Pleasant dialogues and dramma's, selected out of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid, &c. With sundry emblems extracted from the most elegant Iacobus Catsius. As also certaine elegies, epitaphs, and epithalamions or nuptiall songs; anagrams and acrosticks; with divers speeches (upon severall occasions) spoken to their most excellent Majesties, King Charles, and Queene Mary. With other fancies translated from Beza, Bucanan, and sundry Italian poets. By Thomas Heywood

The ANNOTATIONS upon PROCUS and PUELLA.

IN this Dialogue (to whose Author I am not able to give a meriting character) I presume there is nothing conteined which doth deviate either from modesty or good manners. It is onely a meere expression, of what is, or ought to be, betwixt a young man and a maide, in the initiating of their affection, the prosecution of their love, and the perfecting of their contract. Here is neither chil∣dish discourse, loose language, or any impertinency, which is not agreeable, with wholsome instance, and commen∣dable example. For in all marriages there is to bee ob∣serv'd, Parity in birth. For as Dion saith: Disparity in Wedlock is a great enemie to love: then conformity in educa∣tion, and lastly equality in state. The first begetteth ac∣quaintance, the second confirmeth it, and for the last we read Euripides thus: women without dowry cannot claime the priviledge to speake their owne thoughts: And Menander saith: That man is most unhappy who marri∣eth being poore, and raiseth his fortunes by a rich maide or widdow. But howsoever marriage in itselfe is hono∣rable: in so much that Homer informeth us, That the La∣dyes of Greece, used to count their yeares from the time of their Nuptials, not the day of their Nativity, as for∣getting all the time of their virginity, and intimating, they were never to bee said truely to live, till they came to that state, legally to lend life unto others, which was by lawfull wedlock. Imagine then this our Pamphilus prov'd an happy husband, and Maria a fortunate wife: He a provident Father, and shee the fruitfull mother of

a numerous and thriving issue. They blest in their chil∣dren, and their children alternatly in them: For so i•• (for the most part) hapneth in all such contracts. Where vertue over-ruleth vanity, and reason swayeth passion and affection. Of him I may say with Boethius, lib. 2. Metr. 8.

Hic & conjugij sacrum Castis nectit amoribus.

With the sacred Nuptiall tye, His chast love did well comply.

And to doe her the best right I can, I make bold to borrow thus much from the Poet Statius, lib. Silvar. 5.

Si Babylonis opes, Lydae si pondera gaza Indorumque dares, &c.

If thou the Babylonian wealth shouldst proffer, Or rifle (for her) the rich Lydians coffer; The potent wealth couldst thou before her lay, From India brought; or that from Affrica? Yet rather then transgresse her nuptiall vow, She would choose death not caring where, nor how.

Et quo non possum corpore, mente feror.

Annotations upon the Dialogue of EARTH and AGE.

(a) MEaning Io transformed into a Cow, by Iupiter (who had before stuprated her) to conceale her from the jealousie of his wife Iuno: the whole story you may

read in the Dialogue intituled Iupiter and Io: shee lived in the yeare of the world 2200. according to Hel.

(b) The Sibils were in number ten. Persica, Libyca, Delphica, Erithraea, Samia, Hellesponti••ca, Tiburtina, Albinces, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Cumana: of these you may read Varro, Gellius, Au∣gustin, Suidas, and Lactantius. And of the long life of Cu∣mana, Uirgil in his Aeneids.

(c) Ascraean, so titled from Ascra a Towne in Boetia, neare unto the mount Helicon, where the famous Poet Hesiod was borne, from which place hee had the sirname Ascraeus.

(d) King Cyrus, because he had a Steed whom he much loved, drowned in the river Ganges: to be revenged ther∣of, caused so many currents to bee cut, that hee dryed the Channell.

(e) It hath reference to the great battaile fought by Hannibal against the Romanes neare unto the Village Cannas, where he slew 80. thousand in that one conflict: from thence the people of Italy are call'd Cannenses.

(f) Concerning the History of Phaeton, and his sisters, I referre you to the reading of Ovid, where it is with great elegancy described. Metamorph.

(g) You may read the like of Niobe the daughter of Tantalus, and wife to Pelops: who had sixe Sonnes, and sixe Daughters, all which Latona the mother to Apollo and Diana, (in whom are figured the Sunne and the Moone) caused to be slaine, for the pride of Niobe, who presumed to compare with her: for griefe whereof shee lost her speech, and remained stupid and without motion, which gave the Poets occasion to feigne that she was changed into a marble statue. Calvis. reporteth that shee lived in the yeare of the world, 2240.

