feedeth himselfe onely with arrogancie and blinde presumption of himselfe but in the time to come holding him more short I shall be more wary I shall make him euen P. Excuse me Sir I am afraid that conferring too much in dinner while we prolong our table too farre and that the first meate will be digested before the last and so the parts of our meate will be made vnlike in their digestion whereupon proceeds corruption and putrefaction little lesse in a manner then as if eating betwixt meales wee should adde one meale to another A. But see here is better meates rosted Capons Connies Fowle other such like meates euen created for the sonnes of God be not afraid of the dead be of good courage P. I would I had as good an appetite as I haue a courage A. Note how that with one onely clap I take away a thigh with a cleauing blow I cut off a whole wing and with a false redoubled blow and one right downe together I split this capon Take and enioy this for my sake and in the meane while behold a souldier of our age P. I take it not onely for yours but also for mine owne sake too A. Ah ah you tast it and yet it gets vpon you ah P. The gelt Cocke is temperate in all qualities but this is one of the best because it is young well fed and brought vp in the open fields A. Sure I like it well P. Not without good cause by reason it yeelds better nourishment then any other meate it encreaseth venerie it exceedes all other flesh in goodnesse generating perfect bloud making equall all the humours causing a good braine exciting appetite agreeing with all complexions helping the sight fortifying naturall heate so it be not too far for then it is good in all times in all ages and to all complexions wherevpon by many it is called Quapone notwithstanding it is hurtfull to all idle persons to eate much for generating great abundance of bloud it causeth the gout to which infirmitie it is somewhat subiect A. Then wee le taste of some little bird what say you to this P. Vndique angustiae the difference of the nature of birds may be discerned by their season age meate place of residence aire being gelt for when they seeke their Makes whether they be domesticall or wilde they are not fit to feede our bodies Hens being fatted in the Winter and then made tender are best as also the Owsell wilde-Geese Cranes and all kinde of watrish fowle other fowle are better in time of haruest and fruits A. But from whence comes it that their flesh hath diuers tastes P. From the diuersitie of their meates and they are best that continue vpon the hils and that are gelt if it may be done as wee see in Capons and the young are better then the old A. Behold here a wilde Ducke I will make a Chirurgicall Anatomie of it P. The Cooke by cutting off her head hath taken away her motion and by taking out her heart taken away her life and the fire hath consumed all the radicall humour of her body and of her little parts and members so that sir you are come vpon her somewhat too late A. We will eate a little of the breast and for the rest we will follow Martials counsell Caetera redde Coquo P. The Poet entering into the Kitching hath incensed Poetrie with wit The wilde-Ducke is hot and moist in the second degree and is more hot then any other domesticall Bird her wings and lyuer are very commendable they yeelding ready and good nourishment if it be fat it fattens and nourisheth much it makes a good colour with the heate of it it cleareth the voyce augmenteth sperme enflameth lust driues away ventosities and fortifieth the body the lyuer thereof is most delicate and heathfull and cures the hepaticke fluxe her breast and necke is very commendable meate but yet it is hard to digest of grosse nourishment and nourisheth excrements A. But which are least hurtfull P. The wilde and young ones and such as are nipt with faire frosts and if they be eaten in Winter and roasted full of odoriferous hearbes and spices the old ones are as bad but those that roue vp and downe the fields are somewhat the better A. Take away this dish and reach me those same Gold-finches and peck-figges P. Blessed be the winde that brings in such merchandise with a blacke head they are moist and hot in the first degree and they are alwayes welcome to the tables of great men because they are delicate in taste easily digest and nourish preualently they burden not the stomacke but rather comfort restore and fortifie it they rouze vp appetite especially in them that are recouering of any sicknesse they are cordiall they beget vitall spirits and make vs merry but yet they hurt febricitants for by reason of their subtile substance they easily conuert into those putrified humours that are in the stomacke A. Here be fiue two for me and three for you P. But why three for me and two for you A. Because by the praise ascribed to them out of iustice destributiue and merit of superarrogation you ought to haue one more then I. P. Oh oh as you giue them with a good heart so doe I accept them at your hands