The third after the Ocean appeared plainly unto us though we could see no land but what was in the aire and those countries also seemed to be fierie and of a glittering colour the fourth day about noone the winde gently forbearing settled us faire and leasurely into the sea and as soone as wee found our selves upon water we were surprised with incredible gladnesse and our joy was unexpressible we feasted and made merrie with such provision as wee had we cast our selves into the sea and swamme up and downe for our disport for it was a calme But oftentimes it falleth out that the change to the better is the beginning of greater evils for when wee had made onely two daies saile in the water as soone as the third day appeared about Sun-rising upon a suddaine wee saw many monstrous fishes and whales but one above the rest containing in greatnesse fifteene hundred furlongs which came gaping upon us and troubled the sea round about him so that hee was compassed on every side with froth and fome shewing his teeth a farre off A fish of an indifferent size which were longer than any beech trees are with us all as sharpe as needles and as white as Ivorie then wee tooke as wee thought our last leaves one of another and embracing together expected our ending day the monster was presently with us and swallowed us up shippe and all but by chance he caught us not betweene his chops for the ship fliot thorow the void passages downe into his entralls when we were thus got within him wee continued a good while in darkenesse and could see nothing till hee began to gape and then we perceived it to be a monstrous whale of a huge breadth and height bigge enough to containe a citie that would hold tenne thousand men and within wee found small fishes and many other creatures chopt in pieces and the masts of ships and ankers and bones of men and luggage in the midst of him was earth and hills which were raised as I conjectured by the settling of the mudde which came downe his throat for woods grew upon them and trees of all sorts and all manner of hearbes and it looked as if it had beene husbanded A countrie within the whale the compasse of the land was two hundred and fortie furlongs there were also to be seene all kind of seafowle as gulls halcyons and others that had made their nests upon the trees then wee fell to weeping abundantly but at the last I rows'd up my companie and propt up our ship and stroke fier then wee made ready supper of such as wee had for abundance of all sort of fish lay ready by us and wee had yet water enough left which wee brought out of the Morning Starre the next morrow wee rose to watch when the whale should gape and then looking out we could sometimes see mountaines sometimes onely the skies and many times Islands for we found that the fish carried himselfe with great swiftnesse to every part of the sea when we grew weary of this I tooke seaven of my company and went into the wood to see what I could finde there and wee had not gone above five furlongs but we light upon a temple erected to Neptune as by the title appeared and not farre off wee espied many sepulchers and pillars placed upon them with a fountaine of cleare water close unto it we also heard the barking of a dogge and saw smoake rise a farre off so that wee judged there was some dwelling thereabout wherefore making the more hast wee lighted upon an old man and a youth who were very busie in making a garden and in conveying water by a channell from the fountaine into it whereupon we were surprised both with joy and feare and they also were brought into the same taking and for a long time remained mute but after some pause the old man said what are yee you strangers any of the sea spirits or miserable men like unto us for wee that are men by nature borne and bred in the earth are now sea-dwellers and swimme up and downe within the Continent of this whale and know not certainly what to thinke of our selves wee are like to men that be dead and yet beleeve our selves to be alive Whereunto I answered for our parts father wee are men also newly come hither and swallowed up ship and all but yesterday and now come purposely within this wood which is so large and thicke some good angell I I thinke did guide us hither to have the sight of you and to make us know that wee are not the onely men confin'd within this monster tell us therefore your for tunes vvee beseech you vvhat you are and how you came into this place but hee answered It was a custome in ancient times to entertaine all strangers with a feast before they enquired of their affaires you shall not heare a word from mee nor aske any more questions untill you have taken part of such viands as vvee are able to afford you so hee tooke us and brought us into his house which vvas sufficient to serve his turne his pallets vvere prepared and all things else made readie then hee set before us herbes and nuts and fish and fild out of his owne wine unto us and vvhen vvee vvere sufficiently satisfied hee then demanded of us vvhat fortunes vvee had endured and I related all things to him in order that had betide unto us the tempest the passages in the Iland our navigation in the aire our warre and all the rest even till our diving into the whale vvhereat he vvondered exceedingly and began to deliver also what had befalne to him and said by linage O yee strangers I am of the Isle m An Island in the easterne part of the Mediterranean sea betwixt Syria and Cilicia Cyprus and travelling from mine owne countrie as a marchant with this my sonne you see here and many other friends with mee made a voyage for Italie in a great ship full fraught vvith marchandise vvhich perhaps you have seene broken in pieces in the mouth of the vvhale vvee sailed vvith faire weather till wee vvere as farre as Sicilie but there we were overtaken with such a boistrous storme that the third day wee were driven into the Ocean where it was our fortune to meete with this whale which swallowed us all up and onely wee two escaped with our lives all the rest perished whom wee have here buried and built a Temple to Neptune ever since we have continued this course of life planting hearbs feeding upon fish and nuts here is wood enough you see and plentie of vines which yeeld most delicate wine we have also a well of excellent coole water which it may be you have seene wee make our beddes of the leaves of trees and burne as much wood as wee will wee chace after the birds that flie about us and goe out upon the gills of the monster to
deale of valour entring one upon another and kill'd all they could for none were taken prisoners instead of iron graples they had mightie great n A fish with many feet Polypodes fast tied which they cast at the other and if they once laid hold on the wood they made the Isle sure enough for stirring they darted and wounded one another with oisters that would fill a waine and spunges as bigge as an acre the leader on the one side was Aeolocentaurus and of the other Thalassopotes the quarell as it seemes grew about taking a bootie for they said that Thalassopotes drave away many flockes of dolphines that belonged to Aeolocentaurus as vvee heard by their clamours one to another and calling upon the names of their kings but Aeolocentaurus had the better of the day and sunke one hundred and fiftie of the enemies Islands and three they tooke vvith the men and all the rest vvithdrevv themseves and fled vvhom the other pursued but not farre because it grew towards evening but returned to those that were wrackt broken which they also recovered for the most part and tooke their owne away with them for on their part there were no lesse than fourescore Ilands drowned then they erected a Trophie for a monument of this Island fight and fastned one of the enemies Islands with a stake upon the head of the whale that night they lodged close by the beast casting their cables about him and ankered neare unto him their ankers are huge great made all of glasse but of a wonderfull strength the morrow after when they had sacrificed upon the top of the whale and there buried their dead they sailed away with great triumph and songs of victorie and this was the manner of the Islands fight The