(h) Euridice was the wife of Orpheus, who flying from Aristheus who would have ravished her, was stung with a Serpent, of which she dyed. Orpheus tooke his harpe, And went to Hell for her, and by his excellent Musick so far

wrought with Pluto and Proserpine, that they suffered him to beare her thence, but upon condition, that he should not looke backe upon her till hee had past the infernall shades, and came to the upper light, which through his over love hee breaking, so lost her. The fable is thus moralliz'd, Euridice signifieth the soule of man, and Or∣pheus the body to which the soule is married. Aristaus is true happinesse which would gladly ravish the soule, but shee flying through grassy fields and medowes, is at length stung to death by a Serpent, that is, by the blan∣dishments of immoderate pleasure: she then descends in∣to Hell, which implyes dull and deepe melancholy, with the trouble of a perplext conscience, where shee is rescu∣ed by comfortable musick. But so, that unlesse shee sub∣mit herselfe to the rule of reason, shee shall quickly fall againe into the same agony: she lived in the yeare 1700. according to Natal Comes.

(i) Astianax was the Sonne of Hector and Andromache, who after the taking of Troy, was by the Grecians preci∣pitated from an high tower and so slaine.

(k) Aegaeus was the Sonne of Neotune, and King of Athens, in whose raigne King Minos of Creete to revenge the death of his Sonne Androgous, made most cruell warre on the Athenians, forcing them yearely to send seven Noblemens Sonnes into Creete to bee devoured by the monster Minotaurus. Three yeares this continued, and in the fourth the lot (amongst others fell upon Thesius, the elect Sonne of the King, who being of a noble and heroick courage, put them in great hope that he was able to kill the monster: At his departure his father in joyn'd him, that if the ship hee went in returned prosperously he should set up a white flagge in token of victory, and pluck downe the black one which they then bore in signe of mourning. But after when Theseus by the counsell of Ardiane daughter to King Minos had overcome the mon∣ster, and with a clew of thread escaped the labyrinth,

sayling homewards againe with joy towards his Coun∣try, he forgot his fathers commandement concerning the white flagge. The old King much longing to see the safe returne of his sonne, used every day to ascend an high promontory, which overlooked the Sea, to take view of all such ships as past that way, at length knowing his sons shippe, and seeing the same sable flagge in the top, with which they first launched from that shoare, supposed hee had beene dead, and therefore surcharged with griefe, cast himselfe headlong from the rocke into the Sea, which was after cald by his name Aegeum mare. He lived in the 48. yeere after Athens was first made a Kingdome; and in the yeare of the world 2680. about the time that Gideon judged Israel.

(l) Iocaste was the mother of Oedipus, who after her first husbands death marryed with him, being her owne naturall sonne, (but not knowing so much) by him shee had Eteocles and Polynices, who in a single combat slew one another, and they also dyed miserably.

(m) Dedalus was the sonne of Micion borne in Athens, the most excellent Artificer of these times. He made the Labyrinth into which Minos put him, and his sonne Icarus, at length having got feathers and wax, he made thereof artificiall wings for himselfe and his sonne, and so flew from Crete into Sardinia, and thence to Cuma, where he built a Temple to Apollo, but Icarus in the way soared so high, that the beames of the Sunne, mel∣ted the wax, and his wings failing him, by that disaster he fell into the Sea, from it hath still retained the name of Mare Icarium, the Icarian Sea, according to that of Ovid.

Icarus Icarijs nomina fecit aquis.

(n) Progne was the daughter to King Pandion, who because her husband Tereus King of Thrace, had ravi∣shed her sister Philomela, and after cut out her tongue, she having notice thereof, in a barbarous revenge, at a

feast dedicated to Bacchus: slew her son Itis, and after drest his limbs, and served them up to her husbands table, &c. She lived about the yeare of the world 2510. according to Helv.

(o) Autonoe, was the daughter of Cadmus and Her∣mione, who much lamented the death of Acteon.

(p) Antigone, was daughter of Oedipus King of Thebes, who when her blind father was banished, tooke upon her to leade him, and afterwards being at the buriall of her two brothers Eteocles and Polynices with Argia, was slaine by the command of King Creon, whose murder Theseus soone after revenged.

