thy children well By which saying it is euident that the wise man foresaw that he should dye in warre and warned his wyfe to take a newe husbande and to do hir indeuour that hir children might be wel brought vp Plut. in Lacon Of Exercise and vse WHen Octauius had conquered Antonius at Actium as he returned home amōgst others which gratified his victorious successe there came one holding a crowe in his hande which he had taught to say God saue thy grace Ceasar victorious Emperour Caesar maruelling at the curteous salutation of the birde gaue a great summe of money for him But his companion who had taken like paynes in bringing vp of the birde and could get no part of the sayd reward came to the Emperour and tolde him that he had an other crowe which he requested Caesar to cōpel him to fetch Which being taughte a contrary lesson began to say God saue Antonius the Emperor Wherwith Caesar was nothing offended but bad the money to be deuided betwéene them both It hayned that a cobler seing this folowing their exāple indeuored to bring a crow to the like salutation But whē he had with gret pains some charges kept this crow a long while could by no meanes cause him to answere he would say vnto the bird I sée my labor cost are cast away But in the end the bird began to speake as the Emperor came by saluted him to whom the Emperor sayde I haue now inough such felowes to salute me at home the birde remembring the sentēce which his master was wont so often to repete vnto hym sayd I see my labour and coste is caste away whereat the Emperour laughing boughte hir also for the lyke summe of money When Demonax hearde one stumbling in his declamation he exhorted him to exercise him selfe often therein Why so I doo quoth the other for I oftentimes vse to declaime when I am alone by my selfe Mary it is no maruell then quoth Demonax that thou diddest it so foolishly nowe since hitherto thou haste bene accustomed to so foolish an audience Eras li. 8. Apotheg When Cicero had praysed M. Crassus in the common place and his Oration was greatly commended of the people and afterwardes in the same place vehemently inuaied against him Why quod Crassus dyddest not thou lately prayse me in the same place I confesse quoth Cicero I praysed thée in deede but for exercise sake I tooke in hande a slaunderous argument For the Rethoritians sometymes take in hande argumentes of contrarie matters as when they prayse Bulyris the quartan feuer or ingratitude Licost ex libro 4. Apotheg Erasmi Socrates was wont to say that suche as exercised their body with dauncing had néde of wyde houses but suche as exercised them selues in singing or making orations might stande stil and neuer moue out of their places By which saying of his he allowed mode rate exercise disalowed the immoderate especially after meat Licost pa 324. Plato was wonte to admonishe men that neither they shoulde exercise their body without some exercise of the mind neither their minde without the body wherof the one is proper to champions the other to fluggards The Lacedemonians had a kinde of black potage which they so greatly estemed that the elder better sort woulde onely eate thereof and leaue the meate for their yongers Wherfore Dionisius king of Sicil bought a Lacedemoniā cooke commaunding him to make that kinds of potage and to spare no coste therein But when the king tasted of it he lyked it not but spit it out agayne To whom the cooke sayde you muste vse this after you haue exercised your selfe as the Lacedemonians doo Lycost Of fatall Destinie WHen Dioclesianus was abiding at Turin in Fraunce as he stayed at a certayne Iune and a woman named Drutas he commoned of his liuing she saide vnto him Dioclesian thou art ouer couetous a nigarde To whom he in iest answered thou shalt sée what a liberall fellowe I will be when I am Emperour Well quoth she iest not for thou shalte be an Emperoure in déede when thou haste killed Aper meaning Aper Numerianus father in law whom afterwards Dioclesian killed for the death of Numerianus whō Aper slue But Dioclesian construing Aper to be spoken according to the sense of the Latin worde for a wylde hore dayly vsed to hunte wild bores But when he had killed many and sawe Arelianus Probus Tacitus Charus possesse the Empire he would say I kill the bores but others eate the brawne In the ende hauing killed this Aper and béeing now made Emperour he sayde nowe I haue killed my fatall Bore Procas succéeding in the kingdome of Albanie conceiued two sons Aemulius and Numitor whereof Numitor béeing the elder succeded in the kingdome But Aemulius perforce expelled his brother and vsurped the kingdome And bicause none of his posteritie should afterwards enioy it he killed Numitors sonne and made his daughter Rhea a virgin vestral But she whether it were by a souldier or else by the god Mars as the Romanes thinke was conceyued and bare two sonnes Whereof Numitor hauing intelligence caused hir to be bounde and put in prison and commaunded one to take the children and cast them into Tibris but at that time