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A06421	Certaine select dialogues of Lucian together with his true historie, translated from the Greeke into English by Mr Francis Hickes. Whereunto is added the life of Lucian gathered out of his owne writings, with briefe notes and illustrations upon each dialogue and booke, by T.H. Mr of Arts of Christ-Church in Oxford.; Dialogi. English. Selections	Lucian, of Samosata.; Hickes, Thomas, 1599-1634.; Hickes, Francis, 1566-1631.	1634 (1634)	STC 16893; ESTC S108898	187,997	214

neverthelesse this sleeplesse creature as though hee were to watch a The golden fleece that Jasō and the Argonauts went to fetch was kept by a monstrous dragon that never slept Ovid. Met. the golden fleece beginnes to fall a crowing almost as soone as the day is shut in but be sure I will make thee have small comfort of it for I will cudgell thee welfavouredly for this geare as soone as daylight will give me leave for it would be a trouble to mee to finde the out in the darke Cocke Master Micyllus I thought I had rather deserved thankes at your hands for my earely crowing because being wakened thou mightest goe about thy worke the sooner for if thou canst but get so much time in the morning as to cobble one shoe before sunne rising it will be a good furtherance towards thy dayes worke notwithstanding if it be so that thou take more pleasure to sleepe in thy bed I will be well content to let thee take thy rest and thou shalt finde mee as mute as b Aristotle in his 2. booke de anima cap. 9. speakes of vocall fishes in the river Achelous Plutarch and Athenaeus suppose that the Pythagoreans abstained from eating fish because of their silence thinking it irrelegious to eate of them that observe the same precepts with themselves any fish c The like advise is given by a fisher-man in Theocritus Eidyl 22. to his fellow that dreamed he had taken a golden fish 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A fish indeed friend is your sleepes best theame Lest you be starv'd though in a golden dreame but take heede I say least thy dreaming of riches do not make thee hunger when thou awakest Micyllus O miraculous Jupiter and mighty Hercules what evill doth this portend that my Cocke speaketh with a mans voice Cocke Doth this seeme so great a wonder unto thee that I should speake with the voice of a man Micyllus How can I chuse but thinke it strange and monstrous god send mee good fortune after it Cocke O Micyllus thou now shewest thy selfe a very illiterate fellow and never to have beene conversant in Homers verses for in them thou mayest read how d Xanthus Achilles his horse forgetting his neighing stood talking in the middest of the battell uttering many whole verses together and spake not in prose as I doe now yea hee prophecied and foretold things to come yet was it thought no wonder neither did hee which heard it crie out upon the gods as if he had heard a prodigie but what if the e The first ship that ever was built in which Jason with 54. other Heroes of Thessalia sayled to Colchos for the goldē fleece the keele of this ship was made of the trees of Dodone a wood in Epirus sacred to Jupipiter which trees the Poets say did speake keele of the ship Argo should speake unto thee as in times past the beech tree of Dodone did utter prophecies with a mans voyce or if thou shouldst see the f the Oxen of the sun which Ulisses companions kill'd and rosted Odyss l. 12. v. 395. All this is spoken in derision of Homers poeticall fictions skinnes of Oxen creeping about and heare the flesh lowing when it vvas halfe sodde or rosted and thrust through vvith a spit how vvouldst thou then vvonder But I am much conversant with g The Cocke is therefore said to be conversant with Mercurie because that learning and skill both under Mercuries protection require watchfulnes Mercurie h Mercurie is the god of Eloquence among the Heathen Homer Odyss 8. v. 267. Ovid. Met. lib. 4. lib. 2. de arte amandi the most talkative of all the gods and besides brought up and nourished amongst you men and therfore it can be accounted no hard matter for me to have the speech and voyce of a man Notwithstanding if thou vvilt promise me to keepe my counsell I vvill not sticke to tell thee the very true cause indeed of this my speech and by what meanes I came by it Micyllus But doe I not dreame that my Cock speaketh thus unto me if not then tell me good Cock what other cause there is of thy speech and as for silence thou needst not doubt that I will reveale it to any man for if I should who would beleeve me Cocke Give eare unto me then and I know Micyllus I shall tell thee a strange tale for I whom thou now seest to be a cocke was of late a man as thou art Micyllus I have heard of such a matter as that concerning you Cocks long agoe how that a certaine young man called Alector vvas very familiar with Mars and accustomed to banket and make merry with the god and him hee made privie to all his love so that whensoever Mars went to lie vvith Venus he tooke this Alector along with him and for that he was greatly in feare lest the Sun should espie him and discover him to Vulcan hee alwayes left this young man without at the doore to bring him word vvhen the Sunne approached but as it chanced on a time Alector fell asleepe and unwillingly betrayed the charge committed to him and the Sunne entred in secretly and stood by Venus