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A16281	The fardle of facions conteining the aunciente maners, customes, and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affrike and Asia.; Omnium gentium mores. Book 1-2. English	Joannes, ca. 1485-1535.; Josephus, Flavius. Antiquitates Judaicae.; Waterman, William, fl. 1555?	1555 (1555)	STC 3197; ESTC S102775	133,143	358

them expediente for their owne behoue ¶ The. vii Chapiter ¶ Of Persia and the maners and ordinaunces of the Persians PErsia a countrie of the easte was so called of Perstus the Sonne of Iupiter and Danae Of whome the chiefe citie of the kingedome also was named Persepolis whiche in Englishe soūdeth Persehoroughe or as we corruptly terme it Perseburie and the whole naciō Persiens This countrie as Ptolomie writeth in his fiueth booke hath on the northe Media on the West Susiana on the easte the two Carmaniaes and on the southe an inshot of the Sea called the Bosome of Parthia The famous cities therof ware Axiama Persepolis and Diospolis By the name of Iupiter thei vnderstode the whole heauen Thei chiefely honour the Sonne whom thei calle Mitra Thei worship also the Mone the planet Venus the fyre the earthe the water and the windes Thei neither haue anltare nor temple nor ymage but celebrate their deuine seruice vndre the open heauen vpon some highe place for that purpose appoincted In doinge sacrifice thei haue no farther respecte but to take awaye the life from the beaste As hauing opinion that forasmuche as the goddes be spirites thei delighte in nothinge but the spiritual parte the soule Before they slea it thei set it aparte by them with a corone vpon the heade and heape vppon it many bittre banninges and curses Some of the nacion notwithstandinge when thei haue slaine the beaste vse to laye parte of the offalle in the fire When thei sacrifie vnto the fire they timbre vp drie stickes together cleane withoute pille or barcke And after what time thei haue powred on neates tallowe and oyle thei kindle it Not blowing with blaste of blowesse or mouthe but makinge winde as it ware with a ventile or trenchour or suche like thinge For yf any manne either blowe into it or caste in any deade thing or any durte or puddle it is deathe to the doer The Persians beare suche reuerence to their floudes that thei neither wasshe pysse nor throwe deade carcasse into them No not so muche as spitte into thē But very reuerentlye honour their water after this maner Comminge to lake mere floude ponde or springe thei trenche out a litle diche and ther cut thei the throte of the sacryfice Being well ware that no droppe of blode sprinckle into the water by As thoughe all water ware polluted and vnhalowed ouer all yf that should happen That done their Magi that is to say men skylfull in the secretes of nature layeng the flesh vppon a heape of Myrtus or Laurelle and tymbryng smalle wandes about sette fyre theron brenne yt And pronouncyng certein curses they myngle oyle mylke and hony together and sprinkle into the fyre But these cursinges make they not against the fyre ne water But against the earthe a greate whyle toguether holding in their hande a boūdle of smalle myrte wandes Their kinges reigne by successiō of one kindred or stocke To whom who so obeyeth not hath his heade armes striken of and so wythout buriall is throwē out for karreine Policritus sheweth that euery king of the Persians buyldeth his howse vpō a greate hille and ther hourdeth vp all the threasure tribute taxe that he receyueth of the people to be a recorde after his deathe how good a husbonde he hath bene for the cōmune wealthe Suche of the subiectes as dwelle vpon the sea coast are taxed to paie money But those that enhabite toward the mydde londe suche cōmodities as the quartre beateth or hath wher they dwelle As apothecary druggues woolle coulours suche like and cateille accordingly He is not permitted any one cause to putte any man to death Neither is it lawfull for any other of the Persians to execute any thyng against any of his house or stock that maie sieme in any wyse cruelle Euery one of them marie many wiues holde many cōcubines also beside for the encrease of issue The king Proclaimeth rewarde vnto him that within one yere begetteth most children Fiue yere aftre thei are begotten thei come not in the fathers sight by a certein ordenaunce vsed emong theim but are broughte vp continually emong the women To the ende that if the childe fortune to dye in the time of his infancie their fathers grief maie be the lesse Thei vse not to marie but in one tyme of the yere toward midde Marche The bridegrome eateth