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A73765	Good newes for Christendome Sent to a Venetian in Ligorne, from a merchant in Alexandria. Discouering a wonderfull and strange apparition, visibly seene for many dayes togither in Arabia, ouer the place, where the supposed tombe of Mahomet (the Turkish prophet) is inclosed: by which the learned Arabians prognosticate the reducing & calling of the great Turke to Christianitie. With many other notable accidents: but the most remarkable is the miraculous rayning of bloud about Rome. Done out of the Italian.	Cortano, Ludovico.; Butter, Nathaniel, d. 1664, attributed name.	1620 (1620)	STC 5796.3; ESTC S115623	17,505	48

vs the second day For a little a fore noone we heard a great cry among the reedes and wondring what it was we might well perceiue it was nothing but a crocadile howling ouer a woman whom it had caught as if a heard of wolues had bin comming downe the mountaine to barke at the moone And truly Good Sir it is strange to relate how rauenous and fell in desires these creatures are of women and will hunt them extreamely by the sent imitating the Allegators of Guinea neuer to show their bodies till they can obteine their pray yea such is their manner that they will passe by children and men and take onely the oportunitie to surprise the women whom they will strip as hansomly of their apparell after they haue brought them to their nests as if they had bin taught a kind of cunning not to be combred with their sluttishness yet must I not let passe this secret of nature that they commonly vse to pinch the necke and head so at the first that the miserable wretch left to a pray findeth a curtesie in the dispatch of her life for otherwise it were a thousand deaths to be so long a dying considering she is three howres a howling ouer the body before she deuoure it of which yet how rauenous so euer she be she leaues the head only vntouched but after she hath done howling she eates after eating she weepes after weeping she sleepes then they are many times slaine and their young ones stolne from them this was the voice we heard and within an hower after we met a boat of Aegiptians who came to seeke the woman and discouered vnto vs that she was a poore mans wife that had beene to gather reedes that morning with her husband and by reason of some displeasure thought to be reuenged by sequestring her selfe and so was surprised by the serpent as a warning to other women not to make euery small vnkindness the author of a lumpish countenance or a sullen heart the next day we aproached the great Citie of which to talke neuer so little would make my letter to great and besides you haue bin in these parts your selfe make daily vse of most vberant relations remarkable circumstances It was not long ere I prepared my lodging nor long ere Signior Stephano Delphino came vnto me who finding more conueniency in mine then his owne quickly setled himselfe to beare me company nor long ere the great Carauan troup of marchants ariued from Ormus who came the next way ouer Arabia with 600. Camels and 200. Arabian horse for their Conuoy whose intertainement for 5. weekes cost the Merchants 3000. Checkinoes amongst them they onely taried a day and a night to make themselues drunke which they may quickly doe For though the wine of Palestina which we much vented here be reasonable good yet as if they would pleasure Bacchus with an vnsatiate desire to cellebrate his Orgies they intermingled the berries of Aethiopia whose fulsome iuyce doe rather intoxicate the braine then quench the thirst The next day they departed and the next day I singled out the companie to finde what Italians were amongst them For in a word I neuer saw so many strangers in one iourney and agreeing so well together the report of it was pleasant but when I heard it from their owne mouthes it added both delight contētmēt I could both name the parties and the places of their aboad But because I aime at another marke I will not vnfurnish my quiuer to spend a rouing shaft to no purpose but in a word here were many of my acquaintance amongst whome only Siluano Gritti and Bartholomeo Caponi with two friers one an Augustine another of the order of Serui lodged in the same house with vs They spent three daies in rest and rested the night very soundly yet the friers were many times iangling and so angred Signior Stephano that ouer-passionate one night he bad the deuill take them whether they crossed themselues or no the darkness interdicted my discouerie but I will be sworne I heard them thump their breasts to my bed and I intreated my Gent to let them alone Oh said the Mendicant frier little do you know the disceptation betweene vs and lesse may we instruct you in it till a fitter opportunity For we haue such a strange story to discourse vpon as will spend a day in the Epitome and make all Europe to wonder in the exemplification Truly good Sir the very Emphasis of his words amased me and the ouer desire of instruction led me presently to the way of vigilancy and I sat vp in my bed as if I meant to heare a tale indeede had not Signior Stephano made me also the subiect of his anger and bad me go out of the bed if I was so