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A09765	A summarie of the antiquities, and wonders of the worlde, abstracted out of the sixtene first bookes of the excellente historiographer Plinie, vvherein may be seene the wonderful workes of God in his creatures, translated oute of French into Englishe by I.A.; Naturalis historia. English. Abridgments	Pliny, the Elder.; Alday, John, attributed name.; I. A.	1566 (1566)	STC 20031; ESTC S110480	40,229	130

a tunne And therfore Cato did ordaine that women and maydens shoulde be kyssed of their parents and kinssolke to the ende they shoulde knowe whether they did smel of wine or no. Marcus Varo wryteth of a Consull which neuer made banquet nor had at his Table more at one time than at another for feare of to much drinking In tymes past at Rome the pryce was set on wine to the ende that little should be dronke but since Cesar made great banquettes whiche gaue occasion to make prouision at Rome for all kinde of Wynes Wyne alone serueth to make medicines There is wyne made of Peares Apples and of other trées whiche they vse towarde the East Some make Wine of hearbes of water and hony sodden which in Wales is called Metheglyn that wyll laste fiue yeares or wyth hony and Uineger whiche is called Oximell The smal wynes ought to touch the groūd for to be the better kepte but not the good The flower of white Wyne is good and that of red is naught By dronkennesse menne reueale their secrets and make debates The. xv booke treateth of trées bearing fruite THe Oliue tree groweth not neare the Sea nor in places to hote nor to colde they must be cut lyke Uines The Oliue oyle is of a better sauour when the Oliues begin to rype but there is not so much when they beginne to be blacke but that is the tyme to take them and of their rypenesse There is more payne to make Oyle than wine The Oliue hath stone oyle and flesh the grene are bytter by drying they become lesse thoughe that the heate is cause of oyle The lyquor of the Oliue is the Oyle but is lasteth not as doth Wyne for it is best the firste yeare Some there are that tarry till the Oliues fall from trees for it hurteth the trées agayne the yeare following to be cutte broken or smitten Olyues before they are rype will be kept wyth salte after that they haue bene in hote water If the Oliue be not cleane it is washed and dryed thrée or foure dayes and seasoned wyth salte There is Oyle made of manye thinges of Nuttes of Acornes of smal graynes of swéete smelling trées of Gumme that serueth for medicines of Almōds Chesnuttes and dyuers other things according to the Countreyes Apples and Peares ought to be kept in a drie and cold place and for them the north winde is good and no other wyndes when the weather is faire they should be put on hay seperated one from another for to take the ayre and they ought to be gathered before the full Moone Nuttes make a sounde or 〈◊〉 in falling when they are rype and among other fruites they are parted in foure within with a little skinne betwene both They will kepe gréene being putte in earthe● Pottes in the earth and with them is made good Oyles Chesnuttes are a kinde of maste and it is maruayle that nature hath so closed them in shelles Mulberryes stayne a bodyes fingers and they are of thrée colours at the first they are whyte after that become redde and when they are ripe then they are blacke Cheryes wyll kepe dryed wyth the Sunne as Olyues There are many relessinges in fruites as swéete waterishe sower bytter greene salt brackish fatte and dyuers others among the which there are that haue many tastes together The Wynes are swéete and sowre pricking Mylke is swéete and fatte but there are thrée principall Elementes wythout sauour and wythout smel as water fire and the ayre The Lawrell is didicated to triumphes and Emperours beare therof on their heades principally bycause it kepeth the persones from thunder The. xvj booke treateth of wylde trées THe Acornes commeth of Oke trées of dyuers sortes for some there are better than others and in time of famine the good Acornes dried may be grinded to make breade Acornes be most swéetest when that they are newe and rosted in the imbers The Oke is beste for to builde withall eyther houses or shippes bycause it will longest laste If an Oke trée be smitten with the thunder it beareth fewe Acornes or none and is so bitter that no beaste wil eate therof but Hogges and when they are very hungry The Beache trée beareth a kinde of maste the whiche reioyceth the Hogges being fedde with them their fleshe is soone sodden and verye profitable for the stomacke Taxus is a trée lyke vnto a Pyne trée In Arcadia it is so venemous that no beast dare sleepe vnder the shadow of it nor eate thereof The Cuppes that are made of thys woodde to putte Wyne in are venemous It is sayde that the venime of this woodde ceasseth when there is nayled therein a nayle of brasse An Esshe trée the leaues thereof is mortiferous to Mares but it hurteth not the beastes that shadowe vnder it to drinke the lyquor of it is good against the byting