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A16240	Certaine secrete wonders of nature containing a descriptio[n] of sundry strange things, seming monstrous in our eyes and iudgement, bicause we are not priuie to the reasons of them. Gathered out of diuers learned authors as well Greeke as Latine, sacred as prophane. By E. Fenton. Seene and allowed according to the order appointed.; Histoires prodigieuses extraictes de plusiers fameux auteurs grecs & latins. English	Boaistuau, Pierre, d. 1566.; Fenton, Edward.	1569 (1569)	STC 3164.5; ESTC S105563	173,447	310

1. ¶ In the second the wōders and aduertisements of God sent vpon the Citie of Ierusalem to prouoke them to repentaunce 4. ¶ In the thirde mention is made of the deathe of sundry Kings Bishoppes Emperours and Monarques with the wonderfull death of a king of Poloigne and an Archebishop of Maience 5. ¶ In the fourth is described the history of Nabuchodonozer wherin is sheed in what perill they be which cōmaunde and haue the gouernement of publike weales 10 ¶ In the fifthe is declared the causes of the bringing forth of monsters and other histories to that purpose 12. ¶ In the sixth is recoūted a notable history of two maidens engendred in our time the which were knit togither by the forheads 14 ¶ In the seuenth a wonderful and horrible monster of our time vpon the discourse of whom the question is asked whether Diuels can engender and vse the workes of nature 16. ¶ In the eight sundry sortes of Lightnings with wonderful thunders and tēpests happening in our time with the peril harmes proceding of the same and certaine defensible meanes against their furie 19. ¶ In the ninth a wonderful history of a man in our time which washed his hands face in scalding lead 24. ¶ In the tenth wonderfull and straunge histories of the Iewes 26. ¶ In theleuenth Flouds and wonderful inundations of waters which 〈◊〉 happened in our time 29. ¶ In the twelfth the wonderfull deathe of Plinie with a briefe description of the causes of fire which come of certaine openings of the earth 30 ¶ In the thirtenth wonders of certaine horrible Earthquakes chauncing in diuers prouinces with a deceit of Sathan who by his crafte and subteltie made a Romaine knight to throwe himself headlong into a gulffe 33 ¶ In the fourtenth wonders of two bodies knit togethers like two graffes in the trunke of a tree 35 ¶ In the fiftenth a history of a monster who appeared to S. Anthonye in the desert 37 ¶ In the sixtenth a wonderful discourse of precious stones their nature and propertie which reasoneth of their procreation and other strange things breding in the bowels of the erth 38 ¶ In the seuententh a wonderful history of two Princesses being committed to the flames vniustly accused who were deliuered by the vertue of their innocencie 45 ¶ In the eightenth a wonderful history of sundry straunge fishes Monster● Mermaids and other huge creatures found and bred in the Sea 47 ¶ In the ninetenth wonders of Dogges which did eate Christians 54 ¶ In the twentith a wonderfull history of diuers figures Comets Dragones and flames which appeared in heauen to the terrour of the people and whereunto the causes and reasons of them be assigned 56. ¶ In the .21 Flames of fire which haue spronge out of the heades of diuers 〈◊〉 61. 〈…〉 22. A history very notable of 〈…〉 loues with a description of the dissolute life of three renoumed Curtisanes 62 ¶ In the .23 A wonderfull history of a monster out of whose belly issued an other man all whole reseruing the head 69. ¶ In the .24 Notable histories of many plants with their properties and vertues together with a wonderful rote of Baata written of by Iosephus the Hebrew author 70. ¶ In the .25 Wonderfull and excessiue Bankets 76. ¶ In the .26 Certaine wonderfull discourses worthy of memory touching Visions Figures and Illusions appearing as wel in the day as in the night and sleeping as waking 82. ¶ In the .27 A wonderfull history of a monster seene by Celius Rhodigenus 98 ¶ In the .28 A monster on liue whose intrailes and interiour parts were to be sene naked and vncouered 100 ¶ In the .29 Of a prodigeous Dogge which engendred of a Beare and a mastiffe bitche in England seene by the Author at London with the discourses of the nature of this beaste 101. ¶ In the .29 A wonderfull historye of certain women which haue brought forthe a greate number of children and an other which bare hir fruite v. yeares dead within hir belly 108 ¶ In the .31 A wonderfull history of a mōster hauing the shape of the face of a man who was taken in the Forest of Haueberg in the yeare .1531 whose purtraicte Georgius Fabritius sent to