womanish and idle that I could not tarry til day light to heare a lying tale of a frier Till this the Augustine frier was silent but now in some distemperature raised his passion as high as euer Signior Stephanoes was telling him to his face it was spoke like a Lutherane and Heretick to lay any such imputation on men of their qualitie religious obseruants and father-confessors For they made a conscience of telling an vntruth and acknowledged it more then a Veniall sin to countenance a lie through the credit of any religious order well said Signior Stephano if you will not lie in your words yet I pray you lie still in your beds and it shall be part of my penance to acknowledge mine error and make a retractation of offending you This answere made way to the sedation of this vnquietnesse and so we gaue ouer our parlee and made some vse of a mornings sleepe The next day the friers of themselues remembring their Matutine howers after deuotion was ouerpassed came voluntarilie into our chamber and with a small preamble of pacification preuailed so much with my companion who by this time was as desirous of the nouelty as my selfe that we arose and because they would not bee interrupted in their discourse we made a short repast together and so locking the dore to vs attended the poore Mendicant who thus began My Brother and I about the tenth of September embarked our selues from Ormus and came to Catara where the Christian Carauan was almost ready for their voyage to Cayro but before I proceed any further I will be plaine to tell you the occasion of our going thither 1. partly for Curiosity 2. partly for Deuotion 3. partly for Wealth 1. First for curiosity the desire of acquaintaince with forraigne Countries and the willingnesse to put the Practique in the other scale against the Theory or if you please to make our superficiall reading the sweeter by industrious experience taught vs the way to conceiue that all Countries might be nationall to a wise man 2. Secondly concerning Deuotion hauing long since heard that the Persians in this place condiscended euen against the rule of their Alchoran to

communicate with certaine Portingall Friers about the Verity of both Religions wee thought it not amisse to put it to the triall whether we might attaine to such a meritorious act as the Conuersion of a Mahumetane 3. Thirdly concerning Wealth at the end of August there is a generall fishing for Pearle by reason that the Oysters in this hot moneth resort to the shore and as if nature had taught them to breathe for aire they gape as it were in sholes and then the fishers and such as are appointed for this purpose throw little peble-stones into their mouthes and so keepe them from closing againe and thus are their Pearles kindly taken out and knowne to be full ripe by their colour For you must consider the Pearles growe as the meat in bignes and yeeld great plentie being soft but afterwards most worth of estimation as she is Orientall the shell makes that we call Mother of Pearle and in the same they are ranked together like teeth in ones mouth as if they were couched in a bed of purpose sometimes 15. or 16. in a shell onely the Vnion hath his name of being alone and I thinke is priuiledged with extraordinary greatnesse by being alone Now at euery draught or if you will course of separation they haue a custome by way of gratuitie to giue to such religious men as are resident amongst them to some more somelesse according as affection shall induce them so that for my part such as they are I haue 500. to shew you at Catara we had diuers camels that came from Iafu and Catiffa and within three daies according to their custome 200. Arabian horsse came from Zoar and Cazape there was one principall Aga and 4. vnder Captaines and so in seuerall companies we prepared for the great desert of Elact passing such mountaines and strange woods that the voiage alone were worthy the description in regard we found snow in greater aboundance then is in mount Senese so many wild beasts both on the mountaines and in the woodes that we lay not one night without a hedge of fier in seuerall companies we made a show as it were of a burning campe and both Lions and Tigers came to see what we did though they durst not approach we made thirty daies of this trauell and ere we came to Mecha had only sight of 3. Townes for whose sake we fetched a great compass although the pretence was to auoide the hugest hills and so we went from Catara to Lagana to Salata and Gacha from thence loding our camells with many skinnes and teeth of beasts as we vnloded them of our prouision we came in good time to Mecha I cannot call it a city because it is vnwalled nor a village because it hath 8000. houses in it nor rich because the opulent merchant lies at Liden a port towne vpon the red sea some 50. Italian mile from Mecha nor poore because it is so populous for the resort of so many thousand strangers that come hither to view the tombe of Mahomet in which as I my selfe was they are all deceiued for although he was borne heere and hath Charactered with his Fame one of the gloriousest stories in the world yet was he not buried heere but by a strange policie translated ouer a