eloquently with a faithfull penne and sound iudgement writeth the Life and Acts of Alexander in whom you shall see the patterne of a braue Prince for Wisedome Courage Magnanimitie Bountie Courtesie Agilitie of body and whatsoeuer else were to be wished in Maiestie till surfeiting in the best of his age on his excessiue Fortunes and euen burthensome to himselfe by his ouer-greatnesse he became 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an vnprofitable burthen of the earth and from the darling of heauen to be the disdaine of all the world After him whom indeed I should haue preferred before as being honoured with the Title of Historia◠〈◊〉 followeth Salust commended most for breuitie as also for the richnesse of his speech and phrase but wherein his breuitie consisteth the most are ignorant Our Grammarians imagine because his Discourses as they say are only of the matter and persons barely and nakedly described without circumstance and preparation counsels and deliberations had before effects and euents after which is quite contrarie as may be seene by the Conspiracie of Catilinâ— which hee might in a manner haue set downe in three words But how amply and with what adoe doth he describe it what circumstances more open more abundant then where he saith The Romane Souldiers being amazed with an vnwonted vprore betooke them to their Weapons some hid themselues others aduised their Companions to stand stâ—â—tly to it they were afraid in euery place the multitude of Enemies was so great The heauen was obscured with night and thicke Cloudes the perill wis doubtfull and lastly no man knew whether it were safest for him to flye or to stay by it And let them now see their error who affirme his Discourse to be vnfurnished of Counsels Deliberations Consultations c. Is not the reason set downe why Iugurth assaulted Cirtha at the arriuall of the Embassadours the intent and preparation of the warre by Metellus the Consull laid open in an ample manner wherein consisteth the richnesse of his Discourse His breuitie indeed worthy your obseruation and imitation consisteth in shutting vp whole and weightie Sentences in three words fetching nothing afarre or putting in more then needs but in quicke and stirring Asyndeta's after his manner as the most learned haue out of him obserued And since it is Tullies aduice as was his owne vse as himselfe testifieth Non in Philosophia solum sed etiam in dicendi exercitatione cum Gracis Latinâ— conâ—â—ngere By this time acquaint your selfe with that golden Cyri pâ—dia of Xenophon whom heere you shall see a couragious and braue Commander marshalling an Army there a most graue and eloquent Philosopher in the person of Cyrus shaping out vnto vs with Inke of Nectar a perfect and absolute Prince to the example of all Princes and Nobilitie for his studies his dyet his exercise his carriage and euery way manner of liuing insomuch as the Noble Scipio Africanus as well in his warres abroad as in peace at home aboue all other held Xenophon in highest regard euer saying he could neuer commend him sufficiently or reade him ouer often enough Hitherto haue I giuen you a taste at your own choice as well for vniuersall Historie as your imitation in writing and speaking That I account vniuersall which entreateth of the beginning increase gouernment and alterations of Monarchies Kingdomes and Common-wealths and to further you herein you may reade Iustine Diodorus Siculus Zonaras Oresius of more later times Sabellicus Carion with some others For speciall Historie that reporteth the affaires and gouernment of particular Estates you haue the most ancient Herodotus the Noble and eloquent Thucydides Arrianus Halicarnassaeus Polybius Suetonius and others All Historie diuideth it selfe into foure branches the first spreadeth it selfe into and ouer all place as Geographie the second groweth and gathereth strength with tract of time as Chronologie the third is laden with descents as Genealogie the fourth and last like the golden Bow Proserpins gaue Aeneas is that truly called by Cicero Lux veritatis which telleth vs of things as they were done and of all other most properly is called Historie For all Historie in times past saith Tullie was none other then Annalium Confectio the making of Annales that is recording of what was done from yeere to yeere But while I wander in forraigne Historie let me warne you nefis peregrinus domi that you be not a stranger in the Historie of your owne Countrey which is a common fault impoted to our English Trauellers in forreine Countries who curious in the obseruation and search of the most memorable things and monuments of other places can say as a great Peere of France told me nothing of their owne our Countrey of England being no whit inferior to any other in the world for matter of Antiquitie and rarities of euery kinde worthy