which by an Earthquake was from thence poured out and therefore by the Graecians called Prochyta But Dionys Halicar lib. 1. affirms the name to be derived from Prochyta Nurse to Aeneas Verse 6. Suburra One of the fairest and most frequented Streets in Rome Festus from the authority of Verrius saith it had the name a fuccurrendo for as much as the Courts of Guard were there which relieved the Watch when the Gabines besieged that part of the Town and to shew that the change of the letters came only by the vulgar errour of pronouncing he tells us that in his time the Tribe or Inhabitants of the Suburra was written Tribus Succurranea not Suburrana nor Suburana as Varro would have it called for being under the old Bulwark sub muro terreo Varro lib. 4. de ling. lat Verse 10. Poets that in August read Among the sufferings of those that lived constantly in Rome my Author reckons the torment they were put to by the Poets whom they could not be rid of even in the moneth of August when the extremity of heat was enough to kill a man that being pressed by their importunity must stand in the open Street to hear their ridiculous Verses read and Vmbricius seems the more sensible of the misery in regard it only fell upon the meaner sort for all the great persons of Rome were then at their Country-houses to which they removed upon the Calends or first day of July Verse 12. At the ancient Arc by moist Capena An Arc was a Monument of stone raised like to the Arch of a Bridge in memory of some triumph or victory and this Arc was built in honour of the Horatii afterwards it was called the distilling or dropping Arc because over it the pipes were laid that carried the water into Rome from Egeria's Fountain Ovid Fast. Egeria est quae praebet aquas Dea grata Camenoe Illa Numae Conjux consiliumque fuit Egeria waters us the Muses prize her She was King Numa's Wife and his Adviser Verse 13. Where Numa every night his Goddess met Numa Pompilius second King of the Romans was born at Cures a Town of the Sabines He was famous for Justice and Piety He pacified the fury of his Neighbours and brought the Roman Souldiers that were grown cruell and savage in their long War under King Romulus to a love of peace and reverence of Religion He built the Temple of Janus which being opened signified war being shut times of Peace and all the whole Reign of Numa it was shut but stood open after his death for fourty years together He created the Dial Martial and Quirinal Flamens or Priests He instituted a Colledge of Twelve Salian Priests of Mars He consecrated the Vestall Virgins declared the Pontifex Maximus or Chief Bishop distinguished the dayes Fasti and Nefasti the Court-dayes and Vacation or Justicium divided the year into twelve moneths and to strike a Veneration into the hearts of the Romans and make them observe what he enjoyned out of an awfull religious duty he made them believe that every night he met a Goddess or Nymph which he called Egeria from whose mouth he received his whole form of government their place of meeting was in a Grove without the Porta Capena called afterwards the Muses Grove wherein was a Temple consecrated to them and to the Goddess Egeria whose Fountain waters the Grove Ovid that calls her Numa's Wife saith likewise that she grieving for his death wept her self into a Fountain Metamorph lib. 15. which Fountain Grove and Temple at a yearly Rent were let out to the Jews grown so poor after the Sack of Jerusalem that all their Stock was a Basket for their own meat and hay to give their Horses Lastly King Numa after he had reigned fourty years beloved and honoured by his own People and all the neighbour-States died not having any strugle with nature meerly of old age By his Will he commanded that his body should not be burned but that two stone-Chests or Coffins should be made in one of which they should put his Corps and in the other the Books he had written Plutarch in Numa where he saith and quotes his Author Valerius Ansius that the Coffin of Numa's Books contained four and twenty twelve of Ceremonies and twelve of Philosophy written in Greek Four hundred years after P. Cornelius and M. Baebius being Consuls by a sudden inundation the earth was loosned and the covers of the Coffins opened but there was no part of his body found in the one in the other all the Books intire preserved by the earth and water But Petilius then Praetor had the reading of them which occasioned their destruction by fire for he acquaniting the Senate with their Contents it was not thought fit by the great Councell of Rome that secrets of such a nature should be divulged to the People so the books were brought into Court and burned Verse 25. Vmbricius A man rare at divination by the entrails of sacrificed beasts Pliny He foretold the death of Galba Tacit. but those honest Arts not bringing in sufficient to maintain Vmbricius in Rome he scorned to use cozning Arts by playing the Mountebank for a livelyhood as you see by his words How your Planet runs I know not promise Father's deaths to Sons Nor can nor will I I did ne're dissect Toads entrails Upon these Premisses he concludes What should I doe at Rome From whence contemning the vanities and baseness of the Town with his whole household in a Waggon this poor Aruspex went out in greater triumph at the Porta Capena or Triumphal Gate then ever any Conqueror entred by it into Rome Verse 30. Daedalus An Athenian Handicraft-man Sonne of Mition the most ingenious Artist of his time From his invention we have the Saw the Hatchet the Plummet and Line the Auger Glue and Cement He was the Inventor of Sails and Sail-yards which undoubtedly occasioned the Fable of his invention of Wings He set eyes in Statues and by secret springs wheels and wyers gave motion to those men of marble so artificially as they appeared to be living an Art revived in the reign of the Emperor Charles the Fifth by his Mathematician Janellus Turrianus See Strada in his Hist. Dec. 1. How Daedalus built the Labyrinth was imprisoned in it and escaped by the VVings he made himself you have in the Comment upon Sat. 1. From thence flying to Sardinia then as farre as Cumae there he laid down those Wings the Wings of Sails as Virgil calls them and rested upon the Terra firma Lucian lib. de Astrolo tells us that Daedalus was a Mathematician and his Son Icarus taught Astrology but being a young man full of fiery immaginations he soared too high pride bringing him into error and so fell into a Sea of notions whose depth was not to be sounded Verse 33. Lachesis The three fatall Goddesses which the Heathens believed to dispose the thread of mans life were Clotho Lachesis
for innovation in the State was really upon suspicion that the Son had been converted to the Christian Faith as I was told in Oxford by a Gentleman of worth assuring me that he had the authority of a great Author for it which I thought to be Eusebius or Baronius but having searched them both I finde not Domitius recorded for a Martyr by either of them and therefore in the Designe before this Satyr I only tell you that some say he was a Christian. Verse 116. Old Lords shew'd like Prodigies long since Long before Domitian reigned it was news in Rome to see an old Lord for this bald Nero took his Pattern from Nero himself qui nobilissimo cuique exitium destinabat that singled out the noblest persons for destruction Verse 124. A bearded King Tarquinius Superbus whom Brutus beguiled wore his beard long for in his time the Barbers were not come over to Rome from Sicily Verse 125. Rubrius That in his youth committed some such foul crime as pathick Nero did and being come to mans Estate was as bold a Writer of Satyrs against others as Nero was against Quintinian a notorious Pathick Lub Verse 128. Montanus Curtius Montanus mentioned by Tacitus a huge fat Glutton and a great Master in the Art of Cookery whose belly Juvenal here only takes notice of but leaves him not so you will meet him again in this Satyr Verse 130. Pompey Pompeius Ruffus not so gallant and fine a Courtier as the Arabarch Crispinus in his Oriental perfumes yet was Pompey the subtler in whispering of accusations Verse 132. Fuscus Cornelius Fuscus that having only heard of battails and studied stratagems of Warre within the marble walls of his Villa or Country-house was sent General by Domitian against the Dacians where his Army and Fuscus himself was lost Verse 134. Veiento See the Comment upon the third Satyr Verse 135. Catullus Catullus Messalinus a blinde man and a bloody Villain whose informations cost many men their lives Domitian used to cast him at great persons like a blinde dart that will spare no man Plin. He was by this Emperor raised from begging at the foot of the Aricine Hill in the Via Appia to be one of his Councellors of State Domitian taking it for granted that the tongue which begged so well would urge an accusation better Verse 143. Cilicians Sword-players of Silicia whose art in fencing this blnde Parasite had commended upon the Theaters as he had likewise praised the Engine such as we have in Masks and Playes that hoisted up the Boyes to the Clouds or the blue Canvas which they called the Velaria covering the top of the Theater Xiphilin Verse 146. Bellona Minerva Goddess of War Sister to Mars stiled likewise Enyo and Pallas whose Priests sacrificed their own blood to her and immediately she so inspired them as to explane things present and foretell the future before her Temple stood a Pillar called the Collumna Bellica whereon lay the Spear which the Faecealis or Herald took in his hand when he denounced war Alexander ab Alexandro lib 2. cap. 12. Verse 150. Arviragus King of the South Britains youngest Son to Kymbeline a great Enemy to the Romans in this Island both in Domitian's reign when it seems he flourished and in Claudius Caesar's whose Daughter Genissa if we may believe our British Historians that he had such a one Arviragus married Verse 159. Prometheus Son to Japet by his Wife Asia an excellent Potter he must needs be for he was the first according to the Poets that made a man of clay thus runs the Fable Minerva extremely taken with his ingenious workmanship promised to give him any thing the Gods had that would conduce to the perfection of his Art and when Prometheus answered that he could not conjecture how Celestial things would advantage him unless he took a view of them Minerva carried him up to heaven where finding all the heavenly bodies to be animated by fire he thought that would be most instrumentall and therefore with a Rule which he had in his hand he touched a wheel of the Sun's Chariot and so with his Rule burning he brought down to the Earth fire wherewith he made his man of clay Jupiter inraged