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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49426	Part of Lucian made English from the originall, in the yeare 1638 by Jasper Mayne ..., to which are adjoyned those other dialogues of Lucian as they were formerly translated by Mr. Francis Hicks.	Lucian, of Samosata.; Mayne, Jasper, 1604-1672.; Hickes, Francis, 1566-1631.	1663 (1663)	Wing L3434; ESTC R32905	264,332	418

for thy selfe left'st nothing for Jupiter but Bones cover'd with fat As I remember Hesiod tells the story so Next thou madest men a most slie and fallacious creature but especially women But above all thou stolest Fire the most pretious treasure of the Gods and bestowed'st it upon men And after all these offences can'st thou say thou art causelesly fasten'd Prometheus Methinks Mercury you as well as the Poet doe accuse the innocent when you charge me with things for which if I had Justice done me I should be allowed a pension If therefore your leasure serve you I will gladly wipe off your accusations by showing how unjustly Jupiter hath given sentence upon me Doe you in the mean time being both eloquent of speech and skilfull in the lawes make his defence as if he held equall Scales in dooming me to be here crucified neer the Caspian streights upon this Caucasus where I am a miserable spectacle to all the Scythians Mercury Thou spendest wordes in vaine Prometheus and to no purpose yet say on For since I am otherwise enjoyn'd to tarry till the Eagle alight and feed upon thy Liver 't will not be amisse to fill up the time with listening to thy Sophistry wherein thou art most expert Prometheus First then Mercury doe you aggravate your charge as much as you can and as well as you can defend your fathers justice In the mean time Vulcan be you Judge between us Vulcan So help me Jupiter I will rather be thy accuser Doe you remember how you stole my Fire and left my Forge cold Prometheus Divide the accusation between you then and doe you say all you can against my Theft let Mercury plead against my Creation of men and division of the sacrifice you seem to be both your Arts-masters and very able to speak Vulcan Mercury shall speak for mee who am not for your pleadings and Law Cases but imploy my selfe about the Anvill and Forge For he is an Orator and hath studied Rhetorick Prometheus I believe Mercury hath little to say against Theevery and will not charge me with a thing whereof himselfe is the Author If you have Mercury 't is time you produce your Accusation Mercury It would aske a long speech Prometheus and much preparation to repeate all your offences It shall suffice me to recount onely their heads First being permitted to cast Lots for a Sacrifice you kept the best for your selfe and cheated the King next you made men which was not fit lastly you stole Fire from us and bore it to them wherein in my opinion you did very indiscreetly to provoke Jupiter who is such a friend to men Now if you deny this for your greater convincement 't will be fit I enlarge my selfe and try to make the truth of things yet plainer If you confesse that you made a false Division of the Sacrifice and that you formed men and stole Fire my Accusation will be full and I should but trifle to say more Prometheus Whither you have not spoken trifles all this vvhile vve shall see anon I since you think you have made such a full accusation vvill strive as vvell as I can to dissolve it First then lend me your attention concerning the Sacrifice I call Heaven to witnesse whether in making my defence I blush not for Jupiter to think he should be so poor spirited and whining as for one small Bone which came to his share to send hither so ancient a God as I am to be crucified not remembring of what assistance I have been to him nor weighing how childish the ground of his displeasure is to be angry and fret because he had not the greater piece Nor do I think Mercury that cheats of Entertainment are to be remembred but that all faults committed at feasts are to be reckon'd sport and that he was to leave his anger behind him at the Table But to bury his hate till the next day and to lay up a past injury and keep it in fresh memory is neither Kingly nor like a God For take away from Banquets wit breaking of Jests putting of Tricks Jeeres Comicall abuses and laughter and nothing will remaine but drunkennesse surfets and silence Things dull and unpleasant and misbecoming a Feast I therefore could not imagine Iupiter could have remembred things the next day much lesse have proved so Cholerick or taken matters so haynously if in the division of a little flesh one should make sport with him and make triall whither he knew how to choose the better part But put the worst Mercury that I gave him not the lesser piece but deceived him of all must he therefore according to the proverb bring heaven and earth together and project fetters Crosses whole mountaines and Eagles to devoure my liver Look if such proceedings as these do not betray great weaknesse and poornesse of Spirit and inclination to revenge If he do thus for a little beefe what would he have done for the losse of a whole Oxe Mortall men deal much discreetlier in the like cases then so who should be proner to wrath then the Gods For never any yet crucified his Cook for dipping his finger in the sauce and licking it or for cutting a slice of beefe from the spit and eating it but rather pardon'd him or if he were very angry gave him only a cuffe on the eare or a blow on the cheek But never any was crucified for things of this light nature And thus much be spoken concerning the flesh a matter unworthy of my defence but much unworthier of his complaint I proceed to speak next of my workmanship and Creation of men which falling under a twofold charge I know not Mercury of which you acuse me most whither because it was not fit for men to be made at all but to have laine unformed and the Earth to have remained unoccupied or because they should have been made otherwise and of another shape and Figure I shall easily reply to both and will first endeavour to prove that the production of men is no hurt or dammage to the Gods next that 't is of much more convenience and advantage to them then that the earth should lie desolate and unpeopled whereby it will plainly appear whither I have offended in my gracefull formation of men the only creature of a divine and heavenly race For the earth was a rude shapelesse thing grown over with thickets and dark woods the Gods had neither Altars nor Temples nor Images nor statues who are now every where adored with much reverence I therefore for 't was ever my care to provide for the common and to advance the honour of the Gods and to project things of ornament and beauty did cast with my selfe whither I could do better then take a peece of clay and forme Creatures like us Gods in visage and figure For this methought was wanting to our Divinitie that there was not a contrary or foyle which set in Comparison with us might set off