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A16169	Beautiful blossomes, gathered by Iohn Byshop, from the best trees of all kyndes, diuine, philosophicall, astronomicall, cosmographical, historical, & humane, that are growing in Greece, Latium, and Arabia, and some also in vulgar orchards, as wel fro[m] those that in auncient time were grafted, as also from them which haue with skilful head and hand beene of late yeares, yea, and in our dayes planted: to the vnspeakable, both pleasure and profite of all such wil vouchsafe to vse them. The first tome	Bishop, John, d. 1613.	1577 (1577)	STC 3091; ESTC S102279	212,650	348

the table presented vnto Leonell There were at one course thréescore and tenne goodly great horses couered with saddles of veluet and siluer but at an other siluer plate hierfalcons houndes greyhounds armour for horses sumptuous shirts of maile glittering complete harnesse of strong stéele head péeces adorned with mightie highe and rich crestes garmentes wrought with pearles harnesse girdles last of all rare precious stones set in iewels and a mightie masse of clothe of golde and purple But suche was the furniture of the feast that the meate whiche was taken from the table woulde aboundantly suffice tenne thousand men Of suche a sumptuous supper also dooe Sabelicus and Egnatius mention made of late yeares by a gentleman Venetian vnto an hundrethe gentlemen of the same citie whiche supper continued vntil day or after Egnatius seuen houres and for the varietie of dainties number of courses and of dishes in euery course and the diuersitie of melodie before euery course deserued to be numbred among the most riotous feastes of the Sybarites ye of the Romane Emperours Of a very riotous banquet read we also in the secretes of nature made by a Cardinal in Prouince whiche puttes me in minde of the carnall Cardinall spoken off by Iouius in his booke of fishes who vsed to glorie that he had buried in his bellie 20000. ducats whiche might more honourably haue béene bestowed vppon so many poore folkes But my before mentioned Frier Peter passed him for he within two yeres spent saies Volaterane in riotous banquets and trifles .300000 ducats But to returne againe vnto Heliogabalus he was not contented so sumptuously to feast himself his friends but that he would commaund great store of the renowned grapes of Apamea in Syria to be wastfully thrown into the maungers vnto his horses and would féede his dogges with the farsed liuers of géefe a dishe of greate price among the riotous Romanes and Lyons and Libardes with Phesaunts and Parrates the tounges of whome and of all other swéete singing byrdes would he gréedily eate not I thinke to knowe whither that they woulde delite the palate as muche as they did the eare but because of their greate price whiche he loued of all meates to be tolde him to be farre greater then it was in very déede that it might make him as he vsed to say to haue the more eager appetite vnto it But in this kinde of riot the dishe of Aesopus the tragedie player is moste famous or rather infamous whiche was valued at 600. sestertia 4500.l wherein he had put birdes of great price either for singing or else for imitation of mannes spéeche being induced therevnto by no other swéetenesse but that he might in them eate the imitation of man no not once reuerencing those rich and great gaines of his and gotten by the voice Now me thinkes in this place is it woorthie of the noting that Plinie writeth that the inhabitaunts of Delos first began to cramme hens I find it forbidden at Rome by the law of C. Fannius 40. yeares before the third Punical warres to haue any foule set on the table except one henne she should not be franked which clause being taken from thence walked throughout all the lawes of charges of feasts which were made afterwarde in Rome but there was a starting hole found oute to franke capons whiche the lawe spake not off and to put milke vnto their meate and so are they liked as farre the more pleasant to the palate The first that ordeined coupes to shutte vp all kindes of birdes was M. Lelius Sirabo one of the order of the Equites at Brundusium from him we began to restraine in prison those liuing thinges to whome nature had assigned the aire But this cramming of birdes is no newes vnto vs but to haue mightie stewes or armes of the sea inclosed to kéepe sea fishe in is rare Sergius Crata first inuented in the créeke Baiae stewes for oysters in the age of L. Crassus the Oratour before the social wars not for his throte but for couetousnes reaping great reuenues by this inuention in the same age Licinius Murena inuented stewes for other fishes whose example the nobilitie folowed Philip Hortensius Lucullus also cutting out a hill with greater charges then he had built his goodly house did let in the sea and made a ponde the fishes wherof were solde after his deathe for quadringenta that is 3000.l The firste that inuented a stew onely for Murenes was C. Hirius who at the triumphal suppers of Caesar the dictator lent him by weight sixe thousand Murenes