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A67489	The wonders of the little world, or, A general history of man in six books : wherein by many thousands of examples is shewed what man hath been from the first ages of the world to these times, in respect of his body, senses, passions, affections, his virtues and perfections, his vices and defects, his quality, vocation and profession, and many other particulars not reducible to any of the former heads : collected from the writings of the most approved historians, philosophers, physicians, philologists and others / by Nath. Wanley ...	Wanley, Nathaniel, 1634-1680.	1673 (1673)	Wing W709; ESTC R8227	1,275,688	591

all the rest of his body so that nothing but his face did appear without it He died in the fifty fifth of his age when he had reigned thirty tree years excelling all the Kings his Predecessours for humanity and easiness of access 4. Sanctius King of Spain Son of Ranimirus carried such a heap of fat that thence he was called Crassus being now grown a burden to himself and having left almost nothing untried to be quit of it At length by the advice of Garsia King of Navarre he made peace with Miramoline King of Corduba went over to him was honourably receiv'd and in his Court was cured by an herb prescribed by the Physicians of that King 5. Gabriel Fallopius tells that he saw a man who being extremely fat his skin was so thickened that he lost all feeling by reason of the over impaction of the Nerves thereby 6. Philetas of Coos was an excellent Critick and a very good Poet in the time of Alexander the Great but withal he had a body of that exceeding leanness and lightness that he commonly wore shooes of Lead and carried Lead about him lest at some time or other he should be blown away with the wind 7. Ptolomaeus Euergetes the seventh King of Aegypt by reason of his sensuality and luxurious life was grown saith Possidonius to a vast bulk his Belly was swollen with fat his waste so thick that scarce could any man compass it with both his arms he never came out of his Palace on foot but he always lean'd upon a staff His Son Alexander who killed his Mother was much fatter than he so that he was not able to walk unless he supported himself with two Crutches 8. Agatharcides tells of Magan who reigned fifty years in Cyrene that living in peace and flowing in luxury he grew to a prodigious corpulency in his latter years insomuch that at last he was suffocated with his own fat which he had gained in part by his idleness and sloth and partly by his Epicurism and excessive gluttony 9. Panaretus the Scholar of Arcecilaus the Philosopher was in great estimation with Ptolomaeus Euergetes and retain'd by him with an annual stipend of twelve Talents It 's said of this man he was exceeding lean and slender notwithstanding which he never had any occasion to consult any Physician but passed his whole life in a most entire and perfect health 10. Cynesias was called by Aristophanes and others Philyrinus because he girt himself round within boards of the wood Philyra and that for this reason lest through his exceeding talness and slenderness he should break in the waste 11 I have seen a young Englishman who was carried throughout all Italy and suffered not himself to be seen without the payment of money he was of that monstrous both fatness and thickness that the Duke of Mantua and Montferat commanded his picture to be drawn to the life and naked as of a thing altogether extraordinary 12. Vitus a Matera was a learned Philosopher and Divine but so fat that he was not able to get up a pair of stairs he breathed with great difficulty nor could he sleep lying along without present danger of suffocation All this is well known to most of the Students in Naples 13. Alphonsus Avalus being dead his body was opened and the carcase taken care of by Physicians and dried as much as might be with salt and sand and other things yet for all this the fat of his body ran through his Chest of Lead whereinto he was put and larded the stones of the Vault upon which it stood 14. Anno 1520. there was a Noble Man born in Diethmarsia but living sometime in the City of Stockholm in Sueden this man was sent to prison by the command of Christierne the Second King of Denmark when he came to the prison door such was his extreme corpulency that they who conducted him were not able to thrust him in at it The Guard that went to convey him thither were to hasten back to assist in the torturing of some other persons so that being extreme angry to be thus delayed they thrust him aside into a corner thereabouts and by this means the man escaped being put into prison as was intended 15. Pope Leo the tenth of that name had so mighty a Belly and was so extremely corpulent that