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A16169	Beautiful blossomes, gathered by Iohn Byshop, from the best trees of all kyndes, diuine, philosophicall, astronomicall, cosmographical, historical, & humane, that are growing in Greece, Latium, and Arabia, and some also in vulgar orchards, as wel fro[m] those that in auncient time were grafted, as also from them which haue with skilful head and hand beene of late yeares, yea, and in our dayes planted: to the vnspeakable, both pleasure and profite of all such wil vouchsafe to vse them. The first tome	Bishop, John, d. 1613.	1577 (1577)	STC 3091; ESTC S102279	212,650	348

and made meate and drinke onely for noble men But it can not be better expressed then with his owne wordes Out of the garden is the commons their shambles with howe muche more innocent and harmelesse diet No I doe beléeue it is better to diue into the bottome of the sea and kindes of oysters to be sought by shipwrackes birdes to be set beyond the riuer of Phasis who one would haue thought should haue béene safe from fetching by reason of the fabulous terrour that we reade in Poets no for that they are the more pretious to goe a fouling for other into Numidia and Aethiopia among the graues or to fight with wilde beastes coueting to be eaten of that which an other man doth eate But oh Lorde howe good cheape are hearbs howe ready for pleasure and satietie if that the same indignation and spite which doth euery where did not also here occurre and come in the waye it were in déede to be borne withall exquisite fruites to growe of whome some for their tast and verdure some for their greatnesse other for their straungenesse shoulde be forbidden poore men and wines to be made to laste vntill great ages and to be gelded with bagges neyther any man to be so olde that he may not drinke wine elder then him selfe and also riot to inuent a certaine foode out of corne onely and the fine floure of it to be taken and it to liue and continue longer then the workes and ingrauings of the bakehouses some to be breade for noblemen some for the commons breade corne discending in so many kyndes euen vnto the basest of the commons What is there a distinction also in hearbes and hath riches made a difference in a meate yea which is to be bought for an halfepenie And some also of them do the tribes say growe not for them the stalke by franking being made so greate that a poore mans table may not receiue and holde him Nature had made sperage wilde that euery man might euery where gather them but beholde nowe there is francked sperage and Ranenna selleth them for poundes a péece Out alas the prodigies of the paunch it would haue béene a maruel not to be lawfull for cattell to eate thistles it is not lawful for the commons Water also is separated and the verye Elementes of nature are seuered by the power of riches These men drinke snowe they ice and do turne the punishmentes and pains of mountains into the pleasure of the throte Coldenesse is kept in heate and a deuice is founde for snowe to be colde in forreigne and contrarie monethes Other water they boile and that also anone after they winter or vse in the winter hauing warme water in winter So nothing doth please man being suche as it pleaseth nature And be there also some hearbes whiche growe onely for rich men let no man looke about for the holy and Auentine hills and the departure of the commons out of the citie for surely death shall make them equall whome wealth hath ouermatched Thus farre Plinie who also in his 14. booke telleth the waywardnes of men to be suche about their wines that they had inuented 195. kindes of them and of special kindes of those generall almoste double the number Neither did the immeasurable charges of their meats satisfie their vnthriftie mindes but that by vomiting they must make themselues readie to eat often as though there had béen no other vse of eating meate but to vomite it vp again not muche vnlike vnto the Rosomacha in Lithuama a beast of the bignesse of a dogge and the face of a catte the backe and taile of a foxe who vseth when he hathe filled his bellie with meate as full as it wil hold to scummer out that whiche he hath eaten with squising his bellie betwéene two trées standing néere together and then incontinently to returne againe vnto the carreine and so to do continually so long as he can gette meate But the roisting Romanes to haue a quarell vnto the cuppe besides salte meates and olde rotten chéese whiche are in vse also nowe a dayes among our tipplers they vsed to drinke colde poisons as hemlocke that deathe might make them powre in strong wine lustely to saue their liues other tooke the poulder of a pomise stone and other like thinges moste abhominable whiche by rehearsing I am ashamed to teache the wariest of those tiplers saies he do we sée to be boyled with baynes and to be carried out of them halfe dead that they may drinke the harder but other can not stay for the bedde no not for their clothes but incontinently naked and hasing take mightie great cuppes as it were to shewe their