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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02649	A nevv discourse of a stale subiect, called the metamorphosis of Aiax: vvritten by Misacmos, to his friend and cosin Philostilpnos	Harington, John, Sir, 1560-1612.	1596 (1596)	STC 12779.5; ESTC S103861	58,895	147

must find out a better aunswere for courtly wits and therefore I say to them that according to the discipline custom of the Romanes in my opinion vnder reformation of their better iudgements this was so honorable a part of Vespasian that he was therefore worthy to haue bene deified For if Saturnus were allowed as a God by the name of Stercutius as is before alleaged for finding a profitable vse of all manner soyle I see a good reason Ã paeribus that Vespasian should aswell be deified for finding a meanes to make money of vrine and accordingly to be named Vrinatius of Vrina as the other is of Stercus Stercutius Further Vespasian was famous for two true miracles done by him greater then all their gods beside euer did Now if any take exceptions to his face because the foole told him he looked as if it went hard with him trust me it shall goe hard with me too but I will find somewhat to say for him and first I will get some of the painting that comes from the riuer of Orenoque which will wonderfully mend his complexion Secondly I will say this how bad soeuer his face was he had something so good that a handsome woman gaue him a thousand crownes for putting his seale with his labell to her pattent and yet she exhibited the petition as I take it in forma paper for she was starke naked Once this I am sure Suetonius writes that when his steward asked him how he shold set down that 1000. crownes on his booke he bâ—d him write it among his other perquisites in some such sort It. for respit of hâ—â—age from a louing tenant to her louely Lord for a whole knights fâ—e recepi 1000 crownâ—â— Now for his wit though I could tell you two excellent tales how he deceiued a groome of his chamber of his brother and how he would needs be halfe with his horse-keeper for setting on a shoe on a horse that lacked none yet I omit them both because many will be too apt to follow the president and I will keepe me very strictly to my tesh and specially because I hasten to a most royall example I meane of Traian There is no man I thinke that hath either trauelled farre countreys or read forraine stories but hath either heard of the famous exploits and victories that he had or seene some of the stately and sumptuous monumeÌ„ts that he made This Traian was Emperor of Rome and then Emperor when Rome stood at her highest pitch of greatnes a man whose conquests were most glorious whose buildings were most gorgeous whose iustice was most gracious he that stayed his whole armie to right the cause of one widdow he that created a Magistrate and deliuering him the sword for iustice said to him vse this for me as long as I gouerne iustly but against me when I gouerne otherwise he in whose time no learned maÌ„ was seene want no poore man was seene begge hee that would boast of Nerua his predecessor of Plotina his wife of Plutarke his counceller finally this Traian was so well accomplished a Prince in all princely vertues as no storie no time no memorie in all points can match him This most renowâ—ed Emperor hearing there was a towne in Bithinia farre off from Rome and in a place where he was like neuer to bee troubled with the euill sauour that was much annoyed for lacke of a good conueyance of the common priuies thought himselfe bound as a father to all his subiects to prouide a remedie for such an inconuenience and of his owne purse hee tooke order for making a vault of great cost and charge in the citie And for full satisfaction of the reader herein I will set downe the two Epistles as I find them in the tenth booke of the Epistles of Plinius Secundus to Traian Epist. 99. Argumentum quaerit an C. Plinius Secundus Traiano Imp. S. Amestrianorum ciuit as domine eligans ornata habet inter praecipua opera pulcherrimam eandemque longissimam plateam cuius Ã latere per spacium omne porrigitur nomine quidem flumen re vera cloaca fedissima Quae sicut turpis immundissima aspectu it a pestilens est odore teterrimo Quibus ex causis noâ— minus salubritatis quam decoris interest eam contegi quod fiet si permiseris curantibus nâ—bis ne desit pecunia operi tam magno quam necessario Which is thus in English Caius Plinius to Traian the Emperour greeting The Citie of the Amestrians my Lord being both commodious and beautifull hath among her principall goodly buildings a very faire and long streete on the side whereof runneth thorough the whole length of it a brooke in name for it is called so but indeede a most filthy Iakes which as it is foule and most vncleanely to behold so is it infectious with the horrible vile sauour wherfore it were expedient no lesse for wholsomenesse then for handsomnesse to haue it vaulted which shall be done