to his supper an apple of that countrey or a litle of the maribone of a Chamel and so without any farther banquettyng goeth to bedde From fiue yeres olde to twentie and fowre thei learne to ride to throwe the Dart● to shoote and chiefly to haue atongue voide of all vntruthe For their nourituryng and trainyng in good maners thei haue appoincted theim Masters of greate sobrenes and vertue that teache them dieties and pretie songes conteinyng either the praises of their Goddes or of some worthy Princes Whiche sometime thei sing and sometyme recite without note that so thei mighte learne to confourme their liues vnto theirs whose praises thei sieme them selues to allowe To this lesson assemble thei alwaie together at the calle of a Trompette And as thei growe into yeres an accompt is required of thē how well thei haue borne awaie the lessons of their childhode Thei vse to ronne the race to course bothe on horsebacke and on foote at the leadyng of some noble mannes sonne chosen for the nones The field for the race is at least thre mile and thre quarters longe And to the ende that heate or colde should the lesse trouble them thei vse to wade ouer brookes and swimme ouer riuers so to rowme and to hunte the fieldes and to eate drinke in their armour and wette clothes The fruyes that thei eate are akecornes wild Peares and the fruicte of the Terebinthine tree But their daiely foode aftre their ronnyng and other exercises of the bodie is hard Bisquette or a like crustie bread Hortechocques Gromelle sede a litle roste flesshe or sodden whether thei lust and faire water their drincke Their maner of Huntyng is with the bowe or the Darte on horsebacke Thei are good also in the slynge In the forenoone thei plante and graffe digge vp settes stubbe vp rootes make their owne armour or fisshe and foule with the Angle or nette Their children are decked with garnishynges of golde And their chief iuelle is the precious stone Piropus whiche thei haue in suche price that it maie come vppon no deade corps And that honour giue thei also to the fire for the reuerence thei beare there vnto From twentie till fiuetie thei folowe the warres As for byeng and sellyng or any kinde of Lawe prattle thei vse not Thei cary in their warres a kinde of shieldes facioned like a losenge a quiure with shaftes a curtilace On their heades a copintancke enibatled aboute like a turrette and a brest-plate emboussed of skaled woorke The princes and menne of honour did weare a treble

other mennes olde store but opened thee also the treasury of myne owne witte and bokes not euery where to be found and like a liberall feaster haue set before thee much of myne owne and many thynges newe Farewell and thankefully take that that with labour is brought thee ¶ The first Chapiter ¶ The true opinion of the deuine concernyng the beginnyng of man WHen God had in V. daies made perfecte the heauens and the earth and the furniture of bothe whiche the latines for the goodlinesse and beautie therof call Mundus and we I knowe not for what reason haue named the worlde the sixth daie to the entent there mighte be one to enioye and be Lorde ouer all he made the moste notable creature Man One that of all earthly creatures alone is endowed with a mynde and spirit from aboue And he gaue him to name Adam accordyng to the colour of the molde he was made of Then drowyng out of his side the woman whilest he slept to th ende he should not be alone knitte her vnto hym as an vnseparable compaignion and therwith placed them in the moste pleasaunt plot of the earth fostered to flourishe with the moisture of floudes on euery parte The place for the fresshe grienesse and merie shewe the Greques name Paradisos There lyued they a whyle a moste blessed life without bleamishe of wo the earth of the own accorde bringing forth all thing But when they ones had transgressed the precepte they ware banysshed that enhabitaunce of pleasure and driuen to shift the world And fro thenceforth the graciousnes of the earth was also abated the francke fertilitie therof so withdrawen that labour and swette now wan lesse a greate deale then ydle lokyng on before tyme had done Shortly crepte in sickenes and diseases and the broyling heate and the nipping cold began to assaile their bodyes Their first sonne was Layin and the seconde Abell and then many other And as the world grewe into yeares and the earth began to waxe thicke peopled loke as the nombre did encreace so vices grew on and their lyuing decaied euer into woors For giltelesse dealyng wrong came in place for deuoutenesse cōtempte of the Goddes and so farre outraged their wickednes