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A brief natural history intermixed with variety of philosophical discourses and refutations of such vulgar errours as our modern authors have hitherto omitted / by Eugenius Philalethes.
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Vaughan, Thomas, 1622-1666.
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to be the Pastor both of our Nation and of the most honourable Order of Knighthood in the World 3. That the Wise-men that came out of the East to Worship our Saviour were Kings and from hence their bodies being Translated to Cullen they are at this day commonly called the three Kings of Cullen and the day Consecrated to their Memory is by the French termed Le jour de Trois Rois The day of the Three Kings Yet Mantuan a Monk fears not to declare his Opinion to the contrary and gives his reason for it Nec Reges ut opiner trant ntque enim tacuissent Historiae Sacrae Authores Genus illud honoris est Inter Mortales quâ— non sublimius ullum Adde quâ—d Herodus ut magnificentia Regum Postulat hospitibâ—â— tantis regale dedisset Hospitiuâ—â— secumquâ— Lares duxisset in amplos Had they been Kings not holy History Would have concealed their so great Majesty Higher on which on Earth none can be named Herods Magnificance would sure have framed Some entertainment fitting their Estates And harbour'd them within his Royal Gates 4. That the Sybills clearly foretold touching the Name of the forerunner the Birth and Death of Christ the coming of Antichrist the overthrow of Râ—â—â— and the consummation of the World which notwithstanding as Cansabon hath learnedly observed seems to be contrary to the Word of God that so profound Mysteries should be revealed to the Gentiles so long before the Incarnation of Christ especially since they write more plainly and particularly of those matters then the Prophets of God themselves amongst the Jeâ—s and the greatest Claâ—ks amongst the Gentiles Plato Aristotle Thâ—â—pâ— astus and others curious searchers into all kind of Learning never so much as once mention either their Names or then Writings nor any of their Mysteries While the Church of Christ was yet in her Infancy many such kind of Books were forged thereby to make the Doctrine of the Gospel more passible among the Gentiles and no marvel then that these of the Sybills passed for current amongst them 1. In History Civil or National it is commonly received that there were four and but four Monarchies succeeding one the other the African the Persian the Grecian and the Roman yet John Bodwin a man of singular Learning especially in matter of History dares thus to begin the seventh Chapter of his Method Inveteratus error de quaâ—â—â— Imperiis ac magnorum virorum opinione pervulgatus tam altc radices egit ut vix evelli posse videatur That inveterate errour of Four Empires made famous through the Opinion of great Men hath taken such deep roots as it seems it can hardly be pluckt up and thorow a great part of that Chapter labours he the confutation of those that maintain that Opinion 2. That Brute a Trojan by Nation and a great Grand-child to AEneas arrived in this Island and gave it the Name of Great Brittain from himself here Reigned and left the Government thereof divided amongst his three Sons England to Lâ—â—griâ—â—â— Scotland to Albanak and Wales to Camber Yet Camden our great Antiquary Brit. de primis Incolis beating as he professeth his Brains and bending the force of his Wits to maintain that Opinion he found no warrantable ground for it Nay by forcible Arguments produced as in the person of others disputing against himself he strongly proves it in my judgment altogether unwarrantable and unsound Boccace Vives Adricamâ—â— Junius Polidorus Vignier Genebrard Molinaeus Bodine and other latter Writers of great account are all of opinion that there was no such man as this supposed Brute And amongst our own Ancient Chronicles John of Watâ—â—sted Abbot of St. Alban holdeth the whole Narration of Brute rather to have been Poetical then Historical as you shall find in his Granarto 1440. which methinks is agreeable to reason since Caesar Taciâ—us Gildas Ninius Bede William of Malmesbury and as many others as have written any thing touching our Country before the year 1160. make no mention at all of him The first that ever broached it was Gâ—ffery of Monmouth about Four hundred years ago during the Reign of Henry the Second who publishing the British story in Latin pretended to have it taken out of Ancient Monuments written in the British Tongue but this Book as soon as it peeped forth into the Light was sharply censured both by Giraldus-Cambrensis and William of â—â—â—â—â— who lived at the same time the formeâ—â—â—â—â—â— in no better then Eabulosam Historiam â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—y and the latter Ridicula Figmâ—â—â— ridiculous Fictions and it now stands branded with a black cole amongst the Books prohibited by the Church of Rome 3. That the Saxons called the remainder of the Brittains Welch as being strangers to them Whereas that Word signifies not as strangers either in the high or low Dutch as Verstigan a man skilful in those Languages hath observed and that the Sexons gave them the name of Welch after themselves came into Brittain is altogether unlikely For that inhabiting so neer them as they did to wit but over against them on the other side of the Sea they could not want a more particular and proper Name for them then to call them Strangers It seems then to be more likely that the Romans being Originally descended from the Gaules the Saxons according to their manner of speech by turning the G. into the W. and instead of Galtish called them Wallish and by a breviation Walâ—h or Welch as the French at this day call the Prince of Wales Prince de Galles 4. That the Pigmies are a Nation of People not above two or three foot high and that they solemnly set themselves in battail array to fight against the Cranes their greatest Enemies of these notwithstanding Caesaâ—ion in his Book De. Gigantibus Cap. Uâ—â—â—â—â— saith Fabulesâ— illa omnia sunt quae de illis vel Poetae vel alii Scriptures tradiderunt All those things are Fabulous which touching them either the Poets or other Writers have delivered And with him further accordeth Cardaâ— De rorâ—â— variâ—tate Cap. 4. Apparet ergo Pigmiorum Historiam esse fabulosam quod Strabo sentit nostra aeras â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— firmè â—â—is mirabitia innotuerint declarae It appeares then that the History of the Pigmies is but a Ficton as both Straba thought and our age which have now discovered all the wonders of the World fully declares Gellius also and Redogis refer those Pigmies if any such these be to a kind of Apes 1. In Natural History to pass by that Vulgar Errour of the Phâ—â—â—ix so learnedly refuted by one of our late Writers I shall here first gain say than gross Opinion that the Wholps of Bears are at first littering without all form or fashion and nothing but a little congealed Blood or lump of Flesh which afterwards the Dam â—â—â—apeth by licking yet is the Truth most evidently otherwise as by the Ey witness of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and others it hath been proved And herein as in many