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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02649	A nevv discourse of a stale subiect, called the metamorphosis of Aiax: vvritten by Misacmos, to his friend and cosin Philostilpnos	Harington, John, Sir, 1560-1612.	1596 (1596)	STC 12779.5; ESTC S103861	58,895	147

whereof I will vse a cōtrary method to the former for I wil begin now with prophane stories and end with deuine First therefore most certaine it is that mischiefes make vs seeke remedies diseases make vs find medicines euill maners make good lawes And as in all other things so by all likelyhood in this we now treate of when companies of men began first to increase and make of families townes and of towns cities they quickly found not onely offence but infection to grow out of great concourse of people if speciall care were not had to auoyd it And because they could not remoue houses as they do tents from place to place they were driuen to finde the best meanes that their wits did then serue them to couer rather then to auoyd these annoiances either by digging pits in the earth or placing the common houses ouer riuers but as Tully saith of Metaphors that they were like our apparell first deuised to hide nakednesse then applied for comelinesse and lastly abused for pride so I may say of these homely places that first they were prouided for b●●e necessitie for indeede till Romulus time I finde little mention of them then they came to be matters of some more cost as shall appeare in examples following and I thinke I might also lay pride to their charge for I haue seene them in cases of fugerd sattin and veluet which is flat against the statute of apparell but for sweetnesse or cleanlines I neuer knew yet any of them guilty of it but that if they had but waited on a Lady in her chamber a day or a night they would haue made a man at his next entrance into the chamber haue sayd fo good speedye Now as scholers do daily seeke out new phrases metaphors and Tailors do oft inuent new vardingales and breeches so I see no reason but Magistrates may as well now as heretofore deuise new orders for cleanlinesse and wholsomnesse But now to the stories I alledged before as it were at the second hand out of Lactantius how Titus Tacius that was king with Romulus erected the Statue of the Goddesse Cloacina in a great Priuy made for that purpose I finde after this in the story of Liuy how Tarquinius Pryscus a man of excellent good spirit but husband to awife of a more excellent spirit a man that wan a kingdome with making a learned oration and lost it with hearing a rude one a king that was first crowned by an Eagle counselled by an Augure and killed by a traytor whose raigne his ruine were both most strāgely foretold This worthy Prince is reported by that excellent historian to haue made two prouisions for his city one for warre the other for peace both very commendable for warre a stone wall about the towne to defend them from outward inuasions and for peace a goodly Iakes within the towne with a vault to conuey all the filth into Tiber to preserue them from inward infection Not long after him raigned Tarquinius surnamed the Proud a tyrāt I confesse and an vsurper and husband to a dragon rather then a woman but himselfe surely a man valiant in war prouident in peace and in that yong world a notable politician of whom Liuy takes this speciall note that comming to the crown without law and fearing others might follow his example to do that to him he had done to another● he was the first that appointed a a guard for his person the first that drew publike matters to priuate hearings the first that made priuate wars priuat peace priuate confederacies the first that lessened the number of the Senators the first that when any of them died kept their roomes voyde with many excellent Machiauillen lessons which who so wold be better instructed of let him read but his accusing of Turnus his stratagem against the Gabians c. But the matter I would praise him for is none of all these but only because he built a stately temple and a costly Iakes the words be Cloacámque maximam receptaculum omnium purgamentorum vrbis a mighty great vault to receiue all the filth of the city Of which two works ioyning them both together Liuy saith thus Quibus duobus operibus vix noua haec magnificentia quicquam adequauit Which two great works the new magnificence of this our age can hardly match Now though Brutus after in a popular seditious oration to incite the multitude to rebellion debased this worthy worke of his saying he wasted the treasure of the realme and tyred toyled out the people in exhauriēdis cloacis in emptying of Iaxes for that was his word yet it appeares by the history that if his son had not defloured the chast Lucrece the mirrour of her sex Brutus with his fained folly true value and great eloquence could neuer haue displaced him For euen with all his faults you see that Brutus his owne sons would haue had him againe who laying their heads together with many yong gallants that thought them selues much wiser then their fathers concluded among thēselues that a king was better then a Consull a Court better then a Senate that to liue onely by lawes was too strict and rigorous a life and better for pesantly then princely dispositions that Kings could fauour as well as frowne reward as well as reuenge pardon as well as punish whereas the law was mercilesse mute and immutable finally they concluded it was ill liuing for them where nothing but innocency could protect a man Lo Brutus how eloquently thy sons can plead against their father but thou hast a Iury of sure free-holders that gaue a verdite against them and thy selfe wast both iudge and shiriffe and hastenedst execution O braue minded Brutus I will not call thee primus Romanorum because one was shent for calling one of thy posterity vltimus Romanorum but this I must truly say they were two Brutish parts both of him and you one to kil his sons for treason the other to kill his father in treason and yet you would both make vs beleeue you had reason and why so forsooth because Victrix causa placet superis sed victa Catoni That is to say in English You had great fortune and your cosin had great friends yet neither died in bed but both in battell onely his death was his enemies aduancement and thy death was thy enemies destruction But to omit these trifles and to returne to my tesh whereas thou railest against so great a Prince for making of so sumptuous a Iakes this I cannot endure at thy hands if thou hadst played me such a sawcy part here in my countrey first of mine owne authority I would haue granted the good behauiour against you secondly Tarquinius him selfe might haue Scandalum magnatum against you thirdly a bill should haue bene framed against you in the Star chamber vpon the statute of vnlawfull assemblies then you would haue wisht you had kept your