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.

Figura Undecima.

AD coenam vocat indigenam ¹ Juvenalis ² Amicū Aemulus Evandri, qui frugi erat Herculis hospes: Non mare, non pelagus lustrat; patrimonia mergi In ventrem nolit: tener hîc tibi ponitur hoedus ³, Persice, nec minùs est gratus, quia traxerit auram Vulgarem Ausoniae; salicísque ignarus & herbae, Solo lacte satur placet, arridétque palato. Quam cernis ⁴ gallinam, ante horrea pinguis avenâ, Haec ova ⁵ exclusit foeno modò sumpta calenti. Hos tulit ⁶ asparagos, quae carpit villica lanam, Fuso quos posito legit de vertice montis. Nativum retinet, quo fulgeat, ⁷ uva colorem, Autumnum ut dicas gemmis mutâsse racemos. Arte pari ⁸ pyra cum ⁹ pomis servata furorem Effugêre hyemis, tutâque recondita cellâ, Cruda emendato posuêre pericula succo; Et jam cardiacis prosunt, quibus antè venenum. Nunc epulas, coenae caput, aspice, nempe legentes Autorem Iliados pueros ¹⁰, nostrúmque Maronem: Vindicat haec famâ violatos mensa poetas: Prodiga enim licèt his sit mens, his curta supellex, Non omnes Iros, non omnes crede Nepotes.

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The eleventh Designe.

LIke an old Roman ¹ Juvenal here treats His ² friend, invites him to no forrein meates, No costly sawces; empties not his purse To fill his Board: nor eats his ³ Kid the worse, Nor is esteem'd by Persicus lesse rare, Because it only breath'd Italian ayre: Bred in rich grounds, it eat nor grasse nor wood: But suckt, which makes it such delicious food. These Barn-doore ⁴ hens, an houre ere they were drest, Lay'd those great ⁵ Eggs, took warme out of the Nest. This dish of ⁶ Sparagus the maid, that spun The Napkins, left her housewifes work undone To gather from the hills, where they grew wilde. The ⁷ grapes, that look as Autumne were with child Of cluster'd Pearls and rubies, are preserv'd. The ⁸ Pears and ⁹ Apples, when old winter sterv'd Il-order'd fruit, so carefully were laid, They from crude poisons, are rich cordialls made; And for a Banquet, Scholars wait to read Virgil ¹⁰ and Homer: here's a feast to plead The Poets cause; though some are beggers, all Must not be censur'd poor, or prodigall.