Plinies Naturall Hiftorie. 



A as like as may be. Among the people called Dakes, the children ufually carrie the maikes im» 

 printed in their armes^oi them from whome they are dcfcended^ even to the fourth generation. 



Ch AP. Xlla 



^ Exawflesof many that b^,ve been very like and refentbled 

 one another, 



INtheraie and familieof the Leftdt^ it is faid there were three of them (not fuccefTivelyot-^ 

 after another, but out of order sfter fome intermillion) who had everie one of them whea 

 they were borne^ a little pannicle or thinne skinnc growing over the eye. Some have beene 

 B knowne to reftmble their grandfires : and of two twinnes, one hath been like the father, the 

 other the mother: but hee that was borne a yecreafter^ hath beene fo like his elder brother, as 

 if heehad beene one of the twinnes* Some women there bee that bring all their children like 

 to themfelvCs 5 and others againe,3s]ike to their husbands : and fome like nether the one nor 

 the other. Yecfhall have women bring all their daughters like to their fathers, and contra- 

 riwife^ their fonncs like the mothers. The example is notable, and yet undoubted true, of 

 one 'hiuusy a famous wreftlerof Conllaritinople, who having to Iiis mother a woman be- 

 gotten in adukcrie by an i£thyopian, and yet with white skin, nothing different toni other 

 women of that countrey, was himfelfeblackc, and refemblcd his grandffre, the ifethyopiaii a- 

 bovefaid. Certes^ the cogitations anddifcourfcsof the mind make much for thefefimilitudes 

 C and refcmblances whereof wee fpeake : and fo likewife many other accidents and occiirrent ob- 

 jc£ls, are thought to bee very ftrong and effectual! therein, whether they come by fight, hea- 

 rings and calling to remembrance, or imaginations onely conceived, and deepely apprehen- 

 ded in theverya(5i:of generation, or the inTimt of conception. The wandering cogitation al- 

 foand quicke Ipirit either of father or mother, flying too and fro all on a fuddaine, fl'om one 

 thing to another, at the famctimeiis fuppoled to bee onecauleof this irapreflioOj that ma- 

 keth either the forefaid uniforme likeneflej or confulionand varietie. And hereupon it com- 

 meth, and no marvell it is, that men are niore unlike one another, than other creatures : For 

 the nimble motions of the {pirit,the quicke thoughts, the agilitie of the mind, the varietie 

 of difcourle inourwits,imprintethdiverfe formes, and many markes of fundrie cogitations. 

 D Whereas the imaginate^facuicic of other living creatures is uniiioveaable, and alwaies conti- 

 niiethinone :inaliitisalike, and the fame ftill in everyone, which caufeth them alwaies to 

 . engender like to themlelves, each one in their feverall kind. Antnon a mcane inan among the 

 Commons, was fo like in all points to Jmicchm king of Syria, that Laodicci the qiieene, af- 

 ter that Antiochm hei husband was killed, ferved her owne turne by the {dX^K^lrtcnon ^ and 

 made him play the part of ^^^A'^fte, untiilfncchadbyhismeanes, asintheldngs perfbn,re- 

 commended whom fliee would, and made over the Icingdome and crowne infucceiilon and re- 

 verfion to whom fiiee thought good. V'tbim a poors Commoner of Rpme^ and PuhllcrM^ one 

 newlyof abondflavemadeafreeman, were both of them fo like unto F<7^/'<r;W the great, that 

 unnethor hardly the one could bee difcerned from the odier: fo lively did theyreprcfent that 

 E good vifage of his fb full of honeftie,{b fully exprefled they and refemblcd the fingular majeilie 

 of that countenance v^hich appeared in Pomfetm his forehead. The like caufs it was that gave 

 • his father alfo the furname of Merjogsnes}.\\s cookc, albeit hee was furnanied alrcadie StraOc^ for 

 his fquint eies: but hee would needs bcare the name ofadefed and infirmitiecveninhisbon- 

 fervant for the love hee had unto him, by reafon of his likenefic . So was one the Sdpha 

 alfb Cummicd Serapim upon fuch an occafion, after the name of ontSsrapia^ who was but a 

 bafefiaveof his, and no better than his fwine- heard, or dealer in buying and felling hisfwine. 

 Another ^y^r/^i*? after him, of the fame houfe, catnc to bee furnamed i'^i/z/z/i?, becauie a cer- 

 tainc jef^ctof that name was folike unto him. After the fame manner onQSpintery^ plaier 

 of the iccond place or part, and Pamphtlus another plaier of the third part, or in the third 

 F place, gave their names to LmtuliM and Metellm^ who both were Confuls together in one 

 yeere, tor that they refemblcd them fb truly . And ccrtes, mee thinkes this fell out very unto- 

 wardly, and was but a ridiculous pageant, and a very unfeemely fhew upon aflagc, to fee 

 both Confuls lively reprcfented there at once in the perfbns of thefetwo plaiers, Contrariwifc, 

 Rubriom the flage-piaier was furnamed Pknc[i^^^c^\^k hee was fo like to Vkncm the Oratour. 



P iij Againe, 



