
,
who
asked
one
of
the
young
men
if
they
had
any
Cole
to
sell
,
or
no
?
He
was
answered
,
yes
:
and
straightway
some
Cole
was
shewed
him
;
which
when
the
Courtier
saw
,
he
agreed
upon
the
price
,
and
bought
forty
load
thereof
.
Menante
wondred
to
see
the
Courtier
buy
so
great
a
quantity
of
Cole
,
which
he
knew
was
very
disproportionable
for
him
,
who
kept
but
one
servant
;
and
being
very
well
acquainted
with
this
Sanga
,
he
with
great
confidence
asked
him
,
why
,
having
none
but
himself
and
servant
in
the
house
,
he
made
so
great
provision
of
Cole
?
To
the
which
Sanga
freely
answered
,
that
he
burnt
no
wood
in
his
Kitchin
.
Menante
then
asked
him
whether
he
did
it
for
that
he
found
it
cheaper
to
burn
Cole
?
To
the
which
Sanga
freely
answered
;
That
living
in
the
Court
,
he
was
forced
to
measure
his
affairs
by
the
surplusage
of
his
reputation
,
not
by
sparing
money
;
and
that
he
hated
wood-fires
because
they
made
a
great
smoak
,
and
but
little
live
coles
;
and
that
the
burning
of
cole
was
very
good
for
those
that
did
not
love
their
porredg
should
smell
of
smoke
;
and
that
he
did
not
desire
that
the
quality
of
his
victuals
should
be
judged
of
by
those
hounds
which
are
only
good
at
smelling
out
what
men
do
by
the
smoke
of
his
Kitchin-Chimney
,
but
by
the
copious
adorning
of
his
Table
.
Next
to
Sanga
,
Epictetus
entred
the
Shop
,
a
Philosopher
,
who
for
the
excellency
of
his
soul
,
is
of
high
esteem
in
Parnassus
;
and
therefore
very
well
known
,
admired
,
and
observed
by
Menante
.
This
man
desired
the
Foremen
of
the
Shop
that
they
would
shew
him
all
the
sorts
of
Furs
,
or
fur'd
Garments
that
they
had
;
and
immediately
they
brought
unto
him
many
Minerver
skins
,
Sables
,
and
other
very
pretious
Furs
;
which
notwithstanding
this
Philosopher
liked
not
;
and
therefore
told
a
very
spruce
Polititian
who
looked
to
the
venting
of
Wares
,
that
the
skins
they
shewed
were
too
glorious
,
and
therefore
not
for
his
purpose
;
but
that
he
desired
some
such
Furr
as
they
wore
,
who
would
appear
to
be
good
men
.
When
the
Polititian
knew
what
Epictetus
would
be
at
,
he
led
him
into
a
Room
apart
from
the
Ware-house
,
from
whence
he
came
out
not
long
after
,
clad
in
a
Lizards
skin
,
lined
with
Lambskins
.
And
Epictetus
having
put
the
Lizards
skin
inward
and
the
Lambskin
outward
,
Menante
ran
after
him
,
and
told
him
he
had
put
his
Garment
on
the
wrong
side
outwards
.
But
he
was
much
amazed
,
when
that
wise
Philosopher
,
after
having
smiled
a
little
at
him
,
answered
,
It
may
be
my
Menante
,
that
you
know
how
to
put
on
Spanish
Buskins
,
but
not
how
to
wear
these
skins
:
This
Robe
is
worne
as
you
see
,
the
Lizards
skin
must
be
worn
inward
;
I
should
never
attain
the
end
of
my
intents
,
if
any
one
hair
thereof
appear
without
.
Menante
then
returned
into
the
Shop
,
where
he
found
a
great
Prince
,
who
desired
to
be
shewn
some
Ramaivoli
da
Ministrare
:
And
because
they
shewed
only
four
,
he
desired
them
to
bring
all
they
had
in
the
shop
;
which
was
forthwith
done
.
The
Prince
drew
then
from
out
his
bosom
a
lift
of
all
his
servants
names
,
which
were
in
all
320.
and
first
did
exactly
examin
the
condition
of
every
several
Courtier
,
and
according
to
their
deserts
,
bought
for
every
one
of
them
a
particular
Ramaivoli
;
very
great
ones
were
chosen
for
those
of
great
deserts
,
and
much
lesser
for
the
rest
;
and
Menante
observed
it
for
a
great
rarity
,
that
the
Ramaivoli
of
some
ancient
Courtiers
,
and
old
servants
,
who
despising
the
Prince
his
service
had
behaved
themselves
negligently
in
their
several
places
,
were
very
little
.
Certainly
a
singular
piece
of
justice
,
to
measure
a
Courtiers
merits
more
by
the
assiduety
of
his
service
,
then
by
the
length
of
time
which
he
hath
been
at
Court
.
Menante
,
who
wondred
much
at
the
bestowing
of
so
many
Ramaivoli
,
told
that
Prince
,
to
whom
he
ought
particular
service
,
that
in
the
Courts
of
other
great
Princes
,
he
had
observed
that
Cooks
made
use
of
one
only
;
wherewith
,
not
with
many
scruples
,
but
at
their
own
discretion
,
they
did
dish
up
their
porredg
.
Then
said
the
Prince
unto
Menante
,
Friend
,
I
my self
have
observed
that
way
of
proceeding
which
you
speak
of
,
till
now
;
but
with
very
bad
consequence
:
For
having
made
use
of
very
unequal
dishes
in
serving
out
porredg
to
my
Courtiers
,
and
giving
it
out
to
them
only
as
I
liked
,
I
have
unwisely
kindled
in
them
a
fire
of
such
jealousie
,
rancor
,
and
hatred
,
as
they
mist
but
a
little
of
utterly
undoing
me
and
my
State
:
A
fault
which
hath
made
me
see
clearly
,
that
a
Prince
who
will
have
faithfull
servants
,
and
carefull
Officers
,
must
resolve
to
be
just
in
his
ministring
unto
them
:
For
Courtiers
greedily
longing
to
taste
of
the
porredg
of
their
Princes
favour
,
when
they
see
their
fellows
porrenger
run
over
with
fat
,
and
their
own
empty
and
lean
,
they
turn
the
love
which
they
ought
to
bear
unto
their
Master
,
into
hatred
,
their
observance
into
disrespect
,
their
service
into
disservice
;
and
grow
the
more
incenst
against
their
Lords
,
for
that
they
impute
the
so
unequal
dishing
up
of
their
porredg
,
more
to
want
of
love
,
ingratitude
,
and
partiality
,
then
to
inconsiderateness
.
And
in
such
like
injustice
,
they
complain
more
of
the
scarcity
of
their
Masters
good
graces
,
then
of
their
own
small
pittance
.
And
to
pretend
that
a
Courtier
,
whose
leggs
his
Prince
shall
cut
off
with
the
sword
of
disgraces
,
should
speedily
run
to
do
him
service
,
is
as
great
a
piece
of
folly
,
as
is
theirs
who
intending
to
make
their
horse
run
the
faster
,
hold
in
his
bridle
.
This
Prince
was
no
sooner
gone
out
of
the
shop
,
but
another
man
entred
,
who
desired
that
he
might
see
some
Clokes
which
would
hang
to
the
ground
,
for
he
was
to
buy
such
a
one
.
Forthwith
divers
were
brought
unto
him
,
which
he
could
not
dislike
,
neither
for
colour
nor
cloath
;
only
they
were
all
of
them
too
short
.
This
man
was
of
somewhat
a
low
stature
;
and
that
those
Clokes
should
prove
too
short
for
him
,
which
were
long
enough
to
reach
to
the
heels
of
the
talest
size
of
men
,
seemed
strange
to
Menante
.
Wherefore
coming
up
to
this
stranger
,
he
asked
him
who
he
was
,
and
of
what
profession
?
To
which
the
other
freely
answered
,
that
he
was
a
Sicilian
;
and
that
having
built
and
finished
two
Gallies
at
his
own
charge
,
he
meant
to
put
to
Sea
with
them
,
and
gain
by
Freebooting
;
but
because
he
knew
that
trade
was
very
hatefull
to
the
world
,
and
but
of
small
reputation
to
him
that
used
it
,
he
would
provide
himself
of
a
long
Cloke
,
that
he
might
cover
his
intention
,
and
the
Interest
which
moved
him
to
take
up
that
occupation
;
and
that
his
pretence
might
be
thought
to
be
,
that
he
had
taken
it
up
only
to
fight
against
the
ignorant
,
and
such
as
hated
Learning
.
When
Menante
had
heard
this
,
he
boldly
said
to
the
Sicilian
,
that
he
did
but
lose
his
labour
,
for
that
all
the
Gloath
made
in
England
,
was
not
sufficient
to
make
such
long
Clokes
for
Pyrats
,
but
that
two
handfuls
and
a
half
of
Thieves
Leggs
would
still
be
seen
.
Soon
after
a
Vertuosi
came
into
the
Shop
,
who
desired
to
see
some
yard
wands
,
whereof
many
were
presently
shewed
him
;
one
of
which
he
seemed
to
like
;
and
as
he
was
about
to
pay
for
it
,
his
servant
told
him
that
he
needed
not
to
be
at
that
expence
,
for
he
had
a
very
just
yard
at
home
.
To
which
his
Master
answered
,
that
the
yard
which
he
had
at
home
,
was
just
enough
for
himself
;
but
that
in
measuring
others
,
he
clearly
saw
that
it
was
needfull
to
use
forreign
yards
;
for
having
had
some
occasion
of
measuring
the
stomack
of
forreiners
with
the
yard
wand
of
simplicity
,
and
of
the
candor
of
his
own
soul
,
he
found
he
was
much
mistaken
.
Afterwards
Menante
saw
Lorenzo
Gambara
,
a
famous
Briscian
Poet
,
enter
the
Shop
,
who
seeing
a
beautifull
Indian
Parret
sitting
upon
a
bench
,
seemed
so
delighted
to
hear
her
speak
,
as
he
asked
her
price
;
and
was
told
that
it
would
be
150
Crowns
.
Gambara
,
who
if
he
could
have
made
his
bargen
well
,
might
have
had
the
Parret
much
cheaper
,
said
he
did
not
dislike
the
price
;
but
the
mischief
was
,
he
had
nat
so
much
ready
money
;
wherefore
instead
of
ready
money
,
he
would
give
them
the
Bed
he
lay
on
,
the
Curtains
,
and
other
Furniture
of
his
House
,
to
be
prized
by
two
indifferent
men
.
And
the
bargain
being
soon
accepted
of
by
those
of
the
Shop
,
Gambara
took
the
Parret
to
carry
her
home
.
Which
when
Menante
saw
,
he
was
much
scandalized
at
the
Poets
so
rash
resolution
,
having
till
then
,
taken
him
for
a
man
of
good
understanding
;
and
therefore
pitying
his
simplicity
,
he
asked
him
why
he
,
who
by
the
clothes
he
wore
,
seemed
not
to
have
money
to
cast
away
,
should
out
of
an
humor
of
having
a
Parret
,
not
only
foolishly
bereave
himself
of
his
houshold-stuff
,
but
even
of
his
very
bed
,
the
only
repose
for
bodily
labour
,
and
the
labour
of
the
mind
.
To
which
he
answered
,
Know
my
good
friend
,
that
to
purchase
so
pretious
a
Jewel
as
this
Parret
,
I
would
not
only
deprive
my self
of
all
my
worldly
wealth
,
but
I
would
sell
my self
to
my
skin
,
and
become
a
slave
in
the
Gallies
,
rather
then
miss
her
.
I
am
a
Lombard
born
,
given
to
the
usual
defect
of
those
of
my
Nation
,
of
having
a
free
tongue
,
and
a
clear
heart
;
Noble
vertues
in
former
times
,
but
now
great
faults
,
and
which
have
caused
much
harm
in
Courts
,
and
elsewhere
,
which
I
hope
to
amend
by
buying
this
pretious
bird
;
which
will
teach
me
the
vertue
which
is
unknown
to
us
Lombards
,
and
but
too
well
known
and
practised
by
other
Nations
,
of
suppressing
the
true
sense
of
the
soul
,
and
of
speaking
only
such
words
as
please
others
,
and
which
are
got
without
book
.
The
Eleventh
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
excellent
Vertue
of
Loyalty
and
Faithfulness
being
secretly
departed
from
Parnassus
,
Apollo
,
when
he
knew
where
she
had
hid
her self
,
sent
the
Muses
,
Melpomene
and
Thalia
,
to
perswade
her
to
return
.
THe
Noble
Palace
of
Fidelity
,
which
was
formerly
frequented
by
Princes
,
chief
Officers
,
and
abundance
of
the
Senators
of
the
most
famous
Commonwealths
,
is
of
late
so
little
frequented
,
as
it
appears
to
be
the
house
of
desolation
:
In
so
much
,
as
on
the
18
of
this
present
month
,
the
abode
of
so
excellent
a
Vertue
was
seen
to
be
shut
up
:
Which
,
as
soon
as
Apollo
heard
of
,
he
commanded
that
the
Gates
should
be
broken
open
,
and
that
Fidelities
self
should
be
asked
the
reason
of
so
great
a
novelty
.
His
Majesties
command
was
forthwith
obeyed
;
and
the
house
was
found
to
be
totally
void
of
Inhabitants
.
Which
when
the
Vertuosi
heard
,
they
put
on
mourning
weeds
,
sprinkled
themselves
over
with
ashes
,
and
made
other
demonstrations
of
true
sorrow
;
and
Apollo
in
particular
was
so
much
grieved
,
and
those
very
effects
of
inward
sorrow
were
discerned
in
him
,
which
he
shewed
when
the
sad
and
memorable
accident
hapned
of
his
son
Phaeton
.
And
his
Majesty
very
well
knowing
that
all
humane
Government
would
be
quite
overthrown
,
when
the
firm
foundation
of
Fidelity
which
sustains
,
so
great
a
building
should
fail
,
he
immediately
caused
Proclamations
to
be
every
where
made
,
wherein
he
granted
even
to
the
ignorant
sort
of
people
,
and
to
all
others
that
were
incapable
of
the
noble
Prerogative
of
living
with
honor
in
the
memory
of
men
,
a
hundred
years
of
immortality
,
to
be
given
to
whosoever
should
find
out
where
so
renowned
a
Vertue
had
hid
her self
.
And
he
gave
Letters
Patents
for
the
making
good
his
word
,
out
of
the
Bank
of
Homer
,
Virgil
,
Livie
,
and
of
wealthy
Tacetus
,
all
of
them
chief
Merchants
in
Parnassus
,
who
by
their
pretious
Ink
,
doe
use
the
noble
Traffick
of
eternizing
peoples
names
in
the
memory
of
other
men
.
The
largeness
of
the
reward
,
invited
many
to
go
in
search
of
her
;
and
much
diligence
being
used
in
the
pursuit
,
The
Royal
Majesty
of
Fidelity
was
found
in
the
Dog-Kennel
of
that
famous
Hunter
Acteon
,
and
the
beautifull
Adonis
.
This
so
strange
news
was
quickly
brought
to
Apollo
,
who
immediately
dispatched
away
the
two
Learned
Muses
,
Melpomene
and
Thalia
,
with
charge
to
bring
her
from
that
place
so
unworthy
of
her
presence
,
and
to
re-conduct
her
to
her
wonted
habitation
;
but
all
was
in
vain
,
for
that
famous
Princess
bitterly
bewailing
her
own
unfortunate
condition
;
Say
(
said
she
)
you
Divine
Goddesses
,
to
my
Lord
Apollo
,
that
fraud
who
hath
ever
been
my
capital
enemy
,
hath
at
last
got
the
victory
,
in
the
dispute
which
hath
been
perpetually
had
between
her
and
me
,
and
that
base
self-interest
,
which
in
these
unfortunate
times
doth
tyrannize
over
the
souls
in
all
the
best
Nations
,
hath
banished
me
from
out
the
heart
of
man
,
which
was
formerly
wholly
mine
.
Let
his
Majesty
likewise
know
,
that
the
whole
world
is
so
sunk
in
the
mud
of
filthy
pollution
,
as
that
Fidelity
which
hath
been
alwaies
resolute
to
serve
her
Prince
honourably
,
even
to
the
effusion
of
her
last
drop
of
bloud
,
and
to
the
emission
of
her
utmost
spirits
,
and
which
was
formerly
so
admired
and
coveted
,
is
now
accounted
a
foolish
and
vain
ostentation
;
and
tell
him
,
That
to
have
a
fradulent
soul
,
full
fraught
with
perfideousness
,
and
ready
to
use
all
execrable
infidelity
,
thereby
the
better
to
fit
ones
self
to
the
time
,
place
,
and
person
,
is
now
a
daies
cryed
up
for
wisdom
,
sagacity
,
and
wariness
of
wit
;
and
unfortunate
I
,
nautiated
to
see
such
approbrious
things
,
was
forced
to
put
on
the
resolution
you
see
,
to
live
amongst
these
dogs
,
amongst
which
I
now
fully
find
that
faithfulness
toward
their
Masters
,
which
I
have
alwaies
so
much
laboured
to
ingraff
in
the
self-interessed
and
perfidious
heart
of
man
.
The
Twelfth
ADVERTISMENT
.
In
the
General
Diet
●…f
the
Learned
,
appointed
by
Apollo
to
be
held
in
Helicon
,
his
Majesty
,
contrary
to
all
mens
expectations
,
decrees
Eternity
to
the
name
of
Vincenzo
Pinti
,
called
in
the
Court
of
Rome
,
the
Knight
of
the
Lute
.
T
Is
four
moneths
since
Apollo
intimated
the
holding
of
the
general
Diet
of
the
Learned
,
on
the
eight
of
the
present
at
Helicon
;
where
all
the
Poet-Princes
,
the
Nobility
and
Burgesses
of
the
Vertuosies
Universities
,
being
met
together
early
in
the
morning
in
the
great
Hall
,
his
Majesty
sate
under
his
Cloath
of
State
,
of
transplendent
Eternity
,
invironed
by
the
most
Illustrious
Muses
.
And
because
Apollo
had
given
notice
in
his
Edicts
,
whereby
he
specified
the
calling
of
the
Diet
,
that
he
had
done
it
to
give
Eternity
to
the
name
of
a
Vertuoso
whom
he
would
propound
unto
them
.
Divers
were
the
opinions
of
the
Learned
,
touching
who
it
should
be
that
he
would
nominate
;
but
the
most
general
opinion
pitcht
upon
Iustus
Lipius
,
a
Flemish
Gentleman
,
whose
Writings
filled
Parnassus
with
such
fragrancy
,
as
they
had
provoked
in
all
the
Vertuosi
,
rather
a
ravenous
desire
of
devouring
them
,
then
an
appetite
to
taste
them
.
Others
said
,
that
when
the
publick
entry
should
be
made
,
and
audience
given
in
the
great
Hall
,
Eternity
should
be
given
to
the
most
famous
name
of
the
most
Illustrious
and
vertuous
Cardinal
Serafino
Olivieri
,
the
Prince
of
Modern
Scholers
,
who
being
lately
come
to
the
Confines
of
Parnassus
,
was
met
with
unaccustomed
demonstrations
of
honour
,
by
most
of
the
Vertuosi
,
who
wondred
that
a
man
who
had
been
imployed
all
his
life-time
in
the
laborious
charge
of
the
Rota
Romana
,
the
Court
of
Exchequer
,
could
come
to
the
exact
knowledge
of
Divinity
and
Philosophy
,
that
he
should
be
the
prime
Lawyer
of
his
time
,
a
famous
Mathematician
,
able
Astrologer
,
and
as
well
verst
in
the
Greek
as
Latine
Tongue
;
and
that
which
made
the
wonder
greater
,
was
,
that
a
Prelat
so
skilfull
in
so
many
Sciences
,
so
full
of
vertues
,
should
die
a
learner
;
for
thinking
that
he
knew
but
little
,
he
in
his
eightieth
year
of
age
began
to
learn
the
Arabick
Tongue
.
The
reputation
of
so
noble
a
Personage
was
increased
by
his
famous
Library
,
the
which
was
yet
more
famous
,
for
having
a
Master
more
learned
then
all
his
Books
;
whilst
the
reverend
Colledg
of
Vertuosi
stood
expecting
,
which
of
these
two
so
famous
men
should
be
named
,
Apollo
propounded
Vincenzo
Pinti
,
called
in
the
Court
of
Rome
,
the
Knight
of
the
Lute
,
for
his
excellent
skill
on
that
Instrument
.
The
Vertuosi
were
so
astonished
at
the
election
of
so
base
a
person
,
as
they
in
all
humility
told
his
Majestie
,
that
they
would
willingly
obey
his
commands
,
but
that
they
only
desired
to
put
his
Majestie
in
mind
that
his
most
faithfull
Colledg
of
Vertuosi
,
were
unwilling
to
admit
of
a
Fidler
into
their
Society
.
To
this
Apollo
answered
,
That
he
foresaw
that
the
Colledg
would
wonder
at
this
his
choice
,
yet
wished
them
willingly
to
decree
Immortality
to
this
man
,
for
he
knew
how
to
command
what
was
necessary
,
though
it
appeared
strange
to
them
:
the
business
was
then
carried
by
a
secret
scrutiny
,
and
Eternity
was
favourably
decreed
to
the
name
of
the
Knight
of
the
Lute
,
who
was
forthwith
brought
into
the
Colledg
of
the
Vertuosi
,
by
the
Masters
of
the
Pegasean
Ceremony
.
Then
said
Apollo
to
the
Knight
;
You
Vincenzo
,
are
the
first
of
your
Profession
that
was
ever
admitted
into
this
learned
Colledg
;
an
honour
reserved
only
for
those
who
by
their
perpetual
pains
taking
,
are
come
by
the
knowledge
of
Learning
;
but
the
present
necessity
of
your
person
hath
forced
us
to
take
this
resolution
:
See
therefore
that
you
teach
both
Princes
and
privat
men
the
necessary
art
of
tuning
Lutes
,
wherein
many
are
so
ignorant
,
as
they
break
the
strings
by
scruing
them
up
too
high
;
and
some
humorous
phantastical
mad
wits
are
more
particularly
recommended
to
you
,
and
which
I
am
certain
you
will
meet
withall
,
who
being
obstinately
resolved
to
make
the
great
Base
strings
act
the
part
of
Trebles
,
they
do
so
strangely
stretch
them
,
as
though
they
be
very
great
and
strong
,
yet
they
break
them
,
and
quite
ruine
the
Lutes
.
The
Thirteenth
ADVERTISEMENT
.
John
Francisco
Peranda
with
much
ado
gets
leave
of
Apollo
to
be
admitted
into
Parnassus
,
and
despiseth
Jerolomo
Fracasto●…o's
p●…ffer
,
who
would
have
restored
him
to
his
eyesight
,
which
he
had
lost
.
THough
it
be
many
years
since
Signior
Iohn
Francisco
Perando
did
much
solicite
his
Majestie
that
he
might
be
admitted
into
Parnassus
,
and
that
he
used
great
means
to
obtain
his
request
,
yet
Apollo
would
never
give
way
thereunto
;
for
since
he
brought
nothing
into
Parnassus
but
a
volumn
of
his
Letters
,
his
Majestie
,
who
is
much
nauceared
with
such
Compos●…urs
,
said
that
he
was
resolved
rather
to
throw
the
greatest
part
of
the
infinite
volumns
of
Letters
which
were
in
the
Library
,
out
of
it
,
then
add
one
new
one
to
it
.
For
nothing
but
writings
of
Invention
,
and
Nocturnal
Labours
being
received
into
the
Delfick
Library
,
the
innumerable
volumns
of
Letters
that
were
there
were
but
troublesom
,
and
took
up
a
great
deal
of
room
.
And
that
all
men
being
full
of
ambition
and
vain
glory
,
and
the
manner
of
Modern
writing
being
reduced
to
the
naked
speaking
what
they
think
,
without
any
artifice
,
and
that
there
be
but
few
men
who
want
business
,
and
who
cannot
write
,
the
easie
admittance
of
every
one
that
writes
Letters
,
into
Parnassus
,
would
occasion
so
great
an
inconvenience
,
as
every
one
,
though
never
so
meanly
learned
,
would
print
great
volumns
of
his
own
Letters
,
only
to
make
the
miseries
and
base
affairs
of
his
own
house
known
:
An
error
of
the
greater
consequence
,
for
that
immortality
is
not
sold
at
so
cheap
a
rate
in
Parnassus
:
And
that
to
these
so
many
respects
,
it
was
yet
further
added
,
That
it
was
discovered
many
had
been
so
ambitiously
presumptious
,
as
to
publish
false
Letters
written
to
such
a
King
,
or
such
a
great
Prince
,
whom
they
had
never
seen
,
nor
had
ever
had
any
business
with
them
;
a
falshood
the
more
worthy
consideration
,
for
that
in
all
true
Letters
,
the
vivacity
of
an
unlooked
for
conceit
,
sprang
from
the
reallity
of
the
fact
,
was
that
which
was
admired
;
whereas
feigned
Letters
were
alwaies
full
of
affectation
,
a
thing
so
much
abhorred
by
good
wits
.
The
noble
Caitaneans
,
did
notwithstanding
so
much
favour
this
their
servant
,
as
they
overcame
all
these
difficulties
;
moreover
they
made
it
appear
to
his
Majestie
,
that
of
all
Letters
that
had
been
yet
printed
,
Peranda's
deserved
the
first
place
.
Wherefore
Apollo
,
by
reason
of
this
testimony
,
and
for
that
there
were
many
of
Peranda's
Letters
appertaining
to
History
,
which
would
be
very
acceptable
to
all
the
Vertuosi
,
he
granted
his
request
,
and
gave
him
the
first
place
amongst
all
the
Italian
Secretaries
.
And
though
in
honouring
this
Vertuoso
,
Apollo
(
according
to
his
custom
)
had
respect
only
to
his
merits
,
there
were
notwithstanding
some
lavish
tongues
which
durst
affirm
,
that
this
was
done
in
favour
to
the
Illustrious
Cardinal
Henry
Caietan
,
a
Prince
who
for
the
magnificency
of
his
Works
,
for
his
undaunted
courage
,
his
laudable
customs
,
candid
genius
,
purity
of
soul
,
and
for
all
the
most
excellent
gifts
of
Nature
wherewith
he
was
richly
adorned
,
is
usually
called
his
Majesties
best
beloved
.
It
must
not
be
forgotten
,
that
when
(
according
to
custom
)
all
the
Vertuosi
were
permitted
to
pass
their
censures
upon
Perandas
writings
,
Claudeus
Ptolomeus
said
that
they
deserved
to
be
corrected
,
because
there
were
many
words
in
them
which
were
not
Tuscan
.
But
the
Censurer
bad
Ptolomeus
hold
his
peace
,
for
that
in
learned
writing
,
the
Ingenious
Vertuosi
noted
the
conceptions
,
and
that
they
were
only
malignant
Pedants
who
censured
words
.
And
Peranda
having
lost
his
eye-sight
some
years
before
his
death
,
Ierollomo
Fracastoro
proferred
to
restore
him
to
his
sight
again
;
which
if
he
should
effect
,
Peranda
promised
him
500
crowns
for
his
Cure
.
The
Phisitian
being
then
to
do
his
work
,
Peranda
was
set
down
in
a
chaire
,
and
asked
the
Phisitian
whether
all
things
were
in
readiness
wherewith
to
restore
his
eye-sight
?
The
Phisitian
said
there
was
nothing
wanting
,
for
he
had
all
his
Instruments
and
Plasters
.
These
things
which
you
have
named
,
said
Peranda
,
do
but
little
import
towards
giving
me
that
comfort
which
I
desire
by
my
eye
sight
:
Tell
me
,
how
goes
the
world
?
Even
as
it
did
,
said
the
Phisitian
,
when
you
fell
blind
.
If
it
be
so
,
replies
Peranda
,
I
will
not
lay
out
my
money
in
recovery
of
that
eye-sight
which
I
willingly
lost
that
I
might
not
see
the
present
world
drowned
in
those
inormious
and
hatefull
loathsomnesses
,
which
do
so
much
nauceate
good
mens
eyes
.
The
Fourteenth
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Italian
Academies
send
Commissioners
into
Parnassus
to
obtain
some
remedy
from
Apollo
for
their
corruptions
;
and
find
the
business
impossible
to
be
effected
.
THe
Commissioners
sent
to
this
Court
from
the
Italian
Academies
,
had
not
audience
till
the
twentieth
of
the
present
month
;
at
which
time
they
told
his
Majestie
,
that
the
fundamental
Principles
of
all
Academies
being
excellently
good
and
vertuous
,
the
Schollers
were
at
first
very
studious
,
and
diligent
in
their
disputations
,
and
all
other
learned
exercises
;
but
that
this
so
ardent
desire
of
knowledge
did
with
time
so
cool
in
them
,
as
also
those
vertuous
exercises
;
that
whereas
at
first
Academies
were
frequented
by
privat
men
,
and
held
in
great
reputation
by
Princes
;
in
process
of
time
they
grew
so
forsaken
and
despised
,
as
they
had
often
,
to
the
great
discouragement
of
Learning
,
been
inhibited
;
as
proving
rather
prejudicial
,
than
advantagious
.
And
that
though
many
remedies
had
been
applyed
to
this
evil
,
yet
none
of
them
had
procured
the
desired
operation
:
Wherefore
the
Italian
Academies
being
much
devoted
to
his
Majestie
,
were
forced
to
have
recourse
to
him
,
whom
they
did
humbly
beseech
that
he
would
be
pleased
to
give
them
some
preservative
Medicine
against
so
great
corruption
.
These
Commissioners
were
very
graciously
received
,
and
listened
to
by
Apollo
,
who
recommended
the
business
to
the
Reformers
of
Learning
:
To
whom
when
the
Commissioners
came
,
they
found
them
so
imployed
in
the
important
business
which
they
are
perpetually
troubled
with
,
di
far
delle
sancie
fuse
,
with
making
much
of
nothing
,
as
that
they
excused
themselves
,
as
not
being
then
at
leasure
to
attend
that
business
.
Wherefore
the
Commissioners
returned
again
to
Apollo
,
who
referred
them
to
the
Regio
Collateral
;
where
the
Academies
demands
were
often
disputed
and
discust
;
and
yesterday
they
had
for
their
last
answer
,
That
all
those
Gentlemen
after
much
debate
and
proposals
,
were
at
last
resolved
that
the
saying
was
true
,
that
Omnia
orta
occidunt
,
&
aucta
senes●…unt
.
Wherefore
it
was
impossible
to
prevent
,
but
that
a
pair
of
shooes
,
how
neat
and
spruce
soever
they
were
at
the
first
,
should
in
process
of
time
become
torne
and
ilfavoured
.
That
therefore
the
lovers
of
Learning
should
be
very
diligent
,
in
suddenly
suppressing
whatsoever
Academy
had
swarved
too
farr
from
the
good
Rules
of
its
first
Institution
,
and
at
the
same
time
found
new
ones
,
to
the
end
that
the
world
(
little
to
the
credit
of
the
Vertuosi
)
might
not
be
full
of
unprofitable
Academies
,
but
might
alwaies
enjoy
the
benefit
which
it
receives
from
good
ones
.
The
Fifteenth
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Anneus
Seneca
being
accused
before
Apollo
of
two
fowle
Vices
which
were
commonly
found
in
all
the
Sects
of
Moral
Philosophers
;
doth
excellently
well
defend
his
own
Cause
,
and
the
like
of
his
Associates
.
THe
last
night
,
to
the
infinite
wonder
of
all
the
Vertuosi
in
Parnassus
,
Anneus
Seneca
,
that
Prince
of
Moral
Philosophers
,
and
one
so
well
beloved
by
his
Majestie
,
was
made
prisoner
;
various
were
the
discourses
which
so
great
a
novelty
occasioned
.
Some
thought
that
it
might
be
,
for
that
his
Majestie
would
have
him
give
a
very
particular
account
to
the
world
,
by
what
Philosphical
precepts
he
had
in
so
short
a
time
of
his
serving
Nero
,
gotten
the
worth
of
seven
millions
and
a
half
,
by
which
so
great
riches
,
he
had
cast
so
fowle
a
shame
upon
that
poverty
,
and
upon
that
moderation
of
mind
,
which
in
his
writings
he
had
made
so
particular
profession
of
.
A
thing
so
much
the
more
scandalous
,
as
by
the
testimony
of
many
Historians
,
it
plainly
appeared
he
had
been
a
frequent
cheater
of
Legacies
,
which
he
had
fowlly
extorted
from
wealthy
men
.
Others
said
that
he
was
imprisoned
for
the
Adultery
which
some
will
not
stick
to
say
he
committed
with
Agrepina
;
and
many
were
of
opinion
that
it
was
for
having
been
cause
of
the
Pysonian
Conspiracy
against
Nero
,
wherein
it
was
firmly
held
that
Seneca
had
not
only
a
hand
,
but
that
he
had
so
fowlly
given
himself
over
to
ambition
,
as
after
so
great
a
fault
committed
,
he
had
suffered
himself
to
be
perswaded
he
might
become
Emperor
.
Nor
were
there
wanting
those
who
constantly
affirmed
that
Apollo
was
exceeding
angly
with
this
Philosopher
,
for
that
Nero
himself
had
confest
that
the
wicked
Paracide
which
he
had
committed
,
was
not
only
done
by
Sencca's
knowledge
,
but
by
his
perswasion
,
not
out
of
any
love
he
bore
to
his
Master
,
but
to
make
him
commit
so
horrid
a
wickedness
,
that
he
might
ascertain
his
own
so
unexhaustable
riches
which
he
had
accumulated
to
his
own
shame
,
and
his
Masters
prejudice
.
But
after
his
examination
,
Seneca
found
,
that
not
only
he
,
but
all
his
fellow
moral
Philosophers
were
accused
for
having
very
much
scandalized
all
men
by
two
fowl
vices
which
they
are
given
unto
above
above
all
other
men
,
to
wit
,
of
being
revengefull
,
and
ingratefull
.
T
is
said
that
Seneca
acknowledged
these
accusations
to
be
true
,
but
that
he
,
nor
the
rest
of
moral
Philosophers
,
ought
not
to
be
blamed
for
what
was
laid
to
their
charge
,
since
even
thereby
their
goodness
did
manifestly
appear
;
for
good
men
never
offend
any
;
and
consequently
,
since
they
gave
no
occasion
of
being
injured
,
it
ought
not
to
be
held
strange
,
if
they
were
more
mindfull
of
injuries
received
,
then
other
men
,
it
being
common
amongst
men
,
that
they
know
not
how
to
pardon
injuries
,
who
best
know
they
never
deserved
them
.
And
that
likewise
for
ingratitude
which
moral
Philosophers
were
daily
seen
to
use
towards
their
benefactors
,
it
was
no
blockishness
in
them
,
as
was
every
where
affirmed
by
their
illwillers
,
but
that
therein
the
candor
and
great
goodness
of
their
souls
,
was
clearly
discern'd
:
For
moral
Philosophers
being
guided
in
all
their
actions
by
their
very
cautious
souls
,
did
know
by
the
instinct
of
Nature
that
all
the
good
and
graces
which
they
in
this
world
did
receive
from
men
,
did
proceed
from
the
all-powerful
hand
of
God
;
it
was
therefore
no
wonder
that
they
did
not
own
them
from
men
.
The
Sixteenth
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Ambassadors
are
sent
from
the
Colledg
of
Gardners
,
to
Apollo
,
to
obtain
some
Instrument
from
him
,
whereby
they
might
without
any
cost
or
charge
,
cleanse
their
Gardens
of
all
improfitable
hearbs
,
and
are
laught
at
by
his
Majestie
.
AMbassadors
from
all
the
Gardners
of
the
world
,
are
come
to
this
Court
,
who
have
acquainted
his
Majestie
,
that
were
it
either
from
the
bad
conditions
of
their
seed
,
the
naughtiness
of
the
soyle
,
or
from
the
evil
celestial
influences
,
so
great
abundance
of
weeds
grew
up
in
their
Gardens
,
as
not
being
any
longer
able
to
undergoe
the
charges
they
were
at
in
weeding
them
out
,
and
of
cleansing
their
Gardens
,
they
should
be
forced
either
to
give
them
over
,
or
else
to
inhaunce
the
price
of
their
Pompions
,
Cabiges
,
and
other
hearbs
,
unless
his
Majestie
would
help
them
to
some
Instrument
,
by
means
whereof
they
might
not
be
at
such
excessive
charge
in
keeping
their
Gardens
:
His
Majestie
did
much
wonder
at
this
the
Gardners
foolish
request
,
and
being
full
of
indignation
,
answered
their
Ambassadors
,
that
they
should
tell
those
that
sent
them
,
that
they
should
use
their
accustomed
manual
Instruments
,
their
spades
and
mathooks
,
for
no
better
could
be
found
,
nor
wished
for
,
and
cease
from
demanding
such
impertinent
things
.
The
Ambassadors
did
then
couragiously
reply
,
that
they
made
this
request
,
being
moved
thereunto
by
the
great
benefit
which
they
saw
his
Majestie
had
been
pleased
to
grant
to
Princes
,
who
to
purge
their
States
from
evil
weeds
,
and
seditious
plants
,
which
to
the
great
misfortune
of
good
men
,
do
grow
there
in
such
abundance
,
had
obtained
the
miraculous
Instruments
of
Drum
and
Trumpet
,
at
the
sound
whereof
,
Mallows
,
Henbane
,
Dogs-caul
,
and
other
pernitious
plants
of
unusefull
persons
,
doe
of
themselves
willingly
forsake
the
ground
,
to
make
room
for
Lettice
,
Burnet
,
Sorrel
,
and
other
usefull
hearbs
of
Artificers
and
Citizens
,
and
wither
of
themselves
and
die
,
amongst
the
brakes
and
brambles
out
of
the
Garden
(
their
Country
)
the
which
they
did
much
prejudice
;
and
that
the
Gardners
would
esteem
it
great
happiness
if
they
could
obtain
such
an
Instrument
from
his
Majestie
.
To
this
Apollo
answered
,
That
if
Princes
could
as
easily
discern
seditious
men
,
and
such
as
were
unworthy
to
live
in
this
worlds
Garden
,
as
Gardners
might
know
nettles
and
henbane
,
from
spinnage
and
lettice
,
he
would
have
onely
given
them
halters
and
axes
for
their
instruments
,
which
are
the
true
pickaxes
by
which
the
seditious
herbs
(
Vagabonds
,
which
being
but
the
useless
luxuries
of
humane
Fecundity
,
deserve
not
to
eat
bread
)
may
be
rooted
up
.
But
since
all
men
were
made
after
the
same
manner
,
so
as
the
good
could
not
be
known
from
the
bad
,
by
the
leaves
of
face
,
or
stalks
of
stature
;
the
Instruments
of
Drum
and
Trumpets
were
granted
for
publick
peace-sake
to
Princes
,
the
sound
whereof
was
chearfully
followed
by
such
plants
as
took
delight
in
dying
,
to
the
end
,
that
by
the
frequent
use
of
gibbets
,
wholsom
herbs
should
not
be
extirpated
instead
of
such
as
were
venemous
.
The
Ambassadors
would
have
replyed
again
;
but
Apollo
with
much
indignation
,
bad
them
hold
their
peace
,
and
charged
them
to
be
gon
from
Parnassus
with
all
speed
,
for
it
was
altogether
impertinent
and
ridiculous
to
compare
the
purging
of
the
world
from
seditious
spirits
,
with
the
weeding
of
noysom
hearbs
out
of
a
Garden
.
The
Seventeenth
ADVERTISEMENT
.
A
doubt
arising
upon
the
truth
of
a
usual
Saying
,
That
a
man
must
eat
a
peck
of
Salt
with
another
,
before
he
can
perfectly
know
him
.
Apollo
makes
the
point
be
argued
in
a
general
Assembly
of
Learned
men
which
he
causeth
to
be
called
for
that
purpose
.
THe
common
saying
,
That
to
know
a
man
exactly
,
one
must
eat
a
peck
of
salt
with
him
,
being
questioned
by
some
Vertuosi
,
Apollo
being
unwilling
that
the
Addages
of
the
Learned
,
which
are
general
Rules
,
and
inviolable
Laws
,
by
which
his
Vertuosi
steer
their
lives
;
being
I
say
,
unwilling
that
the
truth
of
them
should
be
any
waies
scrupled
at
;
many
daies
since
made
it
be
disputed
very
exactly
and
diligently
in
a
general
Assembly
of
the
Vertuosi
:
Where
this
saying
was
proved
to
be
so
true
,
as
many
of
the
Assembly
were
of
opinion
that
half
a
peck
more
should
be
added
to
the
former
dose
;
grounding
their
Judgements
upon
this
apparent
reason
,
That
the
shamefull
vice
of
dissembling
,
and
infamous
practice
of
hypocrisie
being
known
daily
to
encrease
amongst
men
,
it
stood
with
all
the
grounds
of
good
Arithmatick
,
that
as
corruptions
encreased
in
wicked
men
,
necessary
remedies
should
be
multiplyed
by
the
Learned
,
whereby
stoutly
to
resist
vice
in
its
rise
.
But
not
so
farr
to
shame
the
present
age
,
as
to
shew
,
that
whilst
the
malady
of
vice
encresed
in
the
world
,
remedies
grew
less
,
the
wiser
sort
of
the
Vertuosi
thought
it
not
good
to
alter
the
ancient
measure
;
wherefore
it
was
generally
concluded
by
them
all
,
that
the
saying
was
very
true
,
for
what
concerned
men
;
but
was
very
false
in
women
,
who
without
eating
either
salt
or
oyle
,
knew
the
very
thoughts
of
their
husbands
the
first
night
they
lay
with
them
.
The
Eighteenth
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Hircanians
send
Ambassadors
to
Apollo
,
to
be
resolved
by
his
Majestie
in
the
Important
Article
,
Whether
it
be
lawfull
for
the
people
to
kill
a
Tyrant
?
AMbassadors
came
the
19
of
this
present
monenth
from
the
Warlike
Nation
of
Hircania
to
this
Court
,
where
two
daies
after
they
had
Audience
given
them
in
great
pomp
by
his
Royal
Majestie
:
For
the
Vertuosi
being
very
desirous
to
see
the
Customs
and
Habits
of
Forreiners
,
came
in
great
numbers
to
honour
Personages
so
quallified
.
The
Ambassadors
being
brought
before
Apollo
,
the
chiefest
of
them
said
,
That
the
famous
Nation
of
Hircania
being
at
present
miserably
opprest
by
a
Prince
,
who
with
unheard
of
cruelty
did
Tyrannize
over
them
,
had
been
perswaded
by
the
fame
of
his
Majesties
wise
and
true
answers
,
to
send
them
so
farr
a
Journey
as
to
Parnassus
,
only
to
know
the
true
decission
of
that
weighty
Question
,
Whether
or
no
it
were
lawfull
for
the
common
people
to
kill
a
Tyrant
?
It
is
not
to
be
believed
how
strangely
Apollo
was
incenst
to
hear
such
a
question
propounded
;
he
was
so
mightily
moved
to
anger
against
those
Ambassadors
,
as
giving
no
other
answer
,
he
straitway
rose
up
in
an
unwonted
fury
,
and
commanded
,
that
for
example
to
others
who
should
dare
to
propound
so
pernitiously
seditious
doubts
,
they
should
be
immediately
drag'd
out
of
the
Hall
;
which
was
accordingly
done
.
Such
an
action
appeared
so
hidious
to
the
Illustrious
Muses
and
the
Senat
of
Vertuosi
,
as
not
any
one
of
them
durst
intercede
with
his
Majestie
in
the
behalf
of
these
unfortunate
Ambassadors
.
But
Apollo
seeing
much
confusion
and
amazement
in
the
faces
of
his
beloved
Muses
,
and
Vertuosi
,
said
,
he
thought
he
had
too
slightly
revenged
himself
upon
those
Ambassadors
,
for
this
their
so
scandalous
and
perfidious
demand
;
for
that
it
was
not
only
not
lawfull
for
the
people
to
dispute
so
seditious
an
Article
,
but
that
they
should
keep
it
like
fire
,
from
entring
into
their
brests
,
since
such
a
doubt
would
be
apt
to
cause
more
mischief
in
the
world
,
then
Paris
his
Apple
had
done
.
For
those
that
were
born
in
a
Republicks
Liberty
,
had
no
occasion
to
raise
any
such
Dispute
;
since
in
a
free
Country
,
every
light
shadow
,
little
semblance
farr-fetcht
suspition
,
or
least
jealousie
that
a
Senator
should
affect
to
Tyrannize
over
his
free
Country
,
was
sufficient
to
cause
revenge
be
taken
by
a
halter
or
hatchet
,
without
cavelling
upon
such
foolish
words
,
and
calling
in
question
a
business
of
so
great
importance
;
for
in
a
well
governed
Commonwealth
,
if
a
Senator
should
incur
any
such
suspition
,
any
colour
,
shew
,
or
suspition
,
though
never
so
remote
,
ought
to
serve
for
so
convincing
proofs
,
as
the
party
accused
must
first
be
hanged
,
and
his
process
to
be
made
afterwards
by
usual
course
of
Law
.
But
that
in
Monarchies
,
where
the
base
Plebeians
were
incapable
of
themselves
to
discern
between
a
lawfull
Prince
and
a
Tyrant
,
they
ought
,
for
the
great
commodity
which
the
peoples
ignorance
gives
to
such
as
are
ambitious
,
seditious
,
lovers
of
novelty
,
and
such
as
dispair
of
their
own
affairs
,
of
painting
out
wicked
Tyrants
for
legitimate
Princes
,
and
legitimate
Princes
for
cruel
Tyrants
;
to
keep
the
world
from
slaughter
and
execrable
confusion
,
they
ought
,
I
say
,
according
to
Tacitus
his
precept
;
Bonos
Imperatores
voto
expetere
qualescunque
tollerare
.
Tacit.
lib.
4.
Hist.
To
pray
for
good
Princes
,
and
to
bear
with
any
.
This
being
said
,
Apollo
,
who
out
of
his
innate
goodness
cannot
endure
that
any
should
part
distasted
from
him
,
though
they
by
their
impertinencies
have
given
occasion
of
offence
,
commanded
that
the
Ambassadors
should
be
sent
for
back
;
who
when
they
appeared
before
his
Majestie
,
he
said
unto
them
,
Beloved
Hercanians
,
To
people
who
love
to
live
peacefully
,
Ferenda
Regum
ingenia
,
nec
usui
crebras
mutationes
,
Tacit.
lib.
12.
Ann.
Princes
humors
are
to
be
born
withall
,
and
then
especially
when
they
are
occasioned
by
puniard
,
venem
,
or
any
other
mischievous
machination
:
For
the
alwaies
just
God
being
the
only
competent
Judge
of
Princes
,
and
not
the
people
,
who
are
continually
carried
about
by
seditious
men
,
you
ought
,
Quomodo
sterilitatem
,
aut
nimios
imbres
,
&
cetera
Naturae
mala
,
ita
luxum
,
vel
avaritium
Dominantium
Tollerare
.
To
tollerate
the
luxury
or
avarice
of
Soveraigns
,
as
you
do
barrenness
,
too
much
rain
,
and
other
evil
of
Nature
.
The
Ninteenth
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Nero
the
Emperor
,
for
a
very
singular
commendation
given
him
by
Cornelius
Tacitus
,
rewards
him
with
a
gift
of
25
Mules
loaden
with
Crowns
of
Gold
.
VEry
Singular
is
the
news
which
happened
this
very
week
in
Parnassus
,
of
25
Mules
loaded
with
Gold
,
which
Nero
the
Emperor
sent
to
Cornelius
Tacitus
:
All
the
Vertuosi
were
much
astonished
at
so
rich
a
present
,
and
forthwith
ran
to
Tacitus
his
house
,
some
to
know
the
true
worth
of
so
much
treasure
;
others
to
know
what
had
occasioned
so
rich
a
gift
;
and
they
found
that
the
reward
came
to
1250000
crowns
which
Nero
gave
for
the
praise
which
the
Historian
gave
him
,
when
he
said
that
Nero
had
not
infra
servos
Ingenium
,
Tacit.
Annal.
lib.
13.
The
most
learned
of
this
State
said
,
that
though
Nero's
gift
was
very
splendid
,
yet
Tacetus
had
deserved
much
more
from
him
in
that
excellent
praise
which
he
gave
him
,
that
his
genius
was
not
to
be
subject
to
the
base
Dominion
of
a
servant
,
was
more
worth
then
many
rich
Treasures
,
because
there
are
but
few
Princes
that
deserve
such
praise
.
On
the
contrary
,
the
meaner
sort
of
the
learned
thought
that
reward
did
so
farr
exceed
Tacetus
his
merit
,
as
they
did
not
stick
to
speak
ill
of
so
heroick
an
action
,
terming
it
one
of
Neroes
prodigallities
,
and
one
of
those
inconsiderate
profuseness
used
by
shallow
pated
Princes
,
when
by
giving
past
number
or
measure
,
they
deserve
rather
to
be
esteemed
foolish
squanderers
,
then
vertuously
liberal
.
Wherefore
these
men
,
more
moved
out
of
envy
to
Tacitus
,
then
out
of
any
love
they
bore
to
Neroes
honor
,
told
Nero
,
that
most
of
the
learned
in
Parnassus
did
not
approve
that
he
should
reward
two
or
three
bare
words
written
by
the
Historian
,
with
so
great
a
mass
of
money
,
who
had
said
so
many
obsenities
to
his
prejudice
,
as
did
totally
obscure
that
praise
which
he
had
so
highly
rewarded
.
'T
is
said
for
certain
,
that
Neros
answer
was
;
That
as
excellent
Picture-drawers
did
the
better
set
off
the
figures
which
they
draw
,
by
dark
shadows
,
so
true
Historians
,
by
the
liberal
mention
of
vices
,
and
not
the
bare
imperfection
of
Heroes
,
whosememories
they
doe
by
their
writings
eternize
,
purchase
believe
of
the
praises
which
they
give
them
,
no
more
shamefull
invectives
being
to
be
spoken
of
Princes
,
then
exagerated
praises
,
without
making
any
mention
of
those
defects
which
are
so
joyned
to
humanity
;
which
when
they
are
truely
related
,
they
were
true
testimonies
of
the
writers
impartiallity
;
and
that
therefore
he
did
the
more
value
the
imputation
written
of
him
by
Tacetus
,
for
that
the
praise
which
he
gave
him
,
did
exceed
all
the
shamefull
things
which
he
could
possibly
write
of
him
:
For
as
all
the
most
exquisite
vertues
which
a
Prince
can
be
indued
with
,
were
directly
darkned
if
he
suffered
under
the
execrable
vice
of
subjecting
himself
to
a
servant
,
so
the
vertue
of
knowing
how
to
be
Master
of
those
that
serve
,
did
so
well
quallifie
any
whatsoever
Prince
,
as
the
splendor
of
so
sublime
a
vertue
,
did
sufficiently
cover
the
fowlest
faults
:
And
that
all
this
was
not
without
good
reason
;
for
as
it
was
impossible
to
deny
but
that
the
unfortunate
man
who
undid
himself
in
seeking
the
Philosophers
stone
by
his
Furnaces
and
Limbecks
,
was
a
mad
man
fit
to
be
chained
up
;
so
it
must
be
confest
that
the
Prince
who
having
made
an
ignorant
servant
of
his
,
a
Golden
Ox
,
did
adore
him
like
an
Idol
,
was
of
necessity
to
be
esteemed
a
fool
past
all
recovery
.
The
Twentieth
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Vertuosi
visit
the
chief
Church
in
Parnassus
,
and
begg
of
God
an
important
favour
.
YEsterday
being
the
first
day
of
April
,
according
to
the
custom
of
this
Court
,
the
Illustrious
Poets
,
accompanied
by
the
Muses
,
went
to
visit
the
chief
Temple
in
Parnassus
,
and
with
great
devotion
beseeched
Gods
Divine
Majestie
,
that
he
would
vouchsafe
for
his
mercies
sake
,
to
preserve
his
faithfull
Vertuosi
from
the
lies
of
such
persons
,
who
being
wholly
composed
of
malignity
,
are
notwithstanding
held
by
Princes
to
be
exact
honest
men
.
The
XXI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
,
to
incourage
Senators
of
Free
Countries
,
to
cultivate
Liberty
,
without
affecting
Tyranny
,
causeth
an
exceeding
wofull
spectacle
to
be
shewn
in
Melpomene's
Amphitheater
.
APollo
firmly
believing
,
that
in
free
Countries
,
more
then
in
any
other
sort
of
Government
,
Laws
are
instituted
for
the
common
good
,
that
therein
men
set
their
minds
more
to
undertake
;
and
to
perform
gallant
works
,
and
that
learned
Sciences
,
and
all
civil
Pollicy
do
there
florish
most
;
doth
much
abhor
those
Tyrants
who
commit
outrages
upon
the
Liberty
of
a
well
regulated
Commonwealth
:
As
those
who
to
maintain
an
usurped
Power
,
are
bound
to
hate
men
of
great
worth
,
and
to
persecute
their
excellent
vertues
with
the
same
severity
,
with
the
which
Lawfull
Princes
punish
vice
;
and
though
their
genius
lead
them
to
encline
to
clemency
,
they
are
notwithstanding
necessitated
to
use
cruelty
,
and
to
Govern
the
State
vitiously
,
it
being
very
true
,
that
Nemo
unquam
Imperium
flagitio
quaesitum
bonis
artibus
exercuit
.
Tacit.
lib.
1.
Hist.
No
man
did
ever
Govern
that
Empire
well
,
which
he
came
by
ill
.
His
Majestie
,
to
affright
the
Inhabitants
of
free
Countries
from
committing
like
wickednesse
,
caused
the
Senators
that
were
resident
in
that
State
,
to
meet
yesterday
in
Melpomenes
stately
Theatre
;
and
having
made
Cesar
the
Dictator
appear
on
the
other
side
of
the
Theatre
,
he
brought
in
his
sister
Actia
,
together
with
his
Nephew
Augustus
,
and
his
daughter
Iulia
,
and
the
children
which
she
had
by
her
husband
Marcus
Agrippa
,
Lucius
,
and
Gaius
Cesar
,
Agrippa
Posthumus
,
Giulia
,
and
Agrippina
,
with
the
numerous
issue
that
the
latter
bore
to
her
so
famous
husband
Germanicus
.
It
was
a
sad
and
miserable
spectacle
to
Cesar
,
to
see
how
by
his
prodigious
ambition
,
he
had
not
only
drawn
on
his
own
cruel
death
,
but
had
totally
extinguished
his
bloud
,
which
happened
in
a
short
time
after
:
For
certainly
it
was
a
very
compassionate
spectacle
to
see
,
that
of
so
copious
an
offspring
as
proceeded
from
his
eldest
sister
Octavia
,
and
Giulia
,
daughter
to
Augustus
,
there
was
not
any
one
who
had
not
ended
their
lives
,
either
by
poyson
,
sword
,
famin
,
or
some
other
miserable
death
.
To
this
Cesar's
so
great
heart-grief
,
was
added
the
immence
rage
which
assailed
him
when
he
saw
the
Roman
Empire
which
he
had
purchased
to
his
so
great
reputation
,
and
with
the
effusion
of
his
bloud
,
should
passe
after
Augustus
his
death
,
into
that
cruel
and
bloud-thirsty
Family
of
the
Claudii
,
which
did
so
detestably
persecute
the
bloud
of
the
Giulii
,
from
whom
they
had
inherited
so
glorious
an
Empire
.
Nor
was
the
Compunction
less
which
this
so
very
sad
sight
caused
in
all
the
lookers
on
;
for
thereby
the
usual
calamity
of
Tyrants
was
recal'd
into
their
minds
,
who
are
not
only
unable
to
evade
Divine
inevitable
Justice
of
laying
the
foundations
of
new
Tyranny
,
by
their
own
violent
deaths
,
but
that
God
,
who
is
still
severe
in
punishing
the
wickedness
of
ambitious
men
,
would
not
permit
that
his
progeny
who
had
dared
to
undertake
so
horrid
an
excess
,
should
long
enjoy
the
power
of
State
which
had
been
so
ignominiously
gotten
:
and
which
by
divine
providence
fell
soon
into
the
power
of
a
family
,
who
forced
by
good
policy
,
to
extinguish
the
first
Tyrants
whole
race
,
took
publick
revenge
for
subjugated
liberty
.
Moreover
it
was
a
calamity
which
the
eyes
of
the
cruellest
men
that
were
in
that
Theater
could
not
behold
,
not
the
hearts
of
the
most
ambitious
tollerate
,
to
see
that
all
Tyrannies
are
laid
with
the
materials
of
so
many
violent
deaths
,
which
the
unslackt
lime
of
such
wicked
injustice
with
the
sand
of
so
many
horrible
cruelties
,
and
with
the
water
of
large
lakes
of
humane
blood
:
whilst
all
the
Vertuosie
wept
to
see
this
so
lamentable
Spectacle
,
Apollo
said
with
so
fearful
a
voice
,
as
infused
terrour
into
every
one
;
behold
said
he
,
you
Tyrants
,
who
are
so
desirous
of
Soveraignty
,
these
that
you
have
here
before
your
eyes
are
the
ends
of
your
proud
thoughts
;
in
these
unfortunate
Tragedies
does
the
longing
,
and
immoderate
thirst
which
such
as
you
have
over
dominion
terminate
;
and
those
who
have
impiously
made
themselves
Masters
of
their
Countries
liberty
,
bring
their
families
to
this
greatness
that
you
see
.
Thou
Caesar
,
who
by
thy
wicked
going
about
to
inslave
the
so
Noble
Roman
republick
didst
make
it
appear
,
that
thou
either
didst
not
know
,
or
didst
not
fear
God
,
see
and
behold
to
what
height
of
infelicity
he
is
able
to
bring
thee
,
and
all
thine
.
Though
Caesar
gave
apparent
signes
that
he
was
much
confused
and
afflicted
to
hear
these
words
;
yet
Apollo
the
more
to
rent
in
pieces
the
soul
of
this
ambitious
man
,
and
to
comfort
his
Vertuosie
,
who
were
much
afflicted
at
this
so
horrid
sight
,
and
to
encourage
Senators
to
preserve
the
liberty
of
their
Country
,
commanded
that
the
humane
Neptune
of
the
Sea
,
the
alwaies
glorious
Prince
Andrea
d'Oria
should
be
admitted
into
the
Theater
,
with
all
his
most
excellent
family
.
Whereupon
Caesar
,
beholding
the
happiness
of
that
renowned
Family
,
and
the
glory
of
those
Senators
,
who
in
the
Commonwealth
of
Genoa
were
esteemed
,
honour'd
and
observed
,
as
mindful
of
the
great
benefit
which
they
had
received
from
that
new
founder
of
their
new
liberty
;
and
that
that
Prince
of
every
happy
memory
,
had
left
so
glorious
a
fame
of
his
modesty
behind
him
in
those
Citizens
;
the
envy
he
bore
to
the
Grandezza
of
those
Heroes
did
torment
him
more
then
his
own
misfortune
:
and
he
then
knew
,
that
when
he
and
those
that
descended
from
him
had
conquerd
France
,
he
should
have
done
better
,
and
more
advisedly
,
if
he
had
undertaken
,
as
did
that
glorious
Prince
Andrea
d'Oria
,
to
reestablish
the
liberty
of
his
Country
,
which
was
faln
into
the
disorder
of
a
confused
Dimocrasie
,
and
to
beat
down
the
Tyranny
of
that
ignorant
people
,
with
those
very
weapons
with
which
he
had
trampled
upon
the
Senates
authority
:
and
to
have
planted
a
perfect
Aristocracy
in
his
Country
,
and
so
have
won
unto
himself
the
high
Title
,
and
glorious
prerogative
of
being
the
second
founder
of
the
Roman
liberty
,
by
the
doing
whereof
,
he
and
his
posterity
mought
have
been
as
famous
in
Rome
,
as
the
Family
of
the
Dorii
shall
ever
be
glorious
in
the
Noble
Republick
of
Genoa
,
as
long
as
the
world
shall
last
.
The
XXII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Inthroned
Academians
,
having
admitted
the
chief
she-Poets
,
or
Poetesses
into
Parnassus
,
Apollo
commands
,
that
they
be
taken
from
thence
.
THe
inthroned
Academians
,
contrary
to
their
ancient
Institutions
,
did
some
few
months
since
admit
into
their
Academy
the
Vertuous
Ladies
,
Victoria
Colonna
,
Veronica
Gambera
,
Laura
Teracina
,
and
other
famous
Lady-Poets
of
Parnassus
;
which
was
done
with
so
great
applause
of
the
Vertuosie
,
as
the
Academians
set
on
fire
by
the
beauty
of
those
Ladies
,
were
not
onely
very
frequent
at
their
learned
exercises
;
but
did
every
day
publish
such
Poesie
,
as
made
the
very
Muses
wonder
:
but
it
was
not
long
ere
his
Majesty
smelt
a
very
displeasing
savour
;
wherefore
he
commanded
the
chief
of
the
inthroned
,
by
no
means
to
admit
any
longer
such
like
parties
:
For
he
had
found
at
last
,
that
Womens
true
Poetry
consisted
in
their
Needle
and
Spindle
;
and
that
the
learned
exercises
of
Women
,
together
with
the
Virtuosie
,
was
like
the
sporting
and
playing
of
Dogs
,
which
after
a
while
ends
in
getting
upon
one
anothers
backs
.
The
XXIII
ADVERISEMENT
.
Justus
Lipsius
being
solemnly
admitted
into
Parnassus
,
the
next
day
after
his
entrance
,
did
,
contrary
to
all
mens
expectation
,
accuse
Tacitus
for
being
impius
,
and
reaps
but
little
credit
thereby
JUstus
Lipsius
(
as
hath
been
formerly
said
)
arrived
some
few
daies
ago
upon
the
confines
of
this
State
,
whose
writings
,
though
they
were
presently
voted
worthy
to
be
read
by
all
the
Vertuosi
,
and
to
be
deservedly
placed
amongst
the
eternal
labours
of
the
Learned
,
in
his
Majesties
Library
;
and
that
consequently
eternity
should
be
decreed
unto
his
name
in
full
Senate
,
with
as
plenary
prerogative
as
hath
at
any
time
been
granted
by
this
State
to
any
other
Subject
,
yet
the
publick
entrance
of
a
person
so
highly
qualified
was
deferred
till
Tuseday
was
sevennight
last
;
because
the
noble
Flemish
Nation
would
signalize
her self
upon
this
occasion
,
with
extraordinary
demonstration
of
honour
to
this
her
Citizen
:
wherefore
they
erected
many
Triumphant
Arches
with
much
splendor
and
magnificency
in
the
chiefest
places
of
Pernassus
.
The
Cavalcata
was
remarkable
;
for
many
of
the
Learned
in
all
Sciences
favoured
this
Senator
,
who
having
received
from
his
Majesty
the
noble
title
of
Vniversall
in
all
Sciences
,
every
one
thought
he
was
knowing
in
an
things
,
and
every
one
wondred
when
they
saw
,
that
at
the
very
first
meeting
Lipsius
saluted
the
Noblest
Romans
who
went
to
meet
him
,
by
name
,
as
if
he
had
particularly
known
them
.
His
learned
writings
were
carryed
by
Caius
Valerius
Patercolus
,
who
though
his
age
had
made
him
lame
,
yet
to
shew
himself
thankful
to
Lipsius
for
some
good
turn
he
had
received
from
him
,
did
beg
this
favour
of
his
Majesty
.
By
express
order
from
Apollo
,
Lipsius
rode
in
the
midst
between
moral
Seneca
,
and
politick
Tacitus
;
but
a
great
uprore
was
likely
to
have
risen
hereupon
;
for
Tacitus
having
alwaies
formerly
granted
the
right
hand
to
Seneca
,
by
reason
of
his
prerogative
of
age
,
and
his
reputation
in
the
most
prised
Sciences
;
yet
he
did
so
hotly
contest
with
him
for
it
upon
this
occasion
,
as
upon
the
noise
thereof
all
the
learned
Moralists
running
in
to
aid
Seneca
,
and
a
squadron
of
Polititians
to
assist
Tacitus
,
it
was
feared
some
great
scandal
might
be
occasioned
thereby
:
but
the
Moralists
struck
saile
,
for
they
knew
that
if
it
should
come
to
blowes
,
they
should
not
be
able
long
to
resist
those
insolent
Polititians
,
who
not
having
any
regard
to
what
is
just
or
honest
,
thought
it
not
dishonourable
,
but
rather
great
worth
to
overthrow
their
enemies
,
though
it
were
by
treachery
:
but
all
the
business
was
quieted
upon
the
appearance
of
the
Masters
of
the
Pegasean
Ceremonies
,
who
by
order
from
the
honourable
,
the
Lord
Censors
,
said
to
Seneca
,
that
since
Sciences
,
as
fruits
in
Rome
,
and
fish
in
Venice
,
had
their
seasons
,
he
might
do
wel
to
yeild
the
right
hand
for
that
time
to
Tacitus
,
and
that
for
the
most
apparent
injury
which
he
should
thereby
receive
,
he
should
solace
himself
with
the
remembrance
of
what
honours
had
been
done
unto
him
in
the
better
times
of
his
former
daies
;
wherein
those
very
self-same
moral
Sciences
,
which
in
these
present
unfortunate
times
are
reputed
meere
predantickness
,
and
old
mouldy
things
,
were
in
so
great
esteem
,
as
that
they
were
valued
as
the
very
pretious
jewel
of
all
learning
;
and
the
rather
,
for
that
this
present
age
,
which
consists
wholly
of
self
interest
and
violence
,
did
so
highly
exalt
the
practice
of
Policy
,
as
that
by
scandalous
example
it
permitted
Peripatetical
Philosophie
,
which
was
the
supream
Ladie
of
all
humane
Sciences
,
to
be
troden
underfoot
.
Seneca
obeyed
the
Censors
command
,
but
much
against
his
will
;
for
moral
Philosophers
who
make
so
great
shew
of
seeming
humility
,
are
even
borne
with
intence
ambition
.
When
Lipsius
was
come
to
the
Foro
Delphico
,
he
was
not
permitted
to
see
the
splendor
of
his
Majesty
in
open
air
,
nor
was
he
met
and
received
at
the
foot
of
the
Pallace
staires
by
the
Muses
;
for
those
who
write
inventions
of
their
own
,
and
who
are
beloved
by
Apollo
and
the
Muses
are
onely
thought
worthy
of
those
singular
favours
:
whereas
Lipsius
his
learned
writings
were
onely
found
to
be
laborious
,
and
miraculous
for
the
variety
of
reading
that
was
in
them
;
a
thing
so
common
to
all
the
Trans-Alpine
writers
,
whose
braines
are
thought
to
lye
in
their
backs
,
as
it
is
usual
with
Italians
,
whose
braines
lye
in
their
heads
,
to
invent
alwaies
new
things
,
and
to
labour
with
matter
taken
out
of
the
Mine
of
their
owne
ingeniosity
,
with
much
sweat
and
toyl
,
nor
with
stuff
,
borrowed
from
other
Writers
;
it
being
a
thing
thought
belonging
to
beggerly
,
botchers
,
and
to
broken
Criticks
,
to
peice
out
the
tatterd
Gownes
of
the
Learned
,
but
to
cut
out
new
clothes
,
after
a
new
manner
,
and
with
imbroideries
not
formerly
seen
,
a
thing
belonging
to
an
experienced
and
skilful
Tailor
Somsay
that
Lipsius
was
thus
smally
favoured
by
Apollo
,
and
by
the
Muses
,
and
that
they
were
offended
with
him
,
for
that
they
having
indued
him
with
so
noble
a
Talent
,
as
he
might
like
a
Tacitist
have
written
the
civil
wars
of
Flanders
,
a
thing
so
much
desired
by
the
Colledge
of
the
Vertuosi
;
yet
he
for
certain
respects
which
his
Majesty
held
unworthy
,
had
hitherto
resisted
the
inspiration
given
him
,
by
his
Majesty
and
the
divine
Goddesses
:
but
this
last
is
a
suspition
grounded
onely
upon
likelyhoods
,
whereas
the
former
is
sustained
by
Truth
.
Apollo
stood
to
see
this
Cavalcata
in
his
little
Cabinet
,
which
stands
close
by
Auroras
lodging
,
and
which
Italian
Poets
call
the
celestical
Balcony
,
and
he
was
clad
in
a
white
Cloude
,
which
(
as
upon
like
occasions
is
usual
)
just
when
Lipsius
enterd
the
Foro
Delfico
,
was
by
a
western
wind
a
little
rarified
;
so
as
his
Majesty
by
the
spendor
of
one
only
beam
with
which
he
beheld
this
his
Vertuoso
,
cleansed
him
from
all
the
stains
of
ignorance
,
which
till
then
remained
in
him
,
and
made
him
become
a
perfect
Litterato
.
When
Lipsius
was
afterwards
come
into
the
great
Hall
where
Audience
is
given
;
just
as
he
began
his
Oration
,
with
humble
thanks
to
Apollo
,
for
the
incomparable
grace
he
had
vouchsafed
him
,
he
was
forced
to
hold
his
peace
,
by
reason
of
a
sore
mischance
which
befell
the
learned
Pausanias
,
a
Greek
Writer
,
who
was
sate
on
the
Cronologist
Classis
;
where
he
fell
into
so
deep
a
sound
,
as
he
was
thought
dead
,
and
all
the
reverend
Cosmographists
ran
to
help
him
,
Pausanias
familiar
friends
said
,
that
that
accident
might
be
occasioned
by
meer
weakness
;
for
that
it
being
late
,
he
had
not
refresht
his
soul
in
his
Library
,
as
he
used
to
do
before
he
came
out
of
his
house
,
by
taking
two
spoonfuls
of
Conserves
made
of
Pindarus
his
Poesies
;
but
Euterpe
whose
humble
servant
Pausanias
professeth
himself
to
be
,
sprinkling
two
of
Thucidides
substantial
sentences
in
his
face
,
made
that
vertue
return
into
him
which
was
almost
lost
.
Then
Pausanius
,
not
considering
how
great
a
fault
he
committed
in
hindring
Lipsius
from
ending
his
Oration
:
O
devouring
Time
(
exclaimed
he
,
being
overcome
with
greif
of
soul
)
O
envious
old
age
,
which
by
your
sharp
and
biting
teeth
,
consume
even
those
things
,
which
were
made
by
men
,
to
the
end
that
they
might
for
ever
live
upon
the
earth
;
how
is
it
possible
that
the
vicissitude
of
things
should
be
so
certainly
affixt
to
the
variation
of
time
,
as
that
my
beloved
Greece
,
formerly
the
mother
of
Learning
,
the
Queen
of
Sciences
,
the
honoured
and
safe
habitation
of
liberal
Arts
,
the
Garden
of
the
world
,
the
natural
Country
of
the
famous
Vertuosi
in
all
sorts
of
Learning
,
the
onely
place
in
the
world
eternized
by
my
pen
,
should
now
be
wholly
become
ignorance
,
totally
savedg
,
uninhabited
,
and
so
dismantled
of
all
those
both
publick
and
private
edifices
,
wherewith
thou
didst
formerly
so
much
abound
,
as
now
there
is
nothing
to
be
seen
in
thee
but
poor
Cottages
,
and
that
the
famous
Athenian
Orators
,
Phylosophers
and
Historians
,
are
become
in
these
our
unfortunate
daies
,
base
Oile-men
in
Constantinople
:
whereas
on
the
contrary
;
Flanders
,
which
in
my
time
was
nothing
but
soletary
woods
,
incumbred
with
marish
grounds
,
full
of
savedg
beasts
,
and
men
more
savedg
,
where
nothing
was
to
be
seen
but
hideous
Caverns
,
poor
Cottages
,
inhabited
by
beggers
,
should
now
be
become
a
very
fruitful
,
beautiful
,
and
pleasant
Province
;
inhabited
by
civil
,
wealthy
and
industrious
men
,
full
of
noble
Cities
,
adorned
with
both
publick
and
private
edifices
,
very
sumptuously
built
;
and
which
makes
the
wonder
the
greater
,
that
it
should
be
a
happy
Country
,
where
the
learning
of
the
ancient
Greeks
and
Latins
,
seem
to
have
tane
up
her
eternal
abode
:
all
the
learned
Grecians
,
as
Aristotle
,
Plato
,
Demosthenes
,
and
Pindorus
,
were
so
moved
at
what
Pausanius
had
said
,
as
also
many
others
who
could
not
forbear
shedding
of
tears
;
but
before
Lipsius
his
Ceremonies
could
be
compleated
,
fell
into
so
great
lamentations
,
as
being
followed
therein
by
the
other
Vertuosi
;
Lipsius
,
who
knew
that
his
Oration
could
not
be
heard
,
by
reason
of
the
great
noise
which
those
sighs
and
groans
made
,
came
down
from
his
seat
,
being
satisfied
for
the
injury
which
Pausanius
had
given
him
by
that
interruption
,
with
the
consolation
he
received
from
the
Encomium
he
had
made
of
his
Country
the
Flemmish
Nation
.
It
was
believed
by
all
the
Learned
of
this
State
,
that
great
intimacy
and
friendship
was
contracted
between
Cornelius
Tacitus
and
Giustus
Lipsius
,
by
reason
of
the
many
reciprocal
courtesies
which
had
past
between
them
;
but
to
the
wonder
of
all
the
Learned
in
Parnassus
,
the
contrary
happened
:
For
two
daies
since
,
Lipsius
accused
Tacitus
for
having
said
some
very
impious
words
in
his
first
Book
of
Histories
.
His
Majestie
much
incenst
to
hear
such
an
accusation
,
commanded
Tacitus
to
appear
before
him
the
next
morning
,
and
to
make
his
defence
;
Tacitus
obeyed
this
command
with
such
undaunted
alacrity
,
as
his
learned
Friends
,
who
had
been
much
astonished
,
were
greatly
cheered
.
I
,
who
give
you
an
account
of
these
Informations
,
was
present
when
Beato
Renano
,
and
Flavio
Orsino
,
both
of
them
being
Tacitus
his
good
friends
,
drew
Lipsius
aside
,
and
earnestly
entreated
him
that
he
would
desist
from
that
accusation
,
which
would
prove
a
great
dishonour
to
himself
,
if
he
should
not
be
able
to
make
it
good
,
and
would
prove
very
unfortunate
if
he
should
prove
it
:
For
Tacitus
being
the
first
Politick
Baron
of
Parnassus
,
and
therefore
much
followed
by
potent
men
,
who
have
long
hands
,
and
short
consciences
,
they
would
certainly
in
time
work
their
revenge
.
To
this
Lipsius
answered
,
that
howsoever
he
would
discharge
his
conscience
;
which
being
said
,
he
appeared
before
Apollo
,
where
came
likewise
Tacitus
attended
by
the
most
pollisht
Vertuosi
of
this
Court.
Then
Lipsius
thus
began
;
That
he
was
a
friend
to
Socrates
,
a
friend
to
Plato
,
but
a
greater
friend
to
Truth
.
Here
Tacitus
interrupted
him
,
and
bad
him
leave
those
preambles
,
which
smelt
so
rammish
in
that
place
,
and
fall
roundly
to
his
Impeachment
,
for
his
fellow
Polititians
could
not
with
patience
hear
premeditated
preludiums
from
them
from
whom
they
expected
fowle
performances
.
Then
replyed
Lipsius
,
You
in
your
first
Book
of
History
have
taken
the
freedom
to
say
,
That
God
cares
not
otherwise
for
mans
welfare
,
then
in
what
concerns
punishment
;
a
conceit
so
much
the
more
impious
,
for
that
it
would
be
a
great
fault
in
an
earthly
Prince
,
much
more
in
God
(
whose
peculiar
Vertue
,
Mercy
is
,
and
Charity
to
all
mankind
)
to
say
a
thing
so
exorbitantly
wicked
.
Your
very
words
(
said
he
)
are
these
;
Nec
enim
unquam
attrocioribus
Populi
Romani
Cladibus
,
magisve
justis
judiciis
approbatum
est
,
non
esse
Cura
Deis
securitatem
nostram
,
esse
Ultionem
.
Tacit
,
lib.
1.
Hist.
T
is
true
that
you
may
plead
in
excuse
of
this
your
great
fault
,
that
you
were
led
thereinto
by
unwary
Lucan
,
who
having
said
the
same
thing
before
you
,
wrot
these
Verses
:
Foelix
Roma
quidem
,
Civesque
habitura
superbos
:
Si
libertatis
superis
,
tam
Cura
placeret
,
Quam
vindict
a
placet
.
Blest
Rome
,
great
Citizens
might
well
have
had
,
Had
the
Gods
minded
her
good
as
well
as
bad
.
When
Tacitus
had
heard
this
,
It
grieves
me
,
said
he
,
my
Lipsius
,
that
you
who
have
boasted
your self
to
be
the
only
Oracle
of
my
obscurest
meanings
,
have
so
grosly
erred
in
a
poynt
which
so
much
imports
my
reputation
.
For
those
words
of
mine
which
you
have
now
recited
,
are
so
farr
from
being
impious
and
wicked
,
as
you
accuse
them
to
be
,
as
I
will
prove
them
to
be
pious
and
holy
:
and
that
you
may
know
I
speak
truth
,
I
will
by
a
circumlocution
of
many
words
,
interpret
that
my
conceit
,
which
according
to
my
custom
,
being
exprest
in
few
,
you
cannot
conceive
.
After
having
in
the
beginning
of
my
Histories
,
acquainted
the
Reader
with
what
I
intended
to
treat
of
in
my
whole
Work
,
I
said
,
I
undertook
a
labour
full
of
various
chances
;
Atrox
praeliis
,
discors
seditionibus
,
ipsa
etiam
pace
savum
,
Quatuor
Principes
ferro
interempti
,
tria
Bella
Civilia
,
&c.
Cruelty
in
Wars
,
seditious
discord
,
savageness
even
in
peace
,
four
Princes
assassinated
,
three
civil
Wars
,
&c.
When
I
had
related
the
great
calamities
and
miseries
which
the
Romans
suffered
after
Nero's
death
,
I
said
they
were
so
many
in
number
,
and
such
in
quality
,
as
it
had
never
at
any
time
been
better
verified
,
by
the
bitter
sufferings
of
the
Romans
,
and
by
Divine
Justice
,
that
that
same
God
who
had
formerly
so
favoured
and
protected
the
people
of
Rome
,
as
being
as
it
were
inamored
of
their
greatness
,
it
seemed
his
only
care
was
,
to
render
them
perpetually
victorious
,
triumphant
,
and
Masters
of
the
World
,
was
seen
so
to
change
his
mind
after
Nero's
death
,
as
it
did
evidently
appear
;
Non
esse
Curae
Deis
securitatem
nostram
:
which
is
,
That
he
had
quite
given
over
the
care
of
their
welfare
;
esse
ultionem
;
which
is
,
that
he
minded
only
to
take
revenge
for
the
great
distastes
which
they
had
given
him
.
Is
it
then
Lipsius
!
a
wicked
conception
to
say
,
that
by
reason
of
the
great
excesses
committed
by
the
people
of
Rome
,
both
before
,
and
after
the
death
of
Nero
,
Gods
care
of
protecting
them
from
all
evil
,
was
turned
to
severe
Justice
in
afflicting
them
with
all
sorts
of
misery
.
The
thing
which
you
have
said
(
said
Lipsius
)
is
very
pious
;
but
it
doth
not
square
with
the
words
which
I
accuse
of
wickedness
,
which
will
then
receive
the
interpretation
and
sence
which
you
give
them
,
when
the
words
,
securitatem
nostram
were
only
to
be
understood
of
the
people
of
Rome
;
but
they
being
universal
,
it
is
apparent
that
you
comprehend
all
mankind
:
That
by
the
word
Nostram
,
upon
which
I
perceive
you
chiefly
ground
your self
(
replyed
Tacitus
)
I
only
understood
the
people
of
Rome
,
Lucan
makes
it
clear
unto
you
,
who
you
were
pleased
to
say
,
led
me
into
this
error
;
he
expressing
my
very
conceit
in
Verse
,
mentions
only
the
Romans
;
affirming
that
Rome
would
have
been
perpetually
happy
,
and
would
have
kept
with
her
Citizens
in
continual
glory
,
if
God
Almighty
had
been
as
well
pleased
to
preserve
her
in
her
ancient
Liberty
,
as
he
was
to
revenge
himself
of
her
.
And
do
not
you
think
it
to
be
true
,
Lipsius
,
that
the
Romans
,
who
could
never
put
a
period
to
the
insatiat
ambition
which
they
had
to
rule
over
the
whole
world
,
did
so
provoke
Gods
anger
against
them
,
by
laying
so
many
Noble
Monarchies
and
gallant
Commonwealths
dessolate
,
by
having
plundred
the
world
,
and
filled
it
with
fire
and
bloud
,
to
satiate
their
unquenchable
thirst
after
wealth
,
as
after
having
delivered
them
over
into
the
hands
of
cruel
Tyrants
,
by
whom
they
made
tryal
of
the
most
deplorable
miseries
,
he
at
last
permitted
,
that
by
exemplary
shame
,
they
should
be
trampled
upon
by
the
most
barbarous
Nations
of
the
earth
?
Certainly
a
most
unfortunate
end
;
but
much
merited
by
the
Roman
ambition
,
cruelty
,
and
avarice
:
precipices
into
which
the
Divine
Majestie
of
God
causes
those
Empires
to
fall
,
which
know
not
how
to
prefix
bounds
to
their
insatiate
desire
of
Reigne
.
But
to
make
your
error
appear
yet
more
clear
unto
you
,
Do
you
remember
,
Lipsius
,
that
ever
I
made
use
of
that
word
,
Nostram
,
or
Nostri
,
in
any
other
part
of
my
Writings
?
I
remember
(
said
he
)
that
you
mention
how
Tiridates
,
King
of
Armenia
,
who
was
sent
to
Rome
by
Corbalone
,
to
acquit
himself
before
Nero
,
of
some
imputations
that
were
laid
upon
him
,
did
capitulate
with
Corbalone
before
he
took
his
journey
,
that
no
servitude
at
all
should
be
made
to
appear
in
him
Tiradates
,
that
he
should
not
be
made
to
lay
down
arms
any
where
during
his
journey
,
that
he
should
be
admitted
to
visit
the
Governors
of
the
Countries
,
without
being
kept
out
of
dores
,
and
that
he
might
be
suffered
to
keep
the
same
grandezza
in
ceremonious
observances
,
as
did
the
Consuls
;
which
way
of
proceeding
was
laughed
at
by
Corbalone
,
and
esteemed
a
barbarous
vain-glory
,
as
you
your self
do
in
these
words
publish
;
Silicet
externae
superbiae
sueto
,
non
erat
notitia
nostri
:
apud
quos
jus
Imperii
valet
,
innania
transmittantur
.
Tacit.
lib.
15.
Annal.
Doubtless
,
by
one
accustomed
to
forrein
pride
,
no
notice
was
taken
of
us
:
Needless
things
are
forborn
amongst
those
that
stand
upon
the
right
of
Empire
.
And
in
another
place
,
relating
how
much
the
discord
of
her
enemies
made
for
the
quiet
and
greatness
of
the
Roman
Empire
,
you
say
,
Maneat
quaeso
,
duretque
gentibus
,
si
non
amor
nostri
,
at
certe
odium
sui
quando
vergentibus
Imperii
satis
nihil
jam
praestare
Fortuna
majus
potest
quam
Hostium
discordia
.
Tacit.
de
Morib
.
Germ.
Let
there
I
pray
continue
amongst
the
Nations
if
not
a
love
of
us
,
at
least
a
hatred
amongst
themselves
,
since
to
the
declining
fate
of
the
Empire
,
Fortune
can
now
grant
nothing
greater
then
her
enemies
discord
.
Then
said
Tacitus
,
Do
you
believe
,
Lipsius
,
that
by
the
words
,
non
erat
notitia
nostri
,
and
si
non
Amor
nostri
,
I
did
intend
all
mankind
,
or
only
the
people
of
Rome
?
Lipsius
then
grew
pale
,
and
said
,
I
now
my
Tacitus
,
perceive
my
error
,
I
humbly
crave
your
pardon
,
and
freely
confess
,
that
the
more
your
Writings
are
read
,
the
less
are
they
understood
,
and
that
your
Annals
and
Histories
are
not
to
be
read
by
a
meer
Gramarian
,
such
a
one
as
I
am
.
The
XXIV
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
A
mournfull
day
in
Parnassus
,
in
commemoration
of
the
unhappy
Introduction
of
the
Grace-Cup
.
THis
first
day
of
May
(
a
day
by
all
Nations
consecrated
to
Jollities
)
is
so
sad
a
day
in
Parnassus
,
as
not
only
the
Muses
,
Poets
,
and
all
the
Vertuosi
are
clad
in
Mourning
,
but
the
publick
Market
places
,
open
Tarraces
,
and
Schools
of
Learning
,
are
all
covered
with
Blacks
,
for
that
it
appears
by
the
testimony
of
Pollidore
Virgil
,
on
this
day
of
unhappy
memory
,
first
through
the
ambition
of
Princes
,
and
then
through
the
foolish
vain-glory
of
privat
people
,
the
pestiferous
use
of
the
Grace-Cup
was
introduced
.
Never
in
the
memory
of
the
Learned
,
did
there
happen
so
sad
a
calamity
in
Parnassus
,
and
more
bitterly
bewailed
by
all
the
Vertuosi
,
then
the
direfull
spectacle
of
beholding
that
pretious
Liquor
,
Wine
,
the
only
delight
of
Tables
,
without
which
,
eating
would
be
a
laborious
task
,
fit
only
for
Porters
,
cruelly
driven
from
the
Table
;
and
certainly
not
without
reason
:
For
what
greater
misery
can
befall
mankind
,
then
to
be
reduced
to
drink
according
to
another
mans
discretion
,
and
to
be
brought
to
that
sad
condition
,
even
to
beg
for
Gods
sake
a
glass
of
Wine
from
a
mean
servant
,
who
many
times
minds
thee
not
,
and
oft-times
does
not
hear
thee
,
which
that
a
man
might
live
as
long
as
Nestor
,
he
ought
to
have
alwaies
in
his
hand
,
or
hold
it
to
his
mouth
?
And
what
more
cruel
means
could
there
be
invented
to
torment
a
gallant
man
,
then
to
make
him
stint
his
drinking
when
a
savory
bit
hath
provoked
a
lusty
thirst
in
him
?
And
is
it
not
a
spectacle
able
to
make
a
man
die
for
anger
,
to
see
drink
brought
sometimes
in
too
little
a
glass
,
oft-times
half
empty
,
and
in
so
unequal
a
thirst
,
to
drink
still
the
same
measure
?
And
which
makes
the
grievance
the
greater
,
to
have
the
Wine
alwaies
changed
?
For
the
gluttonous
,
and
wicked
Butlers
cannot
be
perswaded
to
bring
out
their
best
Wines
to
Feasts
,
but
keep
it
for
themselves
.
In
this
the
Literatie's
so
great
affliction
,
the
glorious
German
Nation
,
which
is
free
from
so
severe
a
slavery
,
pittying
the
misery
of
the
Spaniards
,
Itallians
,
and
French
,
moved
a
Treaty
with
the
Princes
,
to
exterminate
from
out
the
world
,
the
known
pernitious
practice
of
the
Grace-Cup
:
But
the
Princes
answered
resolutely
,
They
would
never
give
way
that
the
glory
of
the
Bottle-house
should
be
taken
from
their
Festivals
.
And
though
to
facilitate
the
business
on
the
behalf
of
the
Literati
,
it
was
propounded
that
Wine
should
stand
still
upon
the
Tables
,
that
it
should
alwaies
be
good
,
that
in
the
Butteries
,
or
Bottle-houses
,
Si
facesse
la
speca
delle
minestre
che
spesse
volte
ammorbano
di
caccio
riscaldato
;
They
should
spend
their
porredg
seasoned
with
tosted
cheefe
;
but
they
were
not
listned
unto
:
So
as
the
business
apappearing
to
be
desperate
,
Andrea
Marone
,
a
famous
Brescian
Poet
,
stept
forth
,
and
in
the
presence
of
Apollo
,
the
Muses
,
and
of
all
the
Learned
in
Parnassus
,
did
very
fluently
on
the
sudden
make
a
stout
invective
against
so
cruel
an
invention
in
Heroick
Verse
;
and
proved
conclusively
by
the
authority
of
Esculapius
,
Hippocrates
,
Galen
,
and
other
famous
Phisitians
,
that
Hectick
Feavers
and
Tissicks
,
which
were
but
little
known
before
,
were
mightily
encreased
by
the
sorrowfull
introduction
of
the
Grace-Cup
,
and
the
three-ounce
glasses
.
For
those
silly
people
who
were
foolishly
perswaded
to
drink
by
the
ounce
,
drunk
but
by
scruples
,
thereby
purchasing
unto
themselves
pale
and
weak
complexions
;
whence
it
happened
,
that
in
these
present
times
,
wherein
the
vanity
of
good
breeding
was
more
respected
,
then
substantial
drinking
with
chearfulness
,
the
strong
complexion
of
old
lusty
men
was
wholly
lost
.
In
the
end
of
his
Oration
,
this
Poetical
Orator
averred
by
the
testimony
of
the
Muses
,
that
when
the
custom
of
drinking
great
carrowses
was
given
over
,
the
race
of
Homers
and
Virgils
was
wholly
lost
,
and
the
world
was
pester'd
with
hide-bound
Poets
.
The
XXV
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
principal
Monarchies
abiding
in
Parnassus
,
ask
the
Illustrious
Venetian
Liberty
,
by
what
means
she
obtains
the
benefit
of
so
equisite
secrecy
,
and
such
exact
obedience
from
her
Nobility
?
And
received
from
her
their
desired
satisfaction
.
THe
controversie
which
arose
some
few
daies
since
amongst
divers
of
the
Literati
,
and
which
was
decided
(
as
hath
been
said
)
by
the
Illustrious
Venetian
Liberty
,
hath
afforded
this
State
of
Parnassus
much
occasion
of
discourse
.
But
more
particularly
it
raised
such
an
envy
in
the
powerfull
Monarchies
of
Spain
,
France
,
England
,
and
Poland
,
as
two
daies
since
they
went
to
the
aforesaid
Liberty
of
Venice
,
and
told
her
that
they
wondred
very
much
to
see
that
she
should
find
such
faithfull
secrecy
in
all
her
Nobility
,
when
they
had
very
much
desired
(
but
all
in
vain
)
to
obtain
so
much
from
one
single
Secretary
,
and
a
pair
of
Councellers
:
A
calamity
affirmed
by
these
powerfull
Queens
,
to
be
so
much
the
greater
,
as
that
in
this
present
fraudulent
age
,
the
first
weapons
which
some
Princes
use
to
draw
against
their
enemies
,
was
to
corrupt
other
Potentates
chief
Officers
with
vast
sums
of
Gold
;
they
therefore
desired
to
know
of
her
,
by
what
means
she
in
her
weightiest
affairs
obtained
so
much
secrecy
from
her
Nobility
,
and
such
obedience
also
in
the
certain
danger
of
their
ruine
?
To
this
the
Venetian
Liberty
answered
,
That
she
did
allure
her
Nobility
to
the
vertue
of
Secrecy
by
rewards
,
and
frighted
them
from
the
vice
of
disobedience
by
punishments
.
The
aforesaid
Monarchies
replyed
,
That
they
likewise
made
use
of
the
same
means
,
yet
could
not
compass
the
same
ends
.
That
,
said
the
Venetian
Liberty
,
is
because
the
rewards
given
by
Monarchies
,
are
poor
,
and
the
punishments
slight
,
in
comparison
of
those
which
were
practised
in
well
governed
Commonwealths
.
To
this
,
answer
was
made
,
That
Monarchies
could
affirm
the
contrary
;
for
the
rewards
of
free
Countries
,
compared
with
the
profuse
liberallity
which
great
Kings
use
towards
their
chief
Ministers
of
State
,
was
but
beggery
:
For
it
was
never
known
that
the
State
of
Venice
rewarded
the
fidelity
of
any
of
her
Senators
with
the
rich
Donatives
of
Castles
,
Citadels
,
Cities
,
and
other
Noble
and
rich
Fee-Farms
,
with
which
Princes
did
often
remunerate
their
Ministers
of
State
;
the
greatest
rewards
used
by
the
Venetian
Commonwealth
to
her
most
meritorious
Senators
being
to
promote
them
to
greater
Magistracies
,
and
that
by
degrees
,
and
not
without
their
having
taken
much
pains
ere
they
could
come
by
it
.
Moreover
,
that
the
greatest
part
of
her
imployments
being
rather
expencefull
then
profitable
,
they
only
brought
with
them
an
increase
of
reputation
.
That
then
for
the
poynt
of
punishment
,
certainly
punishments
inflicted
by
the
resolute
will
of
Princes
for
great
offences
,
were
incomparably
more
severe
and
dreadfull
then
those
which
were
decreed
against
a
Senator
by
any
Senat
,
which
were
usually
rather
mild
and
circumspectious
,
then
precipitate
and
cruel
:
And
that
there
was
a
great
disproportion
between
a
Prince
who
judged
his
Vassal
,
and
a
Senator
,
who
by
his
sufferage
punisht
his
equal
,
his
friend
,
one
of
his
own
bloud
.
That
the
State
of
Venice
used
no
worser
Gibbits
,
Gallowses
,
Fetters
,
Ropes
,
nor
fire
in
their
Nobilities
misdemerits
,
then
were
used
in
Spain
,
France
,
England
,
and
Poland
,
unless
it
were
the
Cavala
Orfano
,
which
was
the
Venetians
utmost
severity
.
That
if
Kings
had
not
that
Channel
in
their
Kingdoms
,
they
could
notwithstanding
sew
up
their
disloyal
Officers
in
sacks
,
and
cause
them
to
be
thrown
into
deep
Rivers
and
Wells
.
The
Illustrious
Venetian
Commonwealth
did
then
smile
,
and
said
,
That
in
lieu
of
those
Fee-Farm
Rents
which
Princes
bestow
with
such
a
limited
authority
upon
their
well
deserving
servants
,
she
gave
unto
her
Loyal
and
obedient
Nobles
,
the
Kingdom
of
Candia
,
Corfu
,
and
the
other
Islands
subject
to
her
Dominions
,
the
States
of
Dalmatia
,
Istria
,
Freuli
,
Padua
,
Vicenza
,
Verona
,
Brescia
,
Bergamo
,
Crema
,
and
that
most
majestical
Miracle
of
the
most
Royal
Cities
,
Venice
:
And
all
this
with
full
authority
to
command
and
govern
them
absolutely
;
so
as
her
Nobility
were
not
to
be
esteemed
as
privat
men
,
but
as
Kings
,
and
great
Princes
,
who
in
the
weighty
affairs
of
the
Commonwealth
,
were
faithfull
to
themselves
;
whereas
the
servants
of
Princes
were
faithfull
to
others
;
and
that
the
detestation
which
the
Noble
Venetians
had
of
selling
the
Commonwealths
secrets
to
forrein
Princes
,
arose
from
the
infinite
disproportion
between
what
they
should
lose
by
their
fellonious
dealing
,
and
what
they
got
by
their
Loyalty
:
That
there
was
no
proportion
or
comparison
between
the
remorse
which
a
Minister
of
State
feels
for
having
betrayed
his
Prince
,
and
the
fear
a
Senator
had
to
be
unfaithfull
to
his
free
Country
:
Because
to
be
unfaithfull
to
others
,
was
to
betray
himself
.
Lastly
the
Venetian
Liberty
said
,
That
the
rewards
which
Princes
give
to
their
Secretaries
,
and
other
State-Ministers
,
did
often
produce
pernitious
effects
,
and
clean
contrary
to
the
intention
of
the
givers
:
For
that
they
did
not
only
make
the
Officer
grow
more
coole
in
his
Masters
service
,
since
he
had
nothing
more
to
hope
for
from
him
;
but
that
Princes
minds
being
so
mutable
,
and
the
plots
of
their
Court-rivals
so
frequent
,
it
often
hapned
that
the
servant
sought
by
his
disloyalty
,
and
by
suppressing
his
Master
;
to
secure
that
reward
,
which
by
his
good
service
he
had
got
.
All
which
were
pernitious
effects
,
and
wherein
their
rewards
fell
so
much
the
shorter
,
for
that
the
Patrimony
of
the
Venetian
Nobility
encreasing
alwaies
with
the
greatness
of
their
Empire
,
the
love
of
their
Senators
was
daily
encreased
more
and
more
,
and
their
charity
towards
the
weal-publick
.
Then
she
said
,
the
disproportion
in
punishments
between
her
and
Monarchies
,
was
far
greater
,
for
she
had
often
had
experience
,
that
when
her
Nobles
have
even
been
in
arms
,
and
much
importun'd
by
forrein
Princes
,
if
she
should
but
mention
unto
them
the
Senats
displeasure
,
and
their
degradation
from
Nobility
,
there
was
not
any
Venetian
Senator
,
who
would
not
with
unspeakable
chearfull
obedience
hasten
to
Venice
,
with
firm
resolution
rather
to
lose
his
life
between
two
pillars
,
then
to
be
deprived
of
that
Liberty
which
is
so
highly
valued
by
generously
minded
men
;
and
that
there
was
not
any
Senator
of
Venice
,
who
would
not
willingly
suffer
death
,
rather
then
put
himself
in
subjection
to
any
whatsoever
forrein
Prince
.
The
reason
why
,
because
the
Noble
Venetian
was
a
Fish
which
being
born
in
those
Waters
of
Liberty
,
could
not
live
out
of
Venice
,
in
the
element
of
servitude
.
The
XXVI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Francis
the
First
,
that
Potent
King
of
France
,
meeting
the
Lady
Philosophy
naked
,
profered
her
his
Royal
Mantle
;
which
would
not
be
accepted
.
THe
bountifull
King
of
France
,
Francis
the
First
,
met
casually
yesterday
the
Lady
Philosophy
,
leaning
upon
Aristotle
and
Plato
,
as
she
went
sporting
her self
in
Parnassus
:
And
seeing
her
to
be
naked
,
the
King
had
a
strange
compunction
of
mind
to
see
that
the
very
Queen
of
all
human
Sciences
,
who
ought
to
abound
in
all
the
most
exquisite
delights
,
should
be
so
poor
,
as
that
she
should
not
have
wherewithall
to
cover
her self
.
Wherefore
that
magnanimous
King
,
throwing
off
his
Royal
Cloak
or
Mantle
,
which
was
all
imbroidered
with
Flowre-de-Luces
made
of
Diamonds
,
would
therewithall
have
covered
that
beautifull
Lady
;
when
first
having
rendred
all
due
thanks
to
so
great
a
King
,
for
so
courteous
an
offer
,
she
said
,
That
she
who
had
no
shame
to
hide
,
nor
deformities
to
cover
,
might
without
any
prejudice
to
her
reputation
,
walk
naked
in
Parnassus
.
The
XXVII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
complains
bitterly
of
the
Muses
,
for
that
they
inspire
many
mean
wits
with
Poetical
fury
;
and
they
defend
themselves
excellently
well
.
APollo
finding
the
products
of
Modern
Italian
Poets
,
for
the
most
part
very
imperfect
in
Similies
,
Metaphors
,
Allegories
,
Hyperboles
,
and
other
figurative
expressions
,
with
which
they
deck
and
adorn
their
learned
Poems
,
sent
two
daies
agoe
for
the
Muses
to
come
unto
him
,
with
whom
he
bitterly
complained
,
that
the
most
Noble
Poetical
Fury
was
inspired
into
certain
ignorant
people
,
who
not
able
to
undergo
the
labour
of
purchasing
by
their
perpetual
study
,
the
perfection
of
Poetry
,
published
poor
Poems
,
by
which
that
Poetry
lost
much
reputation
,
which
is
the
delight
of
Learning
,
the
only
recreation
of
the
Learneds
labours
,
the
very
restorative
of
the
Vertuosi
,
the
Jewel
of
all
Liberal
Arts
;
not
without
much
imputation
of
blame
to
them
the
Muses
,
who
were
desired
by
the
choicest
Vertuosi
,
that
Poetical
fury
might
only
be
inspired
into
laborious
wits
,
and
such
as
were
in
love
with
Learning
,
and
who
might
make
themselves
worthy
to
receive
so
singular
a
grace
from
them
.
'T
is
said
that
Polyhimnia
in
the
name
of
all
the
other
Muses
,
answered
his
Majesty
,
That
they
,
in
the
inspiring
of
Poetical
Fury
,
and
the
flowing
vein
of
elegant
Verses
into
others
,
were
alwaies
used
to
have
respect
to
the
fruitfulness
,
and
natural
vivacity
of
mens
wits
;
and
that
his
Majestie
very
well
knew
,
that
the
gift
of
Poetical
fury
must
of
necessity
precede
the
knowledgs
of
Arts
,
Sciences
,
and
Learning
,
to
the
end
that
those
who
should
have
received
so
particular
a
favour
from
the
Muses
,
might
afterwards
improve
the
Talent
which
was
given
them
,
by
perpetual
study
;
and
that
his
beloved
Pindarus
,
when
they
first
inspired
him
with
Poetical
fury
,
he
was
altogether
void
of
all
those
pretious
Sciences
,
with
which
he
afterwards
did
so
richly
adorn
himself
.
When
Polyhimnia
had
thus
ended
,
Erato
added
,
that
the
bad
Poems
of
some
late
Italian
Vertuosi
,
was
not
to
be
attributed
to
the
idleness
of
the
Poets
,
but
to
the
misery
of
the
present
times
,
wherein
none
of
those
liberal
Mecena's
being
to
be
found
,
who
were
formerly
the
maintainers
of
Poetry
,
such
Sciences
were
now
only
prized
by
modern
men
,
as
brought
with
them
certain
and
present
advantage
;
not
such
as
brought
only
delight
and
reputation
;
an
unhappiness
which
was
the
cause
why
in
this
present
age
,
such
studies
were
only
plyed
,
as
serve
to
feed
the
body
,
and
those
not
regarded
which
only
feed
the
soul.
Whence
it
was
,
that
even
they
,
the
Muses
,
were
with
much
sorrow
,
forced
every
day
to
see
that
those
very
elevated
and
noblest
Spirits
,
which
they
did
most
intirely
love
,
and
into
whom
they
had
inspired
all
the
most
excellent
Poetical
fury
that
they
were
able
,
did
rather
violently
resist
the
gift
of
Poetry
,
and
the
instigation
of
their
minds
,
bigg
with
Verse
,
then
pursue
it
.
And
that
therefore
the
best
Italian
Wits
,
being
forced
,
even
for
necessity
of
bread
,
to
abandon
the
noble
study
of
Poetry
,
to
which
they
were
naturally
addicted
,
did
so
greedily
thrust
themselves
into
more
gainfull
studies
,
as
that
a
noble
Italian
Wit
,
even
then
when
he
was
most
inflam'd
with
the
composure
of
an
elegant
Stanza
,
was
forced
to
forgo
that
his
laudable
labour
,
and
for
the
getting
of
a
couple
of
crowns
to
turn
Advocate
in
a
civil
case
at
Law
.
That
if
his
beloved
Virgil
did
by
his
taking-Verses
,
so
much
increase
the
honour
of
Poetry
,
it
was
because
he
was
perpetually
encouraged
by
Augustus
his
bounty
.
That
it
was
impossible
for
modern
Poets
to
cultivate
by
their
assiduous
studies
,
those
fields
of
Poetry
,
which
produced
nothing
but
barren
brakes
;
and
that
it
even
broke
the
hearts
of
her
and
of
her
fellow-Muses
,
to
put
his
Majestie
in
mind
,
that
Iovan
Andrea
dell'
Anguilara
,
a
noble
Italian
Poet
,
died
for
meer
want
in
a
Lodging
in
the
Street
Torre
di
Nona
,
at
Rome
;
and
that
Sanazzarro
being
reduced
to
a
great
scarcity
of
all
necessaries
,
died
mad
in
the
same
City
;
and
that
Lodovicus
Ariosto
,
and
Torquatus
Tasso
,
resplendent
lights
of
Italian
Poetry
,
were
so
hardly
dealt
withall
by
the
avarice
and
ingratitude
of
the
present
times
,
as
all
the
Vertuosi
saw
them
enter
into
Parnassus
,
without
Clokes
,
and
with
tattered
clothes
.
The
XXVIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Torquato
Tasso
presents
Apollo
with
his
Poem
of
Giurusalemme
Liberata
,
or
Godfrey
of
Bullen
,
For
which
Lodovico
Castelvetro
,
and
Aristotle
,
are
severely
reprehended
by
his
Majestie
.
TOrquato
Tasso
,
two
daies
after
his
admittance
into
Parnassus
,
presented
his
learned
and
elegant
Poem
of
Giurusalemme
Liberata
before
Apollos
feet
,
and
desired
that
if
it
should
be
thought
worthy
,
it
might
by
his
Majestie
,
be
consecrated
to
immortality
.
Apollo
gratiously
received
the
Poem
,
and
according
to
the
ancient
custom
of
this
Court
,
gave
it
to
the
Reformer
of
the
Library
(
who
at
this
present
is
Lodovico
Castelvetro
)
that
it
might
be
renewed
.
After
two
months
space
,
Tasso
applyed
himself
to
Castelvetro
,
who
told
him
,
that
having
diligently
perused
his
Poem
,
he
found
not
that
he
had
therein
observed
the
Rules
of
Poetry
,
published
by
Aristotle
:
That
therefore
he
did
not
think
it
fit
to
be
placed
amongst
the
publick
Writers
of
the
Delfick
Library
,
wherefore
he
might
do
well
to
amend
those
errors
,
and
then
return
to
him
,
and
he
would
again
renew
it
.
Tasso
was
much
astonished
at
this
unexpected
answer
;
wherefore
being
incenst
,
he
forthwith
went
to
Apollo
,
and
told
him
,
that
with
much
labour
,
and
infinite
pains-taking
,
he
had
composed
the
aforesaid
Poem
,
in
the
weaving
whereof
,
he
had
only
observed
the
Talent
which
Nature
had
given
him
,
and
which
his
Caliope
had
inspired
into
him
:
Wherein
he
thought
he
had
fulfilled
all
the
duties
of
Poetry
,
and
that
his
Majestie
having
prescribed
no
Laws
thereunto
,
he
knew
not
with
what
authority
Aristotle
had
published
any
rules
to
be
observed
in
it
:
And
that
he
never
having
heard
that
there
was
any
other
Lord
in
Parnassus
,
but
his
Majestie
his
fault
in
not
having
observed
Aristotles
Rules
,
was
an
error
of
ignorance
,
and
not
of
any
malice
.
By
these
words
of
Tasso
,
Apollo
was
as
highly
offended
against
Aristotle
,
as
Princes
use
to
be
when
their
Authority
is
intrench
upon
;
in
so
much
as
he
forthwith
commanded
the
Guard
of
German
Poets
to
bring
that
bold
Philosopher
bound
unto
him
;
which
they
did
.
Apollo
with
an
incenst
countenance
,
and
irritated
voice
,
asked
Aristotle
,
whether
he
had
been
so
shamefully
impudent
,
as
to
dare
to
prescribe
Laws
,
and
publish
Rules
to
be
observed
,
to
the
high
conceptions
of
the
Vertuosi
,
in
whom
he
had
alwaies
been
pleased
that
there
should
be
an
absolute
liberty
of
writing
and
inventing
.
For
the
lively
wits
of
his
Literati
being
loose
from
any
tie
of
rule
,
and
free
from
the
chains
of
precepts
,
did
greatly
to
his
contentment
,
every
day
,
enrich
the
Schools
and
Libraries
with
gallant
Composures
,
woven
with
new
and
curious
inventions
;
and
that
to
make
the
wits
of
conceited
Poets
,
subject
to
the
bondage
of
Law
and
Rules
,
was
to
infringe
the
Grandezza
,
and
to
take
from
the
alluring
delights
of
their
products
,
and
greatly
to
inslave
the
wits
of
learned
men
,
who
when
they
handled
their
pen
with
wonted
and
unbridled
liberty
,
they
divulged
such
writings
,
as
by
reason
of
their
novelty
and
elegancy
,
did
not
only
afford
delight
to
him
and
his
beloved
Muses
,
but
even
admiration
;
as
was
evidently
seen
in
the
Advertisements
of
a
Modern
,
Menante
,
wherein
under
Metaphors
and
jesting
Tales
(
a
new
invention
)
important
politick
affairs
,
and
choice
moral
precepts
,
were
couched
.
And
that
the
Poem
of
his
beloved
Tasso
,
being
received
by
the
general
good
applause
of
all
the
world
,
it
did
evidently
appear
,
that
he
had
punctually
observed
all
the
rules
of
exquisite
Poetry
that
could
be
prescribed
.
Poor
Aristotle
trembled
at
the
hearing
of
these
words
,
and
humbly
beseeched
his
Majestie
that
he
would
commiserate
his
old
age
,
and
that
such
a
Philosopher
as
he
,
might
not
suffer
for
anothers
ignorance
,
saying
,
that
he
had
writ
the
rules
of
Poetry
,
not
in
that
sence
in
which
it
was
afterwards
understood
by
the
ignorant
,
as
if
without
observing
his
rules
and
precepts
,
no
Poem
could
possibly
arive
at
perfection
;
but
that
only
to
facilitate
the
Art
of
Poetry
,
he
had
shewed
the
way
wherein
the
best
Poets
had
walked
:
That
the
only
fault
which
he
had
committed
,
and
for
which
he
humbly
craved
his
Majesties
pardon
,
was
,
that
having
found
long
before
,
that
the
ignorant
took
those
his
observations
for
Laws
,
and
peremptory
precepts
,
blinded
with
that
ambition
which
robs
all
men
of
their
eye
sight
;
for
that
that
error
had
encreased
his
honour
and
reputation
,
he
had
given
his
Majestie
thereby
so
high
a
displeasure
:
And
that
he
confest
that
the
brains
of
high
strained
Poets
might
write
Poems
so
absolutely
perfect
,
as
they
might
serve
others
for
Rules
and
Laws
to
be
observed
,
without
keeping
his
Laws
and
precepts
:
And
that
the
truth
of
this
that
he
had
said
was
clearly
proved
by
the
Politicks
which
he
had
published
,
which
in
comparison
to
the
madly
wrested
Reason
of
State
which
was
now
practised
by
many
,
was
meer
foppery
.
The
XXIX
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Cornelius
Tacitus
is
chosen
Prince
of
Lesbos
;
whither
being
come
,
his
success
proves
not
good
TWo
months
ago
the
Prince
of
Lesbos
departed
this
life
,
whereupon
the
Electors
of
that
State
,
who
as
every
one
knows
,
obey
an
Elective
Prince
,
sent
Ambassadors
to
Apollo
,
desiring
him
that
he
would
be
pleased
to
name
a
man
unto
them
worthy
of
so
high
preferment
,
and
they
would
willingly
chuse
him
for
their
Lord
and
Master
.
Many
worthy
Letterati
were
propounded
by
Apollo
;
the
Ambassadors
thought
,
that
since
Cornelius
Tacitus
was
famed
farr
above
all
others
for
matter
of
Policy
,
he
was
fittest
to
be
chosen
.
But
before
the
business
passed
any
further
,
they
went
to
visit
him
,
and
asked
him
,
in
case
they
should
chuse
him
for
their
Prince
,
how
he
would
govern
them
:
Tacitus
speaking
at
large
unto
the
Ambassadors
of
himself
,
said
,
that
all
men
knew
what
his
abilities
were
in
the
well
governing
a
State
;
since
the
whole
world
set
such
an
estimation
upon
his
writings
,
as
he
thought
he
might
justly
boast
,
that
it
was
governed
by
the
modern
Princes
,
according
to
the
rules
of
his
Politicks
:
That
having
shewn
others
the
true
practice
of
the
most
exact
Reason
of
State
,
they
might
easily
believe
he
should
know
better
then
any
other
,
how
to
put
it
in
execution
in
his
own
State
.
And
though
upon
this
occasion
he
durst
undertake
upon
the
sudden
,
in
their
presence
,
to
make
a
compleat
discourse
upon
the
means
that
were
to
be
used
by
a
Prince
who
would
govern
an
Elective
Kingdom
well
,
yet
to
let
them
see
that
he
with
much
reason
was
acknowledged
by
the
most
understanding
Polititians
,
to
be
the
Master
of
that
Art
,
he
would
tell
them
in
two
words
,
what
satisfaction
he
intended
to
give
them
in
his
Government
.
Which
was
,
That
he
would
diligently
imitate
the
late
Prince
in
those
actions
which
he
should
know
gave
content
unto
the
people
,
and
that
he
would
exceedingly
detest
him
in
those
which
they
were
displeased
with
.
He
then
added
,
That
what
he
had
said
,
was
the
very
extract
of
all
true
Policy
,
the
quintescence
distilled
by
him
,
and
only
by
him
thought
upon
;
and
that
relying
much
upon
them
,
he
had
imparted
unto
them
this
secret
,
which
if
it
were
made
common
,
Shop-keepers
,
and
even
the
meanest
sort
of
men
,
would
know
how
to
rule
Kingdoms
,
and
govern
Empires
.
The
Ambassadors
were
much
pleased
with
what
Tacitus
had
said
,
and
did
assure
him
that
he
should
be
the
man
that
should
be
chosen
;
they
only
advertised
him
,
that
when
he
should
be
created
their
Prince
,
it
would
behove
him
to
speak
in
a
more
usual
stile
,
that
he
might
be
the
better
understood
by
the
people
of
Lesbos
,
who
were
not
so
learned
as
those
of
Parnassus
.
To
which
Tacitus
answered
,
That
it
was
necessary
for
one
like
him
,
who
profest
to
speak
more
sentences
then
words
,
to
speak
obscurely
;
for
sententious
meanings
,
and
politick
precepts
,
lost
much
reputation
,
when
they
were
spoken
in
trivial
Latin
:
And
he
,
to
the
end
that
he
might
not
communicate
that
political
Science
to
the
base
rabble-rout
,
which
ought
only
to
be
known
to
great
Kings
,
used
that
manner
of
Language
;
that
therefore
his
conceptions
were
understood
only
by
the
choicest
wits
,
whose
accurate
pallats
were
able
to
rellish
them
;
yet
for
the
general
good
of
those
that
understood
but
little
,
he
would
bring
with
him
for
his
Interpreters
,
Mercerus
,
Lipsius
,
Fulvius
Orsinus
,
and
that
he
would
bring
with
him
as
far
as
from
Italy
,
the
most
affable
Courtius
Pecchena
,
whom
Ferdinand
the
great
Duke
of
Tuscany
,
the
best
Scollar
that
ever
came
out
of
Tacitus
his
Schoole
,
had
offered
him
,
whensoever
he
should
have
occasion
to
use
him
.
The
Ambassadors
returned
to
Lesbos
much
satisfied
with
these
answers
,
and
made
such
relation
of
Tacitus
his
miraculous
wisdom
,
as
by
the
general
applause
of
all
the
people
,
he
was
presently
chosen
,
and
declared
Prince
.
But
the
success
of
Tacitus
his
Government
in
his
Principality
,
proved
clean
contrary
to
the
expectation
which
was
had
of
him
:
For
soon
after
he
had
taken
possession
,
he
began
first
to
sow
,
and
then
to
nourish
great
discord
between
the
Nobility
and
the
common
people
:
and
because
the
Nobility
was
of
more
worth
,
and
better
advised
then
the
vulgar
,
who
were
kept
under
by
the
power
of
great
ones
,
Tacitus
secretly
and
cunningly
adheared
to
the
weaker
side
;
wherefore
the
heads
of
the
people
growing
very
bold
with
the
Nobility
,
by
reason
of
the
stout
assistance
which
they
received
from
the
Prince
,
they
exercised
bruitish
insolencies
,
by
means
whereof
,
in
less
then
a
months
space
,
a
dreadfull
fire
of
civil
Warr
was
kindled
in
Lesbos
.
Tacitus
this
mean
while
appearing
in
publick
to
be
a
well-wisher
to
the
general
peace
,
interposed
himself
as
a
mediator
to
compose
those
differences
,
which
in
privat
he
wished
might
never
have
an
end
;
and
shewed
himself
to
be
so
zealous
of
all
their
goods
,
as
he
became
the
absolute
arbitrator
of
the
differences
between
both
sides
:
And
making
use
of
the
calamities
of
others
,
as
an
instrument
whereby
to
agrandize
his
Authority
,
he
first
infused
great
fear
into
the
people
,
that
they
would
be
quickly
cut
in
pieces
by
the
power
of
the
Nobility
,
if
they
did
not
all
the
sooner
find
out
some
remedy
for
their
preservation
.
By
this
means
he
easily
obtained
their
good
wils
,
that
a
Militia
of
forrein
Souldiers
should
be
admitted
into
the
Metropolitan
City
,
to
keep
them
from
being
over-powered
by
the
Nobility
,
which
Militia
he
honested
by
the
name
of
Souldiers
of
Peace
:
And
they
,
with
approbation
of
the
Nobility
,
were
permitted
to
be
armed
,
under
pretence
,
that
by
them
he
would
curb
the
people
,
who
were
already
grown
too
insolent
.
The
Souldiers
were
three
thousand
in
number
,
and
an
intiment
confident
of
Tacitus
was
by
him
given
them
for
their
chief
Commander
.
And
to
the
end
that
they
might
be
faithfull
to
him
,
and
ready
to
serve
him
upon
all
occasions
,
he
obliged
them
not
only
by
othes
,
gifts
,
and
all
demonstrations
of
liberality
;
but
made
them
as
partial
to
him
,
as
they
were
hatefull
to
the
Nobility
and
common
people
,
by
permitting
them
to
commit
all
sorts
of
cruelty
and
plunder
against
the
Nobility
and
Commons
of
Lesbos
,
Tacitus
being
thus
fortified
in
his
power
and
greatness
,
did
in
a
few
daies
fill
the
Senat
and
City
Lesbos
,
as
also
the
whole
State
,
with
Promooters
and
Spies
,
which
he
incensed
against
the
chiefest
of
the
Nobility
of
Lesbos
,
who
under
pretence
of
divers
faults
,
were
bereft
of
their
Estates
and
imployments
,
wherewith
he
exalted
and
agrandized
their
accusers
.
Wherefore
the
chief
men
of
the
Senat
,
some
through
avarice
,
some
through
ambition
,
and
very
many
to
save
their
own
lives
,
became
wicked
Ministers
of
their
Princes
cruelty
and
ambition
,
by
accusing
,
and
falsly
calumniating
the
greatest
Subjects
of
the
State
.
Moreover
,
such
Senators
as
he
knew
he
could
not
oppress
by
false
accusations
,
he
imployed
them
abroad
in
forrein
Negotiations
,
which
were
expensive
,
and
could
cause
no
jealousies
;
then
by
little
and
little
he
disarmed
under
colour
of
various
pretence
,
the
ancient
Officers
who
had
the
charge
of
the
Militia
,
and
put
their
arms
into
the
hands
of
such
as
were
affectionate
to
him
;
and
whilst
by
this
deep
and
wicked
cunning
,
he
abased
the
powerful
,
he
exalted
new
men
,
chosen
out
of
the
meanest
sort
of
the
people
,
and
who
did
wholly
depend
upon
him
,
to
be
Senators
,
and
other
supream
Magistrates
.
Then
under
colour
of
securing
the
State
from
being
invaded
by
forrein
Princes
,
he
began
to
begirt
it
round
with
strong
Citadels
,
which
he
put
into
the
custody
of
forreiners
,
who
were
his
friends
.
And
because
he
could
not
endure
that
the
people
and
Nobility
should
be
armed
,
and
knew
that
to
disarm
them
,
would
be
a
dangerous
business
,
he
made
use
of
a
safe
way
to
disarm
his
Subjects
by
long
peace
,
by
idleness
,
or
wantonness
,
and
by
using
severe
justice
upon
such
as
did
any
waies
dispute
these
their
necessary
recentments
:
And
totally
to
irradicate
all
vertue
from
out
his
Subjects
souls
,
he
caused
costly
Theaters
to
be
built
in
the
chiefest
Cities
,
wherein
pastimes
,
Comedies
,
Huntings
,
and
other
delightfull
spectacles
,
were
perpetually
represented
,
by
the
over-much
use
whereof
the
people
and
the
Nobility
,
gave
over
their
ancient
care
of
publick
affairs
,
and
the
thought
of
Military
exercises
:
And
as
one
who
knew
very
well
,
that
to
come
by
his
desired
end
of
erecting
a
Tyrannical
Government
over
a
people
who
were
born
free-men
,
and
had
long
lived
in
liberty
,
it
was
requisite
to
glut
them
with
perpetual
plenty
and
abundance
,
Tacitus
gave
himself
wholly
to
provide
that
great
store
of
all
good
things
,
should
alwaies
be
found
in
his
State
.
Thus
farr
Tacitus
his
affairs
past
on
successfully
;
but
when
he
would
go
about
the
last
precept
of
Tyranny
,
by
laying
snares
for
the
lives
of
some
great
Senators
which
he
was
jealous
of
,
he
contracted
so
cruel
and
so
universal
a
hatred
against
him
,
as
lest
he
might
be
opprest
by
a
great
conspiracy
which
he
found
was
plotted
against
him
,
he
fled
disguised
six
daies
since
from
Lesbos
,
and
returned
to
lead
a
privat
life
in
Parnassus
.
His
Nephew
Pliny
,
who
as
all
the
Vertuosi
know
,
was
always
the
best
friend
that
ever
Tacitus
had
,
was
the
first
that
came
to
visit
him
;
he
with
a
Roman
freedom
,
greatly
reprehended
his
friend
,
that
having
prescribed
such
approved
Rules
of
well
governing
States
,
to
others
,
he
himself
should
prove
so
unfortunate
in
his
Principality
of
Lesbos
.
The
same
Pliny
relates
that
Cornelius
Tacitus
gave
him
these
very
words
for
answer
;
Heaven
(
my
Pliny
)
is
not
so
far
distant
from
earth
,
nor
doth
snow
so
far
differ
in
colour
from
cole
,
as
the
exercise
of
Empire
is
far
from
,
and
unlike
unto
the
Theory
of
Politick
Precepts
,
and
the
best
Rules
of
Reason
of
State
:
For
that
sentence
which
in
Galba's
person
I
teach
Piso
,
and
which
hath
won
me
so
much
credit
amongst
men
,
as
it
hath
been
thought
to
be
the
answer
of
an
Oracle
,
and
which
the
ignorant
think
may
easily
be
put
in
practice
,
hath
in
the
use
thereof
proved
very
unfortunate
to
me
:
The
reason
is
,
because
the
Metamorphosis
is
too
great
,
when
from
being
a
privat
man
,
one
becomes
a
Prince
.
And
know
Pliny
,
that
privat
men
hate
and
detest
many
things
as
great
defects
,
and
apparent
vices
in
Princes
,
which
are
vertuous
and
excellent
perfections
.
I
tell
thee
this
,
for
that
when
I
was
first
chosen
Prince
of
Lesbos
,
I
was
resolved
to
steer
the
Navigation
of
my
Principality
by
the
assured
North
star
of
the
aforesaid
sentence
;
and
therefore
I
diligently
informed
my self
of
all
my
Predicessors
actions
,
firmly
resolving
to
imitate
him
in
those
which
were
praised
,
and
to
shun
those
which
were
blamed
in
him
:
I
knew
that
he
had
greatly
offended
the
Senat
by
assuming
too
much
Authority
,
by
which
he
had
taken
unto
himself
the
affairs
of
all
the
Magistrates
;
in
so
much
as
little
more
then
the
bare
name
of
Magistracy
remained
unto
them
.
I
found
he
was
much
hated
for
the
little
esteem
he
made
of
the
Nobility
,
and
for
that
he
would
have
all
the
affairs
of
the
Senat
depend
upon
him
:
And
I
knew
also
,
that
in
his
austeere
manner
of
life
,
by
which
it
appeared
he
desired
to
govern
the
State
of
Lesbos
rather
by
absolute
Dominion
,
and
as
an
hereditary
Prince
,
then
as
an
elective
Lord
by
limited
Authority
,
he
had
distasted
all
men
.
Whilst
I
was
a
privat
man
,
I
thought
this
way
of
Government
to
be
bruitish
,
and
altogether
Tyrannical
,
and
therefore
I
resolved
to
shun
it
.
But
know
,
that
the
very
first
houre
took
upon
me
my
Principality
,
I
found
those
my
first
wholsom
resolutions
to
be
so
grub'd
up
and
eradicated
by
the
cursed
power
of
Rule
,
as
to
say
it
properly
unto
you
,
Vi
Dominationis
convulsus
&
mutatus
.
Tacit.
lib.
4.
Annall
.
I
began
to
think
those
my
Predicessors
actions
,
which
whilst
I
was
a
privat
man
;
I
esteemed
so
foolish
,
insolent
,
and
Tyrannical
,
to
be
excellently
good
,
and
not
things
done
out
of
phancy
,
or
by
chance
,
but
good
precepts
politick
resolutions
,
and
necessary
State-Reason
:
So
as
not
able
any
waies
to
resist
the
violent
ambition
of
Government
,
I
thought
I
should
be
baser
then
a
Pack-bearer
,
if
I
did
not
arrogate
unto
my self
the
whole
power
of
command
in
Lesbos
,
where
the
Prince
lives
with
much
limited
Authority
;
which
my
inordinate
desire
did
occasion
that
bad
satisfaction
in
the
Senat
,
and
whole
people
of
Lesbos
,
which
hath
made
me
run
upon
the
Rock
which
you
see
.
All
which
disorders
(
my
Pliny
)
are
occasioned
not
through
my
ignorance
,
but
through
my
knowing
too
much
:
For
in
the
Principality
of
Lesbos
,
where
people
live
between
Liberty
and
Slavery
,
Nec
totam
Libertatem
,
nec
totam
Servitutem
patipossunt
.
Tacit.
lib.
1.
Hist.
They
can
neither
endure
to
be
wholly
slaves
,
nor
wholly
free
.
He
who
will
Reigne
long
quietly
there
,
must
not
only
resolve
to
leave
things
as
he
found
them
,
but
must
be
of
a
peacefull
spirit
,
so
farr
from
ambition
,
as
that
he
may
be
able
to
put
in
practice
the
hard
precept
,
of
living
himself
,
and
suffering
others
to
live
:
so
as
men
who
are
absolutely
Polititians
,
as
I
am
,
who
are
incited
by
nature
to
affect
sole
Dominion
,
and
who
will
measure
all
things
by
their
Reason
of
State
,
prove
very
unfortunate
in
Elective
Principalities
.
The
XXX
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
being
aware
of
the
great
disorder
occasioned
amongst
men
by
the
flight
of
Fidelity
;
By
assistance
of
the
Muses
,
and
of
the
sublimest
Heroick
Vertues
,
procures
her
return
to
Parnassus
.
IT
cannot
be
said
by
the
tongue
of
man
,
how
greatly
Apollo
was
troubled
at
the
secret
and
sudden
departure
from
Parnassus
some
weeks
since
(
as
you
have
heard
)
of
the
Illustrious
Vertue
,
Fidelity
:
For
his
Majestie
could
not
with
patience
think
that
the
world
should
be
deprived
of
so
beautifull
a
Princess
:
His
afflictions
were
increased
by
hearing
of
the
great
disorders
which
arose
in
all
places
,
between
the
people
and
sacred
Friendship
,
the
only
delight
of
man-kind
;
since
she
saw
her self
forsaken
by
Fidelity
,
lest
she
might
receive
some
fowl
affront
from
Fraud
,
she
would
no
longer
live
amongst
men
,
who
being
freed
from
the
Oath
of
Allegeance
to
their
Princes
,
and
from
the
severe
bond
of
love
,
by
which
they
are
bound
unto
their
privat
friends
,
they
grew
so
very
perfidious
,
and
so
savagely
seditious
,
as
allowing
all
sorts
of
wickedness
to
be
lawfull
,
they
drive
away
pure
Fidelity
by
treachery
,
from
human
familiarity
,
and
holy
peace
by
sedition
,
filling
the
whole
world
with
bloud
,
theft
,
and
all
perfidious
and
cruel
confusion
.
Apollo
was
moreover
perpetually
troubled
with
the
just
Appeals
of
Princes
,
who
publickly
protested
,
that
by
reason
of
their
Subjects
hainous
infidelity
,
they
were
forced
to
forgo
the
Government
of
man-kind
.
Wherefore
Apollo
thought
it
necessary
(
as
a
remedy
for
so
great
disorder
)
to
call
a
Diet
of
the
States-General
,
which
he
did
on
the
twentieth
of
the
last
month
,
whither
he
summoned
the
Princes
Poets
,
and
the
Deputies
of
all
vertuous
Nations
;
who
not
failing
to
appear
on
the
prefixt
day
,
such
hatred
was
discovered
in
many
people
against
their
Princes
,
as
they
said
openly
,
that
not
through
any
disloyalty
,
but
that
driven
by
dispair
,
they
had
for
ever
banisht
that
Loyalty
from
out
their
hearts
;
which
,
as
being
very
prejuditial
to
them
,
they
were
resolved
never
any
more
to
acknowledge
;
by
reason
that
it
was
basely
abused
by
many
Princes
.
For
in
times
past
Subjects
Loyalty
served
as
a
means
to
force
Princes
to
barter
civil
and
courteous
proceedings
,
with
their
peoples
faithful
service
;
but
now
they
saw
clearly
that
the
vertue
of
humble
and
prostrate
obedience
,
was
accounted
the
baseness
of
an
abject
mind
;
and
the
merit
of
a
voluntary
and
uncorrupt
Loyalty
,
necessity
of
service
.
By
which
fowle
way
of
proceeding
,
publick
disorders
were
so
far
advanced
,
as
many
were
forced
to
put
on
the
resolution
which
now
was
seen
,
only
that
Capricious
Princes
might
clearly
know
,
that
the
Authority
of
commanding
was
soon
lost
,
when
the
ill
usage
of
Subjects
,
and
ingratitude
towards
them
,
had
so
exceeded
all
humane
patience
,
as
they
had
made
Nations
which
were
naturally
well
disposed
to
obey
,
resolve
to
admit
of
no
more
Masters
,
but
rather
hazard
themselves
in
a
free
Government
,
then
to
be
so
undervalued
,
rent
in
pieces
,
and
cruelly
dealt
with
by
Princes
.
Though
the
anger
of
Princes
towards
their
people
was
great
,
and
the
peoples
distastes
greater
,
yet
the
Illustrious
Muses
,
assisted
by
the
Heroick
Vertues
,
who
laboured
very
much
to
bring
a
business
of
so
great
concernment
to
a
happy
end
,
did
at
last
by
their
dexterity
,
mollifie
and
appease
the
minds
of
incenst
Princes
,
and
the
hearts
of
venomed
people
:
And
the
Diet
was
dissolved
upon
these
Articles
of
agreement
;
That
the
people
should
solemnly
promise
to
admit
again
of
Loyalty
into
their
bosoms
,
and
swear
to
make
her
absolute
Mistress
of
their
hearts
:
And
that
Princes
should
be
bound
to
banish
avarice
and
cruelty
from
out
their
breasts
,
and
possess
their
souls
fully
with
liberality
and
clemency
,
which
were
the
things
that
made
Subjects
loyal
and
obedient
.
Since
it
plainly
appeared
by
authenticate
faith
,
and
was
witnessed
by
Gaius
Plinius
,
and
the
rest
of
Natural
Historians
,
That
sheep
which
did
so
willingly
obey
their
Shepherds
,
did
infinitely
abhor
Butchers
:
And
that
it
was
impossible
to
make
Doggs
(
though
naturally
very
faithfull
and
loving
to
men
)
wag
their
tails
,
and
leap
about
them
,
who
gave
them
more
blowes
then
bits
of
bread
.
The
XXXI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
In
the
time
of
Carneval
,
the
Vertuosi
in
Parnassus
run
races
,
and
make
other
demonstrations
of
mirth
,
and
jollitie
.
THe
time
of
the
Vertuosi's
festivals
,
and
publick
rejoycings
being
come
,
Apollo
caused
Macrobius
to
publish
by
sound
of
Trumpet
,
in
the
Chaire
appropriated
thereunto
,
Aulus
Gelius
his
Saturnalia
(
whom
the
reformers
of
the
modern
Pedantry
call
Messer
Agillio
)
his
pleasant
Attick
Nights
;
and
the
pleasant
genial
or
jovial
dayes
of
Alessandro
de
gli
Alessandri
,
and
finally
the
merry
Bacchenalia
of
the
Romans
,
the
Lords
of
the
world
,
and
supream
Princes
of
Learning
,
all
of
them
festival
and
merry
daies
,
and
consecrated
by
the
Genius
of
gallant
men
:
and
by
his
Majesties
particular
edict
it
was
commanded
that
they
should
be
chearfully
celebrated
by
all
the
Nations
of
the
Vertuosi
which
inhabit
Parnassus
,
according
to
the
institutions
and
customes
of
their
several
Countries
.
As
soon
as
this
so
joyfull
news
was
made
known
to
the
people
,
the
rich
publick
Libraries
were
opened
in
Parnassus
,
and
the
famous
Libraries
of
privat
men
,
into
which
during
those
daies
of
jubile
,
it
was
lawfull
for
every
one
to
enter
,
to
come
out
of
,
and
to
tarry
there
as
long
as
they
listed
,
to
surfet
by
their
perpetual
reading
upon
the
savory
viands
which
the
Vertuosi
have
first
seasoned
,
and
then
disht
up
at
the
plentifull
Table
of
their
Composures
.
It
was
an
honourable
and
a
joyfull
spectacle
to
see
the
publick
invitations
made
by
Plato
,
by
Athenaeus
,
and
the
other
great
Princes
of
the
Court
,
throughout
the
whole
streets
and
houses
of
Parnassus
,
where
the
Vertuosi
drank
deeply
of
the
Falerno
of
Learning
,
and
filled
their
bellies
till
they
were
ready
to
burst
with
good
Discipline
.
Only
the
Doctors
of
Law
,
seeing
the
Shop
of
their
Tribunals
,
and
of
their
litigious
Traffick
shut
,
were
sad
,
and
died
for
hunger
amidst
such
plenty
of
savory
meats
,
and
abundance
of
merriments
:
For
meer
Pettifoggers
being
many
ages
before
declared
by
his
Majestie
to
be
meere
Asses
,
he
inhibited
them
to
feed
upon
the
sweet
food
of
Divinity
,
Philosophy
,
Poetry
,
Astrology
,
and
other
savory
Sciences
,
upon
which
the
acutest
Wits
do
only
feed
.
Wherefore
the
Pettifoggers
were
seen
,
much
to
their
shame
,
to
go
through
Kitchins
licking
of
Ladles
,
whereas
other
Scienced
men
were
served
with
all
the
delicacies
of
Learning
;
and
then
it
was
that
high-minded
spirits
did
detest
the
sordid
study
of
Law-Cases
,
and
great
Volumes
of
trivial
Law
,
as
that
which
being
only
able
to
fatten
the
fowle
great
body
of
Wealth
,
makes
curious
wits
die
of
the
Hectick
Feaver
:
But
above
all
the
rest
,
the
invitation
made
by
Pliny
,
was
the
most
famous
,
to
which
the
most
learned
in
all
Sciences
that
were
in
Parnassus
,
being
come
,
they
were
all
satisfied
according
to
their
several
pallats
,
with
costly
and
pleasant
Cates.
And
though
at
that
splendid
Feast
they
did
for
the
most
part
only
eat
and
swallow
Gudgins
,
yet
were
they
all
so
well
drest
,
and
handsomly
disht
in
by
that
copious
.
Wit
,
as
they
were
eaten
by
all
the
Guest
with
much
delight
,
praised
for
their
excellency
,
and
taken
for
truths
.
The
third
day
of
the
Feast
there
appeared
two
load
of
Neapolitan
Villanelle
Fruits
of
Parthenope
,
which
for
being
come
from
that
vertuous
Climat
,
were
suddenly
bought
up
and
eaten
by
the
hunger-starv'd
wits
of
the
Litterati
;
but
because
through
their
much
slipperiness
,
or
glibness
,
they
occasioned
dangerous
Fluxes
in
most
that
eat
them
,
such
impurities
were
forthwith
forbidden
by
the
Censors
to
be
any
more
brought
into
Parnassus
.
The
same
day
Tansillus
clad
like
a
Gardner
,
presented
Apollo
with
a
basket
full
of
Neapolitan
Brocali
,
the
excellencies
whereof
he
did
so
exagerate
in
four
Stanzas
which
he
on
the
sudden
recited
,
as
having
perswaded
his
Majestie
to
taste
them
,
as
soon
as
by
the
very
smell
he
found
them
to
be
ordinary
Coleworts
,
he
turned
towards
Tansillus
,
and
said
,
All
your
Poetry
will
never
make
your
Neapolitan
Brocali
prove
any
thing
bu●…
common
Coleworts
;
and
Coleworts
do
not
deserve
the
praise
of
so
much
prittle
prattle
.
Soon
after
,
a
handsom
Peasant
of
Ferrara
,
called
Pastor
Fido
,
presented
his
Majestie
with
an
odoriferous
handsom
Tart
:
Apollo
not
staying
for
the
usual
hour
of
dinner
,
fell
to
eat
it
with
such
an
appetite
in
the
open
street
,
as
he
lickt
his
lips
and
fingers
ends
,
according
to
the
Countrey-fashion
,
when
he
tasted
the
Pastoral
Tart
;
and
seemed
so
delighted
with
that
food
,
as
he
thought
it
not
only
good
manners
,
but
even
requisite
to
give
part
thereof
to
the
Illustrious
Muses
,
left
that
they
,
who
are
alwaies
big
with
Verse
,
by
longing
to
taste
thereof
,
might
miscarry
,
or
might
be
delivered
of
a
Poem
marked
with
some
fowl
spot
of
ignorance
.
Whilst
the
Muses
,
being
called
by
his
Majestie
,
did
together
with
Apollo
,
eat
the
Tart
of
that
fortunate
Shepheard
with
such
delight
,
the
Vertuosi
who
stood
looking
on
,
longed
very
much
to
taste
so
savory
a
thing
.
Wherefore
his
Majestie
gave
every
one
of
them
a
piece
of
it
;
and
the
Tart
was
so
commended
,
as
they
all
confest
there
could
nothing
of
more
delicate
in
that
kind
be
eaten
.
There
was
only
one
of
the
Vertuosi
who
said
it
nauseated
him
,
as
being
too
Melli●…uous
;
to
whom
Apollo
,
being
much
incensed
,
said
,
That
sweetness
was
the
friend
of
Nature
,
and
that
those
that
were
not
mightily
delighted
therewithall
,
had
a
depraved
taste
,
and
that
he
was
certainly
a
malignant
,
if
he
did
not
confess
that
that
delicate
Tart
,
being
seasoned
with
more
conceptions
then
words
,
was
raised
up
with
the
Paste
of
Capons
skins
;
and
that
he
made
himself
to
be
known
to
be
one
of
those
sowre
detractors
,
who
blinded
by
envy
,
blame
such
things
as
are
to
be
imitated
by
extraordinarily
fruitfull
wits
:
But
his
Majesties
anger
,
and
the
dread
which
the
Vertuoso
was
in
,
were
turned
to
laughter
,
when
the
Tart
being
wholly
eaten
,
Signco●…
Giovandalla
Casa
,
took
the
Plate
whereon
it
stood
,
and
licking
it
with
equal
greediness
and
unmannerliness
,
told
his
Majesty
and
the
Muses
,
that
in
things
that
do
ravish
with
delight
,
men
were
not
Masters
of
themselves
,
nor
could
they
remember
Gallateo's
rules
,
and
that
in
time
of
Carneval
,
it
was
lawfull
to
commit
exorbitances
.
His
Majestie
went
afterwards
about
the
Foro
Massimo
,
and
was
much
delighted
to
see
every
corner
full
of
canvasing
and
disputations
,
and
the
Piazza
throng'd
with
Orators
,
who
made
Learned
Orations
in
praise
of
the
Learned
Sciences
;
and
bitter
invectives
against
ignorance
.
Some
phantastical
Italian
Poets
added
to
his
Majesties
mirth
,
many
of
which
being
mounted
upon
benches
,
sung
an
infinite
number
of
Verses
ex
tempore
,
which
shewed
they
could
not
imitate
the
Latine
Poets
,
who
through
difficulty
of
feet
,
by
which
their
Verses
walk
,
are
forced
to
goe
leasurely
.
And
now
Apollo
dismist
the
Muses
,
who
went
sporting
themselves
for
many
hours
through
the
gladsom
street
with
their
inamored
Poets
;
and
were
much
delighted
in
Mauro's
shop
,
wherein
were
great
store
of
large
and
little
beans
,
with
which
some
of
those
Dieties
cram'd
their
bellies
full
:
And
it
was
noted
for
a
very
strange
thing
,
that
they
liked
the
empty
husks
better
then
those
that
had
kernels
in
them
.
They
then
cast
their
eye
upon
Monsieur
de
la
Casa's
Oven
;
they
entred
where
Varchi
was
kneading
,
and
from
thence
went
into
the
shop
where
Iovan
Baptista
Marini
made
Spanish
Buskins
,
whereof
whilst
Coppetta
would
have
puld
on
one
,
and
it
proving
to
be
very
streight
,
he
used
violence
in
plucking
of
it
on
,
that
he
tore
it
,
so
as
(
which
occasioned
much
laughter
in
the
,
rest
)
he
pulled
off
one
of
the
straps
,
and
gave
a
strapping
fart
.
As
Apollo
returned
afterwards
to
his
Royal
Palace
,
some
Courtiers
of
great
Princes
desired
they
might
have
leave
to
make
some
Mascherades
;
to
whom
his
Majestie
answered
,
That
they
needed
not
to
mask
or
disguise
their
faces
,
for
that
their
souls
were
so
well
masked
,
as
they
might
go
any
where
safely
,
for
he
assured
them
they
could
not
be
known
,
neither
by
the
eye
,
nor
yet
by
the
judgement
of
any
man
,
how
wise
soever
.
The
next
day
,
according
to
custom
,
they
ran
Races
with
their
Coaches
;
and
it
fell
out
odly
amongst
those
of
four
wheels
,
for
many
Charrets
appearing
at
the
first
starting
with
new
wheels
well
greased
,
and
swift
horses
,
Cornelius
Tacitus
appeared
there
with
a
three-wheel'd
Charret
,
swathed
round
about
,
and
drawn
by
lean
weather-wrung-Jades
,
which
he
had
hired
.
And
then
it
was
that
Tacitus
made
his
skill
appear
;
for
being
started
,
whilst
all
the
other
skilfull
Coachmen
belaboured
themselves
in
the
Cource
,
and
deafned
all
the
lookers
on
with
the
noise
they
made
in
whipping
their
horses
,
and
speaking
unto
them
,
crying
,
stand
up
;
Tacitus
very
tacitly
,
no
waies
discomposing
himself
,
by
his
rare
dexterity
,
and
admirable
skill
,
did
so
seasonably
switch
and
put
on
his
horses
,
and
did
so
judiciously
guide
his
disordered
Charret
,
as
he
was
come
to
the
Staff
or
Post
,
before
the
other
fleeter
Charrets
had
driven
two
thirds
of
the
way
.
Whereby
all
the
Vertuosi
of
this
State
discerned
how
much
the
dexterity
of
a
juditious
wit
,
exceeds
strength
or
force
in
all
things
in
so
much
,
as
the
wisest
said
,
that
they
who
carry
on
their
business
handsomly
,
with
skill
and
dexterity
,
are
fit
to
bring
any
disordered
enterprize
to
a
good
end
.
The
Vertuosi
were
not
so
much
delighted
in
seeing
the
Courtiers
run
on
foot
naked
:
For
they
were
much
troubled
to
see
what
injustice
was
used
in
the
inequality
of
the
starting-places
;
which
the
ignoble
and
poor
Vertuosi
took
from
farr
off
;
whereas
they
that
were
noble
and
wealthy
,
were
so
near
the
staff
,
as
without
running
,
they
might
touch
it
,
if
they
would
but
put
forth
their
hand
:
So
as
by
such
inequality
,
they
thought
it
rather
a
thing
purchast
by
fortune
,
then
gotten
by
industrious
labour
,
when
at
Court
a
poor
Litterato
comes
by
the
staff
of
honor
and
Supream
dignities
.
Yet
in
this
last
Race
it
was
observed
,
that
many
Noble
and
rich
men
came
behind
,
and
the
poor
mean
runners
won
the
reward
:
And
though
some
say
they
did
it
through
the
humorousness
of
Princes
,
and
by
favors
backt
by
Court
;
yet
the
more
judicious
sort
affirm
,
that
it
is
necessary
for
such
who
by
their
dexterity
and
fair
behaviour
,
know
how
to
gain
their
Princes
love
,
and
have
the
wit
to
arive
at
highest
preferments
from
them
,
to
have
good
legs
to
run
withall
.
But
great
was
the
mirth
which
was
caused
in
all
the
people
,
by
a
chance
which
hapned
between
two
very
noted
Personages
of
the
Court
,
who
(
as
it
often
falls
out
)
whilst
the
one
thought
to
keep
the
other
back
,
they
justled
one
another
,
and
grew
so
angry
,
as
giving
over
the
chief
business
of
who
should
win
the
Race
,
in
the
midst
of
the
way
(
which
was
very
dirty
)
they
indiscreetly
fell
together
by
the
ears
,
and
after
having
cruelly
bespattered
one
another
,
by
foul
accusations
,
and
shamefull
calumnies
,
they
became
a
ridiculous
spectacle
to
the
lookers
on
;
and
for
their
greater
shame
,
were
hist
at
by
them
.
This
,
though
it
appeared
ridiculous
to
the
foolish
rabble
,
was
notwithstanding
thought
so
worthy
consideration
by
his
Majestie
,
that
,
as
being
very
exemplary
,
he
gave
order
that
it
should
be
cut
in
Marble
by
Praxiteles
,
that
it
might
serve
everlastingly
for
a
Lesson
to
wrangling
Courtiers
.
It
merits
memory
,
that
whilst
Servius
Honoratus
,
Master
of
the
Barbary
Horse
which
won
the
Race
,
went
crying
through
Parnassus
(
as
the
custom
is
)
Long
live
Virgil
,
that
gallant
Personage
,
who
counts
that
shame
,
which
other
Poets
account
glory
,
caused
Servius
to
be
bastinadoed
by
his
servant
Daretes
;
for
which
act
,
though
Apollo
was
much
troubled
at
it
,
Virgil
justified
himself
,
saying
,
That
he
had
left
such
memory
behind
him
in
the
world
,
as
his
name
ought
to
be
exalted
and
celebrated
for
his
own
worth
,
not
for
the
gallantry
of
a
horse
.
Of
former
years
the
Prizes
were
readily
,
and
without
any
ceremony
given
to
those
that
won
them
,
by
the
Governor
of
Parnassus
,
and
by
the
Urban
Pretor
;
but
this
year
Apollo
would
give
them
with
his
own
hands
:
Wherefore
he
caused
it
to
be
intimated
to
all
the
Potentates
that
were
in
Parnassus
,
by
the
publick
Parators
,
that
they
should
appear
in
the
Royal
Hall
,
that
they
might
be
present
at
so
important
a
ceremony
:
It
seemed
a
great
novelty
to
those
Princes
,
to
hear
that
his
Majesty
would
have
those
Princes
who
were
summoned
only
upon
weighty
occasions
,
assist
at
an
action
which
in
former
years
was
thought
but
mean
.
Yet
his
Majesties
commands
being
upon
pain
of
punishment
,
they
all
appeared
.
Then
Apollo
said
,
I
know
,
my
Lords
,
that
you
very
much
wonder
why
I
my self
should
now
do
that
with
so
much
solemnity
,
which
formerly
was
performed
by
my
Officers
without
any
manner
of
ceremony
:
But
because
not
only
all
your
happiness
,
but
even
all
the
greatest
satisfaction
which
the
the
people
over
whom
you
command
,
does
depend
on
this
sole
action
;
for
your
own
advantage
I
would
have
you
present
at
it
.
Learn
then
of
me
,
all
you
Rulers
of
the
earth
,
to
banish
all
privat
passions
from
out
your
hearts
;
and
in
rewarding
those
that
serve
you
,
govern
your selves
by
their
deserts
,
not
by
your
own
humors
,
and
giving
(
as
you
see
me
do
now
)
the
prize
of
dignities
,
and
reward
of
honours
to
those
who
by
their
honorable
and
laborious
course
of
life
have
deserved
them
,
you
and
your
posterity
will
reigne
happily
for
ever
:
When
by
doing
otherwise
,
you
will
dishonour
your selves
,
ruine
your
States
,
and
of
great
Princes
,
which
now
you
are
,
you
wil
in
time
run
evident
danger
of
becoming
privat
foot
Souldiers
,
only
for
that
you
would
be
inamored
of
stinking
carrion
.
The
XXXII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Militia
of
Ianisaries
,
seeing
one
of
their
Souldiers
ill
rewarded
,
mutiny
in
the
Ottoman
Monarchy
,
and
are
by
Apollo
quieted
.
TO
the
great
terror
of
all
the
Potentates
of
this
State
of
Parnassus
in
the
Ottaman
Quarter
such
an
uproar
arose
,
as
Alarms
were
given
throughout
the
whole
City
;
and
that
potent
Signory
presently
drew
forth
her
numerous
Armies
,
and
as
if
she
would
come
to
a
general
battle
,
she
ordered
them
in
divers
squadrons
;
wherefore
the
Germans
,
Spaniards
,
and
Princes
of
Italy
,
growing
very
jealous
,
took
up
arms
also
,
and
sent
out
their
Scouts
to
learn
the
reason
of
those
rumors
;
who
brought
back
word
,
that
the
whole
Militia
of
Janisaries
were
mutinied
against
the
Ottaman
Monarchy
.
Apollo
,
who
was
presently
advertised
thereof
by
the
Pretorian
Bands
of
Satirical
Poets
who
keep
Corps
de
Gard
continually
in
Foro
Delfico
,
caused
the
uprore
to
be
quieted
,
and
then
gave
command
that
the
Ottaman
Monarchy
,
and
the
chief
Commanders
of
the
Janisaries
who
had
mutinied
,
should
appear
before
him
:
And
because
the
Ottaman
Monarchy
,
as
also
the
Janisaries
would
present
themselves
before
Apollo
,
accompanied
by
multitudes
of
men
,
they
were
told
by
the
Lyrick
Poets
,
who
supply
the
place
of
Porters
,
that
in
such
occasion
of
tumults
,
people
came
modestly
attended
to
Princes
;
wherefore
the
Ottaman
Monarchy
with
his
chief
Visier
,
and
the
Gianasary
who
had
been
the
occasion
of
this
uprore
,
without
any
other
company
,
were
admitted
unto
his
Majesties
Audience
.
Apollo
demanded
of
the
Janisary
the
true
cause
of
that
Tumult
?
Who
answered
,
That
he
,
accompanied
by
a
Spahi
,
with
evident
danger
of
losing
their
lives
,
had
taken
by
surprise
the
important
Town
of
Testis
in
Persia
:
for
which
action
,
which
was
of
infinite
advantage
to
the
Ottaman
Empire
,
the
Spahi
was
largely
rewarded
by
being
made
Captain
General
of
the
Asian
Cavallery
,
and
that
he
who
had
merited
as
much
,
as
the
Spahi
was
so
ingratefully
dealt
withall
,
as
he
was
only
made
Spahi
della
Porta
;
which
fowle
partiallity
was
so
much
detested
by
the
whole
Militia
of
Janiaries
,
as
they
had
joyntly
taken
up
Arms
to
revenge
so
great
an
injury
.
Apollo
having
heard
this
,
turned
to
the
Ottaman
Monarchy
,
and
told
her
that
he
much
wondred
why
such
a
Princesse
as
she
who
professed
to
recompence
the
worth
and
merit
of
her
souldiers
with
infinite
rewards
,
had
shewed
her self
so
partial
towards
that
Janisary
.
To
which
the
Ottaman
Monarchy
answered
,
that
she
had
not
so
highly
rewarded
the
Janisary
as
he
had
done
the
Spahi
(
though
he
very
well
knew
it
became
him
so
to
have
done
)
out
of
an
important
reason
,
that
it
was
well
known
to
all
men
,
that
she
took
the
young
sons
of
her
Christian
Subjects
,
whereof
he
made
three
choices
;
making
such
as
were
of
best
natural
parts
,
a
Seminary
of
youths
,
who
when
they
came
to
years
of
being
imployed
,
they
were
placed
in
several
services
of
the
Chamber
,
and
about
the
very
person
of
the
Ottaman
Emperors
;
and
to
these
,
when
they
came
to
more
mature
years
,
the
Government
of
Provinces
was
given
,
the
care
of
Armies
,
and
the
absolute
command
of
his
greatest
Empire
.
That
out
of
the
second
choice
he
made
his
mighty
Horse-Militia
,
and
his
Gentil
husmini
della
Porta
,
called
Spahi
.
And
out
of
the
third
,
which
was
the
refuge
,
and
those
of
weakest
natural
parts
,
he
formed
his
formidable
Militia
of
Janisaries
.
And
if
it
should
so
fall
out
,
that
a
Spahi
should
by
his
worth
exceed
the
expectation
which
was
had
of
him
(
as
was
seen
in
the
Spahi
who
had
surprised
the
Fort
of
Testis
)
,
he
was
admitted
into
the
first
rank
;
but
if
it
should
happen
that
any
extraordinary
worth
should
be
found
in
a
Janisary
,
by
which
he
might
have
done
some
act
of
much
merit
,
yet
they
were
never
raised
to
any
higher
degree
by
the
Ottaman
Emperors
,
than
to
the
degree
of
Spahi
.
And
that
the
reason
of
this
his
resolution
was
ready
;
for
that
the
first
Seminary
of
Bassaes
,
as
also
the
second
of
the
Spahi
,
and
the
third
of
the
Janisaries
,
every
one
of
them
abundantly
loving
the
brethren
of
their
own
Classis
,
to
give
the
command
of
Armies
,
or
Government
of
Provinces
to
men
of
the
first
or
second
Seraglio
,
who
were
very
few
in
comparison
of
the
Janisarie
Militia
,
was
no
waies
dangerous
;
but
that
to
intrust
places
of
jelousie
in
the
hands
of
a
Captain
,
or
other
Officer
,
who
was
come
out
of
the
Janisarian
body
,
would
be
an
indiscreet
and
dangerous
advice
,
by
reason
of
the
great
retinue
of
so
dreadfull
a
Militia
that
such
a
Subject
would
have
:
And
so
much
the
more
,
for
that
whereas
the
Bassa's
and
Spahi's
being
men
highly
minded
,
and
who
do
not
willingly
subject
themselves
to
their
equals
,
live
continually
in
strife
,
jelousies
,
and
emulation
,
by
reason
of
their
pretences
to
the
same
preferments
;
whereas
the
Janisaries
,
as
being
an
ignorant
sort
of
people
,
did
not
only
live
in
greater
union
,
but
would
greatly
admire
,
love
,
and
even
adore
those
who
by
their
extraordinary
worth
,
were
got
out
of
their
Classis
.
That
therefore
,
to
advance
one
to
the
Supream
power
of
a
General
,
who
would
be
followed
and
beloved
by
so
mighty
a
Militia
,
would
be
no
better
then
to
nurse
up
a
serpent
in
ones
bosom
,
which
did
misbecome
a
wise
Prince
to
do
.
And
that
the
Ottaman
Emperors
held
it
for
an
infallible
maxim
in
Policy
.
That
that
Militia
on
which
the
perpetuity
,
greatness
and
selicity
of
an
Empire
was
grounded
,
should
be
commanded
in
chief
by
a
foreiner
;
who
would
be
obeyed
by
the
Army
,
or
rather
out
of
the
reverence
which
the
Souldiers
bear
unto
their
Prince
,
then
for
any
merit
,
Valor
,
Nobility
,
or
attendance
they
should
find
in
the
reiner
.
When
Apollo
had
heard
this
justification
made
by
the
Ottaman
Empire
,
he
did
so
much
admire
her
wisdom
,
as
he
commanded
that
Janisary
to
be
quiet
:
And
turning
to
some
Vertuosi
that
stood
by
,
and
said
,
that
without
reading
wicked
Bodine
,
or
mischievous
Machiavil
,
he
found
who
was
a
perfect
Polititian
;
since
such
barbarous
Princes
,
and
who
profess
utter
enmity
to
Learning
;
were
the
Kings
of
men
,
in
the
exact
understanding
how
to
govern
the
world
,
and
in
the
exquisite
practice
of
the
best
State-Reason
.
The
XXXIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
frees
Carlo
Sigonio
,
and
Dionigi
Atanigi
,
the
first
being
accused
of
Ingratitude
by
Pietro
Vittorio
,
and
the
other
by
Hannibal
Caro.
WHilst
Apollo
sate
this
morning
in
the
Tribunal
of
Gratitude
,
in
the
company
of
the
other
Judges
,
Carlo
Sigonio
,
a
Learned
Noble
man
of
Modena
,
was
brought
before
his
Majestie
by
the
Keepers
of
the
Prison
,
fast
bound
;
whom
Piero
Vittorio
a
Florentine
,
complained
against
bitterly
,
for
that
this
Sigonio
being
seased
on
by
the
Sargeants
,
who
were
carrying
him
to
prison
for
a
debt
of
a
thousand
Duckets
which
he
ought
to
Paulo
Manutio
,
he
,
to
keep
his
friend
from
suffering
such
an
affront
,
and
from
the
prejudice
of
long
imprisonment
,
had
with
such
liberality
,
as
was
more
then
he
could
well
do
,
disburst
the
thousand
Duckets
to
Manutio
,
which
having
afterwards
re-demanded
of
Sigonio
,
he
had
set
several
times
for
the
payment
of
it
,
but
Sigonio
still
broke
his
word
,
so
as
finding
himself
at
last
abused
,
he
was
inforced
much
against
his
will
,
to
imprison
him
;
and
that
seeing
his
former
friendship
strengthened
by
so
great
a
courtesie
,
was
turned
into
hatred
,
he
was
much
grieved
that
Sigonio
in
so
just
a
cause
should
so
often
falcifie
his
promise
;
he
therefore
desired
,
that
as
an
unacknowledging
and
ungratefull
man
,
he
might
receive
condign
punishment
,
according
to
the
Laws
of
Gratitude
.
Apollo
did
so
little
value
Vittorio's
Impeachment
,
as
openly
taking
upon
him
Sigonios
protection
,
he
said
that
they
broke
their
words
who
did
not
fulfil
such
things
as
were
in
their
power
to
do
;
but
as
for
the
promise
of
paying
of
monies
upon
a
prefixt
day
,
they
were
only
to
blame
,
who
coyning
monies
by
the
malignity
of
a
lying
intention
,
and
not
by
the
meer
want
of
coyne
,
did
not
make
good
their
promise
.
Then
turning
to
Vittorio
,
he
said
,
that
such
a
one
as
he
ought
to
consider
,
that
the
courtesie
he
had
done
to
Sigonio
,
was
one
of
those
whereof
the
obligation
of
Gratitude
was
lost
,
when
all
that
was
rigorously
exacted
,
which
was
known
to
be
deserved
by
a
friend
:
For
such
courtesies
as
did
exceed
the
condition
of
the
receiver
,
were
done
by
the
Vertuosi
,
only
to
discover
their
magnanimous
liberal
mind
,
and
only
the
more
to
oblige
a
man
:
and
that
great
good
turns
done
to
such
friends
as
were
of
ability
,
were
sufficiently
rewarded
by
purchase
of
the
fame
of
being
Bountifull
and
Liberal
.
As
Apollo
had
ended
this
cause
,
the
Impeachment
was
heard
which
the
Commendador
Hannibal
Caro
made
against
Dionigi
Atonigi
,
wherein
it
was
alleadged
,
That
when
Mario
Molza
died
for
having
had
to
do
with
too
many
women
,
he
left
a
little
daughter
of
his
to
his
custody
,
which
when
she
came
to
be
sixteen
years
old
,
he
gave
to
wife
to
Atonigi
with
a
Portion
of
40000
Crowns
:
In
which
resolution
,
the
violence
of
his
affection
to
Atonigi
,
had
overcome
the
consideration
of
his
beggerly
estate
,
which
ought
to
have
kept
him
from
making
that
alliance
.
And
that
Atonigi
being
thus
well
dealt
withall
by
his
dear
friend
,
was
not
ashamed
in
recompence
of
so
great
a
good
turn
,
to
acknowledge
it
by
the
beggerly
gift
of
a
douzen
shirts
,
and
four
hand-towels
:
And
that
after
so
great
ingratitude
,
the
very
marriage
day
he
had
very
discourteously
forbidden
him
his
house
;
he
then
added
with
tears
in
his
eies
,
that
he
having
bred
up
that
young
woman
as
if
she
had
been
his
own
beloved
daughter
,
she
likewise
loved
him
as
if
he
had
been
her
father
,
and
that
to
see
himself
deprived
of
her
so
dearly
prized
conversation
,
was
the
thing
of
the
world
that
did
most
torment
him
.
Apollo
answered
Caro
,
That
doubtlesly
Atonigi
had
done
amiss
;
and
therefore
commanded
,
that
to
compleat
the
gift
of
twelve
shirts
,
and
four
hand-towels
,
he
should
immediately
add
a
douzen
handkerchifs
,
and
eight
night-caps
,
with
which
demonstration
of
gratefulness
,
Caro
should
think
himself
well
rewarded
by
Atonigi
.
When
Caro
heard
this
judgement
given
by
Apollo
,
he
was
not
only
(
as
it
became
him
to
have
been
)
not
appeased
,
but
growing
very
outragious
,
he
freely
said
,
That
in
this
discourteous
act
of
Atonigi
,
Tacitus
his
Sentence
was
proved
very
true
upon
himself
,
That
,
Benificiaeo
usque
laeta
sunt
,
dum
videntur
exolviposse
,
ubi
multum
antevenere
,
pro
gratia
odium
redditur
.
Tacit.
lib.
4
:
Ann.
Benefits
are
so
long
welcom
,
as
there
is
any
appearance
of
a
possibility
of
repayment
,
which
when
it
is
much
exceeded
,
hatred
is
repaid
instead
of
love
.
Apollo
hearing
this
,
answered
Caro
somewhat
angerly
,
That
Tacitus
his
Sentence
was
very
true
,
but
very
badly
understood
by
him
,
and
by
many
others
:
For
great
benefits
were
usually
seen
to
berepaid
with
infinite
ingratitude
,
more
through
the
impertinency
of
the
Benifactor
in
exacting
Gratitunde
of
anothers
Obligation
,
then
through
the
discourtesie
of
the
receiver
.
Then
growing
more
incenst
,
his
Majestie
said
to
Caro
,
Do
not
you
know
,
Signor
Hanibal
,
that
the
extraordinary
affection
which
Guardians
bear
their
women-Wards
,
when
they
are
once
grown
into
their
teens
,
is
usually
turned
into
libidinous
love
?
And
are
you
one
of
those
special
Officers
,
whereof
I
have
known
divers
,
That
for
having
helpt
a
friend
to
a
rich
wife
,
will
be
paid
for
their
good
turn
,
by
a
nights
lodging
with
the
Bride
?
And
in
so
many
years
as
you
have
lived
in
the
well
pollisht
Court
of
Rome
,
have
not
you
learnt
,
that
as
well
wives
,
as
Principalities
,
cannot
be
given
to
a
friend
,
with
intension
of
reserving
the
use
of
them
to
ones
self
,
without
running
apparent
danger
of
having
the
difference
decided
by
the
sword
?
Then
Apollo
said
thus
to
Atonigi
;
My
beloved
Dionigi
,
injoy
thy
dear
wife
in
peace
and
quiet
;
and
if
Caro
shall
at
any
time
tax
thee
of
ingratitude
,
call
you
him
Impertinent
,
and
so
you
shall
give
him
his
due
name
.
The
XXXIV
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Publius
Terentius
being
by
order
from
Giasone
dol
Maino
,
an
Urban
Pretor
,
charged
with
Fornication
;
is
by
Apollo
freed
,
with
much
derision
to
the
Pretor
.
PUblius
Terentius
lives
in
a
little
,
but
very
well
accommodated
house
in
the
quarters
of
the
Commick
Poets
attended
only
by
his
maid-servant
Bacchide
,
and
Davus
his
man-servant
.
And
though
Bacchide
in
the
flowre
of
her
age
was
very
handsom
,
and
a
great
friend
of
Terentius
,
&
of
many
other
Commick
Poets
,
yet
now
being
very
old
,
and
therefore
somewhat
deform'd
,
she
lives
modestly
,
and
without
any
scandal
,
in
Terentius
his
house
,
and
without
offence
unto
the
neighbours
.
But
some
ten
daies
since
,
Giasone
Mayno
a
Modern
Pretor
of
Urban
,
commanded
Terentius
upon
a
certain
penalty
,
That
he
should
put
Bacchide
out
of
his
house
,
and
so
free
himself
from
the
shame
of
keeping
a
publick
Concubin
.
Terentius
did
not
only
not
obey
this
command
,
but
refused
to
pay
the
amercement
;
wherefore
the
Pretor
gave
order
for
arresting
his
body
,
and
he
was
yesterday
taken
;
whereat
Apollo
was
so
highly
offended
,
as
he
said
in
publick
,
that
even
in
Parnassus
the
wicked
abuse
was
brought
in
,
by
his
rather
malitious
then
ignorant
Officers
,
of
being
quick-sighted
in
appearance
;
but
blind
in
the
substance
of
affairs
.
Wherefore
giving
order
that
Terentius
should
be
forthwith
set
at
liberty
,
he
caused
Giasone
,
to
the
infinite
shame
of
so
great
a
Lawyer
,
to
be
cast
into
the
same
Prison
;
and
did
not
only
publickly
disgrace
him
,
by
taking
from
him
the
place
of
Pretor
,
but
did
exceedingly
grieve
him
by
substituting
Philippo
Decio
in
his
place
,
who
was
his
capital
enemy
.
And
Decio
being
gone
yesterday
to
Apollo
,
to
receive
the
Mace
and
Tipstaff
,
the
particular
ensignes
of
the
Pretorian
Dignity
,
his
Majestie
told
him
,
that
he
might
learn
that
by
Giasons
punishment
,
that
good
Judges
,
who
in
the
administration
of
Justice
,
did
mind
more
the
pleasing
of
God
,
then
making
merry
with
men
,
the
Alessi
were
first
driven
out
of
the
dores
of
respected
Poets
,
and
then
the
Bacchidi
.
The
XXXV
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Publick
Audience
is
given
by
Apollo
,
wherein
by
wise
Answers
,
he
decides
many
Affairs
of
his
Vertuosi
.
THe
contentment
of
Princes
who
love
to
see
their
people
well
satisfied
,
consisting
chiefly
in
the
often
hearing
all
mens
grievances
;
Apollo
,
to
boot
with
his
other
often
Audiences
,
gives
publick
Audience
every
Thursday
in
his
great
Hall
,
attended
by
his
Senats
,
Collaterals
,
and
full
Parliaments
of
this
Court.
And
because
that
therein
vertuous
resolutions
are
had
,
and
such
as
are
worthy
to
be
known
by
those
who
living
far
from
this
State
,
have
the
curiosity
to
hear
news
from
Parnassus
;
Menante
,
who
was
present
at
the
last
Audience
,
expresly
that
he
might
satisfie
his
Customers
,
will
now
give
you
a
true
relation
of
all
the
chief
things
that
hapned
there
.
The
first
who
addrest
themselves
to
Apollo
in
this
Audience
,
were
two
honourable
Ambassadors
,
who
told
his
Majestie
that
they
were
sent
from
mankind
,
who
weary
of
the
necessity
they
were
in
,
of
eating
every
morning
and
evening
,
did
much
bewail
,
that
human
Wit
,
so
highly
indued
,
and
capable
of
understanding
and
knowing
all
things
,
who
together
with
their
mothers
milk
,
did
drink
in
the
unexplicable
curiosity
of
still
Learning
,
should
notwithstanding
be
wholly
busied
in
fordid
occupation
of
cultivating
the
earth
,
and
in
other
painfull
exercises
,
only
to
provide
food
for
himself
,
as
bruit
beasts
do
;
that
therefore
they
were
sent
to
his
Majestie
to
ask
councel
,
whether
mankind
should
do
well
to
beg
of
Gods
Divine
Majestie
that
he
would
be
pleased
to
grant
men
the
benefit
of
living
long
without
meat
,
as
he
had
done
to
Dormise
,
Snakes
,
Bears
,
and
otheir
Animals
.
A
thing
which
they
desired
,
only
to
the
end
that
they
might
with
a
fasting
mind
or
stomack
,
which
doth
so
much
better
the
operations
of
the
Intellect
,
apply
themselves
to
the
study
of
all
those
Sciences
which
belonged
properly
to
men
.
This
request
which
was
thought
to
be
very
honorable
,
and
full
of
vertuous
zeal
,
by
all
that
heard
it
,
was
much
derided
by
Apollo
;
who
answered
the
Ambassadors
,
That
those
who
through
strange
conceits
,
and
extravagant
novelties
,
thought
to
new
mould
the
world
,
did
alwaies
fancy
unto
themselves
ridiculous
things
.
And
then
he
asked
the
Ambassadors
what
obligation
the
earch
had
to
so
great
a
God
.
The
Ambassadors
answered
,
she
was
bound
to
propuce
green
grass
and
plants
.
Apollo
reply'd
,
If
it
were
so
,
Why
,
for
the
space
of
6000
years
and
more
,
that
the
earth
had
absolutely
obeyed
the
will
of
her
Creator
,
were
there
no
Woods
seen
but
on
Mountains
and
in
desert
places
?
The
Ambassadors
said
,
this
was
because
men
for
their
plowing
(
which
was
the
sustenance
of
mans
life
)
did
with
their
Axes
cut
down
the
Woods
in
such
places
as
were
aft
to
bear
Corn.
Apollo
asked
them
then
again
,
To
what
case
the
world
would
be
reduced
,
if
husbandmen
had
not
weeded
and
purged
it
of
such
superfluous
plants
as
the
earth
produced
?
The
Ambassadors
answered
,
That
then
doubtless
the
world
would
be
so
overgrown
with
wood
,
as
it
would
be
uninhabitable
.
Apollo
asked
once
more
,
whether
they
did
believe
that
men
did
busie
themselves
in
cutting
down
of
Woods
,
rather
out
of
a
desire
that
free
commerce
might
be
had
among
Nations
,
or
that
they
might
reap
the
abundance
of
fruit
which
the
earth
produced
,
being
sown
and
planted
by
mans
industry
?
To
this
the
Ambassadors
reply'd
,
That
the
great
abundance
of
pleasant
Products
which
by
mans
industry
the
earth
brought
forth
,
made
the
noble
Art
of
Husbandry
appear
not
painfull
,
but
full
of
delight
.
The
Ambassadors
having
clearly
learnt
by
this
Answer
,
and
by
the
precedent
Interrogatives
made
by
Apollo
,
That
if
men
did
neither
eat
nor
drink
,
the
world
would
be
so
ful
of
Woods
and
Forrests
,
as
it
would
rather
be
a
fitting
habitations
for
Bears
,
Wolves
,
and
other
wild
Beasts
,
then
for
men
,
departed
the
audience
much
confused
.
They
being
gone
,
Menenius
Agrippa
came
to
Apollo
,
and
told
him
,
That
he
having
happily
ended
the
important
and
difficult
business
of
making
peace
between
the
Senat
of
Rome
,
and
the
common
people
,
who
being
distasted
,
had
withdrawn
themselves
into
the
Aventine
Mountain
;
That
he
might
purcase
more
Grace
from
his
Majesty
,
and
a
more
honorable
place
in
Parnassus
,
he
acquainted
him
now
,
that
he
had
bethought
himself
of
another
handsom
story
;
by
which
he
hoped
to
agree
the
great
disunion
between
the
Hollanders
and
the
Spaniard
.
Apollo
laught
to
hear
this
,
and
answered
Menenius
.
That
mens
humors
were
so
alter'd
in
process
of
time
,
and
that
hatred
was
grounded
so
inveteraly
in
them
,
as
not
only
rediculous
tales
were
not
able
to
appease
those
obstinate
people
,
nor
make
them
lay
down
their
perfidiousness
which
they
proposed
unto
themselves
when
first
they
rebel'd
,
of
purchasing
their
Liberty
at
the
price
of
bloud
,
or
else
to
die
in
the
quarrel
:
but
neither
were
the
sad
Tragedies
able
to
effect
it
,
which
to
that
purpose
had
been
represented
upon
the
Scene
of
the
Low-Countries
by
the
Spaniards
,
for
above
the
space
of
fifty
years
.
Menenio
being
departed
with
this
little
satisfaction
;
Paolo
Vitelli
,
that
famous
conductor
of
the
State
of
Florence
,
appeared
with
his
head
cut
off
(
a
most
horrid
spectacle
)
in
the
Audience
;
who
complained
bitterly
of
that
Republick
,
for
that
in
a
precipitous-manner
,
without
any
confession
made
by
himself
,
or
any
of
his
friends
(
who
were
imprisoned
for
his
sake
)
which
did
any
waies
prejudice
his
innocency
,
he
out
of
slight
suspitions
,
and
not
being
suffered
to
speak
for
himself
,
had
his
head
struck
off
in
Florence
the
very
next
morning
after
his
imprisonment
:
And
that
the
Judgement
was
hastned
,
not
for
that
the
importancy
of
the
fact
was
such
as
could
brook
no
delay
;
but
to
hinder
the
intercession
of
great
Princes
,
who
would
have
moved
to
assist
him
.
Apollo
seemed
much
to
abhor
that
Judgement
;
and
because
he
greatly
loved
,
and
admired
the
worth
of
that
Military
man
,
he
desired
the
Judges
that
they
would
give
their
opinions
in
the
case
.
Who
when
they
had
heard
the
relation
of
the
process
,
gave
sentence
for
Vitelli's
innocency
:
Wherefore
Apollo
by
publick
decree
did
restore
Vitelli
to
his
former
ancient
reputation
.
Paolo
thanked
his
Majesty
,
and
very
humbly
beseeched
him
,
that
for
his
satisfaction
,
and
to
keep
other
Commonwealths
from
giving
such
precipitous
Judgements
,
he
would
be
pleased
to
shew
some
rigorous
rescentment
against
the
Florentines
.
Apollo
wisht
Vitelli
to
be
quiet
,
for
that
his
son
Alessandro
making
use
of
the
fair
occasion
which
fell
into
his
hands
after
the
death
of
Duke
Alexander
,
had
so
revenged
his
fathers
death
,
as
had
infinitely
surpassed
all
the
tearms
of
the
Guardian-ship
,
for
which
he
was
impeached
.
As
soon
as
Apollo
had
given
satisfaction
to
Vitelli
,
Carmagnuolo
,
a
famous
Venetian
Captain
,
who
had
likewise
been
beheaded
,
complained
bitterly
before
his
Majesty
against
the
State
of
Venice
,
who
out
of
vain
suspitions
had
unjustly
taken
off
his
head
:
And
then
he
delivered
his
Process
and
his
Sentence
into
Apollo's
hands
.
Apollo
,
without
either
receiving
or
perusing
the
process
,
willed
Carmagnuolo
to
rest
content
,
for
no
Review
,
nor
yet
appeal
was
allowed
of
,
from
any
sentence
maturely
given
by
an
Aristocratical
Senat
(
as
was
that
of
Venice
)
out
of
the
great
presumption
he
had
of
her
exact
administration
of
Justice
.
Carmagnuolo
being
gon
from
the
audience
,
an
African
(
to
the
wonder
of
every
one
)
was
seen
to
enter
the
Hall
,
leading
in
his
hand
a
lusty
Lyon
,
by
a
little
chain
,
which
Lyon
was
so
very
tame
,
as
it
fawn'd
upon
its
Master
like
a
little
whelp
.
This
man
presenting
himself
before
Apollo
,
in
the
name
of
Hanibal
the
Carthaginian
,
gave
him
that
Lyon
,
which
his
Majesty
was
very
well
pleased
withall
;
who
asked
the
African
what
art
he
had
used
to
tame
,
so
fierce
,
ravenous
,
jealous
,
and
cruel
a
Beast
?
The
African
answered
,
By
feeding
him
continually
with
his
own
hand
.
Apollo
turned
then
towards
the
Princes
,
who
for
the
honour
of
that
Audience
,
were
there
in
great
numbers
,
and
said
unto
them
,
Learn
,
Lords
,
by
the
miracle
of
this
Lyon
which
you
see
is
become
so
tame
,
that
fair
treatment
doth
domestichize
even
savage
beasts
;
doe
you
the
like
by
your
Subjects
,
and
make
them
not
come
hardly
by
their
food
,
through
your
angersom
Taxes
upon
things
necessary
for
human
life
;
for
by
so
doing
,
you
shall
not
be
beloved
,
served
,
and
honoured
by
your
own
natural
Subjects
only
,
but
even
by
the
most
Forrein
and
Barbarous
Nations
of
the
earth
.
This
being
said
,
two
armed
foot-Souldiers
appeared
in
the
Audience
,
who
when
they
had
presented
his
Majesty
with
their
credential
Letters
,
told
him
,
that
they
having
forsaken
their
Country
,
wives
,
children
,
and
means
,
to
serve
Princes
,
without
any
respect
to
their
own
lives
;
that
whilst
they
bore
arms
in
the
most
remote
Wars
,
by
vertue
of
the
not
only
cruel
,
but
inhuman
Military
Laws
,
they
were
cruelly
slain
,
hung
up
upon
trees
,
shot
to
death
,
by
their
Superiors
,
even
for
the
smallest
faults
.
And
that
through
the
unheard
of
cruelty
of
Modern
Commanders
,
the
ancient
punishment
for
shaping
out
of
their
quarters
,
of
having
their
share
of
provant
in
Barley
,
and
other
less
severe
executions
,
being
now
no
longer
in
use
,
every
least
misdemeanor
,
were
it
but
of
omission
,
was
punisht
with
death
;
and
not
he
who
understood
,
or
knew
most
,
was
thought
the
best
Judge
in
the
Camp
,
but
he
who
was
most
resolute
in
executing
cruelty
;
and
that
the
inhumanity
of
Military
Laws
was
grown
so
great
,
as
the
circumspection
,
equity
,
and
consideration
which
they
ought
to
have
who
judge
not
beasts
,
but
men
,
was
esteemed
poorness
of
spirit
,
and
idle
folly
.
That
therefore
the
universality
of
Souldiers
so
sorely
afflicted
,
did
humbly
beseech
his
Majesty
,
that
he
would
be
pleased
to
order
the
moderation
of
so
inhuman
Laws
.
There
was
not
any
one
in
the
Audience
,
how
severe
soever
,
who
was
not
mov'd
to
hear
the
barbarity
of
these
Military
Laws
:
Only
Apollo
shewed
no
compunction
,
but
with
an
angry
countenance
,
thus
answered
those
souldiers
;
Who
forceth
you
to
forgo
your
own
homes
,
and
to
change
the
wholsom
human
Laws
under
which
you
are
born
,
with
those
severe
ones
which
are
practised
in
War
?
He
who
falls
down
of
himself
,
deserves
not
to
be
raised
up
,
nor
is
there
any
mercy
to
be
hoped
for
from
one
who
is
so
very
cruel
to
himself
.
This
request
having
received
its
answer
,
much
to
the
delight
of
all
the
Vertuosi
that
were
at
the
Audience
,
the
famous
Printers
appeared
before
.
Apollo
,
namely
,
Sebastian
Grifo
,
Guilielmo
Ruell
of
Lyons
,
Christofano
Plautino
of
Antwerp
,
the
Giunti
of
Florence
,
Giolito
,
Valgresi
,
and
many
others
from
Venice
;
and
amongst
these
the
learned
Aldo
Manutio
did
not
disdain
to
make
one
,
who
in
the
name
of
all
his
fellows
,
told
Apollo
;
That
of
all
Modern
Inventions
found
out
by
the
wit
of
man
,
he
thought
the
precedency
ought
to
be
given
to
the
Press
,
both
for
the
use
and
admirable
felicity
thereof
:
A
benefit
,
which
had
the
ancient
Litterati
had
,
they
would
not
have
so
lamented
the
burning
of
former
Libraries
;
and
that
now
the
Press
had
not
only
for
ever
secured
the
past
and
present
labours
of
the
Vertuosi
,
but
had
made
the
way
to
Learning
much
more
easie
;
and
that
his
Majesties
State
wanting
so
excellent
an
invention
,
if
he
should
so
please
,
they
would
for
the
publick
good
,
bring
it
upon
their
own
cost
and
charges
,
into
Parnassus
.
