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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

them have died Jules Capitolin amongst other examples recites that which happened to Faustina daughter to Antoninns and wife to the Emperour Marcus Aurelius who fell in love with a Master of Fence or Gladiator in such sort that for the desire which she had of his company she was in danger of death she did so consume away Which being understood by Marcus Aurelius he presently called together a great companie of Astrologians and Doctours to have counsel and find remedy thereupon At last it was concluded that the Fencer should be killed and that they should unknown to her give Faustina of his bloud to drink and that after she had drank it the Emperour her husband should lie with her This remedie wrought marvellously for it put this affection so far from her that she never afterwards thought of him And the historie saith of this Copulation that the Emperor had then with her was begotten Antoninus Commodus which became so bloudy and cruel that he resembled more the Fencer whose bloud his mother had drank at the conception of him than Marcus Aurelius whose son he was which Commodus was alwaies found amongst the Gladiators as Eutropius witnesses in the life of the same Commodus The Greek and Arabick Physitians place this disease of love amongst the grievous infirmities of the body of man and thereupon prescribe divers remedies Cadmus Milesien as Suydas reports in his collections writes a whole book treating of the particular remedies to hunt out this disease of Love Amongst other remedies which Physitians give for this discase one is That to him that is passionate in Love one should put into his hands great affairs importuning his credit and his profit that his Spirit being occupied in divers matters it may draw away his imagination from that which troubles him and they say further that they should suffer him to be merry and conversant with other women Against this heat Plinie saith it is good to take the dust upon which a mule hath tumbled and cast it upon the Lover and all to be powder him or else of the sweat of a chafed mule as Cardanus affirms in his book of Subtilties The Physitians also teach how to know what person is loved of him that is sick in Love and it is by the same Rule that Eristratus Phyfitian to King Seleucus knew the love that Antiochus bare to the Queen Stratonicus his Step mother for he being extream sick and would rather die than discover the cause of his sickness proceeding from love which he bare to his fathers wife She came into the chamber just then when the Physitian was feeling the Patients pulse which beat so strong when he saw the Queen come into the chamber that Eristratus knew that he was in love with her and that was the cause of his sickness wherefore he found the way to make the King acquainted with it by such a means as would be too tedious to recite Which being experimented by the father and seeing his son in danger if he did not prevent it thought it good though contrary to the intention of the son which chose rather death than to be healed by his fathers Ioss to deprive himself of his Queen and give her to his sick son And so indeed the age and the beauty of the Lady and likewise marriage was more proper for the son than for the father And by this means Antiochus lived well and gallantly many years with his wel-beloved Stratonicus The History is very neatly recited by Plutark in the life of Demetrius And thus you see why Physitians say that you must feel the Pulse of those that are in love and repeat to them divers names of persons and if you name the right the pulse will beat thick and strong and by that you shall know whom they love By divers other signs one may know when any is in love and with whom which I leave to speak of now CHAP. XXIX Of the strange and furious love of a young At henian And of the ridiculous love of King Xerxes And how beasts have many times loved men and women TO see men affectioned to women and women to men is a naturall thing and to be believed But here blindnesse is come to that height that that which I intend to speak of seems impossible and incredible Historiographers write it for truth that in the Town of Achens there was a young man of an honest family competeutly rich and well known who having curiously observed a Statue of Marble excellently wrought and in a publick place in Athens fell so in love with it that he could not keep himself from the place where it stood but be alwaies embracing of it and alwaies when he was not with it he was discontented and blubber'd with tears This passion came to such an extremity that he addressed himself to the Senate at Athens and offering them a good sum of money beseeching them to do him the favour that he might have it home with him The Senate found that they could not by their authority suffer it to be taken away nor to sell any publick Statue so that his request was denied which made him marvellous sorrowfull even at the heart Then he went to the Statue and put a Crown of Gold upon it and enriched it with garments and Jewels of great price then adored it and seriously beheld it musing alwaies upon it and in this folly persevered many daies that at last being forbidden these things by the Senate he killed himself with grief this thing was truly wonderfull But if that be true which is written upon Xerxes and affirmed by so many Authours indeed he excelled in folly all the men in the world They say he fell in love with a Plain tree a tree well known though a stranger in England and that he loved it and cherished it as if it had been a woman Seeing then these things happen to rationall men we may believe that which is written of bruit beasts which have loved certain men and women especially when we find it certified by great and famous writers As Glaucus that was so loved of a sheep that it never forsook him Every one holds that the Dolphin is a lover of men Elian writes in his book of beasts a case worthy to be read He saith that a Dolphin seeing upon the Sea-shore where children were a playing one among the rest which he liked very well he fell so in love with it that every time that the Dolphin see him he came as near as he could to the edge of the water to shew himself At the first the child being afraid did shun it but afterwards by the Dolphins perseverance one day after another and shewing signs of love to the child the child was encouraged and upon the kind usage of the Dolphin the child was emboldened to swim upon the water near unto the fish even to go ride upon the back of it and the fish would carry him for a good space

