cannot yeeld vnto God to whom vengeance belongeth and from whom wee must all acknowledge our liues liuing and liberty to proceed This Varchi spake when Lodouico Dulce began the deliuery of his Opinion that if that were true which all confessed that the rarest and most prized greatnesse that might be considered in a Prince was to disarme with facilitie and without danger one of his war-like Generals and to receiue of him exact and conformable obedience for all that that this Generall did aforehand know and long before his returne how his Prince grew in suspition of his loyalty or in dislike of his seruice Then this custome vsual in the state of Venice deserued more to be wondred at then any other to be able to disarme with great ease their Generals and Admirals at Sea Yea and at such time when they vnderstood how the Senate was earnestly bent to punish them at their returne notwithstanding that they found themselues very strong beloued of their souldiers and powerfull enough to offend the State or to defend themselues from shame it alwayes fell out that assoone as euer they were sent for they readily and presently obeyed voluntarily they resigned ouer their charge and publike command and withall speed hastned to Venice to be sentenced by their friends and Citizens though with Capitall punishment which they willingly endured rather then to hazard the losse of their Countrey by vnnaturall innouations and ciuill warres So deare vnto them is the care of the Common safetie The most excellent Venetian Lady who without answering any thing to the Vertuous aboue-named had attentiuely heard all these commendable Orders and admirable Prerogatiues said to Dulce that the matter which he related was indeed of great consequence yet not so rare but that the Ottoman Emperours likewise participated of the like benefit Howbeit neuerthelesse there was one singular Prerogatiue which she most exactly possessed and wherein she excelled all other Principalities as well of the ancient as present times whereto she acknowledged and ascribed all her Greatnesse the which as yet she did not heare any of them as much as touch Then spake Hieronymus Mercurialis that while he read the Physicke Lecture at the Vniuersitie of Padua hee knew some of the Plebeian and common sort at Venice that went in their Gundoloes to disport themselues vpon the water with some young Courtezans according to their common custome and there being mightily misused by certaine young Noble-men whom they casually met it chanced that these Plebeians slew one of them in the affray For which offence vpon complaint made by the parties friends the Plebeians were sent for by the Iudges who although they knew the power of the Law to be in the hands of the Nobilitie whom they had offended neuer fled but trusting in the vprightnesse and integrity of the Senate and Magistrates they doubted not to appeare before them and to yeeld themselues prisoners Neither did their hopes faile them for vpon consideration of the cause giuen in euidence for their defence how they were prouoked first by those young Noble-men they were enlarged and pronounced innocent to the honour of the Venetians vncorrupted Iustice so that neither powerfull parentage greatnesse of friends nor abundance of wealth can blinde and diuert the Iudges of Venice to wrong any man Last of all these vertuous States-men spake the most learned Hermolaus Barbarus that in a free State Tyranny begins then to vsurpe and worke when the most weightie secrets concerning the generall good of the Common-wealth are communicated to a few Senators And for this cause the most Soueraigne Lady of Venice to auoid shipwreake on that dangerous rockie shelfe imparted her Secrets and deliberated the designes and pragmatickes of greatest import wherein her state was interessed in her highest Court of Magistracy or Parliament of the Pregadi a number cōsisting of two hundred and fiftie Senators and vpwards and to him it appeared to be a miraculous thing how the Venetian State could finde among so great a number of Senators that Secrecie which many great Potentates for all their exquisite diligence and large entertainment of gifts and rewards had bootlesse sought in one only Secrtarie or in a couple of Counsellors of State At these words the most excellent Venetian Lady laid her hand on the shoulders of Barbarus and pronounced this verdict Now thou hast hit the naile on the head and named that most pretious Iewell wherein I most glory and prize my selfe aboue all other States and for which indeed I ought to be iustly emulated and enuied at seeing that nothing else appertaines for the true gouernment and managing of State-businesse more necessary than Secracie CHAP. 11. The Doctors of the Chaire hauing admitted into their Vniuersitie some famous Poeticall Ladies Apollo commands them to be dismissed home to their Families THe famous Doctors of the Chaire about a few moneths past admitted the most vertuous Ladies Victoria Colonna Laura Terracina and other learned Poeticall Ladies of Parnassus into their Academicall Corporation where they vsed times to resort to their publike exercises But it chanced so that many Schollers enamoured with the beautie of these Ladies did not only flocke oftner than they were accustomed into the Schooles whensoeuer they vnderstood that these Ladies repaired thither but also consumed their pretious time and wits in composing of amorous Sonnets which they dedicated vnto these Ladies as if they were Goddesses with such rare conceits and lofty tunes as eclipsed the glory of the Muses themselues At length the sauour of these Sonnets though fragrant and sweet in the Schollers apprehensions offended Apolloes diuine nostrills worse than the stinke of a Blackamore For which cause before the end of these Ladies probationship and their matriculation his Maiestie charged the Cathedrall Doctors to dismisse them out of the Vniuersitie His reason was because he well saw out of his Diuine knowledge that the true poetry of women were the Needle the Distaffe and the Wheele and that the Schoole exercises of Ladies among Vniuersitie men might well be likened vnto the dalliance and playing of Dogs which after some fained snarling catching and gamesome tossing one another doe conclude their sport in riding and mounting vpon their play-fellowes backs CHAP. 12. The Lady Victoria Colonna intreats of Apollo that the infamie which women incurred for cuckolding their Husbands might likewise extend to adulterous Husbands Apolloes answer THe most Excellent Lady Victoria Colonna a Princesse of exemplarie chastitie about three daies past appeared in his Maiesties Court of Audience and in the name of all womankind said that they all loued the excellencie of chastitie which was naturally giuen them for a most particular vertue that they did not awhit enuy Courage a vertue attributed to mans sexe because they well knew that a Lady without the soule of chastitie which renders her odoriferous to the world was but a stinking carcasse yet notwithstanding it seemed vnto them that they had much cause to grieue and
