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B07987	Axiochus. A most excellent dialogue, written in Greeke by Plato the phylosopher: concerning the shortnesse and vncertainty of this life, with the contrary ends of the good and wicked. / Translated out of Greeke by Edw. [sic] Spenser. ; Heereto is annexed a sweet speech or oration spoken at the tryumphe at White-hall before her Maiestie, by the page to the right noble Earle of Oxenforde..; Axiochus. English. Spenser. 1592.	Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.	1592 (1592)	STC 19974.6; ESTC S125749	12,676	38

Axiochus thy talke is very foolish for reasoning thus without reason and seeking to make some sence of senceles wordes thou both dost and sayest cleane contrary to thy selfe not marking how at one time thou dost both complaine for the lacke of sence which thou shalt haue and also art greatly vexed for the rotting of thy carrion Carcasse and despoyling of thy former delights as if by this death thou shouldest not passe into another life or shouldest be so despoyled of all sence and feeling as thou wert before thou wast first brought into this world For euen as in those yeares when Draco and Callisthenes gouerned the common wealth of Athens thou then wast vexed with no euil for in the beginning thou wast no such as to whome euill might chance so likewise when thou hast ended this state of mortalitye thou shalt no more be afflicted for thou shalt not be in such case as that any euill can touch thee VVherefore shake off and castaway all these trifles and worldly baggage thus waying in thy minde that when the frame of this earthly building is dissolued and the soule being singled is restored to his naturall place this bodye which is then left an earthly masse and an vnreasonable substance is then no more a man For we are a soule that is to say an immortall creature beeing shut vp and inclosed in an earthly dungeon VVherewithall nature hath clothed vs and charged vs with many miseries so that euen those things which seeme pleasant to vs and ioyfull are indeed but vaine and shadowed beeing mingled and wrapped in many thousand sorrowes and those also which vse to breede vs sorrowe and heauines are both sodaine and therefore more hardely auoyded and also perdurable and therefore the more painefull and wearisome Such be diseases and inflammation of the sences Such bee inward griefes and sickenesses through which it cannot choose but that the soule must bee also diseased since that beeing scattered and spread through the powres and passages of the body it coueteth the vse of that open and kinde heauen out of which it was deriued and thirsteth for the wonted company surpassing delights of that aerernall fellowship whereby it is euident that the passage from life is a change from much euill to great good Axiochus Since therefore O Socrates thou deemest this life so tedious and troublesome why doost thou still abide in the same beeing as thou art a man of so great wisedom and experience whose knowledge reacheth farre aboue our common sence and beyond the vsuall reason of most men Socrates Thou Axiochus doost not report rightly of me for thou iudgest as the common people of Athens that because you see I am giuen to seeke and search out many things therefore I know somewhat But to say the truth I would hartely wish and would the same account in great parte of happinesse if I knew but these common and customable matters so farre am I from the knowledge of those high and excellent things For these things which I nowe declare are the sayinges of Prodicus the wise man some of them beeing bought for a pennye some for two groats and other some for foure For that same notable man vsed to teach none without wages hauing alwaies in his mouth that saying of Epicharmus One hand rubbeth another giue somewhat and somewhat take And it is not long sithence that he making a discourse of Philosophye in the house of Callias the sonne of Hipponicus such and so many things he spake against the state of life that I also account life in the number of those thinges which be of lesse waight And euer since that time O Axiochus my soule gaspeth after death daily longing to die Axiochus VVhat then was said of Prodicus Socrates Marrie I will tell you as they come to my minde For what parcell quod he of our life is not full of wretchednes dooth not the babie euen taken frō the mothers wombe powre out plenty of teares beginning the first step of life with griefe neither afterward hath it once any breathing or resting time from sorrow being either distressed with pouertie or pinched with colde or scortched with heate or payned with stripes and whatsoeuer it suffereth vtter once it cannot but onely with crying dooth show his minde hauing