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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16918	VVits theater of the little world	Albott, Robert, fl. 1600.; Bodenham, John, fl. 1600.	1599 (1599)	STC 381; ESTC S113430	200,389	568

and a great deale more beeing now so farre from acknowledging an Emperour that they haue made the Emperour and Gouernours beholding to them The Venetians holde not onely freedoms but Prouinces and are the freest people of the vvorld as it were seperated frō the Romaine Empire All that appertaineth now to the Empire is inclosed vvithin the confines of Germanie out of vvhose limits there is nothing Thys Romaine Monarchie is and shall bee the last vvhich although it hath greatly decayed yet shall part thereof continue to the vvorlds end wherein shal remaine the name and maiestie of an Emperour These foure Monarchies were prophecied of long since by the Prophet Daniell vnder the figure of a great Image vvhose head was made of golde breast of siluer belly of copper legges of yron and feete of earth and yron mistically described The heade of Gold signifieth the Monarchy of the Assyrians the breast of Siluer the Persians the belly of Brasse the kingdome of the Greekes the legges of Yron the Romaines the feete of yron and earth the moderne estate of the Monarchie beeing much vveaker then it was vvont to be Daniell dreamed that hee sawe 4. beastes come out of the Ocean the first a Lyon the second a Beare the thyrd a Leopard and as touching the fourth he sayd it vvas terrible to behold The first of these figured the kingdome of Assyria the second the kingdome of Persia the third the Empire of the Greekes and the fourth the Romaine Monarchie the tenne hornes are his members or parts as Siria Egypt Asia Grecia Affrick England Spaine Fraunce Italy Germanie for the Romaine Monarchie possessed all these Nations Betweene these tenne hornes sprang vp a little horne which pluckt away three of the other tenne by which is meant the Mahometicall or Turkish Empire the vvhich engendered of small beginning in the Easterne Romaine Monarchie hath now pulled out three hornes therof Egypt Asia Greece This little horne hath eyes which are presumptious against Christ and Christendom sparckling foorth dreadfull blasphemies against the name of GOD. Of the Turkish Empire IN the yeere of our Lord 630. in the 15. yeere of Heraclius Emperour of Rome arose the dreadfull change of al mankinde by reason of the doctrine of Mahomet vvhich then beganne this did the Arabians first embrace who neuer obeyed kingdoms or lawes lawfully appoynted Mahomet himselfe vvas borne of base parentage in Arabia in the yeere of our Lord 591. in the raigne of Mauritius Emperor of the Romaines his father was an Arabian and his mother a Iew vvho beeing brought vp with a rich Merchant after his maisters death married his mistresse and for that he vvas greatly desirous to rise in honour and estimation by the counsell of Sergius an ancient Monck an Arrian he coyned a new religion deriued out of sundry Sects mingled with some part of the Iewes some part of the Christians some of the Arrians The Prophet Ezechiell and S. Iohn call the Turks Gog and Magog Gog signifyeth a Tent and Magog the people vvithout the Tents for the Tartarians vsually dvvell in Tents and the Turkes are Tartaries vvho came out of Tartarie into Asia when the Sarazens warred against the Persians by theyr King Hormisda desired in ayde Mahomet is interpreted rage or indignation Turke signifieth a souldiour or a vvrastler in the Tartarian tongue one that is accursed or a vagabond Methodius calleth thys people red Iewes eyther because they vvere cruell thirsting after blood or els for that Mahomet vvas borne of Edom in Arabia and Edom signifieth redde Besides the same Author vvriteth that Gog and Magog vvere closed in beyond the hyll Caucasus and that a subtile Foxe should make them a passage vvhich Foxe is Mahomet VVhen the Sarazens serued vnder Heraclius against the persians being denied their pay they fledde from him and in theyr returne homewards they spoyled many villages and townes about Damascus in Syria then vnderstanding Mahomet to be of great power by reason of his vvealth and the opinion vvhich vvas helde of his religion they made choyse of him for theyr Gouernour and by the consent of the Sarazens Arabians and a great part of the Egyptians they so proclaimed him The beginning of his kingdome vvas in ●523 yeeres after Christ vvho making hys ●eate in Syria vvrote the Alcoran a booke of all the lawes ceremonies and traditions of his religion vvith a number of idle tales and faigned miracles hee vvas poysoned by Albunor one of his owne disciples to the in●ent hee