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A46427	Mores hominum = The manners of men / described in sixteen satyrs by Juvenal, as he is published in his most authentick copy, lately printed by command of the King of France ; whereunto is added the invention of seventeen designes in picture, with arguments to the satyrs ; as also explanations to the designes in English and Latine ; together with a large comment, clearing the author in every place wherein he seemed obscure, out of the laws and customes of the Romans, and the Latine and Greek histories, by Sir Robert Stapylton, Knight.; Works. English. 1660	Juvenal.; Stapylton, Robert, Sir, d. 1669.; Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677.	1660 (1660)	Wing J1280; ESTC R21081	275,181	643

Frozen Sea which was then believed to be innavigable but the Hollanders have lately sailed so far in the North-east passage that they have discovered Nova Zembla within the Artick Circle but twelve degrees from the Pole Verse 3. Curian Temperance The Curian Family was enobled by the Temperance and Valour of Marcus Curius that triumphed over the Sabines Samnites and Leucanians and beat King Pyrrhus out of Italy but his greatest triumph was over himself and his affections as appears by his answer to the Samnite Ambassadors that finding his Table covered by the fire-side furnished only with earthen dishes and Curius himself roasting of roots for his supper beseeched him to better his poor condition by accepting a great sum of money from their hands to which he answered that he had rather still eat in earth and command the Samnites that were served in gold Being accused for plundering he produced a wooden vessell which upon proof appeared to be all he had of the spoil Liv. Verse 4. Bacchanals The Celebraters of the Bacchanalia or Dionysia the libidinous Feasts of Bacchus where virtue was death for they that refused to sacrifice to Lust were sacrificed by the fury of the Bacchanals Of the abominable Ceremonies used at these Feasts see Liv. St. Augustine They were at last as a Seminary of wickedness interdicted by the Senate Verse 5. Chrysippus The Philosopher Chrysippus the most ingenious Scholar to Zeno the first Stoick and to his Successor Cleanthes from both which Masters he only desired to know Doctrines and bid them leave the Proofs to him indeed he was so incomparable a Logician that it grew to a Proverb If the Gods would study Logick they would read Chrysippus He was Son to Apollonides by some called Apollonius of Tarsis but he was born at Soli a City of Cilicia Having spent what his father left him in following a Kings Court he was compelled to study Philosophy as being capable of no other course that might buoy up his fortunes but after he was an eminent Philosopher he never dedicated any of his books as others did theirs to Kings and therefore was thought to be a great despiser of Honours Laertius But it is more probable that he following his studies to inrich himself would neglect no good Medium to a fortune and I rather believe that he having smarted so much by attendance at Court would never apply himself to Princes any more He died of a violent laughter with seeing an Asse eat figs as some say but of a Vertigo according to Hermippus in the 143 Olympiad having lived seventy three years Verse 7. Aristotle Was born at Stagyra a City of Thrace seated upon the river Strymon his Father was Nicomachus the Physician the Son of Macaon famed by Homer for his skill in Physick which it seems came to him extraduce for Micaon was the Son of Aesculapius Phaestias Mother to Aristotle was descended likewise from Aesculapius as some affirm but others say she was Daughter to one of the Planters sent from Chalcis to Stagyra He was a slender man crump-shouldered and stuttered naturally very much but for his incomparable erudition Philip of Macedon sought to him to be his Son Alexander's Tutor and Alexander made him his Secretary He was 18 years old when he came to Athens and there for 20 years he heard Plato The City of Stagyra from its ruines was for his sake reedified by his Pupill Alexander the great When Alexander marched into Asia Aristotle returned to Athens and read Philosophy in the Lyceum thirteen years from whence his Scholars were properly called Peripateticks of the Lyceum to distinguish them from the Peripateticks of the Academy the Platonists yet afterwards they were known by the name of Peripateticks only whereof he himself is deservedly styled the Prince After all the benefits received from him by Athens the return made was an impeachment drawn up against him that he was no true worshiper of the Gods But this as you shall presently see had formerly been the case of Socrates by the sad example of whose death Aristotle learned to decline the envy and fury of that unthankfull City from whence he went to Chalcis in Eubaea and there died in the sixtie third year of his age and the 114 Olympiad when Philocles was Archon the very same year Demosthenes also died in Calauria both being forced to fly their Countries Aristotle was the first that