for he woulde take for them neither money nor yet any other rewarde This mannes manour house being a verie pelting litle thing did his fish pondes sell for quadragies 30000. poundes Fuluius Hirpinus made stewes of cockles a litle before the ciuil watres betwéene Pompey and Caesar seuering also the kindes of them that the white whiche be bredde in the territorie of Reate might be by themselues the Illyrian who be the greatest by themselues and so the African who are most fruiteful and the Solitane who are moste noble Hee also inuented a fatting of them with Sapa and Far and other thinges that also franked cockles might glutte the gourmandise of the delicate But yet there is some affinitie betweene Fishe and Fleshe and the palate for they haue some taste but pearles and precious stones haue neither good nor ill smacke and therefore no aliaunce with the gullet nor coulde bring any pleasure vnto it vnlesse that their greate price did make them swéete which reason would should sower them There were saies Plinie two pearles which did excell all other which haue béen since the beginning of the worlde both of them did Cleopatra the last quéene of Egypt possesse being deliuered vnto her by the handes of the kings of the East When that Antonius her swéete hart was euery day franked with exquisite banquettes she with proude and malapert statelines and scornefulnesse like vnto a harlot Quéene debased and dispraised his dainties and the prouision and furniture of his table But when he demaunded of her what greater magnificence could possibly be made she answeared that she woulde absume at one supper centies sestertium 75000. l. Antonius was desirous to learne but he did not thinke that it could by any meanes be done So then after that they had laide a wager thereof the next day when the matter should be tried she did set before Antonius least the day should be lost a supper otherwise magnificent but of their ordinarie proportion then Antonius beganne to scoffe and called for a reckoning of the supper she saide that the dishes whiche he had was but a surplusage and that she her selfe alone woulde spend at that supper the valewe and suppe at 75000. l. commaunding the waiters to bring in the seconde table for with their fruite they alwayes in the olde time chaunged their table By her

lamentable losse by sicknesse of the flourishing army of his countrimē in Naples vnder the conduct of the Lantrech and the dishonourable yealding of Auersa as he stoode musing on this so great a calamitie and staring vp into heauen fel down starke deade of pitifull pietie towards parents out of Campofulgoso the Toletane who by importunate prayers and flowing teares hardly at the length obteined of the magistrate to be hanged in his fathers stéede of fatherly sorrowe out of Appian Blauus who hearing a false tale that his sonne was slaine by the souldiers of Triumri of his owne accord went vnto them and obteined of them to be killed as one proscribed and out of Iulius Capitolinus Gordian the Romane Emperour who vnderstanding that his sonne was slaine in battell for intollerable griefe hanged vp him selfe that night in his chamber of brotherly loue out of Plinie Pub. Rutilius who being certified of his brothers repulse in his suite for the Consulship incontinently dyed being before but grieued a little with an ague and of the two Cappadocian brothers that contended whether of them was the elder for that Augustus had decréed that the elder shoulde be put to death with his father Adiatorix and when they had long after this manner striuen in deadly pietie scarse at the last Dyetentus by the earnest intreatie and prayers of his mother who sawe that she might be more easily founde and mainteined by him gaue place suffered his yonger brother to dye for him the elder Of sure affied heart vnto wife Marcus Plautinus who slue him vpon his dead wife and Sempronius Gracchus who did suffer him selfe to be slaine wittingly in his fight by killing of a male serpent that he might deliuer his wife from death by letting the female to escape for so the Soothsayers affirmed of feruent frendship Pylades and Pithias who incessantly sued to dye to saue his faithfull friendes Orestes and Damon and Philotinus out of Plinie that threwe him selfe in to the roge or funerall fire of his patrone who had made him heire of all his whole goodes of faithful seruice two bondmen in Dion who did chaunge apparell with their proscribed maisters that they by wished errour might be slaine for them Thus muche of mourning the next is riot wherunto may aptly be annexed too great lust of all thinges The sixte Chapter Of the great riot of man in apparel and the excesse therein of a Cardinals harlot of Poppea of the souldiours of Antiochus Sedetes Caligula Heliogabalus Charles duke of Burgonie the Marques of Astorga Lollia Paulina Agrippina of the Romanes the Greekes and the Alexandrines of the greate prices of a pearle and a precious stone whiche made his maister to be proscribed Howe man doth alter the natural constitution and ornamentes of his body and of Poppea her