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A16241	Theatrum mundi the theatre or rule of the world, wherein may be sene the running race and course of euerye mans life, as touching miserie and felicity, wherin be contained wonderfull examples, learned deuises, to the ouerthrowe of vice, and exalting of vertue. wherevnto is added a learned, and maruellous worke of the excellencie of mankinde. Written in the Frenche & Latin tongues by Peter Boaystuau, and translated into English by Iohn Alday.; Theatre du monde. English	Boaistuau, Pierre, d. 1566.; Alday, John.	1566 (1566)	STC 3168; ESTC S102736	106,769	288

of the memorie the which bringeth forth so manye and diuers commodities But who doth not maruell of the memorie the which as Plato writeth is the atturney that alwais remaineth within the towre the which kéepeth and retayneth the things that sodenly passe the office of whome is to cōserue in his treasures and receyue innumerable things yea that differ without confounding them but confirming them in their puritie for to serue afterwarde when that by a remēbrance that which of long time it hath conceyued and gathered togither and then is perceiued a knowledge of infinit things all disagréeing the which are brought forth in such an order that they giue no let nor mutuall trouble But what miracle is there in the inexplicable subtiltie of our eyes y e which are placed in the most highest part of the tower for to be beholders of things celestiall The roūdnesse of which represēteth two precious stones to the ende that with a profound memorie it shoulde penetrate the Images of things set before shining as a glasse and they are moueable to the end that they might turne here and there being not constrayned to beholde that which might displease them and they are orned and decked with couers or liddes which are as bulwarkes for to defend them from euill or noyance aboue the which are the browes made like arches for to stop and let the sweate and other superfluities that they should not offende nor hurt them But what spectacle worthie of admiration doe we finde in the nose is it not a little wall reared for the defence of the eyes and thoughe it be little it hath thrée offices appointed one is to retire and loose the winde and breath the other to smell the other to the ende that by the holes and openings the superfluities of the braine be clensed and pourged and voide as a chanell or sinke doth the filth and water But by what maruellous ordinance are y e lips placed the which séeme to be ioined and knit one to another within the which the tongue is inclosed the which by his mouings cōuerteth y e voyce into words interpreteth sheweth the intention of the spirit But who is it that maruelleth not at this little morsell of flesh that is not aboue thrée fingars brode and that is almost the least member of man yet notwithstanding it prayseth God and sheweth and manifesteth the beauties and perfections of that which God hath created it disputeth of the heauen and of the earth and of that which is contayned in the foure elements notwithstanding it can not alone fulfil the office of speaking if it haue no helpe of the téeth the which is manifest to vs by yōg children the which begin not to speake before they haue téeth and olde men after they haue lost them stammer and can not bring forth their words in such sort that it séemeth that they are returned to their infancie for they become childish Furthermore as Lactantius sayeth he hath created the chin and set it out after so honest a forme and hath enriched it with a bearde for to cause vs to knowe the fruitfulnesse and maturitie of the bodie the difference of the kinde and ornament of the virilitie and strength As touching the eares they are not idell they are placed in a place hie eminent for to receyue the sounde that naturally is borne hie they are open and not stopped to the ende that the voyce be caried by the secret trunkes retained and staid Also he hath caused therein ordures and vncleannesse that the little beastes or flies that will offend the hearing might be therein snared and taken as in Birdlime And yet the maruellous worke of all these partes is nothing to that which followeth if we will consider in generall all the proportion of the face of the which dependeth two maruels the first that among all the men the which are almost infinit all of them do so differ in the face that among so many thousande millions of men there can not be founde two like but that they are blemished by some markes and notes the second that nature hath made to humain creatures in so littel a part as the face a beautis so great that sometimes we desier to die of our good wills and gladly sacrifice oure selues for the beautie of some persones and we are so stirred euen to become out of our wits by the prickings and prouocations of this faire and