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A09766	The secrets and wonders of the world A booke right rare and straunge, containing many excellent properties, giuen to man, beastes, foules, fishes and serpents, trees, plants &c. Abstracted out of that excellent naturall historiographer Plinie. Translated out of French into English.; Naturalis historia. English. Abridgments	Pliny, the Elder.; Alday, John, attributed name.; I. A.	1585 (1585)	STC 20032; ESTC S110483	38,595	64

times and alwaies absolued Sicinus dictator of Rome sustained sixe score battayles he had fiue and fourtie woundes before and not one behinde Sergius was a worthie warrier he deliuered Cremona from the siege kept Placentia tooke in Fraunce twelue Castels and Townes He had his right hand cut off and he made one of Iron with the which he fought foure battailes Pitifull things are found worthy of memorie thorowe all partes among the which it commeth to my remembrance of a woman taken in Rome for to dye for offence and being put into straight Prison there to be famished her daughter had licence of the Iailer to goe sée her euery day but she was searched for feare least shée should bring her mother foode In the ende it was founde that euery day shée did giue her mother sucke with her breastes and for to satissie her she came daily The Senators hauing intelligence thereof did pardon the mother for the vertue that was in the daughter did appoint them a liuing during their liues Marueilous are the operations of humaine creatures among others onely of paintings that doe resemble the liuing so neere that there resteth nothing but the speach The king Attallus bought a table or picture of a Painter which cost a hundreth Markes Caesar bought two for eight hundreth Markes Mans age hath bene reputed great among the ancients which doe name Princes and Kings to haue liued eight hundreth yéeres and a thousand yéeres but it is by the varietie of yéeres for so me make the Sommer a yéere and the Winter another yéere and others make thrée moneths a yéere as the Arcadians and you must not stay nor iudge things by the constellation of the firmament For in one present houre many are borne as well seruants as maisters Kings and Magistrates whose Fortunes are all diuers and contrarie Many examples we haue of sicknesses Publius Cornelius Rufus in dreaming to haue lost his sight became blinde and lost his sight Some there are that liue but till middle age and others that die in their youth and nature doeth giue a man nothing better then short life To liue long the senses vnderstanding become blunt the whole members féele dolour the sight the hearing and the going faile the téeth also and the instrumēts of meats therefore age is but paine and there is a time prefixed to liue We reade no better example then of Zenophilus the Musitian that liued a hundreth and fiue yéeres without sicknesse The signes of death are to laugh in the furor and griefe of the maladie or sicknesse to be busie in folding or doubling the clothes of his bedde with his handes to voyde from one in sléeping behinde a fearefull looke with other things and therefore séeing that by experience we sée innumerable signes of death therefore there is no certaintie Sicknesses are diuers both to olde and yong Sirius died by the multitude of Serpentes procéeding from his body Some haue had an Ague all their life time Mecaenas was seuen yéeres in the ende of his dayes without sléepe Antipater liued long without sickenesse sauing that euery yéere on that day that he was borne he had the ague We reade of one that liued 157. yéeres that slept in his age 57. yéeres and wakened as though he had slept but one houre Others that haue returned a foote from their graue when they were borne to be buried Pompeus caused a mans head to bée smitten off which when it was layde againe to the body did speake an houre both to the maister of the house and to many others of the house Death bringeth repentance Some die for ioy men in the hearing of ioyfull newes of victories and women to sée their children The father of Iulius Caesar died in putting on his hose and felte before no harme Some in drinking some in writing and others in diuers maners as we daily sée by experience Aunciently the vse was among the Romaines to bury the dead but for the often battailes of the Romaines that had all the worlde in their subiection they vse to burne the dead Among men Liber Pater found first the meanes to sell and buy also Diademes for kings and for triumphes The Lady Ceres founde the meanes to sowe corne and to grinde it and therefore she was called a Goddesse For before they vsed Acornes The Assirians founde first the meane to write letters but the inuention hath bene since the beginning of the world Two brethren in Athens founde first the meanes to make houses and bricks Gellius Doxius inuented lathing and loming of walles for before they had Caues and holes in the grounde and they tooke example of the Swalowes which do make their neastes Cynira sonne to Agriope foūd out mettal of copper brasse of lead he made