A modern essay on the thirteenth satyr of Juvenal by Henry Higden.

A modern essay on the thirteenth satyr of Juvenal by Henry Higden.

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To the Right Honourable, GEORGE, EARL OF DARTMOUTH, &c.

TO THE READER.

JUVENAL's THIRTEENTH SATYR.

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ANNOTATIONS.

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A Modern Essay On the Thirteenth SATYR OF JUVENAL

By HENRY HIGDEN.

—Ridiculum acri

Fortius & melius magnas plerunque secat res.

Licensed November 11th. 1685. Roger L'Estrange.

LONDON, Printed for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge's Head in Chancery-Lane, near Fleet-street. 1686.

To the Right Honourable, GEORGE, EARL OF DARTMOUTH, &c.

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My Lord,

THE high Station Your Lordships Vertues have plac [...]d You in, have signally marked You out for Addresses and Dedications, (a troublesome Persecution that must always attend the Great and Fortunate) and possess me (among the Crowd) with assurance enough to think, that being warranted by ancient Custom, I may e'en venture to play [Page]the bold Britain, and pin a Dedication upon Your Lordship. Since no teeming Heroick Muse, though (after hard Labour) it produce but a Mouse; Or Puny Scribler, that makes a shift to grunt out a Souterkin of a Farce or Novel, but strait some Noble Person must be pickt out, and an Illustrious Name prefixt: So that the Pillars of the Nation, like those of the Exchange, are daily hung round with Advertisements of [Outward and Homeward bound, &c.] by every Skipper that hoists Sail for Parnassus, though but in a Dogger or Cock-boat. And truly, though so poor a Trifle is altogether unworthy of your Lordships Acceptance, or Patronage, yet that must not bar our Plea to your Protection: For by a certain sort of Right, which we Scriblers, with the rest of the Liberty and Property Men, [Page]call Prescription, Your Lordship is as liable to suffer in this kind, as the Gravest and most Gouty Judge is obliged to hobble the Measures about the Temple fire.

'Tis under this claim I presume to give your Lordship this trouble, especially in this Censorious and Captious Age, when the undoubted Worth of the Patron is absolutely necessary to give it an Authentick Pass-port in the World, where not only the Book, but the Author's Principles and Practice must fall under the Censure of the severest Observators. And therefore I could not beg Protection under a more secure and glorious Umbrage than Your Lordship: A Person whose unshaken Loyalty has been so eminently signal, and whose Courage and Conduct both by Sea and Land, have been so highly Serviceable to His Majesty, [Page]and the Defence and Honour of our Nation. So that Your Lordships many accumulated Preferments are but the Meede of that rising Vertue, which was ever the Darling of your ROYAL MASTER; who besides being worthily stiled the GREATEST, has gained the high Attribute of being the JUSTEST of Princes. But one yet farther Encouragement to Dedicate this slight Essay, upon so fam'd an Author as Juvenal, more particularly to Your Lordship, is, That I tender it into His hands who is so able to judge of the Original.

But now having laid so inconsiderable an Offering at Your Lordships Feet, though I must own my self that puny Brother of the Quill, as not to be Rich enough to adorn your Triumphs with Flowers, and Garlands, [Page]however my Zeal and Veneration for Your Lordship is no less, though I strow your way but with Rushes and Daisies: which at present is the highest Tribute can be rendred You by,

My Lord, Your Lordships Most Obedient, Humble Servant, HENRY HIGDEN.

TO THE READER.

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I Was once minded to have dropp'd this Brat in the wide World without further Consideration; till the Stationer plainly told me, That without a Customary Preface it would never pass Muster, and so prove his damage. And faith I was easily perswaded that such an ill rigg'd Companion would hardly meet with a tolerable Reception, without a civil Introduction and Recommendation.

Therefore bethinking my self to say something to humour him, turning to the Title Page, I found I had Christen'd it, A Modern Essay: And how, thought I, can it be Modern, without so much as one Recommendatory Copy of Verses before it, though written perhaps by the Author in praise of himself and his Poem, and father'd upon some unknowing Friend:

Nor huffing Picture in the front,

With Bays and wicked Rhime upon't.

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Without which necessary Ornaments and Imbellishments, a Poem will no more be valued, than a Quack without his Velvet Jump, and the Silver-headed Cane to put off his Gravity; or Holy-day Artillery-man without a new-scoured Head-piece, and a tawdry Plume waving in his Crest. Which most alluring recommendations being at present wanting, I have thought it fitting to bespeak the gentle Readers kindness in a few lines, which if obtained, may encourage us to mend all in a Second Edition, if the Fates permit.

And here again I was more at a loss than ever: For should I run division in praise of my Author, or the excellence of his Satyrick Vein, some captions Brother-Paper-stainer would strait have a sting at me, with a Who disputed the one, or doubted the other? Should I, to shew my pretended Reading, or Judgment, go about to give a Character of our Poet, and make Comparisons betwixt him and his other Rivals in Satyr, I might draw an unnecessary Quarrel upon my own Head: Therefore I have waved that point, and thought good to squander the little Paper I have allowed me, in defence of my self; which I hope the severest Judges will allow me in my own Cause, since scarce one in a hundred; were he to re print Tom Thumb, but would find something to say on so fair an occasion; Pro dignitate suscepti.

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Well then, A Modern Essay let it be; for as a Transsation I could not, and as a Paraphrase I would not own it: If I have ventured at something between both, I hope I may be the less censured, since the Vices here taxed by our Satyrist, are not so antiquated, but a slight Inquisition may discover them amongst our selves, though perhaps something altered in Dress and Fashion. As near therefore as I could, I have equipp'd them Al-a-mode; though nevertheless you'll find little other than the Old Shock new Trim'd, and that our present Age comes not much behind our Author's, in all sorts of Genteel Vice and Debauchery. But as to the particular Argument of this Satyr, viz. Breach of Trust, and Perjury, we need not the aid of SALAMANCA, since our own and our Neighbouring Island have in that long Bow out-shot all the World beside.

Some Criticks cavil our Author's Humour is too stiff, morose, and over-serious in down-right lashing and chastising Crimes: Whereas a jocular and facetious Jeer and Reproof, laughs Vice out of Countenance, and often works a perfect Cure and Conversion; and merrily discovering the odious deformity of Vice, shames ingenious spirits into Vertue. Another sort of Well-willers to our Author have concluded with themselves, his Verse being altogether stately, he ought, Spaniard-like, to maintain [Page]his Gate and Gravity; nor must descend from his lofty Buskins, to Act the least part of the Comick Droll; which point I will not here discuss. But if I have aimed to abate something of his serious Rigour, and expressed his sense in a sort of Verse more apt for Raillery, without debasing the dignity of the Author, I hope the first will not be offended, and the latter will be entreated for a Pardon. As for the Notes, I have compos'd them as short and plain as I could, to point out and illustrate the meaning of our Author; and though abler Readers may despise their help, yet I doubt not but they will be assisting to the weaker Brethren.

To conclude, shall any of Calvinus's fraternity think to rally off his Crime with a depositum custodi; Or to excuse the matter, as having been so from the beginning: And if it were not for credulous Fools, how should wiser men live? I shall desire him to place this Satyr as a Mirrour before him in a clear light, and 'tis odds 'twill reflect his own likeness, and possibly make him see his own dear self at full length, where I will leave him in Contemplation, and conclude,

That brevity is very good

When w' are, or are not understood.

JUVENAL's THIRTEENTH SATYR.

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THE ARGUMENT.

Our Author comforts his Friend Calvinus, who afflicts himself over-much for the loss of a Sum of Money, committed to the secret Trust of a supposed Friend, who denies and forswears it; shewing such Deceipts and Losses are frequent in this Corrupt Age, and familiar at Rome. That though the cunning Knave may avoid the Censure and Punishment of the Laws, yet he shall not escape the Scourge and Terror of his own Conscience.

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NOne can a Crime in secret act,

But Conscience first condemns the Fact;

From whose dumb Checks Offenders find

A lasting Torment in their Mind.

And though a well-brib'd (1) Sh'riff ensure ye

A byass'd IGNORAMUS Jury;

Who, for the purpose, cull'd and pack'd,

Regard their Int'rest, not the Fact.

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How ere absolv'd, yet still, the stains

On Memory's Record remains;

And though they may the Guilt out-face,

Good Men detest an Act so base.

Thy Loss, thank Heaven, is not so great,

Scarce to be felt in thy Estate;

And since the Fraud by which you smart,

Is usual, take't not to Heart:

Both Law and Equity afford

A Thousand Precedents on Record;

Demonstrating, That Breach of Trust is

So frequent, 'tis scarce thought Injustice.

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Let Fools torment themselves, and grieve

For each slight Loss which they receive;

It cannot be the part of Wisdom,

Vainly to mourn, when Mischief is done:

For Trifles, Grief should not abound,

But bear proportion with the Wound.

Thou, like a Bedlamite, dost rage,

Because in so debauch'd an Age,

A confident and ancient Crony,

Sunk, and forswore a Bag of Money.

And this a Miracle appears

To a gray Fopp of Threescore years.

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Shall Lessons by Experience taught,

Be thrown away, and go for nought?

Can't thy dull Genius edify

By Precepts of Philosophy?

Whose saving Truths the wise advance,

To vanquish all th' Attacks of Chance;

Custom ev'n the unlearn'd convincing,

To bear the Yoke, and without wincing;

Since vain Reluctaney and Strife,

Increase the irksom load of Life.

When was there yet a Holy-day,

Did not new Frauds and Tricks betray?

