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A03363	A contemplation of mysteries contayning the rare effectes and significations of certayne comets, and a briefe rehersall of sundrie hystoricall examples, as well diuine, as prophane, verie fruitfull to be reade in this our age: with matter delectable both for the sayler, and husbandman, yea and all traueylers by sea and lande, in knowing aforehande, howe daungerous a tempest will succeede by the sight of the clowd coming ouer the head, and other matters fruitful to be read as shal appere in the table next after the preface. Gathered and englished, by Thomas Hyll.	Hill, Thomas, b. ca. 1528.	1574 (1574)	STC 13484; ESTC S117617	58,354	156

9. If the Haruest be caulme the Winter folowing shall be windie 10. The South winde bloweth when Virgiliae aryse that is in the Moneth of May. 11. The North winde bloweth at the rysing of Orion which is the day folowing after the Dogge starre risen 12. The South west winde bloweth in the Moneth of February when that named Fidicula beginneth to set and it is confirmed by the rysing of Cinguli Orionis for after this the earth openeth and beginneth to sende vp plants 13. When the Moone is ioyned to Iupiter as the Astrologians affirme newe winds are caused Euen so the Moone running in Cancer procureth windes When the Moone commeth vnto Iupiter in Cancer you shall sée windes to arise without doubt 14. The Sunne in Capricorno the Moone in eyther Scorpio Capricorno Tauro or Virgine doe cause most colde windes The same doth the Sunne moue in Aquarius when Saturne shall be right against that the Moone beholdeth eyther of these Saturne also retrograde in an earthly signe seaseth windes The selfe same causeth Mars 15. Windes are wont to blowe for the more part at the morning and euening But at noone for the greater heate of the Sunne the winds then cease And lyke at midnight are extinguished through the extreme coldnesse 16. When the windes begin from the morning to blow then doe the windes longer continue 17. The South winde not beginning but leauing or ceasing bringeth a showre For when out of a hote place the wynde bloweth the selfe same ayre at the winde beginning is yet hote 18. One and the selfe same winde may cause contrarie effectes as both chiefe and weake and by it selfe one and an other by accidence Euen the like the East winde from the beginning is drie but the ending of it is waterie The North winde by it selfe cooleth yet by accidence may it heat ▪ 19. All mightie windes coole and drie and procure or cause fayre weather but th● weake windes heate and moystine and ingender rayne 20. The longer contynuing and stronger windes are caused which begin from the daye than those which beginne in the night 21. When the North wynde blowing moueth many clowds signifieth a drought to folow or great heate 22. The Easterly windes be drie thorow the combustion of the vapours wrought by the sunne for which cause they produce and cause a drougth 23. The Westerly windes doe moystine through the grosse vapours left behinde of the Sunne in the night time 24. Raine hastily comming is foreknowne by a great clowde arysing from that part of the worlde from which the windes arise or come And howe much the thicker and greater the clowde shall be so much the sooner and certayner shall it gyue the testimony of a boysterous raine soone after to follow 25. The South winde when it bloweth fiercely or sturdilye and the North winde after beginneth to blowe is a note of a most great tempest especially on the Sea. 26. Lightnings with a Northerly wind doe signifie raine to folow 27. Thunder with an Easterly or Westerly winde declare raine or a mightie tempest to follow 28. A Northerly yeare after the minde of the auncient obseruers is farre better then a Southerly 29. It is good and profitable to take a purgation at the blowing of the South and East winde For then are the members soluble and lose and giue place to medicine but the North winde blowing doth then mightily stop and let the working of a purgation 30. The auncient in times past haue obserued the first night of Ianuary which i● the same were cleare wythout rayne and caulme without winde promised a fruitfull and prosperous yere to follow If with an Easterly winde then was the yeare to come daungerous to cattle If wyth a Westerly winde then was the yere folowing deadly to kings If with a Southerlye winde the people dyed that yere folowing If with a Northerly winde the yeare to come was knowne barraine with the scarcitie of victuals Of the impressions named Parelia and Paraeselinae The definitions PArelius is a thick impression in a clowde caused at the one side of the Sunne thorowe the refraction of the Sunne beames which then representeth the sunnes ymage 2. Parelius is a dewie clowdie thicke whole placed vnto the one side of the sunne and representing his similitude and figure For the clowde nere to the Sunne and