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Yet Tommaso Parentucelli was sprung of poor parent and even though they may have been nobili as Manetti tells us, De nobili Parentucellorum progenie, that certainly was of but little assistance to him in his youth.

Contrarily the progenie of Iapheth, and Sem, brought vp to full yeres vndre their elders, and rightly enstructed: contentyng them selues with a litle circuite, straied not so wide as this brother had doen. ¶ The seconde Chapitre. ¶ The false opinion of the Philosophre concernyng the begynnyng of man.

Itemque resident sub tertia coniuge nobiles mulieres de Imperatoris progenie, iuxta illustriam vniuscuiusque.

And of the airie thunder skales the loftie building hie. Vos igitur gentis proles generosa Britannæ, Therefore you noble progenie of Britaine line and race, Induperatori ter magno assurgite vestro, Arise vnto your emperour great, of thrice renowmed grace, Et tumulo sacro roseas inferte corollas, And cast vpon his sacred toome the roseall garlands gaie, Officij testes redolentia munera vestri.

Now gan thei tattempte the sease with many deuices, to transplante their progenie and ofspring into places, vnenhabited, and to enioye the commodities of eche others countrie, by mutuall traffique.

And the most probable cause to my judgement is, that this blackenesse proceedeth of some naturall infection of the first inhabitants of that Countrey, and so all the whole progenie of them descended, are still polluted with the same blot of infection.

And as I heare say, one of the channced so to grow first at a very venture; but afterwards from the seed of it came a whole race and progenie of the like, which therefore they call Melonopopones, as a man would say, the Quince-pompions or cucumbers" Pliny, Nat. Hist., Holland's translation, book xix, c.5