Tlie feventh Booke of 



Againe, Burbukm and LMenogenes^ both plaiers of EnterliidcSj refembkd Cmo the father or G 

 the cldcr,and MejfiU Cenform^ioi all he had been Cenfor, that the one could not fbifc & avoid 

 the furname of Bjtrhnlem^md the odier of Mefjogems. Theic was in Sicilie a ccrtaine fillicrman 

 who refembled in all points Sura the pro-confulljnot onely in vifagc and feature of the face, but 

 alfo in mowing with his mouth when he {pake,in drawing his tongue fhortj3nd in his huddle and 

 thickc {pcQch.CaJsm Severm that famous Orator was reproched for beinglb like unto Mirmillo 

 a drover or keeper of kinc and oxcn.T oranm a merchant flave-feller,fold unto Mar cm Antonius 

 (now one of the great Triumvirs)two moft beautifull and fweec-faced boies/or twins^lc) like they 

 were one to the othcr,albeit the one was borne in AfiajSi, the other beyond the Alpes.But when 

 Antonit afterwards came to the knowledge thereof, and that this fraud and coufenagc was be- 

 wraied and detected by the language and fpeech of the boies^he fell into a furious fit of choler, H 

 and all to berated theforcfaid Ji[j;'4«///^. And when among other challenges hee charged him 

 with the high price that he made him pay (for they coft him two hundred Seilcrcesjas tor twins, 

 and they were n^ie fuch) the wilic merchant that was his craftf-maftcrjanfwered^That it was the 

 taufe why he held them fo dcere and fold them at fo great a rate ; For (quoth hee) it is no marvell 

 at alljif two brethren twins that lay both together in one bellicjdoe refemble one the other 5 but 

 that there fliould bee any found^borne as thcle were in diverfe countries/o like in all refpeds as 

 they^he held it for a molt rare and wondcrfuU thing, and fuch a commoditie as could not be pri- 

 fcd by a merchant to the worth. This anfwere of his was delivered in fo good time, and fo fit- 

 ly to the purpofCjthat Jntonie the great man, who never was well but when he outlawed cittizens 

 of Homeland did confifcate their goods, he I fay that erewhile was all enraged and fet upon re- | 

 viling and reprochfull cearmes ; was not onely appealed, but alfo contentedfo with his bargainc, 

 that he made as great a reckoning of thofc two boiesj as of any thing els that hce had in ail that 

 wealth of his. 



Chap. XIII, 

 1^ The cmfeand manner of gensrathn. 



SOmc bodies therebe by a fecret of Naturcfo difagrecing, that they are unfit for generation 

 one with anorher.And yet as barren as they be rhemlclvcs fo coupled togethsr,ftuitful they 

 are enough when they are joined with otiiers.Sucli were Juguftm the Emperor and his wife K 

 ZrV/v.In hke m?.nner,fome men there be as well as women,ihat can skill of gettingand breeding 

 none but daughters : and others there bee againe that are good at none but fonnes. And many 

 times it falleth out thatfolke have fonnes and daughters both, but they by turns,thisyeere a Ton 

 and the next a daughter, in order. lhus[Corfielfa]thc mother of the Gr;.^^f^/, who for twelve 

 childbeds kept this courfc duly : and ^grlffina the wife of Cdfir Geymmcm for nine,ever chan- 

 ging from the male to the female. Some women are barren all their youth : and others againe 

 beare but once in their whole life.Some never goe their full time with their children : & fiich wo- 

 men, if peradvcnture by the helpe of phyficke and other good means,and choife- keepingjthey 

 overcome this infirmitie, bring daughters ordinarily,and no other. The Emperour Atigulim 

 among other fingularities that he had by h imfelfe during his lif"c,faw ere hee died the nepliew of £ 

 his ncccc, that is to fay, his progenie to the fourth degree o lineall defcent, and that was Mar^ 

 SyUa»us\*iho happened to bebornethat very yeere when he departed out of this world. Hee ha- 

 ving beene Confull,and afterward lord governour of Afia,was poyfoned by prince 'Hero^xo the 

 end that hecmight thereby attainc to the Empire. Metelltis MfiCedonim^Xch behind him 

 fixe child^ren, and by them eleven nephewcs : but daughters in law, and fonnes in law, and of 

 all fuch as called him father, feven. In the Chronicles of C^ySr his acts for his time, 



wee find upon record, that(in his twelfth ConYuIfhip, when Z. S^IU was his companion and col- 

 league in government, upon the eleventh day of April!) C.CripntisHekm^ a gentleman of 

 Felulic, came with a folem no pompe carried before him into the CapitoU, attended upon with 

 his nine children, feven fonnes and two daughters ;with feven and twentie nephewcs, the fonnes M 

 of his children .-and nine and twentie nephewes more, once removed, who weie his fonnes ne- 

 phewcs, and twelve nccces befides^that were his childrens daughters^and with all thefe folemn- 

 Jyfacrificed., 



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