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B04357	The wonders of the world: or, Choice observations and passages, concerning the beginning, continuation, and endings, of kingdomes and commonwealths. With an exact division of the several ages of the world ... the opinions of divers great emperours and kings ... together with the miserable death that befel Pontius Pilate ... a work very profitable and necessary for all. / Written originally in Spanish, translated into French, and now made English, by that pious and learned gentleman Joshua Baildon.; Silva de varia leción. English	Mexía, Pedro, 1496?-1552?; Baildon, Joshua.	1656 (1656)	Wing M1957; ESTC R215366	95,994	143

it would be long to recite them He suffered all indifferently to become Christians for whom he built sumptuous Temples and those which had been formerly dedicated to Idols he dedicated to the service of Christ and his members Since which time although the Church of God hath suffered scandals and persecutions as those of Iulian the Apostata and others yet alwaies and in many places of the world Christ hath been publickly worshipped and from thence forward all histories are full of the acts of the Saints and the greatest part of the subsequent Emperours have been faithfull Catholicks as Theodosius Iustinian and others I could bring many authorities of Ethnick Historiographers that have written of Christ but I would help my self with this small number onely because they are famous and of great authority CHAP. XXV Of the Amity and Enmity which by a secret property are in many things THe ancient Philosopher Heraclitus and divers others since him have been of opinion that all things are occasioned by concord and disconcord and that by peace and enmity which is in all things comes the generation and corruption of them of which Philosophie I will not now treat of as well because the Subject would be difficult for me as that the reader would receive little pleasure Howsoever we will speak of the love and enmity which is between many things that none knoweth truly from whence the cause proceeds which in truth is a thing very wonderfull as that which is between the dog and the cat between oyl and glew between the stag and the adder and such like whereof we will speak that naturally hate one another and yet this enmity proceeds not from the elements for the contrariety and enmity which are between things of which they are composed is most clear as we see that water is an enemy to fire because the fire is hot and dry and the water cold and moist in such sort that these elements are totally contraries The water and the earth are friends in as much as they are both cold but they are contrary in this that the water is moist and the earth dry Betwixt the fire and the earth there is some conformity because of the drinesse of them both and difference by the heat of the fire and the cold of the earth So betwixt the elements there is a contrariety and yet in part of them there is some conformity All things then being composed of the elements it must of necessity follow that amongst them must be these contradictions and conformities which the elements have whereof they are composed Wherefore that thing in which the elemenrary quality most governs takes the name from that quality and that do we call hot or cold moist or drie some in a more high degree than others according as the thing is qualified with one of these first four qualities And so it comes to passe that one thing is contrary to another causing divers effects which contradiction is most manifest and we know it so sure that now we will come to give the reasons But of this other enmity which proceeds not from the elements but from a secret or hidden propriety or superiour influence requires a deep contemplation to search out from whence the cause proceeds The dog and the cat as we have said before would do one another mischief and yet we know not wherefore we see also other things that agree and love one another and yet this love is not derived from the elements whereof they are composed The Asse desires and loves an hearb called Sagapena or Giant Fennell which is venemous to other beasts of the nature of horses The Fox is a friend to the Adder which is an enemy to all other beasts This is not of the least consideration that it is amongst men as among beasts seeing that not kowing wherefore nor how one man that seeth another at the first sight that never saw or knew one another before will contemn and loath him and another will be agreeable and pleasing unto him and sometimes so soon as he shall see one he knoweth not he will bear him affection and reverence him although he be below him Others will be dispised although they be great persons yea Lords There are others to be found that seem as though they were born to be Tutors and instructers to other as you may see two men whereof the one will suffer himself to be led and governed by the other and in this many times the Lord by his servant in such sort as it seemeth he were naturally subject unto him and we can give no reason for it In like case we see such subjection and enmity