Prequet jester to Francis the first of France do keep a calendar of fool  wherewith he do use to make the king sport tell he ever the reason why he put  any one into his calendar when Charles the five emperor upon confidence of the  noble nature of Francis pass through France for the appease of the rebellion  of gaunt Brisquet put he into his calendar the king ask he the cause he answer  because you have suffer at the hand of Charles the great bitterness that ever  prince do from another nevertheless he will trust his person into your hand  why Bresquet say the king what will thou say if thou see he pass back in as  great safety as if he march through the amid of Spain say Bresquet why then I  will put he out and put in you archbishop grindal be wont to say that the  physician here in England be not good at the cure of particular disease but  have only the power of the church to bind and lose a celebrated maker of duke  of Florence be wont to say of perfidious friend Tat we rd that we ought to  forgive our enemy but we do not read that we ought our friend a papist be  oppose by a protestant that they have no scripture for image answer yes for  you read that thy people lie their sick in the street that the shadow of saint  Peter may come upon they and that a shadow be a image and the obscure of all  image sir Edward dyer a grave and wise gentleman do much beeve in Kelly the  alchemist that he do indeed the work and do make gold insmuch that he go into  Germany where Kelly then be to inform himself full thereof after his return he  dine with my lord of Canterbury where at that time be at the table dr Prown  the physician they fall in talk of Kelly sir Edward dyer turn to the  archbishop say I do assure your grace that that I shall tell you be truth I be  a eyewitness thereof and if I have not see it I shall not have believe it I  see mr Kelly put of the base metal into the Chrysible and after it be set a  little upon the fire and a very small quantity of the medicine put in and stir  with a stick of wood it come forth in great proportion perfect gold to the  touch to the hammer a to the test my lord archbishop say you have needs take  heed what you say sir Edward dyer for here be a infidel at the board sir  Edward dyer say again pleasant I shall have look for a infidel soon in any  place then at your grace table what say you dr brown say the archbishop dr  brown answer after his blunt and huddle manner the gentleman have speak enough  for I why say the archbishop what have he say marry say dr brown he say he  will not have believe it except he have see it and no more will I doctor  jonson say that in sickness there be three thing that be material the  physician the disease and the patient and if any two of these join then they  get the victory for ne Hecules indeed  contra duos if the physician and the  patient join then down go the disease for then the patient recover if the  physician and the disease join that be a strong disease and physician mistake  the cure then down go the patient if the patient and the disease join then  down go the physician for he be discredit mr Bettenham say that virtuous man  be like some herb and spice that give not out their sweet smell till they be  break or rush the lord archbishop laud say Tat some hypocrite and seem mortify  man which hold down their head be like the little image in the vault or roof  of church which look and bow down as if they hold up the church when as they  bear no weight at all there be a painter become a physician whereupon one say  to he you have do well for before the fault of your work be see but now they  be unseen there be a gentleman that come to the tilt all in orange Tawey and  run very ill the next day he come again all in green and run worse there be  one of the looker on ask another what be the reason that this gentleman change  his colour the other answer sure because it may be report that the gentleman  in the green run worst than the gentleman in the orange Tawney mr Whitehead a  grave divine be much esteem by queen Elizabeth but not prefer because he be  against the government of bishop he come one day of the queen and the queen  chance to say to he I like thou the better Whitehead because that live  unmarried he answer again in troth madam I like you the worse for the same  cause Zelim be the first of the ottoman that do shave his beard whereas his  predecessor wear it long one of he bashaw ask he why he alter the custom of  his predecessor he answer because you bashaw may not lead I by the breed as  you do they Aeneas Silvius that be pope Of secundus be wont to say that the  former pope do wise to set the lawyer awork to debate whether the donation of  Constantine the great to Sylvester of saint Peter patrimony be good or valid  in law or no the better to skip over the matter in fact whether there be ever  any such thing at all or no the lord bishop Andrews be ask at his first come  over of the archbishop of Spalo whether he be a protestant or no he answer  true I know not but I think he be a detestant that be of most of the opinion  of Rome it be say among some of the grave prelate of the counsel of Trent in  which the school divine bear the sway that the school man be like the  astronomer who to save the phenomenon frame to their conceit eccentrics and  epicycle and a wonder engine