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A02296	The dial of princes, compiled by the reuerend father in God, Don Antony of Gueuara, Byshop of Guadix, preacher, and chronicler to Charles the fifte, late of that name Emperour. Englished out of the Frenche by T. North, sonne of Sir Edvvard North knight, L. North of Kyrtheling; Relox de príncipes. English	Guevara, Antonio de, Bp., d. 1545?; North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601?; Guevara, Antonio de, Bp., d. 1545? Aviso de privados. English.; Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, 121-180.	1568 (1568)	STC 12428; ESTC S120709	960,446	762

For euery man that is wedded to Faustine there is no villany but he shall doe it I sweare to thee that sithe the daye we were wedded me seameth that I haue no wit I leaue wedding for this tyme retourne to speake of offices Surely a peacible man ought to be in offices though it be painfull for as the offices are assured among them that be vertuous so perillously goeth the vertuous folke among offices And for the troth hereof recken what they wynne then thou shalt see what they loose Say that is good if thou knowest it heare the euil if thou desire to know it He that wyl take the charge to gouerne other seketh thought and trouble for him selfe enuy for his neighbours spurres for his enemies pouertie for his rychessee a waking of theues perill for his body ende of his dayes torment for his great renoume Finally he seketh a waye to reiecte his frendes and a repeale to recouer his enemies O an vnhappy man is he that taketh on him the charge of children of many mothers for he shal be alwayes charged with thoughtes how he should content them all full of sighes because one hath to geue hym feare that one should take from him weping if he lese and feare that they infame him He that knoweth this without long tariing ought to set a bridle in his head But I saye of one as I say of another For I wyl sweare and thou wilt not deny it that we may finde some nowe a daies that had rather be in the parke to fight against the bulles than be in suertie vpon the scaffold Oftentimes I haue heard say Go we to the Theaters to renne at the Bulles go we to chase the Hartes and wilde Bores and when they come there they renne away not the beastes from them but they from the beastes In such wise as they went running they retourne agayne fleing I saye these ambicious persones procure to gouerne and are gouerned they commaunde and are commaunded they rule and are ruled and finally thinking to haue diuerse vnder their handes these wretches put them selues vnder euery mans foote For the remedy of al these perilles my thought is comforted with one thing and that is without procuring or offering my selfe the senate of their owne wyl hath commaunded me In the .viii. table of our auncient lawes be these wordes We commaunde that in our sacred senate charge of iustice be neuer geuen to him that willingly offreth him self to it but to suche as by great deliberation are chosen This is certainly a iust lawe For men now be not so vertuous nor so louing to the cōmon wealth that they wil forget their own quietnes rest doing domage to them selfe to procure another mans profite There is none so folish that wil leaue his wife children and his own swete countrey to goe into straunge countreis but if he see him selfe among straunge people thinking vnder the colour of iustice to seke for his own vtilite I say not this without weping that the princes with their smal study and thought and the iudges with their couetise haue vndermined and shaken downe the high walles of the pollicy of Rome O my frende Catullus what wilt thou that I should saye but that our credence so minisheth our couetise so largely stretcheth our hardines so boldeth our shamefastnes so shameles that we prouide for iudges to go rob our neighbours as captaines against our enemies I let thee to wit wher as Rome was beloued for chastising the euil now it is as much hated for spoyling the good I do remember that I red in the time of Dennis Siracusan that ruleth al Sicile ther came an Embassadour fro Rhodes to Rome being of a good age wel learned valiant in armes right curious to note al thinges He came to Rome to se the maiesty of the sacret senate the height of the high Capitol enuironned with the Colliset the multitude of senatours the wisedome of the counsailours the glory of triumphes the correction of the euil the peace of the inhabitauntes the diuersitie of nations the aboudaunce of the maintenaunce the order of the offices and finally seing that Rome was Rome he was demaunded howe he thought thereby He aunswered and sayed O Rome at this present worlde thou art full of vertues and wyse men hereafter thou shalt be furnished with