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A09654	The first set of madrigals and pastorals of 3. 4 and 5. parts. Newly composed by Francis Pilkington, Batchelor of Musicke and lutenist, and one of the Cathedrall Church of Christ and blessed Mary the Virgin in Chester; Madrigals and pastorals. Set 1	Pilkington, Francis, d. 1638.	1614 (1614)	STC 19923; ESTC S110423	2,464,998	120

they serue giueth them to vnderstand that he hath chosen that peculiar tree And no maruel for in very deed Misselto is passing geason and hard to be found vpon the oke but when they meet with it they gather it very deuoutly and with many ceremonies for first and formost they obserue principally that the Moon be iust six daies old for vpon that day they begin their months and new yeares yea and their seueral ages which haue their revolutions euery thirty yeres because she is thought then to be of great power and force sufficient and is not yet come to her halfe light and the end of her first quarter They call it in their language All-Heale for they haue an opinion of it that it cureth all maladies whatsoeuer and when they are about to gather it after they haue well duly prepared their sacrifices and festiual cheare vnder the said tree they bring thither two yong bullocks milk white such as neuer drew in yoke at plough or wain and whose heads were then and not before bound by the horn which done the priest araied in a surplesse or white vesture climbeth vp into the tree and with a golden hooke or bill cutteth it off and they beneath receiue it in a white soldiers cassock or coat of armes then fall they to kil the beasts aforesaid for sacrifice mumbling many oraisons praying deuoutly that it would please God to blesse this gift of his to the good and benefit of all those to whom he had vouchsafed to giue it Now this persuasion they haue of Misselto thus gathered That wha●… liuing creatures soeuer otherwise barren do drink of it will presently become fruitfull thereupon also that it is a soueraign countrepoison or singular remedie against all vermine So vain and superstitious are many nations in the world and oftentimes in such friuolous and foolish things as these THE SEVENTEENTH BOOKE OF THE HISTORIE OF NATVRE WRITTEN BY C. PLINIVS SECVNDVS CHAP. I. ¶ The wonderfull prices of some Trees AS touching the nature of all those trees which of their owne accord doe grow as well vpon the main land as the sea coast we haue already treated sufficiently It remaineth now to discourse of those which to speake more properly are made rather and forced by art and wit of man than otherwise come by nature and of themselues But before I enter into this treatise I canot chuse but maruel how it is come to passe That those trees which for necessity need we hauing taken from the wilde and brute beasts and possessed in common with them considering that men maintaine fight and scramble with them for the fruits that fall yea and otherwhiles with the fowles of the aire about those which hang vpon the tree should grow to so excessiue a price as to be esteemed among the principall delights of this world And that this is so appeareth by that most notable example in mine opinion of L. Crassus and Cn. Domitius Aenobarbus This L. Crassus a right renowmed Orator of Rome as any one of his time had a stately and sumptuous dwelling vpon mount Palatine howbeit that house of Q. Catulus who defeated in battell the Cimbrians together with C. Marius went beyond it a faire deale in magnificence and stood likewise within the pourprise of the same mount But the goodliest and fairest Pallace knowne in that age was that of C. Aquilius a Gentleman or Knight of Rome scituate vpon the hill of Osiers called Viminalis in regard whereof there went a greater name of him than for all the skill he had in the Ciuill Law which was his profession Yet of all those three Crassus onely was challenged and reproched for that foresaid house of his And in this manner is the storie deliuered Crassus and Domitius great personages both and descended from most noble Houses in Rome after they had beene Consuls happened also to be chosen Censors together and this fell out to be in the six hundred sixty two yeare after the foundation of the city but during this Magistracie of theirs there passed many a foule day and bitter fit betweene them so dissonant were their natures and their conditions so farre vnlike Now it fortuned vpon a time that Cn. Domitius as hee was hot and hasty man by nature and carried an inward hatred besides in his heart which soone is kindled and set on fire yea and most insatiable vpon emulation and enuy betweene Concurrents such as they two were reprooued Crassus verie sharpely for his excesse in expence and namely That any Censor of Rome should dwell in so stately and sumptuous a Pallace as he did and euer and anon made offer to buy the House and pay him downe-right for it an hundred Millions of Sesterces whereat Crassus being a man quicke of spirit and of a prompt and present wit finely conceited withall and not to seeke for a ready answer tooke him at his word and accepted of the offer reseruing only six trees that grew about his house Tush quoth Domitius replying againe take those Trees away and take all if they be gone I will none of the house though I might haue it for a single denier Then Crassus hauing gotten the vantage and start of him rejoyned and came vpon him thus Tell me now I pray you good Domitius whether of vs twaine giueth a scandalous example to the world Whether am I my selfe I say offensiue and deserue to be taxed and noted by mine own Censorship who can be contented to liue quietly and louingly among my neighbours in mine owne house and that house which came to me by way of inheritance from my father or you rather that for six trees bid 100 millions of Sesterces Now if a man be desirous to know what these trees might be truly they were no other but six Lote trees very faire and beautifull indeed but there was nothing in them commendable saue only their spreading and casting a goodly shade And verily Caecina Largus a Nobleman and principal citizen of Rome vsed many a time and often I remember well to shew me when I was a yong man those trees about his house And since our speech hath bin of such trees as liue very long these I wote wel continued for the space of 180 yeres after Crassus death to the great fire that Nero caused to bee made for to burne Rome fresh and green they were with good keeping and looked yong still like to haue liued many a faire day more had not that prince hastened the vntimely death euen of trees also as well as of citizens Now lest any man should think that all the sumptuositie of Crassus consisted only in those trees and that the furniture otherwise of his house was but mean and simple and could minister vnto Domitius no matter of such contesting and reproofe disposed as he was to quarrel and find fault know he thus much That the said Crassus had before that time set vp in the open hall of that house

