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P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding), Book 14, line 154 (search)
id cry. A shuddring horror perced mee to see his smudged face, And cruell handes, and in his frunt the fowle round eyelesse place, And monstrous members, and his beard beslowbered with the blood Of man. Before myne eyes then death the smallest sorrow stood. I loked every minute to bee seased in his pawe. I looked ever when he should have cramd mee in his mawe. And in my mynd I of that tyme mee thought the image sawe When having dingd a doozen of our fellowes to the ground And lying lyke a Lyon feerce or hunger sterved hownd Uppon them, very eagerly he downe his greedy gut Theyr bowwels and theyr limbes yit more than half alive did put, And with theyr flesh toogither crasht the bones and maree whyght. I trembling like an aspen leaf stood sad and bloodlesse quyght. And in beholding how he fed and belked up againe His bloody vittells at his mouth, and uttred out amayne The clottred gobbets mixt with wyne, I thus surmysde: Like lot Hangs over my head now, and I must also go to pot.
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding), Book 14, line 223 (search)
d there, remembring eft the cace Of cruell king Antiphates, and of that hellish wyght The round eyed gyant Polypheme, wee had so small delyght To visit uncowth places, that wee sayd wee would not go. Then cast we lotts. The lot fell out uppon myself as tho, And Polyte, and Eurylocus, and on Elpenor who Delyghted too too much in wyne, and eyghteene other mo. All wee did go to Circes houses. As soone as wee came thither, And in the portall of the Hall had set our feete toogither, A thousand Lyons, wolves and beares did put us in a feare By meeting us. But none of them was to bee feared there. For none of them could doo us harme: but with a gentle looke And following us with fawning feete theyr wanton tayles they shooke. Anon did Damzells welcome us and led us through the hall (The which was made of marble stone, floore, arches, roof, and wall) To Circe. Shee sate underneathe a traverse in a chayre Aloft ryght rich and stately, in a chamber large and fayre. Shee ware a goodl
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding), Book 14, line 527 (search)
d water, stoode In feare of fyre. The flame had sindgd the pitch, the wax, and wood, And other things that nourish fyre, and ronning up the maste Caught hold uppon the sayles, and all the takling gan to waste, The Rowers seates did also smoke: when calling to her mynd That theis same shippes were pynetrees erst and shaken with the wynd On Ida mount, the moother of the Goddes, dame Cybel, filld The ayre with sound of belles, and noyse of shalmes. And as shee hilld The reynes that rulde the Lyons tame which drew her charyot, shee Sayd thus: O Turnus, all in vayne theis wicked hands of thee Doo cast this fyre. For by myself dispoynted it shall bee. I wilnot let the wasting fyre consume theis shippes which are A parcell of my forest Ide of which I am most chare. It thundred as the Goddesse spake, and with the thunder came A storme of rayne and skipping hayle, and soodeyne with the same The sonnes of Astrey meeting feerce and feyghting verry sore, Did trouble bothe the sea and ayr
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding), Book 15, line 60 (search)
ll Both soft and sweete. Yee may have milk, and honny which dooth smell Of flowres of tyme. The lavish earth dooth yeeld you plentiously Most gentle foode, and riches to content bothe mynd and eye. There needes no slaughter nor no blood to get your living by. The beastes do breake theyr fast with flesh: and yit not all beastes neyther. For horses, sheepe, and Rotherbeastes to live by grasse had lever. The nature of the beast that dooth delyght in bloody foode, Is cruell and unmercifull. As Lyons feerce of moode, Armenian Tigers, Beares, and Woolves. Oh, what a wickednesse It is to cram the mawe with mawe, and frank up flesh with flesh, And for one living thing to live by killing of another: As whoo should say, that of so great abundance which our moother The earth dooth yeeld most bountuously, none other myght delyght Thy cruell teethe to chawe uppon, than grisly woundes that myght Expresse the Cyclops guyse? or else as if thou could not stawnche The hunger of thy greedye gut an
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Caligula (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 17 (search)
He held the consulship four times: the first,A. U. C. 790. from the calends [the first] of July for two months; the second,A.U.C. 791 from the calends of January for thirty days; the third,A.U.C. 793 until the ides [the 13th] of January; and the fourth,A.U.C. 794 until the seventh of the same ides [7th January]. Of these, the two last he held successively. The third he assumed by his sole authority at Lyons; not, as some are of opinion, from arrogance or neglect of rules; but because, at that distance, it was impossible for him to know that his colleague had died a little before the beginning of the new year. He twice distributed to the people a bounty of three hundred sesterces a man, and as often gave a splendid feast to the senate and the equestrian order, with their wives and children. In the latter, he presented to the men forensic garments, and to the women and children purple scarfs. To make a perpetual addition to the public joy for ever, he added to the SaturnaliaThe Saturna
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Caligula (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 20 (search)
He likewise exhibited public diversions in Sicily, Grecian games at Syracuse, and Attic plays at Lyons in Gaul: besides a contest for pre-eminence in the Grecian and Roman eloquence; in which we are told that such as were baffled bestowed rewards upon the best performers, and were obliged to compose speeches in their praise: but that those who performed the worst were forced to blot out what they had written with a sponge or their tongue, unless they preferred to be beaten with a rod, or plunged over head and ears into the nearest river.