remarke and admiration Herein I must worthily and onely preferre vnto you the glorie of our Nation M. Camden aswell for his iudgement and diligence as the puritie and sweet fluence of his Latine style and with him the rising Starre of good letters and Antiquitie M. Iohn Selden of the Inner Temple As for Giraldus Geoffrey Higden Ranulph of Chester Walsingham a Monke of S. Athanes with the rest they did cum saculo caecutire and tooke vpon credite many a time more then they could well answer that I may omit Polydore Virgil and Italian who did our Nation that deplorable iniurie in the time of K. Henrie the eight for that his owne Historie might passe for currant he burned and embezeled the best and most ancient Records and Monuments of our Abbeies Priories and Cathedrall Churches vnder colour hauing a large Commission vnder the Great Seale of making search for all such monuments manuse records Legier bookes c. as might make for his purpose yet for all this he hath the ill lucke to write nothing wel saue the life of Henrie the seuenth wherein he had reason to take a little more paines then ordinarie the booke being dedicated to Henrie the eight his sonne No subiect affecteth vs with more delight then Historie imprinting a thousand formes vpon our imaginations from the circumstances of Place Person Time Matter manner and the like And what can be more profitable saith an ancient Historian then sitting on the Stage of humane life to be made wise by their example who haue trod the path of error and danger before vs Bodin tels vs of some who haue recouered their healthes by reading of Historie and it is credibly affirmed of King Alphonsus that the onely reading of Quiâ—â— Curtius cured him of a very dangerous feuer If I could haue beene so rid of my late quartane ague I would haue said with the same good King Valeat Avicenna viâ—at Curtius and haue done him as much honour as euer the Chians their Hippocrates or the Sun-burnd Aegyptians their Aesculapius For Moralitie and rules of well liuing
be knowne of a practitioner Now hauing your colors in their shels finely ground and washed and varietie of pencills great and small beginne first to wash ouer some plaine printes then after to imitate to the life according vnto my directions in that booke wherein by degrees you will take incredible delight and furnish your conceipts and deuices of Emblems Anagrams and the like with bodies at your pleasure without being beholden to some deare and nice professed Artist Painting in Oyle is done I confesse with greater iudgment and is generall of more esteeme then working in water colours but then it is more Mechanique and will robbe you of ouer much time from your more excellent studies it being sometime a fortnight or a month ere you can finish an ordinary peece I haue knowne Michael lanss of Delf in Holland the most excellent painter of all the Low Countries to haue beene at times a whole halfe yeare about a picture yet in the end to haue blurred it out as it is his manner for some small disresemblance eyther in the eye or mouth so curious is the workemanshippe to doe it well beside oyle nor oyle colours if they drop vpoÌ„ apparell will not out when water colours will with the least washing But lest you should think me ignorant or enuious I wil not conceale froÌ„ you the manner of working herein and though it may bee you shall not practise it it may profit others First for your table whereupon to draw your picture plane it very euen and with Size made of glue sodden long in faire water till the glue be quite dissolued mingled and heat with Spanish white finely ground white it ouer then let it dry then white it ouer againe and so the third time when being dry scrape it very euen with a sharpe knife till it be smooth then prime it with red lead or some other colour which being drie draw your picture out vpon it with a peece of chalke pencill of coale lastly with black lead so lay on your colours Grind all your colours in Linseede oyle â—aue when you grinde your white for ruffes and linnen then vse the oyle of walnuts for linseede oyle will turne yeallowish Hauing all your colours ready ground with your pallet on the thumbe of your left hand pencills for euery colour in the same lay your colours vpon your pallet thus first your white Lead then Lake Iuorie blacke Seacoale blacke as you see the complexion lampe blacke vmber for the haire red lead yealow oaker verdigreace then your blewes Masticot and Pinke the rest at your pleasure mixing them on the other side of the pallet at your pleasure To begin a picture first drawe the Eye the white thereof make of white lead with as little char-coale black hauing finished it leaue from the other Eye the distance of an Eye then draw the proportion of the nose the compasse of the face after that make the mouth the eare the haire c. After you haue