doe take my pen to write The things which did to me in sleepe appeare Which needs I must disclose tho much I feare 2 When silâ—…nt Night had couer'd with her cloke The face of Earth and euery thing sought rest Saue harmefull beasts which Nature doth prouoke To prey on weaker things my Soule opprest With heauy thoughts which banisht from my brest All pleasing and delightfull fantasies This Vision thus appear'd before mine eyes 3 A naked Damsell first appear'd whose skin With bleeding wounds ennammeld yet did show The hidden beauties that had dwelt therein She fled from one that gaue her many a blow With seuen-fold Whip whose cause and selues to know Sore did I long and with that thought opprest The wronged Wight this speech to me adrest 4 Mortall quoth she I see thou pittiest sore My wrongs but make the case thine owne And â—…rust not this falsâ—… Syren cunning whore Who bred in Heauen thence to earth thrown downe As to her prison here attempts to crowne Her selfe on Earth siâ—…ce Heauen she cannot win And robs my name that 's Vertue but is Sin 5 Trust not her painted brow her blandishment Her beauties but a vizor paisted on A cunning baite to catch th'improuident She 's vnder it an Ethiopian And tho she smoothes her wrincles all she can Shee 's filthy cruell Tygres farre more kind They feed on foes but she deuoures her friend 6 Vnder her Silke and Purple brauerie Vnpartiall eyes shall find with perfit sight Her members spotted with ranck leprosie Her fingers armed with Harpies clawes for fight And rapine clouen beast-like both her feete A Dragons tayle which venombd foynes 〈◊〉 At her fond louers in their deare embraces 7 And tho in pompe she trauell through the world And most adore her and her glittring traine Yet are both they and she fear'd and abhord By those whose perfect sight desernes the same Therefore for thine instruction will I name Briefly her equipage that thou mayst see Both what her selfe and her attendants be 8 First must I shew her Chariot and attire Wherein she makes her progresse with her traine From East to West The Seate is foule Desire The Wheeles whereon it moues are â—…ordid Gaine Selfe Loue and Vnbehefe and Pleasures vaine Her Coach-man Belzabub or Abbaddon Her Mates Megara Alecto Tisiphene 9 Her Iades thaâ—… drew her on Disdaine they be Pride Enuy Wrath Reuenge Ambition And lastly Feare and Curiositie Deceite and Lies her Lacqueys by her run Still ready for all errands After whom Come her Attendants 〈◊〉 and Dissidence Confusion and tormenting Conscience 10 Follie 's her page which still keepes Reason tide Hypocrisie's her Chaplaine who still thriues VVhile true Zeale pines Her Beadles Ease Lust Pride These from her Gates Repentance farre off driues From whence I Vertue poore these wounds deriue Lastly thou feest her brood that followeth Her Issue Famine Sicknes Warre and Death 11 This said foure Altars then she pointed me All smoking hot with Incence on the same The first to Ambition and to Crueltie Ignorance and Idolatrie retaine The second place the third of these did flame To Auarize and to Oppression last To Luxurie and Iust the fourth was plac't The Altar to AMBITION and CRVâ—…LTIE 12 And while these things she spoke me thought appear'd A horrid traine of fierce and bloody Wights Flame colour'd Robes they wore with Crimson smeâ—…rd Their dreadfull lookes euen yet my heart affrights Quoth she all these ioy'd once in dismall â—…ights And to their ends to tract a bloody way Which thus to sinne her first oblations pay 13 But to auoide prolixitie quoth she And to make vp a iust account with time Thy patience and mine owne lost libertie I wish thee note t is no intent of mine Each seuerall storie here for to designe And prosecute but onely such as be By chance most â—…buious vnto mine eie 14 Why should I point thee out accursed Caine Orth ' Hayrie Hunter with his sinew bow Or those on whom iust Ioseph did complaine That frantick faithlesse King why should I show Or 1 He that made the childrens blood streame through Iudeas streetes whyth ' sonne of 2 Gedeon Or that same 〈◊〉 cruell Absalon 15 Behold Buâ—…iris Egypts cruell King That fed with humain flesh his Horses full Three cruell 3 〈◊〉 him following 4 Numulisinthis then the Thracian Trull Then Phalleris with 's dreadfull brazen Bull. Loe 5 Pontus King and 6 Occhus false of oath Black Haniball and 7 Iuguriâ—… here be both 16 Next these obserue the Purple Persian there With Royall tyre 8 〈◊〉 is his name How strange a sacrifice the wretch doth beare To offer cruelties vnhallowed flame With him 9 Astiages and Zerxes came This millions slew to atcheiue his proud desire That cookt the children for their wofull Syre 17 Loe Tulliâ—… King Serâ—…ius gracelesse heyre Who wearie of her long-liu'd Syres delay Slew him perhaps t'anticipate a yeare Perhaps a moneth perhaps not a full day But not conâ—…ent to take his life away Most ignominiously she causde her Horse That drew her Chariot trample on his corpse 18 She shew'd me then two 11 Romans and two Greekes That with their happy regall states displeasde Halde by Ambition into straâ—…ge dislikes Made the world sicke and in their time diseasde Charen with two much labour yet appeasde Nor satisfied a iot their vaine desires Tho shedding seas of blood to quench those 〈◊〉 19 Then as they came in sight she did me show Sylla with purple face and firie eyes The plague of Pontus and Romes ouerthrow By first inducing those sad tragodies And Mâ—…rrius fear'd of friends and enemies Then 12 Caiâ—…s vile that wisht the world to slay And 13 he that slew's Mother Agrippina 20 Another 14 â—…rew she shew'd me theâ—… that seem'd To be â—…ome Kingly Romans by their weede But tyrants were or monsters righter deem'd Begot of Tigars broode or Dragons seede So many innocents they causde to bleed Of whom some offerd Armes some Feet Legs thighs Some Eares some Noses others Tongues and eyes 21 And 15 one of these she show'd me mongst the rest A Roâ—…aine Prince if true my Author tell Offring a heart with 〈◊〉 fiue imprest Which Iesus made if 〈◊〉 they did spell But surely in the Tyrants heart was Hell With dying life and liuing death who vext Those worthy seules to vertue so conext 22 Next these came one in 26 Polish weed attir'd Whom Rats and Mice had bare anatomizde Then of my faire his story I requir'd Who said 't was one that sometimes Royalizde In Pâ—…lish Throne by Poyson that surprizde His Vncles liues whose flesh by Heauens iust doome Turnd into Rats the Caitife to consume 23 Next him came one that sacrifizde to th'Ghost Of 's angry Syre the cruell 17 Amurath Then he that offerd vp that wofull Host Of Noble Grecian blood fierce 18 Mahumeth Next him Valachia's Prince that put to death So many thousand subiects seuerall waies As did great Tyrant Mahumet amaze 24 In
shee immortall Fates I proue 27 Thirdly obserue that she and I haue then A certaine Argument which of vs two Be most benigne and kind to mortall men She Naturâ—… and I Art And lastly know The censure of our Arguments we doe Wholly referre to thine integritie To whom we equall Benefactors be 28 〈◊〉 I Great Goddesses vnworthy most Am I into your presence for to come Vnworthier alas to be your Host Being thus dispoyl'd by Fortunes angry doome Both of your benefits and of her owne But most vnworthy doubt I to appeare Iudge of so great a controuerfie here 29 But she replide Doe not disestimate Thy better tallent for thy pouertie Tho false opinion and preiudicate Of vulgar wit with dim and dropping eie Saue Fortunes sees not any Deitie We know Heauen loues the poore man many time And hates those rich whose out-sides onely shine 30 Our pleasure therefore is that thou attend To heare our Arguments with diligence Which duly heard and pondred in the end Then shalt thou sentence this our difference Giuing the Victor that preheminence The iustice of their cause deserues And streight She thus began and spake what now I write 31 The Speech of Art This Dame quoth she of Mortalls all the Mother Of all that be composde of th' Element Seemes to professe that onely Man none other Is the chiefe obiect whereto her care 's bent That he 's her Darling all things else but lent For his behoofe Now I prooue she hath been More Benefactor vnto beasts then him 32 For when she first into this Worlds light sends them She kindly sutes them new at her owne cost With clothes that can from cold and heate defend them And still repaires their liuerie hâ—…rt or lost Poore man comes naked to this fâ—…rraine coast And without helpe of Mid wiues Nurces Clothes He perishes but Beasts need none of those 33 The Foule with spread wings ore her Chickens houers Within her armes the Ape her youngling beares The Adder in her Maw her vile broode couers When'th 2 Succurathe the Hounds pursuing heares Vpon her back a tent for hers she reares That scornes the Hunter In her wondrous wombe Doth the 3 Chyarca hers as oft retombe 34 But Neptunes tributaries watry Nation T is they of men haue greatest odds in this Blest in this kind by rights of their creation VVhose industrie and care no greater is About their Spawne and breeding businesses Then in Earths wombe to couer their eiâ—…ction Then leau't to Citharea's safe protection 35 Euen to the winds and fleeting waues they throw it VVhich seuerd from them many a mile is blowne Why 's this Because their World 's their owne they know it Kind Nature tells them that they be at home Then here 's the first Sceane where her loue is showne For which from greatest bountie doth proceed VVants to supplie or take away that need 36 Long are poore men appendixes to Mothers And halfe their time in documents they spend Amongst their Nurses Schoole-masters and othâ—…rs To know wherefore they liue and to what end Long is their Seed time Haruest quickly In'd But long-liu'd beasts doe in a short time grow Fit for those ends that Nature sram'd them to 37 No weapons she to him at all assignes Neither offensiue not defensiue Armes To these she hath imparted seuerall kinds Force to repâ—…ll with force and offerd harmes Teeth Clawes Hooues Hornes Stings fit for hot alarmes And for defensiue diuers doe not want Such priuie Coates as Shot and Pikes can daunt 38 Of these 4 Niles steely sided Monster 's one The 5 Tortâ—…yse with his bullet daunting house The 6 puâ—…ple spotted yallow Champion The 7 Carry-towre that onely feares the Mouse The 8 Armadillo and the 9 Indian Boas All these in Armour well appointed goe And diuers diuersly defensed to 39 She giues the Cockatrice a killing cie 10 The subtill Hâ—…en and inchanting foote 11 The Crampfish a benumming qualitie 12 The Cuttle Inkie humors blacke as soote To die the waues while from the nets he scout The 12 Zibra venomd haires to kill her Rider The 14 Porcupine a neuer-empty Quiuer 40 She hath enstructed beasts with Physicks light The wounded Deare run streight to 15 〈◊〉 The Swallowes find out 16 Cellandine for sight The Dog in Knot-grasse finds his remedie The 17 Beares wih Aron cure there malladie 18 â—… ' 〈◊〉 knowes th' vse of letting blood 19 Tortoyce and â—…oades know Antidotes right good 41 Each one of these and thousands more are proud Of some kind benefit she hath them giu'n Onely on man she nothing hath bestow'd But tender limbes a smooth transparent skin Through which each little worme giues death to him Yea greater weaknesses in him appeares He drinkes it often through his eies and 's earâ—…s 42 Beasts be not subiect vnto griefes cares feares No future wants their present ioyes controle Blood-drying sighes nor braine consuming teares Heart-eating Enuie feedes not on their soule Not Aâ—…arice nor Pride doth them defoule Winged Ambition that enflames the breâ—…ts Of mortall men doth not disturbe their rests 43 This said in silence Art streight sat her downe To let her Riuall answere what she could So Nature rising like the morning-Sun Whose brighter beames moyst vapours ouer cloud Halfe vaylde in modest blushes long she stood At these enditements But at last she broke Her silence thus and for her selfe thus spoke Here Art seemes to conclude her first speech and giues Nature leaue to replie as followeth 44 Mortall quoth she these imputations here And foule aspersions cast on my cleare fame I truly must returne them being cleare On Art her selfe from whence at first they came T is manifeâ—…t that â—… for men ordaine One onely benefit that ballances All these that she calls disaduantages 45 Reason a heauenly gift which crownes him King Of all the Worlds so large extendâ—…d bound VVhich tho he 's borno weake wanting euery thing Aâ—…foords him all wiâ—…h friends encompast round VVhom Reason doth instruct with iudgement sound And neighbours for to helpe at such a time By charitie and mutuall loue men shine 46 When he 's growne vp this yeelds him all things fit And to him is an armour of defence What Engins doth he frame with pregnant wit Keene Swords and Speares blest guards of innocence What fiercest monster is not in suspence To see his glistering Helme or a' the report Of his fire spitting musket scuds not for 't 47 All creatures feare him as their King and Lord For of their flesh he at his choice doth feede For him fit clothing also they affoord Haire Wooll and Hide which he conuerts at neede To many an vse such as the Heauenâ—… decreed Ere their creation he should best deuise To accommodate to his necessities 48 For him the Bee makes Hony and the Ewe And gainefull Cow for him their Milke they yeeld For him the pritty Silke worme weaues her clew For him not for her selfe the Doue doth build For him the