might see if his maister Mahomet vvoulde rise againe the thirde day after hys death according to his prophecy but hys body was torne in peeces of dogges he raigned tenne yeeres Ebebuzer or Amiras that is a Prince or successor his sonne in law succeeded him hee tooke Damascus making that his princely seate and after 2. yeeres siedge spoiled Gaza Ierusalem raigning 3. yeeres Ahumar succeeded hee subdued all Syria and Egypt conquering Persia and hauing added Cilicia Cappadocia Mesopotamia and the Ile of Cyprus vnto his conquests he made Babylon the seate of his Empire whō the Sarazens called the Calipha of Babilon which signifieth the chiefe Prince of empire and religion he raigned 12. yeeres Muhauiar tooke Caesaria and Palestine ouercame Horimasda the sonne of Cosroes he made them keepe Mahomets lawes vvhich the Persians obserue at this day after thys the Sarazens possessed Affrica vvent forward into Asia vvhere they flourished 200 yeeres The Turkes as long as the Empire of the Sarazens flourished in Asia they did most firmly sticke vnto them but after that they began to decrease by their ciuill dissention they encroched vppon them and their territories and by little and little wrought themselues at length wholy into the gouernment of the Empire In the yeere of our Lord one thousand fifty one they elected Zadoc to bee theyr King he laid the first foundation of the Turkish empire in Asia After 5. discents of them in the yeere one thousand foure hundred and eyght vvhen Godfrey of Bullaine vvith other Christan Princes made theyr holy expedition into Palestine the Christians in Armenia perceiuing that the Turkes were deuided and that they had murdered theyr last Emperor Belch●aior suddainly assailed them and draue them out of Persia enforcing them to keepe in the lesser Asia In the yeere of our Lorde one thousand three hundred Ottoman restored their Empire by his rare wit and fortune in martiall affaires he gaue names to the Emperors first appointed theyr king hee conquered Bithinia and Cappadocia and tooke many places lying vpon Mare ponticum and ruled 28. yeeres Orchanes his sonne sacked Prusia made ●t the head of his kingdome he was slayne by ●he Tartarians Amurath his sonne was the first that came out of Asia into Europe hee tooke Callipo●is Cherronesus Abydus Philippolis Adrianapolis Seruia and Bulgaria but entering into the vpper part of Misia hee was slayne in the 23. yeere of his Empire Baiazeth his brother

sayde vnto him VVhat doth not an honest man think that euery day is feastiuall vnto him Darius the yeare before he fought with Alexander altered his sword or Acynax which he wore by his side being a Persian blade into the fashion of a Macedonian vvhich the Southsaiers interpreted that they into whose fashion Darius had altered the forme of his blade should become Rulers of Persia. Dioclesian garnished his apparell and shoos with precious stones where before his raigne the habite imperiall consisted but in a purple cloake Eutropius Sysinius going to visite Arsacius the Byshop one of his familiers asked him why he wore white attire and where hee found it written that a Priest should weare vvhite Tell me first quoth he where it is written that he should weare blacke But hee could not tell Then Sisinius sayd thou canst not prooue for blacke but I can for white Let thy garments bee white Sal. Our Sauiour in the Gospell wore white Moses and Elias appeared in white Eusebius Diogenes returning frō Sparta to Athence was by the way asked from whence he came and whether hee went who aunswered hee came from men was going to women noting therby the effeminacy of the Athenians who were for that vice by the Lacedemonians other Grecians had in derision The Senatours of Rome vsed a garment set full of studs or tufts of golde and on theyr hose they wore like vnto a moone vvhich were the cognizants and badges of most honour Fenestella Plutarch alleageth foure causes why the Romaines wore such hose The first because they thought that the soules of great men should by light of the moone be guided the next way vnto heauen The 2 was that the signe of the moone did shew they were descended from the Arcadians who came into Italy with Euander for the Arcadians did imagine themselues more auntient then the moone The third because in prosperity they shold remember the inconstancy and mutability of fortune The fourth for that the signe of the moone doth stirre vp mens minds to modesty and obedience mouing them to pray vnto God for wisedome whereby both to commaun● and obey euen as the moone doth take he brightnes from the sunne being a more noble and excellent light so ought men to seek for wisedome from heauen The women of Athence much