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Ségalion. 
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HATH UN GTKD ¢, 
as} take infor 
Denaviis was a 
fiiver pecce : 
but hee mea- 
neth any peece 
of coine. 
The three and thirtieth Booke 
iscalled Dardanium, becaufe the invention came from the Dardanians: like as the fine golden 
carkanets Viria, we tearme Celtice ; and the neck-laces of gold Viriolz, Celtiberica. Oh the 
monftrous diforders that are crept into the world! Bucfay that women may be allowed to weare 
as much gold as they will, in bracelets, in rings on everie finger and joynt, in carkanets about 
cheir necks, in earings pendant attheir ears, in ftaies wreaths,& chinbands; Jet them have their 
chainsof gold as large as they lift under their arms or croffe over their fides,fcarfe-wife ;be gen- 
tlewomen and miftrefles at their coljars of gold, befet thicke and garnifhed with maflie pearls 
pendant from their necke,beneath their waft;that in their beds alfo when they fhould fleep they 
may remember whata weight of pearls they carried about them : muft they therefore weare gold 
upon their feet, asit were co eftablifh a third eftate of women anfwerable to the order of knights, 
between the matrons or dames of honour in their fide robes, and the wives of meane commo- 
ners? Yetme thinks, we men have more reafon and regard of decencie,thusto adorn with broo- 
ches and tablets of gold,our youths and young boyes, and afairer fight itis to fee great men at- 
cended uponto the bains by beautifull pages thus richly decked and fet our, that all mens eyes 
may curne to behold them. But what mean I thus bitterly to inveigh againftpoore women; are - 
not men alfo growne tofuch outrageousexcefle in this kind that they begin to weare upon their 
fingers either * Harpocrates, or other images of the ZEgyptian gods engraven upon fome fine 
{tone ? But in the daies of the Emperour C/andivs there was another difference and refpeét had, 
Thatnone might carrie the pourtraiture of that prince engraven in his fignet of gold, without 
expreficlicence given them by thofe gratious entranchifed {laves whowerein place to admit un- 
to their lord the Emperour,whome it pleafed them: which was the occafion andmeans of brin- 
ging many aman inco daunger,by criminal] imputations, But all thefe enormities were happily 
cut off fo foone as the Emperour Vefpafian (to the comfort and joy of us all) came onceto the 
crowne: for by an expreffe edict, he ordained, That i&night be lawfull for any perfon whatfoever 
to have the image of the Emperour in ring, brooch, or otherwife without refpect. Thus much 
may fuffice concerning rings of gold, and theirufage, ay 
To come nowto the next auichiele that is crept into the world ; [hold that it proceedeth 
from him who firft canfed a * denier of goldto be ftamped:although, to fay.a truth, [knownot 
certainly who hee was that deviled this coine. As forthe people of Rome, fure 1 am that before 
king Pyrr4us of Epirus was by them vanquifhed, they had not fomuch as filver money ftamped 
and currant, Well Lwot alfo,that in oldtume the manerwas to weigh out braffe by the As,which 
was a pound weight, and thereupon called As Libralis; and yet at, this day,Libella:like as the 
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weightin brafle of two pound, they named Dipondius[{ As. ] And hereuponcame the cuftome . — 
of adjudging any fine or penaltie under the tearme of [ Eris gravis] thatis to fay, of braffe Bul- 
lion or in Matle.From hence itis alfo, that fill in reckorsings and accounts whatfoever hath ben 
laid out or delivered, goeth under the name of Expenfa, [7d ef, Expences] as aman would fay, 
weighed forth, becaufe in times paft all paiments pafled by weight. The Latines likewife ufe the 
nowne Impendia, for cott beftowed, or the charges of intereft inufurie above the. principall; 
even as the verbe Dependere, betokencth (to pay) becaufe paiments ordinarily were performed 
by poife. Moreover, the under: treafurers of warre,or paymafters in the campe,were in auncient 
time named Libripendes, for weighirg out unto the fouldiours their wages 3 and their verie pay 
thereupon was called Supendiam,trom whence commeth Stipend,a word commonly received. 
According to which manner and ctiftome, all buyings and fellings at this day which paffe with 
warrantife, are ufually perfourmed by interpoficion of the ballance which ferveth to teftifiethe 
realitie of che contraé& and bargaine on both parts. : 
Touching brafle money, Se vizs Tullius aking of Rome,cavfed it firft ro bee coyned with a 
ftampe:for before his daies, they ufed it at Rome rude in the maffe or lumpe,as Remews mine 
author doth teftifie, And what was the markeimprinted thereupon ?evena theepe,which in La- 
tine they call Pecus: andfrom thence proceedeththe word Pecunia,that fignifieth money. And 
note here by the way, that during the reigne of that king, the be{tman in all Rome was valewed 
tobe worth in goods not above 110000 Afffes in braffe :and at this rate were afleffed the ptinci- 
pall houfes of the citie in the kings books; and this was:counted the firft Claifis, 
Afterwards, in the 485 yeare from the foundation of the citie,when 2.0gulnivs and C. Fabius 
were Confuls, five yeares before the firft Punicke warre, they began to ftampe filver money at 
Rome,and three feverall peeces were coined. At what time ordained it was, That the Denarius 
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