(q) Colossae vel Colossis, was a towne of Phrygia, neare unto Laodicea, which was demolisht by an earth-quake in the time of Nero.

(r) Memphis was built by King Ogdous, and tooke name of his daughter (so called) it is a great and spa∣cious City in Egypt, famous for the Pyramides and state∣ly scpulchers of King there set up: it is at this day called Alcayrum, or Grand-Cayre.

(s) Mausolus, was King of Caria, to whose memory his wife Artimesia reared a most sumptuous Tombe which was reckoned one of the seven wonders of the world, this Monument was reared in the yeare of the world 3590.

(t) It hath reference to the stately Temple of Diana in the City of Ephesus: which was afterwards maliciously burnt downe by Herostratus.

(v) Tarpeian alludeth to Tarpeia, a Vestall virgin in Rome, who covenanting with the Sabines their ene∣mies, to betray the Capitoll, for the bracelets they wore on their left armes, when they entred the City, and she stood ready to receive that which she had contracted for, in stead of their bracelets, they cast their Targets upon her, by which she was smothered and pressed to death: this happened in the yeare of the world 3205. The Tar∣peian

Mount was so called because she was there buried, and Jupiter was sirnamed Tarpeius, because there worship∣ped.

(w) By Getick weapons are meant these which the Getae used, a people of Scythia in Europe, Aelius Spartan. From them derives the Nation of the Goths, who after conquered Italy and Rome.

(x) By Minerva's Altar, is intended that which stood in the Temple of Pallas within the City of Troy, where Achilles at his marriage to Polyxena daughter to King Priam and Hecuba was slaine by Paris.

(y) They were called Garamantes of Garamus, a King of Lybia, who built a City there, which he called after his owne name: their Country lyeth along by the banke of Numidia, in a tract of ground from the Atlanticke Ocean, by the river Nilus. They were held in old time to be the farthest people Southward.

(z) The Sauromat's are a Septentrionall Nation which some Authors, as Ortelius and Scaliger held to be the inhabitants of Russia and Tartaria.

(a) Helena was in her Nonage first rap't by Theseus before her mariage to Menclaus King of Sparta, and after by Paris ravisht, and carried to Troy.

(b) Atrides, were the two brothers, Agamemnon and Menelaus, so called from their father Atreus.

(c) Alcinous was King of the Phoeacians, and lived in Corcyra, who much delighted in Orchards and Gar∣dens. (d) The Swans are cald Caistrian birds, from the river Caister, where they are said to breed in great num∣ber.

(e) Penelope the wife of Vlysses, famous for her beauty and constancy.

(f) Dido was otherwise called Elisa, the daughter of Belus King of Tyre, and espoused to Sychaeus, one of Her∣cules Priests, whom her brother Pigmalion slue for his wealth, she after built the famous Citty Carthage, and

in the end (as Virgil relates) kild herselfe for the love of Aeneas.

(g) Leucades two beautifull sisters, rapt by the two fa∣mous brothers Castor and Pollux, the sonnes of Laed•• the mother of Helen, who was comprest by Jupiter.

(h) Cato, for his austerity cald Censorius.

(i) Hippolitus, the sonne of Theseus and Hyppolita the Amazon, who when his father was abroad, his step∣mother Phaedra sollicited him to incestuou love, which he refusing, she accused him to his father that he would have forced her, but when hee perceived him to give cre∣dit to her false information, he tooke his Chariot and horses to flie his fury, but by the way his steeds being frighted with Sea-calves, ran with him to the moun∣taines, and dashed the Coach in pieces, and him also, he lived in the yeare of the world, 2743.

(k) The Driades were Nymphae, or Sylvarum Dea, that is Wood-fayries or Druides.

(l) Croesus a rich King of Lydia.

(m) Crassus surnamed Marcus, therichest man amongst the Romanes, who held no man worthy to be cald rich, who could not within his yearely revenue maintaine an Army: hee was extremely covetous, and managed warre against the Parthians, by whom, both hee and thirty thousand Romanes were slaine, and because the barba∣rous enemy conjectured that hee made an assault upon them for their gold: therefore they melted a great quan∣tity, and powred it into his dead body, to sate him with that, with which in his life time; hee could never be sa∣tisfied. He lived in the yeare of Romes foundation 693. and before the Incarnation 57.

(n) Midas, a rich King of Phrygia who asked of Bac∣chus whom he feasted, that whatsoever he touched might be turned into gold, &c. He lived in the yeare of the world 2648. about the time that Debora judged Israel.