it hapned that the water was so ouerflowē that he which was charged to droun thē could not come to the riuer side but thinking that the ouerflowing of the water should be sufficient to drowne them he lefte them there and went his wayes Shortely after the water decreasing one Fastulus the kinges shephearde came and founde them vnder a tree which afterwards was called Ruminalis and caried thē home committing them to Laurentia his wife to be brought vp Who bicause she was euill reported of for hir honestie the shepherds called hir Lupa and hereof it came that some write they were fed of a she wolf For Lupa in Latin so signifieth in English When they came to age they became great hunters and vsed to rescue the pray which théeues came to fteale So that they were accounted amongst the shepheards to be very valtaunt fellowes But in processe of time it hapned that the shepherds of Numitor Aemilius falling out in a fray Remus was taken and brought bound vnto Numitor where he so valiauntly behaued him self in his answere that he caused Numitor to wonder at hys singuler audacitie and remembring the tyme of the exposition of his Nephues by the circumstraunce of the time and the liniamēt of the person he suspected that it was his nephue And whylest Remus was thus occupyed with Numitor Faustulus which knew al the matter opened it vnto Romulus Whervpon leuying an armie of young men and hauing aide also frō Numitor their graundfather they set on Aemulius their vnlce and in the end restored Numitor their graundfather vnto his kingdome And leauing Albane they builded Rome in the place where they were cast foorth Brus li 2. cap. 38.
theyr fingers the Bracelets of theyr armes the Pearles from theyr heades the collers from theyr necks theyr brooches from theyr brests the girdles from their middles and borders of theyr gownes Whereby there was enough not only to performe the said vow but also to prosecute the warre against theyr enimies Fuluius Torquatus being consul in the warre against the Volseos the Knightes of Mauritane brought a wilde man to Rome that had but one eye whome they had taken in hunting in the desertes of Egipt And the matrones of Rome were at that time as sadde and sober as theyr husbandes were valiant and vertuous Amongst others was the wife of that saide Torquate who was great with child and neare the time of hir deliuerance A woman so honest for the sober solitarinesse that shée kept in Rome that shée had no lesse glory in the citie than hir husbande had abrode in the warres For in the fourtéene yeare that hir husbande was in warfare in Asia frō the first time the he went thether shée was neuer séene at the windowes gasing out nor suffred man childe aboue the age of eight yeares to come within hir gates Yea where shée had left with hir thrée sonnes the eldest of whom was not aboue the age of three yeares assone as they came to the age of eight yeares shée sent them away vnto theyr graunde father to the intent that vnder the coloure of hir owne children no others should enter into hir house Those yeares passed after the good olde Torquate was returned home the saide Wilde man with one eye went by the doore of the sayde Torquate and one of hir maidens tolde hir that it was a maruell to sée him Wherefore shée hadde great desire to sée him and bicause there was no body to shewe him hir shée lost hir lust and dyed for sorow choosing rather so to doe than eyther to goe abrode or to gaze oute of the windowes to sée him wherfore shée had this glorious Epitaphe Heere lieth the vvife of Torquate the chaste Matrone That did aduenture hir life to assure hir Fame Ex M. Aurelio Almaricke king of Ierusalem who destroyed Babylon hadde a sonne named Baldewine and a daughter called Sibilla Baldewine from the beginning of his raigne was a leapre and therefore not able of bodye all be it valiant in harte to rule that function Sybilla his sister was marryed to one VVilermus of the mounte Ferat by whome shée hadde a sonne called also Baldevvinus After him shée was married to an other husbande named Guido de Lizimacho Earle of Joppa and Ascalon Vppon thys it befell that the sayde Baldevvine the Leapre sonne of Amaricke béeing thus féeble and infirme as is saide called his nobles togither with his mother and the Patriarche declaring vnto them his inhabilitie and by theyr consentes committed the vnder gouernment of the Citie to Guido the husbande of Sybilla his sister But he being founde vnsuffiente or not luckie in the gouerning thereof the office was translated to a nother named Raimundus Earle of Tripolis In the which time the Souldans with the Sarazens mightely preuailed againste the Christians and ouer-ranne the countrey of Palestina In the meane time Baldevvine the leaprous king departed whereby the kingdome fell next to Baldevvinus the sonne of Sybilla by hir first husbande But hée also dying in hys minoritie the succession thereof by discente fell to Sybilla the wife of Guido aboue mentioned To whome the Péeres and Nobles of the Realme iayning togither in Counsell