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Claudius (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 2 (search)
Claudius was born at Lyons, in the consulship of Julius Antonius and Fabius Africanus, upon the first of August,A.U.C. 744 the very day upon which an altar was first dedicated there to Augustus. He was named Tiberius Claudius Drusus, but soon afterwards, upon the adoption of his elder brother into the Julian family, he assumed the cognomen of Germanicus. He was left an infant by his father, and during almost the whole of his minority, and for some time after he attained the age of manhood, was afflicted with a variety of obstinate disorders, insomuch that his mind and body being greatly impaired, he was, even after his arrival at years of maturity, never thought sufficiently qualified for any public or private employment. He was, therefore, during a long time, and even after the expiration of his minority, under the direction of a pedagogue, who, he complains in a certain memoir, " was a barbarous wretch, and formerly superintendent of the mule-drivers, who was selected for his gover
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, Ordinances, instructions, and advertisements of and for the direction of the intended voyage for Cathay, com piled, made, and delivered by the right worshipfull M. Sebastian Cabota Esquier, governour of the mysterie and companie of the Marchants adventurers for the discoverie of Regions, Dominions, Islands and places unknowen, the 9. day of May, in the yere of our Lord God 1553. and in the 7. yeere of the reigne of our most dread soveraigne Lord Edward the 6. by the grace of God, king of England, Fraunce and Ireland , defender of the faith, and of the Church of England and Ireland , in earth supreame head. (search)
ruments, as may allure them to harkening, to fantasie, or desire to see, and heare your instruments and voyces, but keepe you out of danger, and shewe to them no poynt or signe of rigour and hostilitie. 29 Item if you shall be invited into any Lords or Rulers house, to dinner, or other parliance, goe in such order of strength, that you may be stronger then they, and be warie of woods and ambushes, and that your weapons be not out of your possessions. 30 Item if you shall see them weare Lyons or Beares skinnes, having long bowes, and arrowes, be not afraid of that sight: for such be worne oftentimes more to feare strangers, then for any other cause. 31 Item there are people that can swimme in the sea, havens, & rivers, naked, having bowes and shafts, coveting to draw nigh your ships, which if they shal finde not wel watched, or warded, they wil assault, desirous of the bodies of men, which they covet for meate: if you resist them, they dive, and so will flee, and therefore dil
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, narrative 35 (search)
ruments, as may allure them to harkening, to fantasie, or desire to see, and heare your instruments and voyces, but keepe you out of danger, and shewe to them no poynt or signe of rigour and hostilitie. 29 Item if you shall be invited into any Lords or Rulers house, to dinner, or other parliance, goe in such order of strength, that you may be stronger then they, and be warie of woods and ambushes, and that your weapons be not out of your possessions. 30 Item if you shall see them weare Lyons or Beares skinnes, having long bowes, and arrowes, be not afraid of that sight: for such be worne oftentimes more to feare strangers, then for any other cause. 31 Item there are people that can swimme in the sea, havens, & rivers, naked, having bowes and shafts, coveting to draw nigh your ships, which if they shal finde not wel watched, or warded, they wil assault, desirous of the bodies of men, which they covet for meate: if you resist them, they dive, and so will flee, and therefore dil
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, The woorthy enterprise of John Foxe an Englishman in delivering 266. Christians out of the captivitie of the Turkes at Alexandria, the 3. of Januarie 1577. (search)
ng so upon the mouth of the roade) might seeme impossible to be a way for them. So was the red sea impossible for the Israelites to passe through, the hils and rockes lay so on the one side, and their enemies compassed them on the other. So was it impossible, that the wals of Jericho should fall downe, being neither undermined, nor yet rammed at with engines, nor yet any mans wisedome, pollicie, or helpe set or put thereunto. Such impossibilities can our God make possible. He that helde the Lyons jawes from renting Daniel asunder, yea, or yet from once touching him to his hurt: can not he hold the roring canons of this hellish force? He that kept the fiers rage in the hot burning Oven, from the three children, that praised his name, can not he keepe the fiers flaming blastes from among his elect? Now is the roade fraught with lustie souldiers, laborers, and mariners, who are faine to stand to their tackling, in setting to every man his hand, some to the carying in of victuals, som
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