Axiochus
of
Plato
,
or
a
Dialogue
of
Death
,
being
both
short
and
very
Elegant
.
Socrates
.
Clinias
.
Axiochus
.
AS
I
went
one
day
to
my
common
schoole
Lynosargus
,
and
being
in
the
waye
by
Elizeus
,
I
might
heare
the
voice
of
one
calling
aloude
to
me
,
Socrates
.
And
turning
me
about
to
see
whence
it
came
,
I
saw
Clinias
Axiochus
his
sonne
,
together
with
Damon
the
Musitian
&
Charmides
,
the
sonne
of
Glauco
running
hastely
toward
Callirrhoe
,
whereof
the
one
was
a
Maister
and
professor
of
the
Arte
of
Musicke
,
&
the
other
by
means
of
great
familiarity
&
acquaintance
,
did
both
loue
him
,
and
also
was
of
him
beloued
;
whereupon
I
thought
good
,
leauing
my
ready
way
,
to
go
meet
them
,
that
I
might
the
sooner
vnderstand
his
meaning
.
Then
Clinias
bursting
out
in
teares
,
O
Socrates
(
quod
he
)
now
is
the
time
when
thou
maist
shew
forth
thy
long
fostered
and
famous
wisedome
,
for
my
father
is
euen
nowe
taken
with
a
grieuous
disease
,
and
drawing
neere
(
as
it
seemeth
)
to
his
end
,
is
therwithall
grieuously
troubled
,
and
greatly
disquieted
.
Howbeit
,
heeretofore
hee
was
so
farre
from
the
feare
of
death
,
as
that
he
was
wont
pleasantly
to
scoffe
and
scorne
at
those
which
vsed
to
portraict
the
Image
of
death
,
painting
him
with
a
dreadfull
countenance
and
a
griesly
face
.
Wherefore
I
beseech
thee
O
Socrates
,
to
go
and
comfort
my
father
as
you
were
wont
to
doo
:
for
so
the
rather
being
strengthened
with
your
good
counsaile
,
he
shall
bee
able
without
any
grudging
or
fainting
to
passe
through
the
way
of
all
flesh
,
and
I
with
the
rest
of
his
friends
and
kinsmen
will
maintaine
the
yearely
memory
of
that
his
good
end
.
Socrates
.
O
Clinias
I
will
not
denie
thy
so
reasonable
a
request
,
specially
concerning
such
a
matter
,
as
to
deny
it
were
great
vnkindnes
and
discourtesie
:
to
grant
it
,
perteyneth
both
to
godlinesse
and
charitie
.
Let
vs
therefore
speede
vs
to
him
:
for
if
thy
father
be
in
so
sore
taking
,
there
needeth
speedines
and
great
hast
.
Clinias
.
O
Socrates
,
I
am
sure
that
my
father
,
assoone
as
hee
but
beholdeth
you
,
will
be
much
better
at
ease
:
for
his
fitte
and
panges
of
his
sicknesse
vse
oftentimes
to
surcease
and
be
asswaged
.
Socrates
.
But
that
we
might
the
sooner
come
to
him
,
we
tooke
the
way
,
which
lieth
beside
the
town
wall
by
the
Gardeins
)
for
his
dwelling
was
hard
by
the
gates
which
lyeth
toward
the
Amazons
piller
:
whither
wee
comming
,
found
Axiochus
(
which
by
this
time
was
come
to
himself
againe
)
being
indeed
somewhat
strong
in
his
body
,
but
very
weake
and
feeble
in
his
minde
,
and
resting
altogether
comfortlesse
:
often
tossing
him
,
and
tumbling
vp
and
downe
in
his
bed
,
fetching
deepe
and
dolefull
sighes
,
with
aboundant
streames
of
trickling
teares
,
and
wailefull
wringing
of
his
handes
:
whome
beholding
,
O
Axiochus
quoth
I
,
what
meaneth
this
?
where
bee
now
those
haughtie
and
couragious
words
,
wherewith
thou
wast
wont
to
scorne
and
despise
death
?
where
bee
those
thy
dayly
and
continuall
prayses
of
vertue
and
goodnesse
vanished
?
where
also
is
now
that
thy
vnspeakeable
stoutnesse
,
wherewith
thou
wast
woont
to
confirme
thy selfe
and
strengthen
others
:
for
like
as
a
cowardly
champion
,
which
at
the
first
comming
forth
as
to
the
skirmish
,
with
stately
steps
and
a
vaunting
visage
,
dooth
soone
after
cast
away
his
Target
,
and
taketh
him
to
flight
:
euen
so
seemest
thou
now
,
when
there
is
need
most
of
al
to
flinch
.
Hast
thou
no
more
regarde
of
thy
diuine
and
excellent
nature
,
that
sometime
wast
a
man
of
so
good
life
and
calling
,
so
obedient
to
reasons
rule
?
and
if
there
were
nothing
els
,
yet
should
it
be
sufficient
to
mooue
thee
,
that
thou
art
an
Athenian
borne
:
and
lastly
should
mooue
thee
that
common
saying
,
which
is
worne
in
all
mens
mouths
;
That
this
our
life
is
a
Pilgrimage
,
which
when
we
haue
ended
with
perfect
measure
and
stedfast
trauell
:
it
behoueth
vs
with
like
constancy
of
minde
,
and
ioyfulnes
of
spirit
,
and
as
it
were
singing
a
merry
Paean
,
to
enter
into
the
purposed
place
of
rest
.
But
thus
to
languish
in
dispaire
and
tender
harted
out-cries
,
behauing
thy selfe
like
a
froward
Babe
,
in
thee
is
neither
regard
of
thy
wisedome
,
nor
respect
of
thy
age
.
Axiochus
.