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Money's by Murder, Treason, got,

Cheats, Poyson, Padding, and the Plot:

Bullies, Buffoons, Knights of the Post,

Roar, domineer, and rule the Roast;

And Dagger, Pistol, Poyson's made

The Implements of gainful Trade;

Since Good Men are so rare, that even

In Rome it self you'll scarce find seven:

Why should we fondly dream, a dozen

Of Jurors may not bribe and cozen,

When Sodom might (in times of Yore)

Have been preserv'd for Half-a-score?

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With Iron, Brass, Silver, and Gold,

Past (2) Ages did resemblance hold;

To name this last degenerate Race,

Nature no Metal yields so base.

Yet we for want of Faith, in vain

Aloud of God and Man complain;

Loud, as a Pleader in the Hall,

Resolv'd t' out-noise, and brazen all.

Thou, Grandsire, that for nothing grieves,

Deserv'st a Bibb and Hanging-sleeves:

Know'st not, that others hoarded Riches

With Tantalizing Charms bewitches;

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And powerful Lechery allure 'em,

That Locks and Bars cannot secure 'em?

Who can but laugh at Sot so idle,

That swears an Atheist on a Bible,

Flatt'ring himself he will be just,

Because an Oath secures his Trust?

Think'st he believes a Power Divine

Inhabits every Church and Shrine?

Thy Folly makes the sly Rogue laugh,

To see old Birds so caught with Chaff:

Such Rules the Infant World obey'd,

When (3) Saturn first the Scepter sway'd;

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Ere fore'd he lay'd his Kingship down,

And for a Scythe exchang'd a Crown.

When (4) Juno was a Tomring Lass,

And (5) Jove without a hair on's Face,

Play'd at Bo-peep in Ida's Cave,

Before plain Heaven turn'd Courtly brave:

Ere Foreign Tricks, old Rights invading,

Brought in Balls, Treats, and Masquerading,

(6) No handsom Boy or (7) Wench did Skink

To add a Gusto to their Drink.

Or Clownish (8) Vulcan, all besmear'd

With Soot, wip'd Nectar from his Beard.

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Then frugal Gods and eke Goddesses,

Din'd privately on homely Messes;

Scant Bills of Fare serv'd mod'rate wishes,

Plain wholesome, no Luxurious Dishes.

There Godships in the Upper House

Were not as now so numerous,

When for good Husbandry the Skies

Were manag'd by few Deities.

Nor did their Number, Pomp, and State

Make (9) Atlas groan beneath the weight;

None rul'd the (10) Ocean, or did keep

His Court and Revels in the Deep,

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Or surly Tyrant Rul'd in Holl

Ghosts, that in gloomy Minsions dwell:

Nor tortur'd Souls as yet did feel

Whips, Futies, Vulture, or the Wheel.

The jolly shades, frolick and free,

Found no restraint of Liberty.

Vertue was then at such a height,

Dishonesty was wondred at,

Had then a Boy not capp'd a Beard,

Or, That not risen when Age appear'd,

Though his own happier home afforded

More Nuts and Acorns larger hoarded,

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It was so Capital a Crime,

Deserv'd no Clergy at that time

For Beards then swept preheminence

From Valour, Beauty, Birth, and Sense.

Now find a Friend so firm and just;

Who never broke his Faith, or Trust;

So to a secret promise true,

He ne'er conceal'd one penny due:

Let Fame such an Example tell,

We'll register't in Chronicle;

And who but him, the Town shall ring,

And for the News, Te Deum sing;

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Him, him, I'll like a Moon-calf view,

Or Monster shewn at Barthol' mew;

And wonder more, than if't had rain'd

Milstones an hour, and no one brain'd;

Than Sea of Milk, fresh-water Oyster,

Mule pregnant, or Bees swarm'd in Cloyster;

Or what has been devis'd by Fiction,

When bantring Drolls the World put tricks on;

This Man our Wonder shall engage,

As the sole Phoenix of the Age.

And is it so?—why then is't wondred,

If you are bilkt of paltry hundred?

By Chamber, and Bankers of London,

Orphans, and herds of Fools are undone,

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Which like a Deluge, in a day

Their whole Estates have swept away.

If slight of Hand, and queint Disguise

Conceal our Cheats from Mortal Eyes,

What matter is't, what Heaven 'spies?

Such Witnesses we'll ne'er dispute,

That seeing all things will be mute;

The point resolv'd, with demure look

The formal Knave salutes the Book;

With Canting tone, and turn'd-up Eyes,

The brazen Rogue vents Perjuries;

Varnishing Tales Apochryphal,

With colours most Canonical.

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Avouching (Verbo Sacerdotis)

Slight matters that occur to's notice;

Confirms untruths he does depose,

With Vollies of the deepest Oaths;

And can with confidence desie

Jove, and his whole Artillery:

By two-edg'd Sword of Bully Mars,

Apollo's Bow and Shafts he swears;

By chast Diana's Murdring Quiver,

And Trident of the Sea's Law-giver;

By Pallas Spear, and by the Club

Wherewith Alcides us'd to drub;

And all the dreadful Weapons seen

In Heaven's warlike Magazine;

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And wishes (if he Married be)

The Devil take's Wife, and Family.

Some do believe the World's advance

From Club of Atoms, jump'd by chance,

Which jumbled in a Chaos lay,

Struggling to hit this lucky way;

Then Order from Confusion rose,

And Matter, fitly did dispose,

Which has subsisted ever since,

By Nature, not by Providence;

That no God steers the course of things,

Event from wild Chance-medly springs;

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The Sun by his own virtue burns,

Whose crooked course the Year returns,

Dispensing influence to all,

Makes Summer, Winter, Spring, and Fall;

To the dull mass fresh life does give,

Makes Plants and Trees shoot forth and live;

Wholly cashiering Providence,

Religion, as a sham pretence,

Devis'd to prop weak Humane Law,

And Superstitious Fools to aw;

Whence unconcern'd, they'll swear upon

Both Testaments, or Alchoran;

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And turning serious things to Jest,

Swear, swallow, or take any Test.

Another Mungrel sort revere

A God, and Vengeance, yet forswear;

Thus arguing with themselves; For me

Let Heaven, what it please decree;

Strike me with ev'ry Malady,

Stone, Palsie, Gout, or Leprosy;

Content I'll live deaf, dumb, and blind,

So I may keep what I purloyn'd;

I'd rather grope my envy'd store,

Than live without it, scorn'd and poor:

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What starving wretch did ever doubt

To swop his Health for the Rich Gout?

Or Foot-man having won the Race,

To Sup high, would not pawn his Bays?

In vain you humm haranging Vicar,

If he want Coin to purchase Liquor;

What can reward his pains, and studying,

But Money, Sunday's Beef, and Pudding?

Or what damn'd Poet ere would write,

That did not hope a good third Night?

It is not Zeal for a good Cause,

But Fees stir up the Man o'th' Laws;

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Nor thirst of Fame, but hope of Plunder,

Makes Heroes charge thro' Pikes & Thunder.

Heaven's Vengeance heavy is we know,

But heavy things move always slow;

And if to punish all they doom,

When will my day of rec'ning come?

If courteous Heaven he as we find,

Still to repenting sinners kind,

Who knows but I may find a place

In some free gen'ral Act of Grace?

Besides, Jove's more a (11) Gentleman,

Than for each petty fault to damn;

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And will for frailties pardon grant,

Which in our Nature they did plant;

Men pushing the same Game of sin,

With diff'ring Fates, some lose, some win;

While one in Cart meets with Reproaches,

The other Lords it in gilt Coaches;

A Traytor once successful grown,

Heaven his prevailing Cause does own;

Else why should Providence permit

Usurpers on the Throne to sit?

With Arguments like these they keep,

And lull their Consciences asleep;

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Till by degrees they lose all sense

Of shame, and ev'ry act dispense;

As Women having broke the Ice

Of Honour, plunge in ev'ry Vice:

From paths of Vertne newly stray'd,

Out-do Professors of the Trade;

By their old Tempter once drawn in,

They boggle at no sort of sin:

These Qualms once over, 'twill be sport

To see him dare thee to the Court,

Proffer ye Answer, Affidavit,

Speak which you please, Sir, you shall have it.

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Perhaps the matter so he'll handle,

He'll bring an Action for the Scandal,

Where, Confidence will Guilt out-face,

And for meer Innocence will pass;

The Cause by a right Jury try'd,

Get a fat Verdict on his side;

Or if you chance to guard that blot,

Perhaps he'll swear you into th' Plot;

While you roar our like a whip'd Strumpet

At Bridewell, loud as speaking Trumpet,

And in Blasphemous terms in vain

Of God and Man alike complain.

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Can there be Gods above, and bear

Audacious Perjury to hear?

So unresenting, tame, and base,

T' endure Affronts done to their Face:

'Twould move a perfect stone or stock,

To see a Villain thus to mock;

Why offer we vain Sacrifice,

Or court regardless Deities?

What need we either Church or Steeple,

Or Priests to spunge upon the People,

If blindly no regard be had

To Men, or Actions good or bad?

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If in Truth's Quarre (they')l not arm,

Or do us either good or harm?

Why should they baulk us or encourage,

If they are no more than Chips in Porridge?

Or why allow their Pictures room,

Or Rev'rence then each Common Tomb?

Or pay respect to Heavenly Madams,

More than the Statue of (12) Jack Adams?

