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A05338	Englandes bright honour shining through the darke disgrace of Spaines Catholicon. Seruing as a cleare lantherne, to giue light to the whole world, to guide them by; and let them see, the darke and crooked packing, of Spaine, and Spanish practises. Discoursed in most excellent and learned satires, or briefe and memorable notes, in forme of chronicle. Read, but understand; and then iudge.; Satire Menipée de la vertu du Catholicon d'Espagne. English.	T. W. (Thomas Wilcox), 1549?-1608, attributed name.; Leroy, Pierre, Canon of Rouen.; T. W., fl. 1573-1595.	1602 (1602)	STC 15490; ESTC S104018	162,351	210

lowe countries is the cause that his separa●e and disioyned Lordships cost him more than they are worth For aboue all nations hee feareth the French No lie surely Beare with bragging and lying a little as that which he knoweth to be most noble and to haue the greatest valure and impatience against the rest and rule of a strange people And that is the cause why being wise prouident and well counselled as hee is since that hee was constrained to make that miserable peace which was sealed and signed by the death of our good King Henry the second Ah wilie foxe but yet well discouered subtiltie and not daring either openly to gainesay the same or beginne waire whilest that France was flourishing vnited agreed and of the same minde and will together hee indeuoured to sowe diuision and discord amongst vs our selues and so soone as hee sawe our princes to be miscontent or to iarre amongst themselues he did secretly and closely conueigh himselfe into the action and incouraged the one of the sides to nourish and foster our diuisions and to make them immortall and to busie our selues to quarrell and fight one with another yea to kill one another that whilest these troubles were amongst vs hee might bee left in peace and so long as we did inweaken our selues to grow increase without losse and lessening Plaine pregnant proofes This was the course and proceeding that hee held after that hee sawe the princes of Vendosme and of Condie malecontent who also drew and caried with them the house of Montmorencie and of Chastillon and to set themselues against the aduantageable aduancements and proceedings of your father and of your Vncles Monsieur Lieutenant who had inuaded and vsurped all authoritie and kingly power Bleare eyed men and barbers as it is in the prouerbe are acquainted therewith in the time of young King Frauncis their nephew I speake nothing but that all Fraunce euen to the smallest and basest of them yea that the whole worlde knoweth For all the bloudie tragedies which since that time haue been plaied vpon this pitifull scaffold of France haue all of them been borne and proceeded from these first quarrels and not from the diuersitie or difference of religions as without reason men doe yet to this day make the simple and idiots to beleeue I am old and haue seene the affayres of the world as much as another yea by the grace of God and the goodnes of my friends I haue been Sheriffe and prouost of the merchants also in this citie in the time that men proceeded thereunto by free election and that they did not constraine nor vse violence to men for their suffrages and voyces as you haue done Plaine speech and particular application Monsieur Lieutenant not long sithence minding and purposing to continue Monsieur Boucher at your deuotion But I remēber yet those old times as if it were but yesterday past or this day present I can remēber well from the beginning of the quarell that fell out betweene Monsieur your late father and late Monsieur the Constable which proceeded from no other cause but from the iealousie of one of them ouer another both of them being the great minions and fauourits of Henrie the second their master Figulus figulū●dit as it is in the prouerbe as wee haue seene also Messieurs de Ioyeuse and d'Espernō vnder King Henrie the third his sonne Their first falling out was for the estate of great Master which the King had giuen to Monsieur your father when he made Monsieur of Montmorency Constable who had been great Master before and who had the Kings promise that the sayd estate should be reserued for his sonne Another cause of their ill husbandrie or bad carriage of themselues was the Countie de Dampmartin which both of them had gotten after diuers sorts Sum ego mihi metipsi proximus I loue my selfe best and being entred into suite about the same Monsieur the Constable got it by an arrest or decree This did so alter and chaunge them that either of them indeuored to cast his cōpanion out of the saddle or as we say to set him beside the cushion And from thence proceeded the voyage that Monsieur your father made into Italie where he did no great matter because that Monsieur the Constable who caused him to bee sent thither that so he might the more quietly wholly and alone possesse the King it may be hindred or slacked the affayres but he remained not long vnpunished for it for he was taken afterwards on S. Laurence day while your father was absent who being returned did by a certaine good happe and the same indeed very wonderfull It was well done of the Guise to ouercome euil with well doing take againe the townes of Picardie which wee had lost and Calais besides And that he might the better reuenge himselfe of the euill dueties that he knew were done against him in his voyage caused also the imprisonment of Monsieur the Constable to bee prolonged and forgot no arte that might hinder or delay his deliuerance which gaue an occasion to my Lords of Chastillon to