of orb though no such thing be so they to save  the practice of the church have devise a great number of strange position  Aeneas Sylvious will say that the Christian faith and law though it have not  be confirm by miracle yet be worthy to be receive for the honest thereof mr  Bacon will say that it be in his business as it be frequent in way that the  next way be common the foul and that if a man will go the fair way he must go  somewhat about mr Bettenham reader of Grays inn use to say that riches be like  muck when it lie upon a heap it give but a stench and it odour but when it be  spread upon the ground then it be cause of much fruit I Cicero marry his  daughter to Dolabella that hold Caesar paty Pompey have marry Julia that be  caesars daughter after when Caesar and Pompey tock arm one against the other  and Pompey have pass the sea and Caesar possess Italy Cicero stay smewhat long  in Italy but at last sail over to join with Pompey who when he come to he  Pompey say you be welcome but where leave you your son-in-law Cicero answer  with your father-in-law Vespasi and Titus his old son be both absent from Rome  when the empire be cast upon Vespasian Domitian his young son be at Rome who  take upon he the affair and be of a turbulent spirit make many change and  displace diverse officer and governor of province send they successor so when  Vespasian return to Rome and Domitian come into his presence Vespasian say to  he son I look when you will have send I a successor Nero love a beautiful  youth who he use vicious and call he wife there be a senator of Rome that say  secret to his friend it be pity Nero father have not such a wife Galba succeed  Nero and his age be despise there be much licence and confusion in Rome during  his empire whereupon a senator say in full senate it be better to live where  nothing be lawful than where all thing be lawful Augustus Caesar do write to  the celebrated historian who be over sensible of some ill word that have be  speak of they both let it not trouble thou my the celebrated historian if any  man speak ill of we for we have enough that no man can do ill unto we Chilon  say that king friend and favourite be like cast counter that sometime stand  for one sometime for ten sometime for a hundred Theodosius when he be press by  a suitor and deny he the suitor say why sir you promise it he answer I say it  but I do not promise it if it be unjust the Roman when they speak to the  people be wont to style they you Roman when commander in war speak to their  Army they style they my soldier there be a mutiny in Csars Army and somewhat  the soldier will have have but they will not declare themselves in it but only  demand a mission or discharge though with no intention it shall be grant but  know that Caesar have at that time great needs of their service think by that  mean to wrench he to their other desire whereupon with one cry they ask  mission Csar after silence make say I for my part you Roman this Title do  actual speak they to be dismiss which voice they have no soon hear but they  mutiny again and will not suffer he to go on with his speech until he have  call they by the name of his soldier and so with that one word he appease the  sedition Caesar will say of Sulla for that he do resign his dictatorship Sulla  be ignorant of letter he can not dictate Seneca say of Caesar that he do quick  show the sword but never leave if off Diogenes beg as diverse philosopher then  use do beg more of a prodigal man than of the rest which be present whereupon  one say to he see your baseness that when you find a liberal mind you will  take most of he no say Diogenes but I mean to beg of the rest again  Themistocles when a ambassador from a mean estate do speak great matter say to  he friend thy word will require a city Iphicrates the Athenian in a treaty  that he have with the Lacedaemonian for peace and that Questian be make about  security for observe the same peace say the Athenian will not accept of any  security except the Lacedaemonian do yield up unto they those thing whereby it  may be manifest that they can not hurt they though they will they will say of  the duke of Guise Henry that he be the great usurer in France for that he have  turn all his estate into obligation meaning that he have sell and oppignerated  all his patrimony to give large donative to other man Csar bogia after long  division between he and the lord of Romagna fall to accord with they in this  accord there be a article that he shall not call they at any time all together  in person the meaning be that know his dangerous nature if he mean they  treason he may have opportunity to oppress they altogether at once  nevertheless he use such fine be and fair carriage that he win their  confidence to meet altogether in counsel at Cinigalia where he murder they all  this Act when it be relate unto pop Alexander his father by a cardinal as a  thing happy but very perfidious the pope say it be they that break their  covenant first in come all together Titus Quinctius be in the counsel of the  Achaean what time they deliberate whether in the war then to follow between  the Roman and king Autiochus they shall confederate themselves with the Roman  or with king Antiochus in that counsel the Aetolian who incite the Achaean  against the Roman to disable their force give