CHAP, VII.
FABIVS VERRVCOSVS called that disgracefull curtesie,* 1.1 which was presented by a niggardly hand, Grauelly and stale bread; which a hungrie man must of necessitie take, yet can hardly eate, Tiberius Caesar being requested by Marcus Allius (who had been Praetor) to discharge him of those many debts, wherein hee was engaged: Caesar commaunded him to set downe the names of all his creditors. This is not properly to giue, but to summon them to whom he owed any thing to composition. As soone as hee had receiued the register of their number, he wrote a schedule wherein he commaunded to pay his prodigall nephews debt, and gaue it to him, and therewithall so bitter and contumelious a reprehension, as the poore man was so much dismayed, that hee neither knew that hee had receiued any money for his creditors, from the Emperours hands; or any fa∣uour for himselfe: He deliuered him from his Creditors, but obliged not him vnto himselfe. Some motiue there was that guided Tiberius herein; and in my iudgement,* 1.2 that he did, was to the end, that no man should importune him more in such like requests; and this happily was an effectuall way, thorow the shame and reproofe of one man to represse the disordinate desires of couetous∣nesse in all other men. Yet hee that giueth a benefit, must absolutely follow a farre different way.