be greatly inflamed with the desire oâ— conquering Plato Eumenes though neuer so distressed thought himselfe strong enough as long aâ— he had his sword in his hand Plut. Aristomenes the Messenian beeing take◠〈◊〉 the Lacedemonians and deliuered fast â—â—und to two souldiours hee drew neere to â—â—fire burned his bonds in sunder killed his â—â—eepers and saued himselfe Valerius Lysimachus vvas commaunded by Alexâ—â—der that he should be deuoured of a Lion â—â—at he valiantly fought with the beast and â—â—retching forth his arme thrust it into hys â—â—roate taking holde of his tongue and so â—â—rangled him whereupon hee vvas euer afâ—â—r more esteemed of Alexander then hee â—as before Aelianus Cassius aunswered a Chaldean Astrologer â—ho counselled him not to fight vvith the â—arthians vntill the Moone had passed Scorâ—â—o I feare not quoth he Scorpius but I feare 〈◊〉 Archers because the Romans were put 〈◊〉 â—light by Parthian Archers Appian Agis vpon the poynt to giue battaile to the â—â—ycaonians vvhen his souldiers sayde that â—â—eyr enemies were many aunswered The â—rince that will subdue many must of necessity â—â—ght with many Tbucid Leonides beeing informed by his souldiers â—â—at the enemies against whom hee vvas to â—â—ght vvere so many in number that theyr â—rrovves darkned the beames of the sunne â—o much the better quoth he for we shall theÌ„ fight in the shade Licosthenes Alcibiades when his Captaines suddainlie made an alarum with great citties that they were fallen into theyr enemies hands would say vnto his souldiours Be valiant and feare not for we are not fallen into their hands but they into ours Thucidydes Scaeua a Iew at the siege of Ierusalem hauing long time defended his fellow souldiers after much slaughter by him made abode still fighting hauing his eyes stopped hys body vvounded and his shield strooke thorow in sixscore places Iosephus Iulius Caesar perceiuing the Neruians to haue the better hand caught a Target from out a souldiours hand that began to flie and taking his place did such feates of Armes that all his Armie recouered courage got the victory Plutarch Alexander swimmed ouer dangerous vvaters scaled townes and put himselfe formost in perrils and paines-taking Pyrrhus Haniball Sertorius and Caesar are reported to haue done the like Eutycus beeing blinde was set without the aray of the battaile by Leonidas but being ashamed to leaue his companions caused a slaue to leade him to the place vvhere they â—ought there valiantly behauing himselfe â—e was slaine Valerius Sylla the Dictator hauing condemned to â—eath all the inhabitants of Perouza parâ—oning none but his hoast he would needes â—ie saying that he scorned to hold his lyfe of the murtherer of his country Appian The Polonian Ambassadors aunswered Aâ—exander when he threatned theyr country VVee feare saide they but one onely thing which is least the skie fall vpon vs. Pompey dreadlesse of a great storme wheÌ„ he vvas sent by the Senate into Italie vvas the first that went a shyp-board and commaunded the sailes to be spred saying It is necessary that I goe but not necessary that I liue Plutarch Xerxes great Nauie that dranke vvhole riuers dry vvas rather a signe of his vvealth then magnanimitie Iustinus Bias holding warres with Iphiorates and put to the vvorst his souldiours cryed out saying vvhat shall we doe to vvhom hee aunswered Tell those that are aliue that I dyed fighting and I will report vnto the deade that you escaped flying Laertius The women of Lacena vvent souldier-like into the field with their husbands Thomyris Queene of Scythia ouercame Cyrus cut off his head cast it into a bowle of blood saying Satiate sanguine quem sitiisti Iustinus The vvomen of Scythia called Amazons lyued as conquerours ouer men and vvere neuer conquered by men vntill Alexander destroyed both them and theyr country Semyramis when newes was brought her that her citty Babylon vvas besieged all vnattyred and vndressed she tooke her armor and by her vvonderfull valour repulsed her enemies Iustinus Zenobia Queene of the Palmerians after the death of her husband gouerned the Empire and long helde battaile against the Emperour Aurelian vvho sayd That it was moâ—e valour to conquer a woman so stoute as Zenobia then to vanquish a king so fearefull as Xerxes Penthiselea Queene