rightly to gouerne Empires All which things Princes by reason of the seditious inuention of Tacitus could no longer effect or bring to passe it being most euident that the Diabolicall spectacles framed by that euer-factious and seditious man besides the first qualitie as hath beene said to subtilize and sharpen the sight of the vulgar people they produce also a second most pernicious effect that is to be so well and fitly fastned to the noses of all men as it is no longer possible for Princes as heretofore they haue done with no lesse facilitie than profit to themselues to cast dust into their subiects eyes though it were of the most artificiall and superfinest that possibly could be without plainly discouering that they are cheated cozened and deceiued The complaints and grieuances of the Monarchies seemed most true both to Apollo and to the venerable Colledge of the Censors And therefore they deemed them worthy to be maturely considered Now by the long discourses and debatements that passed among them concâ—rning a businesse of so great consequence it seemed that their opinion was likely to preuaile who consured that Tacitus together with his scandalous Annales and his seditious Histories should for euer be expulsed the society and conuersation of all men But his Maiestie vnwilling so much to vilifie or embase the Prince of all Politicall Historians or to distaste honest Students by depriuing them of their bosome-delights was contented that Tacitus should be giuen to vnderstand from his Maiestie how his pleasure was that of those spectacles in very deed preiudiciall vnto Princes he should frame as few as possibly could be And that aboue all things hee should vigilantly take great heed not to disperse any abroad except vnto choise and excellent men vnto Secretaries and vnto Priuy Counsellers of State to Princes to the end they might serue to facilitate vnto them the good and vpright gouernment of their people And that aboue all euen as he tendred or loued his Maiesties good fauour he should take especiall care neuer to impart or communicate any vnto those turbulent or factious spirits which in seditious and duskie seasons might serue in stead of bright lamps or far-seene beacons to that simple race of men which is easily gouerned as wanting the glorious light of letters may be said to be blinde and without a guide The Duke of Laconia for hauing aduanced a most faithfull Secretarie of his to the highest dignities of his estate is accused before Apollo to idolatrize and dote vpon a Mignon but he doth most egregiously defend himselfe Rag. 38. 1 Part. THE now regnant Duke of Laconia hath of late aduanced one of his subiects by him highly esteemed and extraordinarily beloued from a base and low fortune to the highest dignities and supremest honours of all his Dominion For he hath not only placed him in the sublime Senate of the Laconians a degree by reason of its eminencie ambitiously aimed at and sought after by diuers great Princes but hauing infinitely enriched him with great reuenues hath also made him to be as much honoured and regarded as any whatsoeuer most renowmed subiect of all his State This so worthy Duke by those who enuie the greatnesse of that his seruant was before Apollo's Maiestie denounced to be an Idolater of a Mignon and a doter vpon a fauorite or darling Apollo being highly moued against that Prince for the hainousnesse of so horrible a delict as his manner is in any outragious excesse without taking diligent information of the truth of the accusation presently caused Lewis Puloi Prouost-Marshall of this State to be called before him whom he threatned to be rigorously tortured if within the space of halfe an houre with all manner of scorne and derision he did not bring before him fast bound in fetters as prisoner the Duke of Laconia Pulci with all exact diligence accomplished Apollo's beheasts for immediatly all laden with heauy chaines he haled and dragged the poore Prince before his Maiestie who by an expresse messenger was presently aduertised of his attachment and forthwith commanded the Martelli most vertuous Florentines and publike Bell-ringers of Parnassus that by the â—olling of the greatest bell the Criminall Magistrate should be called together which was immediatly done Thus the Duke standing fortâ— before him Apollo himselfe after he had tauntingly vpbraided him with the foule crime whereof he stood endited all inflamed with wrath he told him that he allowed him but the space of halfe an houre to defend his reputation And in the meane time as if that poore Princes case had beene vtterly desperate he straitly commanded that whosoeuer had committed the indignitie to haue adored a seruant of his should be condemned to perpetuall infamie as vnworthy to liue among the vertuous Princes of the Phoebean Court. Then the Duke thus began his defence Sir and father of the vertuous I haue so armed my conscience with the fine and proofe-cuirace of Innocencie and so am I assured to haue liued vertuously and vprightly in all my actions as I am more than certaine to haue demerited nothing of your Maiestie Nor doth your indignation nor this precipitous doome to see that the dreadfull sentence of my infamie doth fore-goe the cognition of the cause any iot dismay or confound me Only I maruell to see what as yet I neuer beleeued that the foulenesse of accusations yea among the most iust and vncorrupted Tribunals as this is is of power to call in question and bring into so dangerous hazards the reputation of men of my ranke and qualitie But I quiet my selfe in the will of God who hath euer willed that the gold of others innocencie should be refined in the fire of false calumnies and in the test of persecutions I freely confesse vnto your Maiestie to haue exalted my friend more than my maleuolent enemies haue reported vnto you And in this my action which to your Maiestie hath beene pourtraid so hainous this only grieueth mee that in mine opinion I haue not throughly performed all that vertue of compleat gratitude which so deare a friend hath worthily deserued at my hands And if those who accuse me or other Princes my equals of prodigalitie of dotage or of an abiect minde borne in the foule sinke of sottishnesse to serue seruants when they see a Courtier well-beloued or rewarded by his Lord or Prince would not suffer themselues to be blinded by malice by passion or by enuie but with a minde void of flegme or spleene would impartially consider the true merits of Court-fauourits they would then name that a vertuous life which they entitle vitious prodigalitie dutie of gratitude those gifts which they call inconsiderate and a vertuous affection the infamie wherewith they charge them to dote vpon or idolatrize Mignons But it is not a profession fitting vulgar or ordinarie men to diue or pierce into Abditos Principis sensus si quid occultius parant whence it hapneth that the ignorant with the infamie of great men
and malicious detractions lest he should sinke and be swallowed vp hee was forced to fling all his goods and merchandize ouer-board And the miserable wretch had already lost the maine mast of his hopes and his merits had a great leake and drew in abundance of water of desperation when loe his vessell rushed and split against the marble rock of the ingratitude of a most vnthankfull Prince Then followed a most strange thing which was that after so disastrous an encounter the vessell of that Courtiers seruice being split wrackt and sunke the storme of Court-persecutions ceased the Sea of the Princes indignation was calmed and the rocke which had caused that miserable wracke was conuerted into a most safe hauen the Courtiers vessell but ere-while ouerwhelmed of it selfe start vp out of the waues more faire more strong and in better plight than euer it had beene before And the merchandize of his merits of it selfe was laded againe which not long after he vttered and vented at a very deare rate trucking and changing the same for great dignities eminent titles and rich reuenues This accident seemed very strange vnto the Lords Pilots and vnto all the Congregation nor could they sufficiently wonder how it could be possible that in the land-nauigation the most vnhappie wrackes of some might serue as great felicities to others Now the Congregation continuing in trying of new experiments enioyned a sly-witty Courtier to hoise and display the sailes of his talent towards a wind that blew from South and happily sailing and keeping towards the North after many dayes sayling the