Cease thus to rave and calmly try,

What Comforts Reason can apply:

Stiff Precepts from the Stoicks brought,

Or Books by rigid Cynicks wrought,

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Or the Calm Epicure, content

With Herbs and Roots weak Nourishment,

Are useless here: This easy Cure

Is done without the help of Lower.

If the Misfortune which you tell,

Want in the World a Parallel,

Then I'll not hinder you to maul,

Your Rev'rent Head against the wall,

Or Grief extravagant to show;

Let Tears as from a Fountain flow:

For desperate Debts we seldom look,

But write them on the back o'th Book:

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In vain with Locks, after the Deed,

We would secure the pilfer'd Steed.

The Funerals of our Friends with State,

And mournful Pomp, we celebrate,

Condoling their Deceased Souls,

With Bellowings loud, as Irish howls;

Content to grieve in outward show,

And squeeze a feigned Tear or two;

With real Sorrow truer hearted,

We mourn our Money that's departed;

While all agree in this belief,

We do not Counterfeit our Grief.

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If Law and Equity produces

Each Day fresh instance of Abuses,

'Tis each Defendants usual practice,

For to disown their Bond their Act is;

Proceed to Juries when they've pack'd em,

Find Money paid, or non est factum,

A Counterfeit Bill of Exchange

No Man does now admire as strange:

When for to make the Cheat pass better,

Post brings advice in feigned letter.

To those Intrigues who is a Stranger

That ever heard the name of (12) Granger?

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And all this vouch'd by witnesses,

That make a trade of Perjuries,

And daily are at Change-time found,

In Temple-Walks, or the Church-round;

Though Fortune sometimes vilely nicks 'em,

And in the Wooden-ruff fast sticks 'em.

Why then are you too delicate

To share with us the common Fate?

Why you so great a Favourite,

That no Mischance on you must light?

While we predestin'd Reprobates,

Are persecuted by the Fates.

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Like Slaves must drudge and carry double,

Tugging the labouring Oar of Trouble:

Thy wrongs are scarcely worth regard,

If with known Villainies compar'd,

Th' effects of Rapine, Lust, and Rage,

Which every day amaze the Age:

Murder is to each hectoring Blade,

A gainful, fashionable Trade;

While Bravoes let themselves to hire,

As hackney Seconds, to each Squire.

For drunken Brawls, notorious Misses,

(13) Gilt makes them Combat like the Swisses.

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Examples of all Crimes appear

In ev'ry (14) Newgate-Calendar:

Rape, Incest, Murder, Sodomy,

Theft, Sacrilege, and Burglary;

Here Papists set the Town on Fire;

Or else the (15) Monument's a Lyer;

But who will Credit Patience Ward,

A Knight o'th Post upon Record?

Villains the Sacrament receive,

Only with a Design to thieve;

And after Service staying late,

Both watch and pray to steal the Plate.

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Presented as I well remember,

To bribe the Town, to choose a Member:

These make no more to strip a Shrine,

Then Buccaneers beyond the Line;

A Saint or Demy-God melt down,

Remorseless as Blood stole the Crown.

For which and other famous Pranks,

Some purchase Punishment, some Thanks.

These are but slight and trivial Crimes,

Mere Peccadillios of our times,

Did you your private Wrongs compare

With Poys'ners, Treason, Massacre;

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All which, with far more useful Lessons,

From Dawn till Night you'll hear at Sessions,

Consider well Mens manners, then

Say you're ill treated if you can.

Why should you grumble if you meet

Fowl play, where ev'ry Man's a Cheat?

Who wonders at a crafty Scot?

Or Dutchman given to the Pot?

Who would admire a Black in Guiny?

Or Church land should produce a Nynny?

Or Daughter bred by Mother lewd,

That has the self same Course pursu'd?

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Or fulsom Bawd with half a Nose,

Confirm her wheedling Shamms with Oaths?

All this unto a Man of Sense,

Being but natural Consequence.

(18) When Hostil Cranes, with clamors loud,

In Squadrons make a noisy cloud,

The Pygmy-land Militia rise

T' oppose their common Enemies;

With force united Puny-Nation,

Joyn to resist threatning Invasion;

If from the Body any stray,

Pickeering Crane sweepes him away,

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And does in gripeing Tallons bear,

The sprawling Warriour through the Air.

Doubtless so Comical a sight,

Would with the Novelty delight;

But in that numerous dwarfish Host,

Where none's but a foot high at most,

And such Incounters happen daily,

None on the accident will rally.

But shall so base a Perjury,

Pass unrewarded, and shot-free?

Shan't Vengance dog him at the Heel,

And he divine resentment feel?

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Suppose the Wretch this very hour,

Wholly consign'd into your Power;

And suffer'd for his punishment

The sharpest Pains you could invent;

Impal'd, gashook'd, wrackt or strappado'd,

Or on live Coals were Carbonado'd,

In some unthought of manner dies,

That Malice yet is to devise;

All this will not retrieve your loss,

Or make you richer by a Cross:

But then Revenge in these Intrigues

Sweeter than Muskadine and Eggs;

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Is by fond Mortals understood,

Above all sublunary good:

So do the Mad cap, hare-brain'd crow'd

Of Dam-me-Boys, roar out aloud,

Who for a frolick, or but flight

Occasions, will lug out and fight;

And when the Brutes are mad or drunk,

Swagger for nothing, or a Punk;

Huff, Bully, Bounce Rhodomontadoes,

And quarrel with their very Shadows.

Such Practice has been in all Ages,

Condemn'd by sober Men and Sages:

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Passions in narrow Compass pent,

Like winds, will strugle for a vent;

While Souls inlarg'd, do seldom find

Such Storms in their serener mind;

Who can with ease and scorn surmount,

All sense of Wrong, and an Affront:

For so the wise (19) Crysippus thought,

And (20) Thales mild Example taught:

(21) Socrates suffer'd without strife,

Sworn and trappan'd out of his life;

Undaunted, drank the Poyson up,

Nor wish'd his Foes might pledge the Cup:

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Wisdom apt Remedies can find,

To cure each Sickness of the Mind,

With weeding Errors from the Ground,

Plants in their Room, what's true and sound:

Revenge by Nature growing wild,

By care is rooted out, and kill'd:

But if the Soyl Indulgence give;

No Plants of Justice there will live;

O'er-run, and choak'd, thrive there no longer,

Where Reason's weak, Passions grow stronger,

The certain cause that still we find,

It domineers in Woman-kind,

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And leads their easy Minds astray,

Like Will i'th Wisp, out of the way;

Hood-wink'd they rove the crooked Path,

Of Head strong Lust, Pride, Fraud & Wrath,

Till tyr'd, and torn, with Bush and Bryer,

In Bogs of Infamy they mire.

Can you then fondly think, because

Crimes scape the Censure of the Laws,

They pass unpunish'd? No: within,

Conscience afflicts them for their sin;

While sharper pains their Souls torment,

Than Judge, or Tyrant can invent:

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No sense of Torture can compare

With Pangs of Sinner in dispair:

That's sharp, but momentary Grief;

This knows no End, nor hopes Relief;

While in their Breasts condemn'd, they feel,

And antedate the Pains of Hell.

A Story just pat to this Case

I've read, but cannot quote the place,

Tho in Authentick writ, I'm certain;

That once upon a time, a Spartan

Unto whose trust, a friend like you,

Had left a bag of Coin or two,

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Of which possest, the Rascal grutches

To part with's Booty out of's Clutches;

To be resolv'd of what he doubted,

Consults the Oracle about it,

If he might use Equivocation,

Or else forswear it on occasion;

And so might bite his Friend confiding:

Which made the inraged Priestess chide him,

And plainly told him from Apollo,

Due punishment such Crimes should follow.

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Worthy the God was the Prediction

Which prov'd a true one, and no Fiction;

With Thunder of the Sentence stunn'd,

He hasts his Purchace to refund:

Now 'twas not Honesty, but Fright,

Which made the Knave at last do Right;

Nor did Compliance save his Bacon,

That would have Virtues Paths forsaken;

Himself with his whole Fire-side,

At once for an example dy'd,

Together with Remote Relations,

Unto the Third, Fourth Generations.

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If Perjury altho but meant;

Met with so Tragical Event:

What dreadful Vengeance must impend,

So base, and treacherous a Friend?

Whoever but designs a Crime,

Is guilty, at the self same time,

Altho perhaps he ne'er proceeds

To ripen his intent to Deeds;

If the foul Crime he perpetrate,

Perpetual horrors on him wait;

Th' Effects of black Despair he feels

That haunt and dog him at the heels;

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Grief, Sorrow, each unwelcom Guest,

Take Lodgings in his anxious Breast:

If to divert his Pangs he try

Choice Musick, Mirth or Company,

Like Bancoe's Ghost, his ugly Sin,

To marr his Jollity, stalks-in;

At Costly Banquet, 'twill not cease

To haunt, and to disturb his peace;

And tho the chief Guest at the Treat

He nauseats all, and cannot eat,

The Morsel chew'd he cannot swallow,

As if his Teeth were clog'd with Tallow:

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To rowse him from his Dumps, they try

A Glass of noble Burgundy;

That friendly God's a sure relief,

From ev'ry Soul to banish Grief.

His vitiated Tast (alas!)

Receives no pleasure from the Glass;

And at old Hock makes as severe

A face, as if 'twere Vinegar.

At night in Bed tosses and turns

Restless, while watchful Taper burns;

Or if by chance, slumber allows

His harass'd Limbs a short repose,

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His working fancy represents

Fresh Argument for discontents

Dreams he th' abused Temple fees

And the affronted Dieties,

You his wrong'd friend before his Eyes,

Stalking in a Gygantick size,

Ready upon his Corps to fieze

To revenge Theft and Perjuries.

