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Alexanders fact is commended as proceedinge from a most noble 
and a trwe heroicall mynd, and because it was better that the 
Persian Embasadours weare slayne, then that the chastityes of so 
many greate Ladyes should so dishonorably be eyther over- 
throwne, or so muche as assayled. and Thetis might well hyde her 
sonne Achilles in a may dens apparell in respect of motherly love 
and pittye, which she was to beare her sonne, knowinge as she did, 
that he should be <1p. 51> slayne in that iornye to Troy , whether 
he was requested to accumpany the other Grecian Lordes; and yet 
it followethe not, neyther doe I like it shoulde, that therfor eyther 
Alexanders bowlde deede, should be drawne to the iustifyinge of 
suche thinges as you deduce owt of it; nor that by the example of 
Achilles , a man for feare of deathe, should use Vettienus his shiftes 
to stay at home, when his cuntrye hathe neede of his servyce in 
lawfull warrs, nor that a yunge gentillman, that is in love, may putt 
on a maydens rayment, as Chserea did the Eunuche’s for his 
Pamphilae’s sake. Clodius defyled Caesars wife by that means, 
and therfor I condemne his facte. Achilles so deflowred Deidamia , 
and I doe not approve hym therin; but I say it was not his mothers 
intent, that he should so be clad, to doe suche a deede, and he was 
likely to doe as muche in his owne likenes any where ells; and 
yet his mother, of only intent to save his life (for to that end only 
I propose the example) might lawfully use the p oily eye she did, 
and he in that case might lawfully obaye her. Neyther dothe his 
owne speeche in your discourse of hym, nor Chirons , nor the wordes 
of Calchas prove the contrarye. for his owne wordes rather argue 
the haughty currage of his noble mynd, as fearinge lest it showlde 
if he went thither with the Grecians, did therevpon attire him (they say) as a 
woman, and committed him as her daughter to Lycomedes king of Scyros, 
there to bee kept safe from that danger [side-note, from Momus, line 151: 
Vitam tuetur Alius Thetidis suam]. For hence you conclude that a man may 
lawfully putt on womans raiment to benefit others, to saue his life, because 
the Macedonians, by their young Princes motion, and Achilles did so. . . . 
You must remember therefore that wee are to liue by lawes, not by examples: 
and regard in Macedonie and Greece, as in Rome, not what is done there, but 
what ought to bee done there. Else. . . a man, whose countrie doeth need 
and craue his seruice in lawfull warre against their enemies, may, for feare 
of death, use Vettienus his shifts to keepe at home; a youth, that is in loue, 
may put on maidens raiment, as Chaerea did the Eunuches for his Pamphilaes 
sake; . . . For as [p. 13J hee whose fact your selfe adiudge wicked Clodius 
I meane [side-note, from Momus, lines 149-150: Mollem puella/n induere, 
scelus est Glodio; Non est Achilli: Clodius stuprum parat], did satisfie his 
vilanous lust with Caesars wife by cladding him selfe in womans raiment: 
semblably Achilles deflowred Deidamia, king Lycomedes daughter, by the 
same occasion. And Statius, who reporteth the storie (so to terme it with 
you [side-note, from Momus, lines 143-144: Id quod crebra testari potest 
Historia]) most exactlie, saith that Chiron, the instructor and bringer vp of 
Achilles, would not haue suffered his mother to haue had him away, Si molles 
habitus Sc tegmina feeda fateri Ausa foret: that Calchas the Prophet, being filled 
with Apollos spirit, cryed out, 0 Scelus, en fluxse veniunt in pectora vestes: 
Scinde puer, scinde. Sc timidae ne crede parenti. [Overthrow, pp. 11-13.] 