that God skarcely fynding one iuste Noha on the earth whom he saued with his housholde to repayre the losse of mankind and replenysshe the worlde sente a floude vniuersall whiche couering all vnder water killed all fleshe that bare lyfe vppon earth excepte a fewe beastes birdes and wormes that ware preserued in the misticall arke In the ende of fiue Monethes aftre the floude began the Arque touched on the moūteines of Armenia And within foure Monethes aftre Noas and all his beyng restored to the earth with Goddes furtheraunce in shorte space repeopled the worlde And to th ende the same myghte euery wheare again be enhabited he dispersed his yssue and kyndredes into sondrie coastes After Berosus opynion he sent Cham otherwyse named Cameses and Chamesenuus with his ofspring into Egipte Into Lybia and Cirene Triton And into the whole residewe of Affrike the ancient Iapetus called Attalus Priscus Ganges he sent into Easte Asia with certeine of the sonnes of Comerus Gallus And into Arabia the fertile one Sabus sirnamed Thurifer Ouer Arabia the Waaste he made Arabus gouernour and Petreius ouer Petrea He gaue vnto Canaan all that lyeth fro Damasco to the outemost bordre of Palestine In Europe he made Tuisco king of Sarmat●a from the f●oude of Tanais vnto the Rhene And there were ioyned vnto him all the sonnes of Istrus and Mesa with their brethren fro the mounteyne of Adula to Mesemberia pontica Archadius and Emathius gouerned the Tirianes Comerus Gallus had Italie and Fraunce Samothes Briteigne and Normandie and Iubal Spayne That spiedie and vnripe puttyng forthe of the children from their progenitours before they had throughly learned and enured them selues with their facions and maners was the cause of all the diuersitie that after ensued For Cham by the reason of his naughty demeanour towarde his father beyng constrayned to departe with his wyfe and hys chyldren planted him selfe in that parte of Arabia that after was called by his name And lefte no trade of religion to his posteritie because he none had learned of his father Wher of it came to passe that when in processe of tyme they ware encreased to to many for that londe beyng sent out as it ware swarme aftre swarme into other habitations and skatered at length into sondry partes of the worlde for this banyished progeny grewe aboue measure some fel into errours wherout thei could neuer vnsnarle themselues The tongue gan to altre the knowledge of the true God and all godlie worshippe vanished out of mind Inso muche that some liued so wildely as aftre thou shalt here that it ware harde to discerne a difference betwixte them and the beastes of the felde Thei that flieted into Egipt wonderyng at the beautie and course of the Sonne the Moone as though there had been in them a power deuine began to worship them as Goddes callyng the lesse Isis and the bigger Osiris To Iupiter also thei Sacrificed did honour as to the principall of life To Vulcan for fire to Pallas as Lady of the skie to Ceres as gouerneresse of the arth and to sondry other for other sondry considerations Neyther staied that darkenesse of iniquitie in Egipte alone but where so euer the progeny of Cham stepte in from the begynnyng there fell true godlines all oute of minde and abōdage to the deuell entred his place And there neuer was countrie mother of moe swarmes of people then that part of Arabia that he and his chase to be theirs So greate a mischief did the vntymely banishemente of one manne bring to the whole Cōtrarily the progenie of Iapheth and Sem brought vp to full yeres vndre their elders and rightly enstructed contentyng thē selues with a litle circuite straied not so wide as this brother had doen. Whereby it chaunced that the zeale of the truthe I meane of good liuyng and true worshippe of one onely God remained as hidden in one onely people vntill the tyme of Messias ¶ The seconde Chapitre ¶ The false opinion of the Philosophre concernyng the begynnyng of man BVt the aunciente Philosophers whiche without knowledge of God and his truthe many yeres ago wrate vpon the natures of thinges and thistories of times had another opinion of the originall of man For certain of them belieued the worlde euer to haue been and that euer it should be and man together with it to haue had no beginnyng Certaine did holde that it had a beginnyng and an ende it should haue and a time to haue been when man was not For saie thei the begynner of thynges visible wrapped vp bothe heauen and earth at one instant togither in one paterne and so a distinction growyng on betwixte these meynte bodies the worlde to haue begon in suche ordre as we