to this very day his fatness is proverbial in Rome so that when they would of a man that is extraordinary well fed they use to say of him that he is as fat as Pope Leo. CHAP. XXX Of the Longaevity and length of life in some persons HE who hath but dipped into Anatomy can easily apprehend that the life of man hangs upon very tender filaments considering this with the great variety of diseases that lie in ambush ready to surprise us and the multitude of accidents that we are otherwise daily liable unto it is not the least of wonders that any man should have his life drawn out but to a moderate space Sunt quos saliva crassior male lapsa per fauces subi●● strangulaverit saith Seneca Their very spittle has ended them so little is sufficient to thrust us out of this earthly tenement the nearer the felicity of them that ●ollow 1. There is a Memorial entred upon the wall of the Cathedral of Peterborough for one who being Sexton thereof interred two Queens therein Katharine Dowager and Mary of Scotland more than fifty years interceding betwixt their several sepultures This vivacious Sexton also buried two Generations or the people in that place twice over The instance of his long life is alledged by such who maintain that the smelling to perfect mould made of mens consumed bodies is a preservative of life 2. Richa●d Chamond Esquire receiv'd at God's hand an extraordinary favour of long life in serving in the office of a Justice of Peace almost sixty years he saw above ●ifty several Judges of the Western Circuit was Uncle and great Uncle to three hundred at the least and saw his youngest child above forty years of age 3. Garsias Ar●tinus lived to a hundred and four years in a continued state of good health and deceased without being seised with any apparent disease only perceiving his strength somewhat weakened Thus writes Petrarch of him to whom Garcias was great Grand●ather by the Father's side 4. A while since in Herefordshire at their Mayga●●es saith my Lord of S. Albans there was a Morrice Dance of eight men whose years put together made up eight hundred that which was wanting of an hundred in some superabounding in others 5. I have been credibly inform'd that William Pawlet Marquess of Winchester and Lord Treasurer of England twenty years tog●ther who died in the tenth year of Queen Elizabeth was born in the last year of Henry the Sixth he lived in all an hundred and six years and three quarters and odd days during the

Messenger is come to thee our will and pleasure is that thou send us by him thy head unto Constantinople In vain was it to dispute the command of his Lord and thus the miserble man perished 3. William the Conquerour for his game and the pleasure he took in hunting enforested thirty miles in Hamshire pulled down thirty six Parish Churches and dispeopled all the place chasing the inhabitants from the places of their inheritance But the just hand of God was visible and remarkable upon his posterity for this his grievous oppression for in this very New Forest his two Sons Richard by a pestilent air and King William Rufus by the shot of an Arrow and his Grandson Henry son of Duke Robert by hanging in a bough as Absolom came to their untimely ends 4. Anno Dom. 1570. at Ry● in Sussex there was a strange example of Gods judgements upon a covetous oppressive Gentleman and one that desired to grind the faces of the Poor This Gentleman living near the Sea had a Marsh wherein upon poles Fishermen used to dry their Nets for which he received of them yearly a sufficient sum of money but at length not being content with it he caused his servants to pluck up the poles not suffering the Fishermen to come upon his ground any longer except they would compound at a larger rate but it came to pass the same night that the Sea breaking in overwhelmed all his Marsh which saith Hollinshead continueth in that manner to this very day 5. Lucullus the Roman Consul visiting the Cities of Asia found the poor country afflicted and oppressed with so many evils and miseries as no man living could believe nor tongue express for the extream and horrible covetousness of the Farmers Customers and Roman Usurers did not only devour it but kept the people also in such miserable bondage and thraldome that Fathers were forced to sell their goodly Sons and Daughters ready for marriage to pay the interest and use money of that which they had borrowed to pay their fines withall yea they were forced to sell the Tables dedicated to the Temples the statues of their gods and other Ornaments and Jewels of their Temples and yet in the end they themselves were adjudged for bondslaves to their cruel Creditors to wear out their dayes in miserable servitude And yet the worst of all was the pain and torment they put them to