great desert to Medina Talnabi where at this hower is both his Temple and his Sepulcher by the way you come to the pretty towne of Tacine howsoeuer any man presumes of his own cunning better intelligence yet from what coast soeuer he comes he must go to Mecha first and their receiue a ticket from the Beglerbeag for which he paies halfe a florence ducket ere he can be admitted into the Conuoy for Medina a littell apprehension brought vs to the knowledge of these things and so by generall consent my brother and I to cure our vnderstanding the better which was almost vlcerated with strāge variety both of report and historie went thither in person about the end of September to be beholding to our owne experience against opinion But before we came thither we met with many passengers as it were distracted with feare and when we came found all the country confounded at a vision or apparition which had lasted for a fortnight and so continuing 7. daies longer affrightted the people and the rather because no man durst interpret the same or could indeede be beholding to discouery for the truth only one of the Deruices astonished them with a sudden boldnesse and because heere were many of the race of Mahomet and some Doctors of the law who repugning the oratory rather beleeued Naturalls and Lunaticks whom indeede they immagine extraordinarily inspired with a Supernaturall Spirit the poore Preest was much offensiue in his discourse to them all so they conspired against him and put him to death by which occasion heere are Foure remarkable things to be considered 1. First the vision it selfe 2. Secondly his oration 3. Thirdly the manner of his execution 4. Fourthly what a Deruice is Concerning the vision about the 20. of September there happened so great a tempest that there was as it were a sencible darknesse about midnight so fearefull a thunder that those which were asleepe were a wakened at the same and those which were awake besides themselues at last a voice like lightning made a strange rupture and with Significant Arabian Characters so opened the thicke cloudes and dispelled the vapowres that with a kinde of stench suffocating smoke the darknes departed the people heard and the rest read it to this purpose O why will yee beleeue in lies For when the storme was appeased and that the serene ellement presented herselfe to their veiwe they might easily read these words in the firmament Some two howres after betweene to and three in the morning there appeared a woman all in white compassed with the beames of the Sunne her countenance was amiable and cheerefull and she held in her hand a written booke she had no sooner mounted out of the North west and by West to her full height and radiance but round about the East and Sowth many armies of Turkes Persians Arabians Moores and such like appeared rancked as it were with martiall discipline and ready to charge vpon her but shee with an vndaunted courage kept her standing and vsed no other meanes but only opened the booke at the sight whereof the whole army fled and presently all the lamps about Mahomets tombe were extinguished For as soone as euer the apparision or vision vanished which was commonly an hower before Sunne rising a pleasant murmuring wind was heard to whose eruption they imputed the putting out of the lampes For you must vnderstand that though the windowes of the temple were dooble barrd with iron and richly guilt well glazed and curiously cemented yet the storme came vpon them with such impetuositie that neither glass nor iron withstood the violence the Temple itselfe is verie high made with a rotunde and cube

the Turke haue conquered Greece and some parts of Hungarie yet he admitteth the toleration of any religion so that they contribute his customes and acknowledge his superioritie he is contented to leaue them to their owne establishments so that the Greeke Church doe publikely maintaine their ceremonies and the Roman Catholicks haue by themselues a Church by the name of Francks euen in Constantinople or if you will in the Vines of Pera or Galata chuse you whether yea when the couetous Patriarcke of Constantinople would haue farmed his place to the Iewes the Viceer did not permit the same but by way of punishment confinde him to Zio from whence with a beliall spirit he in a monstrous contumacie went to Mosko and about the yeare 1588. resigned that title to the Archbishop there for 100000. peeces of gold invested him with the absolute Primacie of the Patriarck of the Greek Church but see the iust iudgment of God ere he had passed quite through Moldauia certaine Ianisaries set vpon him and not onely tooke away his gold but bereaued him of his life 2. Secondly you must consider that among the Turkes in taking of prisoners they haue no distinction of persons but in their ransome accounting all slaues and confining them to the Gallies with an ignominious robe shauing them and marking them on some parts of their flesh 3. Thirdly that this famous towne and harbour and Iland of Rhodes was remarkable for two things 1. First for a Colossus of brasse which boasted of great antiquitie and was indeed a man in absolute proportion stradling ouer the hauen betweene whose