bath and of a Patriarche and a Cardinal that made themselues to be pale ALl other liuing thinges are contented with the clothing of nature and the ornamentes of it onely man couereth his carcase with forreigne furniture whiche were to be allowed in him séeing nature hathe afforded him none if he coulde be pleased with such things as are able to defend him from colde and heate and not to séeke the bottomes bothe of the seas ye the Arabian and Indian and al landes to garnishe their bodies withall robbing the Seas fishes of purple pearles stones and amber greace and the hidden and secret tresures of the whole earth for golde siluer precious stones and the poore vermine of the farthest colde countries of the Northe cruelly of their able garmentes for Sables Lucernes Hermines and suche like costly furres paying for a face of Sables 1000. ducates and wilde beasts of the East for muske ciuet to make them smel swéet They set pearles saies Plinie on their féete that not only vpon the vpper parts of their shooes but also on the soles ye in the memorie also of our fathers a Cardinals harlot wore al the vpper parte of her shooes set cleane ouer with pearles and precious stones and long before her Poppea wife to Nero would shooe suche horses as she liked of with golde as her husband did all his mules with siluer so that it is not greatly to be marueiled that the souldiers of Antiochus Sedetes king of Syria did peg their shooes with nails of golde Clemens Alexandrinus séemeth to make it a common thing in Greece and Asia or rather at Alexandria where he liued to set their shooes euery where full of studs of golde to weare pantafles made with diuerse kinde of workmanshippe of golde precious stones so that I do ceasse to woonder that Caligula vsed riding clokes couered ouer ouer with precious stones Heliogabalus all his garments ye and his shooes glistering with gemmes No what say you that our Barbarians wil boorde for brauerie those riotous Romanes gorgeous Gréekes for Charles the hautie the last Duke of Burgonie whē he receiued Frederike the Emperour wore a cloke of cloth of golde set with diamonds carbuncles valued at an hundreth thousand crownes And in our dayes at the coronation of Charles the fifth at Bologna a Spaniard the Marques of Astorga as Iouius reports wore a riche gowne of cloth of golde wrought ouer and ouer with dolphines of pearles and precious stones Plinie telleth that the stones pearles that Lollia Paulina wife vnto Caligula wore not at any solemne feast but onely at a nuptiall night vpon her head her haires her eares her neck her hands and fingers were worth quadringenties sestertium which after Budeyes account is tenne hundreth thousand french crownes and aboue thrée hundreth thousand pounde of our monie neither were they the gifts of the prodigal Prince but her graund fathers goods gotten by the spoiles of the prouinces This was the ende of rapines robberies this was it for the whiche Marcus Lollius infamed for the gyfts giuen vnto him by al the kings of the orient and therfore falling into the displeasure of Caius nephewe and sonne adopted vnto Augustus dranke poison that his néece might be séene by candle light couered ouer with 10000 crownes Against this excesse in pearles doeth Plinie exclame in his 9. booke 35. chap. speaking thus ye marry it had béen a small thing for the seas to be buried in our bellies vnlesse they were worne as well of men as women on their handes their eares their féete ye and the whole body What hath the sea to do with the garments and clothing what haue the waters and waues with the backe but nature you will say doth not friendely deale with vs in casting vs forth into the worlde naked Go to let there be so great societie betwéene the bellie and the sea but what with the backe let it be a small matter vnlesse that we that are fedd with daungers be also clothed with perilles so through the whole body thinges gotten with

made of Cedar and Cyparissus of Miletus the gates or doores whiche were round aboute that roome being in number twentie were of till trée boordes garnished with Iuorie the nailes and hammers of them were of redde copper and by cunning woorkemanshippe made to glister as faire as if they had béene guilt the bodies of the pillers were of Cyparissus but thē heads were wrought by Corinthian art and garnished with golde and Iuorie but all the Epistilium or archegraue was all of golde vpon the which was there a beautifull border hauing carued beastes of Iuorie in it aboue a cubite long wrought in déede with meane arte but with maruelous cost There was also a verie faire bāquetting house foure square built of Ciparissus the ornamentes whereof were carued and guilted to this adioyned a chamber with seuen beddes or tables close whereunto stoode the nurserie where was a place able to holde seuen tables whiche for magnificence was not vnlike vnto the great chamber and an other chamber of fi●e tables And thus were the places of the first storie garnished But they whiche went vppe the staires whiche were néere vnto the chamber which we last spake