True
indeed
O
Socrates
,
and
that
which
thou
sayest
,
me
seemeth
right
:
But
it
commeth
to
passe
I
knowe
not
how
,
that
when
I
drawe
neere
vnto
present
daunger
,
than
those
great
and
stout-hearted
wordes
which
I
was
wont
to
cast
at
death
,
doo
closely
flit
away
and
downe
are
trodden
vnderfoote
.
And
then
that
Torment
or
feare
,
the
messenger
of
dreaded
daungers
,
dooth
sundrye
wayes
wound
and
gall
my
grieued
minde
,
whispering
continually
in
mine
eare
that
if
I
bee
once
depriued
of
this
worldly
light
,
and
bereft
of
goods
:
I
shall
like
a
rotten
blocke
lye
in
the
darkesome
deapth
,
neither
seene
nor
heard
of
any
,
beeing
resolued
into
dust
and
wormes
.
Socrates
.
O
Axiochus
thy
talke
is
very
foolish
,
for
reasoning
thus
without
reason
,
and
seeking
to
make
some
sence
of
senceles
wordes
,
thou
both
dost
and
sayest
cleane
contrary
to
thy selfe
,
not
marking
,
how
at
one
time
thou
dost
both
complaine
for
the
lacke
of
sence
which
thou
shalt
haue
:
and
also
art
greatly
vexed
for
the
rotting
of
thy
carrion
Carcasse
,
and
despoyling
of
thy
former
delights
:
as
if
by
this
death
thou
shouldest
not
passe
into
another
life
,
or
shouldest
be
so
despoyled
of
all
sence
and
feeling
,
as
thou
wert
before
thou
wast
first
brought
into
this
world
.
For
euen
as
in
those
yeares
when
Draco
and
Callisthenes
gouerned
the
common
wealth
of
Athens
,
thou
then
wast
vexed
with
no
euil
,
for
in
the
beginning
thou
wast
no
such
as
to
whome
euill
might
chance
:
so
likewise
when
thou
hast
ended
this
state
of
mortalitye
thou
shalt
no
more
be
afflicted
,
for
thou
shalt
not
be
in
such
case
as
that
any
euill
can
touch
thee
.
Wherefore
shake
off
and
castaway
all
these
trifles
and
worldly
baggage
,
thus
waying
in
thy
minde
,
that
when
the
frame
of
this
earthly
building
is
dissolued
,
and
the
soule
being
singled
,
is
restored
to
his
naturall
place
:
this
bodye
which
is
then
left
an
earthly
masse
and
an
vnreasonable
substance
,
is
then
no
more
a
man
.
For
we
are
a
soule
,
that
is
to
say
,
an
immortall
creature
,
beeing
shut
vp
and
inclosed
in
an
earthly
dungeon
.
Wherewithall
nature
hath
clothed
vs
,
and
charged
vs
with
many
miseries
,
so
that
euen
those
things
which
seeme
pleasant
to
vs
and
ioyfull
,
are
indeed
but
vaine
and
shadowed
,
beeing
mingled
and
wrapped
in
many
thousand
sorrowes
,
and
those
also
which
vse
to
breede
vs
sorrowe
and
heauines
,
are
both
sodaine
,
and
therefore
more
hardely
auoyded
,
and
also
perdurable
,
and
therefore
the
more
painefull
and
wearisome
.
Such
be
diseases
and
inflammation
of
the
sences
:
Such
bee
inward
griefes
and
sickenesses
,
through
which
it
cannot
choose
but
that
the
soule
must
bee
also
diseased
,
since
that
beeing
scattered
and
spread
through
the
powres
and
passages
of
the
body
,
it
coueteth
the
vse
of
that
open
and
kinde
heauen
out
of
which
it
was
deriued
,
and
thirsteth
for
the
wonted
company
&
surpassing
delights
of
that
aerernall
fellowship
;
whereby
it
is
euident
,
that
the
passage
from
life
,
is
a
change
from
much
euill
to
great
good
.
Axiochus
.
Since
therefore
O
Socrates
thou
deemest
this
life
so
tedious
and
troublesome
,
why
doost
thou
still
abide
in
the
same
?
beeing
as
thou
art
a
man
of
so
great
wisedom
and
experience
,
whose
knowledge
reacheth
farre
aboue
our
common
sence
,
and
beyond
the
vsuall
reason
of
most
men
.
Socrates
.
Thou
Axiochus
doost
not
report
rightly
of
me
:
for
thou
iudgest
as
the
common
people
of
Athens
,
that
because
you
see
I
am
giuen
to
seeke
and
search
out
many
things
,
therefore
I
know
somewhat
.
But
to
say
the
truth
,
I
would
hartely
wish
,
and
would
the
same
account
in
great
parte
of
happinesse
,
if
I
knew
but
these
common
and
customable
matters
:
so
farre
am
I
from
the
knowledge
of
those
high
and
excellent
things
.
For
these
things
which
I
nowe
declare
,
are
the
sayinges
of
Prodicus
the
wise
man
:
some
of
them
beeing
bought
for
a
pennye
:
some
for
two
groats
,
and
other
some
for
foure
:
For
that
same
notable
man
vsed
to
teach
none
without
wages
,
hauing
alwaies
in
his
mouth
that
saying
of
Epicharmus
,
One
hand
rubbeth
another
:
giue
somewhat
,
and
somewhat
take
.
And
it
is
not
long
sithence
,
that
he
making
a
discourse
of
Philosophye
in
the
house
of
Callias
the
sonne
of
Hipponicus
,
such
and
so
many
things
he
spake
against
the
state
of
life
:
that
I
also
account
life
in
the
number
of
those
thinges
which
be
of
lesse
waight
.
And
euer
since
that
time
O
Axiochus
,
my
soule
gaspeth
after
death
,
daily
longing
to
die
.
Axiochus
.
What
then
was
said
of
Prodicus
?
Socrates
.
Marrie
I
will
tell
you
,
as
they
come
to
my
minde
.
