The II. ADVERTISEMENT.
Apollo makes use of the unfortunate Count St. Paul, to frighten the Nobility in Kingdoms from rebelling against their natural Lords, at the pressure of Foreign Princes.
APPOLLO much to his displeasure hath learnt, how that some Princes that they may vanquish their enemies, do not use open force (as was the custom of ancient Hero's) with armed men in the field, but make use of fraud and cozenage; whereat they are so good, as they have been thereby able happily to atchieve very great enterprizes: for the first arms that these draw against their enemies, is shamefully to corrupt the Loyal∣ty of other mens subjects, and to incite the Nobles to rebel. Apollo to remedy so great disorders, gave command to Iovanni Francisco Lottoni, Register of his Majesties Moral Precepts, that the miserable Count S. Paul, for a publique example of very great misfortune, should be carried in an open chair by beggars, and set before the Porch of the Delphick Temple: This great Prince, with his hands without fingers, and so shamefully torn, as they seem to be mangled by dogs, is shewed by Lottoni to the people, who in great numbers pass in and out through that Temple, to whom he crys aloud, Faithful Vertuosi, lovers of learn∣ing, and holy moral records, take example by the calamity of this so miserable Prince, who hath lost the use of his hands, which God pre∣serve still free to you; and learn at the cost of others, what it imports to be always pulling of Crabs out of their holes with your own hands, for the advantage of other men.