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A28489	The theatre of the world in the which is discoursed at large the many miseries and frailties incident to mankinde in this mortall life : with a discourse of the excellency and dignity of mankinde, all illustrated and adorned with choice stories taken out of both Christian and heathen authors ... / being a work of that famous French writer, Peter Bovistau Launay, in three distinct books ; formerly translated into Spanish by Baltazar Peres del Castillo ; and now into English by Francis Farrer ...; Theatrum mundi. English	Boaistuau, Pierre, d. 1566.; Farrer, Francis.	1663 (1663)	Wing B3366; ESTC R14872	135,755	330

the regions of Babilon from thence it flew to Greece and thence to Rome putrifying after such a manner the aire that one third part of the people did not escape where it came but to leave the antient Histories and examine what hath happened since their time and in our dayes that we who do hold our selves to be Christians may learn to understand our own frailty the great miseries to which we are subject with the scourges great afflictions which God layeth upon us and that God when his anger is kindled against our offences and extreame iniquities le ts fly the most cruell Darts and Arrowes of his justice against these Creatures not omitting any kind of evils afflictions and torments whereby to execute his wrath and vengeance what better or greater proofe can we have of this then that which we saw in the year 1628. in the French Army which at that time beseiged Naples that men dyed before they thought they had been stricken with death and this curse or Pestilence did not light upon the common souldiers alone but executed its fury against the most choice commanders that the Lords Lautree of Vandemon of Moloac of Laval of the Chatrinera Grandmont and many other Persons of great quality who I cannot call to mind without teares the very same thing happened to the English when they took Buloigne from the French that there arose such Pestilential disease amongst them in the Citty that the living were not sufficient to bury the dead for which cause the King of England could not find a Souldier in all his Country would go thither voluntarily but such as were prest forced thither as offenders for the more fresh men entered so many more dyed so that every corner of the streets was infected and corrupted with the stench of the dead Corpes which lay in every part of the City A year after that King Francis of France marryed with Donna Leonoca de Austria there reigned in Germany such a mortall Plague that all that were smitten therewith dyed within twenty four houres swetting a most contagious humor and a most horrid stinking matter and although this evil begin at the West end of the Empire yet afterwards it extended it selfe throughout all Germany like a sweeping net that will catch all as it goes along for before it pleased God to send a remedy there dyed so many thousands that many Provinces remained deserted and uninhabited for so great was the putrifaction of the aire that it left neither Creatures alive and they write that at the same time that the Pestilence reigned with the like fury it was predominant in England in so much that with the venemous strength thereof it did not only overcome destroy men but the Birds forsooke their Nests Eggs and young ones the beasts their dens and Caves the Snakes and Moles went together in squadrons and companies not being able to suffer the venemous infection that had entred even into the bowells of the earth in the year 1546. the last day of May in Stife a city in Province began a most cruell and Pestilential contagion which lasted nine moneths and there dyed great multitudes of people of all sexes and ages in so much that all their Churchyards were so fill'd with dead Corps that there was no roome to receive any more the greatest part of those that were infected the second day became frantick and cast themselves into wells or else from windowes to others it gave a flux of blood from the nose with violence like a running stream the stopping of which ending the life was all at once it arived to such a height of dissolution that women great with child cast forth untimely births at four moneths both they and their innocent babes dyed being found full of tokens and on one side black and blew like brused blood in conclusion the contagion was so great that father 's left their children and the women forsooke their husbands mony and riches could not yeeld remedy to save the owners thereof from dying of famine because it was hard to get a peice of bread or a cup of water for money and if in case they could procure food for sustenance the Plague was grown so violent that many were taken away with the meat in their mouthes the fury of the evil was so great that only looking upon one that was stricken the infection instantly cleave to the party viewing and he dyed so great was the contagion of the disease and the corruption of the aire of the City to what member of the body the venemous breath or vapour did come there arose great sweling carbuncles mortally wounding sores Oh what a horrible and lamentable thing it was to heare the sad