benifite my countrie to pleasure my friendes and to shewe my selfe more willing than able in performing the same and though I in my rashenesse presume to write of the liues of Princes yet I trust in gathering the fragments broken sentences as a beginning vnto others that are better stored it vvill be of the vvise and learned considered though of others defamed and taunted For there is no booke sayth Plini so simple but it profiteth some body for in bookes sayde Chilo the Philosopher are the fame of vvorthie men eternized and the veritie of thinges etere vnknovvne wvritten vvhich tvvo thinges neyther time can consume nor fortune destroy and for this cause were the bones of Homer sought and contended for of seuen Cities in Greece to be buried and kept as a monument of so great a vvriter and for this vvas Euripides dying in Macedonia sent for by embassadors of Athens to bee hadde in memorie as a prayse vnto Athens by his buriall For the Greekes supposed the greatest honour of all to haue educated such men as vvere studious and carefull for their countrie For greater is the attempt of any simple booke writer to hazarde himselfe to present perill to encounter with diuers men with a pen in his hande then that that valiaunt Perithus with Cerberus or Theseus vvith Minotaurus yea or Hercules with Antheús iollie champions vvith swordes drawne for that they fought vvith one a peece and that before their faces the simple writer with thousandes and they behinde his backe slaunder him Architas the Philosopher whome the Tarentines made a general in their warres sixe seueral times he I saye vvas in no such daungers in his vvarres as hee was resisted for his rules and lawes in Tarentum Plato vvas not in such perill at the besieging of Tanagra and Corinth amongst all his enimies as he vvas enuied in Greece by Zenophon and Aristotle his ovvne schollers by his Philosophie Neyther vvas Socrates in such hazarde of life being in armes in Delphos as he vvas in Athens by vvriting of bookes put to death by the Greekes Zeno the poore Philosopher coulde resist the violence of the great king Antigonus Demosthenes could vvithstand the force of Philip and yet neyther of them coulde auoyde the snares of those that defamed their labour enuied their diligence in vvriting and making of bookes Simple men must not therefore be discomfited to vvrite bicause the vvise and learned vvere herein euill spoken For the Gimnosophistes in India the Prophetes in Egypt the Sages in Persea the Ephori in Lacedemonia the Chaldeans in Babilon and the Philosophers in Greece are novv more famous and renovvmed being deade then they being a liue vvere enuied and slaundered their vvritinges and bookes more read novve than alovved or knovvne then they rtrauell novve is commended though their liues then vvere despised And therefore I vvish all learned Claâ—kes vvere as vvilling to vvrite as the most part of ignoraunt are studious and carefull to finde faultes VVherfore crauing the good vvill of the learned reader as a bovvlster and defence to my simple trauell I ende vvishing that both the Printers faultes and mine might lesse mooue occasions of offence ¶ CHRISTOFORVS CARLILVS IN FLODVM GEstiunt Musae Charites triumphant Gestit insignis lituis Apollo Pallas ac Orpheus monumenta Flode Cernere tanta Ipse ne ditem videar beare Aureis nummis Calabrosue pomis Vel redundantem Bromeum racemis Dicere cesso Est opus dignum solido Cupresso Et Cedro suaui simul atque laude Maxima Flodi celebrate famam Anglica pubes Si legis librum furiosa philtra Non tâ—bi possunt nâ—camara Circes Vasa non atrox rabies Megerae Vlla nocere ED. GRANT IN LOD. FLO. QVae a tûere difuruis immersa tenebris aeduntur patrijs condecorata sonis Quae prius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fuerint bene cognita paucis nunc venient cunctis percipienda viris Postera Floyde tuam nascentia secula laudem cantabunt praesens nomen in astra feret Quicquid est in mellis quicquid liberiste lepôris continet omne tuum laus tribuenda tibi Liuide mendaces compescito Zoile voces tela licet vibres non violabis opus Inclita mordaci non laedes facta libello florescit Floydus docta perora virum ¶ IN LIBRVMDE PRINCIPVM periginatione Iohannis Coci scholae Paulinae magistri hendecastichon cum versu quodum Homerico ad lectorem STato domi nullis terre iactatus in oris quem patrium subijt noscendi sola libido Sin mores hominum varios tibi nosse voluptas ingenijque vagas ediscere nobilis artes Non perigrinanti deerunt monimenta laboris que memtemque manumque parent ad talia promptas Quod