made the white of the eyes and proportion of the nose c. lay your carnation or flesh colour ouer the face casting in here and there some shadowes which worke in with the flesh colour by degrees Your flesh colour is commonly compounded of white lead lake and vermilion but you may heighthen or decpen it at your pleasure Then shadow the face all ouer as you see cause and finish the nose compassing the tippe of it with some darke or light reddish shadow The shaddowes for your face are compounded commonly of Iuory blacke white lead vermilion lake Sea-coale blacke c. Then shaddow your cheekes and lippes with the mouth stroke which make of lake onely with vermilion and lake as you list mixed together Now make the Circles of the Eyes For the gray eye take charcoale blacke and white lead heighthened or deepened at your pleasure For the blacke Circle of the Eye take Vmber Sea-cole-blacke and a little white and mixe them as you thinke fit For the round ball in the eye take lampe-blacke and verd-greace for lampe-blacke will hardly dry without it For the hands and the shaddowes betweene the fingers vse the same flesh-colours and shaddowes as in the face for heighthening or deepening If you would make a flesh-colour of a swarthy complexion mingle white Lead Lake and yealow oker together and in the shadodwes put in some vmber and Sea-coale blacke For blacke haire take lampeâ— blacke onely and when you will haue it brighter mixe it with a little vmber white and red Lead For flaxen haire take vmber and white lead the browner you will haue it put in the more vmber the whiter more white but if darker yet adde to a little sea-coale blacke For yealow haire take masticote vmber yealow oker and a little red lead if you will haue it redder put in the more red lead and vmber For a white haire take halfe Iuorie blacke and halfe of vmber and with your knife temper them well vpon your pallet with white lead with more white or vmber or Iâ—ory raising or deepening it at your pleasure For the teeth take white Lead and shaddow it with char-coale blacke For Ruffes Lawnes and Linnen For Linnen take white Lead mingled with char-coale black so making it whiter or darker at your pleasure for your sine Lawnes put a little oyle smalt in amongst it and with a fine little bagge of Taffata stuffed with wooll or the like take vp the colour and presse it hard downe where you would haue it For Veluets of all colours For blacke-veluet take Lampe-blacke and verdigreace for your first ground but when it is dry lay it ouer with Iuory blacke and Verdigreace to help it to dry and for the shaddow vse white Lead with a little Lampe blacke For Greene Veluet take Lamp blacke and white Lead and worke it ouer like a Russet Veluet then being dry draw it onely ouer with Verdigreace and a little Pinke and it will be a perfect Greene Veluet For a Sea-Water Greene Veluet lay on the aforesaid mingled Russet Verdigreace onely if you will haue it more grassy put to more Pinke For a Yellowish Greene put a little Masticot among your Verdigreace at your pleasure but note this al your shaddowing must be in the Russet and these Greens onely drawne lightly ouer For Red Veluet take Vermilion and shaddow it with Browne of Spaine and where you will haue it darkest take Sea-cole blacke mingled with Spanish Browne and shaddow where you will letting it dry then glaze it ouer with Lake and it will be a perfect Red Veluet For a Crimson or Carnation Veluet put the more or lesse white Lead to the Vermilion as you shall see cause For Blew Veluet take Oyle Smalt and temper it with white Lead â—he brighter you will haue it put in the more White the sadder the more Smalt For Yellow Veluet take Masticot and yellow Oker and deepen it for the shaddow with Vmber For Tauny Veluet take Browne of Spaine
their childish capacities that what together with the sweetnesse of libertie varietie of companie and so many kinds of recreation in Towne and Fields abroad being like young Lapwings apt to be snatched vp by euery Buzzard they prooue with Homers Willow 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and as good goe gather Cockles with Calignlas people on the Sand as yet to attempt the difficulties of so rough and terrible a passage Others againe if they perceiue any wildnesse or vnstaiednesse in their Children are presently in despaire and out of all hope of them for euer prouing Schollers or fit for any thing else neither consider the Nature of youth nor the effect of time the Phisition of all But to mend the matter send them either to the Court to serue as Pages or into France and Italy to see fashions and mend their manners where they become ten times worse These of all other if they bee well tempered prooue the best mettall yea Tulli◠as of necessitie desireth some aboundant ranknesse or superfluitie of wit in that yong-man he would choose to