Apollo
absolutely
refused
that
offer
,
and
said
,
That
men
praised
the
Art
of
Printing
upon
very
indiscreet
grounds
;
for
it
was
that
that
had
infinitely
obscured
the
glory
of
the
Liberal
Sciences
:
For
having
made
Libraries
more
numerous
then
good
,
they
were
admired
only
by
the
ignorant
;
and
that
when
with
infinite
labour
,
the
writings
of
other
men
were
copyed
out
by
the
pen
,
such
as
deserved
not
to
pass
through
the
hands
of
his
Litterati
,
they
and
their
shame
died
in
the
house
of
their
unfortunate
Author
:
whereas
now
so
great
abundance
of
foolish
and
ignorant
volumes
were
printed
,
as
that
Libraries
were
shamefully
cram'd
with
them
,
to
the
little
reputation
of
the
Liberal
Sciences
,
and
of
his
Litterati
;
and
that
by
the
reason
of
the
unexhausted
store
which
were
printed
of
the
learned
labours
of
the
Vertuosi
,
the
Homers
,
Virgils
,
Ciceros
divine
and
painfull
labours
,
which
for
the
miracle
of
their
wits
,
ought
to
be
shewn
to
men
only
upon
some
particular
daies
of
the
year
,
were
polluted
by
flies
and
moths
in
every
Book
binders
shop
:
That
therefore
they
might
be
gon
when
they
pleased
,
for
he
would
by
no
means
admit
of
the
break-neck
of
the
too
ambitious
Litterati
into
Parnassus
.
Presently
after
this
,
Seneca
the
Moralist
appeared
before
his
Majestie
,
who
had
caused
his
cruel
enemy
Publio
Suilio
to
be
personally
cited
before
that
Audience
;
and
rather
in
rage
then
anger
,
complained
of
certain
injurious
words
which
that
man
had
spoken
to
the
prejudice
of
his
reputation
;
wherefore
he
pressed
that
he
might
be
punished
as
a
slanderer
.
Apollo
commanded
Suilio
to
repeat
the
words
by
which
Seneca
took
himself
to
be
so
highly
injured
.
Suilio
confest
ingeniously
,
that
moved
thereunto
rather
out
of
truth
,
then
any
privat
hatred
,
upon
a
certain
occasion
which
arose
,
he
had
reproached
Seneca
with
these
words
used
by
him
,
Qua
sapientia
,
Quibus
Philosophorum
preceptis
;
intra
quadrienium
regia
amicitiae
,
ter
millies
sestertium
paravisset
?
Romae
testamenta
,
&
orbos
velut
Indagine
ejus
capi
.
Italiam
&
Provincias
,
immenso
fenore
hauriri
.
Tacit.
lib.
13.
Annall
.
Seneca
perceiving
that
Apollo
was
very
much
scandalized
at
the
excessive
getting
of
seven
millions
and
a
half
of
monies
in
so
short
a
time
,
told
Apollo
,
the
world
knew
his
wealth
,
though
it
were
very
great
,
proceeded
not
from
any
greedy
desire
he
had
of
riches
,
but
from
Neros
meer
liberality
.
Apollo
,
who
did
not
approve
of
Senecas
excuse
,
said
freely
to
him
,
That
the
floud
of
that
his
immence
wealth
,
which
was
very
shamefull
in
such
a
Philosoper
as
he
was
,
especially
when
gotten
in
the
twinkling
of
an
eye
,
must
of
necessity
have
received
troubled
waters
from
the
torrents
of
fowl
industry
.
To
which
Seneca
answered
,
That
his
condition
was
not
to
be
considered
according
to
Suilios
rotten
tongue
,
which
was
so
accustomed
to
lying
,
as
he
lived
only
by
the
infamous
practice
of
slander
and
back-biting
,
but
by
the
so
much
praised
and
admired
writings
which
he
had
published
.
Suilio
finding
himself
thus
bitterly
offended
by
Seneca
,
answered
boldly
,
that
it
was
not
the
pen
which
exactly
shew'd
what
men
were
,
but
the
leading
of
their
lives
:
For
works
,
not
words
,
were
the
true
touchstone
whereby
to
know
the
true
allay
of
mens
genius
.
Seneca
being
about
to
reply
,
Apollo
,
who
was
nauseated
by
that
hatefull
difference
,
turned
towards
him
,
and
bad
him
say
no
more
;
for
great
riches
gotten
by
any
whosoever
in
a
short
time
,
brought
but
little
of
reputation
with
them
,
and
that
it
behooved
of
necessity
,
that
to
the
sweet
of
so
rich
treasure
,
the
sowre
of
publick
mumurs
should
be
added
.
At
last
,
fetching
a
deep
sigh
from
the
bottom
of
his
heart
,
Apollo
said
,
I
heartily
wish
,
O
Seneca
,
that
either
thou
hadst
never
been
born
,
or
that
thou
hadst
not
left
the
seed
of
so
many
punctual
followers
of
thy
behaviour
.
Seneca
quitted
the
Audience
with
this
but
smally
satisfactory
resolution
.
When
the
two
Noble
Princesses
,
the
Roman
Lucrece
,
and
Katherin
Sforza
,
bowed
to
Apollo
,
to
whom
Lucretia
(
to
whose
share
it
fell
to
speak
first
)
said
,
That
by
witness
of
all
Historians
who
had
written
the
affairs
of
Rome
,
the
fowle
outrage
which
Tarquin
the
proud
had
done
her
,
having
been
the
only
powerfull
cause
why
the
Kingdom
of
Rome
was
turned
into
so
famous
a
Commonwealth
,
and
which
was
so
much
celebrated
throughout
the
world
,
she
had
not
notwithstanding
obtained
so
honourable
a
place
in
Parnassus
as
she
thought
she
deserved
,
and
which
in
the
opinion
of
all
the
Vertuosi
,
was
due
unto
her
:
And
that
Helen
of
Greece
,
who
compared
to
her
,
had
been
the
occasion
of
but
trivial
novelties
,
had
obtained
a
much
higher
place
.
She
therefore
desired
,
that
if
his
Majestie
should
think
she
had
suffered
wrong
,
she
might
be
righted
.
Apollo
answered
Lucretia
,
That
the
change
of
the
Roman
servitude
into
Liberty
,
and
the
driving
of
the
Tarquins
out
of
Rome
,
was
attributed
to
the
outrage
done
to
her
,
by
those
only
who
understood
but
little
of
the
worlds
affairs
;
but
that
those
who
saw
further
into
State-affairs
,
knew
very
well
,
that
the
Tarquins
lost
so
famous
a
Kingdom
,
when
by
their
bad
comportments
they
made
themselves
so
hatefull
to
the
Plebeians
,
on
whose
good
will
their
greatness
was
grounded
;
for
it
was
hard
to
bring
such
a
Kingdom
as
was
that
of
the
Romans
(
which
by
reason
of
the
infinite
priviledges
it
enjoyed
,
might
be
said
to
live
in
a
sort
of
Liberty
)
to
receive
total
bondage
,
without
openly
provoking
the
enmity
of
the
Senat
,
and
of
the
whole
Roman
Nobility
,
which
were
by
natural
instinct
given
to
be
very
desirous
of
Liberty
,
and
consequently
very
jealous
of
their
Countries
Priviledges
.
That
therefore
the
Tarquins
,
though
undergoing
some
indignities
,
ought
tenaciously
to
have
endeavored
the
not
losing
the
affection
of
the
people
of
Rome
,
which
was
that
which
did
not
only
maintain
them
in
power
,
but
which
might
have
setled
them
in
a
perfect
Monarchy
:
which
leaning-stock
,
when
through
their
ignorance
they
lost
,
they
gave
a
fitting
occasion
for
the
Nobility
to
joyn
upon
any
the
least
accident
which
might
occur
with
the
common
people
,
and
to
take
up
arms
aaainst
them
,
just
as
it
fell
out
by
the
outrage
which
they
had
committed
against
her
.
He
further
told
Lucretia
,
that
if
she
should
obtain
from
him
the
Place
in
Parnassus
which
she
desired
,
she
would
only
have
taught
people
the
trivial
document
,
that
Princes
in
their
lust
ought
above
all
things
,
to
avoid
the
staining
the
bloud
of
their
great
ones
;
but
that
being
in
the
place
she
was
in
,
she
clearly
proved
that
important
Politick
Precept
,
That
when
a
Prince
knows
not
how
to
keep
the
Nobility
and
common
sort
of
people
divided
,
and
hath
not
wit
enough
to
make
either
the
one
or
the
other
of
them
greatly
partial
to
himself
,
but
through
ignorance
makes
both
of
them
his
enemies
;
it
is
as
easie
to
drive
him
out
of
his
Dominions
,
as
it
is
to
throw
down
an
Oak
,
how
great
soever
,
whose
roots
are
first
cut
away
.
With
this
answer
Lucretia
was
dismist
the
Audience
,
when
Catherin
Sforsa
,
Princess
of
Imola
and
Forli
,
told
his
Majestie
,
that
her
husband
being
cruelly
murthered
by
the
conspiracy
of
some
of
her
disloyal
Subjects
,
and
the
Castle
holding
out
for
her
,
she
,
to
the
end
that
both
her
State
and
her
own
person
might
not
fall
into
her
enemies
power
,
made
them
believe
that
she
would
deliver
up
the
Castle
to
them
,
if
they
would
permit
her
to
go
thereinto
,
that
so
she
might
make
her
Souldiers
give
way
to
the
surrendring
of
it
,
and
that
for
their
security
,
she
would
deliver
up
her
little
children
as
Hostages
unto
them
;
and
that
when
she
was
got
into
the
Castle
,
she
from
off
the
Walls
threatned
the
Conspirators
with
condign
punishment
for
the
wickedness
they
had
committed
:
Wherefore
the
Conspirators
seeing
themselves
thus
deceived
,
protested
openly
,
That
unless
she
would
deliver
up
the
Castle
unto
them
,
they
would
cut
her
children
in
pieces
before
her
face
:
That
she
was
not
at
all
astonished
at
these
their
horrid
threats
,
but
plucking
up
her
clothes
,
and
shewing
them
her
privacies
,
she
bad
them
do
what
they
would
with
her
children
,
for
she
had
still
the
mould
to
cast
others
in
.
For
which
her
resolution
,
she
was
highly
commended
by
all
Historians
.
She
desired
that
Apollo
would
poynt
out
for
her
what
place
he
should
best
please
,
in
Parnassus
.
The
Judges
differed
much
in
their
opinions
concerning
this
demand
;
some
of
them
thought
it
to
be
an
act
of
shameless
and
affronted
impudency
.
But
Apollo
affirming
,
that
to
keep
still
within
the
terms
of
modesty
,
was
the
duty
of
privat
women
,
said
that
Princesses
who
were
descended
of
high
and
Noble
bloud
,
upon
any
weighty
occasions
which
should
occur
unto
them
,
were
bound
to
shew
manliness
.
The
vote
given
by
Cino
of
Pistoia
upon
this
occasion
,
is
not
to
be
past
over
in
silence
,
who
said
;
That
that
place
was
worthy
to
be
seen
by
all
men
,
out
of
which
was
come
that
famous
Champion
Iovanni
d'
Medici
,
Father
to
that
great
Cosmo
,
who
having
been
the
happy
Founder
of
the
flourishing
Tuscan
Monarchy
,
from
which
Italy
now
receives
so
great
splendor
and
ornament
,
hath
deserved
immortal
fame
and
glory
throughout
all
ages
.
Katherin
Sforza
having
obtained
the
favor
she
desired
,
a
Court-Notary
drew
near
to
Apollo
,
who
acquainted
his
Majestie
,
that
Giovan
Pico
,
Count
of
Mirandola
,
that
Phenix
of
all
Sciences
,
and
only
ornament
of
all
vertue
being
some
few
daies
sithence
departed
this
life
,
had
by
his
last
Will
and
Testament
,
left
a
Legacy
of
threescore
and
ten
thousand
Crowns
,
to
be
disposed
of
to
some
such
pious
use
as
his
Majesty
should
please
to
appoint
.
Apollo
being
told
this
,
forthwith
commanded
that
an
Hospital
for
the
incureable
,
should
be
built
with
those
monies
,
where
all
diligent
care
and
charity
should
be
used
for
the
cure
of
such
as
were
sick
of
Ambition
,
an
infirmity
from
which
those
that
were
affected
with
it
,
could
never
free
themselves
,
Licineo
Mecenate
,
the
delight
of
that
State
,
whose
house
is
a
secure
haven
for
all
the
Vertuosi
,
and
a
sanctuary
for
the
Litterati
,
said
then
,
that
he
by
the
disposal
of
his
whole
Patrimony
amongst
the
Vertuosi
,
having
deserved
the
Prerogative
that
all
such
as
use
any
extraordinary
liberality
towards
the
Litterati
,
should
be
called
Mecenati
,
was
much
grieved
that
his
name
should
be
irregularly
and
lavishly
used
,
by
mean
and
hunger-starv'd
foolish
Scholars
,
for
some
little
reward
which
they
might
receive
from
Princes
.
Apollo
was
much
troubled
at
Mecenates
complaint
,
and
to
the
end
that
that
glorious
Title
might
be
perpetually
maintained
in
its
due
decorum
,
he
decreed
that
for
the
time
to
come
,
no
man
under
the
pain
of
infamy
,
should
presume
to
give
the
honorable
title
of
Mecenas
to
any
Prince
,
from
whom
he
had
not
formerly
received
costly
and
curious
food
and
rayment
during
life
.
Then
great
Tamberlan
the
Scythian
appeared
before
Apollo
,
in
so
great
pomp
,
as
gave
much
delight
to
all
the
Audience
,
who
were
likewise
very
much
pleased
with
the
novelty
of
his
phantastical
face
and
habit
.
This
truely
singular
man
who
had
the
vain
glory
to
be
called
the
Emperor
of
the
East
,
having
(
according
to
the
custom
of
his
Nation
)
only
bowed
his
head
a
little
to
Apollo
by
way
of
salute
,
said
,
That
he
who
by
his
worth
had
raised
himself
from
the
mean
condition
of
a
shepheard
,
to
such
a
greatness
,
as
to
have
formed
a
vast
Empire
,
and
to
be
the
man
alone
,
who
of
all
the
Princes
of
the
Universe
,
had
discomfeited
the
numerous
Ottaman
Armies
in
open
field
,
and
taken
the
Prince
of
so
dreadful
an
Empire
prisoner
,
to
the
end
that
he
might
obtain
a
fitting
place
in
Parnassus
,
was
not
satisfied
,
but
rather
thought
himself
much
injured
by
finding
himself
placed
in
the
Classis
of
famous
Commanders
,
and
not
in
that
(
which
he
thought
he
had
very
well
deserved
to
be
)
of
Founders
of
great
Kingdoms
,
wherein
he
found
Romulus
,
Caesar
,
Pharamond
,
Ottaman
,
and
many
others
placed
.
Apollo
answered
Tamberlan
,
That
great
difference
being
put
in
Parnassus
,
between
overrunning
a
number
of
great
Kingdoms
with
numerous
forces
,
and
the
founding
of
an
Empire
,
he
did
ill
to
pretend
to
the
place
of
Founders
of
Monarchies
,
which
was
only
granted
to
such
,
who
to
the
worth
of
knowing
how
to
purchase
,
had
the
singular
wisdom
joyned
,
of
knowing
how
to
maintain
.
For
the
gallantry
of
many
Souldiers
shared
in
acquisitions
,
but
the
safe
preserving
of
what
was
got
,
shewed
the
exquisite
wisdom
of
one
only
Prince
;
and
that
the
Prerogative
of
Founders
of
Kingdoms
was
only
granted
in
Parnassus
to
such
,
who
had
so
well
joyned
the
Vertue
of
Maintaining
,
to
the
Valor
of
Archieving
,
as
they
had
so
well
ordered
and
established
the
States
which
they
had
won
,
as
to
transmit
them
happily
over
to
the
third
Heir
.
A
thing
which
had
been
so
little
observed
by
him
,
as
even
his
own
immediate
sons
could
not
keep
the
States
which
he
had
won
at
the
expence
of
so
much
bloud
;
and
that
according
to
Tacitus
his
Precept
,
neither
Prince
,
nor
any
privat
Captain
,
who
would
win
the
fame
of
being
wise
and
advised
in
the
mannaging
of
Arms
,
ought
Nova
moliri
,
nisi
prioribus
firmatis
:
attempt
new
things
,
unless
they
had
setled
former
:
for
he
,
Longinquis
itineribus
percursando
,
quae
conservari
nequibant
;
following
after
what
was
not
to
be
kept
,
had
imitated
those
base
smel-feasts
,
who
eating
more
then
they
could
well
digest
,
were
with
shame
compelled
to
cast
up
what
they
had
eaten
.
And
that
though
Alexander
the
Great
,
at
his
first
entrance
into
Parnassus
,
had
extraordinarily
affected
the
same
Prerogative
of
a
Founder
of
new
Monarchies
;
yet
by
reason
of
his
indiscreet
way
of
warfaring
in
Asia
(
which
he
rather
overrun
as
a
ringleader
of
robbers
,
then
subjugating
as
a
great
King
,
by
the
true
rules
of
Military
Art
)
he
could
not
obtain
it
.
Tamberlan
went
much
afflicted
from
the
Audience
,
when
Alexander
Vellutelli
appeared
before
Apollo
,
who
presented
his
Majestie
with
his
Commentary
upon
Petrarks
Sonnets
.
Apollo
,
before
he
would
take
the
Book
,
asked
Vellutello
what
stile
he
had
used
in
commenting
upon
the
rhimes
of
that
excellent
Poet.
And
Vellutello
answering
,
That
first
he
endeavored
to
shew
the
occasion
why
the
Sonnet
was
made
,
and
that
afterwards
he
gave
the
true
signification
of
the
words
,
and
made
known
the
Poets
conceit
;
Apollo
bad
him
keep
his
Commentaries
to
himself
;
for
,
for
his
part
he
loved
those
Commentators
upon
Poets
,
which
discovered
unto
the
Reader
the
Authors
subtilty
in
weaving
of
his
Poem
;
who
shewed
wherein
the
excellency
of
his
Verse
lay
,
which
were
his
flourishes
,
which
his
Figures
,
and
which
the
other
Poetical
beauties
;
and
that
the
Italian
Poems
were
so
perspicuous
of
themselves
,
as
they
needed
not
any
such
Commentators
,
who
supplyed
only
the
base
Office
of
interpreting
words
to
gross
and
ignorant
people
.
Vellutello
received
this
very
small
satisfaction
from
Apollo
,
when
a
certain
Personage
appeared
before
his
Majestie
,
who
told
him
,
That
he
having
commanded
the
famous
Province
of
Pamphillia
,
had
willingly
given
over
his
command
,
meerly
out
of
a
desire
of
living
retiredly
;
wherefore
he
desired
that
the
same
place
might
be
alloted
to
him
in
Parnassus
,
which
those
Vertuosi
enjoy
,
who
have
proved
by
their
actions
,
that
they
are
Masters
of
that
excellent
Vertue
of
Moderation
.
Apollo
answered
this
man
,
That
Kingdoms
are
sometimes
renounced
by
vertue
of
a
soul
inamor'd
of
that
felicity
which
men
enjoy
in
a
vertuous
privat
life
;
oft-times
to
satisfie
sons
who
are
arived
at
years
fitting
to
rule
people
,
and
sometimes
to
shun
the
tumults
of
rebellion
,
or
out
of
fear
of
some
potent
Enemy
,
and
not
seldom
through
unaptness
for
government
;
wherefore
he
would
be
informed
what
was
fitting
to
be
done
in
this
weighty
business
,
by
examiners
deputed
to
the
like
affairs
;
who
if
they
should
find
that
he
had
done
so
gallant
an
action
,
and
which
is
so
strongly
withstood
by
Humane
nature
,
as
to
relinquish
a
Kingdom
,
mearly
out
of
a
well
disposed
mind
,
he
would
willingly
grant
him
a
sublime
place
amongst
those
other
Demi-gods
,
who
had
preferred
the
peace
of
a
private
life
,
before
the
hazards
of
reigning
;
and
he
should
be
the
more
content
to
do
this
,
for
that
the
execrable
ambition
of
reigning
was
so
disproportionably
now
increased
amongst
men
,
as
that
to
come
by
Kingdoms
,
they
did
not
onely
gladly
imbrace
any
whatsoever
wicked
enterprizes
,
but
all
means
which
were
used
to
compass
so
abominable
ends
,
were
by
men
esteemed
to
be
good
and
vertuous
,
though
they
were
infinitely
wicked
and
inhumane
;
that
if
they
should
find
he
had
renounced
Government
,
either
to
please
his
Children
,
grown
already
fit
for
rule
;
or
that
he
might
see
the
succession
of
his
Empire
settled
in
his
blood
during
his
own
life
,
he
would
give
him
an
honourable
place
amongst
those
prudent
Princes
,
who
by
quickly
giving
over
their
States
to
their
children
,
have
known
how
to
shun
coming
to
some
woful
end
with
them
,
who
were
become
impatient
of
living
a
private
life
:
But
if
it
should
be
found
,
that
being
under
the
great
weight
of
Government
,
wherein
men
ought
to
shew
the
greatest
worth
,
he
had
renounced
his
Kingdom
out
of
poorness
of
spirit
,
incapable
of
such
greatness
,
he
might
then
return
back
again
:
For
the
true
moderation
of
the
soul
being
seen
in
gallantly
undergoing
cases
of
adversity
,
not
in
losing
a
mans
self
in
prosperity
,
his
Parnassus
was
very
unlike
those
wicked
times
of
Nero.
Quibus
inertia
pro
sapientia
suit
.
Tacit.
vitae
Agricoll
:
when
slothfulness
was
taken
for
wisdom
.
Presently
after
the
Duke
of
Rhodes
,
a
man
not
well
thought
of
in
this
State
,
by
reason
of
his
apparent
foul
vices
,
came
to
Apollo
,
to
whom
he
grievously
complained
of
the
lewd
life
that
his
people
led
;
for
he
said
,
That
Gluttony
,
Lust
,
Implacable
Enmity
,
by
which
his
Subjects
made
the
streets
run
with
humane
blood
,
did
very
much
reign
in
his
State
;
and
that
the
moneys
which
they
ought
to
spend
vertuously
in
feeding
their
families
,
they
viciously
threw
them
away
at
dice
,
the
very
seminary
of
contention
;
and
such
severe
punishments
as
keep
men
from
doing
ill
in
other
places
,
not
proving
any
ways
valid
for
the
cure
of
so
great
an
infirmity
in
his
state
,
he
humbly
beseeched
his
Majestie
for
some
opportune
remedy
to
this
his
so
great
necessity
.
Apollo
answered
the
Duke
,
That
it
being
impossible
but
that
people
should
be
their
Princes
Apes
,
he
might
compass
his
desired
end
,
when
abandoning
the
Idleness
,
lust
,
play
,
and
bloody
customs
,
to
which
he
was
so
greatly
given
,
he
would
amend
his
own
ways
;
for
the
best
Bezar
to
cure
the
members
of
a
languishing
body
,
was
to
be
applyed
to
the
ill-affected
head
,
it
not
being
possible
but
that
a
Prince
,
who
himself
lives
devilishly
,
should
have
worse
Devils
then
himself
to
his
Subjects
.
This
Prince
being
gone
,
a
young
Stoick
,
of
appearing
civil
behaviour
,
complained
grievously
to
Apollo
,
That
whilst
being
yet
but
a
novice
,
he
was
,
without
any
reason
,
expelled
the
house
wherein
he
had
much
desired
to
spend
all
his
days
.
Apollo
inquired
of
Epictetus
,
who
was
there
present
,
wherefore
the
Stoicks
of
his
sect
had
dismist
that
young
novice
.
Epictetus
answered
,
Because
for
six
moneths
space
that
that
young
man
had
been
a
novice
,
not
the
least
imperfection
could
be
found
in
him
,
though
all
his
proceedings
had
been
narrowly
pryed
into
by
many
of
his
sect
.
Apollo
hearing
this
,
seemed
much
to
abhor
the
nature
of
that
young
man
(
who
appeared
to
the
whole
Audience
to
be
very
modest
and
well
composed
)
and
said
,
That
he
must
certainly
have
devilish
vices
hid
within
him
,
who
had
not
the
excellent
vertue
of
discovering
some
of
those
imperfections
,
which
all
men
that
were
made
of
flesh
did
so
abound
in
the
very
first
day
of
their
conversation
with
other
men
.
Thus
was
the
young
Stoick
dismist
when
Giacomo
〈◊〉
came
in
a
great
heat
into
the
hall
,
and
told
Apollo
,
That
being
sent
for
by
the
Genoeses
to
write
the
story
of
their
Countrey
,
he
was
persecuted
by
them
,
and
accused
of
viciousness
,
and
at
once
lost
both
his
life
and
his
reputation
,
onely
for
that
some
of
them
found
him
resolute
to
obey
the
truth
in
things
that
were
past
,
with
that
liberty
which
becomes
〈◊〉
Historian
,
without
respect
of
persons
.
Apollo
,
contrary
to
the
belief
of
all
men
,
did
not
onely
seem
not
any
ways
to
compassionate
what
had
be●…en
this
his
Vertuoso
▪
but
in
a
resenting
manner
told
Buonfadio
,
that
though
the
fault
for
which
he
was
proceeded
against
was
false
,
yet
he
had
deserved
to
be
treated
as
he
had
been
by
the
Genoeses
,
for
his
foul
indiscretion
.
For
to
profess
that
a
man
will
write
things
prejudicial
to
the
honour
of
great
parsonages
,
whilst
they
and
their
children
are
alive
,
though
the
things
he
write
be
true
,
was
rather
an
act
of
imprudency
and
rashness
,
then
of
an
incorrupted
mind
,
that
greatly
loves
truth
;
and
that
he
was
a
greater
fool
who
believed
he
could
save
his
life
from
the
anger
of
a
powerful
man
,
whose
reputation
he
had
asperst
with
his
pen
,
though
but
slightly
,
much
more
if
he
should
wholly
dishonour
him
;
and
that
Historians
might
do
very
wisely
to
imitate
Grape-gatherers
,
and
others
,
who
had
skill
in
fruits
,
who
knowing
they
stould
not
please
men
if
plucking
unripe
grapes
from
the
vines
,
and
green
apples
from
apple-trees
,
they
should
bring
them
to
the
Market
,
had
that
requisite
patience
(
which
would
likewise
very
well
become
Historians
)
to
stay
till
time
might
bring
things
to
perfection
;
and
that
the
great
master
of
wise
Historians
,
Tacitus
,
when
in
his
writings
he
mentioned
those
great
Senators
who
Tiberio
regnante
penam
vell
Infamiam
subire
,
who
underwent
punishment
or
disgrace
in
Tiberius
his
reign
,
when
they
had
any
posterity
living
,
wisely
took
his
pen
from
off
his
paper
,
chusing
rather
to
erre
against
the
Laws
of
History
,
then
to
prejudice
the
reputation
of
such
families
,
who
were
known
to
value
nothing
so
much
as
their
honour
;
for
that
singular
man
thought
it
to
be
a
thing
of
too
eminent
danger
to
an
Historian
,
Nimis
ex
propinquo
diversa
arguere
.
Tacit.
lib.
4.
Annal.
to
contradict
actions
too
near
at
hand
.
Buonfadio
went
away
much
afflicted
from
the
Audience
,
by
reason
of
this
publick
reprehension
;
when
with
unspeakable
gravity
Zeno
the
great
founder
of
the
sect
of
Stoicks
,
drew
near
to
Apollo
,
to
whom
,
after
he
had
saluted
him
,
he
said
,
That
being
to
go
upon
a
far
Ambassy
,
for
affairs
much
importing
the
Prince
of
Guido
,
he
desired
to
take
his
leave
of
Apollo's
Majestie
,
and
to
kiss
his
hands
,
before
he
took
his
journey
.
Apollo
perceiving
that
the
Prince
of
Guido
was
himself
present
at
the
Audience
,
asked
him
with
a
very
angry
countenance
,
If
there
were
not
other
Litterati
in
Parnassus
,
to
make
use
of
upon
that
his
occasion
,
and
whether
he
were
one
of
those
Princes
,
who
through
avarice
,
and
out
of
a
malitious
intent
of
being
able
to
break
his
word
with
less
danger
,
committed
such
indignities
,
as
to
send
Stoicks
to
lie
at
Inns.
His
Majestie
complained
afterwards
very
much
of
the
Stoicks
,
who
making
open
profession
to
have
abandoned
ambition
,
and
all
worldly
pomp
,
did
not
withstanding
wind
themselves
so
willingly
into
State
affairs
,
wherein
great
impieties
being
often
times
committed
,
it
were
an
excellent
thing
that
they
were
not
onely
negociated
by
ignorant
people
,
but
even
not
known
unto
them
.
Then
turning
to
Zeno
,
he
in
a
no
less
angry
manner
said
unto
him
,
That
he
having
promist
before
both
God
and
man
to
attend
one
profession
,
if
he
should
afterwards
publikely
undertake
another
imployment
,
it
was
an
action
of
infinite
scandal
▪
and
that
such
a
one
as
he
,
the
founder
of
so
famous
a
sect
▪
should
,
by
greatly
abhorring
the
Courts
of
Princes
,
and
by
sequestring
himself
wholly
from
their
affairs
,
make
Tacitus
rather
appear
alyar
to
all
the
world
,
then
a
Teller
of
truth
,
who
had
termed
the
Stoick
sect
,
Arrogant
.
Et
quae
turbidos
,
&
negotiorum
appetentes
faciat
.
Tacit.
lib.
4.
Annal:
which
makes
men
turbulent
,
and
desirous
of
business
.
Zeno
was
thus
dismist
the
Audience
with
scorn
,
when
many
Princes
together
in
company
presented
themselves
before
Apollo
,
who
told
him
,
that
they
did
love
to
learn
Sciences
as
well
as
did
the
other
Vertuosi
of
Pernassus
,
and
that
they
did
esteem
the
liberal
Arts
very
highly
;
but
that
the
mountain
of
vertue
being
very
steep
and
craggy
,
it
was
so
difficult
to
get
to
the
Top
of
it
,
as
the
lovers
of
learning
weakening
always
their
stomacks
,
disturbing
their
heads
,
breaking
sometimes
the
vain
of
their
breasts
,
and
spoiling
their
eye-sight
,
the
Litterati
were
generally
seen
to
fall
into
the
dangerous
diseases
of
Hectick
feavers
,
Tisicks
,
and
into
Hypocondriacal
indispositions
;
that
therefore
they
humbly
desired
his
Majestie
that
he
would
be
graciously
pleased
so
to
facilitate
the
way
unto
this
mountains
top
,
as
Princes
who
were
not
accustomed
to
such
insufferable
labours
,
might
have
some
encouragement
to
arrive
at
the
top
of
it
.
To
these
Apollo
answered
,
That
the
onely
means
whereby
to
make
the
way
to
the
Liberal
Arts
easie
,
was
the
fervent
love
of
learning
,
the
taking
delight
in
reading
the
fruitful
labours
of
his
Litterati
,
and
to
study
out
of
pleasure
;
but
that
Princes
being
accustomed
by
their
moneys
to
possess
at
night
whatsoever
of
exquisite
they
had
desired
in
the
morning
,
would
likewise
possess
themselves
of
the
precious
treasures
of
Sciences
in
their
pastimes
and
idle
delights
;
wherefore
they
did
abhor
such
things
as
were
onely
to
be
come
by
by
labour
and
toil
;
and
that
the
famous
Francisco
Maria
della
●…overe
,
ought
to
incourage
them
to
clime
the
mountain
:
who
thinking
learning
the
onely
recreation
of
elevated
souls
,
the
delight
and
sole
contentment
of
great
men
,
was
,
to
the
glory
of
the
Liberal
Arts
,
to
the
honour
of
Italian
Princes
,
and
to
the
singular
glory
of
the
present
Age
,
become
the
most
universal
and
best
grounded
Litterato
which
the
present
time
had
in
all
the
choicest
Sciences
;
he
therefore
wisht
them
not
to
think
the
study
of
learning
so
hard
a
business
,
nor
so
laborious
a
thing
but
pleasant
past
me
and
recreation
,
and
that
so
they
might
as
easily
come
to
the
Mountains
top
,
as
if
they
had
made
the
journey
in
a
coach
with
six
horses
.
These
Princes
seemed
to
depart
very
well
satisfied
with
this
answer
;
when
Luca
Guarico
appearing
before
his
Majestie
,
said
,
That
he
having
foretold
Iovanni
Bentivoglio
,
that
Bolognian
Tyrant
,
that
he
should
that
year
be
driven
out
of
his
Country
;
which
accordingly
succeeded
,
Bentivoglio
had
inhumanely
made
him
be
ceased
on
by
Sergeants
,
and
caused
him
to
have
fifty
lusty
stripes
given
him
with
a
rope
;
which
having
much
discomposed
all
his
bones
,
had
also
wounded
his
reputation
.
He
therefore
desired
his
Majestie
that
he
would
be
pleased
to
rescent
that
high
peice
of
injustice
in
such
sort
as
he
should
best
like
.
Apollo
seemed
to
all
men
rather
to
laugh
at
the
harm
and
〈◊〉
that
was
done
to
this
man
,
then
any
way
to
compassionate
him
;
and
asked
by
what
art
of
Divination
he
had
foretold
this
calamity
to
Bentivoglio
?
Guarico
answered
,
By
the
excellent
Science
of
Judicial
Astrologie
which
he
had
very
much
studied
.
Apollo
replyed
,
Why
did
not
the
same
Astrology
which
made
you
foresee
other
mens
misfortunes
,
admonish
you
of
your
own
mishaps
?
Guarico
answered
,
Because
through
his
Parents
negligence
,
he
knew
not
what
day
he
was
born
on
.
Apollo
then
laught
,
and
greatly
despising
Guarico's
vain
and
unfortunate
study
,
told
him
,
he
was
a
great
fool
,
and
worthy
the
misfortune
which
had
befallen
him
;
for
wise
men
hated
to
be
the
first
bringer
of
ill
news
,
even
to
men
of
the
meanest
sort
,
much
more
to
Princes
,
whose
ears
were
so
delicate
,
as
they
delighted
in
nothing
but
good
news
;
wherefore
it
was
better
to
flatter
them
,
by
foretelling
them
a
long
and
happy
life
,
and
to
assure
them
that
they
should
quickly
enjoy
many
things
which
they
desired
,
and
be
very
happy
.
For
to
foretel
Princes
who
were
jealous
of
their
lives
and
good
fortunes
,
that
their
death
was
near
at
hand
,
or
any
other
bad
accidents
,
and
to
profess
the
doing
of
this
by
a
false
Art
,
which
onely
became
foolish
people
,
was
to
shew
that
a
man
did
desire
all
those
misfortunes
should
befal
them
which
he
did
prognosticate
.
Guarico
was
no
sooner
dispatcht
,
but
Count
S.
Paul
appeared
,
a
noble
Prince
of
France
,
who
sorely
complained
unto
his
Majestie
against
Lodowick
the
eleventh
King
of
France
,
who
after
having
pardoned
him
,
and
sealed
his
pardon
with
many
oathes
,
had
made
his
head
be
struck
off
.
Apollo
,
with
much
cruelty
,
answered
the
Count
,
That
he
ought
not
to
blame
King
Lodowick
so
much
for
this
his
misfortune
,
as
his
own
imprudency
;
for
when
Subjects
arrive
once
at
so
great
rashness
as
to
take
up
arms
against
their
Lords
and
Masters
,
they
were
very
great
fools
if
they
did
trust
them
at
any
time
after
.
For
nothing
of
more
shameful
being
to
be
seen
in
a
State
,
then
that
a
man
should
walk
therein
who
had
plotted
his
Princes
death
and
the
ruine
of
his
State
;
all
Princes
thought
it
less
shameful
to
break
their
words
,
then
to
live
with
such
a
blur
in
their
face
.
That
therefore
they
onely
ought
to
confide
in
such
like
pardons
as
made
a
Prince
be
praised
for
clemency
;
but
that
for
such
as
brought
shame
with
them
,
they
ought
to
trust
no
more
unto
them
then
to
a
rotten
rope
.
As
Apollo
was
a
little
advanced
,
Iovan-paolo
Lancellotto
,
a
famous
Perugian
Lawyer
,
appeared
,
who
presented
unto
his
Majestie
his
compleat
commentaries
which
he
had
lately
made
upon
his
admirable
Canonical
Institution
.
This
noble
Vertuoso
was
chearfully
and
lovingly
received
by
his
Majestie
:
yet
Apollo
told
him
,
He
had
been
very
ill
advised
to
gloss
upon
the
Argument
of
his
well
filed
Institution
,
for
such
eminent
wits
as
he
,
who
were
absolutely
Masters
of
the
Matters
which
they
write
upon
,
using
very
artificially
a
succinct
and
pithy
brevity
,
as
if
they
gave
others
the
substance
and
quintescence
,
by
them
extracted
not
without
much
pains
from
the
difficultest
Sciences
shewed
,
and
that
much
to
their
honour
,
that
they
writ
to
such
as
were
learned
,
who
did
fully
understand
the
subject
they
treated
on
;
which
leaving
without
any
Commentaries
,
they
made
it
appear
unto
the
world
,
that
what
seemed
hard
and
obscure
to
others
,
was
very
easie
and
clear
to
themselves
:
That
if
it
hapned
afterwards
that
other
Vertuosi
commenting
upon
the
learned
labours
of
other
men
,
for
the
publike
benefit
of
the
lovers
of
learning
,
they
did
so
wittily
adorn
them
with
various
acceptions
of
several
significations
,
as
they
made
them
oft
times
speak
excellent
things
,
and
which
their
Authors
never
dreamt
of
,
as
it
luckily
befel
Aristotle
,
illustrated
by
Averoe's
his
eminent
wit
;
and
Homer
,
who
being
most
happy
of
all
other
writers
,
in
having
learned
Commentators
,
was
very
much
inriched
by
the
learned
labours
of
other
men
.
The
last
that
appeared
was
Claudius
Nero
the
Emperor
;
who
signified
to
Apollo
,
That
being
at
last
aware
of
his
wife
Agrippina's
shameful
incontinency
,
who
blinded
by
the
violent
ambition
of
Government
had
given
her self
over
to
the
imbracements
of
his
base
servant
Pa●…antes
,
he
was
resolved
to
take
such
revenge
upon
her
,
as
the
world
saw
he
had
done
upon
Messalina
,
who
had
likewise
been
an
unchaste
wife
of
his
.
But
that
this
wicked
woman
,
being
gotten
into
Thali●…'s
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
a
safe
sanctuary
,
by
reason
of
the
great
respect
which
was
given
to
that
Illustrious
Muse
,
he
could
not
get
Agrippina
into
his
hands
.
He
therefore
earnestly
desired
his
Majestie
to
command
that
that
dishonourable
woman
might
be
put
out
from
thence
,
to
the
end
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
he
might
wash
away
the
shameful
stain
wherewith
she
had
tainted
his
reputation
.
Apollo
was
never
seen
to
rage
more
,
no
〈◊〉
when
in
the
fiery
house
of
Leo
,
then
at
this
〈◊〉
of
the
Emperor
〈◊〉
:
to
whom
with
a
threatning
voyce
and
gesture
,
he
said
,
He
might
do
well
to
hasten
quickly
out
of
that
Audience
▪
for
he
whose
first
wi●…e
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
fell
by
marrying
another
into
the
same
●…it
of
Infamy
,
deserved
rather
to
be
buried
there
alive
,
then
to
be
holpen
out
by
any
one
.
The
XXXVI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Harpocrates
being
found
by
Apollo
to
be
ignorant
,
is
driven
out
of
Pernassus
.
THis
morning
Apollo
sent
for
Harpocrates
,
that
great
M●…ster
of
Silence
,
to
come
unto
him
;
and
told
him
,
that
he
had
still
admired
his
perpetural
Taceturnety
,
but
that
now
he
much
desired
to
hear
him
discourse
,
for
that
silence
was
to
be
wondered
at
in
him
,
who
upon
occasion
could
give
content
to
the
curious
Litterati
,
by
his
copious
speaking
.
Harpocrates
hearing
this
,
shrunk
up
his
shoulders
,
and
made
signs
that
he
could
not
speak
.
Apollo●…ad
●…ad
him
lay
aside
his
affected
silence
,
and
discourse
upon
some
elegant
subject
.
Harpocrates
still
continued
to
put
his
finger
to
his
mouth
.
When
Apollo
,
with
somewhat
an
angry
countenance
,
commanded
him
to
speak
;
Harpocrates
drew
then
near
to
his
Majesties
ear
,
and
in
a
very
submiss
voyce
said
▪
That
the
world
was
grown
so
depraved
in
its
customs
,
●…as
they
deserved
chiefly
to
be
esteemed
wise
,
who
had
eyes
to
see
,
judgement
to
observe
,
and
mouth
to
hold
their
peace
.
Apollo
being
mightily
offended
at
this
Answer
,
turned
to
those
that
were
about
him
,
and
said
,
He
had
at
last
discovered
that
Harpocrates
was
a
piece
of
useless
flesh
,
and
commanded
him
to
be
packing
out
of
Pernassus
;
for
he
had
discovered
him
to
be
one
of
those
gross
pated
coxcombs
,
whereof
there
were
very
many
in
the
world
,
who
under
colour
of
a
vertuous
silence
,
did
hide
and
palliate
gross
Ignorance
.
The
XXXVII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
A
learned
Roman
desires
a
receipt
from
Apollo
to
make
him
forget
certain
great
injuries
which
he
had
received
at
a
great
Prince
his
Court
.
His
Majestie
gives
him
some
of
the
water
of
Lethe
to
drink
,
but
with
bad
faccess
.
THe
learned
Roman
who
some
days
ago
came
to
Pernassus
,
had
Audience
given
him
yesterday
by
Apollo
.
To
whom
he
said
,
That
he
was
much
disquieted
in
his
mind
,
by
reason
of
divers
injuries
which
he
had
received
from
●…undry
of
his
ill-wishers
in
a
great
Prince
his
Court
▪
Dove
le
persecutio
〈◊〉
s●…●…ssercitano
co●…
artificii
di
●…essanta
Cara●…
,
where
persecutions
are
exercised
cunningly
,
and
to
an
excessive
height
;
and
the
more
for
that
he
could
not
be
revenged
without
pulling
greater
ruine
upon
himself
,
then
what
his
enemies
had
occasioned
him
;
and
yet
he
found
not
that
he
had
so
vertuous
a
soul
,
as
to
put
on
the
generous
resolution
of
pardoning
offences
:
Wherefore
to
free
himself
from
the
hellish
torment
which
he
continually
lived
in
,
he
addrest
himself
unto
his
Majesty
,
humbly
beseeching
him
that
he
would
prescribe
him
som
receit
,
whereby
he
might
cleanse
his
soul
from
the
many
passions
of
Hatred
,
wherewith
it
was
foully
polluted
.
Apollo
appeared
clearly
to
commisserate
this
Gentlemans
unhappiness
;
insomuch
,
as
he
commanded
a
great
bowl
of
the
water
of
Lethe
to
be
given
him
to
drink
,
so
prepared
,
as
it
should
make
hateful
things
be
forgotten
,
but
should
in
no
sort
prejudice
the
remembrance
of
benefits
received
.
The
Gentleman
drunk
up
the
water
with
much
greediness
;
which
to
the
great
wonder
of
all
men
was
found
to
have
the
vertue
onely
of
making
him
forget
such
injuries
as
he
had
received
from
men
of
a
inferior
fortune
then
he
was
;
and
that
those
which
he
had
received
from
his
betters
,
were
rather
more
deeply
graven
in
his
mind
then
forgotten
.
Whereupon
many
began
to
murmure
,
that
that
vertue
was
not
found
in
the
Lethean
waters
,
which
had
been
so
much
discourst
of
by
the
Poets
.
When
his
Majestie
did
assertain
them
all
,
that
the
waters
of
Lethe
had
,
as
they
should
ever
have
the
same
vertue
,
but
that
it
had
not
wrought
the
desired
effect
in
that
Gentleman
,
because
men
nobly
born
,
and
of
generous
hearts
,
did
usually
write
injuries
received
from
mean
men
,
in
sand
;
but
over
hand
blows
given
by
men
of
power
,
in
characters
never
to
be
blotted
out
;
for
that
it
became
Nobility
to
forget
offences
out
of
magnanimity
,
not
to
pardon
them
out
of
▪
necessity
.
The
XXVIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Duke
of
Laconia
is
accused
before
Apollo
to
have
Idolatrized
a
Favorite
of
his
,
for
having
advanced
a
faithful
Secretary
to
the
highest
State-preferments
;
and
he
defends
his
cause
excellently
well
.
THe
now
Duke
of
Laconia
hath
so
highly
exalted
a
subject
of
his
(
for
whom
he
hath
a
great
affection
)
from
a
low
and
mean
fortune
,
to
the
highest
State-dignities
,
as
he
hath
not
only
admitted
him
into
the
Laconick
Senat
(
a
preferment
ambitiously
coveted
for
the
eminency
thereof
,
even
by
great
Princes
)
but
having
infinitely
enriched
him
by
giving
him
great
revenues
,
hath
made
him
be
as
much
honoured
,
and
respected
as
highly
as
any
whatsoever
Personage
of
the
State
.
This
famous
Duke
was
accused
before
Apollo
some
few
days
ago
,
by
those
who
did
much
envy
the
advancement
of
this
his
servant
,
for
idolatrizing
a
Favorite
.
Apollo
being
highly
incenst
against
this
Prince
for
so
hainous
a
fault
,
without
further
informing
himself
(
as
upon
all
occasions
he
is
used
to
do
)
of
the
truth
of
the
impaachment
,
sent
immediately
for
Luigi
Pulci
,
Provost-Marshal
of
this
State
▪
and
threatned
to
punish
him
severely
,
if
he
did
not
within
half
an
hour
bring
the
Duke
of
Laconia
a
prisoner
unto
him
,
in
the
most
shameful
manner
he
could
devise
.
Pulci
did
diligently
obey
,
for
he
dragg'd
that
Prince
along
immediately
before
his
Majestie
,
loaded
with
irons
.
Apollo
,
who
was
presently
advertised
of
this
Attachment
by
an
express
Messenger
,
gave
order
that
the
greatest
bel
should
be
rung
,
whereby
the
Quarantia
Criminale
should
be
summoned
,
which
was
done
;
whither
the
Duke
being
brought
,
Apollo
having
himself
acquainted
him
with
the
fault
which
was
laid
to
his
charge
,
told
him
in
a
very
angry
manner
,
That
he
aforded
him
onely
one
half
hours
space
to
make
his
defence
in
:
And
in
the
interim
(
as
if
the
Prince
his
case
had
been
altogether
desperate
)
he
commanded
that
he
should
be
condemned
to
eternal
infamy
,
who
having
committed
so
foul
an
Indignity
,
as
to
adore
a
servant
of
his
own
,
was
not
worthy
to
live
amongst
the
vertuous
Princes
of
the
Phebean
Court.
The
Duke
began
then
thus
to
defend
himself
,
Most
mighty
Sir
,
and
Father
of
the
Vertuosi
,
I
have
so
arm'd
my
conscience
with
the
breast-plate
of
Innocency
,
and
have
behaved
my self
so
vertuously
in
all
my
actions
,
as
I
am
more
then
certain
that
I
have
never
deserved
ill
at
your
Majesties
hands
,
nor
am
I
any
whit
affrighted
at
your
Majesties
anger
,
nor
at
this
precipitate
Judgment
,
that
the
horrible
sentence
of
my
Infamy
should
precede
the
Cognizance
of
my
cause
:
I
onely
wonder
to
see
,
what
I
thought
never
to
have
seen
,
that
the
foulness
of
an
Impeachment
,
even
in
the
justest
of
Tribunals
,
as
this
is
,
should
be
able
so
greatly
to
indanger
the
reputation
of
one
of
my
condition
.
But
I
rest
pacified
with
Gods
will
,
who
will
have
the
gold
of
Innocency
refined
in
the
fire
of
Calumny
,
by
the
Test
of
Persecution
.
I
freely
confess
unto
your
Majestie
,
That
I
have
exalted
my
Friend
much
more
then
my
accusers
have
informed
against
me
;
and
in
this
my
action
,
which
hath
been
made
by
relation
to
appear
so
hainous
to
your
Majestie
,
I
am
onely
sorry
that
I
have
not
shew'd
my self
so
grateful
to
this
my
friend
,
as
his
deserts
challenge
,
I
should
have
been
.
And
if
those
who
accuse
me
and
other
Princes
of
prodigallity
,
of
Giddy-headedness
,
and
of
poorness
of
Spirit
,
born
to
serve
servants
,
did
not
suffer
themselves
to
be
blinded
with
malice
and
envy
,
when
they
see
a
Courtier
greatly
beloved
,
and
rewarded
by
his
Master
,
but
would
with
an
unbyassed
mind
consider
the
merits
of
Court
Favorites
,
they
would
stile
that
vertuous
liberality
,
which
they
now
call
Vicious
Prodigallity
;
those
gifts
the
debt
of
Gratitude
,
which
they
term
inconsiderate
actions
,
and
that
a
vertuous
affection
,
to
which
they
attribute
the
Infamy
of
Idolatrizing
Minions
.
But
it
appertains
not
to
common
men
to
penetrate
,
Abditos
principis
Sensus
,
et
si
quid
ocultius
parant
.
Tacit.
lib.
6.
Annal.
into
the
secret
of
Princes
.
Whence
it
falls
out
that
ignorant
men
call
Vertuous
Gratitude
,
the
effect
of
an
abject
mind
.
The
Principality
of
Laconia
(
as
is
very
well
known
to
your
Majestie
)
is
elective
;
wherein
the
neighbouring
Princes
have
always
had
a
greater
stroke
then
he
who
was
Governor
,
not
onely
out
of
the
common
end
of
all
elective
Princes
,
in
procuring
potent
Friends
to
those
of
their
blood
,
after
their
own
death
;
but
by
reason
of
the
adherence
which
Forreign
Princes
have
for
no
small
ends
,
with
such
Senators
as
have
the
prerogative
of
chusing
a
new
Prince
:
whose
followers
they
work
upon
by
those
means
,
which
are
too
well
known
to
all
men
.
And
your
Majestie
likewise
knows
,
that
the
Prince
of
Macedonia
had
by
his
subtilty
got
so
great
a
Power
in
my
State
,
and
was
so
far
encreased
in
strength
above
all
the
Grecian
Princes
,
as
he
was
not
onely
the
sole
Arbitrator
of
all
Greece
,
but
aspired
at
an
universal
Monarchy
:
It
is
moreover
known
to
your
Majestie
,
that
the
same
Prince
of
Macedonia
,
under
pretence
of
Friendship
,
and
of
taking
the
Dukes
of
Laconia
into
his
protection
,
did
with
deep
designs
labour
their
suppression
:
And
because
the
Prince
of
Epires
greatness
kept
him
from
achieving
so
high
designs
,
he
either
totally
to
remove
,
or
at
least
to
weaken
that
obstacle
very
much
,
did
occasion
those
Insurrections
of
the
Commonalty
,
and
Rebellions
of
the
Nobles
in
the
Principality
of
Epire
(
more
by
his
gold
and
underhand
dealing
,
then
by
open
force
of
arms
)
which
did
so
much
weaken
the
State
of
Epire.
And
I
will
not
here
repeat
(
since
it
is
sufficiently
known
to
all
men
)
how
my
wise
Predecessor
,
knowing
that
the
suppression
of
Epire
was
a
manifest
may
to
the
ruine
of
the
Laconick
Empire
,
resolved
openly
to
assist
afflicted
Epire
with
puissant
Forces
,
so
to
secure
himself
from
the
ambition
of
●…o
potent
an
Enemy
;
and
how
that
that
good
Prince
whilst
he
had
these
wise
considerations
dyed
;
not
without
great
presumptions
that
he
was
poysoned
by
the
procurement
of
the
Prince
of
Macedonia
,
who
was
not
able
to
endure
that
the
division
of
Epire
(
which
he
thought
so
sure
)
should
be
hindered
.
In
this
unhappy
crisis
of
affairs
,
I
had
this
dignity
conferred
upon
me
;
and
that
I
might
not
come
byso
unhappy
an
end
as
my
Predecessor
did
,
I
,
in
the
beginning
of
my
Principality
,
seemed
to
be
of
a
remiss
spirit
,
and
totally
incapable
of
the
great
affairs
of
State
,
and
onely
busied
my self
in
reforming
the
Magistrates
of
my
Dominion
,
together
with
the
abuses
,
and
other
vices
of
my
people
,
appearing
publikely
to
be
a
main
Enemy
to
the
Prince
of
Epire
,
but
inwardly
knowing
very
well
,
whither
the
Prince
of
Macidonia's
plots
tended
.
And
knowing
that
whatsoever
evil
befel
the
Prince
of
Epire
,
tended
to
the
lessening
of
me
,
I
put
on
a
resolution
of
assisting
him
,
that
I
might
establish
my
own
State
which
was
in
manifest
danger
:
But
to
secure
my
life
from
those
misfortunes
whereinto
my
predecessor
fell
,
I
was
forced
to
be
very
secret
in
my
proceedings
.
And
it
is
well
known
to
your
Majestie
,
as
to
all
the
rest
of
these
honorable
Judges
,
that
amongst
many
imperfections
of
elective
Kingdoms
,
the
greatest
is
,
that
they
less
enjoy
the
so
important
benefit
of
secrecy
in
their
State-Ministers
,
then
any
other
sort
of
Principality
:
for
mens
manners
are
so
depraved
,
as
that
such
as
are
Senators
,
are
for
the
most
part
greedy
Merchants
in
their
high
places
,
by
which
they
strive
to
reap
all
possible
advantage
.
Finding
my self
in
such
straits
at
the
entrance
into
my
Principality
,
and
knowing
that
for
certain
I
was
to
split
upon
the
rock
of
infidelity
,
if
I
should
in
a
business
of
this
weight
,
make
use
of
those
ordinary
Secretaries
,
who
I
knew
for
certain
,
were
long
since
pensioners
to
forrein
Princes
;
Great
God
(
from
whose
goodness
I
acknowledge
this
great
mercy
)
opened
my
understanding
,
and
it
was
he
who
propounded
unto
me
,
this
my
,
I
will
not
say
servant
(
for
I
have
found
such
singular
worth
in
him
,
as
will
not
suffer
him
to
be
stiled
by
so
base
a
name
)
but
dear
friend
;
and
to
him
who
had
served
me
with
all
fidelity
for
eight
years
space
,
whilst
I
led
a
privat
life
,
I
discovered
that
secret
of
my
heart
,
which
I
thought
very
dangerous
ever
to
have
dreamt
of
.
And
then
I
was
aware
that
the
excellency
and
chiefest
praise
of
a
Secretary
,
did
not
consist
(
as
many
men
believe
)
in
knowing
how
to
speak
eloquently
,
but
how
faithfully
to
be
silent
.
And
this
I
say
,
because
I
so
happily
made
use
of
this
my
Officer
in
the
important
business
which
I
had
in
hand
,
as
I
luckily
deceived
the
subtile
Prince
of
Macedonia
,
which
no
wit
,
how
cunning
so
ever
,
could
do
at
any
time
before
.
And
by
means
of
this
my
so
faithful
Secretary
,
I
succored
that
Prince
my
friend
,
whom
I
publickly
profest
to
persecute
,
no
man
ever
penetrating
into
my
Councel
;
and
I
have
had
fortunate
success
in
the
mystery
of
cheating
and
abusing
,
even
those
who
make
publick
profession
to
be
Masters
of
that
Art
;
and
by
this
handsom
under-hand-dealing
,
I
have
reduced
the
formerly
ruinous
and
precipitate
state
of
Epire
,
into
the
condition
that
now
it
is
:
It
being
risen
from
so
deplorable
a
condition
,
to
the
high
pitch
of
being
the
only
true
Arbitrator
of
whole
Greece
.
And
the
Macedonians
who
had
fancied
unto
themselves
universal
Monarchy
,
and
who
thought
to
have
sipt
up
every
mans
State
in
less
then
a
months
time
,
are
fallen
from
this
their
height
of
hopes
,
into
the
pit
of
desperation
,
and
quite
giving
over
their
ambitious
conceits
of
possessing
themselves
of
other
mens
States
,
have
much
ado
to
preserve
their
own
.
Apollo
having
heard
this
,
ran
joyfully
to
embrace
the
Prince
of
Laconia
,
and
with
a
great
deal
of
tenderness
,
spake
thus
unto
him
;
You
,
Duke
of
that
noble
Nation
,
who
express
much
in
few
words
,
have
had
to
doe
with
a
man
of
such
worth
,
and
one
,
who
to
say
truth
,
hath
very
few
that
are
like
him
,
amongst
all
the
Laconick
Senators
;
I
mean
this
friend
of
yours
,
as
if
you
should
give
unto
him
your
whole
State
,
you
would
notwithstanding
die
ungratefull
.
For
in
these
unfortunate
times
,
wherein
through
the
perfidiousness
of
many
,
Princes
secrets
are
sold
by
the
candle
,
to
who
will
bid
highest
for
them
,
that
servant
who
in
weighty
affairs
proves
faithful
to
his
Master
,
cannot
be
so
much
rewarded
as
he
deserves
.
The
XXXIX
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
People
of
the
Island
of
Mitilene
,
their
Prince
being
dead
without
issue
,
argue
whether
it
will
be
better
for
them
to
chuse
a
new
Prince
,
or
to
set
up
Liberty
in
their
Countrey
.
THe
Inhabitants
of
the
famous
Island
of
Mitilene
,
whose
natural
Prince
did
not
only
die
lately
himself
,
but
together
with
his
life
,
left
the
whole
Royal
Line
extinguished
;
being
without
a
Prince
to
Govern
them
,
disputed
in
many
of
their
Congregations
,
whether
it
were
better
for
them
to
live
still
under
a
Monarchy
,
and
chuse
a
new
Prince
,
or
put
on
that
noble
resolution
which
had
made
so
many
people
fortunate
,
of
erecting
a
Free
State
.
Great
and
dangerous
contentions
arose
touching
a
business
of
this
weight
;
and
t
is
said
that
one
of
the
chiefest
Citizens
,
in
the
last
Congregation
that
was
assembled
to
this
purpose
,
spake
thus
:
Beloved
fellow-Citizens
,
Of
all
the
felicities
which
men
receive
from
God
in
this
world
,
two
are
the
greatest
;
That
they
are
born
men
,
not
Beasts
;
and
free
,
not
slaves
.
And
surely
there
is
good
reason
for
this
;
for
what
greater
happiness
can
any
man
receive
in
this
life
,
then
to
obey
only
the
Laws
of
God
and
men
?
What
Jewel
is
to
be
compared
to
the
rich
Treasure
full
of
all
the
most
pretious
Oriental
Stones
,
of
securing
life
,
means
,
and
reputation
from
the
will
of
one
particular
man
,
inclined
to
commit
so
many
impertinent
things
?
None
that
is
here
,
acknowledgeth
Liberty
to
be
more
lovely
then
my self
;
and
that
it
is
a
pretious
gift
,
which
immortal
God
bestowes
of
meer
grace
on
those
whom
he
loves
;
he
who
knows
not
this
,
I
pronounce
him
to
be
blind
,
him
a
fool
who
doth
not
highly
esteem
it
,
and
him
an
enemy
to
himself
and
Countrey
,
who
doth
not
heartily
endeavor
it
.
But
my
dear
friends
,
you
must
consider
,
that
as
those
pretious
stones
are
most
esteemed
of
,
which
are
rareliest
found
amongst
men
;
so
we
must
grant
that
perfect
Liberty
is
a
pretious
Jewel
,
and
much
desired
by
mankind
,
because
it
is
rarely
found
amongst
men
.
And
know
,
that
as
the
Carbuncle
and
Diamond
are
created
by
an
absolute
heavenly
vertue
,
and
such
counterfeit
stones
are
poor
and
base
,
which
men
make
in
imitation
of
the
Divine
Artificer
;
so
Liberty
may
be
rather
said
to
be
a
Divine
Manifacture
,
then
any
humane
work
.
If
it
were
possible
to
Institute
a
Free
State
so
easily
as
I
perceive
you
imagin
,
there
where
Monarchy
hath
a
long
time
reigned
,
since
Liberty
is
a
thing
so
much
desired
by
all
men
,
there
would
be
no
Monarchy
left
in
the
world
:
For
people
to
come
by
so
great
a
happiness
,
would
all
of
them
lay
claim
to
Liberty
.
And
yet
since
there
are
many
Monarchies
,
and
but
few
Commonwealths
,
we
must
needs
see
,
that
to
erect
Liberty
in
a
Country
,
is
rather
an
impossible
then
a
difficult
thing
,
and
a
gift
which
ought
rather
to
be
beg'd
of
God
by
prayer
,
then
to
be
hoped
for
from
any
humane
wisdom
:
Nor
be
not
moved
by
the
example
of
so
many
Commonwealths
,
which
with
so
much
happiness
to
those
people
,
are
lately
instituted
in
Germany
:
For
examples
square
not
,
unless
where
the
same
circumstances
agree
▪
Too
great
is
the
disproporion
between
the
Germans
(
who
are
born
in
a
sort
of
middle
Liberty
,
from
which
condition
,
passage
is
easily
made
to
intire
Liberty
)
and
us
,
who
having
alwaies
undergon
all
servitude
from
our
Princes
,
are
so
〈◊〉
from
being
able
to
purchase
perfect
Liberty
,
as
we
cannot
pass
from
this
,
into
the
other
extream
,
without
exposing
our selves
and
Country
to
manifest
ruine
.
I
grant
that
some
Princes
prove
sometime
phantastical
,
insolent
,
very
beasts
;
and
that
it
is
a
species
of
great
felicity
to
secure
ones
self
from
these
evils
;
but
say
you
with
me
,
That
there
is
not
a
more
phantastical
,
insolent
,
or
bestial
Government
in
the
world
,
then
that
of
an
ill
ordered
Commonwealth
,
of
a
free
tumultuous
State
.
All
who
have
written
,
or
reason'd
of
Politick
Affairs
,
confess
that
a
people
like
us
,
born
,
bred
up
,
and
who
have
lived
even
to
their
decrepid
age
in
servitude
,
are
altogether
uncapable
of
living
free
.
Commonwealths
being
more
formed
by
the
good
condition
of
Citizens
dispositions
,
proportioned
to
live
free
,
then
by
Laws
:
For
as
a
new
Vine
soon
grows
dry
if
it
be
planted
by
an
aged
Tree
;
and
on
the
contrary
,
does
grow
up
prosperously
,
and
bring
forth
fruit
in
great
abundance
if
it
be
placed
near
a
plant
,
which
as
if
it
were
her
husband
,
is
of
like
age
with
it self
▪
so
the
new
Vine
of
Liberty
scorns
to
take
root
,
and
to
bring
forth
satisfactory
fruit
,
if
it
be
placed
near
an
antient
Tree
of
a
people
grown
old
in
servitude
.
For
the
ambition
of
the
Nobility
,
and
sedition
of
the
common
people
who
are
capital
enemies
to
living
free
,
would
for
certain
so
suck
up
the
radical
moysture
which
gives
life
to
the
new
Vine
,
as
they
would
in
a
short
time
make
it
wither
and
become
dry
.
This
truth
which
I
relate
,
is
evidently
seen
in
the
as
perspicuous
,
as
rare
example
of
all
the
past
and
present
Liberties
of
the
immortal
Venetian
Commonwealth
,
which
being
planted
whilst
yet
a
young
Vine
,
together
with
the
little
bush
of
the
Venetian
people
,
though
born
but
a
little
before
in
those
moorish
and
fennish
grounds
,
takes
such
deep
and
strong
root
,
as
it
now
gives
savory
fruits
of
secure
Liberty
to
its
Citizens
.
It
is
folly
for
us
to
hope
for
alteration
of
Customs
,
which
are
not
changed
so
easily
as
apparrel
:
For
mans
genius
affecting
quietness
in
all
its
operations
,
a
soul
which
knows
how
to
submit
it self
to
a
Citizen
,
who
though
his
superior
in
being
a
Magistrate
,
is
yet
his
inferior
in
all
other
respects
;
how
being
rich
and
young
,
to
honour
a
poor
old
man
with
submission
,
to
bestow
all
his
love
upon
his
Country
(
next
to
his
God
)
yea
rather
then
upon
his
children
or
wealth
,
▪
to
preser
the
publick
good
before
privat
interest
;
to
judge
uprightly
in
civil
and
criminal
affairs
between
friends
and
parents
,
to
tremble
at
the
severity
of
the
Laws
in
a
●…ee
State
;
to
possess
the
wealth
of
a
Prince
,
and
have
the
mind
of
a
privat
man
,
so
far
to
mortifie
himself
,
as
humbly
to
begg
the
favorable
vote
of
his
inferior
;
and
finally
to
have
the
taceturnity
in
publick
affairs
,
and
to
possess
all
those
habits
worthy
of
a
free-man
,
which
are
observed
to
be
so
exactly
in
every
Noble
Venetian
;
is
a
Doctrine
which
is
not
learnt
by
Books
▪
nor
by
the
mouthes
of
men
;
but
which
is
brought
from
the
womb
;
and
suckt
in
with
the
mothers
milk
,
by
such
as
are
born
in
Free
Countries
.
If
(
as
I
understand
many
of
you
are
minded
to
do
)
you
will
send
to
Venice
,
to
receive
the
Laws
of
living
free
,
from
that
excellent
Commonwealth
,
doubtlesly
rare
ones
will
be
given
you
;
but
Laws
,
no
less
then
habits
,
do
not
square
with
●…ll
men
.
God
would
be
too
gracious
to
men
if
they
were
permitted
,
in
the
midst
of
Iuly
,
when
they
are
scorched
by
the
Sun
,
to
go
into
the
Woods
,
and
take
from
thence
the
greatest
Plane-tree
which
they
should
find
there
,
and
〈◊〉
it
into
their
own
Gardens
,
so
to
enjoy
the
shade
thereof
.
Liberty
,
like
a
young
Tree
,
planted
amongst
men
,
is
very
hard
to
rear
up
;
for
it
must
be
continually
watered
with
new
Laws
,
according
to
occasion●…
which
every
day
arise
,
and
prun'd
by
severe
Justice
.
Nor
must
men
be
impatient
in
these
cases
;
for
no
man
enjoys
the
noon-day-comfort
of
a
great
Tree
standing
in
his
Court-yard
,
which
was
not
first
planted
but
a
little
sprig
by
his
great
great
Gandfathers
.
And
it
hath
been
Gods
will
,
that
Trees
and
Commonwealths
,
should
with
much
difficulty
arive
at
long
life
,
and
be
long
in
bringing
forth
their
fruits
.
And
very
exceeding
great
pains
and
labour
was
taken
to
make
that
very
Plant
of
the
glorious
Venetian
Liberty
,
what
the
world
sees
it
now
to
be
;
and
those
Ancients
who
planted
it
,
partook
of
no
good
thereby
,
but
only
pain
and
toyle
in
bringing
it
up
;
whereas
now
their
twentieth
generation
enjoy
the
verdure
,
the
noon-day-comfort
and
freshness
thereof
.
For
though
it
be
above
●…100
years
since
it
was
planted
in
those
Washes
,
yet
is
it
not
so
long
since
it
became
so
perfect
,
and
so
secure
a
Plant
of
true
Liberty
,
as
that
it
fears
not
the
wind
of
forrein
Princes
pride
,
nor
the
frost
of
Domestick
seditions
:
Add
to
these
things
(
my
fellow-Citizens
)
that
it
is
not
so
much
the
Laws
,
though
they
be
very
good
ones
,
nor
yet
the
other
particulars
which
I
have
touched
upon
,
which
have
maintained
,
do
maintain
,
and
will
maintain
the
Venetian
Commonwealth
in
perpetual
greatness
,
as
is
the
miraculous
and
singular
situation
of
those
Marish
and
Fenny
grounds
,
which
we
cannot
partake
of
.
All
that
understand
any
thing
in
State-affairs
,
confess
that
the
Senat
is
the
Heart
and
Fountain
of
Life
of
every
Free
State
.
Skilful
Fencers
,
when
they
will
overthrow
their
enemy
with
few
blows
,
make
a
thrust
at
their
heart
;
and
Princes
who
have
en-deavored
to
subdue
Commonwealths
,
have
made
their
first
blow
at
the
Metropolitan
City
of
the
Free
State
,
only
to
dissipate
the
Senat
;
for
these
are
the
mortal
wounds
which
kill
all
,
even
the
most
potent
Liberties
:
For
the
Senat
being
routed
,
and
consequently
the
heart
of
the
Commonwealth
struck
through
,
it
dies
immediately
.
An
imperfection
which
Monarchies
have
not
,
the
greatness
of
whose
Empire
is
alwaies
where
the
Kings
person
is
;
as
the
Duke
of
Guise
made
proof
of
,
who
by
his
taking
of
Paris
,
did
rather
accelerate
his
own
death
,
then
hasten
on
his
own
greatness
.
The
Dictator
Cesar
proves
this
which
I
affirm
,
to
be
true
:
Who
to
Tyrannize
over
his
Country
,
made
himself
Master
of
Rome
(
which
Pompey
was
very
indiscreet
in
abandoning
)
only
that
he
might
defeat
the
Senat
:
A
thing
which
Hanibal
,
the
true
Master
of
Militia
,
and
sole
honor
of
Africa
,
knew
before
him
,
and
endeavored
it
,
but
knew
not
how
to
effect
it
:
And
which
after
him
,
the
Emperor
Charls
the
fifth
,
that
Founder
of
the
greatness
of
the
Spanish
Monarchy
,
knew
very
well
how
to
do
,
and
did
practice
it
against
the
Florentines
and
the
〈◊〉
.
This
mortal
wound
could
never
be
given
to
the
State
of
Venice
,
whose
Metropolis
,
where
the
Senat
abides
,
is
fortified
,
and
armed
with
the
proof-Armor
of
Marishes
and
Washes
▪
wherefore
I
think
I
may
conclude
,
that
their
wils
are
good
,
who
desire
to
bring
in
Liberty
of
living
Free
in
our
Country
;
but
their
wisdom
is
but
weak
:
And
that
they
who
are
for
a
Prince
,
intend
well
,
and
are
excellently
well
advised
;
and
in
taking
a
resolution
in
this
our
so
weighty
business
,
I
desire
you
all
to
remember
,
that
the
Florentine
Nobility
,
which
through
the
impertinency
of
the
seditious
people
,
could
never
bring
in
a
perfect
form
of
living
free
in
their
Country
,
not
being
able
any
longer
to
undergo
the
cruel
and
bloudy
insolences
of
the
base
Plebeians
,
were
forced
to
call
in
a
forrein
Tyrant
,
the
Duke
of
Atene
,
only
that
by
extraordinary
severity
,
he
might
afflict
the
common
people
of
Florence
,
who
did
so
abuse
their
Liberty
.
Though
these
reasons
were
thought
very
efficacious
by
the
wiser
sort
,
yet
could
they
not
make
the
people
resolve
upon
chusing
a
new
Prince
:
Wherefore
the
business
was
carried
,
for
living
free
,
and
that
Ambassadors
should
be
sent
to
Venice
to
receive
the
Laws
of
living
free
,
from
that
Commonwealth
,
which
was
suddenly
done
.
The
Ambassadors
were
received
and
welcom'd
by
the
Venetian
Commonwealth
with
incredible
magnificency
,
and
the
Venetian
Government
,
Orders
and
Laws
were
shewn
unto
them
,
which
the
Ambassadors
caused
to
be
exactly
copied
out
,
and
registred
,
and
so
departed
.
And
being
returned
to
Mitilene
,
they
made
their
Report
,
and
read
in
publick
Senat
,
the
Laws
which
they
had
brought
with
them
,
which
gave
very
bad
satisfaction
to
all
the
common
People
,
and
to
the
greatest
part
of
the
Nobility
:
For
the
people
could
by
no
means
indure
,
that
by
the
Venetian
Laws
they
should
be
excluded
from
publick
Government
,
saying
that
that
Country
merited
not
to
be
called
Free
,
where
all
did
not
command
:
And
the
wealthier
Nobility
being
accustomed
under
Monarchy
,
to
purchase
favors
from
the
Favorits
,
and
to
obtain
places
of
Magistracy
(
which
they
did
shamefully
execute
)
from
their
Princes
,
storm'd
,
and
said
publickly
,
That
that
was
a
most
unfortunate
Country
,
where
men
were
inhibited
the
making
free
use
of
their
monies
;
which
was
purchased
by
industrious
men
at
the
cost
of
so
much
sweat
,
not
only
to
buy
meat
and
clothes
,
but
to
purchase
therewith
such
things
which
encreased
reputation
:
And
that
it
was
much
better
for
Citizens
to
be
ruled
over
by
a
Prince
,
whose
good
will
might
be
won
by
a
thousand
several
waies
,
then
to
be
govern'd
by
inexorable
Laws
,
when
they
were
administred
by
a
numerous
Senat
;
where
a
little
not
being
sufficient
,
and
enough
not
being
alwaies
to
be
had
,
whereby
to
make
so
many
prevaricate
and
break
the
Laws
,
it
might
truely
be
said
to
be
incorruptible
.
And
that
under
Monarchies
,
the
chiefest
of
the
Nobility
did
from
the
first
,
execute
the
prime
places
of
the
Principality
;
and
that
in
Commonwealths
it
was
sad
for
them
to
begin
together
with
the
meanest
Senators
,
at
the
lowest
imployments
,
and
come
slowly
by
degrees
to
places
of
highest
dignity
:
That
it
required
more
then
the
usual
years
of
man
to
arive
at
the
supreamest
preferments
;
and
the
rigor
of
bestowing
places
of
Magistracy
only
according
to
mens
meer
merit
,
was
a
Precept
first
invented
by
Tyrants
,
to
keep
potent
men
low
,
and
to
exalt
the
mean
.
But
amongst
all
these
bad
satisfactions
,
nothing
distasted
three
parts
of
four
of
the
Nobility
more
,
then
the
severe
Magistracy
of
the
Censors
,
which
they
heard
was
used
by
the
Venetians
,
who
perpetually
did
severely
and
strictly
examin
all
mens
behaviours
;
wherefore
they
said
freely
,
that
if
the
Nobility
were
so
severely
proceeded
with
in
the
State
of
Venice
,
the
Noble
Venetians
were
slaves
amidst
their
Liberty
,
and
the
people
of
Miteline
free
amidst
their
servitude
,
for
very
dread
of
these
things
,
all
,
with
a
loud
voice
cryed
out
,
Monarchy
,
Monarchy
:
And
that
if
any
one
would
set
up
Liberty
in
Mitilene
,
let
them
burn
all
Laws
and
Statutes
;
for
such
understood
that
to
be
perfect
Liberty
,
where
none
obeyed
,
all
commanded
,
and
every
one
did
what
he
list
.
The
XL.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
James
Creyton
,
a
Scotchman
,
having
incenst
the
Vertuosi
in
Parnassus
,
by
a
proud
defyance
,
was
so
shamed
by
them
through
a
bitter
jest
,
as
without
ending
the
dispute
,
they
forced
him
to
forgo
Parnassus
.
JAmes
Creyton
,
a
Scotchman
,
the
Prodigie
of
Nature
for
Learning
,
came
some
daies
ago
to
this
Court
with
such
vain-glorious
pomp
,
and
self-oftentation
,
as
moved
as
much
nauseousness
in
the
compleatest
Vertuosi
of
this
State
,
as
wonder
in
the
meaner
sort
of
people
,
who
are
usually
ignorant
,
to
see
that
a
young
fellow
of
but
25
years
of
age
,
should
pretend
to
be
exactly
knowing
in
all
Sciences
,
when
the
chiefest
Vertuosi
know
the
continual
study
of
80
years
is
but
a
short
time
to
be
Master
of
one
only
Science
.
This
Creyton
the
next
day
after
his
entrance
into
Parnassus
,
caused
a
paper
to
be
fixed
upon
the
Gates
of
all
the
Colledges
,
and
upon
the
Pillars
of
all
the
Delfick
Portici
,
wherein
in
large
Capital
Letters
these
words
were
written
,
Nos
Iacobus
Crytonius
,
Scotus
,
cujuscumque
rei
propositae
ex
improviso
respondebimus
.
We
Iames
Creyton
,
a
Scothman
,
will
answer
ex
tempore
to
whatsoever
shall
be
propounded
,
This
bold
defiance
,
which
was
thought
by
many
to
be
very
arrogant
,
did
so
nettle
the
Vertuosi
,
as
many
of
them
framed
Arguments
even
in
the
hardest
Sciences
,
wherewith
they
thought
to
choak
him
at
very
first
.
But
an
acute
Satyrical
Poet
bereft
the
whole
Colledge
of
the
Litterati
of
the
pleasure
of
that
dispute
:
For
the
very
night
after
the
posting
up
of
this
defiance
,
he
underwrit
in
those
very
papers
,
these
sharp
words
:
And
he
that
will
see
it
,
let
him
go
to
the
signe
of
the
Faulcon
,
and
it
shall
be
shewn
him
.
Creyton
was
so
stung
with
this
biting
Jest
,
as
he
presently
departed
from
Parnassus
,
much
ashamed
and
confused
;
having
first
made
known
unto
his
Majesty
that
he
thought
he
could
no
longer
appear
with
his
honour
amongst
those
Vertuosi
,
who
had
done
him
the
affront
to
deal
with
him
as
with
a
Juglar
and
Mountebank
.
The
XLI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
After
strict
examination
of
such
as
were
to
be
chosen
,
the
List
of
Governors
is
filled
up
in
Parnassus
.
AFter
long
expectation
,
the
distribution
of
the
Governments
of
this
State
was
yesterday
published
with
general
satisfaction
,
it
is
not
to
be
imagined
what
diligence
and
circumspection
was
used
by
his
Majesty
and
his
State-Ministers
in
the
choice
of
them
:
For
first
they
were
carefull
to
chuse
old
men
to
govern
the
people
,
only
that
I
Polledri
non
habbiano
a
por
bardella
a
Cozzoni
,
Coults
might
not
put
Tramels
upon
their
Pacers
:
And
it
was
a
thing
worth
much
consideration
,
that
of
so
many
as
put
for
it
,
they
chose
only
men
of
slow
Wits
,
cold
Natures
,
such
as
were
perplext
and
irresolute
in
all
their
actions
,
and
drousie
,
even
to
the
point
of
appearing
foolish
;
whereas
they
excluded
those
who
for
the
vivacity
of
their
spirits
,
seemed
fit
to
have
been
preferred
before
them
.
And
this
was
done
because
those
wise
men
who
were
chosen
to
examin
,
verily
believe
,
that
bold
,
and
over-lively
wits
are
not
very
fit
to
govern
others
,
they
themselves
standing
in
need
of
a
bit
and
Caveson
,
to
keep
them
from
falling
into
ditches
;
for
experience
hath
taught
all
men
,
that
such
men
,
with
their
too
irresolute
wits
,
do
rather
disquiet
people
,
then
prove
Instruments
of
keeping
them
in
that
peace
and
good
satisfaction
,
which
ought
to
be
their
chiefest
care
who
are
the
Governors
of
Provinces
;
and
it
is
a
thing
known
to
all
men
,
that
those
Electors
hold
it
for
an
infallible
Maxim
,
That
he
succeeds
best
in
the
Government
of
Cities
,
who
being
of
a
slower
wit
,
and
setled
mind
,
knows
best
how
to
fit
himself
for
making
his
abode
there
,
as
it
were
the
signe
of
an
Inn
:
For
the
world
,
which
is
much
ruled
by
it self
,
is
much
disquieted
and
imbroyled
by
the
chymera's
of
some
sharp
wits
,
who
being
overwise
in
all
their
waies
,
Intempestivis
remediis
delicta
accendunt
.
Tacit.
lib.
13.
Annal.
Make
things
worse
by
unseasonable
remedies
.
Hence
it
was
,
that
in
the
strict
examination
that
was
made
in
this
so
weighty
business
,
the
ignorant
were
not
excluded
,
but
only
those
who
were
too
wise
,
and
who
having
their
heads
full
of
querks
,
and
new
inventions
,
are
enemies
to
those
ancient
Customs
,
to
which
the
people
being
accustomed
,
think
themselves
wronged
by
being
bettered
by
new
Laws
.
'T
s
true
,
they
studied
to
find
out
flexible
people
,
of
easie
and
supple
wits
,
who
could
accommodate
their
own
Nature
to
that
of
others
;
nor
did
they
admit
of
any
Officer
who
had
not
past
four
years
in
the
study
of
that
important
Philosophy
,
of
living
,
and
suffering
to
live
:
A
Basis
whereon
all
peoples
quiet
,
and
the
assurance
of
all
good
Government
which
can
be
expected
from
the
good
Governor
of
aProvince
,
is
securely
grounded
;
in
whom
they
thought
not
the
knowledge
of
the
Laws
and
Statutes
to
be
so
necessary
,
as
that
they
should
be
verst
in
that
gentle
way
of
proceeding
,
and
in
that
dexterity
of
judgement
,
which
is
not
registred
in
Books
.
A
Consideration
so
much
the
more
necessary
,
for
that
some
Lawyers
who
have
had
the
Governments
of
several
Provinces
,
have
behaved
themselves
but
foolishly
therein
:
Witness
Bartolo
,
the
very
light
of
the
Law
,
who
with
all
his
Legal
knowledge
,
was
forc'd
to
leap
out
of
the
window
at
the
Palazzo
di
Todi
,
to
shun
being
seized
on
by
those
who
could
no
longer
endure
his
Impertinencies
;
who
had
a
fair
tongue
,
but
foolish
pate
.
And
it
is
very
certain
,
that
they
did
drive
away
certain
great
beastly
fellows
,
even
with
Bastenadoes
,
who
proudly
playing
the
Peacocks
,
and
publikely
professing
severity
,
delight
much
with
their
grave
looks
to
threaten
men
with
death
in
publike
assemblies
:
and
they
excluded
from
all
hopes
of
Government
,
brutish
Busirides
,
who
thirsting
after
humane
blood
,
think
they
can
mend
the
world
,
with
Pillories
,
Gallowses
and
Axes
:
but
they
mightily
loved
those
who
laboured
more
to
inhibit
them
to
punish
faults
,
and
who
underwrite
Capital
sentences
in
ink
,
made
of
Tears
.
The
next
day
after
the
publication
of
the
bestowing
of
Governments
,
all
the
Provosts
came
before
the
Regio
Collaterale
,
where
Apollo
was
in
person
,
and
there
with
solemn
ceremonies
,
they
made
oath
between
his
Majesties
hands
,
that
they
would
leave
the
world
in
the
same
happy
condition
as
they
found
it
;
it
being
high
treason
in
this
State
,
where
Tacitus
his
rule
is
observed
(
that
super
omnibus
negotiis
,
melius
atque
rectius
olim
provisum
,
et
que
converterentur
,
in
deterius
mutari
.
Tac.
lib.
4.
Annal.
That
better
provision
was
made
for
all
things
in
former
times
,
and
all
alterations
made
since
have
proved
to
the
worse
)
to
make
any
the
least
Innovation
in
Governments
.
These
oathes
being
taken
,
the
great
Delfick
Chancellor
,
placed
in
a
high
seat
,
said
,
You
Gentlemen
Officers
,
his
Majesties
pleasure
is
,
that
in
the
places
which
are
bestowed
upon
you
,
you
be
sure
to
have
a
strict
care
to
your
ways
;
and
that
you
swell
not
so
with
ambition
as
to
play
Rex
,
but
that
you
remember
you
are
but
counterfeit
Princes
,
whose
Empire
is
but
weak
,
grounded
upon
a
frail
sheet
of
paper
,
and
fortified
by
a
little
wax
.
Then
Marcus
Tullius
Cicero
made
an
Oration
in
praise
of
those
new
Officers
,
affirming
that
they
were
so
wise
and
good
,
as
they
were
able
to
new
mould
the
world
.
And
this
oration
being
ended
,
Apollo
,
with
a
pleasing
countenance
,
did
with
his
own
hands
give
every
one
of
them
their
Letters
Patents
,
and
commanded
them
to
go
presently
to
their
several
charges
.
It
was
a
thing
which
caused
astonishment
in
all
men
to
see
,
that
as
soon
as
ever
their
Patents
were
delivered
,
his
Majesties
formerly
clear
and
serene
face
towards
those
his
Officers
,
was
changed
into
a
dreadful
&
angry
aspect
,
as
if
he
had
hated
them
deadly
,
and
the
civilities
,
proffers
,
and
friendly
demonstrations
of
those
signori
del
Collaterale
,
were
changed
in
the
twinkling
of
an
eye
into
Threats
and
Accusations
;
insomuch
,
as
they
themselves
who
had
been
so
very
circumspect
in
making
that
election
,
swore
to
every
one
that
those
Officers
were
a
company
of
greedy
companions
,
publike
sellers
of
Justice
,
and
Birds
of
prey
;
and
before
they
departed
,
by
order
from
his
Majestie
,
an
Urtamartino
taken
out
of
the
Pegasean
Stable
,
was
given
to
those
who
were
Governors
of
the
chiefest
Provinces
,
an
Instrument
thought
necessary
by
all
wise
men
,
to
beat
down
some
imperious
fellows
,
who
desiring
to
domineer
in
other
mens
houses
,
do
with
ready
money
purchase
hatred
,
laying
the
blame
of
all
their
impertinences
,
insolences
and
ill
usage
committed
against
the
master
of
the
house
,
upon
their
own
discomposed
and
hasty
nature
.
I
was
told
by
very
credible
people
,
that
after
this
Salustius
Crispo
President
of
the
Collaterale
,
taking
the
Governour
of
Libetro
(
whom
he
much
favoured
and
loved
)
aside
,
told
him
,
That
he
should
do
well
to
be
very
negligent
in
the
beginning
of
his
Government
,
but
be
exquisitely
diligent
in
the
end
thereof
;
remembring
always
,
that
to
begin
ones
Imployments
Acribus
Innitiis
,
I●…ioso
fine
.
Tac.
lib.
4.
Annal.
with
strict
beginnings
,
and
neglective
end
,
was
to
imitate
the
Asses
Trot
,
which
is
so
usual
to
the
common
sort
of
officers
;
that
in
his
administration
of
justice
in
things
of
dispute
between
ordinary
people
,
he
should
do
them
exact
right
without
any
respect
of
persons
;
but
that
in
controversies
which
might
arise
between
the
Nobility
,
or
people
of
better
rank
,
he
should
use
the
dexterity
of
a
wary
judgement
,
with
the
rigour
of
Justice
,
remembring
always
that
the
accusations
of
powerful
men
were
so
hateful
to
Princes
as
they
besprinkled
the
Officers
Garments
with
certain
spots
and
stains
of
bad
impression
,
which
could
never
be
washt
away
with
any
sope
of
Innocency
;
that
therefore
with
such
he
should
so
use
the
buckler
of
dexterity
,
with
the
sword
of
justice
,
as
no
wounds
of
distaste
might
be
given
or
received
by
either
party
:
for
it
being
requisite
for
Princes
,
for
their
own
affairs
,
to
have
the
Nobility
satisfied
,
the
Officer
must
know
exactly
the
art
of
drawing
rotten
teeth
with
a
piece
of
cotton
;
that
in
his
Government
he
should
strive
Omnia
scire
,
sed
non
omnia
exequi
,
Tacit.
vita
Agric.
to
know
all
things
,
but
not
to
put
all
things
in
execution
;
for
to
go
about
to
wash
a
Blackmoor
white
,
were
to
play
the
mad
man
;
and
that
in
this
so
corrupt
Age
,
Officers
might
do
more
wisely
to
bear
with
some
ancient
disorders
in
the
people
,
then
with
very
little
of
satisfaction
,
to
afflict
ones
self
,
with
introducing
good
where
it
was
not
welcome
,
that
he
should
shun
contentions
with
neighbour
Officers
,
who
were
subjects
to
the
same
Prince
,
and
that
such
differences
as
he
could
neither
cloak
nor
shun
,
he
should
like
a
Gown-man
defend
them
with
his
pen
;
but
that
he
should
neither
seek
for
,
nor
yet
shun
differences
with
neighbouring
Princes
:
but
defend
such
as
should
arise
,
like
a
Souldier
with
his
sword
,
observing
still
the
temper
,
as
to
shew
reverence
towards
forreign
Princes
,
and
zeal
towards
his
own
Prince
:
that
being
placed
in
Government
to
decide
quarrels
,
and
to
put
an
end
to
other
mens
differences
,
he
should
keep
himself
from
kindling
new
ones
,
as
he
would
do
from
fire
,
holding
it
for
a
certain
rule
,
that
Officers
won
infinite
reputation
,
when
at
the
very
instant
that
they
were
set
upon
,
they
could
resolve
to
give
over
with
loss
:
Mercè
che
delle
mosche
pigliate
con
le
natiche
,
mai
non
si
trovo
chi
facesse
utila
ritratto
:
and
that
he
should
think
that
nothing
did
more
shew
an
Officers
lightness
,
then
to
seem
greedy
of
disputes
and
quarrels
,
whereof
wise-men
would
give
fourteen
to
the
dozen
;
that
in
some
things
he
should
do
well
to
prefer
the
publike
peace
,
before
the
rigor
of
Justice
,
taught
by
books
;
that
he
should
never
be
over
angry
,
for
any
whatsoever
Impertenency
which
should
be
seen
or
heard
of
in
his
Government
;
and
that
if
he
could
not
do
this
,
he
should
not
onely
forbear
from
acting
,
but
even
from
speaking
in
the
heat
of
Anger
;
and
should
recommend
the
consideration
of
all
things
to
cool
blood
;
that
in
weighty
affairs
he
should
avoid
to
appear
undaunted
,
bold
and
resolute
,
but
take
pleasure
in
taking
the
crab
out
of
his
hole
with
his
Princes
hand
,
armed
with
the
Gantlet
of
Authority
;
for
though
the
Officer
had
authority
to
act
,
●…twas
notwithstanding
good
often
times
,
not
to
use
that
authority
:
that
he
should
avoid
such
Governments
,
as
he
would
do
precipices
,
where
any
of
the
Blood-Royal
lived
,
or
any
of
the
kindred
of
Court-Favorites
;
which
were
the
Silla
and
Caribdis
,
and
inevitable
quicksand
of
ruine
to
all
Officers
:
and
that
he
should
not
be
ambitious
of
governing
in
Provinces
,
wherein
were
many
of
the
Nobility
,
to
govern
whom
,
was
to
lead
a
heard
of
Foxes
,
and
a
flock
of
Hens
to
feed
,
and
be
bound
to
bring
them
all
back
again
to
their
folds
at
night
:
but
that
he
should
esteem
such
Governments
best
,
which
being
full
of
mean
and
ignorant
people
,
received
full
satisfaction
if
they
had
plenty
of
bread
in
their
market-places
:
that
he
should
keep
conversation
and
acquaintance
at
large
with
all
that
were
in
his
Government
,
but
stri
ct
friendship
with
none
;
that
he
should
avoid
that
retiredness
which
made
men
be
hated
,
and
that
domestical
familiarity
,
which
caused
scorn
,
but
use
such
gravity
as
purchased
love
and
respect
to
the
Officer
,
that
he
should
abhor
to
converse
with
base
men
,
and
communicate
onely
with
persons
of
his
own
profession
;
and
that
he
should
be
wary
of
making
any
one
his
friend
,
to
whom
he
might
not
at
the
very
same
instant
become
a
capital
enemy
,
without
any
prejudice
to
himself
;
for
in
Officers
houses
mushromes
grew
in
an
instant
to
be
as
high
as
Ciprus
Trees
;
that
he
should
by
all
means
shun
having
to
do
with
those
great
ones
in
Cities
,
who
love
to
have
many
followers
,
and
make
profession
of
Arms
;
for
that
Giddy-headed
Officers
cannot
more
shamefully
nurse
up
a
Serpent
in
their
bosoms
,
then
by
lending
an
ear
to
the
intercessions
which
such
men
make
for
unruly
people
,
who
are
imprisoned
for
seditious
faults
;
every
one
being
ready
to
spend
their
lives
in
his
service
,
who
hath
once
saved
them
:
that
in
publike
Audiences
he
●…hould
observe
great
gravity
speak
little
,
but
resolutely
,
imploying
his
ears
more
then
his
tongue
in
such
places
;
and
that
he
should
there
shun
to
argue
the
points
of
reason
with
Advocates
;
for
an
ignorant
man
that
speaks
,
knowing
better
what
he
hath
to
say
,
then
a
learned
man
that
listens
unto
him
;
an
Officer
who
will
on
the
sudden
argue
a
case
with
an
advocate
,
cannot
make
good
his
reputation
against
him
,
who
hav●…ng
first
studied
the
business
,
comes
prepared
,
without
being
so
insolent
as
to
use
his
authority
instead
of
reason
;
that
he
should
praise
,
and
yet
shun
the
hateful
and
foolish
customs
of
Provinces
;
and
that
he
should
patiently
bear
with
the
stinking
pride
of
Advocates
,
and
the
affronted
impertinencies
of
Proctors
,
and
maintain
their
honour
in
publike
,
whose
faults
he
might
correct
in
private
,
that
he
should
practice
that
golden
sentence
of
Tacitus
,
Utilissimus
idem
,
ac
brevissimus
bonarum
,
malarumque
rerum
delectus
,
cogitare
quid
aut
nolueris
sub
alio
Principe
,
aut
volueris
.
Tacit.
lib.
1.
hist.
It
is
the
most
useful
and
ready
choice
of
both
good
and
bad
things
,
to
consider
what
you
like
or
dislike
under
another
Prince
;
with
such
circumspection
,
as
to
shun
a
defect
in
his
Predecessor
,
he
should
not
fall
himself
into
the
other
extream
.
As
a
certain
Prince
had
foolishly
done
,
who
to
avoid
the
over
much
pleasantness
which
was
blamed
in
his
Predecessor
,
betook
himself
to
unheard
of
severities
;
that
he
might
account
business
his
pastime
,
eminent
spirits
making
the
pleasure
they
take
in
commanding
and
exercising
authority
over
others
,
serve
instead
of
Picquet
or
Lurch
:
that
he
should
be
more
careful
in
well
governing
his
own
house
,
then
in
curbing
seditions
in
the
City
,
for
that
Provincialists
are
more
troubled
at
the
immodesty
of
an
Officers
favorite
,
then
at
a
foul
insolency
committed
by
a
Townsman
;
that
he
should
abhor
forestalling
of
Markets
,
and
that
he
should
esteem
those
hisCapital
enemies
who
should
propound
unto
him
such
unlawful
gains
;
and
that
he
should
firmly
believe
that
the
onely
gainful
merchandize
becoming
an
honorable
Officer
,
was
to
engage
himself
deeply
in
the
Traffick
of
purchasing
glory
and
honor
;
by
which
rising
still
to
higher
preferments
,
he
in
a
short
time
would
abound
in
wealth
and
reputation
;
that
he
should
shun
prodigallity
a●…d
avarice
(
shameful
extreams
in
Officers
)
that
he
should
set
aside
one
fourth
part
of
the
day
for
the
dispatch
of
civil
causes
,
and
the
other
fourt
part
in
deciding
criminal
affairs
,
&
the
rest
in
being
hospital
,
on
which
an
Officers
reputation
did
wholly
depend
;
that
he
should
always
have
an
eye
to
his
Judges
hands
;
that
he
should
not
resolve
any
thing
in
difficult
affairs
,
before
he
were
fully
possest
of
the
whole
business
;
for
sudden
resolutions
were
very
dangerous
in
such
like
cases
:
and
that
he
should
always
behave
himself
so
therein
,
as
if
he
did
rather
grieve
to
have
done
too
little
,
then
too
much
;
that
he
should
so
accommodate
his
own
genius
to
the
nature
of
those
of
the
Province
,
as
to
be
gentle
with
those
that
were
pleasant
and
peaceful
,
and
severe
with
those
that
were
stubborn
and
seditious
;
that
above
all
things
he
should
curb
the
insolencies
of
Sergeants
and
Marshals-men
,
who
in
many
places
are
grown
so
insufferably
bold
,
as
they
have
not
onely
caused
wicked
scandals
to
Princes
,
who
in
all
other
respects
are
glorious
and
happy
,
but
have
rendred
such
States
hateful
where
the
bridle
hath
been
let
loose
to
such
like
Rascals
,
wholly
made
up
of
insolency
;
for
he
was
ill
advised
who
gave
much
authority
to
one
who
knew
not
what
discretion
meant
;
that
not
to
appear
foolish
,
he
should
not
acquaint
his
Prince
with
every
trivial
affair
,
nor
keep
from
him
the
knowledge
of
things
of
importance
,
least
he
might
be
thought
to
neglect
him
;
that
he
should
believe
that
wary
Judges
did
threaten
more
then
punish
,
and
that
he
should
not
forget
,
that
Officers
govern
men
,
who
are
subject
to
a
thousand
imperfections
,
infinitely
addicted
to
errour
,
and
not
Angels
,
who
cannot
sin
;
that
therefore
in
his
Government
he
should
rather
affect
to
be
reputed
pleasing
then
cruel
;
that
he
should
avoid
Baals
,
and
publique
Feasts
,
which
do
abase
the
Personages
of
Officers
;
that
in
the
shameful
faults
of
Noblemen
,
he
should
be
severe
against
the
Delinquents
person
,
not
touching
upon
the
honour
of
his
Family
;
that
he
should
many
times
rather
wink
at
carnal
faults
,
then
seem
over
desirous
to
punish
them
;
that
by
wisely
appearing
pleased
,
he
should
rather
make
the
world
believe
that
his
subjects
were
good
,
then
make
them
become
such
through
rigour
;
for
those
that
boast
they
have
hanged
I
know
not
how
many
hundred
men
in
their
Governments
,
glory
in
their
infamy
.
The
XLII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
A●…gus
makes
proffer
of
himself
to
the
Dukes
of
Venice
,
to
guard
the
Virginity
of
their
illustrious
Commonwealth
,
and
his
offer
is
not
accepted
.
ARGUS
never
had
any
imployment
in
Pernassus
till
now
,
since
he
proved
so
unfortunate
in
watching
fair
Io
;
for
though
many
great
Princes
would
by
large
salaries
have
hired
him
to
guard
their
Ladies
honour
,
he
hath
always
refused
to
take
upon
him
the
care
of
any
Ladies
reputation
,
having
clearly
found
in
Io's
unfortunate
business
,
that
women
,
when
they
are
lewdly
inclined
,
or
are
strongly
solicited
,
are
not
to
be
secured
,
no
not
by
a
thousand
Argusses
:
Yet
of
late
days
,
being
very
needy
,
he
offered
himself
to
Andrea
Gritti
,
and
other
Princes
of
the
Venetian
State
,
to
guard
their
beautiful
liberty
,
so
as
he
might
be
well
paid
for
his
pains
,
and
he
would
bind
himself
to
keep
continually
ninety
eight
of
his
hundred
eyes
awake
to
watch
over
that
illustrious
Princess
.
Argus
was
graciously
listened
unto
by
Gritti
,
and
the
rest
of
the
Dukes
of
Venice
,
who
first
presented
him
with
a
purse
full
of
many
millions
of
Crowns
,
which
they
said
they
gave
him
for
the
good
will
that
they
found
in
him
,
but
that
they
had
no
need
of
his
ayd
in
this
affair
;
for
their
liberty
needed
not
his
hundred
eyes
to
guard
her
honour
,
her
own
chaste
inclination
being
sufficient
to
do
it
,
assisted
by
the
six
eys
,
by
the
vigilant
and
dreadful
Magistracy
of
the
three
State-Inquisitors
,
who
wrought
so
by
the
sword
of
justice
,
which
they
did
continually
brandish
over
the
heads
of
the
Libenus
,
as
that
their
Liberty
,
though
she
be
exceeding
fair
,
was
looked
upon
with
chast
eyes
,
even
by
the
most
ambitiously
lustful
,
and
coveted
with
a
perfect
Platonick
love
.
The
XLIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Florentines
in
their
pastime
called
the
Calcio
,
admit
of
a
Spruce
Forreign
Courtier
,
who
wins
the
Prize
.
THe
Noble
Florentines
plaid
the
last
Tuesday
at
the
Calcio
in
the
Phebean
field
,
which
all
the
Litterati
of
Pernassus
came
to
see
;
and
though
some
,
to
whom
it
was
a
new
sight
to
see
many
of
those
Florentine
Gentlemen
fall
to
down
right
cuffs
,
said
,
that
that
manner
of
proceeding
in
that
which
was
but
play
and
sport
,
was
too
harsh
,
and
not
severe
enough
in
a
real
combat
;
yet
the
Vertuosi
took
delight
to
see
it
,
for
many
praised
the
Gamesters
swift
running
,
their
nimble
leaping
,
and
their
strength
;
others
were
very
well
pleased
with
the
invention
of
the
Game
,
which
was
very
good
to
breed
up
youth
to
run
,
leap
and
wrastle
;
and
many
believed
this
to
be
the
cause
why
it
was
instituted
in
that
formerly
so
famous
Commonwealth
:
but
the
quicker
sighted
Politicians
,
argued
from
the
going
together
by
ears
of
those
young
Florentines
,
that
some
great
mysterie
lay
concealed
in
that
sport
;
for
that
Common-wealths
are
fuller
of
intestine
hatred
,
and
hidden
ranchor
of
spirit
,
then
are
Monarchies
,
by
reason
of
the
continual
flocking
to
Magistrates
,
and
frequent
denials
which
are
given
to
Senators
of
such
places
as
they
desire
,
receiving
doubtlesly
more
distastes
thereby
one
from
another
,
then
is
observed
to
fall
out
between
people
who
live
in
a
Monarchy
;
and
it
being
impossible
but
that
some
violent
passion
of
anger
must
burst
forth
in
a
liberty
full
of
distastes
,
the
Politicians
affirmed
,
That
the
Common-wealth
of
Florence
had
done
very
well
and
wisely
in
introducing
the
Calcio
amongst
her
Citizens
,
to
the
end
that
having
the
satisfaction
of
giving
four
or
five
good
round
buffets
in
the
face
to
those
to
whom
they
bare
ill
will
,
by
way
of
sport
,
they
might
the
better
afterwards
appease
their
anger
.
An
evaporation
which
if
it
should
be
had
upon
another
occasion
by
a
dagger
,
it
would
have
much
indangered
the
publike
liberty
.
The
same
Politicians
affirm
for
certain
,
that
the
Sancsi
introduced
the
famous
Gioco
della
pugna
in
their
Commonwealth
,
and
the
Venesians
the
assaulting
of
the
bridge
in
theirs
,
for
no
other
end
but
this
.
But
it
hapned
that
a
spruce
Courtier
who
was
a
Spectator
at
this
sport
,
being
asked
by
that
famous
Pietro
Caponi
,
who
by
the
bold
answer
he
gave
to
a
King
of
France
,
won
eternal
fame
,
how
he
liked
their
Calcio
;
who
answered
,
The
sport
was
very
pleasant
,
but
that
those
Florentines
did
not
play
well
.
And
the
Game
of
Calcio
being
particular
to
the
Florentine
Nation
,
and
altogether
unknown
in
●…ther
parts
,
Caponi
thought
the
Courtier
had
said
amiss
;
wherefore
he
asked
him
,
Whether
he
thought
he
could
play
better
?
The
Courtier
answered
freely
,
that
if
they
would
permit
him
to
play
with
them
,
he
would
teach
those
Florentine
Gentlemen
the
true
art
how
to
take
the
ball
,
how
to
●…un
with
it
,
how
to
repulse
the
wrastlers
dextrously
,
who
would
take
it
away
,
and
other
excellent
master
like
tricks
.
Caponi
laught
to
hear
the
Courtier
boast
thus
,
and
having
acquainted
all
the
Florentine
Gamesters
with
what
he
said
,
they
joyntly
invited
him
to
play
.
The
Courtier
made
himself
ready
,
and
entred
the
lists
;
where
the
Florentines
promising
themselvs
much
pastime
in
buffetting
and
abusing
him
,
made
him
a
round
,
and
presently
the
Ball
was
thrown
up
in
the
ayr
by
men
appointed
thereunto
:
which
came
no
sooner
to
the
ground
,
but
that
the
nimble
Courtier
ran
towards
it
,
and
having
taken
it
up
,
clap
it
under
his
left
arm
;
those
of
the
contrary
party
ran
to
take
it
away
from
him
:
but
he
with
great
strength
justled
one
,
and
thrust
away
another
;
and
whereas
the
Florentines
,
who
were
masters
of
the
sport
,
thought
to
have
thrown
him
down
,
they
were
thrown
down
themselves
;
for
the
sturdy
Courtier
did
so
freely
lay
about
him
on
all
sides
with
his
arm
,
shoulders
,
head
,
and
every
part
of
him
,
as
he
made
all
keep
aloof
,
so
as
the
greatest
part
of
the
Florentines
of
the
adverse
part
,
were
thrown
to
the
ground
;
and
some
of
them
received
such
blows
on
their
breasts
,
as
they
could
hardly
breathe
for
a
good
while
after
.
And
the
Courtier
having
overcome
all
that
withstood
him
,
threw
the
ball
over
the
lists
,
and
won
the
Prize
.
At
which
he
Florentines
were
so
astonished
,
as
they
took
a
solemn
oath
never
to
admit
of
any
Courtier
more
to
play
with
them
;
as
those
who
in
running
had
winged
heels
;
and
are
rather
Devils
then
men
in
justling
,
thrusting
,
making
men
keep
back
,
and
making
room
for
themselves
in
croudes
,
and
making
way
there
,
where
people
flock
most
;
in
the
art
of
never
suffering
the
ball
to
fall
to
the
ground
when
they
have
gotten
it
,
nor
ever
to
be
taken
from
them
,
and
in
giving
their
adversaries
such
deadly
squelches
as
they
shall
never
rise
again
.
The
XLIV
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Batista
Platina
,
being
bastenado'd
by
Agustino
Niso
,
complains
to
Apollo
(
little
to
his
reputation
)
of
the
injury
received
.
BAtista
Platina
,
who
keeps
the
Pastrey
shop
in
the
corner
of
the
Herb-market
as
he
the
other
day
was
raising
a
piece
of
dainty
Paste
,
Agustino
Niso
da
Sessa
,
that
famous
Neapolitan
Philosopher
entred
his
shop
,
and
took
up
the
rowling
pin
wherewith
Platina
made
his
Paste
,
and
did
so
cudgel
him
with
it
,
as
certainly
he
would
have
slain
him
,
had
not
some
of
the
Vertuosi
,
who
heard
the
noise
,
run
in
,
and
hindred
him
.
Platina
being
thus
ill
dealt
withal
,
caused
himself
to
be
brought
before
Apollo
;
to
whom
he
sorely
complained
of
Niso
,
and
said
,
That
he
was
not
so
much
grieved
at
the
blows
he
had
received
,
as
that
he
had
never
deserved
to
be
so
foully
affronted
by
that
Philosopher
,
whom
he
had
always
so
deerly
loved
.
Apollo
did
with
much
grief
rescent
Niso's
extravagancy
,
and
gave
order
for
him
to
be
forthwith
sent
for
:
who
when
he
appeared
,
was
ask'd
by
his
Majestie
,
what
had
moved
him
so
to
dishonour
such
a
Vertuoso
as
Platina
.
Niso
boldly
replyed
,
That
by
reason
of
Platina's
evil
proceeding
with
him
,
he
was
forced
so
to
revenge
a
shameful
slash
,
which
he
had
given
him
over
the
face
from
one
ear
to
another
.
Platina
with
tears
,
said
to
Niso
,
I
have
always
admired
your
worth
Agustino
,
and
loved
you
as
dearly
as
my
own
soul
,
and
you
,
without
any
cause
,
have
offended
your
friend
,
whom
you
were
bound
to
love
and
reward
.
Niso
turned
then
to
Apollo
,
and
told
him
,
That
he
being
desirous
some
few
days
before
to
give
a
private
supper
to
some
Neapolitan
Vertuosi
,
had
sent
to
Platina's
shop
for
a
Veal
Pye
,
for
which
he
was
presently
paid
;
and
that
Platina
,
whom
he
had
never
offend
,
had
to
no
end
placed
his
Arms
over
his
shop
door
,
whereby
he
had
published
him
throughout
Parnassus
,
to
be
one
of
those
useless
persons
,
who
delighting
in
Gluttony
,
study
nothing
but
how
to
eat
well
.
Platina
excused
himself
,
and
said
that
he
had
placed
his
arms
over
his
door
,
to
honour
him
,
not
out
of
any
infamy
to
him
.
Apollo
then
bad
Platina
hold
his
peace
;
for
you
(
said
he
)
have
well
deserved
the
mischief
which
hath
befallen
you
;
for
the
arms
of
men
of
honor
,
and
of
such
a
Philolosophers
as
is
my
beloved
Niso
,
ought
to
be
seen
in
Libraries
,
no●…
i●…
Cooks
shops
,
where
none
but
those
of
smell
feasts
ought
to
ha●…g
;
for
there
is
no
fouller
defect
nor
vice
,
then
to
study
how
to
please
the
pallat
,
and
to
make
the
base
and
shameful
profession
to
hunt
after
good
victuals
.
The
XLV
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
knowing
what
mischief
over-much
riches
causes
to
Poets
,
exhorts
the
Magnanimous
King
of
France
,
Francis
the
first
,
to
moderate
his
profuse
liberallity
which
he
used
towards
them
.
THe
Illustrious
King
of
France
,
Francis
the
first
,
he
,
who
whilst
he
lived
,
did
not
onely
place
learning
on
his
right
hand
,
but
always
saluted
the
Litterati
by
taking
off
his
hat
;
whom
he
so
loved
,
as
that
he
enriched
many
of
them
,
so
as
by
authentick
faith
made
to
Apollo
,
it
appears
;
that
so
great
a
King
was
the
first
,
who
by
his
profuse
liberality
to
the
Vertuosi
of
that
his
Noble
Kingdom
of
France
,
had
planted
such
learning
there
,
as
taking
deep
root
afterwards
,
hath
brought
forth
infinite
volumes
of
the
labours
of
the
learned
French
,
which
have
much
enriched
the
Delphick
Library
;
and
that
using
still
the
same
bounty
to
such
as
lovelearning
,
he
feeds
a
great
many
of
the
Litterati
very
plentifully
in
his
Royal
Palace
in
Parnassus
,
to
whom
he
pays
very
liberal
provisions
.
A
magnanimity
and
Splendor
,
which
till
now
was
very
pleasing
to
Apollo
,
who
much
to
his
discontentment
,
is
come
at
last
to
the
knowledge
that
this
Kings
munificence
towards
the
Litterati
,
produces
bad
effects
;
for
that
over-much
riches
,
according
to
their
custom
,
begins
to
blemish
the
souls
of
many
Vertuosi
,
with
such
vices
as
luxury
and
ease
bring
with
them
,
which
have
so
produced
the
Moth
of
idleness
even
amongst
the
Vertuosi
of
this
State
,
as
that
many
famous
Poets
have
so
far
given
over
their
studies
,
as
even
Ovid
himself
,
who
formerly
to
the
wonder
of
all
men
did
every
day
inrich
the
Delfick
Liberary
with
some
one
Elogie
or
other
,
since
he
grew
into
so
domestical
acquaintance
with
so
great
a
King
,
suffered
nothing
to
proceed
from
his
pen
in
a
whole
year
,
save
four
Epigrams
made
in
praise
of
the
four
seasons
of
the
year
.
Wherefore
Apollo
perceiving
that
this
Kings
liberallity
towards
his
Vertuosi
occasioned
even
the
overthrow
of
learning
;
to
the
end
that
the
intents
and
perpetual
desire
which
they
have
to
learn
still
somew●…at
whilst
they
are
poor
,
might
not
be
extinguished
,
sent
two
days
since
for
King
Francis
,
whom
he
told
,
that
he
much
loved
and
admired
the
great
Liberallity
which
he
used
towards
his
Vertuosi
;
but
that
for
the
indempnity
of
Sciences
he
was
forced
to
will
him
to
be
more
moderate
therein
;
for
that
Learning
,
which
is
born
and
bred
in
poverty
,
was
requisitely
to
live
therein
,
as
in
her
particular
Element
:
That
therefore
he
should
not
permit
Poets
to
purchase
any
thing
by
his
Royal
Munificence
,
but
meat
and
cloathing
;
the
one
modest
,
the
other
mean
:
For
that
he
clearly
perceived
,
that
they
in
the
abundance
of
bodily
wealth
,
grew
poor
in
the
like
of
their
souls
,
vitious
amidst
riches
,
in
delitiousness
,
idle
;
or
that
the
like
disorder
was
found
in
them
,
as
was
observed
to
be
in
hens
,
which
,
the
fatter
they
are
,
lay
the
fewer
eggs
;
Poets
being
like
crickets
,
who
sing
not
but
out
of
meer
necessity
:
And
that
they
follow
not
the
chase
,
like
dogs
,
for
pleasure
;
but
like
Falcons
and
Goshawks
,
for
meer
hungar
.
The
XLVI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
having
found
out
the
first
Inventor
of
Guns
,
as
he
is
about
to
punish
him
severely
for
his
fault
therein
committed
;
The
Artificer
defends
himself
very
well
.
T
Is
now
some
fifty
years
since
Polidor
Virgil
had
a
Pension
given
him
by
his
Majesty
of
twenty
Crowns
a
month
,
together
with
maintenance
for
himself
,
two
servants
,
and
their
horses
,
;
only
that
he
might
endeavor
to
find
out
the
Inventors
of
all
things
which
had
been
thought
upon
by
extraordinary
Wits
for
the
benefit
of
man
:
For
Apollo
thought
such
men
deserved
so
well
for
their
industry
,
as
that
they
were
to
be
kept
in
perpetual
memory
.
And
his
Majesty
being
infinitely
troubled
that
the
Art
of
Warfaring
(
which
was
alwaies
cruel
)
should
now
be
arived
at
so
great
a
height
therein
,
by
the
new
Invention
of
Guns
,
as
that
in
all
late
Wars
much
more
use
was
made
of
fire
,
then
of
the
sword
:
And
being
grieved
even
to
the
very
heart
,
that
so
many
men
should
be
destroyed
,
and
Cities
ruined
in
a
short
time
by
this
diabolical
Invention
,
he
commanded
Pollidor
Virgil
,
that
with
all
speed
he
should
find
him
out
(
if
at
least
so
devilish
an
Instrument
could
be
found
out
by
any
humane
creature
)
who
had
the
cruel
heart
to
introduce
a
scourge
amongst
men
,
so
like
to
dreadful
Thunder
.
Pollidor
obeyed
,
and
in
a
short
time
did
not
only
learn
that
the
Inventors
of
Guns
was
a
Dutchman
;
but
found
him
out
,
and
delivered
him
alive
into
the
power
of
the
Court
.
Apollo
being
hereat
overjoy'd
,
commanded
the
Judges
of
Assize
,
that
they
should
do
exemplary
Justice
upon
this
so
cruel
enemy
to
mankind
.
These
gave
sentence
immediately
,
that
the
Dutchman
should
be
put
alive
into
a
Cannon
,
to
which
fire
being
given
,
he
might
be
torn
in
pieces
by
his
own
hellish
Invention
.
All
things
tending
thereunto
were
already
in
order
,
and
the
unhappy
Dutchman
was
brought
to
punishment
,
when
in
those
his
last
streights
he
intreated
that
he
might
be
permitted
to
speak
but
a
word
or
two
before
his
Majestie
in
his
own
defence
.
He
had
his
desire
granted
;
and
being
brought
before
Apollo
,
spake
thus
;
Illustrious
King
of
Light
!
shall
he
be
condemn'd
to
so
cruel
a
punishment
by
your
Majesties
Judges
,
who
are
esteemed
to
be
just
by
all
the
world
,
who
hath
laboured
to
deserve
favour
from
God
,
and
good
will
from
men
,
by
inventing
things
beneficial
for
mankind
?
It
is
the
intention
,
purpose
,
and
mind
of
a
man
that
makes
the
fault
,
which
,
whatsoever
excess
may
insue
upon
any
mans
work
,
yet
is
it
not
imputed
to
any
one
whose
will
was
good
,
and
his
intention
holy
.
I
call
God
to
witness
,
and
your
Majesties
own
light
,
which
sees
all
things
,
that
I
did
not
invent
Guns
to
afflict
mankind
(
as
I
find
many
do
wrongfully
think
)
but
out
of
zeal
,
charity
,
and
piety
;
and
if
any
mischief
hath
since
insued
thereby
,
it
was
more
then
I
intended
:
For
being
vexed
at
the
very
soul
to
see
,
that
through
the
ambition
and
avarice
of
those
that
rule
,
men
were
by
divers
waies
drawn
,
will
they
,
nil
they
,
to
the
slaughter
of
War
,
I
bethought
my self
,
that
people
could
not
receive
a
greater
benefit
from
any
one
,
then
to
acquit
the
world
of
the
vast
expence
of
bloud
occasioned
by
War
;
being
very
sure
,
that
if
Princes
should
want
souldiers
,
they
would
not
wage
War
so
much
,
and
would
content
themselves
with
their
own
fortunes
,
when
man
to
man
with
their
weapons
in
their
hand
,
they
must
overcome
that
enemy
,
whose
State
they
would
usurp
.
For
the
danger
of
losing
their
lives
,
would
make
them
lay
aside
the
insatiable
ambition
which
they
have
of
domineering
over
the
whole
world
.
To
arive
then
at
this
so
holy
end
,
and
wherein
I
thought
the
whole
felicity
of
mankind
did
consist
,
I
bethought
my self
of
this
invention
of
Guns
,
firmly
believing
,
that
out
of
horror
of
this
so
dreadfull
Instrument
,
all
men
would
be
so
terrified
,
as
they
would
abominate
the
mystery
of
War
.
I
did
the
rather
believe
this
,
for
that
I
saw
men
were
mightily
affrighted
with
Thunder
from
Heaven
,
though
they
knew
that
God
in
his
mercy
makes
more
Thunder
be
heard
for
terror
,
then
Bolts
seen
for
punishment
;
that
notwithstanding
many
when
they
see
the
lightning
which
precedes
the
thunder
,
run
into
corners
to
hide
themselves
;
nay
others
have
built
themselves
Chambers
of
Iron
for
security
.
Wherefore
I
did
firmly
believe
that
no
man
would
ever
be
so
rash
or
cruel
to
himself
,
as
to
expose
his
life
to
the
manifest
danger
of
death
,
by
incountring
with
earthly
Thunder
,
so
like
in
all
respects
to
the
Thunder
of
Heaven
;
and
levelled
at
the
life
of
man
,
not
to
affright
,
but
to
kill
him
.
If
the
contrary
to
what
I
believed
,
have
since
fallen
out
,
and
if
men
be
grown
so
superlatively
foolish
and
cruel
to
themselves
,
as
out
of
a
desire
to
appear
gallant
,
to
go
even
with
delight
against
the
mouth
of
the
Cannon
,
and
I
to
be
blamed
for
other
mens
rashness
and
beastiallity
?
Apollo
was
so
moved
to
hear
this
Dutchman
so
gallantly
defend
himself
,
as
turning
his
punishment
into
favour
,
he
commanded
that
he
should
be
rather
rewarded
then
censured
;
and
with
tears
in
his
eyes
,
said
,
That
by
reason
of
their
beastiallity
who
dare
sell
their
lives
for
the
poor
price
of
six
pence
a
day
,
he
was
compelled
to
be
pleas'd
that
cruel
inventions
should
daily
more
increase
,
whereby
to
rid
the
earth
of
this
lewd
sort
of
men
;
and
since
that
neither
fire
nor
sword
were
able
to
do
it
,
he
earnestly
desired
the
Majesty
of
his
Creator
,
that
he
would
once
more
open
the
Chateracts
of
Heaven
,
and
quickly
powre
down
new
deluges
of
water
upon
the
earth
,
to
wash
those
wicked
men
from
off
the
earth
(
without
harming
such
as
love
peace
)
who
forgetting
that
they
are
obliged
to
multiply
mankind
,
have
taken
upon
them
the
cruel
trade
of
annihilating
it
by
fire
and
sword
.
XLVII
▪
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Roman
Monarchy
desire
to
be
resolved
by
Cornelius
Tacitus
in
a
Politick
Doubt
;
and
receive
full
satisfaction
therein
by
Melibeus
,
the
Mantuan
Shepherd
,
who
was
casually
there
.
THe
Illustrious
Roman
Monarchy
,
which
before
it
was
trampled
upon
by
the
barbarous
Northern
Nations
,
lived
here
in
Parnassus
in
that
height
of
glory
,
which
no
other
human
worth
could
ever
arive
at
;
under
pretence
of
going
a
hunting
,
went
in
disguise
the
other
day
to
find
out
Co●…nelius
Tacitus
,
who
for
his
recreation
was
retired
to
his
Countrey-house
;
and
told
him
,
that
she
was
come
to
him
only
to
be
resolved
in
a
Doubt
which
had
a
long
time
troubled
her
mind
,
the
which
she
had
conferred
about
with
many
other
great
Polititians
,
and
had
not
received
such
satisfaction
from
them
,
as
she
hoped
to
do
from
him
,
who
was
the
greatest
Statist
and
Arch-Flamming
of
all
Modern
Policy
.
And
that
the
business
which
so
much
troubled
them
,
was
,
That
the
Kingdom
of
France
,
Spain
,
Egypt
,
Soria
,
the
Commonwealth
of
Carthage
,
and
the
rest
of
the
Immence
States
which
she
possest
in
Asia
,
Africa
,
and
Europe
,
were
of
themselves
formidable
to
every
one
,
before
they
were
joyned
to
her
but
that
being
all
of
them
united
in
her
person
,
instead
of
strengthening
her
,
they
had
made
her
weaker
then
she
was
before
;
a
thing
which
they
did
the
more
wonder
at
,
for
that
it
was
evidently
know
,
that
many
threads
made
a
strong
Rope
,
and
many
little
twigs
a
strong
rafter
;
and
yet
an
infinite
number
of
Principalities
being
joyned
together
,
had
not
formed
that
eternal
and
great
Monarchy
,
which
men
did
expect
?
Tacitus
answered
to
this
,
that
the
question
was
of
weight
,
and
therefore
deserved
to
be
maturely
consulted
,
that
he
would
return
the
next
day
to
Parnassus
,
where
when
he
should
have
cast
his
eye
over
his
Annals
and
Histories
,
he
believed
he
should
thereout
draw
such
an
answer
,
as
would
give
her
Majestie
full
satisfaction
.
The
Roman
Monarchy
was
very
well
pleased
with
this
Answer
;
and
just
as
she
was
going
to
take
her
leave
and
be
gon
,
Melibeus
,
that
famous
Shepherd
,
who
had
brought
a
dish
of
Curds
and
Cream
,
and
two
new
Cheeses
that
very
morning
,
as
a
present
to
Tacitus
,
and
had
heard
the
question
asked
by
that
great
Monarchy
,
desired
her
that
she
would
be
pleased
to
stay
,
for
that
he
would
instantly
give
full
satisfaction
to
her
in
that
which
she
desired
to
know
:
Tacitus
and
the
Roman
Monarchy
smiled
upon
Melibeus
,
and
bad
him
hold
his
peace
,
and
go
look
to
his
sheep
,
for
that
was
his
profession
.
Melibeus
then
boldly
answered
,
That
no
sort
of
men
whatsoever
knew
better
how
to
discourse
of
,
and
resolve
State-affairs
,
then
Shepherds
;
That
Princes
should
be
happy
if
they
used
the
same
charity
in
governing
their
Subjects
,
as
shepherds
do
in
feeding
their
flocks
,
and
the
people
most
happy
if
they
would
imitate
sheep
in
their
obedience
to
their
Princes
.
Tacitus
and
the
Roman
Monarchy
marvailed
much
at
this
bold
and
resolute
answer
of
this
Shepherd
;
wherefore
they
bad
him
freely
make
his
conceit
known
:
With
which
permission
Melibeus
thus
began
;
Most
powerfull
Queen
,
(
as
it
is
well
known
to
my
Virgil
)
am
a
shepherd
of
Mantua
,
and
I
should
much
injure
this
my
gray
head
and
beard
which
you
see
,
if
I
were
not
absolute
Master
of
my
profession
.
I
say
then
,
that
in
so
many
years
that
I
have
had
the
charge
of
sheep
,
I
have
clearly
learnt
,
that
a
shepherds
power
and
greatness
,
consists
not
(
as
many
that
are
covetous
and
ambitious
believe
)
in
having
many
millions
of
sheep
;
but
only
in
having
so
many
as
a
good
shepherd
may
keep
with
his
eye
,
govern
with
his
rod
,
and
rule
with
his
whistle
.
And
the
reason
is
apparent
;
for
shepherds
are
beggers
when
they
have
too
few
sheep
:
for
great
poverty
forceth
him
to
milk
them
too
dry
,
and
to
shear
them
too
close
.
Shepherds
are
alwaies
wealthy
and
happy
in
a
mean
(
wherein
all
perfection
consists
)
whereas
in
Immensity
they
run
certain
danger
,
for
that
it
is
very
hard
to
govern
such
a
number
of
sheep
as
is
disproportionable
to
the
forces
of
any
one
man
.
Whence
it
is
,
that
silly
sheep
,
when
in
too
numerous
flocks
,
first
grow
lean
,
and
then
of
necessity
die
,
through
the
meer
carelesness
of
him
that
looks
unto
them
.
This
disorder
is
occasioned
,
for
that
flocks
of
too
disproportionate
a
greatness
,
instead
of
good
institutions
,
are
full
of
fowl
confusions
;
and
the
Proverb
frequently
made
use
of
,
and
diligently
observed
by
us
shepherds
,
is
true
,
That
a
few
sheep
will
not
supply
the
necessities
of
a
Shepherds
Cottage
;
many
will
;
and
infinity
beget
confusion
;
and
are
rather
prejuditial
,
than
of
use
.
Princes
and
Commonwealths
were
happy
if
they
had
the
property
of
Cammels
,
to
stoop
down
humbly
to
the
ground
to
take
up
the
load
of
Government
;
and
if
they
could
put
a
period
to
their
pride
and
ambition
,
by
rising
up
on
their
legs
,
and
not
suffering
any
more
load
to
be
laid
upon
them
,
when
they
know
they
have
sufficient
for
their
strength
to
bear
:
but
men
do
all
their
life-time
,
long
to
grasp
a
great
stack
of
Hay
,
to
the
end
that
they
may
at
one
burthen
carry
it
all
home
to
their
own
Barns
;
which
falling
afterwards
by
the
way
,
they
find
that
after
so
much
industry
and
pains
,
they
have
laboured
in
vain
.
Hence
it
is
,
that
for
1600
and
odd
years
that
I
have
been
a
Shepherd
in
Arcadia
,
I
never
had
in
my
Penfolds
above
500
Sheep
,
which
affording
me
the
certain
gain
of
500
crowns
a
year
,
I
have
still
been
held
to
be
very
fortunate
by
all
the
Shepherds
of
Arcadia
.
I
therefore
think
that
shepherd
unhappy
,
who
being
blinded
by
avarice
,
thinks
to
grow
rich
in
one
day
,
by
having
many
flocks
of
sheep
,
which
not
being
able
all
of
them
to
be
looked
unto
by
the
Masters
eye
(
which
is
that
which
fattens
the
sheep
,
and
which
is
the
flocks
chiefest
felicity
)
he
commits
them
to
the
custody
of
careless
boys
,
and
oft-times
rents
them
out
to
cruel
Shepherds
,
who
out
of
greediness
to
reap
a
little
Interest
more
then
the
sheep
can
yield
,
do
lose
the
Principal
.
Neither
have
there
wanted
amongst
us
shepherds
those
Alexanders
the
great
,
who
to
asswage
their
thirst
of
Government
,
have
not
been
ashamed
to
ask
of
God
,
that
he
would
create
new
Worlds
.
For
in
our
Arcadia
was
one
Menalcas
,
one
that
did
alwaies
envy
me
,
and
was
my
mortal
enemy
;
who
thinking
he
should
be
able
to
crush
me
if
he
could
get
more
sheep
then
I
had
,
was
not
content
with
500
sheep
which
he
had
,
but
that
he
might
make
himself
absolute
Monarch
of
all
the
Shepherds
of
Arcadia
,
took
up
money
at
use
,
sold
the
greatest
part
of
his
Patrimony
,
and
having
got
together
a
good
sum
of
money
,
he
sent
for
three
flocks
of
sheep
,
each
of
them
consisting
of
500
from
Spain
,
France
,
and
England
,
where
he
knew
the
best
sheep
were
,
and
paid
excessively
for
their
transporting
;
which
being
strangers
,
and
not
acquainted
with
the
Shepherd
,
nor
yet
understanding
his
voice
nor
whistle
,
they
were
but
ill-favoredly
led
to
their
pasture
in
the
morning
,
and
brought
back
again
at
night
to
their
folds
.
Wherefore
Menalcas
,
to
bring
his
sheep
to
better
obedience
,
which
went
still
wandring
up
and
down
,
set
dogs
upon
them
;
which
not
being
known
to
the
sheep
,
were
alwaies
hated
by
them
,
and
they
were
the
more
incenst
,
for
that
to
their
natural
hatred
,
they
added
offences
;
which
begot
such
obstinacy
,
dispair
,
and
disobedience
in
the
sheeps
hearts
,
as
they
began
infinitely
to
abhor
their
shepherds
,
and
the
being
guarded
by
dogs
.
Moreover
when
they
found
they
were
to
be
milkt
or
shorne
,
they
hid
themselves
in
woods
;
and
then
it
was
that
all
the
shepherds
of
Arcadia
,
knew
that
dispair
may
make
Conies
turn
Lions
.
Wherefore
the
Spanish
sheep
grew
so
inraged
,
as
they
even
ventur'd
to
bite
the
shepherds
;
the
French
kickt
the
pail
down
with
their
feet
,
wherein
they
had
been
miklt
;
and
the
English
sheep
,
that
they
might
not
obey
strange
shepherds
,
nor
have
their
wool
torn
off
by
unknown
dogs
,
forbore
to
graze
,
chusing
rather
to
die
for
hunger
,
then
to
live
in
that
slavery
.
It
was
more
strange
to
see
,
that
the
same
profit
of
Cheese
,
Wool
,
and
Lambs
,
which
those
forrein
sheep
so
willingly
yielded
to
their
own
Country
shepherds
,
were
with
so
ill-will
paid
to
Menalcas
,
as
thinking
they
were
not
only
ill
treated
,
but
tyrannically
massacred
,
they
seemed
to
be
glad
that
they
were
become
barren
,
and
laught
to
see
their
shepherd
undone
.
Menalcas
being
exceedingly
afflicted
at
this
novelty
,
was
forced
to
send
to
Switzerland
for
a
new
regiment
of
dogs
,
to
bring
his
sheep
to
better
obedience
;
which
remedy
proved
both
chargeable
and
unfortunate
;
for
these
dogs
growing
so
cruel
to
the
sheep
,
as
even
to
worry
them
,
and
eat
them
up
;
this
cruelty
wrought
such
effect
in
the
sheep
,
as
they
began
resolutely
to
throw
off
all
obedience
.
So
as
afflicted
Menalcas
fell
at
last
into
the
misfortune
of
listning
to
a
Florentine
,
a
damn'd
Master
of
Policy
,
who
told
him
,
that
wary
shepherds
had
no
better
way
to
make
forrein
sheep
which
were
disobedient
,
serviceable
unto
them
,
then
by
keeping
them
poor
and
lean
;
which
as
soon
as
it
was
put
in
practice
,
proved
so
prejuditial
both
to
the
sheep
and
sheepherd
,
as
Menalcas
could
not
get
so
much
as
one
Cheese
,
nor
half
a
tod
of
wool
from
his
sheep
,
and
the
sheep
died
for
want
of
meat
.
And
in
one
months
space
,
Menalcas
lost
both
his
Interest
and
Principal
;
and
(
which
caused
much
mirth
in
all
the
Arcadian
shepherds
)
from
being
a
happy
shepherd
of
a
noble
flock
,
fell
,
through
his
greedy
ambition
to
be
a
woful
Merchant
of
sheep-skins
:
A
great
misfortune
,
wholly
occasioned
through
the
ignorance
that
men
have
of
shepherds
Arethmatick
,
which
differs
so
from
the
Merchant-like
Arethmatick
used
in
other
affairs
,
as
Menalcas
who
gained
500
crowns
a
year
by
500
sheep
,
fell
far
short
of
getting
a
thousand
,
by
a
thousand
.
For
it
is
true
,
that
in
common
Arethmatick
twice
five
,
makes
ten
,
and
thrice
five
,
fifteen
,
and
so
forward
;
but
in
Pastoral
Arethmatick
,
twice
five
,
makes
three
,
thrice
five
makes
one
,
and
four
times
five
,
makes
that
cypher
which
ruins
as
many
as
by
grasping
at
too
much
,
holds
fast
nothing
.
The
XLVIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Vertuosi
of
Parnassus
,
in
the
Assembly
of
Focide
,
decide
the
mystery
of
an
Host
;
and
find
the
keeping
of
an
Inn
to
be
a
Noble
Heroi●…k
Vertue
IN
the
Assembly
which
some
daies
past
was
celebrated
in
Focide
by
the
Vertuosi
,
for
decission
of
some
Controversies
which
arose
amongst
the
Vertuosi
,
it
was
resolved
to
the
wonder
of
all
men
,
that
Inn
keeping
was
not
a
sordid
occupation
,
but
a
most
worthy
Heroick
vertue
,
only
fit
for
such
high
spirited
men
,
and
men
of
worth
,
who
born
to
be
liberal
and
splendid
,
cannot
endure
that
their
purses
should
be
strung
with
avarice
,
nor
that
the
Coffers
wherein
they
keep
their
Gold
lockt
up
with
the
key
of
niggerliness
;
for
they
think
that
the
use
of
money
serves
for
nothing
,
but
the
more
to
inable
gallant
men
to
do
gallant
things
.
The
wonder
was
yet
the
greater
,
for
that
it
was
said
,
the
Vertuosi
concur'd
so
unanimously
in
this
Declaration
,
as
it
mist
but
a
little
,
that
this
vocation
,
held
at
first
so
sordid
,
was
not
added
as
an
eight
to
the
seven
Liberal
Sciences
.
The
meaner
sort
of
the
Litterati
could
hardly
believe
that
this
Paradox
was
approved
by
the
noblest
sort
of
Parnassus
:
For
Aristotle
,
Plato
,
Averoes
▪
and
many
other
antient
Litterati
of
the
first
Classis
,
did
highly
praise
this
resolution
of
the
Assembly
,
confessing
all
,
that
no
nobler
art
,
no
more
honorabler
exercise
,
nor
greater
advantage
could
be
had
or
made
by
great
men
,
then
that
of
Inn-keeping
:
Alwaies
provided
that
they
should
be
very
circumspect
in
lodging
certain
quallified
passengers
,
who
upon
occasions
which
daily
occur
,
might
with
half
a
penful
of
●…nk
▪
and
one
little
word
,
make
their
Host
happy
,
and
not
only
pay
for
their
supper
and
horse
meat
,
but
make
good
the
losses
he
had
suffered
by
such
as
feed
upon
other
mens
costs
,
and
pass
for
noddies
.
Presently
upon
this
Declaration
,
many
generously
minded
men
of
Parnassus
,
and
who
were
formerly
verst
in
the
Noble
Husbandry
of
sowing
good
turns
,
and
reaping
gratitude
,
betook
themselves
to
the
chief
high-waies
,
where
they
have
built
commodious
Inns
to
take
Sturgeons
with
Pilcherts
.
And
Alberto
Pio
,
Conte
de
Carpi
,
one
of
his
Majesties
Councel
of
State
,
dispatcht
away
an
express
by
Post
,
to
acquaint
his
Nephew
Octavius
Aquaviva
,
who
was
then
in
the
Court
at
Rome
,
with
this
news
.
This
nobly
minded
Prince
,
and
worthy
successor
to
his
vertuous
forefathers
,
as
soon
as
he
had
read
the
Letter
of
so
high
advertisement
,
took
Post
,
and
riding
to●…ds
the
high-way
which
leads
from
Rome
to
Tus●…ny
,
did
●…mmediately
erect
a
publick
and
Royal
〈◊〉
in
Viterbo
,
with
the
signe
of
the
blew
Lyon
,
where
he
nobly
treated
all
the
Princes
,
and
other
gallant
Gentlemen
that
past
by
that
way
;
and
did
this
with
such
Host-like
chearfulness
,
as
having
twice
lodged
Cardinal
Nicolas
Sfondrato
very
▪
suddenly
,
the
said
Cardinal
being
afterwards
made
Pope
,
remembring
how
good
cheer
his
Host
had
made
him
at
Viterbo
,
and
considering
the
Noble
bloud
,
and
great
worth
and
me●…s
which
did
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
so
great
a
Prelate
,
he
caused
him
to
be
sent
for
to
Rome
,
and
discoursing
with
him
of
what
he
had
eaten
at
his
Inn
,
did
gratefully
requite
him
with
a
sallet
of
boyl'd
succory
,
a
dish
of
delicate
porredg
,
with
Wardens
rosted
in
the
embers
,
and
with
a
Cardinals
Cap
,
in
despight
of
some
poorly
conditioned
fellows
,
who
are
not
ashamed
to
give
scurvy
nic-names
to
the
accommodation
which
we
receive
by
being
well
lodged
,
and
which
ought
to
be
esteemed
a
great
happiness
.
The
XLIX
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
A
Litterato
severely
punished
for
saying
that
Duels
were
sometimes
necessary
.
THe
Argumentation
had
three
daies
ago
between
certain
Litter●…
in
the
Peripatetick
Portico
,
whether
his
Majestie
had
done
well
or
no
,
to
forbid
Duels
upon
so
severe
penalties
,
was
very
remarkable
for
the
m●…fortune
it
occasioned
to
some
:
For
the
Disputation
was
no
sooner
ended
,
but
those
who
had
held
that
oft-times
such
differences
might
arise
between
souldiers
and
other
persons
,
as
not
being
to
be
decided
but
by
the
sword
,
Duels
were
necessary
,
were
seised
upon
and
condemned
to
the
Gallies
.
The
wonder
of
this
so
sudden
sentence
was
increased
,
it
being
clearly
seen
,
that
even
Justice
her self
,
which
was
never
known
to
shew
any
passion
in
any
whatsoever
occasion
,
did
not
at
this
time
conceal
her
anger
against
those
that
were
sentenced
.
Some
of
the
wisest
of
this
Court
say
,
that
she
had
much
reason
to
appear
so
incensed
,
since
her
reputation
was
so
deeply
concern'd
by
those
who
had
dared
to
affirm
that
it
was
possible
for
some
differences
to
fall
out
amongst
men
,
as
were
not
to
be
decided
by
her
Laws
,
without
the
use
of
Duels
.
The
L.
ADVERISEMENT
.
The
Dukes
,
Marquisses
,
and
other
Titulati
of
Parnassus
,
complain
grievously
to
Apollo
,
that
their
honorable
Title
of
Excellency
,
should
be
given
to
Doctors
of
Law
,
and
Physick
.
THe
Duke
of
Aganippe's
wife
fell
sick
the
last
week
of
a
dangerous
Feaver
;
he
therefore
forthwith
called
together
a
Colledg
of
the
best
Physitians
of
this
Court
,
wherein
for
his
better
satisfaction
,
he
would
be
present
himself
.
And
it
fell
out
,
that
whilst
these
Physitians
were
arguing
the
business
amongst
themselves
,
they
gave
the
Title
of
Excellency
to
one
another
:
Whereat
the
Duke
was
so
scandalized
,
as
not
being
able
to
endure
that
so
high
a
Title
,
and
which
in
this
our
age
is
so
ambi●…ously
coveted
by
great
men
,
should
be
frequently
used
by
those
thread-bare
Doctors
;
not
tarrying
to
hear
their
result
,
departed
from
them
,
and
went
to
find
out
divers
Princes
to
whom
the
Title
of
Excellency
is
given
;
and
told
them
they
must
make
head
,
and
no
waies
tollerate
that
so
●…ignal
a
Title
should
be
abused
by
Doctors
of
●…aw
and
Physick
.
The
Princes
were
so
wel
pleased
with
this
motion
,
as
●…y
immediately
presented
themselves
before
Apollo
,
and
complained
grievously
that
the
Princely
Title
of
Excellency
should
be
used
by
those
Doctors
,
for
whom
the
Title
of
Sir
,
or
Master
,
was
too
much
.
Apollo
gave
them
no
other
answer
,
but
that
they
should
send
for
the
parties
to
appear
;
which
was
done
.
So
as
the
Doctors
of
both
these
professions
appeared
the
next
day
before
Apollo
,
who
(
the
Princes
their
adversaries
being
present
)
said
it
was
well
known
to
all
men
,
that
Lawyers
and
Physitians
were
in
the
world
long
before
there
were
any
Dukes
or
Princes
,
who
had
their
beginnings
only
since
the
Goths
,
and
other
barbarous
Nations
passing
into
Italy
,
divided
it
amongst
them
,
into
petty
Principalities
,
till
when
the
names
of
Dukes
,
Marquisses
,
and
Earls
were
never
heard
of
;
and
that
the
Doctors
of
Law
and
Physick
,
from
the
first
plantation
of
Learning
,
had
the
Title
of
excellency
given
them
,
which
they
had
ever
since
peacefully
possest
;
and
that
those
first
Titolati
which
were
seen
in
Italy
,
took
upon
them
the
Title
of
Excellency
,
as
being
a
thing
which
was
highly
esteemed
of
by
Lawyers
and
Physitians
;
and
that
since
the
Titolati
were
of
much
later
standing
then
Doctors
,
no
Justice
would
permit
that
the
latter
should
deprive
the
more
ancient
,
of
the
Title
of
Excellency
:
and
that
if
the
Princes
their
adversaries
thought
that
that
〈◊〉
was
of
less
repute
for
being
used
to
Sholars
,
they
might
leave
it
,
and
take
to
themselves
one
which
they
should
like
better
;
but
that
they
were
very
sorry
,
that
in
these
Modern
times
the
Liberal
Sciences
should
be
of
so
small
esteem
,
as
it
should
be
accounted
a
dishonour
that
Physitians
and
Doctors
of
Law
should
use
the
Title
of
excellency
,
which
the
ancient
Dukes
took
from
Doctors
,
as
a
thing
which
they
did
much
value
.
And
then
they
added
,
that
for
the
eternal
glory
of
Learning
and
to
incourage
men
to
learn
the
Liberal
Sciences
,
the
rewards
of
honorable
Studies
ought
rather
to
be
increased
then
diminished
.
To
this
the
Princes
answered
,
That
the
first
foundation
laid
by
the
Doctors
,
that
the
Titolati
had
taken
the
Title
of
Excellency
from
them
,
was
false
▪
for
that
the
most
of
them
had
purchast
it
at
deer
rates
from
Supream
Princes
.
To
this
the
Doctors
reply'd
,
That
if
to
enjoy
the
Title
of
Excellency
at
dear
rates
,
made
for
any
advantage
in
this
dispute
,
the
Doctors
of
both
these
professions
might
say
that
they
had
paid
dearly
for
the
degree
of
Doctor
,
which
brought
with
it
the
●…itle
of
Excellency
to
the
Colledg
which
had
given
them
that
Degree
.
The
Princes
reply'd
with
a
great
deal
of
contempt
and
derision
,
that
it
was
very
strange
that
Doctors
should
pretend
to
parallel
their
excellencies
which
might
cost
them
50
crowns
,
with
that
of
Dukes
and
Princes
which
required
many
thousands
;
and
that
the
difference
between
the
one
and
the
others
excellency
,
was
easily
discerned
by
the
difference
of
the
price
.
It
appeared
strange
to
Apollo
,
that
the
Princes
should
presume
to
enjoy
the
name
of
Excellency
at
a
dear
rate
:
and
he
told
them
,
that
they
by
their
monies
had
purchased
the
substance
of
the
Estate
which
they
possest
,
not
the
vain-glorious
Title
.
But
that
Doctors
who
did
first
possess
the
substance
of
learning
by
their
perpetual
labour
and
watchings
,
might
justly
say
that
they
had
purchast
the
Title
of
Excellency
,
when
they
parted
with
their
monies
for
the
Degree
of
Doctor
.
To
this
the
Princes
answered
with
a
deep
sigh
fetcht
even
from
the
bottom
of
their
heart
,
that
his
Majestie
was
in
the
wrong
;
for
many
of
them
had
purchast
the
Title
without
any
State
;
when
to
a
Castle
or
place
wh●…
they
had
enjoy'd
from
their
Supreme
Prince
with
the
Title
of
Baron
or
Lord
,
they
had
purchast
the
Title
of
Duke
or
Prince
,
only
that
they
might
be
honoured
with
the
Title
of
Excellency
.
Apollo
was
so
much
distasted
hereat
,
as
he
presently
made
an
Edict
,
whereby
he
commanded
all
Kings
and
Emperors
,
that
for
the
future
they
should
abstain
from
such
like
Mercandize
,
as
from
a
thing
unlawfull
;
and
granted
all
Priviledges
and
Prerogatives
which
the
Law
by
way
of
charity
doth
afford
to
Widows
,
Orphans
,
Idiots
,
and
other
miserable
people
in
demanding
full
restitution
ex
capite
enormissimae
saesionis
,
to
those
silly
people
who
would
throw
away
their
money
to
buy
smoak
without
roast-meat
.
Then
to
rid
himself
of
this
troublesom
controversie
between
the
Princes
and
Doctors
,
he
referred
it
to
the
Tribunal
of
the
sage
Grandees
of
the
Liberal
Sciences
,
who
upon
hearing
of
the
fact
,
were
to
determin
it
:
Before
whom
when
the
Dukes
and
Doctors
appeared
,
after
two
hours
dispute
,
those
Judges
gave
sentence
,
that
though
the
Title
of
Excellency
which
was
used
by
Doctors
,
and
given
to
Princes
,
was
of
the
same
matter
,
quality
and
substance
,
yet
it
was
the
goods
of
Fortune
which
was
honoured
in
Princes
with
the
Title
of
Excellency
,
and
in
Doctors
,
those
of
the
mind
.
The
Dukes
thought
then
that
the
sentence
was
favorable
on
their
behalf
;
wherefore
with
a
scornful
smile
they
said
to
the
Doctors
,
These
Judges
have
cleared
the
question
once
for
ever
.
At
the
hearing
whereof
,
the
Doctors
,
who
smiled
inwardly
at
the
simplicity
of
these
Titolati
,
not
to
give
themselves
any
further
trouble
,
answered
nothing
.
But
when
the
Princes
had
conferred
with
their
Learned
Councel
,
who
told
them
that
the
sentence
made
for
the
Doctors
,
they
prest
his
Majestie
that
they
might
be
suffered
to
appeal
:
Apollo
troubled
at
the
Princes
pressures
,
bad
them
be
quiet
;
for
they
vilified
the
Title
of
Excellency
,
who
bought
it
with
their
monies
;
not
they
who
had
won
by
their
labour
and
study
:
And
that
if
the
Dukes
,
and
other
T●…tolati
would
purchase
infinite
honor
to
themselves
,
they
should
open
their
purses
,
and
by
rewarding
the
Professers
of
Learning
acquire
unto
themselves
the
Title
of
Liberal
;
which
with
men
of
sound
judgement
,
and
perfect
understanding
,
was
thought
to
be
much
above
that
of
Excellency
,
Highness
,
nay
even
that
of
Cesars
sacred
Imperial
Majesty
.
The
LI.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
A
Marquiss
who
caused
his
Genealogy
to
be
made
by
Scipio
Ammerati
,
found
himself
so
ill
dealt
with
by
him
,
as
he
redemands
the
reward
he
gave
him
.
AT
Scipio
Ammerato's
first
entrance
into
Parnassus
he
opened
a
publick
shop
,
where
he
still
professes
the
mystery
of
making
Genealogies
,
and
Pedigrees
for
principal
Families
,
at
which
he
is
so
expert
,
as
he
hath
the
chief
work
in
this
Court
of
that
nature
.
Wherefore
some
months
ago
a
Marquiss
of
some
condition
desired
him
that
he
would
draw
a
Pedigree
of
all
his
Family
,
and
endeavor
carefully
to
find
out
the
first
original
thereof
,
for
which
he
would
not
be
unthankful
to
him
,
and
in
part
of
payment
he
presently
gave
him
200
crowns
of
Gold
.
Ammerato
spent
divers
months
in
this
business
,
and
at
last
found
all
that
was
possible
to
be
found
of
that
Lords
Family
,
and
drew
it
up
into
an
exact
form
.
By
that
Genealogy
it
was
seen
that
this
Lords
Predicessors
had
been
Marquisses
for
above
one
hundred
years
,
and
that
the
first
of
his
Family
that
possessed
any
Estate
was
a
Captain
,
who
for
his
good
service
done
to
an
Emperor
of
Germany
,
had
a
Castle
given
him
,
which
was
called
Marquiss
.
Ammeratus
found
that
this
Captains
Father
was
a
Physitian
,
that
this
Physitian
was
the
son
of
a
Notary
,
that
the
Father
of
this
Notary
was
an
Oyl-man
,
descended
from
a
Serjeant
,
who
for
some
roguery
was
hanged
;
that
this
Serjeant
was
son
to
a
Matrix-maker
,
who
was
descended
from
a
Gentleman
of
Savoy
,
who
for
having
conspired
against
his
Prince
,
was
put
to
death
:
Whose
son
,
when
he
was
very
young
,
being
sent
by
the
Prince
of
Savoy
to
shift
for
himself
,
was
taken
into
the
house
of
meer
charity
by
the
said
Matrix-maker
,
who
having
taught
him
his
Art
,
adopted
him
his
son
.
The
Gentleman
of
Savoy
was
son
to
a
great
Count
,
whose
Father
,
Grand-father
,
great
Grand-father
,
and
great
great
Grand-father
had
been
of
good
esteem
in
that
County
,
which
was
purchast
by
a
Courtier
,
a
great
favorit
to
the
Prince
of
that
time
.
This
Courtier
was
found
by
authentick
Records
,
to
be
the
son
of
a
certain
Jew
,
whose
name
was
Salamon
,
who
becoming
afterwards
a
Christian
,
was
called
Arnoldo
;
and
this
Jew
being
come
from
Rhodes
,
his
pedigree
could
be
no
further
pried
into
:
Ammirato
having
arived
at
this
,
presented
the
Lord
with
this
Genealogy
;
who
seeing
the
great
bulk
thereof
,
not
looking
into
the
contents
,
seemed
to
be
well
satisfied
,
and
gave
Ammirato
a
thousand
crowns
.
But
when
he
read
the
loathsomness
of
his
Family
,
and
the
mean
condition
of
divers
who
were
registered
in
his
Genealogy
,
he
returned
to
Ammirato
,
and
told
him
that
instead
of
an
honorable
pedigree
which
he
had
desired
him
to
make
,
he
had
composed
an
infamous
Libel
against
him
.
Then
giving
him
back
his
Genealogy
,
re-demanded
the
moneys
which
he
had
given
him
,
saying
,
he
used
to
reward
those
who
would
cover
his
shame
,
not
those
who
would
lay
it
open
to
the
world
.
But
he
was
soon
quieted
,
when
Ammirato
told
him
he
should
do
wisely
in
not
being
over-curious
in
seeking
far
into
the
Antiquity
of
his
house
;
for
that
the
wheel
of
this
world
turning
continually
round
,
and
in
a
short
space
of
time
laying
those
low
,
who
a
little
before
were
at
the
highest
pitch
,
they
who
were
too
ambitiously
desirous
to
know
who
their
progenitors
were
from
the
flood
,
would
find
many
in
their
Genealogy
stained
with
the
like
blemishes
as
his
was
.
The
LII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
A
dispute
arising
amongst
the
Vertuosio
touching
the
truth
of
certain
Sayings
and
Speeches
of
wise
men
,
their
true
meanings
were
argued
and
resolved
in
the
General
Dyet
celebrated
in
Helicon
.
THe
Sayings
,
Sentences
and
Answers
of
the
wise
,
are
the
Laws
,
Acts
,
and
Statutes
which
are
observed
by
the
Vertuosi
in
this
State
;
and
therefore
Apollo
is
very
careful
that
they
may
be
perfectly
true
,
and
exactly
good
.
And
because
many
days
since
a
great
dispute
arose
amongst
the
Literati
touching
the
truth
of
some
of
them
;
according
to
custom
,
in
a
business
of
so
great
weight
,
the
General
Diet
of
the
Vertuosi
was
intimated
in
Helicon
:
Wherein
the
first
thing
that
was
called
in
question
was
,
whether
or
no
the
common
saying
was
true
,
That
wise
men
and
fools
are
cozened
by
fair
words
and
foul
deeds
.
Many
were
for
the
Affirmative
,
saying
,
that
the
cunning
of
divers
modern
wits
was
arrived
at
that
height
of
double
dealing
,
as
there
were
many
good
people
,
who
being
fed
with
good
words
,
were
afterwards
paid
with
bad
performances
;
and
that
it
was
daily
seen
,
that
double
dealers
did
by
their
fallacious
speeches
turn
and
winde
plain
meaning
men
as
they
listed
,
and
led
them
by
the
nose
at
their
pleasure
,
though
they
were
held
generally
to
be
wise
men
.
Yet
it
was
resolved
by
the
major
part
of
the
Dyet
,
that
in
times
past
the
saying
was
allow'd
of
with
much
reason
,
and
practised
as
a
true
one
;
but
that
now
adays
by
the
overdaring
boldness
of
dissemblers
,
who
were
openly
seen
to
cheat
and
cozen
the
eyes
of
the
simplest
,
and
very
Ideots
were
so
opened
,
as
believing
onely
such
things
as
they
saw
plainly
by
noon-day
,
and
touched
with
their
hands
,
none
but
fools
were
cheated
with
good
words
and
bad
deeds
;
for
wise
men
who
were
aware
of
these
wicked
mens
ways
,
did
not
onely
not
at
all
believe
them
,
but
holding
them
to
be
Crosbiters
and
Cutpurses
.
shunn'd
them
as
they
would
do
the
Plague
:
So
as
such
as
these
being
upbraided
with
their
double
dealing
,
durst
no
longer
shew
their
faces
amongst
honest
men
;
but
like
Owls
and
Bats
,
appeared
onely
by
night
,
to
hide
their
shame
by
darkness
.
It
was
next
taken
into
consideration
,
whether
the
proverb
,
Omne
solum
Forti
patria
est
,
To
a
stout
man
all
the
world
is
his
Countrey
,
were
absolutely
true
or
no.
The
first
day
,
which
was
wholly
spent
in
hot
disputation
upon
this
point
,
the
Dyet
seemed
to
think
it
was
a
great
error
to
question
a
Sentence
,
which
till
then
was
held
undeniable
by
the
unanimous
consent
of
all
Schools
;
since
it
was
plainly
seen
,
that
gallant
and
worthy
men
were
cherished
and
welcome
wheresoever
they
came
;
and
that
no
Prophet
being
approved
of
in
his
own
Countrey
,
men
highly
minded
,
and
of
generous
spirits
,
had
reason
to
account
that
their
Countrey
,
where
their
worth
was
valued
;
and
where
,
without
being
envyed
by
their
neighbours
,
every
man
was
valued
according
to
his
true
worth
,
that
they
onely
should
esteem
that
for
their
Countrey
wherein
they
were
born
,
whose
foolish
behaviours
abroad
made
them
be
accounted
odious
foreigners
;
yet
the
adverse
party
had
the
better
,
so
as
the
saying
was
repealed
as
false
:
For
by
the
Vertuosi
of
the
Dyet
,
it
was
found
to
be
directly
contrary
to
the
Divine
will
of
God
:
For
God
being
pleased
,
for
reasons
unknown
to
man
,
to
make
the
whole
fabrick
of
the
earth
of
a
like
fertillity
and
pleasantness
;
and
yet
it
being
his
will
,
that
the
most
barren
mountains
should
be
as
well
inhabited
by
men
,
as
the
most
fruitful
valleys
,
and
the
scorch'd
and
frozen
climates
,
as
well
as
the
Temperate
,
he
with
wisdom
worthy
of
himself
,
did
infuse
into
the
heart
of
man
so
excessive
a
love
unto
his
Countrey
,
thereby
obfuscating
his
judgement
and
understanding
;
as
he
hath
taken
from
man
the
knowledge
of
better
,
who
still
thinks
that
Countrey
the
most
delicious
where
he
is
born
:
A
love
so
necessary
,
as
were
humane
creatures
deprived
thereof
,
they
would
abandon
the
Craggy
Alpes
,
the
frozen
Northern
parts
,
and
the
scorched
Southern
ones
,
and
with
infinite
confusion
flock
all
of
them
to
the
temperate
Countreys
of
Europe
and
Asia
;
and
that
wilde
beasts
,
and
all
other
creatures
did
clearly
evidence
this
,
who
governing
themselves
by
natural
precepts
,
were
seen
to
live
perpetually
in
those
Countreys
wherein
they
were
bred
;
and
though
they
were
swift
of
wing
,
and
fleet
of
foot
,
yet
they
were
contented
with
the
small
circuit
of
their
own
Countrey
.
That
therefore
Hares
,
when
hunted
from
their
seats
by
dogs
,
in
flying
from
them
are
so
frighted
with
the
sight
of
new
Countreys
as
fearing
new
places
,
more
then
the
hounds
teeth
,
they
return
to
dye
where
they
were
first
started
.
That
the
curiosity
of
man
had
observed
,
that
Swallows
by
so
long
a
Tract
both
by
sea
and
land
,
return
to
build
their
nests
in
the
same
place
from
whence
they
went
the
year
before
.
After
this
averdment
,
it
was
much
disputed
by
the
Deputies
of
the
Dyet
,
whether
the
proverb
Festina
lente
,
were
true
or
no
?
And
it
was
said
,
That
it
being
impossible
at
one
and
the
same
time
both
to
run
and
walk
slowly
,
the
proverb
contained
contrarieties
,
and
was
therefore
impossible
to
be
put
in
practise
;
for
slowness
could
not
consist
with
swiftness
,
and
that
it
was
impossible
to
use
mature
deliberation
,
where
precipitation
was
wisdom
.
And
in
this
particular
Tacitus
his
opinion
was
much
approved
,
who
freely
said
,
that
Nullus
cunctationis
locus
est
in
co
concilio
,
quod
non
potest
●…duri
,
nisi
peractum
:
quia
non
cunctatione
op●…s
ubi
per●…tior
fit
quies
quam
Temeritas
.
Tacit.
lib
1.
Histor.
there
is
no
room
for
delay
in
that
advice
,
which
admits
not
of
praise
till
it
be
executed
;
for
where
pawsing
is
more
dangerous
then
rashness
,
there
needs
no
delay
.
In
this
variety
of
opinion
,
the
Dyet
that
they
might
maturely
resolve
the
business
,
caused
the
Emperor
Flavius
Vespatianus
to
be
sent
for
,
whom
they
demanded
in
what
sense
he
who
first
used
that
saying
Festina
lente
,
dict
understand
it
;
and
whether
by
those
words
he
would
teach
others
Mature
haste
.
To
this
Vespatian
answered
,
That
he
did
not
set
up
the
Impress
of
the
Anchor
and
the
Do●…phin
,
with
the
motto
which
was
so
well
known
,
in
that
sense
which
was
afterwards
commonly
given
unto
it
;
for
he
very
well
knew
,
that
many
occasions
might
happen
,
wherein
precipitation
was
to
be
esteemed
great
wisdom
,
and
according
to
the
French
,
first
to
act
,
and
then
to
argue
and
resolve
.
But
that
by
Festina
lente
,
he
would
have
wisely
admonished
his
Romans
Lente
Festinare
,
to
be
flower
in
making
feasts
,
for
that
in
Rome
where
there
were
many
Beagles
which
were
very
well
sented
to
find
out
wild
beasts
,
though
in
never
so
secure
a
harbour
;
and
great
store
of
swift-Greyhounds
,
and
abundance
of
those
two
legged
Animals
,
who
being
of
a
wilde
nature
,
Fiunt
occupantis
,
have
no
certain
owner
,
the
too
frequent
use
of
feasts
was
nothing
else
but
to
hunt
for
Horns
,
and
fill
ones
budget
with
them
.
After
this
Interpretation
of
his
impress
,
given
by
Vespatian
,
which
was
fully
satisfactory
to
the
whole
Dyet
.
It
was
propounded
,
whether
the
usual
proverb
,
Rosso
Mal
pel●…
,
beware
of
a
red
head
were
true
or
no
?
And
because
of
all
men
,
those
that
have
red
hair
drink
most
,
and
therefore
are
accounted
brave
fellows
,
jovial
companions
,
truth
tellers
,
and
pleasantly
disposed
,
no
ways
revengeful
nor
cruel
,
but
much
given
to
pastime
;
red
hair
seemed
to
be
best
,
for
those
who
desired
to
appear
before
men
with
countenances
which
might
purchase
them
good
will
and
credit
amongst
men
.
The
Dyet
did
unanimously
vote
for
the
repealing
of
the
proverb
,
and
with
a
joynt
vote
declared
it
to
be
false
.
When
at
the
very
instant
that
the
decree
was
entring
,
the
vertuous
Lady
Victoria
Colonna
,
who
in
the
Dyet
represented
the
whole
University
of
Poetesses
,
briskly
opposed
it
,
and
caused
the
whole
Dyet
to
alter
their
opinion
.
For
she
told
them
,
That
they
had
revoked
the
truest
saying
that
ever
proceeded
from
the
mouth
of
any
wise
Philosopher
:
For
(
said
she
)
the
proverb
Rosso
mal
pelo
,
did
not
warn
men
(
as
it
was
commonly
believed
)
to
beware
of
red
hair
,
but
women
,
and
especially
married
wives
,
that
they
should
by
all
means
avoid
it
,
as
a
treacherous
hair
.
For
there
being
but
few
men
of
that
complexion
,
if
one
of
them
chance
to
be
more
then
ordinary
gracious
with
a
Lady
,
he
is
sooner
taken
notice
of
for
a
Whore-master
,
then
those
whose
more
ordinary
hair
serves
to
cloak
their
knavery
.
The
interpretation
given
by
the
Lady
Victoria
,
appeared
to
the
whole
Dyet
to
be
true
,
and
worthy
the
judgement
of
so
noble
a
Poetess
.
So
as
when
this
controversie
was
ended
,
the
great
Delfick
Chancellour
questioned
the
saying
,
Ubi
Bonum
ibi
patria
,
great
diligence
was
used
in
the
discussing
a
business
of
such
importance
:
and
the
Literati
said
,
That
the
greatest
part
of
Humane
felicity
,
consisting
in
the
wealth
which
men
possess
,
they
knew
not
v●…hy
that
should
not
be
esteemed
a
mans
happiest
Countrey
,
where
his
greatest
riches
lay
,
for
the
Countrey
where
men
live
by
their
labour
,
and
by
wages
purchast
by
sweat
,
was
by
wise
men
esteemed
an
unfortunate
abode
,
not
a
delicious
Countrey
.
It
was
notwithstanding
unanimously
agreed
upon
,
That
in
former
times
the
proverb
was
held
to
be
very
true
,
but
that
in
these
days
,
wherein
the
ravenous
nails
of
Fischi
,
Promoters
were
grown
longer
then
Vultures
claws
,
or
Lyons
paws
,
and
wherein
great
revenues
,
upon
occasion
of
any
Delinquency
imputed
to
wealthy
men
,
served
of
times
for
conclusive
proofs
,
and
undeniable
arguments
,
to
enrich
Princes
Treasury
by
confiscasions
,
it
was
a
blessed
thing
to
live
in
Italy
,
and
have
a
mans
estate
in
Iapan
.
The
LIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
at
last
grants
admittance
into
Parnassus
to
Francisco
Sforza
,
Duke
of
Milan
,
which
he
had
long
denyed
to
do
,
upon
a
hard
condition
,
which
he
accepted
of
.
COunt
Fr.
Sforza
,
he
who
by
his
extraordinary
military
valor
purchast
the
Dukedom
of
Millan
,
whereby
he
rendred
his
Family
as
famous
and
honourable
as
the
like
of
the
greatest
Princes
.
Though
140
years
be
past
,
since
at
the
great
desire
of
the
Souldiery
and
Literati
,
he
came
to
the
confines
of
this
State
,
yet
he
was
never
suffered
by
Apollo
to
enter
into
Parnassus
;
and
though
the
chiefest
Princes
of
this
Court
,
who
did
always
admire
the
great
worth
of
so
gallant
a
man
,
have
perpetually
interceded
for
him
,
his
Majestie
notwithstanding
,
without
ever
making
the
cause
known
,
hath
always
denyed
him
that
favour
.
But
being
prest
thereunto
much
more
then
usually
eight
moneths
ago
by
Lodowick
the
eleventh
,
King
of
France
.
Apollo
answered
resolutely
,
That
he
infinitely
loved
Sforza's
worth
and
extraordinary
merit
,
but
that
for
good
respects
he
would
not
admit
so
scandalous
a
man
into
Parnassus
.
To
this
that
King
,
who
was
so
knowing
,
couragiously
answered
,
that
in
respect
of
the
Dukes
extraordinary
military
valour
,
his
excellency
in
councel
,
his
singular
dexterity
,
his
quick
dispatch
,
his
continually
uncorrupted
faith
,
and
his
other
heroick
vertues
,
wherein
he
did
so
abound
,
he
thought
that
the
true
Patron
of
worthy
Commanders
,
and
the
Idea
of
a
Prince
greatly
wise
in
peace
,
and
infinitely
valliant
in
war
,
was
rather
to
be
admitted
into
Parnassus
,
then
any
thing
that
was
scandalous
.
To
this
reply
Apollo
answered
,
That
he
did
not
gain-say
the
Dukes
great
deserts
;
but
that
man
beginning
happily
already
to
discern
the
false
Alchimy
of
the
Militia
,
and
the
unhappy
use
of
the
Souldiers
craft
,
he
would
not
,
by
admitting
of
the
Duke
into
Parnassus
,
renew
the
reputation
of
rash
and
hiddy
giddy
men
;
and
so
much
the
rather
,
for
that
the
foolish
sort
of
men
,
for
their
greater
calamities
,
were
more
encouraged
to
despise
the
danger
of
Navigation
,
for
one
onely
ship
that
returned
safe
into
the
haven
,
then
they
were
terrified
for
1000
that
were
sunk
in
the
sea
.
Apollo
added
,
that
he
was
more
desirous
to
admit
the
Duke
into
Parnassus
,
then
the
Duke
was
to
be
there
:
Wherefore
he
wish'd
King
Lewis
to
tell
him
,
that
he
would
very
willingly
grant
his
request
,
if
at
his
entrance
into
Parnassus
he
would
onely
bring
such
with
him
,
as
had
come
to
an
unfortunate
end
in
the
pay
they
took
from
the
Sforzeses
Militia
.
The
Duke
thought
this
condition
to
be
hard
and
shameful
;
and
was
long
in
dispute
with
him self
,
whether
he
should
accept
of
it
or
no
;
for
the
desire
of
glory
pleaded
on
the
one
side
,
but
then
he
was
deterd
to
know
that
the
Militia
promising
so
fairly
,
and
coming
off
so
ill
,
he
was
to
bring
with
him
the
unfortunate
attendance
of
those
that
were
miserable
,
and
much
to
be
bemoned
.
In
this
so
great
doubt
,
this
Heroes
endelss
desire
of
glory
got
the
upperhand
;
wherefore
he
signified
to
Apollo
by
his
Secretary
Simonetta
,
that
he
willingly
accepted
of
what
was
proffered
him
in
his
Majesties
name
;
and
Apollo
immediately
appointed
a
day
for
his
entrance
,
which
was
the
19
of
this
present
moneth
.
When
the
Princes
and
famous
Commanders
of
this
Court
knew
this
the
Dukes
resolution
,
they
were
much
troubled
thereat
,
and
left
nothing
undone
to
make
him
change
his
resolution
,
which
they
knew
was
to
bring
great
prejudice
to
the
whole
Militia
.
But
the
Duke
,
standing
still
stedfast
to
his
resolution
,
resolutely
answered
those
Princes
,
that
he
was
fully
resolved
to
purchase
a
place
in
Parnassus
at
what
rate
soever
,
let
whatsoever
mischief
befal
the
mysterie
of
war.
For
that
Fisher-man
was
not
to
be
esteemed
ungrateful
to
his
occupation
,
who
being
grown
very
wealthy
by
the
great
gain
he
had
got
by
Fishing
,
burnt
his
boat
,
and
tore
his
nets
.
He
presently
therefore
called
for
such
as
he
did
most
confide
in
,
whom
he
commanded
to
muster
together
all
those
Souldiers
who
had
miscarryed
in
the
Sforzese
Militia
,
which
were
a
very
infinite
number
;
and
the
next
Wednesday
about
6
a
clock
,
the
Duke
all
armed
made
his
entrance
:
never
was
there
a
sadder
nor
more
woful
spectacle
beheld
:
For
it
exceeded
all
the
greatest
miseries
,
and
made
tears
to
fall
even
from
the
hardest
hearted
men
,
to
see
an
infinite
number
of
young
men
,
well
provided
of
fortunes
,
who
lived
at
ease
,
enjoying
all
delights
in
their
fathers
houses
,
dead
of
hunger
,
and
starved
in
Hospitals
;
some
lying
dead
in
ditches
,
many
on
the
high-ways
,
and
an
infinite
number
drown'd
,
serving
for
food
to
dogs
and
fishes
,
others
all
rent
with
wounds
,
some
trod
to
death
by
horses
,
others
begging
their
bred
by
the
high-way
,
not
having
received
sufficient
recompence
from
those
Princes
in
whose
service
they
had
lost
their
blood
,
and
exposed
their
lives
to
a
thousand
dangers
,
to
carry
them
back
to
their
own
houses
,
which
they
had
so
unfortunately
forgon
.
And
every
one
wept
when
they
saw
a
yong
Gentleman
of
about
twenty
years
old
,
who
being
shot
into
the
eye
by
a
cross-bow
arrow
,
whereof
he
dyed
,
and
who
having
been
told
by
Guido
Bonati
,
a
famous
Astrologer
,
that
if
he
would
be
so
wise
as
to
keep
in
his
own
Countrey
,
he
might
assuredly
live
to
be
fouscorce
year
old
;
the
same
Guido
Bonati
tenderly
imbracing
him
,
said
,
O
unfortunate
young
lad
,
Why
wert
thou
so
foolish
as
to
sell
60
years
of
life
for
sixpence
?
Then
fearful
curses
were
heard
against
the
first
introducers
of
war
.
The
next
day
after
the
Dukes
entry
,
the
most
accomplished
Literati
came
to
Apollo
,
and
told
him
,
he
very
well
knew
that
there
was
no
difference
between
the
miseries
of
war
and
Courtiers
unhappiness
.
For
if
war
were
miserable
,
Courts
were
nothing
but
afflictions
;
if
Souldiers
were
unhappy
,
Courtiers
were
unfortunate
;
that
therefore
since
the
sad
spectacle
of
Duke
Sforza's
entrance
into
Parnassus
had
infused
such
dread
into
all
the
Militia
,
as
it
was
abhorr'd
by
all
men
,
it
would
be
equally
advantagious
to
the
world
,
if
when
any
Courtier
were
admitted
into
Parnassus
,
who
was
risen
from
a
mean
condition
to
the
supremest
dignities
,
he
should
(
as
the
Duke
had
been
)
be
accompanied
by
all
those
miserable
Courtiers
,
who
suffering
under
the
Avarice
and
ingratitude
of
several
Princes
,
dyed
despairing
.
This
advice
was
rejected
by
Apollo
as
pernitious
,
who
said
,
that
men
had
more
need
be
incouraged
to
go
to
Court
,
then
terrified
from
going
thither
;
for
though
but
few
came
by
any
dignities
,
wealth
or
honor
,
yet
all
of
them
inriched
their
souls
with
the
purchase
of
several
vertues
;
which
was
so
true
,
as
he
thought
he
deserved
not
the
name
of
a
compleat
Gentleman
,
who
having
spent
many
years
in
Court
,
had
not
been
Scozzonato
,
had
not
learnt
his
lesson
well
.
The
LIV.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
A
dangerous
contention
which
arose
amongst
the
Pedagogs
in
Parnassus
upon
a
very
ssight
occasion
,
is
appeased
by
Apollo
.
YEsterday
about
eight
of
the
clock
a
great
alarm
was
sounded
in
the
Gramarian
Quarters
,
which
made
all
the
Vertuosi
run
to
see
what
the
matter
might
be
:
and
they
found
that
the
Schoolmasters
,
Panegyrical
writers
and
Commentarors
,
were
fallen
so
foully
together
by
the
ears
in
Brigadoes
,
as
there
was
much
ado
to
part
them
The
dispute
which
arose
between
them
was
,
Whether
the
word
Consumptum
were
to
be
written
with
a
P
,
or
onely
with
a
T.
Apollo
was
much
troubled
at
this
dispute
,
not
onely
for
the
mean
cause
of
the
quarrel
,
but
for
that
Paulus
Manutius
(
who
was
thought
to
be
a
chief
actor
in
this
brabble
)
hit
Lambino
in
the
face
(
who
stifly
maintained
the
contrary
opinion
)
with
a
Roman
stone
,
whereon
Consumptum
was
written
with
a
P
,
wherewith
he
broke
his
nose
.
Apollo
,
who
was
at
first
much
incensed
at
the
Pedanticks
mean
folly
,
was
so
highly
scandalized
at
this
new
excess
,
as
he
commanded
the
Pretor
Urbano
to
rid
Parnassus
of
that
Sottish
crew
of
Pedants
.
But
afterwards
,
at
the
intreaties
of
Cicero
,
Quintillian
,
and
others
of
the
chiefest
Literati
of
this
Court
,
who
interceded
for
those
brawling
people
,
saying
,
That
those
Pedanticks
could
not
fall
out
for
any
matter
of
moment
,
who
were
onely
acquainted
with
slight
affairs
,
his
Majestie
was
appeased
.
The
LV.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
For
remeady
of
many
disorders
which
are
found
in
History
,
a
General
Assembly
of
Historians
being
summoned
,
Apollo
publisheth
a
severe
Edict
against
them
,
and
many
Historians
are
reprehended
for
their
errors
.
THe
General
Assembly
of
all
Historians
,
which
was
intimated
some
moneths
ago
by
the
Censors
,
by
express
order
from
Apollo
,
to
meet
in
Delos
,
was
ended
two
days
ago
,
much
to
his
Maj.
satisfaction
,
by
reason
of
the
excellent
orders
that
therein
were
established
in
a
business
,
wherein
the
eternal
Fame
of
those
things
consist
,
which
are
composed
by
gallant
men
.
This
caused
the
more
general
content
in
all
the
Vertuosi
,
for
that
modern
Writers
have
strayed
far
from
those
laws
which
they
devoutly
promised
to
observe
when
they
took
the
oath
of
Historians
before
Apollo
;
and
because
the
importance
of
the
business
doth
deserve
it
,
Menante
will
not
grudge
to
give
you
the
very
Edict
which
was
published
yesterday
morning
in
his
Majesties
name
by
the
sound
of
Trumpet
in
the
Market
places
,
and
afterwards
posted
upon
all
the
Colledge
gates
of
this
State
.
We
Phoebus
,
by
the
Grace
of
God
Emperor
of
the
fixed
Stars
,
King
of
Planets
,
Prince
of
the
Zodiack
,
Duke
of
Light
,
Marquis
of
Generation
,
and
Earl
of
all
visible
things
;
To
all
our
faithful
Vertuosi
,
and
well-beloved
Literati
,
health
.
We
having
much
to
our
displeasure
found
,
that
many
modern
Historians
have
much
wandred
from
that
way
of
truth
,
which
was
walked
in
to
the
publique
good
of
others
and
their
private
honor
,
by
our
faithful
Pen-men
Dionysius
,
Livy
,
Salust
,
Tacitus
,
and
many
others
;
to
the
end
that
future
Ages
which
do
so
eagerly
read
History
,
may
be
sure
to
find
truth
from
the
pens
of
faithful
Writers
,
and
not
be
abused
by
lies
given
out
unto
them
by
flattering
and
malicious
ignorant
Historians
,
do
by
this
our
Edict
,
which
is
to
continue
for
ever
,
call
into
the
memory
,
and
give
notice
to
all
those
who
undertake
the
noble
work
to
eternize
by
their
writings
the
actions
of
famous
men
,
that
they
must
always
remember
,
that
being
to
write
,
not
to
the
present
,
but
to
those
that
are
to
come
,
they
publish
writings
full
of
that
Historical
truth
,
which
renders
the
names
of
sincere
Pen
men
glorious
and
eternal
to
future
ages
:
And
that
they
should
value
the
blame
and
threats
of
such
as
are
justly
taxed
for
their
unworthy
actions
,
but
as
dung
;
there
being
no
more
woful
folly
,
then
continually
to
labor
with
pen
in
hand
how
to
shame
themselves
,
by
writing
falsehoods
,
without
any
advantage
to
those
whom
they
flatter
,
declaring
,
that
to
publish
false
Histories
,
is
to
assassinate
the
Vertuosi
who
read
them
:
And
therefore
our
will
and
pleasure
is
,
That
those
who
run
into
so
enormous
excesses
,
be
irremissably
punish'd
by
the
like
assassination
.
And
because
it
is
apparent
that
Princes
have
arrogated
so
much
authority
even
over
the
free
pens
of
Historians
,
as
not
to
suffer
any
thing
to
be
written
of
them
,
though
it
be
true
,
which
is
not
fully
to
their
satisfaction
(
a
pretension
which
hath
so
banished
historical
truth
from
the
pens
of
writers
)
as
the
great
wits
of
our
choicest
Vertuosi
being
frighted
by
the
base
fawnings
whereby
modern
Princes
will
be
flattered
,
the
weighty
imployment
of
writing
History
,
reserved
onely
for
the
choicest
Pen-men
,
is
now
adays
(
to
the
great
shame
of
the
present
age
and
infinite
damage
of
the
future
)
fallen
in
the
hands
of
ignorant
people
:
We
therefore
by
reason
of
this
foul
disorder
,
are
forced
to
put
Princes
in
mind
,
That
their
Authority
ceasing
with
their
lives
,
they
are
fools
if
they
believe
they
are
able
after
their
deaths
to
hinder
our
Vertuosi
from
writing
the
truth
of
their
actions
to
future
times
.
And
we
do
more
particularly
advertise
the
same
Princes
,
That
their
valliant
carrying
of
themselves
in
affairs
which
require
freedom
,
is
the
cause
why
our
faithful
Historians
,
esteeming
themelves
offended
by
so
much
severity
,
out
of
meer
rage
of
revenge
,
after
he
lives
of
such
Emperors
,
write
rather
Invectives
then
Histories
,
as
the
Emperors
Tiberius
,
〈◊〉
,
〈◊〉
and
〈◊〉
,
have
to
their
great
shame
●…ound
.
And
to
obviate
the
great
inconvenience
,
occasioned
by
their
ignorance
▪
who
in
these
modern
times
do
〈◊〉
the
worth
of
History
by
their
Sottish
writings
,
o●…
will
and
pleasure
is
and
we
do
expresly
command
,
That
hereafter
no
man
,
of
what
degree
o●…
condition
soever
he
be
,
shall
dare
to
write
History
,
unless
he
be
first
approved
of
for
purity
of
language
,
by
Iulius
Caesar
;
for
●…ence
by
Livy
;
for
policy
,
by
Tacitus
;
for
the
good
understanding
of
Princes
interest
,
by
Guicchardin
.
And
more
over
under
pain
of
perpetual
infamy
,
we
do
expresly
prohibit
for
the
future
,
the
writing
particular
Histories
of
any
whatsoever
City
,
unless
it
be
the
Metropolis
of
some
Empire
,
Kingdom
▪
or
great
Province
:
And
this
we
do
,
to
the
end
that
the
precious
jewel
of
Time
be
not
mispent
in
mean
things
,
both
by
him
that
writes
,
and
by
him
that
reads
.
And
for
the
same
reason
we
ordain
,
That
it
shall
not
be
lawful
for
any
writer
,
to
publish
the
life
of
any
Commander
,
unless
he
have
commanded
in
chief
in
some
Armies
,
or
had
deserved
his
pay
twenty
times
told
,
won
some
Provinces
,
besieged
and
taken
some
strong
holds
,
and
have
sought
two
set
battels
at
least
in
open
fields
.