For
what
parcell
(
quod
he
)
of
our
life
is
not
full
of
wretchednes
?
dooth
not
the
babie
euen
taken
from
the
mothers
wombe
,
powre
out
plenty
of
teares
,
beginning
the
first
step
of
life
with
griefe
?
neither
afterward
hath
it
once
any
breathing
or
resting
time
from
sorrow
,
being
either
distressed
with
pouertie
,
or
pinched
with
colde
,
or
scortched
with
heate
,
or
payned
with
stripes
:
and
whatsoeuer
it
suffereth
,
vtter
once
it
cannot
,
but
onely
with
crying
dooth
show
his
minde
,
hauing
no
voice
but
that
alone
to
bewray
his
griefe
:
and
hauing
through
many
woes
waded
to
seauen
yeares
of
age
,
he
is
yet
afflicted
with
greater
griefes
,
being
subiect
to
the
tyranny
of
the
Schoolemaister
and
Tutor
.
And
as
his
yeares
encreased
,
so
is
the
number
of
his
guides
and
gouernours
encreased
,
being
afterwards
in
the
handes
of
Censors
,
Philosophers
and
Capitaines
.
Soone
after
being
waxen
a
stripling
he
is
hemmed
in
with
greater
feare
,
namely
of
Lyceum
,
of
the
Academie
,
of
the
Schoole
of
games
,
of
Rulers
,
of
Roddes
:
and
to
shut
vp
all
in
one
worde
,
of
infinite
miseries
.
And
all
the
time
of
his
youth
is
spent
vnder
ouer-seers
which
are
set
ouer
him
by
the
Areopagits
from
which
labours
young
men
beeing
once
freed
,
are
yet
ouer-layde
with
greater
cares
and
more
weightie
thoughts
,
touching
the
ordering
of
his
state
and
trade
of
life
:
which
also
if
they
be
compared
with
those
that
followe
,
all
these
former
troubles
may
seeme
but
childish
and
indeed
babish
trifles
.
For
herevpon
dooth
a
troope
of
euils
accrew
,
as
be
the
exploites
of
warfare
,
the
bitternesse
of
wounds
,
the
continuall
labour
,
skirmishes
:
and
then
closely
creepeth
on
olde
Age
,
in
which
are
heaped
all
the
harmes
that
pertaine
to
mankinde
,
whether
of
weakenesse
as
naturall
,
or
of
paine
as
being
externall
.
And
but
if
one
betimes
restore
his
life
as
a
dew
debt
to
death
:
Nature
euer
waiting
as
a
greedy
vsurer
,
taketh
paynes
aforehand
,
snatching
and
pulling
from
this
man
his
sight
,
from
that
his
hearing
,
from
som
both
two
senses
.
And
if
any
fortune
longer
then
commonly
is
seene
in
this
life
to
linger
,
Nature
weakening
hir
powres
,
dooth
loose
,
lame
,
and
bow
downe
all
partes
of
his
body
,
but
they
whose
bodies
in
old
age
long
flourisheth
in
minde
,
as
the
saying
is
,
become
twise
children
.
And
therfore
the
gods
,
knowing
what
is
most
expedient
for
men
,
those
whome
they
most
deerely
loue
,
do
soonest
take
out
of
this
vale
of
wretchednes
.
And
for
this
cause
Agamedes
and
Trophonius
,
when
they
had
built
a
Temple
to
Pythius
Apollo
,
desiring
of
the
god
therefore
to
grant
them
the
best
rewarde
that
might
be
giuen
,
soone
after
when
they
layde
them
downe
to
rest
,
neuer
rose
againe
.
Likewise
Cleobis
&
Biton
,
the
sonnes
of
the
Argiue
Nunne
,
when
their
mother
had
made
hir
praier
to
Iuno
,
that
to
her
sonnes
for
their
great
godlines
might
be
giuen
some
singuler
gift
(
for
that
they
when
her
yoake
of
Oxen
were
not
readily
to
bee
found
at
the
time
of
sacrifice
,
themselues
being
yoaked
in
the
charriot
,
drew
their
mother
to
the
Temple
)
vpon
this
their
mothers
request
,
the
two
sonnes
the
next
morning
were
found
dead
.
It
were
too
long
in
this
place
to
reherse
the
testimonies
of
Poets
which
in
their
diuine
poesies
do
diuinely
bewaile
and
lament
the
miseries
of
mans
life
,
I
will
nowe
onely
in
place
of
many
,
recite
the
witnesse
of
one
,
being
most
worthie
of
memorie
,
which
thus
saith
,
How
wretched
a
thred
of
life
haue
the
gods
spun
,
To
mortall
men
that
in
this
race
of
life
do
run
▪
And
againe
:
Of
all
that
in
the
earth
are
ordained
by
nature
,
Than
man
,
is
not
to
bee
found
a
more
wretched
creature
.
But
of
Amphiaraus
what
saith
the
Poet
?
Him
loued
highest
Iupiter
and
Apollo
deare
,
yet
could
he
not
reache
to
his
eldest
yeare
.
What
thinkest
thou
of
him
that
taught
the
childe
to
crie
:
When
first
the
Sunne
bright
day
,
he
seeth
with
tender
eye
.
But
I
will
let
them
passe
,
least
contrarye
to
promise
,
I
seeme
to
discourse
at
large
,
and
that
in
the
alleadging
of
forraine
witnesses
.
What
trade
of
life
I
pray
you
is
there
,
or
what
occupation
,
of
which
you
shall
not
find
many
that
complaine
and
greatly
mislike
of
their
present
affaires
.
Let
vs
ouerrunne
the
companies
of
Artificers
&
craftsmen
,
which
continually
labour
from
night
to
night
,
and
yet
hardly
able
to
find
them
necessaries
to
liue
,
by
bewayling
theyr
bare
estate
,
&
filling
their
nightwatchings
with
sorrow
and
teares
.