made a Library Strabo lib. 3. which together with his School he left to Theophrastus that taught the Kings of Aegypt how to order their Library by disposing of their Books into severall Classes Verse 8. Pittacus Pittacus one of the seven Sages of Greece assisted by the Bretheren of Alcaeus the Poet slew Melancrus Tyrant of Lesbos in the chief City whereof viz. Mytelene Pittacus was born A war breaking out between the Athenians and Mytelenians about the Achilleian fields he was chosen General for his Country and finding his Army too weak to dispute that Title in the field he challenged Phryno Generall of the Athenians to a single combat and met him like a Fisher-man his visible armes being a Trident Dagger and Shield but under it was a Net which in the Duel he cast over the head of Phryno and so conquered him by stratagem that had been Victor by his Giantly strength in the Olympick Games Strabo Laert. This Duel Lyps saith was the original of those kind of prizes played by the Roman Gladiators called the Retiarius and Secutor or Mirmillo described in this Satyr to the shame of so noble a person as one of the Gracchi was that for a poor salary was hired by the Praetor to venture his life as a Retiarius or Net-bearer against the Secutor's Fauchion You may see their figures as they acted in the Circus in the Designe before this Satyr So long as his Country needed him to manage the warres so long Pittacus held the Sovereign power as an absolute Prince But when the warre was ended he like an absolute Philosopher put an end to his own authority and after a voluntary resignation of his power continued for ten years he lived ten years more a private person Laert. Val Max. being about fourscore he dyed in the third year of the 52 Olympiad Aristomenes being Archon Verse 9. Cleanthes Cleanthes the Stoick was Scholar to Crates and Successor to Zeno Founder of the Stoicks his Father was Phanius of Assus by his first profession he was a VVrastler but it brought him in no great revenue for all he had was but four Drachma's when he came to hear Crates and to get a lively-hood under him and Zeno he was forced to work by night to keep himself from hunger and scorn in the day time The Court of Areopagus citing him to clear the suspicion of Fellony and give an account how he lived he produced a Woman for whom he ground meal and a Gardiner that payed him for drawing of water and shewed Zeno's Dictates writ in shells and

Oxes shoulder-blades for want of money to buy Paper He succeeded Zeno in his Schoole lived above fourscore years and died voluntarily for his Physicians injoyning him to fast two dayes for the cure of an ulcer under his tongue when they would have had him eat again he would not but took it unkindly that they would offer to bring him back being two dayes onward on his journey so continuing his fast for other two dayes he came to his last home Verse 14. Socratick Catomite Socrates was son to the Statuary Sophroniscus and the Midwife Phaenareta and husband first to Myrto the Daughter of Aristides the Just afterwards to Zantippe the arrantest Scold that ever thundered with a tongue He first reduced Philosophy from naturall to morall that is from contemplation to practise it being his constant Maxime Quae supra nos nihil ad nos We are not at all concerned in things above us Anytus the Orator indeed the leather-Dresser for that Trade inriched him though he was ashamed to own it and therefore having been upon that score reproached by Socrates to satisfie his spleen he got Melitus the Poet and Lycon his fellow Orator to joyn in drawing up an Impeachment against Socrates as no true worshiper of the Gods and a corrupter of youth having first made him a scorn to the people by hiring Aristophanes to bring him upon the Stage in a Comedy From the abuse put upon him in this Comedy others many ages after took occasion to abuse Socrates especially Porphyrius observed by Nicephorus to be more malicious then were his Accusers Anytus and Melitus But I doe not believe that my Author intended to cast dirt upon him in this place where Socratick Catamite cannot be otherwise interpreted then one of those censorious persons that would be thought as learned and virtuous as Socrates when they really were as vitious as men could be and as unlearned as the very Statues of the Philosophers the purchase whereof was all the proof they could make of their learning Some there are that imitate their folly in our dayes as appears by the instance Lubine makes in a Scholar his Contemporary whom he forbears to name that gave 3000 drachma's for the earthen-lamp that Epictetus used hoping that if it burned all night by his bed-side it would infuse into him the wisdome of Epictetus in a dream If he bought the lamp for this reason as Lubine conceives he did then he was guilty of the vanity of Juvenal's Philosophasters but if he bestowed so much money upon a piece of Antiquity that might be usefull to the present and succeeding times in that case I should honour him for his expence as I doe the memory of Thomas Earl of Arundell and Surrey