offred vnto the sayde Sybilla as to the lawfull heyre vnto the Crowne to bée theyr Qúeene wyth thys condition that shée should sequester from hir by lawfull diuorcement the foresayde Guido hir husbande But shée refused the kingdome offred vnto hir on that condition till at the laste the Nobles with the Magistrates in generall graunted vnto hir and by theyr othe confirmed the same that whome so euer shée woulde choose to be hir husbande all they woulde take and obey as theyr king Also hir husbande Guido amongste the rest wyth like petition humbly requested hir that the kingdome not for his sake or for his priuate losse mighte be destitute of gouernement At length shée with teares consenting to theyr intreatie was contented and solemnly was crowned for theyr Quéene who after the manner againe receyued theyr fidelitie by theyr othe Wherupon Guido without all hope of kingdom and wife departed home quietly to his owne house This done the Quéene assembling hir states and Prelates together entred talke with them about the choosing of the king according vnto that they had promised and sworne vnto hir and to obey him as theyr king whome shée shoulde nominate the Quéene wyth a loude voice sayde vnto Guido that stoode amongst them Guido my Lord I choose thée for my husbande and yéelding my selfe and my kingdome vnto you openly I protest you to be the king And woorthy no doubte was shée to be commended and extolled bothe for hir singular vertue of chastitie and high prudence so tempering the matter that both shée obtained to hir husband the kingdome and retained to hir selfe hir husband Dominus Fox Ex bibliothaeca Cariensi Licurgus made a lawe amongste the Lacedemonians that the father that died shoulde giue nothing to hys Doughter And that neither liuing nor dying he should giue any thing to marie hir with to the intent that none should marry hir for hir riches but for hir goodnesse and vertue And whereas nowe some be vnmarried bicause they are poore so then they abode vnmaried bicause they were shamefull and vicious Ex M. Aurelio Of Magistrates and Officers CLeobulus sayde that that common wealth was most fortunate and best ordered wher the Magistrate was more afearde to be euill spoken of than to suffer the penaltie of the lawe Bias sayde that that common wealth was happiest where men stoode more in feare of the law than of the Magistrate And Pitticus counted that realme in best case where the wicked do beare no sway nor authoritie Antisthenes being demaunded howe they oughte to order them selues that come to be Magistrates in the common wealth answeared they muste doe as men that doe come to the fire that is they must take héede least they stand to neare for burning theyr shinnes nor yet stand to farre of least they be a cold still Ex Stob. serm 43. Agasicles being asked howe a manne mighte rule wythoute a garde to defend him Answeared if he do so rule his subiectes as a father dothe his sonnes Meaning that if he were gentle and amiable vnto his Citizens there can be no surer defence than they will be vnto him Ex Plutarcho in Lacon When Cleon shoulde take in hande to administer the common wealthe he called all his fréendes vnto him and dissolued his olde knot of amitie and frendshippe as a great stay to kéepe him from equitie and iustice Therefore also when Themistocles shoulde be made Magistrat he denyed it saying
so pitiful coÌ„plaintes that in fine the moued him to mercy Insomuch that he sent one vnto hir who willed hir in the kings name to chose the deliuerie of one captiue whom she would wherfore she amoÌ„gst the rest desired that hir brother might be deliuered The king wondering that she did thus prefer hir brother before hir husband and children she answered him an other husband other children if it please God I may haue but an other brother now my parents be dead I shall neuer haue Of Children SEruilius Geminus supping with Lucius Manlius who was counted the best paynter in Rome séeing his children harde fauoured he saide vnto him I sée Manlius thou canst not make a childe so wel as thou canst paint him No quoth Manlius manerly answering for I paint them in the lighte but I make them in the darke Cyriades the first of the. 30. Roman tiraÌ„ts for that Cyriades his father was iustly displeased w him toke a great pece of money and fled vnto Persia where ioyning with Sapores he made war against Rome and killed his owne father but after wardes was by his owne crafte slaine him selfe Absalon king Dauids sonne desiring his fathers kingdome and therfore making war agaynst him was as he fled hanged by the haire on a bushe and so flayne whose death his moste godly father bewayled with many teares Ariaster Triganis sonne hearing that Pompeâ— was inuading his fathers kingdom fled to aid hym agaynst his father wherof Triganis hearing came huÌ„bly submitted himself at Pompeis féete who curteously receyued him and placed him on the right hand and his sonne Ariaster on his left hand deuiding the kingdome betwéene them But Ariaster béeing offended herewith when as PoÌ„pei