of the Amazons and Hyppolita the first encountred hande to hand Achilles the other Theseus whom hee for her valour and courage afterward married Homer Artimesia Queene of Caria after the death of her husband shewed such admirable fortitude against the Rhodians that she burned theyr Nauies entered theyr Citties and â—â—used in them her Image to bee set vp for a â—onument of her chiualrie VVhen Epaminondas besieged Sparta â—as gotten into the Towne Isadas a young â—an all naked his body annointed ouer â—ith oyle hauing a partisone thrust himselfe â—â—to the midst beating downe all his eneâ—ies before him and himselfe escaped away â—nvvounded Loncerus The Ephori at his return gaue him a crown â—n honor of his provvesse but they amerced â—im at a thousand crownes for beeing so adâ—enturous Of the Soule The Soule is called Anima whilst it is in the â—ody and giueth lyfe Mens while it mindeth Animus hauing will Ratio for that it iudgeth rightfully Spiritus while it breatheth Sensus whilst it feeleth THe Soule hath fiue vertues of the which the first is feeling by this vertue the soule is mooued desiring those thing that belong to the body Augustine The second povver is vvit by thys the soule knovveth all things sensible and corporall when they are present The third is Imagination by vvhich it beâ—holdeth the likenes of bodily thinges 〈◊〉 they be absent The fourth is Reason that iudgeth betweene good and euill truth and falshood The fift is Vnderstanding the which comprehendeth things not materiall but intelligible as God and Angels The three first virtues are situate in the soule that is coupled to the body and giueth lyfe and inner wit to perfection of the body and these bee common both to men and beasts The other tvvo Reason and Vnderstanding be in the soule in that it may be departed from the body and abide beeing departed as an Angell by two manner of respects for it beholdeth the higher things and therevpon is called Intellectus and the lower and for that cause is termed Ratio In diuers bodies the soule is threefold Vegitable that is giueth life and no feeling as in plants and rootes vvhich the Philosophers liken to a Tryangle in Geometry for as that hath three corners so hath this soule three vertues the first begetting the second nourishing the third growing â—ensible that gyueth lyfe and feeling not 〈◊〉 which is in beasts thys soule is lykeâ—â—d to a Quadrangle for it is a line drawne 〈◊〉 one corner to another before it maketh 〈◊〉 Triangles and the sensible soule maketh 〈◊〉 triangles of vertues for where-soeuer 〈◊〉 soule Sensible is there is also the soule â—egitable but not é contra The Reasonable soule giueth life feeling
what sayd Alexander hath he no friends to pleasure seeing all King Darius wealth will not suffice mee to diâ—tribute among my friends Perillus besought him to giue some money towards the mariage of his daughter whereâ—pon he gaue her 50. talents but he said that it was too much by halfe but he replied If â—alfe be enough for thee to take yet it is not enough for me to giue He gaue to a poore Aegiptian asking his â—almes a rich and populous Citty and when the other amazed supposed that he had mocked him take quoth he that which I giue thee for if thou art Bias that demaundest I am Alexander that giueth Titus loued so liberality that remembring one euening with himselfe that he had giuen nothing the same day sayd O my friends wee haue lost this day Dyonisius the elder entering into his sonns lodging and beholding theyr great store of rich Iewels and gold sayde vnto him My Sonne I did not giue thee these riches to vse in this sort but to impart them to thy friends Pertinax who succeeded Commodus surpassed all the Emperours that euer were for exceeding liberality he forbad that his namâ— should be set vpon any Castle within his dominion saying that his lands were not propeâ— to him onely but common to all the people oâ— Rome Suetonius Haniball after he was vanquished by Scipio fled into Asia to King Antiochus who tooke him into his protection and right honorably entertained him Appianus The Germaines are very curteous towards Aliens and Strangers and it is an horrible act accounted amongst them to molest those whom they ought to defend froÌ„ any which intended to hurt them Caesar. The entertainment of the greater