A. You good man Oxe head reach me that dish of Doues or Pigeons whether you will haue it sir while you may you must needes eate for when death layes hold of vs we shall be eaten P. The more we deuoure with so much the more hast we procure it and doe but fat our selues for the wormes A. Let vs leaue the meditation of these things to melancholick men taste of this Doue for beleeue me it is sauourie P. They are hot and moist in the second degree your wild ones are lesse moist but those of the Doue-house are more hot that beginne to seeke abroad for their meate these are fatter but both these and house ones nourish well make good bloud are excellent for old men and flegmatickes they corroborate the legges cure paraletickes augment heate in the weake help Venus purge the reynes and easily digest Being vsed in time of the plague without eating any other flesh they preserue from contagion assists the spirits of the sight aide the trembling of the body and encrease force but yet enflaming the bloud they offend those that are hot of complexion Your vvilde ones and those of the house tame are hardest of digestion and inclining to agues A. We will then leaue them to paraliticks old men and flegmatickes to the end they may not affect our heads with griefe vvhere is the Pheasant vvhich I appointed should be made ready P. It is at the fire A. This is but your tricke sir to steale it for your selfe vvhat mouth of a Pheasant ah set it vpon the table that it may be swept vp P. Oh well met I am afraid this good companion comming as
Which onely makes vs like vnto the Gods B. Hee that tries not knowes not and hee that knowes not esteemes not and herein consists a great part of our ruine F. Rome all men know triumphed once Happy sometimes but base vnhappy now And yet I thinke that antient valour cleane Is not extinguisht quite in harts Italian If this be true how can it then support What Nature wils not nor is requisite T'impouerish others to enrich her selfe B. Ah we must haue other manner of matter then verses to driue the old Foxe out of his den F. Let the proud and wretched poore Italians Consume each other taking meane while no care To shake off cruell Tyrants heauy yoake But to be nourisht with owne hurts and harmes B. O good Maister the scauld comes out of the head and there is no remedy before the head be cured F. You to whose hand Fortune the bridle giues Of those faire countryes Being blinde what helps it thus to heape vp wealth Returne all to your antient Mothers wombe Your name now scarcely any where resounds And yet it seemes no pittie doth you binde A grieuous burden t is great taxes to maintaine Your hunger will at last be fasting left Your thoughts shall passe for one houre separates What in a thousand yeares hath gathered beene And this your life so godly in appearance Shall in one morning quickly be extinct And what hath purchased beene in many yeares Wretched in truth poore and blinde sottish men That place their pleasure here in such like things Which time so sodainely doth carry and sweep away B. When God doth but awake himselfe euery iocound laughter is turned into most vnhappy lamentation F. If anger in a iust heart Boyle long The slower it is the more it hurts Oh heauenly Iustice that more slow it is At last more waighty it fals delay no more The Commet shines in the inflamed aire That notes the change of states of kingdomes raigne Though ominous it shine to Tyrants proud To th'Iust yet peace it giues warre to their enimies B. Me thinkes all this is but a loosing of time F. Dost thou not know how God vseth to worke sometimes he is slow to beginne yet is hee ready to execute Dixit et facta sunt mandauit et creata sunt At last rowse vp thy selfe faire Italy Anger was neuer any tempestuous furie In a breast magnanimous But onely a blast of generous affection Which breathing in the soule VVhen most of all to reason t is vnite It wakes and makes it apter to braue action From hence time forth rowse vp thy selfe O Italy The iniurie thou endurest is not a ieast The hard bit is no slender slauery Much honour is gain'd in making iust reuenge I will not say on goe too take vp Fire and sword burne and destroy But so twixt sword and sword open a way For if by chance Feare in this case should vanquish vertuous shame Flie then the light with other beasts in companie Goe and enrage on mountaine tops in Woods But so if with thy valour thou procure A state more free a foule more beautified Heauen thee exalt and second thy attempts With winde and water to thine owne braue minde B. If the Italians be vassalles to others and as if all seede of vertue were rooted vp in them support so many oppressions this I beleeue comes from the bridle of conscience F. Speakest thou in good earnest or doest but iest What must saue vs more then conscience B. Conscience cannot binde vs to vniust things besides they say it saues and so I beleeue but yet we may euen feele with our hand that vnder this cloake euery one pilles and pulles