(o) Priam King of Troy potent in wealth, and strength,

but after slaine, and his Citty utterly subverted by the Grecians.

(p) Pigmalion, an avaritious King (before spoken of) brother to Queene Dido.

(q) Catiline, a seditious Conspiratour of Rome whose plots were brought to light by Marc Cicero then Consull of Rome with Antonius.

(r) Marius, one that was seven times Consull of Rome, and after much pestered the Citty, by the division betwixt him and Sylla: He lived the yeare before the In∣carnation 65.

(s) Mezentius, was King of the Tyrenians, remem∣bred by Virgil in his Aeneids, to be a great contemner of the gods.

(t) Calpe, is one of the hills in Spaine, called Hercu∣les Pillars.

Illustrations upon Timon Misanthropos.

(a) SAlmoneus, was said to be the sonne of Eolus, not he whom the Poets feigne to be the god of the winds, but one of that name, who raigned in the Citty of Elis in Greece. He willing to appeare unto his sub∣jects to be a God, and no man, and so to assume unto himselfe divine adoration, made a bridge of brasse over a great part of the Citty, over which he used to hurry his Chariot, whose wheeles were shod with rough iron, thinking therby to imitate Joves thunder, for which inso∣lence, Iupiter being justly incenst against him, stroke him with a true thunder-bolt, and sent him quicke to hell.

A type of pride, justly punished.

(b) Mandragora, an herbe so called, because it beareth Apples sweet smelling, of an extraordinary greatnes, the Latines call it Malum terrae, id est, the Apple of the earth It is that which we call the Mandrake.

(c) Deucalion, was the sonne of Prometheus, and mar∣ried Pyrrha the daughter of Epimetheus. Whilst he raigned in Thessaly came the universall Deluge, which drowned all the world, only he and his wife, got into a ship and saved themselves: their vessell first touching on the hill Pernassus, where the dry land first appeared, which was meerely a fiction of the Poets, who had heard or read of the generall Innundation, in him figuring Noah and his Arke. Others thinke that this floud happened onely in Greece and Italy, and that in the yeare of the world 2440. after Noahs floud 744.

(d) Lycoris Mount, by which Lucian intends no other than the two topt Pernassus, before spoken of.

(e) Epimenides, was a Poet of Creet, whom Saint Paul in his Epistle (as Beza is of opinion) cited. It is re∣ported of him, that his father sending him into the field to keep his Cattell, by chance he light into a Cave where he slept 75. yeares, whence a Proverb against all sloathfull men grew, Vltra Epimenidis somnum dormisti, id est, Thou hast slept beyond the sleep of Epimenides. At his returne he found his brother a very old man, by whom he un∣derstood, all that happened in his absence, and was af∣ter worshipped as a god. He lived in the yeare of the world 3370. much about the time of the destruction of H••erusalem, &c.

(f) Cibels Priests, they were called Corybantes, of one Corybantus, the prime of her first attendants. They in all the celebrations of her feasts, used to dance madly, bea∣ting upon brazen Cimbals, making a confused noise, from whence such Instruments were called, Aera Cory∣bantia: when they danced about the streets their custome

was to begge mony of the people, from whence they tooke the denomination of Collectores Cibeles, or Circulato∣res, id est. Iuglers: these first inhabited the mount Ida in Phrygia &c.

(g) Phineus, was a King of Arcadia, and the Harpia were the daughters of Pontus and Terra, dwelling in Ilands, partly by Sea, partly by land, so called, â rapiende, or ravening: they are feigned to be fowles, with faces like virgins, and hands like tallons or clawes. Some call them Iupiters dogs: and these, whatsoever the forenamed King provided to eate, snatcht from his table, and gree∣dily devoured: they were after destroyed by Hercules.

(h) Tantalus, was the sonne of Jupiter and Plota, the Nymph, grandfather to Agamemnon, and Menelaus, who entertaining certaine of the gods at a banquet, to make tryall of their divinity, killed, dressed, and served his son Pelops at the feast; which fact, the gods after they had discovered, so abhorr'd, that for the loathsome banquet he made them, they provided him another as distastfull, for being confined to hell, they set him in water up to the chin, and ripe Apples above his head touching his lips, yet gave him not power to stoope to the one to quench his thirst, nor reach to the other, to satisfie his hungry appetite. But for Pelops his sonne, so miserably massa∣cred, Iupiter revived him, and for his shoulder which Ceres unadvisedly had eaten up, he made him one of Ivo∣ry; who after this went and sojourned with Oenomaus the father of Meleager, and Deianira, which as Helv. re'∣ports, was about the yeare of the world 2650.

