The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

§ 3. Caius his Luxury, Lavishness and prodigality.

Thus bestial was he towards men, and no less was he in another kind towards women. This appeared in the deflouring of his own sisters, and adulterating the most of the noble Ladies of the City. He was his own Pimp, and purveyer for his lust, with this open and hideous way of brothelry. He would invite the great men and their Ladies to supper, and as the women passed by him in way of salutation he would earnestly and leasurely view them, mercantium more, saith my Author, as they do that are to buy any thing, and if any matron for modesty held down her head, he would lift it up, that he might have his full survey: she that pleased him, he took into a retiring room and adul∣terated: and presently would he bring her forth again, and tell openly whether she had given him content or no. Nor was he content with this choice and variety of women neither, but that he might be beastly in every kind, he abstained not from the abomina∣tion of Sodomie with men. But let us stay no longer upon him in this his filthiness, but trace him a little in his more tolerable vices of fantastickness and prodigality. He seemed to affect a singularity in these three things, singing, working and spending, ac∣cording to the uncontroledness of his will, the vastness of his command, and the hugeness of his revenue. He invented new manner of bathings, and prodigious kinds of meats and feasts; he would disolve most rich and precious Jewels in Vinegar, and then drink them off. And because he doubted, as it seemeth, that he could not wast his treasure fast enough with such tricks as these, he would stand upon a Tower divers days to∣gether, and fling great sums of mony among the people. To all which ways of lavish∣ing and expensiveness, he joyned monstrous works and machinations, which shewed at once, his folly in their undertaking, and the vastness of his power in their perfor∣mance: As levelling mountains to even the plain, and in other places filling up the plain to equal mountains; sometimes causing rocks of flint to be cut through, to make a pas∣sage: and sometimes foundations of houses or walls to be laid in the bottom of the Sea, bringing soil and rubbish to fill up the place and to make it firm ground: ambitious to bring to pass seeming impossibilities, and cruelly hasty in the accomplishing of what he undertook, punishing the slacking of the work with certain death.