his companion F. In your talke sir haue a Cranes necke be perspicuous to discerne warie and vigilant in all things with both your eares open and readie to hearken to that which belongs to you and while you are in the world according to the worldly waues rise vp with those that mount aloft and fall with those that discend downe but aboue all things looke not too high for herein consists all the errour that of Apelles lines others will iudge besides Protogenes and finally take heede thou fantasticall foole that playing too long with the launce it become not a spindle our Tassus saying That often suddaine flights doe meete With present precipice full neere at hand All thinges vvere once created good and to a good end B. I thinke any one may perceiue that some are good and some are bad F. You would say as I suppose that The middle and end doth fit the first beginning But my good Bulugante thou must conceiue that all proceeded from an excellent cause who made all things good because you know well that good disposeth to good but the condition of present things is to corrupt with time or like an arrow to haue lesse force in the length of his flight and hereupon we see that vertue is oftentimes changed into vice and good orders commuted into great disorders as also the lawes of equitie and pietie into most vniust crueltie And therefore to come neere our first intention Signories Empires Monarchies Principalities euen as wee may reade were first instituted for common good and for peoples peace and defence but in their beginning they being onely chosen who were of an Heroicall spirit such as were not addicted to auarice and to other mens preiudice to heape vp treasure nor to prodigality to the peoples ruine but onely to good gouernment not onely for the preseruation of their owne states but of common and publike good Here they gaue publike audience to the oppressed they would not be blinded nor dazeled with vaine and whispering flatterers nor from those that set both praise and dispraise but euer maintained an vpright vnderstanding of a true gouernment But now it being proper to Tyrants to feare they minde nothing but the building of Fortresses to munifie Cistadells and gold preuailing aboue either the force of many or the sword to lay vp treasures with impositions to flea the skinne ouer euery mans shoulders And yet wee reade that towles and customes were anciently a laying of Impositions vpon the Subiect onely for the ornament sustentation maintenance and strength of the Common-wealth and publike good And these offices for a certaine annuall rent were let out to Romane Knights that is old souldiers who with their valour and seruice performed for the liberty and glory of their Country had deserued it but now you see to what vile infamy like an inueterated French poxe they are come In Italy all men laugh murmure and exclaime at them the sencelesse patients like silly sheepe with a submisse voice are alwaies lamenting but the greater pittie they shape or cal for impositions growing day after day the more bitter fruites they receiue of greater crueltie B. But my deere Maister Falsorino I would there were not worse in the
E. Wonder not seeing this is not a mutation but onely a following of the windes and temporizing in occurrents and for ciuilities sake onely a not contradicting of him that I loue A. I like all well and as you haue supported my opinion so will I vphold yours E. They who embraced the aboue mentioned opinion and with your fauour it cannot be denyed as many others haue defended a great folly in that they would haue the soule or minde to be a temperature and to proceede from naturall temperature so as there should be an indissoluble vnion betwixt these two and so that this temperature corrupting in the principall parts both the body and soule comes to be dissolued which being framed thereof when it failes that also vanisheth away A. Euen as the foundation whereupon this is grounded is false so is the opinion it selfe false besides let vs consider the nature and condition of customes they being called customes because they proceede not from nature but from vse and custome whereunto with time and continuall action a man is inured whereupon it followes that if the said customes should depend on temperature not by custome but out of Nature it would be requisite that as other things doe they should also follow bodily temperature E. I make no doubt of this for it giuing forme it must needes also giue all that which followes forme and so customes would not be customes A. This aboue alledged may also be proued by experience we seeing oftentimes that reason hath had predomination ouer temperature as we may see in those vertuous men who being luxurious by nature neuerthelesse eyther by vertue or to liue longer for Animalia quae crebrius coeunt citius pereunt humour radical consuming through too often coniunction or else through auarice or by not hauing whereon to liue they yet preserue themselues chaste