second Booke Vpon this wee began to be weary of our abode in the whale and our tarriance there did much trouble us we therefore set all our wits aworke to finde out some means or other to cleare us from our captivitie first wee thought it would do well to digge a hole thorow his right side and make our escape that way forth which we began to labour at lustily but after we had pierced him five furlongs deep and found it was to no purpose we gave it over Then wee devised to set the wood on fire for that would certainly kill him without all question and being once dead our issue would be easie enough this we also put in practice and and began our project at the taile end which burnt seven daies and as many nights before hee had any feeling of our fire workes They set the whale on fire upon the eighth and ninth daies we perceived he began to grow sickly for hee gaped more dully than he was wont to do and sooner closed his mouth againe the tenth and eleventh he was throughly mortified and began to stinke upon the twelfth day wee bethought our selves though almost too late that unlesse wee underpropt his chops when hee gaped next to keepe them from closing wee should be in danger of perpetuall imprisonment within his dead carcasse and there miserably perish wee therefore pitcht long beames of timber upright within his mouth to keepe it from shutting and then made our ship in a readinesse and provided our selves with store of fresh water and all other things necessary for our use Scintharus taking upon him to be our pilot and the next morrow the whale died then wee haled our ship thorow the void passages and fastning cables about his teeth by little and little setled it into the Sea and mounting the backe of the whale sacrificed to Neptune and for three daies together took up our lodging hard by the Trophie for wee were be calm'd the fourth day wee put to sea and met with many dead corpses that perished the late sea-fight which our ship hit against whose bodies we tooke measure of with great admiration and sailed for a few daies in very temperate weather But after that the North winde blew so bitterly that a great frost ensued wherewith the whole sea was all frozen up not onely superficially upon the upper part but in depth also the depth of foure hundred fadomes so that we were faine to forsake our ship and runne upon the Ice the winde sitting long in this corner and we not able to indure it put this devise in practise which was the invention of Scintharus with mattocks and other instruments wee made a mightie cave in the water wherein wee sheltered our selves fortie daies together in it wee kindled fier and fed upon fish of which wee found great plentie in our digging at the last our provision falling short wee returned to our frozen ship which wee set upright and spreading her sailes went forward as well as if wee had beene upon water leasurely and gently sliding upon the Ice but on the fift day the water grew warme and the frost brake and all was turned to water againe Wee had not sailed three hundred furlongs forwards but wee came to a little Island that was desart where we onely tooke in fresh water which now began to saile us and with our shot kild two wild bulles and so departed these bulls have their hornes growing not upon their heads but under their eyes a Momus found fault with Jupiter for not setting the bulls hornes in this manner Arist de part ani l. 3. he was the god of feasting and of carping amongst the Heathen Hesiod in his Theog saies that hee was the son of the night but begotten without a father as Momus thought it better Then we entred into a sea not of water but of milke in which appeared a white Island full of vines this Island was onely a great cheese well prest as wee afterwards found when wee fed upon it about some five and twentie furlongs in bignesse the vines were full of clusters of grapes out of which wee could crush no wine but onely milke in the midst of the Island there was a temple built dedicated to b A sea Nymph daughter of Nereus Doris so called because of her whitenesse as pure as milke Galatea one of the daughters of Nereus as by the inscription appeared as long as we remained there the soile yeelded us food and victualls and our drinke was the milke that came out of the grapes in these as they said raigneth c Of her Neptune begot Pelias and Neleus the father of Nestor Tyro the daughter of Salmoneus who after her departure received this guerdon at the hands of Neptune in this Island wee rested our selves five daies and on the sixth put to sea againe a gentle guale attending us and the seas all still and quiet The eight day as wee sailed onward not in milke any longer but in salt and azure water d Hee was King of Elis a territorie of Peloponnesus and for imitating the thunder by running his chariot over a bridge of brasse was slaine with a
reposed our selves neare unto the shoare and in the morning put to sea where wee were taken with a violent storme which tost us two daies together and on the third wee fell among the Colocynthopiratans these are a wild kinde of men that issue out of the Islands adjoyning and prey upon passengers and for their shipping have mightie great gowrds sixe cubits in length which they make hollow when they are ripe and cleanse out all that is within them and use the rindes for ships making their masts of reeds and their sailes of the gowrd leaves These set upon us with two ships furnished and fought with us and wounded many casting at us instead of stones the seeds of those gowrds the fight was continued with equall fortune untill about noone at which time behinde the Colocynthopiratans wee espied the Caryonautans comming on who as it appeared were enemies to the other for when they saw them approach they forsooke us and turned about to fight with them and in the meane space wee hoist saile and away leaving them together by the eares and no doubt but the Caryonautans had the better of the day for they exceeded in number having five ships well furnished and their vessels of greater strength for they are made of nut-shells cloven in the midst and cleansed of which every halfe is fifteene fadome in length when wee were got out of sight we were carefull for the curing of our hurt men and from that time forwards went no more unarmd fearing continually to be assaulted on the suddaine and good cause we had for before sunsetting some twentie men or thereabouts which also were pirats made towards us riding upon monstrous great dolphines which carried them surely and when their riders gat upon their backs vvould neigh like horses when they were come neare us they divided themselves some on the one side and some on the other and flung at us vvith dried cuttle-fishes and the eyes of sea-crabs but when we shot at them againe and hurt them they would not abide it but fled to the Island the most of them wounded About midnight the sea being calme wee fell before wee were aware upon a mightie great i Or Kings-fisher Alcyons nest in compasse no lesse than threescore furlongs in which the Alcyon herselfe sailed as shee was hatching her egges in quantitie almost equalling the nest for when shee tooke her wings the blast of her feathers had like to have overturned our shippe making a lamentable noise as shee flew along as soone as it was day we got upon it and found it to be a nest fashioned like a great lighter vvith trees platted and vvound one vvithin another in vvhich were five hundred egges every one bigger than a tunne of Chios measure and so neare their time of hatching that the young chickings might be seene and began to crie then with an axe wee hewed one of the egges in pieces and cut out a yong one that had no feathers which yet was bigger than twentie of our vultures vvhen vvee had gone some two hundred furlongs from this nest fearefull prodigies and strange tokens appeared unto us for the carved goose that stood for an ornament on the sterne of our ship suddenly flusht out with feathers and began to crie Scintharus our pilot that was a bold man in an instant was covered vvith haire and which was more strange then all the rest the mast of our shippe began to budde out vvith branches and to beare fruit at the toppe