fooles Loe what highe and very hyghe wordes were these Rome was seuen hundred yeares without any house of fooles and nowe it hathe bene three hundred yeares without one wyse or vertuous man Loke what I say it is no mockerie but of trouth if the pitiful Gods now a days did reise our predecessours from death to lyfe either they would not know vs for their children or els they would attached vs for fooles These be things vsed in Rome but thou sendest no word of that is vsed in Agripine I wil write nothing to the to put the to paine write to me some thinge to reioyce me if thy wife Dinisila chaunced wel of the flote that came out of Cetin with salt oyle and hony I haue wel prouided for her Wilt thou know that Flodius our vncle was cast downe by the rage of his horse is deceassed Laercia Colliodorus are frendes together by occasion of a mariage I do send the a goune I pray to the gods to send the ioy therof My wife Faustine saluteth the. Recomend me to Iamiro thy son The gods haue the in keping and sinister fortune be fro me Marcus thy frend to thee Catullus his owne ¶ Marcus Aurelius writeth to the amorous ladyes of Rome Chap. x. MArke oratour Reading in Rhodes the art of humanity to you amorous Ladyes of Rome wisheth health to your parsons amendmente of your desired liues It was written to me that at the feast of the mother Berecinthia al you being present together made a play of me in which you layed my life for an example slaundered my renowme It is told me that Auilina composed it Lucia Fuluta wrote it thou Toringua did sing it and you altogether into the Threatre did present it You broughte me forth painted in sondry formes with a booke in my hand tourned contrarie as a fained philosopher with a long tongue as a bold speaker with our measure with a horne in my head as a common cuckold with a nettel in my hand as a tremblying louer with a banner fallen downe as a cowarde captaine with my berd halfe shauen as a feminate man with a cloth before my eyes as a condemned foole yet not content with this another day ye brought me forth portracted with another new deuyse Ye made a figure of myne with feete of strawe the legges of amber the knees of wood the thighes of brasse the belly of horne the armes of pitche the hands of mace the head of Iron the eares of an asse the eyes of a serpent the heres of rotes iagged the teeth of a cat the tongue

commaundeth al the eyes wherby we se are the good men in the commonwealth whom we folow the eares that heare what we say are the subiects which do what we commaund them the tongue wherwith we speake are the sages of whom we here the lawes doctrines the heere 's which groweth on our heads are those which are vexed greued and that demaund iustice of the kinge the hands the armes are the knightes which resist the enemyes the feete which susteineth the membres are the tillers of the ground which geueth meate to al estates the hard bones that susteineth the feble soft flesh are the sage mē which endure the trauaile of the common wealthe the harts which we see not outwardly are the priuye councellours Finally the necke that knitteth the bodye with the head is the loue of the kinge and of the Realme whiche make a common wealth All the wordes aboue named spake Plutarche the greate to Traian the Emperoure And trulye the inuencion and grace of him proceaded of a hygh and deape vnderstanding for the heade hath thre properties whiche are verye necessarye for the gouernoure of the common wealth The first is that euen as the head is of al other members of the body the hyghest so the aucthoritie of the prince exceadeth the estates of al others For the prince only hath aucthoritie to commaund and al others are bound to obey Admyt therbe many stout rich noble men in the comon wealth yet al ought to know and acknowledge seruice to the Lord of the same For the noble and worthy princes do dayly ease many of dyuerse seruices but they wil neuer except anye from their loyaltie and allegeaunce Those which are valiaunt and mightie in a Realme should contente themselues with that wherwith the battilments doe vpon a castel that is to wete that they are higher then the rampers wherin men walke on the walles and lower then the pinakelles which are in the toppe For the wise man of highe estate ought not to regard the prince which is the highe pinacle but ought to loke on the alleys which are the poore comfortles I would speake a worde and it greueth me that is wheras great lordes desire in the common wealthe to commaund is like vnto him that holdeth his armes and handes ouer his head For al that I haue herde and for all that I haue redde and also for al that hath chaunced in my time I counsell admonishe and warne all those which shal come after this time that if they wil