delighted in gorgeousnes of apparell and trimming themselues Aristophanes Among the Romains no man might weare purple but onely Senatours Magistrates Priests and young men of noble families Fenestella Adrian the Emperour ordayned that no man should bring any strange fashions into Rome Eutropius Scylus King of Scythia because hee wore apparell after the Greeke fashion was deposed for so doing and his head smitten off and his brother Octumasides chosen King in his place The women of Lacedemonia wore theyr apparell short beneath that one might see their knees and some part of their thighs which was ordained to make them the stronger and more warlike The Athenians had theyr Gyneconomes the Romaines their Censors the Venetians their officers authorized to restraine moderate the excesse in apparell iewels and imbroidery of women The Neece of Q. Martius being great with child the day that peace was made betweene him Rome lacing her selfe too hard in her attire to seeme more proper and comly she was long before her time deliuered of child which with the mother presently died Porphirius Q. Hortensius euery time when he made himselfe ready had a glasse before him and as much time had he to straighten his gowne plates as a vvoman to trimme the haires of her head One day being Consull going abroad in a narrow streete he met with the other Consull where through the straightnes of the passage his plaits were vndone wherefore he complained to the Senate of his fellow saying that he had done him great iniury and was woorthy to loose his life for vnloosing his gowne Macrobius The Lacedemonians goe all a like apparelled as well the meanest as the best Thucidides Heliogabalus scorned to weare his apparell after the manner of the other Emperours saying that theyr garments vvere made of greasie wooll Eutropius Lisander would not receaue the apparell and Iewels which Dionysius the tyrant sen● vnto his daughter saying that those presents more dishonoured then honoured his daughters the like is written of Sophocles Iulius Caesar would haue his Souldiours so braue that he suffered them to weare theyr armour enchased with gold siluer as well for the beauty therof as also that they might be more stout in battaile for feare of loosing it bragging that his Souldiours could fight valiantly though they were persumed Suetonius Tranquillus Of Musique Dauncing Aristotle would haue youth to exercise them selues in Musique and to be imployed in those harmonies which stirre vp to commendable operations and morall vertues tempering desires greedines and sorrowes for so much as numbers and melodies consist in certaine proportions and concords of the voyce it is the excellent gift of God and as Art of numbers measures serueth to Diuinity so doth the Art of Musique DAuid made foure Maisters to ouersee the Himnes and Songs one in the middle the right side the left side the last to ouersee the Cymballs Alexander vvith the Lydian tunes vvas mooued to pleasure and banquettings and vvith the Dorick sounds to armor warre Plato and Aristotle would haue a man that is wel brought vp to be a Musition Lycurgus notwithstanding his sharp laws allowed of musick The Lacedemonians and the Cretans though otherwise warlike vsed Harps and other soft instruments Among the first instructions that Chiron taught Achilles in his youth Musicke vvas one Homer Marsias beeing rude and vnskilfull in musick contended vvith Apollo but beeing ouercome vvas deseruedly punished Ouid. Thamyras vvoulde needes try maisteries vvith the Muses themselues in playing on the Harpe but being vanquished vvas for his bold attempt bereft of both his eyes and in derision called Barula from him blinde Harpers are denominated Themistocles was thought vnlearned and the lesse esteemed of because he was no musition Cicero The Greekes iudged none to bee learned vnlesse he were seene in musick The most part of the vvorld did learn musicke except in Egypt where it was forbidden least the tender and soft mindes of their youth should bee intised to too much pleasure Diodorus Aliates King of Lydia in his warrs against the Milesians had Musitions pipers Fidlers in sted of Trumpeters to mooue them to vvarres Herodo The Parthians caused their belles to bee rung when they went into the fielde Plutarch The Lacedemonians might not indure in their musicke more then in other matters any new inuention Therpander in those dayes a famous musition for that he inuented to adde another string to a certaine instrument then vsed vvas banished his Country and his instrument broken Ambrose Bishop of Millane when that hee vvith other holy men vvatched euen in the Church least they shoulde haue beene betrayed to the Arrians brought