Bath'd in cold Sweats he frighted Shreiks

At Visions bloodier than (24) King Dick's.

These are the trembling Cowards start

At ev'ry chance with akeing Heart,

Look pale and are of Wits bereaven

To hear th' Artillery of Heaven.

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Not guessing Chance can make so lowd

A Crack, when Winds break through a Cloud,

And flash, when each the other shocks,

Like Flint and Steel in Tinder-box:

The Wretches, in a sad Condition,

Fancy each Bolt brings its (25) Commission,

From Heavens avenging Arm being sent,

And aim'd at them for punishment;

Which if they scape, then they believe

That respit's, but a short reprieve

From an inevitable Doom,

That with surprise will surely come;

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If Pulse uneven restless night,

With Symptoms of a Fever fright,

They think the dreadful Summon's come

To hurry 'em to eternal Doom;

To Heaven they dare not send a Prayer,

Least they wake fleeping Vengeance there;

And to their own destruction raise

Anger, they know not to appease.

Sin's of unconstant fickle Nature,

Varying its Object, shape and Matter;

To start fresh Game is always ranging:

Like Proteus makes no end of changing;

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Cameleon Trimmer shifting dye,

By turns, wears ev'ry Livery.

Set the Door open to one Sin

All sorts of Crimes will strait rush in;

Decoy'd to swallow by the Devil

Quickly distinguish Good from Evil;

Fruits of Apostacy we find

Too soon in the debauched mind;

And though perhaps, sometimes within

Pangs of Remorse are felt for Sin;

When with like appetite we burn,

To our old haunts again, return;

Nature and Custom draws us in,

For who can bound or stint his Sin?

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Reproofs, are Arguments for laughter,

To those have eat Shame, and drank after;

Grown resolute, like Man of Mettle,

They burnish face with brazen Kettle.

For Men, in the Career of Vice,

Like those that slide upon the Ice,

Can't on the sudden stop, but run

Push't by their Passions Headlong on;

Nor on the Precipice can stay,

For Hell is down hill all the way:

Who ever yet made stop at Sin,

When with Success, his hand is in?

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A lucky Entrance makes him flush,

And at all Games his Fortune push,

Till he the Gentle Habit get,

Of Vice, and dance into the Net,

With Irons cramp'd in Dungeon close,

The (26) Devil brings him his old shooes:

There jilting Fortune will deceive him,

Feign'd Friends, the World and Pleasure leave him;

Then lying pensive and forlorn,

Expos'd to Miseries and Scorn,

Must in base humble suppliant fashion,

The favour beg of Transportation.

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Or to teach others useful Lesson,

Must to the Gallows make procession,

Where the poor Wretch, on sad Triangle,

A publick Spectacle shall dangle,

Doubtless so long a wish'd for sight,

Cannot but ravish with delight;

And then at last with joyful mind

You'll own, Heaven's neither deaf nor blind.

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EXEMPLO. Vel facinore, cujus malum exemplum nocet, alios peccare docens.

Exemplo quodcunque malo committitur, ipsi

Displicet ductori, prima est baec ultio, quod se

Judice, nemo nooens absolvitur.

IMPROBA. Quamvia gratia, fallacis & corrupti Praetoris, vel Judicis, Urnam, & Judicium, (i. e.) jus, & equitatem, viceric, & superaverit: Qua nocentes saepissime absolvuntur.

Improba quamvis

Gratia fallacis praetoris vicerit urnam.

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QUID SENTIRE. Secundum argumentum, quod omnes factum islud tanquam sceleratissimum damnent, & detestentur.

Quid sentire put a omnes, Calvine, recenti

De scelere, & fidei violatae crimine? Sed

SED NEC. Tertium argumentum quod Calvinus satis dive [...], & in re adeo tenui natus non sit, ut levi [...] jactur [...], decem nimirum H. S. quae valent 250 Anglicanas Coronas aut circiter, obruat illum, & ad desperationem adigat.

nec

Tam tenuis census tibi contigit, ut mediocris

Jacturae te mergat onus: Nec(c) rara videmus

Quae pateris: casus multis hic cognitus, & jam

Tritus, & è medio fortunae ductus acervo.

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Ponamus nimios gemitus, flagrantior

FLAGRANTIOR. Vehementior.

aequo

Non debet dolor esse

VIRI. Prudentis, magnanimi.

viri, nec vulnere major.

Tu quamvis levium minimam, exiguamque malorum

Particulam vix ferre potes, spumantibus

SPUMANTIBUS. Aestuantibus visceribus, quasi bili, ira &c fervore spument.

ardens

Visceribus, sacrum tibi quod non reddat amicus

Depositum, stupet

STUPET HAEC. Objurgat admirationem Calvini cum interrogatione. An Calvinus qui Fonteio Consule natus est, & jam Sexaginta annos vixit, haec & corsin [...]lia, quae passim & ubique sunt, cum stupore deminatur?

haec, qui jam post terga reliquit.

Sexaginoa annos Fonteio consule Natus?

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AN NIHIL. Profecisti artevitae humanae, tot rerum usu, & tanta aetate.

An nihil in melius tot rerum proficis usu?

Magna quidem, sacris quae dat praecepta

LIBELLIS. Ethici docentes Philosophiam, moralem humanitatem & sapientiam, exultare fortunae, & valida esse contra omnia adversa fortunae tela.

libellis,

Victrix fortunae sapientia.

DUCIMUS. Id est, illos etiam merito felices & sapientes dicimus, qui sine libris Philosophorum, per vitae humanae usum & experientiam, omnia vitae incommoda ferre didicerunt, & necessitatis jugo non reluctari.

Ducimus autem

Hos quoque felices, qui ferre incommoda vitae,

Nec jactare jugum vitâ didicere Magistra.

Quae

FESTA DIES. Id est quae dies adeo sacra & festa est quae non prodat furem, aut manifestat aliquod sceleraturn fecinus cujusedam furis vel perfidi, aut nummos gladio vel veneno in pixide parata partos.

tam festa dies, quae cesset prodere furem,

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Perfidiam, fraudes, atque omni ex crimine lucrum

Quaesitum; & gladio

GLADIO. Notat latrones & sicarios.

p [...]rtos, &

PIXIDE. Intelligit, venificas & venenum in pixide clausum & paratum.

Pixide nummos?

Rari(c) quippe boni numero vix sunt totidem, quot

Thebarum(d) portae, vel(e) divitis(f) ostia Nili.

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Nunc

NUNC AETAS. Id est, nunc aguntur à nobis pejora saecula &c deterioria quam fuit ferreum, quorum sceleri & vitio ipsa Natura nullum nomen invenit, nec metallum adeo vile habeat, ut pravitatem hujus saeculi torrupti satis apte possit exprimere. Quemadmodum priora saecula ab auro, argento, &c. denominata fuerunt.

aetas agitur, pejoraque saecula ferri

Temporibus, quorum sceleri non invenit ipsa

Nomen, & à nullo posuit natura metallo.

Nos(b) hominum divumque fidem clamore ciemus.

Quanto Fessidium(c) laudat vocalis agentem

Sportula, die senior(d) bulla(e) dignissime, nescis

Quas(f) habeat Veneres aliena pecunia? —

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Quem tua simplicitas risum vulgo moveat, cum

Exigis

EXIGIS. Fidem & pietatem ab illo, qui Deum non credit, nec ultorem fore perjurii, & ob id stolida tua simplicitas merito irridetur.

à quoquam ne pejeret, & putet ullis

Esse aliquod numen Templis, aereque rubenti?

Quondam hoc indiginae(b) vivebant more,—

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PRIUSQUAM. Imperante adhuc Saturno, quo aureum saeculum fuit, cum Satur [...]us nondum à filio love regno esset pulsus, qui profugus a Creta in Iraliam pervenis, ibi que a Jano lio spitio exceptus est.

— priusquam

Sumeret agrestem posito diademate falcem

Saturnus fugiens, tunc cum virguncula

JUNO. Nondum adulta, & Jovi fratri suo nupta.

Juno,

Et privatus adhuc Idaeis

JUPITER. Cum Jupiter nondum Rex esset, sed privatus in Idaeis antris à Rhea matre abscondebatur, ne à patre Saturno devoraretur.

Jupiter antris.

Nulla super nubes convivia coelicolarum,

Nec(d) puer Iliacus, formosa nec Herculis(e) uxor,

Ad Cyathos, & jam siccato nectare tergens

Brachia(f) Volcanus Lyparaea nigra taberna.

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Prandebat sibi quisquis Deus, nec turba deorum

Talis, ut est hodie, contentaque sidera paucis

Numinibus, miserum urgebant

ATLANTA. Quia fingunt Atlanta coelum sustinere.

Atlanta minori

Pondere: nondum aliquis sortitus triste

PROFUNDI. Nepunum intelligit quimari imperat.

profundi

Imperium,—

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— Aut Sicula torvus cum conjuge

PLUTON. Cum nondum esser Pluto deus ille inferni immitis horrendusque cum conjuge Proserpina, Ceteris, filia in Aerna Sie [...]e monte rupià.

Pluton,

Nec

NEC RO [...]A. Que exion [...] volume & Jutions to [...] inferece

Rota, nec

NEC FURIAE. [...] sce [...], Alecto, Tisiphona & Megaera, quae variis cruciatibus nocentes persequuntur.

furiae, nec(d) saxum, aut(e) vulturis atri

Poena, sed infernis(f) bilares sine regibus umbrae.