and Mars vvho tooke their rest without care because they thought Alector vvould give them warning if any were comming Then Vulcan having notice given him by the Sunne took them napping together and wrapt them both within a net hee had before provided for that purpose 1 533se Alector turned into a cocke but Mars as soone as he was set loose in a great rage with this Alector turned him into this kinde of bird with the same furniture which he then had and insteed of an helmet set such a combe as that upon his head for this cause are yee Cockes abhorred by Mars as creatures good for nothing yet to this day when you thinke the Sunne is towards rising you crowe out a great vvhile before to give knowledge of his approaching Cocke Thus the story sayes indeed Micyllus but I mean another matter for I was thus transformed into a cock but a little while sithence Micyllus And by what meanes I pray thee I vvould give any thing in the vvorld to bee truely informed of that Cocke Didst thou know i Pythagoras the Samian Philosopher was the son of Mnesarchus a carver of rings he held that the soules the body dying passed straight into some other and according to the life that it had formerly ledde was honoured with a better as of a Philosopher or other famous man or punish with a base one as of a dogge or asse and to maintaine the truth of this opinion averr'd that hee could well remember that he himselfe had beene in time past in the Trojan warres Euphorbùs the sonne of Panthus who was brother to Hecuba which Euphorbus was slaine by Menelaus Ovid. Met. 15. of the rest of his tenets see his life in Diog. Laert. Pythagoras Micyllus Meanest

made me heire of all hee possest and within a short space deceased Then I entring into his house measured up the gold and silver by vvhole loades vvhich flowed upon mee like the streames of a running river and all his other goods as apparell tables vessels and servants were all indeed mine owne Then was I carryed in a chariot drawne vvith vvhite horses wherein I sate reverenced and regarded of all that saw me many vvent before me many rode about me and more followed me And I having his gorgeous apparrell on my backe and great rings as many as would serve sixteene fingers commanded a sumptuous feast to bee prepared vvhereunto I might invite my friends They as it is in dreames were soone come to me my meate was prepared the drinke set ready in a place by it selfe I being busied herein and taking a golden cup in my hand to drink a health to all my friends the broath being now set on the table in an evill houre thou beganst to fall a crowing thou troubledst our feast overturned the tables scattered abroad those riches and brought them all to nothing and doest thou thinke I complaine of thee without a cause whereas I would gladly have seene that sweet vision three whole nights together Cocke Doest thou so doate upon gold and riches Micyllus that thou delightest only in them and thinkest thou it a happy thing to have a great deale of money Micyllus I am not the onely man Pythagoras of that opinion but even thou thy selfe when thou wast ſ Homer Iliad lib. 17. v. 50. speaking of Euphorbus slaine by Menelaus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 With noyse his clattring armes his corps did quell And blood his Grace-like tresses did besmeare Which with pure gold and silver platted were Danaë vid. the Necromantie Omnis enim res virtus fama decus divina humanáque pulchris Divitiis parent quas qui construxerit ille Clarus erit fortis justus sapiens etiam rex Horat. serm lib. 2. fat 3. Euphorbus hadst thy haire curled with silver and gold wier when thou vventest to fight against the Gracians and in battaile I should thinke it better to bee vvell furnished vvith iron then with gold yet thou in thy greatest perill tookest pleasure to have thy haire platted therewith which made Homer say thou hadst haire like the Graces because it was bound together with gold and silver and no doubt it must needes shew the braver for gold platted in haire vvill make it have a glorious lustre therefore vvhen thou wast the sonne of Panthus thou seemedst to be delighted vvith gold yea the father of all gods and men even Jupiter himselfe the sonne of Saturne and Rhea vvhen hee vvas in loue with that Argolian maide knowing no more lovely thing vvhereinto hee might convert himselfe or vvinne the favour of Acrisius guard became as thou hast heard gold and entring in through the roofe of the house obtained his loue And to vvhat end should I use further speeches in the prayse thereof how many benefits doth gold bring vvith it for vvhoso is furnisht therevvith is made both beautifull wise and valiant it is accompanied vvith credit and honour of base and meane persons it maketh in short space famous and honourable for I am sure thou knowest my neighbour Simon a cobler as I am vvho supped vvith mee not long agoe and put two peeces of pudding in the pot vvhen I sodde pease at the feastes of s Saturnalia it was a great and joyfull feast amongst the Romans celebrated in the month of December friends sending gifts and invitations unto each other and during this feast every one was allowed a freedome and liberty of speech without being lyable to any exception Whence some authors have intitled part of their writings by this name as Macrobius and others Saturne Cocke I knew him vvell hee is a short fellow vvith a