liber hic regum referens quae facta priorum tuta domi cupido praestabit vota manendi Hinc licet ingenij praesignes discere cultus quos aditu regum prouisa pericula monstrent Nam liber hic peragrans tibi quae viscenda fuissent 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ¶ IN LAVDEM LODOVICI FLODI Thomas Dranta Archdiachonis Leuuicensis PRincipibus placuisse viris non vltima laus est sic ais summis placuisti leuis horati Principibus placuisse viris si tam bona laus sit Principibus fuisse viris precepta quid hoc est Atque ipsos mutos ipsos formare loquentes consilium totis sanumque adscribere vitis Hoc tu Flode facis quedam tua dogmata vidi caetera cum visis si quadrant congrua membra â–ª Quod facile credo quid tmultis te tibi tollam es bonus ingenioque bis bonus argumento ¶ THOMAS CHVRCHYARD Gent. of Lodo. Fl. IF learning had no laude mans lyking vvoulde decaye avvay And fevv vvould vvrite or knovvledge seke if praise vvere pluckt The laborer hath his hier to quite his carefull paines The noble minde for vvorthie vvorkes a crovvne of glorie gaines The horse toyles all the daye at night some rest to finde The havvke in hope of vvished praye full hie doth beare the vvinde Than hee vvho made this booke of right must reape renoume Sith through the trumpet he hath blovvne a famous fact doth soune He shevves by learned lines our painefull pilgrimes state And hovve the Prince and people both driues out their dreery date A pilgrimage vve goe in pathes of perilles great And through the shades of suerties shoe vve passe to burning heate That all consumes by flame of deepe desire in brest VVhose kindled cooales like Aethna smokes in sulphur voyde of rest VVhose sparkes doe flee so farre they cannot quenched bee Except that vvisdome vvater cast vvhen fier most hote vve see VVhat humour leades me thus I meant to prayse this man As farre as penne and skill may stretch that first this vvorke began And though the svvelling svvannes that svvimes in povvting pride By skovvling brovves tels vvorld that they this vvorke cannot abide I carelesse stande of that and vvishe those birdes so vvell In greatest glorie
forgetfulnesse To auoyde therefore gluttonie and dronkennesse which are often tendered vnto Princes Constantius that most temperate Emperour kept him alwayes so hungrie that he woulde take of a poore woman a crust of breade to satisfie hunger It was Licurgus lawe in Sparta and Zaleucus rule in Locresia to abstaine from fine meate and swéete wine as from an enimie vnto Princes for wisemen were woont to say that meate is onely good to expell hunger and drinke to breake thirst King Cirus in warres béeing demaunded of his hoste what he would haue prouided against dinner breade sayde Cirus for drinke wée shall not want meaning as Amianus sayth water This vertue of abstinence was so honoured then that Princes which were giuen to wine were odious vnâ—â— the worlde A great shame it were in Thebes in Leonidas time to make banquetes for when Epaminondas that passing Prince of temperaunce was willed of a rich Citizen being his friende to come to a supper where he founde such superfluous chéere such excesse of meate and drinke that he sayde being much offended with his friende that he thought he was willed to come to eate like a man and not to féede lyke a beast This Prince knew the inconuenience of féeding and againe knewe the commoditie of abstinence A number of excellent vertues do follow abstinence as continencie chastitie sobrietie and wisedome A heape of vices waite on pampering Princes as glotonye lecherie dronkennesse and suche others Such was the temperaunce of great King Porus of India that breade and water was his accustomed chéere Suche was the abstinence of Massinissa King of Numidia béeing foure score yeares olde that he fed hungerly alwayes and not daintily at anytime Suche was the temperaunce of that noble Pericles and of that Gréeke Tymon that Aelianus in his booke of diuers histories commendeth the abstinence of the one and Cicero in his booke of friendeshippe extolleth the temperaunce of the other and so ioyntly these two noble Gréekes did auoyde alwaye banqueting and belly chéere forsooke and fledde the companye of drinkers as thinges more noysome than profitable more daungerous then helthie more filthily than friendly Demetrius king sometime of Macedonia and sonne vnto Antigonus being much giuen to féeding and pampering of him selfe grewe to that lust and lecherie that being not sufficed with diuers stately strumpetes and curious Curtezaunce as with that renowmed Lamia famous