Mores hominum = The manners of men / described in sixteen satyrs by Juvenal, as he is published in his most authentick copy, lately printed by command of the King of France ; whereunto is added the invention of seventeen designes in picture, with arguments to the satyrs ; as also explanations to the designes in English and Latine ; together with a large comment, clearing the author in every place wherein he seemed obscure, out of the laws and customes of the Romans, and the Latine and Greek histories, by Sir Robert Stapylton, Knight.

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Title: Mores hominum = The manners of men / described in sixteen satyrs by Juvenal, as he is published in his most authentick copy, lately printed by command of the King of France ; whereunto is added the invention of seventeen designes in picture, with arguments to the satyrs ; as also explanations to the designes in English and Latine ; together with a large comment, clearing the author in every place wherein he seemed obscure, out of the laws and customes of the Romans, and the Latine and Greek histories, by Sir Robert Stapylton, Knight.
Author: Juvenal.
Publication: London :: Printed by R. Hodgkinsonne,; 1660.
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The eighth Designe.
NObility is Merit. Tell not me
Of this great Office, or that Pedegree;
Is 1 Marius noble for his Birth, or Sway
In his Proconsulship of Africa,
Which ev'n in peace he plunder'd? I prefer
Before Him Marius the 2 Carpenter,
That from vast-body'd Cimbrians Rome releast,
And made his Country's 3 Vultures a huge feast.
With young Lord 4 Damasippus drinks, th' old Knave
Cybel's 5 Chief-priest, a 6 Pirate, 7 Murd'rer, 8 Slave,
Thief 9, 10 Hangman, 11 Coffin-maker: and his Host
Cook-Syrophaenix 12, add, to his more cost,
His soft-lipt Hostess 13 Ciane. Who can
Compare this Lord to that No-Gentleman
The Consul 14 Tully? that lean Vigils kept,
Wak'd when the Senators securely slept,
And never dream'd that Rome was to be fir'd
At midnight, when fierce Catiline conspir'd?
Corvinus 15, 16 Galba, that in Marble stand,
Reviv'd by some rare Statuaries hand;
Are monuments to gallant Sons: the base
Shew them as Trophies of their own disgrace.