of came vnto a chamber wherein were fiue supping beddes and by it a faire vaulted temple of Venus in the whiche was her image of Iuorie Ouer right against this was there a sumptuous ●ound banqueting place whose pillers were of Indian st●●●es whom folowed other chambers hauing the like furniture and garnishing that they had of whom I spake of before And going foorth towards the stem was there a round house dedicated to Bacchus conteining fiftéene tables whiche was guilt But the Goddesse her house was finely proportioned at the right side wherof there was a caue hauing the colour of stone for it was gorgeously builte of very stone indéede and golde and there were in it the images of them which were of affinitie vnto the kings ●orse like Lychnaean stone There were a great many of other suche dining chambers as costly garnished as well in the middes of the shippe as in all other partes of it whiche I do willingly omitte hasting vnto Hiero the King of Syracusae his shippe made by Archimedes the famous Geometrician of so greate burden that she carried vnto Alexandria 60000. medimnes a medimne is two bushels and a pecke of corne 10000. barels of salt fishes 20000. talents of flesh and 20000. of other burdens besides the prouision of the men and mariners There went a wall with bulwarkes round about the ship a trenche of yron and eight towers two at the stemme and two at the puppe and foure in the middle There was a sling in the shippe which would cast a stone that weighed two hundreth and arrowes of twelue cubites whom she would shoote a furlong There were in the middes of the shippe thrée faire dining chambers hauing in them thirtie dining beddes Al they had their pauimentes of stones of diuerse kindes and colours in whome with wonderfull workmanship were al things conteined that are written of the siege of Troy all whiche thinges are set foorth in the furniture the séeling ouer head and the doores There was also a place of exercise and walking places in whome were diuerse sortes of gardens filled full of plantes hearbes and floures set in vessels of earth and leade There were also benches growing full of white iuie and vines whiche tooke their nutriment in tubbes filled full of earth and had the same watering that gardens haue these trées did shadowe the walking places After all these was Venus her parlour whose pauimente was of Achates and other precious stones whiche were found in the I le The walles and séeling ouer head was of Cyparisse the doores of iuorie Thyia which were very brauely garnished with pictures images great magnificence of cups There folowed this rome a parlour with fiue tables dedicated vnto a schoole which had the doores and walles of Boxe and within it a librarie There was also a bayne whiche had three vessels of copper apt for the fire and a tine or cauldron of diuerse colours of Tauroncinian stone whiche woulde holde fiue metretes that is 56. gallons a quart there were also tenne stables for horses and at the stemme a place inclosed with pitched bourdes and canuasse wherein water was kept to the quantitie of 2600. metretes that is 27500. gallons where was also a fishe pond made of leade and boordes full of salt water in the which was kept great store of fishes with a great number of suche like sumptuous buildinges But omitting the shippe of Cedar 280. cubites long guilt without and siluered within built by Sesostris king of Egypt whiche he offered vppe vnto the God whiche is worshipped at Thebae I read also in Suetonius that Caligula did builde him long shipps of Cedar with the puppes set with precious stones with sailes of diuers colours with mighty great baines galeries and parlours and great varietie also of vines and trées that beare fruite sitting in whō with great melodie singing and reuelling he would rowe along the coast of Campania And Tacitus writeth that Nero had his banquetting shippes garnished with iuorie and golde This colt Caius in building of palaces and manor houses in the countrie contemning and refusing all reason coueted and went about to do nothing so earnestly as that whiche men tolde him could not be done Wherfore he did cast vp péeres in the raging and déepe sea he cut out rockes of harde flint he would with earth make lowe vales equall vnto mounteins digge down the tops of mounteines leuel with the fieldes that with incredible spéede all tariaunce bringing present deathe By these suche other riotous déeds he spent all the huge sum of money of vicies septies millies sestertium which is 20250000.l left him by Tyberius before one yeare was gone about Which vnmeasurable prodigalitie Nero did not so much commend in wordes as gladly imitate in déedes For he began a pond from the foreland of Misenus to the lake of Auerne couered ouer and inclosed round about with faire galeries or walkes that all the bathes of hote water which are at Baiae might be brought together into one ponde He also began a ditche from Auerne euen to Hoscia that they might goe betwéene them by ship yet not on the sea surely a goodly thing this dich should haue ben 160. miles long and so broad that quinqueremes or galies with fiue orders of ores méeting might passe one by the other Vpon these works he spent al his treasure so that he had not wherw t to pay his souldiers their wages and so was forced to leaue the vaine worke vnfinished But to speake again of Caligula He made a bridge of 3. myles a half long vpon the gulfe of Baiae reaching frō Baiae to P●teols gathering together for that purpose from al parts shippes for burthen whom lying at anchor in two rowes he filled

