and estimation of theyr courage, euery man set out in suche forwardnes, as they than semed more promte to the helpyng of their maister, that is to saye, one lasse aferd than an other.
¶ Phidias the Atheniense, whom all wry∣ters do commende, made of yuory the simu lachre or image of Iupiter, honoured by the gentiles, on the hyghe hille of Dlym∣pus: whiche was done so excellently, that Pandenus, a counnynge paynter, therat admaruaylynge, required the craftis man, to shewe hym where he had the example, or paterne of so noble a warke. Than Phi∣dias answered, that he had taken it out of thre verses of Homere the poete: the sen∣tence wherof ensueth as well as my poore wytte can expresse it in englishe.
Than Iupiter, the father of them all
Therto assented with his browes blacke,
Shaking his heare, & therwith dyd let fal
A coūtenāce, that made al heuē to quake.
¶ Where it is to be noted, that Thetis the mother of Achilles, desired Iupiter to in∣cline his fauour to the part of the Troiās.
¶ Howe (as I haue before sayd) I intend not by these examples, to make of a prynce or noble mannes sonne a commune payn∣ter or keruer, whiche shal present hym selfe openly, stained or embrued with sondry co∣lours,