turned into water in which the Sunne by the broken beame for the dewe thicknesse and his wholenesse frameth then a similitude euen the lyke in a cleare ayre as the same in a polished Glasse which ymage thus appearing at the one side named Parelius 3. Parelius is an ymage and figure of the Sunne expressed in a dewie clowde and bright when the subtill moysture betwéene our sight and the Sunne concurreth into one bodye of a round equall clowde and the like fashyoned standing right afore the sunne from which the sunne beames are broken open as from a Glasse vnto the eye So that these then frame and cause a lyke figure to the sunne 4. Parelius is an ymage of the sunne placed by the side in an equal clowde eyther of the East or West which is the cause why many sunnes sometimes are séene which truely are caused when a thicker clowde shal be drawne vnto the one side of the sunne in which the Sunne beames broken open doe leaue the kinde forme of a true lyght So that the first figure is a representation of the perfite and true sunne But the seconde and thirde is through the breaking open of the sunne beames placed in the clowde on the one side 5. Parelius is as affirmed Seneca a rounde clowde and bright and lyke to the sunne 6. Parelia are named to be those when manye Sunnes are séene to shyne in the clowds vnder the East or West Parelius is then caused when a clowde of y one side of the Sunne shall be placed eyther of the East or West especially equall and a like thicke which as a Glasse receaueth and expresseth the ymage or fygure of the sunne For we sée both in the water and in a thicker ayre and in other bodyes which consist with a light vpper face and equall that the matters placed by a iust proportion to be expressed vnto them as in a Glasse 7. Paraselinae be ymages of the Moone caused by the refractiō of the Moones beames in a moyst clowde néere to a light equally thick in which the bodye of the first or true Moone is the lyke séene as any other body ●n a Glasse 8. Paraselinai are named many Moones ●f which onely one is true the others be ●ut figures and ymages of the Moone cau●ed by the refraction of the Moones beames ●n the clowde For these reflexions are one●y caused of the effectuous beame lyke as is 〈◊〉 the Sunne or Moone The efficient cause is the celestiall vertue ●nd starrie propertie that is the Sunnes ●nd Moones beames drawing vp and pre●aring a matter vnto such a figure that

re●●esented the forme and ymage of the sunne ●nd Moone The materiall cause is a thicke ●owde equall and regulare which is pla●●d by a thwarte maner of the sunne so that ●yther aboue nor beneath him nor right before him it standeth but placed at the one side And this matter thicke and waterie that the refraction may be caused the better and this regulare also that it may the more giue and shewe an vniforme ymage of the sunne And waterie that the Sunne may the commodiouser be represented euen as the like is caused in water So that the clowde prudently is placed on the one side and not vnder the Sunne nor right against for if right against then woulde the same be a Rainebow if vnder the sunne then would Halo be caused And this for the more part is caused in the East or West through the disposition of the clowde The formall cause is the refraction of the sunne beames in the clowde being at the one side which altogyther as a Glasse receyueth the sunnes beame and the colour which then is in the sunne it causeth euen the like to appéere as when of a light ayre through his thicknesse the sight is broken For the beames falling vnto the same clowde thus fashioned and of the same broken vnto the sight especiallye in that clowde not being ouer thicke thinne or blacke doe expresse the ymage of the sunne To conclude when a dewie clowde or vapourous is in anye part pierced then are the Sunne beames gathered in that hole and by the refraction shed vnto the sight so that such a brightnesse appéereth as if the sunne it selfe where séene For thys Parelius is as the ymage of the sunne appearing in a great looking Glasse And hereof it is that manye sunnes sometimes are sayde to appeare togither as two or thrée So that the first is the figure of the sunne it selfe the second and third consisteth through the breaking of the sunne beames in the clowde placed on the one side by which thrée sunnes or more are oftentimes séene As the like by experience was obserued that the king of Polelande sawe togyther sixe sunnes after which folowed that Fraunces the French king was taken prisoner for the tyme. The similitude AS the drie exhalation and that vehemently hote in pierting the vpper region of the kindled starre doth represent a ●orme and sphericall figure through the farlesse euen so a strong and mightie vapour flying into the highest of the middle ayre giueth the forme of the sunne and causeth a circle to appéere The ende and effect of these THe finall cause Phisick or the