E. For breuitie and greater ease concealing other reasons the same may be proued by the example of Socrates and Stilpho the Megarensian produced by Alezander Aphosinus and Cicero which gift they could neuer haue obtaned if custome had proceeded from nature and that temperature had swaied and gouerned it A. The experience and practise of the law ouer all Europe and other-where shewes as much for according to the saying of the diuine Philosopher when the Iudge seeth any to be incorrigible and like an infistolated vlcer incurable as one vnworthy of his life for the example of others he is by the Magistrate condemned to death E. Galen who fauoured the contrary part perswaded to execute the same course that so the rauenous and diabolicall brood with others of peruerse minds and natures might be bridled and if it were otherwise then hath beene set downe we ought not for abuses to correct men but Nature to what end and purpose also doe wee thinke that God in his Lawes promised reward to the good and punishment to the wicked if a man had not power to act freely A. And I to speake smoothingly as you did will in like manner alledge what Galen answeres to this point when hee saith that wee loue the good and hate the bad some we kill and others we preserue because the one offends and the other are vertuous out of their owne election but naturally the good things of men be to be preserued and the bad to be annihilated if it be possible wee kill Vipers Scorpions and poysonfull flyes which are not such of themselues but are so constituted by nature and God himselfe wee loue or ought to loue and yet he was not borne good but was good from all eternitie and yet not of himselfe nor through his owne election E. Conceiue sir that Galen being wholy intentiue to cure bodies was blinde in things pertaining to the soule A. Besides in my opinion we must consider that it is one thing to speake of the good or euill things of the minde and of customes and another to speake of the good or euill of nature E. Customes proceeding from our wils and elections are counted good or euill but it is otherwise in things proceeding from nature and therfore the comparison of the mind with the poison of Vipers is most vniust poison being an euill of nature yet not absolutely euill but onely in that it is contrary to vs and hereupon we kill vipers not because they are bad but because they are hurtful the law alledging Vim vi repellere licet and so we kill our enemies because otherwise we cannot preserue our selues and therefore we lawfully take from them their life not to kill them but for owne defence and in the act of killing them we intend not so much their killing as we doe our owne safety A. Moreouer the lawes iudge onely of those cases which pertaine to customes the which they doe for the censuring only of that which is in our owne power but so they iudge not of those cases depending on the things pertaining to nature E. Neither in like manner doe we see the pale blacke euill fauoured or blinde lame or hunch-backt by nature so reproached by these defects as vitious that is in that they were so borne as if by God and nature they were thus marked for the most vitious A. Neither doe the lawes prohibit them to be so but yet the vitious and euill accustomed we correct reprehend and punish because they are such not of their owne nature but rather by their owne wils E. But what shall we say to that which Galen alleadgeth about the diuinitie of God A. All the things which absolutely shew perfection in vs are in God himselfe more then in a superlatiue degree Hereupon partly for this and partly also because from him as from the liuely onely fountaine treasure and mine of all our happinesse all good whatsoeuer doth flow deriue and proceede therefore in all reason he is onely worthy of all honor and finally he depending on no other but whatsoeuer he hath he hath it from no other cause nor influence but euen from himselfe he is in all places celebrated for the greatest most excellent and onely called immortall E. But what say you to the other reason produced which is that a wicked man being vnworthy of his life is condemned to death to preserue the good for an example to the wicked A. Galen ioyneth with Hippocrates in this that the soule is nothing but a temperature and that by temperature and of temperature customes and other such like things doe spring and proceede and the contrarie hereto which is barbarous rudenesse inciuilitie and brutishnesse and it clearely appeares that by death the temperature complexion of the minde cannot be changed and according to the foresaid Authors the soule being generate out of temperature and being in it selfe nothing but a temperature to the perfection thereof it should seeme those things are onely requisite which stand with temperature why this temperature is wholly disanulled by death and so this errour and falsity
