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death_n	wood_n	wound_n	wound_v	17	3	7.7612	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01512	The hospitall of incurable fooles: erected in English, as neer the first Italian modell and platforme, as the vnskilfull hand of an ignorant architect could deuise; Hospidale de' pazzi incurabili. English	Garzoni, Tomaso, 1549?-1589.; Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601.; Blount, Edward, fl. 1588-1632.	1600 (1600)	STC 11634; ESTC S102909	90,029	174

enioyest in the iland of Cyprus they promise to offer a great peece of flint-stone without the steele to strike fire withall to shew that thy flames be quenched and that fire smoothered vp which when it bursteth foorth miserably consumeth euerie ones hart Of desperate Fooles the nineteenth discourse THere be certaine accidents which sometimes happen vnto men through which it commeth to passe that one being mooued by the bitternes of such effects hee falleth into so great desperation as loosing all sense and vnderstanding he giueth himselfe wholly ouer as a pray to griefe and so far yeeldeth to his afflicted and tormented mind as the heauines of such a mischance foolishly and fondly vrgeth and inciteth him thereunto and through this malignant effect he obtayneth amongst men the title of a desperate Foole. For this kinde of passion is questionlesse a plaine madnes in such like men who not being able to endure crosses hasten after an ende of the same altogether vnwoorthie of one wise or that knoweth how to gouerne himselfe Of this kinde of argument the first example which commeth to my minde is that of Luctus Sillanus sonne in lawe to Claudius the Emperour who for that hee was depriued of his wife Octauia shee being giuen to Nero was suddenly oppressed with so great anguish of minde that the verie day of her mariage the more to make him be enuied as Cornelius Tacitus affirmeth with his owne poynard he killed himselfe The second example is of Silius Italicus a famous Poet of whom Angelus Politianus recounteth in his booke Nutricia that being surprised with an incurable disease he grew into such a loathing of himselfe as that being desperate he ended his owne daies and these be the verses of him He died old and did suruiue his sonne By his owne hand this cruell deed was done In the Romaine Chronicles we read of Marcus Portius Latro who ouercome with the great molestation of a double quartaine layde himself his owne hands on his backe and willingly gaue vp the ghoast Wee finde written in Ouid of Sardanapalus King of the Assyrians that being vexed with a grieuous war when hee saw his affaires goe quite backward hee threw himselfe desperately vpon a burning pile of wood and in that fire most miserably died and these be Ouid verses These bodies deere thou maist commit vnto the fire A death which Sardanapalus did desperately desire Biondus and Corius make mention of Ezelino the tirant of Padoa that being wounded in one of the battailes he fought with Martine Turriano prince of Mylane like a madde beast he vnbound and tore open his wounde giuing vp his life as one desperate and who as it seemed was borne onely to the dammage and ruine of humaine kinde Caelius reciteth this notable follie of one Timantes Cleoneus by profession a champion who not being able through olde age and partly for want of vse to draw a bowe which a certaine yoong man easily welded entred vpon this into such choler that being desperate with a knife he killed himselfe Deuine Ariosto in faire Bradamante describeth an humour much of this kind yet differing from another spirite instantly stripped of all reason and sense in that Stanza which beginneth thus Shee saying thus and eeke prepar'd to dye Leapt out of bed with furie all enflam'd Putting her sword on left side by and by With that which followeth In these our daies that desperate follie reported by Cecco of Brisselli is questionlesse verie ridiculous who hauing in the heat of sommer a mightie strong itch he suffered likewise as great a disturbance by a swarme of flies as in such cases it oftentimes hapneth and so great was the molestation which he receiued from them as not being able to shake them off of his nose forehead or hands nor from the nape of his neck which was all cādied like a most desperat man he one day threw himselfe into a tubbe of honie saying I hope you will remaine heere catched and taken by the heeles and afterwards leauing the tubbe he might perceiue those shamelesse creatures to be clotted all of a cluster within the barrell to his singular contentment But now on the other side list a while for at the smell of the honie there came a most irkesome swarme of bees and waspes by whose buzzing and stinging hee being sore vexed entred into such a rage by this seconde assault as apparrelling himselfe from hande to foote like to a man cōpleate armed with his beuer downe he went and sate in the sunne saying now hum and bum as long as you will for in despight of flies and all the bees and waspes in the worlde I will keepe this my scalde itch to my selfe but an infinite armie of these creatures fluttering about him at the onely odour and smell of his corruption in the ende not being able to beholde himselfe thus besieged he grew desperate and cast himselfe into a caldron of hot scalding lee saying and you loue honie so well as it seemeth you do come hither a gods name and fasten vpon me This sort therefore before spokē of be desperate fooles who haue within the Hospitall for an ensigne the picture of the goddesse Venilia wherefore as their protectresse let vs with dew praiers and entreatie sollicite her in their behalfe A supplication to goddesse Venilia for desperate Fooles O Thou which replenishest mens mindes with hope comfortest with sage meditation the disconsolate restorest wearied spirits to true vnfained alacritie therefore by all the afflicted arte sedulously called vpon while others thus groane vnder their burden and that thou seest the terrible extremities and hart burnings of these fooles procure that thy mercifull hart may be touched with such commiseration as that thou causing thy selfe to bee knowne for goddesse Venilia mother and guardian of the desperate these men may thus by thy fauour bee as it were raised from death to life for when they shall perceiue their wandring and lost spirits recouered togither with their dried vp bloud and colour wan reuiued they shall in a pleasant bonde and dutie be obliged to fasten vp in thy temple a hangmans coller with an olde rotten halter as a true signe that by thy fauour they haue escaped death and that from desperate estate they are reduced to an assured hope of future life Of heteroclite reuerse thwart and headstrong Fooles the twentith discourse THere be certaine fantasticall men in the worlde who by no meanes can be perswaded either to equitie honestie or truth obseruing in their operations neither rule order or mediocritie but are of a spirit crosse reuerse not yeelding to dutie consenting to right nor cōformable to so much as very reason would require but are altogither out of the way beyond measure farre wide of the true path which humours are continually termed by the name of heteroclite reuerse thwart headstrōg fooles Of this humor that Perseus subdued by Paulus Aemilius shewed himselfe for two of