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A09208	The valley of varietie: or, Discourse fitting for the times containing very learned and rare passages out of antiquity, philosophy, and history. Collected for the use of all ingenious spirits, and true lovers of learning. By Henry Peacham Mr. of Arts, sometime of Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge.	Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?; Panciroli, Guido, 1523-1599.	1638 (1638)	STC 19518; ESTC S114364	37,535	204

Heaven because it blew and stormed upon certaine Stage-players whom himselfe rather imitated than beheld and because at a Feast hee was affrighted with Lightning he challenged the field of Iupiter to fight with him hand to hand uttering aloud beholding heaven that verse of Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Take my life or else I will have thine Afterward when hee saw hee could doe Iupiter no harme hee would himselfe Iupiter as Dio and Suetonius write in his life and imitated him in all his lustfull actions for first hee committed Incest with his owne Sisters as did Iupiter with Iuno who being his Sister he kept as his Wife then hee followed him in all other his adulteries and vvhoredomes imitating him onely in his vices since hee could not in his vertues so that truly it may be said of him as Iuvenal and I suppose of him speaketh nihil est quod ●redere de se Non possit si conlubeat Dîs aequa potestas This same Monster of Nature also feigned that he was crowned by the hands of Victorie her selfe and that hee did court and kisse the Moone imbracing her at his pleasure and one day in the presence of Vitellius hee affirmed that hee had carnall knowledge of her withall asked Vitellius if hee saw him not when hee committed the act Vitellius wittily and pleasantly replied No indeed Sir you Gods doe all within your selves without the knowledge of Mortals This reporteth Xiphilinus adding beside That hee made artificiall engines to resemble Thunder and to cast out fire that hee might in all things resemble Iupiter And this Historie following Athenaeus lib. 12. recordeth out of Theopompus Cotys a certaine King of Thracia who for a dissolute life and Epicurisme gave place to no man alive one time he thought himselfe worthy in marriage to match with Minerva and was verily perswaded that the Goddesse would yeeld unto his lustfull desire there having made a most sumptuous Banquet and prepared a most delicate bed in a goodly Chamber richly furnished with whatsoever appertaining to State being well gone in drinke hee waited for the comming of Minerva but having stayed long for her and shee not appearing hee sent one of his Guard to see whether she were come into the Chamber or no when hee told the King shee was not yet come the King shot him to death with Arrowes then sent he another who brought the same Message and him hee slew in like manner then a third went vvho being terrified by the example of his fellowes brought word the Goddesse was there and expected him Rhianus a Greek Poet very ingeniously scoffed this his folly translated since by Henricus Stephanus that famous Scholler and Printer into Latine which were too long to recite Lopez de Gomara saith that the Kings of Mexico when they were consecrated or crowned used to take their Oath after this manner I sweare that the Sunne during my life shall hold on his course shall keepe his wonted glorie and brightnesse that the Clouds shall send downe Raine the Rivers shall run and the Earth shall bring forth all manner of Fruit. These proud Princes should have done better and wiser if they had imitated the example of King Canutus the Dane sometime King of England as it is reported by Henry of Huntingdon who tooke off a flattering Par●asite when he told him all things through his Dominions were at his becke and command after this manner Canutus causing a Chaire to be set upon the Sea shore wherein being set hee said to the Sea flowing fast towards him Thou belongest unto mee and the Land upon which I now sit is mine owne neither is there any whosoever that obeyes mee not shall escape unpunished I command thee therfore thou Sea that thou commest up no higher into my Land nor that thou presumest once to wet thy Masters Legges or Garments But the Sea keeping his ordinarie course without duty or reverence washed both his Legges and Gowne He then leaping backe said Let all the Inhabitants of the world know that the power of Kings is frivolous and vaine neither is there any mortall man worthie the name of a King but he to whose becke Heaven Earth and Sea by his lawes eternall are obedient Neither did Canutus after this time weare a crown Extreme was the madnesse of Attil●s King of the Goths as Olatus writes in his life who after hee had overcome Aetius and Thrasimundus his enemies uttered this proud saying That now the Starres were ready to fall before him now the earth trembled and that himselfe was the Maule or Hammer of the whole World and after hee grew to that arrogancie that hee commanded The Scourge of God to be added to his Title himselfe to be so called and written in all his Letters and Proclamations whatsoever CHAP. XI Of Cinnamome GAlen writes lib. 1. Antidot that in his time Cinnamome was very rare and hard to be found except in the Store-houses of great Emperours and Princes And Plinie reporteth That a pound of Cinnamome was vvorth a thousand Denarii which is answerable to the value of one hundred and fiftie Crownes of our money Afterwards when the Woods of Arabia and India vvere set on fire and consumed it was a great deale dearer That which the Latines call Cassia lignea it is comparable but to the worst sort of Cinnamome which in Italy they call Cannella For indeed the true Cinnamome is utterly unknowne of us as also of Xylocinnamome which is onely the Wood of the Cinnamome Tree but the true Cinnamome the Barke thereof Of this Cinnamome you shall find a large description in Plinie lib. 12. cap. 19. but Solinus more briefly thus This shrub groweth in a short time with low branches bending downward it is never above two Ells in height if it grow up small and slender it is esteemed the better that which is thicke is the worser It is gathered by the Indian Priests they having first slaine certaine beasts for a Sacrifice which when they have offered they observe that their harvest of this Cinnamome shall not be before the Sunne-rising nor endure after the Sun-setting Whosoever is Lord of the Soile or the principall man hee divideth the heapes of the branches or stickes of the same gathered with a Speare which is consecrated for the same purpose and a portion of some handfuls is dedicated to the Sunne which if it be equally divided enkindled by his beames it presently taketh fire and burneth Thus farre Solinus in his description of Africa cap. 39. 42. Of this Cinnamome Salomon maketh mention Proverbs 7. 17. also Marcian the Civilian in l. Caesar 16. § Species ff de public Vectigal where hee notes out of Plinie and Dioscorides that the vertue of this Plant was in the Barke of the Tree and that in Galens time it was most rare and not to be found but in the Closets of Emperours hereof is a very precious unguent made cal●ed Cinnami●um being in substance