Let
vs
els
suruew
the
life
of
Marriners
and
Seafaring
men
,
which
make
a
hole
through
so
many
dangers
,
&
which
as
Bias
said
,
are
neither
in
the
number
of
the
liuing
nor
yet
of
the
dead
,
for
man
being
borne
to
abide
vpon
the
earth
,
dooth
as
it
were
a
creature
of
a
double
kinde
,
thrust
himselfe
into
the
maine
sea
,
and
wholy
put
his
life
into
the
hands
of
fortune
.
But
the
life
of
husbandmen
will
some
say
is
pleasant
,
and
so
in
deed
it
is
:
but
haue
they
not
a
continuall
ranckling
gall
,
euer
breeding
new
cause
of
greefe
and
disquiet
,
sometime
by
reason
of
drought
,
sometime
because
of
raine
,
otherwhile
for
scortching
,
oft
through
blasting
,
which
parcheth
the
vntimely
eare
oftentimes
,
because
of
importunate
heate
or
vnmeasurable
colde
,
miserably
weeping
and
complaining
.
But
aboue
all
,
that
honourable
state
of
gouernement
and
principallitie
(
for
I
let
passe
many
other
things
&
wrap
them
vp
in
silence
)
through
how
many
dangers
is
it
tossed
and
turmoiled
,
for
if
at
any
time
it
haue
any
cause
of
ioye
,
it
is
like
vnto
a
blowne
blister
or
a
swelling
sore
,
soone
vp
,
and
sooner
downe
:
oftentime
suffering
a
foule
repulse
,
which
seemeth
a
thousand
times
worse
then
death
it selfe
.
For
who
at
any
time
can
be
blessed
,
that
hangeth
vpon
the
wauering
will
of
the
witlesse
many
?
And
albeit
the
Magistrate
deserue
fauour
and
praise
,
yet
is
he
but
a
mocking
stocke
and
scoffe
of
the
comminalty
,
being
soone
after
,
outcast
,
hissed
at
,
condemned
,
and
deliuered
to
a
miserable
death
.
For
where
I
praye
thee
O
Axiochus
,
(
thee
I
aske
that
art
in
office
in
the
common-wealth
)
dyed
that
mightie
Miltiades
?
where
that
victorious
Themistocles
?
where
that
valiant
Ephialtes
?
where
finally
thse
noble
kings
and
glorious
Emperours
,
which
not
long
a
goe
flourished
in
the
common
wealth
.
As
for
my selfe
,
I
could
neuer
be
brought
to
beare
office
in
the
Cittie
:
for
I
neuer
accounted
it
as
a
worthie
and
lawdable
thing
to
be
in
authority
together
with
the
madding
multitude
.
But
Theramenes
and
Calixenus
of
late
memorie
appointing
vnder
them
certaine
Magistrates
,
condemned
certaine
guiltlesse
men
,
not
hearing
their
causes
to
vndeserued
death
.
Onelye
withstood
them
you
,
and
Triptolemus
,
of
thirty
thousand
men
which
were
gathered
in
the
assemblie
.
Axiochus
.
It
is
as
thou
sayest
Socrates
,
and
since
that
time
I
haue
refrained
my selfe
from
the
stage
:
neither
hath
any
thing
euer
to
mee
seemed
of
greater
waighte
,
then
the
gouerning
of
the
common-wealth
,
and
that
is
well
knowne
to
them
which
are
in
the
same
office
.
For
thou
speakest
these
things
,
as
hauing
out
of
some
high
loft
onely
ouerlooked
the
troubles
and
tempests
of
the
common-wealth
,
but
we
know
the
same
more
assuredly
,
hauing
made
proofe
therefore
in
ourselues
,
for
the
common
people
indeede
our
freends
Socrates
is
vnthankefull
,
disdainefull
,
cruell
,
enuious
,
and
vnlearned
,
as
that
is
gathered
together
of
the
scumme
and
dregs
of
the
rascall
route
,
and
a
sorte
of
idle
losels
:
whome
hee
that
flattereth
and
feedeth
is
much
worse
himselfe
than
they
.
Socrates
.
Since
therefore
O
Axiochus
,
thou
doost
so
greatly
disallow
that
opinion
,
which
of
all
other
,
is
counted
most
honest
and
liberall
;
what
shall
we
iudge
of
the
other
trades
of
life
?
shall
wee
not
thinke
that
they
are
likewise
to
bee
shunned
:
I
remember
that
I
once
heard
Prodicus
say
;
that
death
pertayneth
neither
to
the
liuing
nor
to
the
dead
.
Axiochus
.
How
meane
you
that
,
Socrates
?
Socrates
.
Mary
thus
;
that
death
toucheth
not
them
that
are
,
and
as
for
those
that
are
departed
out
of
this
life
,
are
now
no
more
,
and
therfore
death
now
toucheth
them
not
:
for
thou
art
not
yet
dead
,
neither
if
thou
decease
,
shall
it
concerne
thee
,
for
thou
shalt
then
haue
no
more
.
Therefore
,
most
vaine
is
that
sorrow
which
Axiochus
maketh
,
for
the
thing
which
neyther
is
present
,
nor
shall
euer
touch
Axiochus
himselfe
.
And
euen
as
foolish
is
it
,
as
if
one
should
complaine
and
be
afraid
of
Scylla
,
or
the
Centaures
,
which
were
monsters
,
of
Poets
broode
,
which
neyther
now
belong
to
thee
,
nor
to
thy
liues
end
shall
appertaine
;
for
feare
is
conceyued
of
such
things
as
be
:
but
of
such
things
as
be
not
,
what
feare
can
there
be
?
Axiochus
.
Truely
Socrates
,
you
haue
fetched
these
things
,
out
of
the
riche
and
most
aboundant
Storehouse
of
your
woonderfull
wisedome
:
And
thereof
riseth
that
your
mildenesse
and
lightnesse
of
speech
,
which
you
vse
to
allure
the
mindes
of
yoong
men
to
vertue
.
