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THE SECOND BOOKE 189
' The hatred of one man, a spight, a pleasure, a
familiar suspect, or a jealousie, causes which ought not to
move two scolding fish-wives to scratch one another, is
the soule and motive of all this hurly-burly. Shall we
beleeve them that are the principall authors and causes
therof ? Let us but hearken unto the greatest and
most victorious Emperour, and the mightiest that ever
was, how pleasantly he laughs and wittily he plaies at
so many battells and bloody fights, hazarded both by
sea and land, at the blood and lives- of five hundred
thousand soules which followed his fortune, and the
strength and riches of two parts of the world consumed
and drawne drie for the service of his enterprise:
Quod futuit Glaphyran Antomus, lianc mihi poenam
Fulvia constttuity se quoqne uti futuam
Fulviam ego utfutuam ? quid si me Manius oret
Poedicem,faciam ? non puto, si sapiam.
Aut futue, aut pugnemus, ait: quid si mihi vita
Charior est ipsa mentula ? Signa canant. 1
(1 use my Latine somewhat boldly, but it is with
that leave which you have given mee.) This vast huge
bodie hath so many faces and scverall motion, which
seeme to threat both heaven and earth.
Quam multi Lybico volvuntur marmore fluctus
Soevus ubi Orion hyber nis conditur undis:
Vel cum sole novo densoe torrentut arista:,
Aut Her mi campo, aut Lycice jlaventibus at vis,
Scuta sonant, pulsuque pedum tremit excita tellus.²
As many waves as rowle in Affncke marble bounds,
When fierce Oryon hides in Winter waves bis head:
Or when thicke-eares of Come are parch't by Suune new-spred.
In Hermus fruitfull fields, or Lycaes yellow grounds,
With noyse of shields and feet, the trembling earth BO sounds.
'This many-headed, divers-armed, and furiously-raging
monster, is man, wretched, weake and miserable man;
whom, if you consider well, what is he but a crawling
and ever-moving ants-nest?'
1 MART. 1. xi. Epig. xxi ² VIRG. AEn. 1. vii. 717.