desire the ayde and to cast themselues into the armes and protection of the King of Nauarre this Kings father and of Monsieur the Prince of Conde his brother who had married their neece Also these two great houses fell into factions and partakings which were yet stirred vp and incensed by the contention begun betweene the Prince of Conde Monsieur d'Aumale your vncle for the office of the colonel of the light horse there was as yet no mētion of religion or Huguenots Hardly did any know what was the doctrine of Caluin and Luther A little fire maketh a great flame but by the death of them that we sawe burne stiffe in their opinions and yet notwithstanding the matter of the warres and of the enimities that we haue seene were then in preparing and hath continued vntill this present time But the trueth is that when my Lords of Chastillon very couragious men and not able to indure the iniuries offered them saw that the fauour of your house did ouertoppe theirs and that they had not any meane to finde credite and fauour about the King by reason of the lets that they of your race house cast in the way they were counselled to withdraw themselues from the Court and as they were in their retraite they shewed themselues but whether it were in good earnest or of policie and prudence I know not to fauour the new Lutherans who till then preached no where but in caues and dennes and by little and little ioyned themselues with them in faction and intelligence It is not good to fall into the clawes and pawes of vnreasonable men the rather to defend and keepe themselues from your father your vncle then to attempt any stirring or bringing in of noueltie except then when the King at the prouocation of your

the principall authors of the rebellion and the instruments which you most vsed to deceiue the people What neede is there to rehearse here that which passed in the sayd Estates of Bloys The Lord is knowne by executing iudgement the wicked is snared in the workes of his owne hands Marke this marke this and how God blinded the eyes of them of your familie that they might goe and throwe themselues into the ditch or pit which they had prepared for another man Then when ye thought to be aloft euen aboue the winde after that goodly fundamentall lawe by which you declared the late Cardinall of Bourbon to bee the first prince of the bloud and the King of Nauarre vnworthie euer to succeed to the crowne as also his cousins adherents fauourers of heretikes euen thē I say behold a great storme that tooke away those two great pillers of the faith Messieurs your brethren the one naming himselfe Lieutenant generall great Master and Constable of France and the other the Patriarch of the French Church and cast them into such a deepe gulfe of the sea that they were neuer seene nor heard of since Was not this thinke you Yes surely was it a great stroake or blow from heauen and a wonderfull iudgement of God that they that thought to hold their master in a chaine and made an account to leade him within three daies by force or otherwise into this towne to cause him to be shauen for a monke and shut vp in a Cloyster should sodainly finde and feele themselues taken and shut vp by him whom they thought to intrap and take Some are of this mind and haue not spared to speake it that you Monsieur the Lieutenant being iealous of the greatnes and high fortune of Mōsieur your brother If he did so it was well though that he a med at therein was euill did aduertise the King that dead is of the enterprise they had in hand to leade him away and that you admonished him to make haste to preuent it Whether this bee true yea or no I report mee to your selfe but this is a matter very vulgar and common that Madame d'Aurnale your cousin was expresly at Bloys to discouer all the secret to the King where she lost not her labour and some say that her husband she would from thence forward haue been banqueroute to the League if the King would haue giuen him the gouernment of Picardie and of Boulongne A charitable but whether a true iudgement it is vncertaine and haue payd his debts Concerning your selfe I thinke not that you had so dastardly and wicked a minde to betray your brethren and men know wel enough that you were called to come and to bee present at the mariage where they would haue made you of their liuerie But whether it were that you distrusted the inclosing or that you would not hazard all three together you kept your selfe at Liōs vpon the scoutes to watch the issue and execution of the enterprise which was farre otherwise then you hoped for and it missed but a very little that you your selfe had not been of the play sauing that Seigneur Alphonsus Corse was somewhat before you or indeed a little too forward Madame your sister had the same feare that you had A shrewd womans wit who knowing the newes thought not her selfe sure enough in the suburbes but got her selfe into the towne Oh how had we been now at peace and quietnes if this prince had had the courage to haue proceeded further and to haue continued these blowes and stroakes Bitter effects following wāt of execution of iustice Then surely we should not haue seene Monsieur of Lions sit so nigh you and seruing you for a gunner or instrument to performe your practises and his owne by at Rome and in Spayne and to hinder by his sermons and his reasons coloured with religiō that we cannot haue peace which we stand so much in neede of Then we should not haue seene the furious administrations and gouernments of Marteau Nully Compan and Rowland who haue brought the people to desperation if that iustice the credit and renowne