Improbitas illo fuit admirabilis aevo.

Credebant hoc grands nefas, & morte piandum,

Si juvenis vetulo non assurrexerat, & si

Barbato cuicunque puer, licet ipse videret

Plura domi fraga, & majores(g) glandis acervos.

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Tam venerabile erat praecedere quatuor annis,

Primaque par adeo sacrae lanugo senectae.

Nunc si depositum non inficietur amicus,

Si reddat veterem cum tota aerugine

FOLLEM. Cruinenam & sa [...] [...]ilum è corio [...]nquam follem.

follem,

Prodigiosa fides, &

THUSCIS. Quae digna sit cum reliquis portentis & prodigiis, ob inusitatam novitatem scriptis Aruspicum Thuscorum inserari.

Thuscis digna libellis,

Quaeque coronata lustrari debeat agna.

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EGREGIUM. Innuit ulterius virum integrum & inculpatum, Romae monstro biformi &c prodigioso partim esse similem.

Egregium, sanctumque virum si cerno,

BIMEMBRI PUERO. Veluri si puer natus esset semibos, ut Minotaurus; vel semiequus, ut Centauri.

bimembri

Hoc monstrum puero, vel mirandis sub aratro

Piscibus inventis; & foetae comparo

MULAE. Gravidae & praegnantis, quia mulae nunquam concipiunt. Ratio est qui [...] mula gignitu [...] & constat ex animalibus specie differentibus, viz. Equo & Asina.

mulae?

Sollicitus tanquam lapides effuderit imber,

Examenque apium longa consederet uva

Culmine delubri, tanquam in mare fluxerit amnis

Gurgitibus miris, & lactis vortice torrens.

Intercepta decem quereris sestertia fraude

Sacrilega. Quid si bis centum perdidit alter

Hoc arcana modo? majo [...]em tertius illa

Summam, quam patulae caperet vix angulus arcae?

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Tam

TAM FACILE. Egregia haec sententia notat, homines pronos & proclives esse ad fallendum, deos qui omnia vident ut testes facile contemnentes, modo homines ignorent.

facile & pronum est superos contemnere testes,

Si mortalis idem nemo sciet.

ADSPICE. Accurate & graphice depingit talium hominum constantem malitiam, audaciam & impudentiam, qui alta voce, & constantia ficti & simulati vultûs, audacter & pertinaciter pejerare audent.

Adspice quanta

Voce neget, & quae sit ficti constantia vultus!

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Per solis radios, Tarpeiaque fulmina jurat,

Et Martis frameam, & Cirrhaei spicula vatis:

Per calamos venutricis pharetramque puellae,

Perque tuum pater Aegei Neptune tridentem:

Addit & Herculeos arcus, hastamque Minervae,

Quidquid habent telorum armamentaria coeli.

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Si vero & pater est, comedam, inquit, flebile nati

Sinciput elixi, Pharioque madentis aceto.

SUNT. Impii homines omnia casu, nihil autem providentia dei fieri censeant, (juxta Epicurum qui deum & providentiam sustulit.) ignorantes, naturam, fatum, fortunam, casum esse ejusdam dei nomina; quae falsa & impia opinio, causa est tantorum scelerum & perjuriorum.

Sunt in fortunae qui cafibus omnia ponunt,

Et nullo credunt mundum Rectore moveri,

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NATURA. Quasi natura bruta & irrationalis sit causa rerum naturalium; & omnium rerum vicissitudinem, ortum, & interirum producat. Cum tamen vere loquendo Natura nihil aliud est quam Deus.

Natura volvente(b) vices, & lucis, & anni,

Atque ideo(c) intrepidi quaecunqne(d) altaria tangunt.

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Est alius, metuens ne crimen poena sequatur:

Hic putat esse Dees, & pejerat, atque ita secum:

Decernat quodcunque volet de corpore nostro

ISIS. Haec Dea cum Harpocrate corporibus morbos immittere credebatur.

Isis, &(b) irato(c) feriat w [...]en lumina(d) sistro [...].

Dummodo vel coecus teneam quos abnego nummos.

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Et phthisis, & vomicae putres, & dimidium crus

Sunt

TANTI. Judicand [...] scilicet & estimanda: Innuit enim longe satius aegrotare cum divitiis quam sanum esse & p [...]uperem.

tanti?

PAUPER LADAS. Licet velocissimus cursor, non dubiter optare locupletem podagram; si non eget helleboro ex insula Anticyra proveniente; nec nobilissimo aliquo medico, qualis fuit Archiginal.

Pauper locupletem optare podagram

Nec dubitat Ladas, si non eget Anticyra, nec

Archigine. Quid enim velocis gloria plantae

PRAESTAT. Id est, inanis gloria & corona ex ramo olen victoribus data, nihil prosunt pauperi & esurienti cursoti.

Praestat, & esuriens Piseae ramus olivae?

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UT SIT. Verba sunt perjuri cum concessione conjuncta, (l. e.) licet Dei ira sit vehemens & gravis, tamen consolatur me quòd lenta & tarda sit; interea nos genio & voluptati indulgebimus.

Ut sit magna, tamen certe lenta ira deorum est.

Si curant igitur cunctos punire nocentes,

QUANDO. Post longum tempus ad me veniat, ridiculè cogitans deum more hominum per temporum intervalls agere.

Quando ad me venient? Sed & exorabile numen

Fortasse experiar: solet his ignoscere.—

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MULTI. Homines cadem scelera saepe committupt, sed diversa sorte, eventu & successu.

Multi

Committunt cadem diverso crimina faro:

ILLE CRUCEM. Supplicium crucis, furcae, vel mortis atrocis pretium& mercedem sceleris tulit.

Ille crucem sceleris pretium tulit, hic

HIC DIADEMA. Coronam, laudes & honores.

diadema.

SIC. Id est, talibus & similibus consolationibus se in scelere adversus poenam impii confirmant.

Sic animum dirae trepidans formidine culpae

Confirmant,—

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TUNC TE. Id est, postquam animum ita obfirmavit, ultro te ad aram cum alacritate praecedit, & ibi se jummen [...]o purget.

— Tunc te ad delubra voeantem

Praecedit,(b) trahere immo ultra, ac vexare paratus.

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NAM. Id est, ubi cum mala causa seeleratiff [...]ni homlrtis saepe audacia conjungitur, illa audacia apod multos speciem innocenti [...]e & integrit obsence, putant enim tan [...]m aud [...]m & sid [...]am ex recta conseremia prosi [...]sci.

Nam cum magna malae superest audacia causae,

Creditur à multis fiducia.

MIMUM. Pe [...]ju [...]us [...] calumniatur, non secus ut dominum suum vexat servus ille fugitivus & confidens, quem mimus repres [...]at in fabu [...] mimographi Catulli urbani & faceti.

Mimum agit ille,

Urbani qualem fugitivus scurra Catulli.

TU MISER. Tu innocens à perjuro vexatus deo inclamas voce Stentorea.

Tu miser exclamas, ut

STENTORA. Hic in exercitu Graecorum ad Trojam, tantam vocis altitudinem habuit ut solus clamaret quantum alii quinquaginta. Hinc prover bium, Stentore clamofior.

Stentora vincere possis,

Vel potius quantum

GRADIVUS. Mars, apud eundem Homerum à Diomede vulneratus, exclamavit quantum decem mill'a virorum.

Gradivus Homericus: —

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JUPITER HAEC. Jovem ipsum ut socordem increpat, qui videt, & audit tam manifesta perjuria, & non punit; & hominum stuporem arguit qui simulacris aeneis & marmoceis numen inesse aliquod sibi persuaserunt.

Jupiter haec? nec labra moves, cum mittere vocem

Debueras, vel marmoreus, vel aheneus?

AUTCUR. Id est, siperjuris non vis punire, & nos non audire, non etiam dignus es cui sacrificemur.

Aut cur

In carbone tuo chartâ pia thura solutâ

Ponimus, & sectum vituli jecur albaque porci

Omenta?

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—Ʋt video, nullum discrimen habendum est

Effigies inter vestras, statuam (que)

VAGELLI. Hominis stolidissimi.

Vagelli.

Accipe quae contra valeat solatia ferre,

Et qui nec

CYNICI. Duplici pallio, STOICI. fimplici utebantur, caeteturn in doctrina ni [...]il erat discriminis.

Cymicos, nec Stoica dogmata legit

A Cynicis tunica distantia;—

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—Non

NON EPICURUM. Epicurum non admicatin, quisummum bonum in volupeate & tranquillirate ponit, fuit tamen Epicurus (teste Seneca) sobrius admodum parvo horto & oleribus contentus.

Epicurum

Suspicit exigui

LAETUM. Non sine voluptate contentum.

laetum

PLANTARIBUS. Olusculis.

plantaribus horti.

CURENTUR. Aflicti gravibus aerumnis, gravem poscunt Philosophum, qui consoletur & cuter.

Curentur dubii medicis majoribus agri:

(e) Tu venam vel(f) discipulo committe Philippi.

Si nullum interris(g) tam detestabile factum

Ostendis, taceo, nec pugnis cedere pectus

Te veto, nec plana faciem contundere palma:

Quandoquidem accepto(h) claudenda est janua damno,

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Et majore domus gemitu, majore tumultu

Planguntur nummi, quam funera. Nemo dolorent

Fingit in hoc

IN HOC CASU. In amission [...] bonorum.

casu, vestem

DIDUCERE. Dil [...]cerare.

diducere summam

Contentus,

VEXARE. Lachrymis misere [...] rendo oculos vix viexpressis.

vexare oculos, humore coacto.