beautiful face In witnesse whereof I could bring forth an infinite number of worthy personages as well auncient as moderne which séemed to haue spoyled the firmament of his most richest treasures for to paint out all the corners of the earth and to exalt the memorie of them and their writings vnder the only inuocation of this beautie as thoughe thereon their whole glory and honor did depend For the beames that proceadeth of thys resplendishing beautie penitrateth euē to the most liueliest part of the soule and maketh there force to be felt excessiuely to those that beholde it the which is the cause why the poore passioned hath brought their owne desiers in seruitude and rendreth their poore soule martyrred obedient and handmaide and almost trāsformeth thē if it were possible in the same beautie that they admit and loue Moreouer there is another miracle in the face the which although it be not aboue the greatnes of halfe a foote notwithstanding in the least mutation or chaunging thereof appeareth the difference of men ioyfull and sorowfull of the hardie and the fearfull of the angry and of the pitiful of the louer and of him that hateth of him that liueth in hope and he that is without hope of the hole and of the sicke of the liuing and of the dead with other infinite affections aswel of the body as of the soule For this cause it is that this great Philosopher Trimigisteus after that he had profoundlye plunged in the contemplation of humaine worke cried out saying where is the painter so wel sorting his colours that could paint these faire eyes that are the windowes of all the bodie and glasses of the soule Who hath formed the lippes and the mouth and knit togither sinewes Who hath mingled the veines like water brookes deuided all ouer the bodie by the which the humor and the bloud rūning into diuers parts deweth all the members wyth his iuces and liquors Who hath made the bones who hath knit and ioined them togither the which as gardes and stayes doe retaine the thought Who hath couered the flesh with so tender a skin separated the fingars and their ioyntes one frō another Who hath spred the largenesse of oure féete which serueth for foundation to all the bodie Who hath opened y e pipes and condits Who hath placed the stomacke and imprinted in the heart thys pearlesse figure who hath wouen togither the thréedes and rootes of y e Lights and ingraued the Liuer

Theatrum Mundi The Theator or rule of the world wherein may be sene the running race and course of euerye mans life as touching miserie and felicity wherin is contained wonderfull examples learned deuises to the ouerthrowe of vice and exalting of vertue wherevnto is added a learned and maruellous worke of the excellencie of mankinde Written in the Frenche Latin tongues by Peter Boaystuau and translated into English by Iohn Alday ¶ IMPRINTED AT LONdon by H. D. for Thomas Hacket and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Churchyarde at the signe of the Key ¶ In prayse of the Booke LO here the braunches fresh and greene Lo here deare Friend the race Lo here the path is to be seene through which mankinde doth trace The finall scope the totall ende the wandring steps wherein Humanum genus seemes to tende ▪ his pagent to begin Most like a Theater a game or gameplace if ye will which royally doth beare the fame approude by learned skill Through blisse through ioy through smiling fate commixt with care and woe Now plaste aloft in Princely state and straight brought downe as lowe By hap mishap or haplesse happes compared to a shade Or flower of the fielde which clappes or heate doth cause to fade For as the youthfull wightes assay their partes on stage a while And lauish tongues from day to day with time doth them beguile So that at last their pompe and pride their filed speach hath ende None otherwise away to slide our crooked limmes doe bende The chiefest Lampe or glistring Starre whereof described plaine Surmounting others all full farre herein thou mayst attaine And thus with Tullies worke I fine placing this learned Booke Condecorate with Muses nine a Glasse whereon to looke To the Right Worshipfull Sir William Chester Knight Alderman of the Citie of London and Merchant of the Staple Iohn Alday wisheth health to the pleasure of God with most happie and prosperous successe in all your affaires AMONG all the Learned worthy writers of our age worshipful Sir there is none to my iudgement more worthy of perpetual prayse than those which haue most learnedly philosophied on the miserie of man those I say which contemplating beholding the calamities of these dayes with the corruption of man kind haue not feared to set forth the liues liuings of al estates to this end that in reading hearing their miserable life and wicked conuersation they be the soner moued to detest and abhorre the same and crie out with the Prophete