Crisidies diamonde Dama and such other daintie dames fell to lust of a young Gentleman of Gréece of amorous countenaunce of passing beautie and of such a princely porte with séemly shamefastenesse endued that then comming from Athens vnto Macedonia to serue as a souldiour vnto king Demetrius sought diuers meanes to accomplishe his inordinate lust by eating and drinking with this young Democles and with diuers attemptes to haue his purpose folowed him priuily where Democles went a bathing vnto a close chamber where Demetrius hid himselfe vntill the young man was naked and then on a sodaine enterprised his lust which when Democles sawe the King and perceyued his wicked entent to auoyde the shamefull acte and filthy luste of the king and to maintaine temperaunce of life and euerlasting fame of abstinence he lept naked into a great séething vessel of whote boyling water and finished his noble lyfe with famous death O renowmed Democles O vile and shamefull Demetrius thy death is famous his life is infamous thy temperaunce and vertue commended his lust and wickednesse iustly of all men condemned The like historie doth Plutarch write of Trebonius a young souldiour of a younger Capitaine named Lucius and Nephew vnto that noble Romaine Caius Marius This Lucius hauing a charge ouer certaine souldiours appoynted of his Uncle Marius then Generall hauing a long while deuised meanes to bring hys purpose to passe in accomplishing his luste with Trebonius happened on such a season that he found Trebonius by him selfe alone and offering violence vnto him Trebonius vnderstanding his Capitaines desire made as though he shoulde spéede came imbracing him and thrust him to the heart with Lucius owne dagger and so slue his Capitaine to auoyde infamie which when it came to Marius his eare that his nephew was slaine by Trebonius the cause thereof being demaunded by Marius being orderly declared by Trebonius where as it was thought he shoulde be hanged drawne and quartered and suffer most ignominious death he was rewarded with a crowne of Golde vpon his heade written about with this sentence This crowne and garlande wonne Trebonius by temperauance Had Demetrius King of Macedonia embraced sobrietye of féeding Democles had not bene so famous by abstinence as Demetrius might haue bene renowmed with temperaunce Had that Romane Lucius loued continencie as Trebonius honored chastitie Trebonius had not had of Marius his Uncle Luciê° the prayse the garlande of commendacions and he so vilde and shamefull a death Certainely when the people of Athens fed with figges the Arcadians with Acornes or with Walnuts the Argiues with Pearsley the Terinthians with Peares the Scithians with herbes the inhabitauntes of Carmenia and Meotica with poore fare yea before corne was sowne the whole worlde fedde with fruites which our olde mother the earth naturally brought foorth Then kingdomes and nations were ruled by lawe of Nature to embrace temperauncie to honor abstinencie and to obserue chastitie which since grewe to that aboundancie and excesse that the lawe of God which was first the lawe of nature which was the seconde and the lawe of Princes which was the last coulde not kéepe men from excesse of meate which onely was the cause of the sinking of Sodom and Gomorrhe the often plague of Israelites the iust confusion of gluttons and drunkardes When the Gymnosophistes of India fedde only with Apples when the Priestes of Egypt abstayned from fleshe and wine fedde with breade and Oyle when the sages of Persea fed with fruites and hearbes Then temperance beare rule then sobrietie gouerned then abstinence was honoured then Egypt florished through temperaunce and now spoyled with gluttonye Then India prospered through continencie and sobrietie and now vanquished by dronkennesse and temeriâ—y Then Persea was famous and conquered kingdomes by abstinence and now conuicted and conquered by aboundancie and excesse Where is learned Athens famous Sparta sttately Thebes while temperaunce dyd rule feared of all Kinges and after by meanes of excesse hated and destroyed of all Princes All the while that the Lacedemonians obserued the lawe of Licurgus in abstayning from braue banquettes and excesse of chéere yea when they might not passe vnto Asia for feare they shoulde be alured and entised with the sight of the iunkets of Asia then saith Cicero were the people of Sparta so temperate that the men did neuer sitte with women nor the women with the menne When the Milesians had made a lawe as Theophratus doth witnesse that neyther theyr wiues theyr daughters nor theyr maydes might taste wine