make his Orator of Vellem saith he in adolescente aliquod redundans quod amputem I wish in a yong man something to spare and which I might cut off This taken away ere degenerate with luxurious abundance like that same ranke vine the Prophet Ieremie speaketh of you shall finde the heart divino sain editum and sound timber within to make Mercurie of qui non fit ex quouis lign◠as the prouerbe saith And some of a different humour will determine euen from the A B C. what calling their children shall take vpon them and force them euen in despight of Nature like Lycurgus his whelpes to runne contrarie courses and to vndertake professions altogether contrarie to their dispositions This saith Erasmus is peccare in genium And certainly it is a principall point of discretion in parents to be throughly acquainted with and obserue the disposition and inclination of their children and indeed for euery man to search into the addiction of his Genius and not to wrest nature as Musitians say out of her key or as Tullie saith to contend with her making the Spaniel to carrie the Asses loade which was well obserued by the Lacedamonians and ancient Romanes in laying forth instruments of sundry occupations before their children at a certaine age they to choose what liked them best and euer after to take vpon them that profession whereunto they belonged How many are put by worldly and couetous fathers inuita Minerua to the studie of the lawes which studie I confesse to be Honourable and most deseruing who notwithstanding spend most of their time euen in Diuinitie at the Innes of he Court and how many Divines haue we I appeale to the Courts heires of their fathers friends or purchased advousons whom the buckram bagge would not better beseeme then the Bible being neuer out of law with their parishioners following their Suites and Causes from Court to Court Terme to Terme no Atturney more In like manner I haue knowne many Commanders and worthy Gentlemen aswell of our owne Nation as strangers who following the warres in the field and in their Armes haue confessed vnto me Nature neuer ordained them for that profession had they not fallen accidentally vpon it either through death of friends harshnesse of Masters and Tutors thereby driuen from the Vniuersitie as an Honorable friend of mine in the Low Countries hath many times cōplained vnto me or the most common mischiefe miserablenesse of greedie parents the ouerthrow and vndoing of many excellent and prime wits who to saue charges marrie a daughter or preferre a yonger brother turne them out into the wide world with a little money in their purses or perhaps none at all to seeke their Fortunes where Necessitie deiects and besots their spirits not knowing what calling or course to take enforceth them desperate to begge borrow or to worse and baser shiftes which in their owne natures they detest as hell to goe on foote lodge in Ale-houses and fort themselues with the basest companie till what with want and wandring so long in the Circle at last they are vpon the center of some hill constrained to say as Hercules between his two pillars Non vlterius Much lesse haue parents now a daies that care to take the paines to instruct and reade to their children themselues which the greatest Princes and noblest personages haue not beene ashamed to doe Octauius Augusins Caesar read the workes of Cicero and Virgil to his children and nephewes himselfe Anna the daughter of Alexi◠the Grecian Emperour was by her father so instructed that while shee was yet a yong and goodly Ladie shee wrote of her selfe a very learned and authentique Historie of the Church Aemilius Paulus the sonne who so brauely ended his daies at Cannas when his Colleague forsooke him seeing the fauour of the State not inclineable towards him left the Citie and onely spent his time in the Countrey in teaching his owne children their Latine and Greeke notwithstanding he daily maintained Grammarians Logicians Rhetoricians Painters Caruers Riders of great horses and the skilfullest Huntsmen he could get to instruct and teach them in their seuerall professions and qualities The three daughters of euer-famous Sr. Thomas Moore were by their father so diligently held to their booke notwithstanding he was so daily emploied being L. Chauncelor of England that Erasmus saith he found them so readie and perfect in Liuie that the worst Scholler of them was able to expound him quite through without any stop except some extraordinarie and difficult place Quod me saith he aut mei similem esset remoraturum I shall not neede to remember within memorie those foure sisters the learned daughters of Sr. Anthonie Cooke and rare Poetresses so skilfull in Latine and Greeke beside many other their excellent qualities eternized alreadie by the golden pen of the Prince of Poets of our time with many other incomparable