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A28489	The theatre of the world in the which is discoursed at large the many miseries and frailties incident to mankinde in this mortall life : with a discourse of the excellency and dignity of mankinde, all illustrated and adorned with choice stories taken out of both Christian and heathen authors ... / being a work of that famous French writer, Peter Bovistau Launay, in three distinct books ; formerly translated into Spanish by Baltazar Peres del Castillo ; and now into English by Francis Farrer ...; Theatrum mundi. English	Boaistuau, Pierre, d. 1566.; Farrer, Francis.	1663 (1663)	Wing B3366; ESTC R14872	135,755	330

little more paper in the further prosecution of the work in proving how there never was nor will be found any Art Science or other thing wherein men have not excelled all other creatures some more then others and that as it hath been granted them from above Now to add somthing to mans Valew Esteem and Reputation I shall not treat of the seven liberall Sciences nor of Mechanick Arts the invention of which we all certainly know was from man Not to be tedious and troublesome I shall onely hint upon some divine particularities which have been experimentally found in men and thereby to demonstrate how farr the power of man exceeds it self and how great is the subtilty of his wit With very much reason we ought to admire the magnanimous spirit of Alexander the Great who in his Child-hood and most tender years hearing a relation of the many great Victories which King Philip his Father had won he wept bitterly and being asked by his Tutor and Favorites the cause of this his so sudden and passionate tears in time of so much Feasting and Rejoycing For grief and vexation saith he that my Father gained so many Battels Conquered so many Cities People and Enemies that there remains little or nothing for me to act or any unconquered adversary against whom I should exercise that fervent desire I have in me of Warlike exployts that I might attain to and gain part of that honour which my Father got What greater Testimony of an Heroyick minde What greater or more true Prognostication of the generosity of Spirit which would possesse or lodge in the breast of this youth when he should come to maturity of years the which was plainly verified afterwards for before he had attained to thirty years of age he had subjected so many nations gained and conquered so many Towns Castles and Cities that finding no resistance or against whom to bend his might He went to the Deserts of Affrica to fight with the bruit Beasts to satisfie that hungry appitite he had of combate and conquest the Historians relate one thing more of him as strange as any we ever heard of That seeing himself peaceable Monarch and absolute Emperor of the World He called to minde the saying of Democritus the Phylosopher that there was many other worlds he for the Conquest and winning of them caused to be brought together an infinite number of Engineirs and Pioniers to dig delve and endeavour to finde and pluck those Worlds out of the bowels of the earth and that all those that they should discover they should reduce them to obedience under his Empire and Command I could here relate the Noble Acts and Exploits of Caesar and Pompey for Caesar setting aside the Famous Victory in the Civill Warrs he is found to have presented and given fifty field Battels and caused the death of a million one hundred ninty and two thousand men Pompey Besides nine hundred and forty ships which he had taken at sea from diverse Pirats He is storied to have gained and Conquered by force of Armes Nine hundred and sixteen Walled Towns from the Alpes to the consines of Cadiz It will not be proper to hide or omit here that immortal Honour and Renown which Marcus Sergius gained after he had lost his Right hand and received at several times twenty three wounds He entred into Battail foure several times with onely his left hand the which being disabled and made uselesse to him He commanded one to be made of Iron having it fixed and cunningly joyned to the stump of his Arme with which he after raised the Seige of Cremona defended Placencia and gained in France twelve Principal Garrisons For brevity sake we will leave the Fame and Renown that men have gained by Armes For it would be tiresome to relate the multitude of examples I could produce to this purpose But le ts proceed to what they have gotten by the Arts that to this day are in great esteem which are Painting Graving Carving and Limning What divine mistery must there needs be in the Art and Fancy of that Famous Painter Zeuxes who drew a Vine with its bunches of Grapes so lively that hanging it out of his window to dry the birds came down to eat of the fruit thinking they had been natural Grapes Apelles Though ten years he was in portraying and finishing of Venus he at last set her forth so exactly and lively That many young men at first sight fell in love with her as if it had been a living woman for which cause the Magistrates commanded him to keep it private that it might not corrupt the dispositions of youth Who can but wonder to hear what Pausanias a Greek Historian writes of an engenious piece made by a cunning workman in Eraclea a Province of Piloponesis it was a Horse of Copper whose Main Taile and limbs were so subtilly and artificially made that all the Horses that saw it raged to come unto it as if it were a live Mare and very many with that furious and often getting up and down broak their Hoofs Knees and eyes slipping on the smooth burnished Mettal and those that once saw it could not be parted from it with swords or staves as if it had been a hot Maire Tell me seriously what secrets or enchantments What hidden Vertue or what secret thing could Art have put into that Horse to deceive the others or how can it force creatures enjoying life to be taken with so much affection towards an inanimate thing that they should love and hazard themselves for it being only a brazen Effigies without soul or sence Plutarch Praising the excellency of man relates that the great Mathematitian Archimedes drew through the chief place of Saragosa in Sicilia with onely one hand and one cord a great Ship laden with Merchandizes and with as much ease as if he had led a horse or mare by the Reins and this he did onely by the Mathematicks the which Leon Baptista who was a great Architeckt and a rare Artist proposed he would easily do if any great Lord would please to be at the Cost thereof What greater wonder of Nature can there be found then that subtill device which Sabor King of Persia ordered to be made of a Glasse the which was of so large an extent that setting himself down in the midst thereof as upon the rotun ditude of Heaven he saw under his feet the rising and setting of the Sun the Moon and all the Planets and Stars So that in this his so pompious a Seat he seemed not to be a mortall man but an immortal God under whose Power and Command that Glorious Starry Cannopy was subject What greater pattern of Divinity can man give especially a powerfull King then to see himself set in appearance over the Sun and the Starrs which really is the proper Throne of God What Divine wit invented that Statue of Mennon which seemed to be miraculous for alwayes at the rising of the Sun