both of figges and great clusters of grapes but not yet ripe upon the sight of this vvee had great cause to be troubled in minde and therefore besought the gods to avert from us the evill that by these tokens vvas portended And vvee had not past full out five hundred furlongs but vvee came in view of a mightie vvood of pine-trees and cypresse which made us thinke it had beene land vvhen it vvas indeed a sea of infinite depth planted with trees that had no rootes but floted firme and upright standing upon the vvater when vvee came to it and found how the case stood with us vvee knew not vvhat to doe vvith our selves to goe forwards thorow the trees vvas altogether impossible they vvere so thicke and grew so close together and to turne againe with safetie vvas as much unlikely I therefore got mee up to the top of the highest tree to discover if I could vvhat vvas beyond and I found the bredth of the vvood to be fiftie furlongs or thereabout and then appeared another Ocean to receive us vvherefore vvee thought it best to assay to lift up our shippe upon the leaves of the trees vvhich vvere thicke growne and by that meanes passe over if it vvere possible to the other Ocean and so vvee did for fastning a strong cable to our shippe vvee wound it about the tops of the trees and vvith much adoe poised it up to the height and placing it upon the branches spred our sailes and vvere carried as it vvere upon the sea dragging our shippe after us by the helpe of the vvinde vvhich set it forwards at vvhich time a verse of the poet Antimachus came to my remembrance vvherein hee speakes of sailing over toppes of trees vvhen vvee had past over the wood and vvere come to the sea againe vvee let downe our shippe in the same manner as vvee tooke it up Then sailed vvee forwards in a pure and cleare streme untill we came to an exceeding great gulfe or trench in the sea made by the division of the waters as many times is upon land where wee see great clifts made in the ground by earthquakes and other meanes whereupon wee stroke saile and our ship staid upon a sudden when it was at the pits brim redy to tumble in and wee stooping downe to looke into it thought it could be no lesse then a thousand furlongs deepe most fearfull and monstrous to behold for the water stood as it were divided into two parts but looking on our right hand a farre off wee perceived a bridge of water which to our seeming did joyne the two seas together and crosse over from the one to the other wherefore wee laboured with oares to get unto it and over it wee went and with much adoe got to the further side beyond all our expectation Then a calme sea received us and in it we found an Island not very great but inhabited with unsociable people for in it were dwelling wild men named Bucephalians that had hornes on their heads like the picture of c A monster who was halfe a bull and halfe a man begotten on Pasiphae the wife of Minos King of Creete by a bull with which shee fell in love c. Ovid. Met. Minotaurus where wee went ashore to looke for fresh water and victuals for ours vvas all spent and there vvee found water enough but nothing else appeared onely vvee heard a great bellowing and roaring a little way off vvhich wee thought to
the Sea which after thy name might be called the Menippian Sea as the other was called the Icarian Menippus I was secure of that for Icaru's wings were cemented with waxe which dissolving with the Sunne he cast his feathers and could not chuse but fall but my feathers were joynted with no such matter Friend How then for by little little thou hast screwed me up I cannot tell how to imagine there may be some truth in thy narration Menippus Thus I did I tooke a good bigge Eagle and a strong Vulture and cut off their wings at the first joynt but it would doe better to tell you my whole conceit from the first occasion if your leisure will serve to heare it Friend Exceeding well for I am wholly intent to listen to your story and in a longing to heare it all to the end wherefore of all loves deny me not for I even hang as it were by the eares to harken to your discourse Menip Heare it then for I should shew my selfe uncivill to leave a longing friend in such a plight especially hanging by the eares as you say to heare it and therefore thus it was Pondering seriouslie with my selfe upon matters pertaining to this life I found all things affected by man to be foolish idle and transitory I meane riches honour powerablenes and the like wherefore contemning them all and all care to attaine them and proposing to my selfe the study of things that were truly good I endeavoured to lift up my head and to consider of the whole universe in generall which yeelded matter of much difficultie to my apprehension First that thing which wise men called the world for I could never finde how it was made nor who was the maker of it nor what beginning it had nor what end it should have Next I descended to particulars which brought me into farre greater doubts then I was before I saw the starres scattered up and downe the heaven carelesly I know not how and I much desired to learne what matter the Sunne was made of But the greatest cause of marvell to mee was the Moone whose course seemed contrary to all reason and the often alteration of her shape I thought must needs proceed from some unknowne and secret cause moreover the suddain flashes of lightning the breaking out of the thunder the raine the snow the falling downe of the haile were utterly unexpressible to me and I knew not what to thinke of them being in this perplexitie I thought I could not doe better then to repaire to some of these Philosophers for my instruction who I thought were not to seeke in the true knowledge of any thing The Philosophers desires whereupon I made my choyce of the best among them as well as I could guesse at them by the grimnesse of their countenances the palenes of their complexion and the profunditie of their beards for such men I was perswaded could best speake deepe points of learning and vvere best seene in celestiall matters to them I committed my selfe and gave them a good round summe of mony in hand and more I promised to pay unto them when I should attaine to be my Arts master in these points for I had an incredible desire to talke like a learned man and to have an insight into the order course of all things But I was so farre from being freed by their meanes out of my former ignorance The distraction they put him in that they brought me worse out of tune then I was before every day filling my head with Beginnings and Endings and Atomes and Vacuities and Matters and Formes and I know not what But that which most of all put me out of heart was to heare how much they differed in opinions amongst themselves thwarting and overthwarting one another in every thing they spake yet every man would have mee to bee a follower of his and seeke to draw me to the bent of his owne bowe Friend Strange it is that wise men should bee at such oddes among themselves as not to have the same opinion of the same things Menip Beleeve me friend I know you could not chuse but laugh to heare their arrogant and prodigious speeches that men confin'd to the earth of no higher pitch then we that are with them Their presumption no sharper sighted then their neighbours dwelling nigh them nay some of them either through age or idlenesse able to see nothing at all should yet professe themselves to know the uttermost ends of heaven to measure the compasse of the Sunne to understand what is done above the Moone and as if they had fallen from the Starres describe the quantitie and fashion of every of them and that they which oftentimes cannot truely tell you how farre it is betweene b A City of Attica little more then 20. Italian miles distant from Athens so named in the raigne of Caros the son of Phoroneus from the temples of Ceres which were there built and so called Pausan in Attic Their contradictions Megara and Athens should yet take upon them to tell how many cubits space it is betweene the Moone and the Sunne and to measure out the height of the skie the depth of the sea and the compasse of the earth and by making circles and circumferences triangular and