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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08171	[The history of strange wonders.]	Camerarius, Joachim, 1500-1574.	1561 (1561)	STC 18507; ESTC S110146	18,042	54

by cōmixion be white firy Likwise such as be called gapings or pi●res c. And there be also which thinke that there be suche colours in dede And it mai be thought that somtyme bloodye cloudes be in dede and sometyme do apeare so For we haue red often that ther hath rained blood and sometime that it only appeareth so by the reflexion of the light Truly it is not to be douted but that both ther be and also appeareth or semeth a bloody colour of burnyng in y e night and of flames chiefely seyng the flame or the inflamed matter and substaunce so thicke And perchaunce more in the winter when vapours to be inflamed or in dede in flames breake out of the earth go vp by an ayre that is colde and moyste and grosse euen as of a grene peace of woode the flames appeare to be more red Per●duenture some beyng persuaded by these philosophicall reasons wyll thynk this our wondrous or strange token or bloodye colour or fyre they wyll name it rather a flame or celesti all burnyng vttterly to be a naturall thyng and such as the causes thereof maye be sufficientlye gathered out of the very bosome of nature and to betoken nothyng els but peraduenture some naturall effect as some mutation of the ayre and of the constitution and course of the yere or some pestilence at hand or immediatlye folowing amonge the signes of the whych nature thei learned are wonte to put fyry speculations as gapynges burnynges comets shuttyng starres other thynges that by nyght maye be perceyned in the ayre For although in this tyme of the wynter vapours hoate and drie and to be inflamed ar not wont to breake out of the earth notwithstanding he sayth it is to be thought that they beyng the longer shut in the earth with great frost being the more abundantly gathered together breake out at the length with more violence when the wayes be opened and being raised vpon high in the hyghest ayre the heate beyng restrained by a repulsion and let or els that that colour was made by the beames of the sonne then beyng neare to the risyng being either kindled or els only appearyng by reflixion and turning backe againe and those whyte furrowes were beames of the Sunne brought in that part onely whereon the substance of the vapours being gathered together was thinne For the beames of the Sunne appeare muche more in the high mountaines then in the lower places Also as it is written in histories thys hathe also happened in other places And greate burnings haue appeared for many vapours were gathered being long shut within the earth by the strength of colde and chiefely in places of mountains whose bellies and waies be for the most part full of such vapours These and suche lyke thinges perchaunce mē that are curious in philosophie or also vtterly godlesse as Epicure and suche other couetous persons will put furth and so persuade vs by this meane to feare nothynge The authour Cicero of diuination sayeth this only reason by the opinion and testimonie of the expositors of monstruous thynges auaileth against all shewes monsters and wonders If that whiche coulde neuer be done be done if it maye not be to be meruailed at And so it to be no monstrous thing or wonder that may be done But it was som great strēgth whych opened the shuttynge of the earth by it it may appeare Because that in some places about midnight an earthquake went before as certain watchmen did obserue it at Surick and certain other hard the shakyng of yron instruments and plats of glasse other saw gapyng in maner of pittes and the dai before the earth opened neare vnto Tubinga So thei do iudge that are indued with mans wisdome But we out of the holye scriptures and out of the treasure of the eternall and diuine wisdom and out of the trew mouth of our lord say that such wonders be sent from god god doyng it other aboue nature or contrary to nature or els vsyng naturall thynges to the signifiyng of hys wyl we saye and do beleue it also histories do witnes that alwayes great calamities haue folowed after suche wonders Out of the booke of Iulius of prodegies or wonders made 505. yere after the makyng of the cytye T. Gracco M. Inuentio Coss amōg other wonders that he rehearseth sayth that the forme of two Sunnes were sene in the day the ayre burned there was often lightnynge storme and tempest P. Scipio Nasica Cn. Martio Coss it is red that the ayre in the nyght burned and much lightning fell P. Affrican and Lelio Coss ryuers of blood flowed out of the earth and in the night y e aire was sene to burne A star dyd burne by the space of two and thyrtye dayes C. Cecilio Cn. Papyrio Coss in the night the mount of Albane was sene to burne houses burnte with lightning and tokens out of heauen The lande of Lucensis gaped abroade In Fraunce the aire was sene to burne The Danes and the Dutchmen passed the Alpes brake the league and made murder of the romaynes and theyr felowes C. Lelio L. Domitius Coss among otherr prodigies or wonders whiche he rehearseth saieth In Italy a burnyng torch appeared in the ayre and all the aire was sene to burne L. Martio S. Iulio Coss in y e lande of Anaria the earth opened a flame arose vp dyd shene in the element About the land of Rhegium parte of the Citie that is towardes the Sea was ouerthrowne wyth an yearthquake Seneca in hys fyrst booke of naturall questions and. xv chapter describeth a wonder or strange thyng like vnto ours AMonge the lightnings sayeth he whiche the Grekes call Sela maye put that fyre that was in the ayre we haue red it often times in histories the which burnyng was so high that sometimes it was sene amonge the starres and sometymes so lowe that it semed some fire a far of A company of men of war vnder Tiberius the emperour beyng amased when the aire for the most part of the night did burne ranne to Colone for succour the fyre not beynge cleare but grosse and smokye Of these lightenyngs no man douteth but they haue a flame which they shewe it is a certaine substaunce of them But in the former lightnings was a bow and a crowne of some certaine substaunce but it pleased vs not c. Out of the booke of Polidor Virgill of wonders and strange thynges IN the yere of our saluacion C. xii a burnyng lyght in maner of a towre wyth great bryghtnes was sene to fall out of the ayre when Ierusalem was taken of the Turkes Wonders or strange thynges taken out of the rehersal of M. Frytschy of Laubany IN the yere of oure Lorde M. C. xl the aire was sene to bourne oftentymes and many starres were sene to fall from out of the skye into the earht Burning lightes fyry dartes and flyinge fires were often tymes sene in the aire Newe starres were sene