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A09765	A summarie of the antiquities, and wonders of the worlde, abstracted out of the sixtene first bookes of the excellente historiographer Plinie, vvherein may be seene the wonderful workes of God in his creatures, translated oute of French into Englishe by I.A.; Naturalis historia. English. Abridgments	Pliny, the Elder.; Alday, John, attributed name.; I. A.	1566 (1566)	STC 20031; ESTC S110480	40,229	130

after this sort If the husbands will haue probation of the honestie of their w●ues they wil present their children before the Serpentes which will flye awaye if that the children be legitimate but if that the Serpentes remaine and feare not then are they bastardes When they are bitten with serpents they put their spittle vpon the place for to he●le it specially their fasting spittle for the Serpente feareth mannes spittle as hote water In India there are hye m●n and also maruellous hie beastes as for a witnesse there are dogges as great as Asses trees as hye as an archer can scarce shote to the toppe and vnder the shadow of one figtrée may a hundreth horses stande bycause of the fertilitye of the lande the temperance of the ayre and the aboundaunce of waters there are men fyue cubites in hight the which neuer vse to spit nor are troubled with the paine of heade eyes or téeth and are seldome sicke Others there are in the Mountaines with heades like dogs In a parte of India the women neuer beare children but once whose children waxe straight waye olde And others called Sciopedae that haue their feete so brode that when they are layde they couer them therewith from the heate of the Sunne and they be very swift in running Some towarde the East haue no heades but haue eyes in their shoulders and others called Epithamai Pigmei that are of one yarde hye In the farther part of India towards the East neare to the Ryuer of Gangis there is a people clad with leaues that liue by smelling they neuer eate nor drinke in their iourneys they beare floures and rootes to smell at and they are easely killed by filthy smelles and sauours There are little men called Pigmei among whiche the highest passe not the hight of two cubites hauing a wholsome ayre and pleasant countrey where they dwel the which men are molested with Cranes as writeth Homer therfore it is no maruell thoughe often tymes they are caryed away with those Cranes In the spring time the Pigmei assemble together moūted vpon shéepe and Goates armed with darts and arrowes for to discend downe to the sea and for the space of thrée monthes consume and breake the Cranes Egges and kill the yong ones otherwise they woulde so multiplie that those little men should neuer rest in quiet Some there are in the valleys called Pandore that liue two hundreth yeares in their youth hauing whyte haire in age their haires become blacke There is a people that lyueth but fortie yeares whose wyues doe bring forth children at the age of seauen yeares There are people that haue long hairy tayles growing These things and others hath nature made monstruous for our examples Among the women there are dyuers childings some haue had six children some eyght and some nine and sometime children of dyuers kindes which are called Hermaphrodites whiche are both man and woman There hath bene that haue had in their lyfe tyme thirtie Children and among the maruelles of the worlde a childe being newe borne did enter againe into his mothers wombe in the Citie of Saguntra And it is no fable nor tale to haue sene women and maydes transformed into men The females are soner engendred than the Male and become sonest olde the Females do moue in their mothers wombe most on the left side and the Males on the righte side And Plinie reciteth to haue sene a mayde on the night of hir mariage to be naturally trāsformed into a man and incontinent hir beard to grewe she to be maried againe to a woman If that a woman bring forth two children at one burthen lightly there is shorte lyfe eyther to the mother or to one of hir children and if they be both Males or Females then are they lyghtly of a shorte life Among the women there is no certaine time prefixed of their trauailings with childe for some be delyuered in seuen monthes some in eight and most commonly in nine monthes Also sometime at ten and. xi monthes Before the seuenth monthe the childe hath no lyfe the tenth day after she hath conceyued Payne in the heade a shadow or mist before the eyes no taste nor relisse in meates and a ●ndigesting stomacke are signes of conceptiō That womā that bringeth forth a male child hath better colour and easyer deliuerance Miserable is y e condition of man For the Princes by this meanes haue their originall and are subiect to fortune and hath nature as others We reade of a Romaine Prince that dyed in the morning in pulling on his hose an other dyed with the stinging or byting of a Grape an other was chooked with a haire in eating of Milke Scipio Affricanus was the first called Cesar for that Caesus fuit matris Vterus hys mothers wombe was opened for him to passe out Of those that are crypple lame and counterfeite of nature commeth whole lymmed perfect children in their members and sometymes of perfect and well proporcioned people commeth lame and vnperfect children A woman doth not beare children after fiftye yeares and there are many that ceasse at fortye As touching men we reade truely of a Prince which at the age of foure score and sixe yeres begat a childe When Cato was borne his father was foure score yeares olde Unto children their téeth come cōmonly at senē monethes the seuenth yeare they renue for then their téeth fall and there commeth to them others and some are borne with téeth And if that a dead body be burned the téeth wil neuer burne but remayne whole Unto some their téeth fayle them at middle age cōmonlye a man hath thirty two teeth and he that hath more is estéemed to be the longer lyuer Zoroastes did laugh that day he was borne yea that with the very force of laughing he did reiecte the hande that was vpon his heade for the placing and fashioning of his heade setling of his braines A man is as long from the foote to the heade as the extending or spreading abroade of hys armes counting frō the great fingers Men doe way more than women the dead bodies way more than the liuing and those that are a sléepe way more than they that are awake Some lyue without marow in their bones therfore they neuer thirst for this cause women drinke lesse than men and such do neuer sweat It is recited of Crassus the Senatour y t he did neuer laugh Socrates the great clarke was neuer séene mery nor ioyful nor angry at one time more than at an other and therefore mennes complexions are dyuers In Rome hath bene sene a Princesse called Antonia Drusi neuer to spitte Pomponius neuer to belk The strēgth of menne hath bene great and more in one than another It is readde of one that with one hande did holde a Chariot that thrée horses coulde not make to go forward nor remoue Hercules did cary his great Mule on hys backe Fusius Saluius did beare two hūdreth on his