If you demaunde of mee another reaſon, and ſigne of the ſoules immortality, I will tell you what the wiſe man Gobriad ſhewed me: He ſaide that at what time Xerxes conuayed his huge Army into Greece, his Grandfather which was of the ſame name, was ſent into Delos to defende that Iland in which were two Gods borne. In the ſame Iland that his Grandfather learned out of certaine braſen Tables which Opis and Hecuergus had brought out of the Northerne Countries, That the ſoule after time it is diſſolued from the body paſſeth into a certaine darkeſome place, a Coaſt that lyeth vnder the earth wherein is Plutoes Pallace no leſſe than Iupiters kingdome: For the earth being equally ballanced in the middeſt of the world, and the compaſſe thereof beeing round as a ball, that the one halfe Sphere thereof is allotted to the higher God, and the other halfe to the infernall powres; betwixt whom there is ſuch kindred and allyance, that ſome bee brothers, and other ſome brothers children. But the entry of the way which leadeth to Plutoes kingdome is fenced with iron gates, and faſtened with braſen bolts: which when a man hath opened, he is entertained of the Riuer Acheron; next which is Cocytus: which Flouds being ouerpaſſed, hee muſt come before Minos and Rhadamanthus, the merciles Iudges: