as if it were Apollo his owne worke and goe forward speedily good Gossip for it growes late This booke quoth the Barber opening of another is The twelve bookes of the fortunes of Love written by Anthony Lâ—fraso the 〈◊〉 Poet. By the holy Orders which I have received quoth the Curate since Apollo was Apollo and the Muses Muses and Poets Poets was never written so delightful band extravagant a worke as this and that in his way and vaine it is the only one of all the bookes that have everissued of that kinde to view the light of the world and hee that hath not read it may make account that hee hath never read matter of delight Give it to men Gossip for I doe prize more the finding of it then I would the gift of a Caâ—â—ocke of the best sate in of Florence and so with great joy bee laid it aside and the Barbar prosecuted saying these that follow bee The Sheepheard of Iâ—eâ—â— The Nymphs of Enares and the Recâ—â—ing of the 〈◊〉 Then there is no more to bee done but to deliver them up to the secular arm of the old wife and doe not demand the reason for that were never to make an end This that comes is The Sheepheard of Filida That is not a Sheepheard quoth the Curate but a very compleat Courtier let it bee reserved as a precious jewell This great one that followes is said the Barber intituledâ— The Treasure of divers Poems If they had not beene so many replyed the Curate they would have beene more esteemed It is necessary that this book bee carded and purged of certain base things that lurke among his high conceits Let Him bee kept both because the Author is my very great friend and in regard of other more Heroicall and lost in works hee hath written This is said the Barber The ditty booke of Lopez Maldonadâ— The Author of that worke is likewise my great friend replyed the Parson and his lines pronounced by himselfe doe ravish the hearers and such is the sweetnesse of his voice when hee sings them as it doth enchant the eare Hee is somwhat prolix in his Eglogues but that which is good is never superfluous let him bee kept among the choysest But what booke is that which lies next unto him The Galatea of Michael Cervantes quoth the Barber That Cervantes said the Curate is my old acquaintance this many a yeere and I know hee is more practised in misfortunes then in verses His booke hath some good invention in it hee intends and propounds somwhat but concludes nothing therefore wee must expect the second Part which hee hath promised perhaps his amendment may obtaine him a generall remission which until now is denied him and whilest we expect the sight of his second work keep this part closely imprisoned in your lodging I am very well content to do so good Gossip said the Barber and here there come three together The Auracana of Don Alonso de Ercilla The Austriada of Iohn Ruffo one of the Magistrates of Cordova and The Monserrato of Christopher de Virnes a Valentian Poet. All these three books quoth the Curate are the best that are written in heroicall verse in the Castilian tongue and may compare with the most famous of Italy reserve them as the richest pawns that Spain enjoyeth of Poetry The Curate with this grew weary to see so many books and so he would have all the rest burned at all adventures But the Barber ere the Sentence was given had opened by chance one entituled The Tears of Angelica I would have shed those tears my self said the Curate if I had wittingly caused such a book to bee burned for the Author thereof was one of the most famous Poets of the World not only of Spain And was most happy in the translation of certain Fables of Ovid. CHAP. VII Of the second departure which our good Knight Don-Quixote made from his house to seek Adventures WHile they were thus busied Don-Quixote began to cry aloud saying Here here valourous Knights here it is needfull that you shew the force of your valiant armes for the Courtiers begin to bear away the best of the Tourney The folk repairing to this rumour and noyse was an occasion that any farther speech and visitation of the books was omitted and therefore it is to be suspected that The Caâ—â—leâ—â— and Lyon of Spain with the acts of the Emperor Charles the fifth written by Don Luis de Avila were burned without being ever seen or heard and perhaps if the Curate had seen them they should not have pas'd under so rigorous a sentence When they all arrived to Don-Quixote his Chamber he was risen already out of his Bed and continued still his out-cries cutting and flashing on every side being as bâ—â—â—dly awake as if he never had slept Wherefore taking him in their arms they returned him by main force into his Bed and after he was somewhat quiet and setled he said turning himself to the Curate In good sooth Lord Archbishop Turpin it is a great dishonor to us that are called the twelve Peers to permit the Knights of the Court to bear thus away the glory of the Tournay without more adoe seeing that we the Adventures have gained the prize thereof the three formost dayes Hold your peace good Gossip quoth the Curate for fortune may be pleased to change the successe what is lost to day may be wonn again to morrow Look you to your health for the present for you seem at least to be very much tyred if besides you be not sore wounded Wounded no quoth Don-Quixote but doubtless I am somewhat bruised for that Bastard Don Rowland hath beaten me to powder with the stock of an Oake-tree and all for envy because he sees that I only dare oppose my self to his valour