amongst them that was stirred up by vision whose name was Cangius and it was on this manner There appeared to him in a dream a certain person in Armour sitting upon a white Horse who thus spake to him Cangius it is the will of the Eternal God that thou shortly shalt be the King and Ruler of the Tartars that are called Malgotz thou shalt free them from that servitude under which they have long groaned and the neighbour Nations shall be subjected to them Cangius in the morning before the seven Princes and Elders of the Malgotz rehearses what he had dreamed which they all at the first looked upon as ridiculous but the next night all of them in their sleep seemed to behold the same person he had told them of and to hear him commanding them to obey Cangius Whereupon summoning all the people together they commanded them the same and the Princes themselves in the first place took the Oath of Allegiance to him and intituled him the first Emperour in their language Chan which signifies King or Emperour All such as succeeded him were aâ—ter called by the same name of Chan and were of great Fame and Power This Emperour freed his people subdued Georgia and the greater Armenia and afterwards wasted Polonia and Hungary 5. Antigonus dreamed that he had sowed Gold in a large and wide field that the seed sprang up flourished and grew ripe but that streight after he saw all this golden harvest was reaped and nothing left but the worthless stubble and stalks and then he seemed to hear a voice that Mithridates was fled into the Euxine Pontus carrying along with him all the golden harvest This Mithridates was descended of the Persian Magi and was at this time in the Retinue of this Antigonus King of Macedonia his Country of Persia being conquered and his own Fortunes ruined in that of the publick The dream was not obscure neither yet the signification of it The King therefore being awaked and exceedingly terrified resolves to cut off Mithridates and communicates the matter with his own Son Demetrius exacting of him a previous oath for his silence Demetrius was the Friend of Mithridates as being of the same age and by accident he encounters him as he came from the King The young Prince pities his Friend and would willingly assist him but he is restrained by the reverence of his oath Well he takes him aside and with the point of his Spear writes in the sand Fly Mithridates which he looking upon and admonished at once with those words and the countenance of Demetrius he privily flies into Cappadocia and not long after founded the famous and potent Kingdom of Pontus which continued from this man to the eighth descent that other Mithridates being very difficulty overthrown by all the Power and Forces of the Romans 6. The night before the Battel at Philippi Artorius or as others M. Antonius Musa Physician to Octavianus had a dream wherein he thought he saw Minerva who commanded him to tell Octavianus that though he was very sick he should not therefore decline his being present at the Battel which when Caesar understood he commanded himself to be carried in his Litter to the Army where he had not long remained before his Tents were seised upon by Brutus and himself also had been had he not so timely removed 7. Quintus Catulus a noble Roman saw as he thought in his depth of rest Iupiter delivering into the hand of a child the Ensign of the Roman People and the next night after he saw the same child hug'd in the bosome of the same God Whom Catulus offering to pluck from thence Iupiter charged him to lay no violent hands on him who was born for the Weal and preservation of the Roman Empire The very next morning when Q. Catulus espy'd by chance in the street Octavianus then a child afterwards Augustus Caesar and perceiving him to be the same he ran unto him and with a loud acclamation said Yes this is he whom the last night I beheld hug'd in the bosome of Iupiter 8. Iulius Caesar was excited to large hopes this way for he dreamed that he had carnal knowledge of his Mother and being confounded with the uncouthness of it he was told by the Interpreters that the Empire of the World was thereby presaged unto him for the Mother which he beheld subject unto him was no other than that of the Earth which is the common Parent of all men 9. Arlotte the Mother of William the Conquerour being great with him had a dream like that of Mandane the Mother of Cyrus the first Persian Monarch namely that her bowels were extended and dilated over all Normandy and England 10. Whilst I lived at Prague saith an English Gentleman and one night had sate up very late drinking at a Feast early in the morning the Sun-beams glancing on my face as I lay in my bed I dreamed that a shadow passing by told me that father was dead At which awaking all in a sweat and affected with this dream I rose and wrote the day and hour and all circumstances thereof in a Paper-book which Book with many other things I put into a Barrel and sent it from Prague to Stode thence to be conveyed into England And now being at Nuremberg a Merchant of a noble Family well acquainted with me and my Relations arrived there who told me that my father dyed some two months past I list not to write any lies but that which I write is as true as strange when I returned into England some four years after I would not open the Barrel I sent from Prague nor look into the Paper-book in which I had written this dream till I had called my Sisters and some other Friends to be witnesses where my self and they were astonished to see my written dream answer the very day of my fathers death 11. The same Gentleman saith thus also I may lawfully swear that which my Kinsmen have heard witnessed by my Brother Henry whilst he lived that in my youth at Cambridge I had the like dream of my mothers death where my Brother Henry lying with me early in the morning I dreamed that my mother passed by with a sad countenance and told me that she could not come to my Commencement I being within five months to proceed Master of Arts and she having promised at that time to come to Cambridge when I related this dream to my Brother both of us awaking together in a sweat he protested to me that he had dreamed the very same and when we had not the least knowledge of our mothers sickness neither in our youthful affections were any whit affected with the strangeness of this dream yet the next Carrier brought us word of our mothers death 12. Doctor Ioseph Hall then Bishop of Exeter since of Norwich speaking of the good offices which Angels do to Gods servants Of this kind saith he was that
satis The meanning is that if we should allow three leaves to every day of his life from his very Birth there would be some to spare yet withal he wrote so exactly that Ximenes his Scholar attempting to contract his Commentaries upon St. Matthew could not well bring it to less than a thousand leaves in Folio and that in a very small Print Others also have attempted the like in his other Works but with the same success 3. Iulius Caesar Scaliger was thirty years old before he fell to study yet was a singular Philosopher and an excellent Greek and Latin Poet. Vossius calls him The Miracle of Nature the chief Censor of the Ancients and the Darling of all those that are concerned to attend upon the Muses Lipsius highly admires him There are three saith he whom I use chiefly to wonder at as persons who though amongst men seem yet to have transcended all humane Attainments Homar Hippocrates and Aristotle but I shall add to them this fourth that is Julius Scaliger that was born to be the Miracle and the Glory of our Age. He verily thinks there was no such acute and capacious Wit as his since the Age of Iulius Caesar. Meibomiuâ— calls him a man of stupendious Learning and than whom the Sun hath scarce shined upon a more learned Thuanus saith Antiquity had scarcely his Superior 't is certain his own Age had not the like 4. Amongst the great Heroes and Miracles of Learning most renowned in this latter Age Ioseph Scaliger hath merited a more than ordinary place The learned Causabon hath given this Character of him There is nothing saith he that any man could desire to learn but that he was able to teach He had read nothing and yet whâ—t had he not read but what he did readily remember There was nothing in any Latin Greek or Hebrew Author that was so obscure or abstruse but that being consulted about it he would forthwith resolve He was throughly versed in the Histories of all Nations in all Ages in the successive Revolutions of all Empires and in all the Affairs of the ancient Churches he was able to recount all the Ancient and Modern Names Differences and Proprieties of living Creatures Plants Metals and all other Natural things He was accurately skill'd in the scituation of Places the bounds of Provinces and their various Divisions according to the diversity of Times There was none of the Arts and Sciences so difficult that he had left uâ—touched He knew so many Languages so exactly that if he had made that one thing his business throughout the whole compass of his life it might have been worthily reputed a miracle Hereunto may be annexed the Testimony of Iulius Caesar Bulengerus a Doctor of the Sorbon and Professor at Pisa who in the twelfth Book of the History of his time thus writes of the same Scaliger There followed the Year 1609. an unfortunate Year in respect of the death of Ioseph Scaliger than whom this Age of ours hath not brought forth any of so great a Genius or ingenuity as to Learning and possibly the fore-past Ages have not had his Equal in all kinds of Learning 5. That which Pasquier hath observed out of Monshclet is yet more memorable touching a young man who being not above twenty years old came to Paris in the Year 1445. and shewed himself so admirably excellent in all Arts and Sciences and Languages that if a man of an ordinary good Wit and sound Constitution should live one hundred years and during that time should study incessantly without eating drinking and sleeping or any recreation he could hardly attain to that perfection Insomuch that some were of opinion that he was Antichrist begotten of the Devil or at least somewhat above Humane Condition Castellanus who lived at the same time and saw this Miracle of Wit made these Verses on him his are in French but may be thus Englished A young man have I seen At twenty years so skill'd That ev'ry Art he had and all In â—ll degrees excell'd Whatever yet was writ He vaunted to pronounce Likâ— a young Anti-Christ if he Did read the same but once 6 Beda was born in the Kingdom of Northumberland at Girroy now Yarrow in the Bishoprick of Durham brought up by St. Cuthbert and was the profoundest Scholar of his Age for Latin Greek Philosophy History Divinity Mathematicks Musick and what not Homilies of his making were read in his life time in the Christian Churches a dignity afforded him alone whence some say his Title of Venerable Beda was given him It being a middle betwixt plain Beda which they thought too little and St Beda which they thought too much while he was yet alive 7. Roger Bacon was a famous Mathematician and most skilful in other Sciences accurately vers'd in the Latin Greek and Hebrew of whom Selden thus Roger Bacon of Oxford a Minoriâ—e an excellent Mathematician and a person of more learning than any of his age could aâ—ford 8. Richard Pacie Dean of Pauls and Secretary for the Latin Tongue to King Henry the Eighth he was of great ripeness of wit learning and eloquence and also expert in foreign languages Pitsaeus gives him this Character A man endowed with most excellent gifts of mind adorned with great variety of leâ—â—â—ing he had a sharp wit a mature judgment a constant and firm memory a prompt and ready tongue and such a one as might deservedly contâ—nd with the most learned men of his age for â—kill in the Latin Greek and Hebrew languages 9. Anicius Mâ—â—liâ—s Soverinus Boeâ—hius â—â—ourished Anno Dom. 520. He was very famous in his days being Consul at Rome and a man of rare gifts and abilities Some say that in prose he came not behind Cicero himself and had none that exceeded him in Poetry A great Philosopher Musician and Mathematician Polit. saith of him thus Than Boethius in Logick who more acute in Mathematicks more subtile in Philosophy more copious and rich or in Divinity more sublime He was put to death by Theodoricus King of the Goths and after he was slain Peripatetick Philosophy decayed and almost all Learning in Italy Barbarism wholly invaded it and expelled good Arts and Philosophy out of its Borders saith Hereboord of Verona 10. St. Augustine in his Epistle to Cyril Bishop of Ierusalem writes concerning St. Ierome that he understood the Hebrew Greek Chaldee Persian Median and Arabick tongues and that he was skill'd in almost all the learning and languages of all Nations The same St. Augustine saith of him no man knows that which St. Ierome is ignorant of 11. Mithridates the great King of Pontus had no less than twenty and two Countries under his Government yet was he used to answer all these Ambassadors in the same language of his Country that he spake to him in without the help of any Interpreter A wonderful evidence of a very singular memory that could so distinctly lay up