Grandchilde and Heir to the last Duke of Norfolke for the vast summes those Statues cost him from which Mr. Selden hath pickt out so many learned notions as you may find in his book entituled Marmora Arundeliana among which Statues is the inscription that proves Laches to be Archon at the death of Socrates which is to be made use of in this very place As for Epictetus his lamp it might have been of great advantage to Fortunius Licetas when he writ De Lucernis absconditis To return to our account of Socrates He was convicted of impiety and improbity by the false oaths of his Accusers and the testiness of his Judges for being asked at the Bar What in his own judgement he deserved he answered To be maintained by you the great Councell or Prytanaeum at the publique charge which so enraged the Senate that the major part by above 80. voted him to death and accordingly execution was done the Officer of death presenting him a draught of Hemlock which he cheerfully took off and so Laches as aforesaid being Archon in the first year of the ninety fift Olympiad he was poysoned by that ingratefull City of Athens which as Juvenal sayes Sat 7. to Scholars now Except cold Hemlock nothing dare allow Verse 21. Peribonius The Archi-gallus or chief Priest of Cybele Principall of an Order of Rogues so infamous for drunkennesse and debauchery that it was not lawfull for a free-born Roman to be one of the number The original of their institution was this Cybele the daughter of King Minos being in her infancy exposed upon the Hill Cybelus in Phrygia from which Hill she had her name and there nourished by the wilde beasts to whose mercy she was left was found by a Shepherds wife bred up as her own Child and grew to be both a great Beauty and a Lady of most excellent naturall parts for the Greeks from her invention had the Taber Pipe and Cimballs She was married to Saturne and therefore Mother of the Gods her highest title She was also called Rhea from her flowing or aboundant goodnesse styled likewise Pessinuntia from Pessinus a Mart-town in Phrygia and Berecynthia from Berecynthus a Mountain in the same Countrey where her Ceremonies were begun and Atis a handsome young Phrygian by her appointed superintendent over them upon condition that he would promise chastity during life but not long after he defloured a Nymph for which offence Cybele took away his understanding and in one of his mad fits by his own hand he was gelt and after that he attempted to kill himself but it seems the Compassionate Gods prevented him and turned the youth into a Pine-tree Ovid. Met. By his example the Phrygian Priests ever after gelded themselves with the shell of a fish Their Vest was particoloured called Synthesis or amictus variegatus they carried the picture of their Goddesse through the streets of Rome in their hands and striking their breasts kept tune with their Tabers Pipes and Cymbals called Aera Corybantia as they were named Corybantes from Corybantus one of Cybele's first Votaries they wore Miters fastened under their chins Sat. 6. Cybels Priest the tall Grave half-man with no obscene part of all A Fish-shell long since cut off that comes in A Phrygian Miter ty'd beneath his chin In this manner dancing about the streets they begged money of the people from whence the Romans termed them Circulatores Cybelei Cybels Juglers or Collectors they were common Bawds as appears by this place and Master-Gluttons and Drunkards as you may see in the following part of this Satyr and where the young Consul Damasippus layes the chief Priest of Cybele dead drunk Sat. 8. With Cybels Priest on 's back his bells at rest Verse 27. Herculean language This referres to Xenophons Dialogue between Hercules Virtue and Vice where Hercules confutes the monster Vice with arguments as he had done other monsters with his club Ver. 29. Varillus A poor Rogue that will acknowledg no difference or odds in point of goodness between himself the wicked great man Sextus Verse 33. To hear a Mutineer complain'd of by the Gracchi Signifies the same with our English Proverb To hear Vice correct Sin Caius and Tiberius Gracchus Sons to that excellent

which by an Earthquake was from thence poured out and therefore by the Graecians called Prochyta But Dionys Halicar lib. 1. affirms the name to be derived from Prochyta Nurse to Aeneas Verse 6. Suburra One of the fairest and most frequented Streets in Rome Festus from the authority of Verrius saith it had the name a fuccurrendo for as much as the Courts of Guard were there which relieved the Watch when the Gabines besieged that part of the Town and to shew that the change of the letters came only by the vulgar errour of pronouncing he tells us that in his time the Tribe or Inhabitants of the Suburra was written Tribus Succurranea not Suburrana nor Suburana as Varro would have it called for being under the old Bulwark sub muro terreo Varro lib. 4. de ling. lat Verse 10. Poets that in August read Among the sufferings of those that lived constantly in Rome my Author reckons the torment they were put to by the Poets whom they could