But let me be never again called Raynold of Montealban if he pay not deerly for it as soon as I rise from this Bed in despite of all his inchantment But I pray you call for my breakfast for I know it will doe me much good and have the revenge of this wrong to my charge Presently meat was brought and after he had eaten he fell a sleep and they remained astonished at his wonderfull madnesse That night the old woman burned all the books that she found in the house and yard and some there were burned that deserved for their worthynesse to be kept up in everlasting Treasuries if their fortunes and the lazinesse of the Searchers had permitted it And so the proverb was verrified in them That the Just payes sometimes for the Sinners One of the remedies which the Curate and the Barber prescribed for that present to help their friends Disease was that they should change his Chamber and dam up his Study to the end that when he arose he might not finde them for perhaps by removing the cause they might also take away the effects And moreover they bad them to say that a certain
his work which if I can finde among these and that he speaks not his own native tongue I 'le use him with no respect but if he talk in his own language I will put him for honours sake on my head If that be so quoth the Barber I have him at home in the Italian but cannot understand him Neither were it good you should understand him replyed the Curate and here we would willingly have excused the good Captain that translated it into Spanish from that labour or bringing it into Spain if it had pleased himself For he hath deprived it of much naturall worth in the translation a fault incident to all those that presume to translate Verses out of one language into another for though they imploy all their industry and wit therein they can never arive to the height of that Primitive conceit which they bring with them in their first byrth I say therefore that this booke and all the others that may bee found in this Library to treate of French affaires bee cast and deposited in some drie Vault untill wee may determine with more deliberation what wee should doe with them alwaies excepting Bernardo del Carpio which must bee there amongst the rest and another called Roncesualles for these two coming to my hands shall bee rendred up to those of the old guardian and from hers into the fires without any remission All which was confirmed by the Barbar who did ratifie his Sentence holding it for good and discreete because hee knew the Curate to bee so vertuous a man and so great a friend of the truth as he would say nothing contrary to it for all the goods of the world And then opening another booke he saw it was Palmerin de Oliva neere unto which stood another intituled Palmerin of England which the â—icenciat perceiving said let Oliva be presently rent in pieces and burned in such sort that even the very ashes thereof may not be found and let Palmerin of England be preserved as a thing rarely delectable and let such another box as that which Alexander found among Darius spoyls and depured to keep Homers works be made for it for gossip this booke hath sufficient authority for two reasons the first because of it self it is very good and excellently contrived the other for as much as the report runnes that a certain discreet King of Portugal was the author thereof All the Adventures of the Castle of Miraguarda are excellent and artificiall The discourses very cleere and courtly observing evermore a decorum in him that speaks with great propriety and conceit therefore I say Master Nicholas if you think good this and Amadis de Gaule may bee preserved from the fire and let all the rest without farther search or regard perish In the devills name doe not so gentle gossip replyed the Barbar for this which I hold now in my hand is the famous Don Belianis What hee quoth the Curate the second third and fourth part thereof have great neede of some Ruybarbe to purge his excessive choller and wee must moreover take out of him all that of the Castell of Fame and other impertinencies of more consequence Therefore wee give them a terminus Vltramarinus and as they shall bee corrected so will wee use Mercy or justice towards them and in the meane space Gossip you may keepe them at your house but permit no man to read them I am pleased quoth the Barbar and being unwilling to tyre himself any more by reading of Titles hee bad the old woman to take all the great volumes and throw them into the yard the words were not spoken to a Mome or deaf person but to one that had more desire to burn them then to weave a peace of Linnen were it never so great and fine and therefore taking eight of them together shee threw them all out of the window and returning the second time thinking to carry away a great many at once one of them fell at the Barbers feet who desirous to know the Title saw that it was the Historie of the famous Knight Tirante the white Good God quoth the Curate with a loud voice is Tirante the white here Give mee it Gossip for I make account to find in it a Treasure of delight and a copious Mine of pastime Here is Don Quireleison of Montalban a valiant Knight and his brother Thomas of Montalban and the Knight Fonseca and the combat which the valiant Detriante fought with Alano and the witty conceits of the damzell Plazerdeminida with the love and guiles of the widow Reposada and of the Empresse enamoured on her Squire Ipolite I say unto you gossip