sent for him to to supper he wold not come sending him this manacing answer the he had no néed of him but wold ioine with some other Roman who shold better estéeme him With which words he so offended Pompei that he caste him in prison and kept him for a spectacle at the triumph Herodes father to Parcorus hearing of of the death of Parcorus his sonne the discoÌ„fiture of his host was so greued that he fel mad for sorrowe but after he had bene a great while in this care at laste comming to himselfe he was so greatly trobled whoÌ„ of his 30. sons which he had begotteÌ„ of his coÌ„cubines he might make king for euery of these coÌ„cubines desired the regimeÌ„t of the kingdome for their sonne but in fine he determined to prefer Phrahates therto who immediatly killed his father destroied his brethren wheÌ„ his owne son came to age put him to death It was by an oracle declared vnto Altamenes the he should be the death of his father Cartareus king of Crete nowe called Candie which destinie he desirous to eschue departed and dwelt at Camiros in Rhodes But after a season his father desirous to sée him departed from Candie and by night ariued at Camiros But his men and the inhabitantes falling at debate Altamenes comming amongste them vnawares siue his father Which thing when he vnderstoode being ashamed to looke any man in the face he departed into the wildernesse and there died for sorowe Spartianus wryting of the life of Seuerus saythe that there was almoste no good or noble man which left any sonne good or profitable for the coÌ„mon wealth but either they died withoute issue or lefte suche as it had bene good if they neuer had bene borne And to begin with Romulus he lefte no childe Numa Pompilius none to doe the common wealthe good What did Camillus lefte he any childe like himselfe What did Scipio or the Catoes who were noble men And what should I speake of Homer Demosthenes Virgill Crispus Terence Plautus or the rest Or what of Caesar or Cicero Who aboue all others had bene happie if he had died without issue And finally who had bene more happie than Marcus Aurelius if he hadde not lefte his sonne Comodus to succéede him in the Empire or who more fortunate than Seuerus Septimius if Bassianus had neuer bene begotten Reade more in the title of education Of Concord and vnitie VVHen Pisistratus king of the Atheniens giuing his children good couÌ„sell coulde not be heard of them he was iustly displeased with them for it Which thing his enimies perceiuing were very glad hoping that by this discorde in his house some alteration woulde followe Wherof when the king had intelligeÌ„ce he assembled the Citie before him telling them that bicause his sonnes would not obey his fatherly pleasure he was offended with them but yet now it séemed good to his fatherly pitie that remitting their disobedience to forgiue them and consent vnto them Wherefore willed it to be published in the Citie that the king and his sonnes were nowe at one Demetrius a very louing and obedient sonne to Antigonus his father chauncing to come from hunting whilest certaine Embassadoures were doing theyr legacie vnto him in theyr presence entred all armed as he was and kissed his Father Wherefore when the Embassadoures shoulde departe Antigonus sayde vnto them Remember sirs to declare the loue and hartie affection which you haue séene betwéene my sonne and me Héereby declaring that agréement betwéene the father and the sonne is the greatest token of a Princes power that may be Licurgus vnto the Citizens whiche wrote to knowe howe they mighte best resist theyr ennimies force Answered if you shal be content to liue poore as you are and abstaine from mutuall dissention and discorde That Concorde is a thing very pleasante before God Homer in his Fâ—â—ades declareth Where hee felleth howe Mars the God of warre came vnto Iupiter to complaine of Diomedes who had wounded him but Iupiter with sterne countenaunce answered I woulde thou knewest that of all the celestiall coÌ„panie thou art one that I worst can away withal whose only delite is in brauling fighting and making of warre In Salust Mycippa at his death warned his sonnes to agrée amongste themselues saying by Concorde and vnitie smal things are increased made great but by discorde the greatest things that euer were will be decayed and brought to naughte Of the Court and Courtyers life CAlisthenes the Philosopher going to dwel with king Alexander was warned of Aristotle either seldome to speake vnto him or else to frame his speache pleasant and merie But he reprouing the king for taking pleasure to be saluted of the Persians and indeuoring to induce him in the Macedonian customes was cast in prison there as some say he died of the gout others say he was crucified which Trogus denyeth saying he had his handes and his eares cut off also his nose and his lippes deformed and so was made a spectacle for men to behold Praexaspes one of Cambyses his secrete counsell being asked what the people saide of him he answered that all men praised him greatly but that they saye he was toomuche giuen to Wine
