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Their ver∣tue or tem¦perance, is in
Behauiour: Lud was bountifull in housekeeping, and by that means beloued generally. Cimbelin with the moderate vsage of himselfe, so pleased the Empe∣rour, that he loued him greatly, and receiued manie good words and gifts from him: if this were not in∣temperance, to please an enemy. Aruirage got into such fauour with Claudius the Emperor, that he mar∣ried his daughter Genissa: if this were not inconti∣nence, to be linked with outlandish, that was migh∣tier then himselfe. He was beloued of his subiectes for his vsage toward them in all cases.
Marius was of honourable demeanour euery way. He accepted the pitition of the vanquished Pictes, he allotted to them the fardest part of Albany: afterward he gaue himselfe to the wealth of the realme. Lucy was loued of all his subiectes for his good life: hys loynes were in the cloudes, and hys seed among the starres: he had rather be a father in Morals, then in Naturals: such was his abstinence. It may be, Ga∣laxias the milky & bright way in heauen was made in honour of such men as Lucy was, no meaner then a Saint.
Marriage: the Brutans would not in any case ioyne their daughters in wedlocke with the Pictes, whom they knew to be barbarous Scythians by discent of bo∣dies, and consent of mindes, and very vnfaithfull.