before they were so condemned for some they imprisoned and cruelly racked others they tormented upon a little brazen Horse set them in the Stocks made them stand naked in the greatest heat of Summer and on the Ice in the deepest of Winter so that bondage seemed to them a relief of their miseries and a rest from their torments Lucullus found the Cities of Asia full of such oppressions whereof in a short time he exceedingly eased them 6. King Iohn of England was a great oppressour on a time a Jew refusing to lend this King so much mony as he required the King caused every day one of his great teeth to be pulled out by the space of seven dayes and then the poor Jew was content to give the King ten thousand marks of silver that the one tooth which he had left might not be pulled out The same King assaulting the chastity of the Daughter of Robert Fitzwater called Mawd the fair and by her repulsed he is said to send a messenger to give her poyson in a poached Egg whereof she died not long after he himself had but little better fate being poysoned at Swinestead Abbey 7. Luther reports that he being at Rome a great Cardinal died and left behind him great store of mony Before his death he had made his Will and laid it in a Chest where his mony was After his death the Chest was opened and therein by the mony was found written in Parchment Dum potui rapui rapiatis quando potestis I scrap'd together while I could That you should do so too I would 8. Five Brethren of the Marshalls successively Earles of Pembrook dyed issueless Which Mathew Paris attributeth to the judgement of God upon them for their Fathers iniquity who detained from the Bishop of Firning certain Manours which he had violently taken from him 9. Lewis the eleventh King of France having been a great oppressour of his Subjects by excessive Taxes and enforced Contributions when he grew old resolved to redress that and other mischiefs whereby they had been oppressed but was in a short time after this purpose prevented by death 10. Anno Dom. 1234. in the reign of King Henry the third there was a great dearth in England so that many people died for want of victuals At which time Walter Grey Arch-bishop of York had great store of Corn which he had hoarded up for five years together yet in that time of scarcity refused to relieve the poor with it but suspecting lest it might be destroyed with Vermine he commanded it to be delivered to Husband-men that dwelt in his Mannors upon condition to return him as much New Corn after Harvest but behold a terrible judgement of God upon him for his covetousness and unmercifulness to the poor When men came to one of his great Stacks of Corn near to the Town of Rippon there appeared in the sheaves all over the heads of Worms Serpents and Toads so that the Bayliffs were forced to build a high wall round about the Stack of Corn and then to set it on fire lest the venemous creatures should have gone out and poysoned the Corn in other places CHAP. XIII Of the bloody and cruel Massacres in several places and their occasions THe Naturalists tell us of a Serpent who is therefore called Haemorrhois that wheresoever he bites he makes the man all over bloody It seems his poyson hath a particular command over the blood so as to call it all into the outward parts of the body The vulgar rout and headstrong multitude when once it is enraged is such another kind of Serpent wheresoever the scene of its insolency is it makes it all over bloody This unbridled torrent bears all down before it and being transported with its own fury it knows no difference of age sex or degree till it hath converted a flourishing place into an Akeldama or a field of blood In the year 1506. in Lisbon upon the tenth day of April many of the City went to the Church of Saint Dominicks to hear Mass On the left side of this Church there is a Chapel much reverenced by those of the Country and called Iesus Chapel Upon the Altar there stands a Crucifix the wound of whose side is covered over with a piece of Glass Some of those that came thither to do their devotions casting their eyes upon this hole it seemed to them that a certain kind of glimmering light came forth of it Then happy he that could first cry a miracle and every one said that God