kinde that is to bodily good as also many times to things that haue onely an appearence of good as to pleasures with all adiuncts and coniuncts therein which are in a manner infinite then this miserable creature begins to diuert from the good whereunto the intellect of his nature excites and enuites him And therefore wee see man out of his owne nature in euery degree to seeke after good but by reason of the vnion of the two degrees that is of sence and reason accidentally the one vvithdrawing him from true good hereupon a man is said naturally to encline to vice rather then vertue the which enclination bending or corruption of his owne will he following he followes and giues himselfe in prey to all euill and so remaines a seruant of sinne and guilty of death A. Thus then following sence and kicking against reason and his sensitiue part hauing predomination ouer his intellectiue man by this meanes is disarmed of all vertue naked of good works disroabed of commendable customes bare of all good qualities without forme of brotherly loue he remaines like an infernall monster depriued of all good fashion or any true vrbanity and not in euery thing vnperfect but further he appeares most vitious discouering himselfe not to be the sonne of God but rather a true heire of Hell E. So as it seemes your meaning is that God made him a man and he makes himselfe a beast His father begot him a Gentleman and he makes himselfe a Micanick he was noble by his race and he makes himselfe ignoble and so on the contrarie the Plebeian with vertue and good customes makes himselfe commendable and raiseth himselfe to a greater state and calling A. And yet notwithstanding those that are such by naturall enclination if they be well brought vp it will fall out otherwise for by this meanes they being instructed made reasonable and more wise they may surmount their natiuity ouercome their constellation and reforme their starre or Planet E. But this hee may more easely obtaine if nature doe but aide and fauour him and when his owne composition shall be enclinable thereunto then if it be altogether repugnant A. I affirme as much but with this prouiso that if customes follow temperature they follow it not as an equall cause because temperature is also requisite in plants and mettals but then they haue no neede of customes neither doe they it as a proper cause because that which is vitall doth finish and is made perfect with knowledge as customes are E. And therfore the first customes enclinations vnto them do not follow temperature as a principal cause but as a farre lesse then the principall it being ordained to serue the soule which it followes as the principal matter instrument but the iudgment of the sences and vertue imaginatiue must be their principall cause A. Behold another obseruation that those things which follow temperatures are of two sorts some follow it so necessarily as they cannot be herein corrected as sauors odors colors and such like which follow Temperature as their principall and equiualent cause some follow it but so inseparably but are of such a nature as that by endeuour exercise and vse they may be corrected and of these kinds are perturbations and customes E. It is very probable because the reason of their varietie proceeds because they require knowledge and in part submit themselues thereunto A. And yet if wee doe but well consider the perturbations of the minde we shall finde that some of them doe necessarily follow some Temperature as folly and fury they being so vehement as they cannot by reason be corrected but further they bring vs vnder the vse thereof And hereupon fooles are not subiect to the penall lawes it not being in the power of the patient to gouerne it so as it needs neither law nor admonition but onely Elleborus neyther can such these being not onely perturbations but rather infirmities which dazle and blind the superior parts by good discipline or good education be corrected and amended E. And hereupon it comes to passe that the affections of the minde doe follow temperature more in beastes or men like to them which are incapable of reason then in wise men who make vse of the gifts of reason A. I beasts being in no sort subiect to reason nor discipline they wholy follow temperatures but in such creatures which may be corrected and are capable of instruction as dogges birds others they may be changed in part the which notwithstāding is performed by means of another mans reason E. So it is but a man may be corrected and taught if he will by his owne reason other creatures by the reason of man A. But haue you not many times seene it happen to the confusion of man that he by his owne peculiar giftes teacheth birds and instructeth beasts when he himselfe will neuer be taught nor well accustomed but rather growes more and more dissolute like a brute beast E. More a thousand times and yet neuerthelesse because of reason customes doe properly belong to man for if they be true customes they are not separated from reason but from it they proceede as from their proper fountaine A. But