to Japan, Longae navigationis molestis non curans:  a third (if she say it) will not speak a word for a twelvemonth’s space, her command shall be most inviolably kept:  a fourth will take Hercules’s club from him, and with that centurion in the Spanish [5431]Caelestina, will kill ten men for his mistress Areusa, for a word of her mouth he will cut bucklers in two like pippins, and flap down men like flies, Elige quo mortis genere illum occidi cupis? [5432]Galeatus of Mantua did a little more:  for when he was almost mad for love of a fair maid in the city, she, to try him belike what he would do for her sake, bade him in jest leap into the river Po if he loved her; he forthwith did leap headlong off the bridge and was drowned.  Another at Ficinum in like passion, when his mistress by chance (thinking no harm I dare swear) bade him go hang, the next night at her doors hanged himself. [5433]"Money” (saith Xenophon) “is a very acceptable and welcome guest, yet I had rather give it my dear Clinia than take it of others, I had rather serve him than command others, I had rather be his drudge than take my ease, undergo any danger for his sake than live in security.  For I had rather see Clinia than all the world besides, and had rather want the sight of all other things than him alone; I am angry with the night and sleep that I may not see him, and thank the light and sun because they show me my Clinia; I will run into the fire for his sake, and if you did but see him, I know that you likewise would run with me.”  So Philostratus to his mistress, [5434]"Command me what you will, I will do it; bid me go to sea, I am gone in an instant, take so many stripes, I am ready, run through the fire, and lay down my life and soul at thy feet, ’tis done.”  So did.  Aeolus to Juno.

------“Tuus o regina quod optas
Explorare labor, mihi jussa capescere fas est.”

       “O queen it is thy pains to enjoin me still,
        And I am bound to execute thy will.”

And Phaedra to Hippolitus,

       “Me vel sororem Hippolite aut famulam voca,
        Famulamque potius, omne servitium feram.”

       “O call me sister, call me servant, choose,
        Or rather servant, I am thine to use.”

[5435] “Non me per altas ire si jubeas nives,
        Pigeat galatis ingredi Pindi jugis,
        Non si per ignes ire aut infesta agmina
        Cuncter, paratus [5436]ensibus pectus dare,
        Te tunc jubere, me decet jussa exequi.”

       “It shall not grieve me to the snowy hills,
        Or frozen Pindus’ tops forthwith to climb. 
        Or run through fire, or through an army,
        Say but the word, for I am always thine.”