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A05335	Of the interchangeable course, or variety of things in the whole world and the concurrence of armes and learning, thorough the first and famousest nations: from the beginning of ciuility, and memory of man, to this present. Moreouer, whether it be true or no, that there can be nothing sayd, which hath not bin said heretofore: and that we ought by our owne inuentions to augment the doctrine of the auncients; not contenting our selues with translations, expositions, corrections, and abridgments of their writings. Written in French by Loys le Roy called Regius: and translated into English by R.A.; De la vicissitude ou variete des choses en l'univers. English	Leroy, Louis, d. 1577.; Ashley, Robert, 1565-1641.	1594 (1594)	STC 15488; ESTC S113483	275,844	270

winde from the oriental part vnder the equinoctiall line called East the three other cold and drie raising the Southern wind comming from vnder the Pole antarticke the other three hot and moist the West winde being also vnder the equinoctiall line the other which are colde and moist the North winde comming from vnder the pole articke which windes haue their different properties according to the places from whence they proceed and where they blow mouing about the water and the earth euen as the starres by which they are raised The foure principall windes haue foure other collaterall all which eight together are called entier or whole windes betwixt whom are placed eight halfe windes and sixteene other quarters of windes and by these is all nauigation ordered But the water on which they saile being contiguous or ioyning to the aire receiueth no lesse varietie than it and maketh but one globe with the earth For as the earth being drie of his owne nature cannot endure without moisture neither should the water haue any where to abide without resting it selfe on the earth they haue therefore bin thus by nature ioyned together the one opening the vaines and conduites of the earth the other passing through it both within and without to serue instead of à bande vnto it All water of his proper motion descendeth downe from on high but in the Ocean sea which enuironeth the earth are found three motions th one from East to West another from the North towards the South the third of the daily ebbing flowing for from six houres to six it aduaunceth and enlargeth it selfe then it abateth and retyreth The which motions are seene also in the Mediterranean sea towards the bankes The cause of the first motion from East to West is the daily mouing of the firm ament by whose impetuositie all the Spheres are moued with a good part of the fire and the aire The other from the North towards the South is because that the Sea is higher in the North parts then in the South in respect that the Northren cold ingendreth more water then the Sea can containe within the space distance and heigth of his bankes and the water which is in the South part is consumed and diminished by the heat of the same So one part of the water in the North forceth downe an other on that side which is lowest and moueth accidentally from the place of his generation The third followeth the reuolution of the Moone which alwaies increasing and decreasing appeareth sometimes horned sometmes half round some times almost round and sometimes spotted then by and by cleere great when she is at full and anon she is not seen at all Sometimes she shineth all night sometimes ariseth late sometimes she shineth all day supplying the brightnes of the sunne and comming to Eclipsie yet appeareth notwithstanding and at the monethes end hideth her selfe when she is said to trauaile Sometimes also she is low and sometimes high which neuer happeneth after one sort for sometimes one would say that she were fixed to the firmament other whiles that she touched the top of the mountaines so low she is abased she is sometimes found in the South side of the heauens and sometimes we must seeke her in the North. Since then that she is so variable it is no meruaile if the ebbings and flowings of the Tydes in the sea which are caused chiefely by her are also variable First in the daily motion which the Moone maketh with the heauen in twentie fower howers there are two tydes ebbing and two flowing the sea increasing by the space of six howers and diminishing six others which are twelue And it doth asmuch in other twelue howers which are twentie fower Their augmentations are not alwaies alike in all times and places for by the space of seauen daies the waters do increase when they call them liue waters and seauen other daies they decrease when they are called dead waters In such sort that from the first day of the change of the Moone vntil the eight which is the first quarter the waters are diminished and from the said quarter vntill the fifteenth which is full Moone they are still augmented and from thence till the third quarter they goe still decreasing and from that to the coniunction they