downe their eyes and lamented that not only an vpright and iust man but euen Iustice hir self as it wer should so be dealt with all Only one spit in his face as he came by Wherewith Aristides nothing moued in smiling sorte desired the magistrate to take him away that he might no more so frowardly trouble them Of Crafte or subteltie ALexander king of Macedonie meaning to destroy Lapsacus the Citie wherein Anaximenes his maister dwelled prepared with all his mighte to accomplishe his pretended purpose But it happened as he came nighe the Citie he espied Anaximenes his master within the walles wherefore knowing that he would dissuade him from his purpose thincking to preuent him he made an othe that he woulde not graunte Anaximenes hys fuse Héereof Anaximenes as it shoulde seeme hauing some priuie intelligence came vnto him and desired that he wold destroye Lapsacus And so Alexander who hadde sworne to denie his request to saue his othe was forced to spare the Citie which he so faine woulde haue destroyed On a time two straungers deliuered a certaine summe of money to a woman to kéepe on that condition that shée should deliuer to neither of them their portion vntill they bothe came together to fetche it But shortly after one of them faining that his fellowe was dead came and had bothe theyr portions deliuered him It happened not long after that the other whome the woman supposed to haue ben dead came and required his part Wherfore the woman not hauing wherewith to paye him and not knowing howe to doe meante to hang hir selfe oute of the way But Demosthenes deliuered hir of hir greate sorrowe and care willing hir that when he came againe she shoulde bidde him bring hys fellowe according to his former promisse and he should haue his money Semiramis Quéene of the Assirians making warre into India that shée might make them afeard with the sight of Elephantes whiche they supposed to be no where but in Jndia caused Oxehides to be sowen in the likenesse of Elephants and to be stuffed with hay hauing eche of them within it a Camell an armed Knighte sitting on his backe Trimellius a citizen of Rome remouing and abiding with his whole familie in the countrey one of his seruauntes finding a sowe of his neighbors abrode killed hir and broughte hir home Whose carkesse being dressed Trimellius layd vnder the blākets wherin his wife lay And when his neighboure made inquisition search for the sow he swore that he had but one and shée laye vnder his blankettes And therwith bringing them into the chāber he shewed the bed where this wife laye And so with this iest deceiued his neighbor and caused his wife for euer afterwardes to be called Trimellius sowe When Photion coulde by no meanes kéepe the Atheniens from making an vnprofitable warre wyth the Boetians he commaunded that all men from the age of seuentéene to seuentie shoulds within fiue days after come before hym in complet harnis Whereat they stomaking the mater that aged men shuld be brought to that poynt he aunswered them what wrong shall I do you when I my selfe which am fourescore yeares olde shall be present with you And by that meanes quited them from prosecuting their pretended war. After that the Magarenses and the Atheniens had a long while made war for the I le of Salamis almoste vnto the vtter decay of them bothe it was in fine concluded by the Atheniens that who so made any law of rechalenging the sayd Iland should loose his life for it Wherfore Solon being verie carefull in thys case what to doe knowing that by holding his peace he should do the common wealth no good and on the other syde by counselling them thereto he shoulde be in danger of his life he sayned himselfe to be madde and like a madde man ranne about the stréetes and so causing a great assembly of people to come about him he persuaded them with such verses as he neuer before vsed and so preuailed therein that with all expedition they prepared them selues to renue the war agaynst the Megarenses In the tyme of the war betwene the Lacedemonians and the Athenians the Lacedemonians hauing the better to the intente to bring Pericles the Athenian Capitayne in suspition lefte all his landes vntouched which thing he foretolde the Athenians and to auoyde the enuic which they thoughte hereby to cause him incurre he gaue all those his landes to the vse of the common wealth When Medea would be reuenged of Pelias she promised to make him yong agayne and the better to persuade hym therto in his presence she transformed hir selfe from an olde woman vnto youthly yeres agayne Wherefore he commaunded his daughters to do what soeuer shée shoulde commaunde them Wherevppon when he was a sléepe she commaunded them to take him and teare hym in péeces and afterwardes to put him in a cauldron that she might by that meanes restore hym to hys youth And so was she reuenged and he stayne by his owne daughters and through his owne commaundement Of Crueltie and Immanitie TVllius Cicero wyth his owne handes wrote a Decrée agaynst Anthonius