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A46427	Mores hominum = The manners of men / described in sixteen satyrs by Juvenal, as he is published in his most authentick copy, lately printed by command of the King of France ; whereunto is added the invention of seventeen designes in picture, with arguments to the satyrs ; as also explanations to the designes in English and Latine ; together with a large comment, clearing the author in every place wherein he seemed obscure, out of the laws and customes of the Romans, and the Latine and Greek histories, by Sir Robert Stapylton, Knight.; Works. English. 1660	Juvenal.; Stapylton, Robert, Sir, d. 1669.; Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677.	1660 (1660)	Wing J1280; ESTC R21081	275,181	643

Crown th' old trembling Souldier took A helmet and at great JOVE'S Altar strook Fell like an Oxe in his old age despis'd And by th' ingratefull Plough-man sacrific'd Yet PRIAM dy'd a Man but his old Wife Surviv'd a Bitch and bark't away her life I come to our own stories passing by The Pontick King and SOLON'S wise reply That would not CRAESUS should his fortune praise Untill the close and evening of his dayes This caus'd the exile and imprisonment Of MARIUS made him in old age content In the Minturnian Fens to hide his head And ev'n in conquer'd Carthage to beg bread What parallel in nature had there been What happier Roman had Rome ever seen If when in all the pomp of war he past Our streets with crouds of Captives and at last Came from 's Teutonick Chariot to alight Then his triumphant soul had took her flight To POMPEY provident Campania gave A timely fever but his life to save In many Cities publique Pray'rs were made The Conquerour preserv'd to be betray'd When conquer'd by ROMES fortune and his own His Head cut off a punishment unknown To our most dangerous Delinquents thus CETHEGUS suff'red not nor LENTULUS Ev'n CATILIN that to her fun'rall fire Had destin'd Rome came to his own intire To VENUS in her Temple for fine Boyes The zealous Mother prayes with lesser noyse But prayes aloud for Girls exactly fair Each nicetie remember'd in her pray'r Why laugh'st thou at her zeal the Deifi'd And fair DIANA was LATONA'S pride But the fair LUCRECE and her fatall rape Incourages no one to wish her shape VIRGINIA RUTILA'S buncht back would show And her sweet Eyes on RUTILA bestow Fair Creatures are by trembling Parents watch't So seldome beauty is with virtue matcht But if mean houses virtuous breeding give Where like th' old Sabines poore and chast they live If o're rebelling blood a grave command Be given to youth by nature's lib'rall hand And nature can do more then breeding can Or Tutors the boy ne're shall be a man For ev'n to tempt the Parents some are bold Such is their courage that come arm'd with gold The Tyrant NERO to an Evnuch's place Advanc'd no club-foot nor ill favour'd face Nor worthy of that sad preferment held Those that had necks or backs or bellyes sweld Now in thy handsome sons and daughters joy Which because handsome greater woes annoy He shall be the Town-prostitute and fear What wives expect from husbands most severe Nor can his Starres for so good fortune look That he should ne're in MARS his nets be took Where VULCAN'S rage will reason more controll Then any passion that invades the soul. Some GANYMEDS are stab'd some whipt to death And the live-Mullet enters some beneath But thy ENDYMION shall have her he loves Straight when with pow'rfull gold SERVILIA moves He shall have her he hates her gowns shall fly To sale shee 'll nothing to her lust deny Rich OPPIA and poor CATULLA too When they do long for 't will like women doe But how can beauty hurt the Chast What good Came to BELLEROPHON by 's govern'd blood HIPPOLITUS by 's Mistresse was perplext PHAEDRA no lesse then STENOBAEA vext The edge of womans wrath is then most keen When a repulse adds blushes to her spleen Would'st thou have him whom CAESAR'S wife will chuse Co-husband to accept or to refuse This great Patrician young and handsome dies For being such in MESSALINA'S eyes She long hath sate in her bright veile her bed With nuptiall purple in a garden spread Ten thousands told the customary summe The publique Notaries and th' Auspex come She thinks this secret witness'd by too few Shee 'l marry publickly Sir what say you Deny to do 't and HYMEN'S tapers burn That from her bed shall light thee to thy urne Consent and thou shalt gain a little time Till the news fill the City till the crime Arrive the People and the Princ's ear Who last the blemish of his house shall hear If then a few dayes life thou so approv'st Obey but whether thy own youth thou lov'st Or on her beauty