strength and plentifully powre in the wine that they may immediatly vomite it out and againe swill and vppe with it straightway and so the thirde time as though they were borne to destroy wine as and if wine could not otherwise be shedde but through mennes bodies But the fruites or rather incommodities of rauenous gluttonie doth he set downe in that place That it fall out the best vnto them they neuer sée the rising of the Sunne and they liue the lesse while Hereof comes palenesse hanging eyliddes vlcers of the eyes shaking handes which wil shedde full cuppes whiche is a present paine furiall sleapes disquiet and ill rest in the night the next day stinking breathes caste out of the mouth and obliuion almost of all things and the death of the memorie It is recorded by Plutarch that at a game of drinking made by Alexander 41. dranke them selues dead An. 1540. was a very good yeare for wines in the which there were found to die in the duchie of Wittenberg at feasts from Autumne vnto the first sunday of Lent 400. persons so that we néede no auncient examples Many dishes saies sage Seneca bring many diseases and innumerable diseases do rewarde innumerable cookes which is agréeable vnto that golden sentence of Plinie great diuersitie of dishes is very pestilent but of sauces and dressings of them more pestilent Aske mée sayes Seneca in his controuersies why we die so soone because we liue by deathes But admit that a man did not with excessiue quantitie of meate put the vaines in daunger of breaking nor set on fire the spirites with hote wines whiche the Phycisians will neuer graunt yet who woulde not thinke it more intollerable then death by gourmandise to be so ouerloden with flesh and fatte that he can not moue as Nicomachus of Smyrna or not goe as was Ptolomei Euagetes king of Egypt who in many yeares before he went foorthe to receiue that Péerelesse Paragon of the worlde Scipio Africanus the yonger walked not on foote or Alexander king of that Realme who could not walke for grosenesse but staied vp with two men or be like vnto Dionysius the tyrant of Heraclea whose fatnesse would not suffer him to fetch his breath and did put him in continual

crowns a fine not halfe great ynough for so heinous a fault The Ephesians also by Plutarches reporte receiued him Godlike the women being disguised like Bacchus his dame priests the men boies transfigured into satyres and Panes bearing in their handes Bacchanicall iauelins called Thyrsie and garlandes of iuie on their heads saluting and calling him by the name of Bacchus Charidoles and Malichius Wherein they be the more to be borne with because saies Dion lib. 48. he had after the ouerthrowe that hee gaue vnto Brutus and Cassius named him selfe Bacchus whome in very déede he did very liuely counterfeite and expresse in drunkennesse and commaunded that no man should call him by any other name But before this time had the Romanes decréed Iulius Caesar after that he had with armes oppressed vnto the libertie of his countrie honours higher and greater then could agrée with any man a temple ioyntly vnto him and Clemencie a statuie of golde sette with precious stones to the Curia or Senatehouse and before the iudgement seate a sacred drey or litle carte and a Pageaunt setfoorth with the pompe that they vsed at their playes Circenses his statuies to be set vp close vnto the superstitious beddes of their Gods. A College of priests were instituted vnto his Godhead whiche were called Luperci Iulii and a Bishop or Flamin of the order which was Marcus Antonius the consul that they should swere by his fortune that euery fifth yeare a feast should be celebrated vnto him as a Heros or halfe God that all the games of swoord plaiers that should be kept in Rome or in all Italie should be consecrated vnto him Finally saies Dion they openly gaue him the syrname of Iupiter whiche thinges do agrée vnto Eustatius the famous interpreter of Homer vppon the firste of his Iliades that Iulius Caesar was called a God by the Romanes while he was liuing Al these decrées which partly the flattering people and partly his priuie ill willers to bring him into enuie thus heaped on him were engraued in pillers of siluer with letters of golde and placed at the féete of Iupiter Capitolinus couertly to admonishe him of his humanitie and subiection vnto god But it is not to be wondered at that Caesar was made a God by the oppressed Romanes séeing that Plinie affirmeth that one Euthymus Picta an Italian who had euer béene victor at the games helde at Olympus and neuer but once ouercome was by the commandement of the Oracle of Apollo and the astipulation of Iupiter the highest God consecrated aliue and fealing and that the very same day his statuie that had béene set vp at Olympia was stroken and consumed with lightening and that this did also please the Goddes he sayes that Callimachus doeth so maruell at as he doth at nothing else that euer happened Neither haue Magicians and sorcerers obteined lesse honour for in the time of Claudius the Emperour one Simon a Samaritane of his diuelish