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be cownted cowardyce in hym, then repell his kynde mothers 
drifte; and bothe Chiron and Calchas had a furder reache, then 
their wordes owtwardly importe, especially Calchas; for he, and 
perhapps bothe, knwe that Troy could not be destroyed till 
Achilles was fownde owte; and therfor more in regarde of suche 
a consequence, then for any thinge ells, Calchas so vehemently 
cryethe owte, 0 scelus, en fluxx veniunt in pectora vestes, Scinde 
puer, scinde, el timidse ne crede parenti. Notwithstandinge, I 
doe thinke it dishonorable for a noble man not only in wooman’s 
apparell, but any way ells to hyde hym selfe to the savinge of his 
life, when his cuntrye standethe in need of his helpe; thoughe 
Amphiaraus and Vlysses did no better, but for a greate Lady to 
hyde her only yunge sonne, in a maydens apparell, to save his 
life, which otherwise he is sure to loose; the common wealthe stand- 
inge in no neede of hym, as we may imagin suche a one, and thoughe 
it falethe owte otherwise in exhmyninge my example, yet in that 
respecte only I vsed it; I doe not thinke but she may well doe it. 
And yet I did not use this example as a storye, as you note (so 
to terme it with me) 1 for I cowld never thinke otherwise of it then 
as of a fable. Neyther can thes my wordes, id quod crebra testari 
potest Historia , 2 imply any suche meaninge in me. for I vsed thos 
wordes in respect of the sondrye storyes that might be brought to 
this ende, not for any historycall truthe in the example, which I 
the rather vsed, because I thought it was best knowne, and thoughe 
it weare a fable, yet it had a resemblance of that, which might 
be trwe, which was inoughe for my purpose. And in deede, if I 
had thought that thes twoe examples should not have byn taken 
in my meaninge, that is, only in that circumstance for the which 
I alleaged them, I cowlde have vsed many trwe storyes of bothe 
sexes, to the which, no suche exceptions coulde have byn taken. 3 4 
<p. 52> 
Wherfor my twoe examples, beinge taken as thay ought to be, 
and in that vnderstandinge, that I applyed them for, this conse- 
quution rightely followethe, Non ergo iuueni est grande simpliciter 
nefasy Modem puellam induere 1 . which proposition I assuminge to 
be trwe (as I thinke it is most trwe) I strayte fell to the expownd- 
inge of the place in Deute. thus; Non ergo vestis fxminea iuueni 
est scelus, Sed praua mens, libido, malitia, ac dolus, Nec habitus 
vllus,sed animus turpe m facif. that is, that the only puttinge on 
of weeme <^n> s rayment, is not wicked, but the lewde ende to de- 
1 See above, p. 618, note. 
2 See above, ibid. 
3 Gager’s side-note: Eucl. Megaren. Theop. Rex Spar: Antenor Cepha: 
Euphrosyna virgo Antioch: Theod. virgo & martyr. Eugenia Romana. 
4 Momus, 11. 148-149. 
6 Id., 11. 152-154. 