materiall effect of Pareliorum is the foreshewing signifying and pronouncing of rayne to come abounding of a moyst matter For they signifie that the ayre to contayne much matter or substaunce of showers especially if Parelia shall be placed in the South region of heauen For the greatest clowds hereof waxe ouercharged in that the South ayre is better and sooner chaunged into water than the North ayre But to the Diuines or Theologically these many tymes por●ende and foreshewe feareful and straunge matters so that they be often in doubt what will follow except anye by hap woulde make a coniecture of them For as all celestiall impressions in a maner haue a certaine hid or secret signification in nature which is not materiall euen so doe Parelij alwayes portende som● singuler will and effect deuine to be looked for so that many sunnes are sildome séene but that eyther conspiracies be attempted or the alteration of kingdomes or some new matters laboured about the subuersion and dispos●ng in religion To conclude the cause of these is so secret and diuine that the great conspiracies of Monarchies the dissentions of Kings and Princes and the fearefull vprores and commotions of other Empyries ciuill battels and other lamentable matters to men are wreshewed by such impressions Certaine examples of these IN the yeare of our Lorde 1157. in the Moneth of September were thrée sunnes togyther séene the skie then being verie cléere and within a fewe dayes after of the same moneth thrée Moones were séene and in that moone also possessing the middle place a whyte crosse was séene After which a great discorde folowed among the Cardynals in the election of their highe Byshop and a lyke controuersie among the Princes electours in the election of the Emperour of Rome In the reigne of Henry the seconde king of Englande and in the Calends of October for thrée howres almost were séene thrée circles about the Sunne after which vanished awaye two sunnes séemed to appeere After this sight insued a discorde betweene the king and the Archebishop of Caunterburie And Frederick Emperour besseged Mylayne for seauen yeres almost and in the ende sacked and spoyled the Citie lamentably In the yere 1169. thrée sunnes were séene in the West in the Nonis of September and after two houres two of them vanished the same which possessed the middle did set alone in the Weste and in the lyke maner the next yere folowing thrée Moones appeared In the yere 1314. before the ciuill battle of Lewys of Bauare and Frederick of Austrige which contended and fought for the Empyrie thrée ●unnes were séene in heauen and a discention also of the electours ▪ and other attempts folowed In the yere of our Lord. 1469. at Rome were thrée sunnes séene after which an vprore of the Citizens folowed And the sam● yeare a battle fought in Italie Frannce● Duke of Mylayne dyed and for the segni●ritie many contended by great conspiracies In the yeare 1492. after the middle of December in Polelande were thrée sunnes séene at noone after which Vladislaus king of Hungarie ouercame Maximilian and Casimirus king of Polelande left his lyfe or dyed thys yeare before whose death a Comete went which appéered for two Moneths togither after the sunne setting In the yeare 1514. in the tenth day of Ianuarye and seauentéene of March thrée sunnes were séene in heauen of which the middle was greatest and in the eleuenth of Ianuary and seauentéenth of March thrée Moones were like séene in the same yeare the Sweueland men stirred an vprore agaynst the Duke of Wirtenbergensis which much vexed hym And aboue 40. thousande Moscouites were slayne of the Polanes by the ryuer Boristhenes In the yeare of our Lorde 1523. at Tigurie in Helueria in the sixt Nonas of May thrée sunnes were séene togyther and sundrie circles séene togither in heauen after which in the same yeare folowed a reformation of Churches with the casting forth of Idols instituted and stablyshed at Tigurie In Holland the same yeare a great commotion attempted In the yere 1525. before the death of Lewes king of Hungarie in Hungarie were séene thrée sunnes which without doubt signified y thrée kings should contende for the Emperie as Ferdinandus Duke Iohn of Saxonie and the great Lurke In the yeare 1527. in Sweueland thrée sunnes and sundrie celestiall circles were séene In the yere 1528. and in the seauentéene day of