the building of the City His first eleven Books are all that are extant in which he reaches to the two hundred and twelfth year of the City He â—lourished in the time of Augustus Caesar and is said to have lived in the Family of M. Varro 10. Polybius of Megalopolis was the Master Councellour and daily Companion of Scipio the younger who in the year of the World 3800. razed Carthage he begins his Roman History from the first Punick War and of the Greek Nation the Achaeans from the fortieth year after the death of Alexander the Great of forty Books he wrote but five are left and the Epitomes of twelve other in which he reaches to the Battel at Cynoscephale betwixt King Philip of Macedon and the Romans 11. Salustius wrote many Parts of the Roman History in a pure and quaint brevity of all which little is left besides the Conspiracy of Catiline oppressed by the Consul Cicero sixty years before the birth of Christ and the War of Iugurth managed by C. Marius the Consul in the forty fourth year before the Conspiracy aforesaid 12. Iulius Caesar hath wrote the History of his own Acts in the Gallick and Civil Wars from the 696 year ab V. C. to the 706. and comprized them in Commentaries upon every year in such a purity and beautiful propriety of expression and such a native candour that nothing is more terse polite more useful and accommodate to the framing of a right and perspicuous expression of our selves in the Latin Tongue 13. Velleius Paterculus in a pure and sweet kind of speech hath composed an Epitome of the Roman History and brought it down as far as the thirty second year after the birth of Christ that is the sixteenth year of Tiberius under whom he flourished and was Questor 14. Cornelius Tacitus under Adrian the Emperour was Praefect of the Belgick Gaul he wrote a History from the death of Augustus to the Reign of Trajan in thirty Books of which the five first contain the History of Tiberius the last eleven Books from the eleventh to the twenty first which are all that are extant reach from the eighth year of Claudius to the beginning of Vespasian and the besieging of Ierusalem by Titus which was Anno Dom. 72. He hath comprised much in a little is proper neat quick and apposite in his stile and adorns his discourse with variety of Sentences 15. Suetonius was Secretary to Adrian the Emperour and in a proper and concise stile hath wrote the Lives of the twelve first Emperours to the death of Domitian and the ninety eighth year of Christ he hath therein exactly kept to that first and chief Law of History which is That the Historian should not dare to set down any thing that is false and on the other side That he have courage enough to set down what is true It is said of this Historian That he wrote the Lives of those Emperours with the same liberty as they lived 16. Dion Cassius was born at Nice in Bythinia he wroâ—e the History of nine hundred eighty one years from the building of Rome to Ann. Dom. 231. in which year he was Consul with Alexander Severus the Emperour and finished his History in eighty Books of all which scarce twenty â—ive Books from the thirty sixth to the sixty first and the beginning of Nero are at this time extant 17. Herodianus wrote the History of his own time from the death of M. Antoninus the Philosopher or the year of Christ 181. to the murder of the Gordiani in Africa Ann. Dom. 241. which is rendred purely into Latin by Angelus Politianus 18. Iohannes Zonaras of Byzantium wrote a History from Augustus to his own times and the year of our Lord 1117. the chief of the Oriental Affairs and Emperours he hath digested in the second and third Tomes of his Annals from whence Cuspinianus and others borrow almost all that they have Zonaras is continued by Nicaetas Gregoras and he by Chalcâ—ndylas 19. Eutropius wrote the Epitome of the Roman History in ten Books to the death of Iovinian Anno Dom. 368. He was present in the Expedition of Iulian into Persia and flourished in the Reign of Valens the Emperour 20. Ammianus Marcellinus a Grecian by birth War'd many years under Iulian in Gallia and Germany and wrote the History of the Romans in thirty one Books the fourteenth to the thirty first are all that are extant wherein at large and handsomely he describes the acts of Constantius Iulian Iovinian Valentinian and Valens the Emperours unto the year of Christ 382. 21. Iornandes a Goth hath wrote the History of the Original Eruptions Families of their Kings and principal Wars of the Goths which he hath continued to his own time that is the year of our Lord 550. 22. Procopius born at Caesarea in Palestine and Chancellour to Belisarius the General to Iustinian the Emperour being also his Councellour and constant companion in seven Books wrote the Wars of Belisarius with the Persians Vandals and Goths wherein he also was present 23. Agathias of Smyrna continues Procopius from the twenty seventh of Iustinian Anno Dom. 554. to the end of his Reign Anno Dom. 566. the Wars of Narses with the Goths and Franks with the Persians at Cholchiâ— wherein he recites the Succession of the Persian Kings from Artaxerxes who Anno Dom. 230. seised on the Parthian Empire to the Reign of Iustinian Anno Dom. 530. and in the end treats of the irruption of the Hunnes into Thrace and Greece and their repression by Belisarius now grown old 24. Paulus Diaconus of Aquileia Chancellour to Desiderius King of the Lombards Writes the entire History of the Lombards to Ann. Dom. 773. in which Charles the Great took Desiderius the last King and brought Lombardy under his own power 25. Haithonus an Armenian many years a Souldier in his own Country afterwards a Monk at Cyprus coming into France about the year of Christ 1307. was commanded by Pope Clement the fifth to write the Empire of the Tartars in Asia and the Description of other oriental Kingdoms 26. Laonicus Chalchondylas an Athenian wrote the History of the Turks in ten Books from Ottoman Anno 1300. to Mahomet the second who took Constantinople Anno Dom. 1453. and afterwards continued his History to Ann. 1464. 27. Luiâ—prandus of Ticinum wrote the History of the principal Affairs in all the Kingdoms of Europe in his time at most of which he himself was present his History is comprised in six Books and commencing from Anno Dom. 891. extends to Ann. Dom. 963. 28. Sigebert a Monk in a Abby in Brabant wrote his Chronicon from the death of Valens the Emperour or Anno Dom. 381. to the Empire of Henry the fifth Anno Dom. 1112. wherein he hath digested much of the French and British Affairs and acts of the German Emperours 29. Saxo Grammaticus Bishop of the Church of Rotschilden wrote the Danish History from utmost Antiquity to his
the houses of rich men but rich men went not to theirs Because replied he those know what they want but these do not One asked him what difference there was betwixt one wise and another not so Send said he both naked where they are not known and you will soon discover it Having entreated Dionysius in the behalf of his friend and in vain he threw himself at his feet and being blamed for so doing Not I said he but Dionysius is in fault who hath his ears in his feet Many were his witty and acute sayings and replies a number of which may be found whence these were borrowed that is from Laert. lib. 2. p. 49 50. 15. Stilpon of Megara so far surpassed all others in Learning and a copious way of speaking that little wanted but that all Greece fixing its eye upon him had passed over unto the Megarick Sect. He had an unchast Daughter and when one told him that she was a dishonour to him Not so much said he as I am an honour to her He was in great favour with Ptolomaeus Soter and when Demetrius the Son of Antigonus had taken Megara he gave express order for the saving his House and caused all his goods to be restored He was commanded immediately to depart Athens by the Areopagites for having spoken slightingly of Minerva the work of Phidias certain it is that he was in such honour at Athens that the Trades-men would run out of their Shops to see him and when one said they wonder at thee Stilpon as at a wild Beast No said the other but as a True man Laert. lib. 2. p. 61 62. 16. Plato an Athenian was the Son of Ariston and descended from Solon by his Mother Perictione In matters of Philosophy that fall under sense he followed Heraclitus in things only comprehended by the mind Pythagoras and in Politicks Socrates He was of that reputation that when he went up to the Olympick Games the eyes of all the Grecians were bent upon him He got the name of Plato say some from the breadth of his Forehead Aristotle saith the manner of his Speech was a middle sort betwixt Verse and Prose He professed Philosophy in the Academy whence that Sect of Philosophers that came from him were called by him Academicks He said the soul is immortal that the seat of Reason is in the head of Anger in the heart of Love in the Liver That Matter and God are the two Principles of all things he dyed in the first year of the one hundredth Olympiad aged eighty one and was buryed in the Academy Laert. lib. 3. p. 70 71 c. 17. Spetisippus Son of Eurymedon the Athenian succeeded Plato he set up the Images of the Graces in his School he held the same Opinions with his Master Plato but was inferiour to him in his manners as one that was passionate and a lover of pleasures In his age he fell into the Palsey and then with grief being made weary of life he willingly exchanged it for death Laert. lib. 4. p. 96. 18. Xenocrates Son of Agathenor was born at Chalcedon the Scholar of Plato he was naturally dull and of a sad countenance but of singular chastity and so famous for his veracity that the Athenians received his testimony without an oath being sent with others Ambassadors from Athens to King Philip he alone returned uncorrupted with mony yet this so great a man the Athenians caused to be sold because he was not able to pay the tribute of an Inhabitant Demetrius Phalareus bought him paid the Tribute and set him at liberty He succeeded Speusippus and taught in the Academy twenty five years and dyed in the night by a fall in the second year of the one hundred and tenth Olympiad being at that time aged eighty two years Laert. lib. 4. p. 98 99. 19. Bion the Son of a Publican about Borysthenes was a man of a quick wit being asked whether a man should do well to marry If said he she be fair she will be common and if foul a torment He said old age was the haven of evils and that thereupon all things hastned unto it that it was a great evil that we are not able to bear evils that the way to the grave was easie as being found by us when our eyes are shut He was so vain-glorious that at Rhodes he perswaded Seamen to follow him in the habit of Scholars He sucked in Atheism from Theodorus and having lived impiously no wonder he was so loth and afraid to dye He fell sick and dyed at Chalcis Laert. lib. 4. p. 110. 20. Aristoteles the Son of Nicomachus was born at Stagira he stammered in his speech his legs were small and his eyes little his habit was commonly rich and he wore Rings upon his fingers he fell off from his Master Plato while yet alive and finding Xenocrates to succeed him in the Academy he walked in the Lyceum and there discoursed Philosophy daily to his Scholars from whence he had the name of Peripatetick He went thence to Philip of Macedon and became Tutor to his Son Alexander he loved Hermeas a Harlot to that degree that he composed a Hymn in honour of her and sacrificed to her after the same manner as the Athenians did to the Eleusinian Ceres for which accused of impiety he fled from Athens to Calchis and there drank Poyson or as some say dyed of a disease aged sixty three years His sayings were such as these being asked what a Lyar gains he answered Not to be believed when he speaks truth being upbraided for shewing mercy to a bad man I pitied said he not the manners but the man being asked what Hope was he replyed The dream of a waking man being told of one that spake ill of him behind his back Let him beat me too when I am absent He said the roots of learning were bitter but the fruit sweet being asked what a friend was Two souls said he dwelling in one body and what he had gained by Philosophy he answered To do that freely which others do only out of fear of the Laws he dyed in the third year of the one hundred and fourteenth Olympiad Laert lib. 5. p. 116 117. 21. Theophrastus the Son of Melanta an Eresian Fuller he succeeded Aristotle in his School he was a studious and a learned manâ— of that esteem at Athens that he had almost two thousand Scholars and accused by Agonides of impiety little wanted but that the Athenians had fined his accuser He used to say that the loss of time is the greatest expence that an ungoverned tongue is less to be trusted than an unbridled Horse that for the love of glory man proudly loses many of the pleasures of life that we then dye when we begin to live He wrote many Books and dyed at eighty five years of age having remitted something of the former course of his studies he is conceived thereby to have hastned his death Laert. lib. 5. p. 122
how they have been rewarded 119 Chap. 17. Of the envious Nature and Disposition of some men 120 Chap. 18. Of Modesty and the Shame-faced Nature of some men and women 122 Chap. 19. Of Impudence and the shameless Behaviour of divers persons 124 Chap. 20. Of Iealousie and how strangely some have been affected with it 125 Chap. 21. Of the Commiseration Pity and Compassion of some men to others in time of their Adversity 127 Chap. 22. Of the deep Dissimulation and Hypocrisie of some men 128 The THIRD BOOK CHap. 1. Of the early appearance of Virtue Learning Greatness of Spirit and Subtlety in some Young Persons 130 Chap. 2. Of such as having been extream Wild and Prodigal or Debauched in their Youth have afterwards proved excellent Persons 132 Chap. 3. Of Punctual Observations in Matters of Religion and the great regard some men have had to it 134 Chap. 4. Of the Veracity of some Persons and their great Love to Truth and hatred of Flattery and Falshood 137 Chap. 5. Of such as have been great Lovers and Promoters of Peace 139 Chap. 6. Of the signal Love that some men have shewed to their Country 140 Chap. 7. Of the singular Love of some Husbands to their Wives 142 Chap. 8. Of the singular Love of some Wives to their Husbands 144 Chap. 9. Of the Indulgence and great Love of some Parents to their Children 147 Chap. 10. Of the Reverence and Piety of some Children to their Parents 149 Chap. 11. Of the singular Love of some Brethren to each other 152 Chap. 12. Of the singular Love of some Servants to their Masters 154 Chap. 13. Of the Faithfulness of some men to their Engagement and Trust reposed in them 157 Chap. 14. Of the exact Obedience which some have yielded to their Superiours 159 Chap. 15. Of the Generosity of some Persons and the Noble Actions by them performed 161 Chap. 16. Of the Frugality and Thriftiness of some men in their Apparel Furniture and other things 164 Chap. 17. Of the Hospitality of some men and their free Entertainment of Strangers 165 Chap. 18. Of the blameless and innocent Life of some Persons 167 Chap. 19. Of the choicest Instances of the most intire Friendship 168 Chap. 20. Of the Grateful Disposition of some Persons and what returns they have made of Benefits received 171 Chap. 21. Of the Meekness Humanity Clemency and Mercy of some men 174 Chap. 22. Of the light and gentle Revenges some have taken upon others 177 Chap 23. Of the Sobriety and Temperance of some men in their Meat and Drink and other things 179 Chap. 24. Of the Affability and Humility of divers Great Persons 181 Chap. 25. Of Counsel and the Wisdom of some men therein 182 Chap. 26 Of the Subtilty and Prudence of some men in the Investigation and discovery of things and their Determinations about them 184 Chap. 27. Of the Liberal and Bountiful Disposition of divers Great Persons 186 Chap. 28. Of the Pious Works and Charitable Gifts of some men 189 Chap. 28. Of such as were Lovers of Iustice and Impartial Administrators of it 192 Chap. 30. Of such Persons as were Illustrious for their singular Chastity both Men and Women 195 Chap. 31. Of Patience and what power some men have had over their Passions 199 Chap. 32. Of such as have well deported themselves in their Adversity or been improved thereby 200 Chap. 33. Of the willingness of some men to forgive Injuries received 201 Chap. 34. Of such as have patiently taken free Speeches and Reprehensions from their Inferiors 203 Chap. 35. Of the incredible strength of Mind wherewith some Persons have supported themselves in the midst of Torments and other Hardship 205 Chap. 36. Of the Fortitude and Personal Valour of some famous Men. 207 Chap. 37. Of the fearless Boldness of some Men and their desperate Resolutions 210 