Scipio towards Massinissa brought such profit to the Romains as he of some writers is called the third preseruer of the Citty of Rome froÌ„ destruction and therfore is ioyned companion with the elder and younger Scipio Lot for his hospitality escaped the fire o Sodom and Gomorrha Rahab for her hospitality was saued with all hers from death Elias restored from death the Sonne of her which had lodged him Archelaus being requested by one of his Minions to giue him a Cup of gold wherein â—e dranke deliuered it to his page and bidde â—im giue it to Euripides saying Thou art â—orthy to aske and to bee denyed but Euripides worthy of gifts although hee aske not Marcus Antonius Emperour of Rome afâ—er his great battailes in one day gaue avvay hundred Lyons together he made sale of â—ll his plate and iewels to augment his soulâ—iours pay Eutropius The priuiledges belonging to hospitality â—re so great as the Romaines obserued the â—ites thereof to theyr enemies and vvoulde â—euer fight till such time as the prisoners to â—hom they were indebted for meat were set â—t liberty Iupiter was called of Homer and Virgil Hospitalis the Harbourer The Almaines made so great account of those with whom they had eaten and drunk that they imparted their houses vnto them The Lucans had a lawe which condemned that man to be fined which suffered a stranger to passe vnlodged after the sunne vvas downe Scipio being blamed for his great bounty â—unswered That Treasurers receiuers were to make account of mony and Captaines of feats of Armes Valerius Publicola for relieuing the poorâ— with his goods was called Publicola Nerua Cocceius in the one yeere that hee was Emperour gaue vnto the poore fifteene hundred thousand crownes for the dooing whereof he sold his iewels and his plate Tullus Hostilius King of the Romans was so pittifully minded that hee gaue a great part of his goods to the poore Philemon and Baucis for theyr entertayning of Iupiter and Mercurie into their cottage vvhen the inhabitants of Phrygia denied them hospitalitie had theyr wishes granted that they might dye both together Ouid lib. 8. There was a law made by King Cyrus that what King soeuer of Persia did come vnto Babylon he should giue a peece of gold vnto euery poore vvoman in the citty for the which cause King Othus vvoulde neuer come thither Pompey being sicke in Pusoll his Physitions told him that his remedy was to eate of certaine Zorzales that the Consull Lucullus did breede but he aunswered I will rather die then send to craue them for the Gods haue not created Pompey to aske but to giue Plutarch Pompey flying into Egypt for succour to â—tolomy then very young was betrayed â—y Phocinus and Achillas Plut. Othosilanus to winne the loue of his men â—f VVarre made a feast vnto them gaue 〈◊〉 euery warrier a peece of money besides â—â—ndry other rewards Lycaon caused those stranger-guests that â—ame to him to be slaine for which cause Iupiter turned him into a VVolfe Ouid. Busiris did the like and therefore hee vvas â—illed of Hercules Moneses a noble Parthian fled to Anthoâ—ie from his cruell King who comparing his â—isery to Themistocles and his felicitie to Xerxes gaue him three Citties as Xerxes â—id to Themistocles for his bread drinke â—eate and as some write two more for hys â—odging and apparrell Appian Pomponius Atticus vvhen he saw Brutus â—nd Cassius were driuen and expelled out of Rome he sent them 100000. Sextercies as â— friend that ayded them at theyr need when â—thers had forsooke them Gillias a Sicilian of Agrigentum clothed â—he poore fed them bestowed their daughâ—ers in marriage lodged strangers and gaue â—ntertainement to fiue hundred men whom the sea had cast vpon that coast Valerius Buza a noble Lady of Pouile releeued ten thousand Romains which had escaped from the battaile of Cannas Idem Hiero King of Sicile gaue vnto the Romans in tyme of theyr neede thirty thousand quarters of VVheate two hundred of Barly and 250. pound weight of gold Q. Flaminius hauing conquered the Lacedemonians discharged them of all tallages and impositions contrary to the manner of other conquerers vvho are wont to lay burdens vpon the backs of them whom they had conquered Alexander was reputed the most bountiful and liberall of all Princes who gaue to none but to Phylosophers men of vvarre and