And
to
take
away
all
abuses
that
may
be
committed
by
ambitious
men
,
we
declare
,
That
those
whose
lives
any
one
shall
undertake
to
write
,
have
the
same
requisite
parts
as
were
in
Bellisarius
,
in
Narsetes
,
in
Godfrey
of
Bullen
,
in
Alexander
Fernese
.
And
to
rid
the
world
as
much
as
may
be
of
a
certain
arrogant
Ambition
which
is
known
to
reign
in
many
,
we
likewise
command
.
That
it
be
not
lawful
to
write
any
particular
History
of
any
Family
,
unless
it
be
made
appear
to
our
Colledge
for
History
,
that
it
hath
maintained
it self
famous
and
illustrious
in
the
world
for
full
five
hundred
years
,
with
plenty
of
Personages
who
have
put
a
period
to
important
wars
,
and
honourable
undertakings
;
and
that
in
this
particular
they
take
our
glorious
and
well-beloved
Families
of
the
Orsina's
,
Caietans
and
Collenesses
for
their
examples
.
And
because
it
is
well
known
by
many
former
examples
,
that
to
suffer
an
ambitious
man
to
write
his
own
acts
,
is
to
put
a
naked
sword
into
a
mad
mans
hands
,
we
do
expresly
command
,
That
it
shall
not
be
lawful
for
any
one
to
write
any
Commentary
or
formal
Story
of
his
own
life
,
unless
he
have
given
in
sufficient
security
to
contain
himself
within
the
terms
of
modestie
and
truth
;
and
unless
he
be
declared
by
our
Colledge
of
Historians
to
be
so
eminent
a
Personage
,
as
his
actions
deserve
to
be
consecrated
to
Immortality
for
the
good
of
future
ages
.
And
to
extirpate
the
wicked
vice
of
Flattery
out
of
the
world
,
to
the
which
(
to
our
infinite
grief
)
we
see
our
Vertuosi
are
much
inclined
,
we
do
expresly
command
,
That
it
be
not
lawful
for
any
writer
to
publish
the
life
of
any
whatsoever
Hero
,
though
he
be
Emperor
or
King
,
before
he
be
dead
,
allowing
mention
of
men
whilst
alive
to
be
onely
made
in
general
Histories
,
or
in
some
short
particular
Elogies
.
Moreover
,
to
shun
the
infinite
follies
which
are
daily
seen
in
many
Histories
,
our
express
wil
&
pleasure
is
,
that
it
be
not
lawful
for
any
writer
to
compose
the
Historie
of
any
particular
foreign
Nation
,
unless
he
have
lived
for
the
space
of
twenty
years
in
that
Countrey
,
whose
Story
he
will
write
.
And
for
the
like
reason
we
do
forbid
any
whatsoever
Vertuosi
to
undertake
to
write
History
,
unless
he
have
travelled
many
Provinces
;
unless
he
have
been
Secretary
or
Counsellour
to
some
great
Prince
,
or
be
not
Senator
to
some
famous
Common-wealth
;
and
chiefly
unless
he
have
spent
two
third
parts
of
his
life
in
following
Courts
,
which
we
have
judged
to
be
the
more
requisite
,
for
that
in
our
Delfick
Library
we
find
some
Histories
written
by
Courtiers
,
who
are
altogether
ignorant
of
the
purity
of
Languages
and
of
all
the
most
important
precepts
of
the
Art
of
writing
History
;
but
so
abounding
in
smart
politick
precepts
,
as
they
make
clearly
appear
that
it
is
the
particular
vertue
of
accomplished
Courtiers
to
publish
to
posterity
,
not
such
things
as
they
have
gathered
up
by
hear-say
,
but
the
most
hidden
intrinsical
meanings
of
Princes
,
which
they
by
their
quick
speculative
wits
have
known
how
to
penetrate
into
.
And
because
in
many
volumenous
Histories
,
we
read
bitter
invectives
against
the
Nation
which
is
an
enemy
to
the
place
where
the
Author
of
the
History
lives
,
we
do
here
renew
our
Edicts
published
in
this
particular
some
years
ago
;
wherein
for
the
indemnity
of
Historical
truth
from
the
blames
imputed
by
one
Nation
to
another
adverse
Nation
,
we
have
ordained
,
That
an
abatement
shall
be
allowed
of
60
per
cent
.
And
because
we
are
assured
,
That
the
sad
loss
to
learning
,
of
the
greatest
part
of
our
beloved
Livies
pretius
Dechads
,
is
occasioned
soly
by
Lucius
Florus
,
we
do
expresly
command
,
That
from
henceforth
it
be
not
lawful
for
any
one
to
epitomize
or
write
a
breviate
of
the
writings
of
any
whatsoever
Historian
.
So
also
,
with
all
the
plenary
power
that
we
have
over
learning
,
we
forbid
all
our
Vertuosi
,
at
any
time
hereafter
to
write
the
universal
History
of
the
world
,
or
of
any
particular
Nation
,
which
like
the
famous
Romans
,
French
or
Saracins
have
done
gallant
acts
,
compendiously
,
or
in
small
volumes
;
as
many
have
done
to
little
or
no
purpose
,
who
have
written
the
actions
of
all
Nations
,
from
the
beginning
of
the
world
to
their
own
times
,
in
a
few
sheets
;
experience
having
taught
all
men
,
that
the
reading
of
things
so
succinctly
written
,
is
altogether
unuseful
,
it
being
unpossible
to
reap
that
abundant
fruit
,
which
is
tasted
in
particular
Histories
,
where
not
meerly
res
gesta
,
the
thing
done
is
related
,
but
the
reasons
and
counsels
thereof
.
In
the
last
place
,
we
put
the
reverend
Preisthood
in
mind
,
that
they
attend
to
the
reading
and
writing
of
sacred
things
;
and
leave
the
writing
of
profane
Histories
to
those
lay
people
,
who
think
it
a
meretorious
truth
not
a
sinful
murmuring
,
to
asperse
the
actions
of
Princes
,
or
private
men
,
who
have
done
things
amiss
.
Given
at
our
Zodiack
,
the
20
day
after
our
entrance
into
Libra
,
the
year
of
our
laborious
course
,
5570.
After
the
publication
of
so
severe
an
Edict
,
it
was
whispered
in
this
Court
(
but
because
the
business
was
carryed
very
secretly
;
and
Menante
,
who
advertiseth
nothing
but
truths
,
tells
it
not
for
an
assured
verity
)
that
many
Historians
,
yea
even
of
the
first
Classis
,
were
severely
reprehended
:
For
t
is
said
,
that
Iulius
Caesar
was
commanded
,
that
within
twenty
days
he
should
not
fail
to
add
the
breaking
open
of
the
Roman
Exchequer
in
his
Commentary
,
punctually
as
it
passed
;
and
that
he
should
therein
mention
certain
other
particulars
,
which
being
more
then
meanly
loathsom
,
he
had
forborn
to
relate
,
lest
it
might
entrench
too
nearly
upon
himself
.
That
uetonius
Tranquillus
was
severely
reprehended
,
for
that
having
made
more
open
profession
then
any
other
Literato
,
to
be
very
circumspect
in
his
writings
,
he
had
notwithstanding
recounted
such
obscene
lasciviousness
of
Tiberius
,
of
not
forbearing
in
his
lust
to
make
use
of
sucking
caildren
,
pollutions
which
howsoever
ought
not
to
be
spoken
of
,
not
onely
in
respect
that
Historians
cannot
affirm
those
lewd
actions
for
truths
,
which
in
point
of
lust
are
done
in
the
dark
,
when
doors
are
shut
;
but
for
that
such
things
(
though
truths
)
ought
not
to
be
touched
upon
,
which
for
the
great
scandal
which
they
occasion
,
ought
rather
to
beburied
in
oblivion
,
then
divulged
;
it
being
the
end
of
all
Historians
to
insert
vertue
into
mens
minds
,
not
to
instruct
vice
.
T
is
said
indeed
,
That
Dion
was
told
in
milder
terms
,
that
History
,
which
ought
to
be
wholly
real
truths
,
the
very
pitch
of
politick
instructions
,
needed
not
to
be
filled
with
the
so
often
reiteration
of
those
prodigies
,
with
which
he
had
so
heaped
up
his
writings
,
as
they
did
even
choak
those
that
read
them
.
And
which
was
the
more
tedious
,
for
that
they
had
exceeded
the
bounds
of
discretion
,
both
in
their
numbers
and
qualities
:
For
Apollo
his
self
smiled
to
see
him
write
of
so
many
showers
of
blood
and
stones
;
he
not
remembring
that
he
had
ever
exhaled
such
Meteors
,
which
were
afterwards
congealed
into
blood
,
or
turned
into
stones
.
It
is
said
,
That
Titus
Livius
,
the
father
of
the
Roman
Histories
,
blushed
not
a
little
at
this
reprehension
which
was
given
to
Dion
;
perhaps
,
because
he
found
himself
guilty
of
the
like
errors
:
But
it
is
certainly
affirmed
by
all
,
that
Lampridius
was
severely
proceeded
against
;
for
by
order
of
the
whole
congregation
,
his
Histories
were
turned
back
upon
his
hands
,
and
he
was
freely
told
,
That
he
should
go
and
teach
those
execrable
lusts
in
the
publike
Classis
,
wherewith
he
had
so
delighted
himself
to
fill
his
shameful
papers
,
wherein
he
had
written
the
lives
of
Heliogabalus
,
Caracalla
,
and
other
lascivious
monsters
of
nature
:
It
is
also
noised
that
Machiavel
was
reproved
for
his
mad
and
desperate
policy
,
with
which
he
had
so
freely
filled
his
Histories
,
and
other
writings
,
as
he
openly
manifested
his
desire
was
to
draw
his
Readers
into
the
same
ditch
of
Impiety
whereinto
himself
was
shamefully
fallen
.
T
is
said
,
that
in
the
next
place
the
Congregation
found
fault
with
Guicchardin
,
for
his
having
spoken
amiss
of
the
Venetian
Commonwealth
,
the
which
was
called
by
the
whole
Assembly
,
the
Sanctuary
of
the
Vertuosi
,
the
true
seat
of
perfect
liberty
,
the
Bulwark
against
Barbarians
,
the
Mint
of
Libraries
,
the
salt
of
humane
wisdom
,
glory
of
the
Italian
Nation
;
and
many
do
believe
,
that
Guicchardin
in
the
face
of
the
whole
Congregation
,
did
not
onely
acknowledge
,
but
bewail
his
error
,
alledging
for
his
excuse
,
that
meer
envy
to
see
the
State
of
Venice
grow
daily
more
glorious
in
her
eternal
liberties
,
whilst
the
Florentines
,
by
their
domestick
factions
,
lost
their
freedom
,
had
made
him
so
foully
prevaricate
;
but
that
the
Fame
of
Venice
,
the
glory
of
that
excellent
councel
,
whereby
she
did
(
as
a
rare
and
onely
example
)
daily
increase
both
in
State
and
reputation
,
was
arrived
at
that
height
of
splendor
,
as
was
not
to
be
obscured
by
the
pen
of
whatsoever
passionate
writer
.
It
is
also
said
,
That
Ialiano
Goselini
.
Secretary
to
the
Senat
of
Millan
was
sent
for
by
the
Censors
;
who
told
him
,
that
certainly
he
thought
he
spoke
to
drunken
men
,
when
in
the
life
wihich
he
writ
of
Don
Ferrante
Gonsaga
,
where
he
makes
mention
of
the
Apostolick
sea
,
he
did
not
stick
to
say
,
That
her
greatness
was
Caesars
particular
care
;
and
whilst
Goseleni
was
about
to
defend
what
he
had
said
,
he
was
bid
to
go
make
Ballads
,
invented
for
flattery
,
it
being
the
business
of
History
to
write
real
truths
.
And
because
Girola●…o
Conestaggio
,
Conestaggio
,
Gentleman
of
Genua
,
had
taken
his
History
of
Portugal
out
of
the
Delfick
Library
,
which
had
been
there
many
years
before
,
and
had
in
lieu
thereof
given
in
another
edition
of
the
same
History
,
which
(
as
he
said
)
was
corrected
in
some
places
:
The
overseers
of
the
Library
,
finding
that
he
had
rather
abused
then
corrected
that
edition
,
which
he
had
not
reprinted
(
as
he
gave
out
)
for
the
general
good
,
but
to
give
satisfaction
to
some
,
whose
reputations
were
deservedly
taken
by
him
,
he
was
told
,
That
if
he
did
not
bring
back
the
first
edition
into
the
Library
within
eight
days
,
the
Assembly
would
put
some
affront
upon
him
.
For
the
ruine
of
the
Portugueses
being
occasioned
by
those
who
had
the
care
of
instructing
King
Sebastian
in
his
youth
,
it
was
very
necessary
,
that
by
the
unhappy
end
of
so
great
a
King
,
and
by
the
miserable
calamities
of
the
Portugueses
,
Princes
should
be
taught
to
know
,
that
the
learned
masters
which
are
to
have
the
care
of
breeding
up
their
children
in
their
youth
,
ought
to
be
Commanders
of
tryed
valour
,
and
Senators
of
known
Politick
prudence
.
The
LVI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
,
to
secure
the
rivers
of
his
State
from
Pyracie
,
makes
Bernardo
Capello
General
of
the
Ionick
Sea
,
and
gives
him
excellent
directions
.
APPOLLO
being
desirous
to
provide
against
many
evils
which
Learning
suffers
under
by
the
Frigots
of
ignorant
Pyrats
,
in
the
rivers
of
Corinth
,
declared
Bernardo
Capella
two
days
ago
,
in
the
great
Senat
of
Litterati
,
to
be
Admiral
or
General
of
the
Ionick
Sea
;
whom
he
strictly
commanded
,
that
to
that
purpose
he
should
levy
foot
,
and
was
content
that
he
should
take
along
with
him
some
of
the
best
born
young
Poets
of
that
State
;
who
to
begin
the
mysterie
of
bearing
arms
,
did
offer
themselves
to
serve
his
Majestie
upon
this
occasion
.
Apollo
afterwards
sent
for
Capello
,
whom
he
strictly
commanded
,
under
the
pain
of
being
declared
to
be
wofully
ignorant
,
that
he
should
molest
none
with
his
Gallies
,
but
the
Frigots
of
ignorant
Pyrats
;
and
that
he
should
suffer
Merchants
ships
,
of
what
Nation
soever
,
to
go
free
,
together
with
their
Merchandize
,
to
do
them
all
possible
honour
;
and
that
he
should
be
ayding
to
them
upon
all
occasions
,
as
they
well
deserved
,
for
that
by
theirnoble
industry
,
men
enjoyed
the
commodities
of
the
remotest
Countreys
;
to
the
end
that
the
zeal
that
his
Majestie
desired
to
shew
unto
the
world
,
of
defending
his
subjects
and
their
faculties
from
the
rapine
of
Pyrats
,
might
not
be
turned
into
a
greater
inconvenience
by
his
filling
the
Seas
with
new
and
a
worser
sort
of
Sea
Robbers
.
His
Majestie
then
said
,
It
would
be
too
shameful
a
thing
that
the
robbing
of
publike
Merchants
ships
should
be
done
in
the
name
of
the
most
exquisitely
vertuous
Prince
,
who
should
be
much
to
blame
if
he
imployed
his
prime
Nobility
in
such
an
exercise
,
wherein
they
should
begin
their
Militia
with
shame
enough
,
if
their
first
action
should
be
to
pillage
Merchants
ships
.
And
to
the
end
that
all
the
world
might
know
,
that
his
Majesty
had
no
interest
in
a
business
of
such
weight
,
save
only
the
publick
good
;
he
charged
Capello
to
kill
as
many
Pyrats
as
he
should
take
;
not
only
the
more
to
terrifie
so
pernitious
a
race
of
men
,
but
that
so
usefull
a
work
might
not
by
taking
of
ransoms
,
be
turned
into
a
publick
prejudicial
Merchandice
;
it
being
proved
by
many
things
which
had
hapned
,
that
such
Pyrats
as
had
first
been
prisoners
,
and
had
afterwards
purchast
their
Liberties
,
did
very
willingly
expose
themselves
afterwards
to
all
sorts
of
danger
to
reimburse
the
money
which
they
had
paid
for
their
ransom
.
The
last
and
chiefest
order
which
his
Majesty
gave
to
Capello
,
was
,
that
his
charge
being
only
to
guard
the
Rivers
belonging
to
Parnassus
,
he
should
keep
himself
from
going
out
of
them
at
any
time
▪
as
he
would
do
from
fire
,
lest
he
might
fall
upon
the
same
shame
as
those
fools
do
,
who
forsaking
their
marriage-bed
to
commit
adultery
with
other
mens
wives
,
became
cuckolds
.
The
LVII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Prince
of
Epire's
first
son
being
born
,
he
is
thereat
so
afflicted
,
as
he
forbids
that
any
shews
of
joy
be
made
for
it
in
his
State
.
THe
last
Letter
that
came
from
Epire
,
bears
date
the
22
of
this
present
month
,
and
they
tell
us
of
the
birth
of
a
son
to
the
Prince
of
Epire
;
and
say
that
he
being
the
first-born
,
the
people
of
that
Country
were
not
only
exceedingly
joyed
to
see
their
Prince
his
succession
secured
,
but
that
they
and
many
of
the
neighbouring
Lords
prepared
to
make
extraordinary
demonstrations
of
gladness
.
But
the
Prince
was
the
only
man
who
in
this
publick
rejoycing
was
so
very
sad
,
as
he
forbad
the
Steward
of
his
house
,
who
went
to
take
order
for
the
expence
of
bone-fires
,
fire-works
,
and
other
expressions
of
joy
for
the
birth
of
their
young
Master
,
to
shew
any
signes
of
jollity
;
and
bad
him
make
the
Fountains
run
with
.
Wi●…e
,
to
proclaim
open
Court
for
forty
daies
in
his
house
,
spend
a
hundred
thousand
crowns
in
Tilt
and
Turney
,
when
he
himself
should
have
a
son
〈◊〉
;
the
Lord
Steward
wondred
much
at
this
the
Princes
answer
,
to
whom
he
said
,
What
means
this
,
Si●…
,
is
not
the
child
that
is
bo●…
your
son
,
your
wife
having
brought
him
forth
twelve
months
after
you
were
married
▪
I
now
find
,
said
the
Prince
,
that
privat
me●…
are
not
much
acquainted
●…ith
the
Interests
of
Princes
.
But
to
let
you
see
that
I
have
reason
for
what
I
say
,
tell
me
how
old
I
am
▪
Eighteen
the
twel●…th
of
〈◊〉
month
▪
replyed
the
Steward
.
Confess
then
,
said
the
Prince
,
that
the
child
〈◊〉
now
born
,
is
my
brother
,
not
my
son
;
for
privat
men
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
children
from
their
brethren
by
their
birth●…
;
but
Pri●…
by
〈◊〉
age
:
and
know
that
those
shall
be
my
best
beloved
sons
,
who
shall
be
〈◊〉
●…o
me
when
I
shall
be
50
years
old
;
and
when
any
such
shall
be
born
,
I
will
be
content
that
extraordinary
joy
shall
be
shewn
:
For
when
sons
are
born
to
a
young
Prince
as
I
am
,
bels
should
rather
toll
out
for
sorrow
,
to
Funerals
,
than
Trumpets
sound
for
joy
:
A
Prince
who
marries
whilst
he
is
young
,
runs
hazard
of
having
a
multitude
of
sons
,
which
is
the
true
stone
of
offence
,
of
whatsoever
State
;
this
is
so
great
a
truth
,
as
a
King
can
receive
no
greater
blessing
from
heaven
,
than
to
have
but
one
only
son
alive
.
Moreover
,
a
Prince
who
hath
many
sons
whilst
he
is
young
,
ought
not
to
covet
long
life
;
for
as
Fathers
desire
to
die
with
Supreme
power
in
their
hand
;
so
sons
,
when
they
come
to
certain
years
of
age
,
have
not
patience
to
wait
till
the
Fruit
of
Government
grow
to
be
ripe
by
their
Fathers
death
:
for
many
great
Kings
have
had
sons
,
who
blinded
with
a
desire
of
reigning
,
would
rather
hazard
their
healths
with
eating
green
Grapes
in
Iune
,
then
tarry
till
they
should
be
ripe
in
September
.
If
it
be
so
,
said
the
Steward
,
I
must
confess
the
condition
of
Princes
is
to
be
deplored
in
that
,
wherein
we
privat
men
do
envie
them
.
Know
then
,
said
the
Prince
,
that
when
my
son
▪
who
is
now
born
,
shall
come
to
be
one
and
twenty
years
old
,
and
I
shall
not
put
him
into
full
possession
of
this
my
Principality
,
if
he
shall
then
chance
to
contrive
any
thing
against
my
Person
,
or
my
State
,
it
is
I
that
shall
therein
have
erred
more
then
he
.
For
it
will
be
as
great
a
discourtesie
in
me
,
not
to
resigne
over
unto
him
my
State
then
,
as
it
would
be
inhumanity
in
me
,
if
when
I
should
be
eating
at
a
plentifull
Table
,
I
should
see
him
stand
by
,
ready
to
starve
for
hunger
,
and
not
bid
him
eat
.
The
LVIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
erects
a
new
Tribunal
in
Parnassus
,
for
the
punishment
of
flatterers
;
but
succeeds
very
unfortunately
therein
.
THe
civil
and
vertuous
life
which
the
Litterati
lead
in
this
State
of
Parnassus
,
is
not
so
much
to
be
attributed
to
the
severe
punishment
threatned
to
such
as
are
vitiously
given
,
as
to
the
great
rewards
held
out
to
such
as
are
vertuous
;
nor
yet
to
the
good
genius
which
the
Litterati
are
generally
of
,
as
to
Apollos
wisdom
,
who
hath
appointed
several
distinct
Tribunals
for
every
vice
,
for
every
fault
omitted
,
and
Judges
thereunto
appropriated
;
for
his
Majestie
hath
learnt
by
the
late
disorders
,
that
when
his
Ministers
are
troubled
with
but
a
few
affairs
,
they
dispatch
them
accurately
well
;
whereas
those
that
have
great
store
of
business
upon
their
hands
,
are
neither
speedy
,
nor
very
just
in
their
dispatches
.
Nor
was
Apollo
aware
,
till
six
months
since
,
of
the
great
disorder
which
reignes
in
this
State
,
wherein
many
severe
Tribunals
being
erected
against
all
such
principal
vices
whereinto
men
do
most
usually
fail
,
there
was
no
Judge
nor
punishment
set
apart
for
the
vice
of
flattery
,
which
his
Majestie
doth
so
much
detest
,
and
which
is
so
pernitious
both
to
Princes
,
and
privat
men
.
So
as
his
Majestie
thought
that
disease
was
so
generally
diffused
amongst
men
,
chiefly
because
there
was
neither
Physitian
,
nor
Apothecary
appropriated
thereunto
:
Wherefore
his
Majestie
who
is
alwaies
vigilant
in
the
extirpation
of
all
vice
,
and
in
procuring
indempnity
to
his
Vertuosi
,
thought
it
very
necessary
to
correct
so
great
an
error
,
and
to
curb
so
wicked
a
vice
.
He
therefore
of
his
own
meer
motion
,
erected
a
Tribunal
six
months
ago
in
this
Court
,
under
severe
punishments
against
flatterers
:
For
his
pleasure
was
,
that
such
as
should
be
found
guilty
of
so
foul
a
fault
,
should
be
tied
to
the
infamous
Chain
which
is
in
the
chief
Market-place
,
and
flead
live
by
Marsia
,
who
was
very
skilful
thereat
,
having
learnt
it
at
his
own
charges
:
And
for
the
more
severe
punishment
of
so
enormous
a
vice
,
he
chose
the
chief
Satirical
Poets
of
the
State
,
as
the
greatest
enemies
of
flatterers
,
to
be
their
Judges
.
Peter
Aratine
was
made
Lord
Chief
Justice
,
Iuvenal
the
first
Advocate
;
Ariosto
Attorney-General
;
Francis
Berna
,
chief
Notary
,
who
had
Nicholas
Franco
,
and
Cesar
Caporali
for
his
substitutes
;
and
six
months
being
past
since
the
erecting
of
the
Tribunal
,
in
all
which
time
no
complaint
came
in
against
flatterers
,
though
flattery
were
seen
to
be
daily
used
in
Parnassus
;
Apollo
,
that
he
might
have
occasion
to
punish
those
wicked
persons
,
made
use
of
a
great
many
Spies
,
who
diligently
watching
over
them
,
might
accuse
them
before
the
Tribunal
.
This
remedy
wrought
good
effect
▪
for
ere
long
they
found
Bartolomeo
Cavalcanti
,
who
flattering
a
foolish
Prince
;
given
to
hunting
,
wantonness
,
all
sorts
of
delights
,
neglecting
the
Government
of
his
State
so
far
,
as
he
had
transferred
the
care
thereof
into
the
hands
of
one
that
was
mercenary
,
ignorant
,
and
very
passionate
,
he
termed
him
vigilant
,
indefatigable
in
taking
pains
,
an
enemy
to
all
pastime
,
which
he
had
wholly
placed
in
following
business
.
Cavalcanti
was
suddenly
seased
upon
;
who
upon
examination
,
presently
confest
all
that
could
he
desired
.
Wherefore
the
Judge
using
all
the
mercy
to
him
that
could
stand
with
Justice
,
allowed
him
three
daies
to
make
his
defence
,
and
Martia
brandisht
his
knife
about
,
and
put
all
other
things
in
order
;
when
the
Judge
coming
to
examin
the
Prince
who
was
flattered
,
found
,
that
though
he
was
notoriously
known
to
be
what
was
said
of
him
,
he
pretended
notwithstanding
,
that
Cavalcanti
had
not
only
spoke
truth
,
but
that
in
the
praise
which
he
with
reason
gave
him
,
he
came
short
of
his
deserts
:
So
as
being
asked
if
he
had
any
thing
to
alleadg
against
Cavalcanti
,
or
whether
he
thought
himself
offended
by
his
gross
flattery
,
the
Prince
being
much
incenst
,
answered
,
that
he
had
no
reason
to
complain
of
one
that
had
said
truth
,
and
that
he
did
not
esteem
those
praises
which
he
ought
to
reward
,
injuries
:
and
added
,
that
he
did
very
much
wonder
,
and
was
greatly
scandalized
at
that
new
Tribunal
,
which
seemed
to
be
invented
rather
to
defame
men
of
honour
,
then
to
punish
cheaters
.
Aretin
being
much
moved
at
this
answer
,
with
more
freedom
then
became
him
,
asked
with
what
face
he
could
pretend
that
Cavalcanti
had
not
lied
basely
in
praising
such
a
blockhead
as
he
was
,
so
notoriously
stupid
,
unfit
for
Government
,
which
he
had
totally
turned
over
to
a
vitious
favorite
of
his
?
The
Prince
hearing
this
,
advanc'd
with
unexpressible
rage
,
and
told
Aratine
,
Tune
dirai
,
e
farai
tante
,
e
tante
Lingua
Fracida
,
marcia
,
senza
sale
,
Ch'al
fin
si
trovera
,
pur
un
pugnale
Meglior
di
quel
d'Achille
,
epiu
calzante
.
Saggio
son
Io
,
et
tu
sei
un
Fortante
Nutrito
del
pan
d'altri
,
del
dir
male
,
Un
piede
hai
in
Chiasso
,
l'altro
allo
spedale
Stropecciato
,
ignorante
,
et
arrogante
.
Thou
'lt
talk
,
and
do
so
many
sottish
things
,
With
that
thy
rotten
,
base
,
unworthy
tongue
,
As
that
a
Dagger
will
be
found
ere
long
,
Better
then
that
Achilles
with
him
brings
.
I
'm
wise
,
and
thou
a
rascal
underling
Bred
up
at
others
Tables
,
men
t'
abuse
,
One
foot
i'
th'
Hospital
,
th'
other
i'
th'
Stews
:
Thou
art
an
arrogant
sot
,
Aratine
.
The
Attorney-General
,
the
Notaries
,
and
all
the
other
Officeres
,
were
so
incenst
to
hear
such
words
given
to
a
Judge
,
the
Court
sitting
,
as
they
all
fell
with
violent
hands
upon
the
Prince
,
to
carry
him
to
prison
.
But
he
that
was
better
at
his
hands
than
head-piece
,
did
not
only
defend
himself
,
but
assisted
by
his
attendance
,
struck
one
of
Aratines
eyes
almost
out
,
broke
Iuvenals
arm
,
and
Berna's
jaw-bone
;
and
poor
Ariosto
,
who
betook
himself
to
his
heels
,
when
he
saw
the
scuffle
begin
,
fell
down
the
stairs
,
and
bruised
himself
terribly
.
When
Apollo
heard
of
this
disorder
,
he
was
not
so
much
grieved
at
the
affront
done
to
the
Tribunal
,
nor
the
harm
done
to
his
Poets
,
as
for
that
he
now
evidently
saw
,
that
there
was
no
cure
for
flattery
,
nor
no
punishment
to
be
found
for
it
,
since
men
were
become
so
blind
,
as
they
esteemed
the
fawnings
of
flatteries
,
not
injuries
,
but
favours
worthy
of
reward
.
Whereupon
,
much
to
his
grief
,
he
abbrogated
the
Tribunal
,
and
confest
it
was
impossible
to
punish
a
fault
which
no
body
would
complain
of
.
The
LIX
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
being
very
far
in
love
with
Torquato
Tasso's
good
conditions
,
creates
him
Prince
Poet
,
and
Lord
High
Constable
of
Italian
Poetry
.
TOrquatus
Tasso
being
every
day
more
and
more
admired
in
Parnassus
;
for
his
Heroick
and
Lyrick
Verses
,
for
his
Prose
,
Poetry
,
and
finally
in
all
sorts
of
Compositions
,
Apollo
was
so
i●…mar'd
of
the
smoothness
of
his
pen
,
of
the
newness
of
his
conceptions
,
his
easie
vain
,
and
of
his
pleasant
wit
,
as
he
used
the
other
day
,
extraordinary
signes
of
affection
towards
him
:
For
of
his
own
meer
motion
,
he
created
him
Prince-Poet
,
and
Lord
High-Constable
of
all
Italian
Poetry
:
And
at
the
same
time
with
great
solemnity
,
gave
him
the
Royal
Ensigns
used
to
be
given
to
Poets
Laureat
,
of
being
allowed
to
keep
Parrets
in
his
windows
,
and
Apes
at
his
gate
.
It
is
strange
,
that
upon
this
occurrency
,
Tasso
did
not
only
make
himself
known
to
deserve
the
honour
which
his
Majestie
had
done
him
,
but
worthy
of
much
higher
preferments
.
For
he
did
not
as
many
others
do
,
who
being
exalted
by
Fortune
,
or
by
the
pleasure
of
Princes
,
from
a
mean
condition
,
to
Supreme
Dignities
,
think
it
is
sufficient
if
they
put
on
the
Stately
Robe
of
that
new
Magistracy
,
though
they
leave
their
souls
covered
with
an
old
base
jacket
,
made
of
course
cloth
,
and
all
tattered
;
but
he
immediately
after
having
received
so
high
an
honour
▪
clothed
his
soul
with
those
Heroick
and
Royal
Vertues
,
which
becomes
a
Poet
Laureat
.
For
at
the
very
instant
that
he
received
those
Royal
Ensignes
from
his
Majesty
,
he
kept
open
Court
in
his
house
for
40
daies
together
;
in
all
which
time
,
the
Vertuosi
of
all
professions
were
fed
with
such
abundance
and
curiosity
of
delightfull
Viands
,
as
there
was
not
any
one
Litterato
in
all
Parnassus
,
who
did
not
gorge
himself
with
vertuous
Composures
,
more
then
his
stomack
could
digest
,
and
who
was
not
drunk
with
his
savory
conceptions
.
And
all
this
with
so
great
plenty
of
all
exquisite
Science
,
as
his
Majesty
and
all
the
Muses
marvailed
very
much
how
the
unexhausted
multitude
of
so
many
elegant
conceits
,
disht
in
with
the
choicest
phrases
,
and
smoothest
way
of
delivery
,
could
be
served
out
by
so
fruitfuul
a
wit
.
But
during
this
Jubile
,
and
this
Feassio'●…
celebration
,
which
gave
general
satisfaction
,
some
pilfering
Poets
broke
open
Tassos
most
privat
desk
,
where
he
kept
his
choicest
Compositions
,
and
stole
away
Aminta
,
which
they
divided
amongst
themselves
;
an
injury
whereat
Tasso
was
so
much
grieved
,
as
it
imbittered
all
his
past
delights
.
And
the
Authors
of
so
shameful
a
theft
being
discovered
,
and
pursued
by
the
Sergeants
,
they
fled
into
the
house
of
immitation
,
as
into
a
secure
sanctuary
;
from
whence
they
were
taken
by
the
Provost
Marshal
,
by
Apollos
express
command
,
and
shamefully
led
to
prison
.
And
one
of
them
being
found
with
the
Prologue
of
the
said
Pastoral
about
him
,
he
was
forthwith
punished
according
to
the
Sergeants
custom
,
and
questioned
super
aliis
,
&
complicibus
.
Whereupon
the
wretch
having
the
rope
on
,
named
40
of
his
companion
pick
pocket
.
Poets
,
all
of
them
base
people
,
who
being
given
over
to
play
,
and
to
all
lewdness
,
tend
nothing
else
but
to
steal
away
the
conceits
of
others
labours
,
making
themselves
merry
therewithall
,
abhorring
to
live
gloriously
in
the
world
by
the
labour
of
their
own
studies
.
Urbanus
the
chief
Justice
,
using
the
due
rigor
of
the
Law
upon
these
sawcy
companions
,
sentenced
them
to
the
Gallows
;
and
the
other
morning
many
Gibbits
were
set
up
in
the
chief
Market-place
,
at
the
number
whereof
Apollo
being
much
moved
,
he
told
the
Judge
,
that
though
those
thieves
deserved
the
utmost
punishment
,
he
should
notwithstanding
give
them
some
other
severe
exemplary
chastisement
;
for
the
detested
cross-bars
of
Gallowses
,
made
Justice
be
interpreted
cruelty
:
They
therefore
deserved
the
name
of
good
Officers
,
who
made
themselves
known
to
be
well
sighted
in
forbidding
faults
;
whereas
such
as
thirsted
after
bloud
,
seemed
to
take
delight
in
having
Gallowses
often
seen
in
the
Piazzas
,
thinking
that
they
had
betterd
their
condition
,
when
they
had
got
the
name
of
being
great
Hangmen
.
The
LX.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
A
Litterato
desires
of
Apollo
,
the
Art
of
Memory
,
for
which
he
is
laught
at
by
his
Majesty
.
ON
last
Tuesdaies
Audience
,
a
poor
thread-bare
Litterato
presented
himself
before
Apollo
,
and
told
his
Majesty
,
that
by
reason
of
his
small
learning
,
he
durst
not
appear
in
the
common
Schools
;
and
that
his
ignorance
in
Sciences
proceeded
from
his
very
bad
memory
;
for
he
remembred
but
very
little
of
what
he
read
:
And
that
having
a
great
desire
to
be
a
Scholar
,
he
humbly
craved
some
remedy
which
might
produce
in
him
as
tenacious
a
memory
as
those
great
Litterati
have
,
who
remember
whatsoever
they
do
read
:
And
be
chiefly
desireth
the
gift
of
Local
memory
,
whereby
he
had
heard
that
they
reaped
great
honor
who
had
it
.
Apollo
told
him
,
That
the
lovers
of
Learning
got
good
Memories
by
perpetual
reading
;
and
that
Local
Memory
was
a
thing
onely
practised
by
Mountebanks
,
and
by
the
common
sort
of
Litterati
,
who
are
sed
with
ostentation
,
and
a
certain
vain-glory
to
appear
more
then
what
they
are
;
and
not
by
sound
and
well-grounded
Schollars
,
who
esteemed
it
a
ridiculous
thing
,
good
only
to
make
the
common
people
wonder
.
The
Petitioner
replyed
,
That
if
it
were
so
,
he
desired
to
better
his
memory
by
usual
means
.
Apollo
said
again
,
That
memory
could
not
be
better
perfected
,
then
by
continual
study
,
and
assured
him
,
that
thereby
he
might
compass
his
desire
.
The
Schollar
replyed
again
,
He
had
found
the
contrary
:
For
having
lately
been
very
diligent
in
studying
Virgil
the
miracle
of
the
Latin
Poets
,
he
remembred
but
very
few
of
those
infinite
delicacies
which
he
had
observed
in
him
,
all
which
deserved
never
to
be
forgotten
.
Apollo
was
not
pleased
with
this
answer
;
for
with
some
shew
of
anger
,
not
usual
with
him
in
giving
audience
,
at
which
times
he
puts
on
miraculous
patience
;
he
bad
him
go
study
Virgil
again
,
and
that
he
would
remember
much
more
the
second
time
,
than
he
had
done
the
first
.
Then
turning
to
those
that
were
near
him
,
he
said
,
he
hated
their
impertinances
,
who
having
been
but
a
quarter
of
an
hour
in
a
Mill
,
would
come
forth
as
much
bemealed
,
as
those
Millers
who
keep
there
day
and
night
all
the
daies
of
their
life
.
The
LXI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Juvinal
refuseth
a
Challenge
given
him
by
Francisco
Berni
,
to
contend
with
him
in
Satyrical
Poetry
.
SOme
Latin
and
Itallian
Poets
fell
some
few
daies
ago
,
a
comparing
the
Itallian
and
Latin
Poetry
,
when
Lodovico
Ariosto
thinking
that
the
Latins
did
too
much
undervalue
Itallian
Poetry
,
by
too
highly
exalting
their
own
,
said
that
the
Itallians
yielded
to
the
Latins
for
the
Heroick
Verse
,
which
was
grave
and
stately
in
the
Latin
tongue
,
and
did
observe
a
delightful
cadence
,
by
coupling
the
Dactils
and
Spondeas
so
excellently
well
;
but
that
in
Lyrick
Poetry
,
he
was
of
opinion
they
might
march
hand
in
hand
together
;
and
that
for
what
concerned
Satyrical
Verse
,
the
Itallians
were
so
far
advanced
,
as
in
the
tartness
of
their
pleasant
conceptions
,
in
the
mordacity
of
their
more
grave
affairs
,
and
in
their
easie
expressing
their
conceits
,
they
far
exceeded
the
Latins
.
The
Latins
approved
not
of
Ariostos
opinion
,
and
said
in
their
own
defence
,
they
saw
not
why
the
Italian
Poets
should
so
much
presume
upon
their
skill
in
Satyrical
Poetry
,
there
not
being
any
one
of
them
who
might
deservedly
be
compared
to
Iuvenal
,
nor
who
durst
vie
with
Persius
.
Francisco
Berni
was
present
at
this
discourse
,
who
having
gon
beyond
all
the
terms
of
the
bitterest
backbiting
,
had
so
wounded
even
Aretines
self
with
his
cutting
Verses
,
as
he
bore
the
shamefull
badges
thereof
in
his
face
,
brest
,
and
hands
.
This
man
told
the
Latin
Poets
,
that
Iuvenal
in
respect
of
him
,
was
an
ignorant
fellow
in
Satyrical
Poetry
;
and
that
he
would
maintain
this
truth
which
he
had
spoken
,
fairly
and
freely
,
the
first
and
second
time
,
and
even
till
blood
came
,
in
a
bush
of
Bryars
,
not
only
against
Iuvinal
,
but
against
whatsoever
other
Satyrical
Poet
,
yea
though
he
had
the
advantage
of
a
Commentator
.
It
is
not
to
be
said
how
highly
all
the
Latin
Poets
were
incenst
at
the
hearing
of
these
words
;
who
to
abate
the
edge
of
this
arrogant
mans
too
great
presumption
,
and
to
maintain
the
name
of
Latin
,
so
much
injured
,
they
had
like
to
have
used
superchery
to
him
;
but
Horatio
Venosino
,
desirous
that
this
question
might
be
fairly
and
honorably
decided
,
appeased
the
incenst
mindes
of
the
Latin
Poets
,
and
told
Berni
,
that
he
lied
in
all
that
he
had
said
to
the
prejudice
of
Iuvinals
honor
;
and
that
he
had
slandered
a
Poet
whose
pens
he
was
not
worthy
to
make
clean
,
and
that
he
in
Iuvinals
name
accepted
the
challenge
.
He
therefore
wisht
him
to
appear
the
first
day
in
Bellona's
field
,
with
eights
and
thirds
,
where
Iuvinal
should
give
him
a
good
account
of
himself
,
with
his
Heroick
Verses
in
his
hand
.
This
being
said
,
Berni
,
accompanied
with
his
brother-Poets
,
went
to
arm
himself
,
and
Horatio
hasted
to
find
out
Iuvinal
,
whom
he
acquainted
with
all
that
had
past
between
him
and
Barni
.
Iuvinal
being
astonished
at
the
novelty
of
the
business
,
pawsed
a
good
while
,
then
said
,
Horatio
,
if
you
have
accepted
the
challenge
in
my
name
,
try
you
the
business
with
him
,
for
I
dare
not
.
As
for
Latin
Poets
,
I
fear
no
mans
face
,
neither
do
I
care
a
fig
for
a
thousand
;
but
I
tremble
at
the
very
naming
of
an
Italian
Satyrist
.
Horatio
seeing
his
own
honor
,
and
the
like
of
all
Latin
Poets
in
such
danger
,
encouraged
Iuvinal
,
and
bad
him
remember
that
he
was
the
Prince
of
Satyrical
Poets
,
and
that
such
a
one
as
he
,
who
had
deserved
the
happiness
to
have
Commentators
,
a
thing
so
much
coveted
by
learned
Poets
,
ought
not
to
be
afraid
of
Bernies
railing
;
and
told
him
there
was
no
proportion
to
be
held
between
the
powerfull
weapons
of
Heroick
Verse
,
between
the
excellent
blade
of
the
Latin
tongue
,
and
the
faint
Italian
Verse
,
made
by
chance
,
and
so
strictly
tied
to
rhime
,
as
Italian
Poets
having
their
hand
bound
up
with
the
cords
thereof
,
they
could
make
no
down-right
blows
,
nor
lead
a
streight
stockado
,
as
occasion
should
require
,
as
was
clearly
seen
by
Mauro
,
who
in
the
dangerous
combat
which
he
had
,
when
labouring
in
the
bean-field
,
he
was
set
upon
by
an
enemy
,
and
thinking
to
make
a
full
and
mortal
thrust
at
his
belly
,
his
rithme
forced
him
to
give
it
him
on
his
back
,
which
purchast
him
the
name
of
Treachery
.
The
more
the
Venetian
Poet
incouraged
and
inheartned
Iuvinal
,
the
more
did
his
fear
encrease
.
The
news
of
this
challenge
was
by
this
time
so
spread
abroad
amongst
the
Vertuosi
,
as
it
came
to
Apollos
ears
,
who
was
very
much
pleased
thereat
,
for
he
delighted
exceedingly
to
see
two
Litterati
buckle
together
in
fury
,
and
wound
one
anothers
reputation
handsomly
;
for
,
for
the
most
part
,
the
Vertuosi
speak
and
write
,
but
so
so
in
cold
bloud
;
but
when
heated
and
chafed
with
anger
,
they
do
things
beyond
human
wit
,
in
defence
of
their
reputation
,
and
to
purchase
renown
.
Wherefore
hearing
of
Iuvinals
backwardness
,
he
caused
him
speedily
to
be
sent
for
,
and
sharply
upbraided
his
cowardliness
,
and
recommended
the
reputation
of
Latin
Satyres
unto
him
.
Then
Iuvinal
said
thus
in
his
own
defence
to
his
Majesty
;
Sir
,
I
have
the
same
courage
that
I
formerly
had
,
nor
do
I
fear
to
encounter
a
dozen
Latin
Satyrists
;
I
beseech
your
Majesty
to
remember
,
that
the
excellency
of
Satyrical
Poetry
consists
not
in
having
a
bold
wit
,
quick
spirit
,
a
detracting
Talent
,
in
sharp
bitter
reparties
,
handsom
Sonnets
,
and
ready
replies
;
but
in
the
condition
of
the
times
wherein
men
live
:
for
in
corrupt
times
,
the
vein
of
Satyres
is
very
fluent
;
and
the
times
wherein
I
lived
,
cannot
any
waies
be
compared
to
the
wickedness
and
cosenage
of
this
present
age
.
If
Berni
should
appear
within
the
Lists
,
and
should
assail
me
within
the
launce
of
modern
vices
,
such
as
were
not
known
in
my
daies
,
would
he
not
drive
me
out
of
the
List
?
Apollo
hearing
this
answer
,
had
no
more
to
say
,
but
declared
,
that
though
Iuvinal
baulked
the
quarrel
,
he
suffered
not
in
his
honour
,
nor
did
he
do
any
thing
misbecoming
an
honourable
Cavalier
Poet
;
for
it
was
not
Bernis
wit
that
he
feared
,
but
his
corrupt
times
,
too
unequal
to
those
of
Iuvinals
.
The
LXII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Domitio
Corbulone
being
severely
prosecuted
by
the
Quarantia
Criminale
,
(
a
Venetian
Magistracy
consisting
of
forty
men
)
for
some
words
spoken
by
him
in
his
Government
of
Pindo
,
which
were
formerly
declared
by
Apollo's
publick
Edict
,
to
be
Tyrannical
;
Is
at
last
acquited
with
much
praise
.
THe
City
of
Pindo
,
and
all
its
large
Territories
,
being
filled
by
great
store
of
Murderers
,
and
dangerous
factions
(
by
the
too
much
lenity
of
some
of
its
late
Governors
)
which
did
greatly
anoy
the
peace
of
good
men
;
Apollo
,
to
curb
the
licentiousness
of
his
most
seditious
Subjects
by
exemplary
punishment
,
sent
severe
Domitio
Corbulone
some
two
months
ago
to
that
Government
:
Who
so
carried
himself
,
as
in
a
short
space
the
people
of
that
State
were
reduced
from
mighty
seditions
,
into
a
peaceful
condition
.
And
enquiring
of
some
of
his
Confidents
,
what
the
people
thought
of
him
,
they
freely
told
him
,
that
his
rigorous
proceedings
against
many
,
had
so
affrighted
the
Uuniversality
,
as
he
was
hated
by
all
of
them
.
Corbulone
was
overjoyed
at
this
answer
,
and
replyed
to
those
his
beloved
friends
in
the
well-known
saying
,
Oderint
dum
Metuant
:
Let
them
hate
,
provided
they
fear
.
This
was
suddenly
reported
to
Apollo
,
as
a
capital
fault
.
His
Majesty
liked
not
this
accusation
,
and
committed
the
examination
thereof
to
the
Quarantia
Criminale
:
for
it
had
been
long
before
published
by
a
Decree
from
his
Majesty
;
That
whatsoever
Prince
,
were
he
either
legitimate
,
natural
,
or
hereditary
,
who
should
dare
to
use
such
insolent
and
rash
words
,
should
be
held
and
reputed
an
abominable
Tyrant
;
and
that
if
any
Officer
should
,
though
at
unawares
,
let
them
escape
his
mouth
,
he
should
suffer
capital
punishment
,
Corbulone
was
therefore
cited
to
appear
before
the
Court
;
which
he
did
the
next
day
;
where
the
cause
was
severely
canvast
by
the
Judges
:
And
whilst
all
the
people
of
Parnassus
expected
to
see
some
rigorous
sentence
pass
upon
Corbulone
,
he
was
by
his
Majesties
approbation
,
gratiously
absolved
,
and
sent
back
to
his
Government
with
more
plenary
Aurhority
then
before
:
For
the
Judges
declared
,
That
such
words
were
abominable
,
and
altogether
Tyrannical
in
Princes
which
have
the
means
to
be
gratious
,
but
very
honorable
in
an
Officers
mouth
,
who
hath
nothing
in
his
power
but
the
detested
lash
of
Justice
:
That
Prince
being
truely
to
be
admired
,
who
could
make
himself
be
beloved
by
his
Subjects
,
and
reverenced
:
That
Officer
to
be
reputed
very
sufficient
,
who
had
the
genius
to
make
himself
be
feared
and
obeyed
.
The
LXIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Chair
of
privat
Tranquillity
being
void
by
Diogenes
the
Cynicks
promotion
to
a
higher
degree
;
Apollo
offers
it
to
the
famous
Philosopher
Crates
;
who
refuseth
it
.
THe
Cynick
Diogenes
,
he
who
for
so
many
years
,
to
the
general
advantage
,
and
his
own
particular
glory
,
had
the
publick
Chair
in
these
Schools
,
wherein
his
Office
was
to
praise
Poverty
,
Solitariness
,
and
Peace
of
mind
:
By
whose
perswasion
,
Atalus
,
the
very
King
of
Treasures
,
put
on
that
admirable
resolution
,
of
forgoing
all
his
riches
,
and
become
a
Stoick
in
Parnassus
,
was
by
reason
of
his
great
deserts
,
exalted
two
months
ago
to
the
sublime
Dignity
of
the
Muses
Arch-Flamming
;
so
as
so
noble
a
place
being
void
,
his
Majestie
bestowed
it
upon
the
famous
Crates
;
who
went
yesterday
to
Apollo
,
and
contrary
to
all
mens
expectation
,
refused
so
noble
a
Chaire
;
saying
,
that
the
charge
of
poverty
,
and
of
the
souls
peace
,
being
greatly
injured
by
Diogenes
his
promotion
to
that
immense
dignity
,
he
could
not
discharge
his
duty
with
that
fervency
,
with
that
purity
and
integrity
of
heart
as
the
place
required
:
For
the
very
first
day
that
he
should
undertake
the
imployment
,
he
should
necessarily
be
so
puft
up
with
ambition
,
and
should
have
so
great
a
desire
to
obtain
the
same
dignity
which
his
Predecessor
had
obtained
,
as
would
drive
from
out
his
mind
,
though
never
so
well
composed
,
that
sincerity
which
makes
an
Orator
speak
from
his
heart
,
not
from
his
mouth
;
and
that
the
necessity
of
his
ambition
,
and
his
violent
desire
arose
not
from
any
vice
,
but
from
that
laudable
zeal
of
reputation
,
which
is
most
intense
in
even
the
most
mortified
Vertuosi
of
Parnassus
:
For
if
in
process
of
time
he
should
not
receive
the
same
honor
from
his
Majsty
as
Diogenes
had
done
,
the
world
would
think
that
the
whole
had
happened
,
not
by
reason
of
his
humility
,
not
for
that
he
preferred
a
privat
life
before
publick
Magistracy
,
quiet
before
business
,
or
poverty
before
riches
,
but
because
his
Majestie
had
not
found
such
deserts
in
him
,
as
he
had
done
in
Diogenes
.
So
as
having
his
soul
perturbed
by
the
violence
of
ambition
,
he
could
not
hope
to
reap
any
advantage
by
exagerating
the
praises
of
Humility
,
the
contempt
of
Riches
,
and
of
the
vanity
of
worldly
Greatness
;
it
being
impossible
that
any
man
should
be
so
efficatiously
eloquent
,
as
to
be
able
to
perswade
others
to
that
sort
of
life
,
which
the
standers
by
must
needs
say
,
was
abhor'd
by
the
perswader
.
The
LXIV
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Many
people
having
wasted
themselves
in
keeping
great
Tables
,
and
going
gloriously
attired
,
desire
their
Princes
to
make
a
Pragmatical
Law
for
the
Moderation
of
such
expences
;
but
obtain
not
their
suit
.
PEople
subject
to
Princes
who
live
in
Parnassus
,
learning
by
experience
,
that
luxury
and
vanity
in
apparel
,
are
so
much
increased
,
as
that
there
is
no
patrimony
,
how
great
soever
,
which
may
not
be
quite
consumed
in
a
short
time
by
womens
vanity
,
and
mens
ambition
;
and
plainly
seeing
,
that
bravery
was
grown
to
so
great
a
height
,
as
a
whole
portion
,
though
very
great
,
was
not
sufficient
to
buy
Jewels
for
a
young
maid
that
was
to
be
married
;
which
was
the
cause
why
parents
could
not
marry
off
their
daughters
:
It
being
likewise
known
that
delicacies
for
the
pallat
,
were
oflate
years
so
prodigiously
doted
on
,
as
modern
gormandizing
hath
quite
ruined
those
Families
,
which
were
made
great
by
antient
Parcemony
:
They
by
joynt
consent
presented
themselves
all
,
some
few
daies
ago
before
their
several
Princes
,
whom
they
earnestly
desired
that
some
remedy
might
be
found
out
to
prevent
this
their
so
apparent
ruine
.
All
the
Princes
were
very
well
pleased
with
this
their
peoples
Petition
;
and
then
it
was
that
they
knew
it
to
be
true
,
what
many
have
written
,
That
peremptory
or
pragmatical
Laws
ought
only
then
to
be
published
to
the
people
when
they
themselves
desire
them
:
For
if
they
be
inacted
against
their
wils
,
they
seldom
produce
good
effects
;
the
reason
is
,
because
prodigality
never
frightens
scapethrifts
,
till
they
have
been
acquainted
with
the
hideous
and
dreadful
face
of
poverty
.
All
the
Princes
therefore
by
common
consent
,
caused
many
excellent
pragmatical
Laws
to
be
made
by
understanding
men
,
wherein
luxuriousness
and
superfluity
being
abridged
,
nothing
but
decency
was
seen
in
apparel
,
and
men
did
eat
to
live
,
not
to
ruine
both
their
lives
and
fortunes
by
gluttony
.
And
because
a
thing
so
much
desired
,
might
be
brought
to
pass
,
the
Princes
gave
order
that
this
Law
should
be
proclaimed
on
the
18
of
this
present
moneth
;
but
the
preceding
night
the
Farmers
of
the
Customs
,
Toll
takers
and
Excise-men
,
came
all
of
them
to
their
several
Princes
,
and
told
them
,
that
if
they
published
the
pragmatical
act
,
which
they
understood
was
penn'd
,
they
desired
to
have
abatements
made
of
the
great
rents
which
they
paid
;
for
the
greatest
revenues
of
the
Custom
house
,
and
of
all
Gabels
arising
out
of
Silks
which
came
from
Naples
,
Gold-thread
from
Florence
,
rich
Draperies
made
at
Millan
,
and
other
accoutrements
belonging
to
apparel
and
the
livelihood
of
man
,
which
were
brought
from
foreign
parts
,
the
price
of
the
Customs
would
fall
infinitely
by
reason
of
this
Law
.
The
Princes
were
so
confused
to
hear
this
,
as
when
the
Deputies
of
the
Nations
came
the
next
day
to
receive
the
Edict
which
was
to
be
proclaimed
,
they
told
them
,
that
having
heard
the
just
appeals
made
by
the
receivers
of
their
Customs
,
who
were
better
verst
in
that
affair
,
they
resolved
not
to
impair
themselves
for
the
bettering
of
others
:
That
if
they
could
invent
any
Law
,
wherein
the
Princes
interests
were
not
concerned
,
they
would
give
them
all
possible
satisfaction
therein
,
to
witness
the
fatherly
love
they
bore
unto
their
Subjects
;
but
that
to
empty
the
publick
purse
,
to
the
end
that
those
of
privat
mens
might
be
filled
,
was
a
fraudulent
desire
,
and
clean
contrary
to
charity
,
which
thinks
it
a
piece
of
cruelty
to
macerate
ones
self
that
another
man
might
grow
fat
.
The
people
departed
much
unsatisfied
,
by
reason
of
this
peremptory
and
interessed
answer
;
and
confessed
,
that
to
go
about
to
cure
the
peoples
disorders
,
when
the
medicines
touched
upon
the
common
Taxes
,
was
to
undertake
to
cure
an
incureable
Cancar
.
The
LXIV
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Johannes
Bodinus
presents
Apollo
with
his
six
Books
of
his
Commonwealth
;
wherein
it
being
found
that
he
approves
of
Liberty
of
Conscience
,
he
is
sentenced
to
be
burnt
.
JOhannis
Bodinus
,
that
famous
French
Litterato
,
was
deservedly
imprisoned
in
a
dark
Dungeon
the
very
first
day
that
he
presented
Apollo
with
the
six
Books
of
his
Commonwealth
;
for
his
Majesty
would
by
no
means
permit
that
the
wicked
Tenet
which
he
had
published
in
his
republick
,
that
it
made
much
for
the
quiet
of
States
,
to
allow
of
Liberty
of
Conscience
,
should
pass
without
some
exemplary
punishment
;
an
opinion
which
was
alwaies
held
by
his
Majesty
,
and
by
his
best
politick
Litterati
,
to
be
no
less
wicked
then
false
;
as
that
which
makes
her
desciples
rather
seditious
,
then
wise
Statesmen
;
nothing
being
more
prejuditial
to
a
Principality
,
then
the
want
of
unity
.
Severe
process
was
therefore
made
against
Bodine
,
and
he
was
yesterday
condemned
in
the
High
Court
of
Parliament
,
to
be
burnt
,
as
a
seducer
of
the
people
,
a
publick
stirrer
up
of
sedition
in
ambitions
men
,
and
as
a
notorious
Atheist
:
Bodin
craved
mercy
of
his
Majesty
,
confessing
his
opinion
to
be
false
and
wicked
,
and
abjuring
it
as
such
a
one
;
but
that
being
deceived
by
the
Ottaman
Empire
,
wherein
with
much
peace
to
the
State
,
all
religions
were
allowed
of
,
desired
them
that
they
would
shew
some
pitty
towards
him
.
The
Judges
were
then
more
incenst
at
Bodin
,
and
told
him
,
that
he
deserved
the
greater
punishment
,
for
that
he
being
a
Christian
,
had
dared
to
publish
the
wicked
precepts
,
especially
in
matters
of
Religion
,
of
those
Turks
,
who
ought
to
be
abominated
for
their
wicked
impieties
,
not
only
in
profane
,
but
in
sacred
things
.
Yet
before
they
would
proceed
further
with
Bodine
,
the
Judges
were
resolved
to
know
of
the
Ottaman
Monarchy
,
how
she
governed
her self
in
this
particular
;
intending
,
by
what
was
found
out
afterwards
,
to
impose
the
same
punishment
upon
her
,
if
it
should
be
proved
that
she
had
given
so
scandalous
an
example
unto
the
world
,
as
to
allow
her
people
Liberty
of
Conscience
.
The
Ottaman
Monarchy
was
then
sent
for
in
great
haste
,
who
was
asked
by
the
Judges
,
whether
it
were
true
,
or
no
,
that
she
had
let
the
reyns
of
Religion
so
loose
in
her
State
to
her
Subjects
,
as
every
one
might
believe
what
he
listed
?
The
Ottaman
Monarchy
wondred
much
at
this
demand
,
and
with
great
vehemency
answered
,
that
she
was
not
so
unexperienced
in
the
affairs
of
the
world
,
as
not
to
know
that
the
peace
of
States
,
and
the
universal
quiet
of
the
people
,
could
not
be
had
by
any
more
secure
means
,
then
by
the
unity
of
Religion
;
and
that
in
all
her
Empire
,
no
other
Religion
was
either
preached
or
believed
by
her
Mossulmans
,
but
only
Mahometism
.
The
Judges
hearing
so
clear
an
answer
,
they
turned
to
Bodin
,
and
in
great
anger
said
unto
him
,
That
if
a
Mahometan
,
ignorant
of
that
true
Divinity
which
discovers
the
greatness
of
God
unto
men
,
and
the
truth
of
his
holy
Law
,
spoke
so
clearly
of
the
unity
of
Religion
which
was
to
be
observed
in
an
Empire
,
what
ought
he
to
do
who
was
a
Schollar
,
and
born
in
the
most
Christian
Kingdom
of
France
?
To
this
Bodin
answered
,
that
the
Ottaman
Monarchy
confessed
with
their
mouthes
the
necessity
of
an
unity
in
Religion
,
which
was
not
really
practised
in
their
States
,
wherein
were
Christian
Catholicks
,
Hereticks
,
Grecians
,
Jacobines
,
Nestorians
,
Jews
,
and
people
of
many
other
religions
,
which
was
the
cause
of
his
mistake
.
Thou
knowst
full
little
(
said
the
Ottaman
Empire
to
Bodin
)
of
the
proceedings
touching
religion
,
which
is
used
in
my
house
;
for
thou
oughtest
not
to
say
for
all
this
,
that
I
grant
my
Subjects
Liberty
of
Conscience
,
because
men
of
all
the
several
religions
which
thou
hast
named
are
seen
in
my
Empire
.
Thou
must
know
that
I
having
conquered
innumerable
Provinces
for
the
space
of
300
years
and
more
,
most
of
which
were
formerly
Subjects
to
several
Christian
Princes
;
and
having
found
by
experience
,
that
people
newly
assubjected
,
easily
rebel
,
if
they
be
forced
to
change
their
religion
,
as
those
who
are
more
obstinate
in
defending
the
faith
wherein
they
were
born
,
then
in
defending
their
Estates
,
Countrey
,
and
lives
;
I
,
that
I
may
govern
in
peace
,
have
alwaies
used
to
suffer
them
to
live
in
the
same
Laws
,
as
well
sacred
as
civil
,
wherein
I
found
them
;
bereaving
only
the
Christian
Latins
of
their
Religion
,
taking
their
Priests
from
them
,
and
forbidding
them
to
rebuild
their
Churches
which
are
fallen
,
or
to
erect
new
ones
.
So
by
little
and
little
the
memory
of
their
ancient
religion
failing
in
them
,
together
with
their
sacred
exercises
,
their
children
,
if
not
they
themselves
,
or
at
least
their
grand
children
,
at
last
become
Mahometans
.
Wherein
I
have
had
so
good
success
,
as
the
many
Provinces
which
I
possess
in
Asia
,
which
were
formerly
full
of
Christians
,
are
all
of
them
now
turned
such
Mahometans
,
as
my
Emperors
being
used
to
take
many
children
from
their
Christian
Subjects
,
wherewith
to
recruit
their
Janisary-souldiers
,
there
are
now
but
very
few
to
be
found
in
Asia
.
I
proceed
otherwise
in
Greece
,
for
I
grant
them
the
free
use
of
the
Grecian
rites
;
and
the
cause
of
this
diversity
is
,
because
there
being
no
Grecian
Prince
who
can
cause
jealousie
to
my
greatness
,
and
consequently
the
Grecians
which
live
in
my
Empire
,
not
being
able
to
be
fomented
by
any
Prince
of
their
own
religion
,
they
do
not
trouble
me
so
much
as
do
the
Latins
,
who
have
many
and
potent
Princes
,
which
is
the
cause
I
take
such
care
to
annihilate
their
religion
.
But
I
am
so
watchfull
that
all
my
Mahometan
Subjects
should
punctually
observe
the
Religion
profest
in
my
State
,
as
it
is
not
lawfull
for
any
of
them
to
prevaricate
.
I
give
you
for
a
clear
example
of
all
this
,
That
I
having
the
Persian
,
who
is
held
an
Heretick
by
my
Religion
,
no
Turk
that
is
my
Subject
,
dare
upon
pain
of
life
believe
,
much
less
preach
the
Persian
Faith
;
nor
is
that
Heresie
permitted
in
my
States
:
For
though
my
last
Emperors
,
by
reason
of
the
divisions
of
Germany
,
and
the
great
jealousies
which
are
amongst
all
Christian
Princes
,
might
much
to
their
advantage
have
made
War
in
Hungary
,
and
so
extend
my
Empire
even
to
Austria
,
the
acquisition
of
which
Province
would
throw
open
the
Gates
unto
me
,
to
conquer
Italy
;
yet
they
have
been
wisely
better
advised
,
rather
to
weaken
the
Persian
Heretick
,
then
to
make
War
upon
the
Christian
Princes
,
who
being
so
far
distant
in
poynt
of
belief
,
from
my
Religion
,
do
not
frighten
me
so
much
as
the
Persian
Hereticks
do
;
for
there
is
a
great
difference
between
tolerating
Infidelity
in
a
State
(
from
which
the
passage
to
true
belief
is
so
hard
)
and
the
permitting
of
Heresie
,
a
plague
which
so
easily
infects
any
Kingdom
,
how
great
soever
;
as
the
Germans
,
English
,
Flemmings
,
French
,
and
others
have
seen
and
tryed
.
And
know
that
I
have
rooted
out
all
Sciences
and
Learning
from
out
my
Dominion
,
only
to
the
end
that
my
Subjects
may
live
in
such
simplicity
as
is
most
requisite
for
my
Religion
;
and
to
this
purpose
I
have
considerately
,
and
upon
severe
punishment
,
inhibited
the
translation
of
my
Alcheron
,
which
is
written
in
the
Arabick
tongue
,
into
vulgar
Turkish
language
;
having
learnt
at
the
cost
of
some
Christian
Kingdoms
,
what
mischief
the
translation
of
the
Bible
into
vulgar
languages
hath
occasioned
,
which
falling
into
the
hands
of
ignorant
people
,
I
hear
that
in
those
parts
where
this
abuse
is
introduced
,
even
poor
silly
women
spend
more
time
in
disputes
about
Religion
,
then
in
spinning
.
Wherefore
to
free
my self
from
the
evil
of
Heresie
,
which
may
be
introduced
into
my
Empire
by
ambitious
men
,
I
have
commanded
,
that
whosoever
shall
propound
any
doubts
in
Religion
,
be
answered
by
the
Scimiter
.
Because
the
Heresies
which
now
reigne
in
the
Christian
Religion
,
have
opened
all
mens
eyes
,
so
as
they
may
discern
,
that
those
who
have
first
sowed
them
,
are
more
moved
by
ambition
of
governing
the
earth
,
then
out
of
charity
(
as
they
would
make
blockheads
believe
)
of
sending
mens
souls
to
heaven
by
their
new
positions
.
My
Subjects
sobriety
,
who
are
all
of
them
bound
to
drink
water
,
makes
much
for
the
keeping
of
my
Territories
from
the
contagion
of
Heresie
;
and
I
say
this
,
for
that
I
see
the
fire
of
Heresie
amongst
Christians
,
breaks
most
forth
there
,
where
they
drink
merriliest
.
I
very
well
know
that
all
divisions
in
States
are
very
dangerous
,
but
especially
those
which
arise
in
point
of
Religion
;
because
people
do
not
only
not
love
,
honour
,
or
faithfully
serve
those
who
are
not
of
the
same
religion
with
them
,
but
hold
them
to
be
beasts
,
and
bear
them
that
cruel
hatred
which
we
see
reigns
amongst
Nations
of
different
Religion
.
Add
hereunto
,
That
as
it
is
impossible
for
a
man
to
live
without
a
head
,
so
is
it
for
diversity
of
Factions
;
and
where
there
are
two
Religions
,
there
must
of
necessity
be
two
Heads
;
and
every
fool
knows
whether
or
no
one
Kingdom
can
at
one
and
the
same
time
receive
two
Kings
:
And
thou
Bodin
oughtest
so
much
the
less
to
have
published
the
seditious
opinion
which
hath
caused
thee
so
much
sorrow
,
for
that
thou
knowst
better
then
any
other
,
that
the
modern
Heresies
which
now
reign
in
many
Chri●…
Kingdoms
,
have
been
sowed
and
fomented
by
great
Princes
,
to
whom
Lutherans
,
Calvinists
,
and
many
others
like
thy self
,
have
served
to
seduce
the
people
,
and
to
be
bawds
to
their
ambition
;
only
that
they
may
thereby
be
followed
by
the
mal-content
Nobility
,
who
greedily
imbrace
new
sects
out
of
a
desire
to
better
their
condition
,
and
by
Plebeians
,
who
follow
them
out
of
avarice
,
and
a
detestation
which
they
bear
to
their
own
unfortunate
condition
.
And
if
for
the
quiet
of
Empires
,
all
the
people
of
one
and
the
same
Kingdom
,
ought
to
be
under
one
and
the
same
human
Law
;
how
much
more
for
the
same
reasons
,
and
out
of
the
same
considerations
,
ought
this
to
be
endeavored
in
matters
of
Religion
?
which
being
bred
with
us
in
our
mothers
belly
,
hath
taken
such
deep
rooting
in
our
hearts
,
as
she
is
become
the
absolute
Queen
of
all
our
affections
,
and
of
all
our
passions
;
and
therefore
she
ought
to
be
so
much
the
better
regulated
in
every
State
,
for
that
we
cannot
live
without
her
,
nor
can
we
be
touched
in
any
thing
which
is
more
ticklish
.
These
things
are
all
of
them
so
true
,
as
I
will
boldly
affirm
,
that
even
bruit
beasts
,
could
they
speak
,
or
could
we
understand
their
yelping
,
braying
,
and
other
noises
which
they
make
,
would
be
heard
to
praise
God
,
even
as
we
do
,
who
hath
created
them
,
and
who
doth
feed
them
.
I
remember
,
that
many
years
ago
I
heard
a
Polititian
discoursing
of
this
very
Article
;
and
because
he
esteemed
it
too
wicked
to
God-ward
,
and
seditious
towards
Princes
,
I
desired
to
inform
my self
of
him
,
whether
there
were
any
Prince
,
or
Commonwealth
in
the
world
,
who
did
permit
so
wicked
a
thing
in
their
Dominions
?
And
he
freely
told
me
,
That
even
the
most
modern
Hereticks
themselves
,
who
had
cryed
up
Liberty
of
Conscience
in
other
mens
States
,
would
by
no
means
allow
of
it
amongst
themselves
:
For
they
hated
to
see
their
own
houses
burn
with
the
same
fire
which
they
by
their
seditions
had
kindled
in
other
mens
habitations
:
And
of
this
,
said
he
,
Geneva
,
which
I
call
the
sink
of
all
seditious
impiety
,
is
an
evident
example
,
where
they
who
endeavor
to
raise
new
Heresies
,
are
condemned
to
be
burnt
.
The
same
man
told
me
moreover
,
that
in
Germany
,
where
so
many
modern
Heresies
were
invented
in
their
Hans
Towns
,
only
to
suppress
the
house
of
Austria
,
Liberty
of
Conscience
was
permitted
;
but
that
it
would
be
evidently
dangerous
to
imitate
them
,
for
that
the
example
of
others
would
prove
unfortunate
to
those
who
had
not
all
the
same
requisite
circumstances
,
as
those
whom
they
set
before
them
for
a
President
.
He
said
that
the
Hans
Towns
of
Germany
live
without
any
apprehension
of
any
enemy-Prince
,
who
might
aspire
to
deprive
them
of
their
Liberty
,
that
their
Emperors
were
weak
,
and
that
their
Citizens
were
not
only
by
nature
far
from
the
ambition
of
Governing
the
Country
;
but
were
forced
by
necessity
,
to
live
and
die
what
they
were
born
.
For
if
it
should
so
fall
out
,
that
any
one
to
better
his
condition
,
should
presume
to
make
himself
head
of
any
Heresie
,
the
power
of
all
the
other
free
Towns
,
who
were
joyntly
interessed
in
Liberty
,
with
that
City
where
factions
began
to
arise
,
would
presently
assist
with
arms
in
hand
to
beat
down
that
faction
Moreover
,
that
though
the
diversity
of
religions
occasioned
in
those
Cities
by
the
Liberty
of
Conscience
,
were
less
dangerous
in
them
,
yet
could
it
not
be
said
that
they
were
totally
free
,
nor
that
the
humor
was
not
pernitious
,
and
apt
to
occasion
deadly
evils
;
and
that
no
father
of
a
family
was
ever
induced
to
set
his
own
house
one
fire
,
for
having
the
means
of
quickly
quenching
it
by
a
neighbouring
River
:
But
that
in
Empires
,
and
great
Kingdoms
it
fared
otherwise
;
for
in
them
there
were
oft-times
brothers
to
him
who
Governed
in
Chief
,
and
other
Princes
of
the
bloud
;
and
there
were
alwaies
therein
great
store
of
particular
privat
men
,
eminent
for
birth
,
riches
,
and
adherents
,
who
were
all
of
them
ambitious
,
and
out
of
a
thirst
of
reigning
,
thought
any
enterprize
,
how
desperate
soever
,
easie
:
And
that
to
boot
with
these
,
they
had
potent
forreign
enemies
,
upon
whom
they
confined
,
who
were
more
then
ready
to
foment
such
heads
of
faction
as
should
appear
to
arise
;
as
had
lately
been
seen
in
France
,
and
in
Flanders
;
and
that
as
well
the
lay
Princes
Electors
,
as
every
other
Prince
of
the
Empire
,
who
had
imbraced
the
present
Heresies
,
did
not
live
with
liberty
of
conscience
,
but
with
a
particular
thirst
,
accommodated
to
human
Interest
:
As
appeared
clearly
in
the
Lutheran
impiety
,
which
taking
its
beginning
in
the
Dukedom
of
Saxony
,
to
the
end
that
he
who
declared
himself
to
be
Head
thereof
,
might
not
grow
too
great
,
the
rest
of
the
Heretick
Princes
had
introduced
the
new
Sects
of
Calvin
,
Zwinglius
,
and
of
others
in
their
States
,
with
such
confusion
to
sacred
things
,
as
it
might
be
truely
said
that
there
was
as
many
Heresies
in
Germany
,
as
Princes
and
Potentates
that
did
rule
there
:
And
that
which
made
me
wonder
most
,
was
to
hear
,
that
some
Subjects
in
Germany
were
forced
to
alter
their
Religion
at
their
Princes
pleasure
;
an
inconvenience
which
was
seen
to
happen
so
often
amongst
them
,
as
some
Cities
have
past
sundry
times
from
one
Heresie
to
another
in
less
then
one
months
space
.
All
which
are
things
of
very
bad
example
,
and
an
excellent
means
to
introduce
that
Atheism
amongst
men
,
which
I
said
I
thought
was
not
to
be
found
amongst
beasts
.
Wherefore
Bodin
,
as
a
horse
which
is
long
suffered
to
go
without
a
bridle
,
becomes
fierce
and
unserviceable
to
man
;
so
people
,
when
they
have
the
Reyns
of
Religion
let
loose
in
their
necks
,
grow
wild
,
seditious
,
unruly
,
and
no
longer
apt
to
be
governed
or
ruled
by
a
Prince
:
For
he
who
is
not
taught
by
a
sound
and
well
regulated
religion
,
to
love
,
honor
,
and
fear
God
,
cannot
obey
,
honor
,
nor
fear
man
.
So
great
a
truth
,
as
it
is
the
nature
of
all
people
,
who
alwaies
err
in
the
extreams
,
to
despise
Humane
Laws
,
when
they
are
miss-led
in
those
that
are
Divine
:
for
the
freedom
which
they
have
to
offend
the
Majestie
of
God
,
provokes
them
against
their
Prince
,
who
gave
them
that
liberty
.
This
truth
which
I
tell
you
,
is
apparently
seen
in
those
who
seduced
the
Flemmish
to
change
their
religion
,
and
to
rebell
against
their
natural
Prince
,
who
to
bring
them
to
so
wicked
an
enterprize
,
permitted
them
to
plunder
Churches
,
and
Church-men
;
and
when
at
last
they
would
have
refrained
,
and
regulated
them
in
their
highest
Towring
Tumults
,
they
found
that
when
God
is
despised
,
men
are
so
likewise
.
The
Government
of
people
is
a
weighty
affair
for
any
Prince
how
wise
soever
,
nor
is
it
possible
for
him
alone
to
support
so
heavy
a
burthen
;
but
being
assisted
by
Religion
,
it
becomes
so
easie
unto
him
,
as
one
Prince
may
govern
many
millions
of
men
;
for
very
many
are
so
ill
conditioned
,
as
they
despise
human
Laws
,
yet
do
they
often
fear
divine
ones
;
and
many
who
little
esteem
the
anger
of
an
earthly
Prince
,
dread
the
King
of
heaven
,
and
live
peaceably
.
Bodin
was
sorely
cast
down
,
when
he
heard
the
Ottaman
Emperor
speak
so
solidly
of
the
care
which
Princes
ought
to
have
of
the
unity
of
Religion
;
and
was
then
more
grieved
when
the
Judges
told
him
,
that
it
was
wicked
ignorance
to
maintain
that
Princes
are
Lords
of
mens
bodies
,
and
not
fit
to
rule
their
souls
;
as
if
the
Allegiance
which
by
Gods
command
,
Subjects
owe
their
Princes
,
be
not
as
well
a
duty
of
the
soul
,
as
of
the
body
;
and
that
God
hath
constituted
the
most
Christian
Kings
of
France
,
and
other
earthly
Princes
,
only
that
they
might
feed
their
ambition
by
reigning
,
and
pass
away
their
time
in
delight
,
wallowing
in
the
plenty
of
so
many
earthly
blessings
,
and
had
not
made
them
his
Lieutenants
on
earth
,
to
the
end
that
they
may
observe
his
holy
Law
;
for
these
reasons
,
all
the
Lords
of
Parliament
ordered
that
he
might
be
immediately
punished
by
fire
,
who
had
publisht
a
Tenet
fit
only
to
set
the
world
on
fire
.
The
LXV
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
punisheth
a
Poet
severely
,
for
having
been
so
desperate
as
to
blaspheme
.
APollo
doth
so
abhor
Blasphemy
above
all
other
vices
,
as
two
daies
ago
he
caused
a
Poets
tongue
to
be
struck
through
with
a
naile
in
the
Delfick
Temples
Porch
,
who
had
presumed
to
say
that
Nature
had
dealt
injuriously
with
him
,
in
having
indowed
him
with
a
Princely
soul
,
and
allotted
him
but
a
beggarly
fortune
.
And
though
many
Litterati
earnestly
beseeched
his
Majesty
that
he
would
in
some
sort
mittigate
this
punishment
,
he
did
not
only
deny
to
do
it
,
but
in
a
great
rage
said
,
that
such
wits
deserved
the
severest
punishments
,
who
being
born
to
a
poor
fortune
,
consumed
all
their
time
in
afflicting
themselves
by
seeking
out
new
conceits
which
might
make
poverty
appear
unto
them
more
shamefull
and
insupportable
,
which
they
should
imploy
in
seeking
out
such
Instructions
as
might
make
it
appear
less
shamefull
,
and
more
tollerable
;
and
that
he
would
teach
men
of
but
mean
fortunes
,
by
this
example
,
how
to
accommodate
their
minds
to
their
means
;
it
being
a
hatefull
piece
of
petulancy
to
envy
great
Princes
fortunes
;
whilst
others
in
tattered
clothes
died
of
hunger
.
The
LXVI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Vertuosi
of
Parnassus
visit
the
Temple
of
Divine
Providence
,
whom
they
thank
for
the
great
Charity
which
she
hath
shewn
to
mankind
.
THis
morning
,
according
to
the
ancient
custom
of
this
Court
,
all
the
Prince-Poets
,
and
the
Litterati-Lords
of
Parnassus
,
went
to
visit
the
Temple
of
Divine
Providence
,
to
whom
Giovan
Ioviano
Pontano
made
a
learned
Oration
,
wherein
he
highly
praised
the
infinite
Charity
,
and
immence
love
which
she
had
shewed
to
mankind
in
creating
frogs
without
teeth
:
For
it
would
have
been
of
no
advantage
to
man
,
that
this
world
,
canopied
by
so
many
heavens
,
full
of
so
many
stars
,
should
not
only
abound
in
all
things
necessary
;
but
even
be
fully
fraught
with
all
most
exquisite
delitiousness
,
if
gallant
men
who
inhabit
it
,
should
be
forced
to
wear
iron
buskins
to
defend
themselves
from
being
bitten
by
such
fastidious
and
importunate
animals
;
whereas
now
there
needed
no
fence
against
such
rascally
companions
,
who
are
composed
of
nothing
but
mouth
and
voice
,
but
a
good
pair
of
ears
,
which
vallue
not
the
noise
which
they
know
can
do
them
no
harm
.
The
LXVII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
most
excellent
Paolo
Peruta
,
by
order
from
Apollo
,
declares
in
the
Publick
Politick
Schools
,
what
the
genuine
signification
is
of
that
Precept
in
Policy
;
That
to
reigne
securely
,
the
people
must
be
kept
under
.
THe
usual
Precept
in
Policy
,
That
to
Reign
securely
,
the
people
must
be
kept
under
,
is
as
true
,
as
it
is
wrongfully
understood
,
and
worse
practised
by
many
Princes
;
who
out
of
their
insatiate
avarice
,
interpret
the
best
politick
sentences
,
in
such
sense
as
makes
most
for
their
present
advantage
.
Wherefore
Apollo
being
much
displeased
,
that
so
singular
a
precept
should
be
so
grosly
abused
,
sent
a
few
daies
sithence
,
for
Paolo
Peruta
,
who
at
this
present
time
reads
the
ordinary
morning
Politicks
in
the
publick
Schools
in
Parnassus
;
and
commanded
him
,
that
for
the
benefit
of
Princes
,
and
the
peoples
profit
,
he
should
declare
publickly
what
was
the
true
and
genuine
sense
of
so
signal
a
precept
?
Peruta
obeyed
,
and
on
an
appointed
day
,
when
the
School
was
full
of
all
the
greatest
Princes
of
this
Court
,
he
took
the
Chair
,
and
said
,
That
as
an
exquisite
Prince
could
be
likened
to
nothing
better
then
to
a
good
Shepherd
,
so
people
might
be
very
fitly
compared
to
a
very
numerous
flock
of
sheep
;
and
that
to
the
end
that
one
onely
Shepherd
might
commodiously
govern
a
great
many
sheep
,
the
Divine
Majestie
had
made
them
to
be
lowly
minded
,
and
had
created
them
without
the
weapons
of
Horns
or
Teeth
:
for
otherwise
,
to
the
great
prejudice
of
mankind
,
every
sheep
must
of
necessity
have
a
shepherd
alloted
him
:
for
God
having
armed
the
head
and
hands
of
man
with
a
stout
heart
,
and
wise
genius
,
he
became
not
obedient
and
submissive
to
his
shepherd
,
as
many
Princes
did
believe
,
by
being
often
shorn
and
continually
milked
,
or
by
being
hindred
from
growing
fat
in
good
pastures
by
angersome
vexations
;
for
the
true
way
to
keep
the
people
low
,
was
not
to
afflict
them
perpetually
by
pinching
taxes
,
was
not
to
reduce
them
to
shameful
poverty
,
by
grating
penalties
,
but
to
avoid
the
arming
of
their
head
with
that
ambition
of
command
,
which
people
so
delight
in
,
as
the
appetite
is
encreased
by
satiety
:
Which
true
means
,
and
safe
counsel
,
is
onely
known
,
and
succesfully
practised
by
the
Ottaman
Emperors
,
who
knowing
very
well
how
dangerous
a
thing
it
is
for
States
to
arm
their
subjects
with
ambition
,
authority
,
or
the
attendance
of
many
Souldiers
,
think
it
a
capital
error
,
and
the
ruine
of
their
States
,
to
give
any
place
of
command
to
a
native
Turk
;
certainly
a
most
happy
custom
,
and
which
plainly
teacheth
Princes
,
that
the
true
meaning
and
genuine
interpretation
of
so
useful
a
precept
in
policy
,
is
onely
,
That
it
is
a
dangerous
thing
to
arm
the
head
of
subjects
with
ambition
,
not
their
hands
with
swords
;
to
keep
them
humble
,
by
not
giving
them
places
of
too
great
attendance
,
not
to
desire
their
poverty
by
taking
their
means
from
them
;
for
that
Almighty
God
not
having
made
sheep
humble
and
obedient
for
any
want
they
have
of
wool
,
milk
or
lambs
,
did
thereby
teach
Princes
to
use
all
means
possible
,
that
their
subjects
may
increase
in
wealth
,
and
that
they
may
abound
in
goods
;
it
being
very
true
,
that
people
by
increasing
their
private
patrimonies
,
make
chains
wherewith
they
keep
themselves
fast
bound
up
;
for
lest
they
may
lose
their
wealth
got
by
so
much
toil
,
they
did
so
religiously
study
peace
,
as
the
ancient
Romans
,
who
were
true
masters
of
the
reason
of
State
,
found
no
better
means
to
make
the
warlike
French
,
whom
they
had
newly
conquered
,
quiet
and
obedient
to
their
Republike
,
then
by
affording
them
all
possible
means
of
growing
rich
;
an
advice
which
proved
so
fortunate
unto
them
,
as
that
Politick
Tacitus
speaking
of
the
French
,
the
most
warlike
people
of
all
Europe
,
doth
not
onely
call
them
Dites
,
&
Imbelles
,
lib.
11.
Annal.
but
freely
affirms
,
Gallos
quoque
in
bellis
flo●…uisses
.
Tacit.
Vita
Agric.
which
plainly
shews
,
that
great
riches
gotten
by
the
French
,
had
brought
that
formerly
warlike
Nation
into
such
a
wretchless
slothfulness
,
as
it
seemed
an
old
wives
tale
,
that
the
French
knew
ever
how
to
manage
arms
;
whereby
we
are
made
aware
,
that
riches
by
disarming
men
,
keeps
them
submiss
in
the
humility
of
peace
;
whereas
on
the
contrary
every
one
sees
,
that
the
not
being
content
with
their
present
condition
,
makes
men
greedy
of
novilties
.
For
men
are
not
abased
,
as
ignorant
people
believe
,
by
being
poor
,
but
need
begets
in
them
such
an
immence
desire
of
change
of
fortune
,
as
makes
those
that
are
in
bad
condition
,
venture
upon
any
how
desperate
or
dangerous
soever
an
undertaking
;
it
having
been
often
times
experienced
,
that
nothing
arms
people
more
then
poverty
.
Which
produceth
desperation
,
not
when
it
is
occasioned
by
the
earths
barrenness
,
by
adventures
at
Sea
,
by
mens
carelessness
,
by
the
misfortune
of
Factors
,
or
other
humane
accidents
;
but
when
caused
by
the
Prince
his
avarice
,
who
foolishly
perswades
himself
he
shall
become
a
rich
shepherd
by
keeping
his
sheep
poor
.
Wherefore
that
Chair
man
of
Polititians
affirms
,
that
to
go
about
to
reduce
subjects
to
Loyalty
,
and
Principallities
to
peace
,
by
keeping
them
poor
,
was
neither
better
nor
worse
,
then
to
pretend
to
cure
the
dropsie
,
by
giving
the
sick
party
over
much
drink
.
To
prove
all
which
to
be
truth
,
it
is
daily
seen
in
all
insurrections
,
Princes
meet
with
no
sorer
enemies
,
then
mal-contents
,
and
such
as
have
not
wherewithal
to
live
commodiously
;
who
in
the
garboils
of
commotions
,
prove
always
Devils
,
whereas
those
who
are
wealthy
are
obedient
and
peaceful
.
The
LXVIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
A
nobly
born
Laconick
Senator
,
having
committed
a
great
fault
,
the
Duke
of
Laconia
thinks
it
wisdom
to
pass
by
it
.
YOu
have
formerly
heard
,
how
that
the
Laconick
State
is
governed
by
an
Elective
Prince
;
and
how
that
the
Laconick
Senate
is
reputed
and
celebrated
for
the
best
that
is
in
Parnassus
.
The
Duke
of
Laconia
to
supply
the
place
of
a
Senator
that
was
deceased
,
advanced
the
second
Son
of
the
Prince
of
Mitilene
to
that
so
high
dignity
.
And
not
above
a
fortnight
sithence
,
this
Gentleman
,
much
to
the
Dukes
regrete
,
committed
a
fault
,
which
his
Highness
had
severely
punished
in
other
Senators
;
and
he
seeming
not
to
take
notice
of
it
,
many
of
his
Senators
were
troubled
at
it
,
and
advised
him
to
use
the
same
punishment
for
the
same
fault
.
To
which
the
Duke
answered
,
That
the
same
punishments
were
not
to
be
inflicted
for
the
same
faults
,
where
there
was
a
disparity
in
the
Personages
;
and
that
God
,
whose
will
it
was
that
no
sublunary
thing
should
be
without
somewhat
of
amiss
,
had
so
ordained
it
,
as
that
the
finest
Currel
should
not
be
without
its
rubbish
;
and
that
in
so
famous
a
Senat
as
was
that
of
the
Laconicks
,
eminent
Personages
added
much
to
the
Splendor
of
it
,
and
were
oft
times
of
great
assistance
to
the
State
upon
urgent
emergencies
.
But
that
this
advantage
was
counterpoised
by
a
notable
allay
,
that
such
persons
were
not
so
easily
governed
,
nor
held
in
as
others
,
over
whom
the
whole
power
of
command
,
and
absolute
authority
of
the
Law
being
to
be
exercised
,
they
were
not
of
the
same
reputation
,
nor
advantage
to
Elective
Princes
,
as
were
Senators
highly
descended
;
and
that
the
Sythe
of
equal
Justice
did
fortunately
fell
grass
of
an
equal
height
;
but
that
the
wary
Mower
,
who
spyed
a
great
shrub
amongst
lesser
grass
,
hoisted
his
Sythe
,
lest
he
might
break
it
,
or
blunt
the
edge
thereof
,
a
piece
of
wisdom
whereby
elective
Princes
,
whose
prerogative
it
was
to
chuse
Senators
,
were
taught
not
to
promote
Personages
of
extraordinary
birth
to
that
degree
,
unless
they
do
formerly
resolve
to
bear
with
many
things
in
them
,
which
they
would
severely
punish
in
ordinary
subjects
.
The
LXIX
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Andrea
Alciati
finding
himself
injuriously
persecuted
in
his
place
of
Magistracy
,
flies
for
help
to
Apollo
,
but
finds
none
.
ANdrea
Alciati
,
who
was
not
onely
very
well
versed
in
the
profession
of
Law
,
but
was
in
great
esteem
with
Apollo
,
and
all
the
Vertuosi
of
Parnassus
,
for
his
great
insight
in
all
the
choicest
learning
which
makes
men
be
so
highly
prized
in
this
Court
;
knowing
the
sour
of
obeying
,
and
sweet
of
commanding
;
the
meaness
of
a
priva●…e
life
,
and
the
gallantry
of
being
,
or
of
but
personating
a
Prince
,
applyed
himself
from
his
very
first
entrance
into
Parnassus
,
to
the
perillous
practise
of
Gorvernment
;
till
at
last
he
was
deputed
a
Trianual
President
of
the
Isle
of
Negrapont
,
by
the
Prince
thereof
,
where
with
undaunted
sincerity
,
he
administred
such
exact
and
severe
justice
as
is
pleasing
to
God
,
and
hateful
to
proud
and
insolent
people
who
though
they
be
born
to
serve
,
will
notwithstanding
Tyranize
;
and
so
it
fell
out
,
that
those
who
had
been
severely
punished
for
their
insolences
by
the
rigour
of
the
Law
,
waited
for
the
coming
of
the
Sessions
,
a
time
usually
longed
for
by
the
lewdest
sort
of
men
,
that
they
might
revenge
themselves
of
their
President
,
and
wherein
they
charged
him
with
bitter
accusations
.
Alciati
seeing
himself
so
wickedly
dealt
withal
by
his
ill-wishers
,
had
forthwith
recourse
to
the
Prince
of
Negrapont
,
who
is
at
present
in
this
Court
,
and
demanded
such
protection
of
him
,
as
is
due
to
those
Officers
who
discharge
their
duty
faithfully
.
The
Prince
(
as
many
others
do
)
that
he
might
win
his
subjects
good
will
,
lent
a
favorable
ear
to
the
accusers
,
increasing
thereby
their
insolence
,
and
Alciaties
vexation
;
who
for
his
last
refuge
,
appealed
this
very
morning
to
Apollo
,
complaining
that
he
had
been
persecuted
for
doing
justice
;
and
did
not
onely
require
his
Majesties
protection
,
but
boldly
prayed
him
,
that
he
might
have
a
new
tryal
,
but
such
personages
as
were
unconcerned
,
and
not
swayed
by
passion
.
Apollo
,
not
onely
as
if
Alciati
had
been
a
man
of
no
merit
,
but
even
a
publique
offendor
was
much
incenst
at
him
,
and
drove
him
away
;
wherefore
many
of
the
standers
by
,
who
very
well
knew
his
worth
,
and
how
wrongfully
he
was
persecuted
,
were
witnesses
unto
his
Majestie
of
them
both
.
But
Apollo
,
continuing
in
his
former
opinion
,
bad
Alciati
(
though
he
was
very
submiss
in
his
carriage
)
get
out
of
his
sight
.
His
Majesties
great
wisdom
being
known
to
be
such
,
as
that
all
his
actions
pass
for
necessary
precepts
for
men
to
govern
their
lives
by
,
the
standers
by
wondred
why
he
should
deal
so
hardly
with
one
who
deserved
help
;
and
not
being
able
to
believe
but
that
his
Majestie
concealed
somewhat
in
his
mind
,
that
was
worthy
to
be
known
,
they
asked
him
,
why
he
who
always
sought
all
possible
means
how
to
comfort
the
afflicted
,
did
now
add
to
the
affliction
of
this
innocent
person
.
Then
Apollo
freely
unbosoming
himself
said
,
that
if
Alciati
were
poor
,
he
would
have
taken
him
into
his
protection
;
but
that
he
being
wealthy
enough
,
so
as
he
might
compass
his
ends
of
coming
to
higher
preferment
a
safer
way
,
he
deserved
to
be
treated
thus
,
and
worse
,
for
betaking
himself
to
an
imployment
wherein
there
was
certain
danger
,
and
which
was
onely
fit
for
such
,
who
not
being
able
to
eat
bread
at
home
,
were
necessitated
to
take
any
the
most
hazardous
course
to
live
;
and
that
men
who
were
well
to
live
,
and
had
honourable
imployments
,
though
they
might
be
very
expensive
,
ought
onely
study
how
to
win
reputation
and
glory
.
To
this
Alciati
answered
,
That
he
,
to
the
end
he
might
be
better
esteemed
of
in
the
world
,
and
that
he
might
not
be
pointed
at
,
as
a
Plebeian
clad
in
silk
,
had
carryed
himself
with
such
reputation
in
all
his
honourable
imployments
,
as
would
make
any
man
,
how
meanly
soever
born
,
appear
to
be
highly
descended
.
Apollo
being
still
more
incensed
at
Alciati's
words
,
replyed
,
With
what
face
canst
thou
affirm
that
thou
hast
gone
about
to
joyn
reputation
to
thy
means
,
having
taken
shameful
ways
to
work
thy
intent
?
Dost
thou
not
know
the
true
attestat
of
Guicchardin
,
that
Oracle
of
Italian
Historians
,
that
it
is
more
usual
for
an
Officer
to
run
hazard
,
then
for
a
Merchant
to
break
,
or
a
Sea-man
to
drown
?
Dost
not
thou
know
,
that
no
Gally-slaves
,
nor
any
other
men
how
miserable
soever
,
eat
courser
biscat
,
or
swallow
down
more
bitter
distastes
then
those
who
sit
at
the
helm
of
Government
?
And
knowest
thou
not
that
many
Princes
after
having
highly
displeased
their
subjects
,
by
their
avarice
and
cruelty
,
use
to
quiet
and
appease
them
,
and
to
purchase
their
good
will
,
by
delivering
up
unto
them
such
an
Officer
,
as
by
his
punctual
performance
of
justice
,
have
well
deserved
their
Princes
protection
?
And
art
thou
alone
he
that
doth
not
know
,
that
these
men
desire
nothing
but
the
pleasure
of
command
,
and
the
profit
of
revenue
?
and
that
they
abhor
rumors
,
which
they
are
so
far
from
believing
,
that
they
proceed
from
the
execution
of
that
true
justice
,
which
is
displeasing
to
him
that
tastes
thereof
,
as
they
firmly
believe
it
proceeds
from
the
Officers
ignorance
and
wickedness
?
though
nothing
be
more
certain
,
then
that
he
who
will
administer
upright
justice
,
must
as
requisitely
make
the
people
complain
,
as
the
Chyrurgion
who
will
perfectly
cure
a
wound
that
is
Gangren'd
,
must
make
the
sick
party
cry
out
:
and
neither
Hipocrates
,
nor
yet
my
beloved
Esculapius
could
ever
yet
find
out
any
such
medicine
for
a
malady
,
as
would
make
the
patient
lick
his
lips
;
and
the
chiefest
mischief
is
,
that
a
man
who
hath
his
knee
out
of
joynt
,
would
beat
the
Chyrurgion
,
who
useth
all
his
best
skil
to
put
the
bone
again
into
its
right
place
.
The
LXX
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Lady
Victoria
Collonna
begs
of
Apollo
in
name
of
all
the
Feminine
Sex
,
that
such
marryed
men
as
are
Adulterers
may
suffer
the
like
Infamy
,
as
unchaste
Wives
do
.
THe
most
excellent
Lady
,
the
Lady
.
Victoria
Colonna
,
a
Princess
of
exemplary
chastity
,
came
before
his
Majestie
three
days
ago
,
and
said
,
in
behalf
of
all
the
feminine
Sex
,
That
all
women
did
so
affect
Chastity
,
a
vertue
wherewith
they
were
particularly
endued
,
as
they
did
not
any
whit
envy
strength
,
which
was
a
vertue
attributed
to
the
masculine
gender
;
for
they
very
well
knew
,
that
a
woman
whose
soul
was
not
chaste
,
was
a
stinking
carcase
,
but
that
with
much
reason
they
did
bewail
the
great
disparity
which
was
seen
to
be
observed
between
the
husband
and
the
wife
,
in
the
particular
of
punishment
for
Adultery
.
For
wives
could
in
no
sort
be
contented
that
marryed
men
should
think
themselves
so
much
at
liberty
,
as
even
the
punishment
of
shame
(
which
men
of
honor
had
wont
to
apprehend
so
much
)
could
not
keep
them
from
being
false
unto
their
wives
.
In
which
disorders
she
affirmed
,
they
were
so
far
advanced
,
as
many
husbands
were
not
onely
not
ashamed
to
keep
concubines
openly
in
their
houses
,
but
were
grown
sometimes
so
hardy
to
take
them
into
bed
with
their
wives
:
which
excesses
were
occasioned
,
because
the
same
severe
punishments
were
not
provided
for
adulterous
husbands
,
as
were
thundered
out
,
and
put
in
practice
against
unchaste
wives
.
And
that
in
this
particular
the
Laws
were
so
partial
to
marryed
men
,
as
if
they
should
find
their
wives
in
adultery
,
they
would
not
be
satisfied
till
they
should
have
revenged
the
injury
with
their
own
hands
.
By
reason
of
which
notorious
grievances
,
the
feminine
sex
were
forced
to
have
recourse
to
the
clear
fountain
of
justice
,
to
the
end
that
they
might
receive
competent
remedy
for
this
their
oppression
,
by
the
publication
of
parity
of
punishment
for
the
same
fault
;
and
that
if
his
Majestie
should
not
like
of
this
,
that
he
would
at
least
be
pleased
to
allow
women
the
like
liberty
in
point
of
adultery
,
as
men
pretended
to
lay
claim
unto
:
And
that
this
like
liberty
was
not
desired
,
to
the
end
that
women
might
make
use
of
it
,
but
onely
that
by
the
terror
thereof
,
they
might
curb
their
lustful
husbands
.
To
this
request
Apollo
answered
,
that
the
Law
of
Loyalty
ought
to
be
alike
between
the
husband
and
the
wife
;
and
that
the
violation
thereof
ought
to
be
no
less
punished
in
the
one
,
then
in
the
other
:
but
that
the
more
exact
chastity
was
desired
in
wives
,
in
the
weighty
respect
that
men
might
be
sure
to
father
no
children
but
their
own
,
in
which
regard
the
excellent
vertue
of
chastity
was
given
to
the
female
sex
:
for
the
certainty
of
their
issue
was
so
necessary
to
husbands
in
the
generation
of
mankind
,
as
were
not
their
mothers
endued
with
chastity
,
their
sons
would
lose
as
well
their
inheritance
,
as
their
fathers
affection
;
which
was
so
great
a
truth
,
as
wise
Nature
herself
had
given
chaste
mates
to
all
earthy
Animals
,
where
the
male
shares
in
hatching
the
eggs
,
or
in
bringing
up
the
young
ones
.
To
the
end
that
Fathers
might
think
the
pains
for
the
welfare
of
their
children
,
well
bestowed
,
and
value
their
costs
as
consolations
,
and
great
gains
.
At
this
answer
an
honourable
blush
stole
upon
the
cheeks
of
the
Lady
Victoria
,
who
with
a
Roman
ingenuity
confest
the
simplicity
of
her
request
to
Apollo
;
and
said
,
it
would
be
too
great
a
shame
to
the
female
sex
,
if
they
should
suffer
themselves
to
be
exceeded
in
chastity
by
brute
beasts
who
though
they
follow
nothing
else
with
greater
propenseness
then
their
delight
,
yet
not
to
berive
the
father
of
his
ehildren
,
or
the
children
of
their
fathers
by
their
Libidinousness
,
keep
their
chastity
;
and
that
husbands
had
so
great
reason
to
desire
their
wives
might
prove
chaste
,
as
the
Laws
against
adultery
in
married
women
appeared
to
be
too
merciful
;
for
the
wounds
which
husbands
gave
their
wives
by
their
unchasteness
,
did
onely
pierce
the
skin
;
but
that
marryed
women
,
by
their
adulteries
did
kill
their
husbands
with
eternal
infamy
,
and
did
dishonor
their
own
children
.
The
LXXI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Caesar
having
taxed
Marcus
Brutus
of
ingratitude
,
in
a
full
Assembly
of
great
Personages
,
they
challenge
one
another
.
SO
great
hath
the
hatred
always
been
between
Caesar
the
Dictator
,
and
Marcus
Brutus
,
as
there
could
never
be
any
reconciliation
made
between
them
,
though
it
hath
been
much
endeavoured
by
the
prime
subjects
of
this
State
.
T
is
true
that
to
avoid
the
displeasing
of
Apollo
,
they
have
both
of
them
been
so
discreet
as
to
shun
meeting
in
the
streets
,
much
less
the
having
any
intercourse
between
them
.
But
the
flames
of
hatred
long
kept
concealed
in
a
passionate
mans
bosome
,
in
process
of
time
must
needs
break
forth
.
This
is
said
,
because
in
a
great
assembly
which
was
had
the
other
day
of
the
chief
of
this
state
,
wherein
Caesar
hapned
to
be
,
it
was
impossible
to
perswade
Brutus
to
withdraw
himself
,
who
esteemed
it
poorness
of
mind
to
yield
to
that
his
capital
enemy
at
this
meeting
.
Caesar
(
though
in
covered
words
)
said
somewhat
which
reflected
upon
Brutus
,
taxing
him
with
ingratitude
;
and
(
as
it
usually
fals
out
where
there
is
not
a
perfect
good
understanding
beween
people
)
doubtful
words
being
taken
in
the
worse
sense
,
and
small
injuries
being
held
hainous
offences
;
Brutus
boldly
gave
Caesar
the
lye
,
and
at
the
same
instant
accompanied
the
lie
with
its
necessary
correllative
,
laying
his
hand
upon
his
dagger
.
Caesar
slew
like
an
enraged
Lyon
upon
Brutus
,
and
certainly
some
great
mischief
had
been
done
,
had
not
the
Princes
that
were
present
interposed
themselves
,
and
parted
them
.
The
next
day
Caesar
published
a
Manifesto
against
Brutus
,
wherein
in
high
language
he
said
,
That
it
was
known
to
the
whole
world
,
that
〈◊〉
civil
wars
he
met
with
no
more
cruel
enemy
then
Marcus
Brutus
,
〈◊〉
was
worse
to
him
then
even
Pompey's
self
:
and
though
he
with
the
●…d
of
victory
and
revenge
,
which
he
had
in
his
hand
,
might
by
goo●…●…son
of
War
,
have
secured
his
own
life
,
by
taking
away
that
of
Brut●…
,
yet
chusing
rather
to
use
clemency
then
just
rigour
,
he
did
so
clearly
and
fully
pardon
him
that
offence
,
which
would
never
have
been
forgotten
by
any
other
man
,
as
(
as
if
injuries
had
been
great
obligations
)
he
turned
his
hatred
into
love
,
his
revenge
into
favour
,
and
this
with
such
integrity
as
in
his
last
will
and
Testament
,
he
declared
him
to
be
his
Heir
,
with
which
magnanimity
the
people
of
Rome
were
so
pleased
,
as
after
his
murther
,
they
preferred
the
revenge
of
so
great
ingratitude
before
their
own
liberty
,
which
upon
that
occasion
they
might
easily
have
recovered
.
And
if
the
common
sort
of
people
,
who
use
rather
to
move
out
of
base
interest
,
then
out
of
any
genurosity
,
did
so
much
detest
this
ingratitude
in
Brutus
,
how
much
more
ought
Brutus
to
do
so
,
who
had
received
the
obligation
?
And
that
if
Brutus
his
behaviour
towards
him
was
not
open
and
shameful
ingratitude
;
sure
no
man
was
ever
ungrateful
;
and
he
should
be
forced
to
believe
that
ingratitude
was
a
vain
name
in
the
Abstract
,
and
that
there
was
no
such
thing
in
the
concrete
thereof
.
Brutus
finding
his
honour
much
concerned
in
this
Caesars
Manifesto
,
answered
him
presently
in
a
writing
which
he
published
,
That
since
he
had
never
deserved
ill
at
Caesars
hands
,
he
could
not
acknowledge
the
pardon
which
he
said
he
had
given
him
for
taking
up
Arms
against
him
,
as
a
favour
.
For
he
who
takes
up
arms
to
defend
his
free
Countrey
from
a
Tyrant
,
did
but
what
was
his
duty
to
do
,
and
did
not
therein
misdemerit
,
but
ought
rather
to
be
commended
even
by
the
enemy
.
And
that
Caesar
after
his
victory
at
Pharsalia
,
did
not
oblige
those
unto
him
whose
lives
he
pardoned
;
for
he
onely
won
the
good
opinion
of
his
enemies
,
who
pardoned
injuries
received
not
injuries
done
unto
them
.
And
if
it
were
faults
,
not
merits
which
deserved
to
be
pardoned
,
then
they
who
took
up
arms
to
defend
the
Roman
liberty
ought
to
pardon
Caesar
,
not
Caesar
them
.
For
the
fault
was
his
,
who
would
usurp
upon
his
Countreys
liberty
,
the
merit
theirs
that
did
defend
it
.
And
that
though
it
vexed
his
very
soul
to
hear
himself
taxed
of
ingratitude
by
Caesar
,
yet
he
was
more
troubled
to
think
he
should
hold
him
for
so
great
a
villan
,
as
that
,
though
with
pardon
of
life
for
so
doing
,
he
could
forget
the
injurious
usurping
the
Countreys
liberty
,
which
all
worthy
Senators
ought
to
keep
always
deeply
ingraven
in
their
hearts
.
And
that
that
being
onely
true
clemency
which
proceeds
immediately
from
meer
meekness
,
certainly
Caesar
merited
nothing
at
those
Senators
hands
,
whom
he
pardoned
for
defending
their
liberties
.
For
he
did
it
not
out
of
any
worthiness
of
mind
,
but
onely
to
secure
his
own
Tyrannie
:
for
very
well
knowing
,
that
to
grow
cruel
after
victory
,
towards
the
chief
Senators
,
was
to
incite
the
people
of
Romes
publique
hatred
,
and
highly
to
incense
the
prime
Senators
,
he
gave
other
men
their
lives
to
secure
his
own
.
That
for
his
having
declared
him
in
his
will
to
succeed
in
part
of
his
inheritance
,
he
would
have
Caesar
know
,
that
he
treated
not
with
ignorant
people
,
or
such
as
did
not
very
well
know
his
deep
cunning
,
hid
under
that
feigned
benevolence
and
false
liberality
,
since
it
was
not
out
of
any
affection
to
him
,
that
he
had
named
him
to
be
his
heir
,
but
onely
to
ma●…
him
lay
down
his
Arms
,
and
to
make
him
become
an
enemy
to
his
●…ntrey
,
and
to
blot
out
of
his
mind
the
desire
of
recovering
liberty
,
a
servitude
which
ambitious
Tyrants
purchase
at
a
contemptible
rate
from
base
and
avaricious
Senators
;
not
from
such
as
he
,
who
were
so
far
from
selling
their
or
their
Countreys
liberty
for
any
sum
of
gold
,
how
great
soever
,
as
they
sought
to
purchase
it
at
the
expence
of
their
blood
.
And
that
the
trick
of
basely
lulling
chief
Senators
asleep
,
by
sending
them
to
be
Ambassadors
,
was
past
from
Caesar
into
Augustus
,
whose
will
and
testament
:
Tertio
Gradu
primores
Civitatis
Scripserat
,
plerosque
invisos
sibi
.
Tacit.
lib.
1.
Annal.
was
not
as
Tacitus
had
formerly
,
but
foolishly
affirmed
,
Iactantia
,
Gloriaque
ad
Posteros
;
but
onely
that
those
Senators
,
who
were
his
sorest
enemies
,
allured
with
hopes
of
reaping
more
benefit
in
servitude
,
then
in
a
free
condition
,
might
become
instruments
to
Tiberius
,
in
training
him
up
in
that
Tyrannie
,
which
they
were
bound
to
make
head
against
.
Brutus
concluded
this
his
writing
;
saying
,
That
he
was
so
far
from
acknowledging
it
a
favour
to
have
his
life
given
him
by
Caesar
,
as
he
would
have
taken
it
for
a
greater
obligation
from
him
if
he
had
bereaft
him
of
it
,
since
a
worthy
Senator
cannot
acquire
a
more
glorious
life
,
then
to
be
torn
in
pieces
by
the
publike
Tyrant
,
such
a
Senators
life
being
formidable
unto
the
Tyrant
,
for
being
a
valiant
defendor
of
liberty
;
and
that
Tyrants
gave
a
glorious
life
to
such
Senators
as
they
were
cruel
unto
,
whereas
they
asperse
those
with
shame
who
too
greedy
of
life
,
did
interchange
the
base
benefit
of
their
received
pardon
,
with
the
shameful
oblivion
of
the
injury
done
them
in
bereaving
them
of
their
publike
liberty
.
Caesar
who
was
by
nature
haughty
,
was
so
incenst
at
this
answer
,
as
he
challenged
Brutus
to
a
single
duel
in
Campo
Marte
;
which
Brutus
willingly
accepted
,
but
abhorring
to
fight
with
men
half
dead
,
he
bad
him
first
go
cure
those
wounds
which
he
had
given
him
in
the
Senat
,
and
then
return
to
receive
more
with
the
same
dagger
,
with
which
he
would
be
ready
to
wait
upon
him
.
To
this
scornful
answer
of
Brutus
;
Caesar
did
as
sconfully
reply
,
that
the
alledged
impediment
should
not
keep
him
from
meeting
him
in
the
field
,
for
that
Brutus
very
well
knew
,
that
those
his
wounds
were
very
well
cured
by
his
Nephew
Augustus
,
and
by
the
whole
Triumpherate
,
with
the
corresive
of
proscription
.
That
therefore
he
should
onely
appear
armed
in
the
field
,
and
leave
behind
him
those
Cassii
and
Caschi
,
and
other
swaggering
companions
,
which
he
was
accustomed
to
make
use
of
in
his
supercheries
and
foul
play
to
men
of
honor
.
To
this
Brutus
answered
,
That
his
custom
was
to
put
a
great
difference
between
enemy
and
enemy
;
and
that
such
as
he
,
fought
onely
with
the
arms
of
military
worth
,
to
propagate
the
Roman
Empire
,
against
the
Hanibals
,
Jugurthans
,
Mitredates
,
and
other
Foreign
Princes
;
but
that
Tyrants
,
and
ravinous
wolves
cloathed
in
lambs
skins
,
ought
to
be
dealt
withal
with
like
Treachery
,
and
to
have
traps
laid
for
them
,
as
is
usually
done
for
crafty
Foxes
.
The
LXXII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Certain
Subjects
desire
their
Princes
that
the
infinite
multitude
of
Laws
which
they
live
under
,
may
be
reduced
to
a
lesser
number
;
and
that
the
Governors
of
Provinces
may
be
forbidden
to
publish
every
day
new
Proclamations
.
THe
great
abuse
in
some
States
is
certainly
much
to
be
blamed
,
where
not
onely
the
Princes
are
prone
enough
in
publishing
every
day
new
Laws
,
but
do
permit
the
Governors
of
their
Provinces
to
run
into
the
same
error
.
Which
being
often
changed
,
and
all
of
them
commencing
their
Government
with
an
ardent
desire
to
mend
the
world
the
very
first
week
,
shame
themselves
with
divulging
certain
new
Proclamations
according
to
their
own
fancies
,
and
full
of
those
many
extravagancies
which
use
to
abound
in
them
,
who
having
framed
new
conceits
in
their
brains
,
are
not
so
well
advised
as
to
weigh
them
with
practice
,
which
is
that
true
hammer
whereby
to
discern
between
pure
silver
,
and
false
Alchymie
.
For
zeal
to
the
publike
good
,
not
regulated
by
a
perfect
judgement
,
injures
a
gallant
man
in
his
reputation
,
more
then
any
bad
intention
.
The
liberty
of
this
manner
of
proceeding
,
causeth
those
States
wherein
it
is
used
,
to
abound
so
much
in
Edicts
,
Proclamations
,
Constitutions
,
and
an
infinite
medly
of
new
Laws
,
as
men
live
therein
in
great
confusion
;
it
being
very
true
,
that
Corruptissima
Republica
plurimae
Leges
.
Tacit.
ter●…io
Lib.
Annal.
a
most
corrupted
Cou●…rey
abound
most
in
Laws
;
and
the
worst
is
,
that
every
Officer
being
resolute
in
the
observance
of
such
Proclamations
as
are
by
him
published
,
foolishly
forgets
those
made
by
his
predecessors
,
so
as
the
people
not
able
to
discern
in
this
so
great
disorder
,
what
things
are
lawful
,
what
unlawful
,
receive
the
worser
satisfaction
thereby
,
for
that
they
have
oft-times
found
,
that
many
of
them
,
to
vent
their
anger
against
one
they
hate
,
or
to
give
a
purging
pill
to
a
rich
Churmuggion
,
have
made
use
of
absolute
Proclamations
and
Edicts
which
have
lost
their
validity
,
be
contrary
usance
.
To
the
end
then
,
that
some
cure
might
be
found
out
for
so
many
evils
,
the
people
who
live
under
them
,
chose
certain
Commissioners
long
since
,
to
acquaint
their
Princes
therewith
.
These
earnestly
desired
that
the
multitude
of
Laws
,
which
bred
confusion
amongst
the
people
,
might
be
abrogated
;
and
that
the
Governors
of
Provinces
might
be
inhibited
the
making
of
new
ones
for
the
future
.
Most
of
the
Princes
judged
this
the
Commissioners
request
to
be
very
just
;
and
that
they
might
consult
the
better
thereof
,
they
met
in
Clios
house
,
where
some
that
were
zealous
of
their
subjects
good
,
were
of
opinion
,
that
with
as
much
brevity
as
might
be
,
all
the
ancient
Statutes
should
be
made
an
end
of
;
and
being
made
void
,
new
ones
might
be
enacted
,
which
might
bring
quiet
,
not
confusion
to
the
people
.
But
the
Princes
who
were
of
a
contrary
opinion
,
were
greater
both
for
number
and
quality
;
they
freely
affirmed
,
That
those
things
which
had
been
tollerated
by
their
ancient
Predecessors
,
ought
to
be
presumed
to
proceed
rather
from
wisdom
,
then
from
ignorance
;
for
it
was
always
to
be
believed
,
that
their
fore-fathers
had
examined
&
digested
matters
concerning
the
Government
of
their
people
,
much
more
accurately
then
modern
men
do
,
who
were
then
seen
to
run
into
great
disorders
,
when
out
of
novelty
they
would
abrogate
those
ancient
customs
,
which
experience
had
found
to
be
good
;
and
that
it
was
to
be
thought
a
high
presumption
,
that
the
world
without
ever
being
aware
of
,
oramending
her
errors
,
had
lived
long
in
those
customs
,
which
others
would
correct
,
as
being
prejudicial
.
And
that
Princes
,
who
ought
to
study
nothing
more
then
how
to
dilate
their
own
Authority
,
committed
a
mortal
error
,
when
they
tyed
up
their
ownhands
,
and
made
rods
for
their
own
breeches
,
becurtiling
their
jurisdiction
.
Whilst
the
Princes
were
thus
discussing
the
business
,
the
Commissioners
desires
to
hear
the
result
,
made
some
little
noise
at
the
chamber
door
:
At
which
the
Princes
being
very
angry
,
they
grew
so
hot
,
as
having
no
other
weapons
,
they
broke
some
forms
which
came
first
to
their
hands
,
and
making
use
of
the
feet
thereof
for
cudgels
,
they
beat
away
the
Commissioners
;
who
crying
out
,
Help
,
help
,
many
Philosophers
came
from
the
Peripatetick
School
,
who
withheld
the
Princes
,
and
freed
the
others
from
being
further
mischiefed
.
The
Princes
thinking
it
fitting
to
acquaint
the
Philosophers
with
the
reasons
which
had
moved
them
to
this
resentment
,
said
,
Gentlemen
,
these
Rascals
,
under
pretence
of
Grievances
,
Proclamations
,
Statutes
,
and
confusion
by
new
Laws
,
have
dared
to
come
even
within
our
doors
,
to
assassinate
us
,
adding
insolence
to
their
impertinent
demands
;
for
we
having
out
of
our
fatherly
charity
,
given
free
leave
to
these
ingrateful
people
to
keep
as
many
Hounds
and
Greyhounds
as
they
please
to
take
Hares
and
Goats
withal
,
permission
to
lay
gins
to
catch
Partridge
and
Pheasants
,
to
make
nets
to
take
Finshes
and
Sparows
,
to
lay
lime-twigs
wherewithal
to
take
Black-birds
and
Thrushes
,
to
make
hooks
,
pastes
,
drag-nets
,
weels
,
and
twenty
other
things
,
that
they
may
want
no
fish
:
These
Rascals
will
not
notwithstanding
permit
us
poor
Princes
,
who
even
consume
our selves
in
studying
how
to
serve
them
,
to
take
half
a
dozen
fat
Becchifichi
,
for
our
own
use
.
The
LXXIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Vertuosi
of
Italy
beg
of
Apollo
,
that
Philosophy
may
be
treated
on
in
the
Italian
Tongue
,
and
are
denyed
their
request
.
THe
Italian
Litterati
have
these
many
years
been
very
instant
with
his
Majestie
,
that
he
would
be
pleased
to
enable
the
Italian
Tongue
to
treat
of
Philosophical
matters
,
and
have
used
all
the
possible
means
they
could
to
get
it
effected
:
But
Apollo
would
never
grant
it
,
saying
,
That
the
Liberal
Sciences
were
no
longer
esteemed
,
then
when
they
were
handled
in
Greek
and
Latin
;
for
the
Metaphisicks
,
and
the
other
Soveraign
Sciences
,
would
suffer
an
infinite
alloy
,
if
the
admirable
secrets
thereof
being
taught
in
Italian
,
should
be
communicable
even
to
Hosts
and
Hostlery
;
moreover
,
if
all
the
Liberal
Sciences
were
suffered
to
be
written
in
the
Italian
Tongue
,
the
most
noble
Latin
Tongue
,
in
which
all
men
confess
the
true
majestie
of
writing
,
and
speaking
elegantly
doth
consist
,
would
go
near
to
be
lost
.
The
Italians
were
not
onely
not
satisfied
with
these
alledged
reasons
,
but
continued
still
so
fervent
in
their
former
desire
,
as
his
Majestie
seemed
to
be
inclineable
to
give
them
content
,
when
all
the
Liberal
Sciences
doubting
lest
some
resolution
might
be
taken
,
which
would
be
displeasing
to
them
,
bad
the
Italian
Litterati
be
quiet
,
for
they
would
by
no
means
undergo
the
shame
of
being
discust
in
insipid
Italian
Circumlocutions
,
but
would
be
argued
in
their
ordinary
Latin
Terms
.
Alexander
Picolomini
was
there
present
,
who
freely
said
,
That
the
Greek
and
Latin
Philosophers
were
Fools
,
if
they
believed
that
the
Italian
Writers
were
so
ill
read
,
as
that
they
did
not
very
well
know
,
that
Philosophy
being
a
natural
Science
;
and
therefore
known
even
to
children
,
would
wholly
lose
her
reputation
,
it
being
treated
of
in
Italian
,
the
world
should
know
,
that
she
were
wholly
hid
under
Scholastical
terms
,
which
being
neither
Greek
nor
Latin
,
seemed
rather
to
be
Slavonick
words
,
which
being
translated
into
Italian
would
discover
the
cheating
tricks
of
Philosophers
,
who
spend
nights
and
days
in
the
study
of
Philosophy
,
to
learn
names
more
then
realties
.
The
LXXIV
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
shews
unto
his
Litterati
the
true
meaning
of
the
Latin
Sentence
,
Homo
longus
,
raro
sapiens
,
A
tale
man
is
seldom
wise
.
TO
the
wonder
of
Apollo
,
and
all
the
standers
by
,
above
300
Litterati
,
all
of
them
beyond
the
usual
size
of
men
,
appeared
on
Tuesday
last
in
the
publike
Audience
.
Every
one
knew
that
the
assembling
together
of
so
many
Vertuosi
,
all
of
them
of
extraordinary
stature
and
greatness
,
must
needs
have
somewhat
of
meaning
in
it
,
and
so
it
had
;
for
reverend
Cino
,
Auditor
di
Rota
in
Parnassus
said
,
in
the
name
of
all
his
fellows
,
that
all
those
Vertuosi
who
his
Majestie
saw
there
,
were
known
by
the
whole
world
to
be
well
skilled
in
the
Liberal
Arts
,
which
his
Majesties
Delfick
Library
might
likewise
sufficiently
witness
;
and
that
notwithstanding
they
were
scoft
and
laught
at
by
most
of
the
Litterati
in
Parnassus
,
and
held
for
fools
and
shallow
witted
people
:
Wherefore
,
such
injuries
being
altogether
insupportable
,
they
were
forced
to
have
recourse
unto
his
Majestie
.
And
to
the
end
that
some
remedy
might
be
found
for
so
great
an
abuse
,
which
might
occasion
many
inconveniences
,
those
Litterati
of
a
more
then
usual
stature
and
greatness
of
body
,
demanded
place
and
time
(
always
provided
it
might
stand
with
his
Majesties
Approbation
)
where
and
when
,
hand
to
hand
,
two
to
two
,
three
to
three
,
or
in
what
greater
numbers
the
contrary
party
should
choose
,
they
would
dispute
with
the
Vertuosi
of
small
,
and
of
middle
stature
in
all
sorts
of
Sciences
,
and
venture
their
reputations
thereupon
:
But
that
when
his
Majestie
should
think
they
had
given
sufficient
Tryal
of
themselves
,
and
should
have
proved
themselves
to
be
real
Vertuosi
;
their
humble
request
was
,
That
he
would
be
pleased
to
dec●…e
the
proverb
to
be
false
and
erronous
,
which
says
.
Homo
longus
,
raro
sapiens
,
which
was
the
rise
of
all
the
scandal
.
His
Majestie
gave
ear
to
Cino's
complaint
with
a
pleasing
countenance
;
and
told
him
,
That
he
was
sensible
of
the
rash
judgement
which
his
Vertuosi
gave
of
them
;
but
that
the
proverb
being
true
,
he
neither
could
nor
would
declare
it
to
be
false
;
and
that
Homo
longus
was
not
to
be
understood
(
according
to
the
vulgar
misinterpretation
)
for
any
extraordinary
proportion
of
body
,
but
in
respect
of
resolution
and
deliberations
taken
in
affairs
;
for
too
much
delay
and
length
of
time
in
dispatching
business
,
was
a
clear
evidence
of
want
of
wit
,
simplicity
,
and
of
a
drousie
understanding
;
for
he
was
onely
to
be
accounted
wise
,
who
was
resolute
in
his
affairs
,
and
who
being
able
to
resolve
upon
any
sudden
occasion
,
dispatched
business
with
admirable
dexterity
of
wit
.
The
LXXV
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Ruota
di
Parnasso
having
decided
a
point
in
difference
between
the
Military
men
,
and
the
Litterati
on
the
Military
means
behalf
,
are
aware
of
their
error
,
and
withdraw
their
sentence
.
THe
precedency
between
Arms
and
Learning
is
still
obstinately
disputed
on
both
sides
,
between
the
Litterati
and
Millitary-men
in
Parnassus
.
And
it
was
resolved
in
the
last
Ruota
,
That
the
question
should
be
argued
,
if
at
least
the
name
of
Science
and
Discipline
might
be
attributed
to
the
exercise
of
War
.
Which
doubt
was
of
such
consequence
,
as
the
victory
of
the
whole
cause
depended
thereupon
;
wherefore
both
parties
were
very
diligent
in
informing
the
Auditors
;
and
Vigetius
in
particular
was
not
sparing
for
any
pains
,
in
procuring
that
the
sentence
might
prove
favourable
on
his
side
.
The
business
was
very
subtilly
can
vast
and
argued
,
and
the
Court
seemed
wholly
to
incline
to
the
Litterati
;
but
the
Princes
used
such
forcible
arguments
,
as
it
was
resolved
,
That
Military
men
in
their
exercise
of
War
,
might
use
the
honourable
names
of
Science
and
Discipline
.
The
Litterati
were
much
displeased
at
this
d●…cision
,
who
exclaimed
all
of
them
,
that
Learning
would
be
much
defiled
,
if
she
,
who
adorns
mens
minds
with
good
precepts
,
should
be
forced
to
communicate
her
honourable
names
with
the
Military
Art
,
which
fills
the
body
with
wounds
,
and
the
soul
with
the
●…oulest
vices
.
The
Litterati
were
in
this
despair
,
when
unexpectedly
all
the
Butchers
of
the
world
were
seen
to
appear
in
Parnassus
;
which
slovenly
sort
of
people
,
all
besmeared
with
blood
,
with
hatchets
and
long
knives
in
their
hands
,
infused
such
fear
into
the
Litterati
,
as
apprehending
some
general
slaughter
,
and
to
be
cut
in
pieces
,
they
fled
away
to
their
own
houses
,
where
they
fortified
themselves
.
But
they
were
better
pleased
when
those
dreadful
people
made
signs
of
peace
,
and
desired
to
be
heard
.
Apollo
that
he
might
know
what
they
meant
,
sent
some
Deputies
to
them
:
To
whom
those
Butchers
stoutly
said
,
That
hearing
that
the
Court
had
decided
,
That
the
Art
of
sacking
and
firing
of
Cities
,
of
cutting
their
inhabitants
in
pieces
,
and
in
fine
,
that
the
cruel
mystery
of
killing
men
,
and
of
dispeopling
the
world
,
and
of
calling
with
sword
in
hand
,
mine
thine
,
should
be
termed
a
Science
and
Discipline
,
they
also
,
who
did
not
profess
the
killing
of
men
,
nor
any
thing
that
tended
to
the
destruction
of
mankind
,
but
the
kill●…ng
of
Calves
and
Muttons
to
feed
men
withal
,
demanded
that
their
Art
might
be
honoured
by
the
same
illustrious
names
.
The
Military-men
appeared
as
if
they
had
no
souls
amidst
this
rabble
rout
,
when
they
saw
so
base
sort
of
people
should
desire
that
their
so
opprobrious
Trade
,
should
be
paralell'd
with
the
Art
of
Warfaring
,
which
was
practised
by
the
greatest
Princes
,
and
prime
Nobility
of
the
world
.
And
the
same
Signori
Auditori
di
ru●…ta
,
when
they
saw
the
Butchers
appear
in
the
Pallace
,
and
heard
their
demands
,
they
were
aware
of
the
injustice
which
but
a
little
before
they
had
done
to
all
the
Vertuosi
by
their
decision
.
Wherefore
they
again
propounded
the
same
question
,
and
unanimously
agreed
,
That
the
mysterie
of
War
,
though
it
were
sometimes
necessary
,
was
notwithstanding
so
cruel
and
so
in
humane
,
as
it
was
impossible
to
honest
it
with
civil
tearms
.
The
LXXVI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Aristotle
being
besieged
in
his
Countrey-house
by
many
Princes
,
is
by
them
forced
to
revoke
his
Definition
of
a
Tyrant
.
ARistotle
the
Prince
of
Peripateticks
,
that
he
might
the
better
attend
his
study
,
withdrew
himself
some
days
ago
,
to
his
Countrey-house
,
where
unexpectly
he
was
besieged
by
night
,
by
some
Princes
,
with
a
great
number
of
foot
and
horse
,
who
after
having
with
incredible
speed
made
their
Trenches
and
Gabbiouns
,
prepared
their
Cannon
to
play
upon
the
house
.
When
Apollo
heard
of
this
so
great
Novilty
,
he
forthwith
dispatcht
away
the
two
famous
Satyrical
Poets
,
Lodovico
Adi●…sto
,
and
Francisco
Berni
,
with
two
Legions
of
Veteran
Saterists
towards
them
,
who
with
all
military
skill
endeavoured
to
raise
the
siege
,
but
in
vain
;
for
though
the
Poets
let
fly
disfamatory
Verses
,
yet
the
Arms
these
Princes
wore
were
so
excellently
well
tempered
,
as
they
were
proof
against
every
pungent
Terzetta
.
So
as
no
good
being
to
be
done
by
force
,
Apollo
,
who
would
be
sure
that
nothing
might
befal
that
excellent
Vertuosi
,
whereby
the
Peripatetick
Philosophy
might
be
any
ways
prejudiced
,
dispatched
away
into
the
field
that
great
lover
of
Learning
,
Federico
Feltrio
Duke
of
Urban
,
who
upon
parley
with
those
Princes
,
by
his
rare
dextrousness
obtained
a
suspension
of
Arms
;
and
at
the
first
entrance
into
discourse
,
those
Princes
complained
greatly
against
Aristotle
,
for
having
given
so
malignant
a
definition
of
a
Tyrant
in
his
Politica
,
as
it
included
or
comprehended
every
good
Prince
;
and
in
great
anger
said
,
That
if
(
as
Aristotle
had
been
bold
to
affirm
)
those
Princes
were
to
be
esteemed
Tyrants
,
who
intended
more
their
own
profit
,
then
the
like
of
their
subjects
,
they
knew
▪
not
where
that
Potentate
,
how
good
or
ancient
soever
he
were
could
be
found
,
who
might
not
be
concerned
in
that
so
universal
definition
.
As
if
the
end
of
every
good
shepherd
were
not
to
milk
and
shear
his
sheep
,
but
onely
so
far
to
love
them
,
as
to
dy
of
hunger
themselves
,
so
their
flock
might
grow
fat
:
and
that
Aristotle
discovered
himself
to
be
too
grofly
ignorant
if
he
seemed
not
to
know
,
that
gain
was
the
end
of
all
merchandizing
,
and
that
the
whole
world
was
but
a
great
publike
shop
.
And
that
if
the
very
law
of
Nature
did
so
commend
well
regulated
Charity
,
as
Fathers
were
seen
to
love
themselves
better
then
their
own
proper
children
,
with
what
ground
of
reason
would
Aristotle
oblige
Princes
to
love
the
good
of
others
better
then
their
own
.
And
upon
this
occasion
the
Princes
added
,
That
the
Litterati
were
grown
to
such
petulancy
in
many
important
particulars
,
as
blinded
by
proud
presumption
,
they
had
not
feared
to
intermeddle
in
the
very
greatest
Concerns
of
Princes
;
and
even
to
give
Laws
to
Reason
of
State
;
not
knowing
(
poor
people
that
they
are
)
that
the
insight
into
Politick
affairs
is
so
far
from
the
common
judgement
of
any
wit
,
how
good
soever
,
as
none
ought
to
discourse
thereof
,
but
men
who
have
spent
their
whole
time
in
the
Government
of
Kingdoms
,
and
in
the
affairs
of
great
Princes
,
though
they
may
peradventure
want
that
Philosophy
,
Rhetorick
,
and
other
Sciences
registred
by
the
Litterati
in
their
Scribled
Papers
:
For
Policy
not
having
so
much
Theory
,
as
that
a
Grammar
may
be
thereout
composed
,
which
may
teach
men
the
art
how
to
govern
States
well
,
consisted
wholly
in
practise
;
of
the
which
,
none
but
such
as
had
learnt
it
from
great
Princes
Secretaries
,
and
in
State-Councils
,
ought
to
discourse
,
lest
they
become
ridiculous
for
writing
things
which
deserves
the
rod.
By
these
words
,
Duke
Federico
found
that
the
Princes
had
just
reason
to
be
incensed
;
wherefore
he
easily
prevailed
with
Aristotle
to
revoke
his
former
definition
of
a
Tyrant
,
and
to
make
a
new
one
,
which
might
satisfie
those
so
highly
offended
Princes
.
Then
Aristotle
suddenly
recanted
,
and
said
,
That
Tyrants
were
a
certain
sort
of
men
in
the
old
time
,
the
Race
whereof
was
wholly
lost
now
.
The
Princes
having
received
such
satisfaction
as
they
desired
,
presently
quitted
their
quarters
:
And
being
gone
towards
their
own
States
,
Aristotle
,
being
half
dead
with
fear
,
returned
to
Parnassus
,
assuring
all
the
Vertuosi
,
that
his
Philosophical
Precepts
failed
him
very
much
against
the
fear
of
death
;
and
bad
the
Litterati
attend
their
studies
,
and
let
alone
the
reason
of
State
,
which
it
was
impossible
to
treat
of
,
without
running
evident
danger
of
being
esteemed
Criminal
by
Princes
.
The
LXXVII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
By
order
from
Apollo
,
a
general
Reformation
of
the
world
is
published
by
the
seven
wise
men
of
Greece
,
and
by
the
other
Litterati
.
THe
Emperor
Iustinian
,
that
great
Compiler
of
Statutes
,
and
Books
of
Civil
Law
,
some
few
daies
since
shewed
a
new
Law
to
Apollo
,
to
have
his
Majesties
approbation
of
it
:
wherein
men
were
strictly
forbidden
killing
themselves
.
Apollo
was
so
astonished
at
this
Law
,
as
fetching
a
deep
sigh
,
he
said
;
Is
the
good
Government
of
mankind
,
Iustinian
,
fallen
then
into
so
great
disorder
,
as
men
,
that
they
may
live
no
longer
,
do
voluntarily
kill
themselves
?
And
whereas
I
have
hitherto
fed
an
infinite
number
of
Philosophers
,
only
that
by
their
words
and
writings
they
may
make
men
less
apprehensive
of
death
,
are
things
now
reduced
to
such
calamity
,
as
even
they
will
now
live
no
longer
,
who
could
not
formerly
frame
themselves
to
be
content
to
die
?
And
am
I
amongst
all
the
disorders
of
my
Litterati
all
this
while
supinely
asleep
?
To
this
Iustinian
answered
,
That
the
Law
was
necessary
,
and
that
many
cases
of
violent
deaths
having
hapned
,
by
many
mens
having
desperately
made
themselves
away
,
worse
was
to
be
feared
,
if
some
opportune
remedy
were
not
soon
found
out
against
so
great
a
disorder
.
Apollo
then
began
diligently
to
inform
himself
,
how
men
did
live
in
the
world
;
and
found
that
the
world
was
so
impaired
,
as
many
valued
not
their
lives
nor
Estates
,
so
they
might
be
out
of
it
.
These
disorders
necessitated
his
Majesty
to
provide
against
them
with
all
possible
speed
;
so
as
he
absolutely
resolved
to
create
a
Congregation
of
all
the
most
famous
men
that
were
in
his
Dominions
,
for
wisdom
and
good
life
.
But
in
the
entrance
intoso
weighty
a
business
,
he
met
with
difficulties
impossible
to
be
overcome
;
for
when
he
came
to
chuse
the
members
of
this
Congregation
,
amongst
so
many
moral
Philosophers
,
and
the
almost
infinite
number
of
Vertuosi
,
he
could
not
find
so
much
as
one
,
who
was
indowed
with
half
those
parts
which
were
requisite
to
be
in
him
,
who
ought
to
reform
his
companion
:
His
Majesty
knowing
very
well
,
that
men
are
better
reformed
by
the
exemplary
life
of
their
reformers
,
then
by
any
the
best
rules
that
can
be
given
.
In
this
great
penury
of
fitting
personages
,
Apollo
gave
the
charge
of
the
Universal
Reformation
to
the
seven
wise
men
of
Greece
,
who
are
of
great
repute
in
Parnassus
,
as
those
who
are
conceived
by
all
men
to
have
found
out
the
receit
of
washing
Blackmoors
white
.
Which
antiquity
,
though
still
in
vain
,
hath
so
much
laboured
after
.
The
Grecians
were
much
rejoyc'd
at
this
news
,
for
the
honor
which
Apollo
had
done
their
Nation
;
but
the
Latins
were
much
grieved
at
it
,
thinking
themselves
thereby
much
injured
.
Wherefore
Apollo
very
well
knowing
how
much
the
ill
satisfaction
of
those
that
are
to
be
reformed
,
in
their
reformers
,
hinders
the
fruit
which
is
to
be
hoped
by
reformation
;
and
his
Majesty
being
naturally
given
to
appease
his
Subjects
imbittered
minds
,
more
by
giving
them
satisfaction
,
then
by
that
Legislative
power
which
men
are
not
well
pleased
withall
,
because
they
are
bound
to
obey
it
.
That
he
might
satisfie
the
Romans
,
who
were
much
distasted
,
to
the
seven
wise
men
of
Greece
,
he
added
Marcus
Cato
,
and
Anneus
Seneca
:
And
in
favour
to
the
modern
Italian
Philosophers
,
he
made
Iacopo
Mazzoni
da
Casena
,
Secretary
of
the
Congregation
,
and
honored
him
with
a
vote
in
their
Consultations
.
The
14
day
of
the
last
month
,
the
seven
wise
men
,
with
the
aforesaid
addition
,
accompanied
by
a
Train
of
the
choicest
Vertuosi
of
this
State
,
went
to
the
Delfick
Palace
,
the
place
appropriated
for
the
reformation
:
And
the
Litterati
were
very
well
pleased
to
see
the
great
number
of
Pedants
,
who
with
their
little
baskets
in
their
hands
,
went
gathering
up
the
Sentences
and
Apothegmes
,
which
fell
from
those
wise
men
as
they
went
along
.
The
next
day
after
the
solemn
entrance
,
the
Assembly
being
met
to
give
a
beginning
to
the
business
,
t
is
said
Talete
Milesio
,
the
first
wise
man
of
Greece
,
spake
thus
;
The
business
(
most
wise
Philosophers
)
about
which
were
are
all
met
in
this
place
,
is
(
as
you
all
know
)
the
greatest
that
can
be
treated
on
by
human
understanding
:
And
though
there
be
nothing
harder
then
to
set
bones
that
have
been
long
broken
,
wounds
that
are
fistuled
,
and
incurable
cancars
,
yet
difficulties
which
are
able
to
affright
others
,
ought
not
to
make
us
despair
of
their
cure
;
for
the
impossibility
will
increase
our
glory
,
and
will
keep
us
in
the
esteem
we
are
in
;
and
〈◊〉
do
assure
you
that
I
have
already
found
out
the
true
Antidote
against
the
poyson
of
all
these
present
corruptions
:
I
am
sure
we
do
all
believe
that
nothing
hath
more
corrupted
the
present
age
,
then
hidden
hatreds
,
feigned
love
,
impiety
,
the
perfideousness
of
double-dealing
men
,
cloaked
under
the
specious
mantle
of
simplicity
,
love
to
religion
,
and
of
charity
;
apply
your selves
to
these
evils
Gentlemen
,
by
making
use
of
fire
,
razor
,
and
lay
corrosive
Plasters
to
these
wounds
which
I
discover
unto
you
;
and
all
mankind
,
which
by
reason
of
their
vices
,
which
leads
them
the
high-way
to
death
,
may
be
said
to
be
given
over
by
the
Physitians
,
will
soon
be
made
whole
and
will
become
sincere
and
plain
in
their
proceedings
,
true
in
what
they
say
,
and
such
in
their
sanctity
of
life
,
as
they
were
in
former
times
.
The
true
and
immediate
cure
then
for
these
present
evils
,
consists
only
in
necessitating
men
to
live
with
candor
of
mind
,
and
purity
of
heart
,
which
you
will
all
confess
with
me
,
cannot
be
better
effected
,
then
by
making
that
little
window
in
mens
brests
,
which
,
as
being
most
requisite
,
his
Majesty
hath
often
promised
to
his
most
faithful
Vertuosi
:
For
when
those
who
use
such
art
in
their
modern
proceedings
,
shall
be
forced
to
speak
and
act
,
having
a
window
wherein
one
may
see
into
their
hearts
,
they
will
learn
the
excellent
vertue
of
being
,
and
not
appearing
to
be
;
and
will
conform
their
deeds
to
their
words
,
their
tongus
which
are
accustomed
to
dissembling
,
to
sincerity
of
heart
,
and
all
men
will
banish
lies
and
falshood
,
and
the
infirnal
spirit
of
hypocrisie
will
abandon
many
who
are
now
possest
with
so
foul
a
fiend
.
Talete's
opinion
did
so
please
he
whole
Congregation
,
as
being
put
to
the
vote
,
it
was
clearly
carried
for
the
affirmative
;
and
Secretary
Mazzoni
was
commanded
to
give
Apollo
a
sudden
account
thereof
,
who
perfectly
approved
the
opinion
,
and
gave
command
that
that
very
day
,
the
little
window
should
be
begun
to
be
made
in
mans
brest
.
But
at
the
very
instant
hat
the
Surgeans
took
their
instruments
in
hand
to
open
mens
brests
,
Virgil
,
Plato
,
Aristotle
,
Averoes
,
and
other
of
the
chief
Litterati
went
to
Apollo
,
and
told
him
that
he
was
not
ignorant
that
the
prime
means
whereby
men
do
with
much
ease
govern
the
world
,
was
the
reputation
of
those
who
did
command
;
and
that
so
pretious
a
jewel
not
being
to
be
exposed
to
danger
at
any
time
by
wise
Princes
,
they
beseeched
his
Majesty
to
consider
in
what
esteem
of
holy
life
,
and
good
demeanor
,
the
reverend
Philosophical
Synod
,
and
the
honorable
Colledge
of
the
Vertuosi
,
were
held
by
all
the
Litterati
of
Parnassus
;
that
therefore
they
earnestly
desired
him
(
as
it
became
him
to
do
)
to
have
a
care
of
their
honors
,
who
by
the
fame
of
their
goodness
,
increase
the
glory
of
Parnassus
:
And
that
if
his
Majesty
should
unexpectedly
open
every
mans
brest
,
the
greater
,
and
better
sort
of
those
Philosophers
,
who
formerly
were
highly
esteemed
,
ran
evident
hazard
of
being
shamed
;
and
that
he
might
peradventure
find
fowlest
faults
in
those
whom
he
had
formerly
held
to
be
immaculate
.
That
therefore
,
before
a
business
of
such
importance
should
be
taken
in
hand
,
he
would
be
pleased
to
afford
his
Vertuosi
a
competent
time
,
to
wash
and
cleanse
their
souls
.
Apollo
was
greatly
pleased
with
the
advice
of
so
famous
Poets
and
Philosophers
,
and
by
a
publick
Edict
,
prorogued
the
time
of
making
the
wind
ows
for
eight
daies
;
during
which
time
,
every
one
did
so
attend
the
cleansing
and
purging
of
their
souls
from
all
fallacies
,
from
a
hidden
vice
,
from
conceal'd
hatred
,
and
counterfeit
love
,
as
there
was
no
more
hony
of
roses
,
succory
,
cassia
,
scena
,
scamony
,
nor
laxative
syrups
to
be
found
in
any
Grocers
or
Apothecaries
shop
in
all
Parnassus
:
And
the
more
curious
did
observe
,
that
in
the
parts
where
the
Platonicks
,
Peripateticks
,
and
moral
Philosophers
did
live
,
there
was
then
such
a
stink
,
as
if
all
the
Privies
of
those
Countries
had
been
emptied
:
Whereas
the
quarters
of
Latin
and
Italian
Poets
,
stunk
only
of
Cabbadg-porrage
.
The
time
allotted
for
the
general
purging
was
already
past
,
when
the
day
before
they
were
to
begin
making
the
windows
,
Hippocrates
,
Galen
,
Cornelius
Celsus
,
and
other
the
most
skilfull
Physitians
of
this
State
went
to
Apollo
,
and
said
,
Is
it
then
true
,
Sir
,
you
that
are
the
Lord
of
the
Liberal
Sciences
,
that
this
Microcosme
must
be
deformed
,
which
is
so
nobly
and
miraculously
framed
,
as
if
any
chief
muscle
,
any
principal
vein
be
but
touched
,
the
human
creature
runs
evident
danger
of
being
slain
?
and
that
so
much
mischief
should
be
done
only
for
the
advantage
of
a
few
ignorant
people
?
For
not
only
the
wiser
sort
of
men
,
but
even
those
of
an
indifferent
capacity
,
who
have
converst
but
four
daies
with
any
Quacksalver
,
know
how
to
penetrate
even
into
the
innermost
bowels
.
This
memorandum
of
the
Physitians
wrought
so
much
with
Apollo
,
as
he
changed
his
former
resolution
,
and
by
Ausonius
Gallus
,
bad
the
Philosophers
of
the
Reformation
,
proceed
in
delivering
their
opinions
.
Then
Solon
thus
began
;
In
my
opinion
,
Gentlemen
,
that
which
hath
put
the
present
age
into
so
great
confusion
,
is
the
cruel
hatred
,
and
spitefull
envy
which
in
these
daies
is
seen
to
reigne
generally
amongst
men
.
All
help
then
for
these
present
evils
,
is
to
be
hoped
for
from
infusing
charity
,
reciprocal
affection
,
and
that
sanctified
love
of
our
neighbour
,
which
is
Gods
chiefest
commandment
into
mankind
;
we
ought
therefore
to
imploy
all
our
skill
in
taking
away
the
occasions
of
those
hatreds
,
which
in
these
daies
reign
in
mens
hearts
;
which
if
we
be
able
to
effect
,
men
will
do
like
beasts
,
who
by
the
instinct
of
nature
,
love
their
own
species
;
and
will
consequently
drive
away
all
hatred
and
rancor
of
mind
.
I
have
been
long
thinking
,
my
friends
,
what
the
true
springs
head
may
be
of
all
human
hatred
,
and
am
still
more
established
in
my
old
opinion
,
that
it
proceeds
from
the
disparity
of
means
,
from
the
hellish
custom
introduced
amongst
men
of
meum
and
tuum
;
the
rise
of
all
scandal
;
an
abuse
,
which
if
it
were
introduced
amongst
the
beasts
of
the
earth
,
I
assure
my self
,
that
even
they
would
consume
,
and
waste
themselves
with
the
self-same
hatred
and
rancor
wherewith
we
so
much
disquiet
our selves
:
The
not
having
any
thing
of
propriety
,
and
the
equallity
which
they
live
in
,
is
that
which
maintains
that
peace
among
them
,
which
we
so
much
envie
in
them
.
Men
,
as
you
all
know
,
are
likewise
creatures
,
but
rational
;
this
world
was
created
by
Almighty
God
,
only
that
mankind
might
live
thereupon
,
as
bruit
beasts
do
;
not
that
avaritious
men
should
divide
it
amongst
themselves
,
and
should
turn
what
was
common
,
into
that
meum
and
tuum
,
which
hath
put
us
all
into
such
confusion
.
So
as
it
clearly
appears
,
that
the
depravation
of
mens
souls
by
avarice
,
ambition
,
and
tyranny
,
hath
occasioned
the
present
inequality
,
and
disproportionate
division
.
And
if
it
be
true
(
as
we
all
confess
it
is
)
that
the
world
is
nothing
else
but
an
Inheritance
left
to
mankind
by
one
only
Father
,
and
one
only
Mother
,
from
whom
we
are
all
descended
like
brethren
;
what
justice
is
it
that
every
one
should
not
have
a
share
thereof
equal
with
his
companion
?
And
what
greater
disproportion
can
there
be
imagined
by
those
that
love
what
is
just
,
then
that
this
world
should
be
such
,
as
that
some
possess
more
thereof
then
they
can
govern
,
and
others
have
not
so
much
as
they
could
govern
.
But
that
which
doth
infinitely
aggravate
this
disorder
,
is
,
that
usually
good
and
vertuous
men
are
beggars
;
whereas
wicked
and
ignorant
people
are
wealthy
.
From
the
root
of
this
inequality
it
then
ariseth
,
that
the
rich
are
injurious
to
the
poor
,
and
that
the
poor
envy
the
rich
,
For
pride
is
proper
to
the
rich
,
to
beggars
desperation
.
Hence
it
is
that
the
rich
mans
oppressing
the
weak
,
appears
to
be
natural
;
and
the
ill-will
which
poor
men
bear
to
the
rich
,
is
innate
in
them
.
Now
Gentlemen
,
that
I
have
discovered
the
malady
unto
you
,
it
is
easie
to
apply
the
Medicine
:
I
therefore
think
,
that
to
reform
this
age
,
no
better
counsel
can
be
taken
,
then
to
divide
the
world
anew
,
and
to
allot
an
equal
part
thereof
to
every
one
.
And
that
we
may
fall
no
more
upon
the
like
disorders
,
I
advise
,
that
for
the
future
,
all
buying
and
selling
be
forbidden
;
so
that
parity
of
goods
will
be
instituted
;
the
Mother
of
publick
Peace
,
which
my self
and
other
Law-makers
,
have
formerly
so
much
laboured
for
.
Solons
opinion
suffered
a
long
debate
;
which
though
it
was
not
only
thought
good
,
but
necessary
by
Bante
of
Periandro
,
and
by
Pittaco
,
yet
it
was
gainsaid
by
the
rest
;
and
Senecas
opinion
prevailed
,
who
with
very
efficacious
reasons
made
it
appear
,
That
if
they
should
come
to
a
new
dividing
of
the
world
,
the
great
disorder
would
necessarily
follow
,
that
too
great
a
share
would
fall
to
Fools
,
and
too
little
to
gallant
Men
:
And
that
the
Plague
,
Famin
,
and
Warr
,
were
not
Gods
most
severest
scourges
,
with
which
God
,
when
offended
,
did
afflict
mankind
;
but
that
his
severest
scourge
for
the
punishment
of
man
,
and
which
out
of
his
mercy
,
he
made
not
use
of
,
was
to
enrich
rascals
.
Solons
opinion
being
laid
aside
,
Chilon
spake
to
this
purpose
;
Which
of
you
,
my
fellow-Philosophers
,
doth
not
know
that
the
immoderate
thirst
that
men
now
adaies
have
after
gold
,
hath
filled
the
world
with
all
the
mischiefs
which
we
all
see
and
feel
?
What
wickedness
,
what
impiety
,
how
execrable
soever
,
is
it
,
which
men
do
not
willingly
commit
,
if
thereby
they
may
accumulate
riches
?
Conclude
therefore
unanimously
with
me
,
That
no
better
way
can
be
found
out
,
whereby
to
extirpate
all
the
vices
wherewith
our
age
is
opprest
,
and
to
bring
in
that
sort
of
life
which
doth
best
become
men
,
then
for
ever
to
banish
out
of
the
world
the
two
infamous
Mettals
,
Gold
and
Silver
;
for
so
the
occasion
of
our
present
disorders
ceasing
,
the
evils
will
likewise
necessarily
cease
.
Chilons
opinion
was
judged
to
have
a
very
specious
appearance
;
but
when
it
came
to
the
test
,
it
would
not
endure
the
hammer
:
For
it
was
said
,
that
men
took
so
much
pains
to
get
gold
and
silver
,
because
they
are
the
measure
and
counterpoise
of
all
things
;
and
that
to
make
provision
of
all
things
necessary
,
it
was
requisite
for
men
to
have
some
mettals
,
or
other
thing
of
price
,
by
which
he
might
purchase
what
was
fitting
for
him
;
and
that
if
there
were
no
such
thing
as
gold
or
silver
,
men
would
make
use
of
some
other
thing
instead
of
them
,
which
rising
in
value
,
would
be
as
much
coveted
and
sought
after
,
as
gold
and
silver
now
were
;
as
was
plainly
seen
in
the
Indies
,
where
cockle-shels
were
made
use
of
instead
of
money
,
and
more
vallued
then
either
gold
or
silver
.
Cleobelus
particularly
being
very
hot
in
refuting
this
opinion
,
said
,
with
much
perturbation
of
mind
;
My
masters
,
banish
iron
out
of
the
world
,
for
that
is
the
mettal
which
hath
put
us
into
the
present
condition
.
Gold
and
silver
serve
for
the
use
which
is
ordained
by
God
,
to
be
the
measure
of
all
things
;
whereas
iron
,
which
is
produced
by
nature
for
the
making
of
plow-shears
,
spades
,
and
mattocks
,
and
other
instruments
to
cultivate
the
earth
,
is
by
the
mallice
and
mischief
of
men
,
turned
to
the
making
of
swords
,
and
daggers
,
and
other
deadly
instruments
.
Though
Cleobolus
his
opinion
was
judged
to
be
very
true
,
yet
it
was
concluded
by
the
whole
Congregation
,
that
it
being
impossible
to
expel
iron
,
without
grasping
iron
;
and
putting
on
Corslets
,
it
would
be
a
great
piece
of
imprudency
to
multiply
mischiefs
,
and
to
cure
one
wound
with
another
.
'T
was
therefore
generally
concluded
,
that
the
Ore
of
gold
and
silver
should
be
still
kept
,
but
that
the
refiners
of
them
should
be
wisht
for
the
future
to
be
sure
to
cleanse
them
well
,
and
not
to
take
them
out
of
the
fire
,
till
they
were
certain
they
had
taken
from
both
the
mettals
,
that
vein
of
turpentine
which
they
have
in
them
,
which
is
the
reason
why
both
gold
and
silver
stick
so
close
to
the
fingers
even
of
good
and
honest
men
.
This
being
said
,
Pittacchus
with
extraordinary
gravity
,
began
thus
;
The
World
,
Learned
Philosophers
,
is
fallen
into
that
deplorable
condition
,
which
we
so
labour
to
amend
,
only
because
men
in
these
daies
have
given
over
travailing
by
the
beaten
road-way
of
vertue
,
and
take
the
by-waies
of
vice
;
by
which
,
in
this
corrupted
age
,
they
obtain
rewards
only
due
to
vertue
.
Things
are
brought
to
that
woful
state
,
as
none
can
get
entrance
into
the
Palace
of
Dignity
,
Honor
,
or
Reward
(
as
formerly
they
had
wont
to
do
)
by
the
Gate
of
Merit
and
vertuous
endeavour
,
but
like
thieves
,
they
climb
the
windows
with
ladders
of
tergeversation
;
and
some
there
are
,
who
by
the
force
of
gifts
and
favours
,
have
opened
the
root
,
to
get
thereby
into
the
house
of
Honour
.
If
you
will
reform
this
our
corrupted
age
,
my
opinion
is
,
That
you
should
do
well
to
force
men
to
walk
by
the
way
of
vertue
,
and
make
severe
Laws
,
that
whosoever
will
take
the
laborsom
journey
which
leads
towards
the
obtaining
of
Supreme
Honors
and
Dignities
,
must
travail
with
the
waggon
of
desert
,
and
with
the
sure
guide
of
vertue
,
and
take
away
so
many
thwart
by-waies
,
so
many
little
paths
,
so
many
crooked
lanes
,
found
out
by
ambitious
men
,
and
modern
Hypocrites
,
which
multiplying
faster
in
this
our
miserable
age
,
then
Locusts
do
in
Africa
,
have
filled
the
world
with
contagion
.
And
truely
what
greater
affront
can
there
be
put
upon
vertue
and
merit
,
then
to
see
one
of
these
companions
arive
at
the
highest
preferments
,
when
no
man
can
guess
what
course
he
took
to
come
by
it
?
Which
makes
many
think
they
have
got
it
by
the
magick
of
hypocricy
,
whereby
these
Magicians
do
inchant
the
minds
even
of
very
wise
Princes
.
Pittacho's
opinion
was
not
only
praised
,
but
greatly
admired
by
the
whole
Assembly
,
and
certainly
would
have
been
approved
of
as
very
excellent
,
had
not
Periandro
made
those
already
almost
resolved
Philosophers
alter
their
minds
:
For
this
Philosopher
lively
opposing
the
opinion
of
so
great
a
Philosopher
,
said
,
Gentlemen
,
the
disorder
mentioned
by
Pittachus
,
is
very
true
;
but
the
thing
which
we
ought
chiefly
to
consider
,
is
,
for
what
reason
Princes
who
are
so
quick-fighted
,
and
interessed
in
their
own
State-affairs
,
do
not
bestow
in
these
our
daies
their
great
places
(
as
they
were
wont
to
do
of
old
)
on
able
and
deserving
men
,
by
whose
service
they
may
receive
advantage
and
reputation
;
but
instead
of
them
,
make
use
of
new
fellows
,
raised
out
of
the
dirt
and
mire
,
without
either
worth
or
honor
.
You
know
,
Gentlemen
,
that
the
opinion
of
those
who
say
,
that
it
is
fatal
to
Princes
to
love
carrion
,
and
to
imploy
undeserving
servant
,
in
places
of
greatest
trust
,
is
so
false
,
as
for
the
least
Interest
of
State
,
they
neglect
their
brethren
,
and
wax
cruel
even
against
their
own
children
,
so
far
are
they
from
doting
upon
their
servants
in
things
wherein
the
welfare
of
their
State
lies
.
Princes
do
not
act
by
chance
,
as
many
foolishly
believe
they
do
,
nor
suffer
themselves
to
be
guided
in
their
proceedings
by
their
passions
,
as
we
do
;
but
whatsoever
they
do
,
is
out
of
Interest
;
and
those
things
which
to
privat
men
appear
errors
and
negligence
,
are
accurate
politick
Precepts
.
All
that
have
written
of
State-affairs
,
freely
confess
that
the
best
way
to
Govern
Kingdoms
well
,
is
to
confer
places
of
highest
honour
and
dignity
upon
men
of
great
merit
,
and
known
worth
and
valor
.
This
is
a
truth
very
well
known
to
Princes
;
and
though
it
be
clearly
seen
that
they
do
not
observe
it
,
he
is
a
fool
that
believes
they
do
it
out
of
carelessness
.
I
,
who
have
long
studied
a
point
of
so
great
weight
,
am
verily
perswaded
,
that
ignorant
and
raw
men
,
and
men
of
no
merit
,
are
preferred
by
Princes
,
in
conferring
their
chief
Offices
and
honors
,
before
learned
and
deserving
men
,
not
out
of
any
fault
in
the
Prince
,
but
(
I
blush
to
say
it
)
through
default
of
the
Vertuosi
.
I
acknowledge
that
Princes
stand
in
need
of
learned
Officers
,
and
men
of
experienced
valor
:
But
none
of
you
will
deny
but
that
they
likewise
need
men
that
are
loyal
and
faithful
.
And
it
is
evident
,
that
if
deserving
men
,
and
men
of
worth
and
valor
were
but
as
faithful
as
they
are
able
,
as
gratefull
as
they
are
knowing
,
we
should
not
complain
of
the
present
disorders
,
in
seeing
undeserving
Dwarfs
,
become
great
Giants
in
four
daies
space
,
and
should
not
bewail
the
wonder
of
seeing
wild
gourds
in
a
short
space
overtop
the
best
fruit-trees
,
nor
to
see
ignorance
seated
in
the
Chair
of
Vertue
,
and
folly
in
Vallors
Tribunal
.
'T
is
common
to
all
men
to
think
much
better
of
themselves
then
they
deserve
;
but
the
Vertuosi
do
presume
so
very
much
upon
their
own
good
parts
,
as
they
rather
pretend
to
add
to
the
Princes
reputation
,
by
having
any
honors
conferred
upon
them
,
then
to
receive
credit
themselves
by
his
munificence
:
and
I
have
known
many
so
foolishly
blown
up
,
and
inamored
of
their
own
worths
,
as
they
have
thought
it
a
greater
happiness
for
a
Prince
to
have
an
occasion
of
honouring
such
a
one
,
then
good
luck
for
the
other
to
meet
with
so
liberal
a
Prince
.
So
as
these
men
acknowledging
all
favours
confer'd
upon
them
,
to
proceed
from
their
own
worth
,
prove
so
ungrateful
to
their
Princes
and
benefactors
in
their
greatest
necessities
,
as
causing
themselves
to
be
nauseated
as
very
perfidious
men
,
they
are
abhorred
,
and
are
causes
of
this
present
great
disorder
,
why
Princes
,
in
such
as
they
will
prefer
to
great
places
,
and
high
dignities
,
instead
of
merit
,
vertue
,
and
known
worth
,
seek
for
loyalty
and
trust
,
that
they
may
meet
with
thankfulness
when
they
stand
in
need
of
it
;
which
they
rather
expect
from
those
who
pretending
to
no
merit
of
their
own
,
acknowledge
all
their
good
fortunes
to
proceed
meerly
from
their
Princes
liberality
.
Periandro
having
ended
his
discourse
,
Bias
spake
thus
;
All
of
you
,
most
wise
Philosophers
,
sufficiently
know
that
the
reason
of
the
worlds
being
so
depraved
,
is
only
because
mankind
hath
so
shamefully
abandoned
those
holy
Laws
which
God
gave
them
to
observe
,
when
he
bestowed
the
whole
world
upon
them
for
their
habitation
:
Nor
did
he
place
the
French
in
France
,
the
Spaniards
in
Spain
,
Dutch
in
Germany
,
and
bound
up
the
fowl
fiend
in
hel
,
for
any
other
reason
,
but
for
the
advantage
of
that
general
peace
which
he
desired
might
be
observed
throughout
the
whole
world
.
But
avarice
and
ambition
(
spurs
which
have
alwaies
egg'd
on
men
to
greatest
wickedness
)
causing
the
French
,
Italians
,
Dutch
,
Grecians
,
and
other
Nations
to
pass
into
other
mens
Countries
,
have
caused
these
evils
which
we
(
I
wish
it
prove
not
in
vain
)
endeavor
to
amend
:
And
if
it
be
true
,
as
we
all
confess
it
is
,
that
God
hath
done
nothing
in
vain
,
and
that
there
is
much
of
mystery
in
all
his
operations
;
Wherefore
think
you
,
hath
his
Divine
Majesty
placed
the
inaccessable
Perenian
Mountains
between
the
Spaniards
and
Italians
;
the
rocky
Alpes
between
the
Italians
and
Germans
;
the
dreadful
English
Channel
between
the
French
and
English
;
why
the
Mediterranean
Sea
between
Africa
and
Europe
;
why
hath
he
made
the
infinite
spacious
Rivers
of
Euphrates
,
Indus
,
Ganges
,
Tigres
,
Danubius
,
Nilus
,
Rheine
,
and
the
rest
;
save
only
that
people
might
be
content
to
live
in
their
own
Countries
,
by
reason
of
the
difficulties
of
Fords
and
passages
?
And
his
Divine
Majesty
knowing
very
well
that
the
harmony
of
universal
peace
would
be
out
of
tune
,
and
that
the
world
would
be
filled
with
uncurable
diseases
,
if
men
should
exceed
the
bounds
which
he
had
alloted
them
;
that
he
might
make
the
waies
to
such
great
disorders
the
more
difficult
,
he
added
the
multitude
and
variety
of
Languages
,
to
the
Mountains
,
Precipices
,
to
the
violent
course
of
Rivers
,
and
to
the
Seas
immenceness
:
for
otherwise
,
all
men
would
speak
the
same
Language
,
as
all
creatures
of
the
same
species
,
sing
,
bark
,
and
bray
,
after
one
and
the
same
manner
.
'T
is
then
mans
boldness
in
boaring
through
Mountains
,
and
in
passing
over
not
only
the
largest
and
most
rapid
Rivers
,
but
even
in
manifestly
and
rashly
hazarding
himself
and
all
his
substance
in
a
little
woodden
Vessel
,
not
fearing
to
cross
the
largest
Seas
therein
;
which
caused
the
ancient
Romans
(
not
to
mention
the
many
other
Nations
who
have
run
into
the
same
rashness
)
to
ruine
other
mens
affairs
,
and
discompose
their
own
;
not
being
satisfied
with
their
Dominion
over
whole
Italy
.
The
true
remedy
then
for
so
great
disorder
is
,
first
to
force
every
Nation
to
return
home
to
their
own
Countreys
;
and
to
the
end
that
the
like
mischiefs
may
not
insue
hereafter
,
I
am
of
opinion
,
that
all
bridges
built
for
the
more
commodious
passing
over
rivers
,
be
absolutely
broken
down
;
and
the
ways
made
for
passing
over
the
mountains
may
be
quite
spoil'd
,
and
the
mountains
be
made
more
inaccessable
by
mans
industry
,
then
they
were
at
first
made
by
nature
;
and
I
would
have
all
navigation
absolutely
forbidden
,
upon
severest
penalty
,
not
allowing
so
much
as
the
least
boats
to
pass
in
,
over
rivers
.
Bias
his
opinion
was
very
attentively
listened
unto
;
and
after
being
well
examined
by
the
best
wits
of
the
Assembly
,
it
was
found
not
to
be
good
:
for
all
those
Philosophers
knew
,
that
the
greatest
enmities
which
are
known
to
reign
between
Nation
and
Nation
,
are
not
natural
(
as
many
foolishly
conceive
them
to
be
)
but
are
occasioned
by
cunning
Princes
,
who
are
great
masters
of
the
known
proverb
,
Divide
,
&
impera
.
And
that
that
perfection
of
manners
being
found
in
all
Nations
joyned
together
,
which
was
not
to
be
had
in
any
particular
Province
,
men
easily
learn
that
exact
wisdom
by
travelling
through
the
world
,
which
was
peculiar
to
great
Ulysses
,
who
having
travelled
through
many
Countreys
,
had
seen
and
observed
the
fashions
of
divers
Nations
;
a
benefit
which
was
much
furthered
by
the
use
of
Navigation
;
which
was
very
necessary
for
mankind
,
were
it
onely
for
that
God
(
as
well
became
the
immencity
of
his
power
)
having
created
this
world
of
almost
an
incomprehensible
greatness
,
having
filled
it
with
pretious
things
,
and
endowed
every
Province
with
somewhat
of
particular
navigation
,
which
is
the
rarest
Invention
that
could
ever
have
been
thought
on
,
or
put
in
practice
by
humane
wit
,
had
brought
it
into
so
little
a
compass
,
as
the
Aromaticks
of
the
Molucchi
,
though
above
fifteen
thousand
miles
from
Italy
,
do
so
abound
in
Italy
,
as
if
they
grew
there
.
Thus
ended
Bias
,
when
Cleobelus
rising
up
,
seeming
with
a
low
bow
to
crave
leave
to
speak
;
said
thus
,
I
clearly
perceive
wise
Gentlemen
,
that
the
reformation
of
the
present
Age
,
a
business
of
it self
very
easie
,
becomes
by
the
diversity
and
extravagancy
of
our
Opinions
,
rather
impossible
then
difficult
.
And
to
speak
with
the
freedom
which
becomes
this
place
,
and
the
weight
of
the
business
we
have
in
hand
,
it
grieves
my
heart
to
find
even
amongst
us
that
are
here
,
that
common
defect
of
ambitious
and
slight
wits
,
who
getting
up
into
publike
pulpits
,
labor
more
to
shew
the
rarity
of
their
own
wits
,
by
their
new
and
curious
conceits
,
then
to
profit
their
Auditory
by
useful
precepts
and
sound
doctrines
:
for
to
raise
man
out
of
the
foul
mire
and
dirt
whereinto
he
is
fallen
,
what
need
we
undertake
that
dangerous
manifacture
of
making
little
windows
in
mens
breasts
,
according
to
Thales
his
advice
?
and
why
should
we
undertake
the
laborous
business
of
dividing
the
world
into
equal
partitions
,
according
to
Solons
proposition
?
and
the
course
mentioned
to
be
taken
by
Chilo
,
of
banishing
gold
and
silver
from
out
of
the
world
?
or
that
of
Pittacchus
,
of
forcing
men
to
walk
in
the
way
of
merit
and
vertue
?
or
lastly
,
that
of
Bias
,
that
mountains
should
be
raised
higher
,
and
made
more
difficult
to
pass
over
then
nature
hath
made
them
,
and
that
for
the
future
the
miracle
of
navigation
should
be
extirpated
,
which
shews
to
what
pitch
mans
ingenuity
can
arrive
,
are
they
not
sophistical
fancies
,
and
mear
Chimera's
?
Our
chiefest
consideration
ought
to
be
,
that
the
remedy
to
be
applyed
to
the
undoing
evils
,
may
be
easie
to
be
put
in
execution
,
that
it
may
work
its
effect
soon
and
secretly
without
any
no●…e
,
and
that
it
may
be
chearfully
received
by
those
who
are
to
be
reformed
:
for
by
doing
otherwise
,
we
shall
rather
deform
the
World
,
then
reform
it
.
And
certainly
not
without
reason
;
for
that
Physician
deserves
to
be
blamed
,
who
should
ordain
a
medicine
for
his
sick
patient
which
is
impossible
to
be
used
,
and
which
would
afflict
him
more
then
his
disease
.
Therefore
it
is
the
requisite
duty
of
Reformers
,
to
provide
themselves
of
a
sure
remedy
,
before
they
take
notice
of
the
wound
:
That
Chyrurgion
deserves
to
be
punished
,
who
first
opens
the
sick
mans
vein
,
and
then
runs
for
things
to
close
it
up
withal
;
it
is
not
onely
foolishness
,
but
impiety
,
to
defame
men
with
publishing
their
vices
,
and
to
shew
to
the
World
that
their
maladies
are
grown
to
such
a
height
,
as
it
is
not
in
the
power
of
man
to
cure
them
.
Therefore
Tacitus
,
who
always
speaks
to
the
purpose
if
he
be
rightly
understood
,
doth
in
this
particular
advise
men
,
Omittere
potius
pravallada
,
&
adulta
vitia
,
quam
hoc
assequi
,
ut
palem
fieret
,
quibus
flagitiis
impares
essumus
.
Those
who
would
fell
an
old
Oak
,
are
ill
advised
if
they
fall
to
cut
down
the
top
boughs
:
Wise
men
do
,
as
I
do
now
,
lay
the
ax
to
the
greatest
root
.
I
then
affirm
,
That
the
reformation
of
the
present
world
consists
wholly
in
these
few
words
,
Premiar
I
buoni
,
e
punire
gli
scelerati
,
in
rewarding
the
good
,
and
punishing
the
bad
.
Here
Cleobelus
held
his
peace
,
whose
Opinion
Thales
Mileseus
,
did
with
such
violence
oppose
,
as
he
shewed
how
dangerous
a
thing
it
is
to
offend
such
(
though
by
telling
truth
)
who
have
the
repute
to
be
good
and
wise
.
For
he
with
a
fiery
countenance
broke
forth
into
these
words
;
My self
,
and
these
Gentlemen
,
most
wise
Cleobelus
,
since
you
have
been
pleased
to
reject
our
Opinions
as
sophistical
,
and
meer
Chimera
s
,
did
expect
from
your
rare
wisdom
,
that
for
cure
of
these
present
evils
,
you
had
brought
some
new
and
miraculous
Bezoar
fron
the
Indies
,
wheras
you
have
propounded
that
for
the
easiest
cure
,
which
is
the
hardest
and
most
impossible
that
could
ever
be
fancied
by
the
prime
pretenders
to
high
mysteries
,
Caius
Plinius
,
and
Albertus
Magnus
.
There
is
not
any
one
of
us
,
my
Cleobolus
,
that
did
not
know
,
before
you
were
pleased
to
put
us
in
mind
of
it
,
that
the
reformation
of
the
world
,
depends
wholly
upon
rewarding
such
as
are
good
and
punishing
the
wicked
.
But
give
me
leave
to
ask
you
,
Who
are
those
that
in
this
our
age
are
perfectly
good
,
and
who
exactly
ill
?
And
I
would
know
,
Whether
your
eye
can
discern
that
which
could
never
yet
be
found
out
by
any
man
living
,
how
to
know
true
goodness
from
that
which
is
counterfeit
?
do
not
you
know
▪
that
modern
hypocrites
are
arrived
at
that
height
of
cunning
,
as
in
this
our
unhappy
age
,
those
are
accounted
to
be
cunningest
in
their
wickedness
,
who
seem
to
be
most
exactly
good
?
and
that
such
really
perfect
men
who
live
in
sincerity
and
singleness
of
soul
,
with
an
undisguised
and
unartificial
goodness
,
without
any
thing
of
hypocrisie
,
are
thought
to
be
scandalous
and
silly
?
Every
one
by
natural
instinct
loves
those
that
are
good
,
and
hate
those
that
are
wicked
,
but
Princes
do
it
both
out
of
instinct
and
interest
.
And
when
hypocrites
,
or
other
cunning
cheaters
are
listened
unto
by
great
men
,
and
good
men
supprest
or
undervalued
,
it
is
not
by
the
Princes
own
election
,
but
through
the
abuse
of
others
.
True
vertue
is
known
onely
and
rewarded
by
God
,
and
vices
discovered
and
punisht
;
for
he
onely
penetrates
into
the
depth
of
mens
hearts
,
and
we
by
means
of
the
window
by
me
propounded
,
might
have
penetrated
thereinto
,
had
not
the
enemy
of
mankind
sowed
tares
in
the
field
where
I
sowed
the
grain
of
good
advice
.
But
new
laws
,
how
good
and
wholsome
soever
,
have
ever
been
and
ever
will
be
withstood
by
those
vitious
people
who
are
thereby
punished
.
The
Assembly
were
mightily
pleased
with
the
reasons
alledged
by
Thales
;
and
all
of
them
turning
their
eyes
upon
Periandro
,
he
thinking
himself
thereby
desired
to
speak
his
opinion
,
began
thus
,
The
variety
of
opinions
which
I
have
heard
,
confirms
me
in
my
former
Tenet
▪
That
four
parts
of
five
that
are
sick
,
perish
because
the
Physicians
know
not
their
disease
;
who
in
this
their
error
may
be
excused
,
because
men
are
easily
deceived
in
things
wherein
they
can
walk
but
by
conjecture
.
But
that
we
,
who
are
judged
by
Apollo
to
be
the
salt
of
the
earth
,
should
not
know
the
evil
under
which
the
present
age
labours
,
redounds
much
to
our
shame
,
since
the
malady
which
we
ought
to
cure
,
lies
not
hidden
in
the
veins
but
is
so
manifestly
known
to
all
men
that
it self
crys
aloud
for
help
.
And
yet
by
all
the
reasons
I
have
heard
alledged
,
methinks
you
go
about
to
mend
the
arm
,
when
it
is
the
breast
that
is
fistula'd
.
But
Gentlemen
,
since
it
is
Apollo's
pleasure
,
that
we
should
do
so
,
since
our
reputation
stands
upon
it
,
and
our
charity
to
our
so
afflicted
age
requires
it
at
our
hands
,
let
us
,
I
beseech
you
,
take
from
off
our
faces
the
mask
of
respect
,
which
hath
been
hitherto
worn
by
us
all
,
and
let
us
speak
freely
.
The
great
disorder
hath
always
reigned
amongst
men
,
which
doth
domineer
so
much
at
the
present
,
and
which
God
grant
it
may
not
still
reign
;
that
whilst
powerful
men
by
their
detestible
vices
,
and
by
their
universal
reformation
,
have
disordered
the
world
,
men
go
about
to
re-order
it
by
amending
the
faults
of
private
men
.
But
the
falshood
,
avarice
,
pride
and
hypocrisie
of
private
men
(
though
I
must
confess
them
to
be
hainous
evils
)
are
not
the
vices
which
have
so
much
depraved
this
our
age
;
for
fitting
punishments
being
by
the
law
provided
for
every
fault
,
and
foul
action
,
mankind
is
so
obedient
to
the
laws
,
and
so
apprehensive
of
justice
,
as
a
few
ministers
thereof
make
millions
of
men
tremble
,
and
keeps
them
in
,
and
men
live
in
such
quiet
peace
,
as
the
rich
cannot
,
without
much
danger
to
themselves
oppress
the
poor
,
and
every
one
may
walk
safely
both
by
day
and
night
with
gold
in
their
hand
,
not
onely
in
the
streets
,
but
even
in
the
high-ways
:
but
the
worlds
most
dangerous
infirmities
are
then
discovered
,
when
publique
peace
is
disturbed
;
and
of
this
we
must
all
of
us
confess
,
that
the
ambition
,
avarice
and
diabolical
engagement
,
which
the
swords
of
some
powerful
Princes
hath
usurped
over
the
States
of
those
who
are
less
powerful
,
is
the
true
cause
,
and
that
which
is
so
great
a
scandal
to
the
present
times
:
T
is
this
,
Gentlemen
,
which
hath
filled
the
world
with
hatred
and
suspicion
,
and
hath
defiled
it
with
so
much
blood
,
as
men
who
were
by
God
created
with
humane
hearts
,
and
civil
inclinations
,
are
become
ravenous
wilde
beasts
,
tearing
one
another
in
pieces
with
all
sort
of
inhumanity
.
For
the
ambition
of
these
men
hath
changed
publike
peace
into
most
cruel
war
,
vertue
into
vice
,
the
charity
and
love
which
we
ought
to
bear
to
our
neighbours
,
into
such
intestine
hatred
,
as
whereas
all
Lyons
appear
Lyons
to
a
Lyon
,
the
Scotch
man
appears
unto
the
English
,
the
Italian
to
the
German
,
the
French
to
the
Spaniard
,
the
German
,
Spaniard
,
French
,
and
men
of
all
other
Nations
to
the
Italian
,
not
to
be
men
,
not
brethren
,
as
they
are
,
but
creatures
of
another
species
:
So
as
justice
being
oppressed
by
the
unexplicable
ambition
of
potent
men
,
mankind
,
which
was
born
,
brought
up
,
and
did
live
long
under
the
Government
of
wholesome
Laws
,
waxing
now
cruel
to
themselves
,
lives
with
the
instinct
of
beasts
,
ready
to
oppress
the
weaker
.
Theft
which
is
the
chief
of
all
faults
,
is
so
persecuted
by
the
Laws
,
as
the
stealing
of
an
egg
is
a
capital
fault
,
and
yet
powerful
men
are
so
blinded
with
the
ambition
of
reigning
,
as
to
rob
another
man
perfidiously
of
his
whole
state
,
is
not
thought
to
be
an
execrable
mischief
,
as
indeed
it
is
,
but
an
noble
occupation
,
and
onely
fit
for
Kings
;
and
Tacitus
,
the
master
of
Policy
,
that
he
may
win
the
good
will
of
Princes
,
is
not
ashamed
to
say
,
In
summa
Fortuna
id
aequius
quod
vallidus
,
&
sua
retinere
privatae
domus
,
de
Alienis
certare
Regiam
laudem
esse
,
li.
15.
An.
If
it
be
true
▪
which
is
confest
to
be
so
by
all
Politicians
▪
that
people
are
the
Princes
Apes
,
how
can
those
who
obey
,
live
vertuously
quiet
,
when
their
Commanders
do
so
abound
in
vice
?
To
bereave
a
powerful
Prince
of
a
Kingdom
is
a
weighty
business
,
which
is
not
to
be
done
by
one
man
alone
.
To
effect
so
foul
an
intent
(
observe
what
the
thirst
of
Dominion
can
do
in
an
ambitious
mind
)
they
muster
together
a
multitude
of
men
,
who
that
they
may
not
fear
the
shame
of
stealing
their
neighbours
goods
,
of
murthering
men
,
and
of
firing
Cities
,
change
the
name
of
base
Thief
into
that
of
a
gallant
Souldier
,
and
valliant
commander
;
and
that
which
aggravates
this
evil
is
,
that
even
good
Princes
are
forced
to
run
upon
the
same
rocks
,
to
defend
their
own
estates
from
the
ravinousness
of
these
Harpyes
.
For
these
to
secure
their
own
Estates
,
to
regain
what
they
have
lost
,
and
to
revenge
themselves
of
those
that
have
injured
them
,
possess
themselves
of
their
states
:
and
being
allured
by
gain
,
they
betake
themselves
to
the
same
shameful
Trade
,
which
they
did
so
much
abhor
before
.
Which
hath
caused
the
art
of
bereaving
other
men
of
their
Territories
,
become
an
highly
esteemed
science
;
and
is
the
reason
why
humane
wit
,
which
was
made
to
admire
and
contemplate
the
miracles
of
heaven
,
and
wonders
of
the
earth
,
is
wholly
turned
to
invent
stratagems
,
to
plot
treasons
;
and
hands
,
which
were
made
to
cultevate
the
earth
which
feeds
us
,
into
knowing
how
to
handle
Arms
,
that
we
may
kill
one
another
.
