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16 Stome, and bewrayed a great ignorance of those ancient times, especially since it was not onely received by the vulgar, such as were men of Iesse note and Iearning, but believed also, by the more famous and wiser sort, such as were those great Poets, Stefichorus and Pindar. And not onely amongst the more sottish heathens, who might account that Planet to be one of their Gods, but the primitive Christians alfo were in this kinde guilty; which made S. Ambrose so tartly to rebuke those of his time, when he said,Tum turbatur carminibus Globus Lunæ quando calicibus turbantur & otuli. When your heads are troubled with cups, then you thinke the Moone to be troubled with charmes". And for this reason also did Maximus a Bishop, write a Homily against it, wherein hee shewed the absurditie of that Rh