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 Prima,

OCcurrunt oculis ¹ Capitolia, Regia Romae, Clara, uti Sol novus in terris, splendore triumphi Elicito ex captis Armis, ² Regumque Coronis; Roma tamen, propiùs spectata, videbitur atra: Area lata patet ³ Circi, pugnaeque theatrum Multiplicis; coràm saevi dux femina ludi Tuscum figit aprum, in proprium magis effera sexum. Furtiva uxoris benè potus Leno ⁴ maritus Oscula dissimulans, vigili sibi munera somno Augurat. Insumpsit bona qui praesepibus, haeres, E Româ impellens currus ad Caesaris aedes, ⁵ Flaminiam laceransque viam, contemnit avorum Oppositas Statuas, majorum & transvolat Vrnas. Alea ubi ⁶ Dominos, exercent praelia servos. Obnubit pompam Latialem ⁷ sportula; sordes Ecce trahit Procerum! Libertinusque Tribuno Se dives praefert; lecticam, aulaeque ministros Summovet exclusos, qui magnum limen adorant. "Dicite jam, servi quid nomine dignius, Orbis "A Româ victus, vitiis an Roma subacta? "Dicite, cum cives agitet manifesta phrenesis, "Nonnè opus est Satyrâ mediā pertundere venā?

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The first Designe.

THE Court of Rome, the ¹ Capitol looks bright, A new day breaking with triumphant light, Struck out of Arms ² and Crowns of Kings subdu'd: But Rome it self looks foul, if strictly view'd. Behold, in the ³ Circensian Lists, a Boare Encounter'd by a Woman; that much more Defies her Sex, then her Antagonist. The tipling ⁴ Husband sees not his Wife kis't: He dreams of Deeds of Gift. An Heir's undone With keeping Chariots, from Rome to runne To Caesar's House in the ⁵ Flaminian Way: Where his Forefathers might their Son dismay, Their Urnes and Statues standing in his sight. Insatiate ⁶ Gamsters play, their Servants fight. Note lastly, what the Roman splendor clowds, The Money-basket ⁷, where a Freed-man crowds Before Sedans, braves Officers of State Serv'd like base Beggers at a lock'd-up Gate. Then tell me; Which should Most a Slave be call'd, The conquer'd World? or Rome, to Vice inthral'd? Tell me, if Towns, where Luxury thus reigns, Need not a SATYR'S Whip to breath their veins?