Chap. 38. Of the immoveable Constancy of some Persons 213 Chap. 39. Of the great Confidence of some Men in themselves 214 Chap. 40. Of the great reverence shewed to Learning and Learned Men. 216 Chap. 41. Of the exceeding intentness of some Men upon their Meditations and Studies 218 Chap. 42. Of such Persons as were of choice Learning and singular Skill in the Tongues Chap. 43. Of the first Authors of divers famous Inventions 222 Chap. 44. Of the admirable Works of some curious Artists 224. Chap. 45. Of the Industry and Pains of some Men and their hatred of Idleness 229 Chap. 46. Of the Dexterity of some men in the instruction of several Crâ—atures 230 Chap. 47. Of the Taciturnity and Secrecy of some men instrusted with privacies 232 Chap. 48. Of such who in their raised Fortunes have been mindful of their low beginnings 233 Chap. 49. Of such as have despised Riches and of the laudable poverty of some illustrious persons 234 Chap. 50. Of such Persons as have preferred Death before the loss of thâ—ir Liberty and what some have endured in the preservation of it 237 Chap. 51. Of such as in highest Fortunes have been mindful of humane frailty 238 Chap. 52. Of such as were of unusual Fortune and Felicity 239 Chap. 53. Of the Gallantry wherewith some Persons have received death or the message of it 241 The FOURTH BOOK CHap. 1. Of Atheists and such as have made no account of Religion with their Sacrilegious actions and the punishments thereof 361 Chap. 2. Of such as were exceeding hopeful in youth but afterwards improved to the worse 363 Chap. 3. Of the rigorous Severity of some Parents to their Children and how unnatural others have shewed themselves towards them 364 Chap. 4. Of the degenerate Sons of illustrious Parents 366 Chap. 5. Of undutiful and unnatural Children to their Parents 368 Chap. 6. Of the Affectation of divine Honours and the desire of some men te be reputed Gods 370 Chap. 7. Of unnatural Husbands to their Wives 372 Chap. 8. Of such Wives as were unnatural to their Husbands or evil deported towards them 373 Chap. 9. Of the deep hatred some have conceived against their own Brethren and the unnatural actions of Brothers and Sisters 374 Chap. 10. Of the Barbarous and Savage Cruelty of some men 376 Chap. 11. Of the bitter Revenges that some men have taken upon their enemies 379 Chap. 12. Of the great and grievous oppressions and unmercifulness of some men and their punishments 382 Chap. 13. Of the bloody and cruel Massacres in several places and their occasions 384 Chap. 13. Of the excessive Prodigality of some Persons 385 Chap. 14. Of the Prodigious Luxury of some men in their Feasting 387 Chap. 15. Of the Voraciousness of some great Eaters and the Swallowers of Stones c. 390 Chap. 16. Of great Drinkers and what great quantities they have swallowed 391 Chap. 17. Of Drunkenness and what hath befallen some men in theirs 393 Chap. 18. Of the Luxury and Expence of some Persons in Apparel and their Variety therein and in their other Furniture 395 Chap. 19. Of Gaming
and thirtieth year of his age 4. In Devonshire there is a stone call'd the Hanging Stones being one of the bound-Stones which parteth Comb-Martin from the next Parish It got the name from a Thief who having stoln a Sheep and ty'd it about his own Neck to carry it home at his Back he rested himself for a while upon this Stone which is about a foot high until the Sheep strugling slid over the Stone on the other side and so strangl'd the Man 4. Dr. Andrew Perne though very facetious was at last heart-broken with a Jest as I have been most credibly inform'd from excellent hands He is tax'd much for altering his Religion four times in twelve years from the last of King Henry the Eighth to the first of Queen Elizabeth a Papist a Protestant a Papist a Protestant but still Andrew Perne now it fortun'd he was at Court with his Pupil Archbishop Whitgift in a rainy afternoon when the Queen was I dare not say willfully but really resolv'd to ride abroad contrary to the mind of her Ladies who were on horseback Coaches as yet being not common to attend her Now one Clod the Queens Jester was employ'd by the Courtiers to laugh the Queen out of so convenient a Journey Heaven saith he Madam disswades you this heavenly minded man Archbishop Whitgift and Earth disswades you your Fool Clod such a lump of clay as my self and if neither will prevail with you here is one that is neither Heaven nor Earth but hangs betwixt both Dr. Perne and he also disswades you Hereat the Queen and the Courtiers laugh'd heartily whilst the Doctor look'd sadly and going over with his Grace to Lambeth soon saw the last of his life 5. Anastasius the Emperor was slain with Lightning so was Strabo the Father of Pompey the Great so was also Garus the Emperour who succeeded Probus whilst he lodged with his Army upon the River Tigris 6. Child his Christian name is unknown was a Gentleman the last of his Family being of ancient Extraction at Plimstook in Devonshire and had great Possessions It hapned that he hunting in Dartmore lost both his company and way in a bitter snow having kill'd his Horse he crept into his bowels for warmth and wrote this with his blood He that finds and brings me to my tomb The land at Plimstook shall be his doom That Night he was frozen to death and being first found by the Monks of Tavistock they interr'd him in their own Abbey and sure it is that the Abbot of Tavistock got that rich Manor into his possession 7. Arrius who deny'd the Divinity of Christ was sent for by the Emperour Constantine to make recantation of his former heresies but he first wrote out a copy of his own opinions which he hid in his bosome and then writing out the recantation expected from him took oath that he did really mean as he had writen which words the Emperour reserr'd to the recantation he to the paper in his bosome but God would not be so cozened though the Emperour was for as he pass'd in triumph through the Streets of Constantinople he drew aside into a private house of ease where he voided his guts into the draught and so dyed 8. Alexander the Elean Philosopher swimming over the River Alpheus light with his breast upon a sharp reed which lay hid under the water and receiv'd such a wound thereby that he dy'd upon it 9. Heraclius the Ephesian fell into a Dropsie and was thereupon advertis'd by the Physicians to anoint himself all over with Cow-dung and so to sit in the warm Sun his servant had left him alone and the Dogs supposing him to be a wild Beast fell upon him and killed him 10. Milo the Crotonian being upon his journey beheld an Oak in the Field which some body had attempted to cleave with Wedges conscious to himself of his great strength he came to it and seising it with both his hands endeavoured to wrest it in sunder but the Tree the Wedges being fallen out returning to it self caught him by the hands in the cleft of it and there detain'd him to be devour'd with wild Beasts after his so many and so famous exploits 11. Polydamas the famous wrestler was forc'd by a tempest into a cave which being ready to fall into ruines by the violent and sudden incursion of the waters though others fled at the signs of the dangers approach yet he alone would remain as one that would bear up the whole heap and weight of the falling Earth with his shoulders but he found it above all humane strength and so was crush'd in pieces by it 12. Attila King of the Hunns having marryed a Wife in Hungary and upon his Wedding Night surcharg'd himself with Meat and Drink as he slept his Nose fell a bleeding and through his Mouth found the way into his Throat by which he was choak'd and kill'd before any person was apprehensive of the danger 13. Calo-Iohannes Emperour of Constantinople drew a Bow against a Boar in Cilicia with that strength that he shot the Arrow through his own hand that held the Bow the Pile of it was dipt in poyson as 't is usual in huntings and of that wound he dyed in a few days and left the Empire to his Son Emanuel Anno 1130. 14. Giachetus Geneva a man of great reputation amongst the Salucians though he was stricken in years and had had some Children by his Wife yet being addicted to Venus he privily let in a Girl at the back door and when one night he delay'd his coming to bed longer than he was accustomed to do after they had knock and call'd in vain at his Study door his Wife caused it to be broken open and there was Giachetus and the Girl found both dead in mutual imbraces and in a shameful and base posture 15. In the nineteenth year of Queen Elizabeth at the Assize held at Oxford Iuly 1577. one Rowland Ienks a Popish Bookseller for dispersing scandalous Pamphlets defamatory to the Queen and State was arreigned and condemned but on the sudden there arose such a damp that almost all present were endanger'd to be smothered The Jurors dyed that instant Soon after dyed Sir Robert Bell Lord Chief Baron Sir Robert de Oly Sir William Babington Mr. de Oly high Sheriff Mr. Wearnam Mr. Danvers Mr. Fettiplace Mr. Harcourt Justices Mr. Kerle Mr. Nash Mr. Greenwood Mr. Foster Gentlemen of good account Serjeant Barham an excellent Pleader three hundred other persons presently sickned and dyed within the Town and two hundred more sickning there dyed in other places amongst all whom there was neither Woman nor Child 16. Anacreon the Poet had exceeded the stated term of humane life yet while he was endeavouring to cherish the poor remainders of his strength by the juyce of Raisins the stone of one of them stuck so fast in his dry and parched
there was a very considerable number of the enemy slain there fell not so much as one man of the Spartans When they of Sparta heard this it is said of them that first Agesilaus and the ancient Ephori and then all the body of the people fell a weeping So far are tears in common the expressions both of Joy and Sorrow 24. Ptolomeus Philadelphus had received the sacred Volumes of the Law of God newly brought out of Iudaea and while he held them with great reverence in his hands praising God upon that account all that were present made a joyful acclamation and the King himself was so joyed thereat that he brake out into tears Nature as it seems having so ordered it that the expressions of sorrow should also be the followers of extraordinary Joys 25. When Philip King of Macedon was overcome and that all Greece was assembled to behold the Isthmian Games T. Q. Flaminius having caused silence to be made by the sound of the Trumpet he commanded these words to be proclaimed by the mouth of the Cryer The Senate and people of Rome and Titus Quinctius Flaminius their General do give liberty and immunity to all the Cities of Greece that were under the jurisdiction of King Philip. At the hearing of this there was first a confounded silence amongst the people as if they had heard nothing The Cryer having repeated the same words they set up such a strong and universal shout of Joy that it is certain that the Birds that flew over their heads fell down amazed amongst them Livy saith that the joy was greater than the minds of men were able to comprehend so that they scarce believed what they heard they gazed upon one another as if they thought themselves deluded by a dream And the Games afterwards were so neglected that no man's either mind or eye was intent upon them So far had this one joy preoccupied the sense of all other pleasures CHAP. XIII Of the Passion of Grief and how it hath acted upon some men WHilst the great Genius of Physick Hippocrates drave away maladies by his precepts and almost snatched bodies out of the hands of death one Antiphon arose in Greece who envious of his Glory promised to do upon Souls what the other did on mortal members and proposed the sublime invention which Plutarch calls the Art of curing all Sadnesses where we may truly say he used more vanity promises and ostent of words than he wrought effects Certainly it were to be wished that all ages which are abundant in miseries should likewise produce great comforts to sweeten the acerbities of humane life Another Helena were needful to mingle the divine drug of Nepenthe in the meat of so many afflicted persons as the world affords but as the expectation is vain so there are some sorrows that fall with that impetuous force upon souls and withal with that sudden surprisal that they let in death to anticipate all the hopes of recovery 1. When the Turks came to raise the Siege of Buda there was amongst the German Captains a Nobleman called Ecckius Rayschachius whose Son a valiant young Gentleman having got out of the Army without his Father's knowledge bare himself so gallantly in sight against the Enemy in the sight of his Father and of the Army that he was highly commended of all men and especially of his Father who knew him not at all yet before he could clear himself he was compassed in by the Enemy and valiantly fighting slain Rayschachichius exceedingly moved with the death of so brave a man ignorant how near it touched himself turning about to the other Captains said This worthy Gentleman whatsoever he be is worthy of eternal commendation and to be most honourably buryed by the whole Army As the rest of the Captains were with like compassion approving his speech the dead body of the unfortunate Son rescued was presented to the most miserable Father which caused all them that were present to shed tears but such a sudden and inward grief surprised the aged Father and struck so to his heart that after he had stood a while speechless with his eyes set in his head he suddenly fell down dead 2. Homer had sailed out of Chios to Io with a purpose to visit Athens here it was that being old he fell sick and so remain'd upon the shore where there landed certain Fishermen whom he asked if they had taken any thing They replyed what we caught we left behind us and what we could not catch we have brought with us meaning that when they could not catch any Fish they had lowsed themselves upon the Shore killing what they took and carrying with them such as they could not find When Homer was not able to solve this Riddle it is reported that he died with grief of mind Yet Herodotus denies it saying that the Fishermenn themselves explain'd their Aenigma and that Homer died of sickness and disease 3. Excessive was the sorrow of King Richard the Second beseeming him neither as a King Man or Christian who so fervently loved Anna of Bohemia his Queen that when she died at Sheane in Surâ—ey he both cursed the place and also out of madness overthrew the whole House 4. Vvipertus elected Bishop of Raceburg went to Rome to receive the confirmation thereof from the Pope where â—inding himself neglected and rejected by him upon the account of his youth the next night for very grief and too near an apprehension thereof all the Hair of his Head was turned grey whereupon he was received 5. Hostratus the Friar resented that Book so ill which Reuclinus had writ against him under the name of Epistolae obscurorum virorum and took it so very much to the heart that for grief he made himself away 6. Alexander a Prince of a most invincible courage after the death of his dear Ephestion lay three days together upon the ground with an obstinate resolution to die with him and thereupon would neither eat drink nor sleep such was the excess of his grief that he commanded Battlements of Houses to be pulled down Mules and Horses to have their Manes shorn off some thousands of common Soldiers to be slain to attend him in the other world and the whole Nation of the Cusseans to be rooted out 7. At Nancy in Lorrain when Claudia Valesia the Dukes Wife and Sister to Henry the Second King of France deceased the Temples for forty days were all shut up no Prayers nor Masses said but only in the Room where she was The Senators were all covered with Mourning Blacks and for a twelve Months space throughout the City they were forbid to sing or dance 8. Roger that rich Bishop of Salisbury the same that built the De Vizes and divers other strong Castles in this Kingdom being spoiled of his Goods and thrown out of all his Castles was so swallowed up with over-much grief that he ran mad and