legs a ship with full sailes top and top gallant might enter so that when the Turke surprised this place he laded 1500 Camels with the rubbish of this one monument whereby most of his great Ordinance were cast which be now in the Tapinare the office of his Artillerie and whereas you shall read that S. Paul writ to the Colossians it was no other then the inhabitants of Rhodes 2. Secondly that after the Knights Templars were dissolued there arose a new order to supply that place called S. Iohns of Ierusalem who when the Turks conquered Siria and Palestina were of so great reuenew in Europe that for many yeares they both expulsed the Saracens and held wars with these new Mahumetanes till at last the high decider of controuersies submitted them to alteration and both their Monasterie and their Palace were pulled in peeces by those barbarous hands that neither spared Ierusalem nor the wonderment of the world the Temple of Diana in Ephesus falsified by some stories vpon Herostratus who to perpetuate to himselfe a name of villanie set it on fire 4. Last of all that howeuer the Alchoran position of not disputing of their religion sealed vp as it were the lauishnes of mens tongues from going at large yet will they heare strangers in ciuill opposition and euen the strictest arguments that may conculcate and beat downe their new inuentions but this seldome happens because either they learning none but the Persian or Syriack language few men vnderstanding theirs can dispute with them But now to the Archbishop After the Friers had ouerpassed the ceremonies of gratification amplified the discourse of there trauell with the circumstances of the vision the Archbishop replied your newes hath no way got any hand of my admiration For it hath beene long since frequent amongst vs and vpon another report of the troubles in Europe especially that it rained a whole day bloud into Tiber and that three sunns were seene in full radiance ouer the citie of Rome many Greeke preests resorted vnto me to Rhodes with an impressed cheerefulnesse as if our Church were already re-established in the first forme of the primitiue patterne nor passed it thus amongst our selues but the Bashaw sent for me in all hast and not only demanded my opinion of these things but made meanes to certaine doctors of their law to enter into further disputation with me I told them plainely that the originall of Mahomet was a meere deuise which they might easily perceiue by the assotiation of Sergius one of our moncks For if he had beene a Prophet of God he would questionlesse neuer haue intermingled any deuises of man then againe for his prefixed time of returning it was a thing neuer heard nor red of that any one returned from the dead nor shall euer rise till the last dissolution and therefore how much are you beholding to that God which you doe now worship that hath from heauen discouered vnto you in a vision what you must trust vnto in these latter times if you be not stupified with obstinacy remain more stony hearted then euer the Iewes were that crucified the Sauiour of the world now are glad tidings brought vnto you For the woman which appeared is questionlesse the Church of God compassed about with a Sunne representing the sonne of righteousnesse euen Christ the Sauiour of mankind without whom no flesh can come to happinesse the booke in her hand is questionlesse the scriptures and the opening of it prefigureth the searching and contemplation of the secrets but whereas so great an army stil fled as she opened the booke how can any thing be personated by it but that both Persians Moores and your selues will be ashamed and abashed to conceiue in what a sottish ignorance and senceless blindnesse you haue beene so many yeares detained therefore embrace the truth and returne to Christianity which will bring you into the direct path of saluation and in the end the glorious kingdome of heauen Why replied one of the Doctors Iewish Doctors how can this be your prophet was but a man as ours was and for inuentions of men your religion exceeds and farre exceedes those fanaticall impositions as you terme them that euer Mahomet gaue vs. But among all as the Iewes haue often told you there be three or foure such strange things in your religion that it is impossible for an honest resolution to apprehend that God would be serued so foppishly and childishly First the erecting of Images did God cast away the Iewes as I haue heard cursed Ieroboams calues yea rent the kingdome from your great Salomon and all because he gaue way to the Idols of his wiues and will you hauē vs be so entangled againe as to heap vp vengeance for so foule an absurdidie on our owne heads Beleeue it it will neuer be and it is impossible 2. Secondly your prophanation of the Sabboth Doe we or the Iewes buy and sell as you doe labour and trauell eat and gurmandize gamboll and play dance and sing and commit such abuses on that day as if all the weeke were tied into one bundell and then set open to florish her expences 3. Thirdly your dispensations with sinne and selling of indulgences for mony O God! is God a receiuer of money or what conceit haue you to thinke that he that is all loue and mercy will be