not be rid of even in the moneth of August when the extremity of heat was enough to kill a man that being pressed by their importunity must stand in the open Street to hear their ridiculous Verses read and Vmbricius seems the more sensible of the misery in regard it only fell upon the meaner sort for all the great persons of Rome were then at their Country-houses to which they removed upon the Calends or first day of July Verse 12. At the ancient Arc by moist Capena An Arc was a Monument of stone raised like to the Arch of a Bridge in memory of some triumph or victory and this Arc was built in honour of the Horatii afterwards it was called the distilling or dropping Arc because over it the pipes were laid that carried the water into Rome from Egeria's Fountain Ovid Fast. Egeria est quae praebet aquas Dea grata Camenoe Illa Numae Conjux consiliumque fuit Egeria waters us the Muses prize her She was King Numa's Wife and his Adviser Verse 13. Where Numa every night his Goddess met Numa Pompilius second King of the Romans was born at Cures a Town of the Sabines He was famous for Justice and Piety He pacified the fury of his Neighbours and brought the Roman Souldiers that were grown cruell and savage in their long War under King Romulus to a love of peace and reverence of Religion He built the Temple of Janus which being opened signified war being shut times of Peace and all the whole Reign of Numa it was shut but stood open after his death for fourty years together He created the Dial Martial and Quirinal Flamens or Priests He instituted a Colledge of Twelve Salian Priests of Mars He consecrated the Vestall Virgins declared the Pontifex Maximus or Chief Bishop distinguished the dayes Fasti and Nefasti the Court-dayes and Vacation or Justicium divided the year into twelve moneths and to strike a Veneration into the hearts of the Romans and make them observe what he enjoyned out of an awfull religious duty he made them believe that every night he met a Goddess or Nymph which he called Egeria from whose mouth he received his whole form of government their place of meeting was in a Grove without the Porta Capena called afterwards the Muses Grove wherein was a Temple consecrated to them and to the Goddess Egeria whose Fountain waters the Grove Ovid that calls her Numa's Wife saith likewise that she grieving for his death wept her self into a Fountain Metamorph lib. 15. which Fountain Grove and Temple at a yearly Rent were let out to the Jews grown so poor after the Sack of Jerusalem that all their Stock was a Basket for their own meat and hay to give their Horses Lastly King Numa after he had reigned fourty years beloved and honoured by his own People and all the neighbour-States died not having any strugle with nature meerly of old age By his Will he commanded that his body should not be burned but that two stone-Chests or Coffins should be made in one of which they should put his Corps and in the other the Books he had written Plutarch in Numa where he saith and quotes his Author Valerius Ansius that the Coffin of Numa's Books contained four and twenty twelve of Ceremonies and twelve of Philosophy written in Greek Four hundred years after P. Cornelius and M. Baebius being Consuls by a sudden inundation the earth was loosned and the covers of the Coffins opened but there was no part of his body found in the one in the other all the Books intire preserved by the earth and water But Petilius then Praetor had the reading of them which occasioned their destruction by fire for he acquaniting the Senate with their Contents it was not thought fit by the great Councell of Rome that secrets of such a nature should be divulged to the People so the books were brought into Court and burned Verse 25. Vmbricius A man rare at divination by the entrails of sacrificed beasts Pliny He foretold the death of Galba Tacit. but those honest Arts not bringing in sufficient to maintain Vmbricius in Rome he scorned to use cozning Arts by playing the Mountebank for a livelyhood as you see by his words How your Planet runs I know not promise Father's deaths to Sons Nor can nor will I I did ne're dissect Toads entrails Upon these Premisses he concludes What should I doe at Rome From whence contemning the vanities and baseness of the Town with his whole household in a Waggon this poor Aruspex went out in greater triumph at the Porta Capena or Triumphal Gate then ever any Conqueror entred by it into Rome Verse 30. Daedalus An Athenian Handicraft-man Sonne of Mition the most ingenious Artist of his time From his invention we have the Saw the Hatchet the Plummet and Line the Auger Glue and Cement He was the Inventor of Sails and Sail-yards which undoubtedly occasioned the Fable of his invention of Wings He set eyes in Statues and by secret springs wheels and wyers gave motion to those men of marble so artificially as they appeared to be living an Art revived in the reign of the Emperor Charles the Fifth by his Mathematician Janellus Turrianus See Strada in his Hist. Dec. 1. How Daedalus built the Labyrinth was imprisoned in it and escaped by the VVings he made himself you have in the Comment upon Sat. 1. From thence flying to Sardinia then as farre as Cumae there he laid down those Wings the Wings of Sails as Virgil calls them and rested upon the Terra firma Lucian lib. de Astrolo tells us that Daedalus was a Mathematician and his Son Icarus taught Astrology but being a young man full of fiery immaginations he soared too high pride bringing him into error and so fell into a Sea of notions whose depth was not to be sounded Verse 33. Lachesis The three fatall Goddesses which the Heathens believed to dispose the thread of mans life were Clotho Lachesis