quadrant dimensions and by certaine round orbes conclude upon the quantitie of heaven it selfe but nothing doth more detect their ignorance and arrogancie then their owne peremptory speeches about matters vvhich all men know are to them unknowne for they will affirme nothing upon likeliehood or possibilitie but contend vvith all vehemency leaving no place for any other to outspeake them and will almost take their oathes upon it c Anaxagoras Diog. Laert. l. 1. that the Sunne is a lumpe of some kinde of matter made red hot with fire d Xenophanes that the Moone is a region inhabitable e Heraclitus and that the Starres drinke vvater by the help of the â—unne drawing vapours out of the Sea as with a bucket and bestowing it upon them all to drinke amongst them but the contradiction of their opinions may easily be descried by any man which I would have you take good notice of and how little reconciliation is to be expected in such contrarieties First they varie in their opinions touching the vvorld f Melissus and diverse others Hee may seeme here to incline more to Atheisme then any sect of Philosophie but this is spoken in the person of Menippus and not from his owne opinion for some hold it had no beginning nor ever shall come to have an end others as confidently affirme it had a maker and describe the manner of the making thereof And these bee the men I most admire that make some god to be the vvorkeman of all things and yet tell us not from whence he came or vvhere he stood vvhen he vvas about his vvorke vvhereas before the creation of the universe it
out and we descried not farre off us an Island full of mountaines woods about the which the seas did not rage so boisterously for the storme was now reasonably well calm'd there wee thrust in and went on shoare and cast our selves upon the ground and so lay a long time It was requisite the tempest◠should continue thus long and hee saile altogether in the dark lest he should be asked the way to this strange Island as utterly tired with our miserie at sea in the end we arose up and divided our selves thirtie we left to guard our ship my selfe and twentie more went to discover the Island and had not gone above three furlongs from the sea thorough a wood but wee saw a brasen pillar erected where upon Greeke letters were engraven though now much worne and hard to be discerned importing Thus farre travelled Hercules and Bacchus there were also neare unto the place two portraitures cut out in a rock the one of the quantitie of an acre of ground the other lesse which made mee imagine the the lesser to be Bacchus and the other Hercules and giving them due adoration wee proceeded on our journey and farre wee had not gone but we came to a river the streame whereof seemed to runne with as rich wine as any is made in c An Island in the Aegaean sea famous for excellent wines Chios and of a great breadth in some places able to beare a ship which made mee to give the more credit to the inscription upon the pillar when I saw such apparant signes of Bacchus peregrination we then resolved to travel up the streame to finde whence the river had his originall and when we were come to the head no spring at all appeared but mightie great vine trees of infinite number which from their roots distilled pure wine which made the river run so abundantly See our Authors modesty for this carries more probabilitie by farre than that a spring of wine should rise out of the earth the streame was also well stored with fish of which we tooke a few in taste colour much resembling wine but as many as eate of thē fell drunke upon it for when they were opened cut up we found them to be full of lees afterwards mee mixed some fresh-water fish with them which allayed the strong taste of the wine We then crost the streame where we found it passable and came among a world of vines of incredible number which towards the earth had firme stocks and of a good growth but the tops of them were women from the hips upwards having all their proportion perfect and compleat Halfe a virgin halfe a tree as painters picture out Daphne who was turned into a tree when shee was overtaken by Apollo at their fingers ends sprung out branches full of grapes and the haire of their heads was nothing else but winding wires and leaves and clusters of grapes when we were come to them they saluted us and joyned hands with us and spake unto us some in the Lydian and some in the Indian language but most of them in Greeke they also kist us with their mouthes but hee that was so kist fell drunke Many men have thus lost themselves in the yeelding to the bewitching enticements of wine and women and was not his owne man a good while after they could not abide to have any fruit pulled from thē but would roare crie out pittifully if any man offered it some of them desired to have carnall mixture with us two of our company were so bold as to entertaine their offer and could never afterwards be loosed from them but were knit fast together at their nether parts from whence they grew together and tooke roote together and their fingers began to spring out with branches and crooked wiers as if they were ready to bring out fruit whereupon wee forsooke them and fled to our shippes and told the company at our comming what had betide unto us how our fellows were entangled and of their copulation with the vines then wee tooke certaine of our vessels and filled them some with water and some with wine out of the river and lodged for that night neare the shoare On the morrow wee put to sea againe the winde serving us weakely but about noone when wee had lost sight of the Island upon a suddaine a whirlewinde caught us which turned our shippe round about and lifted us up some three thousand furlongs into the aire and suffered us not to settle againe into the sea but wee hung above ground and were carried aloft with a mightie wind which filled our sailes strongly The Island of of the Moone Thus for seven daies space and so many nights were wee driven along in that manner and on the eight day What winde blew them thither wee came in view of a great countrie in the aire like to a shining Island of a round proportion gloriously glittering with light and approaching to it vve there arrived and tooke land and surveying the countrie we found it to be both inhabited and husbanded He closely taxes their opinion who hold the Sunne Moone and Starres to be inhabited countries and as long as the day lasted we could see nothing there but when night was come many other Islands appeared unto us some greater and some lesse all of the colour of fire and another kind of earth underneath in which were cities seas rivers woods and mountains which we conjectured to be the earth by us inhabited and going further into the land we were met withall taken by those kind of people which they call d A made word signifying hors-vultures or vulture-horses or vulture riders and so are the rest that follow names coined and composed for his purpose Hippogypians these Hippogypians are men riding upon monstrous vultures which they use instead of horses for the vultures there are exceeding great every one with 3 heads apiece you may imagine their greatnesse by this for every feather in their wings was bigger longer thā the mast of a tall ship their charge was to flie about the countrie all the strangers they found to bring thē to the King and their fortune was then to seize upon us and by them wee were presented to him As soone as he saw us he conjectured by our habit what country-men we were and said are not you strangers Grecians which when wee affirmed and how could you make way said hee thorow so much aire as to get hither then wee delivered the whole discourse of our fortunes to him whereupon hee began to tell us likewise of his owne adventures how that hee also was a man by name e Icaromen c. Endymion and rapt up long since from the earth as he was asleep and brought hither where he was made King of the Countrie and said it was that region which to us below seemed to bee the Moone but hee bad
