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A mirrour or looking-glasse both for saints and sinners held forth in about two thousand examples wherein is presented as Gods wonderful mercies to the one, so his severe judgments against the other collected out of the most classique authors both ancient and modern with some late examples observed by my self : whereunto are added the wonders of nature and the rare ... / by Sa. Clark ...
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Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.
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the Whale till he forceth him to give way which the Swordfish perceiving wounds him in the belly with the Sword and so forceth him to rise up again In this manner they torment him that the fight is sometimes heard above three leagues off the Whales roaring being heard much further his onely remedy in this case is to get to the shore which he laboureth to do so soon as he sees his enemies For then there can fight but one with him and for either of them hand to hand he is too good Pur. Pil. v. 4. p. 1377. In the Island of Tercera are some Fountains the water whereof is so hot that it will boyl an egg In the same Island is another Fountain that will turn wood into stone and a Tree that groweth by that part of the root that growes within water is petrified the other that is out is wood as of other trees In the Kingdome of Mexico are Kine with bunches on their backs about the bignesse of our Bulls but little horns and more hair on their foreparts then behind which is like wooll On the back-bone they have a Mane like horses and long hair from their knees downward with much long hair on their throats They are meat drink shoes houses fire vessels and their Masters whole substance Other creatures there be as big as horseâ— which the Spaniards for their fine wooll call Sheep One of their hornes usually weighes fifty pounds Purch Pil. v. 4. p. 1561. In one of the Azore Islands is an hill called Pico which is above fifteen miles high the Top is many times seen clearly but about the middle of it hang the clouds upon the top many times issue forth flames of fire as out of AEtna Idem p. 1672. In Virginia is a beast called Possowne the female whereof will let forth her young ones out of her belly and take them again into her belly at her pleasure Idem p. 1772. Teneriff one of the Canary Islands hath in it a very high hill in the form of a Sugar-loaf and is continually covered with snow so that going up it the cold is unsufferable it 's seen above fourty leagues off at Sea There is also in the same Island a Tree as big as an Oke of middle size the bark white like Horn-beam six or seven yards high with ragged boughes the leaf like the Bay-leaf It beareth neither fruit nor flower It stands on the side of an hill in the day it 's withered and drops all night a cloud hanging thereon so that it yields water sufficient for the whole Island wherein are eight thousand soules and about an hundred thousand Cammels Mules Goats c. The water falls from it into a pond made of brick paved with stone from which it 's conveyed into several ponds thorow the whole Island They also water therewith their Corn-ground for they have no other water in the Island except rain-water The Pond holds twenty thousand Tunne of water and is filled in one night Many of English that have been there have attested the truth hereof Idem p. 1â—69 In Soâ—oterâ— are sheep whose tailes weigh twenty eight pound apiece which therefore are usually cut off from the Ewes lest they should hinder their breeding There are also Batts whose bodies are almost as big as Conies headed like a Fox with a hairy fur in other things like Batts One of them being killed by some English his wings extended were an â—ll in length their cry is shrill and loud Aloes growes in the same Countrey which is nothing but Semper vivâ—m it is so full of a Rosin-like juice that the leaves are ready to brâ—â—k with it which leaves they cut in small pieces and cast them into a clean pit made in the ground and paved there it lies to ferment in the heat of the Sun whereby the juice floweth forth which they put in skins and hang them up in the wind to dry whereby it hardens P. Pil. v. 1. p. 419. Indico groweth in the Moguls Countrey having a small leaf like that of Sena the branches are of a wooddy substance like broome It growes not above a yard high the stalk about the bignesse of a mans thumb The seed is included in a small round Cod of an inch long This once sowed lasteth three years that of the first year makes a weighty reddish Indico that sinks in water being not yet come to its perfection that of the second year is rich very light and of a perfect violet colour swimming on the water that of the third year is weighty blackish and the worst of the three This herb when it 's cut is put into a Cistern and pressed down with stones then covered over with water where it remains till the substance of the herb is gone into the water then it 's drawn forth into another Cistern and laboured with staves till it be like Batter then they let it seeth and so scum off the water two or three times till nothing but a thick substance remains which taking forth they spread on a cloath dry it in the Sun then make it into balls dry it on the sand which causes the sandy foot That is best which is of pure a grain violet-colour is gloâ—â—ie dry and light Idem p. 430. In the same Countrey are Asses with hornes whereof they make divers sorts of drinking cups of excellent virtue some esteeming them the right Unicorns Horns Idem p. 436. Sir James Lancaster in his East-Indy Voyage in the Isle of Sombrerâ— found on the Sea-sands a young twig growing up to a tree and offering to pluck up the same it shrank down into the ground and when it was by strength pulled up a great Worm was the root of it and as the Tree groweth in greatnesse the worm diminisheth This Tree plucked up the leaves and pill stripped off by that time it 's dry is turned into a hard stone so that this Worm was twice transformed into different natures after a wondrous manner Of these he brought home many P. Pil. v. 1. p. 152. There is in the Countrey of Mexico a kind of sheep which all things considered is a beast of the greatest profit and least charge that is For from them they draw meat and clothing They use them also to carry all their burthens having need neither of shoes nor saddles nor yet of Oates so that they serve their Masters for nought feeding onely on grasse which they find in the fields There are two kinds of these creatures the one bearing wooll the other are bare which are the better for burthen they are bigger then great sheep and lesse then calves they have long necks like a Cammel They are of divers colours some white some black and others grey or spotted their flesh is good meat but that of their Lambs is best Of their Wooll the Indians make cloth some courser other finer like half silk they also make Carpets and Coverings and other exquisite works of it which last long and