doat'st not only thou But she her fair neck to the Axe must bow Shall man then pray for nothing If I may Advise thee let the Gods thy wishes weigh Unto their Providence thy Will submit And for what 's sweet they 'l give thee what is fit And that which thy condition most behoves The Gods love Man more then himself he loves Transported with a blind self-love we crave That all of us may Wives and Children have But to th' Omniscient Deity alone What Wives what Children we shall have is known Yet that for Sacrifice thou maist prepare Thy white hog and for somthing make thy prayer Pray that the Gods be graciously inclin'd To grant thee health of body and of mind Ask a strong soul that may death's terror scorn And think to die as good as to be born As great a gift of nature That no cross Can daunt that knows no passion fears no loss That HERCULES his labours can digest Far better then SARDANAPALUS feast His Wenches or his Feather-beds I show What thou thy self maist on thy self bestow Virtue 's the path to Peace If Prudence be There can be no Divinity in thee Fortune 't is we we to thy Pow'r have giv'n The name of Goddess and plac'd thee in heav'n The Comment UPON THE TENTH SATYR VErse 1. Cales Anciently Erythia afterwards Gades two Islands beyond the Confines of the Boetick Province the farthest West of any part of the World discovered to the Romans These lay without the Sraits of Gibraltar that divide Europe from Africa Plin. lib. 4. cap. 22. They were called Erythia from the Tyrians bordering upon the Erythraean Sea that built a City in these Isles The Romans named them Gades both are now one Island called Caliz by the Spaniards and Cales by the English that had power within the memory of man to have given it what name they pleased for in the year 1596 this Isle was taken and the City sackt by the Earles of Essex and Nottingham and Sir Walter Rawleigh Knight sent thither with a Fleet to revenge the Spaniards invasion of England in 88. In this Isle the grass is so rank that Cows milk will make no Cheese nor come to curds unless it be diluted with a great deal of water It is likewise credibly reported that Cattle which Graziers feed there if they bleed them not within 30 dayes will be sure to die of fat This was the reason why the Poets invented their Fables of Geryon's Droves taken by Hercules that once had a Temple in this Isle wherein are now two old Castles called Torres de Hercules See Strab. lib. 3. Verse 2. Ganges The greatest River in the East it cuts through the Indies The Greeks by another name call it Phison The holy Scripture numbers it amongst the Rivers that issue out of Paradise The Springs that contribute to Ganges are not known but 30

Modia and Albina Sat. 3. For fear lest his Collegue the Tribune may Wish Modia or Albina first good day Sometimes at midnight as here When the Sev'n-starres doe roll Their cold and sluggish Wain about the Pole Both times are taken notice of by Martial Mane vel 'a media nocte togatus ero By day-break or at midnight I 'll be gown'd Verse 29. Cybel's Priests See the Comment upon the second Satyr where you will finde the Priests of Cybele to be an Order of Rogues Drunkards and Gluttons therefore very likely to quarrel and fight about their victuals Verse 33. Libertines A Libertine was properly the Issue of a Freed-man and a Freed-woman and the Son whose Father and Mother were both Libertines nay if the Mother only were free-born was called Ingenuus but after the Censorship of Appius Caecus Liberti and Libertini signified the same degree of freedome and Ingenuus was taken for one born free whether their Parents were Freed-men or the Sons of Freed-men Justin Inst. l. 1. tit de Ingenuis See Franc. Sylv. in Catilinar 4. Verse 34. Pots of Saguntum Course earthen Pots made in Spain at Saguntum a City famous for holding out against Hannibal See Sat. 15. Verse 35. Vntrim'd Consuls That wore beards like their Kings Verse 39. Albane The Albane Hills bore a very pleasant Grape Plin. and the Vines there growing have not yet degenerated for the Vino Albano is now the best meat-wine in Rome Verse 39. Setine Hills Setia the City that denominates these Hills lies not far from Tarracina in Campania Martial lib. 13. Pendula Pampineos quae spectat Setia campos Setia that hangs o're the Pampinian Medes The Wine that came from these Mountains was in great esteem with Augustus Caesar and Regis ad Exemplum with Juvenal Sat. 10. When thou rich Setine Wine dost hold Sparkling midst Diamonds in a Boll of Gold Verse 41. Date and Climate The Romans writ upon the Vessels in their Cellars as the Officres of our English Kings set down in their accounts where the wine grew and what day of the Moneth it