amongst beasts as between the Eagle and the Swan between the Raven and the Kite and many times we see that the Kite snatches the prey out of the Ravens claws There is also enmity between the Kite and the Owl the Eagle and the Goose so that if one mingle the feathers of the Eagle with Goose feathers the Eagles will consume them all The Stag persecutes the Adder for with a strong respiration of his breath which he makes at the mouth of the Adders hole he draws him out of his hole and eats him That it is true that there is such an enmity between them you may prove it by burning some of the Stags hair for all the Adders wil fly from the smoak of it There is also great enmity betwixt the Raven the Asse and the Bull because the Raven attempts alwaies with his beak to strike out their eyes The greatest enemies to the Wolf are the Fox the Asse and the Bull. There is also a naturall quarrell betwixt the Vulture and the Eel The Lyon is afraid and shuns the house Cock also the fire and the noise of a Waggon The Hienna is an enemy to the Panther The Scorpion hath a deadly hatred to the Tarantola whose biting or sting cannot be healed as it is said but by musick and there is so much enmity between these two beasts that he that is stricken with the Scorpion is healed with the oil wherein Terantolaes have been steeped and suffocated The Elephant which is one of the strongest beasts fears and shuns a Snake or an Adder and also a Sheep and is amazed at the gtunting of a hog There is a kind of Faulcon which Aristotle calleth Tico that hath a great war and debate alwaies against the Fox and as often as he can beats and persecutes him Elian writes that there is a great enmity between the Raven and a kind of Falcon called Pelagre and between the Raven and the Turtle-Dove There is also a deadly hatred between the Owl and the Stork the Patridge and the Tortis The Pellican persecutes the Quail above all other birds And the Horse is afraid more of a Camel then of any other beast There is also great discord and enmity amongst fishes The Dolphin is an enemy to the Whale The Cougar is naturally an enemy to the

thousand a hundred ninety nine years According to Orozine five thousand twenty years According to Isiodorus one lesse And according to Alfonsus six thousand nine hundred eighty four which is much more then any of the rest At this birth of our Lord begins the sixth age which hath lasted to this hour and shall last even to the end of the world And during the which a great party of men are governed by one man onely the Emperour of the Romans These Emperours have maintained themselves in prosperity for some time from one succession to another but aftewards came the Goths and other Nations and then Mahomet who have given so many traversings to this Empire that it is much deminished in such sort that in many quarters of it there are perticular Kingdomes and Signiories taken out By which discords and coldnesse of faith the enemies of the Church of Christ hath found means to molest the faithfull Christians casting many of them out of their Teretories and Provinces These computations of the times of the ages which I have recited are taken out of the Authors alledged St. Augustine Isiodorus Beda Eusebius Filo Orasine singular Historians And for Modern Pierre d' Aliaque and above all John Driodon in his Ecclesiasticks The Poets gives the world four ages and no more The first of Gold The second of Silver The third of Brasse And the fourth of Iron shewing thereby that the malice of men beginning to encrease the excellency of mettals decreased to which they compared the world As Ovid speaks in his first book of Metamorphosis CHAP. VIII Of the distinction of the age of man according to the Doctrine of the Astrologers BY the common division of Astrologers Arabes Caldeans Greeks and Latines and particularly Procleus a Greek Authour Ptolomeus and Aliben Rasellus the life of man is divided into seven ages upon every of which hath dominion and reigns one of the seven Planets The first Age is named the infancy continuing the time of 4 years in which domineers the nearest Planet to the earth which is the moon Because the qualities of infancy compels us to say that the influence of that Planet is of all others agreeable to that Age in which the body is moist delicate tender weak and moveable and in al things like to the moon for a smal thing alters it Its members for a little smal thing is weakned and the members are perceived to grow in a smal time even to ones eie These things hapned in general to all because of the moon that governs then Neverthelesse more to one than to another and not equally for as much as the other particular qualities which hold nothing of the Moon takes effect as the child is brought into the world according to the state and disposition of the other Planets The second Age lasteth ten years Age. 2 while it comes to fourteen Which the Latines call Pueritia Childhood wherein ends infancy and begins youth In this age reigns another Planet called Mercury placed in the second Heaven this is a Celestiall body easie to change being good with the good and nought