This
is
that
which
hath
brought
our
age
to
its
last
gasp
;
and
the
true
way
to
remedy
it
is
,
for
Princes
who
use
such
dealings
▪
to
amend
themselves
,
and
to
be
content
with
their
own
present
Fortunes
;
for
certainly
it
appears
very
strange
to
me
,
that
there
should
be
any
King
who
cannot
satisfie
his
ambition
with
the
absolute
command
over
twenty
millions
of
men
.
Princes
,
as
you
all
know
,
were
ordained
by
God
on
earth
,
for
the
good
of
mankind
;
I
therefore
say
it
will
not
do
well
onely
to
bridle
the
ambition
which
Princes
have
of
possessing
themselves
of
other
mens
estates
;
but
I
think
it
necessary
that
the
peculiar
engagement
which
some
men
pretend
their
swords
have
over
all
estates
,
be
cut
up
by
the
root
;
and
I
advise
above
all
things
,
that
the
greatness
of
Principalities
be
limitted
;
it
being
impossible
that
too
great
Kingdoms
should
be
governed
with
that
exact
care
and
justice
which
is
requisite
to
the
peoples
good
,
and
to
which
Princes
are
obliged
.
For
there
never
was
a
Monarchy
excessively
over
great
,
which
was
not
in
a
short
time
lost
by
the
carelessness
and
negligence
of
those
that
were
the
Governors
thereof
.
Here
Periandro
ended
;
whom
Solon
thus
opposed
:
The
true
cause
of
the
present
evils
which
you
with
much
freedom
have
been
pleased
to
speak
of
,
was
not
omitted
by
us
,
out
of
ignorance
(
as
you
peradventure
may
believe
)
but
out
of
prudence
.
The
disorders
spoken
of
by
you
,
that
the
weak
were
oppressed
by
those
of
greater
power
,
began
when
the
World
was
first
peopled
.
And
you
know
,
that
the
most
skilful
Physician
,
cannot
restore
sight
to
one
that
was
born
blind
.
I
mention
this
,
because
it
is
much
the
same
thing
to
cure
an
eye
that
is
infirm
,
as
to
reform
antiquated
errors
.
For
as
the
skilful
Physician
betakes
himself
the
very
first
day
that
he
sees
an
illaffected
eye
water
,
to
his
clouts
and
cauters
,
and
is
forced
to
leave
his
patient
with
a
bleer
eye
;
when
if
the
eye
were
quite
blind
,
it
were
too
late
to
seek
for
remedy
;
so
reformers
should
oppose
abuses
with
severe
remedies
,
the
very
first
hour
that
they
commence
.
For
when
vice
and
corruption
hath
got
deep
rooting
,
it
is
wiselier
done
to
tolerate
the
evil
,
then
to
go
about
to
remedy
it
out
of
time
,
with
danger
to
occasion
worse
inconveniences
;
it
being
more
dangerous
to
cut
of
an
old
Wen
,
then
it
is
misbecoming
to
let
it
stand
.
Moreover
we
are
here
to
call
to
mind
the
disorders
of
private
men
,
and
to
use
modesty
in
so
doing
;
but
to
be
silent
in
what
concerns
Princes
,
and
to
bury
their
disorders
,
which
a
wise
man
must
either
touch
very
tenderly
,
or
else
say
nothing
of
them
;
for
they
having
no
Superiors
in
this
world
,
it
belongs
onely
to
God
to
reform
them
,
he
having
given
them
the
prerogative
to
command
,
us
the
glory
to
obey
.
And
certainly
not
without
much
reason
;
for
subjects
ought
to
correct
their
Rulers
defects
onely
by
their
own
good
and
godly
living
.
For
the
hearts
of
Princes
being
in
the
hands
of
God
,
when
people
deserve
ill
from
his
divine
Majestie
,
he
raiseth
up
Pharoahs
against
them
,
and
on
the
contrary
,
makes
Princes
tender
hearted
,
when
people
by
their
fidelity
and
obedience
deserves
Gods
assistance
.
What
Solon
had
said
,
was
much
commended
by
all
the
hearers
;
and
then
Cato
began
thus
:
Your
opinions
most
wise
Grecians
are
much
to
be
admired
;
and
by
them
you
have
infinitely
verified
the
Tenet
which
all
the
Litterati
have
of
you
:
for
the
vices
,
corruptions
,
and
those
ulcerated
wounds
,
which
the
present
age
doth
suffer
under
,
could
not
be
better
nor
more
lively
discovered
and
pointed
out
.
Nor
are
your
opinions
,
which
are
full
of
infinite
wisdom
,
and
humane
knowledge
,
gain-said
here
;
for
that
they
were
not
excellently
good
;
but
for
that
the
malady
is
so
habituated
in
the
veins
,
and
is
even
so
grounded
in
the
bones
,
as
that
humane
complexion
is
become
so
weak
,
as
vital
virtue
gives
place
to
the
mightiness
of
vice
,
whereby
we
are
made
to
know
clearly
,
that
the
patient
we
have
in
hand
is
one
sick
of
a
consumption
,
who
spits
putrifaction
,
and
whose
hair
fals
from
his
head
:
The
Physician
hath
a
very
hard
part
to
play
,
Gentlemen
,
when
the
Patients
maladies
are
many
,
and
the
one
so
far
differing
from
the
other
,
as
cooling
medicines
,
and
such
as
are
good
for
a
hot
liver
,
are
nought
for
the
stomach
,
and
weaken
it
too
much
.
And
truly
this
is
just
our
case
;
for
the
maladies
which
molest
our
present
age
,
and
wherewithal
all
other
times
have
been
affected
,
do
for
number
equal
the
stars
of
heaven
,
or
the
sea-sands
,
and
are
more
various
,
and
further
differing
one
from
another
,
then
are
the
flowers
of
the
field
.
I
therefore
think
this
cure
desperate
,
and
that
the
patient
is
totally
incapable
of
humane
help
:
And
my
opinion
is
,
That
we
must
have
recourse
to
prayers
,
and
to
other
Divine
helps
,
which
in
like
cases
are
usually
implored
from
God
.
And
this
is
the
true
North-Star
,
which
in
the
greatest
difficulties
leads
men
into
the
haven
of
perfection
:
for
Pauci
prudentia
honesta
ab
deterioribus
,
utilia
ab
noxiis
discernunt
,
plures
aliorum
eventis
docentur
.
Tacit.
lib.
4.
Annal.
And
if
we
will
approve
,
as
we
ought
to
do
,
of
this
consideration
,
we
shall
find
,
that
when
the
world
was
formerly
fallen
into
the
like
difficulties
,
it
was
no
thought
of
man
,
but
Gods
care
that
did
help
it
,
who
by
sending
universal
deluges
of
water
,
razed
mankind
,
full
of
abominable
and
incorrigible
vice
from
off
the
world
.
And
Gentlemen
,
when
a
man
sees
the
walls
of
his
house
all
gaping
and
runious
,
and
the
foundations
so
weakened
,
as
in
all
appearance
it
is
ready
to
fall
,
certainly
it
is
more
wisely
done
to
pull
down
the
house
,
and
build
it
anew
,
then
to
spend
his
money
,
and
waste
his
time
in
piecing
and
in
patching
it
.
Therefore
since
mans
life
is
so
foully
depraved
with
vice
,
as
it
is
past
all
humane
power
to
restore
it
to
its
former
health
,
I
do
with
all
my
heart
beseech
the
Divine
Majestie
,
and
counsel
you
to
do
the
like
,
that
he
will
again
open
the
Cataracts
of
heaven
,
and
send
new
deluges
of
water
upon
the
earth
,
and
so
by
pouring
forth
his
wrath
upon
mankind
,
mend
the
incurable
wounds
thereof
by
the
salve
of
death
:
but
withal
,
that
a
new
Ark
may
be
made
,
wherein
all
boys
of
not
above
twelve
years
of
age
may
be
saved
;
and
that
all
the
female
sex
,
of
what
soever
age
be
so
wholly
consumed
,
as
nothing
but
the
unhappy
memory
thereof
may
remain
.
And
I
beseech
the
same
Divine
Majestie
,
that
as
he
hath
granted
the
singular
benefit
to
Bees
,
Fishes
,
Beetles
,
and
other
annimals
,
to
procreate
without
the
feminine
sex
,
that
he
will
think
men
worthy
the
like
favour
.
For
Gentlemen
,
I
have
learnt
for
certain
,
that
as
long
as
there
shall
be
any
women
in
the
world
,
men
will
be
wicked
.
It
is
not
to
be
believed
how
much
Cato's
discourse
displeased
the
whole
Assembly
,
who
did
all
of
them
so
abhor
the
harsh
conceit
of
a
deluge
,
as
casting
themselves
upon
the
ground
,
with
their
hands
held
up
to
heaven
,
they
humbly
beseeched
Almighty
God
,
that
he
would
preserve
the
excellent
femal
sex
,
that
he
would
keep
mankind
from
any
more
Deluges
,
and
that
he
should
send
them
upon
the
earth
onely
to
extirpate
those
discomposed
and
wilde
wits
,
those
untnuable
and
blood
thirsty
souls
,
those
Hetorotrical
and
phantastick
brains
,
who
being
of
a
depraved
judgement
,
and
out
of
an
overweening
opinion
which
they
have
of
themselves
,
are
in
truth
nothing
but
mad
men
,
whose
ambition
was
boundless
,
and
pride
without
end
;
and
that
when
mankind
should
through
their
misdemerits
become
unworthy
of
any
mercy
from
his
divine
Majestie
,
he
would
be
pleased
to
punish
them
with
the
scourges
of
Plague
,
Sword
and
Famine
,
and
that
he
would
make
use
of
his
severest
and
of
all
others
most
cruel
rod
,
as
it
is
recorded
by
Seneca
,
of
inriching
mean
men
;
but
that
he
should
keep
from
being
so
cruel
,
and
causing
such
horrid
calamity
,
as
to
deliver
mankind
unto
the
good
will
and
pleasuree
of
those
insolent
wicked
Rulers
,
who
being
composed
of
nothing
else
but
blind
zeal
,
and
diabolical
folly
,
would
pull
the
world
in
pieces
if
they
could
compass
and
put
in
practice
the
beastial
and
odde
Caprichios
,
which
they
hourly
hatch
in
their
heads
.
Cato's
opinion
had
this
unlucky
end
,
when
Seneca
thus
began
:
Rough
dealings
is
not
so
greatly
requisite
in
point
of
Reformation
,
as
it
seems
by
many
of
your
discourses
,
Gentlemen
,
to
be
;
especially
when
disorders
are
grown
to
so
great
a
height
:
The
chief
thing
to
be
considered
is
to
deal
gently
with
them
.
They
must
be
toucht
with
a
light
hand
,
like
wounds
which
are
subject
to
convulsions
.
It
redounds
much
to
the
Physians
shame
,
when
the
Patient
dying
with
the
potion
in
his
body
,
every
one
knows
the
medicine
hath
done
him
more
harm
then
his
malady
.
It
is
a
rash
advice
to
go
from
one
extreme
to
another
,
passing
by
the
due
medium
:
for
mans
nature
is
not
capable
of
violent
mutations
;
and
if
it
be
true
,
that
the
world
hath
been
falling
many
thousand
years
into
the
present
infirmities
,
he
is
onely
not
wise
,
but
a
very
fool
who
thinks
to
restore
it
to
its
former
health
in
a
few
days
.
And
if
a
sick
man
,
who
formerly
being
fat
,
and
after
a
long
sickness
is
grown
very
lean
,
think
in
the
first
week
of
his
convalessence
to
return
to
his
former
fatness
by
much
eating
,
he
must
surely
burst
:
but
he
will
happily
compass
his
desire
,
if
he
will
eat
moderately
and
have
that
patience
which
brings
whatsoever
knotty
business
to
perfection
.
For
quae
longo
tempore
extenuantur
Corpora
,
lentè
reficere
oportet
.
Hip.
lib.
2.
Aph.
Moreover
,
in
reformation
,
the
conditions
of
those
who
do
reform
,
and
the
quality
of
those
that
are
to
be
reformed
,
ought
to
be
exactly
considered
.
We
that
are
the
reformers
,
are
all
of
us
Philosophers
,
learned
men
,
if
those
that
be
to
be
reformed
,
be
onely
Stationers
,
Printers
,
such
as
sell
Paper
,
Pens
and
Ink
,
and
other
such
things
appertaining
to
learning
,
we
may
very
well
correct
their
errors
:
but
if
we
shall
go
about
to
mend
the
faults
of
other
occupations
we
shall
commit
worse
errors
,
and
become
more
ridiculous
then
the
Shoomaker
who
would
judge
of
colours
,
and
durst
venture
to
censure
Apelles
his
pictures
.
And
upon
this
occasion
I
am
forced
to
put
you
in
mind
of
a
fault
which
is
usual
amongst
us
the
Litterati
,
who
for
four
Cujus
,
which
we
have
in
our
heads
,
pretend
to
know
all
things
;
and
are
not
aware
,
that
when
we
first
swarve
from
what
is
treated
on
in
our
books
,
we
run
riot
,
and
say
a
thousand
things
from
the
purpose
.
I
say
this
,
Gentlemen
,
because
there
is
nothing
which
more
obviates
reformations
,
then
to
walk
therein
in
the
dark
;
which
happens
,
when
the
Reformers
are
not
perfectly
well
acquainted
with
the
vices
of
those
that
are
to
be
reformed
.
And
the
reason
is
apparent
,
for
nothing
makes
men
persevere
more
,
and
grow
obstinate
in
their
errors
,
then
when
they
find
that
he
that
reforms
,
is
not
well
informed
of
their
defects
who
are
to
be
reformed
.
And
to
prove
this
to
be
true
,
which
of
us
is
it
,
Gentleman
,
that
knows
what
belong
to
the
false
hook
of
Notaries
,
to
the
prevarications
of
Advocates
,
the
simony
used
by
Judges
,
Proctors
imbroylings
,
the
abuses
of
Apothecaries
,
Taylors
filtching
,
Butchers
thieving
,
and
of
the
cheating
tricks
of
a
thousand
other
Artificers
?
And
yet
all
these
excesses
must
be
by
us
corrected
.
And
if
we
shall
go
about
to
amend
such
disorders
,
which
are
so
far
from
our
profession
,
shall
not
we
be
thought
as
blind
,
as
he
who
goes
about
to
stop
a
hogshead
,
which
being
full
of
clefts
,
scatters
out
wine
on
every
side
?
This
is
enough
,
Gentlemen
,
to
let
you
know
,
that
reformation
is
then
likely
to
proceed
well
,
when
Marinors
talk
of
winds
,
Souldiers
of
Wounds
,
Shepherds
of
sheep
,
and
Herdsmen
of
Bullocks
.
It
is
manifest
presumption
in
us
to
pretend
to
know
all
things
,
to
believe
that
there
are
not
three
or
four
men
of
every
Trade
and
Occupation
,
who
fear
God
,
and
love
their
own
reputation
,
is
meer
malice
,
and
rash
judgement
.
My
opinion
therefore
is
,
That
three
or
four
of
every
Trade
or
Occupation
,
who
are
of
known
goodness
and
integrity
,
be
sent
for
by
us
,
and
that
every
one
reform
his
own
Trade
;
for
when
Shoo-makers
shall
speak
their
opinion
touching
shoes
and
slippers
,
Taylors
touching
clothes
,
Chyrurgions
concerning
Searclothes
,
Cooks
of
Lard
and
Pickel'd
meats
,
and
every
one
shall
correct
his
own
Trade
,
we
shall
work
a
Reformation
worthy
of
our selves
,
and
of
the
present
occasions
.
Though
Seneca's
opinion
was
mightily
praised
by
Petacchus
and
Chilo
,
who
finding
the
other
Philosophers
to
be
of
another
opinion
,
entred
their
Protestation
,
that
it
was
impossible
to
find
out
a
better
means
for
the
reformation
of
mankind
,
then
what
had
been
mentioned
by
Seneca
,
yet
did
the
rest
of
their
companions
abhor
it
more
then
they
had
done
Cato's
proposition
;
and
moved
with
indignation
,
told
him
,
That
they
much
wondred
,
that
by
taking
more
reformers
in
into
them
,
he
would
so
far
dishonour
Apollo
,
who
had
thought
them
not
onely
sufficient
,
but
excellently
fit
for
that
business
.
That
it
was
not
wisely
advised
to
begin
the
general
reformation
by
publishing
their
own
weakness
;
for
all
resolutions
which
detract
from
the
credit
of
the
publishers
,
want
that
reputation
which
is
the
very
soul
of
business
,
and
that
jurisdiction
,
which
is
more
jealous
then
womens
honor
,
should
be
handled
so
prodigally
by
such
a
one
as
he
,
who
was
the
very
prime
Sage
of
Latin
Writers
;
and
that
the
very
wisest
men
did
all
agree
,
that
twenty
pound
of
blood
taken
from
the
very
life-vain
,
was
well
imployed
to
gain
but
one
ounce
of
jurisdiction
;
and
that
he
is
mad
,
who
holding
the
sword
by
the
handle
,
gives
it
to
his
enemy
to
rescue
it
from
him
by
the
point
.
The
whole
Assembly
were
mightily
afflicted
,
when
by
the
refutation
of
Seneca's
opinion
,
they
found
smal
hopes
of
effecting
the
Reformation
;
for
they
relyed
but
little
upon
Mazzoni
,
who
was
but
a
novice
,
nor
could
they
think
that
he
could
speak
any
thing
to
the
purpose
;
which
though
Mazzoni
did
by
many
signs
perceive
,
yet
no
whit
discouraged
,
he
spoke
thus
;
It
was
not
for
any
merit
of
mine
,
most
wise
Philosophers
,
that
I
was
admitted
by
Apollo
into
this
reverend
Congregation
,
but
out
of
his
Majesties
special
favour
;
and
I
very
well
know
,
that
it
better
becomes
me
to
use
my
ears
then
my
tongue
in
so
grave
an
Assembly
as
this
,
I
being
to
learn
and
hold
my
peace
.
And
certainly
I
should
not
dare
to
open
my
mouth
upon
any
other
occasion
;
but
reformation
being
the
business
in
hand
,
and
I
lately
coming
from
where
nothing
is
spoken
of
but
reformation
and
reformers
,
I
desire
,
that
every
one
may
hold
their
peace
,
and
that
I
alone
may
be
heard
to
speak
in
a
business
which
I
am
so
verst
in
,
as
I
may
boast
my self
to
be
the
onely
Euclide
of
this
Mathematick
.
Give
me
leave
,
I
beseech
you
,
to
say
,
That
you
,
in
relating
your
opinions
,
seem
to
me
to
be
like
those
indiscrete
Physicians
,
who
lose
time
in
consulting
,
and
in
disputing
,
without
having
so
much
as
seen
the
sick
party
,
or
heard
his
story
for
himself
.
We
,
Gentlemen
,
are
to
cure
the
present
age
of
the
foul
infirmities
wherewith
we
see
it
is
opprest
.
We
have
all
laboured
to
find
out
the
reasons
of
the
maladies
,
and
how
to
cure
them
,
and
none
of
us
hath
been
so
wise
as
to
visit
the
sick
party
.
I
therefore
advise
,
Gentlemen
,
that
we
send
for
the
present
age
to
come
hither
,
that
we
interrogate
it
of
its
sickness
,
and
that
we
may
see
the
ill
affected
parts
bare
naked
,
and
so
the
cure
will
prove
easie
,
which
you
hold
so
desperate
.
The
whole
Assembly
was
so
pleased
at
this
Mazzoni's
motion
,
as
the
reformers
immediately
commanded
the
age
to
be
sent
for
,
which
was
presently
brought
in
a
chair
to
the
Delphick
Palace
by
the
four
Seasons
of
the
year
.
He
was
a
man
full
of
years
,
but
of
so
fresh
and
strong
a
complexion
,
as
he
seemed
likely
to
live
yet
many
ages
;
onely
he
was
short
breath'd
,
and
his
voyce
was
very
weak
:
which
the
Philosophers
wondring
at
;
they
asked
him
,
Why
his
face
being
ruddy
,
which
was
sign
that
his
natural
heat
was
yet
strong
in
him
,
and
that
his
stomach
was
good
:
why
,
I
say
,
he
was
so
full
of
pain
?
and
they
told
him
,
That
a
hundred
year
before
,
when
his
face
was
so
yellow
,
as
he
s●…med
to
have
the
Jaundice
,
he
spoke
freely
notwithstanding
,
and
seemed
to
be
stronger
then
he
was
now
.
That
they
had
sent
for
him
to
cure
him
of
his
infirmity
,
and
bad
him
therefore
freely
speak
his
griefs
.
The
Age
answered
thus
,
Soon
after
I
was
born
,
Gentlemen
,
I
fell
into
these
maladies
which
I
now
labour
under
.
My
face
is
now
so
fresh
and
ruddy
,
because
people
have
pe●…er'd
it
,
and
coloured
it
with
Lakes
;
My
sickness
resembles
the
ebbing
and
flowing
of
the
sea
,
which
always
contains
the
same
water
,
though
it
rise
and
fals
;
with
this
vicissitude
notwithstanding
,
as
when
my
looks
are
outwardly
good
,
my
malady
(
as
at
this
present
)
is
more
grievous
inwardly
;
and
when
my
face
looks
ill
,
I
am
best
within
.
For
what
my
infirmities
are
,
which
do
so
torment
me
at
the
present
,
do
but
take
off
this
gay
Jacket
,
wherewith
some
good
people
have
covered
a
rotten
carcass
,
that
notwithstanding
breathes
and
view
me
naked
,
as
I
was
made
by
Nature
,
and
you
will
plainly
see
I
am
but
a
living
carcass
.
All
the
Philosophers
then
hasted
,
and
having
stript
the
Age
naked
,
they
saw
that
the
wretch
pargeted
with
aparences
four
inches
thick
,
all
over
his
body
.
The
Reformers
caused
ten
razors
to
be
forthwith
brought
unto
them
,
and
every
one
of
them
taking
one
,
they
fell
all
to
scrape
away
the
pargeting
aforesaid
;
but
they
found
them
so
far
eaten
into
his
very
bones
,
as
in
all
that
huge
Colossus
,
they
could
not
find
one
ounce
of
good
live
flesh
.
At
which
they
were
much
amazed
,
then
put
on
the
Ages
Jacket
again
,
and
dismist
him
▪
and
finding
that
the
cure
was
altogether
desperate
,
they
assembled
themselves
close
together
,
and
forsaking
the
thought
of
all
publike
affairs
they
resolved
to
prepare
for
●…r
indempnity
of
their
own
reputations
.
Mazzoni
writ
what
the
rest
of
the
Reformers
dictated
,
a
Manifesto
,
wherein
they
witnessed
to
the
world
the
great
care
Apollo
ever
had
of
his
Litterati's
vertuous
living
,
and
of
the
welfare
of
all
mankind
▪
and
what
pains
the
Reformers
had
taken
in
compiling
the
general
Reformation
.
Then
coming
to
particulars
they
set
down
the
prizes
o●…
ca●…biges
,
s●…rats
,
and
pompions
.
And
all
the
Assembly
had
already
underwritten
the
reformation
,
when
Thales
put
them
in
mind
,
that
certa●…
H●…glers
,
who
sold
Lupins
,
and
black
cherryes
,
vented
such
smal
measures
,
as
it
was
a
shame
not
to
take
order
therein
.
The
Assembly
thankt
Thales
for
his
advertisement
,
and
added
to
their
reformation
,
that
the
measures
should
be
made
greater
.
Then
the
Palace
Gates
were
thrown
open
,
and
the
general
Reformation
was
read
in
the
place
appointed
for
such
purposes
,
to
the
people
who
were
flockt
in
infinite
numbers
to
the
Market-place
,
and
was
so
generally
applauded
by
every
one
,
as
all
Parnassus
rung
with
shouts
and
vociferations
of
joy
;
for
the
meaner
sort
of
people
are
pleased
with
every
little
thing
;
and
men
of
judgement
know
that
Vitia
erunt
,
donec
Homines
,
Tacit.
Lib.
4.
Hist.
As
long
as
there
be
men
,
there
will
be
vices
.
That
men
live
on
earth
,
though
not
well
,
yet
as
little
ill
as
they
may
;
and
that
the
height
of
human
wisdom
lay
in
being
so
discreet
as
to
be
content
to
leave
the
world
as
they
found
it
.
The
LXXVIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
hearing
of
the
happy
Alliance
of
the
two
Illustrious
Daughters
of
Charls
Emanuel
with
the
two
Noble
Princes
of
Mantua
and
Modena
,
commands
that
extraordinary
demonstrations
of
joy
be
made
throughout
his
whole
Dominions
.
YEsterday
about
nine
of
the
clock
,
the
usual
Guard
of
the
Pegasean
Tower
gave
notice
by
two
stroaks
of
the
bell
,
that
two
men
were
discovered
on
the
Castalian
Plain
,
which
hasted
towards
Parnassus
;
whereupon
the
Litterati
ran
presently
to
the
Walls
and
to
the
Gates
,
to
see
what
the
matter
might
be
.
And
soon
after
hearing
the
sound
of
a
Horn
,
knew
that
it
was
one
that
came
Post
,
with
his
guide
:
The
more
inquisitive
Litterati
ran
to
meet
him
,
and
when
they
heard
that
he
was
sent
from
Italy
to
Apollos
Majesty
,
they
all
earnestly
desired
to
know
whether
he
brought
news
of
any
gallant
Italian
product
,
or
of
any
taking
Piece
lately
printed
?
To
which
the
Post
answered
,
only
that
he
brought
dispatches
to
Apollo
,
of
incredible
joyful
news
;
wherefore
he
was
waited
upon
to
the
Royal
Palace
by
an
infinite
number
of
Litterati
.
When
he
had
presented
his
Letters
to
Apollo
,
all
the
standers
by
,
who
very
attentively
observed
his
Majesties
face
,
found
,
that
still
as
he
read
,
his
countenance
cleared
up
.
Having
read
the
Letters
,
he
with
incredible
joy
uttered
these
words
;
O
how
happy
Union
!
Let
my
beloved
Queen
of
Italy
know
,
that
I
desire
her
to
come
speedily
to
me
.
These
words
caused
various
conjectures
in
the
Vertuosi
,
and
divers
were
the
interpretations
they
gave
thereof
;
but
the
most
common
was
,
that
the
necessary
League
,
which
is
so
much
desired
by
all
good
men
,
was
at
last
concluded
in
Italy
,
against
that
enemy
to
Learning
,
the
Ottaman
Empire
.
This
mean
while
the
Queen
of
Italy
was
seen
to
come
walking
apace
towards
Apollo's
Royal
Palace
leaning
upon
her
Bellisario
.
When
Apollo
heard
she
was
coming
to
the
stairs
,
he
ran
with
great
joy
to
meet
her
,
and
having
imbraced
her
in
his
arms
;
I
heartily
rejoyce
(
said
he
)
together
with
your
Majesty
,
at
the
happy
news
which
I
but
now
received
by
Letters
from
my
Italian
Academies
,
of
the
Match
which
his
Highness
Charls
Emanuel
Duke
of
Savoy
hath
made
of
his
two
daughters
,
with
the
most
Noble
Princess
of
Mantua
,
and
Modena
.
What
think
you
of
the
conjunction
of
so
Illustrious
Princes
,
of
the
union
so
much
desired
,
so
much
wisht
for
by
me
and
you
,
of
these
your
two
beloved
sons
?
Are
not
these
contentments
which
do
fully
counterpoise
your
late
troubles
?
Yes
indeed
,
answered
the
Queen
of
Italy
,
and
I
confess
unto
your
Majesty
,
that
now
all
my
desires
,
all
my
consolations
are
accomplished
:
for
I
never
did
desire
any
thing
more
earnestly
,
then
that
my
Italian
Princes
should
add
the
conjunction
of
bloud
,
as
now
they
have
done
,
to
their
joynt
important
Interests
of
State
:
So
as
I
am
wholly
composed
of
joy
,
seeing
that
strong
Gerion
of
many
of
my
Italian
Princes
,
formed
into
one
body
,
which
may
secure
me
from
those
future
evils
,
the
fear
wherof
hath
hitherto
so
afflicted
me
.
Then
that
powerful
Queen
,
attended
by
all
the
Princes
and
Nobility
of
Parnassus
,
went
to
visit
the
Temple
of
Fruitfulness
,
which
promis'd
assured
and
happy
offspring
to
these
so
fortunate
couples
.
Being
returned
to
her
Royal
Palace
,
she
was
congratulated
by
all
the
chiefest
Princes
reciding
in
this
State
,
and
in
the
presence
of
so
many
great
Heroes
,
she
gave
the
honorable
Title
of
first
and
chiefest
Italian
Warrier
,
to
Charls
Emanuel
Duke
of
Savoy
,
the
Father
of
so
fortunate
offspring
,
and
Author
of
Italies
so
great
felicity
,
to
whom
she
immediately
sent
the
usual
signes
of
Golden
Launce
and
Trunchion
.
Apollo
,
to
witness
his
joy
for
this
so
gladsom
news
,
caused
it
to
be
proclaimed
by
sound
of
Trumpet
,
that
in
respect
thereof
,
extraordinary
signes
of
joy
should
be
shewed
throughout
all
his
Dominions
;
and
upon
this
occasion
gave
leave
at
the
earnest
request
of
his
Litterati
,
the
which
he
had
hitherto
so
resolutely
denied
,
that
Stage-players
should
be
admitted
into
Parnassus
.
Tilting
and
Turney
were
in
the
next
place
proclaimed
;
and
the
first
day
the
Paladines
of
Spanish
Romansas
,
Amadisi
,
Don
Florestano
,
and
many
others
appeared
within
the
Lists
,
who
gave
such
proofs
of
themselves
as
did
exceed
;
and
all
men
wondred
to
see
Palaces
made
all
of
Diamonds
,
built
by
words
.
The
second
day
the
French
Paladins
,
and
those
of
other
Nations
,
Orlando
,
Rinalde
,
Gradasso
,
Sacrapante
,
and
many
others
appeared
at
Turney
,
who
behaved
themselves
so
couragiously
as
they
made
all
men
know
,
that
Ariosto
had
writ
sparingly
of
them
.
The
third
day
Caro
,
Molza
,
Sanga
,
and
other
polite
Courtiers
appeared
in
the
field
,
who
valiantly
challenged
those
other
noble
Champions
to
the
combat
;
but
they
,
scorning
to
have
to
do
with
men
who
had
not
made
profession
of
Arms
,
refused
the
Challenge
;
wherefore
those
Courtiers
did
by
sound
of
Trumpet
again
denounce
;
they
challenge
a
second
time
,
which
was
still
slighted
by
the
other
Paladins
.
The
Courtiers
published
a
third
defiance
;
which
not
being
accepted
of
,
all
the
spectators
fel
a●…
hissing
at
them
.
Wherefore
Apollo
,
seeing
so
great
a
scorn
put
upon
those
Paladins
who
had
been
rendred
so
famous
by
the
Poets
,
was
much
offended
,
and
commanded
them
to
put
their
Launces
in
their
rests
,
and
to
quell
the
over-daring
of
those
Courtiers
.
The
Champions
then
suddenly
obeyed
;
and
it
was
a
strange
prodigious
thing
,
to
see
how
those
spruce
Courtiers
,
did
with
a
dexterous
lye
,
with
an
ill
turn
done
in
time
unhorse
those
Paladins
,
though
their
Arms
were
inchanted
.
Then
the
couragious
Bradamante
and
Marsica
,
incenst
to
see
those
famous
Paladins
so
dishonored
,
took
their
Launce
,
and
with
more
then
manly
fury
,
spur'd
on
their
steeds
towards
the
Cavaliers
,
so
to
recover
the
Military
reputation
which
the
others
had
so
shamefully
lost
;
but
both
of
them
being
incountred
by
great
purses
full
of
gold
,
spread
their
legs
abroad
,
forsook
their
saddles
,
and
fell
to
the
ground
flat
upon
their
backs
;
by
reason
of
these
signal
acts
,
the
Prize
of
the
Tilting
was
awarded
to
the
Courtiers
,
who
had
got
the
trick
of
unhorsing
people
,
and
of
setting
them
beside
the
saddle
,
not
by
their
Launces
or
counter-bufs
,
but
only
by
meer
words
.
The
LXXIX
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
ancient
Commonwealth
of
Rome
,
and
the
Modern
Venetian
Liberty
,
argue
together
,
what
the
true
rewards
of
Honour
be
,
by
which
well
ordered
Commonwealths
do
acknowledge
the
worth
of
their
well-deserving
Senators
.
THough
the
flourishing
Commonwealth
of
Rome
,
formerly
the
Worlds
Mistriss
,
be
now
reduced
by
reason
of
her
great
misfortunes
,
into
a
far
differing
condition
from
what
she
was
in
;
yet
in
memory
of
her
pristine
greatness
she
still
lives
well
esteemed
,
and
much
honored
in
Parnassus
;
not
only
for
that
her
politick
Precepts
are
held
by
all
men
in
power
,
as
divine
answers
;
but
because
she
is
believed
to
be
the
true
Oracle
of
Military
affairs
:
as
also
for
that
nor
Princes
nor
privat
men
,
take
any
more
praise-worthy
or
heroick
examples
wherewith
to
adorn
their
minds
more
frequently
,
or
more
advantagiously
from
any
other
place
.
And
though
so
splendid
a
Princess
hath
been
sundry
times
deflowred
and
ravisht
,
as
wel
by
her
own
ingrateful
and
ambitious
Citizens
,
as
by
her
barbarous
enemies
,
by
Augusto's
and
Silla's
Proscriptions
;
as
by
the
general
sacking
of
T●…tilla
and
Atilla
,
and
other
Kings
of
forrein
Nations
;
yet
doth
she
excellently
well
recover
her
past
dishonor
,
and
her
present
misery
,
by
the
fame
of
her
antient
greatness
.
This
so
famous
Princess
,
came
some
few
daies
since
to
visit
the
Venetian
Liberty
;
a
Lady
of
greatly
famed
Chastity
,
and
the
best
beloved
and
highest
esteemed
of
as
many
as
are
in
this
Plebeian
Court
,
for
the
opinion
of
her
great
wisdom
,
and
for
the
reputation
of
her
unexhaustible
wealth
.
And
whilst
the
Roman
Liberty
discoursed
of
her
past
greatness
,
and
the
Venetian
Commonwealth
of
her
present
felicity
,
't
is
known
that
the
Roman
Commonwealth
said
to
the
Venetian
Liberty
,
That
she
being
purely
Aristocratical
,
and
consequently
the
most
perfect
form
of
a
Commonwealth
,
did
doubtlesly
by
her
excellent
Laws
which
promised
her
long
life
,
surpass
any
,
either
past
or
present
Republick
.
But
that
though
to
maintain
peace
at
home
,
and
war
abroad
,
the
orders
she
observed
were
excellently
good
,
yet
had
she
not
made
such
acquisition
of
States
,
as
was
expected
from
the
wisdom
,
and
as
well
publick
as
privat
wealth
of
so
famous
a
Republick
;
which
was
thought
to
happen
by
reason
of
her
being
very
backward
in
giving
such
rewards
as
were
usually
given
by
well
ordered
Commonwealths
,
to
her
well
deserving
Senators
;
and
that
she
,
the
Commonwealth
of
Rome
,
acknowledged
all
the
glory
she
had
in
having
won
the
whole
world
in
so
short
a
time
,
to
proceed
wholly
from
the
extraordinary
worth
of
her
Senators
,
whereunto
they
were
awakened
,
not
by
any
wealthy
gifts
,
but
by
the
rewards
of
eternal
honor
in
erecting
their
Statues
,
by
their
triumphant
Vestments
,
Trophies
,
by
the
building
and
dedication
of
famous
Temples
,
Baselisks
,
and
Theatres
,
and
chiefly
by
that
glory
so
much
coveted
by
those
who
do
thirst
after
eternal
fame
of
stately
Roman
Triumphs
:
Rewards
which
raised
such
Military
valor
,
such
excellent
civil
vertue
in
her
Citizens
,
as
the
insuing
Nations
did
admire
,
but
could
not
imitate
:
And
that
the
Venetian
Liberty
was
so
backward
in
rewarding
the
worth
and
merits
of
her
honorable
Senators
,
with
the
memorial
of
perpetual
honors
,
as
she
might
very
well
be
termed
ingratefull
;
and
that
infinite
Noble
men
of
Venice
,
having
done
things
worthy
the
sublimest
triumphs
,
both
in
times
of
peace
and
war
,
and
all
those
rewards
which
eternize
the
memory
of
great
Senators
,
she
thought
it
very
strange
to
see
a
Narnesan
Statue
on
horseback
in
Padua
,
and
one
of
Bergamasco
in
the
midst
of
Venice
,
and
that
the
famous
services
of
Andrea
Gretty
,
of
Sebastian
Venieri
,
and
of
a
thousand
other
famous
Venetian
Senators
,
who
had
not
only
excelled
the
Gatta
Melati
,
and
the
Colleoni
,
in
parts
both
of
soul
and
body
,
but
might
deservedly
be
paralel'd
with
Pompey
and
Cesar
,
were
not
recompenced
with
the
reward
of
perpetual
memory
,
which
their
glorious
actions
had
deserved
.
Menante
,
who
writes
all
these
things
with
great
integrity
and
faithfulness
,
had
it
from
a
very
good
hand
,
that
the
Venetian
Liberty
,
not
any
whit
at
all
moved
,
answered
the
Roman
Republick
;
That
she
had
not
so
inlarged
her
Territories
as
the
Romans
had
done
theirs
,
not
for
that
(
as
she
gave
her self
to
believe
)
the
thirst
after
glory
and
fame
was
wanting
in
her
Senators
;
but
for
the
clean
contrary
ends
which
the
two
Common-wealths
had
propounded
unto
themselves
;
for
the
Venetian
Senators
made
peace
the
utmost
bounds
of
their
ambition
,
whereas
the
Roman
Senat
made
war
theirs
.
And
that
she
had
clearly
learnt
by
her
most
unfortunate
end
,
that
too
greatly
disproportionate
atchievements
made
by
States
,
did
disorder
all
the
politick
Laws
of
whatsoever
well-governed
Commonwealth
;
but
chiefly
such
as
were
Aristocratical
,
the
Nobility
whereof
being
to
consist
but
of
a
few
,
and
not
sufficient
to
govern
a
great
State
,
the
wholsom
Laws
of
living
free
,
would
be
filled
with
confusion
,
should
the
number
of
the
Nobility
be
rendred
immensly
great
.
As
her
Majestie
of
Rome
had
by
her
infinite
calamities
,
made
it
appear
unto
the
world
,
who
by
adding
people
whom
she
had
subjected
to
the
number
of
Roman
Citizens
,
did
happily
aggrandize
her
State
,
but
much
lessen
her
Liberty
.
And
that
for
her
part
she
was
satisfied
with
so
much
Empire
,
as
might
serve
to
secure
the
Venetian
Liberty
from
forrein
Forces
;
and
that
she
did
not
covet
the
greatness
of
State
,
out
of
an
ambitio●…
to
command
,
but
out
of
glory
not
to
serve
:
That
as
for
honorable
rewards
which
well
ordered
Commonwealths
ought
to
barter
with
worth
,
and
therewith
to
reward
the
merits
of
her
Senators
,
she
took
her self
to
be
injured
by
being
stiled
ungratefull
;
for
eternal
Trophies
,
and
perpetual
triumphant
Arches
were
seen
in
Venice
,
not
made
of
brittle
Marble
,
or
mettals
subject
to
the
violence
of
fire
,
but
of
incorruptible
materials
,
wherewith
she
largely
rewarded
her
well
deserving
Senators
,
as
it
very
well
became
her
to
do
;
to
the
end
that
the
memory
of
their
worthy
actions
might
be
gloriously
conveyed
to
futurity
.
To
this
the
Roman
Liberty
answered
,
That
she
had
often
seen
all
the
rooms
of
her
Highness's
Palace
,
and
does
not
remember
that
she
ever
saw
any
Trophies
,
triumphant
Arches
,
or
other
things
to
perpetuate
the
memory
of
her
Nobility
.
Hereupon
the
Venetian
Liberty
caused
many
of
her
Nobility
of
all
ages
to
enter
the
room
,
whom
she
stript
naked
,
and
then
opened
their
brests
,
and
then
much
to
her
astonishment
,
the
Roman
Liberty
saw
all
those
triumphant
Arches
,
Trophies
Statues
,
and
other
stately
triumphs
,
which
they
by
their
glorious
actions
had
merited
of
their
Country
,
erected
in
the
hearts
of
her
Gritti
,
Venieri
,
Capelli
,
Grimani
,
Bragadini
,
Basqualigi
,
and
other
of
her
deserving
Senators
:
and
that
which
encreased
the
wonder
of
the
Roman
Dame
,
was
to
see
in
the
hearts
of
those
Noble
Venetians
,
a
fervent
charitable
desire
to
reward
the
egregious
works
of
so
deserving
Senators
,
in
their
posterity
;
and
a
fire
of
emulation
to
imitate
those
worthy
Heroes
,
and
to
do
acts
which
they
saw
were
so
gloriously
rewarded
.
Then
the
Venetian
Liberty
with
testimony
of
great
affection
,
said
thus
unto
the
Roman
Lady
;
Such
as
we
,
ought
to
recommend
the
vertue
and
deserts
of
our
Citizens
to
posterity
,
by
these
triumphant
Arches
,
and
with
these
demonstrations
which
you
,
Madam
,
see
written
in
the
hearts
of
my
Senators
.
These
are
the
Statues
,
and
other
publick
Memorials
which
wisdom
awakens
in
the
hearts
of
honorable
Senators
who
thirst
after
glory
.
These
are
the
places
where
Trophies
,
and
other
publick
Memorials
of
deserving
Senators
should
be
erected
,
and
not
in
Piazza's
:
For
the
memory
which
the
Nobility
of
a
Commonwealth
keeps
eternally
in
their
hearts
,
of
the
deserts
of
such
as
have
done
glorious
actions
,
is
that
which
awakes
emulation
and
true
vertue
:
Things
which
alwaies
produce
good
effects
tending
to
the
service
of
a
Free
Country
;
whereas
Triumphs
,
Trophies
,
Statues
,
and
such
like
things
,
which
are
so
familliarly
seen
built
in
your
streets
of
Rome
,
in
memory
of
your
well-deserving
Senators
,
hath
served
only
to
procure
them
that
number
of
followers
of
the
rabble
sort
of
people
,
which
occasioned
the
ambition
of
Reign
in
your
unfortunate
Senators
,
Silla
,
Marius
,
Sinna
,
Crassus
,
Pompey
,
and
Cesar
,
which
was
that
which
put
upon
you
the
unfortunate
and
shameful
chain
of
servitude
,
which
you
now
drag
at
your
heels
:
A
great
disorder
,
and
from
whence
I
know
that
you
doe
acknowledge
all
those
evils
to
proceed
,
which
have
made
you
so
famous
even
in
calamities
.
And
know
,
that
our
Senators
do
very
fitly
resemble
those
young
Virgins
who
marry
,
being
chaste
both
of
mind
and
body
,
:
For
as
those
careless
husbands
hazard
the
making
of
them
whores
,
by
sending
them
abroad
to
all
Balls
and
Festivals
;
so
Free
Commonwealths
do
imprudently
infuse
into
the
minds
of
their
civil
and
well
composed
Senators
,
a
desire
of
becoming
Tyrants
,
by
the
rewards
of
publick
Memorials
,
which
purchase
popular
breath
,
and
the
attendance
of
the
rabble
rout
.
The
LXXX
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
People
of
Lesbos
,
after
Cornelius
Tacitus
ran
away
from
them
,
chuse
Anna
Momorancy
,
by
Apollos
appointment
,
for
their
Prince
.
AFter
the
unhappy
success
which
(
as
you
heard
by
some
of
our
last
)
Cornelius
Tacitus
had
in
his
Principality
of
Lesbos
,
and
his
flight
from
that
State
,
nothing
was
left
unindeavored
,
neither
by
himself
,
nor
by
other
Princes
who
were
his
friends
,
to
induce
Apollo
to
work
so
with
the
people
of
Lesbos
,
as
that
he
might
again
return
to
his
Principality
,
but
all
to
no
purpose
;
for
his
Majestie
was
ever
constant
in
his
assertion
,
that
no
good
was
ever
to
be
hoped
from
the
Government
of
Princes
,
who
for
such
like
offences
grew
bitter
to
their
people
.
But
for
satisfaction
to
the
men
of
Lesbos
,
who
continually
prest
him
by
their
Ambassadors
,
that
he
would
propound
unto
them
a
new
Prince
;
he
nominated
Anna
Momorancy
,
an
honorable
French
Baron
;
who
was
received
with
great
satisfaction
to
the
people
of
Lesbos
,
and
proclaimed
Prince
of
that
State
.
'T
is
certainly
true
,
that
some
Vertuosi
who
were
very
well
acquainted
with
the
affairs
of
Lesbos
,
made
a
long
,
and
an
exact
series
of
many
abuses
which
reigned
in
that
State
,
from
whence
they
said
grew
great
inconveniences
,
and
did
accurately
name
the
waies
which
were
to
be
held
to
reduce
the
affairs
of
Lesbos
to
a
much
better
condition
:
And
this
they
gave
to
Momorancy
,
who
told
those
his
friends
,
that
the
amending
of
disorders
in
a
Principality
by
new
Laws
and
Magistrates
,
was
to
be
undertaken
only
in
hereditary
States
,
where
the
children
,
and
other
successors
of
the
defunct
Prince
,
did
usually
so
tenaciously
inherit
their
predecessors
thoughts
,
as
they
esteemed
it
a
secure
foundation
of
their
Government
,
and
a
necessary
piece
of
Policy
,
to
be
very
jealous
in
the
observancy
thereof
;
but
that
in
elective
Principalities
,
wherein
successors
used
often
to
undo
what
their
predecessors
had
done
,
either
out
of
curiosity
,
or
to
cast
dirt
in
the
faces
of
former
Princes
,
it
was
a
difficult
business
to
begin
to
reform
those
things
which
wholly
depending
upon
an
exquisite
and
exact
observancy
of
giving
orders
,
required
that
many
successive
Princes
should
be
of
the
same
mind
;
which
being
hard
to
be
found
in
elective
States
,
he
said
that
the
best
advice
which
could
be
given
to
such
an
one
as
he
in
the
Government
of
Lesbos
,
was
to
shun
novelty
,
and
resolve
to
live
according
to
the
ancient
Laws
,
whatsoever
they
were
;
and
to
leave
things
as
he
found
them
;
for
in
houses
that
are
rented
,
wise
men
are
contented
to
live
in
the
old
rooms
;
and
they
are
over-curious
who
build
new
apartements
,
which
't
is
ods
but
that
they
will
be
thrown
down
,
either
out
of
the
caprichiousness
or
ill-will
of
the
next
comer
.
The
LXXXI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
excellent
Bolognian
Physitian
,
Jovanni
Zecca
,
sels
in
Parnassus
the
true
Antidote
against
the
French
Pox.
THree
daies
ago
certain
papers
were
posted
up
in
all
the
publick
places
of
Parnassus
,
wherein
were
written
these
words
;
The
famous
Bolognian
Physitian
Iovanni
Zecca
,
is
arived
in
this
City
,
who
having
found
out
the
true
and
secure
receit
to
keep
men
from
taking
the
French
Pox
,
incites
all
men
to
provide
themselves
thereof
;
the
rich
shall
have
it
for
reasonable
rates
,
the
poor
for
Gods
sake
.
This
stirred
up
great
curiosity
amongst
the
Litterati
to
have
a
receit
so
necessary
for
these
times
;
and
so
much
the
rather
,
for
that
they
knew
Zecca
to
be
one
of
the
rarest
in
his
profession
,
and
an
excellent
good
writer
.
And
believing
all
that
the
receit
consisted
of
Oyles
,
Electuaries
,
Powders
,
and
other
such
Medicinal
ingrediences
,
they
wondred
exceedingly
when
they
saw
Zecca
shew
them
a
Picture
drawn
by
the
life
,
of
a
gallant
Gentleman
whose
nose
was
eaten
off
with
the
French
Pox
;
telling
them
the
way
how
to
use
this
receit
,
was
,
that
just
as
they
were
about
to
lie
with
a
woman
whose
health
they
suspected
,
they
take
this
Picture
out
of
their
bosom
,
which
he
gave
them
,
and
which
as
many
as
should
fixedly
look
upon
,
and
seriously
contemplate
,
they
might
be
confident
that
this
medicine
taken
in
by
the
eye
,
would
have
such
operation
,
as
they
should
never
be
infected
with
that
loathsom
disease
.
Some
were
so
curious
,
as
they
suddenly
ran
to
make
experience
of
this
new
receit
;
and
they
say
they
found
it
to
be
exceeding
good
:
For
they
who
in
the
greatest
height
of
lust
did
fixedly
look
upon
,
and
attentively
contemplate
this
Picture
,
cashiering
their
carnal
thoughts
,
and
calling
to
mind
how
shameful
a
thing
it
was
for
a
man
to
lose
his
nose
,
which
was
the
ornament
of
the
face
,
the
seat
and
proper
place
of
reputation
;
whilst
they
considered
that
men
ran
hazard
of
encouraging
so
great
a
shame
,
by
eating
a
bit
,
which
though
it
was
savory
in
the
chewing
,
proves
stinking
and
unpleasant
even
to
a
mans
very
imagination
,
when
it
is
swallosed
down
,
it
did
so
dead
all
carnal
desire
in
men
who
valued
their
reputation
,
as
the
self
inconsiderate
instrument
of
lust
,
though
it
be
wholly
void
of
judgement
and
discretion
,
was
so
apprehensive
of
the
danger
which
his
beloved
correllative
ran
by
that
act
,
as
preferring
the
health
thereof
before
its
own
pleasure
,
it
withdrew
more
speedily
into
its
habitation
,
then
do
Tortoises
when
stones
are
thrown
apace
at
them
.
The
LXXXII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Litterati
of
Parnassus
do
with
great
solemnity
celebrate
the
Holy
day
dedicated
to
the
lowdable
Lawrel-Leaves
.
YEsterday
the
solemn
Festival
dedicated
to
the
Lawrel
Leaves
,
was
celebrated
by
all
the
Litterati
with
great
pomp
and
joy
;
a
Festival
instituted
in
Parnassus
ever
since
Dafne's
memorable
accident
,
to
exhilerate
his
Majestie
,
who
was
much
afflicted
at
the
remembrance
of
so
sad
a
Metamorphosis
;
on
which
solemn
day
,
only
Poets
,
Emperors
,
and
other
Heroes
are
permitted
to
come
into
the
stately
Colledg
of
the
Litterati
with
Garlands
on
their
heads
,
whilst
those
that
have
not
deserved
so
great
a
prerogative
,
are
not
suffered
to
stir
out
of
their
own
dores
,
lest
they
should
profane
the
solemnity
of
so
great
a
day
by
their
naked
heads
.
Petrarch
,
who
had
of
old
obtained
the
honor
of
that
imployment
from
Apollo
,
made
a
Learned
Oration
in
praise
of
those
so
honored
Leaves
;
but
whilst
he
was
making
his
Oration
,
a
strange
chance
befel
that
worthy
Poet
;
for
after
having
by
his
Encomium
exaggerated
the
praise
of
that
Plant
so
dearlypriz'd
by
his
Maj.
as
that
it
is
respected
even
by
Thunder
;
and
having
spoken
of
the
noble
Prerogative
which
it
enjoies
,
of
being
that
where
with
the
Temples
of
Emperors
,
and
glorious
Heroes
are
only
surrounded
;
he
fell
to
make
a
long
and
bitter
invective
against
the
ignorance
of
the
present
times
,
wherein
Learning
having
lost
much
esteem
,
those
very
self-same
so
famous
Leaves
,
which
in
better
time
were
held
in
such
esteem
,
was
now
so
basely
and
scornfully
used
by
the
ignorant
modern
men
,
as
they
did
not
only
make
use
thereof
for
the
signes
of
their
base
Tipling-houses
,
but
were
not
ashamed
to
put
it
into
their
provocative
sawces
,
gellies
,
Eels
,
and
even
into
their
rosted
Olives
.
Petrarch
was
so
very
fervent
,
and
had
such
commotion
of
mind
,
and
compunction
of
spirit
,
in
recounting
these
so
strange
neglects
,
as
he
fell
down
in
a
swound
ere
his
Oration
was
perfected
,
nor
could
they
bring
him
to
himself
again
,
till
the
fair
Lady
Lawra
,
all
sorrowful
as
she
was
,
was
thrown
into
the
bosom
of
her
beloved
Poet.
Petrarch
was
much
honored
for
this
accident
,
which
made
the
whole
Colledg
of
the
Vertuosi
plainly
see
how
intirely
and
intimatly
he
loved
that
honour'd
Lawrel
which
he
had
praised
with
such
elegancy
in
his
Italian
Verses
.
But
it
hapned
that
presently
after
this
swouning
,
a
very
bitter
disticon
,
or
caplet
of
Verses
were
fixt
upon
the
Delfick
Porch
;
wherein
it
was
said
,
that
that
swouning
fit
had
not
befallen
Petrarch
for
any
sorrow
for
the
injuries
done
to
the
Lawrel-leaves
,
but
for
remembrance
of
those
savory
Olives
;
and
this
was
the
Disticon
:
Non
Amor
hunc
Laurae
,
sed
amica
jecus●…ula
Lauro
Quem
Memori
spirant
,
examinavit
Odor
.
'T
was
not
the
love
to
Lawra
made
him
swound
,
But
scent
of
Lawrel
broths
did
him
confound
.
The
publick
garblers
of
Poetry
,
by
express
order
from
his
Majesty
,
brought
these
two
Latin
verses
to
the
test
,
and
found
clearly
that
they
issued
from
Martials
abundant
phancy
,
who
was
soon
after
imprisoned
.
Then
Petrarch
accompanied
with
a
squadron
of
Italian
Poets
,
ran
towards
the
Royal
Palace
;
and
it
being
feared
that
he
came
to
complain
of
Martial
,
he
was
met
by
Catullus
,
Tibullus
,
and
Propertius
,
who
first
imbraced
him
,
and
then
earnestly
intreated
him
that
he
would
add
to
the
glory
which
he
had
received
by
the
accident
which
befell
him
whilst
he
was
making
his
Oration
,
the
great
good
will
he
should
get
of
all
the
Vertuosi
,
if
he
would
pass
by
Marshals
Disticon
as
but
a
merriment
.
And
they
moreover
told
him
,
that
all
men
knew
that
injuries
written
by
loquatious
Poets
,
did
not
touch
to
the
quick
,
when
those
that
were
concerned
could
laugh
at
them
;
and
that
truths
did
only
nettle
and
seek
revenge
.
Petrarch
would
not
be
advised
by
the
Poets
,
but
angerly
answered
them
,
that
he
in
his
reading
had
learnt
the
vertue
not
to
offend
any
;
but
that
when
he
found
himself
so
nearly
touched
,
he
could
not
forgive
;
wherefore
inraged
with
anger
,
and
desirous
of
revenge
,
he
came
to
Apollo
,
and
with
bitter
words
exaggerated
the
injury
done
him
by
Martial
,
and
did
so
incense
Apollo
against
him
,
as
his
Majesty
banished
him
for
ever
out
of
Parnassus
,
and
the
Precincts
thereof
;
and
the
Sentence
was
ready
to
be
put
in
execution
,
when
Martials
Advocate
produced
a
Motu
Propriae
,
which
had
been
published
many
years
before
by
his
Majesty
,
wherein
it
was
ordained
,
that
a
Jest
,
though
it
were
bitter
,
provided
it
were
witty
,
eloquent
,
quick
,
facetious
,
and
that
it
had
salt
in
it
,
and
that
it
were
not
spoken
out
of
premeditated
mischief
,
but
had
escaped
from
a
lively
and
ready
wit
,
suddenly
at
unawares
,
deserved
praise
rather
then
punishment
,
as
a
fault
which
sprung
rather
from
the
vivacity
of
wit
,
then
from
the
malice
of
mind
;
for
that
even
the
wisest
men
could
not
forbear
breaking
a
witty
and
facetious
jest
,
which
proceeded
from
a
ready
sharp
wit
;
and
that
though
for
many
respects
it
ought
neither
to
have
been
written
nor
said
,
yet
it
deserved
to
be
listned
unto
,
and
read
by
men
given
to
curiosity
,
for
the
quick
vivacity
thereof
.
The
LXXXIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
having
highly
commended
the
King
of
Spains
Decree
,
That
no
Advocates
nor
Proctors
should
go
into
the
Indies
:
The
Doctors
of
Law
quarrel
grievously
with
his
Majesty
for
it
.
THe
abode
of
Parnassus
owes
not
its
happiness
only
to
Apollos
excellent
Government
,
nor
to
its
being
inhabited
by
the
prime
select
Wits
of
the
world
,
but
to
the
vertuous
living
of
her
inhabitants
,
the
perfection
of
their
manners
,
and
to
the
exquisiteness
of
all
the
best
Laws
which
cul'd
from
out
the
whole
world
,
are
diligently
introduced
,
and
observed
in
that
State
.
For
those
who
live
there
,
are
bound
to
bring
with
them
the
best
Customs
of
their
Countries
:
A
thing
which
hath
been
so
advantagious
to
every
privat
man
,
and
hath
brought
so
great
reputation
to
the
Publick
,
as
it
appears
evidently
,
that
the
Country
is
to
be
esteemed
happy
,
which
lives
not
only
by
her
own
Laws
,
but
by
choice
Laws
pickt
out
from
all
other
civil
Nations
.
Wherefore
Apollo
being
informed
that
the
Potent
Kings
of
Spain
have
upon
several
penalties
prohibited
the
passing
of
any
Proctors
or
Advocates
into
the
Indies
,
intituled
it
a
most
holy
Edict
,
and
highly
praised
the
piety
of
those
Monarchs
who
have
shewed
such
charity
to
the
new
world
,
as
to
preserve
it
from
that
disease
which
hath
filled
the
old
world
with
so
many
sad
controversies
.
His
Majestie
moreover
gave
present
order
that
so
excellent
an
Edict
should
be
registred
in
a
Table
of
Brass
,
which
should
to
eternal
memory
be
fixt
in
the
chief
Market-place
,
next
to
the
twelve
Tables
of
the
famous
Roman
Laws
.
I
must
not
forget
to
let
you
know
that
the
Doctors
of
Law
were
mightily
scandalized
hereat
,
who
earnestly
recommended
unto
his
Majesty
the
indempnity
of
their
reputations
;
saying
,
that
if
they
might
not
obtain
so
much
favour
,
as
that
this
Law
might
not
be
published
,
it
would
afford
occasion
to
many
to
imitate
the
Anconitans
,
Norcinans
,
Recanetesans
,
and
others
,
who
,
with
no
little
dishonor
to
Learning
,
had
banished
those
professers
of
Law
,
who
were
held
in
so
great
admiration
by
other
people
,
as
they
verily
believed
nothing
could
be
well
said
,
or
done
,
without
the
liking
of
a
learned-Lawyer
:
And
that
they
did
the
more
earnestly
beseech
his
Majesty
to
consider
their
case
,
for
that
the
indempnity
of
the
sacred
Liberal
Sciences
,
wherein
the
Students
of
Law
had
spent
so
much
time
and
monies
,
was
therein
likewise
concern'd
.
Apollo
,
contrary
to
the
opinion
of
all
men
,
was
strangely
offended
at
this
their
pressure
,
and
in
great
anger
answered
those
Doctors
.
That
he
could
not
but
very
much
wonder
at
their
boldness
,
who
durst
affirm
in
his
presence
,
that
they
had
spent
both
time
and
monies
in
learning
the
Liberal
Sciences
,
as
if
the
Delfick
Law
were
not
sufficiently
known
to
the
whole
world
,
wherein
the
study
of
the
Law
was
declared
to
be
no
Liberal
Science
,
but
a
meer
mechanical
mystery
,
introduced
in
the
world
to
afflict
mankind
,
studied
without
any
delectation
of
the
soul
,
or
speculation
of
the
understanding
,
and
without
the
assistance
of
the
sacred
Muses
,
which
was
so
necessary
in
all
good
Sciences
,
and
only
practised
for
meer
avarice
of
gain
,
to
fatten
a
fowl
filthy
beast
with
monies
,
who
though
he
wholly
wanted
that
vivacity
of
wit
,
which
is
so
much
loved
by
learning
,
it
was
sufficient
to
become
a
great
Advocate
,
if
he
had
but
an
Oxes
brain
,
and
a
Porters
complexion
.
The
LXXXIV
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
chiefest
Litterati
of
Parnassus
desire
Apollo
that
Tacitus
may
re-compose
those
Books
of
his
Annals
,
and
Histories
which
are
lost
.
YEsterday
the
chiefest
Litterati
of
Parnassus
met
together
in
the
publick
Schools
,
and
after
having
discoursed
long
together
,
they
all
of
them
presented
themselves
unanimously
before
Apollo
,
to
whom
the
learned
Florentine
Pietro
Vittorio
,
in
the
name
of
all
the
rest
,
said
,
That
those
Vertuosi
whom
his
Majesty
saw
there
,
did
most
humbly
desire
a
favour
of
him
,
which
would
be
the
greatest
and
most
acceptable
that
he
could
ever
grant
to
his
Litterati
;
who
bitterly
bewailing
the
infinite
loss
which
Learning
hath
had
of
the
greatest
part
of
the
Annals
and
Histories
of
that
Father
of
human
wisdom
,
and
true
inventer
of
modern
Policy
;
Cornelius
Tacitus
did
humbly
beseech
his
Majesty
to
command
that
so
excellent
Personage
,
that
he
would
amend
the
wrong
which
the
injury
of
time
had
done
to
his
honour
,
and
to
the
publick
profit
of
the
Vertuosi
,
by
re-making
whatsoever
is
now
found
wanting
of
those
his
most
excellent
labours
.
Apollo
,
contrary
to
expectation
,
startled
at
this
request
which
appeared
so
reasonable
,
and
with
an
appearance
of
dislike
,
answered
,
O
my
ignorant
Litterati
!
do
not
you
think
that
the
Princes
of
the
world
are
sufficiently
known
in
State-affairs
,
that
you
would
have
them
more
learned
in
that
Science
,
in
which
,
to
your
misery
be
it
spoken
,
they
already
know
too
much
?
Since
t
is
clearly
seen
that
some
of
them
by
practising
a
devilish
and
infernal
reason
of
State
,
have
brought
both
sacred
and
profane
things
to
utmost
confusion
.
Hath
not
the
common
miseries
and
scandals
occasioned
by
the
severe
and
wretched
Government
of
some
Princes
,
made
you
see
,
that
modern
Policy
,
wholly
framed
by
your
so
beloved
Tacitus
,
hath
like
a
contagious
disease
,
infected
the
world
?
Do
not
you
already
sufficiently
know
that
the
now
practised
reason
of
State
,
by
which
the
people
are
rather
flead
then
shoarn
,
rather
suckt
dry
then
milkt
,
rather
opprest
then
govern'd
,
is
now
grown
so
exorbitant
,
as
it
is
great
folly
to
desire
it
should
rage
yet
more
?
Think
you
not
that
some
moderate
Princes
have
learnt
precepts
enough
to
pill
and
poll
their
people
from
Tiberius
his
cruel
Government
,
and
Nero's
ravenous
life
,
so
exactly
written
by
your
Tacitus
,
that
you
would
have
them
see
whether
they
could
pick
out
some
conceal'd
precept
to
imbitter
the
fifth
Act
of
your
sorrowful
servitude
,
in
the
lives
of
Caligula
and
Domitian
,
which
God
out
of
his
great
goodness
to
you
,
hath
raced
out
of
the
world
,
only
that
the
obscenity
and
cruelty
used
by
those
monsters
of
Nature
,
might
be
for
ever
forgotten
?
The
loss
of
the
greatest
part
of
Tacitus
his
labours
,
O
my
Vertuosi
,
hath
been
a
happy
gain
unto
the
world
:
How
happy
would
men
be
,
if
the
unfortunate
remainders
of
them
,
preserved
for
the
utmost
calamity
of
mankind
,
were
no
waies
to
be
found
;
and
that
the
world
were
governed
according
to
the
modesty
and
integrity
of
ancient
Monarchs
,
who
thought
men
to
be
rational
creatures
,
not
beasts
with
two
legs
(
as
many
modern
Princes
by
their
usages
seem
to
think
them
)
created
so
by
God
for
their
good
,
as
if
he
had
made
mice
only
to
fatten
cats
.
But
you
,
Monsieur
Vittorio
,
whom
I
find
to
be
one
of
those
that
desire
that
●…acitus
should
be
rendred
intire
;
give
me
leave
to
have
a
word
or
two
in
privat
with
you
,
who
have
spoken
in
the
name
of
the
rest
;
Do
not
you
think
that
your
Princes
are
become
learned
Physitians
to
cure
cancar
of
the
Florentines
seditian
,
by
reading
the
very
first
page
of
Tacitus
his
Annals
,
which
they
have
so
well
studied
and
put
in
practice
?
Happy
had
the
world
been
,
if
Tacitus
had
been
alwaies
tacit
:
Therefore
fare
you
well
,
you
and
your
posterity
,
I
am
sorry
to
see
that
men
are
no
wiser
then
Thrushes
,
whose
excrement
proves
their
own
ruine
;
●…urdus
Malum
sibi
Cacat
.
The
LXXXV
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
being
advertised
that
ignorant
men
took
up
arms
against
Learning
,
puts
himself
in
posture
to
defend
his
Vertuosi
.
THe
suspitions
of
War
which
the
Litterati
have
had
for
these
divers
months
past
,
are
at
last
proved
true
;
for
the
Post
which
came
to
Apollo
on
Tuesday
night
last
brought
Letters
from
divers
Princes
well
adicted
to
Learning
,
which
said
,
that
for
certain
the
ignorant
took
up
arms
against
the
Litterati
;
and
that
they
had
already
raised
many
thousands
of
Barbarians
,
mortal
enemies
to
the
Liberal
Sciences
.
Upon
the
hearing
whereof
,
Apollo
forthwith
reinforced
the
Garrisons
of
the
chiefest
Towns
of
Phosides
,
Pindus
,
and
Libetrus
,
and
then
commanded
Ori●…sto
and
Berni
,
that
they
should
presently
take
into
pay
,
two
Brigadoes
of
Italian
Satyrical
Poets
,
and
that
the
Brigadoes
of
the
Latin
Poets
,
Perseus
,
and
Iuvenal
,
being
muchlessened
,
should
be
recruited
with
Poets
from
Itally
,
who
did
abound
in
that
sort
of
Militia
:
And
then
declared
Torquatus
T●…ssus
to
be
Leader
of
the
Heroick
Italian
Poets
,
who
chose
his
Father
Bernardo
for
his
Lieutenant
,
and
that
good
old
Father
thought
himself
much
honored
in
obeying
so
gallant
a
son
.
Virgil
was
made
General
of
the
Heroick
Latin
Poets
,
and
Lucan
was
his
Lieutenant
.
Hanibal
Caro
in
a
great
Assembly
of
Poets
,
all
of
the
first
Classis
,
assisted
therein
more
by
the
favours
of
the
house
of
Fernese
,
then
by
his
own
deserts
,
was
declared
General
of
the
Italian
Lyrick
Poets
;
which
place
would
have
been
bestowed
on
Petrarch
,
Guidicchion
,
or
Monsieur
de
la
Casa
,
if
their
habit
would
have
permitted
them
to
have
worn
a
Murrion
,
or
Brest-plate
.
Horrace
had
the
free
voice
of
the
whole
Army
,
to
be
General
of
the
Latin
Lyrick
Poets
.
Vigetius
was
made
Camp-Master
General
of
the
whole
Army
,
and
Iulius
Frontinus
Serjeant
Major
;
Iohn
Francisco
Pico
,
Count
of
Mirandola
was
made
Standard-bearer
,
and
in
his
Standard-General
,
bore
the
famous
Ensigne
of
an
open
Book
;
Ovidius
Naso
was
made
Treasurer-General
;
and
afterwards
all
necessary
provisions
and
expedition
for
War
were
made
:
In
so
much
as
Apollo
had
already
so
formidable
an
Army
of
Vertuosi
in
the
field
,
as
he
held
himself
sure
of
the
victory
.
But
to
so
great
a
body
of
Militia
,
the
soul
,
money
,
was
wanting
:
Some
propounded
the
raising
of
publick
Taxes
upon
the
people
,
to
provide
for
so
urgent
a
necessity
;
but
that
being
found
to
be
a
pernitious
way
,
and
that
it
was
dangerous
to
distaste
the
people
with
new
grievances
,
who
ought
to
be
eased
,
that
they
might
become
their
friends
;
and
that
it
was
impossible
to
preserve
a
State
amidst
the
troubles
of
War
,
when
assaulted
by
a
potent
Army
,
if
it
be
inhabited
by
ill
affected
people
:
The
care
of
providing
monies
,
was
referred
by
Apollo
,
to
his
general
Councel
of
War
;
who
soon
fell
upon
what
is
infinitely
misliked
by
those
who
understand
little
,
but
loved
and
commended
by
good
Polititians
,
to
wit
,
to
lay
tribute
upon
places
of
small
importance
;
but
trusty
,
and
far
from
the
enemies
confines
.
So
great
was
the
love
which
every
one
shewed
to
Learning
,
and
their
hatred
against
the
ignorant
so
intense
,
as
the
people
of
Parnassus
,
to
keep
themselves
from
falling
into
their
hands
,
and
from
seeing
that
horrid
beast
,
that
dreadful
monster
of
Nature
,
which
is
so
displeasing
to
the
Vertuosi
,
of
a
man
that
can
neither
write
nor
read
,
as
not
only
those
places
which
were
appointed
by
Apollo
,
but
even
those
that
were
not
put
into
the
List
,
ran
to
his
Majestie
,
and
desired
as
a
singular
favour
to
be
made
tributary
,
and
to
pay
Composition
:
Only
Ephesus
refused
openly
to
obey
Apollo
:
whereat
his
Majesty
was
so
offended
,
as
finding
the
more
they
were
perswaded
,
the
more
obstinate
they
grew
,
he
thought
it
necessary
to
use
force
;
which
they
of
Ephesus
being
made
acquainted
by
some
of
the
Vertuosi
,
who
were
their
intimate
friends
,
they
forthwith
sent
20
Ambassadors
to
his
Majesty
,
all
of
them
noted
men
,
and
prime
Citizens
;
who
told
him
that
the
Loyal
City
of
Ephesus
would
so
willingly
run
with
their
lives
and
means
to
the
defence
of
the
State
,
as
they
would
think
it
a
particular
favour
,
and
singular
grace
,
if
upon
that
occasion
his
Majestie
would
cause
the
publick
and
privat
goods
of
the
men
of
Ephesus
to
be
sold
to
whom
would
offer
most
;
and
that
what
monies
might
be
thereby
raised
,
might
be
delivered
into
his
Treasurers
for
the
occasions
of
the
War
;
and
that
their
denial
of
becoming
feudatory
,
or
of
paying
Composition
,
was
not
occasioned
out
of
any
disobedience
to
his
Majesty
,
or
disaffection
to
Learning
;
but
for
that
they
foresaw
that
they
should
assuredly
be
made
feudatory
to
a
cruel
Tyrant
,
whose
Government
,
for
the
love
they
bore
their
Country
,
their
lives
and
honour
,
they
were
resolved
to
shun
,
though
by
the
hazard
of
what
they
held
dearest
.
Apollo
was
so
well
satisfied
by
those
of
Ephesus
,
as
he
embraced
the
Ambassadors
one
by
one
,
and
thanked
them
very
much
for
their
readiness
to
serve
him
;
and
then
told
them
,
that
to
secure
them
from
being
ill
dealt
withall
by
any
new
power
;
That
though
Seneca
the
Tragedian
had
offered
high
for
their
Composition
,
yet
he
would
make-them
feudatory
to
Ovidius
Naso
,
who
was
so
affectionate
to
the
Country
of
Ephesus
,
as
was
well
known
to
the
Vertuosi
,
from
whom
they
might
expect
to
be
dealt
withall
with
all
humanity
.
To
this
the
Ambassadors
answered
;
That
they
beseeched
his
Majesty
to
remember
,
that
whilst
Ausonius
Gallus
was
their
Prince
,
the
people
of
Ephesus
were
at
perpetual
variance
with
him
,
which
ended
with
their
sending
him
out
of
their
State
sorely
and
shamefully
wounded
;
and
that
now
that
his
Majestie
knew
how
great
reason
the
people
of
Ephesus
had
to
abhor
their
new
infeoffment
,
he
might
use
his
pleasure
;
for
they
were
resolved
willingly
to
undergo
any
calamity
,
rather
then
to
give
his
Majesty
any
distaste
.
These
reasons
alleadged
by
the
Ambassadors
with
such
generous
humility
,
did
so
convince
Apollo
,
as
he
told
them
they
might
live
secure
,
that
Ephesus
should
never
be
commanded
by
any
but
himself
;
because
he
very
well
knew
,
that
those
who
had
driven
their
Prince
out
of
their
State
,
and
had
dealt
so
ill
with
him
,
had
much
reason
to
apprehend
the
being
made
Tributary
a
second
time
;
for
every
new
Prince
,
how
meek
or
gentle
soever
he
were
,
must
be
necessitated
to
use
severity
,
and
exercise
all
those
cruel
resentments
which
the
seditious
Neopolitan
Baron
received
from
the
austere
Kings
of
Aragon
,
so
to
secure
himself
from
being
treated
as
was
his
predecessor
.
The
LXXXVI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Justus
Lipsius
,
to
make
amends
for
his
fault
in
having
accused
Tacitus
,
is
so
intent
thereupon
,
as
he
is
accused
before
Apollo
to
have
Idolatrized
him
;
for
which
after
a
feigned
punishment
,
he
is
at
last
praised
,
and
admired
by
his
Majestie
.
THe
most
observing
Litterati
of
this
State
,
have
often
noted
,
That
when
any
Vertuosi
hath
through
human
frailty
committed
an
error
,
he
doth
,
for
the
hatred
he
beats
to
vitious
actions
,
amend
it
by
falling
into
the
other
extream
:
And
divers
affirm
that
Democrit●…s
did
not
put
out
his
eyes
for
the
benefit
of
contemplation
,
but
to
make
amends
for
a
fault
which
he
had
commited
in
having
looked
upon
a
handsom
young
woman
with
a
more
wanton
eye
then
became
a
Philosopher
.
And
it
is
also
reported
that
Harpecretes
,
to
correct
an
error
which
he
had
committed
in
having
been
too
loquacious
at
a
Feast
,
for
which
he
was
greatly
blamed
,
fell
into
the
other
extream
of
never
speaking
again
.
Nor
ought
the
Poets
Sentence
to
be
held
true
;
Dum
vitant
stulti
vitia
,
in
contr●…ia
currunt
:
Since
the
dogg
which
hath
been
scalded
with
boyling
water
,
is
esteemed
wise
for
staying
within
dores
when
it
rains
:
As
also
it
is
the
councel
of
a
wise
man
,
to
hate
Eels
after
a
man
hath
been
bitten
with
a
Snake
.
This
is
said
,
because
Iustus
Lipsius
was
so
heartily
sorry
for
,
and
did
so
repent
his
having
so
unfortunately
accused
Tacitus
,
as
to
amend
a
fault
for
which
he
was
much
blamed
by
all
the
Vertuosi
of
this
State
,
he
soon
after
went
to
Tacitus
,
and
humbly
asked
him
pardon
for
the
injury
he
had
done
him
:
Who
knowing
what
honour
a
man
wins
by
being
ready
to
forgive
,
which
magnanimity
becoming
a
Roman
Senator
,
did
not
only
freely
forgive
Lipsius
,
but
did
heartily
thank
him
for
having
afforded
him
an
occasion
of
doin●…
so
glorious
an
act
,
as
sincerely
to
forgive
an
injury
received
.
The
wonder
of
so
great
indulgency
,
and
the
easiness
in
obtaining
his
so
much
desired
pardon
,
being
added
to
the
ancient
great
devotion
which
Lipsius
(
who
was
alwaies
very
partial
to
Tacitus
)
bore
to
so
sublime
an
Historian
,
did
so
much
encrease
his
love
and
veneration
,
as
he
frequented
Tacitus
his
house
more
then
his
own
,
delighted
to
discourse
with
him
more
then
with
any
other
of
the
Litterati
,
was
not
better
pleased
with
any
other
conversation
,
did
not
celebrate
any
Historian
more
,
and
did
all
this
with
such
partiality
of
inward
affection
,
as
he
strove
to
imitate
him
in
his
quaintness
of
speaking
more
by
conceits
then
words
,
in
his
brevity
of
succinct
speaking
,
full
of
gravity
,
matter
,
sententiousness
,
and
so
as
was
only
perspicuous
to
good
understanders
,
procuring
thereby
the
envy
and
hatred
of
all
the
Vertuosi
depending
upon
Cicero
,
and
the
Cesarian
Faction
,
who
did
not
approve
thereof
,
and
presumed
by
an
Antonomasia
,
to
call
him
his
Author
,
and
not
caring
for
what
others
said
of
him
,
he
affected
nothing
more
then
to
appear
a
second
Tacitus
.
This
unusual
affection
amongst
friends
,
not
used
to
Masters
,
and
which
did
exceed
all
love
born
to
consanguinity
,
begot
such
jealousie
in
Mercerus
,
Beatus
Rhenenus
,
Fulvius
Orsinus
,
Marcus
Antonius
Muretas
,
and
in
other
of
Tacitus
his
followers
,
as
for
meer
envie
,
though
under
the
colour
of
revenging
the
injury
which
Lipsius
had
formerly
done
their
friend
Tacitus
,
they
accused
Lipsius
before
Apollo
of
the
same
impiety
,
which
he
had
accused
Tacitus
of
:
Saying
to
his
Majesty
,
that
he
did
not
love
Tacitus
as
a
friend
,
did
not
honor
him
as
a
Master
and
Patron
,
but
did
adore
him
as
his
Apollo
,
as
his
God
.
This
accusation
,
which
as
it
fares
in
faults
of
high
Treason
,
seems
through
the
atrocity
thereof
,
to
be
sufficiently
proved
by
bare
allegation
,
did
much
trouble
Apollo
;
who
esteeming
himself
offended
by
Lipsius
,
he
made
be
forthwith
brought
bound
unto
him
by
a
Pretorian
Cohort
of
Lyrick
Poets
;
and
with
an
angry
countenance
,
and
threatning
way
,
asked
him
what
he
thought
of
one
Cornelius
Tacitus
,
an
Oylmans
son
of
Ternio
?
To
this
●…ipsius
answered
,
That
he
held
Tacitus
to
be
the
chief
of
all
Intelligent
Historians
;
the
Father
of
human
wisdom
,
the
Oracle
of
the
true
Reason
of
State
,
the
Master
of
Polititians
,
the
Coryfeus
of
all
such
Writers
as
had
arived
at
the
glory
of
using
more
conceits
then
words
in
their
Writings
,
the
true
rule
whereby
to
learn
to
write
the
actions
of
great
Princes
,
with
the
learned
light
of
their
true
occasion
;
a
great
piece
of
art
,
and
which
was
only
known
by
the
noblest
sort
of
Historians
,
as
that
which
rendred
them
very
glorious
,
who
knew
how
to
make
use
of
it
,
and
him
learned
,
who
had
the
judgement
to
consider
it
,
the
Idea
of
Historical
truth
,
the
true
Teacher
of
Princes
,
Schoolmaster
of
all
Courtiers
,
the
true
touchstone
whereby
the
world
might
try
the
genius
of
Princes
,
the
Standard
whereby
men
might
exactly
weigh
the
real
worth
of
privat
men
,
the
Book
which
Princes
who
would
learn
how
to
command
Subjects
wel
;
who
desired
to
know
how
to
obey
wel
,
ought
to
have
continually
in
their
hands
.
Apollo
knew
by
this
so
affected
encomium
,
and
by
so
exaggerated
praises
,
that
Lipsius
did
openly
,
and
with
a
bare
face
adore
Ta●…itus
:
Wherefore
being
highly
incenst
,
he
said
,
What
think
you
then
of
me
,
Lipsius
,
who
am
the
Father
of
Learning
,
the
supreme
Master
of
all
Sciences
,
absolute
Prince
of
the
Liberal
Arts
,
and
the
Monarch
of
Vertue
,
if
with
such
impiety
and
impudence
you
Idolatrize
a
Writer
who
is
so
hateful
to
all
good
men
,
and
so
much
detested
by
the
professers
of
the
Latin
Tongue
,
for
the
newness
of
his
phrase
,
the
obscurity
of
his
speech
,
his
vitious
brevity
,
and
for
his
so
cruel
Political
Doctrine
,
by
which
he
rather
forms
severe
Tyrants
then
;
just
Princes
,
vitious
subjects
,
then
such
as
are
indued
with
that
naked
goodness
which
makes
Government
so
easie
to
Princes
;
it
being
clearly
seen
,
that
he
by
his
impious
precepts
converts
lawful
Princes
into
Tyrants
,
transforms
natural
subjects
,
who
ought
to
be
mild
and
obedient
sheep
into
,
wily
foxes
,
and
creatures
which
Nature
hath
wisely
ordained
without
or
teeth
or
horns
,
into
ravenous
wolves
and
head-strong
buls
;
a
great
Doctor
of
Fallacies
,
the
only
Artificer
of
Tyranny
,
a
new
Zenofon
of
a
cruel
and
execrable
Tiberipedia
;
the
true
forger
of
cunning
cheating
,
of
saying
things
which
he
intends
not
,
of
perswading
that
to
others
,
which
he
himself
believes
not
;
of
seeming
fervently
to
covet
that
which
he
desires
not
,
and
of
appearing
to
hate
what
he
loves
;
an
excellent
Master
to
teach
men
the
wicked
Doctrine
of
concealing
what
they
think
,
and
of
speaking
falshoods
;
the
Architecture
of
Fallacies
,
and
the
only
and
so
excellent
Author
of
rash
Judgements
,
as
most
commonly
he
interprets
mens
wicked
actions
for
sanctified
ones
,
and
their
good
ones
for
diabolical
?
And
wilt
thou
alone
,
amongst
so
many
of
my
faithful
Vertuosi
,
even
to
my
very
face
adore
one
for
thy
God
,
who
by
his
Writings
shews
he
does
not
know
that
there
is
a
God
?
who
being
composed
of
nothing
but
impiety
,
hath
divulged
that
cruel
and
desperate
Policy
,
which
doth
so
shame
Princes
that
practice
it
,
and
so
much
afflict
people
that
make
trial
of
it
?
Who
hath
taught
Princes
as
well
as
privat
men
,
the
wicked
art
of
double
dealing
,
the
fraudulency
to
do
what
they
do
not
say
,
and
to
say
what
they
mean
not
to
do
;
which
is
practised
by
some
,
only
that
they
may
learn
the
wicked
doctrine
to
paint
out
that
for
black
,
which
is
white
,
how
to
wind
people
about
by
fair
speeches
,
and
foul
deeds
;
of
deceiving
all
men
by
laughing
when
a
man
is
angry
,
and
weeping
when
well
pleased
;
and
of
measuring
love
,
hatred
,
and
all
human
vertue
,
only
by
the
wicked
compass
of
self-interest
;
one
who
is
read
by
good
men
,
only
that
they
may
know
the
new
and
deep
fetches
,
by
which
unhappy
mankind
in
this
present
age
,
so
miserably
,
and
with
such
publick
calamity
whirld
about
,
and
to
discover
the
execrable
hypocrisie
which
many
Disciples
of
such
a
Master
have
practised
,
that
they
may
be
esteemed
by
the
simpler
sort
of
people
,
to
live
the
lives
of
Saints
,
though
by
obeying
Tacitus
his
precepts
,
they
doe
things
which
even
the
devils
of
hell
would
blush
to
doe
:
Are
not
you
,
Lipsius
,
aware
,
how
since
your
Tacitus
is
so
frequently
read
,
many
Princes
swerve
from
the
wonted
fashion
of
governing
their
people
with
meekness
and
clemency
,
&
many
privat
men
have
forsaken
their
former
purity
of
life
:
many
of
●…acitus
his
Writings
were
not
lost
(
as
divers
ignorant
people
affirm
)
by
the
deluge
of
Barbarians
,
which
came
to
conquer
Italy
:
they
were
missing
before
then
,
not
by
the
ignorance
of
people
,
who
in
those
troublesom
times
were
busied
in
War
;
but
for
that
those
ancient
people
in
whom
the
sincerity
of
soul
,
and
purity
of
the
new
Christian
Religion
did
reign
,
did
detest
that
Writer
which
is
now
so
much
beloved
;
and
set
up
by
many
(
as
I
see
he
is
by
you
)
to
be
adored
for
their
golden
Calf
.
Tacitus
is
in
all
his
parts
unworthy
to
be
read
by
honest
men
;
for
there
be
more
impieties
in
him
,
then
leaves
,
lines
,
words
,
sillables
,
nay
then
letters
:
But
it
must
be
confest
that
the
life
which
he
hath
written
of
Tiberius
(
a
fit
Prince
for
the
pen
of
such
an
Historian
)
is
altogether
unsufferable
;
which
to
the
great
benefit
of
mankind
,
was
for
many
ages
hidden
in
some
secret
parts
of
Germany
,
till
by
the
pestiferous
curiosity
of
a
German
,
which
proved
more
fatal
to
the
world
then
his
compatriot
,
the
inventer
of
guns
,
it
was
brought
to
light
at
the
same
time
when
that
Noble
Province
began
to
be
infected
by
the
modern
heresie
;
only
that
Tacitus
might
by
so
great
a
prodigie
subvert
profane
things
,
when
Luther
molested
the
sacred
ones
:
Writings
integrally
wicked
,
and
lost
for
a
while
,
because
the
ancients
liked
them
not
:
And
now
(
to
the
great
shame
of
the
present
age
)
only
admired
by
those
Polititians
,
who
being
followers
of
so
great
impiety
,
have
learnt
from
the
Master
of
fallacies
,
the
doctrine
of
entertaining
men
with
words
as
long
as
they
live
,
of
feeding
them
with
smoak
;
of
filling
them
with
wind
,
and
of
bringing
them
by
vain
hopes
to
utter
beggery
.
Certainly
an
infernal
doctrin
;
which
being
sowed
by
the
husbandman
,
Tacitus
,
only
for
the
benefit
of
Princes
,
is
now
so
greedily
imbraced
by
every
privat
man
,
as
Tacitus
,
who
was
formerly
esteemed
an
Author
only
fit
for
Princes
,
is
now
so
frequently
handled
by
all
men
,
as
Shop-keepers
and
Porters
,
seem
to
understand
nothing
better
then
reason
of
State
;
and
to
the
great
derision
of
an
art
so
highly
esteemed
by
gallant
men
,
the
world
is
full
of
base
teachers
of
Policy
.
Lipsius
was
half
dead
to
hear
Apollo
speak
thus
bitterly
:
Yet
taking
courage
at
his
very
last
gasp
,
he
beg'd
pardon
of
his
Majesty
for
any
other
fault
that
he
had
committed
;
and
then
freely
said
,
That
his
obligations
to
Tacitus
were
such
,
so
great
the
honor
,
which
by
means
of
this
his
beloved
Author
,
he
had
won
amongst
the
Flemmish
,
Germans
,
English
,
French
,
Spaniards
,
and
Italians
,
as
though
he
should
love
and
honour
him
as
his
earthly
God
,
he
thought
he
should
not
do
enough
to
discharge
his
duty
to
the
full
,
and
exactly
shew
his
gratitude
:
For
having
left
ordinary
writings
behind
him
in
the
world
,
they
were
only
his
labours
upon
Tacitus
,
which
had
made
him
merit
an
admittance
into
Parnassus
,
and
immortal
renown
amongst
men
:
And
that
if
he
who
drove
a
great
Trade
with
another
mans
money
,
was
to
be
born
withall
,
if
he
did
even
adore
him
,
who
at
his
pleasure
might
make
him
turn
bankrupt
;
how
much
more
did
he
deserve
at
least
to
be
excused
,
if
not
commended
by
his
Majesty
,
if
he
were
extravagant
,
and
did
exceed
the
bounds
of
duty
,
in
his
loving
and
honoring
of
Tacitus
,
since
his
whole
stock
of
credit
with
the
Vertuosi
was
founded
only
in
him
?
And
that
since
his
entrance
into
Parnassus
,
he
had
been
so
beloved
and
respected
by
the
Litterati
,
as
his
house
had
been
as
much
frequented
as
those
of
the
most
famous
Writers
;
but
that
since
he
committed
the
gross
fault
of
offending
Tacitus
,
Statim
relictum
illius
limen
,
nemo
adire
,
nemo
s●…lari
:
Tacit.
lib:
3.
Annal.
That
therefore
he
would
rather
hate
himself
,
and
die
,
then
lessen
the
reverence
he
bore
to
that
his
Author
:
for
he
thought
it
a
lesser
loss
to
lose
his
life
,
then
the
height
of
honor
which
by
Tacitus
his
means
he
was
arived
at
.
Apollo
was
scandalized
to
hear
Lipsius
speak
thus
;
and
growing
still
more
angry
,
blamed
him
,
for
that
in
his
presence
he
had
by
so
impudent
an
asseveration
,
rather
shewed
his
stif-neckt
stubbornness
of
persevering
in
so
wicked
obstinacy
,
then
repent
and
ask
pardon
for
his
fa
ult:
And
chiefly
his
Majesty
could
not
indure
that
he
should
term
idolatry
,
gratitude
,
and
obstinacy
,
constancy
.
Wherefore
he
commanded
the
same
Cohort
of
Lyrick
Poets
to
drag
him
out
of
dores
,
who
was
not
worthy
to
look
upon
his
Lord
and
Master
,
whom
he
had
so
highly
offended
;
and
that
having
first
stript
him
of
all
his
Learning
,
they
should
declare
him
to
be
shamefully
ignorant
,
and
then
burn
him
as
a
wicked
Idolater
.
Lipsius
was
already
brought
to
the
place
of
execution
,
when
his
dearest
friends
advised
him
to
bethink
himself
better
,
and
save
both
his
life
and
reputation
,
by
craving
his
Majesties
pardon
.
Lipsius
,
whilst
in
this
very
desperate
condition
,
did
so
increase
in
constancy
and
boldness
,
as
he
bad
Apollo
use
his
pleasure
,
he
could
not
make
him
die
ignorant
,
who
was
possest
with
gratitude
,
the
Queen
of
all
Human
Vertues
;
that
therefore
the
flames
which
should
consume
his
body
,
would
give
a
greater
splendor
of
glory
,
then
of
fire
;
and
that
he
protested
at
that
very
last
minute
of
his
life
,
he
was
so
far
from
acknowledging
the
fault
which
was
laid
to
his
charge
,
of
having
loved
and
honored
his
Tacitus
too
much
,
that
in
commemoration
of
the
infinite
obligations
which
he
ought
him
,
it
grieved
him
more
then
death
,
to
think
he
should
die
ungrateful
;
and
that
the
present
agony
which
they
might
all
perceive
him
to
be
in
,
arose
not
from
the
terror
of
death
,
but
from
his
immense
sorrow
to
have
heard
his
Tacitus
termed
by
his
Majesty
,
a
wicked
Atheist
;
an
injury
,
which
if
it
had
been
done
to
that
most
wise
Writer
by
any
other
then
his
Majesty
,
he
would
not
,
though
in
that
his
last
moment
of
life
,
have
left
it
unrevenged
,
at
least
by
words
,
and
that
with
the
liberty
which
most
properly
belonged
to
him
who
desired
not
to
live
,
he
witnessed
to
all
the
world
,
that
Tacitus
did
so
far
know
God
,
as
being
he
alone
,
who
of
all
the
Writers
of
the
Gentiles
,
had
by
his
great
wisdom
arived
at
the
knowledg
,
How
much
the
faith
of
things
unseen
,
avails
in
matters
of
Religion
,
or
which
cannot
be
proved
by
reason
,
he
had
said
,
Sanctiusque
,
ac
reverentius
visum
,
de
actis
Deorum
credere
quam
scire
.
Tacit.
de
Morb.
Germ.
Most
holy
words
,
and
worthy
to
be
considered
by
those
Divines
,
who
in
their
Writings
were
at
a
loss
through
too
sophistical
subtilties
.
Apollo
being
full
of
wonder
,
and
infinitely
astonished
at
the
things
he
had
heard
,
caused
Lipsius
immediately
to
be
set
at
liberty
,
and
straitly
imbracing
him
,
said
,
O
my
dear
Vertuoso
!
with
how
much
consolation
to
my self
,
and
how
much
to
your
advantage
have
I
tried
your
patience
and
constancy
,
and
by
the
injurious
speeches
which
I
have
uttered
against
Tacitus
,
which
are
the
very
same
which
they
accuse
him
with
,
who
neither
study
him
nor
understand
him
,
have
I
made
proof
of
your
devotion
towards
that
excellent
Historian
,
who
even
deserves
my
wonder
.
And
by
what
I
have
heard
you
say
,
I
find
that
you
have
been
delighted
in
reading
him
,
and
long
studied
him
to
your
profit
:
For
I
know
that
the
defence
,
which
so
much
to
your
glory
you
have
made
,
is
your
own
,
but
taken
out
of
my
and
your
dearly
beloved
Tacitus
.
Apollo
then
turned
towards
the
Vertuosi
,
who
out
of
a
curiosity
to
hear
that
Judgement
,
were
flockt
in
great
numbers
to
the
Hall
;
and
said
,
O
my
beloved
Litterati
!
admire
,
and
ever
imitate
the
honored
constancy
of
this
my
glorious
Vertuoso
,
and
let
the
infinite
love
,
and
everlasting
veneration
of
that
Prince
be
ingraven
in
your
hearts
,
who
keeps
up
your
reputation
;
and
forget
not
that
his
power
precipitates
more
easily
,
who
loseth
his
Princes
good
will
,
then
houses
doe
whose
foundations
fail
.
Therefore
you
who
follow
the
Court
,
learn
to
know
,
that
Nihil
rerum
mortalium
tam
instabile
ac
fluxum
est
,
quam
fama
potentiae
,
non
sua
vi
nixae
.
Tacit.
lib.
13.
Annal.
A
most
certain
rule
which
teacheth
every
one
to
imitate
Lipsius
in
loving
,
honoring
,
and
in
ever
faithfully
serving
their
Prince
:
For
as
it
is
great
impiety
in
holy
things
,
to
have
any
other
God
save
him
who
created
man
,
the
heavens
and
earth
,
so
ought
you
never
to
have
any
devotion
for
any
Prince
,
not
expect
or
desire
any
good
from
any
other
Lord
,
save
from
him
who
out
of
confidence
in
your
loyalty
,
and
out
of
the
extraordinary
affection
which
he
bears
you
,
owns
you
to
all
the
world
,
not
for
his
servants
,
but
for
his
dear
friends
,
and
by
the
Supreme
Authority
which
he
suffers
you
to
exercise
in
his
State
,
makes
you
appear
unto
his
Vassals
no
less
Princes
then
himself
:
And
because
the
wisdom
of
Princes
out
of
their
jealousies
of
those
that
rule
,
is
usually
accompanied
with
suspition
,
and
Court-favorits
being
alwaies
envied
,
alwaies
narrowly
observed
by
their
rivals
,
and
alwaies
persecuted
by
such
as
malign
them
.
That
you
may
overcome
so
many
difficulties
,
and
still
preserve
your selves
in
the
favors
which
you
have
won
,
love
your
Princes
with
all
your
heart
,
observe
them
with
all
your
soul
,
and
serve
them
with
all
possible
loyalty
:
And
like
my
Lipsius
,
chuse
rather
to
die
,
then
to
think
,
much
less
to
do
any
thing
which
may
indanger
the
least
loss
of
their
favours
.
And
believe
for
certain
,
that
then
your
ruine
begins
,
when
you
suffer
your selves
to
be
perswaded
that
you
may
better
your
condition
,
by
using
simulation
and
falshood
with
your
Princes
,
who
both
know
,
see
,
and
understand
more
then
is
possible
to
be
exprest
:
For
those
who
think
to
live
securely
by
dissembling
with
Princes
,
who
though
they
should
know
nothing
themselves
,
have
so
many
who
can
put
them
in
mind
,
and
who
want
not
a
thousand
Malignant
spirits
to
wake
them
when
they
are
asleep
,
are
like
those
fools
who
think
to
confine
Gypsies
,
and
hope
to
cheat
Mountebanks
.
The
LXXXVII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Queen
of
Italy
being
much
intreated
by
her
chiefest
Princes
,
and
by
Apoll's
self
to
pardon
the
injuries
done
by
those
Italian
Commanders
who
took
up
arms
against
her
,
in
assistance
of
Forrein
Nations
,
denies
to
do
it
.
DOubtlesly
the
Palace
wherein
the
Queen
of
Italy
keeps
her
residence
,
is
even
by
the
testimony
of
Vitruvio's
self
acknowledged
to
be
the
most
magnificent
,
and
richliest
adorn'd
Palace
in
all
Parnassus
.
Here
amongst
other
stupendious
and
delightful
things
,
is
the
fore
Court
to
a
large
Amphitheatre
,
at
the
upper
end
whereof
stands
the
Statue
of
the
Queen
of
Italy
on
horseback
,
all
of
pure
gold
,
dedicated
to
the
great
Bellizarius
,
a
Grecian
;
and
that
of
Narses
,
a
Grecian
also
,
which
was
erected
at
the
lower
end
of
the
Court
,
for
his
perpetual
glory
,
by
the
same
Queen
,
but
is
now
thrown
to
the
ground
,
and
is
broken
all
in
pieces
,
for
that
notorious
injury
which
she
received
from
him
;
so
that
whereas
it
was
formerly
the
envie
of
great
men
,
and
served
to
put
men
in
mind
of
so
great
a
Commanders
merit
,
it
now
serves
to
shew
his
shame
,
who
out
of
the
rage
of
privat
disdain
,
did
profane
so
great
a
merit
,
and
observed
that
glory
which
deserved
envie
.
On
the
right
hand
of
the
fore-front
of
this
so
miraculous
Court
,
are
the
faces
of
those
famous
Italian
Commanders
,
drawn
by
Apelles
,
and
other
prime
Painters
,
who
having
by
their
arms
,
and
by
their
expence
of
bloud
,
delivered
Italy
from
the
slavery
of
Barbarians
,
are
by
their
grateful
Country
kept
in
ever
honored
memory
.
And
on
the
left
hand
of
the
same
Court
,
to
the
perpetual
shame
of
ungratefull
persons
,
those
Italian
Captains
are
hung
upon
Gallowses
,
by
the
heels
,
who
forgetting
the
obligation
due
to
a
mans
Country
,
which
equals
that
of
children
to
their
parents
,
took
up
arms
in
assistance
of
babarous
Nations
,
and
forein
Princes
,
to
put
fetters
upon
their
Italy
.
Then
to
the
infamy
of
so
shamefully
ungrateful
people
,
the
opprobries
and
reproaches
are
added
,
which
Poets
in
all
sort
of
Satyrical
Verses
,
and
Orators
in
daily
invectives
make
against
such
misdemeriting
men
;
to
the
end
that
men
may
learn
by
those
severe
resentments
,
to
shun
committing
faults
which
I
ring
eternal
infamy
with
them
:
and
to
the
end
that
Military
men
,
who
are
wont
without
weighing
what
Princes
they
serve
,
to
run
where
they
may
have
best
and
most
ready
pay
,
may
learn
to
love
their
Country
so
well
,
as
that
they
may
think
it
greater
charity
to
kill
themselves
,
then
to
take
up
arms
against
her
.
Menante
,
who
before
he
can
send
this
weeks
Gasetta
to
his
loving
Customers
,
is
bound
to
carry
it
to
the
Urban
Pretor
,
cannot
give
you
(
as
he
ought
to
do
)
the
names
of
those
Italians
in
his
Papers
,
who
are
painted
in
so
ignominious
a
posture
;
but
he
tels
you
that
the
posterity
of
those
Souldiers
who
suffer
the
punishment
of
so
long
shame
,
when
they
enter
into
that
Court
,
blush
to
think
that
their
Ancestors
have
so
shamefully
villified
their
house
,
and
do
therefore
with
much
compunction
of
soul
,
continually
bewail
their
predecessors
misdemerits
.
These
Gentlemen
by
themselves
,
and
by
the
intercession
of
the
greatest
Princes
of
this
State
,
have
,
and
do
still
much
importune
the
Queen
of
Italy
that
she
will
be
pleased
at
last
to
pacifie
her
anger
,
and
give
way
that
those
nobly
descended
Souldiers
may
be
freed
from
that
shameful
opprobry
;
and
Apollo
himself
,
at
the
intreaty
of
the
best
Princes
of
Italy
,
did
earnestly
mediate
the
same
,
but
all
in
vain
:
For
she
still
continuing
her
indignation
,
answered
Apollo
,
and
the
other
who
had
intreated
her
,
even
with
tears
which
for
meer
anger
fell
from
her
eyes
;
that
she
had
patiently
born
with
the
ruines
,
plundrings
,
affronts
,
and
other
utter
desolations
which
she
had
received
from
the
Goths
,
Ostrogoths
,
Huns
,
Vandals
,
and
other
barbarous
Nations
,
which
had
so
miserably
torn
and
wasted
her
,
as
being
accidents
which
all
Princes
were
subject
unto
,
and
more
particularly
she
,
who
by
the
pleasantness
of
her
situation
,
fruitfull
soyl
,
and
great
riches
which
she
had
got
in
time
of
peace
,
did
not
only
allure
,
but
even
call
in
forrein
Nations
to
her
ruine
;
who
thirsted
after
her
wealth
,
and
were
desirous
to
change
their
barren
Countries
with
the
fruitful
fields
of
Italy
.
But
that
her
dearly
beloved
children
,
should
take
up
arms
against
her
their
tender
mother
,
which
they
ought
to
have
imployed
in
her
defence
,
were
wounds
which
perpetually
cry'd
for
revenge
,
so
wicked
an
ingratitude
as
was
incapable
of
pardon
,
so
sad
a
wickedness
as
could
not
be
out-done
by
any
whatsoever
cruel
hatred
.
That
therefore
finding
her self
so
deeply
wounded
in
the
concernment
of
her
Liberty
,
their
intreaties
made
her
the
more
obstinate
in
her
hatred
,
was
the
reason
why
his
Majesties
mediation
did
the
more
irritate
her
revenge
,
and
why
their
humility
who
beg'd
her
pardon
,
made
her
the
more
to
glory
and
wax
cruel
in
her
revenge
,
and
that
the
very
length
of
time
made
that
injury
continually
appear
more
fresh
,
which
she
neither
could
nor
would
pardon
:
Not
only
for
that
she
knew
she
had
never
deserved
so
ill
at
her
Italians
hands
,
but
for
that
she
knew
she
had
been
wickedly
betrayed
,
assacinated
,
and
so
opprobriously
made
slave
by
those
on
whose
neck
she
had
trampled
,
only
out
of
their
execrable
avarice
,
who
ought
least
to
have
done
it
,
and
from
whom
she
did
least
expect
it
:
And
that
therefore
every
one
might
learn
from
the
punishment
of
others
,
and
from
her
well
put
on
resolution
,
That
whosoever
doth
offend
his
Country
in
so
shameful
a
manner
,
did
not
only
commit
an
excess
which
was
impardonable
,
but
did
so
shamefully
stain
his
honor
,
as
the
blur
thereof
was
not
to
be
washt
away
with
any
sope
.
The
LXXXVIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
whole
generation
of
Sheep
,
send
their
publike
Ambassadors
to
Apollo
,
by
whom
they
make
their
desires
known
,
that
they
may
be
allowed
to
have
sharp
teeth
,
and
long
horns
,
and
their
desire
is
laughed
at
by
his
Majestie
.
THe
whole
generation
of
Sheep
have
sent
four
Ambassadors
to
this
Court
;
who
had
audience
given
them
this
day
by
his
Maj.
wherein
a
great
Apuleian
Weather
said
,
That
Sheep
did
very
well
know
,
that
God
the
Creator
of
all
things
had
been
so
charitable
to
all
creatures
,
and
so
just
,
as
that
he
recompenced
their
imperfections
and
defects
with
gifts
equivolent
.
So
as
amongst
so
great
a
multitude
of
bruit
beasts
,
there
was
not
any
one
who
could
with
reason
say
he
was
ill
dealt
withal
by
his
Divine
Majestie
.
Onely
the
sheep
thought
he
had
treated
them
like
a
father
in
law
,
and
dealt
partially
with
them
;
for
having
created
them
with
great
imperfections
,
he
had
not
bestowed
on
them
any
equivolent
vertue
,
whereby
though
they
might
not
secure
their
state
,
they
might
at
least
live
in
that
peace
and
quiet
in
the
world
as
other
beasts
did
.
For
though
he
had
made
Hares
unspeakably
timerous
,
had
given
them
sharp
teeth
,
but
not
a
heart
to
bite
,
yet
he
had
made
them
so
swift
of
foot
,
as
he
did
thereby
secure
them
from
being
injured
by
any
other
beast
,
how
fierce
soever
;
and
that
the
Fox
had
no
reason
to
complain
of
his
want
of
footmanship
,
since
God
had
given
him
so
wisely
a
pate
,
as
he
happily
escaped
the
deceits
of
other
wild
Animals
;
and
that
he
had
also
recompenced
the
wolfs
slowness
,
by
indowing
him
with
so
bold
a
heart
,
so
sharp
teeth
,
and
with
so
circumspect
a
genius
,
as
being
a
terror
to
other
bruit
beasts
,
he
made
himself
be
respected
even
by
man
;
and
that
it
was
likewise
clearly
seen
in
the
birds
of
the
ayr
,
that
his
Maj.
had
used
the
like
charity
;
for
he
had
given
those
larger
wings
,
and
made
them
swifter
of
flight
,
to
whom
he
had
denyed
the
use
of
feet
,
with
which
he
had
indowed
Pheasants
,
Partridges
and
Quails
,
in
recompence
for
their
short
wings
,
and
want
of
feathers
in
their
tails
:
that
onely
sheep
,
being
created
with
an
unspeakable
stupidity
of
wit
,
heartless
,
slow
of
foot
,
and
without
those
teeth
to
bite
with
,
which
makes
other
creatures
be
so
much
respected
,
they
thought
they
were
abandoned
by
that
divine
charity
,
which
had
shewed
great
love
even
to
harmful
beasts
:
And
the
Weather
further
added
,
That
for
the
utmost
and
greatest
calamity
of
so
unarmed
sheep
,
God
had
given
them
Lyons
,
Tygers
,
Bears
and
Wolves
,
the
most
implacable
and
fiercest
beasts
that
inhabit
the
world
for
their
enemies
;
so
as
sheep
seemed
to
be
created
only
to
feed
those
inraged
beasts
,
who
know
not
what
satiety
means
.
The
same
Ambassador
also
said
,
That
to
these
insufferable
injuries
which
the
sheep
received
from
their
enemies
,
the
ill
usage
was
added
which
they
received
from
their
shepherds
,
which
was
onely
occasioned
by
their
being
altogether
unarmed
;
for
had
they
teeth
wherewith
sometimes
to
bite
those
indiscrete
shepherds
,
who
are
so
uncharitable
in
milking
them
,
and
so
indiscrete
in
sheering
them
,
perhaps
they
would
deal
more
piously
with
them
,
and
their
sheerers
would
learn
to
handle
their
sheers
without
cutting
their
skins
.
Wherefore
the
whole
generation
of
sheep
,
that
they
might
no
longer
undergo
such
calamities
and
oppressions
,
did
earnestly
beglong
horns
,
and
sharp
teeth
,
wherewith
to
procure
respect
.
To
this
request
Apollo
answered
,
with
a
chearful
countenance
,
That
the
sheep
had
in
this
their
request
shewed
their
simplicity
,
since
they
knew
not
that
of
all
the
four
footed
beasts
that
were
upon
the
earth
,
there
were
not
any
that
were
more
favoured
by
God
,
nor
which
received
greater
priviledges
from
him
then
they
:
For
whereas
the
rest
were
forced
to
seek
their
meat
with
cark
and
care
,
and
a
thousand
dangers
,
many
of
them
spending
the
night
season
,
which
was
destined
for
sleep
and
rest
,
in
eating
,
for
that
it
was
not
safe
for
them
to
be
seen
by
day
;
pasture
grounds
were
reserved
and
bought
at
dear
rates
onely
for
sheep
,
by
men
who
had
the
command
of
all
beasts
,
and
were
Lords
of
the
earth
,
that
in
the
night
season
they
were
with
great
care
and
diligence
defended
from
their
enemies
in
their
folds
;
and
whereas
other
beasts
were
persecuted
even
by
beasts
themselves
,
and
by
men
;
and
that
to
procure
their
death
,
many
did
nothing
but
make
nets
,
feed
dogs
,
and
lay
snares
;
sheep
out
of
a
particular
grace
injoyed
the
noble
prerogative
to
have
all
these
things
done
by
men
,
to
secure
them
from
their
enemies
:
And
that
the
Creator
of
the
world
having
●…hewed
exceeding
great
love
towards
sheep
instead
of
ravenous
teeth
,
and
swift
legs
,
had
granted
them
the
powerful
weapons
of
wool
,
cheese
,
and
of
their
riches
wherewith
they
did
so
aquire
mans
love
,
as
that
men
did
perpetually
persecute
Wolves
,
Lyons
,
Tygers
,
and
all
their
other
cruel
enemies
,
with
all
sort
of
weapons
,
meerly
for
the
affection
which
they
bore
to
sheep
.
And
that
sheep
being
reputed
the
Worlds
delight
and
wealth
,
for
the
singular
advantages
which
they
afforded
mankind
,
they
hapned
to
be
the
most
numerous
of
any
sort
of
beasts
;
so
as
sheep
being
fed
and
defended
by
their
Shepherds
vigilancy
and
charity
,
they
were
foolish
to
desire
ravenous
teeth
and
sharp
horns
.
And
finally
,
Apollo
said
,
That
they
ought
to
revenge
themselves
for
the
severity
which
some
shepherds
used
towards
them
,
in
milking
and
sheering
them
,
onely
by
their
obedience
and
humility
,
by
yielding
them
great
store
of
wool
,
and
much
cheese
,
and
by
studying
how
to
be
fruitful
;
it
being
sheeps
greatest
felicity
,
that
those
Shepherds
that
dealt
ill
with
their
flocks
,
were
cheifly
cruel
to
themselves
;
for
it
was
a
certain
truth
,
that
wounds
shamefully
given
to
sheep
,
did
usually
kill
the
Shepherd
.
Wherefore
he
wished
them
to
keep
more
from
being
desirous
to
bite
their
shepherds
,
then
they
would
do
from
the
Wolves
teeth
.
For
such
sheep
could
not
esteem
themselves
so
happy
,
who
by
their
humility
and
obedience
did
secure
their
Shepherds
from
all
harm
,
as
those
were
unhappy
,
who
delighted
to
put
them
in
fear
.
The
LXXXIX
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Nicholas
Machiavel
being
banished
Parnassus
upon
pain
of
death
,
was
found
hidden
in
a
friends
Library
,
for
which
his
former
sentence
of
being
burnt
was
excuted
.
THough
Nicholas
Machiavel
was
banished
Parnassus
and
the
Territories
thereof
many
years
ago
,
upon
severe
punishment
;
as
well
to
whosoever
durst
give
receptacle
to
so
pernicious
a
man
in
his
Library
,
yet
was
he
found
the
last
week
secretly
hidden
in
a
friends
study
,
where
he
was
made
Prisoner
.
He
was
presently
sentenced
by
the
Judges
of
Assize
,
and
was
this
day
to
have
been
burnt
,
when
he
signified
unto
his
Majestie
his
desire
,
that
he
might
first
be
permitted
to
say
somewhat
in
his
defence
before
the
Tribunal-seat
which
had
condemned
him
.
Apollo
using
his
wonted
clemency
,
bad
him
send
his
Advocates
,
and
he
should
have
fair
hearing
.
Machiavel
replyed
,
he
desired
to
be
heard
himself
;
and
that
Florentines
needed
no
advocates
to
speek
for
them
,
and
his
demand
was
granted
.
Machiavel
was
then
brought
to
the
Bar
;
where
he
spoke
thus
in
his
own
defence
,
Lo
here
,
you
Soveraign
of
Learning
,
That
Nicholas
Machiavel
,
who
hath
been
condemned
for
a
Seducer
and
Corrupter
of
mankind
,
and
for
a
dispercer
of
scandalous
politick
Precepts
:
I
intend
not
to
defend
my
writings
,
I
publikely
accuse
them
,
and
condemn
them
as
wicked
and
execrable
documents
for
the
government
of
a
State
.
So
as
if
that
which
I
have
printed
be
a
doctrine
invented
by
me
,
or
be
any
new
Precepts
,
I
desire
that
the
sentence
given
against
me
by
the
Judges
,
be
put
in
execution
.
But
if
my
writings
contain
nothing
,
but
such
Politick
precepts
,
such
rules
of
State
,
as
I
have
taken
out
of
the
actions
of
Princes
which
(
if
your
Majestie
will
give
me
leave
)
I
am
ready
to
name
,
whose
lives
are
nothing
but
doing
and
saying
of
evil
things
;
what
reason
is
there
that
they
who
have
invented
the
mad
desperate
policies
written
by
me
should
be
held
for
holy
,
and
that
I
who
am
onely
the
publisher
of
them
should
be
esteemed
a
Knave
and
an
Atheist
?
For
I
see
not
why
an
original
should
be
held
holy
,
and
the
Copy
thereof
beburnt
as
execrable
;
and
why
I
should
be
so
much
persecuted
,
when
the
reading
of
History
(
which
is
not
onely
permitted
,
but
commended
by
all
men
)
hath
the
particular
vertue
of
turning
as
many
as
do
read
them
with
a
politick
eye
,
into
so
many
Machiavels
:
for
people
are
not
so
simple
as
many
believe
them
to
be
,
but
that
those
who
by
the
greatness
of
their
wits
have
been
able
to
find
out
even
the
most
hidden
secrets
of
Nature
,
may
not
also
have
the
judgement
to
discover
the
true
ends
of
all
Princes
actions
,
though
they
be
cunningly
hidden
.
And
if
Princes
,
that
they
may
do
what
they
will
with
their
subjects
,
will
have
them
to
be
block-heads
and
dunces
,
they
must
do
as
the
Turks
and
Muschovites
do
,
inhibit
Learning
,
which
is
that
which
makes
blinde
understandings
quick
sighted
,
otherwise
they
will
never
compass
their
ends
;
for
Hypocrisie
,
which
is
now
so
familiarly
used
in
the
world
,
hath
onely
a
star-like
vertue
,
to
incline
,
not
to
force
men
to
believe
that
which
likes
them
best
that
use
it
.
These
speeches
wrought
much
upon
the
Judges
,
and
they
were
ready
to
revoke
the
sentence
,
when
the
Atorney
General
told
them
,
That
Machiavel
was
deservedly
condemned
for
the
abominable
and
execrable
precepts
which
were
contained
in
his
writings
;
and
that
he
ought
again
to
be
severely
punished
,
for
that
he
was
found
by
night
amongst
a
flock
of
sheep
,
whom
he
taught
to
put
false
teeth
,
dogs
teeth
in
their
mouthes
,
thereby
indangering
the
utter
ruine
of
all
shepherds
;
a
people
so
necessary
,
as
it
was
an
indescent
and
angersom
thing
to
think
that
they
must
by
means
of
this
wicked
Machiavel
be
forced
to
put
on
breast-plates
and
gauntlets
,
when
they
would
milk
or
sheer
their
sheep
;
and
to
what
price
would
wool
and
cheese
grow
hereafter
,
if
shepherds
were
to
be
more
aware
of
their
sheep
,
then
of
wolves
;
and
if
they
could
no
longer
keep
their
flocks
in
obedience
with
th●…
whistle
and
their
wand
,
but
must
make
use
of
a
Regiment
of
murrions
,
and
make
no
longer
hurdles
of
cords
to
keep
them
in
by
night
,
but
walls
,
bulwark
,
ditches
and
counterscarfs
after
the
modern
manner
.
The
Judges
thought
these
accusations
to
be
too
weighty
;
wherefore
they
ordered
,
That
the
sentence
should
be
executed
against
this
wicked
man
,
and
published
a
fundamental
Law
,
that
he
should
henceforth
be
held
as
a
Rebel
to
mankind
,
who
durst
teach
such
scandalous
things
;
all
of
them
confessing
,
that
it
was
not
the
wool
,
cheese
nor
lambs
which
made
men
prise
sheep
so
much
,
but
their
great
simplicity
and
meakness
,
and
that
it
was
impossible
so
great
numbers
of
them
should
be
governed
by
one
onely
shepherd
,
unless
they
were
totally
deprived
of
horns
,
teeth
,
and
wit
.
And
that
to
go
about
to
make
simple
men
wickedly
malicious
,
and
to
make
those
moulds
see
,
which
out
of
a
great
deal
of
circumspection
,
wise
nature
had
made
blind
,
would
be
to
put
the
whole
world
in
combustion
.
The
XC
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
visits
the
Prisons
,
and
in
his
visitation
dispatches
the
causes
of
many
Litterati
accused
of
sundry
faults
,
and
imprisoned
for
debt
.
BY
ancient
custom
Apollo
never
intermeddles
in
civil
affairs
,
but
leaves
them
wholly
to
be
proceeded
in
by
the
Judges
;
for
(
as
it
hath
been
said
)
he
is
so
exactly
diligent
in
chusing
his
Officers
,
as
every
one
in
this
State
may
be
sure
to
have
justice
rightly
administred
:
but
in
criminal
affairs
,
wherein
the
life
and
reputation
of
his
Litterati
are
concerned
,
he
with
great
diligence
and
exemplary
patience
,
will
understand
,
know
and
see
into
every
the
least
circumstance
.
So
as
his
Majestie
having
reserved
the
whole
power
of
Judicature
therein
unto
himself
,
his
other
Judges
have
little
to
do
in
this
Tribunal
,
but
to
give
in
information
against
the
guilty
.
Certainly
a
most
excellent
custom
,
and
worthy
to
be
known
and
imitated
by
those
unwary
Princes
,
who
shamefully
abandoning
the
protection
of
the
accused
party
,
which
they
ought
to
take
so
to
heart
,
leave
it
to
the
discretion
of
one
onely
Judge
,
who
is
oft
times
corrupt
,
sometimes
ignorant
,
and
always
passionate
;
a
thing
so
detestable
,
as
where
good
Laws
are
established
,
a
hundred
Judges
are
thought
too
little
a
number
to
judge
the
life
of
one
man
.
Hence
it
is
Apollo
many
ages
ago
did
very
wisely
in
Parnassus
institute
the
custom
of
visiting
Ptisons
,
where
all
criminal
causes
of
the
Prisoners
are
decided
by
his
Majestie
,
and
the
civil
of
such
as
are
in
for
debt
.
On
Tuesday
last
then
,
his
Majestie
attended
by
all
the
criminal
and
civil
benches
,
went
to
the
Pegasean
prisons
▪
where
the
prisoners
appeared
.
The
first
was
Felino
Sandeo
,
very
famous
in
the
Canonical
Laws
.
Angelo
de
Malefiis
,
who
was
to
open
the
cause
,
said
,
That
that
Lawyer
was
two
years
ago
made
Deputy
of
that
Island
by
the
Prince
of
Andro
,
where
he
shamefully
suffered
some
chief
men
of
his
Government
to
tyranize
over
,
and
to
afflict
the
poor
,
the
widows
and
orphans
,
and
that
he
suffered
these
insolent
people
,
to
pay
Artificers
by
bastonadoing
them
.
This
information
being
given
in
;
Apollo
turned
to
Felino
,
and
asked
him
,
How
it
was
possible
such
a
one
as
he
could
commit
the
excess
which
he
stood
accused
of
?
Felino
answered
,
That
he
had
sufficiently
witnessed
his
knowledge
in
the
Laws
,
and
his
resolution
to
punish
tyrants
,
in
his
other
Governments
which
he
had
had
of
Focide
,
Pindus
,
Libetres
and
Mittilene
;
but
that
in
Andro
he
had
omitted
doing
his
duty
,
not
out
of
ignorance
,
but
out
of
meer
wisdom
;
and
that
the
Prince
of
Andro's
ill
nature
had
been
the
onely
cause
of
this
his
errour
;
for
having
found
that
many
personages
of
singular
worth
,
and
gifts
of
mind
,
who
had
been
Governors
of
the
Isle
of
Andro
before
him
,
had
endangered
themselves
onely
for
having
administred
justice
exactly
,
and
done
their
duty
compleatly
well
;
and
this
onely
through
the
malicious
persecutions
of
those
who
were
not
suffered
to
tyranize
,
he
had
of
purpose
neglected
his
duty
,
and
what
he
knew
he
ought
chiefly
to
have
done
:
and
that
the
Prince
of
Andro
was
not
onely
faulty
in
easily
believing
all
sort
of
wickedness
in
his
State-Ministers
,
upon
the
very
first
impression
,
but
very
desirous
to
hear
accusations
which
malicious
men
do
often
make
against
able
and
honest
Officers
,
and
appeared
a
friend
to
the
impeachers
:
Wherefore
for
such
like
proceedings
,
he
had
not
onely
not
feared
to
treat
his
Prince
so
ill
;
but
was
glad
to
pay
him
with
such
〈◊〉
as
he
had
deserved
.
Apollo
mightily
admiring
Felino's
defence
,
did
not
onely
gratiously
imbrace
him
as
innocent
;
but
commended
his
error
,
as
one
who
wisely
knew
how
to
commodate
his
actions
to
his
Princes
genius
,
and
iudged
him
innocent
of
the
fault
which
he
had
confessed
;
and
afterward
said
publikely
,
That
Princes
who
were
not
eagerly
●…vent
in
protecting
their
Officers
,
and
who
were
friends
to
such
informations
as
was
made
against
them
by
the
scum
of
people
,
deserved
not
to
be
served
by
men
of
honor
.
Then
because
he
turned
his
eyes
upon
〈◊〉
Baldo
dalla
Rovere
,
Duke
of
Urbine
,
he
remembred
all
men
of
the
good
Government
of
his
son
Francisco
Maria
,
and
of
the
custom
which
he
holds
in
his
State
,
where
he
punisheth
those
Officers
severely
,
who
in
the
administration
of
justice
hold
not
the
ballance
upright
,
as
also
those
who
persecute
them
without
reason
.
Next
Cornelius
Tacitus
,
who
had
been
imprisoned
some
weeks
before
,
upon
the
accusations
of
the
most
famous
Philosophers
of
the
State
,
was
brought
before
Apollo
,
and
accused
for
having
spoke
a
miss
of
Poverty
,
since
in
his
Annals
he
had
not
stuck
to
call
her
summum
malorum
.
Tacit.
lib.
4.
An.
and
Diogenes
the
Cinick
,
who
pleaded
against
him
;
told
Apollo
,
That
it
being
apparent
that
men
who
were
wealthy
,
hated
to
take
pains
,
and
sit
up
late
to
acquire
learning
,
he
would
have
all
men
to
know
,
that
poverty
was
the
true
foundation
of
all
Science
,
which
if
it
should
be
hated
,
would
prove
the
greatest
calami●…y
which
could
befal
the
Liberal
Arts.
After
Diogenes
,
the
Attorney
Bossio
,
demanded
,
That
Tacitus
his
fault
being
evidently
true
,
his
sentence
might
be
pronounced
.
And
Apollo
decreed
,
That
Tacitus
should
first
abjure
the
words
which
he
had
said
,
and
that
he
should
be
imprisoned
for
the
space
of
four
years
in
Saxum
Seriphum
.
Then
Tacitus
with
his
wonted
vivacity
of
wit
,
and
his
usual
liberty
of
language
,
said
,
Sir
,
I
know
not
why
I
should
be
commanded
to
praise
poverty
,
when
these
Judges
who
are
to
condemn
me
,
think
her
to
be
so
shameful
a
thing
,
as
they
have
not
doubted
to
place
her
amongst
the
true
tokens
of
torture
which
they
would
not
have
done
if
a
wealthy
mind
might
have
been
found
in
a
poor
man
.
This
defence
wrought
such
confusion
in
the
minds
of
all
the
Visitors
,
as
Apollo
,
lest
the
world
might
take
notice
of
the
shame
that
was
put
upon
the
Doctors
,
Judges
and
Tribunals
,
by
an
accused
person
,
thought
it
a
lesser
evil
to
let
him
have
his
Liberty
.
Next
to
Tacitus
,
Nicholas
Perenotta
da
Granuela
was
brought
into
the
Visitation
;
and
it
was
informed
,
That
he
was
imprisoned
for
publishing
a
volume
De
bono
Libertatis
.
Of
the
which
(
as
it
appeared
in
his
process
)
he
was
so
capital
an
enemy
,
as
that
he
was
the
chiefest
cause
why
the
Emperor
Charls
the
fifth
,
did
inslave
many
famous
Common-wealths
of
Europe
.
Apollo
having
heard
the
relation
,
decreed
,
That
Parenotto
should
be
banished
Pernassus
for
ever
,
as
he
who
had
impudently
gain-said
the
Delfick
Edict
,
wherein
the
Litterati
are
strictly
forbidden
to
write
of
such
things
whereof
they
do
not
make
publike
profession
.
For
that
the
vertues
of
Sobriety
,
Chastity
,
and
other
honorable
moral
Sciences
were
made
ridiculous
,
when
celebrated
by
men
given
to
lust
,
and
glu●…ony
,
and
to
other
vices
.
As
if
such
vertues
had
not
power
I
enough
to
drive
vice
from
out
the
souls
of
men
,
and
in
lieu
thereof
to
,
introduce
good
and
honest
life
;
and
as
if
it
were
〈◊〉
which
wicked
men
whisper
continually
up
and
down
the
streets
,
that
the
Liberal
Sciences
are
onely
learnt
to
be
made
merchandise
of
,
and
to
make
men
understand
them
,
but
neither
believe
nor
practise
them
.
Perenotto's
cause
being
over
,
an
unfortunate
Doctor
of
Law
,
was
brought
loaded
with
irons
,
before
Apollo
,
who
was
imprisoned
,
for
that
not
being
onely
a
very
excellent
Advocate
,
but
very
skilful
in
all
other
choice
Sciences
;
either
blinded
by
folly
,
or
contaminated
by
lewdness
of
mind
,
he
from
being
a
gainful
Advocate
in
his
Countrey
,
and
a
well
reputed
Litterato
,
was
become
a
shameful
and
wretched
Souldier
;
changing
by
so
unhappy
a
Metamorphosis
his
pen
into
a
sword
,
his
book
into
harquebuses
,
the
defending
of
men
with
his
mouth
,
to
killing
them
with
daggers
,
and
the
reading
of
good
discipline
in
a
famous
University
,
into
the
desperate
exercise
of
assaulting
strong
holds
.
Apollo
being
very
much
offended
with
so
undeserving
a
man
,
in
much
anger
said
unto
him
,
Ah
thou
Traytor
and
Rebel
to
Learning
,
knowest
thou
not
that
the
woful
exercise
of
war
is
onely
fit
for
such
ignorant
people
,
who
like
so
much
unuseful
flesh
,
are
onely
good
for
the
●…bles
of
war
;
and
altogether
unworthy
to
be
followed
by
those
to
whom
their
deserving
parents
have
left
the
rich
and
honourable
patrimony
of
the
Liberal
Sciences
;
which
some
Princes
have
prohibited
in
their
States
,
for
no
other
reason
,
but
that
they
open
the
eyes
of
the
blind
,
and
enlighten
the
souls
of
foolish
people
,
making
them
know
the
cunning
and
imposturism
which
the
Princes
of
the
world
have
used
to
make
an
occupation
seem
profitable
and
honourable
,
which
is
so
much
to
be
abhorr'd
.
And
this
being
said
,
his
Majestie
gave
sentence
,
That
that
Doctor
should
for
ever
be
inhibited
admittance
into
any
Library
,
that
he
should
be
forbidden
the
contentments
of
writing
and
reading
;
and
that
for
the
example
of
others
,
he
should
be
declared
to
be
ignorant
.
The
unifortunate
Doctor
hearing
so
sad
a
sentence
,
pleaded
loud
for
mercy
;
and
said
,
That
his
error
not
having
proceeded
out
of
malice
,
but
out
of
meer
ignorance
,
he
was
a
subject
fit
for
his
Majesties
pitty
;
and
that
it
was
not
the
desire
of
riches
,
nor
the
thirsting
after
mans
blood
,
which
had
made
him
gird
the
sword
about
him
,
and
betake
him
to
the
mysterie
of
war
,
but
onely
that
he
might
purchase
glory
thereby
.
Apollo
was
then
more
incensed
;
and
replyed
unto
the
Doctor
thus
,
And
what
glory
(
thou
wicked
one
)
couldst
thou
hope
for
,
by
the
unhappy
practice
of
killing
men
,
of
plundering
Countreys
,
burning
Cities
,
deflowering
Virgins
and
in
murthering
them
that
thou
mayest
make
them
consent
to
so
barbarous
dishonesty
?
knows
thou
not
that
my
Litterati
are
those
that
with
their
pen
eternize
the
names
of
military
men
?
knowest
thou
not
that
all
glo●…y
won
by
the
sword
,
uniess
when
taken
up
for
Religion
,
or
for
the
defence
of
a
mans
Countrey
is
false
Alchimy
and
merchandize
,
fit
onely
for
hair-brained
fools
?
When
the
honour
which
my
Vertuosi
win
by
their
learning
,
and
by
handling
their
pen
,
is
always
the
purest
refined
gold
which
will
bear
the
Test.
The
Doctors
cause
having
received
this
end
,
Giovan
Giorgio
Tressino
that
famous
Vicentian
Poet
,
came
before
Apollo
,
and
throwing
himself
down
before
his
feet
;
said
,
Sir
,
Your
Majestie
knows
that
unfortunate
I
,
to
amend
the
many
Inconveniences
,
which
are
in
the
Italian
Tongue
even
to
this
day
,
was
the
first
who
when
I
published
my
Poem
of
Italia
Liberaia
endeavoured
to
bring
the
Omicron
,
Eupselon
,
Omega
,
and
other
Greek
Letters
,
which
I
thought
very
requisite
for
that
language
,
into
my
own
Tongue
;
so
to
shun
the
frequent
equivocations
which
are
evidently
seen
therein
,
for
want
of
such
letters
;
in
which
enterprize
having
been
at
great
charges
,
I
contracted
those
debts
for
which
I
am
now
imprisoned
;
for
men
who
by
natural
instinct
,
Veteribus
,
etiam
quae
●…sus
evidenter
arguit
stare
malunt
did
not
approve
of
this
my
new
Invention
.
And
unless
your
Majestie
put
in
betwixt
my
misery
,
and
my
Creditors
rage
,
I
,
who
have
taken
such
pains
for
the
service
of
Learning
,
am
like
to
end
my
days
in
the
stench
of
this
loathsom
Prison
.
Apollo
was
very
sensible
of
Tressino's
misery
;
and
asked
him
,
Whether
he
was
in
case
to
pay
his
Creditors
any
moneys
by
the
moneth
?
To
which
Tressino
answered
,
He
could
not
assign
over
unto
them
more
then
five
Crowns
a
moneth
.
Which
Apollo
,
turning
towards
the
Creditors
,
desired
them
to
be
contented
with
.
But
they
,
who
would
have
the
whole
sum
,
answered
discourteously
.
And
Apollo
asking
them
,
Whether
or
no
they
were
so
inhumane
as
to
be
paid
by
the
price
of
blood
?
The
Merchants
with
their
wonted
incivility
answered
,
That
he
must
either
resolve
to
pay
the
whole
debt
,
or
that
parting
with
his
personal
estate
,
he
should
according
to
the
Laws
made
against
Bankrupts
,
wear
a
green
hat
,
and
they
would
be
satisfied
.
Apollo
was
so
very
angry
at
this
their
inhumanity
,
as
rising
up
upon
his
feet
,
and
turning
towards
Tressino's
Creditors
;
Will
you
then
(
said
he
)
be
paid
by
this
Vertuoso's
shame
,
and
loss
of
honor
?
What
Law
is
that
which
you
alledge
,
which
will
have
men
forgo
their
reputation
,
without
which
they
are
not
worthy
to
live
?
and
if
even
amongst
the
most
barbarous
Nations
which
inhabit
the
earth
,
there
be
no
Law
found
that
a
man
shoul
lose
his
life
for
debt
,
how
can
there
be
a
Law
in
my
State
,
where
all
exquisiteness
of
Law
is
professed
,
which
bereaves
a
man
of
his
honor
,
which
is
much
more
dear
to
man
then
life
?
What
crueller
wilde
beast
can
there
be
,
what
more
venemous
Asp
or
Viper
,
then
he
who
regards
not
his
reputation
?
good
Laws
,
and
such
as
ought
to
be
obeyed
,
do
never
disrobe
a
man
of
his
honor
,
but
love
that
those
who
want
it
,
should
by
all
means
possible
endeavor
the
purchase
thereof
,
that
they
should
covet
it
more
then
any
earthly
Treasure
,
and
set
a
greater
valuation
upon
it
.
The
Creditors
mightily
affrighted
at
these
words
,
ran
from
the
Visitation
.
Whereupon
Cressino
somewhat
encouraged
,
told
Apollo
,
That
if
his
Majestie
would
endow
him
with
a
power
of
making
Knights
,
he
was
sure
his
Creditors
would
take
the
honor
of
Knighthood
from
him
in
full
payment
of
his
debts
.
Apollo
at
the
hearing
of
this
foolish
request
,
broke
forth
into
loud
laughter
;
and
told
Tressino
,
He
was
sorry
to
see
him
still
pursue
ridiculous
novelties
.
Tressino
replied
,
That
his
request
was
no
new
invention
,
but
a
thing
much
used
;
and
that
the
famous
Roman
Republique
,
and
after
them
many
great
Lords
,
who
might
very
well
have
paid
their
Creditors
with
ready
money
,
paid
the
obligations
of
blood
,
and
debts
due
for
long
and
costly
service
with
Lawrel
,
and
the
Order
of
Knighthood
.
Then
Apollo
smiled
again
,
and
told
Trissino
,
that
he
built
Castles
in
the
arte
;
for
he
must
be
another
manner
of
man
then
he
,
that
would
sell
meer
smoak
for
good
Merchandize
.
Tressino
being
dispatcht
,
Process
was
read
against
a
base
humerous
Doctor
of
the
Law
,
whose
name
the
higher
Powers
will
have
concealed
;
where
it
was
said
,
That
in
Governments
which
he
had
had
,
he
would
often
in
publick
audiences
,
with
great
pride
and
surquedry
,
behave
himself
insolently
,
even
with
noble
and
honorably
conditioned
personages
,
saying
that
he
would
send
them
to
the
Gallies
,
would
have
their
heads
taken
off
,
and
make
them
be
hanged
before
the
Palace
Gate
.
The
Doctor
said
in
excuse
of
this
his
error
,
that
he
did
this
to
make
himself
terrible
to
the
people
,
and
to
make
himself
be
obeyed
.
Apollo
,
after
he
had
put
him
in
mind
that
good
Officers
,
and
men
of
honor
,
made
themselves
dreadful
to
the
people
by
an
equally
rigorous
,
and
uncorrupt
Justice
,
and
not
by
insolent
threats
,
gave
order
that
that
Doctor
,
whose
genius
appeared
fitter
to
command
slaves
,
then
men
of
honor
,
should
be
sent
to
be
Auditor
of
the
Gallies
.
Immediately
after
,
Nicholas
Franco
Beneventano's
cause
was
heard
,
who
shooting
at
a
great
Wolf
with
a
gun
charged
with
small
hail-shot
,
the
Wolf
being
lightly
hurt
,
flew
upon
him
according
to
his
custom
,
and
with
his
teeth
tore
his
left
thigh
:
Those
that
were
present
at
the
Visitation
,
wondred
very
much
why
he
should
be
questioned
,
who
deserved
rather
to
be
comforted
for
the
danger
he
had
run
,
and
cured
of
the
wounds
he
had
received
.
But
Apollo
,
who
was
not
well
pleased
that
one
of
his
Litterati
should
have
committed
so
great
a
piece
of
folly
,
since
he
had
alwaies
told
his
Vertuosi
that
they
must
take
off
their
hats
to
cruel
and
dangerous
beasts
,
and
suffer
them
to
pass
by
quietly
,
or
else
shoot
at
them
with
a
musket
loaded
with
ram'd
bullets
,
and
so
lay
him
flat
on
his
back
,
condemned
the
Litterato
to
the
usual
punishment
of
imprudency
,
that
none
should
excuse
his
error
;
none
should
pitty
him
,
and
that
all
men
should
laugh
at
him
.
This
cause
was
no
sooner
ended
,
but
Cratippus
,
the
Athenian
Philosopher
appeared
at
the
visitation
,
and
the
Information
against
him
was
,
That
the
Duke
of
Ephesus
had
given
to
him
his
only
son
to
be
brought
up
by
him
;
to
whom
when
he
came
to
mature
years
,
he
relinquisht
the
Government
of
his
State
,
wherein
the
young
Prince
proved
as
unapt
,
as
he
proved
famous
for
Philosophy
:
for
he
was
timerous
in
the
handling
of
arms
,
and
incapable
of
State-affairs
;
and
the
singular
goodness
and
honesty
which
he
had
learnt
of
Cratippus
,
which
would
have
been
greatly
admired
in
a
privat
man
,
was
in
him
interpreted
want
of
wit
:
That
therefore
the
Philosopher
not
having
instructed
that
young
Prince
in
such
things
as
were
to
be
known
by
one
who
was
to
govern
so
numerous
a
people
,
the
Duke
of
Ephesus
re-demanded
the
sallary
he
had
given
him
.
Apollo
was
mightily
displeased
with
Cratippus
his
imprisonment
;
and
turning
to
the
Duke
who
was
there
present
,
told
him
,
that
he
should
not
blame
Cratippus
for
his
sons
unap●…ss
to
Government
,
but
his
own
bad
choice
;
for
that
Vertuoso
having
taught
his
P●…pel
the
Science
which
he
did
publickly
profess
,
had
fully
discharged
his
duty
:
And
that
such
a
one
as
he
,
ought
to
know
that
Arsenals
,
Armories
,
and
State-Councels
,
were
Schools
for
Princes
children
;
and
that
the
Scholarship
which
they
ought
to
learn
,
was
the
Philosophy
,
the
Poetry
which
was
several
times
every
week
read
in
the
wise
Senat
of
Venice
,
that
Captains
,
Counsellers
,
and
Secretaries
of
State
,
were
the
best
instructers
of
Princes
children
;
and
the
memory
of
their
Ancesters
,
the
glorious
actions
of
such
Princes
,
as
both
in
peace
and
war
had
done
things
worthy
to
be
admired
and
imitated
,
the
rods
wherewith
they
ought
to
be
whipt
.
Constantius
Albicini
was
next
brought
before
Apollo
,
whom
his
Majesty
did
mightily
abominate
,
as
one
who
was
publickly
known
to
be
a
prime
finder
out
of
vexatious
inventions
.
His
process
said
,
That
he
being
requested
by
an
avaritious
Prince
,
to
invent
some
new
way
for
him
,
how
to
raise
money
from
his
Subjects
without
offending
or
angring
them
,
advised
him
to
give
out
,
that
he
was
likely
to
be
unexpectedly
assaulted
by
his
enemies
,
who
would
possess
themselves
of
his
State
;
that
therefore
it
was
necessary
to
fortifie
the
Metropolitan
City
;
to
effect
the
which
so
requisite
work
,
he
must
proclaim
a
new
Tax
,
which
would
be
easily
granted
by
them
who
apprehended
the
danger
of
their
lives
,
goods
,
and
honors
;
that
then
he
should
in
all
haste
begin
the
works
which
he
must
continue
for
one
year
,
that
the
second
year
he
should
proceed
therein
more
slowly
,
and
that
the
third
year
he
should
give
it
quite
over
;
for
that
the
people
being
accustomed
for
those
two
years
space
to
pay
such
an
Imposition
,
would
willingly
continue
the
payment
of
it
.
And
because
the
chief
Magistrate
of
the
City
had
a
rich
revennue
worth
forty
thousand
crowns
a
year
,
which
this
covetous
Prince
did
much
thirst
after
,
he
told
him
,
that
to
make
himself
Master
thereof
,
and
to
invite
the
Citizens
to
make
a
free
gift
thereof
unto
him
,
he
was
only
to
provide
two
friends
,
the
one
of
which
should
stand
up
in
a
publick
Councel
,
and
should
advise
,
that
it
were
good
and
fit
to
reward
the
Prince
for
his
excellent
Government
,
with
freely
parting
with
two
years
revennue
unto
him
;
and
that
the
other
friend
,
whilst
the
Proposition
was
discussing
,
should
say
openly
,
That
to
give
their
suffrages
in
secret
,
was
an
action
misbecoming
a
faithful
people
towards
their
Prince
,
where
the
ungrateful
and
disloyal
had
opportunity
to
obscure
the
fidelity
of
Loyal
Subjects
.
That
therefore
men
should
speak
their
mind
alowd
,
and
the
Votes
be
so
decided
;
for
the
rabble-rout
,
allured
by
the
shortness
of
the
time
,
would
grant
that
for
a
few
years
,
which
they
should
never
regain
.
It
was
aver'd
in
the
same
process
,
that
this
same
Constanso
had
confest
that
he
had
told
the
same
Prince
,
that
an
exeellent
way
to
get
money
of
his
Subjects
,
was
to
inhibit
somewhat
which
was
greatly
desired
,
and
much
used
in
his
State
,
as
the
extravagancy
in
aparrel
,
costly
Jewels
,
and
too
exorbitant
portions
;
that
if
any
one
should
afterward
desire
a
dispensation
therein
,
it
might
be
granted
him
;
but
upon
a
good
acknowledgment
,
and
upon
paying
well
for
the
Seals
.
Apollo
having
heard
this
wicked
mans
so
great
iniquity
,
and
wondring
that
so
much
rascallity
could
be
found
in
any
one
man
,
brake
forth
into
these
words
;
Puniendos
rerum
atrocium
Ministros
.
Tacit.
lib.
13.
Ann.
and
then
gave
sentence
,
that
this
Divel
incarnate
should
be
thrown
into
the
Boat
where
Melossus
,
Melampus
,
Lisisca
,
and
other
Poets
Dogs
were
kept
,
by
which
he
was
presently
torne
in
pieces
and
devoured
.
This
being
over
,
the
Commendador
Hanibal
Caro
,
was
brought
to
the
visitation
,
and
his
Majesty
was
told
,
that
the
quarrels
between
the
Commendador
and
Castelvetro
,
were
wel
known
unto
him
;
which
could
no
otherwise
be
accommodated
,
then
by
taking
security
that
they
should
not
offend
one
another
.
After
which
Castelvetro
passing
one
morning
often
before
the
Commendadors
house
;
the
Poet
did
so
call
to
mind
the
injury
he
had
received
by
that
rigorous
sentence
,
as
by
a
railing
Sonnet
,
which
was
a
thing
prohibited
,
he
wounded
Castelvetro's
honor
.
Apollo
,
contrary
to
all
mens
beleef
,
commanded
that
the
Commendador
should
be
presently
set
at
liberty
;
and
said
that
Castelvetro
deserved
to
be
severely
punisht
for
his
being
so
foolishly
adventurous
:
For
knowing
that
he
had
so
hainously
offended
a
revengful
man
,
he
did
foolishly
to
trust
his
life
upon
money-security
;
and
so
much
the
rather
for
that
Castelvetro
knew
that
the
Marchigiani
,
who
were
otherwise
very
gallant
men
,
but
very
bloudy
,
have
less
patience
then
discretion
.
Caro's
cause
being
ended
,
Aristides
,
that
great
Athenian
Senator
was
brought
to
the
Visitation
,
who
was
imprisoned
for
having
given
out
great
quantity
of
Corn
to
the
people
of
Athens
in
a
very
hard
year
.
Aristides
imprisonment
appeared
altogether
unjust
to
most
of
the
Visitors
;
but
Apollo
,
who
was
of
a
contrary
opinion
,
told
them
in
severe
words
,
that
in
free
Countries
,
where
people
are
more
jealous
of
the
publick
Liberty
,
then
in
any
other
sort
of
Principality
,
in
exercising
charity
,
men
should
observe
that
pious
Precept
,
of
not
letting
the
right
hand
know
what
the
left
hand
did
:
For
in
all
Commonwealths
,
too
vain-glorious
alms
,
and
done
out
of
too
much
ostentation
,
were
very
dangerous
;
that
therefore
he
should
hereafter
forbear
to
use
such
charity
towards
the
poor
,
which
smelt
more
of
ambition
,
then
of
any
true
zeal
or
piety
;
and
which
might
make
men
suspect
that
they
were
rather
done
out
of
a
desire
of
purchasing
Principalities
on
earth
,
then
to
gain
the
Kingdom
of
Heaven
.
Pietro
Pomponatio
,
a
Mantuan
,
appeared
next
all
besmeared
with
sweat
,
and
very
ill
acoutred
,
who
was
found
composing
a
Book
,
wherein
by
foolish
and
sophistical
arguments
he
endeavored
to
prove
,
that
the
soul
of
man
was
mortal
.
Apollo
,
not
able
to
look
upon
so
wicked
a
wretch
,
commanded
that
his
Library
should
be
presently
burnt
,
and
that
he
himself
should
be
consumed
in
the
same
flames
;
for
that
fool
deserved
not
the
advantage
of
books
,
who
laboured
thereby
only
to
prove
that
men
were
beasts
.
Pomponatio
cryed
out
then
with
a
loud
voice
,
protesting
that
he
believed
the
mortality
of
the
soul
only
as
a
Philosopher
.
Then
said
Apollo
to
the
Executioners
,
Let
him
be
burnt
only
as
a
Philosopher
.
A
Prisoner
was
afterwards
heard
,
who
said
that
he
being
of
Coos
,
had
entred
bond
for
one
,
who
was
not
sent
thither
as
Governor
by
his
Prince
,
and
who
having
committed
many
Larcenaries
,
fled
from
thence
by
night
,
wherefore
he
was
forced
to
pay
the
whole
summe
which
was
laid
to
the
charge
of
that
thief-Officer
.
Apollo
wondring
at
this
mans
imprisonment
,
turned
to
the
Prince
of
Coos
,
who
was
there
President
,
and
told
him
,
that
the
sure
way
to
have
an
Officer
rule
well
,
lay
not
in
his
security
to
stand
a
Trial
,
but
was
only
grounded
upon
the
Princes
good
choice
:
That
therefore
the
prisoner
who
had
entred
security
upon
firm
belief
that
his
Lord
and
Master
would
never
have
imployed
such
lewd
men
in
places
of
such
importance
,
should
by
all
means
be
set
at
liberty
;
and
that
the
punishment
belonging
of
right
to
him
that
had
done
the
fault
,
the
Prince
should
pay
his
forfeiture
,
who
had
been
so
abusive
in
his
charge
,
of
whom
he
might
at
his
leasure
repair
himself
.
To
which
the
Prince
answered
,
that
his
Officer
was
a
stranger
,
another
Princes
subject
;
and
therefore
he
could
have
no
right
against
him
.
Apollo
reply'd
,
That
he
having
been
so
very
a
fool
,
as
to
make
use
of
a
forreiner
,
whilst
he
might
be
served
by
his
own
subjects
,
he
had
no
reason
to
complain
of
his
loss
:
For
that
Shepherd
who
was
so
foolish
,
as
to
lead
other
folks
sheep
to
feed
,
ought
to
blame
none
but
himself
,
if
when
he
brought
them
back
at
night
to
their
folds
,
he
could
neither
shear
nor
milk
them
.
This
was
the
end
of
that
imprisoned
security
,
which
the
Prince
of
Coos
liked
not
,
though
all
the
Visitors
were
well
pleased
with
it
.
Tito
Strozzi
,
the
famous
Ferara
Poet
was
the
next
that
appeared
,
imprisoned
upon
the
Suit
of
Francisco
Filelpho
,
who
having
given
him
some
moneys
to
deliver
to
Cintio
Geraldi
,
a
Creditor
of
his
;
Strozzo
,
as
soon
as
he
had
it
;
lost
it
at
play
;
which
Filelpho
complained
of
in
the
Visitation
.
Apollo
,
who
knew
that
Strozzi
wanted
a
leg
,
merrily
asked
Filelpho
,
whether
if
a
man
should
have
bought
a
blind
horse
in
his
Market
of
Tolentino
,
the
buyer
might
redemand
his
money
which
was
ill
laid
out
?
To
which
Filelpho
answered
,
That
whosoever
bought
a
beast
that
was
palpably
defective
,
could
blame
nothing
but
his
own
folly
.
If
it
be
so
,
saies
Apollo
,
you
have
judged
aright
Filelpho
in
your
own
cause
.
Filelpho
understood
then
whither
his
Majesties
question
tended
,
and
being
much
afflicted
,
answered
,
that
he
was
not
ignorant
of
the
common
Proverb
,
That
one
must
be
carefull
how
he
deals
with
those
that
Nature
hath
markt
;
but
that
he
did
not
hold
it
to
be
alwaies
true
:
Know
Filelpho
,
said
Apollo
,
that
Proverbs
are
nothing
else
but
experimented
Sentences
,
approved
sayings
;
and
I
tell
you
,
that
Mother
Nature
in
procuring
men
,
may
be
fitly
said
to
imitate
a
conscientious
Potter
,
who
when
he
takes
his
Vessel
out
of
the
Furnace
,
if
he
find
any
that
have
holes
in
them
,
that
be
not
sufficiently
baked
,
or
that
have
any
other
imperfection
,
to
the
end
that
unwary
people
may
not
take
them
for
good
,
he
breaks
off
one
of
their
ears
,
or
gives
them
some
other
mark
of
being
amiss
.
And
because
all
men
cannot
be
born
equally
honest
,
as
nor
can
all
the
Potters
pots
come
equally
perfect
out
of
the
Furnace
;
as
let
a
Garden
be
never
so
well
looked
unto
,
and
weeded
,
it
is
impossible
but
some
nettles
,
or
other
weeds
will
spring
up
;
Dame
Nature
,
who
greatly
hates
cheaters
,
and
crosbiters
,
to
the
end
that
honest
men
be
not
deceived
by
hollow
brains
,
crafty
pates
,
and
half-baked
wits
,
as
soon
as
she
sees
any
such
born
,
she
puts
out
one
of
their
eys
,
breaks
an
arm
or
leg
,
by
which
evident
signs
,
tying
a
bel
about
the
horses
neck
that
is
given
to
kicking
,
and
fastning
a
board
to
the
oxes
horns
which
use
to
thrust
therewith
,
she
admonisheth
all
men
to
be
aware
of
such
.
Giovan
Battista
Amalteo's
Cause
was
discust
immediately
after
,
who
was
imprisoned
for
having
called
Nero's
liberality
which
he
used
to
Cornelius
Tacitus
,
when
he
rewarded
him
for
the
praises
he
had
given
him
,
with
25
Mules
loaded
with
Gold
,
foolish
prodigality
,
that
Ipsi
non
aderat
infrae
servos
ingenium
.
Tacit.
lib.
13.
Ann.
The
fault
committed
by
Amalteo
,
appeared
to
Apollo
,
and
to
all
the
Visitors
to
be
so
hainous
;
and
the
rather
,
for
that
all
the
Schools
in
Parnassus
hold
it
for
an
undeniable
maxim
,
That
whatsoever
excessive
gift
given
by
a
magnanimous
Prince
to
a
Vertuoso
,
in
reward
for
any
favour
received
from
him
,
should
not
be
termed
prodigality
:
For
a
Prince
that
thirsts
after
true
glory
,
of
which
,
Unum
insatiabiliter
parandum
,
prosperam
sui
memoriam
.
Tacit.
lib.
4.
Ann.
The
merit
of
one
pen
ful
of
that
pure
ink
,
which
smoothly
laid
on
paper
,
makes
mens
names
glorious
and
immortal
,
cannot
be
sufficiently
rewarded
by
mou●…
of
Diamonds
and
Rubies
.
Apollo
was
therefore
so
highly
incenst
against
Amalteo
for
this
so
great
fault
,
as
he
adjudged
him
to
live
two
years
amongst
the
ignorant
.
Presently
after
appeared
a
Litterato
in
the
Visitation
,
who
did
not
only
believe
that
damn'd
and
execrable
opinion
,
That
the
man
was
happier
who
had
his
purse
full
of
gold
,
then
he
who
had
his
head
full
of
knowledg
;
but
did
by
all
the
industry
he
had
,
endeavor
to
insinuate
it
into
other
men
.
Apollo
being
much
moved
at
the
hainousness
of
this
fault
,
sentenced
the
guilty
person
to
be
sew'd
up
in
a
sack
,
and
to
be
thrown
with
his
head
downward
into
the
deepest
part
of
Aganippa's
well
.
It
must
not
here
be
omitted
,
that
this
rascal
was
so
obstinate
in
his
erronious
opinion
,
as
that
he
would
not
only
not
gain-say
himself
at
the
hour
of
death
;
but
still
affirmed
more
obstinately
then
ever
,
that
he
died
in
the
true
opinion
,
that
study
was
but
Merchandize
,
and
that
Scholarship
was
only
learnt
out
of
a
design
to
get
money
;
and
that
therefore
it
appeared
that
Philosophy
and
Theology
,
were
without
all
doubt
the
noblest
;
but
Physick
and
Law
,
were
the
most
esteemed
,
and
most
imbraced
Sciences
.
Baiardo
,
one
of
the
Judges
of
Assize
of
this
Court
,
read
afterwards
the
process
made
against
Manfredo
,
King
of
Naples
,
wherein
it
was
proved
,
that
by
night
he
had
stoln
Lisbia
from
Catullus
,
that
so
dearly
loved
her
,
whom
he
sent
home
stript
,
and
rob'd
of
all
her
Jewels
,
after
he
had
enjoy'd
her
many
weeks
:
Which
injury
Catullus
did
so
lowdly
complain
of
in
the
Visitation
,
as
it
grew
near
the
point
of
insolency
;
for
highly
incenst
with
anger
,
without
respect
either
to
the
place
,
or
persons
before
whom
he
spake
,
he
called
Manfredo
a
base
bastard
.
Apollo
,
to
shew
his
Judges
that
it
was
not
possible
to
teach
a
too
highly
exasperated
mind
to
keep
within
bounds
,
though
he
seemed
to
be
much
offended
at
the
little
respect
Catullus
had
born
him
,
gave
him
but
a
gentle
reprehension
;
and
then
commanded
that
Manfredo
,
Gratis
ubique
;
should
be
set
at
liberty
,
and
said
that
bastards
were
most
commonly
vitious
,
and
given
to
ribaldry
,
only
to
increase
the
glory
and
prerogative
of
holy
marriage
;
and
that
wise
Nature
,
to
teach
male
.
Asses
to
have
only
to
do
with
she
Asses
,
and
Mares
to
couple
only
with
Stallions
of
their
own
kind
,
had
so
ordered
it
,
that
from
the
coupling
of
he
Asses
and
Mares
,
nothing
should
come
but
Mules
,
beasts
so
damnably
given
to
kicking
,
only
to
the
end
that
men
,
to
shun
the
getting
of
spurious
issue
,
might
be
the
more
ambitious
to
beget
legitimate
children
,
who
might
in
coming
from
the
mothers
womb
,
bring
down
Gods
blessing
with
them
.
And
that
therefore
bastard-children
not
being
bound
to
live
vertuously
,
it
was
of
courtesie
when
they
lived
well
.
Catullus
not
being
herewith
satisfied
,
but
growing
still
more
mad
,
Apollo
,
with
some
appearance
of
anger
,
bad
him
hold
his
peace
;
for
he
who
kept
a
piece
of
stinking
flesh
in
his
house
,
ought
not
complain
if
it
were
troubled
with
flies
.
Catullus
being
thus
dismist
,
the
same
Baiardo
read
a
Process
made
against
Scipio
Ammirato
,
a
Polititian
,
who
was
convinced
of
having
committed
many
hainous
offences
;
as
for
having
taught
a
Prince
who
punisht
his
people
with
new
and
vexatious
Taxes
,
to
honest
them
by
the
names
of
Donatives
,
Subsedies
,
and
Aids
,
to
the
end
that
they
might
cause
no
innovation
in
his
State
;
and
who
stuck
not
to
term
a
most
hateful
Imposition
,
the
mountain
of
Piety
.
Moreover
for
that
he
had
taught
an
eminent
Citizen
of
Phosides
,
who
desired
to
be
attended
by
roaring
Boys
and
Hectors
,
being
backt
by
whom
he
might
tyrannize
,
and
make
himself
be
dreaded
by
all
men
;
that
he
should
keep
in
his
house
an
open
Apertiment
with
Dice
,
Cards
,
Tables
,
and
have
a
Bawdi
house
the
next
dore
to
him
,
for
that
these
were
the
true
Dequois
,
or
call-Ducks
,
which
ticed
in
the
scum
of
the
City
,
and
the
lewdest
sort
of
people
:
and
that
he
should
advise
the
Prince
of
Epire
,
who
was
a
bitter
enemy
to
the
Laconians
,
and
who
sorely
persecuted
some
Senators
that
were
of
a
military
genius
,
and
being
gallant
men
,
cared
not
to
be
assumed
to
the
Principality
of
Laconia
,
lest
the
publick
practice
of
persecution
,
might
draw
the
hatred
of
the
Senat
upon
them
,
which
was
exasperated
to
see
the
vertue
and
merit
of
the
most
eminent
Senators
in
such
sort
persecuted
,
that
I
say
,
he
should
advise
that
Prince
to
colour
over
so
great
and
apparent
lewdness
,
with
pretence
that
those
Senators
had
deep
designs
.
Apollo
marvailed
much
at
this
Polititians
so
great
perfidiousness
,
and
after
having
freely
declared
,
that
now
much
to
his
dislike
,
he
had
found
that
Polititians
were
Gypsies
,
Cheats
,
Coney-catchers
,
and
Pick-pockets
,
he
gave
order
that
this
Monster
of
Nature
should
be
thrown
headlong
down
from
the
Tarpeian
Rock
.
This
was
Ammirato's
end
,
when
the
same
Baiard●…
gave
in
process
against
the
Judge
of
Guido
,
who
was
not
only
convinced
by
the
testimony
of
divers
witnesses
,
but
by
his
own
confession
,
that
he
had
openly
made
sale
of
Justice
,
to
him
that
would
give
most
for
it
.
Apollo
highly
offended
at
the
immensity
of
such
a
fault
,
gave
sentence
that
the
guilty
party
should
undergo
the
usual
punishment
for
sale
of
Justice
:
which
was
,
That
he
should
be
flead
alive
.
The
Serjeants
did
already
drag
the
wretch
to
the
place
of
execution
,
when
he
fetching
a
deep
sigh
,
cryed
out
,
O
unfortunate
man
that
I
am
,
O
my
monies
,
by
which
I
might
have
lived
in
all
sorts
of
delitiousness
,
how
through
my
want
of
wit
,
are
you
now
become
the
cause
of
my
shameful
and
dreadful
death
.
These
words
which
were
heard
by
all
the
Visitors
,
wrought
very
much
with
his
Majesty
;
who
sending
to
have
the
Judge
brought
back
,
asked
him
what
it
was
he
complained
of
?
and
what
relation
his
fault
in
the
administration
of
Justice
,
which
is
granted
to
men
of
worth
and
merit
,
had
to
the
money
which
he
said
he
had
spent
so
ill
?
Sir
,
said
the
Judge
,
The
Office
whereby
I
have
deserved
so
ill
at
your
Majesties
hands
,
was
not
granted
by
the
Prince
of
Guido
to
my
Learning
,
nor
to
my
deserts
,
but
to
70000
unlucky
crowns
,
which
I
gave
two
years
ago
for
the
place
:
So
as
I
may
very
well
complain
of
having
purchast
so
great
misery
by
my
ready-money
.
Apollo
having
heard
this
,
gave
order
immediately
that
the
prisoner
should
be
set
at
liberty
;
and
said
that
he
judged
and
declared
him
to
be
innocent
:
That
therefore
he
should
presently
return
to
his
Charge
,
and
to
the
eternal
infamy
of
the
Prince
of
Guido
,
continue
the
ignominious
Merchandize
of
selling
Justice
;
for
it
was
impossible
to
keep
a
man
from
selling
that
which
he
had
bought
.
The
last
that
appeared
in
the
Visitation
,
was
the
famous
Bartolomeo
d'Alviano
,
whom
the
Attorney-General
accused
,
for
that
in
a
dispute
which
arose
betwixt
him
and
Iulius
Cesar
Scaliger
,
he
had
called
him
a
scurvy
Scholar
.
Apollo
much
resented
this
excess
in
Alviano
,
and
said
unto
him
,
If
my
Litterati
,
adorn'd
with
so
many
vertues
,
full
of
Science
,
who
have
perfect
knowledge
of
the
course
of
the
heavens
,
of
the
vertue
of
hearbs
,
who
understand
the
propriety
of
plants
,
the
worth
of
Minerals
,
and
all
the
Miracles
of
Nature
,
are
not
truely
Noble
,
who
are
they
that
deserve
to
be
termed
Noble
?
Perhaps
those
that
are
ignorant
?
Perhaps
those
vitious
people
,
who
being
sunk
even
to
the
chin
in
idleness
,
sports
,
gluttony
,
and
lust
,
have
nothing
praise-worthy
in
them
;
but
the
vertues
and
long
series
of
their
predecessors
glory
?
And
if
gold
,
for
the
vertue
it
hath
of
not
being
consumed
by
fire
,
eaten
by
rust
,
corroded
by
Aquafortis
,
and
for
other
rare
qualities
,
was
deservedly
reputed
the
King
of
Mettals
;
if
the
Diamond
and
Ruby
,
for
their
incredible
hardness
,
were
the
Princes
of
all
Jewels
;
Why
should
not
my
Litterati
,
who
know
and
understand
so
much
more
then
all
other
men
,
deserve
to
be
rather
termed
Demy
Gods
than
Kings
?
and
said
that
there
was
a
great
difference
between
innobling
the
body
by
rich
vestments
,
and
cloathing
the
soul
with
pretious
Sciences
.
Then
Apollo
turned
toward
Alviano
,
and
said
unto
him
,
My
alwaies
famous
Sabellico
,
Bembo
,
Giovio
,
Guicchardine
,
who
have
so
by
their
pens
illustrated
thee
,
and
the
labours
of
my
Vertuosi
,
which
have
rendred
thee
immortal
:
When
did
they
ever
deserve
to
be
by
thee
rewarded
by
so
inormous
an
injury
,
by
such
ingratitude
?
This
so
exasperated
discourse
of
Apollo
was
the
more
efficacious
with
the
Visitors
,
in
that
it
was
accompanied
by
the
noise
of
all
the
Litterati
that
stood
by
,
who
incredibly
incenst
against
Alviano
,
cry'd
out
for
Justice
:
After
this
,
the
Court
,
by
order
from
Apollo
,
voted
for
sentence
,
and
propounded
all
sorts
of
severe
punishments
for
the
prisoners
penalty
.
This
was
Alviano's
case
,
when
the
State
of
Venice
hearing
of
this
so
important
accident
,
and
being
very
tender
of
Alviano's
honor
,
came
in
all
haste
to
the
Visitation
,
and
prostrating
her self
before
his
Majesties
feet
,
with
a
generous
submission
,
said
,
That
she
would
never
rise
from
before
them
,
till
she
had
obtained
full
and
free
pardon
from
his
Majestie
,
for
that
her
couragious
Captain
:
And
that
though
she
might
plead
a
new
Edict
of
his
Majesties
,
wherein
it
was
declared
,
That
those
who
should
have
taken
up
arms
against
barbarous
Nations
in
defiance
of
Free
Countries
,
should
never
lose
his
Majesties
favour
for
any
fault
they
should
commit
,
though
capital
;
yet
she
beg'd
her
dear
Alviano's
pardon
,
who
had
lost
so
much
bloud
for
her
,
suffered
so
many
hardships
,
and
run
so
many
dangers
,
from
his
Majesties
meer
grace
,
which
all
the
world
knew
belonged
to
him
of
justice
.
When
the
Litterati
had
heard
th●…se
affectionate
intreaties
,
and
had
called
to
mind
what
gracious
acceptions
that
noble
Queen
had
alwaies
given
in
her
Court
to
all
the
Vertuosi
that
repaired
thither
,
their
conceived
anger
was
so
appeased
,
as
they
cryed
out
aloud
,
Orace
,
Grace
.
Whereupon
Apollo
raising
up
that
Noble
Queen
from
the
ground
with
his
hand
,
placed
her
first
amongst
the
Illustrious
Muses
;
and
then
told
her
,
that
he
could
not
deny
any
thing
that
she
demanded
,
he
willingly
forgave
Alviano
for
point
of
punishment
;
but
he
would
have
him
give
fitting
satisfaction
to
Learning
,
and
to
his
vertuosi
whom
he
had
so
offended
.
The
Alviano
,
before
almost
half
dead
for
fear
(
so
much
doth
the
fear
of
shame
more
terrifie
a
man
of
honor
,
then
certain
danger
of
death
)
took
courage
,
and
said
,
That
being
so
low
of
stature
as
they
all
saw
he
was
,
he
ought
to
be
born
withall
,
if
his
cholar
was
soon
stirred
,
which
was
that
which
had
caused
him
to
do
amiss
;
but
that
confessing
his
error
,
he
declared
to
all
the
world
,
that
he
who
was
of
choice
Learning
,
and
good
demeanor
was
as
Noble
as
any
one
born
of
the
house
of
Austria
,
or
of
the
bloud-Royal
of
France
,
although
his
Father
were
a
Hangman
.
The
XCI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
A
Great
Prince
in
discharge
of
a
Vow
that
he
had
made
,
carries
a
rich
Vessel
to
the
Temple
;
which
the
Priest
receiving
with
shew
of
great
sadness
;
The
Prince
desires
the
reason
thereof
,
and
receives
satisfaction
.
NOt
many
daies
since
,
a
Prince
of
great
quality
,
carried
a
very
rich
Vessel
of
God
to
the
Temple
,
in
acknowledgment
of
a
singular
favour
which
he
had
received
from
God
.
And
because
the
Priest
at
the
receiving
of
it
,
appeared
to
be
much
afflicted
,
even
to
the
shedding
of
tears
,
the
Prince
had
the
curiosity
to
know
the
occasion
of
his
sadness
,
and
desired
the
Priest
that
he
would
tell
it
him
.
To
the
which
,
that
man
who
feared
God
,
in
down-right
weeping
said
,
That
he
could
not
chuse
but
weep
when
he
saw
any
gifts
brought
to
the
Temple
,
for
that
it
put
him
in
mind
of
the
ancient
piety
of
men
in
former
times
,
who
endeavoured
to
inrich
the
Temples
with
what
they
had
of
most
pretious
,
and
thought
those
Vessels
of
Gold
and
pretious
Stones
very
necessary
for
Divine
Worship
,
which
men
now
adaies
,
unmindful
of
the
true
Religion
,
and
more
in
love
with
their
own
accommodation
,
then
with
the
honor
of
God
,
appropriate
to
themselvs
even
in
things
of
basest
imployments
:
And
that
the
present
condition
of
the
true
Religion
was
in
some
States
infinitely
deplorable
;
for
whereas
formerly
the
wealth
of
sacred
things
served
to
augment
true
piety
,
and
to
add
to
the
greatness
and
Majestie
of
Religion
,
they
were
now
become
T●…umpets
which
summoned
Thieves
to
come
from
wicked
caves
,
and
rob
the
sacred
Patrimony
of
God
and
of
his
Saints
.
And
that
they
were
the
more
wicked
thefts
,
in
that
their
authors
were
not
ashamed
to
gild
them
over
with
the
spacious
name
of
Reformed
Religion
.
Nay
the
ignorance
of
some
people
is
grown
to
such
a
height
,
as
they
suffer
themselves
to
be
perswaded
,
that
to
deform
the
ancient
Religion
,
so
constantly
believed
by
their
Fathers
,
Grandfathers
,
and
great
Grandfathers
,
by
gormandizing
,
thefts
,
and
by
all
sort
of
libidinousness
,
is
the
next
way
to
reform
it
:
As
if
to
plunder
a
man
,
to
rob
and
kill
him
,
would
be
believed
by
any
man
that
is
in
his
right
wits
,
to
be
the
next
way
to
clothe
him
,
to
honor
him
,
and
to
raise
him
from
death
to
life
.
The
XCII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
forbids
the
Shepherds
of
Arcadia
to
fatten
Hogs
any
more
;
and
being
earnestly
intreated
to
revoke
that
his
Decree
,
denies
to
do
it
.
BY
Letters
of
the
18
of
this
present
sent
from
Arcadia
,
certain
news
is
come
of
the
Commandment
given
by
Order
from
his
Majesty
,
to
Titerus
,
Co●…idon
,
Mi●…as
,
Melibeus
,
and
the
rest
of
the
Shepherds
of
that
Country
,
that
upon
pain
of
severe
punishment
,
they
must
no
longer
dare
to
fatten
Hogs
.
The
people
of
those
parts
were
generally
so
troubled
at
this
news
,
as
this
morning
,
Montanus
and
Damon
,
two
of
the
chiefest
Shepherds
of
that
Province
came
to
Apollo
in
name
of
all
the
Arcadian
Shepherds
;
who
humbly
desired
his
Majesty
not
to
deprive
them
of
their
choicest
cates
,
and
of
their
hogs-flesh
,
wherewith
they
did
so
plentifully
feed
their
Families
.
To
this
Apollo
answered
,
that
he
loved
Husbandmen
and
Shepherds
better
then
Nobility
,
because
men
that
bring
in
profit
and
advantage
,
deserve
to
be
better
beloved
by
Princes
,
then
such
as
are
rather
prejudicial
then
of
any
use
;
but
that
having
publisht
his
Edict
for
many
respects
,
and
by
mature
delibration
,
he
would
by
no
means
recall
it
;
for
that
Pagan
avarice
had
learnt
an
execrable
politick
precept
,
from
the
usefull
custom
of
Husbandmen
,
of
fatning
Hogs
in
the
Autumn
,
that
they
might
kill
them
at
Winter
.
The
XCIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
It
being
observed
that
Pero
Trasea
,
in
company
of
his
son
in
Law
Elvidius
Priseo
,
frequented
the
houses
of
the
chiefest
Poet
esses
of
Parnassus
;
He
is
severely
reprehended
for
it
by
Apollo
▪
IT
hath
been
observed
by
such
Vertuosi
who
delight
to
pry
into
other
mens
actions
,
that
Pero
Trasea
,
accompanied
by
his
son
in
Law
,
Elvidius
Priseo
,
did
very
much
frequent
the
houses
of
the
Lady
Victoria
Colonna
,
the
Lady
Veronica
Gambera
,
and
other
chief
Lady-Poets
of
this
Court
:
And
although
the
extraordinary
good
opinion
which
is
generally
held
of
Trasea's
honesty
,
makes
it
very
hard
to
believed
that
so
grave
a
Senator
can
commit
a
foul
fact
;
yet
the
great
frequency
of
his
visits
,
and
the
length
of
them
,
hath
occasioned
such
scandal
even
amongst
the
best
men
,
as
the
unseemliness
thereof
hath
come
to
Apollo's
knowledg
:
Who
to
quench
the
flames
of
murmur
,
sent
for
Tresea
two
daies
ago
to
come
to
him
,
and
charged
him
to
acquaint
him
with
the
business
which
he
had
with
those
Ladies
?
Trasea
answered
,
That
he
went
to
those
Ladies
only
to
exercise
his
charity
in
reading
every
day
a
Chapter
in
Boetius
Severinus
,
De
Consolatione
Philosophiae
.
Apollo
seemed
to
be
much
offended
with
this
answer
;
wherefore
he
said
,
Trasea
,
if
you
will
merit
favour
from
God
,
and
love
from
men
,
by
using
your
endeavors
to
consolate
the
afflicted
,
go
comfort
those
miserable
wretches
who
lie
perishing
in
Hospitals
,
and
those
unfortunate
people
that
are
led
to
the
Gallows
:
for
to
spend
whole
daies
like
Sardenapalus
,
amongst
women
,
and
hope
to
make
men
believe
that
you
exercise
there
only
your
spiritual
parts
,
is
a
piece
of
hypocrisie
able
to
move
laughter
in
fools
,
and
to
make
those
burst
for
anger
,
who
know
that
men
who
go
often
to
the
Mill
are
easily
bemealed
;
and
a
man
of
your
parts
ought
to
know
,
that
when
a
woman
conceives
twins
,
if
they
be
both
male
children
,
they
are
wrapt
within
one
Filme
;
and
so
likewise
if
they
be
both
females
:
but
if
the
one
be
male
,
and
the
other
female
,
wise
Nature
parts
the
female
from
the
male
,
in
a
particular
Filme
.
So
as
Nature
by
not
confiding
in
the
cohabitation
of
a
brother
with
a
sister
,
in
so
tender
age
,
teacheth
all
men
,
that
people
cannot
be
secure
even
of
such
as
you
are
:
and
he
who
relies
upon
his
own
strength
,
Trasea
,
in
such
like
occasions
,
is
more
rash
then
wise
.
And
because
these
disorders
ought
to
be
corrected
,
both
for
your
reputation
and
mine
;
I
straitly
command
you
,
That
for
the
future
you
forbear
such
dangerous
doings
;
for
the
world
is
not
so
great
a
blockhead
(
as
I
perceive
you
foolishly
conceive
)
but
that
it
very
well
knows
that
visits
made
to
handsom
women
by
such
as
you
are
,
after
a
second
time
grow
suspitious
to
those
that
know
that
all
men
are
pleased
with
what
is
handsom
,
stimulus
carnis
is
a
natural
vice
in
all
men
;
and
that
lust
is
no
waies
better
refrained
,
then
by
keeping
far
from
fair
creatures
.
Therefore
let
him
that
will
keep
from
committing
error
,
avoid
all
occasion
.
And
all
your
Philosophy
cannot
make
a
man
believe
,
but
that
every
man
made
of
flesh
,
is
pleased
with
a
savory
morsel
:
Wherefore
I
put
you
in
mind
,
that
one
like
you
,
who
make
such
profession
of
not
staining
your
reputation
with
the
spots
of
lasciviousness
,
ought
to
shun
all
that
allure
thereunto
:
for
it
is
not
only
a
great
piece
of
folly
;
but
an
infinite
rashness
,
worthy
to
be
punisht
,
to
make
gun-powder
in
a
Smiths
shop
,
with
hope
to
make
people
believe
there
is
no
danger
in
it
.
The
XCIV
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
A
chief
Senator
of
Poland
,
whilst
he
corrects
another
Senator
,
who
is
a
friend
of
his
,
is
made
aware
that
be
himself
is
he
who
goes
astray
,
and
needs
amendment
.
THere
are
at
this
time
in
the
King
of
Polands
Court
,
two
Senators
,
who
are
very
great
friends
;
the
one
of
them
professeth
openly
to
be
ill
satisfied
with
his
King
,
and
therefore
blameth
the
manner
of
his
Government
,
and
even
to
the
point
of
malice
,
censures
and
cavils
at
all
his
actions
.
The
other
Senator
was
much
displeased
with
this
his
friends
manner
of
proceeding
,
and
went
so
counter-bias
to
this
his
friend
,
as
he
did
not
only
praise
such
actions
of
his
Kings
as
deserved
blame
,
but
to
purchase
his
favour
;
stuck
not
to
do
unworthy
things
himself
.
This
man
being
much
scandalized
at
his
friends
dangerous
way
of
proceeding
,
told
him
one
day
,
that
it
was
not
only
imprudency
,
but
great
rashness
,
by
thus
carping
at
his
Princes
actions
,
to
irritate
his
hatred
from
whom
he
might
expect
all
good
;
and
that
to
serve
in
Court
,
meerly
to
demerit
the
Princes
favour
,
was
the
greatest
folly
that
could
be
committed
.
The
other
Courtier
answered
him
thus
;
Your
so
free
reprehending
me
,
clearly
shews
the
cordial
affection
you
return
for
the
great
love
I
bear
you
;
and
I
thank
you
for
it
:
But
know
that
both
we
aim
at
the
same
end
of
acquiring
the
highest
preferments
and
dignities
in
Court
,
though
we
take
contrary
courses
.
You
walk
the
usual
and
beaten
way
,
but
I
take
a
neerer
cut
,
which
is
only
known
to
the
most
accomplisht
Courtiers
;
and
I
foretell
you
,
that
I
am
likely
to
compass
my
ends
sooner
then
you
.
In
hereditary
Monarchies
,
where
the
brother
,
children
,
and
others
of
the
bloud-royal
,
do
together
with
the
State
inherit
usually
the
friendships
,
enmities
,
and
all
the
Interests
of
the
deceased
Prince
,
the
way
you
take
,
and
which
was
first
taught
you
by
Tacitus
(
that
the
favor
of
them
that
rule
,
must
be
forced
from
them
even
by
indignities
)
is
admirable
good
.
But
in
an
elective
State
,
as
our
Poland
is
,
and
particularly
under
an
old
King
,
who
may
justly
be
thought
not
likely
to
live
long
;
the
way
I
take
to
seem
displeased
at
the
Court
proceedings
,
is
the
safer
for
such
a
one
as
I
am
.
And
the
advertisement
given
to
men
,
to
be
either
exceeding
hot
,
or
passing
cold
in
their
actions
;
and
that
by
all
means
they
should
shun
lukewarmness
,
was
worthy
of
him
that
gave
it
.
The
first
Court-preferments
by
which
men
proceed
to
the
highest
dignities
,
you
see
they
are
already
possest
by
others
:
So
as
not
able
to
work
my self
into
the
Kings
favour
by
fervency
of
zeal
,
I
have
betaken
my self
to
the
other
extremity
of
being
all
snow
,
by
appearing
mal-content
.
And
you
,
who
for
what
I
see
,
have
not
the
fortune
to
burn
in
the
favour
of
our
Prince
,
and
do
abhor
to
fly
to
the
other
extream
of
freezing
in
discontent
of
the
present
state
,
I
prognosticate
for
certain
that
by
being
lukewarm
,
you
will
part
old
and
gray-headed
from
the
Court
,
just
in
the
same
condition
as
you
came
thither
young
and
beardless
:
For
in
Elective
Kingdoms
the
new
comer
in
,
being
usually
an
enemy
,
no
less
to
the
firiends
,
then
to
the
actions
of
his
predecessor
;
those
who
were
friends
to
the
former
Government
,
are
abhor'd
,
as
not
confiding
;
those
who
are
lukewarm
,
are
shun'd
as
foolish
;
and
the
malcontents
are
diligently
sought
after
,
and
allowed
to
come
under
the
Cloth
of
State
,
as
deer
friends
,
and
secure
instruments
to
perpetuate
their
greatness
.
The
XCV
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
A
Controversie
arising
between
the
Governors
of
Pindo
,
and
of
Libetro
,
in
point
of
Jurisdiction
:
Apollo
punisheth
them
both
.
SOme
great
fault
being
committed
in
the
City
of
Libetro
,
the
Governor
of
the
place
pursues
the
Delinquents
with
his
whole
rout
of
Serjeants
and
Catchpools
,
and
overtakes
them
in
the
Territory
of
Pindo
:
He
besiegeth
them
in
a
Countreymans
house
,
which
he
soon
begirts
with
his
men
,
and
threatnes
to
burn
it
,
if
they
would
not
render
themselves
.
This
mean
while
the
Governor
of
Pindo
hearing
of
this
uprore
,
comes
to
that
place
to
defend
his
Jurisdiction
;
and
brings
along
many
armed
men
with
him
:
And
finds
that
the
besieged
had
already
delivered
themselves
up
into
the
Governor
of
Libetro's
hands
,
who
led
them
to
be
imprisoned
in
his
own
Country
.
The
Governor
of
Pindo
complains
bitterly
of
the
injury
done
to
him
in
his
Jurisdiction
,
and
demands
that
the
prisoners
be
again
assigned
over
unto
him
;
which
he
promises
to
restore
within
a
few
daies
;
when
by
the
former
assignation
,
he
might
be
somewhat
repaired
in
his
reputation
.
But
the
Governor
of
Libetro
did
not
only
deny
to
do
so
,
but
made
the
prisoners
march
the
faster
into
his
own
Territories
.