art and science called Magus came vnto Rome and plaide there so many fine slye iuggling knackes that he with his minion Helena were accompted for Goddes and sacrifices offered vnto them and his Image set vp betwéene the two bridges of Tiber with this title Simoni Deo Magno to Simon a great God but Tertullian hathe an holy God whome all the Samaritanes and many also of other nations did adore and confesse to be the highest God. The insolencie writes Egesippus out of this iuggling merchaunt went so farre that hee prouoked Simon Peter then beeing at Rome to contende with him in woorking of miracles He went about to raise vppe by magicke artes the bodie of a childe whose soule was departed out of it the Childe was of kinde vnto Nero and in déede moued it a litle but incontinently it fell downe starcke deade as it was before But Peter by the name of Iesus made it to rise alone of it selfe With the euent of whiche miracle Simon being netled and chafed professed that he woulde in the sight of all the people of Rome flye from the Capitoll vnto the Auentiue hill if Peter woulde followe him that déede should manifestly declare whither of them two was best beloued of god And nowe was Simon carried aloft in the ayre when Peter on his knées suppliantly desired almightie GOD not to suffer the people who tourneth all thinges to the wurst to bée deceiued by false iuggling neither lacked his prayers effecte for Simon fell downe to the grounde in the middes of his foolishe flight and brake one of his legges shortely after dying thereof at Aricia whither hee had béene priuily conueied by his disciples after that foule foile I finde also in Lactantius that in the reigne of Domitian Apollonius the famous Magician was adored of many for a GOD and an image set vp vnto him by the name of Hercules Alexicacos Hercules the driuer away of all euill Thus haue ye heard the extreame foolishnesse of many heathen men in choosing of their GODS but the madnesse of the Egyptians doth farre excéede them all for they sayes Herodotus in Euterpe doe take all beastes bothe wilde and tame for Godes There are saies Strabo in his seuentéenth booke some vnreasonable liuing creatures which all the Aegyptians doe vniuersally woorshippe as of the lande beastes the neate and the dogge of byrdes the hawke and the Ibis of fishes the Lepidotus and Oxyrinchus And there be other which euery city adoreth peculiarly as the Saites and Thebans a shéepe the Latopolitanes a fish in the Riuer of Nilus called Latus the Lycopolitanes a woulfe the Hermopolitanes the Cynocephalus the Babylonians besides Memphis the Cepus whiche is a beast like vnto a Satyre but in all other partes meane betwéene a dogge and a beare the Mendesians bothe the ramme and the ewe goat The Athribites the venimous mouse called Mus Araneus Hercules his citie with other the ilfauoured Ichneumon whiche killeth the crocodile and destroyeth the aspes egges the Arsinoites the cruell crocodile the Leontines the Lyon. The Ele also is a generall God in Egypt and all fishes with scales and the byrde Phenix and the Bergander as affirmeth Herodotus who also telleth that if any man kill any of those baggages willingly he dieth the death for it if against his will hée is fined and punished at the discretion will of the priests but whosoeuer killeth an Ibis or an Hauke either with his will or against it must néedes die for it And to be deathe to kill a catte either by mishappe or of purpose doth Diodorus Siculus shewe by an example which he himselfe sawe The Romane imbassadours were at Alexandria to enter into societie and friendshippe with the Egyptians and their king to he called an alie friend of the people of Rome where it chaunced one of the Romanes against his will to kil a catte As soone as it was noised in the citie the angrie citizens assembling together in great

gaue vnto Euphanor for a table of the Argonautes 144. sesterties the whiche is eleuen hundreth foure and twentie poundes x. s̄ His scholer Antidotus refused to sell a table vnto King Attalus for 60. talentes that is 5850.l Timoniachus had of Iulius Caesar for the pictures of Aiax and Medea 80. talents which is 7700.l So that painters being so wel paide for their paines might very well go in their purple and weare crownes of golde on their heades haue their staues writhed aboute with plates of golde and their shooes tyed with pointes of golde as Atheneus reporteth of Parrhasius the painter But to returne vnto Images Lucullus bargained with Archesilaus to make the Image of Felicitie in plaister and he to haue for it 60. talentes that is 5850.l Praxiteles made Venus in marble whiche the Guidians bought all whose debtes which were wonderfull greate did king Nicomedes offer to pay if they woulde let him haue the Image and they refused it Of what value then may we iustly coniecture were Images of iuorie of copper and specially Corinthian copper whiche was a temperature of golde siluer and copper of woonderfull price yea and Images of golde and siluer séeing their workemen Polycletus Phidias Lysippus Myron and other were no lesse