5 3 The five andthirtieth Booke 
been in requeft among roiotous gluttons and waftfull fpendthrifts, liften what Feneffella faith as G 
touching this pot, Phe greate{t exceeding (quoth hee) and gaudieft fare ata feaft, was fer- 
vedup in three platters, and wascalled Tripatinum: the one was of Lampreys, the fecond of 
Pikes,the third of the fifh Myxon : whereby itmay appeare, that even in thofe daies men began 
at Rome to grow out of order, and to give themfelves to roior and fuperfluitie : yet were not they 
fo bad, but wee may preferre them even before the Philofophers of Greece: for it is written, 
that in the fale of Ari/lotles goods, which his heirs made after his deceafe, there were fold three- 
{core platters, which were woont ordinarily to goe about the houfe. As forthat one platter of 
ZEfope the plaier in tragoedies, which coft fix hundred thoufand fefterces, I doubt not but their 
ftomackes rife thereat when they read thereof in my treatife as touching birds. But this isno- 
thing (I affure you) to that charger of Vitellizs, who whiles hee was Emperourcaufedonetobe H 
* Decies fofer- made and finifhed that cofta* million of fefterces, for the * making whereof there was a fur- 
“hie - nace buile of purpofe in the field : the which I rather note,becaufe you fhould fee the monftrous 
devs :burif €XCefle in thefe daies, that veffels of earth fhould be more coftly than of Caffidonie. Alluding 
youreadac- tothis monftrous platter, Mutianws in his fecond Confulthip(when hee ripped up in a publicke 
cording to #- feech, the whole life of /itellivs,now dead)upbraided the verie memorial of him inthefe very 
ties,ivis twen- tearms, calling hisexceffe that way, Patinarum paludes, /, Platters as broadas pools. And verely 
te cimesas (faith hee) that platter of /étellias came nothing behind another, which Cafims Severus repro- 
* this planer ched A/premas withall, whome hee accufed bitterly and faid, thatthe poifon of that one platter, 
he called, the had killed a hundred and thittie perfons who had tafted thereof. 
targuer ol __ Furthermore,there be certaine townes that are in good account by reafon onely of thisvef- J 
gathimfelfe {ell made therein, and namely Rhegium and Cumz. . 
therbya name The prielts of Cycle the mother of the gods, who are called Galli, ufe to gueld themfelves 
Patmavius,  Withafheard of Samian earth sand they be of opinion, thar if it be done with any thing elfe,they 
See Suen, thal die thereof, ifwee may beleeve M. Celivs who whetted that tongue of his (which thortly 
after was in that {ortto bee.cut out) againft Yitellivs : which turned to his great reproach and in- 
famie, for that himfelfe even then railed upon /7telliws in fo bad tearms, and loft his tongue for 
bislabour, . 
_Butto conclude, what is it, that Artand the wit of man hath not devifed ? for there is means 
found ro make a {trong kind of mortar or cement by the broken fheards of potters veflell, if the 
faine bee ground into powder and tempered with lime; andthe ordering of itinthismanner, K 
caufeth it to be more firme and laft the longer; and fuch they call Signina.And hereby alfomen . 
have found out certaine durable pavements of thatkind. 
Eat SD eal 
Cuap. xXitt. 
2% The varietie of fandrie kinds of earth + of the duft or fand of Pureols : 
and of other forts of earth which will harden 
as aftone. . 
\, Ver and befides the cement above-named, there bee other parcels that the earthitfelfe _ 
doth affourd, fit to be laid in paving-worke: for who can fufficiently wonder at this,name-_ L 
ly, That the woorft part of i¢(which thereupon iscalled duft and fand, as it were the veri¢ 5 
excrement thereof) should be of that nature upon the fide of the hills of Puteoli, as being oppo- 
fed againft the waves of the fea,and continually drenched and drowned therewith, fhould be- 
come a ftonefo compact and united togitheras it were into aggoske, thae it {corneth all the vi- 
gence of the {urging billows; which are not able to undermine and pearcethe fame,but harde- 
neth every day more than other; even asif it were tempered with the ftrong cement of Cumes, + 
Of the fame propertie is the earth within the countrey about Cyzicum : onely this is the aiffe- : 
rence, that not the duft or {and there, butthe earth it felfe cut out into what parcels you will , in t 
cafe it be drenched in the fea water acertaine time, is taken forth againeaveriehardftone, The = 
fame (by report) happeneth about the cittie Caffandria: as alfoabout Gnidos ina fontaine of M - : 
freth water, wherein if earth doe lye, within the {pace of eight monethsitwillturnetobeaftone, 
Certes;all the way as a man goeth from Oropus as farre-asto Aulis, what ground foever is bea- 
ten upon by che water, chaungeth into rocks and ftones. There is found alfoin Nilus a certaine 
fand, whereof the fineft part differeth not much from that of Puteoli beforefaid ;not in regard 
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