the which he lykewyse pronounced agaynst hym in the common place But Anthonius reuenged hym causing hys heade and his handes to bée cutte off and fastened in the same place And as Dion wryteth Fuluia Anthonies wyfe holding hys heade in hir lappe wyth moste opprobrious wordes rayled and cursed it spitting on it and opening his mouthe pulled out his tongue whiche she all bepricked with pinnes When Vitellius vnderstoode that Otho his enimie was slaine in the fielde Bebryacus and comming thither sawe the dead carkasse lying on the grounde whereas others abhorred the stenche of it he with a detestable voyce cryed out that the dead corpse of his enimie especially béeing a citizen had a swéete sauour in his nose But afterwardes he him selfe hauing his handes bounde behinde him a halter aboute his necke and his haire cutte of like a condemned person was for a mocking stocke so drawen alongst all the way to the temple And finally béeing set vpon the Gemoniā ladders had his head hacked of with little strokes and thence was tumbled downe into Tyber After that the Tribunes had slayne Apuleius the Senate and the people of Rome consented that Metellus shoulde be reuoked from banyshement whereto Publius Furius then béeing Tribune woulde in no wyse consente no not though his sonne with teares desired it on hys knées Which sonne of Metellus was surnamed for thys Pius Pityfull The nexte yere Caius Cornelius succeding Furius in the Tribuneshippe for this caused him to be called to accounte but so had his harde and cruell harte incensed the people agaynst him that they not abiding his answer rēt him in peces Suche was the wretched crueltie of Domitius Nero that he commaunded Ruffinus his sonne in lawe to be caste in the sea also he put to death his owne sister béeing great with childe
He sent for his Stewarde and prouing this reporte to be true he commaunded that he shoulde be fastned to the maste of a ship and there to dye Accompting him vnworthie to liue who for his gluttonous appetite woulde kyll a bird whose life woulde haue shewed many menne much pastime and pleasure When it was tolde Scipio that a certayne yong man bydding Guestes to a banquet hadde made cakes lyke vnto the Cittie and termed it Carthage he tooke thys yong mans horse from hym and when he demaunded hym what he mente thereby whye quod Scipio dyddest thou fyrste take awaye Carthage from me and eat it And so with a prettie scoffe punished him for hys gluttonie Cyrus in Xenophon rebuked Astiages his Grandfather for his excesse in delicate fare But Astiages answered him if thou dyddest once taste of thys my Sonne thou wouldest like it maruellous well and howe shoulde I like of it quoth Cyrus whereas thou doest so much abhorre it For when thou takest breade thou neuer wipest thy fyngers after it but when thou dippest of thys thou kéepest a wyping as thoughe thou haddest touched some vncleane thing Of Hatred and Enuie WHen it was tolde Agis that there was one enuied him no force quothe he the harme shall be hys for then both his owne euill happe and my good fortune shall put him to payne Aluding to Horace who sayde Inuidus alterius rebus macrescit opimis The enuious man pineth awaye when he séeth his aduersarie prosper And Antisthenes sayde that Enuie gnaweth consumeth the enuious man no other wise than ruste dothe the yron Likewise Chrisostome vppon one of the Psalmes saythe that enuie is an vnquenchable fire whiche consumeth hym that hath it like as the mothes do cloth Whose vglie anctamie a certaine Poet describeth in this sort Pallor in ore sedet macies in corpore toto In English thus His face is pale his corpes is leane his eyes are dimme of sight His teeth do rust his breath doth stinke his tong is poysoned quite He neuer laughes vnlesse it be vvhen other men do vveepe He troubled is at others ioyes that scarce he taketh his sleepe And other men he blameth apase and they at him do chyde And thus himselfe he doth torment and payne doth still abyde When Caius Furnius was made frée albeit he hadde but a little grounde of hys owne yet he so played the good husbande therein that he hadde more encrease of Corne than hys neighbours hadde of better and farre larger fieldes Wherefore some of them accused hym that he had by witchcrafte gotten other mennes Corne into hys fielde At the day therfore of his appearance he brought all his husbandrie tooles with hym He broughte his Daughter béeing a ioly huswife and wel apparelled hys plowchaynes strong and well made his culter share and other instrumentes méete for a good husbande and hys Oxen mightie and full of fleshe and sayde loe here are my charming instrumentes whyche brought my field so good encrease and so he was released Ex Plin. Lib 18. cap. 16. Bruson Lib. 3. cap. 7. Antiphiles enuying Apelles accused hym to Ptolome who loued him verie well that he wente to Tyre and there stirred the king to Rebellion and saide that al the businesse which was betwene the â—irians and Aegipt came by means of this Apelies Ptolome beléeuing this tale began to cal Apelles