of Serpents for neuer serpent resteth vnder the shadow therof and he that wyll compasse a Serpent about a fire with y e leaues of this trée the Serpent will rather take the fire than escape through those leaues The Tilia of some called the Teybe hath Male and Female for the Female alone beareth floures and séede The luyce of the barke leaues is swéete but no beast will eate of the fruite betwene the barke and the woodde there are many little thinne pelles or skins with the which are made Ropes The Mapple if it were so great and so high as the Cedar should be preferred bycause of his propernesse Wyth this trée is made Tables being of a blackishe colour The Boxe trée spreadeth very large and thicke and is very proper bycause of his shadow There are certaine wylde trées that neuer léese their leafe as the Cedar the Ienuper the Holly trée and others The Ienuper for his leafe hath a sharpe pricke or thorne There are certayne places in Egipt whereas some trées wyll not grow Other trees there are that leaue their leaues sooner than the reste and the difference thereof commeth for that their fruite is sooner rype than others but Almonde trées the Esshe and others haue their fruite wyth the first and caste their leaues with the laste The Mulberrye trée bringeth hir fruite late and falleth hir leaues wyth the first The trées after the maner of beastes doe conceyue in Ianuary with the winde some sooner than others and after a straight wynde beginneth the floures to appeare and nourishe the fruite Uynes in some places beareth twice a yeare The rootes are dyuers according to the dyuersitie of trées Esculus as wryteth Virgill is a trée that hath such profunditie or déepenesse in the earth as it hath aboue the ground in height The Ciper trée is slowe in growing without fruit hauing bitter leaues violent smell and naughty shadow The trées haue moystu● which is their bloude with the whiche they ●ut as well as beastes They haue skin fl●she bloud s●newes vaines bones mary There are trées of a maruellous height and greatnesse A trée lyke to a Pine called Larix was six score foote long and so thicke that foure men coulde scant f●dome it In Germany they cut such great trées for to swimme on the Ryuers and such there are as will bolde thirtie men Commonly wood wil flote aboue the water but some there are so waighty that they wil sinke Diuers woods there are that wyll neuer rotte as Cedar Boxe Ienuper and others Ciper Box and Cedar of their owne nature doe neuer cracke nor crayse nor are eaten of wormes There were brought to Rome Cypers that were 400. yeares olde which séemed as if they were new Wormes hurte many woods but neuer Cipers bycause of his bitternesse neither Box bycause of his strength Alexander the great his souldiers found in an Iland of the red sea ships that had bene made two hūdreth yeres before of a certaine kinde of wood not vsed on the water The Oliue trées last two yeare and Uines sixe hundreth yeares It shall suffise at this presente with the one halfe of Plinies booke the other halfe is of husbandry with the nature of Uynes that vnto vs is well knowē by experience as wel by the diuersitie and situation of places as of the propertie of euery hearbe seruing for medicine the which I leaue out for prolixitie obscuritie of the same Also it serueth more for the science of medicines than to vs. Making vpon this an ende with prayse to God the father that hath vs in his tuicion FINIS

firste the meanes to make houses and bricks Gellius Doxius inuented lathing and loming of walles for before they had Caues and holes in the ground and they tooke exāple of y e Swalowes which do make their neastes Cynira sonne to Agriope found out mettall of copper brasse and of leade he made first many Hammers therewith Danaus was the first in Grecia that made welles digged for water Thrason made the first walles and towers The Lidians found the meanes to dresse woolles Arachneus found the meanes to make Lin● and Canuas The Egiptians the arte of medicine Lydius to mingle and temper mettals together Erichtonus found siluer Cadmeus golde in the moūtaine of Pangy The Cyclopians were the first workers in small yron worke Corebus the Athenian made earthē pots Theodore the Samyan made the firste keyes Palamides the measures and waightes Phrigies the Charrets and Wagons Penius the firste trader for Marchandise The Athenians to plant and sette trées and vineyardes Staphilus to mingle water to wyne Aristeus to make Oyle hony Briges of Athens did first yoke Oxen to Cart Plough The Lacedemonians founde harnesse and habiliments for warre Launces Speares Swordes Bucklers c. Cares the Bowe and Arrowes The Phenitians the Crosse bowes Belerophons first mounted vpon horses Palamydes in the warre betwene the Grekes the Troyans found the order of Stādarts signes pēnons streamers to giue warning and to kepe watch Iason did first sayle on the Sea in long Shippes or Galleys Before that tyme there were made little ones of wood hydes and since that tyme some haue added to thē masts sayles Cabels tackelings and many