the last ranke of these she show'd me more Three cruell Princes foule with Patricide A Turke a misnam'd Christian and a Moore The first most cruell 20 â—…elim full of pride Who in a cup his ag'd Sires death did hide Friends Brothers Nephews kild and th' whole world fired Like Phaeton and last by fire expired 25 The second 21 Adolphe Duke of Guelders hight Who from his seate his aged Parent drew And him imprison'd in most lothsome plight Thinking to tirehim out by meanes mis-due Whom into like extreames Heauen iustly threw And as from 's Sire hee banisht pace and rest So he a captiue liu'd and dyde distrest 26 The third of these was 2â—… Amidas the Prince Of Tunis who against his Siâ—…e did rise Tho being chiefly crusted for defence During his absence gainst his enemies Absent he takes his Crowne present his Eyes But as his Regall Sire he rob'd of sight Iust Heauen by sicknesse did himselfe benight 27 After all these she shew'd me other three Of whom the first an English habit wore Wan were his Cheekes blacke Locks a downe cast eie And Camels backe his name I sought her sore To knoâ—… but she denyde bad aske no more A thousand slaues there followed after him With bloody bowles where heads and hearts did swim 28 Next after whom a warlike Gaule there came Which in his hand a bloody brand did waue The robes he wore were scarlet dyde in graine And he himselfe like colour seemd to haue Who in so many millions blood did laue And as he wet all France with bloody showres So heauen at length his blood from each part powres 29 The third and last of all whose natiue ill And vice transcends the vice of all the rest As farre as Atlas doth the humblest Hill Or Sylons carry Towre Galwayes small beast With whom worst Kings compar'd seeme good and blest The 23 Russian Tyrant Russia's shame whose breath Did wither all things in whose name was death 30 His pleasures were not like to other mens Sweete sounds the sternest hearts sad'st soules reioyce But Musick neuer pleasde his hellish sense He neuer laught but at some dying voyce Teares sighs sobs grones to him were heauenly ioyes Who very seldome rellisht well his meate But when with blood and death he season'd it 31 If any rauisht virgin did lament Or honourd Lady forc't vnto his will Or seem'd their friends or parents discontent Toth ' stewesthey went or not content to kill He hung them ore their parents table till Their friends with their dead sauour welnigh slaine By teares and bribes got leaue to burie them 32 When people from the Temples vsde to come He vsde to loose his Beares at them in sporâ—… Delighting much to see them seale the throng With which bad pastime many perisht for 't No mercy did his anger ere consort Which 〈◊〉 Kindreds but encreast to rage Entomb'd whole Cities sparing sex nor age 33 His ministers of mirth his dearest friends His Wiues his Whores his Children were not sure The most of these he brought t'vntimely ends The instruments euen of his lusts impure The Hangmen from this Hangman 's not secure The Beares and Tygâ—…rs in their owne Whelpes ioy He worse then they his owne Sonne did destroy 34 The wondrous writing on Balthasharâ—… wall Seemes small compar'd with what to him was sent To whom from Heauen a letter downe did fall In Marble-writ whose sculpture sure was ment To him that liu'd and dyde impenitent And as he fatall was while he had breath So did his steâ—…ch in death giue others death 2. The Altar to IGNORANCE and IDOLATRY 35 These and their ceremonies scarce were past When in there came another hideous crew Which to the second Altar went in hast And on the same their seuerall Incense threw Most of them differing both in speech in hue In face and habit being seuerall Nations And some in new and some in antick fashions 36 Then here my kind Interpreter I praid T'enstruct me of this second company Who kindly granted my request and said All these brought Incense to Idolatry From euery Coast and Region farre and nigh Both old and new But since so many liue She meant of both but short accounts to giue 37 She shewd me first vpon this Altar plac't The Idols worshipt by each seuerall Nation Whereby Iehouahs worship is defac't And Stocks and Stones cut after differing fashion Men Beasts Fish Foulâ—… by vaine imagination Are deified yea Satan visibly Not plealde alone with types inuisibly 38 She nam'd 24 th' Egyptians leaders of the rest Seeking for Iâ—…is and 〈◊〉 lost And for their sacred Bull but late disseast