(i) Danaus daughters: This Danaus was a King of the Argives, and dwelt in the City Argus. He called the Country, formerly called Achaia, Danaae, and the gene∣rall Nation of the Grecians, Danai. He had fifty daugh∣ters, whom he caused to slay in one night the fifty sons of his brother Aegyptus, to whom they were wedded, for whch theywere punished by the gods with a perpetual I

corment, namely that with bottomlesse pales, they were to fill a tunne without a bottome. They lived in the yeare of the world, 2510.

(k) Cyclopes, they were so called because they had but one eye, and that was orbicular and round, they were Vulcans ministers, and forg'd or fram'd his thunder∣bolts, there are three amongst them themost eminent, according to the Poets, namely, Brontis, Sterope, and Pirachmon, they were mighty great men, and called Giants, &c.

(l) Dis, is the god Pluto, who taketh that denomi∣nation â divitijs, of riches, because they are dig'd and torne from the bowels of lower parts of the earth.

(m) These names, Pythias, Dromus, Tibias, Hyperbolus, and the like, are given according to the Authours fan∣cy, or perhaps aiming at some particular men of like con∣dition then living.

(n) Nireus, a faire young man, whom Homer loved, and whose beauty he much extolled.

(o) Cecrops, was also called Biformis; he was the first King of Athens, and first invented amongst them mar∣riage; he found out Images, builded Altars, and offered Sacrifices amongst the Greekes. He erected the Citty of Athens, and called it after his owne name Cecropia, he flourish'd in the yeare of the world 2394. soone after the birth of Moses.

(p) Dithy••ams, were songs sung in honour of Bac∣chus.

(q) Areopagitae. Iudges or Senatours amongst the Ather¦nians, so called of the place where they sate.

(r) Erictbeides, whom some think to be Ericthonius, or Ericthaeus, the fourth King of Athens; he first found one the use of Coaches, because his seet were deformed. Hs lived in the yeare of the world 2463. about eleven yeare after Israels departure out of Egypt.

Annotations upon Nireus, Thersites, &c.

(a) NIreus was a young man amongst the Greekes who came to the warres of Troy, whose beauty and feature Homer in his Iliades mightily com∣mended: to whom I referre such as desire to be more fully satisfied of him.

(b) Thersites, a mishapen and deformed Captaine in the Grecian Host, as crooked in minde as body, who bit∣terly railing against Achilles, he being mightily inra∣ged against him, slue him with a blow under the eare; his deformity was so great, that from thence arose a Proverbe which hath continued even to this day, Ther∣site foedior, asperst upon any stigmatick, and crooked fel∣low; you shall reade him fully described and characterd by Homer in his first and second booke of Iliads.

(c) Menippus was a Poet, and master to Cicero the fa∣mous Oratour: but by this personated by Lucian, is in∣tended a Cynick Philosopher, dogged both in his beha∣viour and writings, in imitation of whom, Varro the Orator writ a Satyr, and intitled it Satyra Menippea. It is reported of him, that such money as he had hoorded to∣gether by usury and the like fordid meanes, was so deare unto him, that being robbed thereof, he grew into de∣spaire, and miserably hanged himselfe. His whole life ye may reade described at large by Diogenes L••••rtius.

Annotations upon Iupiter and Io.

(a) SPaerchius, a River whose banks were round be∣set with Poplar trees, and therefore called Popu∣ifer,

Enipoeus, Apidanus, Amphisus, and Aeas, &c. only the names of Rivers, whose currents and chanels were fa∣mous in those parts of Greece: for your better satisfa∣ction, I refer you to Ovid his Metamorph. lib. 1. upon the same argument.

(b) Pindus, was a mountaine in Thessaly, sacred to Apollo and the Muses, &c.

(c) Hemonian Tempe, Tempe was a pleasant valley flou∣rishing with trees, herbes, and flowers, scituate in Thes∣saly at the foot of the hill Hemus. It was much celebrated by the Muses, as lying betwixt Ossa and Olympus. The River Peneus, Larisa, and the Aegean Sea, &c.

(d) Naiades, were Nymphs or Fayries of the wells, and fountaines.