enioy their goodes if they will liue in safegard and if they wil be deliuered from tirannye and liue quiete in the common wealth that they do not agre to haue in one realme aboue one king and one lord For it a general rule where there are manye rulers in a common wealth in the end both it and al must perishe We se by experience that nature fourmed vs with many synewes many bones with muche fleshe with many fingers and with many teeth and to all this one onely body had but one head wherfore though with many estates the common wealth is ordained yet with one prince alone it ought to be ruled If it consisted in mens handes to make a prince they would then also haue the auctoritie to put him downe but being true as it is most true in dede that the prince is constituted by God none but god alone oughte to depriue and depose him of his estate but thinges that are measured by the deuine iudgement man hath no power with rasor to cut them I know not what ambicion the meane can haue neyther what enuie the lowest can haue nor what pride the highest can haue to commaund and not to obey since we are sure that in this misticall bodye of the common wealth he which is most worth shal be no more estemed then the fingers or paringe of the nayles or the falling of an heere from the heade Let euery man therefore liue in peace in his common wealth and acknowledge obedience vnto his prince he that wil not do so away with him for euen as the onely offence procedeth of hym so let the only paine rest vpon him For it is an old saying that he that taketh vp the sworde againste his maister wil shortlye after lay his heade at his feete The seconde condicion is to compare the kinge to the hed because the hed is the beginning of mans life The moste part of thinges that euer god created accordinge to their natures worke their operacions as in growing highe and towardes the heauens We se the vapors ascend high the plantes groweth highe the trees budde out on height the sourges of the sea mount highe and the nature of fier is alwayes to ascend and mount on highe only the miserable man groweth downeward and is brought low by reasone of the feble and fraile flesh which is but earth and commeth of earth and liueth on earth in the end returneth to earth againe from whēce he came Aristotle saith well that man is but a tre planted with the rootes vpward whose roote is the head and the stocke is the bodye the braunches are the armes the barcke is the flesh the knottes are the bones the sappe is the hart the rottennes is malice the gumme is loue the flowers are words and the frutes are the good workes To make the man to go vprightlye his heade should be wher his feete are and the feete wher the head is syth the head is the roote the feete are the bowes but in this case I sweare that we are correspondaunte to our beginning for if our fleshe be planted contrarywise so much more contrary we haue our life ordered Therfore concerning our matter I say that the Realme hath no lesse his beginning of the kinge then the kinge of the realme whiche thinge is plainlye seene for that the king giueth lawes and institucions to a Realme and not the Realme to the kyng The giftes and benefites which the king geueth commeth to the Realme not from the realme to the king To inuent warres to take trewse to make peace to reward the good and to punish the euyl proceadeth from the king to the Realme and not to the contrary For it apperteineth onlye to the maiestie of a prince to commaund and ordeine and to the common wealth to autorise and obey him As in a great sumptuous bylding it is more daungerous wher one stone of the foundacion doth fall then when .x. thousand tyles faule from the top so he ought more to be blamed for onely disobedience commytted and done to the king and his iustice then for fiue thousand offences against the common wealth For we haue sene of a lytle disobedience a great slaunder aryse in a common wealthe O it is a goodly matter for a prince to be beloued of his subiectes and a goodly thing also for the realme to be feareful of their king For the king that is not