He
of
Pindus
,
provoked
by
so
great
a
scorn
,
commanded
his
men
to
fall
on
,
and
by
force
to
bring
back
the
prisoners
,
who
being
valiantly
defended
by
those
of
Libetro
,
so
foul
and
bloudy
a
scuffle
insued
,
as
many
were
wounded
.
The
news
hereof
was
soon
brought
to
Apollo
,
who
being
highly
distasted
with
both
those
his
Officers
,
commanded
the
Provost-Marshal
of
Campagnia
,
Alvigi
,
Pulci
,
to
bring
them
bound
before
him
,
in
a
shameful
manner
which
was
soon
done
.
His
Majesty
with
great
patience
first
heard
the
reasons
alleadged
by
both
those
his
Officers
;
and
then
judging
the
Governor
of
Libetro
to
be
in
the
wrong
,
for
having
rashly
disturbed
another
mans
Jurisdiction
,
he
deprived
him
of
his
Government
,
and
declared
him
incapable
of
ever
having
any
imployment
within
his
Jurisdiction
;
and
as
for
the
Governor
of
Pindo
,
whom
he
acknowledged
to
have
reason
on
his
side
,
he
condemned
him
to
the
Gallies
for
ten
years
;
laying
so
heavie
a
sentence
upon
him
,
thereby
to
teach
him
,
and
all
other
Officers
,
that
those
who
serve
under
the
same
Prince
,
must
defend
their
right
of
Jurisdiction
,
only
with
their
pen
,
and
reserve
their
arms
till
they
should
be
disturbed
by
Forreiners
.
The
Governor
of
Pindo
bewailed
his
misfortune
bitterly
,
being
sorry
,
that
having
so
fair
an
occasion
to
deserve
well
at
his
Masters
hands
,
by
shewing
his
own
modesty
upon
this
occasion
,
and
the
others
impertinency
,
he
had
ignorantly
turned
anothers
rashness
into
his
own
fault
.
A
sad
thing
certainly
,
and
worthy
to
be
considered
by
all
Princes
Officers
,
as
that
which
shews
it
is
a
great
error
to
refrain
impertinences
by
insolencies
,
and
to
amend
a
fault
by
a
trespass
:
The
XCVI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
sentenceth
Hanibal
Caro
to
pay
his
forfeited
security
,
for
the
wounds
which
he
gave
Castelvetro
.
AFter
the
disimprisonment
of
the
Commendador
Hanibal
Caro
,
who
,
as
you
have
heard
,
was
pardon'd
by
Apollo
,
when
he
visited
the
prisons
,
Bossio
,
the
Atorny-general
,
pretending
that
his
Maj.
had
only
pardon'd
the
punishment
,
for
having
wounded
Castelvetro
,
but
not
the
monies
which
he
by
breach
of
security
had
forfeited
,
De
non
offendendo
,
cited
the
Fernesi
,
who
were
his
sureties
to
pay
the
3000
crowns
,
which
was
the
covenanted
forfeiture
.
Caro
,
who
conceiv'd
he
had
received
ful
and
plenary
pardon
for
the
one
fault
,
as
wel
as
for
the
other
,
put
his
Maj.
in
mind
thereof
yesterday
,
and
complained
of
the
trouble
given
him
by
the
Atorny-general
.
Apollo
answered
,
that
he
intended
only
to
pardon
the
excess
committed
in
wounding
,
not
the
monies
covenanted
for
for
security
;
and
gave
order
that
without
further
reply
,
the
forfeiture
should
be
paid
to
Castelvetro
.
The
Atorney-general
,
when
he
heard
his
Maj.
Order
,
hasted
to
Apollo
,
and
told
him
,
that
the
forfeiture
being
made
payable
to
the
Exchequer
,
it
ought
not
to
be
paid
to
Castelvetro
.
This
Custom
appeared
so
new
to
Apollo
,
as
he
said
in
anger
to
Bossio
,
Shall
Castelvetro
be
prejudiced
by
being
wounded
,
and
shal
the
advantage
of
the
monies
redound
to
me
?
Is
there
such
a
Custom
as
this
introduced
in
Parnassus
,
the
Laws
wherof
I
intend
should
serve
for
a
rule
of
the
best
government
to
all
other
places
?
Bossio
told
Apollo
,
that
this
was
the
custom
,
not
only
of
all
the
Tribunals
of
Italy
,
but
of
the
most
places
of
Europe
.
Apollo
growing
still
more
incenst
against
Bossio
,
said
,
That
the
Prince
who
would
maintain
peace
amongst
his
people
,
ought
rather
to
forbid
faults
upon
pain
of
severe
punishments
,
then
foment
them
with
easie
chastisements
,
and
make
base
merchandize
of
mans
bloud
.
And
that
in
carnal
pleasures
,
in
pleasing
the
pallat
,
in
delights
of
hunting
,
and
for
the
enjoyment
of
other
worldly
contents
,
since
men
were
too
naturally
given
to
evil
,
and
were
therein
p●…odigal
beyond
their
power
,
who
did
not
perceive
that
men
were
invited
to
revenge
offences
,
by
introducing
so
scandalous
a
custom
,
revenge
being
to
mans
depraved
genius
,
the
greatest
contentment
and
satisfaction
that
can
be
taken
:
and
therefore
bad
him
go
and
see
that
Caro
made
paiment
of
the
3000
crowns
which
were
forfeited
,
not
into
the
Exchequer
,
but
to
Castelvetro's
self
;
for
it
was
reason
that
he
should
receive
the
advantage
of
the
monies
,
who
had
been
prejudiced
by
wounds
.
What
his
Majesty
had
commanded
,
was
forthwith
put
in
execution
:
And
because
Caro
made
resistance
,
not
only
because
he
would
not
do
the
Office
himself
,
but
that
he
shewed
a
great
deal
of
passion
even
whilst
he
told
out
the
money
,
every
one
clearly
perceived
that
his
Majesty
had
very
discreetly
foreseen
,
that
the
vexation
to
do
a
mans
enemy
good
,
did
much
allay
revenge
,
even
in
those
that
were
most
given
to
passion
.
The
XCVIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Dante
Aligieri
being
assaulted
by
night
in
his
Country-house
,
and
ill
used
by
some
disguised
Vertuosi
;
is
relieved
by
the
great
French
Ronsard
.
WHilst
famous
Dante
Allegieri
was
the
other
day
in
a
Country-house
of
his
,
which
he
had
built
in
a
very
solitary
place
to
exercise
his
Poetry
in
,
some
Litterati
got
secretly
into
his
house
,
where
they
did
not
only
take
him
prisoner
,
but
holding
a
dagger
at
his
throat
,
and
harquebuses
at
his
sides
,
they
threatned
to
kill
him
,
unless
he
would
tell
them
the
true
Title
of
his
Poem
,
whether
he
called
it
Comedy
,
Tragi-Comedy
,
or
Heroick
Poem
:
And
Dante
answering
them
,
that
they
used
him
not
like
one
of
his
quality
,
and
that
if
they
would
ask
him
the
question
in
Parnassus
,
he
would
satisfie
them
:
The
Litterati
,
that
they
might
have
their
desire
immediately
,
beat
and
buffeted
him
;
and
not
being
able
by
these
insolencies
to
compass
their
intents
,
they
grew
so
outragious
,
as
taking
the
rope
which
hung
upon
the
bucket
by
the
well
side
,
they
fastned
it
to
a
beam
of
the
house
,
and
went
about
to
hang
Dante
therewith
;
who
cry'd
out
,
Help
,
help
,
murder
,
murder
;
and
so
great
was
the
noise
he
made
,
as
it
was
heard
by
Ronsard
the
Prince
of
French
Poets
,
who
had
a
Country-house
not
far
from
that
of
Dante
:
This
generous
Frenchman
took
up
his
sword
immediately
,
and
ran
towards
the
noise
;
whereupon
the
Litterati
fearing
lest
some
others
might
be
with
Ronsard
,
ran
away
;
but
not
so
soon
but
that
the
Frenchman
both
saw
and
knew
them
.
Dante
was
set
at
liberty
,
clothed
,
and
brought
to
Parnassus
by
Ronsard
;
where
the
news
of
so
foul
a
riot
being
heard
,
Apollo
was
very
much
grieved
at
it
;
and
his
honor
pressing
him
to
know
the
Delinquents
,
he
first
examined
Dante
,
who
told
him
all
that
had
past
,
and
said
he
knew
not
who
they
were
that
had
dealt
so
inhumanly
with
him
;
but
that
it
might
be
that
Ronsard
,
who
had
not
only
seen
them
,
but
had
severely
reprehended
them
for
that
their
insolency
,
might
peradventure
know
them
.
Ronsard
was
forthwith
sent
for
,
who
denied
not
only
that
he
knew
any
of
them
,
but
said
he
had
not
seen
them
.
The
Judges
,
by
reason
of
this
contrariety
between
what
Dante
had
said
,
and
Ronsards
Deposition
,
feared
that
the
Frenchman
,
thinking
it
a
base
thing
to
accuse
any
man
,
would
not
discover
the
Delinquents
.
When
Apollo
heard
of
this
,
he
was
very
angry
with
Ronsard
,
and
commanded
to
give
him
the
Rack
:
Wherefore
Ronsard
was
quickly
secured
,
who
persisting
in
his
denial
,
the
Judges
gave
order
that
he
should
be
put
to
the
rack
,
as
one
who
was
likely
to
know
somewhat
.
Ronsard
being
stript
,
bound
,
and
bidden
to
speak
the
truth
,
was
raised
from
the
ground
.
The
generous
Frenchman
,
instead
of
complaining
,
as
is
usual
in
such
cases
,
desired
the
Judges
that
they
would
not
let
him
down
all
that
day
,
affirming
that
he
held
it
too
inestimable
a
content
,
rather
to
suffer
so
,
then
to
offend
any
one
.
The
Judges
finding
by
this
his
constancy
,
that
they
should
do
no
good
by
the
rope
,
caused
Ronsard
to
be
let
down
,
and
began
to
think
upon
some
other
torment
;
and
of
as
many
as
were
propounded
,
the
Judges
liked
none
better
then
that
which
Perillo's
devilish
wit
found
out
;
who
said
,
that
a
better
way
to
torment
a
Frenchman
,
then
either
ropes
or
fire
,
was
to
set
him
without
either
spur
or
switch
,
upon
a
slow
dul
horse
:
and
so
they
did
.
It
was
a
miraculous
thing
to
see
,
that
Ronsard
was
no
sooner
set
on
horseback
,
but
belabouring
him
with
his
legs
,
wrying
his
body
twenty
several
waies
,
and
shaking
the
bridle
to
make
the
horse
go
fast
,
he
grew
to
such
impatiency
,
and
was
surprised
with
such
an
agony
of
mind
,
as
being
quite
out
of
breath
,
he
cryed
to
the
Serjeants
that
were
by
his
side
,
Take
me
down
,
friends
,
for
I
am
dead
;
take
me
down
quickly
,
and
I
will
tell
all
;
and
let
them
suffer
the
punishment
that
have
done
the
fault
:
Those
you
enquire
after
,
were
,
Monsignor
Carrieri
of
Padua
,
Iacapo
Mazzoni
of
Cesena
,
and
another
whom
I
know
not
;
but
you
may
know
from
the
other
two
that
I
have
named
.
The
XCIX
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
All
the
Princes
of
the
world
beseech
Apollo
that
he
wil
insert
into
their
people
the
love
of
their
Country
.
THe
Ambossador
from
all
the
Princes
of
the
Universe
,
who
came
long
since
to
Parnassus
,
had
on
Thursday
long
audience
from
his
Majesty
,
and
the
common
report
is
,
That
in
the
name
of
all
his
Princes
,
he
made
a
sore
complaint
,
that
their
people
committed
every
day
such
shameful
excesses
,
so
inormous
actions
,
as
that
they
had
made
the
art
of
Reigning
much
more
difficult
then
it
was
:
That
they
were
so
far
advanced
in
their
disorders
,
as
a
Prince
could
not
now
give
a
City
,
or
any
strong
Hold
in
custody
to
a
Souldier
,
without
running
evident
danger
of
being
in
a
short
time
treacherously
assassinated
;
and
that
they
could
not
be
so
circumspect
nor
wary
in
chusing
a
Captain-General
,
or
other
Officer
of
War
,
but
that
they
were
soon
brought
into
the
sad
condition
of
being
forced
to
fear
their
servant
friend
,
then
their
Prince
enemy
;
and
that
the
peoples
iniquity
was
no
less
,
then
the
Commanders
perfidiousness
:
For
their
people
were
so
shamefully
given
over
to
a
vitious
curiosity
,
as
they
began
in
a
short
time
to
hate
any
Prince
,
how
good
soever
;
shewing
the
same
desire
and
liking
to
change
Princes
,
as
they
had
to
change
meat
at
their
tables
:
That
hence
it
arose
,
that
Princes
in
their
greatest
needs
were
not
only
not
assisted
by
their
people
,
and
defended
by
them
with
that
affection
and
charity
as
they
were
bound
to
do
;
but
it
was
every
day
seen
how
they
were
shamefully
betrayed
by
them
,
and
for
a
little
money
sold
to
their
enemies
.
And
that
the
Princes
had
at
last
learnt
,
that
for
certain
all
these
evils
were
occasioned
through
the
little
love
which
people
bore
unto
their
Countries
;
and
that
Rome
,
the
Queen
of
the
World
,
and
Mother
of
Empire
,
could
succesfully
extend
the
Confines
of
her
Dominion
from
the
East
to
the
West
,
only
by
means
of
the
cordial
love
which
her
Citizens
bore
her
:
That
whereas
amongst
them
,
banishment
was
as
terrible
as
death
,
many
modern
Princes
,
that
they
may
not
be
without
Subjects
,
nor
have
their
Countries
unpeopled
,
were
forced
to
forbid
men
the
forgoing
of
their
Country
,
upon
pain
of
forfeiting
their
Estates
.
That
therefore
all
the
Princes
of
the
world
did
jointly
signifie
unto
his
Maj.
that
all
the
remedies
they
could
use
against
this
so
grievous
evil
,
had
proved
invalid
,
and
that
therefore
they
humbly
intreated
him
that
he
would
be
pleased
to
insert
into
the
hearts
of
subjects
,
that
fervent
charity
,
and
that
immence
love
unto
their
Countries
,
as
was
seen
to
be
in
the
Subjects
of
Commonwealths
,
and
wherein
doubtlesly
the
chief
greatness
,
and
richest
treasure
lay
,
of
whosoever
reigned
.
Apollo
answered
the
Ambassador
,
That
Princes
might
make
their
Subjects
love
their
Countries
much
better
then
he
could
by
good
Government
,
and
equal
Justice
,
and
by
liberality
,
and
procuring
them
perpetual
abundance
:
For
that
all
men
,
who
by
natural
instinct
,
bore
an
excessive
love
to
whatsoever
Country
they
were
born
in
,
were
easily
induced
not
to
love
it
,
when
it
was
made
odious
to
them
by
incommodious
living
:
For
men
would
rather
be
benumn'd
with
cold
,
then
stand
by
a
fire
,
which
filling
the
house
with
smoak
,
made
their
eyes
water
.
The
XCVII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
wakes
a
general
hunting
of
Pismires
and
Tortoises
,
as
being
both
of
them
Beasts
of
evil
example
to
mankind
.
YEsterday
morning
Zenofon
,
Apollos
Master-Hunt
,
gave
order
to
Acteon
,
Adonis
,
and
to
the
other
chiefest
hunters
of
this
State
,
that
they
should
be
ready
with
their
dogs
the
next
day
,
for
that
his
Majesty
was
resolved
to
make
then
a
general
hunting
;
and
every
one
thinking
that
Apollo
,
according
to
his
custom
,
would
have
gon
to
the
Mountain
Ida
,
or
to
the
Hill
of
Helicon
,
w●…ere
were
great
store
of
Gotes
,
Stags
,
Wild
Bores
,
and
other
wild
beasts
;
his
Majesty
,
as
he
came
forth
of
the
Gate
,
declared
the
intended
Chase
to
be
against
Pismires
and
Tortoises
;
which
he
said
he
intended
to
rout
out
of
the
earth
,
for
the
great
benifit
of
mankind
.
Then
many
of
the
Vertuosi
,
desirous
to
know
why
his
Majesty
had
conceived
such
anger
against
those
animals
,
told
him
,
that
they
thought
the
Tortoise
was
not
only
the
emblem
of
mature
delay
,
but
the
very
type
of
those
poor
Vertuosi
,
who
carried
the
houses
of
their
patrimony
,
and
the
whole
substance
of
Learning
about
with
them
;
and
that
Pismires
,
which
taught
men
to
labour
in
the
summer
of
their
youth
,
to
lay
up
food
for
the
winter
of
their
age
,
ought
rather
be
assisted
then
pursued
by
his
Majesty
,
as
an
admirable
example
of
Providence
.
To
these
Apollo
answered
,
That
what
they
had
said
,
was
true
;
but
that
all
men
being
more
inclined
to
vice
then
to
vertue
,
had
learnt
most
scandalous
examples
from
those
animals
'
,
and
did
not
imitate
them
in
their
good
things
:
for
some
passionately
given
to
avarice
,
and
being
shamefully
inslayed
to
their
own
Interests
,
had
learnt
the
wicked
custom
of
keeping
continually
with
their
head
,
feet
,
hands
,
and
with
all
their
members
,
hid
within
the
husk
of
their
interest
,
and
to
carry
about
them
the
houses
of
their
own
commodities
,
with
so
much
sordidness
and
obstinacy
never
to
come
out
of
them
,
as
that
they
had
made
the
sole
interest
of
peculiar
utility
their
Idol
,
only
from
the
Tortoise
:
Whence
it
happened
that
such
as
these
,
when
they
wer
made
use
of
to
take
upon
them
the
care
of
widows
and
orphans
,
they
presently
turned
them
to
their
own
advantage
;
and
that
the
same
men
,
if
they
were
imployed
by
Princes
in
publick
affairs
,
the
very
first
day
of
their
Magistracy
they
began
to
draw
the
water
to
their
own
Mill.
And
that
as
for
the
Pismires
,
many
had
learnt
from
them
the
unhappy
example
of
toyling
and
moyling
both
day
and
night
,
not
ever
taking
so
much
as
one
hour
of
lawfull
recreation
,
to
the
end
that
they
may
heap
up
by
all
,
yea
though
unlawful
means
,
the
grain
of
that
wealth
,
which
was
afterwards
mar'd
by
the
rain
of
Gods
anger
,
or
stolne
away
by
mice
,
by
thieves
,
Serjeants
,
Judges
,
Atorneys
,
who
alwaies
lie
in
wait
for
the
wealth
of
these
avaritious
wretches
,
who
like
Pismires
,
not
caring
(
though
they
abound
in
all
things
)
to
be
lean
and
ill-favoured
,
suffering
like
dogs
in
their
life
and
reputation
,
did
so
drown
themselves
in
their
sordid
scraping
,
as
they
cared
not
though
they
were
persecuted
,
ill
treated
,
and
troad
upon
by
all
conditions
of
men
,
even
as
Pismires
were
.
And
that
God
having
placed
that
vertuous
providence
which
is
void
of
all
defect
,
in
the
miraculous
Bees
,
men
should
look
upon
those
,
and
imitate
them
,
who
with
the
love
of
all
men
,
and
without
doing
any
the
least
harm
,
build
their
houses
full
of
honey
taken
from
flowres
;
whereas
with
the
general
hatred
of
all
men
,
Pismires
stole
grain
from
others
grainaries
;
and
that
the
Bees
made
both
honey
and
wax
,
not
only
for
their
own
accommodation
,
but
for
the
general
good
of
mankind
:
A
most
pretious
instruction
;
that
those
exercises
,
and
those
imployments
are
holiest
and
most
blest
by
God
,
which
have
the
publick
benefit
joyned
to
their
own
advantage
;
whereas
Pismires
accumulated
riches
stolne
from
others
,
only
for
their
own
use
.
The
C.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
refuseth
to
receive
a
Censure
presented
him
by
a
Litterato
,
which
was
made
upon
the
Poem
of
an
Italian
Vertuoso
.
APollo
had
already
ended
the
toilsom
course
of
day
,
when
descending
in
his
radient
Charriot
to
the
West
,
a
Vertuoso
,
whose
name
Menante
doth
wisely
conceal
,
for
fear
of
drawing
some
mischief
upon
himself
,
came
before
Apollo
,
and
presented
his
Majestie
with
a
very
severe
censure
which
he
had
made
upon
the
Poem
of
an
Italian
Vertuoso
.
Apollo
did
openly
appear
to
be
so
little
satisfied
with
that
present
,
as
manifest
signes
of
anger
were
seen
in
him
:
in
so
much
as
turning
to
Petrach
who
was
by
him
,
he
said
that
it
was
great
folly
in
men
who
not
considering
how
they
were
addicted
to
whom
they
presented
any
thing
,
would
offer
spectacles
to
those
that
are
blind
,
a
lute
to
him
that
is
deaf
,
or
wine
to
an
abstenious
man
.
His
Majestie
then
turned
towards
the
Litterato
,
who
would
have
presented
him
with
the
Book
,
and
told
him
,
that
the
good
of
Melloans
was
given
to
such
as
he
was
,
and
the
outside
to
hogs
;
that
therefore
he
should
carry
such
trash
as
those
in
a
cart
to
the
common-shore
,
or
throw
them
into
the
river
,
and
that
he
should
present
him
with
what
of
good
and
vertuous
he
had
found
in
that
Work
;
which
he
would
not
only
very
willingly
read
,
but
be
beholding
to
him
for
it
.
The
unlucky
fellow
answered
,
That
he
had
only
minded
the
errors
of
the
Poem
,
not
taking
notice
of
such
things
in
it
as
deserved
praise
.
Whereat
Apollo
was
so
incenst
,
as
though
at
that
time
(
as
it
falls
out
continually
in
his
setting
)
the
beams
of
his
face
were
very
much
sweetned
and
allaid
;
yet
through
anger
his
countenance
grew
as
fiery
as
if
it
had
been
noon-day
,
and
answer'd
that
unlucky
wretch
thus
;
It
grieves
my
very
heart
to
have
met
with
one
of
those
malitious
fools
,
who
labour
by
their
pens
to
purchase
that
shame
,
which
wise
men
so
much
abhor
:
And
though
your
shameful
demeanor
deserves
a
much
greater
pennance
,
I
will
at
this
time
be
content
with
this
which
I
now
give
you
:
Pick
out
with
your
hands
,
without
the
help
of
a
sive
or
fan
,
all
the
darnel
and
chaf
which
you
shall
find
in
a
bushel
of
corn
,
which
I
will
presently
cause
to
be
given
you
by
my
Factor
General
Columella
,
and
bring
it
to
us
,
we
will
tell
you
what
you
shall
do
with
it
.
The
bushel
of
corn
was
forthwith
delivered
out
unto
him
by
Columella
,
which
was
so
ful
of
darnel
and
chaf
,
as
he
spent
much
time
in
cleansing
it
,
and
presented
it
to
his
Majesty
in
a
great
hand-basket
.
Apollo
bad
him
carry
the
darnel
to
the
Market
and
sell
it
,
and
he
would
freely
give
him
all
the
money
he
could
make
of
it
.
The
silly
soul
said
he
did
not
only
dispair
to
find
any
customer
for
that
despicable
commodity
,
but
that
to
appear
in
the
Market
with
a
basket
full
of
such
vile
stuff
,
would
make
him
be
laught
at
.
Apollo
bad
him
then
go
give
the
darnel
to
somebody
,
and
thereby
purchase
a
new
friend
;
the
wretch
reply'd
,
he
durst
not
present
so
poor
a
thing
to
any
man
,
which
if
he
should
do
,
he
should
be
but
derided
.
Then
Apollo's
fury
being
very
much
over
,
he
said
,
if
the
refuse
cul'd
from
such
things
as
were
good
,
were
not
fitting
merchandize
for
wise
men
,
and
that
they
were
neither
worth
selling
nor
giving
,
he
was
convinced
out
of
his
own
mouth
that
he
had
been
ill
advised
when
he
undertook
the
business
of
leaving
the
roses
which
he
found
in
the
Poem
by
him
censured
,
to
make
an
unuseful
and
shameful
collection
of
the
thorns
or
prickles
:
And
that
in
the
reading
of
other
mens
labours
,
the
wary
Vertuosi
imitated
the
Bee
,
which
knew
how
to
gather
honey
even
from
bitter
flowres
.
And
that
there
being
no
sublunary
thing
which
was
not
kneaded
with
some
imperfections
;
some
bran
would
be
found
in
the
Works
of
Homer
,
Virgil
,
Livy
,
Tacitus
,
and
Hyppocrates
,
who
were
the
wonders
of
writing
,
if
a
man
would
be
curious
in
sifting
them
;
but
that
he
was
satisfied
if
the
flowre
of
his
Vertuoso's
Composures
were
currant
merchandize
:
That
the
defects
of
good
Authors
were
conceal'd
by
the
juditious
and
friendly
readers
,
and
publisht
only
by
such
as
are
malitious
.
And
that
to
make
profession
of
taking
out
the
worst
things
only
out
of
other
mens
writings
,
was
the
office
of
base
beetles
which
spent
their
lives
with
much
gusto
amidst
the
filth
of
excrements
:
a
thing
very
far
from
the
practice
of
those
honoured
Litterati
who
feed
advantagiously
upon
good
things
.
And
that
since
his
beloved
Poets
thought
Time
the
most
pretious
Jewel
which
the
East
produced
,
he
could
not
well
see
how
he
could
be
so
very
a
fool
as
to
believe
that
they
would
cast
away
their
hours
in
perusing
his
malitious
detractions
,
which
they
might
advantagiously
spend
in
reading
the
Works
of
Pindarus
,
Sophocles
,
Ovid
,
and
of
his
beloved
Heracli
.
This
unfortunate
Censurer
was
no
sooner
parted
full
of
confusion
from
Apollo
,
when
he
against
whom
the
Censure
was
made
came
hastily
in
,
earnestly
desiring
permission
that
he
might
reply
by
way
of
Apology
to
his
malevolent
friend
.
Apollo
smiled
,
and
told
him
,
that
he
appeared
as
little
wise
,
who
would
by
his
Apology
put
a
value
upon
other
mens
prating
,
as
Censurers
appeared
malitious
:
That
it
was
the
greatest
part
of
gross
ignorance
,
to
lend
an
ear
to
the
back-biting
babling
of
those
whisperers
,
who
not
having
sufficient
parts
to
publish
their
own
talents
,
foolishly
believe
they
may
win
credit
by
carping
at
others
;
and
that
the
Travailer
who
being
annoi'd
with
the
noise
of
Grashoppers
in
the
midst
of
scorching
Iuly
,
should
alight
from
his
horse
to
kill
them
all
,
were
a
very
fool
;
whereas
he
were
wise
,
who
though
he
had
a
pair
of
good
ears
,
would
seem
to
be
deaf
,
pass
on
his
way
,
and
let
them
sing
and
burst
.
The
end
of
the
first
Century
.
THE
SECOND
CENTURY
.
The
I.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Province
of
Phosides
,
doth
by
her
Ambassadors
complain
to
Apollo
,
that
his
Majesties
Officers
do
not
any
whit
observe
their
priviledges
;
and
are
not
onely
not
listened
to
in
what
they
do
say
,
but
receive
a
harsh
answer
.
THe
well
peopled
Province
of
Phosides
,
who
rebelled
some
years
ago
against
the
ignorant
,
and
voluntarily
submitted
themselves
to
be
governed
by
Apollo
;
from
whom
they
obtained
such
ample
priviledges
,
as
those
of
Phosides
might
be
said
to
live
in
a
sort
of
liberty
,
hath
now
sent
her
Ambassadors
to
this
Court
,
to
complain
of
his
Majesties
Officers
,
who
do
no
ways
observe
the
priviledges
granted
them
,
desiring
that
they
may
be
better
observed
.
Apollo
not
being
well
pleased
with
this
business
,
referred
it
to
the
Council
of
State
,
from
whom
two
days
ago
the
Ambassadors
received
their
final
answer
,
That
the
Lords
of
the
Council
did
very
much
wonder
,
and
were
scandalized
,
that
the
people
of
Phosides
should
understand
the
affairs
of
the
World
so
little
,
as
not
to
know
that
Priviledges
,
Exemptions
and
Immunities
given
to
people
newly
purchased
,
were
like
those
cherries
which
were
given
to
little
children
to
quiet
them
when
they
cry
;
which
when
they
were
quieted
,
were
taken
from
them
.
The
Prime
Ambassador
stoutly
replied
,
that
if
it
were
the
custom
of
Pernassus
so
foully
to
abuse
simple
people
,
Phosides
would
quickly
cry
again
that
she
might
be
pacified
with
cherries
of
new
priviledges
.
To
him
Francis
Guichardin
,
Lord
President
of
the
Council
answered
,
That
they
should
do
well
first
to
consider
their
present
condition
,
for
they
should
find
that
they
had
suffered
themselves
to
be
brought
to
such
a
point
of
slavery
by
the
Citadels
and
strong
Holds
,
which
in
time
of
peace
they
had
permitted
to
be
built
amongst
them
;
as
if
they
returned
to
complain
and
cry
,
they
might
be
quieted
by
scourges
,
without
any
danger
to
Apollo's
affairs
.
The
II.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
makes
use
of
the
unfortunate
Count
St.
Paul
,
to
frighten
the
Nobility
in
Kingdoms
from
rebelling
against
their
natural
Lords
,
at
the
pressure
of
Foreign
Princes
.
APPOLLO
much
to
his
displeasure
hath
learnt
,
how
that
some
Princes
that
they
may
vanquish
their
enemies
,
do
not
use
open
force
(
as
was
the
custom
of
ancient
Hero's
)
with
armed
men
in
the
field
,
but
make
use
of
fraud
and
cozenage
;
whereat
they
are
so
good
,
as
they
have
been
thereby
able
happily
to
atchieve
very
great
enterprizes
:
for
the
first
arms
that
these
draw
against
their
enemies
,
is
shamefully
to
corrupt
the
Loyalty
of
other
mens
subjects
,
and
to
incite
the
Nobles
to
rebel
.
Apollo
to
remedy
so
great
disorders
,
gave
command
to
Iovanni
Francisco
Lottoni
,
Register
of
his
Majesties
Moral
Precepts
,
that
the
miserable
Count
S.
Paul
,
for
a
publique
example
of
very
great
misfortune
,
should
be
carried
in
an
open
chair
by
beggars
,
and
set
before
the
Porch
of
the
Delphick
Temple
:
This
great
Prince
,
with
his
hands
without
fingers
,
and
so
shamefully
torn
,
as
they
seem
to
be
mangled
by
dogs
,
is
shewed
by
Lottoni
to
the
people
,
who
in
great
numbers
pass
in
and
out
through
that
Temple
,
to
whom
he
crys
aloud
,
Faithful
Vertuosi
,
lovers
of
learning
,
and
holy
moral
records
,
take
example
by
the
calamity
of
this
so
miserable
Prince
,
who
hath
lost
the
use
of
his
hands
,
which
God
preserve
still
free
to
you
;
and
learn
at
the
cost
of
others
,
what
it
imports
to
be
always
pulling
of
Crabs
out
of
their
holes
with
your
own
hands
,
for
the
advantage
of
other
men
.
The
III.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Great
Euclid
,
for
having
distated
some
powerful
men
,
is
cruelly
beaten
by
their
Bravoes
.
THe
freshest
news
from
Libetro
brought
by
the
ordinarry
post
from
Ephesus
,
bears
date
the
fourteenth
of
this
present
moneth
;
and
they
tell
us
,
that
on
the
sixth
of
the
same
,
about
noon
,
Euclide
,
that
Prince
of
the
Mathematicks
,
was
set
upon
by
some
under
the
Uranian
Porch
,
who
beat
him
so
cruelly
with
sand
bags
,
as
they
left
him
for
dead
.
Apollo
was
mightily
disturbed
at
this
novelty
;
and
the
rather
,
for
that
though
Euclide
was
better
beloved
,
and
more
made
of
by
the
greatest
Princes
of
this
State
,
then
any
other
Litterato
,
yet
this
so
great
excess
appaared
to
be
made
by
the
command
of
some
powerful
personages
;
for
Euclide
was
first
seized
on
by
two
of
these
Swash-backlers
,
and
held
fast
,
whilst
other
two
beat
him
,
who
were
seen
to
be
backed
by
many
armed
men
.
There
are
many
occasions
alledged
for
this
so
great
resentment
;
but
the
most
generally
received
opinion
is
,
that
some
potent
subjects
of
this
State
are
very
much
ill
satisfied
with
Euclid
,
for
the
Mathematical
Instrument
which
he
some
few
days
before
published
in
the
Schools
,
wherein
was
conclusively
shewed
,
that
all
the
lines
of
the
thoughts
,
and
actions
both
of
Princes
and
private
men
,
meet
in
this
centre
,
how
to
take
money
handsomely
from
another
mans
purse
,
and
put
it
into
ones
own
.
The
IV.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
In
a
Duel
which
hapned
between
an
Italian
Poet
,
and
a
Vertuoso
of
Spain
,
the
Spaniard
being
wounded
to
death
,
did
so
gallant
an
action
before
he
expired
,
as
Apollo
gave
order
that
he
should
be
solomnly
buried
at
the
publike
charge
.
A
Great
dispute
arose
some
few
days
ago
between
a
Spanish
Vertuoso
,
and
an
Italian
Poet
touching
a
certain
Lady
,
who
challenging
each
other
,
met
in
Bellona's
Forum
,
and
the
business
being
to
be
disputed
without
defensive
weapons
,
proved
vrey
cruel
.
For
being
armed
onely
with
two
short
and
sharp
Terzetti
,
at
the
first
encounter
they
grapled
,
and
the
Spaniard
having
received
two
mortal
wounds
,
fell
to
the
ground
,
and
said
these
words
to
a
friend
of
his
who
run
in
to
help
him
,
Hermano
azeme
plazer
d'enterarme
,
sin
che
ninguna
mi
desnude
,
Do
me
the
courtesie
friend
,
to
bury
me
before
I
be
stript
naked
.
Which
being
said
,
his
wounds
bled
so
much
as
he
dyed
.
The
de
sire
which
this
Spaniard
made
to
his
friend
,
that
he
might
not
be
stript
,
being
noised
abroad
in
Parnassus
,
made
all
men
(
as
it
commonly
falls
out
in
things
forbidden
)
the
more
desirous
to
see
him
naked
;
especially
since
it
was
made
by
one
of
that
wise
Nation
,
which
doth
not
onely
never
speak
by
chance
,
but
never
suffers
a
word
to
escape
their
mouthes
which
carries
not
mistery
and
great
sense
with
it
.
And
Apollo's
self
had
the
curiosity
to
know
why
that
Litterato
at
the
very
point
of
death
,
did
so
earnestly
desire
not
to
be
stript
naked
.
So
as
commanding
him
to
be
stript
,
it
was
found
that
he
who
went
so
sprucely
drest
,
and
had
a
ruff
about
his
neck
so
curiously
wrought
as
it
was
more
worth
then
all
his
other
clothes
,
had
never
a
shirt
on
;
which
caused
much
laughter
throughout
all
Parnassus
;
only
Apollo
was
much
astonished
at
this
novelty
,
and
did
mightily
exaggerate
the
gallantry
of
this
Litterato
,
who
in
the
very
agony
of
death
was
so
sensible
of
his
honor
,
as
he
closed
his
eyes
with
zeal
to
his
reputation
.
For
which
excessive
worth
,
which
was
a
clear
evidence
of
an
extraordinary
great
mind
;
he
commanded
that
he
should
be
solemnly
buried
at
the
publike
charge
,
con
la
pompa
censoria
:
the
which
was
done
with
so
great
a
concourse
of
the
Litterati
of
all
Nations
,
as
more
were
never
seen
to
be
at
any
Roman
triumph
.
Afterwards
Flavius
Quintillian
;
in
a
Funeral
Oration
which
he
made
in
praise
of
this
Vertuoso
,
did
much
exaggerate
the
happiness
of
the
powerful
Monarchy
of
Spain
,
whose
greatness
lay
not
(
as
he
said
)
in
the
gold
and
silver
shops
of
Peru
,
of
Nova
Spagna
,
Rio
della
plata
,
and
in
the
Castiglia
dell'oro
;
nor
yet
in
the
numberless
number
of
Kingdoms
which
she
was
master
of
;
but
onely
in
the
honorable
condition
of
her
Nation
.
Since
it
being
clearly
seen
that
this
Spanish
Vertuoso
,
in
that
his
great
calamity
,
endeavoured
first
not
to
suffer
in
his
reputation
,
before
he
took
order
to
have
his
wounds
cured
,
it
was
an
evident
proof
,
that
it
was
peculiar
to
the
honourable
Spanish
Nation
to
prefer
honor
before
life
;
and
that
the
Spaniards
were
more
careful
not
to
commit
any
unworthy
act
,
then
they
were
of
life
.
And
Quintillian
concluded
his
Oration
with
a
cruel
invective
against
Philosophers
,
who
will
not
admit
that
two
contraries
can
be
found
in
one
and
the
same
subject
,
when
great
appearance
and
infinite
substance
,
vain
glory
and
sollidness
,
were
visibly
seen
to
reign
,
even
in
their
greatest
extreams
amongst
Spaniards
.
The
V.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
having
used
great
diligence
to
come
by
any
of
the
Idols
of
Princes
,
proceeds
with
severity
against
one
,
who
fell
into
the
Iudges
Power
.
APOLLO
,
much
to
his
displeasure
,
perceiving
the
great
disorders
,
occasioned
not
onely
in
great
Empires
,
but
also
in
little
States
,
by
the
blindness
of
those
Princes
who
assubject
themselves
to
some
one
of
their
servants
:
Since
neither
his
Majesties
exhortations
,
nor
the
sad
calamities
which
many
Princes
have
undergone
by
so
great
folly
,
hath
been
able
to
make
them
avoid
the
hard
destiny
of
being
violently
hurried
into
Hell
by
these
inconveniences
:
his
Majestie
,
not
to
abandon
his
protection
of
the
Governors
of
the
world
,
resolved
some
moneths
since
,
to
proceed
with
severity
against
such
servants
;
who
by
their
prodigious
ambition
,
and
devillish
cunning
,
go
about
to
command
their
masters
;
insomuch
,
as
some
years
ago
,
he
laid
great
fines
upon
such
,
and
promised
great
rewards
to
any
who
would
discover
them
to
his
Judges
.
And
about
a
fortnight
since
,
the
Magistracy
was
told
of
one
of
these
.
who
being
afterwards
taken
,
had
the
rack
given
him
;
whereupon
he
confessed
all
the
wicked
tricks
which
he
had
used
,
not
onely
to
enslave
,
but
even
to
make
his
master
adore
him
.
When
Apollo
saw
the
process
made
against
this
wicked
one
,
he
was
much
troubled
to
find
that
those
very
Princes
who
are
jealous
of
their
own
children
,
either
through
their
own
blockishness
,
or
by
the
fraud
of
others
,
can
bring
themselves
to
the
shameful
infamy
of
becoming
a
slave
to
one
of
their
ignoble
servants
;
and
he
thought
it
very
strange
,
that
a
Son
or
Nephew
of
a
Prince
,
who
that
he
might
rule
his
Father
,
or
domineer
over
his
Uncle
,
had
shewn
himself
to
be
infinitely
ambitious
,
and
to
thirst
after
Government
,
and
who
at
last
had
compast
his
desires
,
could
then
so
metamorphose
himself
,
as
to
relinquish
that
power
which
he
by
so
many
practises
had
gotten
over
a
Superior
,
to
one
who
was
so
far
beneath
him
,
a
great
wonder
certainly
,
and
which
mans
wit
can
give
as
little
reason
for
,
as
for
the
hidden
vertue
of
the
Load-stone
.
Apollo
,
to
the
end
that
Princes
might
learn
to
keep
themselves
from
committing
such
indignities
,
by
seeing
what
punishment
was
inflicted
upon
this
Court-favorite
,
caused
all
the
Princes
that
are
resident
in
this
Court
,
to
meet
two
days
ago
in
the
great
Hall
of
Audience
,
in
whose
presence
,
and
to
their
greater
confusion
,
he
caused
Atorney
Bossio
to
read
aloud
the
shameful
process
made
against
this
wicked
one
;
wherein
when
he
was
asked
what
tricks
he
had
used
to
get
the
command
over
his
Master
?
made
answer
,
That
from
the
very
first
day
that
he
came
to
Court
,
he
used
all
possible
diligence
to
observe
his
Princes
genius
,
and
finding
that
he
was
mightily
given
to
lasciviousness
,
he
used
all
his
Rhetorick
to
praise
a
vice
so
misbecoming
a
King
,
making
it
appear
to
be
an
egregious
vertue
,
and
then
all
his
industry
to
be
imployed
by
him
therein
;
which
when
he
had
obtained
,
he
studied
diligently
how
to
fit
him
with
those
who
mig
ht
satisfie
his
lust
.
That
afterwards
under
divers
pretences
,
as
that
they
were
either
vitious
,
or
enemies
to
the
Prince
,
he
had
by
degrees
removed
all
the
Princes
honest
servants
from
the
Court
,
who
he
knew
might
have
reduced
him
to
have
lived
vertuously
,
and
that
he
had
put
Confidents
of
his
own
in
their
places
,
who
were
likewise
given
to
carnallity
,
and
to
all
other
sorts
of
vice
,
by
whose
means
he
had
endeavoured
that
his
Master
should
quite
lose
some
signal
endowments
which
he
had
by
nature
,
and
which
he
had
received
by
his
former
good
education
.
That
then
under
pretence
that
they
were
unfaithful
,
he
had
so
wrought
it
,
as
all
the
old
State-Ministers
were
turned
out
,
whose
just
sorrows
for
their
Prince
his
loose
life
,
he
had
made
the
Prince
believe
were
but
seditious
backbitings
,
and
so
had
made
their
places
be
conferred
upon
men
void
of
counsel
or
wisdom
,
and
who
cared
not
for
their
Princes
interest
;
for
he
onely
desired
confidence
in
them
,
and
that
they
would
stick
close
to
him
:
and
that
he
had
so
surrounded
his
Master
with
such
as
these
,
as
it
was
impossible
for
him
to
hear
truth
from
any
one
that
was
faithful
to
the
common
good
,
which
truth
ought
always
to
be
joyned
to
a
Prince
,
as
is
his
shadow
to
his
body
.
That
then
,
to
the
end
that
he
himself
might
alone
govern
the
State
,
he
had
brought
his
Prince
to
be
so
in
love
with
idleness
,
as
taking
delight
in
nothing
but
pleasant
Gardens
,
Conntrey-houses
,
and
hunting
,
he
hated
to
hear
of
business
,
or
of
any
thing
that
concerned
his
State
.
That
moreover
,
he
had
brought
him
to
believe
,
that
his
having
made
him
fall
out
with
his
own
son
,
and
the
Princes
of
the
blood
,
proceeded
from
his
great
zeal
unto
his
service
,
and
his
love
to
the
publique
good
of
his
people
;
and
that
he
had
so
besotted
him
by
his
cunning
tricks
,
as
the
unfortunate
Prince
called
that
the
vigilancy
of
a
faithful
servant
,
an
ease
to
his
labours
,
charity
towards
the
publike
affairs
,
which
was
known
by
the
veriest
fools
of
his
State
to
be
Tyranie
,
and
as
such
abhord
:
And
had
made
him
believe
,
that
his
idleness
,
slothfulness
and
negligence
was
honourable
repose
.
That
besides
all
this
,
to
the
end
that
the
Prince
might
never
awake
out
of
so
shameful
a
sleep
,
and
opening
his
eyes
,
might
be
aware
of
his
own
simplicity
,
and
of
other
mens
wicked
ambition
,
he
had
filled
his
house
with
flatterers
,
who
by
their
infamous
perswasions
,
cryed
up
his
folly
for
great
worth
;
the
peoples
universal
hatred
,
for
immeasurable
love
;
publique
fault
finding
,
for
exagerated
praise
;
confusion
,
for
excellent
Government
;
the
tyrany
of
a
wicked
personage
,
for
excellent
service
;
termed
extortions
,
justice
;
prodigallity
,
liberallity
;
his
slothfulness
and
baseness
in
having
quite
given
over
the
Government
of
his
State
,
honorable
labour
,
and
diligent
rule
.
All
the
Princes
who
heard
the
wickednesses
confest
by
this
perfidious
man
,
were
so
astonished
at
the
hearing
thereof
,
as
they
said
,
it
was
charity
to
hang
him
;
and
that
therefore
Perillous
should
be
desired
to
invent
some
new
torment
whereby
this
monster
of
nature
might
be
by
piece-meal
torn
in
pieces
,
and
made
to
dye
a
lingring
death
;
to
the
end
that
no
man
might
ever
commit
such
wickedness
hereafter
.
And
the
Princes
were
so
moved
with
the
foulness
of
this
process
,
as
they
earnestly
desired
his
Majestie
to
use
extraordinary
rigour
to
such
who
should
suffer
themselves
to
be
so
shamefully
treated
by
their
fraudilent
servants
.
And
because
Apollo
being
so
touched
at
the
very
soul
,
with
the
vertuous
desire
made
unto
him
by
these
Princes
,
let
fall
some
tears
:
the
foolisher
sort
of
people
believed
that
it
was
occasioned
through
his
great
joy
to
see
the
Princes
so
much
detest
that
vice
,
which
he
desired
they
might
shun
:
but
the
wiser
sort
of
Vertuosi
who
were
there
present
,
knew
very
well
,
that
Apollo
bewailed
the
blindness
of
Princes
,
who
are
so
drunk
,
as
hating
their
own
errors
in
others
,
did
earnestly
desire
that
those
vices
should
be
punished
with
extraordinary
severity
,
in
which
the
most
of
them
,
without
being
aware
of
it
,
were
dipt
even
up
to
the
eyes
.
So
pernitious
is
it
in
Princes
to
idolatrize
Minnions
,
as
knowing
it
,
and
blaming
it
in
their
companions
,
they
are
not
aware
of
it
in
themselves
,
but
do
highly
commend
it
;
and
they
who
boast
themselves
to
be
the
onely
Aristarchi
of
the
world
,
are
those
who
fall
into
this
shameful
error
.
The
VI.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
All
the
Monarchies
of
the
world
affrighted
at
the
over-great
power
and
successful
proceedings
of
the
German
Common-wealths
,
consult
in
a
general
Dyet
how
to
keep
themselves
from
being
in
time
opprest
by
them
.
THe
general
Dyet
which
all
the
Monarchies
of
the
World
intimated
four
moneth
ago
,
to
be
held
at
Pindo
the
15
of
the
last
moneth
,
and
which
by
excluding
all
the
Commonwealths
of
Europe
,
occasioned
great
jealousies
in
them
,
lest
a
general
league
might
be
concluded
against
all
free
Countreys
.
Being
at
last
dissolved
,
on
the
20
of
the
present
moneth
,
and
the
Princes
being
already
returned
to
their
own
States
,
it
is
known
for
certain
,
that
it
was
called
for
no
other
end
,
but
against
the
infinite
number
of
Commonwealths
which
have
of
late
been
instituted
amongst
the
Switzers
,
Grisouns
,
Bearnois
,
and
other
people
of
Germany
;
particularly
against
those
which
with
so
much
scandal
to
Monarchy
,
begin
to
rise
between
the
Hollanders
and
Zealanders
in
the
Low-Countreys
.
When
all
the
Monarchies
of
the
World
,
according
to
their
custom
were
set
down
in
a
great
Hall
;
it
is
said
their
Lord
Chancellor
spoke
thus
:
Most
high
and
mighty
Monarchs
,
and
Rulers
of
mankind
,
it
may
clearly
be
seen
,
by
the
sad
and
dangerous
condition
which
you
are
in
,
that
there
is
nothing
under
the
Sun
which
is
perpetual
,
nor
which
doth
not
threaten
present
ruine
.
Since
Monarchy
her self
,
which
by
all
understanding
Polititions
hath
always
been
held
for
the
sovereign
Queen
of
all
Policy
,
hath
got
so
great
a
rent
and
cleft
in
her
Fabrick
,
as
it
is
not
onely
evidently
seen
that
she
is
not
of
that
Eternal
Foundation
which
those
who
understand
State
affairs
,
have
continually
asserted
her
to
be
,
but
seems
to
be
neer
ruine
.
Monarchies
from
the
very
beginning
of
the
World
to
this
present
day
have
governed
so
happily
,
and
won
such
reputation
,
as
of
all
sorts
of
Governments
,
they
have
been
cheifly
praised
,
and
have
always
had
the
victory
over
Commonwealths
,
their
enemies
.
And
though
it
was
thought
that
the
immence
Roman
Liberty
,
by
having
destroyed
so
many
famous
Monarchies
,
would
have
put
the
whole
World
at
Liberty
,
yet
at
last
(
though
after
a
long
time
)
she
her self
turned
into
a
Principality
,
which
is
the
certain
end
,
and
inevitable
death
of
all
Commonwealths
.
And
though
the
prime
wits
of
the
world
have
laboured
sufficiently
to
institute
long
lived
Common-wealths
,
against
the
eternity
of
Monarchy
,
yet
could
they
never
compass
their
intent
.
Olegarchies
being
known
to
be
the
insufferable
Tyrany
of
a
few
,
have
been
soon
turned
to
Principalities
;
and
the
Institutors
of
Democracy
could
never
find
out
a
good
way
how
to
curb
the
people
,
so
as
it
might
have
the
chief
Authority
to
command
,
but
after
bloody
seditions
hath
precipitated
into
cruel
slavery
,
and
hath
nursed
up
a
Serpent
in
her
bosom
;
some
ambit●…ous
Citizen
,
who
by
the
certain
way
of
the
universal
affection
of
ignorant
people
hath
known
how
to
get
the
chief
Lordship
over
the
free
Countrey
.
Moreover
,
we
have
often
seen
popular
Government
prove
so
hateful
to
the
Nobility
,
as
first
the
Romans
,
after
the
death
of
Caesar
;
and
then
the
Florentines
when
Alexander
Duke
of
Medecis
was
slain
,
chose
rather
to
live
under
new
Princes
,
then
return
to
the
cruel
servitude
of
the
Plebeians
,
who
are
always
seditious
.
And
the
very
Aristocratical
Governments
,
which
of
all
others
hath
cost
so
much
sweat
,
have
at
last
ended
in
Monarchies
;
for
the
founders
of
such
Republicks
,
could
never
perfectly
compass
those
two
important
qualities
,
which
make
Aristocracy
eternal
;
of
maintaining
such
an
equality
amongst
the
Nobility
,
but
that
there
would
arise
an
odious
disproportion
of
honours
and
riches
amongst
them
,
the
fruitful
mothers
of
Tyrany
;
and
of
giving
such
satisfaction
to
signal
subjects
,
to
the
haughty
minds
of
Citizens
excluded
from
publike
Government
,
so
as
they
may
be
content
to
live
servants
in
that
Countrey
,
which
hath
the
name
of
being
Free
.
And
those
who
have
boasted
to
make
mixt
Commonwealths
eternal
,
have
been
likewise
mightily
deceived
;
for
as
in
humane
bodies
,
the
four
elements
whereof
they
are
composed
,
after
an
agreement
of
long
health
,
do
at
last
alter
,
and
that
which
proves
most
predominant
kills
the
man
;
so
the
mixture
of
Monarchy
,
Aristocracy
and
Democracy
in
a
Common-wealth
,
one
of
the
three
humors
getting
at
length
the
upper
hand
,
she
must
needs
in
length
of
time
alter
;
which
alteration
changing
the
form
of
Government
,
at
last
bereaves
Liberty
of
her
life
,
as
we
may
have
seen
a
thousand
examples
in
former
times
;
for
all
that
learned
men
have
set
down
in
writing
,
and
proved
by
good
grounds
of
reason
,
doth
not
prove
true
in
practice
;
it
being
clearly
seen
,
that
Licurgus
,
Solon
,
and
other
Legislators
for
living
free
,
who
have
thought
to
tame
the
unvanquishable
spirits
of
men
by
the
excellent
provision
of
holy
institutions
,
and
to
curb
the
malice
of
the
ambitious
by
severe
punishments
,
have
been
more
then
much
abused
in
their
opinions
.
But
now
(
nor
can
I
speak
it
without
great
terror
and
grief
of
heart
)
we
plainly
see
with
our
own
eyes
,
that
the
Germans
,
being
excellent
Artificers
,
no
less
of
Commonwealths
,
then
of
Clocks
and
Watches
,
have
at
last
invented
those
eternal
Liberties
,
which
for
so
many
ages
the
wisdom
of
ancient
Philosophers
have
in
vain
sought
for
,
and
from
whence
Monarchies
have
great
reason
to
apprehend
their
death
and
utter
extirpation
.
Never
was
there
a
more
golden
sentence
said
(
most
glorious
Monarchs
)
then
that
,
That
every
least
despised
sparkle
is
apt
to
occasion
great
combustions
.
For
who
would
ever
have
believed
that
that
little
spark
of
of
liberty
which
first
arose
amongst
the
Switzers
,
would
have
been
able
to
kindle
a
fire
,
which
should
afterwards
dilate
it self
so
far
in
Germany
,
as
the
World
now
sees
and
wonders
at
?
And
what
man
how
wise
soever
,
could
have
foretold
,
that
in
so
short
a
time
it
would
have
caused
the
combustion
of
so
many
Cities
and
warlike
Nations
;
which
to
the
great
shame
and
infinite
danger
of
Monarchy
,
have
vindicated
their
liberty
?
Certainly
it
is
a
thing
almost
miraculous
to
believe
,
that
the
little
liberty
which
began
to
have
a
being
amongst
the
Switzers
,
a
poor
people
,
and
husbandmen
of
a
very
barren
soyl
,
and
which
was
so
much
despised
by
you
,
should
afterwards
be
able
to
infect
the
most
warlike
Nations
of
Germany
with
the
same
disease
;
and
which
is
yet
the
greatest
miracle
,
who
could
ever
have
foreseen
,
that
these
Commonwealths
should
in
so
short
a
time
win
such
credit
with
all
Potentates
,
as
well
in
civil
affairs
,
as
for
matter
of
Arms
,
as
that
they
should
not
onely
be
held
the
supreme
Umpires
of
peace
and
war
in
Europe
,
but
the
very
greatest
Terror
of
the
chiefest
Princes
of
the
World
.
The
Commonwealths
of
Germany
(
most
illustrious
Princes
)
are
Trumpets
which
should
awaken
you
from
the
too
supine
sleep
wherein
you
have
so
long
lain
.
Know
your
evils
,
look
upon
your
dangers
,
which
cry
aloud
for
speedy
remedy
.
Since
in
the
German
Commonwealths
you
see
not
onely
Aristocracy
grounded
,
with
so
wise
laws
,
as
they
promise
long
life
,
but
that
which
all
men
thought
impossible
,
quiet
and
peaceful
Democracy
.
The
Commonwealth
of
Rome
,
which
with
an
unparalel'd
ambition
proposed
unto
her self
as
her
ultimate
end
,
the
absolute
Dominion
of
the
World
;
that
she
might
arive
at
so
immense
an
tent
,
was
forced
to
be
continually
in
arms
,
and
to
put
weapons
into
her
Citizens
hands
,
who
by
continual
command
of
Armies
,
and
by
the
long
Government
of
large
Provinces
,
filled
their
private
houses
with
treasures
befitting
any
King
,
but
very
disproportionable
for
Senators
of
well
regulated
Republiques
;
and
by
the
too
great
authority
which
was
unwisely
and
fatally
given
them
by
the
Senate
,
of
bestowing
even
whole
Kingdoms
on
whom
they
best
liked
,
they
swole
so
big
with
the
wind
of
ambition
,
as
that
equality
of
Authority
,
which
is
the
soul
of
free
Countreys
,
was
wholly
disordered
in
the
Roman
Nobility
.
By
reason
of
these
disorders
it
was
,
that
first
the
Silli
and
Marii
arose
in
Rome
,
and
then
the
fatal
Pompeys
and
Caesars
,
who
after
long
and
bloody
civil
wars
,
slew
that
so
famous
Liberty
.
And
for
the
last
calamity
of
Monarchy
,
it
cannot
be
hoped
that
this
wide
gate
should
ever
be
opened
in
the
well-regulated
German
Commonwealths
,
where
all
ambition
of
commanding
over
vanquished
people
,
and
neighbour
nations
,
being
utterly
banished
,
the
glorious
resolution
and
firm
purpose
reigns
onely
in
them
,
of
not
yielding
obedience
unto
any
.
A
happy
resolve
,
which
maintains
that
necessary
equality
between
the
Citizens
of
those
Hans-Towns
,
and
between
the
chief
Senators
;
and
works
this
effect
,
that
whilst
they
wage
not
war
to
impose
that
slavery
upon
others
,
which
they
themselves
seem
so
to
shun
,
their
neighbours
do
neither
hate
them
,
nor
are
they
jealous
of
them
.
So
as
it
is
no
wonder
if
they
promise
unto
themselves
long
lives
,
and
think
themselves
unvanquishable
by
the
power
of
whatsoever
Potentate
;
for
they
are
of
opinion
,
that
the
best
Politick
precept
which
by
others
is
to
be
admired
in
the
German
Hanf-Towns
,
is
to
detest
the
acquisition
of
neighbouring
Nations
;
for
with
like
wisedom
they
enjoy
that
publike
peace
with
Foreigners
,
and
that
private
agreement
amongst
their
Citizens
,
which
makes
their
freedom
formidable
abroad
,
and
safe
at
home
.
This
that
I
say
,
is
clearly
seen
by
the
miseries
into
which
the
Roman
Liberty
,
after
six
hundred
years
,
did
at
last
fall
;
which
not
to
speak
any
thing
of
the
infinite
acquisitions
which
she
made
in
Italy
and
elsewhere
)
by
the
last
conquest
which
she
woud
make
of
France
(
a
Kingdom
which
hath
always
proved
fatal
to
Foreigners
who
endeavoured
to
subjugate
it
)
fell
headlong
into
Caesars
Tyranny
:
And
the
Florentines
,
by
their
obstinate
ambition
of
making
those
of
Pisa
slaves
,
did
so
disorder
their
own
Common-wealth
,
as
they
may
serve
to
teach
the
World
,
that
it
is
better
and
safer
for
Republiques
to
have
their
neighbouring
Cities
and
Nations
Confiderates
and
Friends
,
then
subjects
and
enemies
.
This
disorder
is
not
seen
in
the
Hans-Towns
of
Germany
,
who
resting
content
with
their
own
liberty
,
suffer
those
who
joyn
with
them
to
live
free
under
the
Government
of
their
own
Law
;
whence
it
is
,
that
in
Germany
,
and
in
universal
concerns
,
there
appears
but
one
onely
Commonwealth
to
be
in
Germany
,
but
many
in
particulars
;
and
the
Arms
of
the
Freemen
of
that
Warlike
Nation
,
serve
onely
for
instruments
of
peace
,
and
to
preserve
their
own
,
not
to
intrench
upon
the
liberties
of
other
men
.
A
thing
which
certainly
forbodes
much
evil
to
Monarchy
;
for
what
more
pernitious
or
cruel
enemy
can
a
Prince
have
,
then
he
who
assaults
him
with
pretence
of
communicating
liberty
to
a
subjugated
people
:
These
are
the
arms
by
which
the
German
Hans-Towns
have
so
dilated
themselves
:
And
certainly
not
without
good
reason
;
for
people
cannot
kill
that
enemy
,
who
instead
of
death
,
fire
and
plunder
,
brings
them
liberty
,
which
by
instinct
of
nature
,
is
so
much
desired
by
all
men
.
Lo
then
,
illustrious
Monarchs
,
how
the
German
Hans-Towns
are
little
in
particular
,
each
of
them
contenting
themselves
with
their
own
liberties
;
but
immensly
great
in
general
,
for
that
they
do
all
communicate
in
the
interests
of
publique
liberty
.
So
as
a
Prince
cannot
have
to
do
with
one
,
but
he
must
offend
all
;
a
disorder
which
is
so
much
the
greater
,
for
that
like
a
contagious
disease
,
or
enraged
cancer
,
it
every
day
encreaseth
by
degrees
,
taking
in
new
Cities
,
and
new
people
,
and
assembling
them
all
to
their
own
liberty
the
first
day
of
their
purchase
,
naturalize
foreign
Nations
,
make
enemies
dear
friends
;
wherefore
it
may
well
be
doubted
,
that
in
a
short
time
the
whole
world
will
be
infected
with
this
contagious
disease
;
and
the
danger
is
the
more
dreadful
in
these
unfortunate
times
,
wherein
the
liberty
of
Commonwealths
is
gotten
into
so
high
an
esteem
,
as
our
own
subjects
fear
not
to
call
it
the
onely
filicity
of
mankind
.
Whence
it
is
,
that
(
when
men
can
think
to
enjoy
it
quietly
,
and
that
as
it
is
in
the
Hans-Towns
of
Germany
,
every
one
may
live
in
liberty
under
the
Laws
of
their
own
Countrey
)
it
is
so
infinitely
coveted
,
as
it
is
purchased
,
though
at
the
expence
of
much
blood
.
And
if
such
a
disease
hath
been
able
to
enlarge
it self
so
far
in
so
short
a
time
amongst
dissolute
people
,
people
so
given
over
to
gluttony
and
drunkenness
,
what
shall
we
think
it
may
do
if
it
should
fasten
in
Italy
or
Spain
,
or
in
the
other
sober
Nations
of
Europe
,
the
most
of
which
,
as
we
all
know
,
are
so
affected
to
Monarchy
.
The
business
about
which
you
are
here
met
,
is
as
you
have
heard
,
most
mighty
Monarchs
,
of
importance
,
and
requires
the
more
speedy
remedy
,
for
that
if
the
Hollanders
and
Zealanders
shall
once
have
laid
a
good
foundation
,
and
shall
have
perpetuated
themselves
in
that
liberty
which
they
have
usurpt
against
the
powerful
King
of
Spain
,
their
natural
Lord
,
you
may
well
,
from
so
foul
a
scandal
,
fear
your
utter
extirpation
.
And
you
as
well
the
most
Christian
,
as
the
most
powerful
Kingdom
of
France
,
which
in
this
so
majestical
an
Assembly
do
deservedly
hold
the
first
place
,
amongst
the
greatest
Monarchs
of
the
world
,
you
very
well
knew
that
in
your
last
troubles
,
it
was
oft
talk
of
;
and
perhaps
agreed
upon
by
your
seditious
enemies
,
how
to
kindle
in
your
bosom
;
and
amongst
your
faithful
French
men
,
the
fire
of
the
German
liberty
;
so
far
are
the
evils
advanced
;
which
to
those
that
understand
so
much
,
it
may
suffice
me
to
have
touch
upon
.
This
Discourse
made
by
the
Lord
Chancellor
did
infinitely
trouble
those
great
Monarchs
.
And
many
Princes
,
whose
States
lay
neerest
those
Republicks
,
finding
what
danger
they
were
in
,
were
extraordily
afflicted
.
Wherefore
they
fell
suddenly
to
think
upon
remedies
;
and
as
the
most
immediate
,
a
strait
League
was
propounded
to
be
made
by
all
Monarchies
,
against
Commonwealths
,
hoping
that
by
open
force
of
so
many
Princes
joyned
together
,
they
might
easily
be
mastered
.
But
in
this
opinion
,
which
at
first
seemed
very
plausable
to
every
one
,
great
difficulties
were
afterwards
discovered
:
for
some
Princes
put
the
Dyet
in
mind
,
that
it
was
not
onely
indiscretion
,
but
great
rashness
to
affront
with
mercenary
Souldiers
,
whose
interest
in
the
war
was
but
the
poor
pay
of
six
pence
a
day
,
a
Nation
which
took
up
Arms
for
the
defence
of
liberty
;
and
which
was
that
important
reason
of
mens
proving
so
couragious
;
And
to
this
purpose
,
Charls
Duke
of
Burgundies
unfortunate
case
was
instanced
in
;
who
though
he
was
held
to
be
the
thunder
of
War
,
the
Orlando
and
Mars
of
his
times
,
was
notwithstanding
,
together
with
the
greatest
part
of
his
Army
,
cut
in
pieces
by
the
Switzers
,
onely
because
each
man
that
fights
in
defence
of
liberty
,
hath
twenty
hands
,
and
as
many
hearts
.
And
it
was
considered
;
that
it
being
impossible
for
the
Princes
to
vanquish
so
many
Commonwealths
in
as
short
time
(
as
the
business
required
)
the
expence
of
much
time
would
likewise
make
it
altogether
infeasable
;
for
that
the
Hollanders
and
Zealanders
had
taught
all
Princes
,
that
if
people
who
defended
their
liberties
were
long
trained
up
in
war
,
they
became
unconquerable
;
and
this
was
said
to
happen
,
because
the
charity
of
a
free
Countrey
,
doth
not
onely
make
the
hearts
of
the
Citizens
thereof
undaunted
,
and
their
hands
nimble
,
but
makes
their
souls
faithful
,
and
quickens
their
wits
.
And
it
was
further
said
;
That
that
Prince
took
a
bad
business
in
hand
,
who
could
not
fight
his
enemy
with
Canons
loaded
or
charged
with
gold
,
which
was
that
which
routed
all
Armies
,
and
won
all
Battels
,
and
which
had
the
wonderful
effect
of
destroying
a
mans
Loyalty
And
concerning
this
particular
,
reflection
was
had
upon
the
modern
actions
of
the
Hollanders
and
Zealanders
,
who
out
of
the
very
great
affection
which
they
bore
to
the
liberty
of
their
Countrey
,
had
so
gallantly
resisted
,
not
onely
the
steel
and
iron
,
but
even
the
gold
of
that
valiant
and
rich
Spanish
Nation
,
which
knows
so
well
how
to
make
use
both
of
the
one
and
the
other
,
as
it
was
held
a
thing
almost
miraculous
;
that
at
one
and
the
same
time
they
could
defend
their
new
Common-wealth
,
no
less
against
the
open
force
of
the
Spaniards
;
then
against
the
concealed
designs
of
the
French
and
English
;
and
cheifly
against
the
subtil
cunning
of
that
crafty
Fox
the
Prince
of
Orange
:
All
which
(
though
under
various
and
specious
pretences
of
liberty
)
had
as
great
a
mind
to
make
themselves
masters
of
those
States
,
as
the
King
of
Spain
had
to
reduce
them
under
his
ancient
Dominion
.
To
this
,
a
second
,
and
much
more
important
difficulty
was
added
;
for
consultation
was
had
,
what
the
Colleague
Monarchs
should
do
with
the
German
Commonwealths
,
when
by
their
forces
they
should
have
conquered
them
.
For
answer
to
which
,
the
common
reason
of
Nations
,
and
the
ordinary
use
of
leagues
was
urged
;
which
is
,
that
the
acquisition
of
enemies
States
made
by
Colleagues
,
if
any
of
them
be
of
the
number
of
the
colleaguing
Princes
,
that
they
should
be
restored
to
their
ancient
Lords
:
by
vertue
of
which
law
,
the
Roman
Empire
desired
,
that
when
the
victory
should
be
gotten
,
those
Cities
and
Hans-Towns
should
be
restored
to
her
,
which
had
withdrawn
themselves
from
her
authority
.
And
the
house
of
Austrea
pretended
with
good
reason
,
to
repossess
her
ancient
Dominion
over
the
greatest
part
of
the
Switzers
,
and
other
people
,
who
to
make
themselves
free
,
had
shook
off
the
yoke
of
her
Government
.
Though
all
these
pretensions
were
by
the
Senate
acknowledged
to
be
just
,
yet
did
the
Princes
so
much
stomach
them
,
as
after
a
long
dispute
,
it
was
at
last
resolved
,
that
no
more
should
be
spoken
thereof
:
And
it
was
then
said
,
that
it
being
impossible
for
the
two
aforesaid
reasons
,
that
the
Monarchies
should
by
open
Force
subjugate
the
Commonwealths
of
Germany
,
they
should
for
the
future
so
wisely
strengthen
and
fortifie
themselves
,
as
that
the
malady
of
the
German
Hans-Towns
,
which
till
then
had
made
such
and
so
prejudicial
progress
,
should
grow
no
greater
.
And
it
was
resolved
,
that
it
being
very
palpable
,
that
the
many
large
priviledges
which
were
granted
by
some
too
prodigal
Princes
to
their
vassals
,
in
a
middle
way
of
living
free
,
and
this
not
without
great
occasion
,
had
made
them
affect
total
liberty
;
that
therefore
such
priviledges
,
as
being
scandalous
,
and
very
pernitious
to
Monarchy
,
should
not
onely
not
be
granted
hereafter
,
no
not
to
any
desert
,
how
great
soever
;
but
that
every
Potentate
should
cunningly
by
little
and
little
,
endeavor
to
take
them
from
their
people
,
and
bring
them
so
wholly
into
servitude
,
as
they
should
not
have
any
the
least
ken
of
those
priviledges
which
had
heightned
their
minds
to
affect
total
Freedom
:
And
hereupon
some
former
Emperors
of
Germany
,
and
Dukes
of
Burgony
,
were
severely
reprehended
,
who
were
not
onely
fools
in
granting
their
people
prejudicial
exemptions
,
but
ignorantly
avaritious
in
selling
them
for
a
small
sum
of
money
,
whereby
they
had
put
themselves
and
other
Monarchies
upon
great
difficulties
.
And
for
their
greater
severity
,
these
Princes
decreed
,
that
all
form
,
all
footsteps
of
levelling
,
should
from
the
very
root
be
extirpated
from
amongst
their
subjects
;
the
wisest
of
the
Dyet
affirming
,
that
the
great
inequality
of
the
Gentry
in
a
Kingdom
,
was
that
which
secured
them
from
ever
bringing
in
a
form
of
free
Government
:
and
the
Monarchy
of
Spain
was
so
stiff
in
this
Opinion
,
as
she
freely
said
,
she
spoke
it
knowingly
,
that
nothing
had
more
preserved
the
Dukedom
of
Millan
from
living
in
that
freedom
,
after
the
death
of
Philip
Maria
Viscount
,
which
was
then
talked
of
being
instituted
therein
,
then
the
great
disproportion
of
wealth
,
which
hath
always
been
observed
to
be
in
that
noble
Dukedom
,
not
onely
between
the
Nobility
and
people
of
Millan
,
but
even
between
the
Nobility
it self
,
which
had
also
been
the
reason
why
,
in
the
rich
Kingdom
of
Naples
,
no
speech
was
ever
heard
to
be
made
by
those
Barons
,
of
levelling
or
living
free
,
no
not
when
they
had
so
fair
an
occasion
presented
them
of
doing
so
by
the
failing
of
the
blood
Royal
,
and
by
many
other
interregni
which
they
had
had
in
their
troubles
;
for
that
the
Nobility
of
Kingdoms
had
this
of
natural
instinct
,
rather
to
admit
of
any
subject
how
barbarous
soever
for
their
King
,
then
to
see
not
onely
Barons
of
late
edition
,
but
even
Doctors
and
Shop-keepers
made
equal
(
which
liberty
would
do
)
like
to
them
.
Moreover
,
it
was
hinted
,
as
an
excellent
means
whereby
to
weaken
the
German
Hans-Towns
,
that
the
Potentates
of
Europe
would
forego
the
so
pernitious
custom
of
buying
at
a
deer
and
dishonorable
rate
the
schum
of
the
Switzers
,
Grisouns
,
and
other
German
Nations
,
it
being
sure
that
if
they
should
be
left
in
their
own
Countreys
,
those
unquiet
,
seditious
and
disorderly
spirits
,
which
much
to
their
profit
,
they
send
abroad
,
would
cause
such
fractions
at
home
,
as
they
would
be
seen
to
turn
those
weapons
upon
themselves
,
which
now
they
sell
to
unwise
Princes
at
the
weight
of
gold
.
But
the
many
jealousies
which
have
always
reigned
,
which
reign
now
more
then
ever
,
and
which
it
is
to
be
believed
,
will
for
ever
reign
amongst
the
greatest
Kings
of
Christendom
,
wrought
so
,
as
for
fear
,
lest
the
one
might
leave
all
the
refuse
to
be
made
use
of
by
the
other
,
so
salutiferous
a
memorandum
was
publiquely
praised
by
all
,
and
in
private
abhorred
by
every
particular
.
But
it
is
true
,
that
to
make
Monarchy
as
pleasing
to
the
people
as
it
was
possible
for
Princes
to
do
,
these
underwritten
Articles
were
with
great
solemnity
penned
,
established
,
and
sworn
unto
in
the
Dyet
to
be
inviolably
kept
.
I.
THat
since
to
love
and
fear
God
with
all
ones
heart
,
was
the
wisest
piece
of
Policy
,
and
the
most
perfect
State-Reason
which
could
be
learned
and
practised
by
Princes
,
they
should
not
for
the
future
make
use
of
his
most
holy
name
(
as
many
had
formerly
done
)
as
a
means
whereby
to
get
money
from
their
people
;
and
to
hurry
them
or
wheel
them
about
with
divers
Sects
,
and
new
Religions
,
such
as
made
most
for
their
worldly
interests
;
but
to
obtain
that
favour
from
his
Divine
Majestie
,
which
brings
abundance
of
all
that
is
good
to
Princes
who
fear
God
,
and
to
people
who
obey
his
holy
Laws
.
II.
That
for
the
future
they
should
be
content
so
to
milk
and
shear
the
sheep
of
their
Flock
,
as
that
they
should
not
onely
not
flea
them
,
but
not
so
much
as
touch
a
bit
of
their
skin
,
being
mindful
that
men
were
creatures
which
had
understanding
,
not
beasts
which
knew
nothing
;
that
therefore
there
was
a
great
deal
of
difference
between
Shepherds
who
shore
and
milked
sheep
,
and
Prince-shepherds
,
who
shore
and
milked
men
;
the
latter
being
to
use
the
shears
of
discretion
,
instead
of
those
of
meer
interest
,
which
are
onely
made
use
of
(
and
that
always
unfortunately
)
by
greedy
Shepherds
;
it
having
been
often
seen
,
that
publike
hatred
hath
been
able
to
metamorphize
the
simple
sheep
of
subjects
,
into
skittish
Mules
,
who
have
driven
their
indiscrete
shepherd
out
of
the
fold
with
kicking
.
III.
That
they
should
keep
their
people
within
the
bounds
of
fear
,
not
with
such
a
caprichious
beastiality
as
makes
the
Government
of
one
man
alone
dreadful
,
and
then
totally
pernitious
,
when
he
will
judge
mens
lives
by
his
sole
arbitrary
power
;
but
by
being
inexorable
in
those
faults
onely
which
not
deserving
pardon
,
had
need
to
be
punished
with
all
the
severity
that
the
Law
allows
.
IV.
That
they
should
be
spairing
of
publike
moneys
to
unworthy
personages
,
prodigal
to
such
as
did
deserve
well
;
for
that
they
being
so
hardly
drawn
from
the
subjects
,
every
Prince
who
would
deserve
the
name
of
a
good
shepherd
,
was
bound
to
give
them
so
much
satisfaction
,
as
to
see
that
their
moneys
were
not
prodigally
wasted
in
hunting
,
tilting
,
feasting
,
in
inriching
Bawds
,
Buffoons
and
Flatterers
;
but
that
they
were
judiciously
laid
out
for
the
advantage
of
publike
peace
.
V.
That
they
should
for
the
future
confer
Dignities
and
Magistracy
to
such
as
were
most
worthy
,
having
respect
onely
to
the
merit
of
the
desirer
,
not
to
any
affection
of
the
recommender
;
for
that
he
did
truly
deserve
to
be
accounted
a
fool
,
who
to
honor
or
advantage
another
,
shamed
himself
,
and
disparaged
his
own
gifts
.
VI.
That
they
should
bury
their
own
odd
conceits
,
and
for
ever
banish
their
private
passions
:
And
to
the
end
that
they
might
put
on
that
excellent
resolution
which
makes
Princes
so
happy
,
and
Kingdoms
so
flourishing
,
of
absolutely
submitting
themselves
to
the
good
and
publike
interest
of
their
people
,
they
should
totally
abandon
their
own
wilful
opinion
.
VII
.
That
they
should
appear
to
be
absolute
Monarchs
of
their
States
,
in
executing
the
results
of
their
most
important
affairs
,
but
in
consulting
thereupon
,
onely
the
heads
of
a
well
ordered
Aristocracy
;
being
sure
that
four
fools
who
did
advise
together
,
made
better
resolves
,
then
any
the
best
greatest
wit
could
do
alone
.
VIII
.
That
making
God
their
example
whose
Lieutenants
Princes
were
on
earth
,
they
should
pardon
Homecide
onely
out
of
compassion
,
born
to
minority
in
yerrs
,
to
the
greatness
of
the
offence
received
more
in
honor
then
in
life
,
to
certain
sudden
furies
;
which
makes
a
man
not
master
of
himself
bereaving
him
of
all
judgement
and
reason
;
but
not
for
greediness
of
money
;
for
that
Princes
could
not
introduce
a
more
wicked
Traffick
in
their
Tribunals
,
then
to
make
merchandize
of
mens
blood
.
That
therefore
fraudulent
Homicides
committed
out
of
premiditated
malice
should
by
no
means
be
forgiven
,
not
onely
for
not
drawing
down
Gods
anger
upon
them
,
but
for
the
administration
of
that
right
justice
which
they
were
bound
to
give
unto
their
subjects
;
for
that
Princes
by
pardoning
hainous
offences
,
purchased
onely
the
praise
of
being
avaritiously
and
wickedly
merciful
.
IX
.
That
they
should
firmly
believe
themselves
to
be
absolute
Lords
and
Masters
of
their
subjects
;
not
as
shepherds
are
of
their
sheep
,
who
may
sell
them
to
the
shambles
;
but
onely
utendo
,
not
abutendo
,
by
using
,
not
by
abusing
them
;
for
people
imbittered
by
bad
usuage
,
could
not
live
long
with
that
ill
satisfaction
,
which
is
the
fruitful
mother
of
bad
resolutions
.
X.
That
they
should
think
the
true
heaping
up
of
riches
consisted
in
giving
content
unto
their
people
,
and
in
making
them
of
subjects
,
brothers
and
children
;
and
that
the
excellent
art
of
taking
Sturgions
with
Pilchards
,
was
nothing
else
,
then
to
purchase
the
rich
treasure
of
mens
hearts
by
a
wise
liberality
,
and
to
cheapen
love
by
clemency
:
for
to
fill
their
coffers
with
gold
,
raised
out
of
the
taxes
and
exactions
(
as
some
Princes
do
)
was
not
onely
to
swell
that
spleen
which
did
so
impare
the
health
of
a
sound
body
,
but
did
oft
times
serve
as
sharp
spurs
,
and
loud
sounding
Trumpets
,
to
make
Foreigners
arm
themselves
that
they
may
make
themselves
masters
of
so
great
wealth
.
XI
.
That
in
their
insolences
and
extravagancies
,
they
should
by
no
means
relie
upon
their
subjects
love
,
which
was
as
soon
lost
by
using
an
impertinancy
,
or
by
a
distaste
given
,
as
it
was
won
by
a
courteous
or
liberal
action
.
Neither
should
they
build
upon
their
peoples
former
patience
;
for
that
the
minds
and
humors
of
men
did
change
and
vary
with
Times
,
Places
'
and
Persons
.
That
therefore
they
should
not
wax
proud
of
their
peoples
being
grosly
ignorant
or
that
they
were
altogether
unarmed
,
nor
should
they
presume
too
much
upon
them
;
for
there
was
never
any
Kingdom
yet
,
which
was
not
very
full
of
such
unquiet
,
ambitious
and
male-content
Nobility
,
as
would
serve
for
sure
guides
to
blind
people
;
and
for
learned
School-masters
,
who
would
teach
ignorant
people
the
important
precept
,
and
the
seditious
doctrine
,
that
to
come
out
of
the
laborinth
of
the
slavery
of
Monarchy
,
which
was
governed
only
by
insolency
,
and
the
irregular
fancy
of
a
hair-brained
Prince
,
like
These
's
,
they
must
follow
the
clew
of
arms
;
which
was
more
dangerous
to
a
Prince
,
for
that
despair
caused
in
people
by
such
proceedings
,
though
they
were
weak
,
unarmed
and
ignorant
,
would
make
them
find
arms
,
courage
and
judgement
in
every
corner
.
XII
.
That
they
should
wear
the
powerful
Militia
of
boundless
Empire
(
which
the
Laws
will
have
Princes
to
have
even
over
the
lives
of
men
,
for
terror
of
the
wicked
)
by
their
side
,
for
the
security
of
such
as
good
;
but
that
they
should
never
make
use
of
it
,
&
that
they
should
freely
deliver
up
such
as
were
guilty
,
to
the
power
of
sacred
Justice
,
for
the
ranker
of
hatred
and
revenge
was
never
a
whit
lessened
by
inflicting
cruel
torments
upon
the
guilty
.
That
therefore
to
the
end
that
Delinquents
might
appease
their
so
incensed
souls
,
even
at
the
bitter
point
of
death
,
they
should
let
all
favour
in
criminal
causes
proceed
from
themselves
;
and
that
the
sword
of
justice
should
be
onely
exercised
by
their
Magistrates
.
XIII
.
That
in
laying
on
of
Taxes
,
as
great
caution
as
could
be
should
be
had
to
such
things
as
tended
to
the
feeding
and
cloathing
of
the
poor
,
who
live
out
of
the
sweat
of
their
brows
;
and
that
they
should
lay
the
heavier
impositions
upon
such
things
as
belonged
to
the
delights
,
luxuries
and
superfluities
of
the
wealthy
,
who
living
idly
upon
their
rents
,
minded
nothing
but
great
gaming
,
and
inventing
new
vices
.
XIV
.
That
above
all
things
,
they
should
be
very
careful
,
that
all
publike
provisions
should
be
modestly
exacted
,
and
by
discret
parsonages
;
for
it
hapned
oft
times
,
that
people
were
more
troubled
with
the
condition
of
him
that
gathered
the
taxes
,
and
the
violent
manner
of
gathering
it
,
then
with
the
tax
it self
.
XV.
That
they
should
use
all
possible
industry
in
feeding
the
common
people
with
bred
,
the
Nobility
with
degrees
of
honour
;
and
that
to
arrive
at
so
happy
ends
,
they
should
suffer
free
commerce
amongst
their
subjects
of
selling
and
buying
the
fruits
and
incomes
of
their
lands
,
and
the
gain
of
their
Traffick
:
but
that
they
should
be
very
careful
to
fill
their
State-Magazines
with
corn
,
and
all
things
necessary
for
the
life
of
man
,
bought
and
brought
in
from
foreign
parts
;
which
was
a
rich
and
happy
Traffick
,
which
paid
Princes
the
use
of
a
hundred
for
one
,
when
by
the
great
plenty
occasioned
thereby
,
they
had
lost
their
principal
.
XVI
.
That
for
the
better
content
of
their
Nobility
,
who
always
thirst
after
glory
and
honor
,
they
should
confer
places
of
Magistracy
,
and
other
chief
dignities
onely
upon
the
Noble
subjects
of
their
States
.
And
that
they
should
keep
,
as
from
fire
,
from
giving
them
that
mortal
wound
,
which
had
caused
woful
subversions
in
the
greatest
Kingdoms
of
Europe
,
of
admitting
foreigners
into
places
of
imployment
,
thereby
to
inrich
and
aggrandize
them
,
and
of
exalting
mean
and
ignorant
persons
to
a
higher
degree
then
the
jealousie
of
the
State
will
bear
,
meerly
out
of
their
capretious
affections
;
and
that
in
a
particular
of
so
great
concernment
,
they
should
imitate
the
wisdom
which
wise
nature
had
taught
dogs
,
who
cannot
endure
that
a
strange
dog
should
come
within
the
doors
where
they
live
,
onely
out
of
fear
that
they
should
steal
their
masters
favour
from
them
,
which
they
are
very
jealous
of
,
and
that
bread
which
is
deservedly
their
due
for
having
by
their
continual
watchfulness
,
kept
the
house
in
safety
.
XVII
.
That
in
the
Edicts
which
they
should
publish
,
they
should
imitate
well
governed
Commonwealths
,
the
end
of
whose
Laws
is
always
seen
to
be
the
common
good
,
not
private
interest
,
as
it
is
often
found
to
be
in
Principalities
.
XVIII
.
That
they
should
for
ever
banish
from
out
their
houses
,
those
Flatterers
,
Buffouns
and
Minions
,
who
do
so
stain
the
reputation
of
any
great
Prince
;
and
that
they
should
not
onely
be
inamored
of
the
vertue
,
worth
and
merit
of
their
Magistrates
,
and
deliver
themselves
wholly
up
unto
their
power
,
but
that
they
should
even
worship
them
.
XIX
.
And
because
to
be
cast
in
suits
,
did
redound
as
little
to
the
reputation
of
private
men
,
as
for
Princes
to
go
to
law
with
their
vassals
,
and
carry
the
cause
against
them
,
be
it
right
or
wrong
,
all
such
disputes
should
be
first
made
known
to
men
learned
in
the
Law
,
and
commence
no
suit
,
wherein
their
right
did
not
evidently
appear
to
all
men
.
And
that
to
free
themselves
from
the
stain
of
rapine
and
tyrany
,
they
should
appear
more
content
when
they
had
not
onely
lost
the
cause
,
but
were
condemned
in
damages
,
then
over-joyed
when
the
sentence
went
on
their
side
.
XX.
That
answerable
to
the
custom
of
good
Commonwealths
,
the
ultimate
end
of
their
thoughts
should
hereafter
be
the
peace
and
quiet
of
their
States
,
which
makes
the
people
that
enjoy
it
so
happy
;
and
that
they
should
vent
their
over
much
ambition
in
acquiring
the
singular
glory
of
well
governing
their
people
,
which
God
hath
given
them
,
and
not
to
affect
other
mens
Dominions
by
fire
,
rapine
,
and
the
effusion
of
mane
blood
.
That
they
should
make
poormens
faults
pecuniarly
punishable
;
but
that
they
should
punish
proud
wealthy
men
in
their
lives
,
making
them
pay
composition
of
blood
,
that
they
might
make
the
whole
world
see
,
that
they
punishmens
faults
out
of
zeal
to
justice
,
not
for
greediness
of
money
;
he
being
a
great
enemy
to
publike
peace
,
whom
riches
made
proud
,
and
spurred
him
up
to
commit
faults
.
XXI
.
That
they
should
endeavour
to
effect
the
good
and
vertuous
living
of
their
subjects
,
more
by
their
own
examples
,
then
by
rigour
of
law
,
it
being
impossible
to
keep
people
from
committing
those
faults
which
their
Princes
are
addicted
unto
.
XXII
.
That
in
the
Government
of
their
States
,
they
should
not
use
that
carelessness
which
is
proper
to
Princes
who
possess
great
Kingdoms
,
or
that
too
exact
diligence
which
doth
so
disquiet
the
people
,
and
which
is
usually
seen
in
Princes
,
who
having
great
wit
,
command
over
a
little
,
State
,
but
that
they
should
sail
with
the
safe
north
wind
of
Nequid
Nimis
.
XXIII
.
That
they
should
punish
onely
great
●…aults
with
the
rigour
of
the
law
▪
and
seem
not
to
see
,
or
take
notice
of
little
ones
,
or
(
as
becomes
Princes
who
govern
men
,
not
Angels
)
freely
pard
on
them
;
that
for
faults
of
a
middle
sort
,
they
should
use
such
punishments
as
were
suitable
to
the
misdemenors
;
and
that
they
should
shun
,
shewing
themselves
too
severe
in
punishing
at
the
present
,
to
deter
future
excesses
;
that
they
should
chi●…fly
study
that
the
Princes
clemency
might
clearly
be
seen
in
the
punishment
of
any
guil●…y
person
,
either
in
mitigating
the
pain
,
changing
the
punishment
,
or
by
pardoning
confiscated
goods
.
XXIV
.
That
private
injuries
,
as
well
as
publique
offences
should
always
be
vindicated
by
the
cha●…table
arm
of
justice
;
and
that
when
any
of
their
subjects
should
offend
them
,
they
should
not
hate
the
whole
family
,
but
onely
the
party
offending
,
with
whose
punishment
their
anger
should
cease
,
and
should
shun
the
custom
of
preserving
rancor
,
and
of
transmitting
those
eternal
fewds
and
immortal
defiances
to
their
heirs
,
which
making
men
dispair
,
were
not
onely
very
dangerous
to
Princes
,
but
made
Monarchies
be
hated
.
XXV
.
That
all
of
them
should
as
soon
as
may
be
,
endeavour
to
free
their
people
from
the
disease
,
which
so
much
molests
their
minds
,
afflicts
their
bodies
,
and
consumes
their
estates
of
the
eternity
of
law
suits
;
and
that
of
all
things
they
should
keep
themselves
from
that
foul
fault
of
reaping
profit
out
of
yearly
revenues
,
that
so
they
might
shun
the
publike
hatred
which
they
would
incur
,
when
people
should
see
that
these
so
great
disorders
served
only
for
Leeches
,
to
suck
money
out
of
the
very
bowels
of
their
afflicted
people
,
who
finding
no
greater
hell
in
this
life
,
then
the
torment
of
pleading
,
and
of
being
in
the
hands
of
ravenous
Judges
,
Advocates
,
Notaries
and
Sergeants
,
it
was
the
duty
of
every
good
Prince
,
rather
by
his
own
expence
to
free
his
people
from
being
so
pilled
and
pooled
,
then
to
make
use
of
them
for
a
rich
,
though
very
wicked
commodity
.
XXVI
.
That
they
should
preserve
such
grain
,
oyl
and
wine
,
and
other
things
which
appertain
to
the
food
of
man
,
as
grew
in
their
dominions
,
yea
even
in
years
of
greatest
abundance
;
and
when
their
was
much
superfluity
of
them
,
and
should
by
no
means
make
sale
thereof
to
foreign
Nations
;
for
since
no
man
can
secure
himself
of
the
next
years
plentiful
harvest
,
Princes
could
commit
no
greater
folly
then
to
be
blamed
for
that
scarcity
which
even
God
himself
sends
.
XXVII
.
That
the
greatest
advantage
which
Commonwealths
have
over
Monarchies
,
lying
in
their
being
free
from
the
impediment
of
women
.
All
Princes
should
keep
their
wives
,
and
all
other
women
of
their
blood
,
from
having
any
thing
to
do
in
Government
,
or
in
publike
affairs
;
as
those
who
by
their
indiscrete
and
avaritious
proceedings
,
had
caused
sad
Tragidies
in
many
Principallities
.
And
that
they
should
firmly
believe
,
that
the
great
Polititian
Tacitus
,
had
never
said
a
greater
truth
then
Non
imbecillem
tantum
,
&
imparem
laboribus
sexum
:
sed
si
licentia
adsit
,
saevum
,
ambitiosum
,
potestatis
avidum
.
Tacit.
3.
Annal.
That
it
is
not
onely
a
weak
sex
,
and
unfit
for
business
;
but
if
permitted
,
cruel
,
ambitious
and
greedy
of
power
.
These
Articles
being
agreed
upon
,
and
sworn
unto
,
the
same
Lord
Chancellor
heartily
desired
the
Monarchs
of
the
Diet
,
that
(
to
the
end
that
the
world
might
not
see
the
scandalous
example
of
the
States
of
Holland
and
Zealand
)
they
would
quite
lay
aside
all
other
whatsoever
kind
of
private
interest
;
and
that
if
(
as
they
were
obliged
to
do
,
both
out
of
wisdom
and
State-policy
)
they
would
give
no
assistance
to
the
Spaniards
,
so
as
they
might
the
better
witness
to
the
world
,
that
it
was
impossible
for
rebellious
people
to
purchase
liberty
by
seditious
arms
;
that
they
would
not
at
least
assist
the
Hollanders
and
Zealanders
,
it
being
great
folly
,
and
very
bad
counsel
,
to
precipitate
or
overthrow
their
own
affairs
,
by
so
shameful
an
example
,
to
the
end
that
they
might
discompose
the
affairs
of
other
men
.
All
these
Monarchs
,
with
a
wonderful
consent
,
answered
the
Lord
Chancellor
(
so
possitively
can
Princes
,
who
are
born
,
brought
up
,
and
have
continually
lived
in
the
Tiberian
art
of
Simulation
,
promise
that
with
their
mouthes
,
which
their
heart
never
dictates
to
them
)
that
that
should
by
all
means
be
done
,
which
they
in
private
knew
they
would
never
execute
.
The
VII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
People
of
Phocides
treating
how
they
might
rise
in
Rebellion
,
by
reason
of
the
relation
which
their
Ambassadors
made
unto
them
,
who
were
formerly
sent
to
Apollo
,
to
pray
that
their
Priviledges
might
be
observed
:
The
remedy
fittest
to
be
applyed
to
such
a
disorder
,
is
discust
in
his
Majesties
Royal
Council
.
IT
is
not
to
be
believed
,
how
much
the
Inhabitants
of
Phocides
were
incensed
,
when
they
heard
the
relation
which
their
Ambassadors
made
,
who
were
sent
by
them
to
Parnassus
,
by
reason
of
the
breach
of
their
Priviledges
;
for
they
could
not
endure
that
to
boot
with
the
prejudice
of
loss
of
priviledges
,
they
should
be
scornfully
treated
,
like
boys
.
Wherefore
horn-mad
with
anger
,
they
stormed
,
and
freely
profest
that
they
would
by
arms
defend
the
priviledges
of
their
Countrey
,
and
that
even
with
the
loss
of
their
last
drop
of
blood
,
they
would
therewith
endeavor
to
recover
their
lost
liberty
;
and
that
if
any
thing
of
ill
should
befal
them
,
they
should
deerly
pay
for
it
,
who
were
about
to
enslave
them
.
The
news
of
this
sedition
was
soon
brought
to
Apollo
;
and
the
business
was
argued
many
mornings
in
his
Majesties
Council
;
and
though
some
of
the
chief
thereof
said
,
it
was
requisite
to
dispatch
away
immediately
a
Legion
of
Poets
to
Phocides
,
who
might
keep
that
incensed
people
in
obedience
;
yet
the
opinion
of
Isabel
Queen
of
Spain
prevailed
,
who
for
the
excellency
of
her
wit
,
hath
deservedly
the
prime
place
in
that
Council
.
She
said
,
that
to
provide
soon
for
the
prevention
of
insurrections
in
States
,
which
were
wholly
in
slavery
to
their
Princes
,
was
excellent
Council
;
but
that
in
such
States
,
as
by
reason
of
many
large
priviledges
,
lived
in
a
medium
between
slavery
and
liberty
,
rather
then
to
prevent
them
with
dangerous
remedies
,
it
might
be
wisely
done
,
to
tarry
till
the
disorders
were
begun
,
whereby
wise
Princes
might
much
advantage
themselves
;
for
then
they
might
justly
take
from
them
all
those
priviledges
,
which
are
sharp
thorns
in
the
eyes
of
those
that
govern
.
The
VIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
A
great
controversie
arising
in
point
of
Precedency
,
between
the
Prince
of
Bisagnano
,
and
Dr.
Juliano
Corbelli
of
St.
Marino
.
Apollo
refers
the
consideration
thereof
to
the
Congregation
of
Ceremonies
,
by
which
it
is
decided
.
A
Difference
arose
a
while
ago
in
point
of
Precedency
,
between
the
Prince
of
Bisagnano
,
and
Iuliano
Corbelli
,
Doctor
of
Law
at
S.
Marino
,
a
little
Castle
in
Romania
,
but
very
famous
for
the
great
Pre-eminency
of
liberty
which
it
enjoys
,
for
it
is
governed
like
a
Common-wealth
:
and
though
the
Doctors
pretensions
were
so
despised
by
the
Neapolitan
Barons
,
as
it
was
thought
presumptuous
,
yet
was
not
Corbelli
any
whit
discouraged
;
but
appealing
to
Apollo
,
his
Majestie
referred
the
business
to
the
Congregation
of
Ceremonies
in
Parnassus
;
before
whom
the
Prince
scorned
to
appear
,
complaining
,
that
in
a
cause
which
was
so
clear
on
his
side
,
he
should
be
made
to
appear
in
judgement
against
a
man
born
in
so
base
a
Countrey
,
as
produced
nothing
but
Swine-herds
,
he
himself
being
an
illustrious
Neapolitan
Baron
.
Yet
lest
sentence
might
be
given
against
him
for
his
contumacy
,
he
was
forced
to
acquaint
the
Congregation
with
what
he
had
to
alledge
for
himself
;
who
having
very
diligently
perused
the
evidences
produced
by
both
parties
,
gave
judgement
six
days
since
on
the
Doctors
side
,
who
being
born
in
a
Free-Countrey
;
was
(
as
they
said
)
to
walk
hand
in
hand
with
Kings
;
much
more
to
be
preferred
before
a
Neapolitan
Baron
.
Then
,
as
for
the
Fee
or
Tribute
which
the
Prince
possest
in
Bisagnano
;
they
said
,
that
it
was
declared
by
a
decree
made
long
before
by
his
Majestie
,
that
he
did
truly
deserve
the
name
of
Prince
,
who
obeyed
no
King
;
not
he
who
in
anothers
Lordship
,
commanded
over
poor
vassals
,
by
whom
he
might
be
daily
accused
,
abused
and
persecuted
in
Court
Leet
,
and
other
Tribunals
;
in
which
case
the
titles
of
Prince
,
Duke
or
Marquis
was
no
real
thing
,
but
a
kind
of
false
Alchimy
,
which
was
very
like
those
glass
eyes
which
squint
eyed
people
wear
to
honest
the
ill-favouredness
of
their
faces
,
not
to
make
them
see
;
then
,
as
for
his
noble
blood
,
upon
which
the
Prince
,
being
descended
from
the
noble
family
of
Sanceverini
,
did
ground
his
best
pretension
,
they
said
,
that
the
Congregation
did
not
at
all
consider
it
,
the
clear
Testimony
of
the
Anatomists
being
produced
by
the
contrary
party
;
wherein
it
being
clearly
proved
,
that
the
bones
,
nerves
,
flesh
and
bowels
of
men
were
all
made
after
the
same
manner
,
it
denoted
evidently
that
true
Nobility
was
placed
in
the
brains
,
not
in
veins
.
The
IX
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
publ
sh●…th
a
very
severe
Edict
against
some
Litterati
,
who
under
a
cloak
of
feigned
piety
,
cover
downright
avarice
.
APollo
finding
for
certain
that
a
new
race
of
wicked
men
are
sprung
up
in
Parnassus
,
and
in
his
other
States
,
who
though
they
have
made
Gold
their
Idol
,
yet
to
cover
their
unquenchable
thirst
after
riches
,
do
so
confidently
make
use
of
the
cloke
of
feigned
goodness
,
as
they
have
dared
to
exercise
the
devilish
art
of
hypocrisie
bare
faced
;
his
Majesty
to
provide
for
the
indempnity
of
those
silly
ones
,
who
think
all
to
be
gold
that
glisters
,
and
of
those
blockheads
who
cannot
discern
an
Eel
from
an
Adner
,
by
an
Edict
of
his
published
on
Tuesday
last
,
doth
in
the
first
place
affectionately
exhort
all
souls
living
,
to
walk
by
the
so
beaten
way
of
honoured
Antiquity
,
of
bene
vivere
,
&
Laetari
;
which
proceeds
from
Gods
great
grace
to
good
men
;
assuring
every
one
that
men
may
win
favour
from
God
,
and
good
will
from
men
,
even
amongst
great
riches
,
if
they
be
honorably
gotten
,
and
well
distributed
:
Wherefore
he
exhorted
all
men
,
that
forgoing
fiction
,
and
all
manner
of
double
▪
dealing
,
as
things
which
gave
an
ill
savor
even
to
good
things
,
and
which
made
mens
devotion
appear
hypocrisie
,
they
should
live
with
that
purity
of
soul
,
and
that
candidness
of
manners
,
which
made
even
stones
look
lovely
,
much
more
men
;
and
that
if
there
were
any
one
,
who
would
by
a
holy
life
make
that
profession
of
piety
,
which
is
so
suspected
in
men
who
have
avarice
joined
to
their
great
riches
,
that
their
devotion
should
by
all
means
begin
from
the
contempt
of
money
,
distributing
it
out
unto
the
poor
,
and
laying
it
out
in
pious
works
;
which
if
they
should
not
do
,
they
should
be
held
from
those
crafty
companions
who
make
use
of
piety
more
to
deceive
men
,
then
to
please
God
.
The
X.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
City
Pretor
,
or
Chief
Iustice
of
Parnassus
,
complai●…
bitterly
before
Apollo
of
the
Triumviri
;
a
Magistracy
newly
instituted
by
his
Majesty
,
That
in
an
Edict
of
theirs
published
against
Mignus
and
other
Ministers
of
Princes
obsenities
,
they
have
violated
his
Iurisdiction
.
APollo
having
learnt
by
many
sad
examples
which
have
hapned
,
that
Printing
,
which
it
is
to
be
believed
,
was
at
first
by
Divine
Councel
suggested
into
the
Cavalier
Iohn
of
Mentz
,
only
to
facilitate
the
learning
of
the
most
illustrious
Sciences
,
to
such
as
are
desirous
of
knowledge
,
is
made
use
of
by
wicked
men
,
not
onely
as
an
excellent
instrument
to
staine
mens
minds
,
with
impiety
,
obsceneness
and
evil
speaking
;
but
that
ambitious
men
serve
themselves
thereof
for
damn'd
weapons
to
make
people
rebel
against
their
natural
Princes
:
Apollo
,
I
say
,
by
wholsom
and
Divine
Councel
(
as
the
event
hath
shewn
)
did
many
years
ago
institute
the
remarkable
Magistracy
of
the
Triumviry
,
whose
Office
it
is
to
send
such
books
as
are
infected
with
impiety
,
sedition
,
and
such
obscenities
as
corrupt
good
manners
,
to
the
Pest-house
.
This
Magistracy
some
three
daies
ago
,
under
pain
of
grievous
punishment
,
sent
express
command
to
all
favorits
,
bawds
,
flatterers
,
and
others
whom
their
Princes
do
Idolize
,
who
live
desolutely
,
that
they
should
not
dare
any
more
to
stir
out
of
dores
,
to
the
end
that
these
monsters
of
nature
might
not
(
to
the
great
scandal
of
good
men
)
be
seen
to
go
so
vain-gloriously
trampling
the
street
upon
their
pacing
horses
,
and
in
their
rich
Coaches
,
as
if
they
triumphed
over
the
world
,
who
by
their
lewd
manner
of
living
,
having
extorted
those
rewards
from
vitious
Princes
,
which
are
only
due
to
deserving
men
,
are
not
worthy
to
eat
bread
.
The
City
Pretor
made
a
great
complaint
to
Apollo
of
this
novelty
,
accusing
the
Triumviry
of
having
exceeded
the
bounds
of
their
Authority
,
and
very
much
intrencht
upon
his
Jurisdiction
.
The
Triumviry
were
immediately
sent
for
by
his
Majesty
,
who
defending
their
cause
exceedingly
well
,
said
that
they
had
by
length
of
time
clearly
learnt
,
that
certain
obscene
living
books
which
walked
up
and
down
the
streets
,
caused
greater
scandal
in
well
composed
minds
,
and
free
from
all
pollution
,
then
did
Machiavil
,
Bodin
,
Aratin
,
and
other
writers
of
wickedness
,
and
obsceneness
,
which
were
found
hid
in
many
Libraries
;
a
disorder
which
ought
the
rather
to
be
corrected
,
for
that
the
wicked
manners
of
living
men
,
made
a
much
greater
impression
in
mens
minds
;
then
the
filth
that
was
read
in
dead
Authors
,
whose
damn'd
writings
many
forbore
to
read
,
out
of
meer
abhorition
of
such
things
,
many
for
fear
of
offending
God
,
and
of
being
punisht
by
men
,
many
for
that
they
had
not
many
of
those
forbidden
books
,
or
for
want
of
curiosity
,
or
love
of
idleness
;
but
that
men
of
holy
lives
,
much
against
their
wils
,
and
not
without
offence
,
were
forced
to
read
,
study
,
contemplate
,
and
honour
these
Bawds
,
Flatterets
,
and
other
Ministers
of
vitious
Princes
,
who
neither
cared
for
Gods
honor
,
nor
their
own
reputation
,
who
were
scandalous
two
leg'd
books
,
which
were
daily
seen
to
walk
the
streets
;
and
that
he
must
be
armed
with
more
then
humane
vertue
,
who
would
not
be
contaminated
and
scandalized
to
see
the
sole
aspects
of
these
hateful
men
.
The
XI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Inhabitants
of
Phocides
fall
into
open
Rebellion
,
by
reason
that
the
Priviledges
of
their
Country
are
not
observed
by
Apollo's
Officers
;
they
are
pacified
by
a
Senator
,
and
send
new
Ambassadors
to
his
Majesty
.
THe
Polititians
precept
is
very
true
;
That
people
who
have
lived
long
in
a
half
Liberty
,
with
large
priviledges
,
are
very
hardly
reduced
to
tollerate
whole
slavery
.
This
is
said
,
because
the
uproars
of
Phocides
occasioned
by
the
not
observancy
of
their
priviledges
(
as
you
heard
at
large
by
the
last
Post
)
have
still
increased
more
and
more
,
in
so
much
as
on
the
ninth
of
this
present
month
,
more
incenst
then
over
,
since
such
satisfaction
as
was
desired
,
was
denied
them
by
Apollo's
Officers
,
the
Phocidians
took
up
arms
,
and
running
through
the
City
,
cryed
out
,
Liberty
,
Liberty
.
When
the
chief
Magistrate
of
Phocides
,
much
troubled
at
such
a
novelty
,
desired
a
Parley
of
the
people
that
were
in
arms
,
who
when
they
were
all
assembled
in
the
chief
Piazza
;
t
is
said
,
that
the
uprightest
and
most
experienced
Senator
of
Phocides
spake
thus
;
The
most
dangerous
enterprise
(
my
most
beloved
Phocidians
)
which
Subjects
can
undertake
,
is
to
grow
stubborn
,
and
rebel
against
their
Prince
:
For
Princes
are
not
so
merciful
as
to
pardon
injuries
of
so
high
a
nature
;
which
though
they
sometimes
forgive
,
they
never
forget
;
Whence
it
is
,
that
such
excesses
never
pass
without
their
condigne
punishment
:
For
as
it
falls
out
in
all
offences
which
are
either
through
wisdom
winkt
at
,
or
pardoned
per
force
,
they
are
in
their
due
time
and
place
,
the
more
severely
revenged
,
by
having
their
vindication
retarded
to
a
more
opportune
time
.
And
God
deliver
us
,
and
all
other
people
that
suffer
such
calamities
as
we
do
,
from
those
cruel
revenges
,
which
Princes
who
are
offended
in
State-affairs
,
use
after
long
meditation
to
take
,
against
their
disloyal
people
;
and
rebellion
is
so
far
from
being
forgotten
(
even
by
most
merciful
Princes
)
as
an
amendment
of
many
hundred
years
loyalty
cannot
so
cancel
it
cut
of
exasperated
minds
,
but
that
the
memory
of
such
signal
injuries
are
transmitted
over
to
the
twentieth
generation
;
since
by
their
importance
they
infuse
such
diffidence
into
him
that
reigns
,
and
such
suspitions
as
occasion
perpetual
odium
between
the
Vassal
and
the
Soveraign
Lord
;
from
whence
afterwards
the
great
disorder
ariseth
,
as
that
natural
subjects
,
which
are
no
other
then
the
Princes
beloved
children
,
and
therefore
ought
to
be
treated
with
terms
of
fatherly
love
,
and
governed
by
Laws
of
Charity
,
are
reputed
cruel
enemies
,
conquered
people
,
subjugated
by
force
of
arms
;
and
therefore
according
to
the
politick
Precept
,
treated
like
slaves
:
Which
things
at
last
produce
that
great
inconvenience
,
that
even
lawful
Princes
,
grievously
moved
by
such
hainous
offences
against
their
rebellious
subjects
,
become
cruel
Tyrants
.
I
(
fellow
Citizens
)
speak
not
now
as
an
Officer
of
the
Prince
,
in
aggravating
the
condition
of
our
slavery
,
but
as
one
who
would
produce
peace
in
this
our
Country
;
and
if
you
shall
not
think
my
councel
good
,
I
will
willingly
be
one
of
the
first
who
will
joyn
with
you
in
your
resolution
,
being
better
contented
to
err
with
many
,
then
to
be
wise
with
a
few
.
But
before
you
proceed
further
in
a
business
of
such
importance
,
I
earnestly
intreat
you
,
and
heartily
beg
of
you
,
even
by
these
tears
which
fall
so
abundantly
from
mine
eyes
,
that
you
will
maturely
consider
,
that
for
the
most
part
,
popular
insurrections
meet
with
unfortunate
ends
:
Which
happens
not
only
because
resolutions
in
so
weighty
affairs
are
taken
in
hot
bloud
,
when
men
are
most
incenst
,
and
when
mens
minds
are
most
incombred
with
the
foolish
passion
of
fury
,
whereas
they
ought
to
be
put
on
in
cold
bloud
,
and
when
the
mind
is
most
maturely
setled
;
but
because
upon
such
like
occasions
,
rash
and
precipitous
councels
are
more
willingly
imbraced
and
listned
unto
,
then
such
as
are
mature
and
quiet
.
For
with
people
that
are
up
in
commotion
,
he
is
alwaies
thought
wisest
,
who
is
most
adventurous
,
and
he
most
zealous
of
his
Countries
Liberty
,
who
adviseth
to
things
most
headlong
.
Here
(
beloved
Citizens
)
is
a
business
in
which
consists
the
total
of
our
safety
,
the
good
of
our
children
,
the
happiness
of
our
Country
,
which
ought
to
be
so
dear
unto
us
,
being
all
of
them
things
of
great
importance
,
wherein
surely
we
ought
to
proceed
with
much
circumspection
,
since
repentance
will
not
serve
the
turn
,
●…nce
the
punishment
of
such
a
sin
is
never
pardoned
,
but
the
infamy
thereof
indures
for
ever
,
and
the
danger
of
punishment
grows
then
greatest
when
the
Prince
hath
taken
a
thousand
oaths
to
pardon
it
:
For
Princes
think
it
no
shame
,
nor
breach
of
word
,
to
revenge
rebellion
in
their
subjects
,
though
it
be
pardoned
,
but
great
honour
,
and
an
obligation
which
they
owe
unto
their
honours
.
We
know
for
certain
that
Apollo
will
take
from
us
those
priviledges
,
which
we
are
bound
to
defend
with
the
effusion
of
our
blouds
,
and
loss
of
lives
▪
great
is
the
injury
that
is
done
us
,
and
such
as
ought
by
no
means
to
be
suffered
by
us
,
who
upon
other
occasions
have
proved
our selves
to
all
the
Vertuosi
of
Parnassus
,
to
be
resolute
;
the
injury
his
Majesty
doth
us
,
is
notorious
,
and
peradventure
fit
to
be
rescented
;
but
in
revenging
offences
given
,
and
in
preventing
such
as
are
feared
,
we
must
be
sure
to
proceed
so
,
as
not
to
fall
upon
such
resolves
,
as
may
be
more
prejuditial
to
us
then
the
loss
of
our
priviledges
,
which
now
we
go
about
to
defend
by
force
.
For
very
foolish
and
unfortunate
is
that
rescentment
which
brings
with
it
more
loss
and
shame
then
the
injuries
which
are
desired
to
be
vindicated
.
A
most
true
rule
,
which
admonisheth
us
not
to
enter
upon
so
dangerous
a
game
,
without
assured
hope
of
overcoming
;
for
unpardonable
injuries
ought
either
never
to
be
done
to
any
whosoever
,
more
especially
not
to
powerful
men
,
or
upon
certainty
that
they
can
never
be
revenged
.
I
urge
this
,
for
that
whosoever
puts
on
the
fatal
resolution
of
taking
up
arms
against
his
Prince
,
must
be
sure
to
have
sufficient
forces
of
himself
to
resist
his
Princes
power
,
or
so
ready
and
lustly
forein
aids
as
may
secure
him
from
being
supprest
.
We
(
my
fellow
Phocedians
)
know
very
well
our
forces
are
but
weak
;
and
that
no
Prince
will
assist
us
;
it
therefore
appears
to
me
to
be
a
horse-like
piece
of
beastiality
,
when
we
find
our selves
fast
bound
to
the
Charret
,
to
kick
against
the
wheels
,
and
so
spoyle
our
legs
.
It
is
rash
folly
to
doe
that
which
brings
with
it
certain
and
severe
punishment
:
We
may
truely
say
we
have
been
assaulted
in
the
streets
by
those
rascally
Officers
who
thirst
after
the
goods
of
their
fellow-subjects
,
who
would
take
from
us
the
rich
Jewels
of
our
Priviledges
;
they
are
armed
by
the
Princes
power
,
we
unarmed
passengers
;
will
it
not
then
be
unwisely
done
of
us
to
exasperate
them
by
resistance
?
T
is
great
wisdom
willingly
to
part
with
our
Jewel
so
to
save
our
lives
.
The
minds
of
Princes
who
are
born
and
brought
up
in
the
ambition
of
reigning
,
are
alwaies
in
motion
,
are
continually
working
,
nor
are
they
ever
quiet
till
they
get
total
domination
over
their
subjects
;
and
it
is
an
experienced
proposition
,
that
all
things
are
loosned
with
the
same
cords
wherewith
they
were
bound
;
and
it
is
very
observable
upon
this
our
occasion
;
for
if
it
be
true
,
that
we
must
all
confess
,
that
Princes
grant
priviledges
to
their
people
more
out
of
necessity
,
and
when
forced
so
to
do
,
then
out
of
free
will
;
who
is
he
that
knows
not
that
it
is
the
same
necessity
which
keeps
them
from
breaking
them
?
And
doth
not
every
one
know
that
the
effect
cannot
keep
on
foot
,
when
the
cause
faileth
?
Apollos
desire
of
depriving
us
of
our
priviledges
,
ariseth
not
(
as
we
complain
)
from
discourtesie
,
not
from
ingratitude
,
not
from
falcifying
his
word
,
but
from
the
alteration
of
this
our
afflicted
Country
.
Phocides
(
as
you
all
know
)
confined
formerly
upon
the
ignorant
,
who
are
capital
enemies
to
Apollo
and
his
Vertuosi
,
and
therefore
were
we
honored
with
the
gift
of
Priviledges
which
we
now
endeavor
to
defend
;
the
which
he
gave
us
(
as
it
is
usual
with
Princes
to
do
)
because
we
had
lately
,
of
our
own
accord
,
put
our selves
under
the
Dominion
of
Parnassus
;
we
are
now
by
process
of
time
become
natural
subjects
;
and
(
which
hath
more
impaired
our
condition
then
any
thing
else
)
we
are
,
by
the
Litterati's
dilating
their
Dominions
,
become
no
longer
confiners
,
but
inland
inhabiters
;
all
which
things
gives
us
to
understand
,
that
Princes
observe
other
mens
priviledges
inviolably
,
as
long
as
the
cause
why
they
were
granted
remains
.
By
these
things
which
I
have
told
you
(
my
beloved
)
you
may
know
that
your
taking
up
arms
of
rebellion
,
will
,
as
they
usually
do
,
aggrivate
their
evils
,
who
have
boldly
,
but
unwisely
taken
them
up
.
But
before
we
proceed
further
in
these
our
tumults
,
I
earnestly
desire
every
one
of
you
,
not
to
mind
so
much
the
just
reason
which
we
have
to
re●…sent
the
apparent
injury
which
is
done
us
,
as
the
unfortunate
end
which
this
our
insurrection
will
have
:
For
men
cannot
more
maturely
shun
committing
errors
,
then
by
meditating
long
upon
the
evils
which
they
may
produce
.
And
above
all
things
,
I
straitly
conjure
you
all
to
remember
,
that
non
tantum
est
Decora
Victoribus
Libertas
;
quantum
intollerantior
servitus
iterum
victis
.
Tacit.
lib.
3.
Annal.
This
Senators
perswasions
prevailed
so
much
with
these
inraged
people
,
as
after
a
short
consultation
,
four
Ambassadors
were
sent
to
this
Court
from
the
Senat
and
people
of
Phocides
,
who
presenting
themselves
this
morning
before
Apollo
,
told
him
,
that
the
people
of
Phocides
,
who
were
his
Majesties
most
devout
servants
,
having
learnt
at
last
,
that
nothing
can
be
more
foolishly
nor
more
rashly
done
,
then
for
a
servant
to
capitulate
with
his
Master
,
found
that
the
priviledges
,
exemptions
,
and
immunities
which
people
owe
unto
their
Princes
goodness
,
were
nothing
but
occasions
of
scandal
,
and
seminaries
of
discord
between
the
Prince
and
his
Vassals
;
that
therefore
the
Phocidians
being
very
unwilling
that
any
thing
should
fall
out
between
his
Majesties
love
,
and
their
loyalty
,
which
might
hinder
their
delight
in
their
Soveraign
Prince
,
did
voluntarily
renounce
all
priviledges
,
immunities
,
and
exemptions
formerly
granted
them
,
and
that
with
all
the
humility
that
became
most
devoted
Vassals
,
they
did
only
presume
to
put
his
Majesty
in
mind
,
that
Princes
who
did
command
their
subjects
lovingly
,
were
alwaies
faithfully
served
by
them
.
The
XII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Whilst
some
Poets
paralleld
the
greatness
of
Rome
with
that
of
Naples
,
a
dangerous
dispute
arose
between
them
;
Apollo
,
to
the
end
that
his
Vertuosi
might
know
what
to
say
and
believe
in
a
business
of
such
importance
,
commits
the
Cause
to
the
Rota
of
Parnassus
,
who
decide
it
.
WE
hear
from
Pindus
by
Letters
of
the
tenth
of
this
present
month
,
that
some
Poets
speaking
before
the
Perepatetick
Portal
,
of
the
greatness
of
the
City
of
Rome
,
in
comparison
of
that
of
Naples
,
Luigi
Tansillo
let
these
words
fall
from
his
mouth
,
That
the
Suburbs
of
Naples
was
bigger
then
all
Rome
;
which
petulant
falshood
being
gainsaid
by
Caro
,
he
gave
Tansillo
the
Poetical
lie
;
That
the
Nobility
of
Parthenope
being
thereat
much
incenst
,
would
have
used
violence
to
Caro
;
who
being
succoured
by
the
Marcheggian
Poets
,
his
Countreymen
,
both
parties
fell
to
prohibited
Rhimes
,
and
even
to
Sonnets
with
stings
in
their
tails
,
with
which
they
were
likely
to
have
made
a
bloudy
bickering
,
when
the
City
Recorder
,
who
was
soon
advertised
of
the
uprore
,
sent
Mutio
Iustinopolitano
speedily
thither
,
who
did
not
only
quickly
appease
the
tumult
,
but
made
both
parties
pass
their
words
not
to
offend
each
other
.
And
because
the
Litterati
have
formerly
taken
up
arms
upon
the
same
occasion
,
and
therewith
caused
bloudy
business
,
Apollo
,
to
the
end
that
for
the
future
men
might
know
how
to
speak
and
believe
touching
these
two
great
Cities
,
committed
the
cause
to
be
considered
on
by
the
Rota
di
Parnasso
,
whom
he
commanded
suddenly
to
fall
upon
the
business
,
and
to
decide
it
.
Wherefore
upon
several
daies
hearing
of
both
parties
,
the
Rota
three
daies
since
publisheth
this
decission
.
Coram
reverendo
patre
Domino
Cino
,
die
10
Maii
,
1612.
Domini
unanimes
tenuerunt
.
That
the
City
of
Naples
should
alwaies
yield
for
Majesty
to
the
City
of
Rome
,
and
Rome
to
Naples
,
for
pleasantness
of
situation
.
That
Rome
should
confess
there
were
more
people
in
Naples
,
and
that
Naples
should
firmly
believe
there
were
more
men
in
Rome
.
That
the
Wits
and
Wines
of
Naples
had
need
to
be
sent
by
Sea
to
Rome
,
to
receive
perfection
in
that
Court
,
and
to
be
made
more
pleasing
to
the
pallat
of
gallant
men
;
whereas
the
Roman
only
was
perfectest
at
home
;
as
one
which
without
ever
going
out
of
the
City
,
might
be
said
to
have
travailed
all
the
world
over
.
That
Naples
should
be
held
the
Metropolitan
amongst
all
Cities
of
the
Universe
for
breaking
of
Colts
,
and
Rome
for
managing
of
men
:
That
there
were
more
Cavaliers
in
Naples
,
in
Rome
more
Commendums
.
That
in
Rome
they
only
deserved
the
title
of
Cavalier
,
who
bore
the
badg
upon
their
Cloke
;
whereas
all
the
Gentlemen
of
Naples
,
without
having
any
badg
upon
the
Cloke
,
were
deservedly
called
Cavaliers
,
the
Cross
which
they
bore
upon
their
naked
skin
,
making
them
sufficiently
worthy
of
so
honourable
a
prerogative
.
The
XIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Theodoricus
,
that
famous
King
of
Italy
,
having
ofttimes
prest
very
much
to
be
admitted
into
Parnassus
,
is
alwayes
denied
by
Apollo
for
a
very
important
reason
.
THe
powerful
King
of
Italy
,
Theodoricus
,
from
the
very
first
day
that
he
came
upon
these
Confines
,
hath
by
several
Ambassies
continually
prest
Apollo
that
he
might
be
admitted
into
Parnassus
,
but
still
in
vain
;
for
as
oft
as
the
proposal
was
made
,
he
received
a
favourable
denial
:
Which
put
him
at
last
into
such
a
rage
,
as
he
had
the
boldness
to
burst
forth
into
these
blasphemous
words
,
That
Apollo
was
partial
in
admitting
such
great
Princ●…es
into
Parnassus
,
who
by
their
vertuous
actions
had
merited
eternal
fame
,
since
many
Princes
were
seen
to
have
glorious
places
in
his
Court
,
only
because
they
had
governed
petty
Principalities
in
Italy
;
and
he
who
for
many
years
had
had
the
whole
and
sole
Government
thereof
,
was
shamefully
kept
out
.
When
Apollo
had
heard
the
complaints
of
so
great
a
Prince
,
he
gave
him
to
understand
by
the
Delfick
Chancellor
,
that
he
should
do
well
to
be
quiet
;
for
to
be
plain
,
he
did
not
think
him
worthy
admittance
into
Parn●…ssus
;
since
the
world
ought
to
thank
none
but
him
for
the
horrible
Atheism
which
was
of
late
introduced
in
many
Provinces
of
Europe
;
for
whereas
the
doubts
about
Religion
risen
up
amongst
Divines
,
were
after
some
dispute
cleared
,
and
their
errors
taken
away
by
the
Councels
,
which
were
made
capable
of
declaring
what
was
truth
,
and
were
all
extirpated
out
of
the
world
,
by
making
bonefires
of
such
as
were
obstinate
.
When
he
,
as
the
head
thereof
,
took
upon
him
the
protection
of
the
wicked
Sect
of
the
Arrians
,
he
did
not
only
turn
Heresies
,
which
require
whole
Armies
to
root
them
out
,
into
Interest
of
State
,
but
with
unheard
of
affrontedness
,
he
made
the
whole
world
see
,
that
he
made
use
of
heresie
,
to
work
division
amongst
people
,
to
weaken
Princes
who
were
his
enemies
,
to
have
adhearers
in
his
neighbours
States
,
to
make
himself
head
of
new
Sects
;
and
to
steal
away
the
hearts
of
other
mens
subjects
;
and
that
in
his
heart
he
had
no
other
esteem
of
holy
Religion
,
but
as
of
a
powerful
means
,
and
excellent
way
to
obtain
Government
.
The
XIV
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
,
according
to
his
usual
custom
of
the
first
day
of
every
month
,
hears
the
Petitions
of
such
as
desire
to
be
admitted
into
Parnassus
.
APollo
thinks
nothing
more
unworthy
of
himself
,
then
to
retard
,
though
for
never
so
little
a
space
,
the
deserved
reward
of
glory
from
those
Vertuosi
,
who
by
their
learned
writings
have
deserved
eternal
fame
.
Whence
it
is
that
his
Majesty
doth
not
only
give
such
continual
audience
as
is
requisite
,
to
such
Litterati
who
have
occasion
to
desire
admittance
into
Parnassus
,
but
hath
deputed
many
ages
ago
the
first
day
of
every
month
,
for
the
examination
of
their
writings
and
persons
,
wherein
all
other
affairs
being
laid
aside
,
he
only
attends
that
business
.
'T
is
true
,
that
not
to
profane
those
vertuous
places
of
Parnassus
,
by
bringing
thereinto
such
as
have
not
been
yet
adjudged
worthy
of
so
honorable
an
aboad
,
the
solemnity
of
so
famous
an
action
is
not
cellebrated
in
his
Majesties
usual
Residence
or
Palace
Royal
,
but
without
the
walls
of
Parnassus
,
in
the
famous
Phoebean
field
,
where
yesterday
morning
,
being
the
first
day
of
September
,
great
store
of
Pavillions
being
erected
for
his
Majestie
,
for
the
Illustrious
Muses
,
Prince
Poets
,
and
learned
Lords
of
this
Court
,
Apollo
attended
by
a
glorious
Train
,
came
very
early
to
the
appointed
place
,
where
without
any
delay
,
Commencement
was
given
to
the
business
.
It
is
not
to
be
believed
how
great
a
concourse
of
Litterati
of
all
professions
,
desirous
to
purchase
so
honorable
an
habitation
;
appeared
there
that
day
:
In
so
much
as
his
Majesties
Guard
,
who
are
strictly
charged
to
carry
themselves
civilly
to
all
men
,
had
very
much
to
do
to
keep
back
the
infinite
number
of
those
who
prest
to
be
admitted
into
the
Audience
.
And
though
the
number
of
pretenders
be
infinite
,
yet
such
are
the
indowments
which
are
required
at
their
hands
who
are
to
be
admitted
into
such
an
habitation
,
as
there
are
but
few
that
attain
their
desired
ends
:
For
in
this
affair
,
where
neither
the
favour
of
friends
nor
yet
riches
avail
any
thing
,
his
merit
who
is
to
be
admitted
into
the
fruition
of
so
great
a
happiness
is
weighed
very
censoriously
in
a
just
scale
.
Here
,
before
he
pass
further
in
the
narration
which
he
is
to
make
,
Menante
must
acquaint
all
those
who
will
read
these
his
Advertisements
,
with
Apollo's
usual
and
laudable
custom
,
never
to
begin
any
action
of
importance
,
without
first
using
some
of
those
Acts
of
Grace
to
his
Litterati
,
which
makes
Princes
be
so
beloved
by
their
people
.
You
must
all
know
then
,
that
before
any
Writer
,
or
Illustrious
personage
,
who
in
his
life-time
hath
done
any
action
worthy
of
eternal
fame
,
be
admitted
to
make
his
request
known
,
the
Heads
of
all
Sciences
appear
before
Apollo
,
who
draw
forth
each
of
them
a
Ball
from
forth
a
well
closed
Urne
,
where
amidst
as
many
other
Silver
Balls
as
there
are
Sciences
,
three
only
Golden
Balls
are
placed
,
with
this
order
,
That
they
who
have
the
luck
to
draw
forth
the
Golden
Ball
,
shall
enjoy
the
Noble
Priviledg
of
nominating
what
Vertuoso
of
their
profession
they
best
please
;
to
whom
(
yea
though
he
be
yet
alive
on
earth
)
Apollo
doth
by
particular
favour
give
that
immortallity
,
and
eternity
of
fame
,
which
is
usually
only
granted
to
such
who
have
put
a
period
to
their
humanity
:
A
custom
certainly
as
noble
as
profitable
,
and
altogether
worthy
of
his
deep
judgement
,
who
brought
it
into
this
State
,
as
that
which
serves
for
sharp
spurs
to
those
thirsty
souls
after
glory
,
who
by
their
honorable
writings
,
or
signal
actions
,
have
purchast
that
fame
which
is
the
first
rise
,
and
utmost
bounds
of
every
vertuous
soul.
So
as
since
Apollo
doth
liberally
reward
the
pains
and
merits
of
his
Vertuosi
before
their
due
time
,
't
is
no
wonder
if
they
so
greedily
affect
the
pretious
coyn
of
eternal
fame
,
as
they
think
it
great
consolation
,
to
consume
themselves
in
continual
managing
their
pen
,
and
even
killing
themselves
with
perpetual
study
,
esteeming
it
great
and
honorable
usury
to
pass
by
some
few
years
of
their
present
life
,
to
purchase
that
eternity
which
will
make
them
live
gloriously
in
all
future
ages
,
in
the
memory
of
men
.
The
first
who
had
the
good
fortune
to
draw
the
Golden
Ball
out
of
the
afore-named
Urne
,
was
Francisco
Berni
,
the
head
of
those
Italian
Poets
who
have
wittily
written
facetious
things
in
Triplets
.
The
second
was
Petrarch
,
the
Prince
of
Italian
Lyrick
Poets
:
The
third
Cornelius
Tacitus
,
the
chief
of
Politick
Historians
.
Francisco
Berni
being
gotten
up
upon
a
very
high
seat
which
is
set
of
purpose
in
that
place
,
for
such
like
affairs
,
said
with
a
loud
and
audible
voice
,
That
the
prime
man
in
these
present
times
for
pleasant
Triplets
,
was
Girolomo
Magagnati
,
the
flowry
wit
of
Venice
,
whose
savory
rhimes
he
read
in
publick
,
and
were
much
admired
,
not
only
by
all
the
Litterati
of
Parnassus
,
but
by
the
Illustrious
Muses
,
and
by
Apollo's
self
:
and
divers
of
the
Litterati
taxed
Berni
of
imprudency
,
for
that
having
propounded
a
personage
of
such
eminency
to
Apollo
,
he
was
not
aware
that
he
might
peradventure
nurse
up
a
Serpent
in
his
bosom
.
But
both
Apollo
and
the
Muses
,
and
greatest
part
of
Poets
did
commend
Berni's
ingenuity
even
to
the
skies
,
who
like
a
loyal
and
honest
Florentine
,
could
prefer
another
mans
merits
,
though
with
hazard
of
his
own
reputation
.
After
this
,
when
they
came
to
voting
,
all
the
Litterati
were
favourable
in
their
voices
;
wherefore
the
Delfick
Chancellor
proclaimed
aloud
,
Eternal
fame
,
and
endless
glory
to
Girolomo
Magagnati
;
at
which
words
the
whole
Colledg
of
Vertuosi
did
with
general
applause
answer
Placet
.
The
writings
of
so
fortunate
a
Poet
being
consecrated
to
eternity
,
they
were
delivered
out
in
a
Bason
of
Gold
to
all
the
publick
Libraries
from
whence
they
were
afterwards
with
the
accustomed
ceremony
,
to
the
Delfick
Library
.
But
because
the
Illustrious
Ferdinand
,
Cardinal
and
Duke
of
Mantua
had
taken
La
Boscareccia
Clomira
,
the
last
and
best
of
Magnati's
Poems
into
his
protection
,
Apollo
,
in
favour
to
so
learned
a
Prince
,
who
was
a
publick
lover
of
Learning
,
and
a
liberal
Mecenas
to
the
Vertuosi
,
would
have
so
lovely
a
Pastoral
appear
in
his
presence
;
wherefore
Berni
,
the
solicitous
promoter
of
all
this
business
,
came
presently
to
the
dore
of
the
Pavillion
,
and
took
that
fair
maid
by
the
hand
,
who
being
waited
upon
to
the
Court
,
not
only
by
the
rest
of
the
Noble
Princes
,
and
learned
Mantuan
Barons
,
but
even
by
great
Virgil's
self
,
was
likewise
attended
by
Dametas
,
Corridon
,
Titerus
,
Niso
,
Mirtillo
,
and
other
famous
Shepherds
of
Arcadia
,
together
with
their
fair
Nymphs
;
a
spectacle
so
acceptable
to
his
Majesty
,
and
so
pleasing
to
the
Muses
,
and
to
the
whole
Colledg
of
the
Vertuosi
,
as
they
did
not
remember
that
they
had
ever
received
any
greater
consolation
.
When
the
fair
Clomira
was
presented
to
Apollo
,
she
fell
down
at
his
feet
,
and
adored
his
Royal
presence
;
and
then
rising
up
to
the
Muses
Throne
,
she
humbly
kist
the
hem
of
their
garments
;
then
returning
to
her
place
,
she
undauntedly
related
all
the
misfortunes
of
her
love
,
which
she
had
suffered
to
attain
the
marriage
of
her
beloved
Igeta
.
Then
Apollo
,
having
greatly
praised
the
constancy
of
so
lovely
a
Shepherdess
,
fell
to
expatiate
himself
upon
the
commendations
which
she
deserved
,
for
having
preserved
her
chastity
untoucht
,
in
her
so
long
peregrination
,
though
cloathed
in
mans
aparrel
,
in
this
so
corrupt
age
.
Whilst
Apollo
spake
these
words
,
a
voice
was
heard
,
which
amongst
the
infinite
number
of
Vertuosi
who
were
flockt
together
to
see
this
delightful
sight
,
said
these
identical
words
;
If
she
should
come
into
our
Country
,
she
might
bid
her
virginity
goodnight
.
The
most
excellent
Pietro
Vittorio
,
one
of
the
publick
Censors
,
rose
up
then
,
and
asking
who
it
was
had
been
so
rash
as
to
utter
such
misbecoming
words
in
that
sacred
place
,
commanded
that
he
should
be
found
out
.
Apollo
,
with
his
a●…customed
gravity
,
admonished
the
Censor
,
that
it
became
good
men
,
even
by
wresting
the
words
,
alwaies
to
interpret
another
mans
sayings
in
the
best
sense
,
it
being
the
signe
of
an
ill
affected
mind
,
to
understand
those
things
sinisterly
,
which
might
admit
of
a
good
construction
;
and
that
he
who
had
spoke
so
,
deserved
rather
to
be
thanked
by
the
Judges
,
for
the
severe
correction
which
he
gave
to
the
wicked
men
of
his
Country
,
then
to
be
reprehended
:
That
therefore
he
who
had
received
publick
admonition
,
should
amend
his
manners
.
And
this
being
said
,
gave
order
that
an
honorable
place
should
be
allotted
to
the
faithful
Clomira
and
her
beloved
Igeta
,
amongst
the
other
famous
Shepherds
of
Arcadia
.
Then
Berni
drew
from
forth
his
bosom
,
Magagnati's
special
Writ
of
Proxie
,
and
giving
it
to
the
Delfick
Chancellor
,
first
kneeled
,
and
then
in
Magnaties
name
took
the
Oath
of
Allegiance
which
is
wont
to
be
given
to
all
the
Litterati
who
are
judged
to
deserve
place
in
Parnassus
.
Wherefore
Berni
,
in
the
behalf
of
Magagnaty
,
swore
,
That
as
he
formerly
had
done
,
so
for
the
future
he
would
make
it
appear
by
his
actions
,
that
he
did
believe
with
his
heart
,
and
profess
by
his
mouth
,
that
mans
true
wealth
lay
in
possessing
the
rich
treasure
of
knowledg
;
that
he
would
in
all
places
,
and
at
all
times
,
shew
himself
to
be
an
implacable
enemy
to
the
Ignorant
,
a
ready
friend
to
the
Vertuosi
.
And
this
being
said
,
his
Majesties
Lord
Treasurer
came
to
Berni
,
accompanied
by
the
chief
Exchequer
Officers
of
this
State
,
who
by
the
agreement
made
by
the
Lord
Chancellor
,
obliged
his
Majesties
Royal
Delfick
Treasury
,
that
when
the
pleasant
Tersets
,
Clomira
,
the
life
of
St.
Longinus
,
La
Vernata
,
La
Meditation
Poetica
,
a
Noble
Panegyrick
upon
Cosmo
the
second
,
great
Duke
of
●…uscany
,
and
the
other
elegant
Works
of
the
Vertuoso
Giorolimo
Magagnati
should
be
lost
either
by
fire
,
deluges
,
or
any
other
imaginable
way
,
Apollo
should
out
of
his
own
Royal
Patrimony
,
alwaies
keep
the
name
and
fame
of
so
famous
a
Poet
alive
and
glorious
amongst
men
.
The
solemnity
of
this
Covenant
being
ended
,
the
famous
Petrarch
mounted
the
same
Chair
;
and
turning
towards
Apollo
,
said
,
Sir
!
The
most
polished
,
neat
,
polite
Writer
which
we
in
these
times
have
of
Italian
Lyrick
Poetry
,
is
that
reverend
Father
Don
Angelo
Grillo
,
a
Noble
Vertuoso
of
Genua
,
whom
I
so
much
glory
to
have
amongst
the
number
of
my
followers
,
as
I
find
a
particular
ambition
in
me
,
that
I
may
now
name
him
in
this
place
,
and
in
this
age
,
wherein
the
Guidiccioni
,
the
Bembi
,
and
my
beloved
Iovan
di
Casa
failing
,
and
all
the
rest
of
the
most
observed
former
Italian
Poets
,
nothing
is
usually
seen
in
the
modern
ones
,
but
a
certain
natural
abounding
vein
,
without
the
solidity
of
those
Poetical
precepts
which
put
a
difference
,
in
the
opinion
of
the
Litterati
,
betwixt
the
Verses
of
one
that
is
born
a
Poet
,
which
are
sung
on
the
sodain
,
from
those
which
such
Vertuosi
who
having
study
and
art
joyned
to
the
natural
Talent
of
Poetry
,
are
continually
filing
,
and
by
candle-light
severely
censuring
their
Composures
.
This
being
said
,
every
one
might
perceive
by
a
certain
humming
that
was
heard
amongst
the
Litterati
of
so
honorable
a
Senat
,
how
much
every
one
was
pleased
at
the
nomination
of
a
personage
of
such
splendor
:
Wherefore
Apollo
,
in
whose
face
great
joy
might
be
discerned
,
said
to
Petrarch
,
Well
beloved
!
you
have
named
a
Vertuoso
who
is
indeed
worthy
of
your
choice
,
and
who●…ly
conformable
to
our
desire
:
And
though
we
love
Don
Angelo
dearly
,
and
consequently
wish
such
length
of
daies
unto
him
,
as
he
himself
desires
;
yet
great
is
our
curiosity
of
quickly
enriching
this
our
Senat
by
the
purchase
of
so
cryed
up
a
personage
;
to
the
end
that
my
Vertuosi
may
see
and
know
how
they
are
qualified
,
who
deserve
to
be
beloved
by
stones
,
much
more
by
men
.
Then
the
Rime
Morale
,
Pietosi
affetti
,
Pompee
Funebri
,
and
other
sacred
Poems
,
together
with
the
Prose
of
so
flourishing
a
Wit
,
being
read
in
publick
by
Petrarch
,
they
for
their
delicacy
deserved
so
the
publick
praise
,
as
(
though
it
were
unusual
)
the
Senat
not
being
able
to
tolerate
that
where
there
was
so
much
worth
,
Votes
should
be
given
in
privat
,
Viva
voce
,
vivisque
suffragiis
,
Immortality
was
with
extraordinary
applause
granted
to
the
name
and
writings
of
the
reverend
Father
Don
Angello
Grillo
,
with
all
the
solemnity
of
Proclamations
,
Oaths
and
Allegiance
,
and
the
Lord
Treasurers
obligations
before
mentioned
.
Petrarch
being
retired
to
his
own
place
,
Cornelius
Tacitus
mounted
the
aforesaid
Chair
,
but
with
great
trouble
of
soul
to
his
Majesty
,
the
Muses
,
and
the
whole
Colledg
of
Litterati
;
for
,
remembring
that
after
the
entrance
made
by
so
miraculous
a
writer
into
Parnassus
,
so
many
ages
ago
,
he
having
enjoyed
the
prerogative
of
taking
out
the
Golden
Ball
46
times
,
he
had
never
had
the
fortune
to
name
any
Latin
Historian
who
might
be
truely
stiled
a
Polititian
,
they
were
very
much
troubled
that
modern
Histories
,
which
write
the
naked
bare
narration
of
things
,
should
want
that
Politick
salt
,
which
makes
the
Reading
of
History
very
delightful
,
and
him
very
wise
and
Learned
,
who
delights
in
such
like
studies
.
But
wary
Tacitus
being
much
pleased
with
the
trouble
which
he
perceived
to
be
in
them
all
,
said
to
Apollo
,
At
last
most
serene
Monarch
of
the
Stars
(
though
to
my
great
affliction
,
it
hath
been
long
first
)
that
happy
day
so
much
by
me
desired
,
is
come
,
that
my
detractors
,
who
have
imputed
the
failing
or
want
of
Politian
Historians
of
my
Classis
;
to
my
harsh
,
short
,
and
therefore
obscure
stile
,
to
my
defect
of
alwaies
joyning
the
reason
of
things
,
to
the
things
written
;
a
way
of
writing
which
they
said
was
shun'd
as
vitious
and
rash
,
rather
then
not
imitated
for
its
difficulty
,
shall
have
reason
to
know
their
great
error
,
and
to
be
quiet
,
when
at
this
present
time
,
in
that
famous
Court
of
Rome
,
which
having
alwaies
been
that
true
Trojan
horse
,
hath
sent
forth
continually
Heroes
of
singular
vertue
,
and
more
then
humane
valour
,
there
lives
an
Elegant
Politick
Historian
at
last
,
a
well
relishing
Latin
Writer
of
the
Annals
of
his
times
,
one
who
for
the
shortness
of
his
stile
,
for
his
frequent
Sentences
,
for
the
pith
of
Policy
,
his
handsom
way
of
Narration
and
document
,
and
for
knowing
how
in
the
very
Narratives
,
to
shew
in
two
words
,
the
occasion
thereof
,
hath
known
how
to
imitate
me
so
,
as
for
the
grace
of
this
Senat
,
and
for
the
glory
of
the
Liberal
Sciences
(
far
be
all
boasting
from
these
my
expressions
)
I
will
not
call
him
by
his
own
proper
name
of
Paulus
Emillius
Santorius
,
a
famous
Prelat
in
the
Court
of
Rome
,
but
I
will
boldly
term
him
another
Tacitus
.
It
is
not
to
be
believed
how
overjoy'd
Apollo
and
all
the
Litterati
were
,
when
Tacitus
nam'd
one
who
was
as
acceptable
to
them
,
as
the
imitaters
of
Tacitus
are
rare
to
be
found
.
So
as
Tacitus
having
with
a
lowd
audable
voice
read
the
Annals
of
so
delightsom
an
Author
,
they
gave
such
satisfaction
to
ever
one
,
as
with
publick
and
gracious
suffrages
,
the
name
of
Paulus
Emillius
Santorius
,
was
judged
by
the
Colledg
of
the
Litterati
,
to
deserve
the
same
Immortality
of
Fame
,
and
the
same
glory
,
with
which
Maximus
Cornelius
Tacitus
had
formerly
been
honored
.
When
Tacitus
had
given
the
accustomed
Oath
of
Allegiance
,
and
the
Lord
Treasurer
had
performed
his
part
for
the
greater
security
of
the
Immortality
of
so
famous
a
Writer
,
an
end
was
put
to
t
he
nomination
of
such
Writers
as
were
yet
alive
.
Whereupon
they
fell
immediately
to
the
admission
of
such
Litterati
as
had
arived
at
Parnassus
,
after
their
deaths
,
for
the
writings
,
and
actions
which
they
had
done
whilst
they
were
living
.
The
first
then
who
presented
himself
before
Apollo
,
was
Marius
Equicola
,
who
spake
thus
unto
his
Majesty
,
I
(
most
gloricus
Prince
of
Planets
)
very
well
know
my
own
affrontedness
in
pretending
for
the
rich
reward
,
and
pretious
Patrimony
of
that
eternal
fame
which
they
enjoy
,
who
you
think
worthy
of
the
glorious
patrimony
of
Parnassus
,
by
my
weak
endeavors
in
those
my
writings
,
wherin
I
was
made
to
shew
the
nature
of
Love
;
but
the
great
benignity
which
your
Majesty
useth
towards
the
lovers
of
Learning
,
doth
so
largely
supply
the
smallness
of
mens
merits
,
as
I
do
thereby
dare
to
crave
the
exorbitant
usury
of
receiving
much
,
for
the
little
that
I
give
.
When
Apollo
had
heard
the
request
of
this
Vertuoso
,
If
you
have
brought
nothing
else
with
you
(
friend
Mario
)
said
he
,
then
that
little
volume
which
you
have
there
of
the
nature
of
love
,
I
am
sorry
that
I
must
tel
you
,
you
have
taken
pains
to
no
purpose
;
having
laboured
to
shew
the
world
the
nature
of
that
love
,
which
is
so
well
kno●…n
to
all
men
,
as
that
there
is
not
any
one
that
knows
not
in
some
sort
how
to
conceal
it
;
you
might
have
deserved
a
chief
place
in
this
my
State
,
I
tell
you
,
if
you
had
bestowed
your
labour
in
writing
the
nature
of
hatred
,
which
every
ignorant
common
person
knows
so
well
how
to
palliate
with
the
name
of
good-will
,
and
cover
with
the
false
cloke
of
love
,
as
the
world
is
full
of
the
complaints
and
appeals
of
those
unfortunate
people
,
who
for
having
trusted
too
much
,
exclaim
of
being
assassinated
by
their
friends
.
Marius
Equicola
departed
much
afflicted
from
the
Court
,
by
reason
of
this
his
Majesties
resolute
answer
,
next
to
whom
came
Sforza
Oddo
,
a
famous
Perugian
Doctor
of
Law
,
who
laid
at
his
Majesties
feet
,
his
compleat
Treatises
,
Della
Compendiosa
sostitutione
,
and
Della
restitutione
in
Integro
,
and
the
Volumes
of
his
learned
Conciglis
;
which
in
a
short
,
but
pithy
Oration
,
he
desired
might
be
consecrated
to
Immortality
.
This
Litterato
was
very
acceptably
and
graciously
received
by
his
Majesty
,
and
by
the
Colledg
of
the
Vertuosi
;
but
,
but
little
honour
was
done
to
those
his
Works
;
not
for
that
they
were
not
compleatly
learned
,
but
for
that
Treatise
of
Law
being
of
very
little
esteem
in
this
State
,
Sforza
was
only
admired
for
the
sweetness
of
his
disposition
,
and
for
his
being
very
much
verst
in
all
the
most
commendable
Sciences
.
Immortality
was
therefore
,
but
coldly
,
and
with
weak
applause
decreed
to
Sforza
,
and
to
his
writings
;
and
when
he
had
taken
the
accustomed
Oath
of
Allegiance
between
the
Chancellors
hands
,
he
was
told
by
the
Master
of
the
Pegasean
Ceremonies
,
that
his
business
being
ended
,
he
might
be
gone
.
Sforza
replyed
,
that
he
could
not
,
nor
ought
not
to
be
gon
before
his
Majesties
Exchequer
was
bound
to
keep
his
name
and
fame
alwaies
alive
in
mens
memories
,
as
he
had
seen
done
to
Magagnati
,
and
others
.
Apollo
hearing
this
dispute
,
he
spake
thus
to
Sforza
;
Know
most
honored
Litterato
,
that
I
willingly
bind
my
Royal
Exchequer
,
for
security
of
perpetual
fame
to
those
my
Vertuosi
who
are
admitted
into
Parnassus
;
but
this
belongs
not
to
Doctors
of
the
Law
,
with
whose
writings
I
out
of
good
reason
proceed
otherwise
;
for
knowing
that
the
infinite
volumes
of
modern
Lawyers
,
have
put
those
Laws
into
so
great
confusion
,
in
the
clearness
and
perspicuity
whereof
mans
greatest
felicity
lies
,
as
to
end
suits
which
are
made
everlasting
;
the
capricio
s
of
privat
men
are
more
imbraced
and
followed
,
then
the
Decrees
of
Princes
,
and
in
the
multitude
of
the
variety
of
common
opinions
,
the
opinions
of
writers
are
rather
imbraced
then
weighed
:
I
foresee
that
within
a
short
time
Princes
will
be
forced
to
free
mankind
,
afflicted
by
so
great
disorder
,
with
extirpating
out
of
the
world
the
writings
of
those
Iurisconsulti
who
by
their
infinite
cavilings
,
have
turned
the
administration
of
sacred
Justice
into
an
execrable
Merchandize
.
Wherefore
I
should
too
much
injure
my
Exchequer
,
if
I
should
oblige
it
to
keep
the
fame
of
those
infinite
volumes
written
by
the
Doctors
of
Law
,
perpetually
alive
,
which
I
foresee
for
certain
will
shortly
all
be
burnt
,
as
being
publike
prejudicial
enemies
to
mankind
.
Sforza
,
by
reason
of
this
unexpected
answer
of
Apollo
,
looked
very
pale
,
and
being
much
afflicted
,
reassumed
his
Writings
consecrated
to
immortality
;
and
putting
them
under
his
left
arm
,
took
from
out
his
bosom
,
three
excellent
Comedies
made
by
him
,
De
Morti
vivi
,
and
Della
Erofilamacchia
,
and
della
Prigione
d'Amore
:
Andshewing
them
to
his
Majheld
up
in
his
right
hand
,
said
;
Most
Illustrious
Prince
of
the
Zodiack
,
I
rather
desire
to
obtain
certain
Immortality
amongst
the
Italian
Comick
Poets
,
then
that
of
the
Doctors
of
Law
,
which
,
as
your
Majesty
hath
said
,
is
so
manifestly
exposed
to
the
danger
of
fire
.
I
am
so
delighted
with
the
sight
of
this
so
glorious
abode
in
Parnassus
,
as
I
will
not
leave
any
thing
unindeavoured
,
that
I
may
never
depart
from
thence
.
I
therefore
humbly
beseech
your
Majesty
not
to
think
me
unworthy
thereof
.
Apollo
then
commanded
the
Vertuosissimo
Alexandro
Picolommeni
,
called
Lo
Stordito
Intronato
,
the
Prince
of
Italian
Comick
Poets
that
he
should
acquaint
the
Colledg
of
the
Litterati
with
his
opinion
of
those
commodities
,
which
Picolommini
having
done
,
and
therein
highly
exaggerated
sforza's
wit
,
Immortality
was
again
decreed
unto
him
,
by
all
the
Litterati
of
Parnassus
;
and
all
the
aforesaid
solemnities
being
performed
,
Sforza
departed
very
much
joy'd
from
the
Royal
Audience
.
Giovanni
Desp●…uterio
,
a
Dutch
Schol-master
,
presented
Apollo
next
with
his
Grammer
,
and
earnestly
desired
to
be
admitted
into
Parn
ssus
.
To
whom
Apollo
answered
,
That
being
cloy'd
with
so
nausty
a
generation
,
by
reason
of
the
musty
,
mouldy
disputations
and
questions
which
daily
arose
in
Parnassus
,
between
the
Pedanticks
,
he
was
resolved
rather
to
lessen
their
number
,
which
was
grown
too
great
,
then
ever
to
adde
any
one
more
to
them
,
that
therefore
he
might
depart
when
he
pleased
.
Though
Apollo
had
so
clearly
excluded
Despauterius
,
yet
was
not
he
a
whit
discouraged
;
but
with
a
Pedantick
petulancy
,
answered
,
Sir
,
if
your
Majestie
shall
please
to
give
such
satisfaction
to
my
demands
,
as
I
desire
,
I
am
so
far
from
intending
to
displease
your
Majestie
,
or
any
of
your
Litterati
in
Parnassus
,
as
I
promise
and
oblige
my self
to
teach
my
easie
Grammar
to
all
such
children
as
shall
come
to
my
School
Gratis
.
Appollo
replyed
,
That
he
was
not
the
first
,
who
under
pretence
of
so
charitable
a
work
,
had
intruded
themselves
into
Parnassus
;
that
Donato
first
,
then
Guarin
,
Scopa
and
M●…rcinello
next
,
and
many
other
Grammarians
,
who
by
their
excessive
number
had
so
defiled
Parnassus
,
had
made
use
of
the
same
fair
pretence
,
who
being
afterwards
grown
wealthy
by
the
profuse
liberallity
of
their
Schollars
Parents
,
whereas
their
large
Donatives
,
ought
to
have
encouraged
them
in
so
good
a
work
,
they
contrary
to
all
mens
expectation
,
had
wrought
the
contrary
effect
;
for
being
already
become
rich
,
as
soon
as
they
saw
they
could
live
plentifully
upon
their
own
incomes
,
they
abandoned
their
profession
of
teaching
,
and
impiously
spurn'd
at
that
charity
which
seemed
first
to
be
so
deeply
graven
in
their
hearts
;
so
as
such
being
become
unuseful
in
Parnassus
,
were
a
visible
incumbrance
to
him
,
and
to
his
Litterati
.
Apollo
further
added
,
that
notwithstanding
all
that
had
been
said
,
that
he
would
willingly
allow
Despauterius
an
abode
in
Parnassus
;
but
upon
condition
,
that
whensoever
he
should
shut
up
his
school
,
he
should
restore
all
the
moneys
to
the
Parents
,
which
he
had
taken
for
instructing
their
children
.
When
Despauterius
had
heard
this
proposal
made
by
Apollo
,
he
,
without
further
replying
,
made
all
the
haste
he
could
out
of
the
Court
;
and
answered
Iohn
Baptist
Guarina
,
who
reprehended
him
for
his
shamedenying
to
accept
of
his
Majesties
offer
,
That
it
being
usual
with
all
men
to
be
soon
glutted
with
any
one
,
and
to
love
new
things
,
the
usual
custom
of
Curtizans
,
to
put
forth
part
of
their
moneys
which
they
had
got
in
their
youth
,
to
keep
themselves
thereby
from
being
necessitated
to
turn
Bawds
when
they
grow
old
,
was
more
then
Platonick
wisdom
,
and
therefore
worthy
to
be
admired
and
imitated
by
every
one
.
And
that
it
became
a
wary
man
,
so
to
consider
his
own
interest
,
together
with
his
charity
used
to
his
neighbour
,
as
that
that
love
failing
,
wherewith
all
men
were
at
last
cloy'd
,
a
man
might
live
commodiously
of
himself
,
without
running
the
hazard
of
being
forced
to
beg
his
bread
when
he
should
be
old
and
decrepit
.
Dispauterius
was
no
sooner
gone
from
the
Audience
,
but
Olao
Magno
the
curious
Writer
of
the
Gothish
affairs
,
and
of
the
other
Northern
Nations
,
and
the
Historian
of
so
many
famous
Kingdoms
of
China
,
came
joyntly
thither
;
who
when
they
had
presented
their
writings
unto
his
Majestie
,
made
the
usual
request
That
they
might
be
consecrated
to
immortallity
.
Then
Titu
,
Livius
the
Soverain
Prince
of
Latin
Historians
,
who
was
appointed
by
Apollo
to
give
his
opinion
of
them
,
did
mainly
oppose
them
,
accusing
them
for
fabulous
,
and
rather
written
to
shew
their
own
curious
capacious
inventions
,
then
the
solid
truth
which
he
was
obliged
to
do
,
who
would
deserve
the
name
of
a
perfect
Historian
.
All
the
Litterati
to
whom
Apollo
also
referred
it
,
joyned
in
this
opinion
with
Li●…y
;
for
they
thought
it
a
very
scandalous
action
to
admit
of
the
slack
compositions
of
those
vainly
curious
wits
,
who
had
fill'd
their
writings
with
incredible
things
,
and
therefore
meerly
fabulous
,
amongst
the
strict
Historical
writings
.
Onely
the
Polititian
Tacitus
differed
from
the
opinion
of
Livy
,
and
of
the
other
Historians
,
who
said
,
That
these
men
who
had
described
,
and
recounted
the
actions
of
the
most
remote
Northern
Nations
,
and
of
the
furthest
Eastern
people
,
ought
not
to
be
proceeded
with
,
with
such
rigour
,
as
was
exactly
observed
with
those
who
wrote
the
Histories
of
known
Nations
,
and
neighboring
people
,
for
that
with
every
one
,
Omne
Ignotam
pro
Magifico
est
,
Tacit.
vita
Agric.
and
that
it
was
very
true
,
Majoracredi
de
ab●…ntibus
,
Tacit.
lib.
2.
Hist.
This
opinion
of
Tacitus
,
though
it
were
singular
,
was
approved
of
by
his
Majestie
,
whereupon
the
Northern
Histories
,
and
those
of
China
,
together
with
the
names
of
their
Authors
,
were
with
the
wonted
solemnities
consecrated
to
eternity
.
'T
is
true
,
that
Apollo
told
Olao
,
that
by
all
means
he
must
moderate
the
greatness
of
those
Northern
Eagles
,
which
prey'd
upon
Elephants
,
and
carried
them
up
into
the
ayr
;
which
appeared
so
disproportionable
to
him
,
and
his
Colledge
of
Litterato's
,
as
it
would
not
be
born
withal
,
no
not
in
Plinies
mouth
.
And
he
said
to
the
Author
of
the
China
History
,
that
he
should
reduce
the
immence
Metrapolitan
City
of
so
many
Kingdoms
,
inhabited
by
many
millions
of
men
to
some
credible
measure
;
and
particularly
,
that
he
should
bring
the
Palace
of
that
King
,
which
he
had
affirmed
to
be
many
miles
long
,
to
such
a
form
,
as
Vitruvius
should
not
laugh
at
him
for
it
,
saying
,
that
if
that
building
were
so
great
as
he
had
described
it
to
be
,
the
Halls
must
needs
be
half
a
mile
long
,
and
the
Chambers
little
less
;
which
if
it
were
true
,
the
whole
Academy
of
Architects
had
reason
to
say
,
that
to
bring
the
meat
hot
to
the
table
,
the
servants
of
so
great
a
King
must
ride
post
.
These
two
mens
business
being
ended
,
Thomaso
Bozio
entred
the
Court
,
a
noble
Aggobine
Vertuoso
,
no
less
famous
in
the
Court
of
Rome
for
his
sanctity
of
life
,
then
for
his
learning
,
wherewith
he
was
abundantly
endowed
;
and
was
therefore
received
,
and
looked
upon
by
Apollo
,
and
by
the
whole
Colledge
of
Vertuosi
,
with
extraordinary
demonstrations
of
love
.
This
so
famous
personage
presented
Apollo
with
his
learned
writings
,
De
signis
Ecclesiae
Dei
,
and
his
other
noble
pieces
,
which
were
all
of
them
exceedingly
praised
and
celebrated
by
the
Censors
.
They
onely
said
,
That
in
his
book
Deruinis
Gentium
adversus
Machiavellum
,
there
were
many
things
observed
,
which
deserved
to
be
censured
and
corrected
,
in
that
wicked
writers
desperate
policy
;
but
that
notwithstanding
,
since
they
saw
not
that
there
was
any
the
least
mention
made
in
all
that
book
,
of
the
ruines
of
any
Nation
or
people
,
they
were
of
opinion
that
those
words
De
ruinis
Gentium
should
be
cancelled
as
superfluous
,
and
placed
in
the
Frontispiece
of
the
book
,
onely
to
make
the
title
more
stately
and
glorious
.
This
Caveat
of
the
Censors
was
so
readily
pursued
by
Apollo
,
and
the
Colledge
of
Vertuosi
,
as
Apollo
complained
very
much
of
the
great
abuse
of
many
writers
,
who
to
make
their
works
seem
more
learned
and
curious
to
others
,
do
fraudulently
give
them
glorious
and
stately
Titles
,
not
minding
that
they
were
very
far
differing
from
what
was
contained
in
their
Works
:
A
cheat
which
being
only
committed
for
the
advantage
of
the
Book-sellers
,
to
make
the
Books
more
vendible
,
was
much
like
the
falshood
of
those
Merchants
,
who
selling
their
Corn
in
sacks
,
lay
the
worst
and
rotten
stuff
in
the
bottom
,
and
cover
it
over
with
very
good
grain
which
they
put
at
the
top
:
And
the
Writers
who
were
truely
Vertuosi
,
ought
to
think
,
that
noble
matter
,
learnedly
handled
in
the
bodies
of
their
Books
,
did
render
their
Titles
(
though
not
so
curious
)
as
famous
as
a
Title
unlike
the
matter
treated
on
,
did
infinitely
shame
whatsoever
elegant
Composition
.
Apollo
having
said
these
things
,
Immortality
(
according
to
the
custom
of
this
Court
)
was
graciously
granted
to
the
Name
and
Writings
of
this
renowned
Litterato
.
Bozio's
admittance
into
Parnassus
being
had
,
as
hath
been
said
,
an
Italian
Poet
appeared
before
the
Pavillion
where
Audience
was
given
,
on
horseback
,
with
a
guide
before
him
,
who
that
he
might
come
time
enough
to
the
daies
solemnation
of
admittance
of
the
Litterati
into
Parnassus
,
had
taken
Post
at
Corinth
;
this
man
,
as
soon
as
he
got
off
horseback
,
presented
himself
before
Apollo
with
his
boots
and
spurs
on
;
to
whom
he
delivered
a
Book
of
Songs
made
by
himself
;
and
then
desired
that
the
glory
of
eternal
fame
might
be
decreed
to
his
Name
and
Stanza's
.
It
is
not
easily
to
be
believed
with
what
joy
this
Litterato
was
received
by
the
whole
Senat
:
Wherefore
Apollo
having
received
his
Song-book
with
shew
of
extraordinary
affection
,
as
soon
as
he
had
read
certain
Madrigals
,
and
Sonnets
full
of
lascivious
and
obscene
conceits
,
he
,
as
if
he
had
had
a
Serpent
,
or
some
other
perilous
beast
,
threw
the
Song-book
into
the
midst
of
the
room
;
and
afterwards
growing
very
red
in
the
face
,
through
anger
,
Go
(
said
he
)
and
publish
these
your
lascivious
Ribaldries
in
the
Stews
and
Bawdi-houses
;
for
in
my
State
,
which
is
the
habitation
of
all
chaste
Vertue
,
such
Ruffion
pieces
as
this
are
not
admitted
.
I
myself
(
and
I
glory
to
speak
it
in
this
place
have
been
a
lover
,
and
consequently
I
love
amorous
Poetry
;
but
this
must
be
when
love
is
handled
with
such
terms
of
civility
by
modest
Poets
,
which
I
so
much
admire
in
my
most
modest
Petrarch
,
:
Nor
can
I
sufficiently
wonder
how
some
modern
Poets
can
be
so
shameless
as
to
make
use
of
Learning
,
which
was
wholly
brought
into
the
world
to
sow
vertue
amongst
men
,
therewith
to
teach
others
the
use
of
wicked
lust
;
and
the
practice
of
every
most
detestable
vice
:
Nor
can
I
imagin
how
it
can
be
possible
that
any
man
should
be
so
sullied
with
the
sluttery
of
uncleanness
,
as
that
he
dare
publish
those
obscenities
with
his
pen
,
in
clear
day-light
,
and
in
the
sight
of
the
whole
world
,
which
are
committed
by
libidinous
men
,
not
without
blushing
,
and
remorse
of
conscience
,
in
the
dark
,
secretly
within
sheets
in
close
Chambers
;
and
that
they
do
not
only
not
acknowledg
such
slips
to
be
actions
which
bring
with
them
eternal
infamy
,
but
that
they
are
grown
so
blind
,
as
that
they
hope
to
win
same
unto
themselves
,
and
purchase
eternal
glory
by
those
things
which
deserve
perpetual
punishment
.
Apollo
had
not
made
an
end
of
speaking
,
when
the
unfortunate
Poet
went
out
of
the
Hall
,
and
he
and
his
guide
getting
upon
the
same
horses
whereon
they
came
,
left
Parnassus
as
fast
as
they
came
thither
:
And
to
his
greater
scorn
,
his
book
,
which
no
man
durst
touch
with
their
hands
,
as
if
it
had
been
infectious
,
was
by
the
publick
Aparators
kickt
out
of
the
Court.
In
this
interim
a
base
Mountebank
forced
the
Guard
at
the
dore
of
the
Pavillion
,
and
with
a
Box
which
he
had
under
his
arm
,
and
a
Dog
which
he
led
in
his
hand
,
entred
the
Court
;
the
dore-keepers
ran
immediately
to
keep
so
unworthy
a
fellow
from
coming
before
his
Majesty
,
and
taking
him
by
both
the
arms
,
pluck
him
out
of
the
Pavillion
:
The
Mountebank
being
very
strong
,
strugled
hard
to
keep
in
,
and
cryed
out
aloud
that
he
would
be
heard
:
Apollo
was
sorry
to
see
the
poor
wretch
so
handled
,
and
commanded
the
Souldiers
to
forbear
further
troubling
him
;
the
Mountebank
then
spread
his
Cloke
upon
the
ground
,
and
opening
his
Box
,
drew
forth
a
great
sheet
of
Vellum
,
at
which
a
large
seal
was
hanged
;
and
shewing
it
to
his
Majesty
,
to
the
Muses
,
and
to
the
Colledg
of
Litterati
,
said
,
Sir
,
To
prove
that
the
Sope
which
I
for
the
general
good
deliver
out
to
every
one
,
to
take
away
whatsoever
stain
of
shame
or
dishonour
(
unless
it
be
the
disgrace
of
having
married
a
whore
)
out
of
the
vestments
of
peoples
reputation
,
is
miraculous
,
and
the
only
thing
in
the
world
;
let
all
men
behold
this
my
priviledg
,
granted
me
by
the
invincible
and
alwaies
glorious
Prince
,
Charls
the
first
,
King
of
France
;
who
thought
this
my
secret
worthy
so
singular
a
favour
,
only
because
I
took
away
that
great
spot
of
Oyle
from
off
his
Royal
Robe
,
with
this
my
sope
,
not
any
waies
injuring
the
stuff
,
which
Ariadeno
Barbarosso
threw
upon
it
.
Wherefore
I
earnestly
beseech
your
Majesty
,
and
all
those
who
are
in
this
consecrated
place
,
that
my
commodity
may
be
fully
tryed
;
and
if
every
one
find
it
not
to
be
the
rare
thing
which
I
have
said
,
I
desire
it
may
immediately
be
burnt
.
Apollo
seemed
to
be
much
taken
with
the
vivacity
of
this
bold
mans
wit
,
whom
he
asked
what
his
dog
was
good
for
?
The
Charletan
answered
,
That
the
modern
world
being
become
sensual
,
he
gathered
company
together
to
hear
him
,
with
this
his
dog
which
could
shew
tricks
.
If
it
be
so
(
said
Apollo
)
this
your
occupation
seems
to
me
to
be
much
like
to
the
catching
of
birds
;
for
you
with
your
prating
play
the
fowlers
part
who
whistle
;
your
sope
is
the
bait
which
is
put
upon
the
bird-lime
,
your
dog
the
owle
,
those
that
hear
you
and
believe
you
,
the
guls
,
who
leaving
some
feathers
of
small
money
in
the
bird-lime
of
your
Merchandize
,
makes
your
Quarry
good
.
But
since
you
are
unfortunately
falne
upon
this
place
,
where
such
as
you
are
,
are
but
little
credited
,
and
your
commodities
not
like
to
go
off
,
for
that
my
Litterati
have
no
stains
at
all
in
their
aparrel
,
do
me
and
my
Vertuosi
the
pleasure
to
see
your
dog
play
:
The
Charletan
obeyed
,
and
made
his
dog
,
which
was
singularly
well
taught
,
shew
many
tricks
,
which
it
did
so
handsomly
,
and
with
such
understanding
,
obeying
whatsoever
his
Master
bad
him
do
,
as
he
seemed
to
have
human
sense
.
The
graver
sort
of
the
Senat
wondred
very
much
to
see
Apollo
waste
the
time
appointed
for
businesses
of
such
weight
,
in
looking
upon
such
trivial
pleasure
,
especially
since
his
Majesty
seemed
to
be
much
delighted
with
the
dogs
tricks
,
which
continued
a
good
while
:
But
their
wonder
turned
soon
into
admiration
,
when
Apollo
,
whose
property
it
is
to
extract
excellent
documents
,
and
useful
precepts
,
even
out
of
the
vilest
things
that
he
looks
upon
,
cryed
out
,
Oh
the
glory
of
Knowledg
!
Oh
the
great
felicity
of
my
Illustrious
Vertues
!
the
only
rich
patrimony
of
mankind
:
O
my
dearly
beloved
Litterati
,
rejoice
with
me
,
cheer
up
your
hearts
,
since
now
you
see
with
your
eyes
,
the
great
power
of
Knowledg
,
the
worth
of
Science
,
when
a
little
knowledg
which
a
man
hath
been
able
to
teach
a
dog
,
is
sufficient
not
only
to
make
both
him
and
his
Master
live
plentifully
,
but
to
cause
him
to
enjoy
the
greatest
content
which
can
befall
a
large
soul
,
of
seeing
the
world
,
and
getting
good
gain
thereby
,
and
yet
there
be
some
who
value
them
not
,
who
despise
them
,
and
persecute
them
as
being
prejuditial
.
The
Mountebank
being
liberally
rewarded
,
and
dismist
by
order
from
Apollo
,
a
Vertuoso
appeared
before
his
Majesty
,
who
whilst
he
lived
in
the
world
,
by
reason
of
his
pleasant
pregnant
wit
,
and
his
graceful
comportment
,
having
been
the
delight
of
the
Roman
Court
,
was
by
all
men
known
to
be
that
Baldo
Cataneo
,
who
was
so
admired
by
the
Vertuosi
of
that
Court
,
for
his
pleasant
witty
conceits
,
and
his
gravity
in
more
serious
affairs
,
both
in
Prose
and
in
Verse
,
as
he
deserved
the
munificent
Allessandro
Peretti
Cardinal
Montalto
for
his
liberal
Mecenas
.
This
Poet
presented
Apollo
with
the
first
Canto's
of
his
Argonautica
,
a
Poem
composed
by
him
in
eight
lined
Stanzas
;
and
bitterly
bewailing
his
misfortune
in
dying
in
the
flowre
of
his
age
,
said
,
his
death
was
for
no
other
cause
displeasing
to
him
,
save
only
that
he
must
now
lay
before
his
Majesties
feet
,
that
immature
fruit
of
his
brain
,
which
if
he
had
lived
longer
,
he
hoped
would
by
increase
of
years
have
been
so
perfected
,
as
it
would
have
been
more
then
meanly
pleasing
to
the
Litterati
:
Which
calamity
was
the
reason
why
for
his
small
desert
,
and
by
reason
of
the
misfortune
of
this
Poem
,
he
now
desired
that
Immortality
unto
his
name
,
of
meer
grace
and
favour
,
which
he
had
hoped
to
have
been
able
to
have
challenged
of
right
and
justice
.
Apollo
with
great
humanity
,
but
in
words
and
gesture
,
answered
Cataneo
,
That
both
himself
,
and
all
the
Vertuosi
of
Parnassus
were
very
sensible
of
his
immature
death
,
both
bad
him
comfort
himself
in
the
benign
Laws
of
Parnassus
,
since
thereby
for
the
better
encouragement
of
his
Litterati
,
the
good
mind
,
and
vertuous
intention
of
his
beloved
Poets
being
had
in
more
regard
,
then
the
quality
of
the
Compositions
which
they
brought
to
Parnassus
,
they
gave
with
the
same
liberality
the
reward
of
intire
Immortality
,
to
Poems
which
were
but
begun
by
the
pregnant
brains
of
the
Litterati
,
and
which
were
interrupted
,
not
by
lasiness
,
but
by
death
,
as
if
they
had
been
brought
to
their
full
perfection
.
Thus
was
Immortality
favorably
decreed
to
the
Name
and
Writings
of
Baldo
Cataneo
,
who
being
with
wonted
solemnity
,
placed
by
the
Masters
of
the
Pegasean
Cerimonies
,
amongst
the
demi
.
Gods
who
enjoy
the
signal
Prerogative
of
Immortality
to
their
Names
and
Fames
;
a
Litterato
appeared
in
the
Royal
Audience
,
who
by
his
Gown
,
after
the
Grecian
fashion
,
and
by
the
evident
signe
of
his
beard
,
was
known
by
the
greatest
part
of
the
Senat
,
for
that
famous
Timotheo
Greco
,
who
having
gaged
his
beard
about
the
dispute
of
a
syllable
,
with
Francisco
Filelfo
,
that
famous
Poet
of
Marcha
,
it
was
by
the
severe
Victor
cut
off
;
whereupon
all
the
spectators
began
again
to
laugh
,
and
greatly
to
wonder
how
Timotheo
,
who
had
never
been
very
wise
,
had
so
much
to
his
prejudice
,
dared
to
present
himself
in
that
place
,
to
demand
a
Residence
in
Parnassus
,
which
is
only
granted
to
the
Litterati
of
highest
esteem
.
Yet
Timotheo
,
spake
boldly
thus
to
Apollo
:
I
may
truely
say
I
have
been
rather
a
lover
of
Learning
,
then
that
by
my
perpetual
study
I
may
have
deserved
the
name
of
a
perfect
Litterato
,
though
I
come
empty-handed
before
your
Majesty
,
and
I
dare
demand
a
place
in
Parnassus
amongst
your
Litterati
;
yet
I
hope
I
shall
not
part
from
your
Royal
presence
,
without
receiving
some
favour
from
that
your
immense
benignity
,
which
doth
largely
reward
the
bare
intense
desire
which
men
have
of
knowledg
.
Timotheo
was
upon
his
knees
(
as
the
custom
is
)
whilst
he
made
this
his
Petition
to
Apollo
,
when
(
a
thing
that
was
never
at
any
time
before
observed
to
be
done
to
any
personage
how
eminent
soever
)
his
Majesty
beckned
to
him
to
stand
up
,
and
bad
him
be
covered
:
And
then
commanded
,
that
according
to
the
custom
,
the
Senat
should
give
their
suffrages
touching
Timotheus
admittance
:
The
Litterati
,
who
had
but
an
ill
opinion
of
Timotheo
,
and
therefore
were
sorry
to
see
him
enter
the
Court
,
firmly
believed
,
that
by
the
extraordinary
favour
done
to
one
whom
Filelfo
had
so
affronted
,
his
Majesty
would
try
the
stedfastness
of
his
Senators
opinions
in
giving
their
Votes
;
and
whether
they
would
be
diverted
by
his
extraordinary
usage
towards
any
whosoever
:
Wherefore
they
did
not
only
all
of
them
joyntly
give
him
the
repulse
,
but
many
of
them
shewing
themselves
more
zealous
of
the
glory
of
Parnassus
then
they
needed
,
said
freely
,
that
the
great
affront
put
by
Filelfo
upon
Timotheo
,
did
not
only
mark
him
out
to
every
one
for
an
ignorant
person
,
but
for
a
great
babler
,
a
thing
which
his
Majesty
and
the
whole
Senat
did
much
detest
.
You
my
faithful
Litterati
(
answered
Apollo
)
have
given
a
very
ill
Judgement
of
this
my
Vertuoso
,
one
,
than
whom
(
and
let
not
this
be
offensive
to
any
one
)
mine
eyes
never
beheld
a
more
glorious
personage
,
and
to
whom
the
glory
of
eternal
Fame
,
with
all
the
most
priviledged
prerogatives
,
ought
rather
to
be
given
.
O
how
signal
,
how
immense
,
how
praise-worthy
was
the
glory
which
thou
(
my
dear
Timotheo
)
didst
get
in
the
loss
of
the
wager
which
thou
didst
lay
with
Filelfo
,
how
much
ought
it
to
be
commended
,
admired
,
and
rewarded
by
me
,
and
by
these
my
Litteratio
more
then
all
the
actions
ever
done
by
any
whoever
thirsted
after
glory
.
Thou
art
he
alone
,
who
to
this
day
hast
known
how
,
by
keeping
constant
to
thy
Oath
made
,
and
by
making
good
thy
word
,
to
purchase
that
Crown
of
glory
of
maintaining
promise
both
to
God
and
man
,
which
most
commonly
is
so
abusefully
measured
by
the
compass
of
Interest
,
both
by
Princes
and
privat
men
,
as
there
can
no
so
strict
form
of
Oath
be
found
,
no
faith
whereby
to
bind
men
,
from
which
they
cannot
tell
how
to
acquit
themselves
,
not
only
by
a
thousand
evasions
,
but
even
by
affronted
impiety
.
Thine
then
Timotheo
,
be
the
chief
and
most
honorable
place
of
this
my
Senat
;
and
let
all
men
learn
by
the
glory
which
〈◊〉
this
day
adjudge
thee
worthy
of
,
that
men
win
so
much
honour
by
constantly
keeping
their
word
when
it
is
once
given
,
yea
though
it
be
prejudicial
to
their
own
affairs
;
as
glory
is
by
all
men
esteemed
beyond
comparison
,
greater
then
the
love
of
any
thing
that
is
earthly
.
This
was
the
end
of
fortunate
Timotheus
his
business
,
when
Ferdinando
of
Aragon
,
the
Catholike
King
of
Spain
,
appeared
with
great
gravity
in
the
Court
,
and
attended
by
a
great
many
Lords
,
who
complained
grievously
,
that
it
being
a
hundred
years
since
he
had
earnestly
prest
to
be
admitted
into
Parnassus
,
he
could
never
obtain
his
desire
;
and
that
it
was
not
only
he
alone
,
but
even
all
those
that
knew
him
,
that
thought
it
a
great
injury
done
him
,
to
be
denied
that
abode
,
which
was
easily
granted
to
many
that
were
inferior
to
him
,
both
in
merit
and
State
.
Apollo
answered
King
Ferdinando
,
That
it
was
the
antient
custom
of
Parnassus
,
that
Princes
who
desired
to
be
admitted
into
his
State
,
should
be
chosen
by
the
Votes
of
the
Litterati
of
their
own
Nation
,
as
those
who
knew
best
their
Kings
deserts
,
and
that
he
would
by
no
means
break
those
orders
which
by
so
long
a
concourse
of
time
had
still
proved
good
;
and
then
his
Majesty
having
commanded
that
they
should
again
go
to
their
votes
,
he
in
a
grave
manner
minded
the
Nation
of
Arragon
,
how
straitly
she
was
bound
,
both
to
God
and
man
,
to
weigh
the
merits
of
her
Kings
,
with
the
ballance
of
a
soul
free
from
all
passion
:
The
Votes
being
given
,
they
were
all
found
to
be
negative
;
for
which
reiterated
injury
,
Ferdinando
being
highly
incensed
,
Sir
,
said
he
;
Can
then
such
a
King
as
I
be
so
ill
dealt
withall
,
and
scorned
by
his
ungrateful
Nation
,
without
being
able
to
receive
remedy
for
such
injustice
,
for
so
manifest
injury
from
Apollo's
self
?
What
other
Nation
,
either
in
antient
or
modern
times
,
is
there
in
all
the
world
,
which
ought
to
acknowledg
it self
more
obliged
unto
its
Prince
,
then
is
Arragon
to
me
its
King
,
and
so
great
Benefactor
?
who
from
that
obscurity
of
fame
which
every
one
knows
she
was
in
,
have
made
her
to
be
held
in
high
esteem
by
all
the
Nations
of
the
earth
,
by
the
glorious
union
which
I
made
between
the
powerful
Kingdom
of
Castiel
and
her
,
by
Queen
Isabels
Marriage
.
Whilst
King
Ferdinando
with
strange
alterations
of
mind
,
said
these
things
,
it
was
observed
that
some
of
the
chief
Arragon
Senators
shook
their
heads
,
which
he
,
taking
to
be
done
to
his
yet
greater
disgrace
,
grew
so
incenst
,
as
Apollo
observing
it
,
to
avoid
some
foul
inconvenience
which
might
ensue
thereupon
,
made
him
aware
of
his
great
error
,
which
blinded
with
passion
,
he
committed
in
that
his
Cause
;
telling
him
,
That
Princes
did
then
make
their
Nations
great
and
powerful
when
they
united
them
to
an
inferior
Nation
(
as
the
Kings
of
France
had
done
by
the
important
acquisition
of
Britany
)
and
not
to
a
more
numerous
and
potent
Kingdom
.
For
in
the
first
case
,
by
aggrandizing
her
Empire
,
men
made
their
Nation
Mistriss
;
whereas
in
the
other
,
by
lesning
her
Dominion
,
they
made
her
a
slave
.
Whilst
King
Ferdinando
departed
the
Audience
,
no
waies
appeased
by
this
his
Majesties
wise
answer
;
to
the
great
admiration
of
the
whole
Colledg
,
a
Sparrow-Hawk
came
flying
into
the
Court
,
and
lighting
upon
the
publick
Chair
,
infused
wonder
into
all
the
spectators
,
who
took
it
for
some
prodigious
thing
,
which
signified
some
great
matter
.
And
the
Souldiers
of
the
Guard
running
to
drive
her
out
of
the
Pavillion
,
his
Majestie
commanded
them
to
let
her
alone
.
