a The fix and thirtieth Booke 
| Libo exhibited his folemnitie of games and plaies to the people ? Wonder wee at the difpences G 
that KK. were at about their Pyramides ? and wonder wee not rather that Juhws Cafar Dittacour 
disburfed for the purchafe of that plot of ground only and no, more wherein:he built bis Forum, 
*HLS mili, 4* hundred millions of fefterces? Andiftherebee any heresbat take pleafure to hoord up mo- 
ney,and beloth to part with a penie, and love not to be at charges and lay forth ought, will they 
not make a wonder when they heare that P. Clodiws (whome Milo flew) paid for the houfe wher- 
in he dwele, fourteen millions and eight hundred thoufand{efterces? furelyafthey donot; Ido; 
and take it to be.as foolifh an expence and aswonderfull,as thatoftheKK.in Zeyprabovena- 
med : Likewife when’ Iconfider the debrs thatica#o himfelfe:ought, and which aniounted to 
feventic millions of {efterces, I countit one of the moftprodigious enormitiesthat a maris'cor- ; 
rupt mind can bring forth. But old men marveiled even in thote daiesarthéemightie thickrani- FL 
piersthat K, Tarquinius Prifcws cauted to bee made, the huge foundations alfo of the Capitol 
thache laid,the vaulted finks alfo and draughits (to {peakeof apeece of worke the preatelt of all 
others)which he devifed, by undermining and cutting through the feven hills wherupon Rome 
is feated, and making the citie hanging as it were:in the aire between heaven and earth, likeunto 
Thebes in Angypt,whereof erewhile I made mention; fo as aman might pafle under the ftreets 
and houfes with botes.But how would they be aftonied now,tofec how Meagrippa in his Aedile- 
{hip,after he had been Confull caufed feven rivers to meet togither under thecitic in‘one main 
channell, and co run with fuch a fwift ftreame and current, that they take all afore them whatfoe- 
ver is in the way, and carrie it downe into Tyber: and being otherwhiles encreafed with fodaine 
thowres and land:fluds,they thake the paving under them,they flanck the fides of thewalsabout 7 
them: fometimes alfo. they receive the Tyber-water into them when he rifeth extraordinarily, 
fo.asa man {hall perceive the ftreame of two contrarie waters affront and charge one another 
with great force and violence within under the ground: And yet forall this; thefe water-workes. 
aforclaid yeeld nota jot,but abidefirme and faft, without any fenfible decay occafioned thereby. 
Moreover, thefe ftreams carriedowne eftfoons huge and heavie pecces of ftones within them, 
snightic loads are drawn over them continually, yer thefe arched conduits neither fertle & ftoup 
under the one,nor be.once fhaken with the other; downe many a houfe fallethof it felfejand the 
ruins beat againit thefe vaults : 0 fay nothing of thofe thattumble uporthem with the violent 
force of skarefires, ne yet of the terrible earthquakes which fhake the whole earth abourthem: 
yet forall thefe injuries, they have continued fince J aryainiws Prifcws, almoft eight ‘hundred ‘K 
yeers, inexpugnable, And here by.the way I will not conceale from you a memorable example 
which.ts come into my mind by occafion of thisdifcourfe, andthe rather, for that even'the beft 
and moft renowmed Chroniclers who havetaken upon them to pen out Romane hiftorie;hiave 
pafled it over in filence: When this K. Tarquinivs {urnamed Prifcws, caufedthefe vaults under 
the ground tobe made, and forced the common peopleto labourhardthereat with their owne 
hands, it happened that m any a. good Roman citizen being now over-toiledin thiskind of worke 
(which, whether it were more daungerous or tedious, was hard to fay) choferather co killthem- 
felves for to be rid of thisirkefome.and painfull life; in fuchfort;that daily there were people mif- 
fing, and their bodies found after they were perifhed. This king therefore,to prevent farthermif- — 
chiefe,and to provide thathis workes begun might bee brought toan end} :devifedaremedie L 
“AtKome, which never was invented before, hor practifed *afterwatds, and that wasthis, That the ‘bodies 
of as many as were thus found dead, fhouldbe hung upon jebbets, expofed not onlytotheview 
of all theit fellow citizens to bee defpifed as curfed creatures, butalfo to the wildandravenous 
foules ofthe aire to be torne and devoured. The Romans (asthey arethe only nation underhea. 
ven impatient of any difhonor)feeing this objec prefented before their eyes; weremightily aba- 
fhed ; and asthis mind of theirs had gained them viCtorié many a time in defperat battailesjfe at 
this prefent alfo it guided and dire€ted them: and beeing (asthey were)difmaied atrhisdiferace, 
they made account no lefleto be athamed of fuch an ignominie after deathy than they ‘now blu: 
4 fhed thereat in their life.Bur to returne againe unto thele finksand watet-worksof ours under the M_ 
ground: K, 7 arqu:neabove-named,cauledthem tobe madefolargeand offuch capacitie; that 
agood wain load of hay might paffe withinthem.But all chdrever I have faid alreadie isnothing 
oratleaftwife verie little,in compatifon of one wonderfull thing which lamontentroferdown — 
_ before come to our newand moderne buildings: In that yeere: when Mii Lepidus and BiCas 
soe bulus were Confulsat Rome(according as I findallche beftwriters to tintin a 
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