named Velleiacium wherein six men brought a certificate that they had liued an hundred yeares apiece foure likewise came in with a note of an hundred and twenty yeares one of an hundred and fourteene namely M. Mutius son of Marcus named Galerius foelix But because we will not dwell long in a matter so euident and commonly confessed in the review taken of the eighth region of Italy there were found in the rolle 54 persons of an hundred yeares of age 57 of an hundred and ten two of 125 foure of 130 as many that were 135 or 137 yeares old and last of all three men of an hundred and fortie But let vs leaue these ages and consider a while another inconstant variety in the nature of mortall men Homer reporteth that Hector and Polydamas were borne both in one night men so different in nature and qualitie Whiles C. Marius was Consull and Cn. Carbo with him who had been twice before Consull the fifth day before the calends of Iune M. Caecilius Ruffus and C. Licinius Calvus were borne vpon a day and both of them verily proued great Orators but they sped not alike but mightily differed one from another in the end And this is a thing seen daily to happen throughout the World considering that in one houre kings and beggars are borne likewise lords and slaues CHAP. L. ¶ Sundry examples of diuers Diseases PVb. Cornelius Rufus who was Consul together with M. Curius dreamed that he had lost his sight and it proued true indeed for in his sleep he became blind neuer saw again Contrariwise Phalereus or Iason Phereus being giuen ouer by the Physitions for an impostume he had in his chest in dispaire of all health purposing to kill himselfe for to be rid out of his paine stabbed his breast with a knife but he found this deadly enemy to be his onely Physition Q. Fabius Maximus being long sicke of a quartane Ague strucke a battell with the People of Sauoy and Auvergne neere the riuer Isara vpon the sixth day before the Ides of August wherein he slew of his enemies 13000 and therewith was deliuered from his feuer and neuer had it after Certes this gift of life that we haue from nature be it more or lesse is fraile vncertain and say that it be giuen to any in largest measure it is but scant yet and very short yea and of but small vse if wee consider the whole course thereof from the beginning to the end For first if we count our repose and sleep in the night season a man can be truly said to liue but halfe his life for surely a good moity and halfe deale thereof which is spent in sleeping may be likened well to death and if he cannot sleep it is a pain of all pains and a very punishment I reckon not in this place the yeares of our infancie which age is void of reason and sense ne yet of old age which the longer it continueth the more are they plagued that be in it What should I speake of so many kindes of dangers so many diseases so many feares so many pensiue cares so many prayers for death as that in maner we pray for nothing oftner In which regards how can a man be said to liue the while and therefore Nature knoweth not what better thing to giue a man than short life First and formost the senses wax dull the members and limmes grow benummed the eye sight decaieth betimes the hearing followeth soone after then faile the supporters the teeth also and the very instruments that serue for our food and nourishment and yet forsooth all this time so full of griefe infirmities is counted a part of our life Hereupon it is taken for a miraculous example and that to which again we canot find a fellow that Xenophilus the musitian liued 105 yeares without any sicknesse or defect in all his body For all other men beleeue me are vexed at certain houres like as no other creatures besides with the pestiferous heats and shaking colds of the feuer in euery ioynt sinew and muscle of the bodie which go and come keeping their times in their seuerall fits not for certain houres in the day only but from one day to another and from night to night one while euery third day or night otherwhiles euery fourth yea and somtime a whole yeare together Moreouer what is it but a very disease to know the time and houre of a mans death and so to die forsooth in wisedome For maladies there be in which Nature hath set down certain rules and lawes namely a quartaine feuer neuer lightly begins in the shortest daies of the yeare neither in the 3 moneths of winter to wit December Ianuarie Februarie Some diseases are not incident to those that are aboue 60 yeares of age others againe do end and passe away when youths begin to be vndergrowne and especially this is obserued in yong maidens Moreouer old folke of all other are least subiect to take the plague Furthermore sicknesses there be that follow this region or that assailing and infecting the inhabitants generally therein There be some againe that surprise and take hold of seruants only both all and some others touch the best persons alone of the highest calling and so from degree to degree But in this place obserued vsually it is by experience That a pestilence beginning in the South parts goeth alwaies towards the West and neuer lightly but in winter neither continueth it aboue three moneths CHAP. LI. ¶ Of the signes of death NOw let vs take a view of deadly tokens in sicknes in rage and furious madnesse to laugh is a mortall signe in frenzie wherein men are bestraught of their right wits to take care of the skirts fringes and welts of their garments that they be in good order to keepe a fumbling and pleiting of the bed-cloathes the neglect of such things as would trouble them in their sleepe and breake it the voluntarie letting go of their water prognosticate death A man may see death also in the eyes and nose most certainly of all other parts as also in the maner of lying as namely when the patient lieth alwaies on his backe with his face vpward We gather signes also by the vneuen stroke of the arterie as also when the pulse beateth so vnder the physitians hand as if he felt an ant creeping vnder it Other signes also there be which Hipocrates the prince and chief of all Physitions hath very wel obserued and set down Now whereas there be an infinite number of signes that presage death there is not one knowne than can assure a man certainly of life and health For Cato that famous Censor writing to his sonne as touching this argement hath deliuered as it were out of an Oracle That there is an obseruation of death to be collected euen in them that are in the most perfect health for saith hee youth resembling age is a certaine signe of vntimely death or short