Priscus wife when she saw the flames playing about Seruius Tullius head she affirmed thereby that he shoulde be king in Rome The thirde is Aeromancy which vseth to prognosticate things by the ayre as by flying fowles and tempest of weather as when it rayned Iron in Lucania it did praesage sayde they the death of Marcus Crassus amongst the Parthians or as Liui writeth when it rained stones in Picen at the seconde warres of Carthage it was to shewe the slaughter and murther that Hanibal shoulde do in Italy The .4 is Hydromancy to iudge things to come by sight of water as Varro doth report of a boy that sawe y e picture or image of Mercury in the water pronouncyng and recityng all the warres of Mithridates King of Pontê° that shoulde folowe in verses There are two other kindes of Magick the one named Giomancy to declare and expounde thinges by the openyng gapyng and moouyng of earth the other Chiromancy to iudge by lines of handes cauled Paulmestry These are they that Cicero maketh mention of in his first booke of diuinations where he saith Cum non sibi sapiunt semitam alijs tamen monstrant viam they wyll teach others that way that they know not them selues They wyll teach others howe to haue money and substaunce and yet they are them selues poore beggers alwayes in the house of Codrus hangyng at the sléeue of Irus There is againe a kinde of Soothsaying whiche was first practized in the lande of Hetruria where a certen husbandman plowed In the fielde called Tarquimen a certen man appeared in â—ight which sprang vp from the grounde which then was plowed named Tages in face and countenaunce much lyke a young childe but in wisedome and discretion farre surmountyng any sage Philosopher This taught all the lande of Hetruria Plini saith that one Delphos first enuented Soothsaying and Amphiraus enuented first Soothsaying by fire Polidorus describeth another sort of Soothsayers which were woont to coniecture and foreshowe by beastes slaine to bée sacrificed whether the heart the lyuer or such lyke did perish as Caesar which when he sacrificed an Oxe vnto Iupiter which had no hart wherby y e Soothsayers prognosticated the infelicity mishap of Caesar. Afterwarde likewise king Zerxes in his wars against the Gréekes a Mare being a stoute warlike beast brought forth a Hare a timorous and fearefull thing whereby they declared the ouerthrowe of Zerxes and his huge armie the flight and cowardnesse thereof Againe there is a kinde of southsaying by lightning thunders and tempestes The follye of men were such that they thought nothing to be in the world but had hidden knowledge concerning mâ—n They woulde take nothing in hande without some Oracles of Iupiter or Apollo They reposed more trust in flying fowles in theyr chirping notes concerning anye attemptes which they tooke in hand then in their owne force and strength They had more confidence in beastes of the fielde they trusted I say more in elementarie sightes In fine there was nothing almost but they had more respect eyther vnto the colour the voyce the proportion and such like toyes than they had in them selues as before mencioned in the worshipping of their Goddes and institution of Religion These foolishe toyes were first obserued amongst y e Chaldeans from Chaldea vnto Greece from Greece vnto Hetruria from Hetruria vnto Rome from Rome vnto all Europe they were scattered Wherefore Moyses that wise Hebrue and the singuler instrument of God for his people commaunded that no man shoulde consult with these wicked and abhominable faculties saying vnto his people You shall not beléeue southsayers neyther shall you trust vnto dreames The Iewes were so aduced to obserue these augurations that they woulde not vnto warre at any time without some warnings and coniectures had by some birde or beast insomuch that one Mossolanus a Iewe borne a wiseman noted in his countrie and making his voyage vnto warres as Iosephus in his first booke of Antiquitie doth write was commaunded and all his hoste to staye vntill a certaine southsayer woulde go to consult and knowe the successe of the warres which then they hadde in hande with a birde harde by the armie which when this wiseman Mossolanus perceyued howe they were enclined and wholy bent to be instructed by diuination he tooke his bowe and an arrowe and slue this birde whereat the souldiours were so amazed and the southsayers so angrie that had not Massolanus perswaded with the people wisely he had bene lyke though he was theyr Capitaine to haue bene by his owne souldiours slaine