pleasure of the shee geueth mee neither greefe of that shee taketh frō me nor I wyl haue respect when she telleth mee truth nor I doo not regard it though she tel mee a lye Finally I will not laugh for that shee asketh mee nor I wil weepe for that shee sendeth mee I wyll now tel thee my frend Domitiꝰ one thing and hartely I desire thee to keepe it in memory Oure lyfe is so doubtfull and fortune so sodaine that whē shee thretneth she stryketh not always neyther doth shee threaten alwaies when shee stryketh The man which presumeth to bee sage and in all things well prouyded goeth not so fast that at euery steppe hee is in daunger of falling nor so softly that in long tyme hee cannot aryue at his iorneys end For the false fortune gauleth in steed of strikyng in steed of gauling striketh Therefore since in years I am older then thou and haue more experience of affairs if thou hast marked that I haue told thee thou wylt remember wel that which I will say vnto thee which is that that part of thy life is troublesome which vnto the seemeth to be most sure wylt thou that by example I tell thee al that which by woords I haue spoken Behold Hercules of Thebes who escaped so many daungers both by sea and by land and afterwardes came to dy in the armes of a harlotte Agamemnon the great Captaine of Greekes in the x. years which hee warred agaynst Troy neuer had any peryl and afterwards in the nyght they kylled hym entring into his own house The vnuincyble Alexander the great in al the conquests of Asia dyd not dye and afterwards with a lytle poyson ended hys life in Babilon Pompeius the great dyed not in the conquest of his enemys and afterwardes his frende Ptholomeus slew him The couragyus Iulius Cesar in .lii. battells could not be ouercom and afterwards in the Senate they slew him with xxiii woūds Hannibal the terryble captaine of Carthage slew hym selfe in one moment which the Romaynes could not dooe in xvii years onelye bycause hee would not com into the hands of hys enemys Asclipius medius brother of great Pompeius in xx years that he was a rouer on the seas neuer was in any peryll afterwards drawyng water out of a well was drowned therin Tenne Captaynes whō Scipio had chosen in the cōquest of Affrike iestynge on a bridge fell into the water and ther were drowned The good Bibulꝰ going triūphing in his chariot at Rome a tile fel on his head so that his vayne glory was the end of his good lyfe What wylt thou more I saye vnto thee but that Lucia my sister hauynge a needel on her brest her childe betweene her armes the chyld layeng his hand vppon the needell and thrust it into her breast wherby the mother dyed Gneus Ruffirius Which was a very wyse man and also my kinseman one daye keamyng hys whyte heares strake a tooth of the comb in his head wherwith hee gaue him selfe a mortall wounde so that in short space after his lyfe had end but not his doctrine nor memory How thinkest thou Domitiꝰ by the immortal gods I swear vnto thee that as I haue declared to thee this small nomber so I coold recite thee other infinyte What mishap is this after so many fortunes what reproch after such glory What peril after such surety what euil luck after such good successe What dark night after so clere a day What so euil enterteinment after so great labour What sentence so cruel after so long proces O what inconuenience of death after so good beginnyng of lyfe Being in their steade I can not tel what I would but I had rather choose vnfortunat lyfe honorable death then an infamous death and honorable lyfe That man which wyll bee counted for a good man and not noted for a brute beast ought greatly to trauayle to lyue wel and much more to dye better For the euill death maketh men doubt that the lyfe hath not been good and the good death is the excuse of an euyl lyfe At the beeginnyng of my letter I wrate vnto thee how that the gowt troubleth mee euil in my hand I say it were to much to wryte any lēger though the letter bee not of myne owne hand these two days the loue that I bear thee and the grief that holdeth mee haue stryued together My wyll desireth to wryte and my fingers cannot hold the penne The remedy herof is that since I haue no power to doo what I would as thine thou oughtst to accept what I can as myne I say no more herein but as they tel mee thou buildest now a house in Rhodes wherfore I send thee a thousand sexterces to accomplysh the same My wife Faustine saluteth thee who for thy paine is sore dyseased They tell vs thou hast bene hurt wherfore shee sendeth thee a weight of the balme of Palestyne Heale thy face therwith to the end the scarres of that wound doo not appere If thou findest greene almonds and new nutts Faustine desyreth thee that thou wilt send her some By another man shee sendeth a gowne for thee and a kirtell for thy wyfe I conclude and doo beeseech thee immortall Gods to geeue thee all that I desire for thee and that they geeue mee all that thou wyshest mee Though by the hands of others I wryte vnto thee yet with my hart I loue thee ¶ That Princes and noble men ought to bee aduocates for widows fathers of orphanes and helpers of all those which are comfortles Cap. xxxv MAcrobius in the third book of the Saturnalles saieth that in the noble cyty af Athens there was a temple called Misericordia which the Athenians kept so well watched and locked that without leaue and lycence of the Senat no man might enter in There were the Images of