Counsellers One day a Iugler by his subtile sleight threwe a dry pease a great way through the eie of a needle hoping to haue some reward but the King making no reckoning of him commaunded one to giue him a bushell of those pease to practise his feates withall Alexander gaue his Treasurer charge to gyue to Anaxarchus the Phylosopher whatsoeuer he asked and when hee had asked aâ— hundred talents the Treasurer astonished â—hereat told Alexander who answered That Anaxarchus knewe well enough that hee had a friend that both could would bestow so much vpon him Caesar gaue a great summe of money to eâ—erâ— souldiour of the old bands Bellisarius vvas beloued of his followers for his liberality because hee gaue them horse armor vvhensoeuer they had lost them so it were not through theyr owne negligence P. Diaconus Vitellius contrary to Caligula neuer denyed any man his request Scipio dyed poore
in singing to auoyde tediousnes and to driue avvay the time August This Athanasius forbadde to auoyde vanities S. Augustine was indifferent and it repented him because hee had sometimes fallen by giuing more attentiue heed vnto the measures and chordes of musicke then the words which were vnder them spoken for that measure singing were brought in for words sake and not words for musick In the East parts the holy assemblies euen from the beginning vsed singing P. Mart. Architas inuented a certaine musicall instrument to stay the running wits of chyldren Pausa The Grecians learned to daunce of Castor and Pollux and vsed to dispatch theyr busines dauncing The Sirians before they met their enemies vsed to sing and daunce Plut. The Romaine Priests called Salij vsed to daunce in honour of Mars Diodorus a cunning Musition beeing sent for by the harlot Lamia refused to goe yet Demetrius hauing his Armor on the badge of a vvarriour and his Diademe the cognizaunce of a King was not ashamed to goe to her house Aelianus The Phylosophers called Peripateticks condemned musick in vvemen saying that betweene it and chastitie there could be smal agreement Niphus Euripides is commended for reprehending such as vse the Harpe at feasts for sayth hee Musicke ought rather to bee sent for vvhen men are angry or mourne then vvhen they are feasting and making merry thereby to make thē giue more liberty to pleasure then before A Musition by the onely vertue of the Dorian tune preserued the chastitie of Clytemnestra the vvife of Agamemnon from the assaults of Aegisthus who to bee reuenged slew the Musition Dionysius commaunded that all his seruants should daunce in purple roabes which Plato would not doe saying I will not put on a womans garments But Aristippus did and when he began to daunce sayde In dronken feates the sober offend not Laert. Diogenes reprooued Musitions because they tooke great care that their instruments shoulde agree and neglected theyr manners Neanthus handled the Harpe of Orpheus whereon expecting the trees to daunce hee did by his confused iangling thereon cause the dogs to barke at him Epaminondas to auoyde the shame of ignorance in musicke learned to play vppon diuers instruments Cicero Nero the same night which vvas the last of his lyfe among the complaints which instant death feare and sorrowe did minister thys onely thing he most bewailed that so famous a Musition as himselfe should perrish from the world Tacitus A boy in Athence taking into his hand the instrument of an excellent Musition vvho was hired to teach him and putting it to his mouth and straining his breath vvhereby his cheekes began to swell perceiuing thereby the deformitie of his countenaunce presentlie brake the pype and disdainefully flung it away Petrarch Socrates vvhen he vvas old gaue his mind to musicke and dauncing Appian Scipio ordinarily vsed to mooue his tryumphant and martiall body after the tyme and measure of musicall instruments not vvantonly mincing with his feete but after a manly sort vvhich hee sayde shoulde no vvaies disparage him if his enemies did behold him Bacchus instructed the people of East India to honour the heauens and the seauen Planets by diuers kindes of daunces Diodorus Ganimede Hebe the nine Muses greatlie pleased Iupiter with theyr dauncing Orpheus King Dauid to shewe his cheerefull hart for the returne of the Arke of God daunced before it The dauncing of