trembled at his presence nor was able to doe his office till Mithridates guided the Executioners hand to his own heart But first this King slew all his Royall Family Laodice his Wife his Sister Mother Brother three young Sonnes and as many Daughters Figura Septima PRimò praecipitem in vitium descripserat Autor Romam dein rigidos aliena in crimina sontes Rus praelatum Vrbi vitandam rectiùs Aulam Ad coenam sannas simul accubuisse Clientes Ducenti Vetulo qualisque futura sit Vxor. Subjicit hîc doctos qualis fortuna sequatur Lappa 1 Poëta togam mox libros pignorat Atreo Historicus 2 scriptor ruris nemorisque recessum Eligit attonitus mentem de pane parando Et cùm turgescat millesima pagina chartis Causidico 3 macro docto petasunculus vas Pelamidum dantur ditiaureus affluit amnis Indocto 4 crassúmque premit lectica Mathonem Rhetore 5 quis color quae quaestio summa magistro Scire volunt omnes mercedem solvere nemo Sed nostrum instituens gallinae filius albae Quintilianus 6 habet miro tot praedia fato Ars nihil Enceladi claríque Palaemonis affert Grammaticus 7 cui tetra haeret fuligo lucernae In pueros oleum perdit qui vimine Flaccum 8 Et qui Virgilium 9 docuit trepidare minores Vapulat à magnis unúsque est pluribus impar The seventh Designe VIce at the height in Rome And that cry'd down By Knaves The Country better then the Town The Court far worse The feasted Client jeer'd The City-Wanton whipt these you have heard Now see the Virtuosi how they fare In what a sad condition Scholars are Lean Poverty is in the Poet's looks Lappa to 1 Atreus pawns his Cloak and Books The great 2 Historian shelter'd in the wood There meditates how he may compass food And Reams of Paper to write Tomes upon The well-read 3 Lawyer gets for fees Poor John Th' 4 unlearned feeds so high he hardly can Crowd his fat sides into his large Sedan The 5 Rhetorician poures on flowry Theams Almost for nothing all his golden streams Yet th' Author's Rhet'rick-Master wealthy grows Quintilian's 6 one of Fortunes rare white Crows The 7 Schoolmaster so often like to choak When Boyes that con by Lamp-light smell of smoak He that made young besmutted 8 Horace sweat And 9 Virgil shake is by great School-boyes beat The Manners of Men. THE SEVENTH SATYR OF JUVENAL The ARGUMENT The Arts are fed by empty praise The wanting Poet sells his Playes Less the Historian's profit is The Lawyer 's gettings less then his The Rhetoritian's yet more small And the Grammarian's least of all Yet Learning scorn'd and almost sterv'd By Caesars bounty is preserv'd CAESAR is both our studies Cause and End For he alone is the sad Muses friend Now when our famous Poets strive to hire Poor Gabian baths at Rome to make the fire Nor to turn Cryers some have held it base But left in AGANIPPE'S Vale their place Whil'st to large Courts the hungry CLIO goes For if thy learned purse no money showes Get thee MACHAERA'S name and living cry At publick sales What will you please to buy Fine pots three-footed stools come chuse your selves Shelves for your Studies Play-books for your shelves HALCIONE PACCUS his tragick wit TEREUS and OEDIPUS by FAUSTUS writ 'T is better far the Judge then swearing thee To say I saw what thou did'st never see Let them doe so that come from th' Asian coast Though Cappadocian Knights Knights of the Post And our Bithinian Knights too doe the same Which thorough Gallo-Graecia barefoot came None shall hereafter stoop to sordid pains That brouse on Laurel and write lofty strains Youths study CAESAR'S bounty spurs you on That seeks but matter it may work upon But if for help from others thou do'st look And therefore fill'st thy yellow Table-book Borrow a Faggot THELESIN blow blow And upon VULCAN what thou writ'st bestow Or let the moths thy lockt up works devour Or break thy Pens and thy Ink-bottle pour Upon those warres that did thy sleep expel Those mighty lines writ in a little Cell Only because thou didst for Ivy hope And a lean Image that 's thy utmost scope For rich Churls have learn'd only in our dayes To commend Poets as Boys Peacocks praise Mean time Youth spends that might with toil have made A fortune from War Traffick or the Spade And eloquent poor Age begins too late It self and it's Terpsicore to hate Now mark to save his purse what trick's devis'd Thy Prince the Muses and their God despis'd Himself makes Verses and admits no Peers But HOMER meerly for a thousand years Caught with Fame's sweetness if thou'lt read to lend His