[5168]  ------“mihi Delphica tellus
Et Claros et Tenedos, patareaque regia servit,
Jupiter est genitor”------

       “Delphos, Claros, and Tenedos serve me,
        And Jupiter is known my sire to be.”

[5169]The poorest swains will do as much, [5170]_Mille pecus nivei sunt et mihi vallibus agni_; “I have a thousand sheep, good store of cattle, and they are all at her command,”

[5171]  ------“Tibi nos, tibi nostra supellex,
Ruraque servierint”------

“house, land, goods, are at her service,” as he is himself.  Dinomachus, a senator’s son in [5172]Lucian, in love with a wench inferior to him in birth and fortunes, the sooner to accomplish his desire, wept unto her, and swore he loved her with all his heart, and her alone, and that as soon as ever his father died (a very rich man and almost decrepit) he would make her his wife.  The maid by chance made her mother acquainted with the business, who being an old fox, well experienced in such matters, told her daughter, now ready to yield to his desire, that he meant nothing less, for dost thou think he will ever care for thee, being a poor wench, [5173]that may have his choice of all the beauties in the city, one noble by birth, with so many talents, as young, better qualified, and fairer than thyself? daughter believe him not:  the maid was abashed, and so the matter broke off.  When Jupiter wooed Juno first (Lilius Giraldus relates it out of an old comment on Theocritus) the better to effect his suit, he turned himself into a cuckoo, and spying her one day walking alone, separated from the other goddesses, caused a tempest suddenly to arise, for fear of which she fled to shelter; Jupiter to avoid the storm likewise flew into her lap, in virginis Junonis gremium devolavit, whom Juno for pity covered in her [5174]apron.  But he turned himself forthwith into his own shape, began to embrace and offer violence unto her, sed illa matris metu abnuebat, but she by no means would yield, donec pollicitus connubium obtinuit, till he vowed and swore to marry her, and then she gave consent.  This fact was done at Thornax hill, which ever after was called Cuckoo hill, and in perpetual remembrance there was a temple erected to Telia Juno in the same place.  So powerful are fair promises, vows, oaths and protestations.  It is an ordinary thing too in this case to belie their age, which widows usually do, that mean to marry again, and bachelors too sometimes,

[5175] “Cujus octavum trepidavit aetas,
        cernere lustrum;”

to say they are younger than they are.  Carmides in the said Lucian loved Philematium, an old maid of forty-five years; [5176]she swore to him she was but thirty-two next December.  But to dissemble in this kind, is familiar of all sides, and often it takes. [5177]_Fallere credentem res est operosa puellam_, ’tis soon done, no such great mastery, Egregiam vero laudem, et spolia ampla,—­and