[604] Tanto cum strepitu ludi spectantur et artes. Hor.
[605] Among the Ep. of Bonifac. Mog. there is a council held under Carloman, king of France, which saith in the king's name, Necnon et illas venationes et sylvaticas vagationes cum canibus, servis Dei interdiximus. Similiter ut accipitres et falcones non habeant. And sure these are better than cards and dice, which yet some priests now use too much.
[606] It is one of the Roman laws, 12. tab. Prodigo bonorum suorum administratio interdicta esto.
[607] Rom. xiv. 21; 1 Cor. viii. 13.
[608] 1 Pet. i. 14, 15; ii. 11, 12.
[609] Matt. xxiii. 5; Mal. iii. 17.
[610] Laertius saith, that when Crœsus sat in all his ornaments and glory on his throne, he asked Solon, An pulchrius unquam spectaculum viderit? Illumque dixisse: Gallos, gallinaceos, phasianos, et pavones: naturali enim eos nitore et speciositate eximia vestiri.
[611] Phil. iii. 10; Rom. xii. 2; Eph. v. 11.
[612] And no wonder, when the light of nature reduced the serious sort of philosophers to so plain a garb; as Socrates, Zenocrates, with almost all the Stoics and Cynics, and many of the Academics and Pythagoreans.
[613] Of the proportion of our estates to be given, see my Letter to Mr. Gouge.