House will MACULONUS condescend He will command his churlish iron grates To open faster then the City gates His Freedmen he will marshall in the Pit His Clients and his Friends great voices fit But not a Prince thy Bench-hire will defray Nor for the Beam that bears the Scaffolds pay Nor so much as the Chairs return insure Set for great men th' Orchestra's furniture Yet still we ply the brittle sands and through The shore draw furrows with a barren plough Nor would we take our hands off can we do 't Custome and vain Ambition ties us to 't The Writing Evil poisons many so That Years and their Disease together grow But he that merits Bayes to crown his head That spins out nothing of a common thread That as his great Art's Master scorns to print Poor triviall coines stampt at the publick Mint One that I cannot shew but only can Conceive a minde untroubled makes that man That feels no care loves silent Groves and brings A spirit fit to taste th' Aonian Springs In the Pierian Caves soft aires to chant Or reach a Thyrsus suits not with sad Want That pinches day and night when HORACE writ His Ohe he was full of Wine and Wit What place for wit but where a man with Verse Is only troubled and holds free commerce With BACCHUS and APOLLO 't is in vain To think one bosome can two cares contain 'T is for great souls not one that need besots And mends his Mat to modell Chariots For Gods their Steeds and Looks or how her Snakes ALECTO in confounding TURNUS shakes Had VIRGIL had nor house-room nor a Boy Whom he about his bus'ness might imploy The elfe-lockt Fury all her Snakes had shed His Pipe play'd nothing rare but flat and dead We tragick Poets now would think it fair If that which kept th' old Buskins in repair Might not from RUBREN LAPPA be with-drawn Whose Cloak and Papers ATREUS hath in pawn Poor NUMITOR has nothing for his Friend But can rich presents to his Mistress send Nor wants to buy a Lyon tamely bred And with much flesh accustom'd to be fed Poets belike cost more then Lions doe And are conceiv'd to eat more garbage too In 's Garden LUCAN pleas'd with fame may

lie With Marble Nymphs and Fountains in his eye But BASSUS poor SARRANUS what to thee Is any glory if 't bare glory be To their dear Thebais the People throng And to the sound of his inchanting tongue When STATIUS with the promise of a day O're joyes the Town for in so sweet a way He reads his Poem that to hear it spoke A lust affects the soul yet when he broke The benches with strong lines he must for bread To PARIS sell AGAVE'S Maiden-head Many to honour in the warres He brings Puts Summer Annulets and Winter Rings On Tragick Poets fingers what there lives No Lord that will bestow this Player gives Do'st thou attend the Camerini then And BAREA a fig for Noblemen Write Tragedies 't is PELOPEA takes She praefects PHILOMELA Tribunes makes Nor envy Stage-rais'd Poets where hast thou A PROCULEIUS or MAECENAS now A FABIUS LENTULUS or COTTA Wit Had then Munificence to ballance it 'T was good for Poets then pale fac'd to grow And all December long no wine to know But you Historians to more purpose toile Your Works requiring both more time and oile None short of the two thousandth page can fall And meer expence in Paper breaks you all The boundless matter upon which you goe And Lawes of History will have it so But what fruit reaps your labours where is he Will give th' Historian an Attorney's fee No you are lazy people either laid Upon your beds or walking in the shade Then tell me what doe active Lawyers gain By Civil bus'ness their great Books and Train They bawl loud ever but then deaf our ears When the rich Creditor that fees them hears Or by the sleeve he pulls them that layes claim To some great fortune by a dubious name Then th' hollow Bellows breaths forth mighty lies And on their breasts their eager spettle flies To state their profits truly set me here A hundred Lawyers and LACERTA there And that one Coach-mans land shall buy th' estates Of all those hundred learned Advocates They sit that are the Grandees of the Warre And thou poor AJAX standest at the Barre And for litigious titles quot'st the Lawes To a dull Herdsman that must judge the Cause Crack thy stretcht lungs poor wretch that when th' art tir'd The Lawyer 's Bayes green Palmes may be acquir'd What is the price at which thou set'st thy tongue A little Bacon-flitch i' th' Chimney hung Or Tunny barreld when 't is mud not fish Or stinking Onions Aegypt's monthly dish Or Wine our Tiber-Watermen transport Five bottles if thou hast pleaded four times for 't And if one piece of Gold come which is rare As your agreement was the Judge must share AEMYLIUS shall have what he demands Yet we plead better for at 's Gate there stands A Chariot and four goodly Steeds of brass And he in 's one-ey'd Statue makes a pass On 's fiery War-horse with his bending spear Putting the Foe at distance in a fear Thus into debt hath PEDO vainly run Thus MATHO breaks TONGILLUS is undone That from his great Rhinoceros took oile And with his dirty train the Bath did soil And his young Medians shoulders prest