if it please you to allow it and I will take care that there shall be no want of money for such a worke no lesse chargeable then necessarie Thus writes Plinius Secundus a Romane Senator and as it were a deputie Lieutenant in the Prouince of Bithinia to the great Traian and I doe halfe maruell he durst write so for had it beene in the time of Domitian Commodus or Nero either Martiall should haue iested at him with an Epigram or some secretarie that had enuied his honest reputation should haue bene willed to haue aunswered the letter in some scornefull sort and would haue written thus Maister Plinie my Lord God the Emperour not vouchsafing to answere your letter him selfe hath commaunded me to write thus much to you that he maruels you will presume to trouble his diuine Maiestie with matters of so base regard that your father being held a wise man and a learned might haue taught you better manners that his Maiestie hath matters of greater import concerning the state of Empire both for warre peace to employ his treasure in Thus much I was commaunded to write Now for mine owne part let me say thus much to you that I heard my Lord God the Emperour say that if the ill sauour annoy you you may send to your Mistresse for a perfumed handkerchife to stop your nose and that some Physicians say the smell of a Iakes is good against the plague Some such answere as this had bene like to haue come from some of those beastly Emperours and their filthie followers But how did Traian answere it I will set you downe his owne letter out of the same booke in the same language Argumentum Permittit confornicari cloacam Tr. Plinio S. Rationis est mi secunde Charissime contegi aquam istam quae per ciuitatem Amestrtanorum fluit si detecta salubritati obest Pecunia ne huic operi desit curaturum te secundum diligentiam tuam certum habeo Thus in

painefull stigma or caracter in Gods peculiar people though now most happily taken away in the holy Sacrament of Baptisme What the word signified I haue knowen reuerent learned men haue bene ignorant and we call it very well Circumcision and vncircumcision though the Remists of purpose be like to varie froÌ„ Geneua will needs bring in Prepuse which word was after admitted into the Theater with great applause by the mouth of Maister Tarlton the excellent Comedian when many of the beholders that were neuer circumcised had as great cause as Tarlton to complaine of their Prepuse But to come soberly more nearely to our present purpose In the old Testament the phrase is much vsed of couering the feet and in the new Testament he that healeth helpeth all our infirmities vsed the word draught that that goeth into the man is digested in the stomacke and cast out into the draught Lastly the blessed Apostle S. Paule being rapt in coÌ„templation of diuine blisfulnesse coÌ„pares all the chiefe felicities of the earth esteeming them to vse his owne word as stercora most filthy doung in regard of the ioyes he hoped for In imitation of which zealous vehemencie some other writers haue affected to vse such phrase of speech but with as il successe as the asse that leapt on his maister at his comming home because he saw a litle spaniel that had so don much made of for in deed these be couÌ„ted but foule mouthd beasts for their labors But to conclude these holy authorities worthy to be alledged in most reuerent and serious manner and yet here also I hope without offence let vs come now to the ridiculous rather then religious customes of the Pagans and see if this contemptible matter I treat of were despised among them nay rather obserue if it were not respected with a reuerence with an honor with a religion with a dutie yea with a deitie no maruell For they that had Gods and Goddesses for all the necessaries of our life froÌ„ our cradles to our graues viz. 1. for sucking 2. for swathing 3. for eating 4. for drinking 5. for sleeping 6. for husbandrie 7. for venerie 8. for fighting 9. for phisicke 10. for mariage 11. for child-bed 12. for fire 13. for water 14. for the thresholds 15. for the chimneys the names of which I doe set downe by themselues to satisfie those that are curious 1. Lacturtia 2. Cunina 3. Edulicae 4. Potina 5. Morpheus 6. Pan 7. Priapus 8. Bellona 9. Aesculapius 10 Hymen 11. Lucina and Vagitanus 12. Aether 13. Salacia 14. Lares 15. Penates I say you must not thinke they would coÌ„mit such an ouersight to omit such a necessarie as almost in all languages hath the name of necessitie or ease wherfore they had both a God and a Goddesse that had the charge of the whole businesse the God was called Stercutius as they write because he found so good an employment for all manner of doung as to lay it vpon the land or perhaps it was he that first fouÌ„d the excellent mysterie of the kind setting of a Parsnippe which I will not here discouer because I heard of a truth that a great Lady that loued Parsnips very well after she had heard how they grew could neuer abide them and I would be loath to