are increased againe So the first day of the Moone is chiefe of the waters and the second day the waters are yet verie great and the third in like sort but the fourth day they begin to waxe lesse and so go diminishing from day to day vntil they come to the eight for then are the low waters and on the ninth likewise and the tenth almost the same then on the eleuenth is the rising of the waters when they begin a little to augment And from that time forwarde they increase euery day vntill the fifteenth when it is full moone and then it beginneth againe to be head water and on the sixteenth it increaseth likewise and almost vnto the ende of the seuenteenth But on the eighteenth it decreaseth and goeth so diminishing euery day vntill the thirtieth when as she is in coniunction And so on the first day it beginneth againe to behead water and proceedeth thus increasing and decreasing as hath bin said Yet in these increasings the waters are not so high at one time as at another but greater at one time and lesse at another Also the ebbing and flowing of tides are not equal in all places Neuertheles when the moone is at Northeast it is full sea and when she is at Southeast it is low water Also there is nothing perpetuall in the earth sometime the sea or some other water enclosed within it breaking out forceably doth couer a part thereof sometimes againe it retireth The Riuers and fountaines are dryed vp and there arise new in other places Some Countries are turned into standing pooles and marishes others into sandie deserts others into woodes then being husbanded and laboured they become fertile of barrain and againe on the contrarie barrain of fruitful The Mountaines are made plain and the plaines are lifted vp some places are swallowed by Earthquakes or scorched by exceeding heats When it hath long bin manured it waxeth wearie then by rest and cherishing it recouereth vigour In tract of time it waxeth old if not wholie yet at the least in his parts then is renewed and becommeth young againe We see euery yeare at the spring time and beginning of Summer how being watered with small rayne caused by soft windes and moderately heated it openeth the seedes of all things which before were shut vp and putteth some of them into herbes stalkes and eares others into stems and husks others into budds others into tender tops the garden trees yeeld buds flowers leaues and fruit the forestes and woods are clothed with greene bearing on their branches and boug●es the birdes pricked with a desire of engendring which record by themselues their melodious songs The Fishes leape and the

with much snow and frost In such sort that both by water and by land they make their traficke and warres on yce But when summer returneth the countrie is vncouered and made more temperate by the light which the Sunne giueth there longer in one place then in another according as it is neerer or farther remoued from the Pole Euen as in the hoat quarter some places by the presence of the Sunne are disinhabited or at least incommodiously inhabited which by his departure do recouer an habitable temperature The superficies or vpper face of the Earth hath bin also otherwise distinguished for by how much any countrie declineth on one side or other from the Equinoctial so much is their day the longer in Summer and their night in Winter In such sort that according to the diuers increase of the daies the spaces of the earth haue bin distinguished attributing to euery Climate halfe an howers increase And the places subiect vnto these Climates haue bin noted out either by famous Cities or riuers or mountaines as by Meroe Sienna Alexandria Rhodes Rome Borysthenes and the mountaine Ripheus fabulously inuented where the longest day is of 16. howers and a quarter and the Pole is eleuated 50. degrees The Auncients staied at this seauenth not knowing the Regions Countries Seas and Isles that are beyond it At this day by the same reason there may others be added The fower limitts or boundes of the worlde are the East West South and North differing in this that the South and the North are stable and immoueable But the East and West do neuer remaine in one estate by reason of the ascent and descent which the Sunne maketh in the signes of the Zodiacke Wherefore Eratosthenes following nature diuideth the world chiefly into two partes the South and North imagining that from them proceeded the diuersitie of all inferiour thinges according to their neerenesse or distance from the sunne True it is that thereby ariseth some difference but all consisteth not therein as hereafter shall be declared Moreouer nature hath indewed euery one of these extremities or vtmost partes with some singuler excellencie For toward the East there India brings forth Rubies Emeraulds Pearles and many other precious stones both out of the earth and the sea the great and mightie Elephants the high palme-trees full of wine and loden with nuts And Serica in that quarter hath first giuen vs the Silke which is