Then
the
Roman
Augures
or
Southsayers
rose
up
and
desired
Apollo
that
they
might
interpret
that
Augury
▪
Apollo
laught
at
the
request
of
those
vain
men
,
and
told
them
,
that
futurities
were
so
hidden
by
immortal
God
,
from
men
,
as
he
was
a
meer
fool
who
pretended
he
could
foretell
them
by
the
flying
of
birds
,
or
any
such
like
thing
which
hapned
by
chance
;
and
that
if
they
would
make
use
of
their
Art
of
Augury
,
by
their
ordinary
interessed
ends
of
making
ignorant
men
more
obedient
and
ready
in
the
execution
of
such
things
as
they
desired
,
shewing
them
that
the
will
of
God
concurred
with
mans
command
,
they
should
know
that
Parnassus
was
no
aboad
for
such
fools
as
could
be
whirld
about
by
the
holy
and
sacred
pretences
of
malitious
interessed
men
.
Apollo
having
said
these
things
,
and
great
silence
insuing
thereupon
,
the
Hawk
spake
thus
:
That
Vertue
which
is
thought
to
be
only
peculiar
to
man
,
is
not
only
known
by
other
Animals
,
but
loved
by
them
,
and
greedily
imbraced
,
is
clearly
proved
by
the
aptness
which
is
seen
in
birds
,
to
learn
several
tunes
which
they
hear
sung
by
others
,
and
by
their
learning
to
speak
like
man
;
by
the
corveting
and
dancing
of
four-footed
beasts
,
and
by
other
things
which
they
see
,
or
are
taught
,
the
which
they
do
as
gracefully
imitate
,
as
they
do
easily
learn
.
This
truth
(
most
glorious
Prince
of
the
Planets
)
is
sufficient
to
make
the
wonder
cease
in
all
those
that
hear
me
,
why
I
,
a
savage
bird
,
who
live
by
rapine
,
and
am
therefore
thought
to
have
a
cruel
heart
,
and
to
be
fiercely
minded
,
should
desire
the
so
happy
and
blessed
aboad
of
Parnassus
.
To
adorn
the
soul
with
vertue
,
the
desire
of
good
conversation
is
not
only
infused
by
God
into
men
,
who
are
indued
with
an
understanding
able
to
know
all
things
,
but
into
all
sorts
and
conditions
of
Creatures
:
And
since
I
very
well
know
that
those
are
only
admitted
into
Parnassus
,
who
by
their
words
and
acts
,
either
have
taught
,
or
are
able
to
teach
holy
precepts
,
good
doctrine
,
and
vertuous
things
,
I
certainly
may
with
much
reason
pretend
to
be
thought
very
worthy
to
live
in
these
fortunate
habitations
.
I
know
that
all
these
glorious
Litterati
will
grant
me
,
that
mans
subsistence
,
that
the
good
beginnings
,
better
progress
,
and
best
end
of
all
vertuous
life
depends
upon
the
education
which
parents
give
their
children
;
this
as
necessary
,
as
badly
known
Science
of
breeding
up
children
well
,
is
notwithstanding
very
ill
practised
by
men
,
and
very
well
known
by
the
instinct
of
nature
to
bruit
animals
:
I
,
if
it
may
stand
with
your
Majesties
approbation
,
am
come
to
instruct
in
Parnassus
;
listen
therefore
Gentlemen
,
and
admire
;
Amongst
us
birds
there
is
no
more
immense
love
then
that
which
children
bear
to
their
fathers
:
but
I
find
mans
ignorance
to
be
so
gross
,
that
amongst
them
the
greatest
enemies
which
children
have
,
are
their
fathers
:
For
the
unbowel'd
love
which
they
bear
unto
them
,
is
more
prejudicial
to
them
,
then
is
their
enemies
implacable
hatred
.
Love
even
to
ones
own
children
,
hath
its
bounds
and
limits
,
which
those
who
exceed
,
occasion
ruine
to
their
children
;
and
that
you
may
judge
of
other
animals
,
by
the
example
which
I
shall
shew
you
of
us
birds
;
we
do
so
affectionately
love
our
young
ones
,
as
to
feed
them
upon
urgent
necessity
with
flesh
torne
out
of
our
own
breasts
,
is
not
our
utmost
charity
to
them
;
but
we
do
notwithstanding
(
as
men
unfortunately
do
)
love
them
when
they
are
old
;
but
by
the
wise
instinct
of
nature
,
only
so
long
as
they
must
of
necessity
be
fed
by
us
;
for
when
we
find
their
claws
begin
to
grow
sharp
,
and
their
wings
strong
,
the
first
fit
for
prey
,
the
other
for
flying
,
we
use
the
last
and
most
perfect
bounds
of
charity
in
not
loving
them
any
longer
;
not
for
that
that
paternal
affection
which
lives
in
fathers
even
after
their
childrens
death
,
ceaseth
to
be
amongst
birds
,
but
because
that
infinite
affection
of
parents
to
do
what
is
best
and
most
convenient
for
their
children
,
requires
it
should
be
so
;
the
love
of
fathers
to
their
children
is
not
only
useful
,
but
necessary
;
but
only
so
long
as
they
are
not
able
of
themselves
to
get
their
living
,
and
harmful
,
and
directly
pernitious
,
if
they
assist
them
when
they
are
able
by
their
own
labours
and
industry
to
live
plentifully
of
themselves
:
For
certainly
mens
children
would
be
very
industrious
,
if
their
parents
would
only
love
them
till
that
time
which
God
hath
prefixt
unto
us
,
and
that
they
would
do
like
me
,
who
when
I
see
my
young
ones
can
fly
currantly
,
I
shew
them
hedges
full
of
Sparrows
,
that
they
may
live
plentifully
:
So
men
,
when
their
children
are
become
men
like
themselves
,
should
shew
them
Princes
Courts
,
and
chief
Metropolitan
Cities
,
wherein
much
business
is
transacted
;
to
the
end
that
they
might
maintain
themselves
not
like
idle
and
unusefull
lumps
of
flesh
buried
in
sloathfulness
,
and
total
ignorance
,
but
by
their
own
vertuous
industry
.
Apollo
having
heard
so
necessary
a
lesson
for
men
,
after
having
highly
praised
the
Sparrow-hawk
,
and
deputed
it
a
safe
and
honourable
place
in
Parnassus
,
he
said
,
Now
at
last
,
my
beloved
Vertuosi
,
we
find
clearly
,
that
the
immortal
God
having
infused
full
and
perfect
wisdom
into
bruit-beasts
,
for
what
concerns
their
preservation
and
propagation
;
the
true
Philosophy
which
makes
men
wise
,
and
to
which
by
continual
study
and
speculation
they
ought
to
attend
,
is
to
observe
their
natural
instincts
,
and
diligently
to
practice
them
in
what
concerns
themselves
;
for
so
they
might
lead
their
lives
happily
,
not
by
the
capriciousness
of
several
sects
of
Philosophers
,
so
far
differing
in
opinion
amongst
themselves
,
but
by
living
according
to
holy
and
prudent
natural
precepts
;
and
as
it
would
be
a
foul
disorder
if
birds
,
and
other
bruit
animals
should
feed
their
children
till
they
grow
old
in
their
nests
and
dens
;
so
it
must
be
confest
that
parents
do
very
ill
,
who
taking
more
care
how
to
accumulate
wealth
and
riches
for
their
children
,
then
to
leave
them
the
pretious
and
alwaies
permanent
patrimony
of
Learning
,
which
fire
cannot
consume
,
deluges
devour
,
nor
Tyrants
take
away
,
instead
of
breeding
up
men
that
may
be
useful
for
their
own
Families
,
and
serviceable
to
their
Countries
,
and
to
the
world
,
do
most
unfortunately
breed
up
unuseful
and
vitious
lumps
of
flesh
,
who
not
knowing
wherein
else
to
spend
their
lives
,
girting
their
swords
about
them
,
that
to
the
end
that
they
may
appear
true
Gentlemen
,
imitate
those
unfortunate
pismires
,
who
are
then
sure
to
fall
into
rain
,
when
they
put
on
wings
.
For
it
is
evident
that
those
great
patrimonies
which
are
got
by
Learning
,
are
ruined
by
the
use
of
Arms.
Thus
said
Apollo
,
when
the
famous
Philip
Commines
,
Lord
of
Argenton
,
appeared
before
his
Majesty
,
and
shewed
his
Memorials
to
the
Senat
of
Litterati
;
and
then
desired
,
that
together
with
their
Author
,
they
might
be
consecrated
to
Immortality
.
When
Argentonne
had
made
his
demand
,
Apollo
commanded
Titus
Livius
,
Prince
of
the
Colledg
of
History
,
to
give
his
opinion
upon
Argentons
Memorials
;
who
said
,
he
saw
no
reason
why
that
French
Lord
should
desire
that
his
Writings
should
be
placed
amongst
the
Learned
Labours
of
Historians
which
were
preserved
in
the
Delfick
Library
;
since
there
was
in
them
no
gravity
of
stile
,
no
strength
of
eloquence
,
no
good
contexture
of
times
,
no
frequent
Sentences
,
no
Orations
,
nor
any
other
thing
worthy
an
indifferent
Historian
:
But
that
he
having
woven
these
his
Memorials
according
to
the
vain
fantastick
way
of
Romance
,
in
sundry
Chapters
,
wherein
are
handled
the
weighty
matters
of
fact
,
between
the
two
glorious
and
potent
Princes
,
Lewis
the
twelfth
,
King
of
France
,
and
Charls
,
Duke
of
Burgony
,
the
first
known
by
all
men
to
be
wise
,
the
other
valiant
,
he
thought
him
fitter
to
be
placed
amongst
the
Writers
of
Romances
,
then
in
the
Historical
Classis
.
Apollo
was
so
little
satisfied
with
this
Relation
of
Livy
,
as
not
without
some
commotion
of
mind
,
he
answered
,
Livy
,
those
requisites
which
as
I
perceive
by
your
relation
,
you
think
ought
first
to
be
had
in
consideration
in
a
perfect
Historian
,
are
those
which
I
think
ought
to
be
considered
last
in
my
Vertuosi
.
History
is
meat
not
only
well
seasoned
to
please
the
curious
pallat
,
but
substantially
and
magnificently
served
in
to
please
the
soul
;
and
therefore
more
respect
is
to
be
had
therein
to
profit
,
then
to
pleasure
:
And
you
are
very
much
deceived
if
you
believe
,
that
to
the
study
of
History
it
be
requisite
to
have
a
neat
polite
phrase
,
either
in
Latin
,
Greek
,
French
,
or
Italian
;
the
sole
end
of
so
honorable
a
study
,
is
to
come
by
that
wisdom
,
which
is
only
drunk
in
by
the
reading
of
past
affairs
.
And
though
I
highly
commend
your
stately
stile
,
and
Cesars
so
polished
speaking
,
yet
I
would
have
you
know
,
that
those
things
which
you
hold
the
first
;
are
the
last
in
a
perfect
Historian
.
Truth
is
the
soul
of
History
,
which
makes
it
long
liv'd
,
and
well
esteemed
of
amongst
men
,
as
also
the
knowledg
how
to
explain
the
deep
Councels
,
most
secret
thoughts
of
Princes
,
all
the
cunning
Intriegoes
used
in
times
of
peace
and
war
,
in
the
Government
of
their
States
;
which
though
they
be
written
in
poor
Law-Latin
,
affords
such
content
to
vertuous
minds
,
as
doth
eternize
his
Writings
,
who
hath
wit
enough
to
weave
such
Histories
.
And
amongst
these
I
esteem
judicious
Commines
the
chief
,
and
doe
not
only
think
him
very
worthy
a
place
in
Parnassus
,
but
command
that
the
first
place
amongst
French
Historians
be
assigned
to
him
.
It
grew
now
very
late
,
and
Apollo
having
taken
great
pains
in
listning
to
the
reading
of
so
many
writings
,
and
hearing
so
many
requests
,
was
very
weary
;
when
Berni
,
Mauro
,
Molza
,
and
other
pleasant
and
jovial
Poets
,
to
make
his
Majesty
merry
,
brought
a
Poet
into
the
Court
,
so
sordidly
aparrelled
,
with
his
clothes
all
tattered
,
and
smelling
of
smoak
,
as
he
was
not
unlike
a
Chimney-sweeper
:
This
man
having
moved
great
laughture
in
the
Senat
,
came
before
Apollo
,
to
whom
with
a
rude
discomposed
reverence
,
he
presented
a
very
greasie
Poem
.
His
Majesty
asked
him
who
he
was
?
who
answered
,
That
he
was
the
Author
of
the
famous
Poem
di
Bovo
d'
Antona
.
Apollo
seemed
then
to
have
heard
of
him
,
and
told
him
that
he
was
the
Ariosto
of
Ballad-makers
;
Apollo
listned
then
so
attentively
to
one
whole
Canto
of
that
Poem
,
scowling
sometimes
,
as
he
made
all
men
wonder
that
his
Majesty
could
so
much
as
cast
an
eye
upon
so
foolish
a
thing
.
Apollo
,
who
observed
his
Litterati's
amazement
,
said
,
that
he
much
admired
that
Writer
,
whom
they
so
much
scorned
and
laught
at
,
since
knowing
so
little
,
he
had
the
courage
to
write
so
much
.
A
thing
which
might
make
many
of
them
blush
,
who
knowing
much
,
had
writ
little
:
And
that
the
excuse
made
by
many
was
very
naught
,
and
altogether
unbecoming
a
Vertuoso
;
That
there
was
no
more
need
of
writing
Verses
,
since
Princely
Virgil
had
writ
,
that
matters
of
Physick
being
treated
on
by
Hippocrates
and
Galen
,
ought
not
be
toucht
upon
by
any
others
;
and
that
he
spent
his
time
in
vain
,
in
writing
about
the
Mathematicks
,
who
had
well
considered
Euclids
writings
;
for
there
was
no
book
which
had
not
somewhat
of
good
in
it
;
and
that
conceits
and
doctrines
were
found
in
many
Latin
Poets
,
in
more
writers
of
Physick
,
and
in
some
Authors
of
the
Mathematicks
,
which
did
not
only
equal
,
but
exceed
any
in
Virgil
,
Hippocrates
,
or
Euclid
;
and
that
he
hated
some
wits
,
who
having
noble
Talents
in
several
Sciences
,
able
to
eternize
their
names
,
did
cloke
their
sloathfulness
,
and
hatred
of
writing
with
the
name
of
modesty
.
But
when
Apollo
gave
order
to
Platina
to
take
that
greasie
Poet
into
his
Pastery
to
make
him
clean
,
to
the
wonder
of
all
men
,
all
the
bels
of
Parnassus
were
heard
to
sound
an
alarm
,
and
presently
after
Mutio
Iustinopolitano
came
out
of
breath
into
the
Court
,
and
brought
the
dreadful
news
,
that
the
Monarchies
and
Commonwealths
of
all
the
world
being
falne
at
ods
,
a
bloudy
battel
was
likely
to
insue
,
unless
some
speedy
remedy
were
found
out
.
Apollo
,
though
at
the
very
instant
hearing
of
this
so
sodain
chance
,
he
was
able
of
himself
to
put
on
a
resolution
worthy
of
his
own
wisdom
;
yet
in
a
business
of
such
danger
,
he
would
hear
the
opinion
of
his
Council
of
State
,
though
tumultuary
given
.
And
though
most
were
for
quenching
the
sparkles
of
so
dangerous
a
fire
,
with
the
usual
guards
of
the
Palace
,
with
two
legions
of
Satyrical
Poets
,
and
with
the
Pretorian
Lyrick
Souldiers
,
and
that
his
Majesties
Royal
Person
should
be
reserved
for
a
more
urgent
remedy
,
when
all
other
hopes
failed
,
yet
Tacitus
his
sole
opinion
prevailed
with
Apollo
,
who
resolutely
said
,
Ire
ipsum
,
&
opponere
Majestatem
Imperatoriam
debuisse
,
cessuris
ubi
Principem
longa
experientia
,
eundemque
severitatis
,
&
munificentiae
summum
vidissent
.
Tacit.
lib.
2.
Ann.
Wherefore
Apollo
marched
speedily
toward
Parnassus
,
where
the
ordinary
Guards
of
Provincial
Poets
,
and
the
Company
of
Curasiers
of
Italian
Litterati
,
who
were
in
all
haste
sent
before
,
found
not
only
the
chief
streets
chained
up
,
and
the
Foro
Massimo
secured
with
good
Corps
de
Guard
,
but
the
habitations
of
all
the
Monarchies
and
Common-wealths
well
fortified
,
and
furnisht
with
armed
men
;
and
the
Monarchs
,
as
well
as
the
Consuls
,
Dukes
,
Standard-bearers
,
Burgamasters
,
and
other
Chieftains
of
Commonwealths
,
were
even
then
with
their
Pikes
couched
ready
to
fall
on
:
when
the
Princes
and
Commonwealths
hearing
of
his
Majesties
approach
,
bore
such
reverence
to
his
Royal
presence
,
as
throwing
their
weapons
on
the
ground
,
greatly
fearing
to
be
seen
and
known
,
fell
flat
down
:
Which
made
every
one
see
how
much
the
presence
of
a
Prince
who
is
well
beloved
and
feared
by
his
people
,
prevails
with
his
subjects
in
such
and
other
like
cases
of
urgent
danger
.
The
Tumults
being
thus
quieted
,
as
soon
as
Apollo
came
to
his
own
Palace
,
he
sent
for
all
the
Monarchies
and
Commonwealths
that
were
resident
in
Parnassus
;
and
all
of
them
readily
appearing
,
he
bad
the
Consul
Marcus
Marcellus
acquaint
him
with
the
true
reason
of
those
Tumults
.
The
Consul
said
,
that
at
a
certain
meeting
,
wherein
were
many
Monarchs
,
Roman
Consuls
,
Dukes
of
Venice
,
Florentine
Confalonieri
,
and
Dutch
Burgamasters
,
it
fell
into
discourse
whether
Monarchies
or
Republicks
were
the
better
Government
;
that
Philippo
Maria
Vissinte
,
Duke
of
Millan
,
had
the
boldness
to
say
,
that
all
republicks
,
especially
Aristocracies
,
were
insufferable
Governments
of
many
Tyrants
;
that
the
Illustrious
Dukes
of
Venice
,
as
those
that
enjoy
the
perfectest
Aristocracie
that
ever
was
,
having
given
him
the
lie
,
all
Monarchies
and
Commonwealths
,
being
concerned
in
common
by
this
difference
,
were
,
as
his
Majesty
might
see
,
falne
together
by
the
ears
.
Apollo
was
the
more
displeased
hereat
,
for
that
by
an
Edict
of
his
publisht
long
ago
,
he
had
commanded
upon
pain
of
grievous
punishment
,
that
this
so
ancient
question
,
and
which
had
been
so
often
discust
by
the
Litterati
,
should
be
no
more
disputed
;
but
that
every
one
should
rest
content
with
his
present
condition
.
Then
turning
to
Duke
Philip
,
who
was
the
sole
Author
of
this
disturbance
,
he
said
,
That
having
spoken
too
inconsiderately
of
Aristocracies
,
he
ought
to
know
,
that
well
governed
States
were
discerned
from
such
as
were
Tyrannical
,
by
their
peaceable
and
long
life
;
for
Tyrannical
Governments
being
alwaies
full
of
conspiracies
of
the
Nobles
,
and
of
the
Commonalties
rebellions
,
lasted
but
awhile
,
and
that
it
might
easily
be
seen
what
satisfaction
the
people
of
Venice
enjoyed
by
the
long
time
that
that
flourishing
Commonwealth
had
lived
,
and
by
the
continual
peace
that
she
had
enjoyed
at
home
:
And
that
to
make
this
truth
appear
the
more
plain
to
all
the
Monarchies
that
were
there
present
,
he
would
put
them
in
mind
of
a
business
which
had
lately
falne
out
in
Venice
,
whereby
every
one
might
see
with
what
,
and
with
how
much
modest
liberty
people
did
live
in
that
well
governed
Commonwealth
:
For
Vettore
Calergi
,
a
Noble
Venetian
,
having
left
behind
him
one
only
daughter
with
the
rich
portion
of
half
a
million
of
crowns
;
yet
the
marriage
of
this
so
rich
maid
was
so
modestly
endeavoured
by
the
Venetian
Nobility
,
as
her
mother
might
quietly
marry
her
to
whom
she
liked
best
;
who
wisely
chose
Vicenso
Gremani
,
a
Noble
Venetian
,
and
next
akin
to
her
daughter
,
for
her
daughters
husband
.
Now
tell
me
ingeniously
;
Philip
,
what
would
have
become
of
this
young
maid
,
if
such
a
thing
had
hapned
in
one
of
your
Monarchies
?
To
answer
your
Majesty
(
said
the
Duke
)
with
that
ingenuity
of
soul
,
and
liberty
of
Language
as
becomes
this
place
,
doubtlesly
if
such
a
thing
had
hapned
in
any
Monarchy
,
such
designs
would
have
been
had
upon
so
rich
a
Dowry
,
well
befitting
any
Queen
,
as
with
much
violence
(
covered
over
notwithstanding
with
the
cloak
of
charity
towards
the
young
maid
)
they
would
have
imprisoned
the
mother
,
shut
the
young
maid
up
into
some
Monastery
,
or
other
place
,
only
to
inrich
some
of
their
favorites
with
this
great
Dowry
,
for
more
then
three
or
four
such
things
as
this
,
hath
been
done
in
the
like
case
,
both
in
Italy
,
and
elsewhere
in
my
time
,
and
formerly
,
well
worthy
to
be
joyned
to
the
Letters
of
Phalaris
of
Agrigentum
.
The
XV.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
At
a
publick
meeting
,
Force
(
contrary
to
the
custom
of
the
Plebean
Court
)
pretending
to
take
place
of
Reputation
:
That
Beautiful
Lady
,
with
excellent
resolution
,
finds
a
remedy
for
her
reputation
,
which
was
in
great
hazard
.
IT
is
very
well
known
in
Parnassus
,
that
in
all
publick
meetings
,
Reputation
hath
alwaies
had
the
precedency
of
Force
,
and
taken
the
right
hand
.
But
it
hapned
the
last
morning
when
Apollo
made
his
solemn
entry
into
Leo
,
Force
had
the
insolency
(
wherewith
he
is
alwaies
accompanied
)
to
contend
for
place
with
Reputation
;
who
,
had
she
not
been
able
by
her
excellent
dexterity
to
overcome
so
dangerous
a
rub
,
had
certainly
received
some
notable
affront
;
yet
was
she
very
much
distasted
at
that
her
enemies
petulancy
used
toward
her
.
Wherefore
the
Vertuosi
,
who
were
wholly
devoted
to
that
most
excellent
Princess
,
incouraged
her
,
and
exhorted
her
,
by
no
means
to
indure
the
insolency
of
that
rash
fellow
;
and
bad
her
moreover
remember
,
that
she
was
the
right
hand
of
all
Potentates
,
and
the
only
instrument
wherewith
Princes
did
rule
and
sway
the
world
:
That
therefore
she
should
take
heart
,
and
resolve
to
buckle
with
that
hairbraind
companion
,
whom
she
would
so
bear
down
,
with
the
Majesty
of
her
countenance
,
at
the
very
first
incounter
;
that
(
as
it
had
hapned
a
thousand
times
)
she
would
easily
throw
him
down
at
her
feet
.
The
Lady-Reputation
answered
those
her
beloved
Vertuosi
,
who
so
incouraged
her
,
with
much
meekness
and
civility
,
that
she
greatly
cherished
their
good
will
;
but
that
she
could
neither
praise
,
nor
follow
their
advice
:
Wishing
them
to
remember
,
that
her
whole
power
,
authority
,
and
greatness
,
being
grounded
only
upon
mens
opinions
,
which
was
so
uncertain
and
various
,
and
not
upon
the
strength
of
armed
men
,
nor
upon
the
security
of
inexpugnable
Citadels
,
she
must
in
this
her
adversity
,
proceed
with
great
circumspections
,
and
admirable
dexterity
:
And
that
there
was
a
great
disparity
between
her
and
Force
,
who
though
once
discomfeited
,
might
easily
recover
,
and
the
second
battle
be
made
with
greater
strength
,
which
would
be
the
more
dangerous
for
her
,
for
that
her
enemy
would
to
his
former
violence
,
add
disdain
and
shame
for
the
first
discomfeiture
;
but
that
if
it
should
so
fall
out
that
she
should
not
with
the
sole
Majesty
of
her
Person
,
and
Authority
of
Aspect
,
bear
her
enemy
to
the
ground
,
or
worst
her
enemy
at
the
very
first
incounter
;
like
an
Elephant
which
falling
to
the
ground
,
cannot
get
up
again
,
she
should
be
wholly
rob'd
of
all
her
greatness
,
which
purchast
her
the
reputation
which
she
had
amongst
men
:
Which
considerations
were
the
more
necessary
for
her
,
for
that
she
had
found
nothing
to
be
more
dangerous
to
her
,
then
to
go
about
to
maintain
that
Authority
and
reputation
in
strength
and
vigor
,
by
force
of
Arms
,
which
was
only
grounded
upon
Opinion
:
But
that
she
would
provide
for
the
indempnity
of
her
Authority
;
by
her
usual
remedies
,
and
would
incounter
force
with
her
usual
Arms
,
and
would
be
sure
to
overcome
him
.
Then
she
added
,
that
Force
used
those
extraordinary
terms
of
insolency
against
her
,
not
because
his
own
power
was
increased
,
but
for
that
by
reason
of
some
privat
disorders
of
her
own
,
he
found
her
not
to
have
that
Grace
and
Majesty
which
she
had
wont
,
nor
to
be
had
in
such
veneration
by
men
,
as
formerly
.
Having
said
this
,
the
Lady-Reputation
departed
,
and
withdrew
her self
to
her
Chamber
,
from
whence
she
was
not
seen
to
stir
forth
for
the
space
of
some
months
;
but
with
great
severity
studied
her
amendment
,
banishing
all
privat
interests
for
ever
,
clearly
finding
that
her
credit
was
much
lesned
,
for
having
given
her self
too
much
over
unto
them
.
In
the
next
place
she
wholly
busied
her self
in
sweeping
with
the
besom
of
severe
Reformation
,
all
sordid
baseness
out
of
her
house
,
from
whence
she
also
extirpated
avarice
,
over-much
ambition
,
and
all
other
privat
,
dishonest
,
and
scandalous
passions
.
This
Princess
having
thus
corrected
her
privat
disorders
,
upon
a
certain
morning
when
she
was
to
be
present
at
some
publick
action
,
she
adorned
her self
with
purity
of
soul
,
sincerity
of
heart
,
liberality
,
and
with
other
her
choicest
vertues
;
and
taking
upon
her
the
Noble
Mantle
of
immence
love
to
deserving
persons
,
and
of
publick
Charity
,
she
appeared
with
such
Majesty
at
the
place
where
she
was
expected
by
the
other
Illustrious
Vertues
,
and
purchast
such
veneration
and
respect
from
the
lookers
on
,
as
even
Force
himself
(
so
great
was
the
devotion
which
that
sight
wrought
in
him
)
was
seen
to
tremble
,
and
upon
that
occasion
did
not
only
give
her
the
precedency
of
the
right
hand
;
but
beg'd
it
as
a
high
prerogative
,
that
he
might
at
that
solemnity
carry
up
her
Train
.
The
XVI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Giovan
Francisco
Pico
,
Count
of
Mirandola
,
that
he
might
the
more
quietly
attend
his
studies
,
entreats
Monsignor
Dino
da
Mugello
,
Auditor
of
the
Exchequer
in
Parnassus
,
that
the
Reformers
,
by
reason
of
the
too
great
noise
which
they
alwaies
make
in
their
profession
,
may
be
removed
further
from
his
neighbourhood
;
and
is
not
heard
in
his
desire
.
THe
Contentions
,
which
now
are
greater
then
ever
,
and
more
obstinate
between
the
two
chief
Lights
of
Philosophy
,
Aristotle
and
Plato
,
having
produced
the
two
mighty
Sects
of
Platonicks
and
Peripateticks
in
Parnassus
,
which
fill
the
Colledg
of
Litterati
with
troublesom
disputes
,
and
dangerous
controversies
;
Apollo
,
who
joies
in
nothing
more
then
in
the
peace
and
quiet
of
his
Vertuosi
,
imployed
Giovan
Francisco
Pico
,
Count
of
Mirandola
,
and
Lord
of
Concorde
,
many
months
agoe
,
in
according
so
important
controversies
,
who
he
hears
hath
laboured
so
much
therein
,
as
that
the
business
is
already
brought
to
some
good
accommodation
.
But
such
a
business
requiring
very
much
quiet
,
Pico
is
much
molested
by
the
House
of
the
Reformers
,
which
is
next
to
his
Apartiment
;
for
by
the
continual
great
noise
which
they
make
,
in
beating
water
with
Morter
,
they
do
much
annoy
him
;
wherefore
Pico
came
yesterday
before
Dino
da
Mugello
,
Auditor
of
the
Exchequer
in
Parnassus
,
and
desired
that
he
might
enjoy
the
priviledg
of
Scholars
,
in
having
all
noisom
occupations
removed
from
his
neighbourhood
.
The
Reformers
answered
Dino
,
that
there
being
no
proportion
to
be
held
between
their
reforming
the
ignorant
,
who
were
drowned
in
the
dirt
of
so
many
corruptions
,
and
the
agreeing
the
frivolous
controversies
of
Philosophers
,
they
ought
not
to
be
any
waies
incommodated
;
and
that
it
was
known
to
all
men
,
that
Princes
wrought
strange
effects
in
their
States
,
only
by
keeping
the
House
of
Reformation
open
.
Mirandola
reply'd
,
That
he
did
not
only
much
marvel
,
but
was
scandalized
at
the
Reformers
foolish
pretention
,
the
vainness
of
whose
employment
was
easily
known
,
in
that
their
long
endeavours
had
produced
just
nothing
but
infinite
noise
.
Dino
said
then
again
with
much
freedom
,
that
there
was
nothing
more
necessary
,
nor
of
greater
consequence
in
any
whatsoever
State
,
then
that
the
House
of
Reformation
should
still
be
kept
open
,
and
should
make
a
noise
,
for
very
great
was
the
good
that
redounded
thereby
;
but
that
all
men
had
not
judgement
enough
to
discern
it
:
For
Reformation
was
not
introduced
by
wise
Princes
in
their
States
to
do
the
world
good
,
and
to
make
men
vertuous
,
but
that
it
might
serve
for
a
curb
and
rampire
against
abuses
,
and
to
keep
them
from
growing
so
powerful
,
as
that
in
a
few
years
they
might
overrun
the
whole
world
:
Moreover
it
wrought
the
excellent
effect
of
keeping
a
Prince
continually
in
reputation
with
his
subjects
,
by
shewing
them
that
he
had
a
careful
eye
to
the
general
good
;
for
men
were
as
well
contented
with
their
Princes
good-will
,
as
with
the
good
effects
which
they
see
proceeds
from
thence
:
A
thing
so
true
,
as
the
greatest
error
which
could
be
committed
by
any
that
rule
,
was
to
let
men
see
by
their
leaving
the
Reyns
loose
to
all
corruption
and
abuses
,
they
cared
not
how
the
world
went
.
The
XVII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Tacitus
being
excluded
from
out
the
most
famous
Common-wealths
of
Europe
,
makes
a
grievous
complaint
to
Apollo
;
and
is
by
them
with
much
honour
received
again
,
and
much
made
of
.
THough
the
most
excellent
Caius
Cornelius
Tacitus
be
esteemed
the
Oracle
for
Policy
in
this
Court
of
Parnassus
,
and
therefore
is
highly
reputed
by
the
greatest
Monarchs
of
Europe
,
yet
Envie
being
alwaies
a
capital
enemy
to
Vertue
,
some
malitious
people
by
their
continual
ill
Offices
,
have
rendred
this
so
illustrious
personage
,
so
hateful
to
most
of
the
chastest
Commonwealths
that
reside
in
this
State
,
as
some
few
daies
agoe
they
joyntly
forbad
him
their
houses
.
In
so
much
as
the
very
Venetian
Liberty
,
which
professeth
exact
chastity
before
all
others
,
and
is
farthest
from
suspition
,
shut
her
dore
upon
him
the
other
day
;
for
these
chaste
Princesses
think
it
stands
not
with
their
honour
to
converse
with
him
who
is
held
by
men
to
be
the
only
Architect
of
Tyranny
.
Tacitus
soon
resented
this
so
signal
affront
,
both
in
words
and
writing
,
not
only
with
all
the
Republicks
that
are
resident
in
this
State
,
but
even
with
Apollo's
self
,
to
whom
with
great
commotion
of
mind
,
he
grievously
complained
,
that
he
had
been
most
wickedly
assassinated
by
his
ancient
ill-willers
,
and
that
in
very
deed
,
the
ancient
and
modern
Republicks
were
not
more
obliged
to
Plato
,
Aristotle
,
Licurgus
,
or
to
any
other
Legislater
,
or
Instituter
of
living
free
,
then
to
him
,
if
his
Annals
and
Histories
were
examined
and
well
considered
by
learned
men
,
not
over-byassed
with
passion
.
These
complaints
took
deep
rooting
in
the
minds
of
these
famous
Literato's
,
who
not
too
much
to
distate
so
excellent
a
Writer
,
and
that
they
might
be
sure
not
to
prejudice
their
own
peculiar
Interests
,
resolved
to
meet
together
in
the
Temple
of
Concord
,
to
the
end
that
they
might
jointly
resolve
,
whether
it
stood
with
their
reputation
to
hold
Domestick
conversation
with
Tacitus
.
And
after
long
dispute
,
they
all
agreed
,
That
the
familiar
acquaintance
of
so
politick
,
and
so
wise
a
Writer
,
was
more
requisite
for
Commonwealths
,
then
for
Monarchies
;
for
they
had
clearly
found
,
that
Tacitus
his
end
in
writing
Tiberius
his
life
,
was
not
(
as
many
who
understood
little
of
State-affairs
had
given
out
)
to
form
the
Type
of
a
Tyrannical
Government
;
but
that
that
excellent
Writer
,
by
his
so
particular
Narration
of
the
enormous
cruelties
,
not
only
of
inhuman
Tiberius
,
but
of
Caligula
,
Claudius
,
Nero
,
and
of
the
other
most
cruel
Tyrants
which
were
Emperors
since
,
used
against
the
Roman
Nobility
,
had
no
other
intention
,
then
to
let
the
Senators
of
Commonwealths
see
,
into
what
deplorable
calamities
they
run
,
when
preferring
the
hatred
of
their
privat
passions
,
and
their
own
self-interests
before
the
publick
good
,
they
suffered
the
pretious
Jewel
of
their
Countries
Liberty
,
which
they
ought
so
diligently
to
keep
and
preserve
,
to
be
stoln
away
from
them
by
cruel
Tyrants
.
For
it
being
a
precept
exactly
practiced
by
Tyrants
,
wholly
to
extirpate
the
Nobility
which
formerly
bore
any
sway
,
that
so
they
themselves
might
reigne
securely
,
the
inhumanity
of
Tiberius
,
and
others
such
as
he
,
who
succeeded
him
in
the
Roman
Empire
,
was
not
used
by
them
out
of
any
thirst
they
had
after
human
bloud
,
but
out
of
meer
politick
necessity
,
and
Tyrannical
prudence
.
The
XVIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
blind
man
of
Forli
,
that
famous
Italian
Mountebank
being
,
to
the
wonder
of
all
the
Senat
of
Vertuosi
,
admitted
by
Apollo
into
Parnassus
,
is
by
his
Majesty
put
upon
an
imployment
of
importance
.
CHristofano
de
Sordi
,
called
the
blind
man
of
Forli
,
a
famous
Italian
Mountebank
,
him
to
whom
it
is
said
,
That
the
Illustrious
Euterpe
gave
the
fluent
vein
of
singing
Verses
ex
tempore
,
in
guiderdon
,
for
a
receit
which
he
gave
her
where
with
to
make
her
hair
yellow
,
hath
these
many
years
been
standing
at
Parnassus
Gate
,
where
he
hath
still
been
troublesom
to
Apollo
,
sometimes
by
submiss
prayers
,
sometimes
by
fervent
pressures
,
and
many
times
with
importunate
complaints
,
was
so
bold
the
last
week
(
which
caused
much
laughture
in
the
Litterati
)
to
post
up
certain
papers
in
the
chiefest
places
of
Parnassus
,
wherein
he
divulged
,
that
if
there
were
any
sprightly
wit
amongst
the
learned
Poets
,
who
durst
contend
with
him
in
singing
Verses
ex
tempore
to
his
Harp
,
he
challenged
him
to
meet
him
in
Euterpe's
open
field
,
where
he
would
make
it
evidently
appear
,
that
there
was
never
a
Poet
in
Parnassus
of
so
flowing
a
vein
as
could
hold
up
against
the
fluency
of
his
Verses
sung
ex
tempore
,
or
that
was
worthy
to
carry
his
Harp
after
him
.
Apollo
,
who
had
ever
formerly
laught
at
the
fond
pretensions
of
this
unworthy
fellow
,
did
on
Thursday
last
,
of
his
own
meer
motion
,
in
publick
Senat
decree
Immortality
to
his
name
;
and
commanded
,
that
with
the
usual
pomp
of
solemn
attendance
,
he
should
be
admitted
into
Parnassus
,
and
brought
into
his
presence
.
The
next
morning
the
Triumphant
Gate
of
Parnassus
was
thrown
open
to
the
blind
man
of
Forli
,
by
which
such
Vertuosi
enter
,
who
by
his
Majesty
are
judged
worthy
the
glorious
abode
in
Parnassus
;
whereat
the
learned
Barons
,
the
Prince-Poets
,
and
all
the
Potentates
of
this
Court
did
so
rage
,
as
just
when
he
set
his
foot
upon
the
threshold
of
the
dore
,
a
great
Monarch
was
heard
to
say
,
That
Parnassus
began
now
to
be
an
aboad
for
trivial
companions
,
since
Mountebanks
and
Quacksalvers
were
admitted
thereinto
.
These
words
being
spoken
somewhat
aloud
,
were
heard
by
the
blind
man
;
who
presently
asked
his
guide
who
that
was
that
had
spoken
so
ill
of
him
?
Be
quiet
,
said
the
guide
,
take
off
your
hat
,
and
,
as
it
becomes
you
,
make
a
low
leg
to
him
that
hath
injured
you
,
for
it
was
the
powerful
King
of
England
,
Henry
the
eight
.
Then
said
the
blind
man
boldly
,
Master
Henry
,
If
you
will
play
Orlando's
part
,
and
choak
me
with
your
bravadoes
,
get
you
back
to
England
,
for
we
are
all
equal
in
Parnassus
;
and
if
Mountebanks
be
not
worthy
of
Parnassus
,
I
wonder
how
you
came
thither
,
who
very
well
know
with
what
Ballads
you
cheated
the
English
.
King
Harry
grew
highly
incensed
at
so
sharp
an
answer
,
and
would
have
taken
the
blind
man
by
the
beard
,
which
was
very
long
,
and
would
have
pul'd
it
off
,
but
he
withheld
himself
when
he
considered
better
,
how
unwise
men
of
honour
are
,
when
they
contend
with
such
as
have
no
honour
to
lose
.
As
soon
then
as
the
blind
man
was
come
before
Apollo
,
he
bad
his
guide
give
him
his
Harp
,
and
then
desired
his
Majesty
that
he
would
favour
him
with
a
Theme
;
whereupon
(
to
the
teeth
of
all
hidebound
Poets
,
who
are
half
a
year
in
squeesing
out
a
woful
Sonnet
)
he
offered
himself
to
sing
a
hundred
octavoes
ex
tempore
:
Apollo
laught
at
the
blind
man
,
who
did
pretend
to
give
satisfaction
,
with
his
silly
ex
tempore
verses
,
in
that
place
,
where
the
best
Poets
,
with
their
well
filed
,
and
long
studied
verses
,
could
scarcely
do
it
;
and
said
unto
him
,
I
did
not
admit
you
into
this
place
,
for
any
pleasure
I
take
in
your
Verses
sung
ex
tempore
,
but
only
that
you
may
teach
my
Litterati
,
in
a
publick
School
,
which
shall
be
assigned
you
,
the
Important
Art
of
Walking
Well
and
Safely
.
Giorolomo
Morone
,
Secretary
to
Sforzo
,
Duke
of
Millan
,
when
he
heard
that
blind
men
were
to
teach
such
as
could
see
,
how
to
walk
;
broke
forth
into
loud
laughter
;
to
whom
Apollo
,
without
any
manner
of
alteration
,
said
,
moreover
,
I
bear
with
this
your
wonder
,
which
by
the
astonishment
which
I
see
in
the
faces
of
these
my
Litterati
,
is
common
to
many
:
But
know
that
the
waies
of
this
present
Age
,
being
so
stony
,
and
full
of
bad
passages
,
as
you
all
find
them
to
be
,
blind
men
who
walk
leasurely
,
leaning
upon
a
guide
,
and
with
a
staff
in
their
hand
,
who
raise
their
feet
high
,
and
grope
their
way
as
they
go
,
are
excellent
good
to
teach
those
hasty
wits
,
those
lively
,
inconsiderate
,
rash
,
and
impatient
spirits
,
how
to
walk
safely
,
who
being
impatient
of
all
circumspection
,
do
abhor
considerate
mature
delay
;
and
I
am
well
pleased
that
you
are
not
only
an
example
of
this
truth
unto
your self
,
but
unto
all
others
.
Then
turning
to
the
blind
man
,
he
bad
him
take
Morone
by
the
hand
,
and
that
he
should
walk
two
hundred
paces
with
him
;
which
was
done
:
And
it
fell
out
,
that
whilst
the
blind
man
and
Morone
were
walking
thus
,
the
blind
man
found
by
his
staff
wherewith
he
tryed
the
way
before
him
,
that
he
was
come
to
a
bad
passage
;
wherefore
he
held
back
Morone
,
and
bad
him
(
who
was
heedlesly
walking
over
it
)
Stay
:
For
,
said
he
,
Morone
,
we
are
come
to
a
place
where
we
may
break
our
necks
;
lift
your
foot
high
,
and
let
us
be
careful
how
we
pass
over
this
dangerous
place
:
Try
every
place
of
it
with
your
staff
,
as
I
do
,
and
diligently
measure
the
length
,
breadth
,
and
depth
of
this
hole
,
unless
you
will
have
us
fall
into
it
.
Open
the
eyes
of
your
judgement
,
which
is
the
true
Lanthorn
,
which
in
darkest
times
,
and
places
of
greatest
danger
,
serves
for
the
Sun
.
Morone
punctually
obeyed
the
blind
man
;
and
though
with
some
trouble
and
expence
of
time
,
they
at
last
overcame
all
hindrances
,
and
past
over
the
dangerous
passage
.
Apollo
then
bad
Morone
turn
back
,
and
to
consider
well
the
dangerous
hole
,
which
,
guided
by
a
blind
man
,
he
had
happily
escaped
;
which
when
he
had
done
,
he
run
full
of
amazement
and
apprehension
,
and
threw
himself
down
before
his
Majesties
feet
,
and
humbly
craving
pardon
for
his
having
laughed
,
confest
that
by
the
guidance
of
a
silly
blind
man
,
he
had
prosperously
past
over
that
deadly
Ford
of
the
fraudulent
Marquiss
of
Piscara
,
wherein
himself
,
who
was
judged
to
be
one
of
the
best
guides
of
all
the
Italian
Princes
,
broke
his
neck
.
The
XIX
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Luigi
Alemanni
having
in
an
Elegant
Oration
set
forth
the
Praises
of
the
French
Nation
,
repented
that
his
action
afterward
,
and
desired
leave
of
Apollo
,
to
make
his
Recantation
,
but
was
not
permitted
so
to
do
.
LUigi
Alemanni
,
a
Noble
Florentine
Poet
,
gave
himself
to
hate
the
Spanish
Nation
deadly
,
ever
since
his
Country
was
overcome
by
the
Forces
of
the
Emperor
Charls
the
fifth
;
an
action
which
would
have
purchast
him
much
love
amongst
the
Italians
,
had
he
not
obscured
this
his
glory
,
with
the
common
ignorance
of
many
modern
Italians
,
of
not
knowing
how
to
hate
the
Spaniards
,
without
declaring
partiality
to
the
French
,
of
whom
Alemanni
grew
so
inamoured
,
as
much
to
his
Majesties
admiration
,
he
asked
leave
to
make
a
publick
Oration
in
Praise
of
them
;
a
resolution
which
did
not
only
redound
to
his
own
particular
shame
,
but
to
the
shame
of
all
Italy
;
every
one
being
scandalized
that
so
famous
a
Florentine
Poet
should
extoll
the
praise
of
that
Nation
,
from
whose
sole
ambition
Italy
may
justly
acknowledg
all
her
present
slavery
to
proceed
.
Alemanni
made
this
his
Oration
,
and
did
therein
very
much
exaggerate
the
glory
of
the
French
Nation
,
terming
it
the
overthrow
of
the
famous
Roman
Liberty
,
only
because
it
gave
the
Arms
of
Tyranny
into
Cesars
hands
,
wherewith
that
ambitious
man
did
afterwards
slay
the
Liberty
of
his
Country
:
He
said
that
the
French
had
in
their
Wars
perpetual
victory
,
in
Africa
,
Asia
,
and
Europe
,
and
ruled
with
infinite
glory
.
He
stiled
the
French
Monarchy
,
the
Triumphant
Princess
over
the
whole
world
,
her
enemies
scourge
,
and
the
only
means
and
instrument
of
the
yet
remaining
Liberty
of
Italy
:
He
attested
for
truth
,
That
France
was
the
most
numerous
Nation
that
was
under
the
Sun
;
he
said
it
was
rich
,
fruitful
,
well
armed
,
united
,
strong
,
well
peopled
with
such
as
were
most
devoted
to
their
King
;
all
which
he
said
were
things
requisite
in
a
Kingdom
,
which
will
be
held
to
be
formidable
and
lasting
.
This
Oration
made
Alemanni
be
followed
by
an
infinite
number
of
French
;
so
as
being
made
strangely
much
of
,
by
many
of
the
Barons
of
that
Nation
he
was
easily
perswaded
to
go
into
France
,
where
he
found
that
true
,
which
his
best
friends
had
taught
him
,
that
if
he
desired
to
love
the
French
men
,
he
should
by
all
means
shun
going
to
France
;
for
he
had
not
been
twenty
daies
in
the
French
Court
,
when
he
was
so
used
by
those
people
,
and
so
distasted
at
them
,
as
he
was
forced
to
fly
from
France
,
as
full
of
ill
affection
to
it
,
as
he
went
thither
with
ravishment
;
insomuch
as
he
presented
himself
the
other
day
with
a
much
imbittered
mind
before
Apollo
,
and
told
him
,
that
having
in
that
his
Oration
very
falsly
exaggerated
the
praise
of
the
French
Nation
,
to
the
end
that
truth
might
prevail
,
he
desired
leave
to
make
his
Recantation
;
for
by
the
unfortunate
experience
which
he
had
made
of
the
French
,
he
had
found
them
to
be
so
indiscreet
,
so
furious
,
impertinent
,
and
so
phantastically
humerous
,
and
ingratefull
beyond
all
human
creatures
,
as
that
they
were
no
less
capital
enemies
to
the
Italians
,
though
they
knew
they
had
many
there
that
sided
with
them
,
then
they
were
to
the
English
,
Spaniards
,
Germans
,
Dutch
,
and
all
other
forein
Nations
.
To
this
Apollo
readily
answered
him
,
That
he
did
not
only
deny
him
the
leave
he
had
asked
,
but
straitly
charged
to
repeat
the
same
Oration
again
in
praise
of
the
French
;
and
that
amongst
the
other
singular
vertues
of
that
Warlike
Nation
,
he
should
mention
the
infinite
glory
which
they
had
won
by
appearing
to
be
mortal
enemies
to
all
forein
Nations
.
Which
singular
vertue
he
said
the
Italians
were
so
far
from
,
as
they
were
not
ashamed
to
become
the
apes
of
all
the
most
barbarous
parts
of
the
world
in
their
discourse
,
aparrel
,
feeding
,
and
in
all
other
their
actions
:
In
so
much
,
as
if
the
Jews
did
rule
in
any
part
of
the
earth
,
it
was
to
be
believed
,
that
to
curry
favour
with
that
base
generation
,
many
of
them
would
not
be
ashamed
to
wear
yellow
hats
.
The
XX.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Corbulone
having
with
much
honour
ended
his
prefixt
time
of
Government
in
Pindo
,
a
Patent
to
continue
the
same
Iurisdiction
for
one
year
longer
,
is
graciously
sent
him
by
Apollo
;
which
he
refuseth
to
accept
of
.
DOmitio
Corbulone
having
happily
ended
the
first
year
of
his
Government
of
Pindo
,
Apollo
,
who
was
very
well
satisfied
with
him
,
sent
him
his
Letters
Patents
to
continue
in
the
same
Government
the
next
year
;
though
Corbulone
knew
very
well
that
all
the
people
of
his
Government
did
very
much
desire
his
continuance
in
Pindo
,
yet
he
had
importuned
Apollo
to
send
one
with
all
speed
to
succeed
him
in
that
place
:
And
though
he
foresaw
that
Apollo
would
interpret
his
refusal
sinisterly
,
yet
he
again
desired
to
be
changed
;
and
had
his
request
granted
.
Being
returned
to
Parnassus
,
his
friends
desired
to
know
why
he
had
refused
to
continue
still
in
that
imployment
,
which
many
other
great
personages
were
ambitious
of
?
Corbulone
answered
them
,
That
he
who
would
preserve
his
body
in
health
,
and
keep
up
his
reputation
,
must
be
so
much
master
of
himself
,
as
to
be
able
to
rise
from
the
Table
with
an
appetite
,
and
to
quit
Governments
when
people
seemed
to
be
best
satisfied
with
him
:
For
Officers
(
though
they
were
foolish
and
untoward
,
were
alwaies
adored
by
the
people
the
first
six
months
,
well
enough
believed
the
second
six
months
;
but
that
though
they
were
good
,
they
were
hated
the
third
six
months
;
and
at
the
end
of
two
years
,
the
people
grew
sick
of
those
that
were
best
;
not
for
any
misdemerits
of
the
Governor
,
but
through
the
peoples
too
great
curiosity
,
who
as
easily
grow
weary
of
good
things
,
as
they
do
of
bad
.
That
therefore
that
Servant
or
Officer
of
a
Prince
deserved
to
be
esteemed
wise
,
who
havng
done
some
special
good
service
to
his
Prince
,
could
resolve
to
leave
the
Court
,
and
leave
his
Master
in
love
with
him
,
and
not
to
tarry
till
that
unfortunate
time
,
which
will
at
last
happen
in
all
Courts
,
of
being
shamefully
driven
out
of
dores
;
either
for
some
small
fault
,
which
is
able
to
cancel
any
former
merit
,
how
great
soever
,
or
else
for
that
not
only
privat
men
,
but
Princes
are
subject
to
be
glutted
with
the
same
conversation
still
,
and
do
daily
love
new
things
,
and
take
delight
in
growing
worse
.
The
XXI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Sebastian
Veneri
,
Duke
of
Venice
,
after
his
admittance
into
Parnassus
,
desires
Apollo
that
he
may
have
the
precedency
given
him
before
Hereditary
Kings
and
Monarchs
;
and
obtains
a
favourable
Decree
from
his
Majesty
.
THough
the
Illustrious
Prince
,
Sebastian
Venieri
,
Duke
of
Venice
,
had
a
place
alotted
unto
him
in
Parnassus
by
Apollo's
extraordinary
favour
,
worthy
the
magnanimity
of
so
great
a
Prince
,
before
he
made
this
his
desire
unto
him
;
yet
would
he
not
appear
in
publick
,
before
the
controversie
was
decided
which
was
on
foot
,
before
his
Majesties
own
Tribunal
,
to
which
of
the
three
Colleagues
the
glory
of
the
Naval
Victory
which
he
obtained
at
the
Scogli
Corzolari
did
of
due
belong
:
The
which
being
afterwards
decided
by
Apollo
,
in
manner
as
shall
be
hereafter
said
,
Prince
Venieri
made
his
publick
solemn
entrance
on
horseback
,
which
was
in
this
regard
very
remarkable
,
because
none
were
suffered
to
honour
,
accompany
,
or
serve
this
Illustrious
Duke
at
his
entrance
,
save
free-men
,
who
were
looked
upon
in
Parnassus
with
envy
,
tenderly
beloved
,
and
honoured
with
such
observance
,
as
that
they
are
deservedly
called
by
all
the
Vertuosi
,
Princes
of
privat
persons
.
The
whole
Colledg
of
the
Vertuosi
were
extraordinarily
joy'd
to
see
to
what
sublime
degree
Venieri's
merit
had
brought
a
privat
man
,
and
infinitely
honoured
the
immortal
Venetian
Commonwealth
,
which
by
having
so
largely
rewarded
the
desert
of
one
of
her
Senators
,
had
thrown
the
Gate
of
Merit
and
gallant
actions
wide
open
;
which
many
Monarchs
either
keep
close
shut
,
or
else
out
of
a
capricio
,
open
it
rather
to
unworthy
,
then
to
deserving
men
.
It
was
afterwards
observed
for
a
very
rare
thing
,
that
at
the
Princes
entrance
,
the
Grecians
,
who
since
the
fall
of
their
Empire
,
have
lived
in
a
perpetual
melancholy
,
never
taking
joy
in
any
thing
,
being
now
overjoy'd
,
were
seen
to
dance
and
rejoyce
upon
this
occasion
,
as
if
Prince
Veniero
had
been
one
of
their
Nation
;
and
that
all
the
jollity
of
that
shew
had
belonged
to
them
.
Some
said
that
this
was
,
because
the
Grecians
being
reduced
into
great
calamity
,
could
not
hope
to
be
freed
from
their
slavery
by
any
other
Potentate
then
by
the
State
of
Venice
,
at
whose
victory
obtained
by
this
Prince
against
the
Tyrannical
Ottaman
Empire
,
they
did
rejoyce
as
if
it
had
been
an
act
of
their
own
:
To
boot
,
they
were
mightily
gladded
to
see
the
Duke
of
Venice
wear
the
ancient
stately
Grecian
Habit
;
as
if
it
were
a
happy
and
secure
Augury
,
that
the
greatness
of
the
ancient
Grecian
Empire
would
be
renewed
in
the
Immortal
Commonwealth
of
Venice
,
when
God
should
be
appeased
in
his
just
anger
against
the
Schism
of
that
Nation
.
Not
long
after
this
solemnity
,
when
all
the
Princes
,
together
with
the
Senat
of
Poets
,
went
in
good
order
to
visit
the
chief
Temple
of
that
State
,
to
beg
of
God
to
stir
up
the
hearts
of
Princes
to
be
liberal
towards
the
Vertuosi
:
Prince
Venieri
,
who
was
placed
by
the
Master
of
the
Pegasean
Ceremonies
(
according
to
the
ancient
custom
)
amongst
the
rest
of
the
Dukes
of
Venice
,
boldly
said
,
That
he
ought
of
right
to
have
precedency
before
the
greatest
hereditary
Kings
and
Monarchs
of
the
world
.
The
Masters
of
the
Ceremonies
did
then
humbly
beseech
Venieri
,
that
he
would
be
content
with
his
accustomed
place
,
and
shun
both
giving
and
receiving
great
distastes
in
Parnassus
by
this
hateful
novelty
.
Venieri
answered
resolutely
,
that
common
men
observed
customs
,
such
as
he
would
have
what
was
just
,
who
very
well
knowing
what
was
their
due
,
did
not
live
according
to
past
errors
,
but
did
correct
them
.
Some
great
Princes
laughed
openly
at
this
novelty
endeavoured
by
Venieri
;
but
others
who
were
of
a
more
refined
judgement
,
began
through
apprehension
,
to
look
pale
,
and
were
heard
to
say
,
that
it
belonged
to
fools
to
laugh
at
great
mens
pretentions
,
who
being
excellently
well
nosed
spannels
,
never
wag
their
tails
till
they
be
very
near
the
Partridg
:
For
wise
men
thought
,
that
were
the
business
never
so
hard
,
it
might
be
effected
when
it
was
taken
in
hand
by
such
a
one
as
Prince
Venieri
;
and
that
it
was
to
be
considered
,
that
so
great
a
personage
as
he
,
would
not
set
his
rest
of
reputation
upon
a
game
,
unless
he
were
sure
of
five
and
fifty
in
his
hand
.
When
the
Masters
of
the
Ceremonies
found
Venieri
to
be
so
resolute
,
that
they
might
prevent
the
scandal
which
they
feared
such
a
novelty
might
occasion
,
hasted
to
Apollo
,
and
acquainted
him
with
what
had
hapned
.
His
Majesty
did
not
only
not
abhor
Prince
Venieri's
pretention
(
as
many
thought
he
would
have
done
)
but
contrary
to
the
opinion
of
most
of
the
Vertuosi
that
were
about
him
,
did
mightily
admire
it
;
and
wondred
very
much
that
that
singular
man
should
find
out
an
inconveniency
,
which
was
not
observed
by
as
many
Elective
Princes
as
were
in
Parnassus
.
And
because
manifest
danger
of
great
scandal
appeared
to
be
in
delay
of
resolution
,
and
that
the
business
required
expedition
,
without
citing
the
parties
to
appear
,
using
the
Plenipotentiary
power
which
he
hath
over
his
Litterati
;
he
at
the
very
instant
decreed
,
That
Prince
Venieir
should
be
placed
according
to
his
desire
,
above
all
Hereditary
Monarchs
;
and
said
,
generari
,
&
nasci
Principibus
fortuitum
,
nec
ultra
aestimator
.
Tacit.
lib.
1.
Hist.
That
to
be
begotten
or
born
of
Princes
,
was
chance
,
nor
was
it
otherwise
to
be
esteemed
of
;
that
it
appeared
not
only
to
be
high
injustice
,
but
infinite
ignorance
;
that
hereditary
Monarchies
,
which
without
any
precedent
merit
,
fell
to
Princes
only
by
blind
fortune
,
or
by
the
relation
of
bloud
,
should
in
his
State
,
where
vertue
was
only
had
in
consideration
,
be
preferred
before
personages
of
worth
,
who
by
their
rare
vertue
,
and
singular
merit
,
knew
how
to
get
a
Principality
in
a
well
regulated
election
of
worthy
Electors
.
The
XXII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
being
greatly
moved
to
compassion
,
by
seeing
a
poor
Souldier
,
who
had
lost
both
his
hands
in
the
Wars
,
goe
a
begging
,
doth
sharply
reprehend
Princes
for
their
ingratitude
to
Military
men
.
THis
morning
,
as
Apollo
went
out
of
dores
,
a
souldier
who
had
lost
both
his
hands
in
the
Wars
,
came
before
him
and
beg'd
an
alms
:
Apollo
asked
him
how
he
came
to
be
so
maimed
;
the
souldier
answered
,
That
whilst
he
was
handling
his
Pike
in
a
battel
,
in
the
service
of
a
great
Prince
,
both
his
hands
were
shot
off
by
a
Canon
.
Apollo
commanded
a
liberal
alms
to
be
given
to
the
poor
man
,
and
bad
some
Princes
who
were
by
him
,
remove
away
that
unfortunate
witness
of
their
ingratitude
,
from
the
eyes
of
the
world
,
that
sad
example
of
the
miserable
condition
of
souldiers
in
these
modern
daies
:
For
it
was
a
spectacle
which
did
too
much
afflict
the
soul
of
the
Vertuosi
,
to
see
that
miserable
souldier
beg
his
bread
,
who
had
deserved
from
the
Prince
whom
he
had
served
,
a
rich
patrimony
,
whereby
to
give
that
alms
to
others
,
which
he
was
now
forced
to
beg
for
himself
.
The
XXIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
greatly
compassionating
the
lamentable
shipwrack
which
his
Vertuosi
make
in
great
Princes
Courts
,
to
secure
their
Navigation
,
Commands
some
of
the
chief
Litterati
of
his
State
to
make
a
Card
whereby
men
may
sail
by
Land
.
APollo
being
every
day
more
grieved
then
other
,
at
the
sad
shipwracks
which
many
of
his
Litterati
do
often
make
in
the
Courts
of
great
Princes
;
who
having
loaded
their
Vessels
(
their
minds
)
with
the
sweat
of
Sciences
,
thereby
to
merit
their
Princes
favour
,
are
unfortunatly
lost
upon
the
sands
of
some
hired
lodging
,
drowned
in
the
Whirlpool
of
a
shameful
Hospital
,
and
sometimes
split
upon
the
rocks
of
beggery
and
dispair
,
the
wealth
of
infinite
vertues
not
being
able
to
free
them
from
so
lamentable
calamities
,
would
by
all
means
find
out
a
remedy
for
so
great
evils
,
that
his
Vertuosi
might
make
safe
Navigation
in
all
Courts
,
but
particularly
in
that
of
Rome
,
which
is
placed
in
so
dangerous
a
climat
;
and
all
this
for
the
advantage
of
Learning
,
which
looseth
much
reputation
,
when
men
see
how
little
they
get
thereby
,
who
spend
their
whole
life
in
obtaining
it
.
Meditating
therefore
maturely
with
himself
,
that
since
Portugal
Pilats
,
and
those
of
Biscay
,
England
,
Holland
,
and
Zealand
,
by
only
observing
the
Sun
,
Moon
,
and
Stars
,
with
a
little
stone
in
their
hand
,
knew
how
to
bridle
the
dreadful
Ocean
,
which
they
so
freely
cut
through
into
all
parts
,
and
at
all
seasons
,
as
they
had
made
road-waies
all
over
it
;
why
his
Vertuosi
by
their
powerfull
aids
of
Astronomy
,
Cosmography
,
Mathematicks
,
Meteors
,
and
chiefly
by
their
dexterous
wits
,
sharpned
by
perpetual
reading
,
could
not
invent
as
safe
a
Navigation
by
land
,
as
the
Pilats
of
the
aforesaid
Nations
had
found
out
by
sea
.
To
secure
therefore
Land
Navigation
(
for
as
much
as
might
be
done
by
Learning
)
Apollo
some
months
ago
instituted
a
Committee
of
choice
men
in
all
Sciences
,
necessary
for
such
a
business
,
and
made
Ptolomy
,
that
Prince
of
Cosmographers
,
the
Chairman
;
to
whom
he
gave
Aristotle
for
his
Companion
in
the
Meteors
,
Euclid
in
the
Mathematicks
,
Guido
Bonati
in
the
Astronomy
,
and
to
these
he
added
Count
Baltazar
of
Castiel
,
one
very
much
verst
in
the
deep
Court
Oceans
;
and
for
the
better
carrying
on
of
whatsoever
was
requisite
to
so
weighty
a
business
,
his
Majesty
gave
order
that
the
famous
Carthaginian
Hannae
,
Palinurus
,
Columbus
,
il
Cortese
,
Terrante
Magaglianes
,
Americo
Vespuci
,
Vasco
di
Gama
,
all
of
them
being
the
chiefest
Pilats
that
ever
sailed
on
the
Seas
,
should
be
admitted
into
this
Committee
.
In
the
first
place
then
(
as
was
very
fitting
)
an
exquisite
Card
whereby
to
sail
by
land
,
was
made
by
Ptolomy
,
which
with
singular
skill
,
was
struck
through
with
lines
on
all
parts
;
and
not
only
divers
learned
Astralobes
,
but
a
new
artificial
Quadrant
was
invented
,
to
learn
the
true
elevation
of
Courtiers
deserts
,
and
the
latitude
and
longitude
of
rewards
with
which
their
service
ought
to
be
acknowledged
:
'T
is
true
that
Guido
Bonati
took
very
much
pains
to
find
out
the
true
height
of
the
Court
of
Rome's
Pole
;
yet
nor
he
,
nor
any
other
of
the
Committee
,
could
ever
by
any
Astralobe
adjust
the
course
of
the
sun
of
any
humerous
Princes
phantastical
wit
;
but
the
genius
of
a
Prince
being
the
true
and
safe
North
Star
,
which
Court-Marriners
ought
to
observe
in
their
land-Navigation
;
these
gallant
men
did
all
of
them
much
wonder
,
how
a
Star
which
was
so
certain
for
Navigation
by
Sea
,
was
not
only
not
firm
and
stable
in
Land-Navigation
,
but
was
continually
carried
about
by
the
two
contrary
motions
,
of
Interest
,
and
Passion
,
whence
such
dangerous
Court-difficulties
and
troubles
doe
arise
,
as
doe
often
occasion
fowle
shipwracks
.
They
discovered
greater
difficulties
in
the
motions
of
the
wandring
Stars
(
Princes
Officers
)
for
they
were
so
far
from
being
carried
about
,
as
they
ought
to
be
,
by
the
primum
mobile
(
their
Princes
service
)
as
they
were
often
seen
to
go
retrograde
thereunto
,
nay
the
Committee
were
past
all
expression
amazed
,
when
they
by
their
observation
found
for
certain
,
that
the
inferior
heavens
(
the
Officers
)
did
by
the
course
of
their
privat
passions
and
interests
,
often
hurry
about
the
aforesaid
primum
mobile
;
so
as
by
reason
of
these
accidents
,
the
business
grew
so
confused
,
as
the
Committee
could
never
come
at
the
perfect
knowledg
of
the
motions
of
so
many
sphears
,
as
was
necessary
for
those
to
do
,
who
were
to
publish
the
certain
and
assured
rules
thereof
.
Their
obstacles
grew
greater
,
when
they
came
to
score
out
the
compass
of
winds
,
whose
number
they
found
not
to
be
certain
and
bounded
,
as
is
seen
in
Navigation
by
Sea
;
but
that
they
were
little
less
then
infinite
:
For
besides
the
four
Master-Winds
,
the
Princes
Will
,
his
childrens
desires
,
the
Authority
of
his
Brethren
,
and
other
Princes
of
the
bloud
,
and
the
opinion
of
the
Councel
,
an
infinite
number
of
half-winds
were
discovered
,
Court-Officers
,
Princes
favorits
,
make-mirths
,
flatterers
,
and
even
Pandors
,
all
of
them
so
irregular
,
and
upon
some
occasious
so
boysterous
as
they
begot
great
difficulty
in
contriving
the
Compass
:
So
as
these
Pilats
thought
the
condition
of
Court-Navigators
to
be
very
miserable
,
who
were
to
fit
their
Sails
(
their
Wits
)
to
such
a
multitude
of
winds
.
Yet
for
all
these
difficulties
,
these
famous
men
were
never
disheartnep
,
but
buckled
themselves
closer
to
the
business
by
how
many
the
more
flats
,
sholes
,
and
quick-sands
,
Silla's
and
Caribde's
,
vast
Whirlpools
of
rivals
,
enviers
,
malcontents
,
persecuters
,
and
heteroclite
spirits
they
found
in
the
vast
Ocean
of
the
Court.
The
Astralobes
and
Quadrants
being
made
,
and
the
Compass
being
brought
to
the
greatest
perfection
that
might
be
,
the
Committee
thought
to
make
trial
:
Wherefore
eight
spruce
Courtiers
were
listed
,
all
of
them
well
provided
of
Patience
(
a
necessary
Biskat
)
for
such
as
have
courage
enough
to
plough
the
tempestuous
Ocean
of
the
Court.
And
whilst
these
were
ready
to
hoist
sail
,
and
only
staid
for
a
favourable
wind
,
there
hapned
a
thing
altogether
incredible
;
for
a
favourable
North
wind
blowing
,
to
which
all
the
eight
Courtiers
suddenly
spread
abroad
their
Sails
(
their
Hopes
)
the
Sails
of
only
one
of
them
were
seen
to
swel
,
and
make
a
prosperous
Voyage
,
whilst
the
rest
of
the
Courtiers
stirred
not
one
whit
from
their
place
.
The
Gentlemen
of
the
Committee
were
strangely
confused
,
when
they
found
that
in
Land-Navigation
,
prosperous
winds
(
the
Princes
favour
)
did
not
blow
alike
in
all
the
sails
of
equally
deserving
Cou●…tiers
:
Much
greater
was
the
wonder
,
when
the
same
prosperous
wind
returning
to
blow
again
;
to
the
which
some
other
Courtiers
who
were
ready
for
their
journey
,
displaid
their
sails
,
there
was
one
,
who
being
without
either
mast
or
sail
(
without
any
merit
)
who
stood
idle
in
the
haven
,
to
learn
before
he
put
himself
upon
so
dangerous
a
Navigation
as
Court-service
;
this
man
I
say
was
by
a
blast
of
that
prosperous
wind
,
hurried
from
the
haven
of
his
quiet
,
carried
into
the
high
sea
of
imployments
,
much
above
his
capacity
,
and
yet
did
make
a
happy
voyage
,
got
great
riches
and
honors
.
A
novelty
which
appeared
so
strange
to
these
Pilats
,
as
Magaglianes
being
astonished
at
so
great
a
wonder
,
said
,
Gentletlemen
,
I
should
never
have
imagined
there
had
been
so
great
a
diff●…rence
between
Sea-Navigation
,
and
that
of
Land
;
and
these
extravagant
passages
which
I
see
,
makes
me
greatly
doubt
the
good
success
of
this
our
enterprise
;
but
patience
overcomes
all
difficulties
;
therefore
let
us
proceed
.
Then
a
Courtier
that
was
a
great
Vertuoso
displaid
his
sails
(
his
faithful
service
)
to
a
prosperous
West
wind
(
his
Princes
favour
)
and
by
his
swolne
sails
(
fair
words
from
his
Master
)
thinking
that
he
had
made
a
long
voyage
,
when
he
had
calculated
what
way
he
had
made
,
found
himself
to
be
just
in
the
same
place
as
he
was
before
he
hoisted
sail
,
having
been
still
fed
in
all
his
long
journey
(
his
assiduous
service
)
with
false
hopes
and
expectation
,
not
meeting
with
any
real
substance
.
But
a
stranger
thing
then
all
this
,
was
,
when
they
saw
both
the
South
and
the
North
wind
blow
at
one
and
the
same
time
so
furiously
from
the
fantastick
brain
of
an
extravagant
Prince
,
as
that
the
unfortunate
Courtiers
being
molested
by
two
contrary
winds
,
knew
not
which
way
to
turn
their
Tacklings
;
so
as
between
these
two
winds
,
many
Vertuosi
were
miserably
drowned
.
At
this
so
strange
a
novelty
Columbus
cryed
out
,
I
now
find
for
certain
Gentlemen
,
that
Navigation
by
Sea
,
wherein
these
extravagancies
are
not
met
with
,
is
so
safe
a
business
,
as
it
may
be
compared
to
travailing
by
land
in
a
Litter
.
Columbus
had
no
sooner
said
these
things
,
when
the
whole
Committee
were
aware
that
certain
Courtiers
that
were
Vertuosi
,
lying
in
the
Haven
,
were
in
great
danger
of
being
drown'd
in
the
Court-Sea
,
which
was
swolne
much
more
then
usual
,
raised
a
great
storm
,
the
greatest
Anchor-Cable-Ropes
of
the
most
exquisite
Court-patience
,
broke
short
in
two
,
every
thing
threatned
shipwrack
;
and
yet
the
air
of
the
Prince
his
countenance
was
very
calm
,
the
pleasant
West
wind
of
his
content
was
only
seen
to
blow
;
the
danger
appeared
plainly
,
no
wind
of
the
Princes
anger
was
discerned
,
and
yet
the
Court-Navigators
ran
hazard
of
perishing
in
the
Haven
:
Notwithstanding
all
this
,
in
this
so
inraged
Tempest
,
one
bold
Courtier
had
courage
enough
to
put
out
of
the
Haven
,
and
was
not
only
not
drowned
,
as
every
one
believed
he
would
have
been
,
but
that
horrible
cross
wind
which
would
have
indangered
any
other
man
,
though
never
so
well
experienced
,
proved
so
prosperous
a
wind
to
him
,
as
in
a
short
time
it
brought
him
to
the
Haven
of
great
Dignities
:
A
thing
certainly
very
strange
,
and
which
did
much
astonish
the
Gentlemen
of
the
Committee
,
who
wondred
that
those
tempestuous
storms
should
in
Land-Navigation
prove
prosperous
winds
to
some
few
,
which
even
in
the
safest
Harbours
did
shipwrack
many
.
But
it
seemed
yet
more
strange
,
when
the
skie
being
clear
,
no
claps
of
thunder
heard
,
no
lightning
seen
,
some
thunderbolts
did
notwithstanding
fall
,
which
burnt
two
unfortunate
Courtiers
;
this
unusual
accident
made
the
Members
of
the
Committee
muse
,
why
thunderbolts
shot
from
an
incensed
Prince
,
should
not
be
preceded
by
such
thunder
and
lightning
,
whereby
to
admonish
Courtiers
to
escape
them
,
as
those
are
which
are
shot
by
the
all
powerful
hand
of
God
against
mankind
,
when
he
is
angry
with
them
.
Soon
after
a
Courtier
was
seen
to
be
assaulted
by
a
terrible
Tempest
(
Persecutions
)
who
after
having
long
defended
himself
from
the
fury
of
the
high
going
Sea
(
his
Princes
anger
)
and
from
the
boysterous
winds
of
cruel
calamities
,
that
he
might
keep
himself
from
being
swallowed
up
,
was
forced
to
throw
all
his
Merchandize
overboard
,
and
after
having
spent
the
main
mast
of
his
hope
,
and
that
his
deserts
leaked
water
of
dispair
,
split
himself
upon
the
Rocks
(
the
ingratitude
of
an
not
acknowledging
Prince
.
)
Then
(
which
appeared
very
strange
)
the
Vessel
of
this
Courtiers
service
being
after
so
hard
an
incounter
,
broken
and
sunk
,
the
tempest
of
Court-persecutions
ceased
,
the
sea
of
the
Princes
anger
was
appeased
,
the
rock
which
had
been
the
cause
of
his
shipwrack
,
turned
to
a
safe
haven
,
the
Courtiers
sunk
ship
rose
again
from
underneath
the
water
,
fairer
,
stronger
,
and
better
tackle
then
befored
,
and
was
again
loaded
with
the
Merchandize
of
his
Merits
,
the
which
he
afterwards
bartered
at
dear
rates
,
for
great
dignities
,
and
rich
revennues
.
This
appeared
very
strange
to
these
Pilats
,
and
to
the
whole
Committee
,
neither
could
they
sufficiently
wonder
,
how
in
land-Navigation
,
shipwracks
could
prove
fortunate
to
Navigators
.
But
continuing
to
make
new
experiences
,
they
commanded
a
very
wary
Courtier
,
that
he
should
display
the
sails
of
his
talent
to
a
wind
which
blew
from
the
South
,
and
he
steering
his
course
fortunately
full
North
,
after
many
daies
sail
,
the
Court-Pilat
,
to
find
where
he
was
,
took
the
altitude
of
the
Pole
of
his
desert
,
with
his
Astralobe
,
and
not
without
much
wonder
,
found
,
that
though
he
had
still
kept
the
fore-castle
(
his
good
service
)
directly
towards
the
North
(
his
Princes
Interests
)
he
had
sailed
Southward
.
The
Courtier
at
first
alloted
the
cause
of
this
disorder
,
to
his
not
having
kept
the
rudder
of
his
soul
faithful
(
as
he
ought
to
have
done
)
towards
the
North
of
his
Masters
service
;
bu●…
when
he
found
both
by
the
Card
,
and
by
the
Compass
which
he
held
in
his
hand
,
that
he
had
alwaies
steered
the
ship
of
his
actions
aright
,
he
clearly
found
that
the
error
of
his
unfortunate
voyage
was
occasioned
,
because
the
North-star
of
his
Princes
mind
was
turned
by
malignant
men
,
which
are
alwaies
about
him
,
towards
the
South
.
Then
Vespucci
,
Gama
,
and
the
other
Pilats
,
desired
the
Committee
that
they
would
give
over
the
business
,
as
being
a
desperate
cure
;
and
said
,
that
nothing
made
the
Navigation
by
Sea
so
certain
,
as
the
immutability
of
the
North-star
:
And
that
having
clearly
found
,
by
the
last
unfortunate
experience
,
that
Princes
minds
(
which
was
the
certain
North-star
of
land-Navigation
)
were
carried
about
and
diverted
by
malicious
Courtiers
,
to
saile
on
the
tempestuous
Court-seas
,
was
not
a
resolution
to
be
put
on
by
wise
men
,
but
by
such
as
were
desperate
.
At
this
instant
the
Committee
saw
a
spruce
neat
Courtier
,
who
had
sailed
so
prosperously
in
the
Court
of
Rome
,
and
in
other
Courts
for
seventy
years
space
together
,
as
that
he
had
not
only
overcome
tempestuous
storms
,
and
boisterous
winds
of
persecution
,
but
had
even
broken
the
hard
rocks
which
his
ship
had
given
against
;
this
man
pursuing
on
his
voyage
prosperously
with
a
most
favourable
wind
,
was
drowned
for
having
only
unfortunately
falne
upon
a
company
of
sedges
(
a
Catchpoles
impertinences
)
an
accident
which
did
so
astonish
the
Gentlemen
of
the
Committee
,
as
they
resolved
to
make
trial
only
of
one
other
Courtier
who
was
outward
bound
,
and
then
to
be
quiet
:
They
commanded
him
therefore
to
put
to
sea
;
and
it
hapned
that
whilst
he
was
sailing
in
a
road
which
was
held
by
all
men
to
be
very
safe
,
his
ship
at
unawares
gave
against
a
rock
,
and
split
in
pieces
;
the
Committee
very
much
blamed
the
Courtiers
ignorance
,
who
knew
not
how
to
shun
that
rock
;
but
he
clearly
shewed
them
that
it
was
not
specified
in
the
Card
,
Wherefore
all
the
Pilats
fixt
their
eyes
upon
the
Chairman
Ptolomy
,
as
if
they
did
tacitly
accuse
him
of
ignorance
,
having
left
out
that
rock
in
his
Card
,
which
had
occasioned
so
great
evil
.
But
Ptolomy
having
well
viewed
and
considered
the
place
,
and
all
the
coast
about
,
shewed
them
clearly
,
that
no
man
living
that
had
ever
made
that
passage
before
,
had
ever
seen
any
rock
in
that
place
,
therefore
he
could
not
specifie
it
in
the
Card
which
he
had
made
,
and
that
it
arose
up
at
that
very
instant
that
the
unfortunate
Courtier
fel
upon
it
.
The
Committee
finding
then
that
in
Land
Navigation
,
rocks
arose
every
moment
in
the
midst
of
Medows
,
and
other
places
,
which
were
held
to
be
so
safe
,
as
that
they
might
be
passed
over
with
great
security
in
the
obscurest
nights
;
they
broke
up
the
Committee
,
accounting
the
undertaking
to
be
desperate
and
unfeasable
,
and
commanded
that
none
should
presume
to
sail
by
land
,
except
it
were
at
full
noon
,
carrying
the
Lanthorn
of
discretion
every
one
of
them
in
the
fore-castle
of
their
proceedings
,
morning
and
evening
,
with
their
bare
knees
on
the
ground
,
and
their
hands
lift
up
to
heaven
,
beseeching
God
to
grant
them
a
good
voyage
,
for
to
bring
the
ship
of
hope
in
safety
into
a
Court
Haven
,
depended
more
upon
the
immediate
help
from
heaven
,
then
upon
any
humane
wisdom
.
The
XXIV
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Ariadeno
Barbarossa
being
driven
by
a
sudden
storm
,
splits
upon
the
Scogli
Cursolari
,
and
Maturino
Romagasso
,
Captain
of
the
Guard
of
the
Gulf
of
Lepanto
,
endeavours
his
escape
,
when
he
might
have
taken
him
prisoner
.
ARiadeno
Barbarossa
,
a
great
Pyrat
,
being
overtaken
some
daies
ago
with
a
cruel
storm
,
fell
upon
the
Scogli
Corsolari
,
wh●…re
he
lost
many
ships
,
and
an
infinite
many
of
men
:
yet
he
suddenly
bet●…ok
himself
with
those
that
were
escaped
,
to
repair
those
his
Gallies
,
whi●…
were
yet
unsplit
;
when
the
news
of
such
a
wrack
being
brought
to
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
forthwith
gave
order
to
Maturino
Romagasso
,
who
had
the
custo●…
〈◊〉
the
Lepanto
Gulf
,
to
go
and
seize
upon
that
publick
Thief
.
It
is
known
that
vigilant
Romagasso
did
at
that
very
instant
charge
a
trusty
Mariner
to
go
with
all
possible
diligence
and
secrecy
to
those
rocks
,
and
to
wish
Ariadeno
to
remove
from
those
rocks
,
and
save
himself
as
well
as
he
could
.
The
Mariner
wondred
very
much
at
Romagasso's
resolution
;
whom
he
asked
why
he
would
save
the
life
of
that
his
deadly
enemy
,
whom
he
had
now
so
fair
accasion
to
seize
upon
;
and
that
if
he
who
was
held
Apollo's
right
eye
,
only
that
he
might
keep
the
Rivers
of
Lepanto
free
from
so
pernitious
a
Pyrat
,
what
other
man
,
how
great
soever
,
should
be
paralel'd
to
him
,
when
he
should
have
vanquished
Barbarossa
?
'T
s
said
that
Romagasso
repli'd
in
these
i●…entical
words
;
My
friend
,
The
greatness
which
you
see
I
am
now
in
,
is
so
annext
to
Barbarossa's
power
,
as
I
cannot
discomfeit
him
without
ruining
my self
.
And
know
,
that
the
very
first
day
that
I
should
have
committed
this
error
,
thou
shouldst
see
me
be
the
most
abject
fellow
of
all
this
Court
:
For
faithfulness
in
Officers
is
almost
banished
out
of
the
world
,
more
through
the
ingratitude
of
who
commands
,
then
through
his
falshood
who
ought
to
obey
.
Whence
it
is
that
disorders
are
grown
so
great
,
as
that
Officer
whose
ultimat
end
is
not
to
keep
his
Prince
in
perpetual
need
of
his
service
,
is
more
man
,
then
a
wise
man
.
And
the
modern
Militia
of
us
Captains
,
is
turned
to
publick
Merchandize
;
which
is
not
occasioned
out
of
any
fault
of
ours
,
but
for
the
defect
which
is
even
graven
in
the
bones
of
many
Princes
,
of
making
no
account
of
clothes
,
but
when
it
rains
.
The
XXV
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Epictetus
,
a
Stoick
Philosopher
,
who
finding
his
Sect
to
grow
much
deformed
,
asks
leave
of
Apollo
to
ground
a
new
Sect
of
Reformed
Stoicks
;
and
is
rather
reprehended
by
his
Majestie
,
then
commended
.
EPictetus
,
that
famous
Stoick
,
had
this
day
long
audience
of
Apollo
,
to
whom
he
was
overheard
to
say
with
great
submissness
,
that
the
exemplary
life
,
certainty
of
Doctrine
,
holy
customs
,
quiet
and
fruitful
leasure
,
that
he
had
formerly
seen
in
the
Sect
of
Stoicks
,
had
forced
him
to
imbrace
that
Sect
,
in
which
he
had
lived
with
great
satisfaction
for
the
space
of
25
years
;
but
that
it
being
now
much
falne
from
the
former
severity
of
life
,
and
good
behaviour
,
nothing
of
good
remained
in
it
,
but
the
bare
and
still
reverenced
name
,
at
which
he
was
both
much
afflicted
and
scandalized
,
and
was
forced
to
forgo
it
,
that
he
might
still
live
in
his
antient
purity
of
demeanour
,
poverty
of
life
,
humility
,
and
peace
of
mind
.
That
therefore
(
if
it
should
stand
with
his
Majesties
approbation
)
he
,
and
some
other
of
his
fellow-Philosophers
who
were
of
the
same
mind
,
desired
to
withdraw
themselves
,
and
to
ground
a
new
sect
of
reformed
Stoicks
.
Apollo
,
not
without
some
apparent
signes
of
displeasure
,
answered
Epictetus
,
That
he
was
so
far
from
being
willing
to
multiply
the
Sects
of
his
Philosophers
,
as
for
the
good
of
Sciences
,
unity
of
Opinion
,
and
for
many
other
weighty
respects
,
he
was
resolved
to
reduce
them
to
a
lesser
number
;
and
that
if
the
Stoicks
were
any
waies
fallen
from
their
former
good
orders
,
he
wisht
him
to
know
,
that
such
a
one
as
he
,
ought
rather
to
hide
their
defects
,
then
scandalously
publish
them
to
the
world
by
new
Reformations
;
it
not
being
possible
to
admit
of
a
sect
of
Reformers
,
without
necessarily
acknowledging
a
deformation
:
And
that
a
Philosopher
so
cry'd
up
for
Wisdom
,
and
sincerity
of
soul
,
as
was
Epictetus
,
should
not
endeavour
to
purchase
reputation
to
himself
,
by
defaming
others
;
and
the
rather
,
for
that
by
the
laying
a
foundation
of
new
reformed
Stoicks
,
he
made
it
appear
evidently
to
the
whole
world
,
That
the
Stoicks
disorders
were
grown
so
great
,
as
that
they
were
become
incorrigible
,
even
by
the
exemplary
life
of
such
a
one
as
himself
:
That
therefore
it
was
the
duty
of
every
good
Stoick
,
when
he
saw
his
Sect
forget
their
Rules
,
to
strive
to
reduce
them
to
their
duties
by
his
own
good
example
,
it
not
being
only
shameful
ingratitude
,
but
wicked
impiety
to
abandon
his
Sect
in
its
most
urgent
occasions
,
and
greatest
necessity
:
For
certainly
that
Pilat
were
very
wicked
,
who
seeing
his
Ship
ready
to
be
lost
in
a
fearful
storm
at
Sea
,
should
abandon
his
companions
,
and
seeking
to
save
himself
in
the
Ship-bo●…t
,
could
find
in
his
heart
to
laugh
at
those
that
were
in
distress
:
And
that
if
he
should
open
the
dore
in
Parnassus
to
reformed
Sects
,
that
progressus
in
infinitum
,
must
of
necessity
follow
,
which
ought
to
be
so
shun'd
by
every
wise
Prince
.
For
every
thing
necessarily
growing
old
and
corrupt
in
time
,
by
consequence
the
reformed
Stoicks
transgressing
their
rules
,
would
in
time
divide
themselves
into
new
reformed
Sects
.
And
because
the
planting
of
Vinyards
,
and
founding
of
Sects
of
Philosophers
walked
hand
in
hand
,
it
was
to
be
considered
,
that
the
wise
Husbandman
,
when
he
saw
his
Vinyard
,
which
before
was
very
fruitful
,
go
to
ruine
for
want
of
dressing
,
did
not
suddenly
fall
to
plant
a
new
one
,
but
endeavoured
by
dilligence
and
assiduous
labour
,
to
make
it
fruitful
again
,
and
never
resolved
upon
the
planting
of
a
new
Vinyard
,
till
he
clearly
found
,
that
it
was
impossible
to
reduce
the
impair'd
Vinyard
to
its
former
condition
,
by
any
whatsoever
diligence
.
In
which
case
,
at
the
same
time
that
he
plants
his
new
vinyard
,
he
plucks
up
the
old
one
by
the
very
roots
,
and
turns
it
into
earable
ground
;
for
otherwise
,
in
a
short
time
,
he
would
have
foolishly
encombred
his
whole
Patrimony
with
wild
Grapes
.
Apollo
said
also
,
That
Epictetus
should
reflect
much
upon
the
unfortunate
condition
of
the
present
times
,
wherein
the
whole
world
being
infected
with
the
pernitious
disease
of
Polititians
,
whose
particular
profession
it
is
,
not
to
adhibit
faith
to
such
actions
as
have
a
certain
affected
appearance
of
extraordinary
goodness
,
it
was
shrewdly
to
be
feared
,
that
they
would
interpret
his
good
will
,
and
excellent
intention
,
of
laying
a
new
foundation
of
reformed
Stoicks
,
to
be
but
Hypocrisie
;
giving
it
out
(
as
it
is
their
custom
to
do
)
in
every
corner
,
that
Epictetus
,
a
Philosoper
of
so
well
a
compos'd
soul
,
would
forsake
the
old
Stoick
Sect
,
whereof
he
was
but
the
tail
,
out
of
ambition
to
become
the
head
of
a
new
one
.
The
XXVI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Nobility
of
the
Commonwealth
of
Achaia
,
not
being
able
any
longer
to
indure
the
insolency
of
the
Commons
,
who
Governed
the
State
,
send
Ambassadors
to
Apollo
to
obtain
a
Prince
,
who
may
govern
them
;
and
receive
a
gracious
answer
.
THe
Modern
Commonwealth
of
Achaia
,
which
(
as
all
men
know
)
is
meerly
Democratical
,
is
by
reason
of
the
insolent
peoples
great
sedition
,
so
full
of
tumults
,
slaughters
,
rapine
,
and
all
other
sort
of
confusion
,
as
the
Nobility
,
opprest
by
the
violence
of
the
seditious
people
,
to
free
their
Countrey
from
so
cruel
Tyranny
,
thought
it
a
more
tolerable
condition
to
live
under
the
command
of
any
one
Prince
,
how
cruel
or
avaritious
soever
,
then
to
suffer
the
insolency
of
a
domineering
people
:
Insomuch
as
they
said
it
was
necessary
for
the
common
good
,
to
call
in
a
Forreign
Prince
,
who
might
govern
the
afflicted
State
,
and
might
curb
the
insolency
of
the
rabble-rout
:
And
to
this
purpose
they
summoned
the
people
to
a
Parley
,
and
deplored
the
publick
miseries
;
the
sole
remedy
whereof
they
said
was
,
to
submit
the
Countrey
unfortunately
free
,
to
the
command
of
a
Prince
.
The
ignorant
people
,
who
in
weighty
resolves
know
not
what
they
grant
,
nor
what
they
deny
,
easily
assented
that
a
Forreign
Prince
should
be
sent
for
,
who
re-ordering
the
confused
State
,
might
govern
their
Country
,
which
was
incapable
of
living
free
.
In
this
Assembly
two
Ambassadors
were
chosen
,
who
were
to
obtain
from
Apollo
,
a
Prince
fitting
for
their
urgent
affairs
.
The
Ambassadors
came
to
this
Court
three
daies
ago
,
who
having
made
their
desires
known
in
a
publick
audience
,
they
were
answered
in
his
Majesties
name
.
That
he
would
quickly
send
them
away
contented
.
Many
prime
Subjects
of
this
State
,
used
all
the
means
they
could
,
to
be
sent
to
command
so
Noble
a
Principality
;
amongst
the
most
remarkable
whereof
,
were
Anna
Momoranci
,
a
famous
French
Baron
,
very
much
assisted
by
Francis
the
first
,
King
of
France
,
and
Don
Ferdinando
di
Toledo
,
Duke
of
Alva
,
befriended
by
the
most
Catholike
King
Philip
the
second
;
not
so
much
out
of
any
affection
he
bore
to
that
his
servant
,
as
to
rid
his
Court
of
one
,
who
not
able
to
tolerate
an
equal
,
much
less
a
superior
,
was
very
troublesom
to
him
and
to
his
Court
.
Apollo
resolutely
chose
the
Duke
of
Alva
;
wherein
he
did
so
highly
displease
the
King
of
France●…
,
who
complained
grievously
that
Apollo's
Majesty
had
preferred
the
Duke
of
Alva
,
a
man
in
rigour
of
Justice
not
only
severe
,
but
inexorable
,
as
had
plainly
appeared
in
his
Government
of
Flanders
,
before
one
of
so
exquisite
goodness
,
and
of
so
exact
judgement
in
State-Government
,
as
Momoranci
was
known
to
be
.
Apollo
answered
King
Francis
,
That
he
had
preferred
the
Duke
of
Alva
before
Momoranci
,
who
was
a
Gentleman
of
a
mild
and
sweet
spirit
,
only
by
reason
of
his
extraordinary
severity
;
which
was
very
requisite
in
this
present
occasion
,
the
other
being
unaccustomed
to
the
difficulty
of
taming
a
coltish
people
,
born
free
,
with
the
cudgel
of
new
servitude
.
And
the
K.
of
France
not
being
herewithall
satisfied
,
but
saying
with
some
commotion
of
spirit
,
that
his
French
men
,
when
occasion
did
require
,
could
also
not
only
be
severe
,
but
cruel
:
Apollo
in
an
angry
tone
,
bad
him
hold
his
peace
,
and
told
him
,
he
wondred
that
sheep
and
lambs
should
pretend
to
play
the
part
of
wolves
,
as
if
there
had
never
been
any
Gaspero
Colonni
,
any
Monsieur
de
la
Nove
,
and
so
many
other
great
and
little
flies
,
which
none
of
his
generation
could
ever
find
the
way
how
to
keep
from
about
their
noses
.
The
XXVII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
having
for
a
just
cause
removed
Gulielmo
Budeo
from
the
Lord
Treasurers
place
;
confers
the
aforesaid
place
upon
Diego
Covarruvia
,
a
Noble
Spanish
Literato
,
and
Dean
of
the
Colledg
of
the
Grand
Sages
of
this
Court
,
though
he
was
much
gainsaid
therein
by
the
French
Monarchy
.
GUlielmo
Budeo
,
a
Parisian
,
who
for
his
being
very
expert
in
the
knowledg
of
monies
,
hath
for
many
years
,
and
with
much
reputation
,
exercised
the
place
of
Lord
Treasurer
in
this
Court
,
was
on
the
sudden
on
Munday
last
,
not
only
with
great
disgrace
removed
from
that
place
,
but
by
express
order
from
his
Majesty
,
banisht
for
ever
out
of
Parnassus
;
which
affront
was
the
greater
,
for
that
it
is
said
,
that
the
occasion
of
this
so
high
resentment
was
,
because
he
was
infected
with
those
modern
heresies
,
which
being
invented
by
ambitious
men
,
only
to
make
subjects
rebel
against
their
Princes
,
are
not
worthy
to
be
followed
by
those
who
professing
Learning
,
ought
to
let
the
world
see
that
they
do
not
only
know
,
but
do
infinitely
abhor
the
popular
errors
of
the
ignorant
,
who
are
apt
to
be
carried
about
by
the
impostures
of
impiety
.
After
Budeo
his
expulsion
,
it
was
suddenly
noised
in
Parnassus
,
that
his
Majesty
had
destin'd
Diego
Covarruvio
to
be
Treasurer
,
a
great
Spanish
Lawyer
,
a
man
as
excellent
for
Learning
,
as
for
his
plain-dealing
,
and
sincerity
of
an
irreprehensible
life
.
As
soon
as
this
Apollo's
resolution
was
known
in
Parnassus
,
it
begot
great
jealousies
in
the
French
Monarchy
,
who
thought
it
stood
not
with
her
advantage
,
that
a
Spaniard
should
be
called
up
to
so
high
a
Magistracy
,
wherein
she
was
much
interessed
.
The
jealousie
and
suspition
of
so
great
a
Queen
,
was
the
more
augmented
by
Covarruvia's
austerity
,
his
steadfastness
to
what
was
just
,
his
inflexibility
,
and
for
that
alwaies
preferring
his
Princes
honour
and
service
before
all
other
respects
,
he
seemed
to
value
the
favour
or
hatred
of
any
whatsoever
Prince
in
this
Court
,
very
little
,
or
not
at
all
,
as
long
as
he
with
uncorrupt
sincerity
discharged
the
place
of
primo
Savio
Grande
.
This
powerful
Monarchy
sent
first
(
according
to
the
fashion
of
great
Courts
)
divers
of
her
friends
to
Apollo
,
who
appearing
to
be
well
wishers
to
Covarruvia
,
and
very
zealous
of
the
publick
good
,
did
in
a
seeming
way
of
praising
him
,
blame
him
,
and
persecute
him
by
the
cheating
way
of
feigned
favours
.
But
this
way
of
proceeding
being
too
well
known
to
Apollo
,
these
hypocrites
did
easily
receive
a
repulse
from
his
Majesty
,
in
so
much
as
the
very
French
Monarchy
her self
,
taking
off
her
mask
of
Court-dissembling
,
did
at
an
extraordinary
audience
which
she
obtained
from
Apollo
,
appear
so
implacable
an
enemy
to
Covarruvia
,
as
she
could
acquaint
him
,
not
only
with
the
greatest
faults
that
he
had
committed
even
from
his
birth
,
but
with
every
his
least
imperfection
(
so
narrowly
do
Princes
observe
the
waies
of
those
who
were
likely
to
come
to
advancement
in
great
Courts
.
)
Apollo
,
who
infinitely
wondred
to
hear
the
French
Monarchy
make
so
strict
a
scrutiny
into
the
life
and
manners
of
Covarruvia
,
with
that
freedom
which
is
proper
to
her
;
reply'd
,
That
he
did
not
so
much
abhor
human
imperfections
in
his
Vertuosi
,
but
that
if
amongst
a
hundred
defects
,
they
had
put
one
pair
of
perfections
,
one
only
rare
vertue
,
he
thought
he
had
got
an
excellent
Officer
for
his
service
,
it
being
his
custom
to
counterpoise
vices
with
vertues
;
and
that
Covarruvia
(
whatsoever
he
were
in
other
things
)
in
his
Charge
of
Savio
Grande
,
which
he
had
for
many
years
discharged
with
such
sincerity
and
discretion
,
had
not
only
proved
himself
worthy
of
the
Lord
Treasurers
place
,
which
he
was
resolved
to
give
him
,
but
of
any
other
whatsoever
better
place
in
Parnassus
;
and
that
he
would
honour
so
high
a
place
,
by
removing
that
signal
subject
from
the
sublime
Senat
of
the
Savi
.
To
this
the
French
Monarchy
answered
,
That
the
Lavi
Grande
of
Parnassus
were
twelves
,
so
as
his
Majesty
had
scope
enough
to
satisfie
her
in
what
she
desired
,
by
chusing
other
instead
of
Covarruvia
;
which
would
be
the
easilier
done
,
for
that
the
Savi
Grande
were
all
of
them
men
greatly
learned
,
and
of
singular
worth
.
All
the
standers
by
perceived
that
Apollo
was
highly
displeased
at
this
pressure
,
who
angerly
answered
the
French
Monarchy
,
that
it
was
a
very
wicked
resolution
to
give
distaste
unto
,
and
take
from
the
reputation
of
such
Officers
,
who
by
their
assiduous
service
,
had
deserved
chiefest
imployments
from
their
Prince
;
and
that
when
a
Prince
took
out
any
person
from
a
Senat
,
or
from
a
Colledg
,
to
advance
him
to
a
higher
preferment
,
it
was
a
dangerous
thing
to
chuse
the
worthiest
;
for
in
such
elections
,
the
Prince
his
intention
,
were
it
never
so
good
,
was
interpreted
partiality
;
and
that
upon
such
occasions
,
the
true
Judge
of
worth
was
Senioriti
,
and
that
Covarruvia
being
Dean
of
the
Senat
of
the
Savt
Grande
,
he
had
such
a
vantage
of
labour
,
and
such
advancement
of
merit
,
as
he
could
not
without
some
apparent
injury
,
be
left
out
by
his
Prince
;
for
in
all
Senats
,
that
Senator
deserved
the
prime
preferment
,
who
had
laboured
longest
at
the
continual
duties
of
his
place
:
A
just
and
good
precept
;
which
when
it
was
inviolably
observed
,
every
honored
Vertuoso
propounded
to
himself
his
Princes
service
for
the
ultimate
end
of
all
his
labours
;
whereas
by
doing
otherwise
,
to
the
ruine
of
Justice
,
and
confusion
of
all
business
even
the
Savi
Grande
(
a
Senat
whereon
did
consist
the
good
Government
of
the
State
)
and
all
other
his
good
and
best
Officers
,
forgoing
the
honorable
way
of
merit
,
and
vertuous
endeavour
,
would
betake
themselves
to
the
shameful
Idolatry
of
adoring
such
as
by
their
favour
in
Court
,
were
likeliest
to
help
them
:
That
therefore
for
the
aforesaid
weighty
respects
,
he
,
not
out
of
any
passionate
affection
which
he
bore
to
Covarruvia's
person
,
but
for
the
duty
he
ought
unto
his
merits
,
would
reward
that
Vertuoso's
labors
with
the
Lord
Treasurers
place
,
and
encourage
the
other
Savi
Grandi
,
willingly
to
take
pains
in
their
places
,
since
they
saw
their
reward
was
not
only
certain
,
but
(
which
was
a
thing
of
more
importance
)
lay
only
in
the
Prince
his
bosom
.
To
all
these
things
the
French
Monarchy
answered
,
That
his
Majesty
was
Patron
and
supreme
Arbitrator
of
all
rewards
and
punishments
in
Parnassus
;
That
therefore
without
any
prejudice
to
his
honour
,
he
might
gratifie
her
in
her
request
.
To
this
new
pressure
,
Apollo
more
incenst
then
formerly
,
reply'd
,
Nor
am
I
,
nor
any
man
in
the
world
,
master
of
that
reward
which
is
proposed
by
just
Princes
,
to
the
labours
and
deserts
of
faithful
Officers
;
for
the
highest
dignities
are
by
good
Princes
conferred
upon
their
servants
out
of
obligation
,
though
modest
Officers
acknowledg
to
receive
them
out
of
their
Princes
favourable
liberality
.
And
know
,
French
Monarchy
,
that
that
Prince
who
doth
not
reward
him
that
hath
deserved
well
at
his
hands
,
commits
a
greater
tyranny
then
he
,
who
without
any
reason
,
sheds
his
subjects
bloud
,
and
takes
away
their
livelihoods
.
After
so
resolute
an
answer
,
the
French
Monarchy
confest
ingenuously
,
that
Covarruvia
being
by
Nation
a
Spaniard
,
he
was
consequently
one
whom
she
could
by
no
means
confide
in
.
Apollo
was
so
incens'd
at
these
words
,
as
he
broke
forth
into
sudden
fury
,
and
said
,
Get
you
hence
,
you
who
will
play
the
Master
in
other
folks
States
,
and
learn
confidence
at
home
;
I
,
for
my
part
,
glory
at
my
home
to
be
an
humble
slave
to
mens
merits
,
which
when
nothing
but
it
is
found
in
an
Officer
,
although
he
be
naturally
never
so
discourteous
,
yet
God
,
whose
will
it
is
,
that
he
who
does
well
,
should
be
rewarded
,
takes
it
in
good
part
.
Whereas
on
the
contrary
,
his
Divine
Majesty
(
the
true
Master
of
Metamorphosis
)
hath
made
those
self-affectionate
people
,
in
whom
Princes
,
in
the
collation
of
their
highest
dignities
,
do
only
require
confidence
,
prove
perfidious
,
and
so
strangely
ingrateful
(
only
to
confound
mans
depraved
judgement
)
as
they
have
revenged
themselves
of
received
benefits
,
as
if
they
had
been
mortal
injuries
,
as
is
clearly
known
to
all
men
,
by
so
many
unfortunate
examples
which
have
hapned
in
Princes
Courts
;
by
which
you
Princes
may
learn
,
that
to
do
righteously
,
is
to
be
preferr'd
before
all
other
human
interest
;
for
when
a
Prince
exalts
one
that
is
ungrateful
,
though
otherwise
known
to
be
deserving
,
all
the
shame
redounds
to
him
that
hath
received
the
reward
;
whereas
when
it
falls
out
otherwise
,
all
the
shame
and
loss
redounds
unto
the
Prince
,
who
foolishly
thinks
that
he
may
receive
advantage
from
men
by
offending
God
.
The
XXVIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Monsieur
Jovanni
de
la
Casa
having
presented
Apollo
with
his
most
usefull
Galateo
,
meets
with
great
difficulties
in
many
Nations
,
in
having
it
observed
.
THe
Reverend
Signor
Iovanni
della
Casa
,
who
(
as
you
have
heard
by
our
former
Letters
)
was
with
extraordinary
pomp
,
admitted
into
Parnassus
,
after
having
visited
all
the
illustrious
Poets
,
and
ended
his
Complement
with
all
the
Principi
Literati
of
this
Court
,
presented
Apollo
with
his
beautiful
and
useful
Gallateo
,
which
was
so
much
approved
of
by
his
Majesty
,
as
he
forthwith
gave
strait
charge
that
it
should
be
inviolably
observed
by
all
Nations
.
And
at
the
same
instant
commanded
Casa
to
make
presently
a
Galatea
,
for
that
the
women
of
this
modern
age
,
had
as
much
need
of
amendment
,
as
had
the
men
.
This
Edict
caused
great
commotion
in
some
that
were
subject
to
Apollo's
Dominion
;
for
neither
intreaties
,
nor
threats
,
were
able
to
make
those
of
Marca
give
way
to
the
receival
thereof
,
who
freely
profest
they
were
resolved
rather
to
forgo
their
Country
and
their
children
,
then
leave
their
laudable
custom
of
honouring
their
Masters
with
sincerity
of
heart
,
and
loving
their
friends
with
candor
of
mind
,
rather
then
with
coursies
,
and
other
Court-ceremonies
,
gotten
without
book
.
It
met
with
greater
difficulties
amongst
Princes
;
for
the
most
powerful
French
Monarchy
would
never
give
way
to
the
observancy
of
Gallateo's
rules
,
Nisi
si
,
&
in
quantum
:
which
she
ingenuously
profest
she
would
rather
mind
,
then
good
manners
,
which
she
would
only
observe
with
a
certain
outward
shew
.
The
Spanish
Monarchy
promist
to
submit
to
Gallateo's
rules
,
provided
Monsieur
de
la
Casa
would
leave
out
one
Chapter
:
That
when
she
should
be
at
Table
with
other
Princes
,
she
would
not
have
it
be
reputed
ill
manners
,
if
she
should
take
a
bit
with
her
hand
,
from
off
her
neighbours
trencher
;
neither
would
she
be
thought
to
be
over-greedy
,
if
she
should
chance
to
eat
all
her
next
companions
whole
part
.
The
Venetians
said
,
that
they
would
willingly
admit
of
Gallateo
,
if
that
Monsieur
de
la
Casa
would
declare
,
that
to
endeavour
by
all
means
possible
,
to
know
another
mans
affairs
,
was
not
ill
manners
,
but
arerequisite
point
of
policy
.
All
the
Italian
Princes
readily
imbraced
Gallateo
,
only
said
they
would
be
allowed
to
eat
on
both
sides
their
mouthes
,
without
being
held
ill-mannered
.
But
the
Dutchmen
stormed
mightily
,
for
they
did
not
only
deny
being
bound
to
the
Italian
sobriety
in
d●…inking
,
but
did
obstinately
require
Gallateo
to
declare
,
that
the
Dutchmens
overmuch
drinking
,
and
being
continually
drunk
,
was
one
of
their
chiefest
vertues
,
and
one
of
the
most
requisite
things
that
their
Princes
and
Commonwealths
did
for
their
safety-sake
,
desire
in
their
people
.
The
which
request
was
blamed
by
all
the
Litterati
,
as
impertinent
and
absurd
,
and
therefore
gainsaid
:
Wherefore
the
Dutch
were
very
much
exhorted
,
and
desired
to
submit
themselves
to
Gallateo
,
touching
the
particular
of
Sobriety
;
because
they
were
even
pointed
at
by
the
best
Nations
of
Europe
,
for
their
immoderate
drinking
,
and
being
so
often
drunk
.
To
which
the
Dutch
did
stoutly
answer
,
That
those
sober
men
deserved
to
be
esteemed
drunk
,
that
living
under
the
slavery
of
Princes
,
were
hardly
used
,
and
grieved
every
day
by
the
capriciousnesse
and
beastly
passions
of
one
man
,
and
that
the
drunken
Dutch
ought
to
be
highly
esteemed
,
who
had
wit
enough
,
both
to
vindicate
their
Liberty
,
and
to
maintain
it
when
they
had
got
it
.
And
added
,
That
they
were
to
be
chained
up
for
fools
,
that
did
not
believe
that
the
drunkenesse
of
the
German
Nation
,
was
the
true
foundation
of
so
many
famous
Republiques
as
were
seen
there
.
For
the
safety
of
a
State
,
and
the
peoples
universal
peace
,
depending
wholly
upon
the
fidelity
of
State
Officers
,
and
upon
the
candor
and
sincerity
of
every
mans
soule
,
what
greater
Jewel
could
there
be
desired
,
then
to
see
the
Germans
by
their
drinking
too
much
Wine
,
continually
vomit
up
their
very
intimate
secrets
,
and
most
concealed
thoughts
:
They
added
,
That
it
was
clearly
seen
by
long
experience
,
that
those
did
best
counsel
their
Countreys
,
who
having
drowned
their
private
Interest
,
and
choaked
their
fair
pretences
(
which
sobriety
useth
to
beget
in
mens
minds
)
with
good
store
of
Wine
,
spake
like
Germans
from
their
hearts
,
and
not
as
doe
the
Italians
,
and
those
of
other
sober
Nations
,
from
the
mouth
outward
onely
,
with
false
and
feigned
words
.
They
said
also
,
That
the
Dutch
,
which
did
so
much
affect
the
glorious
name
of
Souldiers
,
as
was
well
known
to
all
men
,
had
not
patience
to
listen
unto
the
counsels
and
deliberations
of
of
sober
men
,
which
were
usually
apprehensive
,
and
full
of
lewd
circumspection
,
covered
over
with
the
vaile
of
wisdome
;
but
to
the
end
that
their
resolutions
might
be
bold
and
generous
,
they
would
not
suffer
any
man
to
counsel
his
Countrey
,
whilst
he
was
fasting
;
but
when
by
having
drunk
much
Wine
,
they
had
inflamed
their
hearts
with
generosity
:
It
being
the
proper
vertue
of
Wine
,
rather
to
drive
fear
from
the
heart
,
then
to
rob
the
understanding
of
judgement
.
And
that
therefore
the
Germans
with
much
reason
,
De
reconciliandis
invicem
inimicis
,
&
jungendis
affinitatibus
,
&
adsciscendis
Principibus
,
de
Pace
denique
,
ac
Bello
plerunque
in
conviviis
consultant
:
tanquam
nullo
magis
Tempore
ad
simplices
cogitationes
pateat
animus
,
aut
a
magnas
incalescat
.
Tacit.
de
Mor.
Germ.
That
whether
it
concern
the
reconciling
of
enemies
,
the
making
of
affinities
,
the
chusing
of
Princes
;
finally
,
be
it
about
Peace
or
War
,
they
for
the
most
part
consult
upon
it
in
their
cups
;
as
if
the
soule
were
at
no
time
more
open
for
civil
thoughts
,
or
set
on
fire
for
great
ones
,
And
they
further
added
,
That
if
the
Italian
sobriety
were
introduced
amongst
the
Germans
,
those
false
hearts
,
and
double
minds
,
those
deep
thoughts
,
those
turn-coats
,
full
of
treachery
,
conspiracies
,
plots
,
of
false
souls
,
masked
over
with
hidden
hatred
,
and
feigned
love
,
would
begin
to
be
found
in
that
faithfull
and
sincere
Nation
,
wherein
the
Nations
which
glory
in
their
sobrietry
,
do
so
much
abound
;
a
thing
so
true
,
as
the
French
,
who
have
been
held
to
be
so
glorious
by
all
the
world
,
for
their
ancient
candor
and
sinceri●…y
of
soul
,
in
being
alwayes
faithfull
to
their
King
;
since
many
of
them
have
given
over
the
laudable
custom
of
taking
off
their
Cups
,
and
being
drunk
after
the
Dutch
fashion
,
had
suffered
themselves
to
be
wound
about
into
such
treacheries
as
the
world
took
too
much
notice
of
.
And
that
if
that
little
window
to
be
contrived
in
the
breasts
of
men
,
the
better
to
discover
the
hearts
of
certaine
damnable
cheaters
,
who
being
Devils
inwardly
,
study
to
appeare
outwardly
,
Angels
,
was
thought
to
be
so
necessary
for
the
good
of
mankind
;
with
what
ground
of
reason
could
any
man
blame
the
laudable
custom
of
being
drunk
,
it
being
clearly
seene
,
that
by
drinking
of
too
much
Wine
,
mens
bodies
became
Diaphanous
and
transparent
.
For
these
reasons
,
which
were
very
much
approved
of
,
and
praised
by
Apollo
it
was
resolved
,
That
as
touching
the
particular
of
sobriety
in
drinking
;
the
Noble
German
Nation
should
not
be
subject
to
Gallateo's
Precepts
;
the
use
of
being
drunk
,
being
rather
a
piece
of
publick
cunning
amongst
the
Dutch
,
then
a
vice
of
private
men
:
It
being
apparently
known
,
that
those
Nations
are
very
well
advised
,
both
in
times
of
Peace
and
Warre
,
who
,
like
the
Dutch
,
Deliberant
,
dum
fingere
nesciunt
;
constituunt
,
dum
errare
non
possunt
.
Tacit.
de
Mor.
Germ.
Deliberat
whilst
they
know
not
how
to
counterfeit
,
and
doe
ordaine
whilst
they
cannot
err
.
The
XXIX
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
finding
that
wicked
men
,
by
making
use
of
the
Sword
of
Iustice
to
injure
honest
men
,
do
make
his
Tribunals
become
very
hatefull
,
to
remedy
so
great
a
disorder
,
institutes
a
Committe
of
the
greatest
Subjects
of
this
State
;
but
hath
but
bad
success
therein
.
THe
perfidiousness
of
wicked
men
is
arrived
at
that
height
,
as
that
the
sacred
Seats
of
Justice
,
erected
for
the
safety
of
good
men
,
and
to
punish
the
wicked
,
are
made
use
of
to
persecute
and
afflict
those
that
are
honest
,
and
mean
well
;
a
disorder
which
his
Majesty
is
very
angry
at
;
who
can
by
no
means
tolerate
,
that
through
the
so
much
mischief
of
wicked
men
,
the
Seats
of
Justice
should
become
hatefull
:
Wherefore
Apollo
,
to
try
whether
the
wit
of
man
could
find
the
true
Antidote
to
this
raging
Poyson
,
chose
many
moneths
agoe
,
some
of
the
best
Philosophers
,
skilfullest
Politicians
,
and
men
most
esteemed
for
wisdom
,
that
are
in
the
State
of
Parnassus
;
all
which
he
caused
to
be
shut
up
in
that
Apartment
which
stands
by
the
Delphick
Library
,
and
straitly
commanded
them
not
to
stir
from
thence
,
till
they
had
healed
so
dangerous
a
wound
by
fitting
remedies
.
All
the
Vertuosi
of
Parnassus
thought
such
a
business
might
be
dispatched
in
a
few
hours
;
but
it
was
eight
months
ere
these
men
opened
their
dores
,
at
which
time
they
desired
Audience
of
Apollo
,
whom
they
told
,
that
after
having
been
so
long
shut
up
in
that
place
,
wherein
they
had
diligently
examined
a
thousand
opinions
,
and
maturely
sifted
an
infinity
of
applications
,
they
could
find
no
expedient
means
whereby
severely
to
punish
false
accusations
,
without
affrighting
true
ones
.
The
XXX
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Marcus
Brutus
desires
Justius
Brutus
to
shew
him
the
perfections
of
the
Conspiracy
which
he
so
happily
brought
to
pass
against
the
Tarquins
,
and
the
Imperfections
of
that
Conspiracy
which
he
so
miserably
executed
upon
Caesar.
And
receives
desired
satisfaction
from
him
.
MArcus
Brutus
,
who
lives
still
discontented
in
this
Court
of
Parnassus
,
because
that
important
business
which
he
undertook
of
recovering
the
Roman
Liberty
,
by
the
murder
of
the
Tyrant
Caesar
,
did
not
succeed
well
;
went
the
other
day
to
finde
out
Lucius
Brutus
,
whom
he
earnestly
desired
to
aquaint
him
with
the
reason
,
why
both
of
them
,
being
spurd
on
by
the
same
generous
thought
of
reducing
their
Countrey
into
Liberty
;
they
did
so
much
differ
in
the
effect
,
adding
,
that
he
should
be
very
much
satisfied
by
knowing
the
excellency
of
his
Conspiracy
and
what
the
faults
were
of
that
which
he
himself
plotted
against
Caesar.
Menante
,
who
by
great
good
fortune
was
by
,
when
this
demand
was
made
;
assures
every
one
that
Lucius
Brutus
did
thus
answer
his
kinsman
.
A
good
intention
is
not
sufficient
Cozen
Marcus
,
to
reap
renown
by
great
actions
,
it
must
be
accompanied
by
judgment
.
Know
then
that
in
purging
the
Roman
Empire
from
the
ill
humors
of
Tyranny
,
wherewith
I
found
her
greatly
opprest
,
I
successfully
imitated
the
art
which
skilful
Physicians
use
in
restoring
health
to
a
body
that
is
sick
of
a
Malignant
Feaver
:
which
had
you
done
,
you
would
not
only
not
have
committed
that
great
error
which
caused
so
many
mischiefs
to
your self
,
and
to
our
whole
Country
,
but
should
have
happily
acquired
that
glory
,
which
hath
made
me
immortal
.
Know
then
,
that
when
I
resolved
to
restore
Liberty
to
our
Country
,
I
did
first
exactly
consider
the
body
of
the
State
of
Rome
in
its
sick
condition
,
the
quantity
,
and
quality
of
the
humors
which
she
did
abound
within
her
sickness
of
servitude
;
and
like
a
wise
Physician
,
I
prepared
the
peccant
materials
,
and
digested
the
crude
Humors
,
with
the
syrrop
of
discontent
and
bad
satisfaction
which
I
dayly
sowed
in
the
People
of
Rome
against
the
Tarquins
;
and
the
insolency
committed
against
Lucretia
,
proved
very
lucky
to
me
:
for
the
unbridled
lust
of
the
Tyrant
Tarquin
,
brought
the
people
of
Rome
to
that
point
of
hatred
and
dispair
,
which
I
had
always
desired
,
so
that
finding
the
materials
of
discontent
to
be
excellently
well
prepared
,
by
the
water
of
the
common
peoples
continual
exclamations
,
with
two
onely
ounces
of
laxative
syrrope
of
Roses
(
resolution
)
which
I
knew
how
to
make
,
by
appearing
head
of
the
inraged
Romans
,
with
permition
of
the
sick
Commonwealths
Militia
,
the
bad
humors
of
Tyranny
were
purged
out
,
without
the
pains
of
death
,
or
any
alteration
of
Tumults
,
in
lieu
whereof
the
health
of
Liberty
returned
to
our
Country
.
But
you
Cozen
did
not
duly
consider
any
of
these
important
particulars
.
For
having
with
a
rash
resolution
given
your self
over
in
prey
to
the
zeal
of
recovering
lost
Liberty
,
the
light
of
your
understanding
was
so
blinded
,
as
made
you
fall
into
a
more
cruel
servitude
,
and
this
was
,
when
by
the
immature
counsel
which
you
put
into
action
against
Caesar
in
the
Capitol
,
you
gave
the
Roman
Liberty
a
strong
Purgation
,
compounded
of
Colloquintida
,
and
Antimony
,
and
other
violent
ingred
ents
,
with
which
whilst
you
thought
to
evacuate
the
Crude
humors
,
you
did
infinitely
increase
that
malady
,
which
having
first
wrought
your
ruine
and
the
like
of
all
your
associates
,
occasioned
at
last
that
so
famous
sickness
(
the
sad
proscription
)
which
did
kill
outright
the
most
excellent
Roman
Liberty
;
and
the
Proverb
is
as
true
as
common
,
that
Conspiracies
are
not
made
out
of
curiosity
of
changing
the
Prince
his
Face
,
but
for
the
important
interest
of
changing
Tyranny
into
Liberty
.
And
therefore
in
a
business
of
such
concernment
,
a
man
must
confine
himself
by
the
Charity
which
he
bears
unto
his
Country
,
within
the
bounds
of
the
love
of
Liberty
,
and
hatred
of
the
publick
Tyrant
;
and
among
other
considerations
which
ought
to
be
had
in
a
business
of
so
great
concernment
,
the
chiefest
is
,
to
consider
with
exact
diligence
,
the
means
whereby
a
Tyrant
hath
possest
himself
of
his
Countries
Liberty
,
which
whilst
they
continue
in
their
vigour
and
strength
,
that
Citizen
wishes
no
good
unto
his
Country
;
but
is
rather
a
cruel
enemy
thereunto
,
who
by
plotting
against
the
Tyrants
life
,
is
cause
of
greater
slavery
to
his
fellow
Citizens
,
and
of
much
greater
scandals
to
his
Country
.
The
Tarquins
maintaind
themselves
in
their
usurped
Liberty
,
by
the
love
which
they
had
cunningly
won
from
the
Romans
,
which
when
by
their
cruelties
,
libidinousness
,
and
avarice
,
they
had
lost
,
the
foundation
of
their
greatness
failed
;
and
therefore
it
was
not
hard
for
me
to
restore
my
Country
to
her
ancient
Liberty
.
For
I
did
not
drive
the
Tarquins
out
of
Rome
by
my
Conspiracy
,
till
being
ready
to
be
thrown
headlong
down
by
the
publike
hatred
,
I
gave
then
a
justle
.
But
you
did
not
do
so
;
for
it
is
evident
that
Caesar
had
possest
himself
of
the
publike
Liberty
,
by
the
great
good
opinion
he
had
in
his
Army
,
of
which
he
had
so
many
years
been
head
,
and
by
the
miraculous
affection
of
the
people
of
Rome
,
which
he
had
won
by
his
profuse
liberality
.
And
by
killing
him
whilst
he
was
master
of
these
two
powerful
means
,
you
did
nothing
else
but
change
Caesar
(
who
did
study
to
secure
himself
in
the
State
,
onely
by
his
clemency
,
and
by
his
obliging
every
body
)
into
Augustus
,
who
having
seen
the
unfortunate
end
which
Tyrants
make
,
by
using
the
indulgencies
of
Pardons
,
thought
it
a
safer
way
for
the
perpetuating
of
his
Dominion
,
to
make
use
of
that
cruel
great
Proscription
,
the
onely
cause
whereby
after
having
reigned
happily
so
long
,
he
had
power
to
transmit
the
Roman
Empire
,
as
Hereditary
,
into
the
Person
of
Tiberius
.
The
XXXI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Marcus
Cato
having
to
the
infinite
dislike
of
Princes
,
writ
the
word
Libera
underneath
the
Motto
,
Pugna
pro
Patria
,
which
was
set
upon
his
gate
,
is
commanded
by
Apollo
to
put
is
out
.
SInce
the
first
day
that
Marcus
Cato
,
one
of
the
Lavii
Grandi
of
this
Court
built
his
house
in
Parnassus
,
he
made
these
words
Pugna
pro
Patria
,
be
ingraven
,
and
written
in
gold
Letters
upon
his
Portal
,
to
the
which
some
few
days
ago
he
added
Libera
:
which
the
Princes
of
this
State
observing
,
they
made
great
complaints
to
Apollo
,
protesting
that
unless
that
seditious
word
,
which
might
set
all
the
world
on
fire
,
were
rased
from
off
the
Portal
,
great
mischiefs
were
likely
to
arrive
in
Parnassus
.
And
did
further
very
much
desire
,
that
Cato
,
being
the
first
instituter
of
that
wicked
generation
of
men
,
who
that
they
may
appear
to
the
base
Plebeians
to
be
lovers
of
Truth
,
do
practice
an
impertinent
Liberty
,
and
superstitious
pride
over
men
,
might
for
the
correction
and
dread
of
others
,
be
severely
punisht
.
Cato
was
immediately
sent
for
by
Apollo
,
whom
his
Majesty
blamed
for
having
given
just
occasion
of
complaint
and
rumor
to
Princes
,
by
the
addition
of
that
word
.
Cato
boldly
answered
,
that
good
men
ought
not
to
forbear
to
do
or
say
any
thing
that
became
them
,
and
what
their
Consciences
bad
them
do
,
for
the
threats
of
whatsoever
Princes
;
that
it
was
a
cruel
thing
,
and
which
onely
became
ignorant
and
malicious
men
to
cozen
others
with
,
sentences
which
were
onely
specious
in
words
:
and
that
he
thought
it
was
great
impiety
to
make
the
common
people
understand
,
that
they
were
bound
to
defend
that
,
even
with
their
lives
and
faculties
,
as
a
thing
properly
belonging
to
them
,
wherein
they
had
not
the
least
interest
:
that
therefore
the
word
Libera
was
necessary
,
to
declare
the
full
signification
of
the
sentence
:
for
as
it
would
be
a
great
folly
in
one
to
take
upon
him
to
defend
the
title
of
a
House
,
which
he
had
onely
hired
,
so
that
Country
deserved
to
be
defended
by
teeth
,
and
hands
,
even
to
the
effusion
of
the
last
drop
of
blood
,
wherein
a
man
commanded
like
a
Master
,
not
that
wherein
he
obeyed
like
a
slave
.
Apollo
answered
Cato
,
that
he
was
in
a
great
error
;
for
it
was
not
onely
gross
ignorance
,
but
tending
to
sedition
,
to
affirm
that
Princes
had
not
Authority
to
compel
their
people
to
take
up
Arms
,
and
to
defend
their
common
Country
,
when
they
were
assaulted
by
their
enemies
.
Cato
replyed
,
that
he
did
not
deny
but
that
Princes
had
such
Authority
,
but
confest
he
said
that
there
was
neither
any
power
or
violence
,
which
could
inforce
a
man
who
took
up
Arms
against
his
will
,
to
shoot
right
forward
,
but
that
he
might
let
his
first
shot
flye
rather
towards
his
friends
then
towards
his
enemies
.
To
this
Apollo
answered
,
that
Princes
had
likewise
Authority
to
force
their
souldiers
to
shoot
justly
,
and
to
behave
themselves
couragiously
,
but
that
they
must
be
good
Princes
who
have
this
Authority
,
such
as
by
their
Liberality
,
and
great
love
,
shown
in
their
excellent
Government
,
did
force
their
subjects
to
defend
their
Princes
Dominions
,
with
the
same
gallantry
and
undanted
valor
,
as
they
did
their
own
private
Patrimony
:
and
that
onely
avaritious
Princes
,
and
such
as
thirsted
after
their
subjects
blood
were
too
far
from
reaping
any
good
by
those
soldiers
,
whom
they
forst
to
go
to
the
wars
;
as
that
they
found
them
to
be
cruel
enemies
.
That
therefore
he
commanded
him
,
to
take
the
word
that
was
added
to
the
Sentence
,
immediately
from
off
his
gate
,
which
was
not
onely
superfluous
for
the
Reasons
which
he
had
given
,
but
for
that
when
it
was
otherwise
,
gallant
men
understood
it
to
be
there
,
though
it
were
not
written
;
it
not
being
fitting
that
the
baser
sort
of
people
should
be
acquainted
with
the
great
secret
,
that
that
is
onely
the
freemans
Country
where
he
is
born
;
the
slaves
,
that
where
he
is
best
accommodated
.
The
XXXII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Socrates
being
found
dead
in
the
morning
on
his
bed
,
Apollo
useth
all
possible
diligence
ta
learn
the
true
reason
of
so
suddain
a
death
.
THis
morning
Socrates
was
found
dead
in
his
bed
,
who
,
was
well
when
he
lay
down
the
last
night
;
and
his
body
,
being
exceedingly
swoln
,
many
do
more
then
suspect
that
he
was
poysoned
,
and
the
Perepateticks
,
bitter
enemies
to
the
Socratical
sect
,
were
very
much
blamed
;
the
rather
,
for
that
every
one
knows
that
Aristotle
,
the
Prince
of
so
great
a
Sect
,
is
very
well
verst
in
handling
poyson
.
The
very
same
morning
,
Socrates
his
whole
family
was
imprisoned
,
out
of
which
nothing
could
be
got
,
but
that
some
days
before
Socrates
was
seen
to
be
very
much
troubled
,
and
seeming
to
be
exceedingly
grieved
inwardly
,
he
oft
times
cryed
out
,
O
corrupt
world
,
O
depraved
Age
,
O
most
unfortunate
mankinde
.
Apollo
who
was
exceedingly
grieved
at
the
loss
of
so
famous
a
Phylosopher
,
commanded
that
his
body
should
be
carefully
opened
,
and
that
it
should
be
seen
,
whether
any
signes
of
poyson
were
to
be
found
by
his
bowels
,
which
being
done
,
all
his
intrails
were
found
to
be
open
.
Whence
it
was
cleerly
known
,
that
Socrates
,
having
taken
too
much
wind
of
scandal
,
at
the
great
discomposures
,
and
infinite
misbehaviors
which
he
was
necessitated
to
see
in
this
depraved
age
,
did
even
burst
.
Great
were
the
Obsequies
which
were
made
for
this
noble
Pesonage
;
and
Marcus
Tullius
Cicero
,
(
one
who
was
very
affectionate
to
the
Socratical
Sect
)
having
in
an
elaborate
Oration
infinitely
praised
the
truth
of
so
famous
a
Philosophers
Doctrine
,
and
his
exemplary
life
,
did
with
many
tears
bewail
the
sad
calamitie
of
these
present
times
,
wherein
it
being
under
pain
of
severe
punishment
,
forbidden
to
play
the
Satyr
,
gallant
men
who
saw
things
every
day
committed
,
which
ought
to
be
publikely
declaimed
against
,
were
forst
to
see
,
to
say
nothing
,
and
to
burst
for
vexation
.
The
XXXIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Hereditary
Princes
in
Parnassus
,
do
very
much
press
Apollo
,
that
the
Emperor
Tiberius
may
be
removed
from
their
Classis
,
and
placed
in
that
of
Tyrants
,
and
he
defends
his
cause
Victoriously
before
his
Majesty
.
IT
is
above
1500
year
since
Tiberius
,
who
succeeded
Augustus
,
was
admitted
into
Parnassus
,
and
had
an
honorable
place
alotted
him
,
amongst
the
Legitimate
hereditary
Princes
,
where
he
hath
lived
with
such
glory
and
splendor
,
as
he
hath
always
been
held
by
the
greatest
Potentates
of
Parnassus
,
to
be
the
Prince
of
wisdom
,
the
very
picture
of
vigilancy
,
not
onely
the
Counceller
,
but
the
Oracle
of
all
those
Princes
who
go
about
by
violence
and
severity
to
establish
not
onely
a
new
Tyranny
,
but
the
mastery
of
any
newly
conquered
State
.
For
though
it
be
to
be
confest
by
all
men
,
that
Caesar
the
Dictator
was
he
who
laid
the
first
foundations
of
the
Roman
Empire
,
and
that
Augustus
raised
up
the
walls
thereof
even
to
the
highest
Cornish
,
it
is
not
yet
to
be
denyed
but
that
Tiberius
,
when
by
happily
transmitting
it
over
to
his
Nephews
son
Caligula
,
he
made
it
hereditary
in
the
blood
of
the
Iuli●…
and
Claudii
,
did
wisely
establish
it
,
and
gave
it
compleat
perfection
.
A
great
action
certainly
,
and
onely
becoming
that
Tiberius
,
who
knowing
so
excellenly
well
how
to
conceal
his
own
private
passions
,
made
himself
be
known
to
be
an
excellent
Dr.
in
the
cunning
Art
of
discovering
other
mens
thoughts
;
by
which
he
may
be
said
to
have
set
the
roof
over
the
Roman
Monarchy
.
A
great
Conspiracy
was
discovered
some
few
days
ago
against
this
so
mighty
an
Emperor
,
which
was
long
before
plotted
against
him
by
the
greatest
Princes
of
this
Court
,
who
accused
him
before
his
Majesty
of
being
a
Tyrant
,
as
he
who
to
the
prejudice
of
Augustus
his
heirs
,
had
by
wicked
means
possest
himself
of
the
Empire
,
which
they
said
he
had
governed
with
unheard
of
barbarous
cruely
for
the
space
of
two
and
twenty
years
,
shewing
himself
always
to
be
an
implacable
enemy
of
the
Nobility
,
ravenous
over
the
wealthy
,
bloody
to
men
of
great
worth
,
and
ungrateful
to
those
that
had
served
him
faithfully
;
and
this
shameful
accusation
was
aggravated
by
the
Testimony
of
Cornelius
Tacitus
,
who
having
ever
appeared
by
all
his
actions
in
this
Court
,
to
be
circumspect
,
suffered
himself
notwithstanding
to
be
so
far
carryed
away
by
the
violent
Passion
of
hatred
against
Tiberius
,
as
he
made
Affidavit
before
his
Majesty
,
that
under
the
rigorous
government
of
this
Monster
of
Nature
,
Nobilit●…
,
opes
,
omissi
,
gestique
honoris
pro
Crimine
,
&
ob
vertutus
certicimum
exitium
.
Tacit.
lib.
1.
Hist.
This
accusation
wrought
much
with
Apollo
,
who
truely
said
that
it
was
a
great
error
,
to
have
placed
so
cruel
a
Tyrant
in
the
honorable
Classis
of
Legitimate
Princes
;
and
at
the
same
instant
gave
command
that
Tiberius
should
have
notice
given
him
,
to
appear
in
the
Court
the
next
day
,
and
defend
himself
against
that
accusation
.
Then
did
all
men
call
to
mind
the
unfortunate
condition
of
Princes
,
when
Tiberius
was
seen
to
come
out
of
his
house
alone
,
and
forsaken
by
all
his
friends
,
to
appear
before
the
Judges
;
who
though
he
thought
that
disertion
to
be
an
evident
sign
of
his
condemnation
,
yet
entered
he
the
Court
with
an
undanted
spirit
;
where
though
he
was
received
with
severe
looks
,
and
threatning
jestures
,
both
by
his
Majesty
and
the
whole
Senate
of
Vertuosi
,
yet
he
seemed
even
then
to
be
fullest
of
courage
,
when
his
danger
appeared
to
be
greatest
.
Silence
being
then
proclaimed
,
Egiddio
Bossio
the
Atturney
General
,
read
the
accusation
to
Tiberius
,
and
then
Tiberius
was
commanded
to
say
what
he
could
in
his
own
defence
.
Whereupon
he
thus
began
:
Prince
of
Learning
!
the
accusations
laid
unto
my
charge
by
my
ill-willers
,
are
two
;
that
I
possest
my self
of
the
Roman
Empire
by
bad
means
;
and
that
by
the
Government
thereof
I
have
used
much
cruelty
towards
the
Nobility
and
other
subjects
of
much
merit
and
worth
:
the
first
is
false
;
for
how
can
it
be
objected
that
I
came
by
the
Roman
Empire
fraudulently
,
since
by
his
last
will
and
Testament
Augustus
made
me
his
Heir
,
I
confess
that
Agrippa
Posthumus
,
and
Germanious
were
neer
allyed
in
blood
to
Augustus
,
but
it
must
be
considered
that
Augustu
,
was
not
so
great
a
fool
,
as
to
be
deceived
by
any
,
how
crafty
and
fraudulent
a
wit
soever
,
in
so
important
an
affair
,
as
the
leaving
of
an
Heir
who
might
succeed
him
in
so
great
an
Empire
.
It
must
be
believed
that
some
weighty
respect
moved
him
to
prefer
me
,
who
was
not
at
all
akin
to
him
,
before
his
Nephews
:
and
thought
I
could
upon
this
occasion
,
much
to
my
praise
,
relate
the
excellent
Art
I
used
to
work
my self
into
the
good
will
and
affection
of
this
great
Prince
,
I
will
in
this
place
onely
mention
this
,
that
if
Augustus
had
found
such
qualities
in
those
of
his
blood
,
as
he
knew
were
requisite
in
him
who
was
to
be
his
heire
,
and
which
by
all
exquisite
diligence
I
endeavoured
to
make
appear
to
be
in
me
,
neither
would
the
love
which
Tacitus
says
Augustus
bore
to
my
mother
,
nor
her
allurements
,
nor
all
my
cunning
,
ever
have
been
sufficient
to
induce
that
wise
Prince
to
do
so
cruel
an
act
as
to
disinherit
his
Nephews
,
and
make
a
stranger
his
heir
.
But
it
will
make
for
me
,
in
this
place
,
and
upon
this
occasion
to
make
known
that
my
action
,
from
whence
I
have
always
acknowledged
my
access
unto
the
Roman
Empire
,
as
that
which
did
compel
Augustus
to
love
me
so
immeasurably
.
It
is
wel
known
to
al
men
that
after
the
death
of
Marcus
Agrippa
,
Augustus
gave
me
his
daughter
Giulia
for
wife
;
it
is
likewise
known
to
all
men
,
what
a
one
that
great
Princess
proved
;
so
as
being
scorned
,
by
the
pride
and
lasciviousness
of
that
unchaste
woman
,
when
I
found
my
honor
wounded
,
I
knew
how
to
make
use
of
that
very
occasion
for
my
greater
advancement
,
which
was
likely
utterly
to
ruine
all
the
hopes
of
my
good
fortune
,
wherein
I
had
made
so
good
a
progress
.
For
considering
,
that
if
(
as
my
honor
bound
me
to
do
)
I
should
revenge
the
injury
done
me
by
my
wife
by
putting
her
to
death
,
the
little
respect
which
I
should
have
born
to
Augustus
his
blood
,
might
alienate
him
from
me
,
and
make
him
give
over
his
intentions
of
exalting
me
:
and
long
arguing
with
my self
the
great
difference
that
there
was
between
an
injury
received
from
a
wife
of
a
disproportionable
greatness
to
her
husband
,
and
that
which
is
done
by
ones
equal
,
I
put
on
the
bitter
resolution
of
preferring
the
glory
which
I
should
win
by
obtaining
the
Roman
Empire
,
before
the
shame
of
being
publikely
cuckolded
by
Iulia.
Tiberius
had
gon
thus
far
in
pleading
his
own
excuse
,
when
a
lowd
voice
was
heard
in
the
Court
to
cry
out
thrice
,
O
Traytor
.
Tiberius
thinking
that
this
was
meant
by
him
,
protested
to
Apollo
that
that
scorn
was
put
upon
the
Court
,
and
not
upon
him
;
Apollo
finding
how
little
he
was
respected
by
that
rash
fellow
,
whosoever
he
was
that
had
said
those
words
,
commanded
that
he
should
be
diligently
sought
for
,
and
imprisoned
,
which
was
forthwith
done
,
and
it
was
found
to
be
Iacomo
Count
of
Marcia
,
a
famous
Prince
of
the
blood
of
France
;
yet
Apollo
preferring
the
injury
done
unto
himself
,
before
the
linage
of
that
Prince
,
commanded
him
to
be
led
to
prison
.
Then
the
Count
did
publikely
profess
,
that
he
had
not
said
those
words
either
to
injure
his
Majesty
,
or
Tiberius
,
but
that
to
unburthen
himself
of
somewhat
which
lay
heavy
in
his
heart
,
he
had
called
himself
Traytor
,
not
meaning
Tiberius
,
nor
any
other
person
;
for
when
he
was
marryed
to
the
unchaste
Queen
Iane
,
by
his
foolish
proceeding
against
her
,
(
who
had
brought
with
her
the
Kingdom
of
Naples
for
her
portion
)
as
if
she
had
been
a
private
Gentlewoman
,
and
by
the
severity
which
he
like
a
Coxcomb
used
towards
her
,
he
to
his
infinite
shame
,
lost
both
his
wife
,
and
Kingdom
and
consequently
his
reputation
;
and
was
forst
to
flye
from
Naples
,
and
to
bury
himself
alive
in
a
Monastery
in
France
,
where
he
dyed
for
meer
madness
;
and
that
he
had
learnt
by
Tiberius
his
wise
demeanor
in
the
like
case
,
that
it
had
been
more
honorable
for
him
to
have
lived
a
cornuted
King
in
Naples
,
then
a
private
man
of
honor
in
France
.
Apollo
did
then
pardon
the
disturbance
which
that
noble
Frenchman
had
occasioned
,
and
bad
Tiberius
proceed
to
make
his
defence
,
who
said
:
And
because
the
too
great
connivance
at
the
shameful
life
which
my
wife
led
in
Rome
,
would
certainly
have
rendred
me
contemptible
both
to
the
Senate
and
people
of
Rome
,
(
a
thing
which
would
have
been
of
equal
danger
to
such
a
personage
as
I
,
who
lived
in
hope
of
that
greatness
which
I
afterward
acquired
,
as
the
resentment
of
such
an
injury
by
way
of
revenge
would
have
been
)
I
chose
the
middle
way
between
these
two
dangerous
extreams
,
which
in
dubious
resolutions
proves
always
best
.
So
as
not
to
be
an
eye-witness
of
that
injury
which
I
could
neither
revenge
nor
tolerate
,
I
went
from
Rome
under
a
pretence
of
living
privatly
,
and
hid
my self
in
Rhodes
.
This
my
modesty
,
this
great
respect
which
I
bore
to
Augustus
his
blood
,
was
the
true
and
chief
cause
which
did
not
only
induce
him
to
love
me
,
but
which
did
oblige
him
to
demonstrate
that
his
love
,
in
such
sort
as
the
world
hath
seen
since
his
death
,
For
this
Pr.
who
was
as
wise
as
he
was
glorious
,
pittying
my
so
much
scorned
condition
,
and
infinitely
loathing
his
daughters
infamous
life
,
behaved
himself
so
rigorously
towards
her
,
as
his
demeanor
may
serve
for
a
rule
to
every
wise
Prince
,
how
to
handle
their
unchast
daughters
.
If
then
so
great
Patience
,
if
the
respect
,
reverence
,
and
perfect
obedience
,
and
so
many
other
lawful
pieces
of
cunning
,
which
I
continually
used
to
work
my self
into
Augustus
his
affection
,
be
vitious
comportments
,
and
fraudulent
deceits
,
(
as
my
enemis
have
represented
them
to
your
Majesty
)
I
refer
my self
to
those
who
are
to
judge
upon
my
reputation
.
I
now
come
to
the
second
Article
of
my
impeachment
.
I
acknowledge
the
cruelty
which
I
am
accused
to
have
used
towards
the
Romish
Nobility
to
be
true
,
and
all
that
Tacitus
hath
said
of
me
in
that
point
,
to
be
very
true
;
but
I
desire
that
such
difference
as
ought
to
be
,
be
put
between
the
cruelties
used
by
a
new
Prince
,
and
those
which
are
practised
by
an
ancient
and
hereditary
Prince
:
for
if
I
have
taken
away
any
mans
life
out
of
an
innate
cruelty
,
or
thirst
after
humane
blood
,
or
out
of
any
capricious
inhumanity
,
I
submit
my self
to
the
rigour
of
the
Cornelian
Law
,
as
if
I
were
one
of
the
meanest
and
most
abject
plebeians
of
this
State
;
but
if
it
were
meer
State
necessity
which
forced
me
to
be
cruel
to
those
of
Augustus
his
blood
,
to
the
chiefest
Senators
,
the
commanders
of
any
extraordinary
worth
,
and
in
fine
,
even
to
worth
it self
;
I
desire
every
one
to
consider
how
new
Princes
are
necessitated
to
do
horrid
and
cruel
acts
,
though
it
be
much
against
their
Inclination
.
And
upon
this
occasion
,
I
will
for
my
defence
make
use
of
my
implacable
accuser
Tacitus
his
words
.
He
hath
openly
profest
that
the
horrible
Proscription
made
by
Augustus
(
which
I
confess
did
surpass
all
the
most
immense
cruelties
,
that
were
ever
commanded
by
cruel
man
)
was
done
not
out
of
any
inclination
to
severity
by
those
who
of
themselves
did
infinitely
blame
such
an
act
,
but
onely
out
of
meer
State
necessity
.
Sane
Proscriptionem
Civium
,
divisiones
Agrorum
,
neque
ipsis
quidem
qui
fecere
Laudatas
.
Tacit.
lib.
1
●nnal
.
These
are
Tacitus
his
words
.
Which
if
it
be
true
,
am
I
to
be
condemned
for
having
wisely
known
how
to
establish
my self
in
a
new
Principality
,
and
for
having
had
the
wit
to
execute
those
precepts
,
which
not
only
every
other
Politician
,
but
even
Tacitus
hath
publisht
?
and
if
it
be
true
that
indulgence
,
mansuetude
,
and
clemency
are
then
vices
in
a
Prince
,
when
such
signal
vertues
are
used
towards
those
,
who
though
they
be
pardoned
,
keep
malice
in
their
hearts
,
and
covet
revenge
;
is
there
any
one
here
present
who
thinks
that
if
I
should
have
suffered
Agrippa
Posthumus
,
Germanicus
,
and
the
others
of
Augustus
his
blood
,
to
have
lived
,
that
they
would
ever
have
sincerely
loved
my
greatness
?
and
if
it
be
a
grounded
precept
in
Policy
,
that
Princes
ought
to
indeavour
above
all
things
,
to
reign
void
of
jealousie
,
and
if
a
Prince
can
never
be
said
to
be
safe
in
a
State
,
whilst
those
live
who
were
driven
out
of
it
,
or
who
pretend
more
right
thereunto
then
he
,
will
not
every
one
,
how
little
knowledge
soever
they
have
of
worldly
affairs
,
confess
with
me
,
that
it
was
not
any
innate
cruelty
in
me
,
but
meer
necessity
of
state
Policy
which
forst
me
to
appear
so
severe
towards
those
of
Augustus
his
blood
:
for
a
Prince
is
wise
in
his
cruelty
,
when
(
as
Tacitus
himself
says
he
runs
danger
by
being
merciful
.
Moreover
,
the
many
slaughters
,
which
I
,
and
after
me
many
other
Emperors
gave
order
for
,
against
the
chiefest
of
the
Roman
Senators
,
ought
not
to
be
imputed
to
our
cruelty
,
(
as
they
do
unjustly
affirm
who
do
now
persecute
me
)
but
to
the
indiscreet
pride
of
those
Senators
,
who
though
they
law
Liberty
banisht
from
out
their
Country
,
y●t
through
a
proud
stubbornness
of
not
putting
on
the
cloak
of
humbleness
,
or
rather
through
a
foolish
ostentation
of
free
speaking
,
when
they
were
inslaved
,
and
of
commanding
in
subjection
,
did
every
day
more
and
more
irritate
Princes
to
use
all
sorts
of
severity
and
inhumanity
,
against
people
so
proudly
spirited
.
Hence
it
is
Sir
,
that
neither
Tacitus
,
nor
any
other
who
writes
my
story
,
could
ever
say
that
I
was
severe
against
any
Citizens
,
or
any
of
the
Roman
,
or
Provincial
Plebeians
;
for
they
never
gave
me
any
just
occasion
of
suspition
,
but
onely
say
that
which
I
confess
to
be
true
,
that
I
did
persecute
the
noblest
of
the
Roman
Senate
,
the
which
I
did
to
abase
them
,
to
terrifie
them
,
to
make
them
mistrustful
one
of
another
,
to
disunite
them
,
and
to
make
them
indure
that
slavery
,
which
I
saw
they
did
abhor
:
nor
can
any
Politician
teach
me
any
better
rules
then
these
,
to
be
made
use
of
to
the
Nobles
of
a
Country
,
which
being
but
a
little
before
bereft
of
its
Liberty
,
will
not
onely
not
accommodate
it self
to
servitude
,
but
foolishly
pretends
to
limit
the
Princes
Authority
in
commanding
,
and
in
servitude
keeps
the
pride
of
freedom
,
and
an
inraged
mind
,
upon
any
good
occasion
,
to
revenge
the
injury
done
unto
its
Liberty
:
whence
it
is
,
that
hang-men
,
spies
,
and
Atturney-Generals
are
the
fittest
instruments
to
establish
a
mans
self
in
those
new
states
which
but
a
little
before
hath
lost
the
Liberty
of
a
free
Commonwealth
;
for
every
cruel
action
is
held
a
prudent
resolution
,
when
it
secures
the
life
,
the
state
,
and
honor
of
that
new
Prince
,
who
knows
how
to
use
it
.
Moreover
I
heartily
desire
every
one
to
consider
,
that
those
who
boasting
of
their
worth
and
great
vertue
in
the
Roman
Senate
,
would
be
known
to
be
of
a
better
condition
then
the
rest
did
it
not
for
that
they
were
inamored
of
Vertue
,
not
out
of
that
onely
nobleness
of
minde
which
ought
to
be
in
every
one
,
who
can
be
content
to
dye
a
private
man
,
but
that
they
might
have
a
noble
retinue
,
to
win
popular
favour
,
&
the
Armies
love
:
a
great
truth
,
&
which
hath
not
been
better
taught
to
such
a
Prince
as
my self
by
any
writer
,
then
by
thee
Tacitus
:
for
thou
freely
sayst
,
that
new
Princes
meet
with
no
worser
nor
more
wicked
a
subject
,
then
that
worthy
Senator
,
who
makes
use
of
Vertue
,
to
chalk
out
the
way
to
the
ambition
which
he
hath
of
Government
.
For
after
thou
in
thy
Annals
hast
painted
to
the
life
the
demeanor
of
that
Traytor
Sejanus
,
thou
sayst
these
following
words
,
which
cleerly
prove
my
intention
.
Palam
compositus
pudor
,
intus
summa
adipiscendi
libido
;
ejusque
causa
modo
largicio
,
&
luxus
,
saepius
industria
ac
Vigilantia
,
haud
minus
noxiae
,
quoties
parando
Regno
finguntur
.
Tacit.
lib.
4.
Ann.
And
thou
hast
said
well
:
for
in
a
new
State
,
not
being
yet
secured
in
an
hereditary
descent
,
and
where
the
tumultuous
choosing
of
a
Prince
hath
so
large
a
scope
,
as
it
is
lawful
even
for
him
that
murders
the
Prince
to
aspire
unto
the
Empire
,
those
great
subjects
,
those
worthy
,
and
all-deserving
Officers
,
who
are
so
much
admired
by
private
men
,
as
they
are
thought
by
them
to
merit
their
Princes
integral
love
,
the
highest
preferments
,
best
rewards
;
are
notwithstanding
known
by
him
that
reigns
to
be
most
pernitious
,
&
fit
to
be
rooted
out
.
So
as
,
the
condition
of
the
Roman
Empire
being
no
less
disorderly
in
her
hereditary
succession
,
then
greatly
tumultuous
in
her
election
,
required
in
me
that
severe
way
of
proceeding
,
which
was
onely
able
to
save
my
life
and
preserve
the
State
.
Nor
can
I
see
how
any
man
can
blame
the
cruelty
which
I
used
towards
the
Roman
Nobility
,
and
the
worthiest
subjects
of
the
Empire
,
since
it
would
have
been
thought
a
great
defect
,
and
much
mis-becoming
such
a
one
as
me
,
if
I
should
have
used
that
clemency
towards
them
,
that
mildness
,
and
familiarity
,
which
Caesar
to
his
cost
did
,
whose
miserable
end
,
dos
cleerly
teach
all
men
,
that
states
which
are
fraudulently
possest
,
ought
to
be
establisht
by
extraordinary
severity
.
For
the
Nobility
of
subjugated
Commonwealths
,
make
use
of
the
new
Princes
Clemency
,
only
as
of
an
excellent
means
to
suppress
him
by
Conspiracies
:
nor
doth
it
any
whit
at
all
avail
(
as
a
man
would
think
it
should
do
)
for
the
allaying
of
that
rage
of
hatred
,
or
quenching
the
great
and
perpetual
desire
which
they
have
to
vindicate
the
injury
done
them
in
their
lost
liberties
,
though
thereby
they
run
the
greatest
hazards
and
danger
that
can
be
incur'd
.
The
Judges
did
much
approve
of
Tiberius
his
defence
,
for
they
did
not
onely
allow
of
Augustus
his
last
Will
and
Testament
,
and
consequently
of
the
legitimacy
of
Tiberius
his
succession
,
but
they
also
considered
that
he
being
a
new
Prince
,
no
ways
allyed
in
blood
to
Augustus
,
and
there
being
many
Roman
Senators
better
born
then
himself
,
according
to
the
true
rules
of
Tyrannical
Policy
,
he
was
forced
to
use
cruelty
there
where
that
veneration
and
Majesty
was
wanting
,
which
the
being
born
of
Royal
blood
brings
with
it
,
and
made
his
way
,
by
sword
and
poyson
,
making
himself
be
dreaded
by
those
,
who
presumed
too
much
upon
themselves
,
and
dared
to
paragonise
their
privat
Nobility
,
with
his
immense
fortune
who
reigned
;
and
that
where
to
use
clemency
was
prejudicial
to
the
new
Princes
,
the
use
even
of
unusual
severity
ought
to
be
esteemed
lawdable
.
The
XXXIV
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Hyppocrates
having
advised
Apollo
how
to
prevent
the
frequent
deaths
of
sick
folks
,
occasioned
through
the
ignorance
of
Physicians
,
and
proving
unfortunate
in
that
his
advice
,
is
in
great
danger
of
being
severely
punisht
by
his
Majesty
.
HYppocrates
,
that
great
Physician
told
Apollo
some
few
days
ago
,
that
the
world
was
so
pesterd
with
ignorant
Physicians
,
as
unless
some
suddain
remedy
were
taken
for
it
,
all
mankind
would
be
destroyed
:
for
that
sick
folks
were
cured
by
ignorant
Physicians
,
by
new
experiments
,
by
contrary
medicines
,
and
rather
by
Mounte
banks
receits
,
then
by
canonical
and
true
rules
of
Art
;
whence
it
was
that
many
sick
folks
dyed
,
who
if
they
had
been
administred
unto
by
learned
Physicians
,
might
easily
have
been
restored
to
their
former
healths
.
Apollo
being
advised
by
so
famous
a
man
,
resolved
to
remedy
so
great
an
evil
.
Wherefore
some
six
months
ago
he
constituted
a
Colledge
of
the
most
famous
Physicians
that
the
world
ever
had
,
the
chief
whereof
were
Cornelius
Caelsus
,
Galen
,
Avesine
,
Fracastoro
,
Filopio
,
l'Altozmari
,
and
the
most
meritorious
Girolimo
Mercuriale
,
and
made
Hyppocrates
,
that
Prince
of
Physick
,
head
of
the
Colledge
,
which
he
endowed
with
ample
Authority
to
provide
experimented
Physick
,
and
of
known
vertue
for
mankinde
.
These
Physicians
first
distributed
out
their
orders
,
and
Physicians
were
sent
into
all
places
,
who
for
the
greater
safety
of
mens
healths
and
long
lives
,
were
commanded
to
use
nothing
to
their
Patients
,
but
common
Glisters
,
Roman
Oyntments
,
usual
Purges
;
and
in
pestilent
Feavers
pectoral
waters
;
but
that
when
they
should
have
occasion
to
let
blood
,
to
cure
malignant
Feavers
,
double
Tertians
,
or
other
grievous
maladies
,
they
should
be
commanded
to
acquaint
the
Colledge
speedily
with
every
particular
accident
that
befel
the
sick
party
,
with
the
condition
of
his
sickness
,
with
his
several
accesses
of
Feaver
,
and
that
in
such
cases
they
should
be
very
careful
of
sending
the
water
and
excrements
of
the
sick
person
every
morning
and
evening
to
the
Colledge
,
to
the
end
that
they
might
with
better
satisfaction
to
the
sick
party
,
take
order
for
necessary
Medicaments
.
The
Physicians
very
willingly
did
what
they
were
commanded
by
the
Colledge
.
But
it
was
not
long
ere
the
world
was
aware
that
those
orders
which
were
given
with
so
much
zeal
to
the
publike
good
,
wrought
not
that
good
effect
which
his
Majesty
perswaded
himself
they
would
have
done
;
for
the
Physicians
who
administred
Physick
to
the
sick
,
were
so
perplext
in
putting
on
due
resolutions
in
their
observations
of
the
several
alterations
and
changes
of
the
maladies
,
as
they
durst
not
upon
any
suddain
accident
that
should
arrive
,
succor
the
sick
parties
with
any
requisite
and
speedy
help
,
but
shewing
more
obedience
to
the
Colledge
,
then
charity
to
their
Patients
,
refused
to
meddle
with
those
maladies
which
would
admit
of
no
delay
,
without
express
Order
from
their
superiors
;
and
truely
it
was
sad
to
see
,
that
the
time
which
should
have
been
spent
in
the
cure
of
their
Patients
,
was
imployed
to
no
purpose
by
those
Physicians
in
writing
eloquent
relations
,
and
many
learned
advices
to
those
of
the
Colledge
,
to
whom
with
all
dilligence
they
sent
the
water
and
excrements
of
the
sick
,
which
altering
by
reason
of
the
length
of
the
way
,
it
unfortunately
fell
out
that
the
Colledg
not
being
able
to
make
any
perfect
judgement
thereby
,
the
Recipes
which
they
sent
proved
oft
times
clean
contrary
to
the
malady
of
the
Patient
;
moreover
,
the
sickness
whereof
the
Physitians
had
given
an
exact
account
,
changed
also
before
the
answer
could
be
brought
;
wherefore
they
were
forced
to
send
new
relations
,
and
new
advertisements
,
which
occasioned
the
necessary
ruine
of
the
sick
parties
,
and
oft
times
whilst
they
lay
expecting
medicaments
from
a
far
off
,
they
arrived
after
the
parties
were
dead
,
to
whom
they
should
have
been
applyed
.
All
which
were
so
foul
inconveniences
,
as
many
men
dyed
more
then
had
wont
to
do
,
insomuch
as
Apollo
hearing
thereof
,
he
marvelled
how
so
charitable
a
resolution
could
have
so
bad
success
.
Wherefore
Apollo
thinking
himself
much
abused
by
Hyppocrates
,
who
under
a
pretence
of
publike
Charity
,
minded
chiefly
his
own
ambition
,
said
in
a
publike
Audience
,
that
he
now
found
,
that
Physicians
neer
at
hand
,
though
peradventure
ignorant
,
were
better
for
sick
persons
,
then
those
that
were
more
learned
,
if
afar
off
;
and
afterwards
dismist
the
Colledge
,
resolving
to
take
some
notable
revenge
upon
Hyppocrates
.
But
was
disswaded
from
it
by
Esculapius
his
earnest
intreaties
,
who
confessing
Hippocrrtes
ambition
,
excused
it
by
alleadging
the
common
desire
which
all
men
of
Honor
have
to
command
,
that
they
may
not
seem
to
hold
the
candle
unto
others
,
but
be
held
to
be
somewhat
more
then
ordinary
.
The
XXXV
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Francisco
Mauro
,
a
Noble
Italian
Poet
,
having
marryed
the
most
vertuous
Lady
,
Laura
Terecino
,
is
soon
after
jealous
of
her
,
and
kills
her
.
FRom
the
very
first
day
that
the
lovely
L.
Lauro
Terecina
was
admitted
into
Parnassus
,
&
that
the
most
excellent
Euterpe
had
taken
her
to
be
her
waiting
woman
,
she
began
to
be
much
courted
by
many
Amorous
Poets
,
but
those
that
made
oftnest
addresses
to
her
,
and
which
she
peradventure
liked
better
then
the
rest
,
were
Francisco
Maria
Molza
,
and
Francisco
Mauro
,
being
both
of
them
very
famous
Poets
of
this
Court.
Illustrious
Euterpe
considering
Laura's
youth
,
her
exquisite
beauty
,
and
how
she
was
courted
by
so
many
Vertuosi
,
resolved
to
mary
her
speedily
,
and
acquainting
Laura
with
her
intention
,
she
found
her
very
ready
to
obey
her
.
Euterpe
left
it
to
her
choice
whether
she
would
chose
Mauro
or
Molza
for
her
husband
.
Vertuous
Terracina
who
would
not
resolve
upon
a
business
of
such
importance
,
by
what
was
most
pleasing
to
her
eye
,
as
many
foolish
women
use
to
do
,
but
,
as
the
wiser
sort
do
,
by
what
appeared
best
unto
her
judgement
,
desired
that
she
might
see
both
their
Poetries
;
which
after
she
had
perused
several
times
,
and
duly
considered
them
,
she
laid
aside
le
Fitche
del
Molza
as
related
in
a
weak
and
languishing
stile
,
and
chose
Mauro's
Fava
,
wherein
she
thought
she
found
quainter
conceits
,
and
that
it
was
more
solidly
written
.
The
match
being
concluded
,
the
marriage
was
soon
celebrated
.
And
Maurus
being
so
meanly
stockt
as
that
he
had
nothing
to
trust
to
but
his
Capitola
della
Fava
,
had
by
his
wife
by
way
of
Joynter
,
15●…0
Octavoes
ready
paid
down
,
besides
an
infinite
number
of
Madrigals
,
Sonets
,
and
Songs
,
made
by
that
vertuous
Lady
.
They
had
been
marryed
above
a
year
,
when
Mauro
observed
that
his
wife
wore
a
very
rich
Garter
imboidered
all
over
with
pearl
on
her
right
leg
,
and
on
the
other
an
usual
slight
one
;
and
not
being
onely
moved
thereat
,
but
greatly
scandalized
,
for
that
he
had
often
marked
,
that
his
wife
was
very
proud
of
that
Garter
,
and
that
when
she
met
with
any
Vertuosi
she
would
hold
up
her
coats
on
that
side
higher
then
in
modesty
she
ought
to
have
done
,
he
askt
his
wife
what
the
meaning
thereof
might
be
,
and
whether
there
was
any
thing
of
secret
therein
or
no
?
Lawra
told
him
,
that
Edward
the
sixth
King
of
England
,
in
acknowledgement
of
her
devotion
towards
him
,
had
given
her
that
Garter
,
which
for
her
greater
honor
she
wore
upon
solemn
days
,
and
that
as
being
very
affectionate
to
that
great
King
,
she
had
sworn
to
serve
him
upon
all
occasions
,
and
to
be
always
his
most
devoted
faithful
servant
.
Mauro
grew
so
mad
hereupon
,
as
flying
upon
her
,
he
said
.
Hast
thou
then
been
so
affronted
thou
wicked
baggage
,
as
(
being
the
wife
of
an
honorable
Poet
)
to
shame
me
,
under
the
colour
of
Honor
,
by
knowing
an
other
man
,
and
by
receiving
gifts
from
any
other
then
thy
husband
,
and
shall
not
I
,
being
thus
injur'd
in
my
honer
,
revenge
my self
?
and
this
being
said
,
it
nothing
availing
the
unfortunate
and
miserable
Terecina
to
beg
pardon
,
nor
to
protest
that
she
had
never
in
any
manner
whatsoever
injur'd
her
Nuptial
bed
,
he
laid
hold
upon
a
prohihibited
verse
of
six
syllables
,
which
he
had
about
him
,
wherewith
he
stabd
her
sundry
times
in
the
throat
,
and
kill'd
her
.
This
bestial
resentment
did
not
only
mightily
displease
all
the
L.
Poetesses
of
this
state
,
but
did
very
much
trouble
all
the
greatest
Litterati
of
Parnassus
:
so
as
both
of
them
in
great
numbers
appeared
before
Apollo
,
and
with
bitter
words
aecused
Mauro
,
who
was
there
present
,
that
without
having
any
just
occasion
,
to
the
great
scorn
of
the
honor
of
Knighthood
of
one
of
the
greatest
Kings
of
Europe
,
he
had
vilanously
slain
the
most
vertuous
Lady
of
all
Parnassus
.
To
this
Mauro
couragiously
answered
,
that
it
was
true
,
he
deserved
to
be
severely
punished
by
his
Majesty
;
not
for
the
just
revenge
he
had
taken
of
his
unchaste
wife
,
but
for
that
he
had
so
long
deferred
the
revenge
due
to
the
reputation
of
a
man
of
honor
,
it
being
many
months
since
he
was
aware
of
the
lewdness
of
that
Garter
.
All
the
Princes
that
stood
by
were
strangely
moved
to
hear
Mauro
utter
these
words
,
who
not
being
able
to
indure
that
honors
conferd
by
them
upon
noble
Forraigners
,
who
did
adhere
and
were
affectionate
to
them
should
be
accounted
Vituperius
,
raised
a
great
Noise
in
the
Court
,
when
Apollo
to
quench
the
fire
in
the
beginning
,
which
he
foresaw
was
likely
to
break
forth
into
a
great
combustion
,
said
thus
unto
them
.
WriteO
you
Princes
,
in
you●…
hearts
,
with
characters
not
to
be
rased
out
,
this
misfortune
which
hath
befaln
Laura
Tercina
,
for
which
Mauro
ought
rather
to
be
remunerated
by
me
,
and
commended
by
you
,
then
punisht
by
my
Judges
,
and
by
you
blamed
:
and
believe
it
for
a
certain
Truth
,
that
these
favors
,
and
honors
which
Princes
confer
upon
Forreigners
,
are
plain
preludiums
to
their
wanton
desires
of
domineering
,
which
they
continually
meditate
how
to
bring
about
.
The
souls
of
subjects
are
linkt
to
their
Princes
by
the
straight
bond
of
chaste
,
and
holy
Matrimony
,
and
therefore
,
as
chaste
wives
,
they
ought
not
so
much
as
with
their
eys
,
to
acknowledge
or
know
any
other
P.
then
him
whom
Gods
Laws
hath
set
over
them
and
the
Laws
of
men
,
so
far
is
it
from
being
lawful
for
them
to
love
them
with
their
hearts
,
and
vow
loyalty
to
them
:
and
you
are
great
fools
,
if
to
revenge
the
infidelity
of
your
subjects
you
wait
the
time
till
you
can
take
them
in
the
very
act
of
adulterous
Fellonies
.
For
wounds
which
cause
dishonor
,
are
warded
,
and
put
by
by
good
Fencers
before
they
hurt
,
they
are
fools
that
cure
them
when
they
are
received
;
the
very
self
same
hour
that
you
see
any
subject
of
yours
but
cast
an
eye
upon
a
Forrain
Prince
,
do
as
Mauro
did
,
hold
not
your
thumbs
underneath
your
girdles
,
but
imploy
Gallowses
and
Ropes
;
and
if
upon
your
greatest
occasions
,
and
particularly
when
you
wiil
appear
with
honor
before
an
Enemy
Prince
with
your
subjects
Arms
in
hand
,
be
not
seen
with
a
pair
of
horns
on
your
head
.
The
XXXVI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Thais
,
that
famous
Curtizan
of
the
Comick
Poets
,
is
at
last
though
after
much
debate
,
admitted
into
Parnassus
;
who
much
to
Apollo's
satisfaction
,
tells
what
good
she
hopes
to
bring
to
his
Court.
IN
the
great
Councel
which
was
yesterday
held
in
Parnassus
by
all
the
Litterati
,
and
the
most
famous
personages
of
this
State
,
many
,
learned
in
all
the
Liberal
Arts
,
who
were
lately
come
to
this
Court
,
were
propounded
to
have
honourable
places
allowed
them
in
Parnassus
;
amongst
which
Thais
,
that
common
whore
of
the
Comick
Poets
,
was
named
for
one
,
and
found
favourable
suffrages
,
being
extraordinarily
assisted
by
Publius
Terrentius
,
who
was
so
partial
on
her
behalf
,
as
he
held
secret
practice
with
all
the
Poets
.
And
it
hapned
that
whilst
the
gates
of
Parnassus
were
opened
to
her
,
to
the
end
that
she
might
present
her self
before
Apollo
,
and
the
Senate
of
the
Vertuosi
,
to
thank
them
for
the
favor
she
had
received
,
the
illustrious
Cardinal
Alexander
Fernese
,
accompanyed
by
a
train
of
Prelates
,
withstood
Thais
as
she
was
about
to
enter
,
crying
out
aloud
,
that
if
so
unworthy
a
person
,
from
whom
nothing
but
publick
scandal
could
be
expected
,
should
be
admitted
into
Parnassus
,
he
for
his
part
would
rather
be
gone
from
thence
,
then
see
vertuous
places
profaned
with
such
polutions
,
which
were
onely
aboads
for
those
Litterati
,
as
by
their
words
,
writings
,
and
exemplary
lives
,
could
prescribe
wholsom
Precepts
unto
others
,
and
that
he
knew
there
were
many
Vertuosi
who
would
put
on
the
same
resolution
.
Whilst
the
Cardinall
spoke
thus
,
and
that
he
endeavoured
by
force
to
keep
her
out
of
the
gate
,
she
was
so
strongly
assisted
by
a
numerous
squadron
of
Poets
,
who
backt
Terrentius
,
as
there
began
a
very
dangerous
dispute
at
the
gate
.
But
wary
Thais
,
who
knew
that
she
had
always
come
by
the
worst
in
all
the
quarrels
that
she
at
any
time
before
had
ever
been
the
occasion
of
,
said
aloud
,
that
she
did
no
ways
intend
to
enter
into
Parnassus
by
force
,
but
with
the
goodwill
of
every
one
,
and
more
particularly
by
the
approbation
of
those
most
illustrious
and
Holy
Prelates
:
and
that
if
they
were
thought
worthy
of
an
aboad
in
Parnassus
who
could
give
excellent
Councel
unto
others
,
and
wise
Precepts
,
she
should
be
unjustly
dealt
withal
if
she
should
be
denyed
to
inhabit
in
those
venerable
places
,
and
that
though
she
knew
she
might
of
right
claim
an
aboad
in
Parnassus
,
yet
she
would
acknowledge
it
as
a
singular
favor
,
and
especially
from
those
that
did
most
withstand
her
:
and
that
those
that
did
not
love
to
see
her
in
Parnassus
,
were
much
deceived
in
the
ill
opinion
they
had
of
her
,
for
that
there
was
not
any
one
in
those
blest
habitations
,
to
whom
she
was
not
able
to
give
such
advertisements
,
as
wiser
nor
more
necessary
,
could
not
be
given
by
any
whatsoever
Moral
Philosopher
;
and
that
it
was
not
so
much
for
the
purchasing
of
Eternity
to
her
name
,
that
she
desired
to
live
amongst
the
Vertuosi
in
Parnassus
,
as
to
be
assisting
unto
many
by
her
perpetual
walking
in
the
streets
,
and
admonishing
every
one
to
live
modestly
ever
amongst
their
neighbours
;
and
to
shun
the
foul
vice
of
calling
their
companion
whore
,
as
they
would
shun
death
;
if
their
own
Consciences
were
not
cleer
:
for
that
there
being
many
wrangling
Courtiers
,
they
had
oft
times
faln
at
such
odds
,
as
by
blows
and
calumnious
speeches
they
had
wounded
their
reputations
:
and
that
Officers
who
went
to
have
the
Government
of
Provinces
,
could
not
learn
the
important
and
difficult
Philosophy
of
getting
monies
in
their
governments
,
with
reputation
,
from
any
more
learned
instructress
,
then
from
her
,
for
that
onely
Thais
knew
the
accurate
Art
of
fleecing
the
flock
with
such
diligence
and
dexterity
,
as
they
would
rather
seem
to
be
tickled
and
rejoyce
,
then
exclaim
or
make
any
noise
,
in
which
practice
she
boasted
her self
to
be
so
singular
,
as
she
had
seen
her
sweethearts
a
thousand
times
,
to
be
then
most
in
love
with
her
,
when
being
flead
to
the
quick
,
and
galled
to
the
very
bones
,
she
had
sent
them
raw
and
naked
to
the
Hospital
,
from
whence
they
have
notwithstanding
sent
her
amorous
Epistles
.
That
they
who
were
greedy
of
riches
,
who
did
everywhere
,
and
by
all
means
,
sweat
and
labour
after
the
accumulating
of
Gold
,
might
learn
by
her
onely
unfortunate
example
,
that
wealth
ill
got
,
through
Gods
just
Anger
vanisht
into
smoak
;
for
of
all
the
innumerable
monies
which
she
had
suckt
from
out
the
veins
of
her
lovers
,
and
the
great
riches
which
she
robd
many
families
of
,
she
had
now
nothing
remaining
but
those
four
lashes
which
every
one
might
see
upon
her
back
;
when
if
God
had
given
a
blessing
to
the
monies
which
had
past
through
her
hand
,
instead
whereof
she
had
had
a
thousand
curses
;
she
might
have
vyed
for
wealth
with
any
Princess
.
Next
,
that
every
one
might
learn
,
by
her
face
which
was
so
pleasing
to
her
friends
,
by
her
flatteries
,
and
falacies
with
which
she
used
to
delude
and
allure
and
intice
those
ill
advised
young
men
which
she
got
into
her
hands
;
by
her
continual
smiles
,
by
which
she
covered
her
ravenous
minde
,
and
that
sharp
Rasor
,
wherewith
without
any
manner
of
discretion
or
piety
she
did
shave
,
nay
,
even
flea
her
lovers
;
never
to
trust
appearances
,
grateful
acceptance
,
fair
words
,
and
offered
courtesies
,
and
never
to
give
themselves
over
into
any
ones
power
,
unless
they
had
first
perfectly
anatomised
them
.
For
many
such
as
she
,
had
pleasing
aspects
,
good
looks
,
and
sweet
breaths
,
whose
disguises
being
taken
off
by
discreet
persons
,
and
their
inside
of
their
souls
discovered
,
they
were
found
to
be
stinking
carren
,
full
of
festered
wounds
,
and
to
have
false
souls
,
and
fraudulent
hearts
,
and
infinitely
interessed
.
Then
turning
towards
Cardinal
Fernese
;
Thais
said
,
And
who
when
I
shall
have
opened
my
house
in
Parnassus
,
ought
more
to
frequent
my
schoole
then
your
Excellency
my
most
illustrious
Sir
,
wherein
you
may
learn
that
important
vertue
of
newtrality
,
which
the
Popes
Nephews
,
such
as
your self
,
have
so
much
need
of
:
a
Science
wherein
I
am
so
well
known
,
as
I
may
read
it
in
the
schooles
;
for
never
being
whilst
I
lived
in
the
world
,
without
twenty
Pamphilioes
,
all
inamored
of
me
,
who
all
of
them
hated
one
another
by
reason
of
the
jealousie
which
useth
to
be
among
young
rivals
,
yet
by
my
sagacity
I
have
always
known
how
to
behave
my self
so
dexterously
with
them
,
as
I
have
rather
taken
their
weapons
from
them
,
then
put
them
into
their
hands
:
by
which
means
I
was
able
to
reap
great
advantage
from
them
,
without
ever
loosing
any
one
of
them
.
A
rare
Precept
,
and
a
piece
of
cunning
as
singular
,
as
hard
to
be
put
in
practice
:
and
the
more
necessary
for
such
as
your
Lordship
,
for
that
you
do
not
like
me
,
who
keep
my
lovers
fast
imprisoned
by
the
strong
chains
of
Lust
;
but
you
hold
those
whom
you
have
been
a
Benefactor
unto
,
by
the
weak
thred
of
gratitude
;
which
is
broken
by
every
least
shadow
of
distaste
,
though
it
be
unwarily
given
.
And
I
have
known
many
such
as
you
,
who
by
having
unwisely
been
inamored
on
some
one
person
,
have
not
onely
lost
their
own
interest
,
but
greatly
ruined
that
friends
Fortune
whom
they
would
exalt
,
by
the
jealousies
which
they
have
raised
in
all
the
rest
of
their
followers
,
foolishly
furnishing
them
with
weapons
,
whereby
they
have
forced
those
,
who
would
otherwise
have
been
very
grateful
,
to
change
the
defect
of
partiality
,
with
the
vice
of
Ingratitude
.
All
which
are
so
true
and
necessary
Advertisements
,
as
if
they
be
observed
as
they
ought
to
be
,
by
such
as
you
are
,
you
shall
never
have
any
reason
upon
any
dislike
,
to
complain
more
of
your
friends
infidelity
,
then
of
the
hatred
of
those
that
love
you
.
It
being
an
observed
rule
by
such
as
I
am
,
that
he
who
will
be
attended
by
many
loving
followers
,
must
not
be
adulterously
in
love
with
one
onely
person
.
The
XXXVII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Ambassadors
of
the
Province
of
Marca
being
sent
to
this
Court
,
in
a
publike
Audience
complaine
unto
his
Majesty
of
an
unfortunate
affair
which
hath
befaln
his
inhabitants
of
that
Province
,
for
which
Apollo
provides
sufficient
remedy
,
with
singular
demonstration
of
true
love
and
affection
.
THe
Marchian
Orator
who
came
the
last
week
to
this
Court
,
made
his
solemn
entrance
yesterday
,
being
attended
by
the
greatest
part
of
the
Nobility
,
and
being
clad
in
a
long
mourning
weed
,
he
appeared
in
the
Colledge
of
the
Litterati
,
where
after
having
made
his
low
reverence
to
Apollo
,
he
spoke
thus
.
Monarch
and
Father
of
Learning
,
and
you
other
Princes
of
the
Cujus
who
hear
me
speak
,
whilst
learning
flourisht
in
the
world
,
la
Marca
was
so
famous
therein
,
as
she
had
the
fame
to
have
Poets
,
Philosophers
,
Orators
,
and
other
great
personages
no
whit
inferior
to
those
of
Mantua
,
Athens
,
or
Rome
;
in
so
much
as
she
hath
been
by
some
great
wits
compared
to
Greece
her self
,
that
fruitful
mother
of
all
Sciences
.
But
since
her
Litterati
have
been
hewen
in
pieces
and
starved
by
Barbarians
,
Learning
hath
been
also
so
trampled
upon
by
them
,
as
after
the
burning
of
so
many
famous
Libraries
,
wherein
the
labors
of
the
most
learned
writers
perisht
,
having
lost
the
Noble
Latin
tongue
,
the
very
rase
of
Doctors
were
quite
lost
,
whose
ruine
hath
occasioned
the
very
last
displanting
of
the
noble
Province
of
Marca
;
for
the
noble
Marchians
being
first
called
by
the
famous
City
of
Iesi
Piceini
Aesini
after
the
lamentable
loss
which
they
had
of
Dipthongs
,
as
I
have
said
they
are
remained
Piceni
Asini
:
so
as
truely
I
do
not
know
any
other
greater
calamity
that
ever
befel
any
Nation
,
which
can
be
compared
to
this
of
ours
,
which
by
the
loss
of
one
onely
Dipthong
,
hath
so
far
lost
her
ancient
reputation
,
as
the
unfortunate
Marchians
cannot
traffick
,
nor
appear
in
the
company
of
any
gallant
men
,
but
they
must
be
twitted
in
the
teeth
with
Asino
.
Here
the
Orator
with
abundance
of
tears
ended
his
discourse
,
nor
was
there
any
one
Litterato
in
that
Audience
who
were
not
very
sensible
of
the
Marchians
misfortune
,
insomuch
as
Apollo
himself
being
much
moved
at
the
misery
of
so
noble
a
Province
,
called
for
some
Paper
and
Ink
,
and
with
his
own
hand
did
again
set
the
Dipthong
to
Iesi
;
and
commanded
Virgil
,
who
was
the
Regent
of
scanning
Verses
,
that
the
first
syllable
of
Iesi
should
be
pronounced
long
;
and
ordained
upon
pain
of
grievous
punishment
,
that
no
man
for
the
future
should
dare
to
call
the
Marchians
Asini
,
since
it
was
very
true
that
mother
Nature
had
sowed
L'Asinita
in
so
just
a
measure
amongst
all
the
Nations
of
the
world
,
as
every
one
had
a
share
thereof
equal
to
her
companion
.
The
XXXVIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Gonzalvo
Ferrante
Cordova
desires
Apollo
that
the
title
of
Magno
or
Great
may
be
confirmed
unto
him
,
and
instead
of
being
granted
his
request
,
receives
a
very
unsatisfactory
Answer
.
GOnsalvo
Ferrante
Cordova
,
called
by
the
Spaniards
il
Gran
Capitano
,
appeared
some
days
ago
in
Parnassus
,
with
a
noble
train
of
many
Castilian
Gentlemen
,
and
having
in
a
haughty
Oration
related
unto
his
Majesty
,
his
famous
actions
in
war
,
demanded
the
confirmation
of
the
Title
Magnns
,
which
was
given
him
by
the
consent
of
the
whole
Militia
,
and
by
all
the
Historians
of
Europe
.
Gonzalvo
was
graciously
received
by
Apollo
,
who
bad
him
give
in
in
writing
all
his
Military
enterprises
,
and
commanded
afterwards
that
they
should
be
diligently
examined
by
Giovani
Giovanno
Pontano
,
by
Francisco
Guicchardin
,
and
by
the
most
reverend
Paulus
Iovius
,
and
that
they
should
make
an
exact
report
thereof
to
the
Senate
of
History
,
to
the
end
that
if
they
should
be
found
to
be
such
as
did
deserve
the
Title
of
Magnus
,
they
might
confirm
it
unto
him
by
his
Majesties
Authentick
Letters
Pattents
.