cause any to fall out of loue with so good a dish Neuerthelesse except they will haue better bread then is made of wheate they must how fine so euer they be giue M. Stercutius leaue to make the laÌ„d able to beare wheat But the Goddesse was much more especially and properly assigned for this busines whose name was Dea Cloacina her statue was erected by Titus Tacius he that raigned with Romulus in a goodly large house of office a fit shrine for such a Saint which Lodouicus Viâ—es cites out of Lactantius But he that wil more particularly enforme himselfe of the originall of all these pettie Gods and Goddesses as also of the greater which they distinguisht by the name of Dij consentes which are according to old Ennius verse deuided into two rankes of Lords and Ladies Iunâ— Vesta Minerua Ceresque Diana Venus Mars Mercurius Neptunus louis Vulcanus Apollo Of all which S. Augustine writes most diuinely to ouerthrow their diuinitie and therefore I referre the learned and studious reader to his fourth and sixt booke de Ciuitate Dei where the originall and vanitie of all these Gods and Goddesses is more largely discoursed with a pretty quip to Seneca the great Philosopher who being in hart half a ChristiaÌ„ as was thought yet because he was a Senator of Rome was faine as S. Augustine saith to follow that he found fault with to doe that hee disliked to adore that he detested But come we to my stately Dame Cloacina and her Lorde Stercutius though these were not of the higher house called Consentes yet I hope for their antiquitie they may make great comparison for he is saide to haue bene old Saturne father to Pycus that was called Iuppiter and Cloacina was long before Priapus and so long before Felicitie that S. Augustine writes merrily that he thinkes verily Felicitie forsooke the Romanes for disdaine that Cloacina and Priapus were deified so long before her adding Imperium Romanorum propterea grandius quam felicius fuit The Romane Empire therefore was rather great then happie But how so euer Ladie Felicitie disdaines her no question but Madame Cloacina was alwayes a very good fellow for it is a token of speciall kindnesse to this day among the best men in France to reduce a Syllogisme in Bocardo togither Insomuch as I haue heard it seriously tolde that a great Magnifico of Venice being Ambassador in France and hearing a Noble person was come to speak with him made him stay till he had vntyed his points and when he was new set on his stoole sent for the Noble maÌ„ to come to him at that time as a very speciall fauour And for other good fellowships I doubt not but froÌ„ the beginning it hath often happened that some of the Nymphes of this gentle goddesse haue met so luckily with some of her deuout chaplens in her chappels of ease and paid their priuie tithes so duely and done their seruice togither with such deuotion that for reward she hath preferred them within fortie weeks after to Iuno Lucina and so to Vagitana Lacturtia and Cunina for euen to this day such places continue very fortunate And wheras I named deuotion I would not haue you thinke how homely soeuer the place is that all deuotion is excluded from it For I happening to demand of a deare friend of mine concerning a great coÌ„panion of his whether he were religious or no and namely if he vsed to pray he tolde me that to his remembrance he neuer heard him aske any thing of God nor thanke God for any thing except it were at a Iakes he heard him say he thaÌ„ked God he had had a good

then vpon the next greene we will bid farewel and turne taile as they say wherefore now I will make you onely a briefe repetition of that I haue sayd You see first how I haue iustified the homely wordes phrases with authorities aboue all exception I haue proued the care euer had of the matter with examples aboue all comparison Lastly I haue expressed to you a cleane forme of it aboue all expectation Neither doe I praise it as Marchants doe their wares to rid their handes of them for I promise you how high so euer I praise it I meane not to part with it for were I to praise it vpon mine oth as we do houshold stuffe in an inuentary I wold prayse it in my house to bee worth 100 pounds in yours 300 poundes in Wollerton 500 pounds in Tibals Burley and Holmbie 1000 pounds in Greenwitch Richmond and Hampton Court 10000. And by my good sooth so I would thinke my selfe well payd for it Not that I am so base minded to thinke that wit and art can be rated at any price but that I would accept it as a gratuity fit for such houses and their owners For I tell you though I will not take it vpon me that I am in dialecticorum dumetis doctus or in rhetorum pompa potens or coeteris scientijs saginatus as doth our Pedantius of Cambridge yet I take it that in this inuention I shal shew a great practise vpon the grammar and vpon this point I will chalenge all the grammarians viz. I say and I wil make it good that by my rare deuise I shall make Stercutius a nowne adiectiue Now I know you will