at this presumptious theft gave a Box to Pandora to be delivered to her Husband Epimetheus Brother to Prometheus which being opened by him filled the world with innumerable diseases and calamities as for Prometheus Mercury was commanded to binde him to the Mountain Caucasus where an Eagle continually fed upon his heart but afterwards when Jupiter fell in love with Thetis and declared that he would marry her Prometheus skilfull in future events deterred him from the Match because he said it was decreed by the Fate that the Sonne born of Thetis should be a greater Person then his Father and Jupiter remembring how he had deposed his own Father Saturn feared the same measure from his Son and therefore chose to loose Thetis rather then his possession of the Heavens In recompence of the service done him in this discovery Jupiter sent Hercules to Caucasus where he killed the Eagle and unchained Prometheus If I have trespassed upon your patience with this tedious Fable I doubt not but to please you again with the Mythologie of it Prometheus was the first that taught the Assyrians Astrology which he had studied upon the top of the high Mountain Caucasus not farre from Assyria and neer to the Heavens from whence he could the easier discover the magnitude rising and setting of the Starres An Eagle was said to tire upon his heart because it was consumed with care and watching the motions of the celestial bodies and being these were the acts of Prudence and Reason Mercury the God of both was said to have chained him to the Mountain moreover for that he shewed to men how thunder and lightning was generated it was reported that he brought fire down from Heaven N. Comes Mythol lib. 4. c. 6. Verse 165. Falerne Wine That the Grapes growing upon the Falerne Mountains in Campania made a rare Wine in Juvenal's time you may know by his frequent use of the word Falern and at this day it is the absolute best Wine in Italy as they say that have met with it where it is pure which is only in the Cardinals or some great Princes Cellars Verse 167. Lucrin Rocks or Circe's The Lucrin Rocks were in the Bay of Lucrinum in Campania the Rocks of Circe were about Cajeta where was a Temple dedicated to Circe and a Mountain that bore her name Verse 168. Richborough in Kent Verse 176. Sicambri The People of Gelderland between the Rivers of the Mose and the Rhene Verse 176. Catti Germans now Subjects to the Landgrave of Hessen called Hassi against whom Domitian made one voluntary expedition as he did another of necessity against the Dacians now the Hungarians where his whole Legion was overthrown and the General Fuscus slain ut supr Verse 178. Flying Posts Some
nest of Quails the Embleme of Concord Verse 142. Clients A Client had relation to some Noble man as his Patron The Patron was obliged in honour to protect his Client the Client besides his attendance in publick was bound by Law to contribute towards his Patrons assesments and Daughters marriages If any Client could be proved unfaithfull to his Patron to have informed made oath or given his vote against him or for his Enemy he was for such disloyalty devoted to the Infernall Gods and not only accursed by the Priest but out-lawed by the Criminal Judge so that it was lawfull for any man to kill him Lazius de Repub. Rom. lib. 12. c. 3. Verse 153. The Forum The great Roman Piazza where the Courts of Justice sate to which the Client after he had complemented his Friends at the Sportula waited upon his Patron Martial Prima salutantes atque altera continet hora Exercet raucos tertia causidicos The first hour and the second we salute And in the third hoarse Advocates dispute Verse 154. The learned in the Law Apollo The reason of this expression was occasioned by the Library of Civil-law-books made by Augustus Caesar in the Temple of Apollo-Pallatine where the Judges also heard Causes as appears by Horace's delivery from the prating Fellow that was arrested and carried before the Judge sitting in that Temple Horace Sic me servavit Apollo Thus Apollo saved me Verse 156. Aegyptian and Arabarch Crispinus the Aegyptian that by his Master was priviledged to have triumphal Titles Ornaments and a Statue in the pedestall or basis whereof was engraven the style of Arabarch which Crispinus might conceive the Reader would take to be Arabian Prince Some take Arabarch for a Customer in Aegypt that received toll for Cattle brought thither out of Arabia but Juvenal seems to use the Word for an Arch-rogue Verse 161. A Supper The Supper which the Patron was ordered by Domitian Caesar to bestow upon his Clients was called Caena recta a plain Supper to distinguish it from the Patrons Caena dubia or Supper of varieties such as puzled the Guests to know where they should begin But at this time the Sportula was not by Domitian reduced to the Caena recta of which Martial Centum miselli jam valete quadrantes Poor hundred Farthings now farewell Verse 171. Whole Boars The first that brought in fashion the having of a Boar served up whole to his Table was Servilius Tullus Pliny Verse 174. Crude Peacock Peacocks flesh never putrifieth St. Augustine Then well it might be raw upon a Gluttons stomach when he bathed before his next meal Hortentius the Augur was the first that brought this meat in request at Rome Verse 177. Angry Friends Neer relations must needs be vext at the death of a Friend by gluttony so surprized as not to have time to make a Will Yet even they could not but laugh at such a Comicall disaster though they lost their Legacies by it Verse 186. Mutius A great Knave but a poor man so that when the Auruncane Satyrist Lucilius published his knavery he had not a purse to see Advocates in a cause of Defamation but if Tigellinus the Emperor's Favourite had been the man so defamed he would have followed the Law which was Ne licet carmen fieri ad alterius injuriam Cicer. lib. 4. Tusc. Be it unlawfull for any man to make verse to the injury of another And in favour of so eminent a Courtier Juvenal thinks it probable that the Judg would have sentenced the Offender to die as cruel a death as was inflicted upon Christians of which barbarous cruelty read Tacitus lib. 15. Yet that very Judge might in his conscience know that Tigellinus was a thousand times the greater Villain M. Tigellinus Ophonius poysoned three of his Fathers Brothers and forging their Wills came to a vast Estate most villanously Probus Verse 189. Like those Christians of whose living bodies Nero made bonfires using them as he had done Rome with the firing whereof he charged them Note that Juvenal speaking here of the Christians Martyrdomes writes nothing disparageable to the Religion it self as he doth to that of the Jewes in Sat. 3. and 14. from whence it may with reason be inferred that because he scofs not at Christianity he reverenced it Verse 195. Aeneas Anchises his Son that when Troy was fired took his Father upon his shoulders carried him through the flames and brought him safe to Drepaâ—um a Town in Sicily where the old man dyed that in his youth begot this Pious Son upon the Goddesse Venus at the Trojan river Simois Virgil Aeneid 1. He was King of the Latins and reigned eleven years after the death of Latinus in the right of his Wife Lavinia Daughter and Heir to King Latinus and the Widow of Turnus slain by his hand Aeneid 12. Eutropius In his voyage from Troy to Italy he lost his Wife Creusa buried his Father as you heard before in Sicily but never touched upon the Coast of Africa and therefore could not have seen Dido if she had been then living After a tedious passage at Sea he landed safe with his Sonne Ascanius in Italy there conquered and settled and from him Julius Caesar derived himself Verse 196. Turnus Generall of the Rutilians in their warre against Aeneas with whom he fought single and was very angry with Juno that she would not let him stay to end the Combat See Virgil Aeneid lib. 6. Verse 197. Achilles Son to Peleus and Thetis that in his Infancy washed him in the Stygian water whereby he was made invulnerable in any part of his body but only the foot by which his Mother held him when he was dipt His Tutor was Chiron the Centaur of whom he learned Horsmanship Musick and Physick His Mother understanding by the Oracle that he should perish in the Trojan Expedition concealed him in a womans habit in the Court of King Lycomedes where he got the Kings Daughter Deidamia with child of Pyrrhus At last discovered by the subtilty of Ulysses he was drawn into the war because Troy could not be taken by the Graecians until they had the assistance of Achilles To prevent the Fate which Thetis knew him to be in danger of she prevailed with Vulcan to make him armes that were impenitrable After he had shewn much valour in the war he was in such a rage with Agamemnon for taking from him his beloved Prisoner fair Briseis that he resolved notwithstanding all the Prayers and importunities of his Countrymen never more to draw his Sword against the Trojans But hearing that Hector had slain Patroclus his fury for the death of that Friend made him forget his rage against his enemy King Agamemnon and dispensing with his solemn resolution he fought again more furiously then ever slew Hector and in his Friends revenge tyed the dead body to his Chariot and drag'd it three times about the walls of Troy at last sold it to King Priam. Finally when he
