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compound and agree with Layes a common ſtrumpet, as you heard before of her, and yet hee had but one nights lodging with her. And the other was ſo farre in loue with another bird of the ſame cage, the which hee could not obtaine, nor yet could he conquer her affection, vntill hee had quite pined himſelfe away, ſo that in ſhort time he had waſted himſelfe to nothing.
Plato, for all his great Philoſophy and knowledge, yet he kept company with Archenaſſe when ſhe was old, and forſaken of all her Louers: for ſhe had giuen her ſelfe to a number in her youth, yet neuertheleſſe Plato ſo loued her, that he wrote many verſes incommendation of her.
Alſo Socrates for his grauity and wiſedome is renowned throughout all the world, yet hee moſt dearely loued Alphaſy, an old and ouer-worne Strumpet.
Loue ſtayed King Antiochus in Calcidea a whole winter, for one maide that hee fancied there, to his great hinderance.
Loue ſtayed King Hanniball in Capua a long ſeaſon, laying all other his neceſſary affaires aſide, the which was no ſmall hinderance to him; for in the meane while his enemies inuaded a great part of his Countrey.
Likewiſe Iulius Cæſar, he continued in Alexandria, a long ſeaſon, not for the loue of one, but he luſted after many, to his great infamy any diſgrace.
That great Captaine Holofernes, whoſe fight made many thouſands to quake, yet he loſt his life and was ſlaine by a woman.
Was not Herods loue ſo great to a woman, that he cauſed, Iohn Baptiſt to looſe his head for hex ſake?
Wherefore to auoide the ſight, many times is the beſt