But
the
losse
of
these
worldly
commodities
,
dooth
not
a
little
vexe
and
disquiet
my
minde
;
albeit
these
reasons
,
which
now
to
my
great
good
liking
you
haue
alledged
,
seeme
to
mee
much
more
allowable
,
than
those
which
late
you
vsed
;
for
my
minde
is
not
carryed
away
with
error
through
the
entisement
of
your
words
,
but
perceiueth
them
well
,
neither
doe
those
things
greatly
mooue
my
minde
,
which
onely
haue
a
colour
and
shadowed
showe
of
truth
,
being
set
out
with
flanting
pride
,
and
glory
of
words
,
but
yet
truth
haue
they
none
.
Socrates
.
Thou
art
farre
wide
Axiochus
,
and
reasonest
vnskilfully
,
ioyning
the
feeling
of
euill
,
with
the
wante
of
good
things
,
forgetting
thy selfe
that
then
thou
shalt
bee
in
the
number
of
the
sencelesse
dead
.
For
him
indeed
which
is
bereft
of
all
good
things
,
dooth
the
contrary
force
of
euill
things
greatly
vexe
.
But
he
which
hath
no
being
,
can
take
nor
feele
nothing
,
in
place
of
those
things
whereof
he
is
despoiled
.
Then
by
what
reason
can
any
griefe
bee
conceyued
of
that
thing
,
which
breedeth
no
sence
nor
perseuerance
of
any
thing
which
hurteth
.
For
if
in
the
beginning
O
Axiochus
,
thou
didst
not
,
though
indeed
in
vayne
,
ioyne
sence
and
feeling
to
death
,
most
vnwisely
,
thou
shouldest
neuer
had
cause
to
feare
death
.
But
now
thou
doest
confound
thy selfe
,
and
speakest
contrarie
to
thy selfe
,
oft
fearing
that
thou
shalt
bee
depriued
of
soule
and
sence
together
,
and
oft
thinking
,
that
with
thy
sence
thou
shalt
feele
that
thing
,
whereof
there
is
no
sence
nor
feeling
.
And
to
this
purpose
do
all
those
excellent
and
notable
reasons
of
the
soules
immortalitie
tend
.
For
it
is
not
the
weake
nature
of
mortall
man
,
to
raise
himselfe
to
the
fulfilling
of
such
high
and
haughtye
matters
,
as
to
despise
the
ramping
rage
of
wilde
beasts
,
to
ieopard
himselfe
in
the
wastefull
sea
,
to
builde
Citties
,
and
them
with
lawes
and
pollicie
to
establish
:
to
looke
vp
into
heauen
,
and
marke
the
course
of
the
Starres
;
and
the
wayes
of
the
Sunne
and
Moone
,
with
their
risings
and
setting
,
to
consider
their
eclipses
,
their
spaces
,
their
making
of
the
nights
and
dayes
alike
,
their
double
conuersions
,
to
behold
the
order
of
the
windes
,
the
seauen
watrie
starres
,
of
winter
,
of
summer
,
of
stormes
,
with
the
violent
rage
of
whirlewindes
,
and
as
it
were
these
labours
of
the
world
,
to
deliuer
to
posteritie
,
vnlesse
in
our
mindes
there
were
a
certaine
diuine
spirit
and
vnderstanding
,
which
could
comprehend
and
reach
vnto
the
supernaturall
knowledge
of
so
great
matters
.
Wherefore
nowe
O
Axiochus
,
thou
art
not
in
the
way
to
death
,
but
to
immortality
,
neither
shalt
thou
(
as
thou
didst
seeme
right
now
to
feare
)
bee
bereft
of
all
good
,
but
shall
hereby
enioy
true
and
perfect
good
:
Neither
shalt
thou
perceiue
such
durty
pleasures
as
are
these
,
beeing
mingled
with
the
puddle
of
this
sinfull
body
,
but
most
pure
and
perfect
delight
being
deuoid
of
all
contagious
trouble
.
For
beeing
loosed
and
deliuered
out
of
the
darkesome
dungeons
of
this
body
,
thou
shalt
passe
to
that
place
where
is
no
lacke
nor
complaint
,
but
all
things
full
of
rest
,
and
deuoid
of
euill
.
Moreouer
there
is
calme
and
quiet
liuing
without
all
knowledge
of
vnrest
,
peaceable
and
still
occupied
in
beholding
the
course
&
frame
of
Nature
,
and
studying
Philosophy
,
not
to
please
the
idle
ignorant
and
common
sort
,
but
with
vpright
and
vndeceiuable
truth
.
Axiochus
.
O
Socrates
with
this
thy
gladsome
speech
thou
hast
now
brought
mee
into
a
cleane
contrary
minde
,
for
so
farre
am
I
nowe
from
dread
of
death
,
that
I
am
euen
set
on
fire
and
burne
with
desire
thereof
.
And
that
I
may
stay
my selfe
in
the
steppes
of
them
which
are
counted
workemasters
of
speech
,
I
will
say
thus
much
more
excellently
,
Now
I
begin
to
behold
those
high
matters
,
and
doo
ouerlooke
that
aeternall
and
heauenly
course
of
things
,
hauing
now
raysed
vp
my selfe
out
of
my
weakenes
,
and
being
as
it
were
renued
and
refreshed
of
my
former
malady
.
Socrates
.
If
you
demaunde
of
mee
another
reason
,
and
signe
of
the
soules
immortality
,
I
will
tell
you
what
the
wise
man
Gobrias
shewed
me
:
He
saide
that
at
what
time
Xerxes
conuayed
his
huge
Army
into
Greece
,
his
Grandfather
which
was
of
the
same
name
,
was
sent
into
Delos
to
defende
that
Iland
in
which
were
two
Gods
borne
.
