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all. Confide not in thy Children. Govern thy Uhofe thou maintaineji. Blame not the Abfent. Tongue. Do well to thy Jelf. Be affable. An- iReverence thy Elders. Teach ^ thofe that are fwer feafonably. Labour with Equity. Do that Uounger. Confide not inWealtf. Stand in awe whereof thou /halt not repent. When thou hafi \of thy felf Begin no Injury. Crown thy An^ finned be penitent. Confine thy Eye. Counjel pro-\ceflors, Die for thy Country. Oppugne not
fitably. rerfebi quickly. Drejerve amity. Be grateful. ObJ'erve Concord. Declare no Secret, fear what is more Powerful. Purfue what is profitable. Wait for Opportunity. Dijfolve Enmi¬ ties. ExpeH Age. Boaji not of Strength. Ufe to f peak well. Ely Hatred. Pojfefs Wealth fufily.
Life. Deride not the Dead. Condole with the Unhappy. Gratifie without Damage. Be not troubled upon every occafion. Let thy Children be by a Eree-Woman. Promife none. Wrong 'not the Dead. Suffer as Mortal. Trufl not Eortune. Be in Childhood modefi., in Touth tem-
Eorfake not Glory. Hate Malice. Be not weary ■ perate.^ in Manhood jufi^ in Old Age prudent, of Learning. Hazard thy Jelf prudently. What [Die untroubled, thou joyeji in.^ quit not. Admire Oracles. Love
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Part,
AUSONII LUDUS
Septem Sapientum.
the prologue
TH E feven wife men/ that name times paft applied
To them, nor hath Pofterity deny’d) Themfelves this day unto your view prelent.
_ Why doftthou blulh Gown’d RoTKan ^ dlicoutQut That fuch grave Men Ihould on the Stage be brought!
Is’t lhame to Cs? ’Twas none to Athens thought: Whofe Council-Chamber was their Theatre. True j here for bulinels feveral places are Aflign’d, the Cirque lor meetings. Courts to take Enrolments, Forums in which Pleas to make ; Butin old Athens^ and all Greece was known No other place for Bufinefs but this one.
^ ./ viz. the Theatre.
Which latter Luxury in ^ome did raile,
The Edile heretofore did build for Plays A Scaffold-Stage, no work of Carved Stone .
Gallim 2LS\d J^rena.^ ’tis well known.
But after, when-great Men not Iparing Coft, Thought it thehigheft Glory they could boaft, To build for Plays a Scene more eminent,
The Theatre grew to this vaft extent ^
That Tompey, Balbus, C^far did enlarge-, vymg which Ihould exceed for Hate and charge.
But to what end all this? we came not here To tell you who firft built the Theatre,
Forum, or City Gates, but f ulher in Grave Sages, who by Gods approv'd have been. Such as in pleafing and inllruaive Verle,
Their own Judicious Sentences rehearfe.
Known to the Learned, and perhaps to you .*
But if your Memories cannot well renew Things Ipoke fo long lince j the Comedian fhall Who better than I knows them, tell you all.
Enter Solon.
Enter Comedian.
AThenian »;7,Fame fings^wrote Delphi
whofe fenfe ^nowthy felf is- but this to Spartan Chiton muft afii«n.
Some^queftion Chiton^ whether this be thine IStit, Theclofe ’
regard'. Exit muft fuppofe TE^SolonxEi^ to Lydian Crcejus fpaL.
From hefsbian Tittacust\ds, Motto take Tlytcnt KgiefP : that’s Know Time: But he’
By here means opportunity oi ^ Bias did proceed
from theej that is, Mojt Men are ill. Take heed X™ "ot miftake him / for by ill Men hem
cries,
this, for thole who gain by it to tell welf ^Exi^. comes’ fare
LO . Solon in his Greeks drefs treads theStage To whom(as of the (even the greateftSage) ^ame gave the prize of Wifdom from the reft . But tame is nof of Cenfure the ftria Teft. *
Nor firft nor laft I take my felf to be for their’s no order in Equality.
Prophet fport with him ^Ibem^^’ Wife-men might
Saying if on a Globe their names he writ. None firft or loweft he Ihould find in it.
rom midft of that learn’d Round come I that 10 ’
What once Ifpaketo 0-a>/«r, All here now ^i^ght take as Ipoken to themlelves ’tis this •
which is.
To fa'v\h7r forb^r
Fnr Zl or thofe happy ate '
for All till then are in a doubtful ftate.
The proof of this we’ll in few words relate.
the King orTyrantrchoofeyou whidi) thought, and ftrangely rich ; Who to his Gods did Gold-wall’d Temples build- WiKs me oer, I to his Summons yield.
His Royal Summons went to Lydia.,
Willing his Subjeds by our means m^ght find Their King improv’d, and better’d in his Mind.
^ thought the happieft MarA I faid Telana, the Athenian,
Who bs Life nobly for his Country gave ?
He piftes at it, will another have.
I told him then who the Bounds Ne er paft in all his Life of his own Grounds jSmiling he fays. What think you then of Me Efteemd the happieft in the whole World ^ We
HeQ^k^fe¥«“W ™lymake that known.
•' ^ tviliing to be gone,
Kifs his hand, and fo leavehim : For fomeends
intends - ’ -
And all things ready, does in Perfon go. ’ ■
How Ipeeds ? he’s vanilh’d, Ptifoner to his Foe.
(For by the Viflot he was doom’d to death )
Upon the Funeral Pile rounded with Flames ndlmoak, he thus with aloud vole* eitdaims
c 7 t n V . “ diuuu vodotr cxc
U bo/on ! Solon ! now I plainly fee
Th art a tme Prophet ! Thrice thus namfrtg me i Mov d with which words, qrus, (th^^Conque’
Commands the Fire be quencht , virhich by a * ftioWer .