famous for their workes then were the excellent painters and their stuffe did farre excéede and Plinie reporteth that many men were so in loue with counterfetes of Corinthian copper that they had them carried with them whither soeuer they went Cicero in his sixt Oration against Verres saies a counterfeite of copper and no great one was ordinarily sold for 120000. sesterties that is aboue 900. l. Polycletus made Diadumenus a youth in copper and had for it 100. talentes that is 18750.l I reade that the Collossus of brasse that stoode in the capitol cost 150. talentes that is 28135.l and one also brought by Lucius Lucullus to Rome from Appollonia of the same price but one at Rhodes whiche coste 300. talentes which is sixe and fourtie thousand 250.l in that citie were there an hundreth Collossi and of other Images of mettal and iuorie thrée thousand and no fewer in Athens Olympia Delphos But lest that some man should say that Colossi were neuer any garnishing for a house I reade in Suetonius that there stoode before the entrye into Nero his golden house a Colossus of 130. foote highe with bignesse in euery part and limme agréeable vnto the height Of the prices of statuies and images of gold and siluer I read not but of many made as one of Gorgias Leontinus a rhetoricke teacher of golde sette vppe at Delphos and an other of Mithridates brought by Lucullus to Rome in his triumphe and also in Pompe●●s one of king Pharnaces in siluer and many were erected of that mettall in the honour of Augustus the whiche flatterie at the length brought them to be very common at Rome but as I saide I do remember none valued but onely two Dolphines brought by C. Gracchus at fiue sesterties that is xxix a pound And correspondent vnto their sumptuous houses was also their housholde stuffe All the Vtensiles of the kitchen had Antiochus Sedetes in his expedition against the Parthians and Marcus Antonius of siluer whiche Caluus the Oratour complaineth in Plinie to be common in euery mannes house at Rome but Antonius with Bassus in Martial and Heliogabalus in Lampridius and Antonius Sopus in Plinie had their close stooles of golde and Heliogabalus his pispotts of precious stones in what stuffe then may we thinke their meate was serued who abused golde and precious stones vnto so filthie an office As for close stooles and chamber pots of siluer had euery woman of any countenance at Rome ye and of golde to be no dainties at Alexandria and in Asia it may appeare by Clemens Alexandrinus Before the ciuil warres saies Plinie betwéene Sylla and Marcus were there 500. chargers in Rome of an hundreth pound of siluer but our age sais he is stronger for in the reigne of Claudius a bondeman of his called Drusillianus caused one to be made of 500. pound his felowes 800. of 58.l This would Aphricanus the yonger haue wondered at who left vnto his heire but xxxij l of siluer and also whē he triumphed of Carthage brought thence but 4476. pound and that was all the siluer which Carthage had which contended long time with Rome for the dominion of the whole worlde the whiche saies Plinie wil not suffice a priuate mannes table in our daies His Brother Allobrogicus was the firste Romane that had a thousand pound of siluer and anone after Liuius Drusus the troublesome tribune of the cōmons left 11000.l for that an auncient senatour was noted by the Censor for hauing of fiue pounde of siluer will be taken nowe for a tale and a lie as also that the legates of the Aetolians found Aelius Catus serued in his Consulship in vessels of clay and had no other plate all his life time then one cuppe the which his Father in lawe Aemilius gaue him when he ouercame Perseus king of Macedonie who had woonderfull store bothe of golden and siluer plate We also finde this iest of the Carthaginians that they say that in no countrie they liued more friendly and familiarly together then they did in Rome for wheresoeuer they supped or with whom they were alwaies serued with one and the same plate But after those homely dayes L. Crassus gaue for two cuppes made by Mentor the famous goldesmithe without plate of whose woorkmanshippe there were fewe tables at Rome serued saies Iuuenal 781. he had also other plate that cost him fourtie fiue pounde a pound Plinie also reporteth that Pitheas ingraued vppon a cuppe Vlysses and Diomedes stealing the Palladium euery ounce whereof was priced and solde at tente sesterties that is lxxviii pound two shillings vi d Vnto this chargeable plate were the Gréekes and the Asians maruellously giuen in so much that Cicero doth affirme against Verres that there was no man in Sicyl of any welth to speake of that had not at the lest if he had no plate else a great chalice or cup with the Images of the Gods a boole which the women shuld vse in sacrifice with a payre of censers al those parcels made by some of those famous ancient Goldsmiths artificers with singular cūning Plinie also reporteth that a widowe at Rome she to not very rich did giue for a dishe made of Christal fashioned like vnto a trey 15000. sesterties the is 11718.l of a cup of Myrrhe which would hold but. 3. sextaries that is a pottle halfe a pinte yet was solde for lxxx sesterties that is 625.l But Titus Petronius that he might disherite Nero his table brake at his death a cup of Myrrha which had cost him 300. sesterties the which is 2343. l. 15 s̄ But Nero as it became a prince excéeded all men by getting a cup