in the aspect with the nought Lasting this time then nature composeth it self to the quality of this Planet for then young children begin to shew some principle of their spirit be it in reading writing or musick and are then tractable and docile yet light in their purposes inconstant and changeable The third Age is eight years more Age. 3 called by the Ancients Adolescentia youthfull age and continues from fourteen to two and twenty during which raigns the third Planet called Venus for man then begins to prompt by nature able and strong to engender being enclined to love and Ladies addicted to sports voluptuous banquets and worldly pleasures and this we must search into whether nature provokes the man to do this For we must believe that man keeps still his own free will either to take or leave these inclinations or influences and understand that neither the force of the Planets nor the power of the Stars can but nible at such liberty although they encline the sensative appetite and the members and organs of a humane body The fourth age pursues it self till a man hath accomplished forty two years Age. 4 and is called Iuventus youth the course of which lasts nineteen years and hath for its Governour and Master the Sun which is in the fourth heaven called by the most ancient Astrologers The Fountain of Light The principall eye of the universe King of Planets And Heart of all the World And like to it this Age is the Prince of all the rest And the flower of the life During which the sences and the powers of the body and the spirits maintain and hold their ful force And then being a man of full understanding and courage is made to know and chuse the best things He desires to purchase wealth and to get himself a good name alwaies inclining to do well briefly in all things generally he evidently shews that the sun raigns over him The fifth Age is called Viril manly Age. 5 and according to the said Authors dures fifteen years so goes on in pursuit to fifty six years subject to the Planet Mars which in it self is nought dangerous and hot inclining men to covetousnesse and making them chollerick sickly temperate in eating and drinking and constant in their actions Then joining twelve to fifty six Age. 6 you shall find Three-score and eight years which makes an end of the sixth Age called old Age whereof Iupiter is the great Governour which is a noble Planet betokening Equity Religion Piety Temperance and Chastity provoking men to put an end to all labour and hazard and to seek rest Men in this Age do all holy works Love Temperance and Charity seeking after credit accompanied with commendation are honest and scaring shame and disgrace The seventh and last Age Age. 7 hath been limitted from threescore and eight to fourscore and eight and few are found that atteins unto it It is called feeble and decrepit Because Saturn commands-over it as the most flow and highest Planet and environs all the others abovesaid His complexion is cold dry and melancholy angry and envious By which means he draws these old people to a solitarinesse choller pensivenesse despite and anger He weakens their memory and their strength and loads them with anguish sorrow languishing sicknesse deep thoughts and with a great desire to undertake secret and hidden things and which is more they would be superiors and masters above all and be obeyed And if we ever find any that goes beyond this age at which in these daies we may wonder he will return and grow again to be as in his infancy and will have one touch again of the moon for his Planet which was the Governour as is said before of his first years By reason whereof people do the same to them as you see them do to little children following their humours

because the water that we drink is not simple in its proper nature but is mingled with earth and air but by the fire the windinesse is exhaled into vapour the earthy parts by the nature of the fire which doth refine and separate the divers natures descends to the bottome and there rests By this means water that is boiled becomes lesse windie than raw water because the windy quality that it had at the first is evaporated it is also more subtile and light being purified from the earthy parts and so much more easie to be kept and preserved so that it cool again and competently kept without much altering And by this we may know that Well-water is not so good as others because it participates more of the earth and is not purified by the heat of the Sun and therefore is more easie to corrupt yet the more water is drawn out of a Well the lesse hurtfull it is because the continuall moving hinders the accustomed corruption that fastens to waters inclosed and have no course and then nature sends new and fresh water according to the measure that hath been drawn out For this reason the waters of Lakes and standing Pools is the worst of all because for want of running they corrupt and breed evill things and many times infect the air which breeds diseases to those that live near them We must again consider that those waters which have their course towards the South are not so good as those which