Ploratur lachrymis amissa pecunia veris.

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Sed si cuncta vides simili for a plena querela,

Si

SI DECIES. Si [...]sitatissimum Romae est, ut instrumenta obligatoria ceratis tabulis inscripta vel decies legantur obsignenturque, suam tamen chirographam debitores negant se unquam scripsisse, & dicunt adulterinam vanam & supervacuam esse.

decies lectis diversa parte tabellis

Vana supervacui dicunt chirographa ligni,

Arguit ipsorum quos littera, gemmaque princeps

SARDONICHUM. Sigilium in gemma preciosa soulp [...].

Sardonychum, loculis quae custoditur eburnis:

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Tenunc delicias

EXTRA-Comminem & vulgarem sortem.

extra communia censes

Ponendum, quia tu

TU GALLINAE FILIUS ALBAE. Proverbium in illos qui aliquid peculiare esse volunt: vel sibi videantur egregii & super alios feliciter nati.

gallinae filius albae,

NOS VILES. In allegoria persererat. Tu singularis & nobilis communem hominum sortem detrectas, quam nos è vili turba nullius pretii homunculi sustincre cog [...] mur.

Nos vile pulli nati infelicibus ovis.

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Rem pateris modicam, & mediocri bile ferendam,

Si flectas oculos majora ad crimina: confer

Conductum

LATRONEM. Sicarium ad occidendum conductum notat.

latronem,

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INCENDIA. O [...]m sulfure nunc pulvere [...]rmentario facta.

Incendia sulfure coepta

At (que) dolo, primos cum janua colligit ignes:

CONFER. Compara spoliationem templorum cum dene [...]tion [...] depositi tui.

Confer & hos verteris qui rollunt grandia templi

Pocula adorandae rubiginis, & populorum

Dona, vel antiquo posit as à Rege coronas.

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Haec ibi si non sunt, minor extat sacrilegus, qui

Radat inaurati femur Herculis, & faciem ipsam

Neptuni, qui bracteolam de Castore ducat.

An dubitat solitus totum conflare

TONANTEM. Jovis Statuam.

Tonantem?

Confer &

ARTIFICES. Veneficos qui venennum parant.

artifices,

MERCATOREMQUE. Venditorem simul & emptorem.

mercatoremque veneni;

Et

DEDUCENDUM. Parricidam intelligit includendum cull [...]o, cum gallo, cane, fimia, & serpente.

deducendum corio bovis in mare, cum quo

Clauditur adversis innoxia

SIMIA. Innoxia adversis fatis, in sociam poenam destinat [...], cum [...]ps [...] non occiderit parentem.

sinia fatis.

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Haec

QUOTA. Minima s [...]ilicet.

quota pars scelerum, quae

CUSTOS. Rutillium Gallicum intelligit qui sub Domitiano praefectus fuit Rome & Custos urbis.

custos Gallicus urbis

Ʋsque à Lucifero, donec lux occidat, audit?

Humani generis mores tibi nosse volenti

Sufficit una

UNA DOMUS. Illius Rutillii.

domus, paucos consume dies, et

Dicere te miserum, postquam illinc veneris,

AUDE. Si potes juste.

aude.

QUIS TUMIDUM. Quis ea quae vulgo accidunt, & quae quotidiana, & quasi è loci natura sunt, miranda putet; Romae videre omnes scelere profligatos, non magis mirum est quam in Alpibus omnes strumosos vitio aquae quam ibi potant, tanquam mammosas in Meroe Aegypti civitate: Germanos cum Or coerulis oculis & flava caesarie.

Quis tumidum guttur miratur in Alpibus? aut quis

It Meroe crasso majorem infante mamillam?

Coerula quis stupuit Germani lumina? flavam

Caesariem, & madido torquentem cornua cirro?

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Nempe quod hic illis

NATURA. Uthaec illis Natura & more, ita & nobis Romanis. [...]elera.

Natura est omnibus una.

Ad subitas Thracum volucres, nubemque sonoram

Pygmaeus parvis currit bellat or in armis:

Mox impar hosti, raptusque per aëra curvis

Ʋnguibus à saeva fertur grue, si videas hoc

Gentibus in Nostris, risu quatiere; —

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—sed illic,

Quanquam eadem assidue spectentur praelia, ridet

Nemo, ubi tot a cohors pede non est altior uno.

NULLANE. Objectio; Ita ne ille perjurus impune evader?

Nullane perjuri capitis fraudisque nefandae

Poena erit? —

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—

ABREPTUM. Puta majoribus poenis afficitur, quam animus tuus exposcit, quid tibi prodest, nec damnum ex hac re refarciari potest.

Abreptum crede hunc graviore catena

Protinus, & nostro (quòd plus velit ira?) necari

Arbitrio; manet illa tamen jactura, nec unquam

Depositum tibi sospes erit, sed corpore trunco

Invidiosa dabit minimus solatia sanguis.

AT VINDICTA. Per objectionem, id est vindicta quae in oculos incur [...]it, vel per carnificem vel per nosmet ipsos gratissima est.

At vindicta bonum vita jucundius ipsa.

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NEMPE. Respondet Poeta ad objectionem; & dicit homines stultos, indoctos, imperitos, rudes, & imbecilles, iracundos esse, & vindictae cupides, etiam ob nullas causas irascentes, non viros sapientes.

Nempe hoc indocti,

QUORUM. Cor s [...]pe praeterrem, ob nullam causam vel nullius momenti, videas incandescere, & ira flagrari.

quorum praecordia nullis

Interdum, aut levibus videas flagrantia causis,

Quantulacunque adeo est occasio, sufficit irae.

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Crysippus non dicit idem, nec mite Thaletis

Ingenium, dulcique senex

VICINUS HYMETTO. Socrates.

vicinus Hymetto,

Qui partem acceptae saeva inter vincla cicutae

Accusatori nollet dare. —

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— plurima felix

Paulatim vitia, at (que) errores exuit omnes,

Prima docens rectum

SAPIENTIA. Philosophia mor [...]lis, quae imprimis irae & reliquis affectibus froema inji [...]i; & vindictam docet obedire, & morigerare, docens otiam quod justum & Naturae conveniens est.

sapientia: quippe minuti

Semper, & infirmi est animi, exigui (que) voluptas

Ʋltio, continuo sic

COLLIGE. Argue, conclude, mulieres sunt Vindictae cupidissimae, at mulieres sunt infirmi animi, Ergo &c. Quo enim minor est animus, eo affectibus magis percellitur & superatur.

collige, Quod vindictae

Nemo magis gaudet, quam foemina—

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—

CUR TAMEN. Probat jam sequentibus neminem sceleratorum imp [...]tem habere.

Cur tamen hos tu

Evasisse putes,

QUOS. Certe illi impune non evaserunt, qui suam poenam, & vindictam, semper comitem habent.

quos diri conscia facti

Mens habet attonitos, &

SURDO. (i. e.) tacito & latenti tormento, quod animum & interiora affligit, quod nominant occultum flagellum; hae sunt furiae illae infernales, quibus Oreftes, Alcmeon & alii fuerunt agitati.

surdo verbere caedit

Occultum quatiente animo tortore flagellum?

Poena autem vehemens, & multo saevior illis,

Quas &

CAEDITIUS. Index illius temporis apud Vitellium crudelissimus; qui semper graviotibus suppliciis delectabatur.

Caeditius gravis invenit, &

RHADAMANTUS. Inferorum index justissimus, & maxime severus Jovis & Europae filius, Rex Lyciae.

Rhadamantus.

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NOCTE. Conscientiam Testem quae nunquam cessat accusare & reum convincere, & de illo supplicium sumere. Quo nulla poer [...], nullus cruciatus, gravior & truculentior excogitari potest, quam est ipsa revera poena infernalis.

Nocte, dieque suum gestare in pectore testem:

SPARTANO, &c. Glauco per hanc historiam oftendit, fieri non posse, ut qui depo [...]um abnegarit poenam effugiat. Hanc histociam recitat Herodotus Lib. 60.

Spartano cuidam respondit

PYTHIA VATES. Apollinis sacerdos fatidica, qui Pythius dictu [...], à Serpente Pythone o [...]cis [...].

Pythia vates:

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HAUD. Illam malam mentem & quod deum tentaret.

Haud impunitum quondam foret, quod dubitaret

DEPOSITUM. Fidci commissum non reddere.

Depositum retinere, & fraudem

JURE. (i. e.) suum scelus ac dolum Jure jurando tueri, ac conformare vel palliare, & excusare.

jure tueri

Jurando:

QUAEREBAT explorabat & tentabat ec quid etiam deus hanc frandem esset approbaturus.

quaerebat enim quae numinis esset

Mens, & an hoc illi facinus suaderet Apollo.

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Reddidit ergo

METU. Poenarum quai Ora [...] lum minitabatur.

metu,

NON MORIBUS. Non amore virtutis & Justitiae, quia timuit, non quia sponte voluit.

non moribus, & tamen omnem

VOCEM. Oraculi veram esse ostendit.

Vocem

ADITI. Vatis ex adito (i.e.) loco Templi intimo & ab al [...]s inaccesso.

aditi dignam templo, veram (que) probavit:

Extinctus tota pariter cum prole, domoque,

Et quamvis longo deductis gente propinquis.

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Has partitur poenas peccandi sola

VOLUNTAS. Si in Spartano voluntas sola peccandi, (facto non commisso) tem severe puniatur, quanto magis sceleratum factum sui perfidi amici puniendum sit?

voluntas.