séemed very like vnto him in stature other points who ware apparell if he had ben Consul or General of an armie guarded about with purple if he had ben Censor of cleane purple but if he had triumphed interwouen with gold Thus rode they in their chariots the bundels of rods the axes other ensignes belonging vnto the office that he had borne in his life time were borne before thē but whē they came vnto the Rostra they did al set down in their seates of yuorie thē was done as you haue heard before Furthermore Plinie affirmes that it was the vsage throughout the whole worlde to burne at burials great heapes pyles of odors wheras they offered them vp vnto the Gods but by crums This also was cōmon vnto the Athenians for the nexte of kin to make an oration in praise of the dead person at his buriall I read in Valerius Maximus that it was first ordeined at Athens by Pericles but Plutarche in the life of Publicola affirms it to haue come frō Solon to whom I do rather assent but afterward it was enacted that it should not be lawfull to make an oration in the praise of the dead but only at burials made by the publike weale nor for euery man to pronounce it but such an one as was by publike authoritie appointed thervnto But the first that was praised at Rome was Iunius Brutus the first consul that by Publicola his college it was also permitted vnto women in the time of Camillus bicause they gaue their iuels to make a cup for Apollo the which shuld be sent vnto Delphos But this was peculiar vnto the Romanes to canonize their good emperours after their death for gods the maner of the which consecration funerals is thus described by Herodian When the emperour is departed out of this life there is in al the whole citie as it were a certaine mourning mixed with festiual celebritie for they burie the dead body after the rite of their country with sūptuous burial But they make an image very like to the emperor deceased which they lay foorth at the porch or comming in of the court vpō a very great high bed couered with clothes of gold the image doth lye pale like vnto a sicke man But about the bed on both sides set there a great part of the day on the left side all the Senate apparelled in blacke but on the right matrones honourable for the dignitie of their husbands or parents none of them wearing any gold ouch or tablet but being clothed in streight short white garments seeme to be women in great heauinesse This do they continually the space of seuen dayes the Physicians repayring euery day vnto the dead man looking vpon the image as it were the sicke emperour telling daily that he waxeth worse and worse Afterwarde when he hath seemed to haue changed life for death the noblest of the yong gentlemē and the very floure of the orders of the Senators and horsmen tooke vp the bed vpon their shoulders and bare it along the Sacred waye a streate so called into the olde forum where the Romane magistrates had vsed to giue vppe their authoritie and ofices But on both sides of the Forum stepps or grieces were built like vnto staires vpon the whiche was on the one side a greate companie of the children of the moste noble men and senatours and on the other of noble women which did sing hymnes and Paeans made with solemne and lamentable verse and note in the honour of the Emperour departed which being ended they tooke vp the bedde againe and carried it out of the citie into Mars his fielde where in the broadest place of the fielde there was a skaffolde set vp foure square with equall sides built of nothing else but mightie tymber in the forme of a tabernacle Within it was a wal all filled full of drie stickes kixes spray and all other thinges that wil quickly take fire but without it is adorned with hangings of purple and golte with Images of Iuorie and diuerse kindes of pictures and paintinges But vnder it was there another lesse Tabernacle set but in forme and garnishing very like vnto the first with gates doores standing wide open And so also a third and a fourth euer alwaies lesser lesser and so other beneath them vntill you come vnto the lowest which was the least of all You may liken the forme of this building vnto those towres that stande ouer hauens who by shewing of fire in the night doe direct the shippes into safe rodes the Greekes do vulgarly cal them Pharos and we towres seruing to such vses as lanterne toures Then the bed being carried vp into the seconde Tabernacle they get together spices perfumes of all kindes fruites hearbes and all swéete smelling iuyces and powred them downe by heapes For there was neither nation nor citie nor man excelling in any honour or dignitie but euery one of them did anie one vpon another giue those their last gyfts vnto the