rbeaten
feather, wherewith he threatned his souldiers a farre off, as Iupiter is
sayde, with the shaking of his haire to make heauen and earth to quake:
suppose out of the paringes of a paire of false dice, I apparelled both
him and my selfe many a time and oft: and surely not to slander the
deuill, if anie man euer deserued the golden dice, the king of the
Parthians sent to _Demetrius_ it was I, I had the right vaine of sucking
vp a die twixt the dintes of my fingers, not a creuise in my hande but
coulde swallowe a quater trey for a neede: in the line of life many a
dead lifte dyd there lurke, but it was nothing towards the maintenance
of a family. This Monsieur Capitano eate vp the creame of my earnings,
and _Crede mihi res est ingeniosa dare_, any man is a fine fellow
as long as he hath anie monie in his purse. That monie is like the
marigolde, which opens and shuts with the Sunne, if fortune smileth,
or one be in fauour, it floweth: if the euening of age comes on, or he
falleth into disgrace, it fadeth and is not to be found. I was my crafts
master though I was but yong, and could as soone decline _Nominatiuo hic
asinus_, as a greater clarke, wherefore I thought it not conuenient my
soldado should haue my purse anie longer for his drumme to play vppon,
but I woulde giue him Iacke drummes entertainment, and send him packing.
This was my plot, I knewe a peece of seruice of intelligence, which was
presently to bee done, that required a man with all his fiue senses to
effect it, and would ouefthrow anie foole that should vndertake it,
to this seruice did I animate and egge my foresayd costes and charges,
alias, senior veluet-cappe, whose head was not encombered with too much
forecast, and comming to him in his cabbin about dinner time, where I
found him verie deuoutly paring of his nailes for want of other repast,
I entertained him with this solemne oration.

Captaine, you perceiue how neere both of vs are driuen, the dice of late
are growen as melancholy as a dog, high men and low men both prosper
alike, langrets, fullams, and all the whole fellowshippe of them will
not affoord a man his dinner, some other means must be inuented to
preuent imminent extremitie. My state, you are not ignorant, depends on
trencher seruice, your aduancement must be deriued from the valour
of your arme. In the delayes of siege, desert hardly gets a daye of
hearing, tis gowns must direct and guns enact all the wars that is to
bee made agains