In
the
same
Iland
that
his
Grandfather
learned
out
of
certaine
brasen
Tables
which
Opis
and
Hecuergus
had
brought
out
of
the
Northerne
Countries
,
That
the
soule
aftertime
it
is
dissolued
from
the
body
passeth
into
a
certaine
darkesome
place
,
a
Coast
that
lyeth
vnder
the
earth
wherein
is
Plutoes
Pallace
no
lesse
than
Iupiters
kingdome
:
For
the
earth
being
equally
ballanced
in
the
middest
of
the
world
,
and
the
compasse
thereof
beeing
round
as
a
ball
,
that
the
one
halfe
Sphere
thereof
is
allotted
to
the
higher
Gods
,
and
the
other
halfe
to
the
infernall
powres
;
betwixt
whom
there
is
such
kindred
and
allyance
,
that
some
bee
brothers
,
and
other
some
brothers
children
.
But
the
entry
of
the
way
which
leadeth
to
Plutoes
kingdome
is
fenced
with
iron
gates
,
and
fastened
with
brasen
bolts
:
which
when
a
man
hath
opened
,
he
is
entertained
of
the
Riuer
Acheron
;
next
which
is
Cocytus
:
which
flouds
being
ouerpassed
,
hee
must
come
before
Minos
and
Rhadamanthus
,
the
merciles
Iudges
:
which
place
is
called
the
plain
of
Truth
where
the
Iudges
sit
examining
euery
one
that
commeth
thither
how
he
hath
liued
,
and
with
what
trade
or
manner
of
life
hee
hath
inhabited
his
mortall
body
,
with
whom
there
is
no
place
for
lies
;
nor
refuge
for
excuses
.
Then
they
which
in
their
life
time
were
inspired
and
led
with
a
good
Angell
,
are
receiued
into
the
houshold
of
the
blessed
,
where
all
seasons
flowe
with
abundance
of
all
fruits
,
where
from
the
siluer
springs
doo
calmely
run
the
Christall
streames
,
where
the
flourishing
medowes
are
cloathed
with
chaungeable
Mantles
of
glorious
colours
,
where
are
famous
Schooles
of
renowmed
Philosophers
,
goodly
companies
of
diuine
Poets
,
trim
sorts
of
Dauncers
,
heauenly
Musicke
,
great
banquets
furnished
with
costly
cates
,
Tables
abounding
with
all
bounty
,
delights
without
all
care
,
and
pleasures
without
all
paine
:
For
the
Inhabitants
thereof
are
neither
touched
with
force
of
cold
,
nor
payned
with
excesse
of
heate
,
but
the
moderate
Aire
breatheth
on
them
mildly
and
calmely
,
being
,
lightned
with
the
gentle
Sunnebeames
.
In
this
place
,
and
in
the
Elysian
fields
,
they
which
haue
taken
holy
orders
are
highly
aduanced
and
reuerenced
,
dayly
ministring
the
vnsearcheable
rytes
of
Religion
.
Wherefore
then
shouldest
thou
doubt
but
to
be
made
partaker
of
the
same
honor
,
being
one
of
the
seede
of
that
heauenly
race
:
It
is
an
old
saying
and
rightly
reported
,
that
Hercules
and
Bacchus
going
downe
to
hell
,
they
were
instituted
in
holly
orders
,
and
that
they
were
emboldned
to
goe
thither
of
the
Goddesse
Eleusina
.
But
they
which
being
wrapped
in
wickednes
haue
led
an
vngodly
life
,
are
snatched
vp
by
the
Furies
,
and
by
them
carried
through
the
lowest
hell
into
deepe
darkenes
and
vtter
confusion
,
where
the
place
and
abode
of
the
wicked
is
,
and
where
the
three
score
daughters
of
Danaus
dwell
,
whose
punishment
is
continually
to
fill
a
sort
of
bottomlesse
vessels
,
where
also
is
to
bee
seene
the
vnquencheable
thirst
of
Tantalus
,
the
gnawen
Entrailes
of
Titius
,
and
the
endles
stone
of
Sisip●us
,
whose
end
beginneth
a
newe
labour
.
There
bee
they
rent
of
wilde
beasts
,
continually
scorched
with
burning
Lamps
,
pained
with
all
kind
of
torments
,
and
afflicted
with
endlesse
pennance
.
These
thinges
I
remember
that
I
haue
heard
Gobrias
tell
;
but
you
Axiochus
may
iudge
of
them
as
you
list
.
Only
this
I
know
and
assuredly
hold
fast
,
that
euery
mans
minde
is
immortall
and
passing
out
of
this
life
feeleth
no
griefe
nor
sorrowe
.
Wherefore
O
Axiochus
whether
thou
be
carryed
into
those
highest
Pallaces
or
lower
Vawts
,
needes
must
it
bee
that
thou
shalt
bee
blessed
because
thou
hast
liued
well
and
godly
.
Axiochus
.
Minding
to
haue
said
something
vnto
thee
(
O
Socrates
)
I
am
impeached
with
bashfull
shame
:
For
so
farre
am
I
now
from
the
horror
and
dread
of
death
,
that
I
continually
couet
the
time
thereof
:
So
hath
thy
heauenly
and
comfortable
speeches
pierced
and
relieued
my
faint
heart
.
And
nowe
loath
I
this
life
,
and
scorne
the
delights
thereof
,
as
that
shall
from
henceforth
passe
into
a
better
abode
.
And
now
by
my selfe
alone
will
I
recount
these
thy
notable
sayings
,
but
I
pray
thee
(
O
Socrates
)
after
noone
resort
to
me
againe
.
Socrates
.
I
will
doo
as
you
say
,
and
now
will
I
returne
to
walk
in
my
school
Lynosargus
from
whence
I
was
hither
called
.
FINIS
.