great word as if the late  victory the Roman have obtain against Philip king of Macedon have be chief by  the strength and force of the Aetoliaus themselves and on the other side the  ambassador of Antiochus do extol the force of his master sound what a  innumerable company he bring in his Army and give the nation strange name as  Elymeans Caducians and other after both their harangue Titus Quinstius when he  rise up say it be a easy matter to perceive what it be that have join  Antiochus and the Aetoliuns together that it appear to be by reciprocal lie of  each touch the other force Plato be amorous of a young gentleman who name be  star that study astronomy and go oft in the clear night to look upon the star  whereupon Plato wish himself heaven that he may look upon star with thousand  eye the Lacedaemonian be besiege by the Athenian in the port of peile which be  win and some slay and some take there be one say to one of they that be take  by way of scorn be they not brave man that lose their ives at the port of  peile he answer certain a Persian arrow be much to be et by if it can choose  out a brave man Clodius be acquit by corrupt jury that have palpable take  share of money before they give up their verdict they pray of the senate a  Guard that they may do their Conscienches for that Clodius be a very seditious  young nobleman whereupon all the world give he for condemn but acquit he be  a cognomen in the the next day see some of they that have acquit he together  say to they what make you ask of we a Guard be you afraid your money shall  have be take from you at the same judgement Cicer give in evidence upon oath  and when the jury which consist of have pass against his evidence one day in  the senate Cicero and Clodius be in altercation Clodius upbraid he and say the  jury give you no credit Cicero answer five and twenty give I credit but there  be two and thirty that give you no credit for they have their money beforehand  sir Henry Savil be ask by my lord of Essex his opinion touch poet he answer my  lord that he think they the best writer next to they that writ Prose Diogenes  have see that the kingdom of Macedon befre be contemptible and allot when he  die how he will be bury he answer with my face downward for within a while the  world will be turn upside down and then I shall e right Cato the elder be wont  to say that the Roman be like sheep a man be better to drive a flock of they  than one of they when Lycurgus be to reform and alter the state of Sparta in  consultation one advice that it shall be reduce to a absolute popular equality  but Lycurgus say to he sir begin it in your own house ion that be a atheist be  show in a port city in a temple of neptune many table of picture of such as  have in tempest make their vow to neptune and be save from shipwreck and be  ask how say you now do you not acknowledge the power of the God but say he I  but where be they paint that have be drown after their vow Cicero be at dinner  where there be a ancient lady that speak of her own year and say she be but  forty year old one that sit by Cicero round he in the ear and aid she talk of  forty year old but she be a far more out of question Cicero answer he again I  must believe her for I have hear her say so any time these ten year there be a  soldier that vaunt before Julius Csar of the hurt he have receive in his face  Julius Caesar know he to be but a coward tell he you be best take eed next  time you run away how you look back there be a suitor to Vespasian who to lie  his suit fair say it be for his brother whereas indeed it be for a piece of  money some about Vespasian tell the emperor to cross he that the party his  servant speak for be not his brother but that he do it upon a bargain  Vespasian send for the party interest and ask he whether his mean employ by he  be his brother or no he dare not tell untruth to the emperor and confess he be  not his brother whereupon the emperor say this do fetch I the money and you  shall have your suit dispatch which he do the courtier which be the mean  solicit Vespasian soon after about his suit why say Vespasian I give it last  day to a brother of I Vespasian ask of Apollonius what be who answer Nero can  tune the Marp well but in government he do always wind up the string too high  or let they down too low Dionysis the tyrant after he be depose and bring to  Corinth keep a school many use to visit he and among other one when he come in  open his mantle and shake his clothes think to give Dionysius a gentle scorn  because it be the manner to do so for they that come in to see he while he be  tyrant but Dionysius say to he I prithee do so rather when thou go out that we  may see thou steal nothing away Diogenes one terrible frosty morning come into  the market place and stand naked shake to show his tolerance many of the  people come about he pity he Plato pass by and know he do it to be see say to  the people as he go by if you pity he indeed let he alone to himself  Aristippus be earnest suitor to Diysis for some grant who will give no ear to  his suit Aristippus fall at his tet and then Dionysius grant it one that stand  by say afterward philosopher and be so base as to throw your self at the  tyrant foot to get a suit Aristippus answer the fault be not I but the fault  be in Dionysius that carry his ear in