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enemy_n	friend_n	jupiter_n	venus_n	1,720	5	12.4818	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01512	The hospitall of incurable fooles: erected in English, as neer the first Italian modell and platforme, as the vnskilfull hand of an ignorant architect could deuise; Hospidale de' pazzi incurabili. English	Garzoni, Tomaso, 1549?-1589.; Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601.; Blount, Edward, fl. 1588-1632.	1600 (1600)	STC 11634; ESTC S102909	90,029	174

no question she was These kinde of men are therefore deseruedly called despitefull or malitious Fooles and in the Hospitall they haue a Cell which hath the goddesse Nemesis hanging out for a signe to whom in this their so great need let vs haue recourse it being that goddesse who commonly hath care of this kinde of Fooles A petition to goddesse Nemesis for despitefull and malitious Fooles WIth all zeale possible and as great vehemencie as may be graunted vnto vs we implore thy greatest fauour and helpe O thou sacred goddesse by the ancients termed Rhamnusia because in Rhamnunte a citie of Asia thy image is seene made by the hand of Phidias hauing recourse vnto thee because we know there is no better remedie for these despitefull Fooles then the assistance and ayde of that goddesse who punishing and chastising the wicked and offenders is worthily held for the curer of these Fooles wounds wherefore if we obtaine that succour which from so iust a goddesse we may well hope for be assured that thankful for thy fauors we will offer in the Temple of Adrastus consecrated to thee an hand-flasket of skalions and garlicke and all of vs will salute the name of Adrastia belching foorth all despightfull sauours euident arguments of the recouerie procured to these men in whose behalfe we direct vnto thee this present inuocation heale them therefore and peace remaine with thee Of ridiculous Fooles the fourteenth discourse THere be some fooles who day by day perform things so strāge fantastical vnusuall that partly for the raritie of them and partly for their excesse therein make anie one laugh that seeth or giueth any eare vnto them and heereupon it is that all men call them ridiculous fooles hauing a name conformable to the actions and deeds they euerie day performe Iustine the Historiographer among the ridiculous follies of Sardanapalus setteth downe this for one that he being aboue measure delighted in womanlike effeminacies apparelled himselfe sometimes in feminine habite and so intruding amongst the girles and yoong wenches hee vsed the rocke and spindell as they did performing all those things which women are accustomed to practise Homers folly also is recounted among parts ridiculous for it is reported of him that he woulde miserablie haue strangled himselfe for this occasion only bicause he could not dissolue an aenigma or doubtfull question the which by channce was propounded vnto him by certaine sailers or marriners This other of the Poet Philemon is verie excellent who as Valerius Maximus declareth seeing an asse that eate certaine figges which were set vpon the table laughed so extremely thereat as hee brust at the mirth he made to himselfe with this matter A like example to this is that of Margutte in Luigi Pulci who laughed while he gaped againe seeing a monkeie to put on his bootes Lampridius amongst the ridiculous fopperies of Heliogabalus mentioneth also this that sometimes he woulde bee drawne in a chariot by fower naked harlots other whiles he woulde visite all the publike stewes in Rome giuing rewards to all badde and common women whom he termed his fellow soldiers and an other time apparelling himselfe like a strumpet he discouered himselfe not to be a Romaine Emperor but some trencher buffon or parasite to al the world But yet that folly of Nero surpasseth them all for he had a desire to bring foorth like women hee made a stallion and bardasso boie of himselfe at one instant and touching Sporus his Ganimed he entred into this notable follie that he woulde needes see him of a male as hee was turned into a woman by the Phisitions Iohn Rauisius Textor putteth one Zenophantus in the nūber of fooles ridiculous who was of this qualitie that the more he contended to refraine laughing the more vehemently he brust out a gigling Atheneus in the fift of his Gymnosophistes while he reciteth the follies of madde Antiochus king of Syria rehearseth likewise these other very ridiculous that hee practised and conuersed as well with the basest vulgar sort as with gentlemen and great lords and hee carrowsed more willingly with the vilder sort then with his barons or knights wheresoeuer he knew any assemblie of dissolute or vaine yoong men to be gathered togither thither woulde hee goevnlooked for carrying with him his cittern or lute and thus thrust himselfe into their companie Oftentimes also laying aside his Princelike habite he went with a lanterne in his hande into the market place taking this and that man by the hand desiring them all that they woulde giue him their voices consents for somtimes after the Romaine maner he woulde be made Edile and otherwhiles tribune of the people often in the presence of noble personages tumbling and dauncing like some stage foole to the great abashment of those that were present at such indignities Among the ridiculous fooles of our time wee may well count a cockscombe called Pedruccio of Biagrasso to be one who went vp and downe the streets gathering togither all the horse and cowes dung hee coulde meete withall and carried it home for prouision saying that in time of dearth that grut or riffe-raffe woulde be good to make an Italian Torto withal wherewith to preserue his life in despight of all vsurers Michelino of Papozza is also an other ninnie that makes all the world to laugh at his follie for in sommer he wil put a corselet on his backe with some good furred gaberdine ouer it and aboue all this a large target after the ancient Romaine fashion affirming that he woulde by no meanes that the sunne pearcing him with his beames shoulde make him to sweate But Santiccio of Ritonda is a ridiculous and fower-eared foole for all the summer he doth nothing else but take frogs and flea them carrying all the skinnes of them togither to a furrier to whom hee counteth them saying the Romaine Emperours neuer wore so rare and fine skins as might bee made of these his excellent and daintie ones All such like men as these therefore are called ridiculous fooles bicause they execute follies for the most part foppish and ridiculous and their Cell in the Hospitall hath hanging out for a signe the image of god Risus adored of the ancients they being recommended vnto him as their peculiar godhead and patrone wherefore with this ridiculous petition following let vs solemnlie for their helpe and aide call vpon him A petition to god Risus for ridiculous Fooles I Can not but with great gigling and laughter turne my selfe vnto thee O thou sonne of Iupiter or Bacchus friend to all Sycophants constant affectionate to drunkards enemie to all molestation more then to contagion or sicknes nourished by Venus brought vp by Cupid maintained at the charges of goddesse Flora a braue fellow for thy life a good companion for thy wit a mercenarie aduocate for the time and with olde Democritus in behalfe of these men make vnto thy selfe a loude squeaking laughter like