run towards the North because in the South parts the air is more mingled with vapours and moisture which spoils the water and endamages it And in the North parts the air is more subtile and lesse moist whereby it swels not nor is made so heavy For this cause the water that is most clear most light most subtile and most purified is the best because as we have said before it is less mingled with other elements and again being set over the fire it heats sooner then other water So it is a singular triall between two sorts of water to see which will be first hot in the same quantity by the same fire and the same space of time And also to see which will be the foonest cold for those are two arguments of the penetrable and subtile substance and forasmuch as the mingling of the earth among the water argues the weight of it it is good to choose the lightest which may be done by this experiment Take two pieces of linnen cloath both of the same weight and put one piece in one of the waters and the other in the other water and let them so remain till they be throughly wet then take them out and spread them in the air where the Sun comes not and when they are dry weigh them again and that piece that weighs most shews that water to be the heaviest Others weigh them in two neat glasse viols both of a weight Aristotle and Plinie say that the greatest cause that diversifies the quality of waters is from the substance of the earth from Stones Trees Minerall and Mettals by which Fountains and Rivers passe and this makes the one hot the other cold one sweet the other brackish Wherefore it is a certain rule that that water which hath neither smach nor smell is known to be the best All those that have writ of water maintain that that which pasteth through the Mines of gold is the best And that those Rivers are the most excellent in the world whose fine sands engender and preserve gold And now that we have spoken of Fountain and River it is fit we should speak something of rain water which is praised by some and censured by others Vitruvis Collumellus and some other Physitians give great praise of rain water when it falis clear and neat because say they it is light and not blended for so much as it proceeds of vapour which by its subtilty is mounted into the Region of the air and it is to be believed that the weighty and earthy part remains upon the earth And although some say that water that falls from the clouds corrupts presently as we see in standing pools which ingenders much impurity yet we must not say it is the fault of the water but that it is receaved in some place where either mud or some other pollution is and again by the means of that filth it carrieth along with it as it fals upon the ground when it rains aboundantly Wherefore the cause of its suddain corruption proceeds from that it is subtile and delicate and by the heat of the Sun and moisture of the water with the mixture of much filthinesse Yet if this water so subtile purged and clear were received falling from the tops of houses that were clean or at least when it falls from the clouds through the air before it touch any thing and if it were so received in clean vessels it would be better than others and would keep longer time There are some of the contrary opinion as Plinie who saith it is so unwholsome that one ought not to drink it because the vapours from whence it issues proceeds from many causes and places whence it receives much different qualities as well bad as good And shewing yet further reasons he answers those which we have before alledged and saith that the triall is not sufficient to say therefore it is good because it is lighter for being drawn out of the region of the air for such an evaporation is drawn on high by a secret violence of the Sun and by the same reason that is also vapour whereof the stonie hardnesse of hail is formed in the air which water is pernitious and likewise that of snow he saith further that besides this defect this rain water is made unwholsome by the vapour and heat of the earth than when it Rains And for an argument of its impurity we cannot but see how soon it will corrupt whereof is made a true experience at Sea where rain-water cannot be preserved For this cause we find fault with Wells and Cisterns Upon all these opinions every one may give his own as he thinks good as for me I approve lesse of rain-water then other although it be more necessary and that Plinie who finds fault with it saith That Fishes grow fat in Pools Lakes and Rivers and that when it rains they grow better and that they have need of rain-water Theophrastas saith that Garden hearbs and all others water them never so much they grow not so well as with rain-water CHAP. XXI Of divers Lakes and Fountains whose waters have great proprieties IN this Chapter the first that we will speak of shall be the Lake of Judea called Asfaltide which since hath been named Mare Mcriunm The Dead-sea Of this water is reported wonderfull things by Plinie ●o●umel and Diodoras First They say there is not any fish breeds in it nor any other living thing and that no living thing sinks into it So that