i. Story of the Induction.
(i.) VANITY OF THE WORLD AS REPRESENTED IN
STATE.1
[From Goularfs " Admirable and Memorable Hisfojies," 1607, p. 5S7-9-]
"DHILIP called the good Duke of Bourgondy, in -^ the memory of our ancestors, being at Bruxells with his Court and walking one night after supper through the streets, accompanied with some of his fauorits: he found lying vpon the stones a certaine Artisan that was very dronke, and that slept soundly. It pleased the Prince in this Artisan to make triall of the vanity of our life, whereof he had before discoursed with his familiar friends. Hee therfore caused this sleeper to be taken vp and carried into his Pallace : hee commands him to bee layed in one of the richest beds, a riche Night-cap to bee giuen him, his foule shirt to bee taken off, and to have an other put on him of fine Holland : when as this Dronkard had disgested his Wine, and began to awake: behold there comes about his bed, Pages and Groomes of
1 [This is the same story as f' The Waking Man's Dream " differently told. It also related by Burton in his " Anatomy of Melancholy," 1624. See Hazlitt's Warton, iv. 218-19.]