that this booke is for the stile one of the best of the world in it Knights doe eate and drinke and sleepe and die in their beds naturally and make their testaments before their death with many other things which all other bookes of this subject doe want yet notwithstanding if I might bee Judge the Author thereof deserved because hee purposely penned and writ so many follies to bee sent to the Gallies for all the dayes of his life Carie it home and read it and you shall see all that I have said thereof to bee true I beleeve it very well quoth the Barber But what shall wee doe with these little bookes that remaine These as I take said the Curate are not bookes of Knighthood but of Poetry and opening one hee perceived it was The Diana of Montemayor and beleeving that all the rest were of that stampe hee said these deserve not to bee burned with the rest for they have not nor can doe so much hurt as bookes of Knighthood being all of them works full of understanding and conceits and doe not prejudice any other O good Sir quoth Don-Quixote his Niese your reverence shall likewise doe well to have them also burned lest that mine Uncle after hâ—â— bee cured of his Knightly disease may fall by reading of these in an humor of becomming a Sheepheard and so wander through the woods and fields singing of Rounde layes and playing on a Crowd and what is more dangerous then to become a Poet which is as some say an incurable and infectious disease This maiden saies true quoth the Curate and it will not bee amisse to remove this stumbling block and occasion out of our friends way and since wee begin with the Diana of Montemayor I am of opinion that it bee not burned but only that all that which treates of the wise Felicia and of the inchanted water bee taken away and also all the longer verses and let him remaine with his Proses and the honour of being the best of that kinde This that followes quoth the Barber is the Diana called the second written by him of Salamanca and this other is of the same name whose Author is Gil Polo Let that of Salamanca answered Master Parson augment the number of the condemned in the yard and that of Gil Polo bee kept as charity
famous women Greek Barbarous or Latine of foregoing ages And let every one say what hee pleaseth For though I should be reprehended for this by the ignorant yet shall I not therefore be chastised by the more observant and rigorous sort of men I avouch quoth Sancho that you have great reason in all that you say and that I am my self a very Asse But alas why doe I name an Asse with my mouth seeing one should not mention a Rope in ones house that was hanged but give me the Letter and farewell for I will change With that Don-Quixote drew out his Tablets and going aside began to indite his Letter with great gravity which ended he called Sancho to read it to him to the end he might bear it away in memory left by chance hee did lose the Tablets on the way for such were his crosse fortunes as made him fear every event To which Sancho answered saying Write it there twice or thrice in the book and give me it after for I will carry it safely by Gods grace For to think that I will be able ever to take it by rote is a great folly for my memory is so short as I doe many times forget mine own name But yet for all that read it to me good Sir for I would bee glad to hear it as a thing which I suppose to be as excellent as if it were cast in a mould Hear it then said Don-Quixote for thus it sayes The Letter of DON-QUIXOTE to DULCINEA of Toboso Soveraign Ladie THE wounded by the poynt of absence and the hurt by the Darts of thy heart sweetest Dulcinea of Toboso doth send thee that health which hee wanteth himself If thy beauty disdain me if thy valour turn not to my benefit if thy disdains convert themselves to my harm maugre all my patience I shall bee ill able to sustein this care which besides that it is violent is also too durable My good Squire Sancho will give thee certain relation O beautifull ingrate and my deerest beloved enemy of the State wherein I remain for thy sake If thou please to favour me I am thine and if not doe what thou likest For by ending of my life I shall both satisfie thy Cruelty and my Desires Thine untill death The Knight of the Illfavored face By my fathers life quoth Sancho when he heard the Letter it is the highest thing that ever I heard Good God â— how well doe you say every thing in it and how excellently have you applyed the subscription of The Knight of the Ill-favoured face I say again in good earnest that you are the Divell himself and there 's nothing but you know it All is necessary answered Don-Quixote for the Office that I professe Put then quoth Sancho in the other side of that leafe the Warrant of the three Colts and firm it with a legible Letter that they may know it at the first sight I am pleased said Don-Quixote and so writing it he read it after to Sancho and it said thus YOV shall please good Neece for this first of Colts to deliver unto my Squire Sancho Pança three of the five that I left at home and are in your charge the which three Colts I command to bee delivered to him for as many others counted and received here for with this and his acquittance they shall bee justly delivered Given in the bowels of Sierra Morena the two and twentieth of August of this present yeer It goes very well quoth Sancho subsign it therefore I pray you It needs no seal quoth Don-Quixote but only my Rubrick which is as valible as if