❧
A
speech
spoken
at
the
Tryumph
before
the
Queenes
most
excellent
Maiestie
,
by
the
Page
to
the
right
noble
Champion
,
the
Earle
of
Oxenford
.
By
the
Tilt
stoode
a
statelie
Tent
of
Orenge
tawny
Taffata
,
curiously
imbroydered
with
Siluer
,
&
pendents
on
the
Pinacles
very
sightly
to
behold
.
From
forth
this
Tent
came
the
noble
Earle
of
Oxenford
in
rich
gilt
Armour
,
and
sate
down
vnder
a
great
high
Bay-tree
,
the
whole
stocke
,
branches
and
leaues
whereof
,
were
all
gilded
ouer
,
that
nothing
but
Gold
could
be
discerned
.
By
the
Tree
stoode
twelue
tilting
staues
,
all
which
likewise
were
gilded
cleane
ouer
.
After
a
solemne
sound
of
most
sweet
Musique
,
he
mounted
on
his
Courser
,
verie
richly
caparasond
,
when
his
page
ascending
the
staires
where
her
Highnesse
stood
in
the
window
,
deliuered
to
her
by
speech
this
Oration
following
.
THIS
Knight
(
most
fayre
and
fortunate
Princesse
)
liuing
of
a
long
time
in
a
Groue
,
where
euery
graft
beeing
greene
,
hee
thought
euery
roote
to
be
precious
,
found
at
the
last
as
great
diuersity
of
troubles
as
of
Trees
:
the
Oake
to
be
so
stubborne
that
nothing
could
cause
it
to
bend
;
the
Reede
so
shaking
,
that
euery
blast
made
it
to
bow
;
the
Iuniper
sweete
,
but
too
lowe
for
succour
;
the
Cipresse
faire
,
but
without
fruite
;
the
Walnut
tree
to
be
as
vnholsome
to
lye
vnder
,
as
the
bud
of
the
Figge-tree
vnpleasant
to
taste
;
the
Tree
that
bore
the
best
fruite
,
to
be
fullest
of
Caterpillers
,
and
all
to
be
infected
with
wormes
;
the
Ashe
for
Rauens
to
breede
;
the
Elme
to
build
;
the
Elder
to
be
full
of
pith
&
no
perfection
,
and
all
Trees
that
were
not
fertill
,
to
be
fit
for
fuell
,
and
they
that
were
fruitfull
,
but
for
the
tyme
to
please
the
fancy
.
Which
trying
,
he
forsooke
the
wood
,
and
liued
a
while
in
the
plaine
Champion
:
where
,
how
he
was
tormented
,
it
were
too
long
to
tell
,
but
let
this
suffise
,
that
hee
was
troubled
,
when
euery
Moate
fell
in
his
eye
in
the
day
,
and
euery
Ant
disquieted
him
in
the
night
:
where
,
if
the
wind
blew
,
he
had
nothing
to
shielde
him
but
heade
and
shoulders
,
if
the
Sunne
blazed
,
he
could
find
the
shadow
of
nothing
but
himselfe
,
when
seeing
himselfe
so
destitute
of
helpe
,
he
becam
desperate
of
hope
.
Thus
wandering
a
wearie
way
,
hee
espyed
at
the
last
a
Tree
so
beautiful
,
that
his
eyes
were
daseled
with
the
brightnesse
,
which
as
hee
was
going
vnto
,
he
met
by
good
fortune
a
Pilgrime
or
Hermit
,
he
knew
not
well
,
who
being
apparelled
as
though
hee
were
to
trauaile
into
all
Countries
,
but
so
aged
as
though
hee
were
to
liue
continually
in
a
Caue
.
Of
this
olde
Syre
he
demaunded
what
Tree
it
was
,
who
taking
this
Knight
by
the
hand
,
began
in
these
words
both
to
vtter
the
name
and
nature
of
the
Tree
.
This
Tree
fayre
Knight
is
called
the
Tree
of
the
Sunne
,
whose
nature
is
alwaies
to
stand
alone
,
not
suffering
a
companion
,
beeing
it selfe
without
comparison
:
of
which
kind
,
there
are
no
more
in
the
earth
then
Sunnes
in
the
Element
.
The
worlde
can
holde
but
one
Phenix
,
one
Alexander
,
one
Sun-Tree
,
in
top
contrarie
to
all
Trees
:
it
is
strongest
,
&
so
statelie
to
behold
,
that
the
more
other
shrubs
shrinke
for
duetie
,
the
higher
it
exalteth
it selfe
in
Maiestie
.
For
as
the
cleere
beames
of
the
Sunne
,
cause
all
the
starres
to
lose
theyr
light
,
so
the
brightnesse
of
thys
golden
Tree
,
eclipseth
the
commendation
of
all
other
Plants
.
The
leaues
of
pure
Golde
,
the
barke
no
worse
,
the
buddes
pearles
,
the
body
Chrisocolla
,
the
sap
Nectar
,
the
roote
so
noble
as
it
springeth
from
two
Turkeies
,
both
so
perfect
,
as
neither
can
staine
the
other
,
each
contending
once
for
superioritie
,
and
now
both
constrained
to
be
equals
.
Vestas
bird
sitteth
in
the
midst
,
whereat
Cupid
is
euer
drawing
,
but
dares
not
shoote
,
beeing
amazed
at
that
princely
and
perfect
Maiestie
.
The
shaddowes
hath
as
strange
properties
as
contrarieties
,
cooling
those
that
be
hoat
with
a
temperate
calme
,
and
heating
those
that
be
colde
with
a
moderate
warmth
,
not
vnlike
that
Sunne
whereof
it
taketh
the
name
,
which
melteth
Waxe
,
and
hardeneth
Clay
,
or
pure
fyre
,
which
causeth
the
gold
to
shine
,
and
the
straw
to
smother
,
or
sweete
perfumes
,
which
feedeth
the
Bee
,
and
kylleth
the
Betell
.