Ladies and Gentlewoman in our land some yet liuing from before whose faire faces Time I trust will draw the curtaine Lastly the fault may be in the Scholler himselfe whom Nature hath not so much befriended with the gift of vnderstanding as to make him capable of knowledge or else more vniust disposed him to sloath or some other worse inbred vice Marcus Cicero albeit hee was the sonne of so wise so eloquent and so sober a father whose very counsell and companie had beene enough to haue put learning and regard of well liuing into the most barbarous Gete and had Crattippus so excellent a Philosopher to his Reader at Athens yet by the testimony of Pliny he proued so notorious a drunkard that he would ordinarily drinke off two gallons of Wine at a time and became so debauched euery way that few of that age exceeded him Sundry the like examples might be produced in our times but one of this nature is too many Others
for that said Buffalmacco we make him odious in the peoples eyes by painting him terrible and in the vgliest shape we can deuise and more to spight him wee paint nothing but Saints in Churches to make the people more deuout then otherwise they would wherefore the diuels are very angry with vs and hauing more power by night then by day they play these prankes and I feare they will doe worse except we gine ouer this working by candle light This he spake so confidently and in so deniure a manner to the priest that the priest anouched it to be true and with great reasons perswaded Taffi euer after to keepe his bed which beeing published about working by candle-light was left through the towne euer after The first proofe of his skill he shewed at a Nunnery neere Pisa now wholly ruined being the birth of Christ where Herod killed the children of Bethlem where the affections and lookes of the murtherers Mothers Nurses resisting with biting scratching tearing pulling c. are excellently expressed Moreouer he drew the foure Patriarkes and the foure Euangelists where he expressed Saint Luke with great art blowing the inke in his pen to make it runne He was in his time one of the merriest and finest companions of the world he died Anno 1340. Ambrosio Lorenzetti of Siena This Ambrosio was a painter of Siena he was chiefely commended for that grace he had in contrining postures and accidents of History he was the first that most liuely could resemble tempests stormes raine c. He was very moderate and went rather like a Philosopher then a painter He dyed at Siena Petro Cavallini of Rome This was scholler vnto Giâ—ttâ— and wrought with him in the ship of Mosaique in the front of Saint Peters in Rome There is yet a Crucifixe of his yet to bee seene at Arezzo and another in the Church of Saint Paul in Rome of admirable life and skill He was wondrous deuout and Religious He dyed 1363. and lyeth buryed at Pauls without Rome with this Epitaph Quantum Romana PETRVS decus addidiâ— vibi Picturâ— tartum daâ— decus ipse Pâ—lâ— Simon of Siena Simon of Siena was a rare Artist and liued in the time of the famous and Laurâ—ate Poet Francis Petrarch in whose verses he liueth eternally for his rare art iudgement showne in drawing his Laura to the life For invention and variety he was accounted the best of his time Andreas Orgagna Andreas Orgagna was a Flâ—rentine and both a Painter Poet Architect and Caruer though hee began first with caruing One of his best peeces he wrought in Pisa which was all sorts of worldly and sensuall Epicures rioting and banquetting vnder the shaddow of an Orenge tree within the branches and bowes whereof slyâ— little Amorettos or Cupids shooting at sundry Ladies lasciuiously dancing and dallying amongst them which Ladies were then liuing and all discerned by their seuerall countenances as also many Gallants and Princes of that time drawne in the same table On the other side of the table he made an hard Rocke full of people that had left the world as being Eremites seruing of God and doing diuers actions of pietie with exceeding life as here one prayeth there another readeth some other are at worke to get their liuing and among the rest there is with admirable art and iudgment an Eremite milking of a Goat Withall Saint Macharius who sheweth the miserable estate of man to three Kings riding on hunting in great state with their Queenes and sheweth theâ— a graue wherein lie three dead Kings whose bodies are almost rotten whereon they looke with a great feare liuely expressed in their countenances and one wishly looking downe into the graue stoppeth his nose c. Ouer this flyeth death in blacke with a Sith in his hand all about on the earth lye people along of all ages sexe and condition slaine and dying by sundry meanes He also painted the Iudgement where hee placed in hell most of his foes that had molested him and among the rest a Scrivener whose name was