storyes that a Physician tells one who was ordered by the Governours to heal the sick this contagion saith he was so sharp and perverse that it could not be stopped with blooding Physick medicines or any cordialls whatsoever but it cut down destroyed and killed all it took hold of in so much as he that was stricken therewith could expect nothing but death for which cause there were several that when they preceived themselves wounded with this mortal infection they sowed themselves up in their winding sheetes there thou mightest see ten thousand lye after that manner expecting their last hour that forced divorce O sad parting of those two so loving consorts the Soul and Body all which he affirmed to have seen often done by many Persons of all degrees I my selfe in the year 1648. being in Spain where many hundred thousands dyed that year in several Provinces but living in the City of Sevill there breake out about March a fearfull contagion or Plague where I was visited therewith to omit the relation of every particular sad spectacle I saw dayly I shall only hint upon the principal passages by which ye may judge the rest there was every morning to be seen not a street without many dead Corps in it cast out not a house uninfected so that the most retyred Carthusian Fryers which came neer none dyed thereof the Birds dyed in the cages not for want of food but of the infection in one Hospital I was told by one that helped to bury the dead there that they all judged there dyed in one night four thousand persons it raged so much and carried away so many people that all their burying places being filled they were forced to load continually dead Corps in Carts and bury them in the common fields where they had four several burying places on each side of the City one afterwards I had occasion often to take particular notice of one of them where some of our English were buryed it was neer alone Church in the fields called St. Sebastiam over the door whereof I have many times read in Spanish but in large legible Characters without the bounds of this Church lieth buryed in fifteen graves forty and three thousand many judged that in above

begin to use his tongue To how many infirmities is he subject All other Creatures when they are first brought forth understand somthing of the actions of their nature some do succour themselves with their swiftness others with their strength Only man knows nothing unless he be taught the most certain natural knowledge that possesseth him at his birth is to weep he onely amongst all Creatures is subject to labours troubles passions pleasures delights ambitions courtuousness and indeed to all disorderly appetite of this life he only is born to serve his own concupisence and thereby to suffer extream anguish and sorrow and to be short he is the most subject to entertain emnities and odioms against those of his own kind all other Creatures live at peace with those of their kind the Wolves do no hurt nor do prey upon each other but live in love and amity one with another only man is a capital enemy to man and worse if it could be expressed for s●me sign of favor to other Creatures more then to Man but as conceive to do him a more favourable courtesy by his contemplation thereof Dame nature hath provided for them of Houses fit to shelter and protect them from the inclemency of the Heavens and from the vehemencies of frosts snow and storms bestowing upon the greatest of them dennes and caves and to the lesser Houses proper for them which they carry upon their backs as Tortoise the Cockle the Snail c. and to all other small Creatures such accomodation as is most befitting their kind and being Also I cannot be unmindfull of the Fruit Seed of the ground how she hath provided for them cases rindes prickles thorns and huskes in the which to retire defend and preserve their kind but man hath nothing unless he doth procure it by the hard labour of his body and the sweat of his brows nay many times even drops of bloud before he can obtain either to satisfy his hungry appetite or cloath his naked body Now if we do but consider the health and good constitution of body that other Creatures enjoy compared with ours We shall clearly see what advantage they have of us for it doth appear Man is naturally formed and as it were guilded over with a beautifull complexion but it is so weak and subject to such diversity of infirmities that it would be accounted a wonder in the World to find a Man whose beauty is not fading and changing And farther then this Nature hath purcharged Men with such an unsatiable and hungry appetite that we never cease seeking after and desiring the choysest viands to supply our emptiness and if in case we find any thing that seems pleasing to our palate we cannot refrain only to suffice but overcharge nature by devouring so much thereof from which superfluities are ingendred Catarres Flegms Apoplexes and a thousand other diseases Other Creatures do not so for they content themselves with what nature hath provided for them eating it as it is without boyling roasting or otherways dressing it to content their appetite or pleasing their fancies and with this she hath bestowed upon them such a regulated