Excerpt from The Palace of Pleasure, Vol. 3: Elizabethan Versions of Italian and French Novels From Boccaccio, Bandello, Cinthio, Straparola, Queen Margaret of Navarre, and OthersThe great Honor and authority men haue in thys World, and the greater their efiimation is, the more fenfible and notorious are the faultes by theim committed, and the greater is their (launder. In lyke manner more difficult it is for that man to tolerate and fus tayme Fortune, which al the dayes of his life hath lyued at his cafe, if by chaunce he fall into any great neceity than for bym whych neuer felt but woe, mifhap, and aduerfity. Dyonifius the Tyraunt of Scicilia, felt greater payne when hee was expelled his Kyng dome, than Milo did, beinge banifhed from Rome: for to mutch as the one was a Soueraygne Lorde, the fonne of a Kynge, a iuiticiary on Earth, and the other but a fimple Citizen ofa Citty, wherein the People had Lawes, and the Lawes of Magis trates were had in reuerence. So lykewyfe the fall of a high and lofty Tree, maketh greater noyfe, than that whych is low and little. Hygh Towers, and (tately Palaces of Prynces bee feche further of, than the poore Cabans, and homely Sheepe heardes Sheepecotes: the Walles of lofty Cittyes more a loofe doe Salute the Viewers of the fame, than the fimple Caues, which the Poore doe digge belowa themountayne Rockes. Where fore it behooueth the Noble, and futch as haue charge of Common wealth, to lyue an hoheft Lyfe, and beare their port vpright, that none haue caufe to difcourfe vppon their wicked deedes and I naughty life. And aboue all modefty ought to be kept by Women, 'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

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