Axiochus.
Nature euer waiting as a greedy vſurer, taketh paynes aforehand, ſnatching and pulling from this man his ſight, from that his hearing, from ſom both two ſenſes. And if any fortune lōger then commonly is ſeene in this life to linger, Nature weakening hir powres, dooth looſe, lame, and bow downe all partes of his body, but they whoſe bodies in old age long flouriſheth in minde, as the ſaying is, become twiſe children. And therfore the gods, knowing what is moſt expedient for men, thoſe whome they moſt deerely loue, do ſooneſt take out of this vale of wretchednes. And for this cauſe Agamedes and Trophonius, when they had built a Temple to Pythius Apollo, deſiring of the god therefore to grant them the beſt rewarde that might be giuen, ſoone after when they layde them downe to reſt, neuer roſe againe.
Likewiſe Cleobis & Biton, the ſonnes of the Argine Nunne, whē their mother had made hir praier to Iuno, that to her ſonnes for their great godlines might be giuen ſome ſinguler gift (for that they when her yoake of Oxen were not readily to bee found at the time of ſacrifice, themſelues being yoaked in the charriot, drew their mother to the Temple) vpon this their mothers requeſt, the two ſonnes the next morning were found dead. It were too long in this place to reherſe the teſtimonies of Poets which in their diuine poeſies do diuinely bewaile and