wherof we haue carried hitherto should after their apprehension be executed as indeed it ought Then should we not haue seene all the other great cities and townes burne with the fire of rebellion as they doe if their deputies had passed by the same order But the gentlenes of that King who in no sort was bloudie was content to see his principall enemie and competitor beaten downe and ouerthrowne A pitie marring all and then he rested or staied when he should most liuely and quickly haue pursued his way Notwithstanding if the Lord d'Antragues had done that which hee promised for the reducing of Orleans which he thought to heale as he had indeede spoyled it and had he not suffered himselfe to be out runne and preuented by S. Maurice and Rossieux As haste many times maketh waste so there is a foreslowing that worketh great mischiefe matters had not been so farre out of square as they were for want of giuing order to that first tumult whither you came vpon the very beginning of their first reuolt and incouraged them to rebell and to be in good earnest obstinate and according to their example you caused vs to doe as much Afterwards euen as it were very sodainly this fire inflamed all the great cities and townes of this kingdome there are very fewe thereof that can boast they were exempted therefrom so skilfull were you Wilie and wicked perswasions may doe much men are so inclined to the worst nimbly to practise men of all sides And thereupon to make vs without hope of reconciliation to our Lord and Master you caused vs to make out our processe against him you caused vs to hang and to burne his picture you forbad vs to speake of him but in the qualitie of a tyrant you caused him to be excommunicate you caused him to bee execrate detested and accursed by the Curats by the Preachers and by little children in their prayers And can any thing so horrible and fearful be spoken or alleadged as that which you caused to be done to Bussie the Clerke A fit instrument for such a foule fact the pettie aduocate accustomed to kneele vpon his knees before the court of parliament of which he had the heartie affection and loue and the great rage to goe and take him from the venerable seate of soueraigne iustice and to leade him capture and prisoner in triumph thorow the streetes euen vnto his fort and denne of the Bastille from whence he came not out but in peeces with a thousand concussions exactions and villanies which he exercised against honest and good people besides I cease to speake of the pilling of sundrie rich houses the selling of precious moueables the imprisoning and raunsoming of the inhabitants and gentlemen that they knewe to haue money and to be

without succouring him either with mony or with meanes to maintaine his royall estate he that is King indeed put himselfe in possession of Dunoys of Vendosmois of Maine of Perch and of the better part of Normandie in so much that at the last whē hee had in conquering compassed the third parte of his kingdome you were constrained partly thorow shame Fit motiues for such manner of men partly thorow despaire partly thorow mens importunitie towards you to come before him or into his sight then when hee besieged Dreux where hee shewed you a tricke of an old souldier that so he might haue the better meane to fight with you For he raised his siege made shew to retire into Perche to draw you on more forward to cause you to passe the riuers in following of him but so soone as hee sawe you were ouer and incamped in the plaine he turned his face directly vpon you gaue you the battel It is all one with God to ouercome by few or by many which you lost more for lacke of courage and good guidance than for want of mē the number of those on your side farre passing his And yet in this great affliction you could not refraine your selfe from giuing vs a newe deuised tale which is a common thing with you you and your sister feeding vs with lies and false newes and the more to comforte vs in this losse you went about to make vs beleeue that the Biarnois was dead whose face you durst not looke vpon They were wont to say a dead mā hurteth none nor attende his recountring of you But wee saw this dead man quickly after nigh vnto our gates and you your selfe were so afrayd of his shadowe that you were not at leisure to repose or rest your selfe till you were passed into Flanders where you made that goodly market with the Duke of Parma which sithence hath cost vs so deare which hath so ruinated your reputation and ouerthrowne your honor that I see not any meane at all able for euer hereafter to raise you vp againe The Spanyards he meaneth and it is no lye as also in particular the Prince of Parma For in steed of being a master you went and made your selfe a seruant and a slaue of the most insolent and proudest nation vnder heauen and you your selfe serued the most cruell and ambicious man that you were able to chuse as afterwards you proued whē he made you to serue him as a boy doth his master at tennise yea to lackey after him and to waite at his gate before he would giue you an answere though when it came it was of very small importance also Which thing the gentlemen of France that accompanied you despised and disdained and you alone were not ashamed to make your selfe vile and abiect dishonouring your linage race nation so much were you transported with a desire of reuenge and ambition But in the middest of these indignities and dishonest submissions which you made to the preiudice of the name of France and of your qualitie Carefulnes painefulnes two good vertues our new Kings staied not nor kept holie day