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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>Augustus Caesar, in the beginning of his
        raigne vsed the Monkey or Marmset, as a sin-
        gular secrete signe, signifying thereby, that
        the serious matters of a Prince, with his
        waightie affaires are not to be committed to
        the common people. Of which sort especial-
        ly are all holy and diuine things, left thorow
        the want of authoritie, they become base and
        contemptible. The same reason in a manner
        moued the Egyptians to picture in their tem-
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        ples the Marmset or Monkey. Augustus Caesar
        (as Plinie witnesseth) hauing found two such
        Monkeyes or Marmsets amongst his mothers
        rings made by such wonderful art, and so like,
        that the one could by no means be discerned
        from the other: with the one wherof, as with a
        seale his actes and edicts in time of war were
        sealed, respect being had as wel of the time as
        of the causes. Dion reporteth that Augustus
        Caesar being occupied in the wars of Atty, gaue
        lisence to Agrippa, &amp; Mecenas chiefe rulers
        of the Romaine affaires to seale writings before
        they were presented to the Senate: &amp; therfore
        they receiued a seale of Augustus, gearing the
        image of the Monkey or Marmset. Which
        thing notwithstanding was not done without
        derision, as Plinie recordeth, for the enigmes
        which the Monkey pretended, a prouerbe or
        by-word rising thereof, to wit, it is no maruell
        if the Monkey vtter hard and obscure things.
        Therefore Augustus to avoid these iests and
        flouts, abstained altogither from his suspected
        &amp; vniust maner of sealing, changing his seale
        into the image of Alexander the great. At the
        last, he imprinted it [ w ] his own natural picture
        or image, which afterward Tiberius, Caligula,
        Claudius Caesar, Domicianus, &amp; other Empe-
        rors succeeding in the same order, did vse.
       </p>
      
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