commandement the waiters did set before her one only dishe wherein was nothing but vineager whose sharpnesse and strength doth resolue pearles She ware at that present time that singular and in very déede louely worke of nature on her eares Then Antonius expecting what in Goddes name she would do she pulled off one of them and put it into the vineagre and when it was resolued supped it vp L. Plancus the iudge of the wager laide his hand on the other whom she was about to dresse and absume in like maner and pronounced iudgement that Antonius had lost the wager the man chasing thereat Let the fame of this pearle accompanie his fellow who after the Quéene the winner of this so worthie a wager was taken prisoner was cut into two partes to be set on bothe the eares of Venus in the Pantheon being but halfe their supper And yet for all this shall they not carrie away this price they shal be spoiled of the glorie of riotousnesse For Clodius the sonne of Aesopus a tragedie player being left by him his heire of aboundant riches had done it at Rome before that time in pearles of great valewe lest that Antonius should be too proude in his Triumuirate being compared vnto one almost a plaier and he not brought vnto it by any wager wherefore it was the more kinglike but that hee might trie with the glorie of the palate what tast pearles had and whē they had wonderfully wel liked him that he should not know it himselfe alone he also gaue vnto euery one of his guestes one to drinke vp But thinke you that Caligula would not straine all his sinewes to winne so gay a game who vsed to drinke moste precious pearles and stones and woulde vse at his table bread and meate of golde as you haue heard before Neither is the beastly bellie satisfied with the robbing of the Indian and Arabian seas of their pearles but that also she can eate no meate vnlesse it be seasoned with the bitter berries rindes and rootes of those farre countries and of excessiue price A pound of long pepper saies Plinie is solde for 25. denaries the is 15. s̄ 7. d. ob of white for 17. which is 10. s̄ 7. d. ob of black for 14. eight shillings nine pence It is marueilous saies he that the vse of it hathe liked men so well For in some other thinges the pleasauntnesse of them haue caught men in other the louely looke and outwarde shewe and beautie hathe inuited but in pepper is there not any commendation either of apple or berie and onely it pleaseth for his bitternesse and this in Gods name must be fet out of India What was he that first would trie so ougly a thing in meates and who did so gréedily eate it that it had not bene better for him to haue remained still hungry It growes wilde in his countrie and yet is it solde here by weight like golde and siluer Cynamon sayes he was woorth but 1000. denaries a pound that is 31. l. 5. s. nowe is it risen half in half But Isocynamon or cynamon wood at 300. denaries a poūd that is 9. l. 6. s̄ 9. d. A sextarie or pinte and an halfe of Baulme was woorth 1000. denaries 31. l. 5. s̄ and yet Heliogabalus vsed no other oyle in his lamps Malabathrum at 300. denaries a pound that is 9. l. 6. s̄ 9. d. the eares of Spikenarde at 90. 56. s̄ 3. d. a pounde Of these costly drugs and such other were their oyntments made in auncient time of whom some did cost 310. denaries 9. l. 12. s̄ 11. d. a pounde and doubtlesse considering the price of the stuffe they were made of many were farre dearer specially séeing that Marie Magdalene a poore woman washed our Sauiour his féete with a pounde of oyntment of Nardus Pistica which was valued at 300. denaries With these costly oyntments did they vse to anoynt not only their heads but also all partes of their body yea the soles of their féete And Heliogabalus swimmed neither in baine nor ponde but filled with precious oyntment whiche thing Plinie affirmes Caligula vsed to do Nero both in cold hote oyntments And lest this may séeme to a good thing which only hapneth to princes a bondmā of Neroes accustomed to wash him selfe in his tine filled with pretious oyntment This sayes Plinie is a riot of al most superfluous For pearls pretious stones yet go vnto the heire and garments lengthen prolong their time but oyntments incontinently breath away and die in their hours Moreouer they are no pleasure vnto him self but vnto other for he that weares it smelles it not Their highest cōmendation is that the smell doth inuite a woman passing by who neuer before once thought of him but went about her businesse yea but oftentimes more worthily the enimie As we do read that Lucius Plotius