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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03312	The noblenesse of the asse A worke rare, learned, and excellent. By A.B.; Nobilita dell'asino. English	Banchieri, Adriano, d. 1634.	1595 (1595)	STC 1343; ESTC S104471	32,473	62

in what place so ere he haps to fall Heel'e nere returne to hurt himselfe withall We cannot deny but that the Asse serueth as a spectacle and most singuler example of patience because it is a vsuall thing for fathers mothers and such like simply to aduise their children or friendes that in affaires of this world they should séeme to haue the backe of an Asse meaning that it behoues them in all things to arme themselues with patience Should we spare to speake of his constancie wherwith how much he is endued the Asse which was so displeased with them of Padua doth very well declare For they hauing drawne into the Cittie the water of * Bacchiglione where first of all the Asse vsed ordinarily to drinke so outragiously did he shew himselfe offended at this water mingling as it is impossible euer after to make him drinke of that water And herehence grew the Prouerbe All Padua had not the power to make the Asse drinke by reason he perseuered most constantly in his honourable resolution In regard whereof if we would giue him that due which we owe as a debt A hood we should prouide the Asse by right As to a person that so well deserues it Shapte like the birds that singeth still by night But to kéep nothing from him that is reputed of worth yet hold him still in estéeme and render him such honour as is conuenient for him let it suffise vs before we offer in ought to despise him that first we call to memorie that through contemning and reprouing the Asse some notable daunger hath ensued yea matter of death Who knowes not what happened to great King Mydas because he offered wrong to the Asse Let them looke on his picture and they shall sée his eares shaped like to the Asses And therefore very wisely our Poet wrote of him saying King Mydas that the Asse so iniured To his owne shame by Bacchus was reproou'd And had such chastisement as he deserued But let vs speake of some who by the meanes of such wrongs offered haue brought themselues to the extréemest point of death There are now certaine yeares past since I being in Zara a citie of Sclauonia I sawe one led to the gallowes to be executed whose name was Iiacomo Schiffalasino who being first brought to prison among other malefactors and by the discréet Iudge appointed to the torture because he should confesse wherein they had offended he not hauing any detection wherewith to charge them or that was sufficient to touch them as they should be But first he beganne to consider on the sirname of Schiffalasino and approuing that sir-name for a sufficient detection terrified him thereby so strictly and in such sort as the poore man confessed the faults which both he and his companions had committed Whereupon he caused him with the rest to be hanged by the neckes and as the common prouerbe is sent them to shake their héeles against the winde If this example may not be thought sufficient let vs then call to mind the death of Philemon the Philosopher who tooke offence at one of his Asses that in token of a singular or magnificent minde put forth himselfe to eate of preserued figges which were serued in to the Table for his maister Hereat he fell into such extremitie of laughter or derision that there sodeinly he died as our Poet verie excellently singing affirmeth Philemon when his Asse he had espied To eate of Figges prepared for his table Such was his laughter that therein he died But if contrariwise we would consider what good and happie successe hath ensued such encounters wherein the Asse hath receiued no iniurie we might the more easily resolue to honor and hold them in such estéeme as fortunate diuining auguries haue deserued to be And whosoeuer hath made diligent obseruation of them shall finde they haue saued the liues of many yea in doubtfull battailes and most bloodie fights they shewed before hand assured victorie What saued the life of great Caius Marius who had bene Consull six times but only an Asse whose iestures be diligently obseruing when by the Minturnes he was committed prisoner to Fauuias house where he noted how swiftly he rusht out of doore and ranne to drinke at the néerest fountaine He then aduising on this progresse of the Asse sayd That the Goddes had sent this beast before hand to signifie that by his sodeine running to the ●ountaine he should receiue thereby most certaine augurie that there was no other meane left for him to escape with life then by water Whereupon hauing gotten forth of the aforesaid prison he went and imbarqued himselfe at the next port and fled into Affrica where he saued himselfe Vincentio Cartari in his booke of Images of the auncient Gods saith that the Ambraciotti and Sicioni people of Greece being in warre togither an ambush was laide in a wood to intrap them that were to issue forth of the Citie At the same time it happened that a man driuing his Asse toward the Citie with certaine lading on his backe his beast by chance sented a shée Asse going before which made him follow after braying so loud as possibly he could And pacing on faster then his maister would willingly he should both the Asses at length began to bray togither each beast answering the other falling and rising with their voyces in such straunge and confused noyse that the Sicioni terrified with the murmure were glad to be gone from where they laie hid and so betooke themselues to flight The Ambraciotti being aduertised thereof pursued and ouerthrew them Afterward they made a goodly Asse of mettall which they sent to be offred at Delphos in the Temple of Apollo for a memorie of their good fortune by the Asse and which they perswaded themselues had not else happened to them but only by that singular beast Higinus the Historian recordeth that when the Goddes Bacchus and Vulcan fought with the Giants they entred the battaile mounted on Asses We read likewise in Hedorotus the father of the Grecian historie that Darius going to warre against the Scithians led with him a great nomber of Asses that only by their noyse and braying made all the enemies horses take them to their héeles Afterwards the Scithians comming to assault Persia their horses were againe so affrighted with the dreadfull voyce of Asses as they fled and could not be enforced to abide Our Poet by these and such like effects being earnestly sollicited very elegantly singeth in this maner Forced to flight by his commaunding crie A mightie Armie did the Asse dismay By Scithians brought to warre yet glad to flie Beholde then whether wee haue good cause or no to holde the Asse in all estimation yet in these vnthankfull dayes of ours we sée him folde for a most base or rather a vile price albeit in elder ages he was of dearer value then euer was any other beast in the world Marcus Varro rehearseth that in his time an Asse was solde for