came in Verse 42. Thraseas and Helvidius Thraseas Paetus was Son in Law to Helvidius Priscus both would as gladly have laid down their lives to preserve Rome from the tyranny of Nero as D. Junius Brutus ventured his to free the Romans from Tarquin or M. Brutus and Cassius theirs to deliver their Country from the encroachment of I. Caesar. Tharseas was a Stoick and accordingly he behaved himself at his death for when the Officer told him from Nero that he must die with great constancy he repressed the tears of his Family and chearfully holding forth his arme when the floor was full of his blood turning to Demetrius the Cynick with the courage of Socrates he said This blood we offer as a Libation to Jove the deliverer Tacit. lib. 16. Helvidius Priscus suspected upon the same account was banished Italy by Nero and after his death repealed by Galba See Tacit. Verse 43. Drank Crown'd When the Romans indulged or sacrificed to the Genius which was as aforesaid either at the Nativities or Marriages of themselves or those they honoured it was their custome to crown their heads with cooling flowers to allay the heat of the wine and by binding of their fore-heads to suppress the fumes then ascending Verse 46. Beril A Precious-stone often mentioned in sacred Scripture Verse 53. The Youth prefer'd before The jealous spirited Hiarbas Aeneas See Sat. 1. in whose time when fighting was in fashion the Hilts of Swords were set with pretious-stones Virg. Aeneid lib. 4. Stellatus Jaspide fulva Ensis erat Bright Jasper sparkled in his Hilts. but in Juvenal's dayes when fighting in the field was out of date in Rome and eating and drinking only in request it was the mode to take out the Gems from their Hilts and set them in their Bolls Verse 56. Beneventine Cobler An ugly Glass that bore the name of Vatinius the Drunken Cobler of Beneventum and the four noses of it were studed and bossed like his nose Martial Verse 63. Getulian Boor. A Negro of Getulia in Africa Verse 67. Flower of Asia My Author means not the whole but that part of Asia properly so called within the Trojan Dominions which took this name from Asius the Philosopher Suid. After the Romans were made Lords of those Territories by the gift of King Attalus when they had brought them into the form of a Province they called it Asia Strab. lib. 13. so that the Flower of Asia signifies the loveliest Boyes or Ganymeds of the Country about Troy where Ganymed himself was born as you will see in the third Note following Verse 69. Tullus Tullus Hostilius the third King of Rome that took sackt and demolished the City of Alba as in the Comment upon the fourth Satyr a Prince no less active then Romulus He revived the Roman courage buried in sloath and the arts of peace and lest they should want imployment took occasion to quarrel with his Neighbours Liv. He first reduced Coyn to certain rates He brought in the Consuls Chariot-chair or Sella Curulis or Eburnea so called because it was made of Ivory and carried about in a Chariot The Lictors were his Officers He invented the Toga Picta and Praetexta the first being a Gown imbroidered in figures was worn in Triumph the other guarded with purple Silk by noble mens Sons and from Hetruria now the Dutchie of Florence he brought the golden Bullas or Bubbles which in their infancy they wore about their Necks See Macrob. lib. 1. Saturn Verse 69. Warlike Ancus Ancus Martius fourth King of the Romans Numa's Daughters Sonne he subdued the Latins inlarged the City of Rome took-in the Aventine and Martial Mounts and with a wooden Bridge joyned the Janiculum to Rome He extended the Roman Limits to the Sea-coast where he built the City of Ostium He made the first Prison that ever was in Rome and the number of that one Prison was not multiplied in the Reigns of the three Kings his Successors nor a long while after as you may see in the end of Sat. 3. Verse 72. Getulian Ganymed Ganymed was Son to Tros King of Troy so sweet a Boy that Jupiter fell in love with him and as he was hunting upon the Mountain Ida made his Eagle seize and carry him to Heaven where for his sake Jupiter put off Hebe Juno's Daughter that till then filled his Nectar and gave his Cup-bearer's place to Ganymed The Mythological sense of this Fable is that the divine Wisdome loves a wise man and that he only comes neerest to the nature of God Cicer. lib. 2. Tusculan But this Negro this Getulian Ganymed came neerest the nature of Pluto and might have been the Devil's Cup-bearer Verse 87. Remember These are the words of a proud controlling Waiter at the Table answered in the next verse but one by the poor upbraided Client Verse 90. Mount Esquiline Where many Patricians had houses so