as we say for want of worke for he shut vp our riuer aboue and below by taking Mante Poissy Corbeil Melun and Montreau after that he came tooke from vs the plaine of France by the taking of S. Denis That being done there was no more difficultie to besiege vs as indeed we were by and by after What did you to succour vs or rather what did you not to cast vs away and to make vs most miserable A kinde and carefull Captaine I will not speake that which some haue reported of you that ye did commōly say that the taking of this citie should be more hurtfull to your enemie than profitable and that his armie should bee destroyed and dispersed in taking of it I could neuer beleeue that ye would haue taken pleasure to see your wife your childrē your brother your sister to fall into the enemies hand and to stand at their mercie And yet we must needs say that the time which you set to come to succour vs was so long Hee giueth twise that giueth in good season then what is the contrarie that it made vs readie many times to fall into despaire and I beleeue that if the King had demanded some terme or time of you to take vs in he would not haue demanded more than you would haue giuen him Oh how happie had we bin if we had bin taken the morowe after we were first besieged Oh how rich should we haue bin now had we made that lost But we haue burned in a smal fire we haue languished and yet we are not healed A worthy no vnfit comparison Then should the valiant and victorious souldier haue taken away our moueables but we shuld haue had siluer to haue ransomed and redeemed them againe but since we haue eaten vp our moueables and our money also It may be hee would haue inforced some women and maides yet surely he would haue spared the most noble and thē that had had any abilitie to heale or to helpe their chastitie by respect or by friendes but sithence they haue of themselues put themselues into the stewes and are yet therin thorow the force and power of necessitie which is much more violent and of longer infamie and ill name than the transitorie and short violence of the souldier which is dissembled and is presently buried forgotten wheras this is spread abroad is continued and becommeth at the last a very shamelesse custome without returning Nothing spared in an anarchie or confusion Our reliques had been safe and sound the auncient iewels of the crowne of our Kinges had not beene molten as they are our suburbs had been in their former estate and inhabited as they were whereas now they are ruinated forsaken beaten downe and spoyled our citie had been rich wealthie and well peopled as it was our rents due to the towne house should haue been paid whereas you drawe out the marrow thereof and the last pennie our farmes in the countrie had beene laboured and tilled and we should haue receiued the reuenewes thereof whereas nowe they are abandoned forsaken and vnoccupied We should not haue seene die a hundred thousand men by famine A pitiful spectacle and yet who had remorse sorrow pouertie who died within the space of three moneths in the streets and in the hospitals without mercie or succour We should yet haue seene our vniuersitie flourishing and frequented where it is now altogether solitarie and left alone seruing now for no other vse but for peasants and for the kine and beasts of the villages nigh thereto We should haue seene our palace replenished with honourable persons of all qualities and estates The differēce between good gouernment and tyranny and the hall and the gallerie with Mercers Haberdashers c.

mine author And at the same time I went thorow all the quarters of Paris and inquired of the street and the signe that he had told me but no newes were to bee found neither of Good time nor Rich labourer In the daies following I did weare three paire of shoes or there about in rūning vp down the streets could learne nothing To be brief I had bin in the same state stil but that by hazard I met with a certain honest mā whō I had somtimes heard say was a Parresiē of whom I asked the same question which I had vnprofitably made alreadie tenne thousand times and that to so many men He told me that he had heard speech of a certaine gentleman of Eleuthere and of the familie of Misoquenes but he knew not whether it were he that I asked for because that there were diuers of that name in Alethie I besought him to guide me to the lodging of him whom he knew which thing he did and at the last after many turnings and windings thorowe sundrie diuers little streetes he shewed me a little low doore into which I entred without knocking and found in a little high chamber very pleasant well furnished a man of goodly representation leaning and reading vpon a booke drawing very nigh to the cut and fa●hion that that man master Pol had described vnto me I demaunded of him greeting and reuerence being presupposed whether he were the Lord Agnoste Misoquene men indeede sayd he call me Misoquene but I am not Agnoste He whom you inquire of is indeede my very neere kinsman and we are both two of one countrie and of one towne but it shall be very hard for you at this present to finde him for his lodging is more hidden and secret then the neast of a Tortoise Notwithstanding if you would haue any thing with him I can from hence at any time aduertise him thereof Then sayd I vnto him Monsieur I beleeue that it is he that is the author of that little discourse that is made touching the holding and assemblie of the Estates of Paris and of the Catholicon of Spayne which he hath intitled A Satyre Menippized I haue heard him himselfe thereof sayd he say so That is a worke