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A16918
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VVits theater of the little world
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Albott, Robert, fl. 1600.; Bodenham, John, fl. 1600.
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1599
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that they would obserue what soeuer he determined whervpon they yeelded I iudge then quoth he that none of you depart this Temple before you bee reconciled Thus were they coÌ„strained to agree between themselues Archidamus freed from loosing their friendships whoÌ„ he deerly loued The Egyptians shewed signes of stronger friendship to their friends beeing dead then when they were lyuing Scipio Affricanus going against the Numantines deuided his Army into 500. companies and made one band which hee called Philonida the band of friends Mithridates sought to driue Nicomedes forth of Bithinia vvho vvas friende to the Romaines and gaue the Romans so much to vnderstand to vvhom the Senate made aunswer that if he warred vpon Nicomedes he should likewise feare the force of the Romaines Appian Cicero and Clodius Tiberius and Affricanus froÌ„ mortall foes became faithful friends Scipio greatly complained that men were very skilfull in numbring their Goates and Sheepe but few could reckon their friends Alexander helde Aristotle deere Darius Herodotus Augustus Piso Pampeius Plaâ—tus Titus Plinie Traiane Plutarch Anthonius Apollonius Theodotius Claudius Seuerus Fabatus Pericles beeing desired by a friende to ayde him with false witnes aunswered That hee would friend him as high as the heauens meaning that men should ayde theyr friends so far as iustice gods lawes did permit Thu. Plato seeing he could not bring the Common-wealth to happines by vertue reduced all lawes to friendship deuising all things to be common affirming that two only words namely Mine Thine where the things that disturbed the society of man Homer giueth Achilles a Patroclus Virgill an Achates vnto Aeneas Alexander had his Hephestion Darius his Zopirus and Scipio his Laelius Dion and Iulius Caesar had rather die then distrust theyr friends Plu. Augustus wanting his olde friends Maecenas and Agrippa said that if they had lyued hee had not fallen into the troubles hee vvas then in Seneca Scaurus and Cataline the conspirators against Rome and Brutus and Cassius the murtherers of Caesar held great leagues and confederacie together but in no sort they could be called friends for there can bee no true amitie vvhere is no vertue Among heauenlie bodyes Mercury Iupiter Sol and Luna are friendes to Saturne but Mars and Venus are his enemies All the Planets sauing Mars are friendes to Iupiter and all the rest of the Planets sauing Venus hate Mars Iupiter and Venus loue Sol. Mars Mercury and Luna are his enemies and all the rest of the Planets loue Venus except Saturne Iupiter Venus and Saturne are friendes to Mercury Sol Luna and Mars are hys enemies There are inclinations of friendship in vigâ—able mineralls as the Loadstone hath to yron the Emerald hath to riches and fauours the stone Iaspis to child-birth the stone Achates to eloquence and Naptha â—ot onely draweth fire vnto it but fire leapeth vnto it where soeuer it is the like dooth the roote Aproxes Such friendship is betweene the male and female Date tree that when a bough of the one shall touch a bough of the other they fold themselues into a naturall embracing neuer doth the female bring forth fruit without the male Vines loue the Elme tree the Oliue the Mirtle likewise loueth the Oliue the Fig-tree and if the Almond tree grovve alone it will proue vnfruitfull There is friendship betweene the Blacke-bird and the Thrush betweene the Choffe and the Heron betweene the Peacocks and the Doues Isodorus Cato the Censor had a Ring vvhereon was engrauen Esto amicus vnius et inimicus nullius Bee friende to one and enemie to none Plinie Of Loue. All the Arts and Sciences of the worlde may in time be learned except the Art of Loue the which neither Salomon had skill to write nor Asclepias to paynt nor Ouid to teach Helen to report or Cleopatra learne beeing a continuall Schoolemaister in the hart whose diuine furies are Propheticall misticall poeticall amatorial consecrated to Apollo Bacchus the Muses and Venus THe Poets meane nothing els by those tovvnes of Adamant vvhich they vvrite of but the loue of Cittizens vvho by no force or policie can be ouercome so long as in hart they hold together The Grecians so long as they continued at peace among themselues they vvere coÌ„querers of all men but after that ciuill discention had once entered in amongst them they fell daily more and more to such ruine