pitifull princes onely and none entred in there to pray but pitefull men The Atheniens abhorred always seuere and cruel deeds beecause they would not bee noted cruell And therof cometh this maner of saying that the greatest iniury they could say vnto a man was that hee had neuer entred into the scoole of the philosophers to learne nor in to the temple of Misericordia to pray So that in the one they noted him for simple and in the other they accused him for cruell The historiographers say that the most noble linage that was at that time was of a king of Athens the which was exceeding rych and lyberall in geeuing and aboue all very pitifull in pardoning Of whom it is written that after the great treasours which hee had offered in the temples and the great riches hee had distributed to the poore hee tooke vppon him to bring vp all the orphans in Athens and to feede all the widows O how much more did that statut of the sayd pytyfull king shine in that temple who norished the orphanes then the ensignes which are set vp in the Temples of the captaines which

saluation the euil gotten good a cause of his eternal dānation More ouer yet what toyle and trauayl is it to the body of the man how much more perill to the liuing soule when hee consumeth his hole days and life in wordly broile and yet seely man hee can not absent him self from that vile drudgery till death dooth sommon him to yeeld vp his accoūt of his lief and dooings And now to conclude my prologue I say this booke is deuided into two parts that is to weete in the first tenne chapters is declared how the new come courtier shall beehaue him self in the princes court to winne fauor credit with the prince the surplus of the woork treateth when hee hath atcheeued to his princes fauor acquired the credyt of a worthy courtier how hee shal then continew the same to his further aduaūcement And I doubt no whit but that my lords gentlemen of court wil take pleasure to read it and namely such as are princes familiars and beeloued of court shall mostly reap profyt thereby putting the good lessons aduertisements they fynd heretofore writen in execucion For to the yong courtiers it sheweth them what they haue to doo putteth in remembraunce also the old fauored courtier lyuing in his princes grace of that hee hath to bee circūspect of And fynally I conclude sir that of al the treasors riches gyfts fauors prosperities pleasures seruices greatnes power that you haue possesse in this mortal transitory life by the faith of a christian I sweare vnto you also that you shal cary no more with you then the onely time which you haue wel vertuously emploied during this your pilgrimage ¶ The Argument of the booke entituled the fauored courtier wheare the author sheweth the intent of his woork exhorting all men to read and study good and vertuous bookes vtterly reiectyng fables and vayn trifflyng stories of small doctrine erudicion AVlus Gelius in his booke De noctibus atticis sayeth that after the death of the great poet Homer seuen famous Cyties of Greece were in great controuersy one with the other ech one of them affirmyng that by reason the bones of the sayd poet was theirs and onely apperteined to them all seuen takyng their othes that hee was not onely born but also norished and brought vp in euery one of them And this they did supposing that they neuer had so great honor in any thing but that this was farre greater to haue educated so excellent and rare a man as hee was Euripides also the philosopher born and brought vp in Athens trauayling in the realme of Macedonia was sodeynly striken with death which wofull newes no sooner came to the Athenians ears declared for a trouth but with al expedicion they depeached an honorable imbasy onely to intreat the Lacedemonians to bee contented to deliuer them the bones of the sayd philosopher protesting to them that if they woold franckly graunt them they woold regratify that pleasure done them and if they woold deny them they should assure them selues they woold come to demaund them with sweord in hand Kyng Demetrius held Rhodes beesyged long tyme which at length hee wanne by force of armes and the Rhodians beeing so stubborn that they would not yeeld by composition nor trust to his princely clemency hee commaunded to strike of all the Rhodians heads and to rase the cyty to the hard foundacions But when hee was let vnderstand that there was euen then in the cyty Prothogenes a phylosopher and paynter doutyng least in executyng others hee allso vnknowen myght bee put to the sweord reuoked his cruel sentence and gaue straight commaundement foorthwith they should cease to spoyle and deface the town further and also to stay the slaughter of the rest of the Rhodiens The diuine Plato beeing in Athens aduertised