first many hāmers therewith Danaus was the first in Grecia that made welles digged for water Thrason made the first walles towers The Lidians found the means to dresse woolls Arachneus found the meanes to make Linnen Cāuas The Egyptians the art of medicine Lydius to mingle tēper mettals together Erichtonus found siluer Cadmeus gold in the moūtaine of Pangy The Ciclopiās were the first workers of small Iron worke Corebus the Athenian made earthē pots Theodore the Samyan made the first keyes Palamides the measures waights Phrigies the charrets wagons Penius the first trader for Marchandise Aristeus to make oyle and hony Briges of Athens did first yoke Oxen to Cart and Plough The Lacedemonians founde Harnesse and habilimēts for warre Laūces Spears swords Bucklers c. Cares the Bowe Arrowes The Phenitians the crosse bowes Belerophons first moūted vpō horses Palamides in the warre betwéene the Grekes the Troyans found the order of Stādarts signes penuōs streamers to giue warning to kéepe watch Iason did first sayle on the Sea in long Ships or Galleys Before the time there were made little ones of wood hydes since that time some haue added to thē masts sayles cabels tackelings many other things that we sée by the experience to be necessarie The first Dials were made at Rome w e water according to the course of the Sunne since they are reduced to houses Churches as it is séen at this present which was very agreable to the Romaines Finally among al the knowledge the man hath Plinie thinketh this to be the chiefest point for man to know him selfe of what estate soeuer he be The eight booke treateth of beastes that are on the Earth IN the Earth there is no beast greater then the Elephant they haue knowledge to vnderstande their Countrey speache they haue obedience and vnderstande their dueties and charges they neuer passe the Sea tyll that their master or gouernour doth promise to bring them home againe they knéele down for to be loden carrie the Ladies litters in feare prudence equitie their téeth are of Iuorie w e their other bones there are made goodly woorks they are full of

a knife they haue tayles like to fishes Déere that are oppressed with Dogges if they can finde no water for their refuge then they retire to man the Female beare eight wéekes and oftentimes two and for to bring them foorth they séeke secret places not néere the hye wayes accustomed by men The Hinde teacheth her yong ones to runne to feare and to leape the Males that haue left the Females haue their mussell blacke when they knowe them selues heauy they séeke secret places they will stande still to heare the cry of the Dogs they runne with the winde to take away the smell of the trase they reioyce to heare whistling and to heare a noyse of singing Moreouer the Hart is simple and all things are to him marueilous if that he see a man with a bowe or a crosse bowe he looketh more on them then on the mā the Males haue hornes and in the spring time they cast their hornes that day that they léese their hornes they hide them selues as all astonied sorowfull as they that haue lost their armours It is sayde that the right horne can not bee founde for that they hide them in the ground At the burning of the hornes the Serpents flye away their hornes grow till they be thrée score yéeres old and the said time passed there commeth vp others like and thē they neuer fall after that there is no knowledge of their age but their age is knowē by their téeth they being without hornes féede in the night and when their hornes beginne to come they will butte and runne against the trées they liue a hundreth yéeres they neuer haue the Feuer or Ague and therefore some dames alwayes delight to breake their fast with Venison by the which meanes they haue liued a hundreth yéeres without hauing the Ague Camelion liueth not but by the ayre and chaungeth his colour according to the thing he toucheth sauing white and redde they ingender in Affrica and in India The Beares doe ioyne with the Females in the beginning of Winter not as other foure footed beastes doe for the Male and the Female lye downe embracing and after that they doe retire in sundry caues and the Female doeth bring forth her yong ones within thirty dayes and most cōmonly bringeth fiue which haue the skinne white deformed without haire and eyes and there appeareth but their clawes in licking of them they are figured There is nothing so little of man as to sée the Beare bring foorth her yong she hideth her foure monethes and the Male fourtie dayes they couche or lye vppon soft leaues and the first fourtéene dayes they sléepe so soūdly that you shall scarce waken them with strokes then they fatten much and their fatte or grease is conuenable to many medicines also to kéepe haire from sheading They being weakened for the most part stande vp and liue with the licking of their fore féete they warme their yong against their breasts they haue little blood about the heart and lesse in the body they haue little eyes and as feble or weake heads as the Lyon hath strong therefore they defend their heades