Cecehode Ascolâ— and knowne for a notable knaue in his profession and a Coniurer beside who had many wayes molested him He was by children and boyes discerned to be the same man so well had he exprest him to the life He dyed aged 60. yeares 1389. and lyeth buryed at Florence Thomas Masaccio This Thomas sirnamed Masaccio or the Slouen for that he neuer cared how hee went in his cloathes was borne in the Castle of Saint Iohn de Valderno and being a youth so much addicted his mind vnto painting that hee cared in a manner for nothing not so much as to demand money of his debters where it was due but when meere necessitie draue him thereunto yet was he curteous vnto all He excelled in Perspectiue and aboue all other masters laboured in Nakeds and to get the perfection of foreshortning and working ouer head to bee viewed standing vnder Amongst other his workes that of Saint Peter taking a penny out of the fishes mouth and when he payeth it for tole is famous In briefe he brake the Ice to all painters that succeeded for Action in Nakeds and foreshortnings which before him were knowne but of few For by his peeces and after his practise wrought Fryer Iohn of Ficsole Frier Phillip Phillipine Alessan Baldovinetti Andrea del Caslagna Verochio Dominico de Grillandaio di Botticello Leonarde de Vinci Pedro di Perugia Frier Bartholome â— of Saint Marks Mariotte Albertinell the rare and euer admired Michael Angelo Bonarotti Raphael d' Vâ—bine and sundry others He dyed it was suspected of poison in the 26. yeare of his age His Epitaph was written in Italian by Hannibal Coro Leon Baptista Alberti This Alberti was an excellent linguist hauing his Latine tongue very exactly He was borne in Florence and was both an excellent Painter and Architect hee wrote tenne bookes of Architecture in Latine which he published in print Anno. 1481. Moreouer hee wrote three bookes of the Art of Painting a Treatise of measuring heigthes besides certaine bookes of Policy with many other discourses He was descended of a Noble house and was very inward with pope Nicholas the fiâ—t He was excellent for the descriptions of Battailes night workes glittering of weapons and the like Frier Phillipo Lippi Phillipo Lippi borne in Florence was a poore Childe and left fatherlesse and motherlesse was brought vp by an Aunt at eight yeares of age placed in a Monasterie of the â—â—cobines where out of his naturall inclination he practised Drawing and Painting and in short time grew to that excellence that he was admired of all making in his Cloyster many Histories in weâ— after Masaccio's manner At seuenteene yeares of age he forsooke his order Being in La Marcad ' Ancona he put himselfe with some friends to Sea but were in short time taken by the Pirats of Barbaris and sold into the Country for slaues wearing heauie chaines about their legges In this estate liued
with double Armes and an heauy shield cast himselfe into the deepe and swam safe to Caesar and his fleete Neither is it to be wondred at that the Romanes were so skilfull in swimming for they were daily exercised in the same after their other exercises and had a place in the Riuer of Tyber appointed vnto them for the same purpose adioyning to the field of Mars and another of great depth rough and full of whirlpits on purpose to exercise their horses in Shooting also is a very healthfull and commendable recreation for a Gentleman neither doe I know any other comparable vnto it for stirring euery part of the body for it openeth the breast and pipes exerciseth the armes and feet with lesse violence then running leaping c. Herein was the Emperour Domitian so cunning that let a Boy a good distance off hold vp his hand stretch his fingers abroad he would shoote through the spaces without touching the Boyes hand or any finger And Commodus saith Herodian had so good an aime that he would fixe on the brow of a Deere two shafts as euenly and spreading in distance as if they had beene his owne hornes But for the further excellence and vse of this exercise I referre you to that excellent booke of M. Aschams intituled Toxophilus wherein you shall finde whatsoeuer is requisite to be knowne of a compleate Archer Hawking and Hunting are recreations very commendable and befitting a Noble or Gentleman to exercise Hunting especially which Xenophon commendeth to his Cyrus calling it a gift of the Gods bestowed first vpon Chiron for his vprightnesse in doing Iustice and by him taught vnto the old Heroës and Princes by whose vertue and prowesse as enabled by this exercise their Countries were defended their subiects and innocents preserued Iustice maintained For there is no one exercise that enableth the body more for the warre then Hunting by teaching you to endure heate cold hunger thirst to rise early watch late lie and fare hardly and Eusebius is of opinion that wilde beasts