wafted hither bin Which brings us Syrian figs and sea-coal in Is it no priviledge that we were bred In Roman aire with Sabine olives fed The wise Greek Parasite will the speech commend Of his unlearn'd the face of 's ugly friend His long weak neck with HERCULES compare Holding earth-born ANTAEUS in the aire Admire his cleer voice sounding harsher then The Cock that treading bites his love the Hen. We flatter thus but they 're believ'd for they Act better when upon the Stage they play A naked Sea-Nymph or a modest Wife Or Curtezan they doe it to the life The woman seen 't is not the Player speaks All 's plain beneath the waste and gently breaks Nor should their Mimicks be in that esteem ANTIOCHUS STRATOCLES DEMETRIUS seem Such wonders soft-tongu'd HAEMUS such a man Their very Nation 's a Comedian Smile you a lowder laughter shakes him weep He his friend company in tears will keep But griev's not if you say the winter's cold And call for fire he 'll in a Rug be roll'd Cry out 't is hot he sweats can ours then match His wit that still lies at the nimbler catch That night and day put 's on anothers look Praises his friend's new Suite as strangely took Flourishing of his hands before his face If he belch well or piss with a good grace Or if the gilt boll's bottom turning up He take the froth off with a gallant sup Then nothing's safe from 's lust or unprophan'd Not your chast Wife your Son till then unstain'd The yet smooth Bridegroome or your virgin-childe Hast none of these thy Grandmother's defil'd They will know Chamber-secrets and be fear'd And since some mention of the Greeks y' have heard See their Gymnasium where our Youth now learns And hear a crime the reverend Gown concerns The Stoick murder'd BAREAS a State-Rogue His Friend his Pupill a grave Pedagogue An old Informer nurs'd upon the coast Where winged PEGASUS a feather lost No place for any Roman here remains Where ERIMANTUS or PROTOGENES reigns Or DIPHILUS that by 's Nation 's vice will own No Partner but enjoyes his friend alone For if his clime's or nature's venome fall Into an easie ear good night to all My tedious service out a-doors I 'm hurld A Client 's the least losse in all the world But not to sooth our selves though night by night We Clients run so hard what gain we by 't When now the Praetor bids his Lictor fly To childless friends that long since waking ly For fear that his Collegue the Tribune may Wish MODIA or ALBINA first Good day The rich man's Slave and the poor Freed-man's Son That gives him th' upper hand together run The first whereof bestowes what would have paid The Tribune for a Legion to Trade With CATIENA or pant once or twice Upon Calvina frighted at her price Thou tak'st poor whores so much thou canst not spare As will hand CHIO from her lofty chair At Rome produce a witness as sincere As CYBEL'S Host though NUMA should appear Or he that sav'd our PALLAS from the flame First his estate 's examin'd last his fame What servants keeps he what 's he worth in land On 's Board how great how many Chargers stand As much coyn as in 's Cofers each man hath So much is th' estimation of his faith Should'st thou make oath by all those sacred pow'rs The Samothratians worship and by ours That poor men thunder and the Gods contemne 'T is held and that the Gods dispense with them Then one 's a common theam for mirth and scorn If 's Gown be sordid his Cloak old and torn His Shoe-sole gape or in the stitcht-up wound The several scars by the new thread be found In wretched beggery nothing's harder then To see what laughing-stocks it makes of men Get y' out whose meanes fall short of Law one cryes For shame from off the noble Cushion rise Let some Whor's issue or the Cryer's Heire Sit down and give his gallant plaudit there With fine young Fencers basket-scramblers thus It pleas'd vain OTHO to distinguish us Who here to Sons-in-law with mean estates Gives portions who the poor his Heir creates When 's he of th' Aediles Counsell ere this day We meaner Romans should have troopt away Men seldome rise where want keeps virtue down But 't is a miracle in this base Town Here Servant's bellies your expence inlarge A poor Room 's dear a slender Meal great charge We blush to eat in earth they doe not so That hence removing to the Marsians go That are contented with Sabellian food And only wear a course Venetian hood There 's a great part of Italy where none But only dead men have a gown put on Ev'n in the majesty of some feast-day When on the strew'd Stage th' old Jig ends the Play While the poor Country-Child in 's Mothers arme Fears the pale gaping thing will doe it harme You see one habit worn by all that sit As well in the Orchestra as the Pit White garments serve the Aediles of the Town And 't is esteem'd a robe of high renown Here 's gallantry beyond our means Here 's more Then needs oft taken from anothers store Our common crime 's proud beggery not to hold Thee longer all at Rome is bought and sold. What giv'st thou to have COSSUS daign a word Or great VIENTO but a look afford This mowes down beards he must the Fav'rite trim The Patron 's house is fil'd with gifts for him This for your self Sir tribute we must pay To servants and make them as rich as gay Who fears or ever fear'd in Country-Towns Their bane at moist Praeneste where wood crowns The Volsian cliffs among the simple sort Of Gabians or in bending Tibur's Fort We fill a Town shoard-up with slender poles Brought by the Boor who th' old wide-gaping holes Dawbs over and then bids us sleep secure When we to sleep for ever may be sure Let me live where no night-shreiks terrify Here one fire fire here others water cry UCALEGON tugs out his lumber there Below they 've chimneys therefore fire may fear But thou three stories high unwarn'd art took That could'st for no mischance but drowning look The rain from thy Loft being kept away Only by tiles where egges soft pigeons lay Shorter then 's Dwarfe-wife CODRUS had a Bed Item six little Jugs on 's Cupboards head Item beneath it stood a two-ear'd pot By CHIRON'S Herbal Lastly he had got A Chest with some Greek-Authors where the fierce Barbarous Mice gnaw'd never-dying verse Who knows not CODRUS nothing had yet crost By fire poor wretch he all that nothing lost And to accumulate the Begger 's grief None gave him house-room or a meal's relief But when ACTURIUS his great house was burn'd The City droopt the Conscript-fathers mourn'd The Praetor straight adjourns the Court the fate Of Rome we groan for fire it self we hate While 's house burns one sends marble and great sums With milk-white naked
Statues th' other comes EUPHRANOR'S work or POLYCLET'S rare piece This gives old buskins of the Gods of Greece Books Shelfs MINERVA to the waste he brings A bushell full of silver he more things And better then he his could ever call This Persian now receives more rich then all Rome's childless men suspected to conspire Good cause the setting his own house on fire Could you be from the Circus wean'd you may Buy a neat house at Fabrateria At Sora or Frusino for what here You sit at to hire darkness by the year There your short Well no bucket needs but wets With ease your little Garden 's tender Sets Live love thy rake and sallets neatly drest Which may a hundred Pythagoreans feast 'T is somewhat be where 't wil to be decreed Lord of so much as may one Lizard feed Most sick men here with over-watching die Such crudities breed meats that baking lie Upon the burning stomack What ease get Poor Ttadesmen next the street sleep's for the great Hence spring diseases when the waggons meet At th' oblique turning of some narrow street The Car-men there that stand and scold would keep Dull DRUSUS or the Sea-calf from his sleep When business calls the crow'd a rich man shun Lest over them his huge Sedan should run Which he Reads writes or sleeps in as he goes For sleep will come if he the curtains close Yet he 's there first for as we haste we finde A stream before us and a tide behinde He shoves with 's elbows he with harder blocks Our heads this cowl-staffe and that barrell knocks Dirt noints our thighs and then the great foot kicks And in our fingers th' horsemans rowell sticks Seest thou what smoak the Sportula breaths out A hundred Guests their Kitchin 's lug'd about Scarce CORBULO could such huge Chargers lift And Chafingdishes as one Groom makes shift To bear on 's steady head and runs so fast He fans the coals and tears his cloaths with haste Now meets he Carts wherein tall Fir-trees quake Now some that Pine-trees at the people shake Then breaks the Axletree whose Carriage bears Ligurian stones and pour'd about his ears That mountain thy unlucky Slave intombes Of his beshatter'd Carkas what becomes Where limbs or bones lie who can finde the holes Poor men's whole bodies vanish like their souls His Fellowes safe at home the dishes wash Blow with their mouths the fire the Nointers clash And Boyes doe in their several places toyl To fold up napkins full of sweat and oyle Whil'st Novice-Ghost he sits upon the shoar Afraid of CHARON hopeless to get o're Foul Styx from 's mouth not able to defray Poor soul that token should his waftage pay Note more dangers that attend the night To batter out our brains from what a height Pots are pour'd out which crackt or slipping print The pavement with their weight and hurt the flint Thou 'lt be thought dull senseless of casual ill To sup abroad and first not make thy Will For with so many fates thou art to meet As waking windowes open to the street Wish therefore wretch and pray they may but crown Thy head with that foul sullage they cast down The wild and drunken youth unless he fight And kill his man can take no rest that night But like ACHILLES when for 's friend he mourns Now on his face then on his back he turns His own he looses if Rom's peace he keep A Quarrell still is prologue to his sleep Yet though rash years and hotter wine provoke He 's subtle and avoids the purple cloak And his long train of Friends and Grooms that passe With burning torches and with lamps of brasse But I that have the Moon before me born Or husband a short candle am his scorn Hear how we quarrel'd if a Quarrell 't were where he layes on the blows I only bear He stands before me and commands me stand And I must be obedient to 's command Alas what would you have a man to doe In hands of one that 's mad and stronger too Whence com'st he cries whose beans have swell'd thy gut Whose vinegar hast drunk what Cobler put His purse to thine some rare chopt leeks to buy To eat with a fry'd Sheeps-head thou'lt reply Speak or I 'll kick thee say where dwel'st thou what Proseucha shall I finde thee begging at Make answers or say nothing all 's alike He 'll beat thee and make oath that thou didst strike A poor mans liberty is only this He must the hand that bastinads him kiss And give the beater thanks withall his heart He 'll let him with some few of 's teeth depart Nor is this all thy danger he 's not farre Will rob thee when their dores Shop-keepers barre When every hinge is silent Theevs then creep To cut thy throat for when our Souldiers keep The Pontine Fenns and guard the Galline Wood Rogues thence run hither for their livelyhood What forge what anvill but where chains are wrought Such store of iron to make fetters bought That shortly to want plough-shares we may fear That pruning-hooks and mattocks will be dear Our Great-grand-fathers Grand-fathers were blest They under Kings and Tribunes liv'd the best When throughout Rome one Prison serv'd for all I could say more But see the Cattel call The Sun too is declining I must go The Carter cracks his whip and tells me so Farewell think on me and when Rome signes thee A Pass to thy sweet AQUINE call on me From Cumae we 'll to Elvine CERES ride To thy DIANA thou shalt be my guide If us this shame not booted I 'll assist In your moist grounds my fellow-Satyrist The Comment UPON THE THIRD SATYR· VErse 2. Cumae A City in Campania upon the Sea-coast neer to Puteoli built by the Cumaeans a people of Asia whose Generall Hippocles joyning with Megasthenes Generall for the Chalcidians the Articles between them were so drawn that Hippocles was to have the naming of the City and Megasthenes the right of colony or plantation Strabo lib. 5. Thus the Cumaeans of Aeolia gave the name to that Town from which the Sibyll called Cumaea received hers Verse 4. Baiae Another City of Campania so named from Baius one of Vlysses his Mates there buried Neer to this City were the Baths or that confluence of warm Springs whereunto the noblest Romans resorted both for pleasure and health which made it flourish with many fair and Princely Buildings Martial to Valerius Flaccus Vt mille laudem Flacce versibus Baias Laudabo dignè non satis tamen Baias Should I with thousand verses Baiae praise Her praises to her worth I could not raise As much in commendations of the place is said by Horace in his Epistles Nullus in orbe locus Baiis praelucet amoenis Sweet Baiae no place in the world excells Verse 5. Prochyta A little desolate Island in the Tyrrhene Sea one of those called the Aeolian Isles some say it was a Mountain in the Isle of Enarime