do it He asked him again and again but he persisted in his denial he therefore takes him up into a high part of the House and threatens to throw him down thence unless he would promise to assist them but neither so could he prevail with him whereupon turning to his companions We may be glad said he that this Merchant is so young for had he been a Senatour we might have despaired of any success in our suit 3. When Alcibiades was but yet a child he gave insâ—â—nâ—e of that natural subtlety for which he was afterwards so remarkable in Athens â—or coming to his Unâ—le Pâ—ricles and â—inding him sitting somewhat sad in a retiring Room he asked him the cause of his trouble who told him he had been employed by the City in some publick Buildings in which he had expended such sums of money as he knew noâ— well how to give account of You should therefore said he think of a way to prevent your 〈◊〉 câ—llâ—d to accouâ—â— And thus that great and wise 〈◊〉 being dâ—stitute of counsel himself made me of this wâ—ich was given him by a child for he involved Athens in a foreign War by which means they were not at leisure to consider of accounts 4. Themistocles in his childhood and boyage bewrayed a quick spirit and understanding beyond his years and a propensity towards great matters he used not to play amongst his equals but they found him employing that time in framing Accusatory or Defensive Orations for this and that other of his Schoolfellows And therefore his Master was used to say My Son thou wilt be nothing indifferent but either a great Glory or Plague to thy Country For even then he was not much affected with Moral Precepts or matters of accomplishment for urbanity but what concern'd providence and the management of affairs that he chiefly delighted in and addicted himself to the knowledge of beyond what could be expected from his youth 5. Richard Carew Esquire was bred a Gentleman Commoner at Oxford where being but fourteen years old and yet three years standing in the University he was called out to dispute ex tempore before the Earls of Leicester and Warwick with the matchless Sir Philip Sydney Ask you the end of this contest They neither had the better both the best 6. Thucydides being yet a Boy while he heard Herodotus reciting his Histories in the Olympicks is said to have wept exceedingly which when Herodotus had observ'd he congratulated the happiness of Olorus his Father advising him that he would use great diligence in the education of his Son and indeed he afterwards proved one of the best Historians that ever Greece had 7. Astyages King of the Medes frighted by a dream caused Cyrus the Son of his Daughter Mandane as soon as born to be delivered to Harpaâ—us with a charge to make him away He delivers him to the Herdâ—man of Astyages with the same charge but the Herdsman's wife newly delivered of a dead child and taken with the young Cyrus kept him instead of her own and buried the other instead of him When Cyrus was grown up to ten years of age playing amongst the young Lads in the Country he was by them chosâ—n to be their King appointed them to their several Oâ—â—ices some for Builders some for Guards Couâ—tiers Messengers and the like One of those Boys that played with them was the Son of Aâ—â—embaris a Noble Person amongsâ— the Mâ—des who not obeying the commands of this new King Cyrus commanded him to be seised by the rest of the Boys and that done he bestowed many stripes upon him The Lad being let go complain'd to his Father and he to Astyages for shewing him the bruised Shoulders of his Son Is it thus O King said he that we are treated by the Son of thy Herdsman and slave Astyages sent for the Herdsman and his Son and then looking upon Cyrus How darest thou said he being the Son of such a Father as this treat in such sort the Son of a principal person about me Sir said he I have done to him nothing but what was fit for the Country Lads one of which he was chose me their King in play because I seemed the most worthy of the place but when all others obeyed my commands he only regarded not what I said for this he was punished and if thereupon I have merited to suffer any thing I am here ready to do it While the Boy spake this Astyages began to take some knowledge of him the figure of his â—ace his generous deportment the time of Cyrus his exposition agreeing with the age of this Boy he concluded he was the same which he soon after made the Herdsman to confess But being told by the Magi that now the danger was over for having played the King in sport they believed it was all that his dream did intend So he was sent into Persia to his Father not long after he caused the Persians to revolt overcame Astyages his Grandfather and transferred the Empire of the Medes to the Persians 8. Thomas Aquinas when he went to School was by nature addicted to silence and was also somewhat more fat than the rest of his Fellow-Scholars whereupon they usually called him the dumb Ox but his Master having made experiment of his wit in some little Disputations and finding to what his silence tended This dumb Ox said he will shortly set up such a lowing that all the world will admire the sound of it 9. Origines Adamantius being a young boy would often ask his Father Leonidas about the mystical sense of the Scriptures insomuch that his Father was constrain'd to withdraw him from so over early a wisdom Also when his Father was in prison for the sake of Christ and that by reason of his tender age for he was but seventeen and the strict custody of his Mother he could not be companion with him in his Martyrdom he then wrote to him that he should not through the love of his children be turned from the true faith in Christ even in that age discovering how undaunted a Preacher Christianity would afterwards have of him 10. Grimoaldus a young noble Lombard was taken with divers others at Forum Iulii by Cacanus King of the Avares and contrary to sworn conditions was lead to death perceiving the perfididiousness of the Barbarians in the midst of the tumult and slaughter he with his two Brothers brake from amongst them but he being but a very youth was soon overtaken by the pursuer was retaken by a Horseman and again by him led to death But he observing his time drew his little Sword slew his Guardian overtook his Brethren and got safe away By this his incredible boldness he shewed with what spirit and wisdom he would after both gain and govern the Kingdom of Lombardy 11. Q. Hortensius spake his first Oration in the Forum at Rome when he was but nineteen years of
so fortunate as to break their Chain and recover their liberty A certain blackness in the Cradle has been observed to give beginning and rise unto the most perfect Beauties and there are no sort of men that have shined with greater Glory in the world than such whose first days have been sullied and a little overcast 1. Themistocles by reason of the Luxury and Debauchery of his life was cast off and disowned by his Father his Mother over-grieved with the villanies he frequently committed finished her life with an Halter notwithstanding all which this man proved afterwards the most noble person of all the Grecian Blood and was the interposed pledge of hope or despair to all Europe and Asia Patrit lib. de Reipub. instit 4. tit 6. p. 208. 2. C. Valerius Flaccus in the time of the second Punick War began his youth in a most profuse kind of luxury afterwards he was created Flamine by P. Licinius the chief Pontiff that in that employment he might find an easier recess from such vices as he was infected with addressing his mind therefore to the care of Ceremonies and sacred things he made Religion his Guide to Frugality and in process of time shewed himself as great an example of Sanctity and Modesty as before he had been of Luxury and Prodigality 3. Nicholas West was born at Putney in Surrey bred first at Eaton then at Kings College in Cambridge where when a youth he was a Rakehel in grain for something crossing him in the College he could find no other way to work his revenge than by secret setting on fire the Master's Lodgings part whereof he burnt to the ground Immediately after this little Herostratus lest the Colledge liv'd for a time in the Country debauched enough for his conversation But he seasonably retrenched his wildness turned hard Student became an excellâ—nt Scholar and most able Statesman and after smaller promotions was at last made Bishop of Ely and often employed in foreign Embassies Now if it had been possible he would have quenched the fire he kindled in the College with his own tears and in expression of his penitence became a worthy Beneâ—actor to the House and rebuilt the Master's Lodgings firm and fair from the ground No Bishop in England was better attended with Menial Servants or kept a more bountiful House which made his death so lamented anno 1533. 3. Polemo was a youth of Athens of that wretched Debauchery that he was not only delighted in vice but also in the very infamy of it Returning once from a Feast after Sun-rise and seeing the Gate of Xenocrates the Philosopher open full of Wine as he was smeared with Ointments a Garland on his head and cloathed with a loose and transparent Garmâ—nt he enters the School at that time thronged with a number of learned men not content with so uncivil an entrance he also sate down on purpose to affront a singular eloquence and most prudent precepts with his drunken follies His coming had occasion'd all that were present to be angry only Xenocrates retaining the same gravity in his countenance and dismissing his present Theam bâ—gan to discourse of Modesty and Temperance which he presented so lively before him that Polemo affected therewith fiâ—st laid aside the Crown from his head soon after drew his arm within his Cloak changed that Festival Merriment that appeared in his face and at last cast off all his Luxury By that one Oration the young man received so great a cure that of a most licentious person he became one of the greatest Philophers of his time 5. Fabius Gurges was born of a Noble Family in Rome and left with a very plentiful estate by his Father but he spent all in the riots of his first youth which he left many brands upon and occasioned then to himself the sirname of Gurges But afterwards relinquishing the unbridled lusts of his first age he arrived to that temperance that he was thought worthy by the people of Rome to have the office of Censorship committed to him and no man more fit than he to inspect the manners of the City 6. Titus Vespasianus while he was young and before he came to the Empire gave just causes of censure for his cruel covetous riotous and lustful way of living insomuch that men reputed and also reported him to be another Nero. But having arrived to the Empire he made himself conspicuous for the contrary virtues His Feasts were moderate his Friends select and choice persons necessary members of the Common-wealth his former minions he endured not so much as to look upon Queen Berenice whom he was known to love too well he sent away from Rome from no Citizen did he take any thing by violence and from the Goods of Aliens he abstain'd if ever any did and yet was he inferiour to none of his Predecessors in Magnificence and Bounty when he took upon him the supreme Pontificate he protested it was only upon this account that he would keep his hands pure and innocent from the blood of any wherein he made good his word and in all things he demeaned himself with that integrity and innocency that he was worthily stiled Delitiae humani generis the very darling of mankind 7. Agis while yet a youth was brought up in all kind of delights that such of his age are used to be affected with but as soon as ever he was come to be King of Sparta though yet but a young man with an incredible change of mind and manners he renounced all the pleasures of his former life and bent his mind wholly unto this to recal Sparta unto its priâ—tine frugality that was extremely debauched and corrupted with the manners of the Greeks and Barbarians This honest endeavour of his proved the occasion of his death 8. Cimon the Son of Miltiades in his youth was infamous amongst his people for his disorderly life and excesses in drinking and they looked upon him as resembling in his diâ—position his Grandfather Cimon who by reason of his stupidity was called Coalemus that is the Sot Stesimbrotus saith of him that he was neither skilled in Musick nor instructed in any other liberal Science and far removed from the Attick Acumen and smartness of wit Some say he had too private familiarity with his Sister Elpenice and others that he publickly married her and liv'd with her as his wife besides his being deeply in love with Aristeria and Mnestra c. yet this man was afterwards so improv'd that a singular generosity and sincerity appear'd in his manners and merited to have this as part of his just praise that whereas he was no whit inferiour to Miltiades in valour nor to Themistocles in prudence he was more innocent than both of them He was not in the least below either of them in the Art Military but in his administration in time of peace he exceedingly surpassed them both 9. Thomas Sackvil afterwards