that in fewe yeeres they became laughing-stocks to all the world Plutarch Balsaria when Calphurinus Crassus vvas taken captiue of the Messalines and shoulde haue beene offered for a sacrifice vnto Saturne shee deliuered Crassus from death made him conquerer Caluce after Troy vvas destroyed vvhen King Lycus her Father sayling into Lybia had appointed to kill Diomedes for sacrifice to appease the Gods for vvind vveaâ—â—er she deliuered him from her Father and sâ—ued his lyfe Scipio Affricanus esteemed so much the Poet Ennius aliue that being dead hee caused his picture to bee set before his eyes as a memoriall of his great loue Plutarch Pomponius Atticus thought himself happie when either Cicero was in his sight or his bookes in his bosome Plato in his booke intituled Conuiuium interlaceth Comicall speeches of loue hovvbeit al the rest of the supper there is nothing but discourses of Philosophy Alexander loued highly Apelles insomuch that after he had made him draw out a Iâ—eman of his naked whom hee likewise loued deerely vnderstanding that he was enamored on her he bestowed her on him Alexander vvould haue his picture drawne by none but Apelles nor cut by any in brasse but onely Lysippus so greatly did he affect them Curtius Stagerita the towne where Aristotle vvâ—â— borne beeing destroyed by Philip of Macâ—â—don Alexander his sonne for the loue heâ— bare to his Maister Aristotle reedified thâ— same againe Valerius seruaunt to Panopion hearing that certaine souldiours came vnto the Cittie of Rheatina of purpose to kill his master hee changed apparrell with his maister and conueyed him away suffering himselfe to be slaine in his Masters bed for the great loue he bare him The Persians for the affection they bare to theyr horses when they died buried them Alexander made a tombe for Bucephalus Seuerus the Emperour for the loue hee bare to Pertinax whom Iulianus slew willed that men shoulde euer after call him Pertinax Eutrop. A Persian vvoman beeing asked why shee had rather saue the life of her brother then of her owne sonne Because sayd she I well may haue more children but neuer no more brothers seeing my father and mother are dead Eros the seruant of Antonius hauing promised to kill his Maister when hee requested him drevv his sword and holding it as if hee would haue killed him turned his Maisters head aside and thrust the sword into his own body Plutarch Agesilaus was fined by the Ephories because he had stolne away the harts wonne the loue of all his cittizens to himselfe The Emperour Claudius did neither loue nor hate but
funerals Oceanus was the great God of the Sea Soâ— to Caelum and Vesta the Father of all the Riuers Tethis was Goddesse of the Sea vvife of Oceanus and mother to all the Sea Nymphs Triton was the sonne trumpeter of Neptune begotten by him of Amphitrite Ouid. Glaucus a fisher perceauing the fishes which he had taken by tasting of an hearbe on the banke to leape into the Sea againe tasted therof him selfe and by the vertue therof was forced to leape into the Sea whence he was called one of the Sea Gods Idem Nereus was likewise a God and Nereides the Faieries of the Sea borne of Oceanus and Tethis Proteus a God of the Sea was some-times like a flame of fire somtimes like a Bul some times like a Serpent he fed Neptunes fishes called Phocae Castor and Pollux the twinnes of Laeda begotten by Iupiter in the forme of a Swanne vvhen they came to age scoured the sea of Pyrats therefore vvere counted the gods of the sea For the infernal goods looke in the chapter of hell The Assyrians vvorshipped Belus the Egiptians Apys the Chaldeans Assur the Babylonians the deuouring Dragon the Pharaons the statue of gold the Palestines Belzebub The Romaines chiefely honoured Iupiter the Affricans Mars the Corinthians Apollo the Arabians Astaroth the Aeginians the Sunne those of Achaia the Moone the Sidonians Belphegor and the Ammonites Balim The people of India honored Bacchus the Lacedemonians Ogyges the Macedonians Mercurie the Ephesians the Goddesse Diana the Greekes the goddesse Iuno the Armenians Liber the Troyans Vesta the Latines Februa the Tarentines Ceres the Rhodians Ianus Apollonius Vaginatus vvas worshipped that theyr châ—dren might not cry Ruminus was the God of sucking babes Stellinus of their first going Adeon theyr guide vvhen they vvent well Cunius vvas adored for the safetie of theyr chyldren in Cradles VVhen the Emperour Seuerus vvarred against the Gaules his vvife Iulia was deliuered of a daughter vvhose sister Mesa a Persian sent vnto the Empresse a Cradle for her childe made all of Vnicornes horne fine golde round about vvhich vvas artificially painted the image of the God Cunius Mentalis was theyr God of vvit Fessoria of