came not short of him for he Divin'd BELLONA as inspir'd by thee A mighty Omen Sir this Fish must bring Of some great triumph or some captive King Or from the Pole of 's British Chariot ARVIRAGUS shall fall perceive you not It is a forrein Monster by the Scales Prickt-up on 's back VEIENTO only failes In that he is not able to presage The Turbot's native climate and his age Shall 's cut him speak MONTANUS cryes oh no T were a dishonour Sir to use him so Let 's have a thin-wall'd earthen vessell made Wherein his whole circumf'rence may be lay'd Some rare PROMETHEUS now should mould the pot With all speed let the wheel and clay be got Henceforth the Potters CAESAR'S Fish to fit His Court may follow This Vote carry'd it Worthy the man who th' old Court Riot knew And NERO'S midnights and a hunger new When Falern wine inflam'd the lungs in all My time his taste was most authenticall If Lucrin Rocks or Circe's th' Oisters bred Or were they with Richborough-water fed He found at the first taste and by the look Of Crab-fish told upon what Coast 't was took The Councell rises and the Lords receive Commands the Room and th' Alban Tow'r to leave To which in such haste and astonishment For them our mighty Generall had sent As if he 'd treat of something which the stern SICAMBRI or the CATTI did concern Or had receiv'd out of far distant Coasts Distracted Letters brought by flying Posts And would to heav'n he had spent all that time Thus innocently when he robb'd our Clime Of many a gallant and illustrious soul Unpunish'd or without the least controll But he was lost when once the Clown began To fear him he reveng'd the Noble-man The Comment UPON THE FOURTH SATYR VErse 1. Crispinus In the beginning of Sat 1. he is only mentioned as Freed-man to Nero but before this Satyr was written Nero had raised him to be Master or Generall of his Horse Guards and at this time the Moor Crispinus was one of the Lords of the Councell to Domitian Caesar. Verse 5. Porticos When the Romans were at the height of wealth and pride they expended vast summes of money in building ground-Galleries standing upon Marble Pillars of the form as I suppose of our Piazzas but longer and higher as made to ride in both for their Coaches as here and for their horses Sat. 7. His House costs much his Portico costs more Wherein he rides untill the showre be o're Verse 8. Forum The City of Rome had six Forums or great Piazza's The first was the Forum Romanum or Vetus and in it the Comitium or their Westminster Hall where their Courts of Justice sate there was also the Rostra or Pulpits for Orations and their old Exchange or Tabernae built about it with the Basilicae Pauli and other noble Buildings Hen. Salmuth in Pancirol lib. rerum deperdit cap. de Basil. Tabern The second was the Forum Julium built by Julius Caesar. The third was built by Aug. Caesar and from him named Augusti Forum The fourth Domitian began and Nerva finished this they called Transitorium being a Transitus or Thorough-fare into their Market-places Martial calleth it Forum Palladium because in the midst of it was the Temple of Pallas Lips de magnitud Rom. l. 3. c. 7. The fifth was built by Trajan where the Senate erected that Imperial Monument of Trajan's Columne a Pillar that was a hundred and fourty cubits high wherein was carved all the battails and actions of the Emperor Trajan which was finished two years after Juvenal writ the thirteenth Satyr and therefore you see only a part of it in the Designe or brass-Cut before the second Satyr The last was Forum Salustii opening into the goodly fair Garden called the Horti Salustini Verse 11. A Vestal he deflowr'd The House that was dedicated to the Goddesse Vesta stood neer to the Temple of Castor In this House at first four Virgins were cloistered afterwards six their Charge was to keep the sacred fire of Vesta which if it went out would portend evill to the Romans as they believed their penalty for such neglect was to be stript naked as farre as the waste and then to be whipt by their Lady-superintendent as for the fire it was only to be kindled again from the beams of the Sun which was done by a kinde of Burning-glass They were admitted between six and eleven years of age and were to remain in the Cloister thirty years the first ten to learn mysterious Ceremonies the next ten to practise them and the last ten to instruct others If in all these thirty years any Vestal was convicted of inchastity she was led to the Campus Sceleratus or Field of Execution lying within the walls of Rome neer to the Colline Gate Munster in sua Cosmog there in her closs Chair let down into a Vault wherein was a Couch a Lamp burning and a little meat the hole they put her in was presently stopped up Plutarch in Numa and so this poor defloured Vestall like an Anchorite lived and died in her grave The reason of this kinde of death and burial was because they held it unlawfull to lay violent hands upon a Vestall and unfit to burn her body who had kept the sacred fire with no more sanctity Verse 14. The Censor Domitian Caesar that acting the Censor had executed Cornelia a defloured Vestall according to the letter of the Law and commanded Adulterers to be whipt to death in the Comitium where the Judges sate Verse 15. Titius Titius and Seius are the John a Nokes and John a Stiles of the Civil Law Verse 19. Six thousand Six thousand Nummi or Sestertii made six Sestertia being neer upon fifty pound sterling and the Mullet weighed six pound equall to the number of the Sestertia Verse 28. Apicius The most noted Glutton that was ever recorded in History he writ a volume yet extant of the art of Cookery Seneca in his book of Consolation to Albina tells us that Apicius lived in his time and hanged himself because when he took his accounts of an infinite summe of money which he had laid up only to maintain his Kitchen he found the remainder to be but the tenth part Verse 33. Province Provinces were all Countries out of Italy to which the Romans sent a Praefect Proconsul or any other Governour Verse 40. Nilus The seven-channel'd River of Aegypt inclosing the City of Canopus where Crispine was born Verse 41. Calliope One of the Muses Mother to the Poet Orpheus taken to be the Inventress of Heroick Verse Virg. in Epigram Verse 43. Speak you Pierian Girls The nine Muses were called Pierian because Pierius begot them of Antiopa Cic. 2. de natura deorum but the Poets say they were so stiled from a rich Macedonian that by his Wife Evippe had nine Daughters turned into Magpies by the nine victorious Muses whom they had challenged to sing Ovid. 5. Metam Now when
Souldiers call These the Greek Roman Barb'rous Gen'rals sought And with so many wounds and dangers bought Virtue is so much less belov'd then Fame For bate reward who will at Virtue aime Hence have some few sunk Nations with their pride That glorious titles might there ashes hide Which the wild fig-tree springing breaks away For tombes themselves the pow'r of Fate obey Weigh HANNIBAL how many pounds canst find In that great Gen'rall's body now whose mind Not Africa wash't with th' Atlantick Main Nor where warm Nilus bounds it could contain He to his Elephants and Aethiops Joyn'd Spain pass'd o're the Pyrene Mountain tops Though Nature th' Alps and Snow as barrs had laid Through Rocks with Vinegar his way he made Now Italy is his he 'll yet march on There is saith his proud Souldier nothing done Unless my Carthaginians storm the Town And i th' Suburra set my Standard down O! how would th' one-ey'd Gen'ral's picture took Riding on his Getulian Monster look What 's th' end O glory he that so far spread His conquests vanquisht into exile fled Must great strange Waiter part o' th' Presence make Till the Bythinian Tyrant please to wake That life which threatn'd th' earth with change of States Nor sword nor dart nor rocky mountain dates But the revenge of Cannae for that Spring Of Roman blood was a poor little Ring Go climb the horrid Alpes vain-glorious fool To please the boyes and be their Theam at School The Youth that honour'd PELLA with his birth Vext at one world coop't up i' th narrow earth As if the rocks of GYARUS wall'd him in Or as he had in closs Seriphus bin When he a Conqu'rours entrance had compell'd To brick-wall'd Babilon one Coffin held Death doth alone deal plainly and declare What things of nothing humane bodies are We may believe what was believ'd of old That ships put in at Athos and what bold And lying Greece on history impos'd XERXES that Mountain with his Fleet inclos'd That or'e the sollid Sea by Coach he past Drank up whole Rivers when he broke his fast And all that hov'ring with her drunken wings The Muse of SOSTRATUS the Poet sings But how from Salamin return'd he shipt Whose barb'rous pride the East and Northwest whipt Never in AEOLUS his jayle so paid That fetters on th' Earth-shaker NEPTUNE laid And 't was done gently that he spar'd his brand What God would not serve under his command But how return'd he in a bark he fled Sayling in blood retarded by the dead Whose bodies to arrest his flight did swim Thus so much courted Glory punisht him Grant health O JUPITER grant length of dayes Thus the fresh youth thus th' old and sickly prayes But how great constant ills doe old men brook How ugly how unlike themselves they look Instead of skin they have a nasty hide Sagg'd cheeks wherein such wrinkles are descry'd As when through Tabraca's thick woods we shape Our course we see scratcht in an old she-Ape There 's somthing still that diff'rences the young This then that fairer He then he more strong The old have one face the same Palsie makes Their voices tremble which their body