honour of the Prince Nowe when they had made a mightie great heape of odoriferous thinges and all the whole place was filled full of them all the whole order of the horsemen rode round about the edifice making their horses to tread that solemne kinde of daunce which the Lacedemonians did vse to exercise armed called Pyrrhica Chariotes also were drawen round about it who were guided by men clothed in purple bearing the persons of all the Romane capteines and of al their famous Princes After all these solemnities were celebrated the successor of the Empire tooke a fire brand and thrusted it into the Tabernacle Then all the multitude on all partes did thicke and thréefolde put to fire and incontinently al the whole edifice being filled full of that drie stuffe and those odoriferous thinges burned with a mightie fire Anon from the lowest lest Tabernacle was an Eagle let go who fléeing out at the topp of a building together with the fire it was beléeued did carrie the Emperours soule into heauen And then euer after that time was the Emperour woorshipped with the other Gods. But the funerals and buriall of Augustus is thus set forth by Dion There was a bed or bane made of golde and iuorie adorned with clothes of purple interwouen with golde In the lowest parte thereof lay the dead body inclosed in a chest but his image of waxe in triumphall robes was laide aboue to be séene of all men This did the nominated Consuls carie an other was of golde carried out of the senate house the third in a triumphall chariot Behinde them were borne the Images of his grandfathers and kinsmen dead except of Iulius Caesar who was enrolled among the half Gods and of all other men that euer had béen famous in Rome for their actes beginning at Romulus among whome was also an Image of Pompey the great and al the nations whiche he had subdued

Caligula was made out of the way to the incredible ioy of all mankinde whom he hated so deadly that he had béen often heard to bewayle his ill happe that in al his reigne there had chaunced no notable pestilence famine rauin of water earthquake nor any great bloudy battell wherby many men might perish wished that all the people of Rome had but one head that he might haue stroken it off at one blowe it had béene ill with mankinde if that this Phaeton of the world as his vncle Tiberius did vse to call him had béen immortall who in thrée yeares and sixe monethes for so long he reigned had néere hand vtterly destroyed it Moreouer I reade in Suetonius that Domitian the Emperour drawing a forme of letters whiche his agents should vse began thus Our Lord and God doeth commaunde it so to be done Whereby it was decréed afterward that he shoulde not be called otherwise by any man either in writing or spéeche It is is also left to memorie that about the yeare of our Lord 620. Cosdras the mightie King of the Persians after that he had won al Syria with Hierusalem al the South part of Asia with Egypt and all Africa would néedes be adored for a God and diuine honours with sacrifices done vnto him through out all his large dominions But perhappes some man will say what maruel was it for great monarches among the heathen to thinke themselues to be Gods if that you do consider their absurditie fonde vsage in constituting of Gods the originall and causes whereof I doe thinke good to touche The thirde Chapter Whereof the false Goddes had their first ground and the causes that moued diuerse countries to worshippe many men after death for Gods and also some while they liued as Demetrius Iulius Caesar Pycta Lysander Simon Magus Apollonius and of the extreeme maddnesse of the Egyptians in chusing of their Gods of the impudent flatterie of the ambassadours of Palermo vnto Martine the fourth and of the people to Herodes Agrippa and the present punishment of God for the accepting thereof Of the wonderfull reuerence that the Persians gaue vnto their Kinges and of the rare loue that the Galles Arabians Aethiopians bare vnto their Princes two woorthie sayinges of Antigonus and Canute AFter that the vngratious child Chara was abdicated and put away by his father without any instructions giuen him touching the worshippinge of the true God the outcast and his progenie marueilously increased as our common prouerbe is an ill wéede growes fast and they deduced many colonies into diuers partes of the worlde and the ignoraunce of the prouing of the true God whiche was in the first parent daily growing greater and greater in his posteritie You séeing as Cicero saies in his booke of the nature of the Gods it is naturally ingraffed in man to acknowledge a God and that no people or nation is so rude and barbarous that doth not professe a God they being vtterly ignoraunt of the true God thought those thinges which they sawe to excell other and by whom they receiued moste commodities to be Gods whereof arose the worshipping of the Sunne the Moone Starres and suche other things and also the making of the Gods when they were dead who in their liues had inuented or done any notable thinges to the vse and profite of mankinde