Dauid saying I haue sinned Lord and therevppon amende their wicked wayes Among the which the Author hereof named Peter Boaystuau hath most worthilye set foorth this present worke not only in the French tongue to the profit of his Countrie but first of all in the Latin tongue to his perpetuall and due prayse and to the profite of all Christian Countries and Nations Wherein he hath moste learnedly set forth the corruption of all estates so that those that reade this present booke can no otherwise do but be ashamed of their vniust dealings Moreouer least that man should dispaire of his saluatiō in reading this pitiful Metamorphose or Tragedie knowing themselues culpable he hath most worthily set forth the dignitie and excellencie of man shewing him how much more in excellencie he doth excell all other creatures whō GOD hath created and made So that this is in sūme Right Worshipfull Sir the effect of this rude translation the which I thought good to direct vnto your worship and so much the rather bicause of youre ripe iudgement and perfect knowledge in the French tongue the which as it is well knowen to be vncomparable so are the rest of your most godly vertues wherewith nature hath endued you as a worthie and graue counseller to this honorable Citie of London Receyue therefore I besech you this my rude translation and it accepting in good part excuse my rash enterpise esteeming it as a zeale of my good will the which moste worthilye vnto your worship I haue directed Your daily Orator Iohn Alday To the Right Excellent and Reuerende Lord and Prelate my Lord Iames of Betoun Archbishop of Glasco and Ambassador of Scotland Peter Boaystuau wisheth health and perpetuall obedience MY good Lorde certaine auncient Philosophers haue made maruellous complaints against the ingratitude and misknowledge of man for that he neuer entreth into his owne conscience and considereth not his owne proper nature althoughe that his industrie and prouidence be so great that it spreadeth all abrode In such sort that neyther the compasse and largenesse of the Earth the violence nor deepenesse of the Seas neyther the amplitude and spreading of the Ayre neyther the burning heate nor distance of the Sunne neyther yet the course or reuolutiō aswell of y e Clouds as of the Firmamēt can retaine or hinder the celerity of his Spirit but that he will séeke know the nature resort of al y ● is contained in the vniuersal world The furie and rage of y ● wilde beasts he tameth and maistereth and he only remaineth without bridell or snaffle by his diligence and promptnesse of wit he hath described the properties of herbes and plants the secret vertues of stones with the calcionating of mettels And notwithstanding man is so masked and disguised that he knoweth not himselfe He is the Heraulde beginner and foreshewer of things contayned in the circute of this worlde and yet he is blinde and dumbe in his owne doings He foreséeth and discouereth the nature and propertie of the Elementes he reformeth ordeyneth compasseth and weyeth that which is séene vnder the concauits of the Skies And neuerthelesse man in himselfe is as one confoūded and ouercome In consideration wherof my good Lord I haue vnto him addressed this Rule by the which he may contemplate and aduise without being drawen beside him selfe his infirmitie and miserie to the ende that making an anotamie or foreshewing of all the partes of his life he be the sooner moued to detest abhorre his vile and corrupt liuing And if we would be equitable Iudges of humaine actions what is this worlde anye other than a Rule circle or compasse where as some play the handicraftes men of base condicion others represent Kings Dukes Earles Marquesses Knights Barons and others constituted in dignities and notwithstanding assoone as they haue layde downe their maskings and disguisings and that death cōmeth which maketh an ende of this bloudie Tragedie then they knowe themselues to be all men and wretched sinners and then the Lorde God which is in heauen laugheth at their foolish enterprises and vanities as witnesseth y e Prophet Dauid yea with such a dreadfull laughter that he maketh vs quake for feare and the earth to shake Man then in my iudgement is subiect to an infinit number of miseries and calamities in the which he is wrapped in from his birth euen to his graue wherefore séeing this pitiful Metamorphose also his excellēt