much greater delight and hearts-ease must it be to declare fully what happens to us to unburden our breasts to ease our Spirits in the bosome of such friends which are tied to us with such an undissolvable knot of charity and love who we may as confidently trust as our own bosomes making them Treasurers and loyal Keepers of the greatest and most valid secrets of our hearts not hiding from them the uttermost thoughts of our souls What greater testimony can there be of a true perfect and perpetual love then for a Woman to leave Father Mother Sisters Brothers and Kindred and even seem to be an enemy to her self to follow the Husband that loves honours and respects her so great is her affection that she despises and sets at naught all other things She desires nothing more then her Husbands content and welfare If he be rich she will so far as in her lies preserve his Estate if he be poor she studies more then how she shall encrease his Estate In this she imployes her time and the industry with which Nature hath endued him to help him and prevent his poverty she greatly rejoyceth to see her Husband enjoy prosperity and contentment If troubles crosses and afflictions do come upon him she helps to bear the burthen of his sorrowes she comforts accompanies and secures him If a Married man will sit at home or retire himself he hath a Wife that continually will accompany discourse with him and with her loving entertainment expel from him all sorrow grief and melancholly If he goes a Journey she accompanies him with her Eyes so far as her sight can reach and being absent she honours desires and expects him with tears sighs and complaints When he returns home again she runs forth to receive embrace and entertain him diligent to assist and undress him inventing new and exquisite love-toyes and delights to content and please him by all the means and wayes she possible can so that a good Wife seems to be an extraordinary gift and blessing which God hath bestowed upon him for his pleasure delight content and refreshment to his Youth and for a help comfort and solace to his old age Nature can afford us but one Father and Mother but Matrimony represents many to us giving us Children that do honour reverence and love us more then their own selves for being young they sport they tumble and play the little Apes they play the Fools prattle and chatter to give us content to please our appetites and increase our mirth with their innocent sports and pastimes so that it is in appearance as if Dame Nature had bestowed on married people for their recreations some Players of interludes or delightful Jesters to pass a great part of this miserable life and when old Age comes upon us which is a thing common and of necessity must come upon all that live long these little Monckies as I may say do ease and comfort the troubles of this life They shut our Eyes when we die and see us decently restored unto the Earth from whence we were taken These are our Flesh Blood and Bones when we look upon them we see our selves so that the Father that hath his little Son before him may say He seeth his own portraicture though in a smaller compass in the face of the Child In them we seem as if we are born anew in the World and although Age may load us heavily and molest our quiet with Aches and pains it very much chears and bears up our drooping Spirits when we see these little figures and portraictures of our own persons which do cause and maintain a perpetual memory of us to remain and by pre-creation of Children like some fruitful Tree from whose Trunk is cut plants which grow up and produce many Trees and Plants All which the Author hath fully discoursed in a Treatise which he brought to light the year before this concerning the excellency and dignity of Marriage in which I think he hath not omitted any thing that might set forth the honour and glory of holy Wed-lock so I shall not turn so far from my present purpose as to speak of that which I then so largely discoursed of But because the point I am about treats of the miseries and troubles which attend all estates and conditions of men in this World it will not free this more then the rest I will declare in short what I have read hereof in several Authors especially in that called The Politick Mirrour but I and all of them must needs confess that there are many sweets delights and pleasures in Wedlock yet do but consider and poise with equal ballance the great care and charge thereof you shall find many sharp Thornes and Prickles amongst these Rose-Beds and sometimes sad storms and Tempests To prove the truth of this look upon the Athenians who were a people that were anciently in great esteem and honour in the world for their prudence and knowledge seeing many Women that could not live with their Husbands by reason of the Differences which continually rose betwixt them they were forced to chuse a new sort of Judges in their Common-wealth which they called Over-seers and friendly Composers of Differences whose Office it was to take Cognizance of all Discords betwixt Married Couples to reconcile them and to use all means possible to make them friends The Spartans had also their Judges and Magistrates for this purpose even to correct the foolish pride and vanities of Married Women and to suppress the bold impudence of many of them The Romans would not allot particular Judges for this it is possible that they believed that men were not able to restrain the unbridled audaucity of Women when they resolve upon any thing they would rather seek succour of their Gods for which cause they dedicated a Temple apart to the Goddess Vici placa in which they reconciled all Discords of Wed-lock But who can said they with patience suffer the burthen that attends Matrimony or bear with the fooleries and arrongancies of Women or submit to the yoak of such an imperfect creature Who can be able fully to satisfie the Carnal as well as the disorderly appetite of rich cloaths and vanities of most Women Hath it not been an ancient saying amongst the Greeks and is still used amongst us That a Ship and a Woman ever are wanting one thing or other if thou takest one of poor or of low condition thy kindred and friends will disrespect her and as little esteem thee if she be rich she will strive to make thee her slave and vassal for when thou thinkest to marry one of thy equal thou takest one that thou canst not command if she be unhansome thou canst not love her if she be beautifull thou art sure never to want companions and friends at home a fair woman is a Fortresse that every one desires to be commander of all lay seige and battery against it Oh what a difficult