traitour and rebel But afterwards when one of the Tirian captiues swore that Apelles was falsly accused that he neither made nor medled therein Ptolome repented him that euer he had so said and for amends gaue Apelles a hundred Talentes and this Antiphiles to be his bondman A iust reward of a lying and enuious varlet and a notable example for Princes to be ware so lightely to giue credite to pickthankes and tell tales Brusonius Lib. 3. cap. 7. Marcus Anthonius commaunded hys Steward to deliuer two hundred poundes to a friende of his But the Steward maruelling enuying at the greatnesse of the gifte beganne to open the money and asked what shoulde be done therewith Why I tell thée quoth the Emperour I mean to bestow it on this my friend And séeing the malicious stomacke of his Steward he sayde Is thys the whole summe yea quoth he now â—urely quoth Anthonius I thought two hundred poundes had contayned muche more mency than thys Wherfore go and fetch as much more O how many â—uch wicked and malicious stewards be there nowe a dayes which bicause they deserus nothing them selues they can not abide that theyr Lordes shoulde bestowe it on suche as well deserue it Themistocles was so gréeued to sée Milciades honoured for the greate conquest he wonne at Marathea fighting against the Barbarians that he could not take his rest And being demauÌ„ded what caused him to be so watchfull He aunswered that Milciades triumphs would not suffer him to sleepe The king of the Assirians so loued Gobrias one of his Noble men that he meaned to ioyne his daughter in marriage with Gobrias sonne Wherewith Gobrias being well content sent his only sonne to the king that they mighte further intreat of this marriage matter But so it fell oute that the kings sonne and he going a hunting together and chauncing to méete with a Beare the kings sonne shotte at him and missed but this young Gobrias siewe him And when the like chaunced in chasing a Lyon the kings sonne was so wrothe and enuious against him that he tooke a speare out of his mannes hande and slue him Bruson Lib 3. cap. 7. Of Harlots SAlomon who had himselfe 300. concubines sayeth in his Prouerbes that the lippes of an harlot are as the dropping of an hony combe and her throte more swéete than oyle but hir ende is as bitter as wormewoode When Agrippus a yongman in Plautus comedie intituled Asinaria was like to be put from his lemman bicause he had not twentie pounds to giue her and Leonidas his man hadde so handled the matter that he had gotte the money the harlot came to him and saide O Leonida mine eye my Rose my minde my pleasure and hartes delight let me haue the mony that we two louers be not put asunder Nay I pray thée quoth Leonidas call me thy sparow thy hen thy Lambe thy kid or thy calfe and so pretely tauÌ„ted hir flattering tong Straphones a soldier in Plautus comedie Truculentus was in loue with Phronesius a harlot wheÌ„ he had ben froÌ„ hir a season she sayde that she was conceyued with chylde by him and getting an other womans chylde she mente to present it vnto hym and make hym beleeue that it was his When worde was broughte vnto him that Phronesius was broughte a bedde with a chyld and confessed that he was father therof he made al spéed to returne home vnto hir Afterwardes resorting vnto hir house and méeting with Astrophius the Harlottes handmayde he talked with hir in this sorte I praye thee is Phronesius brought a bedde yea forsoothe syr
Aurelio But hereof Palingenius passingly intreateth in this sorte Sed for san multi dubitant an caelibe vita Coniugiū melius namque vxor sepe superb ' est Litigiosa ferox demeus et adultera saepe c. Englished thus But some perchaunce vvill doute The mariage or the single life vvhich best of them for stoute And proude the vviues are often seene and ofte to chide and brall And catche their husbands by the pates and often nought vvithall Besides the cares of children vexe vvhom greeues the sicknesse rage Or else vntimely death doth take the daughter comes to age VVith monied bagges a mate requires or else dame Lais schoole Doth practise there staines the house the sonne proues oft a foole Limefingred oft and harlots kepes a bravvling marchant stoute A svvearing goose a ruffian vvilde a vile vnshamefast lout He seemth not to be free beside vvho so euer hath a vvife Must alter needes conditions all and leaue his youthfull life Forsaking frayes must bide at home nor ride from tovvne to tovvne Nor in the night time vvalk in the stretes in beating dores a dovvne And keping Ione It s nedefull then to liue aduisedly And see thy goodes then not decreace but may augmented be Least in thy age the vvallet come Although these things be so Yet thincke I sure vvith maried bed and nature for to go More better farre as shee to vs of birdes and beastes vntame Example shevves hovv both the kindes them selues togither frame And ioyne in one of duetie must and alwayes so remaine Encrease to get and nourish vp their yong with equall paine VVherby the kinde may still endure and neuer more decay For