that in the cyty of Damasco in the realme of Palestine were certayn bookes of great antiquity whych a philosopher born of that countrey left beehynd hym there when hee vnderstoode it to bee true went thither immediatly led with the great desyre hee had to see them and purposely if they dyd lyke him afterwards to buy them And when hee saw that neyther at his sute nor at the requests of others hee could obtein them but that hee must buy them at a great price Plato went and sold all his patrimony to recouer them and his own not beeing sufficient hee was fayn to borrow vpon interest of the cōmon treasory to help him So that notwithstanding hee was so profound and rare a philosopher as in deede hee was yet hee woold sell all that small substaunce hee had only to see as hee thought some prety new thing more of philosophy As Ptholomeus Philadelphus kyng of Egipt not contented to bee so wise in al sciences as hee was nor to haue in his library .8000 bookes as hee had nor to study at the least .4 howers in the day nor ordinaryly to dispute at his meales wyth philosophers sent neuertheles an imbassage of noble men to the Ebrews to desire them they woold bee contented to send him some of the best lerned and wisest men among them to teach him the Ebrew tongue to read to him the bookes of their laws When Alexander the great was born his father kyng Phillippe wrote a notable letter immediatly to Aristottle among other matters hee wrote there were these I doo thee to weete O greatest philosopher Aristotle if thou knowst it not that Olimpias my wife is brought to bed of a sonne for which incessantly I geeue the gods immortal thanks not so much that I haue a sonne as for that they haue geeuen him mee in thy tyme. For I am assured hee shal profit more with the doctrine thou shalt teach him thē hee shal preuail with the kingdoms I shal leaue him after mee Now by the examples aboue recited and by many more we coold alledge wee may easly consider with what reuerence and honor the auncient kyngs vsed the learned and vertuous men of their tyme. And wee may also more playnly see it syth then they held in greater price and estimacion the bones of a dead philosopher then they doo now the doctrine of the best learned of our time And not without iust occasiō dyd these famous heroycal princes ioy to haue at home in their houses abrode with them in the feeld such wise learned men whilst they liued after they were dead to honor their bones and carcases and in dooing this they erred not a iot For who so euer accompanieth continually with graue wise men enioyeth this benefit and priuiledge beefore others that hee shall neuer bee counted ignorant of any Therefore continuing still our fyrst purpose let vs say that who so euer will professe the company of sober and wise men yt can not otherwise bee but hee must maruelously profyt by their comapny For beeing in their company they will put all

hurt for him the officer lost his estate office then hee his credit reputation Therefore those in fauor auctority ought to content them selues with the prince the seruants with their maisters the parents kinsfolks with the princes officers for that they procured them these offices at the kings hands with the yll willes of many wtout that they further prease importune thē to suborn their faults For after that the dooings of these woorthy officers bee once discouered to bee naught corupted it is impossible by any means to make them good before the prince with whom all the means the parents kinsfolks of such persōs can make cannot stead thē to bring them to their first honor by their own folly lost And now to end thys our present volume of the fauored courtier I doo assure al the beloued courtiers that if god shall fynd purity in their soules the comon weal iustice in their house the king troth in their mouthes fidelity in their harts the good and honest men grace in their fauor that the yll wicked boast them selues no more of their autority office that the poore shall praise them for their good woorks the king also fynd them faithfull seruants I will at this present with myne own hand geeue thē such faith assurance that they shall neede neuer to feare that god wil forsake them nor that men can hurt them and that they shal neuer bee detected of any infamy ouerthrowen by any misfortune neither put out of fauor credit with their prince at any tyme. Finis Here folovveth certaine other letters vvritten by Marcus Aurelius Selected out of the Spanishe copie not wrytten in the Frenche tongue ¶ Of the huge monstre seene in Scicily in the tyme of Marcus Aurelius And of the letters he wrote with bloude vpon a gate Cap. i. IN the yeare of the foundation of Rome .720 and .xlii. of the age of Marcus Aurelius and twoo yeares before he