which after long tumult made and great anger threatened Mosolanus spake after this sort vnto his souldiours Do you thinke that birdes beastes and such like dumbe things can forshew thinges by you which know nothing of them selues for beholde the birde which you trusted most vnto and likewise your southsayers coulde not sée nor knowe to auoyde my purpose when I slue him Do you trust that thing for your liues which is ignoraunt of his owne death O blindenesse of people which yet remaineth in this age And hauing briefly past the inuentors of Sciences in sundrie countries men were much giuen to finde other necessaries for to liue by studious to make thinges profitable for theyr countries carefull to augement the state and life of man vnto such perfections that the Cyclopians were the first workers of Iron worke The Lacedemonians the first inuentors of harnesse speares swordes and bucklers for warres people thereby most renowmed The Atheniaus taught first to plant trées and Uineyardes The Phrigians made first the Chariotes and wagons The Lydians vsed first to dresse woolles And so the people of Caria practised first Bowes arrowes And the Phenitians the Crossebowe Then other perticuler matters were likewise sought out by diuers speciall men in speciall countries for the vse of man as Oyle and honye by Aristeus Keyes by Theodorus the Samian Ships to sayle by Iason Ericthonius Siluer Cadmus Goulde Thus then euery where eche man in his pilgrimage did some thingâ— worthie of memorie Thrason renowmed for his loftie walles and hye towers Danaus for his welles and digging water Cinira for finding out Copper brasse leade and suche other mettell Ceres for sowing of Corne And Baccus for planting the Uine that the worlde in time waxed not so populus one waye but it grewe skilfull in thinges and plentifull of lawes for the redresse and safegarde of man ¶ Of Patience PAtience is such a vertue saith Cato the wise in all aduersities the best medicine to a sickeman or the surest plaister to any sore is pacience it comforteth the heauie it reioyceth the sadde it contenteth the poore it healeth the sicke it easeth the painefull it hurteth no man it helpeth all men therefore sayde the wiseman Byon that the greatest harme can happen vnto man is not to be able to sustaine and absteine For this was Tiberius Caesar much commended of
deuill he could chaunge hym selfe to what forme and frame he would so the proude women likewise vsyng as many names of vertues vnto vices I might well thinke them to be of the broode of Metra the doughter of Erisithon whiche the Poetes faine she would alter hir self sometime vnto an Oxe sometime vnto a Mare somtyme vnto a Harte and sometime vnto a fliyng foule but the true shewe the naturall Metamorphosis of Pride is to chaunge vnto a deuill the father and grand aucthour of pride Pride would faine climbe vnto the skies the nature of the proude manne is to bee exalted though he neuer be so simple for poore Temison a Gardiner would bee called Hercules and Menecrates the proude Phisition would be called Iupiter we ought to reioice in nothyng but the Crosse of Christe But wee reioice of the disguised shewes of this wicked worlde So proude was Cressus kyng of Lidia of his wealthe that he went to Delphos to know of Apollo whether any man were so happie as hee was in all the worlde but for al his pride and wealth pore and simple Aglaus of Arcadia was preferred before kyng Cressus by Apollo and in the middest of his pride destroied he was by Cirus kyng of Persea So proude was king Caudales of the bewtie of his wife that he to whom he shewed his Queene naked and bragged of hir bewtie I meane Giges the same spoiled hym from his wife and from his pride slue hym and maried his wife afterwarde euen so Alexander Phaereus for the pride he had in tyrannie was slaine of his owne wife whom often vnto all he bragged of hir bewtie Fabia a woman sometime of Rome waxed so proud of a yong man that loued hir named Petronis that she slue hir owne housbande Fabritianus Pride in any thyng prouoketh vengeaunce in all men The Pride that Alexander the greate had after his tyrannie in Persea kyng Darius beeyng vanquished was seen and proued in the Mariages of the nobles of Macedonia vnto the women of Persea wher he maried firste Stratonica the doughter of kyng Darius and made .lxxx. and ten mariages in the same daie when he was maried hymself where suche pride was vsed that hundred tables wrought with Golde of Arabia with engins of Barbary and euery table hauing siluer Trestles and Alexanders table had Trestles