Pilot-courtier desirous to see where he was he with his Astrolabe measured the altitude of the Pole of his merit and to his great wonderment found that hauing continually kept the prow of his faithfull seruice towards the North of his Princes interresse hee had made his voyage Southward Of so strange a disorder the Courtier at first accused himselfe that as hee should haue done he had not steered the helme of his faithfull minde towards the North of his Princes good seruice But when both with his sailing-card and with his ship-guide compasse in his hand he assured himselfe that he had euermore guided the ship of his actions in an euen and honest line he plainly perceiued that the errour or mistaking of his vnluckie voyage proceeded so because the North of his Princes affection had suffered it selfe to to be turned towards the South by certain wicked and maleuolent whisperers which he hath alwaies about him Then Vespucci Gama and other Pilots besought the Lords of the Congregation to giue ouer the businesse as a desperate cure and said that nothing yeelded the nauigation by sea more sure or safe than the immutabilitie of the North-starre And that by the last most vnfortunate experience it hauing euidently appeared that the mindes of Princes which are the infallible North-starre of land-nauigation suffering themselues so often and so easily to be turned remoued and circumgired by lewd and wicked people of the Court to aduenture to saile the tempestuous Ocean of the Courts was a resolution not fitting wise men but desperate persons In this interim the Lords of the Congregation might see a most elegant spruce Courtier who for the space of more than threescore yeares had so happily sailed both in the Court of Rome and in others that he had not only surmounted outragious storms of ruthlesse blasts and boistrous winds of persecutions but had euen shiuered and broken the very same huge rocks on which he had split wrackt his vessel but that afterwards when with a most pleasant gale and prosperous wind on the height of his felicitie he pursued his course onely for that he vnfortunately hit vpon a rush of an impertinencie of a base Catch-pole he was vtterly cast away An accident which caused such distraction in the Congregation that the Lords ioyntly resolued to haue but one triall more made and then be quiet by a Courtier that was readie to set saile and him they commanded to hoise and spread all his sailes But so it happened that whilest he held on his course in a coast deemed of all men most safe and dangerlesse his ship vnheedily or by chance hit vpon a rocke and was wholly split and wrackt which the Lords of the Congregation seeing they all bitterly bewailed the ignorance and vnheedinesse of the Courtier for so much as hee could not auoid that rocke But he made manifest demonstration to them all that it was not marked in the sailing-card Whereupon all the Pilots casting their eyes vpon great Ptolomey as if they silently accused him of ignorance hauing omitted that rocke which so well deserued to be marked in his Card and had been the cause of so disastrous a mischiefe But Ptolomey hauing first well viewed the place and considered the countrey thereabout did euidently demonstrate vnto the Lords that no man liuing had euer before that time seene any shelfe or rocke in that place and therefore he had not marked it in his Card but that it suddenly grew and started vp in the very instant that the vpfortunate Courtier hit and ranne vpon it Now the Lords of the Congregation perceiuing that in the nauigation by land huge rockes did euery hand-while spring vp and grow in a moment euen in the middest of fields and other places supposed most safe to be nauigated in the darkest night they concluded their businesse to bee desperate and their attempt impossible And therefore dismissing the Congregation they straitly commanded that in the perillous Land-nauigation no man should dare to goe a iourney except at high noone and withall euery man should carry a great Lanterne of wisdome with a burning Taper therein in the prow of his proceeding morning and euening with his bare knees on the ground and hands heaued vp to heauen humbly beseeching the Maiesty of the euerliuing God to send them good successe since that for one to bring the Ship of his hopes into a Court as into a safe heauen doth rather depend from the immediate aide and assistance of God than from any humane wisdome whatsoeuer The Lord Iohn de la Casa hauing presented his quaint Galateo or booke of Manners vnto Apollo meeteth with great difficulties in diuers Nations about their promises to obserue the same Rag. 28. 1 Part. THE Right Reuerend Lord Iohn de la Casa who as wee wrote vnto you by our last was with great solemnity admitted into Parnassus where after he had visited these illustrious Poets and complemented with all the learned Princes of this Court hee presented his right quaint and profitable Booke of Galateo vnto Apollo which his Maiestie did so highly commend that immediately he strictly commanded it should inuiolably be obserued by all Nations And at the same instant enioyned the said Lord to compose a Galatea since it was manifestly knowne that the Ladies of these moderne times haue as much need to be corrected in their euill and depraued manners as men
and ouer-reached In her discourses and in resoluing of most important businesses she sheweth admirable wisdome and circumspection but whether it be through her naturall tarditie or artifice of her officers who are all most greedy merchants of great negotiations or because she is of opinion that no resolution is done with decorum that is not long a doing and with tedious delayes expected of all men Shee executeth her determined resolutions with such slownesse that the face of affaires changing with the times her resolutions determined with great wisdome doe often proue vnhappy And therefore doe all conclude that shee is more couragious in the skill of plotting machinations than in the exercise how to manage Armes in which she sheweth to haue an vndanted heart a resolute constancie and an vnspeakable sufferance of all crosses and inconueniences but so weake in resolutions that her extraordinarie circumspection hath many times the semblance of timiditie Whence it followeth that shee seemeth more apt to maintaine States than to acquire them Diuers notable men laugh at her to see her addresse and gouerne all her actions by the compasse of certaine solid and mature Counsels without euer referring them into the hands of that Fate or Chance which hath so greatly fauoured the French and yeelded them so glorious when in their actions and managements they haue gouerned themselues with much valour and little braine There be some that thinke this hapneth onely because she is as sparing of her owne bloud as she is thirstie and insatiate of other mens And therefore doe the expertest Captaines of warre mocke and gibe at her to see her aspire at the Empirie of the whole Vniuerse without euer fighting The reason whereof is because this most potent Queene being of long time accustomed to purchase great Estates by Alliances and Mariages she abhorreth the dreadfull custome of the French to conquer kingdoms with the price and hazard of their owne dearest bloud She being then more wittily-warie than boldly couragious it followeth that she is more mischieuous vnto her enemies in times of peace than warre whence it is that the French who hitherto haue liued with her in a supine or stupid carelesnesse after so many calamities endured haue at last learnt to double the barres of their doores when they haue concluded peace with the Spaniards She is most carelesse and lauish of her owne riches but so greedy of other mens that shee careth not to desolate her Patrimoniall Estates so shee may make conquest