In baths, whose waters women first began

Hi rectè in fontes immingere dicuntur, q sacram doctrinam commaculant.

Dewny, gravem or terribilem famam, adviseth a man to avoid; intending with deser

man;

setting down, that he nameth not nails, but calls what is to be pared away, avov, siccum or aridum, and the nail itself, XAwpov, viridum, because it is still growing; he calls likewise the hand evτogos, quæ in quinos ramos disper gitur, because it puts out five fingers like branches.

known to himself impartially and betwixt Go and him, every worthy man should despise th contrary conceit of the world; according to the of Quintilian, writing to Seneca, affirmingh cared no more what the misjudging world vente against him, quàm de ventre redditi crepitus.

THE END OF THE SECOND BOOK

OF WORKS.

THE days, that for thy works are good or ill,

According to the influence they instil;

If Jove with all care learn, and give them then,

or their discharge, in precept to thy men. The Thirtieth day of every month is best,

Fith diligent inspection to digest

he next month's works, and part thy household foods;

hat being the day when all litigious goods

te justly sentenced, by the people's voices. nd till that day next month give these days choices,

or they are mark'd out by most-knowing Jove.

First, the first day, in which the moon doth move

ith radiance renew'd; and then the fourth;

he seventh day next, being first in sacred worth,

or that day did Latona bring to light he gold-sword-wearing Sun; next then the eighth3

1 'Enó Topal, diligenti inspectione digero, secerno et eligo. He begins with the last day the month, which he names not a day of any cod or bad influence, but being, as 'twere, their er day, in which their business in law was ttended; and that not lasting all the day, he dviseth to spend the rest of it in disposing the ext month's labours. Of the rest he makes ifference, showing which are infortunate, and hich auspicious, and are so far to be observed natural cause is to be given for them; for it vere madness not to ascribe reason to Nature, to make that reason so far above us, that we annot know by it what is daily in use with us; being for our cause created of God; and herefore the differences of days arise in some art from the aspects, quibus luna intuetur elem, nam quadrati aspectus cient pugnam

taturæ cum morbo.

* Пpwτov evη, primum novilunium, which he alls sacred, nam omnia initia sacra; the burth likewise he calls sacred, quia eo die prodit coitu Luna, primumque tum conspicitur. Oydoárn. The second and fifth day let ass, and sixth, ut mediis, he comes to the ighth and ninth, which in their increasing he erms truly profitable; nam humores alit cresentia lunce.

And ninth are good, being both days that retain

The moon's prime strength t' instruct the works of men.

Th' eleventh and twelfth are likewise both good days;

The twelfth yet far exceeds th' eleventh's repair,

For that day hangs the spinner in the air, And weaves up her web; so the spinster

all

Her rock then ends, exposing it to sale. So Earth's third housewife, the ingenious ant,

On that day ends her mole-hills' cure of

want.

The day herself in their example then Tasking her fire, and bounds her length to

men.

The thirteenth day take care thou sow no seed,

To plant yet 'tis a day of special speed. The sixteenth day plants set prove fruitless still;

To get a son 'tis good, a daughter ill.
Nor good to get, nor give in nuptials;
Nor in the sixth day any influence falls
To fashion her begetting confluence,
But to geld kids and lambs, and sheep-
cotes fence,

It is a day of much benevolence;
To get a son it good effects affords;
And loves3 to cut one's heart with bitter
words;

And yet it likes fair speeches, too, and lies,

And whispering out detractive obloquies. The eighth the bellowing bullock lib and goat;

The

twelfth the labouring mule. But if of note

1 'Evdeκárη. The tenth let pass, the eleventh and twelfth he praises diversely, because the moon beholds the sun then in a triangular aspect, which is ever called benevolent.

2 OUT' aρ yáμov, neque nuptiis tradendis. The sixteenth day, he says, is neither good to get a daughter, nor to wed her, quia à plenilunio cæpit jam humor deficere; he says it is good to get a son in, nam ex humido semine famella, ex sicciore puelli nascuntur.