Reign of nine Kings and Queens of England He saw saith another the children of his children's children to the number of an hundred and three and died 1572. 6. Georgias Leontinus a famous Philosopher liv'd in health till he was an hundred and eight years of age and when it was asked him by what means he attained to such a fulness of days his answer was by not addicting himself to any voluptuous living 7. Most memorable is that of Cornarus the Venetian who being in his youth of a sickly body bega● to eat and drink first by measure to a certain weight thereby to recover his health this cure turn'd by use into a diet that diet into an extraordinary long life even of an hundred years and better without any decay of his senses and with a constant enjoyment of his health 8. Hippocrates Co●s the famous Physician lived an hundred and four years and approved and credited his own art by so long a life 9. Mr. Carew in his Survey of Cornwal assures us upon his own knowledge that fourscore and ten years of age is ordinary there in every place and in most persons accompanied with an able use of the body and their senses One Polezew saith he lately living reached to one hundred and thirty A Kinsman of his to one hundred and twelve One Beauchamp to one hundred and six And in the Parish where himself dwelt he professed to have remembred the decease of four within fourteen weeks space whose years added together made up the sum of three hundred and forty The same Gentleman made this Epigram or Epitaph upon one Brawne an Irish Man but a Cornish Beggar Here Brawne the quondam Beggar lies Who counted by his tale Some sixscore winters and above Such Vertue is in Ale Ale was his Meat his Drink his Cloth Ale did his death deprive And could he still have drunk his Ale He had been still alive 10. Democritus of Abdera a most studious and learned Philosopher who spent all his life in the contemplation and investigation of things who liv'd in great solitude and poverty yet did arrive to an hundred and nine years 11. Galeria C●piola a Player and a Dancer was brought upon the Stage as a Novice in what year of her age is not known but ninety nine years after at the Dedication of the Theatre by Pompey the Great she was shewn upon the Stage again not now for an Actress but a wonder Neither was this all for after that in the Solemnities for the life and health of Augustus she was shewn upon the Stage the third time 12. Simeon the Son of Cleophas called the Brother of our Lord and Bishop of Ierusalem lived an hundred and twenty years though he was cut short by Martyrdom Aquila and Priscilla first S. Paul's Hosts afterwards his fellow-labourers lived together in a happy and famous Wedlock at least to an hundred years a piece for they were both alive under Pope Christus the First 13. William Postel a Frenchman lived to an hundred and well nigh twenty years and yet the top of his beard on the upper lip was black and not gray at all 14. Iohannes Summer-Matterus my great Grandfather by the Mother's side of an ancient and honourable Family after the hundredth year of his age marryed a wife of thirty years by whom he had a Son at whose wedding which was twenty years after the old man was present and lived six years after that so that he completed an hundred and twenty six without complaining of any more grievous accidents than this that he could not prevent escapes by reason of wind Six years before his death my Father his Grandchild discoursing with him he told him that there were in that Diocess ten men yet left who were more aged than himself 15. Arganthonius was the King of the Tartessians and had been so for eighty years when the Phocensians who were the first of all the Greeks who opened the way into the Adriatick Sea and visited Tyrrhenia Iberia and Tartessus came to him He lived to an hundred and twenty years saith Herodotus 16. In the last Taxation Number and Review of the eighth Region of Italy there were found in the Roll saith Pliny four and fifty persons of an hundred years of age seven and fifty of an hundred and ten two of an hundred five and twenty ●our of an hundred and thirty as many that were of an hundred five and thirty or an hundred of seven and thirty years old and last of all three men of an hundred and forty And this search was made in the times of Vespasian the Father and Son 17. Galen the great Physician who flourished about the reign of Antoninus the Emperour is said to have lived one hundred and forty years From the time of his twenty eighth year he was never seised with any sickness save only with the grudge of a Fever for one day only The rules he observed were not to eat nor drink his fill nor to eat any thing raw and to carry always about him some one or other perfume 18. Iames Sands of Horborne in Staffordshire near Birmingham lived an hundred and forty years and his Wife one hundred and twenty and died about ten years past He out-lived five Leases of twenty one years a piece made unto him after he was married 19. I my self saith Sir Walter Rawleigh knew the old Countess of Desmond of Inchequin in Munster who lived in the year 1589 and many years sin●e who was marryed in Edward the Fourth's time and held her joynture from all the Earls of Desmond since then and that this is true all the