last finding issue to passe causeth the earth swelled vp to fal and settle agayne in the proper place What the fourth kinde is THe same is when a mightie and huge substance of earth like to a Mountaine is throwne out of the earth or when anye part of the earth sincketh déepe downe thorowe which eyther floodes lakes or riuers or else fires brast forth This kinde doth Aristotle verie well open where he vttereth that the motion of the earth now caused in certaine places doth not cease before that winde which had moued forwarde to cast vp the earth on a great heigth aboue grounde and lyke a storme of smoke and ashes issued forth which like lately hapned by the Sea Heraclea and before néere the Iland Hiera which is one of them which at this day they name Aeolias For in this a part of the earth swelled and rose vp with a noyse into the kinde of a light hill which at the last breaking a sunder much winde issued that sent vp fyre and ashes This also procureth the ouerflowings of the Sea when the bottome of the same is raysed and swollen vp through which manye Ilandes appeare that were neuer seene before The learned Aristotle reporteth that the Countrie Egypt in time past was a great Goulfe of the Sea which through an Earthquake as it shoulde séeme procured to be drye lande and remayning in the same maner vnto this day a like reporteth Herodotus What the materiall cause is THe materiall or effectiue cause neare to the Earthquake is the exhalation hote and drie or the winde engendred and included within the caues or dennes of the earth which séeking a violent issue at hys naturall places breaketh forth of the earth and causeth in this maner a violent shaking of the earth And that the earth of hys proper nature is drie and prepareth vapours and exhalations the same in a maner at this day séemeth a maruell to fewe of any knowledge For the same is sufficiently knowne that it is caused by accidence Yet further the true cause of the earthquake or trembling of the earth is the winde or drie vapour grosse and earthly included of the earth and otherwise sent in or there ingendred so that manifest it is that such spirites or winde to be ingendred in the earth For well knowne is this that the earth of it selfe is drye but the same moystened with daylie showers of rayne and the poores shut harde togither that the exhalation ingendred or conceyued brasteth not forth and salt or sea waters cause the like in that these through the saltnesse close or shut the poores of the earth with which the same is on euerye side compassed and in a maner swimmeth or runneth ouer it and after with the beames of the sunne heating doth ingender a great aboundance of exhalations which not so much breaketh vp into the ayre but that within it selfe often retayneth drye spirites or vapours both grosse and earthly which cause the Earthquake This sentence of Plynie of the materiall cause doe the Philosophers affirme and prooue that the same through the gathering of the spirites is ingendred and Aristotle in these coniectures proueth by a lyke reason that the Earthquake may so be caused The first reason is taken of mans body in which windy spirites when in it they are included are woont to cause a trembling or shaking where the venting forth could not be caused A second reason he gathereth and taketh of the condition of a quyet or caulme ayre and season when as the tyme is cléere and a great stilnesse in the night and at Noone Here or at that time the spirites included in the earth can not breath forth A thirde reason through the plentye of matter which caused greater in the spring and haruest than in the other quarters or partes of the yere Of which in those tymes for the more part are Earthquakes caused A fourth reason he vttreth of experience for so much as the same by vse is found that the agitation not to cease vntill the whole force of spirites shall haue breathed forth The fift and last of the precedent sounde for the earth causeth a roring or sounde thorowe the windie spirite met before the same be smytten resisted The selfe same confirmeth the reason of the tyme and places For these are caused a little before the Sunne rysing at what tyme the windes are woont for the more part to arise In the Equinoctials also when the greater force of vapours consisteth than in the Solstices and through the straight or narrow places of the Sea in which straight places the winde is included is wont there to be violenter and séeking the caues or hollow places doth so smite and shake the earth What the formall cause is THe formall cause is the agitation and smyting of the earth for the drie vapours and windes there included by hys vertue are lifted or forced vp séeking issue forth but when this is no where open thorowe the passages of the earth stopped are driuen and sent back warde with no meane force through which stryuing the earth in the ende is smitten and shaked For by the ouermuch heate or colde is the issue of vapours procured of which the smyting is caused A sure an euident note of this are the windes in mans bodye included For those shake euen the whole body when by force at the last they breake forth and the lyke is caused in the belching and refting and in all other agitations of the bodye of what condition soeuer they be So that the same which procureth the winde aboue the earth and in the clowds thunder the same causeth a trembling or shaking in the passages of the earth Which the obiect or place is of the Earthquake