_i.e._ When I am dead let Earth be mingled with Fire. Whereupon the Emperour uttered these words, Ἐμοῦ ζῶντος, _i.e._ _Yea whilst I live_: there by one word, he express'd a cruel thought, which I think is the thing he meant; this is more cruel than the wish of _Caligula_, that the people of _Rome_ had but one Neck, that he might destroy them all at a blow. _Sect. 6. Pag. 95._ _I cannot believe the story of the_ Italian, etc.] It is reported that a certain _Italian_ having met with one that had highly provoked him, put a Ponyard to his breast, and unless he would blaspheme God, told him he would kill him, which the other doing to save his life, the _Italian_ presently kill'd him, to the intent he might be damned, having no time of Repentance. _Sect. 7. Pag. 97._ _I have no sins that want a Name._] The Author in _cap. ult. lib. ult. Pseudodox._ speaking of the Act of carnality exercised by the _Egyptian_ Pollinctors with the dead carcasses, saith we want a name for this, wherein neither _Petronius_ nor _Martial_ can relieve us; therefore I conceive the Author here means a venereal sin. _This was the Temper of that Leacher that carnal'd with a Statua._] The Latine Annotator upon this hath these words: _Romæ refertur de Hispano quodam_. But certainly the Author means the Statue of _Venus Gnidia_ made by _Praxiteles_, of which a certain young man became so enamoured, that _Pliny_ relates, _Ferunt amore captum cum delituisset nocta simulachro cohæsisse, ejusq; cupiditas esse indicem masculum_. _Lucian_ also has the story in his _Dialog_. [_Amores._] _And the constitution of_ Nero _in his Spintrian recreations._] The Author doth not mean the last _Nero_, but _Tiberius_ the Emperour, whose name was _Nero_ too; of whom _Sueton. Secessu vero Capreensi etiam sellariam excogitavit sedem arcanarum libidinum, in quam undique conquisti puellarum et exoletorum greges monstrosiq; concubitus repertores, quos spintrias apellabat, triplici serie connexi invicem incestarent se coram ipso, ut adspectu deficientes libidines excitaret._ Suet. _in Tib. 43_. _Sect. 8. Pag. 98._ _I have seen a Grammarian toure and plume himself over a single line in_ Horace, _and shew more pride_, etc.] _Movent mihi stomachum Grammatistæ quidam, qui cum duas tenuerint vocabularum origenes ita se ostentant, ita venditant, ita circumferunt jactabundi, ut præ ipsis pro nihilo habendos Philosophos arbitrentur._ Picus Mirand. _in Ep. ad Hermol. Barb. quæ extat lib. nono Epist. Politian_. _Garsio quisq; duas postquam scit jungere partes, Sic stat, sic loquitur, velut omnes noverit artes._ _Pag. 99._