Plioies Naturail Hiftofie, 



A among the commons, albeit their grcatcfl maintenance and nourifhaient (?onrift€d tlierein; 

 Through thy pcrfuafion they pardoned Rofcim ^thc firft authoiir of that fedidous bill and lavv^ 

 whereby the States and degrees of the cittie were placed diftindly in their feats at the Theatre ; 

 they were content, I fay, and tooke it well, that they were noted and pointed at for this difference 

 in taking place and rowmes, which he firft brought in. Bymeanes of thy orations/he children 

 of profcript and outlawed perfonsj were alhamed and abafhed to fue for honorable dignities iri 

 common- weale : thy wittie head it was that put Catilwe toflighr, and banifhed him the cittie: 

 thou, and none but thou didft out-law M, Ar4ommy and put him out of the protedion of the 

 ftatc. All haile therefore, 6 MS ullms .-faire chicve thee, thou that firfl was fainted by the name 

 of Parens Patrt^y i. Father of thy countrey : firft that deferved triumph in thy long robe^and the 

 lavvreil guirIand,for thy language : the only father indeed of eloquence andof the Latin tongue: 

 and (asCrf/^rDidatorfometime thine enemie hath written of thee) hail deferved a crowne a- 

 bovc all other triumphs,by how much more praiie-worthie it is, to have amplified and fet ouC 

 the bounds and limits of Romans wit and learning, th an of Romane ground and dominion. 



Chap. xxxi. 



"^Ofacertammdsfik inbehavmrand carrLige, 



THofe,who among other gifts of the mind have furpaffed other men in fa ge advife and 

 wifdome, were thereupon at Rome furnamed Cati^ and Corculi, In Greece, Secretes carried 

 Q the name away from ail the reft, beeing deemed by the Oracle of ^^^llo fj^imyhe wifefi 

 man of all others. 



Chap, xxxii. 



Gainc, Chilo the Lacedemonian was of fb great reputation amoiig men, that his fayings 

 '\ were held for Oracles : and three precepts of his were written in letters of goldjandconfe- 

 crated in the temple of Afoilo at Delphi : where the firft was this. Know th] f ife : the fe^ 

 cond. Set thy mind t&o much of nothing : the third^ 'Debt and Uw are alwaies accmpamed with mt^ 

 frie* His hap was to die tor joy, upon tidings that his fbnne wan the bei^prize and was crowned 

 J) viclour at the folemne game Olympia : and when he fhould be interred, all Greece did him ho- 

 nour, and folemnized his funerals. 



Chap, xx^difi. 



Pcrfofis of A divim jpirit atid heavenly nature, 



Mong women, ^y/^y/rfwasexcdlent at divination, and for a ccrtaine fcllowfhipand fo- 

 cietie with ccelefliall wights, of great name. As for men, among the Gieekes, Melmpis : 

 and with us Romanes, Martiu^^ carried as great an opinion. 



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Chap, xxxiiil. 



"^Scifioliafica, 



SCipQ 7s(d(ic4 was judged once by the Senat (fworne to fpcake without paHion and affection) 

 to be the beft and honefteft man that ever was from the beginning of the world : howbeit 

 , . the fame man, as upright as hee was, futfered a repulle and difgrace at the peoples.hands in 

 his white lobe when he lued for a dignitie : and to eonclude,in the end his^hap was not to depart ' 

 this life in his owne countrey ; no more than it was the will of God that Socr&tes the wifeff man, 

 (fo deemed by the Oracle of fliould die out of prifon. 



Chap. xxxv. 



^Of Chafitie. 



Sr//>/<w,daughter of Pat£rculm^x\^m^Qto FulvimFkcm^ Sy all t^iC voices ingeherall of 

 Romans daniesjcarried away the prize for continencie, and was elected out of the hundred 

 principal! matrons of Rome to dedicate and confecratc the image of r^;?//^^ according to 



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