TO THE
RIGHT HONORABLE GEORGE CLIFFORD,
EARLE OF CUMBERLAND,
ROBERT GREENE Wisheth increase of Honour and Vertue.
THE Rascians (right honorable) when by long gazing against the Sunne, they become halfe blinde, recover their sightes by looking on the blacke Loade-stone. Unicornes being glutted with brousing on roots of Licquoris, sharpen their stomacks with crushing bitter grasse.
Alexander vouchsafed as well to smile at the croked picture of Vulcan, as to wonder at the curious coun-terfeite of Venus. The minde is sometimes delighted as much with small trifles as with sumptuous triumphs; and as wel pleased with hearing of Pans homely fancies, as of Hercules renowmed laboures.
Syllie Baucis coulde not serve Jupiter in a silver plate, but in a woodden dish. Al that honour Escu-lapius, decke not his shrine with Jewels. Apollo gives Oracles as wel to the poor man for his mite, as to the rich man for his treasure. The stone Echites is not so much liked for the colour, as for vertue, and giftes are not to be measured by the worth, but by the will. Mison that unskilfull Painter of Greece, adventured