had of wormes bred in Mulberie-trees Arabia in the South yeelds incense ebony and cotton Iewrie next vnto it the balsme and the cedar Ethiopia Cassia and Ciuet The Moluccaes in the farthest partes of the West Pepper spice cloues cinnamon ginger nutmeggs and other druggs The North the Alces Beares Ounces and other beastes which are not seen elswhere hony and waxe without the industrie of man throughout the large forestes exquisite skinnes of Martins Sables and others of great accompt in the other parts of the world to make furres for great Lordes Cornelius Tacitus saith that Amber groweth onely in Borussia and is fished there as in the South comes incense and balsme Also the earth being spherical or round is parted into two equall sides called Hemispheres and by the roundnesse of it from East to West it commeth to passe that there it is sooner day and night and by the roundnesse of it from South to North that there are alwaies seen some starres about the Pole Articke not about the Antarticke which remayneth hidden from vs which are one this side the earth as ours is also vnseen of those on the other side The longitude or length of the earth is taken from the West to East the latitude or bredth from the South to the North. The auncients as Isocrates diuided the earth onely into two parts Europe and Asia afterwards they added Africke for the third this diuision taking his beginning at the straight of Gibraltar where the Atlanticke sea engulfeth it selfe within the land making the Mediterranean or midland sea by which these three are diuided Africke remayning on the right hand Europe on the left and Asia in the midst On the other side the riuers Nilus and Tanais made these diuisions long agone But as for Tanais it cannot now stand for a bound so many innumerable people and countries beeing knowen now on this side which heretofore were vnknowen to the Auncients To these three also it is necessarie to add a fowerth taken of America and other landes newly discouered towardes the West and the South of which it is not yet knowen whether they be ioyned or no to Asia that is to say whether they ought to bee reputed maine land or Isles These thinges premised as necessarie to the vnderstanding of this discourse that followeth wee will intreat henceforward of the varietie of shadowes inequalitie of dayes and nightes intercourse of the seasons of the yeare according to the diuers habitations and will propose the diuersitie of thinges according to the difference of places Then comming to the shadowes wee find that they chaunge with the Sunne and from Countrie to Countrie for by how much the Sunne is higher the shadow is the lesse and by how much he is the lower the shadow is greater in such sort that alwaies it is greater in the morning and euening then at noonetyde Vnder the two Tropickes there is no shadowe at noone on the daies of the Solstices nor vnder the Equinoctiall in the daies of the Equinoxes The inhabitants on the one side and the other haue their shadowes opposite the one on the right hande the other on the left To those that dwell vnder the Poles they are round about them in manner of roundels or milstones The Sunne then going alwaies either towardes the North or on the Equinoctiall or towardes the South maketh fiue sortes of shadowes through out the world that is to the East to the West to the North to the South and one straight shadowe Towardes the East it maketh shadow when it setteth to the West when it riseth towardes the North when it comes from the South and when hee whose shadowe is made is neerer to the North then is the Sunne and towardes the South when hee that makes the shadowe is neerer then the sunne is to the South Also the straight shadow is when the Sunne is on our Zenith All these fiue sortes of shadowes happen onelie to those which dwell betweene the Tropickes and they which inhabite vnder the Equinoctiall haue but fower towardes East and West They that are vnder the Tropicke of Cancer haue their shadowe towardes the North and those that are vnder the Tropicke of Capricorne towardes the South And once in the yeare direct when the Sunne entreth into that Tropicke Those which dwell wythout the Tropickes haue but three shadowes towardes East and West and those which dwell in the North haue their shadow towardes the North and such as inhabite the South part haue their shadow towardes the South and neuer haue it direct or