Herods daughter vvas the cause of Iohn Baptists death Progne in a daunce did finde opportunitie to murder her sonne Itis Ouid. The Ethiopians vsed songs of diuers tunes and dauncing before they went to battaile Pausanias Timotheus the noble Musition demaunded alway a greater reward of them vvhom other taught then of them that neuer learned any thing before Quintil. Gelo a Tyrant of Sicilie when by horrible oppression of his people he had brought him selfe into a generall hatred prohibited that no man or woman shoulde speake to each other for feare of conspiracies but in stedde of vvords they should vse in theyr necessarie affaires countenaunces tokens and moouings with their feete hands and eyes which for necessitie first vsed at the last grewe to a perfect and delectable dauncing but he was slaine of them for his cruelty Homer among the great benefits that god giueth to man reciteth dauncing One daunced before Demetrius the Tyrant and in his gestures and motions showed the aduoutry of Mars and Venus and their discouery by Phoebus vvith Vulcans intrapping them vvhere-with contrary to his sullen disposition he forced him to laugh and cry out saying O man I doe not onely see but also heare what thou doost and it seemeth to mee that thou speakest with thy hands The same daunced before Nero in the presence of a strange King which vnderstoode no other language but his own country who by his daūcing made the king to vnderstand vvhat was sayde and at his departure Nero bid him aske what he would and hee should haue it Sir said he lend mee this young man that by his motions I may vnderstand the language of my confines and neighbors The maiestie of Princes in olde time vvas shewed in the daunce named Eumelia belonged to Tragedies dissolute countenaunces in that which was called Cordax and pertained to Comedies wherin men of base behauiour onely daunced The forme of fighting in Armor was expressed in a daunce called Enophe Hormus was a kinde of Daunce vvherein daunced both men and maydes the man expressing in his motion and countenaunce strength and courage apt for the warres the mayde modestie and shamefastnesse which represented a pleasant coniunction of fortitude and temperance Lampridius Augustus in the presence of many men plaied on an instrument A poore man standing by with other and beholding the Emperour sayde with a loude voyce to his fellow Scest thou not howe this voluptuous Leachor tempereth all the world with his little finger VVhich words hee wisely noted and during his life hee euer after refrained hys hands from any such lightnes in open assemblies Alexander when hee had vanquished Ilion where Troy stoode being demaunded if he woulde see the Harpe of Paris who rauished Helen gently smiling hee aunswered I had rather see the harpe of Achilles wherevnto hee did sing not the illecebrous sports of loue but the valiant acts of noble Princes Lisander softned the walls of Athence and burned their ships by sound of Flutes S. Augustine rather liked the maid or wife that soweth vpon the Saboth day then hee that daunced August The Archbishop of Magdeburgh brake his necke in dauncing Mar. Hist. The Tyrrhenes first founde the Trumpet which they afterward vsed in battell to feare theyr enemies and encourage their friends likewise at solemne feastes that they might thereby assemble the people together and to proclaime the comming of the Iubilie in the beginning of the newe Moone crying ioy and rest to all men Isodore Buccina was a kinde of Trumpet made of horne of woode or brasse which the vvild Panims vsed to
out of it the Pope aunswered All ages can testifie howe profitable that fable of Christ hath beene to vs and our company In the yeere 1518. as soone as hee heard it reported that the Frenchmen vvere by his meanes slaine and driuen out of Italie hee laughed at the newes so vehemently that there-with hee presently fell dovvne dead at the table Hadrian the 6. Schoolemaister before to Charles the Emperour still kept the name that hee receiued in Baptisme called Hadrian he dyed hauing raigned 4. yeres 1523. Clement the 7. got the place by violence and possessed it vvith much trouble and an 1534. he vvas poysoned by a strange practise for both he and certaine Cardinals were poysoned vvith the smell and smoake of a certaine Taper which with a