Gesnerus naturally drawne 110 ¶ In the .32 Of wonderfull and strange famines 112 ¶ In the .33 Of a Bird which hath no fete and liues continually in the air being neuer founde vpon the earthe or in the sea but dead 114 ¶ In the .34 Of a certaine monstrous Serpent hauing .vij. heads bought by the Venetians and sent into Fraunce embalmed 117. ¶ In the .35 A straunge and wonderfull historie of two maids knit and conioyned backe to backe sene in diuers places the one at Rome the other at Verona 123 ¶ In the .36 Of wonderfull crueltie in the which is a discourse of As●iages who caused Arpalus to eate the flesh of his owne sonne 125 ¶ In the .37 Of a mōster brought forth into the worlde aliue hauyng the shape of a man from the nauell vpward and the rest like a dogge 128 ¶ In the .38 A notable complaint made by a monstrous man to the Senate of Rome against the tyrannies of a Cēsour which oppressed the pore people of the riuer of Danubie with rigorous exactions 130 ¶ In the .39 Of a monstrous childe hauing .iiij. fete and .iiij. armes brought into the world the same day that the Geneuois and Venetians were recōciled 136 ¶ In the .40 A wonderful discourse of couetousnesse with many examples touching that matter worthy of memory 137 ¶ In the .41 A monster hauing the. wings fete of a bird brought forth at Rauenna in the time of Pope Iuly the seconde and king Lewes the twelfth 139 ¶ Of a straunge monster takē vp in the riuer of Tybre in the yeare .1496 Fol. 140 ¶ Of a straunge child borne in Almain in the yeare .1548 hauing but one legge and no armes with a creuise or chinke where his mouth should be 140 ¶ Of a childe borne in Englande in the yere 155● which had two bodies two heads four hands and thre legs and but one belly 141. ¶ Of a wonderfull and strange monster borne in the yere .1554 eod ¶ Of two wōderfull monsters brought forthe into the worlde in the yeare 1555. the one in Germanie the other in Sauoye 142 ¶ Of a monstrous Calfe brought forthe in Germanie in the yeare .1556 143 ¶ A monstrous child borne in Germanie in the yere .1556 144 ¶ Of a mōstrous calfe hauing the head beard and brest of a man eod ¶ Of thre Sunnes sene at one time 145 ¶ Of a shining Crosse with a starre at the toppe and a Mone at the lower ende seene in the yere .1567 eod ¶ Of two monsters 146 ¶ A wonderfull Daunce 147 ¶ The ende of the Table SVNDRY ABVSES and wonders of Sathan CHAPITER j. ALbeit Sathan since the creation of the world hath performed his tirannous raigne in most

wherin the Emperor Mauritius although he were a Christian followed in this the lawes of the Auncients who forthwith vpon the sighte of any monstrous childe caused it not onely to be killed but kissed the knife wherwith he committed the butchery All whiche I haue preferred to memorie in this place for the respect of these .ij. maide twynnes whose portraict is here to be séene for if they had bene brought forth into the worlde ▪ in the tyme of the aūcient Indians Brachmans Spartins Lacedemonians or in the time of the Romains or in the raign of the Emperor Mauritius their history and figure had bē buryed with their bodies and had not bē sene in déede of so many thousands of people In the yere of grace .1475 these two maides that you sée so knyt together by the raines euen from theyr shoulders to theyr haunches were engendred in Italy in the famous Citie of Verona And for that their parents were poore they were caried through diuers Cities of Italy to get money of the people being very desirous to see that newe spectacle and wonder of Nature Wherfore some write that that monster whom you maye here see was a shewe and prognostication foretelling sundry maruellous mutations which happened after in those prouinces for in the same yeare that they were engendred Charles Duke of Burgoyne occupied and gouerned the coūtrey of Loraine Ferdinande the great king of Spayne diuided the realme wyth Alphonsus king of Portingale Mathias and Vladislaus kings made peace with the Hungarians and Bohemians Edwarde king of England was procured by the Duke of Burgoine to come into Fraunce where was a peace concluded betwixt● him and king Lewys And in the yeare of grace .1453 an other monster like vnto this was brought forth at Rome wyth greate maruell to all the people in the time of Pope Alexander the sixte who as Polidorus writeth prognosticated the euils hurts and miseries whiche shoulde happen and come to passe in the tyme of that Bishoppe ¶ A wonderfull Historie of Crueltie CHAP. xxxvj MAny be astonished to see the great nūber of maruellous examples of Crueltie which haue raigned not only amongest the Ethniques but also the more