ignorant of till age they nourished them selues with flesh and with milke their land which was plaine and vnited being fit for such maner of liuing and being holpen by sundry great riuers which running ouerthwart and watering the ground made it fat and fertill Vnto which Scythians the Tartarians haue succeeded liuing at this day as is said in the same manner Out of this quarter and this kind of people neuer came but two Philosophers Anacharsis and Zamolsis both of them brought vp elswhere how be it that in Greece there haue bin innumerable ON THE other part towards the south were the Numidians liuing in the open aire without houses alwaies in labour and trauaile not drinking any wine and faring simply and poorely seeking onely to satisfie nature and not to serue pleasure Who by reason here of were very strong whole lusty and able men and long liued The Arabians or Alarbians liue nowe in such manner sithence the comming of Mahomet leading with them their houses villages and townes which they carry on Chariots or on the backe of Camels following the commoditie of pasturage from Arabie and the riuer Euphrates euen to the Atlanticke sea being very hurtfull to the bordering plaines of Suria Egipt and all the neerer Africke especially about the time of gathering corne and fruits for they goe downe then by troupes close and thicke Then hauing taken what they can they retire with such swiftnesse that they seeme rather to flie then to run and it is not possible to ouertake them or to follow them thorough places destitute of waters It is a vagabond people and innumerable yet diurded by Nations and Lordes called Schez euil agreeing togither and hauing no firme habitation They dwel commonly vnder tents and pauilions made of course bad wool They liue with flesh and milke especially of Camels putting thereunto a little rice hony dates raisins drie figgs oliues and Venison when they can catch it going often with doggs and haukes to hunt red deare fallow deare Ostriches and all other sort of wild game They are commonly mishapen maigre and leane of small stature of tawny and duskish colour blacke eyed with a weake and feminine voice wearing no other garments but shirts sauing some chief of thē They ride the most part without sadles spurs or shoes on their horses Their armes are great India canes of x. or xij cubits long with a little yron at the end and a little taffeta in manner of a banderoll Notwithstanding liuing in this pouertie and miserie they glory that they are first nations and chiefe of the world in that they were neuer mingled with others and haue still preserued and kept entier the nobility of their blood Ioannes Leo an Affrican historiographer writeth that they haue many goodly obseruations of Astrology which by tradition they deliuer from hand to hand to their successours and increase them daily BVT those nations which are in the meane habitatio of the world are well disposed and instructed both in armes and learning hauing by nature both courage and vnderstanding togither They liue in good policy inhabiting houses hamlets parishes villages townes cities common weales kingdomes and Empires they haue vniuersities and publicke schooles in which all sciences are taught they haue variety of trads and occupations seruing not only for necessity but also for pleasure ornament and magnificence of buildings victuals habits and armes they haue iudgement reuenew warfare and religion wel appointed and maintained AMONGST these of the meane they which dwell neerest the South being naturally melancolick do giue themselues willingly to solytarines and contemplation being sharpe witted and ingenious as the Egiptians Lybians Hebrewes Arabians Phaenicians Assyrians Persians and Indians Wherfore they haue inuented many goodly sciences vnfolded the secrets of nature found out the Mathematickes obserued the celestial motions first knowen religion Amongst them haue bin found learned Philosophers diuine Prophets and famous Lawmakers THEY which drawe towards the North as the Almains thorough the abundance of humour and blood which doth hinder speculation do apply themselues more to sensible things and to Mechanical arts that is to say to the finding of mettals and conduct of mines to melt and forge workes in yron steele copper brasse in which they are admirable hauing inuented the vse of Ordinance Artillery and Printing THOSE which dwel in the very midst are not so naturally fit for the speculatiue sciences as the Southern nations nor so apt for the mechanicall workes as the Northern people are but are best seene in handling publicke affaires and from them are come many good institutions Lawes maners the art of gouernment or Imperial military discipline and politicke ordering of a common wealth the regiment of a Shipp or Pilots art Logike and Rhetoricke And as the Meridional nations haue not bin much exercised in armes nor the Septentrional in learning th one excelling in vnderstanding thother in force they of the meane being both ingenious and courageous embracing both letters and armes together and ioyning force with wisedome haue established flourishing and durable Empires which the other could not do for although the Gothes Hunnes and Vandales more hardie then wise haue by armes inuaded Europe Asia and Africke neuertheles for want of Counsell they established not any power of continuance Contrarywise the Romains being both valiant and prudent haue surmounted all nations by the glory of their decdes establishing the greatest Empire and of longest continuance that euer was And yet haue not been depriued of the