THe great Earthquakes are caused in the Sea coastes where many exhalations may be included For the Sea entreth into the earth as it were by certayne pypes and holloweth the same where after the spirites or windes are ingendred which when they contende to issue forth are repelled or driuen back of the Sea floodes and are on such wise hid againe in the bowels of the earth which after increased nor with those séeketh issue doe then smite against the sides of the earth Aristotle reporteth that the most mightie Earthquakes to be there caused where the Sea daylie floweth or the Countrie is spungeous or the same aboundeth wyth hollow places caues and déepe dennes For which cause he affirmeth that such tremblings to happen oftner about Hellespontus Achaia Sicilia and Euboea through the Sea running neare by which as by certaine pypes entreth into these places and through his coldenesse dryueth inwarde the exhalations The Countrie of Hollande and other hollow places through the multitude of caues and inwarde holes rightlye named Holeland which both the same and others like are subiect to this euill In places farre from the Sea are fewer Earthquakes caused in that the earth there is not so hollowed and the Sea causeth not

setting are they all dead so that these by due proofe are knowne not to lyue aboue a day 37. The ryuer Matronas Celtas deuydeth it selfe from that riuer Belgas which for the straunge propertie greatly to be wondred at in that the common sort affirme that this riuer to be as a destinie or mighty hazarde of lyfe to manye for so much thys ryuer daylie purchaseth to it some pray as hath bene noted of a long tyme by those dwelling fast by 38. In the Mountaynes of Modena in Lumbardie in a place named Mount Zibbius is there a Well out of which runneth a lyuely and singuler water in thys doe men at this day gather a mightie quantitie of Oyle which is knowne of many to be of a miraculous vertue in that the same worketh so maruailous effects on mans bodye as in healing al aches the most griefes and diseases of the body and in the healing also of woundes and sores not inferiour to the artificiall Baulme this of most men named the true Oyle of Peter 39. In the Countrie of Burgony there is a certaine burning Lake in which if a flaming or burning fyrebrande be quenched the same immediately goeth out or is quenched through the moysture consisting in it and a fyrebrand readie quenched dipped in this doth immediatly kindle burne through the fierie Brimstonie heate consisting also in it which is found hote and dry in the fourth degrée 40. There be certaine waters knowne at this day which haue the taste of Wine in that they runne by some swéete iuyce in the earth As by a like in Paphlagonia is reported to be a Well of a wynie taste which causeth the persons drinking of the water to become soone after dronke The cause of which dronkennesse is that the same containeth much of the spirites of the Brimstonie passages which on such wise fill the braine of the creatures with sumes ▪ And a like to this is reported that the ryue● Lincestius to haue waters comming to it of such a propertie that they make persons dronke euen like Wine 41. In the Countrie of Boëmia is a Well of sharpe tast neare that Citie which they name Bilen the water of which the inhabiters thereabout vse in the morning in the stéede of burning Wyne or Aqua vitae 42. Aristotle also wryteth that in the Countrie of Sicilia to be a soower Well which the poore people vse in the stéede of Vinigar as others wytnesse of the same 43. In Scythia also some report that there to be a bitter Well the water of which running into the ryuer not farre distaunte causeth it to taste bitter 44. Certaine Welles and riuers there be excéeding hote especiallye those which issue and runne out by Brimstonie veynes of the earth and other hote places the waters of which are much pierceing and drying by reason of the propertie through which these profite vnto the drying vp of corrupt and rotten humours in diseased bodies And such hote or bathwaters are at certaine times dronke that they may supply euacuations and clensings of the body and reduce it vnto a suit temperatnesse Of certaine fyerie impressions and first of the same named of most men the foolish fyre THe light going before and folowing after men in the ayre especially in the night doe later wryters report to be the foolishe fyre in that the same often appéereth to saylers and men traueyling by lande as eyther going before or following them and maketh a man a foole by seducing him This light also is named Helena when it as one Candle is séene or appeareth alone which besids is reported to be the fyrebrand and pestilence of Saylers For as Helena brought destruction on Asia and Greece euen so hath it bene obserued that when this light hath bene séene alone to haue caused great daunger to saylers Yet such fyres oftentimes are but fantasticall sightes