Lamenting sore meaning to be at cost With 's Obsequies for euen those things that most Harm'd them they worshipt th' Aspe the Dragons fell Both Birds and Beasts within their Phanes did dwell 39 Th' Iehuewmon and the 25 Crocodile they fed And feeding with great humblenes ador'd And Beetles blinded Beetles they indeed That so the death of Dogs and Cats deplor'd Whose strange zeale that from 26 Onions aide implor'd Me thought now hauing found Osiris ran And sacrifiz'd thereto a 26 red hair'd man 40 The Romans here sought out their rurall Pan Ioue Saturne Hercules Mars Liber Play Mercury and two-fronted Lanus them Pallas and Iuno Veâ—…us and Flora With their blest Mother Berecinthya Chance Vesta Victory and Prâ—…ayus With thousands such to number friuolus 41 She showde me then th' old 27 Ethiâ—…pions Which Hammon sought and those oraculous trees a Diana then serued by th Ephesians And Eckrons 28 Baalzebub God of Flies 29 Sydonians busie with the mysteries Of their deare Sheepe god Astert 30 Tirians Bowing to Apollo and to 〈◊〉 Syrians 42 Then those ador'd the Sunne the fond 31 Phoenicians Here in great numbers sought their loued 32 stone So much enricht and serued by seuerall Nations Which was Piramedall form'd like a conâ—… And here the men of 33 Carras made great mone To Luna to whose Temple those ouercome By their curst wiues with offrings vsde to run 43 Next these came such whom amorous fireâ—… did moue By paires to seeke the shades and burbling streames And sacred beauties of the 34 〈◊〉 Groue Where Cypresse boughes forbid th'ennamourd beames Of glorious Phoebus in his hottest gleames To kisse their Mother-eâ—…rth or to discouer The secret ioye of any melting louer 44 Thâ—… 35 Persians here ador'd their holy Fire The Laodiceans to Minerua paide According as her cruell Rites require Yeerely oblation of a spotlesse Maide Diuers there were likewise that offerings laid To Dagoâ—… th Syren of the Phylistines But here from these she past to neerer times 45 And shew'd me first the vaine 36 Tartarians Offering vnto their felten Deiâ—…ie Mares milke and Flesh Next them the 37 Chyâ—…ians And § 〈◊〉 people of great policie Yet in Religion full of vanitie And who as'ts easiest alway to doe euill Through Ignorance giue worship to the Deuill 46 Next these came 38 Peguans as
by violence but placed there by an artificiall handiworke In this Stone were written diuers lines in a strange and vnknowne character The three men were slaine at the fall of the stone the women with great amazement ran home and shewed what had happened The newes comes to Basilides hee repaires to the place demands of the Metropolitan what the words did import he in great perplexitie replies he knowes not Calling then certaine captiues which had a great opinion of learning he requires of them the exposition of this inscription they fearing to be silent told him that these signes did pertaine to himselfe and did concerne his People and Empire Hereupon hee causes his Guard to breake the Stone all in pieces and in stead of penitence goes home and prepares for the Polonian warre He died very lamentably of an Vlcer in his priuie parts so lothsome and stinking that the smell of it poysoned diuers Hee had vpon his death-bed some trances wherein it seemes hee had some taste of the infernall â—…orments His life and death are written at large by Paulus Oderbornius a Germaine Diuine in three Bookes dedicate to Henrie Iulius Duke of Brunswick His body was not from the day of his death to be found in any place but was supposed to be conueyed away by the Deuill not content with his soule onely Ibidem He liued in Queene Elizabeths time 24 The Egyptians did worship some things generally as of beasts their Apis or Oxe the Dog the Cat of Fowle the Hawke and the Ibis of Fish the Lepidotus and the Oxirinchus beside these they had particular worships They of Arsinoe to the Crocodile They of the Citie of Hercules did worship the Ichnewmon The Cinopolitani a Dog The Licopolitani a Wolfe The Leontopolitani a Lion The Mendesii worshipt a Goate The Athribitae a blind Mouse They of Abidon worshipt Osiris whom Herodotus page the 150 calls Bacchus They of Hermonthis Iupiter and an Oxe and Orus which Herodotus calls Apollo pag. 199 and others other things Strabo Geography lib. 17. The Bubasti honourd Diana The Citizens of Busiris Isis which the Greekes call Demeter that is Ceres The City of Say worshipt Minerua The Helipolitanes the Sunne They of Buris Latona The Papremians Mars Herodotus Euterpe pag. 158. 