Gonsalvo
delivered
unto
those
Historians
a
very
perfect
Commentary
of
all
his
Actions
,
which
were
by
them
diligently
examined
,
and
weighed
;
and
afterwards
made
a
full
relation
thereof
in
open
Colledge
,
where
they
resolved
what
answer
should
be
given
to
Gonsalvo
;
who
being
sent
for
into
the
Court
,
Titus
Livy
the
Master
of
the
Colledge
,
told
in
the
name
of
the
whole
Senate
;
that
they
had
very
exactly
considered
his
war
enterprises
,
and
had
at
last
concluded
that
for
what
he
had
done
in
Granada
,
being
things
done
under
the
command
of
a
C.
who
was
his
superior
,
according
to
the
stile
of
the
Court
of
Parnassus
they
were
not
to
be
reckoned
upon
,
the
whole
glory
of
victory
in
such
cases
being
given
to
the
Captain
General
,
who
commanded
the
Army
in
chief
;
and
that
though
he
had
been
General
at
the
business
of
driving
the
Moors
out
of
the
Kingdom
of
Granada
,
they
thought
the
action
was
not
such
as
might
deservedly
confer
the
glorious
Title
of
Magnus
upon
the
Commander
in
chief
;
for
it
was
no
great
business
for
all
Spain
to
drive
out
a
few
Moors
,
who
were
divided
amongst
themselves
,
out
of
Granada
.
Then
Livy
added
,
that
his
enterprises
done
in
Affrica
,
in
the
taking
in
of
some
small
places
,
were
not
thought
worthy
to
be
considered
in
a
subject
,
who
demanding
the
high
Prerogative
of
the
Title
of
Magnus
,
must
make
it
manifest
unto
the
world
that
he
had
atchieved
enterprises
which
were
t●…ly
Great
;
and
that
it
appeared
cleerly
by
his
writings
,
that
he
had
won
all
his
reputation
in
Military
affairs
,
in
the
war
which
he
managed
in
the
getting
of
the
Kingdom
of
Naples
,
wherein
two
field
battles
were
famous
and
worthy
consideration
;
the
one
given
at
Saminara
,
the
other
at
Garigliano
;
which
if
they
were
sufficient
to
purchase
a
man
the
Title
of
Magnus
,
there
were
so
many
Bellisarii
,
Narsetti
,
Carli
Martelli
,
Scanderbegs
,
and
other
famous
Captains
in
Parnassus
,
who
had
done
more
memorable
acts
,
as
their
would
be
more
Magni
in
the
world
then
Parvi
,
to
this
Gonsolvo
replyed
,
that
he
thought
that
in
the
Neapolitan
war
,
they
ought
not
to
reflect
upon
particular
actions
,
but
to
the
whole
noble
work
and
enterprise
which
he
had
gloriously
brought
to
an
end
,
by
winning
a
flourishing
and
strong
kingdom
unto
his
King
and
Master
.
Livy
replyed
,
that
they
had
also
taken
into
their
consideration
,
his
winning
of
the
whole
Kingdom
of
Naples
,
wherein
he
seemed
to
suffer
much
in
his
reputation
,
as
having
therein
used
more
fraud
,
then
true
Military
valor
;
and
th
at
therefore
the
History
Colledge
,
had
adjudged
that
Neapolitan
enterprise
not
to
deserve
the
name
of
an
honorable
atchievement
;
and
that
he
was
therefore
to
know
that
the
glorious
Title
of
Magnus
was
by
a
particular
Prerogative
onely
granted
to
those
who
had
atchieved
valiant
enterprises
,
by
their
meer
Military
worth
and
vertue
:
that
therefore
the
Colledge
could
not
possibly
think
that
Gonsalva
could
pretend
to
have
won
the
kingdom
of
Naples
by
force
of
Arms
,
whereinto
being
called
but
a
little
before
as
a
friend
,
by
the
ill-advised
Neapolitan
Kings
;
and
that
he
might
defend
them
,
afterwards
when
those
unfortunate
Kings
stood
in
greatest
need
of
help
,
and
just
then
when
they
had
put
the
whole
kingdom
into
his
hands
,
he
had
the
heart
to
declare
himself
their
Enemy
,
which
whether
it
was
an
action
fitting
to
confer
the
Title
of
Magnus
upon
him
that
did
effect
it
,
the
History
Colledge
would
make
Gonsalva
himself
judge
.
Livy
said
moreover
,
that
his
obscu●…e
Catastrophe
,
might
be
added
to
what
had
been
said
;
misbecoming
such
a
one
as
Gonsalvo
,
who
desiring
to
be
stiled
Magnus
,
desired
to
be
the
Protosavio
of
the
world
,
since
after
the
acquisition
of
such
a
kingdom
,
not
knowing
how
to
secure
his
reputation
,
he
most
ignorantly
suffered
himself
to
be
disarmed
,
to
have
the
government
of
Naples
afterwards
taken
from
him
,
and
to
be
brought
back
to
Spain
and
be
confined
,
and
dye
there
mad
.
Gonsalva
then
exclaimed
,
and
said
:
That
Pompey
had
made
a
much
more
unfortunate
end
then
he
,
and
yet
had
obtained
the
title
of
Magnus
.
To
which
Livy
answered
,
that
according
to
the
institutions
of
Parnassus
,
those
who
to
compass
an
Empire
lost
their
lives
,
or
came
by
any
other
unfortunate
end
,
lost
no
reputation
;
nor
had
Pompey
the
great
any
ways
done
so
,
who
had
always
the
same
generous
thought
,
(
though
he
knew
how
to
conceal
it
)
as
C●…sar
had
.
In
fine
,
Livy
said
,
That
the
two
inexcusable
errors
which
Gonsalva
made
in
his
managing
the
taking
of
the
kingdom
of
Naples
,
did
much
derogate
from
his
desire
,
for
that
he
did
not
onely
exceed
the
bounds
of
a
Commanders
Liberality
,
and
Authority
,
when
after
the
conquest
of
so
great
a
kingdom
,
by
rewarding
so
many
Barons
.
Commanders
,
and
other
deserving
men
,
he
had
purchast
unto
himself
an
attendance
of
so
many
signal
subjects
,
not
having
the
requisite
head
of
leaving
means
unto
his
King
to
shew
himself
thankful
to
those
who
had
served
him
:
and
that
with
affability
,
and
behavior
far
differing
from
the
austerity
of
his
Nation
,
he
had
appeared
openly
to
affect
that
attendance
and
love
of
the
Neapolitan
Barons
,
which
ought
mainly
to
be
avoided
by
such
a
oneas
he
,
who
was
the
Officer
of
a
King
naturally
very
jealous
,
by
which
foolish
proceeding
he
raised
in
him
those
jealousies
,
which
he
could
not
free
himself
of
without
Gonzalva's
ruine
of
reputation
;
and
that
the
apprehension
of
affecting
the
government
of
other
mens
kingdoms
,
was
neither
given
,
nor
born
withal
in
wise
men
;
for
to
be
lukewarm
in
such
cases
,
proved
always
a
mortal
advice
to
them
that
used
it
.
Gonsalvo
was
much
incenst
to
hear
Livy
speak
thus
,
who
could
not
forbear
saying
that
he
had
served
his
King
with
such
Loyalty
as
became
a
Castilian
Baron
,
that
the
cunning
how
to
betray
a
mans
Prince
,
was
not
known
in
Spain
,
and
that
the
Lords
of
his
Nation
reputed
it
a
greater
honor
to
receive
injuries
from
their
Kings
,
then
to
betray
them
.
To
this
Livy
replyed
,
that
if
he
were
of
so
well
a
composed
mind
,
he
might
do
well
to
desire
to
be
stiled
an
honest
man
,
which
should
willingly
be
granted
him
,
and
not
Magnus
,
which
he
should
have
then
deserved
when
he
should
have
thought
it
more
glorious
to
dye
King
of
Naples
,
then
to
be
confined
to
a
poor
Castle
of
Spain
,
onely
for
having
deserved
such
a
reward
as
could
not
be
countercambiated
by
any
thing
else
,
then
by
the
ingratitude
which
was
used
towards
him
.
Then
Gonsalva
,
without
bearing
any
respect
to
the
place
wherein
were
so
many
eminent
persons
,
said
,
that
they
proceeded
unjustly
with
him
;
for
that
blaming
his
constant
loyalty
,
they
affirmed
unto
him
in
publike
,
that
he
should
have
received
a
better
reward
in
●…arnassus
;
if
he
had
been
guilty
of
a
thousand
trecheries
;
and
that
King
Ferdinando's
ingratitude
did
not
onely
not
obscure
his
reputation
,
but
did
infinitely
add
unto
his
glory
;
and
that
the
reason
of
state
which
taught
men
that
to
measure
their
actions
onely
by
the
compass
of
interest
,
not
by
the
yard
of
reputation
,
was
a
Do●…e
which
better
became
great
Kings
and
Princes
,
then
such
Captains
as
he
was
,
in
whom
Perjuries
,
Treasons
,
and
I
recherie
,
were
always
accounted
infamous
,
whereas
the
gaining
of
kingdoms
by
supreme
Potentates
,
though
by
foul
means
,
were
termed
glorious
atchievements
.
Livy
then
replyed
unto
Gonsalva
in
bitter
language
,
that
the
Italians
were
not
so
ignorant
but
that
they
very
well
knew
that
the
Title
which
was
given
him
in
the
business
of
Naples
was
Capitano
Major
,
which
in
Italian
or
in
English
is
General
,
not
Magnus
;
that
he
put
too
great
a
value
upon
himself
;
and
that
the
History
Colledge
had
rather
bereave
Bawdy-houses
of
the
Title
of
Signoria
,
where
it
was
buryed
through
the
vanity
of
Ambitious
men
,
then
that
they
would
send
the
so
highly
esteemed
name
of
Magnus
thither
.
The
XXXIX
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Many
of
the
French
Nobility
intreat
their
Monarchy
,
that
according
as
the
Nobility
of
Commonwealths
do
,
it
may
be
lawful
for
them
to
use
Marchandizing
;
and
are
by
her
shamefully
denyed
.
MAny
of
the
Nobility
of
France
,
went
some
few
days
ago
to
visit
the
illustrious
Venetian
Liberty
,
and
though
they
did
much
admire
the
Laws
of
living
free
,
the
excellent
orders
by
which
she
maintains
her self
in
that
Liberty
,
which
is
now
so
hard
to
be
found
amongst
men
,
yet
they
infinitely
admire
,
and
envy
the
greatness
of
the
Noble
Venetians
,
and
did
chiefly
wonder
,
that
the
prime
Senators
of
so
excelse
a
Commonwealth
,
did
freely
exercise
marchandising
,
which
their
Kings
of
France
had
declared
to
be
mechanick
,
and
they
thought
it
very
strange
that
the
French
Nobility
should
be
made
to
believe
,
that
the
exercise
of
Arms
,
wherein
men
usually
lose
all
their
own
estate
,
should
be
more
Noble
then
that
of
Marchandise
,
which
doth
very
much
inrich
men
.
Wherefore
some
of
the
prime
Nobility
of
France
,
appeared
not
many
days
ago
before
their
Monarchy
,
humbly
desiring
that
she
would
be
pleased
,
to
declare
by
publike
Edict
that
it
was
as
honorable
for
her
Nobility
to
follow
Traffick
and
Marchandising
,
as
it
was
held
to
be
in
the
famous
Commonwealths
of
Venice
,
Genua
,
and
in
many
other
Republicks
.
The
French
Monarchy
was
much
moved
at
this
unexpected
request
;
and
as
if
something
of
unseemly
,
or
misbecoming
had
been
asked
her
,
she
with
injurious
words
and
an
angry
countenance
,
bad
them
be
gone
;
and
they
thinking
themselves
greatly
wronged
,
by
being
in
so
severe
a
manner
denyed
a
request
which
they
thought
to
be
so
just
,
appealed
presently
to
Apollo
,
to
whom
they
gave
a
particular
account
of
all
that
had
past
between
them
and
their
Monarchy
,
and
made
the
same
request
unto
his
M●…jesty
.
Apollo
,
who
thought
the
French
Nobility
had
demanded
nothing
but
what
was
just
,
signifyed
un●…o
the
French
Monarchy
,
that
if
she
should
not
satisfie
her
Nobility
in
the
point
that
they
might
follow
marchandising
,
without
any
blemish
to
their
honor
,
he
could
not
choose
but
gratifie
them
therein
.
When
the
French
Monarchy
heard
so
great
a
novelty
,
that
she
might
prevent
so
great
a
r●…ne
which
she
foresaw
was
likely
to
fall
upon
her
,
came
presently
before
Apollo
,
to
whom
she
said
,
that
his
Majesty
knew
the
true
basis
of
her
greatness
,
and
her
chiefest
power
lay
in
the
swords
of
her
Nobility
,
who
having
drunk
in
the
opinion
together
with
their
milk
,
that
merchandising
was
a
thing
as
becoming
Mechanick
men
,
as
mis-becoming
those
that
were
nobly
born
,
and
that
the
mystery
of
war
,
the
managing
of
Arms
,
were
the
true
Traffick
,
and
proper
Merchandise
of
the
Noblesse
:
and
that
to
overthrow
those
solid
foundations
,
would
be
no
better
then
to
annihilate
not
onely
the
kingdom
of
France
,
but
those
likewise
of
Spain
,
England
,
Poland
,
and
other
Monarchies
;
which
knowing
very
well
the
great
necessity
that
powerful
Potentates
have
of
always
keeping
their
Noblesse
armed
,
had
by
mysterious
cuning
kept
them
from
any
thought
of
Merchandising
,
and
that
it
was
most
certain
that
as
soon
as
her
Noblesse
should
taste
the
sweets
of
Trading
,
they
would
presently
throw
away
their
Arms
,
whereunto
they
were
bred
up
,
preferring
the
continual
gain
of
Traffick
,
before
the
perpetual
expence
of
war
;
and
that
the
effect
which
the
use
of
Merchandising
produced
amongst
Senators
,
was
plainly
seen
in
all
Common-wealths
,
where
for
greediness
of
maintaining
Traffick
,
they
were
seen
to
be
too
much
inclined
to
peace
.
The
same
Monarchy
did
likewise
put
his
Majesty
in
mind
of
the
necessity
she
had
of
keeping
her
Noblesse
in
Arms
,
for
she
had
found
in
all
her
most
important
actions
,
that
a
few
of
the
Noblesse
had
overcome
great
Armies
of
Plebeians
;
for
there
was
no
comparison
to
be
made
between
the
valor
and
fidelity
of
the
Noblesse
who
fought
to
win
their
Princes
favor
,
and
to
purchase
glory
;
and
those
foot
taken
up
in
the
streets
,
who
took
up
Arms
onely
for
the
poor
gain
of
three
Crowns
a
month
.
Apollo
was
much
satisfyed
with
these
reasons
alleadged
by
the
French
Monarchy
;
wherefore
he
not
long
after
told
those
French
Noblesse
,
who
were
returned
to
receive
an
answer
of
their
business
,
that
having
reflected
maturely
upon
their
request
,
he
thought
it
not
convenient
,
that
the
French
Noblesse
famous
throughout
all
the
Nations
of
the
world
,
for
being
born
warriers
,
and
whose
true
element
was
the
perpetual
managing
of
Arms
,
should
now
obscure
their
glory
by
the
sordid
gain
of
Merchandise
;
and
that
the
ends
of
Republicks
did
very
much
differ
from
those
of
Monarchies
:
for
the
exercise
of
Merchandise
,
which
by
its
continual
gain
did
evidently
abase
mens
spirits
,
made
the
expence
of
war
seem
odious
and
disarmed
those
who
gave
their
minds
thereunto
,
was
not
only
good
,
but
very
excellent
in
Commonwealths
;
where
such
Senators
whose
Genius
led
them
to
the
wars
living
in
perpetual
jealousie
of
their
liberty
,
were
not
a
little
suspected
in
free
Countries
,
who
desired
that
their
Senators
should
rather
be
prudently
wise
,
and
greatly
given
to
peace
,
then
overmuch
warlike
;
and
thus
were
these
French
Noblesse
dismist
by
his
Majesty
.
And
t
is
publikely
said
in
this
Court
,
that
they
were
so
exasperated
by
this
repulse
,
as
one
of
them
was
heard
to
say
,
O
great
God!
What
cheats
,
what
cozenages
are
these
which
are
put
upon
the
Noblesse
in
Monarchies
?
and
how
can
it
be
conceived
by
any
man
,
what
humane
Law
,
what
justice
of
God
doth
command
,
that
to
gain
for
a
mans
self
by
Merchandise
should
be
thought
shameful
,
and
to
plunder
by
Arms
for
others
,
should
be
held
an
honorable
imployment
.
The
XL.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Honorable
Title
of
Messere
,
being
faln
into
a
miserable
condition
,
is
shamefully
driven
out
of
the
Kingdom
of
Naples
;
and
not
being
received
into
Rome
,
(
as
it
thought
it
should
be
)
for
its
last
Refuge
hath
its
recourse
to
Apollo
,
who
assigns
it
a
very
satisfactory
aboad
.
IN
the
publike
meetings
of
the
Seats
of
Justice
at
Naples
,
(
which
the
Neapolitans
call
Chiazza
)
it
was
two
months
since
resolved
,
that
the
Title
of
Messere
should
be
expel'd
that
kingdom
,
upon
pain
of
grievous
punishment
if
his
worship
were
not
gone
within
three
days
.
And
because
that
honorable
Title
thought
it
had
not
deserved
so
scornful
usage
,
to
appease
those
Princes
and
Lords
who
were
so
highly
incenst
against
him
,
he
alleadged
the
Authority
of
Giovanni
Scopa
,
Antonio
Mancinello
,
and
other
excellent
Grammarians
,
who
did
all
agree
,
that
the
Barbarians
,
who
from
the
Northern
parts
overran
Italy
,
they
had
not
onely
through
their
ignorance
of
the
Latin
Tongue
,
corrupted
the
supreme
Title
of
Here
into
Sire
,
but
that
those
that
followed
after
,
changed
that
likewise
into
Messere
which
signified
as
much
as
My
Here
which
is
my
Master
;
and
that
such
a
Title
with
which
the
Kings
of
France
are
pleased
to
honor
their
sacred
Persons
,
was
unworthily
so
abused
by
the
Italians
;
but
it
being
hereunto
answered
,
that
in
the
important
business
of
Titles
no
respect
was
had
to
the
true
worth
thereof
,
but
to
the
rate
according
to
which
it
went
in
the
Market
,
unfortunate
Messere
was
forced
to
hide
himself
in
the
houses
of
some
worshipful
very
old
men
,
who
complained
very
much
that
worshipful
Messere
should
be
so
hardly
dealth
withal
,
even
by
shop-keepers
,
with
which
they
remembred
that
in
former
times
the
Kings
of
Naples
made
their
own
stile
to
be
honored
,
and
reverenced
.
But
the
business
growing
at
last
desperate
,
Messere
took
his
journey
for
Rome
by
the
weekly
Carryer
,
at
the
same
time
that
those
honorable
Titles
of
●…agnifici
,
Spectabili
,
Sereni
,
and
Generosi
,
fled
secretly
from
the
kingdom
for
fear
of
the
like
affront
.
When
Messere
was
come
to
Rome
,
he
was
but
badly
received
,
by
those
Courtiers
who
long
before
had
thought
it
much
scorn
to
be
cloyed
with
the
jacket
of
Illustre
,
Molto
Illustre
,
and
who
hoped
shortly
to
manumit
l'Illustrissimo
.
Wherefore
Messere
took
his
way
towards
Parnassus
,
whether
he
came
some
few
days
ago
,
and
presenting
himself
before
Apollo
,
acquainted
him
first
with
all
his
persecutions
,
and
then
earnestly
intreated
his
Majesty
,
that
he
would
appoint
him
out
some
aboad
,
where
he
might
rest
quiet
,
till
such
time
as
the
flood
of
Ambition
,
which
had
infected
even
good
men
,
were
parted
from
the
world
.
Apollo
did
much
compassionate
the
persecutions
of
that
honorable
Title
,
and
having
first
communicated
the
business
to
the
Censors
,
he
resolved
to
recommend
him
to
the
care
of
the
Ambassador
of
Marca
,
by
whom
being
received
with
great
demonstrations
of
Love
,
and
carryed
home
into
his
Country
,
letters
of
the
twelfth
of
this
month
,
are
come
by
the
ordinary
Post
from
Marca
,
which
say
that
that
kinde
and
loving
Nation
hath
not
onely
willingly
received
Messere
,
but
hath
in
great
pomp
admitted
him
into
its
Country
,
under
an
imbroydered
cloth
of
state
;
and
that
Messere
in
recompence
of
that
very
great
civility
,
taught
the
Marchians
the
very
next
day
after
his
arrival
,
the
true
way
of
rosting
the
leaf
of
a
Hog
,
and
of
sopping
their
bread
in
the
Dripping-pan
,
letting
that
smoak
go
up
the
Chimney
;
which
the
Neapolitans
,
and
other
Nations
which
study
appearance
more
then
substance
,
feed
much
upon
.
The
XLI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Censors
of
Parnassus
,
having
by
order
from
Apollo
,
published
a
rigorous
Edict
against
Hypocrites
,
are
forced
to
moderate
it
,
by
reason
of
a
weighty
particuler
discovered
unto
them
by
Plato
.
THe
publike
Censors
of
this
Court
,
having
learnt
for
certain
,
that
a
kind
of
goodness
which
is
lately
discovered
in
some
of
the
Litterati
of
Parnassus
,
is
but
a
composure
of
artificial
appearances
,
and
real
falshood
,
and
that
hellish
hypocrisie
gets
every
day
more
footing
in
mens
minds
,
to
the
end
that
all
Parnassus
may
not
be
infected
with
so
contagious
a
disease
,
published
by
order
from
his
Majesty
,
a
severe
Edict
six
days
ago
against
Hypocrites
.
And
is
it
not
a
great
wonder
that
Plato
himself
who
is
held
by
all
the
Vertuosi
of
Parnassus
to
be
the
true
Idea
of
all
purity
and
sincerity
,
and
the
very
pattern
of
goodness
,
should
presently
appear
before
the
Censors
Tribunal
,
and
openly
opposing
himself
to
the
Edict
which
was
so
generally
well
received
,
saying
with
his
wonted
freedom
,
that
through
the
manifest
ignorance
of
modern
men
,
in
judging
upon
the
true
condition
of
mens
manners
,
it
was
a
very
pernitious
resolution
which
was
tane
in
Parnassus
,
to
extirpate
all
that
Hypocrisie
,
by
which
in
these
unfortunate
times
,
even
good
men
were
forced
to
keep
up
their
reputation
;
for
plain-dealing
men
,
people
of
open
hearts
and
cleer
mindes
,
enemies
to
cunning
and
double
dealing
,
who
in
former
times
were
honored
and
admired
like
so
many
Demi-gods
,
were
so
far
from
being
well
esteemed
of
in
this
present
Age
;
as
to
speak
the
naked
truth
,
and
to
proceed
in
all
a
mans
actions
with
sincerity
,
were
nor
esteemed
good
nor
vertuous
things
,
but
rather
scurrility
,
a
relaxed
life
,
a
licentious
way
of
proceeding
,
an
unpolisht
behaviour
;
wherefore
even
the
best
men
,
and
those
that
formerly
walked
in
the
approved
way
of
bene
vivere
,
&
Latari
,
and
who
appeared
to
be
capital
Enemies
to
Hypocrisie
,
yet
that
they
might
by
so
wicked
a
vice
maintain
that
credit
and
reputation
,
which
they
saw
they
lost
by
living
honestly
,
were
much
against
their
will
inforc'd
to
use
Hypocrisie
.
The
Censors
did
so
much
approve
of
this
Counsel
given
by
Plato
;
as
they
soon
embraced
it
,
and
by
a
new
Edict
which
they
published
,
complained
,
that
in
this
so
depraved
Age
,
to
the
calamity
of
good
men
,
and
great
good
fortune
of
knaves
and
varlets
,
words
freely
,
and
merily
spoken
in
publike
by
jovial
people
,
were
more
censured
,
then
all
the
wick
edness
done
in
Privat
by
modern
Hypocrites
;
wherefore
Apollo
,
(
though
much
against
his
will
)
granted
leave
to
all
gallant
people
of
whatsoever
sex
to
use
,
without
incurring
any
punishment
,
the
four-scoreth
part
of
one
grain
of
fine
Hypocrisie
.
The
XLII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Immense
bulk
of
the
Ottoman
Empire
which
was
thought
by
the
wisest
men
to
be
everlasting
,
doth
now
of
it self
so
destroy
it self
,
as
it
threatens
present
ruine
.
THe
vast
Fabrick
of
the
Ottoman
Empire
,
(
as
is
well
known
to
all
those
that
deal
in
Pernassus
)
is
of
so
large
a
circuit
,
as
it
seems
to
be
a
great
City
,
the
walls
whereof
being
built
(
though
the
Princes
thereof
be
barbarous
and
illiterate
)
in
an
excellent
way
of
politick
Architecture
,
are
of
so
solid
materials
,
and
with
so
corresponding
Bulwarks
,
Courtines
,
Platforms
,
Ditches
,
Ravelins
,
Scarfes
,
&
Counterscarfes
,
as
it
was
not
onely
thought
by
many
of
those
who
of
late
did
consider
it
,
to
be
as
eternal
as
the
world
,
but
seemed
as
if
by
means
of
those
Emperors
who
are
still
more
and
more
ambitious
to
make
it
greater
by
the
addition
of
new
appertiments
,
it
would
like
Nero's
golden
house
,
possess
whole
Pernassus
;
the
strong
Bulwarks
of
Tauris
,
Servan
,
Giorgia
,
Darbecca
,
and
most
of
all
those
of
Armenia
,
are
not
only
almost
all
of
them
faln
to
the
ground
,
but
that
strongest
Bastion
of
the
lesser
Asia
,
hath
lost
so
large
a
collop
,
as
it
threatens
sodain
ruine
;
so
as
those
walls
which
seemed
to
be
everlasting
,
do
now
of
themselves
moulder
away
and
fall
to
ruine
.
A
novelty
which
makes
the
beholders
wonder
very
much
,
and
puts
them
in
minde
of
the
instability
of
humane
greatness
;
for
though
nothing
appear
more
potent
and
immortal
to
the
eyes
of
men
then
great
Empires
,
yet
we
see
they
sodainly
and
easily
are
overthrown
.
For
if
a
man
will
demolish
a
Tower
which
is
strongly
built
,
he
must
labour
long
about
it
with
Canon
and
Pick-axe
;
but
to
the
ruine
of
any
Empire
how
great
and
potent
soever
,
one
onely
puff
(
though
but
very
weak
)
of
a
Princes
folly
,
or
of
a
private
mans
ambition
,
who
hath
good
store
of
Followers
,
Mony
,
and
Wit
,
is
able
to
make
it
totter
,
and
fall
,
before
the
ruine
be
expected
.
The
XLIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Prince
of
Helicon
desires
by
an
Embassador
of
his
,
from
Apollo
,
the
priviledge
of
ordaining
birthright
amongst
the
Nobles
of
his
State
;
which
his
Majesty
denies
to
grant
.
THe
Prince
of
Helicons
Embassador
,
who
came
three
days
since
to
Pernassus
,
had
audience
given
him
yesterday
by
Apollo
;
whom
he
acquainted
that
his
Prince
,
after
having
imbellished
his
flourishing
state
,
with
all
those
singular
Ornaments
which
render
great
kingdoms
respected
,
wanted
nothing
,
but
that
the
numerous
Nobility
which
he
had
instituted
there
,
might
keep
up
their
greatness
perpetually
;
and
because
he
knew
that
it
was
riches
which
onely
preserved
the
splendor
of
great
Families
,
he
foresaw
that
the
gallantry
of
his
State
would
through
peoples
usual
fruitfulness
,
in
a
short
time
turn
to
its
former
mean
condition
,
if
the
fathers
estate
should
be
divided
in
equal
parts
amongst
many
brethren
:
and
that
the
famous
Nobilities
of
France
,
Spain
,
Germany
,
Poland
,
and
other
kingdomes
,
had
maintained
their
greatness
many
hundreds
of
yeers
,
onely
by
the
advantage
of
birthright
;
wherefore
his
Prince
(
who
was
much
his
Majesties
servant
)
did
humbly
beseech
him
that
he
would
vouchsafe
to
grant
him
the
priviledge
of
instituting
the
Law
of
birthright
amongst
the
Nobility
of
his
state
.
Apollo
answered
the
Embassador
,
that
he
perceived
his
Prince
did
not
consider
what
he
asked
;
for
it
seemed
he
did
not
well
know
what
it
imports
in
a
state
,
by
rich
patrimonies
,
and
Pretence
of
Nobility
to
put
the
Bulls
horns
upon
the
head
,
and
Woolves
teeth
in
the
mouths
of
meek
sheep
,
ready
to
be
milkt
with
both
hands
,
and
shorn
to
the
very
quick
,
when
they
wanted
the
pretension
of
that
vain-glorious
Nobility
,
which
teaching
others
onely
how
to
command
like
Lords
,
made
the
base
slavery
of
obeying
known
;
and
that
those
Potentates
who
had
indeavoured
to
found
and
maintain
a
great
Nobility
in
their
states
,
by
the
institution
of
birth-right
,
were
at
last
aware
that
they
had
foolishly
made
them
the
heads
of
those
people
,
who
when
they
had
wealthy
men
for
their
guides
,
and
such
as
were
remarkable
for
their
Nobility
,
were
dreadful
to
all
Princes
;
and
that
great
Families
in
all
States
served
onely
for
Lanterns
,
which
in
the
obscu●…est
times
of
revolutions
,
gave
light
to
the
common
people
who
walked
in
the
dark
.
Wherefore
in
States
where
there
was
a
numerous
Nobility
,
it
behoved
Princes
to
live
with
the
punctilio
of
respect
which
was
an
unsufferable
burthen
;
which
those
kingdoms
wanted
,
where
no
such
impediments
being
found
,
their
possessors
might
justly
and
with
much
reason
term
themselves
true
and
absolute
masters
of
their
States
:
and
that
there
wanted
not
examples
of
Noble
men
in
France
,
Flanders
,
and
elsewhere
,
who
in
foul
Insurrections
made
by
themselves
,
durst
take
upon
them
the
Title
of
Fathers
of
their
Country
,
and
the
peoples
Protectors
;
and
who
that
they
might
Tyrannise
over
the
people
,
and
give
Laws
even
to
their
natural
Princes
,
were
not
ashamed
to
guild
over
their
seditious
taking
up
of
Arms
against
their
King
,
with
the
specious
and
charitable
pretence
of
publick
good
.
To
this
the
Embassador
answered
,
that
the
example
of
the
warlike
Nobility
of
France
,
was
the
only
thing
which
had
induced
his
Prince
,
to
desire
it
so
much
in
his
State
,
for
he
found
cleerly
that
the
trechery
of
those
who
had
made
insurrections
against
their
King
,
had
been
overcome
by
the
glorious
French
Noblesse
;
and
that
the
noble
kingdom
of
France
,
being
armed
by
a
no
less
numerous
then
warlike
Noblesse
,
had
taught
the
whole
world
,
how
much
a
numerous
Noblesse
imports
in
a
kingdom
;
for
't
was
they
alone
who
by
their
unvanquishable
swords
had
quenched
the
fire
of
those
French
Insurrections
,
which
in
a
kingdom
that
had
wanted
so
great
a
benefit
,
would
have
burnt
eternally
.
Apollo
answered
,
that
all
this
would
have
been
true
,
if
the
French
Insurrections
,
of
which
he
spake
,
had
been
raised
onely
by
the
people
,
but
that
being
apparently
kindled
by
a
great
many
of
the
Noblesse
of
that
kingdom
,
the
Physician
would
prove
very
ridiculous
who
should
glory
in
the
cure
of
a
malady
,
of
which
through
his
gross
ignorance
he
had
been
the
onely
cause
:
and
that
every
wise
Prince
ought
to
keep
from
the
fault
of
nursing
up
and
nourishing
Companions
and
brothers
in
his
kingdom
,
since
those
Monarchs
reigned
most
securely
,
who
put
the
greatest
distance
between
their
greatness
,
and
the
lowliness
of
their
subjects
.
That
it
nauseated
his
Majesty
,
as
much
as
ignorance
it self
did
,
to
see
that
there
should
be
so
arrogant
and
vain-glorious
subjects
in
one
of
the
chiefest
kingdoms
of
Europe
,
who
by
the
proud
pretence
of
their
Nobility
,
durst
affirm
they
were
as
nobly
born
as
the
King
himself
;
as
if
any
comparison
which
was
not
infinitely
ridiculous
and
hateful
,
could
be
made
between
a
spindle
,
and
the
Mast
of
a
Tree
,
between
Flyes
and
Elephants
,
between
commanding
,
and
obeying
.
And
Apollo
added
,
that
it
was
this
monstrous
petulancy
which
made
the
Ottoman
Emperors
hold
it
the
chief
means
of
their
security
and
greatness
,
and
that
not
without
reason
,
not
to
allow
any
the
least
shadow
of
Pretence
to
Nobility
in
their
Dominions
:
and
that
those
who
would
see
narrowly
into
the
effects
which
the
Noblesse
occasion
in
a
kingdom
,
did
not
so
much
blame
the
resolution
of
those
Emperors
,
as
some
did
who
understood
very
little
of
worldly
affairs
.
For
those
great
Princes
,
who
in
their
affairs
minded
onely
substance
and
not
appearance
,
did
infinitely
abhor
the
boasting
and
vain-glory
of
those
things
which
seemed
to
be
,
and
were
not
:
and
they
abhord
to
see
that
a
Nobleman
who
had
no
experience
,
or
was
not
any
ways
skild
in
the
affairs
either
of
war
or
peace
,
should
notwithstanding
through
the
sole
pretence
of
his
empty
Nobility
,
think
those
qualifications
in
the
Militia
to
be
due
to
him
,
which
a
Prince
is
so
necessitated
to
confer
upon
the
only
worth
and
merit
of
such
Commanders
whose
hairs
were
grown
gray
under
a
Murrion
,
and
who
by
perpetually
wearing
of
Curasses
in
actions
of
war
had
made
their
breasts
and
backs
as
hard
as
horn
;
and
that
that
which
above
all
other
things
made
such
people
hateful
,
was
to
see
them
so
wilful
,
as
not
to
obey
antient
Commanders
of
a
less
noble
extract
,
though
they
themselves
were
but
young
;
it
being
certainly
an
insufferable
pretension
,
to
desire
thorow
fool●…sh
ostentation
,
that
the
gifts
of
fortune
should
be
esteemed
by
a
Prince
to
be
indowments
of
minde
.
In
fine
,
Apollo
said
,
that
he
though
tit
was
greater
cruelty
,
&
high
in●…ustice
,
that
the
estate
should
not
be
equally
divided
amongst
those
brothers
who
had
one
and
the
same
Father
and
Mother
.
That
he
thought
it
fit
some
Prerogative
should
be
given
to
the
Primogeniture
,
but
that
it
should
be
such
as
should
make
him
appear
to
be
the
head
of
his
house
,
not
the
Master
of
his
Brethren
:
and
that
the
rich
and
just
right
of
Eldership
which
Fathers
ought
to
leave
in
their
Families
was
love
and
concord
between
his
Children
.
And
that
it
would
be
both
great
folly
,
and
cruelty
to
introduce
that
primogeniture
amongst
private
men
,
which
occasioning
such
scandals
in
the
blood
of
Princes
,
as
might
be
seen
registred
in
history
,
was
onely
born
withal
for
the
publike
peace
sake
,
which
the
people
would
not
enjoy
,
if
kingdoms
were
divided
,
and
that
Primogeniture
being
onely
advantagious
to
Princes
,
subjects
who
were
excluded
from
Paternal
Inheritance
,
were
necessitated
for
their
subsistance
to
take
pay
of
them
,
and
to
be
trained
up
in
war
,
by
which
Princes
secured
their
States
;
that
they
might
be
furnisht
with
the
same
abundance
of
Military
men
as
now
they
had
with
high
injustice
and
the
peoples
ill
will
,
if
they
should
admit
all
Brothers
to
Paternal
Inheritances
;
for
that
was
onely
the
laudable
Primogeniture
which
neither
Princes
,
nor
Parents
,
but
brothers
themselves
by
joynt
agreement
do
erect
in
their
Families
,
when
one
onely
of
them
betaking
himself
to
propagation
,
all
the
rest
labour
to
augment
the
common
Patrimony
.
Apollo
concluded
his
answer
with
this
,
that
he
absolutely
denyed
to
grant
the
Prince
of
Helicon
the
Primogeniture
which
he
desired
,
because
he
could
no
longer
behold
those
horrid
Tragedies
,
and
cruel
machinations
which
were
plotted
amongst
Brethren
in
those
States
where
the
use
of
Primogeniture
was
practised
;
for
those
who
were
excluded
from
paternal
Inheritance
,
left
no
sort
of
cruelty
,
or
trechery
unindeavoured
to
recompence
the
foul
injustice
which
was
done
them
.
Moreover
,
that
all
Primogeniture
being
grounded
with
much
loss
of
blood
,
he
feared
he
should
not
be
able
to
find
out
any
form
of
priviledge
with
so
strong
and
strict
proviso's
,
as
would
be
able
,
to
keep
people
excluded
from
their
inheritance
from
making
,
by
a
dagger
in
their
hand
,
their
Fathers
last
Will
and
Testament
ineffectual
.
The
XLIV
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Duke
of
Alva
being
accused
of
cruelty
,
for
having
with
exquisite
diligence
caused
two
of
the
prime
subjects
of
his
new
Principality
of
Achaia
,
to
be
imprisoned
,
slain
,
and
afterwards
secretly
buryed
in
their
very
prisons
,
defends
himself
stoutly
before
Apollo
.
SOon
after
the
Duke
of
Alva
had
tane
possession
of
the
new
Principality
of
Achaia
,
of
which
you
heard
at
large
by
our
late
Letters
,
that
severe
spirit
,
who
being
wholly
composed
of
wariness
,
and
vigilancy
,
seemed
to
be
indowed
by
nature
with
all
requisites
in
a
Prince
,
who
will
with
security
govern
States
newly
acquired
.
After
he
had
exactly
observed
the
humors
,
and
behaviors
of
some
chief
men
of
the
State
,
he
indeavoured
to
know
who
they
were
who
had
occasioned
those
many
popular
insurrections
which
had
so
much
indangered
the
free
State
of
Achaia
:
and
at
last
he
found
apparently
that
all
the
former
evils
had
had
their
rise
from
the
ambition
of
two
principal
men
,
who
being
wealthy
,
liberal
,
courteous
,
and
more
ambitious
of
government
then
became
subjects
,
to
be
:
qualities
,
which
in
any
whatsoever
corrupted
Commonwealth
,
or
newly
founded
principality
,
make
him
who
possesseth
them
formidable
,
and
by
those
means
infinitely
beloved
by
the
people
;
the
Prince
,
to
secure
the
quiet
of
his
State
,
thought
it
very
necessary
to
rid
the
world
of
so
dangerous
subjects
;
so
as
with
admirable
dexterity
and
secrecy
he
got
them
both
into
his
hands
,
and
with
necessary
resolution
,
made
them
be
put
to
death
and
buryed
the
very
hour
that
they
were
imprisoned
.
This
cruel
and
resolute
action
,
not
usually
heard
of
,
nor
seen
,
in
a
State
,
which
never
having
known
what
belonged
to
servitude
,
was
not
acquainted
with
those
severe
resentments
which
Princes
through
jealousie
of
State
use
to
take
,
gave
that
bad
satisfaction
to
the
Nobility
,
which
the
severity
of
a
new
Prince
usually
doth
,
when
it
is
exercised
against
those
ambitious
popular
Chieftains
who
by
their
seditions
abuse
Liberty
,
and
precipitate
it
into
Tyranny
;
and
was
of
great
terror
to
the
common
people
;
who
though
they
were
much
incenst
against
their
Prince
,
yet
when
they
saw
their
leading
men
were
tane
from
them
,
they
neither
had
courage
nor
wit
to
move
;
but
as
is
usual
upon
such
like
occasions
,
changed
their
insolency
into
admiration
or
wonder
,
their
boldness
into
fear
,
their
acting
of
resentments
into
complaints
by
word
,
and
to
threatning
that
revenge
,
which
of
themselves
they
had
not
wit
to
execute
.
The
end
of
their
rancor
was
then
,
the
making
of
such
appeals
to
Apollo
against
their
Prince
,
as
his
Majesty
straitly
commanded
him
to
make
his
present
appearance
in
Parnassus
,
and
plead
his
justification
against
those
imputations
.
Alva
obeyed
,
and
having
acquainted
his
Majesty
with
their
tedious
conditions
,
shewed
him
cleerly
,
that
to
secure
himself
in
the
Government
of
his
new
Principality
,
he
was
necessitated
to
use
the
wonted
remedy
of
taking
off
the
heads
of
the
seditious
people
,
which
Apollo
seemed
to
be
but
little
satisfyed
with
;
but
told
Alva
,
that
though
the
death
of
those
two
seditious
men
might
be
requisite
,
yet
he
could
not
approve
of
the
manner
;
for
that
Princes
who
in
the
important
resolution
of
putting
any
of
their
subjects
to
death
,
did
not
proceed
by
the
rules
of
known
Justice
,
injured
their
own
reputation
,
and
interest
;
and
that
Princes
were
obliged
to
make
known
to
all
the
world
,
the
true
reason
which
made
them
proceed
with
severity
against
their
subjects
;
and
that
the
Delinquents
punishment
ought
to
be
publick
,
not
onely
for
the
Prince
his
Justification
,
but
to
terrifie
others
,
and
keep
them
from
doing
amiss
.
The
Prince
grew
pale
,
to
hear
Apollo
speak
thus
positively
,
and
answered
,
that
the
aforesaid
two
persons
were
so
mightily
beloved
by
the
People
,
as
if
they
should
have
been
proceeded
against
by
the
usual
course
of
Justice
,
and
that
they
had
been
executed
(
as
he
acknowledged
they
should
have
been
)
in
the
publike
Piazza
,
it
was
odds
but
that
the
People
would
by
violence
have
taken
them
from
the
hands
of
Justice
;
which
disorder
though
it
might
have
been
prevented
by
guards
of
armed
men
,
yet
it
was
most
certain
,
that
the
publike
death
of
such
prime
men
,
and
who
were
so
dearly
beloved
by
their
State
,
would
have
caused
such
compunction
,
&
such
alteration
in
the
minds
of
his
Vassals
,
as
,
if
not
at
that
instant
,
they
would
at
least
at
some
other
time
leave
nothing
unattempted
to
revenge
it
.
Which
respects
made
him
keep
from
purging
the
body
of
his
State
,
from
those
malignant
humors
which
it
abounded
in
,
by
approved
Medicines
;
for
certainly
he
should
have
stirred
up
such
store
of
more
pernicious
humors
,
as
would
have
much
aggravated
the
malady
.
That
it
was
a
trivial
politick
Precept
,
to
frighten
the
meaner
sort
of
people
from
committing
wickedness
,
by
the
spectacle
of
mechanicks
in
the
Piazza's
,
and
other
publike
places
;
but
that
personages
of
quality
,
who
were
beloved
by
the
People
,
and
whom
Princes
put
to
death
,
onely
for
the
safety
of
their
State
,
their
deaths
and
burials
must
ensue
their
imprisonment
,
in
secret
places
;
for
to
punish
signal
men
publikely
upon
scaffolds
,
did
not
beget
fear
in
men
,
but
rage
of
revenge
.
Apollo
then
asked
the
Prince
,
how
long
it
had
been
since
he
had
learned
that
Precept
;
the
Prince
answered
that
whilst
he
was
a
young
man
he
learned
it
of
a
Florentine
,
who
was
his
Master
in
the
Politicks
;
Apollo
asked
him
again
,
why
he
practised
the
contrary
in
the
memorable
,
and
fatal
resolution
which
he
took
in
the
business
of
Prince
Egmont
,
and
Count
Horn
;
Alva
boldly
answered
his
Malesty
,
that
the
interests
were
different
in
him
who
governed
a
Province
as
an
other
mans
substitute
,
and
in
him
who
was
absolute
Prince
thereof
;
and
that
Nature
had
made
men
wiser
in
governing
their
own
particular
affairs
,
then
those
of
their
Masters
;
and
that
many
who
seemed
to
be
blinde
in
the
government
of
other
mens
States
,
were
more
then
Argus-eyed
in
their
own
affairs
.
The
XLV
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
A
chief
subject
of
the
Province
of
Macedonia
,
being
hired
by
the
Prince
of
Epire
at
a
great
salary
,
when
he
came
to
know
the
right
cause
why
that
pension
was
given
him
,
doth
magnanimously
refuse
it
.
THe
Prince
of
Epire
,
who
gives
great
Pensions
to
the
chief
Counsellors
of
divers
of
his
neighbouring
Potentates
,
hath
for
a
long
time
past
,
paid
great
sums
of
money
yearly
to
a
chief
Baron
of
Macedonia
,
who
is
very
well
beloved
,
and
hath
many
followers
in
that
Nation
:
who
believing
that
this
the
Prince
of
Epires
Liberality
,
proceeded
from
meer
love
,
&
sincerity
of
mind
,
to
free
himself
from
the
superiority
of
any
other
Prince
,
which
might
disturb
him
in
his
service
,
that
he
might
be
the
more
able
to
serve
the
Prince
of
Epire
to
the
utmost
of
his
power
,
sold
all
his
estate
in
Macedonia
,
and
by
the
monies
which
he
got
for
it
,
purchast
great
store
of
Land
in
Epire
,
whither
he
went
to
make
his
aboad
,
intending
for
the
future
to
make
Epire
his
Countrey
;
and
applyed
himself
with
such
assiduity
,
and
so
faithfully
to
the
service
of
that
Prince
;
as
he
surpast
all
the
rest
of
his
Highness
servants
in
his
diligence
,
and
care
in
all
those
things
of
importance
,
wherein
he
was
trusted
.
But
going
to
the
pay-masters
to
receive
his
wonted
half
years
Pension
,
he
much
to
his
astonishment
found
,
that
by
order
from
the
Treasurers
,
his
Pension
was
taken
away
.
Which
he
presently
acquainted
the
Prince
with
,
and
complained
that
whilst
the
merits
of
his
service
increased
,
his
reward
was
lessened
.
The
Prince
answered
,
that
he
having
changed
his
Country
,
and
being
of
a
friend
become
his
servant
,
his
case
was
altered
.
That
he
could
purchase
that
of
his
equals
which
though
he
named
it
not
,
yet
the
Baron
might
be
wise
enough
to
understand
;
that
upon
all
occasions
he
could
purchase
loyalty
,
and
diligence
a
great
deal
better
cheap
of
his
own
vassals
.
The
Baron
understood
then
whither
the
Pension
tended
that
had
been
assigned
him
by
the
Prince
of
Epire
,
and
blushing
very
much
,
stoutly
answered
him
,
Sir
,
the
reputation
which
I
live
in
in
my
Countrey
,
hath
cost
me
an
ounce
of
blood
for
every
ten
pounds
worth
thereof
,
in
all
the
war
that
hath
hapned
in
Europe
since
I
wrote
man
;
let
not
your
Highness
think
me
so
great
a
Prodigal
,
as
that
I
will
sell
it
you
for
3
shillings
the
pound
.
And
after
this
having
withdrawn
himself
from
his
new
Barony
which
he
had
purchast
in
Epire
,
he
took
his
leave
of
the
Prince
,
and
returned
to
his
own
Country
,
admired
and
commended
by
all
men
for
that
his
noble
resolution
,
but
imitated
but
by
a
few
.
The
XLVI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
tenth
of
June
is
observed
as
a
sad
and
mournful
day
in
Parnassus
;
in
memory
of
the
unfortunate
loss
of
the
Decads
of
Titus
Livy
.
YEsterday
which
was
the
tenth
of
Iune
,
was
(
according
to
custom
)
observed
as
a
day
of
mourning
in
Pernassus
;
for
that
on
that
unfortunate
day
,
by
the
burning
of
the
Library
in
the
Capitol
,
the
greatest
part
of
Livies
Decads
were
lost
;
which
loss
is
bitterly
bewayled
,
and
will
ever
be
so
by
all
the
lovers
of
learning
.
On
which
day
,
in
sign
of
extraordinary
sorrow
,
the
Royal
Palace
dis-robes
it self
of
all
its
Majesty
:
and
together
with
all
publick
Schools
,
and
chief
Market
places
,
is
lined
with
mourning
Bays
;
and
the
very
Delphick
Library
,
(
a
thing
not
done
upon
any
other
sad
occasion
)
is
shut
up
all
that
day
.
Honorable
Obsequies
were
made
to
so
famous
writings
;
and
the
Ceremony
being
ended
,
Rafael
Volaterano
in
a
mournful
Oration
lamented
so
great
a
loss
:
and
just
as
he
was
in
the
height
of
his
inveighing
against
the
ignorance
of
those
sacrilegious
persons
,
it
happened
that
a
nimble
Poet
,
were
it
either
out
of
meer
compunction
of
mind
,
or
that
he
would
purchase
reputation
,
by
shewing
the
whole
Colledge
of
Vertuosi
,
how
very
sensible
he
was
of
that
loss
,
broke
forth
into
so
loud
lamentations
,
as
the
Orator
could
be
no
longer
heard
,
and
not
being
able
to
quiet
himself
,
though
he
was
willed
to
do
so
by
the
Censors
;
Apollo
who
was
present
at
the
Obsequies
,
and
who
upon
this
mournful
occasion
had
covered
himself
with
a
dark
Cloud
,
being
impatient
to
hear
that
noise
,
and
that
he
might
the
better
behold
his
face
who
wept
so
downrightly
,
by
the
violence
of
his
beams
rarifyed
the
Cloud
,
and
found
it
to
be
Caesar
Caporali
,
who
not
caring
to
see
the
yet
remaining
Decads
of
that
admirable
writer
,
did
with
such
lamentations
bewayl
those
that
were
lost
:
which
extraordinary
affection
caused
so
lowd
a
laughter
in
all
the
standers
by
,
as
Volaterrano's
Oration
,
which
in
the
midst
thereof
was
interrupted
by
the
general
lamentings
of
the
Literati
,
could
not
be
ended
by
reason
of
every
ones
great
laughter
.
The
XLVII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
having
appointed
Hospitals
to
every
Nation
,
for
their
fools
,
puts
down
that
of
Florence
,
by
reason
of
the
few
fools
that
are
found
amongst
the
Florentines
,
and
adds
the
Revenue
thereof
to
the
Lombards
Hospital
,
which
by
reason
of
the
greater
number
of
fools
that
flock
thither
,
was
run
far
in
Arrears
.
IT
being
found
by
long
experience
,
that
there
is
no
Nation
in
the
world
,
wherein
there
are
not
great
store
of
fools
,
Apollo
,
that
he
might
find
timely
remedy
,
according
to
his
custom
,
for
mens
miseries
,
erected
many
hundred
years
ago
,
an
Hospital
for
fools
in
every
Nation
;
which
he
indowed
with
rich
Revenues
;
to
the
end
that
they
might
be
furnished
with
all
things
requisite
for
the
cure
of
such
as
Divine
Justice
had
for
their
misdemerits
punisht
,
by
making
them
shallow
braind
.
And
because
the
Hospital
of
the
noble
Florentine
Nation
,
by
reason
of
the
very
few
fools
that
it
produceth
,
is
at
little
or
no
cost
,
and
it
being
on
the
contrary
seen
,
that
there
is
so
great
a
concourse
of
Lombard
fools
,
as
their
Hospital
is
not
able
to
receive
them
all
,
nor
can
supply
the
great
expence
which
it
is
forced
to
be
at
;
his
Majesty
some
few
daies
ago
,
of
his
own
meer
motion
,
put
down
the
Hospital
of
the
Florentine
fools
,
and
gave
the
Revenues
thereof
to
that
of
Lombardy
,
the
Lombards
being
for
the
most
part
besotted
with
the
foul
indignity
of
playing
the
Hectors
,
holding
it
to
be
a
great
honor
,
to
be
followed
by
a
great
number
of
Swashbucklers
.
The
XLVIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo's
Sea-Captains
,
having
in
one
of
their
Assemblies
made
many
usefull
Decrees
for
their
Militia
,
his
Majesty
orders
that
they
be
made
known
to
Courtiers
,
and
commands
the
punctual
observancy
of
them
.
THe
many
meetings
had
by
his
Majesties
Sea-Captains
,
ended
not
before
yesterday
;
whereupon
the
General
,
Andrea
Doria
,
came
this
morning
with
the
Constitutions
therein
established
to
Apollo
,
to
have
his
Majesties
Royal
assent
thereunto
:
It
is
known
that
his
Majesty
received
great
satisfaction
by
the
Decree
made
touching
the
Gallislaves
,
who
when
they
are
beaten
by
the
Masters
Mate
,
may
not
turn
about
to
look
upon
him
,
not
fence
the
blow
,
not
complain
,
and
much
less
rail
at
him
that
beats
them
,
upon
pain
of
undergoing
thrice
as
many
lashes
;
but
they
must
so
patiently
,
and
so
contentedly
receive
their
correction
,
as
their
great
humility
moves
the
Masters
Mate
to
be
rather
charitable
then
severe
unto
them
.
After
Apollo
had
much
commended
this
Decree
,
he
gave
order
that
it
should
be
judiciously
intimated
to
all
those
miserable
creatures
,
who
for
their
secret
misdeserts
,
are
by
Divine
Justice
condemned
to
tug
at
an
Oar
in
the
Court
of
Rome
,
or
in
any
other
Court
,
to
the
end
that
they
may
learn
with
patience
to
suffer
the
blows
(
the
misusage
)
the
lashes
(
the
distasts
)
which
they
in
Courts
receive
from
their
Masters
;
and
that
they
do
not
murmur
thereat
,
but
may
rather
thereby
with
courage
suffer
tribulation
,
and
betake
themselves
with
the
better
will
to
the
oar
of
slavery
,
and
by
so
doing
,
inforce
the
Prince
to
be
rather
liberal
and
gracious
towards
them
,
then
to
redouble
their
blows
(
their
discourtesies
)
their
lashes
(
their
ill
usage
.
)
For
to
murmur
,
complain
,
or
call
their
Master
ingrateful
,
doth
beget
in
him
such
obstinacy
,
not
to
reward
one
who
may
otherw●…se
be
of
some
desert
,
even
as
the
curses
and
blasphemies
which
the
Gally-slaves
use
to
those
that
correct
them
,
are
the
true
causes
which
draws
on
their
more
severe
correction
.
Which
is
so
true
a
thing
,
as
Princes
hold
it
for
an
undeniable
maxim
,
That
an
open
enemy
,
and
a
distasted
Courtier
,
Differant
nomine
,
nonre
.
The
XLIX
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Natalis
Comes
,
an
Historian
,
is
severely
punisht
by
Apollo
,
for
having
said
somewhat
in
an
Assembly
of
the
Literati
,
which
did
hainously
offend
his
Majesty
.
WHilst
Natalis
Comes
,
the
Latin
Historian
discoursed
some
daies
since
under
Melpomenes
Porch
,
together
with
many
other
Literati
of
this
Court
,
of
the
glory
of
those
great
Princes
,
who
have
left
eternal
memory
behind
them
,
of
their
honorable
actions
;
according
to
the
custom
of
Historians
,
tearmed
the
seisure
or
getting
of
a
Kingdom
,
made
by
a
Potent
Prince
,
without
any
title
of
right
or
justice
,
a
glorious
atchievement
:
Which
being
suddenly
carried
to
Apollo's
ear
by
those
malignant
spirits
,
which
both
the
air
and
earth
doe
continually
abound
in
,
his
Majesty
grew
so
incenst
against
Natalis
,
as
at
the
very
instant
that
he
was
brought
prisoner
to
him
,
he
forbad
him
entrance
into
any
of
the
Libraries
for
three
year
:
And
though
his
Majesty
hath
been
intreated
by
the
chief
Historians
of
this
State
,
to
shew
some
mercy
to
this
his
Vertuoso
,
he
hath
not
only
denied
to
doe
it
,
but
hath
freely
said
,
that
since
there
could
be
no
greater
wickedness
committed
,
then
the
unjust
liberty
which
some
Princes
have
usurped
to
bereave
one
another
of
their
States
;
an
action
which
hath
filled
the
whole
world
with
those
sad
disorders
,
wherewith
mankind
is
so
much
afflicted
;
he
thought
it
too
sore
an
iniquity
,
that
any
so
perfidious
Literato
should
be
found
in
his
State
,
who
should
dare
to
call
those
wicked
thefts
,
which
are
not
committed
without
a
million
of
aggravating
circumstances
,
glorious
atchievements
.
The
L.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
chief
Monarchies
of
Europe
and
Asia
,
which
now
reside
in
Parnassus
,
fall
sick
at
one
and
the
same
instant
,
and
not
being
to
be
cured
by
Esculapius
,
Hippocrates
,
or
any
other
able
Physitian
,
they
are
restored
to
their
health
by
a
skilful
Farrier
.
EVery
one
in
Parnassus
did
infinitely
wonder
,
that
upon
one
and
the
same
day
,
all
the
chief
Monarchies
of
Europe
and
Asia
should
fall
desperately
sick
,
which
many
thought
occasioned
through
the
putrifaction
of
the
air
,
or
by
some
unauspitious
aspects
of
the
heavens
.
Apollo
did
not
only
send
excellent
remedies
to
all
those
Potentates
,
but
all
the
chief
Physitians
of
this
Court
;
and
commanded
that
great
Esculapius
should
himself
be
assistant
to
their
cure
,
so
as
no
remedy
was
left
untri'd
by
so
rare
Physitians
,
that
so
eminent
personages
might
recover
their
healths
;
but
all
proved
to
no
purpose
;
for
all
the
Physitians
did
infinitely
wonder
,
that
though
their
Medicines
were
most
generous
,
and
very
proper
for
the
malady
,
yet
they
did
not
work
according
to
their
particular
vertues
;
that
their
Manna
,
Laxative
Syrup
,
and
Sena
it self
,
though
given
in
great
quantity
,
should
rather
prove
restringent
,
then
cause
usual
evacuations
;
by
reason
of
which
strange
novelties
,
wise
Esculapius
,
and
the
rest
of
the
rare
Physitians
,
thinking
that
Nature
yielded
to
the
malady
by
reason
of
her
weakness
,
gave
over
the
cure
,
as
desperat
.
It
hapned
in
this
interim
,
that
a
learned
Politician
went
meerly
by
way
of
visit
,
to
see
one
of
those
sick
Princes
,
who
had
ben
his
antient
Master
;
from
whom
he
understood
the
condition
of
his
sickness
,
and
then
desired
to
know
what
remedies
were
apply'd
unto
him
;
and
when
he
was
satisfied
in
this
his
desire
,
he
found
fault
with
the
Medicines
which
were
given
him
,
and
exclaimed
mightily
against
the
Physitians
,
not
sticking
to
call
them
all
ignorant
puppies
,
and
forthwith
sent
with
all
speed
for
the
Farrier
of
Parnassus
,
who
is
trusted
with
the
cure
of
Pegasus
.
Who
suddenly
appearing
,
he
staid
not
to
hear
the
relation
of
the
sickness
,
from
the
Patients
own
mouth
,
as
Physitians
use
to
doe
,
but
without
either
feeling
of
Pulse
,
or
casting
of
water
,
he
presently
knew
the
quality
of
the
infirmity
,
and
straitwaies
made
a
composition
of
Dragons
bloud
,
Bolearmenick
,
whites
of
Egs
,
and
spreading
it
upon
lint
,
made
Plasters
of
it
,
and
applyed
them
to
those
Princes
,
and
then
made
large
swathes
for
their
legs
and
arms
,
afterwards
he
gave
them
a
Laxative
potion
to
drink
in
a
syrup
,
ordained
by
Galen
.
These
Medicines
which
were
very
much
blamed
and
laught
at
by
Esculapius
,
Hippocrates
,
and
all
the
prime
Physitians
,
did
in
a
few
hours
work
so
well
with
these
Princes
,
as
they
soon
forsook
their
beds
,
and
ran
skipping
and
leaping
about
more
nimbly
then
ever
they
had
done
before
.
Whereupon
all
the
Vertuosi
of
Parnassus
,
when
they
saw
such
admirable
effects
,
were
much
astonished
,
that
Empires
,
Kingdoms
,
and
great
States
which
could
not
be
cured
of
the
disorders
which
they
were
run
into
,
by
skilfull
Physitians
,
with
their
Rubarbs
,
and
other
Canonical
Medicines
,
should
be
so
soon
restored
to
their
healths
,
by
a
drench
for
a
horse
,
given
them
by
a
silly
Farrier
.
The
LI.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Achaians
being
much
incenst
against
the
Duke
of
Alva
,
for
his
cruel
proceeding
against
their
two
Chieftains
,
take
up
Arms
,
and
drive
him
out
of
their
State
.
WHilst
the
Duke
of
Alva
,
after
the
execution
of
the
two
chief
Heads
of
the
People
(
whereof
you
lately
heard
)
sought
to
secure
his
State
,
by
using
great
severity
in
the
taking
away
of
mens
lives
,
his
Countrey
grew
still
more
and
more
unquiet
,
it
not
being
alwaies
true
,
That
to
fall
at
the
first
,
in
new
gotten
and
jealous
States
,
to
the
extirpating
of
such
as
are
most
eminent
,
either
for
birth
,
attendance
,
worth
,
or
riches
,
does
free
Princes
of
the
jealousies
which
they
have
of
the
Nobility
and
people
:
For
some
chief
men
of
Achaia
,
as
soon
as
they
saw
those
two
Ring-leaders
of
theirs
put
to
death
,
only
because
they
were
much
esteemed
and
beloved
by
the
people
,
began
to
apprehend
their
own
ruine
:
And
because
gallant
men
cannot
live
long
in
fear
of
danger
,
they
thought
it
not
only
a
safe
way
to
be
speedy
,
but
(
not
being
able
to
live
quietly
and
void
of
suspition
)
they
fell
chearfully
upon
rash
counsels
;
many
of
the
best
wits
of
Achaia
made
themselves
the
peoples
heads
,
being
grieved
to
see
that
the
love
which
they
bore
to
those
two
who
made
so
unfortunate
an
end
,
should
be
judged
a
fault
deserving
death
.
So
as
the
Duke
of
Alva's
severity
wrought
the
effect
,
which
is
usual
in
new
Tyrannies
which
are
crept
into
Free
Countries
,
by
reason
of
the
discord
between
the
Nobility
and
Commonalty
,
of
reuniting
the
Nobles
and
Plebeians
in
perfect
love
and
charity
,
that
so
they
may
recover
that
Liberty
by
union
,
which
they
lost
by
foolish
civil
discord
.
The
whole
people
of
Achaia
therefore
,
led
on
by
the
Nobility
,
took
up
arms
upon
an
appointed
day
,
and
falling
fowle
upon
their
Prince
,
drove
him
easily
out
of
the
State
.
And
it
is
now
two
daies
since
Alva
recovered
Parnassus
,
and
came
immediately
to
do
his
obeysance
to
his
Majesty
,
who
did
not
only
rece●…ve
him
very
coolly
,
but
was
sorry
that
he
had
been
deceived
in
the
good
opinion
he
had
had
of
him
.
The
Duke
would
have
excused
himself
,
and
have
alleadged
reasons
for
his
discrimination
,
but
Apollo
bad
him
hold
his
peace
,
and
told
him
that
such
a
one
as
he
ought
to
know
,
that
it
was
unwisely
done
by
them
who
intended
to
make
a
Free
People
willingly
to
accept
of
slavery
,
to
use
cruelty
(
as
he
had
done
)
at
the
very
first
beginning
,
and
open
inhumanity
against
the
chief
Personages
of
the
State
;
whereby
the
people
being
made
to
despair
,
they
would
try
all
means
to
free
themselves
from
that
heavy
yoak
of
servitude
,
which
they
were
unacquainted
with
;
and
that
a
business
of
such
importance
must
be
purchast
by
length
of
time
,
by
little
and
little
,
insensibly
introducing
slavery
amongst
the
people
,
and
bereaving
them
of
their
Liberty
,
whilst
they
were
not
aware
of
it
.
The
Duke
reply'd
,
That
he
had
learnt
by
Augustus
his
Proscription
,
by
which
extinguishing
all
the
prime
Nobility
of
Rome
,
he
bereaft
the
people
of
their
Chieftains
,
that
new
Principalities
were
to
be
grounded
by
such
means
as
he
had
used
which
counsel
he
had
likewise
learnt
of
Tacitus
,
who
saies
,
nihil
ausuram
Plebem
principibus
amotis
.
Tacit.
lib.
1.
Annal.
To
this
Apollo
answered
,
That
he
failed
alwaies
in
his
resolutions
,
who
governing
his
own
present
actions
by
former
examples
,
had
not
the
same
requisite
circumstances
as
they
had
whom
he
took
for
his
safe
President
;
and
that
he
ought
to
have
considered
,
that
in
new
Principalities
,
he
could
only
safely
practise
that
Ta●…quinian
Precept
of
cutting
off
the
heads
of
the
highest
Poppies
,
and
which
great
Augustus
knew
so
well
how
to
put
in
execution
,
who
had
the
like
circumstances
as
that
great
Emperor
had
,
who
being
armed
,
and
victorious
,
could
not
only
with
safety
make
that
so
famous
Proscription
,
but
might
easily
quel
any
popular
insurrection
in
Rome
,
by
the
same
forces
whereby
he
had
annihilated
the
Roman
Nobility
:
And
that
the
Duke
wanting
that
leaning-stock
,
in
the
using
of
the
same
severities
which
Augustus
had
happily
practised
,
was
much
deceived
;
and
that
the
example
of
the
unfortunate
Duke
of
Athens
,
who
was
called
in
by
the
Florentines
to
Govern
their
Countrey
,
being
very
like
his
case
,
did
make
it
clearly
appear
to
the
whole
world
,
That
Principalities
whereunto
others
are
called
by
reason
of
the
dissention
of
Citizens
,
are
not
secured
by
sudden
and
severe
cruelties
used
against
the
chief
Subjects
,
but
by
cunningly
keeping
up
,
and
heightning
those
divisions
between
the
Nobility
and
common
people
,
which
having
occasioned
the
expulsion
of
the
antient
Liberty
from
out
the
Commonwealth
,
had
introduced
new
slavery
;
and
that
such
Princes
ought
,
above
all
things
,
to
keep
themselves
from
doing
any
thing
which
might
cause
such
universal
distaste
,
as
through
meer
dispair
,
might
make
the
people
reunite
themselves
with
the
Nobility
;
and
that
he
saw
every
day
more
clearly
,
that
the
Spaniards
wit
was
miraculous
in
the
well
governing
of
those
people
,
which
being
born
,
and
having
perpetually
lived
under
Monarchy
,
received
all
servitude
willingly
;
but
that
in
Governing
Nations
that
were
either
naturally
Free
,
and
indowed
with
ample
Priviledges
,
or
which
being
lately
past
from
Liberty
into
Slavery
,
Nec
totam
Libertatem
,
nec
totam
servitutem
pati
possunt
.
Lib.
1.
Hist.
was
a
business
which
did
not
suit
well
with
the
wits
of
those
Nations
,
which
having
Promptum
ad
asperiora
ingenium
.
Tacit.
lib.
1.
Annal.
were
extrordinary
Prompti
ferocibus
.
The
LII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
An
Italian
Gentleman
,
for
having
lost
much
bloud
in
the
service
of
a
great
Prince
,
is
honoured
by
him
with
a
Noble
Order
of
Knighthood
,
who
being
but
slightly
esteemed
of
by
those
of
his
own
Countrey
,
asks
Apollo
by
what
reasons
he
may
satisfie
those
his
deriders
,
that
he
was
the
more
richly
rewarded
,
in
that
he
was
paid
in
Honour
,
and
not
in
Gold
or
Silver
.
THe
Gentleman
of
Italy
who
came
to
this
Court
the
last
week
,
did
not
(
as
many
did
believe
)
negotiate
the
publick
affairs
of
any
Prince
,
but
treated
of
some
things
concerning
his
own
particular
self
:
For
being
brought
to
have
Audience
of
his
Majesty
,
he
told
him
,
that
having
for
many
years
served
a
great
Prince
in
his
important
Wars
,
for
the
much
bloud
which
he
had
lost
,
and
monies
which
he
had
therein
spent
,
he
was
rewarded
by
that
liberal
Prince
with
a
most
Noble
Order
of
Knighthood
;
and
that
when
he
returned
to
his
own
Countrey
,
that
rich
reward
was
laught
at
by
those
his
fellow-Citizens
,
who
love
nothing
but
ready
money
:
That
therefore
he
most
humbly
beseeched
his
Majesty
that
he
would
be
pleased
to
furnish
him
with
such
reasons
as
might
serve
him
to
convince
those
his
deriders
.
To
this
Apollo
answered
,
That
he
might
sufficiently
satisfie
every
one
by
giving
an
account
of
the
annual
Revenue
of
the
Commendum
of
his
Order
of
Knighthood
.
The
Gentleman
said
,
The
Order
of
his
Knighthood
had
no
advantage
of
Commendum
.
To
which
Apollo
said
,
That
his
affairs
being
in
so
sad
a
condition
,
it
could
not
by
any
conclusive
reason
be
proved
,
that
the
honour
of
Knighthood
added
more
to
him
who
received
it
,
in
point
of
honour
and
reputation
,
then
what
he
had
formerly
merited
by
his
honourable
actions
;
but
that
it
was
the
simplicity
of
mind
,
and
sincerity
of
heart
,
which
did
believe
well
in
the
favour
of
Princes
.
The
LIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
finding
that
his
having
allowed
the
use
of
the
80
part
of
one
grain
of
hypocrisie
to
his
Vertuosi
,
had
wrought
very
bad
effects
,
does
not
only
recall
that
his
favour
by
publick
Edict
,
but
thunders
out
exceeding
severe
punishments
against
hypocrites
.
YOu
heard
by
our
former
expresses
,
That
the
gallant
men
of
this
Court
,
who
follow
the
noble
Rule
of
Bene
Vivere
&
Laetari
,
not
being
sufficiently
informed
of
the
malice
and
wickedness
of
those
false
hypocrites
,
who
by
way
of
loose
life
,
and
corrupted
customs
,
have
the
liberty
of
speaking
from
their
hearts
,
were
by
Plato's
means
perswaded
to
desire
leave
of
the
Censors
,
that
they
might
make
use
of
a
little
hypocrisie
;
which
they
obtained
with
very
bad
consequence
;
for
they
soon
were
aware
that
hypocrisie
is
like
a
contagious
disease
,
never
so
little
whereof
spreads
soon
over
the
whole
body
:
A
disorder
which
those
gallant
men
which
have
been
spoken
of
,
found
to
be
very
true
:
Who
though
they
did
strangely
abhor
so
lewd
a
vice
,
and
consequently
bore
a
mortal
hatred
to
hypocrites
,
yet
that
eightieth
part
of
one
grain
of
hypocrisie
which
they
took
,
was
sufficient
to
infect
,
in
a
few
daies
,
all
their
sincere
and
plain
dealing
.
For
they
grew
so
in
love
with
the
credit
and
reputation
which
they
got
by
that
seeming
modesty
,
and
counterfeit
devotion
and
charity
,
as
they
gave
themselves
wholly
over
,
both
in
soul
and
body
,
in
prey
to
that
horrid
vice
,
which
but
a
little
before
they
did
so
much
detest
:
And
all
this
with
such
disorder
to
the
affairs
of
this
State
,
as
in
a
short
time
whole
Parnassus
was
nothing
but
hypocrisie
.
As
soon
as
Apollo
found
this
inconvenience
,
he
resolved
by
all
means
possible
,
to
extirpate
so
venemous
a
plant
by
the
very
root
from
out
his
State
.
And
knowing
that
cankers
,
and
fistulated
wounds
must
be
cured
by
fire
and
razor
,
he
forthwith
fell
upon
an
extraordinary
piece
of
rigor
;
for
on
Tuesday
morning
he
caused
an
Edict
to
be
published
in
the
place
appointed
for
such
purposes
,
whereby
he
strictly
commanded
every
one
that
was
subject
to
his
Jurisdiction
,
That
within
three
daies
he
should
cleanse
his
soul
from
that
wicked
filth
of
hypocrisie
;
declaring
,
That
from
that
time
forward
,
he
did
annul
and
make
void
that
permission
which
a
little
before
was
by
his
Censors
granted
to
gallant
men
,
of
the
use
of
the
eightieth
part
of
one
grain
of
hypocrisie
:
And
that
those
three
daies
being
over
,
which
he
peremptorily
prescribed
as
the
utmost
limit
of
time
to
all
men
;
all
such
as
should
be
found
guilty
of
so
infamous
a
fault
,
should
not
only
be
declared
open
enemies
to
all
vertue
,
uncapable
or
any
fame
or
glory
,
or
of
ever
acquiring
any
honour
,
but
he
declared
them
to
the
whole
world
,
to
be
viperous
creatures
,
shamelesly
infamous
;
and
that
by
all
the
Plenipotentiary
power
which
he
had
over
his
Vertuosi
,
he
declared
them
from
that
time
forward
to
be
grosly
ignorant
.
Moreover
,
that
so
ho●…id
a
monster
should
for
the
time
to
come
,
be
for
ever
banished
from
out
his
Vertuosi
,
and
be
by
them
detested
and
abhorred
;
he
commanded
that
those
who
should
be
known
to
be
guilty
of
so
fowle
a
fault
,
might
without
any
punishment
to
the
inflicters
,
be
shamed
,
vituperated
,
and
rendred
infamous
;
as
putrified
members
,
fit
to
be
amputated
from
the
body
of
the
Literati
,
by
Satyrical
Poets
with
their
biting
Verses
,
by
Orators
with
their
stinging
invectives
,
and
by
all
the
Vertuosi
,
with
all
sorts
of
weapons
apt
to
derogate
from
the
same
of
any
man
:
And
that
not
only
all
●…nds
and
sorts
of
testimony
,
how
weak
soever
,
should
serve
for
full
proof
against
any
one
that
was
impeached
of
so
wicked
a
fact
,
but
that
it
should
be
lawfull
for
any
man
to
bastenado
,
or
stone
one
who
was
noted
for
an
hypocrite
,
though
it
were
but
by
suspition
,
or
any
other
remote
cause
:
And
that
to
be
much
scandalized
at
matters
of
small
moment
;
to
speak
much
of
charity
,
without
ever
giving
any
alms
;
to
wear
a
threadbare
Cloke
,
and
yet
be
very
rich
;
to
appear
poor
in
publick
,
and
yet
live
plentifully
at
home
;
to
be
damnably
avaricious
,
and
yet
boast
of
Angelical
devoutness
:
to
speak
slow
,
and
with
a
weak
voice
,
and
under
colour
of
finding
fault
with
publick
vices
,
to
speak
bitterly
against
particular
men
;
to
bow
the
head
with
much
humility
,
and
yet
to
have
a
proud
mind
;
and
to
preach
that
to
others
,
which
it
was
plainly
seen
that
they
themselves
did
not
practice
;
should
be
esteemed
and
reputed
sufficient
proofs
to
condemn
any
one
of
such
a
vice
.
The
better
sort
of
the
Literati
of
this
State
,
thought
this
his
Majesties
Edict
too
severe
;
who
to
secure
their
lives
and
reputations
from
the
ignorance
of
the
meaner
sort
of
people
,
who
are
not
wise
enough
to
discern
between
true
and
counterfeit
goodness
,
presented
themselves
before
Apollo
,
whom
they
desired
that
wicked
hypocrites
might
be
severely
punished
,
but
so
as
that
good
and
honest
men
might
not
incur
the
danger
of
being
hardly
dealt
with
;
and
they
said
that
Judicial
Astrologers
,
and
hypocrites
,
were
a
certain
race
of
men
,
who
were
alwaies
banisht
,
and
yet
every
place
abounded
with
them
;
not
for
that
Princes
wanted
Authority
to
extirpate
them
out
of
their
Countries
,
but
for
that
those
very
Princes
who
did
prohibit
them
,
did
nourish
and
foment
them
;
and
that
the
only
cure
for
hypocrisie
was
,
That
Princes
should
love
,
cherish
,
inrich
,
and
exalt
such
as
being
ambitious
of
glory
,
thirsting
after
riches
,
and
desirous
of
their
good
will
,
who
affected
those
things
out
of
meer
worth
and
merit
;
and
that
they
should
suffer
great
hypocrites
,
who
covered
their
devilish
pride
with
the
cloke
of
humility
,
an
unquenchable
thirst
after
gold
,
with
a
vail
of
poverty
,
and
execrable
ambition
of
dominiering
over
the
whole
world
,
by
seeming
to
despise
the
world
;
to
live
in
their
condition
of
appearing
humility
,
of
feigned
poverty
,
counterfeit
solitariness
,
and
retired
life
:
A
Councel
whereby
Princes
would
be
sure
to
keep
from
erring
;
for
if
piety
,
humility
,
contempt
of
worldly
vanities
,
which
some
do
so
much
boast
of
,
were
realities
,
and
things
done
from
the
heart
,
they
would
by
this
way
of
proceeding
,
give
men
their
own
delights
,
when
they
should
be
justly
punished
by
their
own
false
weapons
,
it
being
very
true
,
that
Princes
could
not
better
discover
hypocrites
,
then
by
suffering
them
(
like
Oysters
)
to
stew
in
their
own
water
.
The
LIV.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Guiccardine
having
spoken
many
things
prejudicial
to
the
reputation
of
the
Marquiss
of
Piscara
,
In
an
Assembly
of
divers
Vertuosi
,
that
renowned
Commander
doth
sufficiently
justifie
himself
before
Apollo
.
DOn
Francisco
Ferrando
d'Avalo
,
Marquiss
of
Pis●…aro
,
being
told
some
few
daies
ago
,
that
in
an
Assembly
of
the
best
Historians
of
this
State
of
Pernassus
,
Francis
Guiccardine
had
spoken
words
of
him
,
tending
much
to
his
dishonour
:
Piscara
,
who
was
naturally
high
minded
,
and
very
proud
,
was
so
incenst
at
the
injury
done
him
by
Guiccardine
,
as
he
made
his
complaint
to
Apollo
;
to
whom
his
Majesty
,
who
very
well
knew
Guiccardine's
circumspect
proceeding
,
and
exact
wisdom
,
answered
,
That
it
not
being
likely
that
Guiccardine
should
have
spoken
of
him
,
otherwise
then
became
a
true
Historian
,
and
free
from
any
passion
of
an
ill-affected
mind
,
he
would
,
as
in
justice
he
ought
to
do
,
hear
them
both
speak
for
themselves
,
before
he
would
resolve
any
thing
in
the
Cause
:
And
that
if
he
should
find
that
Guiccardine
,
in
speaking
of
a
man
of
his
quality
,
had
unjustly
wounded
his
reputation
,
he
would
take
such
course
as
he
should
think
himself
sufficiently
satisfied
.
Which
being
said
,
he
forthwith
gave
Guiccardine
to
know
by
the
publick
Censors
,
that
he
was
to
appear
before
him
at
ten
of
the
clock
the
next
morning
,
to
make
good
the
words
which
the
Marquiss
of
Piscara
pretended
he
had
spoken
to
the
prejudice
of
his
reputation
.
At
the
news
hereof
,
the
Literati
,
who
were
very
curious
,
and
hoped
to
hear
somwhat
of
execellent
discourse
in
that
point-blank
argumentation
,
came
in
great
numbers
thither
.
Guiccardine
failed
not
to
meet
at
the
appointed
time
,
and
freely
told
the
Marquiss
,
who
was
there
likewise
present
,
that
he
might
very
well
have
purchased
favour
from
the
Emperor
Charls
the
fifth
,
by
discovering
the
conspiracy
unto
him
,
which
many
Princes
of
Europe
had
plotted
against
him
,
but
that
in
the
worlds
eye
he
had
thereby
purchased
eternal
infamy
;
not
only
for
that
most
men
did
firmly
believe
,
that
from
the
very
beginning
his
intention
was
to
prove
false
to
Cesar
,
but
for
that
though
he
had
been
still
faithfull
to
him
,
yet
that
by
so
many
cosenages
,
and
such
double-dealing
,
he
should
have
encouraged
so
great
Princes
,
and
inticed
them
to
joyn
in
conspiracies
with
himself
,
that
he
might
have
occasion
to
betray
them
,
and
aggrandise
himself
by
sins
which
he
had
by
fallacies
and
flatteries
drawn
on
,
appeared
generally
to
be
an
action
of
infamy
.
Though
all
the
Vertuosi
thought
this
to
be
a
very
hainous
impeachment
which
Guiccardine
had
made
against
the
Marquiss
;
yet
that
Commander
,
who
in
most
desperate
cases
was
still
most
undaunted
,
answered
Guiccardine
,
That
it
was
an
usual
fault
amongst
Historians
,
but
infinitely
unsufferable
,
to
be
mistaken
in
their
penetrating
into
the
hidden
sense
of
their
actions
,
who
had
done
great
things
both
in
peace
and
war
,
and
in
rendring
the
true
reasons
thereof
,
to
give
so
rash
judgements
,
as
they
were
oft
times
seen
to
blame
worthy
actions
,
and
praise
such
as
were
to
be
blamed
;
and
that
he
was
very
much
scandalized
that
there
was
not
some
severe
Laws
published
by
the
Colledg
of
Vertuosi
,
against
men
who
by
their
pens
do
daily
occasion
great
shame
,
and
irrepairable
blame
to
others
;
which
Laws
should
ordain
,
that
Historians
(
as
it
well
became
their
profession
)
should
only
meddle
with
the
bare
Narration
of
things
done
,
and
that
they
should
leave
the
judgement
thereof
,
and
the
Princes
secret
meanings
therein
to
be
judged
of
by
the
Reader
,
and
that
with
all
due
reverence
&
respect
to
the
place
wherein
he
spake
,
they
lyed
who
durst
say
,
that
from
the
beginning
,
Ierollimo
Marone
discovered
unto
him
the
conspiracy
which
was
a
framing
by
the
greatest
Princes
of
Christendom
against
Cesar
,
his
intention
was
to
prove
false
to
his
Master
.
For
those
who
understood
the
true
bounds
of
Policy
,
knew
that
whilst
a
man
communicates
a
conspiracy
to
any
great
Officer
,
which
is
in
agitation
against
his
Prince
,
the
Officer
ought
at
that
very
instant
to
resolve
whether
he
liked
the
business
or
no
;
for
to
be
doubtfull
in
such
a
case
,
was
interpreted
by
Princes
to
be
an
ill-taken
resolution
,
a
mind
not
only
contaminated
,
but
already
wholly
putrified
with
the
disease
of
Rebellion
,
and
that
he
had
not
encouraged
Marone
(
as
Guicciardine
had
been
bold
inconsiderately
to
say
)
with
an
intention
of
double-dealing
,
nor
yet
to
purchase
his
Princes
favour
by
the
sins
of
others
;
nor
had
he
inticed
the
Princes
who
endeavoured
to
make
him
rise
,
to
discover
unto
him
all
the
particulars
of
the
Conspiracy
,
but
by
strict
tye
of
honour
,
and
to
serve
his
Master
compleatly
;
as
also
because
the
weighty
business
which
he
had
in
hand
did
force
him
so
to
do
:
For
such
wounds
ought
not
to
be
discovered
to
their
Princes
by
wary
Officers
blindly
bound
up
without
knowledg
of
the
particulars
,
but
plainly
laid
open
with
perfect
knowledg
of
every
the
least
circumstance
;
and
that
for
one
like
him
,
to
have
shewn
the
least
negligence
,
or
to
have
been
never
so
little
remiss
in
a
business
of
so
great
jealousie
,
would
have
been
thought
so
shameful
an
omission
,
as
would
have
redounded
to
his
apparent
damage
,
and
perpetual
blame
;
and
that
the
reason
hereof
was
very
evident
;
for
he
who
heard
conspiracies
plotted
against
his
Prince
,
must
have
his
eyes
open
,
and
his
ears
stretcht
out
,
and
must
be
exquisitely
diligent
in
perfectly
understanding
and
discovering
every
particular
;
for
by
doing
otherwise
,
a
man
might
be
justly
thought
by
his
Prince
to
be
a
foolish
servant
,
and
an
unfaithful
Officer
;
and
that
in
such
cases
,
negligence
was
rather
punished
then
excused
;
that
therefore
before
he
was
to
reveal
the
conspiracie
to
Cesar
,
as
it
became
him
well
to
doe
,
he
would
inform
himself
of
all
the
particulars
of
each
person
that
had
a
hand
in
it
,
and
of
every
other
necessary
circumstance
:
and
that
he
did
not
believe
there
was
any
one
in
that
honorable
place
,
who
did
not
very
well
know
,
that
no
greater
misfortune
,
nor
mo●…e
certain
danger
could
befall
a
Souldier
of
reputation
,
then
to
be
sought
unto
by
great
Princes
to
betray
his
Master
:
For
to
quit
a
mans
self
of
a
business
,
to
the
undertaking
whereof
he
is
as
good
as
compelled
by
the
intreaties
of
powerfull
personages
,
and
think
to
save
both
his
life
and
reputation
,
was
to
act
the
part
of
common
ignorant
people
;
and
that
the
only
way
for
a
wise
man
to
shun
splitting
against
so
dangerous
a
Rock
,
was
to
live
with
such
a
reputation
of
honour
in
all
his
actions
,
to
be
so
ambitious
of
doing
his
Prince
faithful
servic
,
and
appear
so
desirous
of
purchasing
a
place
●n
his
affection
,
as
that
these
good
parts
,
and
honorable
qualities
might
deter
any
one
from
communicating
any
such
wicked
affair
unto
him
.
But
that
though
he
had
very
much
observed
this
rule
,
yet
had
it
no
waies
availed
him
;
he
knew
not
by
what
dishonourable
action
,
by
what
appearing
avarice
,
or
by
what
appearance
of
inclination
to
commit
wickedness
,
he
had
encouraged
the
Princes
that
conspired
against
Cesar
,
to
make
Marone
acquaint
him
with
a
business
so
dissonant
from
his
genius
,
so
contrary
to
his
nature
.
That
he
did
not
deny
,
but
that
after
the
noble
victory
at
Pavia
,
wherein
his
comportments
were
witnessed
to
the
world
by
Paulus
Iovius
,
he
was
not
well
satisfied
with
Cesar
,
as
thinking
his
service
not
sufficiently
acknowledged
,
nor
himself
enough
rewarded
;
but
that
he
did
not
think
any
such
behaviour
in
a
Prince
so
wise
,
should
be
thought
sufficient
to
make
one
rebel
against
him
;
for
if
his
distaste
ar
ose
,
from
not
being
so
highly
favoured
by
his
Prince
,
as
he
thought
his
fidelity
deserved
,
they
might
consider
,
that
by
discovering
the
conspiracy
,
they
had
furnisht
him
with
monies
,
whereby
he
might
purchase
so
m●…ch
of
the
Emperors
favour
as
he
knew
he
wanted
,
to
obtain
the
Supreme
dignity
of
General
,
and
the
Government
which
he
so
much
desired
of
the
Dutchy
of
Millan
,
and
which
afterwards
he
had
,
that
no
man
who
profest
himself
to
be
an
honourable
Souldier
,
could
receive
a
greater
affront
,
then
being
sought
unto
,
to
do
an
unworthy
action
;
for
whosoever
treated
with
any
one
about
such
an
action
,
shewed
clearly
that
he
thought
him
he
treated
with
,
to
be
a
man
inclin'd
to
wickedness
.
That
he
could
not
(
as
he
knew
it
became
him
to
have
done
)
revenge
this
great
injury
done
him
by
Marone
,
with
his
Dagger
,
because
his
Princes
service
,
which
required
other
resolutions
from
him
,
kept
him
from
so
doing
.
And
that
if
his
duty
to
Cesar
had
not
moved
him
(
as
certainly
it
ought
)
to
propagate
such
a
machination
,
certainly
he
should
have
been
moved
thereunto
,
more
out
of
rage
to
revenge
himself
for
that
great
injury
which
the
Princes
did
him
,
when
they
seemed
to
esteem
one
like
him
,
a
Traitor
,
and
vainly
ambitious
,
then
out
of
any
other
reason
:
And
that
he
should
have
been
very
simple
,
if
he
should
have
imbarqued
himself
in
the
business
,
by
reason
of
their
promises
;
who
for
reward
of
his
treachery
,
assured
him
that
they
would
make
him
King
of
Naples
;
for
that
Spaniards
,
of
which
he
gloried
to
be
one
,
were
better
pleased
with
such
a
little
Marquisat
as
Piscara
,
gotten
by
Loyalty
,
and
by
fighting
valiantly
in
their
Prince
his
service
,
then
with
the
Kingdom
of
Naples
,
purchast
by
treachery
.
That
Francisco
Davalo
was
not
so
shallow-brain'd
,
nor
so
little
vers'd
in
worldly
affairs
,
as
not
to
know
,
that
the
Princes
of
the
League
;
who
did
so
much
covet
his
Rebellion
,
aimed
more
at
keeping
Cesar
from
the
total
acquisition
of
the
Dukedom
of
Millan
,
then
at
the
making
him
King
of
Naples
.
And
that
it
was
known
to
him
,
as
it
was
to
the
whole
world
,
by
so
many
sad
examples
which
had
happened
,
that
great
Princes
,
after
they
had
imbarqued
an
ambitious
personage
,
out
of
their
several
ends
,
in
vaine
hopes
,
and
wrought
him
into
the
certain
danger
of
treachery
,
and
after
having
made
good
use
of
him
,
did
so
totally
abandon
their
protection
,
not
only
because
Graviorum
Facinorum
Ministri
,
quasi
exprobrantes
aspiciuntur
.
Tacit.
lib.
4.
Ann.
but
to
give
examples
to
their
Subjects
,
not
to
commit
the
like
wickednesse
,
by
proving
compleatly
●…famous
,
as
they
were
likely
to
be
the
first
who
would
deliver
them
up
into
the
power
of
their
incensed
Prince
;
as
(
to
leave
the
more
hatefull
examples
of
modern
times
)
the
world
saw
it
formerly
fared
with
Charls
Duke
of
Burgundy
,
towards
the
unfortunate
and
ill
advised
Count
Saint
Paul
,
unluckily
imployed
by
him
;
and
that
though
Spaniards
were
thought
by
all
men
to
be
puft
up
with
the
wind
of
Ambition
,
yet
was
it
not
that
vain-glory
,
with
which
some
Princes
of
Europe
have
of
late
years
swoln
many
French
Ballowns
,
and
not
a
few
Flemmish
Pilots
.
But
that
those
of
his
Nation
being
very
hard
to
be
imbarqued
in
the
getting
of
great
riches
by
indirect
waies
,
sinned
only
in
their
too
immense
desire
of
being
honoured
and
respected
in
the
places
,
which
they
by
their
faithfull
service
had
deserved
of
their
Prince
;
and
that
they
were
far
from
coveting
by
oblique
and
shamefull
waies
,
those
greatnesses
which
they
saw
they
could
not
arrive
at
,
with
secure
peace
and
quiet
:
that
to
be
a
Coy-Duck
for
other
mens
ambition
,
so
to
becom
afterward
the
peoples
laughing-stock
,
or
Town-talk
,
was
a
thing
abhorred
by
his
Spain
;
and
that
it
would
have
been
too
great
a
folly
for
one
like
him
,
to
suffer
himself
to
be
perswaded
that
the
Kingdom
of
Naples
,
which
was
alwaies
hereditary
in
the
bloud
of
Spain
,
and
which
would
never
accept
of
any
Baron
of
the
Kingdom
,
though
some
of
them
had
been
very
powerfull
and
ambitious
,
and
who
by
the
effusion
of
their
bloud
,
had
driven
out
Princes
borne
of
the
Royal
bloud
of
France
,
who
would
have
conquered
it
,
would
accept
of
him
,
who
was
inferior
to
many
Barons
of
that
Kingdom
,
and
of
a
Nation
so
hatefull
to
the
Neapolitans
.
That
in
Hereditary
Kingdoms
,
as
was
that
of
Naples
,
Kings
were
there
borne
,
not
made
or
chosen
:
And
that
those
fools
who
would
aspire
thereunto
by
any
other
means
then
by
lawfull
succession
of
the
bloud-Royal
,
did
climbe
up
a
Mountain
of
misery
,
to
fall
down
headlong
with
the
greater
shame
into
the
valley
of
infamy
:
And
that
if
any
one
should
compasse
it
by
fraudulent
means
,
he
would
be
like
those
ridiculous
Kings
of
Beffana
,
who
that
they
might
afford
pastime
to
the
rabble-rout
,
failed
soon
after
their
creation
.
That
he
had
alwaies
kept
firm
to
the
resolution
which
he
was
born
with
;
rather
to
die
a
glorious
Commander
,
then
a
shamefull
King
.
That
he
had
rather
sought
to
deserve
,
then
that
he
ever
coveted
greater
Titles
then
that
of
a
Marquiss
;
and
that
having
observed
by
what
he
had
read
,
and
in
consideration
of
the
present
times
,
that
all
conspiracies
begin
merrily
,
with
high
thoughts
,
but
end
basely
with
weeping
,
he
was
contented
to
serve
the
Prince
whom
God
had
set
over
him
,
with
those
means
which
he
had
beene
pleased
to
bestow
upon
him
;
for
too
immense
greatnesse
promised
by
Forreign
Princes
to
such
as
he
was
,
were
but
breaknecks
.
Apollo
was
so
well
pleased
with
Pescara's
Apology
,
as
he
answered
Guicciardine
,
who
still
affirmed
,
that
to
intice
the
prime
Princes
of
Europe
,
with
so
much
duplicity
of
heart
,
to
joyne
with
him
in
conspiracy
,
of
purpose
that
he
might
have
the
better
occasion
to
discover
it
afterwards
,
had
rendered
the
Marquiss
eternally
infamous
,
that
Pescara
had
not
inticed
any
Prince
to
joyne
with
him
in
framing
any
conspiracy
against
the
Emperor
,
that
afterwards
he
might
make
advantage
by
revealing
it
:
In
which
case
he
would
justly
have
incurred
infamy
;
but
that
much
to
his
praise
he
had
used
requisite
double
dealing
,
to
discover
the
Complices
of
the
Conspiracy
,
and
every
other
particular
,
which
for
his
Masters
better
service
,
he
was
to
know
;
and
that
the
Marquiss
was
the
more
to
be
praised
,
for
that
by
his
honourable
fraud
,
he
knew
how
to
overcome
the
Princes
so
artificial
deceits
;
and
that
upon
that
occasion
he
had
so
fully
done
what
became
him
to
doe
,
as
he
deserved
to
be
imitated
by
every
worthy
Commander
who
might
fall
upon
the
like
misfortune
.
In
Conspiracies
which
are
communicated
to
others
,
both
he
who
accepted
thereof
,
and
joyned
therein
,
and
he
who
refused
,
yet
held
his
peace
,
incurred
the
same
penalty
;
in
so
dangerous
affairs
,
the
best
counsel
was
to
precipitate
into
the
sudden
,
but
clear
revelation
of
so
unfortunate
enterprises
:
And
that
in
the
most
mortal
infirmities
of
Conspiracies
,
two
of
the
Politick
Hippocrates
his
Aphorismes
were
very
true
:
That
,
Qui
deliberant
desciverunt
,
and
that
In
ejusmodi
conciliis
periculosius
est
deprehendi
quàm
audere
.
And
that
they
that
were
desired
to
enter
into
a
Conspiracy
,
were
fooles
,
and
self-murderers
,
if
in
so
miserable
a
case
they
pitcht
their
thoughts
onely
upon
the
sweet
of
revenge
,
the
accumulating
wealth
,
or
preferments
to
Principalities
,
and
Kingdoms
,
which
might
be
propounded
to
them
in
reward
of
such
wicked
actions
;
and
those
wise
and
charitable
,
who
held
before
their
eyes
the
pictures
of
Fetters
and
Gibbets
,
which
are
the
right
rewards
,
and
certain
acquirements
of
desperate
and
ambitious
people
,
and
of
such
as
were
giddy-headed
.
The
LV.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Giovan
Francisco
Pico
,
not
being
able
to
reconcile
the
differences
between
Plato
and
Aristotle
,
Apollo
commands
those
two
great
Philosophers
to
end
the
business
in
a
publique
Disputation
;
and
being
therein
obey'd
,
they
do
not
notwithstanding
part
friends
.
THe
task
which
as
you
heard
of
late
the
Count
Giovan
Francisco
Pico
della
Mirandola
,
that
Phenix
of
the
Vertuosi
undertook
by
order
from
Apollo
,
of
reconciling
the
immortal
differences
which
are
discust
between
the
two
supreme
Luminaries
of
Philosophy
,
Plato
and
Aristotle
,
hath
been
to
so
little
purpose
,
as
not
having
given
any
satisfaction
to
his
Majesty
,
nor
to
his
Literati
,
it
hath
kindled
new
,
and
much
more
eager
argumentations
in
Pernassus
.
Wherefore
Apollo
for
the
quiet
of
his
State
,
for
the
agreement
between
his
Vertuosi
,
and
for
the
honour
of
Philosophy
,
caused
Plato
and
Aristotle
to
be
sent
for
on
the
first
day
of
the
last
month
,
to
appear
before
him
,
to
whom
with
an
austeer
look
he
said
;
That
there
being
but
one
truth
of
all
Sciences
,
they
much
injured
Philosophy
by
the
diversity
of
their
opinions
;
that
he
did
love
peace
and
agreement
between
his
Vertuosi
;
that
he
likewise
knew
that
the
multitude
of
Sects
,
was
that
which
occasioned
great
mischief
in
States
;
and
that
he
might
obtain
from
them
such
concord
between
themselves
,
which
he
knew
to
be
altogether
necessary
for
his
State
,
he
was
pleased
to
use
such
respect
to
them
both
,
as
not
to
proceed
against
them
with
violence
,
but
did
let
them
know
that
he
should
be
very
glad
that
both
of
them
would
so
much
honour
Philosophy
,
as
to
agree
in
opinion
,
in
point
of
the
greatest
differences
that
were
between
them
.
Then
turning
towards
Aristotle
,
he
said
,
That
it
made
not
for
his
honour
to
dissent
from
the
opinions
which
so
great
a
Master
as
Plato
had
read
unto
him
in
the
Schools
;
and
then
told
Plato
,
that
he
suffered
much
in
his
reputation
,
that
the
world
should
see
so
great
a
Rebel
as
Aristotle
should
issue
out
of
his
School
.
Both
Plato
and
Aristotle
seemed
very
willing
to
yield
to
each
others
opinion
,
when
by
good
arguments
,
and
sufficient
reasons
,
they
should
be
made
appear
to
be
the
better
;
and
joyntly
agreed
that
they
would
dispute
the
business
in
two
several
chairs
,
hand
to
hand
,
without
any
Moderator
.
Apollo
did
not
only
accept
of
so
glorious
a
defiance
,
but
for
the
consolation
of
his
Vertuosi
,
made
papers
be
fixt
that
very
hour
upon
the
gate
of
the
greatest
Philosophy-School
,
and
in
other
publique
places
,
wherein
all
the
Vertuosi
were
invited
to
come
and
see
so
gallant
a
spectacle
;
and
to
the
end
that
those
who
inhabit
in
far
Countries
,
might
have
time
to
come
to
Pernassus
,
and
be
present
at
so
famous
a
contest
,
he
allowed
the
two
Philosophers
twenty
daies
to
appear
in
the
field
.
The
mean
while
,
for
the
Vertuosis
better
commodity
,
many
Skaffolds
were
built
about
the
great
Court
of
Urania
;
and
on
the
day
appointed
for
the
Disputation
,
Adriano
,
Orlando
,
Ciprione
and
many
other
modern
Musitians
,
sung
first
in
several
chorusses
,
their
excellent
Compositions
,
accompanied
not
only
by
the
Organs
,
Viols
,
Harps
,
and
other
grave
instruments
which
are
used
at
the
meetings
of
the
Vertuosi
,
but
(
according
to
the
defect
of
the
modern
age
)
with
the
interposition
of
the
Lute
,
Cornet
,
Theorbo
,
and
of
the
very
Violin
,
taken
but
a
little
before
out
of
the
ignorant
Consort
of
trivial
Fidlers
,
who
play
fum
fum
in
the
meanest
Assemblies
.
The
Musick
being
ended
,
the
two
famous
Paladins
of
Philosphy
appeared
in
the
field
,
and
their
dispute
held
for
six
hours
together
;
but
it
was
not
notwithstanding
possible
to
meet
with
the
desired
agreement
.
For
in
the
curious
Philosophical
wrestling
,
which
is
so
delightfull
to
the
Vertuosi
,
the
Arms
of
solid
and
stout
Arguments
are
only
made
use
of
,
backs
of
efficacious
reason
,
strange
nimbleness
of
foot
in
apparent
demonstrations
;
and
yet
that
last
Effort
which
is
so
pleasing
to
the
spectators
of
seeing
the
enemy
thrown
flat
upon
his
bac●…
,
overthrown
and
convinced
by
undeniable
Arguments
,
doth
never
ensue
:
For
Philosophical
wrestlers
,
though
they
fall
resolutely
to
catch
where
they
catch
can
,
yet
by
means
of
distinctions
which
they
have
at
their
fingers
ends
,
they
still
keep
themselves
on
foot
.
These
two
great
Luminaries
of
Philosophy
gave
such
content
to
the
standers
by
,
as
they
did
infinitely
admire
the
reach
of
humane
intellect
,
which
having
waded
through
all
the
Heavens
by
the
excellency
of
her
specula●…ion
,
did
not
only
exactly
know
the
quantitas
,
qualitas
,
and
the
motus
of
them
,
but
is
arrived
even
at
the
knowledg
of
God
himself
,
and
of
the
Divine
Nature
,
of
which
she
can
discourse
very
handsomly
.
With
these
wonders
did
the
Disputation
end
,
which
afforded
as
much
content
to
the
Literati
,
as
if
those
two
Philosophers
had
been
perfectly
reconciled
and
agreed
;
only
Apollo
,
by
the
apparent
sadness
which
was
seen
in
his
face
,
disturbed
the
universal
mirth
;
wherefore
great
Averroes
askt
him
,
whether
Aristotle
and
Plato
had
not
given
him
such
satisfaction
as
he
desired
:
To
which
Apollo
answered
with
a
sigh
fetcht
from
the
bottom
of
his
heart
;
that
those
two
Princes
of
Philosophy
had
fully
satisfied
the
opinion
which
all
men
had
of
them
;
but
that
he
had
seen
that
in
this
Argumentation
,
which
would
keep
his
mind
perpetually
afflicted
:
For
he
was
forced
to
bewail
the
infinite
corrupt
condition
of
this
age
,
wherein
sensuallity
was
grown
so
great
amongst
men
,
as
he
who
saw
their
hidden
passions
,
had
clearly
found
,
that
many
were
come
to
these
disputations
even
from
far
Countries
,
rather
to
please
the
itch
of
the
ear
,
by
hearing
the
Musick
,
then
to
feed
their
souls
by
those
Vertuosissimi
,
which
he
said
were
introduced
into
the
world
by
those
wicked
Mountebanks
,
who
in
their
defect
of
too
much
mingling
pleasure
with
profit
,
were
gone
so
far
,
as
having
admitted
of
Jack-puddings
,
and
Pantalouns
into
their
company
,
many
flockt
to
them
rather
to
laugh
at
their
sports
and
wantonness
,
thento
buy
useful
medicines
for
their
maladies
.
The
LVI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Gonsalvo
Ferrante
Cordua
,
not
having
obtained
the
confirmation
of
his
desired
Title
of
Magnus
,
from
the
reverend
Colledge
of
Historians
,
demands
an
other
place
in
Pernassus
of
Apollo
,
from
whence
he
is
likewise
excluded
.
GOnsalvo
Cordua
was
very
much
grieved
at
the
repulse
which
he
received
from
the
History
Colledge
when
he
was
denyed
the
Title
of
Great
;
and
to
try
whether
the
favor
and
recommendation
of
Princes
were
available
to
effect
business
in
Pernassus
,
which
justice
could
not
do
,
he
addrest
himself
for
help
to
his
King
Ferdinando
;
whom
having
acquained
with
his
business
;
and
received
for
answer
from
that
wise
King
,
that
he
should
have
thought
them
very
simple
who
should
have
favoured
a
subject
of
his
in
obtaining
the
Title
of
great
to
be
conferred
upon
him
,
which
made
him
Little
:
that
he
was
none
of
those
who
would
commit
so
great
an
error
,
as
to
desire
such
glory
might
be
atchieved
by
others
,
as
did
greatly
lessen
his
honor
,
and
that
his
Conscience
told
him
,
he
must
be
so
charitable
to
himself
,
as
to
endeavour
that
the
whole
glory
of
the
purchase
of
the
kingdom
of
Naples
might
be
attributed
more
to
his
wisdom
,
then
to
Cordua's
valour
.
Wherefore
Gonsalvo
being
much
incens't
at
so
resolute
and
sharp
an
answer
,
went
presently
to
Apollo
,
and
told
him
,
that
since
it
had
not
pleased
the
Colledge
of
Historians
to
think
him
worthy
to
be
ranked
with
Pompey
,
Alexander
,
Charles
the
Emperor
,
and
others
,
who
for
their
glorious
Actions
had
deserved
the
Title
of
Great
;
that
yet
he
might
be
favoured
with
adm●…ttance
into
the
squadron
of
his
Majesties
Gens
d'Armes
,
wherein
was
that
famous
Bellisarius
,
Bartholomeus
Alvianus
,
Pietro
Navarro
,
Antonio
de
Leva
,
Count
Petigliano
,
Lorenzo
de
Ceri
,
and
many
other
famous
warriours
.
Apollo
graciously
granted
Gonsalvo
what
he
desired
;
but
it
fell
out
that
whilst
in
his
Majesties
presence
,
the
ceremony
of
putting
on
the
accustomed
upper
weed
was
a
performing
,
whereat
all
the
chief
military
men
of
this
Court
gave
their
attendance
,
Bossio
the
Atturney
General
accused
Gonsalvo
of
Perjury
.
Apollo
,
who
doth
very
much
abhor
those
who
are
noted
for
falsifying
their
words
with
men
,
much
more
those
who
are
perjured
before
God
,
allowed
the
Atturney-General
three
days
to
make
good
his
impeachment
,
and
ordered
that
Gonsalvo's
business
might
be
adjourned
until
then
.
Gonsalvo
being
very
much
troubled
at
this
foul
imputation
,
told
the
Atturney
Bossio
,
that
he
had
always
profestfidelity
,
and
that
he
did
not
onely
wonder
,
but
was
very
much
scandalized
,
that
so
wicked
an
accusation
should
be
laid
upon
such
a
one
as
he
,
born
and
bred
up
in
a
kingdom
where
loyalty
to
his
King
,
and
fidelity
to
every
privat
man
,
did
abound
as
much
as
in
any
other
place
of
the
world
.
Bossio
answered
him
,
desiring
that
he
would
be
pleased
to
relate
the
case
of
the
imprisonment
of
the
Duke
of
Calavria
,
how
it
had
been
carryed
,
for
for
what
appeared
to
him
,
it
would
be
proved
,
that
he
was
not
troubled
without
reason
.
Gonsalvo
said
,
that
having
besieged
the
young
Duke
of
Calavria
in
the
Castle
of
Taranto
,
who
was
son
to
Frederick
the
last
King
of
Naples
,
he
capitulated
with
that
young
Duke
when
he
resolved
upon
rendering
,
that
he
should
have
free
leave
to
go
whither
he
pleased
best
,
and
that
he
plighted
his
faith
to
keep
this
promise
,
and
therupon
he
received
the
holy
Eucharist
;
but
that
afterwards
falsifying
his
oath
,
he
made
sure
of
the
Dukes
person
,
whom
he
sent
with
a
good
guard
prisoner
into
Spain
.
Apollo
seemed
then
to
be
mightily
offended
with
Gonsalvo
,
and
told
him
,
that
so
wicked
and
execrable
an
action
rendred
him
altogether
unworthy
of
any
place
in
Pernassus
,
and
therefore
willed
him
to
get
quickly
out
of
his
State
.
Gonsalvo
was
much
confused
and
astonished
at
this
so
severe
sentence
,
and
answered
in
his
excuse
,
that
though
he
acknowledged
it
to
be
a
very
foul
action
,
yet
that
he
was
necessitated
to
do
it
for
his
Kings
service
;
for
it
being
a
practised
rule
amongst
good
Politicians
,
that
no
Prince
doth
securely
possess
any
conquered
State
,
whilst
they
live
who
were
driven
out
of
it
,
the
noble
acquisition
of
the
kingdom
of
Naples
,
could
not
be
esteemed
a
compleat
victory
,
unless
he
had
secured
that
Prince
his
person
:
Apollo
was
so
far
from
allowing
of
Gonsalvo's
excuse
,
as
growing
much
more
incenst
,
he
bad
him
be
sure
not
to
be
seen
any
more
above
two
days
in
Pernassus
,
which
should
not
be
a
receptacle
for
those
,
who
by
their
actions
shewed
they
more
respected
the
service
of
men
,
then
the
good
will
of
God
.
Then
did
his
Majesties
Masters
of
the
Ceremonies
,
drive
Gonsalvo
out
of
the
house
;
who
whilst
he
went
disconsolately
down
the
stairs
,
told
the
Atturney
Bossio
,
that
apparent
wrong
was
done
unto
him
;
for
Caesar
,
who
to
purchase
the
Roman
Empire
,
had
not
onely
violated
the
laws
of
God
and
man
,
but
was
the
first
Author
of
that
wicked
saying
,
That
all
things
were
lawful
which
conduced
to
government
,
was
seen
to
have
a
glorious
place
in
Pernassus
,
from
whence
he
was
so
unjustly
driven
out
.
'T
is
said
that
Bossiv
boldly
answered
Gonsalvo
,
that
Caesars
example
did
not
square
with
him
;
for
it
was
one
thing
to
commit
foul
actions
,
thereby
to
purchase
a
kingdom
to
a
mans
self
,
and
another
thing
to
do
the
like
to
purchase
one
for
ones
Master
.
For
by
the
laws
both
of
God
and
man
,
a
Pander
deserved
greater
punishment
,
who
meerly
out
of
the
malignity
of
a
depraved
mind
delighted
in
doing
ill
,
then
he
who
committed
Fornication
out
of
the
frailty
of
the
flesh
.
The
LVII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
A
Barque
loaded
with
inventors
of
new
grievances
running
shipwrack
upon
the
shore
of
Lepanto
,
his
Majesty
treats
them
well
,
though
he
do
greatly
abominate
such
like
men
.
THe
dreadful
storm
at
Sea
occasioned
some
days
ago
by
the
furious
southwest
winds
,
drove
a
Vessel
upon
the
Strand
of
Lepanto
;
to
the
succor
whereof
,
all
the
inhabitants
along
the
river
side
made
in
,
(
for
they
saw
it
was
fraught
with
passengers
)
and
were
so
fortunate
therein
,
as
though
the
Barque
split
,
they
saved
above
fourscore
persons
that
were
in
her
;
who
were
by
order
from
Apollo
commodiously
lodged
,
and
were
then
askt
,
who
they
were
,
whence
they
came
,
and
whither
they
were
bound
.
They
answered
they
were
all
of
them
Italian
Arcigogalanti
,
and
were
lately
come
from
Italy
:
which
when
his
Majesty
understood
,
though
he
be
naturally
very
courteous
,
yet
doth
he
so
abominate
those
cruel
enemies
of
mankind
,
as
he
had
almost
repented
the
ayd
which
he
had
given
them
,
thinking
those
wicked
ones
unworthy
of
commiseration
,
who
spend
their
lives
in
nothing
else
but
in
inventing
execrable
grievances
,
by
which
many
modern
Princes
so
cruelly
torment
their
miserable
people
.
Yet
some
Vertuosi
said
,
that
since
there
were
so
many
of
those
rascals
in
that
Barque
,
all
of
them
come
from
Italy
,
they
must
needs
believe
that
they
brought
the
good
news
to
Pernassus
,
that
the
Italian
Princes
had
put
on
the
noble
resolution
of
purging
their
States
from
that
wicked
sort
of
men
.
Apollo
commanded
that
they
should
be
asked
,
wherefore
they
parted
from
Italy
,
and
whither
they
were
going
;
they
answered
,
that
having
happily
finished
all
the
most
witty
inventions
,
whereby
to
empty
the
peoples
purses
,
and
fill
the
Princes
coffers
therewith
,
since
they
had
raised
the
Gabels
and
Taxes
as
high
as
it
was
possible
for
them
to
do
,
and
having
nothing
more
to
work
upon
in
Italy
,
they
had
ran
over
France
,
and
Spain
,
in
which
noble
kingdoms
they
had
so
behaved
themselves
,
as
they
had
left
eternal
memory
in
both
of
them
of
the
Florentines
,
and
Ge●…efes
.
That
afterwards
endeavouring
to
get
into
England
,
the
Low-Countries
,
Germany
,
and
Poland
,
all
of
them
Provincees
abounding
with
gold
,
and
wealthy
inhabitants
,
and
where
they
thought
to
have
done
wonders
,
they
were
driven
out
with
cudgels
by
those
people
who
were
born
to
a
kind
of
Liberty
,
and
who
might
be
said
to
be
sheep
,
which
giving
their
shepherds
a
little
milk
by
way
of
recognition
or
Fealty
,
in
a
certain
little
mark'd
measure
.
And
who
will
not
suffer
themselves
(
as
it
is
usual
elsewhere
)
to
be
milked
at
discretion
.
Wherefore
like
those
famous
Trojans
led
on
by
Aeneas
,
they
went
plowing
up
the
Sea
with
that
their
little
vessel
,
to
finde
out
new
people
and
new
Countreys
,
where
to
the
praise
and
glory
and
profit
of
Princes
,
and
to
that
perpetual
desolation
of
the
people
,
which
occasioneth
security
in
reigning
they
might
use
their
Talent
,
and
open
their
shop
.
When
the
Literai
had
heard
these
things
,
many
of
them
presently
beseeched
his
Majesty
that
he
would
publikely
revenge
the
injuries
done
to
so
many
Nations
,
which
through
the
malignity
of
that
race
of
Vipers
had
been
flead
by
their
avaricious
Princes
,
with
the
rasor
of
exorbitant
grievances
,
making
them
be
burnt
in
the
remainders
of
that
their
Vessel
.
But
Apollo
,
whose
deep
judgement
exceeds
all
humane
wisdom
,
having
understood
the
shameful
profession
of
those
rascally
people
,
commanded
that
their
entertainment
should
be
doubled
,
and
that
they
should
be
better
treated
;
and
causing
mony
to
be
given
them
,
and
great
store
of
victuals
,
sent
them
to
Constantinople
,
willing
them
to
see
whether
they
could
reduce
the
Ottoman
Empire
,
which
was
so
Capital
an
Enemy
to
Learning
into
that
desolation
,
and
desperation
by
their
exorbitant
damn'd
new
inventions
,
into
which
they
boasted
themselves
to
have
brought
France
,
Spain
,
and
Italy
.
The
LVIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
By
letters
intercepted
,
which
were
sent
by
an
express
from
some
Princes
to
the
Lake
of
Avernus
,
People
come
to
know
that
the
enmities
which
are
seen
to
reign
in
the
Nations
of
the
world
,
are
occasioned
by
the
cunning
of
their
Princes
.
A
Post
was
robbed
on
Monday
night
last
between
the
coasts
of
Pindus
and
Libetrum
,
which
some
great
Princes
had
dispatcht
away
in
much
haste
,
towards
the
Lake
of
Avernus
.
And
because
the
Post
had
no
injury
done
to
his
Person
,
it
was
believed
that
the
excess
was
committed
onely
to
take
his
Letters
from
him
,
as
it
proved
afterwards
.
For
they
onely
took
from
him
a
packet
directed
to
the
three
infernal
Furies
,
Alecto
,
Tisiphone
,
and
Megera
,
by
which
it
is
known
for
certain
,
and
not
without
great
scandal
,
that
some
great
Princes
did
hire
those
Furies
,
to
sow
,
and
foment
perpetual
strife
and
discord
,
not
onely
between
Nation
and
Nation
,
but
oft
times
between
the
subjects
of
one
and
the
same
Prince
.
And
to
aggravate
the
distastes
,
there
was
a
letter
of
exchange
found
in
that
packet
,
of
ten
thousand
Crowns
for
six
months
pay
.
The
subjects
to
these
Princes
who
writ
these
letters
,
have
sent
them
by
some
of
their
Deputies
to
Apollo
,
heavily
complaining
that
their
Princes
,
who
ought
to
study
nothing
more
then
the
peace
,
and
unanimous
agreement
,
not
onely
of
their
own
particular
subjects
,
but
that
also
of
all
Nations
,
did
by
ready
mony
purchase
sedition
amongst
others
,
and
mischief
to
themselves
;
and
that
they
had
not
till
now
learnt
,
that
it
was
meerly
the
cunning
and
machinations
of
Princes
,
which
caused
those
several
divisions
and
inhate
hatreds
between
Nations
,
which
are
the
true
root
of
those
evils
wherewith
mankinde
is
so
afflicted
;
which
if
they
were
extirpated
out
of
the
world
,
men
would
injoy
the
comfort
to
see
the
French
love
the
English
;
the
Spanyard
the
French
:
the
Germans
the
Italians
:
and
perfect
peace
would
be
amongst
all
men
.
Whilst
these
Deputies
were
reasoning
thus
,
Apollo
was
seen
to
weep
bitterly
out
of
meer
compunction
of
what
he
had
heard
.
Insomuch
as
the
standers
by
believed
that
his
Majesty
would
have
broken
out
into
some
great
heat
against
the
Princes
who
were
accused
of
so
foul
faults
,
when
he
spoke
thus
.
My
friends
,
your
complaints
are
as
true
,
as
grievous
;
but
you
must
know
,
that
the
excesses
which
you
now
complain
of
,
are
not
occasioned
by
the
ill
nature
of
Princes
,
but
out
of
the
peoples
seditious
spirits
;
whose
instability
is
such
,
as
the
universal
peace
of
mankinde
cannot
be
better
compassed
by
any
other
means
,
then
by
sowing
that
discord
amongst
Nations
,
and
those
divisions
which
you
now
so
much
complain
of
:
for
long
experience
hath
taught
Princes
;
that
the
great
frame
of
reigning
securely
is
wholly
grounded
upon
the
sound
foundation
of
dividing
well
.
And
it
is
apparant
,
that
were
it
not
for
Princes
that
govern
them
,
people
would
of
themselves
fall
into
greater
seditions
,
then
those
which
are
sown
amongst
them
for
the
publike
peace
,
and
universal
good
of
all
men
.
All
which
,
my
welbeloved
,
are
necessary
evils
,
though
it
exceedingly
grieve
me
to
see
,
that
the
disease
of
universal
discord
which
reigns
amongst
men
,
cannot
be
sooner
cured
by
any
other
medicine
,
then
by
that
bitter
Pill
,
which
you
complain
so
much
of
.
The
LIX
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Prince
of
the
Laconicks
Nephew
,
being
after
his
Uncles
death
,
to
return
to
a
private
Fortune
,
shews
no
well
composed
minde
in
making
so
dangerous
a
passage
.
THe
Prince
of
the
Laconicks
Nephew
,
who
during
his
Uncles
life
of
famous
memory
,
did
with
extraordinary
Authority
govern
that
State
;
by
reason
of
the
choice
which
was
made
some
few
days
ago
,
of
a
new
Prince
,
was
two
days
since
to
return
to
a
private
life
.
And
because
the
parting
from
Authority
after
the
sweet
thereof
hath
been
a
while
tasted
,
is
a
thing
much
more
fearful
then
the
parting
of
the
soul
from
the
body
;
and
it
having
formerly
hapned
in
Parnassus
,
that
the
too
great
ambition
of
Government
hath
so
suffocated
the
vertue
of
humility
and
those
vital
spirits
of
the
minds
moderation
,
which
keep
a
well
composed
heart
alive
,
as
so
great
a
passage
is
not
to
be
made
without
reluctaney
;
Apollo
compassionating
such
sad
cases
,
that
he
might
provide
for
the
saving
of
so
great
mens
honors
,
in
that
time
of
terror
,
Instituted
in
Parnassus
many
years
ago
,
the
charitable
company
of
commiseration
,
whereof
the
chief
Moral
Philosophers
of
this
State
are
members
.
The
night
preceding
the
day
,
wherein
this
Prince
was
to
make
so
sore
a
change
of
condition
,
Reverend
petrarch
made
him
a
v●…si
with
his
book
De
remedi
is
utriusque
Fortunae
,
as
also
learned
Giorolimo
Cardano
,
with
his
work
De
utilitate
capienda
ex
adversis
:
and
Annaeus
Seneca
the
worthy
President
of
the
Company
,
with
the
precious
writings
of
Boetius
Severinus
de
Consolatione
Philosophiae
:
whom
after
a
long
preamble
of
fair
words
,
they
acquainted
with
the
sad
return
he
was
to
make
the
next
morning
to
a
private
life
.
Certainly
most
unwelcom
news
;
and
which
he
heard
with
such
impatiency
and
disturbance
,
as
with
exclamations
which
deafened
all
that
heard
him
,
and
howlings
which
reacht
Heaven
,
he
began
to
lament
and
bewail
his
perverse
fortune
,
by
which
he
said
he
was
assassinated
:
crying
out
that
she
had
hardly
suffered
him
to
tast
the
sweet
of
Government
,
the
suavity
of
Command
,
when
she
hurryed
him
down
to
the
miseries
of
a
private
life
,
making
him
to
swallow
down
the
unpleasant
potion
of
changing
Command
,
for
Obedience
;
oft
recommending
his
honor
in
this
his
Agony
to
these
his
comforters
,
and
earnestly
desiring
that
they
would
not
abandon
him
in
this
his
urgent
necessity
.
Then
both
Seneca
,
Cardano
,
and
Petrarch
,
did
with
unspeakable
Charity
imbrace
this
Prince
,
intreating
him
couragiously
to
undergo
this
his
adversity
,
and
the
more
to
comfort
him
,
they
alleadged
all
they
could
in
praise
of
a
privat
life
,
letting
him
know
how
great
a
happiness
men
found
in
knowing
how
to
govern
themselves
and
their
affairs
,
and
making
him
often
repeat
those
words
of
the
Master
of
the
Politick
sayings
;
Quam
Arduum
,
quam
sub
ectum
Fortunae
,
regendi
Cuncta
Onus
.
Tacit.
lib.
1.
Annal.
Excellent
words
,
which
being
chewed
by
a
Palat
that
knows
truly
how
to
taste
them
,
are
of
such
efficacy
,
as
they
had
the
power
to
make
the
great
Emperor
Charles
the
fift
,
(
who
had
been
more
ambitious
of
government
then
any
other
)
to
withdraw
himself
into
a
Monastery
,
and
become
an
Hermit
.
But
these
consolations
wrought
so
little
upon
this
Lord
,
as
he
said
more
then
once
to
those
Reverend
Comforters
,
that
to
prefer
a
private
life
before
Reigning
,
was
a
most
odious
Paradox
;
a
thing
which
,
was
uttered
by
the
mouth
,
but
not
believed
by
the
heart
:
a
Doctrine
which
they
did
mainly
hate
,
who
went
about
to
make
others
believe
it
.
The
next
morning
this
Gentleman
was
stript
of
all
his
jurisdiction
,
which
caused
such
a
passion
of
the
heart
in
him
,
as
the
Comforters
not
being
able
to
keep
alive
the
spirits
of
his
Patience
,
he
swowned
three
times
in
their
hands
,
wherefore
the
unfortunate
Gentleman
was
carryed
half
dead
out
of
the
Palace
;
who
when
he
saw
his
own
private
House
,
fell
into
yet
greater
Agonies
;
so
as
these
Comforters
laboured
very
much
to
make
him
use
in
so
dangerous
a
nick
of
time
the
vertue
of
a
well-composed
minde
,
which
men
of
strong
complexions
can
shew
in
cases
of
Adversity
,
when
they
seem
to
do
that
cheerfully
,
of
meer
choice
,
which
they
are
forc'd
unto
by
inevitable
necessity
.
But
this
Gentleman
despairing
every
hour
more
and
more
in
his
misfortune
,
grew
so
horn-mad
as
to
call
every
man
ungrateful
;
and
it
was
cleerly
seen
that
the
new
Prince
his
happiness
,
the
Grandetsa
of
his
Nephews
,
and
the
prosperity
of
his
more
intimate
servants
and
friends
,
did
vex
him
more
then
his
own
Calamity
.
When
he
was
come
to
his
Paternal
House
,
he
had
not
heart
enough
to
look
upon
it
,
but
still
kept
his
eye
fixt
upon
the
place
where
he
had
been
.
Wherefore
the
Comforters
to
do
the
very
utmost
that
they
could
,
to
save
this
Gentlemans
reputation
;
which
was
in
so
evident
danger
of
being
lost
,
blind-folded
him
:
he
was
no
sooner
come
into
the
Hall
,
(
so
drunk
are
men
with
the
thought
of
rule
,
when
they
have
once
tasted
it
)
but
he
called
for
the
Agents
,
and
Princes
Embassadors
,
as
if
he
had
been
under
the
cloth
of
State
in
the
Palace
,
and
would
negotiate
with
them
,
having
no
business
at
all
,
and
seemed
as
if
he
would
still
govern
the
world
,
though
he
had
no
Authority
;
entertaining
himself
continually
with
grave
Affairs
,
not
having
any
thing
to
do
.
By
which
Actions
this
ill
advised
Gentleman
made
every
one
know
,
that
the
being
in
greatness
,
with
absolute
power
of
Command
,
makes
men
seem
wise
●…olomons
to
others
;
who
when
they
return
to
their
private
Fortunes
,
are
found
to
have
no
more
Brains
then
a
Goose
:
The
LX.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Antonio
Perez
of
Aragon
,
having
presented
Apollo
with
his
book
of
Relations
,
his
Majesty
does
not
onely
refuse
to
receive
it
,
but
commands
it
to
be
presently
burnt
.
ANtonio
Perez
,
formerly
Secretary
to
Philip
the
second
King
of
●…pain
,
knowing
the
ill
opinion
which
people
have
of
a
Secretary
who
parts
distasted
from
his
Prince
,
as
soon
as
he
was
got
into
France
,
he
published
in
his
own
discharge
,
those
his
unfortunate
relations
,
for
which
he
hath
been
so
much
blamed
:
for
whilst
he
should
have
endeavoured
by
all
means
possible
to
conceal
them
,
he
had
the
boldness
to
present
them
on
Thursday
morning
to
Apollo
;
who
as
soon
as
he
saw
the
book
and
was
informed
of
the
contents
thereof
,
he
was
so
incens'd
against
him
,
as
he
made
it
be
immediately
burnt
in
the
chief
Market-place
,
and
told
Perez
,
that
he
had
given
his
Relations
such
a
place
in
Pernassus
,
as
they
deserved
:
to
the
end
that
other
his
fellow
Secretaries
might
take
example
,
and
might
learn
to
prefer
secresie
and
faithful
silence
before
the
love
of
their
own
lives
,
or
of
themselves
.
For
as
he
deserved
the
name
of
a
wicked
man
,
who
upon
any
new
distast
discovers
the
secrets
wherewith
he
was
trusted
in
time
of
former
friendship
;
that
Secretary
was
to
be
held
a
thousand
times
more
base
and
infamous
,
who
for
whatsoever
bad
usage
he
could
receive
from
his
Prince
,
published
those
secrets
to
the
world
,
which
being
made
acquainted
withby
his
Prince
,
when
he
had
formerly
had
confidence
in
him
,
should
not
onely
not
be
willingly
divulg'd
,
but
ought
not
be
extorted
from
him
by
any
whatsoever
Fortune
.
The
LXI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
to
afford
past-time
to
his
Literati
,
makes
two
useful
Sceans
be
represented
upon
Melpomenee's
Theater
.
In
one
of
which
he
shews
the
lesser
Princes
with
what
wariness
they
ought
to
preserve
themselves
from
a
greater
Potentate
;
and
in
the
other
,
lets
Senators
of
Republicks
know
how
ill
advised
they
are
who
thorough
partiality
side
with
a
subject
of
their
own
faction
,
who
notoriously
ayms
at
Tyranny
.
THe
Ancient
Romans
,
Carthagenians
,
Athenians
,
and
other
the
famousest
Commonwealths
and
Monarchies
of
the
world
,
have
with
much
reason
always
thought
publike
shews
and
entertainments
to
be
the
best
means
to
maintain
States
in
that
universal
peace
,
and
quiet
to
every
particular
man
,
which
is
easiest
received
by
a
people
,
who
live
content
and
satisfyed
in
perpetual
jollities
.
Wherefore
the
ancient
Romans
built
magnificent
Theaters
,
and
Amphitheaters
,
in
which
to
delight
their
subjects
,
pleasant
spectacles
were
(
not
without
immense
charges
)
represented
:
it
being
a
dangerous
advice
for
such
as
govern
,
to
keep
their
people
discontented
,
and
buryed
in
sloath
and
idleness
.
Hence
it
is
that
Apollo
doth
not
imploy
himself
more
willingly
in
any
business
,
then
in
what
may
rejoyce
the
minds
of
his
Literati
,
by
diversity
of
shows
.
It
is
true
,
that
whereas
in
Rome
,
Athens
,
Carthage
,
and
other
places
;
all
the
delights
which
the
people
found
in
those
shows
,
were
occasioned
sometimes
by
the
obscenity
of
Players
,
oft
times
by
the
cruelty
of
their
gladiators
,
and
their
hunting
of
wild-beasts
,
the
delight
of
the
Vertuosi
of
this
State
consists
wholly
by
extracting
useful
Precepts
from
noble
representations
,
thereby
to
inrich
their
minds
.
Apollo
therefore
having
finisht
the
icy
way
of
Winter
,
when
he
was
to
begin
his
pleasant
journey
of
the
Spring
,
was
pleased
,
for
the
better
satisfaction
of
his
Literati
,
to
have
extraordinary
solemnities
used
at
his
entrance
into
Aries
:
To
which
purpose
he
caused
two
several
shows
to
be
represented
on
two
several
days
in
Melpomene's
Theater
,
which
were
extraordinary
useful
,
and
of
great
content
.
The
first
that
entered
upon
the
Theater
,
were
the
Associates
,
Confederates
,
Friends
,
and
the
sort
of
Militia
which
the
Romans
called
Auxiliary
souldiers
.
And
to
the
end
that
his
Vertuosi
might
be
the
better
satisfyed
by
the
sight
of
so
numerous
Armies
,
he
commanded
that
such
souldiers
should
appear
upon
the
Theater
,
with
the
same
Arms
,
Ensigns
,
and
with
all
those
warlike
Instruments
,
with
which
they
had
served
in
the
Roman
Armies
;
and
all
this
was
performed
with
so
great
a
number
of
Foot
and
Horse
,
with
so
Magnificent
Pomp
of
Regal
Ensigns
,
and
with
the
sound
of
divers
Instruments
of
war
,
with
such
rich
acoutrements
,
and
other
things
thereunto
appertaining
,
as
all
that
were
present
at
it
freely
confest
,
that
they
never
saw
so
curious
a
show
in
Pernassus
.
After
that
this
Militia
had
marched
divers
times
round
,
both
within
the
Theater
and
without
it
,
Apollo
sent
for
the
chief
leaders
thereof
,
and
bad
them
withdraw
for
a
while
to
within
their
quarters
,
and
that
they
should
return
to
the
Theater
in
the
very
same
posture
,
in
which
they
ended
their
unfortunate
Militia
with
the
Romans
.
Not
long
after
,
those
very
souldiers
who
had
appeared
upon
the
Theater
in
the
aforesaid
Pomp
,
were
seen
to
come
naked
with
their
hands
tyed
behind
them
,
stript
of
all
their
goods
,
loaded
with
Irons
,
full
of
wounds
,
ill
handled
by
executioners
,
rob'd
by
the
avarice
of
rapacious
Consuls
,
Proconsuls
,
by
the
Emperors
Agents
,
and
other
Officers
of
the
Roman
Empire
.
So
as
the
Romans
who
at
their
first
entry
made
so
stately
a
show
,
whom
Pernassus
had
seen
so
noble
an
Auxiliary
Militia
,
who
had
raised
their
Empire
to
such
an
immensity
,
and
who
were
so
glad
to
hear
their
civil
Government
so
exagerated
by
all
the
Literati
,
in
being
able
to
dilate
their
Empire
by
the
blood
of
other
men
,
were
forced
to
quit
the
Theater
,
and
to
hide
themselves
in
holes
,
that
so
they
might
shun
hearing
the
scorn
and
injurious
speeches
which
were
uttered
against
them
by
all
the
Literati
that
were
present
at
the
show
.
For
the
noble
Vertuosi
,
hating
from
their
very
souls
the
Roman
cruelty
,
and
ingratitude
used
towards
those
Nations
,
who
by
their
expence
of
blood
had
deserved
so
well
at
their
hands
,
asked
where
was
the
Faith
,
where
the
sacred
Friendship
,
where
the
Gratitude
used
to
those
their
Friends
,
to
those
who
had
so
well
deserved
of
the
people
of
Rome
,
and
by
their
lives
had
exalted
their
Empire
to
so
great
a
height
?
And
whether
these
were
Actions
becoming
that
Roman
Senate
,
who
made
so
great
a
show
,
and
boasted
so
much
of
Religion
,
Faith
,
and
unviolable
friendship
,
insomuch
as
all
did
detest
that
execrable
reason
of
State
,
which
following
onely
that
which
brings
men
apparent
advantage
can
so
impiously
turn
its
back
upon
what
is
just
and
honest
,
and
which
when
her
occasions
are
served
,
forgets
all
Obligations
,
how
great
so
ever
.
As
soon
as
this
miserable
sight
was
ended
,
Guiccardin
by
order
from
Apollo
,
got
up
into
a
very
high
place
,
and
made
a
long
Political
discourse
upon
the
little
discretion
,
and
upon
the
want
of
Charity
,
of
great
Monarchs
towards
petty
Princes
,
that
are
of
less
power
then
they
:
wherein
he
said
,
that
when
in
a
State
consisting
of
many
Princes
,
one
Prince
more
great
then
any
of
the
rest
,
took
up
Arms
to
bear
down
one
of
the
other
,
all
the
rest
,
to
keep
from
being
supprest
,
should
think
their
Companions
loss
,
their
own
ruine
,
a
means
to
bring
them
into
slavery
,
a
preparation
for
their
overthrow
;
and
that
therefore
,
absolutely
forgetting
all
private
hatreds
,
and
heart-burnings
,
they
should
all
of
them
imbrace
the
publike
Cause
,
and
●…un
by
their
common
forces
joyntly
to
asswage
that
fire
which
was
likely
in
a
short
time
to
reduce
their
own
homes
into
ashes
:
for
in
former
times
,
Asia
and
Africa
,
not
at
all
betaking
themselves
to
Arms
,
were
unfortunate
spectators
of
the
servitude
of
whole
Italy
,
subjugated
by
the
famous
Romans
:
and
in
more
modern
times
,
the
whilome
powerful
Kingdom
of
Hungary
,
to
it
s
now
great
sorrow
,
laught
at
the
overthrow
of
the
Grecian
Empire
;
that
therefore
in
like
dangers
,
every
Prince
should
have
the
two
golden
Sentences
of
that
Master
of
true
Policy
Tacitus
,
written
in
their
hearts
;
Omnibus
perire
quae
singuli
amittant
.
Tacit.
in
vita
Agriculae
.
It
being
very
true
that
in
such
like
cases
,
Singuli
dum
pugnant
,
Universi
vincuntur
.
And
that
they
should
esteem
such
honors
as
were
done
them
by
those
who
were
more
powerful
then
they
,
shameful
disgraces
;
alliances
which
they
might
contract
with
them
,
preparations
to
betray
them
;
the
advantage
which
they
might
get
by
Pensions
,
hooks
bayted
with
poyson
;
tricks
to
lull
them
asleep
,
onely
that
they
may
afterwards
,
with
a
little
mony
purchase
that
their
liberty
,
which
cannot
be
payd
by
mountains
of
gold
.
And
that
above
all
things
else
,
they
should
take
example
by
the
slavery
which
they
had
seen
of
the
Romans
associates
,
and
should
think
that
the
ambition
which
the
more
powerful
have
to
reign
having
no
Orison
,
the
accomplishment
of
conquering
an
Enemy
,
was
the
beginning
to
subjugate
a
Friend
.
The
second
day
Apollo
commanded
,
that
upon
the
same
Theater
,
all
those
great
Senators
should
first
appear
who
had
assisted
Caesar
his
Tyranny
,
and
that
of
Augustus
,
out
of
the
Interest
of
private
Ambition
,
or
out
of
meer
avarice
,
which
being
forthwith
done
,
he
gave
order
that
all
those
should
appear
who
were
wickedly
slain
in
the
cruel
Proscription
made
by
the
Triumviri
,
and
in
Augustus
his
long
reign
,
and
those
who
had
been
put
to
death
by
Tiberius
his
cruelty
,
Caligula's
bestiality
,
and
by
Nero's
fierce
Nature
.
This
was
the
most
sad
and
lamentable
spectacle
that
was
ever
seen
represented
in
the
memory
of
man
in
any
place
whatsoever
;
for
then
all
Pernassus
broke
forth
into
deep
sighs
,
and
shed
tears
in
abundance
,
when
those
that
had
assisted
Caesar
in
his
Tyranny
,
saw
that
not
onely
Tiberius
,
Caligula
,
Claudius
,
and
Nero
,
but
even
Augustus
himself
,
forgetting
the
obligations
which
they
ought
to
their
posterity
who
had
ayded
them
in
atchieving
their
Tyrannical
power
were
by
them
destroyed
and
cruelly
put
to
death
.
For
Children
not
inheriting
their
fathers
humors
,
as
they
do
their
Estates
,
many
of
the
sons
of
those
Senators
,
who
following
Caesars
,
and
Augustus
his
Colours
,
had
appeared
enemies
to
publike
liberty
,
were
afterwards
cruelly
slain
by
the
insuing
Tyrants
,
onely
for
that
they
discovered
too
much
their
love
to
live
free
;
others
for
proving
more
vertuous
Senators
,
then
would
stand
with
Tyrannical
Govenment
:
and
an
infinite
number
by
the
meer
bestiality
of
those
that
governed
.
This
so
horrid
sight
,
at
first
occasioned
great
silence
,
wherein
the
Vertuosi
considered
,
that
since
not
any
Plebeian
appeared
amongst
the
vast
number
of
those
that
were
slain
,
nor
any
other
principal
subject
of
the
Provinces
,
but
onely
worthy
Senators
,
and
Gentlemen
of
infinite
desert
;
the
cruelties
used
by
the
Tyrants
who
reigned
in
the
Roman
Empire
,
against
the
Senators
,
and
nobler
sort
of
Gentry
,
were
for
the
most
part
occasioned
,
thorow
the
defect
of
the
Nobility
;
who
not
able
to
preserve
publike
liberty
by
peace
,
(
as
they
ought
to
have
done
)
could
never
submit
themselves
to
receive
that
total
servitude
which
must
of
necessity
be
imbraced
under
the
Government
of
one
onely
man
:
but
by
their
many
Conspiracies
,
by
continual
misgovernment
of
their
Tongues
,
and
by
their
pride
of
speaking
like
free
men
,
whilst
they
were
in
slavery
,
did
so
provoke
and
anger
them
that
reigned
,
as
made
them
become
cruel
Butchers
of
the
Roman
Nobility
.
This
useful
consideration
being
ended
,
those
unfortunate
Senators
,
who
to
make
Caesar
,
and
Augustus
great
,
had
with
their
swords
in
hand
,
and
with
so
much
effusion
of
blood
,
banisht
liberty
from
out
their
Country
,
ran
as
if
they
had
been
mad
,
to
embrace
their
children
,
grandchildren
,
and
great
grand-children
who
had
been
so
Tyrannously
treated
;
but
being
by
them
driven
away
with
reproachful
speeches
,
those
Senators
more
afflicted
then
ever
,
said
;
You
have
reason
to
look
upon
us
your
Progenitors
,
with
an
incensed
eye
,
and
to
drive
us
like
enemies
out
of
your
sight
;
for
you
may
truly
say
these
your
wounds
were
occasioned
by
these
our
hands
,
the
Tyranny
which
hath
made
you
so
miserable
by
our
imprudency
,
your
calamities
by
our
foolish
Ambition
,
all
the
inhumanities
whereinto
we
have
most
imprudently
hurryed
you
,
by
our
unfortunate
jars
,
and
deplorable
discord
;
and
now
,
when
repentance
serves
onely
to
make
our
afflictions
the
greater
,
we
cleerly
see
by
this
your
miserable
spectacle
,
that
nothing
is
sweeter
,
that
there
is
no
greater
consolation
,
no
greater
Jubile
of
content
then
by
forgetting
injuries
,
pardoning
offences
,
and
embracing
enemies
,
to
live
in
a
free
Country
,
in
such
peace
as
eterniseth
Commonwealths
,
so
to
keep
from
falling
by
desire
of
revenge
,
into
those
mischiefs
into
which
we
are
ran
,
who
out
of
our
capricious
humors
having
lost
the
Liberty
of
our
Country
,
have
wickedly
precipitated
our
Families
,
and
our
blood
into
those
dire
miseries
which
we
are
bound
to
behold
;
and
have
learnt
to
know
at
last
,
by
the
blood
which
you
have
lost
,
that
great
dignities
,
and
supreme
Magistracies
in
a
free
Country
ought
to
be
conferred
upon
the
vertue
and
merit
of
honorable
Senators
,
and
ought
to
be
sought
for
by
such
,
not
upon
those
who
endeavor
the
procurement
thereof
,
(
as
we
have
wickedly
done
)
by
private
disorders
,
sedition
,
and
civil
wars
;
there
not
being
any
greater
folly
,
then
for
a
Senator
to
adhere
unto
a
friend
that
is
a
Tyrant
,
out
of
vain
hopes
of
bettering
his
condition
,
and
Family
in
publike
slavery
.
The
LXII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Lewis
de
la
Tremoglia
,
a
Noble
French
Baron
,
renounceth
his
Nobility
,
and
all
the
priviedges
which
he
therby
injoyed
,
in
presence
of
the
Monarchy
of
France
.
WHen
the
Illustrious
French
Monarchy
,
was
(
like
the
King
of
Bees
)
invironed
the
other
day
by
an
infinite
number
of
the
Barons
of
his
Nation
,
Monsignior
Lewis
de
la
Tremoglia
a
Noble
French
Lord
came
before
her
Majesty
,
and
boldly
said
,
That
though
he
were
born
a
Noble
man
of
France
,
yet
he
freely
renounced
his
Nobility
,
and
all
the
priviledges
thereunto
belonging
,
contenting
himself
to
be
numbred
in
the
third
rank
of
the
people
of
France
,
Those
who
were
present
at
this
so
great
Novelty
,
say
,
that
the
French
Monarchy
,
which
never
knew
what
fear
meant
,
shewed
manifest
tokens
of
Apprehension
at
the
hearing
of
this
his
so
resolute
deliberation
,
and
some
are
of
opinion
that
it
was
occasioned
,
for
that
Tremoglia
being
known
by
all
the
Nobility
of
France
to
be
greatly
wi●…e
,
the
French
Monarchy
doubted
lest
this
example
might
make
many
others
take
the
same
resolution
;
a
disorder
which
might
,
if
not
altogether
deprive
him
of
the
gallant
and
couragious
sword
of
his
warlike
Nobles
,
might
at
least
very
much
weaken
it
by
the
admirable
worth
whereof
she
had
not
onely
founded
,
and
augmented
so
powerful
a
kingdom
,
but
did
maintain
it
in
great
tranquility
.
This
opinion
was
increased
,
for
that
the
French
Monarchy
seemed
not
onely
not
to
be
offended
at
this
scandalous
resolution
,
of
Tremoglio's
but
taking
him
by
the
hand
,
led
him
into
his
privat
Cabinet
,
where
for
a
good
while
he
had
private
discourse
with
him
.
The
French
Barons
who
stood
without
,
though
they
were
very
desirous
to
〈◊〉
what
past
between
Tremoglia
and
their
Monarchy
,
yet
could
〈◊〉
●…t
possibly
learn
any
thing
of
it
;
they
onely
observed
by
Tremoglia's
laying
often
his
hand
upon
his
breast
,
that
he
seemed
as
if
he
made
some
Oath
to
the
French
Monarchy
to
keep
some
certain
promise
which
those
●…arons
thought
might
be
,
that
he
would
never
discover
the
reason
to
any
one
,
which
had
made
him
put
on
so
strange
a
resolution
.
Every
one
wondered
to
see
that
so
gallant
a
personage
could
resolve
to
relinquish
the
honor
of
the
French
Nobility
,
which
is
held
in
so
great
esteem
,
as
those
who
have
purchased
it
at
the
prise
of
much
blood
,
thought
they
came
cheaply
by
it
.
But
some
great
men
of
this
Court
,
whose
usual
custom
it
is
to
indeavour
to
know
,
and
freely
to
speak
their
minds
of
all
mens
actions
,
said
,
that
Tr●…moglia
having
found
at
last
with
what
tricks
the
French
Monarchy
doth
fetch
about
her
Nobility
,
would
by
renouncing
his
Nobility
,
let
the
world
know
,
that
the
condition
of
the
common
people
of
France
,
who
satisfie
their
impositions
by
ready
mony
,
was
much
better
then
that
of
the
Nobility
who
being
bound
to
serve
their
King
in
his
wars
,
pay
it
with
their
blood
.
The
LXIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Don
Ferrante
Gonsaga
being
Governor
of
Corinthus
,
is
exhorted
by
Domitio
Corbulone
severely
to
resent
a
great
excess
,
committed
by
a
chief
personage
of
that
City
:
which
Counsel
Gonsago
wisely
refutes
.
DOn
Ferrante
Gonsaga
was
sent
some
weeks
ago
to
be
Governour
of
Corinthus
;
an
important
and
difficult
charge
,
that
Province
abounding
in
a
powerful
,
and
wealthy
Nobility
,
given
to
be
proud
,
and
lovers
of
Arms
:
who
do
not
onely
(
according
to
the
usual
custom
)
deal
hardly
with
those
that
are
less
powerful
,
but
by
reason
of
their
ancient
Factions
,
living
still
contentiously
,
it
seldom
happens
that
the
Governour
is
of
such
intellectuals
as
to
give
full
satisfaction
both
to
Apollo
,
and
to
the
people
.
Gonsaga
had
not
past
over
his
first
months
government
,
when
one
of
the
chief
of
the
Nobility
chanced
to
commit
a
very
inconsiderate
insolency
.
Don
Ferrante
seemed
not
onely
to
be
much
perplext
how
to
revenge
,
but
appeared
to
many
to
be
very
sad
for
what
had
happened
.
Domitio
Corbulone
a
gallant
Roman
,
and
a
great
friend
to
Gonsaga
,
told
him
that
he
had
now
another
fair
occasion
,
which
required
the
same
resolution
which
he
took
when
he
was
Governor
of
Cicily
,
against
those
Spanish
souldiers
who
mutinyed
:
that
therefore
he
ought
rather
to
rejoyce
,
then
to
be
troubled
,
for
what
had
now
happened
in
his
government
;
for
Governors
of
Provinces
where
there
was
a
seditious
Nobility
,
might
think
themselves
Fortunate
,
when
at
the
entrance
into
their
Government
any
great
personage
should
commit
some
heynous
fault
,
by
whose
exemplary
punishment
,
the
unquiet
Nobility
might
be
so
terrifyed
,
as
the
government
of
the
whole
Province
might
be
the
better
for
it
a
long
time
after
:
which
he
said
was
so
true
a
Document
,
as
others
who
had
practised
it
had
reaped
much
honor
thereby
.
For
when
the
charge
over
t●…
Roman
Forces
which
were
afterwards
to
fight
in
Armenia
,
was
giv●…●…im
,
he
finding
that
through
the
meer
simplicity
of
those
who
had
the
care
thereof
the
souldiers
were
grown
to
be
very
Licentious
,
not
observing
any
manner
of
Military
Discipline
,
by
his
meer
resolution
which
he
put
on
in
the
very
beginning
of
his
charge
,
of
condemning
two
souldiers
to
undergo
the
severest
punishment
,
the
oneor
that
when
he
was
working
in
the
Trenches
,
he
had
not
any
Arms
at
all
about
him
;
the
other
,
because
he
wore
a
dagger
without
a
sword
,
he
reduced
that
so
licencious
Army
to
the
exact
obedience
of
the
good
ancient
Military
discipline
;
and
he
further
said
,
that
the
world
was
so
well
pleased
with
this
his
severity
,
as
Tacitus
himself
having
authenticated
it
in
his
Annals
as
an
undoubted
maxim
in
Policy
,
fit
to
be
imitated
by
all
Officers
,
had
transmitted
it
to
Posterity
in
these
words
;
Intentumque
&
magnis
delictis
inexo●…abilem
scias
,
cui
tantum
asperitatis
etiam
adversus
levia
credebatur
.
Ferrante
answered
Corbulone
,
that
one
sort
of
government
was
to
be
used
with
souldiers
in
Armies
,
and
an
other
sort
with
Citizens
in
the
Government
of
Provinces
.
That
Commanders
in
war
judged
according
to
their
humors
and
with
free
authority
,
but
Governors
of
Cities
were
bound
to
observe
Laws
,
and
having
their
hands
thereby
bound
,
they
must
be
thereby
regulated
.
That
he
very
well
knew
that
many
Officers
,
to
the
end
that
they
might
humble
the
insolent
,
quiet
the
seditious
,
and
pacifie
the
tumultuous
,
used
unheard
of
severities
at
their
very
entrance
into
command
upon
such
Delinquents
as
fell
first
into
their
hands
;
but
that
he
had
likewise
observed
that
those
that
did
so
,
ran
danger
at
last
,
by
their
bruitish
way
of
proceeding
.
For
he
strayed
very
far
from
the
right
way
,
who
thought
to
attain
good
ends
by
unjust
means
.
For
God
who
did
abhor
that
faults
should
be
punished
by
greater
faults
,
could
not
any
ways
tolerate
without
exemplary
punishment
upon
the
Judges
,
that
injustice
should
be
done
to
any
one
,
though
it
tended
to
the
universal
quiet
.
That
he
loved
onely
such
understanding
Officers
who
could
conscienciously
apply
fitting
punishments
to
faults
;
that
he
desired
rather
that
men
might
err
on
the
charitable
side
,
then
exceed
in
rigor
;
and
that
he
had
observed
that
those
who
begin
their
government
with
too
much
severity
,
must
either
continue
it
with
too
barbarous
cruelty
,
or
lose
their
credit
by
altering
their
maner
of
government
:
that
he
had
rather
leave
Corinth
with
the
reputation
of
being
a
too
indulgent
,
then
too
severe
an
Officer
,
That
all
times
,
places
,
and
persons
not
being
alike
,
that
Officer
was
very
unwise
who
would
put
himself
upon
a
necessity
to
proceed
always
after
one
&
the
same
maner
;
&
him
wise
,
who
being
sometimes
indulgent
,
sometimes
severe
,
&
sometimes
cruel
,
who
knew
how
to
keep
himself
free
in
all
his
ways
of
proceeding
,
could
upon
any
excess
suddainly
committed
,
or
by
too
powerful
a
personage
,
or
in
times
of
trouble
,
or
when
to
punish
insolency
with
usual
severity
,
would
rather
aggravate
then
amend
the
malady
,
make
men
believe
that
he
had
past
over
such
a
fault
meerly
out
of
his
own
clemency
,
which
he
could
not
possibly
punish
according
to
the
rigor
of
the
Laws
,
out
of
important
respects
.
That
he
confest
he
might
infuse
the
same
terror
into
the
Nobility
of
his
government
,
by
using
extraordinary
rigor
toward
that
powerful
Delinquent
,
which
Corbulone
had
infused
into
his
whole
Army
,
by
his
severe
proceeding
with
those
two
soldiers
;
but
that
then
Corbulone
must
likewise
confess
,
that
upon
another
occasion
,
at
another
time
,
or
in
another
place
,
that
same
noble
man
,
or
any
other
m●…●…ommit
a
greater
insolency
,
which
was
for
the
good
of
the
Coun●…
〈◊〉
be
winkt
at
;
nay
,
sometimes
praysed
and
rewarded
;
that
this
was
a
great
advantage
,
which
was
gotten
by
the
advised
Officer
,
only
by
a
judicious
variety
in
his
proceedings
:
and
that
too
much
rigor
in
a
government
to
frighten
delinquents
,
was
only
then
good
when
it
was
used
towards
the
meaner
sort
of
people
,
who
through
their
innate
timerousness
do
more
dread
punishment
then
love
reputation
.
But
that
the
nobly
born
(
who
usually
erred
more
in
revenging
the
injuries
done
unto
his
honor
,
then
through
any
malignity
of
minde
)
thought
himself
injured
by
the
too
great
severity
of
the
Law
,
and
together
with
his
kindred
and
friends
who
account
that
shame
,
whotever
it
be
,
as
done
to
their
whole
generation
,
grew
so
incenc'd
,
and
inraged
,
as
to
aff●…ont
the
too
humerous
Officer
in
his
reputation
,
and
study
revenge
.
By
all
which
he
cleerly
saw
that
the
Officer
was
ill
advised
,
who
whilst
he
might
carry
himself
freely
in
all
his
actions
,
should
by
his
cruel
usage
of
the
Nobiliy
exceed
the
terms
of
that
equal
Justice
which
ought
to
be
so
adequate
to
the
crime
committed
.
That
to
proceed
otherwise
,
was
foolishly
to
put
fetters
upon
a
mans
own
feet
,
by
obliging
him
to
be
equally
severe
to
all
sorts
and
conditions
of
men
,
and
make
himself
slave
to
shameful
&
dangerous
cruelty
.
To
this
Corbulone
replyed
,
that
he
was
not
wise
enough
to
weigh
businesses
with
the
distinctions
of
time
,
place
and
persons
;
but
that
practice
being
the
rule
that
he
went
by
,
he
knew
that
the
punishment
of
those
two
foot
souldiers
,
had
kept
him
from
being
trou●…led
with
using
many
the
like
severities
.
But
,
said
Gonsaga
,
it
would
have
proved
otherwise
if
you
had
used
the
same
cruelty
to
any
of
the
chief
Officers
of
the
Army
:
and
that
the
custom
used
by
Gardners
was
excellently
good
,
and
very
fit
to
be
imitated
by
all
wise
Governors
of
Provinces
,
who
make
scare-crows
of
the
filthiest
rags
and
●…outs
about
the
house
,
to
frighten
birds
from
eating
their
fruit
,
and
not
of
rich
silks
and
velvets
.
The
LXIV
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Prince
of
Macedon
accuseth
the
Nobility
of
Athens
of
Treason
before
Apollo
,
who
are
freed
from
that
imputatoon
,
by
his
Majesties
Councel
of
war
.
THe
Duke
of
Athens
dyed
about
the
last
of
September
,
and
difference
arose
between
the
Prince
of
Macedon
,
and
the
Lord
of
Epire
touching
the
succession
of
that
State
.
The
Prince
of
Macedon
,
being
called
in
by
the
people
,
took
possession
of
Athens
,
against
whom
the
Lord
of
Epire
came
with
a
numerous
Army
,
and
besieged
his
enemy
in
the
City
of
Epire
,
and
according
to
the
modern
way
of
warfare
,
begirt
it
with
Trenches
and
Forts
;
and
that
he
might
bring
the
defendants
the
sooner
to
yield
,
he
assaulted
Macedonia
with
an
other
flourishing
Army
,
making
great
progress
there
,
and
doing
much
harm
.
The
Prince
of
Macedon
,
who
knew
he
could
not
long
maintain
himself
in
the
besieged
City
,
and
defend
his
own
Patrimony
,
to
keep
from
loosing
both
,
resolved
to
yield
,
and
was
contented
to
deliver
up
possession
of
whole
Athens
,
to
the
enemy
,
upon
condition
he
should
restore
such
place
unto
him
as
he
had
taken
in
Macedon
.
As
soon
as
the
Nobility
of
th●…●…esieged
City
heard
of
this
resolution
,
the
chief
of
them
came
un●…
Prince
and
told
him
,
that
as
they
had
called
him
in
to
be
their
Lord
and
Master
,
so
would
they
never
acknowledge
any
other
Prince
but
he
;
and
that
if
he
would
but
be
of
good
courage
,
he
should
find
them
ready
to
defend
that
State
even
to
the
last
drop
of
their
bloods
.
To
this
the
Panswered
,
that
the
danger
of
his
becoming
a
private
foot
souldier
,
was
too
great
,
that
therefore
for
the
better
security
of
his
fortune
,
he
was
resolved
to
deliver
up
Athens
to
the
Lord
of
Epire.
Those
Lords
did
then
again
beseech
their
Prince
to
confide
in
his
subjects
,
who
did
not
onely
assure
him
that
they
would
defend
Attica
,
but
that
they
would
likewise
recover
Macedon
;
and
lastly
conjured
him
to
remember
,
that
they
who
with
such
readiness
,
and
singular
affection
,
had
chosen
him
to
be
their
Prince
,
did
not
deserve
in
this
their
urgent
necessity
,
to
be
so
ungratefully
abandoned
,
and
given
up
in
prey
to
the
Prince
of
Epire
;
who
was
much
inraged
against
them
for
being
rejected
by
them
in
that
Election
▪
The
offers
and
intercedings
of
these
noble
men
,
did
not
only
not
at
all
incourage
this
Prince
,
but
at
the
very
self
same
time
he
dispatched
away
a
Herald
to
the
enemies
Camp
to
conclude
the
agreed
on
Capitulation
▪
Then
the
people
of
Athens
,
that
they
might
not
be
sold
as
slaves
to
that
their
enemy
,
whom
they
knew
they
had
so
hainously
offended
,
seised
on
their
Prince
and
made
him
prisoner
,
and
secured
his
person
in
the
Palace
putting
a
numerous
and
faithful
guard
upon
him
of
the
best
men
of
the
City
.
This
mean
while
the
deputies
of
the
Prince
of
Epire
came
to
conclude
the
agreement
,
to
whom
the
Nobility
of
Athens
answered
,
that
it
was
they
that
must
be
treated
with
in
the
point
of
surrender
,
who
were
so
far
from
making
any
agreement
with
the
Prince
of
Epire
,
as
they
willed
him
to
know
,
that
they
were
resolved
to
defend
their
Country
,
and
sent
away
the
Deputie●…
with
this
resolute
and
stout
answer
.
The
next
day
the
young
men
of
Athens
sallyed
forth
armed
,
and
in
a
couragious
assault
slew
many
of
the
enemy
;
and
soon
after
making
many
other
sallies
,
put
the
enemies
Camp
into
such
confusion
,
as
the
Prince
of
Epire
,
who
thought
himself
before
to
be
very
sure
of
the
business
,
began
much
to
doubt
the
victory
,
and
after
many
months
siedge
,
in
all
which
time
the
Citizens
of
Athens
appeared
to
have
no
less
resolute
hearts
,
then
ready
hands
,
came
to
parley
with
the
enemy
,
who
had
already
enough
of
the
business
;
and
on
the
11
of
this
present
month
such
advantagious
conditions
were
agreed
upon
for
the
people
of
Athen●…
as
became
free
men
,
which
being
done
,
they
sent
the
Prince
of
Macedonia
home
to
his
own
State
;
who
three
days
since
came
to
Apollo
,
and
did
not
only
complain
bitterly
of
the
hard
proceedings
used
●…to
him
by
the
Nobility
of
Athens
,
but
prest
very
hard
that
they
should
be
hung
up
in
effigies
as
Traytors
,
in
the
great
Pegasean
Tower
,
for
this
their
execrable
rebellion
.
His
Majesty
thought
this
a
very
weighty
business
,
wherefore
he
referred
it
to
his
Counsel
of
War
:
The
reasons
of
both
sides
were
divers
times
heard
,
and
discust
by
the
Counsel
,
which
at
last
gave
sentence
,
That
the
offers
of
the
A●…tick
Nobility
being
made
so
chearfully
to
the
Prince
of
Macedon
,
and
they
being
by
him
refused
,
it
being
apparent
that
he
was
resolved
for
other
particular
ends
of
his
own
,
to
give
over
the
defence
of
the
City
,
it
was
lawful
for
those
Noble
men
,
when
their
Prince
had
abandoned
that
protection
of
the
people
,
to
which
all
Princes
stand
deeply
bound
,
to
use
that
expedient
though
it
were
very
severe
.
A
thing
done
by
il
Signor
Lodovico
Oriosto
,
caused
much
wonder
in
all
those
who
were
present
at
this
so
signal
sentence
;
who
when
he
had
heard
the
judgement
given
,
took
his
hat
from
off
his
head
,
and
like
a
mad
man
,
threw
it
on
the
ground
;
then
lifting
up
his
eyes
to
heaven
,
and
fetching
a
deep
sigh
,
uttered
these
words
in
a
sorrowful
tone
,
Dii
immortale
,
homo
homini
quid
praestat
?
stulte
Intelligens
quid
interest
?
The
LXV
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
A
Shop-Keeper
is
condemned
to
the
Gallies
at
the
very
instant
that
he
was
seised
on
by
the
Serjeants
,
not
being
so
much
as
examined
.
THe
Shop-keeper
who
dwelt
at
the
signe
of
the
two
Crowns
in
Mercers
Street
,
was
four
daies
since
taken
prisoner
by
the
Serjeants
;
and
being
immediately
upon
his
being
taken
,
carried
to
the
Haven
,
and
put
into
the
Gallies
;
whole
Pernassus
wondred
very
much
hereat
,
to
see
that
the
execution
of
the
Judgement
should
precede
process
.
'T
is
said
that
this
was
done
at
the
instance
of
the
chief
Monarchs
of
the
world
then
resident
in
this
State
,
who
held
themselves
mightily
offended
with
that
Shop-keeper
,
because
he
sold
publiquely
meer
smoke
▪
a
commodity
which
Princes
pretend
is
not
to
be
sold
by
private
men
;
and
therefore
it
is
thought
,
that
by
his
example
they
would
affright
others
from
not
troubling
them
in
things
which
concern
their
Jurisdiction
;
and
although
the
less
solid
sort
of
men
thought
that
the
Shop-keeper's
fault
deserved
not
so
great
a
resentment
,
yet
those
who
see
further
into
the
interest
of
great
Princes
,
say
that
they
dealt
very
gently
with
him
;
for
meer
smoke
serving
Princes
upon
many
occasions
instead
of
ready
money
,
all
their
richest
Treasure
would
soon
be
exhausted
,
when
the
so
current
money
of
meer
smoke
becoming
of
no
reputation
amongst
people
,
Princes
should
be
forced
,
like
to
common
people
,
to
pay
their
debts
in
ready
coyn
.
The
LXVI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Bernardino
Rota
,
a
famous
Neapolitan
Poet
,
being
greatly
beloved
by
the
Vertuosi
of
all
Professions
in
Pernassus
,
is
accused
before
Apollo
,
for
having
purchast
so
general
a
good
liking
by
some
ill
means
.
BErnardino
Rota
,
a
Noble
Neapolitan
Poet
,
to
the
great
wonder
of
all
the
Literati
of
th●…s
Court
,
is
so
strangely
beloved
by
the
whole
Colledg
of
the
Vertuosi
;
as
he
is
stiled
by
every
one
,
the
delight
of
Pernassus
.
And
truely
it
appears
a
great
miracle
to
every
one
,
that
since
there
are
more
then
capital
jars
,
divisions
,
and
enmities
between
the
Greeks
and
Latins
,
between
the
Latins
and
Italians
,
between
Physitians
and
Doctors
of
Law
,
between
the
Peripatetick
and
Platonick
Philosophers
between
the
Grammarians
,
and
all
other
professions
of
the
Vertuosi
,
only
La
Rota
is
rather
adored
then
beloved
,
by
all
,
and
by
each
of
them
.
And
because
it
appears
very
strange
to
every
one
,
that
if
so
amiable
a
nature
proceed
only
from
the
vertue
of
the
soul
,
it
be
not
found
to
be
in
any
other
of
the
Vertuosi
of
this
State
,
its
being
only
seen
to
be
in
La
Rota
,
hath
made
every
one
suspect
,
that
this
man
who
appears
to
have
a
candid
and
liberal
soul
,
is
in
effect
otherwise
;
and
that
he
hath
won
this
universal
good
will
by
the
vice
of
playing
Jack
of
both
sides
,
a
vice
which
his
Majesty
doth
so
much
detest
;
and
therefore
being
questioned
by
Marioulo
in
the
Tribunal
Della
Vicaria
,
he
was
made
prisoner
two
daies
since
;
and
it
hapned
,
that
whilst
the
Tipstafs
of
the
Court
,
searched
him
to
see
whether
he
had
any
weapons
about
him
or
no
,
they
found
a
great
deal
of
Storax
and
Incense
bound
up
in
a
paper
in
his
pocket
.
Severe
process
was
made
by
the
Judges
against
La
Rota
.
But
Apollo
,
the
better
to
inform
himself
of
what
was
proved
against
this
his
Vertuoso
,
commanded
that
he
should
be
brought
into
the
Quarantia
Criminale
;
where
his
Majesty
asked
him
,
whether
he
did
inchant
mens
minds
by
the
Magick
of
flattery
,
by
the
sacriledg
of
assisting
others
in
their
fowl
vices
,
or
whether
it
was
only
by
the
chains
of
vertue
,
that
he
did
so
straitly
fasten
unto
him
his
Literati
,
and
chiefly
that
he
should
tell
him
what
use
he
made
of
that
Storax
and
Incense
which
was
found
about
him
.
To
which
La
Rota
answered
;
that
he
had
purchast
the
love
of
all
the
Vertuosi
in
Pernassus
,
only
by
detesting
to
imitate
others
in
their
contentions
,
and
that
he
won
upon
the
affections
of
all
men
,
and
made
them
love
him
,
by
the
sincerity
of
his
soul
,
and
candidness
of
heart
,
by
not
desiring
to
know
,
much
less
to
busie
himself
in
other
mens
affairs
,
and
by
practicing
the
excellent
vertue
with
all
men
,
in
all
places
,
and
at
all
times
,
of
seeing
,
hearing
,
and
concealing
the
actions
of
his
loving
friends
and
companions
,
and
by
divulging
only
such
as
might
purchase
others
glory
and
reputation
,
and
chiefly
by
applying
himself
to
every
ones
humor
,
and
that
to
the
purpose
,
that
he
might
rather
make
himself
be
idolatrized
then
beloved
by
all
men
,
he
used
to
perfume
every
one
with
the
Storax
of
praise
,
and
with
the
Incense
of
commendations
,
which
was
found
about
him
.
Apollo
then
spoke
alowd
,
and
said
,
O
you
that
are
overswaid
with
passion
,
who
are
so
obstinate
in
your
opinions
;
learn
from
this
my
most
wise
Poet
,
the
Art
so
necessary
for
men
,
of
applying
your selves
to
the
humor
of
those
with
whom
you
converse
.
This
is
the
way
to
live
in
the
world
,
this
is
the
true
means
to
make
men
flock
after
you
,
by
making
your selves
slaves
to
all
men
,
so
to
arrive
afterwards
at
the
happy
condition
of
commanding
all
men
.
The
LXVII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
A
Carpenter
being
cudgeled
somewhat
severely
,
for
having
uttered
certain
insolent
words
against
the
most
noble
Scaliger
,
to
his
greater
calamity
,
complains
first
of
him
to
the
Lord
chief
Iustice
,
and
afterwards
appeals
to
Apollo
.
Julius
Cesar
Scaliger
,
that
famous
Literato
of
Verona
,
caused
some
curious
shelves
to
be
made
some
few
daies
ago
in
his
Library
,
by
a
Carpenter
,
which
being
finished
,
a
dispute
arose
between
them
,
not
so
much
concerning
the
price
,
as
the
ill
workmanship
;
and
whilst
they
were
at
variance
,
the
Carpenter
being
more
bold
then
became
him
(
as
is
the
fashion
of
Plebeians
,
who
negotiating
for
the
most
part
with
the
common
sort
of
people
,
weigh
not
their
words
,
when
they
have
to
do
with
people
of
quality
)
said
,
that
Scaliger
was
subject
to
the
fault
of
other
Noble
men
,
to
stand
upon
hard
tearms
with
poor
Artificers
.
Scaliger
was
so
touched
to
the
quick
with
this
injury
,
as
appearing
presently
to
be
very
well
satisfied
with
the
shelves
;
and
with
their
price
,
he
caused
the
money
to
be
forthwith
paid
unto
the
Carpenter
,
which
he
demanded
.
The
Carpenter
answering
,
that
he
was
fully
satisfied
,
Scaliger
reply'd
,
that
it
now
rested
that
he
must
likewise
have
his
satisfaction
,
which
lay
in
teaching
such
arrogant
fellows
as
he
,
how
to
govern
their
tongues
;
which
being
said
,
he
commanded
a
servant
of
his
,
to
take
a
Cudgel
,
and
therewithall
conjure
out
the
fowl
fiend
of
insolence
that
was
in
him
;
wherein
he
was
instantly
obeyed
.
The
miserable
Carpenter
being
soundly
beaten
,
presented
himself
all
bleeding
before
the
chief
Justice
,
and
complained
grievously
of
Scaliger
for
having
treated
him
so
ill
.
The
Justice
,
before
he
would
resolve
on
any
thing
,
would
(
as
it
became
him
)
inform
himself
fully
of
the
fact
;
and
when
he
heard
the
insolent
words
wherewith
the
Carpenter
had
provoked
Scaliger
,
he
commanded
the
Goaler
forthwith
to
give
that
insolent
fellow
three
sound
lashes
with
a
rope
;
which
was
done
.
Whereupon
the
cudgel'd
Carpenter
went
about
Pernassus
crying
,
and
exclaiming
more
against
the
Justice
,
then
against
Scaliger
.
The
Literati
of
this
Court
differed
in
their
opinions
touching
the
chief
Justice
his
Act
;
some
of
them
blamed
him
extreamly
,
for
that
by
that
action
he
did
too
much
encourage
the
Nobility
,
who
were
naturally
given
to
deal
too
injuriously
with
the
common
sort
of
people
;
and
some
of
these
,
who
bore
ill
will
to
the
chief
Justice
,
egg'd
on
the
Carpenter
to
complain
to
Apollo
,
both
of
Scaliger
,
and
of
the
chief
Justice
.
His
Majesty
,
who
had
a
little
before
been
very
particularly
informed
of
all
that
had
passed
in
this
business
,
speaking
to
the
Carpenter
,
&
those
who
were
back-friends
to
the
chief
Justice
,
who
had
egg'd
him
on
to
make
his
appeal
,
said
,
That
he
as
much
hated
the
insolent
proceedings
of
his
Nobility
with
the
common
sort
of
people
,
as
he
was
very
much
distasted
that
Shop-keepers
,
and
others
of
the
meaner
sort
of
men
,
should
by
bold
speeches
injure
the
reputation
of
those
who
live
only
to
purchase
honour
and
renown
;
and
that
the
common
sort
of
people
were
much
deceived
,
if
they
did
believe
that
such
Justice
was
practised
in
Pernassus
,
as
wrought
no
other
effect
then
what
would
make
the
rabble-rout
insolent
,
and
that
it
was
great
folly
to
trouble
a
Noble
man
,
who
having
moderately
revenged
himself
for
an
injury
done
unto
him
by
a
Plebeian
,
had
only
deserved
punishment
if
he
should
have
basely
put
it
up
,
and
so
much
the
more
,
for
that
it
did
much
misbecome
such
a
personage
as
Scaliger
,
to
apply
himself
to
Courts
of
Justice
for
injuries
done
unto
him
by
such
people
,
and
thereby
become
the
table-talk
of
Justices
and
Notaries
.
That
he
much
commended
the
discretion
of
the
Emperor
Charls
the
fifth
,
who
as
he
was
returning
with
his
Emperess
from
a
Turney
which
was
made
about
Toledo
,
did
not
only
not
resent
an
action
done
by
the
D.
of
Infantaga
,
who
cut
a
Provost
Marshal
soundly
over
the
head
,
that
whipt
on
his
horse
,
bidding
him
ride
faster
,
though
the
action
was
done
against
a
publique
Officer
,
and
in
his
presence
,
but
with
like
Justice
as
ought
to
be
used
to
a
Noble
man
injured
by
a
Plebeian
,
gave
the
Duke
to
understand
,
that
if
he
pleased
,
he
might
hang
that
sawcy
fellow
;
which
the
Duke
would
not
only
not
suffer
to
be
done
,
but
with
a
Castilian
magnanimity
,
beseeched
the
Emperor
to
pardon
the
Provost
Marshal
,
and
accompanied
the
wound
with
500
crowns
which
he
sent
the
wretch
,
that
he
might
be
the
better
cured
.
Then
Apollo
added
,
that
there
being
three
chief
felicities
which
made
humane
men
happy
,
Peace
,
Justice
,
and
Plenty
,
unless
Princes
who
govern
the
world
,
were
the
more
circumspect
,
severe
Justice
served
only
to
make
the
rabble-rout
proud
;
universal
peace
,
to
make
men
cowards
;
and
perpetual
plenty
,
to
make
people
who
living
formerly
by
the
sweat
of
their
brows
,
were
industrious
,
idle
,
of
no
use
,
and
vagabonds
:
And
that
it
being
very
true
,
that
Princes
were
the
Shepherds
of
mankind
,
the
common
people
the
Sheep
,
and
the
Nobility
the
Dogs
which
guard
the
flocks
,
and
keep
them
from
the
Wolves
;
it
was
likewise
as
true
,
that
by
all
right
of
good
Government
,
the
Nobility
ought
to
be
maintained
bold
,
and
to
be
rather
armed
with
Iron
Collars
of
Generosity
,
to
defend
them
from
the
Wolves
,
then
through
the
fear
of
equal
Justice
(
so
peculiar
to
ignorant
men
)
be
cow'd
in
such
manner
,
as
that
the
very
Sheep
with
the
horns
of
unsupportable
insolence
,
durst
dare
to
butt
at
them
.
The
LXVIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
great
Emperor
Maximilian
the
first
,
having
said
in
a
great
Assembly
of
the
chiefest
Princes
of
this
State
,
that
the
Mahometan
Religion
was
nothing
but
Policy
,
proves
by
●●cellent
reasons
to
the
very
teeth
of
the
Ottoman
Monarchy
,
who
complained
hainously
thereof
to
Apollo
,
that
he
had
said
nothing
but
truth
.
WHilst
some
daies
ago
the
Emperor
Maximilian
the
first
,
Lodovick
the
eleventh
King
of
France
,
Matthias
Corvino
King
of
Hungary
,
Stephano
Battori
King
of
Poland
,
and
the
famous
Andrea
Gretti
,
Prince
of
the
Venetian
Republick
,
were
reasoning
together
(
as
it
is
the
custom
of
great
Princes
to
do
)
touching
the
affairs
of
the
world
,
they
spent
much
time
in
considering
the
greatness
of
the
Ottoman
Empire
;
and
whilst
every
one
spake
their
opinion
of
that
Government
,
The
Emperor
Maximilian
did
freely
confess
that
there
were
many
Military
Disciplines
practised
in
the
Ottoman
Empire
,
which
were
worthy
of
admiration
,
but
that
the
Mahometan
Sect
was
throughout
so
impure
and
foul
,
as
it
seemed
to
be
altogether
unworthy
the
practice
of
men
;
and
that
a
desire
of
piety
was
manifestly
seen
in
many
Institutors
of
Divine
Laws
,
although
the
Religion
which
they
profest
,
was
notoriously
false
;
their
errors
being
occasioned
meerly
out
of
their
ignorance
of
Divine
things
;
but
that
the
infinite
impieties
which
were
discovered
in
the
Ottoman
Sect
,
were
wholly
malitious
in
giving
Laws
to
her
followers
;
Mahomet
having
proved
himself
to
be
a
better
Politician
then
Divine
;
it
being
clearly
seen
,
that
to
purchase
followers
who
would
imbrace
that
new
Sect
,
he
had
more
respect
in
the
forming
of
his
Alcharon
to
satisfie
the
body
then
the
soul
,
and
to
aggrandize
an
earthly
Kingdom
,
then
to
make
others
gain
Heaven
.
And
that
in
other
Sects
,
the
Institutors
there
of
made
use
of
Divine
Precepts
,
for
the
bettering
of
human
affairs
,
very
cunningly
cloaking
over
all
their
impieties
,
lest
people
when
they
should
come
to
the
knowledge
of
their
foule
hypocrisie
,
might
be
scandallized
.
But
that
Mahomet
alone
,
out
of
a
meer
greediness
of
Government
,
did
affrontedly
laugh
at
sacred
things
,
to
raise
the
value
of
prophane
ones
.
These
words
,
though
they
past
between
Princes
of
such
eminency
,
were
suddenly
brought
to
the
Ottoman
Monarchy
,
who
took
them
so
ill
,
as
he
immediatly
gave
the
Emperor
Maximilian
to
understand
by
a
Bassa
of
his
,
that
he
would
,
as
it
became
him
to
do
,
defend
with
his
Arms
,
the
contrary
to
all
that
he
had
spoken
to
the
prejudice
of
his
Laws
;
and
at
the
same
instant
that
he
sent
this
Ambassy
,
he
made
ready
his
numerous
Army
.
Maximilian
nothing
affrighted
at
this
defiance
,
summoned
the
Diet
at
Ratisbon
,
that
he
might
have
such
assistance
from
Germany
against
so
potent
an
enemy
,
as
is
usually
given
either
first
or
last
.
Apollo
,
who
was
soon
acquainted
with
this
news
to
the
end
that
he
might
appease
those
two
great
Monarchs
,
called
an
Assembly
of
all
the
Princes
the
next
day
;
who
when
they
appeared
,
he
much
complained
of
the
Ottoman
Monarchy's
barbarous
proceedings
,
since
even
in
Pernassus
,
where
argumentations
,
and
difference
in
opinion
being
only
decided
by
the
rule
of
truth
,
he
had
dared
to
use
force
.
He
then
told
them
,
that
he
had
summoned
that
honorable
Assembly
,
only
that
they
might
hear
from
the
Emperor
Maximilian's
own
mouth
,
all
he
reasons
which
had
induced
him
to
accuse
the
Mahometan
Sect
,
as
being
composed
of
nothing
but
Policy
.
His
Majesty
afterwards
commanded
the
Emperor
to
begin
his
Justification
.
Whereupon
Maximillian
,
with
such
Majesty
as
became
him
,
began
thus
.
I
was
moved
to
say
that
the
Mahometan
Sect
was
nothing
but
Policy
,
meer
ambition
,
and
interest
of
Reigning
,
and
that
the
first
Institutors
thereof
were
more
ambitious
then
pious
,
out
of
these
clear
reasons
.
For
that
Mahomet
,
to
the
end
that
his
Armies
might
be
free
from
those
incumbrances
,
and
expence
of
Wine
,
wherewith
the
Militia
of
Christian
Princes
is
so
much
molested
,
did
forbid
the
use
thereof
to
those
of
his
Sect
;
a
Precept
wholly
Political
,
as
that
which
frees
the
Turkish
Souldier
from
that
expence
which
doth
so
abound
in
the
Christian
Militia
,
particularly
where
there
be
Dutchmen
,
or
Northern
Souldiers
,
who
consume
more
in
drinking
,
then
in
meat
,
clothes
,
or
even
in
providing
themselves
with
Arms.
Moreover
the
great
advantage
which
their
Princes
receive
from
their
Souldiers
sobriety
,
though
it
be
known
to
all
men
,
yet
are
they
more
particularly
known
to
me
,
who
whilst
I
made
war
in
the
world
,
was
much
more
troubled
with
my
Dutch
Souldiers
drunkenness
,
then
with
my
enemies
Arms.
Add
to
this
,
that
whereas
amongst
the
Turks
,
the
fields
serve
either
for
arable
ground
,
or
pasture
,
our
grounds
are
encumbred
with
vines
.
