The Royal Exchange Contayning sundry aphorismes of phylosophie, and golden principles of morrall and naturall quadruplicities. Vnder pleasant and effectuall sentences, dyscouering such strange definitions, deuisions, and distinctions of vertue and vice, as may please the grauest cittizens, or youngest courtiers. Fyrst written in Italian, and dedicated to the Signorie of Venice, nowe translated into English, and offered to the cittie of London. Rob. Greene, in Artibus Magister.

Martirio. Marterdome.

There be foure sorts of martirdome with∣out sh••dding of blood.

• 1. Uirginitie in youth.
• 2. Abstinence in aboundance.
• 3. Humilitie in prosperitie.
• 4. And patience in tribulation.

Thys word Martir beeing a Greeke worde, signifieth onelie a witnesse, as he is counted a Martyr which sealeth his Christianitie with his bloode, thereby witnessing the fi••menesse of his faith: so they which striue against the three enemies which S. Iohn speaketh of, namely y^• pride

of life, the lust of the eye, & the concupiscence of the flesh, may be called M••rty••s, as witnessing their cléere consci∣ences by the mortifi••ation of rebellious affections.