trauailers and pylgrims Pelonia had the charge to conquer their enemies Rubigo to keepe their Vines from vvormes and the Corne from Locusts Muta vvas theyr God vvhom they prayed vnto to the end that theyr enemies might not speake euill of them Genoria vvas a goddesse among the Grecians vvhich chased away sloth and Stimulia they fained to be a goddesse which hastened them about theyr bâ—sinesse her Image was sette vp ouer the gate of the Senate house Vallonia vvas the goodesse of their vallies Segetia of their seeds Tutillina of their fields Ruana of their Reapers Forculus vvas the god of Goldsmithes Portulus vvas the God of their gates Cardea of theyr doores Psora vvas the goddesse of dishonest vvomen in Rome were 40. streets of common vvomen in the middst of which vvas theyr Temple Theatrica kept theyr Theaters in vvhich might well stand aboue 20. thousand and as many vnderneath her Temple was in the market of Cornelia vvhich Domitian destroyed because in his presence one of the Stages broke and killed many men Pulio Cloacina was goddesse of the stoole and of those that were troubled with the wind Collick Quies of their rest whose Temple Numa Pompilius built without the Citty noting therby that man in this world could neuer haue pleasure or rest The gods of Troy more enuied the gods of Greece then the Princes of Greece did the princes of Troy Vulcan Pallas were their enemies Apollo and Venus their friends The Phylosopher Bruxellis being ready to dye told the Romaines that where in times past they had but 5. Gods namely Iupiter Mars Ianus Berecynthia and Vesta he let for euery one of them a priuate God to 28000. housholds 28000. gods Aurel. The Egiptians although they were the first that excelled in the knowledge of celestiall and naturall things in somuch as Egipt was called the mother of Arts yet they aboue all others superstitiously worshipped Leeks and Onions Macrobius The Heathen honoured thirtie thousand Gods as Hesiodus vvriteth adored three hundred Iupiters as Marcus Varro vvitnesseth M. Cato vvorshipped his grounds desiring them to bring forth in aboundance and to keepe his Cattell safe Diagoras burning an Image of Hercules said Thou must now doe me seruice in this thirteene encounter as well as thou hast done to Euristheus in the other twelue The Assirians vvorshipped as many Gods as they had townes and the Grecians as many as they had fancies Melissus an auncient King of Creet dyd first of all others sacrifice to the Gods Vr Chaldaeorum the fire of the Chaldeans called also Orimasda that is holy fire vvas the first occasion of Idolatry this fire kings caused to be vsually carried before them vppon an horse There arose a great vvarre betvveene the Alleynes and the Armenians the occasion thereof vvas for that as they came to the feast of Olympus they fell in contention vvhether of theyr Gods were the better by reason of vvhich vvarre their CoÌ„monwealth and people were brought into great misery which the Emperour Adrianus perceiuing sent Iulius Seuerus vtterly to ouerthrovve those that vvould not bee ruled by his sentence vvhom he thus pacified willing that the Alleynes should take for their Gods the Armenians Gods and the Armenians the Gods of the Alleynes Pulio de dissol reg Of Antiquities The knowledge of Antiquities first inuention of things was so much in request among the Auncients that Plinie Marcus Varro Macrobius historiographers no lesse graue then true were in great controuersie for proouing what things were most auncient THere were seauen which first gaue lawes to the vvorlde Moses to the Hebrewes Solon to the Athenians Lycurgus to the Lacedemonians Numa Pompilius to the Romans Asclepeius to the Rhodians Minos to the Cretans and Phoroneus to the Egyptians Diod. Siculus All Counsellors and Lawyers of Rome did call the lavves that were most iust Forum in memory of Phoroneus The true and most auncient mettals be not of golde but yron much time passed in the Empire of Rome wherein the Romains had no mony but of brasse or yron the first coyne that was made to be melted in Rome of gold vvas in the time of Scipio Affricanus Corynthus the sonne of Orestes trayned by his Father to scoure the Sea and commit Ilands to spoyle reedifyed the Fortresse of Sisiphus a notorious Pyrat and called it Corinthus by his owne name so that this citty was fyrst built by tyrants gouerned by Tyrants and destroyed by tyrants Rome was builded by Romulus Ierusalem by Salem Alexandria of Alexander Antioche of Antiochus Constantinople before Bizantium of Constantinus Numantia in Spayne of Numa Pompilius In the Cittie of Numantia was but one crafts man he a Smith others they would not consent shoulde liue among theÌ„ saying That all such thinges euery man ought