Gentlemen and Noble Men in Munster can witness The Lord Bacon casts up her age to be an hundred ●nd forty at the least adding withal Ter per vices dentisse that she recovered her teeth after the casting them three several times 20. Thomas Parre Son of Iohn Parre born at Alberbury in the Parish of Winnington in Shropshire he was born in the Reign of King Edward the Fourth anno 1483 at eighty years he married his first wife Iane and in the space of thirty two years had but two children by her both of them short lived the one liv'd but a Month the other but a few years Being aged an hundred and twenty he fell in love with Katherine Milton and with remarkable strength got her with child He lived to above one hundred and fifty years Two months before his death he was brought up by Thomas Earl of Arundel to Westminster he slept away most of his time and is thus characterised by an eye-witness of him From head to heel his body had all over A quick set thick set nat'ral hairy cover Change of air and diet better in it self but worse for him with the trouble of many Visitants or Spectators rather are conceived to have accelerated his death which happened Westminster November the fifteenth anno 1634

who supposing the King had forgot them converted them to his own use Alphonsus dissembled the matter instead of those put on other Rings and kept on his accustomed way After some days the King being about to wash he who had received but not restored the former put forth his hand to take from him his Rings as he had used to do But Alphonsus putting his hand back whispered him in the Ear I will give thee these Rings to keep as soon as thou hast returned me those I did formerly entrust thee with and further than this he proceeded not with him 15. Sarizanarus was the Author of that Hexastick which was made of the famous City of Venice Viderat Adriacis Venetam Neptunus in undis Stare Vrbem et toti ponere Iura mari Nunc mihi Tarpeias quantumvis Iupiter Arces Objice illa tui moenia Martis ait Sic pelago Tibrim praefers Vrbem aspice utramque Illam homines dices hanc posuisse Deos. The Poet had small reason to repent of his ingenuity for as a reward of his pains he had assign'd him out of the publick treasury of that state an hundred Zecchins for every one of those verses which amounts to three hundred pounds of our money 16. When Henry of Lancaster sirnamed the Good Earl of Darby had taken Bigerac in Gascoign Anno 1341. He gave and granted to every Soldier the house which every one should seize first upon with all therein A certain Soldier of his brake into a Mint Masters house where he found so great a mass of money that he amazed therewith as a prey greater than his desert or desire signified the same unto the Earl who with a liberal mind answered It is not for my state to play Boys play to give and take Take thou the money if it were thrice as much 17. At the Battel of Poictiers Iames Lord Audley was brought to the black Prince in a Litter most grievously wounded for he had behaved himself with great valour that day To whom the Prince with due commendations gave for his good service four hundred Marks of yearly Revenues the which he returning to his Tent gave as frankly to his four Esquires that attended him in the Battle whereof when the Prince was advertised doubting that his gift was contemned as too little for so great good service the Lord Audley satisfied him with this answer I must do for them who deserved best of me these my Esquires saved my life amidst the enemies and God be thanked I have sufficient revenues left by my Ancestors to maintain me in your service Whereupon the Prince praising his prudence and liberality confirmed his gift made to his Esquires assign'd him moreover six hundred marks of like Land here in England 18. King Canutus gave great Jewels to Winchester Church whereof one is reported to be a Cross. worth as much as the whole Revenue of England amounted to in a year and unto Coventry he gave the Arm of St. Augustine which he bought at Papia for an hundred Talents of Silver and one of Gold 19. Clodoveus Son of Dagobert King of France in a great death caused the Church of St. Dennis which his Father had covered with Plates of Silver to be covered with lead and the Silver given to the relief of the Poor 20. Isocrates the Son of Theodorus the Erecthian kept a School where he taught Rhetorick to an hundred Scholars at the rate of one hundred drachms of silver a piece He was very rich and well he might for Nicocles King of Cyprus who was the Son of Evagoras gave him at once the summ of twenty Talents of Silver for one only oration which he dedicated unto him 21. The Poet Virgil repeated unto Augustus Caesao three Books of his Aeneads the Second Fourth and Sixth the latter of