18 THE WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS. 



&quot; Torva lesena lupum sequitur, lupus ipse capellam. 

 &quot; Florentem cytisum sequitur lasciva capella. 



The hungry lioness, with sharp desire, 

 Pursues the wolf, the wolf the wanton goat: 

 The goat again doth greedily aspire 

 To have the trefoil juice pass down her throat. 



Pan is also said to be the god of the country- 

 clowns ; because men of this condition lead lives more 

 agreeable unto nature than those that live in the 

 cities and courts of princes, where nature, by too 

 much art, is corrupted ; so as the saying of the poet, 

 though in the sense of love, might be here verified : 



&quot; Pars minima est ipsa puella sui.&quot; 



The maid so trick d herself with art, 

 That of herself she is least part. 



He was held to be lord president of the moun 

 tains ; because in the high mountains and hills na 

 ture lays herself most open, and men most apt to 

 view and contemplation. 



Whereas Pan is said to be, next unto Mercury, 

 the messenger of the gods, there is in that a divine 

 mystery contained ; for, next to the word of God, 

 the image of the world proclaims the power and 

 wisdom divine, as sings the sacred poet. Psal. xix. 1. 

 &quot; Cceli enarrant gloriam Dei atque opera manuum 

 &quot; ejus indicat firmamentum.&quot; Tlie heavens declare 

 the glory of God, and the firmament sheweth the 

 works of his hands. 



The nymphs, that is, the souls of living things, 

 take great delight in Pan : for these souls are the 