And hereby it came to passe that some for the great celebrity of their names were as it were generally receiued of all nations as Hercules Bacchus Castor and Pollux and other were worshipped but in particular countries of whom onely they had well deserued as Isis in Egypt Iuba in Mauritania Cabyrus in Macedonia Vracius among the Carthaginians Fanus in Latium Romulus or after his deification Quirinus at Rome and with a great number such other shal he méete that diligently readeth the auncient monuments of the Paganes and those christian authors which haue refused their superstitions We read also in the booke of wisedome that the vnhappie man being bereft by vnripe death of his sonne whome hee loued tenderly to mitigate and assuage his sorrowe first inuented to haue his sonnes image adored and it to be taken for a present GOD in earth and the sonne him selfe for a GOD in heauen The like affection wee reade in Lactantius Cicero hadde towardes his Daughter and Virgils Aeneas vnto his Father with this consolation recouering their Spirites daunted and broken with griefe Wonderfull also was the honour and obseruancie that some nations bare vnto their kings so that he whiche readeth what Atheneus doeth write of the Arabians that the familiars of the Kinges did vse to maime them selues voluntarily of that member which it shoulde happen the king to léese and that when the King died either naturall or violent death they thought it but a sport to die all with him the like whereof is affirmed by Strabo and Diodorus Siculus of the Aethiopians and also of the Soliduni in a countrie of Gallia who were sixe hundreth men whom the King did chuse to be about him as his guard and liued and died with the king neither was it euer knowen that any one man of them did euer refuse or séeme vnwilling to die the Prince being deceased He I say that reads this wil not be hard of beléefe to credite Lactantius that the Maures did vse to consecrate all their kinges for Gods after they were dead The Aethiopians sayeth Strabo libr. 17. thinke that there is an immortall God and a mortall god The immortall is he that is the cause of all thinges the mortal is with them vncertaine and lacketh a name but mostly they do take them by whom they haue receiued benefites and their Kinges for Gods. Moreouer they doe thinke their kinges to be conseruers and kéepers of all men but priuate men when they be dead for they do account all dead men for Gods onely of them to whome they haue done good In like manner also the Romanes vsed to deifie their Emperours after their deathe as they also did their first king Romulus The Persian kings we reade in Curtius and other were adored like vnto Gods which honour saies Arrianus was giuen done vnto Cyrus first of all mortall men and the first of the Romane Emperours that was adored or knéeled vnto was Dioclesian after his glorious voiage and victorie against the Persians Yea in our time Xoas the king of the Persians is worshipped of his subiectes for god The water wherewithall he hathe washed his féete do they powre out of the basen and kéepe religiously as holy being an hoalsome medicine for al diseases he is called the Lord that holdes vppe heauen and earth The Gentiles also to incourage the young Gentlemen to folowe vertue and valiauncie vsed muche to Canonize and consecrate for Gods after death the renouned Capteines and greate conquerours by these meanes Hercules Bacchus and other did clime into heauen Of this

way speaketh Horace in his Epistles In triumphes braue to countrimen To shewe the captiue foes Doth touche the stately throne of Ioue And vppe to heauen it goes And Lactantius citeth Ennius making Scipio Africanus thus to speake If any man by sheading bloud May clime the loftie Skies Onely to me the greatest gate of Heauen then open lyes This wasting and burning of other mens lands and goods razing of townes destroying of Cities killing of infinite number of innocent men women and childrē bringing into bondage vniustly many free people did they cal vertue which hethen abuse of the world remaineth yet vnto this day among the Italians with many other such irreligious reliques calling Iohn Galeazo the court of vertue because he wrongfully like a strong théef robbed and spoiled by force all the Princes aboute him of their Dominions and possessions Among the Pagans he that had killed one man was adiudged a contaminate a wicked person neither did they thinke it lawfull to let him come into the earthly house of their Goddes but he that had slaine infinite thousandes of men had ouerflowen the fieldes with bloude had dyed the riuers was admitted not onely into the temples but also receiued into heauen Murthering of one climed the gallowes of infinite thousandes heauen No otherwise then the pyrate answered Alexander the great when he reuiled him as a most wicked knaue that liued by the spoyle of other men that bycause he roued but with one only pinasse he was called a pyrate but Alexander for that his mightie fléetes filled all the seas robbing wasting pillaging and burning al countries was