the Gentlewoman perceiving the Prince began to be warm in his wine in hopes of enjoying her promise she desired liberty to withdraw into an adjoyning Gallery to take the Air but as soon as she was come into it she cast her self headlong down in the presence of the Prince and all her dead Husbands Relations 2. Cedrenus observeth in his History that Constantine the Ninth exercising tyranny as well in matters of Love as within his Empire caused the Roman Argyropulus to be sought out and commanded him to repudiate his Wife whom he had lawfully married to take his daughter on condition that he would make him Caesar and associate him with himself in his dignity But if he condescended not to his will he threatned to pull out his eyes and to make him all the days of his life miserable The Lady who was present seeing her Husband involv'd in all the perplexities that might be and ignorant what answer to give unto the Emperour Ah Sir said she I see you are much hindred in a brave way if it only rest in your Wife that you be not great and happy I freely deprive my self of all yea of your company which is more precious to me than all the Empires of the world rather than prejudice your fortune For know I love you better than my self And saying this she cut oâ—f her hair and voluntarily entred into a Monastery which the other was willing enough to suffer preferring Ambition before Love a matter very ordinary amongst great ones 3. The Emperour Conrad the Third besieged Guelphus Duke of Bavaria in the City of Wensberg in Germany the Women perceiving that the Town could not possibly hold out long petitioned the Emperour that they might depart only with so much as each of them could carry on their Backs which the Emperour condescended to expecting they would have loaden themselves with Silver and Gold c. But they came all forth with every one her Husband on her back whereat the Emperour was so mov'd that he wept received the Duke into his favour gave all the men their lives and extol'd the women with deserved praises Bodinus says that Laurentius Medices was restored to his health by the only reading of this Story when he had long in vain expected it from the endeavours of his Physicians 4. Hota was the Wife of Rahi Benxamut a valiant Captain and of great reputation amongst the Alarbes she had been bravely rescued out of the hands of the Portugals who were carrying her away Prisoner by the exceeding courage and valour of Benxamut her Husband She shewed her thankfulness to him by the ready performances of all the oâ—â—ices of love and duty Some time after Benxamut was slain in a conâ—lict and Hota perform'd her Husbands Funeral Obsequies with infinite lamentations laid his Body in a stately Tomb and then for Nine days together she would neither eat nor drink whereof she died and was buried as she had ordain'd in her last Will by the side of her beloved Husband Of her I may say as Sir Henry Wotton wrote upon Sir Albert Mortons Lady He first deceas'd She for a few days try'd To live without him lik'd it not and dy'd 5. Arria the Wife of Cecinna Paetus understanding that her Husband was condemn'd to dye and that he was permitted to chuse what manner of death lik'd him best she went to him and having exhorted him to depart this life couragiously and bidding him farewel gave her self a stab into the Breast with a Knife she had hid for that purpose under her Cloaths Then drawing the Knife out of the wound and reaching it to Paetus she said Vulnus quod feci Paete non dolet sed quod tu facies The wound I have made Pâ—etus smarts not but that only which thou art about to give thy self Whereupon Martial hath an Epigram to this purpose When Arria to her Husband gave the Knife Which made the wound whereby she lost her Life This wound dear Paetus grieves me not quoth she But that which thou must give thy self grieves me 6. King Edward the First while Prince warr'd in the Holy Land where he rescued the great City of Acon from being surrendred to the Souldan after which one Anzazim a desperate Sarazen who had often been employed to him from the Generalâ— being one time upon pretence of some secret message admitted alone into his Chamber he with an empoyson'd Knife gave him three wounds in the Body two in the Arm and one near the Arm-Pit which were thought to be mortal and had perhaps been so if out of unspeakable love the Lady Elianor his Wife had not suck'd out the poyson of his wounds with her mouth and thereby effected a cure which otherwise had been incurable Thus it is no wonder that Love should do wonders seeing it is it self a wonder 7. Sulpitia was the Wife of Lentulus a person proscrib'd by the Trium-Virate in Rome he being fled into Sicily she was narrowly watch'd by Iulia her Mother lest she should follow her Husband thither but she disguising her self in the habit of a Servant taking with her two maids and as many men by a secret flight she got thither not refusing to be proscrib'd her self to approve her fidelity and Love to her Husband 8. Artemisia the Queen of Caria bare so true a love to her Husband Maâ—solus that when he was dead she prepared his Funeral in a sumptuous manner she sent for the chiefest and most eloquent Orators out of all Greece to speak Orations in his Praise upon the chief day of the solemnity When the Body was burnt she had the Ashes carefully preserv'd and by degrees in her drink she took down those last remainders of her Husband into her own body and as a further testimony of her Love to his Memory she built him a Sepulchre with such magnificence that it was numbred amongst the seven wonders of the World 9. Learchus by poyson cut off Archelaus King of the Cyrenians and his friend and seiz'd upon his Kingdom in hopes of enjoying his Queen Eryxona She pretending not to be displeas'd with the proposals invited Learchus to come alone in the night and confer with her about it who in the strength of his affection and fearing nothing of treachery went unaccompanied to her Palace where he was slain by two whom Eryxona had there hid for that purpose and his body she caused to be thrown out at the Window 10. Camma the Wife of Sinatus the Priestess of Diana was a person of most rare beauty and no less virtue Erasinorix to enjoy her had treacherously slain her Husband he had often attempted in vain to perswade her to his embraces by fair speeches and gifts and she fearing he would add force to these feigned her self to be overcome with his importunity To the Temple they went and standing
with some pleasure in the perusal of them 1. Charles the Great was so great a Lover of his Sons and Daughters that he never dined or supped without them he went no whither upon any journey but he took them along with him and when he was asked why he did not marry his Daughters and send his children abroad to see the world his reply was That he was not able to bear their absence 2. Nero Domitius the Son of Domitius Aenobarbus and Agrippina by the subtlety of his Mother obtained the Empire She once enquired of the Chaldeans if her Son should reign they told her that they had found he should but that withal he should be the death of his Mother Occidat modo imperet said she let him kill me provided he live to be Emperour And she had her wish 3. Solon was a person famous throughout all Grecce as having given Laws to the Athenians being in his Travels came to Miletum to converse with Thales who was one of the seven wise men of Greece these two walking together upon the Market place one comes to Solon and told him that his Son was dead aâ—flicted with this unexpected as well as unwelcome news he fell to tearing of his Beard Hair and Cloaths and fouling of his face in the dust immediately a mighty conâ—lux of people was about him whom he entertained with howlings and tears when he had lain long upon the ground and delivered himself up to all manner of expressions of grief unworthy the person he sustain'd so renowned for gravity and wisdom Thales bade him be of good courage for the whole was but a contrivance of his who by this artifice had desired to make experiment whether it was convenient for a wise man to marry and have children as he had pressed them to do bur that now he was sufficiently satisfied it was no way conducible seeing he perceived that the loss of a child might occasion a person famous for wisdom to discover all the signs of a mad man 4. Seleucus King of Syria was inform'd by Erasistratus his Physician that his Son Antiochus his languishment proceeded from a vehement love he had taken to the Queen Stratonice his beautiful and beloved Wife and that his modest suppression of this secret which he had found out by his art was like to cost the life of the young Prince The tender and indulgent Father resigned her up unto his Son by a marvellous example overcoming himself to consult the life and contentment of his Son 5. M. Tullius Cicero was so great a Lover of his Daughter Tulliola that when she was dead he laboured with great anxiety and his utmost endeavour to consecrate her memory to posterity he says he would take care that by all the monuments of the most excellent wits both of Greek and Latine she would be reputed a Goddess how solicitously doth he write to Atticus that a piece of ground should be purchased in some eminent place wherein he might cause a Temple to be erected and dedicated to Tulliola He also wrote two Books concerning the death of his Daughter wherein it is probable that he made use of all that riches of wit and eloquence wherein he was so great a master to perswade the people that Tulliola was a Goddess 6. The elder Cato was never so taken up with employment in any aâ—â—air whatsoever but that he would always be present at the washing of his Son Cato who was but newly born and when he came to such age as to be capable of Learning he would not suffer him to have any other Master besides himself Being advised to resign up his Son to the Tutorage of some learned servant he said he could not bear it that a servant should pull his Son by the ears nor that his Son should be indebted for his Learning and Education to any besides himself 7. Agesilaus was above measure indulgent to his children the Spartans reproached him that for love of his Son Archidamus he had concerned himself so far as to impede a just judgment and by his intercession for the Malefactors had involv'd the City in the guilt of being injurious to Greece He used also at home to ride upon the Hobby-horse with his little children and being once by a friend of his found so doing he entreated him not to discover that act of his to any man till such time as he himself was become the Father of Children 8. Antigonus resented not the Debauches Luxury and drunken Bouts of his Son Demetrius to which that Prince in times of peace was overmuch addicted though in time of war he carried himself with much sobriety When the publick fame went that Demetrius was highly enamoured of Lamia the Courtisan and that at his return from abroad he kissed his Father What said Antigonus you think you are kissing of Lamia Another time when he had spent many days in drinking and pretended he was much troubled with Rheum I have heard as much said Antigonus but is it Thasian or Chian Rheum Having heard that his Son was ill he went to visit him and met with a beautiful Boy at the door being entred the Chamber and sate down he felt of his pulse and when Demetrius said that his Feaver had newly left him Not unlike Son said he for I met it going out at the door just as I came hither Thus gently he dealt with him in all these his miscarriages in consideration of divers other excellent qualities he was master of 9. Syrophanes a rich Aegyptian so doted on a Son of his yet living that he kept the Image of him in his House and if it so fell out that any of the servants had displeased their Master thither they were to flie as to a Sanctuary and adorning that Image with Flowers and Garlands they that way recovered the favour of their Master 10. Artobarzanes resign'd the Kingdom of Cappadocia to his Son in the presence of Pompey the Great the Father had ascended the Tribunal of Pompey and was invited to sit with him in the Curule Seat but as soon as he observ'd his Son to sit with the Secretary in a lower place than his fortune deserved he could not endure to see him placed below himself but descending from his Seat he placed the Diadem upon his Sons head and bade him go and sit in that place from whence he was lately risen tears fell from the eyes of the young man his body trembled the Diadem fell â—rom his head nor could he endure to go thither where he was commanded And which is almost beyond all credit he was glad who gave up his Crown and he was sorrowful to whom it was given nor had this glorious strife come to any end unless Pompeys authority had joyned it self to the Father's will for he pronounced the Son a King commanded him to take the Diadem and compelled him to sit with him in the Curule Seat 11. Mahomet
Tribune to be found to intercede for his life at last he escaped by anothers mediation the fury of his adversary whom in his Censorship he had removed from the Senate And yet though there were so many of the family of the Mâ—telli in great authority and power in the state the villany of this Tribune was overpassed both by him that was injured and all the rest of his Relations CHAP. XXXIV Of such as have patiently taken free Speeches and Reprehensions from their Inferiors THe fair speeches of others commonly delight us although we are at the same time sensible they are no more than flatteries and falshoods nor is this the only weakness and vanity of our nature but withal it is very seldom that we can take down the pill of Reproof without an inward resentment especially from any thing below us though convinced of the necessity and justice of it Great therefore was the wisdom of those men who could so easily dispense with any mans freedom in speaking when once they discern'd it was meant for their reformation and improvement 1. A senior Fellow of St. Iohn's College in Cambridge of the opposite faction to the Master in the presence of Dr. Whitaker in a common place fell upon this subject what requisites should qualifie a Scholar for a Fellowship concluded that Religion and Learning were of the Quorum for that purpose hence he proceeded to put the case if one of these qualities alone did appear whether a Religious Dunce were to be chosen before a Learned Rake-Hell and resolv'd it in favour of the Latter This he endeavoured to prove with two arguments First because Religion may but Learning cannot be counterfeited He that chuseth a Learned Rake-Hell is sure of something but who electeth a Religious Dunce may have nothing worthy of his choice seeing the same may prove both Dunce and Hypocrite His second was there is more probability of a Rake-Hells improvement to Temperance than of a Dunces conversion into a Learned Man Common place being ended Dr. Whitaker desired the company of this Fellow and in his Closet thus accosted him Sir I hope I may say without offence as once Isaac to Abraham here is wood and a knife but where is the Lamb for a burnt offering you have discovered much keenness of language and fervency of affection but who is the person you aim at who hath offered abuse to this Society The other answered If I may presume to follow your Metaphor know Sir though I am a true admirer of your most eminent worth you are the sacrifice I reflected at in my discourse for whilst you follow your studies and remit matters to be managed by others a company is chosen into the College of more zeal than knowledge whose judgments we certainly know to be bad though others charitably believe the goodness of their affections and hence of late there is a general decay of Learning in the College The Dr. turn'd his anger into thankfulness and expressed the same both in loving his person and practising his advice promising his own presence hereafter in all elections and that none should be admitted without his own examination which quickly recovered the credit of the house being replenished with hopeful Plants before his death which fell out in the 38th of Q. Eliz. Anno 1593. 