strange confusion was poysoned for the same purpose Vnder this Clement Nicholaus Machiauell Secretary of Florence did flourish vvho in his first booke of the history of Florence sayth That for the most part the mischiefes that happened among the Christans proceeded of the Popes theyr ambition that before the â—ime of Theodocricus King of Lombardy the yere of our Lorde 500. they were euer subiect to Kings in ciuill matters Paule the 3. was an Astrologian a Magitian giuen to all incontinencie he had a booke of 45. thousand harlots who for the â—iberty of theyr stewes did pay vnto hym a monthly tribute He did openly excommunicate curse the most renowned prince King H. the 8. Et donauit regnum primuÌ„ occupaturo and gaue his kingdome to him thaâ— would first inuade it he raigned 15. yeres Iulius the 3. before called Iohn Mery oâ— the Mount was a man of beastly condition and a maintainer of Sodomitie hee caused to be stamped vppon his coyne Gens et regnâ— peribit quod mihi non inseruit that Nation kingdome shall perrish vvhich dooth not serue me he dyed when he had raigned sixe yeeres ann 1555. Marcellus the second vvoulde not change his Christian name hee dyed the 20. day after his election Paule the fourth founded a newe sect of Religious men in Venice called by an holie name Iesuits of the name of Iesus before he was Pope for the which he vvas made Cardinall he was altogether gyuen to vvarres He dedicated a booke of the reformation of the Church to Paule the third yet made none in his owne time Pius the fourth before called Iohannes Angelus borne at Millaine of the house of Medices enioyed the place fiue yeeres eleuen months and fifteene dayes in the raignes of Ferdinando and Max. Emperours and dyed anno Domini 1565. Pius the 5. borne at Alexandria succeeded him sate in the Sea 6. yeares Gregory the 13. before called Hugo of Bononia swayed Popedome 13. yeares in the time of Maximilian and Rodolphus Sixtus the 5. borne at Millaine liued in the place 5. yeres 4. moneths by his means one Clement a Iacobine Fryer killed the most Christian King of France Henry the third Vrbanus the 7 possessed the place 13. days Gregory the 14. ten moneths ten dayes Innocentius the 9. two moneths after these anno Dom. 1592. Clement the 8. was elected Pope who at this day enioyeth the place Of Warre There is but one iust title of warre ingenerall that is necessity according to the old saying nulium bellum iustum nisi necessarium which is iust and necessary two wayes the one is in defence of the innocent the other is in reuenge of iniuries THE continuall warrs which the Sicilians had made them like sauage beasts Plut. The Aeolians intending to ayd the Argiueâ— in their warre Archidamus writ to them in a letter onely these words quietnes is good Silla for his victories against Mithridates let out fiue ounces of the blood of his vain Cardiaca and offered it to Iupiter Capitolinus Plutarch The Romaines were 500. yeares in conquering Italy The Oracle of Apollo aunswered those oâ— Cyrrha that if they would liue in peace at home they should make warre with theyr neighbour strangers the Romains when they had none to wage warre with fell to ciuill dissentions which was their ouerthrow Caesar noted two great faults in Pompey the one when hee had the better of him and did not follow his fortune the other when in the last battaile at Pharsalia he charged his Souldiours beeing ranged to stand still in theyr places whereby he was ouerthrowne Appian Hanibal neuer fought any battaile without laying some ambush Traian was neuer vanquished because he neuer vndertooke warre without iust cause the same Liuius wryteth of the Romaines in his first Decad. The Romaines out of their Country were inuincible they were euer assaylants and sildome times defendants Eutropius There is a people in Germany called Catti whose strength consisteth in theyr footmen others goe to skirmish and the Catti to war Tacitus The Lacedemonians of all people in peace and warre were most valiant being in the beginning more then men but in the end lesse â—hen women Frenchmen loosing the first encounter â—oose also the victory Liuius C. Marius neuer gaue his enemies occasion to force him to fight Darius against Alexander Pompey against Caesar Haniball against Scipio Antonius against Augustus Mithridates against