of others She is of so secret and hidden thoughts and of a minde so abstruse and vnsearchable that there is no wit artifice or skill of man able to looke into her drifts Nay Linx himselfe with his through-piercing sight cannot penetrate into them no not so much as the outside of them whereas men of a glimmering or short sight may plainly see into the very bowels of the French and other Nations For he that shall with with iudgement goe about to describe the Genius and customes of so great a Princesse must confidently beleeue that in all the managements she hath in hand and in all the affaires that others negotiate with her shee is inwardly cleane contrary to that shee appeareth without And although that among the foresaid vertues shee be full fraught with so enormous vices notwithstanding by reason of her prodigious fortune all of them are interpreted and admired in her as vertues whence it followeth that diuers great Princes take it as an honour to imitate her in her vices She is of a most sturdie and robust complexion whereby all iudge her to be long-liued She onely languisheth of the indisposition to haue her limbs much distracted which doth much debilitate the forces of so huge a bulke And although that with the helpe of the libertie of Genoa and of the alliance shee hath with the Duke of Sauoy shee vseth diuers meanes and artifices to contract them neuerthelesse by reason of the diuersitie of the interesses of these Potentates she makes no great vse of them This mighty Princesse receiueth no greater damage from any than from her chiefe Spanish Officers whom alone she imployeth in great charges all which are by them exercised with such and intolerable surquedrie as they will not onely be honoured as men but adored as Gods An impertinencie so great as it hath stirred vp a loathing and nastinesse of the Spanish Dominion not onely in the Italians and in the Flemmings but in the Spaniards themselues One thing hath caused great wonderment in all that behold so potent a Queene which is that her whole bodie is full of horse leeches for the most part of Genoa some of which are so big and fat as they appeare to be of those great Ecles that come out of Holland or those big Lampreis that breed in Seuerne It is not knowne whether it be through impotencie or negligence or through a destinie fatall vnto great Princes whose vitall bloud these noysome creatures seeke euermore to sucke that shee endeuours not to shake them off and be freed from them This most mighty Queene then being entred into the Royall Palace before Apollos Imperiall Maiestie stretched forth her left arme causing her seruants to vnswathe the same and so naked shewing it vnto Apollo and to the whole sacred Colledge of the learned she thus bespake Imperiall Sir and gratious father of all good letters This which your Maiestie seeth yea euen this is that stinking cauterie and loathsome issue of Flanders which the French the Germanes and some Italian Princes that now friendly faune vpon me together with the helpe of that formidable Virago and transmarine Renegada made in this mine arme for the distrust or suspition they had of me I acknowledge that the Princes forenamed had iust cause to be iealous of my power when after the death of Henry the second they saw France falne into the wretched calamitie of Infant-Kings and that I in their minoritie sought to sowe discords in that goodly kingdome Now that these suspitions are vanished and that ay me why doe I not blush to speake it the contention which I haue had with the French and particularly with that vndanted limbe of the Deuill the Prince of Bearne is now ended and that I haue at last beene condemned my selfe in all costs and charges My humble request vnto your Maiestie is that this grieuous and fasheux cauâ—erie be healed and closed vp For most men are of opinion that for the infinite number of humors that haue runne vnto it it is now become so festred and enraged a cankre as I feare which God aâ—ert it will proue the losse of my arme I did not passe into Italie through mine owne ambition or vnquenchable thirst wholly to sway the same as mine enemies report It is well knowne to all the world that I was vntimely called thereunto and euen haled vnto it by the Princes of Italie themselues to free them from the great feare they were in of the French
and sagacity than for their courage or valour in warre Moreouer the Impresa which hee caried in his royall Standard made all the learned of this Court to wonder which was a faire painted Writing-pen by vertue of which it did euidently appeare by the testimony of some Historians that both in the most potent Kingdome of France and elsewhere where any fit occasion had beene offered vnto him to make vse of it hee had caused and stirred vp more and greater ruines spoiles rapines wracks and hauocks than euer his Father Charles the fift could cause or effect with the greatest part of the Cannons of Europe The Impresa was highly commended by the sacred Colledge of the vertuous All Writers taking it for a great honour vnto themselues that a Pen in the hand of one that had knowne how to vse it had archieued and effected so memorable and remarkable actions This great King hath still bin most royally entertained in Parnassus for euen the chiefe and most eminent Monarkes in Europe haue held it as an honourable reputation to be able to attend and serue him So that euen the next day after his ingresse into this Dominion being disposed to be trimmed to commit himselfe into the hands of a Barber the great Queene of England disdained not all the while to hold the Bason vnder his Chinne And the most renowmed martiall King of France Henry the fourth surnamed the Great tooke it for a matchlesse glory to himselfe to be admitted to wash his head which hee performed with so exquisite skill and artificiall dexterity as he seemed to bee borne in that exercise and brought vp Prentise in that trade Although some enuious detractors haue giuen out that he did it without any Sope or Washing-ball but with strong scalding Lye alone This mighty Monarke hath bin presented by all the vertuous of Parnassus with diuers gifts of Poetrie and other quaint and much elabourated Poems all which hee hath counterchanged with great liberality and bounty And to a certaine learned man who presented him with an excellent discourse wherein was demonstrated the way and meanes how and in what manner most noble Partenope and all the most flourishing Kingdome of Naples which by the vnsufferable outrages of the Soldiers by the robberies of the Iudges by the tyrannous extortions of the Barons and by the general rapins and ransakings which the griping and greedy Vice-royes that from Spain are sent thither onely to cram and fatten themselues is now brought vnto extreme misery and desolation might be restored vnto the ancient greatnesse of its splendor he gaue a reward of twenty Duckats of gold and consigned the said discourse vnto his Confessour commanding him to keepe it safe for that it was written very honestly and religiously whereas vnto a most cunning and sufficient Politician who deliuered him a very long Treatise but altogether contrary to the first as that which treateth of politicke precepts and sheweth what course is to bee held to depresse and afflict the said kingdome of Naples lower and more than now it is And how it may with facility bee reduced vnto such misery and calamity as that generous Courcer which the Seggio of State without any headstall or saddle hath hitherto with no happy successe borne for an Impresse or recognisance may bee compelled patiently to beare a Pack-saddle or Panier to cary any heauy packe or burden yea and to draw in a Cart. For so much as hee was informed that it was iudiciously compiled and according to the right tearmes of moderne Policy hee assigned a gift of twelue thousand Crownes rent a yeare and moreouer made him a Grand of Spaine The Dogs of the Indies are become Wolues Rag. 22. 