no voice but that alone to bewray his griefe and hauing through many woes waded to seauen yeares of age he is yet afflicted with greater griefes being subiect to the tyranny of the Schoolemaister and Tutor And as his yeares encreased so is the number of his guides and gouernours encreased being afterwards in the handes of Censors Philosophers and Capitaines Soone after being waxen a stripling he is hemmed in with greater feare namely of Lyceum of the Academie of the Schoole of games of Rulers of Roddes and to shut vp all in one worde of infinite miseries And all the time of his youth is spent vnder ouer-seers which are set ouer him by the Areopagits from which labours young men beeing once freed are yet ouer-layde with greater cares and more weightie thoughts touching the ordering of his state and trade of life which also if they be compared with those that followe all these former troubles may seeme but childish and indeed babish trifles For herevpon dooth a troope of euils accrew as be the exploites of warfare the bitternesse of wounds the continuall labour skirmishes and then closely creepeth on olde Age in which are heaped all the harmes that pertaine to mankinde whether of weakenesse as naturall or of paine as being externall And but if one betimes restore his life as a dew debt to death Nature euer waiting as a greedy vsurer taketh paynes aforehand snatching and pulling from this man his sight from that his hearing from som both two senses And if any fortune lōger then commonly is seene in this life to linger Nature weakening hir powres dooth loose lame and bow downe all partes of his body but they whose bodies in old age long flourisheth in minde as the saying is become twise children And therfore the gods knowing what is most expedient for men those whome they most deerely loue do soonest take out of this vale of wretchednes And for this cause Agamedes and Trophonius when they had built a Temple to Pythius Apollo desiring of the god therefore to grant them the best rewarde that might be giuen soone after when they layde them downe to rest neuer rose againe Likewise Cleobis Biton the sonnes of the Argiue Nunne whē their mother had made hir praier to Iuno that to her sonnes for their great godlines might be giuen some singuler gift for that they when her yoake of Oxen were not readily to bee found at the time of sacrifice themselues being yoaked in the charriot drew their mother to the Temple vpon this their mothers request the two sonnes the next morning were found dead It were too long in this place to reherse the testimonies of Poets which in their diuine poesies do

there is no sence nor feeling And to this purpose do all those excellent and notable reasons of the soules immortalitie tend For it is not the weake nature of mortall man to raise himselfe to the fulfilling of such high and haughtye matters as to despise the ramping rage of wilde beasts to ieopard himselfe in the wastefull sea to builde Citties and them with lawes and pollicie to establish to looke vp into heauen and marke the course of the Starres and the wayes of the Sunne and Moone with their risings and setting to consider their eclipses their spaces their making of the nights and dayes alike their double conuersions to behold the order of the windes the seauen watrie starres of winter of summer of stormes with the violent rage of whirlewindes and as it were these labours of the world to deliuer to posteritie vnlesse in our mindes there were a certaine diuine spirit and vnderstanding which could comprehend and reach vnto the supernaturall knowledge of so great matters VVherefore nowe O Axiochus thou art not in the way to death but to immortality neither shalt thou as thou didst seeme right now to feare bee bereft of all good but shall hereby enioy true and perfect good Neither shalt thou perceiue such durty pleasures as are these beeing mingled with the puddle of this sinfull body but most pure and perfect delight being deuoid of all contagious trouble For beeing loosed and deliuered out of the darkesome dungeons of this body thou shalt passe to that place where is no lacke nor complaint but all things full of rest and deuoid of euill Moreouer there is calme and quiet liuing without all knowledge of vnrest peaceable and still occupied in beholding the course frame of Nature and studying Philosophy not to please the idle ignorant and common sort but with vpright and vndeceiuable truth Axiochus O Socrates with this thy gladsome speech thou hast now brought mee into a cleane contrary minde for so farre am I nowe from dread of death that I am euen set on fire and burne with desire thereof And that I may stay my selfe in the steppes of them which are counted workemasters of speech I will say