proscribed in the Triumuirate in our dayes Muleasses the expulsed king of Tunes being hidden were bewrayed betrayed vnto their enimies by their fragrant odors Wherby the Triumuiri were acquited of crueltie and Amida Muleasses son of impietie for who wil not iudge but that such men worthily perished It was thought by men of experience sayes Plinie that al Arabia brought not forth in one yere so much swéet odors as Nero burnt vpon the last day of his pompe It was also cōmon at Rome for priuate mē to besprinckle the wals of their baines with pretious oyntments yea they vsed to anoynt vpon holy dayes the fierce dustie ensignes as though that the puissant Eagles corrupted with this wretched rewarde had conquered the whole world no rather hereby they sought defence for their vices that by this rite thei might vse to annoynt their heades vnder their helmets But also in good faith sayes he some put them into drinke bitternesse is so highly priced that they may haue take prodigall odor at both the lower vpper end of the body And that they vsed them with meates specially with herbs and rootes yea the very peasants do the Sataristes report such a kind of costly cookerie vsed Muleasses the king of Tunes for a peacock two pheasants infarsed after the maner of his kitchē with muske ciuet amber grease the lack of the which pretious odors the soules of the ancient riotous Romanes sore in hel lament did cost aboue an hundreth ducats Hereof grew cookes into great price They saies Plinie the cōplained of riot bewailed it the more mony was giuen for a cooke then for a horse but nowe cookes are bought with the prices of triumphes fishes of cookes there is almost no mā which is more estéemed accoūted more worth then he that can very cūningly drowne his maisters wealth This fine cookerie the corrupter of nature caused Plinie to complaine that hearbes yea and water which are common vnto all liuing thinges are exempted from the commons

and made meate and drinke onely for noble men But it can not be better expressed then with his owne wordes Out of the garden is the commons their shambles with howe muche more innocent and harmelesse diet No I doe beléeue it is better to diue into the bottome of the sea and kindes of oysters to be sought by shipwrackes birdes to be set beyond the riuer of Phasis who one would haue thought should haue béene safe from fetching by reason of the fabulous terrour that we reade in Poets no for that they are the more pretious to goe a fouling for other into Numidia and Aethiopia among the graues or to fight with wilde beastes coueting to be eaten of that which an other man doth eate But oh Lorde howe good cheape are hearbs howe ready for pleasure and satietie if that the same indignation and spite which doth euery where did not also here occurre and come in the waye it were in déede to be borne withall exquisite fruites to growe of whome some for their tast and verdure some for their greatnesse other for their straungenesse shoulde be forbidden poore men and wines to be made to laste vntill great ages and to be gelded with bagges neyther any man to be so olde that he may not drinke wine elder then him selfe and also riot to inuent a certaine foode out of corne onely and the fine floure of it to be taken and it to liue and continue longer then the workes and ingrauings of the bakehouses some to be breade for noblemen some for the commons breade corne discending in so many kyndes euen vnto the basest of the commons What is there a distinction also in hearbes and hath riches made a difference in a meate yea which is to be bought for an halfepenie And some also of them do the tribes say growe not for them the stalke by franking being made so greate that a poore mans table may not receiue and holde him Nature had made sperage wilde that euery man might euery where gather them but beholde nowe there is francked sperage and Ranenna selleth them for poundes a péece Out alas the prodigies of the paunch it would haue béene a maruel not to be lawfull for cattell to eate thistles it is not lawful for the commons Water also is separated and the verye Elementes of nature are seuered by the power of riches These men drinke snowe they ice and do turne the punishmentes and pains of mountains into the pleasure of the throte Coldenesse is kept in heate and a deuice is founde for snowe to be colde in forreigne and contrarie monethes Other water they boile and that also anone after they winter or vse in the winter hauing warme water in winter So nothing doth please man being suche as it pleaseth nature And be there also some hearbes whiche growe onely for rich men let no man looke about for the holy and Auentine hills and the departure of the commons out of the citie for surely death shall make them equall whome wealth hath ouermatched Thus farre Plinie who also in his 14. booke telleth the waywardnes of men to be suche about their wines that they had inuented 195. kindes of them and of special kindes of those generall almoste double the number Neither did the immeasurable charges of their meats satisfie