set your son William to aunswere me and he shall say no no and come vpon me with his grammer rule vt sunt divorum Mars Bacchus Apollo virorum c. and hereby conclude that he is both a substantiue and that a substantiall one too and a Masculine But all this will not serue for I haue learned the grammer too and therefore Come grammer rules come now your power show as saith the noble Astrophill First therefore I say his no no is an affirmatiue For in one speech two negatiues affirme Secondly tell me pretty Will what is a nown substantiue That that may be seene felt heard or vnderstood Very well now I will ioyne issue with you on this point where shall we try it Not in Cambridge you will say for I thinke they will be partiall on my side Well then in Oxford be it and no better Iudge then M. Poeta who was cheefe Captaine of all the nownes in that excellent comedy of Bellum grammaticale For without all peraduenture when he shall here that one of his band and so neare about him is brought to that state that he is neither to be seene smelt heard nor vnderstood he wil sweare gogs nowns he will thrust him out of his selected band of the most substantial substantiues sort him with the rascal rablement of the most abiect adiectiues But now Sir that I haue brought you to so faire a town as Oxford so sweet a companioÌ„ as your son William I will leaue you to him that made you Now gentle Reader you haue taken much paine and perhaps some pleasure in reading our Metamorpo-sis of AIAX and you supposed by this time to haue done with me but now with your fauour I haue not done with you For I found by your countenance in the reading and hearing hereof that your conceit oft-times had censured mee hardly and that somewhat diuersly namely in these three kindes First you thought me fantasticall secondly you blamed my scurrility and thirdly you found me satyricall To which three reproofes being neither causlesse nor vniust doe me but the iustice to heare my three answers I must needes acknowledge it fantastical for me whom I suppose you deeme by many circumstances not to be of the basest either birth or breeding to haue chosen or of another mans choise to haue taken so strange a subiect But though I confesse thus much yet I would not haue you lay it to my charge for if you so do I shall straight retort all the blame or the greatest part of it vpon your selfe and namely I would but aske you this question and euen truely betweene God and your conscience doe but aunswer it If I had entituled the booke A Sermon shewing a soueraigne salue for the sores of the soule Or A wholesome hauen of health to harbour the heart in Or Amaruellous medicine for the maladies of the minde Would you euer haue asked after such a booke would these graue and sober titles haue wonne you to the view of three or four tittles much lesse three or foure score periodes But when you heard there was one had written of A IAX straight you had a great mind to see what straÌ„ge discourse it would proue you made enquiry who wrote it where it might be had when it would come forth You prayed your friend to buy it beg it borrow it that you might see what good stuffe was in it And why had you such a minde to it I can tell you you hoped for some meriments some toyes some scurrility or to speake plaine English some knauery And if you did so I hope now your expectation is not altogether frustrate Yet giue me leaue briefly to shew you what prety pils you haue swallowed in your pleasant quadlings what wholsome wormewood was enclosed in these raisins of the sunne Against malcontents Epicures Atheists heretickes and carelesse and dissolute Christians especially against pride and sensuality the Prologue and the first part are chiefly inteÌ„ded The second giues a due praise without flattery to one that is worthy of it and a iust checke without gall to some that deserue it The third part as it teacheth indeede a reformation of the matter in question so it toucheth in sport a reprehension of some practises too much in custome All which the reader that is honourable wise vertuous and a true louer of his countrey must needes take in good part Now gentle reader if you will still say this is fantasticall then I will say againe you would not haue read it except it had bene fantasticall and if you will confesse the one sure I will neuer deny the other The second fault you obiect is scurrility to which I answere that I confesse the obiection but I deny the fault and if I might know whether he were Papist or Protestant that maketh this obiection I would soone answere them namely thus I would cite a principall writer of either side and I wold proue that either of them hath vsed more obscenous fowle and scurrill phrases not in defence of their matter but in defacing of their aduersary in one leafe of their bookes then is in all this Yet they professe to write of the highest the holiest the waightiest matters that can be imagined and

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