2. Augustus Caesar sitting in judgment Mecaenas was present and perceiving that he was about to condemn divers persons he endeavoured to get up to him but being hindred by the Crowd he wrote in a Schedule Tandem aliquando surge Carnifex Rise Hangman and then as if he had wrote some other thing threw the Note into Caesars Lap Caesar immediately arose and came down without condemning any person to death and so far was he from taking this reprehension ill that he was much troubled he had given such cause 3. A poor old Woman came to Philip King of Macedon intreated him to take cognisance of her cause when she had often interrupted him with her clamors in this manner the King at last told her he was not at leisure to hear her No said she be not then at leisure to be King the King for sometime considered of the Speech and presently he heard both her and others that came with their complaints to him 4. One of the Servants of Prince Henry Son to Henry the fourth whom he favored was arraigned at the Kings Bench for Fellony whereof the Prince being informed and incensed by lewd persons about him in a rage he came hastily to the Bar where his servant stood as Prisoner and Commanded him to be unfettred and set at liberty whereat all men were amazed only the Chief Justice who at that time was William Gascoign who exhorted the Prince to be ordered according to the Ancient Laws of the Kingdom or if he would have his servant exempted from the rigour of the Law that he should obtain if he could the gracious Pardon of the King his Father which would be no derogation to Law or Justice The Prince no way appeased with this answer but rather inflamed endeavoured himself to take away the Prisoner The Judge considering the perilous Example and inconveniency that might thereupon ensue with a bold Spirit and Courage Commanded the Prince upon his Allegiance to leave the Prisoner and to depart the place At this Commandment the Prince all in a fury and chafed in a terrible manner came up to the place of Judgment men thinking that he would have slain the Judge or at least done him some harm But the Judge sitting still without moving declaring the Majesty of the Kings place of Judgement and with an assured bold countenance said thus to the Prince Sir Remember your self I keep here the place of the King your Sovereign Lord and Father to whom you owe double Allegiance and therefore in his name I charge you to desist from your wilfulness and unlawful enterprize and from henceforth give good example to those which hereafter shall be your own Subjects and now for your contempt and disobedience go you to the prison of the Kings Bench whereunto I commit you until the pleasure of the King your Father be further known The Prince amazed with the words and gravity of that worshipful Justice laying his Sword aside the doing reverence departed and went to the Kings Bench as he was commanded When the King heard of this action he blessed God that had given him a Judge who feared not to minister Justice and also a Son who could patiently suffer and shew his obedience thereunto 5. Fridericus was consecrated Bishop of Vtrecht and at the feast the Emperour Ludovicus Pius sitting at his right hand admonished him that being mindful of the profession he had newly taken upon him he would deal justly and as in the sight of God in the way of his Vocation without respect of persons Your Majesty gives me good advice said he but will you please to tell me whether I
Lord Thomas Seymour Admiral of England the other was the Dutchess of Sommerset Wife to the Lord Protector of England Brother to the Admiral These two Ladies falling at variance for precedence which either of them challenged the one as Queen Dowager the other as Wife to the Protector who then governed the King and all the Realme drew their Husbands into the quarrel and so incensed the one of them against the other that the Protector procured the death of the Admiral his Brother Whereupon also followed his own destruction shortly after For being deprived of the assistance and support of his Brother he was easily overthrown by the Duke of Northumberland who caused him to be convicted of Felony and beheaded 9. A famous and pernicious faction in Italy began by the occasion of a quarrel betwixt two Boys whereof the one gave the other a box on the Ear in revenge whereof the Father of the Boy that was stricken cut off the hand of the other that gave the blow whose Father making thereupon the quarrel his own sought the revenge of the injury done to his Son and began the Faction of the Neri and Bianchi that is to say Black and White which presently spread it self through Italy and was the occasion of spilling much Christian blood 10. A poor distressed wretch upon some business bestowed a long and tedious Pilgrimage from Cabul in India to Asharaff in Hircania where e're he knew how the success would be he rested his weary limbs upon a Field Carpet choosing to refresh himself rather upon the cool Grass than be tormented by those merciless vermine of Gnats and Muskettos within the Town but poor man he fell à malo in pejus from ill to worse for lying asleep upon the way at such time as Sha Abbas the Persian Monarch set forth to hunt and many Nobles with him his pampered Jade winded and startled at him the King examines not the cause but sent an eternal Arrow of sleep into the poor mans heart jesting as Iphicrates did when he slew his sleepy Sentinel I did the man no wrong I found him sleeping and asleep I left him The Courtiers also to applaud his Justice made the poor man their common mark killing him an hundred times over if so many lives could have been forfeiâ—ed 11. Anno 1568. the King of Sian had a white Elephant which when the King of Pegu understood he had an opinion of I know not what holiness that was in the Elephant and accordingly prayed unto it He sent his Ambassadors to the King of Sian offering him whatsoever he would desire if he would send the Elephant unto him but the King of Sian would not part with him either for love mony or any other consideration Whereupon he of Pegu was so moved to wrath that with all the power he could make he invaded the other of Sian Many hundred thousand men were brought into the field and a bloody Battle was fought wherein the King of Sian was overthrown his white Elephant taken and he himself made tributary to the Monarch of Pegu. 12. A needy Souldier under Abbas King of Persia draws up a Catalogue of his good services and closing it in his pressing wants humbly intreats the favour and some stipend from his god of war for such and such his exploits The poor man for his sawciness with many terrible bastinadoes on the soles of his feet was almost drubbed to death Besides Abbas enquires who it was that wrote it the Clerk made his apology but the King quarrelled at his scurvy writing and that he should never write worse makes his hand to be cut off CHAP. XLIII Of such as have been too fearful of death and over desirous of Life A Weak mind complains before it is overtaken with evil and as Birds are affrighted with the noise of the Sling so the infirm soul anticipates its troubles by its own fearful apprehensions and falls under them before they are yet arrived But what greater madness is there than to be tormented with futurities and not so much to reserve our selves to miseries against they come as to invite and hasten them towards us of our own accord The best remedy against this tottering state of the soul is a good and clear Conscience which if a man want he will tremble in the midst of all his armed guards 1. What a miserable life Tyrants have by reason of their continual fears of death we have exemplified in Dionysius the Syracusan who finished his thirty eight years Rule on this manner Removing his Friends he gave the custody of his body to some strangers and Barbarians and being in fear of Barbers he taught his Daughters to shave him and when they were grown up he durst not trust them with a Rasor but taught them how they should burn off his hair and Beard with the white filmes of Wallnut kernels Whereas he had two Wives Aristomache and Doris he came not to them in the night before the place was throughly searched and though he had drawn a large and deep Moat about the Room and had made a passage by a wooden Bridge himself drew it up after him when he went in Not daring to speak to the people out of the common Rostrum or Pulpit for that purpose he used to make Orations to them from the top of a Tower When he played at Ball he used to give his Sword and Cloak to a Boy whom he loved and when one of his familiar Friends had jestingly said You now put your life into his hands and that the Boy smiled he commanded them both to be slain one for shewing the way how he might be killed and the other for approving it with a smile At last overcome in Battle by the Carthaginians he perished by the treason of his own Subjects 2. Heraclides Ponticus writes of one Artemon a very skilful Engineer but withal saith of him that he was of a very timerous disposition and foolishly afraid of his own shadow so that for the most part of his time he never stirred out of his House That he had always two of his men by him that held a Brazen Target over his head for fear lest any thing should fall upon him and if upon any occasion he was forced to go from home he would be carryed in a Litter hanging near to the ground for fear of falling 3. The Cardinal of Winchester Henry Beaufort commonly called the Rich Cardinal who procured the death of the good Duke of Gloucester in the reign of King Henry the sixth was soon after struck with an incurable disease and understanding by his Physicians that he could not live murmuring and repining thereat as Doctor Iohn Baker his Chaplain and Privy-councellor writes he fell into such speeches as these Fye will not death be hired Will mony do nothing Must I dye that have so great Riches If the whole Realm of England would save my life I am able either
a numerous crowd of them that sled he was known to his enemies by nothing so much as the odour of his Unguents and sweetness of his perfumes thus betrayed he was brought back and had his eyes put out by his sons command 8. The City Sybaris is seated two hundred furlongs from Crotona betwixt the two Rivers of Crathis and Sybaris built by Iseliceus the affaires of it were grown to that prosperity that it commanded four Neighbour Nations and had twenty five Cities subservient to its pleasure they led out three hundred thousand men against them of Crotona all which power and prosperity were utterly overturned by means of their luxury They had taught their Horses at a certain tune to rise on their hinder feet and with their fore-feet to keep a kind of time with the Musick a Minstril who had been ill used amongst them fled to Crotona and told them If they would make him their Captain he would put all the enemies horse their chief strength into their hands it was agreed he taught the known Tune to all the Minstrels in the City and when the Sybarites came up to a close charge at a signal given all the Minstrels played and all the Horses fell to dancing by which being unserviceable both they and their Riders were easily taken by the enemy 9. The old Inhabitants of Byzantium were so addicted to a voluptuous life that they hired out their own houses familiarly and went with their Wives to live in Taverns they were men greedy of Wine and extremely delighted with Musick but the first sound of a Trumpet was sufficient almost to put them besides themselves for they had no disposition at all to War and even when their City was besieged they left the defence of their Walls that they might steal into a Tavern CHAP. L. Of the libidinous and unchaste life of some Persons and what Tragedies have been occasioned by Adulteries IN an ancient Embleme pertaining to Iohn Duke of Burgundy there was to be seen a Pillar which two hands sought to overthrow the one had Wings and the other was figured with a Tortoise the word Vtcunque as much as to say by one way or other There are Amourists who take the same course in their prohibited amours some strike down the Pillars of Chastity by the sudden and impetuous violence of great promises and unexpected presents others proceed therein with a Tortoises pace with long patience continual services and profound submissions yet when the Fort is taken whether by storm or long siege there is brought in an unâ—â—pected reckoning sometimes that drenches all their sweets in blood and closes up their unlawful pleasures in the â—ables of death Thus 1. A certain Merchant of Iapan who had some reason to suspect his Wife pretended to go into the Country but returning soon after surprized her in the very act The Adulterer he killed and having tyed his Wife to a Ladder he left her in that half hanging posture all night The next day he invited all the Relations on both sides as well Men as Women to dine with him at his own house sending word that the importance of the business he had to communicate to them excused his non-observance of the custom they have to make entertainments for the women distinct from those of the men They all came and asking for his Wife were told that she was busie in the Kitchen but Dinner being well nigh past they entreated the Husband to send for her which he promised to do Whereupon rising from the Table and going into the room where she was tyed to the Ladder he unbound her put a Shrowd upon her and into her hands a Box wherein were the privy Members of her Gallant covered with Flowers and saying to her go and present this Box to our common Relations and see whether I may upon their mediation grant you your life She came in that equipage into the Hall where they sate at Dinner and falling on her knees presented the Box with the precious reliques in it to the kindred but as soon as they had opened it she swounded her Husband perceiving that it went to her heart and to prevent her returning again now she was going cut off her head which raised such an horrour in the Friends that they immediately left the room and went to their several homes 2. Schach Abbas King of Persia coming to understand that one of his menial servants who was called Iacupzanbeg Kurtzi Tirkenan that is to say he whose Office it was to carry the Kings Bow and Arrows had a light Wife sent him notice of it with this message that if he hoped to continue at Court in his employment it was expected he should cleanse his House This message and the affliction he conceived at the baseness of his Wife and his reflection that it was known all about the Court put him into such a fury that going immediately to his House which was in the Province of Lenkeran he cut in pieces not only his Wife but also her two Sons four Daughters and five Chamber-maids and so cleansed his House by the blood of twelve persons most of them innocent 3. The Egyptians do not presently deliver the dead bodies of the Wives of eminent persons to Conditure and embalming nor the bodies of such women who in their life-time were very beautiful but detain them after death at least three or four dayes and that upon this reason There was once one of these Embalmers empeached by his Companion that he had carnal knowledge of a dead body committed to his care to be Salted and Embalmed Dr. Brown in his Vulgar Errors speaking of the like villanies used by these Pollinctors elegantly writes Deformity needeth not now complain nor shall the eldest hopes be ever superannuated since Death hath Spurs and Carcases have been Courted 4. After King Edred not any of his Sons but his Nephew Edwin the eldest Son of King Edmund succeeded and was anointed and Crowned at Kingston upon Thames by Otho Arch-bishop of Canterbury in the year 955. This Prince though scarce fourteen years old and in age but a Child yet was able to commit sin as a man for on the very day of his Coronation and in sight of his Lords as they sate in Council he shamefully abused a Lady of great estate and his near Kins-woman and to mend the matter shortly after slew her Husband the more freely to enjoy his incestuous pleasure For this and other infamous acts a great part of his Subjects hearts were so turned against him that the Mercians and Northumbrians revolted and swore fealty to his younger Brother Edgar with grief whereof after four years reign he ended his life and was buried in the Church of the New Abbey of Hide at Winchester 6. Eugenius the third King of Scotland made a beastly Act which appointed the first night of the new married Woman to appertain to the Lord of the Soil