shakes Their Heads an aged fall o' th Leafe disclose And th' infancy of a still-dropping Nose Disarm'd of Teeth this chawes with only Gums And to Wife Children and himself becomes So loathsome as the sight turns COSSUS blood That brings him presents of the rarest food Nor in his meat or Wine does th' ancient gust Rejoyce his duller Pallat and for lust A long Oblivion cancells those Essayes A Nerve lyes couchant which no art can raise Indeed what faith a comfortable effect From weak gray-hair'd PRIAPUS can expect Besides though he may lust he cannot love Shall VENUS without strength to please her move The suff'ring of another part now see In rarely well-set Ayres what joy takes he Although SELEUCUS sing them to his Lute Or the fine Player in his golden Sute What matter where o' th' Stage he sits whose eare Can scarce the Cornets or the trumpets hear Whose loud-tongu'd Boy the very house must rock To make him know who 's come or what 's a Clock A Fever only warming the no blood In his cold body which hath such a flood Of all kinde of diseases that to tell Their very names I might sum up as well How many Youths got OPPIA'S good will What Patients THEMISON did one Autumn kill What friends to Rome by BASIL cheated were Abroad by HIRRUS what poor Orphans here What men long MAURA in one day enjoyes Or the base School-master HAMILLUS boyes Sooner might my Arithmetick avow How many Manors he is Lord of now That when my youthfull beard did trimming crave Correction with his nimble Sizzers gave This loses th' use of shoulders that of thighes He of his hips and he of both his eyes Envy'ng the pur-blind the fresh colour 's fled From 's lips and those with other's hands are fed He at the sight of supper wont to fall A yawning gapes and gapes and that is all So gape young Swallows to bring whose supplies With her mouth full their fasting Mother flyes But losse of all his members equalls not His losse of senses that hath quite forgot His servants names nor his friend's count'nance knows Nor who 't was supt with him last night nor those He got and bred though now his Will declare Them strangers making PHIALE his heir For her warm breath a trick that she did use For many years together in the Stewes But if he have his senses yet he must Be forc't to lay his Children in the dust With his fair Sister's ashes fill an Urn Give order for the fire too that must burn His Brother's body and his dearest Wife This penance all must doe that have long life They must new fun'rals of their house behold And in perpetuall grief and blacks grow old King NESTOR did if faith to thee we give Great HOMER neerest to the Raven live Blest sure to be so many ages old That he his years upon his right hand told And drank so oft wine in the Must but stay A while before you judge and mark I pray How he complain's of Fates too kinde decrees Of too much thread they spun him when he sees His son ANTILOCHUS his beard on fire He then of all about him did inquire What 't was should him to so long life ingage What he had ever done deserv'd that age So PELEUS raves for his ACHILLES slain He for ULYSSES wandring on the main PRIAM Troy safe had his last progresse made In state unto ASSARACUS his shade HECTOR his subjects weeping and forlorn With all his brothers had the body born CASSANDRA first her fun'ral tears had spent And then POLIXENA her garments rent If he had dy'd before his son's foule guilt Ere wanton Paris his bold ships had built What did long life conferre a sight o th' fall Of Asia fire and sword destroying all Then for his
a Banquet Scholars wait to read Virgil 10 and Homer here 's a feast to plead The Poets cause though some are beggers all Must not be censur'd poor or prodigall The Manners of Men. THE ELEVENTH SATYR OF JUVENAL The ARGUMENT To supper Persicus is bid To fare as th' ancient Romans did Not new-found Rarities to eat Nor to see Wenches after meat But to hear Homer read and then Compar'd with Virgil's mighty Pen. To this all serious cares displac't His friend the Poet bids him haste IF ATTICUS sup nobly he 's esteem'd A Prince if RUTILUS doe so he 's deem'd A mad-man For what makes us laugh so loud As poor APICIUS every table crowd Bath Stage jeer RUTILUS that when he might Bear armes and for his Country's honour fight Is brought by feasting of his youthfull blood Not forc't to 't by the Tribune nor withstood To write what Fencers dictate to his hand Their Lawes and words of service and command Such you see store of whom the Creditor Oft fail'd with at the Shambles watches for Whose Palat is their God whose meanest sort Fare like great Lords or Officers at Court And through their broken stock when ruine shines Their gust all th' Elements for spoil designes No price for Rarities too great is thought Nay minde it they love most what 's dearest bought These make it nothing for a summe that straight They mean to spend to pawn their ancient Plate Or their dead Mothers Images to break And then for three pound sterling to bespeak An Olio Podrido whence they fall To that which the poor Fencers hodge-podge call The diff'rence therefore lies who bids the Guest In RUTILUS 't is luxury to feast But gaines VENTIDIUS a noble name And his expense is waited on by fame Him I may justly scorn that knows how farre All Lybian hills o're-topt by Atlas are Yet knows not where the disproportion rests 'Twixt little purses and great Iron Chests From heav'n came KNOW THY SELF and should be fix't In every breast with every counsell mixt Whether to take a Wife thou do'st intend Or to the sacred Senate would'st ascend Nor at ACHILLE'S armes THERSITES aimes Which with apologie ULYSSES claimes O do'st thou as an Orator affect Some cause of great concernment to protect Consult thy self ask thy self who am I A TULLY CURTIUS or MATHO try Thy tongue 's just measure weigh things high and low Ev'n if thou'lt money on a fish bestow Nor covet for a mullet to disburse When there is but a gudgion in thy purse For what end canst thou look for when thy rents Diminish and thy gluttony augments Thy Fathers goods thy own and others drownd In thy vast womb which Cattle holds and ground Such riotous Gallants sell their rings at last Then must bare-finger'd POLLIO beg or fast Untimely fun'ralls Gluttons cannot have Old age is more their terrour then the grave These are their usuall steps they 've money lent At Rome and that their Creditors see spent Then something left but what I doe not know When th' Usurer to whom great sums they owe Looks pale upon 't their native soil they shun And to the Bath or Port of Ostia run Nor more to leave the Forum disapprove Then from the hot Suburra to remove And in the cool Mount Esquiline to live Only this galls this grieves the Fugitive To want for one year the Circensian Playes But not one guilty blush his cheeks betrayes Few with scorn'd Modesty have now to doe She from the City is departing too Thou shalt make triall PERSICUS this day If to the things which I thus fairly say In life and manners real proof I give Or praise course food and a closs glutton Live Or when I send my boy that all may heare For brown Loaves whisper junkets in his eare Since to come sup with me th' hast promis'd now Thy host EVANDER I will be and thou HERCULES or AENEAS lesse then he But JOVE'S Relation in the next Degree And for this Son and Granchild when he sent The first in fire the last by water went Now heare your bill of fare which never did Adorn the shambles A fat little kid The softest of the Herd near Tibur 't was Bred in rich Grounds yet neither eat the grasse Nor brouz'd upon the willow's humble wood But more participates of milk then blood Then mountain-Sparagus which her distaffe laid Aside was gather'd by the Village-maid Great eggs took warm from their contorted hay Serv'd with the mothers which those eggs did lay Grapes long preserv'd such as the Vinyard bears Signine and Syrian that match Pisan Pears Serv'd up as they came or'e in baskets full Apples that taste like those we newly pull Not to be fear'd th' ill humor being lost Autumne's crude juyce concocted by the frost Th' old Senate this poor supper would have thought A wanton feast his sallets CURIUS brought Which he himself in 's little garden got And or'e a poore fire put them in the pot Now rogues that dig in chains disdaine such meat Remembring how the Cookes fat paunches eat Broil'd rashers that on wide grid-irons lay Were then reserv'd for some great holy-day They on their kindreds birth-day adding lard And what more flesh the Sacrifice had spar'd Some kinsman whom thrice Consull they had seen That had our Gen'rall and Dictator been Came to these dainties early with his spade Which tam'd the mountain or'e his shoulder laid Doubting the FABII or stern CATO saw By SCAURI or FABRICII kept in awe The rigid Censor's manners they did feare That to his own Collegue was so severe None made it then their serious care to note Where in the Sea Mother of Pearl did float That makes the rich backs to our Trojan Beds Plain their bed-sides were with small brazen heads Which like a crowned Asse's-head were made Wherewith the wanton Country-children play'd The house and meat were then alike all rude No Roman had Greek arts with wonder view'd But when Towns rich in plunder he did force He broke great work-mens bolls to trap his horse And in his richest helmet only put Under a rock ingrav'd the figure cut Of that wild beast tam'd by the Empire 's fate Suckt by those Twins the Founders of our State And shew'd the naked God's bright spear and shield Hung o're a Foe that was to die or yield No men then shin'd in silver but when arm'd And the course meats they fed upon were warm'd In a poor Tuscan earthen-pot which thou Hadst thou a noble spleen wouldst envy now Then in our Temples Deities appear'd And in our streets a voice at midnight heard Cry'd to the City from the Western shore THE GAULES COME then our Gods the office bore Of their own Prophets thus they bid us look Unto our selves and thus the care was took For us and Rome by JOVE out of his mould Of stone in those dayes not prophan'd with Gold Tables made here at home those times beheld Of our own wood old Walnut