their vnthriftie mindes but that by vomiting they must make themselues readie to eat often as though there had béen no other vse of eating meate but to vomite it vp again not muche vnlike vnto the Rosomacha in Lithuama a beast of the bignesse of a dogge and the face of a catte the backe and taile of a foxe who vseth when he hathe filled his bellie with meate as full as it wil hold to scummer out that whiche he hath eaten with squising his bellie betwéene two trées standing néere together and then incontinently to returne againe vnto the carreine and so to do continually so long as he can gette meate But the roisting Romanes to haue a quarell vnto the cuppe besides salte meates and olde rotten chéese whiche are in vse also nowe a dayes among our tipplers they vsed to drinke colde poisons as hemlocke that deathe might make them powre in strong wine lustely to saue their liues other tooke the poulder of a pomise stone and other like thinges moste abhominable whiche by rehearsing I am ashamed to teache the wariest of those tiplers saies he do we sée to be boyled with baynes and to be carried out of them halfe dead that they may drinke the harder but other can not stay for the bedde no not for their clothes but incontinently naked and hasing take mightie great cuppes as it were to shewe their strength and plentifully powre in the wine that they may immediatly vomite it out and againe swill and vppe with it straightway and so the thirde time as though they were borne to destroy wine as and if wine could not otherwise be shedde but through mennes bodies But the fruites or rather incommodities of rauenous gluttonie doth he set downe in that place That it fall out the best vnto them they neuer sée the rising of the Sunne and they liue the lesse while Hereof comes palenesse hanging eyliddes vlcers of the eyes shaking handes which wil shedde full cuppes whiche is a present paine furiall sleapes disquiet and ill rest in the night the next day stinking breathes caste out of the mouth and obliuion almost of all things and the death of the memorie It is recorded by Plutarch that at a game of drinking made by Alexander 41. dranke them selues dead An. 1540. was a very good yeare for wines in the which there were found to die in the duchie of Wittenberg at feasts from Autumne vnto the first sunday of Lent 400. persons so that we néede no auncient examples Many dishes saies sage Seneca bring many diseases and innumerable diseases do rewarde innumerable cookes which is agréeable vnto that golden sentence of Plinie great diuersitie of dishes is very pestilent but of sauces and dressings of them more pestilent Aske mée sayes Seneca in his controuersies why we die so soone because we liue by deathes But admit that a man did not with excessiue quantitie of meate put the vaines in daunger of breaking nor set on fire the spirites with hote wines whiche the Phycisians will neuer graunt yet who woulde not thinke it more intollerable then death by gourmandise to be so ouerloden with flesh and fatte that he can not moue as Nicomachus of Smyrna or not goe as was Ptolomei Euagetes king of Egypt who in many yeares before he went foorthe to receiue that Péerelesse Paragon of the worlde Scipio Africanus the yonger walked not on foote or Alexander king of that Realme who could not walke for grosenesse but staied vp with two men or be like vnto Dionysius the tyrant of Heraclea whose fatnesse would not suffer him to fetch his breath and did put him in continual

a wiseman hath giuen too much to many men but enough to no man For althoughe saies Horace wealthe do growe without measure yet is there alwaies some thing wanting vnto wealth whiche is euer too short Wherefore in an other Ode doethe he aptly compare couetousnesse to the dropsie whiche groweth still greater and greater by continuall féeding of her humor with lugging in of drinke the which it vehemently desires For bothe the moisture the grounde of the griefe is augmented and also the liquor whiche is powred in to quenche the thirst being turned into a salt qualitie by the inward humour increaseth the former thirst the salte moisture the cause thereof being augmented In like manner couetousnesse chaunging all that euer shée doth get into her owne gréedy desiring humour hath not her insatiable desire satisfied filled by getting of much but rather made the greater more matter being supplied and added vnto it no otherwise then Hippocrates saieth that the more thou doest nourish and feede an vncleane bodie the more thou hurtest and weakenest it the quantitie of ill humours being by meate increased and the ill qualitie of them still kept and reteined To what pains doth this gréedy gulfe put man vnto This maketh him to runne day night thorough thicke and thinne fire and water to suffer killing colde in winter to abide the hurtfull heate in summer to sayle the daungerous seas to trauell the countries burnt vppe with the scortching sunne beames or oppressed with snowe and yce What facte is so perillous the whiche it will not driue man to do And when the couetous haue gotten