<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- <pb n="embmne_pae1591_fac038"/> 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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