Sylâ—a had greater forces without comparison â—hen their enemies and yet were ouercome Fredericus Oenobarbus when he had ouerâ—hrowne Millaine sowed salt there and harâ—owed it thereby to shew that the same Citty was brought to vtter destruction If there be any fault committed generally 〈◊〉 all the Souldiours in the campe the Prinâ—es of the hoast take the tenth of the mulâ—â—tude that by the punishment of a few the rest may be assoiled Plutarch F. Max. sent to Rome to the Senate 〈◊〉 money to redeeme his Souldiers which Hâ—â—nibal had taken prisoners and beeing denâ—â— thereof commaunded his Son to sell all 〈◊〉 lands bring money for their ransome Three hundred Noblemen of the house the Fabij tooke vppon them alone to waâ— battaile against the Vientines Liuius C. Marius refused those Souldiers who 〈◊〉 not sixe feete or at the least fiue a halfe 〈◊〉 height Vigetius Pyrrhus charged his Muster-maysters 〈◊〉 choose them that were of large stature 〈◊〉 said he will make them valiant Idem P. Aemilius to auoide the sunne that shine in the face of his hoast was so long in raÌ„ginâ— his Army that by the time the battailes sholâ— ioyne the sunne was vpon his back Mariuâ— vsed the like pollicy against the Cymbrianâ— and Augustus against the Flemings Polemon to make his Souldiers fiercer 〈◊〉 assailing the Lacedemonians cast his colouâ— into the midst of his enemies where-vpoâ— they pressed with great violence esteeming 〈◊〉 great shame to abandon of their Ancient Eumolphus for that he feared a famine 〈◊〉 his prouision for the which his Souldiouâ— â—â—oned him to death Xenephon was very curious in his prouiâ—â—on of Martiall furniture hee had an Argoliâ—n target an Athenian breast-plate a Beoâ—an head-peece he was a Philosopher and a â—aptaine Titus the
flying foules Mulcasses king of Thunis after he was deâ—riued of his kingdome in his returne out of Almaigne being without hope that the Emperour Charles the fift vvould helpe him at â—ll hee spent one hundred crownes vpon a Peacock dressed for him P. Iouius Maximilian the Emperour deuoured in one day forty pounds of flesh and drunke an â—ogshead of vvine Geta the Emperour for three dayes together continued his feastiual and his delicates vvere brought in by the order of the Alphabet Astydamas beeing inuited by Ariobarzaâ—es to a banquet eate vp al that alone which vvas prouided for diuers guests Vopisc There vvas a contention betweene Hercules and Lepreas vvhich of them both should first deuoure an Oxe in which attempt Lepreas vvas ouer-come afterwards hee chalenged him for drinking but Hercules vvas his maister Aelianus Aglais vvhose practise was to sounde the trumpet deuoured at euery meale tvvelue poundes of flesh with as much bread as tvvo bushels of wheate vvould make and three gallons of vvine Philoxenes a notorious glutton vvished he had a necke like a Crane that the svveetâ— meate vvhich he eate might bee long in going downe Rauisius Lucullus at a solemne and costly feast he made to certaine Embassadors of Asia aâ—mong other things he did eate a Griph boiâ—led and a Goose in paste Macrob. Salust in his inuectiue against Cicero aâ—mongst many graue matters vvhereof he accused him he spake of his wanton excesse as hauing poudred meats from Sardinia anâ— wines from Spayne Lucullus tooke great paynes himselfe iâ— furnishing of a feast and when he was askeâ— vvhy he was so curious in setting out a banâ—quet hee aunswered That there was as greaâ— discretion to be vsed in marshalling of a feast 〈◊〉 in the ordering of a battaile that the one mighâ— be terrible to his enemies and the other acceptable to his friends Plut. In Rhodes they that loue fish are accounted right curteous and free-harted men buâ— he that delighteth more in flesh is ill though of and to his great shame is reputed a bond slaue to his belly Aelianus Sergius Galba was a deuouring and glutâ—tonous Emperour for he caused at one banquet 7. thousand byrds to be killed Suet. Xerxes hauing tasted of the figges of Aâ—hence sware by his Gods that hee vvoulde â—ate no other all his life after and went forthâ—vith to prepare an Army to conquer Greâ—ia for no other cause but to fill his belly full of the figges of that Country Plut. Plato returning out of Sicill into Greece told his schollers that he had seen a monster meaning Dionisius because hee