<p><term id="embstma_1667_11201"/>HERE <persName>DAMOCLES</persName>, desirous for to taste,<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_11202"/>The princelie fare, of <persName>DIONYSIVS</persName> kinge,<lb/> In royall seate, was at the table plaste,<lb/> Where pages braue, all daintie cates did bringe:<lb/> His bed of goulde, with curious coueringes spred,<lb/> And cubbourdes ritche, with plate about his bed.<lb/> No where hee stay'de, but musique sweete did sounde;<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_11203"/>No where hee went, but hee did odors smell;<lb/> Nowe in his pompe, when all thinges did abounde,<lb/> Being ask'd, if that this life did please him well:<lb/> Hee aunswere made, it was the heauen alone,<lb/> And that to it, all other liues weare none.<lb/> Then, did the king comaunde a naked sworde,<lb/> Vnto the roofe, shoulde with a heare bee knit:<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_11204"/>That right shoulde hange, when hee was plac'd at bourde,<lb/> Aboue his head, where he did vse to sit:<lb/> Which when hee sawe, as one distracte with care,<lb/> Hee had no ioye in mirthe, nor daintie fare.<lb/> <pb n="embstma_1667_fac103"/> <term id="embstma_1667_11205"/>But did beseech, the Tyraunt for to giue,<lb/> His former state, and take his pompe againe:<lb/> By which, wee learne, that those who meanely liue,<lb/> Haue ofte more ioye, them those who rule and raigne:<lb/> But cheifelye, if like him they doe appeare,<lb/> Who night, and daye, of subiectes stoode in feare.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_11206"/> <term id="embstma_1667_11207"/> <gloss target="embstma_1667_11201" lang="la"><name type="author">Cicero</name> Tusc. 5 &amp;<lb/> <name type="author">Valer. Max.</name> &amp;<name type="author">Si-<lb/> don. Apollinaris</name><lb/> lib. 2. epist. 13.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_11202" lang="la"><name type="author">Horat.</name> Serm. 1.<lb/> Satyra. 1.<lb/> Qui fit <persName>Moecenas</persName>, vt<lb/> nemo, quam sibi fortem<lb/> Seu ratio dederit, seu<lb/> fors obiecerit, illa<lb/> Contentus viuat: laudet<lb/> diuersa sequentes?<lb/> O fortunati mercato-<lb/> res, grauis annis<lb/> Miles ait, &amp;c.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_11203" lang="la"><name type="author">Horat.</name> Carm. 3.<lb/> Ode 1.<lb/> Districtus ensis ceu su-<lb/> per impia<lb/> Ceruice pendet, non<lb/> Siculae dapes<lb/> Dulcem elaborabunt<lb/> saporem:<lb/> Non auium, cithará-<lb/> que cantus<lb/> Somnum reducent, &amp;c.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_11204" lang="la"><name type="author">Seneca</name> Oed.Act.3<lb/> Qui sceptra duro saeuus<lb/> imperio reget,<lb/> Timet timentes: metus<lb/> in auctorem redit.</gloss> <pb n="embstma_1667_fac103"/> <gloss target="embstma_1667_11205" lang="la"><name type="author">Claud.</name> 4. honor.<lb/> Qui terret, plusisteti-<lb/> met: sors ista tyrannis<lb/> Conuenit, inuideant cla-<lb/> ris fortésque trucident,<lb/> Muniti gladiis viuant,<lb/> septíque venenis<lb/> Ancipítes habeant ar-<lb/> ses, trepidiq. minentur.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_11206" lang="la">Periander apud <name type="author">Au-<lb/> sonium.</name><lb/> Multu terribilis caueto<lb/> multos.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_11207" lang="la"><name type="author">Aelianus</name> de tyran-<lb/> nis lib. 10. cap. 5. &amp;<lb/> lib. 6. cap. 13. De<lb/> Var. Hist.</gloss> </p>

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