And lumpishe lowte, with country shares shall salte Sea fome divide, And sowe his graine in Afrik Syrtes that wallow every tide, Before this worke shall die: which neither Joves thundering threate, Nor fierie flames shall waste, nor rustie, cankred age shall freate. Nolo Persium nolo Laelium. Your friend. I. Stoughton Student The vine is praisde, that daintie grape doth give Although the fruite more please then holsome be, Each fertil tree, is favord for the fruite, So is the hearb that gallant is to see. If this be trueth, he needes must merit well, That gives us groundes to guide our erring wayes, And trades us truely in the golden maze, Where vertue growes, and courtlike manner stayes. Galateo first did frame this golden booke In Ital land. From thence it went to Spaine. And after came into the coasts of Fraunce. And nowe at last in England doth remaine. The Authour sure deserveth more renoume, That so could spend his time for our behoofe, Then my poore wit or cunning can recite, As thou thy selfe by reading shalt finde proofe. And as the Authour merits passing well, So doth my friend deserve as greate a meede: That makes a worke so hard to understand, So easie that each simple may it reede. I say no more: for (lo) it were in vaine To praise good wine by hanging up a bushe, The best will give (I hope) my friende his due. As for the bad, I way them not a rushe. Thomas Browne of L. I. Gent. THE TREATISE OF MASTER JHON DELLA CASA Wherin under the person of an old unlearned man, instructing a youthe of his, he hath talke of the maners and fashions, it behoves a man to use or eschewe, in his familiar conversation: intituled Galateo, of fashions and maners.