The INTERPRETER.

1. ACtaeon was a proud man, for hee preferred himself to Diana, and bragged that his skill in hunting ex∣ceeded hers; 'Tis a dangerous thing to speak irreverently of God: neither is there any punishment fitter for a proud man, then to be metamorphised into a beast; so was Actaeon here, so was Nebuchadnezzar in holy Writ. Hee that will not honour God▪ shall not abide in honour, but shall be like the beasts that perish. 2. Diana is the Moon, by whose light influence, and motion the Sun worketh on sublunary bodies. Dogs madnesse (by which they prove dangerous to their masters) is an effect of the Moon; which ruleth much over the brain. 3. Curiosity is dangerous; Page  5 pry not too much into the secrets of heaven, lest with A∣•taeon, your understanding be taken from you, and ye be∣come a prey to the beastly imaginations of your own brain. 4. Cruelty is here forbid: hee that takes delight in mur∣thering of beasts, proves sometime with Nim•ed • murther∣er of men; and such for want of humanity may be said to be turned into beasts, and tortu•ed with their owne dogs, that is, by an evill conscience. 5. Wh•n men neglect their estates and callings, and spend their patrimonies pro∣fus•ly on dogs and hunting, they may be said to be de∣v•ured by their own dogs. 6. They who suffer themselves to be abused, and th•ir •st•tes w•st•d by Parasites and slat∣terers, not unfitly may be said to be a prey to their owne dogs. 7. They who look upon women, and lust after them, lose their reason, and are devoured by their own lusts. 8. •f D•ani's nak•dnesse seen unawares was the occasion of his ••sfortune; how bl•me-worthy are these women, who with n•ked br•asts, immodest looks, light beh•viour, phan∣tast•call attire, entice m•n to their d•struction, and of m•n, do metamorphose them unto beasts?