were of purpose created by God that men by chasing and encountring them might be fitted and enabled for warlike exercises Heereupon Alexander Cyrus and the old Kings of Persia employed themselues exceeding much herein not to purchase Venison and purucy for the belly but to maintaine their strength and preserue their health by encreasing and stirring vp the naturall heate within which sloth and sitting still wasts and decaies To harden the bodies by labour against the enemy and withall to search out the Natures of wilde beasts which knowne they might leaue the same recorded to their posteritie And the famous Phisitian Quercetan aboue all other exercises commendeth this as most healthfull and keeping the bodie sound and free from diseases The old Lord Gray our English Achilles when hee was Deputie of Ireland to inure his sonnes for the war would vsually in the depth of Winter in frost snow raine and what weather soeuer fell cause them at midnight to be raised out of their beds and carried abroad on hunting till the next morning then perhaps come wet and cold home hauing for a breakfast a browne loase and a mouldie Cheese or which is ten times worse a dish of Irish Butter and in this manner the Spartans and Laconians dieted and brought vp their children till they came vnto mans estate Hawking was a sport vtterly vnknowne to the ancients as Blondinus and P. Iouius in the second booke of his Historie where he entreateth of the Muscouitish affaires witnesseth but was inuented and first practised by Fredericke Barbarossa when he besieged Rome yet it appeareth by Firmicus that it was knowne twelue hundred yeares since where he speaketh of Falconers and teachers of other Birds and indeed beyond him I thinke it can no where be found that Falconrie was knowne There haue beene many who haue written of Falconrie Fredericke the second Emperour of Germany whom Melancthon worthily commendeth and equalleth to the ancient Heroës for his many victories archieued by his valour his skill in all learning being able to speake foureteene seuerall languages his libertie magnificence affabilitie milâ—nesse c. Insomuch that in him alone saith he ended and died the remainder of Ancient Maiestie wrote heereof two excellent bookes which Ioachiâ—â— Camerarius hauing by him the first Coppie in a Manuscript published together with a Treatise of Albertus Magnus of the Nature of Hawkes and printed it at Norimberge Budaus hath also written a large Discourse of Hunting and Hawking part whereof is annexed to the latter end of Henry Estiennâ—s French and Latine Dictionarie in English M. Blundeuiles booke is the best that I know By the Canon Law Hawking was forbidden vnto Clergie men as afterward Hunting by reason the exercise and instruments wherewith beasts are slaine are militarie and not so well agreeing as they giue the reason with spirituall warfare but I cannot see but that they many of them being great Princes and pillars of the Church daily employed and pressed with the weight of State affaires may haue their recreatioÌ„s as well as others But to preuent their pastime there is such an order taken with their Parkes that many of our best Bishopricks can now adaies scarce shew one of ten or twentie Norwich had thirteene Parkes and of all other was most iniustly dealt withall If they had taken away twelue and left the odde one it had beene indifferent but to rob the Church of all was more then too much But as allow not altogether that seuere education of the old Spartanâ— in their Children hazzarding many times the healths of young and tender bodies by some tedious ague yea also their liues by the mischance of a leape or stumbling of your horse so as much doe I detest that effoeminacie of the most that burne out day and night in their beds and by the fire side in trifles gaming or courting their yellow Mistresses all the Winter in a Citie appearing but as Cuckoes in the Spring one time in the yeare to the Countrey and their tenants leauing the care of keeping good houses at Christmas to the honest Yeomen of the Countrey Some againe are so intent to their pleasure that they neuer care for keeping within as sometime was Mithridates that it is reported of him For seauen yeares space together hee neuer came within house neither in Citie nor in the Countrey And Barnaby Viscount of Millan was so carried away with the loue of Hunting that hee made a Law whosoeuer should kill any wilde Boare or had killed any in fiue yeares before that his Statute was enacted contrary vnto an ancient Edict or were priuy to the eating of any at any Gentlemans table should be imprisoned and tortured after a greeuous manner Beside he afflicted the Countrey marueilously by dispersing many thousands of Dogges to be kept and brought vp in villages and among the Paisants to their infinite trouble and charge Mahomet Sonne to