so sore When his Sedan they through the Forum bore As he was going to buy silver plate Fair Myrrhin bolls fine boyes with an estate And Country-house for all which at the day His Tyrian Purple promises to pay And yet this gallantry with some does well Purple and Violet Robes a Lawyer sell A noise and face of wealth doe him befriend But lavish Rome puts to expence no end Should our old Orators return and live No one would now two hundred drachma's give To CICERO himself unless there shone Upon his finger a great pretious-stone He that begins a Suit i th' first place marks If thou hast ten Companions and eight Clarks Whether a Closse-chair doth behinde thee wait And men in Gowns before thee walk in state A Gemme to plead with PAULUS therefore hires And therefore PAULUS greater fees requires Then are by GALLUS or by BASIL took For Eloquence in rags men seldome look When 's BASIL honour'd after his Report To bring the weeping Mother into Court Or who hears BASIL plead he ne're so well Away to France or rather chuse to dwell In Africa the Nursery of Law If from thy pleading thou would'st profit draw Thou teachest Rhet'rick O the iron breast Of VETTUS that can those hard Theams digest Which murder Tyrants who the self same things He sitting reads to others standing sings And in the same tone the same verse instills Poor School-masters this twice boil'd Cole-woort kils The trope the kind o' th' plea the questions summe What arrows from the adverse part may come All men would know none for their knowledge pay Pay would'st thou have what doe I know I pray The Master 's tax'd that under the left breast There 's nothing beats in 's young Arcadian beast That every sixt day makes my poor head ake With his dire HANNIBAL what course hee 'll take After the fatall day at Cannae won If he directly should to Rome march on Or to get's weather-beaten forces out Of storms and lightning wisely wheel about Ask what thou wilt I 'll give it thee 't is there That his own Father him so oft would hear But with one mouth at least six Lawyers plead For Men and not as you doe for the Dead They from their pleadings HELLEN'S Rape exclude MEDEA'S Charms the base Ingratitude Of JASON and what kinde of medicine might Bring old blind AESON to his youth and sight The Rhetorician shall if rul'd by me Take up his Rudis and himself make free Declaim in Law-Courts and descending from The fained shadow to the substance come Lest that small stock which his one Loaf should buy Be spent which teaching School will ne're supply Doe but CHRISOGONUS and POLLIO weigh And for what miserable stipends they To great men's Sons their Rhetorick impart Dissecting THEODORUS and his Art His Bath costs much his Portico costs more Wherein he rides untill the showre be o're Is 't fit his Lordship for fair weather stay And soil his handsome Beast with new-made clay No here his Mule's neat hoof unsully'd shines On that side he his Dining-room designes Which on Numidian Pillars round must run Where West and North cool th' East and Southern Sun What ere his house cost Artists he must take To marshall dishes and rare sawces make And when all these Sestertia thus are spent Poor two at most QUINTILIAN must content Nothing costs Fathers less then Sons How got QUINTILIAN so much land then Tell me not Of presidents that are with fortune rare The Fortunate is valiant and fair The Fortunate's wise generous well born On his black shoe a Silver-Cressent's worn The Fortunate speaks handsom'st argues best Though hoarse sings well for here the ods will rest What Stars receive thee when but newly come Crying to light and blushing from the womb If fortune will poor

triplici rictu oblatrare videtur Terribilis dicat quod jus in Flamine 4 Praetor 5 Credit esse aram vitaeque necísque Tribunal Numina laesa putat flagro fidibúsque litari Lictorem virgisque 6 Popae circundare ferrum Poena illum vehemens multò saevior urget Quàm si Te diris juvet auxiliaribus Orcus Sed nè successu crescat fiducia fraudis Justitiam ut discant moniti non temnere Divos Perfidus antiquis addit perjuria culpis Extinctum ut videas totâ cum prole superstes The Manners of Men. THE THIRTEENTH SATYR OF JUVENAL The ARGUMENT Old Calvin of a Trust beguil'd Is chid for vexing like a Child When by experience he hath known How base the cheating World is grown But this firme hope his heart may cheere Though such Rogues pass unsentenc'd here Yet conscience will their Hangman prove Nor can they scape the Judge above THe Crime committed presently torments The Author 't is the first of punishments That no offender can himself acquit Though the brib'd Praetor his just doom remit What sense CALVINUS thinkst thou each man hath Of this Trepan thy Trustee's broken faith Nor is thy stock so poor that such a losse Should sink thee nor is 't an unheard-of crosse The cheat is common daily brought about A Lot from fortune's middle heap drawn out We must not let our grief be too profound Man's Pain should be no greater then his Wound Thou bear'st not a slight hurt a scratch a turn Off fortune's wheel thy bowels rage and burn That a