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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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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
memory â—ublius Crassus at one instant heard fiue sundry languages spoken and answered each of them in the same tongue Iulius Caesar at one time caused his Secretaries to write vnto foure seuerall persons of sundry matters and would oftentimes indite a letter to one of his Secretaries reade in a booke and heare another speake all at one time Seneca rehearsed tvvo thousande sundrie names hauing only heard them pronounced before beginning at the last and continuing to the first One asked Domaratus who was the honestest man in Sparta He that resembleth thee least sayd he One asked an Aegiptian what hee caried folded vp it is wrapped vp quoth hee because thou shouldest not know Another asked what God made before he made heauen who aunswered hell for such inquisitiue persons Virgill for all that vvith his so deuine a wit and iudgement tooke all hope from his posterity for any to follow him at any time yet would he follow Homer Pythagoras very wittily and after a subtile manner found out the measure of Hercules body by his foot measuring the space where euery fiue yeares they kept theyr games aâ— Olympus Plinie The Aegiptians marked the well memoried man with the figure of an Hare or a Fox for that the Hare heareth best and the Foxe is of greatest memory and if any want memory they compare him to a Crocodile Baptista Some are of opinion that the signe Capricornus was Pan whom Iupiter for the dexterity of his wit so metamorphized Aelius Adrianus the Emperour would at one time vvrite heare and talke vvith his friends Iustinus Homer in his discription of Vlisses makes him of little stature but of an excellent wit and of the contrary he sets foorth Aâ—ax with body and members of great corpulency but very simple in mind and iudgment Alexander Seuerus and Charles the fifth writ downe those thar did them seruice and the rewards which he had giuen to many of them and if in perusing his notes of remembrance hee saw any man that had done him seruice and was not worthily recompenced he caused him to come before him and asked him why he had not sued for recompence Rauisius Messala was of so weake a memory that he forgot his owne name Plinie Caluisius forgot his friends names vvith whom he daily kept company Seneca Curio a Iudge was so forgetfull that hee forgot the case which he should giue iudgement on Cicero Atticus was of so weake a memory that hee could not remember the foure elements Bamba King of the Goths by a drinke giuen by Heringeus his successor lost his memory The Poets faine that there is a riuer in hell called Lethe of the which who soeuer drinketh forgetteth all vvhat hee remembred before The Thracians were so dul that they could not count aboue foure Heraclitus Seuerus was dumb before the Emperour Cicero was astonied at the presence of the Senators Demosthenes at king Phillip Theophrastus many times in the midst of his Oration was at a stand Hipparchion when he would haue contended with Ruffinus had not a word to say froÌ„ whence the prouerb cam Hiparchio is domb Orbilius by extreamity of age forgot his Alphabet and letters A certayne Romaine vaunted to Scipio that he could call more men by their names then he to whom he answered you say true for my study hath not beene to know many but to be knowne of all Salust was much commended for the dexterity of his wit especially in writing of an History Petrus Crinitus The inuention of the Art memoratiue is fathered vpon Simonides Lasterna and Axiothea were two Grecian women very well learned and amongst the Schollers of Plato much renowned the one was of so perfect memory and the other of so high vnderstanding that Plato oft-times being in the chaire and these two not come he would not begin to reade saying I will not reade for that there wanteth heere vnderstanding to conceaue and memory to retaine Hyzearchus The fifth Queene of the Lidians was Mirrha which of her body was so little that they called her a Dwarfe but in quicknes of witte so high that they called her a Gyant Strabo Archelaus the Philosopher learning Geometry of Hipponicus was so dull and yet so well learned therein that he would say that Geometry fell into his mouth as he gaped Hermogenes vvhen hee was but fifteene yeares old was reported of to be an approoâ—ed Sophist but afterwards hee vtterly lost the habite of this faculty of whom Antiochus Sophista sayd Hermogenes is become in his old age a child who in his child-hood was an old man The Emperour Adrianus was of a wonderfull memory in so much that he could recite the names of all his absent followers besides he was in labour so painfull that he in proper person visited all his prouinces Tacitus Themistocles to one offering to teach him the Art of memory desired him to teach him how to forget Plut. Demosthenes was very hard to conceaue and yet none more famous then he among the Grecian Orators vpon the sodaine he could not declaime and being therto entreated would answer non sum paratus Laertius Cicero should once haue pleaded vppon smal warning but by an occasioÌ„ it was deferred vntill another day which newes his Seruant Erotes brought him at which he so reioyced that he made made Erotes of a bond man a free Cittizen of Rome Plut. Cecillio was so foolish that he atempted to tell the waues of the swelling Sea as they boiled in the tumbling streame Aelianus Chorebus and Melitiades were famous for their follies of the which the latter came to succour the Princes after Troy was destroyed Homer Of Diligence Diligence hath reference to the body and the mind in the mind it is study in the body labour and by so much the more the exercise of the mind is painefull as the vertues of the one excell the other THE Aegiptians wheÌ„ they signified labor figured an Ant running into the corne Cleanthes in the night caried water in the day was one of Chrysippus Auditors who being an hundred yeares old reade Philosophy Laertius Sophocles Plato Isocrates Hierome continued their studious labours to their second birth ending their lyfes with theyr woorkes Volaterranus Diodorus Siculus trauailed the better part of Asia and Europe least he should erre as many before him had doone in the vvorlds description Nicaula the Queene of Aegipt and Aethiopia to heare the wisedom of Salomon came from the farthest part of Arabia to Iudaea Publicola was blessed in his endeuours got fame by his industry woone battailes by his forwardnes and dyed fortunatly through lyuing laboriously Plut. Philotis by labour ouercame the Latines and by his study and pollicy got that victory vvhich the Romaines detracted by theyr feare The stuttering of Alcibiades did not so much hurt him as his industry in warres renowned him Thucidides If Demosthenes had seene any Cittizen vp before him and at work it did greatly greeue him his continuall labour and diligence in