these chiefly upon the account of Octavia Sister to Augustus and Mother of Marcellus whom Augustus had adopted but he died in the Eighteenth year of his Age. Octavia therefore being present at this repetition when Virgil came to these Verses at the latter end of the sixth book wherein he describes the mourning for Marcellus in this manner Heu miserando Puer si qua fata asperarumpas Tu Marcellus eris Alas poor Youth if Fates will suffer thee To see the Light thou shalt Marcellus be Octavia swooned away and when she was recovered she commanded the Poet to proceed no further appointing him Ten Sesterces for every verse he had repeated which were in number twenty one So that by the bounty of this Princess Virgil received for a few Verses above the Summ of fifty thousand Crowns CHAP. XXVIII Of the Pious Works and Charitable Gifts of some men WHereas saith the Learned Willet the professors of the Gospel are generally charged by the Romanists as barren and fruitless of good works I will to stop their mouths shew by a particular induction that more charitable works have been performed in the times of the Gospel than they can shew to have been done in the like time in Popery especially since the publick opposition of that Religion which began about two hundred and fifty years since counting from t●e times of Iohn Wickli●fe or in twice so much time now going immediately before To make good this he hath drawn out a Golden Catalogue of persons piously and charitably devoted together with their works out of which I have selected as I thought the chiefest and most remarkable to put under this head only craving leave to begin with one or two beyond the compass of his prescribed time which I have met with elsewhere 1. In the Reign of King Henry the Fourth the most deservedly famous for works of Piety was William Wickham Bishop of Winchester his first work was the building of a Chappel at Tichfield where his Father and Mother and Sister Perrot were burled Next he founded at Southwick in Hampshire near the Town of Wickham the place of his Birth as a supplement to the Priory of Southwick a Chauntry with allowance of five Priests for ever He bestowed twenty thousand marks in repairing the houses belonging to the Bishoprick he discharged out of prison in all places of his Diocess all such poor prisoners as lay in execution for debt under Twenty pounds he amended all the high ways from Winchester to London on both sides the River After all this on the Fifth of March 1379. he began to lay the foundation of that magnificent structure in Oxford called New Colledg and in person laid the first Stone thereof In the year 1387. on the twenty sixth of March he likewise in person laid the first stone of the like Foundation in Winchester and dedicated the same as that other in Oxford to the memory of the Virgin Mary 2. In the Reign of King Edward the Fourth Sir Iohn Crosby Knight and late Lord Mayor of London gave to the Repairs of the Parish Church of Henworth in Middlesex forty

most evident tokens of insolency and Pride scorning Philip he would have Iupiter Ammon for his Father despising the Macedonian habit he put on the Persian and thinking it little to be no more than a man he would needs be adored as a god Thus dissembling at once the Son the Citizen and the Man 11. Pallas the Freed-man of Claudius the Emperour was arrived to that excess of Pride that within doors to beget a kind of veneration in those of his Family he used no other way to express what he would have done but with a nod of his head or some sign of his hand or if things required any further explication than such signs would admit of he informed them of his pleasure by writing that he might save the labour of spending himself in speech 12. Staveren was the chief Town of all Friesland rich and abounding in all wealth the only Staple for all Merchandize whither Ships came from all parts The Inhabitants thereof through ease knew not what to do nor desire but shewed themselves in all things excessive and licentious not only in their apparel but also in the furniture of their houses gilding the Seats before their Lodgings c. so that they were commonly called The debauched Children of Staveren But observe the just punishment of this their Pride There was in the said Town a Widow who knew no end of her Wealth the which made her proud and insolent she did fraight out a Ship for Dantzick giving the Master charge to return her in exchange of her Merchandize the rarest stuffe he could find The Master of the Ship finding no better Commodity than good Wheat fraighted his Ship therewith and so returned to Staveren this did so discontent this foolish and glorious widow that she said unto the Master That if he had laden the said Corn on the Star-board side of