pretended friend is so unjust Not to restore to thee a sacred Trust Is this news to one born when CAPITO Was Consull above threescore years ago Gain'st thou by long experience nothing then 'T is true that Science makes the happy men Which conquers Fortune with celestiall Books But yet we call him happy too that brooks Life's discommodities and never shakes The yoke but life for his directress takes What day so holy but some Thief we find Perfidiousness deceit of every kind Vice being grown a beneficiall Trade By poyson and the sword great fortunes made For good men are grown scarce the number small If 't be summ'd up you will not finde in all So many true deservers of that stile As there are gates to Thebes or mouths to Nile 'T is the ninth Age worse then the iron Times Nature no Mettle hath to name our crimes Yet O the faith of Men and Gods we cry In furious passion with a voice as high As theirs the Vocall Sportula do raise When they FAESIDIUS in his pleading praise Tell me Old-man that should'st Child 's bubbles wear Know'st not how many VENUSES appear In others gold nor how they laugh at thee That simply look'st no man should perjur'd be But would'st the world to a belief compell That Gods in Temples and red Altars dwell Thus liv'd th' earth's honest Natives e're his Crown Old SATURN flying for his life laid down And took his Country-Sithe up JUNO then A little Girle JOVE hid in IDA'S den No heavenly feasts above the clouds no Boy To wait Cup-bearer was fetcht up from Troy Nor wine fair HEBE fill'd but VULCAN pour'd Nectar himself and his own fingers scour'd Fould in his Lip'rene Work-house Then alone Din'd Gods their crowd was not so num'rous grown The Stars had not took in so great a freight But press'd poor ATLAS with a gentler weight Th' infernall regions no one's Lot had been No grim-fac'd DIS and his Sicilian Queen No Wheel Stone Furies no black Vultur's pain But Hell was free and every Ghost did raign Fraud rare and capitall the crime was then If youths would not rise up to aged men A boy to any beard although the Lad More strawberries more heaps of acrons had Four years precedence was so much esteem'd Part of old age the chin's first down then seem'd Now if a man his friend 's Depositum Deny not but returns the bag and summe With all the rust the faith prodigious looks Worthy to be in Tuscan Soothsay'rs books Recorded ev'n the place where it was found Ought to be purg'd too with a Lamb that 's crown'd To me an honest man more Monster seems Then nature shakes at when a woman teems A Child with two heads then Mules foaling found Or wond'rous Fishes plow'd out of the ground It mazes me as much as if a showre Of stones the clouds upon my head should poure Or as a swarm of Bees o' th' Temple-top Hung like a bunch of grapes as if'twould drop Or as a River with a violent stream Flow'd headlong to the Sea that ran pure cream Thou cry'st out that of ten Sestertia hee By sacrilegious fraud hath cheated thee What if another hath two hundred lost By such a trust if it a third hath cost As many as a spatious Chest could hold So easily men with the Gods make bold When they alone behold the sin we act No mortall being witness to the fact Mark 's loud denyall how unmov'd he bears His juggling count'nance by SOL'S beams he swears JOVE'S Thunder MARS his Spear APOLLO'S Darts Her Shafts and Quiver that shoots Hindes and Harts His Virgin-Sister by the Father to AEGAEUS NEPTUNE'S Trident adds the bow Of HERCULES MINERVA'S Pike puts in With all the Armes stor'd in Heav'ns Magazin Wishes his Son's head boil'd may be his meat Which he with Pharian Vineger would eat There are that hold all things by chance were made And that the world 's by no first mover sway'd Nature returning us the day and year And so touch any altars void of fear To suffer for his crimes another fears Thinks there are Gods and yet himself forswears Forecasting thus let ISIS punish me Upon my body what she please decree Beat with her timbrells my eyes out so I Though blind may keep the money I deny What is the ptisick or the rotten cough O' th' lungs or half a thigh to gold enough So that ARCHIGENES be kept away And Hellebor brought from Anticyra Wherewith he gives his gouty Patients ease Poor nimble LADAS the rich gout would please For what 's the glory crowns a Foot-man's browes Those hunger-sterv'd Pisaean Olive-boughs But say the wrath of Heav'n be great 't is slow And if the Gods destroy each guilty foe When will they come to me Besides I may As some doe get a pardon if I pray Men's fates are divers though their crimes be one A Cross exalts that Villain this a Throne Thus their souls trembling at foul sin they cheer Then if thou bid'st them at the altar swear They run before thee nay pull thee along And vex thy spirits with a rayling tongue For in all causes th' impudent defence Most men believe to be just confidence He as 't were in CATULLUS his fine Play Acts in thy ear the Mimick Run-away Louder then STENTOR thou cry'st out poor wretch As loud as HOMER'S MARS his voice could stretch Hear'st JOVE nor speak'st thou now when words