thus much more excellently Now I begin to behold those high matters and doo ouerlooke that aeternall and heauenly course of things hauing now raysed vp my selfe out of my weakenes and being as it were renued and refreshed of my former malady Socrates If you demaunde of mee another reason and signe of the soules immortality I will tell you what the wise man Gobrias shewed me He saide that at what time Xerxes conuayed his huge Army into Greece his Grandfather which was of the same name was sent into Delos to defende that Iland in which were two Gods borne In the same Iland that his Grandfather learned out of certaine brasen Tables which Opis and Hecuergus had brought out of the Northerne Countries That the soule aftertime it is dissolued from the body passeth into a certaine darkesome place a Coast that lyeth vnder the earth wherein is Plutoes Pallace no lesse than Iupiters kingdome For the earth being equally ballanced in the middest of the world and the compasse thereof beeing round as a ball that the one halfe Sphere thereof is allotted to the higher Gods and the other halfe to the infernall powres betwixt whom there is such kindred and allyance that some bee brothers and other some brothers children But the entry of the way which leadeth to Plutoes kingdome is fenced with iron gates and fastened with brasen bolts which when a man hath opened he is entertained of the Riuer Acheron next which is Cocytus which flouds being ouerpassed hee must come before Minos and Rhadamanthus the merciles Iudges which place is called the plain of Truth where the Iudges sit examining euery one that commeth thither how he hath liued and with what trade or manner of life hee hath inhabited his mortall body with whom there is no place for lies nor refuge for excuses Then they which in their life time were inspired and led with a good Angell are receiued into the houshold of the blessed where all seasons flowe with abundance of all fruits where from the siluer springs doo calmely run the Christall streames where the flourishing medowes are cloathed with chaungeable Mantles of glorious colours where are famous Schooles of renowmed Philosophers goodly companies of diuine Poets trim sorts of Dauncers heauenly Musicke great banquets furnished with costly cates Tables abounding with all bounty delights without all care and pleasures without all paine For the Inhabitants thereof are neither touched with force of cold nor payned with excesse of heate but the moderate Aire breatheth on them mildly and calmely being lightned with the gentle Sunnebeames In this place and in the Elysian fields they which haue taken holy orders are highly aduanced and reuerenced dayly ministring the vnsearcheable rytes of Religion VVherefore then shouldest thou doubt but to be made partaker of the same honor being one of the seede of that heauenly race It is an old saying and rightly reported that Hercules and Bacchus going downe to hell they were instituted in holly orders and that they were emboldned to goe thither of the Goddesse Eleusina But they which being wrapped in wickednes haue led an vngodly life are snatched vp by the Furies and by them carried through the lowest hell into deepe darkenes and vtter confusion where the place and abode of the wicked is and where the three score daughters of Danaus dwell whose punishment is continually to fill a sort of bottomlesse vessels where also is to bee seene the vnquencheable thirst of Tantalus the gnawen Entrailes of Titius and the endles stone of Sisip●us whose end beginneth a newe labour There bee they rent of wilde beasts continually scorched with burning Lamps pained with all kind of torments and afflicted with endlesse pennance These thinges I remember that I haue heard Gobrias tell but you Axiochus may iudge of them as you list Only this I know and assuredly hold fast that euery mans minde is immortall and passing out of this life feeleth no griefe nor sorrowe VVherefore O Axiochus whether thou be carryed into those highest Pallaces or lower Vawts needes must it bee that thou shalt bee blessed because thou hast liued well and godly Axiochus Minding to haue said something vnto thee O Socrates I am impeached with bashfull shame For so farre am I now from the horror and dread of death that I continually couet the time thereof So hath thy heauenly and comfortable speeches pierced and relieued my faint heart And nowe loath I this life and scorne the delights thereof as that shall from henceforth passe into a better abode And now by my selfe alone will I recount these thy notable sayings but I pray thee O Socrates after noone resort to me againe Socrates I will doo as you say and now will I returne to walk in my school Lynosargus from whence I was hither called FINIS ❧