and méere illusions of spirites as the Author prooueth by sundry reasons And this is not named the foolishe fyre of the burning onely but for the longer continuing going before and folowing any person in the ayre For those two Candels or lightes are often tymes séene to go before or to follow men walking or ryding especially in the night and such trauayling on the Sea not without some terrour or feare The foolishe fyre is ingendred of a vapour conglutinated or compact togither in hys partes which then are kindled so that not of the clowde méeting it but of the vehement beating or smyting togyther of the partes in themselues And these two Castor and Pollux be ingendred in the lowest region of the ayre of a fatter fume vnctuous and inflammable which through the coldnesse of the night ayre is so dryuen togither thickned The place where the foolishe fyre doth appéere is knowne to be oftner by the report of wryters in hote places and Countries Yet some agrée that this light is oftner séene in moyst places and regions In that out of Marishe and fumous places or out of a clammy grounde the thick and fat exhalation is eleuated being soone kindled and according to the proportion of the heat doth it ascende eyther more or lesse Or thus out of a clammye earth as in Churchyardes Kitchines and low valleys the thicke and fatte substaunce is eleuated which may soone be kindled and according to the proportion of the heate doth this eyther more or lesse ascende The substaunce is kindled through the concourse of two contrarie qualities which contende in themselues for the vapour is hote and the night ayre colde The reason also why this light doth both folow and flie from men is through the motion of the ayre which by the walking or running is forced So that the faster the man runneth towarde it so much the faster both the same impression flie from him but if he runneth from it then doth it follow him in that the ayre moued doth force the same substaunce An Hystoricall example of this Meteorū may a man read in Plutarchus which he affirmeth in the life of Lysander The cause of Castor and Pollux and where these engendred THese two Castor and Pollux appéers like a double fyre in forme of two burning Candels caused of the exhalation or fatter vapour and vnctuous raysed vnto the lowest region of the ayre in the night which contending with the night colde is so kindled that cleaueth sometimes to the crosse yardes of shippēs and continuing so long burning through the thicknesse and fatnesse of it vntill the substaunce shall be spent And by a peculiar and vayne superstition the people in auncient time supposed and ascribed Castor and Pollux to be the brethren of Helena in that when the Saylers and Maryners had obserued these sitting on both the crosse yardes they supposed and hoped that a more happie course and fortunate successe of the ship to insue through the help as they thought of the two brethren which they beléeued to delyuer them from perill and hazard of perishing and for the same accompted

the clowdes as the lightning consisting for the more part in a gréene or black clowde bigge swollen with a certayne clammye matter gathered rounde through the colde moysture shed about of the clowde and a most sharpe heate folowing procured of the Sunne and starres also through the motion and colde expelled is the same hardned into a solyde and stonie bodye in the lyke order as the baked Tyles which framed before of moyst and soft clay are after through dryed and baked harde as a stone of the burning fyre in the proper Tyle fornace And the same Darte of the lightning is sharpned at the neather ende in that the moysture mixed with the dryeth searching to issue tendeth downewarde and of the same is there formed sharpe but the dry substaunce is in the vpper part gathered and framed rounde as the thicker in forme And this darte oftentimes in the lightnings worketh heauy and lamentable haps on the earth The thinges which sildome or neuer are striken wyth lightning be the Egle the Bay trée and Seale insomuch that a Garland of the Bay trée worne defendeth the person from lightning as the auncient report The Sellers vaultes or the verie déepe places vnder the earth are thought to auayle against the lightning In that the auncient affirme that the lightnings enter not aboue fiue foote into the earth Of this Augustus Caesar as Hystories report when a tempest of thunder and lightning hapned he then hasted into a déepe vault vnder the earth Here note that no lightning is wyth out fyre For fyrie it is named in that the same imprinteth and sheweth manifest signes of fire in the burning scorching making swart Also a venymous beast striken with the lightning they saye to lose the poyson or to be purged of the poyson but the lightning stryking a beast not venymous poysoneth the same and this hapneth in that of the same doing dyuers effectes are sometimes caused by reason of the