3. Part. ON the night of the twelfth of this present about eight of the clocke arriued in post-haste a Curtier dispatched from Lisbone vnto Apollo who told his Maiestie that he had brought him most important newes from the West-Indies The next morning very early all the learned ran to the Court to heare some newes And the Spaniards were the first who with great anxietie inquired whether there had lately beene discouered some other mount of Petofis or a new Rio del Plata in the Indies which if it were they would speedily haste thither to plant the holy word of God The French were very importunate to know whether some new world had beene found our which with making the Spaniards more powerfull might helpe them vtterly to subuert the old-one Apollo had no sooner read the letters but he fell into a â—â—ance of sorrow and hauing inuolued himselfe into a â—oggie mist a shower of abundant brackish teares was seene to trickle downe his cheeks which was taken for a most disastrous presage by which sudden alteration all men iudged that the Post had brought very bad newes Now whilest all the Court was full of all sorts of learned and vertuous men who in great anxietie longed to vnderstand the cause of his Maiesties publike sadnesse after sundry clattrings of thunder and infinite flashings of lightnings which they heard and saw there was heard an horrible and dreadfull voice which said Oh you that inhabit the Earth fast macerate and cloath your selues with haire-cloth sprinkle your selues with ashes eat your bread with teares endeuour with humble prayers to asswage the wrath of God and with contrite hearts and penitent soules suppliantly beseech him that of his infinite mercy he will vouchsafe to deliuer all humane-kinde inhabiting the old world from those portentous and monstrous nouelties which wee certainely vnderstand to haue lately hapned in the new At so vnexpected and prodigious aduertisements infinite of the Vertuous by the wounding affliction that they felt in their hearts fell downe in a swoune thinking verily that the West Indies had beene vtterly consumed by fire or ouerwhelmed by the furie of mercilesse waters In this terror and dismall plight all the people in Parâ—assus with showers of teares with throbbing sobs with groning howlings with loud-shrill voices as the like were neuer heard cride for Mercy Mercy and with most submissiue intreatings and groanes besought Apollo that hee would daigne to impart vnto his deuout subiects what those mischiefes were from which they should intreat the immortall God to be deliuered Then from the aforesaid Court of his Maiestie was heard a second voice which gaue all men to vnderstand that the dogs which the Spaniards had transported into the Indies for the safegard of their flocks of sheepe were all become such rauenous wolues that in worrying and deuouring of flecced cattle they exceeded the voracitie and cruelty of the greedy Tigres After so drearie and vnhappy tidings all the learned in Parnassus burst forth into wailfull cries and lamentable skreeks dolefully complaining that if the dogs which were placed for the guard safetie of the sheepe became wolues so rauenous as they deuoured whole flocks vnto what Gardians night Shepherds hereafter recommend the keeping and safe custodie of their sheepe And
vertuously that in the presence of so many Princes they neede not to blush Vpon the day appointed then most of the Potentates of the World appeared before Apollo And Count Baldazar Castiglione the Politicall Censor said vnto the reuerend Lord Giouanni dalla Casa Nuntio for the Sea Apostolicall in this State which was first drawne out of the Vrne That it seemed vnto him a most scandalous matter and indeed vnworthy the Greatnesse and Maiesty of the Popes that in Rome should be seene some potent Families vnto whom it serued in stead of a rich patrimony to bee dependant on forraigne Princes not very well affected to the greatnesse of the Apostolicke Sea which in euery occasion were apt with the power of their Factions to giue the Popes much trouble and that he might truly say how in all his time he had not seene a more foule and execrable thing than that which the Emperour Charles the fifth did when with the noble Charge of the Kingdome of Naples he rewarded the cruell seditions and shamefull treacheries which the Cardinall Pompeo Colonna vsed against the high Bishop Clement the seuenth Then the Lord Giouanni demanded of the Count how long it was since hee had conuersed in the Romane Court who answering Some seuenty yeares past the Nuncio replyed that returning thither now he should find how by reason of the abundance of vertjuyce which the Pompei Fabritij Prosperi Ascanij of the family of Colonna the Virginij and other more principall Barons of the House of Orsina had eaten the teeth of their Nephews and Grand-children were so set on edge that they could hardly chaw their broth for the Popes which had tyed those exorbitances about their fingers knew so excellently how to practise the Tarquinian precept that they haue reduced those Poppies which heretofore were as high as Cedars to the humble stature of ridiculous dwarffes This answere satisfied the Count who turning to the Romane Empire next drawne out of the Vrne hee said vnto him That the present disorders which were seene not only in the great patrimony of the House of Austria but in all Germany proceeded from the negligence of the present Emperor Rodolphus and therefore hee much desired that that Maiesty would with more care embrace the gouernment of his so many States remembring that Princes rulers of mankind bore vpon their shoulders the heauiest weight and had in their hands the most laborious worke that any the painfullest day-labourer whatsoeuer could exercise The Censor was exceedingly thanked by the Romane Empire for this aduice whereunto with much grauity he answered That it was a disgrace common with all Princes to be accused of negligence when scandals arose in their States although it notoriously appeared that in regard they were occasioned by the practises of more mighty enemies they could not possibly be auoyded by an vnderstanding Prince Wherefore it was to be considered That the monstrous felicities which the most mighty House of Austria haue had by inheriting with their Matches the States of Flanders the Kingdomes of Spaine of Naples Sicilia Bohemia Hungary and Portugall haue giuen all the Princes of Germany of Italy and of Europe such diobolicall jealousies that they haue caused both the passed and present ruines now beheld in their ancient patrimony Whereunto the Emperors which haue raigned since Maximilian the first of famous memory albeit they were reputed most valorous and prudent Princes could neuer after apply any salue that did not infinitely exasperate the sore of the disorders of Germany wherin had concurred such abundance of malignant humours that it might truly be said it was immedicable Further it was to be remembred what small authority the moderne Emperors haue had in Germany so that it were not onely a discourtesie but open injustice to will one that hath his hands fast bound behind him to performe the acts of Orâ—ando Moreouer the qualitie of the Empire was to be regarded which being electiue they that serued had more authority in it then they that commanded Besides the present weaknesse of the house of Austria in Germany from whom with the seditions of Religion the hearts of their subiects are stollen a theft so important that they may well abandon those States as lost wherein such dangerous seed is sowen Whereupon the present Emperour seeing himselfe depriued of the obedience of his subiects desireth