in any thing to violate and infringe them 3. Draco was also before him a Law-giver at Athens whose Laws were antiquated by Solon by reason oâ— their severity and rigour for he punished all sorts of faults almost with death He that was convicted of Idleness died for it and he that had stolen an Apple or handful of Herbs was to abide the same sentence as iâ— hâ— had committed Sacriledge So that Demades afterwards said wittily That Draco's Laws were not written with Ink but blood They say that Draco himself being ask'd Why he punished even petty Larcenies with death made this answer That the smallest of them did deserve that and that there was not a greater punishment he could find out for greater Crimes 4. Zâ—molxis was the Law-giver of Thrace a Native of that Country who having been brought up under Pythagoras and returning home prescribed them good and wholsom Laws assuring them That if they did observe the same they should go unto a place when they left this World in which they should enjoy all manner of pleasure and contentment By this means having gotten some opinion of a Divinity amongst them he absented himself and was afterwards worshipped by them as a god 5. Diocles was the Law-giver of the Syracusans he punished offences with inexorable severity and for such as transgressed there was no hope of pardon Amongst others of his Laws this was one That no man should presume to enter armed into the Forum and Assembly of the people in case any should he should suffer death no exception being made in case of imprudence or any kind of necessity One day when the news was That the enemy had broke into their Fields Diocles hasted out against them with his Sword by his side Upon the way as he went it sell out That there was a Sedition and tumult amongst the people in their Assembly whither he imprudently diverts armed as he was when presently a private person that had observed him began to cry out That he had broken the Laws which himself had made Diocles turning towards his Accuser No said he with a loud voice but they shall now have their Sanction which said he drew out his Sword and thrust it through his own throat that he died 6. Zalencus was the Law-giver of the Locrians he made a Law That the Adulterer should be punished with the loss of both his eyes his own son happened to be the first offender in that kind therefore to shew the love of a Father and the sincerity of a Judge he put out one of his sons eyes and one of his own He also provided by his Laws That no woman should be attended in the Street with more than one Maid but when she was drunk That no woman should go abroad at night but when she went to play the Harlot That none should wear Gold or embroidered apparel but when they meant to set themselves to open sale And that men should not wear Rings and Tissues but when they went about some act of uncleanness and many others of this mould By means whereof both men and women were restrained from all extraordinary trains of attendance and excess of apparel the common consequents of a long and prosperous tranquillity 7. Charondas the Law-giver of the Thurians in Greece amongst others of his Laws had made this against civil factions and for prevention of sudden and tumultuary slaughters That it should be Capital for any man to enter the Assembly of the people armed with any weapon about him It fell out that as he returned from abroad he appointed a Convention of the people and like unto the forementioned Diocles appeared therein armed as he was When his opposers told him That he had openly broken the Law of his own making by entring the place in such manner as he did It is very true said he but withal I will make the first sanction of it and thereupon drawing his Sword he fell upon it so that he died in the place 8. Pharamond was the first King of the French and a Law-giver amongst them it is said That he was the Maker of the Law called the Salick Law by which the Crown of France may not descend unto the Females or as their saying is fall from the Lance to the Distaff Whence this Law had its name of Salique is uncertain some say from the words Si aliqua so often used in it others because it was proposed by the Priests called Salii or that it was decreed in the Fields which take their name from the River Sala But Haillan one of their best Writers affirms That it was never heard of in France till the time of Philip the long Anno 1315. Others say it was made by Charles the Great after the Conquest of Germany where the incontinent lives of the women living about the River Salae in the modern Misâ—ia gave both the occasion and the name De terrâ vero Salicâ nullae portio haereditatis mulieri veniat sed ad virilem sexum tota terrâ— haereditas perveniat are the words of the Law This terra Salica the Learned Selden in his Titles of Honour Englishes Knights Fee or Land holden by Knights Service and proves his Interpretation by a Record of the Parliament of Bourdeaux cited by Bodinus 9. King Richard the first of England as Lord paramount of the Seas immediately on his return from the Holy Land the Island of Oleron being then in his possession as a member of his Dukedom of Aquitaine did there declare and establish those Maritime Laws which for near five hundred years have generally been received by all the States of the Christian World which frequent the Ocean for the regulating of Sea affairs and deciding of Maritime Controversies From thence they are called the Laws of Oleron Quae quidem leges Statuta per Dominum Richardum quondam Regem Angliae in reditu à terrâ Sanctâ correcta fuerunt interpretata declarata in Insula de Oleron publicata nominata in Gallica Lingua la Loy d' Oleron c. saith an old Record which I â—ind cited in a Manuscript discourse of Sir Iohn Burroughs intituled the Soveraignty of the British Seas 10. Nicodorus was a famous Wrastler and Champion in his younger time but having taken leave of those youthful exercises and grown into years he became the Law-giver of the Mantineans amongst whom he lived and by the prudent composure of his Laws he brought much greater honour to his Country than when he was publickly proclaimed Victor in his former Atchievements It is said That the body of his Laws were framed for him by Diagoras Melius 11. Pittacus made Laws for the Mitylenians and having ten years presided amongst them after he had well setled the affairs of their Republick he voluntarily resigned up his power Amongst other his Laws this was one That he who committed a fault in his Drunkenness should undergo a double
own time and King Canutus the sixth almost to the year of Christ 1200. but more like a Poet than Historian commonly also omitting an account of the time 30. Conradus Abbot of Vrsperga a Monastery in Suevia as worthy of reading as any of the German Writers hath described the Affairs of Germany beginning two hundred years after the Flood and carrying on his relation to the twentieth year of Frederick the second that is Anno Dom. 1230. 31. Iohannes Aventinus wrote the Annals of the Boii and memorable matters of the Germans in seven Books beginning from the Flood and continuing his History to Ann. 1460. 32. Iohannes Nauclerus born not far from Tubinga hath an intire Chronicon from the beginning of the World to his own time and the year of our Lord 1500. in two Volums 33. Albertus Crantzius hath brought down the History of the Saxons Vandals and the Northern Kingdoms of Denmark Sweden Gothland and Norway to Ann. 1504. 34. Iohannes Sleidanus hath faithfully and plainly written the History of Luther especially and the contests about matters of Religion in the Empire of Germany the Election and Affairs of Charles the fifth Emperour and other of divers of the Kings of Europe from Anno Dom. 1517. to Ann. 1556. 35. Philippus Comineus wrote five Books of the Expedition of Charles the eighth into Italy and Naples and eight Books of the Acts of Lâ—wis the eleventh and Charles Duke of Burgundy worthy to be read of the greatest Princes 36. Froisardus wrote the sharp Wars betwixt the French and English from Anno 1335. to Ann. 1400. 37. Hiâ—ronymus Osorius wrote the Navigation of the Portugals round Africa into India and the Acts of Emanuel King of Portugal from Anno 1497. to his death in twelve Books 38. Antonius Bonfinius in four Decades and an half hath wrote the History of the Hungarian Kings to the death of Matthias the son of Huniades and the beginning of the Reign of Vladislaus 39. Polydor Virgil hath wrote the History of England in twenty six Books to the death of Henry the seventh 40. Iustinus flourished Anno Christi 150. and wrote a compendious History of most Nations from Ninus the Assyrian King to the twenty fifth year of Augustus compiled out of forty four Books of Trogus Pompeius a Roman Ecclesiastical Writers I have here no room for but am content to have traced thus far the steps of David Chytraeus in his Chronology whose help I have had in the setting down of this Catalogue CHAP. IX Of the most famous and ancient Greek and Latin Poets THE Reader hath here a short account of some of the most eminent of Apollo's old Courtiers as they succeeded one another in the favour of the Muses not but that those bright Ladies have been I was about to say equally propitious to others in after-times nor is it that we have given these only a place here as if our own Land were barren of such Worthies Our famous Spencer if he was not equal to any was superiour to most of them of whom Mr. Brown thus He sung th' Heroick Knights of Fairy Land In lines so elegant and such command That had the Thracian plaid but half so well He had not left Eurydice in Hell But it is fit we allow a due reverence to Antiquity at least be so ingenuous as to acknowledge at whose Torches we have lighted our own The first of these Lights 1. Orpheus was born in Libethris a City of Thrace the most ancient of all Poets he wrote the Expedition of the Argonauts into Colchis in Greek Verse at which he was also present this Work of his is yet extant together with his Hymns and a Book of Stones The Poets make him to be the Prince of the Lyricks of whom Horace in his Book De Arte Poeticâ Sylvestres homines sacer interpresque deorum Caedibus foedo victu deterruit Orpheus Dictus ob hoc lenire Tygres rabidosque leones His Father was Oeagrus his Mother Caliopea and his Master was Linus a Poet and Philosopher Orpheus is said to have flourished Anno Mundi 2737. Vid. Quenstedt Dial. de Patr. vir illustr p. 453. Voss. de Nat. Constit. artis Poet. cap. 13. sect 3. p. 78. Patrit de Instit. reipub l. 2. tâ— 6. p. 83. 2. Homerus the Prince of Poets born at Colophon as Cluverius doubts not to affirm but more Cities besides that strove for the honour according to that in Gellius Septem urbes certant de stirpe illustris Homeri Smyrna Rhodos Colophon Salamis Ios Argos Athenae Many are the Encomiums he hath found amongst learned men as The Captain of Philosophy The first Parent of Antiquity and Learning of all sorts The original of all rich Invention The Fountain of the more abstruse Wisdom and the father of all other Poets à quo cen fonte perenni Vatum Pieriis ora rigantur aquis Of him this is part of Quintilians Charaâ—ter In great things no man excelled him in sublimity nor in small matters in propriety In whom saith Paterculus this is an especial thing that before him there was none whom he could imitate and after him none is found that is able to imitate him He flourished Anno Mund. 3000. Vid. Quenstedt dialog p. 483. Gell. Noct. Attic. lib. 3. cap. 11. p. 104. Quintil. instit orator lib. 10. cap. 1. p. 466. 3. Hesiodus was born at Cuma a City in Aeolia bred up at Ascra a Town in Boeotia a Poet of a most elegant genius memorable for the soft sweetness of his Verse called the son of the Muses by Lipsius the purest Writer and whose labours contain the best Precepts of Vertue saith Heinsuis Some think he was contemporary with Homer others that he lived an hundred years after him I find him said to flourish Anno Mundi 3140. Vid. Quintil. instit orat lib. 10. cap. 1. p. 466. Vell. Pâ—tercul hist. lib. 1. ...... Voss. de Poet. Graec. cap. 2. p. 9. Quenstedt dial p. 478. 4. Alcaeus a famous Lyrick Poet was born in the Isle of Lesbos in the City of Miâ—ylene whence now the whole Isle hath its name what Verses of his are left are set forth by Henricus Stephanus with those of the rest of the Lyricks Quintilian saith of him That he is short and magnificent in his way of speaking diligent and for the most part like Homer he flourished Olymp. 45. Vid. Quenstedt dialog p. 433. Quintil. instit orat lib. 10. cap. 1. p. 468. 5. Sappho an excellent Poetress was born in the Isle of Lesbos and in the City of Eraesus there she was called the ninth Lyrick and the tenth Muse she wrote Epigrams Elegies Iamâ—icks Monodies and nine Books of Lyrick Verses and was the Invetress of that kind of Verse which from her is called the Sapphick she attained to no small applause in her contention first with Stesichorus and then with Alcaeus she is said to flourish about the 46 Olympiad Voss. Instâ—t Poet. lib. 3. cap. 15. p.