catch after live fishes here wee bath our selves when vvee are disposed for vvee have a lake of salt vvater not farre off about some twentie furlongs in compasse full of sundrie sorts of fish in which vvee swimme and saile upon it in a little boat of mine owne making This is the seven and twentieth yeare of our drowning and with all this wee might be well enough contented if our neighbours and borderers about us vvere not perverse and troublesome altogether insociable and of sterne condition Is it so indeed said I that there should be any within the whale but your selves many said hee and such as are unreconcileable towards strangers and of monstrous and deformed proportions the vvesterne countries and the taile-part of the wood are inhabited by the Tarychanians that looke like â—…les vvith faces like a lobster these are vvarlike fieres and feed upon raw flesh they that dwell towards the right side are called Tritonomenditans vvhich have their upper parts like unto men their lower parts like oattes and are lesse offensive than the rest On the left side inhabit the Cancinachirians and the Thinocephalians which are in league one vvith another the middle region is possest by the Pagurodians and the Psittopodians a warlike nation and swift of foot eastwards towards the mouth is for the most part desart as over washt vvith the sea yet am I faine to take that for my dwelling paying yearely to the Psittopodians in way of tribute five hundred oysters of so many nations doth this countrie consist wee must therefore devise among our selves either how to be able to fight with them or how to live among them What number may they all amount unto said I more than a thousaid hee and what armour have they none at all said hee but the bones of fishes then vvere it our best course said I to incounter them being provided as vvee are and they vvithout weapons for if vve prove too hard for them we shall afterward live out of feare this vve concluded upon and vvent to our ship to furnish our selves with armes the occasion of vvarre vvee gave by Nonpayment of tribute vvhich then vvas due for they sent their messengers to demand it to vvhom hee gave a harsh and scornfull answer and sent them packing with their arrant but the Psittopodians and Paguradians taking it ill at the hands of Scintharus for so was the man named came against us with great tumult we suspecting what they would do stood upon our guard to wait for them and laid five and twentie of our men in ambush commanding them as soone as the enemie was past bye to set upon them who did so and arose out of their ambush and fell upon the reare Who supplied the roome of the two that were lost wee also being five and twentie in number for Scyntharus and his sonne were marshalled among us advanced to meet with them and encountred them vvith great courage and strength but in the end wee put them to flight and pursued them to their very dennes of the enemies were slaine an hundred three-score and tenne and but one of us beside Trigles our pilot vvho vvas thrust thorow the backe vvith a fishes ribbe all that day following and the night after wee lodged in our trenches and set on end a drie backe bone of a Dolphin instead of a Trophie The next morrow the rest of the countrie people perceiving vvhat had happened came to assault us the Tarichanians vvere ranged in the right vving vvith Pelamus their Captaine the Thynocephalians vvere placed in the left vving the Carcinochiririans made up the maine battell for the Tritonomenditans stirred not neither would they joyne with either part about the temple of Neptune vvee met vvith them and joyned fight vvith a great crie vvhich vvas answered vvith an eccho out of the whale as if it had beene out of a cave but vve soone put them to flight being naked people and chased them into the vvood making our selves masters of the countrie soone after they sent Embassadours to us to crave the bodies of the dead to treat upon conditions of peace but vvee had no purpose to hold friendship vvith them but set upon them the next day put them all to the sword except the Tritonomendetans vvho seeing how it fared vvith the rest of their fellowes fled away thorow the gills of the fish and cast themselves into the sea then vve travelled all the countrie over vvhich now was desart dwelt there afterwards vvithout feare of enemies spending the time in exercise of the body in hunting in planting vineyards and gathering fruit of the trees like such men as live delicately and have the world at will in a spatious and unavoidable prison this kinde of life led vve for a yeare and eight moneths but when the fifth day of the ninth moneth was come about the time of the second opening of his mouth for so the vvhale did once every howre A gaping clock vvhereby vvee conjectured how the houres vvent away I say about the second opening upon a sudden wee heard a great crie and a mightie noise like the calls of marriners and the stirring of oares vvhich troubled us not a little vvherefore vvee crept up to the very mouth of the fish and standing vvithin his teeth saw the strangest sight that ever eye beheld men of monstrous greatnesse halfe a furlong in stature sailing upon mightie great Islands as if they were upon shipboard I know you vvill thinke this smells like a lie but yet you shall have it the Islands were of a good length indeed but not very high containing about an hundred furlongs in compasse everie of these carried of those kinde of men eight and twentie of vvhich some sate on either side of the Island and rowed in their course with great Cypres trees branches leaves all instead of oares on the sterne or hinder part as I take it stood the governour upon a high hill with a brasen rudder of a furlong in length in his hand on the fore-part stood fortie such fellowes as those armed for the fight resembling men in all points but in their haire which was all fire and burnt clearely so that they needed no helmets instead of sailes the wood growing in the Island did serve their turnes for the winde blowing against it drave forward the Island like a ship A strange sea-fight and carried it which way the governour would have it for they had Pilots to direct them and were as nimble to be stird with oares as any long boate at the first wee had the sight but of two or three of them afterwards appeared no lesse than sixe hundred which dividing themselves in two parts prepared for incounter in which many of them by meeting with their barkes together were broken in pieces many were turned over and drowned they that closed fought lustiliy and would not easily be parted for the souldiers in the front shewed a great
thunderbolt by Jvpiter wee saw many men running upon the sea like unto us every way forth both in shape and stature but onely for their feete which were of corke whereupon I suppose they had the name of Phellopodes we marvelled much when wee saw they did not sinke but keepe above water and travell upon it so boldly these came unto us and saluted us in the Graecian language and said they were bound towards Phello their owne countrie and for a while ranne along by us but at last turned their owne way and left us wishing us a happie and prosperous voyage Within a while after many Islands appeared and neare unto them upon our left hand stood Phello the place whereunto they were travelling which was a citie seated upon a mightie great and round corke Further off and more towards the right hand wee saw five other Islands large and mountainous in which much fire was burning but directly before us was a spacious flat Island distant from us not above five hundred furlongs and approaching somewhat neare unto it a wonderfull fragrant aire breathed upon us of a most sweet and delicate smell such as Herodotus the storie-writer saith ariseth out of Arabia the happie consisting of a mixture of roses daffadills gilli-flowres lillies violets myrtles baies and blossomes of vines such a daintie odoriferous savour was conveyed unto us being delighted with this smell and hoping for better fortunes after our long labours wee got within a little of the Isle in which wee found many havens on every side not subject to over floting and yet of great capacitie and rivers of cleare vvater emptying themselves easily into the sea vvith medowes and hearbes and musicall birds some singing upon the shoare and many upon the