with their fore féete when they fall and leape from the Rockes or when they are bayted with Dogges The Dogges among all other beastes that vnto vs are common are most faithfull We haue true histories of men that haue bene defended from théeues by their Dogges others haue fought to reuenge their maisters death and constrained the murtherer to confesse the déede Two hundreth Dogs did rescue by force the king Garamantus being taken by the hands of his enemies Many people haue assembled Dogges together for the warre We reade of Dogges that haue cast them selues into the fire when in times past their maisters body haue bene burned We reade also of a Dog of Nicomedes the king of Bythinia to haue almost torne the Quéene in pieces for that she played familiarly with the king the Dog thinking it had bene for harme A Senatour of Rome was defended by his Dogge on a night retourning to his house from the handes of those that would haue put him to death At Rome a prisoners Dogge would neuer depart from the prison doore and when his maister was dead he would eate nothing and when bread was giuen him he brought it to his maisters mouth The same Dog was séene openly to holde vp his maisters body being cast into the Riuer of Tyber They know their maister and vnderstand his voyce aboue all other beastes they doe best knowe a mans voyce and their names they doe remember the wayes and iourneyes be they neuer so farre off and there is noue of so long a memorie except man In their chase they haue great diligence specially houndes In India they tie proude Bitches to trées and the Tygres do couer them by the which meanes commeth fierce and cruell Dogges The king of Albania did giue to Alexander the great a Dogge of marueilous highnesse which would take Lyons and Elephants The Females haue whelpes thrée times a yéere lightly and they carrie them two monethes they are borne blinde they can not see till seuen dayes after they be whelped If she bring but one whelpe it séeth not till the ninth day the better whelpe is that that the Bitch bringeth out first or that that seeth last Horses are faithfull and full of great knowledge for they knowe their maisters and they that attende on them Many are singuler in their doings the Males liue till fifty yéeres and the females lesse at sixe yéeres the males grow no more and the females but fiue yéeres Among the beastes they haue least fertilitie The most egrest and fiercest Horses put their nose mussell déepest in the water to drinke and haue almost as many diseases as men Asses there hath bene bought for foure hundreth Crownes In Acaia they are much requested to haue Mules They feare colde the Males are very slowe in their worke they doe beare as doe Mares and in thirtie moneths the yong ones are ready to helpe them selues After they are horsed they must be constrained to runne or else they would reiect the séede by making water The females beare all their life which is thirty yéeres they be afrayde to wette their féete and they neuer drinke but in small and shallowe waters where they are accustomed to drinke drie footed the Females doe hide themselues when they bring foorth in darke places that they bee not séene of men they will not passe the bridges when the Sunne shineth in the water it is marueil that they runne not mad for thirst for he that dayly chaungeth their water or Riuer accustomed to drinke at must constraine them perforce to drinke The little Mule is ingendred of the Asse and of the Mare The Mules that commeth of a Horse and of a she Asse are beastes full of strength and labour The Asse that couereth the Mare bringeth forth afore her time if she before haue retained the horse but not else the seuenth day the

commanded The Popingay can speake humaine speach they come from the Indians they haue their head as hard as their bill they liue most commonly with Acornes and they speake best that haue fiue clawes on their féete they are taught secretly where as there is no other noyses but the teachers Crowes haue bene séene speake and call noble men by their names specially one in Rome which by that meanes was solemnely buried It is easier to tame a Lyon an Eliphant or any other great beast or foule then to tame a Mouse or a Swallow Strabo was the first that did cage birdes which before had libertie in the Sky he taught the way to fatten Capons with meale and milke Among the birdes many haue foure féete and some lay many egges some foure and some two They ioyne together in two maners the Cranes with their height And Hennes and other Females the Cockes tread them down Some egges and the most part are white others coloured and others red as the egges of Fesantes and all kinde of egges within are of two colours white and red Egges of fishes are round and they haue no white she Egges of feathered foules liuing on the water are rounde and of others long the yong ones come out of the shell at the round ende Horace saith that the longest egs haue the best sauour that Hen is best and most tenderest that laieth round egs Some birdes ingender at all times as Hennes that lay