of golde This the wealth of Darius caused first pride and then tyrannie in Alexander What is it but the proud man thinketh he maie doe Antiochus was so proude that he had that admiration of hymselfe that he iudged hym able to saile on the yearth and to go on the Seas Nicanor likewise saide of his insolente and arrogante pride that as God was mightie in heauen so Nicanor was mightie on yearth pride is neuer seen long vnreuenged for Nabuchodonosor that mightie and proude prince commaunding hym self to be called a God was made a beaste to eate grasse seuen yeres for his pride he would ascende vp vnto heauen and bee made like the height and he was thrust doune vnto Hell moste like a beaste Herod shinyng in his roiall Robes preached with suche pride vnto the people claimyng vnto hym the due honour and glorie belongyng vnto God in the middest of his pride while yet the people saide this is the voice of God and not man beholde the Angell of the Lorde stroke hym that with wormes he was consumed and with lice eaten to death Chore Dathan and Abiron for their proude insurrection against Moises were swalowed vp vnto the bothom of the yearth The proude Philistian Golias bragging out his owne strength trustyng in his owne power was conuicted by little Dauid a boie at that tyme kepyng shepe God doeth detest pride that by the mouthe of his Prophete Esaie he treadeth doune the pride of the doughters of Syon for that they walke in their owne waies for hee hath no pleasure in mans legges nor in anie outward painted shewe but in the roote of the humble mennes harte is his dwellyng Atchidemus the sonne of Agesilaus beyng conuicted by Philip kyng of Macedonia vnderstandyng that he waxed proude thereof and gloried muche of the victorie wrote an Epistle vnto Philippe saiyng If thou measure thy shadowe now being a victour with thy shadowe in tyme paste when thou waste conuicted thou shalte finde no lenger nowe then in those daies this Prince was wonte alwaies to taunte Pride in so muche he estemed a proude manne as a Gorgon or a Ciclop or deformed Monster who perceiuyng an olde man named Ceus commyng vnto Lacedemonia to bee verie proude in his apparell gesture countenaunce aidyng Nature and settyng foorthe hym self vnto the vttermoste his heade beyng white he could not tell how to help it but to satisfie his proude desire he died his heares yellowe vnto whom Archedamus said O Ceus art thou not contented that thy mynde is infected with false colours but thou must haue the heares of thy heade also ¶ Gf Coueteousnesse COuetousnesse the priuie searcher of hidden gaines the gredie gulfe of ill gotten goodes moste painfull in sekyng and mooste carefull in keepyng whose one daie of death is better thā al the daies of his life The onely misers and wretches of the worlde are thei whom neither shame can reproue for that thei are impudent neither reason rule in that thei are vnsatiate neither death maie feare in that thei thinke to liue for euer For euen as the infected member of man is vexed with an itche is alwaies clawyng so saieth Plutarche is the couetous mynde restlesse in seekyng As fire is neuer sufficed with woode nor yearth with water so the auarous is neuer satisfied with money Like as the graue is open to receiue dead Carkases euen as helle is neuer ful so is the coffer of the couetous neuer contented After that Alexander the Greate had conquered all Persia Grece India Scithia all Asia almoste all the worlde broughte vnto subiection And hauyng a cause to come to the Schoole of Anaxarchus the Philosopher who affirmed by the aucthoritie of Democritus that there were diuers worldes whiche when Alexander heard he began to wéepe beyng demaunded the cause thereof of his counsailers answered O Anaxarchus are ther so many worldes to be had I skant haue half one worlde yet O vnsatiate desire that could not suffice him with all the kyngdomes of Macedonia nor satisfied with all the worlde but wepte and cried out because he might not possesse more worldes then one The like historie of Pirrhus kyng of Epire after diuers good successe of fortune could not suffice his gredie desire with a kyngdom This prince had an excellēt orator named Cineas which for his eloquence and wit kyng Pirrhus did often vse to sende as Embassadour to the Romaines to the Macedonians and to other countreis with whom he had then warres By this Orator the kyng was wont to speake that he