3 Képroμos, cor alicui scindens.

laws,

1 Ιστορα φῶτα, prudentem virum judicem, seu arbitrum, quod eos gnaros esse oporteat rei de qua agitur. He calls it the great twentieth, because it is the last, unvòs μedovvTOS,

which is of the middle decade of the month; diebus τοῦ φθίνοντος, or days of the dying moon immediately following.

2 Terpàs. The fourteenth is good to get a daughter, because the moon then abounds in

humours, and her light is more gelid and cold,

her heat more temperate; and therefore he says

it is good likewise to tame beasts in, since then, by the abundance of humours, they are made more gentle, and consequently easier tamed.

3 Terpad. He calls this day so baneful, because of the opposition of the sun and moon, and the time then being, that is, between the old and new moon, are hurtful for bodies; such as labour with choleric diseases, most languish then; those with phlegmatic, contrary.

Iléμmтas. He warns men to fly all fifth days, that is the fifth, the fifteenth, and the five-and-twentieth, because all vengeful spirits he affirms then to be most busy with men.

5 The seventeenth day he thinketh best to winnow, or dight corn, à plenilunio, because about that time winds' are stirred up, and the

air is drier.

with care)

Upon a smooth floor, let the vinnoware Dight and expose to the opposed gale. Then let thy forest-feller cut thee all Thy chamber fuel, and the numerous parts

Of naval timber apt for shipwrights' arts. The four-and-twentieth day begin to close Thy ships of leak. The ninth day never blows

Least ill at all on men. The nineteenth day

Yields (after noon yet) a more gentle ray, Auspicious both to plant, and generate Both sons and daughters; ill to no estate. But the thrice-ninth day's goodness few men know,

Being best day of the whole month to

make flow

Both wine and corn-tuns, and to curb the force

Of mules and oxen and the swift-hooved

1 ПpwτíσTMη eivàs, prima nova. That is, from the beginning of the month, he calls harmless propter geminum aspectum, cum sol abest a signis.

Proverb, nullus dies omnino malus. 3 Hlaupo. He says few observe these dif ferences of days, and as few know or make any difference betwixt one day and another.

He says few approve those days, because these cause most change of tempests and men's bodies in the beginning of the last quarter. 5 All this, and the lives of fowls, is cited out of this author by Plutarch; not being extant in

the common copy.

I HAVE adventured, right noble Earl, out of my utmost and ever-vowed service to your virtues, to entitle their merits to the patronage of HOMER'S English life, whose wished natural life the great Macedon would have protected as the spirit of his empire,

That he to his unmeasured mighty acts Might add a fame as vast; and their extracts,

In fires as bright and endless as the stars, His breast might breathe and thunder out his wars.

But that great monarch's love of fame and praise

Receives an envious cloud in our foul days;

For since our great ones cease themselves to do

Deeds worth their praise, they hold it folly

too

To feed their praise in others. But what

can,

Of all the gifts that are, be given to man More precious than Eternity and Glory, Singing their praises in unsilenced story? Which no black day, no nation, nor no age,

No change of time or fortune, force nor rage,

Shall ever raze? All which the monarch knew,

Where Homer lived entitled, would ensue;

1 Prefixed to Chapman's translation of the Odyssey.

He, at Jove's table set, fills out to us Cups that repair age, sad and ruinous, And gives it built of an eternal stand With his all-sinewy Odyssean hand, Shifts Time and Fate, puts death in life's free state,

And life doth into ages propagate.
He doth in men the Gods' affects inflame,
His fuel Virtue, blown by Praise and Fame;
And, with the high soul's first impulsions
driven,

Breaks through rude chaos, earth, the seas, and heaven.

The nerves of all things hid in nature lie Naked before him; all their harmony

1 Cujus de gurgite vivo Combibit arcanos vatum omnis turba furores, &c. Ex Angeli Politiani Ambrâ. 12. 2 Hercules.