euery day an egge some two at a time and some so many that therewith they dye In some places Doues ingender ten times in a yéere In Egypt the Turtle twice a yéer and other birdes but once a yéere As touching Egges there is a red droppe in the middest of the yolke the which maketh the birdes harte and it is the first formed and of the white is formed the body and within the Egge the head is greater then the body and liueth with the surplus of the yolke the twenty day he hath life and crieth within the Egge and then the feathers beginne to come The yong one in the Egge lieth after this sort it hath the head vnder the right foote and the right wing vpon the head and they growe on their féete contrary to the nature of other beastes Ye ought not to giue a Henne aboue xxv Egges to coue on and those Chickens that are hatched about the beginning of the yéere are the best For to sette Hennes to broode take egges of ten dayes olde for they are better then older or more fresher and ye ought to put odde when the Henne hath coued foure dayes in looking on them in the Sunne ye shall knowe whether they be good or no or in puting them in warme water for the good Egge will sinke to the bottome and those that are putrified and naught will flotte and swimme If the eggs are neuer so little craised the are sette they wil neuer proue It is best to set Hennes to coue in the newe Moone for if they are set in the wane of the Moone or at the full they will profite little When the weather is hote Chickens will come within one and twenty dayes and if it be colde not til fiue and twenty dayes If it thunder the egs that are coued wil be lost also at the voice of the Rite or Puttock The remedy against the thunder is to put a naile in the Hennes nest or els of the earth of a Cart whéele It hath bene recited of a Cock which after the Hennes death hath atchieued couing and by this meanes to ceasse from crowing The Ducke meruaileth at the first to sée her Ducklins but after most carefully she calleth them together and lamenteth if she sée them drowned in the water and some there are that can make Chickens come in warme water as well as if the Egge were coued The pip commeth lightly vnto pullaine betwéene haruest and the vintage for a remedy therefore it is good to let them hunger and to giue them little meate or to giue them to eate Garlike and butter Doues they lay two egges and if they lay thrée they will hatche but twaine they bring foorth a Male and a Female the Male first and two dayes after the Female The Male is hatched in the day time and the Female in the night the yong Pigeons come foorth of the shell twēty dayes after they are hatched and the Female layeth egges within fiue dayes after that she hath knowen the Male. In sommer oftentimes they haue yong ones thrice in two monethes for if the weather be hote they conceiue in eightene dayes and therefore in the nest is found many times egges and yong ones And Pigeons conceiue at fiue moneths The Pecock at the age of thrée yéers bringeth forth yōg ones the first yéere one euery yéere after she increaseth the Male breaketh the egs to haue the Female at his pleasure therefore she hideth her egs and for one Male shée hath fiue Females in thirty dayes shée bringeth forth her yong ones Géese conceiue in the water they make their egs in the Spring it is necessary to giue them nine or eleuen egs to coue at xxv or xxx dayes they are hatched commonly Swannes or such like coue thirty dayes the female Crowe olone coueth and the Male féedeth her in the nest The Bat hath the members and wings as feathers she bringeth two yōg ones the which she nourisheth with the milke of her breasts Vipers do winde one about another in conceiuing that they séeme to be but one Serpent the Female conceiueth by sucking the Males head which shée putteth into hers Some Serpentes make her egges on the grounde and then couereth them with earth and the next yéere after bringeth foorth their yong ones Men are more proner to lust and fornication in Winter then in Sommer and women more in Sommer then in Winter Beastes haue societie and knowe when the Female will haue the Male. Among the foure footed beastes their smelling bringeth the operation of lecherie The greater the beastes are the fewer yong they bring foorth and the longer they beare them All beastes are replenished with the Male at one time though they bring neuer so many and the yong ones lie in the females belly the ioyntes or knées against the belly But a yong Childe in the mothers Wombe hath his face betwéene his knées and is like a Citie Rattes and Mice doe ingender by licking one another and it hath bene séen that one hath made six score so it commeth to passe that by this meanes there are so many both in the fieldes and in mens houses The Salamander in touching the fire doeth quench it as if it were Ise and notwithstanding that she casteth by the mouth which is like mike if it touch any part of a man the haire of his skinne will fall away they grow as the Eagle in the water and among them there is neither Male nor Female and they neuer