Of Rain then falling, happily was laid. Thence to the King, by a choice Guard convey’d And queftion’d who that Solon was ? and why He called fb on his name ? He, for rbply *
In order all declares : Pity at this ^ ^ ’
The Heart of Cyrus moves ^ and Crarfus is Receiv d to Grace, who in a Princely Port
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A^^f. Ludiu feftem Sapientum.
liv'd after honour’d in the FerJumConn. iMake your own application, and conceive- ’ ■ - * • ” ’ ’ • The Damage, Men by this foie Aft receive.
Nor tins our good Intention take amifs, You'rhatlike, Clap, you that diilike i^,fiis.
Both Kings approv’d and prais’d me, but what I Said then to one, let each Man here apply As fpoket*himielf,’twas lor that end i came, f arewel ; your liking let your Hands proclaim
Ex//
Enter Chilon.
My Hips with litting,Eyes with feeing ake, Expefting when Solon an end would make- How little and how long your Atticks prate ! Scarce in three hundred lines one word of weight,
Or a grave Sentence, how he loola on me
At going- off ? - Sfartan Chilon fee ! '
.vVho with Laconian Brevity commends *I'o you t^e Knowledge of your kind Friends! Fi/iiSi oicujntf' carv’d in a Delphos Fane.
’Tisa hard work, but recompenc’d with gain- Try your- pwn ftrength examine what ’tis you Have done already, vyhat you ought to do.
•All Duties of our Life, as Modelty,
Honour and Conftancy included be In this, and glory , which we yet defpife. Farewel,, your claps I not refpea; nor prize.
[Exit.
Cleobulus.
I-l'leobulu^^ though my Native Seat Bef, fmall Ifle, am • Author ^ of a great And glorious Sentence ; v iet^ov,
A myankbeft : You Sfrs' that fit upon The fourteen middle Benches next unto lKOrc})efira,hQ^im.Y judge If this be true. Your Nodd (hews your affent; We thank you but We fliall proceed in order .* Was it npt One Afer (-who a. Man of . your own Clime isj That laid once in this place, Ut ne qujdNimis ? And hither does our MeAS S.}av aim.
The Dorick and the Latin mean the fame. InTpeaking, being filent, or in Sleep,
In good Turns, - or in Bad, a mean ftili keep, . In ftudy!, dr whatever you intend.
I’ve faid,- and that I mean, I keep here end.
[Exit.
Enter TIuIqs.
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’M Thales, who maintain (as Pindar fings^ _ 'Water, to be the bell: and firft of of things. To.whomiy. Fheebus Mandate, Eijhets brought AlgoldenTripod, which they fijhing caught.
By him as Trefent to the wileft meant.
Whigh I .refus’d, and unto others fent In Knowledge my Superiours as I thought. From duetto th'other of the Sages brought,
By |hem ^ain return’d, to me it came,
Who iio Apollo coniQCXdXQ the fame..
For fince to feek the Wifeft, he enjoin’d,
I judge no Man but God by that defign’d. Now on the Stage ('as thofe before; , I aome T’afiert the' Truth of my own Axiom. Perli^p^byfpme’tmay beoffenfive thought ; But'notiry thole by fad Experience taught, ’EyfJtc if7», lay we,
te Sur^/j’,r and be Jure a loj'er be. ...
thou/ifiiAl Liftances I could produce .jvr. . To protj^&pentance is thepnly ufe ; . ' f o oi That fa’n'ke made of it, but that rye here Example^ .hyi-th?’^' Names to cite, forbear.-
Enter Bias.
I Am Pridinean Bias, who once taught
oi ^rx«sc/ y^Kot, That moji Alen are naught.
I wilh’t had been unlpoke^ for Truth gains Hate. But by bad Men, I mean illiterate, . -
And thole who barbaroully all Laws confound! Religion, Juftice^ for within this' Round I fee none but are good : believe ,all thole Whom I proclaim for bad among, your Foes : Yet there is none fo partially apply’d To Vice, but with the good will fide.
Whether he truly be fudi, or would fain j Of a good Man the Reputation gain :; ..f -.>■ The hated name of an ill Man all fhun. - ■ ■ : / r Then (nwfi good Men) your praife, and I ha^ done. ■!'
Enter Pittacus.
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I’M Pittacus, who once this Maxim penn’d,’ TiyyoffM ns-i&v. That’s, Time apprehend. But. by Time we meant Time in Seafon, as ;• In tempore veni is your RomanPhiSife. ; , And your own Comick Poet Terence, he. Chief of all things makes Opportunity,- Where Promo comes unto Antiphila. . >
I’th*nickof Time-, confider what I fay,
And mark how great an inconvenience- - ■ p Moft fuffer through this Kant of Providence , But now ’tis more than time we fhould be gone; / , . ' ^ “
Farewell, and give your Approbation.
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Exit,
Enter Periander.
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NO W on the Stage fee Periander move ! He who once faid , and what he laid' will prove,
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Since him a perfea Agent we may call,
Who firft confiders what he undergoes ; - i ' For we fhould ftill forecaft,as.T Th’event of Bufinefs, whether good or bad^-ij-l E’r w’undertake it : where may beft be,'had ■= ^ Conveniency for Planting, where to Build, When to wage. War, and- when to pitch a.
Field ; -- .
Nor inconfiderately take in, hand ^
Or great, or Imall Things, for that makes a
, ftand - , f.
In the free progrefs of all new defigns ;
Like Confultation ; hence we fee it clear, ^ Who ufe'k -not, hy chan^ , not Counfel-, 1 fleer, ' ' ' - H- ' - . - -
But I retire,, whilft you , vv-ith- better Fate , . . ■ : Imploy your Thoughts how to uphold > your, ,
State.
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