branches of trees a still and gentle aire compassing the whole countrie vvhen pleasant blasts gently stirred the vvoods the motion of the branches made a continuall delight some melodie like the sound of wind instruments in a solitarie place a kinde of clamour also was heard mixt with it yet not tumultuous nor offensive but like the noise of a banket when some do play on winde instruments some commend the musicke and some with their hands applaud the pipe or the harpe all which yeelded us so great content that vvee boldly entred the haven made fast our ship and landed leaving in her onely Scintharus and two more of our companions behinde us passing along thorow a sweete medow vvee met vvith the guards that used to saile about the Island vvho tooke us and bound us vvith garlands of roses which are the strictest bands they have to be carried to their governour from them wee heard as wee were upon the way that it was the e See the Tyrant y. Island of those that are called blessed and that Rhadamanthus was governour there A controversie concerning Ajax who being overcome by the eloquence of Vlysses about Achilles armour fell mad and slew himselfe to vvhom wee were brought and placed the fourth in order of them that vvere to be judged the first triall was about Ajax the sonne Telamon whether hee were a meete man to be admitted into the societie of the Heroes or not the objections against him vvere his madnesse and the killing of himselfe and after long pleading to and fro Rhadamanthus gave this sentence that for the present hee should be put to Hippocrates the Phisitian of Couâ— to be purged with Elleborus and upon the recoverie of his wits to have admittance the second was a controversie of love Theseus and Menelaus contending which had the better right to Hellen but Rhadamanthus gave judgement on Menelaus side in respect of the manifold labours and perills he had incur'd for that mariage sake whereas Theseus had wives enouogh beside to live withall as the f Hippolyta Amazon g Ariadne and Phaedra and the daughters of Manos the third was a question of precedencie betweene h Alexander the great Alexander the sonne of Philip and i The sonne of Amilchar and Generall of the Carthaginians against the Romans see Plutarch in his life Hannibal the Carthaginian in which Alexander was prefer'd and his throne placed next to the elder k The sonne of Cambises who translated the kingdome from the Medes to the Persians see the surveiors The yonger Syrus was the son of Darius Nothus and brother to Artaxerxes of whom Xenophon Cyrus the Persian In the fourth place we appear'd and he demanded of us what reason wee had being living men to take land in that sacred countrey and wee told him all our adventures in order as they befell us then he commanded us to stand aside and considering upon it a great while in the end proposed it to the benchers which were many and among them l Plutarch He describes the city of the blessed and the Elysian fields and to their perpetuall shame out-lies Homer and all the Poets Aristides the Athenian surnamed the just and when hee was provided what sentence to deliver hee said that for our busie curiositie and needlesse travels wee should be accountable after our death but for the present we should have a time limited for our aboad during which wee should feast the Heroes and then depart prefixing us seven months libertie to conclude our tariance and no more then our garlands fell off from us of themselves and wee were set loose and led into the citie to feast with the blessed the citie was all of gold compassed with a wall made of the precious stone Smaragdus which had seven gates every one cut out of a whole peece of timber of cinamon tree the pavement of the city all the ground within the walls was Ivorie the temples of all the gods are built of Berryll with large altars made all of one whole Amethyst upon which they offer their sacrifices about the citie runneth a river of most excellent sweet ointment in breadth an hundred cubits of the larger measure and so deepe that a man may swimme in it with ease for their bathes they have great houses of glasse which they warme with cinamon and their bathing tubbes are filled with warme dew instead of water their onely garments are cob-webs of purple colour neither have they any bodies but are intactile and without flesh a meere shape and presentation onely and being thus bodilesse they yet stand and are moved are intelligent and can speake and their naked soule seemeth to vvander up and downe in a corporall likenesse for if a man touch them not he cannot say otherwise but that they have bodies altogether like shadowes standing upright and not as they are of a darke colour no man waxeth any older there then hee was before but of what age hee comes thither so hee continues neither is there any night with them nor indeed cleare day but like the twilight towards morning before the Sun be up such a kinde of light do they live in they know but one season
tormented and comming at last to the prison and place of torment vvee wondered to see the nature and qualitie of the soile which brought forth no other flowers but swords and daggers and round about it ranne certaine rivers the first of dirt the second of blood and the innermost of burning fire which was very broad and unpassable floting like water and working like the waves of the sea full of sundrie fishes some as bigge as firebrands others of a lesse sise like coales of fire and these they call Lychniscies there was but one narrow entrance into it and Timon of Athens appointed to keepe the doore yet wee got in by the helpe of Nauplius and saw them that were tormented both Kings and private persons very many of which there were some that I Knew for there I saw Cynirus tyed by private members and hanging up in the smoake but the greatest torments of all are inflicted upon them that told any lies in their life-time and wrote untruly as d Two historians Ctesias the Cnidian Herodotus and many other which I beholding was put in great hopes that I should never have any thing to do there Witnesse this historie for I do not know that ever I spake any untruth in my life wee therefore returned speedily to our ship for we could indure the sight no longer and taking our leaves of Nauplius sent him backe againe A little after appeared the Isle of Dreames neare unto us The Island and Citie of Dreams described an obscure countrie and unperspicuous to the eie indued with the same qualitie as dreames themselves are for as wee drew it still gave backe and fled from us that it seemed to be farther off then at the first but in the end wee attained it and entred the haven called e 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sleepe Hypnus and adjoyned to the gate of Ivorie where the temple of f Or Alector Alectryon stands and tooke land somewhat late in the evening entring the gate wee saw many dreames of sundrie fashions See the Cocke but I will first tell you somewhat of the citie because no man else hath written any description of it Odyss lib. 9 v. 562. onely Homer hath toucht it a little but to small purpose it is round about environed with a wood the trees whereof are exceeding high g Hearbs procuring sleepe The names both of places and persons here are compounded of such words as signifie something belonging to dreames sleepe or to the night Poppies and Mandragoras in which an infinite number of owles doe nestle and no other birds to be seene in the Island neare unto it is a river running called by them Nyctiporus and at the gates are two wells the one named Negretus the other Pannychia the wall of the citie is high and of a changeable colour like unto the rainebow in vvhich are foure gates though Homer speake but of two for there are two vvhich looke toward the fields of flowth the one made of iron the other of potters clay through which those dreames have passage that represent fearefull bloodie and cruell matters the other two behold the haven and the sea of which the one is made of horne the other of Ivorie vvhich vvee vvent in at As vvee entred the citie on the right hand stands the temple of the Night vvhom with Alectryon they reverence above all the gods for hee hath also