matter otherwise disposed Euen as it appeareth of a certaine winde putting out one Candell and kindling or lightning an other Of the marueylous force nature and miracles of the lightnings THe lightning receaueth and hath a dyuers nature and effect in that it cutteth cleaueth burneth and s●ayeth beastes with the touching it sometymes hapning venymous burneth the hard and pierceth the thinke bodyes if it shall be without burning it ingendreth a violent and tempestious winde in which storme trées are winded about houses and other strong buyldings throwne downe and the Sea mightilye tossed 2. Certayne is the same by the report o● wryters that euery thing to be shaken and blasted before the lightning smyte it and that no person to be touched which eyther afore shall sée the lightning or heare the thunder 3. When a beast waking is striken with the lightning being dead hath the eyes fast shut but striken sléeping hath the eyes open and lying on the ground is turned by it of the other side 4. The lightning consumeth the sword or meate knife in the sheath without harme of the sheath It melteth the money in the purse as afore vttred it perisheth the foote without harme of the shooe In that it entreth the same being full of poores without resistaunce but about solyde and resisting bodyes it longer stayeth in consuming them It sometimes like hurteth the bones without spot appearing on the fleshe in that through the weake resistaunce and spéedie pierceing of the fyre the fleshe is not harmed of it as maye appeare of the hande spéedily thrust in and handling the burning flame 5. The lightning sometimes parteth asunder trées as if those were clouen with a wedge without burning and sometimes staineth and blacketh by the touching without burning and sometimes burneth both houses and barnes the cause of the first is the vehemencie of the stroke the cause of the second is the thinnesse and weakenesse of the exhalation the cause of the thirde is the thicknesse of the matter of the exhalation for that the fyre in the substaunce more thick doth stronger burne euen as it may appéere in the yron red hote but in the matter lesser or not so thicke it lesser burneth as may appeare in the Towe 6. The lightning poysoneth beasts striken euen like the bit of a Serpent and mad Dogge in that the matter of the same lightning is Brimstonie and venimous 7. The same is to be marueyled at which Seneca reporteth as that wine vessels to be burned with the lightning as afore vttered the wine remayning whole and not shedding the wine the whiles not contayned in any bodye Also the lightning doth so intoxicate the Wine striken that the drinkers of it eyther die or become franticke and madde The same is caused through the infectiue nature of the lightning and the reason of the astonishing of the Wine is the hastie alteration by which the whole clammynesse of the Wine is drawne forth into the outward vpper face where like a thin skin about retayneth the Wine that the same shed or runne not abroade for thrée dayes 8. The lightning striking a person sléeping doth open the eyes of the sléeper but of the person then waking or awake it shutteth the eyes The cause of which is in that the lightning causeth the sléeper to awake but the person awake it astonisheth in such maner that he shall sooner dye then that he can open the eyes againe for the tyme as the auncient report 9. The person stricken and touched with the lightning doth after turne the head and face towarde the stroke from whence the lightning came The cause of this doth Albertus Magnus here shewe in that the force of the stroke comming conuerteth or tourneth the striken bodyes towarde the stroke and naturall is the same to euerye creature to turne it selfe toward the harme sodaynely comming in holding the face towarde it 10. The lightning sometimes harmeth the yongling in the mothers wombe the mother remayning vnharmed the cause of which is the tendernesse of the yongling and strength of the mother as by a lyke example afore vttered of the noble woman Martia of Rome 11. A dead Serpent stricken wyth lightning becommeth full of wormes which otherwise hapneth not to it aliue The cause is in that through the lightning it is purged of the proper poyson which also is of an other nature than the lightning so that the same then hindereth not the procreation of wormes 12. The lightning sometymes burneth and consumeth the garments on the bodye yea the shooes on the féete manye tymes it onely burneth the heares on the head without harme of the body which is caused thorow the weakenesse of the exhalation But this sometymes killeth a man without any hurt or marke appearing or anye signe of burning The same caused through the subtilnesse of the exhalation which if the same shall be grosse leaueth a note of the burning 13. Such which long looke vp at the lightning and hold their faces against the lightning are eyther caused blynde or