he never swam out again as is affirmed by them that saw it 19. Clemens Romanus saith of Simon Magus that he framed a man out of air that he became invisible as oft as he pleased he animated Statues stood unhurt in the midst of slames sometimes he would appear with two faces as another Ianus change himself into the shape of a Sheep or Goat and at other times would fly in the air That he commanded a Syth to go mow oâ— it s own accord and that it mowed down ten times more than any other When Selene the Harlot was shut up in a Tower and thousands of people went to see her and had compassed the castle about for that end he caused that her face seemed to shew it self out at every Window in the Castle at the same time to which Anastasius Nicenus adds that he would seem all made of Gold sometimes a Serpent or other beast in Feasts he shewed all kind of Spectres made Dishes come to the Table without any visible Servitor and he caused many shadows to go before him which he gave out were the Souls of Persons deceased 20. Pasetes had many Magical pranks he would cause the appearance of a sumptuous Feast to be upon the sudden and at his pleasure all should immediately vanish out of sight he would also buy several things and pay down the just price but then the mony would soon after return to him again 21. Iohannes Teutonicus a Canon of Halberstadht in Germany after he had performed a number of prestigious Feats almost incredible was transported by the Devil in the likeness of a black Horse and was both seen and heard upon one and the same Christmas-day to say Mass in Halberstadht in Mentzâ— and in Collen CHAP. XXI Of the Primitive Fathers and Doctors of the Church LIpsius in an Epistle of his to Thuanus tells him that these new things did little please his Palate that for his part he was a lover of the ancient both manners and men and then goes on Hos utinam inter Heroas natum tellus me prima tulisset Would I with ancient Heroes had been born He could not wish to be born amongst greater Heroes than some of these that follow who for their Learning and Piety Christian Courage and Fortitude are more renowned than Alexander the Great for all his Victories 1. Ignatius Bishop of Antioch in the reign of Trajan the Emperour he was the Scholar of the Apostle St. Iohn when he had sate nine years in Antioch he was by ten Souldiers brought to Rome to be devoured by wild Beasts when his martyrdom drew near he said Let me be ground in the Teeth of wild Beasts that I may be found fine â—lower in the House of my Father he was thrown to the Lions Anno 110. 2. Polycarpus was also the Scholar of St. Iohn and by him constituted Bishop of Smyrna he went to Rome probably to compose the controversie about Easter Three dayes before he was apprehended by his Persâ—cutors he dreamed that his Bed was set on fire and hastily consumed which he took for a Divine advertisement that he should glorifie God by suffering in the fire Being urged to deny Christ by the Roman Deputy he said that he had served him fourscore years and received no injury by him and therefore could not now renounce him He refused to swear by the fortune of Caesar and so patiently suffered death at Smyrna being aged eighty six years 3. Iustinus Martyr was a Philosopher afterwards converted to Christianity by an old man who counselled him to be a diligent Reader of the Prophets and Apostles who spake by Divine inspiration who knew the truth were neither covetous of vain glory nor awed by fear whose Doctrine also was confirmed with miraculous works which God wrought by their hands This Iustinus wrote two Books of Apology for Christians to the Emperour Antoninus Pius and to his Sons and the Senate of Rome In the second Book of his Apology he declareth that Christians were put to death not for any crime they had committed but only for their Profession in witness whereof if any of them would deny his Christian Profession he was straightway absolved he was beheaded at Rome Anno Dom. 166. 4. Irenaeus Bishop of Lyons in France a Disciple of Polycarpus in his Youth his meek Conversation and peaceable carriage answered to his name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Peaceable and made his name to be in great account amongst Christianâ— yet he lacked not his infirmities in Doctrin◠〈◊〉 was entangled with the error of the Chiliasts and he supposed that Christ was fifty years of age when he suffered he flourished in the raign of Commodus suffered Martyrdom in the raign of Severus Anno Dom. 176. 5. Clemens Alexandrinus was the Disciple of Pantenus these two seem to be the Authors of Universities and Colledges for they taught the people the grounds of Religion not by Sermons and Homilies to the people but by Catechetical Doctrine to the Learned in the Schools he flourished in the reign of Commodus 6. Tertullianus a learned Preacher of the City of Carthage in Africk a man of a quick pregnant wit coming to Rome he was envyed and reproached by the Roman Clergy whereat moved with anger he declined to the Opinion of the Heretick Montanus He wrote learned Apologies for the Christians and mightily confuted the error of Marcion he flourished in the reign of the Emperour Severus Anno Christi 197. 7. Origen the Son of Leonidas an Egyptian he was so pregnant in his youth and so capable of all good instruction that his Father would often uncover his Breast when he was asleep and kiss it giving thanks to God who had made him the Father of so happy a Son He was very learned yet had he failings he took the words of Matth. 19. 12. in a literal sense and guelded himself he held many worlds successive to one another and that the pains of men and Devils after long torments should be finished he offered to Idols rather than suffer his chast body to be abused he dyed in Tyrus and was there buried in the sixty ninth year of his age having lived until the days of Gallus and Volusianus 8. Cyprianus Bishop of Carthage in his youth altogether given to the study and practice of Magical Arts his conversion was by the means of Cecilius a Preacher and hearing of the History of the Prophet Ionah after his Conversion he distributed all his substance to the Poor he was a man full of love and modesty was banished in the persecution of Decius and Martyred under Valerian he held that erroneous opinion that such as had been baptized by Hereticks should be rebaptized he â—lourished Anno Dom. 250. 9. Athanasius Bishop of Alexandria he duelled with the whole world when it was become Arrian and stood for the Truth with an undaunted resolution amidst all oppositions and after
overthrown the pernicious plot and design of the wicked Tyrant and preserved Timoleon but had also at the same time executed its Justice upon a Murderer 22. An. Dom. 1552. about the Nones of February Franciscus Pelusius one of sixty years of age while in the Mannor of Lewis Dheiraeus and in the Hill of St. Sebastian he was digging a Well forty foot deep the earth above fell in upon him to thirty five foot depth He was somewhat sensible before of what was coming and opposed a plank which by chance he had by him against the ruines himself lying under it By this means he was protected from the huge weight of the earth and retained some air and breath to himself by which he lived seven days and nights without food or sleep supporting his stomach only with his own urine without any pain or sorrow being full of hope in God in whom alone he had placed it Ever and anon he called for help as being yet safe but was heard by none though he could hear the motion noise and words of those that were above him and could count the hours as the Clock went After the seventh day he being all the while given for dead they brought a Bier for his Corps and when a good part of the Well was digged up on a sudden they heard the voice of one crying from the bottom At first they were afraid as if it had been the voice of a subterranean Spirit the voice continuing they had some hope of his life and hastned to dig to him till at last after he had drunk a cup of wine they drew him up living and well his strength so entire that to lift him out he would not suffer himself to be bound nor would use any help of another of so sound sense that jesting he drew out his purse gave them money saying he had been with such good Hosts that for seven days it had not cost him a farthing Soon after he returned to his work again and was then alive when I wrote this saith Bartholomaeus Anulus 23. A certain Woman saith Iordanus had given her Husband poyson and it seems impatient of all delay gave him afterwards a quantity of Quick-silver to hasten his death the sooner but that slippery substance carried along with it the poyson that lay in the Ventricle and had not yet spread it self to the heart through the bowels away from him by stool by which means he escaped Ausonius hath the story in an Epigram of his the conclusion of which is to this purpose The Gods send health by a most cruel wife And when Fates will two poysons save a life 24. At Tibur An. Dom. 1583. two years before I wrote this Book there was one who diging in a subterranean Aquaduct by a sudden fall of the earth which store of ruine had caused he was overwhelmed and buried alive yet such was the vigour of his spirit that night and day though he could not distinguish either working with hands feet head and back he hollowed the earth that lay about him and dug as it were a Coney-hole so that working as a Mole into the part of the Aquaduct that was beyond the place where the earth fell he at last reached it and from thence upon the seventh day he had scratched himself out and was safe and sound though all the time without meat and drink only his fingers ends bruised and wore away CHAP. XXXIV Of such persons as have taken poyson and quantities of other dangerous things without damage thereby PVrchas tells of the herb Addad that it is bitter and the root of it so exceedingly venemous that a single drop of the juyce of it will kill a man in the space of one hour This nimble Messenger of death makes its approaches to the Fortress of life so speedy and withal so sure that it is not easie for the virtue of any Antidote to make haste enough to overtake it or to over-power and counterwork it yet of the like dangerous drugs taken without sensible harm see the following Histories 1. Mithridates that warlike King of Pontus and Bithynia when in the War with the Romans he was overcome in Battel by Pompey determined to finish his life by poyson and therefore drank a draught of it himself and gave others to his Daughters who would needs accompany their Father in death They overcome by the force of the poyson fell down dead at his foot but the King himself having formerly accustomed his body to the use of Antidotes found that the poyson he had taken was of no use to him in this his last extremity and therefore gave his throat to be cut by his Friend Bystocus who with his Sword gave him that death which he in vain expected from the poysonous draught he had swallowed 2. Conradus Bishop of Constance at the Sacrament of the Lords Supper drank off a Spider that had fallen into the cup of wine while he was busied in the Consecration of the Elements yet did he not receive the least hurt or damage thereby 3. While I was a Boy saith Fallopius and was sick of the Colick I took a scruple of Scammony and yet had not one stool by it And I saw a German Scholar at Ferrara who took at once a whole ounce of Scammony I say of Scammony not Diagridium and yet was no way stirred by it 4. Theophrastus tells of Thrasyas who was most excellently skilled in all sorts of Herbs that yet he would often eat whole handfuls of the roots of Hellebore without harm and he also tells of one Eudemus a Chian that in one day he took two and twenty Potions of Hellebore and yet was not purged thereby and that supping the same night as he used he did not return any thing he had taken by Vomit 5. Schenckius relates the History of a Woman from an eye-witness of the truth of it that she intending to procure abortion to her self swallowed down half a pound weight of Quick-silver in substance and though she had done this more than once or twice yet it always passed through her assoon almost as she had taken it and that without hurt 6. A certain man condemned for a capital crime was set free by Pope Leo the Tenth of that name for that without taking any previous Antidote he had swallowed down almost an ounce of Arsenick and received no hurt thereby 7. The weight of thirty grains of Antimonial glass prepared hath been taken without any harm as Schenckius reports from Albertus Wimpinaeus 8. I knew a man saith Garsias ab Horto who was Councellor to Nizamoxa he would daily eat three shivers of Opium which weighed ten drams and more and though he seemed always to be stupid and as one ready to sleep yet would he very aptly and learnedly discourse of any thing propounded to him so much is custom able to perform 9. Albertus Magnus saith he hath seen
334 Robberies and Thefts 420 S. SCoffing and Scorn 119 Sea-meâ—â—amous 486 Secrecy 232 Seditions appeased 603 Servants love to Masters 154 Sepulchres violated 62 Sepulture hardly obtained ibid. Sex changed 52 Shamefacedness 122 Sight and Seeing 99 Slothfulness 403 Smelling the Sense 104 Sleepers long 594 Sleep walked in 592 Sobriety 179 Solitude loved 575 Stage Players 502 Statuarie famous 501 Stature and Tallness 34 Stratogems 6â—â— Strength very great 37 Study very hard â—â—8 Stupidity 404 Swiftness 44 Swimmers and Divers under Water 504 T. TAst the Sense 183 Teeth their Number 20 Temperance 179 Thefts very bold 420 Time well spent 229 Torments born 205 Touch the Sense 101 Tongue 21 Trances and Raptures 595 Treachery 447 Treasures found 604 Tributes and Taxes 418 Truth loved 137 V. VAlour and Courage 297 Unavoidable Fate 455 Unchastity 452 Unfortunate men 459 Unmerciful men 382 Voice and Speech 21 Voluptuous men 451 Voracity and Greediness 390 W. WAlkers in their sleep 592 Warnings of death 455 Wishes and desires 1â—7 Witches and Witchcraft 5â—◠〈◊〉 unnatural 373 Wives 〈◊〉 good 144 Works of Art 224 Work of 〈◊〉 189 Wise sayings 646 Witty speeches 649 Wives well beloved 142 X. XErxes his folly 407 Y. YOuth hopeful 130 Youth wild reclaimed 132 Youth hopeful declined 363 Youth restored 51 Z. ZOpyrus his fact 155 Zoroastres how born 4 ADVERTISEMENT BY reason of the Authors Absence some Errors have passed the Press though few such as make any considerable Alteration of the Sence or that may not easily be Corrected by 〈◊〉 Pen of the Reader FINIS Lib. 4. c. 1. p. 179 180.181 Hist. of the Netherlands pag. 91. Clark's mir cap. 104. p. 497. Barthol Hist. Anatomic Cent. 1. Hist. 1. page 1.2 Sennert pract Med. lib. 4. part 2 § 5. cap. 8. p. 359. Barthol Hist. Anat. Cent. 1. Hist. 1. p. 2. Sennert prax l. 4. par 2. § 5. c. 8. p. 359.360 Barth Hist. Anat. Cent. 1. Hist. 1. p. 3. Salmas responâ— ad Beverov de calculo p. 198. Barth Hist. Anat. Cent. 1. Hist. 1. p. 3. Barth Hist. Anat. Cent. 1. Hist. 1. p. 4.5 Nâ—edh disquisit Anat. cap. 3. p. 84. Schenck observat l. 1. p. 13. obs 1. Weinrich de Monstris c. 26. p. 62. Sennert pract Med. l. 4. part 2. § 5. cap. 8. p. 359. Ovid Epist. l. 1. Ep. 21. Schenck observ lib. 4. p. 575. obs 8. Donat. Hist. Med. Mir. lib. 2. c. 22. p. 240. Schenck observ lib. 4. p. 577. obs 9. Zuing. Theatr vol. 2. lib. 4. p. 357 col 2. Donat. Hist. Med. Mir. lib. 2. c. 22. p. 239. Zacut. Lusit praxis Medic. admirand lib. 2. obs 157. p. 276. Donat. Hist. Med. Mir. lib. 2. c. 22. p. 241. †Lâ—ps de constant lib 2. c. 1â— p. 172. Ovid Metaâ— l. 6. p. 101. Sennert prax Med. lib. 4. par 2. § 4. c. 7. p. 311. Schâ—â—k obs lib. 4. obs 21. p. 537. Barth Cent. 2. Hist. 100. p. 76. Rosse Arcan Micrososm lib. 3. cap. 3. p. 76. Addit ad Doâ—at per Greg. Hâ—rit lib. 7. cap. 2. p. 659. Iohns Nat. Hist. Cent. 16. cap. 5. p. 334. Konaman de Mir. Mort. par 3. c. 34. p. 117. Addit ad Donat. per Greg. Hâ—râ—i lib. 7. cap. 2. p. 663. Ad. Donat. lib. 7. pâ—â— Hâ—st cap. 2. p. 664. Zâ—â—ch qu. Medico-legal lib. 4. tit 1. qu. 10. p. 235. Karnman de Mir. Mort. par 3. cap. 36. p. 18. Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. 7. c. 16. p. 164. Solin cap. 4. p. 181. Zuing. Theatr Vol. 2. lib. 5. pag. 414. col 1. Plut. parel p. in Cicerone Solin c. 4. p. 180. Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. 7. c. 8. p. 160. Zuing. Theatr vol. 2. l. 1. p. 270. col 2. Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 7. c. 16. p. 164. Solin c. 4. p. 181. Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. 7. c. 9. p. 160. Schenck obs Med. lib. 4. obs 15. p. 580. Hâ—yl Cosm. p. 336. Baker chr p. Schenck obs Med. lib. 4. obs 15. pag. 580. Zuin. Theat vol. 2. lib. 1. p. 270. col 2. Schenck obs p. 580. Zuin. Theat vol. 2. l. 1. p. 270. col 2. Schenck obs p. 580. Sennert prax Med. l. 4. part 2. § 6. cap. 8. p. 419. Schenck obs Med. p. 580. Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. 7. c. 3. p. 158. Zuin. Theat vol. 2. l. 1. p. 270. col 1. Camerar horae subcisiv Cen. 1. c. 55. p. 241. 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Treasury of Ancient modern times l. 4. c. 12. p. 330. Heyl. Cosm. p. 734. Plin. l. 7. c. 53. p. 186. Suet. p. 105. p. 55. in Augustâ— Alex. ab Alex dies Gen. l. 4. c. 20. fol. 233. Idem Ibid. fol. 233. Idem ut sup fol.