euery one to reflect vpon the quality of the Cousins which the House of Austria hath in Spaine and they shall find that the people of Almaine borne for their libertie to secure themselues from the monstrous power of such a Family take impious and wrongfull reuenges euen on those which shal not be free froÌ„ the seruitude of the Spaniards if for the sins of men they euer arriue to that point of commanding ouer the World from which by the meere goodnesse and mercy of God they are put off as farre as by their many deuices they haue laboured to come neere it That also it was to be thought vpon how the first that in Italie and abroad disinherited with all kinde of irreuerence and disrespect the Maiestie of the Empire were those their Cousins of Spaine as clearely appeared by the vsurpation of Finale and other Imperiall feudes by them possessed All which things mouing dangerous humors without dissoluing them afterwards doe cause the House of Austria in Germany to be cruelly scourged by most powerfull enemies whilest the Spaniards with their only menaces seeke to put the whole world into suspition and distate And for conclusion he desired all the sacred Colledge to consider that to the miserable sterilitie of children which is seene in the present Emperor is adioyned a lamentable fertilitie of brethren one of which incited by the most violent spurre of ambition hath not doubted at last to goe about to ouerthrow his owne House which is ready to fall All accidents so vnhappy that they would make euen Salomon himselfe seeme to the World a very foole These replies which to all the Assistants seemed very weighty satisfied the Censor who turning him to the warlike French Monarchie said vnto her How all the Vertuous of Parnassus much desired of her that shee would rule the furious vnquiet capricious and exceeding impetuous dispositions of her French reducing them to those termes of prudence aduisednesse and stayednesse of minde which are seene in the noble Italian and Spanish Nations and how it much blemished her reputation that the Kingdome of France which holdeth a first place amongst the most principall Monarchies of the World should be inhabited by men so infinitely rash To this aduertisement the French Monarchie replied That the Censor not well informed of the interests of her Kingdome had censured for defects the chiefest vertues which she loued in her French Folly lightnesse vnaduisednesse and a precipitous nature were they which had made her so feared and formidable a Queene because her French with vnspeakable alacritie and forwardnes would vpon the least nod of hers expose
but rather that he content himselfe to hunt Waspes and Hornets out of their holes with the hand of the Prince armed with the gauntlet of a higher authority for although an Officer findes that he hath ability and power enough to execute a greater enterprise yet for feare of emulation in Court or some casuall blocke in his way which the wisest man could not foresee oftentimes it is not expedient to put in execution all that which his authority might warrant him Eightly that he deale in all ordinary matters concerning ordinary men entring into strict friendship with no man residing within the precincts of his command but to beware of that wresting and wiredrawing occasions which might reach vnto the hatred and hindrance of another and to auoid domesticall familiaritie which causeth contempt Onely let him vse that decent grauity which may procure respect and an awfull loue But in any case that he shunne the conuersation of base and riotous persons and that he keepe company for the most with men of his owne ranke yet so that he make not any man so endeared and so bosome a friend vnto him who might afterwards by prying into his dealings and diuing into his secrets turne to be his capitall enemy For sometimes contemptible persons not suspected for craft may in the twinkling of an eye of low and earth creeping mushromes become tall Cedars at least in their owne ouerweâ—ning conceit Ninthly that he force his noble nature to endure the stinking pride of Lawyers although most odious to God and all good men and to beare with their impertinent discourses and wrangling bawling who take vpon them to become Lambes at home and Lyons abroad onely to maintaine the glory and reputation of the Bench but commonly it is to fill their owne purses with the ruines and spoyles of honester men than themselues Wherein I wish him to remember that golden saying of Tacitus that it is a most profitable as also most pithy in the choise and free will of Good and Euill things to consider what thou thy selfe wouldest or wouldest not endure vnder another Gouernour or Iudges power Vtilissimus idem acâ—â—râ—uissimus bonarum malarumque rerum delectus cogitare quid volueris sub alio Principe aut nolueris Tenth that he take heed with great circumspection he fall not into the other extremity in seeking to auoid the defect of his predecessor as a certaine Prince very heedlesly did who perceiuing that wise men fouâ—d fault with the late Prince for too much lenity turned an odious Tyrant The golden Meane is euer best Eleuenth that with extraordinary seuerity he take more care to bridle the disorders of his own house then the seditions of the common people for the immodest and vnciuill carriage of a Magistrates domesticke gentlemen whom some call Countrey-Courtiers is a farre greater blemish and scandall to their Master then the brutish insolence of rude Clownes and ill-bred Swaines Twelth that he hate as the horrour of Hell all kind of fore-stalling and engrossing of commodities and that he account as the Capitall enemy of his reputation such detestable gaines But specially that diuelish gaine which is in these dayes much practised and one of the chiefe causes of our Creators anger towards many States by the sale of Offices A most perillous Charybdis a rocke so dangerous in the Sea of worldly businesse that Iustice being fled backe into Heauen these petty Chapmen who neuer dreame of another world but this earthly one turne all things topsie turuy to make themselues sauers for their dear-bought places Whereas a noble spirit should firmely beleeue that the Merchandise of a Christian is ingenuous simplicity and plain dealing and being honestly called to beare office in his countrey then his richest lucre worthy of an honourable Officer is to ingulfe himselfe in the Trade of honour and vprightnesse of Iustice which being by the trumpet of Fame blowne into his Princes eares in a short time God inspiring the heart of the Prince he shall be preferred from Office to Office vntill hee arriue to a contented fortune correspondent to his Heroycall worth and magnanimous minde Thirteenth that perpetually he haue his eyes fixâ— on his vnder-Iudges hands and that he looke as narrowly to them as if he held a biting serpent in his owne hand that iniustice being a very dangerous member which hazards his credit by the Diuels temptations to blurre his masters honour by playing the base Mechanicke in the sacred seat of Iustice. And because no Iudge receiues bribes but sinisterly by his wise seruant or without witnesse sauing the party himselfe his supreme Iudge or Prince ought to proclaime rewards to the discouerers and vpon the least euidence to remoue such theeues of the Deity seeing that Iustice is one of the prime Diuine Attributes Fourteenth that he accommodate his Genius Nature to the nature of his prouincials shewing himselfe mild to the peaceable and seuere to the seditious And to take speciall care to weed out idle persons if they refuse conuenient labor which he ought to see them put vnto and if any Drones be found with honey to examine them from whose hiue they stole the same Fifteenth that to the end his Prince may conceiue well of his worth he acquaint not