to be lamented amongest vs Christians which be all issued out of one vine formed of like elements incorporate in one church hauing one head Lord Iesus Christ being the children of one father celestiall of one spirite raunsomed by one bloud regenerate of one baptisme norished of like Sacraments participating of one Chalice and fightyng vnder the crosse and banner of Iesus Christ hauing one common enimie Sathan being called a like to one heritage and yet notwithstanding we be not ashamed to dismember and teare in pieces one an other with suche horrour and confusion that it séemeth we would fighte against nature and drenche the earth of humain bloud leauyng it besides as a deserte or place inhabitable But bycause you shall not maruell of that y t the Historians write of the great effusion of bloud which was shed in the batail which Edwarde the .iiij. king of England made against the Scots where he killed murdred thrée score thousand men I will shew you a more horrible spectacle in nature wherof also Sabellicus writeth of Charles Martell king of France and Abidaran where in one conflict was killed and murdred thrée hundreth and fiftie thousande But what a butcherie and slaughter had the poore flocke of Iesus Christ in the battaile which Ladislaus king of Pauonie had against Amurath Emperor of the Turkes seing that of the partie of the same Turkes being victorers was founde .iiij. hundred thousand dead carkasses as Sabellicus witnesseth There is scarsly to be founde such a wonder or horror in nature as that wherof Iosephus writeth in y e warres of the Iewes by that great butcher Alexander in the bloudy battail which he had against Darius where was slaine a million of men In like maner Cyrus king of Perses was so vnfortunate in the battail which he had against the Scythians that of two hundred thousand men which he had in his armie was not found one man to report the newes of the ouerthrow Albeit reading nowe amongest the Historians of those that Sylla killed of the Mariens those that Pompey slew of the souldiors of Mytridates those that Ptolomeus ouerthrewe of Demetrius of those that Cesar cut in pieces in ten yeres when he sent to fight agaynste the Gaules those that Lucullus slewe in the warre whiche he had agaynst the Armenians those that Attilla killed those that Miltiades slew those that Marcus Claudius Cornelius killed with an infinite numbre of like slaughters whiche be founde by the Historians Greekes and Latins you shall fynde that if you coulde see them all put in accompt there must néedes be inuēted a new Arithmetike to numbre them and I beleue that if they had made a roll of al the bieues muttons veales goates and other fourefooted beastes which haue bene killed in a thousande yeares within all the butcheries of Europe their number would not excéede the dead carkases of men slaine murdered yet it is not sufficient so to kyll men in battaile by sworde but that they must search new meanes and inuentions to murder them as Eusebius doth shewe in hys Ecclesiastical Historie of that infamous butcher Dioclesian the Emperour who seing that the Christians whiche raigned in hys tyme woulde not renounce the name of God and worshyp hys ydoles was not contente to cut of theyr noses and their eares causing spelles of woode to be put vnder theyr nayles pouryng hote leade vpon theyr priuie partes but in like maner he caused to be bowed by great force foure trees to the which he made to be tyed their féete and handes who being left in this sort were by the violence and force of those trées dismembred pluckt in peces as may be séen by the portraict and figure here before the which torments haue also bene practised put in vre in our time in Piemont against a certain souldier which would haue betrayed a citie as le seigneur de Launge writeth in his art of warfare Astiages that great king of the Medes hath not only surpassed that president in crueltie but hath also executed that which you wil not only haue in horror to reade but also in as great detestation to conceiue in your heart At what time the greate Patriarch of tirāny hapning to dreame one night of a certain thing touching one of his litle childrē which he could hardly digest withal fering y t it shold one day take effect determined to preuent his misfortune and the better to execute his entent he made to be called Arpalus one whō he most fauoured and the best of his realme to whome he gaue secretly in charge forthwith to kill one of hys owne sonnes without making any mā priuie therunto for certain causes which he would make hym to vnderstād more at leisure Arpalus vnderstanding the sorowful commaūdement of