it were subscribed not only for three Asses but also for three hundred My trust is in you answered Sancho permit me for I will goe saddle Rozinante and prepare your self to give me your blessing for I purpose presently to depart before I see any madd prank of yours for I will say that I saw you play so many as no more can bee desired I will have thee stay Sancho and that because it is requisite at least to see me stark naked playing a dozen or two of raving tricks for I will dispatch them in lesse then half an hour because that thou having viewed them with thine own eyes mayest safely swear all the rest that thou pleasest to add and I assure thee that thou canst not tell so many as I mean to perform Let me intreat you good Sir that I may not see you naked for it will turn my stomack and I shall not bee able to keep my self from weeping and my head is yet so sore since yester night through my lamentations for the losse of the gray beast as I am not strong enough yet to indure new plaints but if your pleasure bee such as I must necessarily see some follies doe them in Ioves name in your clothes briefly and such as are most necessary chiefly seeing none of these things are requisite for me And as I have said wee might excuse time that shall now bee lavished in these trifles to return speedily with the news you desire and deserve so much And if not let the â—ady Dulcinea provide her self well for if shee answer not according to reason I make a solemn vow to him that I may that I 'le make her disgorge out of her stomack a good answer with very kicks and fists For how can it bee suffered that so famous a Knight Errant as your self should thus runn out of his wits without nor for what for one Let not the Gentlewomen constrain me to say the rest for I will out with it and venter all upon twelve although it never were sold. In good faith Sancho quoth Don-Quixote I think thou art grown as mad as my self I am not so mad replyed Sancho but I am more cholerick But setting that aside say What will you eat untill my return Doe you mean to doe as Cardenio and take by the high-wayes side perforce from the Sheepheards Care thou not for that replyed Don-Quixote for although I had it yet would I not eat any other thing then the Hearbs and Fruits that this Field and Trees doe yield for the perfection of mine affair consists in fasting and the exercise of other castigations To this Sancho replyed Doe you know what I fear that I shall not finde the way to you again here where I leave you it is so difficult and obscure Take well the marks and I will endevour to keep here-about quoth Don-Quixote untill thou come back again and will moreover about the time of thy return mount to the tops of these high Rocks to see whether thou appearest but thou shouldest doe best of all to the end thou mayest not stay and misse me to cut down here and there certain boughs and strew them on the way as thou goest untill thou beest out in the Plains and those may after serve thee as bounds and marks by which thou mayest again finde me when thou returnest in
and the end the beginning and middle But rather they have composed them of so many members as it more probably seems that the Authours intended to frame Chimeraes or Monsters then to deliver proportionate figures most harsh in their stile incredible in exploits impudent in love matters absurd in complements prolixe in Battels fond in discourses uncertain and senselesse in voyages and finally devoid of all discretion art and ingenious disposition And therefore they deserve as most idle and frivolous things to bee banished out of all Christian Common-wealths Master Curate did listen to the Canon with very great attention and hee seemed unto him to bee a man of good understanding and that hee had great reason for what hee had alledged and therefore said that in respect they did concur in opinions and that hee had an old grudge to the vanity of such Books hee had likewise fired all Don-Quixotes Library consisting of many Books of that subject And then hee recounted to him the search and inquisition hee had made of them and which hee had condemned and which reserved Whereat the Canon laughed heartily and said that notwithstanding all the evill hee had spoken of such Books yet did hee finde one good in them to wit the subject they offered a good wit to work upon and shew it self in them for they displayed a large and open plaine thorow which the Pen might run without let or incumbrances describing of Ship-wracks Tempests Incounters and Battells delineating a valorous Captain with all the properties required in him as wisedome to frustrate the designes of his enemie eloquence to perswade or disswade his Souldiers ripenesse in advice promptnesse in execution as much valour in attending as in assaulting of an enemie deciphering now a lamentable and tragicall successe then a joyfull and unexpected event there a most beautifull honest and discreet Ladie here a valiant courteous and Christian Knight there an unmeasurable barbarous Braggard here a gentle valourous and wise Prince Representing the goodnesse and loyaltie of Subjects the magnificence and bountie of Lords Sometimes hee may shew himself an Astrologian sometimes a Cosmographer sometimes a Musician sometimes a Statist and sometimes if hee please hee may have occasion to shew himself a Nigromancer There may hee demonstrate the subtiltie of Vlisses the pietie of Encas the valour of Achilles the misfortune of Hector the treachery