excellency of disciplines or of mechanicall workes Amongst whom haue florished famous Captaines good Lawmakers learned Lawiers iust Iudges seuere Censors graue Senatours ingenious and pleasant Poets eloquent Oratours true and elegant Historiographers wary Marchants and exquisite Artificers CONCERNING the East and West all doe agree that the Oriental or Easterly situation in the same aspect of heauen and seated in the like place is better then the Westerly or Occidentall and that all thinges growe fairer and greater in th one then thother Notwithstanding we see the Westerne people to excell in force of body and the others in vigour and sharpnes of vnderstanding In so much that the West seemeth to haue some affinitie with the North and the East with the South The Gaules or Frenchmen haue often sent great armies into Italy Greece and Asia The Italians neuer ouercame France till they brought their Empire to his full heigth and force and that vnder Iulius Caesar who founde them deuided into factions The Italians ouercame the Grecians without great difficulty The Grecians who by their armes had penetrated into the farther Asia came not farre into Italy but vnder King Pyrrhus who was shamfully beaten back Xerxes came downe into Greece with an innumerable armie yet neuerthelesse was ouercome by a fewe Grecians and driuen backe againe with a reprochful and ignominious losse INREGARD of the parts of the habitable earth many excellent men of war haue ben renowmed in Europe few in Africk

their defect haue bin often changed and augmented how should they then satisfie another In somuch that it seemeth to some to bee a thing impossible that a people hauing a peculier tongue of their owne should vse strange letters but with great difficultie as we see in the Dutch and English vsing Latin letters and in the Turke and Persian which vse the Arabian As also they are of opinion that the historie of one Nation can not conueniently be written in another language then that of the same countrie induced to think so by the Romain historie which being written in Greeke seemeth no more to be Romain especially where there is question of customs lawes magistrates moneyes reuenewes and ceremonies wherein the Greeke tongue being otherwise rich and plentiful seemeth rude barbarous where the latin is fine and eloquent The same is befalne to the Greek Historie written in the Latin tongue and likewise to the French made by Gaguinus Paulus Emilius and others representing little and ill to the purpose the affaires of Fraunce in a strange language vsed onely now a daies in schooles whereas Froissard Monstrellet Phillip de Commines Guill and Martin du Bellay are found large and conuenient But to th end not to digresse from our commenced purpose I will returne to speake of Letters The Hebrewes and Latines haue twentie and two The Slauons and Iacobites two and thirtie The Armenians 38 The Abissins or Ethiopians 47 The Arabians 31 The Chaldeans 28 The Latins Greeks and other inhabitants of Europe and the Indians of Malabar hauing peculiar letters of their owne do write from the left side towards the right The Hebrewes Chaldees Arabians and generally all the Asiatickes and Africans from the right to the left imitating the mouing of the Heauen which is from the right hand to the left and is most perfect according to Aristotle approching neerest to the vnitie which of Plato is called the motion of similitude or of vniformity The Cathayans or people of China Iapania from aboue downe-wards saying that therein they follow the order of nature which hath giuen to men their heads placed aboue and their feete below Diodorus the Sicilian writeth that in a certaine Island found towards the South by Iambolus thinhabitants did not write from one side to thother as we do but drew their lyne straight from aboue downwards hauing 28 letters in number according to the signification which they giue them Other maners of writing there can not be except one would write a crosse or ouerthwart The Eastern and Southern nations do vse points the Greekes their abbreuiations the Latines their titles the Egiptians in holy things did vse the figures of beastes for letters which they called Hierogliphicks The most Auncients did write in the rynde or barke of trees and in tables and leaues of wood others in Palm-leaues according to the commoditie of their countrey others in lead Their missiue letters or Epistles were written in tables or waxe the Lawes and other durable things were engrauen in brasse or copper They did write also in fine linnen cloth Themperor Commodus vsed the fine bark of the Linden tree called of the Latins Tylia or Philyra Others the rynds of a little tree called Papyrus growing in the marishes of Egipt which were thicker from whence came the name of Paper vsed at this present which is made of old raggs of cloth steeped along time in water and braied in the mill after brought into a kind of past which being stretched out on a gredyron of brasse to thend to drie it