slack to serue ech reader to suffice And as Vlixes mates were changde to shiftyng shapes of hoggs So like Actaeon thou shalt be deuoured of some doggs Some will finde in vearse thy fault some will defame thy sence Some thy stile and some thy state will finde in thee offence The learned loth I am to lose of right their frendship craue Sith thou and thei wer taught in place true frendship seke to haue A Crowe sometime in Rome was taught to speake to Caesar so Aue Caesar loude with voice as Caesar by did go An Aegle was in Seston toune eche daie would neuer ceasse But mount to skey in flight to slee some foules his frend to please The Pecock proude the swellyng Swan the Feasaunt gaie the Cocke Do brag and bost themselues so braue and other birds do mocke Though these like Gorgons grim with eies thy trēbling face behold Yet tell that others see in theim whiche they of thee haue toulde No force saie thou if that may chaunce Antimachus lot maie craue In steede of sondrie diuers heads one Plato frend to haue FINIS ¶ A Table of the moste principall and chief partes conteined within this booke OF the slipperie state of Fortune and what Princes and where thei were aduaunced one waie and how thei were oppressed an other waie Fol. 1. pag. 1. Of magnanimitie of Princes and fortitude of minde when and where it was moste estemed Fol. 6. pa. 1. Of Marshall triumphes and the solempnitie thereof in diuers countries Fol. 14. pag. 2. Of the first findyng out of lawes and orders and of all mention of thinges generall and of fame fol. 17. pa. 2. Of sumptuous and wonderfull buildynges fol. 20. pa. 1. Of Paintyng Fol. 23. pag. 1. Of eloquence Fol 25. pagi 1. Of those that had their Pictures and Images for a shewe of their deserued fame erected Fol ▪ 28. pag. 1. Of those that defended diuers from deathes from serpentes dragons and of cunnyng archers fol. 30. pa. 2. Of diligence and labours Fol. 32. pag. 2. Of the first inuentours of artes and of the vse of sothsaiyng Fol. 35. pag. 1. Of pacients Fol. 39. pag. 2. Of humanitie and clemencie of Princes Fol. 41. pag. 2. Of sober and temperate Princes and where temperance and sobrietie was moste vsed Fol 49. pag. 2. Of taciturnitie and silence and of the vertue and commendation thereof Fol. 57. pag. 1. Of liberalitie and liberall princes Fol. 62. pag. 2. Of age and the praise thereof Fol. 68. pag. 1. Of the maners of sundrie people and of their straunge life Fol. 74. pag. 1. Of the straunge natures of waters yearth and Fire Folio 80. page 1. Of the worlde and of the foule of manne with diuers and sonderie opinions of Philosophers aboute the same Fol. 82. pag. 2. Of worshippyng of Goddes and Religion of Gentiles Folio 85. pag. 1. Of the first beginnyng of shauyng and the vse thereof with muche makyng of heares of the head fol. 92. p. 2 Of diuers kindes and sondery fashions of burial emongest the gentiles Fol. 95. pag. 1. Of Spirites and visions Fol. 97. pag. 2. Of dreames and warnynges Fol. 102. pag. 2. Of the beginnyng of Mariages and of the soundrie vse of the same Fol. 107. pag. 2. Of likenes and similitudes Fol. 110. pag. 1. Of Musick and mirth Fol 112. pag. 2. A comparison betwene the loue of menne and beastes Fol. 118. pag. 1. Certain Ethicall Arithmologies drawen out of deuine and prophane auctours Fol. 122. pag. 2. Examples of Iustice. Fol. 125. Examples of Usurie eodem Examples of honour Fol. 26. pag. 1. Examples of enuie Fol. 127. pag. 1. Examples of coueitousnes Fol. 127. pag 2. Examples of hearyng Fol. 129. Examples of discorde eodem Examples of frendship eodem Examples of flatterie Fol. 130. Examples of glotonie eodem Examples of rape and spoile Fol. 13. pag. 1. Examples of mercie eodem Examples of loue eodem Examples of death Fol. 131. The deathes of certaine Noble Princes in Englishe verse Fol. 133. pag. 1 Of memorie and obliuiousnes Fol. 137. pag. 1. Of the Pilgrimages of Princes and miserie of mortalitie Fol. 140. pag. 1. Of Dissimulation and Craft of Subtiltie and deceipt Fol. 146 ▪ pag. 2. Of famine 150. pag. 1. Of warines Fol. 253. pag. Of reuengement Fol. 155 ▪ pag. 1. Of Theft and Sacriledge Fol. 158. pag. 2. Of lust Fol. 161 pag. 1. Of Ielowsie Fol. 165. pag. 2. Of Idlenes Fol. 167. pag. 2. Of wrath and anger Fol. 166. pag. 2. Of periurie and faith and where either of these were honored and estéemed fol. 169. pag. 1. Of enuie and malice and so of tyrannie Fol. 177. pag. 2. Of flatterie Fol. 183. pag. 1. Of Pride Fol. 185. pag. 1. Of couetuousnes Fol. 190. pag. 1. Of prodigalitie and drunkennesse Fol. 198. pag. 1. Of Magicke and witcherie Fol. 200 ▪ pag. 1. A comparison betwene wealth and pouertie f. 203. p. 2. Of death Fol. 210. pag. 1. Of the pilgrimage of Quéenes in verse Fol. 215. pa. 1. FINIS