hooked nose hee stole away our earthen pipkin under his cloake when he had supped which was all the houshold-stuffe we had I saw him doe it Micyllus Micyllus And yet the knave sorswore it vvhen I charged him with it but why didst thou not then give me warning and crowe as loud as thou couldst vvhen thou sawest us so spoyled of our goods and robbed Cocke I chackled apace and that was all that I could do but vvhat of him me thinkes thou art about to say somewhat of him Micyllus This Simon had a cousen that vvas an exceeding rich man his name vvas Drimylus he as long as hee lived would not bestow one halfe-penny on this Simon And no marvell for he could never finde in his heart to bestow any thing upon himselfe But vvhen he dyed all his goods by the law came to this Simon so that hee that vvas wont to goe in a bare patcht cloake and glad to licke the dishes is now cloathed in purple and violet hath servants chariots Aspetius nihil est humili cùm furgit in altum Claud. golden drinking vessels and tables of Ivorie and so reverenced by all men that he will not so much as looke on me for I hapning by chance to see him not long agoe came to him and saluted him saying Simon God save you but hee being offended hereat said to his servants bid this beggar not clip my name I am not Simon but t Who was a famous Lyrike Poet. Pausan Simonides And vvhich is most to bee noted vvomen doe now fall in love with him and to some of them hee makes the matter daintie and regards them not to others he is favourable and doth grant them his loue and they that are forsaken seeme so much affectioned that they threaten to kill themselves Thou seest then how many good things gold is the cause of so that it altereth the very shape of a man making the uncomely looke handsome and lovely like the u The girdle of Venus which was of that force and efficacie that whosoever wore it it made her seeme most amiable and beautifull and therefore Juno being to lie with Jupiter borrowed this girdle of Venus Iliad 14. v. 219. Euripid. Poeticall Cestum thou hast heard what the Poet saith O gold thou art the sweetest and the welcomest possession And againe it is the gold that hath the dominion amongst all men but good cocke why doest thou laugh so now Cocke To see how ignorance hath deceived thee Micyllus as most men are in these rich men for be it knowne unto thee that they liue a farre more miserable and wretched life then poore men doe I speake by experience that have beene both rich and poore oftentimes and have tryed all sorts of life and so shalt thou doe shortly as well as I. Micyllus Indeed the time now serveth well for thee to tell me of thy transformations and what things thou knowest were done in every one of those lives Cocke Heare me and I will tell thee The meane estate the better but this one

us be of good cheare Endymiō King of the Moone and feare no danger for we should want nothing wee stood in need of and if the warre he was now in hand withall against the Sunne succeeded fortunately we should live with him in the highest degree of happinesse then we asked of him what enemies he had and the cause of the quarrell and he answered f The sonne of Phoebus and Clymene who having obtained leave to ride one day about the world in his fathers Chariot though sore against his will by his unskilfull driving scorcht a great part both of heaven and earth and was therfore strooke dead with a thunderbolt by Jupiter Ovid. Met. Phaethon the King of the inhabitants of the Sunne for that is also peopled as well as the Moone hath made warre against us a long time upon this occasion I once assembled all the poore people and needie persons within my dominions purposing to send a Colonie to inhabit the Morning Starre because the countrie was desart and had no bodie dwelling in it This Phaethon envying crost mee in my designe and sent his Hippomyrmicks to meete with us in the mid-way by whom wee were surprised at that time being not prepared for an encounter and were forced to retire now therefore my purpose is once againe to denounce warre and publish a plantation of people there if therefore you will participate with us in our expedition I will furnish you every one with a prime Vulture and all armour answerable for service for to morrow wee must set forwards The morning there but the evening here with all our hearts said I if it please you then were we feasted and abode with him and in the morning arose to set our selves in order of battell for our scouts had given us knowledge that the enemie was at hand our forces in number amounted to an hundred thousand besides such as bare burthens and enginiers and the foote forces and the strange aids of these fourescore thousand were Hippogypians and twentie thousand The number of their forces that road upon Lachanopters which is a mightie great foule and instead of fethers covered thick over with wort leaves but their wing feathers were much like the leaves of lettices after them were placed the Cencrobolians and the Scorodomachians there came also to aid us from the beare starre thirtie thousand Psyllotoxotanes and fifty thousand Anemodromians these Psyllotoxotans ride upon great fleas of which they have their denomination for every flea among them is as bigge as a dozen elephants the Anemodromians are footmen yet flew in the aire without feathers in this manner every man had a large mantle reaching