being put betwen locks of woll and pressed after it is a little dried becommeth fine smooth thin white paper we vse Parchmin also more strong durable then paper which is made of sheepskins goatskins and calueskins coried and dressed by the Leather-dressers and parchminmakers Herodotus in his Terpsichore witnesseth that they vsed these skins to write on in his time And Iosephus saith that the holy Scriptures were first written in them M. Varro thinks they were first found out at Pergamus a Citie of Asia from whence they yet take their name at such time as the two kings Ptolomeus and Eumenes erected their Libraries enuying one the other Diodorus the Sicilian writeth that the letters of the Ethiopians were made after the likenesse of sundrie beasts and the extremities of diuers members of man and of diuers instruments and tooles of artificers and their intentions words were not expressed by composition of sillables or letters but by formes and figures of Images whose signification remained vnto them by vse in the memorie of men for they would set downe a Kyte a Crocodile a mans eye a hand a face and other such like things The Kyte signified a thing soone done because he is one of the swiftest birds and this character is properly applied to home affaires which are speedily dispatched the Crocodile did note some euil thing the eye an obseruer of Iustice and a gard or watchman of the bodie the right hand with the fingers stretched out betokened libertie or liberalitie and the left hand closed was hardnes and greedines After this maner the figures of other parts of the bodie formes of certain instruments did notifie some other thing amongst those Ethiopians who retayning it thorough long practize in their memorie did readily vnderstand what the said figures ment and signified Those of Malabar and other Indians dwelling between the riuer of Inde and Ganges do yet at this day write in palm-leaues either greater or lesser according to the matter which they intend to write In whole ones they write such things as they would haue to endure long as the affaires of their Religion and their Histories the other things of lesse consequence in a quarter or half quarter aswell on th one side as thother And when they haue written a great number meaning to ioin them in books they fasten them betwene two bordes in steed of those forels or couers which we vse after as we sow our leaues so do they tie theirs with strings to the said couers For their missiue letters it suffiseth that the leaf be writtē and rolled vp in it self in steed of sealing of it they bind it with a thred of the palm it self They vse to writ with an instrumēt of yron or wood sharpned passing lightly ouer the leaf not percing it and imprinting the characters of their letters in such sort that they may write on both sides Thother writings more permanent as foundations of Churches are ●●t in Copper or grauen in stone Peter Marty●a Milanois historian writing of the difcouerie of the new found lands made by the Castilians saith that the inhabitants of Collacuan brought into Spaine amongst other gifts certaine bookes written in the fine inner ryndes of trees which are found betweene the wood and the thicke vttermost barke And that they are taken sometimes of willowes or of Alders which they couered with course cloth and fastned together with

imitantia fulmen Corripiunt Vulcane tuum dum Theutonas armas Inuentum dum tela Jouis mortalibus affers Nec mora signantes certam sibi quisque volucrem Inclusam salicum cineris sulphúrque nitrumque Materiam accendunt seruata in veste fauilla Fomite correpta diffusa repente furit vis Ignea circumsepta simulque cita obice rupto Intrusam impellit glandem volat illa per auras Stridula exanimes passim per prata iacebant Deiectae volucres magno micat ignibus aer Cum tonitru quo sylua omnis ripaeque recuruae Et percussa imo sonuerunt aequora fundo This age hath brough forth many great and notable inuentions on which notwithstanding I will not stand because they are rather accessarie to the auncient things then exceeding the vnderstanding of our forfathers all antiquitie hauing not any thing to compare vnto these three But amongst the meruailes of our age there haue bin manifested new and strange maladies vnknowen of the Auncients and not treated of by any Greek Arabian or Romain Phisitian as if there were not enough alreadie dispersed ouer the world to the number of three hundred and more without speaking of the inconueniencies hapning euery day by the excesses which men do vse Moreouer there are risen Sects in many Countries which haue much troubled the publicke peace and cooled the mutuall charitie of men Whereof some more curious will attribute the cause to the celestiall motions For as we haue obserued in times past in the notable mutations of mankind where nature hath showed her greatest forces that extreme euill and wickednes hath met with excellent vertue and extraordinarie calamities haue accompanied great felicitie so could not