a Temple built for him neare unto the haven on the left hand stands the pallace of sleepe for hee is the soveraigne King over them all and hath deputed two great Princes to governe under him namely Taraxion the sonne of Matoegenes and Plutocles the sonne of Phantasion in the middest of the market-place is a well by them called Careotis and two temples adjoyning the one of falshood the other of truth which have either of them a private cell peculiar to the Priests and an oracle in which the chiefe prophet is Antipho the interpreter of dreames vvho was preferd by sleepe to that place of dignitie these dreames are not all alike either in nature or shape for some of them are long beautifull and pleasing others againe are as short and deformed some make shew to be of gold and others to be as base and beggarly some of them had wings and were of monstrous formes others set out in pompe as it were in a triumph representing the apparances of Kings Gods and other persons many of them were of our acquaintance for they had beene seene of us before which came unto us and saluted us as their old friends and tooke us and lull'd us asleep feasted us nobly and courteously promising beside all other entertainment which was sumptuous and costly to make us Kings and Princes some of them brought us home to our own countrie to shew us our friends there and come backe with us the next morrow thus wee spent thirtie daies and as many nights among them sleeping and feasting all the while untill a sudden clap of thunder awakned us all and we starting up provided our selves of victuals and tooke sea again and on the third day landed in Ogygia But upon the way I opened the letter I was to deliver and read the contents Homer Odyss which were these Vlysses to Calypso sendeth greeting this is to give you to undestand that after my departure from you in the vessell I made in hast for my selfe I suffered shipwracke hardly escaped by the helpe of Leucothea into the countrie of the Phoeacks who sent mee to mine owne home where I found many that were vvooers to my wife and riotously consumed my meanes but I slew them all and was afterwards kill'd my selfe by my son h Who being told by his mother whose son he was travell'd to Ithaca to see his father but being kept backe by the guard and not suffered to have admittance hee slew certain of them and at length Vlysses being drawne thither by the tumult Telegonus not knowing who he was ignorantly slew him Telegonus whom I begat of Circe am now in the Island of the blessed vvhere I daily repent my selfe for refusing to live with you and forsaking the imortalitie profered mee by you but if I can spie a convenient time I will give them all the slippe and come to you This was the effect of the letter with some addition concerning us that wee should have entertainment and farre had I not gone from the sea but I found such a cave as Homer speakes of and shee her selfe working busilie at her wooll when shee had received the letter and brought us in shee beganne to weepe and take on grievously but afterwards shee called us to meat and made us very good cheare asking us many questions concerning Vlysses and Penelope whether shee was so beautifull and modest as Vlysses had often before bragged of her and wee made her such answer as wee thought would give her best content and departing to our ship
to see the Olympian games in all my life Demeas What then you may see them hereafter and for such matters as these it is better the mention of them should precede then follow Hee also fought bravely of late in the quarrell of his countrie against the Acharnens and cut in pieces two companies of the Lacedaemonians Timon What 's that I protest for my part because I had no skill in armes I was never yet inrold into any militarie companie Demeas You speake to poorely of your selfe but wee might be thought unthankfull if wee should not remember it moreover By publishing Decrees by giving good counsell and by good command in warre he hath procured no small benefite to the citie for all which considerations be it enacted by the counsell and the people and the highest court of the citie according to their tribes and all the multitude in particular and generall that a golden statue shall be erected to Timon in the castle and placed next to the image of Minerva holding a thunderbolt in his right hand and the sun-beames shining about his head and hee be crowned with seven crownes of gold and this to be publikely proclaimed this day in the new tragedies of Bacchus for the feasts of Bacchus are to be celebrated by him this day this sentence is pronounced by Demeas the Rhetoritian his kinsman in the nearest degree of blood and his scholler beside for Timon is also a good Rhetoritian good at every thing else whatsoever hee will This is the Decree that I have framed for you Moreover my purpose is to bring my sonne unto you shortly and after your name to call him Timon Timon How should that be Demeas when thou never hadst any wife that I ever heard of Demeas The very imagination of inheriting Timons wealth makes him build these castles in the aire But I meane to be married god willing the next yeare and will beget a child and the infant that shall be borne for it must be a boy I will have called Timon Timon I know not whether it will be your fortune ever to come to marriage friend mine if this blow with my Mattocke do but fall aright Demeas Alas alas what meanest thou by this dost thou tyrannize Timon and beate freemen that art no true freeman The treasure of Athens was kept in the castle nor cittizen thy selfe but be sure of it I will crie quittance winh thee out of hand one way or other especially for burning the castle Timon No such matter for that thou seest stands unburnt and therefore thou shewest thy selfe a plaine sycophant Demeas But thou art rich and hast broken in thorow the backe doore Timon Neither is that broken up and therefore thou art idle every way Demeas But broken up it will be and thou hast already got into thy hands all the riches that were within it Timon Take one blow more for that Demeas O my backe what shall I doe Timon Dost thou crie I have yet a third blow to bestow upon thee if thou tarry The Character of a pretender to Philosophie it would be a shame for mee that could cut in pieces two companies of the Lacedoemonians without armes and should not now be able to confound one withered fellow in vaine it was then that I got the prise at Olympus for wrastling and running but who comes now is it not Thrasycles the Philosopher it can be no other see how he stroakes his beard at length lifts up his eie browes and comes muttering somewhat to himselfe looking like a b This is often used by Lucian for a fierce and truculent aspect as in Icaromenip c. Titan and the haire of his forehead cast backe like some c The North-winde Boreas or d A Sea-god and Neptunes trumpeter Triton pictured by e An excellent painter Zeuxis this man that hath such a grave countenance such a sober gate and is so succinct in his apparell hee that in a morning will deliver you a thousand precepts for vertue crie out upon them that are addicted to pleasure and speake in praise of frugalitie as soone as hee hath bathed and come in to supper and his boy fill'd him one full bowle for hee loves a cup of good wine with all his heart as if hee drunke of the water of Lethe will pleasantly give an instance contrary to his forenoone speeches strike at the meate like a kite at his pray justle his next neighbour out of his place slabber all his beard over with sawce and cramme in like any curre dogge hanging his head perpetually over the platters as if hee meant to finde out vertue in the bottome of the dishes and wipes them every one with his fore-finger as cleane as a cup because hee would not leave a drop of sawce behinde him hee is as sure a card at his cup as at his meat and will be as drunke as any ape not onely to the heighth of singing and dauncing but till it make him brabble and fall out then will hee passe many speeches over the pot and talke of nothing else but temperance and sobrietie when hee is all-to-peeces himselfe and brings out his words so scurvily that all the company laughs him to scorne