CHAP. VI. Of Conjugal Love.Among the ROMANS.1. T. Gracchus the Elder.2. C. Plautius Numidian.3. M. Plautius.4. Julia the Daughter of Caesar.5. Porcia the Daughter of M. Cato.FORRAIGN.1. Artemisia wife of M∣solus.2. Hipsicratea. Daughter of Mithridates.3. Lacaena. Of the Family of the Minye.FRom a gentle and mild Affection, I will proceed to another as equally honest, yet somewhat more fervent, and of a more vehement Nature; and offer not without greatest Veneration, as it were certain Images of Lawful love, to the Contemplation of the Reader, effectually relating the actions of established and firm fidelity between married people, difficult to imitate, but profitable to be known; seeing that when a man knows the most excellent Examples, it will be a shame to him to follow the meanest.1. Titus Gracchus having caught two snakes in his own house, a Male and Female; and being told by the Soothsayer, that if he let go the Male, it por∣tended the death of his Wife; if he let go the Female, his own suddain decease; following that part of the prediction that portended his own, rather than the death of his Wife, he caused the Female Snake to be t go; and was so hardy as to behold his own de∣struction in the death of the Snake kill'd before his 0