Torch it puts it out and if you put it in unlighted it will light it and alwaies at midday it is dry then when the day darkneth it begins to encrease again that at midnight it will be so full that it runs over In Persia they say there is a Fountain which makes their teeth fall out that drinks of it In Arcadia there are certain Fountains which run from some hils which water is so cold that there is no vessel neither gold nor silver nor any other mettal could hold it for as far as they fill it it breaks in pieces nor can be held in any other vessel but such as are made of the hoof of a Mule We will scarce believe that amongst Rivers although very great there are some that run into the earth and then rise again a good way off if we would have examples even Vadian in Spain Tigris doth so likewise in Armenia and Licus in Asia There are also Fountains of sweet water which entring into the Sea keep above the salt water Of which number there is one in Sicilie and an Isle named Enarie upon the coast of Naples We know wel that in Egypt it rains not but that naturally the River Nilus overflows and waters all the ground leaving it moist and fit to bring forth fruit There are two Rivers in Beocia In the one of which all sheep that are dipt it makes their fleeces black the other makes them white In Arabia there is another Fountain that makes all beasts that drink of it vermilion red of all which waters that have these properties Aristotle speaks copiously The River Lyncestis hath this quality that it makes any that drinks of it drunk as if it were wine In the Island Cea according to Pliny there is a fountain which he that drinks of becomes sottish There is a Lake in Thrace which if any one drink of or if they but bathe in it they die incontinent There is also a River in Pontus which brings forth a kind of Stones that burn and when there is the least wind they light and the more they are in the water the more they burn They also write of divers waters which heal diseases whereof there is one in Italy called Zize which heals sore eys Another in Achaia which if a woman great with child drink of she shall have a good delivery Divers others also that heal other infirmities As the Stone the Leprosie and the Tertian Ague and the Quartan Ague whereof Therphrastus Plinie and Vitruvius speaks There is another River in Mesapotomia that sends forth a sweet odour Baptista Fulgosa saith in his collections That in our time there was a Fountain in England in which if you cast in a piece of wood in the space of a year it would become Stone Himself testifies that which Albertus Magnus speaks of which is That there is a Fountain in high-Germany and Albertus saith that with his own hands he put a piece of wood into that water which became perfect stone and that part that touched not the water remained wood as before The same Fulgosa reports another property of a Fountain which is very strange for if a man walk about it viewing of it and looking into it without speaking any word he shall find it clear and quiet but if he speak never so little when he is near or going away from it the water will be roubled and begin to bubble he himself witnesseth to have seen i● and to have tried the experience himself for looking into the Fountain intentivery without speaking he saw it fair and clear But when he spake the water was troubled and moved with such force as though one had been stirring in it with something In France there is one as he writes that is extream cold yet many times there is flames of fire seen to come out of it Plinie saith that divers make a conscience to join faith to these things But they may be well perswaded that the great effects of nature shew themselves more evidently in that element of water then in any other Though the wonders are so many yet ought we not to think any one of them impossible and especially those that are cerufied by such Authors as I have alledged here Again we are sufficiently certified by the testimony of those that have seen in our time in an Island in the Canaries called For in a place well inhabited with people which serve there selves with no other water but what they draw out of a Trough or Cistern into which distils and drains abundantly the juyce of a Tree which is in the middle of this Island at the foot of which Tree nor any place near it there is neither Fountain nor Prock and neverthelesse this Tree is alwaies so moist that from its leaves branches and boughs the water drops necessantly and runs into this trough or cistern in so great abundance that night and day they receive enough to serve for their necessi●ies throughout the Island which we should hardly believe if it were but onely put to writing Therefore none ought to think strange that which we have before recited for this element of water is so powerfull and so necessary that its forces and qualities are neverstrange As for the Sea it is said it is more hot in winter than in Summer and more salt in Autumn than at any other time And it is a thing of great wonder that casting oil into the Sea appeaseth the rage and fury thereof Again we know for certain that it never snows in the places near about the Sea that are far from firm land Of all these things many give divers reasons the greatest part of which is attributed to the propriety and quality of the earth and Mines whence Fountains spring and Rivers runs through That it is true it is proved by that which we see daily that Vines and other fruits of the earth are better in one place than in another because in one place they are sweet and in another sharp and sower the one good and profitable the other damageable and hurtfull The air it self is corrupted and becomes pestilential by passing through a naughty Country What marvel is it then if water which washes and penetrates the earth stones mettals hearbs roots and trees take their good or evil qualities be they as strange as may be especially being assisted by the force of the Planets and the Stars CHAP. XXII Of many things which happened at the Birth and Death of our Saviour recited by many Historians besides that which is recorded by the Evangelists ALthough the things certified by the Evangelists to be manifested by great wonder at the Birth and Death of our Saviour are most certain and worthy of all belief yet me thinks it convenient to make some mention of other wonderfull things that were seen by other persons that have writ them Paul Horatius and Eutropius Secretaries to Octavian and likewise Eusebius say That at the time that Jesus Christ