what say you to the first motions and customes of loue with some others are they in our power E. In that they subuert reason it seemes they are not in our power but I beleeue they are partly within our facultie because by customes nurture discipline and education they may be disposed mannaged and habituated in vertue as besides their proper inclination such passions may not raigne and predominate in vs neither exceede the bounds of reason nor corrupt good customes or honest and honourable proceedings though the Stoicks stoically haue held the contrarie A. But once againe I doubt whether that be true which before you alleadged that temperature was the instrument of perturbations and customes considering that the institution and plots of Artificers doe not change through the variety of instruments but from the instinct of temperature there followes hereof a diuers inclination and different desire of the minde or a perturbation if you so please to call it E. Temperatures are not materiall instruments like those of Artificers but the instruments in some respects so as they come to be the prickes excitements and spurres of perturbations they being a part of him that liues but not separate from him liuing as Handy-craft instruments are and therefore a diuersis non sit illatio a good consequence cannot be drawne from diuers things A. Wee will therefore conclude that to forme and reforme a mans customes be he barbarous or rude ciuill or politique the influence of the heauens and starres as common causes fatall destenie being the same with nature and onely distinguished there-from by reason which by nature frame and compound this organicall body in diuers manners and temperature as matter and excitement and instrument doth help and further it E. It is
our Italian Pedants was as good as hee vvho being possest with Pedanticall quintiscence and saluting an host who vvas a friend of his he said Aue pincerna deifico salue maestro de condimenti lautissimi dij te audiuuent sacrario di tutti ij fercoli opiperi E. As also another who being minded to reuile a whore said Questa lupa romulea ha sempre l' occhio ne loculi ne mai si vede col viso cithereo fin tanto che non è della sua ingluuie omninamente satia A. Why and what lesse was that other who being in a thread-bare cloake his pantofles and stockings downe came into Faenza market in Romaina to buy certaine necessary things there came a toy into his head of a sodaine to goe to Rome at least eight dayes iourney off for a foote-man and asking the way he said ditemi elegante viotore qual è il Germanico itinere de peruenire alla di città Romulo E. Beleeue me they are all Esops not to make fables but to haue fables made of them E. Rather you may say they beginne like vvise men but end like fooles A. They take themselues to be great Rookes but in effect they pooue but ridiculous pawnes E. If you marke the more fooles they seeme the more wittie and acute they are A. But with your fauour good sir what is he in the gowne that comes towards vs with his head in his bosome as if he were fishing his soule out of hell E. Why doe you not know him neyther by his fame nor by his person he is like another Tully or Dâ—mosthenes raised vp he pleadeth before the Iudges with vnderstanding and reason defending causes with the greatest arte hee can for his owne greater profit and like a valiant souldier not vvith his Target or symitar but with his tongue made by nature for the same purpose he boldly encounters and profligates euery opposite either false or true reason A. Why then he is a bloudlesse Souldier but I pray you sir doe but obserue what Bede said all iustice out of doubt would perish if there were none to vrge and demand it and you know that in all reason euery labour requires a reward E. For my part I cannot but commend this profession the Aduocate being tearmed honourable in the Codex and his stipend honourable and the more I esteeme him this employment being so noble and commendable that S. Ambrose was an Aduocate in Rome for eleauen yeeres with S. German and many others A. But I pray you let vs lay aside remote matters by his horse his apparrell his seruants in Liuery by his rich roabe the plentifull table he keepes and honourable house hee holds and maintaines and the reuenues he augments I doe not but thinke he gets yeerely very much E. Beleeue it sir he is a cocke that sleepes not but he flutters and scrapes hard A. Wo be to that purse where he ruffles and yet these honorable roabes are but befitting his honourable profession as also to gaine more reputation with the people before the Iudges E. This is no shallow deuise but a speciall and great Art herevpon Demosthenes before he rose to any great credit hee went very well apparrelled A. I confesse that the heart of man which delights much in winde and is comforted therewith receiueth speciall satisfaction from outward habite and also the eye it begetting in vs a certaine reuerence towards the well clad and therefore