(e) Pierides, were the Muses, so called from Pierus, or else a mountaine in Greece of that name: this Pierus had nine daughters, who contended with the Muses in singing, and being vanquished by them, were transfor∣med into chattering Pyes: in glory of which victory the Muses would be called by their names.

(f) Syrinx, an Arcadian Nymph, who flying from the embraces of Pan, the god of the Shepheards, at her intercession to the gods changed into a Reed, her prayer being to preserve her virginity.

(g) Styx, a certaine well in Arcadia, the water of which is so cold and venemous, that whosoever drin∣keth thereof, immediatly dyeth. It eateth and wasteth yron or brasse, neither can it be contained in any thing, but the hoof of a Mule; some say Alexander the Great was poisoned with the water of this river, by Antipater, at the persuasion of Aristotle, the great Philosopher, and Tutor to Alexander. The Poets feigne it to be a river in hell, and so sacred to the gods, that if any of them sweare by it, and breake his oath, he shall be deprived of his god head, and drinke no Nectar for an hundred yeares after.

Annotations upon the Dialogue

Intituled Iupiter and Cupid.

(a) GArgarus, so called of Gargarus, the son of Jupiter, it is commonly taken for the top or Apex of the high hill Ida, where the said god had an Altar conse∣crateunto him, it is situate betwixt the ••ropontis Abi∣dos, and the Hellespont in Greece, in ongitude 55. in latitude 42. It is also a towne under the hill so called.

Vpon Mercury and Maia.

(a) ALcmena, the wife of Amphytrio the Theban, in whose absence Iupiter came in the shape of her husband, comprest her and begot Hercules.

(b) Semele, the mother of Bacchus, begot on her by Iupiter, from whence he tooke the denomination of Seme∣leius.

(c) Maia, the daughter of Atlas, and Pleiones, and there∣fore Atlantiades, of whom Iupiter begot Mercury.

(d) By Cadmus faire daughter is intended Semele before spoken of.

Vpon Crates and Diogenes.

(a) MOcricus, Aristaeus, Thrasicles, &c. are names of men whome the Author aimed at (living in those times) according to his fancy.

(b) IApygium, or Iapyges, these derived their names from ••apyx the sonne of Dedalus, and were said to be Cre∣tenses

by their originall, and wandring abroad to seeke C••laurus, sonne of Min••is, came unto the same place, where after they inhabited, these in time grew to such a profuse riotise, intemperance and wantonnes, that forget∣ting their Country modesty and honesty, they painted their faces, and wore other folkes haire, and were ne∣ver seene abroade but sumptuously, and richly appareld; their houses were as beautifull as the Temples of the gods. At length they came to such a height of pride and insolence, that they cast off all religion, entring and sea∣sing on the ornaments, revenues and donaries of the Churches. And at length were all consumed by firy globes falling from heaven, &c.

Vpon Menippus, Aeacus, Pythagoras.

(a) EVphorbus, was a noble Trojane, the sonne of Panthus, who wounded Patroclus, and was after flaine by Achilles, being hurt in the thigh; he was said to have one made him of gold. Pythagoras said, that his soule was in him in that time of the Troian warre, that hee might better perswade his Scholars. Concerning the opinion which he held concerning the transmigration of mens soules, from one body to another.

What other difficulties you shall finde in these short Dialogues, you shall find in some or other fully explica∣ted.

(a) CImmerians, were people dwelling in Italy, be∣tweene the Baiae and Cumae, so invironed with hills, that the Sunne never appeared unto them, hence came the Proverb Tene••ra Cimmeria, the Cimmerian dark∣nesse.

(b) Erix, Promontory: Erix was the sonne of Venus, slaine by Hercules, and buried in a mountaine of Cicilia, so called after him, in which place Venus had a Temple erected unto her, and from that she had the denomina∣tion of Eriana, &c.

(c) Python, was a mighty hugé Serpent, which Iuno sent unto Latona when she was with child by Iupiter, to devoure her, but she went to her sister Astrea, who protected her, and she was after delivered of two twins, Apollo and Dia∣na.

(d) Endymion, was beloved by the Moone, who cour∣ted him upon Latmus hill; and therefore said to looke pale by reason of the great affection which she bore unto him.

(e) Tithon, or Tithonus, was the sonne of Laomedon, who desiring long life, was so wasted with old age, that the Poets faigned him to be turned into a Grashopper: he was also said to be beloved of Aurora, the mornings because he used to rise early, which was thought to be the reason why he preserved his life so long.