the Ship he should cast it into the Sea on the Lar-board the which was done and all the Wheat poured into the Sea But the whole Town yea all the Province did smart for this one womans errour for presently in the same place whereas the Mariners had cast the Corn into the Sea there grew a great Bar of Sand wherewith the Haven was so stopped as no great Ship could enter and at this day the smallest Vessels that will Anchor there must be very careful lest they strike against this Flat or Sand-bank the which ever since hath been called Vrawelandt that is to say The Womans Sand. Hereby the Town losing their Staple and Traffick by little and little came to decline The Inhabitants also by reason of their Wealth and Pride being grown intolerable to the Nobility who in sumptuousness could not endure to be braved by them So that the said Town is now become one of the poorest of the Province although it be at this day one that hath the greatest Priviledges amongst all the Hans Towns 13. Plutarch in the Life of Artaxerxes tells a story of one Chamus a Souldier that wounded King Cyrus in Battel and grew thereupon so proud and arrogant that in a short space after he lost his wits 14. Alcibiades had his mind exceedingly puffed up with Pride upon the account of his Riches and large Possessions in Land which when Socrates observed he took him along with him to a place where was hung up a Map of the World and desired him to find out Attica in that Map which when he had done Now said he find me out your own Lands and when he replied that they were not at all set down How is it then said Socrates that thou art grown proud of the Possession of that which is no part of the Earth 15. Parrhasius was an excellent Painter but withal grew so proud thereupon that no man ever shewed more insolence than he In this proud Spirit of his he would take upon him divers Titles and additions to his name he called himself Abrodiaetus that is fine delicate and sumptuous he went cloathed in Purple with his Chaplets of Gold his Staff headed with Gold and his Shooe-buckles of the same he called himself the Prince of Painters and boasted That the Art by him was made perfect and accomplished he gave out That in a right Line he was descended from Apollo Having drawn the Picture of Hercules according to his full proportion he gave out That Hercules had o●ten appeared to him in his sleep on purpose that he might Paint him lively as he was In this vein of pride and vanity he was put down in the Judgement of all present by Timanthes a Painter in Samos who shewed a Picture of Ajax that excelled the like that was made by the hand of Parrhasius 16. Hugo the Popes Legate coming into England a Convocation was summoned at Westminster where Richard Arch-bishop of Canterbury being sat at the right-hand of the Legate Roger Arch-bishop of York coming in would needs have displaced him which when the other would not suffer he sat down in his lap all wonder at this insolence and the servants of Canterbury draw him by violence out of his ill chosen place threw him down tore his Robes trod upon him and used him very dispitefully he in this dusty pickle goes and complains to the King who was at first angry but when he was informed of the whole truth he laughed at it and said he was rightly served 17. Chrysippus was an ingenious and acute person but withal so lifted up and so conceited of his sufficiency that when one craved his advice to whom he should commit his son to be instructed his answer was To me for said he if I did but imagine any person that excelled my self I would read Philosophy under him 18. Metellus the Roman General having once by chance overcome Sertorius in a Battel he was so proud of his Victory that he would needs be called Imperatour would have the people set up Altars and do Sacrifice to him in every City where he came he wore Garlands of Flowers on his head sitting at Banquets in a Triumphal Robe he had Images of Victory to go up and down the Room moved by secret Engines carrying Trophies of Gold and Crowns and Garlands and lastly had a number of delicate young and beautiful Boyes and Girles following with Songs of Triumph that were composed in praise of him CHAP. XXXVIII Of the Insolence of some men in Prosperity and their abject baseness in Adversity QUeen Maud the wife of King Henry the first hath this commendation left her Prospera non laetam fecere nec aspera tristem Aspera Risus ei prospera terror erant Non decor effecit fragilem nec sceptra superbam Sola potens humilis sola pudica decens When prosp'rous not o'rejoy'd when crost not sad Things flourishing made her fear adverse made glad Sober though fair lowly though in Throne plac'd Great and yet humble beautiful yet chast People of the disposition of this Princess