then falls hee to spewing untill at the last some take him away and carrie him out of the roome though hee catch hold upon some of the wenches as strongly as hee can but when hee is at the best hee shall subscribe to no man for lying and audaciousnesse and covetousnesse he is the prime of all parasites and the easiest drawne to commit perjurie imposture leads the way with him and impudencie followes after yet would hee seeme to be wholy made of wisdome and every way forth absolute and perfect I will make him smoake for it as soone as hee comes for his goodnesse sake What 's the reason that Thrasycles hath beene so slow in comming to visit mee Thrasycles I come not Timon with the same intent as other men doe which aime at thy riches Grosse dissimulation and runne themselves out of breath in hope to get silver gold and good cheare by thee expressing a great deale of flattery towards a man so honest and plaine as thou art and so ready to impart of any thing that is within thy power as for mee you know a piece of barley bread will serve mee to supper sufficiently and no better victuals with it than a sallade of of time and cresses or if I list to exceed a bit or two of powdred meat my drinke is no other but cleare f The water of a fountaine in Athens which hath 9 spouts and is therefore called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is also called Callirrhoe Pausan 1.1 fountaine water and this thred-bare cassock I preferre before the richest purple you can desire but for gold I have it in no more estimation than the rubbish that lies upon the sea shore for your sake it is that I am
have beene some heard of cattle and going forwards fell upon those men vvho espying us chaced us backe againe and tooke three of our companie the rest fled towards the sea then vvee all armed our selves not meaning to leave our friends unrevenged and set upon the Bucephalians as they vvere dividing the flesh of them that that vvere slaine and put them all to flight and pursued after them of whom wee killed fiftie and two wee tooke alive and so returned with our prisoners but food wee could finde none then the companie were all earnest with mee to kill those whom wee had taken but I did not like so well of that thinking it better to keepe them in bonds untill embassadours should come from the Bucephalians to ransome them that vvere taken and indeed they did and I vvell understood by the nodding of their heads and their lamentable lowing like petitioners what their businesse vvas so vvee agreed upon a ransome of sundrie cheeses and dried fish and onions and foure deere vvith three legges a peece two behind and one before upon these conditions vvee delivered those vvhom vvee had taken and tarrying there but one day departed then the fishes began to shewe themselves in the sea and the birds flew over our heads and all other tokens of our approach to land appeared unto us vvithin a vvhile after vvee saw men travelling the seas and a nevv found manner of navigation themselves supplying the office both for shippe and sailer and I will tell you hovv As they lye upon their backes in the water and their privie members standing upright vvhich are of a large sise and fit for such a purpose they fasten thereto a saile and holding their cords in their hands vvhen the vvinde hath taken it are carryed up and downe as please themselves after these followed others riding upon corke for they yoake two dolphines together and drive them on performing themselves the place of a coach-man which draw the corke along after them these never offered us any violence nor once shunned our sight but past along in our companie without feare in a peaceable manner wondring at the greatnesse of our shippe and beholding it on every side At evening wee arrived upon a small Island inhabited as it seemed onely by women which could speake the Greeke language for they came unto us gave us their hands and saluted us all attired like vvantons beautifull and young wearing long mantles downe to the foote the Island was called Cabalusa and the citie Hydamardia so the women received us and every one of them tooke aside one of us for herselfe and made him her guest but I pausing a little upon it for my heart misgave mee looked narrowly round about and saw the bones of many men and the sculls lying together in a corner yet I thought not good to make any stirre or to call my companie about mee or to put on armes but taking the mallow into my hand made my earnest prayers thereto that I might escape out of those present perils within a while after when the strange female came to wait upon mee I perceived shee had not the legges of a woman but the hoofes of an asse whereupon I drew my sword and taking fast hold of her bound her and examined her upon the point and shee though unwillingly confest that they were sea-women called Onosceleans and they fed upon strangers that travelled that vvay for said shee when vvee have made them drunke wee go to bed to them and in their sleepe make a hand of them I hearing this left her bound in the place where shee was and vvent up to the roofe of the house where I made an outcrie and called my company to mee and when they were come together acquainted them with all that I had heard and shewed them the bones and brought them into her that was bound who suddenly was turned into water and could not be seene notwithstanding I thrust my sword into the water to see what would come of it and it was changed into blood then wee made all the hast wee could to our shippe and got us away and as soone as it was cleare day wee had sight of the maine land which wee judged to be the countrie opposite to our continent whereupon wee worshipped and made our prayers and tooke counsell what was now to be done some thought it best onely to go a land and so returne backe againe others thought it better to leave our ship there and march into the midland to trie what the inhabitants would do but whilest wee were upon this consultation a violent storme fell upon us which drave our ship against the shoare and burst it all in pieces and with much adoe wee all swam to land with our armes every man catching what hee could lay hands on These are all the occurrences I can acquaint you withall till the time of our landing both in the sea and in our course to the Ilands and in the aire and after that in the whale and when wee came out againe what betide unto us among the Heroes and among the dreames and lastly among the Bucephalians and the Onosceleans what past upon land the next Bookes shall deliver TIMON OR THE MANHATER O Jupiter that art also a Names derived from the severall offices of Jupiter called Philius and Xenius and Hetaerius and Ephestius and Asteropetes and Hercius and Nephelegeretes and Erigdupus and I know not how many names else which the braine-sick poets have beene used to put upon thee especially when they want words to make up their meeter for then thou art a plaine aliàs dictus among them and they call thee they care not what Timons complaint wherewith thou supportest the ruines of their rythmes and closest up the crannies of their verses what 's now become of thy fiery flashes of lightning thy clattering claps of thunder and thy dreadfull horrible terrible thunderbolt all these are now come to nothing no more esteemed than a poeticall fume were it not for the noise of their names onely and that renowned farre fetching engine of thine that was readie at all assaies I know not by what meanes is now utterly quencht and coold not the least sparke of wrath reserved to be darted out against malefactors No knight of the post nor cōmon perjuror but stands more in dread of the dead snuffe of a candle than of the all consuming heat of thy thunderbolt and they make no more account of it than of a darke torch held over their heads that yeelds neither fire nor smoake think all the hurt it can do them is to fill them with sutt This made b True Hist l. 2. d. Salmoneus already presume to answer thee again with thunder a bold daring braggadochio that knew how coole Joves anger would be well enough for how should it be otherwise thou being surprised with so dead a sleepe as if thou hadst eaten c Ibid. g. Mandrakes neither able