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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

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 At London ❧ Printed for Thomas Hacket and are to be solde at his shop in Lumberd streete vnder the Popes head 1585. To the vvorshipful and his very good friend Maister Richard Candler as one that wisheth the fauour of God long happy life encrease of worship with continuall health and felicitie SO it is worshipfull Syr I haue deuised with my selfe many times howe to gratifie you with some token of my good will towardes you but welth and abilitie lacking to accomplish my desired pretence yet nowe at the last I haue presumed knowing your wonted curtesies towardes all men to dedicate this Abstract of Plinies desiring you to take it with as good a will as I haue ment it till hereafter that some seriusser matter come to my hande and thus I bid you most hartely farewell in the Lord who keepe you and all yours prosper and preserue you in all your good and godly enterprises Amen Yours to vse T. H. To the Reader HEre hast thou gentle Reader set forth vnto thee this Booke named The Secrets and wonders of the Worlde abstracted out of the sixteene first Bookes of that excellent naturall Historiographer Plinie for the straungenesse and worthinesse thereof I referre thee to thine owne iudgement requesting thee to take this in good part shortly shal be by Gods grace set forth vnto thee three worthy and learned bookes the first is of the Cituation of the world writte by Pomponius Mela The second is a perfite Peregrination and true discouerie of Graecie Turkey Arabia and Siria with the maner of their Cities and their Antiquities The third is Iulius Sollinus Pollihistorie the which bookes thou shalt finde both to be pleasant and profitable And thus I bid thee farewel in Christ who keep vs. Amē ❧ The Secretes and wonders of the World abstracted out of the principall of the naturall Historiographers PLINIE the naturall Historiographer was borne vnder the Emperour Tyberian and died vnder Titus the Emperour that destroyed Hierusalem after the death and passion of our Lord Iesus Christ in which time he did attribute his woorkes In the first booke which is briefe he maketh his preambles In the second he treateth of the worlde and of other matters He describeth that the worlde is alone and round naturally vnmoueable although that there are certaine places moueable and that may moue by the concauites of the earth being full of winde There are foure Elementes the Earth the Water and the Fyre aboue the Ayre néere to the first firmament Which is fire natural and therefore there néedeth no wood to continue the same Vnder the Earth are the Planetes which are called Strayers and yet they moue lesse then the others but it is of the mutation of their influences of the Firmament among the which is the Sunne rector and the guider of the other Planets principall gouernour of nature The other Starres are not attributed as some doe thinke as the greatest and clearest to the rich and the least to the poore and the obscure and darke starres to those that of nature are infected For we haue no such societie with the Starres that they shoulde die with vs and therefore they are equally deuided seruing to eche one The Moone hath her Planet comming before her as the Sunne hath the day Starre she doeth encrease and diminish and sometimes is at the full a●d sometimes shée hath hornes euen as the Sunne doeth giue and take away her clearenesse The earth is betwéene them both the Moone is in the first heauen the Sunne in the fourth and when the one is highe the other is lowe and the other Starres are more higher in the Skie and therefore they séeme lesse then the Moone The obscuritie and darckenesse of the Moone cōmeth by the humours of the earth that is drawen or sucked vp from the earth By the Geometrie of this worlde the Stade which is fourtie roddes doeth containe 125. paces the whiche are 525. foote Sometimes there hath bene séene in the appearance thrée Sunnes and thrée Moones In the Aire it raineth sometimes naturally Stones suckt vp by the vapours of the earth sometimes Frogges and some time blood in diuers figures The Heliotropium in his floure doeth turne euery day and followe the Sunne The Ant doeth neuer beginne to hourde vp but in the full Moone The nature of the windes are diuers according to the diuersitie of Countreies and they procéed of the earth and of the vapours of the same which causeth sometimes in many places Earthquakes The Thunders and Lightnings doe neuer fall in the winter for the coldnesse of the ayre doth kéepe them in and choakes them and therefore they fall in the Sommer and many times they marre the Wine without touching the vessell There was a woman at Rome whose childe was slaine within her wombe by thunder and lightning and the woman had no hurt at all Thrée things there are that neuer féele any harme by thunders and lightnings the Laurel trée on the Earth the Eagle in the Skie and the Seacalse in the Sea for they neuer fall vpon their skinnes therefore best assured are they that are so clad Naturally there are signes and tokens in the earth the Sea and the Aire and therefore it hath rained sometimes Blood Stones Wooll yea great stones accumulated in the ayre by the coldnesse thereof The Rainebowe is not séene in a close and rainy day but the Sunne beames entring into the concauites of the Earth doe reflexe the Sunne and make varietie of colours by the mixture of the cloudes in the aire and is séene most commonly in the Sommer Also there are neuer lightly séene aboue two Rainbowes The earth is the mother of all liuing creatures In the aire is séene many times darkenesse clowdes the Hailes are deriued of the waters but the earth is lowly seruing to all creatures she bringeth forth Corne Wine Fruites and all kinde of things pertaining to man Shée bringeth foorth Iron Lead Golde Siluer precious Stones and Herbes seruing vnto mans health yea if that a Serpent chaunce to bite any person the earth will not receiue that Serpent when it is dead The earth is compassed round about with waters the which is more knowen by experience then by arguments and some part thereof is not inhabited towards the North because of the great colde An other part is not inhabited because of the extreame heate towards the South The middle of the earth is the Centry to the which most waightiest things doe take holde In some places there is no shadowe of the Sunne specially in Alexandria the great where as there is a déepe well without shadowe Anaxemenes Milesius was the first founders of Dials There are many signes of

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