anye thing in his net draweth it vp and so goeth away withall othersome there are that play all out and others that remayne vntill they are as full as spunges and in the ende they are made to restore all others also that doe nothing but inuent subsidies and séeke meanes to inlarge or multiplie the treasures of kings and so become riche with spoyling of the poore people And Princes do by thē many times as we do by our hogs we let them fatten to the ende to eate and deuour them afterwarde so are they suffered many times to enriche themselues for to be despoyled after when that they are so fat and one that is new come shal manytimes be preferred in their places here you may sée how y t these poore courtiers sel their liberty for to become rich they must obey al commaundements be they iust or vniust they must frame thē selues to laugh whē y e Prince laugheth to wéepe whē he wéepeth approue y ● whiche he approueth cōdemne that which he condemneth they must obey to al alter and chaunge wholy his nature to be seuere with those that are seuere sorowfull with those that are sorowfull and in a maner transforme themselues into the nature of him whō they will please or els to get nothing If the Prince be impudent they must be the like if he be cruell they must delight in bloudshed To be shorte they must frame themselues to all ordinances and maners of the Prince or whom they will please and yet many times one little offence stayneth all the seruice that one hath done in his life time The which those that assisted y ● Emperor Adrian did féele who when they were elected by him into hie estates and dignities by the reporte of diuers flatterers they had not only taken from them that which before he had giuen them but also they were declared to be his chiefe enimies The which Plato liuelye considering and foreséeing in the Court of the Atheniensis did prōptly quit their deliciousnesse and yet he coulde not so well take heede to himselfe but that he returned to Dennis a tyrant of Sicilie who in the ende solde him to Pirats of the sea But what happened to Xenon that olde sage graue Philosopher whom Phalaris in satisfaction of his seruice caused most cruelly to be put to death as also did the King of Cyprus Anacreō to the noble philosopher Anaxagoras and Nero his tutor Seneca Alexāder Calistenus for that he wo●● not worship him caused his féete to be cut of his eares his hāds also his eyes to be put out and so left in the mercie of a straight prison or dungeon wherein he finished most miserably his dayes Such hath bene many times the ende of a great number of learned men who bicause they woulde not obey to the fearfull affections of Monarchs loste their liues in recompence of their good seruice and wholesome counsels without putting in account the vices that frequent those that followe the Courte whereas the most part of humain thinges are abolished Many in y e Court put of their cappes to thée that woulde be glad to sée thy head from thy shoulders such bow their knée to do thee reuerence which would that they had broken their leg to cary thée to thy graue Many haue the name of Lord that meriteth y e name of a hangman there is alwayes I know not what nor how or one I vnderstand not who is the cause that incessantlye one complayneth altereth or els despiseth In the Courte if thou wilt be an adulterer thou shalt finde of thy complices if thou wilt quarrell thou shalt find to whom if thou wilt lie thou shalt find those that will approue thy lies if thou wilt steale thou shalte finde them that will shewe thée a thousand wayes howe if thou wilte be a carder or a dicer thou shalt finde them that will cog and playe with thée if thou wilt sweare and beare false witnesse thou shalte finde there thy like to be shorte if thou wylte giue thy selfe to all kynde of wyckednesse and vices thou shalt find there the very exāple giuers Here may you sée the life of my maisters the Courtiers which is no life but a continuall death Here you may sée wherin their youth is emploied whiche is not youth but a transitorie death Whē y ● they come to age knowest thou what they bring from thēce their gray heades their legges full of gouts their mouth hauing a naughtie smell their backe ful of paine their hearts ful of sorow and thought and their soule filled with sin to be short in the Court there is very little to write but muche to murmure at of the which things yf thou desier a more ample knowledge reade the worke that Dom Anthonie Guenera bishop of Mondouent and the Crowner of the Emperor and Eneas Siluius otherwise called Pope Pius which haue compassed twoo most excellent and perticular treatises of thys matter wherein they haue painted my maisters the Courtiers so in their coulors that they haue stayed the hope of adding to those that will discouer after them Let vs leaue speaking of y e Courtiers with their life so vnquiet and miserable and let vs contemplate a little the estate of Kings Princes Monarchs and Emperors for whome onely it séemeth that felicitie is created for if we consider all that maye render the life of man in tranquility happy and content we shall finde that fortune among all other mortall creatures hathe prouided for them prodigally What maketh mā more wonderfull in this worlde but goods richesse dignities Empire licēce to do good or euill without correction