contentment that they eat or drink not more then what is needfull for the maintaining life but Man had he all the fruits of the earth the flesh of all cattle in the World of all the fishes in the Waters of all the fouls of Heaven all would not be sufficient to satisfie his greedy desire in the spoyling consuming and destroying them onely but he must have them masked dressed seasoned and sophisticated brought into several dissimulated gustos meerly to invite and draw his stomack and gluttonous appetite to devour more then nature requires even to the overcharging the ship and causing her to sink under her lading nay they fill their stomacks so brim-full with these pleasing viands that they intoxicate their beste part insomuch that there is not one of their senses but is disabled to do any true service to the bodies use and truely with grief and shame enough I speak it that the superfluous vices of glottony and drunkenness which at this day is so predominant amongst Christians causeth many utterly to loose their shame and to prostrate their bodies to all sorts of vices be they never so execrably wicked even to the committing of Whoredomes Thieveries Murders Poysonings and in toxicating Witch-crafts and I do much wonder how that the entrails of very many are not rotted and their Livers burnt up and putrified with the excess of meats and drinks when behold poor Lazarus lying at the door even perishing with hunger and cannot obtain a morsells of what remains in fragments or procure the least crum that falls from their Tables for which cause the Prophets cal these men Fat Calves Belly-gods c. Certainly they are justly compared to bruit beasts for the soul which is the principal part of man that doth inhabite such bodyes lyeth embalmed as it were with wines sauces and pleasant viands she lyeth as in a dark and obscure Prison drowned and overwhelmed as in a full Sea also the five Senses which should be at her command and serve her as wayting-Gentlemen they cannot attend her being burried as in the entrails of bruit beasts against such gluttons as these who make a God of their bellyes The Prophet expresses a curse saying wo be to thee that rise up early to drink and remain unto the evening till Wine hath inflamed thee This sort of vice for our sins is so rooted so common and made so familiar amongst all Nations that there is none but have a touch thereof and none but are in some measure infected therewith and which is worse and preceeds farther is that it 's counted a glorious Exploit for a Man to exceed in drinking and most Men do account it a fame to be taken for g●●d T●pers The Tarters the Persians and 〈…〉 Greeks held it to be the highest glory to 〈…〉 high they erected triumphant Trophies 〈…〉 those that did excel The Macedonians learned this vice of Alexander their Emperor but the Italians bore away the bell and carryed away the prize from all the rest for emptying the Bowls I could wish England did not excel or strive to excel herein our time Pliny writes that drunkenness in his time did arive to such a height that Men did not content themselves to take turns in their healths each with other but they caused their flocks and heards to drink Wine without measure Paulo Diacano in his History relates a strange story of this monstruous and horrid vice of drunkenness saying there were four old Men agreed to meet together at a Colation in the which they resolved to drink each Man the years of his age and made a challenge two and two in the which every Man was to drink so many times as he had lived years the youngest of them was 58. years of age the second 64. the third 87. and the fourth 92. years old we

and delectablenesse discourseth of heaven of earth of the foure Elements Of all that is in them and created of them its true it cannot well form words without the Gums or Teeth which may in part be seen in Children which speak not till they have Teeth and in old men who stammer that one can hardly understand their words after they have lost their teeth they become like Children in speech Beard Moreover nature hath adorned and decked the head of man as Lactantius Firminius saith with a comely Beard to distinguish man from woman to set forth mans age and to be an ornament to him Eares The Eares also were not made in vain nor fixed in so high and eminent a place to no purpose but to receive more clearly the sound of voyces c. which naturally doe ascend in the Ayre they are continually open and ready to receive the voice or found by those wreathed creeks and in those secret corners is the hearing retained and kept nature also ordained that there should be wax and filth at the entrance of those Caverns that if any smal creature should presume to enter or doe any detriment to the bearing which is the most excellent of all the five sences should be made a Prisoner there till it dye It s but brief what hath been spoken of the several parts of mans principal member the Head much more might be related thereupon especially if we should at large consider those parts joyned together and in them two wonderfull things the first is that amongst infinite multitudes of people that are living you shall not finde two so exactly one like another