should enterteine in all kindnesse, and make her friend especially. Then _Larentia_ gat up betimes in the morning accordingly, and chanced to encounter a certeine rich man and a stale bacheler, who was now past his middle age, and his name was _Taruntius_; with him she became so familiarly acquainted, that so long as he lived, she had the command of his whole house; and at his death, was by his last will and testament instituted inheritresse of all that he had. This _Larentia_ likewise afterward departed this life, and left all her riches unto the citie of _Rome_: whereupon this honour abovesaid was done unto her. 36. _What is the cause, that they name one gate of the citie_ Fenestra, _which is as much to say, as window; neere unto which adjoineth the bed-chamber of Fortune_? IS it for that king _Servius_ a most fortunate prince, was thought & named to lie with Fortune, who was woont to come unto him by the window? or is this but a devised tale? But in trueth, after that king _Tarquinius Priscus_ was deceased, his wife _Tanaquillis_ being a wise ladie, and endued with a roiall mind, putting forth her head, and bending forward her bodie out of her chamber window, made a speech unto the people, perswading them to elect _Servius_ for their king. And this is the reason that afterwards the place reteined this name, _Fenestra_. 37. _What is the reason, that of all those things which be dedicated and consecrated to the gods, the custome is at_ Rome, _that onely the spoiles of enemies conquered in the warres, are neglected and suffered to run to decay in processe of time: neither is there any reverence done unto them, nor repaired be they at any time, when they wax olde_? WHETHER is it, because they (supposing their glory to fade and passe away together with these first spoiles) seeke evermore new meanes to winne some fresh marks and monuments of their vertue, and to leave them same behinde them. Or rather, for that seeing time doth waste and consume these signs and tokens of the enmity which they had with their enemies, it were an odious thing for them, and very invidious, if they should refresh and renew the remembrance thereof: for even those among the Greeks, who first erected their trophes or pillars of brasse and stone, were not commended for so doing. 38. _What is the reason that_ Quintus Metellus _the high priest, and reputed besides a wise man and a politike, forbad to observe auspices, or to take presages by flight of birds, after the moneth_ Sextilis, _now called August_. IS it for that, as we are woont to attend upon such observations about noone or in the beginning of the day, at the entrance also and toward the middle of the moneth: but we take heed and beware of the daies declination, as inauspicate and unmeet for such purposes; even so _Metellus_ supposed, that the time after eight moneths was (as it were) the evening of the yeere, and the latter end of it, declining now and wearing toward an end.