tooke possession of the Empire the twenty daie of August about the going downe of the Sunne in the Realme of Sicill in the Citie of Palermo a porte of the Sea there chaunced a thing perillous to them that sawe it then and no lesse dread full to those whiche shall heare it nowe Whiles they of Palermo were celebrating a great feaste with much ioy that they had vanquished the nauy of the Numidians the pirates deuiding their bootie were preuented by the magistrates of the citie who commaunded the whole spoyle to be layde vp tyll the warres were finished for such was the lawe of the I le And truly it was a iust lawe for oftentimes the only let why the peace is not made betwene princes is because there wanteth riches to satisfie the domages done in warres When all the people were retourned home vnto their houses to supper for it was in the Sommer there appeared an hughe monster in the citie in this fourme He seamed to be of the length of three cubites his heade was balde so that his scull did appeare He hadde no eares saue onely twoo holes in his necke whereby men iudged that he hearde he had two wrythen hornes like a goate his right arme was longer then his left his handes wer lyke the feete of horses without throte his shoulders and his head were both of one height his shoulders shone as doth the scales of fishes his brest was all rough of heere his face in all thinges was lyke vnto a man saue that it had but one eye which was in the middest of his forehead In his nose there was but one nosethril From the middle downwarde there was nothinge seene because it was all couered he satte on a chariot with foure wheles whiche was drawen with foure beastes that is two Lions before and two Beares behinde No man could tell of what wood the chariot was made In fashion it differed nothing from those whiche other men doe accustomably vse Within the chariot stode a great chauldron with eares wherein the monstre was wherfore it could not be seene but from the midle vpwarde It wandered a great space in the citie from one gate to an other castinge out sparkes of fyre The feare was so great throughout all the citie that some women with childe were with great daunger deliuered and others beyng faynte harted fell downe dead And all the people both men and women great and small ran to the temples of Iupiter Mars and Februa with dolefull clamoures and cries makyng their importunate prayers At the same tyme all these rouers were lodged in the gouernours pallace of the citie whose name was Solyno borne at Capua wher also the ryches was kepte After the monstre hadde bene in all partes of the citie or in the moste parte therof it came to the pallace where the pirates were and cut one of the Lions eares of and with the bloude thereof wrote these letters vpon the pallace gate which was shut R. A. S. P. I. P. These letters were of diuers men diuersly interpreted so that the interpretations were mo then the letters And in the ende a woman prophetesse greatly esteamed for her science to whom God had geuen this secret knowledge opened the true meanynge of these letters saying R. signifieth Reddite A. aliena S. si vultis P. propria I. in pace P. possidere Whiche altogethers is to say Render vnto other that which is theirs if you in quiet wyll possesse your owne Truely the pirates were wonderfully afrayd of this sodaine commaundement and the woman was highly commended for her exposition This being done the monstre went the same nyght out of the Citie vnto a high hill called Iamicia and there stode for the space of three dayes in the sight of the citie the Lyons with terrible voyces roaring the Beares with no lesse fearefull cryes ragyng and finally the monstre moste dreadfull flames casting During al this tyme there was neither byrde sene in the ayre nor beaste in the fieldes And the people offred suche great sacrifices vnto their Gods that they brake the vaynes of their handes and feete and offred the bloude thereof to see if they could appease their wrathes These three dayes being passed there appeared in the element a marueilous darke cloude whiche seamed to darken the whole earth and there with it began to thunder and lighten so terriblye that sundrye houses fell to the grounde and infinite men ended their lyues And laste of all ther came such a flame of fire from the monstre that it brent both the pallace where the rouers were all other thinges that were therin so that all was consumed with fire yea the very stones theim selues The tempest was so great that there fell aboue two thousand houses and there died more then ten thousand persones In this place where this monstre was on the toppe of the hill the emperour edified a sumptuous temple to the god Iupiter in perpetuall memory of the same Whereof afterward