NAM SCELUS. Egregia sententia cum sacris literis conspirans; (i. e.) qui apud se cogitavit & deliberavit scelus committere, reus est aequè arque si cogitatum feelus perpetrasset.

Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum

(c) Facti crimen habet,(d) cedo si conata peregit?

(e) Perpetua anxietas,—

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—nec Mensae tempore cessa [...]t

Faucibus ut morbo siccis, interque molares

Difficili cresente cibo.—

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—Sed vina miselhis

Expuit, Albani veteris pretiosa senectus

Displicet. Ostendas melius, densissima ruga

Cogitur in frontem,

VELUT. Non'secus ao si acetum ex falerno vino acerrimum bibisset.

velut acri ducta Falerno.

NOCTE (i. est) si sollicitudo cor urens ex mala Conscientia, postquam diu multumque in lecto versavit, brevem somnum quod rectum non est vel saltem rarissimum, ipsi indulsit, paulo post Conscientiâ exitatus rursus evigilat.

Nocte brevem si forte indulsit cur a soporem,

Et toto versata toro jam membra quiescunt,

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Continuo templum, & violati numinis aras,

Et quòd praeciquis mentem sudoribus urget,

Te videt in somnis: tua sacra, & major imago

Humanâ turbat pavidum, cogitque

FATERI. Se scelus summum admisisse, & summa etiam poena dignum esse.

fateri:

Hi

HI SUNT. Mali semper pevidi sant, & timent quoties fulgura audiunt, quae-à Jove irato mitti gutant sceleratis puniendis.

sunt qui trepidant & ad omnia fulgura pallent,

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Cum tonat, exanimes primo quoque murmure coeli,

Non quasi

FORTUITU. Casuex opinione Epicuri.

fortuitu,

NEC VENTORUM RABIE. Cum illi violenter inter se confligunt, Physici scribunt, quod ex collisione ventorum & nubium, non secus ut lapidum ignis eliciatur.

nec ventorum rabie, sed

IRATUS. Sceleribus hominum tanquam vindex eorundem.

Iratus cadat in terras, &

ET JUDICET. Alii vindicet, ut supplicium de sceleratis sumat.

judicet ignis.

ILLANIHIL. Tempestas praeterita nihil nocuit, proxima quae sequitur sollicitudine majori timetur; hujus exemplum habuimus in Caligula.

Illa nihil nocuit, curae graviore timetur

Proxima tempestas: velut hoe dilata sereno.

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PRAETEREA. Praeterea si in Pleuritida incidant, cujus calor somnum adimit, censent illum vindictae loco à deo immissum.

Praeterea lateris vigili cum febre dolorem

Si coepere pati, missum ad s [...] corporae morbum

Infesto credunt à Numine: Saxa deorum

Haec, & rela putant: Pecudem spondere Sacello

BALANTEM. Pro sanitate recupetanda Ovem vel Agnum offerre on audent.

Balantem, & laribus

CRISTAM. Gallorum diis gratissi [...]ae 'credebatur' quà Lares, & penates praecipoe plac [...]ti. Et Gallum [...]sculapio solvebat, qui convaluerat.

cristam promitters Galli

Non audent. Quid enim

SPERARE. Nocentes aegri miserri [...]i sunt, quibu [...]spes negata [...], quae omnibus hominibus relicta credebatur.

sperare nocentibus aegris

Concessum? vel quae non dignior

HOSTIA. Quae hostia adeo vilis est, quae pro sceleratorum vita mactari debeat, quae potius vivere debeat, quam homines impii & scelerati.

hostia vitae?

Mobilis, & varia est firme naturae malorum.

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CUM. [...]d perp [...]d [...] sc [...]us venerins, in calem [...]stamis perstant, abundat in illi [...] cons [...]nem.

Cum scelus admittunt superest constantia: quod fas,

Atque nefas; tandem incipiunt sentire peractis

Criminibus.

TAMEN. Sibi sceleris ma [...]e [...]o [...]iscie [...]fipi [...]èse Volunt, non ra [...] abstinere n [...]q [...]ui [...], ad vicis pro [...]i [...] d [...]icedine [...]m [...] con [...]ine capti & p [...]pediti.

Tamen ad mores naturae recurrit

Damnatos, fixa & mutari nescia: Nam quis

Peccandi finem posuit sibi?—

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—

QUANDO Ille [...] perfidus qui semes vercum [...] [...] li [...]tes praeter [...] [...] recipiet, queim [...]met de per [...] [...]on [...]e dejecit.

Quando recepit,

Ejectum semel attrirae de snome rubor [...]?

QUISNAM. Qui [...] est [...] qui semel cum per [...]e [...] [...] non hoc fromeiter de [...]derat [...] sum vitlum deficit [...].

Quisnam hominibus est, quem tu [...] videris [...] slagitio?—

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—

DABIT Pedibus vincietur olim [...] signbitur qui te perside decepit.

Dabit in laqueum vestigia noster

Perfidus, & nigri patietur carceris

UNCUM. (i. e) in renebricoso carcere unco ferreo constringetur; vel potius sub unco carnificis ad s [...]alas Gemonias.

uncum.

AUT. In insulum eju [...] Maris ex [...]io deportabitur, intelligit Gyaram [...] Cyc [...]lus.

Aut Maris Aegaei rupem, scopulosque fraequentes

Exulibus magnis.—

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—

POENA. Crudeli et [...] quam sceletatus dabit.

Poena gamies is amarae

Numinis invist,

TANDENQUEL. La [...]eris perjorum sui pe [...]cati deum plenrem semisse.

tandemque Iute [...]ere [...]eth,

Nec

NEC SURDUM. Qui [...]on an [...]liat peri [...]ria hominum, & preces oppre [...]ore [...] via [...] [...]i [...]ina [...] [...].

surdum, nec

NEC TIRESIAM. Nec [...] Tire [...].

Tiresiam quemquam esse deorum.

FINIS.

Notes

(c)

NEC RARA. Quarta consolatio, ab exemplis aliorum, quod hujusmodi damnum non ipse solus expertus sit, sed quod idem multi alii perpessi sunt.

↵

(c)

RARI. Dicit, autem vix in tota urbe Roma septem bonos inveniri, alludens ad Graeciae sapientes, qui numero septem fuerunt.

↵

(d)

THEBAE. In Boeotia septem portae fuerunt.

↵

(e)

NILI. Septem ostia.

↵

(f)

DIVITIS. Nam inundans agros Aegypti sao limo feraces & fertiles reddie.

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(b)

NOS. Inepti sceleraturn facinus videntes clamore implorare deorum atque hominum fidem incipimus, tanquam novum & inusitatum aliquod spectantes, cum hujusmodi crimina passim & ubique obvia habeamus.

↵

(c)

FESSIDIUM. Ostendic clyentes habuisse conductos, qui eum causas agentem alta voce collaudarent, non causidicis solum, verum & Poetis usitatum.

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(d)

DIC SENIOR. Acriter objurgat & vexat Calvinum, qui tot annos vixerit, & sui saeculi mores non dedicerit, ideoque dignus habitu puerili, cum animum puerilem habet.

↵

(e)

BULLA. Fuit insigne puerorum ingenuorum quod è collo ad pectus porrigibatur, habens figuram cordis, ut quidam arbitrantur: alii Priapi.

↵

(f)

NESCIS QUAS. Id est, nescis in quantis delitiis sit aliens pecunia per fraudem occupata.

↵

(b)

INDIGINAE. Latini ab origines antiquissimi Italiae populi, ex nullo parente, ex nulla patria orti, quasi indegeniti, vivebant hoc more (i. e.) simpliciter.

↵

(d)

PUER ILIACUS. Ganymedes Filius Trois Regis Ilii nondum in Coelum raptus Cinoedus & Pincerna Jovis.

↵

(e)

UXOR. Heben juventutis Deam intelligit, quae ante Ganymedem Jovi Cyaethos ministrabat, crat filia Junonis qu [...] postea in Coelum recepts Herculi nupsit.

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(f)

VOLCANUS. Cum non esser Volcanus deorum faber.

↵

(d)

NEC SAXUM. Sisyphi ob furta & fraudes.

↵

(e)

VULTURIS. Qui jecur Tytii lancinat, co quod Latonam de stupro sollicitâsset.

↵

(f)

HILARES. Sui jutis laetae sine Plutone, sine Judicibus, viz. Aeaco, Rhadamantho, Triptolemo.

↵

(g)

GLANDIS ACERVOS. Priscorum censim.

↵

(b)

VICES. Diei, anni, temporum, motuum.

↵

(c)

INTREPIDI. Sine ullo metu & timore pejerant.

↵

(d)

ALTARIA. Nam v [...]tres a [...] [...]ngentes solebant in templis conceptis verbi [...] jurare.

↵

(b)

IRATO. Infenso & infesto.

↵

(c)

FERIAT. Oculis me privet, & coecum reddat.

↵

(d)

SISTRO. Instrumentum aereum vel etiam aureum & argenteum, quo in sacris Isidis arguto strepitu resonabant, Isi [...] enim, sistrum gerebat in dextra manu. Anglice a Tymbrel.

↵

(b)

TRAHERE. Immo vero cunctanrem te trahit, & fi ire recuse [...], tibi molestus est, & interim coram alii [...] te ludibrio babet.

↵

(e)

TU. cujus damnum levis est non ita gravi consolatori opus habe [...].

↵

(f)

DISCIPULO. Medico mediocri.

↵

(g)

TAM Quam ejus qui ae fefellit.