his highnesse with slight occurrences nor trifling matters which fall out in his gouernment Nor yet must he refraine to certifie vnto him all the most important affaires chiefly all proiects tending to his honour or profit Sixteenth that he beleeue how the penalties and punishments in the power of a wary Iudge consists more in threats then in inflicting of them that he neuer forget this lesson How Officers gouerne men full of a thousand imperfections subiect to infinite errours how they are not Angells of Heauen which cannot sinne and therefore in his gouernment hee affects more the report of a sweet natured Iudge like his Creatour who bearing with our trespasses Si quoties peecant homines toties sua fulmina mittat and not the repute of a tyrannizing Minister Seuenteenth that he frequent not Reuels Dances or any publike Feasts mournfull spectacles and tragicall in the end to wise Officers as instruments which vilifie his fame and bring his personall presence into contempt among the vulgar and might bring his grauitie into question among his equals Eighteenth that he know how the shamefull acts of the Nobles and principall Gentlemen doe waxe more cruell against them which debase themseues to commit them without touching or blemishing the generall reputes of their honourable families Ninteenth that he held it for a thing certaine that it is better to dissemble and winke at some common infirmities and frailties then to shew himselfe earnest to punish them it not being the resolution of a wary man to enter into that naughty passage out of the which he otherwise knowes that the horse cannot draw forth his feet Twentieth that he vary not in opinion with his equals in office or vnder Officers but
the Pretour PVblius Terentius liued in a little house but very well furnished in the Comicall quarter with no more meni all seruants about him then Bacchis his maid Davus his ancient attendant And although Bacchis in the floure of her age being then a very beautifull creature had bin graced with her Masters bed yet now being aged she continued in his house without scandall and very modestly disposed not ministring the least cause of murmuring or dislike to any of the neighbourhood But it happened about tenne dayes since that Iason the great Lawyer being Pretour of Vrbine to get him some repute in his new Office directed a Proces vnder a penaltie to Terence commanding him in his Maiesties name all excuses laid aside immediately to put Bacchis out of his house vnlesse he would incurre the danger of a Concubine-keeper But Terence did not onely disobey the contents of the Mandate but other Writs of Iasons court Whereupon the Pretour forbare to send any more warrants of orders and injunctions and yesterday without any more adoe caused Terence to be apprehended and imprisoned but with so great displeasure to Apollo that in an extraordinary great chafe he publikely exclaimed that by his officers yea and that in Parnassus men more malicious then ignorant that wicked abuse of being quick-sighted in apparance and shew but blind in matters of substance was lately introduced and practised to the dishonour of his Court. Then commanding Terence to be discharged out of prison he caused Iason himselfe for all his famous Bookes of the Law to be there shut vp in his stead and also to his greater affliction appointed Philip Decius his Aduersary to be Pretour in his roome Whereupon yesterday the Rod and the Standard being the Pretorian Eâ—signes were deliuered to Decius who going to Apollâ—es presence his Maiestie spake these words vnto him By the correction inflicted on Iason learne to know that Reuerend Iudges which in the administration of Iustice doe more attend the true and reall seruice of God than by formall trickes and gibes to play vpon their Inferiours they ought first to hunt out of his owne house malice and bribery and then to chase out of other mens houses young harlots as Thaiâ— before hee proceeded to expell an aged Bacchis CHAP. 6. Domitius Corbulo for certaine words spoken by him during the time of his gouernment which sauoured of Tyranny is called in question by the Criminall Magistrates but in the end to his greater glory dismissed BEcause the Citie of Pirrhus and all that most populouâ— Territory by the mildnesse and ouer much lenity of certaine Gouernours became more insolent then in former times and full of Malefactours and perillous Factions which disturbed the peace of the vertuous Apolloes Maiestie to bridle with some exemplary punishment the licentiousnesse of his seditious subiects about two moneths past sent into that gouernment the rigorous Domitius Corbulo who in few dayes did so demeane himselfe that from a seditious State he reduced the same to a peaceable course of liuing Within a while after it chaÌ„ced that Corbulo discoursing with some of his familiar friends enquired of them what conceit they had of him they freely answered him that the rigor and seuerity which he had lately vsed against many of the seditious had terrified the whole Citie and Countrey that all did hate him At which answer Corbulo reioyced beyond measure and told them againe There 's no matter Oderint dum metuant let them hate so they stand in feare of me The which words were afterwards carried by some pick-thanks to Apollo who taking in ill part the accusation referred the same to his Court of criminall causes And because by an ancient Decree published by his Maiestie it was knowne and declared that whatsoeuer Prince legitimate naturall and hereditary presumed to vtter such arrogant and rash words he should incurre this penalty to be reputed a Tyrant and if any Officer should let slip though vnawares and by chance any such dangerous words out of his mouth he should be capitally punished Corbulo was summoned to appeare vpon this Information before the Iudges who according came the next day to answere with all humility where the case was throughly canuased and while all men expected to heare some rigorous order to be taken with Corbulo by extraordinary fauour the cause was remoued by a Certiorari before Apollo himselfe where to all mens admiration he was pronounced cleare and guiltlesse and remaunded backe into his gouernment with far greater authority and grace then before The sentence contained that in a Prince which had the Honey of Grace in his power those words were shamefull and expresly Tyrannicall most honourable in that Officers mouth which had nothing in his hands but the odious sting of Iustice that Prince being miraculous indeed which causeth himselfe to be beloued and reuerenced of his people and that Officer most sufficient which hath the Genius and nature to make himselfe to be feared and obeyed CHAP. 7. By the promotion of Diogenes the Cynick vnto a higher place the honourable chaire of the Tranquillitie of a priuate life being vacant Apollo preferres the famous Philosopher Crates to that charge who refuseth it DIogenes the Cynicke who for so many yeares with much fruit to the vniuersall good and his owne infinit glory in particular had vndergone the charge of commending in the Chaire of the publike Schooles Pouerty Solitarinesse and that contented quietnesse of mind by whose perswasion Attalus himselfe the King of Treasure became of that admirable resolution to put away his riches the easier to embrace the austere Sect of the Stoikes which is much edified now in Parnassus about two moneths past he was promoted for his singular great merits to a more sublime Dignitie euen to be the Archcriticke of the sacred Muses Whereby the noble Cynicall place left vacant his Maiestie bestowed it on the famous Crates who yesterday morning went to Apollo and contrary to all mens expectation refused to accept of this renowned Charge freely affirming that by the aduancement of Diogenes to that late transcendent Dignity the Chaire of pouerty and contentment of mind being now become vilified and much hindred his heart would not giue him to exercise that Office with that candour feruencie and ingenuous simplicity of mind as the affaires of that place required because the very first day when he should settle himself to his milde Lectures peaceable MeditatioÌ„s of necessity he could not but be swoln with some ambition and be possessed with the like ardent desire glorious hope to be enstalled in the same or such another Dignitie as his Predecessor had obtained who had cashired cast out of his hart though extraordinarily composed that honest simplicity which makes wise men to reason and like a calme wind to breath with their harmlesse thoughts and not with the tongue which oftentimes trips and deliuers like a clattering clapper more noises and gall then honeyed admonitions To this
