the love, the joy, and blandishments, each endeavoured to enter-shew I one another. Whereat the people raising a loud cry, and by their shouting and clapping of hands seeming to be much pleased; the Emperor willed the slave to be brought before him, as desirous to understand of him the cause of so strange and seldom-seen an accident: who related this new, and wonderful story to him. My master (said he) being Proconsul in Africa, forsomuch as he caused me every day to be most cruelly beaten, and held me in so rigorous bondage, I was constrained, as being weary of my life, to run away, and safely to escape from so eminent a person, who had so great authority in the country, I thought it best to get me into the desert, and most unfrequented wilderness of that region, with a full resolution, if I could not compass the means to sustain myself, to find one way or other, with violence to make myself away. One day, the sun about noontide being extremely hot, and the scorching heat thereof intolerable, I fortuned to come unto a wild unhaunted cave, hidden amongst crags, and almost inaccessible, and where I imagined no footing had ever been; therein I hid myself: I had not long been there, but in comes this lion, with one of his paws sore hurt, and bloody-gored, wailing for the smart, groaning for the pain he felt; at whose arrival, I was much dismayed, but he seeing me lie close-cowring in a corner of his den, gently made his approaches unto me, holding forth his gored paw toward me, and seemed with shewing the same humbly to sue, and suppliantly to beg for help at my hands. 1, moved with ruth, taking it into my hand pulled out a great splint, which was gotten into it, and shaking off all fear, first I wrung and crushed his sore, and caused the filth and matter, which therein was gathered, to come forth; then, as gently as for my heart I could, 1 cleansed, wiped, and dried the same. He feeling some ease in his grief, and his pain to cease, still holding his foot between my hands, began to sleep and 1 Mutually shew. take some rest. Thence forward he and I lived together, the full space of three years in his den, with such meat as he shifted for: For, what beasts he killed, or whatsoever prey he took, he ever brought home the better part, and shared it with me, which for want of fire, I roasted in the sun, and therewith nourished my self all that while. But at last wearied with this kind of brutish life, the Lion being one day gone to purchase his wonted prey, I left the place, hoping to mend my fortunes, and having wandered up and down three days, I was at last taken by certain soldiers which from Africa brought me into this City to my Master again, who immediately condemned me to death, and to be devoured by wild beasts. And as I now perceive, the same Lion was also shortly after taken, who as you see hath now requited me of the good turn I did him, and the health which by my means he recovered. Behold here the history, Androdus reported unto the Emperor, which after he caused to be declared unto all the people, at whose general request he was forthwith set at liberty, and quit of his punishment, and by the common consent of all, had the lion bestowed upon him. Appion says further that Androdus was daily seen to lead the lion up and down the streets of Rome, tied only with a little twine, and walking from tavern to tavern, received such money as was given him, who would gently suffer himself to be handled, touched, decked, and strowed with flowers, all over and over, many saying when they met him: yonder is the Lion that is the man's host and yonder is the man that is the Lion's physician. We often mourn and weep for the loss of those beasts we love, so do they many times for the loss of us.-Montaigne's Essays, translated. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY A STAG HUNT THEN went they together abroad, the good Kalender entertaining them with pleasant discoursing-how well he loved the sport of hunting when he was a young man, how much in the comparison thereof he disdained all chamber delights, that the sun (how great a journey soever he had to make) could never prevent him with earliness, nor the moon (with her sober countenance) dissuade him from watching till midnight for the deer's feeding. O, said he, you will never live to my age, without you keep yourselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness; too much thinking doth consume the spirits; and oft it falls out that while one thinks too much of his doing, he leaves to do the effect of his thinking. Then spared he not to remember how much Arcadia was changed since his youth; activity and good fellowship being nothing in the price it was then held in; but according to the nature of the old-growing world still worse and worse. Then would he tell them stories of such gallants as he had known; and so with pleasant company beguiled the time's haste, and shortened the way's length, till they came to the side of the wood, where the hounds were in couples, staying their coming, but with a whining accent craving liberty; many of them in colour and marks so resembling that it shewed they were of one kind. The huntsmen handsomely attired in their green liveries, as though they were children of Summer, with staves in their hands to beat the guiltless earth, when the hounds were at a fault; and with horns about their necks to sound an alarum upon a silly fugitive: the hounds were straight uncoupled, and ere long the Stag thought it better to trust the nimbleness of his feet than to the slender fortification of his lodging; but even his feet betrayed him; for, howsoever they went, they themselves uttered themselves to the scent of their enemies; who, one taking it of another and sometimes believing the wind's advertisement, sometimes the view of their faithful counsellors the huntsmen, with open mouths then denounced war, when the war was already begun. Their cry being composed of so well sorted mouths that any man would perceive therein some kind of proportion, but the skilful wood men did find a music. Then delight and variety of opinion drew the horsemen sundry ways, yet cheering their hounds with voice and horn, kept still as it were together. The wood seemed to conspire with them against his own citizens, dispersing their noise through all his quarters; and even the nymph Echo left to bewail the loss of Narcissus, and became a hunter. But the Stag was in the end so hotly pursued, that (leaving his flight) he was driven to make courage of despair; and so turning his head, made the hounds with change of speech to testify that he was at bay as if from hot pursuit of their enemy, they were suddenly come to a parley.-Arcadia. RICHARD HOOKER ON LAW OF Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world; all things in heaven and earth do her homage; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power: both Angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.-Ecclesiastical Polity. ON REASON To our purpose it is sufficient that whosoever doth serve, honour, and obey God, whosoever believeth in him, that man would no more do this than innocents and infants do, but for the light of natural reason that shineth in him, and maketh him apt to apprehend those things of God, which being by grace discovered, are effectual to persuade reasonable minds, and none other, that honour, obedience, and credit belong aright unto God. No man cometh unto God to offer him sacrifice, to pour out supplications and prayers before him, or to do him any service, which doth not first believe him both to be, and to be a rewarder of them who in such sort seek unto him. Let men be taught this either by revelation from heaven, or by instruction upon earth; by labour, study, and meditation, or by the only secret inspiration of the Holy Ghost; whatsoever the mean be they know it by, if the knowledge thereof were possible without discourse of natural reason, why should none be found capable thereof, but only men: nor men till such time as they come unto ripe and full ability to work by reasonable understanding? The whole drift of the Scripture of God, what is it but only to teach Theology? Theology, what is it but the science of things divine? What science can be attained unto without the help of natural discourses and reason? 'Judge ye of that which I speak,' saith the Apostle. vain it were to speak anything of God, but that by reason men are able somewhat to judge of that they hear, and by discourse to discern how consonant it is to truth. Scripture, indeed, teacheth things above nature, things which our reason by itself would not reach unto. Yet those also, we believe, knowing by reason that the Scripture is the word of God.-Ecclesiastical Polity. In |