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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73737	The vvonders of the ayre, the trembling of the earth and the warnings of the world before the Iudgement day. Written by Thomas Churchyard esquire, seruant to the Queens Maiestie.	Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604.	1602 (1602)	STC 5260.5; ESTC S124798	16,729	25

the Gauls in which battell was slayne fiue thousand knights called noble souldiers and Amylkar the Duke of Penoyes and with him three noble Emperors of the Gaulles were put to the sword with a thirtie and fiue thousand poore Souldiers Ye shall reade in the 4. chapter of the second decaed that as Titus Quincius was going to leauie an armie of noble Souldiers that had beene in Spaine and Affricke one brought him newes that by a thunder or miraculous working of the elements the high way where he should goe was broken and torne in peices and both the temple of Ioue and Hercules were set on fire and at Aretto the ground for the length of a great distance was opened and therein was made a deepe caue to the wonder of a great number of people And at Assnesse there was a calfe séene with two heades and a pigge with foure tayles after which sights prayer and supplications was made to their gods a whole day long without ceasing and yet great warres and troubels began to be set abroch in many kingdoms these wonders going before al these hurly burlies the fourth decaed the 12. chapter in the Consull of Domycius time there was an Oxe that spake and sayd in latine Roma caue tibi after which wordes pronounced the Oxe was diligently kept and so the riuer of Tyber arose and did passe the bound so sarre that it ouerthrewe many houses and edifyses and did very great harme diuers wayes and through the aboundance of rayne that fell or other causes that pleased God a great rocke fell and ouerwhelmed a number of poore people and the flouds were so high by the meane of an outragious tempest that they drowned many viilages about Rome vpon the which strang sight or in a small space after thrée of the greatest Emperors of the world dyed most vnhappily and as some authors makes mention those Princes tooke their leaue all in one yéer Philopomenes Scypion and Hanniball was these thrée great personages Now to write what warres troubels seditions and other calamities hapned in many kingdomes after these terrible tokens and prodigious signes it would weary you with the reading thereof and make you but maruell at the mightie workes of God which assuredly comes to passe in euery place by his appointment to shew his power and happens not by the course of the heauens causes of the earth or naturall operations as many of Aristotels disciples affirme and wilfull schoolemen by reasons would prooue for as God is without beginning so his power is without ending and his diuine workes and iudgements are as matters that wee should not breake our witts about and are so farre beyond our reach that we rather stand amazed at veiwe of them then any way satisfyed in the searching or ceasoning of the cause of their beginnings and though at the first God gaue the Elements a nature past all the compasse of mans base knowledge we neither must trust Aristotle nor leane too much to our weakenes and imaginations for the beginning of his Deitie is as easily knowne as the nature of strange visions and signes in the ayre that onely are directed by his omnipotent power Now come we to Earthquakes In the yéere of the Consulship of Lucius Marcius and Sextus Iulius there befell a case so strange at Modenna that the like yet was neuer heard off as Plinie reports he hath found written in the bookes of Hertusques A maruell that mountains meet and among the Toscane Philosophers Then happened so terrible an earthquake that two mountaines met together and shooke so vehemently the one the other separating themselues as a combate were fought and méeting with such furie and noyse that all the countrey adioyning stoode astonied at the matter and when these two mountaines had done their shaking and at the instant of their first remooue there arose such a fume of flaming fire from the earth that it reached to the heauens the which monstrous battayle of mountaynes and wonderfull earthquake in those parts was séene of many Romaine Knights and Souldiers and an infinite number of trauellers of the world than being in the way called Emylius or via emilia who considering that pittifull tragidie of time and other matters that fell out marueiled much and were sore afrayd for indéede all the granges tenements farmes and houses that were one any of these mountaynes fell in small pieces and little morsels so that both beastes in the fielde and people in their dwellings were all vtterly destroyed and cleane ouerthrowne this marueilous chance fell a yéere before the warres of Sociale that was made against the Marses the which warres brought not much lesse domage to Italie than the warres ciuell by which dissention millions of men were slaine or put to shame and miserie and in the chronicle of Neroes rayne is to be found a very prodigious thing for the last yéere of Neroes ra●●ing a great ground of Alyue pertayning to Vertius Marcellus procuror generall to the Emperor Nero was transported from his owne proper place with all his trees and set in the common way betwéene the soyle it stoode on and another mans heritage after which matter the tyrant Nero dyed and a great alteration fell in the Empyre by the trembling of the earth as Homer affirmeth waters did flowe where firme land remayned and the Seas did retyre from their wonted course in another place by which meanes a great countrey was discouered before ouer flowed with water as men might sée towardes the mount Siscelo in the fields and néere the hauen of Larta or Ambracia a plot of ground ten long myles from the borders of the Sea that in times past stood drowned and vndiscouered and at Athens likewise the sea is retyred from the hauen that they call Piree about fiue myles of length and at Epheson the Sea did anciently beate against the temple of Diana but now the Sea is a great way reculed from that temple and if the historie of Herodote be true aunciently the waues of the Sea went ouer the citie of Memphys in Egypt running to the mountaynes of Ethiopie and the plaines of Arabie in like sorte the Sea did beate against Illion called Troy and couered all the whole countrey of Tentertanie and all the other fields wher passeth the riuer Meander these proofes and passages sufficiently sheweth that the tremblings of the earth are as much and more to be feared then the cracking of a rotten house or the fall of a mightie castell that stands on féeble proppes and totters at euery blast of winde Further it is sayde in the Isles of Pithecuses by the vehemencie of an earthquake a great towne did sincke and by another earthquake againe a great lake was made in the same Ilands as yet remayning a wonder to the world read the foure and ninth of Plinie and ye shall sée a number of other matters as myraculous as any yet rehearsed The diuine Plato reports that aunciently there was a mightie and a