by his own sonne that he might seize upon his riches but whil'st he was stooping down to draw forth bags full of gold out of a Chest the same person caused his braines to be beaten out French History Selimus a cruel and bloody Emperour of the Turks intending to turne all his powers against the Christians was suddenly attached by the hand of God being struck in the reines of the back with a Cancer which contemning all cure did by little and little so eate and corrupt his body that he became loathsome both to himselfe and others and so rotting above ground died miserably Turk Hist. Agathocles a bloody Tyrant of Syracuse after many most horrible murthers committed by him lived to see most of his family slaine and himselfe devested of his Kingdome After which he was taken with a grievous sicknesse wherein his whole body rotted which spread it selfe through all his veines and sinews wherewith in short time he ended his accursed life Robert Erle of Fife in Scotland being advanced by his brother King Robert the third to be the first Duke of Albany afterwards ungratefull person that he was pricked on with the spirit of Ambition famished to death David his said brothers son who was heir to the Crown but the punishment due for this fact which himself by the long sufferance of God felt not His son Mordac the second Duke of Albany suffered most grievously being condemned for treason and beheaded when he had seen his two sons the day before executed in the same manner Camb. Brit. Scot. p. 39. King Richard the third of England who caused his two Nephews most unnaturally to be murthered in the Tower and shed much other innocent blood by Gods just judgement had his onely son taken away by death and himself was slain in Bosworth-field his carrion carcasse being found naked among the slain filthily polluted with blood and dirt was cast upon an horse behinde a pursuivant at Armes his head and armes hanging down on the one side of the horse and his legs on the other like a Calfe and so was interred at Leicester with as base a Funerall as he formerly bestowed upon his Nephews in the Tower Eng. Hist. Iames Tyrell Iohn Dighton and Miles Forrest who were procured by this King Richard to murther the two young Princes entering into their Chamber about midnight so bewrapped them among the clothes keeping down the Feather-bed and Pillows hard unto their mouths that within a while they were smothered but these Murtherers escaped not long the vengeance of God for Miles Forrest by peecemeale rotted away Dighton lived at Calis so disdained and hated that he was pointed at of all men and there died in much misery and Sir Iames Tyrell was beheaded on Tower-Hill for Treason Act. Mon. Senercleus relateth the just hand of God upon that villainous parricide Alphonsus Diazius a Popish Spaniard who after he had like another Cain murthered his own naturall brother Iohn Diazius meerly because he had renounced Popery and became a Professor of the reformed Religion and was not onely not punished but highly commended of the Romanists for his heroical atchievement as they called it being haunted and hunted by the furies of his own conscience desperately hanged himself at Trent about the neck of his own Mule Some bloody villains basely murthered Theodorick B. of Trever But Gods just judgments overtook all the murtherers For Conrade the chief author died suddenly A souldier that helped to throw him down the rock was chok'd as he was at supper and two other servants that assisted desperately slew themselves Marti The Cardinall of Winchester commonly called the rich Cardinall who procured the death of the good Duke of Glocester in the reign of King Henry the sixth was shortly after struck with an incurable disease who understanding by his Physicians that he could not live murmuring and repining thereat he cried out Fie will not death be hired will money do nothing must I die that have so great riches If the whole realme would save my life I am able either by policy to get it or by riches to buy it But yet all would not prevail but that he died of the same disease Sp. Chr. See the Example of Scedasus's daughters in Rapes Olympias the mother of Alex M. being a woman of a proud and revengefull disposition having gotten Eurydice Queen of Macedonia into her hands sent her a sword an halter and a cup of poison giving her leave to choose with which of them she would kill her self Eurydice seeing them prayed to the gods that she that sent her those presents might her self partake of the like and so hanged her self But shortly after the Divine â—ustice met with Olympias who by the appointment of Cassander one of her sons Captains was murthered Diod. Sic. Justin This Cassander murthered also the two wives of Alex. and their sons and thereby seized upon the Kingdome of Macedonia but shortly after God plagued him with a filthy disease in his body whereby wormes were bred that devoured him his eldest son Philip died of a consumption Antipater his second son slew his own mother Thessalonica and was himself slain by his father in law Lysimachus and Alexander the youngest son was treacherously slain by Demetrius and so the whole family of Cassander was rooted out Plut. Examples of selfe Murther Calanus an Indian Philosopher followed Alexander M. when he returned out of India who having lived seventy three years without any disease was at last taken with a dysenterie and fearing that his former felicity should be overclouded with a lingring disease he asked leave of Alexander that he might burn himself the King laboured to disswade him from his unnaturall purpose but when he could not prevail by arguments he gave his consent whereupon Calanus caused a pile of wood to be made and riding to it he made his prayers to his Countrey gods and so with a cheerfull countenance he ascended the pile and causing the fire to be put to it he sate with a fixt and unmovable body till he was burned to ashes Q. Cur. Alex. M. besieging one of the Indian Cities the inhabitants seeing that they could hold out no longer shut up themselves their wives and children in their houses and set fire on them Alexanders men breaking in laboured to quench the fire and the others laboured as much to encrease it so that it was a strange thing to see the fight that was betwixt one to destroy themselves the other to save their enemies Quin. Cur. Demosthenes the Athenian Orator for standing for the liberty of Greece was hated by Antipater the Governour of Macedonia who sent some to kill him under Captain Archia whereupon Demosthenes took sanctuary in Neptunes Temple But Archia sent to him to come out of the Temple so that Demosthenes perceiving that they were resolved to have his life he took some poison which he had ready for the purpose and so presently died Plut. Perdiccas besieging the