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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14467	The schoole of beastes; intituled, the good housholder, or the oeconomickes. Made dialogue-wise, by M. Peter Viret, translated out of French into English, by I.R.; Metamorphose Chrestienne. Part 2. English	Viret, Pierre, 1511-1571.; I. B., fl. 1585.	1585 (1585)	STC 24783; ESTC S105385	24,536	72

and princes Palaces and to make her webbes in them turning and winding them now on the one side and now on the other The weauing of the Spider and catching al that whiche serue her for to stretch them out and make them as long as they can be And although that one do breake deface her woorkes and dryue her from one side to the other yet neuerthelesse she is not so fearefull that she forsaketh her lodging therefore but returneth daylie to her woorke Insomuche that men doo not so fast breake them as she repaireth and amendeth them setting foorth still newe workes Wherein she maketh men greatly ashamed whiche turne them selues from their dutie and office be it thorowe the greatnes and mightinesse of Kings and Princes or thorowe all the lettes that men may doe vnto them Let vs also consider what paine that beast taketh to make her threades for to get her liuing by it And afterwardes when they are made what diligence she taketh after her chase Let the silke-weauers and also the lynen cloth makers the tapestrie makers and imbroderers and also all those that make threddes come and compare their woorke to the spiders webbes let them consider in which is most conning And who hath learned them that occupation It was not men but rather they haue learned of them Ierome Plinie telleth maruayles of their workes to weete how they deuide the labours betweene them howe the wyfe spinneth and maketh the webbes and threds and the husband on the other side chaseth and hunteth for their nourrishment I thinke that the same was the cause wherefore the poetes haue fayned that Arachne Arachne transformed into a spider that good and cunning weauer was transformed into a Spider because of her Arte who was founde to haue followed the Spiders of which transformation Ouid hath written after this maner And when minarue should depart Ouid meta lib. 6. with iuice of Hecats flower She sprinkled her and by and by the poyson had such power That with the touch thereof her heare her eares and nose did fade And very smal it both her head and al her body made Instead of legges to both her sides sticke fingers soft and fine The rest is bellie from the which she neuerthelesse doth twyne A slender threed and practiseth in shape of spider still The spinners and the websters craftes of which she earst had skil Theophrast Let vs leaue of the transformations of the poets and returne vnto the schoole of the Spiders to which Salomon sendeth vs. Then if we consider the huswiferie whiche the spider holdeth Euil huswiues howe manie euil huswifes shal we finde which knowe not how to spinne nor sewe neither the arte of weauing nor yet any science at all for to occupie them selues in their houses Wherefore such women are not worthie to be compared vnto the Spider sauing as touching the poyson which they are ful of Also if men wil glory and boast them selues in hunting The chase hunting of men and of the spiders Plini lib. 11. cap. 24. Arist hist animal lib. 9 cap. 39. and for that they are so ingenious and wyse that they knowe the meanes to take al kind of beasts what matter of glorying boasting haue they more greater then the Spiders For what hunters are there more subtil then the Spider for to lye in waite and for to trappe and snare the beastes and to make them to fall into their nettes or more diligent to lay holde on them And yet neuerthelesse she hath neither sinewes nor bones But a very litle bodie Ierome Although it be so as thou saiest yet neuerthelesse she hath the industrie to stay catch sometims litle euets lezards in her nets And therfore Plutarke saith is not the worke of the Spiders greatly to be maruailed at which haue geuen vnto womē the pattern for to make their thredes vnto the fysher mē for to make their netts Let one beholde the perfection the subtilitie of the threde and the knotes of the webbe that cannot be vnlosed being as a soft and tender skinne glewed together as though it were starched Furthermore the dying of the colour declareth some ayrie and troubled thing to the end it may the better deceiue Finally a man would neuer haue beleued that they had been so wel taught to draw together the lines which gouerneth their workes in somuch that as sone as there is any praye or captiue they feele and perceiue it in a moment leape out and drawe together their nettes as doth an expert and conning hunter And if it were not but that we see it daylie before our eyes a man would thinke that it were but a fable Behold the witnes of Plutark Thophrast Besides al that which we haue alredie spoken of they haue yet another great aduantage For if men wil chase and hunt there must be many of them and that they must haue many instrumentes for their hunting the which wil be great charge vnto them Ierome That is very true And moreouer Hunters eaten vp by their dogs they must nurrish and feede a great companie of dogges the which often-times eate vp their maisters Euen as the Poets haue written The transformation of Acteon that the dogges of Acteon did eat vp their maister being changed into an hart of whiche transformation Ouid hath written after this maner Diana makes no farther threats Ouid. meta lib. 3. but by and by doth spread A paire of liuely old hartes hornes vpon his sprinkeled head She sharpes his eares she makes his necke both slender long and lanke She turnes his fingers into feete his armes to spindle shanke She wrappes him in a hairie hide be-set with speckled spottes And planteth in him fearefulnes and so away he trottes And afterwardes towardes the ende he saith Acteon nowe was ful of care of sorowe and of griefe And blamed much his hornes which did betray him as a theefe As often as they named him he sadly shooke his head And faine he woulde haue ben away thence in some other stead But there he was and wel he coulde haue founde in hart to see His dogges fel dedes so that to feele in place he had not bee They hem him in on euery side and in the shape of stagge With greedie teeth and griping pawes their lorde in peeces dragge So fierce was cruell Phaebes wrath it coulde not be alayde Til of his fault by bitter death the ransome he had paide Beholde as touching the faining of the poets But yet we must not think that it is altogether vaine Theophrast Although the hunters be not in very deede turned into hartes yet there are a great many of whom one may rightly say that their doggs haue eaten and deuoured thē And we must not doubt but that gods iudgment is iust herein For although the hunters cōmitted none other fault but in these that they geue vnto the dogges that which woulde