as that there shall not be some distinction betwixt them and this difference consists onely in a thing of so smal circumference as the Face so that none or very few are to be found amongst so many millions that have one and the same kinde of tokens or signes of similitude The second thing that Nature made placed and set forth in so little a compass as the face in which is shewed all the rest of her Arts is that she hath endowed some vissages with such an excellent and supernatural beauty that oftentimes man himself to possesse enjoy and partake thereof puts himself in hazard of a thousand deaths layes his life at stake and if he chance to dispaire thereof he will sacrifice his honour his life desires to dye loose and forego all his estate to prosecute and obtain his desire and sometimes forced transported and deceived by his own immagination he looseth his sences for this thing called beauty in testimony of which I could nominate here many illustrious persons in all ages that aspired to robb or spoyle heaven of the choycest of its glorious beauty to extoll flourish and mask over the spacious fields of the earth thereby to immortalize themselves and their works onely invoking this beauty as if that alone were the Star and guide that should lead them to obtain perpetual blisse fame and glory the beams that do issue forth from some faire and glistering faces are of so much force and vigour that they do overcome the inward intellectualls as suddenly as lightning over powering and taking possession of the greater and better part of the soul and makes the poore distressed and afflicted lover to feel its great force and power with contemplation and admiration with which they do deliver up their wills and affections to the thing esteemed and affected Making themselves of Lords and Masters Servants of Freemen slaves of joyfull jocund and impassionate most patient Martyrs of love and most obedient sufferers of such cruel and bitter torments and pains that none can believe them but such as have felt their smart If their affections be sincere they doe not content themselves thus far to have gone but they would willingly if they could transform their own nature into that beauty which they so much admire and adore also we finde another great and marvelous rariety in the face which though it be not a Foot in magnitude we may see or come to know by the different changes thereof not onely the natural conditions of men whether they are sad or merry melancholly or sociable but the affections of the soule whether they are cowards valiant fearful merciful cruel amorous or free from love whether they are possessed with hope or dispair be in health or infirm alive or dead and an infinite number of inclinations affections and desires of the soule and body for which cause that great Priest King and Phylosopher Hermes Trismagistus after he had wearied and perplexed himself with the profound contemplation of the wonderfull make of man cryed out with a loud voice where is that most excellent Former or Producer of this so glorious a work who is he that so well knew how to set forth in such lively Colours so admirable a picture Who drew the portracture of those so beautifull eyes resplendent lights of the whole body and bright speculators of the soule who spread the lips as curtains to the mouth Who so excellently knit the sinnews together Who interwove and mixed so many veins which are as so many little brooks by the which the bloud is conveyed thereby sustaines strengthens and refreshes with its humidity and substance the whole body Who made the bones so hard and strong Who engrafted joynted and fixed them as if they were Sentinels or Halberdiers to keep within compasse the thoughts when they would swell and aspire run out of order and measure and to harden themselves against Reason and moderation Who covered the flesh with so soft and delicate a skin Who distinguished and parted the fingers with their several joynts Who stretched forth the feet in so sit a proportion causing them to serve as a foundation to the whole body Who so closely pressed the milt together Who gave that Piramidel shape to the heart Who wove so many nets and roots in and about the Liver Who made the passages and holes in the lungs Who ordained so large a roome for the Belly with such a spacious capacity Who put the most honourable Members in the most eminent places to be exposed to the view of all reparted the most unworthy members and dishonorable in stations more private where the covering should add valew and repute to them Contemplate saith Hermes how many and what exact pieces were formed to make up so perfect a creature What proportionable beauty there is in each member with what curiosity and art so many different proportions are fitted and put together each observing its service its office and all procuring the benefit of the whole Who thinkest thou made finished such famous works Who doest thou hold for Father and inventor of them or who the Mother producer and projector but the invisible omnicient and most omnipotent God Hitherto we have spoken enough Phylosophically of the Essence Magnificence and dignity of man Therefore now it will be reason that we spend a