had not the impudence to stand in competition for the armes of Achilles so farre he knew himself and his want of merit Verse 42. Tully Juvenal admonishes an Orator to consider his own abilities whether he be with the first-file of Speakers a Cicero or in the second rank a Curtius Montanus that had a harsh kind of elocution but proud and swelling Tacit. or of the third and lowest forme a Matho whose wit was unweldy like himself See the Comment upon Sat. 1. 7. Verse 52. Pollio A Roman Knight as appears by his Ring the mark of his honour but it seems the Census Equestris his four hundred thousand Sesterces were spent in feasting to the last Deneir otherwise he would not in his life time have suffered Poverty like Hannibal to plunder him of his Ring Verse 60. Ostia A haven Town to which the Roman Prodigalls removed that in case their Creditors followed they might slip aboard a Galley which was the designe of Damasippus Sat. 8. Verse 61. Forum The Forum Romanum the place of complement and business where the Romans had their Exchange Courts of Justice Pulpits for Orations and Saturn's Temple or the Chamber of Rome See the end of the Comment upon Sat. 1. Verse 62. Suburra A great street of Rome described in the Comment upon Sat. 3. Verse 63. Cool Mount Esquiline Coole to the great persons that dwelt upon it but cold to their Clients almost sterved with dancing attendance in the night Sat. 5. Was 't this for which I left so many a time My Wife the cold Mount Esquiline to climb Verse 69. Persicus The Friend invited to supper by Juvenal as I have said in my Argument to this Satyr Verse 76. Evander King of Arcadia Son to the Prophetess Carmentis for his eloquence said to be the Son of Mercury by Nicostrata He having accidentally slain his Father left his Kingdome and by the advice of his Mother sailed into Italy beat the Aborigines and possessed himself of the place where afterwards Rome was built built himself a little Town upon Mount Palatine and there entertained Hercules but very frugally He lived to give such another treatment to Aeneas Virg. Aeneid lib. 8. Verse 80. The first in fire Hercules that was Evander's first Guest went his voyage to the Gods in fire for he burned himself alive as in the end of the Comment upon Sat. 10. Verse 80. The last by water Aeneas treated by Evander along time after Hercules was burned went to heaven by water for he got his death by a fall into the Numician Well some say he was drowned in it and the Fountain it self consecrated to his Deity Tibull Verse 83. Tybur See the Comment upon Sat. 3. Verse 92. Signine Pears that grew in Italy amongst the Signines and were the latest ripe Plin. lib. 15. cap. 15. Verse 92. Syrian Pliny and Martial commend the taste of the Syrian Pear but Horace cries up the Pisan Pear for the most delicious Verse 98. Curius See the end of the Comment upon Sat. 2. Verse 111. Fabii Q. Fabius Maximus and his Sonne both temperate and frugall persons Verse 112. Scauri Marcus Scaurus Prince of the Senate See the Comment upon Sat. 2. Verse 113. Censor Fabricius the Censor that set a Fine upon the head of his Collegue P. Dâ—cius See the Comment upon Sat. 2. 9. Verse 127. Wild-beast The Wolfe that gave suck to Romulus and Rhemus under the rock at the foot of the Quirine Mount Verse 129. Naked God Mars that naked begot Romulus and Rhemus as aforesaid but afterwards put on his armes to maintain the Empire founded by those royall Twins Verse 138. The Gauls come M. Caeditius heard these words in the aire Liv. lib. 5. Marcellus when he had relieved the Capitol and beat the Gauls built the Temple of Jupiter upon the place where Caeditius heard the voice Plut. in Marcel Verse 152. Syene A Maritim City upon the borders between Aegypt and Aethiopia not far from the Isle of Elephantis so named from the numerous breed of Elephants This City is directly under the Tropick of Cancer so that in the Summer-Solstice at noon day the bodies of the Inhabitants cast off no shaddow at all Plin. lib. 1. cap. 73. Verse 154. Nabathaea An Orientall Region beginning at Arabia and containing all that tract on the right hand to the red Sea On the left hand is the Persian Sea and at the furthest part the Indian it had the name from Nabaioth the eldest Son to Ishmael The people of this Country are called Dacharenes Eustat Steph. Verse 168. Doctor Trypher Master of the carving Academy whose Pergula or Ground-tarras opening to the Suburra was furnished with wooden figures of birds beasts and fishes for his Scholars to practice upon Verse 170. Pygarg Authors differ strangely about the Pygarg some say it is a Wild-goat or Hind others a kind of Eagle Suid. all I can do is to put to it the Epithet fat-rumpt which expresses my Authors meaning and the sense of the word Pygarg Verse 172. Phaenicopterus An African bird a water-fowle with red wings and a beak so long and crooked that it cannot drink till the whole head be under water Verse 182. Mango He that sold Slaves and fine Boyes in the Market Verse 210. Castanettaes Knackers of the form of a Chestnut used to this very day by the Spanish women in their Dances Verse 221. Such verse As Homer's and Virgil's so excellently good that boyes cannot spoil it with reading if Scholars sit to hear it Verse 235. Cybel's Towell At the Circensian or Megalesian Playes instituted in honour of Cybele Mother of the Gods they hung out a Towell to give notice to the Town as our Players used to put forth a Flag The originall of their custome was from Nero that hearing as he sate at dinner with how much impatience the people waited at the Court gates to know his pleasure about the Circensian Playes he threw them out of the window the Towell he wiped his hands with to give them notice that he had dined and would be presently at the Circus where ever after a Towell was hung out Suet. in Ner. Verse 237. Horse-stealer The Consul or Praetor one of them being still present at the Megalesian or Circensian Playes in his Robe royall which the Romans proverbially called the Megalesian purple At these Shows the Praetor when they ran their Chariot-races would take the horses he liked best without paying for them under pretence of service to the Publick but keep them for his private use therefore Juvenal calls him the grand Horse-stealer Verse 242. Green-coats The four parties that ran Coach-races in the Circus were divided into severall Liveries viz. the Green-coats the Russet-coats the Blue-coats and the White-coats Henr. Salm. in Pencirol cap. de Circ Max. To these four Domitian Caesar added two Companies more the Gold-coats and the Purple-coats Suet. in Domit. ca. 7. Verse 245. The Consuls P. Aemilius and. T. Varro
overthrown by Hannibal at the Battail of Cannae where Aemilius slew himself but his Collegue Varro fled to Rome and had the thanks of the House for not despairing of the Common-wealth Liv. Verse 253. To bathe here at elev'n An hour before meat the Romans bathed at the eighth hour which is our two a clock in the afternoon but Juvenal invites his friend Persicus at their fifth hour which is our eleven a clock in the morning by which it appears he went to dinner at twelve according to the present custome of England The twelfth Designe COrvinus 1 come see 2 Juvenal perform His vow made for Catullus in a storm This 3 Lamb to 3 Juno 4 that to 4 Pallas I Will sacrifice to 5 Jove this 5 Calf shall die Vpon green Turfe which I will kiss with tears For joy that earth once more Catullus beares That 6 draught of his sad wrack to me he sent To be hung up a votive Monument With more such woefull Pictures in the Fane Of 7 Ceres Goddess of our watry Plaine How low the Tempest makes his tall Ship dive Whil'st fire and water waves and lightning strive Which shall devour her the Lavinian Key Stretching its stony arms into the Sea Would rescue her and to the Lee they steer her To meet th' embracing Port but Death is neerer Down goes the Mast the Bark is lay'd at hull Still still she bulges she is stow'd too full Now her rich lading over-board they cast Plate purple Wool rare Baskets all hope past The Sun breaks out the Wind turns gentle aire The day was dismal but the evening faire Figura Duodecima HUC 1 Corvine tuum 2 Juvenalem solvere testis Debita quae Divis si parceret unda sodali Candida 3 Junoni mactabitur agna 3 Minervae 4 Par 4 vellus dabitur vitulus 5 Iovis 5 imbuet aras Cespite de vivo cui figo basia cultor Laetitiâ illacrymans pelago reddente Catullum Tradidit incolumis votivas ecce tabellas 6 Quas Heluina 7 Ceres missae monimenta salutis In Fanum accipiet quo multa ostendit imago Huic similes casus Navim ut detrudit in imum Tempestas victrix ut mox ferit aethera velis Aemulus intereà certat cum fulgure fluctus Vtri praeda ratis cedat sed saxea profert Brachia in auxilium portus porrecta Lavinus Tenditur ad positas inclusa per aequora moles Jamque propè est Statio at propior Mors instat Amico Trunca suo pinus malo scatet alveus undis Coepit cum ventis jactu decidere Vector Projicit argentum tinctas ab aere lanas Bascaudásque volens etiam pulcherrima mitti Spes vitae cum sole redit componitur Auster Atra Dies toto sed fulget Vesper olympo The Manners of Men. THE TWELFTH SATYR OF JUVENAL The ARGUMENT The Poet sacrifices now Those Beasts which he did lately vow For his Corvinus safe come back From Sea where he escap'd a Wrack Nor does He this in hope of gain Like men that such Devotion fain For sordid avaritious ends And neither are nor merit friends CORVINUS I above my birth-day prize This sweeter day this day of Sacrifice Which green turf waits for which to heav'n I owe To JUNO an Ewe-lamb as white as snow The like to her that brings into the field The Mauritanian Gorgon in her Shield But that kept for Tarpeian JOVE takes scope And brandishing his forehead shakes his rope For 't is a fierce Calfe ripe for the designe Of th' Altar Temple and besprinkling wine So great that now to suck his Damme he scorns And vexes young Oaks with his budding horns Had I a fortune like my Love a Bull Fatter then plump HISPULLA I would pull Whose weight should sink him not bred hereabout But one that when his blood did issue out Should the rich pastures of Clitumnus show And some Arch-flamen's hand should give the blow For my friend's landing from despair late rais'd Yet trembling and ev'n at himself amaz'd For horrors of the Sea and lightning past When Heav'n thick darkness in one cloud o're-cast And in an instant fire the Sail-yards caught Whil'st each astonisht himself stricken thought And no one could the fate of drowning fear That saw the Shrowds and Sails in flames appear All things fall out in such a hideous form When there arises a Poetick storm Another kind of misery behold Heare with new pitty though the case be old And known to all that have in Temples been And there like fate in Votive Pictures seen ISIS you know feeds Painters to express In tables modells of my friend's distress When half his Ship took water larboard here The reeling tree there starboard forc't to steer And wave on wave did of his skill defeat The hoary Pilot with the winds to treat CATULLUS falls and for his pattern takes The Castor that himself an Evnuch makes And to redeem his life his stones bestowes So med'cinable he his dowcets knows Cast o're-board all that 's mine CATULLUS cryes Willing his richest