Iustinian in his Proeme commended Papinian very much because he alwayes went well apparrelled E. Moreouer this is confirmed in the Prouerbe Hunc homines honorant quem vestimenta decorant Vir bene vestitus pro vestibus esse peritus Creditur à multis quamuis idiota sit ille Si careas veste nec sis vestitus honeste Nullius es laudis quamuis sis omne quod audis A. But here is the point of all when the body shines the soule is often tormented E. Doe you not remember him that tooke a iarre of oyle promising to fauour and defend a certaine cause but then taking bribe of a fatte hogge of the other partie hee neglected his plea to the great preiudice of the other Clyent whereof hee complaining the good Aduocate answered excuse mee sir there came a fat hogge into my house and spilt the iarre of oyle you gaue me A. I promise you hee is a deare marchant selling his silence and his roaring and gaping all at one rate E. But what thinke you of his sundry tearmes his demourrers his negatiues suppensions testimonies God knowes how appeales with a thousand other inuentions which are no other but fraudulent lime-twigges traps and nets A. You may also annexe to this how with a Pilates conscience prosecuting a cause it neuer comes to any issue while they thunder out requiem aeternaÌ„ vpon the shoulders of that poore vnfortunate client who like the chicken is fallen iust into the Kites clawes to be torne and deuoured E. It happeneth likewise many times that by some long adiourment obtained vpon false allegations they imbarke him for the hospitall sending all the sutors children to the high-way to begge A. Of this kinde of Lawyers in my opinion Sidonius spake very well when he said how that in taking of bribes they were very Harpies in pleading for their clients worse then statues for contention and brabbles beasts infernall in conceiuing more incapable then rockes in giuing sentence images of wood in alledging reasons for the raising of some plea and to excite some great sute and flame of dissention they were worse then mount Aetna in pardoning they had diamant hearts that they were Leopards in their amities rough Beares in their iestes Foxes in their deceits Buls in their pride and in spoiling and ouerthrowing of their clyents farre exceeding any monstruous Minotaure E. You make me remember that which an honest friend once told me in Italie which by euill fortune had a sute in hand the which after many yeeres comming to a iudgement hee put all the writings any wayes appertaining to his cause in a bagge and gaue then to his man and when he was come to his Aduocates house he asked his wife for him who was as he told me by how much the more faire by so much the lesse good she affably and simpringly answered that he was gone forth and so this honest Gentleman deliuered his writings to the Mistresse of the house very humbly A. Humbly say you where no vertue is there humilitie doth but offend E. Entreating her that she would vouchsafe in his name to deliuer vnto her husband that bagge of writings which were all necessarie for his cause in hand and he entreated Mr. Doctor her Husband that hee would draw a Booke to intimate to the Iudge his reasons and hee would be very thankfull to him A. To the purpose whosoeuer is not trustie hardly trusts another E. This woman promised to doe his message and so she did but when the Lawyer
heard these words and saw the writings but receiued no money he cast them in a corner saying there is time there is time enough The morning following my friend met with his Aduocate who partly for common courtesie partly for ciuilitie and partly also for his owne necessary occasions very orderly saluting him he presently demanded what hee thought of his writings to whom the Lawyer with a faint sigh and the eyes of a dead hogge in his head made answere that as yet hee could finde out no good foundation wherupon in conscience he could moue that the sute hung yet doubtfull and that he prayed God his case proued not desperate A. God grant with a poxe to him God in his mouth and an old fistula in his heart E. The Gentleman who was very circumspect and knew vvell of vvhat legge his Asse halted and where his shooe wroung him when he vnderstood all vvent home and because his matter vvas very important he put three hundred crownes of gold into a bagge and tooke withall some other writings nothing at all to the purpose and so tying the bagge he with his seruant vvent to the Lawyers house A. Marry this vvas the vvay to make him vveepe for ioy E. Not finding him at home now as before hee deliuered this bagge to Mistresse Doctoresse requesting her as before that shee should entreat her husband to looke on those writings and that hee would shake the bagge well for he might finde very preualent reasons for his defence vvhen the Doctor heard this newes more for disdaine then for any other respect he emptyed the bagge and found that without which he had sworne to doe nothing A. As soone as the hungry Wolfe hath met with