Illum coloribus, illum cerâ, illum ære, &c. He did express his friends in colours, in wax, in brass, in ivory, marble, gold and silver, (as Pliny reports of a Citizen in Rome) and in a great Auditory not long since, recited a just volume of his life.

In another place, speaking of an Epigram which Martial had composed in praise of him, He gave me as much as he might, and would have done more if he could: though what can a man give more then honour, glory, and eternity? But that which he wrote peradventure, will not continue, yet he wrote it to continue.

’Tis all the recompence a poor scholler can make his well-deserving Patron, Mæcenas, friend, to mention him in his works, to dedicate a book to his name, to write his life, &c. as all our Poets, Orators, Historiographers have ever done, and the greatest revenge such men take of their adversaries, to persecute them with Satyrs, Invectives, &c. and ’tis both wayes of great moment, as Plato gives us to understand.

Paulus Jovius in the fourth book of the life and deeds of Pope Leo Decimus, his noble Patron, concludes in these words; Because I cannot honour him as other rich men do, with like endeavour, affection, and piety, I have undertaken to write his life; since my fortunes will not give me leave to make a more sumptuous monument, I will perform those rites to his sacred ashes, which a small perhaps, but a liberal wit can afford. But I rove.

Where this true love is wanting, there can be no firm peace, friendship from teeth outward, counterfeit, or for some by respects, so long dissembled, till they have satisfied their own ends, which upon every small occasion, breaks out into enmity, open war, defiance, heart-burnings, whispering, calumnies, contentions, and all manner of bitter melancholy discontents.

And those men which have no other object of their love, then greatness, wealth, authority, &c. are rather feared then beloved; nec amant quemquam, nec amantur ab ullo: and howsoever born with for a time, yet for their tyranny and oppression, griping, covetousness, currish hardness, folly, intemperance, imprudence, and such like vices, they are generally odious, abhorred of all, both God and men.

Non uxor salvum te vult, non filius, omnes Vicini oderunt, ——

wife and children, friends, neighbours, all the world forsakes them, would fain be rid of them, and are compelled many times to lay violent hands on them, or else Gods judgements overtake them: instead of Graces, come Furies.

So when fair Abigail, a woman of singular wisdome, was acceptable to David, Nabal was churlish and evil-conditioned; and therefore Mardochy was received, when Haman was executed, Haman the favorite, that had his seat above the other Princes, to whom all the Kings servants that stood in the gates, bowed their knees and reverenced.

Though they flourish many times, such Hypocrites, such temporizing Foxes, and blear the worlds eys by flattery, bribery, dissembling their natures, or other mens weakness, that cannot so soon apprehend their tricks, yet in the end they will be discerned, and precipitated in a moment: surely, saith David, thou hast set them in slippery places, Psa. 37. 5. as so many Sejani, they will come down to the Gemonian scales; and as Eusebius in Ammianus, that was in such authority, ad jubendum Imperatorem, be cast down headlong on a sudden.

Or put case they escape, and rest unmasked to their lives end, yet after their death, their memory stinks as a snuffe of a candle put out, and those that durst not so much as mutter against them in their lives, will prosecute their name with Satyrs, Libels, and bitter imprecations, they shall malè audire in all succeeding ages, and be odious to the worlds end.