308 Çgvelation ófthe Apocalypfe. C AP.9 was generall , now he profecutes the matter member by member. Thefe CroWns on their heads likegold , is that polling or'baying of the head , which was wont to be of old in great account with men,even as if it had been a diademof gold. It is called a Crown, becaufe the top of the head when it is (haven , feemeth to thew it felf in the midfl like a Crown. What reckoning was made of it in old time, Bellairmine',fheweth out Of Hierome inone of his Epiftles to Au- óufine, which is the fix and twentieth Epiftle of chofe that are written to Au uftine, I befeech your Crown to falute in my name my Lord Alipine, andmy Lord,Euodius. And Ausuftine in his 147. Epiftle to Proculian the Bifhop ; your men do adjure us by our Crown, and our men do adjure you by your Crown. Me thinks I fllould hear that in Homers Illiad : Tea by this fcepter do I frvear. Both kinds of Locufs are notably known by thefe Crowns. Herodotus reporteth in his Thalia, that the Arabians arefhaven,even as Bacchus Was Wont to be /haven ; now they arepolled, fo of they make a round circle beneath When they /hew their Temples. But the shavingof monkes, and all religious orders , is moil famous; Polydoreyiroil fpeaking of the Benedidlinesfaith , they are Raven With a razor from the Crown of the head , beneath the midfl of the skull ;; the hair is cut of beloW into the lik:neffe of a littlecircle,it com- pafeth the Whole head about the ears and the temples like acrown; Whence it ú that the top of the head When it ú (haven ú calleda crown, Book 7. Chapter 2. See how fitly he interprets Herodorus, though thinkingof no fuck matter, but onely lead thereto by the agreement of the matter it felf. For that which he faith , they are /haven into a round beneath, this man translates it elegantly, the hair is cut ofbelow inform ofa little circle. -.It was indeed a matter for- biddenof old to the Iews; Thou(halt not cut round the corners ofthy head, and that as it feemeth becaufe of the Arabians , whowere their neighbours, and were (haven after this fafrtiott, leaft they fhouldin any thing be like the Idolaters , Levic. 15). 27. But it was meet that thefemonkes., who differ in name onely from the wicked nations, fhould-'agree with them in the likeneffe of {having their heads. Thegoldof this CroWn, that is, the authority and dignity of this- manner of filming we may fee by that that they made their obteftations by their (haven crowns , as we faw , righe now in the Epiftles of Jerome , and Auguftine. If this fuperftition while it was in the tender yeers of it, was in inch requeft , what a ftately and Majefficall thingwas it trow ye , after that it came to the full ripene%
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