powre to exercise liberalitie all kind of volupteousnesse aswell of the spirite as of the bodie All that may be wished for for the contentation of man be it in apparell in meates or drinkes varietie in meates in magnificence in seruices in vestures that which maye tickle the memorie and flatter the concupiscence of the fleshe is prepared for them euen from their cradell for to conduct y e estate of their life in more happe and felicitie The discourse of which if we wil consider outwardlye there is not one but will confesse that they alone triumph oner that that others languish in But if that we will consider things more nearer and examine and waye them in a true ballance we shall find that the selfe same things that we thinke degrées for to attaine to felicitie and to cause them to be happie are the verie instruments of vice that cause them to haue more greater sorowes that doth render thē most vnfortunate but wherfore serueth their costlye ornaments and honorable seruices or delicate meates when that they are in continuall feare to be poysoned seduced and beguiled by their seruitors haue not we had the experience therof in our time doeth not Platina write of a certaine Pope that was poysoned by the siege with a paper that his seruant did

learned and wel séene in the knowledge of Histories or memoriall things done in our time where as he sayth that the yeare a thousand fiue hundreth twentie eight the world was giuen to so many vices and was so full of sinne and iniquitie that it was not humbled and amended bicause of the furious assaultes and great effusion of bloud of the former wars but to the cōtrarie it was become worse and wholy depraued by the meanes whereof the bonde of Gods wrathe was sprede out in this poore Realme of Fraunce after such a sorte that it was thought that all was brought to an end For there happened so great calamitie pouertie and miserie that there was neuer the like knowen by memoriall of time of the like affliction aswell in humaine bodies as in fruties and reuenues of the earth for during the space of fiue whole yeares which beganne the yeare 1528. the time came into suche a disorder that the foure seasons left their natural course and shewed themselues chaunged and altered among themselues the Spring time being Haruest and the Haruest the Spring time the Sommer in Winter and the Winter in Sommer but aboue all the Sommer had such powre y ● it occupied the raigne and domination of the others and speciallye against his nature contrarie so that in the déepest colde of Winter that is to wit December Ianuarie and February in y ● which times they ought to rest die leaue the ground and giue it ouer to frostes snowes and cold it was so extreme whote and the earth was so heated and burned that it was a fearefull sight to sée For in fiue yeares there fell little frost that remained aboue one day or twain so that by this vnaccustomed great heat maintained and nourished the vermine of the earth as Todes Frogs Grashoppers Caterpillers and such like in such quantity that the yong and tender corne was no sooner come forth and out of his blade but that it was eatē and deuoured which was the cause that the corne that ought to multiplie and haue many eares and stalks of one roote brought forth but one or twoo and yet very barren beeing full of Darnell and blastings in such sort that when it was gathered the moste part came not aboue the quantitie of the sowed séede and manye times lesse And this famine lasted fiue yeares without ceasing a thing so pitifull and miserable that it is not possible for man to ymagine the like without seeing whiche was the cause that a quarter of Wheat was sold at Lyonnois Forests Auergny Bauionlois Burgonny Sauoye Dolphinye and manye other places for the summe of .xiiij .xvi .xviii. poundes turnoys And the poore people were so afflicted with suche dearth and scarcitie so long a time that a number of mischiefs and maledictions did follow For y e poore people that liued well inoughe of theyr rents and reuenues were cōstrained to forsake all and aske their bread for Gods sake and the number of poore beggars did so encrease that it was a pitifull sight to sée them in flockes harde to ouercome and more daungerous to endure for beside the great feare that men had to be robbed of them the which extreme necessitie did constraine there proceded a great stinking and infectious smell out of their bodies for that they filled their bellies with all kindes of hearbes good naught helthfull and venemous so that there was no herbes left in Gardens that they might come by not so muche as the stalkes and rootes of Coleworts of the which they founde not the one halfe to sustaine them And when that there was no more to be had in Gardens they had their refuge to wilde herbes not vsed so that the most part of them woulde séeth great kettels with Mallowes and