vve as euery kinde of beast are moude to Venus play By natures will a worser thing shall hap to thee be sure If thou thy selfe wilt neuer seeke this thing for to procure And voide of issue shalt thou die and yeelde thy corpse againe A straunger then shall haue thy goods for which thou tokest paine And when that aged haires shall hap and sicknesse shall thee hent VVho shall thy wearied age relieue vvho shall thy hurtes lament Thy brother or thy kinsman neare or will do this thy freend No sure for to be heire to thee they rather wishe thine end On thee aliue they wait and fawne thy goodes at graue to take And eche man loues and feares thy good on thee no force they make But novve thy vvife hir father leaues and mother deare besides VVith all hir house and houshold frends vvith thee alone shee bides For euermore both night and day and of thy seede shee beares A svveete and goodly golde polde boy of yong and tender yeares And kindred eke to thee shee brings and doth thy house enlarge And helpes thee eke in euery thing and takes vvith thee thy charge Betvveene you all things common are both good and euill things VVhatsoeuer harmeth one hurtes both and that vvhich profit brings Vnto the one that profits both If sicknesse make thee weake Or greater age then doth shee straight exhort thee vvell and speake Shee comforteth thee helps thee then shee neuer leaues thee there Shee vvatcheth thee and watching serues likevvise thy children deare VVith all the meanes they can they kepe for both theyr blouds are one And image like and vvhen the day vvherin thou must be gone Is come thou art not cleane extinct but shalt aliue remaine In them who then shall represent theyr fathers face againe But some there be that rather had in common harlots bed Vncertaine children get therfore they list not vviues to vved Suche kinde of men I can not praise nor wise I haue them thought For vvife with dourie helpes thee well where harlots bring thee nought A vvife doth bring thee store of frendes where harlots bring thee foes A wife thou maist in safetie keepe a whore vvith greefe and woes The one will trustie still remaine the other false alway And fearing to be cast at large shee stealeth all shee may And for hir selfe shee heapes vp all hir state for to repaire VVhen thou hast pluckt hir bels away and cast hir vp to aire More if thou kepest a whore thy goods are but in queasie case Of wiues are children lavvfull got of harlots bastardes base To wed therfore it needefull is On a time when Socrates had inuited Euthidemus to supper in the middest of the banket Xantippa Socrates his wife was so offended with hir husbande that shee railed at him and rising ouerthrew the Table with all that stoode thereon Héereat when Socrates saw Euthidemus sore vexed he sayde vnto him why arte thou so offended with this Cansts not thou suffer my wife as well as I laste day suffered thy hen to flée on thy takle ouerthrow the pottes and other things that stoode theron Ex Laer. lib 2. cap. 5. An other time when Alcibiades asked him how he could suffer his wise so to chide and seeld with him He replied and how chaunceth it then that thou canste suffer thy hennes at home to cackle I abide them quoth Alcibiades bicause they bring me egges and chickens And so quoth Socrates I beare with my wife bicause she bringeth me children Ex Laertio li. ca. supradict Also when one saide that he wondred howe Socrates coulde abide to suffer two suche shrewde wiues in hys house He saide that of them he learned pacience at home to putte in practise when he went abrode Ex A. Gellio lib. primo cap. 17. When Anymus had bad one to supper and sawe him displeased to heare his wife chide and scolde with hir maidens he turned to his gest and sayde Good Lord howe impacient arte thou I haue suffred hir this twentie yéeres and canst not thou abide it two hours And so quieted his gest and caused his wife to leaue chiding and fall a laughing Ex Adriano Barlando But as there are and hath bene many wiues proude malicious deceitfull and shrewde vnto theyr husbandes so hathe there bene and are many of that sexe temperate in woordes faithfull and louing vnto theyr husbandes well ordered in theyr personnes peaceable wyth theyr neighboures honest in theyr familie and shame faced amongste straungers whereby they haue attained great renowne in theyr life and left eternall memory after theyr death Of whiche sorte as I could alleage many examples both Ecclesiasticall forren and ciuill so to delight the good I meane to insert two or thrée as héere immediatly you shall sée folowing On a time when Camillus a Romane captaine hadde made a solempne vowe to offer a present vnto Cybilla if he conquered his ennimies when he had attayned the victorie Rome was so poore that it hadde neyther golde nor siluer to make this promisse good Wherfore the Matrones of Rome séeing their husbands had offred theyr liues in the said warre went altogither into the highe capitoll and there in the presence of euerye manne presented theyr Owches hanging on theyr eares the rings of