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Show UV DUU U Je SL Pe J BS) 38 Tantalus, hoc ili garrula linguadedit. Here Tantalus in waterfeckes for water,and doth mifle The fleeting fruit he catchethat : His long tongue brought him this. This punifhment,they fay, was inflitted vponhim, for thathe difcouered the fecrets of thegods: thatis, becaufe he taught wifedomeand vertueto mortalJ men : which ftorie Cornelius Gallus hath elegantly expreft in Verfe.Others expound this fable otherwife, winde, becaufe Thrace isfituate North from Athens, In his time alfo Terews rauithed Philomela, of whichthe fable was deuifed of her conuerfion into a Nightingale, For Terews hauing married herfilter Progne, conducting Philomela trom Cathens to {ee her and fay, That Taatalus, though heeexcelled in riches, yet being thirftic of more' abun- ro datice, was neuerfatisfied. OF whom Horace againit couetonfneffe: Tantalus 2labijs fitiensfugientia caprat Flumina ; quid rides? mutato nomine dete Fabulawarratur. ys tobee cut in peeces,and fet before Terews her husband, {0 dreftas it appearedto bee fomeotherordinary food : of which when hee hadeatenhisfill, thee caufed his head, handsand fect, to bet prefented vnto him : and then fled awaywithfuch {peedtowards Athens where her Father Pandion yet lined, as the Poets fained, that {hee was turned into a Swallow, The place where it was performed, Strato findes to bee Das L.9. Pauin Att. Thue. l2, lisin Phocts : andthe Tombeof Terens, Paufanias hath built neere the Rockes Mergl, inthe Teriitorie of Athens. By which,asalfo by the name Danlés, where thefe things, are fuppofedtohaue beene done ( whence alfo Philomela is called Danlias ales ) it ape The thirfting Tasta/ws doth catchat ftreames that from him fice. Whylaugheft thou ¢ the name but chang'd, the tale istold of thee. Others conceiue whereitis fained of Tantalus, that he gaue the Wecfar and _4mbrofia of the gods to vaine and vaworthy men, that hee was therefore by themin that fort puis nifhed. Of which Natalout of Pindarus: iimmortalitatem quodfuratus, pearesthatitistrue which Thucydides notes by way ofdigreffion in: his Peloponnefat Warre, Thatthis Terews was not Kingin, that which is nowcalled. Thracia, or in 0- Coetanets connints Neclar Ambrofiamyue dedit. dryfe, (asthe Poets call him-Odryfins) but that Phocts a Countrie in Greecenot fitte from Atticaya Citie whereofis called Dalia, was in Pandions tiraeinhabited by, Thratie ans: of whichthisTereus was King : whence Pandion, to haue amitie with his neighbours, made himhis fonnein law : asitis good tobelecue,faith Thucydides. that Pandiwe King of -4thens made thatalliance witha neighbour King, from whom hee mighthaue {uccour, rather than with any Terews,thar fhould haue held the Kinedome of Odr/4 which wasgreatly diftant from thence. The occafionthat the Poets chofe a Swallowso forProgseto beturned into, may {eemeto haue beene pattly becaufe, as Panfanias fayes; Becaufethat ftealing immortalitie, Hedid both Wear and Ambrofia gine Togueftsof his owneage,to make them live. Wherebyit was meant, that the fecrets of Diuinitie oughtnotto be imparted to the vnpure Vulgar. Foras the cleaneft meates in a.foule ftomacke, are therein corrupted,fo 3othe moft highand referued myfteries are often peruerted by an vneleane and. defiled minde. Daulidenec nidificant, nec habitant intotacircum regione Hirundines;..as if a Swallow,te membting the wrong thatwasthere doneto her, and herfitter, did: for cuer after hate T0 youit is given (faith Chrift in Marke ) to know the mysterie of the Kingdome of God, Marke 4.in: but untathemthat are without, allthings bee dene in parables. Soisit faid ofhim, that bee expoundedall things tots Difciples apart. And therefore doth Gregorie Nazianzene in- Marke 4.3 4. thatplace. 