other herbes and so satisfied thēselues as doe hogs But it was a greater wōder to sée bread made of chaffe ackornes and of haye séede the which the poore were forced to eate by impacience and rage of hunger and also remembring themselues howe that hogs do delite to féede on Fearne rootes they made breade thereof deceiuing or beguiling the hogs of their foode and sustenāce The which is inough to make vs knowe how much oure Lord Gods wrath was against y ● filth of our sinne séeing that he permitted that mē should be brought to such necessitie as to eate with the hogges by the which meanes followed a number diseases and the worlde fell into a greate feare séeing a great bande or companie of men and women yong and olde goe shaking or trembling in the stréetes the others hauing the skinne swollen lyke drummes others lying halfe deade on the ground drawing their last breath and of such kind of people were stables and barnes filled others were so languishing that of great paine they coulde tel their necessitie nor yet scant draw their breath but quiuered and shaked with their legs rather séeming like to fancies and dreames than men Besides al this the great compassion was to see a great company of poore mothers bare leane and disfigured compassed and charged with many yong children the which by great distresse of famine cried out vnto their mothers for foode the which beheld them so pitifullye and dolefully that it séemed to me the greatest pitie of al hearing the anguishe and distresse of heart that they shewed by shedding abundance of teares and pitifull looke The saide Paradin writeth to haue séene at a place called Louhans in Burgonie a poore woman the which by great means and importunitie had found the meanes to get a piece of bread the which was sodenly snatched out of hir hand by a litle childe of hirs the which she gaue sucke to and held in hir armes the which was scant a yeare olde the mother had neuer séene it eate bread before for y ● which she maruelled greatly beholding hir lyttell childe how it did eate this same browne breade that was hard and drie with so great an appetite that it was a straūge maruellous thing to behold for y e mother woulde haue gathered togither the crums that fell from his mouth but the child began to crie out as though it had sustained some great wrong for anger that he saw his mother gather togither the crums as though he had ben afraied not to haue had inough O eternal almightie God what image what spectacle might there be founde anye heart so void of humanity that might not be moued thereby with cōpassion pitie The said Author reciteth yet that in an other village not far distant from the before saide were found two women the which not finding wherewithall to sustaine or slake their hunger did eate and fill themselues with a venemous herbe named Scyla being like Onyons or wilde Lettise and not knowing the vertue nor propertie of the saide herbe poysoned themselues in such sort and maner that their féete and hands became gréen like Lezardes skinnes and the poyson came forth vnder their nayles of

Who hath giuen to y e belly so large a compasse Who is it that hath made y ● most honorablest members to sight and the foule and filthie ones hid and placed out of sight Behold saith he how many deuine workes are shewed in one only matter what beautie there is in euerie one of them how they are equally compassed and differing the one from the other in their offices and actions Whō thinkest thou hath so formed and made them who is the father and the mother only God inuisible It séemeth now that we haue sufficientlye treated of humaine nature there resteth nowe for the perfection of mans honor to shew that there is no Art nor science but that men haue excelled eche one in their degrée more or lesse according to the influēces and fauors that hath bene giuen them from heauen I will leaue to speake here of liberall Arts and generally of all disciplines for to euitate prolixitie the originall and inuentiō of which is due to man as to his souereigne Author I will therfore shew certaine particuler things In euery one of which I will expresse what the dignitie and subtillitie of man is How wonderful should séeme to vs the magnamitie and noble heart of Alexander the which in his yong and tender yeares lamēted and wept bitterly knowing that his father Philip had obtained victorie of diuers and sundrie battels and after that he was demaunded of his gouernors from whence proceaded those teares with y e which his face was dewed and couered for feare saide he that I haue that my father hauing ouercomed so manye people and nations there is nothing left for me wherein I might exercise this excessiue desier that I haue to fight and become partaker of his glorie O what Oracle of generositie and manly courage was there in this childe to whome afterwarde fortune succeded