other things that we sée by experience to be necessary The first Dyals were made at Rome with water according to the course of the Sunne and since they are reduced to houses churches as it is sene at this present which was very agreable to the Romaines Finally among al the knowledge that man hath Plinie thinketh this to be the chefest poynte for man to know him self of what estate so euer he be The eight boke treateth of beastes that are on the earth IN the earth there is no beast greater than y e Elephant they haue knowledge to vnderstande their Countrey speach they haue obedience and vnderstande their dueties and charges they neuer passe the Sea tyll that their maister or gouernor doth promise to bring them home againe they knéele downe for to be loden and carry the Ladyes litters in feare prudence equitie their téeth are of yuory with their other bones there are made goedly workes they are full of clemencie and if they chaunce to find a man strayed out of his way they knowe it and will leade him throughe the Forrest into his waye but if they find a company of men séeking to chase them then naturally they knowe their enimies as other beastes doe The Elephants neuer commit adulterie and they hyde them to couer their females they carry two yeres their yong ones and the Females neuer haue but one yong in their lyues they liue two hundreth and thrée hundreth yeares they loue the shallow and cleare waters for bycause of their greatnesse they can not swim they eate stones and earth they feare colde they will cast to the ground with their frōtes or foreheads trées for to eate the fruite Among the beastes they hate Mice and Rats and they will not feede where as they haue runne and tasted They increase in the borders of Affrica and the greatest in India where as there are Dragons so puissant that they fight with the Elephantes They are tamed by famine whe they are tamed they carry Castels on their backes in steade of Saddles wherein their may stande sixe or eight men and towarde the East they make in them the most part of their battails although that they being wounded or hurt do retyre There were Elephants at Rome but they were slaine with shot for the Romaines would not nourish them nor giue them to Princes The Ethiopians make them there ven●son and they kill them with shooting and casting dartes which they cast on them standing in trées where the Elephantes vse to passe or else they take them in holes or caues in the earth couered aboue they neuer lye downe but sléepe leaning against great tr●s and they that knowe their repaire will sawe the trée so farre that when they come to reste them against the trée it breaketh and they fall downe then they kill them for being once downe they can neuer rise agayne The bloud of Elephantes is very colde and therefore the Dragons and Serpēts in that countrey do assemble vnder their eares and on their bodies sucke from them so much bloud that they therewith dye Dragons there are in Ethiopia of ten fadome long and in India there hau● bene found Serpents of a hūdreth foote long and some will flye in the ayre to catch birdes in flying In Affrica there are a great number of wilde horses in Asia great Asses like vnto Mares but for their long eares So wryteth Aristotle the wyse which was appointed by Alexander the great to describe the diuersitie nature of beastes The Lyon is full of noblesse and ●lemencie the Lionesse for the first tyme bringeth forth fiue the nexte yeare after foure then three and when she bringeth but one then she ceasseth The yong ones are two monthes without mouing sixe monthes before they can goe they do soner assaile men than women and neuer yong children vnlesse it be for great sa●ine In their age they loue followe men when that they can no more séeke their pray and they liue till their téeth fall out By their clemencie they demaunde nothing of those that prostrate them selues before them and their yre is mitigate by prayers as we haue sene by the experience of women that name them selues straūgers and poore vagabonds but they are fierce to those that striue againste them their taile doeth demonstrate their amitie and furor as doth the eares of horses When they are chased they nèuer hide them they knowe and pursue among others those that hurte them The female if that hir yong ones are taken closeth hir eyes against● those that chase them to the ende that she feare not their weapons Hanus was y e first that daūted or tamed their fearcenesse and they are taken in holes that are made of purpose in the grounde In Syria they are all blacke The Panthers are also full of clemencie We reade that if the Female méete a man strayed or lost in the woodes that fleeth for feare of hir she will compasse him mouing hir ta●le shewing vnto him a signe of amitie and loue and after that he is assured shée will leade him into a caue or hole where as are fallen hir yong ones by misfortune which the man pulleth out and then shée tumbleth and playeth before him to giue him thanks The Tygres are very lyght and nimble therefore those that steale