lament at the great inequalitie which they saw betwixt the Husband and the Wife in the particular punishment of Adultery so that women could not rest contented to see men in such wise free that the punishment of shame which alone was wont to terrifie honourable persons did now lesse serue to restraine them from committing against their wiues these beastly and libidinous defaults In which dissolute courses they said that they proceeded so far that many Husbands were not onely not ashamed to keepe openly Concubines in their houses but had oftentimes presumed to make them partakers of the sacred bed of Matrimonie These abuses came to passe by reason that the Lawes had not prouided the like punishment against the offending Husbands as were thundred out and practised against adulterous Wiues And that in this case the Lawes shewed too much fauour vnto maried men in allowing them to reuenge the iniurie with their owne hands at the time when they hapned to take their wiues in the adulterous act By which notorious aggrieuances the Sexe of women being so much wronged were now forced to repaire vnto the cleare fountaine of true Iustice to the end that by publishing equall punishment in the equalitie of the self-same fault there might be some competent remedy ministred for their oppressions And that if this did not stand with Apolloes good will and pleasure there might be at leastwise the like liberty granted vnto them in this particular of Adultery to keepe amorous seruants or to marry againe as many men aduentured to doe After which liberty granted them they would not perhaps make vse thereof but only in terrorem tantùm vnder colour of law to be enabled to bridle their loose and lustfull Husbands Vnto this demand of the Lady Victoria Apollo answered that the Law of Fidelitie betwixt the Husband and the Wife ought to be indeed equall and that the defect and breach thereof ought to be punished no lesse in the one than in the other but that in the Wife a more exquisite and perfect chastitie was required for the great and weighty respect to know the certainty of their children to which end Nature had assigned them the noble vertue of Chastitie the which was so necessarie for procreation of humane kinde that without it the children should both lose their inheritance and their fathers affection A thing so true that Nature herselfe hath most prouidently allotted chaste wiues to all liuing creatures of the earth where the Male concurres for the industrious hatching of the Egge or for the nourishing of their young ones all to the end that the carke of the fathers being imployed for their children welfare should proue somewhat pleasing and that their charge should redound to comfort and to great gaine in time to come At these words the Lady Victoriaes beautifull cheeks were stained with an honourable blush who with a Roman ingenuitie confessed vnto his Maiestie the simplicitie of her demand and said that indeed it were a great shame and dishonour to the sexe of women if in the pretious gift of chastitie they suffred themselues to be ouercome of those vnreasonable liuing creatures who although they pursue no other thing than pleasure yet neuerthelesse doe they very religiously obserue Chastitie because they would not anger the fathers of their young ones by their wandring and inordinate lust And for the important reason that Husbands desired to haue their wiues chaste the lawes against adulterous women were too fauourable because the wound which the vnchaste Husband giues his Wife did only pierce the skin whereas the Wife by her lasciuious deeds doth stab and kill her Husband with the poniard of euerlasting infamy and also doth disparage her children CHAP. 13. A Poetaster for playing at Cards and deuising the Game called Triumph or Trump is brought before Apollo who after he had deeply entred into the mysticall meaning of the said Game not only dismisseth him but granteth him an yearely pension to instruct his Courtiers in that new Art TO the end that the Ignorant with the filthinesse of their most beastly minds should not profane the vertuous places at Parnassus Apollo many yeares since caused two companies of Skeltenicall Poets dogrel Rimers men that made verses at random and very aduentrous at ruffianly conceits to come out of Sicily whose office was to scoure the countrey and to cleare the coast of vagabonds These about eight daies past tooke prisoner a Poetaster that had beene capitally banished from Parnassus who although he was forbidden the vse of all books and the exercise of his pen notwithstanding as it were in despite of Apollo and in contempt of the sacred Muses he defiled paper with his dissolute rimes and at last proceeded so far in his audacious arrogancie that he assumed vnto himselfe the Soueraigne name of a Poet. This exorbitant fault of his became aggrauated with a paire of Cardes which those Catchpoles in searching him had found in his pocket for which being likewise a notorious Vice and worthy of death they brought him incontinently with the said Cardes before Apollo who when he saw them was wonderfully amazed at the brutish inuention which the vicious had found out to cast away their pretious time to consume their reputation and to spend their meanes But much more was his Maiestie astonished when he vnderstood that men now a dayes were growne to such a height of folly that they vsed to call that thing a Play or Game whereat they dealt so cruelly in good earnest And further that they esteemed it a delight sport and pastime to put in suspence and to doubtfull compromise that money which was gotten with so much toyle and cares and serued so necessary for such great vses that without it this present world would take Aristotle to bee an ignorant foole and Alexander the Great a base Plebeian Then Apollo askt the Prisoner what game at Cards was most familiar vnto him and because he answered that it was Trumps or Triumph his Maiestie willed him to play it The Prisoner obeyed and plaide which when Apollo had obserued penetrated into the magisteâ—iall lessons and secrets of the Game he cried out that this Game of Trumpe was the true Philosophy of Courtiers the most necessarie Science which all men ought to learne that would not be thought innocents or simple-witted And shewing how much the affront done vnto the prisoner did displease him he inlarged him presently and honoured him with the title of a Vertuous man And the next morning commanded his Officers to erect vp a publike Schoole where with a stipend of fiue hundred Crownes a yeare that notable Person for the common good should reade as a Lecture that excellent Game of Trumpe and vpon a grieuous penalty to be imposed hee charged the Platonicks Peripateticks the Stoicks and other Philosophers specially the Morall and to all other the Vertuous crew residing at Parnassus that they should learne this most necessarie Science the which because they should