25 Strabo saith he saw a Crocodile in a Lake in the Shire of Arsinoe neere to the Temple vpon which the Priests tended with great religion and fed him one holding open his chaps and an other powring in certaine Rost-meates and sweet Wine and that hauing fild his belly he retired streight into the Lake till he were called againe by some new Guest comming with new Oblations Ex Strabone lib. 17. 26 Porrum cepe nefas violare ac frangere morsu et Paulo post Carnibus humanis vesci licet Iuuen. Satyra 15. linea 9. 27 This Deitie of Iupiter Hammon was worshipt in the likenesse of a Ram. Herodotus Euterpe pag. 151. Here it was that Alexander was premonisht of his death with the circumstances both of time place and the manner as after they befell Quintus Curtius lib. 4. and in Alexanders owne Epistle to Arestotle and Iust. l. 11. It seemes their Iupiter was something mutable and humerous for his shape as men are now adayes for their fashions for Herodotus describeth him like a Ram and Quintus Curtius lib. 4. saith Id quod pro Deo colitur non eandem effigiem habebat quam vulgo diis accommodauerunt artifices Sed vmbilico maxime similis est habitus smaragdo etiemmis coagmentatus a Dianae templum Chersiphron fabricatus est Sed cum Herostratus quidam id incendâ—…o consumpsisset aliud prestantius construxerunt mulierum ornamentis Strabo Geogr. lib. 14. 28 Baalzebub was worshipt in the likenesse of a Flie. Purch 29 The Sydonians worshipt Iuno in the likenesse of a Sheepe 30 Quintus Curtius in oppugnatione Alexandri 31 The Phoenicians had a stately Temple dedicated to the Sunne of which Anthonine Emperour of Rome was in his priuate fortunes the High Priest and therefore surnamed Heliogabalus or Priest of the Sunne Herodian lib. 5. 32 This Temple had in it a stone which had thereon the figure of the Sunne Ibid. 33 The men of Carras that ouercame their wiues vsed to sacrifice to god Lunus in the Temple of the Moone but if their wiues had the better they offered vnto Luna to appease her displeasure Herodian lib. 3. 34 This place was some fiue mile from Antioch a Groue of mightie Cypresses ten miles in compasse where stood the Temple and Oracle of Apollo Daphneus Here Iulian the Apostate desiring answere the Deuill would not speakâ—… because the bones of Babillus the Martyr lay so neare him Socrates lib. 3. cap. 16. In this place of delight and Paradise of prophane pleasure the Antiochian youths and amorous Gallants vsed to pay their vowes to the Nimph Daphne the burbling streames calme winds and flowre-be spotted earth conspiring with the opacitie and retirednes of the place to make the Votaries of Diana worship Daphne Strabo Geogr. pag. 510. lib. 15. 35 The Persians did principally honour the Fire counting it a God they worshipt the Sunne and Moone Venus the Winds and the water into which it was not lawfull to spit to pisse or to cast any dead thing Strabo lib. 15. Herodotus lib. 1. pag. 90. lib. 3. pag. 226. 36 The Tartarians beyond Volga that belong to the Great Cham and the Crym Tartars which inhabit on this side Volga which Herodotus calls Scythia and them Scythes though these professe Mahumet yet haue they in their houses Idols and Puppets of Felâ—… which they offer to Doctor Fletcher and W. de Rubruquis in Hacluyt 37 The Chynoys haue Idols in their houses and Images if the deuil with Serpentine locks and as ill-fauoured lookes as he hath heare a tripple Crowne vpon his head great teeth standing out from his mouth and an vgly face vpon his belly him for feare they worship saying that God is good and will doe no man harme They paint the Deuill in their ships and in any storme him they inuocate sometime working by lots sometime by writing which way he neuer failes to answer them as appeares in the Discourse of Chinay Chap. 15. where the Spanish Friers to their no small terrâ—…r heard him talking to the Chynois in the same Ship § The Iapons haue a strange kind of shrift the Deuill once a yeare playing the Confessor hee puts his Penitent into a paire of Weigh-Scales hung vp vpon a high Spire or Piremed from whence if he confesse not truly he breakes his neck Acosta lib. 5. cap. 25. 38 The Deuill is highly worshipt in Pegue to whom they erect a stately Altar adorned with varietie of Flowres and Meates to fee and feede him that hee should not hurt them Hist. India pag. 321. 39 Cidambaran is the Mother-Citie of these Pagan Rites Here in the Temple of Perimall they worship an Ape called Haynemant the tooth of this Ape