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B07987	Axiochus. A most excellent dialogue, written in Greeke by Plato the phylosopher: concerning the shortnesse and vncertainty of this life, with the contrary ends of the good and wicked. / Translated out of Greeke by Edw. [sic] Spenser. ; Heereto is annexed a sweet speech or oration spoken at the tryumphe at White-hall before her Maiestie, by the page to the right noble Earle of Oxenforde..; Axiochus. English. Spenser. 1592.	Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.	1592 (1592)	STC 19974.6; ESTC S125749	12,676	38

diuinely bewaile and lament the miseries of mans life I will nowe onely in place of many recite the witnesse of one being most worthie of memorie which thus saith How wretched a thred of life haue the gods spun To mortall men that in this race of life do run And againe Of all that in the earth are ordained by nature Than man is not to bee found a more wretched creature But of Amphiaraus what saith the Poet Him loued highest Iupiter and Apollo deare yet could he not reache to his eldest yeare What thinkest thou of him that taught the childe to crie When first the Sunne bright day he seeth with tender eye But I will let them passe least contrarye to promise I seeme to discourse at large and that in the alleadging of forraine witnesses What trade of life I pray you is there or what occupation of which you shall not find many that complaine and greatly mislike of their present affaires Let vs ouerrunne the companies of Artificers craftsmen which continually labour from night to night and yet hardly able to find them necessaries to liue by bewayling theyr bare estate filling their nightwatchings with sorrow and teares Let vs els suruew the life of Marriners and Seafaring men which make a hole through so many dangers which as Bias said are neither in the number of the liuing nor yet of the dead for man being borne to abide vpon the earth dooth as it were a creature of a double kinde thrust himselfe into the maine sea and wholy put his life into the hands of fortune But the life of husbandmen will some say is pleasant and so in deed it is but haue they not a continuall ranckling gall euer breeding new cause of greefe and disquiet sometime by reason of drought sometime because of raine otherwhile for scortching oft through blasting which parcheth the vntimely eare oftentimes because of importunate heate or vnmeasurable colde miserably weeping and complaining But aboue all that honourable state of gouernement and principallitie for I let passe many other things wrap them vp in silence through how many dangers is it tossed and turmoiled for if at any time it haue any cause of ioye it is like vnto a blowne blister or a swelling sore soone vp and sooner downe oftentime suffering a foule repulse which seemeth a thousand times worse then death it selfe For who at any time can be blessed that hangeth vpon the wauering will of the witlesse many And albeit the Magistrate deserue fauour and praise yet is he but a mocking stocke and scoffe of the comminalty being soone after outcast hissed at condemned and deliuered to a miserable death For where I praye thee O Axiochus thee I aske that art in office in the common-wealth dyed that mightie Miltiades where that victorious Themistocles where that valiant Ephialtes where finally thse noble kings and glorious Emperours which not long a goe flourished in the common wealth As for my selfe I could neuer be brought to beare office in the Cittie for I neuer accounted it as a worthie and lawdable thing to be in authority together with the madding multitude But Theramenes and Calixenus of late memorie appointing vnder them certaine Magistrates condemned certaine guiltlesse men not hearing their causes to vndeserued death Onelye withstood them you and Triptolemus of thirty thousand men which were gathered in the assemblie Axiochus It is as thou sayest Socrates and since that time I haue refrained my selfe from the stage neither hath any thing euer to mee seemed of greater waighte then the gouerning of the common-wealth and that is well knowne to them which are in the same office For thou speakest these things as hauing out of some high loft onely ouerlooked the troubles and tempests of the common-wealth but we know the same more assuredly hauing made proofe therefore in ourselues for the common people indeede our freends Socrates is vnthankefull disdainefull cruell enuious and vnlearned as that is gathered together of the scumme and dregs of the rascall route and a sorte of idle losels whome hee that flattereth and feedeth is much worse himselfe than they Socrates Since therefore O Axiochus thou doost so greatly disallow that opinion which of all other is counted most honest and liberall what shall we iudge of the other trades of life shall wee not thinke that they are likewise to bee shunned I remember that I once heard Prodicus say that death pertayneth neither to the liuing nor to the dead Axiochus How meane you that Socrates Socrates Mary thus that death toucheth not them that are and as for those that are departed out of this life are now no more and therfore death now toucheth them not for thou art not yet dead neither if thou decease shall it concerne thee for thou shalt then haue no more Therefore most vaine is that sorrow which Axiochus maketh for the thing which neyther is present nor shall euer touch Axiochus himselfe And euen as foolish is it as if one should complaine and be afraid of Scylla or the Centaures which were monsters of Poets broode which neyther now belong to thee nor to thy liues end shall appertaine for feare is conceyued of such things as be but of such things as be not what feare can there be Axiochus Truely Socrates you haue fetched these things out of the riche and most aboundant Storehouse of your woonderfull wisedome And thereof riseth that your mildenesse and lightnesse of speech which you vse to allure the mindes of yoong men to vertue But the losse of these worldly commodities dooth not a little vexe and disquiet my minde albeit these reasons which now to my great good liking you haue alledged seeme to mee much more allowable than those which late you vsed for my minde is not carryed away with error through the entisement of your words but perceiueth them well neither doe those things greatly mooue my minde which onely haue a colour and shadowed showe of truth being set out with flanting pride and glory of words but yet truth haue they none Socrates Thou art farre wide Axiochus and reasonest vnskilfully ioyning the feeling of euill with the wante of good things forgetting thy selfe that then thou shalt bee in the number of the sencelesse dead For him indeed which is bereft of all good things dooth the contrary force of euill things greatly vexe But he which hath no being can take nor feele nothing in place of those things whereof he is despoiled Then by what reason can any griefe bee conceyued of that thing which breedeth no sence nor perseuerance of any thing which hurteth For if in the beginning O Axiochus thou didst not though indeed in vayne ioyne sence and feeling to death most vnwisely thou shouldest neuer had cause to feare death But now thou doest confound thy selfe and speakest contrarie to thy selfe oft fearing that thou shalt bee depriued of soule and sence together and oft thinking that with thy sence thou shalt feele that thing whereof