quoth I to him which hath been very much receiued and which I haue imprinted for I am a Printer at your commaundement without knowing the value thereof Which may appeare by this that at the beginning thereof at Tours I printed but seuen or eight hundred copies but so soone as it was seene at Paris whither I brought it with my presses and moueable goods the whole world thought it so beautifull and so well done that men ranne vnto it as to a fire in so much that I printed it foure times in three weekes and I am readie now to print it the fift time if I had conferred but onely one halfe houre with the author After this this honest man sayd I haue oftentimes heard my cousin say that he was very much grieued that this treatie came into sight before he had reuewed the same and cut off diuers things which it may be he thought easie enough to passe then when he composed the same but in the time wherein we are it may bee they may ingender some scandale and offend some persons of qualitie who are named therein or poynted out thereby For those which haue acknowledged and amended their faults do very well deserue that men should suppresse and burie the remembrance therof rather then refresh it and make it perpetuall by such prouoking and merrie writings Also I haue heard him complaine of a certaine booke seller who either thorowe couetousnes or of iealousie towards others hath caused this worke to be printed in very small letters ill corrected and very vnpleasant and who also hath been so rash and headie to take from it and to put to it whatsoeuer pleased himselfe which thing indeede iustice ought not to indure Notwithstanding the argumēt is publike whereunto euery man may put additions specially such as respect the matter for otherwise or besides that I know very well that my sayd cousin neither wisheth nor hopeth to haue honor or praise thereby Then I demaūded of him if there were not any meane for me to see the said lord Agnoste And he answered me that there was not any for that season because that his sayd cousin did sometimes shut vp himselfe for eight daies space together without seeing any man But yet that if he had a mind to know any matter concerning his intent or purpose he thought he was able to satisfie me euen aswell as his cousin himselfe because that they had oftentimes discoursed together touching this matter as also concerning this that some came vnto him euery day to report vnto him the speeches which men vsed in the palace and thorow out the citie touching his booke I will therefore bee bold seeing that I cannot haue this goodnes to behold him euen I I say will be bold to demand of you some doubts whereat I see sundry men to stumble and not to be able well to resolue themselues First wherefore did he affect this new title of Satyre Menippized which all the world vnderstandeth not seeing that in the written copies it had this inscription The abridgment and soule of the Estates This question sayd hee cannot fall but in ignorant spirits for all they which haue bin brought vp in learning knowe very well that this word Satyre doth not only signifie a poesie containing euill speech in it for the reproofe either of publike vices or of particular faults of some certaine persons of which sort are those of Lucilius Horace Iuuenal and Persius but also all sortes of writinges replenished with sundry matters and diuers argumentes hauing prose and verse intermixed or mingled therewithall as if it were powdred neats tongues interlarded Varro saith that in ancient times men called by this name a certaine sorte of pie or of pudding into which men put diuers kindes of hearbes and of meates But I suppose that the word commeth from the Graecians who at their publike and solemne feastes did bring in vpon their stages or scaffolds certaine persons disguised like vnto Satyres whom the people supposed to be halfe Gods full of lasines wantonnes in the woods euen such a one as presented himselfe aliue vnto Sylla and such a one of them as Saint Hierome rehearseth appeared vnto Saint Anthonie And these men disguised after this manner being naked and tattered took a certaine kind of libertie vnto themselues to nippe and to floute at all the worlde without punishment In olde time some made them to rehearse their iniurious verses all alone without any other matter in them then railing and speaking euill of eueryone afterwards men mingled them with Comedie players who brought them into their acts to make the people laugh at the last the more graue and serious Romanes chased them altogether out of their Theaters and

receiued in their place Vices in playes but the more wise and wittie Poets vsed them to content therewithall their owne bad spirit of euill speaking which some of them thought to bee the chiefe goodnes And there are great numbers of them found in our countrie of Parresie who loue rather to lose a good friend then a good word or a merrie iest applied well to the purpose Wherfore it is not without cause that they haue intituled this little discourse by the name Satyre though that it be written in prose being yet notwithstanding stuffed and stored with gallant Ironies pricking notwithstanding and biting the very bottome of the consciences of them that feele themselues nipped therewithall concerning whom it speaketh nothing but trueth but on the other side making those to burst with laughter that haue innocent hearts and are well assured that they haue not strayed from the good right way As concerning the adiectiue Menippized it is not new or vnusuall for it is more then sixteene hundred yeares agoe that Varro called by Quintillian and