goods to sacrifice Purple for soft MECAENASES to wear Robes of those climes which grass so noble bear As dies the fleece by nature helpt with rare And unknown fountains and the Baetick aire To NEPTUNE silver Chargers he gave up Made by PARTHENIUS and a goodly Cup Of neer two gallons worthy to be brought To thirsty PHOLUS FUSCUS his wife's draught Besides his Baskets from the British Mart He drown'd a thousand bolls of Grecian art Such as that royall Merchant tippled in Whose money did rich plated Olynth win Where 's such another in the world that dare To save himself thus cast away his ware Some doe not get a fortune for life's sake But blind live that they may a fortune make Most of his wealth is sunk nor helps the loss They lastly are inforc't all goes so cross To hew the Mast down in their sad distress This cure 's apply'd and the tall Ship made less Goe now and to the wind commit thy breath Trust planks four fingers breadth remov'd from death Or seav'n in case it be the thickest Pine Yet with thy netted Knapsack Bisket Wine And bursten-bellied Flagons be so wise To carry Hatchets lest a storm arise But when the Sea was smooth the heav'ns grown kind My friend's fate conquering the Sea and Wind When the three Sisters pleas'd fair work begun And by their bounteous hands white thread was spun The wind for these poor wretches blowing fair And little stronger then a gentle aire With miserable shifts their course they sped For Gowns and Cloaks in stead of Sails were spread Only the fore-sprit Sail intire remain'd The South-wind laid now hope of life they gain'd With the Sun's presence Our white Land-mark then The Alban Mountain came within their ken The seat where young IULUS pleas'd his mind Lavinium to his Step-mother assign'd By th' o're-joy'd Trojans from the white Sow nam'd That for her thirty ne're-seen paps was fam'd At last
they doe both for stones at first they cast And quickn'd by their danger run at last Saving themselves from the Massacre all But 6 one that reeling gets a fatall fall For like his Serpent when their Birds want meat He 's by his zealous Neighbours kild and eat Why thus Men worse then Beasts destroy their kind Hear the No-Cause He is not of my mind Figura Decima Quinta RElligiosa Phari committit rixa colonos Certatum est binis de vero Numine pagis Niliacae serpens de te Crocodile 1 paludis Incola oppressis saturâ serpentibus Ibi. 2 Ombiacus 3 cultor genius cui praesidet Anguis Nullam gustat aquam Deus ut bibat eligit undas Sancta popina adhibet genialia vina sacelli Porticus at non longa hilari sunt gaudia Festo Saltantes vidit sol tantùm septimus Ombos Currit ut hostis adest pactâ sine stipe Choraules 4 Tentyra 5 lethiferis feriunt jejuna sagittis Ombicolas madidis recipit quos culcita lectis Nulla fugae aut pugnae superest vis utraque fractis Tentatur tamen per humum quaesita lacertis Saxa fatigatis primùm mittuntur in hostem Tandem Ombi fugiunt celeres timor adjicit alas Vt vitent pernice sequacia fata volatu Labitur hîc quidam 6 temeti viribus actus In praeceps captúsque minutìm roditur Ibis Vt solet hostilem morsu lacerare Colubrum Cur homo sic hominem mactet crudelior ursis Quà m nulla est aut causa levis sententia dispar The Manners of Men. THE FIFTEENTH SATYR OF JUVENAL The ARGUMENT The Tentyrites and Ombites fight These drunk with wine and those with spight Whose Gods are true that is to say Whose Bird or Serpent makes the Fray Where they that fast from lawfull food Eat up a Man and drink his Blood Thus violating Nature's Lawes For that they call the Holy-Cause BITHYNICUS who knows not what Portents Mad Aegypt deifies this part presents Devotion to the Crocodile in that Ibis with Serpents gorg'd is trembled at Where from half-MEMNON Magick Lutes are heard And Thebes lyes with her hundred Gates inter'd The Long-tail'd Monkey's golden form shines there There Sea-fish River-fish is worship't here Whole Cities to the Hound their prayers address None to DIANA the Hound's Patroness To strike a Leek or Onion with the edge Of the presumptuous teeth is sacriledge O blessed People in whose Gardens spring Your Gods that hold it an unlawfull thing The fleecy Sheep or little Kid to eat But lawfull to make humane flesh your meat When grave ULYSSES telling the like crime Amaz'd ALCINOUS at supper time No doubt in some it laughter mov'd or spleen As he a lying Traveller had been Will none this Fellow cast into the Main Worthy a true Charybdis thus to feign Cyclops and Laestrigons that mans flesh eat That Cyan rocks meet the lye's not so great That Scylla barks that bladders to his hand Were fil'd with wind that struck with CIRCE'S wand ELPENOR grunted with his Mates turn'd Swine To fool us sure is this old man's designe Thus some stay'd Phaeack who at meal would drink Less Corcyraean wine might justly think Because ULYSSES had no Witness there I sing indeed things monstrous but that were In the late Consulship of JUNIUS done Neer Coptus scorcht by th' almost vertick Sun A crime no Tragedy can parallel For search all stories Buskin'd Poets tell From PYRRHA'S time no fact like what the rage Of this wild People acted in our Age. An old grudge to immortall hatred turn'd Betwixt the Tentyrites and Ombites burn'd A wound in these two neighbour-Towns past cure Because that neither People will endure Their neighbours Deities nor will have more Held to be Gods then they themselves adore When at their Feast the Ombites set their beds And boards in Temples and High-wayes the Heads And Leaders of the Enemy that meant To make a sad Feast labour'd to prevent The rising from their cups which day and night Those men had set at till the Sun's seav'nth light Aegypt is all debauch'd this truth know I Each poor Town may with lewd Canopus vie Add that a victory comes easie when The foes are tippled lisping reeling men With flow'rs crown'd nointed with poor unguents they Of Ombus dance here Negro-Pipers play And there comes malice fasting first they fall To words zeal sounds the Trumpet to the Brawl With equall clamours then begins the fight Bare hands in stead of darts on faces light Scarce any cheek escap'd without a wound In all the scuffle no one nose was sound Halfe faces or chang'd looks have all the rout And gaping bones through broken cheeks stick out Fists full of blood drawn from the eye they caught Yet they themselves all this but boyes-play thought Because as yet no carcass trampled lies But many thousands fighting no one dies Their fury therefore sharper grows and now With stretcht out arms down to the ground they bow To seek for stones which suddain tumults arme Nor are these stones that can doe equall harme With those which AJAX or strong TURNUS threw Or weights such as from DIOMEDES flew And hitting of his thigh AENEAS feld But such as less and weaker hands can weld Hands of our time In HOMER'S dayes that birth Decreas'd in stature but upon the Earth The little fighting fools that now are born No God can look on but must laugh to scorn But to my story Now supplies come in To draw their swords the Tentyrites begin Keen arrows shoot the Ombites run apace As fast the shady Palm-tree's neighbours chase An Ombite falls pusht headlong by his fear Him seiz'd the Tentyrites to pieces tear That many may on one dead body sup Nor call for pots or spits to eat him up Or boyl'd or roasted the victorious throng To stay for fire doe think the time too long They gobbet down his flesh his bones they gnaw And are most highly pleas'd to eat him raw It glads me that the fire scap'd unprophan'd That Element which slye PROMETHEUS gain'd And stole from Heav'n did on the earth bestow I joy it and I think it self does so But he that of the carcase got a bit Ne're tasted any flesh so sweet as it For 't is not to be question'd if the prime Of pleasure were the gust in such a crime Nay who to eat his share too farre off stood Scrap'd with his fingers from the earth some blood The Biscainers it 's said to mans flesh ow'd Their life but how when war and fortune show'd Their utmost spleen theirs was the worst of fate 'T was famine in a siege of longest date Their miserable food should pitti'd be The very people nam'd draws tears from me After all herbs all animalls the sting Of hunger makes them snatch at any thing The foe ev'n pittying their morphew'd skin Pale looks and joynts for want of meat grown thin They famisht fed on others when they were For hunger ready their
Aricia and built a City to which he gave her name Verse 390. Co-husband C. Silius the loveliest young Lord of Rome married to the noble Lady Junia Syllana but Messalina the insatiable Empress of whom in Sat. 6. chose him for her Servant and made him put away his Wife Silius very well knew the danger of having such a Mistress but if he refused his destruction would be immediate therefore he thought it best to expect the future and enjoy the present With a great train she frequented his house could not endure to have him out of her sight but the infamy thereof was so great that she sought to cover it with the name of Matrimony Her Husband Claudius Caesar being gone to sacrifice at Ostia with all the Rites and Solemnities of Marriage she took Silius for her Co-husband This news made all the Emperor's Court tremble especially those of his Bed-chamber Calistus Pallas and the great Favorite Narcissus that when the other two would have gone to diswade her stopt their journey For Narcissus feared nothing but that she should know he knew it before he had made sure of the Emperor one of whose Mistresses he got to begin the story which he so well seconded that Claudius gave him a Commission to execute Messalina and for that day to be Captain of his Praetorian Life-guard Silius had his triall but refused to plead only desired that he might be speedily dispatched Messalina not suffered to come to Claudius his presence and prevented in her designe of sending her Children Britannicus and Octavia to beg for her was perswaded by her Mother Lepida to kill her self which she offered at yet had not a heart to perform but the Tribune sent by Narcissus did it for her in the Lucilian Garden Tacit. lib. 11. cap. 9.10.11 Tacitus makes this Preface to the History of their strange marriage I am not ignorant it will sound like a fable that any man should be such a Sot especially a Consul elect in a City where nothing can be secret The day appointed an Assembly of Witnesses at sealing of the Deeds of Contract with and provision for Issue by the Prince's Wife that he should hear the words of the Auspex and she in the Accoutrements of a Bride sit down among the Guests kiss and imbrace and lie all night with her other Husband But this is no fictitious relation all the circumstances being delivered by ancient