downe to his foot which the winde blowing against filled it like a saile and they were carried along as if they had beene boats the most part of these in fight were targetiers it was said also that there were expected from the starres over Cappadocia three-score and ten-thousand Struthobalanians and five thousand Hippogeranians but I had no sight of them for they were not yet come and therefore I durst write nothing though wonderfull and incredible reports were given out of them this was the number of Endymions armie the furniture was all alike their helmets of beane hulls which are great with them and very strong their breast-plates all of lupines cut into scales for they take the shels of lupines and fastening them together make brest-plates of them which are impenitrable and as hard as any horne The order of Endymions battell their shields and swords like to ours in Greece and when the time of battell was come they were ordered in this manner The right wing was supplied by the Hippogypians where the King himself was in person with the choicest souldiers in the army amongst whom wee also were ranged the Lachanopters made the left wing and the aids were placed in the maine battell as every mans fortune fell the foot which in number were about sixe thousand Myriades were disposed of in this manner there are many spiders in those parts of mightie bignesse every one in quantitie exceeding one of the Islands g They are in the Aegaean sea in number 53. Cyclades these were appointed to spinne a webbe in the aire betweene the Moone and the Morning Starre which was done in an instant and made a plaine Champian upon which the foote forces were planted who had for their leader The order of Phaetons battell Nycterion the sonne of Eudianax and two other associates But of the enemies side the left wing consisted of the Hippomyrmekes and among them Phaethon himselfe these are beasts of huge bignesse and winged carying the resemblance of our emets but for their greatnesse for those of the largest sise vvere of the quantitie of two acres and not onely the riders supplyed the place of souldiers but they also did much mischiefe with their hornes they were in number fiftie thousand in the right wing were ranged the Aeroconopes of which there were also about fiftie thousand all archers riding upon great gnats then followed the Aerocordakes who vvere light armed and footmen but good souldiers casting out of slings a farre off huge great turneps and whosoever was hit with them lived not long after but died with the stink that proceeded from their wounds it is said they use to anoint their bullets with the poyson of mallows after them were placed the Caulomycetes men at armes and good at handstroakes in number about fiftie thousand they are called Caulomycetes because their shields are made of mushrums and their speares of the stalkes of the hearbe Asparagus neare unto them were placed the Cynobalanians that were sent from the Dog-starre to aid him these were men with dogs faces riding upon winged acornes but the slingers that should have come out of Via lactea and the Nephelocentaures came too short of these aids for the battell was done before their arrivall so that they did them no good The fight indeed the slingers came not at all wherfore they say Phaethon in displeasure over-ran their countrie these were the forces that Phaethon brought into the field and when they were joyned in battell after the signall vvas given and the asses on either side had braied for these are to them instead of trumpets the fight began and the left wing of the Heliotans or Sunne souldiers fled presently and would not abide to receive the charge of the Hippogypians but turned their backs immediately many were put to the sword but the right wing of theirs were too hard for our left wing and drove them back till they came to our footmen who joyning with them made the enemies there also turne their backs and flie especially when they found their owne left wing to be overthrowne Thus were they wholy discomfited on all hands many were taken prisoners and many slaine much blood was spilt some fell upon the clouds which made them looke of a red colour as sometimes they

reposed our selves neare unto the shoare and in the morning put to sea where wee were taken with a violent storme which tost us two daies together and on the third wee fell among the Colocynthopiratans these are a wild kinde of men that issue out of the Islands adjoyning and prey upon passengers and for their shipping have mightie great gowrds sixe cubits in length which they make hollow when they are ripe and cleanse out all that is within them and use the rindes for ships making their masts of reeds and their sailes of the gowrd leaves These set upon us with two ships furnished and fought with us and wounded many casting at us instead of stones the seeds of those gowrds the fight was continued with equall fortune untill about noone at which time behinde the Colocynthopiratans wee espied the Caryonautans comming on who as it appeared were enemies to the other for when they saw them approach they forsooke us and turned about to fight with them and in the meane space wee hoist saile and away leaving them together by the eares and no doubt but the Caryonautans had the better of the day for they exceeded in number having five ships well furnished and their vessels of greater strength