The
other
more
then
Political
Institution
of
the
Mahometan
Law
is
,
That
the
greatness
of
a
Prince
consisting
in
the
multitude
of
his
Vassals
;
the
Mahometan
Law
,
to
the
end
that
her
Disciples
may
have
so
great
a
benefit
,
permits
them
by
a
rare
example
of
unbounded
lust
,
to
have
at
one
and
the
same
time
,
but
in
divers
places
,
plurality
of
wives
,
and
as
many
concubines
as
they
please
,
without
any
sin
unto
their
soul
,
or
prejudice
to
their
honour
:
A
thing
which
more
resembling
the
Custom
of
Beasts
,
then
any
Institution
of
Man
,
is
altogether
unfitting
to
be
named
,
much
more
to
be
practised
by
any
Nation
:
A
Law
,
which
by
reason
of
the
unexhaustible
multitude
of
children
which
the
Fathers
of
Families
have
in
the
Ottoman
Empire
,
is
altogether
Political
:
For
the
infinite
number
of
Turks
serves
not
only
for
abundance
of
food
for
powder
in
the
Ottoman
Wars
,
but
to
reap
the
same
benefit
,
which
we
Christian
Princes
doe
out
of
that
trite
politick
precept
,
of
keeping
the
people
low
:
For
the
custom
which
many
of
us
have
of
burthening
the
people
with
extraordinary
Taxes
and
Impositions
,
so
to
keep
them
low
,
and
by
the
severity
of
our
penal
Laws
,
which
are
now
become
matter
of
money
,
are
things
which
breeding
ill
bloud
in
our
Vassals
,
doth
oft-times
make
them
rebel
.
But
wise
Mahomet
hath
only
known
how
to
keep
the
people
low
perpetually
,
and
yet
with
their
delight
and
satisfaction
,
which
was
never
yet
known
to
any
other
Politick
Legislator
;
for
infinite
number
of
children
being
of
necessity
to
be
born
unto
the
Turks
,
through
their
plurality
of
wives
,
and
abundance
of
concubines
,
Politick
Mahomet
,
to
the
end
that
he
may
bring
the
wealthiest
Families
in
a
short
time
to
beggery
,
hath
not
been
ashamed
to
command
in
his
Alcharon
,
that
Bastards
,
which
are
by
all
Laws
so
much
detested
,
should
share
equally
in
paternal
inheritance
with
children
lawfully
begotten
.
And
if
it
be
true
which
I
have
often
read
,
and
heard
said
,
That
a
Tailor
of
Constantinople
shewed
Solyman
the
Emperor
thirty
of
his
sons
,
and
that
one
Giambelat
,
a
man
famous
amongst
the
Turks
for
his
fruitfulness
,
had
eight
sons
born
in
one
and
the
same
night
,
and
left
fourscore
sons
alive
when
he
died
,
what
is
the
richest
inheritance
of
whatsoever
Turk
alive
,
which
being
equally
divided
amongst
so
many
children
,
will
not
beco●…●…r
,
and
their
Families
be
perpetually
kept
low
,
and
forced
to
beg
th●…
pay
of
their
Prince
by
following
the
Wars
?
And
if
that
be
true
,
which
we
Princes
have
daily
experience
of
,
That
the
Souldier
that
fears
not
death
,
overcomes
all
difficulties
which
he
undertakes
,
and
happily
compasseth
his
end
,
whatsoever
it
be
,
and
that
it
be
impossible
to
withstand
the
most
inconsiderable
man
that
is
,
who
despiseth
his
own
life
;
what
more
politick
and
devillish
precept
could
be
infused
into
men
by
any
ambitious
Legislator
,
thereby
to
get
the
government
of
the
whole
world
,
then
that
of
fate
,
which
wicked
Mahomet
hath
injoyned
his
followers
to
believe
?
Who
being
shamefully
seduced
by
so
false
a
Doctrine
,
believe
firmly
that
all
men
have
the
prefixt
and
inevitable
day
of
their
deaths
written
in
their
forehead
in
Divine
Characters
,
though
not
discernable
by
the
eye
of
man
.
A
Law
as
wicked
before
God
,
as
greatly
miraculous
to
aggrandize
an
Empire
,
to
which
infernal
institution
,
the
extent
of
the
Ottoman
Empire
is
solely
attributed
.
To
these
may
be
added
the
other
powerful
precept
,
That
it
is
not
lawfull
for
the
Ottoman
Emperors
to
restore
any
Kingdom
to
any
whatsoever
Prince
,
where
they
have
built
a
Moschey
.
A
Rule
,
which
(
as
every
one
may
easily
discern
)
is
only
made
to
overcome
the
great
difficulty
which
all
Princes
meet
with
,
of
keeping
States
newly
acquired
,
and
to
make
the
Militia
so
obstinate
in
the
defence
thereof
,
as
those
Provinces
which
were
conquered
by
victorious
arms
,
are
only
lost
by
such
arms
as
were
conquered
.
Nor
is
the
Decree
given
to
the
Ottoman
Emperors
,
less
politick
then
this
,
that
they
shall
not
be
allowed
,
either
for
the
maintaining
of
their
memory
alive
,
or
for
the
burial
of
their
bodies
,
or
out
of
any
pious
zeal
,
to
build
any
Moschey
,
unless
they
have
first
acquired
some
Kingdom
;
a
Law
only
instituted
to
excite
the
basest
and
most
cowardly
minded
Ottoman
Emperors
,
to
the
ambition
of
glory
,
and
propagating
Empire
.
But
of
all
the
Precepts
that
I
have
touched
upon
,
or
that
can
be
related
by
any
other
,
there
is
none
,
in
my
opinion
more
political
,
then
that
of
their
not
admitting
of
any
women
into
their
Moscheys
,
to
pray
there
;
a
most
wicked
Law
,
and
which
doth
manifest
,
that
the
Mahometan
Sect
doth
more
affrontedly
make
use
of
Religion
as
a
pretence
whereby
to
reigne
,
then
any
other
Sect
that
was
ever
heard
of
.
For
what
doth
such
a
Law
denote
,
but
that
Mahomet
is
content
to
oblige
only
the
Masculine
sex
to
sacred
things
,
to
the
end
that
he
might
from
them
receive
the
advantage
of
loyalty
,
obedience
,
and
meekness
of
spirit
,
and
of
the
curb
of
piety
,
which
moderating
mans
too
great
inclination
to
sensuality
,
makes
him
keep
the
right
rode
of
not
offending
any
one
;
and
receive
the
other
advantages
which
by
a
well-regulated
Religion
,
men
partake
of
from
peaceable
commerce
;
which
because
he
cares
not
to
receive
from
women
,
who
are
not
apt
to
raise
insurrections
,
to
acquire
nor
keep
States
,
he
is
content
to
say
,
only
to
keep
them
from
falling
headlong
into
all
kinde
of
lasciviousness
,
when
they
shall
see
themselves
utterly
excluded
from
all
heavenly
glory
;
that
if
they
live
chastly
,
they
shall
,
when
their
lives
are
ended
in
this
world
,
pass
into
a
place
,
where
if
they
do
not
enjoy
the
blessings
of
heaven
,
they
shall
not
at
least
suffer
any
evil
;
a
shameful
Doctrine
,
and
such
a
one
as
never
any
Legislator
durst
dream
of
,
in
making
a
foolish
and
ignorant
division
,
or
distinction
between
the
souls
of
men
and
women
.
I
shall
conclude
this
my
justification
with
this
last
and
chiefest
Politick
Law
;
That
Mahomet
knowing
very
well
how
much
it
mak●…
〈◊〉
Monarchy
,
that
Monarchs
should
keep
their
Vassals
in
exact
obedience
,
as
is
due
to
all
that
reigne
,
hath
not
stuck
to
say
,
that
those
mens
souls
shall
not
share
of
salvation
in
the
world
to
come
,
who
for
any
faults
committed
by
them
,
or
for
any
other
misdemerits
,
die
in
their
Princes
displeasure
.
As
if
a
man
how
wicked
soever
he
be
,
may
not
reconcile
himself
to
God
,
either
by
contrition
,
repentance
,
or
condign
penance
for
offences
done
unto
man
.
Though
the
colour
which
appeared
in
the
Ottoman
Monarchies
countenance
shewed
plainly
how
much
she
was
confused
,
yet
according
to
her
accustom'd
affrontedness
,
she
would
have
reply'd
,
when
Apollo
beckning
to
her
to
be
silent
,
asked
her
,
whether
it
were
true
or
no
,
that
by
the
Mahometan
Law
,
no
man
might
dispute
touching
the
Articles
of
her
Faith
,
but
that
it
was
to
be
made
good
by
force
of
Arms
;
and
the
Ottoman
Monarchy
answering
,
that
it
was
true
,
Apollo
reply'd
,
that
she
her self
had
confest
those
things
to
be
true
,
which
the
Emperor
Maximilian
had
affirmed
.
For
as
wealth
honestly
come
by
by
good
men
,
was
maintained
and
defended
by
Justice
,
and
plundered
goods
,
by
the
same
violence
by
which
they
were
taken
;
so
truth
was
defended
by
reason
,
but
falshood
by
violence
and
obstinacy
.
The
LXIX
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Anneus
Seneca
,
after
having
read
Moral
Philosophy
in
the
publick
Schools
of
Pernassus
,
obtains
a
Writ
of
ease
from
Apollo
;
and
being
desirous
to
endow
the
Philosophy-School
with
a
rich
Revenue
,
is
not
suffered
by
his
Majesty
to
do
so
.
SEneca
having
for
above
the
space
of
forty
years
read
Philosophy
in
the
publick
Schools
of
Pernassus
,
to
his
infinite
praise
,
and
the
nnspeakable
good
of
the
Publick
;
Apollo
(
as
to
one
who
had
so
wel
deserv'd
)
gave
him
the
last
week
a
Writ
of
Ease
;
and
the
place
being
sued
for
by
very
many
,
Apollo
bestowed
it
upon
Plutarch
.
And
because
Seneca
,
by
reason
of
his
rich
patrimony
,
had
discharged
his
place
with
regal
magnificency
,
to
the
end
that
so
honorable
a
place
might
not
fall
short
of
its
antient
splendor
under
Plutarch
,
who
was
but
poor
in
respect
of
Seneca
,
he
indowed
it
with
an
annual
rent
of
6000
crowns
a
year
:
A
piece
of
magnanimity
whereby
he
hath
won
immortal
fame
from
all
the
Vertuosi
of
this
State
.
But
when
he
came
before
Apollo
to
acquaint
him
with
so
honourable
a
donation
,
instead
of
being
commended
for
that
his
so
glorious
action
,
he
was
,
contrary
to
the
expectation
of
all
men
,
much
blamed
by
his
Majesty
,
and
in
these
very
words
reprehended
:
Seneca
,
to
trouble
the
Fountains
head
when
a
man
hath
quench'd
his
thirst
,
is
an
action
full
of
malice
;
nor
should
I
ever
have
imagined
that
such
a
one
as
you
would
have
gone
about
to
vituperate
that
School
,
whereby
you
have
been
honoured
;
I
must
praise
your
excellent
intention
,
but
greatly
blame
the
deed
,
and
(
as
pernitious
)
not
suffer
it
to
be
done
.
It
is
great
wisdom
to
keep
such
places
poor
,
as
must
of
necessity
be
discharged
by
men
of
worth
:
To
the
end
,
that
answerably
to
the
publick
good
,
they
may
be
provided
of
men
;
which
should
it
be
otherwise
,
to
the
great
prejudice
of
my
Literati
,
men
would
be
provided
of
such
wealthy
imployments
.
The
School
which
you
have
given
over
,
will
alwaies
be
sought
for
by
such
Literatias
your self
,
whilst
it
is
but
of
poor
means
;
but
were
it
indowed
with
the
large
revenue
which
you
would
now
give
it
,
even
ignorant
men
,
out
of
avarice
would
so
endeavour
the
having
of
it
,
as
by
means
of
favour
which
such
men
by
unwarrantable
waies
know
how
to
win
,
it
would
be
very
hard
,
if
not
impossible
,
to
keep
it
from
them
.
The
LXX
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Diego
Covaruvia
,
after
having
for
a
short
space
exercised
the
Place
of
his
Majesties
Chief
Treasurer
,
betakes
himself
to
the
Stoicks
Sect.
DIego
Covarruvia
had
discharged
the
honorable
place
of
his
Majesties
chief
Treasurer
,
just
two
months
,
with
so
general
satisfaction
to
all
men
,
as
every
one
clearly
saw
how
well
advised
Princes
are
when
they
promote
subjects
to
places
of
highest
dignity
,
from
but
a
little
inferior
places
of
Magistracy
:
This
personage
of
exquisite
judgement
,
after
having
freely
imparted
his
several
resolutions
to
his
domestick
friends
,
he
unexpectedly
gave
up
the
place
of
Treasurer
into
his
Majesties
hands
,
and
betook
himself
to
be
a
Stoick
.
Many
Literati
of
this
State
who
were
very
great
friends
to
this
glorious
Vertuoso
,
when
they
heard
so
strange
a
novelty
,
went
to
Covarruvia
,
and
seemed
very
sorry
,
that
by
quitting
a
place
of
such
dignity
,
he
had
forgone
the
fair
occasion
which
he
had
of
making
himself
famous
,
and
gratifying
his
friends
.
Then
they
bad
him
consider
his
own
reputation
,
which
by
this
unexpected
resolution
he
did
totally
bury
;
since
not
only
such
as
did
envie
and
maligne
him
,
but
even
his
very
best
friends
,
might
blame
that
action
(
and
peradventure
not
without
reason
)
as
proceeding
rather
from
a
melancholy
humour
,
from
fickleness
of
mind
,
as
a
lover
of
novelties
,
from
weakness
of
wit
,
as
unfit
for
such
an
imployment
,
and
uncapable
thereof
,
then
to
the
lawdable
desire
of
a
solitary
life
,
whereby
he
would
cloke
his
being
unfit
for
such
a
place
.
It
is
well
known
that
Covarruvia
answered
these
objections
very
resolutely
,
thus
;
My
friends
,
the
resolution
which
you
see
I
have
taken
,
is
not
(
as
you
believe
)
any
new
caprichio
,
but
an
antient
resolution
which
I
have
ever
had
since
I
learnt
by
Court-fallacies
,
by
the
perfidiousness
of
Courtiers
,
and
by
the
instability
of
earthly
affairs
,
that
this
worlds
greatness
,
which
is
gotten
with
so
much
toyle
and
labour
,
managed
with
such
cark
and
care
,
and
possest
with
so
much
danger
,
was
nothing
else
but
meer
vanity
;
and
I
did
not
that
at
my
first
entrance
into
the
Court
,
which
I
have
done
of
very
late
,
only
that
I
might
enter
into
this
famous
Sect
,
with
all
the
reputation
that
becomes
one
like
me
;
for
I
did
not
desire
that
the
world
should
imagin
that
I
had
imbraced
the
Stoick
Sect
,
out
of
a
meanness
of
spirit
(
which
is
a
friend
to
idleness
,
and
an
enemy
to
labour
)
for
weakness
of
parts
,
as
not
fit
to
attain
the
most
supreme
dignities
,
for
not
being
able
to
bear
with
the
bitter
distastes
of
Court
,
or
for
any
dislike
that
my
home-affairs
had
occasioned
in
me
;
but
only
that
I
might
attain
to
that
happiness
as
is
usually
enjoy'd
in
a
solitary
and
vertuous
life
,
by
such
,
who
being
given
to
Learning
,
desire
nothing
but
much
knowledg
:
Now
,
that
I
have
abandoned
the
happy
condition
that
you
all
know
I
was
in
,
only
that
I
might
retreat
to
a
better
life
,
my
friends
,
enemies
,
and
enviers
will
certainly
praise
my
resolution
;
for
then
doth
a
man
with
much
honour
embrace
poverty
,
when
he
forgoes
riches
,
and
when
to
enjoy
a
solitary
life
,
he
gives
over
weighty
and
gainful
Negotiations
.
And
such
men
as
I
,
do
with
glory
spurn
at
the
pomp
and
vanity
of
this
world
,
when
by
their
honourable
labour
and
service
in
Princes
Courts
,
they
have
known
how
to
compass
the
prime
places
,
and
supreme
dignities
.
The
LXXI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Cornelius
Tacitus
being
imprisoned
at
the
complaint
of
some
great
Princes
,
for
having
made
some
Politick
Spectacles
,
which
were
very
prejudicious
to
their
Government
,
is
freed
by
Apollo
.
THe
whole
Colledg
of
the
Literati
were
much
astonished
,
when
they
heard
that
Cornelius
Tacitus
,
one
so
famous
in
Pernassus
,
one
so
well
beloved
by
Apollo
the
first
Counseller
of
State
,
chief
Chronicler
,
and
Master
of
his
Majesties
Sentences
,
was
seised
upon
the
last
night
by
express
Order
from
the
Lords
Censors
.
It
was
soon
after
known
,
that
this
had
hapned
by
reason
of
a
complaint
made
by
divers
great
Princes
,
that
Tacitus
by
his
seditious
Annals
and
Histories
,
had
made
certain
Spectacles
which
were
very
pernitious
to
Princes
;
for
let
the
simplest
person
put
them
on
his
nose
,
they
would
make
him
so
sharp-sighted
,
as
to
see
into
the
very
hearts
of
other
men
,
and
discover
their
most
secret
thoughts
:
And
that
which
they
said
they
neither
could
nor
would
any
waies
indure
,
was
,
that
he
shewed
unto
the
people
,
the
very
essence
and
quality
of
Princes-souls
,
what
they
were
indeed
inwardly
,
and
not
what
through
the
necessary
tricks
of
Government
they
were
forced
to
make
themselves
appear
to
be
outwardly
.
Yesterday
morning
the
Counsel
of
the
chief
Monarchs
of
this
State
came
before
the
Censors
,
amongst
which
,
for
Tacitus
his
greater
honour
,
who
was
to
be
tryed
,
Apollo
would
make
one
.
This
Advocate
told
them
,
that
all
the
understanding
men
of
the
State
knew
very
well
that
Princes
for
the
peace
and
quiet
of
their
Kingdoms
,
were
oft
times
necessitated
to
do
unwarrantable
actions
,
which
,
to
maintain
the
peoples
opinion
of
their
being
good
Princes
(
as
is
fitting
for
all
to
do
that
will
govern
)
they
had
wont
to
palliate
with
specious
pretences
of
good
intentions
,
and
great
zeal
towards
the
publick
good
,
those
pieces
of
Policy
which
they
would
be
no
longer
able
to
use
,
if
the
true
meaning
of
their
minds
were
known
to
all
men
;
and
that
if
it
were
possible
for
people
to
be
governed
without
submitting
themselves
to
their
Jurisdiction
,
Princes
would
willingly
renounce
their
Princely
●…itles
,
and
their
power
of
Command
,
as
having
found
at
last
,
that
Principalities
are
nothing
but
unsupportable
burthens
,
affairs
so
full
of
difficulty
and
danger
,
as
they
could
not
taste
any
one
savory
bit
,
at
those
their
plentiful
Tables
,
which
jealous
men
do
so
envie
,
which
did
not
stink
of
Arsnick
;
but
that
if
experience
had
made
the
world
know
,
that
all
mankind
would
soon
suffer
under
sad
confusion
,
were
it
not
for
wise
Princes
who
do
govern
them
,
it
was
fitting
that
they
should
be
permitted
to
use
all
those
just
waies
which
were
requisite
for
them
for
the
well-governing
their
Subjects
:
For
,
if
for
cultivating
grounds
,
Husbandmen
were
not
denied
Oxen
,
Ploughs
,
and
Mattocks
;
if
Tailors
for
the
cutting
out
and
making
up
of
clothes
,
were
allowed
needle
and
sheers
;
and
Smiths
,
hammers
and
pincers
;
wherefore
should
Monarchs
be
henceforward
denied
to
throw
dust
in
their
Subjects
eyes
,
or
cast
a
mist
before
them
,
which
was
the
best
advantage
,
and
the
most
necessary
Instrument
for
the
right
Government
of
States
,
which
any
Polititian
had
ever
yet
found
out
in
any
of
the
most
excellent
Reasons
of
State
.
All
which
things
Princes
,
by
reason
of
Tacitus
his
seditious
inventions
,
should
now
be
no
longer
able
to
do
;
it
being
clearly
seen
that
the
devillish
spectacles
invented
by
that
alwaies
seditious
Tacitus
,
to
boot
with
what
hath
been
said
of
their
making
the
people
sharp-sighted
,
had
also
another
pernitious
effect
,
by
sticking
so
close
to
mens
noses
,
as
Princes
were
now
no
longer
able
,
as
formerly
they
had
with
as
much
ease
as
advantage
done
,
to
throw
dust
in
their
Subjects
Eyes
,
though
it
were
most
artificial
,
and
super-fine
,
but
that
they
would
be
aware
of
their
being
abused
.
The
Complaints
made
by
the
Monarchs
,
seemed
to
be
very
just
,
both
to
Apollo
,
and
all
the
Censors
;
and
they
therefore
thought
worthy
of
mature
consideration
;
and
after
a
long
discourse
had
about
so
weighty
a
business
,
their
opinion
seemed
to
prevail
;
who
voted
that
Tacitus
with
his
scandalous
Annals
,
and
seditious
Histories
,
should
be
banished
the
company
of
man
.
But
his
Majesty
,
that
he
might
not
disgrace
the
Prince
of
Political
History
,
and
not
to
distast
gallant
men
,
by
depriving
them
of
their
delights
,
was
content
that
Tacitus
should
be
told
,
he
might
do
well
to
make
as
few
of
those
spectacles
as
possible
he
could
,
which
were
indeed
so
pernitious
to
Princes
;
and
that
he
should
chiefly
be
sure
not
to
part
with
any
but
to
choice
personages
,
to
the
Secretaries
,
and
privy
Councel
of
Princes
,
to
the
end
that
they
might
know
the
more
easily
how
to
Govern
the
people
;
and
that
above
all
things
,
as
he
valued
his
Majesties
favour
,
he
should
keep
from
communicating
them
to
such
seditious
people
,
who
in
troublesom
times
might
serve
for
Lanterns
to
the
simpler
sort
of
people
,
who
suffered
themselves
easily
to
be
governed
,
when
not
being
inlightned
by
Learning
,
they
might
be
said
to
be
blind
,
and
want
a
guide
.
The
LXXII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Many
Carriers
,
who
contrary
to
the
Laws
,
brought
great
store
of
Beans
into
Parnassus
,
are
taken
Prisoners
by
the
Scouts
.
THis
morning
,
being
the
twentieth
of
this
present
moneth
,
the
Field-Scouts
met
with
some
Carriers
,
who
brought
store
of
beans
into
Pernassus
,
a
sort
of
Pulse
which
was
long
since
banished
out
of
all
Apollo's
Dominions
;
for
his
Majesty
having
found
in
many
unfortunate
former
occasions
,
that
many
passionate
Literati
,
that
they
might
vent
their
mad
passions
which
burn'd
within
their
bosoms
,
whilst
they
made
use
of
these
beans
in
the
Senat
,
have
utterly
undone
themselves
and
their
whole
Families
,
to
the
end
he
might
maintain
peace
and
concord
amongst
his
Vertuosi
,
did
many
years
since
forbid
the
sale
of
any
such
Pulse
under
pain
of
severe
punishment
;
it
having
been
used
by
divers
instead
of
musket-bullets
,
only
to
blast
the
reputation
of
honest
men
.
It
was
learn'd
from
the
same
Carriers
,
that
this
Inhibited
.
Merchandize
was
sent
from
ignorant
and
malignant
Countries
,
to
such
perfidious
Courtiers
of
this
State
,
who
study
nothing
else
but
how
to
scatter
beans
upon
other
mens
stairs
,
only
to
make
such
simple
people
fall
and
break
their
necks
,
who
firmly
believe
that
no
man
can
walk
safely
any
where
,
but
with
the
feet
of
upright
meaning
,
and
good
conscience
.
Whereupon
Apollo
did
very
much
wonder
to
see
,
that
through
the
malignity
of
the
times
,
all
Princes
Courts
are
so
pestered
with
these
malignant
spirits
,
as
they
study
more
how
to
discompose
other
mens
affairs
,
then
how
to
accommodate
their
own
.
The
LXXIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Seneca
having
bought
great
store
of
Poultrey
in
a
Countrey-house
of
his
,
which
lies
in
the
Gnides
Territories
,
those
people
come
to
the
true
reason
of
that
his
forestalling
the
Market
.
SOon
after
that
(
as
you
have
heard
)
the
most
excellent
Annaeus
Seneca
obtained
a
Writ
of
Ease
from
his
Majesty
,
from
further
exercising
his
place
of
Chairman
in
the
Moral
Philosophy-School
,
he
,
that
he
might
refresh
his
eminent
wit
,
which
was
much
harras'd
in
his
perpetual
studies
,
withdrew
himself
to
a
pleasant
Countrey-house
of
his
,
seated
in
the
Territories
of
Gnido
,
from
whence
they
write
,
That
this
so
famous
Literato
,
at
his
very
first
coming
thither
,
made
so
great
a
provision
of
Cocks
,
Hens
,
and
Capons
,
as
they
that
saw
them
in
the
place
where
they
were
kept
,
judged
them
to
amount
to
the
number
of
above
five
hundred
;
a
thing
which
all
the
Inhabitants
of
Gnido
did
much
wonder
at
;
and
those
speculative
Wits
,
who
spend
more
time
in
vainly
prying
into
other
mens
actions
,
then
in
the
well
governing
of
their
own
,
were
of
opinion
,
that
Seneca
had
avarice
joyned
to
the
other
faults
which
were
imputed
to
him
;
and
that
therefore
he
had
forestalled
,
and
bought
up
all
those
Poultrey
(
which
was
an
action
misbecoming
a
man
of
his
parts
)
only
that
he
might
inhance
the
price
of
them
.
And
it
was
said
by
the
same
Letters
,
that
some
thought
that
he
had
added
the
detestable
vice
of
gluttony
,
to
his
infinite
thirst
after
riches
.
But
it
being
observed
in
process
of
time
,
that
Seneca
spent
three
hours
daily
after
dinner
,
in
looking
upon
those
his
Poultrey
:
it
was
at
last
known
,
that
this
great
Philosopher
learn'd
from
that
sort
of
Poultrey
,
the
art
,
wherein
he
did
not
only
exceed
all
other
Writers
,
but
hath
been
followed
therein
by
an
infinite
number
of
others
,
of
crowing
well
,
and
scraping
ill
▪
The
LXXIV
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Grand-child
to
the
Prince
of
the
Laconicks
asks
counsel
of
Apollo
,
what
course
he
should
take
to
live
with
reputation
in
Laconia
.
THat
Grand-child
of
the
Prince
of
Laconia
,
who
(
as
you
heard
by
the
last
Post
)
through
the
froward
stubbornness
of
his
mind
,
betook
himself
to
the
general
scandal
of
his
Government
,
to
lead
a
privat
life
,
being
much
afflicted
and
troubled
in
mind
,
is
this
morning
returned
to
Pernassus
;
and
presenting
himself
before
his
Majesty
,
told
him
,
that
much
to
his
sorrow
and
trouble
,
he
had
at
last
found
that
to
be
true
,
which
had
been
often
told
him
by
his
best
and
dearest
friends
;
That
most
men
were
so
full
of
ingratitude
,
as
they
loved
Fortune
only
,
and
not
the
persons
of
their
beneficent
Princes
;
a
fault
which
occasioned
that
which
good
men
were
sorry
to
see
,
that
they
were
as
sure
to
fail
their
friends
when
their
fortunes
failed
them
,
as
Tacitus
had
reason
to
say
,
That
Intuta
erant
adversa
.
Tacit.
lib.
12.
Annal.
for
much
to
his
grief
,
he
found
the
Chain
of
Munificence
whereby
he
had
endeavoured
to
fasten
unto
him
the
affection
of
an
infinite
number
of
friends
,
in
his
Uncles
Kingdom
,
from
whom
he
expected
a
return
of
much
gratitude
,
to
be
but
very
weak
:
And
that
if
it
were
true
which
many
Elective
Princes
had
together
with
himself
experienced
to
be
true
,
That
a
stroke
of
ingratitude
gave
the
deadliest
wound
which
could
be
received
by
a
Noble
mind
,
and
that
to
sow
benefits
,
and
reap
neglects
,
was
the
saddest
and
most
sorrowful
exercise
which
could
be
practised
by
a
Prince
,
he
deserved
not
only
to
be
pittied
by
his
Majesty
,
and
by
all
good
men
,
but
to
be
assisted
by
advice
:
And
that
in
this
his
horrid
change
of
fortune
,
to
see
himself
not
only
little
respected
by
those
whom
he
knew
not
,
but
wounded
by
the
speeches
of
those
his
dearest
friends
,
whom
he
had
endeavoured
to
oblige
,
and
scorn'd
by
the
actions
of
those
which
had
formerly
adored
him
,
was
an
affliction
which
did
so
inwardly
grieve
him
,
as
he
was
not
able
to
support
to
strange
a
Metamorphosis
.
That
therefore
since
he
was
forced
to
pass
from
Principality
to
a
privat
life
,
from
commanding
to
obeying
;
he
greatly
desired
to
know
from
his
Majesty
,
what
course
he
should
take
to
live
with
reputation
in
Laconia
.
To
this
Apollo
briefly
answered
,
That
he
should
first
inform
himself
in
the
Court
of
Rome
,
where
all
the
examples
of
the
most
heroick
vertues
did
abound
,
and
then
imitate
the
great
splendor
of
Edward
Cardinal
Fernese
,
who
by
a
Princely
generosity
,
and
profuse
liberality
used
towards
all
men
,
had
made
the
Court
,
and
the
whole
Nobility
of
Rome
so
in
love
with
him
,
as
he
was
now
more
honoured
and
observed
in
anothers
Popedom
,
then
the
great
Alexander
Cardinal
Fernese
was
formerly
in
the
Popedom
of
his
Uncle
,
Paul
the
third
.
To
this
the
Prince
reply'd
,
That
he
knew
the
counsel
which
his
Majesty
gave
him
,
to
be
very
true
,
but
that
the
receit
being
very
costly
,
he
thought
it
to
be
too
dear
;
That
therefore
he
humbly
beseeched
him
to
teach
him
a
cheaper
remedy
.
Apollo
laughed
,
and
freely
told
this
Prince
,
that
to
pretend
to
be
beloved
and
honoured
by
the
people
,
to
be
attended
and
followed
like
a
great
Prince
,
and
yet
to
keep
his
purse
close
ty'd
,
his
Cellar-dore
shut
,
his
Granaries
lockt
up
and
close
bar'd
,
was
a
greater
vanity
than
to
pretend
to
open
the
gates
of
heaven
by
impious
blasphemy
;
for
the
face
of
a
sordid
covetous
man
was
much
more
dreadful
to
the
people
,
than
the
face
of
Lucifer
himself
;
whereas
liberality
used
towards
friends
,
to
keep
men
in
perpetual
protection
,
and
to
be
continually
ready
to
patronize
them
,
defend
,
help
,
and
assist
them
in
their
oppressions
,
was
the
true
Magick
,
and
pious
inchantment
by
which
men
were
fascinated
,
and
that
they
did
strangely
hate
such
avaritious
people
,
who
being
unwilling
to
bait
their
hooks
with
little
Pilchards
,
dare
not
venture
at
catching
a
great
Sturgeon
.
The
LXXV
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Isabella
of
Aragon
,
Dutchess
of
Milan
,
being
continually
prosecuted
by
adverse
Fortune
,
is
brought
to
a
very
unhappy
condition
in
the
City
of
Ephesus
.
THat
famous
Dutchess
of
Milan
,
Isabella
of
Aragon
,
who
by
unparallel'd
example
of
misfortune
,
within
the
space
of
a
few
months
,
lost
her
Grand-father
,
Father
,
Brother
,
and
her
Nephew
,
having
all
of
them
been
Kings
of
Naples
,
as
also
her
Paternal
Kingdom
of
Naples
,
and
the
Dukedom
of
Milan
,
which
was
her
Husbands
and
her
Sons
Patrimony
,
when
she
subscribed
her
name
to
any
Letter
that
she
writ
,
after
her
name
of
Isabella
of
Aragon
,
Dutchess
of
Milan
,
added
(
as
she
had
good
reason
to
do
)
the
only
Unfortunate
.
For
,
Fortune
,
when
she
once
begins
to
persecute
any
one
,
never
leaves
her
malignity
;
till
she
have
buried
them
alive
in
the
grave
of
most
deplorable
misery
.
Her
unfortunate
condition
did
daily
so
impair
,
as
to
the
woful
example
of
the
vicissitude
of
human
greatness
,
she
lives
now
in
Ephesus
,
where
from
the
●…st
day
that
she
entred
into
Pernassus
,
she
gets
her
living
by
the
sad
and
woful
means
of
selling
Tinder
and
Matches
,
as
she
goes
along
the
streets
.
The
LXXVI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Many
of
the
Literati
who
do
much
apprehend
the
severity
of
the
Reformation
,
which
by
Order
from
Apollo
,
is
now
in
Treaty
in
Pernassus
,
do
seditiously
rise
in
Rebellion
against
the
Reformers
;
and
his
Majesty
appeaseth
the
tumult
by
applying
a
fitting
remedy
.
ALl
those
that
submitted
to
the
Reformation
which
is
at
this
time
treated
of
in
Pernassus
with
much
severity
,
took
up
Arms
in
a
seditious
manner
some
eight
daies
ago
,
and
ran
to
the
Reformers
houses
,
carrying
Links
and
Fire-brands
with
them
to
burn
those
reverend
Reformers
in
their
own
houses
.
Who
,
as
soon
as
they
were
aware
of
the
uprore
,
fortified
themselves
within
their
house
,
and
they
from
within
,
and
the
other
from
without
,
let
fly
at
one
another
,
so
as
a
very
bloudy
and
cruel
skermish
was
begun
;
and
those
without
grew
so
outragious
,
as
they
fastned
a
Petar
to
the
Gate
.
Apollo
,
who
was
soon
advertised
of
this
disorder
,
that
he
might
prevent
any
inconvenience
which
might
arise
from
this
tumult
,
sent
forthwith
his
Guard
of
Provincial
Poets
thither
,
who
were
commanded
in
chief
by
the
great
French
Ronsard
,
ordering
him
to
let
those
men
in
Arms
know
in
his
name
,
that
they
should
immediately
lay
down
those
their
seditious
Arms
,
upon
pain
of
being
from
that
very
instant
declared
to
be
ignorant
;
and
that
as
soon
as
they
should
apply
themselves
to
him
,
he
would
be
ready
to
hear
their
grievances
.
These
men
immediately
obeyed
his
Majesties
commands
,
before
whom
when
they
appeared
,
Apollo
with
an
angry
countenance
asked
them
,
whether
or
no
they
were
those
rash
,
those
insolent
people
,
who
pretended
to
live
in
that
disorderly
and
abusive
way
of
licentiousness
,
and
not
be
made
return
to
the
way
of
well-living
,
from
which
it
was
evidently
known
that
they
had
very
much
gone
astray
.
Sir
,
said
Iovanni
Scopa
,
a
Neapolitan
,
in
name
of
all
that
were
to
be
reformed
,
We
ingenuously
confess
that
our
faults
are
heynous
in
condition
,
in
number
infinite
,
and
very
fitting
to
be
amended
;
we
are
so
far
from
hating
(
as
your
Majesty
may
perchance
believe
)
Reformation
,
and
the
Reformers
,
as
we
do
greatly
love
it
and
them
;
but
the
rage
to
see
that
the
end
of
our
Reformers
is
far
from
the
pretence
wherewith
they
palliate
their
Reformation
,
hath
put
into
our
hands
these
weapons
of
despair
.
For
if
those
who
pretend
our
Reformation
,
as
zealously
intending
our
welfare
,
should
let
us
plainly
see
that
they
desire
nothing
of
us
but
our
own
good
,
we
should
as
willingly
submit
to
the
pleasing
yoke
of
Reformation
,
as
any
man
of
honour
ought
to
do
;
but
it
is
long
since
,
that
after
our
so
many
sufferings
,
we
have
at
last
clearly
found
,
that
this
Reformation
is
not
introduced
out
of
any
charitable
intentions
towards
us
,
not
out
of
a
desire
to
remove
scandals
,
but
out
of
a
wilely
end
,
to
keep
those
grand
Literati
,
who
do
so
much
hate
a
privat
life
,
and
covet
nothing
but
food
for
their
ambition
,
in
the
power
which
they
have
of
dominiering
over
their
inferiors
.
Hence
it
is
,
Sir
,
that
this
our
Reformation
meets
with
so
many
complaints
,
and
such
venim
against
our
Reformers
;
who
foolishly
perswading
themselves
,
to
be
able
to
correct
mens
vices
,
and
to
purge
the
world
of
that
ignorance
which
doth
so
much
deform
it
,
by
their
only
outward
appearing
good
intention
to
Reformation
,
are
pleased
with
our
complaints
,
their
main
ends
being
,
that
the
world
may
believe
,
that
our
complaint
,
which
is
occasioned
by
their
fowl
proceedings
with
us
,
springs
from
our
being
nauseated
with
our
correction
;
and
yet
the
clean
contrary
to
this
is
true
:
For
finding
our selves
griev'd
by
the
evil
opinion
which
men
have
,
more
then
they
ought
to
have
,
and
daily
more
and
more
opprest
by
those
whose
power
is
greatest
in
Pernassus
,
there
is
not
any
one
that
doth
listen
unto
us
,
nor
mind
what
we
say
,
though
we
cry
never
so
lowd
for
Justice
.
For
men
of
power
are
alwaies
honoured
and
exalted
,
though
they
deserve
the
contrary
;
and
such
wretched
people
as
we
,
are
opprest
and
afflicted
,
let
our
deserts
be
never
so
good
.
And
hence
it
is
that
we
who
are
ill
at
ease
,
do
continually
complain
more
of
the
Physick
not
proportionate
to
our
disease
,
then
of
our
malady
it self
;
and
of
our
Physitians
,
whose
end
in
curing
us
,
is
not
(
as
it
ought
to
be
)
our
health
,
but
their
daily
gain
in
exercising
their
Authority
,
and
in
feeding
their
ambition
by
the
food
of
other
mens
injuries
.
But
that
which
afflicts
us
most
,
Sir
,
is
,
That
in
this
our
corrupt
and
depraved
age
,
the
important
business
of
Reformation
should
be
begun
by
the
most
threadbare
and
ruin'd
people
that
are
in
Pernassus
.
We
(
as
your
Majesty
may
see
)
are
for
the
most
part
hunger-starv'd
Grammarians
,
broken
Correctors
of
the
Press
,
woful
Ushers
of
Schools
,
and
poor
vulgar
Poets
,
of
so
miserable
a
condition
,
as
we
live
by
conceits
,
which
we
daily
borrow
from
the
fruitful
wits
of
Latin
Poets
and
Orators
,
so
as
if
our
daily
necessities
were
not
abundantly
supplyed
by
the
bounty
of
our
alwaies
most
reverend
Callepine
,
if
we
were
not
fed
by
the
free
defrayment
of
our
Cornucopia
,
and
clothed
out
of
the
Wardrobe
of
Mario
Nizzolio
,
what
sort
of
people
,
how
poor
so
ever
,
could
be
compared
to
us
?
But
to
speak
unto
your
Majesty
with
that
freedom
which
becomes
such
as
are
overwhelmed
with
despair
,
the
thefts
of
Ausonius
Gallo
,
the
execrable
avarice
and
immense
ambition
of
Seneca
,
Martials
unpolished
language
,
Aristotles
perfidiousness
,
Catullus
,
Tibullus
,
and
Propertius
their
unbridled
lusts
,
the
bac
bitings
of
Iuvenal
and
Perseus
,
Lucians
impiety
,
Ovids
obsceneness
,
and
those
libidinous
Treaties
of
Virgil
,
which
it
is
not
fit
for
me
to
name
in
this
place
,
for
fear
of
offending
your
Majesties
chaste
ears
,
are
those
who
through
their
dissolute
vices
have
brought
the
State
of
Pernassus
into
the
miserable
condition
that
now
it
is
in
:
And
yet
these
whom
I
may
freely
say
are
the
true
Authors
of
so
many
scandals
,
are
all
of
them
great
personages
,
the
chief
Lords
of
Learning
,
and
are
so
powerful
in
this
Court
,
as
their
vices
are
reputed
vertues
:
And
that
which
makes
us
rage
the
more
in
our
despair
,
is
,
that
these
our
Reformers
do
rather
stand
in
fear
of
such
men
as
these
,
then
that
they
have
courage
to
correct
their
enormities
:
and
yet
your
Majesty
greatly
desires
that
the
Justice
which
is
exercised
in
this
your
State
,
should
be
like
the
generosity
of
the
Falcon
,
whose
proper
instinct
it
is
to
prey
upon
that
Pigeon
,
which
of
many
others
that
fly
before
her
,
hath
the
rankest
wing
.
And
certainly
it
does
not
only
appear
to
be
foolish
,
but
is
a
very
sad
thing
,
that
when
a
body
hath
received
mortal
wounds
in
its
most
principal
parts
;
these
our
Reformers
,
for
the
cure
thereof
,
do
apply
medicines
only
to
the
ball
of
the
foot
,
or
wash
the
heels
with
rose-water
;
by
which
shameful
way
of
proceeding
,
they
rather
seem
to
mock
the
world
,
then
to
mind
the
mending
of
men
.
And
what
a
hellish
piece
of
charity
is
this
which
our
Reformers
use
towards
us
,
in
being
so
curious
in
discovering
our
defects
,
and
in
making
us
lose
our
reputation
,
and
the
good
opinion
which
hitherto
men
have
had
of
us
,
without
induing
us
with
that
amendment
and
vertue
,
wherein
these
our
Reformers
profess
themselves
to
be
so
great
Masters
?
And
,
Sir
,
if
these
men
do
so
compassionate
a
straw
which
they
see
in
our
eyes
,
why
take
they
not
the
beam
away
which
is
in
their
own
?
A
hellish
charity
,
I
must
say
again
,
to
seem
as
if
they
did
bewail
other
mens
evils
,
and
indeed
make
merry
with
their
own
miseries
.
Is
it
not
a
great
piece
of
cruelty
to
put
a
probe
of
Iron
into
a
wound
which
a
man
minds
not
to
amend
,
or
else
knows
he
cannot
cure
?
Who
knows
not
that
mens
vices
have
so
long
corrupted
their
manners
,
as
a
man
may
say
this
world
was
born
lame
,
or
maimed
?
Which
being
most
true
,
is
it
not
gross
ignorance
in
our
Reformers
to
believe
that
in
three
or
four
daies
they
will
be
able
to
make
him
walk
upright
,
who
was
born
with
a
lame
leg
?
Evils
,
which
by
reason
of
long
continuation
,
are
incureable
,
ought
rather
to
be
winked
at
by
wise
men
,
then
exasperated
by
corroding
medicines
;
it
being
of
ill
example
,
and
of
very
bad
consequence
to
make
him
known
to
be
lame
,
who
for
ought
any
man
knows
,
hath
no
defect
in
his
legs
:
For
men
who
are
in
perfect
charity
with
their
neighbours
,
do
first
secretly
cure
their
defects
,
before
they
discover
them
to
the
world
;
for
no
man
ever
won
renown
by
robbing
another
man
of
his
honour
.
But
that
which
troubles
us
most
,
is
,
to
see
that
for
the
cure
of
our
poverty
,
we
have
Seneca
proposed
unto
us
,
who
was
Master
of
so
immense
riches
,
which
God
knows
how
he
came
by
;
to
the
humble
and
abject
,
insolent
Aristotle
,
and
gluttonous
Martial
,
to
those
that
die
for
hunger
.
And
if
it
be
true
,
which
any
man
who
is
in
his
right
wits
cannot
deny
,
that
a
gluttonous
Physitian
is
not
likely
to
do
any
good
by
perswading
another
to
keep
a
strict
diet
;
what
good
is
there
to
be
expected
from
his
Reformation
,
whilst
Martial
,
who
is
so
obscene
in
his
Verses
,
wils
us
to
speak
modestly
?
Aristotle
(
who
to
revenge
injurious
words
,
made
use
of
poyson
even
to
his
Prince
)
to
pardon
injuries
received
;
when
Chastity
is
recommended
unto
us
by
Ovid
,
the
Father
of
all
Lasciviousness
;
Piety
by
Lucian
,
who
so
openly
plaid
upon
God
;
Ausonius
Gallo
,
who
so
shamefully
sackt
●…gypt
,
which
was
given
to
him
to
Govern
,
admonishing
us
to
abstain
from
other
mens
goods
:
And
when
chaste
love
is
prescribed
unto
us
by
Virgil
,
who
hath
made
himself
so
infamous
by
so
highly
celebrating
his
Alexis
?
Nothing
,
Sir
,
hath
greater
operation
or
fruit
in
matter
of
Reformation
,
then
when
those
that
are
to
be
reformed
,
think
well
of
their
Reformers
,
and
then
the
good
example
of
great
men
.
For
he
who
cures
an
a
king
head
,
enlivens
all
the
rest
of
the
body
;
but
he
who
to
cure
the
Megrim
,
anoints
the
feet
only
,
doth
both
Oleum
&
operam
perdere
.
Therefore
that
such
fruit
may
be
gathered
from
this
Reformation
,
as
is
wished
for
by
honest
men
,
we
beg
that
as
a
special
favour
from
your
Majesty
,
which
in
all
Justice
ought
not
to
be
denied
us
,
that
we
may
be
permitted
to
put
the
Reformers
in
mind
of
such
things
as
shall
be
thought
fit
for
the
increase
of
their
honour
,
and
for
the
universal
good
,
and
that
they
may
have
plenary
power
to
correct
our
misdemeanors
,
that
so
we
proceeding
with
them
in
tearms
of
love
,
and
they
with
us
in
tearms
of
charity
,
the
Reformation
proving
essential
,
and
not
only
in
appearance
,
may
abundantly
produce
amendment
both
in
life
and
manners
.
Although
the
standers
by
thought
that
La
Scopa
had
spoke
too
freely
in
Apollo's
presence
;
yet
his
Majesty
commended
the
Proposition
as
very
just
,
and
calling
for
a
particular
of
such
things
as
they
desired
should
be
reformed
,
did
first
dismiss
the
Auditory
,
which
was
very
great
,
and
afterwards
did
by
writing
commend
a
business
of
that
importance
,
to
his
Regio
Collaterale
,
induing
them
with
ample
Authority
to
decide
it
actually
as
they
should
in
reason
,
Sola
Veritate
facti
,
inspecta
,
omni
,
&
quacun
ue
Appellatione
remota
.
The
Negative
to
this
was
often
broacht
,
and
disputed
:
and
though
the
greatest
part
of
the
Collaterale
,
thought
the
desire
of
those
that
were
to
be
reformed
,
very
just
;
yet
after
a
long
argumentation
had
thereupon
,
Giacomo
Menocchio
,
one
of
the
chiefest
of
those
Counsellers
being
brought
into
the
Collaterale
,
said
,
with
an
incens'd
countenance
,
and
in
an
angry
tone
;
You
through
your
hair-braind
rashness
,
make
your selves
appear
to
be
a
rabble
of
insolent
people
,
since
you
have
presumed
to
go
about
to
reform
Poets
,
Philosophers
,
and
others
of
the
chiefest
Literati
of
this
Court
,
whose
names
you
are
not
worthy
to
take
within
your
mouthes
,
and
by
your
bold-faced
behaviour
,
have
committed
high
Treason
,
having
so
highly
offended
your
superiors
;
Who
time
out
of
mind
,
find
themselves
in
peacefull
possession
,
and
enjoy
the
Ius
Quaesitum
of
reforming
others
,
without
being
ever
to
be
reformed
by
any
one
.
Nor
must
you
by
playing
the
good
Companions
,
live
according
to
your
own
humors
,
but
in
spight
of
your
hearts
submit
your
jobernols
to
the
sacred
precepts
of
Nature
;
which
not
without
a
great
Mystery
,
is
contented
,
that
greater
Fishes
devour
the
lesser
;
nor
is
it
possible
to
take
from
small
flies
,
special
priviledge
which
they
have
over
lean
Cattel
,
without
overthrowing
the
whole
body
of
the
Civil
Law
.
The
LXXVII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Many
Princes
believing
that
the
disorder
of
their
Courts
,
which
were
abandoned
by
Courtiers
,
proceeded
from
the
injurious
speeches
used
by
Cesar
Caparoli
,
in
his
Chapter
Della
Corte
,
desire
Apollo
that
it
may
be
remedied
,
and
obtain
their
desire
.
DIvers
Princes
complained
bitterly
to
Apollo
on
Wednesday
morning
,
that
their
Courts
which
were
formerly
in
such
high
esteem
with
all
men
,
as
every
one
believed
that
all
consolation
,
and
chearfull
passing
away
time
,
all
sorts
of
Learning
to
enrich
the
mind
with
noble
vertues
,
all
means
to
come
by
wealth
and
honourable
preferments
,
were
only
to
be
found
in
them
,
were
now
become
so
abhorr'd
,
as
being
accounted
by
all
men
to
be
but
meer
snares
,
and
publick
Hospitals
for
unfortunate
people
,
they
were
very
much
troubled
to
find
out
men
to
serve
them
;
and
that
those
few
who
came
to
Court
,
were
none
but
shallow-pated
people
,
driven
from
their
own
houses
by
despair
,
hunger
,
and
poverty
:
who
if
they
were
not
immediately
enricht
at
their
very
first
coming
to
the
Court
,
and
did
not
suddenly
obtain
such
degrees
of
honour
and
supreme
dignities
,
as
they
had
first
propounded
unto
themselves
in
their
vast
desires
,
grew
forthwith
so
foolishly
impatient
,
as
like
unbroken
Colts
,
and
tender-mouthed
horses
,
if
they
were
but
lightly
touched
with
the
spur
,
or
had
but
never
so
little
a
check
with
the
bridle
given
them
in
the
Court
,
after
having
first
insolently
kickt
at
their
Masters
with
their
heels
,
they
would
discourteously
forsake
their
service
.
And
that
whereas
formerly
the
noblest
and
wealthiest
personages
thought
it
a
great
favour
to
be
received
into
Court
,
though
they
had
but
lodging
,
bread
and
beer
,
and
six
pence
a
day
for
other
expences
besides
allowed
them
:
they
did
not
only
complain
now
of
the
scarcity
of
all
these
,
but
even
the
most
inconsiderable
people
did
not
stick
to
demand
great
sallaries
.
Which
disorder
,
if
it
were
not
the
sooner
prevented
,
one
of
two
inconveniences
must
necessarily
follow
:
either
Princes
must
shortly
live
desolate
in
their
Courts
without
attendance
;
or
they
must
afford
matter
of
murmur
to
their
people
,
by
altering
their
publick
expences
to
supply
the
new
charge
of
their
Courtiers
Sallaries
.
And
that
they
had
at
last
found
that
Cesar
Caporali
was
the
only
occasioner
of
so
many
disorders
;
who
not
content
to
have
shamed
them
to
all
Nations
by
that
his
seditious
Chapter
written
in
defamation
of
the
Court
,
but
was
ever
seen
to
whisper
the
sad
miseries
which
Courtiers
were
to
undergo
,
into
the
ears
of
such
as
had
a
mind
to
apply
themselves
to
Court
service
.
Apollo
thought
the
complaint
of
these
Princes
to
be
very
just
;
wherefore
he
forthwith
forbad
that
famous
Poets
Chapter
of
the
Court
.
The
chief
Literati
of
Pernassus
,
when
they
first
heard
this
so
rigorous
Edict
published
,
very
much
prest
his
Majesty
that
he
would
be
pleased
to
alter
that
his
resolution
,
which
would
so
much
afflict
the
very
souls
of
his
beloved
Vertuosi
;
but
all
was
in
vain
,
for
Apollo
was
resolute
in
his
answer
,
bidding
them
be
quiet
,
for
he
would
by
no
means
desert
the
Courts
of
Princes
;
which
were
the
only
whetstones
to
sharpen
mens
wits
,
the
true
Schools
wherein
men
learnt
that
vertuous
dissimulation
,
which
is
so
necessary
for
such
as
sail
upon
the
vast
Ocean
of
this
world
,
that
patience
,
that
sagacity
which
all
men
wanted
who
were
not
trained
up
there
;
and
that
to
make
Princes
imbase
that
their
so
currant
money
of
hope
,
which
served
Courtiers
for
rich
Sallary
,
would
be
to
turn
the
world
up-side-down
.
The
LXXVIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Learned
Seneca
,
seeing
that
his
late
Reformation
of
his
former
too
splendid
way
of
living
,
was
ill
taken
by
the
Universality
of
Pernassus
,
distributes
his
immense
riches
in
a
work
which
was
greatly
commended
by
all
men
.
IT
is
certainly
a
thing
worthy
much
consideration
,
that
the
Works
of
the
Learned
Anneus
Seneca
,
so
full
of
holy
Precepts
,
and
of
so
excellent
instructions
for
the
life
of
man
,
as
they
make
their
Author
to
appear
a
man
of
singular
goodness
,
yet
he
daily
grows
so
much
less
in
esteem
in
Pernassus
,
as
he
is
not
much
valued
by
the
greatest
part
of
the
Vertuosi
of
this
Court
:
Which
Seneca
perceiving
,
and
fearing
lest
the
abundance
of
his
Servants
,
his
rich
apparel
,
store
of
Plate
,
and
the
greatness
of
his
Wardrobe
might
lessen
his
reputation
,
not
only
with
those
that
were
his
rivals
,
and
did
envy
him
,
but
even
with
his
loving
and
learned
friends
,
shut
up
his
dores
not
long
since
;
sold
all
his
Apparel
,
Plate
,
and
Wardrobe
,
and
dismist
at
once
three
parts
of
his
Family
;
a
resolution
which
was
infinitely
commended
by
all
the
Literati
of
this
Court
,
and
which
renew'd
Seneca's
reputation
which
was
almost
lost
;
but
it
soon
began
to
decrease
again
;
for
those
quick-ey'd
Cou●…tiers
,
who
being
careless
of
their
own
behaviours
,
busie
themselves
wholly
in
prying
into
other
mens
carriages
,
quickly
learnt
,
that
Seneca
had
bettered
his
Estate
by
the
sale
of
his
personal
Estate
;
so
as
what
he
thought
should
have
bettered
his
reputation
in
the
world
,
did
much
impair
it
.
Wherefore
it
being
by
this
accident
clearly
made
known
that
the
mystery
of
hypocrisie
,
which
is
so
easily
practised
amongst
shallow-pated
people
,
is
impossible
to
be
made
use
of
with
safety
to
reputation
in
Courts
which
are
full
of
men
,
who
erring
more
in
knowing
too
much
,
then
in
not
knowing
how
men
are
naturally
given
,
judge
not
by
mens
words
,
but
by
their
deeds
.
Which
made
Seneca
perceive
at
last
it
was
not
harder
to
make
an
Iron
Clock
without
a
File
,
then
to
be
able
to
use
Hypocrite
amongst
great
Wits
,
without
danger
of
being
discovered
to
be
a
Pillary
bird
.
And
perceiving
likewise
that
the
profession
of
affected
goodness
won
but
little
credit
in
a
man
who
was
very
rich
,
and
avaritious
withal
;
that
he
might
not
see
the
death
of
those
his
writings
,
which
had
given
him
so
long
and
so
honourable
a
life
,
he
put
on
an
honorable
resolution
,
which
was
totally
to
give
over
the
way
of
appearance
,
which
he
had
been
long
accustomed
to
,
and
to
betake
himself
to
realities
,
which
only
occasion
the
reputation
of
true
goodness
.
It
is
whispered
in
Court
that
this
alteration
was
occasioned
,
for
that
Apollo
being
told
by
Seneca's
rivals
,
that
though
this
Philosopher
did
no
longer
use
Plate
at
his
Table
,
yet
he
fed
more
deliciously
then
ever
;
his
Majesty
said
,
that
the
true
Reformation
of
good
men
,
consisted
not
in
the
not
using
of
Silver
Vesse's
at
their
Tables
,
and
in
the
eating
of
fat
Capons
notwithstanding
in
earthen
dishes
;
wherefore
Seneca
much
moved
with
this
sharp
repremand
,
resolved
he
would
be
no
longer
scorned
for
spending
so
immense
a
wealth
only
upon
his
belly
and
his
back
,
divided
his
whole
Estate
,
consisting
of
three
millions
and
a
half
,
into
four
equal
parts
,
wherewith
he
founded
as
many
publick
Hospitals
,
and
indowed
them
with
rich
Revenues
,
and
ordered
that
the
four
sorts
of
fools
wherewith
the
world
did
abound
,
should
be
therein
commodiously
cured
.
The
first
was
to
be
for
those
foolish
people
who
throw
away
their
Estates
,
waste
their
wits
,
and
lose
their
reputations
in
seeking
for
the
Philosophers
Stone
;
fools
that
are
indeed
to
be
pittied
,
for
whom
all
good
people
ought
to
pray
:
The
second
for
those
ignorant
hiddy
giddy
people
,
who
Data
opera
seek
for
riches
by
Exorcisms
and
Inchantments
.
The
third
was
for
the
cure
of
such
idle
fools
,
worthy
of
punishment
:
who
not
caring
to
know
things
past
,
by
the
reading
of
History
,
foolishly
imagin
they
may
arrive
at
the
knowledg
of
foretelling
things
to
come
,
by
Astrology
.
The
fourth
was
for
the
advantage
of
such
simple
folks
,
who
having
wasted
all
their
Estates
,
and
not
having
one
farthing
left
,
do
notwithstanding
still
proudly
boast
of
their
Noble
Families
.
The
LXXIX
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Some
Princes
of
Pernassus
,
having
spent
a
great
mass
of
wealth
in
a
stinking
sort
of
Merchandise
,
and
having
thereby
incurred
great
debts
,
are
forced
to
profess
themselves
Bankrupts
,
and
to
leave
Pernassus
.
IN
the
Exchange
of
Pernassus
,
the
most
important
Bankruptship
is
discovered
that
ever
hapned
in
the
memory
of
man
;
for
it
fell
not
out
(
as
usualy
)
between
private
Merchants
,
but
between
the
most
Potent
Princes
of
this
State
,
in
so
much
as
no
payments
of
monies
are
made
any
where
,
and
Merchants
refuse
to
pay
Letters
of
Exchange
,
every
one
standing
at
a
gaze
till
they
see
where
this
business
will
end
,
which
hath
drawn
along
with
it
the
breaking
of
divers
other
Merchants
who
were
considerable
.
The
rich
Indian
Fleet
,
almost
wholly
fraught
with
Sugars
,
which
entred
some
daies
ago
into
the
Gulf
of
Lepanto
,
was
the
cause
of
these
so
many
disorders
.
Some
of
the
chief
Princes
of
Pernassus
bought
all
the
Sugar
,
which
brought
in
great
store
of
money
;
and
then
they
provided
many
Magazines
and
Ware-houses
,
and
made
great
provisions
of
Cauldrons
,
and
other
brass
Vessels
,
and
were
at
such
an
expence
with
all
this
,
as
they
took
up
monies
at
huge
high
Interest
from
Merchants
at
all
Marts
by
exchange
and
bartering
.
The
true
end
of
these
Princes
was
to
know
for
certain
,
whether
they
could
happily
compass
the
difficult
business
of
preserving
Turds
,
a
business
which
had
been
formerly
endeavoured
by
many
great
men
,
but
still
unfortunately
:
Many
rich
Lords
were
so
resolved
upon
the
undertaking
of
this
stinking
occupation
,
as
they
neither
spared
for
cost
nor
labour
to
bring
this
their
stinking
designto
their
desired
end
,
for
they
put
all
their
minnions
,
Hephestion
,
idols
,
flatterers
,
and
bawds
into
the
great
Caldrons
which
they
had
prepared
,
to
whom
they
were
not
ashamed
to
pay
all
the
most
abject
and
base
slavery
and
obedience
.
These
unfortunate
Confectioners
cover
over
this
scum
of
people
which
are
so
fatal
to
men
of
power
,
with
the
sugar
of
honourable
imployments
,
and
highest
dignities
:
and
though
it
was
clearly
seen
,
that
by
reason
of
their
stinking
lewd
conditions
,
they
did
not
only
not
become
ever
a
whit
the
sweeter
in
merit
and
vertue
,
but
the
more
sugar
was
heaped
upon
them
by
those
unfortunate
Princes
,
the
more
they
stunk
in
the
nostrils
of
men
of
honour
,
yet
did
they
daily
persist
the
more
in
that
their
woful
occupation
,
and
the
obstinacy
of
those
ill
advised
Princes
was
so
fatal
,
as
the
worser
they
found
their
business
to
proceed
,
the
more
did
their
diligence
and
expences
increase
,
together
with
the
impossibility
and
shame
of
the
fowle
undertaking
;
those
foolish
Merchants
did
still
beleeve
,
that
the
infinite
quantity
of
Sugar
and
fragrant
Musk
had
power
to
make
the
stink
of
those
their
shameful
favorites
sweet
and
odoriferous
.
But
at
last
,
though
late
,
they
found
their
business
impossible
to
be
effected
:
and
having
consumed
all
their
Sugar
they
were
aware
that
those
their
Idols
had
not
only
shamefully
infected
theirCourts
by
their
insufferable
stench
,
but
had
infinitely
defamed
them
,
who
for
want
of
caution
had
doated
upon
so
unsavory
carrion
;
wherefore
they
quit
the
enterprise
;
and
because
the
moneys
which
they
had
taken
up
at
use
,
were
already
grown
due
,
for
fear
of
their
Creditors
,
they
have
all
played
least
in
sight
;
and
the
more
to
aggravate
so
great
a
disorder
,
we
hear
that
a
great
King
,
who
that
he
might
confectionate
a
base
minnion
of
his
was
for
certain
the
first
who
advised
to
this
miserable
Merchandize
,
fell
unfortunately
off
horseback
as
he
fled
away
,
and
is
since
dead
.
His
Majesty
was
very
much
troubled
at
these
disorders
,
and
to
hinder
the
like
inconveniences
for
the
future
,
hath
commanded
,
that
on
the
first
day
of
August
(
a
remarkable
day
,
since
not
only
the
universal
Banckrupt
,
but
the
death
of
that
great
King
hapned
on
that
day
)
so
sad
a
misfortune
should
be
publickly
commemorated
,
and
if
the
example
of
so
great
a
Monarch
could
not
deter
powerful
men
from
the
like
undertaking
,
it
must
be
granted
that
this
calamity
was
occasion'd
through
the
same
weakness
of
brain
,
by
which
privat
men
are
blinded
,
and
for
avarice
undo
themselves
in
pursuit
of
the
Philosophers
Stone
.
The
LXXX
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Certain
prime
Politicians
of
Pernassus
pray
the
Ottoman
Monarchy
to
tell
them
the
true
reason
why
she
makes
short
war
with
her
enemies
,
and
are
by
her
satisfyed
.
MEnante
,
who
for
the
better
satisfaction
of
his
customers
to
whom
he
sends
his
weekly
Gasetta's
,
is
very
diligent
in
prying
into
the
very
secretest
passages
of
Pernassus
,
having
discovered
the
other
day
that
some
Politicians
of
this
Court
desired
Audience
of
the
Ottoman
Monarchy
,
was
so
watchful
,
as
when
they
went
to
that
mighty
Queen
,
he
went
along
with
them
in
company
;
and
heard
Scipio
deCastro
,
whom
those
Politicians
call
their
File-leader
,
beseech
her
Majesty
that
she
would
vouchsafe
to
acquaint
those
Politicians
,
that
were
with
him
,
with
the
true
reason
wherefore
she
makes
but
short
war
with
the
Princes
who
are
her
enemies
,
even
when
she
was
victorious
,
and
certain
to
make
greater
acquisitions
,
and
did
prosecute
others
even
to
their
uttermost
ruine
.
I
have
heard
that
the
Ottoman
Monarchy
did
after
no
barbarous
manner
answer
them
;
you
must
know
Gentlemen
,
that
I
never
use
to
lay
down
Arms
,
when
I
make
war
against
Nations
,
which
though
never
so
great
,
are
divided
into
several
Principalities
,
wherein
I
finde
discord
and
faction
to
reign
,
till
I
have
totally
conquered
them
:
as
I
did
in
the
Grecian
Empire
,
whose
division
into
several
despoters
,
and
the
intestine
discord
which
reigned
amongst
them
,
did
I
confess
,
throw
open
the
gates
unto
me
,
and
made
way
for
my
acquisition
of
that
famous
Empire
.
Likewise
when
I
go
against
a
Prince
who
is
abandoned
by
his
friends
,
I
never
make
peace
with
him
till
I
have
fully
conquered
him
;
as
was
cleerly
seen
in
the
expedition
which
I
made
against
the
Soldan
of
Chaire
.
But
when
I
fall
upon
aPrince
whom
either
through
his
own
power
,
or
the
adherence
of
his
friends
,
I
know
I
cannot
utterly
ruine
in
a
short
time
,
I
use
to
make
but
short
war
with
him
,
and
that
out
of
many
important
reasons
.
For
knowing
that
it
is
a
great
piece
of
folly
to
desert
ones
own
Country
,
out
of
hopes
to
conquer
what
belongs
to
another
man
,
and
infinitely
detesting
the
opinion
,
that
lesser
Armies
,
provided
they
be
well
disciplined
,
are
fitter
for
war
,
then
huge
vast
hosts
of
men
,
(
an
opinion
which
I
hold
to
be
wholly
erroneous
,
as
that
which
hath
brought
many
Princes
to
utter
desolation
)
and
loving
onely
the
secure
though
costly
way
of
overcoming
by
an
unexhaustible
multitude
of
souldiers
,
if
I
should
make
war
long
in
a
Province
,
I
must
so
sack
the
Cities
and
people
thereof
,
as
I
must
lay
it
wholly
waste
;
so
as
to
the
end
that
the
subjugated
people
may
in
time
of
Peace
recover
the
losses
which
they
have
suffered
by
war
,
I
use
to
grant
Peace
unto
them
,
upon
any
little
acquisition
of
state
that
I
have
made
.
Moreover
,
I
make
short
war
with
my
enemies
,
to
the
end
that
I
may
enjoy
that
great
benefit
which
ascertains
all
enterprises
,
of
assayling
weak
people
with
my
veteran
souldiers
,
and
such
as
are
ignorant
in
matter
of
Militia
,
I
content
my self
with
having
made
my self
Master
of
some
little
part
of
their
Country
,
for
that
when
they
shall
be
by
their
long
training
up
in
wars
accustomed
to
war-faring
,
and
become
fit
not
onely
to
defend
that
part
of
their
Country
which
yet
remains
unto
them
,
but
to
recover
what
they
have
lost
,
I
endeavour
to
make
peace
with
them
(
which
is
usually
desired
by
those
who
fight
against
a
more
powerful
enemy
)
upon
the
best
conditions
that
I
can
.
And
know
,
that
this
my
advisedness
is
of
such
importance
,
as
I
may
boldly
say
,
it
is
from
thence
that
I
acknowledge
the
best
part
of
my
greatness
;
for
no
purchase
,
how
great
soever
it
be
,
can
justly
be
compared
to
the
great
loss
which
a
Prince
undergoes
,
when
by
many
years
obstinate
war
,
he
inures
his
enemy
to
be
a
warriour
.
And
in
the
wars
which
I
have
had
of
late
with
the
Emperors
of
the
house
of
Austria
,
I
have
been
contented
to
gaul
them
a
little
,
and
have
not
utterly
subdued
them
,
not
onely
out
of
the
aforesaid
reason
,
of
not
inuring
the
Germans
,
and
Hungarians
to
war
,
who
are
valiant
people
,
bred
up
in
wars
,
and
naturally
given
to
thirst
after
the
hazard
thereof
,
but
for
that
I
have
by
long
experience
found
at
last
,
that
the
dilating
of
Empires
lies
not
,
(
as
many
foolishly
believe
)
in
over-running
many
Provinces
in
one
year
,
but
in
taking
some
few
,
and
in
making
those
sure
.
For
as
much
as
eating
is
not
requisite
for
making
a
man
fat
,
so
the
aggrandising
of
States
depends
not
upon
making
of
infinite
acquisitions
,
but
the
making
of
a
man
fat
,
and
the
dilating
of
Empires
consist
wholly
in
little
eating
,
and
in
good
digestion
,
and
this
not
without
good
reason
.
For
to
maintain
States
whichare
newly
gotten
,
by
power
and
Arms
,
is
a
very
laborious
business
,
and
even
then
very
hard
when
the
conquered
Nation
is
weak
.
For
the
change
of
a
natural
Prince
for
a
forraigner
▪
chiefly
when
he
is
of
a
differing
Religion
and
Nation
,
is
so
hateful
a
burthen
to
people
,
as
they
cannot
accustom
themselves
to
bear
it
without
much
difficulty
.
But
it
is
exceeding
difficult
to
keep
a
State
newly
won
,
which
is
inhabited
by
stout
and
warlike
m●…n
,
nay
even
then
when
being
utterly
vanquished
,
and
their
Prince
lost
,
they
know
not
to
what
or
to
whom
to
betake
themselves
.
But
when
one
hath
possest
himself
of
a
Province
belonging
to
a
powerful
Prince
,
who
wants
not
onely
forces
to
defend
what
he
is
yet
master
of
,
but
to
regain
what
he
hath
lost
,
all
that
is
gotten
is
of
hard
digestion
,
and
almost
impossible
to
be
kept
.
But
as
all
sorts
of
meat
,
though
never
so
hard
of
digestion
,
concoct
well
when
they
are
moderately
eaten
;
so
acquisitions
made
of
warlike
people
,
and
whose
ancient
Prince
lives
still
in
power
and
greatness
,
ought
to
be
small
ones
,
to
the
end
that
they
may
be
easily
digested
,
and
that
people
that
are
subjugated
may
of
enemies
be
made
friends
,
and
of
strangers
,
natural
subjects
.
Moreover
I
use
to
make
but
short
war
with
a
Prince
,
whose
ruine
tending
to
the
depression
of
other
powerful
Princes
,
may
occasion
too
much
State-jealousie
,
and
for
this
onely
reason
I
did
not
continue
the
war
which
I
made
last
against
the
house
of
Austria
in
Hungary
;
for
the
jealousie
of
losing
Vienna
,
which
is
accounted
theout-Bulwark
of
Germany
and
Italy
,
might
certainly
have
drawn
upon
me
the
joynt
forces
of
the
Empire
of
Germany
,
and
of
the
Princes
of
Italy
:
and
the
great
error
which
I
committed
in
my
unfortunate
taking
of
the
Island
of
Cyprus
,
made
me
know
the
danger
that
I
may
undergo
by
the
Christian
leagues
;
for
for
one
Island
which
I
may
call
a
Desart
,
I
lost
by
the
Naval
rout
which
was
given
me
at
the
battel
of
Lepanto
my
reputation
at
Sea
,
which
God
knows
when
I
shall
recover
;
a
loss
which
hath
done
me
more
harm
then
seven
kingdoms
of
Cyprus
can
do
me
good
.
These
Gentlemen
thanked
the
Ottoman
Monarchy
,
who
wisht
them
upon
any
occurrency
,
that
they
would
freely
demand
of
her
whatsoever
they
desired
,
for
she
would
willingly
give
them
all
satisfaction
;
saying
that
they
understood
the
Theory
of
Policy
which
was
learnt
by
books
,
and
that
she
,
though
ignorant
of
Letters
,
might
boast
she
was
able
to
read
in
the
schools
that
good
and
sound
practical
Policy
,
which
was
learnt
by
the
governing
of
States
,
and
managing
of
Arms.
The
LXXXI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Vertuosi
of
Pernassus
,
after
having
paid
in
the
accustomed
Donative
of
a
Milli●…n
of
Conceits
to
his
Majesties
Treasurer
,
according
to
their
wont
,
ask
a
favour
of
him
.
THose
who
exactly
understand
the
affairs
of
this
State
,
know
that
the
Vertuosi
of
Pernassus
do
not
onely
pay
into
the
Exchequer
,
the
Tythe
of
all
the
fruits
of
their
wits
,
but
a
Tax
which
is
laid
upon
every
one
according
to
his
Talent
.
Whence
it
is
that
Ovid
pays
in
to
the
publike
receivers
,
yeerly
eight
Elegies
,
Virgil
fourscore
Heroick
Verses
,
Horace
five
Odes
,
Martial
eleven
Epigrams
,
and
others
according
as
they
are
taxed
.
Moreover
the
Vertuosi
do
every
year
by
name
of
a
Donative
(
yet
such
a
Donative
as
if
it
be
not
willingly
given
,
may
without
the
loss
of
its
modest
Title
,
be
levyed
out
of
their
goods
by
the
Serjeants
,
and
sold
by
the
Candle
)
pay
in
into
the
Delphick
Treasury
a
Million
of
Conceits
,
which
are
after
liberally
distributed
by
the
Muses
to
the
meaner
sort
of
the
Literati
,
who
wanting
invention
,
deserve
assisting
for
the
meer
love
which
they
bear
to
learning
;
and
upon
this
so
large
a
Donative
,
his
Majesty
is
pleased
to
grant
his
Vertuosi
some
such
gracious
favors
as
they
are
permitted
to
demand
.
So
as
the
last
week
after
the
Donative
was
prepared
,
the
Vertuosi
resolved
in
a
general
Assembly
to
beg
seven
boons
of
Apollo
,
which
were
all
put
in
a
Scedule
which
was
to
be
presented
unto
him
.
But
the
polisht
Class●…s
of
Politicians
told
them
,
that
upon
occasion
of
demanding
Graces
from
a
Prince
out
of
merit
,
they
must
shun
the
error
of
demanding
many
things
;
not
onely
for
that
Princes
,
who
do
quickly
take
distaste
when
they
are
to
acquit
themselves
of
an
obligation
,
era
annoyed
at
the
demand
of
many
favours
,
but
for
that
it
always
falls
out
that
he
who
asks
many
things
,
is
rewarded
with
the
slightest
.
That
therefore
in
such
a
case
it
were
wisely
done
to
beg
but
one
onely
boon
,
provided
it
were
of
moment
,
which
upon
such
an
occasion
could
not
be
denyed
by
the
Prince
without
a
mark
of
much
ingratitude
.
The
Politicians
Advice
was
much
commended
by
the
whole
Colledge
of
Vertuosi
,
and
was
followed
by
them
.
Wherefore
the
next
day
Bernardino
Biscia
,
and
Tiberio
Cerasi
,
the
Vertuosi's
Aadvocates
,
were
sent
unto
his
Majesty
,
who
when
they
had
presented
Apollo
with
the
Donative
,
did
humbly
beseech
him
,
that
in
chusing
Judges
for
his
Courts
of
Justice
,
and
other
Officers
for
publike
Magistracy
,
he
would
be
pleased
to
chuse
men
of
a
benign
Nature
,
of
a
courteous
Genius
,
humble
spirit
,
and
patient
Minde
;
and
that
he
would
send
certain
Hyteroclical
,
Bankrupts
,
phantastical
,
proud
,
insolent
men
,
who
were
so
arrant
beasts
,
as
did
more
vex
and
grieve
those
miserable
men
who
had
suits
at
Law
,
by
their
discomposed
phantastical
brains
,
then
the
suits
themselves
did
;
to
be
Boatsons
and
Auditors
in
the
Galleys
,
where
they
might
ercise
their
vexatious
Talents
of
wit
amongst
slaves
,
which
were
so
unsupportable
to
free-born
men
.
The
LXXXII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Arcadians
being
up
in
Arms
against
their
Prince
for
certain
new
Taxes
imposed
upon
them
,
he
wisely
appeaseth
them
by
delivering
up
unto
them
,
him
who
had
perswaded
him
thereunto
.
THe
Prince
of
Arcadia
,
a
Prince
who
was
much
beloved
and
reverenced
by
his
people
,
was
perswaded
some
months
ago
by
a
wicked
Projecter
to
impose
some
new
Gabels
upon
his
people
,
who
after
having
complained
bitterly
to
their
Prince
against
this
Projector
,
and
desired
that
he
might
be
banished
the
State
as
a
most
pernicious
person
,
and
that
the
Gabels
imposed
by
his
advice
might
be
taken
away
,
finding
that
their
Petitions
were
without
any
fruit
,
and
that
whilst
they
bore
respect
unto
their
Prince
,
their
grievances
were
increased
by
the
greedy
Tax-takers
,
their
patience
being
overcome
,
turned
into
such
fury
(
as
it
always
falls
out
when
superiors
seem
not
to
value
or
care
for
the
peoples
complaints
)
as
taking
up
Arms
,
and
all
of
them
publikely
rebelling
,
they
resolved
to
remedy
their
inconveniencies
by
disorders
.
They
fell
furiously
first
upon
the
Collectors
of
these
new
Gabels
,
and
then
their
sedition
increasing
,
they
besieged
the
Prince
in
his
Castle
,
whither
for
his
greater
safety
he
had
withdrawn
himself
;
nor
satisfyed
with
all
this
insolency
,
they
threatned
worser
mischief
if
they
did
not
quickly
receive
the
satisfaction
which
they
desired
.
In
the
midst
of
these
troubles
the
Prince
consulted
with
those
whose
judgements
he
most
relyed
upon
,
whether
it
were
less
shameful
for
him
to
seek
his
safety
by
flight
,
or
to
appease
the
people
by
anulling
the
new
Gabels
.
When
the
news
of
this
insurrection
,
and
the
Princes
intention
of
quieting
those
tumults
with
so
much
infamy
to
himself
,
was
known
by
some
of
his
neighboring
Princes
,
who
very
well
knew
that
their
interest
were
concerned
in
this
Arcadian
insurrection
,
they
suddainly
with
their
whole
Courts
betook
themselves
to
Arms
,
and
getting
on
horseback
,
entred
the
Castle
,
where
they
found
the
Prince
of
Arcadia
,
who
just
then
made
the
Edict
for
revocation
of
these
Gabels
be
published
.
These
Princes
earnestly
desired
him
that
he
would
neither
injure
nor
shame
himself
nor
his
neighbours
so
much
as
to
be
discouraged
at
this
the
peoples
insurrection
,
for
it
would
be
too
scandalous
an
example
to
the
subjects
of
his
other
neighbour
Princes
,
when
it
should
be
known
that
the
people
of
Arcadia
having
rebelled
against
their
Prince
by
reason
of
Taxes
,
they
had
through
fear
and
force
of
Arms
caused
him
to
revoke
them
.
That
therefore
to
the
loss
of
his
last
drop
of
blood
he
should
defend
that
his
Authority
which
other
Princes
had
kept
unviolated
among
a
much
greater
and
more
dreadful
people
;
and
amidst
a
thousand
dangers
had
so
long
continued
their
subjects
grievances
,
Taxes
,
and
Gabels
,
as
there
not
being
any
man
alive
that
can
truly
say
he
ever
knew
any
of
them
taken
off
,
even
those
which
were
at
first
sessed
but
for
a
limited
time
,
were
by
all
Nations
thought
to
be
immortal
.
They
told
him
likewise
,
that
he
was
to
consider
that
the
common
people
which
are
ensatiable
in
all
their
desires
,
by
the
bad
example
of
taking
away
these
new
Gabels
might
grow
so
bold
as
to
demand
the
abolishment
of
the
old
ones
.
All
which
things
did
upon
this
urgent
occasion
admonish
him
to
appease
the
incensed
people
by
the
usual
remedy
which
had
been
with
good
success
practised
by
great
Princes
,
of
d●…livering
up
the
first
inventer
of
those
Gabels
into
the
peoples
power
,
to
the
end
that
by
his
ruine
who
had
advised
the
mischief
,
the
tumult
might
be
quieted
;
a
remedy
which
they
said
was
so
much
the
more
certain
,
for
that
the
common
people
who
take
up
Arms
upon
like
occasions
resemble
dogs
,
which
when
they
bark
violently
at
any
one
,
were
appeased
by
the
satisfaction
of
biting
a
stone
which
had
been
thrown
at
them
,
and
had
hurt
them
.
The
Prince
of
Arcadia
answered
these
Princes
,
that
he
very
well
knew
the
Counsel
which
they
gave
him
was
good
,
but
that
he
thought
it
too
unjust
.
To
which
one
of
them
replyed
,
that
in
extremities
a
man
must
have
courage
enough
to
know
how
to
use
corrosives
for
Cankers
.
The
Prince
of
Arcadia
did
then
imbrace
the
propounded
proposition
,
and
immediately
caused
publike
Proclamation
to
be
made
throughout
all
his
Country
,
that
he
being
seduced
by
this
wicked
Projector
,
was
pleased
that
his
beloved
people
who
thought
themselves
so
highly
injured
by
him
,
should
take
what
revenge
they
pleased
of
that
sedicious
fellow
.
And
soon
after
the
inventer
of
those
grievances
was
delivered
into
the
power
of
those
inraged
people
,
who
first
with
their
teeth
,
then
with
their
hands
,
and
lastly
with
all
sort
of
Arms
did
so
deal
with
him
,
as
having
made
more
pieces
then
one
of
him
,
they
dragged
him
in
triumphant
manner
through
all
the
streets
of
the
City
.
The
which
being
done
,
the
Prince
opened
the
Castle
gates
,
and
was
thanked
by
all
the
people
,
who
ran
joyfully
to
kiss
his
hands
for
the
satisfaction
,
which
he
had
given
them
;
and
he
taking
them
all
into
his
favor
,
continued
in
the
peaceful
receiving
of
those
his
new
Taxes
,
which
were
willingly
payed
by
the
people
,
they
being
satisfyed
with
that
revenge
:
so
proper
is
it
to
the
common
people
inragedly
to
bite
the
dart
which
hath
wounded
them
,
and
affectionately
to
kiss
the
hand
that
threw
it
.
The
LXXXIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Marcus
Portius
Cato
whilst
he
reprehends
Salustius
Crispus
for
flattering
the
Emperour
Tiberius
,
is
severely
taxt
by
him
for
being
too
obstinate
.
ALL
that
come
to
this
Court
do
infinitely
wonder
,
why
Marcus
Portius
Cato
,
a
personage
so
famous
as
he
is
celebrated
and
exalted
even
to
the
skyes
by
all
writers
for
his
austere
manners
,
integrity
of
life
,
wisdom
,
and
for
his
excessive
love
,
which
he
hath
always
shewed
to
his
Country
,
is
not
held
in
so
high
esteem
by
his
Majesty
,
as
so
cryed
up
a
subject
seems
to
deserve
:
for
though
from
the
first
day
that
he
entred
Pernassus
he
hath
ever
aymed
at
honorable
imployments
,
yet
could
he
never
obtain
any
:
nay
the
best
Literati
of
this
Court
,
who
do
exceedingly
favor
him
,
have
cleerly
found
a
resolution
in
his
Majesty
,
by
no
means
to
make
use
of
such
a
man
.
The
reason
of
this
Apollo's
aversion
,
forasmuch
as
is
said
by
them
who
are
quickest
sighted
,
is
,
for
that
Apollo
having
well
examined
Cato's
minde
and
Genius
,
his
Majesty
holds
him
to
be
but
an
impetuous
,
proud
,
impertinent
fellow
,
a
capricious
wit
of
the
first
head
,
one
that
means
well
,
but
judges
ill
,
and
one
who
is
all
zeal
,
crusted
up
in
imprudency
;
which
qualities
are
very
hateful
to
Apollo
,
who
thinks
it
very
ill
done
to
bestow
publike
imployments
upon
such
companions
,
as
ought
onely
to
be
conferred
upon
men
civilly
behaved
,
and
upon
such
as
are
so
far
from
giving
distaste
to
any
who
have
business
,
as
they
know
it
chiefly
becomes
them
to
give
at
least
satisfactory
words
to
all
men
.
This
Cato
hapned
to
be
present
two
days
ago
,
when
Salustius
Crispus
,
one
of
Tiberius
his
intimate
servants
,
did
not
onely
openly
flatter
his
master
,
but
to
the
end
that
he
might
obtain
some
very
chief
place
,
had
humbled
himself
to
some
of
the
most
abject
Courtiers
,
but
such
as
were
well
esteemed
by
the
Emperor
:
at
which
base
action
Cato
seemed
to
be
so
scandallized
,
as
mightily
reprehending
Salust
;
he
told
him
,
that
men
ought
to
obtain
places
from
their
Princes
by
deserts
;
and
that
preferments
obtained
by
the
means
of
unworthy
people
,
did
not
become
men
of
worth
;
and
that
his
praising
of
Tiberius
,
a
man
who
was
known
to
all
the
world
to
be
so
vitious
,
had
purchast
him
as
much
blame
,
as
he
might
have
won
praise
by
putting
him
in
minde
of
his
faults
.
To
this
reprehension
Salust
without
any
the
least
alteration
of
minde
,
answered
;
To
be
free
spoken
doth
not
always
help
,
nor
do
men
always
win
reputation
thereby
,
as
you
believe
;
and
as
it
is
folly
to
sow
good
seed
in
the
sands
,
so
all
counsel
is
cast
away
when
it
is
given
to
obstinate
people
,
and
where
there
is
no
hope
of
doing
any
good
thereby
.
For
Suadere
principi
quod
oporteat
,
multi
Laboris
.
Assentatio
ergo
Principem
quemcumque
sine
affectu
&c.
Tacit.
lib.
1.
Hist.
But
upon
such
occasions
as
these
,
goodness
,
or
honesty
must
be
accompanyed
with
wisdom
;
and
who
hath
not
wit
enough
to
fit
the
Sayles
of
his
interest
to
every
favourable
wind
that
blows
,
is
a
fool
if
he
sayle
in
the
tempestuous
Sea
of
the
Court
,
wherein
those
obstinate
men
who
cannot
accommodate
their
wits
to
place
,
time
,
and
persons
,
do
either
perish
in
their
first
voyage
,
or
run
hazard
of
dangerous
tempests
all
their
life
time
,
without
ever
gaining
the
Haven
of
their
coveted
desires
.
Know
Cato
,
that
they
are
pointed
at
by
all
men
as
great
fools
,
who
standing
in
need
of
other
mens
assistance
,
mar
their
business
,
onely
because
they
will
stand
upon
the
punctilio
of
what
is
meet
,
and
on
the
scruples
of
reputation
.
The
greatest
wisdom
of
a
perfect
Courtier
,
consists
in
knowing
how
to
fit
himself
to
all
humors
;
without
which
it
is
impossible
to
come
to
any
good
in
Court
:
and
he
who
attains
to
his
desired
greatness
of
obtaining
a
principal
dignity
or
a
great
Office
,
is
much
more
admired
by
every
one
for
the
dignity
whi●…h
he
possesseth
,
then
undervalued
for
the
means
he
used
to
come
by
it
.
Every
stain
of
honor
which
is
committed
for
the
bettering
of
a
mans
condition
,
is
excellently
well
washt
away
,
if
he
can
make
vertuous
use
of
his
new
obtained
Honor.
And
to
preach
chastity
(
as
you
do
)
in
Bawdy-houses
,
or
fasting
in
time
of
Carnevale
,
is
no
better
then
to
make
musick
to
them
that
are
deafe
,
or
to
light
the
blinde
with
Torches
.
And
of
this
which
I
say
,
I
will
crave
no
other
Testimony
then
your
own
,
when
in
the
Roman
Commonwealth
where
you
made
publike
profession
of
being
chief
Corrector
of
the
Press
,
you
did
but
badly
govern
your
own
private
condition
,
without
ever
being
able
to
better
the
publike
affairs
.
The
LXXXIV
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
having
by
a
new
Edict
inhibited
Poets
to
make
use
of
any
fabulous
Creature
in
their
verses
,
at
the
fervent
intreaties
of
the
Poets
,
his
Majesty
revokes
the
said
Edict
.
FOur
days
since
,
the
Urban
Pretor
of
Pernassus
,
publisht
an
Edict
in
the
usual
places
by
sound
of
Trumpet
,
and
by
order
from
Apollo
,
that
his
Majesty
being
resolved
by
no
means
to
tolerate
that
men
who
should
speak
nothing
but
Truths
,
should
invent
falshoods
,
and
having
heard
that
Poets
in
their
writings
had
mentioned
Tritons
,
Basilisks
,
Unicorns
,
Sirens
,
Hypogriffiks
,
Phenixes
,
Sphinxces
,
Centaurs
,
and
other
Animals
,
as
realities
,
being
creatures
which
mother
Nature
did
never
create
,
and
that
many
mischiefs
arose
from
the
publishing
of
such
things
;
understanding
particularly
that
many
notorious
cheaters
sold
the
Unicorns
horn
at
great
rates
to
simple
people
,
and
the
other
aforesaid
things
,
did
by
that
his
Decree
declare
the
aforesaid
creatures
and
other
things
to
be
express
lyes
,
meer
fables
,
and
Poetical
fictions
.
That
therefore
his
pleasure
was
that
Poets
should
for
the
future
forbear
committing
any
such
disorders
,
and
that
they
should
make
use
of
nothing
in
their
verses
,
save
what
was
really
produced
by
nature
,
upon
pain
of
being
banisht
Pernassus
.
The
capricious
Poets
were
scandalized
at
this
news
,
wherefore
they
assembled
themselves
suddainly
together
in
their
Academy
,
where
by
common
consent
they
chose
Sannezzarro
for
their
spokesman
to
request
the
revocation
of
that
Edict
which
was
so
prejudicial
to
their
Poetry
.
Sanezzarro
presented
himself
forthwith
before
the
Pretor
,
complaining
bitterly
,
that
in
an
Age
which
did
so
abound
in
lyes
the
vertuous
inventions
of
Poets
should
onely
be
forbidden
,
a
thing
the
more
worthy
consideration
,
for
that
by
exempting
the
invention
of
all
fabulous
things
from
their
Poems
,
the
very
soul
thereof
was
taken
away
.
And
that
the
Poets
,
who
had
always
been
obedient
to
all
his
Majesties
commands
,
would
willingly
submit
to
the
rigor
of
this
Edict
,
if
it
were
made
universal
.
That
it
was
very
well
known
that
infinite
things
,
yea
which
much
commendeed
Encomiums
,
were
named
for
truths
by
both
the
meanest
,
and
best
Literati
of
Pernassus
,
which
were
no
where
to
be
found
;
and
that
it
would
be
as
acceptable
as
useful
to
declare
them
to
be
false
.
The
Pretor
wisht
Sanezzarro
freely
to
name
those
things
,
which
were
with
admiration
named
for
truths
in
Pernassus
,
and
yet
were
false
;
for
Apollo
who
was
no
respecter
of
persons
,
would
assuredly
make
them
be
put
into
the
same
Edict
.
Then
said
Sanezzarro
,
uninteressed
men
,
people
who
love
the
publike
good
better
then
their
own
private
affairs
,
Officers
who
are
not
slaves
to
their
passions
,
Princes
who
are
not
ambitious
of
coveting
what
belongs
to
other
men
,
are
publikely
said
to
live
by
thousands
and
thousands
in
the
world
,
and
yet
it
is
better
known
to
Apollo
then
to
any
other
,
whether
any
such
Phenixes
be
to
be
found
in
Egypt
,
Arabia
,
or
in
any
other
part
of
the
Earth
;
that
therefore
if
his
Majesty
would
insert
these
Chimera's
into
his
Edict
,
and
make
the
Law
general
,
Poets
would
have
no
just
cause
of
complaint
.
This
being
said
,
the
Pretor
went
presently
to
Apollo
,
and
acquainted
him
with
Sanezzarro's
desire
;
who
did
so
much
wonder
at
the
request
made
by
Sanezzarro
,
as
he
said
these
very
words
to
the
Pretor
.
Now
I
perceive
the
Poets
have
reason
for
their
complaint
,
and
that
my
Edict
is
not
universal
,
therefore
revoke
it
without
more
ado
:
for
I
will
rather
take
the
shame
upon
my self
,
to
let
my
Literati
know
,
that
I
was
inconsiderate
in
the
publication
of
this
Edict
,
then
shame
all
mankind
by
making
it
know
that
men
absolutely
uninteressed
are
meerly
fabulous
.
The
LXXXV
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Giovangirolimo
Aquaviva
,
haveng
overcome
a
very
great
difficulty
,
is
with
much
Honor
admitted
into
Pernassus
.
IN
the
Assembly
of
the
Vertuosi
which
was
held
for
that
purpose
on
Thursday
last
,
the
credential
Letters
brought
by
a
Gentleman
who
was
sent
to
this
Court
from
Signior
Givangirolimo
Aquaviva
Duke
of
Atri
,
were
read
;
who
afterwards
delivering
his
Embassie
,
did
in
very
handsome
language
desire
that
the
Duke
his
Master
might
be
admitted
into
Pernassus
;
and
in
the
same
assembly
the
good
deserts
of
the
said
Duke
were
diligently
examined
,
and
maturely
discust
,
and
this
noble
Duke
being
found
to
be
very
well
verst
in
all
the
Liberal
Sciences
and
arrived
at
the
height
of
excellency
in
the
Mathematicks
;
by
his
Majesties
express
order
who
was
ever
very
partial
to
this
noble
Family
,
wherein
learning
seems
rather
to
be
hereditary
,
then
purchas'd
by
long
study
,
was
created
superintendent
of
the
Triangles
and
lineatore
Maggiore
di
euclide
:
after
this
the
wonted
Cavalcata
was
decreed
unto
him
,
and
being
accompanyed
by
the
Lord
Poets
,
and
the
other
learned
Princes
of
fruitful
Parthenope
,
with
many
of
their
servants
in
rich
liveries
,
the
shew
was
very
noble
,
and
worthy
so
deserving
a
Prince
;
but
the
greatest
wonder
was
,
to
see
the
Duke
discourse
a
long
time
with
Homer
,
and
Pindarus
not
making
use
of
Valla
,
or
any
other
interpreter
,
certainly
a
very
glorious
action
in
these
Times
,
and
which
purchas'd
the
Duke
the
more
glory
,
for
that
the
Vertuosi
of
Pernassus
did
consisider
that
this
Princes
learning
was
of
the
very
finest
sort
which
makes
them
so
much
respected
who
are
therewith
indued
.
Nor
did
he
this
out
of
necessity
to
eat
bread
,
nor
to
make
use
of
it
(
as
many
do
)
for
a
Patrimony
,
but
onely
that
,
though
he
was
born
of
noble
blood
,
and
very
rich
,
he
might
not
be
thought
an
ignorant
Plebeian
,
and
an
unlearned
begger
:
for
this
Prince
always
held
that
perfect
Nobility
,
and
true
riches
did
onely
consist
in
vertue
.
The
Duke
was
already
come
with
his
noble
Cavalcata
into
the
Via
Sacra
,
when
it
was
made
known
unto
him
in
his
Majesties
name
,
by
a
publike
messenger
,
that
he
must
return
back
,
for
there
was
so
great
an
impediment
found
in
him
,
as
by
vertue
of
the
Pegasean
Pragmatical
Law
he
could
not
be
admitted
into
Pernassus
.
Upon
this
unfortunate
news
il
Rota
,
il
Tansillo
,
and
many
other
Neapolitan
Poets
of
the
first
Classis
,
hasted
to
Apollo
,
and
understood
that
the
impediment
arose
,
for
that
the
illustrious
Octavius
Cardinal
Aquaviva
,
when
he
was
Prelate
in
the
Court
of
Rome
,
had
exercised
the
place
of
Maistre
d'Hostelle
under
Pope
Gregory
the
fourteenth
,
and
that
since
it
was
known
in
Pernassus
,
that
the
formerly
stately
Courts
of
Princes
,
through
the
tricks
and
inventions
of
beggerly
Mastre
d'Hostels
were
infected
with
the
sordid
contagion
of
foul
avarice
,
it
was
enacted
by
a
very
severe
Edict
,
that
for
the
future
,
not
onely
such
as
had
exercised
the
hateful
Office
of
Maistre
d'Hostelle
in
Princes
Courts
should
never
be
admitted
into
Pernassus
,
but
that
all
that
descended
from
them
,
or
were
any
ways
allyed
unto
them
,
even
to
the
fortieth
degree
,
should
be
for
ever
excluded
.
The
Duke
was
very
much
troubled
at
this
unfortunate
rub
;
but
having
known
that
Edict
long
before
,
he
had
foreseen
the
difficulties
,
which
he
might
meet
withal
in
Pernassus
,
so
as
to
remove
away
all
obstacles
,
he
took
a
letter
out
of
his
bosom
written
with
his
own
hand
unto
his
son
,
wherein
he
did
expresly
forbid
him
to
accept
of
that
place
;
but
the
business
of
Maistre
d'Hostel
is
so
odious
in
this
Court
,
as
the
Letter
in
justification
of
the
Duke
,
was
not
read
,
nor
any
ways
taken
into
consideration
;
and
now
the
business
grew
desperate
,
and
the
Cavalcata
began
to
return
backwards
,
when
Cesare
Caporale
a
Poet
,
who
having
been
greatly
obliged
to
the
house
of
Aquaviva
,
hasted
to
Apollo
,
to
whom
he
largely
attested
,
that
Signior
Octavio
,
as
he
was
nobly
minded
,
so
had
he
always
lived
in
a
liberal
manner
,
and
that
he
was
not
made
Maistre
d'Hostelle
by
that
free
handed
Pope
for
having
a
narrow
soul
,
and
given
to
getting
,
but
onely
that
by
the
dignity
of
that
so
honorable
a
degree
,
he
might
shew
him
to
be
a
person
fit
to
be
made
a
Cardinal
,
as
it
soon
after
fell
out
;
and
that
whilst
he
did
discharge
that
place
,
he
studyed
nothing
more
then
how
to
feed
the
Vertuosi
plentifully
,
to
protect
the
Literati
,
and
to
reward
those
that
deserved
well
;
a
piece
of
generosity
,
wherin
he
did
always
shew
such
liberality
and
greatness
,
as
finding
that
certain
roguish
Butlers
,
mingled
water
with
wine
in
the
Popes
Cellar
,
he
commanded
by
a
severe
and
noble
Edict
,
which
even
to
this
day
is
punctually
observed
,
that
it
should
not
be
lawful
for
any
one
for
the
future
to
have
any
water
in
those
Cellars
.
Apollo
was
so
well
pleased
with
this
decree
,
as
he
commanded
that
it
should
be
written
in
large
letters
of
gold
by
Croessis
that
famous
Millanese
Scribe
and
chief
writer
of
Text-hand
,
in
the
Delphick
Library
,
and
that
for
the
honor
and
glory
of
the
famous
Family
of
the
Aquavive
,
and
for
the
Dukes
reputation
who
had
inriched
the
present
age
with
so
deserving
a
son
,
it
should
be
carryed
before
him
in
the
Cavalcata
,
which
was
the
noblest
and
most
admired
thing
that
was
seen
therein
:
and
to
compleat
the
Dukes
contentment
,
and
the
splendor
of
his
house
,
his
Majesty
decreed
the
Title
of
Mecenas
to
Signior
Octavio
Cardinal
Aquaviva
,
and
sent
it
him
by
an
express
Messenger
yesterday
in
forma
dignum
.
The
LXXXVI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
The
Duke
of
Laconia
to
revenge
himself
by
way
of
Law
upon
a
chief
Senator
of
State
for
some
private
distastes
that
he
had
taken
at
him
,
commanded
Fleminio
Cartaro
,
his
Iudge
of
Assize
,
to
proceed
severely
against
him
upon
some
heads
which
he
would
give
him
,
and
he
denyes
to
obey
him
.
THe
Duke
of
Laconia
to
take
revenge
for
some
distastes
which
he
pretended
to
have
received
from
a
chief
Senator
of
his
State
,
began
under
other
pretences
to
trouble
him
at
Law
;
and
having
made
him
be
imprisoned
,
he
commanded
Flaminio
Cartaro
one
of
his
Judges
of
Assize
,
to
make
severe
process
against
him
,
and
gave
him
some
heads
in
writing
,
whereupon
to
examine
him
.
Cartaro
when
he
had
considered
the
quality
of
the
person
against
whom
he
was
to
proceed
,
and
the
faults
which
were
pretended
to
be
laid
to
his
charge
,
easily
perceived
that
the
Duke
would
vent
his
private
rage
of
hatred
against
that
so
signal
personage
,
by
colour
of
justice
.
And
thinking
it
misbecame
a
man
of
his
place
to
serve
as
a
Minister
to
other
mens
passions
,
and
knowing
that
the
purchase
of
unjust
Princes
favors
by
the
shedding
of
innocent
blood
would
soon
be
severely
vindicated
both
by
God
and
man
;
rather
then
to
stain
his
reputation
by
so
foul
an
action
,
put
on
that
generous
resolution
,
which
ought
to
be
imitated
by
all
Judges
in
the
like
case
;
he
escaped
by
night
out
of
Laconia
,
and
some
six
days
ago
came
to
this
Court.
The
Duke
of
Laconia
as
soon
as
he
heard
Cartaro
was
fled
,
and
knew
what
way
he
took
,
sent
forthwith
two
Embassadours
to
Apollo
,
who
earnestly
desired
his
Majesty
that
for
weighty
state-Interest
Cartaro
might
be
kept
forthcoming
,
and
sent
back
to
their
Prince
.
Apollo
who
before
he
would
take
any
resolution
,
would
know
the
truth
of
the
business
from
Cartaro's
self
,
caused
him
to
be
immediately
sent
for
,
and
before
the
Embassadors
asked
him
the
reason
of
his
so
sudden
and
secret
flight
from
Laconia
.
Who
plainly
and
very
particularly
acquainted
Apollo
with
the
truth
of
what
had
hapned
between
him
and
the
Duke
of
Laconia
,
and
then
added
,
that
had
it
been
in
an
hereditary
state
,
he
would
in
giving
judgement
have
obeyed
his
Princes
will
;
but
that
in
an
elective
Principality
,
as
was
that
of
Laconia
,
where
Brevi
Momento
summa
verti
possunt
,
Tacit.
lib.
5.
Annal.
and
where
in
the
twinkling
of
an
eye
,
he
might
command
in
chief
,
who
did
formerly
obey
,
and
where
new
Princes
are
usually
either
of
a
differing
Genius
,
or
contrary
factions
to
the
former
,
when
a
Prince
,
say
it
be
not
out
of
private
hatred
,
but
justly
doth
vex
any
great
Officer
,
he
should
not
finde
either
Judges
,
Advocates
,
or
Serjeants
ready
to
serve
him
.
For
new
Princes
,
who
commonly
do
not
approve
of
their
Predecessors
Actions
,
when
they
cannot
cudgel
the
Ass
(
the
dead
Prince
)
vent
all
their
rage
and
fury
upon
the
pack-saddle
(
the
Judge
whom
they
have
in
their
power
)
and
that
in
faults
committed
by
great
men
,
and
executed
by
those
that
are
meaner
,
the
known
proverb
was
very
true
,
that
the
weakest
went
to
the
wall
;
for
it
was
not
onely
the
custom
of
angry
dogs
,
but
even
of
judicious
men
,
to
revenge
themselves
upon
the
stone
,
when
they
cannot
come
by
the
Arm
that
threw
it
:
and
that
this
his
doctrine
was
so
true
,
as
he
could
give
them
the
example
of
a
famous
Doctor
of
Castel
Bolognese
,
who
was
forced
to
feel
the
Tempest
of
that
Rage
,
which
was
not
possible
to
shower
down
upon
those
great
dogs
,
which
had
good
teeth
to
bite
withal
.
The
LXXXVII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Some
Princes
of
this
State
having
presented
Apollo
with
a
Book
of
the
Reason
of
State
,
the
Vertuosi
of
Pernassus
not
approving
of
the
definition
of
State
therein
given
,
publish
a
new
one
,
which
was
very
much
displeasing
to
those
Princes
.
THe
greatest
Princes
of
this
Court
,
did
with
general
applause
present
Apollo
two
days
ago
with
a
book
which
treated
of
the
Reason
of
State
:
and
press'd
very
much
,
that
as
being
a
very
meritorious
work
it
might
be
put
into
the
Delphick
Library
.
Apollo
who
knew
very
well
how
much
Princes
abhor
those
writings
,
which
treating
of
State-affairs
,
discover
their
souls
,
fashions
,
and
inward
intentions
to
the
meaner
sort
of
men
,
wondered
very
much
when
he
saw
it
was
greatly
desired
by
them
that
the
book
might
be
published
to
the
world
;
and
as
it
commonly
falls
out
in
such
like
cases
,
he
sorely
suspected
,
lest
these
Princes
might
in
such
a
business
hide
some
private
ends
of
their
own
;
whereupon
according
to
the
practice
of
this
Court
,
the
book
was
assigned
over
to
the
Library
Censors
,
who
did
the
more
diligently
consider
it
,
for
that
they
likewise
did
apprehend
some
cheat
,
which
they
soon
found
out
.
They
therefore
told
his
Majesty
the
next
day
,
that
those
Princes
did
so
highly
celebrate
the
book
of
the
Reason
of
State
which
they
had
presented
unto
him
out
of
self-interest
;
for
nothing
being
treated
of
therein
but
the
Politicks
In
genere
,
there
was
no
mention
made
therin
of
that
reason
of
State
which
the
Title
promised
;
and
that
Reason
of
State
being
of
the
Politicks
,
the
Author
of
the
book
had
craftily
,
(
and
peradventure
bribed
so
to
do
by
the
Princes
)
given
it
the
specious
definition
which
belongs
to
the
whole
body
of
the
Politicks
;
saying
,
That
the
reason
of
State
was
the
knowledge
of
fitting
means
to
ground
,
maintain
,
and
inlarge
a
State
;
by
which
gilded
definition
they
endeavoured
to
make
the
Reason
of
state
appear
to
be
a
good
thing
,
which
Learned
men
,
and
such
as
did
more
fear
God
,
then
flatter
Princes
,
freely
termed
the
Devils
Law
.
Apollo
did
infinitely
dislike
the
falshood
used
by
that
Author
,
and
immediatly
gave
order
,
That
the
Title
of
Reason
of
State
should
be
taken
from
that
Book
(
which
otherwise
was
very
elegantly
written
,
)
and
that
of
the
Politicks
,
put
in
the
place
of
it
:
At
which
,
the
Princes
were
infinitly
displeased
;
when
not
long
after
,
one
mightily
cried
up
for
his
skill
in
the
Politicks
,
did
with
excellent
Reasons
refute
the
former
Erroneous
definition
of
the
Reason
of
State
,
and
gave
it
publickly
another
definition
;
which
was
,
That
the
Reason
of
State
was
a
Law
useful
for
Commonwealths
,
but
absolutely
contrary
to
the
Laws
,
both
of
God
and
Man
.
A
Definition
which
being
written
in
Letters
of
Gold
,
and
afterwards
affixed
upon
the
Columns
of
the
Peripatetick
Porch
,
was
approved
of
by
all
the
Literati
for
as
absolutely
true
,
as
the
other
was
in
extremity
false
.
The
Princes
,
who
thought
that
this
new
Definition
was
published
onely
to
put
a
scorn
upon
them
,
were
so
highly
incensed
,
as
some
of
them
moved
to
take
up
Arms
against
the
Literati
,
and
to
end
that
important
business
with
Sword
in
hand
;
but
the
wiser
sort
did
mollifie
the
rage
of
the
more
capricious
,
and
did
joyntly
present
themselves
before
Apollo
,
where
Lewis
the
Twelfth
,
that
famous
King
of
France
,
speaking
to
His
Majesty
in
the
name
of
all
the
other
Princes
,
complained
,
That
a
Definition
was
given
to
the
Reason
of
State
,
by
the
Literati
,
which
was
very
wicked
;
which
if
His
Majesty
should
not
soon
recal
,
their
States
should
be
put
into
confusion
.
Apollo
answered
King
Lewis
,
That
he
did
from
that
time
forward
declare
the
Definition
given
lately
by
his
Vertuosi
to
the
Reason
of
State
,
to
be
utterly
scandalous
,
and
wicked
;
but
that
to
provide
against
the
evil
which
so
free
a
Definition
might
occasion
amongst
their
Subjects
,
it
was
not
a
good
remedy
to
cloake
it
over
with
fair
words
,
as
the
Author
of
the
Book
had
done
;
for
mischiefs
were
not
cured
by
concealing
;
and
that
he
and
all
the
rest
of
the
Princes
would
confess
the
Definition
to
be
true
,
which
they
seemed
so
much
to
dread
,
if
they
would
call
to
mind
,
that
when
they
did
any
thing
,
which
for
the
impiety
thereof
,
did
neither
agree
with
the
Laws
of
God
,
nor
man
,
if
they
were
afterwards
asked
by
any
one
why
they
had
done
so
impious
a
thing
;
they
were
ready
to
alleadge
the
Reason
of
State
for
the
occasion
thereof
.
Then
turning
to
Lewis
the
twelfth
,
Apollo
said
;
The
better
to
manifest
the
truth
of
what
I
say
,
to
your self
,
and
to
all
these
Princes
which
are
here
present
,
I
will
make
use
of
one
of
your
Actions
,
which
will
make
it
appear
clearly
,
that
the
Definition
of
State
,
published
by
my
Literati
,
and
which
you
do
now
so
much
oppugn
,
is
very
true
.
You
know
,
your
first
Wife
was
Sister
to
Charles
the
eighth
,
your
Predecessor
in
the
Kingdome
of
France
;
and
I
know
,
you
likewise
remember
that
you
did
adhere
to
the
Conspiracy
made
by
Francis
Duke
of
Burgundy
,
by
Charles
Duke
of
Burgundy
,
and
by
many
other
great
Lords
,
against
the
Kingdome
of
France
,
and
that
you
were
taken
prisoner
by
King
Charles
your
Sisters
husband
;
and
that
whilst
the
putting
of
you
to
death
as
a
Rebel
was
in
agitation
,
your
Wives
efficacious
Prayers
was
that
which
saved
your
life
.
You
know
likewise
,
that
Charles
being
dead
a
little
while
after
,
you
succeeded
him
in
his
Kingdom
,
and
that
you
might
marry
the
Queen
Dowager
,
Wife
to
the
late
Charles
,
you
got
to
be
Divorc'd
from
your
former
Wife
,
which
you
excused
by
pretending
that
your
Marriage
with
so
great
a
Princess
was
done
by
compulsion
;
as
if
there
needed
violence
to
marry
the
Sister
of
so
great
a
Prince
to
any
one
;
you
your self
know
Lewis
,
that
this
Divorce
was
neither
answerable
to
the
Laws
of
God
nor
Man
:
tell
me
then
what
was
the
reason
that
moved
you
to
banish
that
wife
your
bed
,
to
whom
you
confess
you
owe
your
life
.
King
Lewis
freely
answered
Apollo
,
that
doubtless
it
was
the
Reason
of
State
that
had
compelled
him
so
to
do
;
for
the
Queen
Dowager
of
France
having
in
her
,
the
noble
Dowry
of
the
Dukedome
of
Britany
,
he
had
marryed
her
,
to
the
end
that
that
Province
which
was
of
so
great
importance
,
and
from
which
France
had
formerly
received
so
much
mischief
,
should
not
again
be
disunited
from
his
Kingdom
.
See
then
said
Apollo
,
how
you
made
that
marriage
which
you
knew
did
neither
agree
with
the
Laws
of
God
nor
man
,
being
forced
to
do
so
by
Reason
of
State
;
by
which
example
,
you
and
all
these
Princes
may
cleerly
see
that
the
Definition
made
by
my
Literati
of
the
Reason
of
State
is
most
true
;
now
then
since
you
are
convinced
of
the
foul
impiety
thereof
,
know
that
the
best
means
that
you
can
and
ought
to
use
to
keep
your self
and
your
State
from
being
damnifyed
thereby
,
is
,
not
to
use
it
,
for
it
is
too
bare-faced
Hypocrisie
to
seem
more
to
abhor
fould
words
,
then
foul
deeds
.
The
LXXXVIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Marcantonio
Moreto
desires
Apollo
that
he
may
have
leave
to
make
an
Oration
in
the
publike
Schooles
of
Pernassus
in
the
praise
of
the
Clemency
of
the
most
glorious
King
of
France
,
Henry
the
Fourth
,
but
is
denyed
it
.
MErcantonio
Moreto
a
famous
French
Orator
,
told
Apollo
some
few
days
since
,
that
having
exactly
examined
all
the
vertues
of
all
the
French
Kings
,
and
compared
them
with
the
valor
and
glory
of
King
Henry
the
Fourth
,
he
found
that
there
was
not
any
of
them
that
might
be
compared
to
him
;
and
that
to
make
the
French
adore
so
gallant
a
King
,
and
to
incite
all
Christian
Princes
to
heroick
vertue
,
he
desired
his
Majesty
to
give
him
leave
to
declame
in
the
praise
of
so
glorious
a
King
publikely
in
the
Rhetorick
school
:
and
because
to
speak
of
all
the
vertues
which
did
abound
in
so
great
a
King
,
would
require
more
then
a
months
space
to
do
it
;
to
the
end
that
his
Oration
might
not
exceed
the
usual
time
of
one
hour
,
he
would
onely
celebrate
that
admirable
vertue
of
Clemency
,
which
was
so
peculiar
to
his
Henry
,
as
that
he
cleerly
found
,
by
the
use
thereof
he
had
so
far
exceeded
all
humane
mansuetude
,
as
that
he
bordered
upon
heavenly
mercy
:
for
he
had
pardoned
such
injuries
in
his
most
implacable
enemies
,
as
would
never
have
been
forgotten
by
any
one
save
by
a
King
of
France
;
a
vertue
which
appeared
to
be
so
much
the
more
eminent
in
that
great
Monarch
,
for
that
in
these
so
corrupt
present
times
,
to
pardon
injuries
was
not
thought
to
be
an
heroick
and
vertuous
action
,
but
base
and
abject
cowardise
.
The
same
Moreto
told
every
one
,
that
contrary
to
what
he
could
ever
have
believed
,
Apollo
was
highly
incensed
at
that
his
request
,
and
that
with
an
angry
countenance
he
said
,
he
was
grosly
ignorant
in
going
about
to
celebrate
the
most
revengeful
and
implacable
K.
that
did
ever
live
for
his
mercifulness
:
and
that
if
he
would
praise
the
infinite
valor
of
Henry
the
fourth
his
invincible
constancy
in
adverse
fortune
,
moderation
in
prosperity
,
his
excellent
knowledge
in
military
affairs
(
wherin
he
had
far
exceeded
all
Kings
and
Commanders
who
had
ever
purchased
the
glorious
name
of
warlike
)
the
more
then
humane
vivacity
of
his
spirit
,
the
vigilancy
of
his
indefatigable
minde
,
or
his
dexterous
government
of
that
great
Kingdom
,
he
nor
his
Literati
,
who
were
partially
addicted
to
so
puissant
a
King
,
could
not
hear
any
more
melodious
Harmony
:
but
that
since
that
noble
acquisition
which
he
made
of
France
,
he
had
revenged
himself
much
more
cruelly
upon
his
enemies
,
then
merciless
Augustus
had
done
by
his
execrable
Proscription
;
&
that
Pernassus
was
no
place
to
exaggerate
falshoods
in
:
Notwithstanding
this
so
resolute
answer
,
Moreto
was
not
discouraged
,
but
with
great
observancy
replyed
;
that
having
exactly
considered
all
the
vertues
of
his
King
,
he
did
again
affirm
unto
his
Majesty
that
he
found
not
that
any
one
of
them
did
shine
more
brightly
in
him
then
his
clemency
.
Then
Apollo
looking
with
a
very
pleasant
countenance
upon
Moreto
,
said
,
t
is
plainly
seen
thou
honest
French
man
,
that
thou
art
onely
a
meer
Grammarian
,
for
thou
seemest
not
to
know
that
that
King
onely
ought
not
to
be
vindicative
,
who
(
as
did
Augustus
)
kills
his
enemies
when
he
hath
conquered
them
;
for
to
take
an
evil
wishers
life
away
,
to
the
end
that
he
may
not
see
his
enemies
Triumphs
and
prosperity
;
to
the
end
that
he
may
not
suffer
a
thousand
torments
and
deaths
hourly
,
is
a
kind
of
pitty
.
He
is
to
be
accounted
revengeful
,
and
infinitely
cruel
,
who
suffers
him
to
live
,
who
confounds
him
with
pardon
,
and
who
doth
continually
martyrise
and
torment
him
by
his
worthy
actions
and
perpetual
prosperity
,
as
yours
and
my
beloved
Henry
hath
been
observed
to
do
more
then
all
the
Kings
that
ever
were
on
earth
;
who
still
growing
more
and
more
cruel
,
by
his
perpetual
felicity
,
by
shewing
to
the
world
his
Justice
,
liberality
,
advisedness
,
and
great
piety
;
did
still
the
more
afflict
those
his
enemies
,
who
that
they
might
render
him
odious
to
his
people
of
France
,
did
openly
affirm
,
that
if
ever
he
should
come
to
be
King
of
that
powerful
Monarchy
,
he
would
surely
prove
the
utter
and
final
ruine
thereof
.
And
how
much
did
it
grieve
the
enemies
of
so
great
a
King
thinkest
thou
Moreto
,
when
they
saw
his
victory
compleated
,
and
his
fortune
confirmed
by
his
own
worth
,
and
valor
?
and
with
what
an
eye
thinkest
thou
they
did
behold
him
conqueror
,
triumphing
,
and
not
onely
adored
,
but
reverenced
by
his
people
,
according
to
the
ancient
custom
of
France
?
so
glorious
,
as
the
very
first
day
that
he
mounted
the
Throne
,
he
became
the
absolute
Arbitrator
of
the
world
.
Dost
not
thou
believe
it
did
much
more
grieve
these
mens
hearts
to
see
the
King
of
Navar
,
whose
suppression
they
had
so
much
indeavoured
,
become
the
most
glorious
King
of
France
,
then
when
they
thought
themselves
surest
of
his
down-fall
?
and
then
confirmed
in
his
Kingdom
by
so
plentiful
an
issue
,
as
they
are
forced
to
confess
they
were
sent
him
by
Heaven
?
Dost
not
thou
believe
Moreto
,
that
these
his
malevolents
esteem
so
great
happiness
,
such
prosperity
given
by
God
to
this
our
King
,
to
be
their
shame
and
misery
?
They
are
perpetually
tortured
,
who
for
their
greater
confusion
are
suffered
to
live
,
being
forced
to
see
the
Halcyon
days
of
this
powerful
Kingdom
of
France
.
The
LXXXIX
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
A
Literato
presents
Apollo
with
an
Oration
made
by
him
in
praise
of
the
present
Age
:
Which
is
laid
aside
byish
Majesty
,
as
not
grounded
upon
any
truth
.
SOme
few
daies
since
a
famous
Literato
presented
Apollo
with
an
eloquent
Oration
composed
by
him
in
praise
of
the
present
age
,
wherein
he
clearly
shewed
how
much
of
latter
times
goodness
,
godliness
,
and
all
sorts
of
vertue
are
increased
in
the
world
,
and
concluded
,
that
from
such
excellent
beginnings
,
mankind
might
securely
hope
,
that
that
happy
.
Golden
Age
so
cry'd
up
by
the
Poets
,
was
now
very
nigh
at
hand
.
This
Literato
and
his
Oration
found
but
cold
acceptance
at
Apollo's
hands
;
and
being
asked
whether
he
had
so
well
considered
the
Age
which
he
had
so
highly
praised
,
as
he
ought
to
have
done
,
and
with
what
spectacles
he
had
viewed
and
contemplated
it
,
he
answered
,
that
he
had
not
only
viewed
the
Courts
of
a
great
many
famous
Princes
,
the
most
accurately
that
he
could
,
but
had
travailed
over
the
greatest
part
of
Europe
,
in
all
which
Courts
and
Countries
he
had
diligently
observed
the
lives
of
those
who
commanded
in
chief
,
and
their
fashions
who
obeyed
,
and
that
he
had
observed
nothing
in
them
which
was
not
highly
to
be
praised
;
and
that
then
in
passing
his
judgement
upon
all
the
particulars
of
the
present
Age
,
which
appeared
to
him
to
deserve
praise
,
he
,
not
aiding
himself
by
any
spectacles
,
made
only
use
of
the
eyes
of
his
judgement
,
which
he
thought
were
not
dim
sighted
.
Apollo
reply'd
,
That
surely
he
had
written
that
his
Oration
in
the
dark
,
for
that
the
true
state
of
the
present
age
,
the
true
intimate
intentions
of
those
that
govern
in
it
,
and
the
real
meanings
of
those
that
live
in
it
,
could
not
be
seen
,
no
not
by
Linceus's
eyes
,
unless
a
man
did
put
the
purest
Politick
Spectacles
upon
his
nose
,
whereby
he
might
see
the
truth
of
passions
,
which
lay
deeply
hid
in
the
breasts
of
modern
men
;
who
were
so
mysterious
in
all
their
proceedings
,
as
their
inward
meanings
appeared
least
outwardly
.
Which
being
said
,
Apollo
caused
a
pair
of
excellent
spectacles
to
be
given
to
that
Literato
,
which
were
lately
made
in
Tacitus
his
Forge
,
and
bad
him
view
the
present
age
through
them
,
and
then
tell
him
whether
it
appeared
to
be
the
same
which
he
had
so
exalted
in
his
Oration
.
The
other
obey'd
,
and
after
having
well
contemplated
and
considered
the
Age
through
those
spectacles
;
Sir
,
said
he
,
That
which
I
now
see
wi●…h
these
spectacles
,
is
not
the
age
wherein
we
now
live
,
but
a
world
full
of
ostentation
,
and
outward
appearance
,
with
very
little
substance
of
true
vertue
,
where
an
infinite
number
of
men
are
lined
with
feigned
simplicity
,
clad
with
the
false
Alchumy
of
appearing
goodness
;
but
full
fraught
with
cosenage
,
tricks
,
and
plots
,
where
nothing
is
more
studied
,
then
how
to
over-reach
ones
companion
,
and
to
hurl
his
neighbour
into
the
hell
of
wicked
enterprises
,
by
false
pretence
of
sanctified
meanings
.
I
see
a
world
full
of
Interest
,
in
which
I
cannot
discern
charity
,
and
candid
love
between
the
Father
and
the
Son
;
and
by
these
miraculous
spectacles
I
plainly
see
,
that
the
World
is
nothing
but
a
large
Shop
,
where
all
things
under
the
Moon
are
bought
and
sold
;
so
as
the
true
meaning
of
men
that
live
therein
,
is
meer
gain
,
and
how
to
heap
up
monies
;
and
in
fine
,
the
world
is
so
ugly
,
as
it
is
hateful
to
me
to
keep
these
spectacles
on
my
nose
;
for
certainly
mankind
might
be
truely
termed
miserable
,
if
our
present
age
,
which
I
have
deservedly
praised
in
my
Oration
,
were
in
any
the
least
degree
like
this
which
I
behold
.
Truely
,
said
Apollo
,
the
world
which
you
now
have
seen
with
these
politickspectacles
,
is
the
very
same
which
you
glory
so
much
in
having
praised
,
where
those
who
will
pass
their
judgement
without
making
use
of
these
penetrating
spectacles
,
are
like
those
unfortunate
wretches
,
who
putting
their
hands
into
a
hole
to
find
a
Creafish
,
pluck
out
a
Toad
.
The
XC
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Christopher
Columbus
,
and
other
famous
discoverers
of
the
new
world
,
desire
Apollo
that
Immortality
may
be
decreed
them
for
their
noble
daring
,
but
are
denied
it
.
CHristophano
Colombo
,
Ferrante
Cortese
,
Magelin
Pizzaro
,
Gama
,
Americo
Vespuchi
,
and
many
other
famous
discoverers
of
the
new
World
,
appeared
two
daies
since
in
this
Court
:
Never
was
there
seen
a
more
signal
pleasing
spectacle
in
Pernassus
,
nor
fuller
of
curiosity
,
then
the
entrata
made
by
these
Gentlemen
,
who
were
met
,
accompanied
,
visited
,
welcomed
,
and
lodg'd
by
the
Princely
Poets
,
with
as
much
affection
and
honour
as
men
deserve
,
who
by
their
incessant
labour
,
and
numberless
hazards
,
have
inriched
the
Universe
with
a
new
World
.
Nor
is
it
to
be
believed
what
consolation
the
Vertuosi
received
,
for
having
at
last
come
to
the
clear
and
distinct
knowledg
of
the
quantity
and
quality
of
that
great
Machine
of
the
earth
,
which
immortal
God
hath
created
to
be
an
habitation
for
men
:
In
so
much
as
Ptolomy
,
Varro
,
and
other
Cosmographers
did
very
often
visit
these
Gentlemens
houses
;
not
being
able
to
satisfie
their
curiosity
of
seeing
those
parts
of
Asia
,
Africa
,
and
whole
America
together
with
the
Cape
of
good
Hope
,
and
the
Straits
of
Magelen
,
which
for
so
many
thousand
years
were
unknown
to
Antiquity
.
Astrologers
have
hardly
satisfied
their
desires
by
the
purchast
knowledg
which
they
had
of
the
Stars
of
the
other
Pole
.
Aristotle
was
greatly
amazed
when
these
Gentlemen
told
him
,
that
the
Torrid
Zone
did
not
only
not
burn
through
the
heat
of
the
Sun
,
as
all
Philosophy-Schools
did
hold
affirmatively
,
but
that
it
is
rather
too
humid
,
and
that
it
is
inhabited
by
an
infinite
number
of
people
:
and
it
was
a
novelty
which
appeared
to
surpass
all
human
miracles
,
to
hear
that
the
Winters
were
there
too
cold
and
rainy
,
when
the
Sun
was
perpendicular
over
the
peoples
heads
:
By
which
he
clearly
found
how
many
falshoods
he
and
other
Philosophers
had
published
of
the
Torrid
Zone
,
and
how
fallacious
it
was
to
give
positive
judgement
,
out
of
meer
conjectures
upon
the
wonders
of
the
all
powerful
God
miraculously
fabricated
;
and
he
was
very
much
pleased
to
arrive
at
last
at
the
knowledge
of
the
true
cause
of
the
flowing
of
the
River
Nile
,
whereof
,
together
with
many
other
Philosophers
,
he
remembred
he
had
said
many
foolish
things
.
Seneca
the
Tragedian
made
use
of
so
great
a
novelty
,
arrived
in
Pernassus
to
his
immortal
glory
,
boasting
every
where
,
that
being
inspired
by
Divine
Poetical
fury
,
he
had
by
his
famous
Verses
foretold
for
above
1400
years
ago
so
great
a
discovery
:
And
some
Literati
,
who
laughing
at
him
,
said
that
Seneca
in
that
his
Tragedy
spoke
but
by
guess
,
tasted
of
his
Majesties
displeasure
;
who
thinking
that
the
honour
of
the
Muses
was
much
concern'd
by
that
incredulity
,
made
them
inhabit
for
many
daies
amongst
the
ignorant
.
Dantz
Aligieri
won
more
glory
,
who
had
affirmatively
held
in
his
Verses
,
that
the
Antartick
Pole
,
which
had
never
been
seen
by
any
in
his
daies
,
was
un
Grand
Crosiero
.
These
famous
Hero's
had
audience
on
Tuesday
last
in
the
Royal
Hall
,
where
Apollo
was
assisted
by
the
Muses
,
who
were
come
thither
out
of
a
curiosity
to
see
the
faces
of
those
men
who
had
courage
enough
not
to
dread
the
incensed
Seas
,
and
to
plough
them
up
(
though
they
were
unknown
unto
them
,
and
full
of
shelves
and
rocks
)
even
in
the
darkest
and
most
tempestuous
night
.
Columbus
,
after
having
kist
the
last
step
of
the
Royal
Throne
,
and
the
nethermost
hem
of
the
Muses
garment
,
and
made
low
reverence
to
the
Colledg
of
Literati
,
said
in
a
stately
Oration
for
him
and
his
Companions
,
that
the
two
glorious
Princes
,
Ferdinand
of
Aragon
and
Isabella
of
Castile
having
extirp'd
the
wicked
Mahometan
Sect
from
out
the
Catholick
Kingdoms
of
Spain
,
at
the
expence
of
much
gold
and
bloud
,
God
was
resolved
to
gratifie
them
with
a
gift
worthy
of
so
great
piety
:
And
that
therefore
his
Divine
Majesty
having
debarred
the
courage
and
curiosity
of
men
in
former
times
from
discovery
of
the
new
world
,
had
reserved
it
to
remunerate
the
zeal
which
he
had
discovered
in
those
two
famous
and
powerful
Princes
,
to
his
service
;
who
being
born
to
propagate
the
holy
Christian
Religion
amongst
Infidels
,
had
piously
caused
it
to
be
planted
amongst
those
Idolaters
;
and
that
the
ever
living
God
having
at
last
permitted
men
to
make
discovery
of
the
new
world
,
he
himself
first
,
and
then
those
other
famous
Pilats
that
were
there
with
him
,
had
so
succesfully
sailed
over
all
the
vast
Ocean
,
as
after
having
discovered
new
and
large
Provinces
,
and
very
rich
Kingdoms
,
they
following
the
same
source
which
his
Majesty
had
laboured
so
much
in
,
from
the
East
to
the
West
,
had
compassed
the
whole
world
about
.
By
which
their
fortunate
fate
,
not
only
Cosmography
,
Astronomy
,
and
the
Meteors
,
but
even
Physick
,
and
the
other
praise-worthy
Sciences
had
received
singular
advantage
;
and
that
to
boot
with
the
curiosity
of
infinite
diversity
of
Customs
and
Rites
,
newly
discovered
by
them
amongst
incredible
numbers
of
people
:
they
had
also
inriched
the
old
world
with
spices
,
and
medicines
excellently
good
for
the
life
of
man
,
and
with
such
riches
,
as
they
had
caused
Rivers
of
Gold
and
Silver
to
run
throughout
Europe
,
and
great
store
of
pretious
stones
;
and
that
in
reward
for
so
great
labours
,
they
only
desired
that
that
eternal
fame
might
be
granted
to
them
and
to
their
memory
,
for
the
purchase
whereof
they
had
freely
undertaken
,
and
happily
finished
that
which
appeared
so
dreadful
to
men
of
former
times
.
Columbus's
Speech
was
attentively
listned
unto
;
and
it
was
immediately
decreed
by
his
Majesty
,
that
these
so
famous
Heroes
should
be
preferred
before
the
Argonauts
,
and
that
the
glorious
Ship-Victory
,
with
which
Mageline
had
first
compassed
the
world
,
should
be
placed
in
heaven
amongst
the
fixt
stars
,
and
that
the
names
of
so
illustrious
men
should
be
ingraven
with
indilable
Characters
in
the
Tables
of
Eternity
,
in
the
Foro
Massimo
.
And
whilst
Nicholas
Perinotto
the
Delphick
chief
Chancellor
,
held
forth
the
Decree
that
it
might
be
the
more
binding
,
Mario
Molza
appeared
in
the
Royal
Hall
,
a
cry'd
up
Poet
,
but
very
deformed
,
as
not
having
any
hair
either
on
his
head
or
face
,
who
was
yet
rendred
more
monstrous
by
his
having
no
nose
,
his
face
full
of
gum
and
scabs
,
who
pointing
with
his
finger
to
his
wounds
,
said
with
a
lowd
voice
,
These
which
you
see
,
Sir
,
in
my
face
,
are
the
new
Worlds
,
the
new
Customs
and
rites
of
the
Indians
;
these
are
the
Jewels
,
Pearls
,
Drugs
,
Astrology
,
Meteors
,
Cosmography
,
these
are
the
Rivers
of
Gold
wherewith
these
new
and
unfortunate
Argonauts
of
the
French
Pox
,
who
are
come
into
Pernassus
only
to
add
scorn
and
derision
to
our
mischiefs
,
have
enriched
and
filled
the
world
;
these
are
the
new
receits
which
they
have
brought
with
them
to
infect
mankind
with
a
disease
so
contagious
,
so
cruel
and
shameful
,
as
it
is
greatly
disputed
amongst
the
Learned
,
whether
it
do
more
pollute
the
body
,
or
shame
reputation
:
These
hair-braind
men
have
enrich'd
and
beautified
the
world
with
these
Jewels
wherewith
you
see
my
face
blistered
,
and
my
body
wounded
;
these
implacable
enemies
of
mankind
have
corrupted
the
very
generation
of
man
.
Then
turning
towards
Colombo
,
Molza
began
to
unty
his
briches
,
but
the
Muses
,
to
keep
their
eyes
from
being
contaminated
with
the
sight
of
any
obscenity
,
commanded
the
under
Officers
to
hinder
him
from
so
doing
;
which
Molza
perceiving
;
I
,
said
he
,
most
Divine
Dieties
;
will
shew
no
dishonesty
in
this
august
place
,
but
the
woful
calamities
,
and
miserable
wounds
brought
by
these
men
from
their
stately
new
worlds
,
which
are
unknown
to
all
former
Physick
and
Chyrurgery
.
And
how
,
Signor
Christophano
,
would
you
have
men
taste
the
odoriferousness
of
those
Aromaticks
which
you
so
much
glory
to
have
brought
from
the
Indies
,
if
the
French
Pox
,
wherewith
you
have
so
perfumed
the
world
,
be
a
capital
enemy
to
the
nose
?
I
know
not
with
what
face
you
can
say
,
that
God
,
to
reward
the
merits
of
your
Potent
Princes
,
hath
bestowed
upon
them
the
world
which
you
have
discovered
,
when
it
is
much
more
true
,
that
his
divine
Majesty
hath
made
use
of
you
to
transplant
the
pestiferous
French
Pox
,
which
is
so
sore
a
scourge
to
the
libidinous
,
into
Europe
.
And
how
dare
you
say
that
you
have
enrich'd
the
world
with
Drugs
,
if
Pepper
,
Cynamon
,
and
Cloves
cost
thrice
as
much
now
as
they
did
,
before
you
did
imbitter
those
Dolci
Fichi
,
which
I
have
so
highly
praised
in
my
Verses
,
with
the
Arsnick
,
and
Nax
Vomica
of
those
tortering
plasters
,
and
shameful
incissions
which
I
dare
not
name
in
this
place
?
And
do
you
think
that
your
having
brought
such
quantity
of
Gold
and
Silver
as
you
speak
of
,
from
the
new
world
,
into
the
old
,
can
be
termed
our
felicity
,
when
our
greatest
happiness
would
have
been
,
never
to
have
been
acquainted
with
any
of
those
damn'd
mettals
which
are
the
chief
cause
of
all
our
evils
?
But
you
and
your
companions
may
doubly
glory
,
first
for
having
put
the
old
world
into
such
confusion
,
with
the
great
store
of
Gold
which
you
say
you
have
brought
with
you
,
and
then
for
having
brought
the
new
world
to
a
final
ruine
,
by
introducing
the
sword
.
But
what
need
hath
Europe
of
so
much
Gold
,
since
all
things
necessary
for
human
life
grow
daily
dearer
,
and
the
peoples
poverty
increaseth
every
day
?
And
not
to
conceal
that
which
ought
to
make
you
odious
to
his
Majesty
,
and
to
all
his
Vertuosi
,
it
is
not
any
thi●…st
after
honour
,
nor
(
as
you
have
falsely
affirmed
)
the
desire
of
that
glory
which
eternizeth
mens
memories
,
which
hath
eg'd
you
on
to
so
dangerous
and
damnable
an
enterprise
,
but
incited
by
avarice
,
spur'd
on
by
ambition
,
and
driven
on
by
the
thirsting
after
that
gold
which
your
Country
doth
value
so
lightly
,
is
that
which
made
you
rashly
pass
those
Hercules
his
Pillars
,
which
wise
Antiquity
set
for
bounds
to
the
insatiable
curiosity
of
man
;
and
for
proof
of
what
I
say
,
did
not
you
,
Signor
Christophano
,
compel
your
Kings
of
Spain
to
pay
your
good
deserts
,
by
making
you
be
brought
prisoner
from
your
Judges
,
and
fettered
as
a
publick
thief
of
the
Regal
Treasure
?
And
you
,
Marquiss
Pizzaro
,
Did
not
you
play
the
trick
of
a
special
Gentleman
to
Antabalipa
King
of
Peru
,
in
robbing
him
of
the
great
store
of
Gold
which
you
found
he
had
?
And
fully
to
compleat
your
infamy
,
Did
not
you
rebel
against
the
Emperor
your
Master
?
An
action
so
much
the
more
shameful
,
for
that
such
bruitishness
is
seldom
seen
to
fall
out
amongst
the
Spanish
Nobility
.
For
these
reasons
,
Sir
,
and
for
the
evil
behaviour
which
these
famous
Argonauts
of
Torters
have
used
to
the
Indians
,
wrought
off
their
legs
in
the
Forges
of
Gold
,
are
so
far
from
receiving
any
favour
from
your
Majesty
,
as
they
ought
to
be
cudgeled
out
of
Pernassus
,
as
pernitious
people
,
and
fatal
to
mankind
.
Molza's
discourse
appeared
to
Apollo
,
and
to
the
reverend
Colledg
of
Literati
,
to
deserve
better
consideration
then
did
appear
at
the
first
;
wherefore
Colombo
was
answered
in
his
Majesties
name
,
that
he
should
take
back
the
French
Pox
,
the
Gold
and
Silver
which
he
found
in
his
Judges
,
and
that
he
and
his
companions
should
with
all
speed
quit
Pernassus
;
for
that
he
had
gained
enough
;
and
because
mans
happiness
consisted
in
living
in
a
little
world
well
inhabited
by
men
,
and
not
in
being
Master
of
many
great
worlds
,
for
the
most
part
uninhabited
by
men
,
and
only
fraught
with
wild
beasts
.
The
XCI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Sigismond
King
of
Polonia
,
prefers
a
Paladine
to
the
prime
dignities
of
his
Kingdom
,
who
proving
perfidious
,
the
Polack
Nobility
,
thinking
the
publick
reputation
was
concerned
in
this
privat
Palatines
Misdemeanour
,
revenge
themselves
severely
upon
him
.
SIgismund
Augustus
,
that
famous
King
of
Poland
,
being
strangely
affectionate
to
one
of
the
chief
of
his
Nobility
,
raised
him
to
be
the
greatest
,
richest
,
and
most
powerful
Paladine
of
his
Kingdom
;
but
with
bad
success
to
his
Family
:
For
this
great
Personage
,
were
it
either
through
his
particular
vice
of
ingratitude
,
or
for
that
the
fatal
destiny
of
Princes
will
have
it
so
,
and
that
human
mischief
requires
it
,
that
benefits
which
for
their
immensity
cannot
be
rewarded
,
should
be
paid
with
the
wicked
coyn
of
ingratitude
;
or
else
that
it
be
the
particular
defect
of
great
men
,
to
love
(
like
generous
animals
)
Liberty
above
all
things
,
and
to
hate
being
fettered
by
the
Chain
of
obligation
;
when
this
Paladine
found
that
he
could
expect
nothing
more
from
the
King
,
nor
that
the
King
could
confer
no
more
upon
him
;
he
did
not
only
not
stick
to
shew
himself
manifestly
ingrateful
,
but
had
the
audacity
to
discover
himself
upon
some
important
occasions
,
his
deadly
enemy
.
This
man
being
stained
with
so
enormous
a
fault
,
was
found
the
night
preceding
,
the
14
of
this
present
month
,
dead
in
his
bed
,
stab'd
through
with
many
daggers
:
and
a
Note
was
left
upon
his
head
,
which
advised
the
Judge
not
to
trouble
any
body
concerning
that
fault
,
which
the
Paladines
of
Warsavia
,
of
Uratislavia
,
and
of
Posna
,
confessed
to
have
committed
with
their
own
hands
,
out
of
justifiable
reasons
.
This
accident
,
very
hainous
,
as
well
in
consideration
of
him
that
was
slain
,
as
of
those
that
slew
him
,
was
of
so
much
greater
wonder
in
Pernassus
,
in
that
the
Authors
of
so
great
a
Riot
,
were
held
to
be
the
dearest
and
most
intimate
friends
that
the
slain
Paladine
had
;
wherefore
the
aforesaid
Note
was
held
to
be
fictitious
;
but
it
was
afterwards
believed
to
be
true
by
those
Paladines
being
retired
into
their
own
Palatinates
,
who
were
that
very
day
seen
in
Pernassus
.
Apollo
,
who
much
loves
the
peace
of
Polonia
,
fearing
lest
it
might
be
disturbed
by
so
sad
an
accident
,
which
had
made
the
chief
Lords
of
that
Kingdom
take
up
Arms
,
caused
peace
immediately
to
be
treated
of
between
the
murtherers
,
and
the
sons
of
him
that
was
slain
;
who
out
of
such
reverence
as
became
them
,
signified
unto
his
Majesty
,
that
to
give
him
satisfaction
,
they
would
readily
forget
the
injury
which
they
had
received
by
their
fathers
death
;
but
that
to
wipe
the
tears
from
off
their
eyes
,
and
to
cure
their
wounded
hearts
,
they
desired
only
so
much
satisfaction
,
as
that
their
enemies
might
declare
whether
their
miserable
father
had
so
much
distasted
those
his
friends
,
as
did
deserve
so
cruel
a
resentment
;
this
request
seemed
very
reasonable
to
Apollo
,
who
immediately
gave
order
that
the
Delinquents
should
have
notice
given
them
thereof
.
They
returned
answer
,
That
having
long
before
observed
the
great
ingratitude
of
that
Paladine
towards
the
King
his
Benefactor
,
they
had
often
severely
admonished
him
to
forbear
those
actions
,
which
did
so
much
misbecome
such
a
one
as
he
was
,
but
that
all
being
in
vain
,
the
interest
of
the
publick
reputation
of
the
Polack
Nobility
,
had
forced
them
with
their
daggers
to
revenge
the
injury
which
was
thereunto
done
by
this
ungrateful
person
.
When
Apollo
had
read
this
Justification
,
't
is
said
he
confest
,
that
since
many
riotous
excesses
were
committed
out
of
good
intentions
,
and
meer
punctilio's
of
honour
;
Judges
and
Princes
must
some
times
not
only
bear
with
Delinquents
,
but
punish
the
offended
,
and
afterwards
sent
the
Note
of
Justification
to
the
sons
of
the
slain
Paladine
;
who
being
more
vertuously
minded
then
was
their
father
,
came
to
Apollo
,
and
told
him
,
that
having
considerately
reflected
upon
their
fathers
demeanors
towards
his
so
well
deserving
King
,
and
upon
the
occasion
which
had
forced
those
Paladines
to
bereave
him
of
his
life
,
they
saw
they
were
compelled
to
pardon
the
publick
revenge
which
they
had
taken
,
for
the
so
great
offence
done
to
the
Polack
Nobility
;
and
that
they
very
well
knew
,
that
a
Noble
man
who
had
received
great
advantages
by
his
Princes
munificence
,
if
he
should
afterwards
prove
ungrateful
,
did
so
cut
up
even
by
the
very
roots
,
all
hopes
of
greatness
and
honour
,
which
the
Nobility
of
a
great
Kingdom
might
deserve
,
as
that
any
whatsoever
cruel
revenge
was
taken
in
that
behalf
deserved
to
be
excused
,
if
not
justified
:
For
that
Princes
terrified
by
the
shameful
example
of
the
ingratitude
of
Noble
Personages
,
ought
not
to
be
blamed
,
when
in
the
bestowing
of
their
most
eminent
dignities
,
they
sought
for
that
gratitude
amongst
the
meaner
sort
of
people
,
which
they
feared
they
should
not
find
in
the
haughty
Nobility
.
The
XCII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
having
a
notorious
hypocrite
in
his
hands
,
punisheth
him
severely
.
SO
implacable
is
the
hatred
which
Apollo
bears
to
hypocrisie
,
as
till
he
published
that
severe
Edict
against
them
,
of
which
you
were
fully
informed
by
our
late
dispatches
,
he
promised
great
rewards
to
those
who
would
discover
such
devils
to
his
Judges
.
And
having
had
certain
notice
of
one
of
them
some
six
daies
ago
,
his
Majesty
made
him
suddenly
be
laid
hands
on
;
and
causing
him
to
be
brought
before
him
▪
at
the
very
first
sight
he
knew
him
to
be
a
compleat
hypocrite
;
wherefore
having
stript
him
of
all
appearances
,
fictions
,
and
a
number
of
falshoods
,
and
lastly
pluckt
from
off
his
back
his
glittering
cloke
of
feigned
honesty
,
wherewith
he
was
wholly
covered
,
and
shewed
him
to
his
Vertuosi
who
were
there
about
him
in
his
naked
tearms
of
devillish
hypocrisie
,
and
then
to
the
terror
of
others
who
trade
in
such
wickedness
,
gave
order
that
he
should
be
close
tied
to
the
Gate
of
the
Delphick
Temple
,
which
was
suddenly
done
.
Never
was
there
any
monster
seen
,
any
wild
beast
,
or
any
infernal
hag
,
more
horrid
and
dreadful
then
he
,
who
made
use
of
counterfeit
goodness
to
cover
real
vice
.
For
then
in
this
lewd
companions
eyes
,
who
had
formerly
a
commiserating
countenance
,
an
incredible
intense
malignity
was
discovered
,
a
tyrannous
pride
in
his
speech
,
which
was
formerly
all
humility
;
and
in
all
his
actions
,
wherein
he
first
seemed
to
be
content
with
a
little
,
and
to
be
scandallized
with
having
much
,
such
a
voracity
of
possessing
the
whole
world
,
as
he
publickly
affected
that
all
humane
kinde
should
be
reduced
to
beg
bread
of
him
.
Besides
,
so
envious
a
genius
was
discovered
in
him
,
as
he
desired
nothing
more
,
then
that
the
Sun
should
shine
upon
none
but
himself
and
his
affairs
;
which
was
so
apparent
a
truth
,
as
that
his
monstrous
leanness
was
seen
to
proceed
more
from
other
mens
prosperity
,
then
from
his
own
misery
.
In
fine
,
he
was
so
horrid
and
frightful
a
spectacle
,
as
the
people
durst
not
come
into
the
Temple
for
fear
of
coming
near
him
.
The
chief
Literati
of
this
State
did
then
much
wonder
how
it
was
possible
that
these
fraudulent
hypocrites
,
with
one
only
grain
of
musk
of
appearing
sanctity
,
could
make
the
noisom
jakes
of
their
stinking
and
most
abominable
wickedness
appear
so
odoriferous
to
blockish
men
,
as
with
a
little
Orpine
of
affected
goodness
,
they
can
cover
over
such
wicked
vices
.
And
the
wonder
was
greater
,
to
consider
where
the
eyes
and
judgement
of
lasie
men
were
,
when
bewitch'd
with
the
cunning
of
such
raskals
,
they
flock
like
fools
after
them
,
whom
they
should
fly
from
,
as
from
the
Plague
.
The
XCIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apuleius
his
Ass
having
given
his
Master
two
kicks
in
the
breast
,
is
severely
punished
by
him
.
IT
is
sufficiently
known
to
all
the
professors
of
Learning
,
that
next
to
the
famous
Pegasean
Horse
,
Apuleius
his
Golden
Ass
is
the
beast
of
highest
esteem
in
all
Perna●…sus
.
Beroaldo
the
Bolognian
,
who
by
Apollo's
own
self
is
chosen
to
have
care
of
this
highly
prized
Steed
,
for
which
he
hath
three
crowns
a
month
Sallary
allotted
him
,
was
currying
him
the
other
day
before
the
stable-dore
,
whilst
Apuleius
himself
,
to
make
his
Ass
the
more
sleek
,
was
stroaking
down
his
hair
with
his
hand
;
and
it
hapned
that
the
Ass
,
without
any
bad
intention
to
his
Master
,
flung
out
with
his
heels
,
and
hit
his
Master
on
the
breast
,
throwing
him
backward
on
the
ground
half
dead
:
And
certainly
Apuleius
was
sorely
hurt
,
for
the
Apothecaries
had
much
adoe
to
recall
him
to
life
,
by
many
comfortable
applications
.
But
as
soon
as
he
was
come
to
himself
,
he
laid
hold
on
the
Pitchfork
which
he
found
in
the
Stable
,
and
revenging
himself
upon
his
unwary
steed
,
laid
load
upon
him
therewith
,
and
having
well
basted
him
,
went
his
waies
.
Then
Beroaldo
much
afflicted
for
the
misfortune
which
had
befalne
his
beloved
beast
,
taking
him
about
the
neck
and
kissing
him
,
said
,
my
golden
Ass
,
what
dire
destiny
of
thine
and
mine
was
it
that
hath
drawn
upon
thee
this
misfortune
of
being
so
sorely
beaten
,
to
the
great
affliction
of
thy
dear
Beloardo
?
The
brotherly
love
which
I
bear
thee
,
forceth
me
to
tell
thee
that
thou
hast
dearly
paid
for
the
misfortune
which
hath
hapned
unto
thee
,
for
having
foolishly
,
and
with
no
advantage
to
thy self
,
dealt
so
hardly
with
thy
Master
.
The
Ass
,
as
if
the
so
many
blows
which
he
had
received
from
h●…s
Master
,
had
been
so
many
special
favours
,
chearfully
answered
Beloardo
thus
;
Know
my
Beloardo
,
that
it
was
neither
unadvertency
,
nor
bestiality
which
made
me
do
that
to
my
Master
Apuleins
,
which
you
saw
,
and
which
doth
so
much
displease
you
,
but
t
is
a
thing
which
I
have
long
premeditated
,
and
resolved
to
do
;
and
know
that
the
bastenadoes
which
I
but
now
received
▪
though
I
feel
them
to
be
very
sore
,
were
notwithstanding
very
pleasing
to
me
;
for
these
fifty
blows
which
I
have
now
at
once
received
,
will
save
me
,
I
am
assured
,
above
a
hundred
every
month
,
and
a
thousand
every
year
.
And
you
shall
see
,
Beloardo
,
that
Apuleius
will
deal
more
circumspectively
with
me
hereafter
for
my
late
resentment
:
I
know
that
it
is
necessary
and
useful
,
suddenly
to
obey
whatsoever
is
commanded
,
and
with
patience
to
undergo
whatsoever
hard
usage
we
receive
from
our
Masters
;
such
Masters
I
mean
as
suffer
themselves
to
be
overcome
by
the
humility
of
those
that
serve
them
,
and
who
will
return
gratitude
and
better
usage
,
for
the
good
service
that
is
done
them
;
but
to
put
on
the
resolution
which
I
have
done
,
and
doth
like
me
,
with
such
indiscreet
beasts
,
such
as
you
know
our
Master
Apuleius
is
,
who
delights
to
dominier
over
such
as
I
am
,
is
the
way
to
make
them
wiser
.
And
wo
unto
him
who
living
in
all
submissness
with
an
humorous
Master
,
hath
not
heart
enough
so
to
resent
himself
once
a
year
,
as
may
turn
injuries
into
better
observances
:
Nor
are
we
burthen-bearing
beasts
more
beaten
then
Mules
are
,
for
any
other
reason
but
that
they
are
excellently
well
skil'd
in
kicking
,
whilst
we
patiently
undergo
the
lash
;
and
you
know
much
better
then
I
,
Beroaldo
,
that
in
these
times
with
Masters
,
Nihil
profeci
patientia
,
nisi
ut
graviora
,
tanquam
ex
facili
toler
antibus
imperentur
.
Tacit.
vita
Agric.
The
XCIV
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Paulus
Iovius
presents
Apollo
with
his
most
elegant
Histories
,
which
give
full
satisfaction
to
his
Majesty
and
the
College
of
Vertuosi
,
and
not
withstanding
some
opposition
that
is
made
,
he
is
admitted
with
great
applause
into
Pernassus
.
PAulus
Iovius
,
Bishop
of
di
Nocera
,
that
Noble
and
famous
Historian
,
after
having
been
long
expected
by
all
the
Literati
of
this
Court
,
came
some
daies
since
to
the
Confines
of
Pernassus
,
where
he
was
soon
visited
by
an
infinite
number
of
Poets
,
and
of
the
greatest
Historians
,
and
welcomed
with
many
learned
refreshments
and
entertainments
.
Moreover
,
all
those
men
who
were
famous
for
Arms
or
Learning
,
and
of
whom
he
had
made
honourable
mention
in
his
Elogies
,
and
other
Writings
,
after
having
past
their
complements
with
him
,
accompanied
him
with
a
numerous
and
noble
attendance
unto
the
Palace
Royal
,
where
the
Senat
of
the
Vertuosi
were
met
:
He
there
presented
Apollo
with
all
his
excellent
Compositions
,
which
were
acceptably
received
by
his
Majesty
,
who
assigned
them
over
to
the
Censori
Bibliothecarii
.
These
caused
Edicts
to
be
posted
up
the
next
day
in
all
the
publike
places
of
Pernassus
,
wherein
notice
was
given
to
every
one
,
that
the
Histories
,
and
other
Writings
of
the
reverend
Paulus
Iovius
,
being
to
be
consecrated
to
Immortality
,
they
had
prefixt
five
daies
for
the
first
,
five
for
the
second
,
and
five
more
for
the
last
peremptory
tearm
,
for
every
one
to
come
in
that
had
any
thing
to
alleadg
against
him
.
The
day
being
thus
appointed
,
all
the
Literati
met
together
in
the
great
Council-Hall
,
where
Iovius
appeared
before
Apollo
,
where
the
Censori
Bibliothecarii
made
an
honorable
Relation
of
the
Writings
of
that
famous
Prelat
,
and
did
infinitely
praise
the
purity
of
the
Latin
Tongue
,
the
loftiness
of
his
stile
,
his
perspicuous
method
,
the
infinite
variety
of
things
treated
of
therein
,
the
exquisite
diligence
used
in
the
texture
of
those
his
eternal
labours
,
which
they
said
were
such
,
as
that
there
was
not
any
Latin
Historian
,
who
since
the
declination
of
the
Roman
Tongue
and
Empire
,
had
advanced
further
in
the
Latin
History
.
Only
some
over-curious
Literati
said
,
they
could
have
wished
for
some
of
the
Policy
,
and
some
of
those
Sentences
,
taken
from
the
very
bowels
of
the
Reason
of
State
,
in
that
Prelats
Writings
,
which
the
Latin
and
Italian
Tacitus
are
censured
to
be
too
full
of
.
Then
he
was
bitterly
reprehended
for
the
vast
Voragini
which
were
in
his
Histories
;
and
the
Censors
,
not
without
discovery
of
some
passion
,
told
him
,
that
if
the
Vertuosi
could
not
with
patience
see
the
defaults
of
such
worthy
Writers
as
Livy
▪
Tacitus
,
Dion
,
and
other
famous
Historians
,
whose
labours
through
the
injury
of
time
,
were
lost
;
it
was
altogether
intolerable
in
his
.
Nor
was
his
excuse
taken
for
good
which
he
alleadged
,
that
the
Books
which
were
wanting
,
were
lost
in
the
sacking
of
Rome
,
for
the
Censors
freely
told
him
,
that
if
he
had
spent
those
pretious
hours
in
filling
up
what
was
wanting
in
his
History
,
which
he
had
thrown
away
in
entertaining
the
Cardinals
,
Fernese
and
Carpi
,
w●…th
his
pleasant
genius
in
the
winter
evenings
,
he
would
have
pleased
his
friends
the
Literati
better
.
The
Censors
having
made
their
Relation
,
the
Hall-dores
were
thrown
open
,
and
every
one
had
leave
to
make
what
objections
they
pleased
against
Iovius
,
for
any
thing
that
they
found
amiss
in
his
Writings
.
Wherefore
he
was
accused
by
Natalis
Comes
,
for
having
too
much
praised
Cosmo
de
Medici
,
the
great
Duke
of
Tuscany
;
and
that
being
bribed
,
he
had
published
such
prowesse
in
the
Marquisses
of
Pescara
and
Vasto
,
as
a
maker
of
Romances
could
have
said
but
little
more
of
the
antient
Paladines
of
France
.
The
Censors
reply'd
to
this
accusation
of
Natalis
Comes
,
that
they
had
observed
that
Iovius
had
used
diversity
of
ink
in
his
praises
of
the
great
Duke
Cosmo
,
and
the
two
Marquisses
,
but
that
they
found
that
by
Edict
from
his
Majesty
,
the
like
License
was
given
to
Historians
,
as
was
permitted
unto
Poets
,
to
imbroider
their
Mecenas's
Garments
with
Gold
and
pretious
Stones
,
in
hatred
to
certain
greedy
curmuggions
,
who
value
not
the
leaving
of
a
good
name
behind
them
to
posterity
.
That
therefore
it
was
not
only
lawfull
,
but
very
praise-worthy
in
Bishop
Iovius
to
exaggerate
the
praises
of
the
Princes
his
Benefactors
,
and
to
barter
his
purest
quill
with
their
liberalities
:
And
though
it
be
his
bounden
duty
to
hold
his
peace
,
who
is
censured
,
as
the
Masters
of
the
Pegasean
Ceremonies
had
signified
unto
Iovius
at
his
first
entrance
into
the
Hall
;
yet
overcome
with
anger
,
he
was
not
able
to
contain
himself
,
but
turning
to
Natalis
Comes
,
said
,
What
humane
praise
may
,
I
will
not
say
a
man
,
but
a
Demi-God
deserve
,
which
ought
not
fully
to
be
given
to
my
great
Cosmo
,
the
second
Italian
Augustus
?
Soon
after
Francisco
Berni
objected
,
That
he
had
pursued
the
memory
of
Lorenzo
de
Medici
too
bitterly
.
To
which
the
Censors
answered
,
That
Iovius
was
so
far
from
deserving
blame
for
that
his
action
,
as
those
seditious
Historians
were
rather
to
be
punished
,
who
invited
ignorant
people
to
rebellion
by
their
Encomium
upon
Brutus
and
Cassius
,
and
such
like
,
and
who
provoked
fierce
spirits
,
beastial
wits
,
and
desperate
persons
to
plot
conspiracies
against
good
Princes
.
Lastly
Giorolimo
Mutio
Iustinopolitano
,
said
,
that
that
Iovius
his
Histories
being
full
of
falshoods
,
deserved
better
●…o
be
burn'd
,
than
to
have
Eternity
decreed
unto
them
.
The
Censors
wisht
Mutio
to
instance
in
the
places
wherein
Iovius
had
lied
:
Who
answered
,
That
he
knew
not
any
thing
himself
,
but
that
he
had
heard
it
commonly
said
so
;
whence
they
all
found
Mutius
to
be
one
of
those
ignorant
fellows
,
who
accuse
Iovius
for
a
lier
without
having
read
him
.
The
XCV
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
A
very
famous
Literato
,
who
was
imprisoned
by
the
Iudges
of
Assise
for
being
a
pratler
,
is
freed
by
Apollo
,
as
not
guilty
of
such
a
crime
.
THe
Vertuosi
of
this
State
are
bound
to
speak
with
as
much
premeditation
and
weighing
of
their
words
,
as
other
men
write
in
other
parts
;
for
●…pollo's
pleasure
is
,
for
the
general
good
,
that
to
hear
his
Li●…erati
discourse
upon
any
whatsoever
business
,
be
as
profitable
as
to
study
books
;
wherefore
the
speeches
of
every
one
be
so
narrowly
watcht
,
as
every
least
error
is
sure
to
receive
exemplary
punishment
.
It
hapned
some
three
daies
ago
,
that
a
very
learned
Vertuoso
discoursing
upon
some
Poetical
matter
,
fell
into
an
incidental
digression
,
wherein
he
so
far
expatiated
himself
,
as
when
he
had
finished
it
,
he
could
not
reassume
the
thread
of
his
former
discourse
,
which
was
not
only
noted
for
a
great
error
,
but
the
Censors
being
forthwith
acquainted
with
it
,
he
was
imprisoned
.
And
the
fault
appearing
to
be
true
,
not
only
by
the
testimony
of
divers
,
but
by
his
own
confession
,
the
Judges
proceeded
with
much
rigour
against
him
,
and
inhibited
him
the
use
of
writing
or
reading
.
This
miserable
Literato
,
to
the
end
that
this
severe
sentence
might
either
be
totally
taken
off
,
or
at
least
much
mitigated
,
had
recourse
to
Apollo
,
who
,
though
he
much
abhor'd
that
one
of
his
Vertuosi
should
be
esteemed
a
prater
,
yet
that
he
might
upon
better
grounds
judge
this
Literato
,
he
would
know
from
the
accused
partie
's
own
mouth
,
what
the
matter
was
;
which
is
certainly
an
excellent
way
of
proceeding
,
and
which
if
it
were
imitated
by
Princes
who
govern
the
world
,
they
would
not
be
so
much
troubled
with
other
mens
faults
.
The
Vertuoso
acquainted
Apollo
with
all
that
had
been
laid
to
his
charge
;
who
having
heard
his
confession
,
did
immediately
revoke
the
sentence
(
so
far
doth
the
Justice
differ
which
God
infuseth
into
the
hearts
of
Princes
,
from
what
Judges
learn
in
their
Decrees
)
for
finding
that
the
digression
into
which
that
Literato
had
falne
,
and
wherein
he
had
so
inlarged
himself
,
was
much
more
delicate
than
his
first
discourse
,
his
Maj●…sty
thought
he
had
no
waies
misdemerited
by
that
his
forgetfulness
,
since
the
error
committed
was
not
occasioned
through
his
desire
to
prate
,
but
out
of
ambition
to
purchase
honour
to
himself
,
by
making
that
digression
.
And
therefore
he
commanded
the
Judges
to
set
him
at
liberty
,
for
he
was
not
to
be
blamed
for
much
discourse
,
who
discoursed
well
.
The
XCVI
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Philip
the
second
,
King
of
Spain
,
being
offended
at
what
the
Duke
of
Alva
had
told
Apollo
,
concerning
his
Government
of
Flanders
,
whilst
he
seeks
to
revenge
himself
upon
that
his
Minister
of
State
,
is
sent
for
by
Apollo
,
who
was
acquainted
with
what
had
past
,
and
is
by
him
pacified
.
THere
was
never
any
Court
wherein
there
were
not
of
those
malitiously
minded
men
,
who
reporting
what
ought
to
be
concealed
,
are
very
desirous
to
raise
scandals
,
and
to
kindle
enmity
amongst
their
neighbours
.
This
is
said
,
for
that
Duke
Alva
,
formerly
Prince
of
the
Achaians
,
had
no
sooner
told
Apollo
,
that
(
though
he
foresaw
it
would
be
occasion
of
great
scandal
)
he
had
caused
the
heads
of
Prince
Egmont
and
Count
Horn
to
be
publickly
shewed
upon
the
Skaffolds
in
Brussels
,
only
because
men
are
of
another
opinion
when
they
govern
another
mans
State
,
than
when
their
own
peculiar
Estate
is
concerned
:
But
the
news
thereof
was
forthwith
brought
to
the
wise
King
of
Spain
,
Philip
the
second
,
who
being
highly
offended
with
that
his
Minister
of
State
,
resolved
to
revenge
so
great
an
injury
by
Arms
;
and
therefore
he
commanded
some
of
the
Gentlemen
of
his
Chamber
,
to
arm
themselves
suddenly
,
and
evil
intreat
the
Duke
of
Alva
,
wheresoever
they
should
meet
him
.
This
resolution
of
the
Kings
was
discovered
,
and
being
forthwith
made
known
to
Apollo
,
his
Majesty
sent
for
the
King
of
Spain
and
the
Duke
of
Alva
to
come
to
him
;
who
when
they
appeared
,
the
King
being
highly
incensed
,
complained
bitterly
upon
the
Duke
,
that
meerly
out
of
ambition
of
perpetuating
himself
in
the
Government
of
Flanders
,
he
had
put
his
patrimony
into
the
present
inextricable
troubles
,
a
thing
the
more
worthy
of
punishment
,
in
that
he
himself
had
confest
his
dealing
so
badly
with
his
King
,
with
the
same
freedom
as
others
glory
in
honorable
actions
.
The
Duke
answered
in
his
own
defence
to
this
complaint
made
against
him
by
the
King
,
that
he
had
fought
for
his
King
,
in
Africa
,
in
Germany
,
in
France
,
in
Flanders
,
and
in
Italy
,
and
still
with
victory
;
and
that
his
faithful
and
honorable
actions
had
been
so
ill
rewarded
in
peace
,
that
not
only
men
of
the
Long
Robe
,
who
were
unfit
for
War
,
had
been
preferred
before
him
in
those
Provinces
from
whence
he
had
driven
out
the
enemy
,
but
even
women
,
whereby
he
was
either
en
tertained
idlely
afterwards
in
the
Court
,
or
else
in
imployments
misbecoming
such
a
one
as
he
,
only
that
he
might
idolatrize
the
power
of
Ruy
Gomes
di
Selva
,
and
other
Subjects
who
were
mean
in
comparison
of
him
,
and
yet
were
in
greater
esteem
then
he
,
in
his
Kings
Court
;
a
thing
which
misbecoming
him
to
suffer
,
and
which
he
could
in
no
waies
digest
,
as
being
altogether
contrary
to
his
genius
,
and
he
one
that
could
not
suffer
indignities
,
was
not
only
interpreted
by
his
malevolents
,
but
even
by
his
King
;
to
be
an
intolerable
pride
in
him
,
in
not
being
willing
to
tolerate
an
equal
,
much
less
a
superior
to
himself
in
Court
;
that
it
was
true
,
that
to
preserve
his
reputation
,
and
to
keep
such
a
one
as
he
from
being
numbred
amongst
the
rank
of
ordinary
Courtiers
in
the
Court
of
Spain
,
he
had
endeavoured
to
eternize
himself
in
the
Government
of
Flanders
,
which
he
would
intentively
have
endeavoured
to
have
reduced
into
a
peaceful
condition
if
he
had
thought
he
could
have
governed
it
in
peace
.
The
King
of
Spain
was
much
incenst
at
this
so
resolute
answer
,
and
said
,
that
his
State-Minister
having
confest
his
fault
twice
over
,
nothing
remained
but
condemnation
.
Nay
rather
(
said
Apollo
to
the
King
of
Spain
)
I
must
by
absolving
the
Duke
from
all
that
you
lay
to
his
charge
,
admonish
such
great
Kings
as
you
,
to
deal
well
with
those
Commanders
,
who
having
purchased
the
glory
of
true
Military
valour
at
the
expence
of
their
bloud
,
deserve
their
Kings
full
favour
;
for
it
is
just
and
reasonable
,
that
Kingdoms
,
and
great
Provinces
,
should
be
governed
by
those
in
times
of
peace
,
who
had
the
courage
to
acquire
them
in
war
,
or
who
by
their
Arms
have
defended
them
against
the
publick
enemy
;
but
because
many
of
you
care
not
to
do
what
is
just
,
nor
what
out
of
gratitude
ought
to
be
done
,
since
I
find
you
slow
in
learning
by
the
advantagious
reading
of
History
,
how
you
ought
to
satisfie
and
content
those
Commanders
,
who
with
their
weapons
in
their
hands
,
have
deserved
to
be
largely
rewarded
,
be
not
at
least
ashamed
to
take
example
in
a
business
of
such
importance
,
from
the
Ottoman
Emperors
,
who
in
the
troublesom
times
of
War
,
give
the
charge
of
Generalissimo
of
their
Armies
,
and
therein
all
usefull
and
advised
liberty
,
to
none
but
to
their
chief
Vziiers
,
also
sublime
dignity
,
as
he
who
possesseth
it
,
governs
the
vast
Ottoman
Empire
in
Supreme
Authority
,
as
sole
Arbitrator
of
Peace
and
War
.
Wherefore
the
chief
Viziers
,
knowing
that
their
places
are
much
more
advantagious
and
honourable
in
Peace
then
in
War
,
behave
themselves
very
faithfully
in
their
warlike
expeditions
,
to
the
end
that
through
their
worth
,
they
may
maintain
the
dignity
which
they
possess
;
moreover
they
hasten
to
get
the
victory
,
that
they
may
discharge
so
great
an
imployment
,
by
the
acquisition
of
new
States
,
and
by
subduing
the
enemy
.
Philip
,
't
is
neither
in
my
power
,
nor
yet
in
the
power
of
any
other
Prince
,
to
make
men
love
the
advantage
of
other
men
,
more
then
their
own
:
And
the
true
art
of
making
Commanders
eternally
loyal
,
is
(
as
I
have
said
)
to
shew
them
honorable
and
gainful
peace
at
home
,
amidst
the
troubles
of
War
.
The
XCVII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Pompey
the
great
having
invited
many
Noble
Lords
of
Rome
to
be
present
at
the
dedication
of
the
magnificent
Theatre
which
he
had
built
in
Pernassus
,
they
refuse
to
come
.
POmpey
the
great
having
finished
his
stately
Fabrick
of
a
Theatre
in
Pernassus
,
which
was
no
whit
inferior
to
that
which
he
erected
in
Rome
,
when
he
was
to
dedicate
it
,
resolved
to
celebrate
the
shew
of
Gladiators
;
and
amongst
many
other
Princes
,
invited
some
modern
Roman
Lords
to
the
entertainment
,
who
did
not
only
excuse
themselves
,
alleadging
they
had
not
heart
enough
to
behold
so
bloudy
a
spectacle
,
but
confest
that
they
were
much
scandallized
to
think
that
their
fore-fathers
did
not
only
not
detest
that
cruel
pastime
,
to
see
men
become
so
merciless
one
to
another
,
but
that
even
women
delighted
in
so
horrid
barbarism
;
and
that
they
would
be
bold
to
say
,
that
such
like
Spectacles
were
a
shame
to
those
that
saw
them
,
and
did
but
little
honour
to
those
that
caused
them
to
be
represented
.
It
is
known
that
Pompey
readily
reply'd
,
that
he
should
very
much
admire
and
love
the
civility
and
humanity
of
the
present
Romans
,
in
abhorring
the
shedding
of
humane
bloud
,
if
they
had
not
stained
this
their
worthiness
with
the
shameful
curiosity
of
flocking
with
the
basest
sort
of
people
,
to
see
men
put
to
death
by
the
Hangman
.
The
XCVIII
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Peter
Aretine
being
again
assaulted
,
Apollo
,
in
respect
of
the
lewd
conditions
of
that
Satyrical
vitious
Poet
,
commanded
that
no
Process
should
be
made
upon
that
Riot
.
THis
last
night
past
,
Peter
Aretine
,
as
he
returned
from
visiting
his
beloved
Titian
,
was
assaulted
by
one
who
gave
him
a
fowl
slash
over
the
face
,
which
may
be
said
to
be
the
twentieth
blow
that
he
hath
received
,
either
by
pugniard
or
cudgel
,
wherewith
people
as
quick
of
hand
as
he
was
of
tongue
,
have
so
cut
his
face
,
hands
,
and
breast
,
as
they
look
like
a
Sea-Card
.
Apollo
was
much
displeased
at
this
Riot
,
and
commanded
the
Attorney-General
to
be
diligent
in
finding
out
the
delinquent
.
Aretine
was
strictly
examined
,
who
swore
that
he
neither
knew
,
nor
could
he
imagin
who
it
was
that
had
hurt
him
.
'T
is
said
,
that
Apollo
having
heard
Aretines
examination
,
his
Majesty
commanded
that
no
further
Process
should
be
made
thereupon
;
for
since
Aretine
could
not
so
much
as
imagin
who
it
was
that
had
dealt
so
ill
with
him
,
he
must
of
necessity
be
guilty
of
one
of
those
two
defects
which
deserve
no
compassion
,
either
of
having
offended
so
many
,
as
he
could
not
number
his
enemies
,
or
of
forgetting
those
that
had
done
him
injuries
worthy
resentment
.
The
XCIX
.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
Apollo
having
received
news
by
an
express
Poet
,
whereat
he
was
much
rejoyced
,
communicates
it
to
his
Literati
with
great
Iubile
.
SO
greatly
is
Apollo
pleased
with
mens
vertuous
proceedings
,
as
he
doth
maintain
an
infinite
number
of
men
,
not
only
in
Italy
,
and
the
other
parts
of
Europe
,
but
in
all
parts
of
the
world
where
Learning
flourisheth
,
to
whom
he
gives
large
Salaries
,
to
give
him
speedy
notice
by
expresses
of
all
the
honorable
actions
,
and
worthy
works
,
that
either
any
Prince
,
or
privat
man
doth
perform
in
any
whatsoever
Kingdom
.
Which
being
after
freely
communicated
by
his
Majesty
to
his
beloved
Literati
,
serves
them
for
a
learned
and
useful
Lecture
.
This
was
the
cause
why
the
Royal
Hall
of
Audience
was
filled
betimes
the
next
morning
with
an
infinite
number
of
the
Literati
of
Pernassus
,
who
had
heard
,
that
on
Tuesday
about
eight
of
the
clock
at
night
,
a
Poet
was
come
unto
his
Majesty
,
that
they
might
partake
of
the
news
he
brought
from
Italy
,
which
being
the
Soveraign
Queen
of
all
Provinces
,
the
Supreme
Monarch
of
all
the
most
famous
Kingdoms
of
the
world
,
and
the
particular
Seat
of
all
the
most
reputed
Sciences
,
is
not
only
looked
upon
by
Apollo
,
and
all
the
other
favourable
Planets
,
but
by
all
the
fixt
Stars
,
with
those
benigne
aspects
which
beget
in
men
the
vivacity
of
a
sprightly
genius
,
born
to
new
inventions
of
the
quaintest
and
rarest
things
,
and
the
knowledg
how
to
talk
well
,
and
do
better
,
together
with
the
delightfull
vain
of
writing
learnedly
,
and
the
easie
apprehension
of
all
the
Liberal
Sciences
.
Apollo
appearing
then
in
the
Hall
,
drew
first
the
Letters
from
out
his
bosom
,
which
were
brought
to
him
by
the
Post
from
Italy
,
and
shewing
them
to
all
the
lookers
on
,
said
,
My
beloved
Literati
,
the
world
which
never
ceased
in
producing
Princes
of
eminent
vertue
,
and
private
men
of
excellent
Learning
,
will
likewise
for
ever
hereafter
produce
great
store
of
the
like
;
for
by
Gods
particular
goodness
,
Learning
,
which
by
the
inundation
of
barbarous
people
,
hath
some
time
been
seen
to
go
less
,
cannot
notwithstanding
perish
.
Rejoyce
then
all
of
you
together
with
me
,
be
blithe
and
chearfull
;
for
so
the
acceptable
and
happy
news
requires
you
to
be
,
which
I
have
now
received
from
Italy
,
where
my
most
vertuous
Francisco
Maria
della
Rovere
,
Duke
of
Urbin
,
and
the
Prince
of
all
the
modern
Literati
,
perceiving
that
that
sacred
Justice
,
which
eternal
God
hath
pleased
should
inhabit
upon
earth
,
to
the
end
that
there
should
no
difference
arise
amongst
men
touching
Meum
and
Tuum
,
and
that
it
be
not
suddenly
lul'd
asleep
by
the
unfortunate
labours
of
an
infinite
number
of
Lawyers
,
who
by
their
writings
have
buried
the
wholsom
Laws
in
the
ditches
of
cautions
,
and
confusions
,
so
as
it
is
now
become
prejuditial
to
that
height
,
as
Suits
at
Law
,
may
now
be
added
as
a
fourth
plague
to
the
former
three
,
wherewith
the
living
God
is
wont
to
scourge
mankind
;
a
punishment
which
afflicting
the
mind
,
and
consuming
the
wealth
of
whatsoever
rich
Patrimony
is
more
cruel
then
their
War
,
Plague
,
or
Famin
:
A
disorder
which
,
my
beloved
,
is
the
more
harmful
to
human
kind
,
for
that
though
it
be
known
,
and
complained
of
by
every
one
,
yet
hath
it
been
given
over
as
an
uncureable
disease
,
nor
was
there
ever
any
Physitian
found
yet
,
who
durst
undertake
the
amendment
thereof
;
but
that
God
who
by
his
inscrutable
Judgements
hath
suffered
such
a
disorder
to
reign
thus
long
amongst
men
,
now
at
last
hath
out
of
his
innate
goodness
which
suffers
not
mischiefs
nor
errors
to
reign
long
upon
earth
,
raised
up
a
new
Justinian
,
who
hath
drawn
sacred
Justice
,
out
of
that
obscurity
and
confusion
,
wherein
the
unwary
Lawyers
by
their
imbroiled
writing
had
thrown
her
:
For
the
Illustrious
Francisco
Mario
della
Rovere
,
hath
set
forth
a
holy
Edict
,
which
commands
that
no
Advocate
in
pleading
for
his
Clyent
before
any
Judge
of
his
State
,
shall
be
suffered
to
alleadg
any
thing
but
the
very
Laws
themselves
,
Accursius
his
Gloss
,
the
Comment
of
Bartolo
,
Baldo
,
Paolo
de
Castro
,
Giasone
;
and
in
criminal
affairs
,
Angelo
de
Maleficii
,
and
some
few
others
:
This
is
so
excellent
a
Decree
,
my
beloved
,
as
I
cannot
but
with
tears
call
to
mind
,
that
Law-Suits
have
been
so
inhumanely
immortal
in
all
Tribunals
,
as
that
more
disputes
have
been
raised
,
then
have
been
able
to
be
decided
in
any
one
mans
life-time
.
And
yet
every
one
knows
,
that
even
amongst
the
Turks
(
who
are
wise
in
this
point
,
though
ignorant
and
without
books
they
have
been
known
to
be
resolv'd
and
decided
at
one
only
Audience
.
Add
to
this
,
my
beloved
,
that
the
most
pernitious
disease
of
everlasting
pleadings
,
which
ought
to
have
been
banish'd
out
of
the
Territories
of
all
Princes
who
fear
God
,
and
covet
their
peoples
welfare
;
is
for
the
final
infelicity
of
man
,
become
a
dreadful
and
mortal
Merchandize
of
unprofitable
men
,
who
whilst
they
suck
the
vital
bloud
out
of
Artificers
,
husbandmen
,
Merchants
,
and
others
that
are
of
service
for
Commerce
,
and
waste
all
their
wealth
;
nothing
is
so
much
magnified
in
the
world
,
as
the
great
incomes
left
by
Advocates
,
Notaries
,
Sergeants
,
Proctors
,
and
Judges
.
His
Majesty
having
said
this
,
he
went
accompanied
by
an
infinite
company
of
Vertuosi
who
had
heard
him
,
to
the
chief
Temple
of
Pernassus
;
whither
being
come
,
he
beseeched
God
that
he
would
grant
many
years
of
long
life
to
Francisco
Mario
,
for
the
universal
good
,
that
he
would
fill
the
world
with
Princes
of
like
conditions
,
and
that
he
would
awake
the
like
honorable
and
holy
thoughts
in
other
earthly
Potentates
,
as
so
wise
a
Prince
had
put
in
execution
in
his
happy
Patrimony
;
for
it
was
a
misery
and
affliction
not
to
be
indured
by
the
best
composed
minds
,
to
sea
the
administration
of
Justice
reduced
to
that
confusion
,
as
the
common
,
more
common
,
nay
most
common
opinions
of
privat
Doctors
being
more
alleadged
at
the
bar
,
then
the
Authority
of
the
Law
it self
,
Suits
were
grown
so
chargeable
and
so
eternal
,
as
it
were
better
for
men
to
part
with
their
patrimonies
,
then
to
defend
it
with
much
anguish
of
mind
before
such
cruel
Harpyes
.
The
C.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
A
more
then
usual
sweet
Odor
issuing
from
the
Delphick
Library
,
Apollo
goes
himself
in
person
thither
to
discover
the
Miracle
,
and
soon
finds
the
occasion
of
so
great
a
novelty
.
SOme
six
daies
since
,
an
extraordinary
and
miraculous
sweet
Odor
proceeded
from
the
Delphick
Library
,
which
increasing
every
day
more
and
more
,
did
very
much
astonish
the
Vertuosi
of
this
State
:
And
not
being
able
to
guess
at
the
reason
of
so
strange
an
accident
,
they
earnestly
requested
Apollo
that
he
would
discover
it
unto
them
.
His
Majesty
being
likewise
moved
at
the
novelty
,
went
the
next
morning
early
to
the
Library
;
and
though
the
perfume
of
that
Odor
came
so
generally
dispers'd
from
all
parts
of
the
Library
,
as
the
Literati
could
not
discern
any
particular
place
from
which
it
proceeded
;
yet
Apollo
immediately
found
out
the
very
Fountains
head
from
whence
such
Fragrancy
did
flow
.
And
going
directly
to
the
place
,
where
,
in
an
Urn
of
purest
Oriental
Christal
,
beset
with
Pearls
and
Rubies
,
the
little
less
then
divine
writings
of
Seneca
the
Morallist
are
kept
,
he
first
honoured
those
happy
Writings
,
took
up
the
Urn
with
both
his
hands
,
and
then
turning
towards
his
Vertuosi
,
who
thinking
themselves
unworthy
to
behold
Writing
so
exquisitely
excellent
,
were
on
their
knees
with
head
bowed
towards
the
ground
,
My
dearest
Literati
(
said
he
)
learn
from
this
strange
fragrancy
which
you
find
doth
proceed
from
the
immortal
labours
of
my
beloved
Anneus
Seneca
,
that
if
by
your
late
watchings
you
will
make
your
sanctified
precepts
savour
well
in
the
world
,
and
will
perfume
your
persons
with
glorious
Fame
;
you
must
,
as
Seneca
did
at
last
,
live
answerable
to
your
Writings
,
and
do
as
you
say
.
The
End
of
the
Second
Century
.