great riches are they not Tantalus in the Poets that continually is like to dye for thirst and yet the water toucheth his lower lippe and starue for hunger the apple bobbing his vpper for vnto the couetous according vnto the olde sawes as well that is lacking which he hath as also that which he hath not and vnto a poore man be many thinges wanting but vnto a couetous man all And as he coueteth those thinges whiche he hathe not so feareth he to vse them which he hath least he should spend them but muche more is he tormented least they should be taken away from him so that in prosperitie he feareth aduersitie and léeseth present ioy for feare of sorrowe to come Wherefore moste true is that saying of the Mimographer one can wishe a couetous man no greater mischéefe then long life for he is the cause of his owne ill The fourteenth Chapter The rites vsed at burialles of almost all nations and sectes as well auncient as moderne with mention of diuerse costly rumbes BVt howe great mans care for buriall is whiche Plinie doeth set downe for the next incommoditie the two Oceans of all knowledge and wisedome Homer and Virgil haue declared yea and long before them God himselfe who commaunded it to be tolde to a disobedient prophet as a great terrour and mischiefe that he should not be buried in the sepulchre of his auncestours and threateneth Achab and Iezabel for their great outrages that either dogges or byrdes should teare into péeces their dead carcases But Homer in the 22. booke of his Iliad maketh couragious Hector to desire his cruel enimie Achilles when he was about presently to bereaue him of light not to spare his life but only earnestly to obtest him for the soule pietie of his parentes not to suffer the dogges to teare him in péeces at the shippes of the Gréekes but to take a great masse of money golde and other riche gyftes of his father and mother for his dead bodie that the Troi●●s their wiues might honorably burne it And in the xij booke of Virgils Aeneidos the Italian Hector Turnus desireth the insulting Victor to restore vnto his fréendes his body spoyled of life and to extend his hatred no further Also in the tenth that despiser of the Goddes Mezentius when that Aeneas triumphed ouer him who lay flat on the ground and said where is this valiaunt Mezentius where is that sauage fiercenesse of hart of his answered O cruell enimie why doest thou insult ouer me threatnest me death why staiest thou thy happie hand why man it is no crueltie to kil me neither came I hither chalenged thée to the cumbat that I might be victor vanquisher neither did my deare sonne Lausus make any such couenaunt with thée for mée but nowe he is slaine it is life for me to die But this one thing I do request of thee if the a vanquished enimie may obteine any pardon or benefit at thy hand that thou wilt suffer my body to be couered with the earth I know the cruell hatred of my subiects inuiron me round about I suppliantly beséeche thée defend me from this one extréeme furie and let me be partaker of my sonnes sepulchre The foolish gentiles did holde that the soules of deadmen could not passe ouer the Srygian lake into the place of rest before that their bodies rested in some seate and place hereof came it that the soule of Patroclus in the xxiij of the Iliades appearing vnto Achilles complaineth of his flouthe desiring him to hasten his funeralles and buriall And Palinurus in Virgil can not passe the Stygian lake because that his bones lay vnburied Moreouer Virgil in the same sixt booke doth affirme that the soules of the vnburied doe wander aboute the hither shore of the lake 100. yeares which is saies Seruius the iust yeares of mannes life which being compleate and ended they may passe ouer the riuer that is go into the place of purgation that they may returne againe according vnto Pythagoras his doctrine into some body Hereof it came that among the Athenians if any captein did not honest with buriall his souldiers slaine in the warres he should léese his life for it And there was among the Macedons almoste no so solemne a function of warrefare as to bury their dead felowes But at Rome he that had taken vppe a dead man out of the graue or digged vp the bones if he were a man of lowe degrée sayes Paulus he suffered death but if of more honest calling he was banished into an I le or condemned to worke in the mines Yea this care of burial is so cōmon vnto all mankinde that I knowe not whither there were euer any nation so barbarous or sect so sauage whiche hath not had their solemne funeralles and burying although in déede diuerse yea and quite contrarie one vnto an other The Persians after that the dead body is torne in péeces either by dogges or byrdes wrapping it in waxe buried it in the ground The Babylonians honied them and in other ceremonies were like vnto the Egyptians among whom when one died the women of the house did couer their face and head all ouer with durt and ranne out of the doores through out the streetes crying and wringing their handes with their clothes tucked vppe their dugges naked and