worthy of posterity, though calumniated by
its contemporaries.

[397] "Verum enimvero de his et hoc genere hominum ne verbum amplius
addam, tabellam tamen summi illius artificis Apellis, cum
colorum vivacitate depingere non possim, verbis leviter
adumbrabo et proponam, ut Antiphilus noster, suique similes,
et qui calumniis credunt, hanc, et in hac seipsos semel
simulque intueantur.

"Ad dextram sedet quidam, quia credulus, auribus praelongis
insignis, quales fere illae Midae feruntur. Manum porrigit
procul accedenti Calumniae. Circumstant eum mulierculae duae,
Ignorantia ac Suspicio. Adit aliunde propius Calumnia eximie
compta, vultu ipso et gestu corporis efferens rabiem, et iram
aestuanti conceptam pectore prae se ferens: sinistra facem
tenens flammantem, dextra secum adolescentem capillis
arreptum, manus ad superos tendentem, obtestantemque
immortalium deorum fidem, trahit. Anteit vir pallidus, in
specium impurus, acie oculorum minime hebeti, caeterum plane
iis similis, qui gravi aliquo morbo contabuerunt. Hic livor
est, ut facile conjicias. Quin, et mulierculae aliquot Insidiae
et Fallaciae ut comites Calumniam comitantur. Harum est munus,
dominam hortari, instruere, comere, et subornare. A tergo,
habitu lugubri, pullato, laceroque Poenitentia subsequitur,
quae capite in tergum deflexo, cum lachrymis, ac pudore procul
venientem Veritatem agnoscit, et excipit."

[398] A _Fletcher_ is a maker of bows and arrows.--ASH.

[399] Brooke died at the old mansion opposite the Roman town of
Reculver in Kent. The house is still known as Brooke-farm; and
the original gateway of decorative brickwork still exists. He
was buried in Reculver Church, now destroyed, where a mural
monument was erected to his memory, having a rhyming
inscription, which told the reader:--

"Fifteenth October he was last alive,
One thousand six hundred and twenty-five,
Seaventy-three years bore he fortune's harms,
And forty-five an officer of armes."

Brooke was originally a painter-stainer. His enmity to Camden
appears to have originated in the appointment of the latter to
the office of Clarencieux on the death of Richard Lee; he
believing himself to