by S. Augustine the most skilfull amongst the Romanes made Satyres of this name also which Macrobius sayth were called Cyniquized and Menippized to which he gaue that name because of Menippus the Cynicall Philosopher who also had made the like before him al ful of salted iestings poudred merie conceits of good words to make men to laugh and to discouer the vicious mē of his time And Varro imitating him did the like in prose as since his time there hath done the like Petronius Arbiter Luciā in the Greek tongue since his time Apuleius and in our age that good fellow R●belaiz who hath passed all other men in contradicting others and pleasant conceits if hee would cut off from them some quodlibetarie speeches in tauernes and his salt and biting words in alehouses Wherefore I cannot tell what manner of men these daintie ones are that thinke some doe euill that according to the example of these great personages ment to giue vnto a like worke a like title vnto that of theirs which is now become common and as we say appellatiue whereas before it was proper and particular as not long time since a learned Flemming and a good Antiquarian hath vsed the same And this is al that I can tell you in this respect If you desire any other thing I will tell you my aduise or opinion Then sayd I vnto him I am sufficiently satisfied as touching the title but there is very great disputation amongst some what the author should meane by these tearmes Higuiero of hell for there are very many persons that knowe not what it meaneth and make thereof sundrie horned and ill fauoured interpretations such as in my minde the author himselfe neuer thought of I knowe very well sayd he that there are diuers that desire to play about the affinitie of the words some to make themselues merrie therewith and others to draw the author into enuie but there is much oddes betweene eight and eighteene and a great difference betweene breathing and whistling I haue heard my cousin a hundred times say and I knowe it also as well as hee that Higuiero of hell signifieth no other thing in the Castillian or Spanish tongue but the Figge tree of hell For the Spanyards as also the Gascoignes turne the F into H as hazer harina hijo hogo higo for faire that is to do farine meale fils a sonne feu fire figue a figge And this at this time is but too common in Paris where the women haue learned to speake as well as to doe after the Spanish manner Where he sayth then that the drugge of the Spanish Iugler or Apothecarie was called Higuiero of hell it is for diuers reasons First because the figge tree is a wicked and an infamous tree the leaues whereof as we may see in the Bible haue serued heretofore to couer the priuie parts of our first parents after that they had sinned and committed high treason against their God their father and creator euen as the Leaguers to couer their disobedience and ingratitude against their King and him that hath done thē all good haue taken the Catholigue Apostoligue and Romane religion and thinke therewith to hide their shame and sinne This is the cause also why the Catholicon of Spayne that is to say the pretext which the King of Spayne and the Iesuites and other preachers wonne by the double duckets of Spayne haue giuen to the seditious and ambitious Leaguers to rebell against their naturall and lawfull King and to fall away from him and to make in their owne countrie warre more dangerous than ciuill may very properly bee called the Figge tree of hell in steed that that wherewith Adam and Eue did couer their open sinne was the Figge tree of Paradise And euer since that time this tree hath alwaies been accursed and of euill name amongst men bearing neither flowers nor any buddes nor any thing els to garnish it withall and the very fruite it selfe hath from thence been drawne to name the most dishonest part of women and the most filthie and foule disease that breedeth in the parts that wee cannot well name You are not ignorant of this also that the ancient people did account this tree amongst the gibbets or gallowses as for example whē Timon the Athenian would haue plucked vp one of them that did him some anoyance in his garden and whereupon sundrie had in former time been hanged he caused to bee proclaimed with the sound of a trumpet that if any were willing to be hanged he should dispatch and come thither quickly because he ment to cause it to bee pulled vp by the rootes Plinie teacheth vs that this tree hath not any sent or sauor no more hath the League Againe that it easily casteth her fruite and so hath the League done that it receiueth all manner of corruptions as the League hath receiued all sortes of people and that it doth not last or liue long no more hath the League done and that the greatest part of the fruite which appeareth at the beginning neuer commeth to ripenes no more hath that of the League But that which yet better agreeth with it and hath many more conformities with the League than S. Frauncis hath with our Lord is the Figge tree of the Indies which the very Spanyards themselues haue named the Figge tree of hell Concerning which Mathiolus sayth thus much for truth that if a man cut but onely one leafe from it and set but the one halfe thereof within the ground it will take roote there and afterwards vpon that lease there will growe an other leafe and so leaues growing vpon leaues this plant becommeth hie as it were a tree without bodie stalke branches and as it were without rootes in so much that we may reckon it amongst the miracles of nature Is there any thing so like and so much resembling the League which of one leafe that is