of Sinon the amitie of Eurialus the liberallitie of Alexander the resolution of Caesar the clemency and truth of Trajanus the fidelitie of Zopirus the prudence of Cato and finally all those parts that make a worthy man perfect one whiles by placing them all in one subject another by distributing them among many and this being done and set out in a pleasing stile and a wittie fashion that approacheth as neer as is possible unto the truth will questionlesse remain a work of many fair draughts which being accomplished will represent such beauty and perfection as shall fully attain to the best end aimed at in all writing that is as I have said joyntly to instruct and delight for the irregularity and liberality of those Books given to the Authour the means to shew himself an Epick Lyrick Tragedian and Comedian with all other things which the most gracefull and pleasant Sciences of Poetry and Oratorie include in themselves for Epicks may bee as well written in Prose as in Verse CHAP. XXI Wherein the Canon prosecutes his Discourse upon Books of Chivalrie and many other things worthy of his wit SIR you say very true quoth the Curate and for this very reason are they which have hitherto invented such Books the more worthy of reprehension because they neither heeded the good discourse the art nor the rules by which they might have guided themselves and by that means have grown as famous for their Prose as bee the two Princes of the Greek and Latine Poetrie for their Verse I have for my part quoth the Canon at least attempted to write a Book of Chivalrie observing therein all the points by me mentioned and in truth I have written above a hundred sheets thereof and to the end that I might trie whether they were correspondent to my estimation I did communicate them both with certain skillfull and wise men that are marvellously affected to that subject and with some ignorant persons that only delight to hear fanatic â—â—â—nventions and I have found in them all a great approbation of my labours yet would I not for all that prosecute the work as well because it seemed unfit for my Profession as also because I finde the number of the ignorant to excede that of the judicious And though more good come to a man by the praise of a few wise men then hurt by the scoffs of a number of fools yet would I not willingly subject my self to the confused judgement of the senselesse vulgar who commonly give themselves most unto the reading of such Books But that which most of all rid my hands yea and my memorie of all desire to end it was this argument drawn from our modern Comedies and thus made to my self If those as well the Fictions as Historicall ones are all or the most part of them notorious Fopperies and things without either head or foot and yet are by the vulgar heard with such delight and held and approved for good and both the Authours that compose them and Actors that represent them say that they must bee such as they bee for to please the Peoples humors and not more conformable to reason or truth and that because those wherein Decorum is observed and the fable followed according to the rules of Art serve onely for three or four discreete men If so many may be found at a Play which doe attend unto them and all the rest of the Auditors remaine fasting by reason they cannot conceive the artificiall contexture thereof therefore is it better for them to gaine good money and meanes by many then bare opinion or applause by a few The very same would bee the end of my Booke after I had used all possible industrie to observe the aforesaid precept and I should remaine only for a neede and as the Taylour that dwels in a corner without trade or estimation And although I have sundry times indeavoured to perswade the Players that their opinion was erronious herein and that they would attract more people and acquire greater fame by acting artificiall Comedies then those irregular and methodicall Playes then used yet are they so wedded to their opinion as no reason can woo nor demonstration winn them from it I remember how dealing upon a day with one of those obstinate fellowes I said unto him Doe not you remember how a few yeers agoe were represented in Spaine three Tragedies written by a famous Poet of our Kingdome which were such as delighted yea and amazed all the auditors as well the learned as the simple the exact as the slight ones and that the Players got more
he would often say when he fell down or stumbled he would have beene glad not to have gone abroad for of stumbling or falling came nothing but tearing his shooes or breaking a rib and though hee were a foole yet hee was not out in this Don-Quixote said unto him Friend Sancho the night comes on us apace and it will grow too darke for us to reach Toboso ere it be day whither I am determined to goe before I undertake any adventure and there I meane to receive a benediction and take leave of the Peerelesse Dulcinea del Toboso after which I know and am assured I shall end and close up every dangerous adventure for nothing makes Knights Errant more hardy then to see themselves favoured by their Mistresses I beleeve it quoth Sancho but I doubt you will not speak with her at least not see her where you may receive her blessing if shee give you it not from the Mud-walls where I saw her the first time when I carried the Letter and news of your mad pranks which you were playing in the heart of Sierra Morena Were those Mud-walls in thy fantasie Sancho quoth