The eighth Booke of 



As touching die manner how to die .oijber wools, will fpeake in convenient placej namel^,^ Q 

 whenwefliaiitreatof the purples and fcaniellfeliesjand of certain hearbes good for that, pijr- 

 po(e. Af. Farre writeth ,That within the temple of ^'^/f^/^-, ther,e continfjed unto the time that 

 he wrote his booke,thc wooll thatJa.die; T inaqmij otherwife named Cam.CMili^^ fpun ; together 

 with hcrdiftaifeand fpindle : as alfo, within tl?!? chappcU of Fonunc, the very roiall robe or 

 mantle of Eftate, made with her owne hands after the manner of water- ehaii^lot in wave worke, 

 which ServmTullm uledto weare.And fron^hpnce came tlaefafhipn & cuftome at Roaieithai: 

 when maidens were to be wedded5there atteiided upon thQipja di^^ajfe^dreiTed and trimmed.with 

 kembed wooll^as alfo a fpindle and yeatne upon it, 1 he faid iaftAqiiil was the firfl that made the 

 coat or caflocke woven right oiu all through^ fuch as new bpgipners (namely jVoung fouldiours, 

 barrifters^andfrefli brides) put on under their white plaine gowns, withput any guard ofpurple. H 

 The waved water chameloCj was from the beginning efteemedjthe richell i^nd bra veft weanng. 

 And from thence came the branched damaske in broad workes . FcnejielU writeth^ That in the 

 latter timeof^«^/^?^C<«/4r they began atRometoufe their gownes of cloth iliorncj as alio 

 with a curled nap. As for thole robes which are called Crebroj and Papaverat^. wrought thicks 

 with floure-worke.refembling poppies -5 or preflfed even and fmooth, they be of greater antiqui- 

 tie: for even in the time of I^tf/tothePoetj Ttfr^/Mi'/if^^ was noted -and reprooved for wearing 

 them. The long robes embrodcred beforejcailed Prsecexti^j were devifed firft by the Tulcanes. 

 The Trabeae were roiall robeSjand 1 find that kings and princes onely ware themln Homers time 

 alfo they ulcd garments embrodcred with imagerie and floujr^-^orke: & from ,tlience came tlie 

 triumphant robes. As for embrodcrie ir felfc and needle worke_,it was thePhrygians invention : \ 

 and hereupon embroderers inLatine bee called Phijgiom.h-nf^ in the fame Alia^ kinSj Attah^ , 

 was thefirft diac devifed cloth of gold: and thence come fuchdothes to be called Attalica . In 

 Babyl'on they ufed much to weave their cloth of divers colours, and this was a great wearing a- 

 rnong them^and clothsfo wrought were called Babylon^ca.To v^'^ave cloth oftiiTue with.twiiied 

 threeds both in woofe and warpe^ and the lame of lundrie colours, was the invention of Alex- 

 andria jand fuch clothes and garments wer named Polymita.But Frauncedevifed the Icutchion, 

 Iquare, or lozenge damaske-worke. Metdlus ^f//?/^?, among otherchallenges and imputations 

 laid againft Ca^no^ reproched and accufed him for this. That his hangings and furniture of his 

 dining-chambcr, being Babylonian worke or cloth of Arras, were fold tor 800000 reilercies:, 

 and (uch like of late daies flood prince Tiero in 400 hundred thoufand TefterceSj 40 millions, K 

 The cmbrodered long robes of Servim Tulim^ wherewith hee covered and arraied all over the 

 Image of Fortune^yhim dedicated, remained whole and found unto the end of Smr.m,h.\\6. a 

 wonder it was,that they neither fell from the image, nor were moth-eaten in 5^oyeeres, I have 

 my felfc fcene the fheepes fleeces upon their backes whiles they be alive, died with purple, with 

 fcadet in grain, and the violet liquor of the filh Murex : by the means of certaine barks of a foot 

 and a halie long dipped in thefs colours,and fo imprinted and fet upon their flceccs:as if riotous 

 wantonnes and fuperfluitie fhould force Natures worke,and make wooll to grov^of that colour. 

 As for the fheepe it felfe, fhe is knowne to be kindly enough by thele markes, ii fne be fbort leg- 

 gedj and well wooiled under the bellie jfor fuch as were naked there and pilled, thay condemned 

 and held for naught, and thofe they called Apica? .In Syria, fheepe have tailes a cubit long, and 

 they beare moff wooll there. To lib laiubs before they be five moneths old, it is thought to be 

 with the fooneff jand daungerous. 



Chap, xhx, 

 ^Ofa henfi called Mufmon, 



THerc is in Spainc,but efpecially in the Ifle Corfica, a kind of Muliiiones, not altogether 

 unlike to fheepe, having a fliag more like the haire of goats, than a fleece withOieepes 

 wooll.That kind which is engendredbetweene them andfheepe, they called in old time 

 Vmbri. Thisbeafthath amoft tender head, and therefore in his palfure is to beforced to feed M 

 withhistaile tothc funne. Of all living creatures, thofe that beare wooll are mofl- foolifh :for 

 take butone pfthemby thehorneand lead him any whither, all the reft will follow, though o- 

 therwife they were atfraid to go that way .The lorigeff that they live in thofe parts, is 9 yeers^how- 

 ibever in ^loiopia they come to 1 3 . In which cpuntreyj goates alfo live 1 1 ye?res, whereas in 



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