one imagin any kind of vnhappinesse or ●ice which is not found in this age so happie in the restitution of good learning and restoring of sciences Neither is there any amongst all men either Christians or barbarous Nations but hath suffered much No part of the habitable earth no person is exempted from affections which increase from day to day and are too much knowen to our damage and confusion Euery where the publike estates haue ●in afflicted changed or destroied and euery where the Religion troubled with heresies Not only all Europe but also the farthest regions of Asia and Africk the inhabitants of the new found lands and of the East and West Indies being innumerable in multitude and dispersed into infinite places haue bin troubled with foreine and ciuile warres long continued wherehence hath followed the excessiue price of all things with often famines and pestilences We must think that God being angrie with men sendeth such calamities generally and particularly to correct our vices and to bring vs to a greater knowledge and reuerence of him For there was neuer in the world more wickednes more impietie or more disloialtie Deuocion is quenched simplicitie and innocencie mocked at and there remayneth but a shadow of Iustice. All is turned vpside downe nothing goeth as it ought But the most notable aduersities and prosperities of this age are elegantly represented by Fracastorius in these goodly Verses Credo equidem quaedam nobis diuinitus esse Inuenta ignaros fatis ducentibus ipsis Nam quanquam fera tempestas iniqua fuerunt Sydera non tamen omnino praesentia diuûm Abfuit à nobis placidi clementia coeli Si morbum insolitum si dura tristia bella Vidimus sparsos dominorum caede penates Oppidaque incensasque vrbes subuersáque regna Et templa captis temerata altaria sacris Elumina deiectas si perrumpentia ripas Euertere sata medijs nemora eruta in vndis Et pecora domini correptaque rura natarunt Obseditque inimica ipsas penuria terras Haec eadem tamen haec aetas quod fata negarunt Antiquis totum potuit sulcare carinis Id pelagi immensum quod circuit Amphitrite Nec visum satis extremo ex Atlante repostos Hesperidum penetrare sinus praxumque sub Arcto Inspectare alia praeruptaque littora rapti Atque Arabo aduehere Carmano ex aequore merces Aurorae sed itum in populos Titanidis vsque est Supta Indum Gangémque supra qua terminus olim Calygare noti orbis erat superata Cyambe Et dites Ebeno foelices macere syluae Denique à nostro diuersum gentibus orbem Diuersum coelo clarum maioribus astris Remigio audaci a●●igimus ducentibus dijs The end of the tenth Booke A COMPARISON OF THIS AGE with the most famous former Ages to know wherein it is superiour inferiour or equall vnto them and first touching the warfare of these dayes with the auncient Greek and Romain The Eleuenth Booke THE excellencie of this age being briefly declared we will hence forward compare it with the most famous of the former in matter of Armes Artillerie Captaines Armies Battailes Sieges Empires and other States voiages by sea and by land discoueries of Countries riches maners and sciences to know wherein it is superiour or inferiour or equall vnto them beginning with the comparison of the warfare of these daies with the auncient Greeke and Romaine It is said that CYAXARES king of the Medians was the first that distributed the men of warre of Asia into Bandes Squadrons and Companies and ordayned that the horsemen and footmen should haue their quarters apart and should no more march confusedly as they were wont to do The ROMAINS accounting more of their Infanterie then of their Caualerie and founding on it all the desseignes of their power diuided their footmen into those that were heauily and such as were lightly armed whom they called Velites vnder which word were vnderstood all such as vsed slings darts and bowes the greatest part of whom as Polybius saith were armed with a caske and to couer themselues had a shield or target on their arme and fought without keeping any rank or order a good way from the heaule or maine armie The men that were heauily armed had a salade which couered their head and came downe as far as their shoulders There bodie was armed with cuirasses which with the tases couered their ●highes as far as their knees They had moreouer their leggs and their armes couered with greues and vantbrasses and caried also a shield of fower foote long and two and a halfe broad which had a circle or plate of yron aboue to sustaine the blowes the better and to keepe it from cleauing and an other plate of yron vnderneath which kept the shield from being wasted and worne with leaning it on the ground which might be compared to a pauois prouided that the pauois had in the verie midst thereof a bosse of yron well set on and close ioyned as their shieldes had the better thereby to endure the blowes and strokes which should fall thereon Besides they had a sword girt on their left side and on their right side a short dagger They had a dart in their hand