named a king as though singularitie in wickednesse were singular vertue and deserued singular honours But although it was common among the Gentiles to deifie mē after they were dead yet godly honours to be ordeined vnto any whyle they liued happened but vnto fewe The first sayes Plutarche among the Gréekes was Lysander to whome after he had taken Athens the Gréeks decréed many vnwonted honours and some of them altars to be erected in his name and poemes or sacred hymnes to be soung in his honour The Athenians did set a fine of tenne talentes on Demades his heade bycause he thought that Alexander was a god and did put to death Euagoras for that he adored Alexander when he was sent ambassadour vnto him from the citie Yet these seuere men afterwarde receiued Demetrius Poliorcetes when he came to Athens not only with fine persumes garlands and effusions of wine the quires and Ithyphalli whiche were men disguised like drunken mē with garlands on their heads gloues made of floures or rather of diuers colours like floures cloakes halfe white and a Tarentine robe downe to the shope which sacred persons onely attended on the highest gods went out to méete him with sacred singing dauncing But the multitude daunced soung that only this the true God is present but the other gods do sléepe or wander abroad frō home or else certes be not at al but this is the sonne of Neptune and Venus excelling all in beautie for his facilitie commō to al men This God is here as it is méete for a God surpassing beautiful both laughing also graue bicause al his friends enuiron him in the midst of whom who are as it were starres he is séene like vnto the sun All haile thou son of Venus most mightie Neptune for the rest of the Gods either they haue no eares or they be not at all in very déede or at the least wise they adhibite not their mindes to our matters Therfore thou most merciful milde we doe pray thée that thou wilt vouchsafe to giue vs peace for thou art the Lord with a great deale more such stuffe which song if that they had soung vnto his father Antigonus he would haue answered thē as he did the parasite poet Hermodotus that called him in his pratling poeme the sonne of the sunne my man that vseth to emptie my close stoole thinkes not thus of me Which sage saying of Antigonus putteth me in remembrance the Platina writeth in the life of Iohn the eight of that name that the byshops of Rome do vse at their installing to sit vpon a iakes stoole to put them in mind that although they are aduaunced to the highest seate of earthly glory as they them selues thinke yet for al that that they are mortal men stil subiect to the necessities of mans nature as wel as other poore knaues A sutable song vnto this of the Athenians howled out the ambassadours of the citizens of Palermo vnto Martin the fourth byshop of Rome who had accursed thē for sleying of al the frenchmē womē children which were in the Island of Sicyl all Sicilyan womē which were knowne to be with child by any frenchmā Vpon an Easter day at the first peale to Euensong they lying prostrate at the byshops féete cryed out with lamentable voyce O lambe of God that takest awaye the sinnes of the worlde haue mercie vpon vs and againe O lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world haue mercy vpon vs and the third time O lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world giue vnto vs peace vngodly violētly pulling off the royall spoyles from our Sauiour Christe casting them on Martine for whom they were as fit as Hercules start-vps according to the olde prouerbe are for a childe or his rough Lions case and club were for the nyce Ladie Iole But to returne vnto the Athenians Plutarche in the life of Demetrius writeth that they decréed that Demetrius and his father Antigonus shoulde be called the Goddes sauiours and that there shoulde be ordeined a priest vnto the Goddes sauiours that they should be interwouen in the sacred people with Iupiter Pallas that the legates whiche should goe at any time vnto them shoulde be accepted for sacred Yea there lacked not some that wold haue had a shield consecrated vnto him at Delphos of whome they should publikely receiue oracle and answere in all doubtfull matters as good and as true as any that was there But the Athenians not being content with this shamelesse flattering of the king they decréed the sacrifices of Venus vnto his two concubines Leona and Lamia and vnto his flatterers and parasites Burichus Adimanthus and Exythemides were altars and statuies erected and poemes which should be soung in their honour in so muche that Demetrius him selfe being astonied at their seruile flatterie affirmed that in his time there was not one Athenian of stoute heart nor rype iudgement The like impudencie vsed they many yeares after vnto Antonius the triumpher and among many extraordinarie honours they espoused vnto him their chiefe Goddesse and patrone of their citie Pallas whiche marriage he sayde he did very well like off and withal his hart accept and they should giue with her vnto him quadragies sestertiū 10000.