vsed to eate â—wice a day Idem Aristotle mocking the Epicures sayd that â—pon a time they vvent all into a temple together beseeching the Gods that they wold gyue them necks as long as Cranes and Heâ—ons that the pleasures and tastes of meates might be more long complayning against Nature for making their necks too short The Sicilians dedicated a Temple to Glutâ—ony and erected images to Bacchus Ceâ—es the God and goddesse of vvine corne Pausanias M. Manlius in times past made a booke of diuers vvayes hovv to dresse meate and another of the tastes sauces and diuers meanes of seruices vvhich were no sooner published but by the decree of the Senate they were burned and if hee had not fled speedily â—nto Asia he had been burned with them There was a lawe in Rome called Fabia bâ— which it was prohibited that no man shoulâ— dispend in the greatest feast hee made abouâ— an hundred Sexterces Aul. Gellius The law Licinia forbad all kindes of sauce at feastes because they prouoke appetite are cause of great expence Idem The lawe Ancia charged the Romaines tâ— learne all kinde of sciences but cookerie The law Iulia vvas that none should bee 〈◊〉 hardie as to shutte theyr gates vvhen theâ— vvere at dinner that the Censors of the Citâ—tie might haue easie accesse into theyr houâ—ses at that time to see if their ordinary werâ— according to their ability Macrob. Nisaeus a tyrant of Syracuse vvhen he vnderstood by his Soothsayers that he had noâ— long to liue the little time hee had left heâ— spent in belly-cheere and drunkennesse anâ— so dyed Rauisius Mar. Anthonius set foorth a booke of hyâ— drunkennesse in which hee prooued thosâ— prancks he played when hee vvas ouercomâ— with vvine to be good and lawfull Plut. Darius had written vpon his graue thys inâ—scription I could drinke good store of wine beare it well Rauisius Ptolomey vvho in mockery vvas calleâ— Philopater because hee put to death his Father and mother through wine and women dyed like a beast Valer. Lacydes a Phylosopher by too much drinking fell into a palsie whereof he dyed Aruntius a Romaine beeing drunken deflowred his own daughter Medullina whom she forthwith killed Plutarch Tiberius Caesar vvas preferred to a Pretorshyp because of his excellencie in drinking Diotimus was sirnamed Funnell or Tunnell because he gulped downe wine through the channell of his throate vvhich was powred into a Funnell the end whereof was put into his mouth vvithout interspiration betweene gulpes Rauisius In the feast of Bacchus a crowne of golde vvas appoynted for him that coulde drinke more then the rest Agron the King of Illyrium fell into a sicknesse of the sides called the Plurisie by reason of his excessiue drinking and at last died thereof Cleio a vvoman was so practised in drinking that shee durst challenge all men and vvomen what soeuer to try maisteries who could drinke most and ouercome all Cleomenes king of Lacedemonia beeing disposed to carouse after the manner of the Scythians dranke so much that hee became and continued euer after sencelesse Cyrillus sonne in his drunkennes wickedly slevv that holy man his father his mother great with child he hurt his two sisters and deflowred one of them August Androcides a Gentleman of Greece hearing of Alexanders excesse in drunkennesse vvrote a letter to him wherein was a Tablet of gold with these words thereon ingrauen Remember Alexander when thou drinkest wine that thou doost drinke the blood of the earth Those of Gallia Transalpina vnderstanding that the Italians had planted Vines in Italy came to conquer theyr Countrey so that if they had neuer planted Vines the French-men had not destroyed the Countrey Liuius Foure old Lombards being at banquet together the one dranke an health rounde to the others yeeres in the end they challenged two to two and after each man had declared how many yeeres old he was the one dranke as many times as he had yeeres and likewise his companion pledged him the one vvas 58. the second 63. the third 87. the last 92. so that a man knoweth not vvhat they did eate or drinke but he that dranke least dranke 58. cups of vvine P. Diaconus Of thys euill custome came the lawe that the Gothes made that is VVee ordaine and commaund vppon paine of death that no olde men vpon payne of death shoulde drinke to one anothers health at the