and ofthe vertues thereof. Folit47 
By meanes of thele two metals, kinges r pꝛinces do get | 
kingoomes,ano cities, ¢__ meanes of them they dos make 
fubiect their enemies, and doo defende their goods and per⸗ 
fens, Andas Liuio ſapth that with ron the Countrey 18 
Defended, and not with Golde, and with it kinges are made 
ſtrong and mighty and are eſteemes and had in great reue⸗ 
rente By Iron iuſtite is kept and mainteyned, and by the 
meanes of it, euil dosers are chaftened and the good confers 
ued. T his mettall hath ſo much authoꝛitie in the wald, that 
itconferueth peace and guietneſſe in common twealthes, in 
cities, in ſieldes, and in Defertes, in fache ſoꝛte that by it 
in all places they haue all their aſſurante, and delence: and 
fo much may be fayd of that which it tan do, and the greate 
aucthoꝛity that it hath and tze meane that it is fo2 al things 
that my tongue is not able to ſpeake them, noꝛ my memoꝛdꝰ 
to expꝛeſſe them. One thing J will fap, that the auncient 
Romaines had by it (uch ettimation, that onely the Povle 
people onely might weare a ring, t the ſame to bee ok Iron. 
Drtwe neꝛdles which are made of ſteele J wil ſpeake, as The ein 
of the greateſt thinges that may be thought: the one is the edle. 
Needle with the which they doo ſowe: pow neceſſatpe it is 
in the woꝛld, in citties, in townes in tommon wealthes, in 
perticuler houſes in the field in the Sea, z in al places, yea 
and to anpe ons particuler man alone : And let ſo many 
Artes ſpeake thereof,that by meanes of the Needle are v 
ſed x don, and without it they ſhould not be vle d, noꝛ Boone: 
and beeing fo manp, it will bee a thing incompꝛehenſũble to 
ſpeake of them. Let eueryman conſtder therrot ſeeing that 
from the king vnto the ſheepehearde, and from the brihop o 
the lerton they cannot paſſe without the bie ofit. And if wee 
looke What feraice it dath to women in their vles and erer⸗ 
ciſes, in their ſa wings ¢ wozkes wꝛought Spor linen cloth 
and Gike, thinges fo politike. and delicate that with the 
eerie they do workerimitating allo in things which they * 
wozke, like bate the woꝛk of nature making beaſtes birds, 
* 22 Os; plants, 
