was geuen, whiche shall last for euer. There vpon the Pyrenean mountaynes, the sharpenesse of the place perhappes assisting, and modestie helping the matter, and abatyng the pryde of his age and victorie, he set vp a manlyke Trophei, and monument, fra∣med in maner of a counterfeite, of his naturall and rough vizage: being then great in deede and magnificiall, who although he were but young in yeeres, yet was he olde in maners, and rype in minde. The same man afterwarde, when he had taken the Py∣rates, and vanquished the East, beyng then changed, as it were with the alteration of the tyme and place, and returnyng another man, from another part of the worlde, he shewed in triumphe not his humilitie, but his manly countenaunce, become more effemi∣nate then before, after a womanishe, or diuine maner, not portrai∣ted in Brasse or Marble, but adorned with rare and exquisite pearles. This is no small rebuke, for the pryde and spoyle of the East, to be layde vpon the head of one man, not without the in∣sultyng of the conquering people, and to the excusing of the Prin∣ces that shoulde ensue. For what shoulde not Rome (being af∣terwarde in slauerie vnder tyrantes) suffer, which being free, behelde this so great insolencie, of a most louyng citizen. As for the other furnitures of his triumphe, whiche was more humble or sober, they are not mencioned, neyther the armour and horses of the subdued nations, as the maner was wont to be, nor the pri∣soners, charrets, nor other booties: The vilest thynges whiche we reave to haue been there, was golde, precious stones, and pearles. Among many other thinges, there was a great Guarde∣uiandes of Chest, wherein was great store of treasures of all sortes and colours, euery one consisting of seuerall kindes, both cuppes of golde, and garmentes, and pictures: Yea, there was among other thynges a Moone of massy golde, of a woonderfull weight, and beddes of golde, and sundry crownes and gar••andes, beset with great and whyte pearles. Moreouer, there was a mountaine of gold, the fourme whereof was foure square, al beset with Hartes, and Lions, and figures of sundry beastes, and ly∣uyng creatures: also with trees, and all kyndes of fruites, with glitte••ing pearles coueryng the golden branches of the trees upon the toppe of the mountaine. Of the same substaunce also