according to his desier for before he was come to the age of thirtie yeares he had subdued so many Nations that he foūd no more that did resist him in the world so that he was constreyned to go or trauell to the furthermost parts of Affrica by the desertes to trie his strength against wilde and brute beastes for to ouercome them aswell as men the Historiographes write of him that he séeing himselfe Monarche of all the world remembring with himselfe that he had heard say of a Philosopher named Democrites that there was many worlds for the which cause he caused many Pioners and Artificers to dig and vndermine the ground to the end that if there were anye other people founde they might be brought vnder his obedience Likewise of Iulius Caesar Pompei one of the which beside the victories of ciuill warres faught fiftie times in battell ranged and flew aleuen hundreth fowre score and twelue thousād men the other besides nine hundreth and fortie shippes that he had taken on the sea conquered and had victory of eight hundreth seuentie six townes from the Alpes to the furthermost parte of Spaine Let vs not leaue out the glorie of Marcus Sergius who after he had lost his right hand and receyued .xxiij. wounds at diuerse times fought afterwarde foure sundrie times with his left hande and after he coulde not help himself therewith he made him an hande of Iron with the whiche he fought at the stege before Cremona defended Playsance and tooke twelue places in Gaule Let vs leaue speaking of armes and come to Artes and sciences that séeme to vs more vile and abiect as painting caruing grauing and such like Xeuxis a most excellent Painter counterfetted by his Arte a vine full of Grapes so subtillye wrought that the Birdes that did flie in the ayre woulde strike against it thinking there to finde foode And Appelles for the space of ten yeares employed al his wit and pollicie to paint an Image of Venus the which was endewed with so excellent beautie that the yong men that stoode beholding of it became amorous as though it had bene some liue Image and therefore by publicke edict he was charged to kéepe it secret for feare to allure the youth to corruptiō Who is it that doth not maruell of that whiche Pausanias a Greeke Historiographe writeth to haue bene formed made in Heraclia a Prouince of Peloponensia by a certaine artificer the which composed a brasen Horse hauing the tayle cut and deformed and all the other parts of the bodie perfect to y e which notwithstanding the other horses sought to ioyne and couple with such an ardent desier and affection that they brake oftentimes their houes with their often riding and horsing of him and for all that they were beaten and driuen a way yet woulde they not from thence but they would rage as if they had foūd a proude Mare But what secret thing what charme or what hid vertue was there therein which could constrain and force the brutish beasts to obey and loue a trunke of mettell voyde of féeling or vnderstanding Plutarch exalting the excellencie of man writeth that Archimedes did draw with one hand and with one corde or rope ouerthwart the market place of Siracusa a great ship fraighted with merchandise as if it had bene a horse that had bene led by the neck and all by the science of Methmaticke the which Baptist Leon one of the expertest men in our time assured to doen if anye great Lorde woulde furnish the thing What miracle in nature may be found more greater than this deuise of glasse that Sabot King of the Persians caused to be made the which was so great that he was set in a corner of the same as in the sphere or compasse of the earth séeing vnder his féete the cloudes starres that did rise and lie downe in such sorte that thoughe he was mortall he séemed to be aboue the heigth and expectation of immortality What thing more greater and deuiner maye be more maruellous speciallye in a King that ruled all the worlde who after the possession of the earth and the Sea he séemed to possesse the cloudes the heauen and the habitatiō of God But what Deitie or celestiall spirite might be hid in the statute or Image of Memon the whiche euery time and neuerthelesse man was the Author or Inuenter as Strabo and Cornelius Tacitus sheweth Who is it that woulde not be rauished in admiration if at any time he haue read that whiche the Histories make mention of a Doue of wood composed by Architas being made by certain figures and proportions of Mathmaticke did flie in the ayre as other birdes at the admiration of which Albert forged a brasen heade the which coulde speake plainely as if it had bene a liuing soule enclosed therein As in like case Galen an Author worthie of credēce writeth that Archimedes forged a glasse that burned in the Sea the ships of his enimies the which thing shoulde not seeme to vs straunge nor vncredible to those that haue seene a Spanyarde