No
poyson
commeth
neere
it
,
nor
any
vermine
that
hath
a
sting
.
Who
so
goeth
about
to
loppe
it
,
launceth
himselfe
,
and
the
Sunne
wyll
not
shyne
on
that
creature
that
casteth
a
false
eye
on
that
Tree
,
no
wind
can
so
much
as
wagge
a
leafe
,
it
springeth
in
spite
of
Autumnus
,
and
continueth
all
the
yeere
as
it
were
Ver
.
If
Syr
Knight
you
demaunde
what
fruite
it
beareth
,
I
aunswere
,
such
,
as
the
elder
it
is
,
the
younger
it
seemeth
,
alway
rype
,
yet
euer
greene
.
Vertue
Syr
Knight
,
more
nourishing
to
honest
thoughts
,
then
the
beauty
delightfull
to
amorous
eyes
;
Where
the
Graces
are
as
thicke
in
vertue
,
as
the
Grapes
are
on
the
Vine
.
Thys
fruite
fatteth
,
but
neuer
feedes
,
wherwith
thys
Tree
is
so
loaden
,
as
you
cannot
touch
that
place
which
vertue
hath
not
tempered
.
If
you
enquire
whether
any
grafts
may
be
gotten
,
it
were
as
much
as
to
craue
slyppes
of
the
Sunne
,
or
a
Moulde
to
cast
a
newe
Moone
.
To
conclude
,
such
a
Tree
it
is
,
as
he
that
hath
longest
knowne
it
,
can
sooner
meruaile
at
it
,
then
discribe
it
,
for
the
further
hee
wadeth
in
the
prayse
,
the
shorter
he
commeth
of
the
perfection
.
Thys
olde
man
hauing
ended
,
seeming
to
want
wordes
to
expresse
such
worthinesse
,
he
went
to
hys
home
,
and
the
Knight
to
his
Sunne
Tree
,
where
kissing
the
grounde
wyth
humilitie
,
the
princely
tree
seemed
with
〈…〉
to
bidde
him
welcome
.
But
the
more
〈…〉
●●zed
on
the
beautie
,
the
lesse
able
he
w●●
〈◊〉
●●dure
the
brightnesse
,
like
vnto
those
〈…〉
●●king
with
a
stedfast
eye
to
behold
th●
〈…〉
bring
a
darke
dazeling
ouer
theyr
sight
.
At
the
last
,
resting
vnder
the
shaddowe
,
he
felt
such
content
,
as
nothing
coulde
bee
more
comfortable
.
The
dayes
he
spent
in
vertuous
delights
,
the
night
slypped
away
in
golden
Dreames
,
hee
was
neuer
annoyed
with
venemous
enemies
,
nor
disquieted
with
idle
cogitations
.
In
so
much
,
that
finding
all
felicity
in
that
shade
,
and
all
security
in
that
Sunne
:
hee
made
a
sollemne
vowe
,
to
incorporate
hys
harte
into
that
Tree
,
and
ingraft
hys
thoughts
vppon
those
vertues
.
Swearing
,
that
as
there
is
but
one
Sunne
to
shine
ouer
it
,
one
roote
to
giue
life
vnto
it
,
one
toppe
to
maintaine
Maiestie
:
so
there
should
be
but
one
Knight
,
eyther
to
lyue
or
die
for
the
defence
thereof
.
Where-vppon
,
hee
swore
himselfe
onely
to
be
the
Knight
of
the
Tree
of
the
Sunne
,
whose
life
should
end
before
his
loyaltie
.
Thus
cloyed
with
content
,
hee
fell
into
a
sweete
slumber
,
whose
smyling
countenaunce
shewed
him
voyde
of
all
care
.
But
hys
eyes
were
scarce
close
,
d
when
hee
seemed
to
see
dy●●●
〈◊〉
●●●ermining
the
Tree
behinde
him
,
that
〈…〉
suspecting
the
Knight
to
gyue
the
〈…〉
,
myght
haue
punished
him
in
her
〈…〉
fayling
of
theyr
pretence
,
and
seeing
〈…〉
●●we
they
strooke
to
light
vppon
their
●wne
braines
,
they
threatned
him
by
violence
,
whom
they
could
not
match
in
vertue
.
But
he
clasping
the
Tree
,
as
the
onely
Anchor
of
hys
trust
,
they
coulde
not
so
much
as
mooue
him
from
hys
cause
,
whom
they
determined
to
martyr
without
colour
.
Whereuppon
,
they
made
a
challenge
to
winne
the
Tree
by
right
,
and
to
make
it
good
by
Armes
.
At
which
saying
,
the
Knight
beeing
glad
to
haue
his
trueth
tryed
wyth
hys
valoure
,
for
ioy
awaked
.
And
nowe
(
most
vertuous
and
excellent
Princesse
)
seeing
such
tumults
towards
for
his
Tree
,
such
an
Honourable
presence
to
iudge
,
such
worthy
Knights
to
Iuste
:
I
cannot
tel
whether
his
perplexitie
or
his
pleasure
be
the
greater
.
But
this
hee
will
auouch
at
all
assayes
,
himselfe
to
be
the
most
loyall
Knight
of
the
Sun-tree
,
which
who
so
gaine-sayeth
,
hee
is
heere
prest
,
eyther
to
make
him
recant
it
before
hee
runne
,
or
repent
it
after
.
Offering
rather
to
die
vppon
the
poynts
of
a
thousande
Launces
,
then
to
yeeld
a
iote
in
constant
loyaltie
.
FINIS
.
The
speech
beeing
ended
,
with
great
honour
hee
ran
,
and
valiantly
brake
all
the
twelue
staues
.
And
after
the
finishing
of
the
sports
:
both
the
rich
Bay-tree
,
and
the
beautifull
Tent
,
were
by
the
standers
by
,
torne
and
rent
in
more
peeces
then
can
be
numbred
.