the sheepe she serues him for a pray E. Not long time after they meeting both together the Aduocate presently with many complements preuenting this partie said be of good cheare man I haue sound out such a point as vndoubtedly I thinke all vvill goe vvell vvith you and then hee framed him such a trauerse vvith so many reasons authorities glosses common opinions tryals of cases and adiudgements as vvere able to haue amazed a Milan Senate to haue plunged all the Professours of Padua and bring to a non-plus all the learned Maisters of Paris A. Gold makes a golden tongue and sentence what thinke you of those Oracles of Belzebub E. I tell you in truth that when I was a young man I read in a booke held very authentick in Italy that an Aduocate Procuror Sollicitor or Notarie whether he were being one euening in a certaine street at the window about Sun-set hee saw a Country-man who not onely with his voice and cries but also with good thumps and blowes forced an Heard of diuers beasts to enter into a Stable but when hee could not being all in choler he said get yee in in the Diuels name as all Aduocates Procurors and Lawyers goe into hell which when he had said the beasts sodainly entred wherefore this good Lawyer abandoning the vvorld made himselfe one of the poorest and desperatest Friers that was in the Country A. To tell you my opinion it cannot be denied but that the Cinthian law of the Romanes was in part lawfull by which Lawyers were forbidden to take any reward the which Law was disanulled through the reasons and entreatie of Appius Claudius to the end that all hope of reward being remoued young men should not giue ouer this practise or else plead with the more frigiditie and negligence E. To this one might reply that if Lawyers were negligent to proceede Cliants would also be as slow and backward to sue and contend A. Let vs suffer the world to flie with her waight and runne with her feet Sutes are the pennance of some who are like Hiberbolus Procles for they are of so litigious a nature as they are neuer satisfied with ioyning sute to sute and to pick quarrels with their neighbours and if they could euen like bloud-suckers they would suck the substance of euery one and strip euery one to furnish themselues E. God sends such as sacrifices to Notaries Sollicitors Procurors and Aduocates to the end that with their haire they may flay off their skinnes vvith their skinne their flesh and with their flesh that they may deuoure their very entrailes and with such subtilty that the silly sheepe neither bleathing nor complaining are not only flayed but deuoured as a sacrificiall offering is consumed in the fire neither which is worse being vnder a colour of dispatching one sute craftily brought into many others know their miserie but in the end Therefore truly To these men may be sayd is giuen th' art Of selling words or rather lies and trickes A. Notwithstanding I haue knowne many of them which haue beene and are the true likenesse of a fayre Image of a goodly white and pure Virgin of a royall aspect with eyes that sparkle foorth most sweet flames of fire in an honourable mysteriall and ciuill habit of a kingly and rare iesture conformable to her rare beauty amongst whom I remember that famous Sir Chistopher Yeluerton a most worthy Iudge of the Kings Bench and a deseruefull Knight of a vertuous faire and pure minde and not lesse pious and clement in equitie then vehement in administring incorrupted Iustice of a deepe insight in euery thing eloquent sage graue and in a word the true effigie of his Maiestie whom he representeth of whom and his like me seemeth that S. Ierome spake saying It is not for euery man to iudge but for those that are wise whom therefore I doe worthily reuerence and shall deseruedly honour for euer But in good faith not those amongst whom that saying is verified Pauper dum non habet quod offerat non solum audiri contemnitur sed etiam contra iustitiam opprimitur And of such citò auro violatur iustitia iustificatur impius pro muneribus iustitia iusti aufertur ab illo And all this commeth to passe for the not obseruing of the precept in Exodus non accipietis munera quae excaecant occulos sapientium peruertunt verba iustorum And such did vnworthily begin to studie the lawes and sit amongst the others the text saying noli querere fieri Iudex nisi valeas virtute irrumpere iniquitates ne forte extimescas faciem potentis or if they feare not the great ones nor be corrupted with gold be yet oftentimes blinded with affection for Personam iudicis exuit qui amicum induit which truly is a capitall crime preferring his owne priuate gaine to the publique good his owne interest to scandall iniustice to iustice and profit to honestie E. But marke I pray you how we goe from bad to worse hee is gone who with his owne or vnder a pretext of defending doth much more confound the lawes and behold shee commeth who first breaking caused and doth cause what lawes she will to be violated and transgressed