1 : Neerethistime Melampus< whois faid vo have wnderftood the voyces ofBirds and Homer.Odiff, Ii. ~ Pane ferre vponaplace of S.Paul: Quod [iPaulolicuiffet effuriea, quorum ipfi. coguitionem ca- Grez.imOrateik fy, ad illud progre[sio [uppeditauit, fortaffe de Deo, nobis aliquid amplites de reéta ran conflarct; If Paul might have vttered the things, the knowledge whereof the thirdhea- dpaet Beafts) flourithed, being alfoefteemedfor an excellent Phyfician, Hee reftoredto theit Pauf.l.x, lum tertium ¢& formerhealth the Daughters ofPratus King of the Argines, who(as the Poets pleale) Were mademadby Jao > and'thinking themfelues to be Kine, fied into the Woods, fer ring to bee conftrained to the Plough : for inthofeC dds wehereche oroundwas light, they did vfe oftento plough with Kine. pastemenmurscticgs r40 In the feuen andfortieth yeare of Ehud, Tros begahito raignein Dardania,and gavel his owne name; about cer, : ; ePrici of Apolloin the Hereicall Verle. whichtimePhewrawethe chief Delpos, devisuited Ofthe fame date was Tantalus: Kino of Lydia: whom Eu/ebius makes King ofPhrygi* and alfo of that part of which the neon {ed thefable that fome Poets haue people wereanciently Ateones. Of Tantalus wasdeul pbprép, zx tous thatdare not inioy hisriches. applied to the paffion of loue : and fometo the cou Eufebius callst his Tantalus the fonne ofZupétersby M° Nymph Pletas Diaconusand Didymus in Zexes, gine him another Mother. He.was laid © * bethe fonof Japiter: asfomewill hauc it - becaufehe + ie ufcendellts betokening wifedome and riches. It is faid that cecataite a ae hauing 50 ne more precious : he caufed his owne fonneto be flaine and dreft to che banquet? uens, anahis Going thither did bring unto him, peraduenture wee might knowfomewhat ~~" 40 more of God. Pythagoras, faith Reveliz, thoughtit not the part of a wife man, --4f/ino lyram exponere, aut myfleria, qae ita reciperet, vt Sus tubam, > fidem graculis, &, vnguente Starabaus: quare filentium indixit difcipulis, ne vulzo divinorum arcana patefacerent, qua meditando facilins, quam loquendo apprehepdantur, TofcanAfetoaharpe, ortolearne mysteries: which hee would handle as a Swine doth aT rumpet,or alay a Viall, or Scavabies and vacleane fies foueraioneoyntment, wherefore hee commanded Jfilence tohis difciples,. that they. fhould, not difclofe dinine myflcries tothe common fort, which are eafier learnt by meditation than by babbling Andtherefore did the Egyptians communicatetheir myfteries among their Priefts in certaine Hicroghphick letters, to the endthat their {ecrets might bee: hidden from the Vulgar: and thatthey might beftow the more time in the contemplation of 3° their couered moft deareft. And whereit'was deuifed;thathee of allelfethe ond eae ceWVar hadalwa ‘ dthinfi et: ane Offered to his lips, and yet all elecinaks) aisq creby,that though fuffered the torment of huage abounded (by ) ea oy he Wor »yet his minde beinghe otherwifeandto reafon higher of:his déefiresriches tranfpor "a; he enioyedno pleafureatall by thereft. OfwhDin. Oaid8 Ouath ~ meanings. But to proceed with the contemporaries of 4od, or Ehud, with himit is alfo faid, s"ig eerieSued of oneof the thoulders: whereby wasfignified that thofe mea of cheiconphiee! ‘Ider. knowledge,preferre nothing oncarthbefore it : nonotthe a the oria, Qucrit aquas in aquis, &poma figacia captat Nation ofthe Atolo/séin The/faii: but thefe are neighbours to the Ca/séopai, faith Plutarch in his Greeke queftions. The rape of Orithya the Daughterof Eridtheus, King of Athens, taken away by Borea of Thrace, is referred to the time of Ehud. The Poets afcribe this rape to the North. fifter, forcedherin herpaflage, and withall cut out hertongue, that fhee might notcom- 16 plaine; perfwading Progne his Wife, that ?hilomela died in the mid-way : all which her brother in lawes mercilefle behauiour towards her; Philowela exprefled by herneedle vpon cloth, and fentit to Pregue. In reuenge whereofProgne caufed her onelyfonne of the Eiiftory of HAP. 13 Sy ode Octaisone of themoft famous, where Hereu/es burnt himfelte. The Riuer of U¢cherog cwhichthe Poets defcribe to bee in Hell) rifeth out ofthe fame Hills. Thereis another lat T#tyx5 tiued whom Apolo lew, becaufe hee fought to force his Mother Latonza. EnL thathir thus, that Tityus wasthe fonne of Elara, the Daughter of Orchomenus; ra being beloued of Zapiter, to auoid Juno's reuenge, hchid E/ara.in the earth, fhe was deliuered of Titys : whofe Mother dying; and himfelfetherein nourifhrecalled the fonne of the earth. Paw/amins {pcaking ofthe graue of this at his body occupied the thirdpart ofa furlong. But Zi«ds hath a ature out of Homer : ' Cor- |