Don-Quixote through which thou sawest that never enough-praised gentlenesse and beauty They were not so but Galleries Walks or goodly stone Pavements or how call yee them of rich and royall Pallaces All this might bee answered Sancho but to me they seemed no better as I remember Yet let 's goe thither quoth Don-Quixote for so I see her let them bee Mud-walls or not or Windows all is one whether I see her thorow chinks or thorow Garden-Lattices for each ray that comes from the sunne of her brightnesse to mine eyes will lighten mine understanding and strengthen mine heart and make mee sole and rare in my wisdome and volour Truly Sir said Sancho when I saw that Sunne it was not so bright that it cast any rayes from it and belike 't was that as shee was winnowing the Wheat I told you of the dust that came from it was like a cloud upon her face and dimmed it Still doest thou think Sancho quoth Don-Quixote beleeve and grow obstinate that my Mistris Dulcinea was winnowing it being a labor so unfit for persons of quality that use other manners of exercises and recreation which shew a flight-shot off their noblenesse Thou doest ill remember those Verses of our Poet where hee paints out unto us the exercises which those four Nymphs used in their cristall habitations when they advanced their heads above the loved Tagus A River in Spain and sate in the green fields working those rich embroyderies which the ingenious Poet there describes unto us all which were of Gold of Purle and woven with embossed Pearls Such was the work of my Mistris when thou sawest her but that the envie which some base Inchanter beares to mine affairs turns all that should give me delight into different shapes and this makes me fear that the Historie of my exploits which is in print if so bee some Wizard my enemie were the Authour that hee hath put one thing for another mingling with one truth a hundred lyes diverting himself to tell Tales not fitting the continuing of a true Historie Oh envie thou root of infinite evils thou worm of Virtues All Vices Sancho doe bring a kinde of pleasure with them but envie hath nothing but distaste rancour and raving I am of that minde too said Sancho and I think that in the Historie that Carrasco told us of that hee had seen of us that my credit is turned topsie turvy and as they say goes a begging Well as I am honest man I never spoke ill of any Inchanter neither am I so happie as to bee envied True it is that I am somewhat malicious and have certain knavish glimpses but all is covered and hid under the large cloak of my simplicitie alwaies naturall to me but never artificiall and if there were nothing else in me but my beliefe for I beleeve in God and in all that the Roman Church beleeves and am sworn a mortall enemie to the Jews the Historians ought to pittie me and use me well in their writings But let um say what they will naked was I borne naked I am I neither win nor lose and though they put me in Books and carrie me up and down from hand to hand I care not a fig let um say what they will 'T was just the same quoth Don-Quixote that hapned to a famous Poet of our times who having made a malicious Satyre against all the Curtizans hee left out one amongst them as doubting whether shee were one or no who seeing shee was not in the scrowl among the rest took it unkindely from the Poet asking him what hee had seen in her that hee should not put her amongst the rest and desired him to inlarge his Satyre and put her in the spare room if not shee would scratch out his eyes The Poet consented and set her down with a vengeance and shee was satisfied to see her self famous although indeed infamous Besides the Tale of the Sheapheard agrees with this that set Diana's Temple on fire which was one of the seven wonders of the World because hee would bee talked of for it and although there were an Edict that no man should either mention him by speaking or writing that hee might not attain to his desire yet his name was known to bee Erostratus the same allusion may bee had out of an Accident that befell the great Emperour Charles the fift with a Knight of Rome The Emperour was desirous to see the famous Temple of the Rotunda which in ancient times was called The Temple of all the Gods and now by a better stile Of all Saints and it is the only entire edifice that hath remained of all the Genâ—â—â—s in Rome and that which doth most conserve the Glory and Magnificence of its Founders 't is made like an half Orenge exceeding large and very lightsome having but one window that gives it light or to say truer but one round Loover on the top of it The Emperour looking on the edifice there was a Roman Knight with him that shewed him the devices and contriving of that great Work and memorable Architecture and stepping from the Loover said to the Emperour A thousand times mightie Monarch have I desired to see your Majestie and cast my self down from this Loover to leave an everlasting fame behinde me I thank you said the Emperour that you have not performed it and henceforward I will give you no such occasion to shew your Loyaltie and therefore I command you that you neither speake to me nor come to my presence and for all these words he rewarded him I 'le tell you Sancho this desire of honour is an itching thing What do'st thou think cast Horatius from the Bridge all armed into deep Tyber What egged Curtius to launch himself into the Lake What made Mutius burn his hand What forced Caesar against all the