↵

(h)

CLAUDENDA EST JANUA. Irridet eo [...] qui juxta Proverbium equo amisso stabulum clauduat.

↵

(c)

FACTI. apud deum revera qui animum respicit, scelera & mala facta, non ex se, vel per se, adeo mala sunt, quam quod ex malo animo profisciscuntur.

↵

(d)

CEDO. Concedo quanto magis si sceleratus, suas impias meditationes in actum produxit punietur.

↵

(e)

PERPETUA ANXIETAS. Ostendit Conscientiam illius qui crimen admisit, continua, & pe [...]petua tormenta persentire.

↵

ANNOTATIONS.

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(1) SHeriff. Our Author observes, That Offenders often escape the Censure of the Laws, by corrupting the Prator or Judge, and swaying his Ʋrn or Judgment, which I have been bold to change into a more Modem way of Corruption, by bribeing Sheriffs and packing Juries, a very parallel Practice. But for the better explanation of our Author, I have thought it convenient, to say something here of the Manner of the Roman Tryals at Law. The Praetor sate as Judge or President of the Court, to whom by the drawing of Lotts was added a certain Number of Assistants, who were upon their Oaths to give a true Judgment or Verdict: Which after the hearing the Cause they signified by casting certain Balls or Tables of Wax into the Prator's Ʋrn; who collecting their Votes according to the majority pronounced the Opinion or Sentence of the Court, as the Lord High Steward does among our Peers. If the Majority of the Votes were marked with the letter A. the Defendant was Acquitted, if with C. he was Condemned: If with N. L. (i. e.) N [...] Lia [...]et, it betokened they were not satisfied with the fulness of the Proof. And then the Cause was deferred to a further hearing, which many Turns in the transacting the Business by the Praetor, might give opportunity for a Bribe to slip in upon occasion.

(2) Past Ages. The common Copies of our Author in this place have it, Nona aetas. To make out which the Commentators have been put upon several Fancies and Shiffs, of which Number Lubin seems the plainest, affirming, That the Poet reckons here not after the Roman, but the Grecian manner; The Greeks counting eight Ages viz. Gold, Silver, Electrum (or a mixture of Gold and Silver) Brass, Copper, Lead, Tin and Iron, and so by consequence the Age worse than Iron, must be the Ninth; in which reckoning, he is forced to strain hard to make the Metals reach to eight, making the Iron which, is the fourth in the Roman, the eight in the Grecian account, [Page]which is very liable to suspicion, since it is apparent in our Authors, 6th. Satyr Verse the 24th. our Author counting the Ages by the Metals, makes no such distance between the Silver and the Iron Age, saying, ‘Omne alind crimen Mox ferrea protulit Aetas.’ where the word Mox implies the Iron was not long after the Silver Age. And therefore I have followed Nunc aetas, according to the Roman account. Page 7th.

(3) Saturn. Here our Poet takes an occasion to lash out into a large description of the Golden Age, for the largeness of which Digression, he has been censured, and might well have deserved it, if he had had no other design in it, than a bare description. But his satyrick Vein lays hold on so fair an occasion, to rally and deride the folly of the Roman Theology, and multiplicity of Deities, and to expose their Vanity to the derision of sevener Judgments; the wiser Heads, even in those Dark Times, concluding it most absurd to imagine there could be more or other than one immense and incomprehensible Being. Our Author says the World lived simply and honestly in the Golden Age, before Saturn was expelled from his Kingdom of Co [...]et, and forced to fly into Italy, where he was kindly received and harboured by Janus. Page 8th.

(4) Juno. Before Juno was grown into her Teens, and Married to her Brother Jupiter. Page 9th.

(5) Jove. When Jupiter skulked in the Caves of Mount Ida, where he was concealed by his Mother from his Father Saturn, who had bound himself by Contract with his elder Brother Titan, to devour all his Male Children. That after him Titan or his Children might inherit their Birth-right in the Kingdom. Page 9th.

(6) No handsom Boy. Before Ganymede was perferr'd to be Page and something else to Jupiter, and to fill Nectar in the place of Hebe. Page 9th.

(7) Or Wench. Hebe the Goddess of Youth and Daughter of Juno, she was removed from her Office of filling Nectar for the Gods, to make room for Ganymede Son to the King of Troy, which made Juno have a perfect Aversion for that City, and to plague Aeneas in his Travails, she was married to Hercules after his deification. Page 9th.

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(8) Vulcan. Before Vulcan was made the Smith of Heaven, and kept his Forge in the Island of Lypary, whence coming all besmear'd with Smoak, they made Smug wash, before he was admitted to the Table. Page 9th.

(9) Atlas. A high Mountain in Mauritania, whose Top is invisible, being obscured with Clouds, and covered with constant Snow, which made the ignorant Inhabitants conjecture the Mountain prop'd up Heaven. And might give occasion to the Poets to fancy the Heavens were supported by a Gyant of that Name, who might well be sensible, and sink under the oppression of so many new created Godheads. Page 10th.

(10) Ocean and Hell. When Jupiter with the help of his Brothers, Neptune and Pluto, had deposed their old Father Saturn, they divided the Dominion amongst them in this manner. Jupiter obtained Heaven for the Seat of his Government, Neptune ruled the Ocean, and Pluto the Souls in Hell: which fabulous division might fall out real in this manner: Jupiter the eldest had the Crown, Neptune was Admiral, and Pluto High Priest and Chief Justice, governing their Souls and Bodies, with Terrors of Laws and Conscience. Page 10th.

(11) Gentleman. Captain Ʋrats his Opinion in the Case, doubtless of great consolation at the Gallows. Page 20th.

(12) Graunger. A Person very notorious for his prodigious Science and dexterity in Counterfeiting all manner of Hands and Writing, who being at last detected, performed the Exercises usual in those Cases, and through the Pillory over-saw several Markets according to his Sentence in the Court of King's Bench, where he lately dyed.

(13) Gelt. The German Word for Money, often and clamorously repeated by the Mercenary Switzers when they mutiny for Pay; to which demand, if they have not present satisfaction, they have often in the face of their Enemy thrown down their Arms, rather chooseing to expose their Lives to the Enemy, than fight for ill Pay-Masters. Page 30.

(14) Newgate Calendar. The Judges at the Old Bayly and all Assizes, have a Calendar or Writing given them wherein the Names and Orimes of every particular Prisoner is set down. Page 31.

(15) Monument. The Pillar erected by the City of London in Memory [Page]of the great and dreadful Fire 1666, whereon Sir Patient Ward in his Majoralty caused an Inscription to be ingraven, charging the Fire of London to have been procured by the Contrivance and Treachery of the Papists. Which Inscription has been since expunged by Authority. Page 31.

(16) Buccaneirs. The Jamaica Rovers or Free-booters so called, famous and terrible in the West, Judges for their many and desperate Exploits, whose Custom is, when they surprize and sack a Town, first to plunder the Church, and then make it a Prison for the Spaniards. Page 32.

(17) Blood. Famous for his attempt to steal the Crown, and sieze the Person of the Duke of Ormond.

(18) The Pygmy-land. Here our Author to divert his Friend, describes the ridiculous War between the Cranes and the Pygmies, a dwarfish Nation inhabiting the remote Mountains of India, at continual Wars with their Mortal Foes the Cranes, who infest their Country. They make a yearly expedition to the Sea side, armed with Bows and Arrows, and riding on Rams and Goats, about the Spring time, when the Cranes hatch, where they destroy their Eggs and Young ones, least growing too numerous they might overpower them and force them from their Country, as they once drove a Colony of their Nation out of Thrane. Page 34.

(19) Crysippus. A Stoick of a meek Temper, a subtil Logician. He dyed laughing. Page 38.

(20) Thales. One of the Seven wise Men of Greece. Page. 38.

(21) Socrates. A most excellent Philosopher, of a mild and pleasant Humor, he was falsly accused by Anitus, Lycon and Melitus, for holding some wrong Opinion of the Gods: Being brought before the Judges, and by them asked what in his own Opinion he deserved; He answered, to be maintained at the publick Charge, which free Answer so distasted the Bench, That they Condemn'd him to dy by Poyson, which he drank without Concern. Page 38.

(22) Whoever. A worthy Opinion of a Heathen Poet, agreeing with the Principles of Christian in Holy Writ. Page 44.

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(23) Bancoes Ghost. In the Tragedy of Mackbeth, where the coming-in of the Ghost disturbs and interrupts the Entertainment. Page 45.

(24) Vision Dicks. In the Tragedy of Richard the 3d.

(25) Commission. A fort of Turkish Opinion held amongst the Seamen, that every Bullet has his Commission to hit the person predestinated, and no other, which stroak of Fate is inevitable.

(26) The Devil. Alluding to a Fable in Aesop, where the Malefactor in Prison summons his Famillar to his Assistance according to their Contract, the Spirit appearing with a Bundle of old Shooes, which he pretended he had worn out on his Errands; and told him without a Recruit he could not budge one foot further; not quite so treacherous a trick as he served the Conjurer in the Tragedy of the Duke of Guise. Page the last.

FINIS.

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The EEBO-TCP project was divided into two phases. The 25,363 texts created during Phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 January 2015. Anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source.

Users should be aware of the process of creating the TCP texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data.

Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). If an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in NCBEL, then their works are eligible for inclusion. Selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so.

Image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. Quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in Oxford and Michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet QA standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. After proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. Any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. Understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of TCP data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.

The texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the TEI in Libraries guidelines.

Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements).

Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site.