Writers Vide Suet. in Claud. Verse 393. Bright Veil See the punctuality of Messalina that omits no Hymenaeal ceremony She wears the Flammeum or the Bride 's flame-coloured Veil The purple Counterpoint is cast upon her Bed a sum of money tendred for her Portion a publick Notary draws the Deeds of Joynture for the VVife and Settlement for the Children the Town is called in for witnesses And lest they should come together inauspicatò without some happy promise from the Auspex he by the flight of Birds divines of the future felicity of the marriage but the best Sooth-sayer at the VVedding was Vectius Valens that to shew tricks got to the top of a tree and being asked what he saw from thence answered A Storme coming from Ostia Tacit. lib. 11. cap. 10. Verse 427. Hercules Son to Jupiter and Alcmena for his valour and the glory of his actions deified Cic. de Nat. Deor. lib. 3. But he mentions many of that name First he that contended with Apollo for the Tripos The second an Aegyptian who they say invented Phrygian Letters The third one of the Corybantes or Priests of Cybele The fourth Son to Jove by Asteria the Sister of Latona he is worshipped at Tyre and had a Daughter called Carthage The fift in the Indies being likewise known by the name of Belus The sixt a Theban Son to Jupiter as aforesaid by 〈◊〉 wife Alcmena to him they ascribe the Achievments of all the â—est That Hercules was one of the twelve Gods of Aegypt and that the Greeks borrowed this Deity of the Aegyptians and conferred it upon the supposed Son of Amphitryo we have the authority of Herodot Fourty three which bore the name of Hercules are enumerated by Varro that sayes all that excelled in strength had this name as a title of honour from Hercules begot by Jupiter upon Alcmena He had the fame of conquering almost invincible Labours put upon him by Juno that sought to destroy all Jove's Bastards but he still came off victorious which immortalised his name In regard that Juvenal here mentions his Labours I shall give you an account of them The 1. in his Cradle where he crusht the heads of two Serpents sent by Juno to strangle him The 2. when he was a Youth in getting with child the fifty Daughters of Thespius in one night which brought him fifty Boyes The 3. when he came to his full growth was the destruction of the many-headed Monster Hydra in the Lernean Fens as aforesaid The 4. his foot-race upon the Mountain Maenalus in Arcadia with a Hind that had brasen Feet and golden antlers which he caught and killed The 5. in the Nemaean Forrest between Cleonae and Phlius in Greece he slew a huge Lion that was shot-free neither to be hurt by Iron Wood or Stone The 6. he vanquished Diomedes King of Thrace that fed his Horses with mans flesh and made them eat their Master The 7. A dreadfull wild Boar that was lodged in Erymanthus an Arcadian Mountain and destroyed the Country he took and carried him alive to Juno's Officer his Task-master Euristheus The 8. He killed the Stymphalick Birds with his arrows or as some say made them flye cleer away with the sound of a brass rattle The 9. A wild Bull that had almost laid waste all the Isle of Creet he tamed and brought him in a halter to Euristheus that let him loose again in Attica where he did a world of hurt but was slain by Theseus at Marathon Ovid. Met. lib. 7. The 10. He vanquished his rivall Achelous in a combat for their Mistress Deianira though he turned himself first into a Serpent then into a Bull but Hercules cut off one of his horns and got the Cornucopia the horn of plenty which he exchanged with him for the Amalthaean or wishing horn The 11. He slew Busiris King of Aegypt that used to kill all the strangers in his Court The 12. In Lybia he strangled the Giant Antaeus that wrestled with him as in the Comment upon Sat 3. The 13. Calpe and Abyla when they were one Mountain he pulled asunder The 14. He slew the never sleeping Dragon Orchard-Keeper to the Hesperides and carryed away the golden Apples The 15. When Atlas was wearied with his burden he eased him and in his stead supported Heaven The 16. He conquered Geryon King of Spain that had three bodies and carried off his herds of fat Cattel as in the Comment upon Sat. 5. The 17. He beat out the brains of that half-man Cacus the grand Thiefe Son to Vulcan and vomiting
flames of fire like his Father ibid. The 18. He slew another Out-law one Lacinius that plundered the borders of Italy and upon the place built a Temple to Juno called Juno Lacinia Virg. Aeneid 5. The 19. Albion and Bergion Giants that stopt his passage not farre from the mouth of the River Rhosne he overcame by the help of his Father Jove that assisted him with a showre of stones The 20. He conquered and took prisoner Tyrrhenus King of Eubaea that made war upon the Baeotians and tyed him to four wild Colts that tore him into quarters The 21. He tamed the Centaurs The 22. He clensed the Ox-house of Augeas King of Elis which held 3000 Oxen and was never toucht before The 23 He delivered Hesione from the Sea-monster her Father King Laomedon engaging to remunerate him with his best horses which promise being broken Hercules in a fury stormed Troy slew the King took Hesione prisoner and bestowed her upon Telamon that first scaled the walls The 24. He plundered the Isle of Cos and put the King and Queen to the sword as in the Comment upon Sat. 10. The 25. He conquered the Amazons and gave their Queen Hippolyte to his friend and fellow Souldier Theseus The 26. He went down to Hell and brought up their Porter three-headed Cerberus in a tripple chain The 27. He brought back with him into the world Queen Alcestis that died for her Husband as in the end of the Comment upon Sat. 6. The 28. After his return from hell he slew Lycus King of Thebes that in his absence would have ravished his wife Megara The 29. with his arrows he shot the Eagle which upon the top of the Mountain Caucasus fed upon the still growing liver of Prometheus The 30. He killed Cygnus Son to Mars in a duell on horseback The 31. For denying to give him food he slew Theodamas Father to his Favorite Hylas as in the end of the Comment upon Sat. 1. The 32. He conquered the Cercopes when he served Omphale Queen of Lydia The 33. He sackt Pilos and put to the sword King Neleus with all his Family but Nestor wounding Juno her self that came to assist Neleus with a three-forked Dart. The 34. In the Isle of Tenos he slew Zetes and Calais the winged Sons of Boreas and upon their Tombe erected two Pillars The 35. He passed the torrid Zone and the burning Sands of Libya not troubled with their scorching heat and having lost his Ship waded through the quick-sands of the Syrtes The 36. He set up the Pillars in the West called Hercules Pillars The 37. He slew Eurytus King of Oechalia and plundered the City carrying into Eubaea the fair Princess Iole promised to him and afterwards denyed by her Father When Deianira heard of his love to Iole she remembred the message delivered to her from the Centaur Nessus together with the Vest dipped in his blood viz. That if ever she found her Husband loved another she should give him that Vest and when he had it on he should be only hers She therefore sent it to him by her servant Lychas which he puting on as he went to sacrifice it set him in such a frenzy that he made himself the burnt-Offering After his death he was held a God and believed to be the same with the Sun Macrob. lib. 1. Saturn cap. 2. In his return from Spain some think he brought the use of Letters into Italy and was therefore worshipped both in a Temple apart and also with the Muses Verse 428. Sardanapalus The last King of Syria from Ninus the thirtith His Lievtenant General Arbactus being ambitious after some great service to see his Master a favour never before granted to any but meniall Servants after long suit was admitted and in the first Modell of a Seraglio he found the King not distinguishable from the Concubines either in his habit or imployment for he was spinning purple-silk only his body seemed to be the tenderest his eyes and his garb the most lascivious At sight hereof Arbactus with horrid indignation stomacked that so many men should be governed by a VVoman that so many men which knew the use of armes should be subject to a Distaffe At his return to the Armie Arbactus reported the strange spectacle professing he would never serve a Prince that had rather be a Woman then a Man All are of his mind They march against Sardanapalus that in his last scene was still the same for he stood not upon his defence like a man but hid himself like a woman not having in his thoughts the hope of keeping his Kingdome but the fear of loosing his life At last with some few disorderly Servants he takes the field is beaten retreats to his Palace layes himself and all his treasure upon a pile of wood and made it be fired doing only this act like a man Justin lib. 1. Figura Undecima AD coenam vocat indigenam 1 Juvenalis 2 AmicuÌ„ Aemulus Evandri qui frugi erat Herculis hospes Non mare non pelagus lustrat patrimonia mergi In ventrem nolit tener hîc tibi ponitur hoedus 3 Persice nec minùs est gratus quia traxerit auram Vulgarem Ausoniae salicÃsque ignarus herbae Solo lacte satur placet arridétque palato Quam cernis 4 gallinam ante horrea pinguis avenâ Haec ova 5 exclusit foeno modò sumpta calenti Hos tulit 6 asparagos quae carpit villica lanam Fuso quos posito legit de vertice montis Nativum retinet quo fulgeat 7 uva colorem Autumnum ut dicas gemmis mutâsse racemos Arte pari 8 pyra cum 9 pomis servata furorem Effugêre hyemis tutâque recondita cellâ Cruda emendato posuêre pericula succo Et jam cardiacis prosunt quibus antè venenum Nunc epulas coenae caput aspice nempe legentes Autorem Iliados pueros 10 nostrúmque Maronem Vindicat haec famâ violatos mensa poetas Prodiga enim licèt his sit mens his curta supellex Non omnes Iros non omnes crede Nepotes The eleventh Designe LIke an old Roman 1 Juvenal here treats His 2 friend invites him to no forrein meates No costly sawces empties not his purse To fill his Board nor eats his 3 Kid the worse Nor is esteem'd by Persicus lesse rare Because it only breath'd Italian ayre Bred in rich grounds it eat nor grasse nor wood But suckt which makes it such delicious food These Barn-doore 4 hens an houre ere they were drest Lay'd those great 5 Eggs took warme out of the Nest. This dish of 6 Sparagus the maid that spun The Napkins left her housewifes work undone To gather from the hills where they grew wilde The 7 grapes that look as Autumne were with child Of cluster'd Pearls and rubies are preserv'd The 8 Pears and 9 Apples when old winter sterv'd Il-order'd fruit so carefully were laid They from crude poisons are rich cordialls made And for