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A08907	The heroicall deuises of M. Claudius Paradin Canon of Beauieu. Whereunto are added the Lord Gabriel Symeons and others. Translated out of Latin into English by P.S.; Devises héroiques. English	Paradin, Claude, 16th cent.; P. S., fl. 1591.	1591 (1591)	STC 19183; ESTC S119509	55,195	420

graffest by art sp●igges or twif●es or takest away the branches by violence yet notwithstanding they will bring forth new branches in their owne naturall height The like is in beastes and other naturall things whereof is risen that old adage Thou canst not make a good Goshauke of a Bustard nor a good Courtier of a countrie clowne for as Horace saith The pot a long time doth retaine the smell and eke the tast Of liquor wherewithall it was besmeared at the first And albeit thou doest deuide dame Fortune with a furke Yet she againe togither runnes and there she needs will lurke Cocumque ferar Which way so euer I be carried The shelf●sh or coc●●● fish either of his c●●e or by his forme is alwayes readie to 〈◊〉 this c●imie because which way soeuer he falleth he hath his prickes vpward So the wicked and vngodly do continually hurt and oppresse with extreme miserie those with whom they haue to do Spe illectat inani The world delighteth vs with vaine hope The sweete baites of worldly thinges if they be considered a farre off do promise great things to men and lift them vp into a wonderfull hope but if they be considered neere hand thou shalt finde that they are nothing but meere vanitie and deceipt Such be the snares of batfowlers cunningly framed to intrappe the poore birds Vlterius ne tende obijs Go no further for feare of Gods wrath The power of man neither can nor ought to attempt ought against the power of God as it was reuealed to Valentinus the Emperor Gregory Nazianz. who being infected with the heresie of the Arrians after that he had writ with his owne hand many things concerning the prescription and banishment of Basill he was not able to make an end his penne refusing three times to let downe any more inke Notwithstanding he restrained not himselfe from confirming and ratifying his wicked law and decree before a great trembling inuaded his hand wherewith he being strooken and conceiuing great feare withall what so euer he had writ he rent it presently Haec conscia numinis aetas This age knoweth God aright About the raigne of Augustus Caesar as Plinie beareth record there appeared at Rome a starre garland Plinie or crowne round about the sunne as it had beene of wheate eares with circles of sundrie colours Sueton. Suetonius speaking of this wonder remembreth but of one circle like the rainebowe compassing in the globe of the same But Dion following narrowly the description of Plinie Dion besides that strange starre which then appeared and that vnaccustomed affirmeth also that the light of the sunne was darkened by reason of three other greater circles compassing it about one wherof represented the forme of a garlād of eares Dion addeth farther that the sun gaue somwhat a dimme light now then in the night But this is certaine that our Lord Iesus Christ the true light and true sonne of righteousnes was borne in the dayes of Augustus Caesar whose birth and comming into the world bringing a heape of al goodnes to man might as wel be reuealed by the ministerie of the angels as his passion and death was foreshewed according to the Gospel to wit when the son was obscured and darknesse was throughout al the world But it ought not to seeme strange although the signes and wonders that went before Christs birth were obserued of the heathen albeit otherwise ignorant when as those things which followed his passion and resurrection were had in great estimation to wit the darkenesse being noted by Dionisius Areopagita whilest that wandring thorow Egypt with Apollophanes his schoolemaster he studied Philosophie through the greatnesse of his wit and knowledge Suidas perceiuing the sun to be darkned beyond the course of nature said either the God of nature doth suffer or the engine of the world is dissolued Plinie in his 2. booke Moreouer concerning the earthquake before the resurrection of Christ in Plinie after the iust computation of yeares we find these verses written and recorded An earthquake huge in Caesars dayes Tiberius did befall Where thorow twelue cities of Asia were quite subuerted all Haud sidit inane An egge being emptie swimmeth aloft An egge that is new and full of iuyce being cast into the deepe Plinie Quintil. sincketh downe presently but a rotten one being cast into the water swimmeth a loft So by how much the lesse wisedome is in a man by so much the more doth he bewray his folly by his selfe loue and ambition Vpon the other side how much the wiser a man is so much the humbler and quieter of minde he is and far from all braging and ostentation Infringit solido He breaketh the rocke He that studieth to reproch or to slander the godlinesse or constancie of a wise man the euil it selfe shal light vpon his owne head euen as an arrow shot against a hard stone or rocke resulteth back againe and hurteth him that cast it Sans autre guide Without any guide Brome stalkes or other boughes tyed to stiles or stucke vp by heapes of stones erected by trauellers to direct them in their way signifieth that vertue is the onely guide to euerlasting felicitie Fata obstant Destenies do withstand The getting of riches and desired happinesse is a thing verie hard and vneasie to be come by Adde hereto that pouertie doth greatly hinder the same good proceeding and remoueth the accesse to the same Terit teritur It weares and is worne As a stone sharping of iron by continuall rubbing of the same iron is consumed so the wicked and he that followeth contention vexeth and tormenteth himselfe so that he may bring others to destruction Sic praedae patet esca sui So her meat lyeth open to her own destruction The great commoditie which the fish called a Purple receiueth by his tongue is so much the more to be esteemed because thereby shee getteth her liuing But for that sometimes euill happeneth to her thereby there is she so much the more to feare because by the same she may incurre the danger of death and become a pray to the fishers Euen so standeth the office or dutie of mans tongue whilest it is wisely gouerned it is a most precious iewell contrarily it being giuen to backbiting cogging lying bretheth forth fearefull and deadly poyson whereof it groweth that the common sort cal such a tongue grandem linguam a brode or large tongue or a blabbe tongue Verie wel therefore is it compared to the tongue of a great purple fish because there cleaueth to the palite of her mouth a purple red humor signifying allegorically the cruel poison of an euill speaker a backbiter and a bloodie fellow Candor illaesus Brightnes that cannot be annoied Clemens de Medicis the seuenth of that name Bishop of Rome vsed for his Ensigne a blasing starre or comet Aristotle for the explaining thereof saith Aristotle Euen as euerie newe comet hath neuer heeretofore