The feyentii Booke of 



made againft Demopjims^xtzA withall his adveruriies defence againe 5 by occafion wlifireof ht G 

 was confined to Rhodes, and thereJivcd in banilliment: and when the Rhodians that heard it 

 wondred thereat ^ Nay (c[d.i^i/ir/^/«t?j) you would have marvelled muclimore aEltj if you had 

 heard themanhimfelfe pronouncing iE^and pleading rM/zz voce : yeelding thus as you ice^i nO' 

 table teftimonie of his.advetfaricj in the time of his adverfitic. The Atheniens ijxiled T hut^M 

 ir^^j- their Generall captain : but after he had written his Chroniclc^thcy called him home ^^aih^ 

 wondring at the eloquence of the maujwhofc vertue and prowcfle they had before condemiiedi 

 TheKK.of yEgyptandMacedonic gave alingular teftimonie how much they honoured Wa- 

 fjonderthc ComicalJ poet^ in that they fent cmbafladours for him^and a fleet to waft h im for lvis 

 mprefecuritie tbuthewan unto himfelfe more fame and glorieby hisowne fetled judgement, 

 for that he eftecmcd more of his ownc privat ftudie and following his booke,than of all thoie lli- if 

 vours offered unto him from great princes. Moreovcr^tljerchavebeene great peifonages and 

 men of high calling at Rome^who have iliewed the like in token, how they eftecnied and regar- 

 ded the learned crew of forrein nations. Cn, Fomfcim^ after he had difpatched the warre againft 

 Mithriddtes^ intended to go and vifit /'<?//(a!'^»//^/3th3trenowmed profeflbr of learning:,and when 

 he fliould enter into the mans houfe, gave ftraight commandement to hisLitStors or Huifners, 

 that they fliould not (after their ordinarie manner with all others) rap at his dore: and this great 

 warriour5unto whome both the Eaft and Weft parts of the world had fubmitted, vailed boi^ct 

 as it werCjand bafed his armcs and cnfigns of ftate which his officers caried^beforc the very dore 

 ofthisPhilofopher. Cato furnamGdCcy^ytfnVi^jUpona timc when there came to Rome that no- 

 ble embafTage from Athens, confifting of three, the wifeft Sages among them , when hec had I 

 heard Carncddes fpeake (who was one of thoie three) gave his opinion prclcntlVjThat thofe eni- 

 bafladors were to be difpatched and fent away with all fpeed: for feare leaft if that man argued 

 the cafe, it would be an hard peece of worke to found and find out the truth/o pregnant were his 

 reafons and fo wittie his difcourfes. But Lord 1 what a chaunge is there now in mens manners 

 and difpofitions IThis Cato^ the renowmed Cenfor, both now and at all times elfe, could not a- 

 bidetohave any Grecian within Italy, but alwayesgave judgement to them all in generall to 

 be expelled -.but after him there comes his nephew once removed, or his nephewes (onne, who 

 brought one of their Philoibphcrs over with him,when he had ben miliraric Tribune or knight 

 marAiall; and another likcwife upon his embaffage to Cypres. And verily a wonder it is and a 

 memorablethingjtoconfider how thefe two Crt/tf^^ differed in another point .-for the former of K 

 them could not away with the Greeke tongue jthc other that killed himfelfe at Vtica, efteemed ^ 

 it as highly. But to leave ffraungers, let us now fpeake of ourowne counireymen, fo renowmed 

 in this behalfe. Scipo Afric^tim the clder^gave exprcfTc order and commaiinded,Thai the ftatnc 

 of SU^timm the poet fhouid be fet over his tombe, to the end, that the great name and ftile of 

 Africans, 01 indeed the bootie rather that hee had woon and carried away from a third part of 

 the world, fhould in his [iionument upon the relickes of his aflies be read together with the title 

 of this.poet. /i//^//^^/^ Cafir late emperour,cxpreirely forbad that the Poemeof FirgiKh^uld 

 be burned, notwithftanding that he by his laft will and tcftament upon a modeftic, gave order to 

 the contrarie : by which means there grew more credit and authoritie unto the Poetjthan if him- ^ 

 lelfehad approovcd and allowed his'owneverfes. jfmimFolltoyN^s thefiift that fet up a pub- 

 lick librarie at Rome,raifed of the fpoileand pillage gained from the enemies. In the librarieof 

 which gentleman,was ereded the image ofc^f .r.ir;T,even whiles he lived ; a thins thatwoon as 

 great honour to M, Vayyo in inine opinion (confidcring that among thofe fine wits, whereof a 

 great number then floiirilhed at Rome,his hap onely was to have the guirland at the hands of a 

 noble citizen and an excellent oratour befide :) as that other navall crowne gained him, which 

 Vompj the Great beftowed upon him for his good fervice in the pyrats warre. hifinite examples 

 more there are of us Romanes, if a man would fceke after them and fearch them out : for this 

 onely nation hath brought forth more excellent and accomplilhed men in every kind , than all 

 the lands befides of the whole world . But what afinnefliouldl commit,if I ptoceedpd farther 

 andfpakenotof thee,6 ii/.C/V^r^?? andyet how fhould I pofTibly write of thee according to thy M 

 worthinefle ? would a man require a better proofe of thy condigne praifes, than the moft hono- 

 rable teftimonie of thewholebodieof that people in generall, and the ads onely of thy Con- 

 {ulfhipjchofen out of all other vertuous deeds throughout thy whole life ? Thine eloquence was 

 the caufe that all the Tribes renounced the law Jgrma^ as touching the divifion of lands a- 



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