for they are made of nut-shells cloven in the midst and cleansed of which every halfe is fifteene fadome in length when wee were got out of sight we were carefull for the curing of our hurt men and from that time forwards went no more unarmd fearing continually to be assaulted on the suddaine and good cause we had for before sunsetting some twentie men or thereabouts which also were pirats made towards us riding upon monstrous great dolphines which carried them surely and when their riders gat upon their backs vvould neigh like horses when they were come neare us they divided themselves some on the one side and some on the other and flung at us vvith dried cuttle-fishes and the eyes of sea-crabs but when we shot at them againe and hurt them they would not abide it but fled to the Island the most of them wounded About midnight the sea being calme wee fell before wee were aware upon a mightie great i Or Kings-fisher Alcyons nest in compasse no lesse than threescore furlongs in which the Alcyon herselfe sailed as shee was hatching her egges in quantitie almost equalling the nest for when shee tooke her wings the blast of her feathers had like to have overturned our shippe making a lamentable noise as shee flew along as soone as it was day we got upon it and found it to be a nest fashioned like a great lighter vvith trees platted and vvound one vvithin another in vvhich were five hundred egges every one bigger than a tunne of Chios measure and so neare their time of hatching that the young chickings might be seene and began to crie then with an axe wee hewed one of the egges in pieces and cut out a yong one that had no feathers which yet was bigger than twentie of our vultures vvhen vvee had gone some two hundred furlongs from this nest fearefull prodigies and strange tokens appeared unto us for the carved goose that stood for an ornament on the sterne of our ship suddenly flusht out with feathers and began to crie Scintharus our pilot that was a bold man in an instant was covered vvith haire and which was more strange then all the rest the mast of our shippe began to budde out vvith branches and to beare fruit at the toppe both of figges and great clusters of grapes but not yet ripe upon the sight of this vvee had great cause to be troubled in minde and therefore besought the gods to avert from us the evill that by these tokens vvas portended And vvee had not past full out five hundred furlongs but vvee came in view of a mightie vvood of pine-trees and cypresse which made us thinke it had beene land vvhen it vvas indeed a sea of infinite depth planted with trees that had no rootes but floted firme and upright standing upon the vvater when vvee came to it and found how the case stood with us vvee knew not vvhat to doe vvith our selves to goe forwards thorow the trees vvas altogether impossible they vvere so thicke and grew so close together and to turne againe with safetie vvas as much unlikely I therefore got mee up to the top of the highest tree to discover if I could vvhat vvas beyond and I found the bredth of the vvood to be fiftie furlongs or thereabout and then appeared another Ocean to receive us vvherefore vvee thought it best to assay to lift up our shippe upon the leaves of the trees vvhich vvere thicke growne and by that meanes passe over if it vvere possible to the other Ocean and so vvee did for fastning a strong cable to our shippe vvee wound it about the tops of the trees and vvith much adoe poised it up to the height and placing it upon the branches spred our sailes and vvere carried as it vvere upon the sea dragging our shippe after us by the helpe of the vvinde vvhich set it forwards at vvhich time a verse of the poet Antimachus came to my remembrance vvherein hee speakes of sailing over toppes of trees vvhen vvee had past over the wood and vvere come to the sea againe vvee let downe our shippe in the same manner as vvee tooke it up Then sailed vvee forwards in a pure and cleare streme untill we came to an exceeding great gulfe or trench in the sea made by the division of the waters as many times is upon land where wee see great clifts made in the ground by earthquakes and other meanes whereupon wee stroke saile and our ship staid upon a sudden when it was at the pits brim redy to tumble in and wee stooping downe to looke into it thought it could be no lesse then a thousand furlongs deepe most fearfull and monstrous to behold for the water stood as it were divided into two parts but looking on our right hand a farre off wee perceived a bridge of water which to our seeming did joyne the two seas together and crosse over from the one to the other wherefore wee laboured with oares to get unto it and over it wee went and with much adoe got to the further side beyond all our expectation Then a calme sea received us and in it we found an Island not very great but inhabited with unsociable people for in it were dwelling wild men named Bucephalians that had hornes on their heads like the picture of c A monster who was halfe a bull and halfe a man begotten on Pasiphae the wife of Minos King of Creete by a bull with which shee fell in love c. Ovid. Met. Minotaurus where wee went ashore to looke for fresh water and victuals for ours vvas all spent and there vvee found water enough but nothing else appeared onely vvee heard a great bellowing and roaring a little way off vvhich wee thought to