plates of gold with glittering and twinckling {pangles befides.. Howbeit, were thefe Coroners 
Plinies Naturall Hiftorie. 81 
Cuap, 111, 
2 Who was the firft that exhibited in publicke few a Guirland or Chaplet of gold and fil- 
ver-foile. How highly Coronets were efeemed in old time Of the honour done 
to Scipio. Of plaited Coronets. And one notable Act of 
Lucene Cleopatra, 
Raffies the ich was the firft man, who atthe folemne Games and Plaies which he fet out in 
Rome, gave away in a brave fhew, Chaplets of gold and filver,refembling lively flowers 
~ and leaves of hearbes. Afterwards, fuch Coroners were adorned with ribbands alfo, and 
thofe were added as pendants thereto for more honour and ftate : a devife refpective to thofe 
_ *Tufcane Guirlands and Coronets, which might have no {uch ribbands or laceshanging unto *Thefe Guir- 
them butof gold. Andin truth thofe labels along time were plaineand without any other fet- oe oe 
ting forth fave onely the bare gold: untill P.Clandius Pulcber came in place,who exhibited in his jeq peruse. 
publicke fhewes,the faid labels wrought, chafed, and engraven; yea, and hee garnifhed the faid For fo faith 
Tertullian, Pra= 
feruntur etiam 
never forich and precious, yet thofe Chaplets woon and gotten at the folemne Games forfome ‘suis Hesrsfea. 
worthiedeats of activitie performed, caried alwaies the greater credit & authoritie. For to gaine pees 
this prife, the Grand-fiegniors and great men of thecitiethought it no fcorneto enter theme j, po be Aidile. 
felves in oropet perfon into the publicke place of Exercife'to trie maftries: yea,and thither they 
fentevery man his fervantand flave.Hereupon grew thefe-Ordinances,{pecified among the laws 
of the twelve Tablesin thefe words: Whofoever winneth a Guirland either bimfelfein perfon, or by 
his monie,goods and chatte!s,is tobe honored in regard of bis vertue. And certes who maketh doubt; 
but what Prife or Coronet either {laves or horfes have obtained, the fame by vertue of this law, 
fhould be reputed as gotten by the money and goods of the maifter or owner of the faid horfes 
or flaves? But what honour mightthis be which ts thusatchieved by fuch a Chaplet? Mary that 
which isright great namely, That without all fraud and contradiction, not onely the partie him- 
felfe who woon it, fhould be crowned therewith after his death, both whiles his bodie lay under 
~ bourd within houfe,and alfo all the way that it'was caried forth to the place of fepulture or fune- 
vall fire; but ever his parents likewife, both father'and mother[if they were then living.] Certes, 
) fueh Guirlands otherwife though they were not woon at games of prize,but only made for plea- 
fare and paftime might not come abroad ordinarily,nor bee.commonly worne; for the law was _ 
very ftrict and fevere in this cafe We read that L.Fulviws' Arceatariws in the time of the fecond 
Putnicke warre upon an information or {peéch given our, That in the open day time he only loo- 
ked forth of a galletie which he'had in the publicke Forum or common place at Rome, with a 
Garland of Rojfes upon his head ; was by authoritie of the Senate committed to prifon,and was 
not enlarged before the end of the warre.P.Mumativs having taken from the head of Aar/yas 
a Chaplet of flowers, and ferit upon his owne} and thereupon beeing commanded to ward, by 
the Triuinvirs, called untothe Tribunes of the Commons for their lawfull favour and protecti- 
duzburthey eppoled not themfelves agaitiftthis proceeding but deemed him woorthie of this 
; -chaftifement:Sce the difcipliné and {everitie'ar Rome, and compare it with the loofenefle of the 
Athenians,where young youtlis ordinarily followed revels and bankets, and yet in the forenoon 
would feeme to frequent the ichooles of Philofophers, to learne good inftrutions of vertuous 
life. With us'verily we havenoexample of diforder in this behalfe,namely,for the abufe of Gar- 
_ lanids;butonely the daughter of 4vg/fis Cafar lace Emperor,and cannonifed as agod atRome, 
who-complaineth of herinfome letters of his yet extant, and that with grone and grcefe ofhart, 
to be given'to fuch roiot and licentious loofeneffe,thathight by night fhe would feeme to adorn 
with Guirlands the flatue and image of Mar fyas the Min{trell. Wee doe not read in Chronicles, 
thatthe people honoured in oldtime any other with a Coronet of flowers, but onely Sczpio fur- 
_ named Serzpio forthe nearerefemblance that hehadto his baylie orfervantfo called, whodeale 
F under him inbuying and felling of Swine:in which regard he was wonderous well beloved of the 
Commons in'his Tribunethip, as bearing himfelfe worthie of the famous and noble houfe of 
the S¢ ptoes {uraamed 4 fricant. Howbeit, as well defcended and beloved as he was,yet when he 
died he left not behind him in goods fufficient to defray the charges ofhisfuncrals. Thepeople | 
therefore made a collection and contributed by the poll every man one *As: and fo tooke order ae pe 
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